tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17520905854328870852024-03-14T02:23:41.384+05:00That's Wrong!A lawyer's take on all things odd (books, guns and almost everything).Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.comBlogger371125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-38682501833694188622020-08-26T12:38:00.000+05:002020-08-26T12:38:24.242+05:00Divorce Effectiveness Certificate<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Most people undergoing divorce in Pakistan presume that a divorce deed served on wife or a khula decree obtained from a family court is enough to complete the process of divorce. This is wrong presumption. Under Pakistani law, a divorce effectiveness certificate issued by the Union Council or municipality which registered the marriage is proof of final culmination of the marriage. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Pakistani American lady married a guy in Islamabad. The guy went to the USA after the wedding. The marriage didnt work and the guy came to Pakistan and divorced the lady. The guy and the lady both didnt inform the concerned office about their divorce. The lady was not aware about the law and the guy was holding a grudge. After a few years, the lady came to Pakistan to marry once again. When she had got married, her former husband took her to the court, alleging that she had committed polygamy as she had married once again while her earlier marriage was intact. The lady approached a lawyer and the first thing the lawyer demanded was the divorce effectiveness certificate, which the lady was clueless about. Meanwhile, criminal proceedings were initiated against the lady. She had to face distress of courts and social stigma. Imagine the plight of the couple who were undergoing this social trauma during their honey moon. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Later on, the lawyer representing the lady approached Islamabad High Court. The court was kind enough to terminate criminal proceedings against the lady as they were clearly based on malafide of her ex husband. Had the lady obtained dirvorce effectiveness certificate, she would not have to face the harassment on hands of her ex husband. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Law even provides punishment for the husband who doesn't inform the concerned marriage registering office about the divorce. However, this section like many other sections in law are not much worked upon by courts and lawyers. </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p>Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-49383992505040033782019-06-03T07:40:00.002+05:002019-06-03T21:50:16.497+05:00Gun review: Glock 19 by Peshawar based gun manufacturer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Recently, there has been an influx of local copies of Glock 19 in Pakistan. It wanted to review one such piece for my blog. A gun enthusiast fan purchased a Glock 19 from a famous gun manufacturer for Rs 40,000/-.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the outside, the gun is exact replica of original Glock 19. From magazine capacity to checkering on the grip, everything is just Glock. The finish of the receiver is bit dull as compared to shiny surface of the original Glock19. The dull shine is primarily due to reason that local manufacturers are still not close to Glock's patented carbon fiber frames. Localisation of part has its ups and downs. The down side is that manufacturer saves cost at the price of quality. No quality control also makes local gunmakers to experiment with cheap substandard material.</td></tr>
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The gun in question didnt fire after three rounds. The striker left very small impressions on primers. I decided to troubleshoot the gun and field stripped it completely. Below are the pictures of internals.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see alot of tooling marks inside the slide. Slide is milled into a solid block of metal. A little attention to detail would have polished the slide from inside and remove the tooling marks. Finish of the slide from outside is too good to judge it as local copy. The silver coloured notch is firing pin block safety. It does not allow the striker to hit the bullet until a part of the trigger presses this silver button. I initially suspected that this firing pin block is the culprit which is not allowing the striker to hit the primer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slight striker marks on the primers. The ammunition was Chinese red box, which does not have any reputation of having hard primers. The first few bullets that were fired were from the same box of ammunition. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The part of the trigger assembly which presses the firing pin block. My initial diagnosis was that this part is little low in height and is not pressing the block fully. When you press the trigger, this notch moves upwards while going backwards , pressing the firing bin block.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are internals of the slide of the gun. I have removed the extractor from the slide, took out the firing pin block and then test fired the gun. Sadly, the gun didnt fire. </td></tr>
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Next step would be to check the spring on firing pin striker. I will also clean the striker assembly to rule out blockage due to fouling, junk and debris in the striker.<br />
Overall experience in terms of locally manufactured/cloned striker pistol is not very impressive. No one would expect the gun to fail at crucial times and leave you at the brutality of a criminal.<br />
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We brought him home when he was a one month old puppy. He was all black. The brown colour on his legs had not appeared yet. It was February and nights were shivering cold. I had put his cage in the tv lounge. It was his first night away from his parents and siblings.<br />
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His mother and father were German shepherds and the size of their clutch was 6. Missing his parents and siblings, he started barking at odd hours of the night. Our TV lounge has doors to all the rooms on the ground floor. Sensing how uncomfortable the sleep would be for the family, I brought him upstairs in my study room. He inspected my room and liked it. When he had gotten tried of roaming in the room and sniffing books lying on the floor, he nestled between my feet. I went to my bed and he came and again slept with my black shoes. It dawned on me that he is missing his siblings and mistaking my shoes as his other puppies. I felt cruel for separating him from his family so early. I kept my shoes in his cage and he slept peacefully whole night.</div>
