Monday, December 31, 2007
:: 2007 ditinggalkan
Sunday, December 30, 2007
:: Reunion MAPERA '78-'79
:: Budimu tuan
KHAS UNTUKMU PAKTAM...
Hinggap di balik pokok mayang,
Bunga kembang akan layu,
Budi baik bilakan hilang?
Buah nenas bawa berlayar,
Dimakan sebiji di Tanjung Jati,
Hutang emas boleh dibayar,
Hutang budi dibawa mati.
Setapak jalan lewatkan huma,
Seribu tahun takkan lupa.
Hutang emas boleh dibayar,
Hutang budi dibawa mati,
Budi tuan tuhan balaskan.
Pakaian anak raja Yamtuan,
Badan berkecai tulang bercerai,
Barulah lupa budimu tuan.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
:: Malaysia: Kepimpinan
TPM: Najib Razak
TPM: Anwar Ibrahim
TPM: Ghafar Baba
TPM: Musa Hitam
PM: Hussein Onn
TPM: Dr. Mahathir Mohamed
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:: Timeline: Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zia ul-Haq
Musharraf
Timeline: Pakistan
1947: Pakistan is founded after partition from India. Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes the country's first governor-general and Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan its first prime minister.
1948: Death of Jinnah. Khawaja Nazimuddin becomes governor-general.
1951: Liaquat Ali is assassinated. Khawaja Nazimuddin becomes prime minster. Malik Ghulam Muhammad becomes governor-general.
1953: Muhammad Ali Bogra becomes prime minister.
1955: Iskandar Mirza becomes governor-general. Chaudhry Muhammad Ali becomes prime minister.
1956: Pakistan is proclaimed an Islamic republic, Iskander Mirza becomes first president
1958: Martial law is declared, Mirza is sent into exile and Field Marshal Ayub Khan declares himself president.
1962: Martial law suspended.
1965: Ayub Khan wins presidential election.
1969: General Yahya Khan takes over following Ayub Khan's resignation, martial law declared.
1971: President Yahya cedes power to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes president.
1973: Martial law suspended as Bhutto becomes prime minister and Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry becomes president under new constitution.
1977: General election is followed by rioting as Bhutto's Pakistan People's party is accused of vote rigging. General Zia ul-Haq becomes president and martial law declared.
1978: Zia becomes Pakistan's sixth president.
1979: Political parties banned, Bhutto is hanged.
1985: Martial law and ban on political parties lifted.
1986: Bhutto's daughter, Benazir, returns from exile.
1988: Zia dies in mysterious plane crash. Ghulam Ishaq Khan becomes president, Benazir Bhutto becomes first female prime minister of a Muslim country.
1990: Bhutto dismissed on charges of corruption. Nawaz Sharif elected prime minister.
1993: Khan and Sharif resign under pressure from the army. Election returns Bhutto as prime minister. Wasim Sajjad becomes interim president. Sardar Farooq Leghari replaces Sajjad as president
1996: Leghari dismisses Bhutto amid allegations of corruption.
1997: Nawaz Sharif wins election to return as prime minister. Wasim Sajjad becomes interim president.
1998: Muhammad Rafiq Tarar becomes 11th president of Pakistan.
1999: Bhutto and her husband convicted of corruption. Bhutto stays out of the country. Sharif overthrown in coup led by General Pervez Musharraf.
2000: Sharif convicted of hijacking and terrorism and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is pardoned by military authorities and goes into exile in Saudi Arabia.
2001: Musharraf declares himself president while still head of the army.
2002: Musharraf elected as president in referendum criticised as unconstitutional. First general election since start of military rule. Mir Zafarullah Jamali elected prime minister.
2004: Musharraf announces he will continue as head of the army despite having previously said he would give up the role.
April 2007: In April Musharraf suspends Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, the chief justice, following demonstrations. Chaudhry is reinstated in July.
August 2007: Pakistan's supreme court rules Sharif can return from exile, but he is sent to Saudi Arabia within hours of his return in September.
The same month Musharraf agrees to step down as head of the army after presidential elections in October.
October 2007: Musharraf wins presidential elections in Pakistan, but must await decision from the supreme court as to whether he was eligible to be a candidate.
Also in October, Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister, returns from exile to Pakistan. During a parade in the city of Karachi attended by thousands of her supporters, a suicide bomb attack kills more than 130 of her supporters.
November 4, 2007: Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan. Troops surround Islamabad's state-run television and radio stations and police surround the supreme court.
