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Presidentperforms Umrah

OBSERVER REPORT

J E D D A H — P r e s i d e n tMamnoon Hussain on Sun-day performed Umrah andprayed for solidarity andprogress of Pakistan andwell being of its people.

He reached here at Royalterminal at wee hours ofSunday morning and left forMakkah Mukarammah forperforming Umrah.

He was received byDeputy Governor Makkahregion Iqab Bin Saqr Al-Lwaihq, Charge D AffairesKhayyam Akbar, ConsulGeneral Aftab A Khokher,senior officers of SaudiRoyal Protocol and PakistanConsulate, Jeddah.

JEDDAH: President Mamnoon Hussain performed Umrah on Sunday.

LA H O R E—Punjab ChiefMinister Shahbaz Sharif andPrime Minister Nawaz Sharifhuddled together at Jat iUmra on Sunday to reviewthe All Pakistan political par-t ies conference under theaegis of Pakistan AwamiTehreek, internally displacedpersons relief and succourfor the IDPs and PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf threatenedlong march on 14th March.Sources said that the PrimeMinister, who arrived hereon Sunday, discussed in detail the consequences ofthe Model Town incident and the issues being agi-

Nawaz, Shahbaz discuss political situationGovt to initiate dialogue with political forces to defeat conspiracies

tated by the opposition po-litical parties to destabilizethe government.

The two high-ups ex-pressed confidence andvowed to implement a re-port prepared by a judicialcommission formed toprobe into the Model Townincident which left near adozen people dead and $scores injured in Lahoretwo weeks ago.

It was reportedly de-cided in the meeting that

the government would initiate contacts with all thepolitical parties and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dur-

ing his visit to Sindh next week would meet PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari. On the occasion, PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif said that those indulging in anti-democratic activities including long march were fol-lowing an agenda to deny Pakistan of developmentand prosperity but the government would not allowthem to succeed. He said that democracy and everyinstitution would be strengthened.

He said that the nation needs unity in the wake ofongoing military operation against terrorists but un-fortunately certain elements were involved in politicsof violence for political gains.

He said people have given five year mandate toPML-N and asked the opposition parties to wait fornext elections. According to reports, the PM and CMShahbaz have welcomed non-attendance of APC byPPP and ANP. —INP

MUZAFFAR ALI

LAHORE—The ‘All Party Conference’(APC) held on Sunday under the aegis ofPakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) demandedresignation of the Chief Minister PunjabShahbaz Sharif, several provincial ministersand officials over recent Model Town may-hem, when at eleven activists of PAT weregunned down by the Punjab police.

The joint declaration of the APC de-manded formation of a 3-member judicialcommission comprising Supreme Court’ssenior judges to conduct impartial andtransparent inquiry of the incident withmandate of summoning the prime ministerand the chief minister.

It termed the Model Town carnage ofJune 17 as the worst example of state ter-rorism. The APC rejected theFIR lodged by the police andasked the concerned au-thority to lodge the FIR on the applicationsubmitted by PAT with the Faisal Townpolice station.

The declaration said incident of ModelTown wouldn’t have been possible with-out orders of CM Punjab.

The declaration also demanded a jointinvestigation team comprising senior andwell reputed officials of ISI, MI, IB and othercivil law enforcement agencies.

The joint declaration further demanded

APC demands SC judgesprobe Model Town incidentRejects FIR lodged by police Wants

resignation of Shahbaz Sharif, othersthe government to dismiss Inspector Gen-eral Punjab (IG Punjab), Chief Capital Po-lice Officer (CCPO) and DIG Operation andarrest them on the charges of anti-terror-ism. The declaration further asked for thesuspension of Chief Secretary, District Co-ordination Officer (DCO) besides their de-tention after registering criminal casesagainst them.

The APC vowed to extend full supportto Pakistan Army in Operation Zarb-e-Azbagainst terrorist in North Waziristan. Theparticipants of the APC also announced toextend their complete support for internallydisplaced persons (IDPs).

Major political parties, including Paki-stan People Peoples (PPP), Awami NationalParty (ANP) and Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S), had refused to attend the con-

ference. However, PakistanMuslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q), Muttahida

Qaumi Movement (MQM), Jamaat-e-Islamiand Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) at-tended the moot. Representatives of SheikhRasheed’s Awami Muslim LeagueMusharraf ’s APML, Pakistan MuslimLeague (Like-minded), Pakistan MuslimLeague-Functional (PML-F), Majlis-e-Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM), SunniIttehad Council (SIC), Hazara Movementand other parties were also present. The

There should be no politickingon human tragedy: PR

NEW DELHI—Western govern-ments are rushing to visit India´snew Prime Minister NarendraModi, drawn by the prospect ofmulti-billion-dollar deals as thegovernment prepares to open thenascent defence industry to for-eign investment.

Senior politicians fromFrance, the United States andBritain arrive in quick successionover the next 10 days as Modiprepares to accelerate themodernisation of the country´smostly Soviet-era weaponry.

Modi intends to build upIndia´s military capabilities andgradually turn the world´s larg-

Modi’s war hysteria opens defence industry to foreign investmentEyes on defence deals, Western powers rush to court India

est arms importerinto a heavyweightmanufacturer - agoal that haseluded every primeminister since inde-pendence in 1947.On the table is aproposal circu-lated within thenew governmentto raise caps onforeign investment- with one option toallow complete for-eign ownership of some defenceprojects.

“All the countries are trying

to make their case,especially as thereis the sense that theIndian market willundergo a shift,”said Harsh Pant,professor of inter-national relationsat King´s CollegeLondon. “They geta sense from theirdealings that some-thing dramatic isgoing to happenand they want first-

mover advantage,” said Pant,who specialises in Indian de-fence.

First to arrive in New Delhiwill be French Foreign MinisterLaurent Fabius, whose top prior-ity is to close a stalled deal to sellIndia 126 Rafale fighter jets, builtby Dassault Aviation , for an es-timated $15 billion.

Fabius, who arrives on Mon-day, will meet Modi as well as hismost powerful minister, ArunJaitley, who holds the twin port-folios of defence and finance -and can therefore decide bothwhether to sign the deal and whento release the money.

U.S. Senator John McCain isalso due in India next week.McCain, whose Arizona constitu-

ency includes weapons makerssuch as Boeing and Raytheon,told the Senate on

Thursday that Washingtonshould seek to bolster India´seconomic and military rise.

“This is an area where U.S.defence capabilities, technolo-gies, and cooperation - especiallybetween our defence industries -can benefit India enormously, “McCain said of India´s drive tomodernise the armed forces.

In the second week of July,Britain is likely to send in ForeignSecretary William Hague and fi-nance minister George Osborne,

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TARIQ SAEED

PESHAWAR—With the operation Zarb-e-Azb entering fifteenth day , the PakistanAir Force in fresh strikes on Sunday killedat least sixteen more alleged terrorists onSunday besides destroying seven militantshideouts in North Waziristan agency wherecurfew remained clamped.

On the other hand there was no end tothe miseries of NWA IDPs who were ob-serving first of Ramazan on Sunday yet hadto stand in long queues in the scorchingheat to obtain little bit food.

The Operation Zarb-e-Azb, it may berecalled, was initiated exactly two weeksback (Sunday) in the North Waziristanagency against the insurgents challengingthe writ of the government since long.While more than 100 militants were moweddown in the first day’s blitz, till date over360 militants have been killed in air strikesas well as ground operation that was even-tually kicked off a couple of days back.

In the meanwhile the mass exodus ofthe civil population from NWA also contin-ued and more than 470000 people have mi-grated to the safer places mostly in Bannu,Tank, and DI Khan etc.

According to the information gatheredthrough the military’s Public Relations wing

Sixteen more mowed downas Zarb-e-Azb advances

No end to miseries of IDPsthe jet planes pounded the militants hide-outs in the outskirts of Tehsil Mir Ali of NWAand destroyed seven hideouts of the insur-gents that led to killing of sixteen miscre-ants. Besides, huge amount of ammunitionwas also destroyed during the air strikes’“sixteen militants were killed in freshairstrikes in North Waziristan Agency onSunday as Zarb-e-Azb operation is pro-gressing as per the plan” The Inter ServicesPublic Relations ISPR said in a communiqué

The North Waziristan agency contin-ued to be under the umbrella of curfew onSunday as the Internally Displaced Personsobserved their first fast. They were, how-ever, reportedly seen standing in longqueues for hours in scorching summer heatwaiting to obtain their rations. IDPs saidthat living in tents in hot humid weatherthey are very much missing their own sweethomes especially at the advent of Ramzan-ul-Mubarak.

The affected persons said though cur-few is imposed in the region, there are stillpeople besieged in some areas demandingfrom the government to ensure the com-plete evacuation of the stranded people.The people also complained of poor distri-bution of the ration as well as non-receiptof the compensation amount, as announcedby the government, till date.

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ISLAMABAD—Federal Minister for Informa-tion, Broadcasting and National HeritageSenator Pervaiz Rashid said on Sundaythere should be no politicking on the ModelTown incident, which was actually a hu-man tragedy.

The participants of so-called all partiesconference on the issue were the remnantsof dictator Pervez Musharraf and creatingproblems in the country to save him, hesaid while talking to various news chan-nels. The minister said they were only do-ing politics on dead bodies as they had noother issue.

He assured that those involved in theModel Town tragedy would be brought tobook at all costs. The Punjab governmentasked its law minister to tender resignationto ensure a free and fair inquiry into theincident, he added.

The minister questioned that whetherPervez Elahi asked his brother (ChaudhryShujaat Hussain), the then interior minis-ter, to resign after Lal Masjid incident.

He said most of the APC leaders did not

believe in law and the Constitution. Theywanted disruption and violence to create an-archical situation in the country. “Did they

ever demanda resignationf r o mM u s h a r r a f ,the thenpresident, af-ter Lal Masjidand May 12,2007 trag-edies?” heasked.

Hesaid therewas no harmin reconstitu-

tion of the judicial commission probing theModel Town incident, if law permitted, buthe believed that the Pakistan AwamiTehreek would continue protest as this wastheir sole objective.

The government would implement the

Delhi mayhouse SaarcheadquartersNEW DELHI—PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’semphasis on buildingrelations with the coun-tries of South AsianAssociation for RegionalCooperation (Saarc) is setto get a major boost, withthe government planningto build a multi-storeyedheadquarters for Saarc inNew Delhi.

Speaking to TOI,minister of state for homeKiren Rijiju said the homeministry has alreadyidentified and shortlisted afew properties in the

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Two soldiersinjured inPeshawar

rocket attacksSTAFF REPORTER

PESHAWAR—Two soldierswere injured when four rock-ets landed inside the Can-tonment area in Peshawar inthe early hours of Sunday.

According to the police,the target was apparentlyBacha Khan InternationalAirport.

However, all four rocketshit adjacent areas while onerocket landed inside a brigadeoffice, leaving two soldiersinjured. “There is evidencethat all the four rockets werefired from Ghundi AfghanRefugee Camp located in thejurisdiction area of Tehkalpolice station as opposed tothe previous practice of tar-geting the airport fromSarband, Pishtakhara andSuleman Khel,” a police offi-cial told media.

“This is a new develop-ment indeed,” added thepolice official. He said bothwounded soldiers wererushed to the CombinedMilitary Hospital wheretheir condition was said tobe stable.

Restrictions onforeigners’ visaextension lifted

RIYADH—Foreigners livingin Saudi Arabia will nolonger have to worry abouttheir visas as relatives ofexpatriate workers who arecurrently on a visit to theKingdom can have theirfamily visit visas renewedfor the rest of the year upondirectives issued by InteriorMinister Prince Mohammedbin Naif.

Maj. Gen. Sulaiman Al-Yahya, director-general ofpassports, clarified thatwhile the restriction hasbeen removed, visitors

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Double Dutchlate showfloors MexicoFORTALEZA—TheNetherlands scored twicein the dying minutesthrough Wesley Sneijderand a Klaas Jan Huntelaarpenalty to move into thequarter-finals of the WorldCup with a 2-1 win overMexico on Sunday.

In a match conditionedby the baking heat andhumidity in Fortaleza,Giovani dos Santos lookedto have Mexico on the wayto their first quarter-finalappearance on foreign soilwhen he opened thescoring three minutes intothe second-half.

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Terroristsattack van, fourpassengers killedOUR CORRESPONDENT

KOHAR—Four personslost their lives after apassenger van came undera fire attack in the subur-ban area of Kohat onSunday. Three kids andtwo women of a familysustained injuries in whatis said to be an act ofterrorism.

Two terrorists openedfire on the pick up van enroute to Khyber Agencyfrom Kohat here at Kuchai

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FAISALABAD: State Minister of Water and Power Ch Abid Sher Ali and DCO Noor ul Amin Mengal examing theprice and quality of essential commodities during visit of Ramazan Bazaar at Riaz Shahid Chowk Islam Nagar.

KHYBER AGENCY: Lt Col Shahzad Munir distributing the school uniform among girlstudents.

Ramazansecurity planfor mosques

FAISALABAD—The policedepartment has released asecurity plan for mosques inthe district to provide secu-rity cover to avert any unto-ward incident during themonth of Ramazan ulMubarik.

A spokesman of the po-lice department told here onSunday that there are total650 mosques and worshipplaces including 392mosques of Ahle Sunnat walJamaat, 127 of Deobandisect, 185 of Ahle Hadis sect,135 of Ahle Tashhi sect and11 of Qadiyani. Out of them,69 mosques and worshipplaces were declared in cat-egory-A, 72 of category-Band remaining 509 of cat-egory-C.

He said that 730 policeofficials have been deputedto perform security duty atmosques and worshipplaces.

These security officialsinclude 579 constables, 83head constables, 30 Assis-tant Sub Inspectors (ASIs),20 Sub Inspectors (SIs), 19Inspectors, 13 Deputy Su-perintendents Police(DSPs) and 5 Superinten-dents Police (SPs), headded.—APP

HYDERABAD: A vendor displaying different spices at his shop to attract the customers.

Gang of dacoits killthree including2 real brothers

MANDI BAHAUDDIN—Agang comprising 7 dacoitskilled three persons includ-ing two brothers and injuredthree including a woman inthe precincts of Police Sta-tion Qadirabad.

According to details inJassowal, a village locatedon border of Sargodha dis-trict 7 bandits attempted toloot residents of differentDeras and when the inhab-itants offered resistance thedacoits fired on them.

As result Nasar Iqbal,Zafar Iqbal, both real brotherand Inayat died on the spotwhile Noor Muhammad,Fateh Muhammad and hiswife Bashiran sustained bul-let injuries.

Police reached the spotand moved the dead bodiesto Tehsil Headquarters Hos-pital Phalia whereas the in-jured were evacuated to Ru-ral Health Centre BhekhoMor for treatment. Police af-ter registering case startedsearch for the dacoits.—INP

MULTAN—Managing Director OverseasPakistanis Foundation (OPF) Iftikhar Babarhas said that remittances will be reached toUS$ 15 billion by the end of fiscal year 2013-14.

Talking to APP, he said that a total of627,000 Pakistanis were working in abroadwhile the demand of Pakistani workers wasrising in Qater, Saudi Arabia and othercountries of Middle East. He claimed thatskilled Pakistani workers would generatehandsome foreign exchange in comingyears.

Iftikhar Babar said the government hadalso enhanced budget for Overseas Paki-stanis from Rs 60 million to Rs 100 millionduring the fiscal year 2014-15.

He informed that 681 Overseas Paki-stanis applicants would be provided withwelfare fund and each would get Rs 150,000.

‘Remittances to reach$15b by end of fiscal year’

He stated that OPF was establishingnew technical training centres to equippeople with latest skill and work techniquesand agreements with reputed institutionwere being inked in this connection.

Iftikhar Babar claimed that a technicaltraining institution constructed by the OPFin Multan would start its working very soon.

He said that a total of 23 schools andtwo colleges of OPF were providing qualityeducation to kids of overseas Pakistanisbesides local children.

He informed that 17000 kids were ac-quiring education from these schools. Apartfrom this, 12 housing schemes comprising11000 plots were also being developed.

The MD OPF said that complaint cellshave also been set-up at OPF centres tofacilitate the families of Overseas Paki-stanis.—APP

126 policeofficials

deputed inRamazan BazaarsFAISALABAD—As many as126 police officials havebeen deputed to ensure se-curity at Ramzan Bazaars inthe district during the holymonth of Ramzan-ul-Mubarik.

A spokesman of the po-lice department told here onSunday that the local admin-istration has set up 19 RamzanBazaars throughout the dis-trict.

The police departmenthas deputed 76 con-stables, 19 lady con-stables, 19 Assistant SubInspectors (ASIs), 10 SubInspectors (SIs) and 2 in-spectors at Ramzan Ba-zaars in order to providefoolproof security to thevisi tors of Ramzan Ba-zaars.

The spokesman furthertold that area DSPs andSPs have also been di-rected to conduct randomchecking of the securi tyofficials at Ramzan Ba-zaars where walk throughgates have also been in-stalled besides providingmetal detectors to the se-curity officials for a thor-ough checking of visi-tors.—APP

FESCO sets upcomplaint cell

FAISALABAD—FaisalabadElectric Supply Company(FESCO) has set up a Com-plaint Cell in the office ofFESCO Chief Executive Of-ficer (CEO) to redress publiccomplaints regarding loadshedding during Sehar, Iftarand Taraveeh times.

A spokesman of theFESCO told here on Sundaythat no load shedding wouldbe carried out during Sehar,Iftar and Taraveeh.

In this connection, spe-cial teams have also beenformed in all four circles ofthe FESCO besides settingup a complaint cell to redressthe public complaint regard-ing electricity load shed-ding.

He said that Chief Execu-tive Officer (CEO) FESCOKhursheed Aalam will re-main available in the com-plaint cell during Sehar timefrom 2am to 4am and Iftar/Taravih times from 7pm to11pm daily to listen to thepublic complaints positivelyand issue orders for immedi-ate redressal.

The complaint cell canbe contacted through tele-phone numbers 041-9220613, 041-9220614 and041-9220615 whereas specialteam members would be con-tacted through mobilephone numbers 0345-1500411, 0345-1500412 and0345-1500413, spokesmanadded.—APP

FAISALABAD—State Minister for Water andPower Ch.Abid Sher Ali said the govern-ment had made elaborated arrangements forproviding daily-use items to consumers atlow rates during Ramazan.He was visitinga Ramazan bazaar to check prices, qualityand availability of vegetables, fruit, pulsesand other items on Sunday.

DCO Noor ul Amin Mengal, AssistantCommissioner(AC) City Shafi Khan, Chair-

PESHAWAR—Khyber PakhutunkhawaChief Minister, Pervez Khattak Sun-day directed the authorities to achieve100% targets of the developmentschemes for uplift and beautificationof Peshawar.

The chief minister was talking togovernment officials and media per-sons on the occasion of the founda-tion stone laying ceremonies of twoimportant projects including expan-sion of Peshawar Ring Road and con-struction of new vast bridge onBudhni Nullah on Charsadda Road.

He said “We will have to work alland sundry to revive the past glory ofthis historical city being the gatewayof central Asia having rich cultural andaesthetic heritage”.

He said that tenders for PeshawarMass Transit have been floated andpractical work on the mega project willstart after Eid ul Fiter.

The completion of the project, heasserted, besides resolving the gravetraffic mess in the city will multiply theenvironmental beauty of the city toattract tourists across the world.

Minister for Mineral Developmentand Focal Person for Peshawar MegaProjects, Ziaullah Afridi, Minister forLocal Government & Rural Develop-ment Inayatullah, Director GeneralPeshawar Development Authority(PDA) Mohammad Saleem Khan, Di-rector Engineering Aminuddin,Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority(PHA) MD,Javed Ehsan, Director Con-struction Engineer Mohammad Uzair,Administration MCP Rasheed AhmadKhan and other higher authorities ofPDA and PHA were present on theoccassion.

The chief minister said that aftersuccessful holding of All Parties Con-ference (APC) on the IDPs of NorthWaziristan, the government on theproposal of the participants has de-cided to convene another APC forRegional Peace.

He said, besides, all politicians andparliamentary leaders, former chiefministers, governors and members ofthe parliament would also be invitedto the conference.

On this occasion, the chief minis-ter was told that the beautification andextension of the four-kilometer PirZakori Bridge to Charsadda Road In-tersection of the Ring Road will costabout Rs 90 million and the PDA willcomplete it within a period of eightmonths.

The project included the expan-sion of one more lane on both sidesof Ring Road to extend it to threelanes of each side, construction oftwo important bridges and installa-tion of solar lights.

Similarly, the new tall and widebridge on Budhni Nullah will be con-structed by Pakhtunkhwa HighwayAuthority (PHA) at the cost of Rs150 million within a period of sixmonths.

It would also be protected from thefloods. Furthermore, Mufti MehmoodFlyover to Landay Sarak Road Sectionof the Charsadda Road will also beexpanded at the cost of Rs 150 million.

The chief minister directedPeshawar Development Authority foracceleration of the pace of work on Rs700 million Charsadda Road Intersec-tion Flyover and remaining sectionsto Pajgai Road and forward to Regi

Township and Jamrud Road.He said the process of implemen-

tation has been started and every de-partment would have to give candidresults.

He said that the excuse of the lackof resources will not affect the avail-ability of funds for any developmentplan.

He said that Peshawar was a cityof the flowers and gardens and its his-tory and old cultural glory will be re-stored at any cost.

During both ceremonies the chiefminister directed the authorities forbringing more improvement in the de-velopment schemes.

On this occasion, departments andauthorities briefed the chief ministeron the progress, development andbeautification plans prepared for thecity. He was told about the rehabilita-tion and expansion of the city roadsincluding the conversion of KarkhanoMarket to Hayatabad Phase-III Inter-section into four-lanes and construc-tion of 19-feet service road on bothsides of Ring Road and its remainingPajagai Road to Warsak Road andmerger of the service road on G.T.Road to Hayatabad.

All bargains and show-rooms fromthe city including University Road willbe shifted to a suitable vast piece ofland outside the city. The officers ofnation building departments assuredthe chief minster that they will workround the clock even during the holymonth of Ramazan to givePeshawarites a different and changedbeautiful city as soon as possible andmay be after Eid and before the Inde-pendent day celebrations.—APP

CM lays foundation oftwo mega projects

Daily-use items to sell at lowrates: Abid

man Market Committee Akbar Ali Gauri andother officials were also present.

The minister also interacted with shop-pers and enquired about arrangements,quality of commodities and prices.

He lauded efforts of the district admin-istration for organizing Ramazan bazaarsand said that Sahulat Bazaars were an ap-preciable step of DCO Noorul Amin Mengalwhich would help facilitate people.—APP

MUZAFFARGARH—District CoordinationOfficer (DCO), Shaukat Ali has directed theAssistant Commissioners to visit theRamazan bazaars set-up in their respectivetehsils regularly to address the grievancesof consumers.

He directed this during his visit to vari-ous Ramazan bazaars at Kot Addu, Chaowk

Strict action againsthoarders directed

Sarwar Shaheed and Sanawan here on Sun-day.

Shaukat Ali ordered Price controlmagistrates to monitor the prices of com-modities at Ramazan bazaars and openmarket on daily basis and took strict ac-t ion against hoarders and stockist .—APP

One person allowedreceiving, seeingoff passengersSTAFF REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—Keeping inview the present securitysituation at the PCAA Air-ports, Pakistan Civil Avia-tion Authority has decidednot to allow more than one(01) person for the purposeof seeing off passengerswith effect from 6th Similarly,only one person from thefamily / friends will be al-lowed to visit airports forreceiving the passengers.

After this date, access tothe Terminal Building willnot be allowed to more thanone person for seeing off /receiving the passengers bythe security personnel, de-ployed at the airports.

Environment Depttofficers asked to completeanti-dengue arrangements

LAHORE—Punjab Minister for Environment Col (R) ShujaKhanzada has directed the officers of Environment depart-ment to complete anti-dengue arrangements before mon-soon season and accelerate the ongoing public awarenesscampaign against dengue.

He issued these instructions while presiding over ahigh level meeting, here Sunday. Secretary EnvironmentMuhammad Anwar Rasheed, Director General EnvironmentFarooq Hameed Sheikh and officers of Environment De-partment from all over the province attended the meeting.

The Minister said that all officers should ensure 100percent implementation on precautionary measures issuedby the government against dengue. He said that elimina-tion of dengue virus was a national obligation which can-not be overcome without cooperation of the people. Hesaid that all officers should complete all arrangements be-fore monsoon season so that this fatal disease could bechecked. He said that the officers showing negligence re-garding anti-dengue will not be spared and zero tolerancepolicy would be implemented against them.—APP

Imran getting desperate,needs to bring changefirst in KP: Abid Sher

FAISALABAD—Minister of state for water and Power AbidSher Ali has said that the PML-N can hold big public meet-ings as it has more workers than the PTI and asked ImranKhan to first fulfill the slogan of change in KhyberPakhtoonkhwa.

Talking to media here on Sunday, Abid Sher Ali saidthat instead of extending help to the IDPs, Imran Khanwas holding public meetings to garner support.

He said the PTI leader should pay attention to educa-tion, health and law and order in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.He said the PTI leader was getting desperate to becomeChief Executive but he will have to wait for next electionswhere only people would have the final say.

Abid Sher Ali said Imran Khan feels proud while trav-eling in London buses but he criticizes Metro bus projectwhich is aimed at facilitating the common man.—INP

NA contestant forlast electionsAkhtar Abbasigunned down

SUKKUR—Akkhtar Abbasi,who contested polls fromNA-198 constituency dur-ing last year’s general elec-tion as independent candi-date, has been shot dead inSukkur.

The police said on Sun-day that the incident hap-pened in Regent Colonyhere on Saturday eveningwhere unknown assailantsgunned him down. Accord-ing to hospital sources,Abbasi received a bullet inthe head that caused hisdeath.

The police said that thefamily of the deceased hasnot contacted them for le-gal action on the murder.However, they have regis-tered a case and started in-vestigation, policeadded.—INP

TOBA TEK SINGH—A young woman wasburnt to death in Toba Tek Singh’s Chak296-GB village by her suitor over rejectionof his marriage proposal. Police claimed tohave taken the suspect into custody alongwith the petrol canister used in the attack.

The suspect, identified as 22-year-oldMalik Fayyaz, was moved to an undisclosedlocation for further investigations.

The incident occurred when the youngsuspect visited the residence of the victimwith his marriage proposal, according to thegirl’s family members who added that theproposal was turned down, upon which thesuspect got enraged and lit the girl on fireafter sprinkling petrol on her.

According to some reports, the attacker

Woman burnt to death in TobaTek Singh by rejected suitor

threw acid on the girl before setting her onfire. The girl was shifted to District Head-quarters Hospital in critical condition whereshe succumbed to her wounds during treat-ment.

Family-members staged protests de-manding a post-mortem and justice for thedeceased and also claimed that the suspecthad been warned several times in the pastover eve-teasing incidents with the victim.

Area residents said that the suspect hadalso had an altercation with the victim’sbrother, a day earlier, over harassment is-sues. Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharifhas taken notice of the incident and soughtreport from district administration and lo-cal police.—INP

Over Rs 203mdisbursed among IDPs

PESHAWAR—A total of 203 million rupees have been dis-bursed among 8,500 internally displaced persons of NorthWaziristan.

FATA Disaster Management Authority told State Ra-dio that each registered displaced family is being given acash assistance of 20,000 rupees.

In addition, 20,000 rupees are also being given to eachfamily as Ramazan package, as directed by the prime min-ister.

The sources said four centres have been set up inBannu where IDPs are being provided cooked food.

Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has re-leased 114.6 million rupees to provide healthcare to IDPsin Bannu and adjoining districts. Official sources said thatrequired number of doctors, paramedic, and medicines havebeen arranged for the IDPs.—INP

70-bed TayyipErdogan Trust Hospitalto offer free treatment

MUZAFFARGARH—Equipped with latest facilities, TayyipErdogan Trust Hospital would offer free treatment to pa-tients.

The 70-bed hospital has been completed by TurkishInternational Corporation and Coordination Agency(TIKA). Located some six kilometres away from here onDG Khan Road, the hospital spanned over an 18 canalpiece of land allocated by Punjab government, said anofficial source on Sunday.

He added the hospital had been named after TurkishPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Construction workon the hospital had started in 2012 which was completedwithin two years, the source said.

The Punjab government earmarked Rs 2 billion for theextension of the hospital from 70 to 500 beds for 2014-15fiscal year.

The hospital has four storeys which include emer-gency ward, OPD, surgical ward, medical ward, ENT ward,cardiac ward, dental ward, blood bank, pediatric ward,gynae ward, laboratory, operation theatres and generalwards.

Ten professors, 50 MOs, 102 paramedics and 83 adminstaff have been recruited for the hospital. CCTV camerashave been installed in the hospital for security.

Headed by Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad NawazSharif, the hospital would be run under a board of man-agement comprising Director Indus Hospital Karachi, DrAbdul Barri, Chairman board of management Nishtar

Medical Institute Multan, Khawaja Jalal-u-Din Romiand Dr Tasman Ibne-e Raza.

The Punjab government will extend financial assis-tance annually while philanthropists would also be en-couraged to provide financial support to run the hospi-tal, he said.—APP

Academic Councilapproves Seraiki

department inGomal varsity

D.I KHAN—The meeting ofGomal University’s Aca-demic Council chaired byVice Chancellor, Prof. DrMuhammad Inayat Ullahhere approved the establish-ment of Seraki Departmentin university.

Publicity Officer of Uni-versity, Muhammad Fazal-ur-Rehamn told Sunday thatthe meeting took variousdecisions of significant im-portance that would notonly bring remarkablechanges in educational andresearch activities butwould also enhance the ex-isting capabilities of stu-dents studying in the uni-versity.

He said that academiccouncil has approved thepost graduate classes ofSeraki in the university add-ing necessary directives havebeen issued to the concernedfor starting the classes inSeptember this year.

