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So finally ITP (Islamabad Traffic Police) has made it a rule. Any driver caught on mobile while driving or not wearing a seat belt will be fined from today, Friday 1st August. This law is introduced to minimize the accidents caused.A driver will be fined a sum of Rs. 300 for violation of these laws […]
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Daily Times reported that the Sindh Information Department mistakenly addressed Madr-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah as Fatima Jinnah Bhutto in an invitation in connection with a ceremony held to mark her 115th birth anniversary in Karachi. It is said that the mistake was made when Information Department officials wrote Fatima Jinnah Bhutto above the name of Sindh […]
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Part 01 - My Background
Part 02 - Me & Job!
Part 03 - Starting your venture
Part 04 - Life Changed!
Part 05 - Motivation
Part 06 - Tough Times
Part 07 - Manpower
So, let’s start with a brand new post on My Venture Experience. Though I call it my venture experience but there are lots of people associated with it (specially my family); without whom this venture couldn’t be possible. Thank you all! This post is dedicated to those people who keep on asking me how I am running my software house under such difficult conditions. I will try to answer few of all those question in this post. Problems, tensions and unforeseen events are part of life. We all have to go through it! My one year of business was pretty tough for me but now things are settling down. So, guys it’s just the “WILL POWER” that keeps me running.
Few days back I met a friend of mine who is facing some serious health problems and he seems down and out. I don’t know why most people lost hope in such cases; they only think that nothing is possible. My friend! Nothing is impossible in this world; if you have the Will Power you can achieve anything. Here I must blame his family; at this point of time when he is down and out you are showing no support, which is not good. If any of the parents reading this post it’s my request “Never ever leave your child alone in such condition, your child needs your support, your care! You are the source of motivation and hope”.
Anyhow, I tried my level best to motivate him because I know he can recover. Most of you are not aware of it nor did I write about the health issues I faced 9 years back (though I hinted that in this post). All I can say is that I recovered from 1st Stage of Mouth Cancer over the years. It was too difficult for me to eat anything and to say anything. Difficult time for me, I did struggled and was down and out but never lost hope. There was a lot of support from my family. Here I must say a big big THANKS to my father; it was his Will Power which helped me to overcome that. I do accept that I inherited the courage and motivation from my father. Because of him I learned how to face the challenges in my life and how to achieve my goals.
So, here comes the second question that people usually ask “Business requires financial backing?”. Although I did mentioned about that in many of my previous posts that I started with nothing, nothing at all But Yes! If you have some financial backing, good for you (means less tension) but it doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything without money. What you need to start a company? A PC and a internet connection! That’s it! :).
Third question “Any support from family?” that’s a good question :), If you are good at this then you can start a successful venture. You do need a lot of support from your family in terms of finance, in terms of motivation and many other things. My family was really supportive in my bad times let me give you an example, there was times when I was not able to give any monthly amount to them. So, tough time for my family but they realized the importance of time and my financial conditions. That’s the support we need!
Fourth question “Did you lost anything by doing your own business” and that’s a pretty tough question. I lost many many things. Here are few of them
1. No time for family as I used to spend many days in office and in other activities but my family knows it and they are supportive.
2. Lost relatives and their support as I don’t attend many ceremonies within my family due to some reasons. (good for me but not good for my family)
3. Lost friends.
4. Yes! more health issues.
5. If you are struggling in your initial months, then you lose your self-respect too. Everyone will consider you a hopeless case but nobody knows that you are making a solid foundation for your venture in those struggling months.
So, another question that usually pop up is that “How you arrange salaries” and guys there is a simple answer to that “I don’t know”. Believe me! I struggle each and every month to pay my employees and I don’t know how I was able to pay them on time. I didn’t lost hope because I know I will do that at the end of the day. God is great! He creates opportunities for me and He is the one who help me each and every time I was in trouble. Just keep on pushing! You will succeed.
