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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Court judgment in Pakistan declared Prime Minister for incapacitation


Two months after his conviction for contempt of Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Prime Minister has Yousuf Raza Gilani declared incapacitation. The Supreme Court called on President Asif Ali Zardari to take the election of a new prime minister. It is unclear when or how quickly Gilani could be replaced at the head of government. According to Pakistani constitution allowed citizens who were convicted of defamation or mockery of justice, not hold a seat in Parliament. Unlike Gilani's ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) , the Court also looked to the offense of contempt of the judiciary as part of this regulation. Gilani did so on his 26th conviction April its mandate should be forfeited and no longer prime minister, the court ruled now. The trial concerned the refusal by Gilani to ask the Swiss judiciary to resume their investigation against President Zardari. This is alleged in the 90s with his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto managed to bribes in Swiss accounts to have. Switzerland has put its investigation on hold, as the 2008 President Zardari was. Gilani should call for a resumption. The Pakistani election commission followed the order of the Supreme Court and said Gilani had been retroactively stripped of his conviction in April of his mandate as a deputy. Qamar Zaman Kaira Minister of Information admitted that Gilani "after the court decision in principle no longer prime minister."

Resignation after court order uncertain


Gilani is the first Pakistani leader since the country gained independence in 1947, is convicted while in office. It is unclear whether he actually after the decision to withdraw because he had previously taken the view that only the Parliament could depose him. Gilani was initially jointly with the vice-chairman of PPP, Bilawal Zardari, received from his father at a crisis meeting. For the evening, the President also ordered the parties to coalition talks.Zardari said the crisis calls for his participation in the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg from which to start on Wednesday.

Singer challenge Taliban and her husband killed


Very popular among young progressives had become an artist of pop rejecting the decree banning music and dance in Pakistan. He had defied the Taliban decree banning music and dance. She became a famous pop singer. Then the end. Ghazala Javed, 24, a Pakistani, was killed last night shortly after leaving a beauty salon. Two motorcyclists opened fire on the car of the star. The woman, reached by six bullets, died along with his father who was driving the car. Investigators believe the culprit may be the former husband of Ghazala. The singer, after only six months of marriage, he discovered that his companion had a second wife and had returned to live by his father asking for a divorce. The request, in Pakistan's conservative society, must be found inconceivable: a woman seeking a divorce is a disgrace to the husband. Ghazala Javed had married the businessman Jahangir Khan in 2010 after fleeing the Taliban rule in Swat in northwestern Pakistan. From the stories of the artist's family, the husband had repeatedly tried to stop her from singing. The woman was very popular among young Pakistani liberals, but his career over the years had several times been hampered by the rise of the Taliban who refuse to music and dancing, forcing her, along with other artists to record songs and videos off the nation. According to the police officer Imtiaz Altaf, the Taliban would not be involved in the murder of the artist.

Turkey: 18 killed in fighting between the army and the PKK

The battle took place near the border with Iraq At least eight soldiers and tens of Kurdish rebels were killed. When fighting between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish rebels, according to security sources on Tuesday 18 people were killed. PKK fighters were in three simultaneous attacks on military outposts in the southeast of the country killed eight soldiers and 16 wounded, it said. The governor of the province of Hakkari told, in subsequent battles were ten PKK members were killed. The fighting took place near the border with Iraq, where Kurds hold thousands radical holed up in the mountains. The PKK is considered by the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization. They fought since 1984 against the Turkish state. The conflict killed about 45,000 people so far.

In Rio 20, the final declaration was adopted ... before the opening of the summit


Brazilian negotiators in Rio 20 are satisfied the 130 heads of state and government expected to Rio de Janeiro to attend the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, from Wednesday 20 to Friday, June 22, will find upon arrival a final declaration already tied up, or almost. A text was indeed adopted Tuesday, June 19 by all negotiators, after the European Union , which blocked any agreement since yesterday due to a number of differences, particularly on the status of the Program UN Environment Programme (UNEP), has obtained satisfaction. "This declaration is adopted as a text to be submitted to heads of state, said the French minister of development, Pascal Canfin . Formally, these can be in grasp . " In reality, it is unlikely that the leaders attending the Rio decided to reopen the debate and edit the text. They can therefore be simply to mount the rostrum and welcomed an agreement that most non-governmental organizations in Rio as very disappointing. Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International , speaks of a "resounding failure" . The representative of the Congo during the negotiations did ask, at the final plenary session, that UNEP be renamed United Nations Environment to mark the strengthening of its powers and means, but it has little likely to be followed. TheUnited States has responded immediately, explaining that they would request to reopen the discussion on other points if the subject came back to the negotiating table.

More than 30 killed in clashes in Nigeria

Thirty four people died in the last 24 hours in clashes between security forces and suspected Islamists in the city of Damaturu, northeastern Nigeria, according to a medical source.  The authorities imposed a curfew of 24 hours in Damaturu, the capital of the Nigerian state of Yobe. According to the intervention force for the state of Yobe, clashes began when security forces tentarm stop a suspected member of the Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram commits since mid-2009 attacks on government leaders against the security forces and Christian minorities of northern cities, a Muslim majority.