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Since he had not spent much time with other puppies, he developed a habit of biting us. The puppies which spend first three months with the parents and clutch, learn it by instinct that biting is not a good behavior. When he bites other puppies, they make a displeasuring bark, telling the biting puppy that this is not a good behavior. We solved the problem by making a short high pitched cry noise whenever it tried to bite us. He forgot the habit quite soon.</div>
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We named him Shadow the next day. He became the best friend and play mate of the children in the family. My son Shafay would go and check on him many times during the day. In the evening we would unleash Shadow and he would happily chase the kids for hours. He also liked the kids more than the adults, because the former would sneak toffees, candies and biscuits to him.</div>
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My younger brother Moid was his keeper. He remained like a dotting owner. Giving him food in the morning and evening and often giving him an afternoon snack. </div>
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After becoming part of every family moment during last 6 months. Shadow breathed his last on 10th July 2017. He stopped eating and our folk pet wisdom suspected that its because of very warm weather. We took him to a vet, then admitted him in a veterinary hospital, gave him saline drips, but he died. Shadow’s death brought a shadow of sadness on the whole family and the kids stopped playing in the lawn in the evening.<br />
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<b>PS</b>: The parvo virus is preventable. Prima Dog is the name of vaccine which is available in Pakistan. We gave him one dose when he was 3 months old, but were not advised to give another dose. The second dose could have saved his life. Symptoms of parvo are that dog looses appetite, develops diarrhea with blood. </div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-71650067830140265192017-08-01T19:26:00.000+05:002017-08-01T19:26:01.272+05:00Humans of Jhelum: Ghulam Rasool Dar <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If nicknames came from the most frequently used word by someone in his speech, Ghulam Rasool Dar would have been Ji Jaan Ji. Running a medium sized bicycle shop on a busy road near Bilal Town Jhelum, Dar is keeping the art of decency alive at a work place where young mechanics are <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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usually called Oye Chotay idher aa. Dar does not employ chotay, instead he has a team of workers who are called with not only their names but also with a ji. So Ibrar is Ibrar Jee and Nauman is Nauman Jee. <br />Dar makes a client when he or she is usually 3 or 4 years old. The toddler which buys a tricycle from his shop also buys a full sized mountain bike from him. He has a sharp memory. <br />The census department in Jhelum may not know the number of kids a person has in Dar’s area, but he surely knows that how many kids were born in a family and which kid used the elder siblings’ bicycle. Dar feels proud in the fact that his product served two siblings because of its durability. <br />Guests are treated at the shop with homemade tea, hot jaleebi from a neighbouring and samosas. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> </div>
Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-12207972530334816592017-03-20T17:02:00.002+05:002019-06-03T21:50:52.644+05:005 must read books for young lawyers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Most of young lawyers pick bad habits during the time they are doing internship with senior lawyers. Not all young lawyers are lucky to join a senior lawyer who is honest, hardworking, learned and true professional. Many end up in the chambers run by seniors who lack some or all of these qualities. As a result, young lawyers also pick those unprofessional habits. Monthly law journals occupy most of the shelf space and time of a young lawyer. These journals contain laws and precedents, whereas young lawyer is more in the need of developing and polishing his court room skills i.e. preparing briefs, cross examination and arguments. Bar councils, unfortunately, are busy with other affairs. A young lawyer has no recourse except to first learn bad habits and spend years in unlearning them. I have compiled a list of books that every young lawyer must read during the first few years of his practice. These books, in no particular order, are:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Art of Advocacy by Tripathi</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Slightly advance level books. It contains excerpts from all the leading books written on advocacy skills. Reading this books is like reading all the good books ever written on advocacy. It is hard to get these days. I bought mine from a used book shop at Anarkali for Rs 120. The books is divided into various chapters. The chapter on cross examination is a must read.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Art of a Lawyer By Justice DR B. Malik</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">This books contains articles from leading lawyer and judges of India and the West on demands of the profession. The books contains a lot of personal accounts and experiences of judges and lawyers in court rooms. The book is divided into three parts. One is on advocacy and second is on cross examination and third is courtmanship. There is a write up by Mr. Justice Munir on Law of Evidence. He has summed up the whole law of evidence in a couple of pages. This book is a gem for all lawyers.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">It is an entry level books written by Mr. SM Zaffar. He has given tips on improving research skills, arguments and handling tense situations in the court rooms. The writer’s other books Meray Mashoor Muqadimay (My famous cases) is also recommended for young lawyers. This book traces the writer’s life from an obscure lawyer defending people in petty cases of bicycle theft to a lawyer of imminence defending his country in the international court of justice.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Someone asked Mr. Ahsan Qadir Shah, legendary defence lawyer hailing from Sargodha, that where from did he develop his amazing cross examination skills. His reply was, “From the novels of Perry Mason.