Believe me! It’s not that easy. You have to struggle a lot
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by Aasem BakhshiPlease refer to part 1 and 2 for the background.To effectively address the original Weberian objection i.e. normative pluralism is substantively irrational, it is mandatory to reformulate the problem in concise terms, starting point being that change in Islamic law takes place by means of some interpretive mechanism called Ijtihad. What exactly constitutes […]
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1. Make a music video with Top models.2. Some Billboards.3. Sign Petitions Against Terrorism.Voila !
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Another vile facet of the bidati grave worship cult is the pernicious practice of pir-worship. A …
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So, I asked about Benzene ring story. And heres the answer for you - thats if you didn’t googled it (which I doubt) or you already knew about it (are you my sister?).
The empirical formula for benzene was long known, but its highly polyunsaturated
structure was challenging to determine. In 1865 the German chemist Friedrich
August Kekulé
published a paper in French (for he was then teaching in Francophone Belgium)
suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single
and double bonds. The new understanding of benzene, and hence of all aromatic
compounds, proved to be so important for both pure and applied chemistry that in
1890 the German Chemical Society organized an elaborate appreciation in Kekulé’s honor, celebrating
the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first benzene paper. Here Kekulé spoke of the
creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the
benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own
tail (this is a common symbol in many ancient cultures known as the Ouroboros). This vision, he
said, came to him after years of studying the nature of carbon-carbon bonds.
Benzen ring,
The ouroboros sign,
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These Bidatis think that whatever little knowledge they have about Islam is correct and the whole…
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Pir of London, owner of Karachi, citizen of Great Britain, butcher of Muslim brothers and sisters, agent of RAW, Altaf bhai to his followers, is a single person who now makes his home in posh locality of London. His wife has since left him and therefore, he resides alone along with his British guards (and […]
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A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between the country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to American military and intelligence officials. The decision to confront Pakistan with what the officials described as a new C.I.A. assessment of the spy service’s activities seemed to be the bluntest American warning to Pakistan since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks about the ties between the spy service and Islamic militants. The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas. [for more click on the heading]
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Zill-e-Huma Usman, provincial minister of Social Welfare department was murdered a year ago and now her murderer, a pest having a beard on his face, is being freed in the name of humanity.
I just can’t understand what good our government is going to do.
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Dr. Shahid Masood, MD and Chairman of PTV, is in hot waters over sacking of Deputy MD Shahid Mehm…
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Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) is a small country in West Africa, famous for its coffee, cocoa and …
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From Daily TimesTerrorists develop ‘suicide underwear’By Imran AsgharRAWALPINDI: Would-be suicide bombers could be using explosives “underwear briefs” rather than explosives jackets to evade “conservative” body searches, sources said on Wednesday.Sihala Police College forensic lab sources told Daily Times that the study of recent suicide attacks showed that suicide bombers used “explosives-laden” under-garments, briefs in particular, […]
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The proven truth of history is that no society or country or nation could survive any longer with…
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Dr. Ishtiaque Baig in his Urdu column in Daily Jang wrote passionately about writing to the world leaders for the release of Dr. Afiya Siddiqui. Her kidnapping and subsequent handing over by Pakistani Agencies to the US is common fare but if you are not familiar with the details here is the LINK
I don’t know if the allegations against her are true or not. But I would ask you to join in Ishtiaque Baig’s appeal for her release.
If she is guilty, she should be openly tried in a Pakistani Court.
The letter and contact info comes from Dr. Baig’s site:
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| SAMPLE LETTER:
Dear________,
PAKISTAN/USA: A lady doctor is missing with her three children since five years after her arrest
Name of victim: Ms. Dr. Afia Siddiqui and her three children
I am shocked to know that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani citizen has been missing with her three children since April 2003, after her arrest by intelligence agencies of Pakistan. The whereabouts of children is also unknown, which is a serious act of negligence on the part of the government with regard to its responsibility to protect the citizen of the Pakistan.
According to the information I have received Dr. Afia was picked-up by Pakistani intelligence agencies while on her way to the airport and initial reports suggested that she was handed over to the American FBI. A few days later an American news channel, NBC, reported that Afia had been arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of facilitating money transfers for terror networks of Osama Bin Laden.
