2. Afghan security officers have deported over 30 Pakistani Ulema from Afghanistan for making provocative speeches and for instigating people against the government from mosques in the Kandahar province. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

INDIA
1.  PML-N Senator Pervez Rashid said that if PML-N came to power, it would give Hindus across Pakistan protection. He said PML-N condemned any injustice done to anyone at gun point.  Hindus in Sindh have started feeling uncomfortable as they felt like neither their property nor their honour is safe in Sindh. They said that migration to any country was not the right alternative as they did not want to go to India and stay as refugees. (Kawish)

MALALA ATTACKED
1. Malala Yusufzai was attacked on instructions of Maulvi Fazlullah. Planning was done in Kunar, Afghanistan, even though the Hakimullah Mehsood Group showed haste in accepting the responsibility after confirming it from Swat. The attacker was still in Mingora. Some sections were of the opinion that the motive behind the attack was to create a reason for instigating an operation in North Waziristan. The   TTP had threatened another attack on Malala if she survives. (Ummat, Jang)

2. TTP spokesperson said that Malala Yusufzai was punished for her boldness. (Ummat)

3. After the attack on Malala Yusufzai, the possibility of talks between the government and TTP is a closed chapter. Even the military leadership is upset now and there was a possibility of an operation against TTP and al Qaida shelters in North Waziristan. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

4. Law enforcement agencies have arrested 50 suspects including a security guard in the Malala Yusufzai attack case. (Nawa-i-Waqt, Daily Hazara News)

5. KP Police IG Akbar Khan said that Malala Yusufzai’s attacker had come from Afghanistan and reached Swat through Bajaur Agency. He claimed that the Police has found out his name, that his sketch will be made public soon and that a search operation was underway to nab him. He claimed that this attack had also been planned in Afghanistan. (Jasarat)

6. Girls in Multan have come out on the streets to express solidarity with Malala Yusufzai.  Insaaf Students Federation and the Women’s Wing of Minhajul Quran protested in Lahore against the attack. (Ausaf)

7. APHC chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has termed the attack on Malala Yusufzai as barbaric  He said that TTP may support Afghan Taliban that is fighting against occupation, but it is cutting the branch on which it sits. He said that the use of force to spread Islam was illegitimate. (Jasarat, Ummat)

8. Jang editorially condemned the TTP attack on Malala Yusufzai and said such cowardly acts by extremists could not control the thoughts of the new generation. (Jang Edit)

9. Jasarat condemns the attack on Malala Yusufzai and states that Yusufzai is not just the daughter of Swat but is the daughter of entire Pakistan. (Jasarat)

10. In his column, Hamid Mir laments the attack on Malala Yusufzai by TTP and writes that he had first met Yusufzai in February 2009 when a peace agreement had been reached between the government and the Swat Taliban. Mir says that unfortunately, the same day, Geo News reporter Musa Khel was killed and Yusufzai had grieved for him. Mir says she had informed him that her school had been forcibly closed down for many days and that she had written a diary on the BBC website against this act of Taliban. Mir writes that the very same evening, he arranged for a live TV show featuring Yusufzai. Mir says that Yusufzai had supported the peace agreement since she thought it may get her school reopened; he says she had no real enmity with Taliban although she knew that Taliban were responsible for keeping her away from school and had destroyed many other girls’ schools. Mir says that the peace agreement failed and after the Army operation, even though schools were reopened, Yusufzai was not happy with security check-posts and curfew restrictions. She met Mir in Islamabad along with her father and expressed that if confidence between locals and the security forces was not maintained, Taliban would return. Mir writes that Yusufzai had no idea that her passion for education would become a threat to her life and the so-called protectors of jihad would claim this shameful act with pride. He says that TTP claimed Yusufzai was a ‘fitna’ and that killing her was lawful as per Islamic Sharia. He says he discussed the issue with many eminent Ulema but none ratified this and rejected TTP’s stand. Mir asks civil society in Lahore and Karachi, who supported drones as being the best remedy for eradicating Taliban, to gather courage and visit Mingora if they couldn’t go all the way to South Waziristan to see the reality with their own eyes. He says that the war on terrorism had divided the Pakistani society to a dangerous extent. He says on one hand, those against the US and the Army said that they favoured suicide attacks and questioned why the Pakistani media remained silent when Pakistani children died in drone attacks and in the Army operations. He says that on the other hand are the anti-Taliban drone supporters who were not willing to come down from their heights of liberal extremism. Mir says that Pakistanis were being crushed between the religious and liberal extremists and that such extremists were the real enemies of Pakistan’s bright future, as both believed in war. Mir ends by saying that Malala Yusufzai was against such extremism. (Jang)