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Perry Mason was a former lawyer who turned to fiction writing and wrote some amazing thriller novels. All his novels revolved around an allegation of crime and expert cross examination by the lawyer in the court. I managed to get a few of the novels form an old book shop. The novels explain difference between a good and a bad question during cross examination. They also high light the point where every cross examiner must stop. While reading these novels, there are many instances when the lawyer in the plot exercises what-not-to-ask-in-cross-examination restraint. These novels were written in the year 1933 and 1934. They were and still the most sought after novels by young and ambitious lawyers. </span></td></tr>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-88162173584900438432016-09-21T14:50:00.000+05:002016-09-21T14:50:59.467+05:00Norway: The best managed country in world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I visited Norway in August on the invitation of Pakistan Velferds-Organisasjon Norge (Pakistani Welfare Organisation Norway). The first thing I observed after landing at Oslo’s airport is that it is an under-populated country, which gives a deserted look to a Pakistani going there for the first time. I joked with my cousin that is there a curfew put in place in Norway? I was told that population growth rate is extremely low and population is uniformly spread in urban and rural areas as level of civic facilities is uniform across the board.</div>
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The moment the PIA’s plane entered Norwegian aerospace, I started spotting numerous fresh water lakes. Wild life and nature is revered in Norway. The Norwegian government believes that nature is essential for the survival of its citizens. Trees are not just plants for them; they are investment for future generations. Not even a single tree can be axed without the permission of the government. Wildlife and jungles are in abundance. The control on air pollution can surprise any Asian visitor. Cargo vessels that enter Norwegians waters are required to shut off their gasoline engines and generators. The coastal authorities provide electricity to the anchoring vessels. </div>
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Using private transport is discouraged. You have to pay a lot of taxes if you take your car to city center. Parking space is scarce. The scarcity of parking and high taxes are compensated by a strong public transport system. The public transport system comprises of electric trains, buses and trams. Trams and buses are the government’s top priority as they have less maintenance cost and can carry people several times beyond their capacity. They have never been considered as a source of income by the government. Trams and trains are as noiseless as can be imagined. </div>
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The government encourages the use of electric cars. The import duty on an electric car is considerably less. There are separate lanes for buses and taxis. These lanes are usually fast as they have less traffic. Electric cars can use the lane reserved for buses. There are no toll taxes for electric cars. </div>
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The long term policy of the government can be witnessed from everywhere. Trees are preferred over shrubs and flowering plants as former provide more oxygen and require little or no maintenance. Being a plant lover, a minutely observed their green belts. You find trees in city centers, along the roads. Green belts, comprising of tall trees, are present where there are dwellings. Tunnels are in abundance. The best ground for making a tunnel is a few minute of a short commute. </div>
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Paper is being abolished. Norway is aiming to eliminate paper money by 2020. The courts are going paperless, which means no file before the judge and no brief in the hand of lawyers. The train tickets are on your mobile phone. </div>
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Norwegians are crazy about health and fitness. If I am asked to write down two most common sights in Oslo, my answer would be gyms and boats. People are super fit. You can see joggers and runners everywhere. Gyms are in abundance. Usually a fully equipped gym and a jogging track are within one kilometer radius of your house. Weekend is usually an outdoor time. One can see boats, bikes, caravans being towed behind the cars on Friday evening. I spotted people doing exercise round the clock and everywhere. It was summer time when I visited. A lot of people were doing skiing training. Having a boat and a hut in jungle are two benchmarks for being rich in Norway. </div>
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Days are very long in the summer and short in the winter. During the twenty days, I spent in Norway, I could not guess the time of the day by looking at the sunlight. What was noon to me, was evening on the clock. Even the few hours of night time were also well lit.</div>
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Pakistani community is progressing and well integrated in the society. Khalid Mehmood, a Pakistani by birth, has remained a member of the Oslo city parliament for more than two decades. He has also remained member of the Norwegian Parliament.</div>
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Art has a special place in the Norwegian culture. Sculptures can be seen at all the unexpected places. Frogner Park is a large art park in Oslo spanning over 45 hectres. It has bronze and concrete statues of humans in every possible emotion. The most popular among those is a statue of an angry toddler. Due to its small size and popularity among tourists, the statue of angry toddler has been stolen a few times. A high reward on its recovery brings it back every time. Some mischief keeps happening to the little boy. When I visited the park, his one hand was painted in blue colour. </div>
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The country is so well managed that it out-weighs all the management books taught in universities. Those, who think that there are some affairs that are unmanageable, must visit Norway.</div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-13065278767863233922016-03-30T10:22:00.002+05:002016-03-30T10:22:56.686+05:00Library!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Every few years, the library is High Court Bar Association Rawalpindi is shifted to a new building to discourage litigants from disturbing lawyers in library and to encourage reading habit among learned bar members. </span></td></tr>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-45298641238969801852015-10-19T08:00:00.000+05:002015-10-19T08:00:23.650+05:00Pakistani jails: Fast moving time machines<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Almost everyone in Pakistan believes that jail authorities
count day and night as two calendar days and that is the fact, according to the
people, that those jailed for a certain number of years are released after
spending half number of years in jail. This belief is false but the fact is not.