On April 1, 2003, a small news item was published in an Urdu daily with reference to a press conference of then Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat when, in reply to a question regarding the arrest of Dr. Siddiqui, he said she has not been arrested. But in another report the minister for interior said,”You will be astonished to know about the activities of Dr. Afia.” A weekly English magazine in its special coverage on Dr. Afia reported that after one week of the incident, an intelligence agency official, a motor cyclist in plain clothes, came to the house of her mother and warned “We know that you are connected to higher-ups but do not make an issue out of her daughter’s disappearance” and threatened her with dire consequences. After this development the whereabouts of Dr. Afia and her children are yet unknown.
What is also of grave concern to me is that when she was arrested by Pakistani intelligence authorities she was handed over to American intelligence agencies without being tried in Pakistan, I do not find any rationale in sending her along with her children to other country when there are Pakistani laws to deal with the suspected terrorists. It is known that President Musharraf handed over 600 suspected terrorists to America.
There are reports that in Afghanistan’s prison of Bagram there is a woman prison known as Prisoner 650 and that she has been severely tortured. It is also widely suspected that Prisoner 650 is Dr. Afia Siddiqui. This prisoner has reportedly lost her mind due to constant rape and ill treatment.
I remind you that this is the duty of coalition government under Prime Minister Mr. Yousaf Raza Gillani to probe cases of those Pakistani suspected terrorists who have been handed over to foreign forces in the name of war on terror. The government should also inform Pakistani citizens about the whereabouts of Dr. Afia Siddiqui and her children. I also demand that government should also ensure the safety of her children.
Yours sincerely,
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| PLEASE SEND YOU LETTERS TO:
1. The Chief
2. Mr. George W. Bush
3. Mr. Hamid Karzai
4. General Pervez Musharraf
5. Mr. Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani
6. Mr. Farooq Naik
7. Mr. Rehman Malik
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From the New York TimesJuly 30, 2008By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITTWASHINGTON — A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between the country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to American military and intelligence […]
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Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?POPPY FIELDS FOREVER A crop in Helmand Province in 2006. An unlikely coalition of corrupt Afghan officials, timorous Europeans, blinkered Pentagon officers and the Taliban has made poppy cultivation stubbornly resistant to eradication.By THOMAS SCHWEICHPublished: July 27, 2008On March 1, 2006, I met Hamid Karzai for the first time. It was a […]
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The whole of Swat has erupted into the flames but the Tehsil Matta is the main focus and this is …
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Anjum Niaz quotes some folks “closer” to BB than Shyam Bhatia author of Goodbye Shahzadi and effectively debunks the author’s claims. Here are two excerpts from her column:
1: In BB’s case, the only people entitled to such a distinction are her hardcore circle of Oxford friends. I called up one of them in London to comment. Victoria Schofield succeeded BB as the president of the Oxford Union in 1977. Their friendship spans a period of 33 years. “Up at Oxford I don’t remember meeting Shyam nor did Benazir ever mention him as a close friend,” she said.
2: Well, Bhatia makes a dramatic opening in his book Goodbye Shahzadi, giving the reader an exciting tour de force of his friendship with BB. “Shahzadi, Pinkie, Prime Minister, Mohtarma, BB, Miss Sahiba and Yank, were among the names — some of them used tongue-in-cheek — by which I addressed Benazir Bhutto during our 34-year association,” writes SB. “We were not always the best of friends, but we were in regular contact for much of the time and, occasionally, I was entrusted with confidential insights.” Bashir Riaz, better known as ‘Bash’ by BB and all who know him is another angry man today. “Bhatia would never dare call BB ‘Shahzadi’ or ‘Pinkie,’ nor did she give him open access as he claims. Bhatia used to pester me to arrange a meeting with BB. He would call me several times a day. If he was so close to her as he wants the reader to believe, why did he always have to go through me?”
