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18 injured in 

attack on Masjid 

PESHAWAR, May 2: At 

least 18 people including 

three seminary students 

were injured in an attack on 

a mosque in the Thakal Bala 

area of Peshawar. 

Superintendent Police 

Cantonment Peshawar 

Kashif said that students, 

teachers and worshipers 

were having dinner at the 

Baitul Mukarram on the 

completion of seminary 

course (dars Quraan) when 

some unidentified assailants 

lobed hand grenades and 

opened fire on them. 

PM Nawaz for 

implementing Urdu 

as official language 

ISLAMABAD, May 2: 

Prime Minister Nawaz 

Sharif has said that urgent 

steps should be taken to 

introduce Urdu as official 

language as per the court 

directives. 

While talking to adviser 

to on National History and 

Literary Heritage Irfan 

Siddiqui, premier said that, 

“Effective steps should be 

taken for implementing 

Urdu as official language 

because it is a constitutional 

requirement. Solid planning 

should be worked out to 

pass on thoughts of Allama 

Iqbal to new generation”. 

Eight Afghans 

among 24 suspects 

held in Charsadda 

CHARSADDA, May 2: 

The Charsadda police have 

arrested 24 suspects including 

eight Afghan nationals 

and seized ammunitions 

and narcotics from them. 

The police carried out 

search operation in different 

areas of Charsadda and 

arrested 24 suspects. The 

police also seized a huge 

cache of ammunition and 

narcotics from their possession. 

The identity of suspects 

could not be ascertained 

immediately. The 

police have shifted them to 

an undisclosed location for 

further investigation. 


Opposition parties developed 

consensus over demanding 

Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz 

Sharif’s resignation in 

Panama leaks issue and have 

demanded that investigation 

in regards to the issue be completed 

within six to eight 

weeks, reported Monday. 

Sources indicated that a 

commission led by the Chief 

Justice (CJ) of the Supreme 

Court be formed along with 

acquiring services from a foreign 

audit firm to probe into 

the matter were other 

demands made by the opposition 

parties. 

Meanwhile, Pakistan 

Peoples Party (PPP) also 

formed Terms of References 

(TORs) in regards to the judicial 

commission that probes 

into the matter. PPP Chairman 

Bilawal Bhutto also gave 

green signal to demand resignation 

from the PM. 

A meeting was held under 

the leadership of Bilawal at 

KARACHI EDITION – Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Rajab 25, 1437 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

PANAMA PAPERS 

Opposition parties agree 

on PM's resignation 

Fate of Shakeel Afridi to be decided 

by Pakistani courts: Ch Nisar 


Interior Minister Ch. Nisar Ali 

Khan has said that the fate of 

Mr. Shakeel Afridi is going to 

be decided by the Pakistani 

courts and the Government of 

Pakistan and not by Mr. 

Donald Trump even if he 

becomes the President of 

United States. 

The Interior Minister was 

reacting to Mr. Donald 

Trump’s interview on Fox 

News. Mr. Shakeel Afridi is a 

Pakistani citizen and nobody 

else has the right to dictate to 

us about his future, commented 

the Interior Minister. Ch. 

Nisar Ali Khan said that it is 

not only about Shakeel Afridi 

but Mr. Trump’s perception 

and the comments about 

Pakistan in his interview are 

highly misplaced and unwarranted. 

Interior Minister said 

that contrary to Mr. Trump’s 

misconception, Pakistan is not 

a colony of the US ofAmerica. 

He should learn to treat sovereign 

countries with respect. 

Donald Trump also seems 

to be ignorant, historically, of 

the huge scarifies Pakistan and 

its people have made while 

standing with or supporting 

US policies over the years. 

The “peanuts” that US have 

given us in return should not 

be used to threaten or browbeat 

us into following Mr. 

Trump’s misguided vision of 

foreign policy. The Minister 

said that Pakistan is a country 

which has suffered much and 

the cost it had to pay in supporting 

US over the years has 

been mind-boggling. He said 

that Mr. Trump’s statement 

only serves to show not only 

his insensitivity but also his 

ignorance about Pakistan. 

COAS approves “comprehensive” 

plan for combing operations 

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Raheel Sharif presides over the Corps 

Commander Conference held at General Headquarters (GHQ). 

RAWALPINDI, May 2: 

Chief of the Army Staff 

General Raheel Sharif 

Monday approved a “comprehensive” 

plan for carrying 

out combing operations in 

North Waziristan to preempt 

potential sleeper cells and 

hideouts of terrorists. 

The approval was given at 

the Corps Commander 

Conference held today at 

General Headquarters (GHQ) 

in Rawalpindi. 

According to a statement 

issued by army’s media wing 

ISPR, General Raheel Sharif 

lauded security forces for the 

successful completion of 

operation in Shawal. 

“COAS while lauding the 

successful completion of 

Shawal operation paid rich 

tribute to the sacrifices of the 

troops of Army, Frontier 

Corps and Rangers who are 

valiantly fighting war against 

terrorism to make Pakistan a 

safer place,” it said. 

It said that the conference 

also approved a comprehensive 

plan for carrying out 

combing operations in order 

to pre-empt potential sleeper 

cells and hideouts of terrorists 

while simultaneously enhancing 

the reach of local and 

provincial law enforcement 

agencies. 

The forum was briefed in 

detail about internal and 

external security situation of 

the country. 

In addition, participants of 

the conference dwelt at length 

on operational preparedness, 

training and other professional 

matters. 

the Zardari House which was 

attended by important leaders 

of the party. The draft of the 

TORs made by PPP was presented 

during the meeting. 

Sources state that the 

TORs made by PPP state that 

the inquiry commission that 

probes into the matter should 

not be constituted under the 

1956 Act but it should be 

made through a presidential 

ordinance and must be given 

protection by the Parliament. 

Furthermore, it has been stated 

that the inquiry committee 

needs to start its investigation 

from the family of the 

Prime Minister first and 

needs to set a timeframe for 

its investigation. 

According to sources, PPP 

Chairman approved the TORs 

and directed the party leaders 

to develop consensus with 

other parties of the opposition 

in regards to them and also 

gave green signal to the 

demand of the PM’s resignation 

made by the other parties. 

Case filed against harassers of PTI’s women workers 

PML-N criticise PTI over mismanagement with women during Lahore rally 

LAHORE, May 2: A case has 

been filed in the Civil Lines 

Police Station against the mismanagement 

carried out with 

women who participated in 

the rally of Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf 

(PTI) at Charing Cross 

in Lahore on Sunday. 

Punjab Law Minister Rana 

Sanaullah stated that those 

involved in the incident will 

soon be apprehended with the 

help of a video of the sad happening. 

While addressing a press 

conference in Islamabad on 

Monday, PML-N leaders 

Anusha Rahman, Maiza 

Hameed and Marriyum 

Aurangzeb lambasted PTI 

Chairman Imran Khan. State 

Minister Anusha Rahman stated 

that women belonging to 

all parties are participating in 

the political process, adding 

that Imran Khan introduced 

the ‘dance’ culture in politics. 

“Women were mistreated in 

PTI’s rally held yesterday. If 

Imran Khan cannot provide 

protection to them (women), 

then he should not invite them 

to rallies”, she stated. 

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for IT and Telecom, Anusha 

Rehman addresses to media persons during press conference. 

Talal Chaudhry 

lambastes Imran 

and Bilawal 


PML-N Talal Chaudhry has 

said that PTI chief Imran 

Khan should disclose the 

condition on which he has 

befriended PPP, reported on 

Monday. 

PML-N’s MNA Chaudhry 

and Maryam Aurangzeb held 

a joint press conference in the 

federal capital and lambasted 

PTI chief among other leaders 

of opposition parties. 

He said that Khan 

addressed a few thousand 

people at Charing Cross and 

did not answer ruling party’s 

questions. 

Chaudhry asked why 

PTI’s secretary general 

Jahangir Tareen got his debts 

written-off and Aleem Khan 

concealed his assets. 

He said that Khan was 

supposed to answer the 

aforementioned questions 

posed by the ruling party. He 

also said that people have 

not forgotten what Khan 

used to say about Zardari 

and how he had criticised 

him in the past. 

The member of National 

Assembly said that PTI 

leader celebrated ‘youm-eameer’ 

on the day that signifies 

‘youm-e-mazdoor’. He 

was referring to his rally on 

May 1 in Lahore. PTI 

mocked the labourers with 

their show of extravagance 

and opulence at Charing 

Cross last night, he added. 

He alleged Khan of leaving 

no stone unturned to save his 

aides Tareen and others from 

accountability. 

Chaudhry criticised Imran 

Khan for developing ties 

with PML-Q leaders Pervez 

Elahi and Shujaat Hussain 

whom he used to refer to as 

‘Punjab’s biggest dacoits’. 

Anousha said that everyone 

is saddened over the 

behaviour carried out with the 

daughters of the country, 

adding that the females of 

Pakistan should not be used as 

showpieces. She said that 

Imran should be ashamed that 

while the female participants 

of his rally were being subjected 

to such a bad behaviour, he 

left rally through tVery 

Important Personalities (VIP) 

gate. “Imran Khan needs to 

wake up from his sleep. Even 

enemies do not get to face 

such behaviour which the 

women in his rally have to 

face”, she stated. 

PM RESONDS ON OPPOSITION’ DEMAND 

‘Opponents should wait till 

2018’: PM Nawaz 

PM inaugurates 2 gas distribution projects in Balochistan 

QUETTA: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif offers Dua after inaugurating various 

projects at Governor House. 

QUETTA, May 2: Prime 

Minister Nawaz Sharif 

Monday arrived in Quetta 

and inaugurated several 

development projects, promising 

to bring economic stability 

in Balochistan. 

“Political stability is vital 

for progress, so investment is 

impossible in atmosphere of 

protest and anarchy,” the PM 

said, referring to opposition’s 

protest rallies. 

Nawaz Sharif is under 

tremendous pressure from 

opposition to step down 

since his family members 

were named in the mass leak 

of offshore account data 

from the Panama firm 

Mossack Fonseca. 

To probe the Panama 

Papers, the PM has 

announced formation of 

judicial commission under 

Chief Justice of Pakistan, but 

the opposition is not satisfied 

with terms of references 

(TORs) for the commission. 

Nawaz Sharif said the 

commission would investigate 

all allegations to make 

the situation clear. 

“I advise my opponents to 

wait till 2018, and even 

beyond it,” the PM said, 

claiming that his government 

has curbed financial and 

energy crisis. 

PM inaugurated and performed 

the ground breaking 

of two important natural gas 

distribution projects in 

Balochistan. The plaque 

unveiling ceremony held at 

the Governor House, Quetta 

was marked by the inauguration 

of 16" dia., 40-km 

Quetta to Mastung gas 

pipeline and ground breaking 

of a 55-km pipeline for 

supplying gas to Inayatullah 

Karez district Qilla 

Abdullah. Khalid Rahman, 

MD, SSGC was also present 

on the occasion. Also on the 

occasion to witness the ceremony 

were Governor 

Balochistan Muhammad 

Khan Achakzai, Chief 

Minister Nawab Sanaullah 

Khan Zehri, Minister of 

State for Petroleum and 

Natural Resources Jam 

Kamal Khan and other senior 

government officials. 

MD, SSGC briefed the 

Prime Minister on the salient 

features of each of the project. 

Work on the augmentation 

of Rs. 840 million 

Quetta-Mastung-Kalat gas 

pipeline began in June last 

year and was completed in 

two phases by Oct 2015. 

RAW introduces new setup in South Africa 

KARACHI, May 2: Souces on Monday indicated that Indian intelligence agency 

Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has introduced a new setup in South Africa. In this 

regards, new responsibilities have been given to RAW operative Anees-ur-Rehman in 

order to create unrest in Pakistan. 

According to security sources, law enforcement agencies have obtained vital information 

regarding Anees-ur-Rehman who has been trained in India. The RAW agent has met 

various key figures in Canada in regards to his new responsibilities and has also formed 

new teams in order to carry out acts of terrorism in Karachi. After the new strategy adopted 

by RAW was unearthed, law enforcement agencies have traced the meetings conducted 

by Anees-ur-Rehman in India and Canada. Sources state that Anees has been given the 

task to murder various significant figures in the country. 

Shahbaz responsible 

for Layyah deaths: 

Pervez Ilhai 

LAHORE May 2: Pakistan 

Muslim League senior central 

leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi 

hasheld Punjab Chief 

Minister Shahbaz Sharif 

responsible for the food poisoning 

deaths in Layyah. 

He was talking to media 

here on Monday. He said that 

if 200-bed hospital in Layyah 

and trauma centre in Fatehpur, 

established by our government 

were made functional by 

Chief Minister Shehbaz 

Sharif, precious lives could 

have been saved. He said the 

trauma centre was completed 

at a cost of Rs 18 crore for four 

districts of South Punjab 

including Layyah under our 

govt's Trauma Centre Hospital 

Scheme. 

Elahi said under this 

scheme four ambulances were 

also to be provided to the centre 

so that lives of the effected 

persons of the accidents could 

be saved but Shahbaz Sharif 

stopped more work on it. He 

said gift of 200 beds medical 

centre given by our government 

keeping in view the deprivations 

of people of Layyah 

and adjoining areas was not 

made functional by the present 

government only because it 

was established by us. 

Temperature on the 

rise in different cities 

LAHORE: A boy trying to cool himself off during extremely 

hot weather in the provinciai capital. 

LAHORE, May 2: 

Temperature is on the rise in 

different cities with Okara 

topping the heat with 40 

degrees Celsius while Lahore 

stands at 44°C, reported on 

Monday. 

According to Pakistan 

Meteorological Department 

(PMD), dry and hot weather 

will maintain its course in different 

cities in the coming 

days. Temperature is likely to 

hit 47°C in Sindh’s Dadu and 

Nawabshah. However, weather 

in Karachi will remain dry 

and hot in coming 24 hours. 

Karachi temperature will 

remain between 36°C to 38°C 

according to the department 

concerned. 

Sukkur, Jacobabad and 

Larkana will have maximum 

temperature of 44°C–45°C. 

Hyderabad’s mercury will rise 

up to 44°C while that in Badin 

and Mirpur Khas to 43°C. 

3 die of heatwave 

in Sahiwal 

SAHIWAL, May 2: At 

least three persons died 

and nine fainted due to 

severe heatwave in 

Sahiwal on Monday. 