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There is a system of remission in Pakistan’s criminal
judicial system. Remissions are concessions in one’s punishment that are
granted by the government on special occasions i.e. Eids, Defence Day (6
September), Independence Day (14 August), Pakistan Day (23 March), New Year (1
January) and whenever a new government comes in power. These remissions are
called special remissions. They often range up to 3 months. Two Eids make it 6
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Then there are general remissions. They are given to a
convict on his good conduct, helping jail authorities to maintain law and
order, saving a jail official from attack of fellow inmate, donating blood,
getting sterilized, learning to read the holy Quran, getting education in jail
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The remissions originating from good conduct range up to 5
days in a month. Donating blood and getting sterilized shortens the sentence up
to 3 months. Education is very beneficial. Remissions are awarded according to
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A person convicted to 4 or less months is not entitled to
get remissions. The reason behind remissions is reformation of the convict. The
system encourages the convicts to shorten their period in jail by their good
conduct. It is like a ladder in the ladder-snake game. You do the right thing
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Those who are convicted in cases of espionage and terrorism
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law. His sentence will not be shortened and he would have to spend a quarter of
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-50668641443933157552015-10-19T07:59:00.001+05:002015-10-19T07:59:16.615+05:00East India Company was the world’s first finger print bureau.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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William Herschel was a British official. He was working for
the East India Company in India. In the year 1858, he ensured to obtain palm and
finger prints of the traders with whom he conducted business. William thought
that the practice might compel people into keeping agreements. Pleased with the
results, he wrote a letter to the inspector general of Bengal Prisons, asking
the inspector general to introduce the system in the jails. However, the reply
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After some years, Edward Henry, the inspector general of
Nepal police, introduced the system in jails and police stations. The Nepalese
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Who found about the uniqueness of finger prints of an
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intuition that the lines on one’s palm didn’t only tell about the future but
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-20973856393066335572015-10-19T07:58:00.002+05:002015-10-19T07:58:28.702+05:00Why mujay must mahool mai jeenay day would ensure less drug abuse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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America imposed prohibition (ban on sale of alcoholic
drinks) with a national zeal in year
.The law makers thought that it would purge the society of ills of
drunkenness but they were surprised to find mafias mushrooming in the country.
Law and order worsened to the extent that dozens would be killed in liquor
related ‘crimes’. What had been an ordinary business turned into lucrative
smuggling. America tried its best to enforce prohibition, but kept on failing
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The law makers had realized that it was their mistake
banning alcohol in the country. What had had remained a food commodity for
centuries, they had made a drug out of it and created mafias and criminal gangs
in the country. In the year 1933, the US had had enough of the prohibition, the
law makers brought in the 18<sup>th</sup> constitutional amendment which ended
the ban on alcohol. The prices of liquor fell overnight. All the liquor-related
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Recently, many countries in the world are removing marijuana
from the list of banned intoxicants. The results have been encouraging. Their
trade is regularized, which gives the government a fair idea of number of drug
users and the amount consumed by them. Statistics have been analyzing the data
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The London police aka the Scotland Yard came into being 186
years ago. It started its work under The London Metropolitan Police Act, 1829.
There were no computers, forensics, modern equipment and criminologist at that
time, but London police remained committed to effective policing from its
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The Metropolitan Police headquarters is located in a
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The British wanted the London police to be the best. Before
raising the force, they listed principles which would govern the police. They
envisioned that the police must be stable, efficient and organized along military
lines. It must be under the government control. No indicator can determine the
efficiency of police except the absence of crime. Distribution of crime news
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Control on one’s temper was declared to be an indispensible
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The uniform was designed keeping in mind that good
appearance commands respect. For the safety and security of the public, every
police officer must be given a number prominently displayed on his uniform. The
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To ensure quality policing, it was decided to hire the staff
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Checks on the police were so strict that there were 5,000
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The Punjab Police Rules 1934, govern the police in Punjab.
These rules lack everything what the Metropolitan Police possesses. Since 1934,
there were a handful of dismissals and a few forced resignation. The police is
still used as a personal force. Hundreds of its staff still guard the houses of
wives of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Half of the force is on VIP duty at any
time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The policing services are available for anyone with the
money. You want the police to patrol your area, you have to pay them. You want
the police not to patrol your area, you have to pay them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no
discipline in the force. Members are often found harbouring criminals and
facilitating mafias. The investigation is corrupt to its core. Investigator
demands bribe from the complainant of the case to strengthen his case; and
obtains favours from the accused to leave loop holes in the case for him.
Things are so organized that bribe is divided among various ranks with
professional zeal. Police officers are posted to various police stations with
an undertaking that they would provide a specific sum of money every month to
higher authority.<o:p></o:p></div>
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KPK police is undergoing a change. Ever since the PTI came
into being, there has been 5,000 dismissals from the police force. Nothing
disciplines a force better than dismissals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-87569414742673306042015-09-30T13:30:00.001+05:002015-09-30T13:30:22.198+05:00Army Museum Rawalpindi <p dir="ltr">Army Museum Rawalpindi.</p>
Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-51310614602737001812015-07-31T21:06:00.001+05:002015-07-31T21:06:18.936+05:00Corruption: The lawyers way<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>He is asking
bribes for judge</b></div>
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Often your
lawyer would tell you that the judge is corrupt and would not decide your case
in your favour until you pay him bribe. Then the lawyer would tell you that he
has a connection with the judge. You will be required to pay the bribe to the
lawyer or some friend of the lawyer. You will not have a one-to-one meeting
with the judge. You will be given just the assurance. Often a money back guarantee
is given. Since your lawyer can foresee the outcome of your case, he will keep
the money in his account. If he looses the case, you get the money and if you
win the case, he gets the money and the judge earns the bad name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A person was
offered such a deal. He met the judge on his own and discussed the case. The
judge obtained Rs 3 million bribe from him on a Rawalpindi petrol pump and took
out a small pocket sized Islamic book and took oath on the holy scripture that
he would decide the case in their favour. The judge observed the oath.</div>
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<b>He is asking
gifts for the judge<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The lawyer
would tell his client that he is going to meet the judge in the evening or on
the weekend and that he intends to take some gifts to his house. The lawyer
also promises the client that the former would also discuss latter’s case
there. The client is then taken to various shops. All those gifts ultimately
ended up in lawyer’s house. A lawyer in Jhelum demanded a VCR for the judge.