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By Baithak.Net
زیک کا شکریہ جنہوں نے نیر زیدی کی گرفتاری کا معمہ حل کر دیا۔ آج کے جنگ اخبار میں پاکستان فیڈرل یونین آف جرنلسٹس کا بیان بھی چھپا ہے، یعنی انہیں بھی اپنے ساتھی کی گندی حرکت کا علم نہیں ہے۔ اس کا مطلب ہوا نیر زیدی نے نہ صرف اپنی بیگم کو اندھیرے میں […]
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Ikram Sehgal minces no words:
The first civilian coup was getting Benazir Bhutto’s will accepted wherein Asif Zardari and his unelected associates took control over a great national political party and seemingly turned it into a private fiefdom. A hundred days later, the next civilian coup succeeded in duping Mian Nawaz Sharif in entering into an agreement that the government had no intention of honouring. The Grand Slam of civilian coups (coincidentally after another 100 days) was designed for total control.
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And he offers this advise also…which is likely to fall on deaf ears:
Pervez Musharraf may be vilified for any number of reasons but no one can question his patriotism. For the sake of Pakistan one appeals to the president to correct two major blunders immediately. He should repeal the National Reconciliation Ordinance and withdraw the decision to impose a provisional constitution order on Nov 3, 2007. As for Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan and the lawyers’ community, for the sake of this country they must reciprocate by not going the route of vengeance and adjust to living with the president and those judges who took oath on the PCO. This holds true for the only nationally-electable leader left, Mian Nawaz Sharif. Whenever nations are in crisis, leaders are expected to rise above their individual agendas to secure the country’s sovereignty and integrity.
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Ansar Abbasi writes about a Member of Parliament of coalition government being asked by the estab…
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ایکسپریس اخبار اور جنگ اخبار کی خبر کے مطابق نمائندہ جنگ اور کالم نگار نیر زیدی امریکی جیل میں نظر بند ہیں۔ ان کی نظربندی کی اطلاع ان کی بیوی نے دی ہے مگر چار ماہ تک ان کی بیوی کا ایسی خبر چھپائے رکھنا کسی بہت بڑے عتاب کی طرف اشارہ کرتا ہے۔ یہ […]
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/30/beaumont.palestineStart by having a look at the above video. A lot of us have seen some of this footage before. (I saw the illegal settler child spitting at the caged Palestinian woman last year, as did many others).What gives this footage power now is that it is featured in the Guardian. This is a shift. […]
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By Baithak.Net
وعدہ خلافی حکمرانوں کا وطیرہ بن چکا ہے اور اسے یہ لوگ سیاست میں سب کچھ جائز ہے سے تعبیر کرتے ہیں۔ اب تو ڈھیٹ پن کی اتنی انتہا ہو چکی ہے کہ وعدہ توڑنے کا جواز یہ پیش کیا جاتا ہے کہ ان کا وعدہ کوئی کاغذ پر لکھی حدیث نہیں تھا۔ان حالات پر […]
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In just four months craters are visible within ranks of Pakistan Peoples’ Party led coalition gov…
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Right now, severe fighting is going on in the Swat valley, in the North West Frontier Province of…
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more,From these our interviews, in which I stealFrom all I may be, or have been before,To mingle with the Universe, […]
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While Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Prime Minister of Pakistan shakes hands with the Bush, and promises…
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IN APRIL 2007 My one of the biggest dream came true and ALLAH
selected me for UMRAH .After seeing Ka aba my next aim was Like all
other muslims,to kiss the holy stone HAJR E ASWAD ,it was not the easy
task at all .when i first time reached near to it i releazed that ALL
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How you will describe/explain…
A woman in me (needs a man in You). or A man in me (needs a woman in you)
I am looking every one’s point of view. Not a hot purpose, its just a Question and a look for different point of views.
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As the state visit of our Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani enters into its last leg, the Am…
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Mustafa kamal, who is famous as Mustafa KHUDAL due to his tendency to dig whole city in rainy season, is a proved failure…Current rains in karachi proved the incompetency of HAQ PARAST QAYADAT ….The sky high claims of good governance observed floating in rain water.
