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Sharjeel Memon 

to be netted: NAB 

KARACHI, Feb 4: NAB has 

submitted an inquiry report 

about corruption charges 

against former Provincial 

Information Minister Sindh 

Sharjeel Memon in Sindh 

High Court. 

The report said that 

Memon has committed billions 

of rupees corruption 

in the Sindh Information 

Department and he will be 

arrested on his return to 

Pakistan. Evidences of 

Sharjeel’s involvement in 

corruption have been gathered, 

the report said. 

Pak-Afghan 

DGMOs hold 

meeting at GHQ 

RAWALPINDI, Feb 4: An 

Afghan delegation led by 

director general military 

operations on Thursday visited 

General Headquarters 

Rawalpindi and met the 

Pakistani DGMO to discuss 

bilateral security and border 

management. 

According to ISPR statement, 

both the sides agreed 

during a meeting that none 

of the countries would 

allow terrorists use their soil 

for their activities. They 

expressed resolve to continue 

interaction for better 

bilateral military to military 

coordination. 

PM rejects Mehtab’s 

decision to resign as 

Governor KPK 

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: PM 

Nawaz Sharif rejected 

Governor KPK Sardar 

Mehtab Abbasi’s decision 

to resign and directed him to 

keep performing his duties 

as Governor of the 

province. Governor Abbasi 

has denied news about his 

resignation. Sardar Mehtab 

Abbasi said that during 

meeting with the prime 

minister he had requested 

him to stop serving as 

Governor which PM 

Nawaz rejected and directed 

him to keep performing his 

duties as Governor of 

province. 

ISLAMABAD Feb 4: A high 

level security meeting was 

held at Inter Services 

Intelligence (ISI) 

Headquarters on Thursday, 

Prime Minister Muhammad 

Nawaz Sharif and Chief of 

Army Staff (COAS) General 

Raheel Sharif attended the 

meeting and reviewed the 

entire internal and external 

threat spectrum including terrorists' 

networks and their 

linkages. 

The role of hostile intelligence 

agencies and their collaborators 

in fomenting instability 

in Pakistan and undermining 

Pakistan's interests 

was discussed in detail, Inter 

Services Public Relations 

(ISPR) press release said. 

Management of Pakistan- 

Afghan border including way 

forward was also discussed 

during the meeting. 

COAS emphasized that 

terrorists were externally 

funded and internally facilitated. 

He underscored the need 

for continued efforts across 

the country in consolidating 

gains made in operation Zarbe-Azb 

and ongoing intelligence 

based operations to 

ensure a permanent and sustainable 

peace in the country. 

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PM, COAS VISIT ISI HEADQUARTER 

Internal, external threat 

spectrum, terrorists network, 

their linkages reviewed 

Prime Minister Nawaz 

Sharif highly appreciated the 

efforts and achievements of 

army and intelligence agencies 

in achieving major break 

throughs and bringing a 

noticeable change in the 

security environment of the 

country. 

The Prime Minister paid 

tribute to the valiant officers 

and men of army and intelligence 

agencies who had sacrificed 

their lives in the line 

of duty. 

He said that entire nation 

was truly proud of its premier 

intelligence agency, its 

officers and men who have 

Terrorists have no country, 

religion or sect: COAS 

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif visited National Counter 

Terrorism Training Centre (NCTC) and witnessed Pak-Sri Lanka-Maldives Trilateral 

Exercise “Eagle Dash-I” in Pabbi. 

RAWALPINDI, Feb 4: 

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) 

General Raheel Sharif visited 

National Counter Terrorism 

Training Centre (NCTC), 

Pabbi and witnessed Pak–Sri 

Lanka–Maldives Trilateral 

Exercise “ Eagle Dash-I”, on 

Thursday, the Inter Service 

Public Relations (ISPR) 

reported. 

Foreign military delegates 

from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, 

Maldives and South Africa 

witnessed the exercise and 

lauded professionalism of 

Pakistan Army. 

Two weeks long exercise 

was focused on counter terrorism 

operations and sharing 

of field combat experience 

of three Armed forces. 

"Owing to the successes 

of Operation Zarb-e-Azb, a 

large number of friendly 

countries have requested 

Pakistan Army to organize 

training for their troops in our 

state of the art Counter 

Terrorism Training Centre," 

the ISPR stated. 

So far Pakistan Army has 

conducted joint exercises 

with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, 

China and Jordan to enhance 

their combat efficiency. 

Pakistani troops have also 

imparted counter terrorism 

FBI confirms Axact's 

fake degree business 

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: 

United States (US) investigative 

agency Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI) has on 

Thursday confirmed the fake 

degree business of Axact. US 

embassy also confirmed that 

334 online universities from 

US and universities under 

Axact were involved in the 

scam. 

FBI has confirmed after 

investigations that 334 online 

universities from US and 

institutions running under 

Axact were involved in selling 

fake degrees and diplomas. 

According to the FBI, 

the universities that issued the 

degrees were neither 

approved by US Department 

of Education nor were authenticated 

by any US accreditation 

board. 

In a letter to Pakistani institution, 

US embassy has stated 

that all these universities were 

involved in illegal online 

services and they issued 

2,381,000 fake degrees under 

‘cash for qualification’ format. 

Similarly, 119,707 fake 

certificates were issued to 

local and foreign students. 

Investigations revealed 

that the amount received for 

these degrees was submitted 

in foreign companies and 

banks. Some of this money 

was brought back into 

Pakistan in the name of software 

export. 

training to Police and other 

law enforcement agencies of 

all four provinces, Gilgit 

Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. 

While speaking on the 

occassion, General Raheel 

Sharif congratulated all participants 

of exercise for displaying 

high level of professionalism 

and combat skills. 

He underscored that such 

exercises will consolidate our 

special relationship between 

three forces and help eliminate 

terrorism from the 

region. COAS said that terrorism 

is a global phenomenon 

and terrorists have no 

country, religion or sect. 

Chairman PIA 

Jaffar's resignation 

accepted 


Prime Minister Nawaz 

Sharif on Thursday accepted 

resignation of PIA chairman 

Nasir Jaffer. 

Additional charge of the 

PIA chairman has been 

assigned to Secretary Civil 

Aviation Irfan Elahi. 

Sources told Online that 

Elahi will soon meet the 

premier and will give a 

briefing to him on the current 

situation to steer the 

PIA out of prevailing crisis. 

Jaffer had resigned following 

the death of two 

protesting PIA employees 

in Karachi and he had sent 

his resignation to the prime 

minister. 

countless successes on their 

name, which truly merit due 

recognition and acknowledgement. 

Prime Minister reiterated 

that the Government and the 

nation stood behind its armed 

forces and intelligence agencies 

in the fight and 

expressed the resolve that we 

would collectively defeat all 

designs of the enemies to 

make Pakistan a secure and 

prosperous country. 

Federal Ministerr, 

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and 

National Security Advisor Lt 

Gen (r) Nasser Janjua also 

accompanied Prime Minister. 

Saudi says Iranian 

pilgrims welcome 

despite rift 

RIYADH, Feb 4: Iranian pilgrims 

are still welcome to visit 

Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi 

Arabia despite increased tensions 

between the two countries, 

Riyadh’s foreign minister 

said on Thursday. 

“Any Muslim is welcome in 

Makkah and Medina… and 

this includes the Iranian pilgrims,” 

Adel al-Jubeir told 

reporters. He said the political 

crisis between Saudi Arabia 

and Iran “has nothing to do at 

all” with the annual Hajj pilgrimage 

or the lesser pilgrimage 

known as Umrah. 

The rites draw millions of 

faithful from around the world 

each year. 

In January, protesters 

burned Riyadh’s embassy in 

Tehran and a consulate in Iran’s 

second city of Mashhad to 

protest the Saudi execution of a 

religious leader. 

Saudi Arabia and some of 

its allies cut diplomatic ties 

with Iran as a result. 

At a joint news conference 

Thursday with visiting German 

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter 

Steinmeier, Jubeir repeated 

accusations that Iran’s “hostile 

policies” in the region for more 

than three decades led to the 

current situation. 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, Feb 4: Advisor to 

Sindh Chief Minister Maula Bux 

Chandio has said everyone was talking 

of privatization of federal government 

by rulers as they were not efficient 

enough to run affairs of Pakistan so 

that remaining tenure of Nawaz government 

can be run by such private 

organization. This he said talking with 

media while laying foundation stone of 

Archives department at new block of 

Shahbaz building here Thursday. He 

asked federal government to hold talks 

with the employees of national institutes 

like PIA,WAPDA, Steel Mills, 

OGDC and others instead of letting 

violence lose on them and forcing the 

privatization. He said they would not 

allow government to sell out national 

institutes as they were national assets 

and identification of Pakistan. He said 

national security relies on these and the 

nation would never allow their privatization. 

He said the faces of Abid Sher 

Ali and few other ministers were not 

federal as they were not only creating 

Kashmir Solidarity Day to be observed today 

Pakistan calls for early 

resolution of Kashmir dispute 

ISLAMABAD: Banners are seen displayed in connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day in 

front of Supreme Court of Pakistan. 


Pakistan on Thursday reiterated 

its demand of early resolution 

of the lingering dispute of 

Kashmir, in accordance with 

the UN Security Council 

Resolutions and aspirations of 

its people, for a lasting peace in 

the region. 

Spokesman of the Foreign 

Office Qazi Khalilullah said 

the nation observes February 5 

as Kashmir Solidarity Day to 

highlight the plight of the 

Kashmiri people and to call for 

an early resolution of the dispute. 

Speaking here at the weekly 

briefing, the Spokesman 

said “India continues to violate 

the human rights and brutalize 

Kashmiris in the occupied 

Kashmir.” 

“Pakistan has always condemned 

these atrocities. 

Kashmir Solidarity Day, to be 

RAWALPINDI, Feb 4: 

Pakistan Army director general 

military operations 

(DGMO) called his Indian 

counterpart on Thursday and 

offered assistance for the rescue 

of Indian Army personnel 

who went missing after 

an avalanche hit the Siachen 

glacier area. 

Ten Indian soldiers were 

feared buried in an avalanche 

that hit Siachen glacier in the 

observed today (Friday), 

reminds us of the Indian atrocities,” 

he added. 

Pakistan has always raised 

its voice against the gross 

human rights violations by 

Indian forces in the Occupied 

Kashmir. 

Qazi Khalilullah when 

asked about the new date for 

the Foreign Secretaries level 

talks between Pakistan and 

India, he said, “no date has 

been fixed for the Foreign 

Secretary-level talks.” 

He, however, added that 

both sides were in touch with 

each other in this regard. 

To a question regarding 

Indian President Pranab 

Mukherjee’s memoirs, where 

he described demolition of 

Babri Masjid by Hindus as a 

matter of national shame, the 

spokesman said “We respect 

the views of the President of 

India in this regard. We believe 

that all places of religious worship 

should be respected and 

protected.” 

The spokesman also confirmed 

the holding of the 

Quadrilateral meeting involving 

Pakistan, Afghanistan, 

China and US, and said the 

talks would be held as per 

schedule on Saturday. 

Regarding the attack on the 

Bacha Khan University in 

Charsadda, the Spokesman 

said Pakistan and Afghanistan 

were in touch at various levels 

regarding the use of 

Afghanistan’s soil by miscreants 

in Pakistan. 

When asked about the 

dossiers detailing India’s 

involvement in fomenting terrorism 

in Pakistan, he said 

these have already been shared 

with the United Nations and 

the US leadership. 

Pak Army offers help to 

rescue Indian soldiers: ISPR 

problems for Nawaz Sharif but outrageous 

to provinces. These ministers 

come to visit here and issue provoking 

statements. He said on the issue of 

closing down schools 40 ministers of 

Nawaz cabinet keep various view 

points.He said Chowdhry Nisar was 

India-held portion of Kashmir 

on Wednesday, The soldiers 

were hit while on duty at a post 

at an altitude of 19,000 feet. 

“In the early hours of today, 

10 soldiers were hit by an avalanche 

at the northern Siachen 

Glacier.” An army statement 

said the post was being 

manned by one junior officer 

and nine soldiers when the 

avalanche struck. 

Avalanches and landslides 

are common at the 

Siachen Glacier during the 

winter and temperatures 

there can drop as low as 

minus 60 degrees Celsius. 

In January four soldiers 

were killed by an avalanche, 

while last year another four 

died when their vehicle was 

buried under an avalanche 

near Leh, the main city in the 

high-altitude region known 

as Ladakh. 

Privatize federal govt as rulers failed to 

run country’s affairs: Chandio 

home ministers so provinces continue 

to talk with him. He said after leaving 

portfolio his party would ask questions 

from him. He said some MNAs of 

PML(N) had also visited Karachi and 

condemned the provoking statements 

of information minister Pervez Rashid. 

HYDERABAD: Advisor to CM Sindh Moula Bux Chandio addressing a press conference 

at Shahbaz Building. 

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Friday, February 5, 2016 

Metropolitan 

Non-availability of railway 

tickets adds to passengers’ woes 

Irfan Ali 

Staff Reporter 

KARACHI, Feb 4: After 

the protest of Pakistan 

International Airlines (PIA) 

employees, the railway has 

also irked passengers as 

advance booking and sale 

of tickets in black have 

affected the departures 

badly. 

The passengers have 

turned to railway stations 

after permanent shutdown 

of flight operations by PIA 

due to protest against privatization. 

The locals are facing 

problems in getting 

tickets of trains as the platforms 

are continuously witnessing 

crowd. 

KARACHI: A large number of passengers seen booking their seats for trains at Cantt 

Railway Station as many passengers started traveling by trains after suspension of 

domistic flight operations of PIA due to strike called by its employees. 

The booking staffers of various cities including 

stated that advance booking Karachi for first and second 

class travelling has been 

done while an exchange of 

MPA demands foolproof security for schools 

KARACHI, Feb 4: 

Muttahida Qaumi 

Movement's Member of 

Provisional Assembly 

(MPA) Nishat Muhammad 

Zia Qadari on Thursday 

presided a meeting regarding 

security arrangements of 

educational institutions 

located in Shah Faisal 

Town. The meeting was 

attended by head masters 

and teachers of schools, 

officers of Sindh government, 

KMC, DMC, and 

Korangi. 

Zia demanded of Sindh 

Assembly, KMC and DMC 

Korangi to ensure foolproof 

security of educational institutions 

in Shah Faisal town 

in view of terrorism threat. 

Schools teachers showed 

serious reservations about 

security and apprised the 

meeting of multifarious 

problems faced by schools. 

They demanded foolproof 

security for educational 

institutions. Zia said closing 

Monthly scholarship programme for 

minor students launched in Sindh 

schools is not durable solution, 

and the war against the 

terrorism could only be win 

through education. He further 

said: "Those killing 

innocent students and teachers 

have no religion and 

MQM is completely supporting 

Army for operation 

against terrorism." 

Over 13,000 

cancer patients 

treated at SIUT 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Director, 

SIUT, Adib Rizvi revealed on 

Thursday over 5000 urinary 

bladder cancer patients, 3000 

kidney cancers, 2000 prostate 

cancers and more than 3000 

other cancer patients were 

treated at department free of 

cost with dignity till last year. 

