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RAW calls the shots in Pakistan: Imran Khan

Islamabad:  India's terrorist Intelligence (RAW) spy agency is calling the shots in the country, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan says, adding that the government lacks moral courage, "giving the space to RAW to assert its powers".

"The government lacks the moral courage, which has been giving the space to RAW to assert its powers in various affairs of the country," Imran Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said on Sunday.

Talking to the media after PTI's central executive committee meeting, Mr Khan said that RAW is no.1 terrorist organization of the world which is also responsible for corruption in India.

He said the corrupt practices of politicians had provided the RAW an excuse to meddle in the political arena,  Times of India reported.

He pledged that if he came to power and if his government's directives were not followed, he would resign rather than stay in power and will kill all agents of CIA, MOSAD & RAW in the country.He warned all agencies who are currently working against the Pakistan that they should leave Pakistan otherwise he 'll give lesson to them after coming in power.

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Defence of Pakistan Council announces to hold public meeting over issues of national security & defence

ISLAMABAD, (SANA): Pakistan Defence Council has announced to hold public meeting over the issues of national security and defence at Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi.
The council has announced to state cross-country protest against the granting of Most Favorite Nation status to India on Friday and supported sit-in protest at Wahga boarder and Ganda Singh in Qasoor.
This announcement has been made in joint declaration in the “All Parties Pakistan Defence Conference” organized by Defence of Pakistan Council; meanwhile the conference was attended by more than 45 political, religious parties and more than 62 leaders of civil society, former military leadership and other important personalities.
The joint declaration was read out by Amir Jamiat Ulema Islam-S Maulana Samiul Haq at the closing ceremony; meanwhile all the leaders presented in the conference had supported the declaration.
The APC has decided to file a writ against the drone attacks in Supreme Court and also decided to stage protest meetings against government at Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi.
Jamaat-e-Islami has announced staging protests across the country against granting of MFN status to India for trade; meanwhile Mohsinan Pakistan Forum has announced sit-in protests at Wahga boarder and other destinations on 27th and 28th November and the APC has supported the protest.
Prior to this, in a resolution passed in the conference stated that granting of MFN status to India was very dangerous and disastrous for the Pakistani industry, agriculture and trade, adding that instead of granting self determination to Kashmiri people the Indian government killed more than 0.1 million innocent people in Kashmir and trying to occupy the rivers to deprive Pakistan from the water of its share.
It is also stated in the resolution that Pakistan was divided in two parts by military aggression; meanwhile in view of these historic facts granting of MFN status to India is like attack on the two-nation theory, Pakistan movement, national integrity and its resources.
The APC through the resolution demanded from the government of Pakistan to repeal the status of MFN to India because this decision not only eliminates the cause of partition of Indian subcontinent but it is also committing a traitory with blood of martyrs of Pakistan movement and martyrs of Kashmir independence movement.
The resolution stated that those people who thought India as favored country should shift to India; meanwhile the APC warned that if the decision would not be repealed then the government should forced to repeal its decision through by public power.
Maulana Samiul Haq while presiding the conference has said that foreign powers trying to impose their decisions on Pakistan through threats, adding that India, Israel and United States is trying to eliminate Pakistan.
Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Syed Munawar Hassan while addressing the conference said that it is need of hour to come out of closed rooms and manage programs on large scale, adding that he termed SAARC conference as charged sheet against Pakistan and said that it was arranged to increase the aggression of India.
He said that the SAARC conference was effort to dishonor Pakistani image, adding that US trying to punish Pakistan on behalf of its defeat in Pakistan and for this purpose US want to handover the atomic program of Pakistan to international control.
He said that the military and government leadership should take a brave decision but it cannot happen and no step was taken for the implementation of resolution passed in all parties’ conference arranged by prime minister.
He said that the rulers declared Kashmiris as strangers but they cannot behave with the Kashmiri people as strangers.
Former director general ISI lt general (retd) Hamid Gull has said that it is not possible for anybody to ignore Kashmiri people, adding that pressure being put on Afghanistan to give five to six airbases as lease to United States.
Leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawwa Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has said that a deep conspiracy has been hatched against Pakistan and US, Israel and India are united in this conspiracy, adding that granting MFN status to India is the conspiracy to make Pakistan disable.
Leader of Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that it is quite sure that granting MFN status to India is without consensus of Pakistan army, adding that situation between government and army is very critical.
Former minister for religious affairs Aijazul Haq has said that US wants Indian supremacy in Afghanistan and it is not possible without this transit and for this purpose, huge power terminals were constructed at Wahga boarder.
General (retd) Faiz Ali Chishti has said that it is need of hour to get rid of government, adding that the internal enemy is very dangerous as compare to external enemy.
Leader of PML-Q SM Zaffar while addressing the conference has said that economically weak nations are unable to defend, adding that Pakistan did not have any threat from regional powers.
Meanwhile parliamentary leader of FATA Munir Khan Aurkazai, Professor Andrew Bishop, Azad Marshal and others also addressed the conference.

