3 Feb 2016

Wednesday, February 3, 2016
National
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I don’t intend to join any political
party presently: Javed Hashmi
JAHANIAN, Feb 2: Veteran politician
Javed Hashmi has said he does
not intend to join any political party
at present and he will decide about
his political future at opportune time
in consultation with his friends .
He said this while talking to
media men at the residence of former
adhoc judge Lahore High Court
Justice (Retd) Chaudhry Saghir
Ahmad Dhallon here in 126 R. He
held that decision from army chief
General Raheel Sharif for not seeking
extension in his service tenure is
a good omen. This decision has
enhanced his esteem and dignity
among the people , he added.
Commenting on government
announcement for reducing petroleum
products prices by Rs 5 per litre
he said this reduction is highly
Kashmir Solidarity Day to be observed on Friday
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2:
Kashmir Solidarity Day
will be observed across the
country and Azad Kashmir
on Friday with the pledge
to continue supporting
Kashmiris' right to selfdetermination.
The Days is observed on
February 5 every year to
highlight plight of people
in the Occupied Kashmir
and draw the world attention
to its obligation to the
UN sponsored plebiscite
there. It will be a closed
holiday in the country.
Different political and
social organizations have
RAWALPINDI, Feb 2: Ban
has been imposed for setting
up private educational institutions
in the jurisdiction of
Rawalpindi Development
Authority (RDA).
Ban has been slapped in
pursuance of directives of
government of Punjab.
Taking notice of mushrooming
private schools and
chalked out special programmes
to show unity
with the Kashmiris struggling
to achieve freedom
from Indian subjugation.
Protest rallies and
demonstrations will be held
in the country and human
chains are to be formed in
the areas connecting
Pakistan and Azad Kashmir
to support just cause of
Kashmiris.
The participants will
also strongly condemn
gross violations of basic
human rights and excesses
being committed by
Indian troops in the occupied
territory.
They would also present
memorandums to Indian
High Commission in
Islamabad and the United
Nations Office to remind
them promises of international
community to grant
right of self-determination
to Kashmiris.
A memorandum will
also be presented to the UN
Military Observer Group
for India and Pakistan in
Muzaffarabad. It may be
recalled that Kashmir is the
unfinished agenda of partition
plan under which
Pakistan and India emerged
Ban imposed on setting up private educational
institutions within RDA jurisdiction
unchecked commercial
activities, government of
Punjab issued strict instructions
for curbing commercial
activities in residential
areas due to security concerns.
RDA has sought lists
from district education
department Rawalpindi in
respect of the private educational
institutions operating
in its jurisdiction so that
steps could be taken for
security checking besides
ensuring compliance of
other rules and regulations
by these schools and colleges.
Registration of any private
school has been linked
to permission from RDA.
HYDERABAD: Stagnant sewerage water for many days on streets of Pathan Colony
Cantonment area becoming serious problem for residents and causing unhygienic atmosphere
which is showing the negligence of concerned authorities.
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2:
Standing Committee on
Housing and Works met here
on Tuesday with Ms. Khalid
Mansoor, MNA in the chair
to discuss actionable points
in respect of National
Housing Authority (NHA)
Performance Audit Report
(2003-04) as referred by the
Sub-Committee of Public
Accounts Committee and
other matters pertaining to
Housing and Works Ministry.
The Committee expressed
its dissatisfaction over the
performance of National
Housing Authority and recommended
for either disbanding
it or merged in the
other departments with similar
scope of activities. The
Committee was of the view
that NHA had failed to
achieve the purpose of its
establishment.
The committee was
apprised that the performance
audit of the NHA was
conducted in 2003-04 wherein
several points were raised
about its performance.
The Sub-Committee of
PAC decided to refer the
issue to the Standing
Committee on Housing and
Works after listening to the
unsatisfactory justification
presented by the Housing and
Works Ministry.
The Director General
(NHA) pleaded that the NHA
prepared two low cost housing
with Zakat funds and
PM’s Special Development
Programme in the year 1987
and the housing units were
handed over to the mushteqeen
and destitute after their
completion.
He further informed that
the Authority could not further
initiate Housing schemes
for low income groups due to
non-availability of funds,
however, it had been providing
assistance to the provincial
governments in their
housing initiatives.
The Committee decided to
recommend to the PAC for
settlement of the Audit observations.
The committee further
recommended that the
government should continue
pursuing housing schemes
for providing shelter to the
low income groups as guaranteed
under the constitution
and that too in areas having
civic amenities.
The Committee expressed
its satisfaction on the process
of allotment/balloting of
Pakistan Housing Authority
Foundation (PHAF) residential
flats in Sector I-12,
Islamabad.
as independent states in
1947.
Under the plan, originally,
Kashmir was part of
Pakistan but India annexed
major part of Kashmir by
sending troops to Srinagar
on 26 October 1947.
