18 June 2016

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Metropolitan: 

Minhaj Qazi reveals 

details about Hakim 

Saeed’s murder 

during interrogation 

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National: 

Teenage Kalash girl 

denies reports of 

forceful conversion 

to Islam 

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International: 

Britain mourns 

murdered lawmaker; 

EU referendum 

campaign in limbo 

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Obama hosts 

powerful Saudi 

prince 

WASHINGTON, Jun 17: 

US President Barack 

Obama hosted youthful 

Saudi Arabian Prince 

Mohammed bin Salman at 

the White House Friday, 

underscoring his guest’s 

meteoric rise and increasingly 

pivotal role in managing 

strained US-Saudi ties. 

The 30-year-old deputy 

crown prince who has 

become the driving force 

behind economic reform 

and a more activist Saudi 

foreign policy swept into 

the West Wing with a band 

of aides for hour-long talks. 

Parents 'kill pregnant 

woman for honour' 

in Gujranwala 

GUJRANWALA, Jun 17: 

Relatives slit the throat of 

a young mother who was 

pregnant with her second 

child after she married 

against their will in eastern 

Pakistan, officials said 

Friday, the latest in a 

spate of so-called "honour 

killings". 

Muqaddas Bibi, 22, 

married Taufiq Ahmed 

three years ago in defiance 

of her family, who 

considered a marriage for 

love rather than an 

arranged marriage shameful, 

police investigator 

Mohammad Arshad said. 

Scrutiny of 

nomination papers for 

AJK elections begins 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: 

Scrutiny of nomination 

papers for the AJK elections 

is in progress. Over 

four hundred candidates 

have filed their nomination 

papers for the elections 

being held on 21st of 

the next month. 

PML-N has fielded its 

candidates on thirty-eight 

seats out of forty-one, 

PPP on thirty-nine seats, 

PTI on thirty-four seats 

and Muslim Conference 

on twenty-six seats. 

MQM linked to ‘dozens 

of UK bank accounts’ 

Scotland Yard seeks custody of Imran Farooq murder suspects 

LONDON, Jun 17: The 

Muttahida Qaumi Movement 

(MQM) is reportedly linked to 

more than seventy bank 

accounts in London. 

UK police documents 

obtained by the BBC revealed 

that twenty-six of the accounts 

are in the name of MQM 

leader Altaf Hussain. 

Six British detectives were 

recently in Pakistan seeking 

co-operation in the alleged 

money-laundering case. The 

Scotland Yard documents, 

which include details of both 

open and closed bank 

accounts, were submitted to 

Pakistan’s Federal 


Special Assistant to the 

Prime Minister on Foreign 

Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi 

on Friday said Pakistan has 

hosted three million Afghans 

for decades but now would 

no longer host Afghan residents 

here. 

“Pakistan will welcome 

the move if Afghanistan 

installs biometric system at 

its borders. Hopefully, 

Investigations Agency (FIA) 

as part of a British request for 

assistance. The UK’s Crown 

Prosecution Service is already 

considering whether leading 

MQM officials should be 

charged with money-laundering 

offences but police say that 

does not stop them making further 

inquiries. 

"The investigation continues 

and any further relevant 

information would be discussed 

with the CPS," said a 

spokesperson at Scotland 

Yard. The MQM has said 

Scotland Yard’s claims about 

the bank accounts are baseless. 

British police have been 

Afghan land will not be used 

against Pakistan,” he said. 

He said Pakistan could 

not overlook improvement 

of border system as it was 

mandatory. 

Tariq Fatemi said both 

the countries could resolve 

the mutual issues through 

talks, therefore, PM’s 

Advisor on Foreign Affairs 

Sartaj Aziz has invited 

Afghanistan Foreign 

investigating the MQM for 

several years but the investigations 

have picked up the pace 

after a meeting in London in 

April between Interior 

Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali 

Khan and British Home 

Secretary Theresa May. 

During their investigation 

into the murder of Farooq the 

police found £167,525.92 

(about $235,000) in the 

MQM’s offices in London and 

a further £289,785.32 in 

Hussain’s home in Edgware, 

north London. Previous investigations 

in London uncovered 

a list in Altaf Hussain’s home 

numbers of weapons, including 

mortars, grenades and 

bomb-making equipment. The 

list included prices for the 

weapons. In 2010, MQM 

founding member Imran 

Farooq was stabbed to death in 

London. Party insiders say he 

had major differences with 

Husain before his death. 

