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    Yep we could do with some liberation asap pleez...And many have been visualising all the shackles coming off for some time. Just realised this is the date of the Avalon Meetup in London organised by Ria.... a power day then. Sab.



    http://2012portal.blogspot.ca/2012/0...lorer4_24.html


    WORLD LIBERATION DAY

    5-5-2012

    It is time to take action! It is time to take the destiny of our world in our own hands! Therefore we will meet in groups large and small, as individuals and couples, at the exact time of full moon this May. Millions of us will gather and visualize the liberation of our planet from the tyranny of the central bankers so that for the first time in our history we will have the chance to create our own destiny as free citizens of the Earth.

    There is a plan, conceived by positive people in the military, supported by civil authority, to arrest the members of the banking Cabal for their crimes against humanity. Our visualization will support this plan, so that it manifests as soon as possible, as non-violently and smoothly as possible. We will support brave heroes that will carry out this plan. Something like this has never happened on this planet before. This is our chance to be a part of it!

    Our mass effort on this day will be the trigger that will activate the plan so that it may come to its fruition. Our visualization on that day is our declaration of freedom and independence. Make this viral! Share it worldwide!


    We will all be doing this visualization at the same time, the moment of full moon, which comes this May 5th /6th. Exact times for different time zones are:

    8:30 pm PDT May 5th (Los Angeles)
    9:30 pm MDT May 5th (Denver)
    10:30 pm CDT May 5th (Houston)
    11.30 pm EDT May 5th (New York)
    4:30 am BST May 6th (London)
    5:30 am CEST May 6th (Paris)
    11:30 am CST May 6th (Beijing)
    12:30 pm JST May 6th (Tokyo)
    1:30 pm AEST May 6th (Sydney)


    Instructions:

    1. Relax your mind and body by watching your breath for a few minutes.

    2. Visualize civil authority arresting central banking criminals such as Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and other members of this Cabal such as Henry Kissinger, etc. Visualize this process taking place worldwide peacefully and smoothly .Visualize the world finally being free from financial slavery, free from all evil dictators and corrupt politicians.

    3. Visualize bright new future for humanity, with new and fair financial system put into place, with all debts canceled, prosperity funds for humanitarian projects released, advanced technologies introduced, ecosystem healed and human beings finally being free from all oppression.


    Disclaimer: the date of this visualization (May 5th) is most likely NOT the date when these mass arrests will be taking place.


    More information about the mass arrests:
    http://2012portal.blogspot.com/2012/...abal_9155.html

    Updates about the World Liberation Day:
    http://2012portal.blogspot.com/
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...html?ref=world
    24,4

    Silvio Berlusconi, Former Italy Prime Minister, Paid Mafia For Protection, Says Italy Court

    ROME, April 24 (Reuters) - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid large sums of money to the Sicilian Mafia to protect himself and his family from kidnapping in the mid-1970s, Italy's highest appeals court said on Tuesday.

    Cosa Nostra's protection "was not free", the court said, adding that the media magnate was a victim of extortion

    "Berlusconi handed over conspicuous sums of money to the Mafia," the supreme Court of Cassation said in a 146-page document explaining its decision last month to quash a trial against Marcello Dell'Utri, a Sicilian who worked for Berlusconi in those years.............
    Berlusconi is currently a defendant in five trials, one over charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and the others on fraud and corruption charges.
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    Quote Posted by Sabrina (here)
    WORLD LIBERATION DAY

    5-5-2012
    This is a great idea Sabrina, thanks for letting us know. May I suggest a separate thread on this, if one has not already been started?

    While I'm here, I want to say a big THANK YOU for all the information you have provided in this thread. I'm sure everyone, except the cabal, would like to join me in thanking you for your outstanding effort.

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    Good one CJ and I love the humour!

    Stan
    If you don't follow your spirit without hesitation, you end up following your hesitation without spirit.

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    Sabrina, Has the HUGE E.U./Bank of Spain come up in any of your research? Santander...

    I have a law suit pending with these freaks currently for ADA Discrimination and Retaliation. I have never worked for a company that was so MORALLY and ETHICALLY BANKRUPT and I worked at The Federal Reserve which is saying a LOT... that place is bad! The stories I could tell.
    Anyway, would love to read any info on Santander.

