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Line 1: {{dablink\|This article is about the politician. For the journalist, see [[Altaf Husain]].}} '''POWER''' is a [[RISC]] [[CPU]] architecture designed at [[IBM]]. The name, arguably, stands for <i>'''P'''erformance '''O'''ptimization '''W'''ith '''E'''nhanced '''R'''ISC</i>. POWER series CPUs are used as the main CPU in many of IBM's servers, minicomputers, workstations, and supercomputers. The POWER architecture was used to develop (and remains very similar to) the [[PowerPC]] architecture, used in all [[Apple Macintosh]] computers, some IBM workstations, as well as a number of embedded applications. {{Infobox Biography The POWER design is descended directly from the earlier [[IBM 801]] CPU, widely considered to be the first true RISC chip design. It was used in a number of applications inside IBM hardware, but did not become public until they released the poorly-performing [[IBM PC/RT]] in the mid-1980s. \| subject_name = Altaf Hussain <BR> {{Unicode\|الطاف حسین}} \| image_name = \| image_size = \| image_caption = \| date_of_birth = [[17 September]][[1953]] \| place_of_birth = [[Image: Flag of Pakistan.png\|20px\|]] [[Karachi]],[[Pakistan]] \| date_of_death = \| place_of_death = \| education = [[Bachelor of Pharmacy\|Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm)]] \| occupation = \| spouse = [[Faiza Altaf]] \| parents = [[Nazeer Hussain]],[[Khursheed Begum]] \| children = [[Afzaa Altaf]] }} '''Altaf Hussain''' ([[Urdu language\|Urdu]]: '''الطاف حسین''') is the leader of the political [[Muttahida Qaumi Movement]] (MQM), formerly known as the Muhajir Qaumi Movement. Hussain is currently in self-exile at [[London]] because he faces criminal charges in [[Pakistan]], and after many years under asylum, has been granted British citizenship. Altaf Hussain used to be a cab driver in [[Chicago]], [[United States]].<ref name="Taxi_Driver">{{cite web At about the same time the PC/RT was being released, IBM started the ''America Project'', to design the most powerful CPU on the market. They were interesting primarily in fixing two problems in the 801 design in the resulting POWER design: \| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/14/wpak14.xml \| title=Running Karachi - from London \| publisher=The Telegraph \| accessdate=2007-05-15 \| format=HTML }}</ref> He was recruited by the Pakistan Military Intelligence, [[ISI]] in the United States to form MQM as a counter against [[Pakistan_Peoples_Party\|Pakistan Peoples Party]]<ref name="MQM_Origin">{{cite web \| url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/ayaz/20041112.htm \| title=A love-hate relationship \| first=Ayaz \| last=Amir \| publisher=The Dawn \| accessdate=2004-11-12 \| format=HTML }}</ref> <ref name="MQM_Origin_2">{{cite web \| url=http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/sindhisunrest1980s.htm \| title=Wars of the World \| publisher=Wars Online \| accessdate=2007-07-09 \| format=HTML }}</ref> and the [[Jamaat-e-Islami]]. <ref name="ISI_MQM_Origin">{{cite web \| url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FF03Df04.html \| title=Troubled Karachi held to ransom \| publisher=Asia Times \| accessdate=2004-06-03 \| format=HTML }}</ref><BR> Although Altaf Hussain paints himself as a Pakistani hero, at a conference in India in May 2005, he said, the "idea of Pakistan was dead at its inception" and that "the division of the subcontinent was the biggest blunder...it was not the division of land, it was the division of blood." ~~#the 801 required all instructions to complete in one clock cycle, which eliminated [[floating point]] instructions~~ <ref name="India_Speech_Text"> ~~#although the decoder was [[pipeline]]d as a side effect of these single-cycle operations, they didn't use [[superscalar]] effects~~ {{cite web \| url=http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00004327&channel=civic%20center \| title=Altaf Hussain in India \| accessdate=2007-06-15 \| format=HTML }}</ref><BR> Altaf Hussain is labelled by his opponents in Pakistan as an Indian agent.<ref name="Indian_Agent">{{cite web Floating point became a focus for the America Project, and IBM were able to use new algorithms developed in the early 1980s that could support 64-bit double-precision multiplies and divides in a single cycle. The FPU portion of the design was separate from the instruction decoder and integer parts, allowing the decoder to send instructions to both the FPU and ALU (integer) units at the same time. IBM complemented this with a complex instruction decoder which could be fetching one instruction, decoding another, and sending one to the ALU and FPU at the same time, resulting in one of the first [[superscalar]] CPU designs in use. \| url=http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/95/0728/nat3.html \| title=SPEAKING OUT IN ANGER \| publisher=www.asiaweek.com \| accessdate=2007-07-09 \| format=HTML }}</ref> He was also criticised for visiting [[India]] and making the controversial speech above.