This he said while addressing 

an awareness seminar 

organized by Hanifa Suleman 

Dawood Oncology Center at 

SIUT. The other notable 

speakers included Samia 

Khurram Clinical Dietician, 

Dr Babar Malik cancer specialist 

and Dr Mansoor 

Rafique radiation oncologist. 

harsh words were also 

taken place between railway 

station administration 

and citizens. 

The profiteers are taking 

advantage of the situation 

by selling tickets in black. 

On the other hand, Strike 

against privatization is continuing 

on the third day 

today as dozens of flights 

have been cancelled, 

reported on Thursday. 

Rangers and police have 

been deployed at Allama 

Iqbal International Airport 

and Jinnah International 

Airport to deter the protesters. 

Water cannons have 

been provided to the law 

enforcers at the airports. 

Certificates distributed 

among participants 

of SMIU's National 

Leadership Programme 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Iqbal 

Hussain Durrani, Secretary to 

Chief Minister Sindh on 

Boards and Universities, has 

said that Sindh Madressatul 

Islam University has set a 

marvelous example by 

launching National 

Leadership Programme for its 

students. 

The other universities 

should follow this programme, 

he said this while 

addressing the certificates distribution 

ceremony held at Sir 

Shahnawaz Bhutto 

Auditorium of Sindh 

Madressatul Islam University 

(SMIU) on Thursday. The 

certificates were distributed 

among the students, organizers 

and coordinators, who visited 

various national institutions 

of Pakistan, located in 

Islamabad under the National 

Leadership Programme. 

No ambiguity regarding completion of 

Karachi operation: Corps Commander 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Karachi 

Corps Commander Lieutenant 

General Naveed Mukhtar on 

Thursday clearly said that 

there is no ambiguity regarding 

completion of ongoing targeted 

operation in the city. 

Addressing the 744th 

Passing Out Parade at 

Training Center and School, 

Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar reiterated 

that Sindh Rangers 

played central role in restoring 

KARACHI, Feb 4: The staff 

of Anti-Smuggling 

Organization, MCC 

Preventive Karachi has seized 

3400 Kg contraband Charas 

worth Rs 340,000,000/- 

alongwith Hino truck registration 

No TAB-487 and food 

items including Rice, Aata 

(flour) wheat straw etc . The 

contraband Charas mingled 

with other goods was recovered 

from the said truck at 

RCD Highway, near Moachko 

peace in Karachi. 

Rangers would continue to 

play affective role to ensure 

protection of people of the 

province, he said. 

Naveed Mukhtar further 

stated that targets in Karachi 

operation are free from the 

‘barrier of pace.’ The operation 

is completely apolitical, 

indiscriminate and free from 

any compromise or pressure. 

We will have to work 

Choke Point, Karachi. This 

successful operation was 

launched pursuant to information 

that the contraband 

Charas would be mingled with 

other cargo consignments at 

Lyari Karachi and transported 

to Coastal area Balochistan for 

onward trafficking /smuggling 

to foreign destinations. The 

two occupants of the truck 

(driver & conductor) namely 

Abdul Majeed S/O Sardoo 

and Muhammad Saleem S/O 

together to achieve success in 

this operation, he said. 

He said that basic aim of 

this operation is to create an 

atmosphere for the masses 

that is free from any kind of 

fear, there is supremacy of 

law and people follow the law 

and order. 

On the occasion, the Corps 

Commander also lauded the 

efforts and sacrifices of paramilitary 

Rangers. 

Karachi Customs seizes 

charas worth Rs340 million 

KARACHI: Customs staffs are exposing seized 3400 Kilograms of contraband charas worth 

Rs. 340, 000,000/- during press conference held at Customs House. —Messenger photo 

Pandok have been arrested 

and FIR No ASO-29/2016 has 

been lodged in the CNS Court, 

Karachi. 

It is worth mentioning that 

the current staff of ASO under 

command of Collector MCC 

Preventive Mr S.M Tariq 

Huda have succeeded in making 

record seizures of huge 

quantity of smuggled /non 

duty paid goods and contraband 

narcotics during the last 

one year, detailed as under: 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Scheme 

to provide monthly scholarships 

to girl students of 

class-I to class-VI has been 

launched in entire Sindh, 

reported on Thursday. 

In the first phase, at least 

320 students were given 

ATM cards. 

The initiative has been 

taken by Sindh’s Education 

Department for female students 

in the government 

schools. In the first phase, at 

least 320 students from different 

schools in Karachi 

will be given Rs 2,500 per 

month. 

Education Minister Nisar 

Khuhro, while addressing a 

gathering in this regard said 

that Rs 1 billion budget has 

been allocated for the purpose 

in the ongoing fiscal 

year. 

In the second phase, he 

said that 1.64 lac students 

belonging to interior Sindh 

and far flung areas would be 

given scholarships through 

easy paisa. He said that ATM 

cards and easy paisa would 

be used to make the transference 

of government’s funds 

transparent. 

He said that the scholarships 

would increase women 

literacy rate in remote and 

other areas. 

Thar Canal, drip irrigation to save 

Thari people from poverty, hunger 

KARACHI: Deputy Commissioner East, Asif Jan Siddiquie along with Administrator DMC 

East, Rehmatullah Shaikh, Municipal Commissioner DMC East, Waseem Mustafa lead rally 

DC office to Civic Center connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day. 

Karachi: The prominent child specialist and director child survival program in Sindh, Dr. 

M.N.Lal, presiding 3 days work shop for updated Management for Pneumonia and diarrhea 

for LHVs students of public health school. It was attended by 40 students of school. 

COURTS 

ATC seeks comments 

on maintainability of 

Uzair's petition 

KARACHI, Feb 4: An Anti-Terrorism Court 

(ATC) on Thursday directed prosecutor general 

Sindh and Rangers' prosecutor to file comments 

regarding the maintainability of application filed 

by Uzair Jan Baloch seeking meeting with his 

counsel. 

The Lyari gang war leader, who is currently in 

Rangers' detention, approached the administrative 

judge of ATC, Justice Muhammad Farooq Shah 

through his attorneys, Khawaja Naveed and Ms 

Saifee Khan, seeking the court's direction for his 

meeting with his counsel. 

In the application it was submitted that 

the attorney had meet Baloch on 30th 

January when he was presented in the 

court by Rangers for informing the court 

about his detention for questioning, but they could 

not talk their client. 

“The advocates need instruction from Uzair 

Baloch and for this an exclusive meeting, in which 

lawyer and client may have privileged communication, 

is required,” the applicant stated. 

SHC issues notice on petition against VIP 

Culture: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 

Thursday admitted the constitutional petition of 

Ansar Burney Trust International against VIP culture 

and issued notice to the Federation of Pakistan. 

KARACHI: Woman MPA Iram Farooqi addressing during the 

session of Sindh Assembly presided over by Deputy Speaker 

Shehla Raza. 

KARACHI, Feb 4: The Sindh 

government should initiate the 

vital scheme of Thar Canal on 

priority and start drip irrigation 

system there to end poverty, 

deprivation and diseases, the 

provincial government was 

advised by the members of 

Sindh Assembly here on 

Thursday. 

Discussing on a motion of 

Thar which was adopted unanimously, 

the lawmakers said 

that the main issue of Thar is 

the shortage of water and it 

could be mitigated through 

starting the lingering scheme 

of the Thar Canal. They said 

the water pipeline schemes 

should be accelerated and nonworking 

pipelines should be 

made operational. They asked 

a probe into the scam of RO 

plants in Thar and demanded 

the companies that have supplied 

these faulty plans should 

be made accountable. They 

said people of Thar have been 

suffering from the negligence 

and bad governance of the 

rulers of Sindh and to serve 

them properly the Sindh government 

would have to change 

its governance style. 

The double bench comprising Chief Justice 

Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Anwar 

Hussain heard the petition filed by the Ansar 

Burney Trust through its Director Shagufta 

Burney and Manager Mohammed Danish 

Ali against the VIP culture, VIP protocol, 

closer of roads and public places and its 

their effects on general public. The court issued 

notices to the government. Ansar Burney Trust 

International Chairman, Ansar mentioned in his 

petition that his Trust is not against the security 

provided to officials facing life threats but is 

aimed at resolving the lethal effects of such VIP 

culture which is over-defensive in approach and 

obstructive in nature as the VIP move around the 

masses with highly equipped bullet and bomb 

proof convoy escorted by heavy security of 

armed constables and commandos, due to which 

public convenience is routinely sacrificed. 

KARACHI: Administrator DMC Korangi, Ghullam Rasool along with Municipal Commissioner 

DMC Korangi, Ameer Bux Junijo, Director Health DMC Korangi, Rafiq Sheikh inspecting 

ongoing cleanliness drive in Shah Faisal zone. 

KARACHI: Deputy Commissioner DMC Malir, Muhammad Ali Shah along with Administrator 

DMC Malir, Tariq Hussain Mughal inspecting ongoing development work at Qaibdabad. 

KARACHI: Haq Parast MPA Sindh Assembly, Yousaf Shahwani along with Administrator 

DMC West, Sajjad Ahmed Memon inspecting ongoing cleanliness work at District West.


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Sanaullah terms Khursheed Shah's address 

to PIA protesters ‘shameful, despicable’ 

LAHORE, Feb 4: Punjab law minister 

Rana Sanaullah on Thursday 

lashed out at opposition leader 

Khursheed Shah, terming his 

address to Pakistan International 

Airlines (PIA) workers as shameful 

and despicable. 

Talking to media outside Punjab 

Assembly, Rana Sanaullah said the 

government is ready to give parliamentary 

guarantee pertaining to 

ensure employment of PIA 

staffers. 

He alleged that some employees 

are destroying department through 

black mailing. 

He bashed opposition leader 

Khursheed Shah and stated that his 

tone during yesterday’s address in 

Islamabad was shameful and 

insulting. 

Khursheed Shah lashed out at 

LAHORE: Punjab Provincial Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah talks o media 

persons outside Punjab Assembly on Thursday. 

46% children out of schools in Jacobabad district 

LARKANA, Feb 4: The 

plight of primary education 

in Jacobabad district is very 

alarming as 46% of the total 

children aged between 5 to 

16 years are out of schools 

which comes to about 

177,904 children. Due to 

this apathy, it is ranked 110 

out of 148 districts of 

Pakistan and 15 in Sindh. 

This has been revealed in 

Alif Ailaan Pakistan District 

Education Rankings 2015 

report. The report said 38% 

boys and 56% girls are out 

of school and 41% of the 

Two houses 

burgled 


Thieves have burgled two 

houses within the Lohi Bhair 

and Golra police jurisdictions 

during the last 24 

hours. Syed Nadeem Haider, 

a resident of Sawan Garden 

in Lohi Bhair, lodged a complaint 

with the local police 

that thieves made their way 

into his house while the family 

was out and made off 

with Rs50, 000 in cash, two 

laptops, a cell-phone, gold 

ornaments and other valuables 

worth Rs0.2 million. 

Meanwhile, Abid 

Hussain, a resident of Golra, 

lodged a complaint with the 

local police that thieves 

made their way into his 

house and made off with 

Rs60,000 in cash, jewelry 

and other valuables worth 

over Rs0.2 million The 

police have registered cases 

and started investigations, 

however, no arrests or 

recoveries had been made 

till the filing of this report. 

4 shot, injured 

over old enmity 

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: At least 

four persons were shot and 

injured over an old enmity within 

the Bhara Kahu police jurisdiction. 

Qamar Zaman Abbassi, 

a resident of Bhara Kahu, 

lodged a complaint with local 

police that M Fayaz, Zia, Nadir, 

Waseem and Hussain turned up 

at his house and opened indiscriminate 

fire and as a result, his 

sons, Rizwan and Fazian, 

nephews Humayun and Waqar 

were critically injured. 

children have never seen the 

inside of a classroom which 

is much against the vision of 

slain PPP Chairperson 

Benazir Bhutto. There are 

1440 government schools 

out of which 1329 are primary, 

while 390 (27%) 

schools are for boys, 221 

(15%) for girls, 829 (58%) 

are mixed and 519 are ghost 

& non-functional in the district, 

according the NGO. 

The report says 62% boys 

and 63% girls who enter into 

school do not survive till 

grade 5, while 66% of primary 

schools do not have 

drinking water facility, 57% 

are without toilets & electricity 

and 53% have no 

boundary walls, while 4900 

teachers are appointed for 

1440 schools but 83% of 

class 5 students cannot do 

class 3 level two digit division. 

The educational condition 

of Shikarpur district is 

also very grim like other districts 

of the province as it 

has been ranked 102 out of 

148 districts of Pakistan and 

its number in Sindh has been 

judged 13. THe report says 

49% of the total children 

aged between 5 to 16 years 

are out of school which 

comes to about 164,552 and 

of all the boys & girls, 37% 

boys & 63% girls are out of 

school. It further says 44% 

primary schools are without 

basic facility of drinking 

water, 46% without toilets, 

55% without electricity and 

31% do not have any boundary 

walls. As many as 4688 

teachers are appointed in 

1300 schools of Shikarpur 

and in 22% primary schools, 

only one teacher is available. 

Sindh University holds final Ph.D 

seminar in English Literature 

JAMSHORO, Feb 4: 

Scholar Abdul Waheed 

Jatoi delivered his final 

Ph.D Seminar on “An 

Analysis and Evaluation of 

Mystical and Philosophical 

Aspects of G. Allana’s 

English Poetry” at Senate 

Hall Syed Ghulam Mustafa 

Shah Administration 

Building University of 

Sindh Jamshoro. Prof. Dr. 

Pavez Ahmed Pathan Pro 

Vice Chancellor SU 

Campus Mirpur Khas will 

preside over the seminar. 

In the seminar, the supervisor 

Dr. Muhammad Khan 

Sangi and Co-Supervisor 

Prof. Qalander Shah 

Lakyari were also present. 

A large number of students, 

Scholars and faculty attended 

the event. 

JAMSHORO: Prof. Dr. Parvez Ahmed Pathan. Pro Vice Chancellor Sindh University Campus 

Mirpur Khas Scholor Abdul Waheed Jatoi and others speaking in Final Ph.D Seminar. 

Corruption in development work 

will not be tolerated, Shah Farman 

PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister 

for Public Health Engineering 

Shah Farman has said that no 

one will be allowed to make corruption 

in development work at 

PK-10. He said development 

work was a right of the people 

and he would spare no efforts in 

giving this right to the people of 

his constituency. He said he 

himself would examine each 

and every development work in 

his constituency PK-10 and no 

one would be spared if found 

involved in corruption. 

He expressed these views 

while talking to members of a 

joint Development and Reforms 

Committee of Union Councils 

Adezai and Sherikera at his 

office Civil Secretariat 

Peshawar on Thursday. 

Committee Chairman Jan 

Hassan, Vice Chairman Malik 

Nadeem Ahmad, members of 

committee Haji Faridullah, 

Anwar Khan, Haji Umar Khan, 

Sher Ali, Misri Khan, Ahmad 

Khan, Malik Haji Akbar 

Hussain, Gul Mast, Haleem Gul, 

Muhammad Shah and Noor 

Muhammad attended the meeting. 

