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Lt Gen Alam<br />
Khattak appointed<br />
new KP Governor<br />
PESHAWAR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Defence Secretary, Lt Gen<br />
(retd) Muhammad Alam<br />
Khattak has been appointed<br />
as a new Governor of<br />
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,<br />
days after Mehtab Abbasi<br />
resigned from the position.<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif has given the go<br />
ahead to the above decision<br />
by signing a summary for<br />
the appointment of Lt Gen<br />
(retd) Muhammad Alam<br />
Khattak as Governor KP.<br />
Khattak had in the past<br />
served as Corps<br />
Commander Quetta and IG<br />
Frontier Corps (FC) for KP<br />
and Balochistan.<br />
Lt Gen (retd) M Alam<br />
Khattak will step down<br />
from the post of Secretary<br />
Defence after assuming the<br />
charge of Governor KP.<br />
Anti-polio drive<br />
begins in Balochistan,<br />
FATA today<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Anti-Polio drive in <strong>15</strong> districts<br />
of Balochistan and<br />
FATA will start today.<br />
According to<br />
Balochistan provincial<br />
Coordinator Polio<br />
Emergency operation<br />
Centre Dr Saif-ur-<br />
Rehman, about 1.6 million<br />
children below the<br />
age of five year will be<br />
administered polio drops<br />
in the three days drive.<br />
Kabul protests over<br />
former Afgan governor<br />
abduction in Pakistan<br />
KABUL, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Afghanistan on Sunday<br />
expressed grave concerns<br />
over abduction of former<br />
Afghan governor from<br />
Islamabad Afghan<br />
Foreign Ministry said in a<br />
statement.<br />
Afghan Foreign<br />
Ministry summoned<br />
Pakistan’s ambassador in<br />
Kabul to protest over the<br />
kidnapping of former governor<br />
of Herat province in<br />
Pakistan capital.<br />
200 Commandos<br />
provide security<br />
to polio workers<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: AIGP<br />
Special Security Unit<br />
(SSU) Sindh police<br />
Maqsood Ahmed said that<br />
200 commandos will provide<br />
security to polio<br />
eradication teams in highly<br />
sensitive areas during<br />
five-day polio eradication<br />
campaign commencing<br />
from <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong> in<br />
Karachi.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Pakistan's Ambassador at<br />
UN Dr Maleeha Lodhi has<br />
called for comprehensive<br />
planning to prevent violent<br />
extremism from the world.<br />
Addressing a debate on<br />
strategy for the prevention<br />
of violent extremism at UN<br />
General Assembly in New<br />
York, she said injustice,<br />
backwardness and economic<br />
deprivation are major causes<br />
of extremism.<br />
She said indigenous and<br />
external factors promote<br />
KARACHI EDITION – Monday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong>, Jumada-al-Awwal 5, 1437 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />
Pakistan calls for delinking<br />
terrorism from religion: Dr Maleeha<br />
ISLAMABAD,<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Nawaz Sharif government<br />
has decided and completed<br />
initial homework for privatizing<br />
38 national organizations,<br />
sources said on<br />
Sunday.<br />
According to sources,<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif is determine to sell all<br />
organizations to its close<br />
aide, kin and relatives on<br />
less rate in comparison to<br />
the market price.<br />
Eight organizations are of<br />
oil and gas, eight are banking<br />
sector and 16 are related<br />
to power sector while the<br />
remaining are transport and<br />
real estate companies.<br />
Oil and gas companies<br />
are composed of OGDCL<br />
Pakistan Petroleum, Murree<br />
Petroleum, Government<br />
Holding Private limited Pak-<br />
Arab Refinery, Pakistan<br />
State Oil, Sui Southern Gas<br />
and Sui Northern Gas.<br />
Banking sector organizations<br />
comprises of Pakistan<br />
Insurance Company<br />
Limited, Small and Medium<br />
Enterprises, Investment<br />
Trust, National Insurance<br />
Company State life<br />
Insurance Company, 76 per<br />
extremism and terrorism in<br />
the society. She said terrorist<br />
Nawaz govt completes initial homework<br />
for privatizing 38 national organizations<br />
Sarwar calls<br />
for ruthless<br />
accountability<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior<br />
leader Chaudhry<br />
Mohammad Sarwar has said<br />
that the PML-N rulers in<br />
Punjab are far ahead of all in<br />
the race for corruption and<br />
called for ruthless accountability.<br />
While addressing at<br />
reception in his honour on<br />
Sunday Chaudhry Sarwar<br />
said that the PML-N government<br />
have been throwing<br />
away the resources of<br />
“already under debt country”<br />
in election winning<br />
projects instead of public<br />
welfare projects and making<br />
poor people’s lives more<br />
miserable.<br />
PTI senior leader said<br />
that the rulers and their<br />
cronies were taking their<br />
wealth out of the country<br />
day in and day out and were<br />
not answerable to anyone,<br />
said a press release issued<br />
on Sunday.<br />
cent shares of National bank<br />
of Pakistan, 10 per cent<br />
shares of Allied bank whereas<br />
42 per cent shares of<br />
Habib Bank are to be sold.<br />
In addition, power sector<br />
includes Heavy Electric<br />
Complex, National Power<br />
Construction IESCO,<br />
FESCO, LESCO Company,<br />
Multan Electric Company<br />
and many others whereas<br />
transport and real estate<br />
companies include Pakistan<br />
Steel Mill, Pakistan<br />
Engineering Company, PIA,<br />
Convention<br />
Islamabad etc.<br />
Center<br />
PIA’s Privatization; Govt conducts<br />
secret deal with private airlines<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Federal govt has conducted a secret<br />
deal with private airlines regarding privatization of PIA and<br />
started to implement on 3 out of four conditions, while policy<br />
has been evolved on implementation of remaining one.<br />
Federal govt after conducting secret deal with a private<br />
airline owned by royal family of Dubai and decided to handover<br />
about 25% share of PIA.<br />
“The private airline had opted four conditions. Firstly, to<br />
equip all the planes of PIA with modern facilities, secondly,<br />
not to auction the hotels of New York and France, thirdly, not<br />
to terminate about five thousand employees of PIA and<br />
recruitment of pilots on contract basis”, sources added.<br />
Federal govt had released the funds of Rs. 4.40 billion<br />
for the improvement of PIA in recent meeting of ECC<br />
under first condition while in the second condition, the<br />
auction of hotels in New York and France worth over seventy<br />
billion had not been done.<br />
BISP allocations enhanced to provide<br />
more relief to beneficiaries: PM<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the<br />
government had increased annual allocation for BISP from<br />
Rs40 billion to Rs105 billion, state media reported on Sunday.<br />
The prime minister said this while giving approval in increase<br />
in the annual stipend to BISP beneficiaries. He said the annual<br />
stipend had been enhanced from twelve to eighteen thousand<br />
rupees during the last two years, which were now further<br />
increased to eighteen thousand eight hundred rupees.<br />
CHAMAN: Commandant Chaman Scouts Wajad Ali Satti and his team giving the instruction<br />
to the workers to control the fire in fruit and vegetable shops on Mall road neat the PTCL<br />
office fire on late night. After the quick action of the Fire fighters and the Chaman Scouts<br />
soldiers and commanders, they both control the fire after hard work.<br />
exploit right to self-determination<br />
and injustice for their<br />
nefarious designs and factors<br />
inciting violence should<br />
not be given less attention.<br />
She said out of twenty<br />
points of National Action<br />
Plan in Pakistan, eight<br />
points are related to eradication<br />
of extremism. She said<br />
deliberate character assassination<br />
of other religions and<br />
cultures for political gains is<br />
unfortunate.<br />
Islamabad to<br />
get first ever<br />
Mayor today<br />
ISLAMABAD <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
first ever mayor of the<br />
Islamabad will be elected<br />
today (Monday).<br />
Islamabad Metropolitan<br />
Corporation has 50 elected<br />
union council chairmen and<br />
27 members on reserved<br />
seats.<br />
The PML-N which is far<br />
ahead of its competitors<br />
with 32 union council chairmen,<br />
is expected to sweep<br />
the election of mayor.<br />
It is followed by PTI’s<br />
eighteen union council<br />
chairmen.<br />
The PML-N has fielded<br />
Sheikh Ansar Aziz as its<br />
candidate for the office of<br />
mayor against PTI's Raja<br />
Khurram Nawaz.<br />
Three deputy mayors of<br />
Islamabad will also be<br />
elected tomorrow.<br />
PML-N's nominees are<br />
Chaudhry Riffat Javed,<br />
Syed Zeeshan Ali Naqvi<br />
and Muhammad Azam<br />
Khan.<br />
The PTI has nominated<br />
Fouzia Arshad, Raja<br />
Zulqarnain and Ali Nawaz<br />
Awan for the deputy mayoral<br />
slots.<br />
NEW DELHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Former Indian Prime<br />
Minister Manmohan Singh<br />
criticised his successor<br />
Narendra Modi’s government<br />
in a rare interview, saying it<br />
has failed to capitalise on<br />
lower commodity prices to<br />
propel growth and is inconsistent<br />
in its policy towards<br />
Pakistan, Indian media<br />
reported on Sunday.<br />
Speaking to the India<br />
Today magazine, he said Mr<br />
Modi should focus on<br />
Pakistan expresses disappointment at<br />
India's reaction to US F-16s sale to Pakistan<br />
<strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Pakistan has expressed disappointment<br />
at the Indian<br />
government's reaction<br />
regarding purchase of F-16s<br />
from the United States.<br />
In response to media<br />
queries, Foreign Office<br />
Spokesperson has said that<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Sindh Information Advisor<br />
Moula Bakhsh Chandio was<br />
on Sunday outraged over<br />
Federal Interior Minister<br />
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s<br />
statements. “Which political<br />
opponents of Chaudhry<br />
Nisar have tails”, asked<br />
Chandio. He advised Nisar<br />
to keep a sweet toffee in his<br />
mouth all the time so that he<br />
may say some sweet words<br />
as well. He advised Prime<br />
Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif<br />
to beware of Nisar. Pakistan<br />
Muslim League – Nawaz<br />
(PML-N) leader Tallal<br />
Choudry said Chandio<br />
thought it was his tail.<br />
As the tug of war continues<br />
between the PML-N<br />
and the Pakistan People’s<br />
Indian government's reaction<br />
surprised and disappointed<br />
Pakistan.<br />
He said India is the<br />
largest importer of defence<br />
equipment and its arms and<br />
arsenal stock is much larger<br />
than Pakistan. As regards F-<br />
16s sale, the Spokesperson<br />
Party (PPP), Chaudhry<br />
Nisar fired a few last night<br />
while Chandio had his day<br />
today. In a press conference<br />
today in Hyderabad,<br />
Chandio asked Nisar which<br />
of his political opponents<br />
had tails.<br />
The provincial advisor<br />
said that PML-N ministers’<br />
faces change as soon as<br />
they hear the names of<br />
Sindh and Balochistan.<br />
“One of the ministers creates<br />
troubles every time he<br />
comes to Sindh. That minister<br />
is loyal neither to PM<br />
nor to Pakistan”, said<br />
Chandio.<br />
Chandio said that new<br />
conspiracies are brewed<br />
against PPP every few<br />
times. “When they find<br />
said Pakistan and the<br />
United States closely cooperate<br />
in countering terrorism.<br />
He said the US<br />
spokesperson clearly<br />
announced that the sale is to<br />
enhance Pakistan's precision<br />
strike capability.<br />
Chandio urges Supreme Court to take<br />
notice of ‘Injustices’ against Sindh<br />
nothing against PPP, they<br />
bring some model like<br />
Ayyan Ali. These people<br />
must remember that weakening<br />
PPP would be weakening<br />
PPP”, said Chandio.<br />
He demanded the PM to<br />
take notice of the injustices<br />
with Sindh.<br />
On the other hand, Tallal<br />
Choudry said Nisar will<br />
definitely call out every tail<br />
that would lead to corruption.<br />
“The currentministers<br />
are not stealing the money<br />
out of pilgrims’ pockets like<br />
the ministers of the previous<br />
government”, said<br />
Choudry.<br />
Talking to media, Tallal<br />
said, “I don’t know why<br />
Chandio thought it was his tail<br />
that Nisar was talking about”.<br />
KHAIRPUR: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah addressing media at Mehran<br />
University of Engineering and Technology ZA Bhutto Campus.<br />
Ex-PM Singh lashes out at Modi on his Pakistan policy<br />
improving relations with<br />
neighbouring countries,<br />
adding that the government<br />
had not succeeded in making<br />
headway with Pakistan.<br />
“Certainly relations with<br />
major powers have<br />
improved... But I would say<br />
that the real test of foreign<br />
policy is in the handling of<br />
your neighbours. And here I<br />
would say that the Modi government’s<br />
handling of<br />
Pakistan is inconsistent,” he<br />
told the magazine.<br />
Payments of Rs268 billion to private<br />
power companies by govt reveals<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
details of payment of Rs.<br />
268 billion to private power<br />
companies by the PML-N<br />
government have been<br />
revealed, while Auditor<br />
General of Pakistan has<br />
termed these payments illegal<br />
and non-transparent.<br />
According to document<br />
received by Online, the private<br />
companies including<br />
Pak-China received Rs. 6.98<br />
billion, Lyallpur Rs. 4.50<br />
billion, KEF Rs. 3.50 billion,<br />
Saba and Liberty Gas<br />
Rs. 10 billion, Och Gas Rs.<br />
19.26 billion, Rach Gas Rs.<br />
8.69 billion, Fauji Gas Rs.<br />
5.10 billion, Habibullah Gas<br />
Rs. 12.54 billion, Altern Gas<br />
Rs. 270 million, AGL power<br />
Rs.19 billion, Narowal Safe<br />
Power Rs. 17 billion, Atlas<br />
Power Rs.5.40 billion,<br />
Nishat Power owned by<br />
Mian Mansha received Rs.<br />
7.8 billion, Nishat Chonian<br />
Rs. 6.86 billion, Liberty<br />
Tech Rs. 6.82, Safe Power<br />
Rs.5 billion, Sagheer<br />
Electric Rs. 4.20 billion,<br />
More Power Rs. 2.52 billion,<br />
Angro Power Rs. 9 billion,<br />
Foundation Power Rs.<br />
7.8 billion, Schedule Power<br />
Rs. 1.16 billion, Larab<br />
Energy Rs. 110 million,<br />
Hubco Rs. 75 billion, Kepco<br />
Rs. 41 billion.<br />
“It has been one step forward,<br />
two steps back.”<br />
He said the Modi government<br />
should use improving<br />
fiscal balances to raise investment<br />
in the economy and<br />
increase the availability of<br />
credit to businesses.<br />
“In the hands of a purposeful<br />
government, this could be<br />
an opportunity to step up<br />
investment in the economy in<br />
a big way,” said Mr Singh,<br />
who left the office in 2014.<br />
Regarded as the architect<br />
of economic reforms that led<br />
to years of rapid growth, Mr<br />
Singh said the government<br />
had not been able to take<br />
advantage of falling oil and<br />
commodity prices that had<br />
lowered India’s import bill.<br />
Sharp falls in import<br />
prices have reduced the trade<br />
deficit, raising hopes that it<br />
will boost economic activity.<br />
But “turbo-charged” growth<br />
figures have been criticised<br />
by many analysts for giving<br />
too flattering a view.<br />
Indian pressure works: US expresses<br />
concern over security of Pakistan nukes<br />
WASHINGTON, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
After Indian pressure on F-16<br />
jets deal with Pakistan, the<br />
United States has expressed<br />
its concerns about the security<br />
of country’s nuclear stockpile<br />
and tensions between<br />
Islamabad and its arch rival<br />
New Delhi.<br />
“We’re concerned both<br />
about the security of those<br />
nuclear weapons, and that’s<br />
been a common refrain… in<br />
our discussions with Pakistan;<br />
but we’re also concerned…<br />
about tensions between India<br />
