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Metropolitan:<br />
Fire erupts<br />
at PIA's Precision<br />
Engineering<br />
Complex<br />
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National:<br />
Teachers stage<br />
protest on Lahore's<br />
Mall Road as young<br />
nurses call off sit-in<br />
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International:<br />
Paris floods:<br />
Seine level<br />
starts dropping<br />
after 30-year high<br />
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WB approves $300<br />
million for improving<br />
education<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
The World Bank has<br />
approved a three hundred<br />
million dollars loan to<br />
support increased school<br />
participation in Punjab.<br />
According to a statement<br />
of the Bank, this<br />
loan will support the<br />
Punjab province in<br />
improving school participation,<br />
completion, and<br />
teaching-learning practices<br />
with a particular<br />
focus on low-performing<br />
districts.<br />
About three million<br />
children in Punjab<br />
through a combination of<br />
interventions would be<br />
benefited while one million<br />
out-of-school children<br />
will be brought into<br />
school through this project.<br />
No breakthrough<br />
on Panama TOR:<br />
opposition<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
The parliamentary committee<br />
of government and<br />
opposition members<br />
tasked with framing terms<br />
of reference (TOR) for a<br />
judicial probe into the<br />
Panama Leaks failed<br />
again to make any headway<br />
on Saturday.<br />
PTI leader Shah<br />
Mahmood Qureshi said<br />
deadlock still persists as<br />
government’s team is not<br />
showing any flexibility on<br />
the issue.<br />
“The situation remains<br />
the same,” he said.<br />
He said that National<br />
Assembly Speaker Ayaz<br />
Sadiq and opposition<br />
leader Syed Khursheed<br />
Shah met him and<br />
expressed concern about<br />
the deadlock in talks.<br />
Ramzan moon<br />
sighting committee<br />
to meet on Monday<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
The meetings of<br />
Zonal/Central Ruet-e-<br />
Hilal Committees will be<br />
held at their respective<br />
offices on Shaban-ul-<br />
Muazzam 29, Monday<br />
(<strong>Jun</strong>e 06) for sighting the<br />
crescent of Ramzan-ul-<br />
Mubarak 1437 A.H.<br />
The meeting of Central<br />
Ruet-e-Hilal Committee<br />
will be chaired by Â<br />
Chairman Mufti Muneebur-Rehman<br />
in the building<br />
of<br />
Pakistan<br />
M e t e o r o l o g i c a l<br />
Department (PMD) camp<br />
office, Karachi. The other<br />
members of the committee<br />
will attend the meetings of<br />
zonal and district committees<br />
at their respective<br />
places on Monday.<br />
KARACHI EDITION – Sunday, <strong>Jun</strong>e 5, <strong>2016</strong>, Shaban 27, 1437 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />
Shook Up The World': Mourn Obama and Michelle<br />
Muhammad Ali: Boxing legend, activist<br />
and 'The Greatest' to a world of fans<br />
M. Ali lives in every Pakistani’s heart<br />
Ali made two visits to Pakistan<br />
Nisar says Bilawal not a child<br />
but politically immature<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Federal<br />
Minister of Information<br />
Pervaiz Rashid lambasted<br />
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<br />
(PTI) chairman Imran Khan<br />
by stating that instead of waiting<br />
for the next elections,<br />
Khan intends to take over<br />
Islamabad through force,<br />
reported on Saturday.<br />
While addressing a conference<br />
based on journalism that<br />
KALLAR SYEDAN, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Interior Minister Chaudhry<br />
Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday<br />
said that Pakistan People Party<br />
(PPP)’s chairman Bilawal is<br />
"not a child but politically<br />
immature.<br />
The PPP chairman had earlier<br />
this week tweeted that<br />
although Chaudhry Nisar was<br />
campaigning to take the prime<br />
minister's slot with Nawaz<br />
Sharif away for his surgery,<br />
his attempts to do so were not<br />
going as well as he had perhaps<br />
planned, frustrating him.<br />
Talking to the media persons<br />
at Kalar Syedan in<br />
Rawalpindi today, Nisar said<br />
no one could simply take the<br />
prime minister's position in a<br />
parliamentary form of government<br />
"however, if any country<br />
decides on a [temporary] system,<br />
it will be informal not<br />
legal".<br />
Nisar said criticizing the<br />
debate that ensued over an<br />
alleged lack of leadership in<br />
wake of PM's absence; he was<br />
disappointed that "non-issues"<br />
were being turned into "megaissues".<br />
He questioned the current<br />
debate, saying the premier's<br />
several foreign trips in the last<br />
three years never created such<br />
a "legal or constitutional lacuna",<br />
so why now? Chaudhry<br />
Nisar said that National<br />
Counter Terrorism Authority<br />
(NACTA) is fully functional<br />
and working proactively to<br />
combat the menace of terrorism<br />
adding that there is sufficient<br />
supply of finance and<br />
human resource from government<br />
to counter terrorism.<br />
took place in the Lahore Press<br />
Club, Pervaiz Rashid said that<br />
the investment opportunities<br />
would be badly influenced if<br />
turmoil is spread in the country.<br />
Rashid said that 2018 is<br />
the year in which general elections<br />
will be held in the country<br />
and that campaigning in<br />
this regards shall be initiated<br />
from next year. He added that<br />
Imran Khan wants to take over<br />
Imran sees way to<br />
‘Naya Pakistan’ in<br />
Panama storm<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Chairman of Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-i-Insaf Imran Khan<br />
on Saturday said that Panama<br />
Papers leaks was indeed a sign<br />
of Almighty’s grasp of corrupt<br />
masses and that he sees a way<br />
to ‘Naya Pakistan’ in it.<br />
In his address to an agriculture<br />
conference here, the PTI<br />
chief reiterated that the country<br />
cannot prosper as long as<br />
corruption is existing here. He<br />
declared corruption to be the<br />
greatest issue of country that is<br />
also impeding foreign investment.<br />
He noted that<br />
Pakistanis, during last three<br />
years, purchased Rs700 billion<br />
property in Dubai, while<br />
they have Rs200 billion,<br />
according to Finance Minister<br />
Ishaq Dar, abroad.<br />
Imran wants to take over Islamabad<br />
through force: Pervaiz Rashid<br />
the government by force as he<br />
is aware that he will have to<br />
face defeat in the elections.<br />
Pervaiz Rashid said that the<br />
opinion of the parliamentary<br />
committee formed to formulate<br />
the Terms of References<br />
(TORs) dealing with the<br />
Panama Leaks issue should be<br />
awaited otherwise there the<br />
very purpose of forming the<br />
committee will fail.<br />
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator<br />
Parvez Rasheed talking to the media persons at Lahore Press Club.<br />
PHOENIX, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Muhammad Ali, the<br />
former world heavyweight champion<br />
whose boxing feats, showmanship and<br />
political activism made him one of the<br />
best-known figures of the 20th century,<br />
died on Friday aged 74.<br />
Ali, who had long suffered from<br />
Parkinson's syndrome which impaired<br />
his speech and made the once-graceful<br />
athlete almost a prisoner in his own<br />
body, died a day after he was admitted to<br />
a Phoenix-area hospital with a respiratory<br />
ailment.<br />
His youthful proclamation of himself<br />
as "the greatest" rang true until the<br />
end for the millions of people worldwide,<br />
who admired him for his courage<br />
both inside and outside the ring. Along<br />
with a fearsome reputation as a fighter,<br />
he spoke out against racism, war and<br />
religious intolerance, while projecting<br />
an unshakeable confidence and humor<br />
that became a model for African-<br />
Americans at the height of the civil<br />
rights era.<br />
Stripped of his world boxing crown<br />
for refusing to join the U.S. army and go<br />
to fight in Vietnam, Ali returned in triumph<br />
by recapturing the title and starring<br />
in some of the sport's most unforgettable<br />
duels.<br />
"Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest<br />
human beings I have ever met," said<br />
George Foreman, who lost to Ali in Zaire<br />
in a classic 1974 bout known as the<br />
"Rumble in the <strong>Jun</strong>gle."<br />
"No doubt he was one of the best people<br />
to have lived in this day and age. To<br />
put him as a boxer is an injustice."<br />
Ali enjoyed a popularity that transcended<br />
the world of sports, even though<br />
he rarely appeared in public in his later<br />
years. As the first black president of the<br />
United States, Barack Obama said Ali<br />
was "a man who fought for us" and<br />
placed him in the pantheon of civil rights<br />
leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and<br />
Nelson Mandela.<br />
"His fight outside the ring would cost<br />
him his title and his public standing. It<br />
would earn him enemies on the left and<br />
the right, make him reviled, and nearly<br />
send him to jail. ButAli stood his ground.<br />
And his victory helped us get used to the<br />
America we recognize today," Obama<br />
said in a statement.<br />
Ali's death was confirmed in a statement<br />
issued by his family spokesman late<br />
Friday evening.<br />
‘Our mission is to save Pakistan from bankruptcy’<br />
Dar sees Pakistan as the next Asian Tiger<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar<br />
addressed post-budget<br />
news conference in<br />
Islamabad, painting a rosy<br />
picture of government’s<br />
economic measures,<br />
reported on Saturday.<br />
“Our mission is to save<br />
Pakistan from bankruptcy<br />
like we did in 2013,” Dar<br />
said, defending imposition<br />
of new taxes in the budget<br />
of next fiscal year.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Pakistan on Saturday decided<br />
not to give Indian consular<br />
access to Indian spy<br />
agency RAW’s agent<br />
Kulbhushan Yadav.<br />
The decision has been<br />
taken after Yadav’s confession<br />
to involvement in incidents<br />
of terrorism in<br />
Pakistan. Pakistan has also<br />
decided to raise the issue of<br />
Indian involvement in terrorism<br />
incidents and intervention<br />
in Pakistan at international<br />
forums.<br />
Minister of External<br />
Explaining main features<br />
of the budgetary proposals,<br />
Dar said budgeting<br />
is done keeping in view<br />
resources of the country.<br />
“Our targets are very<br />
much clear. We are going<br />
to become Asian Tiger.<br />
The government is making<br />
all out efforts to<br />
enhance country’s export<br />
and achieve tax targets,”<br />
he said.<br />
He said the government<br />
Affairs of India Sushma<br />
Swaraj had in March<br />
demanded access to the<br />
Indian spy.<br />
Sources said intelligence<br />
agencies were preparing<br />
detailed documentary<br />
proofs over Yadav’s confessions.<br />
The documents would<br />
be sent to United Nations<br />
and many other countries<br />
and all the foreign ambassadors<br />
in Pakistan would be<br />
briefed about Yadav’s confessions.<br />
It is pertinent here to<br />
mention that the Indian spy<br />
believes in revival of agriculture<br />
sector.<br />
“Keeping in view difficulties<br />
faced by the agriculture<br />
sector the government<br />
has announced<br />
relief for farmers and has<br />
taken special steps in the<br />
budget.”<br />
Yesterday, he announced<br />
Rs.4395 billion budget in<br />
the National Assembly,<br />
envisaging extensive relief<br />
and incentives for farmers.<br />
Pakistan decides not to give India<br />
access to arrested RAW agent<br />
and present Indian Navy<br />
officer was arrested two<br />
months back from<br />
Balochistan where he<br />
entered through Iran.<br />
Hailing from Mumbai,<br />
Kulbhushan Yadav, in his<br />
confessional video statement,<br />
had said that he joined<br />
Indian Defence Academy in<br />
1987 before being commissioned<br />
in Indian navy in<br />
1991.<br />
He had said, “I am still a<br />
serving officer in the Indian<br />
Navy and will be due for<br />
retirement in 2022”.<br />
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Metropolitan<br />
Fire erupts at PIA's Precision<br />
Engineering Complex<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: A big fire<br />
erupted at Pakistan<br />
International Airlines (PIA)<br />
Karachi's Precision<br />
Engineering Complex on<br />
Saturday, damaging spare<br />
parts and other goods.<br />
Firefighters were struggling<br />
to extinguish the blaze,<br />
which erupted due to shortcircuit.<br />
Fire broke out in the<br />
Precision Engineering<br />
Department at Karachi, said<br />
Pakistan International<br />
Airlines spokesperson<br />
Daniyal Gillani. Efforts are<br />
being made to extinguish it,<br />
he added. No loss of life has<br />
KARACHI: Fire fighters extinguishing from burning building after fire broken out incident<br />
due electric short circuit in the engineering department at the Jinnah International Airport.<br />
City needs proper strategy to<br />
improve sanitary conditions<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: There is a<br />
dire need to improve poor<br />
sanitary conditions in different<br />
areas of the city, especially<br />
open the chocked drains<br />
and citizens from the diseases<br />
due to overflowing gutter<br />
water on streets.<br />
The state of sanitary conditions<br />
in Karachi has deteriorated<br />
to such an extent that<br />
even the gutter of the New<br />
Sindh Secretariat is chocked.<br />
The overflowing gutter of<br />
the New Sindh secretariat on<br />
Muhammad Hashim Gadzar<br />
Street, Burns Road area has<br />
become a nuisance for whole<br />
locality.<br />
This gutter of the secretariat<br />
on its backside went<br />
chocked months ago and cannot<br />
be opened as yet. Ankle<br />
deep gutter water could be<br />
seen at the back gate of the<br />
New Sindh secretariat on<br />
Muhammad Hashim Gadzar<br />
Street, creating very negative<br />
image of the provincial government.<br />
The Muhammad Hashim<br />
Gadzar Street is the dirtiest<br />
street of the area, with uncollected<br />
garbage, overflowing<br />
gutters and footpaths<br />
encroached upon by cooks,<br />
printing presses and motor<br />
mechanics.<br />
However, the Sindh chief<br />
secretary has failed to take<br />
notice of this filth and<br />
garbage in the backyard of his<br />
secretariat and DMC South is<br />
also not playing its due role to<br />
make this important locality<br />
clean.<br />
Many other roads of this<br />
area are also under gutter<br />
Armed men attack DSP's house<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Unknown armed men<br />
opened fire at a policeman's<br />
house in the metropolis on<br />
Saturday morning.<br />
According to details, the<br />
gunmen opened fire at DSP<br />
Qamar Ahmed's residence<br />
at Block 16, Gulistan-e-<br />
Jauhar. DSP Qamar Ahmed<br />
said that the armed men<br />
fled when retaliated the<br />
fire.<br />
Ahmed has remained a<br />
core member of SSP Rao<br />
Anwar's team. He has<br />
played an important part in<br />
Karachi Operation, fighting<br />
terrorists from banned outfits<br />
and political parties.<br />
Police have collected<br />
initial evidence and were<br />
looking for clues through<br />
the CCTV footage.<br />
Karachi: Former minister and MPA, Rubina Qaimkhani, was the chief guest at group show at<br />
Grandeur Art Gallery Zamzama. Neshmia Ahmed, CEO Grandeur, also present on the occasion.<br />
PPP Senators declare federal<br />
budget as misleading<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Pakistan<br />
People's Party (PPP) Senators<br />
Dr Karim Khawaja, Ejaz<br />
Dhamra and Engineer Gayan<br />
Chand while condemning the<br />
federal government with<br />
regard to federal budget-<br />
<strong>2016</strong>-17 declared the finance<br />
bill as a pack of lies and tactful<br />
manipulation of statistics.<br />
The allocations of the PSDP<br />
are to the tune of 800 billion<br />
but only 12 billion are<br />
reserved for Sindh. The federal<br />
budget is complete failure<br />
as it has totally ignored smaller<br />
provinces especially Sindh<br />
that adds upto 70 percent of<br />
country's total revenue annually.<br />
Sindh is that province<br />
where people from all sides<br />
of the country land for earning<br />
bread and butter and the<br />
provincial government has<br />
always catered to their needs<br />