The members of the 

Committee informed the minister 

in detail about the problems 

confronted to people of union 

council Adezai and Sherikera. 

Shah Farman said he would 

spare no efforts in provision of 

all basic facilities of life to the 

dwellers of PK-10. 

He said to ensure the provision 

of basic health care facilities 

at Mattani Hospital, he 

alongwith KP Minister for 

Health Shahram Khan visit hospital 

soon. He said a new hospital 

would also be established at 

Azakhel from which the people 

of Sherikera would also be benefitted. 

He said in each union 

council of Koh-e-Daman, five to 

six km link road would be constructed 

that would solve the 

problems of transportation of the 

people of PK-10. 

government in a taunting way and 

compared the democractic government 

with Zia-ul-Haq s dictatorship. 

He shouldn’t have done it, 

Rana Sanaullah added. 

Talking about firing at PIA protesters 

in Karachi, Sanaullah 

assured to have launched an investigation 

by arresting suspects. He 

said the security personnel are 

probing the whole incident. 

The minister also criticized 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) 

chief Imran Khan for disrupting 

peace and inciting people against 

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N). 

Meanwhile, PML-N leader said 

that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 

is also going against the federation 

due to continuously accusation of 

being friendly opposition. 

Death row 

convict sent 

to gallows 

KOHAT, Feb 4: A death convict 

was hanged in Central Jail 

Kohat on Thursday. 

Bilal Ahmad alias Abu 

Abdullah, who was a key facilitator 

of Tehreek-e-Taliban 

Pakistan (TTP) and was 

involved in several terror related 

activities against army, was 

executed in central jail Kohat 

on Thursday. Bilal was arrested 

from his native village 

Sooraj Sialkot two years back 

and a military court in Kohat 

had awarded death sentence to 

him after he was found guilty. 

Stringent security measures 

were taken around jail on the 

occasion of execution. 

STBB holds awareness 

seminar on free 

distribution of books 

Staff Reporter 

HYDERABAD, Feb 4: Sindh 

Text Book Board Jamshoro 

has arranged a seminar on free 

distribution of text books 

among primary and secondary 

schools in Sindh from KG to 

class X. The seminar was 

attended by Taluka Education 

Officers of Primary and 

Secondary sections and also 

district education officers. Two 

seminars were held separately 

in Karachi and Hyderabad. 

Karachi seminar was presided 

over by chairman STBB Zakir 

Ali Shah and secretary STBB 

Yousuf Shaikh chaired the 

seminar and IT team also gave 

presentation. The ideas of 

mechanism how to distribute 

books among schools was 

shared with participants as 

when and how books could be 

distributed including dispatching 

through bio-metric enrolment 

school and medium wise. 

This was first of its kind of distribution 

of books in schools. 


“Cancer is the second leading 

cause of death and direly 

needs attention of the 

government, media and 

health experts to create 

awareness amongst masses. 

Prevention and awareness 

can decrease overall healthcare 

cost of the country”, 

Dr. Tariq fazal Chaudhary, 

Minister of State for Capital 

Administration and 

Development Division said. 

He was addressing the 

participants of an awareness 

seminar against cancer at 

Shifa International Hospital 

(SIH) on Thursday. 

Every year, on 4 

February, World Cancer 

Day is marked, highlighting 

the health risks associated 

with cancer and advocating 

for effective policies to 

fight cancer. This year’s 

theme “We can. I can.” 

highlights that how everyone 

– as a collective or as 

individuals – can do their 

part to reduce the global 

burden of cancer. 

Dr. Tariq fazal 

Chaudhary said that world 

cancer day is the ideal 

opportunity to spread the 

word and raise the awareness 

about cancer in public 

Pakistan workers federation takes out rally 

against violence on PIA workers in Karachi 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, Feb 4: 

Pakistan Workers Federation 

a conglomeration of various 

labour unions took out a rally 

to mark protest against state 

violence on workers of PIA in 

Karachi and direct firing on 

them due to which 3 employees 

were killed by law 

enforcers. The rally carried 

placards and banners and raising 

slogans in favor of workers 

and against government. 

The rally reached press club 

where it was converged in big 

KHAIRPUR, Feb 4: A meeting 

of the Organizing 

Committee of 8th 

Convocation-2016 was held 

at Shah Abdul Latif 

University, Khairpur in the 

Syndicate Hall presided over 

by Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed 

Shaikh, Pro-Vice Chancellor, 

Main Campus. The organizing 

committee reviewed the 

arrangements of 8th 

Convocation-2016. 

Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed 

Shaikh apprised the members 

that the 8th Convocation 2016 

will be held on Saturday 27th 

February 2016. Honorable 

Chief Minister Sindh Syed 

Qaim Ali Shah has consented 

to grace the occasion as Chief 

Guest. The honorary PhD 

degrees will be conferred to 

eminent orthopedic surgeon 

Dr. Ali Mohammad Ansari 

and renowned educationist 

and scholar Mr. Mazhar-ul- 

Haque Siddiqui. The gold 

medal will be decorated to 

Prof. Dr. Syed Adeeb-ul- 

public meeting addressed by 

Mehboob Ali Qureshi general 

secretary of PWF and others. 

Qureshi condemned violence 

and firing on peaceful workers. 

He said government was 

stubbornly following agenda 

of iMF/World Bank under 

which it was bent to sell out 

national institutes like PIA , 

WAPDA, Steel Mills etc. He 

said the present government 

has privatized more than 200 

institute during its last tenure 

but only few of them were 

running due to which thousands 

of workers have been 

rendered jobless. He said due 

to unemployment and poverty 

people were committing suicides 

and selling their children 

and this situation was 

shame on rulers. He demanded 

to withdraw policy of privatization 

of national institutes 

and to arrest those 

involved in firing and killing 

of PIA employees. Others 

who spoke, included Gul 

Ghafoor, Muhammad Rahim, 

Manzoor Buledi, Aslam 

Kashmiri, Muhammad Imran, 

Hafiz Ahmad Din and 

Muhammad Asif. 

8th Convocation 2016 will 

be held on 27th February 

KHAIRPUR: Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed Shaikh, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Main Campus SALU, 

Khairpur presides over the meeting of Organizing Committee of 8th Convocation-2016. 

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: An 

Assistant Professor of the 

Hamdard University 

received the Best University 

Teacher Award 2014. 

The 11th Best University 

Teacher Award 2014 ceremony 

was organized by 

Higher Education 

Commission (HEC). In his 

address, Prof. Dr. Raza 

Bhatti, Director General 

Academics HEC briefed that 

after short listing from 96 

applications, only 35 

Government and 5 Private 

Sector Universities across 

Pakistan were found eligible 

to receive this award, says a 

press statement issued here 

on Thursday. 

Hamdard University is 

the only Private Sector 

University among them 

World Cancer Day. 

and in the world. He also 

appreciated the role of 

mainstream media and 

Shifa International Hospital 

for creating cancer awareness 

and alleviating myths 

about cancer. 

He advised masses and 

specially students and youth 

to raise questions about 

cancer and ask for answers. 

Stressing on the need to get 

tested for cancer; he said 

quakes were not the right 

place to treat a deadly disease 

like cancer. Cancer is 

not a social taboo. It’s preventable 

and it’s treatable, 

he stated. Dr. Tariq fazal 

Chaudhary urged for living 

a simple life, consuming 

simple and healthy food and 

doing regular exercise to 

prevent cancer. Masses 

should know possible 

symptoms of cancer. 

Consultant Medical 

Oncologist SIH, Dr. 

Kamran Rasheed said cancer 

occurs when cells in any 

Hassan Rizvi on account of 

his meritorious services in the 

field of urology and other 

humanitarian social services. 

The conveners of the different 

committees briefed 

the Pro-Vice Chancellor 

about their progress. All the 

arrangements for the holding 

of 8th Convocation-2016 are 

underway. 

The last date for the submission 

of application 

forms is fixed up to 8th 

February 2016. 

It was decided that the registration 

of Alumni members 

will be made on the eve of 

convocation. A separate stall 

for registration will be set and 

other material will be provided 

to the alumnus. 

Prof. Dr. Syed Asad Raza 

Abidi, Registrar, briefed that 

the degree recipients will 

receive gowns and hoods 

from Rizvi Tailors on the day 

of Convocation at the stall on 

the payment of Rs. 2000/=. 

The Rs. 1500/= are refundable 

while Rs. 500/= will be 

deducted as gown and hood 

charges. The students are 

advised to bring the cited 

amount on the day of convocation. 

The Director Maintenance 

briefed the meeting that the 

beautification and color work 

of main entrance of 

University, buildings and dual 

carriage is underway. 

The Pro-Vice Chancellor 

felt his entire satisfaction for 

the arrangements for holding 

of 8th Convocation 2016. 

Prof. Dr. Yasmeen Faiz 

Kazi, Prof. Dr. Ghulam 

Murtaza Maitlo, Prof. Dr. 

Abdul Majeed Chandio, Prof. 

Dr. Mohammad Yousuf 

Khushk, Prof. Dr. Syed Asad 

Raza Abidi, Prof. Dr. 

Ghulam Hussain Bhutto, 

Prof. Dr. Taj Mohammad 

Lashari, Prof. Dr. Ashfaque 

Ahmed Memon, Mr. Altaf 

Hussain Bhutto, Mr. Abdul 

Aziz Shaikh, and others 

attended the meeting. 

Hamdard University’s Assistant Professor 

receives the Best University Teacher Award 

from the Province of Sindh 

to receive this Honour. The 

award was presented to 

Assistant Professor Hakeem 

Syed Zahoor Ul Hassan 

Zaidi from Faculty of 

Eastern Medicine of 

Hamdard University. The 

Governor KPK, Chairman 

HEC and Director General 

Academics presented the 

awards. –PPI 

Cancer will be commonest cause of death in 2020: experts 

LAHORE: Cancer patients are being treated at Sundas Foundation, in connection with 

part of the body begin to 

grow abnormally. Although 

there are many kinds of 

cancer, but they all develop 

because of uncontrollable 

growth of cells. 

He said cancer could be 

treated through various 

methods including surgery, 

radiation treatment, 

chemotherapy, targeted 

therapies and bone marrow 

transplant. But prevention 

is better than cure, Dr. 

Kamran remarked.

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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

PIA or the Pakistan International Airlines Chairman 

Nasser Jaffer with tears in his eyes announced having 

resigned, right on TV in a public appearance, 

following deaths and injuries of PIA employees during an 

anti-privatization protest and clash with security personnel 

in Karachi recently and set forth a shining example in dark 

world of corruption that has ruled Pakistan around half a 

century. 

PROS and cons of selling around one third of PIA 

shares is being claimed to make this national airline run on 

profit while blocking losses, which private companies 

could manage with buying stakes in PIA, a factor emphasized 

by PIA chairman, while asking the airline employees 

not to waste years of efforts that may bring fruit with privatization, 

though he mourned the deaths and injuries he 

had ordered security forces to guard against and not to 

indulge in violence, injuries and killing he lamented upon. 

NONETHELESS strike of PIA employees still continued 

thereafter against government's allegedly questionable 

proceedings that was reported to be forcing privatization 

without due process of law: Without the government holding 

all important concerned joint consultations, without 

advance announcements for and with consensus and without 

taking stakeholders, including PIA unions and employees, 

into confidence and agreement. 

NASSER-JAFFER thus expressed his grief, taking due 

responsibility as PIA chairman on these tragic moves, and 

tendered his resignation to the PM: "My conscience doesn't 

allow me to head the organisation anymore," he said, 

urging the employees to hold dialogue with the government 

who will listen to their demands. However, a PM's 

statement had said those protesting employees of PIA will 

be fired from service and can be sent to jail for an year and 

that airline employees working during the strike will be 

given special rewards for their service. It's accused that certain 

parties backing the PIA workers were politicizing the 

privatization issue by resorting to strikes that were costing 

PIA Rs100 million per day. Islamabad had already 

enforced the Essential Services (Maintenance) Act 1952 -- 

more than a half century old! -- for six months. It barred 

PIA protesters from participating in any union activity. The 

legislation read: "Any person found guilty of an offence 

under this Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a 

term which may extend to one year and shall also be liable 

to a fine." 

TO mend matters, government was charged of doing 

more harm than good, on its own whims and pleasures, 

rather than merit and deserving to resolve PIA's real and 

underlying issues. A COO was reportedly put in place with 

a Rs 50 lac salary to do nothing but protect vested interests, 

while employees and staff who worked hard and even sacrificed 

their lives during an attack of terrorism and who 

practically ran PIA and its planes, were being meted out a 

harsh treatment, threatened with penalties and imprisonment. 

The unions and PIA employees and staff considered 

that unfair. Government had, though, tried to remove the 

employees' fears of financial insecurity and dismissal of 

employees from jobs, but apparently the top leaders of the 

country had already lost their credibility with their wide 

gap in saying one thing and doing another, altogether different 

thing! 

GOVERNMENT ought to have handled such matters 

more judiciously as its duty and responsibility. PIA people 

already know of high corruption of high officials of government 

who used and misused PIA planes, services and 

By Kristina Keneally 

Try as I might I cannot get excited about a Hillary 

Clinton presidency. If the results in the Iowa caucuses 

are anything to go by, neither can half of 

all likely Democratic voters. 

From this distance, Clinton looks good, especially to 

those, like me, who sit on the centre left of politics. Her 

resume is replete with advocacy for children and 

women. Her experience and performance as a legislator 

and a cabinet secretary is impressive. She’s fierce, tough 

and cool under pressure. If I was asked to write a 

description of my ideal first female US president I’d 

probably describe a person who sounds a lot like Hillary 

Clinton. 

Yet Clinton lacks something. Many somethings, in 

fact. 

Firstly, she lacks a raison d’etre for her campaign. I 

know she says she wants to be “a champion for everyday 

Americans.” That’s well and good, but geez, find me 

a Democratic contender who doesn’t. Does the United 

States need Clinton as president? I’m not convinced it 

does. 

Her candidacy seems motivated in equal parts by “it’s 

her turn” and “it’s time for a woman.” 

Does Clinton need to be president to satisfy herself? 

She sometimes seems to have “Head Girl syndrome”: 

when the smart, competitive female keeps succeeding at 

the next challenge without ever really working out what 

the motivating purpose of the ambition is. (Yes, I realise 

that the comments section will shortly be filled with people 

noting the irony of this statement coming from me. 

I’m comfortable with my political purpose and how 

often I articulated it. But, hey, go for your life if you 

want.) 

