Taliban Khan PTI sets Malalaa Yousafzai Attackers Taliban Terrorists Free in Secretly

Malalaa Yousafzai 

Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai were actually set free, it has emerged.

In April, officials said that 10 Taliban fighters had been found guilty and received 25-year jail terms. But sources have now confirmed that only two of the men who stood trial were convicted.

The secrecy surrounding the trial, which was held behind closed doors, raised suspicions over its validity. The court judgement - seen for the first time on Friday more than a month after the trial - claims that the two men convicted were those who shot Ms Yousafzai in 2012.

It was previously thought that both the gunmen and the man who ordered the attack had fled to Afghanistan.

Muneer Ahmed, a spokesman for the Pakistani High Commission in London, said on Friday that the eight men were acquitted because of a lack of evidence.

Saleem Marwat, the district police chief in Swat, Pakistan, separately confirmed that only two men had been convicted.

Mr Ahmed claimed that the original court judgement made it clear only two men had been convicted and blamed the confusion on misreporting.

But Sayed Naeem, a public prosecutor in Swat, told the Associated Press news agency after the trial: "Each militant got 25 years in jail. It is life in prison for the 10 militants who were tried by an anti-terrorist court." In Pakistan, a life sentence is 25 years.

Source : http://nation.com.pk/national/05-Jun-2015/malala-attackers-secretly-acquitted?

Eidhi welfare work as explained does not meet Noble Peace Prize Criteria of Working for Peace.

Living in Norway since 1975, Syed Mujahid Ali is a Pakistani-Norwegian journalist. In the past, he has worked with Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, Urdu Service. He hascontributed regular column for Norwegian daily Arbeiderbladet (now Dagsavisen) besides publishing and editing Urdu-language Monthly Karwan from Oslo (1981-1997). Presently, he is editing the news portal www.karwan.no since 2011. It is updated on daily basis. Apart from updating news, this portal covers world events with a critical perspective.In an interview with Viewpoint, he discusses various aspects of the debate generated by Malala Yusufzai's crowning as Noble laureate. Read on:

Written by Syed Mujahid Ali/Adnan Farooq
Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:02 

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Will you explain to us the procedure followed by the Noble Committee when it grants the Noble Peace Prize?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is responsible for the selection of eligible candidates and the choice of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates. The Committee is composed of five members appointed by the Storting (Norwegian parliament). The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.


The process of selecting the candidates starts almost a year prior to the announcement. Suggestions are received by the 1st of February every year. Committee members can add further names to the list in a meeting held after this date. However, after this date the nomination process is closed. In the period February to March the candidates are shortlisted. Normally 20-25 candidates are selected for further consideration. Then the Nobel Committee’s experts or advisors give their opinion. These experts are normally Norwegian academics with knowledge in different fields. In certain cases, the Committee administration also gets opinion from international experts. This process is completed by September. The Committee then meets in the first week of October to select the winning candidate for that year.
Traditionally, the Committee tries to make a unanimous decision, but if that is not possiblethe winner is selected on the basis of majority opinion. The decision is announced on the 10th of October each year.
Who nominates the possible winners of the Noble Peace Prize?

The following can nominate a candidate for the Peace Prize:

Members of national assemblies and governments of states; Members of international courts; University rectors; Professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; Directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes; Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (proposals by members of the Committee need to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after the 1st of February); Former advisors to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Is it true that former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was also nominated for the Noble Peace Prize?

There is a fifty-year secrecy rule regarding the nominees of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Committee itself never announces the names of the nominees—neither to the media nor to the candidates themselves. Speculations in this respect are normally either guesswork or the result of disclosure by persons who have nominated the candidate. Therefore, it is not possible for me to confirm if the former Chief Justice was nominated or not. Information in the Nobel Committees’ nomination database is not made public until after fifty years.

Many in Pakistan have been questioning the wisdom of granting the Noble Peace Prize to Malala. Why, for instance, ask these critics, was Malala preferred over noted philanthropist Maulana Abdul SattarEdhi?