and Pakistan in the region,”<br />
US State Department’s deputy<br />
spokesperson Mark Toner<br />
said in response to a question<br />
during his daily press briefing.<br />
The spokesperson; however,<br />
said his country wished<br />
for a meaningful dialogue<br />
between the two south Asian<br />
countries which could help<br />
alleviate tensions between<br />
them. “We want to see a dialogue<br />
between those two<br />
countries, clearly, to help<br />
alleviate some of those tensions,”<br />
Toner said.<br />
The remarks come just<br />
two days after the US government<br />
approved sale of F-<br />
16 fighter jets, built by<br />
Lockheed Martin Corp, radar<br />
and other equipment in a deal<br />
valued at $699 million, to<br />
Islamabad.<br />
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Metropolitan<br />
Suspected facilitator of<br />
Safoora Goth massacre held<br />
KARACHI,<br />
CAMPUS<br />
KU fees collection<br />
schedule<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Director Finance Karachi<br />
University Tariq Kaleem<br />
has notified that semester<br />
and examination fees for<br />
1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th<br />
semester shall be collected<br />
from 16th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary, <strong>2016</strong><br />
to 14TH March <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Semester and examination<br />
fees shall be submitted<br />
with the late fees of Rs. 500<br />
till 31st March <strong>2016</strong> while<br />
with the late fees of<br />
Rs.1000 till<strong>15</strong>th April<br />
<strong>2016</strong>. This is to further<br />
clarify that Faculty of<br />
Science students shall<br />
deposit fee in HBL, campus<br />
branch, faculty of Arts students<br />
shall deposit fees in<br />
NBP campus branch while<br />
students of Faculty of<br />
Pharmacy, Law,<br />
Commerce, Islamic Studies<br />
and Self Finance shall<br />
deposit fees in UBL<br />
Campus Branch while fee<br />
vouchers of Foreign<br />
Students shall be routed<br />
through the Foreign<br />
Students' Advisor.<br />
Late submission of<br />
Semester/Examination<br />
Fees from 16th March to<br />
<strong>15</strong>th April <strong>2016</strong> shall only<br />
be deposited at UBL<br />
Campus branch. The scheduled<br />
timings for fees collection<br />
shall be from 9:00<br />
am to 1:00 pm.<br />
Seminar on “Monetary<br />
Policy Challenges in<br />
Pakistan”: A seminar entitled<br />
“Monetary Policy<br />
Challenges in Pakistan”<br />
organized by Applied<br />
Economics Research<br />
Center KU will be held on<br />
Monday <strong>15</strong>th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary at<br />
AERC Auditorium KU at<br />
10:00 am.<br />
Deputy Governor State<br />
Bank of Pakistan Mr. Riaz<br />
Riazuddin will be the guest<br />
speaker.<br />
KU notification:<br />
Karachi University<br />
Registrar Prof. Dr.<br />
Moazzam Ali Khan has<br />
notified that no defaulter of<br />
Semester and Examination<br />
Fees shall be allowed to sit<br />
in the semester examinations.<br />
Chairpersons of the<br />
teaching departments will<br />
ensure that no fee defaulter<br />
shall be allowed to sit in<br />
the examinations without<br />
possession of a valid Admit<br />
card/evidence of payment.<br />
Semester Examinations<br />
Section KU will not issue<br />
admit cards to those students<br />
whose fees has been<br />
duly paid and endorsed by<br />
Finance Office KU.<br />
Semester Examinations<br />
Section will also withhold<br />
results of fees defaulters<br />
till the full payment of<br />
fees along with the late<br />
fees and the other dues,<br />
with a Semester Dues<br />
Clearance Certificate<br />
issued by the Finance<br />
Office KU.<br />
Irfan Ali<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
facilitator of Safoora Goth<br />
carnage has been apprehended<br />
by the forces, local<br />
media quoting officials<br />
reported on Sunday.<br />
A dentist allegedly<br />
linked to Saad Aziz, main<br />
culprit of massacre, was<br />
arrested after an encounter<br />
early Sunday, Preedy police<br />
station officials said.<br />
Preedy police booked<br />
suspect Dr Usman in two<br />
cases pertaining to attacking<br />
police and possession<br />
of illegal weapons.<br />
C o u n t e r - Te r r o r i s m<br />
Department (CTD) head<br />
Raja Umer Khattab said Dr<br />
Usman was familiar with<br />
Govt asked to refrain from privatizing<br />
Steel Mills, other public organisations<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Government should refrain<br />
from privatization of the<br />
Pakistan Steel Mills, which is<br />
a great strategic national<br />
asset, called the speakers at an<br />
anti-privatization labor conference<br />
here Sunday.<br />
The conference on the<br />
topic of “Harmful consequences<br />
of privatization and<br />
unannounced closure of<br />
Pakistan Steel Mills” was<br />
jointly organized by the<br />
National Trade Union<br />
Federation (NTUF) and<br />
Pakistan Steel Officers,<br />
Workers Action Committee<br />
here at the PMA House and<br />
attended by MNA Asad<br />
Umar, PIA Joint Action<br />
Committee leader Nasrullah<br />
Khan Afridi, Shaikh Majeed,<br />
NTUF deputy general secretary<br />
Nasir Mansoor, Pakistan<br />
Steel Officers, Workers<br />
Action Committee leaders<br />
Rehman Shah and Naveed<br />
Aftab, and Ex Chairmen Haq<br />
Nawaz Akhter, Manzoor Razi<br />
of Pakistan Railways workers<br />
union, Liaquat Sahi and Rafiq<br />
Baloch.<br />
The speakers said that the<br />
sitting government during last<br />
two and half years has dealt a<br />
serious blow to the national<br />
economy with their negative<br />
policies, which include selling<br />
the national assets for<br />
peanuts after deliberately<br />
damaging them. They said the<br />
recent example of this policy<br />
is unannounced and illegal<br />
closure of the Pakistan Mills,<br />
which has made this highly<br />
crucial national entity virtually<br />
ineffective. Thousands of<br />
the workers of the Pakistan<br />
Steel Mills are deprived of<br />
their salaries for a long period,<br />
and they have been facing<br />
serious financial problems<br />
and mental agony. The government<br />
has not only continued<br />
corruption and nepotism<br />
in the Steel Mills, but the<br />
pending cases in the NAB<br />
and FIA are being delayed so<br />
that to provide protection to<br />
the elements who have looted<br />
and plundered the Pakistan<br />
Steel Mills.<br />
PPP stages protest demo against PML-N<br />
KARACHI: Activists of Peoples Party (PPP) are protesting against Muslim League-N during<br />
demonstration outside Karachi press club.<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Democracy is under<br />
threats due to negative policies of federal government<br />
of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,<br />
said Najmi Alam, president PPP Karachi chapter,<br />
Waqar Mehdi, Rashid Rabbani, Iqbal<br />
Sandh, Latif Mughal and Sardar Mir Hyder on<br />
Sunday while addressing a protest demonstration<br />
outside the Karachi Press Club.<br />
They said that due to the policies of PML-N<br />
threats are being created for democracy. We<br />
wants that the PML-N's Government completes<br />
its tenure but PML-N runs the government<br />
like dictatorship, they said. They alleged<br />
that PML-N targeted PPP workers in Kotli to<br />
take revenge. They demanded to arrest culprits<br />
and set up a judicial inquiry into Kotli incident.<br />
Man shot dead by robbers<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: A man<br />
on Sunday was shot dead<br />
when he offered resistance<br />
to some robbers in the<br />
metropolis.<br />
According to rescue<br />
sources, Iftikhar, 35, son of<br />
Abdul Hameed, was shot<br />
dead when he offered resistance<br />
to the muggers during a<br />
robbery. Unidentified robbers<br />
opened fire on him and<br />
managed to flee near Nighat<br />
Square, Taleemi Bagh, in<br />
Ayesha Manzil area.<br />
The body was shifted to<br />
the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital<br />
(ASH) for an autopsy.<br />
KARACHI: The Grandeur Art Gallery Zamzama, held group painting exhibition on the<br />
Occasion of the Valentine Day.Picture shows CEO of Grandeur Neshmia Ahmed, fashion<br />
designer from USA, Almas Hamirani, with artists.<br />
Saad Aziz, the main<br />
accused in the Safoora<br />
Goth massacre, but played<br />
no direct role in the attack.<br />
Khattab said Dr Usman<br />
is an Al Qaeda facilitator<br />
with links to Al Qaeda<br />
Punjab representatives<br />
Haris, who has been arrested,<br />
and Ali Rehman, who is<br />
still at large.<br />
At least 43 people were<br />
killed and 13 others wounded<br />
in a barbaric attack on<br />
members of the Ismaili<br />
community in Karachi's<br />
Safoora Goth area on May<br />
14, 20<strong>15</strong>. Six gunmen<br />
entered a bus carrying 60<br />
people and executed 43<br />
passengers at close-range,<br />
according to Sindh Police<br />
Inspector General Ghulam<br />
Haider Jamali.<br />
KE staff<br />
extinguishes fire<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: K-<br />
Electric teams displayed an<br />
exceptional act of social<br />
responsibility when the<br />
teams, while returning from<br />
Operation Burq raids, witnessed<br />
smoke rising from<br />
huts at Karachi super highway,<br />
intervened and extinguished<br />
fire and saved valuable<br />
human lives. The act<br />
displayed the high level of<br />
confidence KE teams had<br />
acquired in dealing with such<br />
calamities.<br />
KE Spokesperson added<br />
”While returning from<br />
Kunda Removing Drive, our<br />
teams observed smoke rising<br />
near some huts in front of<br />
Old Bundu Khan Restaurant<br />
at Superhighway. While<br />
observing we saw some<br />
women and children screaming<br />
and asking for help and<br />
by taking a close look we<br />
saw one of the huts burning<br />
with fire. Our team bravely<br />
intervened and successfully<br />
extinguished the fire by using<br />
one of the fire extinguishers<br />
available in our vans”.<br />
One killed, two others<br />
injured in traffic mishap<br />
<strong>Feb</strong> 14: At least<br />
one person was killed and<br />
two others were injured in a<br />
traffic incident morning<br />
within the Manghopir area of<br />
Karachi on Sunday.<br />
A truck coming from<br />
opposite direction rammed<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
President, Muhammad Ali<br />
Jinnah University Karachi<br />
Prof. Dr. Zubair Ahmed<br />
Shaikh has said that no student<br />
of this university would<br />
be compelled to left his education<br />
incomplete due to<br />
financial constrain, we will<br />
help out him to complete his<br />
education so that he may left<br />
the university after taking his<br />
degree. This he stated while<br />
he was addressing to M.A<br />
.Jinnah University Student<br />
Societies office bearers oath<br />
taking ceremony at university<br />
auditorium last evening.<br />
into a car (FSP-699) near<br />
Northern Bypass, leaving<br />
one dead and injuring two<br />
others. The truck driver fled<br />
the site.<br />
The dead and the injured<br />
were rushed to local hospital<br />
for post-mortem and<br />
medical aid.<br />
The dead was identified<br />
as Gulam and the injured as<br />
Amir and Aftab. The doctors<br />
said that the injured were in<br />
stable condition. The police<br />
have registered a case and<br />
started investigation<br />
Students asked to continue education<br />
without any hurdle at MAJU<br />
KARACHI: President, Mohammad All Jinnah University Karachi Prof. Dr. Zubair Ahmed<br />
Shaikh taking oath from elected Office bearers of the Students Socities.<br />
LEAs recover big<br />
cache of arms<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Law<br />
Enforcement Agencies on<br />
Sunday arrested four criminals<br />
form Lyari and recovered<br />
a big cache of arms and<br />
ammunition.<br />
According to sources,<br />
LEAs raided on a tipoff on<br />
the house of Baba Ladla, a<br />
notorious gangster of Lyari,<br />
and arrested four his four<br />
companions. LEA personnel<br />
also recovered a big cache of<br />
arms and ammunition hidden<br />
in a school on the identification<br />
of the arrested suspects.<br />
LEAs shifted the arrested<br />
criminals to unknown place<br />
for further investigation.<br />
KARACHI: Residents of Bhittai Colony are protesting against<br />
shortage of drinking water in their locality during demonstration<br />
at Korangi Crossing Road.<br />
Illegal detentions main<br />
cause of growing anarchy<br />
in Pakistan: Fowzia<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Illegal<br />
detentions and hidden torture<br />
cells in Pakistan are the main<br />
cause of the growing anarchy<br />
in the country, said Aafia<br />
Movement leader Dr Fowzia<br />
Siddiqui, addressing a big<br />
rally here on Sunday.<br />
The rally named “We love<br />
Aafia walk” was organized<br />
by the Aafia Movement on<br />
the Mian University Road<br />
from the Safari Park to the<br />
NIPA Chowrangi. A large<br />
number of citizens, workers<br />
of social and political organizations,<br />
lawyers, teachers,<br />
women and youth attended<br />
the rally. The leaders of<br />
Pasban e Pakistan, Jamaat-e-<br />
Islami (JI), Muttahida Quami<br />
Movement (MQM), Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and<br />
Khakisar Tehreek also<br />
attended the rally to express<br />
solidarity with the cause of<br />
release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.<br />
They said the Pakistani<br />
nation unanimously demand<br />
early release and repatriation<br />
of the Pakistani women scientist<br />
Dr Aafia Siddiqui, and<br />
our rulers should play their<br />
due role in this regard. They<br />
said a large number of citizens,<br />
by participating in the<br />
rally, have proved that they<br />
want a peaceful and prosperous<br />
Pakistan and they want<br />
uphold and safeguard of<br />
their honor.<br />
They said the nation<br />
expects from the rulers to<br />
fulfill their promises and end<br />
the growing unrest and anarchy<br />
in society.<br />
Noted neurologist of<br />
Pakistan Dr Fowzia Siddiqui<br />
in her address said that the<br />
daughters are not for sale,<br />
but their honor is more precious<br />
than our lives. She said<br />
the presence of a large number<br />
of people in illegal<br />
detention houses and torture<br />
cells of foreign elements is<br />
the main reason of the growing<br />
anarchy in Pakistan.<br />
He asked to encourage those<br />
students to take parts in student’s<br />
societies who have<br />
good academic record so that<br />
they may bring a good name<br />
for MAJU though healthy<br />
extra curriculum activities.<br />
He said that the students who<br />
are weak in their studies they<br />
are advised to improve themselves,<br />
our faculty members<br />
are available for their support<br />
and guidance any time<br />
because we believe that the<br />
students who have taken<br />
admission in MAJU leave<br />
this institution after obtaining<br />
degree. He said the students<br />
who are actively participating<br />
in society’s activities<br />
are doing good job and<br />
they are best citizens of our<br />
societies. He said it is the<br />
right time that to give full<br />
importance to human economy<br />
and to consider how we<br />
may utilize our manpower<br />
effectively.<br />
Dr. Zubair Shaikh said<br />
that if we want to develop of<br />
our country as a nation than it<br />
would be very necessary for<br />
us to avoid any kind of<br />
extremism, to promote moral<br />
values and to encourage good<br />
traditions in our society.<br />
KARACHI: Parliamentarians Abdul Waseem, Adil Siddiqui<br />
along with Secretary Local Bodies, Nazeer Leghari and<br />
Administrator DMC Central Ayesha Abro inaugurating<br />
flower exhibition at Nazeer Hussain (Bi Amma) park.<br />
KARACHI: MPA Sindh Assembly, Mehmood Abdul Razzaq,<br />
Administrator DMC East, Rehmatullah Shaikh inspecting<br />
garbage bins at Sharifabad.<br />
KARACHI: Municipal Commissioner DMC West, Ashfaq<br />
Ahmed Mallah inspecting workshop at SITE zone.<br />
KARACHI: A view of dilapidated condition of main road of<br />
Sindh Secretariat which speaks about the negligence of concerned<br />
authorities.<br />
KARACHI: A view of broken roof of a nullah which is posing<br />
threat to the pedestrians which needs attention of concerned<br />
authorities, at Jahangir Road.