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    Quote Posted by corson (here)
    GoodeTXSG, you have opened the door to some more truth. this is a good thing. thank you for sharing what you know. do you have anything else that you could add? dates? did you hear any definitive discussion regarding project bluebeam? i am very interested in the when, where, why and what that is to be expected. thank you so much for telling us some of what you know.
    warmest regards, corson
    Quote Posted by GoodeTXSG (here)
    Sorry Corson... I did not answer any of your questions and I pulled the post you commented on. I caught some flak for posting it. I meant no
    disrespect to you. Thank you...
    GoodeTXSG - there is still a small sample of the post that you have now edited out, in a reply of mine at Post #680. Let me know if you'd like that (and any quotes thereof) to disappear as well.
    My quite dormant website: pauljackson.us

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    Quote Posted by Rogerc (here)
    Quote Posted by Lifebringer (here)
    Those other sights must be OWNED by the ptw, and they are hiding the firing, or resigning from the people. So glad Huff at least allowed 269 comments, but this should go global viral on twitter, facebook, or chat.

    Thank God I put my money in a credit union three years ago.
    Sorry but the credit unions still use Rothschilds money
    Is there a no so bad place to put the FIAT dollars you have to use. Is there a thread where someone has done research on some non-Rothschilds bank?


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    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by corson (here)
    GoodeTXSG, you have opened the door to some more truth. this is a good thing. thank you for sharing what you know. do you have anything else that you could add? dates? did you hear any definitive discussion regarding project bluebeam? i am very interested in the when, where, why and what that is to be expected. thank you so much for telling us some of what you know.
    warmest regards, corson
    Quote Posted by GoodeTXSG (here)
    Sorry Corson... I did not answer any of your questions and I pulled the post you commented on. I caught some flak for posting it. I meant no
    disrespect to you. Thank you...
    GoodeTXSG - there is still a small sample of the post that you have now edited out, in a reply of mine at Post #680. Let me know if you'd like that (and any quotes thereof) to disappear as well.
    No thank you sir,
    I removed the information that garnered unwanted attention. Thank you for the followup.

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    http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto...-a-half-years/

    Petricevic jailed for six and a half years
    NZ Newswire Updated April 26, 2012, 11:29 am

    Former Bridgecorp managing director Rod Petricevic has been jailed for six and a half years.

    Petricevic was jailed after being found guilty of 18 charges under the Securities Act, Companies Act and Crimes Act charges of misleading investors over the true state of the company.

    He was charged after Bridgecorp collapsed in July 2007 owing $459 million to 14,500 debenture investors and $21m to capital note investors.

    Justice Geoffrey Venning said Petricevic knew statements that the company had never missed principal or interest payments were wrong.

    He said more than $91m of reinvested funds and $28m of new money was invested during his offending.

    "You made false statements which misled a substantial number of people into investing or reinvesting into Bridgecorp when if they had been told the truth, they would not have reinvested," Justice Venning said in the High Court at Auckland on Thursday.

    Crown lawyer Brian Dickey said Petricevic's offending showed a high degree of cynicism as he was prepared to distribute untrue statements and lie to investors.

    These included lies about missed payments to investors, using excuses such as a computer glitch, he said.

    Petricevic's lawyer Charles Cato said Petricevic hadn't been fraudulent and had been the subject of huge adverse media attention which had been a punishment of sort.

    Justice Venning said he couldn't take the media attention into account but did give him a brief sentence reduction for an assault on him and threatening material received by his family.

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17844392

    26 April

    Charles Taylor awaits Sierra Leone atrocities judgement

    Charles Taylor is accused of fuelling Sierra Leone's brutal civil war in the 1990s


    International judges are due to give a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

    Mr Taylor has been on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, sitting in The Hague, for almost five years.

    He is accused of backing rebels who killed thousands during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war. They became notorious for using child soldiers and hacking off the limbs of enemies .

    Mr Taylor denies 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    Tens of thousands of people died in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war which ended in 2002.

    Child soldiers
    Mr Taylor is accused of selling diamonds to fund weapons for Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front Rebels (RUF).

    They gained a reputation for using machetes and axes to cut off people's hands and feet. Often the atrocities were carried out by children.

    Victims who have lost limbs blame Mr Taylor for stoking the flames of civil war.

    Mr Taylor, a former warlord, was also instrumental in Liberia's slide into civil war in the late 1980s. He was eventually elected president in 1997.


    He was eventually sent back to Liberia and taken to The Hague to face the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone.

    The trial has been held in the Netherlands in case the hearings sparked fresh instability in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

    If convicted Mr Taylor will become the first former head of state to be found guilty of war crimes by an international court since the Nuremburg trials of Nazis after World War II.

    The court has heard from more than 100 witnesses including the actress Mia Farrow and supermodel Naomi Campbell.

    The prosecution wanted to establish a link between Mr Taylor and uncut diamonds which Naomi Campbell said he gave her in South Africa in 1997.

