Credible reports indicated that the authorities routinely use wiretaps and intercepted and opened mail. The Supreme Court directed the Government to seek its permission before carrying out wiretapping or eavesdropping operations; however, the judiciary's directive has been ignored widely. No action was taken during the year in the 1996 case of 12 government agencies accused of tapping and monitoring citizens' phone calls and no additional action was expected. REFERENCE: PAKISTAN Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2002 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18314.htm
In 1997 the Supreme Court directed the federal Government to seek the Court's permission before carrying out any future wiretapping or eavesdropping operations. Nonetheless, that same year, a lawyer for a former director of the Intelligence Bureau, charged with illegal wiretapping during Benazir Bhutto's second term in office, presented the Supreme Court with a list of 12 government agencies that still tapped and monitored telephone calls of citizens. The case is pending in the Supreme Court. A press story in October 1998 quoted anonymous cabinet ministers who complained of wiretapping of their telephones by the Intelligence Bureau. EFERENCE: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 1999 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/441.htm
Pakistan's Constitution of 1973 says (Jang Group/GEO TV/The News International flagrantly violate the following article)
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14. Inviolability of dignity of man, etc.
(1) The dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable. REFERENCE: PART II Fundamental Rights and Principles of Policy http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part2.ch1.html The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/
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ISLAMABAD: The CJ of IHC (Islamabad High Court), Muhammad Bilal Khan has strongly refuted all allegations against himself regarding having any connections with notorious criminal Nannu Gawaria. In a letter dispatched to the SJC (Supreme Judicial Council), the CJ, IHC has taken notice of certain allegations leveled against his person by secretary SJC, on 28th March 2008, as made public through newspapers and videotapes, terming the move as an endeavor to malign his career and reputation, alongwith move against Supreme Judiciary. He has alleged that, since he was a member of the Lahore High Court Bench, which had declared Mian Nawaz Sharif as disqualified, his brother Mian Shahbaz Sharif had used derogatory remarks against him (Justice Bilal Khan) in public gatherings and TV channel interviews. Mian Nawaz Sharif had even gone to the extent of expressing his desire of " thrashing me (Justice Bilal Khan) in the Arabian Sea" he contended, adding that CPO Gujranwala Zulfiqar Cheema was bent on proving his die-hard loyalties to Mian Nawaz Sharif for the sake of his police career. In his 16-point letter, the CJ, IHC has also accused journalist Ansar Abbassi of mud slinging and stern remarks against Supreme Judiciary, citing his earlier derogatory and highly inflammatory report against former CJ, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in 2007, which perpetuated the reference against CJ (Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry). Again it was Ansar Abbasi, who launched media campaign against the outgoing Chief Justice of Pakistan, Abdul Hameed Dogar, he added. He further said that it was yet again none else than Ansar Abbasi, who tried to malign Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, Justice Fakir Muhammad Khokhar, Justice Shakir Ullah Jan and Justice Tassadaq Hussain Jilani, accusing them of being involved in the so-called plot scandal. REFERENCE: CJ IHC strongly refutes all allegations against himself http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=143513Ansar Abbasi & Jang Group Illegally Tape the Phones of Citizens & Judges - P - 1 (9 Apr 2009)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95rtWVvqahw
This accusation was false, and no action was taken against them. It may be recalled that when the appointment of Justice of Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan as Chief Justice of Pakistan was being talked about, Ansar Abbasi published a write up aimed at raising a controversy about the judge. He said that it is in the same vein that when his predecessor was due to superannuate on 8th of March 2009 and his (Bilal Khan’s) name was being considered as his successor, Ansar Abbasi’s devil instinct once again precipitated. "There is not even an iota of truth in what has been written by Ansar Abbasi, he said, adding that "the material provided to me is deficient in many ways i.e it does not indicate as to when was this person (Faiz Rasool alias Nannu Goraya) present in Dubai, and to which night club I had accompanied them and to which hotel I was taken for the "purpose". He said that during his last visit to Dubai, his wife and daughter-in-law accompanied him and throughout they stayed together. "It is so interesting that Zulfiqar Cheema used his imagination regarding purchase of a diamond necklace for the marriage of my daughter, although she got married in January 2007 and by the grace of God was blessed with a son in December 2007. "Zulfiqar Cheema even went to the extent of illegally detaining father of Ashfaq Bajwa, who was in such adverse circumstances, approached through Syed Ali Mohsin Naqvi, SP (CIA) to make a statement regarding my alleged links with Nannu Goraya" he said. It was on account of this foreknowledge that the Chief Justice, Lahore High Court, did not deem it appropriate to take any further steps in the matter on the press clippings. REFERENCE: CJ IHC strongly refutes all allegations against himself http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=143513Ansar Abbasi & Jang Group Illegally Tape the Phones of Citizens & Judges - P - 2 (9 Apr 2009)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyRQkewdj4Q
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice M Bilal Khan Monday submitted his reply to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to the allegations levelled against his alleged links with the underworld mafia. In his eight-page reply, he confirmed that the SJC secretary had sent him press clippings along with audio and video CDs of the allegations levelled against him. He said the publications were false and a crude and abhorrent attempt to malign him and scandalise the superior judiciary at a time when he was being considered for appointment as IHC chief justice. He said the backdrop of events in which the publications came into being had to be kept in view, as he was the member of the Lahore High Court (LHC) bench which had disqualified Sharif brothers from electoral politics on June 23, 2008.