He informed that meet-ing also concurred to bringparity in educational systemand approved preparing ofUniversity’s Academic Cal-endar. He said that the meet-ing also abolished tests ofNational Testing Service foradmissions in M Phil andPhD classes and decided toconduct entry test for thesaid classes through a ques-tionnaire compiled by theuniversity.—APP

BASHIR AHMAD REHMANI

HAFIZABAD—Outgoing District and SessionsJudge Mushtaq Ahmad Tarar has declared thatmutual coordination between Bar and Bench wasinevitable for dispensation of justice.

Addressing farewell reception given in hishonour by the DBA Hafizabad he said that Barand Bunch always played their vital role in miti-gating the difficulties of the litigants. He saidthat struggle by the lawyers for the rule of law,protection of the constitution and restoration ofjudges of the apex courts remained unique. Nowit was bounden duty of the judges to guide thelitigants for speedy dispensation of justice. Heappreciated the DBA Hafizabad for their coordi-nation with him during his stay in Hafizabad,which, he said, will be long remembered.

DCO Mansoor Qadir said that lawyers al-ways played vital role for the dispensation ofthe justice to the litigants and their struggle forthe restoration of judges of apex courts hasraised their image. President DBA Abid FayyazTarar and General Secretary Malik Nazakat AliPhularwan praised the outgoing D & SJ for hiscooperation with the Bar.

Prominent among those who were alsopresent at the function included acting District& Sessions Judge Malik Khizar Hayat Khan,Senior Civil Judge Syed Akleem Raza and largenumber of members of DBA Hafizabad.

****Ramazan Sasta Bazar has started function-

ing and beside the bazaars ten sales/fair priceshops have been set up in Hafizabad, Pindi

Bar, Bench coordination must for dispensation of justiceBhattian, Vanike Tarar, Kaleke Mandi, SukhekeMandi and Jalalpur Bhattian where wheat flourof ten kgs bag would be made available at Rs.330/- per bag while 20 kg bag at Rs. 660/- perbag.

According to the District Administration1912 bags would be supplied daily under theRamazan Package at the sale points and RamazanBazars in the district.

****Pakistan Army has set up relief camp in the

children park Hafizabad for collection of dona-tions in cash and kind for the provision of assis-tance to the IDPs of North Waziristan.

In this connection higher army officers ofGujranwala Cantt. visited Hafizabad and an-nounced the setting up of a relief camp inHafizabad. They appealed to the philanthropistsand God fearing people to ensure maximum do-nations for helping the IDPs during their hoursof distress.

They said that they have migrated from NorthWaziristan for the sake of Pakistan and it wasthere religious and national duty to provide themmaximum assistance regarding their food andlodging. The army officers also held detailedmeeting with the DCO Mansoor Qadir and headsof other departments.

Meanwhile, all employees of district abovegrade-16 have donated one day salary for theIDPs, DCO said here.

Different religious organizations includingJamat-ud-Dawa and NGOs have also startedcolleting donations for the IDPs. Most of thelocal Ulema during their sermons have also called

upon the people to donate for the IDPs and haveprayed for the success of Army Operation againstthe terrorists in North Waziristan.

****The district police have made foolproof se-

curity arrangements for providing protection tothe citizens particularly at Sehri, Iftari andTaraveeh timings, DPO Muhammad ZubairDreshak said here.

While addressing the meeting of membersof peace committee, office bearers of traders,religious and political workers he said that Islamteaches us the lesson of tolerance, love, affec-tion and sacrifices and the holy month ofRamazan-ul-Mubrik was blessings of AlmightyAllah. He sought the cooperation of all and sun-dry to cooperate with the law enforcing agen-cies for maintaining peace and tranquility dur-ing the holy month of Ramazan.

****Tutors of Allama Iqbal Open University were

assets of the country as they were playing theirvital role in spreading knowledge and promot-ing education in the country, Dr. MuhammadAnees Regional Director AIOU Gujranwala saidhere.

Addressing a gathering of tutors here inGovernment High School No. 2 Hafizabad hedistributed files of examination assignment ofMatriculation, F.A., B.A., M.A. and M.Ed. totutors. He said that AIOU was second largestuniversity in the country which was promotingeducation and added that this university hasprovided education to 1.5 million students in thecountry.

Six killed,seven injured in

roof collapseSIALKOT—A women andfive children were killedwhile seven others injuredwhen the roof of a housecollapsed near here on Sat-urday. According to Res-cue 1122, the incident tookplace in rain at Gujar Townwhere the roof of a dilapi-dated house suddenlycaved in.

As a result, 13 peoplewere trapped under the de-bris.

On information, Rescueteam reached the spot andrecovered six bodies, in-cluding a woman and fivechildren, while seven in-jured were shifted to theCivil Hospital.

The identity of the vic-tims and injured could notbe ascertained yet.—APP

People in tribalagencies

observe faston Sunday

PE S H AWA R /KA R A C H I—People of Bajaur, Waziristanand Hangu district ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa areobserving fasting Sundayfollowing announcement ofan unofficial moon-sightingcommittee.

Controversy sur-rounded Ramadan moon-sighting this year too, as theunofficial moon-sightingcommittee announced itsdecision contrary to that ofcentral Ruet-e-Hilal Commit-tee.

“The committee is unani-mous that first Ramadan willfall on Monday as no evi-dence of the sighting of alunar crescent was receivedfrom any part of the coun-try until the setting of themoon”, Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman, Chairman CentralRuet-e-Hilal Committee, tolda press conference inKarachi after committee’smeeting at Pakistan Meteo-rological Department(PMD) camp office.

Contrary to this, an un-official committee after afour-hour long meeting,held at Peshawar’s MasjidQasim Ali Khan under thechair of Mufti ShahabudinPopalzai, late on Saturdaynight announced the moonhas been sighted in KhyberPakhtunKhwa.

“We have received doz-ens of credible moon-sight-ing reports from variousparts of the province, hencewe are marking Ramazanfrom Sunday”, said MuftiPopalzai.

Meanwhile, many north-ern tribal territories have an-nounced to follow the suitof Saudi Arabia, whereRamadan starts on Sunday.

Reports said people ofBajaur, Waziristan andHangu district of KPK areobserving fasting Sun-day.—NNI

STAFF REPORTER

KARACHI—“The Armed Forces of Pakistanare the country’s first line of defense andmust be given due respect for their role.”This was stated by Syed Jawaid Iqbal, Chair-man, Moderates, a private sector Think Tankstrengthening, Tolerance, Inter-faith Har-mony and Democracy.

Jawaid Iqbal said that as the first line ofdefense, the Armed Forces were makingunprecedented sacrifices to defend bothPakistan’s physical as well as ideologicalfrontiers and must be treated with supremelove and respect by all countrymen for per-forming this thorny duty.

There was a certain trend, Jawaid Iqbalobserved, of unnecessarily draggingArmed Forces personnel into political de-bate in the media, which was simply un-called for and served to dilute their primefunction as defenders of the country.

He said the Armed Forces werePakistan’s largest, most organized and well-trained group of patriotic and selfless indi-viduals who were fighting day and night tobring peace to the nation which was facingboth by external and internal threats. They

Armed Forces deserve duerespect as first line of defence

are sacrificing their comfort and are layingdown their lives to defend the motherlandand need to be accorded unqualified andparamount esteem and admiration for theirextraordinary mission.

Jawaid Iqbal said that the Armed Forceshad always played their due role in com-bating the enemy in wartime and in helpingwith natural calamities during peace time.They were deployed to valiantly defend thefrontiers of Pakistan in wars; they success-fully undertook operations against terror-ists; and they were always in the forefrontin dealing with natural calamities such asearthquakes and floods.

This is a very difficult time for every-one in the country, Jawaid Iqbal said. SincePakistan has been confronted by the blightof terrorism for many years now, the ArmedForces had stepped forward to help theircountrymen combat this existential threatwith the same valiance and gallantry thatthey are famous for.

Jawaid said he saluted the Armed Forcesand was with all patriotic Pakistanis in ex-tending full commendations, love and re-spect to the soldiers for undertaking a verydifficult and uphill task.

SHEIKHUPURA: Federal Minister for Defence Production, Rana Tanveer Hussain offering ‘dua’ after inauguration of road at Shah Khalid Town.

DASKA: MPA Muhammad Asif Bajwa, DCO Sialkot Iftikhar Ali Sahu and AC Daskaare checking the quality of different items at Sasta Ramazan bazaar.

MULTAN: Girls on their way under an umbrella to protect themselves from directsunlight and scorching heat.

Dry, hot weatherforecast

ISLAMABAD—Mainly hotand humid weather is ex-pected in most parts of thecountry in the next 12 hours.However, rain-thunder-shower may occur at a few

places in Kashmir, Hazara,Rawalpindi, Gujranwala andLahore divisions.

The Meteorological De-partment on Sunday fore-cast partly cloudy/cloudyand windy weather withchances of drizzle earlyMonday morning.

The maximum tempera-ture will remain between 33to 35 degrees Celsius.

The Met Office has fore-cast a dry weather with veryhot condition for the provin-cial capital.

The maximum tempera-ture is likely from 35 to 40Centigrade and the lowestfrom 18 to 22 Centigrade.

The dry weather withvery hot condition has beenforecast for rest of the re-gion.

PR deflatesImran’s charges

INFORMATION Minister Pervaiz Rashid has said that PTI Chief ImranKhan should spend Rs 2 billion to assist internally displaced persons(IDFPs) instead of wasting the money on public rallies. Addressing a

press conference , the Information Minister estimated that the long marchof a million people planned by PTI Chief to Islamabad to get answers to hisfour questions would approximately cost Rs 2 billion which would be asheer wastage of money.

Pervaiz Rashid in his usual soft spoken style deflated the charges oneby one levelled by Imran Khan and in fact the allegations did not appealthe minds of the people. In his usual cool, the Information Minister said itwas he who had asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to make a victoryspeech in the evening of the election day when results of 120 constituen-cies had already been announced by the media and the party workers hadstarted gathering at the PML-N House to congratulate the leadership. TheMinister asserted that it was Imran Khan who had called for holding elec-tions under the supervision of judiciary. Similarly he said Najam Sethi’sname had been proposed by PPP and not by the PMNL-N and all thetransfers in Punjab were made after meeting of the caretaker Chief Min-ister with PTI chief and his consent. In addition he pointed out that thePTI failed to get more than 8% votes in 77 constituencies of the NationalAssembly while it had not fielded any candidate in 100 provincial con-stituencies of Punjab. We strongly believe that all the parties includingPTI should accept the verdict of the people, contribute in the ElectoralReforms Committee of Parliament and come up with recommendationsso that there was no loophole left in the conduct of next general elections.At this point of time instead of wasting energies and resources on publicmeetings, it is of utmost importance that all attention be devoted to theongoing operation against terrorists and the nation should not only dem-onstrate but be seen as one to thwart all the dangers. Rallies and demon-strations like the first announced by PAT chief and now by PTI are diver-sionary tactics and would only damage these parties politically.

Azb Khan born in themidst of Zarb-e-Azb

IN one of the tents in the Bakakhel camp of IDPs in Bannu the firstnewborn boy has been named as Azb Khan. The proud father, 40-year-

old Aziz Khan, who is from Miramshah, the administrative headquartersof North Waziristan said they were considering different names for thechild but after some fellow camp dwellers suggested “Azb Khan” theyreadily agreed to it.

The naming of the Child as Azb Khan, on the desire of the camp in-mates reflects the mood of the valiant and brave IDPs and their love forPakistan and Islam as they identified themselves with the ongoing opera-tion Zarb-e-Azb. Azb was one of the favourite swords of the Holy Prophet(PBUH). The name of the military operation ignited the whole nation andshows that Pakistan has the capacity and will to get out of the challengeswith courage and determination. The father of the child had all the praisefor the Army which he said provided his son and wife with necessary medi-cal facilities and they have no problems in the camp and living comfortably.In our view this lucky child is not the only Azb Khan but all the childrenand youths, old men and women across the country are Azb Khans in thesense that irrespective of cast, colour and creed they stand like a solidrock behind the army to cleanse the terrorists havens. There is a generalrealization among the people that the operation was launched to ensure asecure future for our children like Azb Khan. Our youths and childrenneed not only a peaceful environment but also modern day facilities likequality educational institutions and pens in their hands to build a brightfuture for themselves and not the guns used to kill each other. Once themilitants are wiped out of NWA and other pockets, the government hasalready planned to provide necessary facilities like roads, schools, collegesand hospitals as well as newly constructed houses to the IDPs. We hopethat the IDPs would courageously face few difficulties in the camps for thebright future of their children like Azb Khan.

Attempts to damagePak-Sri Lanka relations

SRI Lanka’s police have arrested key suspects involved in fuelling religious riots and looting, as minority Muslims expressed fears of more

unrest during Ramazan. Police said eight people directly linked to theJune 15 anti-Muslim riots were arrested last week and recovered gemsand jewellery looted from two shops targeted during the violence. Theviolence, which erupted in the coastal resort of Alutgama, spilled overinto the neighbouring international tourist resorts of Beruwala and Bentota.

Sri Lanka’s media and rights groups have accused the police of failingto prevent extremist Buddhist mobs attacking Muslims, who form 10 percent of the country’s 20 million population. The announcement of the latestarrests came as the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, an umbrella group of 48Muslim organisations, petitioned police chief N. K. Illangakoon expressingfears of more violence against their community . Tension has recently beenhigh between the two sides, with Muslims calling on the government toprotect them from hate attacks by Buddhists, and Buddhists accusing minori-ties of enjoying too much influence. We have no doubt that these demonstra-tions are being engineered by the enemies of traditional and historic relationsbetween Sri Lanka and Pakistan and other Muslim countries. This relation-ship is flourishing and gaining depth, which is detrimental to the interests ofenemies of Sri Lanka. Traditionally Buddhists are peace-loving people buttheir sentiments were earlier aroused in Myannmar as well where they killedRohingya Muslims and burnt their houses. Certainly this is the work of en-emies of Sri Lanka and the President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced aninvestigation and said the government will not allow any one to take the lawinto their own hands. At the same time he urged all parties to act in restraint.We would urge the people of Sri Lanka, who are otherwise peace loving andhospitable, including Muslims and Buddhists to understand the complexi-ties of the situation, sinister designs of the perpetrators and demonstratematurity and foil all the conspiracies to create divisions among them.

Pak-EU ties: Post EU Parliament poll

Countdownin

Baghdad

THE clerical hierarchy in Iraqis now calling the shots. Inan unusual interference, and

that too with a time-bound order,Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali Sistanihas called for a new prime minis-ter to be appointed within the nextthree days. In his third consecutivestatement that was read out duringthe Friday sermon, the influentialcleric hoped that by Tuesday keypositions should be agreed, pavingthe way for the newly elected par-liament to meet.

The top jobs are of the presi-dent, the speaker and the primeminister. Though Sistani had urgedNouri Al Maliki to step aside inorder to further the goal of recon-ciliation with aggrieved minorities,it is little known whether the em-battled prime minister will obligeor not. Maliki had already dis-missed claims to form an emer-gency cabinet consisting of stake-holders from across the politicalspectrum, and insists on to con-tinue with his third-term in office.If Sistani’s words fall flat and thepolitical administration in Iraq un-der Maliki opts for defiance, thenit will be an historic contradictionof its sorts with the clergy that is,otherwise, so faithfully obliged.Taking into account the fact that ittook more than 10 months for thesitting government to decide overplum positions before the then par-liament met, a quick-fix solutiondoesn’t seem to be on the cards.That is why, it is feared that anystalemate would not only result inchaos on the administrative sidebut also weaken the security forcesresolve to fight on the intrudingmilitants. The next 72 hours arecrucial as authorities in Baghdadfoment a new political set-up andspell out a strategy to defend Iraq’sterritorial integrity and sover-eignty. With the United States tak-ing a backseat in literally fightingfor Iraq, it’s time for Maliki to seethe bigger picture and act, accord-ingly. — Khaleej Times

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Driversmust

exercisediscipline

duringRamazan

IT’S Ramazan and once againthe Traffic Police have reasonto be concerned. This is the

time of the year when people getparticularly impatient on the roadsand that can lead to dangerous con-sequences for them, as well as forothers. Rash driving in the hoursbefore Iftar has been a trend forsome years now, leading to manyaccidents, injuries and even deaths.

The reasons for this are wellknown — it’s hot, people are fast-ing for longer hours, their bodyreflexes are different and the needto make it on time for Iftar domi-nates over everything else. Butthese reasons do not make rashdriving acceptable. The hours be-tween 4-7pm are particularlyfraught with trouble. But all thiscan be brought under control bypeople preparing for Ramazan,mentally and physically, and fi-nessing their daily schedules. Thisis what is required of them for thistime of the year. The Traffic Po-lice have warned motorists that theviolation of any rules, includingunauthorised parking outsidemosques during prayer times, willattract fines. And this is as it shouldbe. Ramazan is not an excuse toindulge in improper behaviour. Onthe contrary, it asks of everyone tobring out the best in them.— Gulf News

MEDIA WATCH

EVER since its inception in1947, Pakistan has been astrong ally of West under

United States. During the entireperiod of cold war, this relationshipcontinued in a productive manner.European Commission started itscooperation with Pakistan in 1976and made many contributions invarious projects and developmen-tal programmes. In the decade of1980s, the European commissionundertook many infrastructural andsocial developmental projects invarious parts of Pakistan. Theseprojects include; “development ofroads, bridges, a fishing harbourfacility, rural electricity infrastruc-ture, livestock, education, voca-tional training and integrated ru-ral development.” The decade of1990s was even more fruitful inthe context of Pakistan’s relation-ship with Europe. During this de-cade, the European Union mainlyconcentrated more on social sec-tor development, education, hu-man development and environmen-tal management.

During the turbulence period,first decade of 21st century, the EUcontributed in terms of its supportto Pakistan for its dedicated sup-port during war on terror. EU hasbeen forthcoming in its contribu-tion during October 2005 earth-quake and 2010 floods. In a land-mark concession, in December2013, EU granted Pakistan, themuch-awaited duty-free marketaccess under the Generalized Sys-tem of Preference (GSP) plus sta-tus. The concession would enablePakistan for its export to European

Asian century & quest for ‘virtual empires’

RECENT and not so recentevents in the Middle Eastand our region are so con-

fusing that it leaves one in a daze.It is never easy to unravel what goeson in the minds of the powers thatbe. It becomes even more compli-cated when one comes face to facewith a nascent imperial power.Empires are not born nor are theyhatched out of eggs. They ratherevolve over time rather than popout of the bottle like a genie. Giventhe money and fire power of mod-ern technology, it may be possibleto capsule the evolution stage tosome extent, as the world has seento its horror over the past fewyears. Emergence of an empire isone thing; maintaining it quiteanother. It is the latter that repre-sents the difficult part.

As an erstwhile imperialpower, Britain did rather well foritself. In maintaining the BritishEmpire, perhaps the most outstand-ing feature of imperial tactics wasthat of “divide and rule”. The nameof the game was to size up the op-position and then to engineer fis-sures in its ranks to weaken it.While the fragmented oppositionwas up to its neck in internecinequarrels, the imperial power wentabout its dirty business with com-parative ease, unchallenged anduninterrupted. The secret of successwas the colonial masters’ strategyof aligning themselves with one or

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I believe Jews tobe an immensepeople. Not onlyhave theysupplied the worldwith Jesus Christand Karl Marx, butthey have evenindulged in theluxury of followingneither one northe other.

more factions while encour-aging them to underminethose that could have beentheir natural local allies.With the opposition thus atsixes and sevens, they (theImperialists) could devoteall their energies to what-ever it is that the imperial-ists set themselves to do.

As part of the political gamesthat they played in abandon, theBritish colonialists had specializedin using religious and ethnic dividesamong their subjects to further theirown ends. When they felt threat-ened by a populace belonging to acertain religious denomination,they used all tactics to widenschisms within the latter’s ranks.They, at times, even went to the ex-tent of engineering brand new sectsto further sub-divide the already fis-sured society. One finds that Mus-lims were singled out for the thirddegree during the apex of the colo-nial era. There is a lesson to belearnt from all this.

This subject has become rel-evant once again because, accord-ing to the best-informed analysts,brand new ‘Virtual Empires’ are inan advanced stage of evolution. Asan awe-struck world looks on in dis-may, the world’s sole superpower(aided and abetted by its minions)appears to have set its mind on this.There is precious little the small friesat the receiving end can do exceptto grin and bear it. Though the pow-ers that be must surely have workedhard at developing a brand new im-perial concept to adapt it to the de-mands of the twenty-first century, insome ways the planners appear tobe harking back to age-old tactics.

As any novice at the gameshould know, nothing can be morecalamitous than plunging into a

project and then discovering that theseveral loose ends, that should havebeen tied up betimes, are danglingin the air or have suddenly turnedinto festering sores.

Experienced British advisers attheir beck and call notwithstanding,the new ‘virtual empire’ builders doappear to have encountered teethingproblems of some magnitude. Fromall appearance, it would seem thatthey have stepped into a mire ofsorts, extricating themselves out ofwhich appears to be presenting un-expected difficulties.

A dispassionate look at thewhole jolly circus would indicatethat, in their new venture, the newEmpire-builders did take Britishadvice to heart at least in so far asthe tactic of “divide and rule” isconcerned. This tactic was applied,for instance, with varying successin Iraq. The strategy was to play offthe Iraqi Shia Muslims against theSunni Muslims. The Iraqi Shiiteswere used to destroy the Iraqi Sunniresistance. In the past, though, ithad appeared as if Iraqi national-ism had proved strong enough tobridge this schism within theirranks. Alas, no more!

It remains to be seen how wellthe Iraqi religious leaders play theircards. A certain measure of irre-sponsible behaviour can be ex-pected in the sort of stew that Iraqination has been landed into for nofault of its own. But the leadershiphas a responsibility to counsel re-straint. Iraqi nationalism is on testand not for the first time. One canonly wait and see!

Similar tactics were used in Af-ghanistan where the ethnic card wasplayed to devastating effect. It maybe recalled that the ethnic cleavagebetween the majority Pakhtuns andthe minority Tajiks, Uzbecks and

—Peter Ustinov British actor

Union, its twenty-eight memberstates until 2017. This concession isextendable, provided Pakistani ex-ports meet the criterion. Accordingto Ishaq Dar, Pakistani FinanceMinister, the GSP Plus status to Pa-kistan, “will increase our exports by$2 billion per annum.” Indeed, theUnion “accounts for 20% of Paki-stani external trade. Pakistani ex-ports to the EU amounting to •3.4billion, mainly textiles, medicalequipment and leather products)and EU exports to Pakistan amount-ing to •3.8 billion.”

In May 2014, the European Par-liament (EP) held its elections toelect the new Parliament compris-ing 751 members. A total 365 mil-lion voters in 28 EU member coun-tries were eligible to vote while theturnout remained 43.09%. Thesewere important elections in EU’shistory being the first under theLisbon Treaty - 2007, which em-powered Parliament to govern bothEU and Euro Zone (EZ) at par withEuropean Commission (EC). Forthe first time the new Parliamentwould also elect next EC President.The EZ crisis has brought the EUeconomy to central stage in thesepolls. The issue of ‘un-employment’remained yardstick to measure theeffectiveness and sincerity or other-wise of the main contenders.

Nationalist / Euroskeptic partieswon the elections from France andBritain. However, anti-establish-ment parties (far right and hard left)almost doubled their representation.Resultantly, centre-right and centre-left will continue to control morethan half of 751 seats in EU legisla-ture. The centre-right EuropeanPeople’s Party, led by former Lux-embourg PM Jean-Claude Junckeris ahead in elections. The center-leftSocialists, Progressive Alliance of

Socialists and Democrats (S&D),led by outgoing European Parlia-ment President Martin Schulz ofGermany, is in second place with189 seats followed by centrist liber-als, Alliance of Liberals and Demo-crats for European (ALDE) on 64.Anti-immigration and anti globaliza-tion National Front (NF) in Franceemerged as winner and UK Indepen-dent Party (UKIP) defeated PMDavid Cameron’s ConservativeParty, German Chancellor AngelaMerkel conservative bloc emergedstrongest. In Italy PM MatteoRenzi’s Democratic Party, BelgiumFlemish nationalists (NVA), Den-mark anti-immigration far rightDanish Peoples Party, Netherlands’Dutch Freedom Party and Greece’sradical left anti-austerity Syrizamovement won the polls.

Although, the Pak-EU relationare of strategic level, particularly,following the EU-Pakistani Summit-2009, yet, the changing scenario andchange of guards in EU Parliament,may have some impacts on futurePakistani interests with EU. Thereare many concerns on account of therecently granted status of GSP +Scheme. Pakistan is expected to facetough questions on various issuesincluding, HRs, minority rights andjournalists’ safety etc. It is likely thatanti EU populists, leftists and pro-tectionist group may try to suspendPakistan GSP + status. SouthernEurope countries (Italy, France,Greece, Portugal and Spain) will bemore critical towards this status dueto their textile sector pressure. Newwave of malicious propaganda maybe launched against Pakistan onHRs, minorities’, Blasphemy Law,missing persons, women empower-ment and child labour laws. Situa-tions in Balochistan / FATA will alsoget more attention in new Parlia-

ment. Strategic dialogue with EUwill also be seriously tested, as link-age will be drawn with situation inAfghanistan and Pakistan’s rela-tions with India.

Indeed, Pakistan has contrib-uted greatly towards the globalcommunity, particularly; the Eu-rope and US in its entire history.May be it was the Communist con-tainment strategy of west, Sovietinvasion of Afghanistan and thecurrent phase of global war on ter-ror. Despite being skeptical of for-eign agendas, Pakistan played itsrole with honesty and dedication.Pakistan even spoiled its relation-ship with a former super and an-noyed a vast majority of its masses.However, it never lags behind to itsinternational commitments, being avery responsible state. In the waragainst terror, Pakistan lost over52,000 people including 6000 per-sonnel of security forces.

Nevertheless, the State of Pa-kistan now expect its partners; theEU in particular, not to be discrimi-natory towards Pakistan. Pakistanis trying to come out from the men-ace of terrorism and is fighting afull fledge war in various parts ofcountry, particularly NWA. Paki-stan needs support of EU and USin this fight. Politically, Pakistanwould like to continue it good rela-tions with all EU countries. Eco-nomically, Pakistan needs that itsgoods should get enhance access toEU market like GSP plus. Pakistanhas greatest potentials to contrib-ute at the global level. This is onlypossible, once the civilized EU so-ciety has a positive and construc-tive approach towards Pakistan, itsmasses and particularly for the bet-terment of its economy.— The writer is Islamabad-basedanalyst of International Relations.

Hazaras had initially been ex-ploited ruthlessly by the Sovietoccupiers during the nineteeneighties. The Soviets had sidedwith the minority ethnic groups inorder to isolate the Pakhtuns. Postnine/eleven, the Americans optedfor the strategy of extenuating theethnic divide by siding with theessentially anti-Pakhtun NorthernAlliance against the mainlyPakhtun Taliban. It remains to beseen as to how long will this pre-carious perch sustain them.

As history is witness, Afghani-stan has never been an easy coun-try to govern from a central author-ity in Kabul. Real power has alwaysbeen with the warlords around thecountryside. This situation wastransformed for a short period dur-ing the rule of the Taliban, whenAfghanistan briefly exhibited asemblance of a unitary state entity.Now the situation is back to theproverbial ‘square one’.

The world is in for very turbu-lent and somewhat uncertain times.Here, in the Land of the Pure, ouronce much-vaunted strategic geo-political situation is fast becominga millstone around the nation’s col-lective neck Meanwhile, all right-thinking people are hoping andpraying that the mother ship doesnot drift into choppy and unchartedwaters! The time has apparentlycome to brace ourselves and toseparate the grain from the chaff.Those that made hay while the (na-scent imperial) sun shone had bet-ter take a second look at the worldaround them that may collapse anyminute. And let us not forget thatwhen empires – even virtual ones- collapse they take their quislingsdown with them.— The writer is a formerAmbassador of Pakistan.

Khalid SaleemEmail: binwakeel@yahoo.com

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Voice of the People

Injustice &lawlessness

HASHIM ABRO

Pakistani society nowadays is con-fronted with a plethora of giganticproblems and challenges. These in-clude: economic vulnerability, dete-riorating infrastructure, intolerance,extremism, militancy, terrorism, so-cial polarization, moral bankruptcy,unmanaged population, urban blight,massive illegal alien influx, corrup-tion, organized crime, violence, deep-ening energy crisis, environmentaldegradation etc. Above all, it is in-justice and lawlessness.

Lawlessness prevails every-where in the society. It is lawless-ness, which generates all other in-surmountable problems and chal-lenges. Everyone who is at the helmof affairs, in any capacity in thiscountry, lays down his/her ownrules, regulations and policies.What we call “moral values”,which usually keep the societies in-tact, do not hold water in the eyesof such people.

They always try to preach themoral values and the rule of lawpublicly but they themselves be-come the first to break those self-made so-called rules and regula-tions. When they see that the na-tion is confronted with other issuesfor survival, they try peevishly tobreak their own laws. They thinkthat people don’t see them but theydon’t think whatever they do andutter, the Lord of this universe seesthem, He watches them and theyhave to pay the price for cheatingthe innocent people by promotinglawlessness in the society.—Islamabad

Trained inhypnotism

ABDUL KARIM

Yahoo News dated 23-06-2014carried a story captioned “Clashesas prominent Pakistan cleric re-turns to lead ‘revolution”. Thiswas followed by some very inter-esting comments from about 92readers most of them Americans.

One commenter wrote ‘ Canadadoesn’t allow US citizens with mi-nor criminal record to visit Canada.Yet, it allows its citizen to traveloverseas to create havoc and death.’Another said: ‘A disgrace for Paki-stan and its people’. This shows thatthe Canadian government has somegripe to settle with the Pakistanipeople and has especially brain-washed. Abdul Shakoor Qadri, whochanged his name to ‘Tahir’ becausehis original name sounded so old-fasioned, to sabotage public peacehere. He seems to have been espe-cially trained to keep vibrating upand down during his speech like aman struck by high voltage and alsoto keep jarring his index finger try-ing to send audience into a trancelike a true hypnotizer.