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by former employees of Google and Altavista . Presentation is quite good! Would it be able to beat Google?…(read more)
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Karachi was massively hit by power failure and downpour on Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The power cris…
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It has come to my notice recently that Punjabi drivers are being asked to get off their vehicles. In short, they are being warned that if they go into Baluchistan they themselves will be responsible for the consequences.That’s bad news for Pakistan.For one, lot of Punjabis have been shot dead in Khuzdar city center. Some […]
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The 20 excited Tipians, who had come to volunteer the Tips Punjab Admission Test which scheduled on Sunday 27th July at APTMA House Lahore, had to leave immediately as the examination centre was getting overcrowded.A Total number of 7 students out of the 10 students who had applied for the Test appeared at the examination […]
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A few days back the Asian Human Rights Commission issued an urgent press release about a Karachiite who has been missing since 2003. Dr. Afia Siddiqui left her mother’s house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi along with her three children, in a Metro-cab on March 30, 2003 to catch a flight for Rawalpindi, but never reached […]
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Zill-e-Huma Usman, provincial minister of Social Welfare department was murdered a year ago and now her murderer, a pest having a beard on his face, is being freed in the name of humanity.
I just can’t understand what good our government is going to do.
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KESC, burn it! Break it! Kill them! OH MY GOD! 86 Rs/lit Petrol! Bus Fares to 15 Rupees till 1 stop! How the hell did they snatch a person’s cell phone, burn him alive! Kill them, shoot them, throw stones at them, blow it all up. Government sucks! New Government sucks, Oh the past Govt […]
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by former employees of Google and Altavista . Presentation is quite good! Would it be able to beat Google?…(read more)
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A few days back the Asian Human Rights Commission issued an urgent press release about a Pakistani, Dr. Afia Siddiqui, who has been missing from Pakistan for over four years, since 2003. Her kidnapping has since then been denied by both American and Pakistani governments but actually she has been suspected of being […]
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By Baithak.Net
Pakistan’s poor hit as food prices soar
Monday, 30 June 2008
Twilight in Karachi, and outside some of the main restaurants in Pakistan’s economic and financial capital you will find the city’s poor waiting.
They line up most days of the week, to get a chance to grab the free food that is doled out here.
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Below is an interesting video to watch if you are into fashion and style. With all the major brands of the world available in Dubai, it is very easy to adopt your own style. And the fact that Dubai is full of people from different parts of the world actually helps, because you can be […]
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FOR a few short hours the ISI had a new boss: Rehman Malik. Yes, the hyper-powerful, state-within-a-state, doer-of-all-things-bad-and-evil, Taliban-loving, government-slaying, election-rigging, tool-of-the-establishment ISI was going to report to a civilian, unelected adviser to a lame duck prime minister.So confident were Messrs Gilani and Malik of the scheme that they scampered out of the […]
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Govt borrowings alarm State Bank(
By ERUM ZAIDI
KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan on Tuesday raised its benchmark interest rates by one per cent, the third such move since January to fight galloping inflation and to stop alarming government borrowing.
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Boumediene v. Bush is one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in recent years.[1] The Court held by a 5–4 vote that aliens detained as enemy combatants in Guantánamo have a constitutional right to challenge their detention in American courts. The decision frees none of them, some of whom have been held without trial for six years, but it makes it possible for them to argue to a federal district court judge that the administration has no factual or legal ground for imprisoning them. If that judge is persuaded, he must order their release. American law has never before recognized that aliens imprisoned by the United States abroad have such rights. The disgrace of Guantánamo has produced a landmark change in our constitutional practice.
The case raised complex constitutional issues that I must describe, but the principle the Court vindicated is simple and clear. Since before Magna Carta, Anglo-American law has insisted that anyone imprisoned has the right to require his jailor to show a justification in a court of law. (The technical device through which this right is exercised is called a writ of habeas corpus. Addressed to the jailor, it announces that he has custody of a certain person’s body and demands that he justify that custody.)
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I have a radical idea for Karachi and its citizens. For one, I think KESC is all crap now after Musharraf and company (specially his darling PM, Shaukat) sold this fine organization to a private company for peanuts. No external or internal audit reports have ever been shared with citizens who pay their blood to […]
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