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Asma Arbab Alamgir PPP, Sartaj Aziz PML-N, Tariq Fatemi Former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States and Najam Uddin Sheikh Former Ambassador to the United State in fresh episode of Policy Matters on Dunya Tv and Talk with Nasim Zehra.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5v-Qdf7J4Q" width="480"></iframe><br />....................<br />
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Rana Sanaullah Law Minister Punjab PML-N, Asma Arbab Alamgir PPP and Imran Ismail PTI in fresh episode Of To The Point on Express News and Talk With Shahzeb Khanzada.The topic of this talk show is "Senate Election!Where is Tsunami Gone Now????"</div>
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Ansar Abbasi Analyst and Rahimullah Yousaf Zai Editor The News in fresh episode of Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Sath in Geo New and Talk With Kamran Khan.Kamran Khan is one of Geo’s lead anchors his expert opinion, in-depth analysis and an eye for detail has provided Geo audiences with constant updates and insight.In this fresh episode he choose very important political issue"Dramatic Changes In Memo Case"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wnW_c-UPU9g?feature=player_embedded" width="480"></iframe><br />
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Shahid Massod Khan is a Pakistani journalist, columnist, TV show host and political analyst in fresh Episode of Shahid Naama in Express News and Talk With Haroon Rasheed Analyst, Air Vice Marshal (R) Shahid Lateef Former Vice Chief Of Air Staff and Shaheen Sehbai Journalist/Editor The News Internation and the topic of this talk show is "Abbotabad Raid And Roll Of Military".<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy</b></span><br />
<div><b>By Sohail Khattak</b><i><br />
The term ‘collateral damage’ is normally applied to the loss of human life during war; it may now have to expand to include language.</i></div>When a military operation was launched in South Waziristan, Ormuri – the native language of the Burki people – also came under assault. Ormuri speakers are now scattered around the country and the language is on the brink of extinction.<br />
The language flourished in Kaniguram, a mountainous valley in South Waziristan – its only habitat on earth. An estimated population of about 10,000 Ormuri speakers lived in Kaniguram before they migrated to different parts of the country. Today, Burki tribesmen are spread in insignificant numbers in Lahore, Peshawar, Bannu and Kaniguram, and in Logar and Paktia in Afghanistan. However, most have adopted the dominant languages of their new ports, such as Pashto, Urdu and Punjabi.<br />
Munawwar Burki, a criminology student at the University of Karachi who hails from the valley, describes the language as the east Iranian sister dialect of Pashto and Balochi, and says that it was spoken by the Burki people living alongside the Pushto-speaking Mehsuds. It is this proximity with the Pashtuns that has had a deep impact on Ormuri culture, which borrows from the Pakhtunwali code of conduct and had adopted many cultural rituals.<br />
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Rozi Khan Burki is one of the few people who have carried out detailed research on the language. In his book written purely in Ormuri, he claims that the similarities between Pashtun and Ormuri people persist because Ormur was the grandson of Qasi Abdur Rasheed – the forefather of all Pashtun tribes. “They are originally Pashtuns who migrated in 1025 to Kaniguram from Logar, Afghanistan. Their language was initially known as ‘Burgista’ but now it has become Ormuri,” he said.<br />
His account of the language’s history links it to Mehmood Ghaznavi. When Mehmood Ghaznavi was launching his last assault on India, he took a group of 3,000 Burkis from Afghanistan. Those Burkis extinguished the fire-circle for protection, set up by Hindus around the Somnath Temple that consequently helped Ghaznavi conquer the temple and India. It is this story that lends the Burki people their name Ormuri – the fire extinguishers.<br />
Rozi Khan says that although the loss of the language will not affect the people economically, it will kill oral history as well as Ormuri customs and traditions. “Different plants will lose their names and local herbal medicines will be lost. Some birds and animals will become nameless and some proverbs, old sayings and myths will die out,” he explains.<br />
After writing an Ormuri book, Rozi Khan Burki also started a campaign to bring together people who can write poetry in Ormuri – about 15 people. But the efforts were marred by unrest in the valley. “It is now impossible for me to gather all internally displaced poets and people who were working on the language”, said Khan.<br />
Munawwar Burki stresses that efforts must be stepped up to save the language before it completely vanishes. As the speakers move out, they adopt dominant languages of their new ports. He said that constant war forced almost everyone to move out of Kaniguram: “I think right now there is not a soul left in Kaniguram; not even a single dog.”<br />
Thus his efforts are focussed on uniting the community in Karachi, where most of the displaced from Kaniguram came to settle. But due to the fact that all Ormuri people settled independently, they are scattered and difficult to trace. Families live largely in Sohrab Goth, Landhi, Sultanabad, Lyari Bypass, Kwari Colony, Banaras and Baldia Town. “Since the speakers have no official community or society where they can live together and get a chance to speak in their mother tongue, they are losing the language in bits and pieces on a daily basis,” he says with much regret.<br />
The local community in the city has risen to the threat facing their heritage. Munawwar Burki started running an organization for the welfare of Burki tribesmen in Karachi and has already gathered figures of the remnants in the city – around 1,000 families out of which roughly 500 can speak Ormuri. Also Shah Mehmood Burki adds that the female members of Burki families continue speaking in Ormuri which gives hope that the language will be passed on to the next generation.<br />
The original Article is here: <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/302799/ormuri-the-silent-victim-of-militancy/">Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>America's Shadow State in Pakistan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><b>By El Lake </b></span><i> </i><br />
<header class="clearfix"><i>U.S.-Pakistani relations may be on the rocks, but the CIA’s secret friends in the country fight on in units, prisons, and bases the United States has been building up since 9/11 to counter the pro-Taliban side of Pakistan’s military and intelligence services. Eli Lake reports exclusively. </i><br />
Officially, America’s relations Pakistan’s military and intelligence services were in a tailspin in August.<br />
Furious at having been kept in the dark ahead of the Americans’ <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/05/03/pakistan-osama-bin-laden-raid-unauthorized.html">May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound</a>, Pakistan’s military had kept U.S. investigators out of the place until it was scrubbed for evidence and had refused them access to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/12/bin-laden-raid-on-tape-breaking-news-updates.html">bin Laden’s wives</a> for some time. And the Pakistanis had <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/05/09/us-pakistan-leaked-cia-names.html">outed the CIA’s Islamabad station chief</a>, putting his life at risk. Meanwhile, back in America, fears were rising over possible al Qaeda attacks on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.<br />
But in the shadows, far from the public rancor, Pakistani-U.S. cooperation quietly continued. In Quetta, the Taliban’s capital in exile, U.S. intelligence was monitoring the cellphone of the presumed planner of any Qaeda anniversary attacks, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/09/05/pakistan-nabs-top-al-qaeda-leader.html">Younis al-Mauritani</a>, the group’s newly named external operations chief. The Americans’ tracking data—signals intelligence, or sigint, as it’s known in the profession—was being shared in real time with the local branch of Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps. When his exact location was discovered, the Pakistanis smashed through the doors of his safe house and grabbed him along with two deputies.<br />
Soon he was hundreds of miles away, at a special detention center in Punjab province, under intensive interrogation by a pro-U.S. faction of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. The Americans began getting regular reports on potential threats connected to the anniversary. CIA officials were even given an “unofficial” visit to question Mauritani directly.<br />
Many in the U.S. government regarded the capture as a crowning achievement of a decade-long, multibillion-dollar effort to build a secret network of Pakistani security forces, intelligence operatives, counterterrorism fighters, and detention centers. Its objective had been to create a friendlier, more trustworthy alternative to Pakistan’s military and intelligence services.<a name='more'></a>Now, however, just three months after Mauritani’s capture, the partnership is facing its most dire challenge. Relations between the two countries have been rocked by back-to-back incidents. First came what the media are calling “<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/12/04/an-insider-analysis-of-pakistan-s-memogate.html">memogate</a>,” in which President Asif Ali Zardari’s administration is accused of plotting with the U.S. to replace the leadership of Pakistan’s military and intelligence services. And then, on Thanksgiving weekend, a NATO helicopter reported being fired upon by a Pakistani military outpost near the Afghanistan border. The chopper returned fire, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/28/more-attacks-on-u-s-supply-lines-feared-after-deadly-nato-strike-in-pakistan.html">killing two dozen Pakistani soldiers</a>.<br />
The reaction inside Pakistan has been white hot, and current and former U.S. intelligence officials tell The Daily Beast they worry the CIA’s alternate security network will be the ultimate casualty. If that happens, America could be left blind to future threats emanating from Pakistan, and the task of rounding up or killing high-value Qaeda remnants could become more difficult, if not impossible.<br />
“We’ve been trying desperately for the last 10 years to build elements of Pakistani society and its national security bureaucracy to support U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region,” says Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, a former manager at the National Counterterrorism Center. “This latest incident is a major test of that strategy.”<br />
Former CIA director Mike Hayden says he has feared such an outcome for years as he watched U.S.-Pakistani relations drifting apart. “The space where American perceptions of strategic interests and Pakistani perceptions of strategic interests overlap has been diminishing,” he says.<br />
In recent years, the relationship was kept afloat largely by the efforts of one man: Adm. Mike Mullen. Before his retirement as Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman this September, he maintained a personal friendship with his Pakistani counterpart, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. At tense moments for the two countries, such as the arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis for killing two armed men in Lahore this past January, Mullen would be sent to smooth things over with Pakistan’s Army chief. One U.S. intelligence officer who works on Pakistan refers to Mullen as “the Kayani whisperer”: a man with a special knack for quietly and discreetly influencing Kayani at crucial points.<br />
But the friendship soured in Mullen’s final days. The four-star admiral accused the ISI of supporting direct attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan by the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/28/obama-s-haqqani-dilemma-will-the-u-s-invade-pakistan.html">Haqqani network</a>, a deadly faction and support network for the Afghan Taliban, according to most accounts. The accusation left a shocked Kayani insisting to the Pakistani media that his old friend was simply misinformed. But things had been unraveling ever since the Davis shooting. The CIA contractor was one of numerous U.S. operatives who worked with elements of the U.S.-aligned shadow forces in Pakistan to target and apprehend terrorists—Pakistan, after all, was the country where bin Laden had been living unmolested for years. Before the shooting, current and recently retired U.S. intelligence officials say, the pro-American shadow network in Pakistan was capturing on average one Qaeda suspect a month. Still, those captures were seldom cleared through the chain of command of the ISI or the Pakistani military, and since the Davis incident the job has gotten much harder and riskier, U.S. officials say.<br />
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, America got valuable assistance from the military under Pakistan’s then-president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. (It was Musharraf who handpicked Kayani as his replacement as Army chief shortly before stepping down from the presidency in August 2008.) Musharraf’s support enabled the Americans to bring a number of major Qaeda fugitives to justice, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.<br />
But Pakistan’s cooperation gradually petered out as Qaeda-instigated insurgencies erupted around the country, particularly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the wild mountain region along the Afghan border. Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers were killed before Musharraf finally caved in and signed peace deals with FATA warlords in 2006 and 2007, effectively creating a sanctuary where al Qaeda’s leadership could regroup.<br />
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“We’ve been trying desperately for the last 10 years to build elements of Pakistani society and its national security bureaucracy to support U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region.”<br />
