Constitutional Amendment Bill to be Tabled in NA Today

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: The Constitutional Amendment Bill drafted by the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) will be presented to before the parliament today.

Draft of amendments was presented to Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza by the members of Constitutional Reforms Committee headed by its Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani. The PCCR has reached consensus on renaming NWFP as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.

The committee on the composition of judicial committee for appointment of judges agreed that seventh member of the Judicial Commission would be former judge of the higher judiciary to be named by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The 27 members of the committee, representing all the political groups having their representation in the two houses of the Parliament, signed the draft of 18th Constitutional Amendment – comprising 95 articles – in a ceremony held at the Committee Room of the Parliament House.

Draft of 18th Amendment Presented to NA Speaker

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) Senator Raza Rabbani handed over the draft of 18th Constitutional Amendment to Speaker National Assembly Dr Fahmida Mirza on Thursday.

Dr Fahmida Mirza said that Parliament is a supreme institution and all the issues can be solved in the Parliament. Raza Rabbani said that it is impossible for any dictator to change the constitution.

Senator Raza Rabbani presented the draft in a ceremony in the committee room of the Parliament to the Speaker. The Speaker said that 31st of March was a historic day and the committee worked independently. On this occasion, the Speaker annouced to change the name of committee room as constitutional committee room.

The draft will be tabled in the Parliament on Friday for debate and approval. The power of the President to dissolve the Parliament has been taken back. And it is also proposed to end the bar on becoming PM for third term. The PCCR has reached consensus on renaming NWFP as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and the composition of judicial committee for appointment of judges.

Draft VAT Law Sent to Provincial Govts: FBR

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News Updates: The Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Sohail Ahmed has said 50 billion rupees have been received thus far from estimated 125 billion rupees tax target of the month of December.

Talking to media here, he told FBR will try receiving taxes of total 140 billion rupees by the end of current month.

The draft of Value Added Tax (VAT) law has been sent to provincial governments, which is scheduled to be tabled in National Assembly till December 31, he informed, adding, the submission of taxes from lawyers, who charged heavy amount of money in terms of advocacy fees in Haris Steel Mills case, will be reviewed.

1986 Nba Draft

1986 Nba Draft: I still remember that day back in 1986 like it was yesterday…when the news that the Boston Celtics first round 1986 draft pick Len Bias had died of an apparent drug overdose.  The Celtics were fresh off their 1986 NBA Championship and would only be stronger with the addition of the Maryland star.
The Celtics Big Three (Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish) were still in their prime but would get some young blood infused into their team that rolled through the Houston Rockets for the franchise’s 16th NBA Championship.  Bias would give Bird some rest coming off the bench as Bird would be entering his eighth season in the NBA, and turning 30 during the 1986 – 1987 NBA season.

But it wasn’t to be, as less than 48 hours after the Celtics had announced they had selected the 6’8″ ACC Athlete of the Year with the second pick overall Len Bias was pronounced dead.   Bias was just 22 years old when he died on June 19, 1986 from what was concluded to be an overdose of cocaine.

ESPN airs “Without Bias” tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST, documenting the life of Len Bias.  Below is a discussion with the director Kirk Fraser and Brian Tribble.
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A Moveable Feast

Latest News Updated, A Moveable Feast: A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920s. In addition to painting a picture of Hemingway’s time as a struggling young writer, the book also sketches the story of Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley.
A Moveable Feast is considered by many to contain some of his best writing. Some of the prominent people to make an appearance in the book include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. The book was edited by Ernest’s fourth wife, Mary Hemingway, and published in 1964, four years after Hemingway’s death.

The book contains Hemingway’s personal accounts, observations, and stories of his experience in 1920s Paris. He provides the detail of specific addresses of cafes, bars, hotels, and apartments that still can be found in modern day Paris. The title was suggested by Hemingway’s friend A.E. Hotchner, author of Papa Hemingway, and comes from a conversation the two once had about the city during Hotchner’s first visits there:

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

Editing by Mary Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway worked on the manuscript of A Moveable Feast during his later years, painstakingly rewriting several key passages, and had prepared a final draft before he died. After his death, however, his fourth wife, Mary, in her capacity as Hemingway’s literary executor, engaged in extensive editing. Literary scholar Gerry Brenner from the University of Montana documents her edits and questions their validity in many cases in his paper, “Are We Going to Hemingway’s Feast?”, concluding that some of them were misguided, and others derived from questionable motives. This would contradict with Mary’s stated policy for her role as executor, which had been an avowed hands-off approach.

After examining the vast collection of Ernest Hemingway’s personal papers, which were opened to the public in 1979 with the opening of the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and included notes and initial drafts of A Moveable Feast, Brenner indicates that Mary changed the order of the chapters in Hemingway’s final draft, to “preserve chronology”. Brenner notes how this seems to disrupt the intent of the book, interrupting the series of juxtaposed character sketches between such individuals as Sylvia Beach (owner of the bookstore “Shakespeare and Company”) and Gertrude Stein. Additionally, Brenner points out that one whole chapter, titled “Birth of a New School”, which had been dropped by Hemingway altogether, was inserted back in by Mary without sufficient justification in its contents or execution.

By far the most serious edit, Brenner alleges, is that Mary deleted a lengthy apology to Hadley, Hemingway’s first wife and perhaps intended heroine. This apology appeared in various forms in every draft of the book, and Brenner suggests that Mary deleted it because it impugned her own role as wife with its implications that Hadley was the most important spouse.
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