Altaf Husain is now under 

investigation in Britain for 

Farooq’s murder, as well as 

Pakistan will no longer host 

Afghans, says Tariq Fatemi 

BAGH, Jun 17: Federal 

Minister for Information, 

Broadcasting and National 

Heritage Senator Pervaiz 

Rashid Friday said Prime 

Minister Muhammad Nawaz 

Sharif was bringing investment 

worth $ 46 billion 

under the China Pakistan 

Economic Corridor (CPEC) 

project while internal and 

external enemies were creating 

obstacles. 

He was speaking at a ceremony 

here to welcome leaders 

and workers of different 

political parties who joined 

Pakistan Muslim League(N). 

The minister said Imran 

Khan and Tahirul Qadri were 

starting politics of sit-ins 

while following agenda of 

enemies of Pakistan. 

He asked people to foil 

the politics of sit-ins and agitation. 

The minister said Rs 50 

billion have been allocated 

for roads of Azad Kashmir. 

“We will spend this amount 

Minister to Pakistan. 

“Drone attacks have put 

question mark over efforts 

made for peace process. The 

attacks are against the 

integrity and sovereignty of 

Pakistan which should be 

stopped,” he said. 

Meanwhile, Tariq Fatemi 

has sought support of 

Belarus and Kazakhstan to 

its application for joining the 

Nuclear Suppliers Group. 

Pervaiz urges masses to 

ignore Khan, Qadri protests 

DHEERKOT: Senator Pervaiz Rashid Federal Minister for 

IB&NH, addressing a ceremony for joining of political members 

into PMLN from different political parties. 

in five years and Rs 10 billion 

will be spent every 

year.” He said AJK is a 

mountainous area and it is 

difficult to take patients to 

hospitals in a difficult terrain. 

62% Senate proposals 

incorporated in budget document 


Finance Minister, Senator 

Ishaq Dar Friday informed the 

National Assembly that the 

government had approved as 

many as 86 recommendations 

forwarded by the Senate for 

incorporation in the Finance 

Bill 2016-17. 

The Senate submitted 139 

recommendations to be incorporated 

in the budget document, 

out of which 86 have 

been approved by the government, 

which is 62 per cent of 

the total recommendations and 

a record in the parliamentary 

history of the country, Finance 

Minister said while concluding 

the debate on budget 2016-17 

in the National Assembly. 

Giving detailed break up, the 

Finance Minister said that out 

of the 86 proposals, 34 were 

accepted in totality while 30 

were approved in principle 

with remaining 22 approved 

partially, he said. 

The Finance Minister 

thanked the Leader of the 

Opposition for his positive 

response on the idea of formulating 

Economic Charter. 

charges of money-laundering. 

Meanwhile, Scotland Yard 

has approached Crown 

Prosecution for the custody of 

three key suspects arrested by 

Pakistan in connection with 

Imran Farooq murder case. 

The Crown Prosecution 

Services (PCS) provides legal 

advice to the police and other 

investigative agencies during 

the course of criminal investigations, 

to decide whether a 

suspect should face criminal 

charges following an investigation 

and to conduct prosecutions 

both in the magistrates' 

courts and the Crown Court. 

The Scotland Yard is due to 

get a verdict on its application 

within three weeks and has 

informed the Pakistan’s 

Federal Investigation Agency 

of the development. 

The FIA would file an 

application for the extradition 

of Khalid Shamim, Moazzam 

Ali Khan and MohsinAli Syed 

to UK after the Crown 

Prosecution ruling on Scotland 

Yard’s application. 

Taftan: Foundation 

of Pakistan gate laid 

at Pak-Iran border 

TAFTAN, Jun 17: Foundation 

of the Pakistan gate on Friday 

was laid at the Pakistan-Iran 

border in Taftan. Civil-military 

leaders attended the event 

along with tribal leaders. 

Collector customs Saeed 

Gadhaun, Brigadier Khalid 

Baig, Commandant Taftan 

Rifles Colonel Kashif Ijaz 

Chaudhary and Deputy 

Commissioner Chaghai Qadir 

Buksh Parkani laid foundation 

of the two 30-feet long gates. 

The construction of the gates 

cost Rs 200 million. 

The first ever gate constructed 

at the Taftan border 

by Pakistan Customs shall not 

only serve to improve the 

country’s image towards the 

visitors coming from Iran but 

will also be used to improve 

the security measures taken 

towards the imports and 

exports being made from the 

border along with providing 

facilities to travelers heading 

to Iran. While addressing the 

media during the event, 

Brigade Khalid Baig stated 

that the construction of the 

gate at the Taftan border will 

prove to be an important milestone 

and will serve as 

increasing Pakistan’s prestige. 


More than 50 State 

Department diplomats have 

signed an internal memo critical 

of U.S. policy in Syria, calling 

for military strikes against 

President Bashar al-Assad's 

government to stop its persistent 

violations of a civil war 

ceasefire. 

