14 March 2017

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Youth of Pakistan 

most precious asset 

for country: COAS 

RAWALPINDI, Mar 13: 

Chief of Army Staff 

General (COAS) Qamar 

Javed Bajwa has said that 

the youth of Pakistan is a 

most precious asset for the 

country. 

He was talking to a 

contingent of 40 College 

Students from remote 

areas across the country as 

part of Chief of Army 

Staff 

Youth 

E n c o u r a g e m e n t 

Programme here on 

Monday. 

He urged the students 

to contribute in national 

integration and development 

through setting highest 

goals and attaining 

quality education. 

Murder of PPP 

leader: PML-N MNA 

named in FIR 

LAHORE, Mar 13: 

Case of PPP leader 

Babar Sohail Butt’s 

murder has been lodged 

against three people 

including Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) leader Sohail 

Shaukat Butt. 

It should be mentioned 

here that Babar 

Sohail Butt was critically 

injured by gunmen 

who barged into 

his house late last 

night while he was taking 

dinner. 

Pakistan, IMF Article 

4 talks from 28th 

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13: 

Pakistan and 

International Monetary 

Fund (IMF) would have 

Article 4 consultations 

in Dubai from March 28 

to April 5 2017. 

The IMF delegation 

was invited to Islamabad 

for the consultations but 

in view of the security 

situation, the visit could 

not take place, the 

Finance Ministry said on 

Saturday evening. 

Laden. 

In his article published in 

The Washington Post, 

Husain Haqqani disclosed, 

"In November 2011, I was 

forced to resign as ambassador 

after Pakistan’s military- 


Opposition Leader in the 

National Assembly 

Khursheed Shah on Monday 

labelled Husain Haqqani a 

'traitor', saying the former 

Pakistan ambassador was 

trying to gain the attention of intelligence 

the Trump administration. 

"This man [Haqqani] is 

not worthy of being debated 

on in Parliament. He is seeking 

to gain the attention of 

the US administration by 

issuing such statements," 

said Opposition Leader 

Khursheed Shah, who represents 

the same party that 

Haqqani was formerly affiliated 

with. 

Haqqani, who had been 

the ambassador to the 

United States during former 

Pakistan People's Party 

regime, recently stated that 

he had facilitated the presence 

of large number of CIA 

operatives in Pakistan to 

track down Osama bin 

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Khurshid Shah dubs 

Hussain Haqqani a traitor 

Haqqani recently stated that he had facilitated the presence of 

CIA operatives in Pakistan to track down Osama bin Laden 


Maryam Nawaz, the 

daughter of Prime Minister 

(PM) Nawaz Sharif has 

said that we are working 

for empowerment of 

women. 

“we are working to 

empower women. Women 

parliamentarians can bring 

major change in the society. 

Women are enjoying 

equal opportunities in the 

democracy in Pakistan’, 

She said this while 

addressing a three day 

apparatus 

gained the upper hand in the 

country’s perennial power 

struggle.Among the security 

establishment’s grievances 

against me was the charge 

that I had facilitated the presence 

of large numbers of 

CIA operatives who helped 

track down bin Laden without 

the knowledge of 

Pakistan’s army — even 

though I had acted under the 

authorisation of Pakistan’s 

elected civilian leaders." 

The former ambassador 

referred to the then president 

Asif Ali Zardari and Prime 

Minister Yousaf Raza 

Gillani as his "civilian leaders". 

His article stated: "The 

relationships I forged with 

International Conference 

organized by The Women’s 

Parliamentary Caucus in 

Pakistan. on “The Role of 

Women Parliamentarians 

in Strengthening 

Democracy and Social 

Justice” here Monday. 

“Women’s Caucus role 

is very vital in empowerment 

of women’, she held. 

Women are playing central 

role in leading companies 

of the worlds, she added. 

Pakistani Malala 

Yousafzai is the youngest 

members of Obama’s campaign 

team also led to closer 

cooperation between 

Pakistan and the United 

States in fighting terrorism 

over the 31/2 years I served 

as ambassador. These connections 

eventually enabled 

the United States to discover 

and eliminate bin Laden 

without depending on 

Pakistan’s intelligence service 

or military, which were 

suspected of sympathy 

toward Islamist militants." 

Bin Laden was killed in 

Abbottabad by US commandos 

in a night raid on May 2, 

2011. The Pakistani government 

claimed it had not been 

consulted over the raid, and 

called it called a violation of 

the country's sovereignty. 

Haqqani's claims have 

caused uproar in Pakistan, 

with even some of his former 

party fellows rebuffing 

them and painting him as a 

traitor. 

SC declares SPSC results null 

and void, orders re-examination 

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13: The Supreme 

Court on Monday declared the results of 

Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) 

examinations in 2013 , null and void and 

ordered the government to conduct the 

examination again. 

A three-member bench of the apex court 

headed by Justice Amir Hani Muslim had 

reserved the verdict on February 22 after 

concluding the hearing on a suo motu case. 

According to details, 27000 candidates 

participated in the examination process out 

of which 664 passed the written tests and 

only 227 were able to clear the interview. 

Hearing bench also declared interviews conducted 

in last three years as null and void and 

ordered appointment of SPSC chairman in 

two weeks and other members in four weeks. 

Pakistan hosts women lawmakers from 12 countries 

Steering women out of fear, poverty 

is the need of hour: Maryam Nawaz 

ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz Shairf, the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, 

addressing the opening session of the three-day conference of female lawmakers from 

12 countries on ‘The Role of Women Parliamentarians in Strengthening Democracy 

and Social Justice’ at local hotel. 

Pakistani who has 

received noble prize. 

Women are striving to 

work shoulder to shoulder 

with men. 

There were a lot of 

responsibilities for women 

in home. She added. 

Women parliamentarians 

can bring massive change 

in society. Women are facing 

myriads of problems in 

the society. To pull them 

out from the fear and 

poverty is the need of hour. 

She underlines 

KARACHI’S GARBAGE CRISIS 

Bahria Town launches cleanliness drive 

KARACHI: Garbage dumpers and shovel tractors are line up at Shahrah-e-Pakistan to initiate Karachi clean campaign 

under banner of Bahria Town. 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Bahria 

Town authorities kick started 

a cleanliness drive on 

Monday to assist in the 

garbage disposal crisis surrounding 

the metropolis. 

Making good on its 

promise to lend a helping 

hand to the Sindh government 

in cleaning up the city, 

the Bahria Town management 

has announced mobilisation 

of 50 vehicles and 

Investigation team 

proposes punishment 

for MNAs who scuffled 


The investigation team 

probing reason for scuffle 

between Pakistan Tehreek 

Insaf and Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz lawmakers 

in the parliament lobby has 

come up with a punishment 

for both the legislators. 

According to the probe 

body, PML-N’s Javed Latif 

should be barred from 

attending National 

Assembly proceedings for 

eight days, while Murad 

Saeed of the PTI should be 

slapped with two-day ban 

from the House. 

The team recommended 

the speaker to ensure 

enforcement of the proposed 

ban to prevent such scuffles 

and brawls between parliamentarians 

in future. 

The report of the investigation 

committee has 

been forwarded to Speaker 

Ayaz Sadiq, and now he 

would announce his decision. 

Mr. Sadiq had ordered 

inquiry into scuffle 

between the two legislators 

and sought its report. 

PTI lawmaker Murad 

Saeed indulged in a scuffle 

with PMLN’s Latif at the 

parliament lobby following 

their heated arguments earlier 

during the assembly 

proceedings on Thursday. 

600 personnel for picking 

up garbage from Karachi’s 

streets. 

The vehicles and volunteers 

will begin cleaning up 

Shahrah-e-Pakistan in the 

first phase of the drive. 

Focus will also be on 

Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan, 

Sher Shah Suri Road and 

other roads and streets of 

Karachi, the management 

said. 


The military's media wing 

on Monday announced that 

the contingents of Chinese 

and Turkish armies will participate 

in the Pakistan Day 

parade later this month. 

Inter-Services Public 

Relations (ISPR) Director 

General Maj Gen Asif 

Ghafoor said in a tweet that 

Chinese soldiers will take 

part in the parade being held 

on March 23, to mark the 

Pakistan Day celebrations. 

A Turkish military band 

will also participate in the 

PM directs to speed up operation Radd-ul-Fasaad 

Leadership vows to ensure 

better implementation of NAP 

ISLAMABAD Mar 13: 

The top civilian and military 

leadership on Monday 

decided to further energize 

efforts on implementation 

of National Action Plan 

(NAP) and ensure better 

implementation of NAP 

by federal/provincial governments. 

In a high-level security 

meeting presided over by 

Prime Minister Nawaz 

Sharif at the PM House in 

Islamabad which 

reviewed progress and 

Bahria Town officials 

have meanwhile prepared 

an alternate plan to save the 

public from traffic jams 

during the cleanliness drive. 

Director-Bahria Town, 

Zain Malik has promised 

that Karachiites will be able 

to see results of the cleanliness 

drive within one week. 

“We will use our 

machinery to pick garbage 

from Karachi’s streets. We 

parade, the tweet added. 

The parade is organised 

by joint staff headquarters in 

Rawalpindi, which oversees 

the three armed forces of 

Pakistan. 

Contingents of the 

Pakistan army, navy and air 

force have reportedly 

arrived in the federal capital 

for parade rehearsals, with 

stringent security measures 

in place. 

The military parade was 

resumed in 2015 after a gap 

of seven years and was seen 

as a manifestation of the 

achievements of 

Operation ‘Radd-ul- 

Fasaad’, the participants 

reiterated unanimously 

that elimination of 

extremism and terrorism 

are policy imperatives for 

Pakistan’s security. 

The participants of the 

meeting reviewed various 

laws governing the antiterrorism 

efforts, apart 

from discussing ways and 

means to make these laws 

more effective. 

The participants paid 

are focusing on cleaning up 

the Central District first,” 

he said, adding the drive 

will soon expand to other 

areas. 

Malik appealed to the 

residents to assist his team 

in the mission. 

“Karachi public, help us 

in cleaning up the city. The 

results will be visible within 

one week of the cleanliness 

drive,” he pledged. 

Chinese, Turkish troops will participate 

in Pakistan Day parade: ISPR 

military's show of strength 

in the wake of the shocking 

attack on the Army Public 

School (APS) in Peshawar 

in 2014, which left 150 people 

dead, including 132 

schoolchildren. 

Pakistan Day commemorates 

the passing of the 

Lahore Resolution, when a 

separate nation for the 

Muslims of The British 

Indian Empire was demanded 

on March 23, 1940 as 

well as the declaration of the 

republic on the same day in 

1956. 

rich tributes to the sacrifices 

of military and civilian 

security personnel and 

peace loving people of 

Pakistan. 

It was emphasized that 

enemies of peace and 

development will never 

be allowed to disrupt the 

attainment of peace and 

security across the 

Country. 

The recent initiatives 

on better management of 

Pak-Afghan Border were 

also reviewed in detail. 

Accusing innocents of blasphemy also a crime, remarks IHC 

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13: The 

Islamabad High Court (IHC) while 

hearing a case pertaining to blasphemous 

content on internet Monday 

remarked that leveling blasphemy 

charges against innocent people was 

also a crime and directed to ensure 

that an innocent person may not be 

wrongly accused of it. 

The remarks came from IHC 

Judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui who 

directed the Director of Federal 

Investigation Agency (FIA) and IG 

Islamabad to exercise extreme precaution 

while identifying blasphemers. 

"Falsely accusing someone of 

blasphemy is an offence as serious as 

blasphemy itself," he said. 

"The people [of Pakistan] are very 

emotional and they take the law in 

their hands even in case of a mere 

allegation against someone." 

During the hearing, Ministry of 

Interior Secretary remarked that 70 

controversial pages on social networking 

sites have been blocked so 

far. The Director FIA informed the 

court that intelligence agencies have 

information regarding such content, 

however the matter is in inquiry 

stages and no FIR has yet been 

lodged, he said. 

The official further said they were 

also pondering over drafting a petition 

as per international laws and take the 

matter to an international court. 

At this, the court directed him to 

ensure that an innocent may not be 

falsely accused of blasphemy. 

It advised the Ministry of 

Information to specify in electronic 

and print media the restrictions on 

freedom of speech under the Article 

19 of the Constitution and the punishment 

in case of any violation. 

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Metropolitan 

Population Census to begin across 

the country from Wednesday 

KARACHI: A man seen distributing cards among women census staff at MH School as the Council of Common 

Interests agreed to begin Pakistan's sixth population census from 15 March. 

Speeding up of K-IV projects urged 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Sindh 

Chief Minister Syed Murad 

Ali Shah has directed the 

FWO and PD K-IV bulk 

water supply project to expedite 

the work so that people 

of Karachi could get water in 

2018. 

This he said while presiding 

over a meeting to review 

the progress of K-IV and 

Lyari Expressway here at 

New Secretariat. The meeting 

was attended by Minister 

for Local Government Jam 

Khan Shoro, Chief Secretary 

Rizwan Memon, Principal 

Secretary to CM Naveed 

Kamran Baloch, 

Commissioner KarachiAijaz 

Ali Khan, Commander 

FWO Brig Waseem baber, 

PD K-IV Saleem Siddiqui, 

and others. 

Briefing the chief minister 

Brigadier Waseem Baber 

said that the work on K-IV 

project starting from 

Keenjhar Lake to Karachi 

has been started on war footings. 

The FWO has deployed 

three units and the total manpower 

employed on the project 

is 1313. The machinery, 

including 128 dumpers, 101 

tractors, 61 water bowsers, 

83 excavators, 42 rollers, 19 

dozers and such other equipment 

are working on the 

project. 

It may be noted that the 

length of the project is 121 

kilometers, open canal 94.33 

km, RCC Siphon 5.26km 

long. The package -I of K-IV 

includesRs4.9bn worth 

pipes, 4.9 billion earth work, 

1.18 billion culverts, 1.25 

billion canal lining and 

Rs2.72 billion miscellaneous 

work. The chief minister was 

informed that the federal 

government in its PSDP 

2016-17 has allocated 

Rs1000 million against 

which Rs400 million have 

been released while Sindh 

government has allocated 

Rs6 billion against which 

Rs3 billion have been 

released. The chief minister 

urged the FWO to expedite 

the work so that remaining 

Rs3 billion could be 

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah reviews the progress of K-IV 

Bulk Water Supply project and Lyari Expressway at New Sindh Secretariat. 