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded according to the will of Alfred Nobel. The will states that award shall be given:

“to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses”

The Nobel Committee has redefined this part of will, and has awarded the prize to people or organizations who according to them work towards eliminating causes giving birth to conflicts or wars. There is an intense debate within and outside Norway regarding this interpretation of the Committee. Many believe that the prize must go to a person who has played an active role in reducing armies or in stopping a war or an armed conflict.

Given this background, Maulana Abdul SattarEidhi and his welfare work does not fall under the defined criteria, although he remains a great man and an institution in his own capacity. This year’s prize has been awarded to KailashSatyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their work for the rights of children. The Committee means that through this work these two have contributed greatly in achieving harmony in the world.

I personally believe that giving this prize to Malala is correct decision even if one follows Alfred Nobel’s will strictly. She is not merely an education activist, but courageouslyshe stood up to one of the greatest dangers to world peace today—extremists such as the Taliban. She has become a symbol of resistance to extremists and their warmongering. There have been reports in Norway that Malala was an extremely strong candidate even in 2013 but was not given the prize due to her young age. She was only sixteen then.

Tell us about media debates in Norway, if any, that routinely mark the occasion of the announcement of the Noble Peace Prize? Any debates over the Malala decision? Is it an attempt to win Pakistani voters who constitute the biggest migrant community in the country?

It is farfetched to state that the Nobel Committee selects a candidate to woo voters for a political party in Norwegian elections. Firstly, the government or political parties have no influence on the decisions of the Nobel Committee. Secondly, there are members of different political affiliations in the committee. It is unthinkable that they sit down to make a decision about the biggest peace prize in the world and have their constituency in mind. Thirdly, apart from greater Oslo,Pakistani immigrants are not concentrated in any other part of the country. Since there is proportional voting system in Norway where parties get seats according to the votes cast in their favour, immigrants cannot have much influence, especially in national elections—even if they function as one group and that is also unimaginable.

Within Norway, there is traditionally a debate about the merits and demerits of a decision of the Nobel Committee. Many a times, the Committee’s decision is bitterly criticized. However, this time the Norwegian media and the politicians have welcomed the decision. Almost all comments have been positive and supportive.

Malala has requested Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to attend the Noble Prize award ceremony. Has there been any reaction to her suggestion in Norwegian media?

I have not read any big discussion on that topic in Norway. But the suggestion has been mentioned in press reports. Indian President Pranab Mukherjee was also asked about the invitation at the startof his official visit to Norway on October 13. He refused to comment on it and said that it was up to the Prime Ministers of both countries to make the decision. He congratulated the Nobel Committee in its decision to award this year’s prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzaiand said that Malala was a brave girl who stood up for the cause of education despite threats to her life.

While many in Pakistan have welcomed and celebrated Malala’s peace prize, conservative circles and even the Taliban have criticized the decision. Any anti-Malala voices in Norway?

As I mentioned above, in Norway, support for awarding the prize to Malala is almost unanimous. There is a strong feeling that she has been awarded this prize for her courage and campaign against the methods and the cruelty of the Taliban. She was attacked by the Taliban in 2012 and barely survived the attack. She is under constant threat from extremists even now. Despite that, she stands bravely for the cause of girls’ right to education. She even travelled to Nigeria to reject Boko Haram’s methods and kidnapping of schoolgirls. The Malala Fund is also sponsoring a girl’s school in Nigeria.

One critic says:‘Malala is remarkable, but we must resist the urge to make her exceptional. There is a long legacy to the exceptionalizing narrative when it comes to Muslims, and it works like this: “The majority of folks ‘over there’ are either monsters or victims. Every now and then, there is an isolated solitary hero that stands against that. That hero supports‘our’ values”. That tendency to view the lone solitary hero(ine) of the Muslim masses, the need to have the solitary exceptional Muslim is part of the “good Muslim/bad Muslim” game. And we are done playing these games.’Your comments?