The "dissent channel cable" 

was signed by 51 mid- to highlevel 

State Department officers 

advising on Syria policy. 

It calls for "targeted military 

strikes" against the Syrian 

government in light of the 

near-collapse of the ceasefire 

brokered earlier this year, the 

Wall Street Journal reported, 

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tahreek workers taking part in a sit in demonstration on the 2nd 

anniversary of the Model Town Incident. 

PML-N, Nawaz to be possible 

if govt suffers: Imran Khan 

SIALKOT, Jun 17: Pakistan 

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) 

Chairman Imran Khan on 

Friday stated that he backed 

the sit-in organised by 

Pakistan Awaami Tehreek 

(PAT), adding that 14 members 

of PAT were martyred 

two years ago but justice has 

yet not been served. 

While addressing the 

media, Khan said that the 

people are angry over 

Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N). He further 

stated that Prime Minister 

(PM) Nawaz Sharif should 

relinquish his post until the 

investigation of the Panama 

Leaks is not completed. He 

said that another member of 

PML-N can serve as PM until 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: The 

joint opposition met on 

Friday to finalise the Terms 

of Reference (ToRs) that 

will form a judicial commission 

to probe allegations 

over the Panama Leaks. It 

was decided that documentary 

evidence against the 

government will be shared 

on Monday. 

Sources said that Leader 

of the Opposition in the 

National Assembly 

Khursheed Shah expressed 

his reservations over 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 

chief Imran Khan’s 

announcement to launch a 

long march in August. 

He was reported to have 

said, “If the joint opposition 

had to work together how 

can Imran Khan announce a 

citing copies of the cable it had 

seen. U.S. Secretary of State 

John Kerry, visiting 

the investigation is being carried 

out. 

Khan accused PM Nawaz 

Sharif and the Sharif family 

of being involved in money 

laundering. PTI Chairman 

said that if the government 

suffers then PM Nawaz and 

PML-N will be responsible. 

Imran said that rigging was 

proved in the constituency of 

Defence Minister Khawaja 

Asif whereas 54,000 bogus 

votes were cast in his own 

constituency which have yet 

not been investigated. 

Khan said that the government 

is giving rise to doubts 

by prolonging the investigation 

of the Panama Leaks 

issue. He stated that an independent 

National 

Joint Opp to share 

documentary evidence 

against govt on Monday 

long march or sit-in in 

August?” 

To this PTI leader Shah 

Mehmood Qureshi pacified 

him saying that “his party 

will not take a solo flight”, 

a source said. 

Speaking to the media 

after the meeting 

Khursheed Shah said, 

“Enough is enough. Now 

we will tell everything to 

the public.” 

He added that on 

Monday the joint opposition 

will conduct a press 

conference at Aitzaz 

Ahsan’s house. 

Members of the joint 

opposition claimed that the 

prime minister was ready 

for accountability however 

his close-aides were creating 

hurdles for him. 

Copenhagen, told Reuters on 

Friday: "It's an important statement 

and I respect the process, 

Accounatabilty Bureau 

(NAB) shall be introduced in 

Azad Kashmir. 

PTI Chairman said that the 

amount of funds raised during 

an Iftari held at Shaukat 

Khanum Memorial Cancer 

Hospital (SKMCH) were the 

highest during the 21-year 

history of the hospital. He 

said that the current government 

s behaviour is even 

worse than animals as hospitals 

are not even attacked during 

the time of war. 

He criticised the Prime 

Minister by stating that there 

is not even a single hospital in 

the country where the PM 

could have been treated. 

"These are a mafia who need 

to be defeated", Khan said. 

Dozens of US diplomats urge military 

strikes against Syria's Assad 

ALEPPO: Smoke and flame rise after what fighters of the 

Syria Democratic Forces said were U.S.-led air strikes on the 

mills of Manbij, where Islamic State militants are positioned. 

Pervaiz Rashid 

heads committee on 

appointment of CEC 


Minister for Information, 

Broadcasting and National 

Heritage Senator Pervaiz 

Rashid on Friday was elected 

Chairman of Parliamentary 

Committee on appointment of 

Chief Election Commissioner 

(CEC) and members of ECP. 

The first meeting of the 

committee was held here in 

which Parliamentarians 

including Arshad Laghari, 

Junaid Anwar, Shazia Mari, 

Shah Mehmood Qureshi and 

Yousaf Talpur, participated. 

MNA Junaid Anwar had 

proposed the name of Pervaiz 

Rashid for Chairman and 

Yousaf Talpur seconded this 

proposal. 