Kashmiri freedom fighters
resisted Indian aggression
and got some part of
Kashmir liberated from
Indian occupation which is
known as Azad Jammu and
Kashmir. Pakistan extends
its moral, political and
diplomatic support to the
Kashmiris right to selfdetermination.
Board of governors
for Nawshera Medical
College constituted
PESHAWAR, Feb 2: Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Government has
constituted Baord of
Governors (BoGs) for Medical
Teaching Institute, Nowshera
Medical College and its
attached teaching hospital.
According to a notification
issued from the office of
Secretary Health, the members
of the BoGs include
army retired psychiatrist Dr.
Gul Saeed Qamar, retired
gynecologist Dr. Falak Naz,
ex-General Manager Civil
Aviation, Zafeerullah, ex-
Federal Secretary Rauf
Khattak, ex- Federal Joint
Secretary Jamshed Khan ex-
Vice President UBL, S.A
Shakeel Khan and Arif
Khattak.
Suspicious
bag recovered
from college
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: A suspicious
bag was recovered from
International School and
College located in F-11/4 sector
of federal capital. College
administration informed the
police and bomb disposal squad
about the presence of a suspicious
bag in school premises.
Bomb disposal squad and police
got vacated the building and
conducted a search operation.
insufficient. Government should
provide relief to people by slashing
petroleum products prices in proportion
to reduction of oil prices in
international market.
He went on to say that terrorists
attack on Bacha Khan university at
Charsada is a national tragedy .
Closing down the schools for fear of
terrorists is not a solution to this
problem. Full security by provided
to educational institutions to counter
terrorism, he urged.
Pathan Kot incident is a deep
conspiracy which is aimed at
maligning Pakistan, he said adding
government should take all political
parties on board for the sake of lasting
resolution of Kashmir issue and
success of talks between Pakistan
and India.
Islamabad to
have 350-chair
dental hospital
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2:
Decision has been taken to
construct a 350-chair dental
hospital in federal capital.
The hospital will be built
at the cost of Rs 3 billion
and PC-1 of the proposed
hospital has been worked
out. The decision for setting
up dental hospital has been
taken to overcome the rush
of patients in already operating
dental hospitals in federal
capital.
According to ministry of
CADD sources hundreds of
patients infected with dental
related diseases come to
hospitals daily in Islamabad.
Therefore, it has been decided
to set up dental hospital
of international standard in
federal capital.
This dental hospital will
be built in the premises of
Pakistan Institute of Medical
Sciences (PIMS). Prime
Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif
will lay foundation stone of
the proposed dental hospital
this month, sources said.
Ministry of CADD has
sent letter to PM House to
seek time from PM for laying
foundation stone of dental
hospital.
Influential people reluctant to
pay power bills in Naundero
LARKANA, Feb 2: The
Mazar Committee, which
looks after the Bhutto leaders
mausoleum in Garhi Khuda
Bux, has so far failed to clear
huge electricity dues
amounting to Rs 10,697,551
of the mausoleum.
This was disclosed to
reporters by SEPCO
Naundero sources on
Tuesday. The 37th death
anniversary of PPP founder
leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
will be commemorated on
April 04, 2016 and a large
number of party activists
from the country will participate
in the mega event.
These sources further said
that the account number of
the said premises is 98131.
The other major influential
defaulters of electricity bills
in Naundero include MPA
Muhammad Ali Bhutto, a/c
No 84050, Rs15,95,031
dues. This connection is in
the name of late Mushtaque
Khan Bhutto who was father
of the MPA Muhammad Ali
Bhutto.
Late Abdul Razak Bhutto,
a/c No 71760, Rs4,103,582;
Hazoor Bux Bhutto, a/c No
71670, Rs473,032; Deedar
Bhutto, PA to MPA
Muhammad Ali Bhutto, a/c
No 84,244, Rs 48,768; late
Rahmatullah Punjabi had
two connections i-e a/c Nos
75090 & 78100 and in his
both houses, Bhutto Estate
Manager Riaz Phulpoto is
now living along with his
children since long and outstanding
amount against
both these numbers is Rs
111,509 and Rs 96,184
respectively.
Late Rahmatullah Punjabi
was the father-in-law of Riaz
Phulpoto. Rs 194,364 are
outstanding against consumer
Sikander Khuhro, a/c
No 82620 whose son is a
PCS officer. Rs 109,668 are
outstanding against Hussain
Bux Narejo (a/c No: 82490)
who is former MRD convener
and now central leader of
Awami Jhamoori Party.
Rs 855,134 are outstanding
against Shahid Mithani,
an officer of NBP. Rs
1,119,127 are outstanding
against Ahmed Bux Bhutto
(a/c No: 83992) and the list
goes on.