<ref name="India_Speech_Text">. A charge which he refutes, by saying that other political figures visited India too yet no one criticised them. He states that this, “speaks volumes of their hypocritical approach”. <ref name="Indian_Speech">{{cite web \| url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-6-2005_pg7_39 \| title=Party should guard against underworld: Altaf \| publisher=Daily Times, Pakistan \| accessdate=2005-06-13 \| format=HTML }}</ref><ref name="Indian_Agent"> Hussain and his supporters insists that he is unable to go to Pakistan as he may be assassinated. <ref name="Pakistan_return_fears">{{cite web \| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2093822,00.html \| title=The Karachi ruling party 'run like the mafia' from an office block in London \| publisher=The Guardian \| accessdate=2007-06-02 \| format=HTML }}</ref> ==Political ideologies and reputation== The system used thirty-two 32-bit integer registers and another thirty-two 64-bit floating point registers, each in their own unit. The branch unit also included a number of "private" registers for its own use, including the program counter. Altaf Hussain credits himself as the first in Pakistan who introduced a new trend in the political culture by giving a non-feudal based political philosophy. Their ideology is to seek the rights of all the citizens of Pakistan along with the rights of the Mohajirs.<ref name="MQM_Ideology">{{cite web \| url=http://www.mqm.org/manifesto/manifesto-1998-details.htm \| title=DETAILS OF MANIFESTO \| publisher=MQM \| accessdate=2007-07-09 \| format=HTML }}</ref> The government of Pakistan is now its ally in the current government setup in Sindh. ==Placing Altaf's father-in-law under house arrest== The 801 was a simple design, and an overcorrection to its simplicity resulted in the POWER design being more complex than most RISC CPUs. For instance, the POWER (and PowerPC) instruction set includes over 100 op-codes of variable length, many of which are variations on others. This compares (for instance) with the [[ARM]] which has only 34 instructions. Former Sindh advisor and father-in-law of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, Faisal Gabol, had been placed under [[house arrest]] by the provincial government in June 2003. Gabol said he was being detained but failed to give any reasons why. He said he did not know why he was not being allowed to leave his house. Gabol also said that he did not have any faith in his party, which is in power in [[Sindh]]. He said, “Gizri SHO Irfan Kobra came to my house this afternoon around 3:00 p.m. and told me that he had orders to detain me in my house. This is sheer harassment, and this is not the first time that the government has proceeded against me. I was also stopped from traveling to London on May 28,” Gabol said. He said that the SHO told him that he was simply following orders, which were issued by SSP Amin Yousfzai.“I have been under pressure since my daughter developed some domestic issues in London,” Gabol said. Another interesting feature of the architecture is a ''virtual address'' system which maps all addresses into a 52-bit space. In this way applications can share memory in a "flat" 32-bit space, and all of the programs can have different blocks of 32-bits each. Gabol said three police mobile units were stationed outside his house along with 25 police personnel, some of which included officials of the CID.<ref name="Altaf_FIL_House_Arrest">{{ cite web\| publisher=BBC\| title=Altaf Hussain Father's House arrest \| url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C03%5Cstory_3-6-2006_pg12_4}}</ref> The first '''POWER1''' CPUs consisted of three chips; branch, integer and floating point. These were wired together on a largish motherboard to produce a single system. POWER1 was used primarily in the [[RS/6000]] series of workstations. ==Involvement in Hakeem Saeed's murder== '''POWER2''' was a product-improved POWER1 and was the longest-lived of the POWER series, released in 1993 and still in use five years later. It added a second floating-point unit, 256k of cache and 128-bit floating point math. An operation was launched by the [[Pakistan Army]] in [[June 19]], [[1992]]. Altaf Hussain, the founder of MQM, had already fled to [[London]] 6 months prior to the operation in order to avoid pros, where he is currently under a self-imposed exile. Warrants were later issued for Altaf Hussain in a case related to the murder of Sindh governor, [[Hakeem Muhammed Saeed]], in which 9 other MQM members were sentenced to death.