The deceased were 

identified as Muhammad 

Sharif, 70, a resident of 

Chak 176-9, Maqsood 

Ahmed, 70, a resident of 

Chak 148-9 and Samina, 

30, a resident of 112-9. 

On the other hand, the 

ice dealers have increased 

prices of ice amid sweltering 

weather. 

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Pakistan needs to restore academic freedom 

for productive environment: Rabbani 

KARACHI, May 2: 

Chairman Senate Mian Raza 

Rabbani has said that Pakistan 

needs to restore academic 

freedom to its colleges and 

universities so that students 

can enjoy productive environment 

which is must for confidence. 

He made these remarks 

while speaking as Chief guest 

at the inaugural session of a 

three-day workshop of Sindh- 

Hainan universities forum 

under China-Pakistan partnership 

programme by 

Madrassatul Islam University, 

Karachi on Monday. He said 

that if Pakistani students are 

given conducive environment 

for reaching their potential 

they can help Pakistan in 

becoming the leading academic 

nation of the world. 

Mian Raza Rabbani said 

KARACHI: Chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani addressing at the inaugural session of 

Sindh Hainan Universities forum under China Pakistan partnership organized by Sindh 

Madressatul Islam University. 

that the deep relationship 

between Pakistan and China 

go back to the time when 

Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali 

Bhutto, Chairman Mao Zi 

Tung and Chinese Premier 

Chu En Lai sat together and 

built this relationship based 

on principles of expansionism 

to strengthen both countries 

economically and in defense 

of its people and resources. 

He further said that inAsia, 

we share a common experience, 

common culture and 

Anti-polio campaign begins in 71 UCs of Karachi 

KARACHI, May 2: Antipolio 

drive has commenced 

in various Union Councils 

(UCs) of Karachi here on 

Monday which will continue 

till 10th May 2016. 

More than 2, 96,000 

children between four 

months to two years age 

would be administrated 

vaccine through 

Inactivated Polio Vaccine 

(IPV). 

The polio teams will 

Korangi, 

Liaquatabad, 

administrate vaccine Karachi, 

through IPV method to 

children of 71 UCs of city 

including Shah-Faisal, 

M Hashim Khan and Ahmad Bin Abdur Rahman will 

represent Pakistan at ISEF 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona 

KARACHI: Ahmad Bin Abdur Rahman and Muhammad 

Hashim Khan. 

KARACHI, Mar 2: The 

International Science and 

Engineering Fair (ISEF), the 

world's largest international 

pre-college science fair, provides 

an annual forum for 

more than 1,800 high school 

students from around the globe 

to compete for over US$ 5 million 

in awards and scholarships. 

Intel Pakistan concluded 

its National Science 

Competition by announcing 8 

winners in January this year 

who will represent Pakistan at 

the ISEF to be held in Phoenix, 

Arizona in May. 

Muhammad Hashim Khan 

and Ahmad Bin Abdur 

Rahman will represent 

Pakistan at ISEF 2016 in 

Phoenix, Arizona. Their project 

title is Solar Powered 

Hydrogen Vehicle. 21st century 

has come up with certain 

challenges that humanity has 

to confront with. Amongst 

these, fast depleting nonrenewable 

energy resources, 

global warming and air pollution 

are foremost. Excessive 

use of fossil fuel reserves as a 

driving fuel in vehicles along 

with the emission of hazardous 

gases affecting greenhouse is 

one of the major contributor. 

NICVD increases medical service charges 

KARACHI, May 2: The administration of the 

National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases 

(NICVD) has increased medical service 

charges in healthcare, putting extra burden on 

visiting patients of heart diseases, it was learned 

on Monday. 

An official of NICVD told PPI that management 

of institution has increased the charges for 

its different services. The difference or increase 

will go to operator (doctor), who already are 

paid salaries by the government. The rise in 

medical service charges would not go to the 

institution. He said administration has raised 

charges of open heart surgery from Rs50,000 to 

Rs60,000,closed heart surgery from Rs10,000 

to Rs25,000, valve surgery (One Valve) 

Rs100,000 to Rs110,000, double valve surgery 

from Rs150,000 to Rs160,000,Angiography 

from Rs8000 to Rs10,000 and Primary PCI 

(BMS) to Rs80,000. 

Gadap, 

North 

Nazimabad, 

Gulberg, Bin Qasim, 

Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Jamshed 

Quarters and Saddar Town. 

PMA concerns 

over making PMDC 

toothless body 

KARACHI, May 2: Central 

Council of Pakistan Medical 

Association (Centre) took 

serious notice of what it called 

unethical conspiracy to make 

Pakistan Medical & Dental 

Council (PMDC) an incompetent 

body. 

A meeting of Central 

Council of PMA Centre was 

held on 30th April 2016 at 

MPAHostel Quetta. In a unanimously 

passed resolution this 

meeting of PMA Centre takes 

a serious notice of the unethical 

and unlawful bids to make 

PMDC an incompetent body. 

PMA always wanted to see 

the regulatory body as an 

autonomous, independent and 

transparent body. PMA 

blamed all the actors who 

played their role to make 

PMDC a controversial body 

and creating confusion on its 

restructuring. 

PMA demanded an immediate 

action to revive PMDC 

as a strong regulatory body. It 

was also decided that the PMA 

will organize a big seminar in 

Islamabad in the month of 

May inviting all the stakeholders, 

all branches of PMA and 

the Civil Society to deliberate 

on the issue. 

In another resolution, PMA 

condemned the culture of 

strike, violence and agitation 

by the doctors for acceptance 

of their demands. 

common history even in presence 

of diversity. Praising the 

concept of this workshop 

among universities of Sindh 

and Chinese province Hainan, 

Chairman Senate said that this 

initiative of looking towards 

universities of Asia rather 

than following the old practice 

of taking assistance from 

West deserves felicitation. 

Mian Raza Rabbani said 

that autonomy to universities 

is very important and also 

stressed on developing linkages 

between academia and 

other state institutions. He 

also referred to a number of 

initiatives undertaken by 

Senate to develop such linkages 

through MOUs between 

Senate and eight federal universities, 

parliamentary visits 

and clerks of the Parliament 

programme. 

JI demands 

rights for Bengali 

speaking Pakistanis 

KARACHI, May 2: Amir of 

Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Sirajul 

Haq has said that Government 

of Pakistan (GoP) should provide 

rights of citizenship to the 

people of former East-Pakistan 

living in Pakistan. 

He said that making them 

deprived of basic human rights 

is injustice. He expressed these 

views in a meeting with a delegation 

of Urdu-Bengali speaking 

Pakistanis in Idara Noor-e- 

Haq Karachi on Monday. 

JI amir further said that they 

are protector of ideology of 

Pakistan. He said that JI will 

raise their issue in the Senate 

and also will discuss it with 

Federal Interior Minister. 

JI Karachi chief Hafiz 

Naeemur Rehman along with 

other office-bearers of JI 

Karachi and officials of 

Pakistan Muslim Alliance 

(PMA) were present during the 

meeting. 

IGP orders strict security 

for Shab-e-Meraj 

KARACHI, May 2: Sindh 

Inspector General of 

Police AD Khawaja has 

directed the police officials 

to ensure alert security on 

the occasion of Shab-e- 

Meraj throughout the 

province. 

KARACHI, May 2: After 

completing his term as Consul 

General of Switzerland, Mr. 

Emil Wyss along with his wife 

is leaving Karachi to assume his 

new responsibilities as Consul 

General in Los Angeles. Some 

of the Consulate General’s 

important projects during his 

He instructed the DIGs 

to ensure effective security 

measures on district level 

especially around mosques, 

open grounds, seminaries, 

and congregations. 

Moreover, random snap 

checking and enhanced 

tenure include: 1) furthering 

business to business contact 

through 100 days and nights 

“ P a k i s t a n - S w i t z e r l a n d 

Friendship Exhibition” at the 

Karachi International Airport - 

the first of its kind to be held in 

the country, 2)participation in 

over 100 social welfare events, 

patrolling in sensitive 

areas of the metropolis 

were also ordered. He also 

directed the physical 

search system should be 

ensured around the 

mosques with cooperation 

of their administration. 

Goodbye Karachi: Swiss Consul General 

KARACHI, May 2: World 

press freedom day would be 

observed today (Tuesday). It 

is observed every year on 

May 3 to celebrate the fundamental 

principles of press 

freedom. 

To evaluate press freedom 

around the world, to 

defend the media from 

attacks on their independence 

and to pay tribute to 

journalists who have lost 

their lives in the exercise of 

their profession. Over 100 

national celebrations take 

place each year to commemorate 

this day. 

UNESCO leads the 

worldwide celebration by 

identifying the global thematic 

and organizing the 

main event indifferent parts 

of world every year. The 

international day was proclaimed 

by the UN General 

and 3) promotion of traditional 

Pakistani truck art. In these 

two years, through its official 

Facebook 

page 

(/SwissConsulateKarachi), 

the Consulate General from 

7,000 followers reached to 

over 140,000 from all around 

the world. 

Press freedom day to be observed today 

Assembly in 1993 following 

a recommendation adopted 

at the 26thSession of 

UNESCO's general conference 

in 1991. 

In 2016, World Press 

Freedom Day coincides with 

three important milestones 

the 250th anniversary of the 

world's first freedom of 

information law, covering 

both modern-day Sweden 

and Finland. 

Demand to equalize rates of fresh and packed milk 

KARACHI, May 2: The government 

is supporting tetrapack 

industry and wants to 

damage business of dairy 

farmers, said Dairy and Cattle 

Farmers Association Karachi 

chapter President Haji 

Salahudeen addressing a 

press conference at the 

Karachi Press Club on 

Monday. 

He said the rate of fresh 

milk in market set by the government 

is Rs80 per liter, 

whereas the rate of every liter 

of tetra milk is Rs135, which 

is injustice. The government 

has not taken a signal step to 

solve the problems being 

faced by the livestock and 

KARACHI: President All Dairy Farmers Action Committee Haji Sallah addressing a press 

conference at Karachi Press Club. 

dairy sector for decades, he 

regretted. 

“Millions of people are 

engaged in livestock and 

dairy businesses, which if 

developed on scientific lines, 

has a potential to earn a lot of 

foreign exchange for the 

country,” he said, adding 

unfortunately, at present, the 

farmers are striving for their 

very survival. 

KARACHI: President, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi inspecting students stalls 

at 1st Projects Exhibition & Competition, Junior spark-2016 held at University campus. 

COURTS 

Sister's murderer 

sent on physical 

remand 

KARACHI, May 2: An Anti-Terrorism 

Court (ATC) on Monday handed a youngman, 

Hayat, who had stabbed his sister to 

death for honour, to police on 10-day physical 

remand. 

Hayat stabbed to death his 17-year old 

sister, Sumera, in their house Karachi's 

Orangi town area after allegedly found her 

talking to a boy. 

Mominabad police produced the accused 

before the administrative judge of ATC and 

requested the remand the accused in its custody 

as he is required for interrogation. 

While accepting police's request, the court 

handed over the accused to them remand for 

10 days. 

In the video made after the incidents, it 

can be seen that the girl was lying at her 

door step trembling with pain and Hayat is 

also sitting beside her. 

Earlier, the accused was presented 

before the judicial magistrate but after 

inclusion of Anti-Terrorism Act in the FIR, 

he is now produced in ATC. 

The case was registered at Mominabad 

police station under the clause of murder 

and now Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act, 

1997 has also been added in the FIR. 

Anti-state activities: RAW agents' 

physical remand extended: An Anti- 

Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday extended 

the physical remand of two alleged 

agents of Indian spy agency, Research 

Analysis Wing (RAW), over their alleged 

involvement in anti-state activities. 

The Counter Terrorism Department 

(CTD) had arrested the suspects, Saddam 

Labors demands improving 

working conditions in factories 

KARACHI, May 2:Abig rally 

of workers staged here on the 

occasion of the International 

Workers’ Day here Sunday 

evening demanded doling out 

justice to labors, observing that 

the working condition in many 

factories and workplaces in 

Hussain and Muhammad Bachal over their 

alleged links with RAW. 

The Investigation Officer requested the 

court to extend the physical remand of the 

accused in CTD's custody as they are further 

required for interrogation. While 

accepting police's 

request, the court 

extended the suspects' 

remand for seven more 

days. 

Earlier, they were in CTD's custody as 

well from 18th April 2016. 

According to CTD, the suspects, Saddam 

and Bachal, working as fishermen in Pakistan, 

were arrested from Thatta. They have confessed 

that they had been persuaded by another 

Pakistani fisherman to work for RAW in 

return to get permission for fishing in Indian 

Water. “Saddam and Bachal had also met 

RAW's operatives and they were provided a 

camera with a task to take photos of sensitive 

installations of Pakistan Navy and Coast 

Guards in Karachi and Thatta,” CTD added. 

Pakistan are even worse than 

the factories of the nineteenth 

century. 

According to details, on the 

occasion of the Labor Day, 

National Trade Union 

Federation (NTUF) and 

Home-based Women Workers 

Federation (HBWWF) staged 

a big rally in Karachi that 

marched from the Empress 

Market to the Karachi Press 

Club (KPC). It was led by 

NTUF President Muhammad 

Rafiq Baloch and HBWWF 

general secretary Zahra Khan. 

FCS director grilled for 90 days on 

terror charges: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh on 

Monday informed Anti-Terrorism Court 

(ATC) about the preventive detention of 

Fisherman Cooperative Society's (FCS) 

director, Javaid Younis for questioning. 

The Rangers along with its counsel produced 

the suspect before the administrative 

judge of ATC amid tight security. 

The paramilitary the court that they have 

credible information about suspects' 

involvement in target killing, extortion and 

offences that comes within the ambit of 

Anti-Terrorism Act. 

According to the Rangers, the suspect 

was arrested within the limits of Mauripur 

police station. 

The court directed the provincial authorities 

to form a joint investigation team within 

15 days for interrogating the suspect. 

The Rangers will keep the suspect for 

the period of 90 days considering legal 

provision 11 EEEEE (1) of Anti-Terrorism 

Act, 1997. 

KARACHI: Administrator DMC East, Rehmatullah Shaikh 

called on delegation of Johar Hill Road Association. 

KARACHI: Administrator DMC West, Ashfaq Ahmed Mallah 

inspecting cleanliness work at Site zone. 

KARACHI: MNA, Sajid Ahmed along with Administrator DMC 

Malir, Tariq Hussain Mughal and Local PPP Leader, Noman 

Abdullah visiting Khursheed Baigam English School.

