President Clinton will visit India and Bangla Desh and skip pakistan.
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1:In Pakistan Death Row inmates lined up for removal with extreme prejudice.
2: Pilots of Musharaff's plane rewarded with a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia
3: Tower to General: Go back to India - Ahmadabad
Islamabad, October 15: Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif is expected to stand trial with former ISI chief Lieutenant
General, Ziauddin Butt, and PIA Chief, Shahid Abbassi, for
conspiring to physically liquidate Chief Of Army Staff (COAS),
General Pervez Musharraf, while he was on his way back from
Colombo on a PIA plane with 200 other passengers on board.As the
PIA plane hovered over Karachi airport, it was initially denied
permission to land despite an emergency with only seven minutes of
fuel left.
The others expected to be tried are Sind Inspector General of Police,
Maqbool Rana, Sharif's Principal Secretary, Saeed Mehdi, and
Military Secretary, Brigadier Javed Malik. All three have been
arrested. Rana was supposed to arrest General Musharraf at
Nawabshah, the nearest airport from Karachi, where the Prime
Minister's plane was parked in readiness to take away the 'sacked'
army chief. General Musharraf, however, finalised a mid-air plan to
take over the reins of the country. After being denied permission to
land, General Musharraf talked to Lieutenant General Usmani and
Corps Commander, Karachi, from the cockpit of the aircraft with the
help of the PIA pilot who established a high frequency contact
through the Dubai exchange.
The Karachi control tower had instructed the pilot to land at
Ahmedabad in India due to unavoidable circumstances. The pilot
sent a message for the army chief who immediately came over to the
cockpit and orchestrated the dramatic military takeover. The runway,
on which the plane was to land, was blocked by police trucks that
were cleared by the army on the corps commander's orders, and the
army chief was the first person to alight from the aircraft, which
landed after one and half hours.
Pleased with the performance of the pilot and co-pilot of the PIA
aircraft, the new PIA management has sent them to Saudi Arabia to
perform Umra (pilgrimage). |
