Who is M. Moosa Soomro

M. Moosa Soomro

Basic Data:

Name: Muhammad Moosa (Alias Tariq)
F/Name: Ghulma Rasool
D/O Birth: 15th March 1972
Domicile: Kashmore district.
Contact: G.R. House, Soomro Mohalla, Kashmore, distt. Kashmore @ Kandhkot
0722-715271, 0344-3118911

- MA (Sociology major in Criminolgy) 1st Class 1st Position.
- FEL. (First Year LLB)
- Certificate in Journalism. (NIJ - Islamabad).
- Certificate in Feature Writing. (Pakistan Press Foundation Karachi).
- PGD in Computer Sciences.
- Certificate in Photography.
- Various Police, Intelligence and Investigation Courses qualified

Background and Mental Approach:

He is strictly against corruption and openly says that he has devoted his life to eliminate corruption from Pakistan. He has established an NGO namely DISCOVER, aim of this NGO is to prevent and eliminate corruption from ground level with the help of thousands of community based volunteers across the country. He is working on Social Vigilance theory to facilitate and implement good governance. He strongly believes role of community based volunteers can play a vital role to the fair implementing of project either survey or a development project. He has a comprehensive plan of motivating, recruiting, training and deploying of youth/volunteers in each community even on village level where most of the NGOs/Donors hesitate to go for security or other reasons. Despite his leaving an authoritative jobs in law enforcement agencies including IB, Sindh Police, NAB and Bambore Rifles., he is confidant enough to achieve his targets. He is not liked even by his relatives for being a straight forward and strict type of person.

He has been associated with Aaj Tv Network as Researcher. He completed research on three projects for famous investigative program BENAQAB produced by Mr. Mohsin and Ali Hashmi. Moreover, he worked with weekly "News Asia" Los Angeles, USA as Managing Editor/ Production Manager.

He is a zealous writer and has been writing since his middle school life. He wrote his first essay for a contest held under the joint venture of UNESCO and Daily Mashriq group of Newspapers in Lahore. He has written two Units/ Chapters for syllabus of BA Sociology AIOU, Islamabad.

Currently he is providing Communication, PR and Magazine/ newsletter editing services to various individuals, firms and NGOs.

Who is M. Moosa Soomro

M. Moosa Soomro

Basic Data:

Name: Muhammad Moosa (Alias Tariq)
F/Name: Ghulma Rasool
D/O Birth: 15th August 1972
Domicile: Kashmore district.
Contact: G.R. House, Soomro Mohalla, Kashmore, distt.
Kashmore @ Kandhkot
0722-715271, 0344-3118911
- MA (Sociology major in Criminolgy) 1st Class 1st Position.
- FEL. (First Year LLB)
- Certificate in Journalism. (NIJ - Islamabad).
- Certificate in Feature Writing. (Pakistan Press Foundation Karachi).
- PGD in Computer Sciences.
- Certificate in Photography.
- Various Police, Intelligence and Investigation Courses qualified

Background and Mental Approach:

He is strictly against corruption and openly says that he has devoted his life to eliminate corruption from Pakistan. He has established an NGO namely DISCOVER, aim of this NGO is to prevent and eliminate corruption from ground level with the help of thousands of community based volunteers across the country. He is working on Social Vigilance theory to facilitate and implement good governance. He strongly believes role of community based volunteers can play a vital role to the fair implementing of project either survey or a development project. He has a comprehensive plan of motivating, recruiting, training and deploying of youth/volunteers in each community even on village level where most of the NGOs/Donors hesitate to go for security or other reasons. Despite his leaving an authoritative jobs in law enforcement agencies including IB, Sindh Police, NAB and Bambore Rifles., he is confidant enough to achieve his targets. He is not liked even by his relatives for being a straight forward and strict type of person.

He has been associated with Aaj Tv Network as Researcher. He completed research on three projects for famous investigative program BENAQAB produced by Mr. Mohsin and Ali Hashmi. Moreover, he worked with weekly "News Asia" Los Angeles, USA as Managing Editor/ Production Manager.

He is a zealous writer and has been writing since his middle school life. He wrote his first essay for a contest held under the joint venture of UNESCO and Daily Mashriq group of Newspapers in Lahore. He has written two Units/ Chapters for syllabus of BA Sociology AIOU, Islamabad.

Currently he is providing Communication, PR and Magazine/ newsletter editing services to various individuals, firms and NGOs.

Mukesh Kumar Chawla - Corrupt Most Minister of Exise and Taxation

Dear Friends,

AOA,

Many a complaints have recieved against Mr. Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Provincial Minister for Exise and Taxation. The DISCOVER has decided to launch an evidance collection complaint against him to pursue him the court of law. If you have any proof of wrong appointment from your area. please submit your complaint e-mail.