Universities asked to encourage entrepreneurship 

trend among youths, Dr. Zubair Shaik 

KARACHI: M.A.Jinnah University, Karachi head of Computer Science Department Dr. 

Shoukat Wad presiding over Board of Studies meeting. President, MAID Prof. Dr. 

Zubair Shaikh and external experts also attended the meeting. 

KARACHI, Mar 13: 

President, Muhammad Ali 

Jinnah University, Karachi 

Prof. Dr. Zubair Shaikh has 

emphasized that there is a 

need to start cross discipline 

courses in universities if we 

are interested for the success 

of entrepreneurship in the 

country. He said that the time 

has come now that various 

departments such as 

Business, Managements, 

Computer and Social 

Sciences to come on one 

platform to finalize a comprehensive 

course of study 

for their own entrepreneurship 

degree program. This he 

stated while he was expressing 

his views at a meeting of 

Vice Chancellors of Sindh 

and Baluchistan region held 

at HEC last evening. He 

informed the meeting that 

we at M.A. Jinnah 

University have already 

started meeting with industry 

professionals of 

Management and Finance to 

discuss and improve our 

Computer Science & 

Electrical Engineering 

degrees plan of study. He further 

informed that we are 

going to start meeting with 

Memon, Gujrati, Bohra, 

Kathiawari and other business 

communities soon to 

discuss their problems and 

we will ask them to tell us 

that how we can help them 

for the encouragement of 

entrepreneurship activities in 

the country. 

Police arrests eight suspects during 

search operation in various areas 

KARACHI, Mar 13: The Law Enforcement 

Agencies (LEA) and police during search 

operation on Monday morning and apprehend 

at least 8 suspects including one foreigner 

in various areas of the city. 

According to details, the police and LEA 

have conducted a joint search operation in 

surrounding areas of 90 and Azizabad and 

apprehended at least 4 suspects and shifted 

them to undisclosed locations for investigation. 

During operation, the police have 

installed barricades on all the entry and exit 

points of the area and started checking. The 

specific houses were searched, conducted 

raids on hideouts of criminals and apprehended 

4 suspects. 

KARACHI: Pakistan Tchreek Insaf Finance Secretary Sindh Nusrat Wahid & Governor Sindh 

Muhammad Zubair Umar are seeing on the occasion of World Women’s Day at Governor house. 

released. A similar request 

would also be made to the 

federal govt to release the 

remaining amount and allocate 

its Rs9 billion share in 

the next financial year. 

PPP Women's Wing 

celebrates International 

Women's Day 

KARACHI, Mar 13: On 

the second day of the twoday 

celebrations of 

International Women's 

Day, organized by PPP 

Women Wing, led by MNA 

Dr. Shahida Rahmani, 

Incharge of PPP Human 

Rights Cell, Karachi 

Division here at Frere Hall, 

a seminar on Women 

Rights are Human Rights 

was held here. 

Speakers included PPP 

leaders Ms. Shehla Raza, 

Deputy Speaker of Sindh 

Assembly; Ms. Shamim 

Mumtaz, Minister for 

Social Welfare; MNAs Dr. 

Shahida Rehmani, MPAs 

Shahina Baloch, PPP 

leader Qadir Khan 

Mandokhel, civil society 

representatives Zulfiqar 

Shah and Naghma Iqtidar. 

COURTS 

KARACHI, Mar 13: The first 

phase of the 6th National 

Population Census will simultaneously 

begin in sixty three 

districts across the country 

from Wednesday. 

According to a report quoting 

official sources, in the first 

phase, the census will be conducted 

in sixteen districts of 

Punjab, eight districts of Sindh, 

fourteen districts of Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa, fifteen districts 

of Balochistan, five districts of 

Azad Jammu and Kashmir and 

five districts of Gilgit- 

Baltistan. 

During the second phase, the 

census exercise would be conducted 

in eighty-eight districts 

all across the country. 

Missing of taxi driver, 

others: SHC seeks Rangers' 

comprehensive comments 

KARACHI, Mar 13: The Sindh High Court 

(SHC) on Monday directed the 

Rangers' prosecutor to file comprehensive 

and specific replies to petitions 

alleging that three citizens, 

including a taxi driver, have been 

missing since they were allegedly picked 

SSUET holding 

its 20th 

Convocation 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Sir 

Syed University of 

Engineering & Technology 

(SSUET) is holding its 

20th Convocation on 

March 19, 2017 at Karachi 

Expo Centre in which 

more than 1000 graduating 

students of the university 

would receive their 

degrees. 

A meeting, presided 

over by the Registrar Syed 

Sarfraz Ali, was held to 

review the preparations for 

the forthcoming annual 

Convocation of the university, 

which was attended 

by the Director Finance 

and concerned authorities. 

Registrar Syed Sarfraz Ali 

reviewed the proposals and 

options for the security 

arrangements and administrative 

measures and gave 

necessary directions for 

holding convocation in a 

peaceful manner. 

Regarding SSUET 

Convocation 2017, Vice 

Chancellor Prof Dr Syed 

Jawaid H. Rizvi appreciated 

the skills of the students 

and efforts made by the 

faculty to educate and 

groom them to face the 

challenges of modern 

world. He pointed out that 

engineers play a significant 

role in the society for 

changing the destiny of the 

nation as they are able to 

find ways and means to 

transform poverty into 

plenty. 

Rizvi said," Engineers 

of Sir Syed University hold 

responsible positions in 

reputable national and 

multinational organizations, 

both in Pakistan and 

abroad." Meanwhile, a 

meeting of Board of 

Governors of Sir Syed 

University will be held one 

day prior to Convocation 

on March 18, 2017. 

KARACHI: A woman reacts while talking on cell phone after fire erupts in makeshift 

housed in Nagan Chowrangi area. A girl died and survival injured in the incident. 

Sindh governor wants to play 

mediatory role on new drugs law 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Sindh 

Governor Mohammad 

Zubair said on Monday that 

he was willing to play a 

mediatory role between 

pharmaceutical companies 

of the province and Punjab 

government so as to get 

resolved reservations of 

medicines' manufacturers 

regarding newly adopted 

Punjab Drugs (Amendment) 

Law-2017. 

Sindh Governor stated 

this while meeting the 

Central Chairman of 


President, Muhammad Ali 

Jinnah University, Karachi 

Prof Dr Zubair Shaikh has 

emphasized that there is a 

need to start cross discipline 

courses in universities if we 

are interested for the success 

of entrepreneurship in 

the country. 

He said that the time had 

come now that various 

up by the paramilitary force. 

The SHC bench, headed by Justice 

Syed Muhammad Farooq Shah, took up 

the petitions filed for the recovery of a 

taxi driver Imran Khan, a teenager 

Attaullah and one Abdul Qayyum. The 

petitions were filed by missing persons' 

brother, father and wife, respectively. 

The court also issued notices to 

inspector general of Sindh police; home 

secretary; federal and provincial 

law officers; and SHOs of Model 

Colony, Zaman Town and Garden 

police stations directing them to 

turn with their respective replies 

within two weeks. 

Pakistan Pharmaceutical 

Manufacturers' Association 

(PPMA) Dr. Kaiser Waheed 

at Governor House today. 

Zubair said that he would 

soon talk to Punjab chief 

minister to convey him serious 

reservation of medicines 

manufacturers in his 

province regarding newly 

passed Punjab Drugs 

(Amendment) Law 2017. 

The PPMA chairman 

informed the governor that 

medicines' manufacturers in 

Sindh accounted for up to 70 

per cent drugs being supplied 

and consumed all over the 

country. He told the governor 

that pharmaceutical 

companies in Sindh were not 

at all happy on passage of 

Punjab Drugs (Amendment) 

Law as in its aftermath the 

uniform and nationwide regulatory 

system for manufacturing, 

trade, distribution, 

and sale of medicines in 

Pakistan was no more valid 

as Punjab had virtually 

adopted its own regime to 

control the Pharma sector. 

Need stressed to start cross 

discipline courses in universities 

PPF seeks applications 

for investigative 

reporting fellowships 


Pakistan Press Foundation 

(PPF) seeks applications 

from Pakistani journalists for 

investigative reporting fellowships. 

The fellowships 

are part of the “Supporting 

Investigative Journalism in 

Pakistan” project which 

aims to promote investigative 

reporting by providing 

support to media professionals 

capable for depth stories 

related to issues of public 

interest including those 

focusing on governance, 

transparency, gender, corruption 

and human rights. 

The fellowships will 

include capacity building 

workshops as well editorial 

and technical support to produce 

investigative news 

reports that meet professional, 

ethical and legal best 

practices in journalism. 

KARACHI: Relatives of Ashraf, protesting beside his dead body outside Karachi Press 

Club. Ashraf alleged killed by police in Gulshan-e-Maymar area. 

departments such as Higher Education 

Business, Managements, Commission (HEC). 

Computer and Social He informed the meeting 

Sciences to come on one that they at MA Jinnah 

platform to finalize a comprehensive 

University had already 

course of study started meeting with indus- 

for their own entrepreneurship 

try professionals of 

degree program. This 

he stated while addressing a 

Management and Finance 

to discuss and improve the 

meeting of Vice Computer Science & 

Chancellors of Sindh and Electrical Engineering 

Baluchistan region held at degrees plan of study. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch 

along with Vice Chairman, Abdul Khaliq Marwat inspecting 

ongoing development work at UC Shairpao. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Nayar Raza 

alogn with MPA Sindh Assembly, Syed Waqar Shah and 

Director Advertisement, Shahab Jalis conducting grand 

operation to remove advertising sign boards, hoardings 

from public places under court orders. 

KARACHI: Chairman District Council, Salman Abdullah 

Murad pays surprise visit to Health Centre, inspects 

medical facilities. 

KARACHI: Chairman District Council, Salman Abdullah 

Murad pays surprise visit to Health Centre, inspects 

medical facilities. 

KARACHI: DMC workers are planting flowers over the 

green belt nearby Aisha Manzil in Karachi on arrival of 

spring season.

HESCO crack down widens to 

all 14 districts of its region 

HESCO Chief ordered 'Zero Tolerance For Payment Defaulters & Power Thieves' 

HYDERABAD, Mar 13: 

The Chief Executive 

Officer, Hyderabad Electric 

Supply Company 

(HESCO), Asadullah has 

clear orders to eliminate 

power theft and disconnect 

power supply on default of 

overdue outstanding payment 

and also have constituted 

special recovery teams 

to conduct house-to-house 

search, spokesman told. 

According to the details, 

HESCO raiding teams 

accompanied with the area 

police conducted various 

operations in the whole 

HESCO region comprises 

of 14 districts and suburbs. 

Today teams conducted 

operations with the help of 

Sindh Police in Hyderabad, 

Nawabshah, Sakrund, Qazi 

Ahmed, Mirpurkhas, 

Badin, Talhar, Kotri, 

Jamshoro and disconnected 

more than 550 electric 

supplies on payment 

default and also unearthed 

400 illegal kunda connections 

and submitted letters 

in the relevant police stations 

to lodge FIRs 

against power thieves 

under amended electric 

Will, vision a 

panacea for all social 

evils: Dr. Burfat 

Abbas Kassar 

JAMSHORO, Mar 13: 

Sindh University Vice- 

Chancellor Professor Dr. 

Fateh Muhammad Burfat 

distributed certificates 

among participants of a 

training workshop at the 

concluding ceremony held 

in the Senate Hall of 

Ghulam Mustafa Shah 

Administration Building, 

University of Sindh, 

Jamshoro here on Monday. 

The 10-day training 

workshop was held at the 

Institute of English 

Language & Literature 

(IELL) under Active 

Citizen Program (ACP) of 

British Council with the 

overarching aim to deepen 

trust and understanding 

within and between communities. 

Vice-Chancellor 

Dr. Fateh Muhammad 

Burfat on the occasion 

awarded certificates to all 

35 participant students and 

18 resource persons/ facilitators. 

HYDERABAD: HESCO officials grounding electric transformer with the help of crane. 

constitution. The raiding 

teams also successfully 


First-ever national conference 

on early childhood will 

be held here on March 27- 

28to promote holistic and 

healthy growth of teenagers 

as well as providing them 

quality education at the primary 

and middle level. 

recovered ten lacs sixty 

five thousands. Fourteen 

It is part of the government’s 

plan of early childhood 

development. It was 

being arranged by Ministry 

of Education and 

Professional Development 

in collaboration with the 

Allama Iqbal Open 

University (AIOU). 

electric transformers were 

also grounded. 

National conference on early 

childhood on March 27-28 

Our Staff Reporter 

SHIKARPUR, Mar 13: The 

competitors academy organized 

a free seminar to spread 

awareness regarding Central 

Superior Services of 

Pakistan [CSS] at Muhallah 

Qila Qafila near Shaheed 

Qayoom Mangi street 

Shikarpur, here on Monday. 

Prof. Noman Maryani, the 

Assistant Director, Benazir 

Income Support Program 

[BISP], CSS passed in 

2008, was chief guest in the the administrator 

program. 

Competitors Academy 

Ghulam Nabi Soomro, Shikarpur, delivered the 

The conference’s 

arrangements were 

reviewed at a meeting held 

here under the chairmanship 

of Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. 

Shahid Siddiqui. Senior 

officer of Ministry Rafiq 

Tahir and others attended 

the meeting. 

speech and informed to the 

students about CSS examination, 

procedure of the 

SAHIWAL, Mar 13: At 

least 3 persons including 

minor were dead while 8 

other injured in various 

traffic mishaps in surrounding 

areas of the city. 

Two motorbikes were 

collided at Qadirabad 

Noor Shah road near 4-62 

R. As a result, a youngster 

Afzal was dead on the spot 

while Razia (25), Tariq 

Mahmood (28) resident of 

Noor Shah, Sajjad (16) 

Kot Khadim Ali Shah, 

Anwer Bibi (48), Usman 

(9) and his father Ghulam 

Dastigar (45) all residents 

of Kamalia, Muhammad 

Amjad (29) resident of 4- 

70-R and Rabbia (14) resident 

Ada Shabil were 


National 

Three dead, eight injured 

in various traffic incidents 

IHC directs 

establishment 

division to submits 

reply in next hearing 


The Islamabad High Court 

(IHC) on Monday 

expressed its annoyance 

over non submission of 

replay from the 

Establishment Division in 

the case regarding preventing 

the promotion of 

high officers. 

The court has given one 

more day for submitting 

the replay and adjourned 

the case hearing till 

Wednesday. According to 

details, Islamabad High 

Court justice Amir Farooq 

heard the case and joint 

secretary appeared before 

the court from establishment 

division. 