    Correspondents say this is an important point, as the accused is said to have used so called blood-diamonds to pay for weapons for the rebels.

    If Mr Taylor is found guilty he is expected to go to a prison in the UK.
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    Quote Posted by GoodeTXSG (here)
    Sabrina, Has the HUGE E.U./Bank of Spain come up in any of your research? Santander...

    I have a law suit pending with these freaks currently for ADA Discrimination and Retaliation. I have never worked for a company that was so MORALLY and ETHICALLY BANKRUPT and I worked at The Federal Reserve which is saying a LOT... that place is bad! The stories I could tell.
    Anyway, would love to read any info on Santander.

    The info. carried in the UK press in the past has been about large number of consumer complaints when Santander first came into UK high streets (and took over Alliance and Leicester) GoodeTXSG. Their customer care and admin. seemed pretty shambolic. And that's only what you see publicly! S.


    Is Santander Britain's worst bank?
    Santander gained a million customers last year, and pays the highest rate on an Isa. It's also top of the complaints league
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011...ins-worst-bank

    And the power of the net :

    http://santander-consumer.pissedconsumer.com/



    http://www.moneywise.co.uk/banking-s...ervice-so-poor

    Why is Santander's service so poor?

    Jeff Prestridge believes Santander's administrative issues are symptomatic of the problems across the financial industry.

    For the past few months, I've been up to my ankles in complaints - not of my own making, I hasten to add. I've never received such an angry barrage since I asked Financial Mail readers fortheir views on the Post Office's controversial decision to axe 2,500 branches in 2006.

    This time the complaints all centre on the administrative incompetence of the Spanish-owned bank Santander. The bank has established a massive presence on Britain's high street through its takeover of Abbey (or 'Shabby Abbey' as it was usually referred to), and more recently the acquisition of credit crunch-impacted Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.

    In more than 20 years of reporting on personal finance issues, I've never witnessed an administrative meltdown quite like that which has taken place at Santander.
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    Bo’s brother resigns from China Everbright board
    April 26, 2012By China News Center


    By Sisi Tang and Kelvin Soh

    HONG KONG |
    Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:52pm EDT


    HONG KONG (Reuters) – The fallout from the ouster of former Chongqing party leader Bo Xilai spread on Wednesday as his brother resigned as vice chairman of China Everbright International Ltd and the company moved to distance itself from the Chinese political scandal.


    Bo Xiyong was using the name Li Xueming, but the Hong Kong company’s registry documents record that Li and Bo, Bo Xilai’s elder brother, are the same person.


    The construction, water and waste investment holding company made no reference to Li’s relationship with Bo Xilai, but said the resignation was “to minimize any possible adverse impact on the company of certain reports recently published by the media on his family background.”


    Li’s departure from a post he has held since 2003 signals a widening scrutiny of Bo’s family connections as China’s leaders seek to contain the scandal ahead of this year’s transfer of power from President Hu Jintao to the next generation, likely to be led by Vice President Xi Jinping.


    Bo Xilai, the son of Bo Yibo, a former Chinese vice premier and revolutionary who fought alongside Mao Zedong, was removed as party secretary of Chongqing in March, and stripped of his Politburo post in April.


    He is being investigated for violating party discipline. His wife, Gu Kailai, is under investigation for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.


    Bo’s downfall was precipitated by his former police chief, Wang Lijun, seeking refuge at the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu. Bo Xilai ran Chongqing and had clear ambitions to ascend to China’s top leadership later this year — the Communist Party’s nine man Standing Committee.


    Since then, details have begun to emerge about Bo and his family, prompting his son, the Oxford- and Harvard-educated Bo Guagua, to refute speculation about his private and family life.


    and


    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/wo...rnational.html
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    http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/13...d-russia-.html



    Female Party Boss Leaves United Russia





    Thursday, 26 April 2012 RUssia

    Lyubov Sliska, once one of the highest-ranking women in United Russia’s hierarchy, said on Wednesday that she quit Russia’s ruling party because it had no use for her.

    The 58-year-old Sliska said United Russia failed to employ her in recent years due to suppression of all discussion inside the party, which is gradually losing public support.

    “United Russia and I don’t need each other anymore,” Sliska said. She added she has no plans to join any other party at the moment.

    Sliska, who was held deputy speaker jobs in the State Duma between 1999 and 2011, said she filed her resignation letter in March, but did not announce it before. She said last June she would not seek reelection, a decision media blamed on her conflict with the party’s then-curator in the government, Vyacheslav Volodin.

    Sliska’s former party comrade Sergei Zheleznyak expressed regret at her dropping out, but said the party is as vibrant as ever, with hot discussions raging in the Duma and thousands joining it every month.