11. In his column, Irfan Siddiqui laments the attack on Malala Yusufzai and says that the attack was not just on any girl, but on a symbol of the future of Pakistan. Siddiqui says that the main reason behind such attacks inside Pakistan was the mistake made by Musharraf which is being continued by the current leadership. He writes that unless we detach Pakistan from this so-called war on terror, it will continue sucking our blood. (Jang)

DEFENCE
1. Pakistan has made state-of-the-art Al-Khalid 1 tank that can attack enemy tanks and other targets in the darkness of the night. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

TERRORISM/EXTREMISM
1. MQM has decided not to allow others to collect hides of sacrificial animals on Eid and the decision may lead to clashes to collect hides. MQM had set up barriers in 80% of Karachi. Security institutions were silent and that there was fear of bloodshed. (Jasarat)

2. JI has claimed terrorists were planning to abduct people on Eid and collect hides forcibly. JI alleges that MQM activists holding Kalashnikovs had torn down banners put up by the Al Khidmat Trust in some parts of Karachi. (Jasarat)

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
1. In order to woo back Yusuf Raza Gilani, his son would be made a federal minister; sources say this was decided in the meeting between Zardari, Raja Ashraf and Gilani. (Ibrat)

2. Speaking to media after the hearing in the Swiss letter case, federal Law Minister Farooq H. Naek said it was a day of victory for democracy, law and constitution. He said that President Zardari had spent 10 years in the jail and nothing was proved against him and he was acquitted of all charges. Naek said there was no looted money in Swiss banks and that there would be no trial of the President. He added that the government had worked according to the SC’s instructions and the SC had accepted the letter draft. He said that the SC had given a period of 4 weeks for the government to forward this letter. (Jasarat, Ausaf, Urdupoint)

3. JI Secretary General Liyaqat Baloch has welcomed SC’s acceptance of the draft letter to Swiss authorities and states that they welcomed the fact that the government had finally accepted the judiciary’s verdict. (Jasarat)

4. PTI leader Admiral (Retd) Javed Iqbal said that there was no use of writing to Swiss authorities as Pakistani money had disappeared from Swiss accounts. (Khabrain)

5. Ummat and Intekhab are happy that the SC had finally accepted the letter drafted by the government in the Swiss case. Both appreciate the efforts of Law Minister Farooq H. Naek in settling the issue with the SC.  Legal experts aver that the government was exploiting the entire nation, judiciary and administrative machinery for saving one person and to protect the black money in Switzerland. The government was doing a dirty propaganda against the SC but one thing was evident that the real face of this government was revealed to everyone. (Daily Intekhab Edit, Ummat Edit)

6. Ausaf says earlier, PPP had claimed it would keep sacrificing PMs but will not write to Swiss authorities. Now the government’s readiness for writing the letter has ended its standoff with the judiciary. (Ausaf Edit)

7. Nawa-i-Waqt editorially remarked that many circles have been surprised by government’s U-turn on the Swiss letter issue though it is a welcome development. (Nawa-i-Waqt Edit)

8. ANP has withdrawn support to the Sindh government; it has declared that it would continue to support the federal government and the KP government. The   ANP delegation of MNAs and Senators called on President Zardari and PM Ashraf. (Kawish)

