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PM: No war trials for IsraelisPosted on 10/21/2009 at 4:07 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkKarachi - Pakistani schools and colleges have closed because of fears about militant attacks after twin suicide bombings at a university campus on Tuesday, officials said.In the southern Sindh province, which is home to Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, the regional education secretary said 50 000 schools and colleges have shut down until Sunday. "The decision has been taken to cultured pearl jewelry avoid any untoward incident in (the) wake of (the) current security situation in the country particularly after the attack in Islamabad," Rizwan Memon told AFP. The federal government and armed forces already announced that they were closing their schools as a precaution against terrorism. "This is an internal security lapse. We have already advised the educational institutions to tighten their security," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters after the Islamabad university blasts on Tuesday. University bombing The president of the International Islamic University, where five people were killed on Tuesday, said the campus would remain closed until button pearl Saturday. A spokesperson for Defence, in the upmarket army-run neighbourhood in the eastern metropolis of Lahore, said all its schools had been closed until Saturday. "We have taken this decision keeping in mind the security situation in the city and directions from the federal government to close down schools," said spokesperson Tajamul Hussain. Many private schools in Islamabad and adjoining Rawalpindi city informed parents by telephone they were shutting down temporarily for wholesale pearl jewelry security reasons. In North West Frontier Province, the provincial government spokesperson said all private and state-run schools and colleges had been closed for five days. A barrage of attacks since October 5, including assaults on three security buildings in Lahore last Thursday, has left around 180 people dead. Terror threats close schoolsPosted on 10/21/2009 at 4:07 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkKarachi - Pakistani schools and colleges have closed because of fears about militant attacks after twin suicide bombings at a university campus on Tuesday, officials said.In the southern Sindh province, which is home to Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, the regional education secretary said 50 000 schools and colleges have shut down until Sunday. "The decision has been taken to cultured pearl jewelry avoid any untoward incident in (the) wake of (the) current security situation in the country particularly after the attack in Islamabad," Rizwan Memon told AFP. The federal government and armed forces already announced that they were closing their schools as a precaution against terrorism. "This is an internal security lapse. We have already advised the educational institutions to tighten their security," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters after the Islamabad university blasts on Tuesday. University bombing The president of the International Islamic University, where five people were killed on Tuesday, said the campus would remain closed until button pearl Saturday. A spokesperson for Defence, in the upmarket army-run neighbourhood in the eastern metropolis of Lahore, said all its schools had been closed until Saturday. "We have taken this decision keeping in mind the security situation in the city and directions from the federal government to close down schools," said spokesperson Tajamul Hussain. Many private schools in Islamabad and adjoining Rawalpindi city informed parents by telephone they were shutting down temporarily for wholesale pearl jewelry security reasons. In North West Frontier Province, the provincial government spokesperson said all private and state-run schools and colleges had been closed for five days. A barrage of attacks since October 5, including assaults on three security buildings in Lahore last Thursday, has left around 180 people dead. The death of deathPosted on 10/21/2009 at 4:04 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkLondon - An English vicar said he felt his role was superfluous at funerals which featured pop music and bad prose from grieving participants.Church of England priest, Father Edward Tomlinson, angered bereavement councillors and humanist groups with a blog that questioned the role of a priest at non-religious services at the crematorium, where tunes such as Tina Turner's Simply the Best or Frank Sinatra's My Way feature in the ceremony. "I have stood at the Crem like a lemon, wondering why on earth I am present at the funeral of somebody led in by the blaring tunes of Tina Turner summed up in pithy platitudes of sentimental and secular poets and sent into nugget pearl the furnace with "I did it my way" blaring out across the speakers," he wrote on the website for St Barnabus Church in the southern English county of Kent. His comments have prompted debate over what is an appropriate way to mourn and led one bereavement charity to brand his blog "pretty insensitive." "Bereavement isn't funny. We all mourn in different ways and try to select the kind of burial the person would have wanted," Denise Cantor-Kaydar from Cruse told the Courier newspaper in Kent. The death of death Entitled "The death of death" Tomlinson's blog attacked civil funerals saying he is troubled that pastoral care is being left in the hands of those whose main aim is to pearl jewelry make money. "The best our secularist friends (and those they dupe) can hope for is a poem from nan combined with a saccharine message from a pop star before being popped in the oven with no hope of resurrection," Tomlinson said. The British Humanist Association said their funerals are a good way for people to pay personal tribute "with words and music particularly fitting to them." "What a shame this particular priest seems more concerned with his own feelings than allowing bereaved people a ceremony that reflects their beliefs and wishes and those of the loved ones they have lost," said Tana Wollen, BHA's Head of Ceremonies. Tomlinson has defended his blog in a follow up posting, where he said it was never his intention to pearl bracelet criticise people's taste in music. "I was actually seeking