The client, who had recently returned from Saudia Arabia, provided the VCR
within a suit case. The lawyer told the client that the judge not only liked
the VCR but also took the suit case. Years later, the client visited the
lawyer’s house and found that the VCR which was taken in the name of the judge
was lying in lawyer’s TV trolley.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>He is asking
thousands of rupees for photocopies that are worth a few hundred.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I was
conducting a case in anti-corruption court. My opponent lawyer told his client
that he needs to present Indian case laws in the court as judge really likes to
read Indian case laws. The lawyer asked his client to give his clerk Rs
30,000/- as the books have to be ordered from India and they would come via PIA
flight. The ignorant client paid the fee. After the client was gone, the lawyer
sent his clerk to the library with instructions to get the law photocopied. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>He is asking
for exuberant court fees again and again<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Whenever a
civil case is moved in the court. The law requires a certain amount of court
fees. It depends on the value of the case property. The court fee never exceeds
Rs 15000/- and it is always deposited in the government’s exchequer. There has
been instances where lawyers charged Rs 70 or 80 thousands from ignorant female
clients when the court fee was just Rs 15/-.</div>
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<b>He has to
buy books to prepare your case.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Some lawyers
would tell their client that they need certain books to prepare your case. The
bill demanded would usually be in thousands. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-53933789082808626152015-07-26T23:57:00.000+05:002015-07-26T23:57:04.495+05:00Why I get nervous giving envelope to groom on wedding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was a few months ago. I was sitting in my office thinking about what to ask a witness next day. I was applying adhesive flags on various pages of the case file. My clerk entered my room and reminded me that I had to attend my friend's wedding tomorrow afternoon. I asked him to give me an envelope printed with my law firm's name and address. He complied. I put the money in the envelope, scribbling Best Wishes on it and put the adhesive flags in the drawer. Next day, I conducted the case and attended the wedding. I gave the envelope to the friend's father and came home. Two days after the wedding I opened the drawer and found two notes of PKR 1000 in it. It took me at least ten minutes to figure out who has put the money there. </div>
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I realised the blunder and decided to call my friend with a hesitation. He was expecting my call. Feigning ignorance and pretending normalcy, I told my friend that I guess I have given wrong envelope to him. He said, ''Yes, Your envelope contained two yellow stickies.'' I went to his home and handed him the 'correct' envelope and asked for an apology. We were sitting in his lawn and I can see whole of his family looking at me from inside their drawing room window. I had put the stickies in the envelope and placed the money in the drawer, while lost in thoughts.</div>
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Now whenever I have to go to a wedding. I check the contents of the envelope multiple times.</div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-89797657769001982962015-06-24T19:59:00.000+05:002015-06-24T20:02:04.473+05:00Ten things you didn't know about Pakistan's Nobel laureate <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. Dr Abdus Salam never kept a television in his house. He regarded it a wastage of time meant for creativity. He preferred reading books over television. He also encouraged his kids in this regard.<br />
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2. In order to create new things, Salam, the only Nobel laureate of Pakistan, always preferred to do one hundred things, ten of which were wrong, eighty right but normal, and ten excellent, rather than carefully analyzing a new idea before trying, and in this way avoiding failures by doing only ten things, nine of which were right and normal and only one excellent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr Abdus Salam: The man with deep roots.</td></tr>
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3. He would go to bed early. He would wake up after some time, start reading then doze off. The reading and dozing sessions would continue till morning.<br />
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4. One side table of his bed was stacked with dozens of books on almost every subject. The other side was laden with a flask containing sweet tea and snacks for late night munching.<br />
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5. Dr Salam spent a lonely life. His first wife didn’t adjust to his way of life. She preferred to live in Pakistan when confronted with social isolation abroad.<br />
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6. Where heads of states of various countries would invite and meet him, he would be forced to wait for days and then refused an appointment with the prime minister in his own country.<br />
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7. No one noticed his Nobel prize in Pakistan until New Delhi invited him to India. The Pakistani Embassy in the UK informed Islamabad about the Indian invitation. It was then, when Islamabad invited him. Abdus Salam first came to Pakistan then went to India.<br />
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8. Years before getting the Nobel Prize, when Salam was teaching in the Government College Lahore, he was told by his superiors and education ministers many times to leave the country.<br />
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9. Salam would meet every one with the same charm and hospitality. No one was VIP to him. One photograph showed him shaking hands with a French premier. The photo showed Salam holding a plastic shopping bag in one hand and shaking the other with the premier. Imagine someone doing that now.<br />
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10. If for any reason it is not possible to take me to Rabwah, then let my tombstone read: “He wished to lie at his mother’s feet.” It was Professor Abdus Salam’s last wish.<br />
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11. The news of arrival of his dead body was practically blacked out by the official media in Pakistan.<br />
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12. Despite living for decades in the UK, Dr. Abdus Salam never applied for British nationality.<br />