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America’s current partnership with the Frontier Corps dates back to the summer of 2008, when U.S. special forces began frequent cross-border raids into the FATA. (Before 2008 such raids were rare.) Since then the corps has helped target senior Taliban and Qaeda leaders for drone strikes, in addition to helping capture senior Qaeda operatives such as Mauritani and providing security for the Shamsi drone base, the headquarters of the CIA’s Pakistan drone operations. This is risky work as well. On Sept. 8, two suicide bombers killed 23 people at the home of Farrukh Shahzad, the deputy commander of the Baluchistan Frontier Corps that captured Mauritani.<br />
Within the ISI, America’s most reliable ally has been the spy service’s division known as the T Wing. It was created largely from scratch in 2006 and 2007, after the Americans mostly gave up trying to work with the ISI’s uncooperative leadership. U.S. officials say their hope was that the T Wing, which conducted Mauritani’s interrogation, might help to offset the pernicious influence of the ISI’s S Wing, the division in charge of managing the Pakistani government’s relationship with Islamic extremist groups such as the Kashmiri separatist Lashkar-e-Taiba and Afghanistan’s Taliban. According to the same officials, America also has embraced and funded units connected to Pakistan’s Interior Ministry, particularly in the corruption-ridden megalopolis of Karachi, where the local police are not considered reliable counterterrorism partners.<br />
Over the past 10 years, Pakistan has received more than $20 billion in public U.S. funding for military and economic assistance. Washington’s secret subsidy of Pakistan’s intelligence and military could be much higher. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, called attention to the CIA’s extensive secret funding <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2011/11/22/bachmann-pakistan-is-too-nuclear-to-fail.html">during a recent Republican debate</a>. “The money that we are spending right now is primarily intelligence money to Pakistan,” she declared. “It is helping the United States. Whatever our action is, it must ultimately be about helping the United States and our sovereignty, our safety, and our security.”<br />
That’s not as easy as it may sound. It’s been necessary to pick and choose which elements of Pakistan’s security apparatus America should engage with, says Mark Lowenthal, a former House Intelligence Committee staff director and former CIA assistant director for analysis. “We do this because of the nature of the Pakistani state,” he says. “If it was a coherent government, then when we made a deal with the president or the prime minister, you would know as the orders come down the line they would be obeyed.” Nevertheless, he says, “That is not the nature of Pakistan. You have all these competing power centers. We are not doing this because we are trying to be too clever by half, we are doing this because this is the nature of the state we are dealing with.”<br />
The death of two dozen Pakistani soldiers has made that challenge tougher than ever. “As bad as the U.S.-Pakistan relationship is now, it’s only likely to get worse,” says <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/bruce-riedel.html">Bruce Riedel</a>, a former senior CIA official and one of the co-authors of President Obama’s initial Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. So far, however, no one on either side knows what else to do but keep on.<br />
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Eli Lake is the senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. He previously covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times. Lake has also been a contributing editor at The New Republic since 2008 and covered diplomacy, intelligence, and the military for the late New York Sun. He has lived in Cairo, Egypt, and traveled to war zones in Sudan, Iraq, and Gaza. He is one of the few journalists to report from all three members of President Bush's axis of evil: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. </i></header><header class="clearfix"><i> </i></header><header class="clearfix">The Original Article is here: <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/05/america-s-shadow-state-in-pakistan.html">The Daily Beast: America's Shadow State in Pakistan</a><i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Complain against the BBC Documentary "Secret Pakistan" on BBC Website (Complaints Section)</b></span><br style="font-family: inherit;" /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you feel that BBC documentary <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016n0js">"Secret Pakistan"</a> is a biased slanderous propaganda to defame Pakistan and its institutions, please write a complaint on the BBC website. BBC also showed documentaries on WMDs in Iraq & helped build a case to invade Iraq. WMDs that to date have never been found. The defence of a nation is the responsibility of all it's citizens and we request you all to file a complaint against this video.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Also pass this message to all your friends so they can also file a complaint</span><br style="font-family: inherit;" /><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016n0js">BBC Documentary - "Secret Pakistan"</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/">BBC Online Complaints System</a><br />
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When you click the complaints link and go to BBC website, you will have to fill out a short form with 8-10 questions.... Following are the questions and their answers.... Just go to the website and <b style="color: blue;">COPY-PASTE</b> the answers... <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>(You can add anything you want, to the details)... </b></span><br />
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<h3 class="review"></h3><div class="review-details"> <div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Type of complaint:</b></div><div class="review-content">Television</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Choose channel:</b></div><div class="review-content">BBC Two</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Programme title:</b></div><div class="review-content">Secret Pakistan</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Featured in the programme:</b></div><div class="review-content">No</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Transmission date:</b></div><div class="review-content">00/00/2011</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Broadcast type:</b></div><div class="review-content">Recorded/On demand</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>How long in to the show:</b></div><div class="review-content">:Simply Click Next Question</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Complaint category:</b></div><div class="review-content">Bias</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Contacted us before:</b></div><div class="review-content">No</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Complaint title:</b></div><div class="review-content">Pakistan's portrayel was Biased. Anonymous Sources</div></div><div class="container"> <div class="review-title"><b>Complaint description:</b></div><div class="review-content">The Documentary quoted mostly anonymous sources (including supposed Taliban operatives) to prove that Pakistan is "Double-Crossing" the West. No mention was made of Pakistan's sacrifices in this war that was not "its own". That Pakistan has lost 35000 citizens in this war since 2001 (including 5000+ soldiers). That the war has claimed such high-profile people like Chairperson of the ruling Party (ex Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto), Several Army Generals (e.g. General Mushtaq, Surgeon General of Army and General Bilal, Chief of Armoured Corps) and several Brigadiers and Colonels, senior Police Officers and Tribal elders. Couple it with the financial loss of nearly 60 Billion Dollars. The documentary squarely failed to highlight these sacrifices. It was more a biased "Propaganda Video" than a "Documentary worth carrying BBC's name". It has severely dented the image and credibility of BBC.</div></div></div><br />
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<u><b>CHAPTER I<br />
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<b>PRELIMINARY<br />
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<b>1. Short title, commencement and extent.</b><br />
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This Regulation may be called the Frontier Crimes Regulation, 1901; and<br />
It shall come into force at once.<br />
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1[3) It shall extend to the areas specified in the Third Schedule, but the Governor may by notification2 in the official Gazette, exempt any such area from the operation of .all or any of its provisions.]<br />
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4) Sections 1 to 5, 10, 20, 21, 26 to 28, 31, 32, 36, 37, 56 and 60 to .64 are of general application, but the remaining sections may be enforced, in whole or in part, as the case may be, only against Pathans and Balochis, and against such other classes as the3 [Provincial Government]4, may, by notification in the 5[official Gazette], declare to be subject thereto.<br />
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5) A notification under Sub-section (4) may declare a specified class only to be subject to all or any of the provisions of this Regulation in a district or part of a district6.<br />
Explanation. — The word "class", as used in Sub-section (4) and (5) includes any persons who may be collectively described in a notification under this section as persons subject to all or any of the provisions of this Regulation.<br />
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2. Definitions.</b> — In this Regulation unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context<br />
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7[(a) "Council of Elders" means - in relation to Quetta and Kalat Divisions and District Lasbella a Council of three or more persons convened according to the Pathan, Biluch or other usage, as the Deputy Commissioner may in each case direct; and in relation to other areas, a Council of three or more persons whether officials or otherwise convened by the Deputy Commissioner and presided over by a Magistrate invested with powers under Section 30 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898);]and<br />
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(b) "Deputy Commissioner" includes any Magistrate of the first class appointed by the Deputy Commissioner by order in writing to exercise all or any of the functions or powers specified in the first part of the first Schedule, and also any Magistrate appointed by the 8[Provincial Government] to exercise all or any of such functions or powers;<br />
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9[(c) "Commissioner" or "Court of the Commissioner" means the Provincial Government or such officer or officers as the Provincial Government may appoint in this behalf.]<br />
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<b>3. Relation of Regulation to other enactments.<br />
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The provisions of this Regulation shall take effect in case to which they apply, not with standing anything in any other enactment. The powers conferred by this Regulation may be exercised in addition to any powers conferred .by or under any other enactment, and, where the contrary is not expressed or implied, other enactments in force in any place in which all or any of the provisions of this Regulation are for the time being in force shall, so far as may be, apply to cases dealt within that place under this Regulation.<br />
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<u><b>CHAPTER II<br />
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<b> POWERS OF COURTS AND GFFICERS</b><br />
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<b>4. Additional District Magistrate.<br />
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In any district in the whole or any part of which all or any of the provision of this Regulation are for the time being in force, the [Provincial Government]10 may appoint any Magistrate or Magistrates of the first class to be an Additional District Magistrate or Additional District Magistrates, without any limit of time.<br />
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Every Additional District Magistrate so appointed shall have all the ordinary powers of a District Magistrate specified in the fifth part of the third schedule to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.<br />
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When exercising any of the powers of a Deputy Commissioner under this Regulation, an Additional District Magistrate shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Regulation to be the Deputy Commissioner.<br />
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Every Additional District Magistrate shall exercise his powers in subordination to the District Magistrate, and in such cases or classes of cases, and within such local limits as the District Magistrate may, by order in writing, direct.<br />
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<b>5. Power of District Magistrate to withdraw or recall cases.<br />
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The District 'Magistrate may withdraw any case from, or recall any case which he has made over to, an Additional District Magistrate whether the Additional District Magistrate is exercising jurisdiction with respect to the case as a Magistrate or as a Deputy Commissioner.<br />
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If the case may, under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,be referred to another Magistrate competent to inquire into or -try it, the District Magistrate may, instead of disposing of the case himself refer it to such other Magistrate for inquiry or trial, as the case may be.<br />
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<b>6. Power to pass sentences of whipping in certain cases.<br />
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Where any person against whom, under Section 1, Sub-section (4), this section may for the time being be enforced in convicted by a Criminal Court of an offence punishable under any of the following sections of the11 Indian Penal Code, namely, Sections 304, 307, 324, 325, 326, 376, 377, 382,392 to 399, 427, 428, 429, 435, 436 and 448 to 460, the Court may subject to the provisions of Section 393 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 189? pass upon him a sentence of whipping in addition to any other punishment to which he may be sentenced.<br />
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<b>127. Tender of pardon to accomplices.<br />