Just after the decision, he said, the Sharif brothers made speeches against him at public gatherings as well as on the television channels in which they maligned him. On different occasions, he said, Nawaz Sharif said that he would throw Justice Bilal in the ocean, whereas Shahbaz Sharif hurled abuses at him (Bilal) during his public meetings in Gujranwala and also in TV interviews.
He said Zulfiqar Cheema played the role of henchman of Sharif brothers who would go any length to please his bosses and as a reward he was given the coveted assignment of Regional Police Officer (RPO) and City Police Officer of Gujranwala simultaneously although he was not qualified to hold the office of RPO under Police Order 2002.
He said he was heading a full bench of the LHC on the issue of law and order situation, which had held that many police officers including Zulfiqar Cheema had been posted in the Punjab province to the positions for which they did not qualify.
He said the allegations levelled against him by Mr Cheema that he had links with underworld mafia and was protecting them were highly malicious and a bundle of lie. Justice Bilal also termed all the news published and screened by media against him as baseless and malicious.
The third in line, Justice Bilal said, is journalist Ansar Abbasi, who has always spat venom against the superior judiciary and got away with it. It seems he is thriving professionally on this modus operandi, he said and added that it was this Ansar Abbasi, who initiated the vilification campaign against the Chief Justice of Pakistan in 2007 and his utterances in the media ultimately metamorphosed into a scandalous reference and got away with it.
He further said that the audio CD provided to him comprising three telephonic conversations of Ansar abbasi, i.e. with the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court and one with his wife is shocking to say the least.
“I am afraid that this journalist has the cheek to violate the privacy of the Chief Justice of LHC as also of his home”, Justice Bilal said, adding that this indeed is a flagrant violation of his basic and fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution and also against all canons of journalistic ethics and decency. “I cannot adequately condemn this atrocious act”, he said.
He said the audio CD has been sent to the Supreme Judicial Council under orders of the Chief Justice it is therefore for his lordship now to take cognisance of this violation for appropriate action.
He further said that allegations against him are totally false and intended to damage his personal reputation and standing as a Judge. “Speaking for myself, if these allegations had an air of truth, I would loath to hang on the office that I hold”, Justice Bilal concluded.
It is pertinent to mention here that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took notice on two stories, which appeared in The News on February 10 and 11, wherein it was revealed that a sitting senior judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) had links with the underworld.
It was revealed that the LHC chief justice has been formally informed by the Punjab police of extremely serious allegations made in his recorded statement against the judge by a notorious wanted don, Faiz Rasool alias Nanno Goraya, who was killed in a police encounter on Jan 17, 2009.
His death was celebrated by the people of Gujranwala, who showered flowers on the police for eliminating a hardened criminal.
According to the news report Goraya carried head money of Rs2 million and was arrested a few days ago when the Shahbaz Sharif government sent special police teams to the Gulf and later to Malaysia to nab him in collaboration with Interpol. He was arrested in Malaysia and brought back to Pakistan and then recorded his statements in which he implicated the LHC judge.