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Courtesy: These points are excerpts from Dr Mujahid Kamran's book The Inspiring Life of Dr Abdus Salam.</div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-56130311142376145232015-06-22T21:14:00.000+05:002015-06-22T21:14:00.159+05:00Who is the real expert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“If you’re in the presence of a true expert, you will understand everything they say. If you don’t understand what someone is saying, they are not an expert,” said Nido Qubein, a public speaker. <br />I had recently started my career as a lawyer. I would come to Rawalpindi, where high court’s bench is situated, to hear cases being argued to get the hang of things. One senior lawyer, after getting to know that I had come just to hear cases, not only encouraged me with a cup of tea but also said something amazing. He said, “The good lawyer is the one whose arguments are understandable even to the illiterate litigants present in the court.” I later observed that the lawyers with simple arguments don’t lullaby the whole court room, including the judges, to sleep.<br />The on-call electrician of our house, Shakeel aka Sheikh Sahib, has this ability of explaining to us even a complex electric malfunction in very simple words. His simple explanations have made me and my brother amateur electricians. Same holds for my car mechanic Ustad Qasim and his boys. They first explain the problem along with its cause and prevention, if any, and then repair it.</span></div>
Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-83554359940786703122015-06-21T21:12:00.000+05:002015-06-21T21:12:00.266+05:00Baji douputa under ker lain!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A friend recently shared a post on facebook about the social services we Pakistanis are taught when we are growing up. When I was growing up, the only social service I found people doing on the road was gesturing to a lady in a car that her doupata is hanging outside the vehicle from below the car door or telling a biker that the rest stand of his bike is still deployed. Years later, when I went to work in a newspaper where one or two foreigners would also work with us, it was then that I realized that how miser we Pakistanis are when it comes to using the wonderful words i.e. please and thank you. It’s rare to see people smiling at each other.</span></div>
Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-52832828865198656842015-06-19T21:10:00.003+05:002015-06-19T21:10:33.858+05:00Kids are more alert than CCTV cameras<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />Be careful where you go, young man,<br />Be careful what you do.<br />Two little eyes are watching you now –<br /> Two little feet will be following you.<br /><br />According to an excerpt from Reader’s Digest June 2015 issue, a nun handed this printed poem to a first-time father. Children are copycats. One has to be very careful when they are around. A friend was going in his car with his two-and-a-half-years old son. A wrong overtook by a trucker angered my friend into cursing the trucker as <i>kuti ka bucha</i> (the son of a bitch). His son not only heard the curse but also related it with a truck. Whenever, he spots a truck on the road, he says<i> kuti ka bucha ja ra hai</i> (the son of a bitch is going).<br />Another friend with a 3-year-old daughter had an embarrassing situation. He said something sexually explicit to his wife when they were copulating at night. They were oblivious that their daughter was awoke. The little girl repeated the graphic sentence to the rest of the family in the morning, much to the embarrassment of the couple. <br /><br /> </div>
Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-41287582382286509652015-06-03T09:55:00.002+05:002015-06-03T09:55:58.377+05:00Killing wasps with petrol<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yellow wasp (tumhoori in Punjabi and Bhir in Urdu) is a scary creature. Its sting hurts a lot. Every summer, it stings scores of people. Wasps came out of their hibernation in the summer. They make their hives in the corner of ceilings, lay eggs and multiply themselves. Various house hold remedies are available to cure its sting. I have read that vinegar reduces the sting-ache. A wasp recently stung me on my finger when I was preparing for the morning walk. It was in one of my shoes. I applied vinegar on the affected area and the burning sensation suddenly stopped. The kitchen commodity also reduced the swelling to a great deal.<br />For the past few weeks, our gardener Nazeer, whom we affectionately call Zakoota Jinn for his short stature and his amazing ability to complete big tasks in time, has been asking for petrol before trimming the hedges. He told me that he wanted it to get rid of wasps whose hives were abundant in the plants. What surprised me was that there was no burning involved. Next day I confronted Nazeer that why he needed petrol when he didn’t burn the hives. According to him, the petrol kills the wasps. I didn’t believe him. For years, we have been burning wasp hives earlier with kerosene and later with spirit after we came to know that spirit does not blacken the walls and ceilings of the verandas. The exercise was adventurous and exciting. I would wrap myself in bed sheet to avoid the last minute attack. A fabric dipped in kerosene or petrol was attached on one corner of a long bamboo, the fire was lit and the hive was torched. Many times, wasps would preempt, leave their hive and attack the people nearby, forcing me to abort the operation. <br />So the morning when the wasp stung me, I removed some petrol from the motorcycle’s tank in a half liter cola bottle. There were three hives near the entrance door. I splashed the petrol on the larger one. The wasps started falling on the ground the moment the fuel soaked their hive. Excited with the success, I drenched two more hives with the petrol that day with success. The technique becomes more effective, if the petrol is sprayed in some sort of a pump. My method of splashing the fuel was wasting the petrol unnecessarily. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-50955171718157818672015-04-17T19:11:00.001+05:002015-04-17T19:11:12.100+05:00Unsatisfying husband and truthful wife<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many angry wives come to visit our offices for getting divorces from their husbands. Many are so eager to get divorce that they level all sorts of fake allegations on their husbands. They take false pleas that their husbands are into torture, adultery, drinking, gambling and whoring. </div>
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One particular lady stands out in my memory. She was a Christian working as Major in Pakistan Army. Christian divorce law is different from Muslim family laws in Pakistan. Divorce under the Christian Marriage and Divorce Act takes more time to finalise than under Muslim family laws. </div>
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The Christian lady had some issues with her husband. The marriage was physically and financially not satisfying. I studied the law and told her that she could not get divorce until she tells the court that her husband has either changed his religion, tortures her, keeps a mistress or enjoys sex with animals (bestiality).</div>
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With a frown on her forehead, she looked on the false ceiling of my office thoughtfully for a few seconds, and promptly said that her husband has no such vice and that she would not level any false allegation on him.</div>