During the hearing the 

establishment has requested 

the court to authorize 

ten days time for submission 

of replay. On this justice 

Amir Farooq 

remarked that if you have 

no answer then why you 

came here. 

However the court has 

directed the secretary 

establishment division to 

present the record in the 

next hearing and 

adjourned the hearing till 

Wednesday. 

Free CSS examination seminar 

subjects. Noman Moryani, 

CSS passed in 2008, 

expressed their experience 

and gave answers of the students 

pertaining CSS examination. 

Besides, the competitors 

academy is going to 

start CSS preparation classes 

from 13th March of 

2017. Wajahat Abro, the 

student of the academy, 

thanked the participants. 

Babar Ali Shah, Zahid 

Bhanbhro, Ayaz Noon, 

Sheeraz Bhutto, Irshad 

Sethar and others were also 

attended the free seminar. 

Passport office opened in T.M.Khan 

Faiz Solangi 

TANDO MUHAMMAD 

KHAN, Mar 13: Passport 

office was opened in 

Tando Muhammad Khan 

at hands of PML(N) 

Senator Saleem Zia. 

Addressing on the occasion 

he said PML 

believes in serving people 

for which purpose 

Dozens of residents of Badin 

protest against an avid landlord 

Sawan Khaskheli 

BADIN, Mar 13: 

Villagers, dozens of residents 

of village Haji 

Mohammad Soomro led 

by Abdul Karim 

Soomro, Abdul Hakeem, 

KHAIRPUR, Mar 13: M. 

S and M. Phil Seminars 

were held in the 

Department of Computer 

Science, Shah Abdul 

Mehmood Soomro and 

others have protested 

against an avid landlord. 

Protesting infront of 

Badin Press Club and 

holding the press conference 

on Monday, 

protestors alleged that 

Latif University, 

Khairpur presided over 

by Prof. Dr. Mumtaz 

Hussain Mahar, Dean, 

Faculty of Physical 

Sciences. 

Ms. Benish Zehra presented 

her M.S Seminar 

on A Survey for Analysis 

of Factors Affecting 

Game Performance 

Through 

User 

Experience, under the 

supervision of Prof. Dr. 

Noor Ahmed Shaikh, Pro- 

Vice Chancellor, Main 

Campus. 

Ms. Benish Zehra said, 

Central Processing Unit 

an avid landlord accompanied 

with his supporters 

entered in their 

houses on gunpoint and 

has made violence over 

the innocent women 

and children of their 

families. 

federal government was 

working on mega projects 

also for Sindh including 

roads, hospitals etc. He 

said prime minister 

Nawaz Sharif has won 

hearts of people by granting 

health cards to 

them.He said if today 

there was peace in 

Karachi it was due to 

PML(N). He criticized 

Sindh government for 

doing nothing for people 

of Sindh and rather was 

putting its responsibilities 

on federal government. 

He said census would be 

made transparent. On this 

occasion director passport 

Khalid Memon, Sultan 

Mahmood, Khalid Zuberi 

and Saeed Talpur were 

also present. 

Soomro condemns murder 

of PPP Leader Sohail Butt 

Our Correspondent 


Former advisor and PPP 

Senator Dr. Qayoom Soomro 

has condemned murder of PPP 

Punjab leader Sohail Babar 

Butt in Lahore and has said 

PML (N) was under frustration 

on increasing popularity 

of Pakistan Peoples Party in 

Punjab. He said PPP workers 

in Punjab cannot be kept away 

from their party and its manifesto 

on gun point. Soomro 

warned PML to hook its 

Guloobuts and arrest the 

killers of Sohail Babar 


Deputy Chairman NAB 

Imtiaz Tajwar bid for 

pitching institutions against 

each other in order to save 

himself has met failure. 

Tajwar made an attempt 

in collaboration with secretary 

establishment Tahir 

Shahbaz and Fawad 

Hassan Fawad to remove 

Director FIA Mazhar ul 

Haq Kaka Khel in order to 

save himself from FIR by 

FIA. FIA investigations 

have been finalized against 

deputy chairman NAB and 

his four associates in corruption 

and misuse of 

power cases. 

injured. All the injured 

have been shifted to nearby 

hospital where Rabbia 

was dead while three 

injured are stated to be in 

critical condition. 

In another traffic incident, 

a motorbike and tractor 

trolley collided with 

each other near 9-115 L in 

Sahiwal at Arifwala road. 

In order to save him 

Tajwar first of all tried to 

win over Dr Mazhar Kaka 

Khel to his side but he 

refused to support him. 

Tajwar later tried to revive 

an old case against Kaka 

Khel and even then the 

latter could not come 

under his pressure. 

Tajwar as a last ditch 

effort used the good 

offices of Fawad Hassan 

Fawad who asked secretary 

establishment division 

that Prime Minister (PM) 

had approved the summary 

of removing Kaka Khel as 

Director FIA, therefore, he 

should issue notice for 

3 

As a result local landlord 

Atta-ur-Rehman was dead 

on the spot while his wife 

was injured, who is stated 

to be critical condition in 

hospital. The local police 

have reached on the crime 

scene and started investigation. 

All the injured have 

been shifted to Civil 

Hospital for medication. 

Deputy Chairman NAB Imtiaz Tajwar attempt to 

pitch institutions against each other fizzles out 

removing Kaka Khel from 

his office. PM was ignorant 

of all this matter. No 

such summary was 

approved. But secretary 

establishment division 

Tahir Shahbaz issued 

notice at behest of Fawad 

Hassan Fawad. 

When Interior minister 

Chaudhry Nisar saw this 

notice he termed it as interference 

in the affairs of his 

ministry. He expressed displeasure 

over it with Fawad 

Hassan Fawad. Therefore, a 

second notification was 

issued soon directing Kaka 

Khel to continue to function 

as director FIA. 

LAHORE: Candidates for Dolphin Force stand in queue outside the Police Line. 

Government evolves plan for 

early childhood development 


First-ever national conference 

on early childhood 

will be held here on March 

27-28to promote holistic 

and healthy growth of 

teenagers as well as providing 

them quality education 

at the primary and 

middle level. 

It is part of the government’s 

plan of early childhood 

development. It was 

being arranged by Ministry 

of Education and 

Professional Development 

in collaboration with the 

Allama Iqbal Open 

University (AIOU). The 

conference’s arrangements 

were reviewed at a meeting 

held here under the 


BADIN, Mar 13: 

According to details, the 

event of Holi was began on 

Sunday evening and 

remained continue till the 

evening of this Monday. 

In the Badin city, the main 

Holi gathering was held at 

Gujrati Para Temple where 

Hindu Community has celebrated 

holi with sprays of colors 

in accord to part of the 

Holi festivities. Sweets were 

also distributed besides, the 

holdings of feasts at homes. 

On the occasion, the journalists 

of Badin Press Club also 

extended their felicitations to 

chairmanship of Vice 

Chancellor Prof. Dr. 

Shahid Siddiqui. Senior 

officer of Ministry Rafiq 

Tahir and others attended 

the meeting. 

It was decided that the 

conference will take place 

at the University's main 

Campus and the both sides 

will jointly work together 

for arranging the event in a 

befitting manner, so that it 

proves productive in 

achieving its cherished 

goals, promoting the cause 

of children and the youth. 

The conference is 

aimed providing a platform 

to learning professionals, 

educators and 

other stake-holders to consider 

ways and means for 

ensuring better education 

and having brought-up 

process at early age. 

Rafiq Tahir in his 

remarks on the occasion 

said that the agenda of the 

conference was being 

finalized in light of the 

guidance, provided by 

Minister of Education 

Engr. Baligur Rehman. 

Dr. Shahid Siddiqui 

announced that the AIOU 

will host such a event on 

annual basis. The 

University will soon start 

research work on early 

childhood development to 

fulfill its academic responsibility 

in the nation-building 

for a better future. 

The Hindu community celebrates 

Holi - the festival of colors 

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the members of the Hindu 

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M.s & M. Phil seminars held in the department of computer science 

KHAIRPUR: Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed Shaikh, Prof. Dr. Mumtaz Hussain Mahar, Prof. Dr. Ghulam Ali Mallah and scholars 

speak during the M.S and M. Phil Seminars held in the Department of Computer Science, Shah Abdul Latif University. 

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Mr. Munir Ahmed 

Kartio presented his M. 

Phil Seminar on An 

Approach towards the 

Analysis of Java 

Programs and Their 

Visualization under the 

supervision of Prof. Dr. 

Ghulam Ali Mallah.

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National 

SNT demands to defer census 

until expulsion of illegal immigrants 

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EDITORIAL 

Majority Rule And Minority Rights 

Bombing of places of worship like Churches and 

killing of minorities like Christians, as well as 

killings against Muslim minorities like Shi'ites, 

have not stopped. It is more beneficial than loss for 

Pakistani government, opposition and majority rule to 

ensure rights of minorities, than otherwise! 

Review of history of performance of Pakistani governments 

have led researchers towards a constant historical 

problem of state leaders, institutions, officials and law 

enforcing agencies: To do bidding of majority Sunni 

Mideast and big powers who divide and rule Muslim 

world and let Shi'ites be killed within Pakistan or elsewhere, 

or to save Muslim minority Shi'ites or the Shi'ites 

within Pakistan, and if so expedient save them instead of 

killing them outside Pakistan too? 

Anti-Shi'ite killing and terrorists are so powerful and 

above any government that they are not being taken to task 

by either federal or provincial government, nor arrested. 

They're not being tried in any court, nor punished or held 

accountable. anti-Shi'ite killers also travel freely to and fro 

other Muslim and Mideast countries including notably 

Saudi Arabia. Terrorists, both Pakistanis and foreigners, 

shuttle back and forth at their own whim and pleasure 

without anyone stopping or questioning them against their 

evil doings. Some helpless victims in extreme despair 

believed that after everything is said and done, official 

indifference and message on selective anti-Shi'ite targeting, 

killing and bomb blasting is clear: That targeted Shi'ite 

must manage their own matters themselves! They will get 

from state leaders only what can be offered or done under 

public pressure to avoid more undesirable consequences 

for federal and provincial governments. Some leaders and 

many Shi'ite voters said perhaps with help from their other 

Muslim brothers and sympathetic communities from 

within Pakistani nation, they must try to manage their own 

problems and issues, rather than not doing anything and 

depending on their unfeeling, unmoved and irresponsible 

state leaders and their law enforcers who are seldom 

where they should protect their people who pay for these 

services! 

While US-led war against terrorism is global, and terrorism 

hits mostly Muslims of all sects from the side of 

both Muslim and non-Muslim terrorists, Shi'ites all over 

the world were selected targets of terrorism since over a 

dozen centuries. Anti-Shi'ite social and economic campaigns, 

tacit efforts to force conversions of Shi'ites into 

another sect, making Shi'ite girls do all kinds of bidding, 

go on. Majority of terrorist and banned outfits' discrimination 

and killings against Shi'ite are done with Mideast 

sponsored funding and big powers’support for selectively 

killing Shi'ite. Shi'ite generally believe in free and independent 

livingagainst oppressive world powers, are 

against big powers' invaders unlike those bought off 

Muslim rulers, all the over the world. Therefore, besides 

general terrorism against all Muslims, global war against 

terrorism is mostly diverted as war against Shi'ites, with 

specific old target including anti-US Shi'ites country like 

Iran, and new target like Asad regime in Syria against 

which Mideast and big powers strengthen with money, 

means and arms foreign non-Syrian rebels to destroy that 

country already plundered in a two year civil war. 

Thus an entire history of Yazidiat is being enacted 

against Hussainiat when great prophet’s grandson Imam 

Hussain and his around 70 close relatives and associates 

were encircled, kept hungry and thirsty for three days, and 

brutally martyred byanti-Islamic caliph Yazid at Karbala. 

Sacrifice of Hussainis thus saved true Islam, but Yazidi 

By Liu Xiaoming 

For more than 2,000 years, the Silk Road has 

borne witness to exchange and friendship 

between the East and West. With its tales of trade 

and travel down the ages, the route has traditions that 

have become a source of inspiration for those who 

seek new opportunities for common development. 

Now, China is looking to work with Britain in a 

new partnership, on a new Silk Road for today: the 

Belt and Road Initiative. This is an ambitious idea proposed 

by President Xi Jingping, which aims to harness 

the potential of countries on the old Silk route — countries 

in central Asia, west Asia, the Middle East, and 

Europe — to develop economic and trading partnerships 

through greater infrastructure and cultural links. 

We are already seeing the fruits of this approach. In 

January, the first freight train from China’s eastern 

town of Yiwu arrived in London, extending Belt and 

Road (B&R) to the far western end of Europe. 

But there are other tangible results of this kind of 

enhanced, global co-operation. During President Xi’s 

state visit to the UK in 2015, China and the UK 

reached the agreement to dovetail Britain’s ‘Northern 

Powerhouse’ with the B&R project. At the eighth 

China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue last year, 

where our two countries reaffirmed their shared commitment 

to closer B&R cooperation, Britain 

announced a £40 million (Dh178.5 million) capital 

injection into the Asian Infrastructure Investment 

Bank. 

Britain is a country of global influence and can be 

an important partner for China in B&R. 

It has many strengths and unique advantages that 

could give it a head start in B&R co-operation. It has a 

forces in various guises to this day do not consider Shias 

as even Muslims! Terrorist anti-Shia killers, from otherwise 

not so fanatic Sunni majority believe, just like Yazidi 

forces did centuries ago, that they themselves are not misled 

but blessed Yazidi Muslims, and that it is obligatory to 

kill true Muslims from among Islamic Shi'ite minority! It 

is exactly like what armed Yazidis who killed Shi'ite 

believers in ancient times! Therefore, survivors of Shi'ite 

martyrs have pointed to such and many other instances of 

injustices in 14 centuries of unjust caliphates in Islam who 

prosecuted Shi'ites. 

In Pakistan, as the mourning Shi'ite survivors of martyrs 

were taking their bodies in funeral processions, 

required security was not provided as there were firing 

from all sides on unarmed Shi'ite mourners, many of 

whom were killed and injured. On various Shi'ites sit ins 

against anti-Shi'ites or anti-Muslim terrorism, with official 

indifference for several days, no official attended those sit 

ins! Like of Shi'ite Hazaras before their nearly hundred 

bodies of martyrs for several days. 