Clinton also lacks authenticity . The best way to 

explain is to point the obvious authenticity of her peers 

EDITORIAL 

PIA chairman resigns, setting a good 

example for top Pakistani leaders! 

hotels, ran it without proper management and gave billions 

in charity to end PIA deficits. Despite receiving several 

planes and not properly utilizing these, profits that could be 

achieved were turned into losses. Privatization was supposedly 

profitable. A minister said those who continue the 

strike will be treated as enemies of PIA and Pakistan and 

they will end up losing their jobs. Another minister said 

criticizing the security forces of violence and killing, and 

that too without evidence, is unacceptable as they risk their 

lives while saving people and maintaining peace. Though 

the responsibility of securing public property does not only 

fall upon security agencies but upon the general public too, 

as the ministers held, those protesting must explain under 

what law they created difficulties for the common people 

by suspending flight operations and damaging the public 

property. The unions and employees reserved their legal 

and constitutional rights for peaceful protest allowed in any 

democracy and described the violence, use of water cannons 

and firing of bullets as being responsible for angry 

reaction of the PIA demonstrators. Meanwhile, no one was 

prepared to take responsibility of the killing, each blaming 

it on someone else. A big, long bullet was shown fired on 

ground, while mobiles had captured the scene, but media 

was roughed up too, and no camera film were shown on 

televisions that could determine who had actually fired 

those who caused human casualties. A judicial inquiry may 

also wash away the dirty linen. And the issue, like many 

others in the past, may be forgotten in due time. Television 

footage though showed security personnel fire tear gas 

shells and water cannons at protesters as they attempted to 

force their way into the cargo gate. 

SEVERAL parties and leaders have condemned a 

rushed governmental stance for privatization without satisfying 

stakeholders of PIA. Islamabad recalled enough justifications 

having consulated several parties for the 

opposed privatization. However, instead of debating the 

issue in the parliament and making it a law with due parliamentary 

process, the government was charged to have 

acted in haste and issued a half baked order rushed into privatization. 

But employees who continue their protests can 

be talked to, briefed by a viable leader and due process can 

be initiated to take PIA union and employee leaders into 

confidence without any need for further violence or bloodshed, 

for which Nawaz League in rule are famous with 

great appetite in Lahore, Punjab as was witnessed in baton 

charging and injuring the nurses on a medical strike and 

killing of reformist PAT forces in Model Town. It's time the 

government listened to its own voice for peaceful dialogue 

to honor the demands of a working democracy for amicable 

resolution of any and all issues to the satisfaction and 

agreement of all concerned parties. 

RULERS talking good but acting evil cannot be considered 

by any nation as running an ideal government or even 

deserving of ruling over its voting nation. Past electoral 

frauds, especially in majority of rural areas, hauling up illiterate 

villagers into vehicles for thumb prints on any prepared 

ballot at voting booths as if they're animals, and the 

voters list without reforms may not achieve progress and 

prosperity for the nation. A basic and reformative change in 

policy and actions, accountability and implementation is a 

must for it. Otherwise, it's not bad if top corrupt leaders of 

the government feel they're also responsible for backwardness 

of Pakistan or lack of progress and prosperity that 

could be achieved but was not, and resign from their posts 

gracefully, before it becomes too late for them to do so. 

OPINION 

Hillary Clinton’s campaign lacks a raison d’etre 

and rivals. Bernie Sanders is a crotchety old socialist 

who isn’t even a member of the Democratic party. 

Conventional wisdom says there should have been daylight 

between Sanders and Clinton in Iowa. But 

Clinton’s “victory” over Sanders was so narrow it relied 

a coin toss. 

Sanders’s decision to be himself is attracting pretty 

significant support. He, alongside and Republican candidate 

Ted Cruz and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, are challenging 

the traditional definition of “electable”: it’s less 

about managed messaging and more about “being real”. 

Vice President Joe Biden is another example of a 

politician who oozes authenticity, despite the fact he has 

previously admitted to plagiarism. Biden’s honesty, his 

raw emotion, and candid, plain-speaking style draws 

people to him. His intelligence combined with his 

humility allows his audience to know he’s one of the 

smartest people in the room and not be off-put by it. 

Had Biden thrown his hat in the ring, the combination 

of his authenticity and experience might have turned 

Clinton’s caucus “victory” into another embarrassing 

Iowa electoral setback. 

Clinton’s lack of purpose and the lack of authenticity 

are related. In the US, widening inequality creates suspicion 

that the elites of politics and business are in 

cahoots to keep working Americans from getting a bigger 

share of the pie. 

Clinton’s wealth and questionable financial decisions 

undercut her claim to be the advocate for everyday 

Americans. 

Clinton lacks charisma and a common touch. Very 

few people are as richly endowed with the magnetic personality 

traits possessed by Bill Clinton or Barack 

Obama. In many ways it’s Hillary Clinton’s great misfortune 

to be in such close proximity to both: it magnifies 

her wooden style. 

HESCO recovery teams, Rangers 

continue operation against payment 

defaulters, power pilferage 

HYDERABAD: HESCO officials along with Rangers conducting raids against payment 

defaulters, power thieves and disconnecting power supplies, removing 

kunda, grounding transformers. 

HYDERABAD, Feb 4: On the directives 

of Hyderabad Electric Supply 

Company (HESCO) Chief Executive 

Officer, Akhtar Ali Randhawa to 

All Pakistan Clerks 

Kashmiris struggling to Association stages 

rally against govt 

secure birth right: Gilani LARKANA, Feb 4: All 

SRINAGAR, Feb 4: In occupied 

Kashmir, the All Parties 

Hurriyet Conference (G) 

Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani 

has said that Kashmir is a 

human and political issue and 

Kashmiris are carrying out an 

indigenous struggle to secure 

their birth and basic right - the 

right to self-determination. 

According to Kashmir 

Sawan Khaskheli 

BADIN Feb 04: Anti-corruption 

police led by Circle officer, 

district Badin, Sayed 

Sajid Muneer Shah has raided 

over district Wild Life Office 

district Badin and arrested the 

Ashfaque Ahmed Memon, 

District Game Officer, Wild 

Life Department Badin 

Media Service, Syed Ali 

Gilani in a statement issued in 

Srinagar said that the people 

of Jammu and Kashmir were 

struggling for the just and 

genuine demand of right to 

self-determination and this 

factor was present in every 

freedom movement of the 

world including the freedom 

struggle of India 

against the charges of bribery 

of 50 thousands on the application 

submitted by the local 

citizen. 

According the reports, 

Earlier, Badin citizen, Mr. 

Noor Ahmed Rajo has complained 

against the Mr. 

Ashfaque Ahmed, District 

Game Officer, Wild Life 

Department Badin and 

He said that the Kashmiris 

are peace-loving people and 

they are using peaceful means 

to continue their struggle. In 

2008 and 2010, he said, the 

Kashmiri people came out in 

lakhs on roads to show their 

inner-self and tried to attract 

the attention of the international 

community towards 

theirsufferings. 

Anti-corruption police moves, 

arrests DGO Wilde Life Dept 

Federal Govt badly fails 

in bringing improvement 

in PIA’s affairs: Khattak 

PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The 

Chief Minister Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak 

has said that Federal 

Government badly failed in 

bringing improvement in PIA’s 

affairs, and has mishandled the 

issue by using force instead of 

solving it through negotiations. 

This, he said while talking 

to media men during his visit 

to PIA building at Peshawar 

Cantt to show solidarity with 

PIA employees protesting 

against privatization of the 

institution and killing of their 

colleagues. 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, Feb 4: The 

Nuclear Institute of Medicine 

& Radiotherapy (NIMRA) 

Jamshoro in collaboration 

with Liaquat University of 

Medical & Health Sciences 

arranged a “CancerAwareness 

Walk” followed by a Seminar, 

to observe the World Cancer 

day on 4rth February 2016. 

While addressing the participants, 

Director NIMRADr. 

Naeem Ahmad Laghari 

expressed that the latest cancer 

statistics from the World 

Health Organization’s 

International Agency for 

Research on Cancer predict 

that if current trends continue, 

ensure 100 percent recovery of outstanding 

payment of over Rs65 billion 

outstanding payments using services of 

Rangers in house-to-house search 

MA Rehmani 

MIRPURKHAS Feb 4: 

Chairman Farmers organization 

council FOC Sindh Javed 

Junejo has alleged that director 

Nara canal has opened the supply 

of irrigation water in 

Khipro canal and other water 

was being supplied to Ranta 

canal to fill the Chotiari dam 

for providing also the water to 

their farmland while command 

area of Jamrao and Mithrao 

canal were deprived of water 

as result wheat and other crops 

were damaged adversely. 

In a press statement issued 

here on Wednesday. He further 

the global burden of new cancer 

cases will surge from 14.1 

million in 2012 to 19.3 million 

by 2025. 

alleged him for forcibly took 

the bribe of 50 thousands. 

Anti-corruption Police led by 

Sayed Sajid Muneer Shah, 

Circle Officer, Badin raided 

over the district Wild Life 

Office and arrested Mr. 

Ashfaque Ahmed Memon 

and registered the case under 

the crime section No: 

2015/15. 

Jamrao and Mithrao canals command 

area deprived of irrigation water 

said that After passing the time 

of annual desilting of Nara 

canal and its other canals and 

distributaries water has been 

reached in head Jamrao from 

Sukkur barrage but unfortunately 

Jamrao and Mithrao 

canals were still deprived of 

irrigation water that lead the 

devastation of standing crops 

in command areas of the above 

canals. He blamed that for getting 

huge money water has 

been sold to influential landlords 

and being supplied to 

their farmlands instead to supply 

water to all the command 

areas of lower Nara canal. 

He added that for developing 

countries, the situation 

often goes beyond addressing 

behavioral change, with many 

operations to root out power pilferage 

and recovery of payment from defaulters, 

spokesman. 

While, HESCO special teams conducted 

joint operation with the help of 

Sindh Rangers in the large-scale raids 

in Hyderabad, Latifabad, Qasimabad, 

Tando Adam, Mirpurkhas, Halla, 

Makli, Nawabshah and adjoining areas 

and disconnected power supply to 600 

connections, removed as many as 450 

illegal kunda connections and grounded 

4 transformers. HESCO teams also 

recovered Rs8 lacs 65 thousands during 

these operations. 

HESCO chief has given directives 

to report any political party, organization, 

elected members etc threat or 

pressure to provide utmost protection 

to HESCO officials. 

It is a commercial entity engaged in 

providing electricity but now has to 

recover over Rs65.79 billion out of 

which Rs2.18 billion from federal govt 

institutions, Rs33.86 billion from 

provincial govt institutions and Rs29.73 

billion from private/commercial consumers 

and also have obtained Rangers’ 

help for 100 percent recovery of outstanding 

payment and disconnected 

power supply will not be restored till 

payment of outstanding dues. 

Pakistan Clerks Association 

(APCA), Larkano District, 

took out a rally from the shrine 

of Syed Qaim Shah Bukhari 

here on Thursday for acceptance 

of their demands. The 

protesters gathered at the 

Admin Lawn of Chandka 

Medical College Hospital and 

marched marched towards the 

shrine from where they 

reached Larkana Press Club. 

They held a protest demonstration 

outside the club by 

chanting slogans and holding 

banners & placards in their 

hands. The also held a sit-in at 

Jinnah Bagh roundabout, distrubing 

traffic flow. The rally 

was led by their provincial vice 

president Farooq Jalbani, district 

president Aijaz Mirani, 

and Rafique Jatoi. 

Talking to media, the leaders 

said that they had been 

protesting peacefully since 

long but the authorities had 

turned deaf ears to their 

demands. 

Sindh University Jamshoro 

and its Campuses will be 

closed on Kashmir Day 

JAMSHORO, Feb 4: The 

Registrar University of 

Sindh has announced that 

the University of Sindh 

Jamshoro and its all 

Campuses including Elsa 

Kazi Campus Hyderabad, 

Mirpur Khas Campus, Laar 

Campus Badin, Thatta 

Campus, Shaheed 

Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto 

Campus Dadu, International 

University of Sufism and 

Modern Sciences Bhitshah 

and Syed Allahando Shah 

Campus Naushahro Feroze 

will remain closed on today 

5th February on account of 

Kashmir Solidarity Day. 

NIMRA arranges cancer awareness 

walk, seminar on World Cancer Day 

countries facing a ‘double burden’ 

of exposures, the most 

common of which is cancercausing 

infections.


International 

5 

Starbucks in Saudi Arabia bans 

women from entering store 

RIYADH, Feb 4: Women 

were banned from entering a 

Starbucks in Saudi Arabia 

after a ‘gender barrier’ wall 

collapsed, it has been 

claimed. 

A sign posted on the window 

of a Riyadh store of the 

coffee chain, in Arabic and 

English, reportedly read: 

“Please no entry for ladies 

only. Send your driver to 

order. Thank you.” 

One woman who said she 

was refused service at the 

café wrote on Twitter: 

“Starbucks store in Riyadh 

refused to serve me just 

because I’m a woman and 

asked me to send a man 

instead.” 

Starbucks denied that the 

store had a ban on women. 

According to the Arabic 

language daily newspaper Al 

Weaam, the country’s religious 

police – the Committee 

for the Promotion of Virtue 

and Prevention of Vice – 

ordered the coffee shop’s 

management to ban women 

from the establishment after it 

found that a ‘segregation 

wall’ inside the store had 

given way during a routine 

inspection around a market in 

the capital city. 

According to Al Weaam, 

LONDON, Feb 4: Donor 

nations pledged on Thursday 

to give billions of dollars in 

aid to Syrians as world leaders 

gathered for a conference 

to tackle the world's worst 

humanitarian crisis, with 

Turkey reporting a new exodus 

of tens of thousands fleeing 

air strikes. 

With Syria's five-year-old 

civil war raging and another 

attempt at peace negotiations 

called off in Geneva after just 

a few days, the London conference 

aims to address the 

the store’s management told 

the police that the wall had 

regularly collapsed because 

of customer stampedes. 

Gender segregation is 

widespread in Saudi Arabia, 

with women requiring male 

permission to work, travel, 

needs of some 6 million people 

displaced within Syria 

and more than 4 million 

refugees in other countries. 

Underlining the desperate 

situation on the ground in 

Syria, Turkish Prime 

Minister Ahmet Davutoglu 

study, marry or even access 

healthcare. They are also 

unable to drive or open a 

bank account, and must be 

accompanied by a male chaperone 

on shopping trips. 

A spokeswoman for 

Starbucks told that the store 

Billions pledged for Syria as tens 

of thousands flee bombardments 

Junior doctors’ union confirms industrial 

actions as talks with govt fail 

London, Feb 4: Top officials at Britain’s 

National Health Service are trying to avert a 

strike as junior doctors confirm they will go 

ahead with a planned industrial action next 

week. 

Doctors accuse authorities of being “left 

with no alternative” but to go on strike following 

talks on the new proposed contract. 

About 38,000 medical trainees observed a 

24-hour walkout on January 12. The British 

Medical Association then suspended plans for 

two days of industrial action due to start on 26 

January citing progress in talks with the government. 

Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary also 

said that the government’s “door is open” to 

Israeli court sentences 2 over 

Palestinian teenager's murder 

JERUSALEM, Feb 4: An 

Israeli court on Thursday 

sentenced two Israelis in the 

2014 murder of a 16-yearold 

Palestinian, sending one 

to life in prison for a crime 

that sparked deep soulsearching 

in Israel and was 

part of a series of events 

that led to the Gaza war 

later that year. 

The court sentenced a 

second Israeli, believed to 

have had a lesser role in the 

crime, to 21 years in prison. 