I appriciate anybody and everybody who would show courage to send us a
mail or send a few sentance letter to Daily Kawish
(kawish12@yahoo.com), Daily (Ibrat ibratg@yahoo.com) or to any other
media group.

I am your sincere friend,

Moosa
DISCOVER-NGO
0344-3118911
www.discoverngo.blogspot.com

Facts & Figures

• 90% of urban sewage in the developing world is discharged into rivers, lakes, and coastal waterways without any treatment.

• 95% of all HIV-infected people live in developing countries.

• If present consumption patterns continue, by the year 2025, two out of every three people on earth will live in water-stressed conditions.

• Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two–thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.

• Globally, 15.7 million adults with AIDS are women and 1.3 million are children below the age of 15.

• Hunger afflicts one out of seven people on Earth.

• Today, about 42 million people in Pakistan lack adequate income to purchase the food they need for a healthy life. The fact that about one-third of the population does not have access to food needed for adequate nutrition is manifested by the widespread incidence of malnutrition. In 1998, the estimated number of malnourished children was about 8 million. Nearly half of the children under five years of age are underweight.

• Every year, an estimated 40 million births go unregistered. That's one third of all babies born in the world.

• Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.

• If all countries followed the industrial example, five or six planets would be needed to serve as 'sources' for the inputs and 'sinks' for the waste of economic progress.

• Every year, the US exports about 10 million obsolete computers to Asia to be disposed of as hazardous waste. On average, each computer contains 13 pounds of plastic, 3 pounds of lead, enough cadmium to pollute 260,000 gallons of drinking water, enough chromium to pollute 10,000 gallons, and enough mercury to pollute 260,000 gallons.

• Over 80% of all illness in the developing world is directly or indirectly associated with poor water supply and sanitation. In Ethiopia only 1% of the people have safe water…Annually, one-sixth of all African children die before their first birthday.

• In the past decade alone, the estimated impact of armed conflict on children includes 2 million killed, 6 million seriously injured or permanently disabled, 12 million left homeless, more than 1 million orphaned or separated from their families, and 10 million psychologically traumatized.

• 9 out of 10 fatalities during war are civilians. About half of the victims are children. 8 out of 10 war refugees are women and children

• 1.2 million Iraqi people, including 750,000 children below the age of five, have died due to the scarcity of food and medicine, since the commencement of UN sanctions in 1990.

Newsline March 2005

"In another life, I want to be a man, because I want to sock everybody" Former education minister, Anita Ghulam Ali, is the current Chairman of the Sindh Education Foundation. By Afshan Khoja