It becomes debatable, as many Shi'ites believe, 

whether it may be better for Shi'ite voters to look after their 

own affairs, forget about their own human rights and civil 

liberties that could not be granted by their voted leaders, 

and look after themselves, without any just hope or expectations 

from their turncoat leaders. Or reconsider their priorities 

and make whatever decisions for safety and protection 

of their own lives and properties, which some Shi'ites 

think they can do better, if they don’t depend on their indifferent 

state leaders and officials. It is also debatable if they 

must take their own security matters in their own hands or 

not? Shall they pay for and get licensed guns to protect and 

defend themselves? Even Shi'ite mourners returning from 

Waadi e Hussain graveyard were suddenly attacked by 

armed sectarian army of dozens of motorbike riders who 

killed and injured the Shi'ite mourners who had just buried 

dead bodies of their near and dear ones martyred in bomb 

blasts. Television footage had clearly shown around hundreds 

of faces of also bearded people riding a platoon of 

motorcycles on a killing spree. attacking unarmed peaceful 

mourners. Anti-Shi'ite history of massacres shows 

attackers mostly remained unpunished, many were even 

rewarded, during last nearly seven decades after Pakistan 

came into being. 

Already official firing and shelling on peaceful mourners 

in Karachi were reported without any significant security, 

help or relief from absent state leaders, officials and 

their federal and provincial law enforcing forces. 

Generally, majority of 180 million population of Pakistan 

does not believe in abilities and justice of political leaders 

of Pakistan who have failed in their basic duties to protect 

life and property of their nation against terrorism. 

These leaders and forces must perhaps understand 

most people are trapped to vote for them but they know 

that these are not the kind of leaders they need to vote for 

to properly address national poverty, misery, death and 

decay without progress and prosperity for all 180 million 

people equitably in a country without required law and 

justice for all. That can be assured, if almost dead human 

conscience and humanity of human beings is brought back 

to life for unity of all sects of Muslims in practice. 

Moreover, more important than sectarian warfare is 

non-Muslim war against Muslims worldwide. Therefore, 

it is important to preserve the rights of other non-Muslim 

minorities like Christians and Hindus. Otherwise, there 

will be worse reactions in those countries where Muslims 

are minorities! Please think, and do something, about that. 

OPINION 

UK is helping China build a new Silk Road 

Both President Xi and Prime Minister May understand that win-win results are 

only possible if we increase global connectivity and share the fruits of growth 

highly internationalised financial sector and mature 

professional services in law and consulting; it has prestigious 

think tanks and educational institutions as well 

as world-class R&D and innovation platforms. 

And, of course, it has a language that is spoken 

around the world, and close historical and cultural ties 

with countries along the B&R route. 

These strengths and advantages put Britain in an 

excellent position to secure the opportunities the B&R 

has to offer. 

China and the UK can continue to advance their 

respective development strategies in tandem, can 

expand trade and investment, jointly explore and 

develop the market along the B&R route, and deliver 

greater common prosperity. The world is an open and 

interdependent place. 

But some have lost their direction in the sea of globalisation. 

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, 

President Xi spoke out for responsible globalisation, 

calling for “an open global economy to share opportunities 

and interests”. This has much in common with 

Prime Minister Theresa May’s vision of a truly ‘Global 

Britain’ that “embraces the world”. 

Both leaders understand that win-win results are 

only possible if we increase global connectivity and 

share the fruits of growth. Increasing connectivity 

along the new Silk Road is one way to achieve that. 

That is why one of the key announcements in President 

Xi’s speech was that Beijing would host the ‘Belt and 

Road Forum for International Co-operation’ in May. In 

doing so, China is keen to show its responsibility as a 

major contributor both to the world economy and global 

co-operation. At the same time, this will be an 

opportunity to pool international wisdom in defining 

B&R co-operation in the years ahead. 

Bureau Report 


Sindh National Tehrik has 

demanded to postpone census 

process until all illegal 

immigrants are expelled 

from Sindh adding that in 

their presence census could 

never serve interests of 

Sindh. Sindh was passing 

through critical period. In 

such situation Sindhis shall 

have to get united. This 

was stated by chairman of 

SNT Ashraf Noonari while 

addressing a gathering 

arranged by his party on 

occasion of his 39thbirthday 

celebrations. He said 

he has worked for cause of 

Sindh whole life and if 

needed he can sacrifice his 

life for this cause. On this 

occasions a big number of 

his party workers, political 

and social workers, journalists, 

lawyers, writers 

and poets were present. He 

said census was matter of 

life and death for Sindhis 

but deplored that there was 

little or no preparations on 


BADIN, Mar 13: The 

meeting session of the 

Pakistan National Human 

Rights Welfare organization 

has held under the 

chair of Dr. Farkhanda 

Abbasi at Talhar town 

Badin on Monday. The 

session has unanimously 

part of Sindh government 

and political parties. He 

said at present there were 

more than 9.7 million illegal 

immigrants including 

including 2.5 million 

Afghanis who all were 

holding national identity 

cards. This situation was 

conspiracy against Sindhis 

which cannot be accepted. 

He asked Sindh government 

must ask federal 

authorities to postpone 

census otherwise Sindhis 

elected its body for year 

2017-18. According to 

session, Mrs., Maha Khan 

Pathan has been elected 

as chairman, Abdul 

Rasheed Awan as cochairman. 

Meanwhile, Dr. 

Farkhnada Abbasi has 

been elected as president 

and Peer Farman Rashidi 

as vice president of the 

could turn into minority. 

Talking about CPEC 

Noonari said government 

should call APC on it to 

told Sindhis about benefits 

they can get from the project. 

SNT leaders sr. vice 

president Lala Qurban 

Sodhro said tour of prime 

minister Nawaz Sharif and 

his address at Thatta was 

slap on face of Sindh government 

which despite in 

power for 9 long years has 

done nothing for Sindh. He 

PNHRWO elects its body for year 2017 


SHIKARPUR, Mar 13: SSP 

Shikarpur Zeeshan 

Siddiqiui and ASP 

Shikarpur Muhammad 

Kaleem, on Monday, 

informed the journalists during 

a joint press conference 

held at Lakhi-dar Police 

Station that SHO Rustam 

Police Station Ali Baig, following 

on spy information, 

carried out a raid at village 

Habib Atrani Jatoi and 

recovered three women 

including Mst Rani, Mst 

Khaliqi, Mst Zulikhan and a 

minor boy named Qasim 

Jatoi, who were kidnapped 

in 2000, residence of outskirts 

of Rustam, in the limits 

of Rustam Police Station 

and arrested three accused 

Muhammad, Allah Warrayo 

and Jamal all of by caste 

Kosh Jatoi and recovered 

illegal weapons from their 

possession, SSP said. 

SSP further said that, in 

2000, complainant named of the state. 

Ghous Bakhsh Jatoi was 

registered an FIR against 

Jamal, Muhammad, Aamir, 

Sajhan all of Jatoi for committing 

murders of Abdul 

Ghaffor and Abdul Rehman, 

injuring Salar Shar and kidnapping 

three women and a 

minor boy, SSP said. 

After passage of seven 

years, Rustam Police recovered 

all the kidnappees and 

arrested kidnappers while 

women would be produced 

before District and Sessions 

Court for further orders. 

An FIR No: 13/2017 

under section 324, 353, 

147, 148, 149, 427, PPC has 

been registered at Rustam 

Police Station, on the behalf 

Besides, SHO 

Lakhi dar Police Station, 

Mukhtiar Soomro, has 

recovered 18 mobile 

phones seats and Rs14000 

cash and arrested two 

organization. 

When Mr. Abdul 

Rashid Mallah, Azhar 

Hussain Shad, Advocate 

Bachal Parhiar, Ali Akbar 

Abbasi, Advocate 

Asdullah Gopang, and 

Advocate Mrs. Farhat 

Bachal also succeeded to 

attained their designations 

for the organization. 

3 kidnapees recovered and 

kidnappers arrested after seven years 

Karandaaz Pakistan announces 

launch of 2nd ICF focused on Women’s 

Entrepreneurship at WECON ‘17 


Kaiyan Yousaf, Senior 

Manager Knowledge 

Management, Karandaaz 

Pakistan, speaks about the 

importance of supporting 

women-owned enterprises 

and startups at the Women 

E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p 

Conference – WECON ’17 

– held at the HEC 

Auditorium, Islamabad. 

He introduced the concept 

behind the second round of 

theInnovation Challenge 

Fund (ICF) that will focus 

on women’s entrepreneurship 

and is funded by the 

Department 

of 

International Development Pakistani 

(DFID) UK. 

WECON ‘17 brought 

together a veritable who’s 

who from Pakistan’s entrepreneurship 

landscape to 

not only celebrate our 

iconic women entrepreneurs 

but also hold indepth 

discussions with 

ecosystem builders, incubators, 

accelerators and 

Government bodies as well 

as fresh startups on the 

challenges, opportunities 

and way forward to build a 

stable, scalable and sustainable 

ecosystem that 

helps women-led businesses 

succeed in our particular 

environment. 

Karandaaz Pakistan 

launchedthe first round of 

the Innovation Challenge 

Fund in 2016 which 

focused on improving the 

current mechanism of foreign 

remittances from 

workers 

employed in different parts 

of the world. Some of the 

crucial aspects that the 

ICFfocused on improving 

included the outreach 

(specifically rural), speed, 

security, cost, ease of use 

and increased awareness. 

thieves named Ali Gohar, 

Muhammad Sharif Baloch 

and handed over all the 

mobile seats to owner of the 

Shop namely Eijaz Ahmed 

Kandhro, SSP Said. 

It should be mentioned 

here that a few unidentified 

thieves broke the roof of the 

mobile shop and stole 18 

mobile phone seats and 

cash from the mobile shop, 

a week ago, ASP 

Muhammad Kaleem said. 

A case has been registered 

against them at concerned 

police station, said 

ASP Muhammad Kaleem. 

SHO Mukhtiar Soomro, 

SHO Ali Baig and other 

officials were flanked on 

the occasion. 

said PPP was No.1 in corruption 

and loot while its 

role for development in 

province was big zero. 

Gathering was also 

addressed by vice president 

Mir Allahdad Talpur, general 

secretary Najeeb 

Thebo, Nari Tehrik chief 

Dr.Uzma Jokhyo, Dr. 

Abida Siddiqui, Labour 

Tehrik head Jhangi Mallah, 

Student wing president 

Anil Kumar Odd also 

spoke on the occasion. 

Badin police 

siding with robbers, 

kidnappers of 13 

year old boy 

Majeed Mallah 

BADIN, Mar 13: Badin 

police siding with an influential 

Wadera disposed of 

case filed against him by 

poor villagers. Holding 

protest against Wadero 

Anwer Jamali, the villagers 

Abdul Karim, Abdul Hakim 

Soomro, Haji Muhammad 

Soomro and others told 

media that few days back 

Wadero Anwer Jamali along 

with his armed men intruded 

in their homes and after beating 

women and children 

whisked away 4 buffaloes, 4 

goats, 2 bikes and kidnapped 

their 13 year old boy who 

was still missing. They 

alleged that instead of taking 

action against said Wadera 

Badin police was siding with 

him and had disposed of 

case against him. 

Gang busted 

within 24 hours 


LARKANA, Mar 13: On 

the directions of SSP Umar 

Tufail, SHO Bakrani along 

with heavy Police contingent 

led by SHO Akil busted 

a gang of Motorcycle 

thieves, snatchers and arrested 

four criminals during raid 

conducted on a tip-off in the 

Katcha area of Akil and 

Bakrani police stations. 

The swoop led to an 

encounter during which 

Motorcycle snatchers 

namely Zulfiqar jatoi, 

Imamdin Jatoi, Shan Tunio 

and Nooro were arrested 

with weapons. 

HYDERABAD: Mayor Hyderabad and Police official visiting 

the site of Pakka Fort, which is more dangerous due 

to sewage water seepage. 

No MRI machine in Holy Family 

Hospital since ten years 


Patients are facing difficulties 

due to non availability 

of MRI machine facility in 

Holy Family Hospital 

Rawalpindi. 

According to media 

reports MRI machine 

which was purchased ten 

years back had gone out of 

order after one year of 

installation due to lack of 

look after and proper caring. 

Because of lack of this 

machine, the patients are 

forced to pay Rs 5-12 thousand 

to private clinics for 

undergoing tests. 

Sometimes due to 

unavailability of MRI the 

doctors have to do CT-Scan 

whose radiations cause 

fatal effects to patients 

health.


International 

5 

NATO head says more defence 

spending ‘essential’ to US ties 

Box Office - 'Kong: Skull Island' 

rules with mighty $61 million debut 

BRUSSELS, Mar 13: 

NATO chief Jens 

Stoltenberg on Monday told 

allies to boost defence 

spending, as demanded by 

US President Donald 

Trump, if they want to preserve 

crucial transatlantic 

defence ties. 

“This is essential for the 

continued strength of the 

transatlantic bond on which 

our alliance is founded,” 

Stoltenberg said in NATO’s 

2016 annual report. 

“For almost 70 years the 

unique partnership between 

Europe and North America 

has ensured peace and prosperity 

on both sides of the 

Atlantic,” he said. “That is 

an achievement we can 

never take for granted.” 

MOGADISHU, Mar 13: A 

car bomb near a hotel on a 

busy street in the Somali 

capital killed at least 13 

people on Monday, police 

and the emergency medical 

services said, hours after a 

man was killed by a blast as 

Trump caused dismay in 

Europe when he said on the 

campaign trail that NATO 

was “obsolete,” and failing 

to meet the challenge posed 

by Islamic terror groups. 

His administration has 

repeatedly pressed the allies 

to meet a pledge to spend 

two percent of GDP annually 

on defence by 2024. 

After the fall of the 

Soviet Union, NATO allies 

cut defence spending only 

to find themselves caught 

out by Russia’s intervention 

in Ukraine and its 2014 

annexation of Crimea. 

NATO leaders, pressed 

by then US president 

Barack Obama, agreed the 

two percent target in 2014 

and reaffirmed it at a 2016 

he tried to ram through a 

checkpoint. 

Police said the blast 

damaged a house on Maka 

al Mukaram street but did 

not destroy its target, the 

Wehliye Hotel. 

"We have carried 13 

Warsaw summit to counter a 

more assertive Russia. 