Another Israeli is awaiting a 

verdict following a psychological 

examination. 

"The sentence imposed 

on the defendants reflects 

what we asked for and the 

barbaric and atrocious act," 

said Ori Korb, the state 

prosecutor. He said the murder 

marked a "moral nadir." 

The Israelis sentenced 

Thursday snatched 

Palestinian 

teen 

Mohammed Abu Khdeir 

from an east Jerusalem 

neighborhood in July 2014, 

driving him to a Jerusalem 

forest where he was burned 

to death. 

avert the crisis. But days of negotiations failed 

to make a breakthrough. The government has 

also warned that it could push ahead with 

imposing the controversial contract in case of 

no agreement. The BMA has accused the government 

of dragging its feet and warned that 

the junior doctors will strike as planned on 

February 10, providing only emergency services. 

“It is particularly frustrating the government 

is still digging in its heels. We have 

talked in good faith over the past few months, 

but have seen no willingness on their part to 

move on a core issue for junior doctors”, Dr 

Johann Malawana, BMA junior doctor committee 

chairman, said. 

DAMASCUS, Feb 4: 

Opposition forces in northern 

Syria say they are losing their 

grip on Aleppo as Russian 

bombardment and advances by 

pro-Assad militias come close 

to cutting their supply lines and 

besieging the city. 

After a week of the most 

intensive bombardment of the 

five-year war, forces loyal to 

the Syrian leader are in control 

of most of the countryside 

immediately to the north. 

Russian jets have pounded 

the area throughout the past 

week, as Syrian factions have 

told the meeting that tens of 

thousands of Syrians were 

on the move towards his 

country to escape aerial 

bombardments on the city of 

Aleppo. 

"Sixty to seventy thousand 

people in the camps in 

north Aleppo are moving 

towards Turkey. My mind is 

not now in London, but on 

our border - how to relocate 

these new people coming 

from Syria?" he said. "Three 

hundred thousand people living 

in Aleppo are ready to 

move towards Turkey." 

Turkey is already hosting 

more than 2.5 million Syrian 

refugees. Jordan and 

Lebanon are the other countries 

bearing the brunt of the 

Syrian refugee exodus. 

Passengers evacuated 

from Madrid-Riyadh 

flight after threat 

MADRID, Feb 4: Passengers 

on a flight to Riyadh that had 

been due to take off from 

Madrid were taken off plane 

Thursday following an unspecified 

threat that put the airport 

on alert, authorities said. 

“Security forces and rescue 

services are mobilized. The 

plane was isolated and passengers 

evacuated,” a spokesperson 

for AENA, the group that 

manages airports in Spain, 

told. The Guardia Civil police 

force told they were still 

unclear as to what the threat 

against the Saudi Airlines 

flight was. 

The El Pais daily said the 

alert was raised by a note 

pinned to the interior of the 

plane with a knife that read: 

“bomb threat”. The SVA 226 

flight had been due to take off 

at 0950 GMT but the captain 

requested that it be evacuated 

after the note was found. The 

AENA spokesperson, who 

refused to be named, said the 

airport was functioning normally 

as the plane had been 

taken to an isolated area where 

officials were checking it. 

gathered in Geneva for a faltering 

peace summit. The Russian 

defence ministry said on 

Thursday it had hit almost 900 

targets in Syria in the previous 

three days. 

It also accused Turkey of 

preparing for a military incursion. 

“The Russian defence 

ministry registers a growing 

number of signs of hidden 

preparation of the Turkish 

armed forces for active actions 

on the territory of Syria,” said 

spokesman Igor Konashenkov. 

The Russian air attacks 

have succeeded in clearing 

was currently being renovated 

to construct a wall to 

accommodate single people 

and families, in accordance 

with local customs, due to be 

completed within the next 

two weeks. 

In a statement, the company 

said: “Starbucks in Saudi 

Arabia adheres to the local 

customs by providing separate 

entrances for families as 

well as single people. 

“All our stores provide 

equal amenities, service, 

menu and seating to men, 

women and families. 

“We are working as 

quickly as possible as we 

refurbish our Jarir store, so 

that we may again welcome 

all customers in accordance 

with local customs.” 

In December, women in 

Saudi Arabia voted in municipal 

electionsfor the first time 

in the country’s history. 

Nearly 1,000 females also 

stood as candidates in the 

elections. 

India gathers 

navies in show of 

maritime might 

NEW DELHI, Feb 4: India 

kicked off a major display of 

maritime might on Thursday, 

with ships from 50 navies converging 

on the country’s east 

coast, as New Delhi seeks to 

boost its leadership in the 

region. 

Ninety ships including from 

the US, French, British and 

Chinese navies are taking part 

in the international fleet review 

in the Bay of Bengal — a ceremonial 

inspection and parade 

of boats and crews. 

Indian Navy chief Robin K. 

Dhowan, who is hosting the 

event, said the review would 

increase naval cooperation, 

with the “safety, stability and 

the security” of the oceans a 

“collective responsibility”. 

“What you see, all the ships 

there, is all about cooperation, 

it is how to interact with each 

other and how to work together 

to make the global commons 

safe and secure,” Dhowan told 

the NDTV network. 

India is working to show 

maritime leadership, after 

rival Beijing has asserted 

growing strategic influence in 

recent years in Indian Ocean 

region, as its seeks to secure 

its trading routes. “This is a 

forum that demonstrates 

India’s willingness to be a 

leading power,” analyst Samir 

Saran, from the Delhi-based 

Observer Research 

Foundation thinktank, told. 

DAMASCUS, Feb 4: More 

than a dozen people have 

been killed and scores of others 

injured in rocket attacks 

by foreign-backed Takfiri 

militants on residential areas 

in the Syrian city of Dara’a. 

Health officials said 17 

civilians lost their lives and 

101 others were injured when 

rockets fired by militants 

struck several neighborhoods 

across the city, Syria's official 

SANA news agency reported. 

Head of Health 

Directorate in Dara’a Abdul 

Will John Abraham do a film like 

fifty shades of grey? 'Maybe' 

MUMBAI, Feb 4: Actorproducer 

John Abraham said 

that he would go broke but 

will not produce an adult 

comedy through his production 

house, John Abraham 

Entertainment. 

"There is a market for 

adult films, as they have the 

potential to do well. But as 

an actor I would definitely 

not do it. Not because it's 

wrong, but I, as a person, 

will not do it. I don't stand in 

a position to pass judgment 

saying this is right or wrong, 

but I am a very clear person 

and I want to maintain that," 

John told. 

"Would I do a Fifty 

Shades of Grey? Maybe. But 

would I do whatever is coming 

out? Hell no. I will go 

broke, but I will not produce 

an adult comedy," added 

John. 

John has produced films 

like Vicky Donor and 

Madras Cafe. He also said 

that he likes doing comedy 

films. 

"I concentrate on content 

as an actor. The genre I 

enjoy the most is comedy. I 

love comedy and I have got 

a grasp of comic timing now. 

I can handle comedy with 

TEHRAN, Feb 4: 

Commander of Iran’s Army 

Major GeneralAtaollah Salehi 

says the country will enhance 

its missile capabilities despite 

US-led efforts to curb them. 

The US government 

imposed fresh sanctions on 

Iran over its missile activities, 

a day after Tehran and the 

West agreed to implement a 

nuclear accord, called the Joint 

Comprehensive Plan of 

Action (JCPOA). 

Washington argued that 

Iran's missile activities violated 

a UN Security Council 

which bars the Islamic 

Republic from developing 

ease," he added. 

John will soon be seen in 

missiles designed to carry 

nuclear warheads. 

Tehran says no Iranian missile 

has such an intention and 

new sanctions are thus illegal, 

which also breach the JCPOA. 

On Thursday, Gen. Salehi 

said, "We are neither paying 

any attention to the resolutions 

against Iran, nor implementing 

them." 

"We are doing our job and 

our missile program for the 

future will be stronger and 

more precise," he told 

reporters in Tehran. "This is 

not a breach of the JCPOA,” 

he added. 

The Army chief said Iran’s 

Rocky Handsome, Force 2 

and Dishoom. 

Iran to enhance missile 

capabilities despite resolutions 

TOKYO, Feb 4: North 

Korea's mobile missile 

launcher, carrying a ballistic 

missile, has been seen moving 

near the east coast and 

activity has also been seen at 

a long-range rocket launch 

pad on the west coast, 

Japanese public broadcaster 

NHK said on Thursday. 

International pressure has 

grown on North Korea to call 

off a planned rocket launch, 

seen by some governments 

as another missile test, since 

Pyongyang told U.N. agencies 

this week it would 

launch what it called an 

"earth observation satellite". 

Japan has put its military 

on alert to shoot down any 

rocket that threatens its territory. 

The NHK report said the 

weapons present no threat to 

friendly and neighboring 

countries. "They are rather a 

threat to the enemies of this 

establishment. Israel should 

fully realize the meaning of 

this concept," he added. 

Salehi further dismissed 

the threat of Daesh terrorists to 

Iran, saying the Takfiri group 

“cannot do a damn thing.” 

“Today, we see from the 

events in Syria that Daesh’s 

propaganda is more than its 

real capability. But its sponsors 

want to use this germ of 

atrocities as a means to harass 

regional nations to the last 

moment," he said. 

North Korea's mobile missile 

launcher seen moving: Japan's NHK 

Wadood al-Homsi said most 

of the wounded were women 

and children, and that one of 

them was in a very critical 

condition. 

The projectiles also 

caused substantial damage to 

several houses. 

Separately, three civilians 

were injured in a rocket 

attack by Jaysh al-Islam militants 

on Harasta, a suburban 

city northeast of Damascus. 

Ten other people were 

injured when projectiles 

struck a number of neighborhoods 

in the northwestern 

city of Aleppo, some 355 

kilometers (220 miles) north 

of Damascus. 

Peace talks halted 

mobile missile launcher was 

thought to normally remain 

stationary in places such as 

an underground facility. 

North Korea fired two 

mid-range ballistic missiles, 

which appeared to be 

Rodong-class missiles, from 

the mobile launcher off its 

east coast into the sea toward 

Japan in March 2014, the 

report said. 

Militant rocket attacks leave 17 dead, dozens hurt in Dera'a 

rebel strongholds that had 

defied two earlier regime pushes, 

and allowed loyalist forces 

led by Lebanese Hezbollah 

and Shia militias to advance 

towards a large industrial area 

The attacks came amid a 

fresh bid for peace which a 

UN envoy halted on 

Wednesday. 

Syrian rebels losing grip on Aleppo 

at the gateway to the rebel-held 

east that has been transformed 

into a wasteland over three 

years of bombardment. 

The fall of Aleppo would 

be a devastating blow to anti- 

Assad forces. Opposition 

groups, among them the al- 

Qaida aligned Jabhat al- 

Nusra, which sent large numbers 

of fighters to the city last 

week, have controlled 

Aleppo’s eastern half since 

the summer of 2012. Syrian 

forces, heavily backed by 

their allies have remained in 

control of the west.

6 


Biz 

Pakistan to receive $497mn 

tranche of IMF loan: Dar 

DUBAI, Feb 4: The 

International Monetary Fund 

announced Thursday it 

would release the latest 

instalment worth $497 million 

of a three-year economic 

bailout package to 

Pakistan, while urging 

Islamabad to implement 

planned energy sector 

reforms and restructure lossmaking 

public companies. 

The IMF’s delegation 

head Harald Finger said in a 

statement that the decision 

was taken after a review of 

Pakistan’s economic performance 

from January 26 to 

February 4, and that the 

money would be transferred 

after approval by the board. 

Finger said that the real 

GDP growth rate was 

expected to reach 4.5 precent 

for the 2015-16 financial 

year due to lower oil prices, 

planned improvements in the 

energy supply, investment 

related to the China Pakistan 

Economic Corridor (CPEC), 


Iranian Ambassador, Mehdi 

Honardoost said on 

Thursday that Iran could 

supply cheapest gas and 

electricity to Pakistan while 

Pakistan was working with 

Iran on some projects to 

import electricity. 

"Iran is ready to give 

more facilities to Pakistan 

DUBAI: Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar and IMF country Mission Chief, 

Harald Finger addressing a joint press conference at Dubai on 4th of February 2016. Finance 

Secretary Waqar Masood Khan and governor SBP Ashraf Mahmood Wathra are also present. 

buoyant construction activity, 

and acceleration of credit 

growth. 

“Economic activity 

remains robust. Although a 

weak cotton harvest, declining 

exports, and a more challenging 

external environment 

are weighing on growth 

for materialization of gas 

pipeline project," he made 

these remarks during an 

interaction with business 

community at Islamabad 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry (ICCI) here. 

The Ambassador also 

urged the Pakistani private 

sector to step up efforts for 

promoting trade with Iran as 

prospects,” he said. 

“While many structural 

benchmarks have been met, 

measures pertaining to the 

energy sector reform and 

restructuring of loss-making 

public enterprises are yet to 

be implemented,” he added. 

The $6.6-billion bailout 

both neighbors have 

immense potential to 

enhance two-way trade in 

many areas. 

He said Iran-Afghanistan 

bilateral trade was over $ 2 

billion, but Pak-Iran bilateral 

trade of around $ 270 million 

was very low despite 

huge potential and businessmen 

of both countries 

agreed in 2013 was granted 

on condition that Pakistan 

which was suffering an energy 

crisis carry out restructuring 

in the energy and taxation 

sectors. 

Addressing a press conference 

with Finger in 

Dubai, Finance Minister 

Iran ready to supply cheapest gas, 

electricity to Pakistan: Iranian Envoy 

World food prices tumble near 7-year low 

ROME, Feb 4: World food 

prices fell to near a sevenyear 

low in January, weighed 

down by declines for agricultural 

commodities, particularly 

sugar, the United Nations 

food agency said on 

Thursday. 

Food prices have fallen for 

four straight years and remain 

under pressure from ample 

agricultural supply, a slowing 

global economy, and a 

strengthening US dollar. 

PSDP aid sought for 

SMEDA to set up 

startup support fund 

KARACHI, Feb 4: The Union 

of Small and Medium 

Enterprises (UNISAME) in a 

message to the prime minister 

(PM) Nawaz Sharif stated on 

Thursday that SMEs form the 

fabric of the economy and 

stressed the need of government 

patronization for SME 

development and promotion 

on fast track to enable the sector 

meet the global challenges. 

President UNISAME 

Zulfikar Thaver appreciated 

the proposal of the Small and 

Medium Enterprises 

Development Authority 

(SMEDA) sent to the Ministry 

of Industries and Production 

(MoI&P) for adoption of the 

KOSGEB model of Turkey 

for SME development and 

promotion. 

The Food and Agriculture 

Organization's (FAO) food 

price index, which measures 

monthly changes for a basket 

of cereals, oilseeds, dairy 

products, meat and sugar, 

averaged 150.4 points in 

January against a revised 

153.4 points the month 

before. 