Q: Was being a woman an advantage or a disadvantage in your profession? A: I think life is what you make of it. There are people who have everything and yet don't do anything at all. I think that I've made good use of the fact that I could go places. I could get into places where my male colleagues couldn't go. There was rarely a situation where I couldn't get in because I never suffered from any kind of lack of confidence or diffidence. My advantage was that I had the backing of my family. Besides, I think no matter how macho people are here - and they are, I can vouch for that - if you are persistent enough and if you know how to handle them, they do become a little amenable. If you want to beat them, don't join them, be faster than them. Q: Were you ever treated differently because of your gender? A: I often think about these things. Maybe I was treated differently, but because I didn't have that kind of chip on my shoulder, I never felt it. I was very particular about how I dressed. The way you dress makes a very big difference, because this is one of the things in offices and kutcheris and thanas that they notice. You need to be dressed very conservatively. I would be with my male colleagues all the time and I did whatever they did. We went to chai shops and I would sit on the bench outside and have chai. But, I would not go to a paan shop and ask for paan although I used to eat 16 paans a day. Strangely in our society, women don't go to paan shops. So I'm careful about those things. Q: You agree that we live in a man's world. What kinds of issues did you face as a female government employee? A: We certainly live in a man's world. The system is built keeping that in mind. They say there should be a Pakistani, European or Muslim bathroom in a new building, but where is the bathroom for women? These are the kinds of things you deal with. I have also said openly at forums that there is harassment, even at government offices. It's very subtly done. They work in two ways: either they don't take notice of you. You could be at a meeting and if you open your mouth, they won't even look at you. I felt it even when I joined the cabinet. The bureaucrats would give you the impression that they were not listening to you at all. The second way is that they hound you. They give you work and a time-line to finish it in that is not possible for anybody to achieve, let alone a woman. They'll see that you are not sent on scholarships or conferences where you can make a mark for yourself. The government itself reinforces this. If you see training programmes for agriculture, who goes for the training for new machines for sowing or tractors? It's the men. But who does the work? Sixty-eight per cent of the work in agriculture, all the back-breaking work, for which machines should be imported, is done by women. I make it a point, and did so even when I was in the ministry, to see that wherever, I could send women - not by depriving men of any training that they could take, but if a woman and a man could go, I would see that both would go. Q: Has being single been an advantage? A: I'm sure it has been an advantage. You don't have to bother about getting permission from somebody. I was married but I got divorced after five years because the gentleman had an ego as large as life and he couldn't bear to see that I was on radio and that I wanted to make a career. So I told my father to file a case for khula. I didn't want anything from him, so I gave up everything and chose my freedom instead. Q: Did you ever want to remarry? A: No. After my divorce I got so involved in my teacher's union and in my own career as a teacher that I never thought about it. It was a bad experience so I didn't want marriage again. Again, family support is essential. If my family had said 'you have done the wrong thing, go on and get married again,' etc, I would probabaly have been in a quandary. Q: Being in your position as a public figure, in a society where a woman is raised to be married, didn't you face social pressures being divorced? A: No. Nobody ever asked me. Obviously when I was younger, people must have thought about it, but nobody had the guts to ask me. The thing is that I'm never interested in people's personal lives. Unless someone wants to tell me something, I would never ask anybody a personal question and that's probably why I shut other people off from asking me personal questions. But one does think about it, especially as one gets older. As a younger, tougher woman, people take you seriously. When you get older, they tend to treat you like a child. They try to imply that you are senile. I think it's a question of personal circumstances and choice, definitely. If you are well off, don't need financial support and can manage on your own, I suppose it's fine. If I had to live on Napier road, maybe it wouldn't be easy to live alone. Q: Are you ever lonely? A: No, I have so many friends. The day is too short for me, I don't get to bed till about two or three in the morning. At one stage I was making animals out of clay. Then I started learning how to do miniatures, not human figures, only borders. I used to sit the whole night doing that. I've got something going all the time. I rarely get time. I'm engrossed in my work, and also the futures of the people who are working for me. You have to be interested in people and I really believe that if you're in a position where you're lucky enough not to have to think about your bread and butter too much, and you can fight for other people and can give someone else an advantage they didn't have, then it's your duty to do so. But I'm no saint, believe me, I flare up very easily. Q: Do you think your being divorced affected your status as a teacher, given the 'respectability' factor usually associated with the profession? A: As a teacher, I only had boys in my class at SM College, and it was a goonda college! We had boys from the lower middle-class, people who came from Landhi, etc. I was there from '61 to '85 and I never asked for a transfer from that college because I thought these were the boys who needed my help. They were late starters, so most of them were men, much taller and tougher than I was. I used to box their ears, I'd pull their hair, rip up their pockets! But I think this is the kind of communication skill that develops once you show them that you care for them. Q: From a teacher to a minister, did you ever think you would be so successful? A: What do you call success? Did I think I would become a minister? Well, I always did nurture the idea of being in politics and being in an assembly. I must have fancied myself and thought I could speak well, etc. I am not afraid of admitting things that I know are human weaknesses, and I loved being minister. Yes, when I became minister, I thought that was a level of achievement for a teacher. I thought it was a reward, a recognition, not as much of my capacity and capability, but of what we as teachers had been able to do. Of course, in private one also likes to think 'I'm great.' But I realise that not 10 percent of the people have had the opportunities that I have. Q: In retrospect, is there anything you would want to change? A: I don't know whether I should say this... but in another life, I want to be a man, because I want to sock everybody! There's one thing that one needs, and that's physical strength. Perhaps I should see a therapist, but really, I'd like to be a man. I really wish I had gone into law or politics much earlier, not just as I did by chance. If I were born a man, I'd slug people left and right. I'm no pacifist. I'm sorry, I'm not one of those people who believes that in Pakistan, democracy, equality and this kind of thing is working very well. Either you've got to have a nation that is educated, and when I'm talking about education, I'm talking about awareness, responsibility, patriotism, etc. Unless you're that kind of nation, there seems to be no other way that you can get justice for people, except by slugging them. You see old people in rags, with nobody to help them. What's happening? Where is Islam? Where is humanity? I remember as a minister, I refused to have a gunman, mobile or protection. What kind of a person am I if I need protection from my own people? You know these people who go about with mobiles and hooters on their cars... I feel like going up to them and jabbing them! Those are the moments that I wish I had the strength to do that.

Lawyers' Movement

Chronolgy of Events During Lawyers' Movement

March 9: President General Prevez Musharraf called the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chaudhry, to Army House and declared him non-functional. An arrogant General asked the Chief Justice to resign, not realising how much the people of Pakistan hate the military government and how much respect they have for rule of law and the supremacy of the judiciary. No one knew at that time that the Chief Justice’s “NO” would change the history of Pakistan.(Photo: Reuters)

Justice Javed Iqbal was appointed Acting Chief Justice.