while the federal government<br />
has totally ignored this<br />
important factor in annual<br />
budget.<br />
In a statement issued from<br />
PPP Media cell Sindh, they<br />
said that the federal government<br />
has ignored Sindh's<br />
needs for large development<br />
schemes and projects. The<br />
federal budget failed to carry<br />
along the need for improvements<br />
in social, health and<br />
education sectors.<br />
KARACHI: Commuters passing through the stagnant sewerage water flowing on road which is<br />
also creating problems and showing negligence of concerned authorities, at M.A Jinnah road.<br />
water, including the main<br />
street leading from the M A<br />
Jinnah Road to the<br />
Emergency gate of the Civil<br />
Hospital Karachi (CHK). In<br />
no other city of the world a<br />
street leading to a major hospital<br />
could be imagined under<br />
the overflowing gutter, but in<br />
Karachi such cases are not<br />
exceptions but harsh retaliates<br />
of daily life, as nepotism,<br />
murder of merit and corruption<br />
have paralyzed the civic<br />
agencies including the KMC,<br />
DMCs and KWSB.<br />
PPF publishes<br />
book on beat<br />
reporting<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Pakistan<br />
Press Foundation (PPF) has<br />
launched an Urdu book<br />
“Reporting” written by<br />
Shahabz Akaml Jandran.<br />
The publication is aimed<br />
at to discuss the idea of beat<br />
reporting, and provide guidance<br />
to junior reporters in this<br />
regard. The book presents<br />
ideas for them to improve<br />
their journalism skills and<br />
work in a more professional<br />
way in their field.<br />
Pakistan Press Foundation<br />
(PPF) is an independent<br />
media documentation and<br />
training centre, non-governmental<br />
organisation committed<br />
to promoting and defending<br />
freedom of expression.<br />
Sindh Environmental<br />
Protection Agency lacks<br />
field offices in districts<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Audience<br />
of a programme held here to<br />
mark World Environment Day<br />
have been informed that<br />
Sindh's own environmental<br />
watchdog lacks field offices in<br />
districts hampering its ability<br />
to monitor and prevent<br />
instances of spreading pollution<br />
and other causes of environmental<br />
damage. Sui<br />
Southern Gas Company<br />
(SSGC) and National Forum<br />
for Environment and Health<br />
(NFEH) came together to<br />
mark World Environment Day<br />
being celebrated every year on<br />
05 <strong>Jun</strong>e. This year's theme of<br />
global environment day focuses<br />
upon fight against illegal<br />
trade in wildlife.<br />
Waqar Hussain Phulpoto,<br />
director (Technical) at Sindh<br />
Environmental Protection<br />
Agency, said that SEPA on one<br />
side lacked field offices in districts<br />
while on other hand watchdog<br />
didn't have more than a<br />
dozen senior officials despite<br />
that province had facing dozens<br />
of environmental issues. He said<br />
that neither environmental tribunal<br />
in the province had been discharging<br />
its obligations effectively<br />
owing to which people<br />
causing damage to environment<br />
and spread of pollution were not<br />
made to face the law of the land<br />
and be fined for their unscrupulous<br />
actions. However, he said<br />
that apart from shortcomings of<br />
the SEPA, Sindh had taken lead<br />
among other provinces in adopting<br />
its own law and framing<br />
under this law its own set of<br />
rules and regulations for protection<br />
of environment.<br />
been reported from the fire.<br />
PIA's engineering complex<br />
termed as a sensitive<br />
area with high security,<br />
where the aircraft equipment<br />
are manufactured and<br />
repaired. Heavy contingents<br />
of police and rangers arrived<br />
at the scene of the blaze and<br />
the area has been cordoned<br />
off by the law enforcement<br />
personnel.<br />
A number of fire tenders<br />
arrived at the scene after<br />
informed about the incident<br />
and were engaged in firefighting<br />
inside the PIA engineering<br />
complex.<br />
Firdous Lawn unveiled<br />
its Eid Collection in a<br />
star-studded event<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:The leading<br />
fashion and retail brand,<br />
Firdous textiles recently<br />
unveiled its Eid collection in a<br />
glittering event at Cafe<br />
Aylanto in Karachi.<br />
The event highlight was<br />
the presence of showbiz bigwigs<br />
including veteran actress<br />
Bushra Ansari, Aiza Khan,<br />
shaista lodhi,hira mani ,sumbal<br />
iqbal and many more. The<br />
popular television celebrities<br />
were all dressed up in the stunning<br />
festive Firdou’s luxury<br />
lawn collection. The high-end<br />
event was well-attended by<br />
who’s who of the fashion<br />
industry, socialites, models,<br />
bloggers and media.<br />
The event management,<br />
media and PR was handled by<br />
TAKE II PR. Firdous latest<br />
collection represents style and<br />
quality which has been<br />
brand’s ideology since<br />
decades. With an interesting<br />
fusion of vibrant hues with<br />
intricate embroidery the outfits<br />
are sure to be a staple in<br />
everyone’s wardrobe this festive<br />
season. Keeping its tradition<br />
alive, Firdous latest collection<br />
is all about effortless<br />
style, elegance and a true epitome<br />
of femininity. The beautiful<br />
ensembles stand out due to<br />
its unique silhouettes and<br />
vibrant colour palette.<br />
Focusing on latest market<br />
trends, the designers at<br />
Firdous has experimented<br />
with new shades and<br />
expressed them in the effortless,<br />
relaxed and comfortable<br />
fabrics. The brand also focuses<br />
on the elements of practicality<br />
and affordability making<br />
it easier for everyone to<br />
make Firdous festive collection<br />
their first choice.<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
energy supplied by K-<br />
Electric in terms of units<br />
has increased by 5.1% during<br />
the year ended 30 <strong>Jun</strong>e<br />
2015 as compared to the<br />
previous year ended 30<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 2014.<br />
According to a statement<br />
on Saturday, the utility<br />
provider shared that KE supplied<br />
16,111 million units<br />
(Gwh) during the year ended<br />
30 <strong>Jun</strong>e 2015 as compared to<br />
15,332 million units (Gwh)<br />
Eight booked under anti-terror law acquitted<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: An anti-terrorism<br />
court-V (ATC-V) acquitted<br />
on Saturday eight accused in<br />
cases pertaining to possession of<br />
explosive substance and illicit<br />
weapons. According to prosecution,<br />
accused were charged with<br />
keeping explosive material and<br />
Transparency demanded<br />
in school funds usage<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: More<br />
budgetary funds are needed to<br />
cater the needs of children<br />
and the government should<br />
focus to improve the performance<br />
of schools in rural areas,<br />
said Nazra Jahan, Executive<br />
director Foundation for<br />
Research and Human<br />
Development (FRHD),<br />
adding corruption in School<br />
Management Committee<br />
funds is a major curse responsible<br />
for poor state of government-run<br />
schools in Sindh<br />
province.<br />
According to details, the<br />
FRHD in collaboration with<br />
ActionAid arranged a oneon-one<br />
discussion of delegation<br />
of young students with<br />
Provincial Ombudsman,<br />
Sindh, Asad Ashraf Malik at<br />
Sindh Secretariat.<br />
The primary objective of<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Hamdard<br />
Foundation Ration<br />
Distribution Ceremony was<br />
held on Saturday to needy<br />
families all over the country<br />
worth Rs. 10 million, fifty<br />
percent was distributed in Director<br />
Karachi and other half out of Laboratories<br />
Karachi and this was done<br />
by the foundation.<br />
The ration was distributed<br />
to 2000 needy families<br />
including widows, special<br />
persons and those unable to<br />
earn their livelihood. Ration<br />
distributed in Karachi worth<br />
is Rs. 50 lacs and already<br />
unlicensed weapons in 2012 and<br />
police claimed that they were<br />
associated with the Lyari Gang<br />
War terrorists. Judge of the<br />
ATC-V pronounced the verdict<br />
after recording evidence of witnesses<br />
and final arguments from<br />
both sides.<br />
the meeting providing an<br />
opportunity to children for<br />
discussing education-related<br />
issues that negatively impede<br />
with their academics and integrate<br />
vulnerable children with<br />
education.<br />
Students discussed the<br />
issues bothering them with<br />
Mohtasib-e-Aala who promised<br />
to take immediate notice<br />
in order to rectify the problems.<br />
Three key problems that<br />
students were able to highlight<br />
amongst many others<br />
were the mismanagement and<br />
corruption of School<br />
Management Committee<br />
(SMC) fund in government<br />
schools; students being<br />
deprived of their right to free<br />
course books by the government;<br />
the high rate of student<br />
drop-out at class 8th because<br />
sent to registered families.<br />
The ration to 500 families<br />
was distributed by President<br />
Hamdard foundation by Mrs.<br />
Sadia Rashid and Dr.<br />
Navaid-ul-Zafar, Managing<br />
Hamdard<br />
(Waqf)<br />
Pakistan, at Al-Majeed<br />
Center, Hamdard Nazimabad<br />
No. 3 from 9.30 am to 1.00<br />
pm from Saturday to Sunday.<br />
This was called “Free<br />
Ramadan Ration” with a<br />
theme “that what you eat let<br />
other eat same food”. The<br />
cost of each ration packet is<br />
of their financial inability of<br />
affording the examination<br />
board fee for matriculation<br />
examination.<br />
Members students of<br />
Children's Councils proposed<br />
to ensure implementation of<br />
Sindh Right of Children to<br />
Free and Compulsory<br />
Education Act-2013, in its<br />
true letter and spirit, specifically<br />
Section 10.<br />
They advised to constitute<br />
committees (as provided<br />
under the Ombudsman's Act)<br />
to monitor the working of<br />
government schools specially<br />
posting of teaching staff, etc.<br />
They asked to constitute<br />
committees (as provided<br />
under the Ombudsman's Act)<br />
to ensure imparting formal<br />
and informal education to the<br />
Juvenile with the view to<br />
rehabilitate the Juveniles.<br />
Hamdard Foundation Ration<br />
Distribution Ceremony<br />
KARACHI: Mrs. Sadia Rashid, President Hamdard Foundation Pakistan & Dr. Navaid-ul-<br />
Zafar Managing Director Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan are giving away a Ration<br />
to the woman at Ration Distribution Ceremony was held on Saturday to needy families at<br />
Al-Majeed, Hamdard Center, Nazimabad.<br />
Rs. 5000 which includes<br />
Atta, sugar and can cater 5 to<br />
6 persons. Other 500 families<br />
ration was distributed by<br />
Hamdard Mobile<br />
Dispensaries in urban areas<br />
of Karachi.<br />
The Vice Chancellor<br />
Hamdard University, Prof.<br />
Dr. Hakim Abdul Hannan<br />
distributed ration at the university<br />
premises on same<br />
day. Director General<br />
Foundation Farrukh Imdad &<br />
Syed Muhammad Arsalan<br />
Deputy Director HR was also<br />
present on this occasion.<br />
K-Electric's energy supply increases 5.1%<br />
during the previous year<br />
ended 30 <strong>Jun</strong>e 2014.<br />
KE further highlighted<br />
that a growth of 3.8% was<br />
also witnessed during the<br />
nine months period ended<br />
31st March <strong>2016</strong> as compared<br />
to the corresponding<br />
period ending 31st March<br />
2015. This growth was<br />
made possible due to addition<br />
of steam turbine at<br />
CCPP Korangi and through<br />
enhanced maintenance of<br />
existing fleet. Through various<br />
measures, KE has been<br />
able to increase efficiency,<br />
availability and reliability<br />
of supply.<br />
K-Electric spokesperson<br />
shared, “We have invested<br />
over USD 1.2 billion in our<br />
generation capacity, transmission<br />
networks and distribution<br />
services since<br />
2009. Over the next 5 to 6<br />
years we plan to invest<br />
another $2.2 Billion USD to<br />
further enhance our infrastructure<br />
as part of our aspiration<br />
to become a net<br />
exporter of electricity by<br />
2020.”<br />
Despite the challenging<br />
environment in which KE<br />
operates, the company has<br />
added 1,037 MW in the past<br />
six years and recently commenced<br />
work on $400mn<br />
Transmission upgrade project.<br />
Upcoming initiatives<br />
include a 700MW coalbased<br />
power project at Port<br />
Qasim to diversify the fuel<br />
mix. –PPI<br />
KARACHI: Administrator DMC West, Iqtadar Ahmed inspecting<br />
maintenance work at Kimari work shop.<br />
KARACHI: Provincial Ombudsman, Government of Sindh, Pir Ali Shah along with Deputy Commissioner DMC Malir, Syed<br />
Muhammad Ali Shah, Administrator DMC Malir, Tariq Husain Mughal addressing a ‘Women Have Vital Role in Society's<br />
Progress’ Seminar held at District Malir.
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Teachers stage protest on Lahore's Mall<br />
Road as young nurses call off sit-in<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Teachers on<br />
Saturday demonstrated protest on<br />
Lahore’s Mall Road after young<br />
nurses called off their sit-in.<br />
According to details, the teachers<br />
have staged protest outside Punjab<br />
Assembly against the possible privatization<br />
of government schools and<br />
unemployment.<br />
The protesters have warned of<br />
continuing the protest until the government<br />
accepts their demands.<br />
The continuous protests at Mall<br />
Road have badly irked the citizens<br />
as they are facing difficulties in<br />
moving on the roads due to severe<br />
traffic jam.<br />
Earlier, young nurses ended their<br />
five-day protest against the concerned<br />
department after successful<br />
negotiation.<br />
The staffers had demanded<br />
approval of service structure and<br />
health allowance.<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Pakistan Muslim League<br />
(N) Hyderabad district<br />
president Hanif<br />
Siddiqui,vice president<br />
Abdul Waheed<br />
Inqilabi,taluka Latifabad<br />
president Ayub Rajput,<br />
Imran Ali Qadri, and others<br />
have praised the determination<br />
of Pakistan Army<br />
LAHORE: Teachers hold a demonstration in support of their demands at Faisal Chowk.<br />
Siddiqui terms Army Chief’s determination on PCEC as voice of nation<br />
Chief on Pakistan China<br />
Economic Corridor calling<br />
it as dream of nation<br />
which would be fulfilled<br />
under all circumstances<br />
come what may. Hanif<br />
Siddiqui and other have<br />
said that the statement and<br />
determination of Army<br />
Chief General Raheel<br />
Sharif was voice of nation.<br />
They have saluted him<br />
adding that our brave army<br />
chief is capable of bracing<br />
challenges faced by<br />
nation. They said Pak military<br />
Jawans have given<br />
lot of sacrifices for country<br />
and were not playing<br />
their role to wipe out terrorism<br />
from country. The<br />
army had broken the<br />
strength of enemies of<br />
Pakistan.<br />
An attempt of early age<br />
marriage foiled by police<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
SHIKARPUR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The Thul<br />
police foiled an attempt of marriage<br />
of 10-years old bride with<br />
60-years old groom at village<br />
Naseer Samejo near tehsil Thul<br />
in the jurisdiction of B-Section<br />
Police Station of district<br />
Jacobabad on Saturday.<br />
According to reports,<br />
receiving on the information<br />
about a child bride was being<br />
married with an elderly person,<br />
Thul police conducted a raid at<br />
an ongoing marriage party and<br />
arrested a 60-years old groom<br />
namely Karam Ali Pahore and<br />
rescued a 10-years old bride<br />
namely Gulzadi Pahore and<br />
some marriage participants<br />
while Nikah-Khawan namely<br />
Ameenullah Pahore and the<br />
father of the bride escaped<br />
away from place of marriage<br />
ceremony taking the advantage<br />
of crowed while police foiled<br />
an attempt of illegal marriage.<br />
According to sources, rescued<br />
girl stated that, my parents<br />
have taken Rs0.4 million from<br />
groom Karamullah Pahore for<br />
wedding therefore the marriage<br />
ceremony program held at village<br />
Naseer Sameejo.<br />
While arrested groom was<br />
also confessed that he was paid<br />
Rs0.4 million for marriage to<br />
bride’s father namely Gul<br />
Hassan Pahore.<br />
They have demanded<br />