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Angry locals against prolonged 

loadshedding in Peshawar 

PESHAWAR, May 2: Enraged 

locals on Monday staged protest 

against prolonged electricity loadshedding 

in Peshawar. 

According to details, the villagers 

took to the streets and 

blocked Jamil Chowk by burning 

tyres. The protesters chanted slogans 

against Water and Power 

Development Authority (Wapda) 

administration. 

They said that power outage is 

on peak as summer season has 

arrived. They also told the media 

that they are witnessing power only 

for four hours. 

The district representative 

Arbab Asim also reached the spot 

and negotiated with the locals but 

the demonstrators refused to 

reopen the road. 

ISLAMABAD, May 2: The 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 

Assembly deferred two bills 

appearing on the list of business 

on Monday during second 

sitting of its 17th session, 

says Free and Fair 

Election Network (FAFEN). 

The sitting started 11 minutes 

late with 35 legislators 

(28%) present at the start and 

PESHAWAR: Residents of Hazar Khawani burn tyres and blocked road as they are protesting against prolong electricity 

load shedding during demonstration at Ring road. 

KP Assembly defers two bills for further consideration 

KHAIRPUR, May 2: “One 

day workshop on Statistical 

Packages for Social Sciences 

was organized in the computer 

lab in Department of Business 

Administration, Shah Abdul 

Latif University, Khairpur for 

research scholars. Dr 

Dastageer Assistant Professor 

Air University Islamabad was 

the speaker of a day. 

During sessions, he elaborated 

the interface of SPSS 

software on screen by involving 

all participants through 

concept of ``learning by 

doing``. Dr Dastageer 

55 (44%) at the time of 

adjournment. The Leader of 

the House and the 

Opposition Leader attended 

the entire sitting. 

The 

Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa Assembly met 

for 91 minutes. The sitting 

started at 1511 hours against 

the scheduled time of 1500 

hours. The Speaker presided 

involved participants by doing 

different test for quantitative 

data analysis by SPSS software 

and getting output on 

screens. Participants also 

learned how to interpret the 

results. 

At the end of session Dr 

Iram Rani Chairperson 

Department Of Business 

Administration said that 

MS/M.PHIL & PhD programs 

are the excellent initiative of 

HEC to promote the research 

environment in the universities 

but to make it successful, 

there is a need of to arrange 

over the entire sitting while 

the Deputy Speaker was also 

present. 

The Chief Minister and 

the Leader of the Opposition 

attended the entire sitting. 

35 lawmakers (28%) were 

present at the outset while 55 

(44%) at the adjournment of 

the sitting. The parliamentary 

leaders of all political 

SALU: Workshop on SPSS 

KHAIRPUR: A Group Photo of participants of One-Day Workshop on SPSS with Dr. 

Dastageer, Resource Person, Prof. Dr. Iran Rani, Chairperson and faculty members of 

Department of Business Administration, Shah Abdul Latif University. 

the workshop on different 

software and tools & techniques 

for data analysis (qualitative 

& quantitative) & for 

publications in ISI Thomas 

Reuters Journals is worthwhile. 

She lauded the efforts of 

Prof Dr Parveen Shah, whose 

supporting, encouraging 

hands makes all activities possible. 

She herself is also eager 

to organize those activities for 

teaching as well as in research 

domain that increase the 

potential of faculty and students 

too. 

NSUSC BoD recommends name for MD 

SUKKUR: Chairman NSUSC, Haji Anwar Mehar presiding 

meeting of Board of Directors. 

SUKKUR, May 2: Chairman 

NSUSC, Haji Anwar Mehar 

presiding meeting of Board 

of Directors at NSUSC head 

office. Acting Managing 

Director, Engr Syed 

Mehmood Abbas Shah, 

Deputy Finance Secretary, 

Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Project 

Director Scrap, Mohammad 

Ali Baloch, Barrister Arsalan 

Islam Shaikh, Khawaja 

Jahanzeb, Jansar Ali Shah 

and all 5 Region TMOs and 

CMOs. 

parties in the House were 

present. The Chair deferred 

the two bills for further consideration 

on it which included 

the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 

Censorship of Motion 

Pictures (Films, CDs, 

Videos, Stage Dramas and 

Shows) Bill, 2016 and the 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health 

Foundation Bill, 2016 

Sindh assembly 

takes up entire 

agenda 


provincial assembly of 

Sindh on Monday took up 

all agenda items appearing 

on `Orders of the Day’ during 

16th sitting of its ongoing 

24th session, says Free 

and Fair Election Network 

(FAFEN). 

According to press 

release, the Sindh 

Assembly met for two hour 

and 55 minutes. The sitting 

started at 1113 hours 

against the scheduled time 

of 1000 hours. 

The Speaker presided 

over the entire sitting. The 

Chief Minister and the 

Deputy Speaker were 

absent. The Opposition 

Leader attended the sitting 

for an hour and 31 minutes. 

23 lawmakers (14%) 

were present at the start 

and 47 (29%) at the end of 

the sitting. The 

Parliamentary Leaders of 

PPPP, MQM, PML-F, 

PML-N and PTI were present. 

The Speaker announced 

that the Governor of Sindh 

had granted his assent to 

the Sindh Local 

Government (Second 

Amendment) Bill, 2016 

and the Sindh Local 

Government (Fourth 

Amendment) Bill, 2016. 

The House granted extension 

in presentation time of 

four standing committee 

reports on legislative bills 

till next session. 

The government orally 

responded to five starred 

questions appearing on the 

agenda. In addition, lawmakers 

asked 20 supplementary 

questions. 

5 hurt as blast occurred 

during LPG refilling 

near Fateh Jang 

FATEH JANG, May 2: As 

many as five people were 

injured, including a kid, 

when a blast occurred at an 

LPG decanting outlet at 

Burj, a remote village near 

Fateh Jang. 

The blast was so powerful 

that was heard miles 

away, while fire turned shop 

into ashes. According to 

officials, the owner of shop 

had been illegally running 

the LPG decanting outlet. 

The blast occurred in the 

shop where a small cylinder 

was being refilled. 

This caused a chain reaction 

as two big cylinders 

lying nearby also exploded 

simultaneously. 

The blast caused panic 

among the shopkeepers and 

residents of the area. 

It took Rescue 1122 firefighters 

hours to extinguish 

the blaze and rescue the 

nearby buildings. 

The injured who could be 

immediately 

include Zainul Abideen, 

Mumtaz, Wasif, Ali Raza 

and two years old Fatima. 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, May 2: 

There have been such journalists 

in many countries 

who never care for their 

lives and offer resistance 

for freedom of information. 

Pakistan declared dangerous 

for journalists as such 

57 journalists were killed 

here since 1992.List contains 

Zaman Mahsood, 

Irshad jatoi, Shan Dahar, 

Mukaram Khan Atif,Saleem 

Shahzad,Abdul Haq 

Baloch, 

Aslam 

Khattak,Javed Rind, Allah 

Noor, Shahid Soomro, 

Abdul Haq Baloch, 

Aurangzeb Tunio, and Lala 

Hameed Baloch. This mass 

violence against journalists 

in Pakistan shows that our 

country is dangerous for 

journalists. 

Apart from killings sporadic 

attacks are reported on 

journalists in almost every 

city of Pakistan. Recent 

attack on media houses as 

well press clubs after hanging 

of Mumtaz Qadri a 

member of a religious party 

which professes bigotry. 

Violence was reported in 

Lahore, Karachi, 

Hyderabad and some other 

cities as the protesters 

attacked offices of Aaj TV, 

attacked a DSNG of 

Express News and ransacked 

the Hyderabad Press 

Club, besides manhandling 

policemen, journalists and 

cameramen after execution 

of Mumtaz Qadri. The protesters 

laid siege to the 

Hyderabad Press Club for 

around two hours while 

demonstrating against the 

hanging of Qadri, who shot 

dead Punjab governor 

Salmaan Taseer five years 

ago. Around a dozen media 

workers were beaten up and 

several others sustained 

injuries when they tried to 

Female student allegedly 

gunned down in Faisalabad 

FAISALABAD, May 2: A 

female student was allegedly 

gunned down by her classmates 

in Rachna Town area of 

Faisalabad over her refusal for 

illicit relations. 

The police said Shahzaib, 

a resident of Rachna Town, 

SRINAGAR, May 2: In 

occupied Kashmir, the All 

Parties Hurriyet Conference 

(APHC) has condemned the 

restrictions imposed by the 

authorities on Mirwaiz 

Umar Farooq to attend 

funeral of noted Kashmiri 

leader Amanullah Khan and 

participate in the Seerat conference 

in Srinagar. 

According to Kashmir 

Media Service, APHC 

spokesman in a statement 

issued in Srinagar also 

denounced the authorities 

for placing the senior 

Hurriyet leader under house 

arrest. 

The spokesman said that 

the PDP-BJP coalition 

regime had turned the whole 

territory into a big jail. “The 

restrictions on the funeral 

prayers and the Seerat 

Conference are the worst 

kinds of state terrorism and 

direct interference into the 

religious affairs. This is 

intolerable,” he said. 

The spokesman said that 

Kashmir was directly ruled 

by RSS and even the orders 

for small administrative 

allegedly teased and harassed 

his 10th grade classmate, 

Arfa, a resident of the same 

locality. The police said he 

allegedly forced her for illicit 

relations and after she refused, 

he broke into her house and 

opened fire on her. Two bullets 

hit her in the head and she 

died on the spot while the 

assailant fled the scene. The 

body shifted was to District 

Headquarters Hospital for 

medico-legal formalities. The 

police have registered a case 

and started investigation. 

APHC condemns house arrest of Mirwaiz in IOK 

issues come from Nagpur. 

“The rights of the people are 

already snatched and the 

political activities stand 

banned. Now, the Sangh 

Parivar has started a new 

campaign against the religious 

matters of Muslims of 

the territory,” he said. 

He said that such state 

terrorism had failed to suppress 

the freedom sentiments 

of Kashmiri people. 

“This will only increase the 

political uncertainty and 

instability in Jammu & 

Kashmir,” he added. 

DSP among 7 injured in firing on 

JSQM rally in Noushehro Feroz 

NOSHEHRO FEROZ, May 

2: As man as seven people 

including Deputy 

identified Superintendent of Police were 

in injured when gunmen open 

firing on the rally of Jeay 

Sindh Qaumi Mahaz(JSQM) 

escape from the building. 

Two reporters and a cameraman 

suffered fractures 

when they jumped from the 

first floor of the press club 

to save their lives. Seven 

more media professionals 

were taken to the hospital. 

The vandals also burnt the 

reception and notice boards 

and broke all flower pots, 

mirrors and several glass 

doors inside the press club. 

“They kept hurling abuse at 

journalists challenging 

them to come out of hiding..The 

protest outside the 

club was organised by the 

Sunni Tehreek and Jamiat 

Ulema-e-Pakistan (Owais 

Noorani group). Two police 

mobiles were parked outside 

the club for security 

but the policemen were also 

beaten up. 

The assailants torched 

the reception table with 

precious documents and 

papers in its drawers. 

They also forced entry in 

press club building and 

ransacked everything that 

came in their way including 

furniture, record etc. 

including furniture and 

fixtures in common room 

and auditorium. They also 

burnt and stole away hundreds 

of books in library 

of HPC. 

The journalists 

informed SSP Hyderabad 

and DSP Cantt on telephone 

but they did not 

turn to save journalists 

and press club. Seeing no 

other option many jumped 

walls over Radio Pakistan 

premises to save lives . 

The journalists who 

were injured in attack 

included and were hospitalized 

were Fahim Babar, 

Niaz Vighio, Imtiaz 

Khuhawar, Aijaz Leghari, 

Photographer Umair 

Tajput, Farhan and 

Cameraman Shahid. 

Assistant Manager of HPC 

Qasim was also injured 

brutally by mob who 

broke the gate which was 

locked from inside by 

Qasim. The injured journalists 

were lying helpless 

at premises of adjacent 

Radio Pakistan building. 

Police and ambulances 

were informed about their 

critical condition but none 

dared to approach them as 

the religious parties violent 

blocked both press 

club and radio buildings. 

However police of 

Hyderabad failed to prove 

as protectors of citizens. 

More than 10 vehicles 

in Noushehro Feroz. 

According to the reports, 

unknown motorcyclists open 

firing on the protesting rally of 

JASQM in Noushehro Feroz 

district as a result at least 

seven persons including mediator 

DSP were were injured. 

The injures were shifted to the 

civil hospital. Heavy police 

contingent patrolling in the 

area and around the national 

highway amid tension prevailed 

in the area. 

Hyderabad heroes of information freedom 

standing outside press 

club in parking areas 

including news van of 

Express TV Channel were 

also torched and damaged. 

In Lahore, In Karachi, 

protesters attacked the Aaj 

TV head office near Guru 

Mandir, drawing widespread 

criticism from 

journalists and the government 

as well. The All- 

Pakistan Newspapers 

Society condemned the 

attacks, terming the ransacking 

of the offices of 

Aaj TV, Business 

Recorder, Express, Neo 

TV, Daily Naee Baat, 

AbTak and other media 

outlets an affront against 

the freedom of press. 

Hyderabad union of 

journalists (Dastoor) 

declares journalists 

injured in attack on 

Hyderabad press club on 

4 march 2016 as 

Hyderabad heroes of freedom 

of information: they 

are: 1.Niaz Vightio Sindhi 

Daily Mehran, 2.Fahim 

Babar Sindh TV channel 

3.Imtiaz Khuhawar, 4. 

Aijaz Leghari Siindhi 

Daily Ibrat, 5.Umair 

Rajput Photographer, 6. 

Farhan Photograpger, 7. 

Shahid Cameraman.

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National 

Real estate brokers protest against 

corrupt CDA officials, several detained 

KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan. 

Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989 

messengerdaily@yahoo.com, editor@dailymessenger.com.pk 

Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi 

Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar 

ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

Land is encroached by, and calls for punishment 

against, some of the biggest land lords in Pakistan. 

Others are small frys, many directly or indirectly 

under their cover. Until these corrupt and criminals are punished, 

the small and big land owners will have a free hand to 

grab more land. This keeps people and their entire families 

enslaved, along with bonded labor for more inhuman as well 

as dehumanizing activities. These criminal activities have not 

stopped. But these activities can be stopped. It simply needs 

true Pakistanis to end any and all evils and reinstate goodness 

in and for fellow human beings. 

Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. Over 

the recent times, increasing demand for land has made the 

sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by those in a position 

to own or control land. 