March 10: Protocol for the Chief Justice is withdrawn, his cars taken away, and he and his family are not allowed to leave the house. Lawyers announce a three day protest and a complete strike of the courts.

March 10-13: Lawyers lead massive protests throughout the country and boycott proceedings of all courts. During such a protest in Lahore on March 12, police baton-charge lawyers, injuring forty.

March 13: After being held incommunicado in his house for three days, Chief Justice Chaudhry is produced before the Supreme Judicial Council for the first time after his suspension. He is mishandled by the law enforcement agencies, pushed by his head and pulled by his hair. He resists the police and returns to the people. Opposition members, parliamentarians, lawyers and representatives of civil society converge on Constitution Avenue in support of the Chief Justice.

March 14: The Sindh High Court Bar Association members form a human chain around the court building.

March 15: Lawyers across the country observe a one-hour token strike and continue their protests against the suspension of the Chief Justice. • President General Musharraf said the government will accept the verdict of the Supreme Judicial Council on the reference against the Chief Justice. • The government bans a popular television show. Geo television was attacked by the police.

March 16: Police fire rubber bullets and teargas at thousands of opposition supporters in Islamabad and smash up studios of the private Geo television station which had covered the protests live. • The Chief Justice complains to the Judicial Council that he and his family members are detained in the house. Counsel was ordered to lift all of the restrictions.

March 17: President Musharraf sends the Chief Justice on forced leave.

March 19: Justice Jawad Khwaja, a Lahore High Court judge, and two judicial officers of Sindh resign in protest of the Chief Justice’s suspension. In total seven judges resign in protest, including Mr. Nasir Saeed Khawja, Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Mustafa Mustafawi, Senior Civil Judge, Mr. Rajesh Chander Rajput, Senior Civil Judge and Miss Erum Jehangir, Civil Judge.

March 20: The Government serves Aaj Television notice on live coverage and discussions on judicial crisis.

March 21: Around 4,000 lawyers and workers of various political parties rally on The Mall in Lahore to protest against the Chief Justice’s suspension in continuance of the nationwide protests. Two assistant public prosecutors resign from their offices in protest. • Throughout the country, lawyers and political workers announce their intention to hold continuous protests. Authorities stop the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council for ten days.

March 22: General Musharraf appoints Rana Bhagwandas Acting Chief Justice.

March 26: Political parties organise their first joint protests outside the Supreme Court.

March 28: Chief Justice Chaudhry makes his first public speech since being suspended, addressing a huge gathering of lawyers at the Rawalpindi High Court Bar Association where he says, "it is impermissible for an organ to exceed its prescribed limits for that would constitute interference in the domain of another."

March 31: Throughout the country, different bar associations vow to continue their campaign against the suspension of the Chief Justice until his restoration. Lawyers organise mass demonstrations throughout the country which continue throughout the month of April.

April 2: The Supreme Court serves contempt of court notices on senior administrative and police hierarchy of Islamabad for roughing up the Chief Justice to prevent him from marching towards the apex court.

April 3: The Chief Justice appears before a private session of the Pakistan Supreme Court and demands that the closed hearing be made public. • A large number of lawyers and political and social activists protest for six hours outside the Supreme Court, demanding reinstatement of the Chief Justice. • Lawyers in Quetta stay away from court proceedings and take out protest processions while more than 2,000 lawyers rally on The Mall in Lahore. • The lawyers’ fraternity in Sindh High Court, city courts, labour courts, anti-terrorist courts and courts of Malir district observe a complete strike. Lawyers protested in each district of the country.

April 4: The Supreme Court on Wednesday indicts senior administration and police officials of Islamabad for contempt of court by roughing up the Chief Justice. • Lawyers in Hyderabad boycott courts for an hour. Protests are also held in Thatta, Nawabshah, Jacobabad, Khairpur and Dadu.

April 9: The Supreme Court accepts two identical petitions questioning the legality of the Supreme Judicial Council and the President’s reference against the Chief Justice.

April 10: The District Bar Associations in Punjab suspend memberships of 19 lawyers, including two parliamentary secretaries and two former presidents, for attending a government-sponsored lawyers’ convention. The District Bar Association in Sialkot cancels the membership of National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Ameer Husain for supporting the suspension of Justice Iftekhar Chaudhry.

April 11: Lawyers refuse to allow Advocate Wasim Sajjad, who represents the referring authority in the reference, to sit in the bar room of the Sindh High Court in Karachi.

April 13: A huge rally of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy expresses solidarity with the Chief Justice. Lawyers throughout Sindh also boycott courts and stage protest demonstrations. Hyderabad lawyers stage a rally from the Pakistan Chowk to the local press club and protests are held in T.M.Khan, Thatta, Nawabshah, Mithi, Khairpur, Naushahro Feroze, Dadu, Mirpurkhas. Lawyers across the Frontier province also boycott court proceedings.