<ref name="Hakeem_Saeed_Sentence">{{ cite web\| publisher=BBC\| title=Hakeem Saeed Sentence \| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/361178.stm}}</ref> He has also been accused for being involved in the kidnapping and torture of a [[Pakistan Army]], [[Major]] in 1991. He was, however, acquitted by the [[Sindh High Court]] of the charges.<ref name="Acquital">{{ cite web \| publisher=BBC \| title=Altaf Acquital \| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/s/w_asia/54241.stm}} </ref> There are still numerous other criminal cases pending against him. <ref name="Criminal_Cases">{{cite web \| url=http://www.weeklypulse.org/pulse/article/160.html \| title=Imran Khan vs. Altaf Hussain \| publisher=Islamabad Pulse \| accessdate=2007-06-22 \| format=HTML }}</ref> In one case he and six associates were awarded 27 years RI by the special terrorist court.<ref name="Criminal_Cases_Detailed">{{cite web \| url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/20011111.htm \| title=Homegrown terrorism \| first=Ardeshir \| last=Cowasjee \| publisher=The Dawn, Pakistan \| accessdate=2001-11-11 \| format=HTML }}</ref><br> He has also been accused of being involved in the murders of Maulana Shamzai, Maulana Abdullah, Dr. Malik Ghulam Murtaza.{{fact}} ==May 12, 2007 [[Karachi Riots]]== '''POWER3''' followed in 1998, moving to a full 64-bit implementation, while remaining completely compatible with the POWER instruction set. This had been one of the goals of the PowerPC project and the POWER3 was the first of the IBM processors to take advantage of it. It also added a third ALU and a second instruction decoder, for a total of eight functional units. The MQM has been held responsible for instigating violence in Karachi on [[May 12]], [[2007]] that led to the death of at least 42 people.<ref name="12_May_Karachi_Riots">{{cite web \| url=http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=7814 \| title=Karachi death toll rises to 42 \| accessdate=2007-05-13 \| publisher=Daily Times Pakistan}}</ref> The violence broke out after MQM held a rally against what it called ‘political jugglery in the name of independence of judiciary’. The MQM denied the claims, though its leader indirectly blamed the former justice.<ref name="Altaf_blames_CJ">{{ cite web\| publisher=BBC\| title=Chief justice responsible \| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6649089.stm \| accessdate=2007-07-28}}</ref> The latest implementation is the '''POWER4''' series which places two complete CPU cores (otherwise similar to the POWER3) on a single chip, speeds it up, and adds high-speed connections to up to three other pairs of POWER4 CPUs. They can be placed together on a motherboard to produce an 8-cpu [[SMP]] building block. When processing requires high throughput instead of high code complexity, one of a pair of cores can be turned off so that the remaining cores have the entire bus and L3 cache to themselves. The POWER4, even in single form, is considered by many to be the most powerful CPU available. The violence intensified just before the sacked [[Chief Justice of Pakistan]] [[Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry]] flew into Karachi to address the [[Sindh High Court Bar Association]]. He was, however, forced to leave for [[Islamabad]] after waiting at the airport for several hours. This was due to the banishment order for his panel of lawyers from the [[Government_of_Sindh\|Sindh government]]. IBM plans to roll out the POWER5 processor in 2004. Ravi Arimilli, IBM's chief microprocessor designer said; "The Power5 chip is more of a midrange or low-end design that can drive up to the high end and then down to things like blades.". 64-bit RISC design that will help IBM cover the entire board as far as high and low end server CPUs are being announced by Intel and AMD. This is no low-end chip however, and is slated to replace and phase out over time the POWER4. Lawyers, political parties and media organisations from across the country protested over the involvement of MQM workers in the attack of Aaj TV.<ref name="Aaj_TV_Attack_Protests">{{cite web \| url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C05%5C13%5Cstory_13-5-2007_pg7_41 \| title=Journalists protest attack on Aaj TV \| accessdate=2007-05-13 \| publisher=Daily Times Pakistan}}</ref> The PowerPC was essentially a POWER1 CPU with some of the more basic instructions emulated in [[microcode]], using a bus interface based on the [[Motorola 88000]] design. This allowed IBM to use the CPU in a number of workstation machines, changing only the motherboard. Since then the PowerPC and POWER architechtures have diverged somewhat, but remain compatible at the instruction level. ==Dispute with Imran Khan== [[Imran Khan]] the leader of Tehrik-i-Insaaf has been vocal in holding Altaf Hussain responsible for the [[May 12]],[2007] [[Karachi Riots]]. Imran Khan has said he will take legal action against Altaf Hussain because as leader of the MQM he is directly responsible for the actions of his party.