The stakes have been raised over land not only in relation 

to large-scale land acquisitions, but also for who gets to register 

their title and secure their rural or urban land in the first 

place. 

The social and environmental fall-out has been significant, 

with millions of people turfed off land that they have traditionally 

lived on or farmed, and forests and eco-systems flattened 

through the industrialisation of land use. 

Tackling land grabbing effectively requires addressing the 

corruption that pervades the allocation and governance of 

land. The trouble is that too often experts working on land 

grabbing and corruption do so in siloes. The framing and terminology 

used by these two groups differ greatly, and both 

pursue different national and international processes. That gap 

stands in need to be bridged. 

Corruption enables land grabbing in a number of ways. It 

can be simply transactional – when government officials 

accept bribes from a company to gain access to land, or to 

look the other way if they’re behaving badly. When it gets 

trickier is when corruption is endemic, and institutionalised 

within government. 

This can mean policies and central state functions are 

skewed so that leaders can enrich themselves at the expense 

of the public good. 

In situations like that government decisions about land use 

aren’t based on recognition of rights, on sustainable development 

or long-term economic growth – land is handed to whoever 

has the best connections or is willing to pay the highest 

price. Perversely, this then feeds further corruption. Judges 

often require bribes to make the “right” decision when victims 

try using the courts to get their land back. While land, once 

grabbed, provides revenues to business and political elites, 

which consolidates their power even further. 

Land is different from other natural resources because it’s 

more than just a factor of production - it’s self-identity. It’s 

where ancestors are buried, it’s a place of spiritual worship 

and most of all, it’s home. So when people lose their land 

because of corruption, the socio-economic impacts are only 

EDITORIAL 

Need To Root Out Corruption 

Through Actions Not Words 

OPINION 

the start. 

The impunity granted to political and business elites as a 

result of grand corruption can so infect society that it can be 

hard to know where to start. 

Corruption is a system - we can get disheartened trying to 

destroy the whole thing, but even the smallest, everyday step 

to try to disrupt, reduce or block it is a worthwhile starting 

point. Also helpful are solutions presented in global events 

that gather together governments, civil societies, enforcement 

agencies, journalists and related experts to discuss ways of 

tackling land grabbing and corruption. 

Supreme Court and other concerned departments had 

given the provincial executioners of Sindh time deadlines to 

vacate land illegally occupied by government agencies and 

their other affiliated mafias. In one case, about 59,800 acres of 

government land had been occupied, adding that the 

encroachers included several government agencies including 

Housing as well as Development authorities. Out of the total 

59,803 acres of the land that was encroached, 52,130 acres of 

land were under institutional encroachment. About 2,864 

acres of the land was retrieved sometime back. 

The courts had ordered the Sindh government to vacate all 

the encroached state land within a few months time. 

Another issue was more grave: Forest land measuring 

1,446.46 acres was vacated on the orders of the Supreme 

Court but was re- encroached by the influential persons. 

Effective legislation and its implementation to abolish illegal 

land mafia occupying minorities’properties and trust land 

was also part of the problem. Serious concerns exist on the 

ineffective police investigation reports submitted before 

courts of law with regard to illegal land possession and the 

failure of administration to end illegal occupation of lands, 

especially of the weak segments in society. Because of ineffective 

laws the courts are giving stay orders for indefinite 

periods in these cases, which is causing delay in the provision 

of justice. Government's stance is to ensure that with the cooperation 

of the civil society, the officials are amending the 

existing laws especially the Illegal Possession Act, 2005. 

Insecure urban land rights were open to fraud. This stresses 

for the importance of not only campaigning for better laws, 

but also better law enforcement in land governance with 

accountability. Laws, orders, recommendations and bylaws 

for reforms to overcome the issue of delayed justice with 

regard to the continuing and unending illegal possession cases 

is an urgent call to be honored and fulfilled on every scale and 

level, from lowest to the highest officials and authorities. 

Punishing the small criminals will solve only part of a very 

big problem and therefore big criminal land lords who illegally 

occupy land in this country can be brought to book. 

Some or the other official or department, leader or ministry 

have got to be patriotic enough to end illegal land and real 

estate occupation and to administer the land justly for 

progress and prosperity countrywide soonest. 

What’s wrong with normal? 

By Chris Patten 

In Britain these days, one can’t avoid hearing and seeing more and more about the wretched campaign to spit in the 

face of the world (and of reality) and quit the European Union. Visiting the United States, as I recently did, provides 

some relief. But it comes at a price: wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential primaries. 

The Republican contest is almost egregiously distasteful, with the exception of the performance of Governor John 

Kasich of Ohio. Unfortunately, he is not going to win. His problem is simple: He is recognisably a normal human being. 

Watching the incendiary, invective-filled campaigns of his opponents — Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz — makes 

one mourn for the Grand Old Party. 

The first election campaign that I got involved in was some 50 years ago, in New York, where all of today’s candidates 

— Republican and Democrat — recently traded blows, with Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton emerging 

triumphant. In the mid-1960s, the leaders of the state and city, Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay, 

were Republicans, as were New York’s two senators, Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits. These political moderates, and 

many other Republicans in the 1960s, still reflected the party of Abraham Lincoln in readily defined ways. 

For one thing, they were internationalists. For another, they believed in a partnership between government and the private 

sector (think of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower’s record, say, in building the US interstate highway system). 

Above all, they understood and identified with the integrationist project that remains the country’s continuing civilising 

mission (reflected in the words — E Pluribus Unum — on America’s seal). 

One cannot imagine those Republicans from the 1960s campaigning alongside the two leading GOP candidates today. 

Cruz is an ideological bruiser; Trump is just a bruiser, with no discernible ideology at all. On the other hand, I don’t imagine 

those former Republicans would have had any difficulty endorsing Kasich, a successful conservative governor whose 

primary motivation is plainly not hating people, whether in his own party or in the Democratic Party. And that appears to 

be the source of his weakness as a candidate. He doesn’t froth at the mouth. He seems — what a crime — blessedly sane. 

Apparently, normal isn’t good enough in today’s Republican Party. Acquiescence in heavily bankrolled, fearsome prejudice 

has left the rational and electable parts of the Republican Party in moral and political ruin. 

So now there is a late-in-the-day scramble by the party’s establishment to convince themselves that Cruz, an arrogant, 

bullying extremist, is not as ghastly as they have always told people he is. They fear him less as the party’s presidential 

candidate than they fear Trump. On the Democrats’ side, the battle between Senator Bernie Sanders and former secretary 

of state (and US senator) Hillary is nowhere near as grubby. It exposes some real issues of social equity and hostility to 

globalisation that need to be addressed. Watching all this close up could encourage despair. But we should not forget that, 

especially in the US, all politics is local. And, at the state and city level, there are still plenty of sane, decent, and intelligent 

elected officials trying to provide sensible leadership. And some will move on to the national stage. For example, in 

Los Angeles, where I spent a few days, a clever, well-educated young mayor, Eric Garcetti, combines energy, good looks, 

and common sense in a way that will almost certainly take him further. There must be a lot more like him, genuinely committed 

to public service, not to the self-aggrandising antics of some of today’s dangerous clowns. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 

Electricity Theft 

The Editor, 

At Last week, I gone to my old neighbor’s home which was at new Karachi Godra camp at that place I have 

seen unlimited electricity has been stolen, and many peoples are directly used wire in PMT’s and Kaunda hook system 

is used for illegal electricity connection. No any K-Electric vans came for survey and also no any electric company 

worker get readings of their meters, through that, those who consume electricity through illegal connections 

are not only a problems for the K-Electric company but it also a main cause of inaccessibility of power supply to 

genuine legal consumers. Many of the peoples are doesn’t pay her bills on time. It is a peak time that authorities 

did something to regulate and control the electricity stolen. 

Noor Hassan 

ISLAMABAD: Policemen beating the Estate Office agents who were protesting outside CDA Office. 

Demanding PM’s resignation on basis 

of allegations unfair: Ghafoor Haidari 


Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-Fazl 

(JUI-F) deputy chairman 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, May 

2,2016: Scores of leaders and 

workers of various nationalist 

parties have joined Sindh 

National Tehrik saying that as 

their mother parties have 

gone idle and SNT was moving 

ahead for cause and rights 

of Sindh so they being affected 

by struggle of SNT have 

Maulana Abdul Ghafoor 

Haidari said it is not fair to 

seek resignation from the 

Prime Minister Nawaz 

Sharif on the bases of allegations. 

Talking to media in 

Rahim Yar Khan, Maulana 

Ghafoor criticising opposition’s 

campaign against 

Prime Minister and said 

until the allegation leveled 

against Nawaz Sharif prove, 

joined it. Those who joined 

tehrik after visiting Sindh 

National House here included 

noted nationalist leaders Lala 

Qurban Sodhro, who had suffered 

a lot in jails and torture 

cells in past, Mir Allahdad 

Talpur senior vice chairman 

of Jeay Sindh Inqilabi Mahaz, 

senior nationalist leader 

Zulfiqar Jatoi, G.M.Sindhi of 

the demand off resignation 

is not fair. 

He further said the political 

temperature in the county 

is on its peak, rallies and 

sit-ins are the democratic 

right of every party if it 

won’t derail the system. 

Lala Qurban Sodhro, 

Allahdad Talpur, others join SNT 

Four alleged 

gamblers held 


Pirwadhai police have 

arrested four alleged gamblers. 

On tip-off, the police 

raided a hideout in 

Pirwadhai and arrested four 

alleged gamblers identified 

as Asghar, Khalid, Noman 

and Abdur Rasheed. The 

police also seized Rs10,420 

in stake money, three litters 

of liquor and gambling 

equipment. The police have 

registered a case and started 

investigation. 

Peshawar UC 

Nazims protest 

for their demands 

PESHAWAR, May 2: 

Nazims of different Union 

Councils of Peshawar here 

on Monday staged a protest 

demonstration in front of 

Peshawar Press Club to 

press the government for 

their demands. 

According to details, the 

Union Council Nazims from 

across Peshawar gathered 

outside Peshawar Press Club 

and staged a protest demonstration. 

The protesters were 

holding banners and placards 

inscribed with slogans 

in favor of their demands. 

The protesting Nazims 

alleged that after more than 

one year of the local body 

elections, the provincial 

government has neither provided 

them with development 

funds nor they were 

given their due powers to 

exercise. 


mutilated body of a man was 

found within the Gorla police 

jurisdiction. 

The body, which was 

almost two weeks old, was 

spotted by a passer-by laying 

on a roadside in Dhok Soyan. 

The police took the body into 

jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, 

Aneel Kumar,Arif Khuhro, 

Basit Bughio,Sohail Soomro, 

Darya Khan Daheri,Ahsan 

Jat, Mehtab Wasan, Ashfaq 

Sarki,Syed Hasnain and Niaz 

Muhammad Legnari of jeay 

Sindh 

Students 

Federation,STP’s Tahir 

Jatoi,Ghulam Shabbir 

Bhurgri of Tehrik Insaf, Niaz 

Leghari, Shah Rukh Jatoi, 

Sadam Jatoi and Munawar 

Shaikh. 

Talking to media Ashraf 

Noonari chairman of SNT 

thanked senior leaders of Jeay 

Sindh to joining his party and 

hoped that their struggle for 

rights of Sindh could get 

momentum with addition of 

these friends. He said they 

believe in tolerance and non 

violence and also were 

against religious extremism. 

Body recovered 


Supreme Court of Pakistan on 

Monday disposed off two separate 

cases of murder, rejecting 

their appeals of release. 

In a case of murder, advocate 

Muhammad Yousaf Zia 

informed the court that Imran, 

brother of murdered 

Abdullah, along with his 

brother attacked Ayaz’s home 

their custody and shifted it to 

the Pakistan Institute of 

Medical Sciences for medicolegal 

formalities. The identity 

of the body could not be 

ascertained immediately, 

however, police said that they 

would launch investigation 

after autopsy report. 

over a tiny neighboring conflict 

and injured Ayaz and his 

brother Mansoor. During a 

clash Abdullah tried to snatch 

gun from Ayaz and received 

bullet during the fight, 

claimed the lawyer praying 

the court it was not intentional. 

The accused is engineer by 

profession while brother of 

accused completed MSC 


Police have arrested several 

real estate agents who were 

protesting against Capital 

Development Authority 

(CDA), reported Monday. 

As soon as the protesters 

entered CDA Executive 

Block, police personnel 

baton charged them and 

shifted many of them to local 

police station. The agents 

stated that not a single file is 

moved to higher-ups at CDA 

without bribing the staffers. 

The protesters demanded 

National Accountability 

Bureau (NAB) and Federal 

Investigation Agency (FIA) 

to take notice and launch 

action against corrupt officials 

of the Capital 

Development Authority. 

Trauma, burn 

centres, paediatric 

unit in BBH approved 

RAWALPINDI, May 2: The 

Punjab government has 

given approval for setting 

up a trauma and a burn centre 

and a paediatric surgery 

unit at the Benazir Bhutto 

Hospital 

(BBH) 

Rawalpindi. 

Former MNA and PML- 

N leaders had sent recommendation 

to the chief minister 

to accord approval to 

the new facilities in the hospital. 

The Punjab government 

has also accorded approval 

for making new recruitment 

on vacant positions of medical 

staff, nurses and office 

boys in Benazir Bhutto 

Hospital, Holy Family 

Hospital and District 

Headquarters Hospital, 

sources in the health department 

said. 

Court complex 

for Kotli Sattian 

approved 

RAWALPINDI, May 2: 

Chief Justice Lahore High 

Court (LHC) Ejaz ul Hassan 

has accorded approval for 

construction of court complex 

in Kotli Sattian. 

Sources said that work 

on the court complex will 

start from this month. 

Additional district and sessions 

judges will take up 

cases in the new facility 

twice a week. 

Earlier, the executive 

body of the Tehsil Bar 

Association had held a special 

meeting with the LHC 

chief justice apprising him 

of the problems being faced 

by the litigants and the 

lawyers. 

SC disposes off two murder cases 

degree in jail. 

The lawyer prayed the 

court to release his client who 

allegedly killed Abdullah in 

2007 and session court had 

given him death penalty 

which was later converted 

into life imprisonment by the 

High Court. The Supreme 

Court had maintained the verdict 

of high court. 

HYDERABAD: ASP city Suhai Aziz presents certificate and medal to a student during annual 

function and prize distribution ceremony.