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My paralegal, Khalid Ahmed, was stunned to hear that. After the lady left our office, Khalid came to my office and said that never in his experience of three decades, he has seen such a lady who wants to get rid of her husband but would not impute false allegation on her husband. My reply was that she is a Christian and they are more truth full than we Muslims.</div>
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We encouraged the lady to hold a reconciliatory meeting with her husband, who assured that he would be vigilant in physical and financial things. The last I heard from them they were living happily in Murree.</div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-41847897275078347932015-04-16T08:04:00.000+05:002015-04-16T08:04:34.325+05:00Not bad even after 60 years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ever since this unfortunate country came into being, no government ever realized that people can also fell ill after 2pm and children can also be born after 2pm, the kidney stone is also not 2pm-time-bound, diarrhea, which can’t wait for seconds, can also not wait for 8am time when state-run hospitals open.<br />The government in the KPK has started evening and night facility of out-patient department in government-run hospitals for the first time in the history of the country.<br />The service has been started in four hospitals in Peshawar on experimental basis. Now people won’t have to wait for 8am to fell sick, give birth, remove kidney stone and prevent from diarrhea. <br /><br /><div>
No one is Pakistan ever realized that there are hundreds of thousands of drug addicts in the country. Pakistan has a very powerful and dreaded Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). It doesn’t have to wait for any permission from any other authority before busting any drug shipment anywhere in Pakistan.<br />It is heavily funded by the international community, which wants Pakistan to curb the growth of poppy crop and drug trafficking. Made in Pakistan heroine and hashish ultimately lands in the Middle East and the rest of the world. <br />The mafia here is so strong that none of them was ever caught by the ANF. The ANF only catches drug traffickers. It never caught any drug lord. The mafia once destroyed a helicopter given by some international donor to destroy the poppy crop with poisonous spray.<br />Now the good news, the government in KPK has made a 150-bed hospital for drug addicts. The hospital that will operate in Peshawar is equipped with all the facilities of a drug rehabilitation center. <br />Someone in Pakistan realized after 60 years that the country has, among many others achievements of proud, a considerable population of drug addicts and that there must be a rehabilitation facility for them.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> </div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-64326115188586078472015-01-18T13:39:00.002+05:002015-02-09T22:37:34.885+05:00Who brought military courts in Pakistan.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Reforms in Pakistani judiciary are alien <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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No reforms have been introduced in the country’s judicial
system since its inception. It takes years to conclude a case which could be
concluded in ONE week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Lower judiciary is law-ignorant:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Unfortunately, the lower judiciary (magistrates, session
judges in criminal cases; and civil judges, district judges in civil cases) is
ignorant about the law. The pend-ency of large number of cases in high court and
Supreme Court is a proof that lower judiciary does not know the law. If a person
gets justice from the Supreme Court of Pakistan after 15 or 20 years of
expensive litigation because of illegal judgments, whose ignorance caused it? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Litigation is lengthy:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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A person facing the trial has countless visits to courts. A
date in the court means you have to be outside the court along with your
witnesses 8 in the morning and remain there till 3 in the afternoon. And don’t
expect any facility there including chairs and washrooms. Going to the court
means wasting one whole day for countless times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Uncertainty:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If you are available, your witnesses are absent. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you and your witnesses are present, your lawyer is not
available. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you, witnesses and the lawyer are available, the
opponent’s lawyer is absent. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you, your witness, your lawyer, and the opponent’s lawyer
are available, the judge is on the leave. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you, your witness, your lawyer, the opponent’s lawyer,
and the judge are available, the lawyers are observing strike. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These are the few reasons for adjournments besides numerous
others, which make litigation in Pakistan, highly uncertain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Judges are approachable:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Many cases are ruined because either party approaches the
judge, and the judge tempers with the evidence or gives erroneous decision in
favour of one party after taking bribe. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Judges are not answerable to anyone:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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There are no checks on the judges. Ideally if the Supreme
Court releases a person from jail after a decade and observes that the judges
in lower courts have given incorrect finding on the evidence; it should punish
those judges who gave erroneous verdicts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Who is responsible for the hardship of a person who remains
in jail for 10 years and his family has no source of earning? The judges, who
gave the false verdict in that case. Practically, it never happens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Judges are cowards:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Many cases are adjourned because the judge it too scared to
give judgment. His conscience is with the innocent accused, but he can’t give
judgment because he is too scared from the hoodlums who gather outside the
court on every date.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-26856938322385725442014-12-29T12:17:00.000+05:002014-12-29T12:17:17.619+05:00The BIOS on this system is not ACPI compliant <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Chances are that you are reading this post, after your Dell Inspiron laptop has wrecked your life. The annoying blue screen pops up after every time you turn on the computer. It will remain there, no matter how many times you install and re-install the windows. I formatted the computer many times, and installed all versions of the windows but the problem persisted. Here is how I solved the issue.<br />
