A Pakistani court has restricted Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s daughter Fiza Batool from taking her child abroad on the plea of her estranged husband Khurram Khan.
Responding to Khurram Khan’s plea, a guardian court in Lahore directed that the child cannot be flown abroad until the case is resolved. Khurram Khan, son-in-law of the PM, through his counsel Surriya Farzana, has filed two separate civil suits against Fiza, seeking guardianship of his son and performance of conjugal rights by his wife.
Demanding the custody of his son, he contended that his wife had been living with her parents for the last four years and during this period, he was not allowed to meet his son Asfandyar, 9.
He said Fiza belonged to an influential family and could take the minor outside the jurisdiction of Pakistani courts. He prayed to the court to grant him a stay order so that Gilani family could not shift the child outside the country.
On this, the court granted him stay order up to June 24.
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AWK is an obstacle to US military
Washington : US military’s efforts to oust Ahmed Wali Karzai, the powerful half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, from power in Kandahar has failed with the top US commander in the region ordering his forces to work with AWK and not against him.
Reporting on a March 8 meeting some American military officials hoped that the session would lead to the ouster of AWK, the most powerful figure in southern Afghanistan.
“But what has emerged instead appears to have left Mr Karzai stronger than ever,” the Post said on the 48-year-old power-broker.
During the classified briefing session, a dossier on Mr Ahmed Wali Karzai was presented which the critics of the Afghan leader hoped might ultimately persuade Hamid Karzai, the President, to remove his brother from power.
Instead, Nato and American officials say the presentation was so unpersuasive that Mr McChrystal directed his subordinates to “stop saying bad stuff about AWK” and instead to work with him.
AWK is regarded by some US intelligence officials as indispensable, but he has long been viewed with mistrust by American military officers, who describe him as an obstacle in their efforts to fight corruption and bolster the rule of law.
—PTI