The 1.9 percent decrease 

from December follows an 

almost 19 percent slide in 

2015. Food on international 

KARACHI, Feb 4: President 

Federation of Pakistan 

Chambers of Commerce & 

Industry (FPCCI) Mr. Abdul 

Rauf Alam has nominated 

Chairman Consumers 

Association of Pakistan 

Kaukab Iqbal as Sr. Vice 

Chairman FPCCI Standing 

markets in January was 16 

percent cheaper than one year 

ago, the FAO said. 

"There are still prospects 

perhaps for further downward 

pressure on markets, but the 

US economy, exchange rates, 

and the overall macro conditions 

are impossible to predict 

and their implications could 

be quite important," FAO 

senior economist Abdolreza 

Abbassian said. Positive revisions 

for wheat production 

prompted the FAO to raise its 

estimate for world cereal output 

in 2015 to 2.531 billion 

tonnes, still 1.2 percent below 

2014's record harvest. 

Early prospects for cereal 

harvests in 2016 are mixed, 

the FAO said, partly due to El 

Nino-associated weather patterns 

having a particularly 

deleterious effect in the 

southern hemisphere. 

Kaukab Iqbal nominated as Sr Vice 

Chairman FPCCI standing committee for 

Consumer Protection and Adulteration 

Committee for Consumer 

Protection & Adulteration. 

President FPCCI has 

expressed the hope that he will 

also do his best for consumers 

and fulfil all aims & objectives 

of standing committee. It is 

clarified that Kaukab Iqbal has 

been engaged in solving consumers’ 

problems for several 

years. He is also President of 

Pakistan Consumers 

Federation and Member Task 

Force of Commissioner 

Karachi. Kaukab Iqbal said 

that his nomination as a Sr. 

vice Chairman for FPCCI 

Standing Committee for 

Consumers Protection & 

Adulteration is a great source 

of pride for himself. 

SECP publishes access to inside Information 

regulations to seek public opinion 

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: The 

Securities and Exchange 

Commission of Pakistan 

(SECP) has published draft 

“Access to Inside Information 

Regulations 2016” in the official 

Gazette and placed it on 

its website to seek public 

opinion, says a press release. 

The comments of the 

stakeholders, received within 

14 days of the day of publication 

will be considered before 

finalizing the regulations. 

Section 131 of the 2015 

Securities Act requires the 

listed companies or persons 

acting on their behalf, to 

maintain a list of persons 

employed, who have access to 

inside information. These regulations 

provide the manner 

in which the said list is to be 

maintained. 

should become active to 

fully realize the available 

untapped trade potential. 

He said, after the lifting 

of sanctions, Iran was poised 

to undertake many infrastructure 

development projects 

while lot of European 

companies were visiting his 

country to explore business 

opportunities. 

Palm oil falls from 

20 month high on 

stronger ringgit 

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4: 

Malaysian palm oil futures 

ended lower on Thursday 

and snapped two sessions of 

gains after hitting a 20- 

month high earlier in the 

session, on the back of a 

stronger ringgit and weaker 

export demand. 

The palm oil contract for 

April delivery on the Bursa 

Malaysia Derivatives 

Exchange rose as much as 

0.82 percent to 2,568 ringgit 

a tonne, its highest since 

May 19, 2014, before settling 

down 0.6 percent 

2,531 ringgit ($610.62) per 

tonne. 

Traded volume stood at 

48,968 lots of 25 tonnes 

each. 

"The ringgit is firmer, 

and there are expectations 

of a bumper crop in Brazil," 

said a trader from Kuala 

Lumpur, referring to soybean 

output in the South 

American country. 

An oversupply of soybeans 

from South America 

would send soyoil prices 

lower, narrowing its spread 

with palm oil. A discount 

would help soyoil grab market 

share from palm oil in 

top consumers China and 

India, who favour importing 

soybeans to crush for 

domestic consumption. 

Ishaq Dar said that his government 

had successfully 

reduced fiscal deficit and 

brought down inflation. 

“For the first six months 

of the year, inflation is down 

to 2.1 percent,” Dar said, 

referring to the period from 

July 2015 to January 2016, 

the start of the financial year. 

Dar said that the target for 

budget deficit was 4.3 percent 

this year, which over the 

years had been brought down 

from 8.8 percent. 

He added that the government 

had chalked out a 

“robust plan” for loss-making 

public sector companies 

which are causing losses 

amounting to billions of dollars 

over the decades. 

These include Pakistan 

International Airlines, the 

bloated and badly managed 

national carrier which loses 

hundreds of millions of dollars 

a year. Islamabad plans 

to partly privatise the carrier 

later this year. 

AGP informed 

senate body – No ghost 

pensioner at NBP 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Auditor 

General of Pakistan Mr. Rana 

Asad Amin denied presence of 

ghost pensioners at NBP. He 

was responding to the questions 

before the Senate 

Standing Committee on 

Finance Economic Affairs, 

Statistics & Privatization. 

He reiterated that after an 

interim audit of NBP branches, 

it has transpired that the reduction 

in the number of pensioners 

was only due to switchover 

of pensioners to other banks 

and those drawing pensions 

through DCS. 

The hearing was held here 

at the Old PIPS Hall, 

Parliament lodges. Mr. Rana 

Asad Amin rejected the presence 

of ‘ghost pensioner’ and 

said that it tantamounted to 

making a mountain out of a 

molehill. 

The AGP investigating the 

issue of presence of ghost pensioners 

at NBP – raised in Nov 

last year – hinted towards the 

probability of pension being 

distributed to those who may 

have died in the recent past but 

that anomaly, if exists, is corrected 

once the pension is converted 

to family pension and 

amount is recovered. 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Under the 

auspices of Consumers 

Association of Pakistan Eighth 

Consumers Food Safety & 

Quality Conference will be 

held in Pearl Continental 

Karachi. Syed Nasir Hussain 

Shah Provincial Minister of 

Food Government ofSindh 

will be the chief guest whereas 

conference will be presided by 

Senior Vice President 

Federation of Pakistan 

Chamber of Commerce & 

Industries(FPCC I)Mr. Khalid 

Tawab. Commissioner 

Corporate Corner 

Avail 40% discount - UBL joins hands with 

Pizza Hut, Burger King & TGI Fridays 

KARACHI, Feb 5: UBL (United Bank Limited) one of 

Pakistan’s fastest growing banks, recently signed an agreement 

with MCR PVT LTD, popular for its renowned food franchises, 

Pizza Hut, Burger King and TGI Fridays, to provide amazing 

discounts to UBL Bank customers. 

Being in business for more than 20 years MCR is unarguably the best in the industry 

and is well versed in providing customers with new and exciting offers.UBL and MCR 

are well known for providing customers convenience and innovative one stop solutions. 

For the first time ever in Pakistan a special promotion is taking place for dine in, take 

away and home delivery customers. Burger King, Pizza Hut and TGI Fridays together are 

providing 40% off to all UBL Premium Debit MasterCard and UBL Signature card-holders 

for dine in, take away and home delivery. This joint promotion will be valid for 5th, 

6th and 7th February 2016. 

Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Azeem Qureashi, Deputy COO of MCR Pakistan 

Limited said, “This is a great opportunity for customers of UBL to experience the hospitality 

of our various world-leading franchises. We value UBL as an important partner and 

look forward to serving its customers best!” 

Mr. Umair, Product Manager -Loyalty & Brand Alliances at UBL expressed the same 

sentiments and looks forward to betterment of both organizations. 

KARACHI: Former Federal Advisor on Textiles Ministry Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig with 

Naveed Cluf Industry CEO Khawaja Tahir Siraj, Nadeem Ahmed, Fahim Amed, Khawaja 

Asif Siraj and Khawaja Rehan Siraj during visit at (NCI) stall in a Textile Machinery 

Brand Expo 2016 at expo center. 

Al-Ameen Funds’ Assets under management 

surged by 530% in last 3 years 

KARACHI, Feb 4: The Islamic Division of UBL Fund Managers Limited (UBL Funds), 

Al-Ameen Funds, has posted a remarkable growth of 530% in the last three calendar 

years. Al-Ameen Funds now stands as comprising the second highest market share on a 

cumulative basis in the Islamic Funds category in Pakistan, showing particularly impressive 

growth in equity funds. 

Leaping from Rs. 5.1bn to Rs. 32.5bn in just 36 months, Al-Ameen Funds served as the 

major contributor to UBL Funds’ overall growth. 

The rapid increase was noted due to the common interest of majority of investors. 

Investors may draw comfort from the fact that Al-Ameen Funds falling under the realm of 

Shariah-compliant fixed income funds are generally superior to conventional fixed income 

funds because the underlying debt instruments are structurally less risky than conventional 

debt instrument. Furthermore, the borrowing levels are lower and dividend yields are 

higher with Shariah-compliance stocks, which may provide extra comfort to investors of 

Al-Ameen Funds that fall into the Shariah-compliant equity category. This is also one of 

the main reasons that Islamic financial institutions were in much better shape compared to 

the conventional financial institutions during the global financial crisis of 2008-09. 

CEO UBL Funds, Mir Muhammad Ali, said “The Islamic funds industry has shown 

impressive growth in recent years especially in funds which invest in stocks. Growth in 

income funds has been less impressive mainly because of government’s failure to increase 

supply of Islamic debt instruments over the last few years. However, we expect that things 

will soon improve on that front as well. On the whole, we see a bright future for Islamic 

funds industry and we expect it to grow at a much higher rate compared with the conventional 

funds industry.” He added that, “the company strives to retain and grow its market 

share in Islamic Funds by delivering superior fund performance in existing funds and by 

introducing new funds that cater to investor needs which are yet unfulfilled.” 

8th Consumers Food Safety & Quality 

Conference will be held on Feb 11 

Karachi Syed Asif Haider 

Shah, Consul General 

Malaysia Mr. Ismail Bin 

Mohammad Bakri, Honorary 

Consul General of Yemen Dr. 

Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, CEO 

Naheed Super Market Mr. 

Ibraruddin, Honorary Consul 

General Morocco Mr. Mirza 

Ishtiaq Baig, Managing 

Director Water & Sewerage 

Board Mr. Misbahuddin 

Fareed, Senior Director Food 

& Quality Control Mr. 

Mukhtar Hussain KMC, 

President All Pakistan 

ISLAMABAD: Australian High Commissioner, Margaret Adamson and Secretary Economic 

Affairs Division (EAD), Tariq Bajwa exchanging documents after signing an agreement. 

Restaurant Association Mr. Palm Oil Board Mr. 

Shaukat Ali Umer Sons, FairusHidzir, Director 

Country Ambassador Department of Food Science 

American Society for Micro Sindh Agricultural University 

Biology Dr. Shahana Urooj TandoJam, Director 

Kazmi, Cooking Expert O r g a n i z a t i o n 

Zubaida Tariq AAPA, Senior DevelopmentNew Nest Dr. 

Manager Legal & Corporate Salman Lodhi, President 

Affairs English Biscuits Mr. National Alliance for Safe 

Mohammad AzamShakeel, Food Rana Owais Khan, Chief 

CEO City Events Punjab Mr. 

Tahir Mahmood will be the 

Guests of Honor.Chairman 

Food Inspector Regulation & 

Quality Control KMC Mr. 

Abdul Waheed Bhatti, Dr.Asia 

Consumers Association of Panwar Professor Sindh 

Pakistan Kaukab Iqbal said University TandoJam will 

that Regional Head Malaysian deliver their presentations. 

Modern Diesel, Isar Trading 

International sign agreement 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Modern 

Diesel, Lahore and Saudi company 

Isar Trading International 

Est signed an agreement for 

the supply of auto parts worth 

$3 million for three years. 

Aamir Idrees, managing partner 

of Modern Diesel said: 

“We are very happy to get government 

level contract from 

Automechanika Jeddah 2016.” 

Commercial Counselor 

Abdul Wahab Soomro visited 

the exhibition and Pakistani 

companies. He emphasized the 

need for increased participation 

of Pakistani companies in 

Saudi exhibition. Saudi automotive, 

vehicle and its allied 

industry have huge imports 

worth $22 billion. Aftermarket 

and auto parts import value 

was approximately $1.9 billion 

in 2014. Pakistan has big 

potential in this sector having 

more than 278 top-tier producers 

out of 1,200 units of the 

$1.5 billion industry. Four 

companies from Pakistan has 

participated in said fair. 

Modern Diesel, Sultan & 

Kamil, Darson Industries and 

S.T Engineering. With the 

steady growth of the automotive 

manufacturing and aftermarket 

industry in the region, 

Automechanika Jeddah presented 

170+ exhibitors from 

over 27 countries at the Jeddah 

Center for Forums & Events. 

Automechanika Jeddah is 

organized by Messe Frankfurt.

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Inaugural edition of PSL 

kicks off with impressive show 

DUBAI, Feb 4: Renowned 

Pakistani and international 

superstars including Ali 

Zafar, Sean Paul, Mohib 

Mirza and Sanam Saeed performed 

at the opening ceremony 

to kick off the much 

awaited Pakistan Super 

League (PSL) Twenty20 

cricket tournament here at 

the Dubai International 

Cricket Stadium on 

Thursday night. 

All eyes were on the 

opening ceremony after the 

lucrative cricket league had 

garnered a lot of hype in the 

national as well as international 

media. The inaugural 

edition of Pakistan Super 

League will formally start 

with an encounter between 

‘Islamabad United’ and 

‘Quetta Gladiators’ later 

tonight. 

Before the ceremony, hiphop 

and R&B sensation from 

NEW DELHI, Feb 4: India has 

granted special concession to 

Pakistani athletes taking part in 

the 12th South Asian Games 

by declaring Guwahati and 

Kolkata as designated entry 

points for them, Indian media 

quoting officials reported on 

Thursday. 

The decision by the Union 

Home Ministry came after 

Islamabad raised concerns 

over the safety of its athletes 

Jamaica Sean Paul said he 

was optimistic about the success 

of the tournament. He 

said cricket and music have 

something in common to 

entertain people. 

“I have strong bond with 

cricket as I have played 

cricket in my school days 

and I wanted to become a 

fast bowler like Curtly 

Ambrose. But I am happy 

following the disruption of a 

concert by Pakistani ghazal 

singer Ghulam Ali and attack 

on politician Sudheendra 

Kulkarni at a book launch of 

Pakistan Foreign Minister 

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in 

Mumbai. 

The Games, which is being 

hosted by Assam and 

Meghalaya, begins today 

(Friday). 

Since Guwahati and 

what I am today and my job 

is to entertain people. I hope 

we are having a very good 

series called the PSL”. 

Pakistani star Ali Zafar 

also shared his views about 

the tournament saying, “I am 

unable to express my happiness 

that the PSL is going to 

happen at last. I feel honoured 

to be part of the project 

and hope to see a great 

Kolkata airports are close to 

the venues of the Games, they 

have been added to the designated 

entry points for Pakistani 

passport holders and non-validated 

pass (NVP) holders during 

the period of South Asian 

Games, a Home Ministry official 

said. 

Pakistan allows Indians 

entry only through four designated 

entry points – Attari- 

Wagah border, Karachi, 

contest during the series 

since Shahid Afridi and 

Chris Gayle are here to 

entertain us with fours and 

sixes”. 