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Kerry sees hope of extending 

truce to Syria's Aleppo 

AMMAN/GENEVA, May 2: 

U.S. Secretary of State John 

Kerry said on Monday talks 

were closer to extending a 

Syrian truce to Aleppo, the 

divided northern city where a 

sharp escalation of violence in 

recent weeks has torpedoed 

peace talks. 

Kerry was in Geneva for 

talks with other dignitaries to 

try to revive the first major 

ceasefire of the five-year 

Syrian war, which was put in 

place in February with U.S. 

and Russian backing but has 

since all but collapsed. 

Syria announced temporary 

local truces in other areas 

last week but has so far failed 

to extend them to Aleppo, 

where government air strikes 

and rebel shelling have killed 

hundreds of civilians in the 

past week, including more 

than 50 people in a hospital 

that rebels say was deliberately 

targeted. 

The Aleppo fighting 

threatens to wreck the first 

peace talks involving the warring 

parties, which are due to 

resume at an unspecified date 

after breaking up in April 

JAKARTA, May 2: 

Indonesian police on Monday 

detained hundreds of pro-independence 

demonstrators in the 

eastern province of Papua on 

the anniversary of Dutch New 

Guinea's 1963 integration into 

Indonesia. Around 500 people 

were detained in the provincial 

capital, Jayapura, police said, 

and dozens in other cities of 

GENEVA: US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) gestures next to United Nations Special 

Envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura during a news conference in Switzerland. 

when the opposition delegation 

walked out in anger. 

"We're getting closer to a 

place of understanding, but 

we have some work to do, and 

that's why we're here," Kerry 

said at the start of a meeting 

with Saudi Arabia's Foreign 

Minister Adel al-Jubeir. 

After meeting Jubeir and 

the resource province of 

around 3.5 million. There were 

no reports of violence. "In spirit 

they support Papua's separation 

from Indonesia," said 

Papua police spokesman 

Patridge Renwarin. "We are 

trying to explain to them that 

this goes against the spirit of 

the unitary state of Indonesia." 

Papuan activist Markus Haluk 

told Reuters demonstrators had 

voiced support for calls for an 

internationally monitored referendum 

for independence. 

Papua has seen a long-running 

and often violent separatist 

conflict since being incorporated 

into Indonesia after a widely 

criticized U.N.-backed referendum 

in 1969. Dutch colonial 

rule ended in 1963. 

U.N. envoy Staffan de 

Mistura, Kerry said he hoped 

for more clarity in the next 

day or so on restoring the 

nationwide ceasefire. The 

United States and Russia had 

agreed to keep extra staff in 

Geneva to work on it. 

"Both sides, the opposition 

and the regime, have contributed 

to this chaos, and we 

are working over the next 

hours intensely in order to try 

to restore the cessation of hostilities," 

Kerry said. De 

Mistura said he would travel 

to Moscow for talks. 

The civil war in Syria has 

killed hundred of thousands of 

people, driven millions from 

Hundreds promoting independence detained in Indonesia's Papua 

South Korea revives GPS backup 

project after blaming North for jamming 

SEOUL/LONDON, May 2: 

South Korea has revived a 

project to build a backup ship 

navigation system that would 

be difficult to hack after a 

recent wave of GPS signal 

jamming attacks it blamed on 

North Korea disrupted fishing 

vessel operations, officials say. 

Global Positioning System 

(GPS) and other electronic 

navigation aids are vulnerable 

to signal loss from solar weather 

effects, radio and satellite 

interference and deliberate 

jamming. South Korea, which 

says it has faced repeated 

attempts by the rival North to 

interfere with satellite signals, 

will award a 15 billion won 

($13 million) contract this 

month to secure technology 

required to build an alternative 

land-based radio system called 

eLoran, which it hopes will 

provide reliable alternative 

position and timing signals for 

navigation. "The need for us is 

especially high, because of the 

deliberate signal interference 

by North Korea," a South 

Korean government official 

involved in the initiative told 

Reuters, requesting anonymity 

as he was not authorized to 

speak to the media. 

Hague court says Italian sailor should return home: Italy 

ROME, May 2: A U.N. arbitration 

court has ruled that 

India should release an 

Italian marine, who has 

been detained in Delhi for 

more than four years, and 

allow him to return home, 

the Italian Foreign Ministry 

said on Monday. India 

arrested in 2012 two Italian 

marines on suspicion they 

killed two fishermen that 

they had mistaken for 

pirates while they had been 

escorting an oil tanker. One 

of the pair returned to Italy 

with health problems, but 

India has refused to let the 

other man, Salvatore 

Girone, leave the country. 

The case has soured relations 

between India and 

Italy, but the two countries 

agreed last year to move the 

case to the Permanent Court 

of Arbitration in The Hague 

and abide by its decisions. 

Indonesian President Joko 

Widodo has made several trips 

to Papua since taking office in 

2014 and has promised to 

bring development to the 

impoverished region after 

decades of neglect. His government 

has also released several 

political prisoners and 

pledged to resolve cases of 

human rights violations. 

Indiana to test Donald 

Trump’s staying power 

with evangelicals 

INDIANAPOLIS, May 2: 

Donald Trump's success in the 

race for the White House may 

well ride on the support of 

Republican evangelicals 

made wary as the front-runner 

reveals a more liberal side to 

his social views. A case in 

point is Tuesday's nominating 

contest in Indiana, a conservative 

Midwestern U.S. state 

that has voted Republican in 

nine of the last 10 presidential 

elections. A New York businessman 

who has never held 

public office, Trump has had 

some success with evangelicals 

in states such as South 

Carolina. But there have been 

signs of slippage. Trump, 69, 

has taken stances on Planned 

Parenthood family clinics and 

gay and transgender rights 

that raise Christian conservative 

concerns, including in 

such states as Indiana where 

they make up a high proportion 

of voters. A new 

NBC/Wall Street 

Journal/Marist opinion poll 

shows Trump with a wide 

lead in Indiana, 49 percent, to 

34 percent for his nearest 

rival, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz 

of Texas, and 13 percent for 

Ohio Governor John Kasich. 

Most previous Indiana opinion 

polls showed a tighter race 

with Trump leading Cruz by 

only a few points. A Trump 

win in the state could be pivotal 

to his chances of securing 

the nomination but may also 

offer a gauge of whether he 

can rally evangelicals. 

their homes, created the 

world's worst refugee crisis 

and provided a base for 

Islamic State militants who 

have launched attacks elsewhere. 

The fighting has 

drawn in global powers and 

regional states, while all 

diplomatic efforts to resolve it 

have foundered over the fate 

of President Bashar al-Assad, 

who refuses to accept opposition 

demands that he leave 

power. 

The United States and 

Russia have taken the leading 

roles in the latest diplomatic 

initiative, which began after 

Moscow joined the war last 

year with an air campaign that 

tipped the balance of power in 

favor of Assad, its ally. 

So far, Syria has 

announced a "regime of calm" 

-- a temporary local truce -- in 

the Eastern Ghouta suburb of 

Damascus and the countryside 

of northern Latakia 

province, from Saturday 

morning. The Latakia truce 

was for three days and the 

Ghouta truce, initially for 24 

hours, was also extended by 

another 48. 

Kuwait freedoms 

make austerity 

drive tricky for govt 

KUWAIT, May 2: A three-day 

strike by oil workers in Kuwait 

last month over pay reforms 

shows the government faces 

considerable opposition as it 

prepares to push through 

painful and controversial cuts 

to longstanding welfare benefits. 

Oil-exporting states 

around the Gulf are reducing 

subsidies for fuel, public utilities 

and food, and freezing or 

slowing the growth of public 

sector wages, as they try to 

curb big budget deficits caused 

by low oil prices. Saudi 

Arabia, the United Arab 

Emirates, Qatar, Oman and 

Bahrain have all taken such 

steps in the past six months. 

But Kuwait has been slower to 

act; reforms were still being 

discussed in parliament last 

week and no timetable has 

been set. In mid-March, 

Finance Minister Anas al- 

Saleh said the cabinet had 

approved in principle a 

"repricing" of some commodities 

and public services, but he 

gave no details and did not 

mention a date for the changes. 

BEIJING, May 2: 

Confessions by two more 

Taiwanese telecoms fraud 

suspects, from among dozens 

deported from Kenya to 

China last month, were aired 

by Chinese state television on 

Monday, appearing to back 

China's contention that such 

crimes are lightly dealt with 

in Taiwan. The case, and subsequent 

deportations of 

Taiwanese from Malaysia for 

similar suspected crimes, has 

infuriated Taiwan and soured 

ties that were already strained 

by the election in January of a 

pro-independence party in 

Taipei. Taiwan has said China 

effectively kidnapped its 

nationals. China says they are 

criminals wanted for serious 

crimes in China and that it 

has every right to try them, 

Jungle Book roars at US box office 

LOS ANGELES, May 2: 

Disney's The Jungle Book 

has topped the North 

American box office for the 

third consecutive week, taking 

$42.4m (£29m) according 

to early estimates. 

The reboot of the classic 

Rudyard Kipling adaptation 

has reaped $684.8m 

(£468.5m) globally since its 

release last month. 

The Huntsman: Winter's 

War managed takings of 

ANKARA, May 2: Shelling 

by Turkish artillery and 

drones which took off from 

southern Turkey struck 

Islamic State targets in Syria 

on Sunday, killing 34 militants, 

the Turkish military 

said. It said the strikes, in 

response to Islamic State 

rocket attacks which hit the 

southern Turkish province of 

Kilis, destroyed six vehicles 

and five Islamic State gun 

positions. The border town 

of Kilis and surrounding 

area has been hit frequently 

only $9.4m (£6.4m) in its 

second week of release. 

Feline action comedy 

Keanu took third slot with a 

modest $9.35m (£6.39m). 

Comedy Mother's Day 

had a weak debut, with takings 

of $8.3m (£5.6m), 

despite featuring stars 

including Julia Roberts, 

Jennifer Aniston and Kate 

Hudson. 

All eyes are on the 

release of Captain America: 

by rocket fire from Islamic 

State-controlled Syrian territory 

in recent months, killing 

civilians. In Sunday's 

strikes, Turkish howitzers 

and multiple rocket launchers 

first hit Islamic State targets 

about 12 km (seven 

miles) south of the border, 

then four drones that took 

off from the Incirlik base in 

southern Turkey destroyed 

further targets, the military 

said. Turkey has repeatedly 

fired back at Islamic State 

positions under its rules of 

Civil War, which opens next 

week in the US and has 

already done good business 

elsewhere. 

Civil War opened in 37 

territories over the weekend, 

taking in an estimated 

$200.2m (£136.9m). 

That included record 

openings in Mexico, 

Brazil and the Philippines 

for the film which many 

believe could be this year's 

biggest hit. 

Drones, Turkish artillery hit Islamic 

State in Syria, 34 dead: military 

NEW DELHI/HONG KONG, 

May 2: India and the United 

States are in talks to help each 

other track submarines in the 

Indian Ocean, military officials 

say, a move that could 

further tighten defense ties 

between New Delhi and 

Washington as China steps up 

its undersea activities. Both the 

United States and India are 

growing concerned at the 

reach and ambition of the 

Chinese navy, which is taking 

an increasingly assertive 

stance in the South China Sea 

and is challenging India's domination 

in the Indian Ocean. 

New Delhi, shedding its 

decades-old reluctance to be 

drawn intoAmerica's embrace, 

agreed last month to open up 

its military bases to the United 

States in exchange for access 

to weapons technology to help 

it narrow the gap with China. 

The two sides also said their 

navies will hold talks on anti 

engagement, but has said it 

needs greater support from 

Western allies, citing the difficulty 

of hitting moving targets 

with howitzers. Foreign 

Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu 

was quoted as saying last 

week that the United States 

would deploy a rocket 

launcher system near the 

stretch of border that has 

come under attack. A senior 

U.S. military official confirmed 

the matter was under 

discussion but declined to 

comment further. 

Wary of China's Indian Ocean activities, 

US, India discuss anti-submarine warfare 

accusing Taiwan of turning a 

blind eye to crime and politicizing 

the issue. The videos 

are the latest in a recent string 

of on-camera confessions in 

China that have prompted 

submarine warfare (ASW), an 

area of sensitive military technology 

and closely held tactics 

that only allies share. "These 

types of basic engagements 

will be the building blocks for 

an enduring Navy-to-Navy 

relationship that we hope will 

grow over time into a shared 

ASW capability," one U.S. 

official familiar with India- 

U.S. military cooperation said, 

speaking on condition of 

anonymity. 

China airs two more confessions by Taiwan fraud suspects 

international criticism that the 

admissions could have been 

made under duress. Chinese 

state television showed two 

men it said were from Taiwan 

and had been deported from 

Kenya. The men, whose faces 

were blurred out, were identified 

by their family names of 

Lin and Hsu and spoke with 

Taiwanese accents. It was not 

possible to verify their origins 

independently. 

The report said Lin, 46, set 

up a Kenyan fraud cell which 

called people in China to 

extort money by pretending 

to be law enforcement officers. 

Lin had been jailed in 

Taiwan in 2011 for telecoms 

fraud, state television said, 

but was only given a sixmonth 

sentence and resumed 

his crimes upon release. 

Reckitt Benckiser executive slapped in S Korea 

while apologizing for deadly sterilizers 

SEOUL, May 2: An executive 

from British consumer 

goods giant Reckitt 

Benckiser (RB.L) was 

slapped during an emotional 

news conference as he 

apologized on Monday over 

deadly lung injuries linked 

to the use of humidifier 

sterilizers marketed by the 

firm. Ata Safdar, head of 

Reckitt Benckiser Korea 

and Japan, bowed several 

times in apology before an 

audience that included victims 

and their families, 

among them a 13-year-old 

boy who now uses an oxygen 

tank to breathe. The 

news conference in a Seoul 

hotel marked the first public 

acceptance of responsibility 

by the firm for its role in a 

bitter controversy that has 

raged since 2011. 

The government said last 

year that 92 people were 

believed to have died from 

causes related to the humidifier 

products - not all them 

marketed by Oxy Reckitt 

Benckiser, which was the 

group's South Korean arm 

at the time. 

Bombs in Baghdad kill 14, including some Shi'ite pilgrims 

BAGHDAD, May 2: Three 

bombs went off in and 

around Baghdad on 

Monday, killing at least 14 

people, including Shi'ite 

Muslim worshippers conducting 

an annual pilgrimage 

inside the capital, 

police and medical sources 

said. The largest blast, 

from a parked car bomb in 

the Saydiya district of 

southern Baghdad, killed 

11 and wounded 30, the 

sources said. At least a few 

of the casualties were pilgrims 

passing through the 

area on their way to the 

shrine of Imam Moussa al- 

Kadhim, a great-grandson 

of Prophet Mohammad. 