    United Russia barely managed to retain a majority at the December parliamentary polls. Its victory was blamed on vote rigging by many critics, who rallied in the tens of thousands in Moscow after the vote.

    President-elect Vladimir Putin, who heads United Russia without being a member, announced on Tuesday that he is handing over the reins to his outgoing predecessor Dmitry Medvedev. Analysts said the move likely spelled the beginning of the end for the flagging party of power.
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    http://keranews.org/post/dallas-phil...-forced-resign

    Dallas Philanthropist Kern Wildenthal Forced To Resign


    In the aftermath of Kern Wildenthal’s resignation as special assistant to UT Southwestern Medical Center’s president, the school says it will immediately strengthen audit functions.

    It will also improve documentation tied to expense reports, to assure strict adherence. An investigation into Wildenthal’s travel and entertainment expenses called the judgment of the former UT Southwestern Medical Center President “questionable.”

    It found that UT money spent on his overseas travel and meals benefited him personally, while documents often failed to show benefits to the school.

    Over the years, Doctor Wildenthal helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for UT Southwestern. He will step down as president of the Southwestern Medical Foundation. Also on Tuesday, UT Southwestern auditor Robert Rubel resigned, UT System auditor Charles Chaffin retired, and last month, CFO John Roan retired.
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    from Sabrina's post #751

    http://www.moneywise.co.uk/banking-s...ervice-so-poor

    Why is Santander's service so poor?

    Jeff Prestridge believes Santander's administrative issues are symptomatic of the problems across the financial industry.

    For the past few months, I've been up to my ankles in complaints - not of my own making, I hasten to add. I've never received such an angry barrage since I asked Financial Mail readers fortheir views on the Post Office's controversial decision to axe 2,500 branches in 2006.


    i'm still trying to figure out the 'why' of all these resignations -- i've concluded that Drake, Wilcock, & Fulford are not telling the truth [for whatever reason -- i don't really care why ] - but the clip above suggests that maybe they are all resigning because they fear the righteous anger of The People?

    when the Patriot Act was passed in my country, i freaked out -- a blueprint for fascism if i ever saw one -- i was active in getting a Bill of Rights Defense Resolution passed by the county in which i was living at the time, took part in protests, & tried to tell everyone what was in those 500 plus pages

    this was extremely discouraging, & i came to the conclusion that my fellow countrymen & women were not going to wake up until their wallets & their bellies were affected

    if my thought that maybe all these big wigs are resigning because they know that people everywhere are really fed up -- that's a good thing -- but it also suggests that Humans as a whole are just like those in my country -- waking up only when their personal survival is threatened -- better late than never, i suppose -- but having been an activist since the age of 10, & thus learning first-hand how uncaring most Humans are about the loss of life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness w/to others as long as it doesn't touch their own little lives --it saddens me that Humans will rise up about $$ but not about freedom

    when i get really discouraged w/Humans , i think about that day before 'Shock & Awe' [the start of my country's war against the Iraqi people] when millions & millions of us took to the streets all over the world, basically saying NO MORE WAR!

    hope you don't mind this post, Sabrina -- you are doing a superb job of giving the what & who facts -- but i always look for the why behind the what & who

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    i do not know which thread to post these two articles in so i will place them here:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...83P0J720120426

    "(Reuters) - A United Nations-backed court convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes on Thursday, the first time an African head of state has been found guilty by an international tribunal.

    Taylor, 64, was charged with 11 counts of murder, rape, conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery during intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, during which more than 50,000 people were killed.

    They took more than two hours to read out the charges, evidence and its final ruling."

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/26/world/...och/?hpt=hp_t1

    "London (CNN) -- Rupert Murdoch admitted to a phone-hacking cover-up at one of his tabloid newspapers and apologized Thursday for not paying more attention to a scandal that has convulsed his media empire and rocked the British political establishment.

    "I also have to say that I failed," he said before a long pause. "And I am very sorry for it."

    Murdoch also admitted to a "cover-up" of phone hacking at his British Sunday tabloid The News of the World, but said his News Corp. had been a victim of it, not the perpetrator."

    regards, corson

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    pharma lot are starting to jump ship as well...

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...profits-tumble

    26 April

    AstraZeneca CEO quits as profits tumble
    David Brennan will be replaced on an interim basis by chief financial officer Simon Lowth while a permanent successor from inside or outside the company is found

    AstraZeneca chief executive David Brennan is to step down on 1 June in an abrupt exit that follows rising investor discontent at the company's performance.

    Underlying profits fell 19% in the first quarter, underscoring the drug company's need to find new sources of growth as key products lose patent protection.

