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Sunday, March 24, 2013

PAKISTAN | The Taliban have threatened to kill him Musharraf returns to Pakistan after four years in exile despite threats

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has landed this morning in Pakistan after four years in exile, despite the threat of death announced by the Taliban. What made ​​public on Saturday at a press conference in Dubai and continues with his plans. The exmandatario landed at Quaid e Azam airport at 12:20 local time (7.20 GMT) on a flight from the airline Emirates, which awaited their arrival thousands of followers, according to local media. Initially, Musharraf would visit today the mausoleum of father of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, known in Pakistan as Quaid e Azam (the Great Leader) -, to pay homage and give a rally to "thousands of people". However, Qureshi said that for security reasons they had to cancel the visit, so fans finally were to accompany him to the airport moved to "support him". APML general secretary for Sindh said that because of "incidents (Musharraf) has suffered in the past" perpetrated by "Taliban extremists" and "political leaders" security measures to protect be "exceptional". Musharraf has maintained that will not be intimidated. However, the government has asked Islamabad protection for him and for his security team, composed of former members of the special units. The Pakistani Taliban (TTP acronym in Urdu) did not hesitate to threaten to use "suicide bombers and snipers" to "kill him" if he returns. A spokesman for the TTP, Ehsanulá Ehsan, told Dawn that local media have a squad of insurgents who kill it with explosives against Musharraf if this fulfills his promise to return to participate in the May elections. " We are training suicide bombers in order to assassinate "the former president said Ehsan. Taliban spokesman said the charge of leading the group to try to end the life of the former president is Adnan Rashid , former member of the Pakistani Air Force in December 2003 participated in a failed attempt on Musharraf. Rashid was among the 400 inmates who escaped from jail in Pakistan's Bannu April last year after a Taliban attack.

Four years in exile

The former president, who has lived four years in exile, plans to stand for elections on May 11 with a political party. Indeed minutes before his arrival was known to be retired judge Hazar Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan's interim government until a new government is constituted after the elections. Khoso was chosen from four possible candidates after deliberating for about two hours, said the head of the Commission, Fakhrudin G. Ibrahim. Musharraf took power in Pakistan in 1999 after a coup and stepped down in 2008, has lived since his resignation from London to Dubai. Pakistani Justice issued in 2011 several arrest warrants against him for failing to protect the life of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in an attack in December 2007, when the military was president. However, on Friday a court in the province of Singh, in southern Pakistan, paved the way for Musharraf's return to China to guarantee bail if he returns. The Pakistani government announced Wednesday the next general election, the first in 65 years of independent history of China fulfilled that occur after the full term of a civilian government.

Violence in several cities l More than 200 wounded in the attacks on offices of the Muslim Brotherhood


The skirmishes against the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political party have left more than 200 injured across Egypt . The outburst was particularly virulent in the headquarters of the group to which it belongs Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, located on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday, protected by a large police presence after hours of pitched battle between members of the Brotherhood and opponents. The violence, which was primed on around the building and vehicles carrying supporters Mursi, is a déjà vu of the severe political polarization that since last November in the country's most populous Arab world. A week ago, similar clashes surrounded the compound, located in the Cairo neighborhood of Moqatam after activists tried to paint slogans on the walls. A dozen journalists covering the riots then denounced the attack of militants and security guards of the Brothers. And a video spread like wildfire on the Internet with a bearded slapped by the activist Mervat Musa , in the sequence that ends widespread collapsing. A history that inspired yesterday whom they headed the way to the headquarters of the Brotherhood in the dubbed "Friday to restore dignity." In anticipation of the protests, the Brotherhood-with a powerful network of supporters and 85 years of history, urged his people to move to the building to protect it . Some facilities abandoned on Saturday after two intense days. The cross fire broke out shortly after Friday's Muslim prayer. The opposition march-dozen 'baltaguiya' (thugs), as the Brotherhood, met with the group Islamist militants en route to their headquarters.The riot police fired into the wee hours of the morning tear gas andpellets fired to quell a battle that destroyed several minibuses and hit an ambulance carrying the injured. Bottles, stones and molotov cocktails alarmed the residents of this district of the capital.

Attacks in several cities

Shouting 'Badia, sold the revolution' (in reference to the supreme guide of the Brotherhood), anger also spread by other properties of the main political movement in Egypt . Several hundred protesters, according to the state newspaper 'Al Ahram', ransacked the offices of the group on the island of Manial, in downtown Cairo. In Alexandria, the target was an office of the political arm Freedom and Justice. Other facilities in the cities of Mansoura, Mahalla al Kubra and Zagazig, located on the delta of the Nile, were damaged. In his Twitter account, President Mohamed Mursi again accused foreign interests attempting to divide the Egyptians. And the Muslim Brotherhood condemned attacks that, in its view, demonstrate that lack the "militia" denouncing opponents. "The thugs have been attacking us with weapons and Molotov cocktails during the last 12 hours. Si (militia) exist, the scene would have been different," said spokesman Ahmed Aref in the group page on Facebook. "The Muslim Brotherhood has survived three kings and four presidents of the First Republic. All of them left and the Brotherhood remains strong, with a humanitarian message and Islamic increasingly robust and its spread in over 60 countries on six continents" The vice president said the Freedom and Justice, Esam El Erian.

Political instability

For its part, the government on Saturday condemned the unrest and urged the political forces that do not provide "political cover" to attacks that try to "drag the country into a state of violence and abort its democratic transition and the holding of parliamentary elections ", initially set for next April but suspended while the Constitutional Court reviews the electoral law. In recent months, the deep division between Islamist and secular opposition has increased political instability exacerbated by the legal morass and economic ruin. After the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as the main political force in Egypt and the current president, Mohamed Mursi, was one of its leaders until he agreed to the Head of State.

Everything that happens on the Internet in a minute


What happens in a minute online? Intel tried to answer this question through an infographic showing the different figures shocking.  Thus, for example, in Flickr are uploaded 3000 images, and users see approximately 20 million photographs. In Google there are over 2 million searches, and Facebook, 277,000 users connect to their accounts. In Twitter are published over one hundred thousand tweets , and enroll about 320 new users to the site , while  Amazon sells more than $ 80,000 in products and services. In a minute, according to Intel, are 1.3 million YouTube video sen ,   47 000 apps are downloaded  and there are  1300 new mobile users .