November 28, 2007: Musharraf steps down as army chief, meeting a key demand of the international community, and ending eight years of divisive military rule. Control of the army and its nuclear arsenal are handed to General Ashfaq Kiyani, a former intelligence chief. Musharraf is sworn in as a civilian president the next day.
December 15, 2007: Musharraf lifts a nationwide state of emergency amid mounting criticism that general elections scheduled for January will not be free and fair. Musharraf cancelled the six-week long emergency law a day after he made changes to Pakistan's constitution.
December 21, 2007: At least 50 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, apparently targeting Aftab Khan Sherpao, the country's former interior minister.
December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister, is killed by a suicide bomber who first fired shots at her before blowing himself up during an election rally in Rawalpindi, 14km south of Islamabad.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Friday, December 28, 2007
:: Benazir Bhutto
The first woman to lead a Muslim nation in modern times had "no ordinary life."
:: Bhutto killed
Bhutto killed in suicide attack
Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, has been killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.
At least 16 others were also killed in Thursday's attack with another report saying at least 20 bodies were seen after the explosion which triggered violent protests across the country.
Bhutto,54, was proclaimed dead after she was taken to the Rawalpindi General Hospital. "
At 6:16pm [13:16 GMT], she expired," Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), present at the hospital, said.
Police said a suicide bomber fired at Bhutto as she was leaving the rally venue in a park before blowing himself up.
"The man first fired at Bhutto's vehicle. She ducked and then he blew himself up," Mohammad Shahid, a police officer said.
Rising anger
Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, reportedly chaired an emergency cabinet meeting after the blast.
Bhutto's supporters vented their angerafter her killing [AFP]He later appealed to the nation to remain calm "so that the evil designs of terrorists can be defeated," state TV reported.
But as news of Bhutto's death spread, supporters at the hospital in Rawalpindi smashed glass doors and threw stones at cars.
Angry supporters also took to the streets in the northwestern city of Peshawar as well other areas, and raised anti-Musharraf slogans.
Thousands also gathered on the streets of Karachi, the capital of Bhutto's native Sindh province.
In Rawalpindi, at the site of the attack, Bhutto's supporters burned election posters from the ruling party and attacked police, who fled from the scene.
The interior ministry respondend by putting its forces on red alert.
Grieving nation
Following the blast, body parts and flesh were strewn across Liaqat Bagh park where Bhutto had spoken.
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Send us your viewsPolice cordoned off the street with white and red tape, and rescue workers rushed to carry victims in to ambulances.
Nawaz Sharif, also a former Pakistani prime minister, told grief-stricken Bhutto supporters outside the hospital: "I assure you that I will fight your war from now on."
He said he shared the grief of "the entire nation".
Javaid Manzoor, the president of Bhutto's PPP party, told Al Jazeera: "We are shocked. We are stunned. Every single one of us is mouring the loss of our leader."
Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman said questions would now be raised about security there.
Hospital anguish
The killing is likely to deepen the political crisis in Pakistan, where radicals had vowed to disrupt the vote and Musharraf's opponents, including Bhutto, accused him of planning to rig the result.
Manzoor said he believed the poll, sheduled for January 8, would now be cancelled.
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Bhutto had served twice as Pakistani prime minister between 1988 and 1996.
She had returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile on October 18.
Her homecoming parade in Karachi was also targeted by a suicide attacker, killing more than 140 people.
On that occasion she narrowly escaped injury.
Sharif rally
Earlier on Thursday, four people were shot dead and three wounded at an election rally of Sharif in Rawalpindi.
Sharif blamed supporters of the party that backs Musharraf.
The attacks are the worst directly related to the January 8 polls since campaigning intensified in mid-December.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
Related:
Arrests after Pakistan mosque blast (22 Dec 2007)
Dozens dead in Pakistan attack (21 Dec 2007)
Sharif and Bhutto issue ultimatum (03 Dec 2007)
Bhutto and Sharif to discuss vote (03 Dec 2007)
Bhutto: Poll boycott will be futile (02 Dec 2007)
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
:: Doa Imam Besar
:: Insan
"Insan ini bukan mesin atau robot yang hanya berpada dengan perisian yang diprogramkan untuknya. Insan mempunyai kehidupan dan perasaan. Dia ingin dihargai dan ingin melakukan sesuatu yang membuktikan keinsanannya."
berita penuh:: Gem
By
Szewah Leong in Yangon
Myanmar has vast deposits of gems, but the industry is shrouded in secrecy. An international corruption watchdog is calling for a complete ban on the purchase of gemstones from Myanmar. Human Rights Watch says the gem industry is Myanmar's third largest earner, but that revenue helps finance military abuses across the country. Many buy ruby, a gemstone, in the belief that it will bring them good luck. But in reality, rubies and other precious stones have brought nothing but misery to the vast majority of the country.