to raise a question which is important for all society -'what are funerals for?'" he said. A survey carried out earlier this year found that only 35% of Britons chose religious music at funerals, a fall of six percent on four years earlier. The song played the most at funerals is My Way by Frank Sinatra or Shirley Bassey. Other popular tunes include Celine Dion's Wind Beneath My Wings and Angels by Robbie Williams, according to a poll carried out by Co-operative Funeralcare. Shun Gaza report: NetanyahuPosted on 10/21/2009 at 4:02 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkJerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the UN Human Rights Council to reject on Friday a report accusing the Jewish state and Islamist Palestinian group Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza conflict. "Responsible nations have to vote against this decision that supports terror and harms peace," Netanyahu told reporters late on Thursday after a meeting with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. The special session on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories and is to decide whether to akoya pearl endorse the report from the team led by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone. The probe said both Israel and Hamas, Gaza's rulers, committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during a 22-day conflict over the new year that Israel launched in response to rocket fire from the coastal enclave. The conflict left 1 400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. The Goldstone report recommends referral of its conclusions to the International Criminal Court prosecutor in The Hague, if Israel and Hamas fail to conduct credible investigations within six months. On Thursday, Aharon Leshno Yaar, Israel's ambassador to twisted pearl necklace the United Nations in Geneva told, the 47-state council that embracing the report would encourage "terrorists everywhere". "They will clearly hear that this new form of warfare, as used by Hamas in Gaza, will offer immunity as countries will be prevented from waging effective responses," he added as the council weighed up the report produced by an independent international fact-finding mission. The draft resolution debated by the council seeks endorsement of "the recommendations contained in the report ... and calls upon all concerned parties including United Nations bodies, to ensure their implementation". The two-day session is due to end on Friday. Goldstone obligated to UN probePosted on 10/21/2009 at 3:58 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkJerusalem - The internationally renowned jurist who oversaw a UN report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip said on Monday that he carried out the investigation because of his deep attachment to the Jewish state.South African jurist Richard Goldstone also faulted Israel for not co-operating with the investigation in an op-ed piece published in the Jerusalem Post, an English-language Israeli daily. It was the first time he has reached out to naughty castles the Israeli public since his report was published last month. Goldstone's report on the three-week winter war has set off an uproar in Israel. Leaders say the document was biased and commissioned by a UN body known for its hostility against Israel. The report's harsh findings against Hamas militants in Gaza have done little to temper the criticism, much of which has been personal. Some critics have gone so far as to accuse Goldstone of being a pawn of anti-Israel forces. Strong connections Goldstone, who is Jewish and has strong connections to Israel, said he has been hurt by the attacks. He noted his years of work battling human rights abuses in places as diverse as South Africa, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, China, Russia and Iran. "I would have been acting against those principles and my own convictions and conscience if I had refused a request from the United Nations to investigate serious allegations of war crimes against both Israel and Hamas," he wrote. "As a Jew, I felt a greater and not a lesser obligation to cultured akoya pearl do so." Goldstone also took Israel to task for not co-operating with the investigation, saying it had committed a "grave error" by not telling its side of the story. "Israel could have seized the opportunity provided by the even-handed mandate of our mission and used it as a precedent for a new direction by the United Nations in the Middle East. Instead, we were shut out," he said. Israel attacked Gaza last December in a mission it says was meant to end eight years of incessant rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. Some 1 400 Palestinians were killed during the offensive, including hundreds of civilians, according to Palestinian officials and human rights groups. Thirteen Israelis, including four civilians, also died. Disproportionate force The 575-page report concluded that Israel used disproportionate force, deliberately targeted civilians, used Palestinians as human shields and destroyed civilian infrastructure during the incursion. It also accused armed Palestinian groups including Hamas, which controls Gaza, of deliberately targeting civilians and trying to pearl strand wholesale spread terror through years of rocket attacks on southern Israel. It called on both sides to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses, or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors. Last week, the UN Human Rights Council, the body that commissioned the investigation, endorsed the report. "Israel has an internationally renowned and respected judiciary that should be (the) envy of many other countries in the region," Goldstone wrote in the op-ed. "It has the means and ability to investigate itself. Has it the will?" Israel refused to akoya pearl necklace co-operate with the investigation, saying the rights council has a history of anti-Israel decisions and could not possibly be fair. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the report's findings encourage terrorism and would make it difficult to pursue peace since it questions Israel's right to self-defence. Hamas, an Islamic militant group backed by Syria and Iran, has welcomed the report's harsh condemnations of Israel while brushing off the criticism of its own conduct. |
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