Firstly, the author of this note fails to register that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to “one Muslim and one Hindu, an Indian and a Pakistani”. Therefore, there is no reason to apply this conspiracy theory to this case. Secondly, the comment also fails to note that the prize is not awarded for making Malala exceptional—she already was. That could be said about Satyarthi though, who was little known for his work in and outside India. Since he is a Hindu, the theory does not fit. Thirdly, this whole statement is based on the traditional conservative mind-set of ours that there is always a big intrigue against Pakistan and Muslims in all Western capitals. I do not buy conspiracy theories. Fourthly, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year. Malala is only the seventh Muslim to get this Prize in the 114-year-old history of Nobel Peace Prizes. That is hardly the due share of Muslims if we see it in light of their population ratio in the world.The Nobel Peace Prize has earned its good name over the years because its integrity and neutrality is protected. It is an extreme view that the prize is political and awarded to safeguard the West’s political interests.

SOURCE: http://www.viewpointonline.net/2014/10/vp223/eidhi-s-welfare-work-does-not-meet-noble-s-criteria

Imran Khan PTI Avoids a Resolution in Praising First Pashtun Noble Prize Winner of Pakhutnkhwa Malalaa Yousafzai.

PESHAWAR: A resolution for Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has got stuck in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly secretariat as Jamaat-i-Islami, a partner of the Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf-led ruling coalition in the province, has made its inclusion in the house’s agenda conditional on the tabling of a similar resolution for scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui imprisoned in the US over links to terrorists.

Law and parliamentary affairs minister Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi told Dawn that PTI would support its coalition partner on the matter.

He expressed ignorance about keeping the resolution pending in the assembly secretariat.

The minister said some lawmakers had reservations about the resolution and was not sure if the Awami National Party would gather support of the opposition parties in favour of its pro-Malala move.

Notably PTI chairman Imran Khan had congratulated Malala on winning Nobel Peace Prize. However, the PTI-led provincial government did not issue any statement to praise the teenage activist for girls’ education.

ANP MPA Syed Jafar Shah had submitted the resolution to the assembly secretariat on October 20, which has so far not been brought on the house’s agenda.

Jafar Shah told reporters that he had requested Speaker Asad Qaisar to put the resolution on the agenda but the latter showed reluctance.

“It may create problems for us,” Jafar Shah quoted Speaker Asad Qaisar as saying during a meeting.
JI opposed to move until pro-Aafia resolution made part of house agenda

He said the Senate, National Assembly and Punjab and Sindh assemblies had passed resolutions to congratulate Malala Yousafzai on receiving Nobel Peace Prize.

The MPA said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had announced to establish a university in the name of Malala. He said the young activist belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and therefore, the provincial assembly should take the lead.

“I don’t know why the government is so scared about the resolution,” he said, adding that he had suggested in his resolution that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should set up university in the name of the Nobel laureate.

When the house began proceedings on Tuesday, Pakistan People’s Party MPA Nighat Orakzai through a point of order drew Speaker Asad Qaisar’s attention towards the resolution.

She said not only Malala Yousafzai was a national hero but she was an international icon as well.

Orakzai said Malala’s efforts for the promotion of education had been recognised around the world and that she was given the Nobel Peace Prize and other international awards in recognition of her courage and contributions for the promotion of education.

“This is very unfortunate that a resolution submitted by a member of the opposition has been intentionally blocked,” she said, asking the chair to bring the resolution for Malala on the house’s agenda.

The MPA said the treasury and opposition should unanimously pass resolution.

Lawmaker of Jamaat-i-Islami Mohammad Ali Khan said Dr Aafia Siddiqui was the daughter of the nation and that he had great contributions for Islam. He said the house should pass a joint resolution for Dr Aafia and Malala.

Speaker Asad Qaisar remained silent on the point of order raised by Nighat Orakzai and moved to the agenda.

Insiders said Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, which had been opposing Nobel Peace Prize for Malala, was also not in favour of the resolution.

A JUI-F MPA told Dawn in the assembly’s lobby that his party might not support the resolution.

“I have informed my friends (ANP lawmakers) that he will not support the resolution,” he said, adding everybody knew the motive behind the award of Nobel Peace Prize to Malala.

In January this year, the provincial government had stopped a civil society organisation from organising a ceremony at the University of Peshawar to launch the book of the Nobel laureate, I am Malala.

Similarly, the banned militant outfit, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, had warned leading booksellers against selling the book.

Also, the house admitted an adjournment motion about the prevailing law and order situation in the province for detailed discussion.