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Section 337 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall for the purposes of this Regulation, be construed as if – the words in Sub-section (1) "triable exclusively by the High Court or Court of Session or any offence punishable with imprisonment which may extend to ten years or any offence punishable under Section 211 of the 13Indian Penal Code with imprisonment which may extend to seven years or any offence under any of the following sections of the Indian Penal Code, namely, Sections 216-A, 369, 401, 435 and 477-A", and the whole of Sub-section (2-A) were omitted.<br />
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<u><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">CHAPTER III</span></span></b></u><span style="color: black;"><br />
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<b>COUNCILS OF ELDERS<br />
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<b>8. Civil reference to Council to Elders.<br />
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(1) Where the Deputy Commissioner is satisfied, from a police report or other information, that a dispute exists which is likely to cause a blood-feud or murder, or culpable homicide not -amounting to murder, or mischief or a breach of the peace, or in which either or any of the parties belongs to a frontier tribe he may, if he considers that the settlement thereof in the manner provided by this section will tend to prevent or terminate the consequence anticipated, and if a suit is not pending in respect of the dispute, make an order in writing, stating the grounds of his being satisfied, referring the dispute to a Council of Elders, and requiring the Council come to a finding on the matters in dispute after making such inquiry may be necessary and after hearing the parties. The members of he Council of Elders shall in each case, be nominated and appointed by the Deputy Commissioner.<br />
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(2) The order of reference made under Sub-section (1) shall state he matter or matters on which the finding of the Council of Elders required.<br />
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(3) On receipt of the finding of the Council of Elders under this section, the Deputy Commissioner may -<br />
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Remand the case to the Council for a further finding; or<br />
Refer the case to a second Council; or<br />
Refer the parties to the "Civil Court; or<br />
Pass a decree in accordance with the finding of the Council, or of not less Than three-fourth of the members thereof, on any matter stated in the reference; or<br />
Declare that further proceedings under this section are not required.<br />
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Decree not passed by the Deputy Commissioner in accordance 'with finding of Council of Elders. Held, direction (of Deputy Commissioner) to file suit in Court of competent jurisdiction to be without any lawful14 authority where the F.C.R. was repealed after the decision by Deputy Commissioner and the Commissioner, the case was remanded to the Court of Qazi, Bori-Sanjavi at Loralai, through Deputy Commissioner, Loralai for adjudication according to the Regulation of l97b.15<br />
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<b>9. Effect of decree on finding of Council.<br />
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A decree passed under Section 8, Sub-section (3), clause (d), shall not give effect to any finding or part of a finding which, in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner is contrary to good conscience or public policy, but shall – be a-final settlement of the case so far as the decree relates to any matter stated in the reference, although other matters therein stated may remain un disposed of; and have, to that extent and subject to the provisions of this Regulation with- respect to revision, the same effect as a decree of a Civil Court of ultimate resort, and be enforced by the Deputy Commissioner in the same manner as a decree of such a Court may be enforced.<br />
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<b>10. Restriction on jurisdiction of Civil Courts.<br />
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No Civil Court shall take cognizance of any claim with respect to which the Deputy Commissioner has proceeded under Section 8, Sub-section (3), clause (a), clause (b) or clause (d).<br />
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<b>11. Criminal references to Council of Elders.<br />
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Where, in the opinion of the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, it is inexpedient that the question of the guilt or innocence of any person or persons accused of any offence, or of any several persons so accused, should be tried by a Court of any of the classes mentioned in Section 6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, the Deputy Commissioner may or if the Commissioner so directs, shall, by order in writing, refer the question to the decision of a Council of Elders, and require the Council to come to a finding on the question after such inquiry as may be necessary and after hearing the accused person. The members of the Council of Elders shall, in each case, be nominated and appointed by the Deputy Commissioner.<br />
Where a reference to a Council of Elders is made under Sub-section (1) and the members of the Council have been nominated, the names of the members so nominated shall, as soon as may be, be communicated to the accused person, and any- objection which he may then make to the nomination of any such member shall be recorded. The Deputy Commissioner shall consider every objection made by an accused person under this sub-section, and may, in his discretion, either accept or reject the objection, provided that, in the latter case, he shall record his reasons for so doing. The Deputy Commissioner shall, after disposing of any objection made by the accused person, appoint the members of the Council.<br />
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On receipt of the finding of the Council of Elders under this section, .the Deputy Commissioner may - remand the question to the Council for a further finding; or refer the question to a second Council; or<br />
acquit; or discharge the accused person or persons, or any of them; or in accordance with the finding on any matter of fact of the Council, or of not less than three-fourths of the members thereof convict the accused person or persons, or any of them, of any offence of which the facts so found show him or them to be guilty:<br />
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Provided that a person discharged under clause (c) shall not be liable to be retried for any offence arising out of the same facts after the expiry of two years from the date of such discharge.<br />
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Issuance of process by A.P.O./A.D.C. Waziristan Agency (Tribal Area) Jurisdiction of the High Court not extended to the Tribal Areas (FATA) constituting Waziristan Agency. However the provisions of Section 86-A of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, shall have to be complied with after the execution of the warrants and before the removal of petitioner (accused) to the Tribal areas for his production before the Court.16<br />
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<b>12. Punishment on conviction on finding of Council.<br />
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Where the Deputy Commissioner convicts a person under Section 11, Sub-section (3), clause (d) he may pass upon him any sentence of fine.<br />
Where the Deputy Commissioner so convicts a person of an offence mentioned in the second schedule, he may, whatever may be the punishment prescribed for the offence, sentence the person, in lieu of or in addition to fine, to be imprisoned for a term which may extend' to seven years, or, subject to the provisions, of Section 393 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to be whipped or to be whipped and imprisoned for a term which may extend to five years, or to be transported for a term which may extend to seven years, and, where he so convicts a person of an offence punishable with transportation or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years, he may, subject to confirmation by the Commissioner, sentence the person to a term either of transportation or of imprisonment exceeding seven years but not exceeding fourteen years;<br />
Provided first, that a sentence of whipping shall not be passed on any person so convicted of an offence under Sections 121, 121-A, 122, 123, 124-A, 125, 126, 127, 144, 150, 216, 216-A, 400, 401, 402,'494, or 495 of the Indian Penal Code:<br />
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Provided, secondly, that a sentence of transportation or imprisonment for an offence shall not be for a longer term than that (if any) prescribed for the offence: and Provided, thirdly, that a sentence of transportation shall not be passed for an offence which is not punishable with transportation or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or more.<br />
17 [3) In cases of convictions under Section 302 or 396 of the Pakistan Penal Code, the immovable property of the accused shall be liable to forfeiture to the Government].<br />
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<b>13. Manner of enforcing sentences.<br />
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Any sentence passed under Section 12 shall be executed in the manner provided for the execution of sentences passed by a Court of any of the classes mentioned in. Section 6of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.<br />
For the purposes of Sections 64 to 67 of the Indian Penal Code in reference to a sentence under Section 12 of this Regulation.<br />
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an offence punishable with death or transportation for life shall be deemed to be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years;<br />
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the imprisonment in default of payment of fine may be rigorous or simple at the discretion of the Deputy Commissioner.<br />
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<b>14. Time for exercising power of reference to Council of Elders.<br />
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The powers conferred by Section 11 on the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, respectively, may be exercised by them, in cases committed to the Court of Session, at any time before the trial before that Court has commenced, and, in cases pending before any Court inferior to the Court of Session, at any time before an order of conviction or acquittal has been made.<br />
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<b>15. Motion by Public Prosecutor in view to reference to Council of Elders.<br />
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In any trial before a Court of Session, the Public Prosecutor may, when instructed in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, at any time before an order of conviction of acquittal has been made with respect to any accused person, withdraw from the prosecution of such person in order that the case may be referred to a Council of Elders.<br />
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The Sessions Judge shall thereupon stay proceedings with respect to such person, and the Deputy Commissioner shall refer the case to a Council of Elders.<br />
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<b>16. Case of persons jointly accused of an offence.<br />
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The powers conferred by Section 11, as limited by Section 14, may be exercised against and the withdrawal of a prosecution under Section 15 may have reference to one or some only of two or more persons jointly accused of an offence.<br />
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<b>17. Powers to set aside orders making or refusing to make references to Council of Elders.<br />
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The Deputy Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, at any time reconsider and set aside any order of the Deputy Commissioner under this Regulation –<br />
(a) directing reference to a Council of Elders, or<br />
(b) refusing to make such a reference.<br />
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<b>18. Recommendation of Council of Elders.<br />
</b> <br />
Where a Council of Elders to which a reference has been made under this Regulation makes any recommendation to which effect might be given if it were a finding on a matter or question referred to the Council under this Regulation, the Deputy Commissioner may, if the recommendation effects a person mentioned in the order of reference and is relevant to the matter or question actually, referred, deal with the recommendation or any part of it as if it were a finding under Section 8 or Section 11:<br />
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Provided that no decree or sentence may be passed on any 'such recommendation as aforesaid against any person who has not had the /claim or charge fully explained to him and been given an opportunity of entering upon is defence in regard thereto.<br />
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Where the Deputy Commissioner deals with a recommendation under Sub-section (1), he may pass any such decree as is authorised by Section 8,or any such sentence as is authorised by Section 12, Sub-section (1), and the decree or sentence shall have the same effect and be enforced in the same manner as if it were a decree or -sentence passed under Section 8 or Section 12, Sub-section (1), as the case may be.<br />
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<b>19. Record of Deputy Commissioner.<br />
</b> <br />
Where the Deputy Commissioner passes, under this Chapter a sentence of fine exceeding two hundred rupees, or of imprisonment for a term exceeding three months, or of transportation, he shall make a record of the facts of the case of the offence committed and of his reasons for passing the sentence.<br />
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The record shall be made by the Deputy Commissioner in English and in his own hand, unless for any sufficient reasons he is prevented from so making it, in which case he -shall record the reason of his inability and shall cause the record to be made from his dictation in open Court.<br />
<b><br />
20. Attendance of parties and witnesses before Deputy Commissioner Council of Elders.</b><br />
<br />