The NATO annual 

report said only five countries 

met the two percent 

target — the United States, 

Britain, Greece, Poland and 

Estonia — while 

Washington still accounted 

for nearly 70 percent of 

dead people and 14 others 

are injured. The death toll 

may rise further," 

Abdikadir Abdirahman, 

director of aid-funded 

Aamin Ambulance services, 

told Reuters. 

A spokesman for Somali 

combined alliance defence 

spending. Overall, the USled 

alliance reversed the 

downturn in 2015 and last 

year, defence spending rose 

3.8 percent or $10 billion 

(9.3 billion euros), it noted. 

“In 2017, we must 

redouble our efforts to sustain 

the positive momentum 

Car bomb kills at least 13 in Somali capital: police, medics 

Japan plans to send largest warship 

to South China Sea, sources say 

TOKYO, Mar 13: Japan 

plans to dispatch its largest 

warship on a three-month 

tour through the South 

China Sea beginning in 

May, three sources said, in 

its biggest show of naval 

force in the region since 

World War Two. 

China claims almost all 

the disputed waters and its 

growing military presence 

has fueled concern in 

Japan and the West, with 

the United States holding 

regular air and naval 

patrols to ensure freedom 

of navigation. 

The Izumo helicopter 

carrier, commissioned only 

two years ago, will make 

stops in Singapore, 

Indonesia, the Philippines, 

Indonesia and Sri Lanka 

before joining the Malabar 

joint naval exercise with 

Indian and U.S. naval vessels 

in the Indian Ocean in 

July. 

It will return to Japan in 

August, the sources said. 

"The aim is to test the 

capability of the Izumo by 

sending it out on an 

extended mission," said 

one of the sources who 

have knowledge of the 

plan. "It will train with the 

U.S. Navy in the South 

China Sea," he added, asking 

not to be identified 

because he is not authorized 

to talk to the media. 

A spokesman for 

Japan's Maritime Self 

Defense Force declined to 

comment. 

Taiwan, Malaysia, 

Vietnam, the Philippines 

and Brunei also claim parts 

of the sea which has rich 

fishing grounds, oil and 

gas deposits and through 

which around $5 trillion of 

global sea-borne trade 

passes each year. 

Japan does not have any 

claim to the waters, but has 

a separate maritime dispute 

with China in the East 

China Sea. 

Japan wants to invite 

Philippine President 

Rodrigo Duterte, who has 

pushed ties with China in 

recent months as he has 

criticized the old alliance 

with the United States, to 

visit the Izumo when it visits 

Subic Bay, about 100 

km (62 miles) west of 

Manila, another of the 

sources said. 

Afghan special forces free 

dozens from Taliban prison 

KABUL, Mar 13: Afghan 

special forces have freed 

up to 32 people, including 

four policemen, imprisoned 

by Taliban insurgents 

in the southern province of 

Helmand, the defence ministry 

said on Monday. 

Swathes of Helmand are 

controlled by Taliban fighting 

to overthrow the 

United States-backed government 

in the capital, 

Kabul, and install a strict 

interpretation of Islamic 

law. 

Late on Sunday night, 

special forces launched the 

raid in a village in the district 

of Nad Ali, after gathering 

intelligence that the 

Taliban were holding 

dozens of civilians and 

security personnel, security 

officials in Helmand said. 

Four of those freed 

were policemen and the 

rest were civilians, the 

defence ministry said in a 

statement. 

American military officials 

estimate the Afghan 

government controls less 

than 60 percent of the 

country, with eight of 14 

districts in Helmand under 

insurgent control or influence 

as a resurgent Taliban 

gains strength following 

the withdrawal of international 

troops from combat 

in 2014. 

Helmand has long been 

a stronghold of the group, 

with nearly 1,000 coalition 

troops killed there since the 

U.S.-led military intervention 

in 2001, more than in 

any other province. 

Islamist insurgent group al 

Shabaab claimed the attack. 

"We were behind the 

Maka al Mukaram street 

blast. We killed 17 people, 

including senior officials 

of military and security 

and former lawmakers," 

Sheikh Abdiasis Abu 

Musab, al Shabaab’s military 

operation 

spokesman, told Reuters 

by phone. 

Earlier on Monday, 

police shot at a minibus, 

also in Mogadishu, when 

the driver refused to stop 

as it approached a checkpoint. 

The minibus 

exploded, wounding two 

bystanders and killing the 

driver, police officer Nur 

Osman told Reuters. 

Syrian army advances 

in district east of 

Damascus-monitor 

DAMASCUS, Mar 13: The 

Syrian army and its allies 

gained control of an arterial 

road in a small rebel pocket 

in northeast Damascus 

early on Monday, bringing 

them close to splitting 

the enclave in two, a 

Britain-based war monitor 

reported. 

The advance was along 

a road that links the 

besieged districts of Barza, 

al-Qaboun and Tishrin near 

the Eastern Ghouta area of 

towns and farms that 

spreads out from the Syrian 

capital, the Syrian 

Observatory for Human 

Rights said. 

The Barza, Qaboun and 

Tishrin area had already 

been isolated from the main 

rebel enclave in Eastern 

Ghouta, a region that has 

witnessed increasing violence 

since the beginning of 

the year. 

There was also fighting 

overnight between the 

army and its allies and 

rebels in the southern city 

of Deraa and in areas near 

Aleppo in the northwest and 

Hama in the west accompanied 

by heavy bombardment 

and air strikes, the 

Observatory said. 

MOSUL, Mar 13: Iraqi 

special forces are engaged 

in a punishing and paranoid 

close-quarters battle 

against Islamic State in 

western Mosul as they 

seek to drive the jihadists 

out of their last urban bastion 

in Iraq and deal a 

major blow to their selfstyled 

caliphate. 

Mosul is divided by the 

Tigris river that runs 

through it, north to south. 

Iraqi forces, supported by 

a U.S.-led coalition, 

pushed into the western 

side of the city last month 

after recapturing the east in 

an offensive that began 

late last year. 

The urban warfare is 

now more intense than 

and speed up national 

efforts to keep our pledge,” 

Stoltenberg said in the 

report. Meeting the two percent 

target has caused some 

soul-searching in Europe 

over what the wider impact 

will be. Critics cite the 

example of Germany, currently 

on 1.2 percent of 

GDP but an increase to 2.0 

percent would put Berlin’s 

defence budget on a par 

with Russia’s at around 65 

billion euros. 

Trump has also called for 

a $54 billion hike in US 

defence expenditure, currently 

at more than $600 billion, 

winning broad support 

but also criticism that the 

money could be better spent 

elsewhere. 

Malaysia says 

talks on with North 

Korea for return of 

nine citizens 

KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 13: 

Malaysia said talks were 

underway on Monday for the 

release of nine citizens stranded 

in North Korea by a travel 

ban, while its defense minister 

tried to ease anxieties among 

the public about the risks of 

angering an unpredictable 

nuclear-armed state. Formerly 

friendly relations between the 

two countries soured in the 

wake of an investigation into 

the murder in Kuala Lumpur 

last month of Kim Jong Nam, 

the estranged half-brother of 

North Korea's leader, Kim 

Jong Un. Angered by the 

Malaysian police identifying 

North Korean suspects and 

wanting to question others, 

including a diplomat at the 

embassy in Kuala Lumpur, 

North Korea slapped a travel 

ban on Malaysians leaving its 

borders, prompting tit-for-tat 

action by Malaysia. 

GENEVA, Mar 13: North 

Korea boycotted a U.N. 

review of its human rights 

record on Monday, shunning 

calls to hold to account 

the Pyongyang leadership 

for crimes against humanity 

documented by the world 

body. A 2014 U.N. report 

detailed the use of political 

prison camps, starvation 

and executions, saying 

security chiefs and possibly 

even Supreme Leader Kim 

Jong-un himself should 

LOS ANGELES, Mar 13: 

"Kong: Skull Island" 

emerged victorious after a 

battle of the beasts that pitted 

the giant ape movie 

against the Wolverine's last 

stand. Cresting a wave of 

good reviews, "Kong: Skull 

Island" topped the domestic 

box office, racking up a 

mighty $61 million. That 

handily beat estimates, 

which had "Kong: Skull 

Island" debuting to 

between $45 million and 

$50 million. 

King Kong's roar didn't 

totally drown out 

Wolverine's berserker rage. 

In its second weekend, 

Fox's "Logan" dropped 

58% to $37.8 million, 

pushing its stateside total to 

ANKARA, Mar 13: The 

Turkish president, Recep 

Tayyip Erdo?an, called on 

international organisations 

to impose sanctions 

against the Netherlands. 

Erdo?an, has warned 

the Netherlands it will 

“pay the price” for a diplomatic 

stand-off after a 

Turkish minister was 

blocked from visiting her 

country’s consulate in 

Rotterdam and tensions 

between the two countries 

exploded in angry protests. 

Erdo?an described the 

$152.6 million. The R-rated 

comic book adventure is 

Hugh Jackman's swan song 

as Wolverine after nearly 

two decades playing the X- 

Men team member. 

"Kong: Skull Island" 

gets bragging rights for topping 

expectations, but the 

film isn't out of the woods 

yet. It cost a hefty $185 

million to produce, which 

means that it will need to be 

a hit overseas if Legendary 

and Warner Bros., the studios 

behind the film, want 

to make a profit. On the 

domestic front, "Kong: 

Skull Island" is also staring 

down Disney's "Beauty and 

the Beast," a live-action 

fairy tale that is expected to 

premiere to as much as 

treatment of Fatma Betül 

Sayan Kaya, minister for 

families, as shameless and 

accused the Dutch of 

“behaving like a banana 

republic”. 

“If you can sacrifice 

Turkish-Dutch relations for 

an election on Wednesday, 

you will pay the price,” 

Erdogan said in a speech in 

Istanbul. “I thought nazism 

was over, but I was wrong. 

In fact, nazism is alive in 

the west.” 

The Dutch prime minister, 

Mark Rutte, who faces 

$120 million next weekend. 

That will likely suck up 

most of the oxygen in the 

multiplexes, making it difficult 

for other films to 

keep drawing in big 

crowds. 

Legendary and Warner 

Bros. have grand ambitions 

for King Kong. The 

film is the second installment 

in a planned monster 

franchise. The first chapter, 

2014's "Godzilla," 

opened to $93.2 million in 

the States before topping 

out at $529.1 million globally. 

The plan is for King 

Kong and Godzilla to meet 

in an epic showdown of 

primordial creatures at 

some point in the not-toodistant 

future. 

Erdogan calls international organisations 

to impose sanctions against Netherlands 

face international justice. 

The U.N. Human Rights 

Council held a two-hour 

session on abuses in the 

Democratic People's 

Republic of Korea (DPRK) 

amid rising tensions on the 

divided peninsula following 

its latest missile tests last 

week and two nuclear tests 

last year. 

"We are not participating 

in any meeting on DPRK's 

human rights situation 

because it is politically 

motivated," Choe Myong 

Nam, Pyongyang's deputy 

ambassador to the U.N. in 

Geneva, told Reuters. 

U.N. special rapporteur 

on human rights in the 

DPRK Tomas Ojea 

Quintana said he regretted 

the decision but was still 

seeking engagement with 

North Korea. 

Rising political and military 

tensions should not 

shield ongoing violations 

from international scrutiny, 

a stiff political test in parliamentary 

elections on 

Wednesday, said Turkey 

had crossed a diplomatic 

line. “This has never happened 

before, a country 

saying someone is not welcome 

and then them coming 

regardless,” he said, 

referring to Kaya’s decision 

to travel to Rotterdam 

by car after her colleague, 

the foreign minister, 

Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu, was 

banned from flying in to 

the Netherlands on 

Saturday. 

North Korea boycotts 'politically 

motivated' UN rights session 

ever, both because Islamic 

State fighters have been 

backed into one half of the 

city and because the west - 

home to the old city and 

NANSAN, Mar 13: Within earshot of 

mortar fire echoing from beyond a ring 

of hills, a sprawling relief camp in 

Southwestern China is swelling steadily 

after fighting erupted last week 

between a rebel ethnic army in 

Myanmar and government troops just 

across the border. 

In a recent Reuters visit to the 

rugged area in southwestern Yunnan 

province, aid workers and those displaced 

expressed fears of a more violent 

and protracted conflict than a previous 

flare-up in the Kokang region in 

early 2015. "Every day, more people 

come," said Li Yinzhong, an aid manager 

in the camp, gesturing at the mostly 

Han Chinese refugees from 

Myanmar's Kokang region trudging 

through the reddish mud earth around 

rows of large blue huts where they 

sleep on nylon tarpaulin sheets. 

city center - is more densely 

populated. 

"The fighting is at much 

closer quarters. It was 

street-by-street – now it's 

house-by-house," said 

Iraqi commando Alaa 

Shaker, 32, a member of 

the elite Counter Terrorism 

Service (CTS). 

he said. 

"Military tensions have 

brought human rights dialogue 

with the DPRK to a 

standstill," Ojea Quintana 

told the 47-member forum. 

He also called for an 

independent investigation 

into the killing of Kim Jong 

Nam, estranged half-brother 

of Kim Jong-un, in 

Malaysia last month, saying 

there may be a need to "protect 

other persons from targeted 

killings". 

Relief camp in China swells as thousands flee conflict in Myanmar 

"We will look after them until they 

decide they want to go back." 

Blue disaster relief tents provided by 

the Chinese also dotted the terraced 

sugarcane, maize and tea terraces flanking 

the mountainous winding road to 

Nansan. The town, close to the Kokang 

region of Myanmar's Shan State, is providing 

refuge for a stream of refugees 

that Chinese authorities estimate number 

more than 20,000. 

Weary and wary, Iraq special forces fight 'house-by-house' in Mosul 

"We are often literally 

in the same house, on the 

roof, and Daesh (Islamic 

State) is downstairs. 

Sometimes we drop 

grenades. If there are civilians, 

families in the 

homes, we shout to them 

to take cover inside a 

room." 

Seif Rasheed, a 28- 

year-old CTS medic, said 

one commando had been 

killed earlier that day in 

the same area, shot 

through the head, and 

another wounded, shot 

through the neck and hip. 

"Daesh are hiding in 

homes, opening doors and 

shooting at troops from 

just a few meters away," 

he said.

6 


Biz 

SBP spells out steps to check money 

laundering through banking channels 

KARACHI, Mar 13: The 

State Bank of Pakistan 

(SBP) Monday spelled out 

a number of steps to minimise 

money laundering 

through banking channels, 

and advised banks to monitor 

transaction patterns of 

customers and report suspicious 

activities. 

SBP Governor Ashraf 


Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan 

have agreed to enhance 

trade and cultural relations. 

