----- Original Message ----- From: InfoTimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:04 AM Subject: [ArabForum] PAKISTAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS BURNED TO ASHES
> > ================================================== > INFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com > ================================================== > > PAKISTAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS BURNED TO ASHES > > SYED ADEEB > > WASHINGTON, DC, USA, 10 October 2001 (InfoTimes): Pakistan > Army's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, was > set on fire by one or more persons early Wednesday. Fire burned > buildings, furniture and papers for more than five hours. Flames > have turned the powerful GHQ into ashes. > > "The entire structure of the GHQ has been gutted. Furniture has > been reduced to ashes. Dozens of offices have been burned > completely," firefighter Abdul Qayum told AP. > > The fire broke out shortly after 4 a.m. on 10 October at the > Pakistan Army's General Headquarters, said Major-General Rashid > Quereshi, chief spokesman of Pakistani military dictator General > Pervez Musharraf. He said the fire was brought under control > shortly after 9:30 a.m. Hundreds of army officers work at the > GHQ. No casualties or injuries were reported and the extent of > the total damage is still not clear, Islamabad fire chief > Mohammed Yaqoob told AP. > > Quereshi said an investigation into the cause of the fire at the > GHQ has been launched. He said it started in a stationery store > within the GHQ complex and spread through the wooden structure > into other buildings. > > GHQ was burned to ashes after General Musharraf's police > recently murdered several Pakistani citizens, who were > protesting against U.S. and British warplane bombings and cruise > missile strikes in Afghanistan; after he allowed the American, > British and other foreign armed forces to use Pakistan's > airspace, ports, land bases and airports to launch more military > attacks against Afghanistan; and after the Pakistan Army Chief > arbitrarily > dismissed Interservices Intelligence (ISI) Chief General Mahmood > Ahmed and Deputy Chief of Army Staff General Muzaffar Hussain > Usmani to consolidate his illegal, unconstitutional and > undemocratic powers to rule Pakistan at gunpoint. > > During his two years of corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship, > General Musharraf transformed Pakistan into a repressive > police-army state. Recently, Musharraf's police opened gunfire, > killed, injured, arrested, tortured and victimized numerous > Pakistani citizens who were protesting against the ruling > tyrant's anti-Pakistan policies, decisions, operations and > actions. Some victims of the ruling junta had reportedly > threatened to burn General Musharraf and other generals in > hell-fire. > > On October 10, 2000, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) > accused Pakistan's military rulers of committing widespread > human rights abuses in the name of political "reforms" and > called on General Pervez Musharraf to immediately return the > country to constitutional rule, but the money, publicity and > power hungry generals flatly refused to do so. > > In the twenty-page report, "Reform or Repression? Post-Coup > Abuses in Pakistan," Human Rights Watch said the Musharraf > tyranny had detained opponents and former government officials > without charge, removed indepedent judges from the higher > courts, banned public rallies/demonstrations and rendered > political parties all but powerless. > > "Musharraf follows a long line of generals in Pakistan who have > claimed that a period of military rule is the path to true > democracy," said Sidney Jones, Asia Director of Human Rights > Watch. "In fact, he is systematically destroying civil liberties > in Pakistan." > > On March 25, 2000, when former Democratic President Bill Clinton > went to Pakistan, Mike Jendrzejcyzk, Washington Director of > Human Rights Watch's Asia Division, said: "President Clinton > cannot ignore this abusive law that is being used to bring Dr. > [Farooq] Sattar to trial. The military government has used the > National Accountability Ordinance to detain scores of political > figures, who often have no idea of the charges being brought > against them. President Clinton should strongly object to this." > > The National Accountability Ordinance, adopted in November 1999, > after the October 1999 military coup that brought General Pervez > Musharraf to power, and later amended, gives the National > Accountability Bureau (NAB) sweeping powers of arrest, > investigation and prosecution. This barbaric and draconian law > made by the military junta has converted the NAB-RAB officials > into police officers, investigators, prosecutors, judges and > assassins. Pakistani and international Press, including the > Information Times, recently reported that several criminal > NAB-RAB Punjab officials tortured and murdered a Pakistani > citizen, Mian Muhammad Arshad Butt, 55, on Sunday, 30 September > 2001 when he was in the custody of NAB-RAB. > > Republican Secretary of State General (R) Colin L. Powell leaves > later this week for New Delhi, India and Islamabad, Pakistan, to > improve U.S.-India-Pakistan relations, to reduce Indo-Pak > tensions over Occupied Kashmir and to seek more support for the > U.S.-led war against Afghanistan. Let's see what advice the > Human Rights Watch will give to Secretary Powell about the > Musharraf autocracy. > > [Syed Adeeb is a veteran American journalist based in the > Washington area.] > > INTERNET-WEB LINKS: > > PAKISTAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS BURNED TO ASHES > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1121 > > REFORM OR REPRESSION? > Post-Coup Abuses in Pakistan > http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/pakistan > > CRIMINAL NAB OFFICIALS MURDER PAKISTANI CITIZEN > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1119 > > HRW Report on Human Rights Abuses in Pakistan > http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/asia/pakistan.html > > ABUSES IN ACCOUNTABILITY CASES > http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/pakistan/pakio09-05.htm > > Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Violations Pakistan > http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2001.nsf/webasacountries/Pakist > an?OpenDocument > > Human Rights Commission of Pakistan > http://www.hrcp.cjb.net > > [Publisher: Information Times > http://www.InformationTimes.com > America's international daily Internet newspaper > Chief Editor: Syed Adeeb - Washington, DC, U.S.A. > Copyright © 2001 Information Times. 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