Where a reference is made to a Council of Elders under this Chapter, the deputy Commissioner may exercise all or any of the powers conferred by the Code of Civil Procedure and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, respectively, as the case may be, for the purpose of compelling the attendance, before -himself or the Council of Elders, of the parties, and witnesses, or any of them, in any case and at any stage of the proceedings.<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CHAPTER IV</b></span></span></u><br />
<br />
<b>PENALTIES<br />
</b> <br />
<b>21. Blockade of hostile <acronym title="Page Ranking">pr</acronym> unfriendly tribe.<br />
</b> <br />
In the event of any frontier tribe, or of any section or members of such tribe, acting in a hostile or unfriendly manner towards the British Government or towards persons residing within British India, the Deputy Commissioner may with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, by order in writing, direct.<br />
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the seizure, wherever they may be found, of all or any of the members of such tribe and of all or any property belonging to them or any of them",<br />
the detention in safe custody of any person or -property so seized and; the confiscation of any such property; and may, with the like sanction by public proclamation; debar all or any member of the tribe from all access into 20British India; and prohibit all or any persons within the limits of 20British India from all inter-course or communication of any kind whatsoever, or of any specified kind or kinds with such tribe or any section or members thereof.<br />
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<b>22. Fines on Communities accessory to crime.<br />
</b> <br />
Where, from the circumstances of any case, there appears to be good reason to believe that the inhabitants of any village, or part, of a village, or any of them, have - connived at, or in any way abetted, the commission of an offence; or failed to render all assistance in their power to discover the offenders or to effect their arrest; connived at the escape of, or harboured, any offender or person suspected of having taken part in the commission of an offence; or combined to suppress material evidence of the Commission of an offence; the Deputy Commissioner may, with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, impose a fine on the inhabitants of such village or part of a village, or any of them as a whole.<br />
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<b>23. Fines on communities where murder or culpable homicide is committed or attempted. —<br />
</b><br />
Where, within the area occupied by a village community or part of a village-community, a person is dangerously or fatally wounded by an unlawful act, or the body is found of a person believed to have been unlawfully killed, the members of the village community or part there of shall be deemed to have committed an offence under Section 22,unless the headmen of the village-community or part thereof can show that the members thereof –<br />
had not an opportunity of preventing the offence or arresting the offender; or have used all reasonable means to bring the offender to justice.<br />
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<b>24. Recovery of fines. —<br />
</b> <br />
Fines imposed under Section 22 4th all in default of payment, be recoverable as if they were areas" of land revenue due by the members of the community or part thereof upon whom the fine is imposed.<br />
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<b>25. Forfeiture of remissions of revenue etc. in the case of communities and persons accessory to crime. —<br />
</b> <br />
Where a village-community or part of a village-community has become liable to fine under Section 22, it shall further be liable to forfeit, in whole or in part, and for a term or in perpetuity, any remission of land revenue of which it may be in joint enjoyment, and the members of the village-community unity or part thereof, as the case may be, shall in like manner be liable severally to forfeit any assignment or remission of land-revenue or allowance paid out of public funds which they, or any of them, may enjoy.<br />
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<b>26. Forfeiture of public emoluments etc. of persons guilty of serious offences or of conniving at crime. —<br />
</b> <br />
Where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Deputy Commissioner, that any person who is in the enjoyment of an assignment or remission of land-revenue or allowance payable out of public funds, has been guilty of a serious offence, or has colluded with or harboured any criminal, or has suppressed material evidence of the commission of any offence, or has failed, on the investigation of any criminal case, 'to render loyal and proper assistance to the authorities to the best of his ability, the Deputy Commissioner may, in addition to. any other penalty to which such person may be liable under any law for the time being in force, direct the, forfeiture, in whole or in part and for a term or in perpetuity, of such assignment or remission of land-revenue or allowance, as the case may be.<br />
Explanation. — For the purposes of this section the expression "serious offence" means any offence punishable with transportation or with imprisonment a term which may extend to three years or more..<br />
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<b>27. Powers to direct forfeiture. —<br />
</b> <br />
Forfeiture under Section 25 or Section 26 may be adjudged by order of the Deputy Commissioner for a term, which may extend to three years, and by order of the Commissioner for any longer term or in perpetuity.<br />
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<b>28. Powers of Provincial Government saved. —<br />
</b> <br />
Nothing in Sections25, 26 and 27 shall affect the powers of the 21[Provincial Government] with respect to the grant, continuance or forfeiture, in whole or in part, of any assignment or re-mission of land-revenue or of any allowance paid out of public funds.<br />
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<b>29. Preparation to commit certain offences. –<br />
</b> <br />
Where a person is found carrying arms in such manner 'or in such circumstances as to afford just grounds of suspicion that the arms are being carried by him with intent to use them for an unlawful purpose, and that person has taken precautions to elude observation or evade arrest, or is found after sunset and before sunrise within the limits of any military camp cantonment or of any municipality, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both, and the arms carried by him may be confiscated.<br />
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<b>30. Adultery. —<br />
</b> <br />
(1) A married woman .who, knowingly and by her own consent, has sexual intercourse with any man who is not her husband is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punishable with imprisonment for .a term which may extend to five years, or with tine, or with both.<br />
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22[(2) Cognizance shall not be taken of an offence under this section unless a complaint has been made by the husband of the women or in his absence, by a person who had care of. the women on his behalf at the time when the offence was committed.]<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CHAPTER V</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></u><br />
<b>PREVENTIVE AND OTHER AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION<br />
</b> <br />
<b>31. Power to prohibit erection new villages or towers on frontier. —<br />
</b><br />
No new hamlet, village-habitation, tower or walled enclosure shall, without the previous sanction in writing of the Commissioner, who may, either grant or refuse such sanction as he thinks fit, be erected at any place within five miles of the frontier of23 British India.Where the Commissioner refuses to sanction the erection of any such hamlet, village-habitation, tower or Walled enclosure, as the case may be, he shall record, his reasons for so doing.<br />
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<b>32. Power to direct removal of villages. — <br />
</b><br />
Where it is expedient on military grounds, the Central Government] may, by order in writing, I direct the removal of any village situated in close proximity to the frontier of 24British India to any other site within five miles of the regional may and award to the inhabitants such compensation for any loss which may have been occasioned to them by the' removal of their village as in the opinion of the [Central Government], is just.<br />
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<b>33. Regulation of Hujras and Chauks. — <br />
</b><br />
No building of the kind commonly known as "hujra" or "chauk", and no building intended to be Used as a "hujra" or "chauk", shall be, erected or built, and no existing building not now used/as a "hujra" or "chauk", shall at any time be used as such, without .the previous, sanction in writing of, the Deputy Commissioner.Whoever contravenes the provisions of Sub-section (1) shall be punishable with imprisonment; for "a term, which may extend to six months or with fine, or with both.<br />
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<b>34. Demolition of buildings 'used by robber etc. —</b> <br />
<br />
Where the [Deputy Commissioner is satisfied that any building is habitually used as a meeting place by robbers, house-breakers, thieves or bad characters or for the purpose of gambling, he may, by order in writing, prohibit the owner or occupier thereof from so using such building, and, if the order is not obeyed, may, by a like order, direct that the building be demolished. Such further order shall be without prejudice to any punishment to which the owner or occupier of such building may, under any law for the time being in force, be liable for disobedience of the prohibitory order.No person shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of the demolition of any building under Sub-section (1).<br />
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<b>35. Naubati chaukidari system. – <br />
</b><br />
Where, in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner, the custom of providing for watch and ward by what are commonly known as "Naubati chaukidars" exists in the case: of .any village-community, "and the village-community, or any part thereof ails to provide .for the due performance of such service, or any member of the village-community fails to perform his duty of watch and ward according to the customary rotation in respect of such duties, the Deputy Commissioner may impose a fine, which may/extend to one hundred rupees in any one case, upon the village-community or part or member thereof so failing as aforesaid.The provision of Section 24 shall be applicable to the recovery of fines imposed on any village-community or part thereof under this section.<br />
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Where such custom as aforesaid has not existed or has fallen into misuse in any village-community, the Deputy Commissioner may, with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, by order in writing, direct introduction or revival, as the case may be, and thereupon the provisions of Sub-section (1) shall apply in respect of the village-community.<br />
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<b>36. Power to require persons to remove in certain cases. —<br />
</b><br />
Where in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner, any person is a dangerous fanatic; or belongs to a frontier tribe and has no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give a satisfactory account of himself; or has a blood-feud; or has occasioned cause of quarrel likely to lead to blood-shed; the Deputy Commissioner may, by order in writing, require him to reside beyond the limits of the territories to which this Regulation extends or at such place within the said territories as may be specified in the order: Provided that, if the person has a fixed habitation in the place which the Deputy Commissioner requires him to leave, an Order under this section shall not be made without the previous sanction of the Commissioner.<br />
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<b>37. Penalty for breach of certain orders. — <br />
</b><br />
Whoever contravenes the provisions of Section 31, or disobeys an order under Section 21or Section 32, or a prohibition under Section 34, or a requisition under Section 36, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.<br />
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<b>38. Powers of arrest. — <br />
</b><br />
In any place in which all or any of the provisions of this Regulation are for the time being in force.<br />
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(i) any private person may,, without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest or cause to be arrested, and make over or cause to be made over to a police officer or take or cause to be 'taken to the nearest police station, any person who has been concerned in any cognizable offence or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received, or a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been so concerned; and<br />
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(ii) Section 48 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall be read as if the following sub-section were added thereto namely:-<br />
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"(4) But this section gives a right to cause the death of a person against whom those portions of the Frontier Crimes Regulation 1901 which are not of general application, may be enforced. if he is committing or attempting to commit an offence, or resisting or evading arrest, in such circumstance as to afford reasonable ground for believing that he intends to use arms to effect his purpose; and<br />
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if a hue and cry has been raised against him of his having been concerned in any such offence as is specified in clause (a)or of his committing or attempting to commit an offence, or resisting or evading arrest, in such circumstances as are referred to in the said clause".<br />
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<b>39. Arrest without warrant in cases under Section 498, 25Indian Penal Code. — <br />
</b><br />