Why is he sent to Pakistan sooften with occasions when a demo-cratic government is about to launchsome people-friendly progressiveeconomic reforms, especially re-lated to electricity supply schemes,just to subvert them? That is a ques-tion that must be answered now.—Multan,

Nawaz doomedto repeat history?

SANAM TAJJAMUL

A wise man once said: “Those whodon’t know history are doomed torepeat it”. The disaster thing is thatour rulers are completely blindedby power. They forget the historyand repeat same mistakes over andover again. They ignore the basicfacts of history, which occurrednot too long ago.

On June 19, 1992, a clean-upoperation was launched in Karachi.As per controversy, MQM was mak-ing plans of separating Karachi fromPakistan to provide a separate statefor the urdu-speaking Muhajir com-munity. More than 15,000 innocentworkers were murdered extra-judi-

Let this be a lesson!MALIK ATIF MAHMOOD MAJOKA

Pakistan Awami Tehreek workers massacre at the hands of Punjab police shook the hearts andminds of people of Pakistan. The timing of the incident is something to look at, it happened just

around the same time when Pak army has recently launched operation against terrorists in NorthWaziristan. Pakistan Awami Tehreek or Minhaj ul Quran has in recent political history of Pakistan ,taken a stance that actually sounds similar to what Pakistani establishment has in political matters.Allama Tahir ul Qadri therefore becomes a kind of natural ally with establishment in pursuit of itsshort term politico strategic objectives. Allama runs an organised web of religious seminaries acrossthe country and holds a complete cult like status with no real political stakes. Political forces withsignificant political share in terms of votes have always been suspicious about PAT’s nexus with estab-lishment. Allama Qadris recent propagation through certain sections of media must have caused hugeconcerns in the minds of civil govt that has its political base in predominantly centre right Punjab.Ruling party in Pakistan and Punjab has had difficult times in their endeavours to find peacefulsolution through talks with Taliban apparently owing to their differences with establishment. Thistroubled relationship between civil and military manifests itself in so many ways and has far reachingand long lasting impacts on shaping political & economic policies in Pakistan. It seems after 67 yearsof independence, Pakistan is yet to decide on some core ideological questions of national interests, Letus hope that some lessons are learnt from this painful incident.—Melbourne, Australia

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Ramazan: Month of patience, sympathyHAZRAT Salman (RA) re

ports, “On the last day ofShaban the Holy Prophet

(PBUH) addressed us and said, ‘Opeople there comes over you now agreat month, a most blessed monthin which lies a night more greater invirtue than a thousand months. It isa month in which Allah has madeFasting compulsory by day. And hasmade sunnah the Taraweeh by night.Whosoever intends drawing near toAllah by performing any virtuousdeed, for such person shall be thereward like the one who had per-formed a farz in any other time. Andwhoever performs a farz, shall beblessed with the reward of seventyfaraiz in any other time.

This is indeed the month of pa-tience and sympathy with one’s fel-lowmen. It is the month wherein a truebeliever’s rizq is increased. Whoso-ever feeds another who fasted, in or-der to break the fast at sunset, for thefeeder there shall be forgiveness of sinsand emancipation from the fire of hell,and for such feeder shall be the samereward as the one who Fasted (who

he fed) without that persons rewardbeing decreased in the least.”

Thereupon we said, “O messen-ger of Allah, not all of us possess themeans whereby we can give a fast-ing person to break his fast.” the HolyProphet (PBUH) replied, “Allahgrants the same reward to the one whogives a fasting person to break the fasta mere date, or a drink of water, or asip of milk. And whoever gave a per-son who fasted water to drink, Allahshall grant that giver to drink fromMy fountain, such a drink where af-ter that person shall never again feelthirsty until he enters Jannah.”

“This is a month, the first ofwhich brings Allah’s mercy, themiddle of which brings His forgive-ness and the last of which bringsemancipation from the fire of Jahan-nam. Whosoever lessens the burdenof his servants (bonds-men) in thismonth, Allah will forgive him andfree him from the fire of Jahannam.”

“And in this month four thingsyou should continue to perform ingreat number, two of which shall beto please your Lord, while the other

two shall be those without which youcannot do. Those which shall be toplease your Lord, are that you shouldin great quantity bear witness that

there is no deity to worship exceptAllah (i.e. recite the KalimahTayyibah) and make much Istighfaarbeg Allah’s forgiveness withAstagirfirul-laah).” And as for thosewithout which you cannot do, youshould beg of Allah, entrance intoparadise and ask refuge in Him from

Jahannam. Along with the possibil-ity of a great reward, there is the riskof a terrible loss. If we let any othermonth pass by carelessly, we just losta month. If we do the same duringRamazan, we have lost everything.The person who misses just oneday’s fast without a legitimate rea-son, cannot really make up for iteven if he were to fast everyday forthe rest of his life. And of the threepersons that the Holy Prophet(PBUH) cursed, one is the unfortu-nate Muslim who finds Ramazan ingood health but does not use the op-portunity to seek Allah’s mercy.

One who does not fast is obvi-ously in this category, but so also isthe person who fasts and prays butmakes no effort to stay away fromsins or attain purity of the heartthrough the numerous opportunitiesoffered by Ramadan. The HolyProphet (PBUH) warned us: “Thereare those who get nothing from theirfast but hunger and thirst. There arethose who get nothing from theirnightly prayers but loss of sleep.”— Courtesy: Albalagh.com

Views From Abroad

How terrorists got rich

A FEW feet from the Bab al-Salam border crossing nearthe Turkish town of Kilis,

there is a shabby cafe where the mostinteresting items for sale are notfound on the menu. The cafe is thefinal stop for young radicalised menfrom Europe or North Africa who areplanning to slip past the lax Turkishborder officers and into Syrian ter-ritory. This is where they exchangetheir passports for cash. When oneof us visited the cafe in January, aBelgian passport was for sale for$8,000. A buyer could have it alteredfor movement to Europe or visa-freetravel to the United States. Newpassport photos were being snappedin the parking lot.

Half a continent away, in Kuwait,on an evening in March, a soon-to-be auctioned 1982 Chevy CapriceClassic awkwardly sat parked on car-pets outside a tent. Inside potentialbidders were being asked to alleviatethe suffering of Syrians with “hu-manitarian contributions.” Few couldhave had any doubt that once theirmoney found its way to Syria, fight-

ers — some affiliated with Al Qaeda— would decide whether to use it tobuy aspirin for children or ammuni-tion for killers.

On June 10, the Islamic State inIraq and Syria, or ISIS, moved onMosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Theadvance blew the uniforms off hap-less soldiers and police officers, andleft prison cells and bank vaultsemptied of their contents. In the larg-est bank hold-up in recent memory,ISIS operatives reportedly stole upto $400 million in cash. Flush withmoney, ISIS will have the resources(as well as the territory) to establishitself as the hub of a global terroristmovement in the heart of the MiddleEast. There are no Treasury para-troopers to send in to seize the cash,or bank regulations to issue to stopISIS from spending it.

These three episodes reflect adeep problem for the United Statesand its allies that has been evolvingfor several years. The campaign todisrupt and dismantle terrorist fi-nancing after 9/11, which met withmuch success and once causedOsama bin Laden to bemoan the lackof funding in Al Qaeda coffers, hasgiven way to a new reality. The me-tastasized, Qaeda-inspired terroristmovements have learned to raise

millions of dollars locally, while theconflicts in Syria and Iraq have res-urrected the terrorist funding net-works of old. Terrorist funding isnow both local and global.

The Taliban and Haqqani net-works in Afghanistan and Pakistanalso run smuggling and kidnappingoperations, while profiting from theheroin trade. The Shabab movementin Somalia has developed a trade-based money-laundering systemthrough the export of charcoal andimport of sugar, while imposing taxesin areas it controls.

If we hope to constrict these glo-bal and local fund-raising streams,and the dangerous ambitions of ter-rorist groups, we need a renewedcampaign against terrorist financ-ing. This will require creativity tolaunch operations against networksnow supporting ISIS and Qaeda-related groups and to form partner-ships with local law enforcement,customs authorities and regulators.We must strengthen border enforce-ment to intercept cash couriers, andstep up anti-corruption efforts toensure that groups cannot buy accessor safe passage.

But we cannot cut off the financ-ing to a group like ISIS without firstdislodging it from the territory it

controls. And this requires abroader counter-terrorism cam-paign. Unfortunately, a clear strat-egy for doing this and Americanleadership have been absent amidthe caldron of the conflicts in Syriaand Iraq. Meanwhile, we have lostthe on-the-ground intelligence andmilitary capabilities provided bytask forces like the Iraq Threat Fi-nance Cell, created in the mid-2000s to track and disrupt insur-gency and terrorist funding.

Our options and appetite formore investment of blood and trea-sure in the fight against terrorismmay be limited, but without address-ing all dimensions of the financingthreat, our progress over the yearsmay be lost. If groups like ISIS canfill their coffers, run economies andconsolidate their hold on power, wemay be facing a new, more danger-ous brand of global terrorism thatwill threaten the United States andits allies for years to come. Juan CZarate is a former deputy nationalsecurity adviser and assistant Trea-sury secretary, Thomas M.Sanderson is the co-director of theTransnational Threats Project at theCentre for Strategic and Interna-tional Studies. — Courtesy: The New York Times

Work your own pace..!

HE looks so peaceful!’ isoften what we hear whenwe go to pay our past re-

spects at a funeral! Quite often af-ter hearing those words, I wonderwhat he or she looked like whenthey were alive: Harried, worried,tense? I was cycling and noticed aperson in front of me, about 1/4 ofKm ahead. I could tell he was cy-cling a little slower than me anddecided to try to catch him. I had

cially. On October 12,1999, the Chiefof Army Staff and the Chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff CommitteeGeneral Musharraf was removed wasservice while he was on an officilforeign tour to Srilanka and was or-dered to be arrested on his return. Hisplane was denied landing and was or-dered to land at Nawabshah Airportwhere Nawaz Sharif had sent his ownjet and security team to take the Gen-eral into custody.

On June 22, 2014, the PAThairman Dr Tahirul Qadri was return-ing to Pakistan with a promise tobring revolution in electoral reformsand put an end to corruption. Due toinstructions of Nawaz Sharif, theEmirate Airline was not allowed toland at its destination airportIslamabad and was forced to land inLahore. Qadri at this point refused toleave the aircraft, fearing for his lifeand demanded to be taken toIslamabad where he was originallysupposed to land. After extensivenegotiations he agreed to leave theplane but on the condition that theGovernor Punjab would escort himto his residence in Lahore.

The nation are well-aware of theconsequences of decisions made in1992 and 1999, but is the Prime Min-ister also aware that such decisionsare always disastrous, and aren’t weheading in the same direction?

Although Prime minister NawazSharif has been in office for the thirdtime, he does not seem to have learntanything from history and his pastexperiences. Nawaz Sharif has al-ready faced and survived a tragedyfrom the 1999 coup. It’s now his re-sponsibility to show leadership.—Karachi

Jack and JillJAVAID BASHIR

Jack and Jill is all time favouritenursery rhyme, we are comfortablewith the story of these kids narratedby the poet. He describes the toil ofthese children. They went to the hillto fetch a pale of water, Water is alife sustaining element. They go upthe hill and were bringing the paleof water, and in the process Jack fallsdown. Jill who was assisting fol-lowed the suit and comes tumblingafter him. It means both of themwere carrying the water bucket,when they had the fall.

The lyrical quality of the poemlends it the magical effect. Jack andJill went up the hill, to fetch a pale ofwater. Jack fell down and broke hiscrown, and Jill came tumbling after.Same is the case of our politicians.They go up the hill and stumble onthe way breaking all their promises.The normal task becomes herculeanand impossible. The lesson to belearnt is only take so much that canbe performed easily.—Via email

City of bulletsSHAGUFTA IDREES

In Karachi, about 10 to 15 personsare on the target of death daily. Al-though, target killing is going on forthe last 10 months but there is still aquestion mark on the performance ofPolice, Ranger and Agencies.Karachi, with a population of about2 crores and once a city of lights hasnow became the city of bullets. Tar-geted operation was started on 5th

September 2013, and is still going on.Terrorists and target killers target anyone towards death whom they wantto and make them sleep forever onthe basis of Political affiliation, cast,sect or religion etc.

If we have a look on the budget ofpolice in Sindh, it is about more than42.62 billion, the budget of Rangersis more than 1.43 billion. Funds re-ceived from foreign countries are notinvested on the betterment of these is-sues. Terrorism is exceeding day byday. On one side, Government ofSindh and Police claims that targetkilling has reduced to about 56% andmurder attempts had reduced to about26 %. More than 45 police officershave been martyred during the firstthree months of 2014.Now, the ques-tion is what is the responsibility ofsecurity authorities? Police has recordsof all the criminals but why they arenot taking action on them? Who sup-

Juan C Zarate,Thomas M Sanderson

Societal obligation of Pak media

NOTWITHSTANDING therapid growth of electronicmedia has altogether

changed the lifestyle of the citizensin Pakistan after 2000, during thereign of General Pervez Musharraf(retired), but over the years, the me-dia industry has badly failed tostreamline its policies either to giveimportance to political statements ofthe politicians; top bureaucrats,Judges and Generals or to focus onsocio-economic situation in Pakistan.

The social issues including ter-rorism, religious intolerance, watershortage, poverty, illiteracy, inflation,rampant corruption, Provincial dis-harmony, unemployment, low edu-cation, child labour, poor health con-dition, lack of safe drinking water,poor state of sanitation and basic in-frastructure, human rights violation,injustice, sectarianism, extremis, tar-get killings, road traffic accidents andpoor state of rule of law, are on low-est number of priority-list of the Pa-kistani Media.

TV channels have three patterns- “Morning Shows” with elegant fe-male hosts talking about kitchens;foods, dressing, hairstyles, fashions,“News Bulletins” with majority ofstylish young female newscasters air-

ing the news of bombardment; show-ing footages of crying people, weep-ing children and human flesh spreadhere and there and the “Talk Shows”with more than half self-claimed jour-nalists screaming on political figures;fighting on their statements given inmedia about each other’s allegedtainted characters and other such non-issues. Recently, some of the TV chan-nels have even launched programmeson crime, in which apparently belea-guered female anchors or the maleanchors in bureaucratic style are dra-matizing the criminal activities con-sidering it a “noble cause”, regardlesshow much the young unemployed menmay start thinking to jump into thecrime world. Likewise, one is unableto understand as to why the mediaexperts are unable to conceive thatshowing footages of crimes; cryingwomen, human flesh, parts of bodieson crime scene, live coverage of sui-cidal activities is continuously dam-aging the creativity of the youth, andis making them psycho-patient by hav-ing negative effects on theirs’ minds.

Does Pakistan, a developing coun-try in South Asia with estimated popu-lation of 162 million, with almost 97%Muslim folk, need this kind of media?Can we label it with the title of a “Ma-ture Media”? The answer is certainlyin negative. The age of mushroomgrowth of electronic media in India isalmost same, but the focus of Indianmedia is towards portraying the im-

age of its country labelling it as an “In-credible India”, regardless hundreds ofthousands of Indian are dying eachyear because of hunger but Pakistanimedia is reluctant to do the same un-der mysterious circumstances. Sec-ondly, Indian media is really concernedtowards its social issues, as it is evi-dent from the recent back-to-back in-cidents or rape and gang-rape in In-dia. It was force of media, whichforced the authorities concerned tomake necessary amendments in lawsand now the ultimate punishment ofrape in India, has been announced aslife term detention in prison.

Our media is “killing time” onprojecting non-issues or the chief fo-cus of our “developing media” is thatof a means of catharsis of the massesby hosting such talk or political shows.Now, it has staged a “theatre”, wheresome stage actors and actress, whohave been involved in promoting vul-garism and distorting social norms aresitting and speaking “between line sen-tences” and our families are forced towatch such shows.

Pakistan Electronic Media Regu-latory Authority (PEMRA), whichhas mandate to improve the standardsof information, education and infor-mation, is sitting like a “black cat”with shinning eyes but with no ac-tion. PEMRA is also obliged, underthe law, to enlarge the choice avail-able to the people of Pakistan in themedia of news; current affairs, reli-

gious knowledge, art, culture, sci-ence, technology, economic devel-opment, social sector concerns, mu-sic, sports, drama and other subjectsof public and national interest. Thisregulatory body claims through itswebsite, its objective as to facilitatethe devolution of responsibility andpower to the grass roots by improv-ing the access of the people to massmedia at the local and communitylevel and also to ensure accountabil-ity; transparency and good gover-nance through optimisation of thefree flow of information.

According to the Rules-2009 ofPEMRA, the programme, whichpasses derogatory remarks about anyreligion or sects or community or usesvisuals or words contemptuous of re-ligious sects and ethnic groups orwhich promotes communal and sec-tarian attitudes or disharmony. But,what is happening on TV channelsespecially in stage dramas being dis-tributed by cable operators is an opensecret. I do believe either PEMRA isintentionally mum over this situationor is overlooking the matters due tounknown reasons. Our media, on itsown, should also device policies andfocus on solution of social issues be-cause the ultimate purpose of themedia is to motivate the people sit-ting in power corridors towards re-solving public issues.— The writer is Lahore-basedfreelance columnist.

The Spirit Of Islam

Khalid Baig

Jam Sajjad HussainEmail:sajidaliobs@yahoo.com

about a km to go on the road beforeturning off. So I started cycling fasterand faster and every block, I was gain-ing on him just a little bit. After just afew minutes I was only about 100yards behind him, so I really pickedup the pace and pushed myself. Youwould have thought I was cycling inthe last leg of the Olympics.

Finally,I caught up with him andpassed him by. On the inside I felt sogood. “I beat him” of course, but hedidn’t even know we were racing.After I passed him, I realized that Ihad been so focused on competingagainst him that I had missed my turn,had gone nearly six blocks past it and

had to turn around and go all back.Isn’t that what happens in life

when we focus on competing withco-workers, neighbours, friends,family, trying to outdo them or try-ing to prove that we are more suc-cessful or more important? We spendour time and energy running afterthem and we miss out on our ownpaths to our destinies.

The problem with unhealthycompetition is that it’s a never end-ing cycle. There will always be some-body ahead of you, someone withbetter job, nicer car, more money inthe bank, more education, a prettierwife, a more handsome husband, bet-

ter behaved children, etc.Take what Life has given you, theheight, weight & personality. Dresswell & wear it proudly! You’ll beblessed by it. Stay focused and livea healthy life. Run your own raceand wish others well. Now, isn’t thistypical of all of us? We race thepeople ahead of us, pushing our-selves into a frenzy, working our-selves into a heat: We land up withaching bodies and angioplasties,ulcers and near death situations.

Do we need to die before peoplefeel we look peaceful at last? Workyour own pace..!—Email:bobsbanter@gmail.com

plies bullets and weapons to the ter-rorists? Why no action has been takenagainst the illegal weapons? There isno safety for the people although thetaxes are being regularly paid by them.These are the basic questions whichpeople have in their minds and theyare searching answers to them.—Karachi

DrugsNAUSHABA ABID

The International drug abuse day wasobserved on 26th June to raise aware-ness among the people about globalissues related to drug abuse.

In 1987 it was established byUnited Nations with certain goals.Good health is the major purpose ofthe Day to celebrate. The Day de-mands to stay united against use ofdrugs which are harmful. In accor-dance to UNODC more than 200million people are using illicit drugs,which is highly alarming and prob-lematic with dangerous conse-quences. It’s also one of the maincauses of backwardness of society.Strict laws against use of drugs andagainst its trade are need of time tocounter this universal problem.—Via email

Save water,save souls

HASHIM ABRO

Contaminated water and lack of sani-tation affect people across Pakistan,particularly, the poor people of theSindh province. Our past successiverulers and even the incumbent Pro-vincial rulers have done nothing toguarantee the fair and safe access theyneed to sustain their lives and securetheir livelihoods. The teachings ofall the holy books are loud and clearregarding the fate of indifferent andinsensitive ruling elite. Indeed, themost severe punishments have beenpromised for those who were indif-ferent to the plight of the poor.

However, the rulers are requestedto devise such schemes, frame suchwater-policies and launch such wa-ter saving programmes which makesense that working for the provisionof clean water here and now is morethan saving ecosystems and humanlives. It’s also about saving souls.—Islamabad

Tribal supportto Zarb-e-Azb

KHAN MUHAMMAD KANRANI

The operation in North Waziristan isstill in its nascent stages. Nearly 250killed over the past week, includinga significant number of Uzbeks.Moreover many tribal elders fromaround Miran Shah, Mir Ali, DattaKhal assured support to army opera-tion. The tribal elders have assuredthat the terrorists will not be allowedto return back to their areas. How-ever, the presence of the Uzbeks wasthe most dangerous.

The involvement of foreigners inPakistan meant that militancy hadmoved beyond a struggle betweenPakistanis alone. According to reports,dozens of Chinese and Chechens werealso among the foreign terrorists elimi-nated during attacks on hideouts ofmilitants. The most important aspectof operation is that it is leading toelimination of foreign national whowere not only carrying out terrorist ac-tivities against Pakistan but also Af-ghanistan, China, Russia and there-fore, these countries too should bethankful to Pakistan.—Karachi

China’s President Hu Jintao and former president Jiang Zemin attend the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of theXinhai Revolution at the Great Hall of the People.

How will nextIndonesian president

handle Asian Cold War?PANDU RACHMATIKA

SINCE the 1997-1998 financial crisis, the East Asia regionhas experienced dramatic socioeconomic change. The newAsian tigers, namely Hong Kong, Singapore, South Ko-

rea, Taiwan and recently the “re-awakened” China, were all bornin the region.

The tiger pseudonym was given on account of their mercu-rial economic growth in recent decades that have seen them gainnew status as advanced and high-income countries. The economicbooms experienced by these countries, however, have raisedconcern from academics and security analysts on the rising risksof military escalation in the region. A study by the StockholmInternational Research Institute (SIPRI) in 2011 showed thatbetween 2001 and 2010, overall military expenditure in East Asia(including Northeast and Southeast Asia) had increased by 69percent, with China alone rising enormously by 189 percent.

As tax-based income grows, military expenditures in EastAsian countries have skyrocketed. Without mutual precaution,this security shift will go unchecked and could lead to an armsrace in the region. Another imminent threat to East Asian secu-rity is a possible “cold war” between the US and China, the most“aggressive” country not only in terms of military expansion butalso assertiveness in the region. Niall Ferguson of Harvard Uni-versity believes that with its growing power, China will try toreshape the rules and institutions of regional order to better serveits agendas. This has raised concerns from the US as its tradi-tional role as “anchor of order” in the region.

With the recent emergence of territorial disputes in the natu-ral resource-rich waters of the East and South China seas, thepower contest has started to show its symptoms. As each coun-try is now starting to weigh its own interests and choose whichbloc could provide greater benefits, it leaves the region withouta “middle power” that can act as a peace facilitator.

We cannot consider China, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, Phil-ippines or Vietnam as a possible peace facilitator, as they aredirect claimants over the waters’ sovereignty. And despite theirmajor presence in the region, Japan and South Korea can hardlybe the appropriate peace facilitator candidates due to their tightand historic alliance with the US bloc.

Hong Kong and Singapore may contribute, but their size andlittle interest in the waters could prevent them from actively en-gaging in the cause. Thailand is also now busy rearranging itsown democracy following the latest military coup. All of thisleaves Indonesia as the only adequate candidate to serve the rolein advocating peace in the region.

The debate between presidential candidates PrabowoSubianto and Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Sunday showed thatsome apparently remain uninformed about Indonesia’s stake inSouth China Sea, making them wonder why Indonesia shouldeven bother. Actually, besides its reputation as Southeast Asia’slargest economy, the world’s third-largest democracy and rela-tively balanced connections with both the US and China, Indo-nesia has direct interest in wanting to prevent the disputes fromescalating.With a possibility of China implementing the Air De-fence Identification Zone (Adiz) on the South China Sea, Indo-nesia would find itself engaged in the dispute whether or not itwould like to be. Last February, Foreign Minister MartyNatalegawa said that “Jakarta surely will not accept Beijing’sdecision should it want to implement the Adiz over the waters”.

The question now is what should Indonesia do to fulfill itsduty? Chicago-based international relations scholar Brad Nelsonsuggests that Indonesia first assume a firm leadership in Aseanin order to make it more consolidated and relevant to the powerrace in the region. Indonesia, unfortunately, often acts passivelyand prefers to avoid controversy. This inactive approach makesAsean seem as though it is lacking the steady leadership it needsto address the challenges.

If Indonesia really wants to lead Asean, it needs to step upits game and fill the leadership vacuum in the organization. Thiscan be achieved by taking more initiatives in solving the diverseproblems Asean and its member states are facing. This will bethe first real challenge for the next president, who needs strongpolitical will and persuasive skills, while at the same time stillupholding the independent and active foreign policy doctrine.

—Courtesy: Jakarta Post[The writer graduated from Chulalongkorn University in Thai-land majoring in Asian studies and the Graduate School of In-ternational Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea]

Obama’s new boogeyman:The press corps

DAVID NAKAMURA

THE president has let out his frustrations on the Fourth Estate for failing, in his view, to cover serious issues facingthe American people and instead focusing on the frivo-

lous. “If you watch the news, you’d think, ‘OK, Washington is amess and the basic attitude is that everybody’s crazy,” Obamatold a crowd of 3,500 Friday at the Lake Harriet Band Shell.

Recounting his meeting with a local resident to discuss herdifficulties paying her bills, Obama said: “You don’t see that onTV sometimes. It’s not what the press and pundits talk about.But I’m here to tell you I’m listening.”

Obama’s disdain for the political press is well known. Buthe seems to be emphasizing it as part of a new push aimed atportraying him as focused on solving problems such as theeconomy and the environment, while his Republican rivals arefocused on blocking him at every turn.

“My message to Republicans is, ‘Join us. Get on board. Ifyou’re mad (at) me helping people on my own, why don’t youjoin me and we’ll do it together. I’m happy to share the credit,’”Obama said. On Thursday night, during a fundraiser for theDemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Obama alsodenounced the press and the GOP for driving debates over “phonyscandals.”

“We talk about Benghazi, and we talk about polls, and wetalk about the tea party, and we talk about the latest controversythat Washington has decided is important,” he said.

The us-against-them narrative of Obama’s latest messagingis aimed at making him more accessible at a time when his ap-proval ratings are near all-time lows for his tenure. Even as hecriticizes members of the press, however, Obama has courtedthem at a series of photo-friendly events, including stops at ahamburger joint, a boutique grocery and an ice cream shop.

He has played to the cameras, turning to reporters in the icecream parlor to say: “Press, you guys want some? On me. No? Isthat unethical? I’m trying to soften you up.”

At the grocery, Obama turned to the cameras to explain thathe carries only two things in his wallet — cash and his driver’slicense, which he noted expires in 2016. He said the photo wasdated but it was a good shot of him: “I was a little younger then.”

The president’s press office knows such moments are goldenfor television networks and local reporters who are eager to showObama interacting with ordinary people. Members of the travel-ing White House press corps, having seen such antics before,usually hope that Obama will make more serious news by re-marking on Iraq or the latest Supreme Court rulings. Alas, thepresident made no such comments during his Minnesota trip.

At the fundraiser, Obama said: “On Monday we had whatwe called a White House Working Families Summit. And wejust talked about bread-and-butter issues that everybody talksabout around the kitchen table but, unfortunately, don’t make iton the nightly news a lot’’.

— Courtesy: Arab News

CLIFFORD A. KIRACOFE

THE deepening crisis in Iraq is a resultof mistakes of US Middle East policyunder two presidents. Washington does

not learn from mistakes, so tensions inevita-bly will rise in the already disintegrating re-gion.

The regime change war of the George W.Bush administration against Iraq was arguablythe greatest strategic mistake in US history. Theconsequences continue to unfold.

The Obama administration added fuel tothe regional fire by launching the regimechange wars against Libya and Syria. The flowof weapons and terrorists links these struggles.

The US public was outraged that theObama administration considered a direct at-tack against Syria. The public today is becom-ing increasingly concerned about US involve-ment in yet another unnecessary Iraq war.

The present situation in Iraq must be placedin historic context. The British created thecountry after WWI from three former Ottomanprovinces. The British strategic concept in-

Washington may repeat same inept blundersthat causes lasting Iraq disaster

volved moving oil from the northern area ofMosul to Haifa in Palestine to be refined andthen service the navy in the Mediterranean. Oilfrom the southern area of Basra was refined toservice the navy in the Persian Gulf.

The northern area is one home of theKurds, who are an ancient non-Arab ethnicgroup. The central area is traditionally the homeof Sunni Arabs while the southern area is tra-ditionally the home of Shiite Arabs.

The possibility of a breakup of this artifi-cial state has always been present as the Kurdsseek independence and the Shiite Arabs havereligious ties to Iran. An Iraqi national identitywas mostly held by secular political forces inthe past. In the aftermath of the war, the USdismantled the ruling Ba’ath political party,which ran the government apparatus. It alsodestroyed the Iraqi army. These two movesundermined national unity and stability in thepost-war period.

The Obama regime change war againstSyria has now morphed into a complex messinvolving both Syria and Iraq. This explosivesituation in turn threatens Jordan and Lebanon.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria terror-ist group with its many foreign fighters is apowerful actor in the present situation. But itmust also be said that various Iraqi groups arealso involved. These include former Iraqi mili-tary, political, and religious networks dissatis-fied with the present Shiite-dominated govern-ment.

When the US toppled Saddam Hussein, itwas inevitable that the next regime would bedominated by the Shiites who are the majorityin Iraq. Experts at that time warned against thewar, arguing that with Saddam’s fall, Iranwould become influential in Iraq through Shiitepoliticians. The Shiite-dominated Maliki gov-ernment has been heavy handed toward SunniArabs and Kurds. This counterproductive be-havior set the stage for the present crisis whichhas been exploited by outside forces such asSaudi Arabia and Gulf states. They financiallyand militarily support the extremist Sunni ter-rorist organizations attacking the Shiites.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states also sup-port the US regime change war in Syria. Sup-port by these states for Sunni terrorists is part

of a larger plan to bring the region under Saudidominance.

It is no secret in Washington that pro-Is-rael neoconservatives for decades have beenplotting the balkanization of Syria and Iraq.They see this process as good for Israel be-cause it would break up its hostile neighborsinto less threatening enclaves.