from Army Chief to take<br />
action against the corrupt<br />
politicians and bureaucrats<br />
and to bring back the looted<br />
money they have kept<br />
abroad. They have also<br />
demanded from NAB to<br />
step up its actions against<br />
corrupt elements so they<br />
can be punished to remove<br />
unrest among people.<br />
Union of Journalists<br />
established in Ubauro<br />
UBAURO, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Journalists of Ubauro on<br />
Saturday established a<br />
union of journalists in their<br />
town named Ubauro Union<br />
of Journalist (UUJ).<br />
A large number of journalists<br />
attended the function<br />
regarding election of officebearers<br />
of the newly established<br />
union.<br />
In election following<br />
office-bearers were elected:<br />
Nazeer Ahmed Malik as<br />
president, Abdul Hai as<br />
senior vice president, Asif<br />
Ali Sammo as vice president,<br />
Gulam Qambar as<br />
general secretary, Muzaffar<br />
Husain Charan as joint secretary,<br />
Abdullah Chahcar as<br />
deputy joint secretary,<br />
Muhammad Imran Malik as<br />
finance secretary, and<br />
Muhammad Ali Malik as<br />
information secretary.<br />
The members of core<br />
committee (CC) of UUJ<br />
were also elected. Abdul<br />
Basit Bhutto has been elected<br />
as the chairman of CC,<br />
Muhammad Saleem Malik<br />
as vice chairman, and Abdul<br />
Rasool Malik, Abdul Razaq<br />
Nehar, Bashir Ahmed<br />
Malik, Iqbal Araheen,<br />
Habib-ur-Rehman Chachar<br />
and Momen Mazari as the<br />
members of core committee.<br />
On this occasion newly<br />
elected office-bearers said<br />
that journalists face many<br />
difficulties when they<br />
expose different societal<br />
issues, adding the journalists<br />
are targeted by police,<br />
feudal lords and antisocial<br />
elements.<br />
KHAIRPUR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The Two<br />
M. Phil Seminars were held in<br />
the Department of Zoology,<br />
Shah Abdul Latif University,<br />
Khairpur presided over by<br />
Prof. Dr. Yasmeen Faiz Kazi,<br />
Dean, Faculty of Natural<br />
Sciences. Both seminars were<br />
supervised by Dr. Nadir Ali<br />
Birmani and co-supervised by<br />
Dr. Abdul Manan Shaikh. The<br />
first seminar was delivered by<br />
Ms. Faiza Shah Bukhari on<br />
Community Structure of<br />
Helminth Parasites of Fresh<br />
Water Fish Amia Calva L.<br />
(Amiiformes Amiidae) of<br />
District Sukkur, Sindh.<br />
Ms. Faiza Shah said, Fish<br />
diversity is roughly divided<br />
similarly between marine and<br />
freshwater habitats and there<br />
are more than 186 freshwater<br />
species described from freshwater<br />
habitsts of Pakistan. She<br />
said, during the research on<br />
the helminth parasites of<br />
freshwater fish Amia Calva<br />
Pre-Ramazan hike:<br />
Rates of vegetables<br />
soar in Sindh<br />
TALHAR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Prices of<br />
vegetables have gone up in<br />
whole Sindh province,<br />
which the consumers term a<br />
pre-Ramazan hike and traditional<br />
negligence of government.<br />
The prices of vegetables<br />
have been artificially<br />
hiked from 100 to<br />
200percent in the wake of<br />
bad governance at its<br />
height. Potatoes and opinions<br />
are being sold at<br />
Rs40per kilogram, tomatoes<br />
at Rs80, lady finger at<br />
Rs100 and green chilies at<br />
Rs200 per kilogram. It is<br />
learnt that wholesalers of<br />
vegetables have unilaterally<br />
raised the rates of vegetables<br />
as no practical writ<br />
of government is found in<br />
this region.<br />
However, the concerned<br />
departments of the Sindh<br />
government are in their<br />
deep slumber and there is<br />
no government-level mechanism<br />
to control prices.<br />
Our Correspondent<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Women from Tando Qaiser<br />
near Hyderabad held protest<br />
demonstration in front of<br />
press club here against atrocities<br />
of Tando Jam police.<br />
Talking with media Ms.<br />
(Amiiformes: Amiidae) of<br />
Sukkur, a total 41 host fishes<br />
were randomly collected from<br />
different fresh water habitats.<br />
During the examination of gut<br />
contents and visceral organs,<br />
73 % of hosts were found<br />
infected with variety of<br />
helminth parasites.<br />
The second seminar was<br />
delivered by Ms. Moomal<br />
Memon on Systematic Studies<br />
of Helminth Parasites of<br />
JKLF chairman arrested in Srinagar,<br />
demos staged against arrest<br />
SRINAGAR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: In occupied<br />
Kashmir, Indian police<br />
arrested the Chairman of<br />
Jammu and Kashmir<br />
Liberation Front (JKLF),<br />
Muhammad Yasin Malik, in<br />
Srinagar,on Saturday.<br />
According to details, the<br />
police took Yasin Malik into<br />
custody from his residence<br />
in Maisuma, an area of<br />
Srinagar minutes after he<br />
addressed a press conference.<br />
During the presser, the<br />
JKLF Chairman had strongly<br />
condemned the puppet<br />
JAMSHORO, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Upon<br />
arrival of dead body of Prof.<br />
Dr. Abida Taherani, Vice-<br />
Chancellor, University of<br />
Sindh, Jamshoro in the early<br />
hours of Saturday morning<br />
at Jinnah International<br />
Airport, Karachi; the same<br />
was brought in a swarming<br />
number of teachers, officers,<br />
intellectuals, civil society<br />
House Crow (Corvus<br />
Splendens Vieillot, 1817)<br />
(Passeriformes: Corvidae) in<br />
Khairpur, Sindh.<br />
Ms. Moomal Memon said,<br />
House Crow is very intelligent<br />
bird non-migratory in nature.<br />
It feeds on foods scraps and<br />
trash from garbage cans largely<br />
on refuse around human<br />
habitations, small reptiles,<br />
insects and other small invertebrates,<br />
eggs, nestlings,<br />
authorities for imposing<br />
curbs on pro-freedom leaders<br />
terming the action as<br />
Ghunda Raj. Yasin Malik<br />
said that he would strive for<br />
forging greater unity among<br />
the pro-freedom organizations<br />
even if he was put in<br />
jail for ten years.<br />
He was released last<br />
evening after illegal detention<br />
of over a week. People<br />
took to streets and staged<br />
demonstrations in Maisuma<br />
after the arrest of Yasin<br />
Malik. They clashed with<br />
Indian troops and policemen<br />
leaders, community chieftains,<br />
employees, community<br />
members and students<br />
first to the Vice-Chancellor<br />
House and later it was taken<br />
to its burial site i.e. ‘the<br />
vicinity of Allama I.I. Kazi<br />
Mausoleum’. Here, her<br />
funeral prayers and last rituals<br />
were performed and she<br />
was laid to rest amid sighs,<br />
sobs, tears, whimpers and<br />
cries. At this point, flower<br />
wreaths and bouquets were<br />
placed on her coffin by<br />
prominent personalities.<br />
After the burial ceremony,<br />
all present proceeded to<br />
Vice-Chancellor House to<br />
join in invocation of collective<br />
prayer and funeral meal.<br />
A joint condolence meeting<br />
will be organized on<br />
Monday 6th <strong>Jun</strong>e at 8:30 am<br />
at Shaikh Ayaz Auditorium<br />
in Arts Faculty Building of<br />
the University by Sindh<br />
University Teachers,<br />
Officers and Employees<br />
grains and fruits.<br />
Prof. Dr. Yasmeen Faiz<br />
Kazi said, lauded the efforts of<br />
Department of Zoology for the<br />
promotion of the research culture.<br />
She said, both research<br />
scholars presented their<br />
research in befitting manner.<br />
Prof. Dr. Ghulam Abbas<br />
Shar, Director, ORIC said,<br />
praised the research work presented<br />
by the scholars. He<br />
said, we are encouraging the<br />
deployed in the area. Indian<br />
forces' personnel fired teargas<br />
shells to disperse the<br />
protesters.<br />
Meanwhile, complete<br />
shutdown was observed in<br />
the area against the nocturnal<br />
raids by the police. All<br />
shops and business establishments<br />
remained closed.<br />
People had staged forceful<br />
demonstrations in the area<br />
late Friday night to protest<br />
against nocturnal raids. The<br />
demonstrators raised forceful<br />
anti-India and pro-freedom<br />
slogans.<br />
VC SU Dr. Taherani laid to rest<br />
Mumtaz wife of Mahmood<br />
Nizamani told that on 8 May<br />
<strong>2016</strong> a dispute had taken<br />
place which turned into<br />
bloody one over ownership of<br />
peace of land during which<br />
her brother Saleem,Shahzor<br />
were injured. She told that<br />
they lodged report against the<br />
assailants Wahid, Shakil,<br />
Javed and others but Tando<br />
Jam police instead of arresting<br />
accused persons picked<br />
up her injured brothers<br />
Saleem,Shahzor and Azeem.<br />
She said after arrest of their<br />
men only women remain in<br />
homes. She said now police<br />
Associations. Later in the<br />
evening, Quran Khuwani<br />
will take place at Vice-<br />
Chancellor House between<br />
Asr and Maghrib prayers,<br />
which will be followed by<br />
Soyam Ceremony. The campus<br />
atmosphere remained<br />
under a heavy gall of grief<br />
and gloom during her last<br />
rituals and throughout the<br />
day, as wave after wave of<br />
people who held Dr.<br />
Taherani close to their heart<br />
and in high esteem thronged<br />
Vice-Chancellor’s House at<br />
the Varsity Campus to offer<br />
their condolences and partake<br />
pain with the bereaved<br />
family.<br />
Tando Qaiser women protest against police atrocities<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: On<br />
orders of City Police<br />
Officer (CPO) Israar<br />
Ahmad Khan Abbasi all<br />
preparations to fool proof<br />
security had completed for<br />
the holy month of security.<br />
Ramadan.<br />
About 3500 police officials,<br />
including workers,<br />
and lady police were doing<br />
their duty outside the<br />
mosques, religious places<br />
and in the low sailed<br />
Ramadan Bazaars.<br />
Provincial peace committee<br />
and regional members<br />
of mosques committee<br />
were also taking part for<br />
better security to citizens.<br />
2088 mosques and 87<br />
imam bargahein were<br />
pointed out for fool proof<br />
Only one gate<br />
has been opened for entering<br />
inside and coming outside<br />
and no one will be<br />
allowed to go inside without<br />
search and metal<br />
detector checking.<br />
No parking will be<br />
allowed outside the religious<br />
places. Suspicious<br />
bags, persons, and material<br />
were especially<br />
checked .Also CCTV<br />
cameras and security<br />
guards were held outside<br />
the religious places.<br />
Loud speaker and<br />
sound ordinance will<br />
strongly be implemented<br />
and if anyone violates the<br />
rules, strict orders have<br />
taken against it.<br />
SPs, SDPOs, and SHOs<br />
in their adjoining areas<br />
make execution of fool<br />
proof security.<br />
16 low sailed Ramadan<br />
bazaars will have been<br />
was harassing the women by<br />
intruding their homes and<br />
searching. She demanded<br />
from higher authorities to<br />
take notice and stop police<br />
harassing women of their<br />
tribe and also to release their<br />
men as also arrest the culprits<br />
nominated in case.<br />
Security plan announces for Ramadhan<br />
introducing in the holy<br />
month at which police officers,<br />
and lady police done<br />
their duties for the protection<br />
of citizens .CCTV<br />
cameras and guards were<br />
also held in shopping centers<br />
to protect citizen from<br />
any harmful damage .CPO<br />
Rawalpindi said that city<br />
police will doing his job<br />
with full responsibility and<br />
delegation to provide security<br />
to common man in the<br />
Ramadan with their routine<br />
professional work.<br />
–Online<br />
Two M. Phil seminars held in Department of Zoology<br />
KHAIRPUR: Prof. Dr. Yasmeen Faiz Kazi, Prof. Dr. Ghulam Abbas Shar, Dr. Abdul Manan Shaikh and Scholars speaks during<br />
the M.Phil seminars held in the Department of Zoology, Shah Abdul Latif University.<br />
research culture in the<br />
University.<br />
Dr. Abdul Manan Shaikh,<br />
Chairman, Department of<br />
Zoology briefed the audience<br />
about the academic and<br />
research activities of the<br />
Department. He also shed<br />
light on the topics. The seminars<br />
were declared as successful.<br />
A large number of teachers,<br />
researchers and students<br />
attended the seminars.
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EDITORIAL<br />
Least democratic parties top rulers:<br />
Pls give nation a change, for God's sake!<br />
SURPRISING facts with dark truths have again<br />
emerged as a reminder that second largest party<br />
Paksitan Muslim League (of sitting Prime Minister<br />
Nawaz Sharif) now ruling Islamabad is the least democratic<br />
party in the country.<br />
NEWS, aside above fact people claim to be well known<br />
by them, also reminded that least democratic parties also<br />
included Pakistan People's Party (of Bhuttos, and now of<br />
Zardaris) regarded as #1 and largest party claimed to be<br />
enjoying nationwide vote and support, unlike many other<br />
parties limited to provincial politics, force and influence.<br />
OUTRAGEOUS, unbelievable and ridiculous enough:<br />
That's what those two majority parties on top of many successive<br />
rules, years long compiled voter lists and vote bank,<br />
may exclaim along with their long chain of fervent followers<br />
and loyalists. Opponents have already shrugged off as<br />
quite accurate, honest and true this survey by Pakistan<br />
Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency<br />
(PILDAT) in their second annual report released recently<br />
about the internal democracy within political parties of<br />
Pakistan.<br />
SERIES of questions, like before, now arise after disclosure<br />
of this news. Could such an incredible "discovery" be<br />
credible? Sources close to leaders of parties branded as least<br />
democratic may traditionally toss off such reports as cheap<br />
tactics and the survey news as unauthentic and challenged.<br />
Their adversaries and many from this silently suffering<br />
nation against corrupt politics may continue to consider this<br />
survey as more or less honest and true enough. Why could<br />
not an Election Commission of Pakistan change and reform<br />
its polling system for better? In fact, both the two top parties<br />
PML-N and PPP(B or Z) mercilessly defeated many reform<br />
drives of PAT and PTI parties and their supporters in big rallies<br />
in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta in<br />
the past. PPP dishonored its accord with Pakistan Awami<br />
Tehreek of Allama Dr Professor Tahir ul Qadri and Nawaz<br />
League toyed with and compromised Pakistan Tehreek e<br />
Insaaf led by sports ace and world cup winner turned politician<br />
Imran Khan, on electoral reforms that are still believed<br />
to never come about, despite some investigative concessions<br />
and ballot cast in disputed constituencies.<br />
PILDAT survey may be a little indicator only to prove<br />
helplessness of a nation kept politically enslaved and economically<br />
dependent, though more educated people in<br />
urban and developed cities and towns are more aware of<br />
their own predicament than mostly rural illiterates in under<br />
developed areas, villages and shanty towns spread throughout<br />
Pakistan. Tragic though but frustrating is continuation of<br />
least democratic methods sliding a Pakistani nation down to<br />
quite a lowly and hence lamenting position, a dismal one<br />
compared to free, independent, law abiding and democratic<br />
rules elsewhere in more educated, disciplined and civilized<br />
societies around the world.<br />
PROBLEMS glare as this nation cannot progress or<br />
prosper when these two top political parties namely #1<br />
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) founded by a great leader<br />
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto from Sindh and #2 Pakistan Muslim<br />
League (Nawaz) are described as being among least democratic<br />
parties and as long as PPP and PML-N fail to hold<br />
genuine and authentic elections within their own parties,<br />
before they can proclaim their rule as democratic as few can<br />
believe or accept it without those recommended inter-party<br />
By Mustapha Karkouti<br />
While the United States has resigned from its role<br />
as the leading world champion, it shouldn’t be<br />
surprising to see how this action has created an<br />
unprecedented vacuum, with dangerous and even evil powers<br />
queuing up to fill that void. This sadly has been the case<br />
in the Middle East and Europe and even in some parts of<br />
Africa over the last few years. Having reached the dying<br />