Where there is reason to believe that a person has committed or attempted or commit an offence punishable under Section 498 of the "Indian Penal Code, an officer in charge of a police station may, without, an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest that person on the requisition of the husband of the woman, or, in his absence of a person having the care of her on his behalf, or, in the absence of both the husband and any such person as last aforesaid from the village in which the women resides, on the requisition of a headman of the village.A police officer making an arrest under Sub-section <br />
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(1) shall, without unnecessary delay, take or send the person arrested to the nearest Magistrate having jurisdiction. The Magistrate may, in default of bail being furnished to his satisfaction, detain the person arrested for such period, not exceeding fifteen days, as may be necessary to enable the husband, or, in his absence, a person who had care of the woman on his- behalf, to make a complaint.<br />
<b><br />
40. Security and surveillance for the prevention of murder or culpable homicide or the dissemination of sedition. — </b><br />
<br />
Where the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner is of opinion that it is necessary for the purpose of preventing murder, or culpable homicide not amounting to murder, or the dissemination of sedition, to require a person to execute a bond, for good behaviour or for keeping the peace, as the case maybe, he may order the person to execute a bond with or without sureties for his good behaviour or for keeping the peace, as the case may be during such period not exceeding three years, as the Commissioner or he Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, may fix.The Deputy Commissioner may make an order under Sub-section (1) -(a) on the recommendation of a Council of Elders, or<br />
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(b) after inquiry as hereinafter provided.<br />
26[(2-A) Pending the completion of an enquiry for the purposes of Sub-section (2), the Deputy Commissioner may, if he considers that immediate measures are necessary for preventing any offence referred to in Sub-section (1) direct the person in respect .of whom the enquiry is to be held, to execute a bond, with or. without sureties, for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour for a period not exceeding one month, and detain him in custody till such bond is executed].<br />
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(3) Where a person has been convicted in accordance with the finding of a Council of Elders of an offence mentioned in Section 106 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or punishable under Section 302, Section304, Section 307 or Section 308 of the 27Indian Penal Code, the Deputy Commissioner at the time of passing sentence, or the Commissioner at the time of revising the sentence, may make an order under Sub-section (1) with respect to that person.<br />
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(4) Where the Deputy Commissioner makes an order under Sub-section (1) on the recommendation of a Council of Elders, he shall record his reasons for acting on the recommendation.<br />
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(5) Where the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner is of opinion that sufficient grounds exist for making an order under Sub-section (1) he may, either in lieu of or in addition to such order, by order in writing, direct that the person concerned shall notify his residence and any change of residence in the fanner prescribed by Section 565 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, during such term, not exceeding three years, as may be specified in the order.Matter not adjudicated upon by the Deputy Commissioner in accordance with Section 8(3)(d): of Frontier Crimes Regulation. Commissioner too failing to exercise authority vested in him under law in not deciding Revision Petition according to law. Orders passed by the Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner set aside through Constitutional Petition.28<br />
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<b>41. Security from families or factions in case of blood feud. —<br />
</b> <br />
Where a blood-feud or other cause of quarrel likely to lead to blood-shed exists or, in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner, is likely to arise between two families or factions, the Deputy Commissioner may, on the recommendation of a Council of Elders, or, after inquiry as hereinafter provided, order all or any of the members of both families or factions or of either family or faction to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for their good behaviour or for keeping the peace, as the case may be, during such period, not exceeding three years as he may fix.<br />
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<b>42. Procedure in inquiry. — <br />
</b><br />
An inquiry for the purposes of Section 40 Sub-section (2), or Section 41, may be conducted, so far as may be necessary out of Court Provided that a person from whom it is proposed to require a bond under Section 40, or the principal members of a family or faction from which it is proposed to require a bond under Section 41, shall be given an opportunity of showing cause in Court why a bond should not he required arid of having his or their witnesses examined there, and of cross-examining any witness not called by himself or themselves who may testify there to the necessity or otherwise for the execution of a bond.Sections 112, 113, 115 and 117 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall not apply to an inquiry under this section, but the Deputy Commissioner shall record his order with the reasons for making it.<br />
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<b>43. Breach of bond. — <br />
</b><br />
A bond executed under Section 40 shall be liable to be forfeited if the person bound thereby to be of good behaviour or to keep the peaces, as the case may be, commits or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, any offence punishable with imprisonment.A bond/executed under Section 41 shall be liable to be forfeited if the person bound thereby .to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace, as the case may be, commits or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, any offence punishable with imprisonment in respect of any member of the opposite family or faction to which the bond related.If, 'while a bond executed under Section 41 is in force, the life of' any member of either family or faction is unlawfully taken or attempted, the Deputy Commissioner may declare the bond of all or any of the, members of the other family or faction and their sureties (if any) to be forfeited, unless it is shown to his satisfaction that the homicide or attempt was not committed by, or in consequence of the abetment of, any member of that family or faction.<br />
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<b>44. Imprisonment in default of security. — <br />
</b><br />
Where a person ordered to give security under Section 40; or Section 41 does not give security on or before the date on which the period for which the security is to be given commences; he shall be committed to prison, or, if he is already in prison, be detained in prison until that period expires, or until within that period he furnishes the required security.Imprisonment for failure to give security under this Chapter may be rigorous or simple as the offence requiring the security directs in each case.<br />
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<b>45. Length of imprisonment. — <br />
</b><br />
Where a person has suffered imprisonment for three years for failure to give security under Section 40 or Section41, he shall be released and shall not again be required to give security unless a fresh order is passed in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.<br />
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<b>46. Further Security. — <br />
</b><br />
1) Where a person has, under the provisions of this Chapter, given security or been imprisoned for failure to give security, he may be brought before the Deputy Commissioner, if on the expiry of the period for which security was required to be given the Deputy Commissioner so directs.<br />
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(2) Where the Deputy Commissioner thinks it necessary, for the purpose of preventing blood-shed, to require security for further period from any person so brought before him, he shall record proceeding to that effect.<br />
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3) The proceeding may be founded on the facts on which the original order to give security was founded, and it shall not be necessary to prove any fresh facts to justify an order to give security for a further period under this section; but such an order, if passed shall have the same effect and be enforced in the same manner as an original order to give security under Section 40 or Section 41.<br />
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(4) Notwithstanding anything in this section, no person shall suffer, for failure to give security under this Chapter continuous imprisonment for more than six years or, without the sanction of the Commissioner for more than three years.<br />
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<b>47. Modified applications of Chapters VIII and XLII, Act V of 1898. <br />
</b><br />
Where, within the territories in which all or any of the provisions of this Regulation are for the time being in force, it is found necessary or expedient to take security under this Regulation from Pathans or Baluchis or any other classes against whom all or any of the provisions of Section_40 to 46 may for the time being be enforce, the provisions of Chapters VIII and XLII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall be read as if for the words "High Court", "Court of Session" and "Sessions Judge" wherever they occur, the word "Commissioner" were substituted, and all references to any such Courts shall be deemed to refer to the Court of the Commissioner.Subject to the provisions of Sub-section (2) of Section 42 and Sub-section (1) of this section, the provisions of the said Chapters of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall, so far as they are consistent therewith, be applicable to every proceeding under this Chapter relating to the taking of security; but all applications for revision in respect to any such proceeding shall be made to, and be disposed of by, the Commissioner.<br />
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<br />
<span style="color: black;"><u><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">CHAPTER VI</span><br />
</b></u></span><br />
<br />
<b>APPEAL AND REVISION<br />
</b><br />
<b>48. Appeals barred. — <br />
</b><br />
No appeal shall lie from any decision given, decree or sentence passed, order made, or act done, under any of the provisions of this Regulation.<br />
<b><br />
49. Revision. – </b><br />
<br />
The Commissioner may call for the record of any proceeding under this Regulation and revise any decision, decree, sentence or order given, passed or made therein.<br />
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<b> 50. Powers in exercise of criminal revisional jurisdiction. —<br />
</b><br />
The Commissioner may, in the exercise of his revisional jurisdiction in any criminal proceeding, exercise the power to direct tender of pardon conferred by Section 338, and any of the powers conferred on an Appellate Court by Sections 195, 423, 426, 427 and 428 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898, and may-also enhance any sentence.Provided that nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to authorize the Commissioner to set aside the finding on any question of fact of a Council of Elders, where such finding has been accepted by the Deputy Commissioner, unless he is of opinion that there has been a material irregularity or defect in the proceedings or that the proceedings have been so conducted as to occasion a miscarriage of justice.<br />
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<b>51. Sentences which may not be passed on revision. — <br />
</b><br />
No sentence shall be passed by the Commissioner in the exercise of his revisional jurisdiction, which the Deputy Commissioner could not have passed under this Regulation.<br />
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<b>52. Powers in exercise of civil revisional jurisdiction. —<br />
</b><br />
Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to authorize the Commissioner to vary or set aside any decision, decree or order given, passed or made in any civil proceeding under the Regulation, unless he is of opinion that there has been a material irregularity or defect in the proceedings or that the proceedings have been so conducted as to occasion a miscarriage of justice or that the decision, decree or order is contrary to good conscience or public policy.<br />
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<b>53. Record of reasons. — <br />
</b><br />
Where, in the exercise of his revisional jurisdiction in any proceeding under this Regulation, the Commissioner varies or sets aside any decision, decree, sentence or order, he shall record his reasons for so doing.<br />
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29[54. Procedure where the decision, etc. to be revised was given by the officer invested with revisional jurisdiction as Deputy Commissioner.—<br />
<br />
No officer shall revise -any decision, decree, sentence, or order given, passed or made by himself in the capacity of Deputy Commissioner.Where any such decision, decree, sentence or order is brought to the notice of an officer invested with revisional jurisdiction under this Regulation with a view to the exercise by him of revisional powers such officer shall report the case to the Provincial Government and it shall be disposed by of the Provincial Government or by an officer other than the reporting officer, appointed by the Provincial Government.]<br />
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<b>55. Enforcement of orders made on revision. —<br />
</b><br />
Every order made by the Commissioner in exercise of his revisional jurisdiction shall been forced as if it were an order of the Deputy Commissioner or DistrictMagistrate, as the case may be, and the Deputy Commissioner or District Magistrate shall do all acts and things necessary to give effect thereto.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CHAPTER VII</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<b> SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS<br />
</b><br />
<b>56. Recovery of fines, etc., from relatives of person liable. — <br />
</b><br />
