Baithak Desi May 21: Indemnity for Musharraf? Absar Alam, Noorani, Daily Times, Gilani, Mahatir, Headlines, Cartoons

President Pervez Musharraf has offered to resign in return for indemnity by parliament for his unconstitutional steps taken on November 3, 2007 Absar Alam The PPP-led government is all set to indemnify the Nov 3 acts of Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, probably paving the way for his resignation and safe exit. Muhammad Ahmad Noorani

Daily Times confirms from LAHORE: The government may give indemnity to President Pervez Musharraf’s November 3, 2007, actions “if it is in the national interest”, Law Minister Farooq H Naek told Dawn News on Tuesday. He told the channel that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was preparing a draft constitutional reforms package and might consult the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and other parties after presenting it to the federal cabinet.


Hum DaikhaiNgay: The government has chalked out a plan to generate 5,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity under the Thar Coal Power Generation Project, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Tuesday. In his message on the second anniversary of the magazine Energy Update, Gilani said that the project’s power generation capacity would be enhanced to 20,000MW in the future. P M Gilani


1. There is a letter being circulated purporting to be from me when I was Prime Minister, to Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel congratulating him on his appointment and requesting for the “Clinton Fund”, for “the purpose of withstanding the onslaught of Islamic Fundamentalist in Malaysia”.
2. This letter is not from me or from my office. Firstly, the font used is not the same as the type in all my letters from the Prime Minister’s office. Dr. Mahatir Mohammed "Letter" to Prime Minister of Israel


Headlines

Srinagar: Junoon performance worries authorities

Karachi: Kamal, Durrani bury the hatchet

‘Wit and humour in Colonial India’
Wind Potential Area of Sindh
Going green for power


Cartoon Quip: THE man who would have been ameer-ul-momineen thought he had become kingmaker. It turns out that Nawaz is the court jester, a punching bag for the amusement of Asif and Musharraf. Cyril Almeida