days of his second and final term, US President Barack<br />
Obama’s administration is clearly going down the route, in<br />
the eyes of so many the world over, of a declining power.<br />
It was clear from the early days of his first term that the<br />
American president wanted to opt out of the world’s crises<br />
— whether in Afghanistan, Iraq and even Europe. Of<br />
course, as chief-of-staff of the only super power, it is his<br />
responsibility to decide on the best course of action to serve<br />
his country’interests first. His intention was made clear that<br />
he wanted to pull his country out from the quagmires of the<br />
war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost US tax payers<br />
more than $3 trillion (Dh11 trillion) causing the largest<br />
deficit ever seen inAmerica’s history since the great depression<br />
of 1930s. Some 15 million Americans were unemployed<br />
and nearly half of the country’s banks collapsed and<br />
the economy did not fully turn around until 1939, when the<br />
Second World War infused life back into America’s industries.<br />
Contrary to his predecessors, Obama’s policy of constraints<br />
defined his administration almost right from the<br />
beginning. For many, particularlyArabs, theAmerican president<br />
brought hope and vision to help steer the region away<br />
from the misery of wars to the road to peace, stability and<br />
prosperity. There are many reasons for that:<br />
First, in one of the major initiatives that the Obama<br />
administration took, just days after Obama moved into the<br />
White House on January 29, 2009, Hisham Melhem — the<br />
Washington D.C.-based chief-of-bureau of Saudi-owned<br />
pan-Arab satellite news channel Al Arabiya — was invited<br />
to interview the newly-elected president. He was intentionally<br />
picked from among hundreds of White House correspondents<br />
to convey the president’s message to theArab and<br />
Muslim worlds. Al Arabia was seen then as a prominent<br />
voice of moderation in the Middle East, presenting calmer<br />
elections.<br />
ONE-MAN-SHOW is quite common in subcontinental<br />
culture, as a legacy of kingly imperial dynasties, rules of<br />
feudal nawab and jagirdar warlords, big land and estate<br />
owners with large armies of loyal cronies and yes-men who<br />
ran up and down to serve their feeding master's every whim<br />
and pleasure. That natural inheritance in behavior of masses<br />
now continues from past many centuries up until now in<br />
this 21st century, though democracy was introduced in postindependence<br />
subcontinent that included India and<br />
Pakistan.<br />
PERSONALIZED-POLITICS mentality of majority of<br />
masses, individualized cults, followers' shooting up their<br />
leaders to top most heights, some people worshiping the<br />
corrupt leaders and deceptive anti-people politicians as<br />
being next to God are among an immature subcontinental<br />
"culture". It was inherited by local "black angrez" warriors<br />
who are big lords with a vast land divided between themselves<br />
and heirs to white English masters who once ruled<br />
them. The foreigner white masters could be fought and left<br />
their country but black angrez remained and cannot be told<br />
to leave their own country. People are therefore frustrated on<br />
what to do with them: With their enormous wealth, they<br />
directly or indirectly rule Pakistan, as they can and do make<br />
politicians to rule Pakistan the way they like, regardless of<br />
democracy. Otherwise, the big landlords and real estate<br />
owners with sheer might of their money, assets and wealth<br />
do isolate, defeat or retire any challenger politicians. This is<br />
a culture in which drastic changes were long overdue and<br />
reforms were needed in this respect. Other parties and leaders<br />
may raise voice and fight this least democratic trend and<br />
one man show or personalized politics, without desired<br />
results, as a single digit beneficiaries of this least democratic<br />
civilian rule with electoral frauds is stronger than real<br />
votes of majority of masses, misused and discarded, in<br />
Pakistan. Give people a change.<br />
FAKE-POLLS conducted within parties, aside deceitful<br />
national election frauds tracked down by officials and investigators,<br />
is another issue to be dealt with. Parties engage in<br />
fake inter-party voting as a showy exercise of little worth or<br />
value without desired democratic significance, despite<br />
claims by party leaders ot the contrary.<br />
SOLUTION is to reform parties, get rid of one man<br />
rule -- though a central or main party leader is almost<br />
always deemed to be necessary under these peculiar<br />
circumstances. And to facilitate and hold genuine free<br />
and fair polling of party members without fear or hindrance<br />
under suitable monitoring to block personal<br />
preferences by party leaders and administrators. It's<br />
also a bigger issue and necessity to to institute electoral<br />
reforms as an expediency now to hold free, fair, independent<br />
and transparent national elections in provinces<br />
and countrywide. These two elections, in these parties<br />
and throughout this country, must not be a facial makeup<br />
without cleansing of systemic dirt inside. That can<br />
be cleansed before anything else. A right and transparent<br />
system with accountability can change a decaying<br />
and closed system without accountability. A simple and<br />
final solution always suggested to cure a permanent<br />
disease of "less democracy" -- like it's in parties and<br />
elections in Pakistan -- is to have a permanent medicine<br />
and cure of "more democracy"!<br />
OPINION<br />
Obama will be remembered for his failures<br />
analysis than what many considered its rival and more sensational<br />
Al Jazeera was doing. Significantly, Obama said in<br />
his interview: “My job is to communicate the fact that the<br />
United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim<br />
world, that the language we use has to be a language of<br />
respect. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that<br />
the Americans are not your enemy.”<br />
Second, on the back of this remarkable interview, Obama<br />
held important head-to-head meetings in the White House<br />
with King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister<br />
Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud<br />
Abbas. But his most significant move came on <strong>Jun</strong>e 4, 2009,<br />
when he delivered a wide-ranging speech, titled ‘A new<br />
beginning’, from the Major Reception Hall at Cairo<br />
University.AlAzhar University co-hosted the event. Obama<br />
reached out to the Muslim world and said he was seeking “a<br />
new way forward, based on mutual respect and mutual interest”.<br />
He also said he was willing to “extend a hand” to those<br />
“who clinch power through corruption and deceit, if they are<br />
willing to unclench their fists”. On March 19, 2009, Obama<br />
continued his outreach even to Iran, whose leadership<br />
rebuffed him promptly. The Cairo speech came about in<br />
response to a promise that Obama had made during his presidential<br />
campaign, to deliver a major address to Muslims<br />
from a Muslim capital during his first few months as president.<br />
He spoke in his speech about putting an end to his<br />
country’s wars in the region and beyond, achieving Arab-<br />
Israeli peace in his first term based on the Saudi peace initiative<br />
of 2002, engaging Syria and Iran and helping Arabs<br />
who rebelled against despots. Third, the American president<br />
has certainly earned wide-ranging international respect as a<br />
result of his statements and diplomatic moves before the<br />
first year of his presidency even ended. In fact, the 2009<br />
Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on October 9 to Obama for<br />
“extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy<br />
and cooperation between people”, the Norwegian Nobel<br />
Prize Committee declared. The committee cited Obama’s<br />
promotion of nuclear non-proliferation, but more importantly,<br />
the committee highlighted the “new climate in international<br />
relations” fostered by Obama, particularly in “reaching<br />
out to the Muslim World”.<br />
50,000 students getting Technical Training<br />
Colleges, Training Centers in Sindh: MD STEVTA<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
CHAKWAL, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Former<br />
Federal Minister Lt Gen (R)<br />
Abdul Majeed Malik has<br />
died due to heart attack in<br />
Chakwal.<br />
His funeral was offered at<br />
his native village Jand<br />
Awan, Chakwal on Saturday<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Managing Director Sindh<br />
Technical Education and<br />
Vocational Training Authority<br />
S.M.Kaleem Makki has said<br />
that around 50,000 boy and<br />
girl students were getting technical<br />
education and training in<br />
251 colleges and centers in<br />
Sindh. Yet there was need to<br />
give technical training and<br />
education to more youth for<br />
which media cooperation is<br />
needed as he said it was<br />
through media that our youth<br />
can make their future bright.<br />
This he said while talking with<br />
media at Technical College for<br />
women at Affendi town<br />
Hyderabad. On this occasion<br />
Nazir Ahmed Channa director<br />
operation, Dr. Lubna<br />
Mahmood, Ms. Shahana<br />
director Hyderabad and others<br />
were present . He said BA and<br />
MApass young men can hardly<br />
get jobs while those getting<br />
technical education can easily<br />
have reach to self employ-<br />
HYDERABAD: MD SVETA, SM Kaleem Makki visiting Technical College for women.<br />
ment. To a question he said<br />
there happen to be 70% boys<br />
while 30% girls. He assured<br />
,computers. To a question<br />
about corruption in his department<br />
he said he would adopt<br />
mentioned here that most of<br />
this amount has been spent on<br />
renovation of Technical college<br />
the principal of technical college<br />
such foolproof methods<br />
of boys Wahdat colony<br />
for women that he would<br />
see if he can enhance the<br />
against such menace which he<br />
said has taken shape of international<br />
Hyderabad. Deputy director of<br />
department at Hyderabad Ms.<br />
budget and other facilities for<br />
phenomenon. Shahana told this reporter that<br />
girls. He visited various sections<br />
of college where girls<br />
were busy getting training on<br />
sewing machines, embroidery<br />
However he did could not<br />
answer to point about corruption<br />
of Rs.155 millions rupees<br />
in his department. It may be<br />
she would look into the allegations<br />
of corruption in repair<br />
work of colleges/centers and<br />
purchase of equipments.<br />
Former Federal Minister<br />
Abdul Majeed Malik dies<br />
Sawan Khaskheli<br />
BADIN <strong>Jun</strong> 4: According to<br />
details, poor peasant of village<br />
Baqar Mori, Mr. Noor<br />
Hassan Lashari along with his<br />
spouse and kids protested<br />
against the land lord and<br />
Badin police in-front of<br />
Badin Press Club.<br />
While holding the press<br />
afternoon.<br />
M e a n w h i l e , P r i m e<br />
Minister Muhammad Nawaz<br />
Sharif has expressed deep<br />
sorrow and grief over the<br />
demise of former Federal<br />
Minister Lt. Gen. (R) Abdul<br />
Majeed Malik.<br />
conference, Mr. Noor Hassan<br />
Lashari told the media that he<br />
along with his family is living<br />
in Badin but influential land<br />
lord with support of Badin<br />
police pressurized them to<br />
leave their plot otherwise face<br />
hard consequences.<br />
Land lord, Mr. Soomro<br />
Lashari, Hassan Lashari and<br />
According to a statement<br />
issued from Lahore on<br />
Saturday, the Prime Minister<br />
sympathized with the<br />
bereaved family and paid<br />
tributes to the political and<br />
social services of former<br />
Minister.<br />
Peasant along with family<br />
protests against landlord<br />
Our Correspondent<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4,:<br />
Retired employees of<br />
Pakistan Telecommunications<br />
Company Limited observed<br />
token hunger strike in front of<br />
press club here Saturday<br />
against non- payment of<br />
enhanced pensions to them<br />
under orders of Supreme<br />
Court. The hunger strike was<br />
led by Mansoor Bhatti and<br />
Mazhar Mangi and was<br />
joined by Azam Qureshi,<br />
Najeeb Rehman, Nadeem<br />
Thathvi,<br />
Usman<br />
Iqbal,Rafiqullah, Shafiq Beg,<br />
Farooq Boota, Nazir Memon<br />
and Shabihul Hassan and others.<br />
They told that 40,000<br />
pensioners and 15000 widows<br />
have been deprived of payment<br />
of pensions allowed to<br />
be increased by apex court in<br />
its decision on 12-06-2015.<br />
They said even Senate and<br />
National Assembly have<br />
issued orders to PTCL for<br />
payment of pensions according<br />
to orders of Supreme<br />
others wish to occupy<br />
forcibly their plots with support<br />
of police, they alleged.<br />
They alleged that influential<br />
land lord threatened them to<br />
bitter consequences if they<br />
were not leave the plot. They<br />
appealed the from high ups to<br />
rid them from cruel land lord<br />
and provide them protection.<br />
G-14/4 tube well of Sector restored<br />
ISLAMABAD <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Tube well of Sector<br />
G-14/4 has been restored and supply of<br />
water reinstated to the areas.<br />
Director General Housing Foundation<br />
under the directives of Federal Minister for<br />
Housing and Works and Senate Standing<br />
Committee, the water supply system was<br />
restored to provide water to the residents.<br />
Director General Housing Foundation<br />
has also issued directives to install three<br />
new tube wells to overcome the shortage of<br />
water in Sector G/13. Tender notices regarding<br />
installation of new tube wells have been<br />
published in newspapers.<br />
Apart from that, action was taken against<br />
encroachments including commercial and<br />
residences houses in Sector G/13 and G-<br />
14/4.<br />
Contractor expedited the work due to<br />
which infrastructure work has been accomplished<br />
in streets while possession letters<br />
are being given to the allottees.<br />
PTCL pensioners token hunger strike<br />
against non payment of enhanced pensions<br />
Court of Pakistan.<br />
They warned if their<br />
demands were not met they<br />
would march from Karachi<br />
to Khyber and if yet if<br />
Gilani calls for<br />
boycott of sham poll<br />
in Islamabad district<br />
SRINAGAR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: In occupied<br />
Kashmir, the All Parties<br />
Hurriyet Conference Chairman,<br />
Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to<br />
the people of Islamabad district<br />
to boycott the so-called<br />
Assembly elections in the constituency<br />
scheduled to be held<br />
on <strong>Jun</strong>e 22.<br />
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement<br />
issued in Srinagar said,<br />
“We have a set policy regarding<br />
every type of election drama<br />
held in Kashmir, Instead of a<br />
democratic practice, elections in<br />
Kashmir in presence of 10 lakh<br />
heavily armed Indian troops are<br />
just military exercises and India<br />
uses it as an argument in the<br />
international forums to justify<br />
its forced control on Kashmir<br />
and portrays it as referendum of<br />
the Kashmiri people in its<br />
favour.” He challenged the pro-<br />
India parties and the authorities<br />
to remove thousands of forces<br />
camps from civil populations,<br />
release pro-freedom leaders, lift<br />
ban on Hurriyet activities and<br />
let the people decide freely then<br />
it will no more be possible for<br />
them to hold election dramas in<br />
the territory.<br />
Youth dies after<br />
falling down from<br />
tractor trolley<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
SHIKARPUR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: A<br />
youth identified as Bahadur<br />
Lashari of 28, resident of<br />
village Jan Muhammad<br />
Lashari was died after fallen<br />
down from speeding tractor<br />
trolley at Indus highway in<br />
the limits of Dakhan Police<br />
Station of district Shikarpur<br />
on Saturday.<br />
The dead body of the<br />
deceased handed over to his<br />
relatives after conducting an<br />
autopsy from Rural Health<br />
Centre [RHC] Dakhan.<br />
demands were not met the<br />
pensioners of PTCL would<br />
observe hunger strike unto<br />
death at D chowk<br />
Islamabad.<br />
HYDERABAD: Members of All Pakistan PTCL Pensioners Action Committee chant slogans<br />
against non-payment of their dues during protest demonstration at Hyderabad press club.