The results of Washington’s incompetencemay well provoke Iran into action to protectthe Shiites of Iraq. Washington and Tehran mayor may not be able to agree on a path forward.

The disintegrating situation in Iraq putsgreat pressure on Jordan. Because Jordan is akey ally in the region one would expect Wash-ington to bolster Amman and this could involvemilitary forces. US politicians have forced warand chaos on the Middle East and have learnednothing. Will Washington’s Asian pivot leadto similar results?

—Courtesy: Global Times[The author is an educator and former se-nior professional staff member of the SenateCommittee on Foreign Relations.opinion@globaltimes.com.cn]

BEIJING—”We should uphold fairnessand justice to build a new type of interna-tional relations,” Xi said when deliveringa speech at a commemoration marking the60th anniversary of the Five Principles ofPeaceful Coexistence held in Beijing, urg-ing the international community to carryforward the principles to build a new typeof international relations and a better worldin the new era.

In 1954, leaders of China, India andMyanmar initiated the Five Principles, in-cluding mutual respect for sovereignty andterritorial integrity, mutual non-aggression,non-interference in each other’s internalaffairs, equality and mutual benefit, andpeaceful coexistence.Xi said justice is anoble goal that people of all countries pur-sue in international relations. “However,we are still far away from realizing this

China president calls for greaterdemocracy in intl relations

goal.”“We should jointly promote greater

democracy in international relations.” saidthe Chinese leader. The destiny of theworld must be determined by people of allcountries, and world affairs should be man-aged through consultation by governmentsand peoples of all countries, he added.

“The notion of dominating interna-tional affairs belongs to a different age, andsuch attempt is doomed to failure,” Xi said.

He urged the international communityto jointly promote the rule of law in inter-national relations.“We should urge all par-ties to abide by international law and well-recognized basic principles governing inter-national relations and use widely applicablerules to tell right from wrong and pursuepeace and development,” said the Chinesepresident. In the international society, there

should be just one law that applies to all, hesaid, noting that there should not be “doublestandards” in handling international relations.

“We should jointly uphold the authorityand sanctity of international law and the inter-national order.All countries should exercisetheir rights in accordance with the law, op-pose bending international law, and reject anyattempt to undermine, in the name of ‘rule oflaw,’ other countries’ legitimate rights and in-terests as well as peace and stability,” he said.“We should jointly promote more bal-anced international relations, advancereform in global governance in keepingwith new changes in the relativestrengths of international forces, respondto concerns and aspirations of variousparties, and better uphold the legitimaterights and interests of developing coun-tries,” he added—GT.

BANGKOK—Thailand’s junta leader is likelyto double as prime minister in an interim gov-ernment to be set up in September “to avoidmistakes made by the 2006 coup leaders”, asource in the ruling National Council for Peaceand Order (NCPO) said yesterday.

It is highly likely now that General PrayuthChan-ocha, the NCPO chief, will also head thenew administration, according to a senior fig-ure in the ruling junta.However, the NCPO willretain its executive power even after the interimgovernment is installed, a source close toPrayuth confirmed to The Sunday Nation.

“That means NCPO can overrule any deci-sion made by the interim government,” said thesource, who argued that NCPO would ultimatelybe responsible in running the country.

He said NCPO had learned from the experi-ence of the military junta led by General SonthiBoonyaratglin that hastily transferred power to a

Junta leader to act as Thailand’s interim PMcivilian interim government after seizing powerin 2006. The junta was left with no executivepower and lost control of the administration.

“In the end, nothing got done,” he said.The source suggested that it was likely thatPrayuth would continue to head the NCPOeven if he was installed as interim prime min-ister.

A new interim government could start function-ing in September, Prayuth said during his weeklyTV programme on Friday night. He said a provi-sional charter would be promulgated next monthand a national legislative assembly would be set upabout a month afterwards. The interim governmentwould “work in parallel” with the NCPO.The sourcesaid he believed there would be some “undercur-rents” to challenge the interim government’s powerbut that the new administration would prove itself.“We will show that we have good intentions and wehave no plans to be corrupt.—ANN.

N. Korea fires twoballistic missiles: SeoulSEOUL—North Korea firedtwo short-range ballistic mis-siles into the East Sea on Sun-day, just three days after itraised military tension bylaunching three short-rangerockets into the sea, Seoul’sJoint Chiefs of Staff said.

“North Korea fired what ap-peared to be Scud missiles atbetween 4.50am and 4.58amfrom its eastern coastal city ofWonsan, in the North’s GangwonProvince,” the JCS said. “Themissiles are analysed as havinga range of about 500 km.”

Stressing that South Koreawas strengthening its readinessposture to counter additionalprovocations, the JCS addedthat the firing came again with-out any prior declaration of ano-fly/no-sail zone.

The launch of the missilescame just four days before Chi-nese President Xi Jinping vis-its South Korea for summittalks with President Park Geun-hye. Analysts say that thelaunch appears to be designedto draw international attentiontoward Pyongyang—ANN.

CALIFORNIA—Waking to thereality that his son Elliot wasinvolved in the Isla Vista kill-ing spree in Santa Barbara,California, last month is toopainful for Hollywood film-maker Peter Rodger to bear.

Rodger has set up theAskForHelp.org website toshare information and resourcespertaining to mental illness as ameans of preventing future un-toward incidents and violence,including mass killings.

Elliot, one of the two chil-dren Rodger had with his ex-wife, Penang-born Ong LiChin, reportedly went on arampage that left six dead and13 wounded near the Univer-sity of California on May 23,before fatally shooting himself.

The incident happened af-ter the 22-year-old uploaded onYouTube a “final retribution”video outlining his plans andreasons for the killings.

Ong, 53, was said to havetried to stop her son from com-mitting grave mistakes afterreceiving, via e-mail, hislengthy manifesto detailing hisplans and frustrations.Elliothad repeatedly whined aboutbeing a virgin in the videos.

“About one in four Ameri-cans suffers from mental ill-ness in any given year. It’s timewe removed the stigma of ask-ing for help.“For a start, we areproviding resources and asking

Mass killer’s Dad sets upwebsite to help others

you to share your story so thatwe may help one another,” saidRodger, 49, on the website.

Rodger never thought thatElliot would become a massmurderer because his son didnot look like someone whowould even hurt a flea.

The father has also pouredhis heart out in a letter postedon the website.

“It has been one month andthree days since my son, Elliot,did the unthinkable.“There hasnot been one conscious secondthat I haven’t been thinkingabout the pain and suffering hecaused for so many.

“I feel for the victims andtheir families more than for theloss of my own son.

“I do mourn for the lonelyboy Elliot was, who disap-peared because of a monster ofan illness in him that none ofus knew was so severe.

“It will be a long journeyinvolving the personal choicesof individuals and families,public discussions, mentalhealth reforms, a change in theculture – you name it.

“My simple message is, if indoubt about a family member,please ask for help,” Rodgerwrote.In an interview withAmerican TV host BarbaraWalters aired on Friday as anABC prime-time special,Rodger described the incident asthe world’s horror story—ANN.

We are determined tocrush terrorism: KingRIYADH—Custodian of theTwo Holy Mosques KingAbdullah emphasized Satur-day that Saudi Arabia is deter-mined to root out terrorism,adding that Riyadh wouldadopt all measures to protectcitizens and residents from themenace.

In a message to the nation onthe advent of Ramadan, KingAbdullah expressed hope thatmilitants who instigate terror indifferent parts of the world wouldreturn to their senses after realiz-ing that such activity goes againstthe teachings of Islam.The mes-sage, which was read out on SaudiTelevision by Culture and Infor-mation Minister Abdul AzizKhoja, urged Muslims all over theworld to stand united.

The king and crown princecongratulated Saudis and otherMuslims across the world on theadvent of the blessed month. Hesaid fasting in Ramadan fostersfeelings of mercifulness andcompassion in the minds of thefaithful, as they compete to ful-fill acts of charity to win divinereward—AN.

General Prayuth Chan-ocha said an interim government would be set up in August, thougha general election wouldn’t happen for at least a year.

2 held, 22 dead inIndia building

collapseNEW DELHI—Police insouthern India detained twoconstruction company directorsSunday as rescuers using gascutters and shovels searchedfor dozens of workers believedburied in the rubble of a build-ing that collapsed during mon-soon rains. It was one of twoweekend building collapsesthat killed at least 22 people.

The 11-story apartmentstructure the workers werebuilding collapsed late Satur-day while heavy rains andlightning were pounding theoutskirts of Chennai, the capi-tal of Tamil Nadu state. Policesaid 31 construction workershad been pulled out so far andthe search was continuing formore than a dozen others.

Four of the workers died onthe spot and another seven suc-cumbed to injuries in a hospi-tal, said police officer GeorgeFernandes.

Feeble voices were beingheard from those trapped in thedebris, said T.S. Sridhar, thedisaster management agencycommissioner. Rescuers usedgas cutters, iron rods and shov-els after cranes lifted concreteblocks to get to the survivors.

Nearly 90 contract workerswere believed to have been inthe basement of the structure tocollect their weekly wageswhen it collapsed, Sridhar said,adding that the exact numberof those trapped was unknown.

The collapsed structurewas one of the two towers be-ing built in the area, he said.

“Removing debris is a ma-jor challenge. It may take twoto three days to clear therubble,” said S.P. Selvam, whois heading the rescue operation.

Police officer Kanan saidtwo directors of the construc-tion company, Prime Sristi,have been detained for ques-tioning as authorities beganinvestigating the collapse.The officer uses one name—AP.

Missing BD girlfound dead onIndian territory

THAKUGAON, Bangladesh—A Bangladeshi college girl,who went missing on June 24,was found dead at a tea gardenon Indian territory nearDhamerghat border in Bodaupazila of Panchagarh yester-day.

Indian Border SecurityForce (BSF) members ofDardariapara BSF camp inJalpaiguri district recovered thebody.Daughter of RameshChandra of Kalitola Bongramvillage of the upazila, the de-ceased Laboni, 18, was an HSCsecond-year student of TunirhatDegree College in Sadarupazila of Panchagarh.

BGB sources said workersof an Indian tea garden, adja-cent to Lahiripara village nearthe border, found Laboni’sbody lying near a drain of thegarden and informed the BSFmembers of Dardariaparacamp. Informed by the locals,victim’s family members wentto the spot near the border andidentified Labini’s body. BSFmembers along with Indianpolice recovered the body andtook it to the local camp—Star.

their while so that they cancontribute and grow the lit-erary treasure and heritageof Pakistan. In 2010 shefounded and organized theKarachi Literature Festival(KLF) which was the firstsuch literary festival of itskind to be held in Pakistan.The objective of the KLF isto promote and project au-thors, particularly Pakistaniauthors, and to attract thegeneral public to books andreading. She organized thesecond KLF in 2011, thethird in February 2012, thefourth in February 2013, andthe fifth in February 2014.

Ameena is the co-founder and organizer of theChildren’s Literature Festival(CLF), first held in Lahore inNovember 2011 and in Quettain September 2012. A third onewas held in Peshawar in No-vember 2012 of which MalalaYusufzai was to be theChildren’s Ambassador. Thefourth was held inBahawalpur in February 2013,and the fifth in Karachi in midFebruary 2013. Since then, theFestival has also been held inIslamabad in May 2013, andagain in Lahore and Karachiin October 2013 and Febru-ary 2014 respectively. TheFestival was held again inIslamabad in May 2014.

ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) was not invited.

Addressing media after the meeting,PAT chief Dr. Qadri said “Pakistan AwamiTehreek’s agenda is to overthrow the gov-ernment. However, he made it clear that thepresent APC was not convened to executePAT’s agenda but to formulate a joint strat-egy on the issue of bloody incident againstthe PAT’s workers on June 17. He furthersaid no one could rule out the involvementof Chief Minister Punjab Mian ShahbazSharif in this incident and as such the trans-parent and impartial inquiry of the incidentwas not possible in the presence of the CM.

Tahir-ul-Qadri said the state exhibitedits brutal force to crush the PAT workers onthe excuse of removing barricades. Heclaimed that the police party got the freshorders from the concerned officials aftertwelve hours of the incident. He said therewas no one who was armed with weaponswhen the police launched the operation.However, only security guards of Minhajsecretariat were equipped with arms, butthey were called inside the building whenthe police started the operation. He said hisparty’s workers were innocent and unarmedand the police shot them straight with bul-lets. He said the police gunned down 11workers while as many as 125 workers gotbullet injuries and some of them were still incritical condition.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri further said the policedeployed its commandos on the roofs ofthe adjacent building from where they shotbullets at his residence and even the bedroom of his home was targeted where bulletsigns are still visible. He made it clear againthat objective of the operation was not toremove the barriers but to crush the PAT’sworkers because the barricades were in-stalled there at the directions of the LahoreHigh Court.

He said the police did not register theFIR on their application even after elapsingof eleven days from the day of the incident.The police rather registered its own caseagainst PAT leadership and workers thatmeant the killers had become the victimswhile the victims were made the killers.

He said the government was not seri-ous to bring the culprits to book since nonewas booked nor was anyone arrested sofar.

He said about fifty political and religiousparties attended the APC and he offeredhis thanks to all those who were present.

Talking to media persons PML-Q chiefCh Shujjat Hussain said the Punjab gov-ernment was involved in this incident andthe burden of the crime was on the shoul-ders of the rulers. He said police murdered

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LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahir ul Qadri speaks during the All Parties Conference on Sunday.

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PAT workers and used force to remove bar-riers outside Dr. Qadri’s residence in ModelTown. He demanded that all culprits bebrought to book.

PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervez Elahisaid that the Punjab CM should tender hisresignation for the transparent investiga-tion into the incident.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that ImranKhan was confident when he held Punjabgovernment responsible for the incident.The PTI rejected judicial commission set upto investigate the incident expecting notransparent enquiry from the body. He saidImran Khan visited the hospital to enquireabout the health of the PAT’s workers andwhat they saw there could not be expressedin words. He said PTI was supporting PATagainst this state terrorism and demandedto constitute an impartial judicial commis-sion since PAT rejected the present judicialcommission on the ground that the gov-ernment could build pressure on one mem-ber judicial commission.

Sheikh Rashid on this occasion said ifthe Chief Minister Punjab could suspendWASA Chairman on some paltry issuesthen why he did not suspend any policeofficial over this bloody incident?. He saidthe Chief Minister’s statement that he wasnot aware of the incident showed that therewas sham good governance and even onhis ignorance, he must step down from hisslot since he was the only person who couldbe responsible of any mishap in the prov-ince.

He predicted a tough time for PML-Nafter Eid and many political parties wouldjoin Imran Khan’s long march towardsIslamabad.

Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui of MQM saidan independent commission should beformed to probe into the incident. “We areattending the conference on directives ofAltaf Hussain,” he said, adding that suchincident should not have occurred at a timewhen military had launched a massive op-eration to battle militants.

Siddiqui said if the perpetrators of theModel Town incident are not brought tojustice, history would never forgive thoseresponsible.

He added that independent investiga-tion cannot take place under the supervi-sion of the Punjab government officials andthe police

Speaking on the occasion, Ahmed RazaKasuri from All Pakistan Muslim Leaguesaid that the government was setting awrong example of governance. He said theprime minister’s speech in favour of mili-tary operation was scripted by the GeneralHead Quarters.

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Oxford English–Urdu Dic-tionary by Shanul HaqHaqqee has become thestandard reference work foracademics, journalists,teachers, and general read-ers. The Oxford Companionsthat are under preparationwill contribute to such fieldsas history, literature, and art.Across the whole spectrumof OUP Pakistan publishingis a specifically Pakistanicomponent with Pakistaniauthors and books on Paki-stan fulfilling our vision ofserving the needs of ouracademic and educationalcommunities and generalreaders.

OUP Pakistan’s booksare distributed worldwidethrough its head office inOxford and other offices inNew York and Delhi. It alsodistributes books importedfrom its head office in Ox-ford, and other offices inNew York and Delhi. OUPPakistan holds that there areseveral books of intrinsicvalue which would neverreach publication if onlycommercial criteria are ap-plied. Such books need tobe written, they need to bepublished, and they need tobe read. OUP Pakistan usesits profits partly to supportthe publication of suchbooks and partly to supportits overall publishingprogramme.

OUP Pakistan believesthat there is a real future forthe publishing industry inPakistan. It does not sub-scribe to the common refrainthat ‘book reading is not partof our culture’. Rather it isof the opinion that it is alsothe responsibility of localpublishers to effect changeand inculcate the book-read-ing habit among the people.It works towards this pur-pose by encouraging andcultivating writers withinour society, by introducingnewer and better qualitybooks into the market, andensuring that these booksare reasonably priced andreadily available. OUP Paki-stan also fights against pi-racy which, while claimingto lower prices, actually de-prives authors of their right-ful dues and thus, a nationof its authors. Because ofOUP’s high standards ofquality and production, thename ‘Oxford’ has come tosignify both authority andquality in Pakistan as it doeselsewhere in the world.

whose visas are due to ex-pire must file an applicationwith the Passport Depart-ment. Failure to secure anextension would be a viola-tion of visa rules, he said.

Visa extension used to besuspended between the endof the Hijri month of Shaaban.At the time, visitors used tobe given a week to leave, re-ports Arab News. Col. AhmedAl-Luhaidan, spokesman, toldArab News that authorities areready to implement these or-ders and that residents wish-ing to extend their visit visascan apply from Sundaythroughout the Kingdom.

national capital and a deci-sion will be taken verysoon.

“With the rising statusof India, there are a lot ofexpectations from us,” hesaid. Currently, the Saarcsecretariat is headquarteredin Kathmandu.

Rijiju, after PM Modi’svisit to Bhutan, is the sec-ond member of the NDACabinet to have held bilat-eral meetings overseas withcountries of the Asia Pacificregion. Rijiju was inBangkok last week to attend

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international political and economic order.Today’s world is going through a pro-

found and intricate changes, Xi said, add-ing that peace, development, cooperationand mutual benefit have become an unstop-pable trend.

“Countries are bound together in thiscommunity of common destiny,” said thepresident. “On the other hand, injustice andinequality are still pronounced probelms ininternational relations.”

“Global challenges keep emerging, sodo conflicts and local wars in various re-gions,” Xi said.

He said people in many countries, chil-dren in particular, are ravaged by war.“Many people in developing countries stillsuffer from hunger.”

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To uphold global peace and promotecommon development remains a dauntingchallenge facing mankind, Xi said.

“In the new era today, the spirit of theFive Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, in-stead of being outdated, remains as relevantas ever; its significance, rather than dimin-ishing, remains as important as ever; andits role, rather than being weakened, hascontinued to grow,” said the Chinese leader.Visiting Myanmar President U Thein Seinand Indian Vice President MohammadHamid Ansari participated in Saturday’scommemoration and delivered speeches.

Also present at the commemorationwere Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, top leg-islator Zhang Dejiang and top political ad-visor Yu Zhengsheng.

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hospital and roads will alsobe constructed.

Bahria Town is known tooffer contributions whetherit’s a natural disaster or a cri-sis. Malik Riaz said that foodwill be supplied to the IDPsat their camps through theBahria Dastarkhwanprogramme. He said thatmedical facilities will also beprovided to the IDPs. Riazsaid that Bahria Town admin-istration would also arrangeeducation facilities for thechildren stuck at the camps.

Earlier, during theTharparkar drought, BahriaTown administration had pro-vided a relief package of 200million rupees. Riaz had alsoannounced and provided re-lief to the affectees of Awaranearthquake including 300houses of 10 marla to provideshelter to the affectees.

He played a role in secur-ing freedom of Pakistan citi-zens held hostage by pirates.Bahria Town had built anddistributed shelters for floodaffectees in South Punjab aswell. Bahria Town administra-tion runs a free Dastarkhwanprogramme in various citiesto provide two-times a daymeal to the poor and hungry.This facility is benefiting over35,000 persons.

recommendations of the ju-dicial commission in letterand spirit, while a joint in-vestigation team was alsoworking, he added.

To a question aboutmeeting with former presi-dent Asif ali Zardari, he saidmeetings among politiciansand with political leadershipwere a routine matter.

He said Asif Zardariwas an ex-president andhead of the country’s larg-est opposition politicalparty. He, however, addedthat no formal schedule wasfinalized for such a meetingwith Mr Zardari. —APP

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levelled with a thumpingvolley from the edge of thearea two minutes from timebefore Huntelaar convertedfrom the spot in stoppagetime after Rafael Marquezhad upended Arjen Robben.

Louis van Gaal’s menwill now face Costa Rica orGreece in the last eight inSalvador on Saturday. TheNetherlands had been dis-rupted by an early injury toNigel de Jong as he hobbledoff to be replaced by BrunoMartins Indi.

Mexico’s Hector Herrerathen had the clearest open-

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ing of the first 45 minutes ashe collected Oribe Peralta’spass on the edge of the areaand cut inside before drag-ging a right-foot shot incheswide. Dutch keeper JasperCillessen was then forcedinto his first save of the af-ternoon by a long-range ef-fort from Carlos Salcido.

The Netherlands didn’tregister an effort on targetuntil the 26th minute whenRobin van Persie skewedwide form a narrow angleafter collecting Stefan deVrij’s pass inside the area.—Agency

Zera Road, killing fourpersons and hurting threekids and two women of afamily. The injured wererushed to District Head-quarter Hospital Kohat andAstarzai.

Upon getting the report,the police reached the siteof the strike and kick starteda search operation in thearea to track down the cul-prits.

Those killed and injuredwere heading back home af-ter doing shopping for theholy month of Ramzan.

The FIR of the incidenthas been registered inAstarzai Police Station.

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the 6th Asian ministerialconference on disaster riskreduction organized byUNISDR (United NationsInternational Strategy forDisaster Reduction).

Rijiju held meetings withhis Chinese counterpart, be-sides meeting ministersfrom Japan and other coun-tries of the Asia Pacific.Asian nations are workingtogether on a commonagenda for inclusion in thepost-2015 Hyogo Frame-work for Action (HFA).—TNN

Unprecedented public welfareplan evolved: Shahbaz

Punjab to be made a model provinceSALIM AHMED

LAHORE—Punjab Chief MinisterMuhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said thatprovincial government has evolved an un-precedented public welfare and revolution-ary programme in the form of the biggestbudget of the province for the next finan-cial year. He said that record funds of 345billion rupees have been allocated for de-velopment schemes in the new fiscal yearout of which 119 billion rupees will be spenton the uplift and progress of South Punjabdue to which a new era of development andprosperity will usher in the region.

He was talking to assembly members ofvarious districts here on Sunday. The ChiefMinister said that service to the people andimprovement of living standard of themasses is the pivot of politics of PakistanMuslim League-N and mega uplift projectsare being executed speedily across theprovince for this purpose.

He said that government is determined tomake Punjab a model province and everypenny of public money is being spent on de-velopment and progress of the province in ahighly transparent manner. He said thatgrowth rate of eight percent has been set inthe province during the next four years andall departments, public representatives andgovernment officers will have to display com-mitment and hard work for this achievement.

The Chief Minister said that promotionof investment and construction activities aswell as acceleration of industrial process canhelp control problems like poverty and un-employment. He said that government hasadopted an effective strategy for this pur-pose and maximum facilities are being givento investors. He said that all out measures are

being taken for the promotion of construc-tion activities as well as development of in-dustries. He said that target of generation of40 lakh job opportunities has been fixed dur-ing the next four years and all out efforts willbe made for this purpose. Shahbaz Sharif saidthat Pakistan’s future is linked with vocationaleducation and a skilled workforce can be pre-pared to meet the market need through thepromotion of technical education.

He said that Punjab government is imple-menting skill development programme withthe collaboration of British Department forInternational Development and thousandsof boys and girls have so far been impartedvarious skills. He said that a comprehensiveprogramme of technical education of 20 lakhmales and females has been evolved for thenext four years and a sum of six billion ru-pees has been allocated in the new budgetfor the purpose.

He said that more funds have been al-located for South Punjab than ratio of popu-lation of this area and Daanish Schoolshave also been set up in this region and areplaying an important role in the promotionof quality education. He said that Punjabgovernment has laid the foundation ofprogress and development of the provinceby presenting a balanced budget for thenext fiscal year.

Assembly Members while speaking onthe occasion appreciated the developmentvision of Chief Minister Punjab MuhammadShahbaz Sharif and said that he is servingthe masses round the clock. They said thatShahbaz Sharif will take Punjab to theheights of development and prosperitythrough his commitment and dedication andPunjab will emerge as a prosperous anddeveloped province during his tenure.

a British government source said on Fri-day. Britain has drawn some cheer from theslow progress of the negotiations for theRafale deal. The Eurofighter Typhoon wasshortlisted along with the Dassault fighterbefore India announced the French jet wasthe winner. Cost escalations and disagree-ments about building the Rafale in partner-ship with India´s state-run Hindustan Aero-nautics Limited have complicated talks withFrance, and London has never entirelygiven up hope that it will return to the race.

However, on Thursday, one source atthe Indian defence ministry said the dealwas likely to be finally closed during Fabius´visit and could be signed this year. A Frenchforeign ministry source said talks were on-going, but refused to provide more detail.

Russia, for years India´s top weaponssupplier, pipped all three countries to thepost, sending Deputy Prime MinisterDmitry Rogozin to visit the new govern-ment in Delhi two weeks ago. Washingtonlast year replaced Moscow as India´s topdefence supplier, according to IHS Jane´s.

The Western nations will have notedthat India´s foreign minister expressed dis-pleasure with Russia´s recent offer to sellMi-35 attack helicopters to India´s arch-ri-val Pakistan. “I don´t think it´s a competi-tion,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of StateNisha Biswal said after an early post-elec-tion visit to New Delhi. “India will havestrong and positive relationships with a va-riety of countries and that is to be encour-aged,” said Biswal.

“We want to see India taking on a stron-ger and a leadership role in the region andaround the world so we welcome that.

India spent some $6 billion last year onweapons imports. It makes few of its ownweapons, beyond ballistic missiles and as-sembly lines for foreign jets. On Thurs-day, the government signalled it was inthe mood for liberalisation by allowingmanufacturers to build more defence com-ponents without licences, making it easierfor Indian firms to partner foreigners.

At present foreign companies canonly invest 26 percent in Indian defenceprojects without committing to technology

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transfer, which has put off many inves-tors. Before the election, sources in Modi´sBharatiya Janata Party said there was aplan to increase the cap to 49 percent. “Forhigher-tech intellectual property we wouldwant to go over 50 percent to be in a posi-tion to share technology that we have sig-nificant investments in,” said Phil Shaw,chief executive of Lockheed Martin IndiaPvt Ltd.”

Uplift from 26 to 49 percent maintainsthe status quo and may not be sufficientincentive to make an investment here.“Lockheed Martin already has a 26 per-cent investment in an Indian joint venturewith Tata Advanced Systems that manu-factures airframe components for the C-130J Super Hercules cargo lifter.

India´s Department of Industrial Policyand Promotion has circulated a discussiondocument that proposes allowing up to100 percent foreign direct investment, orFDI, in defence production, two govern-ment officials told Reuters. The note sug-gested allowing 100 percent FDI in manu-facturing of state-of-the art equipment,one of the officials said.

It also recommends a cap of 49 per-cent for investments which do not involvetransfer technology and a 74 percent ceil-ing in such cases where the foreign inves-tor is ready to share technology know-how, the official added.

Last week, Commerce and IndustryMinister Nirmala Sitharaman said foreigninvestment in the sector would help in-crease defence preparedness of the coun-try and reduce import

dependence, saving billions of dollarsin foreign exchange. However, she said thegovernment was yet to take a final call onincreasing the FDI ceiling and the deci-sion would be taken by Jaitley and Modi.

The proposals face pockets of resis-tance in Indian industry, Modi´s party andthe military establishment. A.K. Antony,who was India´s longest serving defenceminister until his Congress party´s elec-tion defeat in May, said this week that al-lowing higher foreign investment in de-fence would be “suicidal”.—Agencies

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LAHORE—Punjab ChiefMinister MuhammadShahbaz Sharif has directedthat Cabinet members andgovernment officers shall nothost Iftar parties/dinners inthe holy month of Ramadanin the wake of displacementof IDPs of North Waziristan.

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LAHORE—Punjab ChiefMinister MuhammadShahbaz Sharif has taken no-tice of burning of a girl alivein Toba Tek Singh and soughta report from DPO Toba TekSingh. He directed that theculprit involved in the inci-dent be immediately arrested.

Published by: Zahid Malik from Ali Akbar House Markaz G-8, Islamabad and printed by Gauhar Zahid Malik at Al Umar Printers

UN chief‘adopts’lion cub inKenyaNAIROBI —U.N. Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon capped off aweek of high-level U.N.discussions on theenvironment by “adopt-ing” a 6-month-old lioncub Saturday. The younglioness, which was foundabandoned in NairobiNational Park, will beraised by the NairobiAnimal Orphanage. Bannamed the cub Tumaini,which means “hope” inKenya’s language ofKiswahili, after his “hopethat all people around theworld will be able to liveharmoniously withnature.” “I sincerely hopethis lion will grow healthy,strong and even fierce,”Ban said, drawing parallelswith his hopes for theenvironment after thisweek’s first U.N. Environ-ment Assembly.—AP

ChaladWorachatagain onhungerstrikeBANGKOK — Over thepast decades, ChaladWorachat has resistedmilitary regimes anddictatorial legislation bystaging hunger strikes,five of them. Now the 71-year-old onetime parlia-mentarian is back on waterand honey, despondentthat after so many yearsand so much bloodshed,Thailand has been unableto break out of a cycle ofmilitary coups to achievetrue democracy. “We arenot moving toward fulldemocracy. We’re goingbackward to dictatorship,”he said on the 25th day ofhis sixth fast, which hevows to continue until thelatest military regimeadopts democraticprinciples.—AP

Britonspessimisticabout EUreformsLONDON —British voters are pessimisticabout Prime Minister DavidCameron’s ability to achievereforms to the EuropeanUnion that he believes arecrucial to persuading Britainto stay in the bloc, a new pollfound on Sunday. Some 42percent of respondentssurveyed by YouGov do notbelieve the EU will beprepared to hand back anypowers to member states,and another 29 percent thinkany concessions won byBritain will only be minor.Cameron has pledged torenegotiate Britain’s terms ofmembership with the EUbefore holding a referen-dum.—AFP

ISLAMABAD—Prime Minister MuhammadNawaz Sharif on Sunday visited theIslamabad International Airport to viewnewly inducted A320 aircraft into fleet ofPakistan International Airlines (PIA) after aperiod of almost ten years.