Later, when the don tried to escape from police custody an encounter ensued and he was shot dead, the report revealed. The report mentioned how the sitting judge of the LHC offered Goraya to quash all his cases in one go. But Goraya, who claimed he did not remember how many persons he had murdered, replied that he had to kill many more and would approach the judge only when he had killed all of them.
Gujranwala Regional Police Officer Zulfikar Cheema when contacted confirmed to this correspondent that Nanno Goraya’s statement regarding the sitting LHC judge was sent to the chief justice. Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain had described as ‘extremely serious’ the police report about a senior sitting LHC judge’s links with Nanno Goraya. REFERENCE: IHC CJ replies to SJC dispatch Our correspondent Tuesday, April 07, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=21373&Cat=13&dt=4/7/2009
It goes without saying that in the entire fake story was cooked up by Zulfiqar Cheema, and the only legal document in the field is the statement of Ashfaq Bajwa made before a Court of law, in the face of which penal action merits to be taken against Zulfiqar Cheema and other concerned police officials. A bare look at the video footage, worthless as it is, leaves no room for doubt that it has been extracted under extreme pressure, influence and indubitably in a state of total disorientation. He said that the video footage is of no consequence as there is no mechanism to satisfy a judicial mind that the voice recorded is that of the so-called Nanu Goraya nor it is ascertainable that the person shown to have been making the statement was, in fact, the person named Nannu Goraya. REFERENCE: CJ IHC strongly refutes all allegations against himself http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=143513Nazir Naji Exposed part- 1 of 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKHMBgdRM8
A 13-member Bench of the Apex Court had expressed as recently as in the year 2007, it scorn, displeasure and disdain for such like material. The advocate-on-Record attempting to produce such material was not only reprimanded and burdened with fine of Rs. One lac but also had his license suspended. He said that Zulfiqar Cheema was a crafty Police officials, who had also failed to disclose the name of "Sitting MPA (PPP) from Gujranwala city who had allegedly laid information before him and had also withheld the names of the so called dozens of other well informed persons including some journalists. He said that he must state with conviction and faith as a Muslim that the allegations against him were totally false and intended to damage his personal reputation and standing as a judge. "Speaking for myself, if these allegations had an air of truth, I would loath to hang on to the office that I hold, "he held. REFERENCE: CJ IHC strongly refutes all allegations against himself http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=143513Nazir Naji Exposed part- 2 of 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaD_4Xqott0&feature=related
WHEN governments in this country are dismissed, petitions are filed in the Supreme Court, thousands of words are written by lawyers, and then thousands of words are written by judges delivering judgments. To save labour, time and money, and to make it quicker and simpler for judges, lawyers, and laymen alike to grasp the essentials of these repetitious petitions and judgments in which it is only the names of the petitioners and respondents which change, could they not be standardized? For instance, for corruption, the petitioners could simply write: "Refer to Form Krupt K1", which the respondents could answer with : "Denied - in terms of Form Krupt K2"; for telephone tapping, "Refer to Form Teltap TT 1" and "Denied - in terms of Form Teltap TT 2 "would serve the purpose, and so on and so forth. A one-page judgment could then be written by the judges simply by ordering the Registrar to 'Print out Snooze 1'. May I recommend that my friend Khalid Anwer, master of English and legalize prose, of petitioning and responding, compile a book of suitable forms. How effectively he attacked telephone tapping as the respondent's counsel in the matter of Benazir's petitition challenging her second dismissal (CP 59/96). Worth a read in his written statement is "Sixth Ground of the Dissolution Order : Illegal and unconstitutional phone tapping and eavesdropping". To reproduce excerpts :
".....it is necessary to discuss certain constitutional dimensions of the illegal phone tapping and eavesdropping........ the Constitution is based on the trichotomy of powers...... Although the three branches are inter-linked to a certain extent, e.g., the main organ of the executive, the Cabinet, is collectively responsible to the National Assembly.... Each pillar of the State must have the assurance that its correspondence and communications will not be illegally intercepted or interfered with...... What was going on was an invisible and silent surveillance being carried out deliberately and intentionally, in full awareness of the illegality of what was being done. The intent and the act were both mala fide and unlawful; the damage done had constitutional reverberations......