Sunday, <strong>Jun</strong>e 5, <strong>2016</strong><br />
International<br />
5<br />
Over 17,000 homes in and around Paris remain without electricity<br />
Paris floods: Seine level starts<br />
dropping after 30-year high<br />
Paris museums move artworks to safety as Seine river keeps rising<br />
PARIS, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The levels of<br />
the River Seine in Paris have<br />
started dropping slightly after<br />
reaching a 34-year high on<br />
Saturday.<br />
The river level rose to 6.1m<br />
(20ft) above its normal height<br />
overnight.<br />
Floods also forced parts of<br />
the metro system and major<br />
landmarks to close, while the<br />
Louvre and Orsay museums<br />
were shut while staff moved<br />
art to safety.<br />
Despite the water level<br />
falling on Saturday morning,<br />
Paris remains under the second-highest<br />
alert, which warns<br />
of a "significant impact".<br />
Forecasters had warned the<br />
river could reach as high as<br />
6.5m above it normal level.<br />
France's environment ministry<br />
said the floods now<br />
appeared to have peaked and<br />
would remain stable over the<br />
weekend before retreating further.<br />
Prime Minister Manuel<br />
AMMAN, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The Syrian<br />
army has crossed the boundary<br />
of Raqqa province after<br />
advancing in a major Russianbacked<br />
offensive against<br />
Islamic State militants, the<br />
Valls said four people had died<br />
and 42 were injured across the<br />
country.<br />
At least 18 people have<br />
died across central Europe as<br />
Syrian Observatory for<br />
Human Rights, a group that<br />
monitors the war, said on<br />
Saturday. Heavy Russian air<br />
strikes hit Islamic State-held<br />
territory in eastern areas of<br />
heavy rainfall caused flooding<br />
from France to Ukraine.<br />
A woman in her 60s<br />
drowned in France's central<br />
Loiret region, while a man in<br />
Syria's Hama province, near<br />
the boundary of Raqqa<br />
province, on Friday and the<br />
army reached the edge of the<br />
province.<br />
Raqqa city, further east, is<br />
his 70s fell from a horse and<br />
drowned in a river south-east<br />
of Paris.<br />
Eleven were killed in<br />
southern Germany as several<br />
Islamic State's de facto capital<br />
in Syria and, along with Mosul<br />
in Iraq, the ultimate target of<br />
those seeking to destroy the<br />
group's self-declared caliphate.<br />
Syrian army spokesmen<br />
were not immediately available<br />
for comment.<br />
The Syrian army offensive<br />
is the third big assault on the<br />
self-proclaimed caliphate in<br />
recent days after Iraqi forces<br />
attempted to storm a city and a<br />
Syrian militia advanced with<br />
U.S. support.<br />
The three big offensives are<br />
some of the most aggressive<br />
campaigns against Islamic<br />
State since it declared its aim<br />
to rule over all Muslims from<br />
parts of Iraq and Syria two<br />
years ago.<br />
towns were devastated. On<br />
Friday night, 51 people were<br />
injured by lightning strikes at<br />
the Rock am Ring music festival<br />
in western Germany.<br />
Two more fatalities were<br />
reported in Romania and one<br />
in Belgium. Austria, the<br />
Netherlands and Poland have<br />
also been affected.<br />
Tens of thousands of people<br />
have been forced from<br />
their homes.<br />
While the waters in Paris<br />
appear to be dropping, the<br />
floods are still affecting transport<br />
in the capital, with four of<br />
the city's rail lines not running<br />
on Saturday morning.<br />
Elsewhere, French media<br />
say the focus is shifting to<br />
communities further downstream<br />
on the Seine, including<br />
the northern city of Rouen.<br />
Some further rain is expected<br />
in central France.<br />
Over 17,000 homes in and<br />
around Paris remain without<br />
electricity.<br />
Argentine president<br />
Syrian army enters Raqqa province in Macri treated for<br />
'mild' heart problem<br />
offensive against Islamic State<br />
BUENOS AIRES, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
TAIPEI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: On the<br />
anniversary of China's bloody<br />
crackdown on student-led<br />
protests in and around<br />
Beijing's Tiananmen Square,<br />
Taiwan's new president told<br />
China on Saturday that<br />
democracy is nothing to fear.<br />
Tsai Ing-wen said in a<br />
Facebook post on the 27th<br />
anniversary that Taiwan<br />
could serve as an example to<br />
China.<br />
Tsai said in the run-up to<br />
Taiwan's elections earlier this<br />
year she had seen people<br />
from from China, as well as<br />
the Chinese territories of<br />
Hong Kong and Macau, mixing<br />
with crowds in Taiwan.<br />
"These many friends, after<br />
experiencing things for themselves<br />
can see that in fact<br />
there's nothing scary about<br />
democracy. Democracy is a<br />
good and fine thing," wrote<br />
Tsai, who took office last<br />
month.<br />
China sent in tanks to<br />
PARIS: View of the flooded river-side of the River Seine near the Eiffel tower in Paris,<br />
France, after days of almost non-stop rain caused flooding in the country.<br />
Democracy is nothing to fear, Taiwan<br />
tells China on Tiananmen anniversary<br />
break up demonstrations on<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 4, 1989. Beijing has<br />
never released a death toll but<br />
estimates from human rights<br />
groups and witnesses range<br />
from several hundred to several<br />
thousand.<br />
The subject remains all but<br />
taboo in China, where<br />
President Xi Jinping is overseeing<br />
a broad crackdown on<br />
rights groups and activists.<br />
Tsai also said in her<br />
Facebook post about the<br />
Tiananmen crackdown's<br />
anniversary that nobody<br />
SINGAPORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
United States stepped up pressure<br />
on China on Saturday to<br />
rein in its actions in the South<br />
China Sea, with top defense<br />
officials underlining<br />
Washington's military superiority<br />
and vowing to remain<br />
the main guarantor of Asian<br />
security for decades to come.<br />
Defense Secretary Ash<br />
Carter said the U.S. approach<br />
to the Asia-Pacific remained<br />
"one of commitment, strength<br />
and inclusion", but he also<br />
warned China against<br />
provocative behavior in the<br />
South China Sea.<br />
Any action by China to<br />
reclaim land in the<br />
Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop<br />
in the disputed sea,<br />
would have consequences,<br />
Carter said.<br />
"I hope that this development<br />
doesn't occur, because it<br />
will result in actions being<br />
taken by the both United<br />
States and ... by others in the<br />
region which would have the<br />
effect of not only increasing<br />
tensions but isolating China,"<br />
Carter told the Shangri-La<br />
Dialogue, a regional security<br />
forum in Singapore.<br />
"The United States will<br />
remain the most powerful<br />
military and main underwriter<br />
of security in the region for<br />
decades to come – and there<br />
should be no doubt about<br />
that."<br />
could deny the material<br />
advances China had made<br />
under the Communist Party.<br />
However, China would<br />
win even more respect internationally<br />
if it gave its people<br />
even more rights, wrote Tsai,<br />
who is from Taiwan's proindependence<br />
Democratic<br />
Progressive Party.<br />
Taiwan is the only part of<br />
the Chinese-speaking world<br />
which holds free elections,<br />
and Tsai risks upsetting<br />
Beijing with her frank<br />
remarks on Tiananmen.<br />
President says Somalia<br />
will select new parliament<br />
due in August<br />
MOGADISHU, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Somalia will choose a new<br />
parliament as planned later<br />
this year and the president<br />
and regional leaders will<br />
meet on <strong>Jun</strong>e 20 to discuss<br />
how future lawmakers will<br />
be selected as there will not<br />
be a popular vote, the president's<br />
office said.<br />
Somalia abandoned its<br />
plan to hold a popular vote in<br />
<strong>2016</strong> last July. The current<br />
government and parliament's<br />
term ends in August and new<br />
lawmakers are due to be chosen<br />
in the same month.<br />
In its last elections, in<br />
2012, members of parliament<br />
were chosen by elders<br />
and then those lawmakers<br />
chose Hassan Sheikh<br />
Mohamud as president. It<br />
was Somalia's first vote<br />
since 1991, when warlords<br />
ousted president Mohamed<br />
Siad Barre, plunging the<br />
country into years of war and<br />
chaos.<br />
Argentine President<br />
Mauricio Macri was taken to<br />
hospital on Friday to be evaluated<br />
by doctors after he suffered<br />
a "mild arrhythmia", or<br />
irregular heartbeats, the government<br />
said.<br />
The 57-year-old, who took<br />
office in December, experienced<br />
the arrhythmia midafternoon,<br />
but "it did not prevent<br />
him from continuing<br />
work and keeping the agenda<br />
of planned activities," the<br />
president's office said in a<br />
statement late on Friday.<br />
After Macri concluded his<br />
schedule in the evening, his<br />
medical team recommended a<br />
check-up at the Olivos Clinic<br />
hospital in Buenos Aires.<br />
"Tests are concluded and it<br />
is verified that the arrhythmia<br />
has reverted. The president<br />
will stay a few more hours<br />
before returning home," the<br />
president's office said.<br />
YILAN, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Taiwan is<br />
determined to build a local<br />
defense industry, the island's<br />
new president, Tsai Ing-wen,<br />
said on Saturday as she toured<br />
a naval base and took a ride on<br />
a homemade 600-ton warship.<br />
Taiwan, isolated diplomatically<br />
and reliant on the United<br />
States as its only arms supplier,<br />
has struggled to maintain modern<br />
military wares in the face<br />
of China's growing might<br />
across the 180 km-wide<br />
Taiwan Strait to its west.<br />
Taiwan's military is looking<br />
to build its own submarines<br />
and next generation jet trainers,<br />
and its navy has begun<br />
programs to build minesweepers,<br />
support ships, and small<br />
stealthy warships.<br />
Constrained by budgets and<br />
Amber Heard sues comedian Stanhope<br />
for defamation over Johnny Depp<br />
LOS ANGELES, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Lawyers for actress Amber<br />
Heard filed a defamation<br />
lawsuit against comedian<br />
Doug Stanhope on Friday<br />
after he wrote an article<br />
accusing her of blackmailing<br />
and manipulating her<br />
estranged husband, actor<br />
Johnny Depp.<br />
The complaint was filed<br />
in Cochise County, Arizona,<br />
against Stanhope and 20<br />
unnamed individuals associated<br />
with the comedian.<br />
The lawsuit demands a<br />
jury trial and says that Heard<br />
would donate all proceeds to<br />
a battered women's shelter in<br />
Arizona.<br />
Representatives for<br />
Stanhope and Depp did not<br />
immediately respond to<br />
requests for comment.<br />
The complaint is in<br />
response to a May 29 guest<br />
column by Stanhope published<br />
on entertainment trade<br />
outlet TheWrap.com and<br />
headlined "Johnny Depp Is<br />
Being Blackmailed by<br />
Amber Heard – Here’s How I<br />
Know."<br />
Stanhope, who said he<br />
was a friend of Depp's, wrote<br />
that Depp had told him that<br />
Heard was leaving him and<br />
"threatening to lie about him<br />
publicly in any and every<br />
ZURICH, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Austria's anti-immigration<br />
Freedom Party<br />
(FPO) is very likely to<br />
formally challenge the<br />
result of last month's<br />
presidential election and<br />
is calling for postal ballots<br />
to be abolished, its<br />
leader said on Saturday.<br />
Asked how likely it is<br />
the FPO will formally<br />
challenge the result of<br />
possible duplicitous way if<br />
he didn't agree to her terms."<br />
"Blackmail is what I<br />
would imagine other people<br />
might put it, including the<br />
manner in which he is now<br />
being vilified," Stanhope<br />
wrote.<br />
Lawyers for Heard called<br />
Stanhope's comments,<br />
detailed in the complaint,<br />
"completely false and highly<br />
defamatory."<br />
the vote, which its candidate<br />
Norbert Hofer narrowly<br />
lost, Heinz-<br />
Christian Strache said in<br />
an interview with radio<br />
station OE1: "It is very<br />
likely ... over 50 percent."<br />
He said the party<br />
would make its decision<br />
by Wednesday, the deadline<br />
for challenges.<br />
"If the irregularities<br />
The lawsuit is the latest<br />
step in the increasingly acrimonious<br />
split between<br />
Heard, 30, and Depp, 52,<br />
who had been married for 15<br />
months.<br />
Heard filed for divorce<br />
from Depp in Los Angeles<br />
last month, citing irreconcilable<br />
differences, and<br />
obtained a temporary<br />
restraining order against the<br />
actor.<br />
Austria's Freedom Party likely to challenge<br />
presidential election result: OE1<br />
approvals required in arms<br />
sales from the United States,<br />
the government hopes that<br />
building a home-grown<br />
defense industry will increase<br />
technological know-how, create<br />
jobs and boost economic<br />
growth. Defeated Nationalists<br />
fled to Taiwan in 1949 after<br />
losing a civil war with Mao<br />
Zedong's Communists, and the<br />
island has been self-ruled<br />
are confirmed by legal<br />
experts ... then we have a<br />
responsibility to democracy,"<br />
Strache said.<br />
The FPO has said it is<br />
examining several irregularities<br />
that have come<br />
to light in individual<br />
polling stations, ranging<br />
from postal ballots having<br />
been counted too<br />
early to the number of<br />
votes having been overstated.<br />
"Postal ballots in their<br />
current form have to be<br />
abolished," Strache said<br />
in the interview, adding<br />
that voting by mail did<br />
not meet constitutional<br />
requirements for a secret<br />
ballot. Former Greens<br />
leader Alexander Van der<br />
Bellen won the presidential<br />
election on May 22<br />
with a narrow lead of<br />
roughly 31,000 votes.<br />
Taiwan's new president, on naval visit,<br />
champions local defense industry<br />
The top U.S. military commander<br />
in the region, Admiral<br />
Harry Harris, told reporters at<br />
the forum that Washington<br />
needed to operate from a position<br />
of strength against "all<br />
outcomes".<br />
"The bottom line is this:<br />
we want to co-operate where<br />
we can, but we just have to be<br />
ready as a military to confront<br />
them if we must," he said.<br />
The South China Sea has<br />
become a flashpoint between<br />
the United States, which<br />
increased its focus on the<br />
Asia-Pacific under President<br />
Barack Obama's "pivot", and<br />
China, which is projecting<br />
ever greater economic, political<br />
and military power in the<br />
since. China still deems<br />
Taiwan a wayward province,<br />
however, to be taken back by<br />
force if necessary, especially if<br />
it begins taking concrete steps<br />
toward independence.<br />
US vows 'actions' if China builds new South China Sea structures<br />
region.<br />
Carter however said he<br />
would welcome China's participation<br />
in a "principled<br />
security network" for Asia.<br />
"Forward thinking statesmen<br />
and leaders must ... come<br />
together to ensure a positive<br />
principled future," he said,<br />
adding that the network he<br />
envisaged could also help protect<br />
against "Russia's worrying<br />
actions" and the growing<br />
strategic impact of climate<br />
change.<br />
The deputy head of China's<br />
delegation to the forum said<br />
any attempts by the United<br />
States to isolate China would<br />
fail.<br />
"This is a time of cooperation<br />
and common security,"<br />
Rear Admiral Guan Youfei<br />
told reporters. "The U.S.<br />
action to take sides is not<br />
agreed by many countries. We<br />
hope the U.S. will also listen<br />
to the other countries."<br />
Other Asian leaders said<br />
the situation in the South<br />
China Sea was viewed with<br />
concern across the region.<br />
"All countries in the region<br />
need to recognize that our<br />
shared prosperities and the<br />
enviable rate of growth that<br />
this region enjoys over past<br />
decades will be put at risk by<br />
aggressive behavior or actions<br />
by any one of us," Indian<br />
Defence Minister Manohar<br />
Parrikar told the forum.
6<br />
Sunday, <strong>Jun</strong>e 5, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Biz<br />
FPCCI expresses mixed<br />
reaction over budget<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
Federation of Pakistan<br />
Chambers of Commerce and<br />
Industry (FPCCI) on<br />
Saturday expressed mixed<br />
reaction over Federal Budget<br />
<strong>2016</strong>-17 terming it as progrowth<br />
putting.<br />
It also criticised some of<br />
the measures as saying that<br />
the issues would be taken up<br />
with the government before<br />
the approval of budget, while<br />
a team has been formed to<br />
negotiate with the government.<br />
Budget will hold fall in<br />
agriculture and export sectors<br />
while improving law and<br />
order situation due to<br />
enhanced allocation for the<br />
defence sector but at the same<br />
time it has triggered reservations<br />
among some sections of<br />
the business community, said<br />
Abdul Rauf Alam, President<br />
FPCCI.<br />
Speaking at a post budget<br />
press conference at FPCCI<br />
Capital Office, Abdul Rauf<br />
Alam lauded the decision of<br />
the government to pay<br />
refunds and demanded that<br />
ISLAMABAD: President FPCCI Abdul Rauf speaks during a post budget press conference.<br />
entire refunds must be paid<br />
during the months of July and<br />
August. He announced<br />
unconditional support for the<br />
decision of the government to<br />
tighten noose against non-filers,<br />
broaden tax base and<br />
demanded reduced reliance<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: During<br />
FY <strong>2016</strong>, the performance of<br />
agriculture sector as a whole<br />
remained dismal as it witnessed<br />
a negative growth of<br />
0.19 percent against 2.53<br />
percent growth during the<br />
same period last year, says<br />
new Pakistan Economic<br />
Survey 2015-16.<br />
The growth of crops<br />
declined by 6.25 percent,<br />
while the other sub component<br />
of Agriculture sector<br />
like Livestock, Forestry and<br />
Fishing posted positive<br />
growth of 3.63 percent, 8.84<br />