JUI-F member Mufti Syed Janan, who moved the motion, portrayed the worst scenario in the province.

He said 44 policemen and other officials were killed in Peshawar in 2013 and the number had reached 138 in the current year.

The MPA said the nighttime flight operations at the Bacha Khan International Airport had been suspended due to the recent firing incident. He said the government had failed to provide protection to citizens and that the government’s writ had been confined to the Civil Secretariat and Police Lines.

Later, the Delimitation of Local Councils Ordinance, 2014 and Local Government (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2014 were tabled in the house.

The assembly passed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Servants Retirement Benefits and Death Compensation Bill, 2014 after incorporating several amendments of the opposition in it.

Published in Dawn, October 29th , 2014
source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1141110/good-words-for-malala-stuck-in-kp-assembly-secretariat

Civil Society Angry Over Malalaa Bashing by Imran Khan PTI Government and JI Mullahs .

PESHAWAR: Civil society members have expressed concerns over Jamaat-e-Islami MPAs’ stiff opposition to a resolution tabled in the assembly appreciating and congratulating Noble laureate Malala Yousafzai.

Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehreek held a meeting chaired by Ajmal Afridi on Thursday in Peshawar and expressed disapproval of the JI’s stance. Civil society members including Dr Said Alam Mehsud, Prof Dr Khadim Hussain, Sikandar Zaman, Arbab Sheheryar, Arshad Haroon, Iqbal Hoti, Khurshid Bano, Taimur Kamal and Shabina Ayaz appreciated and congratulated Malala Yousafzai on winning the Noble Peace award.

By winning the peace prize, Malala has shown the world that Pukhtuns are not terrorists but are themselves victims of terrorism, said the meeting’s participants. The association passed a resolution appreciating Malala and vowed that it would not allow JI’s MPAs to hijack the assembly. The civil society members urged lawmakers of various parties to unite against JI in the assembly.

The participants also opposed JI’s demands of revising the provincial curriculum.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2014.
source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/783710/disapproval-jis-stance-on-pro-malala-resolution-criticised/

PTI Government Is not Happy Malalaa Yousafzai Getting Noble Prize rather it Passes a Resolution for a Terrorist Convict Non Resident of Pakhtunkhwa.

PTI + JI Government under Imran Khan a False Liberal and Mullah Passes
Resolution Favoring a Karachi urdu Speaking Terrorist and Non Resident
of Pakhutnkhwa and a Terrorist and Wife of Alqaeda Leader Terrorist
Leader Ammar Ali Baluchi Nephew of Khalid Shiekh Muhammad Master
Minds of 9/11 Massacre, and Mass Murderers , Dr Afia Siddique and her
Husband Shared a PO Box that was used by Alqaeda for its Dirty Works .

PESHAWAR: While putting a resolution for Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai 

on the back burner, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Wednesday passed 

another resolution to press the US government for freeing scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui 

declaring her the ‘oppressed daughter of Pakistan’.

The house passed the pro-Aafia resolution tabled by Jamaat-i-Islami MPA Mohammad Ali 

Khan unanimously.

The treasury and opposition parties except Awami National Party had signed the resolution.

The resolution read Dr Aafia had been languishing in a US jail, where she was physically 

and mentally tortured and that the federal government didn’t pressure the US government 

for get release.

“This is the responsibility of the (Pakistani) government, the United Nations and Islamic 

countries to exert pressure on the US to free the innocent and oppressed daughter of 

Pakistan immediately.”

On a point of order, PPP lawmaker Nighat Orakzai sought the speaker’s permission for 

speaking on the resolution on Malala.

She said she wanted to include the Nobel laureate’s name in the resolution submitted by an 

ANP lawmaker from Swat, Syed Jafar Shah.

However, the speaker asked her to table a fresh resolution for the purpose.The resolution 

for Malala submitted by Syed Jafar Shah on October 20 has got stuck in the assembly 

secretariat.

The mover has yet to gather support for getting the resolution passed by the house 

unanimously to congratulate the teenage Nobel laureate from his hometown, Swat.