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Is your BIOS running updated driver?<br />
If not, update your BIOS driver.<br />
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Run a Windows 7 installation DVD in your laptop and boot from it. When it runs it will ask you to whether you want to install a new window or repaid the old one. Please select repair window option.<br />
<br />
A system recovery box will appear. Please select Command Prompt option (usually the last option on the system recovery box).<br />
<br />
In command prompt run the following commands one by one.<br />
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<code style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; word-break: break-word !important; word-wrap: break-word;">1: bootrec /FixBoot</code> </div>
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<code style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; word-break: break-word !important; word-wrap: break-word;">2: bootrec /ScanOs</code> </div>
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<code style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; word-break: break-word !important; word-wrap: break-word;">3: bootrec /RebuildBcd</code> </div>
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The problem will be solved. </div>
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Here is the <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/KB/927392" target="_blank">link </a>for the detailed process.</div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-22535350928939317412014-10-27T22:00:00.000+05:002014-10-27T22:00:02.060+05:00Book review: Pakistan From Hash to Heroin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have never seen a brilliant book supported by facts and statistics by any Pakistani writer. Ikramul Haq's Pakistan From Hash to Heroine is the exception. As suggested by its name, the book is about the advent of narcotics in Pakistan. There is no aspect of the drug trade that this <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkK0xAnAfLMA-VMwVUV14NtmwepZsQ27t33aXHKf6SlhH_Ts_Lp60ObXCqhPMdjSZ-QNLOTx0xrCe_5zy8C7URxHkutebiBrycfLQrAH5wvq_4fNCIhlsdRsW2pZ34ApRtkglawZf2N0/s1600/Pakistan+From+Hash+to+Heroin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkK0xAnAfLMA-VMwVUV14NtmwepZsQ27t33aXHKf6SlhH_Ts_Lp60ObXCqhPMdjSZ-QNLOTx0xrCe_5zy8C7URxHkutebiBrycfLQrAH5wvq_4fNCIhlsdRsW2pZ34ApRtkglawZf2N0/s1600/Pakistan+From+Hash+to+Heroin.jpg" height="320" width="222" /></a></div>
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book has not explained. </div>
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The book is supported by real life incidents, newspaper reports, studies conducted by the writer in universities and drug rehabilitation centers. </div>
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The chapters I enjoyed the most were the ones which dealt with the affect of drug on human behaviour, involvement of higher government officials (such as General Zia) in protecting the drug cartels, the amount of profits in it and the social causes which forces youth into the drug abuse. The writer has blamed Zia and his Islamic laws for the rise in drug abuse. The price of hash increased from Rs 1500 to Rs 9000 per kilogram on the first day of the banning of alcohol and hashish by the Zia regime. Must read.</div>
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Hamid Rashid Gondalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740265376728837911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752090585432887085.post-45306812552504577622014-10-26T20:32:00.002+05:002014-10-26T20:32:47.073+05:00Book Review: Art of Intelligence by Henry A. Crumpton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My view on
books on secret agencies is that they need to be thrilling and captivating.
Holding my view, I recently picked Henry A Crumpton’s book Art of Intelligence.
The writer has served decades in CIA’s Clandestine Service. The book traces his
writing a letter to CIA recruitment office when he was a kid and the CIA
replying to him that he needs to re-apply later in his life. The authored had
travelled a lot in the world before joining the CIA. Perhaps his globe-trotting
experience helped him join the world’s most discussed intelligence agency.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many
chapters in the book contained accounts of espionage. The writer didn’t even care
about using fictional names. He would name the characters in his accounts as ‘a
certain diplomat’, a ‘certain African guy’. This practice made otherwise lively
accounts less interesting if not boring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a
lot of technical detail about the CIA’s structural organization. How various
departments communicate and work with each other. Many pages of the books are
wasted in describing these technical details. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However
there were many interesting things such as keen appetite of North Korean
diplomats for porn. That many multi-national companies help CIA cover its
agents. The multi-nationals send CIA agents under the garb of their employees
in various countries where CIA can’t gain direct access. The guise of an
executive in a multi-national company works best in almost all countries. How the
organization, ‘Doctors Without Borders’, ‘indirectly’ helped CIA find a route
on Afghanistan’s northern border following the 9/11 attack on the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CIA’s
efforts to trace the relatives of dead spies and agents to transfer the escrow
money to them. Many of the agents died with the secret that they were working
for the CIA. It must be shocking for their relatives to have received money from
an unknown source. The writer could have given such a narrative, but he didn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There was
one account about the CIA training its agents before sending them to
Afghanistan for the first time after the 9/11. “We trained to use vehicles as
both weapons and means of escape. We drove and maneuvered at high speeds. We breached
roadblocks that sometimes required bashing through fixed barriers and other vehicles.
A car could take an enormous amount of abuse and keep running. We combined
driving and firearm tactics, using our vehicles as cover. The wheels and engine
blocks afforded the best protection against high velocity rounds. We entered
and exited our cars while drawing and firing weapons. We practiced with a
variety of firearms, including foreign models, particularly the AK 47 and SKS carbine.
Our teams in Afghanistan carried the AK 47 because of the local availability of
ammunition and the local profile. Any man toting and firing a US manufactured M4
would be immediately identified as non-indigenous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My take on
the book is that it is interesting but not thrilling. It may appeal to a mature
reader but not to an amateur reader. </span></div>
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