Promising to expose how police reform process is "sabotaged" by the establishment, the country's first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi is now planning to revise her biography by adding a new chapter which depicts her last days in policing.
The 58-year-old Magsaysay awardee, whose nearly 38-year-long association with police came to an end on a bitter note last week, will add a new chapter to I Dare , a best-seller written by Parmesh Dangwal, on policing and state of police reforms in the country.
"Believe me, actually the police reform policies formulated by the Home Ministry are a part to sabotage it completely," an irate Bedi, whose voluntary retirement plea was accepted last week, claims.
She claims that it was only during her stint as the Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), her last posting, that she understood the functioning and policy making of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
US likely to press Mush for FBI probe: NYT
Islamabad: A senior US official in Washington has said that there was some debate within the Bush Administration over whether to press President Pervez Musharraf to open the investigation to law enforcement officials from outside Pakistan, including the FBI.
As pressure grew for an independent inquiry, the Pakistan Government said that two high-level investigations were being conducted — one led by a senior High Court judge and the other by high-level police and intelligence officials, the New York Times reported.
The government identified militant leader Baitullah Mehsud as the chief suspect behind the attack.
"We have an intercept from this morning in which he congratulated his people for carrying out this act," Interior Ministry spokesman, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, said.
"We have irrefutable evidence that al-Qaeda and its networks are trying to destabilise the government," he added.
"They have been systematically attacking our government, and now a political icon." Bhutto, he said, was on the hit list of al-Qaeda and other terrorists.
However, many of Bhutto's supporters openly blamed the Musharraf regime for her death, where as the Interior Ministry surprised everyone by saying that Bhutto had died not from gunshots or shrapnel, but from a skull fracture.
The death of Bhutto has left Pakistan's politics teetering on a knife's edge, and the prospect of elections uncertain, the NYT said.
As pressure grew for an independent inquiry, the Pakistan Government said that two high-level investigations were being conducted — one led by a senior High Court judge and the other by high-level police and intelligence officials, the New York Times reported.
The government identified militant leader Baitullah Mehsud as the chief suspect behind the attack.
"We have an intercept from this morning in which he congratulated his people for carrying out this act," Interior Ministry spokesman, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, said.
"We have irrefutable evidence that al-Qaeda and its networks are trying to destabilise the government," he added.
"They have been systematically attacking our government, and now a political icon." Bhutto, he said, was on the hit list of al-Qaeda and other terrorists.
However, many of Bhutto's supporters openly blamed the Musharraf regime for her death, where as the Interior Ministry surprised everyone by saying that Bhutto had died not from gunshots or shrapnel, but from a skull fracture.
The death of Bhutto has left Pakistan's politics teetering on a knife's edge, and the prospect of elections uncertain, the NYT said.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Om Malik in Forbes' Web Celeb 25 list
Blogging might be a leisure activity for many famous personalities but it has brought fame to people like India-born Om Malik who has been named as one of the global web celebrities by American magazine Forbes .
Ranked at the 12th position for technology blogging on the list of “Web Celeb 25", he shares the limelight not just with fellow bloggers but also with video hosts and gadget gurus.
Ranked at the 12th position for technology blogging on the list of “Web Celeb 25", he shares the limelight not just with fellow bloggers but also with video hosts and gadget gurus.
Om Malik in Forbes' Web Celeb 25 list
Blogging might be a leisure activity for many famous personalities but it has brought fame to people like India-born Om Malik who has been named as one of the global web celebrities by American magazine Forbes .
Ranked at the 12th position for technology blogging on the list of “Web Celeb 25", he shares the limelight not just with fellow bloggers but also with video hosts and gadget gurus.
Ranked at the 12th position for technology blogging on the list of “Web Celeb 25", he shares the limelight not just with fellow bloggers but also with video hosts and gadget gurus.
Three shot dead at Nawaz Sharif's poll rally
ISLAMABAD: At least three people were shot dead and several wounded at an election campaign rally for former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday, police said.
"There are three dead and others are wounded," senior Islamabad police official Syed Kalim Imam said.
Security agencies in Pakistan had been put on high alert following an intelligence report that terrorists may strike in the city and target top politicians and religious leaders.
"There are three dead and others are wounded," senior Islamabad police official Syed Kalim Imam said.
Security agencies in Pakistan had been put on high alert following an intelligence report that terrorists may strike in the city and target top politicians and religious leaders.
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