April 14: At the annual dinner of the Sindh High Court Bar Association’s Sukkur Chapter, the Chief Justice calls for upholding supremacy of law and the Constitution by ensuring that none of the three pillars of the state dominated the other two: ‘‘Abuse of power often happens in a society where there is centralisation of all powers in one person or one institution.’’

April 15: In Hyderabad, the Chief Justice addresses a large gathering of lawyers, including fifteen sitting judges of the Sindh High Court, at a reception of the Chapter of the High Court Bar Association and the Hyderabad District Bar Association, saying: “A civilised society is ruled by the constitution and a representative system of governance.”

April 16: The government concedes before the Supreme Court that it still considers Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chaudhry to be the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

April 18: The Chief Justice launches a challenge to the composition of the judicial bench hearing allegations against him. Lawyers, supporters of various opposition parties and representatives of civil society organisations hold demonstrations and rallies across the country to express solidarity with the Chief Justice. • The district bar association of Toba Tek Singh cancels the memberships of three lawyers for attending a ruling party lawyers’ convention. Thousands of lawyers and political activists rally in Lahore. Lawyers in Karachi boycott the courts and stage a sit-in in front of the Sindh Chief Minister’s House.

April 23: A seven-member delegation of lawyers leaves Lahore for Islamabad by foot.

April 24: Supreme Court Judge Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan declines to head a bench hearing. The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors condemns Pemra’s issuance of show-cause notice to the Aaj TV channel.

April 25: The Chief Justice files a petition (http://material.ahrchk.net/pakistan/Petition-GAK-18-04-07.pdf) in the Supreme Court alleging that he was physically restrained till 5pm when he refused to resign to prevent him from leaving the President’s Camp Office Rawalpindi on the day he was suspended.

April 27: The Chief Justice files another application in the Supreme Court asking the Court to decide his request to stay the May 2 Supreme Judicial Council proceedings regarding the presidential reference against him.

May 2: Several individuals are injured when police use batons to stop them from proceeding to the Supreme Court building where the Chief Justice is to appear before the Supreme Judicial Council. The District Bar Associations cancel memberships of 33 lawyers for meeting the Punjab Chief Minister on May 1. Protests are held in Peshawar, Karachi, Hyderabad, Quetta, Lahore, Attock, Abbotabad, Chakwal, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Charsadda, Bannu, Sukkur and other cities of Pakistan.

May 3: Police try to prevent lawyers from entering the Supreme Court during the Chief Justice’s appearance before the Supreme Judicial Council.

May 4: Police detain over 1,000 political activists in an attempt to foil the reception of the Chief Justice as he travels from Islamabad to Lahore on May 5.

May 5: Thousands cheer the Chief Justice’s motorcade from Islamabad to Lahore, where he declares to a huge crowd that the “era of dictatorship is over.” Mass arrests, road blockades, baton-charges and teargas shelling by police fail to stop people from welcoming the Chief Justice in various cities during his journey. At least 16 High Court judges are among those who wait for the Chief Justice throughout the night. • The government takes three television news channels off the air on Saturday afternoon, depriving viewers in Karachi and southern Sindh of live coverage of the procession of the Chief Justice.

May 6: Lawyers, political and rights activists and serving and retired judges of superiour and subordinate courts accord an unprecedented welcome to the Chief Justice. His motorcade takes 25 hours to reach the Lahore High Court from Islamabad.

May 7: The Supreme Court suspends the Supreme Judicial Council’s inquiry into charges against the Chief Justice and takes up the petition challenging his suspension.

May 12-13: At least 51 are killed and over 140 injured after government supporters, in particular activists of the MQM, prevent the Chief Justice from attending a rally in Karachi. Armed men attack the office of private television channel, Aaj TV, and set fire to more than a dozen vehicles in its parking lot. Strikes called afterwards paralyze much of the country.

May 14: A strike is held and most businesses and shops remain closed to protest against the mayhem in Karachi. Hundreds of armed men take control of the streets and the Chief Justice and his lawyers are prevented from attending a bar association function in Karachi.
• Four gunmen kill Syed Hammad Amjad Raza, Additional Registrar, Supreme Court, who had close ties to the Chief Justice.

May 17: Lawyers boycott court proceedings in Karachi in response to a call from the Pakistan Bar Council

May 21: Police register a sedition case against office-bearers of the High Court Bar Association, Hyderabad District Bar Association, Sindh Bar Council and leaders of parties in the Hyderabad Grand Alliance.

May 24: Lawyers boycott courts across Sindh on the appeal of the Pakistan Bar Council to condemn the presidential reference filed against the Chief Justice. They wear black armbands and staged token hunger strikes.

