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Metropolitan:<br />

Suspected<br />

facilitator of<br />

Safoora Goth<br />

massacre held<br />

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International:<br />

Russia will<br />

'fail to save'<br />

Syria's Assad:<br />

Saudi FM<br />

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Islamabad<br />

United beat<br />

Karachi Kings<br />

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Prayer Timings Karachi<br />

Fajr<br />

5:50am<br />

Sunrise<br />

7:07am<br />

Zohar<br />

12:46pm<br />

Asr<br />

4:01pm<br />

Maghrib<br />

6:26pm<br />

Isha<br />

7:43pm<br />

City Temperature<br />

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Isb 04 ο C 21 ο C<br />

Qta -3 ο C 09 ο C<br />

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GBP/USD 1.45<br />

EUR/USD 1.13<br />

USD/JPY 113.22<br />

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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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Monday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />

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 />

3<br />

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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Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi<br />

Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar<br />

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 />

Dear Squabs<br />

Send us your articles, stories, poetries, paintings, pictures<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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