<ref name="Imran_Legal_Action_UK">{{ cite web\| publisher=BBC News\| title=Imran Khan plans UK legal action \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6714551.stm\| accessdate=2007-07-02}}</ref> In response to this he was banned by the [[MQM]] majority [[Sindh]] provincial government from entering Sindh thus not allowing him to carry out planned rallies in [[Karachi]], which was later lifted.<ref name="Imran_Banned_Sindh">{{ cite web\| publisher=The News Pakistan\| title=Sindh lifts entry ban on Imran \|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=8359 \| accessdate=2007-05-27}}</ref> MQM has also filed a reference against Imran Khan seeking his disqualification as a member of the National Assembly because no person involved in extra-marital affairs is allowed to stand for or sit as a member of parliament. <ref name="Imran_MQM_Reference">{{ cite web\| publisher=The Dawn \| title=MQM files reference against Imran \| url=http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/13/top5.htm \| accessdate=2007-06-13}}</ref> There have been rumours of a MQM, Imran Khan reconciliation, however this has been denied by Imran Khan.<ref name="Imran_MQM_Reconcilement">{{ cite web\| publisher=Pakistaniat.com\| title=Imran, Altaf, PIA and Pakistan Politics\| url=http://pakistaniat.com/2007/06/15/imran-altaf-pia-and-pakistan-politics/ \| accessdate=2007-07-15}}</ref> Imran Khan has alleged that MQM made death threats against him stating, "that MQM would ''close his chapter'' as was done with the former army chief General Asif Nawaz". <ref name="Imran_Khan_Death_Threat">{{cite web \| url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=8477 \| title=MQM threatened to kill me: Imran \| publisher=The News, Pakistan \| accessdate=2007-07-09 \| format=HTML }}</ref> == Threat to Junoon Artist == Salman Ahmed of rock group Junoon has said the MQM once threatened him that if he did not perform at its rally, his wife and children would be abducted. In a statement issued, Ahmed described the incident as having happened in 1992. He said, “They have threatened me on many occasions in the past 15 years. One particular time was when I refused to perform at Altaf’s marriage function in Karachi and London where all other artists, including Ali Azmat, were brow beaten into going and performing for ‘his majesty’s’ pleasure. The man who threatened me was called ‘Khalid bin Walid’ and was a known terrorist and murderer.” Walid apparently told Salman Ahmed that his “Quaid” Altaf Hussain had specially demanded that he appear with Junoon to perform at his wedding. When the singer refused, the man called the singer’s staff and soundman, Ishtiaq Ahmed, and threatened them with dire consequences. According to Salman Ahmed, “Ishtiaq pleaded with me to go and perform or risk being killed. In 1992, the MQM also threatened to abduct my wife and children if I did not show up at an MQM rally to welcome their leader, Azim Tariq.”<ref name="Junoon_Threat"> {{ cite web \| url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\30\story_30-5-2007_pg7_2 \| title=Junoon Artist Threatened \| publisher=Daily Times }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.insaf.org.pk/\|Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Official Website] * [http://www.mqm.org/\|MQM official website] * [http://www.kkfonline.org/\|KHIDMAT-E-KHALQ FOUNDATION (KKF)] * [http://www.apmso.com/\|APMSO official website] * [http://www.gahwaraheadab.com/\|Gahwara-e-Adab website] * [http://www.dailyamn.com/\| DAILY AMN official website] * [http://www.msrclub.com/\| Muttahida sports&recreation club website] * [http://www.ummat.com.pk/Report.ummat.com.pk/03062007-Misc_Reports/ReportNabiJanAnsari-03062007.html\|Ummat News Article regarding Imran Khan's case on Altaf Hussain] * [http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/yearwise_detail_mqm.htm MQM Site] * [http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/mqm.htm MQM Site] * [http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/mqm-factsheet.htm MQM Site] * [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C03%5Cstory_3-6-2006_pg12_4 Daily Times] * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CqiyXm5afc\|Imran Khan's comments on Altaf Hussain], ''Video - YouTube'' * [http://youtube.com/watch?v=nvx88nH5x7Q\|Documentary by Aaj TV about Karachi Riots - Part 1 of 3] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hussain Altaf}} [[Category:Terrorists]] [[Category:British Muslims]] [[Category:Pakistani politicians]] [[Category:People from Karachi District]]

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