On the occasion, the Prime Minster of-fered his all out support for making PIA asone of the leading airlines of the world. Hesaid that he would like to see more Paki-stanis travelling in the national flag carrierwhich should be the preferred choice ofpassengers.

He also emphasised on providing bestservices to passengers and expressed hisbest wishes for the success of PIA.

Special Assistant to the PM on Avia-tion Shujaat Azeem, Managing Director PIAMuhammad Junaid Yunus and DirectorFlight Operations PIA Captain Qasim Hayataccompanied the Prime Minister during thevisit, said a press release.

Govt set to make PIA world’sleading airline: Nawaz

Sharing his views the PM said “It’spleasing to see the new aircraft being in-ducted in PIA fleet and prayed that withthe present initiatives being taken, PIA willsoon be revived to its past glory”.

The Prime Minster had approved theinclusion of 14 new aircrafts into the PIAfleet. The Special Assistant to the PM onAviation briefed the Prime Minister aboutthe initiatives being taken.

He told that the PIA was also in theprocess of inducting 14 aircraft in its fleetincluding narrow body, wide body andturbo- prop aircraft.The PIA had placedorder for acquiring three A320 aircraftfrom GECAS out of which one aircraft hasbeen received while the remaining twowould be delivered in July and Septem-ber.

The remaining aircrafts would be in-ducted in the near future. The AirbusA320 has a capacity of 180 seats.—APP

KABUL—The June 14 runoff polls thatcould have resulted in a peaceful transferof power in Afghanistan would insteadfurther divide the conflict-ridden coun-try as thousands of protesters took tostreets of Kabul on Friday calling fortransparency in the election process.

Carrying banners inscribed with slo-gans, “We want transparent election re-sults”, “Our votes must be respected”,“Death to those who committed fraud inthe election process,” the protesters gath-ered in Pashtunistan Square behind thefortified Arg or Afghan Presidential Pal-ace, threatening to continue their protests

Afghan election deadlocksplits conflict-ridden country

if their demands are not met.So far, there have been no reports of

violence during the protest marches.Observers here said the demonstration,which was an offshoot of the objectionof presidential candidate AbdullahAbdullah over alleged fraud and vote rig-ging in the run-off polls, could push thecountry into the abyss.

One local observer said that since thesecurity situation in Afghanistan is frag-ile, when the extremist Taliban are justlurking in the corner, a spark can lead tobig fire and eventually take the countryback into a chaotic situation. —NNI

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is being briefed by Special Advisor to Prime Minister on Aviation, Capt.(Retd) Shujaat Azeem during his visit to the newly inducted aircraft A320 at Islamabad International Airport onSunday.

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ISLAMABAD – Bahria Townchairman Malik Riaz onSunday urged the govern-ment to give Bahria Townadministration the respon-sibility of one lakh InternallyDisplaced Persons, vowingto arrange proper care. Hesaid the government wasdoing its part but peoplehave to step forward too,adding that over 55,000bags of food are ready tobe dispatched.

Addressing a press con-ference here, Malik Riaz saidthat supporting the broth-ers and sisters of NorthWaziristan is their duty, add-ing that the access to IDPsfor support has not beenprovided to Bahria Townadministration yet.

He urged the govern-ment to give access to theIPDs so that the relief workcould begin, adding that his

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group is capable to take careof a hundred thousandpeople.

Malik Riaz said that amobile hospital for medicalfacility of the IDPs has alsobeen arranged. He said thatBahria Town will assist in

developinga model vil-lage inN o r t hWaziristan upon return ofIDPs, adding that a field

BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinpingsaid on Saturday that the Five Principlesof Peaceful Coexistence initiated 60 yearsago are not outdated, but remain as rel-evant and impor-tant as ever inhandling inter-national rela-tions.

“ H a v i n gbeen tested bythe evolution ofinternational re-lations in thepast six decades,the Five Prin-ciples of Peace-ful Coexistence,as open and in-clusive prin-ciples of international law, embody the val-ues of sovereignty, justice, democracy andrule of law,” Xi said when delivering a key-note speech at a commemoration markingthe 60th anniversary of the Principles at

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the Great Hall of the People in downtownBeijing.

In 1954, leaders of China, India andMyanmar initiated the Five Principles, in-cluding mutual respect for sovereignty andterritorial integrity, mutual non-aggression,non-interference in each other’s internal af-fairs, equality and mutual benefit, andpeaceful coexistence.

Xi said the Principles have become thebasic norms governing international rela-tions as well as basic principles of interna-tional law.

“These five principles, as an integrated,interconnected and indivisible concept,capture the essence of today’s internationalrelations, and can apply to relations amongall countries regardless of their social sys-tem, stage of development or size,” he said.

Xi said the Principles have effectivelyupheld the rights and interests of the de-veloping world and have played a positiverole in building a more equitable and ratio-nal

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TWO new studies conclude that low protein intake may hold the key to a longand healthy life, at least until old age.

They also emphasize the need to examine notonly calories when deciding what constitutesa healthy diet, but alsowhere those calories comefrom - such as whether pro-tein is animal or plant-based.

Another key finding isthe suggestion that while ahigh-protein diet may in theshort term help people loseweight and body fat, in thelong term it may harm healthand reduce lifespan.

Both studies are pub-lished in the journal CellMetabolism.

The first study was ledby Valter Longo, a profes-sor at the University ofSouthern California, whocounts longevity and cellbiology among his areas ofexpertise.

He and his colleaguesshowed that high protein consumption is linkedto increased risk of cancer, diabetes and deathin middle-aged adults, although this was notthe case for older adults who may benefit frommoderate protein consumption. Also, the ef-fect is much reduced when the protein comesfrom plant sources.

The second study was led by StephenSimpson, a professor at the University ofSydney in Australia, whose group works at theinterface of physiology, ecology, and behav-ior. From studying mice, he and his fellow au-thors concluded that diets low in protein andhigh in carbohydrates are linked to the longestlifespans.

Both studies suggest it is not just calo-ries, but also diet composition - particularlyin terms of amount and type of protein - thatmay determine the length and health of alifespan.

“We studied simple or-ganisms, mice and humans, andprovide convincing evidencethat a high- protein diet - par-ticularly if the proteins are de-rived from animals - is nearlyas bad as smoking for yourhealth.”

High-protein diet hadhighest risk, except in older adultsIn their study, Prof. Longo andcolleagues analyzed data on over6,800 American adults who tookpart in the National Health andNutrition Examination Survey(NHANES) III, a US nationalsurvey that assesses health anddiet. The researchers found thatconsuming a high-protein diet inmiddle age significantly increasesthe likelihood of dying from can-cer or diabetes. Participants aged

50 and over who said they ate a high-proteindiet were four times more likely to die from can-cer or diabetes, and twice as likely to die fromany cause, in the following 18 years.

Those who consumed moderate amountsof protein had a three-fold higher chance ofdying of cancer. These effects either reducedor disappeared altogether among participantswhose high-protein diet was mainly plant-based. However, in those aged 65 and over,the effect was nearly the opposite - high pro-tein intake was linked to a 60% reduced riskof dying from cancer and a 28% reduced riskof dying from any cause, with similar ef-fects for moderate protein intake.

Too much protein in middleage ‘as bad as smoking’

People getting water from a filtration plant in Waris Khan area due to non-availability ofwater at their residences.

A large number of people waiting to enter the utility store at Aabpara Sunday Bazaar for shopping on the occasion ofRamazan-ul-Mubarak.

ZUBAIR QURESHI

ISLAMABAD—Shalimar police havebusted a gang of dacoits and recoveredgold ornaments, cash, mobile phone,watches, weapons and stolen property,from their possession, a police spokes-man said on Sunday.

The accused identified asShamsullah , Abdul Nazeer,Muhammad Dawod and Khanzada areinvolved in a number of robbery andcar theft incidents. Besides gold orna-ments, cash, mobile phone watches and

Afghan nationals, others nabbed inpre-Ramazan crackdown

stolen property, four pistols along with100 bullets have also been recoveredfrom their possession. According topolice sources, during the investigation,the accused confessed their involvementin robberies at various areas of the fed-eral capital including Sector F-11/1, F-11/2, F-10/1, F-10/4 and F-10/2(Shalimar Police area). They are alsorequired by the Golra police, Ramnaand Margalla police stations. Furtherinvestigation is underway.

Meanwhile, Bhara Kahu police ar-rested accused namely Touqeer Ahmed

and recovered one 30-bore illicit pistolalong with ammunition. Secretariat po-lice arrested accused Noman and recov-ered one 30-bore illicit pistols alongwith ammunition. CIA police arresteda bootleggers namely Kashif Masih andrecovered 53 wine bottles from him.

Shalimar police arrested two accusednamely Zagham and Rabia Bibi involvedin immoral activities and recovered 2bottles of wine from their possessionfurther investigation is underway.

During general hold up seven ve-hicles and 69 bikes were also im-

pounded for the motorcyclists were nothaving authentic documents. Policeteam also apprehended 10 suspects fromvarious areas of the city during searchoperation. Police team also appre-hended 14 professional beggars fromvarious area of the city.

IGP Islamabad Aftab Cheema andSSP Islamabad Mohammad AliNaikokar have appreciated the overallperformance and directed all police of-ficials to intensify vigilance in their re-spective area and curb activities of anti-social elements.

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ISLAMABAD—Five climbersof the Pakistan K2 Expedition(Pure Pakistani Expedition)reached the K2 MountainCamp-2 at 6,800 meters onSunday. They also installeddoom tents at the K2 Camp -2 and completed fixing of therope along the route fromCamp-1 to the Camp-2, saidone of the organizers of theexpedition while talking toPakistan Observer here on

Sunday.Munir Ahmed he spokes-

person of the Expedition andthe Communication Consultantwith the Ev-K2-CNR, whilegiving the latest update said,“Pakistani mountaineers areusing a route that is almostabandoned route called AbruziSpur (southeast ridge) that wasfirst climbed by Italian expe-dition in 1954.

This is said to be the clos-est to a “normal” route on theK2 mountain, but is still very

difficult and statistically themost dangerous one, he saidadding despite all odds, ourdaring mountaineers steppedup on the Camp-2, and fixedropes along the route. The tech-nical operations head of thePakistan K2 ExpeditionMaurizio Gallo, an Italian ex-pert mountaineer and trainer,while talking to the Islamabadoffice by a satellite phonetermed the Pakistani mountain-eers very strong and skilful inclimbing even in the windy and

snowing weather. They reachedthe Camp-1 when there was 1-meter deep snow and now de-spite the strong winds theyhave managed to reach thecamp-2 which indeed is a mar-velous thing, Gallo was quotedas saying.

Maurizio believed that Pa-kistani mountaineers arestrong, brave and courageousenough to meet the challengeswhile rediscovering the almostabandoned route Abruzi Spur.Another three climbers of the

Pakistan K2 Expedition wouldspend night at the K2 Camp-1.In the coming days, the moun-taineers would shift the neces-sary goods, equipment andfood to the Camp-2. PakistanK2 Expedition is the first-everall-Pakistani mountaineersventure endorsed and sup-ported by the Gilgit-Baltistangovernment. As many as 8 newmountaineers from Gilgit-Baltistan have been sponsoredby the Italian organization Ev-K2-CNR to mark the 60th an-

niversary of the first ascent ofK2 by an Italian expedition onJuly 31, 1954. The Pakistaniteam started their journey onJune 14, 2014, and reached theK2 Base Camp on June 21,2014.

The team leader isMuhammad Taqi, a skilled al-pinist who led the Broad Peak,with him are Hassan Jan(climber leader), MuhammadSadiq, Ghulam Mehdi, AliDurani, Ali Rozi, MuhammadHassan, Rehmat Ullah Baig.

The Pakistani team success-fully climbed the Broad Peaklast year. In the last 60 yearsdifferent teams constitutingmix of Pakistani and foreignclimbers reached K2 summit,but there had been no ‘all-Pa-kistani mountaineers’ team toattempt the peak.

Agostino Da Polenza, presi-dent Ev-K2-CNR who reachedK2 Summit from north side in1983, and has been the teamleader of three expedition onK2, met the G-B mountaineers

that last year at the BroadPeak Base Camp. Accordingto him, this would promotethe Central Karakorm Na-tional Park. This is the K2National Park and it is veryimportant now to promote thisextraordinary land.” At thebase camp, for the scientificmission there would be Ev-K2-CNR researchers, andalso a documentary-maker,Daniele Nardi, who will re-port the entire expedition tointernational channels.

Braving snowfall, strong winds

All Pakistani climbers team reaches K2 Camp-II

ISLAMABAD—Around 35 fair price shopsin rural and urban areas of Islamabad willstart providing essential commodities atsubsidized rates from first Ramzan.

Essential food items will be providedat 5 to 10 per cent discount rates as com-pared to the market rates. Some items willbe provided at ex-mill rates in order toprovide maximum relief to the consumersduring the holy month of Ramzan.

The administration has also activated20 price control committees for pricechecking on the daily basis to curb theprofiteering tendency during Ramzan.

Implementation of rate list of fooditems will be ensured in letter and spirit.

The food department is also fixingrates of fruits and vegetables on daily ba-sis at the time of auction in Fruit and Veg-etable Market (Sabzi Mandi), Islamabad.

The administration has requested trad-ers association of Sabzi Mandi to volun-tarily keep the profit margin low for pro-viding maximum relief to the consumers.

The price checking teams will beheaded by magistrates to ensure availabil-ity of food items at the controlled rates.Around 22 fair price shops are in the cityarea and 13 in the rural areas.

The fair price shops includeMuhammad Javed, Cooperative GeneralStore, Cooperative Market, G-6/1-4,Muhammad Ziafat fair price shop, Coop-erative Market, G-6/1-3, Ch. MuhammadHussain, Chinab Market, G-7/1, MushtaqAhmed General Store, Amer Market, G-7/2, Muhammad Nadeem General Store,Al-Habib Market, G-7/3-3, Tufique KhanGeneral Store Gol Market, G-7/4,Muhammad Arshad Good Luck GeneralStore, Allah Wali Market, F-8/1, AbdulRaoof Awami General Store Kalar SaidanPlaza, G-9 Markaz, Muhammad SardarKashif General Store, Multani Market, G-9/2, Muhammad Jamil Frontier GeneralStore, Rapoot Market, I-10/2, Ch. AdulKhaliq Good Luck General Store, G-10Markaz, Shamas- ul- Arfeen, Pakeeza

General Store, Said Pur Market, G-7/1,Muhammad Tanveer Al-Khair GeneralStore, G-11 Market, Muhammad Aklaq Al-Rahim General Store, Munsoor Market, G-8/2, Muhammad Ashfaq Abbasi fair priceshop, China Market, F-6/4, MuhammadIrfan Sarhad Store,Tipu Market, G-8/1,Shahid Mahmood Stall No. 79, G-11/3,Adeel Minhas Shop No.12, P.H.A Flats,Faisal Mahmood Shop No.14, P.H.A Flats,Mohsin Rahid Shop No.22-G, H-9, Weeklybazaar, Adul Rashid General Store, NoorPur Shahan, Jahangir General Store,Tarnol, Gulzar General Store, Chirah,Zafar General Store, Rawat, Abdul HamidGeneral Store,Tarnol, Atique GeneralStore, Sohan, Usman Ajmal Store, JhangiSaidan, Jahangir General Store, BharaKau, Shahid Khan General Store, RawalTown, Ghafoor General Store, Main Ba-zaar, Sohan, Azhar Hussain General Store,Pind Baigwal, Iqbal Shah General Store,Main Bazaar, Golra Sharif, Iqbal Shop No.149, Model Village, Islamabad.—APP

35 fair price shops to startfunctioning from today

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ISLAMABAD—The Higher EducationCommission (HEC) has awarded 2,528foreign, 4,108 indigenous scholarshipsto various scholars in the last five years,said an official of Ministry of Educa-tion, Training and Standards in HigherEducation.

Talking to APP, he said the HigherEducation Commission (HEC) has sent4,204 scholars abroad and also ex-tended financial assistance to 8,178 stu-dents under different need basedprogrammes in last five years.

Giving detail of the foreign schol-arships, he said 1,432 foreign scholar-ships including 238 to female scholarsof Punjab have been awarded in lastfive years.

A total of 304 scholarships includ-ing 68 to female scholars hailing fromSindh have been awarded since 2008.

Yet other 482 scholarships includ-ing 43 to female scholars have beenawarded to the students of KhyberPakhtunkhaw. While 75 scholarshipsincluding 13 to female students ofBalochistan have also been awarded inlast five years, he said.

Likewise, 116 scholarships includ-ing 25 to female scholars belonging toAzad Jammu and Kashmir have beenawarded.

The other 39 scholarships includ-ing 1 to female scholars of FederallyAdministered Tribal Areas (Fata) havebeen awarded.

The 10 scholarships including twoto female scholars have been awardedin Gilgit-Baltistan and 70 scholars havebeen awarded to the scholars ofIslamabad Capital Territory (ICT). 17scholarships have been awarded to fe-male scholars of ICT.

HEC awards 2,528 foreign,4,108 indigenous scholarships

No eating, drinking,smoking at public

places duringfasting hours

ISLAMABAD—Eating, drinkingand smoking at public places dur-ing fasting hours in the month ofRamazan has been prohibited toensure sanctity of the holy month.

In this regard, the Ministry ofReligious Affairs has drawn atten-tion of people to the “Ehtram-e-Ramzan Ordinance, 1981” whichinter alia, prohibits eating andserving of eatables at publicplaces, prescribes closure timingof cinema houses, theatres andother establishments and enjoinstaking of steps for observing duesanctity of the holy month ofRamazan. In accordance with theprovisions of Ehtram-e-RamzanOrdinance, 1981 and the rulesframed there under, all the pro-vincial governments and authori-ties concerned in the province willensure strict implementation ofthe ordinance.

According to the ordinance,no person who according to thetenets of Islam, is under an obli-gation to fast, shall eat, drink orsmoke at public places during fast-ing hours. Under the ordinance,all cinema houses, theatres andsimilar establishments or institu-tions shall remain closed duringthe month of Ramazan from thetime of sunset to the expiration ofthree hours thereafter.

If the proprietor, manager,servant or other person in chargeof a cinema house, theatre or simi-lar establishment or institutioncontravenes the provisions, hewill be punishable with imprison-ment for a term which may ex-tend to six months, or with a finewhich may extend to Rs.500 orwith both. Section four of the or-dinance says that exemptions shallapply in respect of a canteen orkitchen maintained at a hospitalfor serving food to patients, a res-taurant or canteen within the pre-mises of a railway station, airport,seaport or bus stand or in a trainor aircraft, a kitchen or dining carof a train or a kitchen or canteenmeant for children within the pre-mises of a primary school.—APP

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ISLAMABAD—Chemistry Department students ofthe Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) haddeveloped 33 different devices and projects to im-prove health-related services.

The devices and projects were put at displayin an exhibition held at the University main cam-pus, said a press release.

The exhibition was inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Ali Asghar Chishti whileRegistrar AIOU, Prof. Dr. Nowshad Khan was also

present on the occasion. The students of Masterand M.Phil level gave practical demonstration ofinvention which they said would help in treatmentof polluted water and environment hazards.

The devices would also help in controllingdiseases spreading due to unhygienic conditionsand polluted water. Prof. Dr. Naghmana Rashid,Chairperson, Department of Chemistry briefed theVice-Chancellor about the students concerted ef-forts for producing devices of public health sector.The Vice-Chancellor appreciated the students fortheir keen interest in their educational pursuits.

AIOU students develop 33devises to improve health

RAWALPINDI—Chief Traffic Officer (CTO)Shoaib Khurrum Janbaz on Sunday asked themotorists to show display patience and avoid rashdriving during Ramzan, particularly at at Iftar time.

“As the time for Iftar nears, everyone on theroad wants to reach home in time and in the pro-cess may opt for rash driving which causes fatalaccidents,” he said while talking to APP.

The CTO said the wardens had been directed

not to leave their points of duty irrespect of rush orno rush on the roads at Iftar time.

He said some 1150 wardens would be de-ployed to maintain smooth flow of traffic on cityroads during Ramzan. A control room had beenset up at the Race Course Traffic Headquarter.

The CTO said the people could lodge theircomplaints on 9272616 and get guidance to travelon road comfortably.—APP

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Youngsters enjoying boating in Rawal Lake on Sunday holiday.

Women are carrying atta bags donated by South Asian Relief Forum on occasion of Ramazan-ul-Mubarak at Arts Council.

Participants of first consultative meeting of Fizza Trust held at Islamabad Club.

ISLAMABAD—Countrywide Programe ofdeath anniversary of Umul MomineenHazrat Khadija Tul Kubra was scheduledon July,8 in a meeting of Markazi ImamHussain Council (MIHC).

The meeting of the Central ExecutiveCommittee of MIHC was held under thechairmanship of Dr. Ghazanfer Mehdi,Chairman, Markazi Imam Hussain Coun-cil.

Markazi Imam Hussain Councilwil l arrange 37th annual UmulMomineen Hazrat Khadija Tul Kubra

conference on July 8 at Pearl Continen-tal Hotel, Rawalpindi, more than 1000ulmas and scholars from all sects willparticipated.

Theme of the conference will be“Hazrat Khadija Tul Kubra role model forwomen folk on global level”.

It was further told that likewise con-ference will be held at London, Tehran,Doshambe, New York, Dubai, Dhaka,Baghdad and major cities in Pakistan inKarachi, Lahore, Peshawar, KarachiMultan, Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Jhang,

Khairpur Mirs, Mastung, Gilgit, Skarduand Gawadar.

Dr. Mehdi appealed to Prime Min-ister, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharifto direct all agencies of Provincial andFederal Governments particularly In-formation and Broadcasting, CulturalHeritage, Education, Religious Affairs,and Inter Provincial coordination tochalk out special programs to highlightthe life, achievements and scarifies ofUmul Momineen Hazrat Khadija TulKubra.—APP

Death anniversary ofHazrat Khadija on July 8

ISLAMABAD—The government has estab-lished Shuhada legal cells with the man-date to extend free legal advice and assis-tance to the bereaved families and legalheirs of armed forces and civilian agen-cies’ personnel who have laid down theirlives for the country.

In this connection, the Shuhada legalcells have been established in the FederalCapital, Provincial capitals and places ofCircuit Benches of the High Courts.

Those who wish to seek assistance,may contact the relevant law officers, of-ficial sources informed here. SnaullahZahid, Yousaf M Qureshi and Tallat Abbas

Khan are law officers at Islamabad HighCourt.

Syed Zafar Abbas Gilani, Ehsan UlHaq Mughal and Mian Khurram Jabbar arelaw officers at Lahore High Court Lahore,Mirza Waqas Rauf, Ch. Azhar Mehmoodand Raja Faisal Mahmood for RawalpindiBench, Sh. Naeem Goreja, Shaukat BilalKhan Bangash and Zafar Hussain Dadriat Multan Bench, Naveed Khalil Ch,Mahmood Iqbal Khakwani and KhalidNawaz Ch at Bahawalpur Bench.

For Sindh High Court Karachi,Ainuddin Khan, Tabasum Ghazanfar andMuhammad Javed are law officers while

Abdul Sattar Bhutto and Yousuf Ali forSukkur Bench and Jai Jai Veshno MangeRam and Mushtaq Ahmed Korejo are lawofficers for Larkana Bench.

Manzoor Khan Khalil, Abdul LatifKhan and Farhad Khan are law officers atPeshwar High Court Peshawar whileBahlol Khattak, for Bannu Bench, KamranHayat for K.I. Khan Bench, Hussain Alifor Darul Qaza Swat Bench and Aurangzebfor Abbottabad Bench. For BalochistanHigh Court Quetta, Sher Shah Kasi andSyed Shabir Hussain Shah are low offic-ers who have been designated to extendfree legal advice and assistance.—APP

Free legal service to be extended toheirs of Shuhada

ZUBAIR QURESHI

ISLAMABAD—Fizza Malik Trust held itsfirst meeting at the Islamabad Club with apledge by the participants to take alongFizza’s dream of empowering women.

“Although she died in the line of duty ata tender age of yet her dreams and aspira-tions continue to live and motivate us. Wewill make all out efforts to fight for the causeto make Pakistan peaceful prosperous coun-try for the coming generations.” This wasthe consensus view of the participants at theconclusion of the trust meeting.

Fizza Tariq Malik, only sister of twobrothers, graduated from Islamabad Schoolof Law under the distant learningprogramme from the University ofNorthumbria at Newcastle, UK.

Parents of Shaheed Fizza Malik, her col-leagues, relatives, members of civil society,friends and Islamabad District and HighCourt bar members, Chamber of Commercerepresentatives were present on the occasion.Rich tribute was paid to the vision anddreams of Fizza Malik and Fateha was alsooffered.

Tariq Malik, father of Fizza Malik saidFizza sacrifice would not go waste and FizzaTrust had been established with a mission tocarry out her wish to make a difference in

Fizza Day to be observed on March 3

Poor families’ girls studyinglaw will be supported

the judicial and law practice system of Paki-stan and make it gender-friendly and bring jus-tice to the needy.

It would work for bringing about positivechange in Pakistani society especially focusingon legal education while also working on tobring opportunities for young women. He de-manded that the report and reserved judgmentof Supreme Court of Pakistan related to theMarch 3 incident should be released at earliest.

One of the trust members Murtaza Noorsaid that the trust would finance and offer need-based scholarships to the young girls whowanted to attain education of law.

The first priority would be given to appli-cations coming from the rural and marginalizedregions of Pakistan. Fizza Fellowship for Law,Fizza Gold medal for outstanding youngwomen and special awareness campaign wouldbe launched to sensitize young women abouttheir fundamental constitutional rights.

Muhammad Asif, Convener of the Trust in-formed that the formal launching ceremony ofthe trust would be held during the month of Au-gust 2014 and on each year “Fizza Day” wouldbe celebrated on March 3. He also informed thatthe website of Fizza Trust had already beenlaunched. The participants assured their utmostcooperation to carry forward the mission of FizzaMalik and shared various suggestions for effec-tive functioning of Fizza Trust.

STAFF REPORTER

RAWALPINDI—Administrator Rawal TownImran Qureshi has said that an effectivemechanism is being devised for the moni-toring of rices of essential commodities inorder to provide relief to the consumers dur-ing the holy month of Ramzan.

Presiding over a meeting to review theramzan arrangements, he announced that thehoarders and profiteers would be dealt withan iron hand, besides curbing the adultera-tion mafia.

He directed the officers to control the

negative trend of unjustified price hike ofessential items and a control room shouldalso be set up to receive the complaints andtheir redressal without any delay.

The administrator said that close coor-dination between the consumers, media andcivil society should be ensured and stock ofthe flour, sugar, ghee, pulses and other es-sential items should be made for their unin-terrupted supply items in the market.

He directed that an effective green chan-nel system should be activated for supply offruits and vegetables directly in dailyRamzan bazaars.

Effective mechanism formonitoring prices

in Ramazan to be devised

STAFF REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—The Brazilian Embassy, thathas been busy in organizing and hostingvarious events in connection with the Foot-ball World Cup being hosted by Brazil fromJune 12 to July 13 had published a colorfulmagazine, both in Urdu and English to high-light the game of football for the Pakistanifans. The magazine having pictures and de-tails of the leading football players, is aneffort by the Brazilian embassy here inIslamabad to join the celebrations of Paki-stani football fans who are watching thematches on television with keen interest andpassion.

Although Pakistan is not among theteams playing 2014 FIFA World Cup Bra-zil, but Pakistan is proud that the footballsbeing used in this prestigious world cup hadbeen made in Sialkot. At the internationalarena, Pakistan is known as a cricketingnation but soccer balls for the FIFA WorldCup in Brazil were imported from Pakistanwhich has the 159th-ranked in football play-ing nations.

A Sialkot ball manufacturing company,Forward Sports Private, got the contract tosupply the football for this world cup

The Sialkot firm had already made foot-balls for the German Bundesliga, Frenchleague and the Champions League.

In December 2013, Brazil unveiled thelatest soccer ball, the Brazuca, which isbeing used in the competitions for the worldcup.

Brazilian Ambassador Alfredo Leoniwhile appreciating the efforts of Pakistanto make this ball said, “It was a matter ofgreat pride that the World Cup footballswere provided by a Pakistani company, giv-ing Pakistan a connection with the globalcontest.” The magazine published by theBrazilian Embassy highlighted how effec-tively the game of football can be used topromote cultural activities, trade and eco-nomic ties, strengthen foreign relations andenhance people to people cooperationthrough football and promote traditional andBrazilian music.

Ambassador Alfredo Leoni, who hasbeen busy to organize a number ofprogrammes to highlight world cup of foot-ball and its related activities, provided fullsupport and assistance in compiling this 125page magazine.

The magazine contained details of vari-ous football stars, who participated in pre-

vious football events.This magazine was conceived and first

published by the Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs of Brazil as part of collection of indi-vidual magazines, on different aspects ofthe Brazilian culture called “Text of Bra-zil”.

This magazine is the number 17 of thatcollection. The Brazilian Ambassador in hiscomments carried by the magazine ‘Foot-ball’ said that during one month the foot-ball lovers all over the world would bewatching the matches played in 12 differ-ent Brazilian cities.

He said football was an important partof the culture of Brazil, in fact it was usu-ally the first thing which comes to one’smind whenever thinking about Brazil.

This was why Brazil was widely knownas the “land of football”.

He said, “In 2014, we Brazilians arevery proud to host, for the second time, thefootball world cup.’ The Ambassador saidBrazil had won the world cup for five times.

“We do wish all people in the world tojoin us in watching the games and sharingthe magic of football. This is also the wishof the Embassy of Brazil in Islamabad to-wards all Pakistanis.”