Monday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
National<br />
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Govt striving to make downtrodden<br />
segments economically-sound: Marvi<br />
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State/Chairperson BISP, Marvi Memon addressing the BISP Beneficiaries at Shikarpur Taluka Office.<br />
Students march for restoration of students<br />
union banned during dictator Zia time<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Students of various colleges<br />
and universities organized<br />
march from Qasimbad to<br />
press club for restoration of<br />
students unions banned during<br />
era of dictator Gen, Zia<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Speaker<br />
and Murtaza Javed Abassi<br />
Deputy Speaker National<br />
Assembly have condoled<br />
the sad demise of Huma<br />
Choudhary- Photo journalist-<br />
of Daily Express<br />
and announced struggle for<br />
it. The participants staged sit<br />
in before press club.<br />
Students were raising slogans<br />
of Remove Ban and<br />
Save Education. Kamran<br />
Jatoi, Kashif Baloch,Arslan<br />
Chandio and Naeem Shar<br />
led the rally. They made<br />
Tribune.<br />
In their separate condolence<br />
messages to the<br />
bereaved family on<br />
Sunday, Speaker and<br />
Deputy Speaker expressed<br />
grief and sorrow over the<br />
passing away of Huma<br />
speeches and said it was<br />
deplorable that no democratic<br />
government has had<br />
enough courage to remove<br />
the ban on students union<br />
put by then dictator. They<br />
said due to ban the students<br />
were deprived of their representation<br />
and los educational<br />
NA Speaker, Deputy Speaker condole<br />
the death of photo journalist<br />
Choudhary.<br />
They prayed to<br />
Almighty Allah to rest the<br />
departed soul in eternal<br />
peace and grant courage to<br />
the bereaved family to<br />
bear the loss with equanimity.<br />
LAHORE: Governor Punjab Muhammad Rafique Rajwana, Consul General of Iran Muhammad<br />
Hussain Bani Asadi, Opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed, former<br />
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Qasuri, Mujeebur Rehman Shami, Arif Nizami,<br />
Jahangir Badr and others cutting a cake to mark 38th anniversary of Islamic Revolution of<br />
Islamic Republic of Iran.<br />
Two brothers assaulted<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Five<br />
armed men have allegedly<br />
assaulted two brothers over a<br />
petty issue within the Airport<br />
police jurisdiction.<br />
Nasir Pervez, a resident<br />
of Chaklala Scheme-III ,<br />
lodged a complaint with the<br />
local police that Arbab and<br />
accomplices had assaulted<br />
his two sons Murtaza Malik<br />
and Mujtaba Malik with iron<br />
rods and sticks over a petty<br />
issue.<br />
According to complainant,<br />
the armed men fled<br />
the site, leaving his two sons<br />
in injured condition.<br />
The injured were rushed<br />
to local hospital and provided<br />
with medical treatment.<br />
The police have registered<br />
case and started investigation.<br />
3 persons including a woman looted at gunpoint<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Three persons including<br />
a woman have been looted at gunpoint within<br />
the Airport police jurisdiction.<br />
Mohammad Sajid Hussain, a resident of<br />
Airport area, lodged a complaint with the local<br />
police that she had gone to airport to receive her<br />
sister when four armed robbers intercepted<br />
them , held them hostage at gunpoint and made<br />
off with Rs 70,000 in cash, 1000 pounds, gold<br />
ornaments and other valuables worth over<br />
Rs0.2 million. The police have registered a case<br />
and started investigation.<br />
SUKKUR: A view of dirty water accumulated on road at Ghanta Ghar Chowk which speaks<br />
about the negligence of local administration.<br />
facilities. They demanded<br />
immediate lifting of ban on<br />
students union. The march<br />
was attended by students<br />
from Sindh university,<br />
Mehran University,Karachi<br />
university,Dow university,<br />
Chandka university and<br />
scores of colleges.<br />
Protection of<br />
women and our<br />
responsibility<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
SHIKARPUR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
Civil Society Support<br />
Program [CSSP] district<br />
Kashmore-Kandhkot in collaboration<br />
with Enhanced<br />
Democratic Accountability<br />
and Civic Engagement<br />
[EDACE] organized the 4th<br />
monthly meeting with<br />
Human Rights Defender<br />
Group [HRDG] on the subject<br />
“protection of<br />
women and our responsibility”<br />
at local hotel on Sunday.<br />
The Afzal Shaikh from<br />
Larkana as a chief guest<br />
presided over the meeting.<br />
Speaking on the occasion<br />
the chief guest Afzal Shaikh,<br />
Saidia Khokhar, Syed Zahid<br />
Ali Shah, Samreen Khan<br />
Pathan, Raza Nonari said that<br />
according to women rights<br />
the equality of the women<br />
have also preserved in the<br />
country law as well as the<br />
women rights including their<br />
equality has been reserved in<br />
Islam in which according to<br />
teachings of Islam the men<br />
and the women have given<br />
the equal rights in order to<br />
struggle jointly for improvement<br />
of socio-economic life<br />
of the people collectively as<br />
well as to build the fate of the<br />
county and its people because<br />
of without restoration of<br />
mutual cooperation and coordination<br />
neither the country<br />
could be developed nor the<br />
women and men genders<br />
could achieve their collective<br />
aims and objects of life.<br />
Furthermore Speakers<br />
highlighted the issues like<br />
gender discrimination,<br />
domestic violence and<br />
exploitation of womenfolk on<br />
class, religion and other<br />
grounds and urged at civil<br />
society that who will have to<br />
come forward for betterment<br />
of the society while civil society<br />
could play their vital role<br />
to build a great society<br />
whereas the real worship is<br />
serve for society.<br />
Raza Noonari informed<br />
the participants that people<br />
can register their complaints<br />
against violence and injustice<br />
pertaining women in this<br />
regard CSSP have established<br />
a help line desk No. 0800-<br />
08022 at SSP Office<br />
Kashmore-Kandhkot.<br />
HRDG member Mst<br />
Leelan, Madam Mumtaz,<br />
Raja Gopi Chand, Kaleem<br />
Khilji, Mumtaz Sindhi, Fakir<br />
Gokal das, Yasir Awan, Gopi<br />
Ram Sachidev, Imdadullah<br />
Khoso, Sachal Shaikh,<br />
Ahmed Bakhsh Channa and<br />
other were also present on the<br />
occasion.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Chairperson Benazir<br />
Income Support Programme<br />
(BISP) Marvi Memon has<br />
said that the government is<br />
striving to make downtrodden<br />
segment of society economically<br />
sound.<br />
Talking to women in<br />
Sukkur, she said various<br />
schemes have been<br />
launched to empower<br />
women so as they would be<br />
able to earn a livelihood.<br />
She said that corruption<br />
will not be tolerated in<br />
BISP. She directed the<br />
BISP authorities for<br />
enhancing the staff strength<br />
in Thar to facilitate deserving<br />
people.<br />
CM reviews proposals<br />
for providing better<br />
services to masses<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Punjab<br />
Chief Minister Muhammad<br />
Shehbaz Sharif presided<br />
over a high level meeting<br />
which considered various<br />
proposals for provision of<br />
better services to the citizens.<br />
Speaking on the occasion,<br />
the Chief Minister said<br />
that concerned departments<br />
will have to play an active<br />
role for providing better<br />
services to the people of the<br />
province.<br />
He said that problems of<br />
people should immediately<br />
be resolved in government<br />
departments as availability<br />
of necessary facilities to the<br />
citizens on priority basis is<br />
of vital importance.<br />
Shehbaz Sharif said that<br />
immediate disposal of official<br />
responsibilities results<br />
in speedy solution of public<br />
problems and it is necessary<br />
to evolve an effective strategy<br />
for this purpose and<br />
ensure its implementation.<br />
He said that it is essential<br />
to adopt an effective<br />
approach for providing better<br />
services to the masses.<br />
He said that there is a<br />
need for effective steps for<br />
provision of better facilities<br />
in education, health and<br />
other social sectors. The<br />
Chief Minister was also<br />
given a briefing on various<br />
proposals for quick disposal<br />
of official matters.<br />
Provincial Finance Minister<br />
Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha,<br />
Chief Secretary, Additional<br />
Chief Secretary, Chairman<br />
Planning & Development<br />
and concerned secretaries<br />
attended the meeting.<br />
–Online<br />
Four persons injured in cylinder blast<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: At<br />
least four persons sustained<br />
burn injuries in a<br />
gas cylinder blast at a<br />
refilling shop in Dheri<br />
Hassanabad, an area of<br />
Rawalpindi.<br />
KHAIRPUR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: An M.<br />
Phil Seminar was held in the<br />
Department of Urdu, Shah<br />
Abdul Latif University,<br />
Khairpur presided over by<br />
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Yousuf<br />
Khushk, Dean, Faculty of<br />
Arts and Languages. Ms.<br />
Fatima Abbasi, Research<br />
Scholar presented her semi-<br />
ےک بدا و نابز ودرا nar on<br />
روا هدنس ہعماج ںیم غورف<br />
اک تامدخ یک یچارک ہعماج<br />
under the ہعلاطم یقیقحت<br />
supervision of Prof. Dr.<br />
Mohammad Yousuf Khushk.<br />
Ms. Fatima Abbasi<br />
revealed that she has conducted<br />
the research on the<br />
concerned Departments of<br />
Urdu with the University of<br />
Karachi and University of<br />
Sindh. She said, the scholars<br />
of both Universities have<br />
A cylinder blast took<br />
place when the workers<br />
were busy in refilling the<br />
gas cylinder at a shop in<br />
Dheri Hassanabad, leaving<br />
four persons ijured.<br />
The injured persons<br />
promoted the Urdu literature.<br />
She said, since the establishment<br />
of University of Sindh<br />
up to 2000, the 370 scholars<br />
received the PhD degrees in<br />
different languages among<br />
them 74 scholars of PhD<br />
belong to Urdu literature. She<br />
said, University of Karachi<br />
since its establishment up to<br />
2000, University produce<br />
627 PhD scholars among<br />
them 121 PhD scholars<br />
belong to Urdu language and<br />
literature.<br />
Prof. Dr. Mohammad<br />
Yousuf Khushk said, the<br />
research work of the scholar<br />
will promote the image of the<br />
Urdu literature and language.<br />
The work of the research<br />
scholar is based on primary<br />
and secondary data. He said,<br />
the work of the research<br />
were rushed to local hospital<br />
and provided with medical<br />
treatment.<br />
The injured include<br />
Mohammad Ramzan 25,<br />
Shahzad 23, Waseem 25<br />
and Aliyas 25.<br />
M. Phil seminar was held in<br />
the department of Urdu<br />
scholar will pave the way for<br />
the guidance of new<br />
researchers.<br />
Dr. Sofia Yousuf Khushk,<br />
Chairperson, Department of<br />
Urdu briefed the audience<br />
about the academic and<br />
research work of the<br />
Department. She said, we are<br />
striving for the promotion of<br />
Urdu literature and language.<br />
The course work of M.S/M.<br />
Phil and PhD is in progress.<br />
A sizeable number of students<br />
have been registered in<br />
the Department.<br />
The seminar was declared<br />
as successful.<br />
Prof. Dr. Nisar Ahmed<br />
Kanhar, Director, Post<br />
Graduate Studies, Mr.<br />
Tarique Bin Umar, teachers,<br />
researchers and students<br />
attended the seminar.<br />
KHAIRPUR: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Yousuf Khushk, Dean, Faculty of Arts & Languages, Dr.<br />
Sofia Yousuf Khushk and Ms. Fatima Abbasi speak during the M. Phil seminar in the<br />
Department of Urdu, Shah Abdul Latif University.<br />
Islamabad police nabbed 5<br />
outlaws, recovered narcotics<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Islamabad Police on Sunday<br />
nabbed five outlaws and<br />
recovered narcotics, weapons<br />
and looted items from their<br />
possession, a police<br />
spokesman said.<br />
He said that Bhara Kau<br />
police nabbed Ghulam Ishaq,<br />
SRINAGAR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples<br />
Freedom League (JKPFL)<br />
has paid rich tributes to<br />
prominent Kashmiri freedom<br />
fighter, Ghulam Muhammad<br />
Bulla, on his martyrdom<br />
anniversary.<br />
According to Kashmir<br />
Media Service, the JKPFL<br />
Secretary General,<br />
Mir Daraz and recovered 30<br />
bore pistol and 12 bore gun<br />
from their possession respectively.<br />
Shalimar police<br />
arrested Asif for having 620<br />
gram hashish while Loi Bher<br />
police apprehended Saleh and<br />
Hussain for their alleged<br />
involvement in street crime.<br />
Muhammad Ramazan Khan<br />
in a statement issued in<br />
Srinagar said that Ghulam<br />
Muhammad Bulla was a<br />
bold man and Indian police<br />
arrested him on 14th<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary in 1975 and subsequently<br />
martyred him by<br />
subjecting him to severe torture<br />
at an interrogation centre<br />
for raising his voice<br />
Cases have been registered<br />
against these nabbed<br />
persons and further investigation<br />
is underway from them.<br />
SSP Islamabad Sajid Kiani<br />
has appreciated this performance<br />
and directed to accelerate<br />
efforts to curb activities of<br />
criminal elements.<br />
JKPFL pays tributes to Ghulam Muhammad Bulla<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: But<br />
a new study may give you a<br />
reason to pause; it found<br />
that young adults who frequently<br />
check their social<br />
media accounts are more<br />
likely to have sleep disturbances<br />
than those who use<br />
social media sparingly.?<br />
Jessica C. Levenson,<br />
PhD, from the university's<br />
Department of Psychiatry,<br />
and colleagues used questionnaires<br />
to determine the<br />
study participants' social<br />
media use, and they made<br />
use of an established measurement<br />
system to study<br />
sleep disturbances.<br />
The team found that participants<br />
used social media<br />
an average of 61 minutes<br />
per day and visited their<br />
accounts around 30 times<br />
per week. Additionally,<br />
nearly 30% of the participants<br />
had sleep disturbance<br />
levels that were characterized<br />
as high.<br />
Results showed that the<br />
participants who reported<br />
checking their social media<br />
accounts the most during the<br />
week had three times the<br />
likelihood of experiencing<br />
sleep disturbances, compared<br />
with those who<br />
checked their accounts the<br />
least.<br />
Levenson says their<br />
research is the first to show<br />
that using social media can<br />
impact our sleep. "And it<br />
uniquely examines the association<br />
between social<br />
media use and sleep among<br />
young adults who are,<br />
arguably, the first generation<br />
to grow up with social<br />
media," she adds.<br />
The researchers say the<br />
results of their study may<br />
suggest that how often we<br />
use social media could be a<br />
better predictor of sleep disturbances<br />
than how long we<br />
use it.<br />
"If this is the case,"<br />
Levenson says, "then interventions<br />
that counter obsessive<br />
'checking' behavior<br />
may be most effective."<br />
against Indra-Abdullah<br />
Accord.<br />
He said that the sacrifice<br />
of Ghulam Muhammad Bulla<br />
had proved that the people of<br />
Kashmir would never comprise<br />
on their birthright to<br />
self-determination and they<br />
would continue their liberation<br />
struggle till it reached its<br />
logical conclusion.<br />
Smartphone, social media use<br />
causes sleep disturbances: study<br />
The team concludes<br />
their study by noting that<br />
the "strong association<br />
between SM use and sleep<br />
disturbance has important<br />
clinical implications for the<br />
health and well-being of<br />
young adults. Future work<br />
should aim to assess directionality<br />
and to better<br />
understand the influence of<br />
contextual factors associated<br />
with SM use."