"The phone tapping and eavesdropping was being done by the Intelligence Bureau ("IB") which works directly under the control of the Prime Minister ... In the case of Judges, not only were the numbers at the Judges' rest house in Islamabad and Murree under surveillance, but the numbers of the following Judges were also being individually tapped [41 names listed]....
"That quite apart from the attack on the judiciary as an institution is the violation of individual fundamental rights by this phone tapping and eavesdropping....."
Nazir Naji Exposed part- 3 of 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZVI22E7LU4&feature=related
Nawaz Sharif came in for his second round after the second dismissal of Benazir, and Senator Khalid Anwer joined his cabinet as law minister, and assumed his part of the collective responsibility, which, considering the extent of his learning, knowledge, and capability must be calculated as being at least ten times more than that of, say, the man who was Nawaz's education minister, Ghous Ali Shah. Nawaz and his government and his intelligence agencies in their turn telephone tapped and eavesdropped, also not sparing Judges and officials of the Supreme Court, as revealed by attorney-general Aziz Munshi in his arguments during the hearing of the petition filed by a number of parliamentarians challenging the second Nawaz dismissal (CP 63/99). Khalid appearing on behalf of the petitioners quite naturally had the decency to condemn the "tapping of the telephones of the Chief Justice of Pakistan and other Judges of the superior judiciary and called it a shameful act." REFERENCE: A laugh Ardeshir Cowasjee DAWN WIRE SERVICE Week Ending: 10 June 2000 Issue : 06/22 http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/2000/jun10.html#alau
GEO TV & Hamid Mir Murdered Khalid Khawaja - Part - 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76gUb0l-Cho&feature=related
Hamid Mir: I am forced to believe that some elements in the intelligence used my media colleagues against me because I was not in control of any intelligence outfit. [Hamid Mir in Washington Times] Hamid Mir responds By Hamid MirUpdated: 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/hamid-mir-responds/?page=4 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/hamid-mir-responds/?page=3
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As for us, Volume VI of the Presidents written statement filed in the Supreme court in response to Benazir Bhuttos petition challenging her dissolution concerns the telephone tapping and the sending by the men of the Intelligence Bureau, who reported directly to the prime minister, of transcripts to the prime ministers house in envelopes marked For Eyes Only. It makes sorry reading, but there is much light relief in the code names given by Benazirs personal intelligence agency to the targeted individuals. Our judges were coded, by her tappers and tapers, as Blind Men and assigned numbers. For instance, Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah was BM-1, Justice Salim Akhtar was BM-3, Justice Ajmal Mian was BM-13. The superior judiciary was serialised up to BM-29. Moving lower down the scale, the chief of the public relations and Press affairs of our former prime minister and now PM presumptive, Mian Nawaz Sharif (also bugged with code name Guest), the one and only Mushahid Hussain (commonly known as Mushahid Sahib) was allotted the code name Smooth Operator. Who can deny that this appellation fits him perfectly?
GEO TV & Hamid Mir Murdered Khalid Khawaja - Part - 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-h4GGI9Lgk&feature=related
Hamid Mir: I am forced to believe that some elements in the intelligence used my media colleagues against me because I was not in control of any intelligence outfit. [Hamid Mir in Washington Times] Hamid Mir responds By Hamid MirUpdated: 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/hamid-mir-responds/?page=4 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/hamid-mir-responds/?page=3
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Even Benazirs favourite Pir, Syed Ghulam Moeen-ul-Haq of Golra Sharif was hooked on to the tape recorders on November 2, 1996, three days prior to her dismissal. There was obviously not enough time to think up and accord him a suitable code name, but Blind Seer might have been fitting. Had he finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel, had he let the truth out and predicted a dismal future for his client? What had happened that day? Also tapped and taped was the telephone of Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Benazirs chosen chairman of the National Assemblys Foreign Affairs Committee who was sent by her around the world to represent our nation and who later was the worthy opponent in this last round of free and fair elections of Mussarat Shaheen. What on earth did she hope to learn from him? He was accorded the code name Wolf, though he bore little resemblance to that proud, lean, mean, canny, supple representative of the animal world.