Explosives planted on the 

ground in Tarmiya, 25 km 

(15 miles) north of 

Baghdad, killed two and 

wounded six, while a roadside 

bomb in Khalisa, a 

town 30 km (20 miles) 

south of the city, left one 

dead and two wounded. 

There was no immediate 

claim of responsibility for 

any of the attacks, but 

Islamic State militants 

fighting Iraqi forces in the 

north and west regularly 

target security personnel 

and Shi'ite civilians whom 

they consider apostates. 

Islamic State's al Qaeda 

predecessor was blamed in 

the past for such attacks on 

Shi'ite pilgrims, including 

blasts in 2012 that left 70 

people dead nationwide. 

Security has gradually 

improved in Baghdad, 

which was the target of 

daily bombings a decade 

ago, but there has been a 

string of blasts in recent 

days, including a suicide 

attack on Saturday that 

killed at least 19 people.

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Oil down 2 percent as OPEC 

output hike sparks profit-taking 


Finance Minister, 

Mohammad Ishaq Dar is 

leading the Pakistan delegation 

at the Annual Meeting 

of the Board of Governors of 

NEW YORK, May 2: Crude 

prices fell 2 percent on 

Monday as data showing 

higher Middle East oil production 

and record hedge 

fund buying sparked profittaking 

on last month's outsized 

rally. 

Traders also cited a stockpile 

rise of 821,969 barrels at 

the Cushing, Oklahoma 

delivery point for U.S. crude 

during the week to April 29, 

raising concerns again that 

inventories at the storage hub 

could be building to near 

capacity as producers raise 

output. 

Oil markets rose 20 percent 

or more in April, with 

Brent having its largest 

monthly gain in seven years. 

Speculator bets on higher 

Brent crude prices hit record 

highs last week, while bullish 

bets on U.S. crude futures 

and options rose to 10-month 

highs, feeding investor views 

prices may have risen too far, 

too fast. 

Asian Development Bank in 

Frankfurt, Germany. 

During the four days 

event, the minister will have 

interaction with finance 

ministers and delegations of 

other countries on the sidelines 

of the main event. 

He will also participate in 

seminars and panel discussions 

on the topics of 

'Structural Reforms: 

"We would not be surprised 

to see the rally pause 

for breath soon and feel that 

the risks currently lie more to 

the downside," Londonbased 

Capital Economics 

said in note. 

Brent LCOc1 was down 

$1.05 at $46.32 per barrel by 

10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT). 

Ishaq Dar leads delegation at ADB meeting in Germany 

Pakistan intends to keep strong trade ties 

with regional countries: Ahsan Iqbal 


Minister for Planning, 

Development and Reforms, 

Ahsan Iqbal said on Monday 

that Pakistan intended to 

maintain strong trade relations 

with regional countries. 

Talking to Head of World 

Trade Organization (WTO) 

who visited Planning 

Commission along with 

Minister for Commerce, 

Engr. Khurram Dastgir, he 

observed that agriculture 

sector played a key role for 

economic betterment. 

He said that Pakistan, 

through WTO,was playing an 

important role in the world 

trade. 

About role of women in 

business and trade, he 

informed the distinguished 

guests that Pakistani women 

were proving their importance 

in the field of trade and 

industry. 

Ahsan Iqbal said that the 

objective of Vision 2025 was 

to prepare a comprehensive 

strategy to further strengthen 

economy of the country. 

The Minister discussed 

ways and means to enhance 

volume of external trade to 

US$ 150 billion by the year 

2025 in the light of successful 

economic and trade policies 

under Vision 2025. 

He also informed that the 

present government would 

soon be able to overcome 

energy crisis because of 

China-Pakistan Economic 

Corridor (CPEC) projects. 

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reform, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal 

shaking hand with the director general of world trade organization Roberto Azevedo. 

CPEC to boost financial sector of Pakistan: (PBIF) 

BANGKOK, May 2: Japan 

wants to work with countries 

in the lower Mekong river 

basin and will help them 

improve infrastructure and 

bolster development with 

750 billion yen ($7 billion) 

in aid over three years, its 

foreign minister said on 

Monday. Foreign Minister 

Fumio Kishida made the 

pledge to help the Southeast 

Asian economies in 

Thailand's capital, Bangkok, 

where on Sunday he began a 

week-long visit to the region 

in which Japan competes 

with China for influence. 

"Japan would like to work 


President Pakistan 

Businessmen and 

Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), 

President AKIA, Senior Vice 

Chairman of the 

Businessmen Panel of 

FPCCI and former provincial 

minister Mian Zahid Hussain 

on Monday said everincreasing 

economic cooperation 

between Pakistan and 

China require improved 

banking channels. 

China is playing important 

role in development of 

Pakistan therefore all the 

major banks should immediately 

start efforts to expand 

their branch network in 

China, he said in a statement. 

He said Chinese banks 

should also improve their 

visibility in Pakistan which 

is imperative for success of 

China-Pakistan Economic 

Corridor (CPEC). He said 

Pakistan’s debt market isn’t 

large enough to finance 

project like CPEC therefore 

all efforts should be undertaken 

to boost the local 

financial sector. 

Pathways to Sustainable 

Growth', 'How Trade, 

Technology and New 

Business Models are shaping 

Asia's Quest for Good 

Jobs. 

Govt should focus on 

developing a equitable 

tax system: ICCI 


Islamabad Chamber of 

Commerce and Industry 

(ICCI) has stressed that government 

should focus on 

developing a fair and equitable 

tax system bring agricultural 

sector into the tax net in the 

forthcoming budget. 

According to press release 

Sheikh Pervez Ahmed, Acting 

President of ICCI said that this 

sector was contributing over 

one-fifth to the domestic output 

but was generating less 

than 0.1% of the total tax revenue 

due to which country’s 

revenue and fiscal deficits 

were on the rise and Pakistan’s 

tax revenue collection was one 

of the lowest in the region. 

He said agriculture sector 

was playing a major role in 

generating business & economic 

activities and providing 

jobs to majority of rural population, 

but was paying negligible 

amount to the tax revenue 

which was not justified. 

U.S. crude's West Texas 

Intermediate futures CLc1 

were 80 cents lower at 

$45.12. 

On Friday, the June Brent 

contract expired at $48.13 a 

barrel, a 21.5 percent gain 

over the month that marked 

the largest monthly advance 

since May 2009. Earlier in 

that session, it reached a sixmonth 

high of $48.50. 

Crude production by the 

Organization of the 

Petroleum Exporting 

Countries climbed in April to 

32.64 million barrels per day, 

close to the highest level in 

recent history, a Reuters survey 

showed. 

Iraq's April exports from 

southern fields increased, as 

did seaborne exports from 

Russia, the biggest exporter 

outside OPEC. 

4th Pakistan CIO 

Summit and 

Expo 2016 held 

ISLAMABAD, May 2: 4th 

Pakistan CIO Summit and 

Expo 2016 in conjunction 

with 2nd IT Showcase 

Pakistan 2016 organized by 

Solutions Inc recently at 

Marriott hotel in Karachi with 

theme of the summit 

“Solutions for Tomorrow: 

Vision 2020” and it consisted 

of three focused sessions on IT 

Governance, Cloud 

Computing and Data 

Analytics was held. 

The format of the session 

includes keynote speaker, 

sponsors presentation and 

panel discussion. All the presenters 

and panelists were senior 

IT professionals and CIOs, 

says a press statement issued 

here on Monday. 

The summit started with 

speeches by various executives 

from the industry followed 

by a documentary on 

Pakistan’s IT industry produced 

by PSEB under the auspicies 

of MOIT. 

Speaking on the event, the 

chief guest, State Minister of 

IT, Ms. Anusha Rehman Khan 

spoke about Ministry’s vision 

for IT which is to put in place 

an accelerated digitization 

ecosystem to enable socioeconomic 

development, to 

expand knowledge-based 

economy, and to spur the economic 

growth. 

SECP approves “First 

SehatTahafuz Plan” 

ISLAMABAD May 2: The 

Securities and Exchange 

Commission of Pakistan 

(SECP) has approved a new 

micro insurance product under 

its (Micro insurance) Rules, 

2014 with the name “First 

SehatTahafuz Plan” under 

which micro health (hospitalization) 

coverage can be provided 

to low-income clients of 

a microfinance institution. 

The initiative is in line with 

the objectives of National 

Financial Inclusion Strategy 

(NFIS) recently adopted by 

the federal government, and 

aimed at promoting and developing 

the micro insurance 

market in Pakistan. 

Under the NFIS, the government 

has committed to 

providing access to broadbased 

financial services, 

including insurance to those 

consumers who are currently 

excluded from the financial 

sector. 

For the purposes of bringing 

financial inclusion 

through the insurance sector, 

micro insurance is considered 

to be of significant importance. 

Most low-income people 

face a number of risks events 

like illnesses, accidents, disability, 

deaths, and natural disasters 

– all events with negative 

effects leading to a 

decline in income or a rise in 

expenditure or both. 

Japan to support Mekong countries with $7 billion over three years 

with the countries of the 

Mekong region to create a 

framework to support efforts 

by the Mekong countries in 

a detailed manner, on a 

region-by-region basis or on 

a theme-by-theme basis," 

Kishida said in a speech. 

Japan announced the threeyear 

plan last year. China 

has offered billions of dollars 

in infrastructure loans 

and government aid programs 

to Southeast Asian 

countries. Kishida did not 

mention China in his speech. 

He is also due to visit 

Myanmar, Laos and 

Vietnam. 

Corporate Corner 

Easypaisa upgrades to the Next 

Generation Financial Services platform 

KARACHI, May 2: Pakistan’s first and largest Mobile Money brand, 

Easypaisa, has announced today its successful upgradation to the next 

generation Financial Services platform established by world renowned 

technology provider Ericsson. Offering a number of added functionalities, 

the new platform with its open Application Programming Interface (API) 

protocol will enable better than ever speed to product development and pricing, resulting in 

enhanced service quality and meeting the ever evolving needs of the customers. 

The platform switch is a giant leap for Easypaisa and means more than a new state-of-theart 

mobile money solution. It will allow consumers to conduct secure mobile banking transactions 

with ease and helps operators bring mobile money to even more unbanked citizens. It 

also means newer interfaces like web, and apps for tablets and smartphones, making access 

to Easypaisa Mobile Account easier than ever. This advancement brought about by the new 

platform will put Easypaisa in the hands of more people than ever before. 

Pleased at the smooth transition, Nadeem Hussain, Founder, President and CEO, Tameer 

Microfinance Bank said, “Easypaisa is continuously focusing on enhancing customers’ experience 

of doing financial transactions in a secure and seamless manner. It’s essential to have 

the right Technology partner to roll out new services which provide added benefits and services 

to propel financial inclusion through branchless banking.” 

Intel-powered HP Chromebook 

Delivers Versatile Range 

KARACHI, May 2: HP Inc. unveiled its premium HP Chromebook 

13, designed with Google, and powered by the 6th generation 

Intel® Core m processor. Measuring only 12.9 millimeters deep 

when closed and weighing 2.86 pounds, the Chromebook 13 offers 

simplicity and collaboration in a sleek package. By utilizing the 6th 

generation Intel® Core processor, users can work smarter, not harder, with twice the 

performance and battery life of leading premium tablets. The 6th generation Intel® 

Core m-series processors provide sophisticated support for multitasking and videoconferencing 

without lag, making it ideal for home or office. 

PAS Awards 2016 held in Karachi 

KARACHI, May 2: PAS Awards, organized by the Pakistan Advertisers Society, and one 

of the most recognized and prestigiousaward programme of the marketing and advertising 

industry, awarded jubilant winners at a star-studded gala awards function held at the 

Expo Centre in Karachi on April 30, 2016. 

Presented by Tarangin association with Nestle Fruita Vitals andFilmazia entertainment, 

this year, apart from the 12regular categories, Pakistan Advertisers’ Society introduced 

9 special categories and 3 special awards that honoured the most innovative marketing 

and advertising efforts of 2015. The PAS Lifetime Achievement Award was given 

to Tariq Ikram and the honourable Senetor Pervez Rashid, Minister of Information and 

Broadcasting presented this prestigious award. 

The host for the award ceremony was Ahmed Ali Butt,Vasay Chaudhry and Rubia 

Chaudhry while the show featured entertaining performances by Sound of Kolachi, Ali 

Azmat, Sami Brothers and KaifGhaznaiv, Girl Band, Mind reader Mentalist and ended 

with an all star National Anthem. In strategic partnership with ESP Group M and Urdu 1 

as the official broadcast partner,the show was directed by Yasra Rizvi. The Red carpet 

was hosted by SadarXin Khan and Hira Hussain, celebrity management was done by 

MoizKazmi and PR was done by Walnut. 

Habitt launches biggest outlet to 

date in a star studded affair 

KARACHI, May 1: 

Home and lifestyle 

store Habitt, touted as 

the “complete home 

store” launched its 

biggest outlet at 

Dolmen Mall Clifton, 

Karachi on Friday, 

April 29 in a star studded 

affair. The launch 

event was attended by 

city’s glitterati including 

Mommar Rana, 

Shmoon Abbasi, 

Abbas Jaffri, Sunita 

Marshall, Fia Khan, Rubab, Zhalay Sarhadi and many Their humongous store, which was 

situated at the Punjab Chowrangi, is now being moved to Karachi’s most commercial and 

happening mall – the Dolmen Mall, Clifton. Karachi hosts two other Habitt stores, one at 

Shahrah-e- Faisal and the other in Gulshan-e- Iqbal. 

On Friday, the 29th of April, the creative team behind Habitt experienced another 

feather in their cap as they launch the store’s biggest outlet to date. The store stocks modern 

and contemporary designs, as well as provide products that are made using the best 

quality materials in a variety of innovative designs guaranteed to brighten up your home. 

Staying competitive and ahead of the game, Habitt is now also offering king size wedding 

packages, which begin at a price range of Rs 75,000. 

KARACHI: Qazi Muhammad Rashid “Chairman”, R.A.Engg & Service Group of companies, 

presenting shield to Mr. Michael Wagner, “Director Business Development Power 

Generation” (MTU ONSITE ENERGY).