4<br />
Monday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
National<br />
All Pakistan Shia action committee gives awards<br />
to persons with significant services for peace<br />
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />
VALENTINE-DAY just went past, with all its<br />
various right or wrong history, acceptance and<br />
rejection thereof, by whoever or for whatever<br />
reasons, but by all accounts it was mostly considered as<br />
universal day of human love and celebrated as such<br />
worldwide.<br />
REASONS for such fever on this day of love may<br />
well be that love is universal, felt in almost all ten billions<br />
of human beings (and even a larger population of<br />
animals), that love is above hatred of race, nations, histories<br />
and geographies. schools of thoughts and religions.<br />
All good love is from only one and single most<br />
superior being: God All-Mighty.<br />
OPPOSITION to celebrating Valentine Day may<br />
also have its reasons, especially by Islamic scholars in<br />
Muslim world: Girls and boys, young and adults, sometimes<br />
engage in un-Islamic talks and actions, vulgarity<br />
and sex outside wedlock, that is illicit and illegal behavior<br />
even under secular laws of any country or nation,<br />
race or religion.<br />
MISUNDERSTANDINGS on this account are<br />
many: This kind of religious scholars' opposition with<br />
humanly and legally valid logic and rationale is often<br />
taken as Islamic opposition against love itself! It's a<br />
wrong notion. Religious scholars, especially Muslims,<br />
can use proper medium and media with necessary<br />
explanations to clarify their stance in the best way and<br />
manner possible, and remove such misunderstanding,<br />
so that false propaganda does not continue to defame<br />
Islam and Muslims.<br />
AS for unbiased followers of other religions, like<br />
Muslims, they celebrate festivals of followers of other<br />
religions out of their human love for each other too.<br />
Having said that and straightened its superior dimensions,<br />
perhaps human beings, including Muslims too,<br />
have bias and prejudice like celebrating Gregorian new<br />
year or day of love, though a minority of them does celebrate<br />
both the occasions, and especially in those festivals,<br />
like some rituals and ‘rasam’ in wedding ceremonies<br />
or kite flying festival Basant from mixed culture<br />
which Muslims in subcontinent observe and celebrate<br />
By Maureen Dowd<br />
The Clinton campaign is shellshocked over the<br />
wholesale rejection of Hillary by young<br />
women, younger versions of herself who do<br />
not relate to her.<br />
Hillary’s coronation was predicated on a conviction<br />
that has just gone up in smoke. The Clintons felt<br />
that Barack Obama had presumptuously snatched<br />
what was rightfully hers in 2008, gliding past her<br />
with his pretty words to make history before she<br />
could.<br />
So this time, the Clintons assumed, the women<br />
who had deserted Hillary for Barack, in Congress<br />
and in the country, owed her. Democrats would want<br />
to knock down that second barrier.<br />
Hillary believed that there was an implicit understanding<br />
with the sisters of the world that now was<br />
the time to come back home and vote for a woman.<br />
(The Clintons seem to have conveniently forgotten<br />
how outraged they were by identity politics when<br />
black leaders deserted them in 2008 to support<br />
Obama.)<br />
This attitude intensified the unappetizing solipsistic<br />
subtext of her campaign, which is “What is<br />
Hillary owed?” It turned out that female voters seem<br />
to be looking at Hillary as a candidate rather than as<br />
a historical imperative. And she’s coming up drastically<br />
short on trustworthiness.<br />
As Olivia Sauer, an 18-year-old college freshman<br />
who caucused for Bernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa,<br />
told a New York Times reporter: “It seems like he is<br />
at the point in his life when he is really saying what<br />
he is thinking. With Hillary, sometimes you get this<br />
feeling that all of her sentences are owned by someone.”<br />
Hillary started, both last time and this, from a<br />
place of entitlement, as though if she reads her<br />
resume long enough people will surrender. And now<br />
she’s even angrier that she has been shown up by<br />
someone she considers even less qualified than<br />
Obama was when he usurped her place.<br />
Bernie has a clear, concise “we” message, even if<br />
it’s pie-in-the-sky: The game is rigged and we have<br />
to take the country back from the privileged few and<br />
make it work for everyone. Hillary has an “I” message:<br />
I have been abused and misunderstood and it’s<br />
my turn.<br />
It’s a victim mindset that is exhausting, especially<br />
because the Clintons’ messes are of their own<br />
making.<br />
On the trail in New Hampshire, Madeleine<br />
Albright made the case that it was a betrayal of feminist<br />
ideals to support Bernie against Hillary, noting<br />
that “there’s a special place in hell for women who<br />
don’t help each other.” When Sanders handily won<br />
the women’s vote on Tuesday, David Axelrod noted<br />
dryly that they were going to need to clear out a lot<br />
of space in hell.<br />
And in a misstep for the feminist leader who got<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Love is universal above hatred of race,<br />
nations, religions: All love is from God<br />
as their own! In fact, Muslims may be more unbiased<br />
and unprejudiced than other followers of other religions<br />
in adopting and appreciating better values in life, be it<br />
from other religions or places in the world. Love is universal,<br />
undivided, above bias or prejudice, and shared<br />
as such by many. However, it may be almost impossible,<br />
for those against, for example Valentine Day, to<br />
expand one’s mental faculties, from narrow to broader<br />
outlook.<br />
THEREFORE, it’s only natural and alright for those<br />
Muslims who do not want to celebrate festivals or<br />
mourn on tragedies outside Islam, on the one side. But<br />
on the other hand, it’s also worth thinking that it may<br />
not be any highly appreciative move to speak or act,<br />
dishonor or disgrace love, by forcing others not to follow<br />
it beneficially.<br />
ISLAMIC world can grow further in so many<br />
humane and religious ways so that the outside world<br />
which considers and propagates Muslims as being<br />
uncivilized and insensitive to human feelings, may not<br />
object to but appreciate richer Muslim ideology more<br />
tolerant than other religions, on almost all issues, so<br />
well taught by Islam’s great prophet (S), his true followers<br />
and Ahle Beit (family).<br />
RESERVATIONS by some extremist political parties<br />
and institutions on presenting international day of<br />
love Valentine Day in a way that may cause inhuman<br />
and negative results or losses seemed to be understandable<br />
enough: But undue and undesirable force from religious<br />
bloc can be avoided as it backfires with negative<br />
results and more opposition from Valentine Day<br />
celebrities which ends a better purpose itself. It can be<br />
messaged that as great a human asset as love must never<br />
be presented in destructive tendencies or consequences.<br />
For that all loving human forces who oppose unlovely<br />
celebration of love day deserve high praise. Also, conscientiously<br />
many leaders have rightly guided media<br />
and people on proper code of conduct in this respect,<br />
which deserves praise in its aims and objectives to<br />
honor love as love deserves, and not to dishonor love as<br />
love does not deserve dishonor.<br />
OPINION<br />
Hillary Clinton killed feminism long ago<br />
famous by going undercover as a Playboy bunny,<br />
Gloria Steinem told Bill Maher that young women<br />
were flocking to Bernie to be where the boys are.<br />
Blaming it on hormones was odd, given the fact that<br />
for centuries, it was widely believed that women’s<br />
biology made them emotionally unfit to be leaders.<br />
What the three older women seemed to miss was<br />
that the young women supporting Sanders are living<br />
the feminist dream, where gender no longer restricts<br />
and defines your choices, where girls grow up knowing<br />
they can be anything they want. The aspirations<br />
of 1970s feminism are now baked into the culture.<br />
The interesting thing about the spectacle of older<br />
women trying to shame younger ones on behalf of<br />
Hillary is that Hillary and Bill killed the integrity of<br />
institutional feminism back in the 1990s — with the<br />
help of Albright and Steinem.<br />
Instead of just admitting that he had had an affair<br />
with Monica Lewinsky and taking his lumps, Bill<br />
lied and hid behind the skirts of his wife and female<br />
Cabinet members, who had to go out before the cameras<br />
and vouch for his veracity, even when it was<br />
apparent he was lying.<br />
Seeing Albright, the first female secretary of<br />
state, give cover to President Clinton was a low<br />
point in women’s rights. As was the New York Times<br />
op-ed by Steinem, arguing that Lewinsky’s will was<br />
not violated, so no feminist principles were violated.<br />
What about Clinton humiliating his wife and daughter<br />
and female cabinet members? What about a president<br />
taking advantage of a gargantuan power imbalance<br />
with a 22-year-old intern? What about imperiling<br />
his party with reckless behaviour that put their<br />
feminist agenda at risk?<br />
It rang hollow after the Anita Hill-Clarence<br />
Thomas hearings. When it was politically beneficial,<br />
the feminists went after Thomas for bad behaviour<br />
and painted Hill as a victim. And later, when it was<br />
politically beneficial, they defended Bill’s bad<br />
behaviour and stayed mute as Clinton allies mauled<br />
his dalliances as trailer trash and stalkers.<br />
The same feminists who were outraged at the portrayal<br />
of Hill by David Brock — then a Clinton foe<br />
but now bizarrely head of one of her “super PACs”<br />
— as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty,” hypocritically<br />
went along when Hillary and other defenders<br />
of Bill used that same aspersion against<br />
Lewinsky.<br />
Hillary knew that she could count on the complicity<br />
of feminist leaders and Democratic women in<br />
Congress who liked Bill’s progressive policies on<br />
women. And that’s always the ugly Faustian bargain<br />
with the Clintons, not only on the sex cover-ups but<br />
the money grabs: You can have our bright public<br />
service side as long as you accept our dark sketchy<br />
side.<br />
Young women today, though, are playing by a different<br />
set of rules. And they don’t like the Clintons<br />
setting themselves above the rules.<br />
HYDERABAD: Picture of Shai Committee Awards, Allama Mirza Yousuf addressing gathering.<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
dered and cooperation extended<br />
nation. He termed them as<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: A<br />
for peace during last assets of nation who play their<br />
ceremony was held at press Muharram,Rabiulawal. The role with utmost honesty. Syed<br />
club here Sunday under auspices<br />
ceremony was presided by Sagheer Abid Rizvi and<br />
of All Pakistan Shia<br />
Action Committee to give<br />
awards to religious,political,<br />
social and administrative personalities<br />
who played significant<br />
role, services they ren-<br />
Allama Mirza Yousuf Hussain<br />
who addressing ceremony,<br />
said the awards were recognition<br />
of their services for country<br />
and its peace. He said these<br />
persons are sincere to our<br />
Maulana Nazim Ali Azad also<br />
addressed gathering. Those<br />
who received awards were:<br />
Maulana Syed MAbbas Zaidi,<br />
Maulana M Mohsin Mahdvi,<br />
Maulana Hyder Ali Jawadi,<br />
PFSA, milestone to changing thana<br />
culture in Punjab: Rana Sanaullah<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Provincial Minister for Law<br />
& Parliamentary Affairs,<br />
Rana Sanaullah Khan has<br />
said that the Punjab Forensic<br />
Science Agency (PFSA) will<br />
prove to be a milestone in<br />
changing thana culture in the<br />
Punjab province.<br />
Speaking in a function at<br />
PFSA Lahore he said that in<br />
future, it will be compulsory<br />
for police stations to take<br />
help from forensic agency.<br />
He further said that the program<br />
of taking finger prints<br />
of prisoners in jails would be<br />
started soon and the scope of<br />
PFSA will be extended from<br />
divisional level to sub-division<br />
and thana level.<br />
He said that the PFSA is<br />
the second largest lab of the<br />
world and the first biggest lab<br />
of Asia equipped with modern<br />
investigation technology.<br />
The DNA and fire arm<br />
data base existed in the lab.<br />
The lab was completed in<br />
2013 with the funding of Rs.<br />
2566 million by Punjab government<br />
and no federal government<br />
and foreign aid was<br />
taken to completion of PFSA<br />
he added.<br />
He said that forensic lab<br />
has provided forensic training<br />
to 8000 law enforcement<br />
officials so far. The Punjab<br />
has provided assistance for<br />
setting up forensic lab at<br />
KPK and Swat he added.<br />
Poor prisoners deprived of facility of free lawyers<br />
and other expenses, said NGO ARTS foundation<br />
MA Rehmani<br />
DRAP criticised<br />
for its leniency<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
President Society Watch<br />
Khalid Mehmood on Sunday<br />
criticised Drug Regulatory<br />
Authority of Pakistan (DRAP)<br />
for its leniency in the aftermath<br />
of illegal price hike by some<br />
drug manufacturers.<br />
Experience to hire top officials<br />
in DRAP on hefty salaries<br />
has failed as it has not brought<br />
any improvement in the situation<br />
but increased expanses, he<br />
said in a statement here. He<br />
said that DRAP has become<br />
impotent as it has lost control<br />
over pharma industry which<br />
has increased suffering on the<br />
masses who are forced to pay<br />
more for drugs of questionable<br />
quality. He said Pharma<br />
industry is growing with rapid<br />
pace but not a single company<br />
in Pakistan has approval of<br />
WHO or FDA while there are<br />
some 250 pharmaceuticals in<br />
India with approval of international<br />
institutions.<br />
LARKANA, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Interviews of all the applicants<br />
will be held at Naudero<br />
House on <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 21 before<br />
the Divisional Board of the<br />
Pakistan Peoples’ Party who<br />
have applied for the various<br />
posts of Larkana Municipal<br />
Corporation Mayor, Deputy<br />
Mayor, chairmen & vice<br />
chairmen of all five district<br />
councils, municipal committees<br />
and town committees of<br />
the entire division.<br />
The final decision will be<br />
taken by the PPP Chairman<br />
MIRPURKHAS, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Executive director of<br />
Advocacy, research, training<br />
and services (ARTS) foundation<br />
Shehzado Malik has said<br />
that there was basic right of<br />
each citizen under constitution<br />
of the country to acquire<br />
justice and judicious hearing<br />
of his cases and for this purpose<br />
13.5 percent of annual<br />
income of endowment fund<br />
had been allocated under section<br />
9 of sub section (1) of law<br />
and justice commission of<br />
Pakistan ordinance 1979 to<br />