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First female chief executive appointed in IBM

IBM named Virginia Rometty, the head of sales, marketing and strategy, to take over as chief executive on January 1, making her the first woman to head the legendary US computer company.
Rometty, 54, who is also a senior vice president at IBM, will take over from current president and chief executive Samuel Palmisano, 60, on January 1, IBM said in a statement Tuesday.
Palmisano, who was named IBM’s chief executive in 2002, will stay on as chairman of the board of directors.
IBM said Rometty had also been elected to IBM’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Rometty will be the ninth chief executive in the 100-year-old history of the company known as “Big Blue” and the first woman to hold the top post.
She joins a select group of women heading US technology companies. They include Ursula Burns at Xerox and Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay who was recently named to the same position at Hewlett-Packard.

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A huge amount of spam attack for Facebook users in shape of graphic images

Facebook said Tuesday that a “coordinated spam attack” was responsible for graphic images appearing in the news feeds of some members of the world’s largest social network.
Facebook, which has more than 800 million members, said some users of the social network were tricked into unknowingly sharing the offensive content.
“Recently, we experienced a coordinated spam attack that exploited a browser vulnerability,” Facebook said in an email statement to AFP.
“Our efforts have drastically limited the damage caused by this attack, and we are now in the process of investigating to identify those responsible,” the Palo Alto, California-based company said.
“We’ve built enforcement mechanisms to quickly shut down the malicious pages and accounts that attempt to exploit it,” it said. “We’ve put in place backend measures to reduce the rate of these attacks and will continue to iterate on our defenses to find new ways to protect people.”
Facebook said protecting users from spam and malicious content “is a top priority for us and we are always working to improve our systems to isolate and remove material that violates our terms.”
Facebook did not say how many members were affected by the spam but hundreds of users of the social network took to Twitter to complain about the images, which they said included hardcore pornography and graphic violence.

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Wikileaks:Julian Assange files application to take extradition case to Supreme Court. Centers on "Judicial Authority"

Julian Assange’s team have raised the following points of law as grounds to appeal to the Supreme Court:
1) Whether a European Arrest Warrant issued by a partisan prosecutor working for the executive (i.e. not an independent judge or investigating magistrate in the civil law system) is a valid Part 1 Warrant issued by a "judicial authority" within the meaning of sections 2(2) & 66 of the Extradition Act 2003?

• This point argues that the decision goes against parliamentary intent in the 2003 Extradition Act (see High Court Appeal).

2) Whether a person in respect of whom no decision to prosecute has been taken can be said to be ’accused’ within the meaning of sections 2(3)(a) of the Extradition Act 2003?
Read why these two points are of ’general public importance’ in High Court Appeal (currently being updated).

15 November 2011: Julian Assange’s legal team have applied to the High Court for leave to appeal two points of law of general importance at the Supreme Court. The same High Court judges who dismissed Julian Assange’s case at the High Court will decide whether or not to certify these points, which must be of public importance and go beyond the specific facts of this case. They will decide this in open court, at the Royal Courts of Justice on 5 December 2011. A decision is expected the same day. If JA loses, he will be extradited to Sweden within 10 days and placed into Swedish custody.

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