percent and 3.25 percent,<br />
respectively. The growth of<br />
sub Sector of crops included<br />
important crops, other crops<br />
and cotton ginning remained<br />
negative as it posted a growth<br />
of -7.18 percent, -0.31 percent<br />
and -21.26 percent<br />
which impacted negatively<br />
on crops as a result became<br />
the reason of negative<br />
growth of Agriculture sector.<br />
The last negative growth<br />
in Agriculture was witnessed<br />
in 2000-01, when agriculture<br />
growth declined to 2.18 percent.<br />
Important crops having<br />
on withholding agents.<br />
He said that agriculture<br />
has been focused and the<br />
prices of Urea in Pakistan<br />
now match with that of India<br />
while the agri loan target of<br />
Rs700 billion coupled with<br />
two percent reduction in<br />
a share of 23.55 percent in<br />
agricultural value added has<br />
witnessed negative growth of<br />
7.18 percent on account of<br />
large decline in cotton production<br />
(27.83 percent), rice<br />
production (2.74 percent)<br />
and maize production (0.35<br />
percent) during 2015-16<br />
against negative growth of<br />
0.52 percent during the same<br />
period of last year.<br />
While only wheat and<br />
sugarcane production witnessed<br />
a positive growth of<br />
1.58 percent and 4.22 percent<br />
respectively, as compared<br />
to last year. Other<br />
crops contributed 11.36 percent<br />
in value addition of<br />
agriculture witnessed a<br />
decline of 0.31 percent during<br />
2015- 16 against positive<br />
growth of 3.09 percent during<br />
the same period last<br />
year due to decline in the<br />
production of pulses, fruits<br />
and oilseeds posting negative<br />
growth of 12.49 percent,<br />
2.48 percent and 9.56 percent,<br />
respectively. With drop<br />
in cotton production by<br />
around 27.83 percent this<br />
year the Cotton ginning having<br />
a share of 2.32 percent in<br />
value addition of agriculture<br />
has suffered badly and posted<br />
a negative growth of<br />
mark-up will support the<br />
dwindling sector which has<br />
compromised GDP by 0.5<br />
percent. The rise in salaries<br />
and pensions and hike of<br />
Rs1000 in minimum wage of<br />
workers is insufficient, he<br />
said, adding that five sectors<br />
Agriculture sector shows dismal performance<br />
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banking award from Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, former PM in 11th consumer choice award <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Rs25000 per month<br />
minimum wages demanded<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
Deputy General Secretary<br />
National Trade Union<br />
Federation (NTUF) Nasir<br />
Mansoor on Saturday<br />
demanded of the government<br />
to enhance education and<br />
health budget by 100 percent<br />
and fix Rs 25,000 as minimum<br />
wage for unskilled persons.<br />
In a statement Mansoor<br />
termed budget <strong>2016</strong>-17 as<br />
public enemy budget and a<br />
joke with diligent people,<br />
adding that the government<br />
had proved that this budget is<br />
for capitalists and landlords<br />
and is against poor.<br />
He said that the common<br />
men will suffer due increase in<br />
daily used items like Milk,<br />
water and other basic items.<br />
“Just Rs 1,000 enhancement<br />
in the wages of unskilled persons<br />
is the humiliation for<br />
them in this era of inflation.<br />
The government should fix Rs<br />
25,000 as a minimum wage<br />
for unskilled persons,” he<br />
stressed.<br />
“The salaries of government<br />
employees should be<br />
increased to 30 percent and it<br />
should be fixed as per inflation<br />
ratio. The pensions of<br />
the retired workers should be<br />
equaled to minimum wage<br />
(Rs 25,000),” NTUF<br />
demanded.<br />
NTUF deputy general secretary<br />
maintained that nonproductive<br />
budget especially<br />
the defense budget should be<br />
reduced to 50 percent. The<br />
funds for education and<br />
health to be should increased<br />
100 percent.<br />
Mansoor also demanded<br />
of the government to provide<br />
social security and old-age<br />
benefit to every entitled citizens.<br />
The agricultural workers<br />
should be rewarded like<br />
industrial workers.<br />
PRGMEA<br />
welcomes<br />
budget <strong>2016</strong>-17<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Shaikh Mohammad Shafiq,<br />
central chairman, Pakistan<br />
Readymade<br />
Manufacturers and Exporters<br />
Association (PRGMEA) has<br />
said that PRGMEA warmly<br />
welcomed the zero rated<br />
sales tax policy for country's<br />
five export sectors i.e. valueadded<br />
textile, carpet, surgical,<br />
sports goods and leather.<br />
He also appreciated to reduce<br />
export refinance rate from<br />
4.5pc to 3pc.<br />
The Finance Minister,<br />
Senator Mohammad Ishaq<br />
Dar made a long enduring<br />
speech in the national assembly<br />
and said that the refunds<br />
cases having release payments<br />
orders (RPOs) up to April 30,<br />
<strong>2016</strong> will get payment in<br />
August 31, <strong>2016</strong> but did not<br />
mention about the fate of<br />
remaining cases.<br />
Agriculture 25 21.26 percent<br />
compared to 7.24 percent<br />
growth during the same period<br />
last year.<br />
The Livestock sector having<br />
contribution of 58.55 percent<br />
in the agriculture recorded<br />
a positive growth of 3.63<br />
percent during 2015-16 compared<br />
to 3.99 percent growth<br />
during the same period last<br />
year. The Fishing sector having<br />
contribution of 2.17 percent<br />
in agriculture value<br />
addition recorded a growth of<br />
3.25 percent compared to<br />
5.75 percent growth of last<br />
year. Forestry sector having<br />
contribution of 2.06 in the<br />
agriculture value addition<br />
posted a growth of 8.84 percent<br />
this year as compared to<br />
the negative growth of 10.43<br />
percent last year.<br />
PCA terms budget<br />
<strong>2016</strong>-17 as IT<br />
business friendly<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Chairman Pakistan<br />
Computer Association<br />
(PCA) Munawar Iqbal has<br />
termed the budget as positive<br />
and IT business<br />
friendly.<br />
Chairman PCA Munawar<br />
said that the budgetary initiatives<br />
taken by the government<br />
for the IT sector were<br />
revolutionary to save it from<br />
collapse and will help the<br />
growth of the information<br />
technology, said a press<br />
release issued on Saturday.<br />
The chairman further said<br />
that the move to withdrawal<br />
GST on the IT industry particularly<br />
on computers and<br />
laptops will accelerate and<br />
improve the IT sector; promote<br />
documented economy;<br />
broaden the tax net with new<br />
members; speed up the business<br />
transactions through<br />
scheduled banks; and end<br />
the Khepia mafia and smuggling<br />
from the market.<br />
Munawar lauded the<br />
efforts of Finance Minister<br />
Ishaq Dar, Advisor to PM on<br />
Revenue Haroon Akhtar and<br />
Garments FBR officials for getting the<br />
PCA proposals included in<br />
the budget. –Online<br />
COLOMBO, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
International Monetary Fund<br />
(IMF) on Saturday released<br />
the first tranche of a $1.5 billion<br />
bailout for Sri Lanka,<br />
which is reeling after a government<br />
spending spree and<br />
facing a balance of payments<br />
crisis.<br />
The International<br />
Monetary Fund said the formal<br />
approval of a 36-month<br />
loan under its Extended<br />
Fund Facility (EFF) will<br />
also help Sri Lanka secure<br />
have been allowed zero rating<br />
but the second largest export<br />
sector of rice should be<br />
allowed zero rating as other<br />
five sectors and that small<br />
business and cottage have<br />
been ignored.<br />
Abdul Rauf Alam said that<br />
duty on two thousand items<br />
have been reduced which will<br />
reduce cost of doing business.<br />
He lauded the decision to<br />
give tax exemption for setting<br />
up new industry during next<br />
three years and demanded<br />
zero duty and tax on import<br />
of plants and machinery.<br />
He said imposition of<br />
Rs50 FED on a cement bag<br />
will hurt housing sector and<br />
increase cost of CPEC and<br />
other mega projects. He also<br />
called for reversing ten percent<br />
WHT on transfer of<br />
property in five years. He<br />
demanded to reverse the customs<br />
duty enhanced on the<br />
import of steel billet, asked<br />
for preferring direct taxation<br />
over indirect mode of taxation<br />
which will impede is<br />
growth of filers.<br />
Budgetary<br />
support to agri<br />
sector lauded<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
Union of Small and Medium<br />
Enterprises (UNISAME)<br />
welcomed the Budget <strong>2016</strong>-<br />
17 and lauded the support<br />
for the agricultural sector<br />
which deserved top priority.<br />
The farm sector is the primary<br />
sector and the source<br />
of all raw materials.<br />
President UNISAME<br />
Zulfikar Thaver also appreciated<br />
the 0 rating for the<br />
five sectors and said these<br />
are positive steps for the<br />
revival of the sectors.<br />
He also thanked the<br />
finance minister (FM) Ishaq<br />
Dar for increasing the<br />
deposit limit of Behbood<br />
Savings Certificate from 4 to<br />
5 million for senior citizens.<br />
The increase in the exemption<br />
turnover limit of cottage<br />
industries from 50 to 100<br />
million is also another fulfillment<br />
of the demand of<br />
the union.<br />
Thaver requested the FM<br />
to consider and include the<br />
entire export sector under 0<br />
rating as this would give the<br />
value addition sector in rice,<br />
engineering and agro-food<br />
industries to develop faster<br />
and meet the global challenges.<br />
The other sectors<br />
which deserve consideration<br />
are housing and services<br />
sector.<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
International Data Group’s<br />
CIO announced UBL Fund<br />
Managers, a leading asset<br />
management company, as a<br />
recipient of the <strong>2016</strong> CIO<br />
100 Awards*. The 29th<br />
Annual CIO Awards recognize<br />
organizations around<br />
the world that exemplify the<br />
highest level of operational<br />
and strategic excellence in<br />
information technology.<br />
UBL Fund Managers<br />
stands recognized, in large<br />
part, for its designing and<br />
development of integrated<br />
asset management software:<br />
another $650 million in<br />
other multilateral and bilateral<br />
loans. President<br />
PRISM transactions increase by 4 pc<br />
in volume, decrease by 12 pc in value<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: State Bank<br />
of Pakistan (SBP) here<br />
Saturday said during the third<br />
quarter of FY16, Pakistan<br />
Realtime Interbank Settlement<br />
Mechanism (PRISM) settled<br />
235,274 transactions of value<br />
Rs. 56.4 Trillion showing an<br />
increase of 4% and a decrease<br />
of 12% in volume and value<br />
respectively compared to second<br />
quarter of FY16. The<br />
major share in increase of<br />
number of PRISM transactions<br />
was contributed by<br />
Interbank Funds Transfer<br />
which increased by 3% while<br />
decrease in value of PRISM<br />
transactions was contributed<br />
by securities settlement which<br />
decreased by 18%.<br />
In third quarter of FY16,<br />
the volume and value of<br />
Internet Banking transactions<br />
showed an increase of 7% and<br />
9% respectively. The volume<br />
and value of Point of Sale<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Chinese<br />
industrialists on Saturday said<br />
that the economic globalisation<br />
and regional integration<br />
have provided enormous<br />
opportunities for further cooperation<br />
between Islamabad<br />
and Beijing, as Pakistan is an<br />
ideal destination of foreign<br />
investment.<br />
The 14-member Chinese<br />
delegation of the International<br />
Creative Industries Alliance<br />
(ICIA) visited the Lahore<br />
Chamber of Commerce and<br />
Industry (LCCI) where Vice<br />
President Nasir Saeed briefed<br />
them about business opportunities.<br />
Haitao Cao, Mingwei<br />
Ma, Yuchen Cui, Xinjun Yan,<br />
Zhigang Yan, Zhongcheng<br />
Yan, Qiang Ma, Yaqi Liu,<br />
Sitong Yan, Deyi Xing,<br />
Baojuan Hua, <strong>Jun</strong>ying<br />
Duan, Haiying Yang and Yu<br />
Qin were included in the<br />
delegation.<br />
“Attractive investment<br />
policies have turned Pakistan<br />
into a best destination for trade<br />
and investment and prompting<br />
foreign investors to come and<br />
(POS) transactions increased<br />
by 5% and 6% compared to<br />
previous quarter. Similarly,<br />
the volume of Mobile<br />
invest in Pakistan. Pakistani<br />
and Chinese entrepreneurs<br />
should further cement their<br />
trade & economic ties through<br />
joint ventures,” said Nasir<br />
Saeed. “The involvement of<br />
Chinese enterprises, both in<br />
terms of technical and financial<br />
assistance in several<br />
development projects is<br />
reflective of our cordial relations<br />
based on mutual trust<br />
and sincerity,” he said.<br />
He said that China was<br />
very important trading partner<br />
of Pakistan and it was expected<br />
that bilateral trade between<br />
Pakistan and China would<br />
touch the figure of $15 billion<br />
within the next few years.<br />
Although Pakistan's exports<br />
to China have been gradually<br />
increasing, the trade has<br />
always been in favour of<br />
China. "Our bilateral trade has<br />
grown, but it is nowhere near<br />
the potential that exists<br />
between the two countries.<br />
Pakistan has a lot to offer as it<br />
is rich in all kinds of<br />
resources."<br />
Both the countries not only<br />
Banking transactions<br />
increased by 12% while its<br />
value increased by 11% as<br />
compared to the previous<br />
quarter of FY16. Automated<br />
Teller Machine (ATM) transactions<br />
showed an increase of<br />
2% in volume and 7% in<br />
value as compared to last<br />
quarter of FY16. The volume<br />
of Real Time Online Banking<br />
(RTOB) transactions rose<br />
from 32.8 million to 35 million<br />
whereas the value<br />
decreased by 5% i.e. Rs. 8.2<br />
Trillion to 7.8 Trillion caused<br />
by decrease in Real Time A/c<br />
to A/c Funds Transfer. Non<br />
financial transactions<br />
increased by 8%.<br />
During the third quarter of<br />
current fiscal year, the network<br />
of ATMs continued to<br />
grow reaching from 10,736 to<br />
11,100. Further, 2,429 POS<br />
machines were added to the<br />
network showing a growth of<br />
5% as compared to second<br />
quarter of FY16. The number<br />
of cards issued by banks has<br />
also increased by 3% reaching<br />
the total of 33.7 Million by the<br />
end of the quarter under<br />
review. During the current<br />
quarter, registered users of<br />
Internet, Mobile and Call<br />
Centre banking showed a<br />
growth of 4% reaching to 22.9<br />
Million at the end of third<br />
quarter of FY16.<br />
China’s 14-member ICIA<br />
delegation visits Lahore Chamber<br />
imPro. imPro is UBL<br />
Funds' processes improvement<br />
software and has<br />
played a vital role in providing<br />
instant key solutions for<br />
customers, and cost effective<br />
back-end and front-end<br />
office support. Efficient and<br />
lower management costs are<br />
also key features of this<br />
software.<br />
"Delivering innovation<br />
and business value are top<br />
priorities for CIOs everywhere,<br />
and our CIO 100<br />
awards program celebrates<br />
the leading IT organizations<br />
that excel at both," said<br />
Maithripala Sirisena's<br />
administration sought an<br />
IMF bailout immediately<br />
Maryfran Johnson, Editor in<br />
Chief of CIO Events. "Our<br />
<strong>2016</strong> winners are raising the<br />
bar even higher this year<br />
with their outstanding work<br />
in digital transformation,<br />
customer focus and IT-business<br />
collaboration."<br />
Elated with the win, M.<br />
Rehan Qadri – CIO 100<br />
Honoree on behalf of UBL<br />
Fund Managers’ Chief<br />
Technology Officer and<br />
recent winner of Pakistan<br />
Software Houses<br />
Association's CIO of the<br />
Year Award – said,<br />
“Providing innovative and<br />
share border but also have<br />
unanimity of views on various<br />
political and economic issues.<br />
The two countries have a<br />
combined market of more<br />
than 1.5 billion people but the<br />
trade volume needs to be<br />
pushed up. The Chinese<br />
importers may have better<br />
prospects for Pakistani goods<br />
particularly of carpets, leather<br />
and leather products, surgical<br />
equipment, sports goods,<br />
fruits and vegetables, rice,<br />
pharmaceuticals, cotton etc.<br />
Most of our industrial<br />
units in these areas are ISO<br />
certified and are producing<br />
best quality products at competitive<br />
rates as compared<br />
with other countries in the<br />
region. Nasir Saeed said that<br />
joint ventures can be initiated<br />
in sectors like construction,<br />
hotels and tourism; SMEs<br />
cluster development, computer<br />
and cellular chips, textiles<br />
and garments, home<br />
appliances, corporate farming,<br />
seafood and food processing,<br />
banks and finance,<br />
light engineering etc.<br />
UBL funds recognized by CIO<br />
high-end online customer<br />
services has always been a<br />
priority for us. imPro has<br />
become a way of life at UBL<br />
Funds and our Smart<br />
Savings mobile application<br />
is an exemplary benchmark<br />
in the asset management<br />
industry of Pakistan. It has<br />
not only made investment<br />
transactions easy and quick,<br />
digitally, but also accessible<br />
for users on-the-go, 24/7!”<br />
IMF releases bailout cash for Sri Lanka<br />
after taking power in<br />
January last year, but the<br />
fund turned down the<br />
request, saying the country's<br />
reserves were at a comfortable<br />
level then.<br />
However, the government<br />
faced a balance of payments<br />
crisis after it implemented<br />
its election pledges of higher<br />
public sector salaries and<br />
lower fuel and utility prices.<br />
The first installment of $168<br />
million out of the $1.5 billion<br />
will be made immediately,<br />
the IMF said.<br />
It noted that Sri Lanka's<br />
economy was beginning to<br />
show signs of strain from an<br />
increasingly difficult external<br />
environment and said<br />
Colombo must increase tax<br />
collection and ensure<br />
exchange rate stability.<br />
“Tougher external conditions<br />
in the wake of China<br />
rebalancing and unwinding<br />
of unconventional monetary<br />
policies were not outside Sri<br />
Lanka's past experience.