May 26: The Chief Justice addresses a seminar at the Supreme Court Auditorium which was broadcast live. He stated that authoritarianism is maligned because it is the antithesis of the concept of separation of powers and devoid of checks and balances.
• Lawyers, political and social activists hold a protest demonstration on Constitution Avenue in Islamabad for more than five hours.

May 28: Lawyers boycott court proceedings in Hyderabad in protest against the swearing-in of Acting Chief Justice Javed Iqbal. They stage a token hunger strike outside the civil courts after boycotting proceedings in civil sessions and the high courts.

May 29: The Chief Justice files an affidavit at the Supreme Court alleging that President Musharraf’s generals tried to intimidate him and he was detained on March 9. • A court employee is killed and nine people injured when a bomb explods outside the Peshawar High Court.

May 31: Police register a sedition case against hundreds of Karachi Bar Association members for setting fire to an effigy of President Musharraf.

June 2: More than 25,000 people greet the Chief Justice as he proceeds to Abbotabad. • The government stops satellite TV channels from telecasting programmes, including live talk shows and discussions, on the issue of the presidential reference.

June 3: Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, counsel of Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chaudhry, asks lawyers to send at least 1,000 affidavits in support of Hamid Ali Khan and Ali Ahmed Kurd, lawyers of the Chief Justice’s legal team against whom a contempt of court case is being filed in the Supreme Court.

June 4: General Musharraf imposes tough new rules on broadcasters, sparking protests by journalists. • Journalists, politicians and representatives of civil society organisations demonstrate in front of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat.

June 5: Hundreds of opposition political activists and students are detained across Punjab ahead of countywide protests called by lawyers. • Some TV channel licenses are suspended.

June 6: The Supreme Court says that the decision of the case of the Chief Justice will be decided on the Constitutional merits. • A civil rights campaigner, Syed Mohammed Iqbal Kazmi, goes missing. He recently filed petitions on the May 12 mayhem in Karachi.

June 7: A National Assembly speaker bars journalists from parliament during their protests against new media curbs.

June 8: The government files three affidavits against the Chief Justice two from the Chief of the Intelligence Agencies and one from the President Chief of Staff.

June 9: President General Pervez Musharraf orders the authorities to withdraw the controversial Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Amendment Ordinance.

June 13: Head of the full bench of the Supreme Court, Justice Khalil Ur Rehman Ramday says that this is not the trial only of the Chief Justice, but of every judge, and the Judicial Council should not become the instrument in terminating judges.

June 18: Armed men attack Advocate Mr. Aamir Rana, the nephew of the Chief Justice.

June 23: The Chief Justice was given a big reception at Lahore airport before he departs by road for Multan city.

June 24: Seventeen hours after his departure from Lahore to Multan, the Chief Justice reaches Sahiwal after midnight, covering only half the journey. The Chief Justice arrives in Multan after a 36 hour journey from Lahore covering only 350 kilometers, where he receives an unprecedented welcome. The Chief Justice said, “the judiciary, executive and legislature should play their role and not encroach on each other’s role.”

June 26: Justice Khalil Ur Rehman Ramday, heading a 13-member bench hearing a petition challenging the presidential reference against the Chief Justice, deplores that it is the judiciary that is to blame for all the ills, whereas everyone bore responsibility for the poor affairs.

June 28: The government agrees to allow Pakistan’s Supreme Court to hear the Chief Justice’s petition instead of the Supreme Judicial Council, even though the Supreme Court calls the Chief Justice’s suspension “a huge damage to the country.” • In Lahore thousands of lawyers, political workers and civil society activists rally for the seventh consecutive week to register their protest against the presidential reference. • In Hyderabad, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Rawalpindi, lawyers boycott courts in support of the Chief Justice.

July 2: The Supreme Court fines the government for making ‘scandalous’ claims against the Chief Justice. The Court orders the Intelligence Bureau to inspect the Supreme Court and the offices of all judges and submit reports ensuring there are no bugging devices. The Court also suspends the license of State-appointed Advocate-on-Record. The bench bans the unauthorized access to intelligence operatives inside Superiour Courts.

July 14: The Chief Justice is accorded a warm welcome upon arrival in Lahore from Islamabad to address the District Bar Association.

July 15: The Chief Justice said in Lahore that “any change in the prevailing situation of the country depends on the restoration of the Constitution.” He tells the large gathering of lawyers and civil society members that “if the Constitution is not restored, the status quo will continue throughout the country.”

July 16: Government lawyers drop the charge of judicial misconduct against the Chief Justice.