Where by a decree passed under Section 8 or by a sentence passed under Section 12, any person belonging to a frontier tribe becomes "liable to pay a fine or other sum of money, the Deputy Commissioner may, I on the recommendation of a Council of Elders and on satisfying himself, that such a course is in accordance with local tribal custom, by order| in writing, direct that the amount shall be recovered from the property movable or immovable, of such of the relatives of fellow tribesmen of the person so liable as may be specified in the order.<br />
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<b>57. Power of Deputy Commissioners to order disposal of certain fines.<br />
</b><br />
The Deputy Commissioner may make such order as he thinks fit for the disposal of the proceeds of any fine imposed under Section12, Section 18, or Section 22, and, subject to any order made by the Commissioner under Chapter VI, the proceeds shall be disposed of accordingly.Where, in pursuance of an order made under Sub-section (1), a person has received compensation for an injury out of the proceeds of a fine, so Civil Court shall take cognizance of a claim to compensation based on the same injury.<br />
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<b>58. Maintenance of registers. –<br />
</b><br />
Registers shall be kept up, in forms to be approved by the 30[Provincial Government], of all cases dealt with by the Deputy Commissioner and by the Commissioner under this Regulation.<br />
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<b>59. Jurisdiction of ordinary Courts in cases under Sections 29, 30 and 37.<br />
</b><br />
An offence punishable under Section 29 or Section 30 maybe tried by a Court of Session or by the Court of a Magistrate of the first class. An offence punishable under Section 37 may be tried by any Magistrate of the first class.<br />
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<b> 60. Finality of proceedings under Regulation. —</b><br />
<br />
Except as therein otherwise provided, no decision, decree, sentence or order given, passed or made, or. act done, under Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V or Chapter VI, shall be called in question in, or set aside by, any Civil or Criminal Court.<br />
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<b> 61. Application of provisions of Indian Penal Code respecting fines and imprisonment. —</b><br />
<br />
The provisions of Section 61, and those of Sections63 to 74, of the 31Indian Penal Code, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 13 of this Regulation, apply to sentences passed under this Regulation.<br />
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<b> 62. Power, to make rules. —</b><br />
<br />
The 32[Provincial Government] may make33 rules to carry out the purposes and objects of this Regulation. The court-fee required under the rules framed by the Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan through Order No. 1833-V dated the 5th June, 1936 on any document pertaining to criminal cases, or civil cases involving amount not exceeding Rs. 25,000/- are now no longer to be levied with court-fee from 1st August, 1978.Gazette of Baluchistan, Extraordinary, 15th January, 1979.<br />
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34[62-A. Power to make rules for the issue and safe custody of rifles and ammunition and for the imposition and recovery of fines. The 35[Central Government] may make rules for the issue and safe custody of rifles and ammunition for border village defence, and for the imposition and recovery of fines for any breach of such rules. Fines imposed for a breach of the rules made under this section may be recovered in the manner laid down in Section 386 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898].<br />
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<b>63. — No suit</b> or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything done, or in good faith intended to be done, under this Regulation.<br />
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<b>64. Protection for persons acting under Regulation. —<br />
</b> <br />
[Repeal.] Repealed by the Repealing Act, 1938 (I of 1938), Section 2 and Schedule 1<br />
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<u><b>THE FIRST SCHEDULE</b></u><br />
<br />
(See Section 2, clause (b)]<br />
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<b>PART I — POWERS AND FUNCTIONS WITH WHICH MAGISTRATES OFTHE FIRST CLASS MAY BE INVESTED BY DEPUTY COMMISSIONERS<br />
</b> <br />
<blockquote>(a) In the case of an additional District Magistrate — all or any of the powers and functions of a Deputy Commissioner.</blockquote><blockquote>(b) In any other case — all or any of the following powers, namely:</blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>(i) power to make orders of reference to Councils of Elders under Section 8, Sub-section (1);<br />
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(ii) power to nominate and appoint the members of the Council when an order of reference to a Council has been made under Section 8,Sub- section (1);<br />
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(iii) power to nominate the members of the Council when an order of reference to a Council has been made under Section 11,Sub-section (1);<br />
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(iv) power to consider and dispose of objection made by an accused person to members so nominated, and to appoint the member of a Council of Elders under Section 11, Sub-section (2); and<br />
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(v) power to take security under Section 40.</blockquote></blockquote><b>PART II — POWERS AND FUNCTIONS WITH WHICHMAGISTRATE MAY BE INVESTED BY THE 36[PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT]<br />
</b> <br />
Power to nominate and appoint the members of a Council of Elders where an order of reference to a Council has been made under Section 8, Sub-section.<br />
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Power to nominate the members of the Council when an order of' reference to a Council has been made under section 11, Sub-section(1); and power to consider and dispose of objections made by an accused; person to members so nominated, and to appoint the members of a Council of Elders under Section 11, Sub-section (2).<br />
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<b>THE SECOND SCHEDULE<br />
</b> <br />
[See Section (2) Sub-section 1]<br />
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1. Any offence punishable under any of the following sections of the 37Indian Penal Code, namely, Sections 121, 121_A, 122, 123, 124-A, F125, 126, 127, 131, 144, 148, 150, 193, 194, 195, 196, 201, 211, 212,216, 216-A, 295-B38 302, 304, 307, 308, 324, 325, 326, 328, 354, 363 to 369, 376, 377, 379 to 382, 386, 387, 392 to 399, 400, 401, 402, 411.to 414, 427 to 429, 435, 436, 440, 448 to 460, 439-B39-489-C39 494, 495, 497 and 498.<br />
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2. Any offence punishable under Section 29 or Section 30 of this Regulation.<br />
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3. Abetment of any of the offences aforesaid.<br />
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4. Attempt to commit any of the offences aforesaid, which are not| themselves expressed to be attempts to commit offence,<br />
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<b>40[THE THIRD SCHEDULE41<br />
</b> <br />
[See Sub-section (2) of Section]<br />
<blockquote>1. The Divisions of Quetta and Kalat.<br />
2. The District of Lasbela.<br />
3. Nasirabad Sub-Division of Jacobabad District.<br />
4. The Added Areas of the Hazara District, specified in the First' Schedule, to G.G.O. No. 1 of 1952.<br />
5. The Added Areas of Mardan District, specified in Schedule 'A' to G.G.O. No. VII of 1953.<br />
6. The Added Areas of Hazara District, specified in the First Schedule to G.G.O. No. XIIl of 1955.<br />
7. The former excluded Areas of Upper Tanaval and Baluch Areas of Dera Ghazi Khan, specified in the Schedule to President Order No.III of 1961.]</blockquote><br />
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Mr. Musharraf, <b>We have not yet Forgotten</b>:<br />
LAL Masjid (The most Shameful act by any ruler in Pakistan's history),<br />
Destruction of FATA from Bajaur to Waziristan (FATA had the lowest crime rate in Pakistan before 2001),<br />
Drone Attacks Permissions (e.g. <b>Damadola airstrike</b> killing 80 students on 30 Oct 2006),<br />
Airbases to Americans (<b>Shamsi & Jacobabad</b> etc),<br />
Handing over hundreds of Pakistanis to CIA (including <b>Aafia Siddiqui</b>),<br />
May-12 Killings in Karachi in 2007 (The famous <b>"Mukka Speech"</b>),<br />
Hundreds if not thousands of Missing Persons,<br />
Patronizing MQM and thus causing deaths of thousands of innocent Pakistanis in Karachi,<br />
Loot-Sale of Steel Mills, KESC and PTCL,<br />
Billions of worth corruption (NICL Punjab Bank, Islamabad Farm Houses, Karachi Shershah Bridge,<br />
Handing over Gwadar to Singapore company instead of Chinese and thus causing irrecoverable loss to Pakistan (<b>Gwadar has been literally freezed & abondoned by the Singapore company</b>),<br />
NRO (World's most shameful piece of legislation),<br />
Akbar Bugti Murder (thus <b>throwing Balochistan into the flames of Revenge, insurgency and Anti-Pakistanism</b>),<br />
Benzair Bhutto Murder (ref <b>BB's famous emails to Mark Siegel</b>)<br />
etc etc etc...<br />
<i>The list of <b>CONTRIBUTIONS</b> is too long to be forgotten Mr. Musharraf..<br />
So STAY where you are (With your Foreign Masters).</i><br />
Even then if We Pakistanis don't punish such people then <b>"We deserve the mess We are in"</b> <br />
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<div class="ap-story-p"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="headline entry-title">7.2 quake in Turkey kills 45, collapses buildings</span></b></span> <b> </b><br />
<b>By SELCAN HACAOGLU and SUZAN FRASER</b><br />
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured.<br />
State-run television reported that 45 people were killed and 150 others injured in the eastern town of Ercis, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, due to low housing standards in the area and the size of the quake.<br />
Ercis, a town of 75,000 in the mountainous province of Van close to the Iranian border, was the hardest hit. It lies on the Ercis Fault in one of Turkey's most earthquake-prone zones. The bustling regional center of Van, 55 miles (90 kilometers) to the south, also suffered substantial damage.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Up to 30 buildings collapsed in Ercis, including a dormitory, and 10 buildings collapsed in Van, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said.<br />
Rescuers in Ercis scrambled to find survivors in a flattened eight-story building that had shops on the ground floor, television footage showed. Residents sobbed outside the ruins, hoping that missing relatives would be rescued.</div><a name='more'></a><div class="ap-story-p">"My wife and child are inside! My 4-month-old baby is inside!" CNN-Turk television showed one young man crying.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Witnesses said eight people were rescued from the rubble, but frequent aftershocks were hampering search efforts, CNN-Turk reported.</div><div class="ap-story-p">"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed. There is too much destruction," Zulfikar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis, told NTV television. "We need urgent aid. We need medics."</div><div class="ap-story-p">The quake's epicenter was in the village of Tabanli, 10 miles (17 kilometers) from Van.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Turkey lies in one of the world's most active seismic zones and is crossed by numerous fault lines. Sunday's earthquake struck in the country's most earthquake-prone region, around Lake Van near the border with Iran.</div><div class="ap-story-p">U.S. scientists recorded eight aftershocks within three hours of the quake, including two with a magnitude of 5.6.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Atalay said authorities had no information yet on remote villages but the governor was touring the region by helicopter to assess damage.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Authorities did not provide a casualty figure but the Kandilli observatory, Turkey's main seismography center, said the quake was capable of killing many people.</div><div class="ap-story-p">"We are estimating a death toll between 500 and 1,000," Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli observatory, told a televised news conference.</div><div class="ap-story-p">In Van, terrified residents spilled into the streets in panic as rescue workers and residents using their bare hands and shovels struggled to find people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings, television footage showed. At least 50 people were treated in the courtyard of the state hospital, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.</div><div class="ap-story-p">There was no immediate information about a recently restored 10th century Armenian church, Akdamar Church, which is perched on a rocky island in the nearby Lake Van.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Serious damage and casualties were also reported in the district of Celebibag, near Ercis.</div><div class="ap-story-p">"There are many people under the rubble," Veysel Keser, mayor of Celebibag, told NTV. "People are in agony, we can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help."</div><div class="ap-story-p">"It's a great disaster," he said. "Many buildings have collapsed, student dormitories, hotels and gas stations have collapsed."</div><div class="ap-story-p">Houses also collapsed in the province of Bitlis, where at least one person, an 8-year-old girl was killed, authorities said. The quake also toppled the minarets of two mosques in the nearby province of Mus, reports said.</div><div class="ap-story-p">NTV said Van's airport was damaged and planes were being diverted to neighboring cities.</div><div class="ap-story-p">The earthquake also shook buildings in neighboring Armenia. In the Armenian capital of Yerevan, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Ercis, people rushed into the streets fearing buildings would collapse. No damage or injuries were immediately reported. Armenia was the site of a devastating earthquake in 1988 that killed 25,000 people.</div><div class="ap-story-p">The quake also caused panic among residents in several Iranian towns, close to the Turkish border, and caused cracks in some buildings in Chaldoran and cut telephone links, Iranian state TV said on its website.</div><div class="ap-story-p">An officials said the quake was also felt in Salmas, Maku, Khoi and several other towns in northeastern Iran but no damage has been reported.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Turkey sees frequent earthquakes. In 1999, two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 7 struck northwestern Turkey, killing about 18,000 people.</div><div class="ap-story-p">More recently, a 6.0-magnitude quake in March 2010 killed 51 people in eastern Turkey, while in 2003, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed 177 people in the southeastern city of Bingol.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Turkey's worst earthquake in the last century came in 1939 in Erzincan, causing an estimated 160,000 deaths.</div><div class="ap-story-p">Istanbul, Turkey's largest city with more than 12 million people, lies in northwestern Turkey near a major fault line. Authorities say the city is ill-prepared for a major earthquake and experts have warned that overcrowding and faulty construction could lead to the deaths of over 40,000 people in a major quake.</div><br />