There are five franchises 

partaking in the cricket 

league named after each 

provincial capital and the 

federal capital of Pakistan. 

The Karachi Kings, Lahore 

Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi, 

India gives special concession to Pak 

athletes for South Asian Games 

Wasim Akram believes PSL is a 

‘win-win situation’ for Pakistan cricket 

DUBAI, Feb 4: As UAEbased 

Twenty20 tournament 

kicked-off at Dubai Cricket 

Stadium twith a star-studded 

opening ceremony on 

Thursday, Wasim Akram is 

confident the inaugural 

Pakistan Super League will 

give Pakistan cricket a muchneeded 

lifeline and boost a 

generation of young cricketers 

in the country, a UAE 

based Sports website reported 

on Thursday. 

Akram’s influence in the 

PSL is strong with the legendary 

left-armer acting as 

Islamabad’s team director and 

he feels the league will capture 

the imagination of the 

Pakistani public given the 

troubles the cricketing nation 

have faced in recent years. 

“It’s a win-win situation 

for Pakistan cricket and 

Pakistani cricketers,” Akram, 

who claimed 414 wickets in 

104 Test matches, told 

Sport360 exclusively. 

“It’s twenty days of highoctane 

entertainment and it’s 

not just me and the cricketers 

who are excited, the whole 

country is behind it. This is 

our league to make it a success. 

Today is a big, big day 

for Pakistan Cricket.” 

ZURICH, Feb 4: Proposed 

reforms to soccer’s scandalplagued 

governing body FIFA 

would leave power still in the 

hands of national associations 

and confederations, shutting 

out players, fans and clubs, 

the world players’ union said 

on Wednesday. “Football’s 

monopolistic structure will be 

further entrenched under the 

proposed, so-called reforms,” 

FIFPro said in a statement. 

FIFA is in the throes of a huge 

graft scandal, with criminal 

investigations underway in 

the United States and 

Switzerland. Forty-one individuals, 

many of them national 

association presidents, and 

entities have been indicted in 

the United States and FIFA’s 

own ethics committee has 

banned leading officials 

including its president, Sepp 

Blatter, barred for eight years. 

With the likes of Chris 

Gayle, Kevin Pietersen and 

Shane Watson all featuring 

this month, the former fast 

bowler believes it is a prime 

opportunity for Pakistan’s 

young stars to soak up their 

experience and study their 

professionalism. 

“It will definitely give a 

boost of confidence for 

youngsters in Pakistan, rubbing 

shoulders with the greats 

of the modern game. 

“The players will spend 

time with these guys 24-7 and 

they will get to know their 

drills, get to know their mindsets, 

get to know their techniques. 

They have a lot to gain 

An extraordinary FIFA 

Congress on Feb. 26 will elect 

a new president and be asked 

to vote on reforms aimed at 

preventing further scandals. 

FIFPro, which represents 

more than 60,000 professional 

footballers worldwide, said 

the reforms failed to give 

players, fans and clubs the 

voice they deserved in the 

running of FIFA. “There will 

be even more power in the 

hands of the confederations 

and national member associations 

of FIFA who have been 

the source of corruption and 

the worst crisis in FIFA’s history. 

An overhaul was urgently 

needed “otherwise, we’re 

faced with a potentially worse 

scenario than before,” it said. 

Among other things, the 

amendments seek to separate 

policy and management positions, 

with a 36-member FIFA 

from being around them.” 

Akram is aware that if the 

PSL goes down as a major 

success, it could open the door 

to the competition taking 

place in Pakistan in 2017. 

“The PSL will help 

Pakistan Cricket, it has been 

struggling because we don’t 

play enough international 

cricket and the fact we have to 

play in the UAE, which is for 

the right reasons over security. 

“Players are not comfortable 

playing in Pakistan 

because of the issues and you 

cannot blame them. But let’s 

start from here, with the PSL, 

hopefully people will come 

out and watch.” 

FIFA reforms could make 

situation worse: players’ union 

council replacing the 25- 

member executive committee. 

FIFPro also criticised some of 

the promises which have been 

made to FIFA’s 209 member 

national football associations 

during the electoral campaign. 

“It’s alarming that these very 

same organisations are set to 

be rewarded with more FIFA 

grants, more World Cup spots, 

and more places on the FIFA 

executive committee,” FIFPro 

said. The five presidential 

candidates are Asian Football 

Confederation president 

Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim 

Al Khalifa; former FIFA 

deputy general secretary 

Jerome Champagne of 

France; South African businessman 

and politician Tokyo 

Sexwale; Prince Ali Bin Al 

Hussein of Jordan; and UEFA 

general secretary Gianni 

Infantino. 

Lahore and Islamabad airports. 

India, on a reciprocal basis, 

too, allows entry through four 

designated check-point – 

Attari-Wagah, Delhi, Mumbai 

and Chennai. 

This is perhaps the first 

time that two new entry points 

have been designated for 

Pakistanis, albeit only for 

sportspersons and officials for 

the duration of the SouthAsian 

Games. 

Australia bans 

women’s cricketer 

for betting on Match 

MELBOURNE, Feb 4: 

Australia has banned women´s 

cricketer Piepa Cleary for six 

months, with another 18 

months suspended, for placing 

bets on a men´s test match 

between Australia and New 

Zealand in November. 

The 19-year-old Cleary, 

who plays for Western 

Australia state, had placed six 

bets totallingA$15.50 ($11.10) 

on the match at Adelaide Oval. 

"CA has imposed a 24- 

month period of ineligibility 

on Cleary of which 18 months 

are suspended on condition 

that she commits no further 

offences under the (Anti- 

Corruption) Code," Cricket 

Australia said in a media 

release on Thursday. 

"She is also required to participate 

in anti-corruption player 

education programs delivered 

by CA in future. 

"The penalty bans Cleary 

from all domestic and international 

cricket, including cricket-related 

functions and events. 

It follows a 24-month suspended 

sentence given to Sydneybased 

women´s cricketer 

Angela Reakes in December 

for placing five bets worth a 

total ofA$9 on the man-of-thematch 

for the cricket World 

Cup final last March. 

BUCHAREST, Feb 4: Ankita Raina 

recorded the biggest win of her 

career by beating world number 56 

Nao Hibino but Sania Mirza suffered 

a rare defeat in doubles as 

India lost their Group A Fed Cup 

contest 1-2 to Japan, in Thailand on 

Thursday. 

Ankita, India's number one singles 

player at 307, took the court 

after Prarthana Thombare had lost 

the opening singles. Battling the 

odds, Ankita toppled the world number 

56 with her 6-3 6-1 win over the 

Japanese number one. Prarthana, 

ranked as low as 523, had lost tamely 

2-6 1-6 to Eri Hozumi, placed 

206, as India trailed 0-1. 

Ankita though drew parity for 

Indian with her shock win. India, at 

that point, had a real chance to upset 

the fancied Japan with having world 

number one player in Sania in the 

team. However, Sania and Prarthana 

lost 5-7 3-6 to the pairing of Shuko 

Aoyama and Hozumi. Aoyana was 

ranked as high as 31 in the doubles 

in 2013. 

With Sania in side - who has not 

Quetta Gladiators and 

Islamabad United will compete 

with each other to lift 

the trophy. 

All franchises have a 

beautiful mix of foreign and 

local players. Hence exciting 

matches are expected 

especially traditional rivalry 

between Karachi and 

Lahore will be the talk of 

the town throughout the 

event. 

In Lahore Qalandars, 

Gayle Storm, Dwyane 

Bravo, and Kevon Cooper 

will be in action against 

their rivals. However, cricket 

lovers will also witness 

Sharne Watson, Andrew 

Russell, Misbah-ul-Haq, 

Boom Boom Afridi, Wahab 

Riaz, Kevin Peterson, 

Sarfraz Ahmed, Umer Gul, 

Shoaib Malik, Ravi Bopara 

and many other stars of 

cricket in different matches. 

Ibrahim expected 

to clinch Union 

Club Open Ranking 

Tennis C’ship title 

KARACHI, Feb 4: 

Youngster Ibrahim Iltifat is 

the top seeded player in 

men's singles event of 2nd 

Union Club Open Ranking 

Tennis Championship, 

which begins today (Friday) 

here at Union Club tennis 

courts. 

Ibrahim is expected to 

meet Aqeel Shabbir in the 

summit clash of the event. 

In Juniors U-17 singles 

event, Talha Suhail is the top 

seed. In 13 and Under singles 

event, Farzan Ahmed is 

expected to secure the title. 

Meanwhile, in 9 and Under 

singles event, Zain Ehtisham 

is the top seed. 

No more bullying: ICC decides 

to strip ‘Big Three’ of power 

DUBAI, Feb 4: The ICC has 

announced it will carry out a 

complete constitutional 

review of the changes 

brought about by the "Big 

Three" takeover in 2014. 

Moves have already begun 

to dismantle the system of 

governance proposed by the 

BCCI, ECB and CA two 

years ago, with confirmation 

of the expected change to 

make the ICC chairman an 

independent position. 

The outcomes from the 

ICC board meeting on 

Wednesday also included 

removing permanent positions 

for India, England and 

Australia on the Executive 

Committee and the Financial 

& Commercial Affairs 

Committee - the ICC's two 

most powerful forums. 

In a statement, the ICC 

said the board had "agreed to 

carry out a complete review 

of the 2014 resolutions and 

constitutional changes with 

a view to establishing governance, 

finance, corporate Committee, 

Governance 

and cricketing structures that Committee 

are appropriate and effective 

for the strategic role and 

function of the ICC and all 

The knock-out round 

opens with a match between 

Bangladesh and Nepal, two of 

the fiveAsian sides in the fray, 

in Mirpur on Friday. The winner 

of this match will take on 

the winner of the other quarter-final 

between England and 

Sri Lanka, who go head to 

head in Mirpur on Sunday. 

This semi-final will be played 

in Mirpur on February 9. 

The other semi-final on 

February 11 could feature a 

DHAKA, Feb 4: Undefeated 

Pakistan, Bangladesh, 

England and India will start as 

favourites when the Super 

League quarter-finals of the 

ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 

2016 are played from 

February 5 to 8 in Mirpur and 

Fatullah. 

ICC TV will produce the 

quarter-finals, which will be 

aired around the world by 15 

broadcasters. 

These four teams topped 

their respective groups in the mouth-watering 

preliminary league with an 

all-win record, displaying allround 

strengths good enough 

to take any one of them all the 

way to the title. 

Sri Lanka and the West 

Indies, the other two Test 

nations in the last eight, will 

also fancy their chances even 

as qualifiers Namibia and 

Nepal look to make a mark 

against the bigger teams. 

clash 

between India and Pakistan if 

the archrivals come through 

their respective quarter-finals. 

India meets Namibia in 

Fatullah on Saturday and 

Pakistan faces the West Indies 

on Monday at the same 

venue. 

Bangladesh, the most 

experienced side in the tournament 

with five players taking 

part in their second under- 

of its members". 

Shashank Manohar, the 

BCCI president who is also 

currently serving as ICC 

chairman, signalled his 

intention to roll back the 

changes overseen by his 

predecessor N Srinivasan in 

an interview last year, when 

he referred to "the three 

major countries bullying the 

ICC". Manohar will now 

head the five-man steering 

group set up to conduct the 

review, with an aim of putting 

forward recommendations 

at the ICC's annual 

conference in June. 

Alongside Manohar on 

the steering group will be 

ECB president Giles Clarke, 

in his role as chairman of the 

F&CA Committee. Clarke 

was one of the architects of 

the ICC revamp and had 

been expected to run for the 

position of chairman. The 

rest of the group will comprise 

heads of the ICC's 

Review 

Executive 

and 

Associate/Affiliate Member 

group: Nazmul Hassan, 

David Peever and Andrew 

19 World Cup, has not looked 

back after knocking out 

defending champion South 

Africa in the opening match 

on January 27. 

Captain Mehidy Hasan's 

team played inspiring cricket 

in home conditions in front of 

fanatical fans to raise hopes of 

beating Nepal and going past 

the quarter-finals for the first 

time in the history of the tournament. 

Nepal, which last played in 

the U19 World Cup in 2012 

and returned for this edition 

after winning the qualifying 

tournament in Malaysia, 

defeated New Zealand and 

Ireland to advance to the quarter-finals. 

Rahul-Dravid coached 

India swept past Group D 

rivals Ireland, New Zealand 

and Nepal in impressive fashion 

and will now take on 

Namibia in quarter-finals. 

Armitage respectively. 

The introduction of an 

independent chairman was 

intended to "avoid any 

potential conflicts of interest 

and to follow best practice 

principles of good governance". 

The ICC's next 

chairman, to be elected later 

this year, will no longer be 

able to hold a position on 

their home board, as 

Srinivasan and subsequently 

Manohar did. 

Candidates to succeed 

Manohar must have served 

as an ICC director. The 

chairman will be able to 

serve for a maximum of 

three two-year terms. 

Manohar said the board 

had agreed on a need for 

greater transparency and 

would reinstate the practice 

of Full Member boards presenting 

their audited 

accounts to the ICC on an 

annual basis. Three of the 

board's four annual meetings 

will now take place outside 

of the UAE, where the ICC 

is headquartered, with the 

Annual Conference set to be 

held in Edinburgh from June 

27 to July 2. 

APS students reached Dubai to 

attend PSL inauguration 

DUBAI, Feb 4: For rehabilitation, 

146 students of Army 

Public School (APS) 

Peshawar Thursday reached 

Dubai with staff members to 

attend the inauguration ceremony 

of the Pakistan Super 

League (PSL). 

According to details, the 

group of 146 students from 

APS left for Dubai from 

Bacha Khan International 

Airport Peshawar and 

reached UAE on Thursday 

afternoon. 

Pakistan’s Twenty20 skipper 

Shahid Afridi, days earlier, 

had announced to fly 150 

students of APS to Dubai for 

opening ceremony on behalf 

of Peshawar Zalmai whom 

he is leading. 

The young cricket lovers 

adorning Peshawar Zalmi’s 

kits would support Shahid 

Afridi during the PSL. 

Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, India 

enter U19 World Cup quarters undefeated 

Unfancied Namibia has 

progressed beyond its bestever 

finish of 11th place in 

2008 following a stunning 

two-wicket win over South 

Africa and a nine-wicket 

defeat of Scotland. 

England, with nine senior 

county players in its ranks, 

has shown excellent form 

with both bat and ball in its 

three Group C matches to 

emerge as the team to beat in 

the competition. 

England raked up huge 

totals each time it took the 

crease, scoring 371 for three 

against Fiji and followed that 

with 282 for seven against the 

West Indies and 288 for four 

against Zimbabwe. 

Pakistan trounced 

Afghanistan by six wickets 

and Canada by seven wickets 

before squeezing past Sri 

Lanka by 23 runs on 

Wednesday to top Group B. 

Sania Mirza suffers shock defeat; India beaten by Japan 

lost a match since US Open in 2015 

and has weaved an incredible 36- 

match winning streak, India had a 

great chance to beat Japan. India 

have already lost to hosts Thailand 

0-3 on Wednesday and now they are 

out of the reckoning for the Playoffs 

for the World Group II. India 

will take on Uzbekistan in their last 

Group engagement tomorrow. 

