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A-G - on prosecutions: 2010 be dramatic

1 day ago ago from Ghana Pundit

A-G, Betty Mould Iddrisu promises to be more aggressive next year The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu has given a strong indication that her outfit will from next year aggressively prosecute former government officials suspected of committing crimes. She promised a dramatic difference next year in (managing) the next ...

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Pakistan government says it will not resign

22 hours ago ago from My Blog

Pakistan's government has said it will not resign, following a court ruling which overturned an amnesty for politicians facing corruption charges. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the government had no intention of bowing to opposition demands to stand down. Senior figures including interior and defence ministers are among those affected by the Supreme Court ruling. President Asif Ali Zardari has been holding crisis talks with ...

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Majesty of Law

18 hours ago ago from Agha Haider Raza

By: Mir Jamilur Rahman People last week saw the operation of justice in all its majesty. The 17 judges of the Supreme Court declared unanimously that an accused person cannot be absolved of charges by an act of parliament. An ordinance promulgated by the president has the same force and effect as an act of parliament (Article 89(2)). President Musharraf, the product of a sham referendum, had conceived and promulgated the NRO to acquire ...

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Oscar to be CM if BJP govt falls ? | The Canara Times

54 minutes ago ago from The Canara Times

BANGALORE : It has been reliably learnt that the Congress was chalking out a strategy to form an alternative government under the leadership of the AICC General Secretary Oscar Fernandes in case of the downfall of the BJP government following the internal crisis which has cropped up again. The Congress leadership which is sure that the BJP government would witness a downfall in early January, has selected Oscar as a consensus candidate in ...

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Bank charges – is the government off the hook?

5 hours ago ago from Snowblog

The potential payouts faced by Britain's banking system had the Supreme Court rules against them last month, were so large that they were a matter for financial stability. The FSA ordered banks to 'stress test' their balance sheets on the assumption of massive multi-billion pound payouts for years of historic refunded bank charges. This fact is admitted to by John Fingleton, the head of the Office of Fair Trading, in an interview ...

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Tokyo Questions JAL Loan Backing

12 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

BY YOSHIO TAKAHASHI TOKYO Top Japanese government officials indicated Tuesday that the government might not guarantee loans to Japan Airlines Corp., in comments that could put pressure on the airline's retirees to accept reduced benefits as part of its restructuring. But while Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said at a news conference that the government has no plans to provide the guarantees in its budget for the next fiscal year, ...

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