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Courtesy: "Aljazeera English", 23 Oct 2011<br />
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</tbody></table>At least 30 people have been killed after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit eastern Turkey, state-run TRT television reports.<br />
Turkey's Kandilli Observatory estimated that 500 to 1,000 people could have been killed in Van province on Sunday.<br />
The seismology institute's estimate was based on the strength of the quake and the structure of the housing in the area.<br />
The worst damage was caused to the town of Ercis, close to the Iranian border. The city of Van also suffered substantial damage.<br />
"Around 10 buildings have collapsed in the city of Van and around 25 or 30 have collapsed in Ercis, including a dormitory,'' Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said.<br />
Atalay said authorities had no information yet on remote villages, but a local governor was touring the region by helicopter to assess damage.<br />
The quake's epicentre was in the village of Tabanli.<br />
Al Jazeera’s Murat Utku, reporting from Van, said rescue workers were are scrambling to rescue those trapped before nightfall.<br />
"The heat difference between day and night is very big here", he said. "Some are trying to dig their family members out by hand, but some machines are being taken here now to join the rescue workers."<br />
<b>'Too much destruction'</b><br />
At least 50 people were taken to hospital in Van, Anatolia news agency said. <br />
"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed. There is too much destruction," Zulfikar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis, told NTV television. "We need urgent aid. We need medics." <br />
The Turkish Red Crescent said its rescuers pulled several injured people out of the collapsed dormitory in Ercis, which sits on a geological fault line. <br />
Serious damage and casualties were also reported in the district of Celebibag, near Ercis. <br />
"There are many people under the rubble," Veysel Keser, mayor of Celebibag, told NTV. "People are in agony, we can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help.""It's a great disaster," he said. "Many buildings have collapsed, student dormitories, hotels and gas stations have collapsed."<br />
Officials warned that they were struggling to assess the full extent of the damage.<br />
"People are panicked. The telecommunication services have collapsed. We cannot reach anybody," Van Mayor Bekir Kaya told NTV.<br />
The army was to send search and rescue teams to the area and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was travelling to Van.<br />
Aftershocks continued after the initial quake.<br />
The quake was also felt over the border in northwest Iran, causing some panic in major cities, Iranian media reported.<br />
Major geological faultlines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in northwest Turkey.<br />
Two people were killed and 79 injured in May when an earthquake shook Simav in northwest Turkey.<br />
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</tbody></table>The fall and death of the despised and despotic leader who had ruled for 42 years naturally produced celebrations throughout Libya, especially in the main cities. Although his end was bloody and vindictive, warning that a violent aftermath could further spoil the outcome of the struggle, we should remember that Gaddafi’s early rants against his own people invited a harsh popular response if their turn came.<br />
Recalling WH Auden’s famous line, “Those to whom evil is done/ do evil in return,” it is almost inevitable that when a leader refers to his opponents as "rats" and pledges to hunt them down house by house the stage is set for the kind of violent drama that played out a few days ago in the dictator’s last stand at Sirte.<br />
At this time, there seems to be a leadership vacuum in Libya that is not likely to be filled very soon. It is difficult to discern whether tribal loyalties will provide primary political identities now that the unifying effect of hostility to the Gaddafi regime can no longer suppress diverse goals and ambitions. Much of the fighting in the last stages of the struggle was under the semi-autonomous control of militia-like commanders such as Abdel Hakim Belhadj who led the attack on Tripoli or Fawzi Bukatef who seemed to command the assaults on those places where Gaddafi loyalists gathered for their last stand.<br />
Such commanders do not usually submit to civilian control, presenting an immediate threat to national coherence. The Transitional National Council has seemed mainly successful so far in lending international credibility to the anti-Gaddafi forces. We will soon learn whether it can also represent the collective will of the Libyan people sufficiently to manage the interim process that will be needed before the establishment of an elected government can be arranged.<br />
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<b>Worst case scenario</b><br />
Some pessimistic observers have speculated that Libya’s future is prefigured by the chaotic violence that befell Somalia after the overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre, their dictatorial leader in 1991, and has persisted ever since. Such conjecture represents the darkest version of a Libyan state-building scenario.<br />
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</tbody> </table>More hopefully it is worth observing that unlike Hosni Mubarak, whose overthrow did not by itself alter the structure of power in Egypt, the fall of Gaddafi gives the victorious Libyan opposition a clean slate that is likely to be receptive to democratic state-building. In this crucial respect, whereas the most that Egyptians can hope for at this stage is either modest constitutional reforms or the patience to await a second reckoning in Tahrir Spring that sweeps the old order away. Libyans, by contrast, are presented with this rare opportunity for a genuine revolutionary transformation of their political, economic, and cultural life. In this respect, it could turn out to be helpful that Gaddafi <i>was</i> the Libyan state, and left no institutional infrastructure behind following his departure.<br />
From the perspective of avoiding chaos a more favorable assessment of the Egyptian experience emerges-- the Mubarak legacy that included a governing process capable of maintaining order, allowed a relatively smoothe sequel to his overthrow. Unfortunately, Libya is being deeply challenged from Day One of the new order to produce sufficient order to allow normal life to be resumed. It may prove to be a mission impossible to engage in state-building without a state!<br />
Libya has some major advantages, most obviously oil and a relatively small population. An important test in the months ahead is the extent to which the new leadership manages the economy, and especially insulates the national wealth of the country from foreign corporate predators that undoubtedly envision a feeding frenzy in post-war Libya. Of course, in the background is the sense that NATO was integral to the overthrow of Gaddafi and will expect more than a thank you note, but exactly what will remain unclear for some time, as will the extent to which those who run the new government in Tripoli will be effective in defending Libyan sovereign rights.<br />
<b>Precedents for intervention</b><br />
Looking at the Libyan experience from international perspective raises several additional concerns. The appraisal of the intervention as a precedent will be mainly shaped by whether what emerges in Libya seems stable, democratic, and equitable, and this will not be fully knowable for years. There are some aspects of the NATO undertaking that already make the Libyan experience a troubling precedent for the future. The UN Security Council, which authorized force under the rubric of ‘the responsibility to protect,’ was either duped or complacent, possibly both.<br />
The authorising resolution, Security Council Resolution 1973 was framed by reference to the establishment of "a No Fly Zone" with the justification for force at the time focused upon protecting the threatened population of Benghazi. Yet this limited mandate from the UN was disregarded almost from the outset.<br />
NATO forces were obviously far less committed to their supposed protective role than to ensuring that the balance of forces within Libya would be tipped in the direction of the insurrectionary challenge. If this intention had been revealed from the outset, it seems almost certain that Russia and China would have used their veto to block approval for any forcible interference under UN auspices. As it was these two states expressed their misgivings about encroaching on the sovereign independence of Libya during the debate and by abstaining when the vote was taken, and were joined by India, Brazil, and Germany as abstaining Security Council members.<br />
It should be extremely disturbing that a restricted UN mandate to use force should be totally ignored, and then no action taken by the Security Council to reconsider the original mandate or to censure NATO for unilaterally expanding the scope and nature of its military role. It is not surprising that a Chinese representative speaking at a General Assembly discussion devoted to the freedom of religion should say, “human rights should never be used as an excuse for intervention”. If such a sentiment persists it could defeat even an urgently necessary protective initiative in the future. By ignoring limits the NATO undertaking may have destroyed the prospects for future <i>responsible</i> uses of the responsibility to protect principle.<br />
<b>The role of force</b><br />
There are several dimensions of this concern. To begin with, the UN Charter is drafted to minimise the legitimate role of force in world politics, making war a last resort. To this is added the secondary undertaking of the Charter that is to assure that the UN itself is bound in Article 2(7) to refrain from intervening in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of states unless necessary for maintaining international peace and security. The NATO intervention seems impossible to reconcile with these two core principles of the UN Charter, which is the constitutional framework that is supposed to guide the behavior of the organisation.<br />
It is true that as international human rights has emerged as a strong dimension of world order, these principles have been eroded by practice, although they still remain operative as guidelines. In this regard, it might have been legally and morally acceptable to mount in response to developments in Libya the narrowly conceived protective mission that had apparently been agreed upon in the Security Council, although even then in an atmosphere of skeptical approval either because some members distrusted the pro-interventionist reassurances of the United States and its European partners or anticipated that the pressures on the ground would inevitably produce a massive mission creep.<br />
This experience also casts doubts on the responsibility to protect norm as a basis of principled action by the UN on behalf of a vulnerable people endangered by their own abusive government. Some doubts already existed about the selectivity of the Libyan application of the norm, especially given the failure to lift a UN finger on behalf of the beleaguered civilian population of Gaza, long suffering the ordeal of the long and punitive Israeli blockade. But beyond this geopolitically delimited contour of double standards is the sense that in Libya responsibility to protect was transformed into an opportunity to oust!<br />
In the end, what becomes obvious is that such protective undertakings to achieve credibility in the future must be detached from geopolitics. The best mechanism for reaching such a goal would clearly involve the establishment of a UN Emergency Force that could be activated by a two-thirds vote in either the Security Council or General Assembly, and not be subject to the veto. Such UNEF would need to be funded independently, possibly by finally imposing some sort of UN revenue raising tax on international flights or currency transactions. Of course, such an arrangement will not be easy to bring into being precisely because its existence would threaten current geopolitical prerogatives. And it could be misused. There are no guarantees, but at least there would be a greater prospect that a framework of authorising guidelines would be respected, and that compliance would be supervised.<br />
In the meantime, we can only hope that the Libyans seize the occasion given to them to establish a viable and independent democratic state that is respectful of the human rights of all Libyans, and energetic in its efforts at reconstructing the country without being overly hospitable to foreign investors and companies! The NATO countries are also challenged to stand aside, and allay neo-imperial suspicions. Having waged a devastating air campaign, it is now NATO’s duty to exhibit respect for the exercise of Libya’s inalienable right of self-determination.<br />
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Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades. His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009). <br />
He is currently serving his fourth year of a six-year term as a United Nations special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gaddafi's children in exile, on the run, or dead</b></span><br />