Gems are the third largest revenue earner for the military government, which tightly controls the entire industry. And it is cash that is crucial for funding the government.
Arvind Ganesane of Human Rights Watch told Al Jazeera: "[Gems] provide hundreds of millions of dollars to commit abuses, repress its own people and resist international pressure to change, to allow opposition parties to function and allow democratically elected leaders."
About 90 per cent of the world's rubies can be traced back to Myanmar. Myanmar has vast deposits of gems. Like the military cabal that has been in power for more than four decades, the gemstone industry is shrouded in secrecy. Most gems are mined in high-security areas in northern Myanmar. Miners work with no protection and in conditions where HIV and malaria are said to be widespread. The US banned gem imports from Myanmar in 2003. It has recently tightened up the law in a bid to pressure the Myanmar government into making political changes. The EU also imposed sanctions after the government's military crackdown three months ago. But the embargos has been hard to enforce and has barely had any effect.
Most rubies are treated in Thailand and can easily be confused with stones from Africa once they are cut and polished. And state gem auctions, which pull in thousands of international buyers each year, are on the increase.
"I don't think the Burmese are worried about the American market alone," says PJ Joseph of the Asian Institute of Gemological Studies.
"As long as you have the Chinese, southeast Asian and the Indian market, there will always be demand for Burma's stones."
A typical gem craftsman in Myanmar earns a dollar for each piece he makes. Some observers fear that if the embargo works at all, it will be the craftsmen who suffer the most. But others argue it would be hard for conditions to get much worse for one of the poorest and most oppressed countries in Asia.
Source: Al Jazeera
:: Indah yang berbeza
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
:: Bulan dipagar
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
:: Never outshine
Monday, December 24, 2007
:: Hebatnya cinta
LELAKI : Belum...
WANITA : Sayang akan terbang ke New York dengan penerbangan berikut sebentar lagi... dan sayang akan kembali 2 minggu lagi. Telefonlah sayang kalau abang berkesempatan. Abang tahu nombor telepon sayang... kan? Tidak ada yang berubah... masih seperti dulu.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
:: Seimbang (Mufti)
:: Nanhai No.1
NEWS ASIA-PACIFIC
China salvages sunken ancient ship
The 'Nanhai No 1' will be towed to a $20 million museum built to house it in Guangdong [Reuters]
An 800-year-old merchant ship has been raised from the South China Sea, loaded with artefacts, possibly confirming the existence of ancient maritime trade routes between China and the West.
The 30-metre vessel, containing gold, silver and porcelain goods, was hoisted onto a barge in a steel cage, a live television broadcast showed on Saturday. Named the 'Nanhai No 1' or 'South China Sea No 1' by archaeologists, the ship was discovered in 1987 off the coast of Guangdong province. The Nanhai will be towed to a $20 million museum built to house it in Guangdong.
It will be placed in a tank dubbed the "crystal palace" with the same water temperature and pressure that it experienced on the seabed.
The museum is expected to open by the end of next year and visitors will be able to watch excavation of the ship from the silt encrusting it through windows on the sides of the tank.
It is estimated that the full excavation of the vessel could take years.
Rare evidence
More than 4,000 gold, silver and porcelain containers have been found on the Nanhai, one of the biggest and oldest merchant ships ever recovered in China, Xinhua, the official news agency, said.
Also discovered were 6,000 copper coins from the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), when the boat was built. Archaeologists believe they might find tens of thousands more artefacts.
The Nanhai could provide evidence of a "Marine Silk Road" linking China's Guangdong and Fujian provinces to Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe - similar to the better-known, overland Silk Road stretching across central Asia into Europe.
"The 'Marine Silk Road', like the ancient Silk Road which connected China with south, west and central Asia and Europe, was also a bridge linking Eastern and Western cultures," Huang Zongwei, professor at Guangdong's Sun Yat-Sen University, said.
"But evidence for existence of the route has been rare," he said.