Talking about her memorable win 

against Hibino, Ankita said she was 

confident of putting up a good fight 

today. "I had played well against 

Thailand yesterday. This is my first 

win over a top-100 player and I am 

one more step closer to my goal. The 

thing that helped me win this match 

is I could stay aggressive throughout 

the match. I have been trying to do 

that in the past few months," Ankita 

told PTI. 

"I have last very close matches 

recently with top players. I had 

opportunities but could not seize 

those. But Sania told me how to play 

against the girl before my match and 

I was able to do that. So it was very 

helpful," she said. 

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Biggest ever trade deal signed 

as US seeks to counter China 

AUCKLAND, Feb 4: The 

biggest trade deal in history 

was signed Thursday, yoking 

12 Pacific rim countries in a 

US-led initiative aimed at 

wresting influence from 

booming China. 

The ambitious Trans 

Pacific Partnership (TPP) 

aims to slash tariffs and trade 

barriers for an enormous 40 

percent of the global economy 

but pointedly does not 

include Beijing. 

"TPP allows America and 

not countries like China to 

write the rules of the road in 

the 21st century," US 

President Barack Obama said 

after the pact was signed in 

New Zealand. 

The deal whose birth was 

fraught by domestic opposition 

in the US and in other 

key players, such as Japan is a 

key plank of Obama's socalled 

"pivot" to Asia, as he 

seeks to counter the rising 

power of China. 

Along with a rebalancing 

of the US military machine 

towards the western Pacific, 

PML-N’s government pays Rs. 480 billion 

illegally to power companies 


Public Accounts Committee 

(PAC) on Thursday termed 

the payment of Rs. 480 billion, 

circular debt, to power 

generating companies as 

illegal and directed the secretary 

Water and Power to 

conduct audit for productive 

capability of private power 

companies and ensure the 

return of billions of rupees 

in national exchequer. 

The meeting of the PAC 

was held on Thursday in the 

committee room of the parliament 

with the chair of 

Syed Khursheed Ahmed 

Shah, opposition leader in 

the National Assembly. 

The Auditor General of 


Further delay in conducting 

fair and transparent population 

census is the violation 

of constitution, State needs 

to fulfill its commitment as 

per need of the hour, said 

Mian Raza Rabbani 

Chairman Senate while 

addressing 82 members delegation 

of Youth 

Parliamentarians along with 

President of Pakistan 

Institute of Legislation 

Auckland : New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (C) and Ministerial Representatives from 

12 countries pose for a photo after signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. 

the TPP is recognition of the 

growing might of China, 

which has come to dominate 

the region, threatening 

American influence. 

Supporters of the deal say 

harnessing the power of free 

trade in such a dynamic part 

of the world is vital if the US 

Pakistan (AGP) informed 

the meeting that payment of 

Rs.980 billion for circular 

debt paid by the existing 

PML-N government was the 

mega corruption of country’s 

history. 

The government should 

had audited claim of power 

companies before payment 

of Rs. 480 billion but government 

had paid Rs. 480 to 

these companies while violating 

the mandatory rules 

and regulations. 

The AGP in his report 

said that payment of Rs. 342 

billion to PEPCO was illegal 

because the audit was necessary 

prior to payment but the 

government did not fulfill 

Development and 

Transparency (PIDAT). 

According to press 

release, he further said that 

issues like enumeration of 

Afghan refugees’ population 

and apprehension regarding 

conversion of Baloch 

nationality into minority can 

not further delay the national 

population census. 

He proposed that the 

apprehensions of Baloch 

nationals that they would be 

is to fend off China's challenge 

to its supremacy. 

Trade ministers from 12 

participating countries 

Australia, Brunei, Canada, 

Chile, Japan, Malaysia, 

Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, 

Singapore, the United States 

and Vietnam signed the pact 

this responsibility. 

He added that to pay 

company Rs.32 billion as 

charges of delayed payment 

was ridiculous which should 

be probed. 

“The government has 

made transaction of Rs. 25 

billion from national 

exchequer as non-payment 

cash and payment of this 

amount was also illegal. The 

government neither receives 

the dues of these power 

companies which were 

approximately Rs. 23 billion 

nor formulate any policy in 

this regard”, the AGP added 

and maintained that the government 

paid Rs.270 million 

illegally to these power 

Further delay in conducting fair censes 

constitutional violation: Rabbani 

ISLAMABAD: Members of Youth Parliament Pakistan presenting a souvenir to Chairman 

Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani at Parliament House. 

demographically converted 

into a minority as result of 

national population census 

should be looked after 

through possible legislation 

to limit the right of vote of 

in-migrants to the place of 

origin instead of Gwadar. 

In reply to a question, he 

said that Pakistan had been 

as hospitable as could be 

possible but now we need to 

watch our own national 

interest. 

PIA signs agreements with other 

airlines to ease crisis 

KARACHI, Feb 4: Amid the 

worst crisis, troubled Pakistan 


made agreement with Air 

Blue and Shaheen Air to facilitate 

its passengers with confirm 

tickets that have been 

stranded due to the strike of 

the PIA employees, state 

media reported on Thursday. 

PIA spokesperson Daniyal 

Gillani said that passengers 

headed to both local and 

international destinations will 

be facilitated through this 

agreement. 

He said that passengers with 

confirmed tickets can contact 

Shaheen Air or Air Blue about 

that will accept the PIA tickets 

and facilitate them accordingly. 

Gilani said PIA is in final 

stages of negotiations with 

Etihad Airways and Turkish 

Airlines to facilitate passengers 

booked to travel internationally. 

The services of a private 

carrier are being used to 

accommodate passengers 

booked on domestic flights. 

in Auckland early Thursday. 

Beijing was muted in its 

reaction to the deal, saying its 

officials were studying the 

6,000-page document. 

A commerce ministry 

statement said China would 

"actively participate in and 

facilitate highly transparent, 

companies as payment of 

withholding tax. 

The AGP informed the 

PAC meeting that PML-N’s 

government has paid Rs. 33 

billion to these power companies, 

which has give up 

to generate the electricity 

for the last many years and 

their productive capability 

is zero. 

He further told that 

approximately Rs. 28 billion 

have been paid to these companies 

illegally for the generating 

of electricity through 

gas. The report says that 

Rs.18.50 billion have been 

paid surplus to these power 

companies in the head of 

General Sales Tax (GST). 

SC suspends EC orders 

for sending fake degree 

case of MPA to tribunal 


Supreme Court on Thursday 

suspended an order of the 

election commission for 

sending the fake degree case 

of PTI MPA Faisal Zaman to 

an election tribunal (ET). 

When a two-member SC 

bench headed by Justice 

Mian Saqib Nisar took up the 

case for hearing on Thursday, 

petitioner’s counsel Waseem 

Sajjad took the plea that the 

election commission was not 

entitled to send the matter to 

the tribunal. Zaman has been 

elected as member of K-P 

assembly, while his rival Pir 

Sabir Shah has filed a petition 

in the election commission 

rather than in the ET 

challnaging the degree. 

PESHAWAR, Feb 4: 

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief 

Sirajul Haq on Thursday has 

said that Prime Minister 

(PM) Nawaz Sharif would 

not be allowed to become 

‘king’ of the country and the 

government does not reserve 

right to rule any further. 

The JI chief criticised the 

government while addressing 

participants of a strikecamp 

held against privatization 

of Pakistan 


by its employees in 

Peshawar. 

He said that the country’s 

prestige was murdered by 

firing bullets on PIA workers. 

He vowed to raise voice 

against PIA’s privatization 

on every platform. It was an 

incident involving blood 

shedding of labourers, not 

open and inclusive free trade 

arrangements in the region". 

Despite Obama's comments, 

the US has also sought 

to play down any overt anti- 

China rhetoric. 

US trade representative 

Michael Froman, in 

Auckland, said the agreement 

was "never directed against" 

any specific country and "it's 

important to have a constructive 

economic relationship" 

with China. 

Although the signing 

marks the end of the negotiating 

process, member states 

still have two years to get the 

deal approved at home before 

it becomes legally binding. 

"We will encourage all 

countries to complete their 

domestic ratification processes 

as quickly as possible," 

New Zealand Prime Minister 

John Key said. 

"TPP will provide much 

better access for goods and 

services to more than 800 

million people across the TPP 

countries, which make up 36 

percent of global GDP." 

KP govt once again 

demands federation 

to send FC back 

PESHAWAR, Feb 4: Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government 

has demanded the federation 

to send back Frontier 

Corps (FC) for security, reported 

on Thursday. 

Parliamentary Secretary 

Shaukat Yousafzai said that 

terror attacks could be avoided 

across the country by deploying 

FC on borders of tribal 

areas. 

Frontier Corps was formed 

in 1915 with a purpose to bar 

entrance of extremists in localities 

adjoining tribal areas. The 

corps has been offering services 

for a long time after Indo- 

Pak separation in areas near 

Federally Administered Tribal 

Areas (FATA). 

There are around 800 platoons 

out of which 36 are 

deployed in KPK. The rest of 

the platoons have been 

deployed in different areas 

including Islamabad, Karachi 

and Balochistan. Provincial 

govt had earlier demanded the 

federation of FC’s return after 

APS attack in Dec 2014 and 

now after Bacha Khan 

University attack in 

Charsadda on January 20. 


government of Pakistan has 

appointed Mohammad Imran 

Mirza, presently Pakistan’s 

Deputy High Commissioner 

to the UK, as Ambassador of 

Pakistan to the Republic of 

Senegal. 

Mirza will also be concurrently 

accredited as 

Pakistan’s Ambassador to six 

other countries including 

Indian High Commissionerdesignate 

pays Tariq Fatemi a visit 


Gautam H. Bambawale, 

High Commissioner-designate 

of India met with 

Special Assistant to the 

Prime Minister on Foreign 

Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi. 

A press release issued by 

the Ministry of Foreign 

MUMBAI, Feb 4: Sanjay 

Leela Bhansali’s “Bajirao 

Mastani” has landed five nominations, 

including in the Best 

Film category, at the 10th 

Asian Film Awards, where 

“The Assassin” is the frontrunner 

with nine nominations. 

“Bajirao Mastani” will 

compete with Chinese director 

Jia Zhangke’s “Mountains 

May Depart”, Taiwanese 

director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 

“The Assassin”, Japanese 

director Ryosuke 

Hashiguchi’s “Three Stories 

of Love”, Chinese film director 

Guan Hu’s “Mr. Six” and 

South Korean director’s Ryoo 

Seung-wan “Veteran” for the 

Best Film trophy. 

Besides getting nominated 

for the Best Film category, 

“Bajirao Mastani” has also 

earned nominations for Best 

Costume Design, Best Visual 

Effects, Best Original Music 

and Best Editing. 

However, “Bajirao 

Mastani” isn’t the only Indian 

film to be nominated at the 

AFA. “Masaan”, “Talvar”, 

“Bombay Velvet” and 

“Baahubali: The Beginning” 

also received nominations in 

different categories. 

“Masaan” actor Vicky 

Kaushal is nominated for 

Best Newcomer, Vishal 

Bhardwaj for Best 

Screenplay (“Talvar”), Amit 

Trivedi for Best Original 

Affairs read that the High 

Commissioner-designate of 

India, Mr. Gautam H. 

Bambawale, paid a courtesy 

call on Syed Tariq Fatemi, 

Special Assistant to the 

Prime Minister on Foreign 

Affairs, today at the 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Music (“Bombay Velvet”) 

and Srinivas Mohan 

(“Baahubali: The 

Beginning”) for Best Visual 

Effects. For this edition, 77 

nominations have been made 

for 15 awards. The nominations 

represent 36 films from 

The SAPM welcomed 

Mr. Bambawale to Pakistan 

and wished him a successful 

and productive tenure. 

He highlighted the important 

role of Mr. Bambawale 

in strengthening bilateral 

relations between the two 

countries. 

'Bajirao Mastani' gets five nominations 

at 10th Asian Film Awards 


Pakistan Telecommunication 

Authority (PTA) has decided 

to launch operation ‘clean-up’ 

against websites having ‘vulgar 

and objectionable content’ 

in the country. 

The move follows a 

Supreme Court order this 

month to ban online material 

considered blasphemous or 

objectionable in Pakistan. 

PTA has submitted a 

detailed report in the 

Supreme Court of Pakistan 

on Thursday, stating that ISPs 

(Internet Service Providers) 

have been directed to block 

more than 400,000 websites 

having pornographic content. 

The internet companies 

have already blocked 200,000 

links while the PTA has 

blocked 84,000 websites over 

objectionable content. 

The report further states 

nine countries, read a statement 

on the Asian Film 

Awards’ official website. 

Organised by the Asian Film 

Awards Academy, the 

awards gala will be held on 

March 17 at the Venetian 

Theater in Macau. 

PTA intensifies crackdown on 'vulgar, 

objectionable internet content' 

Sierra Leone, The Gambia, 

Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, 

Guinea Bissau and Cape 

Verde. 

It is after long that a 

Deputy High Commissioner 

to the UK has been appointed 

directly as Pakistan’s 

Ambassador. This is reflective 

of the trust and confidence 

reposed by the government 

in Mirza who also 

remained Acting High 

Commissioner to the UK for 

six months and performed his 

representative duties and 

functions with diligence and 

dedication. 

The highlights of his tenure 

as Acting High Commissioner 

include conducting Prime 

that it is not possible to block 

all such platforms as new 

websites are created with 

every day passing. 

Blocking websites at 

massive scale also affects 

the internet speed, the PTA 

stated. The apex court was 

also informed that steps are 

being taken along with all 

stakeholders to improve the 

procedure to counter these 

websites. 

Imran Mirza appointed Pakistan Ambassador in Senegal 

PIA employees, he added. 

Whoever would wish to 

deprive them of their right to 

protest, their hands would 

reach his collar, he added. 

Haq said that all political 

Minister’s Muhammad 

Nawaz Sharif’s first bilateral 

visit to the UK. He represented 

Pakistan at the NATO 

Summit in 2014, revamping 

counselor services and renovating 

consular section of the 

High Commission to improve 

service delivery to the community. 

His appointment is 

also indicative of the importance 

that the Government of 

Pakistan accords to the growing 

economies of West Africa 

in particular Senegal. 

PM Nawaz won't be allowed to become king of country: Sirajul Haq 

PESHAWAR: Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Chief, Siraj-ul-Haq addresses to protesters during protest 

demonstration of PIA employees against security forces torture on PIA employees and privatization 

of PIA, at PIA Training Center. 

parties are against the company’s 

privatization but 

Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N). 

The JI chief denounced 

the fact that a case against 

firing in the rally led by PIA 

workers has not been registered 

yet. PIA employees 

staged a peaceful protest, he 

added. 

Haq said that the national 

airlines could have been bettered 

by weeding out corruption. 

The JI chief also recited 

Quran for the PIA workers 

who lost lives in Karachi. 

Two PIA workers were 

killed in a protest on 

February 1 as the employees 

rallied towards Jinnah terminal 

from the head office. 

Rangers and police both 

have claimed that the personnel 

did not open fire. 

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