The understanding was 

expressed at a meeting 

between Speaker National 

Assembly Sardar Ayaz 

Sadiq and his Kyrgyz 

counterpart Asylbek 

Jeenbekov in Islamabad on 

Monday. 

A Memorandum of 

Understanding (MoU) 

between the Parliaments of 

both countries was also 

Mahmood Wathra 

addressed CEOs of commercial 

banks at SBP headquarters 

here on Monday, 

according to a SBP statement 

issued here. 

The SBP advised banks 

to take the following measures 

to minimise money 

laundering through banking 

channels: Implement an inhouse 

system to detect differences 

between the values 

declared in the documents 

and prevailing market 

prices. In addition, 

banks need to set out escalation 

procedures to manage 

transactions where significant 

differences in 

prices are identified; 

Perform additional due diligence 

when international 

trade transactions involve 

any related parties. 

The banks must put in 

place subjective and objective 

controls to identify 

related parties trade transactions. 

In such cases if 

there are deviations then 

these should be brought to 

SBP’s attention and/or 

STRs may be raised; Must 

have more specific guidance, 

policies and procedures 

in place to address 

the overall risks of tradebased 

money laundering; 

Ensure that their transaction 

monitoring processes 

and systems are robust to 

flag suspicious transactions. 

Such transactions are 

properly investigated and 

escalated. Regular compliance 

checks, especially on 

signed on the occasion. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

Ayaz Sadiq said that 

Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan 

enjoy excellent bilateral 

ties in diverse fields. He 

stressed the need for further 

cementing bilateral cooperation 

in diverse sectors. 

Asylbek Jeenbekov 

appreciated the role of 

Pakistan for development 

and progress of the region. 

He said his country was 

committed to boost bilateral 

ties with Pakistan. 

transactions that were not 

escalated, should be performed 

for quality assurance 

purposes;Provide adequate 

and specific trainings 

on the financial crime risks 

prevalent in the trade 

financing and forex operations 

to relevant staff. 

It was stated that 

SBP/SBP-BSC will support 

and guide any exercises 

by banks/financial institutions 

to achieve this 

objective. 

The SBP took electronic 

and print media onboard 

after SBP Governor Ashraf 

Mahmood Wathra 

addressed CEOs of commercial 

banks at SBP headquarters 

here on Monday. 

The SBP Governor said 

this is the first time that 

they have invited media as 

a follow on to such a meeting 

with the presidents and 

CEOs of banks. 

Pak-Afghan Joint 

Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan agree to Chambers of Commerce 

call for opening of border 

boost trade, cultural ties 


Saudi deputy crown prince to 

meet Trump, investment in focus 

WASHINGTON, Mar 13: 

Deputy Crown Prince 

Mohammed bin Salman, in 

charge of Saudi Arabia's 

reforms, left on Monday for 

Washington to meet 

President Donald Trump on 

a visit expected to promote 

the world's top oil exporter as 

an investment destination. 

It will be the first meeting 

since Trump took office in 

January between the US 

President and the powerful 

prince leading the kingdom's 

efforts to revive state 

finances by diversifying 

away from falling crude oil 

revenues. 

Under the plan, which 

seeks to promote the private 

sector and make stateowned 

companies more 

efficient, Riyadh plans to 

sell up to 5 percent of state 

oil giant Saudi Aramco in 

what is expected to be the 

world's biggest initial public 

offering. Facing a growing 

budget deficit after recent 

falls in oil prices, the kingdom 

also announced an austerity 

drive to reduce state 

spending, although industry 

sources say it has also promised 

major development 

projects later this year to 

soften the economic impact 

of those cuts. 

Govt asked to reconsider 

liberal import policy 


President Pakistan 

Businessmen and 

Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), 

Mian Zahid Hussain on 

Monday asked the government 

to reconsider liberal 

import policy which haD 

resulted in wastage of precious 

foreign exchange and 

record trade deficit. 

Liberal import regime is 

against the national interests 

which resultS in flow of foreign 

exchange to other countries; 

therefore, import of 

hundreds unnecessary items 

should be restricted, he said 

in a statement. Hussain said 

that import of machinery for 

CPEC was also widening the 

trade deficit but it was necessary 

for the future of country, 

while unnecessary imports 

should be banned. 

"Pakistan is importing 

fruits and vegetables worth 

over 2.6 billion dollars per 

annum which is more than 

the import of the palm oil 

which is necessary while 

imported milk, yogurt, butter 

and fish can be seen on 

almost all the major stores," 

he said. 

Similarly, vehicles worth 

two billion are being imported 

annually which can be 

controlled if local manufacturers 

are forced to make 

quality cars and sell them at 

reasonable price. 

Public sector entities to bring 

good governance code: Dar 


Finance Minister Senator 

Mohammad Ishaq Dar has 

said that the public sector 

corporate entities should 

ensure strict adherence to the 

code of corporate governance. 

He was chairing a meeting 

on Monday to review 

various matters related to 

public sector corporate entities. 

The minister said that the 

regulatory regime of public 

sector corporate entities 

would improve the governance 

in these institutions 

and would enhance their 

efficiency. He said that the 

Boards of Governors and 

Directors have an important 

role to play in improving 

governance in these entities. 

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar chairing meeting to review matters 

about public sector entities. 

New factories of 

Urea being set up 

in country: NA told 


The National Assembly was 

informed on Monday that 

new factories of Urea are 

being set up in the country to 

meet the increasing demand 

of the fertilizer in the country. 

Parliamentary Secretary 

for Commerce Najeebuddin 

Awaisi told the House during 

question hour that during the 

last four years 2.24 million 

metric ton of Urea worth 876 

million dollars has been 

imported. He said no urea 

was exported from the country 

during the last four years. 

To a question, he said 

there is no restriction on 

import of rice from Pakistan 

by the United Arab Emirates 

and Iran. He said the Iranian 

government imposes a seasonal 

ban on the import of 

rice every year from July to 

December in order to protect 

their domestic growers but 

this year due to unknown 

reasons the ban was lifted 

last month. 

KARACHI, Mar 13: The 

Pakistan Stock Exchange 

(PSX) remained bearish for 

the third straight session on 

Monday as the declining 

global oil prices hurt the 

major oil sector players 

including OGDC, POL, and 

PPL and kept the investors 

on the sidelines which kept 

volumes to the lowest level 

since July 2016. 

Oil and Gas 

Development Company 

(OGDC), Pakistan Oilfields 

Ltd (POL), and Pakistan 

Petroleum Ltd (PPL) contributed 

116 points to the 

overall main index decline. 

The Pakistan Stock 

Exchange's benchmark KSE 

100-Index slumped by 1.09 

“On behalf of the Afghan 

business community, let me 

affirm that we are entirely in 

favor of doing business with 

Pakistan since we share the 

same religion, language and 

culture. However, the 

abrupt closing of the Pak- 

Afghan border by Pakistan 

leaves Afghanistan to look 

towards other countries 

which are equally willing to 

engage in trade with 

Afghanistan,” said Mr. 

Ahmad Shah Yarzada, a 

member of Afghanistan 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industries (ACCI), during 

the meeting of Pakistan- 

Afghanistan Business/ 

Trade Delegations as part of 

Beyond Boundaries II, a 

track I.5/II dialogue series 

undertaken by the Center 

for Research and Security 

Studies (CRSS) in partnership 

with Afghan counterpart 

Women Peace and 

Security Organization 

(WPSO) to foster better 

understanding and cooperation 

between the two neighbors, 

soothe bitter context 

and address the trust deficit 

between Afghanistan and 

Pakistan. 

A six-member Afghan 

delegation from ACCI 

arrived from Kabul to meet 

with representatives from 

Pakistan Afghanistan Joint 

Chamber of Commerce & 

Industry (PAJCCI) and the 

Federation of Pakistan 

Chamber of Commerce & 

Industry (FPCCI). 

Global oil slide arrests PSX 

as volumes hit 9-month low 

percent or 536.03 points to 

48,655.72 points on 

Monday when compared 

with 49,191.75 points posted 

on Friday. During the 

three-day bearish trail, the 

key index has given away 

1,099.00 points. 

The KSE All-Share 

Index dropped 1.01 percent 

or 335.88 points to 

32,832.11 points, the KSE 

30-Index trimmed down by 

1.20 percent or 319.11 

points to 26,285.91 points, 

the KMI 30-Index plunged 

by 1.24 percent or 1,036.64 

points to 82,708.47 points, 

whereas the Islamic All- 

Share Index plummeted by 

1.07 percent or 248.65 

points to 22,966.42 points. 

Corporate Corner 

JS Group sponsored Karachi Biennale 

2017 inaugurates Reel on Hai 

KARACHI: Mr. Muhammad Ali Charanya, COO Mahvash& Jahangir Siddiqui 

Foundation along with senior members of Karachi Biennale 2017 for the reels inauguration 

at Safari Park Karachi. 

KARACHI, Mar 13: JS Group being a lead sponsor for Karachi biennale 2017, 

recently inaugurated two art reels as part of the ‘REEL ON HAI’ initiative to help 

connect contemporary art to the city and its people. The Reel on Hai art project 

transforms a hundred cable reels into works of art by local and International artist, 

designers and architects and will be placed all over the city of Karachi. 

The installation of two of these reels took place at Safari Park Karachi and more 

similar initiatives shall continuethroughout the year. The works of artist Sana 

Burney and Bina Ali are on display and these reels were inaugurated by Mr. 

Muhammad Ali Charanya, Chief Operating Officer Mahvash and Jahangir 

Foundation (MJSF) which is the charitable arm of JS Group. MJSF focuses its 

extensive charitable efforts in areas including health, education, social enterprise 

and disaster relief. Mr.Charanaya expressed his enthusiasm for projects like these to 

help involve under privileged communities with artistry and public engagement. 

Founded in 1970, JS Group is an international investment and industrial conglomerate.In 

over four decades since inception, JS Group has cemented its position 

as one of Pakistan’s most diversified and progressive financial services groups, 

operating market-leading companies in commercial banking, securities brokerage, 

investment banking and asset management. 

Central Depository Company becomes 

Pakistan’s first ISO22301 certified company 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Central Depository Company has become Pakistan’s first and 

only organization to be certified with the ISO22301 international standard for its 

Business Continuity Management program. This certification has been awarded by 

SGS Pakistan and accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service after 

series of comprehensive audits. 

The ISO 22301 is the international standard for business continuity management 

and builds upon the success of British Standard BS 25999 and other regional standards. 

It is important to highlight that in 2012 CDC was also the first and till date 

only organization in Pakistan to obtain BS 25999. 

This accreditation is a global endorsement of CDC’s readiness to handle a variety 

of natural and man-made disaster situations in a well-structured manner. The 

ISO 22301 management system facilitates organizations to identify threats relevant 

to their business and the critical business functions they could impact. And it allows 

organizations to put plans in place ahead of time to ensure their business doesn’t 

come to a standstill. 

Supported by a resilient IT infrastructure, disaster recovery and business continuity 

arrangements, CDC can respond to a number of business disruptions by 

resuming critical functions in the shortest possible time span. CDC conducts regular 

business continuity drills involving users and partner organizations to assess its 

crisis management capabilities. The motivation and efforts involved in achieving 

this global standard highlights CDC’s best practices approach for the investors’ protection 

and the benefit of overall capital market. 

Lucky Cement inaugurates fifth 

Waste Heat Recovery Plant! 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Lucky Cement Limited has inaugurated 

its fifth Waste Heat Recovery unit in Pezu, Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa. Under this project, two cement production lines 

with a daily output of 2,400 tons were used, which will offer an 

installed power of 10 megawatts. The inauguration ceremony 

was attended by Mr. Muhammad Ali Tabba, CEO, Lucky 

Cement Limited, and other senior management of Lucky 

Cement. 

Previously, Lucky Cement had four Waste Heat Recovery Plants, two in Pezu 

and two at the Karachi Plant. The fifth plant became operational in collaboration 

with Sinoma Energy Conservation Ltd, China. 

The design of WHR plants hinges around the idea of encapsulating all the wasted 

heat from the production system and using this heat to generate steam from boilers 

which eventually run the turbine engines, thus producing electricity. 

Speaking of the occasion, Mr. Muhammad Ali Tabba, CEO Lucky Cement 

Limited, said, “We, being one of the leading cement manufacturers in Pakistan, 

have the responsibility to reduce energy consumption and improve the environment. 

With the launch of our fifth WHR plant, we aim to do just that.” 

SECMC and Reham Khan inaugurate 

first free Wifi villages of Sindh 

KARACHI, Mar 13: With an aim to make people empowered through access to 

information, the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) with the support of 

Wateen Telecom inaugurated first Free WiFi villages of Tharparkar, Sindh. 

The inauguration was performed by SECMC CEO, Mr. Shamsudin Shaikh and 

TV celebrity and Filmmaker Reham Khan during a ceremony held here in village 

Senhri Dars of Taulka Islamkot, Tharparkar. 

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Shaikh said that in the first phase, two villages, 

namely Tharyo Halepoto and Senhri Dars has been provided with the Free WiFi 

facility at the speed of 3MB. While in the second phase, he added, all the schools 

of Thar Coal Block II will be made Free WiFi. 

“We want to take children of our host communities into the 21st century at par 

with children of urban centers of the country,” said, Mr. Shaikh.

Irfan confesses of having 

contact with bookies 

LAHORE, Mar 13: In a 

shocking exposure, fast 

bowler Muhammad Irfan 

on Monday confessed that 

he violated the Pakistan 

Cricket Board (PCB)’s 

anti-corruption code and 

allegedly met bookies. 

The world’s tallest 

cricketer told the board’s 

Anti-Corruption Unit 

(ACU) that he was contacted 

by bookies before 

the death of his mother, 

and not during the 

Pakistan Super League. 

But instead of notifying 

the ACU, as he should 

have, Irfan admitted that 

he kept the approaches to 

Sports Reporter 


Bangladesh national 

hockey team placed fifth 

in the Hockey World 

League Round-2 of Dhaka 

event beating Ghana by 4- 

3 goals in the penalty 

shootout as the regular 

time saw a 3-3 draw at the 

Maulana Bhasani 

National Hockey Stadium 

in Dhaka. 

The red and greens 

were wishing to get Ghana 

as opponent in the quarterfinals 

yet they failed to get 

himself. 