    Britain's second-biggest drugmaker has recently stepped up its pace of deal-making, to bring in more promising new drugs from other companies, but Brennan has been under fire from some investors for not acting sooner.

    Brennan will be replaced on an interim basis by chief financial officer Simon Lowth while a permanent successor from inside or outside the company is found, AstraZeneca said on Thursday.

    At the same time, Leif Johansson will succeed Louis Schweitzer as non-executive chairman on 1 June - three months earlier than planned - and will become chairman of the nomination and governance committee after the annual meeting later on Thursday.

    That will put the former Volvo boss in pole position to select a replacement for Brennan.

    AstraZeneca faces a slump in sales, following the loss of patent cover on antipsychotic Seroquel last month, while heartburn pill Nexium and its top-selling heart drug Crestor lose US protection in 2014 and 2016, respectively.

    It has few new drugs in development to replace these big sellers and its problems mean it trades on only around seven times this year's expected earnings, the lowest multiple for any major international drug company.

    Although the main hit from the loss of Seroquel is yet to come, group sales already fell 11% in the first three months, weighed down by a tough year-ago comparison and generic competition for Nexium and other drugs in Europe.

    Sales in the quarter were $7.35bn, generating "core" earnings, which exclude certain items, down 19% at $1.81 a share.

    Analysts, on average, had forecast sales in the quarter of $7.92bn and earnings of $1.79 per share, according to Thomson Reuters.
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    http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/hi...bery-scandals/
    25 April

    High-ranking DOJ official to resign amid Fast and Furious, Virgin Islands bribery scandals

    U.S. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich plans to resign his position soon, as two different scandals rage on in which he has provided allegedly misleading information to Congress.

    Weich, who has served as Attorney General Eric Holder’s emissary in congressional communications, will become the next dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law in July, according to the National Law Journal.

    The DOJ official is the same Holder deputy who falsely told Congress that neither the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives nor any part of the Department of Justice ever allowed illicit firearms to “walk” across the U.S.-Mexico border — even as contrary facts emerged from the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.

    On Feb. 4, 2011, Weich wrote to Congress that the idea that “ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico … is false.”

    “ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico,” Weich added in that letter.

    The DOJ has since retracted Weich’s letter but has not held anyone accountable for providing that misinformation to Congress, or for Operation Fast and Furious itself.

    Scores of lawmakers — 125 House members, three U.S. Senators, two governors — and many major political figures including likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have demanded Holder’s resignation or firing over Fast and Furious.
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    26 April
    Jordan’s prime minister resigns, ex-premier Tarawneh to form new government

    Jordan’s King Abdullah II has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh on Thursday and asked ex-premier Fayez al-Tarawneh to form the new government, Al Arabiya reported citing sources at the royal palace.

    The resignation comes barely six months after Khasawneh formed a government to bring in much-needed reforms.

    Khasawneh, 62, an International Court of Justice judge, formed his cabinet in October and won a comfortable vote of confidence for his government from parliament in December after pledging to push ahead with reforms.

    Jordanians have been demonstrating since January last year, demanding sweeping political and economic reforms as well as an end to corruption, according to AFP.

    But his proposed election law drew criticism, including from tribal parliamentarians and the powerful intelligence services, who felt it favored Islamist politicians.

    A minister who declined to be named told Reuters Khasawneh took the unusual step of submitting his resignation while outside the country in response to a decision to extend a parliamentary session in which he was likely to face further criticism.

    “It was a surprise move. The prime minister was unhappy about the decision to extend parliament,” the minister said.

    Khasawneh was a former chief of the royal court and a legal advisor to the Jordanian team that negotiated a peace treaty with Israel in 1994.

    Tarawneh is also a former chief of the royal court, foreign minister, and ambassador to the U.S. He headed the Jordanian delegation to the negotiations with Israel that led to the peace agreement in 1994.
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    26 April

    Gilani convicted of contempt of court; no reason to resign says Pakistan's cabinet

    Islamabad: Pakistan's cabinet today decided that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, found guilty of contempt by the Supreme Court this morning, does not need to resign on moral grounds because he has not been convicted for a criminal offense.

    The Pakistan Supreme Court has held Mr Gilani guilty of contempt for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari. The court convicted him till the rising of the court, which means that the PM was not arrested or jailed; in a symbolic sentence that lasted about 30 seconds, he had to remain in court as the seven judges of the bench delivered judgement, rose and left the court. (Read court order)

    Opposition leaders Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan have demanded that Mr Gilani step down immediately. "If the Prime Minister will not obey the law, why will anyone else in the country?' asked Tehrik-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan.
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