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Pakistan announce probable names 

for England tour; Afridi,Umar, dropped 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI, May 2: The 

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) 

announced the names of 35 

probable players for the 

upcoming England tour, dropping 

former T20 skipper 

Shahid Afridi, opener Ahmed 

Shehzad and middle-order 

batsman Umar Akmal from 

the list. 

Afridi had resigned from 

captaincy after Pakistan failed 

to put up a decent show in the 

World T20 in India, but 

announced that he would continue 

playing international 

cricket. Former captain 

Inzamam-ul-Haq-led selection 

committee was in 

Faisalabad monitoring players’ 

performances during 

Pakistan Cup and shortlisted 

the names of 35 performers. 

Those shortlisted include 

players from the Pakistan 

international and ‘A’ sides. 

“We are scheduled to play 

only six or so T20s in the 

coming year so we thought it 

is better to give chance to 

youngsters,” Inzamam said at 

a press conference. “In the 

meantime, Afridi will also get 

some time to rest and hopefully 

will regain his form.” 

Pakistan cricket’s troublemakers 

Ahmed Shehzad and 

Umar Akmal have been also 

axed from the tour probables. 

“Ahmed Shehzad and 

Umar Akmal had discipline 

issues and their performances 

weren’t up to the mark either,” 

Inzamam said. 

The selection committee 

has informed the PCB chairman 

Shaharyar Khan regarding 

the shortlisted players and 

Younus’ misconduct disappoints Hanif Muhammad 


KARACHI, May 2: :Former 

Pakistan captain Hanif 

Muhammad has expressed 

disappointment at senior 

batsman Younus Khan’s misconduct 

in last week’s umpiring 

row in the Pakistan Cup 

2016. 

“I am feeling sad because 

Younus is my favorite batsman 

and not only is he a big 

player but a big person as 

well who always respects his 

elders. 

That is why his behavior 

came as a disappointment to 

me,” Hanif said. 

Younus returned home 

midway through the Pakistan 

Cup as he was angry at several 

umpiring decisions in his 

team’s 

(Khyber 

Pakhtunkhawa) two matches. 

The 38-year-old was fined 

50 per cent of his match fee 

and faced a ban of three to 

five matches for not attending 

the disciplinary hearing 

and withdrawing from the 

tournament. 

However, he was let off 

with a warning after the former 

skipper apologised for 

his actions. 

“Younus is a role model 

for youngsters and I think 

this action of his to leave the 

tournament would have left a 

negative impact on his fans 

and followers,” said Hanif, 

who felt Younus’ action was 

an emotional outburst. 

“In sports, notably in 

cricket, at times sportsmen 

tend to get emotional over 

some incidents and I think 

this is what happened with 

Younus. 

But I firmly believe that 

Sweet Homes win School Girls Cricket Cup 


KARACHI, May 2: Thanks 

to sensational batting display 

by Shabnum, Pakistan Sweet 

Homes cricket team won the 

inaugural First School Girls 

Cricket Cup 2016, defeating 

Mashal School by massive 

83 runs in the final played 

here at Margahzar Cricket 

ground. 

Pakistan Cricket Board 

and Australian High 

Commission organised the 

tournament in collaboration 

with Serena Hotels, in which 

4 schools of the capital took 

part. Sweet Homes and 

Mashal School reached the 

final after defeating their 

respective opponents in the 

league matches. 

Sweet Homes skipper 

won the toss and opted to bat 

first in the 10-over-a-side 

final, thanks to sensational 

batting display by Shabnum, 

who made breathtaking 77, 

consuming only 28 deliveries, 

hitting 10 fours and 4 

sixes. Sweet Homes posted a 

highly daunting 162 for the 

loss of only two wickets in 

allotted 10 overs, while 

Zainab also batted well for 

her 45 runs knock. 

Chasing a huge target, 

Mashal School was bundled 

out for 79 runs in 9. 2 overs, 

Zainab captured 2 for 9. 

Australian High 

Commissioner to Pakistan 

Margaret Adomson, Pakistan 

Sweet Homes Patron in chief 

Zumurad Khan, CEO Serena 

Hotels Pakistan Abdul Aziz 

Bolani and others were also 

present on the occasion, later 

Margaret Adomson distributed 

trophies and medals 

among the players and teams, 

Shabnum was named player 

of the final and tournament 

for her brilliant performances 

with the willow, Marya was 

named youngest player of the 

tournament, Gul Naz was 

declared best scorer of the 

tournament and Nadiya was 

declared best wicketkeeper. 

IPL money helps Australia captain Steven 

Smith to buy a new expensive house in Sydney 


KARACHI, May 2: Australia 

captain Steven Smith, who is 

returning home from the IPL 

due to his right-hand wrist 

injury, has bought a new 

house in his home-city 

Sydney. This has been confirmed 

by his father, Peter 

Smith. 

He said, "as with all sportsmen 

they have a limited life 

where they can make good 

money. Consequently they 

need to invest intelligently for 

their future". 

"Steven's investments are 

private, they are his way of 

preparing for his future. They 

include the two houses at 

Balmain, but nothing to get 

excited about". 

This is Smith's second deal 

in this year. The 26-year-old 

Smith, however, is likely to 

continue staying at his present 

house, according to his Estate 

Consultant, M/s McGrath 

Estate Agents. 

Karl Howard, the executive 

at M/S McGrath, said, 

"Smith purchased through an 

advisor who buys property for 

him in Sydney. The advisor is 

a long time Balmain resident. 

Both purchases were in 

Balmain which is close to the 

CBD and an area of excellent 

growth property wise the last 

2 years. I believe money from 

the IPL would have obviously 

helped with the potential to 

purchase the property". 

"It is an investment apartment 

so he won't move into it 

he will rent it out. The purchase 

was made very decisively, 

with a phone call 

received in the morning leading 

to a meeting with Mr 

Smith's advisor at property 

that afternoon then a brief 

negotiation on price and a 

sale the next day by COB. 

There were two other interested 

buyers but Smiths ability 

to move quickly secured 

the deal for him", Howard 

added. 

"It has been an absolute 

pleasure to help Australian 

Captain Steve Smith add to 

his property portfolio. It is 

great to see someone so 

young investing in Real 

Estate. Balmain is a truly 

wonderful area and I’m sure 

he will be very happy with 

the investment", Ben Munro 

Smith, another Licensed Real 

Estate Agent at M/s 

McGrath, said. 

even if you don’t agree with 

umpires decision you can 

complain through the proper 

channels later on but it is not 

acceptable to walk out of the 

tournament to lodge your 

protest,” he said. 

Hanif said he was glad 

that Younus had realised his 

mistake and shown responsibility 

by apologising for his 

actions. 

“I think what happened 

has happened and this chapter 

should be closed now and 

there should be no more negativity 

around it,” he added. 

Afghan plastic Messi 

jersey boy enjoying 

football in Pakistan 

KABUL, May 2: The 

Afghan boy who became 

popular on social media 

after wearing a homemade 

shirt bearing Lionel Messi’s 

number 10 is currently in 

Pakistan. 

Five-year-old, Murtaza 

Ahmedi, who comes from 

the Jaghori District, arrived 

in Quetta a few days ago, 

according to BBC Urdu. 

“I really like Messi, I 

wish I can meet him,” said 

Murtaza in Persian while 

speaking to British media.. 

Murtaza’s cousin said he 

the five-year-old’s family 

brought him to Quetta 

because they fear he might 

get kidnapped after gaining 

popularity. He added that the 

Afghan Football Federation 

promised to help Murtaza 

meet Messi but they didn’t 

fulfill it. The young Messi 

fan’s cousin requested the 

Pakistan and Afghan governments 

to help Murtaza’s 

dream come true. 

Earlier this year, Murtaza 

received a signed Argentina 

shirt and football from 

Messi. The Barcelona star 

Lionel Messi had also 

expressed his desire to 

arrange a meeting with the 

Afghan boy. 

Jorge Messi, Lionel’s 

father, told AFP that the footballer 

was aware of the photos 

that made waves on social 

media and “wants to do something” 

for his young fan. 

Murtaza became an internet 

star after a picture of him wearing 

a makeshift plastic Lionel 

Messi jersey went viral. 

MADRID, May 2: Roger 

Federer will not play in this 

week's Madrid Open due to 

a back injury. 

The third-ranked Federer 

suffered the injury during 

practice Saturday and is 

withdrawing as a precaution. 

He described the back 

injury as "normal back 

things I've had in past." 

"I'm OK with it," Federer 

told reporters. "At least I 

know what it is." 

The 35-year-old Federer, 

a three-time winner in 

it is likely that Afridi won’t be 

selected for the team’s training 

camp either. 

Afridi, commenting on the 

list of probable players 

announced by Inzamam, took 

to Twitter and said: 

“Appreciate the approach by 

selection committee; happy 

that youngsters are getting a 

chance.” 

The swashbuckling allrounder 

added, “I am going to 

play County cricket this season 

and will try to prove my 

fitness and form and make a 

comeback.” Afridi played his 

last Test in 2010 and resigned 

from one-day internationals 

after the World Cup 2015 in 

Australia. 

Pakistan will start their 

England tour with the first 

Test scheduled on July 16, 

which will be followed by 

three more Tests, five ODIs 

and T20. 

Peter Moores 

refuses to 

coach Pakistan 


KARACHI, May 2: Former 

England coach Peter 

Moores has turned down 

Pakistan Cricket Board’s 

offer to coach Pakistan. 

Moores was among five 

foreign candidates being 

considered by the PCB to 

replace Waqar Younis, who 

stepped down after the Men 

in Green’s dismal performances 

in Asia Cup T20 and 

World T20. 

While tempted by the 

chance to return to international 

coaching, Moores 

was reluctant to commit to 

long periods away from his 

family, according to 

sources. 

“I was hugely flattered to 

be approached,” the 52- 

year-old said. “And I was 

very tempted by such a 

prestigious role with an 

exciting team.” 


KARACHI, May 2: Former 

South African spinner Paul 

Adams has heard about Shivil 

Kaushik, the 20-year-old leftarm 

spinner, who too has similar 

"mysterious" bowling 

action like him. 

While playing his debut 

match for the Gujarat Lions 

team (against Supergiants) in 

Pune on Friday, Kaushik was 

compared with Paul Adams 

by the TV commentators. On 

Aaqib Javed NOT interested in Pakistan 

DUBAI, May 2: The UAE 

coach, who will step down at 

the end of this month after 

four years in charge, put pen 

to paper on a two-year contract 

in Lahore last week and 

will take up the Director 

Cricket Operations role for 

the Pakistan Super League 

outfit, Emirates media 

reported on Monday. 

The former Pakistani 

fast-bowler has emerged as 

one of the favourites to 

replace Waqar Younis, who 

resigned after a miserable 

World Twenty20 campaign 

KARACHI, May 2: The 

Engro University Linkages 

team wrapped up their first 

ever Engro Games: MT 

Recruitment Competition at 

a grand event held recently at 

the PC hotel. This unconventional 

month-long recruitment 

contest ran parallel to 

Engro Corporation’s 

esteemed MT Recruitment 

Drive. 

The pilot was focused on 

four key universities; participants 

from IBA, KSBL, LSE 

and LUMS underwent a 

series of assessments, starting 

with The Elevator Pitch 

elimination round. 2000 

graduating students were 

tested for the Engro MT 

Recruitment Drive, of which 

only 200 eligible candidates 

were considered for The 

Engro Games. 

While students competed 

in randomly assigned teams, 

each contestant was assessed 

last month. 

But the 43-year-old 

insists his long-term focus is 

on making Lahore 

Qalanders, who finished last 

in this season’s edition in the 

UAE, a formidable force. 

“I’m not really interested 

in that (Pakistan head coach) 

job,” he said, who will be 

joined by UAE batting consultant 

and former Test batsman 

Mudassar Nazar, who 

has been appointed as the 

team’s ‘icon’. 

“I’ve already signed a 

contract with Lahore 

individually on their contribution 

to the business simulations. 

The Top 20 finalists 

were shortlisted after they 

were evaluated on their theoretical 

knowledge and practical 

applications in “Pipe it 

up” a supply chain and operations 

management activity, 

and “Drink fit” a marketing 

and brand activation activity. 

The culminating round 

involved a case study competition 

where the Top 10 of 

Karachi met with the Top 10 

of Lahore in an intense overnight 

case competition at the 

Engro Guest House on 

Thursday 28th April. 

The Grand Finale held at 

PC Hotel Dilkusha Hall on 

Friday 29th April, concluded 

the Engro Games with 4 presentations 

from each of these 

teams and “Team Mithaas” 

taking away the cash prize of 

Rs. 50,000/-. 

Speaking at the occasion 

Qalanders and I’ll be there 

to help them and be at the 

academies to find new talent 

and groom players.” 

He added: “There will be 

other opportunities where I 

can do other things throughout 

the year. I will definitely 

push for something where I 

can work in different T20 

leagues around the world as 

a consultant during the other 

months. 

“It will be very challenging 

role and it will be good 

to help them become champions 

one day.” 

The Engro Games conclude 

with Exciting News! 

Sunday Kaushik grabbed 

three wickets in his second 

IPL match against Kings XI 

Punjab (at Rajkot). 

the 40-year-old Adams 

said, "I have heard about him 

being drafted into the IPL". 

"He is using his uniqueness 

and turned it into a positive. It 

has been about a decade since 

I last played and there will be 

lots of players out there that 

would have never seen it 

before. It will be nice to have 

a chat with him and hear his 

Madrid, had been a late 

addition to the field this 

week. The tournament was 

not originally on his schedule, 

but the former No. 1 

decided to include it as part 

of his preparations for the 

French Open in three weeks. 

journey". 

"I consider him to be a 

"mysterious" bowler because 

of his action being different. 

Most players don't get to face 

that type of bowling. So it 

takes time to read what the 

bowler is trying to do". 

"His bowling action is 

unusual. Facing something 

different will always be tough 

to face (by the batsmen). He 

just needs to become consistent", 

added Adams. 

"My advice to him would 

He appeared fine in practice 

on Saturday but canceled 

his media appearance 

Sunday and had not been 

back to the courts, raising 

doubts about his participation. 

Federer has played in 

only three events this season. 

He missed three 

months earlier this year after 

undergoing knee surgery 

following the Australian 

Open. 

He is another high-profile 

name to drop out of the 

Engro Corporation’s 

President and CEO, Khalid 

Siraj Subhani commented: 

“It gives me great pleasure to 

announce the successful end 

of Engro Corporation’s first 

ever Engro Games. It has 

been an exciting few weeks 

and we would like to thank 

all the students who participated 

in the program. I 

would also like to take this 

opportunity to thank the 

Engro team who played a 

pivotal role in making this 

program a rewarding one.” 