July 17: A suicide bomber kills seventeen people during a lawyers’ rally in Islamabad shortly before the arrival of the Chief Justice. The Supreme Court grapples with the question of why the Supreme Judicial Council has restrained the Chief Justice ex parte in the dead of night not realizing that by doing so, it was also depriving the Judge of his honor and respect.

July 20: A full 13-member bench of the Supreme Court reinstates Chief Justice Chaudhry and quashes the charges against him sparking jubilant celebrations throughout the country. This is the first ever verdict contradicting a military ruler in the history of Pakistan.

July 21: Chief Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chaudhry constitutes six benches, over one of which he will preside himself from Monday, marking the first day of formal work from his official residence. The Chief Justice calls Supreme Court Registrar Dr Faqir Hussain to his residence and reinstates him as Supreme Court registrar. During the meeting, the Chief Justice passes orders regarding official functions and constitutes six benches — three each at Islamabad and Lahore registries.

July 23: Chief Justice Iftekhar Mohammad Chaudhry declined to hear a private matter of senior counsel Sharifuddin Pirzada, who had defended the presidential reference against him before a 13-member bench, directing the Supreme Court office instead to put it before some other bench. • Lawyers observe Yaum-i-Tashakur (Thanksgiving Day) on Saturday and vow to continue their struggle till the removal of President Gen Pervez Musharraf. • The movement for the independence of the judiciary embarks upon the next phase when its key leaders, Munir A. Malik, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, and Ali Ahmed Kurd, a former vice-chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council, on Monday unfurl a programme for a political change in the country. Addressing a general body meeting of the Karachi Bar Association at the City. Courts, they ask General Pervez Musharraf to step down before being dislodged from power through a mass movement against the military dispensation.

Jeo Honourable Chief Justice Iftekhar Chaudri

Jeo Honourable Chief Justice Iftekhar Chaudri

Hum bhi
Corruption ke Khatme ki jadojehad mian
Tumhare saath hain

MOOSA
Anti Corruption Activist
Founder and Chairman
DISCOVER - NGO
0344-3118911

I can change the system

I can change the system!
with your help only!
So please come forward and join me!

Agar Musharraf aor Pakistan se establishment ki Badmaashi Khatam ho sakti hai to yaqeenana corruption bhi khatam ho sakti hai

Ab awam ki supremacy ka waqt hai!

Aao Aage Barho!
Aik se Do, Do se Teen, Teen se teen lakh banain, Teen million Banian! aor Corruption Khatam Kardain!

Main Aap ka muntazar hoon!

MOOSA
Anti Corruption Activist
Founder and Chairman
DISCOVER - NGO
0344-3118911

Corruption in Development Sector - Should I retreat?

Corruption in Development Sector - Should I retreat?

Dear Friends!

AOA

Corruption in Development Sector - Should I retreat?

I have step forward to unveil corruption in Development Sector, the most lucrative and attractive profession for corrupt mafia. I am committed to fight with senior professionals befooling donors and general public as well, on the name of development especially sustainable development in education sector. The include foreign degrees, most of posses PhDs.

I have been badly frightened of bad consequences up to my murder. Moreover, my insult through media comprises Internet, Print and multimedia.

I ask one question to every Pakistani.

Should I retreat to the Corrupts?

Should we people remain sleeping, and continue passing comments that

“Choro yar pagal hai! In magarmachon se kahan lar sake ga.”

I sppose myself “Barish ka pehla qatra” so please wake up and open your eyes. Muster up your courage and morally support a person who has started something which had sometime been a thought of yours.

I know everyone of you hates corruption and eliminate it, if he can not have the capacity to eliminate he may oppose it and in case of not opposing it he may at least thinking corruption an evil just encourage someine who is fighting against it.

I have put everything of mine on stake. For what?

For better future of your next generation.

They are propagating me to be a psycho patient. Believe me I’m not a Pagal.

I am a history,

Might my fool thinking be condemned by most of the critics, but I’m sure enough, history would remember me!

So please don’t close your eyes, thinking the evil is gone, you will have to fight to finish/retreat the evil.

I have never been frightened of anything in my life. I know the change factor has awakened. You will have to support me to

I wish to have support of every person to organize a network of volunteers on community level to monitor and report corruption where the development projects are being carried out.

So, please join me, as I’m the change seeker.

Let me assure you of Transparency and Prosperity in Development projects.

With warm regards,

MOOSA
Founder and Organizer
DISCOVER - NGO

0344-3118911

Report Corruption Please!

Dear Youth,

I wish to ask about the views and opinion on the recent verification survey of Sindh Education Foundation in connection with their Public Private Partnership on the promotion and establishment of low cast schools in various districts of Sindh..

Some misappropriation and favoritism were noticed in the verification process.