Brazilian embassy publishes magazineon football world cup

ISLAMABAD—The government under itsVision on Education, is emphasizing onvocational and technical education as itsnumber will be increased to 50 per cent ofall secondary enrolment by 2025.

The technical and vocational educa-tion institutions are being emphasized tocollaborate with businesses in identifyingequipment and teaching materials in ac-cordance with skills required by businesses(re-engineering the curricula).

A latest information released by Min-istry of Education here, the vocationaltraining facilities, polytechnic institutionsneed to be established at federal and pro-vincial level on needs basis.

The secondary education enrolmentwill be increased from 5 to 10 per centwhile Higher Education Commission(HEC) will assist the development of uni-versities and colleges by providing qual-ity university education through meritscholarships, research, and de-politicization of university campuses andgood governance.

The policy guidelines given in draftVision 2025 for Pakistan reveals that itaims at substantial expansion in access to

education as well as making significantimprovements in quality of education. Theother objective is development of a soci-ety in which every child, youth and adultmust have access to quality educationwithout discrimination.

The provinces will lead the educationdevelopment with active support from thefederal government while the provincialgovernments have also showed their com-mitments to increase their education bud-get spending.

Curriculum reform and modernizedteaching methods will improve the qual-ity of education. Quality of teaching inpublic schools will be improved by pro-viding capacity building training arrange-ments. Accreditation and certification pro-cedure of the institutions will be standard-ized and institutionalized. The significanceof the curriculum will be improved to re-duce the dropout rate and special effort willbe made to increase the enrollments of girlsby providing special incentives, protectionand as well as to reduce the dropout rates.

A latest survey conducted by PakistanSocial and Living Standards Measurement(PSLM) has said the literacy rate of the

population (10 years and above) is 60 percent as compared to 58 per cent in 2011-12. Literacy is higher in urban areas thanin rural areas and much higher amongmale.

Province-wise data suggests thatPunjab leads with 62 percent followed bySindh with 60 percent, KhyberPakhtunkhwa with 52 percent andBalochistan with 44 percent. With regardto secondary education (Classes IX-X) itis estimated to increase by 3.4 percent from2.9 million to 3 million during 2013-14while in higher education area the authori-ties expect to increase by 6.4 percent from1.4 million to 1.5 million during this year..

Moreover, in Higher Secondary/InterColleges (Classes XI-XII) level, it is esti-mated to increase by 3.6 percent from 0.30million to 0.31 million during this yearwhile in degree colleges education(Classes XIII-XIV) it is estimated to in-crease by 21.7 percent i.e. from 0.63 mil-lion to 0.77 million during the period. Foruniversities education (Classes XV on-wards), the government expects to increaseby 23.5 percent i.e. from 1.6 million to 2.0million during this year.—APP

Technical education of allsecondary enrolments to be increased

Performing dutiesduring vacation

ISLAMABAD—Female teachersof Islamabad Model College forGirls I-8/4 (Junior section) haveexpressed annoyance for super-vising maintenance and securityrelated works in the college dur-ing summer vacation.

The teachers of of junior sec-tion, located in sector I-8/2, haveassigned the duties by the princi-pal to supervise security, white-washing, maintenance of building,cleanliness and grass cutting ingrounds.

Talking to APP on Sunday, agroup of teachers said the teach-ers in other colleges were enjoy-ing vacations, but they “forciblyasked to attend the college and su-pervise the clerical staff in theirworks.” They claimed, “The col-lege principal has ordered us toremain present in the college ondifferent dates during summervacation. We are also required towrite and submit reports aboutdaily progress”.

Every college had non-teach-ing staff like clerks, assistants,accountants, laboratory assistants,attendants, chowkidars, sweepers,and gardeners, who were super-vised by admin officera, but in thiscollege teachers were asked toperform the clerical duties, theyadded. “This is not part of our dutyto supervise such activities inhot and humid weather condi-tions when all the teachers areenjoying summer vacation.Moreover, we are denied ofbenefits like conveyance allow-ance and 48 days earned leaveas per government leave rules”,the teachers said.—APP

MUZAFFARABAD: AJK Prime Minister Ch Abdul Majeed addressing during budget session of the legislativeassembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

MUZAFFARABAD: AJK opposition leader Raja Mohammad Farooq Haider Khan re-ceiving a verbal briefing on violence against AJK police on June 23 in Islamabad.

ISHFAQ NASEEM

Barely two days after a high-level team ofthe Union Ministry of Home Affairs hadagreed to the long-pending demand of

the traders to provide them the much-neededcommunication (International Subscriber Di-aling) facility for LoC trade, the industry stake-holders in Kashmir today alleged that the Cen-tral and the State governments were not seri-ous to give fillip to this trade. Chairman, Kash-mir Economic Alliance (KEA), MuhammadYaseen Khan, alleged that the central govern-ment had only been giving false assurancesand “no concrete steps have been taken tostrengthen the cross-LoC trade.”

“We have pleaded before the Central gov-ernment time and again to create required in-frastructure for this trade, but except their as-

LoC trade unproductive exercise?surances nothing has been done,” he said. Khansaid: “There is a need to increase the number oftradeable items that can become the part of thebusiness between the divided Kashmir.” Chair-man, Federation of Industries Jammu, Anil Suri,said the industry leaders had become used tohear such hollow promises. “The fact remainsafter the trade started, not a single concrete stephas been taken on the ground to nourish, pro-mote and strengthen it.”

“No quality infrastructure has been created tohelp promote this trade. There are vested intereststrying to derail it,” Suri said. He said: “There is al-ready a proposal for introducing the banking facil-ity for the cross-LoC trade. But so far the proposalhas not been given the shape of a concrete plan.”He said because of the lack of infrastructure, par-ticularly the banking facility, traders were losing ap-petite for this trade. “We don’t know who the trad-

ers are on the other side with whom we are deal-ing. This trade is a unproductive,” he said.

President, Federation Chamber of Indus-tries Kashmir (FCIK), Muhammad Ashraf Mir,said that the cross-LoC trade though startedas a confidence building measure (CBM) be-tween Kashmir “has almost got derailed forwant of proper facilities.’’“It is no trade. Inthe 21st century you are still trading applesfor shoes,’’ he said. Joint Secretary General,Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Indus-tries (KCCI), Fayaz Bakshi said: “While thebilateral trade between India and Pakistan hasincreased manifold over the years, the cross-LoC trade is in stuck.” He said: “If the stateand central governments are really interestedto promote this trade, they need to add up allthe facilities to this activity.”

—Courtesy: Greater Kashmir

Kashmirsolution delay

threatens peaceM U Z A F FA R A B A D — T h eJammu and Kashmir Libera-tion Front-R leader,Muhammad Shoaib Shah hassaid that the further delay insettlement of the Kashmir dis-pute is a threat to peace andprosperity of the South Asianregion. Muhammad ShoaibShah in a statement issued inMuzaffarabad asked Indiaand Pakistan to take practicalmeasures to resolve the long-pending Kashmir dispute.

He said that Pak-Indiafriendship could only last af-ter settlement of vital issueslike Kashmir. He said that In-dia would have to give thepeople of Jammu and Kash-mir their inalienable right toself-determination to ensurepeace in the region.—KMS

Sopore massacre:court summons

CBI proberSRINAGAR—A TADA courtin Jammu and Kashmir todaydirected the CBI officer whoinvestigated the 1993‘Sopore massacre’, in which50 persons were killed in al-leged firing by BSF troops, toappear before it on July 14.The court direction came ona petition filed by survivorsof the massacre against theclosure of the case by the CBI.

The court directed thethen CBI investigation officer,DSP Vijay Kumar Shukla, toappear on before it on July14, the counsel for the peti-tioners Pervez Imroz said.Imroz said the survivors filedthe petition contesting therationale behind closure ofthe case by CBI and de-manded reinvestigation intothe killings. The CBI had filedthe closure report on Decem-ber 4 last year on the groundsthat the witnesses examinedwere unable to identify theBSF personnel involved inthe incident and they couldnot give details of the firingor cross-firing.

The survivors have al-leged that on January 6, 1993,personnel of the 94th battal-ion of BSF “carried out anattack in Sopore town thatled to the killing of more than50 civilians, injury to morethan a dozen”.—KD

Hailstormdamages paddy,fruit in Kupwara

KUPWARA (IHK)—Heavyrains and hailstorm damagedpaddy crop, vegetables andfruit in different parts of northKashmir. In Handwara,Braripora, Chotipora,Kulangam, Darishpora,Chogal and its adjoining vil-lages in Handwara area ofKupwara district, farmerssaid that heavy rains andhailstorm damaged paddyand maize crops.

They said that the hail-storm also hit fruit orchardsand vegetable fields. “Thehailstorm continued forabout 10 to 15 minutes inmany areas and damagedpaddy, maize, fruit and veg-etables,” said GhulamMohammad Mir, a farmer.

The hailstorm also af-fected fruits in most parts ofKupwara including Lolab beltand Kralpora. The farmers ap-pealed the authorities to com-pensate the loss caused dueto hailstorm. On June 26, thehailstorm had damaged paddycrop, vegetable fields and fruitorchards at Rafiabad, Laser,Saripara, Budden Tragporaand Rohama in Baramulla dis-trict.—KO

Malik shiftedto Central JailBATMALOO (IHK)—JammuKashmir Liberation Front(JKLF) condemned the po-lice action against its partyChairman Mohammad YasinMalik. Malik, along with doz-ens of other activists wasarrested by police on Mon-day and was later shifted tocentral jail in Srinagar.

According to a state-ment issued here, a JKLFspokesman said that severalparty leaders including ad-vocate Bashir Ahmad Butt,Mushtaq Ajmal, NisarJeelani, Molvi Abdul Rashidand Nazir Hajam who werelodged in Batamaloo policestation were presented be-fore a court. However, thecourt sent them for a judi-cial remand and shifted themto central jail Srinagar.

JKLF Chairman,Mohammad Yasin Malik,Showkat Ahmad Bakshi,Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri,Mohammad Sideeq Shah,Mohammad Rafiq War,Mushtaq Ahmad, AbdulMajid, Sanaullah,Mohammad Haneef Dar,Imtiyaz Ahmad andMohammad Hussian are al-ready in central jail Srinagarwhile as Javed Ahmad Butt,Tariq Ahmad Sheikh, FayazAhmad Khan andMohammad Altaf are inIslamabad jail, the spokes-man said.—KO

KOH-E-MARAN (IHK)—Twenty-four years after being closed for pub-lic, the Hari Parbat Fort over Koh-e-Maran hillock overlooking Srinagarcity was thrown open Saturday, andRising Kashmir, the event organizer,played its part in making this possible.At the opening of the fort, RisingKashmir together with J&K Tourismdepartment and Markus Kraft pre-sented the event ‘Taseer 2014’ as partof the ‘Kashmir Summer Festival 2014’inside the fort in which young ama-teur artists and school children par-ticipated in a painting, clay modellingand a photography competition.

Built atop a hillock by Afghan Gov-ernor Atta Muhammad Khan in 1810,the Hari Parbat Fort has remained a si-lent spectator to the vicissitudes ofKashmir history. Divisional Commis-sioner Kashmir, Shailendra Kumar, whowas the chief guest on the occasion,said Kashmir had remained a symbolof brotherhood and communal har-mony and called for starting a ropewaycircuit from the fort to GurdwaraChattipadshahi to Hazratbal shrine.

Appreciating the event organizersfor conducting the programme for chil-dren and young artists at such a pictur-esque location, he said after throwingthe fort open, the need of the hour wasto provide better facilities for those vis-iting the fort. He said Kashmir had al-

Hari Parbat Fort thrownopen after 24 years

ways promoted brotherhood and peopleneeded more such activities particularlyfor the development of Kashmir.

The fort is surrounded on one sideby Dal Lake, Nigeen Lake, and MughalGardens and on the other by theSrinagar City presenting a breathtak-ing view to the visitor. Director Tour-ism, Talat Parvez, who was the guestof honour, said participating in theprogram on the opening of the fort wasa dream come true for him.

“In my childhood, my parents usedto bring me along to the shrine ofMaqdoom Sahab and while visiting theshrine I craved to visit the fort whichused to remain out-of-bounds for thepeople,” he said. “Today by being here,I have realized my childhood dream.”Parvez said the Tourism department wasbuilding infrastructure for making thestay of visitors to the fort enjoyable.

“We’ve placed an All Terrain Vehicleat the gate of the fort, which drives thevisitors more than halfway to the fortwherefrom they can climb up the steps,”he said. “In addition, we have set upmusic boxes over which the story of fortis narrated and soon we are going topresent a light and sound show in thefort walls and showcase our rich heri-tage.” He said the fort being a protectedsite and under the Archaeological Sur-vey of India, would initially host only100 visitors a day.

“However, more visitors would beallowed to an Eco Park just adjacentto the fort, which was set up by theTourism department in collaborationwith the Department of Urban For-estry,” Parvez said. The first fortifica-tions of the fort were constructed in1590 by Emperor Akbar and by 1606,the construction of 4.75 km long, 10-meter high rampart wall known asNagar Nagar Kalayee, was completed.

Editor Rising Kashmir ShujaatBukhari, who hosted the programme,said the opening of the fort after 24years was symbolic. “This fort is oneof the symbols of the tyranny of whatwe people went through during thepast 500 years of subjugation underdifferent invaders,” he said.

Bukhari said Kashmir had rich heri-tage, arts, crafts, and language and therestrictions placed for entering into thefort stopped people from knowing theirheritage. “The fort has been eyewit-ness to the vagaries of Kashmir,” hesaid. “Today I saw children paintinginside the fort at 11 am and I realizedthat my decision of organizing thisevent had proved to be right.”

The Masjid inside the fort was alsothrown open and a number of visitorsto the fort offered afternoon prayersthere. Children made paintings in thehallways, corridors and antechambersvestibules, and open lawns.—RK

SRINAGAR—Senior Congress leader and aprominent Kashmiri lawyer Ashok Bhanhas called on PDP president MehboobaMufti in Delhi last week. The two leadersheld a long meeting discussing prospectsof winning over Pandit votes for the partyand bridging differences between the mi-nority community and the PDP.

Sources said that Bhan is likely to join PDPin coming days. Bhan was member of RamJethmalani Kashmir committee that paved theway of dialogue between the previous NDAgovernment and the Manmohan Singh gov-ernment with the Hurriyat leaders. When con-

Congress leader all set to join PDPtacted, Bhan confirmed his meeting with Ms.Mufti. “I met Ms Mufti and am in touch withMufti Saheb as well.” When asked was he join-ing the party, Bhan replied in affirmative say-ing that he will take a final decision in this week.

Buoyed by its performance in the re-cently concluded Lok Sabha elections,where it romped home all three seats fromKashmir Valley and also the fact that it gotconsiderable number of Pandit votes frommigrant camps, the party is now roping insome credible Pandit faces to consolidateits base within Pandit community, besidesother communities.—KD

PULWAMA (IHK)—Peoples DemocraticParty (PDP) patron, Mufti MohammadSayeed, Saturday said no political party isbeyond audit in peoples’ court and use ofballot was way out of Kashmir imbroglio.Addressing meeting of cardholders fromPulwama constituency, Mufti said demo-cratic competition introduced by the emer-gence of PDP makes all political playersaccountable before the people’s court andPDP itself is not beyond this political audit.

He said the way out of the Kashmir im-broglio was through ballot which is the ul-timate tool of empowerment and through awise use of this instrument the state caneffectively champion its cause and securethe power to undo injustices of the past.“PDP’s agenda goes beyond good gover-nance on which it has established creden-tials and it looks to paving the way for adignified resolution of Kashmir. Whilethose advocating a boycott have right todo so but it amounts to negation of theirown political philosophy of offering a freewill to the people when they are throughviolence or threat prevented from exercis-ing their option,” he said.

Use of ballot way out ofKashmir imbroglio: Mufti

He said the use of force to prevent peoplefrom exercising their franchise does not addto the credibility of those who claim to call forvoluntarily election boycott. Welcoming thelatest moves for upgrading the facilities fortrade and travel across the Line of Control(LoC), Mufti said substantial measures needto be taken to make the initiative successful.

He said the scope of trans-LoC tradeand travel should be expanded and madehassle-free to make more meaningful the2005 initiative of reopening the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road. Trade and travel facil-ity should be extended beyond the dividedfamilies to common citizens of the two sidesof the LoC and double currency systemalong with a credible banking back-up madeavailable to traders,” he added.

He said all traditional trade routes as ex-isted in the pre-independence era shouldalso be reopened to help harness the borderstate’s potential as a business hub. Muftisaid Kashmir has remained a challenge forthe all the Prime Ministers since 1947. “Amultidimensional approach as envisaged inparty’s Self-Rule document alone could savethe state from decades-old miseries.”—RK

SRINAGAR—The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilanihas called for release of all illegally detained Hurriyet lead-ers and activists on the eve of holy month of Ramazan sothat they can perform their religious obligations with fullfreedom and devotion. Syed Ali Gilani made the demandwhile addressing hundreds of youth and activists, whogathered outside his residence at Hyderpora in Srinagar,today, in connection with “Welcome Ramazan”programme.

On the other hand, the authorities, today, detainedAPHC leader, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza to prevent him fromvisiting the families of Shujatul Islam, Ishtiaq AhmadKhanday and Imtiyaz Ahmad, who were martyred by In-dian troops in Islamabad on this day in 2010.The Jammuand Kashmir Liberation Front in a statement condemnedthe continued detention of its Chairman, Muhammad YasinMalik and other party leaders and activists.

Kashmir Tehreek-e-Khawateen Chairperson ZamarudaHabib and Secretary General Ms Shamim Shawl telephoni-cally addressing a function in Islamabad said that the on-going struggle for right to self-determination continued toenjoy support from Kashmiri womenfolk since the start ofthe movement.

Meanwhile, the veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilaniand Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference MirwaizUmar Farooq and Shabbir Ahmad Shah in their separatestatements expressed deep shock and grief over the de-mise of the wife of United Jihad Council chief, SyedSalahuddin. She passed away at a hospital in Srinagarafter protracted illness. People from all walks of life includ-ing Hurriyet leader Zafar Akbar Butt participated in herfuneral prayers.—KMS

IHK authorities urged tofree detainees in Ramazan

SUMBAL (IHK)—Hurriyet leader and the Chairman of Islamic Political Party Jammu andKashmir, Mohammad Yousuf Naqash along with party delegation visited Markundal Sumbalto pay homage to, Irfan Ahmad and Tariq Ahmad who were martyred by Indiantroops.Mohammad Yousuf Naqash addressing on the occasion said that that Indian gov-ernment through its over 700,000 forces was involved in the massacre and genocide ofKashmiris to suppress their sentiment of freedom but would never succeed in its nefariousintentions. He said that the people of Kashmir were determined to continue their strugglein perpetuity till freedom from the forced and illegal occupation of India and were ready forany sacrifice. Naqash further said that the forced and illegal occupation of Kashmir was thebasic reason of conflict, violence and death and destruction in Kashmir.—KMS

Naqash pays homage toKashmiri martyrs in Sumbal

SRINAGAR: Mohammad Yousuf Naqash is declaring in his public address that Indiawould never succeed in its nefarious designs in Kashmir.

Confiscatedproperty ownedby commander’s

wife: FamilySRINAGAR—The family of aprominent freedom fighterAamir Khan, whose prop-erty was sealed in Pahalgamby the puppet authorities,has said the immovableproperty belongs to hiswife. On directives of NewDelhi, the local authoritiessealed Khan’s 9 kanal paddyland in Liver village of Sallararea in Pahalgam.The fam-ily said that Amir Khan wasoutside the territory and thesealed land is owned by hiswife.

“The paddy land wassealed on the pretext thati t belongs to Khan. Butthe fact is that this prop-erty belongs to his wife,”his family said. His 17-year son Abdul Hamid, aclass 11th student waspicked up by the IndianArmy in 1997 from HigherSecondary School atSrigufwara and later waskilled in custody, the fam-ily said.—KMS

SOIBUGH (IHK)—The wife of United JihadCouncil Chief and supreme commander ofHizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin, passedaway after a long spell of illness. She was 65.She was admitted to Soura hospital for quitesome time and was receiving chemotherapy.She breathed her last, yesterday and was laidto rest at her ancestral graveyard at Soibughin Badgam. People from all walks of life par-ticipated in her funeral prayers.

The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed AliGilani and Chairman of All Parties HurriyetConference Mirwaiz in their separatestatements expressed deep shock and

Gilani, Mirwaiz, others condoledeath of Salahuddin’s wife

grief over the demise of Salahuddin’s wife.They expressed solidarity with the be-reaved family and prayed for the eternalpeace to the departed soul. On the direc-tions of senior Hurriyet leader, ShabbirAhmad Shah, a delegation of HurriyetConference, today, visited the Soibug,Budgam and expressed solidarity with thefamily of United Jihad Council supremo,Syed Salahuddin, on the demise of hiswife. The delegation comprised Demo-cratic Freedom Party General Secretary,Muhammad Abdullah Tari, MuhammadYasin Atai and others.—KMS

BNP Paribas‘facing heavyUS penalties’NEW YORK—BNP ParibasCEO Jean-Laurent Bonnafein a message to employeeshas warned that the Frenchbank is facing heavy penal-ties following a US probeinto breaking sanctionswhich should end “verysoon,” a French TV channelreported.

BNP Paribas declined tocomment but sources thisweek said the French bank isexpected to plead guilty to afederal criminal charge andpay nearly $9 billion as partof a larger settlement withmultiple enforcement au-thorities that could be an-nounced as early as nextweek.

“I want to say it clearly,we are going to be heavilysanctioned,” broadcasteriTele quoted Bonnafe as say-ing in an internal messageposted on June 27.

“Malfunctions have oc-curred and mistakes weremade. But this difficulty weare experiencing should notimpact our roadmap.”

US authorities are exam-ining whether BNP Paribasevaded US sanctions relatingprimarily to Sudan between2002 and 2009 and whetherit stripped identifying infor-mation from wire transfers sothey could pass through theUS financial system withoutraising red flags, sourceshave said.

“This is good news forall teams and for our custom-ers,” iTele quoted Bonnafe assaying regarding the immi-nent settlement.

“This will help removecurrent uncertainties in ourgroup. This will allow us toturn the page on theseevents.”

BNP Paribas is likely tobe suspended from convert-ing foreign currencies to dol-lars on behalf of clients insome businesses for as longas a year, sources familiarwith the matter said recently.

Bonnafe took over abank in December 2011 thathad emerged a winner fromthe financial crisis andsought to raise revenues out-side its traditional Europeanmarkets, while tougher fi-nancial regulation madebanking a less profitablebusiness.

BNP has said publicly onlythat it is in discussions with USauthorities about “certain USdollar payments involvingcountries, persons and entitiesthat could have been subject toeconomic sanctions.”

It has set aside $1.1 bil-lion for the fine but told share-holders it could be far higherthan that. Last month it alsosaid it had improved controlprocesses to ensure such mis-takes did not occur again.

BNP plans to lower itsdividend and raise funds byselling billions of euros ofbonds next week, the WallStreet Journal reported onSaturday.

Analysts have already beton a cut in BNP dividends andsome, such as Deutsche Bank,factored in a zero dividend pay-out for 2014 in their forecastsfor BNP, based on a $9 billionfine. That would help theFrench bank maintain its coreequity Tier 1 ratio at close to10 percent. “At the time of theannouncement, I will addresseach and every one of you,”iTele cited Bonnafe as saying.“It is my responsibility to tellyou what happened, what les-sons we have learned and, es-pecially, how we will lookahead to the future.”—Agen-cies

Currency Selling Buying

USA 98.60 98.40

UK 168.00 167.66

Euro 134.14 133.86

Canada 92.04 91.85

Switzerland 110.27 110.05

Australia 92.79 92.60

Sweden 14.61 14.58

Japan 0.9687 0.9667

Norway 16.06 16.03

Singapore 78.84 78.68

Denmark 17.99 17.96

Saudi Arabia 26.29 26.24

Hong Kong 12.72 12.69

Kuwait 349.69 348.99

Malaysia 30.64 30.58

Newzealand 86.39 86.22

Qatar 27.08 27.02

UAE 26.85 26.79

Kr. Won 0.0970 0.0968

Thailand 3.035 3.029

AMANULLAH KHAN

KARACHI—SM Muneer, Chief Executive Trade Development Authorityof Pakistan while speaking at an exclusive dinner for diplomats in Karachisaid that millions of people are living below the poverty line and commer-cial activity is the only solution to eradicate poverty from both the nations.He disclosed “Curtain Raiser Event of Life Style Pakistan” held in NewDelhi couple of weeks back and the Indian Commerce Minister has assuredthem full cooperation to make the event a success. He thanked commercialdiplomats, businessmen and senior management of TDAP for extendingfull support and cooperation for increase of exports and uplift of economyof Pakistan and pledged that he will continue to play the role as a brideamong all these segments.

TDAP Chief extended invitation to all the commercial diplomats andbusinessmen to actively exhibit and participate in the “Expo Pakistan 2014”because it is the only official event which brings the business opportunitiesat the door steps. The success of Expo Pakistan is not the success of TDAPbut it is the success of entire business community and commercial diplo-mats present in the Pakistan. On talking “Life Style Pakistan 2014” he in-formed that millions of people are living below the poverty line and com-mercial activity is the only solution to eradicate poverty from both the na-tions. He communicated that they received warm welcome in “Curtain Raiser

Commercial activity is the only way out to eradicate poverty: CEO TDAPEvent of Life Style Pakistan” held in New Delhi couple of weeks back andthe Indian Commerce Minister has assured them full cooperation to makethe event a success. He thanked commercial diplomats, businessmen andsenior management of TDAP for extending full support and cooperation forincrease of exports and uplift of economy of Pakistan and pledged that hewill continue to play the role as a bride among all these segments.

The dinner was attended by commercial diplomats of Switzerland,Bangladesh, Vietnam, Turkey, Korea USA, China, honorary Counsel Gen-erals and top level businessmen of Karachi. Ms. RabiyaJaveri Agha, Secre-tary TDAP welcomed the distinguished guests on behalf of S.M. Muneer,Chief Executive, and other officers of TDAP. She briefed them about “ExpoPakistan 2014” scheduled to be held in October 2014 and invited them toexhibit in the event like Japan, Malaysia and China. The honorable guestswere also informed about the progress of “Life Style Pakistan 2014” sched-uled to be held in New Delhi in September 2014. She emphasized to createsynergy among TDAP, commercial diplomats and business community toenhance the trade among the countries.

Mr. S. M. Muneer, Chief Executive TDAP, thanked all diplomats andmembers of business community for sparing time and informed that he isplaying role of bridge between the commercial diplomats, TDAP and busi-ness community. The government of Pakistan in the leadership of PrimeMinister of Pakistan is determined to improve commercial and economic

position of Pakistan despite the fact that Pakistan is in the state of war.Though, war against terrorists and issues of IDPs is hampering the eco-nomic progress of Pakistan but despite this economic and commercial up-lift is the top priority of government. He further said that the recent budgetpresented by Finance Minister is mostly business friendly except few points,which have already been taken with the government and will get resolved.

He further disclosed that role of commercial diplomats and businesscommunity is very important as far as economic uplift of the country isconcerned and without support of commercial diplomats and business com-munity TDAP cannot ensure increase in the exports. On the behalf ofdiplomatic community, Mr. Rahul AlamSiddiqui, Deputy High Commis-sioner of Bangladesh thanked Mr. S. M. Muneer, C.E. TDAP for invitingthem on the event and praised his efforts to develop close relations be-tween commercial diplomats, business community and TDAP. He furtherdisclosed that Mr. S. M. Muneer is a well-known exporter and even heexports leather and cotton in Bangladesh. He applauded the approach ofC.E. TDAP and was of the view that this is the best way to create syner-gies among the people related with business and commercial activities.He termed Mr. S. M. Muneer a most suitable person for the assignment ofC.E. TDAP and he wished him success in his present assignment andensured full cooperation on the behalf of commercial diplomats of Paki-stan.

Shippingactivity at

PQKARACHI—Three ships ar-rived at Port to load/offloadcontainers at QICT, furnace oilat FOTCO, palm oil at LCT onJune 28, 2014.

Berth occupancy wasmaintained at 50% at the Porton Saturday where nine shipsnamely M.V Kps-I Alican Bey- Powership, M.V Dong Hai7001 (Dredger), M.V DelmasKeta, M.T Quetta, M.T GhettyBottigliete, M.T Citron, M.VGolden Trader are currentlyoccupying berths to load/offload containers, furnace oil,palm oil, fertilizer.

Cargo handling operationswere carried out smoothly atthe Port where a cargo volume44678 tonnes comprising36482 tonnes import, 8196tonnes export and 400 TUESwas handled at the Port duringlast 24 hours.

M.T Ghetty Bottiglieresailed on Saturday afternoon.M.V Delmas Keta sailed onSunday morning. M.V IolcosLegacy at FAP. M.T Lincoln atEVTL. M.V Msc Antalia atQICT. M.V Hurst Point atQICT. M.V Petro Hue at QICTarrival on June 29, 2014 as perarrival schedule.—APP

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Railways is planning torestore Musa Pak Express trains which was runbetween Lahore to Multan.

The train was closed due to non-availabil-ity of the passengers and financial crunch in thedepartment, an official in the Ministry of Rail-ways told APP.

While various segments of society wel-comed the Pakistan Railways decision to de-crease fare by 10 per cent in the Economy Classfares of 10 trains saying the move would en-courage people to frequently use the cheapestmode of traveling.

Pakistan Railways has also giving specialbundle deal concession on the ‘Business Class’as part of ‘Special Ramazan Package 2014’.

Pakistan Railways has announced a sub-stantive reduction of 10 per cent in rail fareson the directives of Federal Minister for Rail-ways Khawaja Saad Rafique in connection withthe Holy month of Ramazan followed by Eidul Fitr.

A passenger at Rawalpindi Railway StationSohaib Mansha, who was about to travel toKarachi while talking to this scribe said, “Paki-stan Railways have encouraged people to turnback towards this mode of communication sothat they feel comfortable and enjoying a safe,faster and cheaper journey.”