ensure their legal help.<br />
He was speaking at meet<br />
the press here on Sunday.<br />
He further said that district<br />
legal empowerment committees<br />
had been formed on July<br />
9, 2011 under SRO no<br />
2011/(1)684 by Law and justice<br />
commission of Pakistan.<br />
He told that DLECs was a<br />
5 members committee which<br />
chairman will be district and<br />
sessions judge while members<br />
including deputy commissioner,<br />
jail superintendent,<br />
president of district bar association<br />
and a representative of<br />
any NGO.<br />
Car snatched<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Three armed robbers have snatched<br />
a car from a citizen within Civil Lines police jurisdiction.<br />
Nausherwan Adil a resident of Gulistan Colony lodged a<br />
complaint with the local police stating that he was returning<br />
from airport late night suddenly three armed robbers intercepted<br />
and held him hostage at gunpoint. He told police that<br />
they snatched his car EK 355 and fled. The police have registered<br />
a case and started investigation.<br />
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, PPI<br />
learnt here on Sunday.<br />
In this connection a meeting<br />
was held under the chairmanship<br />
of Divisional Board<br />
Chairman Agha Siraj Durrani,<br />
in which other members<br />
including MNA Aijaz<br />
Jakhrani & Larkana district<br />
General Secretary Fattah<br />
Bhutto also participated.<br />
All the applicants were<br />
directed throughout the<br />
Larkana division to submit<br />
their applications by <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
20 at Naudero House as interviews<br />
will be held next day at<br />
10 am at the same place.<br />
The sources said that no<br />
application has so far been<br />
received from Kashmore @<br />
Kandhkot district. These<br />
sources further said that for<br />
the top slot of Mayor of<br />
Larkana so far eight people<br />
have submitted their applications<br />
which include Khair<br />
Muhammad Shaikh, Aslam<br />
Shaikh, Amir Bux Gaad,<br />
Anwar Ali Luhar and others.<br />
For deputy mayor Zafar<br />
Ali Shah and Javed Mangi<br />
Mualan Tahirul Taheri,Mir<br />
Hyder Ali Talpur, Abdul<br />
Jabbar Khan advisor to chief<br />
minister, Muhtasim Abbasi<br />
deputy commissioner<br />
Hyderabad, Syed Sajjad<br />
Hyder Taqvi Commissioner 1<br />
Hyderabad, Malik Imtiaz AC<br />
Wapda, Irfan Baloch SSP<br />
Hyderabad, Malik Abbas<br />
incharge Red force,Qamar<br />
Shaikh administrator<br />
Latifabad, Saleemddin<br />
M.D.Wasa, Journalist Ali<br />
Hassan of BBC/Dawn<br />
News,Raham Ali Otho<br />
Wapda, Mirza Fateh Ali Beg.<br />
Mir Akhtar Talpur chairman<br />
Masjid Abu Fazal Qadamgah<br />
Maula Ali, Maulana Ali<br />
Abbas Memon, Sajid Ali<br />
Shah Kazmi, Khanwand Bux<br />
Jahejo, Khwaja Shabbir Ali<br />
Merchant, Sajjad Mirza,<br />
Shahid Ali Bhurgri, Murad<br />
Ali Balaghi, Dr. Sharjeel<br />
Abbas, Syed Tayyab Hussain<br />
member zonal committee<br />
MQM,Syed Muhammad<br />
Dawood Zaidi and Syed<br />
Azadar Taqvi.<br />
Peace rally<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
SHIKARPUR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
peace rally while taking the<br />
banners and placards was<br />
taken out by activists of<br />
National Peace Committee for<br />
International Harmony<br />
[NPCIH] here on Sunday.<br />
The rally led by Agha<br />
Muhassan Khan Pathan<br />
NPCIH district chairman<br />
Shikarpur was started from<br />
Jumani Hall which while<br />
marching on various city roads<br />
reached Shikarpur press club<br />
where the participants staged a<br />
demonstration.<br />
A large number of NPCIH<br />
activists, city notables and civil<br />
society participated in the rally.<br />
Addressing the participants<br />
NPCIH district chairmanAgha<br />
Muhassan Khan, district president<br />
Pir Bux Ujan, Senior vice<br />
chairman Aftab Ahmed, senior<br />
vice president Shahnawaz and<br />
other office bearers praised the<br />
Army action taken by Chief of<br />
Army Staff [COAS] Gen:<br />
Raheel Sharif under Zarb-e-<br />
Azb planning to restore the<br />
peace and tranquility in the<br />
country as well as up root the<br />
corruption culture and discourage<br />
the terrorism network in<br />
the county under National<br />
Action Plan [NAP].<br />
On the other hand the<br />
speakers emphasized the very<br />
need of continuously the further<br />
Army action against the<br />
terrorism, anti social elements<br />
and corruption culture in order<br />
to enable the people of the<br />
county to breathe the sigh of<br />
relief in peaceful and congenial<br />
atmosphere in the county.<br />
PESHAWAR: A group of Shiite Muslims protesting for acceptance of their demands during a<br />
demonstration held at Peshawar press club.<br />
PPP to hold interviews for LG offices<br />
have so far filed their applications.<br />
For Chairmanship of district<br />
council Larkana, Nida<br />
Khuhro, daughter of provincial<br />
education minister Nisar<br />
Khuhro, Tariq Siyal, brother<br />
of home minister Suhail Siyal,<br />
former MNA Hizbullah<br />
Bughio who is brother of<br />
MNA Nazir Bughio, Sardar<br />
Ali Nawaz Jalbani, Benazir<br />
Bhutto's cousin Ashfaque<br />
Bhutto, Khan Muhammad<br />
Sanghroo, Aamir Zaib Jatoi<br />
and others have so far applied.
Monday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
International<br />
5<br />
Obama, Putin agree to<br />
implement Syria agreement<br />
Washington, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: US<br />
President Barack Obama and<br />
his Russian counterpart<br />
Vladimir Putin have agreed<br />
to cooperate to implement<br />
the Syria agreement reached<br />
during talks in Munich,<br />
Germany, the Kremlin says.<br />
The Kremlin issued a<br />
statement on Sunday after the<br />
two presidents talked over<br />
the phone on ways to intensify<br />
diplomatic and other types<br />
of efforts to put the deal into<br />
effect.<br />
Both leaders gave a "positive<br />
valuation" to the meeting<br />
held on Syria on <strong>Feb</strong>. 11-12<br />
in Munich, the statement<br />
read.<br />
"In particular, a support<br />
was expressed to efforts of<br />
two target groups: for ceasefire<br />
and humanitarian<br />
aspects," the Kremlin said.<br />
Obama and Putin also<br />
stressed the need for the US<br />
and the Russian defense ministries<br />
to have close working<br />
contacts in order to “successfully<br />
fight” the Deash (ISIL)<br />
and “other terroristic organizations."<br />
Putin also talked to<br />
Obama about the significance<br />
of creating a united<br />
anti-terrorism front, the statement<br />
added.<br />
On Thursday, the<br />
International Syria Support<br />
Group (ISSG) agreed to end<br />
hostilities in Syria and to provide<br />
rapid humanitarian<br />
access to besieged Syrian<br />
towns.<br />
The agreement, set to<br />
begin in a week, came following<br />
the Munich marathon<br />
meeting, which was aimed at<br />
resurrecting peace talks that<br />
collapsed last week.<br />
Turkey shelling supports terrorists: Syria<br />
DAMASCUS, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Syria<br />
has taken Turkey’s shelling of<br />
its territory to the UN, saying<br />
it amounts to “direct Turkish<br />
support for terrorist groups.”<br />
In a letter on Sunday, the<br />
Syrian foreign ministry called<br />
on the UN Security Council<br />
to “put an end to the crimes of<br />
the Turkish regime.”<br />
“The foreign ministry<br />
strongly condemns the<br />
repeated Turkish crimes and<br />
attacks against the Syrian<br />
people and Syria's territorial<br />
integrity,” Syrian official<br />
news agency, SANA, reported.<br />
Turkish forces continued<br />
to shell positions of Kurdish<br />
fighters of the Democratic<br />
Union Party (PYD) in the<br />
northern Syrian province of<br />
Aleppo for a second day on<br />
Sunday.<br />
According to Turkey’s<br />
Anadolou news agency, the<br />
Turkish army attacked PYD<br />
targets around the town of<br />
Azaz by its howitzers stationed<br />
on the country’s border<br />
with Syria. Similar bombing<br />
took place on Saturday.<br />
Ankara accuses the PYD,<br />
and its military wing, the<br />
Kurdish People’s Protection<br />
Units (YPG), of having links<br />
to the Kurdistan Workers’<br />
Party (PKK) militant group<br />
Daesh executes 8 caged Iraqi<br />
civilians by drowning<br />
BAGHDAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Members of Daesh Takfiri<br />
militant group have brutally<br />
murdered eight prisoners by<br />
locking them in a metal cage<br />
and lowering them into a<br />
swimming pool in Iraq’s<br />
embattled northern city of<br />
Mosul.<br />
A local source, requesting<br />
anonymity, said the terrorists<br />
carried out the execution by<br />
submerging the caged civilians<br />
in a pool in the Faisaliah<br />
neighborhood of the city,<br />
located some 400 kilometers<br />
(250 miles) north of the capital,<br />
Baghdad, on Saturday,<br />
after accusing the victims of<br />
spying for the Iraqi government,<br />
Arabic-language al-<br />
Sumaria television reported.<br />
Mahmoud al-Sourji, a<br />
spokesman for Iraq’s progovernment<br />
Popular<br />
Mobilization forces, said on<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 7 that Daesh<br />
Takfiris had executed a total<br />
of 300 Iraqi policemen, army<br />
troopers and civilian activists<br />
in Mosul.<br />
The act of terror came<br />
only a day after the terrorists<br />
publicly amputated the right<br />
hands of three teenagers.<br />
Gruesome violence has<br />
plagued the northern and<br />
western parts of Iraq ever<br />
since Daesh Takfiris<br />
launched an offensive in<br />
June 2014, and took control<br />
of portions of Iraqi territory.<br />
The militants have been<br />
committing vicious crimes<br />
against all ethnic and religious<br />
communities in Iraq,<br />
including Shias, Sunnis,<br />
Kurds and Christians.<br />
The Iraqi army and fighters<br />
from Popular<br />
Mobilization Units are<br />
engaged in joint military<br />
operations to win back militant-held<br />
regions.<br />
Russia will 'fail to save'<br />
Syria's Assad: Saudi FM<br />
RIYADH: Saudi<br />
Foreign Minister<br />
Adel al-Jubeir said<br />
Sunday that Russia’s<br />
efforts to support<br />
Syrian President<br />
Bashar al-Assad will<br />
not succeed in keeping<br />
him in power.<br />
Jubeir told a press<br />
conference in Riyadh<br />
that previous efforts<br />
to prop up Assad,<br />
including by Iran, had “failed”.<br />
“Now, (Assad) has sought the help of Russia, which will<br />
fail to save him,” he said, urging Moscow to “end its air<br />
operations against the moderate Syrian opposition.”<br />
Russia, Assad’s closest ally alongside Iran, began conducting<br />
airstrikes in September, targeting mainly rebels<br />
backed by the West, according to US officials.<br />
Analysts believe that Russia’s military intervention in<br />
Syria has given Assad a new lease of life and has also deeply<br />
alarmed the West.<br />
But Jubeir, whose country is among the main Syrian opposition<br />
backers, said that “it is impossible for a man behind the<br />
killing of 300,000 innocent people… to remain” in power.<br />
Assad’s departure “is a matter of time… sooner or later,<br />
this regime will fall, opening the way for building a new<br />
Syria without Bashar al-Assad,” said Jubeir.<br />
that has been fighting for an<br />
autonomous Kurdish region<br />
inside Turkey since the<br />
1980s.<br />
Turkish Prime Minister<br />
Ahmet Davutoglu said after<br />
the Saturday attacks that<br />
Ankara “will retaliate against<br />
every step (by the YPG).”<br />
“The YPG will immediately<br />
withdraw from Azaz<br />
and the surrounding area and<br />
will not go close to it again.”<br />
Nigerian Boko<br />
Haram fighters<br />
trained in Somalia<br />
MUNICH, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Fighters<br />
for the Nigerian Islamist militant<br />
group Boko Haram<br />
have been trained in Somalia<br />
on Africa's eastern coast<br />
before returning to West<br />
Africa, Somalia's president<br />
told a security conference in<br />
Germany on Sunday.<br />
Somalia, plagued by<br />
political in-fighting, corruption<br />
and attacks by al<br />
Shabaab insurgents, has<br />
recently made limited<br />
progress towards creating a<br />
functioning political system,<br />
President Hassan Sheikh<br />
Mohamud said.<br />
"Without a stable<br />
Somalia, the whole region of<br />
the Horn of Africa will<br />
remain unstable and by and<br />
large, the African continent.<br />
There are proofs and evidence<br />
that (for) some time<br />
Boko Haram has been trained<br />
in Somalia and they went<br />
back to Nigeria," he said.<br />
"The terrorists are so<br />
linked together, they are<br />
associated and so organised,<br />
(that) we the world we need<br />
to be so organised," he said,<br />
speaking in English.<br />
Iran warns against<br />
Saudi intervention<br />
in Syria: general<br />
TEHRAN, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: A senior<br />
Iranian commander warned<br />
Saudi Arabia on Sunday<br />
against sending troops to<br />
Syria after the gulf kingdom<br />
deployed combat aircraft to<br />
Turkey, Iran’s state media<br />
reported.<br />
“We definitely won’t let<br />
the situation in Syria to go forward<br />
the way rebel countries<br />
want… We will take necessary<br />
actions in due time,”<br />
deputy chief of staff Brigadier<br />
General Masoud Jazayeri told<br />
Iran’s Arabic-language Al-<br />
Aalam television.<br />
Jazayeri was responding to<br />
a question on whether Iran<br />
planned to send more military<br />
advisors to Syria were Saudi<br />
troops to be deployed there,<br />
risking a direct confrontation<br />
between regional rivals Iran<br />
and Saudi Arabia.<br />
Riyadh said on Saturday it<br />
had deployed warplanes to<br />
Turkey’s Incirlik airbase in<br />
order to “intensify” its operations<br />
against the Islamic State<br />
group in Syria.<br />
India proves itself intolerant<br />
yet again, SRK's car attacked<br />
AHMEDABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: One<br />
comment about intolerance in<br />
India, renowned actor Shah<br />
Rukh Khan’s car came under<br />
attack in Ahemdabad, Indian<br />
media reported on Sunday.<br />
According to reports, on<br />
Sunday morning, some<br />
unknown miscreants attacked<br />
Khan’s car in Ahmedabad.<br />
Sources claim that the actor<br />
wasn’t present in the car at the<br />
moment and no arrests have<br />
been made as yet.<br />
Bollywood's Mr<br />
Perfectionist Aamir Khan also<br />
caught in a series of controversies<br />
and received a lot of backlashes<br />
and it was after Shah<br />
Rukh gave his piece of mind<br />
on intolerance that many started<br />
calling them both antinationals!<br />
Even when Shah Rukh<br />
Khan cleared his stand that he<br />
never called India intolerant, it<br />
could not control the damage.<br />
People didn’t spare either of<br />
the two Khans and both are<br />
still paying the price of exercising<br />
the freedom of speech<br />
and expression. A few days<br />
ago, shooting of SRK’s Raees<br />
was disrupted in Bhuj.<br />
2 killed, <strong>15</strong> wounded in Saudi-led<br />
strike on Yemen workshop<br />
SANAA, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: A Saudi-led<br />
coalition air strike on a sewing<br />
workshop killed at least two<br />
people and wounded <strong>15</strong> in the<br />
rebel-held Yemeni capital on<br />
Sunday, factory owner told.<br />
"Two employees, including<br />