GEO TV & Hamid Mir Murdered Khalid Khawaja - Part - 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxuW_C0z29k
Hamid Mir: I am forced to believe that some elements in the intelligence used my media colleagues against me because I was not in control of any intelligence outfit. [Hamid Mir in Washington Times] Hamid Mir responds By Hamid MirUpdated: 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/hamid-mir-responds/?page=4 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/hamid-mir-responds/?page=3
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Wiseman was the code for the Chairman of the Senate, the man who showed some economy with the truth, covering his tracks in the Supreme Court during the 1988 Junejo assembly dissolution case, the man who had reportedly been chosen and sent to the chief justice of the Supreme Court by the then Chief of the Army Staff, General Aslam Beg with a message. Wassem Sajjad, wise? Benazirs chosen president was not spared. His Information Adviser, Khwaja Ejaz Sarwar, was known to the IB tappers and tapers as Movie-I and his secretary, Shamsher Ali Khan, as Movie-2. Loyal uncle Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was cryptically known as JT-1 and JT-2, a double honour. Senator Nasreen Jalil of the MQM bore the designation Sea Weed, and the delectable Ms. Saba, also of the MQM, whatever be the justification was endowed with the title Hot Bed. Her late lamented friend Mir Afzal Khan was also found worthy of scrutiny and named Evening Star (strangely apt, as his evening soon faded into night). Gallant army hero, Raja Nadir Parvez of the PML was coded as Panther. And happy-with-life, good old Chandi whose sonorous conversations lull one into a totally false sense of security, was known to Benazirs IB boys as Slim Jim.
Jang Group Secret Cell & State Funded APP Journalists - Part 9
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w4sSQ95aB0
Jang Group Secret Cell & State Funded APP Journalists - Part 10
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqLvERla1o
All three of Nawazs Murree hideout telephones were put on the hook as of November 6, 1994. Cryptic talk of juicy Sirri Paya and Roghni Naan and Badami Sherbat no doubt helped Benazir stay in power for these past three insufferable years. Distasteful eavesdropping on opponents may be explainable but the list of friends, colleagues and supporters who have been bugged is long, and it should help us understand the working of the minds of all the sick IB buggers, tappers and tapers. The Blind and the Wise have now been officially debugged and the Supreme Court has managed to confiscate some 800 tapes. And not a day too the Chief Justice has, suo moto, constituted a bench of three Justices Saidduzzaman Siddiqui, Bashir Jehangiri and Nasir Aslam Zahid to lay down the laws and procedures to be followed by our future governments when they find it necessary and expedient to invade our castles.
Jang Group Secret Cell & State Funded APP Journalists - Part 11
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyiOd-U4GAQ&feature=related
To end, excerpts from Justice Kuldip Singhs judgement on taping, delivered in the Supreme Court of India in 1996 in the case of Peoples Union for Civil Liberties vs. The Union of India:
Telephone tapping is a serious invasion of an individuals privacy. With the growth of highly sophisticated communication technology, the right to hold telephone conversations in the privacy of ones home or office without interference is increasingly susceptible to abuse. It is no doubt correct that every government, however democratic, exercises some degree of subrosa as part of its intelligence outfit, but at the same time a citizens right to privacy has to be protected from being abused by the authorities of the day... The writ petition was filed in the wake of the report on Tapping of politicians phones by the Central Bureau of Investigation... Tapping telephones is a serious invasion of privacy... We therefore recommend that telephones may not be tapped except in the interest of national security, public order, investigation of crime and similar objectives under orders made in writing by the Minister concerned... The order should disclose reasons. An order for tapping of telephones should expire after three months from the date of the order. Moreover, within a period of six weeks the order should come up for review before a Board... It should be for the Board to decide whether tapping should continue... We, therefore, order and direct [that] an order for telephone-tapping... shall not be issued except by the Home Secretary, Government of India (Central Government) and Home Secretaries of the State Governments... The order shall require the person to whom it is addressed to intercept in the course of their transmission by means of a public telecommunication system such communications described in the order [and] to disclose the intercepted material to such persons and in such manner as described in the order. The matters to be taken into account in considering whether an order is necessary... shall include whether the information which is considered necessary to acquire could not reasonably be acquired by other means... The use of the intercepted material shall be limited to the minimum that is necessary... Each copy made of any of the intercepted material shall be destroyed as soon as its retention is no longer necessary...REFERENCE: Villainy Ardeshir Cowasjee DAWN WIRE SERVICE Week Ending:13 February 1997 Issue: 03/07 http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1997/13Feb97.html#vill
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