However, he said, steps are also requiredfrom the government and management of Paki-stan Railways to make sure that trains arrive on

time.Another passenger Waqas Anwer said rail

is the cheapest and safest mode of travel but forthe last many years it was ignored by the pastgovernments.

“We have noted that after taking charge ofPML-N government the department was headedby Saad Rafique as minister, many positivechanges were made to attract passengers”, hecommented.

A family traveling to Lahore, said train isthe best mean of transportation to make a jour-ney with children and decrease in its fare wouldhelp Pakistan Railways earn more money.

The official of Pakistan Railways said the10 percent discount in Economy Class will beavailable on Bolan Mail which runs betweenQuetta and Karachi.

Passengers of Sukkur Express will enjoy 10percent discount on Economy Class, AC Stan-dard and AC Sleeper. Fares of Economy Classand AC Sleeper of Khyber Mail too have beenreduced by 10 percent.

The fares of Economy Class, AC Sleeperand AC standard of Subak Raftar, SubakKharam, Islamabad Express, Rawal Express,Khyber Mail, Tez Gam and Jaafar Express toohave been reduced by 10 percent. Also a specialoffer of ‘buy five get one free’ on all the busi-ness class tickets has also been announced. Faresof Badeen Express and Saman Sarkaar have alsobeen reduced, he said.—APP

Pakistan Railways plan torestore Musa Pak Express

SIALKOT—Federal Minister for Water and Power KhawajaMuhammad Asif on Saturday said that PML-N led governmentwas utilizing all resources for power generation so thatloadshedding could be ended.

Several new power projects were being initiated across thecountry to cope with the crisis while many countries were nego-tiating with the government for providing electricity to Paki-stan, he added.

Addressing members of the Sialkot Transport Company andSialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), he said thegovernment had focused its attention on provision of electricityto the industrial sector to ensure productivity, adding that indus-trial sector was playing an instrumental role not only in strength-ening economy but also providing employment opportunitiesacross the country.

The minister said there was a visible improvement in elec-tricity supply as compared to previous years and the governmenthad successfully managed to eliminate possibilities of forced and

Govt utilizing all resourcesto end loadshedding: Kh Asif

unscheduled loadshedding in the country.Khawaja Asif said at this juncture the country needed eco-

nomic stability and unity among the masses, adding that the gov-ernment had focused on framing solid economic reforms for at-taining positive results aimed at bringing the country out of cri-ses.

The minister said a regional office of Sui Gas would soon beestablished in Sialkot to address the public complaints at locallevel.

The minister also assured that problems confronting to theSialkot Transport Company would be resolved at the earliest tofacilitate the general public.

Chairman Board of Directors Gujranwala Electric PowerCompany (GEPCO) Babar Iqbal, Acting President SialkotChamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) MianMuhammad Anwar and Chief Executive Officer SialkotTransport Company Naeem Qureshi and others also attendedthe meeting.—APP

SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Defence and Water & Power Khawaja Muhammad Asifinaugurating Sasta Ramzan Bazaar.

LAHORE—Punjab Governor ChaudharyMuhammad Sarwar Sunday urged all traders,businessmen and vendors not to over chargekeeping in view the sanctity of the holy monthof Ramazan.

Talking to APP here today,Governor saidthat in Islam, profiteering, hoarding and overcharging is totally prohibited.

He said that Pakistan is Muslim country andpeople must not only demonstrate but practisethe cardinal values of islamic teachings in theirlife in true letter and spirit specially in the holymonth of Ramazan, a month of special blessingof Allah.

He said rich people, philanthropists and trad-ers must facilitate the poor segment of the soci-ety and make their life comfortable with theirdonations, zakat and offering special discounton products.

Meanwhile Federation of Pakistan Cham-ber of Commerce and Industry, an apex body ofchambers and traders in the country also madean impassioned appeal businessmen to sell onlythe best quality products at quite reasonableprices and offer special discount throughout theholy month.

President FPCCI,Zakaria Usman and VPPresident SAARC CCI, Iftikhar Ali Malik saidthat all chambers and its all affiliated trade bod-

ies and organisations must constitute commit-tees to monitor the prices in their respective ar-eas and businessmen indulged in over charingbe taken to task without any discrimination.

Zakaria said that “we all are Muslims andQuran and Sunnah is complete code of life whichmust be practised in true letter and spirit. We allmust derive guidance from Quran and Sunnahto make our lives successful in every sphere oflife.”

He said Quran and law of land prohibitsprofiteering and hoarding. He asked the busi-ness community especially small vendors andshopkeepers to get only marginal profit frompeople in the holy month of Ramazan and inreturn Allah will bless their business with boun-ties which will continue to flourish.

Iftikhar Ali Malik said that businessmenshould sell their products through genuine“grand sale” on the pattern of western countrieswhere all items are sold even upto 80 per centless than the actual prices on the occasion ofChristmas and new year.

Zonal Chairman and VP FPCCI SM Naseersaid that businessmen community must providean opportunity to have nots for observing fastscomfortably and ensure their full participationin celebrating the Eid by selling the items on noprofit no loss basis.—APP

Traders urged not to overcharge during Ramazan

STAFF REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—The textile industry has contrib-uted precious foreign exchange of $ 10.385 bil-lion to national exchequer during first ninemonths of this fiscal year.

The cotton, having a share of 1.4 per cent inGDP and 6.7 per cent in agriculture value addi-tion is an important source of raw material tothe textile industry, which was cultivated on anarea of 28,06,000 hectares, 2.5 per cent less than

last year’s area of 28,79,000 hectares.According to the Ministry of Textile figures,

the production stood at 12.8 million bales duringthe period against the target of 14.1 million bales.

The cotton production is decreased due tofall in the area sown which is due to less ratesof cotton nationally and internationally prevailedduring last two years that discouraged the grow-ers to put more area under crop and shifting thearea to maize and rice crops in some districts ofPunjab due to their better market returns.

Textile industry fetches$10.385b in nine monthsBank of England

cannot controlhousing prices

LONDON—The Bank of En-gland cannot and should notcontrol rising house prices inBritain, a senior official at thecentral bank said in an inter-view published on the websiteof the Daily Mail newspaper onSaturday.

The Bank of England saidon Thursday it would imposeits first limits on how muchmost people can borrow to buya home in a bid to stem increas-ing levels of debt amid double-digit price growth in the hous-ing market. “It is not our jobto control house prices, nor canwe control house prices,” Spen-cer Dale, the bank’s executivedirector for financial stabilitystrategy and risk, told the Brit-ish newspaper.

“They will be determined bythe underlying conditions of themarket.” The BoE’s FinancialPolicy Committee said on Thurs-day that from October, it wouldonly allow 15 percent of newmortgages to be at multipleshigher than 4.5 times a borrower’sincome, and that all lending wouldbe subject to extra affordabilitychecks. Dale said that peopleshould consider the measurestaken by the bank “as insurancefor the country’s housing market.”

“When people come tojudge the success of this policyin, say, two years’ time, do notjudge us on what has happenedto house prices, judge onwhether we have controlled thelevels of household indebted-ness.”—APP

KARACHI—Minister of State for Communica-tions Abdul Hakeem Baloch has said that timelycompletion of all projects of highways in Sindhis the need of the hour because completion ofhighways will minimize distances and will boosttrade, tourism, industry and agriculture of thecountry that will ultimately bring economic pros-perity in the country.

He said that durable highways ensure ourprogress, and therefore, the present democraticgovernment is paying exclusive attention to theCommunications Sector of the country.

Abdul Hakeem Baloch expressed theseviews during his exclusive visit to NHA’s re-gional headquarters Karachi, said a statement.

The Minister said that timely completion ofall NHA projects in Karachi and Sindh is theirtop priority, and the development vision of PrimeMinister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif envisagesspeedy progress in the Communications Sector,therefore no compromise will be made on qual-ity and pace of work and projects in Sindh willbe urgently completed.

On this occasion, senior NHA andMotorway officials also accompanied him.

A detailed briefing was given to the Minis-ter by respective General Managers of all ongo-ing projects in Sindh.

The Minister was told that Gharo-KetyBandar Project (package-I) is 24 kilometres longand its 2013-14 revised estimate was Rs776million, and 90 percent of its work has beencompleted.

The Package-II (Mirpur Sakar to Gharo) ofthis project is 30 kilometres long and its revisedestimate is Rs1292 million, and this package hasbeen completed in 2013.

The Package-III of this project (Gharo toKety Bandar) is also 30 kilometres long and itsrevised estimate is Rs957 million, and 52 per-cent work of this package has been completed.

The Minister was told that Lyari Express-way Project is 32 kilometres long and its 2013-14 revised estimate is Rs1202 million and 80percent of this project has also been completed,the Package-I of Qazi Ahmad-Amri on RiverIndus is 2km long and its revised estimate isRs2016 millions, and this project has been com-pleted last year.

Package-ll of this project is 16 kilometres longand its 2013-14 revised estimates is Rs1714 mil-lion, and 75 percent of this project has been com-pleted. Package-HI of the same project has alreadybeen completed with a cost of Rs339 million; how-ever Package- IV of this project is delayed due toissues in land acquisition.—Agencies

Completion of highways toboost economic activities

RIYADH—Tabuk Pharmaceuticals, one ofthe leading pharmaceutical companies in theMiddle East and North Africa (MENA) re-gion, has signed a commercial agreementwith Pfizer, the US-based global industryleader.

The venture leverages the respective com-panies’ market leading presence in SaudiArabia to deliver increased value to patientsin the cardiovascular, central nervous system,anti-infective and respiratory therapeutic ar-eas.

Under this agreement, Pfizer will grantTabuk exclusive rights to carry out manufactur-ing processes under license, commercialize anddistribute second brand versions of four Pfizerproducts in the Kingdom.

In addition, Tabuk Pharmaceuticals willgive Pfizer, rights to 12 high-value genericproducts in Saudi Arabia. Both companies willseek the relevant authorities’ approvals forregistration, production and commercializa-tion.

This project is aligned with one of TabukPharmaceuticals’ main strategic objective:To expand its offering of innovative medi-cines in Saudi Arabia by strengthening itsposition in its domestic market through part-nerships with multinational companies. In sodoing, Tabuk Pharmaceuticals continues todeliver on its mission to help improve thelives of patients, while contributing to thedevelopment of KSA’s local pharmaceuticalindustry and manufacturing expertise. Theinitiative is also consistent with Pfizer’s vi-sion of “working together for a healthierworld.”

Pfizer, in line with its strategic commitmentto contribute to the Saudi pharmaceutical indus-try, carefully selected high quality medicinalproducts to add to its already diverse portfolioin Saudi Arabia.

Pfizer intends to leverage its global and lo-cal capabilities to bring the value of these prod-

Tabuk Pharmaceuticals andPfizer ink partnership deal

ucts to its Saudi patients and further strengthenits focus in the Saudi market.

The agreement between the companies isendorsed by Dr. Hamad Al-Khamees, senior ex-ecutive vice president Saudi Arabia Tabuk Phar-maceuticals, and Guy Lallemand, head of Glo-bal Established Pharma, Pfizer Africa MiddleEast.

Dr. Al-Khamees said, “We are delighted tohave entered into this partnership with a com-pany of Pfizer’s caliber and look forward toexecuting it for the benefit of the Saudi pa-tients and the entire medical community. Be-ing in a position to move forward with thisproject is a demonstration of Pfizer’s businessacumen, and Tabuk Pharmaceuticals’ productdevelopment and manufacturing capabilities.We feel excited at the prospect of further col-laboration initiatives with Pfizer and proud toadd another modest contribution to the devel-opment of the local pharmaceuticals industryin the Kingdom.”

Global Established Pharma Lead & Coun-try Manager, Pfizer Saudi Arabia, Hussein ElHakim, said “This venture is a result of suc-cessfully identifying mutual synergy withTabuk Pharmaceuticals; a best-in-class re-gional company; which will result in improv-ing patients’ accessibility to the medicationsthey need and deliver enhanced therapeuticchoices to the clinicians who care for them.This agreement will allow Pfizer to leverageits new legal entity for the early realizationof its future projects in Saudi Arabia and con-tinue to actively contribute as a key player inthe development of the Saudi healthcare sys-tem.”

In October 2011, Pfizer established a legalentity in Saudi Arabia and signed an agreementwith Emaar, under the auspices of the SaudiArabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA)to set up its first manufacturing plant through-out the GCC at King Abdullah Economic City(KAEC).—Agencies

PESHAWAR: Chief guest giving away Inter-Regional Women Baseball trophy to winning captain.

ISLAMABAD—Fromer Skipper Shoaib Malikwants to play for Pakistan in all three for-mats saying the hunger is still there andthe best cricketing age for a batsman is from30 to 37 years.

Malik said he is playingthe twenty over format morethan any other format as heis not getting the opportuni-ties to play in Test cricket orone days then that justleaves T20s for him.

Talking about the futurecaptaincy of Pakistan, Maliksaid the Pakistan CricketBoard (PCB) should speakwith Misbah-ul-Haq abouthis plans for the future andask him how long he wishesto carry on in internationalcricket. “There has to besome clarity and dialoguebetween the Board andMisbah on his future as onlythen can a successor begroomed,” Malik told Pakpassion.net.

Malik said there has to be consistencyin the selection of captains and the ap-proach in selecting a captain irrespectiveof whether that captain is an inexperiencedplayer or an experienced cricketer.”The cap-tain has to be given a decent amount of

Malik wants to play in allthree formats for Pakistan

time to impose himself and his ideas on hisplayers. Give the captain two or three yearsat least and give him clear goals and tar-gets so there is no ambiguity and ill feelingif that captain has to be replaced at the end

of those two to three years,”he said.

Speaking about not re-ceiving a central contract,Malik said if the Board wantsto see improvements in Pa-kistani cricketing affairs,then they need to be con-sistent in the way theyhandle all matters. “We arereally lacking in consistencyin Pakistan cricket,” he saidadding a player doesn’teven know if he will be play-ing in the next match or thenext series as there is noconsistency in selection andthis is where we are lightyears behind other coun-tries.

However talking about playing countycricket with Warwickshire, Malik said thefeedback from his team mates and the teammanagement has been awesome. “I am giv-ing my 100% to the team’s cause and I havereally been enjoying my cricket,” he said.—APP

Netherlands,Nepal

awarded T20Int’l status

ISLAMABAD—The Nether-lands and Nepal have beengranted Twenty20 Interna-tional status at the ICC An-nual Conference inMelbourne.

Both sides competed atthe World Twenty20 inBangladesh earlier this year,with the Dutch bowling En-gland out for 88 in a 45-runwin in Chittagong for theironly win of the Super 10phase, Sky Sports reported.

They had earlier quali-fied for the second stage ofthe tournament with winsover the United Arab Emir-ates and Ireland.

Nepal also won two oftheir three qualifiers, but adefeat against hostsBangladesh saw themknocked out on net run rate.

The countries join Af-ghanistan, Hong Kong, Ire-land, Scotland, Papua NewGuinea and the UAE as as-sociate members with T20world status.—APP

PESHAWAR—Promising Qurat-ul-Ain,Nousheen and Afsheen guided PeshawarRegion to a comfortable 5-2 victory in thefinal of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inter-Re-gion Women Baseball Championship playedhere at Jinnah College for Women Univer-sity of Peshawar on Sunday.

Director General Sports KhyberPakhtunkhwa Sports Board was the chiefguest on this occasion.

Organizing Secretary Miss Raham Bibi,Director Sports Girls College Mardan MissGul Nar, Director Girls College Haripur MissAysha Batool, Director Sports Girls CollegeBannu No. 1 Shahana Marwat, the two su-pervision referees Salma Faiz and Shakeel,players, officials and large number of stu-dent spectators were also present and wit-nessed the baseball final.

Before the start of the final the playersof two finalist teams were introduced to her.Peshawar Region won the toss and electedto bat by scoring 5 runs in which Qurat-ul-Ain hammered a lofting hit by taking tworuns while Nousheen, Sana and Afsheenscored one runs each against very strongbowling of Mardan. For Mardan, Renoon,Mariyum and Nadra bowled excellently,keeping Peshawar to a low score 5 runsonly.

Peshawar win Inter-Region WomenBaseball Championship

In reply, Mardan failed to chase the tar-get and were bundled out for just two runs.Mariyum and Nadra were the contributors.For Peshawar Qurat-ul-Ain, Nousheen,Afsheen bowl well and did not give muchtime to their rivals to settle down in thewhole final match. Thus Peshawar won thematch by 5-2.

At the end, the chief guest MissRashida Ghaznavi gave away winners andrunners-up trophies to Peshawar andMardan. She also awarded Rs. 10, 000 tothe winners and Rs. 7000 to the runners-upbesides giving cash prize of Rs. 10,000 toeach of the finalist teams.

Speaking on this occasion she said sofar the Directorate of Sports have conducted11 female events and three more eventswould be organized soon after Eid-ul-Fitre.She said the girls of Khyber Pakhtunkhwahave great potential to come up at nationaland international levels subjective to pro-vide best coaching and training.

She said in the second face they haveconducted five different games like cricket,baseball, volleyball, badminton and tabletennis. The volleyball won by Hazara, Bad-minton won by Mardan Region, Table Ten-nis, Cricket and Baseball trophies won byPeshawar Regions.—APP

Serena crashesat soggy

Wimbledon innine-year low

LONDON—World numberone and five-time championSerena Williams crashed toher earliest defeat atWimbledon for nine yearswhile Rafael Nadal, RogerFederer and Maria Sharapovasailed smoothly through.

Williams, the top seed,lost her third round tie toFrench 25th seed Alize Cor-net 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a Court Oneclash which had been held upfor over four hours becauseof torrential rain which saw45 matches wiped off theschedule.

Serena could have nocomplaints about an embar-rassing defeat which contin-ued a disappointing cam-paign for the 17-time GrandSlam champion, who hasfailed to get beyond thefourth round at any of thethree majors so far this year.It was her earliest exit from theAll England Club since 2005when she lost to fellowAmerican Jill Craybas at thesame stage.

Cornet, 24, goes on toface Canadian 13th seedEugenie Bouchard on Mon-day in what will be her firstappearance in the secondweek of Wimbledon at theeighth attempt and only hersecond career fourth roundappearance at a Grand Slam.

Cornet, who had defeatedWilliams in Dubai earlier thisyear, celebrated by kissingthe turf in jubilation. In starkcomparison, Nadal, Federerand Sharapova all securedfourth round spots playingunder the Centre Courtroof.—AFP

KARACHI—The pair of Mohammad Asifand Mohammad Sajjad, who did Pakistanproud at Carlow, Ireland, last year, took astep closer to retain the title when theywhipped India-One 4-1 to sneak into Inter-national Billiards and Snooker Federation(IBSF) snooker team event semi-final inSharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The victorious pair proved too good forthe Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and BirjeshBamani winning the battle 31-71, 80-41, 62-17, 84-11, 51-14.

It is pertinent to mention that Advani isa former world amateur snooker championhaving beaten the then Pakistan’s SalehMohammad in the final played at Jiangmin,China. The latter has migrated to Afghani-stan.

Earlier, Pakistan carved out 3-1 victory

Pakistan outclass India toreach snooker semis

over Egypt 13 in the quarter-final. Thescores were 99-37, 10-60, 62-38, 68-63.

Pakistani pair is now scheduled to playIran two in the semi-final on Saturdaynight.

Meanwhile, the unbeaten run of Sajjadin the 6-Reds event was over when he wentdown to Poland’s Kacper Filipiak 2-5. ThePolish player won the duel 25-37, 33-24, 45-1, 40-9, 32-20, 15-38, 47-1.

Results: 6-Reds quarter-final:Kacper Filipiak (Poland) bt Mohammad

Sajjad (Pakistan) 5-2 (25-37, 33-24, 45-1, 40-9, 32-20, 15-38, 47-1).

Team event:Pre quarter-final: Pakistan bt Egypt 13

3-1 (99-37, 10-60, 62-38, 68-63)Quarter-final: Pakistan bt India-One 4-1

(31-71, 80-41, 62-17, 84-11, 51-14).—APP

BRIDGETOWN—New Zealand clawedback into the series decider on a dry,slow Kensington Oval pitch throughtheir two left-arm quicks as WestIndies surrendered another promisingposition - they had begun the day 169for 2 and succumbed to 317 all out bytea. The visitors managed a lead of 99but not before Kemar Roach and Ja-son Holder ripped out three wicketsto keep West Indies in the hunt.

Much of New Zealand’s positionwas down to Neil Wagner. He toiledwith the old ball and epitomised animproved approach. They had beenfickle with their tactics on the secondday, but today they had well-devisedplans and were patient enough to seethem through to completion. TrentBoult had a quiet morning session butregained his mojo with the new ball.He snared two wickets in two overs,including the last recognised batsmanDenesh Ramdin for a plucky 45.

West Indies’ tail did wag, but notquite enough. Holder, playing his firstinnings in Tests, marshalled a 36-runpartnership for the eighth wicket andhinted at abilities beyond his first-class average of 15.40 through somedelectable drives. He was excellentwith the ball too, snapping up RossTaylor as his maiden Test wicket. Hisheight enabled him to extract a touchmore bounce which helped spice upproceedings towards the end of the

N Zealand 1st innings: 293W Indies 1st innings: 317New Zealand 2nd innings:Latham c Shillingford bRoach ................................. 0Rutherford c Ramdin bRoach ............................... 19Williamson not out ...... 121Taylor c Bravo b Holder .. 6McCullum lbw b Roach . 25Neesham c Brathwaite bHolder .............................. 51Watling not out .............. 15Extras: (b 16, lb 1, w 6) ... 23Total: (5 wickets) .......... 260Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-56, 3-68, 4-135, 5-226Bowling: ............ O-M-R-WTaylor ................... 11-4-36-0Roach ................... 15-2-46-3Benn ..................... 21-1-75-0Holder .................. 10-2-26-2Shillingford ......... 13-2-60-0

SCOREBOARD

3rd Test: Wagner, Williamsonput New Zealand ahead

day’s play. He gave BrendonMcCullum some grief, narrowly miss-ing out a leg-before decision. Hawk-Eye pegged the impact outside off, butthere was doubt over whether the NewZealand captain was playing a shot.

Roach had been the other sourceof threat after he settled into a prob-ing length quite readily. He drew TomLatham into an ill-advised pull and elic-ited Hamish Rutherford’s outside edge.Barring a few overs from ShaneShillingford, the rest of the attack wasordinary again.

McCullum took 18 balls to get offthe mark but he and half-centurionKane Williamson - who had an out-side edge bisect wicketkeeper and slipand escaped a tough stumping oppor-tunity - managed to take New Zealandto stumps without further damage.

Inventive fields and consistencyfrom their bowlers made for an absorb-ing morning session. The abrasivepitch sapped most of the pace off theball and the search for wickets ledMcCullum to play hot potato with hisclose-in fielders. It started with twingullies for Darren Bravo, then twinshort covers, and as the batsman con-tinued to drive on the up, a third shortcover.

Bravo took on the challenge. Twofours were conceded before Wagnerduped him with a slower ball that drewhim a little too far outside the off

stump. Williamson at gully completeda good catch and the visitors cel-ebrated an astute plan coming off. Theshort ball was used as a surpriseweapon as the dogged ShivnarineChanderpaul found out on the cuspof lunch. Fitting reward for Wagner’swholehearted efforts.

There was brief resistance fromRamdin, who had flourished againstthe spin of Mark Craig. Two long hopswere dispatched square on either sideof the pitch and a lashing cover drivealso featured among his best shots.As quick as he was with his footworkagainst the offspinner, he got into awoeful tangle against an inswinger andwas out leg before. Boult added an-other wicket when he induced Roach’soutside edge and BJ Watling took asmart, low grab.

It did help New Zealand that evenset batsmen like Kirk Edwards hadtrouble regaining their stride. He hadto contend with the bowlers targetingthe stumps. His strokeplay was re-strained and a simple defensive pushskimmed across the turf to usher himto his half-century. However, pushingon from the mark has been a problemin recent times.

The last three times he hadreached this far, he could not get to60. Tim Southee ensured the continu-ation of that trend by generating re-verse swing in his second spell. Theflick off the legs ended up as a leading

edge that swirled in the airbefore Rutherford held awell-judged catch.New Zealand’s bowlers

created opportunities and ifthey couldn’t, they keptthings tight.—AFP

BRIDGETOWN: Kemar Roach had Hamish Rutherford caught behind during WestIndies vs New Zealand, 3rd Test.

LONDON: Former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss and retired cricket playerSachin Tendulkar stand on Centre Court at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

ROGERS (United States)—Michelle Wiefired a second straight five-under par 66 onSaturday to seize the lead before stormsstopped play in the second round of theLPGA NW Arkansas Championship.

Wie, the one-time prodigy who claimedthe first major title of her career at the USWomen’s Open at Pinehurst last week, hadsix birdies and just one birdie.

Her 10-under total of 132 put her in theclubhouse with a two-stroke lead overSouth Korea’s Ryu So-Yeon when play washalted at the sodden Pinnacle Country Clubcourse.

Ryu had five birdies and one bogey inher second successive 67 for 134.

South Korea’s Chella Choi and Norwe-gian Suzann Pettersen were level on 135,Choi boosted by six birdies and an eagle inher 65 and Pettersen with a 67 to get toseven-under through 36 holes.

On the course, Denmark’s Line Vedelwas also seven-under with five holes toplay, one of 72 players who failed to com-plete the second round.

LPGA vice president Sue Witters saidofficials hoped to get the second round ofthe 54-hole tournament completed on Sun-day morning, and the final round in bynightfall.

“I hate to say the ‘M word’,” she saidof the possibility of a Monday finish, add-ing that officials were “fairly confident” that

Golf: Wie seizes lead as stormsslow LPGA in Arkansas

they could complete three rounds by Sun-day night.

Witters said the severity of the stormsmade it impossible to continue play on Sat-urday. Even if there had been a break in theweather before darkness fell, the amount ofrainfall meant it would take some time toget the course ready for play.

World number one Stacy Lewis, whocarded a 66, South Korea’s Lee Mi-Hyangwith a 65 and American Mina Harigae witha 66 were in the clubhouse on six-under.

South Korea’s Oh Ji-Young, AmericanGerina Piller and Mexico’s Alejandra Llanezashared sixth place with them, Oh through14 holes, Piller through 13 and Llanezathrough 10.

Meanwhile, Patrick Reed, seeking hisfourth title in 10 months, fired a par 71 Sat-urday to seize a two-stroke lead after thethird round of the $6.5 million PGA National.

The 23-year-old American, who nota-bly proclaimed himself one of the top fiveplayers in the world after winning at Doralin March, stood on six-under 207 after 54holes at Congressional Country Club.

South Korean Noh Seung-Yul, Austra-lian Marc Leishman and Sweden’s FreddieJacobson shared second on 209 withEngland’s Justin Rose, Zimbabwe’sBrendon de Jonge and Americans BenMartin, Richard Lee, Hudson Swafford andShawn Stefani sharing fifth on 210—AFP

Stars Club, FF LionsClub advance in

Shama Super LeagueT20 Cricket

PESHAWAR—Stars club andFrontier Foundation Lionsclub registered victoriesagainst their respective ri-vals in the ongoing ShamaSuper League Twenty20Cricket Tournament beingplayed here at Gymkhanaground on Sunday.

Stars club defeated Fal-con club by 10 wickets whileFrontier Foundation Lionsclub outclassed PeshawarBadshah by seven wickets.

In the first match Falconclub won the toss and electedto bat first by setting up 92runs in which Zahir Khanhammered a vital 34 runs in-cluding four boundaries,Subhan (18) and IbrahimKhan made 35 runs not outincluding three boundaries.For Stars club Amin claimedthree wickets, Hussain,Inayat Ullah and Haroongrabbed two wickets each.

In reply, Stars clubchased the target withoutloss after playing 18.4 oversof the allotted 20 overs. Thetwo openers Mamoon Khanand Fazal-e-Haq were theprominent contributors.Mamoon smashed a crack-ing knock of 56 runs, lacedwith four boundaries andthree sixes, Fazal-e-Haqscored 36 runs includingtwo boundaries and one six.Thus Stars club won thematch by 10 wickets.

In the second matchFrontier Foundation Lionsclub won the toss and in-vited Peshawar Badshahclub to bat first.—APP

No FIFA actionagainst Croatia,

RussiaRIO DE JANEIRO—FIFAwill not take disciplinary ac-tion over reports of far-rightsymbols being held by fansof Croatia and Russia at theWorld Cup, the governingbody said on Sunday.

The decision comes af-ter FIFA decided last weeknot to take disciplinarysteps against Mexico fol-lowing claims that chantsfrom their fans were ho-mophobic.

The cases had been re-ported to FIFA by thegroup Football AgainstRacism in Europe (FARE)which monitors cases ofracism and discriminationin stadiums.—AFP

RECIFE (Brazil)—If Costa Ricamidfielder Michael Barrantes be-lieves his small Central Americancountry’s national side is favoredto reach the World Cup

quarterfinals, he’s not about to sayso publicly.

‘’We’re not favorites. We’regoing to face off with a great team.Greece is a great team. They havethe merits to belong’’ in the sec-ond round, Barrantes said Satur-day, on the eve of the Ticos’ sec-ond round match against Greece.‘’We came here as a dark horse,’’Barrantes added. ‘’We surprisedthe world.’’

Costa Rica entered the WorldCup as a long-shot simply to ad-vance out of Group D, which alsoincluded former world championsEngland, Italy and Uruguay. In-stead, the Ticos won the groupahead of Uruguay - a side CostaRica defeated 3-1 - while Italy andEngland were eliminated.

Costa Ricans downplayfavoured status against Greece

Greece, meanwhile, did notscore in its first two World Cupgames and required a penalty in in-jury time to beat Ivory Coast 2-1and finish second in Group C.

In the days immediately afterGreece clinched its spot againstCosta Rica, some of the teamopenly accepted the notion thattheir recent form made them thefavourites.

Apparently, Costa Rico’s Co-lombian coach, Jorge Luis Pinto,decided such talk was not in hisside’s best interest, and the tunehas changed.