a 14-year-old boy, were killed<br />
and <strong>15</strong> others wounded in the<br />
overnight air raid," Faisal al-<br />
Musaabi said.<br />
A search was underway<br />
for another employee still<br />
buried under the rubble of the<br />
building in the east of Sanaa,<br />
he added.<br />
JERUSALEM, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The Israeli army said<br />
troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers<br />
Who were throwing stones at cars in the<br />
occupied West Bank on Sunday after coming<br />
under fire from one of them?<br />
In a separate incident, a Palestinian tried to<br />
stab an Israeli paramilitary policeman at a<br />
checkpoint in the West Bank, near Jerusalem,<br />
and was shot dead, police said.<br />
Israeli soldiers have killed at least 161<br />
Palestinians, 105 of whom Israel says were<br />
The coalition has been carrying<br />
out air strikes against<br />
Iran-backed rebels across<br />
Yemen since March.<br />
The rebels, who have controlled<br />
Sanaa since September<br />
2014, reported a higher death<br />
toll of 11 employees killed and<br />
four others wounded in the<br />
strike on the workshop,<br />
according to their<br />
sabanews.net website.<br />
The United Nations says<br />
more than 6,100 people have<br />
been killed in Yemen’s conflict<br />
since the coalition began<br />
its raids, about half of them<br />
civilians.<br />
On Sunday, Human Rights<br />
Watch accused the Saudi-led<br />
coalition of using US-supplied<br />
cluster bombs in Yemen, causing<br />
civilian casualties.<br />
"Saudi Arabia and its<br />
coalition partners, as well as<br />
their US supplier, are blatantly<br />
disregarding the global<br />
standard that says cluster<br />
munitions should never be<br />
used under any circumstances,"<br />
said HRW’s arms<br />
director Steve Goose.<br />
Israel says its forces shot dead<br />
three Palestinian assailants<br />
assailants, while the others were shot dead during<br />
violent anti-Israeli protests, as the bloodshed<br />
persists into a fifth month. Stabbings,<br />
shootings and car ramming by Palestinians<br />
have killed 27 Israelis and a U.S. citizen since<br />
early October. As well as frustration over<br />
Jewish settlement-building, deemed illegal by<br />
the United Nations, on land Palestinians want<br />
for a state, tensions have been rising over<br />
Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound and<br />
Islamist calls for Israel's destruction.<br />
New Zealand cliffs collapse in earthquake<br />
CHRISTCHURCH, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Cliffs<br />
were collapsed in New Zealand during<br />
an earthquake in the city of<br />
Christchurch on the South Island, officials<br />
say on Sunday.<br />
No serious damage or fatalities were<br />
reported in the Valentine's Day quake<br />
that struck at 13:13 local time.<br />
Beaches to the east of Christchurch<br />
were busy with swimmers and surfers<br />
when rocks began to fall into the sea.<br />
The 5.7 magnitude quake occurred<br />
days before the anniversary of a deadly<br />
one in 2011.<br />
That destroyed the city centre and<br />
killed 185 people.<br />
New Zealand lies on the notorious<br />
Ring of Fire, the line of frequent quakes<br />
and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually<br />
the entire Pacific rim.<br />
New Zealand's seismological body<br />
GNS Science classified Sunday's earthquake<br />
as "severe", recording that it took<br />
place at a depth of <strong>15</strong>km (nine miles)<br />
and <strong>15</strong>km to the east of the city.<br />
Afghan civilian casualties top 11,000 to hit record in 20<strong>15</strong><br />
KABUL, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The number<br />
of civilians killed or wounded<br />
in Afghanistan last year was<br />
the highest recorded since<br />
2009, the UN said Sunday,<br />
with children paying a particularly<br />
heavy price.<br />
There were 11,002 civilian<br />
casualties in 20<strong>15</strong> including<br />
3,545 deaths, the UN said in<br />
its annual report on Afghan<br />
civilians in armed conflict, a<br />
four percent rise over the previous<br />
high in 2014.<br />
"The harm done to civilians<br />
is totally unacceptable,"<br />
said Nicholas Haysom, the<br />
UN’s special representative<br />
for Afghanistan.<br />
"We call on those inflicting<br />
this pain on the people of<br />
Afghanistan to take concrete<br />
action to protect civilians and<br />
put a stop to the killing and<br />
maiming."<br />
Fighting and attacks in<br />
populated areas and major<br />
cities were described as the<br />
main causes of civilian deaths<br />
in 20<strong>15</strong>, underscoring a push<br />
by Taliban militants into<br />
urban centres "with a high<br />
likelihood of causing civilian<br />
harm", the report stated.<br />
The UN began compiling<br />
the annual report in 2009.<br />
Including Taliban-claimed<br />
attacks, the United Nations<br />
Assistance Mission in<br />
Afghanistan assigned responsibility<br />
for 62 percent of total<br />
civilian casualties in 20<strong>15</strong> to<br />
anti-government elements.<br />
But the report also noted a<br />
28 percent year-on-year surge<br />
in the number of casualties<br />
caused by pro-government<br />
forces, including the Afghan<br />
army and international troops.<br />
Seventeen percent of all<br />
casualties in 20<strong>15</strong> were<br />
caused by such forces, the<br />
report said. It was not possible<br />
to say which side caused the<br />
remaining 21 percent of casualties.<br />
The report criticised<br />
Afghan forces in particular for<br />
their reliance on explosives in<br />
populated areas.<br />
US and other international<br />
troops moved from a combat<br />
to a training, advisory and<br />
assistance role in Afghanistan<br />
on January 1, 20<strong>15</strong>, leaving<br />
Afghan forces to take the lead<br />
in fighting the resurgent militants<br />
as they targeted towns<br />
and cities.<br />
"Why did they fire this<br />
rocket? Why was it necessary?"<br />
the father of a man<br />
killed in shelling by the<br />
Afghan army in a village in<br />
Wardak province in<br />
December was quoted as saying<br />
in the report.<br />
Nine people died in that<br />
attack, according to the report,<br />
highlighting the dangers to<br />
civilians during ground<br />
engagements.<br />
"Can you imagine how difficult<br />
it is when your son is<br />
lying in his own blood and<br />
you are crying for him?" the<br />
father is quoted as saying.<br />
The statistics in the report<br />
do not "reflect the real horror",<br />
Haysom told a press conference<br />
Sunday.<br />
"The real cost... is measured<br />
in the maimed bodies of<br />
children, the communities<br />
who have to live with loss, the<br />
grief of colleagues and relatives,<br />
the families who make<br />
do without a breadwinner, the<br />
parents who grieved the lost<br />
children, the children who<br />
grieved the lost parents," he<br />
said.<br />
One in every four casualties<br />
in 20<strong>15</strong> was a child, with<br />
the report documenting a 14<br />
percent increase in child casualties<br />
over the year.<br />
"Tell these people not to<br />
attack children," it quotes a<br />
12-year-old survivor of a mortar<br />
attack that killed four others<br />
as saying. "I want to study,<br />
not to die."<br />
While fighting and improvised<br />
explosive devices were<br />
the top two killers of children,<br />
unexploded ordnance picked<br />
up and played with by curious<br />
and unsuspecting youngsters<br />
also claimed a heavy toll,<br />
killing 113 children -- an average<br />
of two a week -- and injuring<br />
252 more in 20<strong>15</strong>.<br />
Women also paid a heavy<br />
price, with a 37 percent surge<br />
in female casualties. One in<br />
every ten casualties recorded<br />
was a woman, the report said.<br />
The document highlighted<br />
an increase in women being<br />
targeted for alleged moral<br />
crimes, calling the executions<br />
and lashings a "disturbing<br />
trend", and saying the UN<br />
plans to release a separate<br />
report on such incidents soon.
Monday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
6<br />
Patty<br />
Proud<br />
The figure before you is Miss Patty Proud.<br />
Her feelings are lowery, her frown like a cloud,<br />
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Story Time<br />
Family Fun in Geelong<br />
THE pink parasol<br />
had tender whalebone<br />
ribs and a<br />
slender stick of cherrywood.<br />
It lived with the<br />
willful child in the whitehouse,<br />
just beyond the<br />
third milestone. All about<br />
the trees were green, and<br />
the flowers grew tall; in<br />
the pond behind the willows<br />
the ducks swam<br />
round and round and<br />
dipped their heads<br />
beneath the water.<br />
Every bird and bee,<br />
every leaf and flower,<br />
loved the child and the<br />
pink parasol as they wandered in the garden together, listening to the birds and seeking the<br />
shady spots to rest in, or walking up and down the long trim pathway in the sunshine. Yet<br />
the child tired of it all, and before the summer was over, was always standing by the gate,<br />
watching the straight white road that stretched across the plain.<br />
“If I might but see the city, with the busy streets, and the eager crowds," he was always<br />
saying to himself.<br />
Then all that lived in the garden knew that the child would not be with them long. At<br />
last the day came when he flung down the pink parasol, and, without even one last look at<br />
the garden, ran out at the gate.<br />
The flowers died, and the swallows journeyed south; the trees stretched higher and<br />
higher, to see the child come back across the plain, but he never came. “Ah, dear child!"<br />
they sighed many a time, "why are you staying? And are your eyes as blue as ever; or have<br />
the sad tears dimmed them? And is your hair golden still? And your voice, is it like the<br />
singing of the birds? And your heart oh! My dear, my dear, what is in your heart now, that<br />
once was so full of summer and the sun?”<br />
The pink parasol lay on the pathway, where the child left it, spoilt by the rain, and<br />
splashed by the gravel, faded and forgotten. At last, a gipsy lad, with dark eyes, a freckled<br />
face, and little gold rings in his ears, came by; he picked up the pink parasol, hid it under<br />
his coat, and carried it to the gipsy tent. There it stayed till one day the cherry-wood stick<br />
was broken into three pieces, and the pink parasol was put on the fire to make the water<br />
boil for the gipsy's tea.<br />
Yousuf Ghori<br />
Colour me<br />
Hadiya Gul<br />
There are 132 rooms in<br />
the US White House<br />
• The tallest mammal is the giraffe<br />
• Warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)<br />
• Warthogs live for <strong>15</strong> years<br />
• Did you knowwhen baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or<br />
hear for their first month<br />
• 2 out of 5 people marry their first love<br />
• 30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seats<br />
• 45% of people use mouthwash everyday<br />
• Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal<br />
• People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other country<br />
• The average shower temperature is 38C (101F)<br />
• Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny<br />
hamburger bun)<br />
• The algae found in the world's oceans produces nearly 50% of the<br />
world's oxygen<br />
• The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920<br />
• There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game<br />
• Nintendo first produced playing cards<br />
• The word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a<br />
town in France<br />
• There are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building<br />
• Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time<br />
• A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body<br />
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall<br />
• A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second<br />
• Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds<br />
• The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand<br />
• England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old<br />
• The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall<br />
• The Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years<br />
• The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons<br />
• Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong<br />
to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms)<br />
Because proud Miss Patty can hardly endure<br />
To come near the lowly abode of the poor.<br />
She fears the plain floor of the humble will spoil<br />
Her silk hose and shoes, and her skirt-border soil ;<br />
And so she goes wincing, and holds up her dress<br />
So high, it were well if her heels would show less.<br />
But, when she walks through the fine streets of the town,<br />
She puts on fine airs, and displays her rich gown,<br />
Till some who have passed her, have thought of the bird<br />
Renowned for gay feathers, whose name you have heard.<br />
Looking at a gar is a bit like looking into the distant<br />
past. Largely unchanged over the past 100<br />
million years, they are often called living fossils.<br />
Gars are primarily freshwater fish found only in<br />
North America, from Montana to southern Quebec to<br />
Costa Rica. Their range used to be much more extensive,<br />
with fossils<br />
being found in<br />
Europe, Africa,<br />
South Asia, and<br />
South America.<br />
Gars, also<br />
called garpikes,<br />
get their name<br />
from the<br />
A n g l o - S a x o n<br />
word for spear.<br />
They are long<br />
Gar<br />
Fun Facts<br />
Type............................Fish<br />
Diet.............................Carnivore<br />
Average life span in<br />
the wild........................More than 20 years<br />
Size.............................Up to 9.8 ft<br />
Weight.........................Up to 300 lbs<br />
Relative.......................Size relative to a<br />
6-ft (2-m) man<br />
and tubular<br />
with an oversized, generally elongated snout, although<br />
the alligator gar has a short, wide, shovel-shaped bill.<br />
Their skin is covered in a coat of hard, diamond-shaped<br />
scales that create a protective armor.<br />
They are ferocious-looking and can be huge, with<br />
some species reaching almost 10 feet (3 meters) in<br />
length and weighing up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms).<br />
Voracious and efficient predators, gars have large<br />
mouths packed with sharp, pointed teeth. They are generally<br />
sluggish fish but are capable of impressive bursts<br />
of speed. They usually drift motionless near the surface<br />
waiting for smaller fish to swim by. When prey<br />
approaches, they whip their heads around and snare their<br />
victim, often sideways, then turn it to swallow headfirst.<br />
One of the reasons they’ve survived as long as they<br />
have is their ability to thrive in even the most inhospitable<br />
waters. They have a swim bladder that they can<br />
fill by gulping air, which they use to supplement their<br />
gill breathing in low-oxygen environments.<br />
There are seven known species of gar, and all are<br />
quite abundant in their ranges. In the Southeastern<br />
United States, where the alligator gar lives, they are<br />
prized by sport fishermen for the fierce fight they give<br />
when hooked. Gar meat is edible, but is extremely bony<br />
and rarely consumed. Gar eggs are highly toxic to<br />
humans.