In his speech, Mr. 

Subhani made a surprising 

announcement and hired 

four Management Trainees 

from the Top 20 finalists; 

Ayesha Waseem (LSE), 

Muhammad Ahmed Saigol 

(LUMS), SaniyaSadaqat 

(IBA) and Sufian Salam 

(IBA) all went home with 

appointment letters in their 

hands! 

Paul Adam's advice to IPL's new chinaman bowler Shivil Kaushik 

be : Being consistent is 

important. The mystery will 

wear off and you will need to 

have plans and understand the 

best way to take wickets with 

what his got". 

Paul Adams went to this 

phase when his bowling 

action was also being talked 

about. "I enjoyed it.The fact 

that batsman are more worried 

about the action than 

watching the ball was an 

advantage for me", he 

signed off. 

JHIMPIR: Participant of Jhimpir Super League Cricket Tournament in group photo during ceremony organized by Power 

China Huadong Engineering Corporation held in District Jhimpir. 

Roger Federer withdraws from Madrid Open 

Madrid tournament. On 

Friday, Serena Williams 

announced that she would 

not play in the tournament 

because of illness. 

"I'd rather play it safe and 

get ready for Rome," 

Federer said. "If I can't play 

Rome, it's not the end of the 

world, but hopefully I'll get 

to play." 

Novak Djokovic, Rafael 

Nadal, defending champion 

Andy Murray and Stan 

Wawrinka remain in the 

men's draw. 

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Pakistan's efforts in countering terrorism 

require adequate appreciation: Fatemi 

LAHORE, 


Special Assistant to Prime 

Minister on Foreign Affairs, 

Syed Tariq Fatemi Monday 

said that there was lack of 

sufficient appreciation for 

Pakistan's whole hearted 

efforts, which it was undertaking 

jointly with the US 

administration, in countering 

the threat posed by terrorism. 

He was talking to twomember 

Professional Staff 

delegation of the House 

Foreign Affairs Committee 

(HFAC) of the US Congress 

comprising Kristen 

Marquardt and Sajit Gandhi. 

During the meeting, a 

range of important issues 

were discussed concerning 

reduction in US defence and 

civilian assistance to 

Pakistan and Congressional 

hold on some already 

approved funds were also 

deliberated upon, said a press 

release issued here. 

Tariq Fatemi noted that 

the government and people 

ISLAMABAD, May 2: A 

recent survey has revealed that 

thousands of children studying 

at government schools in the 

federal capital have not been 

provided with course books. 

The reports said that the 

new academic session commenced 

from April 11 at 

schools but still 40 per cent 

students have not been provided 

with course books till now. 

ISLAMABAD: Professional staff delegation of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) 

of the US Congress called on Syed Tariq Fatemi, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on 

Foreign Affairs. 

of Pakistan also desired that 

their sincere efforts and sacrifices 

in confronting the serious 

security threats, in an 

increasingly complex regional 

situation, should be appreciated, 

at all levels. 

This expectation was 

more from our friends in the 

US, who had been our close 

These students are compelled 

to attend their classes without 

their course books. 

National Book Foundation 

and the Department of 

Education are responsible for 

providing books to the students 

of educational institutions 

but they proved to be 

incompetent in performing 

their duty. 

The students are suffering 

aides and partners all along 

on these issues and better 

understood the nature and 

complexity of the challenges 

faced by Pakistan, he added. 

He said the delegation's 

visit to Pakistan was timely 

and important as it provided 

the opportunity to the 

Congressional Staff 

due to delay in acquiring their 

text books due to negligence 

of the two departments almost 

every year. 

State Minister for Capital 

Administration and 

Members to exchange views 

with the concerned authorities 

in Pakistan on all areas of 

mutual interest, and assessed 

the situation on ground concerning 

Pakistan's committed 

efforts on various fronts. 

Reiterating the spirit of 

long standing friendly relations 

and cooperation that the 

40% students still without course books at govt schools 

Development Division 

(CADD) Dr Tariq Fazal 

Chaudhry took serious notice 

of the situation and directed 

the National Book Foundation 

and the Education Department 

Anti-polio drive starts in Punjab, KPK 

LAHORE/PESHAWAR, May 

2: Anti-polio drive has started in 

Lahore, Faisalabad and other 

cities of Punjab as well across 

Khyber Pakhtwankhwa 

province. A total of 4,300 antipolio 

teams are formed to 

administer anti-polio vaccine 

door-to-door to 1.5 million children 

under five in all the Union 

Councils of Punjab’s provincial 

capital Lahore. Relevant Town 

administrations will monitor the 

campaign while anti-polio 

camaps are also established at 

Lahore railway station, government 

hospitals, other busy areas 

and at entry and exit routes. 

Polce personnel will provide 

security cover to the volunteers. 

Anti-polio drops will be administered 

to 800,000 children 

under the age of five in Multan. 

According to district administration 

action will be taken 

against parents refusing to get 

the vaccine administered. 

HYDERABAD, May 2: On 

the directives of Hyderabad 

Electric Supply Company 

(HESCO) Chief Executive 

Officer, Akhtar Ali 

Randhawa has clear-cut policy 

to ensure 100 percent 

recovery of outstanding payments 

from government, private, 

residential and commercial 

consumers; using 

services of Sindh Rangers to 

root out power pilferage and 

recovery of payment from 

defaulters on Monday, 

spokesman. 

Sindh Rangers and 

police along with HESCO 

recovery teams conducting 

operations throughout 

HESCO region consisting 

of 14 districts in wide-scale 

operations. Today teams 

conducted operation in 

Hyderabad, Badin, Thatta, 

Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, 

Tando Allahyar, Sehwan, 

Bhit Shah, Matli, Matiari, 

Nawabshah, Dorr,Qazi 

LAHORE: A Lady health worker supervising polio drops to a 

disabled child at the shrine of Hazrat Bibi Pak Daman. 

Ahmed, Sakrund, Sanghar, 

Tando Adam and its suburbs 

wherein raiding teams disconnected 

as many as 4,725 

on non-payment of bills for 

long time and root out 3,680 

illegal kunda connections 

and submitted 98 letters for 

lodging FIRs in various relevant 

Police Stations 

to ensure provision of books at 

the earliest possible. 

The Education Department 

has said that the National 

Book Foundation was given 

directives to complete the publishing 

of the course books in 

time so that the students could 

be furnished with their individual 

set of course books 

with the beginning of the new 

academic session. 

DRAP may 

approve icrease in 

prices of medicines 


Drug Regulatory Authority 

of Pakistan (DRAP) will discuss 

and may approve hardship 

cases of almost 358 

medicines in a meeting being 

held here on Tuesday (today). 

Local as well as multinational 

companies have submitted 

their applications 

along with costing of the 

medicines, said a press 

release issued here on 

Monday. 

The cases, if approved, 

will help pharmaceutical 

companies in maintaining 

their margins particularly 

GlaxoSmithKline (GLAXO) 

and Abbot Lab Pakistan . 

Both GLAXO and Abbot 

have demanded price 

increase for their main products 

like Augmentin, 

Panadol, Brufen, Arinac. 

wherein only 5 FIRs have 

already been lodged and 

also grounded 104 transformers 

serving payment 

defaulters which included 

two countries had enjoyed 

for many decades, Fatemi 

noted that frequent and candid 

exchange of views 

between Pakistan and US on 

all issues of mutual interest 

and concern, was most valuable. 

He also briefed the delegation 

in detail about 

Pakistan's continued and sincere 

efforts together with the 

US, China and Afghanistan 

to promote peace in 

Afghanistan through an 

Afghan-owned and Afghanled 

process. 

Fatemi highlighted that 

Pakistan under the leadership 

of Prime Minister, 

Muhammed Nawaz Sharif 

had taken a clear lead in 

strengthening its relations 

with the neighbouring countries, 

with the ultimate objective 

to achieve regional stability, 

peace, harmony and 

prosperity through enhanced 

economic linkages, connectivity 

and cooperation. 

120 hospitalized 

after drinking 

substandard milk 

FAISALABAD, May 2: At 

least 120 people including 

women and children were 

hospitalized after they 

drank substandard milk in 

the Moradabad area of 

Faisalabad on Monday. 

Malik Sarwar Gujjar 

after inauguration of his 

milk shop had set up a free 

stall of ‘milk soda’ to 

attract his potential customers. 

Eyewitnesses said 

that a large number of people 

thronged the shop to 

drink the ‘complimentary 

milk’ but soon they found 

themselves with troubled 

stomachs. 

Around 100 citizens 

including children and 

women suffered from diarrhea, 

vomiting and nausea 

and they were shifted to the 

General and Allied 

Hospitals for treatment. 

15 installed on tube wells. 

HESCO has to recover 

Rs65.79 from defaulters out 

of which Rs2.18 billion from 

federal govt institutions, 

Rs33.86 billion from provincial 

govt institutions and 

Rs29.73 billion from private/commercial 

consumers 

for special constituted 

recovery teams continue 

Lahore: 2 women recovered from 

lockup, blame police for rape 

May 2: Two 

women, allegedly raped in a 

lockup, were recovered from 

Chiniot Saddar police station 

and presented before 

Lahore High Court on 

Monday. 

MUMBAI, May 2: Actress 

Parineeti Chopra says she 

prefers to keep her “personal 

spaces very spa-like with a 

lot of wooden textures and 

mirrors”, which exude 

“soothing” vibes. 

In an exclusive feature 

from the Architectural 

Digest India, the actress has 

shared her idea about buying 

a sea-facing Bandra house 

here and how she did the 

interiors. The feature -- written 

by Gauri Kelkar -- is slated 

to appear in the May-June 

2016 issue of Architectural 

Digest India, which will hit 

the stands on May 5. 

She has paid attention to 

each and every details from 

the key holder that spells out 

"drama queen", the miniature 

guitar or the bike replicas 

hanging on the wall. The 

“Ishaqzaade” star looked at 

nearly 30 houses before she 

found the Bandra one, read a 

statement. 

She said: “I always wanted 

a sea view. (The interiors) 

weren’t really to my taste, but 

when I stood in the balcony 

and saw the sea, I knew this 

was it. This was my house.” 

The cousin of internationally 

acclaimed star Priyanka 

Chopra added: “I had references 

for years on my 

phone...from all my travels, 

hotel stays, artworks. There 

The women, Kosar Bibi 

and Manzooran, stated that 

the SHO of the police station 

wanted them to become 

plaintiff in a case against different 

people and when they 

denied to do so he arrested 

are so many ideas I picked up 

from something I’d seen on a 

street. I basically wanted a 

white house with colours in 

it.” Talking about her personal 

style, she said: “My personal 

spaces had to be very spa-like 

them from their home on 

April 26. They alleged that 

the policeman beat them up 

and raped them. On which the 

court ordered for their medical 

checkup and submission 

of the report in the court. 

Parineeti Chopra wants 'spa-like' 

personal spaces at her abode 

LAYYAH, May 2: Punjab Chief 

Minister Shahbaz Sharif has 

announced to provide jobs to 

legal heirs of the Layya victims, 

who had died after consuming 

toxic sweets. Sharif made the 

announcement during his meeting 

with family members of the 

victims in Chak No 105. He 

condoled with the victims’ families 

and announced to provide 

government jobs their heirs. 

“I cannot bring back your 

dear ones but the Punjab government 

will take care of you. 

Investigations are under way 

... a lot of wooden textures, 

mirrors, a very soothing, 

‘scented candles’ kind of 

scene.And I wanted my living 

and den areas to be lively. 

Some of it was quite tricky, 

but it was fun tricky.” 

Shahbaz announced jobs for heirs of Layya victims 

and those found guilty will be 

awarded exemplary punishment. 

Those who provided care 

to the patients deserve appreciation,” 

he while talking to them. 

He also announced that basic 

health centre in the area will 

also be upgraded. 

HESCO CAMPAIGN AGAINST PAYMENT DEFAULTERS, POWER PILFERAGE 

HESCO cut off 4,725 connection on non-payment and 

eliminate 3,680 illegal kunda connections in April 

HYDERABAD: HESCO officials with LEAs crackdown against payment defaulters and power theft. 

Uttarakhand fires: Battle to douse deadly blaze in Indian state 

NEW DELHI, May 2: Thousands of people 

are battling deadly forest fires in 

India's northern Himalayan state of 

Uttarakhand, Indian media reported on 

Monday. At least six people have died in 

the fires, which have burned more than 

1,900 hectares (4,700 acres) of forest, 

officials said. The fires broke out a month 

ago, but intensified in recent days with 

more than 400 burning simultaneously. 

house-to-house search, 

crackdown against payment 

defaulters and defaulters 

will have to face power disconnection. 

HESCO Chief has given 

task for indiscriminate 

actions without taking notice 

of political pressures 

throughout HESCO region 

comprises of 14 districts in 

house-to-house search operations 

and ordered to disconnect 

payment defaulters’ 

connections and only be 

restored on 100 percent payment. 

HESCO found 2 shunt meters 

during campaign at Citizen Colony 

HYDERABAD: HESCO recovery teams conducting 

operations throughout HESCO region consisting of 14 

districts in wide-scale operations. Today teams conducted 

operation in Hyderabad areas Citizen Colony where SDO 

Citizen Colony, Sohail Shaik along with XEN Jalal 

Abbasi and Javed Ishaq Abro found two meters were 

found shunt and electricity was used and immediately disconnected 

power supply at Isra Village banglow No.43-A 

belongs to Bashir Ahmed S/o Muhammad Ibrahim and 

reported for imposition of fine and lodging of FIR to 

Hattari Police Station. 

They have not yet hit Himalayan 

tourist towns, but villagers say that smoke 

has affected air quality and visibility. 

The Indian air force has used helicopters 

to help douse the flames, although 

low visibility caused by smoke has limited 

their deployment, local media reported. 

But the National Disaster Relief Force 

(NDRF), which is co-ordinating the firefighting 

effort, reports that satellite 

imagery indicates that 70% of the flames 

have been put out. 

The director general of the agency, OP 

Singh, told the PTI news agency that they 

have managed to bring down the number 

of fires from 427 to 110-115 locations. 

The fires come as India suffers one of its 

worst droughts in years. The government 

says 330 million are now affected by 

water shortages. 

HYDERABAD: Remote control device unearthed which 

culprits using to control meters. 

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