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Maroof named Pakistan Women T20<br />
captain; Mir retains role in ODIs<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Pakistan<br />
have opted for split-captaincy<br />
of their women's side,<br />
with fast bowler Sana Mir<br />
retaining the role for ODIs<br />
and middle-order batsman<br />
Bismah Maroof taking over<br />
the T20 side for the tour of<br />
England in <strong>Jun</strong>e.<br />
There were six changes<br />
from the 50-over squad that<br />
last played in October 2015,<br />
in West Indies, including a<br />
call-up for the uncapped 24-<br />
year old Aiman Anwer. All<br />
of the inclusions - Maroof,<br />
Nahida Khan, Muneeba Ali,<br />
Sadia Yousuf, wicketkeeper<br />
Sidra Nawaz and Nain<br />
Abidi - represented<br />
Pakistan in the World T20.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
British High Commissioner<br />
Thomas Drew CMG on<br />
Saturday joined Birtish<br />
champion boxed Amir Khan<br />
to open the Amir Khan<br />
Academy at the Islamabad<br />
Sports Complex in<br />
Islamabad, Pakistan.<br />
The new venue is Amir<br />
Khan's first boxing academy<br />
in Pakistan. Speaking at the<br />
launch, Thomas Drew said;<br />
"You came here to see a<br />
boxer not an Ambassador, so<br />
I will keep it short. "But<br />
what Amir Khan is doing<br />
here is about more than just<br />
boxing, so I do want to say a<br />
couple of things.<br />
"When I heard the news<br />
of the death this morning of<br />
one of the world’s greatest<br />
boxers, I knew exactly what<br />
I wanted to say. Mohammed<br />
Ali was a great boxer, like<br />
Amir, but he was also more<br />
than that.<br />
He was an inspiration to<br />
millions throughout the<br />
world. He touched everyone,<br />
but had a particular<br />
impact on the young. He<br />
inspired not just through the<br />
grace of his boxing, but also<br />
through the sense of purpose<br />
he instilled – a desire and a<br />
determination to achieve in<br />
Pakistan were in with a<br />
chance of making the semifinal,<br />
but they were all out<br />
for 80 against England and<br />
life. "This is what tonight is<br />
about. Through his academies,<br />
Amir Khan is inspiring<br />
the next generation – in<br />
Pakistan and in the UK –<br />
themselves to achieve in life.<br />
I too therefore am very<br />
proud to be taking part in the<br />
opening of his academy in<br />
Islamabad – the first in<br />
Pakistan.<br />
"As I said at the beginning,<br />
boxers and<br />
Ambassadors are very different<br />
beasts. What we do,<br />
however, have in common is<br />
our desire to help Pakistan,<br />
the 6th biggest country in<br />
the world, unleash its full<br />
potential. And we both<br />
recognise that in this fast<br />
growing country – where<br />
were knocked out of the<br />
tournament.<br />
Javeria Khan, who had<br />
fractured her right thumb<br />
after being hit by a bouncer<br />
in the World T20, has<br />
recovered and has been<br />
named vice-captain of the<br />
T20 team. Maroof has been<br />
named vice-captain of the<br />
ODI team.<br />
Of the 15 women who<br />
played the World T20 for<br />
Pakistan, only Aliya Riaz,<br />
Ayesha Zafar and Diana<br />
Baig have not made the<br />
squad for the England tour.<br />
Sania Khan, who was withdrawn<br />
from the World T20<br />
squad but was with the team<br />
in the Caribbean, has found<br />
British High Commissioner opens Amir Khan academy<br />
Super Round 2nd Fame<br />
Football League-2015-16<br />
Dr M. Arif Hafee<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Quaid<br />
Mange FC drew with<br />
Campus United FC at Fame<br />
Sports Football Ground<br />
Model Town in the Super<br />
Round of 2nd Fame Football<br />
League-2015-16 (FFL-<br />
2015-16) by a 3-3 margin<br />
and Lahore United FC beat<br />
Afshan FC by 2-0 margin at<br />
CU Park Campus United<br />
Football Ground Punjab<br />
University. The event of the<br />
day is the fabulous hat-trick<br />
of striker Khalid Khan (an<br />
International player and<br />
Captain of Pakistan U-16 in<br />
1992) of Quaid Manga FC.<br />
According to the press<br />
release issued hereby Fame<br />
Sports Football Club<br />
(FSFC), Quaid Manga FC<br />
drew with Campus United<br />
FC in a thrilling night fixture.<br />
After a warm evening a<br />
large number of people and<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Pakistan Navy’s<br />
Qasim Abbas grabbed the first position<br />
in the Wind Surfing National<br />
Championship <strong>2016</strong>, in Mistral class<br />
boat. The championship was conducted<br />
in Karachi in front of Clifton<br />
beach. It started from 01 <strong>Jun</strong>e and<br />
end today in very high waves and<br />
rough sea condition.<br />
The event organised by Pakistan<br />
Sailing Federation (PSF). As per<br />
final result Qasim Abbas won the<br />
first position, while Muzamil<br />
Hussan and Khalid Hussain stood<br />
second and third respectively,<br />
belong from Pakistan Navy, after<br />
participating in the nine races of<br />
families of the Model town<br />
and surroundings came to<br />
see the match as the cool<br />
breeze night provided some<br />
comfort to families. Match<br />
started in an aggressive<br />
European manner. In 14th<br />
minute, <strong>Jun</strong>aid of Campus<br />
United netted the 1st goal<br />
for his team ball on a rolling<br />
ball. In 18th minute Mohsin<br />
of touched the ball for net on<br />
the rebound. In 31st minute,<br />
Quaid Mange FC managed<br />
to attack from right wing.<br />
Shoaib Phattan made a cross<br />
but the ball was blocked by<br />
defender of Campus United<br />
with hand. On this Referee<br />
Muhammad Shams gave<br />
penalty kick in favor of<br />
Quaid Manga FC. Khalid<br />
Khan easily netted the ball<br />
on penalty kick. In 34th<br />
minute Khalid Khan made a<br />
breathtaking slide kick and<br />
struck the second goal for<br />
his team. The fist half ended<br />
draw with 2-2 margin.<br />
Second half saw a flurry of<br />
attempts to score. In 42nd<br />
minute saw a superlative<br />
hat-trick of Khalid Kan<br />
through a magic shot. On the<br />
other hand Campus United<br />
FC with better attacking<br />
plan managed to strike the<br />
ball in the net in 64th minute<br />
resulted in 3-3 draw. The<br />
match was officiated by<br />
Commissioner Shabbir<br />
Ahmad, Referee<br />
Muhammad Shams and<br />
Assistant referees Adeel<br />
Anwar and Muhammad<br />
Iqbal.<br />
Lahore United FC beat<br />
Afshan FC by 2-0 margin in<br />
CU Park Campus United FC<br />
Football Ground Punjab<br />
University. Dr. Mudassar<br />
struck two goals through<br />
head in 18th and 47 minutes.<br />
The match was officiated by<br />
Commissioner Salman Ali,<br />
Referee Muhammad Amjad<br />
and Assistant referees<br />
Master Afzal and Afzal Bari.<br />
the championship.<br />
Whereas, Muhammad Sajjad,<br />
Tariq Ali, Irafan butt, Abdul Sami<br />
nearly 60% of the population<br />
is under 23 – that means<br />
investing in its youth.<br />
The<br />
British<br />
Government’s biggest development<br />
programme anywhere<br />
in the world is in<br />
Pakistan. And the biggest<br />
bit of that is in education.<br />
Only yesterday I opened a<br />
new British Council library<br />
for young people in Lahore<br />
and a new digital library for<br />
others across Pakistan. And<br />
we, like Amir, recognize<br />
through our programmes the<br />
power of sport – though I<br />
won’t claim to have anything<br />
like the pulling (or<br />
punching) power that he has.<br />
Imran Tahir says<br />
Ramazan won't<br />
put him in a spin<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: When<br />
Ramazan starts, Imran<br />
Tahir will begin juggling<br />
the demands of observing<br />
his Muslim faith and playing<br />
a full day of international<br />
cricket for a team<br />
sponsored by a beer company.<br />
"I don't think it is difficult<br />
to balance professional<br />
sports with practising your<br />
faith," insisted the South<br />
Africa legspinner, in an<br />
interview.<br />
"It is very easy if you<br />
follow the right path.<br />
" One of the world's top<br />
spinners, Pakistan-born<br />
Tahir has played more than<br />
100 times for the Proteas<br />
since making his international<br />
debut in 2011, after<br />
becoming a South African<br />
citizen through marriage.<br />
In his native Pakistan,<br />
the team regularly prays<br />
together on the field during<br />
internationals and the lunch<br />
break is extended on<br />
Fridays, so players and fans<br />
can attend the weekly services<br />
at the nearest mosque.<br />
And in Bangladesh, the<br />
only other Muslim-majority<br />
Test-playing nation, facilities<br />
have been set aside to<br />
enable fans to pray at the<br />
ground.<br />
Tahir is one of five<br />
Muslims to have been<br />
selected for the South<br />
African squad taking part in<br />
the tri-nation ODI series<br />
with the West Indies and<br />
Australia in the Caribbean<br />
that begins on Friday and<br />
runs until <strong>Jun</strong>e 26.<br />
Windsurfing National Sailing Championship <strong>2016</strong><br />
and Muhammad Osama from PAF<br />
Yacht Club also gave impressive<br />
performances.<br />
a place.<br />
The series includes three<br />
ODIs, all of which contribute<br />
to the Women's<br />
Championship where<br />
Pakistan are ranked second<br />
from bottom, and two T20s.<br />
It begins in Leicester on<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 20 and ends in<br />
Southampton on July 5.<br />
Pakistan ODI and T20<br />
squad: Javeria Khan,<br />
Nahida Khan, Sidra Ameen,<br />
Bismah Maroof (T20 capt),<br />
Muneeba Ali, Sana Mir<br />
(ODI capt), Nida Dar, Iram<br />
Javed, Asmavia Iqbal,<br />
Anam Amin, Sania Iqbal,<br />
Sadia Yousuf, Aiman<br />
Anwar, Sidra Nawaz (wk),<br />
Nain Abidi<br />
Nita Ambani nominates<br />
as member of Int’l<br />
Olympic Committee<br />
NEW DELHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Nita<br />
Ambani has become the first<br />
Indian woman to be nominated<br />
as a member of the<br />
International Olympic<br />
Committee, following the<br />
introduction of a new selection<br />
process.<br />
The IOC confirmed<br />
Ambani´s nomination along<br />
with seven others on its website<br />
saying it was a part of its<br />
strategic roadmap for the<br />
future of the Olympic movement.<br />
Ambani, 52, will formally<br />
become an IOC member<br />
in elections slated for<br />
August 2-4 just before the<br />
Olympic Games in Rio de<br />
Janeiro.<br />
A founder and chairperson<br />
at the Reliance Foundation,<br />
the philanthropic arm of conglomerate<br />
Reliance<br />
Industries, she is married to<br />
Mukesh Ambani, the country´s<br />
richest man. She is also<br />
the principal owner of the<br />
Mumbai Indians franchise in<br />
the Indian Premier League<br />
cricket tournament.<br />
Garbine Muguruza denies Serena<br />
Williams the French Open title<br />
PARIS, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The day before<br />
the French Open final, Serena<br />
Williams' coach, Patrick<br />
Mouratoglou, was discussing<br />
whether his player would<br />
need to lift her level to beat<br />
Garbine Muguruza and collect<br />
a record-equaling 22nd<br />
Grand Slam title.<br />
“I don't know why everybody's<br />
so impressed with<br />
Garbine,” Mouratoglou said.<br />
“Did she win a Slam ever?”<br />
His comment, accompanied<br />
by a chuckle, was<br />
intended in a lighthearted<br />
way. About 24 hours later, his<br />
question required a new<br />
answer.<br />
Muguruza won her first<br />
major trophy and prevented<br />
Williams yet again from collecting<br />
No. 22, outplaying the<br />
defending champion in a 7-5,<br />
6-4 victory at Roland Garros<br />
on Saturday.<br />
“She has a bright future,<br />
obviously,” said Williams,<br />
who at 34 is 12 years older<br />
than her Spanish opponent.<br />
“She knows how to play on<br />
the big stage and clearly, she<br />
knows how to win Grand<br />
Slams.”<br />
The fourth-seeded<br />
Muguruza used her big<br />
groundstrokes to keep No. 1<br />
Williams off-balance and<br />
overcame signs of nerves in<br />
the form of nine doublefaults.<br />
Most impressively,<br />
Muguruza broke Williams<br />
four times, including three in<br />
a row. “I can't explain with<br />
PARIS: In winning her first major, Muguruza used her powerful<br />
groundstrokes to keep No. 1 Williams off-balance and<br />
overcame signs of nerves in the form of nine double-faults<br />
to pull off the surprise.<br />
words what this day means to<br />
me,” Muguruza said.<br />
This was her second major<br />
final; she lost to Williams at<br />
Wimbledon last year. But<br />
Muguruza has won her past<br />
two matches against Williams<br />
on the clay of Roland Garros,<br />
including in the second round<br />
in 2014. So dating to the start<br />
of the 2013 French Open,<br />
Williams is 0-2 in Paris<br />
against Muguruza, 21-0<br />
against everyone else.<br />
KARACHI: First Syed Murtaza Shah Memorial T-20 Gold Cup Cricket Tournament Silver<br />
Final Chief Guest Rai Muhammad Asghar giveaway winner trophy to Captain Apollo Club,<br />
Ayaz Tasawar and also giveaway Special Award to Manzoor Ali Arif Nawab Ashiq Hussain<br />
Qureshi & Muhammad Ramzan Butt also present.<br />
Pakistan to name 17-member squad for England series<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
Pakistan Cricket Board<br />
(PCB) is expected to name a<br />
17-member squad for upcoming<br />
series against England,<br />
sources said on Saturday.<br />
According to sources, the<br />
squad would have three openers,<br />
five middle-order batsmen,<br />
two wicketkeepers, five<br />
fast bowlers and two spinners.<br />
Anderson can<br />
break my Test record<br />
'easily': McGrath<br />
LONDON, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Glenn<br />
McGrath, with 563 wickets,<br />
holds the record for most<br />
wickets by a fast bowler in<br />
Test cricket but he expects it<br />
to be broken by England's<br />
James Anderson.<br />
Anderson has been climbing<br />
up the leader board since<br />
he passed Ian Botham's tally<br />
of 383 wickets against West<br />
Indies in April 2015 to<br />
become his country's most<br />
successful fast bowler. His<br />
400th came the following<br />
month against New Zealand,<br />
and his latest - No. 451 -<br />
came during the course of<br />
three five-wicket hauls in<br />
four innings in the ongoing<br />
series against Sri Lanka.<br />
Anderson, 33, has played<br />
115 Tests and recently said he<br />
hopes to pass 500 wickets -<br />
something only two quicks,<br />
McGrath and Courtney<br />
Walsh, have done before - as<br />
well as, fitness permitting,<br />
prolong his career until the<br />
2019 Ashes series.<br />
McGrath became famous<br />
for his regular Ashes whitewash<br />
predictions in favour of<br />
Australia but, in this case, he<br />
has backed the Englishman to<br />
ultimately surpass him, as he<br />
told cricket.com.au: "That's<br />
entirely up to him<br />
[Anderson]; if he stays on the<br />
park, then he can do that quite<br />
easily - and knock me off.<br />
And good luck to him. He's a<br />
quality bowler, there's no<br />
doubt about that.<br />
Sami Aslam, Khurram<br />
Manzoor and Mohammad<br />
Hafeez are top contenders for<br />
the openers’ slot, whereas<br />
middle-order lineup would<br />
comprise captain Misbah-ul-<br />
Haq, Younis Khan, Azhar Ali,<br />
Asad Shafiq and Iftikhar<br />
Ahmed.<br />
Spin duo of Zulfikar<br />
Babar and Yasir Shah, both<br />
of whom have played a key<br />
JAMAICA, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Sunil<br />
Narine and Kieron Pollard,<br />
making their international<br />
comebacks, combined to give<br />
West Indies a four-wicket win<br />
against South Africa in the triangular<br />
series opener in<br />
Providence.<br />
Narine snaffled a careerbest<br />
6 for 27 to ensure West<br />
Indies bowled SouthAfrica out<br />
for 188, before Pollard struck<br />
an aggressive, unbeaten 67 to<br />
take his team to the target.<br />
The last time South Africa<br />
were dismissed for a lower<br />
total against West Indies was<br />
soon after readmission, in<br />
April 1992. Then, the West<br />
Indies quicks blasted them out.<br />
This time, Narine had them in<br />
role in Pakistan’s major Test<br />
victories in the United Arab<br />
Emirates, were most<br />
favoured to fill in the two<br />
slots reserved for spinners.<br />
In the fast bowling<br />
department, sources said<br />
that captain Misbah wanted<br />
to take Ehsan Adil on board<br />
for the series, other than<br />
Mohamamd Amir, Wahab<br />
Riaz, Rahat Ali and Imran<br />
Khan Jr.<br />
As for two wicketkeepers,<br />
the selectors have put<br />
their faith in Sarfraz Ahmed<br />
and Mohammad Rizwan,<br />
sources said.<br />
Pakistan will start their<br />
England tour with the first<br />
Test scheduled on July 14,<br />
which will be followed by<br />
three more Tests, five ODIs<br />
and a T20.<br />
West Indies defeats<br />
South Africa by four-wicket<br />
a spin with his variations. With<br />
the help of Sulieman Benn,<br />
Carlos Brathwaite and his captain<br />
Jason Holder, Narine<br />
reduced South Africa to 188, a<br />
total well below the firstinnings<br />
average of 211 in<br />
Providence.<br />
South Africa's struggles<br />
were indicative of the difficulties<br />
in scoring freely on a slow<br />
Providence pitch, with West<br />
Indies also finding run-making<br />
tough. But with not enough to<br />
defend, a drizzle in the air and<br />
too many extras, South Africa<br />
were up against it. In the end,<br />
West Indies earned their third<br />
ODI victory over South Africa<br />
in the last decade.<br />
Opening the batting together<br />
for the 50th time in ODIs,<br />
Quinton de Kock and Hashim<br />
Amla got South Africa off to a<br />
strong start. They marked the<br />
milestone with a 52-run stand,<br />
providing a strong foundation.<br />
But Narine's introduction halted<br />