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U-19 WC: WI beat India to lift trophy<br />
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SHARJAH, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Islamabad<br />
United beat Karachi Kings by five<br />
wickets in the 16th match of the<br />
Pakistan Super League (PSL) at the<br />
Sharjah Cricket Stadium on<br />
Sunday.<br />
United skipper Misbah-ul-Haq<br />
(38) established a crucial 63-run<br />
stand for the fourth wicket with<br />
Khalid Latif (33) to recover his side<br />
after losing three early wickets.<br />
At one stage, United were 19-3<br />
in 3.2 overs as Sharjeel Khan (one),<br />
Andre Russell (14) and Brad<br />
Haddin (four) were sent back to the<br />
pavilion by Kings' pace spearheads<br />
Mohammad Amir and Sohail Khan.<br />
But Misbah's stand with Khalid<br />
set the tone for Faisalabad-born<br />
Asif Ali, who with the help of one<br />
four and three sixes, smashed a<br />
quickfire 31 off 17 balls to take<br />
United home.<br />
Karachi United beat Saif Tex by 3-2<br />
in Final Round of PFF Cup-<strong>2016</strong><br />
SHARJAH: Imran Khalid was the most successful bowler for Islamabad<br />
United with returns of 2 for 19, Islamabad United v Karachi Kings.<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14 : Karachi<br />
United (KU) beat Saif Tex<br />
with a narrow margin of 3-2<br />
in the Final Round of<br />
Pakistan Football Federation<br />
(PFF) Cup <strong>2016</strong> Group A<br />
match played in Lahore.<br />
After losing third consecutive<br />
matches Saif Tex crashed<br />
out of tournament.<br />
According to the press<br />
release issued hereby Fame<br />
Sports Football Club (FSFC),<br />
the Final Round Group A<br />
match was played between<br />
Saif Tex and KU. Match<br />
started on aggression right<br />
from start, as KU’s Asif<br />
scored twice and Samee once<br />
but referee Irshadul Haq gave<br />
him offside and disallowed<br />
all three goals. However<br />
KU’s midfielder Mauseem<br />
gave a cross to Ali Reza who<br />
finally scored a goal. Saif Tex<br />
beefed up attacks on KU and<br />
in 45th minute Saif Tex striker<br />
Usman Ghani equalized<br />
ending the first half on 1-1<br />
tie.<br />
Second half started with<br />
aggression from both sides<br />
KU scored in 50th minute<br />
when Fazal Muhammad<br />
dodged three defenders. Saif<br />
Tex equalized again in 64th<br />
minute as Usman Ghani<br />
scored his second and final<br />
goal for host side.<br />
Dr M Arif Hafeez<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
SHARJAH, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: New<br />
Zealand all-rounder Grant<br />
Elliot picked up three wickets<br />
in his first Pakistan Super<br />
League (PSL) outing to help<br />
Quetta Gladiators get back to<br />
winning ways and go top of<br />
the table as they beat<br />
Islamabad United by seven<br />
wickets here at the Sharjah<br />
Cricket Stadium.<br />
The Gladiators now have<br />
eight points from five matches<br />
with four victories.<br />
Skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed<br />
had a good outing both with<br />
the gloves and the bat as he<br />
registered two victims and<br />
took his team home with an<br />
unbeaten half-century.<br />
After being thrashed by<br />
For Kings, Sohail Khan was the<br />
pick of the bowlers with figures 4-<br />
0-23-2, followed by Mohammad<br />
Amir 4-1-21-1. The England international<br />
Ravi Bopara also chipped<br />
in by dismissing the United skipper<br />
Misbah-ul-Haq.<br />
Earlier, Islamabad United put up<br />
a disciplined bowling display as<br />
they successfully stopped Karachi<br />
Kings from posting a big total.<br />
Kings managed to score 128-5 in<br />
their 20 overs, courtesy some tight<br />
bowling by Imran Khalid who<br />
ended by with figures 4-0-19-2 and<br />
was declared the Man of the Match.<br />
Left-arm spinner Khalid and<br />
seasoned all-rounder Azhar<br />
Mahmood shared three wickets<br />
among themselves and bowled economically<br />
to the Kings' batters.<br />
Mohammad Sami and Andre<br />
Russell also took a wicket each.<br />
Elliot, Sarfaraz star as<br />
Gladiators go top again<br />
Lahore Qalandars, Gladiators<br />
who won the toss and opted to<br />
field first dropped Umar Gul<br />
and Elton Chigumbura for<br />
Aizaz Cheema and Elliot<br />
respectively.<br />
Islamabad could not cash<br />
upon a pretty good start of 54<br />
for one in six overs provided<br />
by Shane Watson as they were<br />
bowled out for 117 with five<br />
balls to spare.<br />
Watson made 40 off 28 hitting<br />
three sixes and as many<br />
fours while Imran Khalid<br />
made run-a-ball 18.<br />
Elliot, who had flown all<br />
the way from New Zealand<br />
just a day before the game,<br />
conceded 25 runs off his four<br />
overs for his three scalps while<br />
Zulfiqar Babar and Cheema<br />
got wickets each as Sarfaraz<br />
rotated his bowlers cleverly.<br />
DHAKA, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: West Indies<br />
spread festive cheers amidst a<br />
lot of gloom back home, as<br />
they held their nerves, for the<br />
second time in four days, to<br />
beat India and clinch their<br />
maiden Under-19 World Cup<br />
title at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium<br />
in Dhaka on Sunday<br />
(<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 14).<br />
After the West Indian pacers,<br />
led by Alzarri Joseph (3-<br />
39) and Ryan John (3-38),<br />
wreaked havoc on the Indian<br />
batsmen, an undefeated 69-<br />
run stand for the sixth wicket<br />
between Keacy Carty (52) and<br />
Keemo Paul (39) powered<br />
West Indies to a five-wicket<br />
victory. Mayank Dagar's<br />
efforts with the ball (3-25)<br />
NEW DELHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: There<br />
might have been some security<br />
concerns in sending their<br />
athletes to India ahead of the<br />
ongoing 12th South Asian<br />
Games, but chef-de-mission<br />
of Pakistan Islahuddin<br />
Siddiqui admitted that his<br />
country's contingent did not<br />
face any such issues, in<br />
Guwahati, on Sunday.<br />
Before the start of the<br />
SAG, Pakistan had expressed<br />
security concerns in sending<br />
gave India some hope of<br />
sneaking their way back and<br />
doing a 1983 World Cup<br />
encore, but it was West Indies'<br />
ability to trump the three-time<br />
champions in the several minibattles<br />
along the way that<br />
ensured they were crowned<br />
champions.<br />
Shimron Hetmyer's boys<br />
executed the team's blueprint<br />
efficiently in the third big<br />
game on the trot after he opted<br />
to field first. For all the unpredictability<br />
they have brought<br />
to the tournament, there was a<br />
sense of familiarity in the<br />
manner in which they went<br />
about laying the platform for<br />
their victory.<br />
With a visible tinge of<br />
their athletes to Guwahati and<br />
Shillong, and their National<br />
Olympic Committee had<br />
even raised the matter with<br />
their Indian counterparts during<br />
the meeting of<br />
Association of National<br />
Olympic Committees in<br />
Washington.<br />
Pakistan had also planned<br />
to send a security delegate<br />
ahead of the Games but later<br />
dropped the idea after a visit<br />
by an Indian delegation that<br />
green and considerable<br />
bounce on the wicket, a lot<br />
was riding on the early tussle<br />
between India's top order and<br />
West Indies' pace bowling duo<br />
of Joseph and Chemar Holder.<br />
Ishan Kishan, in his pre-match<br />
presser, had spoken about the<br />
need for him and Rishabh Pant<br />
to stay put in the middle for at<br />
least the first 12 overs to be<br />
able to guide India to a<br />
defendable total. That plan<br />
was thwarted by Pant's negligence<br />
at the very beginning.<br />
The left-handed opener,<br />
batting from outside the<br />
crease, gave judgement to a<br />
delivery outside the offstump<br />
but did not drag his<br />
feet back in.<br />
No security issues in SAG,<br />
says Pak chef-de-mission<br />
had Member of Parliament<br />
Bhubaneswar Kalita and<br />
Indian Olympic Association<br />
Secretary General Rajiv<br />
Mehta in it.<br />
Siddiqui, one of the best<br />
hockey players of his generation,<br />
said that he had not come<br />
across any security issue in<br />
the Assam capital. I have not<br />
come across any such issues. I<br />
don't know whether Pakistan<br />
had security concerns in the<br />
run-up to the Games.<br />
Oil bosses upbeat on market rebound<br />
LONDON, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Movers and shakers<br />
from the oil industry descended on<br />
London last week and expressed optimism<br />
over asharp rebound in the<br />
beleaguered crude market later this<br />
year.<br />
Bob Dudley, chief executive of<br />
British energy major BP, forecast at<br />
the International Petroleum Week<br />
industry conference on Wednesday<br />
that "the daily (oil) supply and<br />
demand" will be balanced in the second<br />
half.<br />
"Every storage tank and swimming<br />
pool will be full of oil," Dudley<br />
told delegates, acknowledging the<br />
vast global supply glut that sent prices<br />
plunging close to 13-year lows under<br />
$27 (24 euros) per barrel last week.<br />
"And then... the market starts to<br />
pull the plug. "And I think we will<br />
begin to see the fundamentals (of supply<br />
and demand) take over," he said,<br />
indicating prices would pull higher in<br />
the third or fourth quarter.<br />
Dudley cautioned however that<br />
Sindh Food Quality Control Authority<br />
will be established soon: Nasir Shah<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Sindh<br />
Food Quality Control<br />
Authority will be established<br />
soon. in this connection<br />
government of Sindh,<br />
to ensure shops restaurants<br />
and all stakeholders are<br />
maintaining hygeinic and<br />
safety standards, will introduce<br />
a bill in Sindh<br />
Assembly. he said proper<br />
representation will be provided<br />
to consumers association<br />
of Pakistan in Sindh<br />
Food Quality Control<br />
Authority.<br />
This was stated by Syed<br />
Nasir Hussain Shah<br />
Minister of Food<br />
Government of Sindh while<br />
addressing 8th Consumers<br />
KARACHI: Kaukab Iqbal presenting bouquet to Minister for Food, Syed Nasir Hussain<br />
Shah. Sr. Vice Chairman FPCCI S. Khalid Tawab and Farhan Hanif, Advocate Javaid Ahmed<br />
Chattari, Arif Ansari Chairman CAP Punjab are also seen in the picture.<br />
Food Safety & Quality<br />
Conference. He said that It<br />
is the prime responsibility<br />
of government to ensure<br />
healthy and safe food for<br />
consumers at every level.<br />
Speaking at the occasion<br />
Kaukab Iqbal stressed the<br />
need to establish effective<br />
bodies to ensure supply of<br />
food stuff to consumers<br />
with International standard<br />
of Health, quality and safety<br />
whereas consumers are<br />
being exploited at every<br />
level by shops restaurants<br />
and other companies.<br />
The Conference was also<br />
attended, among others, by<br />
Sr. Vice President<br />
Federation of Pakistan<br />
Chambers of Commerce<br />
and Industry S. Khalid<br />
Tawab, Additional<br />
Commissioner Karachi – I<br />
Aslam Khoso, Consul<br />
General Malaysia Ismail<br />
Bin Mohammad Bkri,<br />
Consul General Indonesia<br />
HadiSantoso and Honorary<br />
Consul General Morocco<br />
Mirza Ishtiaq Baig.<br />
$100 oil would not return any time<br />
soon.<br />
World oil prices meanwhile rose<br />
Friday, with US crude rebounding<br />
from a 2003 low to reach almost $30<br />
per barrel, on reports OPEC was willing<br />
to organise output cuts that could<br />
curb global oversupply.<br />
However, prices have nevertheless<br />
slumped by about 70 percent since<br />
mid-2014 with the market awash with<br />
crude.<br />
Patrick Pouyanne, chief executive<br />
of French oil and gas giant Total,<br />
agreed that prices would charge higher<br />
towards the end of the year.<br />
"I think that the price will be higher<br />
at the end of the year <strong>2016</strong> than it is<br />
today," Pouyanne said Thursday at the<br />
IP Week conference.<br />
Business community<br />
supports sale of<br />
unviable entities<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Chairman of the United<br />
International Group Mian<br />
Shahid on Sunday said business<br />
community full supports<br />
sale of unviable entities inflicting<br />
annual loss of trillions of<br />
rupees.<br />
He said government should<br />
sell loss-making entities and<br />
use the funds on constructive<br />
activities which is necessary<br />
for the national development.<br />
He said that reason behind<br />
Rs300 billion losses in PIA is<br />
not excess number of employees<br />
but dearth of aeroplanes.<br />
He said the successive<br />
managements of PIA continue<br />
to ground older aircraft as per<br />
the procedures but could not<br />
bought of got new planes on<br />
lease due to lack of funds<br />
which increased the number of<br />
employees per plane.<br />
Moreover, the management<br />
sold profitable routes to<br />
raise funds which provided<br />
temporary relief but it proved<br />
harmful in the longer run, he<br />
said, adding that PIA spends<br />
fourteen percent of revenue on<br />
staff salaries etc.<br />
PESHAWAR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
Chief Minister Khyber<br />
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Pervez<br />
Khattak has under lined the<br />
planned and coordination<br />
efforts for exploration of<br />
venues to enhance trade<br />
activities and boost socio<br />
economic ties between<br />
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and<br />
Tajikistan government.<br />
He said it while talking to<br />
a delegation of the Republic<br />
of Tajikistan, headed by<br />
Ambassador of the country,<br />
Sher Ali Janov at Chief<br />
Minister Secretariat.<br />
Engineering Said<br />
Mehmood, Trade Attache,<br />
Consul General to KP and<br />
Syed Arif Shah first secretary<br />
of Tajikstan to<br />
Pakistan accompanied the<br />
ambassador.<br />
Biz<br />
Khattak underlines efforts to enhance<br />
trade activities between KP, Tajik govt<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
Technical Education and<br />
Vocational Training Authority<br />
(TEVTA) is giving representation<br />
to local business communities<br />
to enhance the role<br />
of district Board of<br />
Management (BM) across the<br />
Punjab.<br />
The participation of business<br />
communities would be<br />
effective for the promotion of<br />
technical education and vocational<br />
training across the<br />
Punjab province. District<br />
Board of Management will<br />
also take part to arrange job<br />
opportunities for TEVTA<br />
pass-outs trainers at their concerned<br />
districts. Irfan Qaiser<br />
Chairperson TEVTA while<br />
addressing the officers to<br />
review the progress said that<br />
the short courses are being<br />
Parliamentary Secretary<br />
for P&D Mian Khaleequr<br />
Rehman was also present on<br />
the occasion.<br />
The delegation discussed<br />
matters of bilateral interests<br />
with CM on the occasion.<br />
The delegates showed interest<br />
in increase of trade relations<br />
between Khyber<br />
Pakhtunkhwa<br />
Tajakistan.<br />
Finance Minister meets SECP’s senior officials<br />
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar chairing meeting of SECP senior officials.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Finance Minister, Senator<br />
Mohammad Ishaq Dar held a<br />
meeting with senior officials of<br />
the Securities and Exchange<br />
Commission of Pakistan<br />
(SECP) here.<br />
The Chairman SECP<br />
briefed the Minister about various<br />
important matters of the<br />
capital commodities market<br />
and NBFC segment. The<br />
Minister was given an<br />
overview of the performance<br />
of the Pakistan Stock<br />
Exchange (PSX), post integration<br />
and the status of divestment<br />
of shares of PSX.<br />
The Minister noticed the<br />
post integration improvement<br />