Please provide your comments on following points

Did you find anything objectionable during the survey?
Did anyone/how many individuals complained about the survey?
Was survey competent enough?
Did the survey team check and verified correctly?
Are all Applicants satisfied with the survey?
What do you feel about the survey being a responsible person of the area?
Would this scheme benefits deserving people of the area?
How many people were lying and cheating?
How many people do you think are deserving to open such schools?

This survey is open for all to reply with their comments and suggestions please.

Your suggestion would also be appreciated.

I am waiting for a prompt reply.

Let me assure you of transparent Development in Paksitan.

With warm regards,

MOOSA
0344-3118911

MY Dear Sindhi Youth!

AOA

Sindh Education Foundation with the support of International donors had asked to people and NGOs to open Schools in the areas where Schools are not present or if present were not accessible to the childern. This programme was under public private partnership scheme. There were rportedly corruption in the verification of applicants and information data supplied be the him/them.

Objectives of this project were as appended below:
• To pioneer a new culture of viable organizational vision and institutional development for good quality innovative learning and general improvement of educational practices in private schools and non profit NGO's schools.
• To forge long term public private partnership by including sizable number of private schools as beneficiaries of the program.
• To devise mechanisms among private schools and districts for training support.
• To design a meticulous framework for process support, quality improvement and continuous accountability of private and religious education providers.
• To provide subsidy to the NGOs on the basis of its efforts towards attracting more children for education; and to provide teachers salary on the basis of teachers performance and their personal initiatives.
• To launch meaningful research projects to build the models for low cost and high quality institutions of learning.

The verification survey was given to private firms.

But what is hapening with this project is worth crying.

Corruption is reported on various locations by the supervisors and enumerators, who in the connivance with applicant misfeed the data in survey answer sheets. They do not take reading of GPS of school located within the range of 1 to 3 km. So as in formation for building required for the school and proposed be the applicant is also mislead in most of the cases.

I request authorities to take serious action of the complaints recieved from various districts where survey is being carried out most of the complained district is Sanghar.

i ALSO REQUEST ALL THE FRIENDS TO REPORT ANY SUCH CASE OF CURROPTION TO UNDERSIGNED IMMEDIATELY FROM ANY CORNER OF SINDH.

Let DISCOVER assure all the Sindhi youths for a transparent development.

With warm regards,

MOOSA
Development Institute for Social Control, Organization, Vigilance, Education and Research, DISCOVER - Pakistan
0344-3118911

Letter to SAFWCO - SEF Verification Survey

Sir,

I wish to ask about the views and opinion on the recent verification survey of Sindh Education Foundation in connection with their Public Private Partnership on the promotion and establishment of low cast schools in various districts of Sindh..

Some misappropriation and favoritism were noticed in the verification process.

Please provide your comments on following points

Did you find anything objectionable during the survey?
Did anyone/how many individuals complained about the survey?
Was survey competent enough?
Did the survey team check and verified correctly?
Are all Applicants satisfied with the survey?
What SAFWCO feels about the survey being a reputed NGO of the area?
Would this scheme benefits deserving people of the area?
How many people were lying and cheating?
How many people do you think are desrving to open such schools?

This survey is open for all to reply with their comments and suggestions please.

Your suggestion would also be appreciated.

I am waiting for a prompt reply.

Let me assure you of physical and economical Relief and rehabilitation of Youth.

With warm regards,

MOOSA

OPEN DISCUSSION FORUM - Social Vigilance

OPEN DISCUSSION FORUM - Social Vigilance

Dear Friends,

Am working to Social Vigilance Theory. I say Social Vigilance is must for a monitor and any professional of M and E. I need any possible theories and definitions of Social Vigilance if used in the field of M and E. I request senior professionals to guide and educate me how could I introduce Social Vigilance in Development Sector influenced by the corrupt culture of in Pakistan.

In my opinion Social Vigilance comprises M and E, discreet check, background check, verification of authentication, Originality
of NGOs/NPOs, their personnel, documents and projects.

On the point I am confused is 'if Social Vigilance be introduced in addition to M and E, or as a part of M and E.

I also need to know difference between Social Audit, Governance, M and E.

The main Objective is to control, point out and eliminate wrongdoings and corruption.

I need detailed response and references please.

Let me assure you of transparency and prosperity in development sector.

With warm regards,

Moosa
Originator "Social Vigilance."
DISCOVER - NGO, Pakistan
0344-3118911

anti Corruption books and publications.

Dear Friends following is a link to anti Corruption books and publications.

http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr

Development Institute for Social Control, Organization, Vigilance, Education and Research (DISCOVER)

A very much planned and well organized Non Profit/ Non Governmental Organization to be established in Pakistan. Development Institute for Social Control, Organization, Vigilance, Education and Research (DISCOVER) is dream of my life. I wish to establish a bold NGO which could discover all social evils and effectively suggest measures for their elimination.