Source: Agencies
:: Interview
:: BPR siasat
Difahamkan, BPR mengambil keterangan dari Dr Mahathir di pejabatnya di YKP, di sini. Dr Mahathir berkata, beliau menghabiskan kira-kira sejam menjawab soalan daripada tiga pegawai BPR terbabit. "Kira-kira sejam (tempoh beri keterangan). Soalan apa (yang ditanya), saya tidak boleh beritahu kamu," katanya.
Ditanya apakah beliau bersedia memberi keterangan kepada Suruhanjaya Diraja yang menyiasat kesahihan video didakwa perbualan telefon seorang peguam dengan hakim kanan mengenai pelantikan hakim di negara ini, Dr Mahathir berkata: "Jika saya diperlukan untuk memberi keterangan (pada Suruhanjaya Diraja), jika undang-undang menetapkan saya perlu memberi keterangan, saya tidak boleh berkata tidak."
Ditanya sama ada Dr Mahathir atau Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan dipanggil memberi keterangan, Haidar dilaporkan berkata, ia bergantung kepada Timbalan Kanan Pendakwa Raya BPR, Datuk Nordin Hassan dan dari Jabatan Peguam negara, Datuk Azmi Ariffin kerana mereka yang akan merangka senarai saksi berdasarkan keterangan yang diberikan kepada BPR sebelum ini. Mengulas tindakan kerajaan menguatkuasakan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) bagi menahan lima pemimpin Barisan Bertindak Hak-Hak Hindu (Hindraf) baru-baru ini, Dr Mahathir berkata, beliau juga menguatkuasakan ISA kerana rakyat menyokong akta itu.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
:: Adat Sarawak...4
:: Adat Sarawak...3
Sebelum rombongan lelaki berarak ke rumah pengantin perempuan... pihak pengantin perempuan akan menghantar tikar mengkuang (tikar ngambik pengantin) yang dibalut dengan "tudung keringkam" yang disulam dengan benang emas ke rumah pengantin lelaki. Penghantaran tikar mengkuang ini menandakan bahawa pihak perempuan sudah bersedia menerima kedatangan rombongan dari pihak lelaki. Acara ini sesuai dilaksanakan bagi jarak rumah yang berdekatan... iaitu sekampung... namun hingga kini... PakNgah belum pernah melihat pelaksanaannya.
Pengantin lelaki akan diarak dengan menggunakan kereta atau jong yang akan dimulai dengan membaca selawat sebanyak tiga kali dan diikuti dengan paluan hadrah . Setibanya di rumah pengantin perempuan, mereka akan disambut dengan acara pencak silat (silat kapak) sebagai pembuka pintu. Acara ini juga telah diubahsuaikan mengikut arus pemodenan.
Pengantin lelaki akan dibawa masuk ke rumah dan didudukkan di samping pengantin perempuan yang sedia menanti di atas pelamin yang telah dihias indah. Semasa majlis persandingan... upacara "berjembak" dijalankan di mana pengantin lelaki akan menyentuh dahi pengantin perempuan dengan ibu jarinya dan jejambak (tuala kecil yang wangi dan dilipat berbentuk bunga)... semacam adat membatalkan air sembahyang... diikuti bacaan doa selamat dan selawat untuk kedua-dua mempelai. Tepung tawar kadangkala dilakukan dengan iringan paluan hadrah... dan pengantin kemudiannya melakukan upacara turun naik tangga sebanyak tujuh kali.
Pada sebelah petang atau malamnya... makan "nasi temuan" diadakan... bagi membiasakan pengantin dengan kehidupan berkeluarga dan sekaligus untuk menghilangkan rasa malu. Majlis makan nasi temuan ini dilakukan bersama ahli keluarga, sanak saudara dan sahabat handai.
:: Adat Sarawak...2
(A) Persediaan
Dalam masyarakat Melayu Sarawak, upacara yang melibatkan agama adalah acara akad nikah, sementara yang bukan bersifat agama adalah acara bersanding, tepung tawar, berlulut dan makan nasi temuan.
Bergendang adalah acara keraian secara beramai-ramai yang mengambil masa selama tujuh hari tujuh malam... yang masih diamalkan terutama di kawasan pesisir. Majlis akad nikah biasanya diadakan sehari sebelum bersanding... namun kini menampakkan trenda disekalikan pada hari kenduri kahwin... sebagai menyimpulkan ikatan sah antara pasangan tersebut sebagai suami isteri.
(B) Jenis-jenis nikah
Nikah salah:
Nyerah diri:
Ngekot (mengikut):
:: Adat Sarawak...1
Sebelum Perkahwinan
Ngangin
Bertekul (Merisik)
Mereya ( Bertunang )