Backburners pro-Nobel laureate resolution, demands release of scientist detained in US

A visibly dejected Jafar Shah told Dawn that opposition members, too, were not ready to 

support the resolution on Malala’s accomplishment.

Pakistan People’s Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Qaumi Watan Party and Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz are part of the combined opposition.

JUI-F had advised ANP not to insist on tabling the pro-Malala resolution.

“There is a visible division among opposition members. Many of them are not in favour 

of the resolution on Malala,” said Jafar Shah.

Also in the session, PML-N MPA from Kohistan district Abdul Sattar Khan tabled 

a resolution seeking ban on parliamentarians and lawyers bowing before the assembly 

speaker and judges respectively during proceedings.

He declared the practice un-Islamic and said such practices were against the faith and 

spirit of Islam.

The MPA said a Muslim should bow his head only before the Allah Almighty.

Speaker Asad Qaisar opposed the resolution and ruled that every mover should provide a 

copy of his/her resolution to the assembly secretariat and discuss it with other members 

before  tabling it in the house.

In light of the ruling, the resolution was deferred.

Sattar Khan didn’t take members of his own party into confidence before moving the 

resolution.

MPA Shaukat Yousafzai of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf tabled a resolution urging the federal 

government to simplify the procedure to renew computerised national identity cards.

The house passed the resolution unanimously.

Also, the treasury and opposition benches agreed that the issue of changes in textbooks 

of the province wouldn’t be politicised and that the teaching material would be made in 

light of the guidelines incorporated in the National Curriculum Policy 2006.

JUI-F MPA Mufti Syed Janan through an adjournment motion raised the issue of changes

in textbooks and said the controversy had caused confusion.

He said the treasury should clarify position on the textbooks otherwise the matter should be 

referred to the house’s relevant committee.

The MPA said it was the sensitive matter and should not be politicised further.

Elementary and secondary education minister Atif Khan told the house that the government 

had no intention to remove contents about religion and ideology of Pakistan from textbooks.

He said textbooks would be published in light of the National Curriculum Policy 2006.

Local government minister Inayatullah Khan, who is a JI member, said the presence of 

Islamic content in textbooks had shrunk and that the people, especially educationists, had 

reservations about it.

He said it was a matter of faith and that Muslims couldn’t tolerate incorporation of material, 

which was against Islam and Pakistan’s culture and ideology.

“Pictures of girls wearing skirts have been printed in textbooks though skirt is not part of our 

culture,” he said.

The minister said though he had no objection to mention of Bacha Khan in textbooks, he 

didn’t want to see his (Bacha Khan’s) ideology included in them.

ANP parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak, a former education minister, 

denied his government had removed material on religion and Pakistan from textbooks.

“Overlapping and repetition was avoided in textbooks but some people are misinterpreting the 

issue,” he said.

He asked PTI and JI to discuss the matter with all stakeholders instead of taking a ‘solo flight’ on it.

“We all are Muslims. Nobody has the right to issue certificate of one being good Muslim to 

others,” he said, asking the government to stop exploiting things in the name of religion.

Published in Dawn, October 30th , 2014 

source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1141303/kp-assembly-prefers-aafia-to-malala

Abducted Nigerian girls are my sisters says Malala Yousafzai

WASHINGTON- Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, said on Wednesday she sees 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by militants in Nigeria, as her sisters.

Speaking on CNN Malala said, the extremist group Boko Haram was behind the mass abduction, they do not understand Islam and have not studied the holy Quran. "They are actually misusing the name of Islam because they have forgotten that the word Islam means ´peace,´" Malala said. She added: "When I heard about the girls in Nigeria being abducted I felt very sad and I thought that my sisters are in prison and I thought that I should speak up for them."

Malala was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 over her outspoken views on education for girls in her home region of NorthWest Pakistan. After undergoing extensive medical treatment, she now lives in Britain. Malala told CNN that Boko Haram´s acts were appalling. "How can one imprison his own sisters and treat them in such a bad way?" she said, referring to the group´s threats to sell the girls into slavery. Several countries have offered their help to Nigeria to find the girls, whose abduction has prompted an international outcry.

source : http://www.nation.com.pk/national/08-May-2014/abducted-nigerian-girls-are-my-sisters-malala