9. Former Sindh CM Irbab Rahim, who is currently in exile in Dubai, met PML-F’s Pir Pagara. Both agreed for an alliance of their parties in the upcoming Sindh elections. Rahim also indicated that he will return to Pakistan soon. Pagara justified his withdrawal from PPP alliance and added that the need of the hour was a strong Pakistan and a cohesive Sindh. He also spoke about the growing crime in Karachi which was affecting the city’s economy. (Ibrat)

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWAH (NWFP/FATA)
1. There was clash in the Sub-Tehsildar office in Haripur over sharing of bribe money and as a result, the office was locked. (Daily Hazara News)

2. At a meeting with JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman, chief of Hazara Province Movement Sardar Yusuf announced joining JUI-F; Yusuf and Rahman discussed a joint strategy to defeat Azam Swati in the upcoming elections. (Daily Hazara News)

SINDH
1. Sindh Education Minister Peer Mazharul Haq said that USAID was playing an important role in the promotion of the Basic Education Program in Sindh. He said that USAID was working on 2 segments for the revival of schools and will spend USD 81 billion on the project.  (Jasarat)

2. Jasarat is worried over the fresh wave of violence in Karachi and said though the situation is bad neither the ruling parties nor the law enforcement agencies are ready to take action. (Jasarat Edit)

3. Ummat says that the local government ordinance promulgated in a bid to appease MQM was proving to be costly for PPP. All nationalist parties had united against this ordinance and   even the Bhutto card would not work for PPP in Sindh’s interiors. The attack on Nafisa Shah’s rally was said to be a trick to postpone the general elections and to harass PPP leaders. Attacks on Sindh Minister Agha Siraj Durrani’s house and the pamphlets distributed by ‘Sindhu Desh Liberation Army’ hint at the hand of separatists. The edit goes on to say that though no loss of life was reported in these attacks, which even the attackers had not intended, it is clear that PPP had failed in Lyari and Karachi and that it had lost the public’s trust in Sindh’s interiors. Such a situation was bad not just for PPP, but it was also a cause for concern of the security and stability of Pakistan. (Ummat Edit)

BALOCHISTAN
1. As per SC instructions, there have been large scale transfers in the Balochistan Police. IG-Training, CPO Quetta Fasihuddin has been transferred as DCPO Khuzdar. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

2. Usta Mohammad in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan which had been affected by floods was still disconnected from Sindh and Balochistan. This place Hindus with majority area is facing scarcity of edibles and medicines; so far, 9 people including children have died of infections. Even NGOs have not yet reached these areas with aid. (Ummat)

3 .Ausaf welcomed PM Ashraf’s statements that the Balochistan issue is  a political and administrative issue in nature and wondered why concrete steps have not been taken to address Balochistan’s issues to resolve them permanently. (Ausaf Edit)

4. Nawa-i-Waqt editorial on PM’s offer of talks with Baloch leaders says that such offers were made in the past also nothing concrete resulted. If the government is serious about it, it should not delay talks. (Nawa-i-Waqt Edit)

POK/ G-B NEWS
1. AJK Premier Chaudhary Abdul Majeed said that Pakistan was like a mother for the Kashmiris. He added that Kashmiris would continue their patronage for Pakistan. . (Jang)

2. Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Karam Ali Shah will meet President Zardari today and will discuss the financial crisis facing Gilgit-Baltistan and related issues. (Baad-e-Shimal)

3. Gilgit-Baltistan Education Secretary has stated that a proposal has been sent to the Finance Ministry for appointment of 2269 teachers including 1300 for colleges. (Baad-e-Shimal)

4. Chilas Government Girls High School building which was damaged two years back in a bomb blast has not been repaired due to non-availability of funds. (Baad-e-Shimal)

5. Baad-e-Shimal has criticised the ban on new recruitments in government departments and said the ban should be lifted otherwise the unemployment rate will increase. More over most departments are understaffed. (Baad-e-Shimal Edit)

6. Baad-e-Shimal has voiced concern over increasing incidents of honour killings of women, especially in Ghizer. These murders are made to appear like suicides and as a result the culprits go scot-free. (Baad-e-Shimal Edit)