Irfan further said that 

he was mentally disturbed 

them in the last eight after 

losing the last pool match 

to Oman. Instead they had 

to play stronger opponent 

Egypt in that round and 

losing the match too, they 

had to face the Lankans in 

the place decider. 

Bangladesh trounced 

the Lankan boys by a big 

9-0 margin in a place 

decider after which they 

came to play Ghana for the 

fifth place. 

The 38th ranked Ghana 

was not an unfamiliar 

rivals for the 32nd ranked 

Bengal boys as they had 

following the death of his 

mother, which is why it 

never occurred to him that 

HOCKEY WORLD LEAGUE 

played three practice 

matches few days ahead of 

the ongoing eight-nation 

tournament. Ghana boys 

came here one week ahead 

of the tournament to cope 

with the weather and condition 

and invited the host 

to face them where the 

Chayan-Jimmy battalions 

tasted win, lose and draw 

playing three matches. 

After the 3-3 draw in 

the regular time, the 

match rolled for penalty 

shootout where in first 

five hits, both the rivals 

found the net thrice and 

he should inform the 

ACU. 

The second edition of 

Malaysia become champion beating China 

Asian Tennis Federation officials 

to visit Pakistan later this month 


KARACHI, Mar 13: Asian 

Tennis Federation (ATF) 

President Anil Kumar 

Khanna of India and 

Secretary General 

Subramaniam Surendran 

of Sri Lanka are expected 

to land in Pakistan on 

March 24. 

On the invitation of 

Syed Dilawar Abbas, 

Chairman Constitution and 

Finance Committee ATF, 

the president and the secretary 

will arrive in Lahore 

on March 24 to attend the 

meeting of Constitution 

and Finance Committee of 

ATF. Both are members of 

this committee. After the 

Lahore meeting, the two 

ATF officials will travel to 

Islamabad to attend another 

meeting of ATF’s Junior 

Players Development 

Committee. Salim 

Saifullah Khan, President 

Pakistan Tennis Federation 

(PTF) will chair the committee 

meeting. The ATF 

officials will leave 

Pakistan on March 26. 

Fame FC filched the winning trophy of 3rd 

Dr. Akhlaq Memorial Football Tournament 


KARACHI, Mar 13: Fame 

FC filched the winning trophy 

and prize money of Dr 

Akhlaq Memorial Football 

Tournament RA Bazar- 

2017 after defeating LUMS 

FC by 2:0 by the stupendous 

performance of 

Usman Ghani who also 

declared man of the match 

and man of the tournament. 

Goal Keeper Nawazish Ali 

of Fame FC also awarded 

Goalkeeper of the 

Tournament. 

According to the press 

release issued hereby Fame 

Football Club and 

Academy (FFCA), the final 

was kicked off between 

Fame FC and Lums FC at 

RA Bazaar Football 

ISLAMABAD Mar 13: 

Pakistan's national hockey 

team has left for the tour of 

New Zealand and Australia. 

The national team will 

play bilateral test series in 

both the countries. As per 

the FIH rankings, Australia 

is currently the world's top 

hockey country while New 

Ground in a thrilling 

evening fixture. A large 

number of people and families 

came to see the match 

as the cool breeze in an 

evening of spring provided 

great comfort to families. 

The match was full of thrill 

and excitement as both 

teams contested aggressively 

and made a series of 

aggressive inroads in each 

other’s area. The first goal 

was struck by Fame FC’s 

Usman Ghani in 26th 

minute through Drop 

Volley Shot as he received 

the ball on his chest at 25th 

yard. He volleyed the ball 

at first bar and completely 

outclassed goalkeeper. 

In the second half of the 

match, Fame FC exhibited 

Zealand is at the 8th place. 

The experience gained 

during these two series 

would help Pakistan prepare 

for the all important 

Hockey World League's 

semi finals to be held in 

London in June this year 

which doubles up as the 

2018 World Cup qualifier. 

aggression game of Ball 

Possession, Dribbling, 

Dodging, Passing, Eye 

Contact and Intercepting 

which was highly appreciated 

by the audience. The 

reigning 

Work Rate and Match 

Traveling of Fame FC were 

astonished to see. The 

Defense Line of Fame FC 

exhibited the magnificent 

Clean Sweep technique 

therefore Lums FC failed to 

make any fruitful moves. In 

67th minute, Muhammad 

Idrees gave a pass to Zain 

at the left wing and Zain 

moved forward by dodging 

two defenders and in the D 

area he gave minus pass to 

Usman Ghani who netted 

the ball through One Touch 

Method. 

National Hockey team leaves 

for New Zealand, Australia 

Abdul Haseem Khan is 

the captain of the team and 

Umar Bhutta is the vice 

captain. 

During the tour of New 

Zealand natio nal hockey 

team would play first three 

test matches on 17 March 

18 March and 20th March 

respectively at Wellington. 

thus the match went for 

sudden death. 

In the sudden death, 

Ghana player failed to hit 

the net while Bangladesh's 

Krishna Kumar didn't disappoint 

the nation after 

which the red and green 

boys began cheering. 

However, Malaysia, to 

whom the host lost the first 

group match, became 

champion of the eight 

nations event beating 

China by 5-3 goals in the 

penalty shootout. The final 

match also ended with 2-2 

margin draw. 

Shadab among 

seven Pakistanis 

signed up by CPL 


Young spin sensation 

Shadab Khan is among 

seven Pakistanis who will 

compete in this year’s 

Caribbean Premier 

League (CPL) while temperamental 

batsmen Umar 

Akmal and Ahmed 

Shehzad have lost their 

spots in the lucrative T20 

competition. 

The 18-year-old 

Shadab, currently attending 

the training camp in 

Lahore for the upcoming 

tour of the West Indies 

and is tipped to make 

Pakistan’s squad, was 

taken by the Trinbago 

Knight Riders franchise 

during the player draft 

held in Bridgetown last 

Friday. 

More than 40 Pakistan 

players — the highest 

contingent among foreigners 

— had registered 

themselves as compared 

to 38 in 2016 when only 

five cricketers managed to 

get picked. 

Former Pakistan skipper 

Shoaib Malik has 

been retained by 

Barbados Tridents wit 

champions 

Jamaica Tallawahs keeping 

faith in the talent of 

spinning all-rounder Imad 

Wasim. Guyana Amazon 

Warriors, the last year’s 

runners-up, have also kept 

paceman Sohail Tanvir in 

their squad. 

CALIFORNIA, Mar 13: 

Karolina Pliskova progressed 

to the fourth round 

at the BNP Paribas Open 

after a straight-sets victory 

over Irina-Camelia Begu. 

Karolina Pliskova progressed 

to the fourth round 

at the BNP Paribas Open 

after a straight-sets victory 

over Irina-Camelia Begu. 

Pliskova, runner-up at 

the US Open last year, 

took just over two hours to 

win 6-4 7-6 (7/2) against 

the Romanian at Indian 

Wells. 

The second seed will 

face Switzerland's Timea 

Bacsinszky in the last 16 

after her 6-3 5-7 7-6 (10/8) 

victory over Holland's 

the PSL was rocked in its 

first week when the PCB 

suspended Islamabad 

United’s duo Sharjeel 

Khan and Khalif Latif on 

corruption charges. 

Irfan’s name was also 

mentioned along with 

Karachi Kings’ Shahzeb 

Hasan and Quetta 

Gladiators’ Zulfiqar Babar 

in the investigation, but 

they were not suspended a 

la the other two. 

Hasan has also recorded 

his statement but it 

remains unknown whether 

he too has admitted that he 

kept the bookies’ advances 

to himself. 

Bank Alfalah 

National Open Polo 

C’ship for Quaid-e- 

Azam Gold Cup 2017 



Newage/Master Paints and 

Barry’s fashioned out sensational 

victories in the 

Bank Alfalah National 

Open Polo Championship 

for Quaid-e-Azam Gold 

Cup 2017 here at the jampacked 

Lahore Polo Club 

ground. 

The most prestigious 

event of national pol calendar 

finally got into action 

after one week as the rains 

earlier this week left the 

arena unfit for play. Both 

Hissam Ali Hyder and Juan 

Cruz Losada played outstanding 

polo and amused 

the spectators with their brilliant 

skills and stick work. In 

the end, Hissam emerged as 

top scorer by firing fabulous 

five goals while Losada 

banged in two impressive 

goals. From the losing side, 

Ahmed Ali Tiwana, struck 

two, was also in sublime 

form and gave his opponents 

tough time but his 

team fail to score victory. 

Andres Crispo and Bilal 

Haye also hit one goal 

apiece. In the high-voltage 

five chukker encounter of 

the day, Newage/Master 

Paints prevailed right from 

the start as they scored a 

brace in the first chukker 

Losada and Hissam converted 

one goal apiece. 


LAHORE, Mar 13: PCB 

Chairman Shaharyar Khan 

said on Monday that the 

decision of the tribunal that 

will conduct the hearings of 

the PSL spot-fixing case 

will be accepted and that 

any player found guilty in 

the offense, his career 

would be over. 

Speaking to media personnel 

at a training camp, 

the PCB Chairman said that 

officials were aware of how 

fixers and bookies had 

changed their ways over 

time. He said that nowadays 

bookies had shed the 

ways of old when it came to 

establishing contact with 

fixers. 

"Nowadays, players are 

contacted indirectly 

through relatives, friends or 

old acquaintances," he said. 

Shahryar Khan said that 

whatever the decision the 


Sportlight 

tribunal would take will be 

acceptable to the board. He 

said that he had categorically 

told cricketers that 

whoever got involved in 

the scandal, his entire 

career would remain 

uncertain. 

Shaharyar also spoke 

about the importance of 

fitness level and stated that 

7 

Cricketers found guilty of corruption should 

consider their careers over: Shaharyar Khan 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 


LAHORE, Mar 13: 18th 

National Seniors Cricket 

Cup Regional Quarter 

Final Match Amar Cables 

V/S Multan Whites played 

at Shah Faisal Cricket 

Ground other day Amar 

Cables Beat Multan Whites 

by 5 Wickets and qualify 

the Regional Semi Final. 

Multan Whites batting first 

137 all out after 24.4 overs. 

Javaid Malik 34, Zakir 

Hussain 18, Muhammad 

Haroon 15 and Asad 

Hameed 15 Runs. Amar 

Cables bowling Yasin 

Cheema bowling well 

4/14, Muhammad Shahab 

2/40, Akbar Ali 2/41, 

Rehan Rauf 1/15 and 

Javaid Khan 1/25 wickets. 

In reply Amar Cables 

138/5 after 23.1 overs. 

Jamsahid Salman 16, 

Ahmad Shahab 14, 

Bukhtiar Hussain 39, Afzal 

Shah 42 Not Out and Yasin 

Cheema 17 Runs Not Out. 

it was pivotal for inclusion 

in the team. 

"I spoke to the coach 

who informed me that a 

couple of players were on 

the borderline with regard 

to fitness," he said. 

"Fitness is of the utmost 

importance. Only fit players 

will be able to play for 

the team," he added. 

18th National Seniors Cricket Cup 

Amar Cables beat Multan Whites by 5- 

wickets and qualify regional semi final 

LAHORE: Chief Guest CEO PVCA Nawab Ashiq Hussain Qureshi giveaway man of the 

match award to Yasin Cheema CEO Amar Cables Amer Ilyas Butt also present. 

KARACHI, Mar 13: Anil 

Kumble, who has been 

coach of the Indian cricket 

team since June 2016, could 

be promoted to Team India 

director while Rahul 

Dravid, who is coach of the 

India A and U-19 sides, 

might become the new 

coach according to reports. 

Anil Kumble and Rahul 

Dravid played pivotal roles 

during Indian cricket’s 

ascension to the top of the 

cricket rankings. Even after 

their retirements, both 

Kumble and Dravid continue 

to contribute to the 

growth of Indian cricket. 

Kumble is the current 

coach of the Indian team led 

by Virat Kohli while Dravid 

is the coach for the U-19 

side. Under Kumble, India 

are the World No.1 side in 

Tests and in 2016, they did 

not lose a single Test. With 

Kumble at the helm, India 

have won series in West 

Indies and have continued a 

great run at home by winning 

series against New 

Zealand, England and 

Multan Whites bowling 

Muhammad Javaid Malik 

2/25, Khurram Shahzad 

Butt 2/29 and Muzaffar 

Alam 1/21 wickets. Imran 

Rasheed, Muhammad Asif 

Umpire, Sohail Idrees 

Match Refry and Waqar 

Ahmad was the scorer. End 

of the match Chief Guest 

CEO PVCA Nawab Ashiq 

Hussain Qureshi giveaway 

man of the match award to 

Yasin Cheema CEO Amar 

Cables Amer Ilyas Butt 

also present. 

Anil Kumble could become Team India 

director, Rahul Dravid coach: Reports 

Kiki Bertens. 

Kristyna Pliskova failed 

to join her twin sister in 

round four as fourth seed 

Dominika Cibulkova beat 

the Czech ace 2-6 7-6 (7/5) 

Bangladesh. 

Under Dravid’s coaching 

stint, the India U-19 side 

have also developed strongly. 

They entered the final of 

the U-19 World Cup while 

they have performed consistently. 

With changes in the 

BCCI following the 

Supreme Court verdict on 

January 2, the Indian cricket 

Board is currently run by the 

committee of administrators 

(CoA) and there are reports 

of changes soon. According 

to a report Kumble might 

soon be elevated to as team 

director as the CoA are keen 

on structural changes. 

Karolina Pliskova progresses through to fourth round 

7-6 (7/4). Great Britain's 

Johanna Konta was the 

biggest casualty in 

California as the 10th seed 

was beaten 3-6 6-3 7-6 

(7/1) by Caroline Garcia. 

France's Garcia will 

face Svetlana Kuznetsova 

in the fourth round after 

the Russian, seeded seventh, 

won 6-2 2-6 6-1 

against Italy's Roberta 

Vinci. 

Ukraine's Elina 

Svitolina comfortably beat 

Australia's Daria Gavrilova 

6-2 6-1 while Russia's 

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 

also made light work of her 

6-3 6-2 victory over 

Barbora Strycova of the 

Czech Republic.

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2016 was worst year yet for children 

caught in Syria's war, UN says 

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13: 

Children suffered a “drastic escalation” 

in violence from the Syrian 

civil war in 2016, the United 

Nations said Sunday in a report that 

showed child deaths jumped at least 

20 percent from the year before and 

recruitment of child combatants 

more than doubled. The report, 

released by Unicef, the United 

Nations Children’s Fund, said 2016 

was the worst year yet for children 

whose lives have been upended by 

the Syria conflict, which entered its 

seventh year this month. 