‘’We will give to Greece all therespect it deserves,’’ Pinto said. ‘’Itis a team that can indeed defendwell and can score goals, and it’sdifficult to control them.’’

Pinto danced around questions

Costa Rica captain Bryan Ruiz Greece captain Giorgos Karagounis

which suggested his team couldhave an advantage.

He also largely avoided thetopic of striker Joel Campbell’s fa-miliarity with Greek players.Campbell played for Greek cham-pions Olympiakos last season, andfour of his teammates at the Ath-ens-based club (midfielderAndreas Samaris; and defendersGiannis Maniatis, Kostas Menolasand Jose Holebas) are playing forGreece in Brazil.

Asked how Campbell mighthelp with scouting the Greeks,Pinto said blandly that he and hisstaff have studied dozens ofmatches involving Greek playersand welcomed input from anyplayer who has played with oragainst Greek players in variousEuropean leagues.

Costa Rica is trying to win anelimination game for the first time,having made the second roundonly once before, in 1990, when itlost to Czechoslovakia.

‘’We’re writing the history offootball for our country,’’ Barrantessaid. ‘’Since we’ve come here,we’ve trusted in ourselves and wehave no set ceiling for our perfor-mance.’’—AP

France midfielder Yohan Cabaye haswarned his side against arrogancein Monday’s second round match

against Nigeria.Les Bleus qualified for the knock-

France vs Nigeria: Yohan Cabaye warnsagainst arrogance

out stage unbeaten with two wins asthey aim to reach a World Cup quar-ter-final for the first time since 2006.

“It’s great to be ambitious. But to saywe’re going to win the World Cup is

a lot,” said Cabaye, 28.“Confidence shouldn’t become

arrogance because that’s when youhave problems.”

Cabaye’s team-mate BacarySagna has been reported as sayingit would be a “failure” if France didnot win the World Cup.Key facts

Les Blues have lost two of theirlast three World Cup matchesagainst African nations (2002 vSenegal and 2010 v South Africa).They beat Togo in 2006.

All of France’s goals during thisWorld Cup have come from insidethe box.

France attempted more shots atgoal (50; excluding those blocked)than any other side during the 2014World Cup group stages.

Karim Benzema has scored ninegoals in his last nine appearancesfor France, including three goals inhis three appearances at this WorldCup.

Nigeria reached the last 16 forthe first time since 1998 with onewin and a draw from their Group F

games and start the tie in Brasilia asunderdogs.

But Paris St-Germain’s Cabaye,who returns to the France squadhaving been suspended forWednesday’s goalless draw withEcuador, insists the African cham-pions cannot be taken lightly.

“One false step and you’rehome, so you already have that pres-sure,” the former Newcastle playersaid. “I respect this Nigeria team

and we can go through but to saywe can win the World Cup... wellyou have to be careful.

“Even with the mentality anddetermination we have on the pitch,there’s nothing to say we won’t bebeaten by a better side. Going fromhaving ambition to saying we haveto win the World Cup is puttingyourself under unnecessary pres-sure.”

France captain Thierry Henry Nigeria captain Joseph

COLOMBIA: Colombian fans celebrate during the fan fest in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca as they watch the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014second round match between Colombia and Uruguay in a big screen.

RIO DE JANEIRO—James Rodriguezscored a brace as Colombia beat Uruguay2-0 at the Maracana on Saturday to reachthe World Cup quarter-finals for the firsttime, where they will face Brazil.

Monaco star Rodriguez moved top ofthe World Cup scoring charts on five goalsas he showed why many of Europe´s big-gest clubs are looking to sign him.

His first effort was a contender for goalof the tournament as he took the ball downon his chest with his back to goal beforeswivelling and hitting a dipping volley inoff the bar.

His second was a simple tap in afterJuan Cuadrado headed Pablo Armero´sdeep cross back into the danger zone.

The build up to the game had been domi-

Colombia beat Uruguay 2-0 tobook Brazil quarter-final

nated by the fall-out from Luis Suarez´sworldwide ban for biting Italy´s GiorgioChiellini.

Even though he was back home in Uru-guay, his team laid out his kit in the chang-ing rooms at the Maracana.

But Uruguay dearly missed his talis-manic presence as they were dominated bytheir South American rivals.

Rodriguez was the star of the show witha sublime opener on 28 minutes that mightjust pip Australia´s Tim Cahill to goal of thetournament.

And he was in the right place at theright time to convert Cuadrado´s cleverheader five minutes into the second period.

Colombia will next play Brazil inFortaleza on Friday in the last eight.—AFP

RIO DE JANEIRO: Rodriguez of Colombia scores his fifth goal of the tournamentagainst Uruguay.

SAO PAULO—Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesarcelebrated Saturday night after his dream per-formance helped erase the nightmare of the2010 World Cup when his mistake helped leadto Brazil’s early elimination and four years ofvilification by sceptical fans.

Julio Cesar provided a safe pair of handsthroughout the 1-1 draw with Chile before hestopped two penalties in the 3-2 shootoutwin. The match was one of the most thrillingof the World Cup so far and the Brazil goal-keeper picked up the Man of the Match awardfor his display.

“The match has proven that if you havedream then go after it and don’t give up,” hesaid after accepting his prize. “We haven’twon anything yet but this gives me thestrength to go into the next match and helpmy teammates.” It was welcome vindicationfor a man who shared the blame for Brazil’searly exit in South Africa four years ago. Withthe quarter final against the Netherlands tied1-1 he flapped at a cross, allowing WesleySneijder to nod home the winning goal.

The keeper famously cried after the de-feat and then lost his international place - andhis confidence. He went from Inter Milan toQueens Park Rangers and was relegated withthe London club. He sat on the sidelines formuch of last season and only started playing

Valiant performancevindicates vilified keeper

again when he was loaned to modest NorthAmerican outfit Toronto FC.

Scolari, however, never doubted his class.The manager brought him back into the inter-national fold in 2013 and rated him highlyenough to guarantee his spot on in the WorldCup squad almost a year before the tourna-ment started. “After what happened in 2010 Isaw how many people were cheering for meand I wanted to win the World Cup for whathappened back then,” Julio Cesar said.

“To be labelled as a villain, that is verybad, it is very complicated.” “I need to keepfocused so this dream will come true.” Trueto form the emotional keeper cried in front ofcameras as he described his feelings after thewin.

“My tears? Well, I am an emotional per-son,” he said, adding that this time they weretears of joy. “I was crying because individu-ally, my team mates came to me and supportedme and said nice things and I couldn’t hold itback.”

After 2010 “I just tried to focus and con-centrate on doing my job in the best possibleway,” he added. “What would crown thiswould be to hold and kiss the cup with mil-lions of Brazilians. This is very special be-cause of what happened in the last WorldCup.”—APP

BELO HORIZONTE (Brazil)—Brazil coach Luiz FelipeScolari accepted that luck was on his team’s side afterthey scraped into the World Cup quarter-finals on Satur-day, beating Chile on penalties.

“If you don’t exploit the few opportunities you get,you can go out. We almost paid the price in the 118thminute when the ball hit the bar,” said Scolari, whose sidetriumphed 3-2 in a shoot-out at the Mineirao Stadium inBelo Horizonte after a 1-1 draw over 90 minutes and extratime.

Brazil squandered several chances and then survivedwhen substitute Mauricio Pinilla crashed a shot off thewoodwork with penalties approaching.

Then, in the shoot-out itself, Willian and Hulk bothmissed for the tournament hosts but goalkeeper Julio Cesarmade two crucial saves from Pinilla and Alexis Sanchezbefore Gonzalo Jara hit the post when he had to score tokeep Chile in it.

“We had three or four chances to score a (second)goal and didn’t do it. We had even possession and moreshots on goal, but when you don’t score you always runmore of a risk,” Scolari said before praising his side forcoping with the extreme pressure.

“This is a new team and even the most experiencedplayers feel pressure. If you say you don’t, you are lying.

“Willian took a penalty and missed it but he will gainexperience from it. Now let’s see if we can make less mis-takes in the next matches, because if we make errors wewill give away chances and might not be so lucky.

“Chile were brilliant. They are a well-organised teamand it was a very balanced game, but I want to tell thepeople of Brazil that we have a good team and a lot of whatwe did today was due to the fans.”

Brazil will return to training on Monday as their atten-tions turn to a quarter-final tie against either Uruguay orColombia in Fortaleza on Friday.

And Scolari will hope that his battered and bruisedplayers, above all Neymar, recover in time for the nextchallenge. “Neymar hurt his thigh right at the start of gamefrom a heavy challenge (by Charles Aranguiz in the fourthminute). We need to evaluate it but we should have three,four or five days to try and make sure he can play the nextgame. “We will need to recover and learn from what hap-pened here to improve in the next game. The emotion gen-erated by winning, this could help us.”—AFP

Brazil got lucky,admits Scolari

Uruguay hangSuarez kit asWorld Cup

tributeRIO DE JANEIRO—Uru-guay paid tribute to dis-graced star Luis Suarezahead of their World Cupclash with Colombia onSaturday by hanging hiskit in their dressing room.

Suarez’s number nineshirt and kit were laid outin the Maracana changingrooms even though theLiverpool forward is back inUruguay with his family.

The official UruguayFootball Association Twit-ter account posted a pic-ture of Suarez’s shir t ,lined up in place betweenthose of Abel Hernandezand Diego Forlan, whowear the numbers eightand 10 respectively.

The picture was ac-companied by a message:“Uruguay team’s chang-ing room at the Maracana.Luis Suarez’s place is in-tact. Come on Uruguay.”

Brazil squandered sev-eral chances and then sur-vived when substituteMauricio Pinilla crashed ashot off the woodwork withpenalties approaching.

Suarez was sent homefrom the World Cup forbit ing I taly’s GiorgioChiellini in Uruguay’s fi-nal Group D match.

He was given a totalfour-month ban from foot-ball on top of a nine-gameinternational suspen-sion.—AFP

Swiss Gavranovic going homeGENEVA—Switzerland forward Mario Gavranovic is head-ing home from the World Cup after tearing his cruciateknee ligament in training, his federation (ASF) said Satur-day.

“Mario Gavranovic badly injured his knee inSwitzerland’s training in Porto Seguro on Saturday,” saidthe ASF statement.—AFP

TWO new studies conclude that lowprotein intake may hold the key toa long and healthy life, at least until

old age. They also emphasize the need toexamine not only calories when decidingwhat constitutes a healthy diet, but alsowhere those caloriescome from - such aswhether protein is animalor plant-based.

Another key findingis the suggestion thatwhile a high-protein dietmay in the short termhelp people lose weightand body fat, in the longterm it may harm healthand reduce lifespan.

Both studies arepublished in the journalCell Metabolism.

The first study wasled by Valter Longo, aprofessor at the Univer-sity of Southern Califor-nia, who counts longev-ity and cell biologyamong his areas of expertise.

He and his colleagues showed thathigh protein consumption is linked to in-creased risk of cancer, diabetes and deathin middle-aged adults, although this wasnot the case for older adults who may ben-efit from moderate protein consumption.Also, the effect is much reduced when theprotein comes from plant sources.

The second study was led by StephenSimpson, a professor at the University ofSydney in Australia, whose group worksat the interface of physiology, ecology,and behavior. From studying mice, he andhis fellow authors concluded that diets

low in protein and high in carbohydratesare linked to the longest lifespans.

Both studies suggest it is not justcalories, but also diet composition - par-ticularly in terms of amount and type ofprotein - that may determine the length

and health of a lifespan.“We studied simple

organisms, mice and humans,and provide convincing evi-dence that a high- protein diet- particularly if the proteinsare derived from animals - isnearly as bad as smoking foryour health.”

High-protein diet hadhighest risk, except in olderadults In their study, Prof.Longo and colleagues ana-lyzed data on over 6,800American adults who tookpart in the National Healthand Nutrition ExaminationSurvey (NHANES) III, a USnational survey that as-sesses health and diet.

The researchersfound that consuming a high-protein dietin middle age significantly increases thelikelihood of dying from cancer or diabe-tes.

Participants aged 50 and over whosaid they ate a high-protein diet were fourtimes more likely to die from cancer ordiabetes, and twice as likely to die fromany cause, in the following 18 years.

Those who consumed moderateamounts of protein had a three-fold higherchance of dying of cancer. These effectseither reduced or disappeared altogetheramong participants whose high-proteindiet was mainly plant-based.

Too much protein in middleage ‘as bad as smoking’

STAFF REPORTER

KARACHI—At least seven peoplewere shot dead by unidentifiedarmed assailants in various inci-dents of violence and bloodshed inthe metropolis on Sunday.

As per reports, a 20-year-oldman was gunned down by uniden-tified armed men in Makrani Para,Manghopir. SHO Muhammad Alisaid that Sherzada was targeted andkilled by pillion riders. He said thatthe victim has a criminal record andhe might be killed over personal en-mity.

A 60-year-man was shot deadby unidentified armed men near

Violence, bloodshed leaves seven dead in Karachi

Frontier Morr. SHO Mominabadpolice station said that Sarwar wason his way to home when armedmotorcyclists sprayed him with bul-lets and fled away. He said that thevictim was Punjabi-speaking andbelongs to Punjab.

A 35-year-old man was killed byhis friend over a property disputein Orangi Town. SP Orangi TownSajid Amir Sadozai said that an inci-dent of firing took place insideHabib Marriage Lawn where Imranwas shot and killed by his friendRashid.

He said that police arrestedRashid and recovered weapon.

In another incident, a 12 year-

old girl was killed when she receivedstray bullet in Bhains Colony.

SHO Sukhan police station saidthat a dead body was brought tohospital which later identified withthe name of Kulsoom. Duringmedico-legal formalities it was dis-closed that she received bullet fromhis father gun.

In yet another incident, a 32-year-old man was shot dead by uni-dentified armed men near MewaShah Graveyard.

Officials in Pak Colony policestation said that the police rushedthe dead body to Abbasi ShaheedHospital (ASH) where he was iden-tified as Tanveer. Reason of murder

could not be ascertained.Separately, a 25-year-old man

was gunned down by armed assail-ants in Baldia No. 07. SHO Baldiapolice station said that the victimwas identified as Nisar.

He said that the dead body washanded over to heirs for burial afteran autopsy from Civil HospitalKarachi (CHK). Police suspect per-sonal enmity behind murder.

Earlier, a 35-year-old man waskilled by unidentified armed pillionriders near Sindh Madrassahtul Is-lam. The dead body was taken toCHK for postmortem. Reason be-hind murder could not be ascer-tained as yet.

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KARACHI—Sindh government haddecided to bid farewell to financial pow-ers it had conferred upon Deputy Com-missioners (DC) and Assistant Com-missioners (AC) working under theSindh Municipal Act of 1979, which theprovincial government had reinstatedafter repealing the Sindh Local Gov-ernment Ordinnace-2001 despite tre-mendous opposition from the secondlargest political party, Muttahida QaumiMovement (MQM). In this regard, anotification was being drafted and

Withdrawal of financial powers of DCs, ACs on cardswould be issued next week. The deci-sion of retrenching the financial powersof the DCs and ACs was taken in lightof complaints about use of delaying tac-tics on settlements of payments againstpublic sector works. Apart from thosecomplaints, salaries of employees of lo-cal government departments and districtmunicipal corporations (DMC) were alsobeing deferred. Pensions of retired em-ployees were also delayed.

According to sources, the situationwas much dilapidated in rural parts ofSindh especially in Dorr where disburse-ment of employees’ salaries, pension of

retired employees and outstanding billsof contractors were delayed. Sindh Fi-nance Department used to pay the sala-ries of employees from 1 to 5 of everymonth, but since the financial powerswere given to DCs and ACs, the sala-ries were delayed for 15 days.

Besides, all works that requiredimmediate attention were also beingdeferred due to bureaucratic tactics.However, it was not known whetherthe financial powers of the DCs andACs would be retrenched at prov-ince level or at some selected partsof tye province.

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KARACHI—Muttahida QaumiMovement’s (MQM) Deputy Con-vener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiquisaid that Quaid-e Tehreek AltafHussain had warned about the pres-ence of terrorists in the country andtheir future plans 10 years ago.

IRFAN ALIGI

KARACHI—Most of the cases pertaining toPolice martyrdom and injury, financial Assis-tance compensation had been disposed ofand an amount of Rs 66.65 million were paid.Three hundred and twenty-seven 327 fami-lies of police martyrs were offered financialassistance amounting to Rs 645,700,000 and151 police injured compensated with an mountup to the tone of Rs 20.80 million during thefinancial year 2013-14.

Inspector General (IG) of Police, SindhIqbal Mehmood stated this on the occasionof his visit to 300-acre piece of land, whichwas being identified for distribution amongthe legal heirs of police martyrs. Under thevery scheme, the plots would be provided to

Rs 66.65 m paid in compensationto families of martyred cops

almost all the families of police martyrs since1990.

He reviewed at length the progress ofdevelopment work with related to the townplanning and issued necessary instructions.He also visited 6 different identified sites ofthe development of 600 flats including Gar-den HQ Risala Police Lines, Nagina PoliceLines, Qayyumabad base SRP, etc. At eachsite 100 family flats had been planned to beconstructed for residences of married policepersonnel only. The IG had during hisvisit to Qayyumabad SRP-base II took brief-ing about the performance of SRP. DIG SRPTahir Aslam briefed him about the function-ing of SRP branch with special reference tooperational effectiveness of Quick ResponseForce.

MQM always supported armed forcesHe expressed these views in a

meeting at the Khursheed BegumSecretariat Azizabad. Office-bearersof different wings attended the meet-ing. Members of MQM CoordinationCommittee Ahmed Salim Siddiqui,Khalid Sultan, Aslam Afridi and AdilKhan attended the meeting too.

“MQM has always supported

armed forces of Pakistan on the is-sues related to national security”, hesaid. “MQM has assured armedforces of their support for the elimi-nation of extremists from the coun-try.”

The party was with the armedforces of Pakistan in their fightagainst terrorists in North Waziristan

as it always supported their actionsin the past. MQM was holding arally on July 6 in Karachi to expresssolidarity with the army, he informed.

He appealed the workers andpeople to attend the rally with theirfamilies to show enemies of Pakistanthat they were with their forces in thisdifficult time.

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KARACHI—Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) Co-Chairman and former Presi-dent Asif Ali Zardari has greeted theMuslims on the advent of Ramadanand urged them to seek forgiveness

Zardari greets Muslims on Ramadanof their sins, the blessings of Allah andalso strive to alleviate the sufferingsof the internally displaced persons inthis Holy month.

Ramadan is also a month of almsgiving and I call upon the people tohelp in the relief and rehabilitation of

the internally displaced persons whohave been uprooted in the fightagainst the militants, the extremiststhe bigots seeking to advance theirpolitical agenda behind the facadeof religion, he said in a message onthe eve of Ramadan on Sunday.

Altaf asks fortelecasting warsongs to boost

morale of soldiersSTAFF REPORTER

KARACHI—The Founderand leader of MuttahidaQaumi Movement (MQM)Altaf Hussain appealed thetelevision channels, offi-cials of Radio, producersand directors to telecastwar songs to boost morale,spirit and courage of oursoldiers. They should tele-cast songs with regular pro-grams till our armed forcesdestroy completely thehideouts of terrorists.

In a statement issuedhere Sunday, the MQMChief Altaf Hussain saidPakistan was facing a brutalwar so television channelsshould telecast news toboost the morale. “EveryPakistan should understandthat it was a ‘now and never’situation for us.”

He said that Pakistanishad a moral responsibilitytowards the internally dis-placed persons (IDP) owingto ongoing military opera-tion in North Waziristan.They should make generousdonations to Khidmat-eKhalq Foundation at itshead office at Azizabad.

He appealed the womenand girls students to takepart in relief activities forIDPs.

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KARACHI—The anti encroachments depart-ment of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation(KMC) removed many encroachments fromSohrab Goth to Lyari Expressway and in theF.B Area industrial zone during an operationand cleared the road for vehicular traffic.

The action was taken on the directive ofKMC Administrator Rauf Akhtar Farooqui,who had instructed the anti encroachmentssquad to speed up the campaign against ille-gal encroachments in the city.

During the operation, many hotels, cab-

KMC removes encroachmentsfrom Sohrab Goth, F.B Area

ins, sugarcane juice machines and other ille-gal structures were removed from the mainroad and on both sides of the Sohrab Gothflyover. Director anti-encroachments MazharKhan supervised the operation along withthe deputy commissioner central Dr Saif UrRehman whereas Assistant Commissioner,DSP police and rangers were also present onthis occasion.

This may be noted that the anti encroach-ments department of KMC was carrying outaction in all such areas of city where theseencroachments were creating trouble forpeople and vehicular traffic.

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KARACHI—Karachi Metropolitan Corpo-ration (KMC) Administrator Rauf AkhtarFarooqui formally inaugurated the KMCOfficers Club on Friday.

KMC Officers Welfare Association(KMCOWA) President MuhammadRehan Khan, General Secretary MazharKhan, executive committee members and

KMC Officers Club inuguratedKMC officers were present on this occa-sion.

After inaugurating the club, KMC Ad-ministrator went to different parts of theclub and reviewed the facilities, whichhave been provided for the KMC officer’sclub members and their families.

Speaking on this occasion he appre-ciated the works of KMC officers and saidthey deserved such facilities.

TWO new studies conclude that lowprotein intake may hold the key toa long and healthy life, at least until

old age. They also emphasize the need toexamine not only calories when decidingwhat constitutes a healthy diet, but alsowhere those caloriescome from - such aswhether protein is animalor plant-based.

Another key findingis the suggestion thatwhile a high-protein dietmay in the short termhelp people lose weightand body fat, in the longterm it may harm healthand reduce lifespan.

Both studies arepublished in the journalCell Metabolism.

The first study wasled by Valter Longo, aprofessor at the Univer-sity of Southern Califor-nia, who counts longev-ity and cell biologyamong his areas of expertise.

He and his colleagues showed thathigh protein consumption is linked to in-creased risk of cancer, diabetes and deathin middle-aged adults, although this wasnot the case for older adults who may ben-efit from moderate protein consumption.Also, the effect is much reduced when theprotein comes from plant sources.

The second study was led by StephenSimpson, a professor at the University ofSydney in Australia, whose group worksat the interface of physiology, ecology,and behavior. From studying mice, he andhis fellow authors concluded that diets

low in protein and high in carbohydratesare linked to the longest lifespans.

Both studies suggest it is not justcalories, but also diet composition - par-ticularly in terms of amount and type ofprotein - that may determine the length

and health of a lifespan.“We studied simple

organisms, mice and humans,and provide convincing evi-dence that a high- protein diet- particularly if the proteinsare derived from animals - isnearly as bad as smoking foryour health.”

High-protein diet hadhighest risk, except in olderadults In their study, Prof.Longo and colleagues ana-lyzed data on over 6,800American adults who tookpart in the National Healthand Nutrition ExaminationSurvey (NHANES) III, a USnational survey that as-sesses health and diet.

The researchersfound that consuming a high-protein dietin middle age significantly increases thelikelihood of dying from cancer or diabe-tes.

Participants aged 50 and over whosaid they ate a high-protein diet were fourtimes more likely to die from cancer ordiabetes, and twice as likely to die fromany cause, in the following 18 years.

Those who consumed moderateamounts of protein had a three-fold higherchance of dying of cancer. These effectseither reduced or disappeared altogetheramong participants whose high-proteindiet was mainly plant-based.

Too much protein in middleage ‘as bad as smoking’

City ReporterLAHORE—Punjab Chief MinisterMuhammad Shahbaz Sharif hassaid that Punjab government hasannounced biggest RamazanPackage in the history of the coun-try for providing relief to thepeople during Ramazan-ul-Mubarak under which a subsidyof Rs. 5 billion has been given

only on the provision of flour tothe people at cheaper rates.

He said this while presidingover a high level meeting here Sun-day in which steps with regard toimplementation on Ramazan Pack-age were reviewed.

Addressing the meeting,Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif saidthat 10 kg flour bag will be avail-able at Rs.310/- in Ramazan Bazaars

whereas in the open market 10 kgflour bag will be available at Rs.330/- and 20 kg flour bag at Rs.660/-.He said that ghee, sugar, eggs andchicken meat will also be availablein Ramazan Bazaars at cheaperrates than open market with the co-operation of concerned associa-tions.

He said that stalls of utilitystores will also be set up in

Ramazan Bazaars. The Chief Min-ister said that no one will be allowedto exploit the people through profi-teering and hoarding. He said thatno compromise will be made on thequality of items. Shahbaz Sharifsaid that administrative officersand staff of the concerned dis-tricts, making best arrangements inRamazan Bazaars, will be fully en-couraged.

Punjab government announcesbiggest Ramazan package

SALIM AHMED

LAHORE—Punjab Chief MinisterMuhammad Shahbaz Sharif has con-gratulated the nation at the advent ofRamazan ul Mubarak and said that itis the month of blessings and boun-ties of Allah Almighty and providesan opportunity to the people toachieve success in this world and theworld hereafter.

In his special message, the ChiefMinister said that Ramazan ulMubarak gives the message of sacri-fice and it is the duty of every Muslimto pay maximum attention to the lookafter of his brethren and sisters espe-

Shahbaz felicitates nation on Ramazan

SALIM AHMED

LAHORE—Provincial Minister forEnvironment Col. (R) Shuja Khanzadahas directed officers of EnvironmentDepartment of the province to com-plete anti dengue arrangements inmonsoon season and further accel-erate the ongoing public awarenesscampaign regarding precautionarymeasures against dengue in their re-

spective areas.He issued these instructions

while presiding over a high level meet-ing, here Sunday. Secretary Environ-ment Muhammad Anwar Rasheed, Di-rector General Environment FarooqHameed Sheikh and officers of Envi-ronment Department from all over theprovince attended the meeting. TheMinister said that all officers shouldensure 100 per cent implementation

on precautionary measures issued bythe government against dengue.

He said that elimination of den-gue is a national problem which can-not be overcome without cooperationof the people. He said that all officersshould complete all arrangementsbefore monsoon season so that thisfatal disease could be checked.

He said that the officers showingnegligence regarding anti-dengue will

not be spared and zero tolerancepolicy will be implemented againstthem.

Secretary EnvironmentMuhammad Anwar Rasheed pre-sented a report in the meeting andsaid that in addition to Lahore, offic-ers of the department has checked20411 places throughout the prov-ince during ongoing anti-denguecampaign.

EPD officials directed tocomplete anti-dengue measures

CITY REPORTER

LAHORE—Central leader of Pakistan Mus-lim League-N Hamza Shahbaz Sharif MNAhas said that decisive war against terrorismis continuing in the country and there is direneed of national unity and consensus inthese circumstances.

He said that all religious and politicalparties should come on one pitch in waragainst terrorism so that the menace of ter-rorism could be eradicated forever. The en-tire nation is supporting Pak-Army in its ac-tion against terrorism, he added.

He expressed these views while talkingto a delegation of Tanzeem-ul-Akhwan-e-Pa-kistan led by its convener and Nazam-e-AalaSilsala-e-Naqashbandia Awaisia Abdul QadirAwan at Model Town office today.

Hamza Shahbaz Sharif said time has comethat nation should decide whether it has tomove ahead in the journey of developmentand prosperity by taking task to terrorists

and enemies of development or once againhoodwinked by claimants of sit-ins and fakerevolutions.

He said that trends of sectarianism, ex-tremism and intolerance are negation of de-mocracy and destruction for the future ofthe nation and the country.

He said that Ulema and religious schol-ars will also have to play their role for theeradication of these trends.

Hamza Shahbaz Sharif said that PrimeMinister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and histeam are making sincere efforts for bringingthe country out of quagmire of problems butsome politicians in lust of power are out todetract the country in its journey to develop-ment. People fully know these political op-portunists and are not ready to become atool in their hands, he added.

Talking on the occasion, Abdul Qadir Awansaid that people of Pakistan have a sagaciousand sincere leadership in the shape of PrimeMinister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.

cially the deserving ones. He saidthat Pakistan is passing through themost critical phase of its history andfacing the serious challenge of terror-ism.

He said that the whole nationshould bow before Allah Almighty andpray earnestly for peace, progress andprosperity of the country.

The Chief Minister said thatPunjab government has launched ahistoric Ramazan Package of five bil-lion rupees for the provision of flourto the masses at concessionary rateduring Ramazan ul Mubarak while atta,ghee, sugar, fruits, vegetables andpulses will be available to the citizens

at subsidized rates in Ramazan Bazaarswith the cooperation of concerned or-ganizations.

He said that besides administra-tion, elected representatives can alsoplay a key role in the provision of es-sential commodities to the people atthe fixed rates during Ramazan ulMubarak, hence elected representa-tives have been assigned the respon-sibility of personal supervision ofRamazan Bazaars, Dastharkhawansand fair price shops so as to facilitatethe masses. Shahbaz Sharif said thatMuslim League-N government is tak-ing all out measures to provide maxi-mum relief to the people.

CITY REPORTER

LAHORE—On the instructions ofPunjab Chief Minister MuhammadShahbaz Sharif, Provincial Minister forSpecial Education Asif Saeed Manaisvisited Chak No. 134/16-L, Mianchannuto condole the death of Muhammad

Hayat, Hawaldar Airport SecurityForce, who was martyred in KarachiAirport incident.

After condolences with the be-reaved family and offering Fateha forthe departed soul, the Minister gave acheque for Rs. 10 lakh on behalf ofPunjab Chief Minister to Shazia Bibi,

widow of Shaheed HawaldarMuhammad Hayat.

DCO Muhammad Usman Moazam,Provincial Parliamentary Secretary Min-erals Mehr Aamir Hayat Haraj, Assis-tant Commissioner Mianchannu MehrAmjad Saleem Sargana also accompa-nied the Minister.

Sikh pilgrims gather at the mausoleum of Maharaja Ranjit Singh during commemorations of his 175th death anniversary, in Lahore.

Vehicles passing through rain water accumulated on the road after rain in the Provincial Capital.

Citizens are buying commodities at sasta Ramazan Bazzar in Baghban Pura.

Entire nation supports Pak-Army in its action against terrorists

Martyred official’s family gets financial aid