The Executive Engineer
(Rural) Sepco Larkana,
Mutahariq Hussain Mashadi,
confirmed to reporters on
Tuesday that arrears of over
10 million to Bhutto mausoleum
have not yet been
cleared either by Sindh
Government or any body
else adding that he has not
received instructions from
higher authorities for disconnection
of electric supply to
the leaders graveyard on
account of failure to deposit
the huge amount. He said
zero reading was also sent
for few months enabling the
authorities to pay the amount
but despite that nothing has
come out as yet. –PPI
HYDERABAD: HESCO officials along with Rangers conducting raids against payment
defaulters, power thieves and disconnecting power supplies, removing kunda, grounding
transformers.
Implementation of NAP yielding
positive results: Rana Tanveer
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2:
Minister for Defence
Production Rana Tanveer
Hussain has said that
implementation of
National Action Plan
(NAP) is yielding positive
results in elimination of
terrorism.
In an interview, he said
operation Zarb-e-Azb has
successfully destroyed terrorists'
network. He said
the entire nation is united
against terrorism.
NA Standing Committee on
Housing and Works meets Why women are cursed when it comes to their weight
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2:
While females did lose some
weight, they remained firmly
in the obese category, the
journal Molecular
Metabolism reports It is the
excuse that full-figured
females everywhere have
been waiting for.
Scientists say that it is
easier for women to gain
weight than men – and harder
for them to lose it. They
blame gender differences in
brain wiring for making it
more difficult for women to
win the battle of the bulge.
Aberdeen University
researcher Lora Heisler said:
‘We know that men and
women are exposed to the
same conditions – we all live
together – but there are higher
rates of obesity in women,
with rates twice the prevalence
of those in men in
some parts of the world.
SC constitutes larger bench to conduct
continuous hearing of over 50 cases
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2:
Supreme Court (SC) has
said that the learned benches
have given different decisions
in more than 50 cases
of identical nature and people
are facing difficulties on
this count, therefore, a larger
RAWALPINDI, Feb 2: Teachers, Girls
students and their parents have voices
strong protest against shifting of middle
standard examination centre in respect of
boys candidates from boys high school to
girls high school.
‘We wanted to find out
why it is easier for women to
gain weight.’ To find out
more, Professor Heisler
studied the action of hormones
called POMC peptides.
Made by the brain,
they are known to be crucial
to appetite control and are
the target of a new obesity
drug. The professor showed
that when obese mice made
the hormone, they lost
weight. However, male and
females didn’t benefit equally.
The male mice shed so
much weight that they were
judged to be healthy once
more. But while the females
did lose some weight, they
remained firmly in the obese
category, the journal
bench has been constituted
to conduct hearing for 30
days continuously in order
to review all these decisions.
This bench will work
under the acting Chief
Justice of Pakistan (CJP)
Justice Mian Saqib Nisar.
These remarks were
given by acting CJP Mian
Saqib Nisar during the
course of hearing of election
petition pertaining to
Nawab Wasan Ali in respect
of National Assembly (NA)
Examination centre for middle class
examination for boys was set up in
Government Shimla Boys high school
Raja Bazaar Rawalpindi which has been
shifted to Government Girls High School
Alpha Christian Rawalpindi.
Molecular Metabolism
reports.
Appetite controlling peptides
sped up metabolism in
males, vital for burning calories,
so they could lose
weight easier and faster than
femailes
Experiments showed that
while the hormone cut
appetite in both sexes, it had
also sped up the males’
metabolism and made them
more active, leading to them
burning off vital extra calories.
It is thought the same is
true in people, helping
explain why so many
women struggle with their
weight. The discovery could
lead to obesity drugs tailored
to the sexes, with those for
women acting on different
parts of the brain to those
recommended for men.
constituency NA-115 from
Khairpur Sindh
The court adjourned the
hearing of the case indefinitely
due to absence of
Iftikhar Gillani advocate and
his engagement with another
bench.
Shifting of middle standard examination centre for
boys candidates to Girls high school protested
The lady teachers will supervise the
examination as well. Teachers and parents
have described this step of shifting examination
centre for boys to Girls high school
a sheer inefficiency and negligence of
education department Rawalpindi.
Professor Heisler said:
‘More than half of people in
the UK are overweight and
one in four are clinically
obese. ‘This is an enormous
percentage of the population,
and given the links
established between obesity
and serious medical illnesses
including cancer, heart disease
and diabetes, it is essential
that we strive to find new
methods to tackle this epidemic
to improve our
health.’ But with new medicines
taking years to develop,
the professor says the
best thing women can do in
the meantime is watch what
they eat. She said: ‘Keep an
eye on your body weight. If
you are gradually gaining
weight, it means that you are
taking in a few more calories
than your body requires
every day, so be aware of
portion size.’