in performance and emphasized<br />
upon early completion of<br />
TEVTA gives representation to local<br />
business communities across Punjab<br />
and<br />
the divestment process while<br />
underscoring the need for<br />
improved governance structure<br />
for new stock exchange.<br />
He mentioned that the purpose<br />
of integration has been<br />
the creation of a modern and<br />
well governed exchange<br />
which has radically improved<br />
and well positioned in the<br />
global arena.<br />
introduced in TEVTAwith the<br />
collaboration of BoM. He further<br />
said that the TEVTA will<br />
now continue effective communication<br />
with the members<br />
of BoM for their effective role<br />
in the institutes of management.<br />
BoM members would<br />
also visit TEVTA Institutes<br />
and submit their proposals for<br />
further improvement of<br />
TEVTA Institutes, he added.<br />
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Tarbela extension projects to add<br />
2820MW to system: says minister<br />
LAHORE,<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Minister of State for Water<br />
and Power Abid Sher Ali<br />
has said Tarbela 4th and<br />
5th extension power projects<br />
would add 2820 MW<br />
low cost hydel electricity<br />
to the national grid system,<br />
state media reported on<br />
Sunday.<br />
In an interview, he said<br />
around 49 percent work<br />
had so far been completed<br />
on the Tarbela 4th<br />
Extension Power Project<br />
and it would start supply<br />
1410 MW in July 2017.<br />
The project would be<br />
completed at a cost over<br />
5 marla plots possessions handover to shelter less people<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Under<br />
Chief Minister Jinnah<br />
Abadi Scheme, possession<br />
of five marla plots has been<br />
given to 280 shelter-less<br />
people in chak No. 11 of<br />
Mandi Bahauddin.<br />
Member National<br />
Assembly Mumtaz Ahmed<br />
Tarar and Member<br />
Provincial Assembly Pir<br />
Syed Mehfooz Hussain<br />
Mashhadi distributed possession<br />
deeds among poor<br />
cultivators and labourers.<br />
Additional District<br />
Collector Afzaal Ahmed<br />
Warraich, Assistant<br />
Commissioner Shabbir<br />
Hussain Cheema and Naib<br />
Tehsildar Arif Najam were<br />
also present on the occasion.<br />
A model Abadi will be<br />
set up under this scheme.<br />
Government land has also<br />
been allocated for mosque,<br />
school and park whereas<br />
streets will be 49 feet wide.<br />
Addressing the ceremony,<br />
Mumtaz Tarar said that<br />
Prime Minister Muhammad<br />
Nawaz Sharif and Chief<br />
Minister Muhammad<br />
Shehbaz Sharif are making<br />
strenuous efforts for the<br />
progress and prosperity of<br />
the country and they want<br />
to provide shelter to shelterless<br />
people.<br />
Pir Mehfooz Mashhadi<br />
congratulated the allottees<br />
and said that first time in<br />
HESCO in action against<br />
Rs65b payment defaulters<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: On<br />
the directives of Hyderabad<br />
Electric Supply Company<br />
(HESCO) Chief Executive<br />
Officer, Akhtar Ali Randhawa<br />
to ensure 100 percent recovery<br />
of outstanding payments using<br />
services of Rangers to root out<br />
power pilferage and recovery<br />
of payment from defaulters,<br />
spokesman.<br />
HESCO recovery teams<br />
accompanied by the Sindh<br />
Rangers and police conducted<br />
operations in Hyderabad,<br />
Qasimabad, Latifabad, Hali<br />
Road, Tando Jam, Mirpurkhas,<br />
Tando Mohammad Khan,<br />
Umer Kot, Matiari, Thatta,<br />
Matli, Badin and its suburbs<br />
and cut off electric supply to<br />
480 consumers on default of<br />
payment, unearth 300 illegal<br />
kunda connections. HESCO<br />
officials also grounded 32<br />
transformers on non-payment<br />
of Rs55 million.<br />
HESCO has to recover over<br />
Rs65.79 billion out of which<br />
Rs2.18 billion from federal<br />
govt institutions, Rs33.86 billion<br />
from provincial govt institutions<br />
and Rs29.73 billion<br />
from private/commercial consumers<br />
for special constituted<br />
HYDERABAD: HESCO officials along with LEAs grounding transformer on default of payment.<br />
recovery teams continue<br />
house-to-house search, crack<br />
down against payment defaulters<br />
and defaulters will have to<br />
face power disconnection.<br />
Indiscriminate action is<br />
being carried out and disconnected<br />
connections will be<br />
restored on 100 percent payment,<br />
only.<br />
Federal govt spends Rs10 billion<br />
allocated for airports to other projects<br />
Italian premier promises<br />
Argentina trade and investments<br />
ROME, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: Italian PM,<br />
Matteo Renzi, on his trip to<br />
Argentina, intends to promise<br />
President Macri investments,<br />
trade and 'Tango bonds' to consolidate<br />
the common culture<br />
and the age-old blood ties binding<br />
the two countries. Mr Renzi<br />
will return to South America<br />
only three months after his last<br />
mission to the continent, when<br />
he visited Chile, Peru,<br />
Colombia and Cuba. He will<br />
be the first European leader to<br />
land in Argentina on an official<br />
visit after the instatement of<br />
conservative Mauricio Macri at<br />
the Casa Rosada last<br />
November, following his the<br />
election last November, putting<br />
an end to the 12 years under the<br />
rule of the two Kirchners. He<br />
is scheduled to be in Buenos<br />
Aires on Monday with a<br />
crowded agenda of economic,<br />
institutional and iconic meetings,<br />
including the deposition<br />
of a wreath of flowers at the<br />
monument dedicated to<br />
General Jose' de San Martin,<br />
one of fathers of Argentina's<br />
independence.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The federal government<br />
had spent about Rs.10 billion on other<br />
development projects, which were allocated<br />
airports in Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot.<br />
Finance Ministry sources told Online that<br />
PML-N’s government had put the airport<br />
projects in Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot<br />
under the carpet; however the AJK government<br />
did also not raised voice against it.<br />
The government had planned to make top<br />
quality airports in both cities of AJK to boost<br />
of tourism and prosperity of people, while<br />
PC-1 of these projects had also been prepared.<br />
These projects were put under the carpet<br />
owing to non-availability of funds.<br />
the history of the country,<br />
practical steps have been<br />
taken for the welfare of the<br />
shelter-less people. He<br />
advised those getting plots<br />
to construct their houses<br />
and do not to sell the plots.<br />
He said that combined possession<br />
of plots to husband<br />
and wife will help empower<br />
women. Arif Najam told<br />
that during the next phase,<br />
more Jinnah Abadies will<br />
be set up.<br />
Kashmir an<br />
internationally accepted<br />
dispute; Zafar Butt<br />
SRINAGAR, <strong>Feb</strong> 14: The<br />
Chairman of Jammu and<br />
Kashmir Salvation<br />
Movement (JKSM), Zafar<br />
Akbar Butt has said that<br />
Kashmir is an internationally<br />
accepted dispute which<br />
needs to be resolved as per<br />
the aspirations of Kashmiri<br />
people.<br />
According to Kashmir<br />
Media Service, Zafar Akbar<br />
Butt addressing various<br />
gatherings at Zadoora,<br />
Ruhmoo and Gusoo in<br />
Pulwama district condemned<br />
the fresh arrest in Kakpora,<br />
Pulwama, and use of brute<br />
force on peaceful protestors.<br />
He also paid glowing tributes<br />
to martyrs who laid<br />
down their lives particularly<br />
to Raqib basher and Ashiq<br />
Hussain Hyder.<br />
nine hundred million dollars<br />
with the assistance of<br />
World Bank.<br />
The minister said that<br />
Tarbela 5th extension<br />
power project would also<br />
add another 1410 MW to<br />
the system by 2020.<br />
He said World Bank is<br />
ready to provide about<br />
eight hundred million dollars.<br />
He said 76 per cent work<br />
of Neelum-Jhelum power<br />
project has also been completed<br />
and its first unit<br />
would start supplying<br />
242MW electricity to the<br />
national grid in July 2017.<br />
Consensus on KBD would<br />
be greater achievement<br />
than LNG import<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Patron Islamabad Chamber<br />
of Small Traders Shahid<br />
Rasheed Butt on Sunday<br />
asked the government to try<br />
to forge consensus on<br />
Kalabagh dam (KBD) which<br />
would be an achievement<br />
bigger than the recent LNG<br />
deal.<br />
Renewed efforts aimed at<br />
unanimity among stakeholders<br />
over this issue will settle<br />
fears of flood, food security,<br />
water scarcity and energy<br />
crisis, he said.<br />
Shahid Rasheed Butt said<br />
that government should educate<br />
masses about the misconception<br />
that KBD will<br />
increase problems as dams<br />
are built to tackle problems.<br />
He said KBD will irrigate<br />
6.1 million acre of land<br />
boosting agricultural production<br />
which will help<br />
country earn foreign<br />
exchange through exports.<br />
Sindh will get additional<br />
2.257 acre foot of water with<br />
no negative impact in Indus<br />
delta, he said adding that it<br />
will add 3600 megawatt<br />
electricity in the system<br />
paving way for national<br />
development.<br />
Butt said that KBG will<br />
submerge more area in<br />
Punjab than Khyber<br />
Pakhtunkhwa and displace<br />
more people but there is no<br />
opposition to it there.<br />
Army should launch operation<br />
against terrorism, corruption in the<br />
Punjab; says Faisal Saleh Hayat<br />
ISLAMBAD <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh<br />
Hayat, former Interior minister,<br />
on Sunday said that Army<br />
should initiate operation to<br />
eliminate terrorism and corruption<br />
in the Punjab to bring<br />
peace and prosperity in the<br />
country.<br />
Talking to ‘Online’ Faisal<br />
Saleh Hayat said that provincial<br />
ministers and officials<br />
involved in corruption while<br />
there are terrorist’s stronghold<br />
in the Punjab.<br />
“If radicalism did not<br />
eradicate immediately in the<br />
Punjab the situation would be<br />
out of control, he said”.<br />
Former interior minister<br />
responding a question blamed<br />
that Punjab government was<br />
busy in buying local representatives<br />
to elect districts<br />
chairmen by spending national<br />
exchequer.<br />
He maintained the stance<br />
that district chairman from<br />
Jhang and Chiniot would be<br />
elected from Makhdoom<br />
group adding that Makhdoom<br />
group had gotten victory in<br />
abovementioned districts.<br />
Saleh Hayat told Online<br />
that Chief of Army Staff<br />
General Raheel Sharif should<br />
not give statement on his<br />
retirement.<br />
ABBOTTABAD: People face inconvenience due to snow heap on middle of a road in the city<br />
which speaks about the negligence of Tehsil Municipal Administration.<br />
CM expresses grief over sad<br />
demise of photo journalist<br />
<strong>Feb</strong> 14: Punjab<br />
Chief Minister Muhammad<br />
Shehbaz Sharif has expressed<br />
deep sense of sorrow and grief<br />
over the sad demise of photo<br />
LOS ANGELES, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Socially conscious rapper<br />
Kendrick Lamar leads nominations<br />
going into the<br />
Grammy Awards on Monday<br />
but he faces tough competition<br />
led by pop superstar<br />
Taylor Swift.<br />
A diverse array of artists is<br />
in contention at the music<br />
industry’s premier awards ceremony,<br />
an action-packed<br />
evening that will feature performances<br />
by leading stars<br />
and tributes to deceased legends.<br />
Nominees for Album of<br />
the Year, the most prestigious<br />
award, include Lamar’s<br />
experimental rap opus "To<br />
Pimp a Butterfly" and Swift’s<br />
pop blockbuster "1989."<br />
Other albums in contention<br />
are "Sound and Color"<br />
by acclaimed bluesy indie<br />
rockers Alabama Shakes, rising<br />
Canadian R&B star The<br />
Weeknd’s "Beauty Behind the<br />
Madness" and Chris<br />
Stapleton’s "Traveller," the<br />
first solo album by a long<br />
behind-the-scenes country<br />
songwriter which he released<br />
at age 37.<br />
Lamar is nominated in 11<br />
Grammys, the most for any<br />
artist in a single night except<br />
Michael Jackson in the era of<br />
"Thriller," the top-selling<br />
album of all time.<br />
journalist of “Express<br />
Tribune” Huma Chaudhry.<br />
In a condolence message,<br />
the Chief Minister prayed that<br />
may Allah Almighty rest the<br />
departed soul in eternal peace<br />
and grant courage and<br />
strength to the members of the<br />
bereaved family to bear the<br />
irreparable loss with fortitude.<br />
Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar<br />
favorites at Grammys<br />
Nisar reviews Islamabad law<br />
and order situation<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Interior Minister Chaudhry<br />
Nisar Ali Khan has said that<br />
police force should utilize all<br />
resources to reach out to<br />
killers and bring them to justice.<br />
Chairing a high-level meeting<br />
over law and order situation<br />
here, he was informed<br />
that concrete progress had<br />
been achieved in investigation<br />
into kidnapping of former<br />
Herat Governor, who would<br />
be got release soon.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Couples seen carrying heart shaped balloons at roadside in Jinnah Super Market.<br />
Federal Ombudsman directs departments to<br />
decide overseas Pakistanis complaints in <strong>15</strong> days<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Feb</strong> 14:<br />
Federal Ombudsman has<br />
directed all federal government<br />
departments and 116<br />
Foreign missions of<br />
Pakistan to decide overseas<br />
Pakistanis complaints within<br />
<strong>15</strong> days.<br />
Hafiz Ahsaan Ahmed<br />
Khokher Grievance<br />
Commissioner for overseas<br />
Pakistanis to Federal<br />
Ombudsman and Senior<br />
Adviser Law /Registrar and<br />
Commissioner for Overseas<br />
Pakistanis to Federal<br />
ombudsman (Wafaqi<br />
Mohtisab) of Pakistan said<br />
Sunday that all federal government<br />
departments and<br />
116 Foreign missions of<br />
Pakistan to decide overseas<br />
Pakistanis complaints in <strong>15</strong><br />
days under intimation to<br />
Federal Ombudsman secretariat<br />
of Pakistan.<br />
He said that presently<br />
81.1 Millions Pakistanis are<br />
living in 216 countries of<br />
world and sending billions<br />
of Dollars to Pakistan.<br />
According to him in the last<br />
year overseas Pakistanis<br />
have sent 18.45 Billions US<br />
Dollars to Pakistan and during<br />
the current year it has<br />
crossed 11 Billion US<br />
Dollars which is increased<br />
in 11% and 38% of our<br />
national economy therefore<br />
they must be respected in<br />
Foreign Missions and government<br />
departments in<br />
Pakistan.<br />
Ahmed Khokhar<br />
Islamabad airport one window<br />
facilitation desk along<br />
with representatives of federal<br />
government departments<br />
working at airport<br />
and said on this occasion<br />
that seven one window<br />
facilitation desks have been<br />
established for overseas<br />
Pakistanis and successfully<br />
functional round the clock at<br />
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi,<br />
Peshawar, Quetta , Sialkot<br />
and Multan airports.<br />
According to Grievance<br />
commissioner for overseas<br />
Pakistanis these one window<br />
facilitation desks are<br />
working for the resolution<br />
of Overseas Pakistanis<br />
problems and providing big<br />
relief against any act of maladministration<br />
which have<br />
never been before in the history<br />
of Pakistan to provide<br />
such a relief at these airports<br />
and all agencies have further<br />
been advised to resolve<br />
complaints in three days in<br />
all situation.<br />
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