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(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's eight children, whose pampered lives ranged from security chief and U.N. goodwill ambassador to playboy and professional footballer, earned reputations for extravagance, violence and bizarre behavior almost equaling their father's.<br />
<span id="midArticle_1"></span>Amid the chaos of war, three now appear to be dead like the deposed Libyan leader himself, four are scattered in exile and one remains on the run, their lives of privilege disrupted or ended by the collapse of Gaddafi senior's 42-year rule.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>Jealousy and greed long poisoned relations within the family but when rebellion broke out in February, Gaddafi's seven sons and one daughter closed ranks around their father, breaking off lives that in many cases had been lived abroad.<br />
<span id="midArticle_3"></span>A leaked U.S. diplomatic report from 2009 noted that "internecine strife is nothing new for the famously fractious family." Several Libyan officials lost their jobs or were forced into exile after falling foul of family members.<br />
<span id="midArticle_4"></span>Perhaps the best internationally known son, Saif al-Islam, is also the most elusive. A senior official of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Friday that he was fleeing south from the last Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte toward Libya's border with Niger, where another son has already taken refuge.<br />
<span id="midArticle_5"></span>Al Arabiya TV quoted NTC officials as saying Saif al-Islam had been captured near Misrata but this was unconfirmed.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_6"></span>English-speaking Saif al-Islam, who studied at the London School of Economics and latterly embarrassed the institution due to his close links with his alma mater, had been considered a possible heir-apparent to his father.<br />
<span id="midArticle_7"></span>His rhetoric during the rebellion forced analysts to rethink views he was a reformer. After protesters took over eastern Libya and rioted in Tripoli, he threatened dire consequences, saying if the protests did not stop, "instead of mourning 84 (people killed), we will be mourning hundreds of thousands."<br />
<span id="midArticle_8"></span>Once seen as the acceptable face of the Libyan regime, Saif al-Islam, like his father, was wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. The ICC reported that Saif al-Islam had been arrested as Tripoli fell, but shortly afterwards he appeared in front of the international media in the capital to disprove those reports.<br />
<span id="midArticle_9"></span>Three sons -- Mo'tassim, Khamis and Saif al-Arab -- appear to be dead, like their father who was killed on Thursday.<br />
<span id="midArticle_10"></span>Once national security adviser, Mo'tassim died on Thursday near his father's hometown of Sirte. His body, naked from the waist up, went on display in the city of Misrata, which endured a long bombardment by Gaddafi forces costing many lives.<br />
<span id="midArticle_11"></span>Local people jostled around the corpse, laid on blankets on the floor and covered up to the waist by a blue plastic sheet, to take pictures on their cell phones. A doctor who examined his body said he had apparently died after his father.<br />
<span id="midArticle_12"></span>Khamis played a leading role in Gaddafi's effort to crush the revolt as commander of the 32nd Brigade, one of Libya's best equipped units. As a boy he was wounded in a 1986 U.S. bombing of Tripoli and was reported killed at least three times during this year's conflict. However, a Syrian-based television station that supported Gaddafi confirmed earlier this month that he had died in fighting southeast of Tripoli on August 29.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_14"></span>Saif al-Arab was killed in a NATO bombing raid on Tripoli. As a four-year-old, he was also wounded in the air strike on his father's compound ordered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.<br />
<span id="midArticle_15"></span>The spoilt son of an indulgent father, he studied in Germany and was reported to have been involved in a fight at a Munich nightclub with a bouncer who tried to throw out his female companion after she began to undress on the dance floor.<br />
<span id="midArticle_0"></span>In U.S. diplomatic cables, Saif al-Arab was said to have spent "much time partying."<br />
<span id="midArticle_1"></span>The remaining children appear to be safe for the moment at least in neighboring countries.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>Saadi fled to Niger in September, where the government has said he would not be extradited if there was a possibility he would not get a fair trial or risked getting the death penalty.<br />
<span id="midArticle_3"></span>Saadi, who attempted to negotiate with the NTC in late August after its fighters swept through Tripoli, had a brief and undistinguished career with several Italian soccer clubs and also captained the Libyan national team, whose coach was once fired for not selecting him.<br />
<span id="midArticle_4"></span>Three other children are in Algeria. The government there said it had given refuge to Gaddafi's wife in August with daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammed.<br />
<span id="midArticle_5"></span>Aisha, who studied in France and spoke out in defense of her father after the fighting started, cultivated a glamorous image that led some to describe her as the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa. A lawyer, she later joined a team that unsuccessfully defended overthrown Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.<br />
<span id="midArticle_6"></span>However, her role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations did not survive the popular uprising in February.<br />
<span id="midArticle_7"></span>Gaddafi's eldest son Mohammed headed Libya's Olympic Committee and was effectively in charge of Libya's telephone network, which was used to eavesdrop on anti-Gaddafi activists and put them in jail.<br />
<span id="midArticle_8"></span>Hannibal is best known for an incident in a Geneva hotel which caused a diplomatic row. In 2008 Swiss police arrested Hannibal and his pregnant wife on charges of mistreating two domestic employees. They were soon released and the charges dropped but within days, Libya withdrew millions of dollars from Swiss bank accounts and halted oil exports to Switzerland.<br />
<span id="midArticle_9"></span>In Libya, two Swiss expatriates were not allowed to leave the country for two years. Libyan officials said their case had nothing to do with Hannibal's arrest but supporters of the businessmen said they were innocent victims of a Libyan vendetta against Switzerland.<br />
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</tbody> </table>First accounts are almost never correct, but if the circumstances of Libyan Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's death prove to be as reported, they will provide yet another, final irony in a life replete with them. The man whose success relied upon a combination of great-power manipulation and the ability to sustain the fantasy that he embodied the aspirations of his people succumbed in the end to a combination of great-power military intervention and the genuine aspiration of his people for a future free of his vicious domination.<br />
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Gaddafi's passing brings with it a welter of thoughts and observations. The world of 1969, when he first came to power, was very different from the world in which he died. It was a far simpler world, in which it was still possible for a handful of officers, led by one Captain Gaddafi, embedded in a puny, 6,000-man army, to overthrow a supposedly entrenched regime in a matter of two hours. The regime of King Idris was swept aside in part due to its irrelevance in an age of Pan-Arab nationalist revolution. Now, in our own time, the death of Gaddafi provides an exclamation point to the end of the succeeding era of supposed revolutionary renewal, the last vestiges of which are succumbing to the rising floodwaters of the Arab Spring.<br />
In the valley of the blind, it is said, the one-eyed man is king. Gaddafi may have had an imperfect grasp, at best, of the revolutionary doctrines he espoused, but he reflected for a small, impoverished and isolated people the zeitgeist of 1960s and ‘70s leftist revolution and romantic pan-Arab socialism of his time. Like all such "revolutionaries", Gaddafi's avowed populism and devotion to equality were a sham. Instead, he and his Revolutionary Command Council would act as the "vehicle of national expression", in order to "raise the political consciousness of Libyans". He would embody the will of the Libyan people only after their will had been sufficiently instructed by their "Brother Leader". <br />
One might have said of Gaddafi, in paraphrase, what Henry Kissinger once said of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus: He was too great a man for such a small nation. Apparently much of the same opionion, Gaddafi quickly set about using Libya as a secure and easily-dominated platform from which to pursue far greater ambitions abroad. He shortly began to bestow the benefit of his world revolutionary leadership - and, more pointedly, his considerable petrodollar income - upon a smorgasbord of radical leftist, terrorist and separatist groups around the globe: From the IRA in Ireland, to the Baader-Meinhof Gang in Germany, to the FARC in Colombia, to the Moro National Liberation Front in the Philippines. <br />
Curiously for one so rhetorically devoted to the cause of Palestinians, Gaddafi's relations with Palestinians themselves were generally wary and marginal. It cannot have been an accident that his most sustained relationship with a Palestinian group was with one almost unimaginably dysfunctional, internally murderous and sociopathic: The Abu Nidal Group.<br />
Finding his brilliance sadly underappreciated among his fellow Arab leaders, despite his endless political manoeuvering, Gaddafi soon devoted the majority of his considerable energies upon the black African countries to his south, where poverty, political weakness and endemic religio-ethnic conflict provided a much more attractive forum for the Libyan Colonel's idiosyncratic combination of whimsical ideological fads, cynically selective philanthropy and Lilliputian military adventurism.<br />
<strong>Gaddafi's scars on Libya</strong><br />
But nowhere were the consequences of Gaddafi's unique combination of pathologies more disastrously in evidence than in Libya itself. A little knowledge, they say, is a dangerous thing. To the longstanding cost of the Libyan people, Gaddafi managed to cobble together a collection of bits and pieces from his sophomoric understanding of the great ideologies and philosophical traditions of the modern era, sufficient to create his own crack-brained "Third International Theory", which found its practical expression in the Great Socialist Popular Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah. The administrative chaos and social atomisation created by some 2,000 overlapping "people's committees" created an environment perhaps uniquely susceptible to domination by the Brother Leader's signature combination of political manipulation and brutal intimidation.<br />
Despite his professed lifelong aversion to Communism, the wily and ambitious colonel from Sirte was able to consistently manipulate cold-war and great-power rivalries to his benefit. He was thus able to acquire huge stocks of weapons from his Soviet and East-Bloc friends without ever subordinating himself to their ambitions, but most importantly, he was able to harness the expertise of the East Germans in one skill area critical to his long-term survival: social repression. This writer had a great deal of contact with people from many Arab countries during the 1980s and 1990s, but nowhere did he encounter a people so thoroughly cowed and intimidated in those years as the Libyans. The life of a Libyan official or anyone in a position to harm the interests of the regime was life in a snake-pit. Brother could not trust brother. In any group of three, at least one would have to be assumed by the others to be a regime informant.<br />
In retrospect, it seems that Gaddafi's great turn to the West in 2003, when he accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, divulged so-called WMD programmes, and began to cooperate on counter-terrorism, was a sign that the end was nigh. Tired now, and focused on transferring power to his sons, Gaddafi could no longer claim to be in the ideological vanguard of the region, let alone the world. Nasserist Arab nationalism had run its course, and had long since been replaced by Islamism as the leading political current in the region, posing a direct threat to him and his intolerantly secular regime. A manipulator to the last, Gaddafi was willing to deal with his long-time enemies in the West in order to better preserve his power at home.<br />
This marriage of convenience was never a comfortable one, based as it was on a very limited and highly tactical convergence of interests. Such cooperation might have been justifiable under the circumstances, and indeed was supported by this writer, but must also be acknowledged for what it was: An accommodation to an unfortunate reality in a highly imperfect world. Some might have thought that the opening between Libya and the West was a potential means of eventual reform, that the transition to the younger elements of the Gaddafi clan might carry with it the possibility of an evolving accommodation to the people's legitimate rights and wishes. What it signalled instead was a turn to the defensive, as a hideously outmoded and incorrigible regime found itself swimming against multiple tides of history.<br />
A regime such as Gaddafi's is almost unimaginable now in all but the most regressive portions of the globe. A world in which street-sweepers have cell phones, where even the most humble citizens are intimately connected to a wider world, is one in which a bizarre historical artefact like the Gaddafi regime could never survive. The fact that he is finally gone will not by itself enable Libyans to realise their most ambitious and noble aspirations, but it must be seen for what it is: A necessary, if insufficient, start. <br />
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Robert Grenier was the CIA's chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1999 to 2002. From October 2002 until December 2004, he was the CIA Iraq Mission Manager. He was also the director of the CIA's counterterrorism centre.</i><br />
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