“The depth of suffering is 

unprecedented,” Geert Cappelaere, 

the Unicef regional director for the 

Middle East and North Africa, said 

in a statement releasing the report. 

“Each and every child is scarred for 

life with horrific consequences on 

their health, well-being and future.” 

The report said that “verified 

instances of killing, maiming and 

recruitment of children increased 

sharply last year in a drastic escalation 

of violence across the country.” 


National Assembly Speaker 

Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said 

that Pakistan has emerged 

as linchpin in facilitating 

connectivity between 

South, Central and West 

Asian regions respectively. 

He outlined that Pak- 

Kyrgyz deeper connectivity 

will open a new era of 

unhindered flow of trade 

between Central Asia and 

Middle East through a 

secure and cheaper trade 

route via Pakistan. 

He was talking to the 

PSQCA team successfully raided Sunday Bachat Bazar at 

Gulshan-E-Iqbal, Karachi with the mobile testing laboratory 


PSQAC Mobile Testing 

Lab Team raided at 

Sunday Bachat Bazar at 

Gulshan-E-Iqbal, Karachi, 

along with Print and 

Electronic Media and 

NGO’s. On arrival at sunday 

Bachat Bazar start 

checking different brands 

various mandatory food 

items and caught some unregistered 

product too. The 

Team member included 

Mr. Bashir Ahmed, Dy. 

Director, Conformity 

Assessment South , 

PSQCA, Media Adviser 

At least 652 children were killed 

from attacks in the country, the most 

since formal verification of child 

casualties began in 2014, the report 

said. At least 255 of them — more 

than a third — were killed in or near 

a school, a reflection of how all sides 

in the conflict have disregarded 

schools as a safe haven in the war. A 

Unicef report in December said the 

parliamentary delegation of 

Kyrgyz Republic led by his 

counterpart of the 

J o g o r k u K e n e s h 

(Parliament) Mr. Chynybai 

A. Tursunbekov, who 

called on the Speaker here 

in Parliament House on 

Monday. 

Convener of Pak- 

Kyrgyz Friendship Group 

Mr. Abdul Majeed Khan 

and Ambassador of Kyrgyz 

Republic in Pakistan Mr. 

B E I S H E M B I E V E r i k 

Aidarkanovichwere also 

present on the occasion. 

Mr. Rehmatullah Memon 

caught unregistered 05 

food items 1- Clover Plus 

Sunflower, Honey, 2- 

Infant Milk, 3- Golden Sun 

(loose) Cooking Oil, 4- 

Awam, Banaspati,5- 

Awam, Cooking Oil. The 

other checked on spat and 

find Fail are 1-Assal, 

Cooking oil, 2- ABSA, 

Banaspati 3- ABSA, 

Cooking Oil, 4- Shan 

Iodized Salt, 5- Al-Heba, 

Cooking Oil Team also 

checked pass after lab test 

Pacific, Cooking Oil, 2- 

Bake Parlor, Suynthetic 

Both the Speakers discussed 

matters pertaining 

to the bilateral relations 

with emphasis on enhancing 

cooperation between 

the parliaments of the two 

countries. They also shared 

interests in a broad range of 

issues like peace and stability, 

trade and economic 

cooperation and regional 

integration. 

Sardar Ayaz Sadiq 

underlined the need for 

pro-active parliamentary 

diplomacy to supplement 

government-to-government 

Vinegar (White), 3- Pure, 

Banaspati, 4- Naz, 

Cooking oil, 5- Blue 

Band,Table Margarine 

Talking Media persons 

Rehmatullah Memon 

assured that they will continue 

their work and we are 

working to consumer’s satisfaction 

and to prevent 

substandards and un-registered 

products from the 

markets and to advise 

manufacturers to get 

licence and registered with 

PSQCA. Media Adviser, 

PSQCA Mr. Rehmatullah 

Memon informed the 

NA Speaker terms Pakistan a 

linchpin for regional connectivity 

Japan extends grant aid of US 

dollars 83,064 to NUML 

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13: The 

Govt of Japan has extended 

grant of US$ 83,064 to 

National University of 

Modern Languages under its 

GrantAssistance for Cultural 

Grassroots Project for 

Improvement of Learning 

Environment of Japanese 

Language Department at 

NUML. 

The signing ceremony to 

this effect was held on 

Monday at the National 

University of Modern 

Languages, Islamabad. 

Junya Matsuura, Charge’d’ 

Affaires a.i., Embassy of 

Japan in Pakistan and Maj. 

Gen (R) Zia Uddin Najam, 

Rector, National University 

of Modern Languages, 

signed and exchanged the 

documents. 

Under “The Project for 

Improvement of Learning 

Environment of Japanese 

Language Department, 

NUML”, the grant provided 

by the Government of Japan 

will be utilized to purchase 

equipment for the Japanese 

ISLAMABAD: Junya Matsuura, Charge’d’ Affaires a.i, 

Embassy of Japan in Pakistan and Maj. Gen (R) Zia 

Uddin Najam, Rector, National University of Modern 

Languages (NUML), exchanging documents after signed 

an agreement at NUML. 

Language Department at 

NUML such as IT equipment, 

teaching and learning 

materials, air-Conditioning 

equipment, furniture and a 

computer server for distance 

learning education of 

Japanese language. Junya 

Matsuura while speaking at 

the signing ceremony said 

that developing educational 

facilities is one of the priorities 

of the Government of 

Japan through its Grant 

Assistance for Grassroots 

Human Security Projects 

and today’s assistance under 

the Grant Assistance for 

Cultural Grassroots Projects 

for the improvement of 

learning environment of 

Japanese language department 

is another achievement 

in this regard. 

interaction. 

Referring to the role of 

Parliamentary Friendship 

Groups, he said consistent 

Parliamentary engagements 

are highly imperative 

for facilitating diversification 

of trade and economic 

relations. 

He reiterated the need to 

exploit the economic complementarities 

of both the 

states and utilizing their 

affinities in the domain of 

history, culture and civilization 

as bedrocks for 

regional integration. 

Balochistan 

Assembly session 

prorogued sine die 

QUETTA, Mar 13: The 

Provincial Assembly of 

Balochistan on Monday 

adopted a resolution urging 

the government to add a 

separate box for special 

persons in the census form, 

observes Free and Fair 

Election Network 

(FAFEN) in its Daily 

Factsheet. 

The House also held 

general discussion to 

observe International 

Commonwealth Day, 

2017. 

Later, the session was 

prorogued sine die after 

completion of House 

business. The Balochistan 

Assembly met for four 

hours and 12 minutes. The 

sitting started at 1220 

hours against the scheduled 

time of 1130 hours. 

The Speaker presided 

over the entire sitting. The 

Chief Minister did not 

attend the proceedings. 

The Opposition Leader 

attended the entire proceedings. 

United Nations had documented 

attacks on 84 schools in 2016. 

The report said the number of 

children recruited last year to fight 

in the conflict exceeded 850, compared 

with 362 verified cases of 

child recruitment in 2015. While 

most recruitment appeared to have 

been done by insurgent and extremist 

militant groups, a Unicef spokeswoman, 

Najwa Mekki, said “all 

parties in the conflict” had recruited 

children, which is prohibited under 

international humanitarian law. 

“Children are being used and 

recruited to fight directly on the 

front lines and are increasingly taking 

part in combat roles, including 

in extreme cases as executioners, 

suicide bombers and prison 

guards,” the report said. 

Other statistics in the Unicef 

report showed 280,000 children live 

in hard-to-reach areas almost completely 

cut off from humanitarian 

aid. Nearly six million children now 

depend on such aid to survive, a 12- 

fold increase from 2012. Millions 

have been displaced, some as many 

as seven times. More than two million 

Syrian children are living as 

refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, 

Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, representing 

roughly half the number of 

Syrians who have fled their country 

since the conflict began in 

March 2011 as an uprising against 

President Bashar al-Assad. 

Eliminating 

interest from country 

is constitutional 

obligation: Siraj 


Amir Jamaat e Islami (JI) 

Siraj ul Haq said that 

Interest system is system 

of exploitation and its 

elimination is a constitutional 

obligation. 

“ Usury is system of 

exploitation. Eliminating it 

is constitutional obligation. 

Prime Minister (PM) 

Nawaz Sharif has bigger 

role in introducing this system 

to Pakistan, he said 

this while talking to media 

men after hearing of a petition 

in Islamabad High 

Court (IHC) seeking elimination 

of usury from 

Pakistan on Monday. 

He said the court has 

ordered government to 

end this system of 

exploitation but government 

is looking non-serious 

in bringing to end this 

system. Because first step 

was taken by Nawaz 

Sharif in bringing this 

system to Pakistan. 


Eradication of Corruption 

is our top Priority. NAB 

intends to curb corruption 

with iron hands by adopting 

Zero Tolerance Policy 

across the board for corruption 

free Pakistan. 

This was said by 

Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, 

Chairman NAB while 

chairing a monthly coordination 

meeting to review 

latest progress on the decision 

taken in the previous 

monthly coordination 

meeting held at NAB 

headquarter. 

He said that NAB had 

chalked out a proactive 

National Anti-Corruption 


Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 

(PTI) Central Secretary 

General and spokesperson 

Naeemul Haq condemned 

rejection of resolution by 

Chairman Senate Raza 

Rabbani against remarks of 

Javed Latif of the ruling 

party. 

Speaking to media he 

said that what message the 

KARACHI: PSQCA team successfully raided Sunday Bachat Bazar at Gulshan-e-Iqbal. 

PTI condemns rejection of resolution 

from Senate against Javed Latif 

NEW DELHI, Mar 13: 

When we picture Shraddha 

Kapoor, the first thing that 

comes to mind is her radiant 

skin and beautiful tresses. 

The actress is well 

known for her glowing skin 

and those thick, bouncy and 

beautifully voluminous hair. 

Now that the festival of 

colours is here, it becomes 

all the more important to 

give skin and hair special 

attention. Hence, the 

'Baaghi' actress doles out her 

mantra for a fun-filled Holi 

with us. 

"A lot of toxic chemicals 

can damage your hair and 

skin. But still, Holi is my 

favourite festival and I 

always celebrate it with my 

family and friends!" she 

said. 

When asked about the 

beauty rituals she follows 

during Holi, Shraddha said, 

"Before stepping out, I apply 

a good amount of coconut 

based hair oil on my hair. 

Harsh colours strip off the 

moisture making them dry, 

frizzy and brittle, hence oiling 

is very important. I even 

apply coconut oil on my skin 

so colours don't stay on my 

skin for days. Also post hair 

wash I apply some fruit oil 

that gives my hair the vitamins 

it needs with fruit oils 

Chairman Senate wants to 

give by rejecting resolution 

against PML-N member 

who abused family members 

of Murad Saeed. He 

expressed disappointment 

saying rejecting such acts 

based on technical issues is 

beyond understanding. He 

further said that such decisions 

by the Chairman 

Senate will encourage 

that have lemon and orange 

in them." 

Here're some more 

favourites of the 'Rock On!! 

2' actress that makes her 

Holi yet more colourful: 

- Favourite song: The 30- 

year-old star's favourite Holi 

song is 'Balam Pichkari.' 

Media that Federal 

Minister Rana Tanveer 

Hussain and Director 

abusers of women. 

Naeelul Haq said 

Speaker National Assembly 

Ayaz Sadiq also sidelined 

the issue while the prime 

minister also didn’t take 

any notice of the issue. He 

said that if the premier 

doesn’t take any action 

against Javed Latif, it gives 

a message that he was 

behind entire drama. 

Shraddha Kapoor's mantra 

for a fun-filled Holi bash! 

KHUZDAR, Mar 13: A Frontier 

Constabulary (FC) vehicle has been partially 

damaged in a bomb blast in district 

Khuzdar of Balochistan. . 

Sources said that blast took place on 

road, near Zari Bank on national highway 

Strategy to curb corruption 

and corrupt practices 

from the country. NAB 

during the last 16 years 

has received about 

3,26,694 complaints from 

individuals and private / 

public organizations. 

During this period NAB 

authorized 10992 complaint 

verification, 7303 

inquiries, 3648 investigations, 

filed 2667 corruption 

references in respective 

accountability courts 

and overall conviction 

ratio is about 76 percent. 

NAB’s prime focus is on 

cases of cheating public at 

large by fraudulent financial 

companies, bank 

frauds, willful bank loan 

defaults, misuse of authority 

and embezzlement of 

state funds by 

Government servants etc. 

Since NAB’s inception, 

one of NAB’s major 

- Favourite Holi delicacy: 

She loves devouring over 

Jalebis during the festival. 

- Holi experience: She 

said, "Holi has always been 

a special time for me and my 

family. Everyone is together, 

a day filled with food, fun 

and family." 

Blast occurs near FC vehicle in Balochistan 

when FC caravan was passing 

According to police officials, FC 

mobile was damaged partially, however 

no loss of life has been reported. 

FC personnel cordoned off the whole 

area after the blast. 

Eradication of Corruption is our top Priority: Chairman NAB 

ISLAMABAD: Chairman NAB Qamar Zaman Chaudhry 

chairing a meeting to review monthly progress at NAB 

Headquarter. 

achievements has been the 

recovery of around Rs. 

285/- billion of ill-gotten 

money which was deposited 

in the national exchequer 

which is a remarkable 

achievement of NAB. 

General Muhammad 

Khalid Siddiq are ordered 

to continue and expand its 

activities and this mobile 

testing laboratory will be 

rotated in all locations of 

the city and the other part 

of country as well to control 

the manufacture of 

substandard products. The 

vision of Government to 

achieve its core objectives 

of ensuring human health 

and safety and provide 

thrust to consumer protection 

as well as consumer 

satisfaction. People hail the 

working of PSQCA to raid 

the market and bazaars of 

the city to control the manufacture 

of substandard 

products and check their 

quality in open Market. 

People demanded to continue 

this practice in public 

interest. PSQCA team 

assured them that they are 

committed and the practice 

will continue not only for 

spot checking of food 

items on site but to educate 

and aware the people about 

quality Standards. 

CMYK CMYK 

CMYK 

Chief Editor and Publisher Muhammad Taqi Alvi, Office No.509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I. Chundrigar Road Karachi. Tel. 021-32214988/32214990 Fax: 021-32214989 Printed by Jilani Printing Press ST-8 Block-10/A Gulshan-e-Iqbal Karachi.

14 March 2017

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