their progress.<br />
Two balls after Brathwaite<br />
removed de Kock, who<br />
inside-edged a pull onto his<br />
stumps, Narine deceived<br />
Amla with a knuckle ball to<br />
trap him lbw.<br />
Rilee Rossouw started<br />
cautiously. In the 12th over,<br />
Rossouw poked at a<br />
Brathwaite delivery, but the<br />
thick outside edge landed<br />
inches short of wicketkeeper<br />
Denesh Ramdin.<br />
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Desire for peace must not be construed<br />
as a sign of weakness: Naval Chief<br />
KARACHI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The 105th<br />
Midshipmen commissioning<br />
term and 14th Short Service<br />
Commission Officers'<br />
Course, comprising a total of<br />
131 officers, got commissioned<br />
at Pakistan Naval<br />
Academy PNS RAHBAR<br />
upon completion of rigorous<br />
training. Chief of the Naval<br />
Staff, Admiral Muhammad<br />
Zakaullah NI(M) was the<br />
chief guest on the occasion.<br />
Upon his arrival, the chief<br />
guest was received by<br />
Commander Karachi Rear<br />
Admiral Farrokh Ahmad<br />
HI(M). Chief of the Naval<br />
Staff, while addressing said<br />
that Pakistan is a peace loving<br />
country and seeks harmonious<br />
and peaceful co-existence<br />
with all its neighbours.<br />
However, this desire for<br />
peace must not be construed<br />
as a sign of weakness. Any<br />
attempt to browbeat Pakistan<br />
would neither succeed nor<br />
serve the purpose of peace<br />
and prosperity in the region.<br />
We are fully geared to give a<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s<br />
(PTI) leader Shah Mehmood<br />
Qureshi said government<br />
was pursuing the agenda of<br />
elimination of poor rather<br />
than poverty,<br />
Talking to PTI delegation<br />
headed by Chaudhry Miraj<br />
KARACHI: The 105th midshipmen commissioning term and 14th SSC class marching out on the<br />
completion of their passing out ceremony of Pakistan Naval Academy held at PNS RAHBAR.<br />
Gujjar, Qureshi from PPP-<br />
166 he said that the government<br />
provided relief to the<br />
elite class and multiplied the<br />
miseries of middle class by<br />
scaling up the prices of the<br />
commodities of daily use, he<br />
added.<br />
He that the federal budget<br />
befitting response in case of<br />
any misadventure. He further<br />
added that in the current<br />
security scenario, certain elements,<br />
who are mostly abetted<br />
externally are at play to<br />
disrupt our peace and harmony.<br />
There is a consensus at<br />
the national level to cleanse<br />
Pakistan of the scourge of terrorism<br />
once and for all.<br />
Pakistan Armed Forces are at<br />
the cutting-edge of this<br />
resolve. A resolve that is evident<br />
from our actions and<br />
results achieved.<br />
The Naval Chief also<br />
dilated upon the efforts of<br />
Pakistan Navy to curb<br />
Maritime related terrorist<br />
was tantamount to drone<br />
attacks on poor people<br />
The PTI is going to<br />
launch forceful movement<br />
against the rulers just after<br />
Ramzan and the supporters<br />
of PTI should get ready as<br />
the party Chairman may<br />
give a call anytime, he<br />
activities at international<br />
level and highlighted that<br />
Pakistan Navy is engaged<br />
with the international community<br />
and is contributing<br />
more than its fair share<br />
against the nefarious elements<br />
contriving to disrupt<br />
peace and stability in our<br />
region. In this regard,<br />
Govt pursuing agenda of elimination of<br />
poor rather than poverty: Qureshi<br />
Pakistan to observe World<br />
Environment Day today<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The<br />
World Environment<br />
Protection Day will be<br />
observed across the globe<br />
including Pakistan today<br />
here on Sunday.<br />
The Environment<br />
Protection Day is observed<br />
throughout the world on<br />
<strong>Jun</strong>e 5, to raise awareness to<br />
take positive environmental<br />
initiatives to protect nature<br />
and the planet earth.<br />
The initiative helps general<br />
public for doing something<br />
positive for the environment,<br />
galvanizing individual<br />
actions into a collective<br />
power that generates an<br />
exponential positive impact<br />
on the planet.<br />
The environment day<br />
also highlights a range of<br />
environmental problems,<br />
including climate change,<br />
waste management, unsustainable<br />
consumption,<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Metreological Department<br />
has forecast mainly hot and<br />
dry weather in most parts of<br />
the country today (Sunday).<br />
However rain-thunderstorm<br />
accompanied by<br />
strong gusty winds is<br />
LAHORE: Afghan girls collecting saleable items from the<br />
garbage on Mahmood Boti Ring Road, on the eve of World<br />
Environment Day.<br />
degradation of natural<br />
resources, and extreme natural<br />
disasters<br />
The environment department<br />
along with social welfare<br />
organizations will<br />
arrange special rallies,<br />
expected at isolated places<br />
in Malakand, Hazara,<br />
Peshawar, Kohat divisions,<br />
FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan and<br />
Kashmir<br />
during<br />
evening/night.<br />
According to synoptic<br />
situation, seasonal low lies<br />
walks, debates, seminars,<br />
while the prominent speakers<br />
and environment experts<br />
will also address on the<br />
occasion over the issues of<br />
environment protection and<br />
benefits of planting trees.<br />
Met Office predicts hot and dry weather<br />
over north Balochistan with<br />
its trough extending southeastwards,<br />
Continental Air is<br />
prevailing over most parts of<br />
the country, However a shallow<br />
westerly wave is also<br />
present over upper parts of<br />
the country.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Families are seen enjoying bathing at Shahdara during hot weather.<br />
added.<br />
He further said that the<br />
issue of Panama Leaks is not<br />
over yet and the corrupt<br />
leaders will be brought to<br />
book at any cost. Moreover,<br />
the joint opposition will not<br />
step back from its terms of<br />
references.<br />
Two Indian<br />
policemen killed in<br />
Islamabad town<br />
SRINAGAR, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: In occupied<br />
Kashmir, two Indian<br />
policemen have been killed<br />
in an attack in Islamabad<br />
town. Unidentified gunmen<br />
attacked a police patrol party<br />
in Islamabad town on<br />
Saturday, killing two cops,<br />
Kashmir Media Service<br />
(KMS) reported.<br />
Eyewitnesses told media<br />
that motorcycle-borne gunmen<br />
opened fire on the<br />
police party at the bus stand<br />
which is located just meters<br />
away from a police post.<br />
Soon after the attack,<br />
Indian troops and police cordoned<br />
off the area and started<br />
a massive operation to<br />
nab the attackers.<br />
Iran's Khamenei<br />
says US, 'evil' Britain<br />
can't be trusted<br />
TEHRAN, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: Iranian<br />
Supreme Leader Ayatollah<br />
Ali Khamenei said Tehran<br />
had no intention of cooperating<br />
on regional issues<br />
with its main enemies, the<br />
United States and "evil"<br />
Britain.<br />
Khamenei also accused<br />
Washington of not being<br />
committed to a nuclear deal<br />
reached between Tehran<br />
and six major powers,<br />
including the United States,<br />
in 2015 that aims to curb<br />
the country's disputed<br />
nuclear programme.<br />
MA Rehmani<br />
MIRPURKHAS, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Divisional Commissioner<br />
Mirpurkhas Mr.Shafiq<br />
Ahmed Mahesar, who is<br />
also chairman Sindh Ajrak<br />
Club Mirpurkhas, has<br />
hailed the role played by<br />
folk wisdom teller (sughars)<br />
in preservation and promotion<br />
of indigenous languages.<br />
Addressing at all Sindh<br />
Sugar katchery organized<br />
Pakistan Navy's participation<br />
in Combined Task Forces<br />
150 & 151 operations is a<br />
manifestation of our earnest<br />
endeavours to eradicate<br />
unscrupulous elements and<br />
complement counter-terrorism<br />
and security efforts in<br />
our region. We are also<br />
preparing to the utmost to<br />
ensure security of our CPEC.<br />
While congratulating and<br />
extending felicitations on<br />
achieving this milestone, the<br />
Naval Chief advised the<br />
passing out Midshipmen and<br />
Cadets to remain abreast with<br />
the latest developments, both<br />
in technological domain as<br />
well as evolving doctrinal<br />
concepts. He further emphasized<br />
that you will lead highly<br />
trained and motivated personnel.<br />
Your conduct and<br />
professionalism will be<br />
observed and emulated by<br />
them. You are therefore,<br />
expected to blend the traits of<br />
professional acumen, loyalty,<br />
courage and character in your<br />
personality.<br />
Sarwar urges opposition<br />
parties to stand against<br />
in Parliament<br />
LAHORE, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The central<br />
leader Pakistan Tehreek<br />
Insaf (PTI) And former<br />
Governor Punjab Chaudhry<br />
Muhammad Sarwar has<br />
urged opposition to stand<br />
against the budget in the parliament.<br />
While addressing the<br />
gathering of party workers<br />
on Saturday, he said that it<br />
would prove to be the death<br />
warrant for the poor if parliament<br />
passes the budget.<br />
“Budget will bring flood<br />
of inflation and unemployment<br />
in Pakistan. PTI will<br />
bring people-friendly and<br />
progressive budget in<br />
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”, he<br />
added and maintained that<br />
Government has delivered<br />
only fake assurances in the<br />
budget. Every day of present<br />
regime is exploitative for the<br />
people. Nation is not ready<br />
to tolerate rulers anymore.<br />
Chaudhry Sarwar further<br />
added that PML-N is taking<br />
revenge from the people but<br />
not giving anything back.<br />
Government has lost the<br />
confidence of the people<br />
because of non-implementation<br />
of electoral promises.<br />
MULTAN/FAISALABAD/SUKKUR,<br />
<strong>Jun</strong> 4: Protests erupted in various cities<br />
against the Federal Budget <strong>2016</strong>-17 as<br />
certain sectors of the public believe that<br />
the government has not been able to provide<br />
relief to a greater degree to the people,<br />
reported on Saturday.<br />
Women in Multan’s Dera Ada area<br />
protested over the increase in the prices of<br />
cosmetics and also termed the budget as<br />
‘anti-public’. Labourers in Faisalabad<br />
also recorded their protest against the<br />
budget by arranging a procession outside<br />
the Labour office. They raised slogans<br />
and demanded that the minimum increase<br />
in the wages should have been 50%.<br />
Citizens of Sukkur also rejected the<br />
budget, as they were of the view that<br />
more burden has been placed upon the<br />
people instead of any relief being provided<br />
through the budget.<br />
Turkish defence minister meets CJCSC<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4:<br />
Minister for National<br />
Defence of Turkey Fikri Isik<br />
called on Chairman Joint<br />
Chiefs of Staff Committee<br />
(CJCSC) General Rashad<br />
Mahmood here at Joint Staff<br />
Headquarters.<br />
The visiting dignitary<br />
MUMBAI, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: The Heropanti Actress<br />
Kriti sanon who is busy shooting for her<br />
upcoming film Raabta along with Sushant<br />
Singh Rajput is acquiring a lot of skills and<br />
feels thrilled with the kind of fear she is<br />
overcoming.<br />
Often we have heard actors experiment<br />
with their roles, Well Kriti Sanon is no different.<br />
As we have seen her play the girl<br />
next door character but in Raabta she has a<br />
surprise for her fans. Kriti Sanon will be<br />
seen in a very different avatar altogether.<br />
A source close to Kriti reveals, She is currently<br />
shooting for her film in Budapest,<br />
Hungary, and will return to Mumbai later this<br />
month. As soon as she gets back, she will<br />
start prepping for the action sequences.She<br />
wakes up early and trains in strength building<br />
and flexibility, the source added.<br />
Kriti has already started her physical<br />
training in Budapest and will begin the<br />
shooting for these action scenes in July.<br />
As Kriti wasnt familiar with swimming<br />
and has huge fear to go underwater but for<br />
her upcoming film she has also learnt how<br />
to swim as the film has a water scene and<br />
that shows the dedication the actor has.<br />
When contacted, Kriti confirmed the<br />
news, and said, There are lots of things that<br />
I want to explore with the characters of my<br />
films. Action has always been one of them,<br />
and I am excited to get this opportunity now.<br />
Kriti Sanon is very excited for her upcoming<br />
movie, which is directed by Dinesh Vijan.<br />
was accompanied by a high<br />
level delegation, an ISPR<br />
news release said.<br />
Matters of mutual interest<br />
with emphasis on geostrategic<br />
situation and security<br />
challenges came under discussion<br />
during the meeting.<br />
Both the sides reaffirmed the<br />
resolve to further enhance<br />
the bilateral defence cooperation.<br />
The visiting dignitary<br />
lauded the professionalism<br />
of Pakistan armed forces and<br />
acknowledged the sacrifices<br />
rendered by the country in<br />
its fight against terrorism.<br />
Kriti Sanon ecstatic about her action<br />
sequence in her upcoming film Raabta<br />
Govt has unbudgeted the poor,<br />
says Sherry Rehman<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>Jun</strong> 4: PPP<br />
Senator Sherry Rehman said<br />
on Saturday that there are no<br />
policy measures to be heard<br />
from the government specific<br />
to poverty alleviation, apart<br />
from tangential references to<br />
the BISP and the Pakistan<br />
Poverty Alleviation Fund.<br />
Commenting on the federal<br />
budget, she said: “While the<br />
Benazir Income Support<br />
Programme, founded under<br />
the previous government of<br />
the Pakistan Peoples Party, has<br />
received widespread recognition<br />
and has seen incremental<br />
budgetary allocations over the<br />
years, there is little else that<br />
the current government has<br />
done to tackle poverty. In fact,<br />
successive budgets presented<br />
by the ruling party reflect a<br />
worrying trend of ignoring<br />
human development.“The<br />
speech made by the finance<br />
minister has practically<br />
unbudgeted the poor and those<br />
at the bottom of the pyramid,”<br />
said Rehman.<br />
Despite an appreciable<br />
revision in poverty estimates,<br />
the federal government seems<br />
to show little interest in<br />
addressing poverty in a systemic<br />
way. Rehman said that<br />
human development is clearly<br />
off the ruling government's<br />
policy radar. “Much like the<br />
announcement of an annual<br />
increase in funding for the<br />
BISP, sectors like education<br />
and health receive scant attention,<br />
limited to a number<br />
reflecting budgetary allocation<br />
for the next fiscal year. There<br />
is no recognition of the fact<br />
that Pakistan's human development<br />
indicators are among<br />
the lowest in the world, with<br />
the state of education widely<br />
recognized as a national emergency<br />
requiring urgent policy<br />
attention,” she added.<br />
The Senator also noted<br />
that the federal government<br />
has deliberately ignored a<br />
much needed revision in the<br />
formula of the National<br />
Finance Commission under<br />
which provincial budgetary<br />
allocations are made. She<br />
said that the federal government<br />
continues to ignore the<br />
provinces key economic<br />
matters.<br />
Protests in various cities against Federal Budget <strong>2016</strong>-17<br />
by jointly by Sindh Ajrak<br />
Club and provincial culture<br />
department here on<br />
Saturday at cultural complex<br />
Mirpurkhas , he said<br />
that in every area of the<br />
globe, languages with various<br />
dialects were spoken<br />
and understood; English in<br />
London city is spoken in 8<br />
different dialects, similarly<br />
from Ladakh ( Hamalyian)<br />
to run of Kuchh , a number<br />
of languages with a host of<br />
SUKKUR: Activists of Citizen Welfare Association hold a demonstration in support<br />
of their demands in Sukkur.<br />
Folk wisdom tellers played vital role in preserving<br />
and promotion of lanuages: Shafiq Mahesar<br />
dialects of each was spoken<br />
and understood, adding that<br />
sughar had conveyed a<br />
dialects of one area to the<br />
people of other area. The<br />
commissioner announced<br />
that every year, all Sindh<br />
sughar katchery would be<br />
organized at Mirpurkhas<br />
under the supervision of<br />
veteran sughar Taj<br />
Muhammad Halepota.<br />
He praised sughars for<br />
their simplicity in their lives<br />
and manners, adding that<br />
such austere living was a<br />
source of inspiration.<br />
Earlier, Mr. Khaleel-ur-<br />
Rehman Mahesar, president<br />
of All Sindh Sughars association<br />
in his address said that<br />
after demise of renowned<br />
educationist, Dr.N.A.Baloch<br />
, a few government officials<br />
who patronized folk literature<br />
and Mr. Shafiq Mahesar<br />
was one of them. He said<br />
that Mr.Shafiq, who is also<br />
sijjadh nassioni soo shrine<br />
of Mian Ghulam<br />
Muhammad Mahesar in<br />
Khairpur, where ever had<br />
served as a civil servant , he<br />
played important role not<br />
only in patronizing sughars<br />
but also in preservation of<br />
ancient sites of cultural heritage<br />
.He appreciated the<br />
Commissioner for organizing<br />
All Sindh Sughar<br />
Katchery at Mirpurkhas for<br />
the first time.<br />
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