Talking to media, 

Chairman of Committee, 

Pervaiz Rashid thanked all the 

representatives of political 

parties who reposed confidence 

in him. 

very, very much. I will ... have 

a chance to meet with people 

when I get back (to 

Washington)." 

He said he had not seen the 

memo. 

Military strikes against the 

Assad government would represent 

a major change in the 

Obama administration's policy 

of not intervening directly in 

the Syrian civil war, while calling 

for a political transition that 

would see Assad leave power. 

Such strikes would put the 

United States on a collision 

course with Russia, which is 

backing Assad with air strikes, 

equipment, training and military 

advice. 

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VIDEO OF NINE ZERO’S SECURITY IN-CHARGE RELEASED 

Minhaj Qazi reveals details about 

Hakim Saeed’s murder during interrogation 

KARACHI, 

Dr SJA Jafri 

KARACHI, Jun 17: A video confession 

of the Muttahida Qaumi 

Movement (MQM) headquarter 

Nine Zero's security in-charge surfaced 

on Friday in which he made 

revelations regarding former 

Sindh governor Hakim Saeed's 

murder case. 

Minhaj Qazi in the video said 

that when former Hakim Saeed 

was murdered he was not in contact 

with the organisation. 

Qazi said that at the time of 

Saeed’s killing, Zulfikar Haider 

and others were present in 

M.A. Jinnah University started admission in PhD program 

KARACHI, Jun 17: 

Mohammad Ali Jinnah 

University, Karachi has started 

admission in PhD degree program 

in Electrical Engineering, 

Management and Computer 

Science subjects from August, 

2016. MAJU will also introduce 

4 new degree program 

COURTS 

SHC seeks comments on 

Ayyan's other contempt 

of court petition 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Sindh High Court 

(SHC) on Friday sought comments from 

the ministry of interior for not removing 

Ayyan's name from Exit Control List (ECL) 

despite its order. 

The SHC bench, headed by Justice Aqeel 

Ahmed Abbasi, was hearing another 

contempt of court petition filed by 

Super Model Ayyan Ali requesting the 

court to initiate contempt proceedings 

against FIA, interior ministry, and 

immigration officials for not complying with 

its directives. 

The court issued notices to the respondents, 

directing them to submit their respective comments 

on 23rd June 2016. The petitioner submitted 

that her name was not removed yet 

from ECL despite the court's earlier directions. 

This act from the interior ministry is the contempt 

of the court and proceedings should be 

initiated against them. 

The model was barred from leaving the 

(BS in Telecom, BS 

Accounting & Finance, MS 

Project Management and MS 

Economics & Finance) from 

next semester. M.A. Jinnah 

University has also finalized 

admission schedule for next 

semester according to which 

applications for admission will 

be received by July 23, 2016 

followed by admission test 

next day while the date of commencement 

of classes will be 

August 29, 2016. It is mentioned 

here that the new management 

of the university 

under the dynamic leadership 

of President, Muhammad Ali 

Jinnah University, Prof. Dr. 

Zubair Shaikh has taken various 

steps to convert MAJU 

into one of the best university 

of this region. In order to provide 

outcome base education, 

modern teaching methodology, 

focus on research and professional 

training matters are 

being given more attention. 

Besides that comprehensive 

restructuring program of M.A. 

Jinnah University was also 

launched this year according 

which all statutory bodies such 

asAcademic Council, Board of 

Sir Syed University signed 2 contracts 

for Technological advancement 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Sir 

Syed University of 

Engineering & Technology 

signed two contracts to keep 

pace with technological 

advancement of modern era. 

The first contract was signed 

with Techlogix for developing 

campus management 

system, and second contract 

was signed with M/s Bell 

Cow for the development of 

state of the art website. 

Speaking at the signing 

ceremony, Chancellor 

Jawaid Anwar said, “It is 

just beginning and process 

for this technological 

advancement will continue 

to bring this university as 

best among top engineering 

university.” 

Chancellor Jawaid Anwar 

said, today a dream has 

come true to leading the university 

towards advance 

technological campus management 

and also presenting 

the brand face of the university. 

Selection of the products 

under these two innovative 

advancements would be 

par excellence and prove 

immensely not only for the 

university itself but more for 

its students. 

KARACHI: Chancellor Jawaid Anwar, Amir Gilani and Registrar Syed Sarfraz Ali at the 

signing ceremony between Sir Syed University and Techlogist. 

Cardiac Emergency Center, Lab made 

functional at Liaquatabad Hospital 

told PPI that Cardiac 

Emergency Center had been 

made functional after lapse 

KARACHI, Jun 16: Cardiac 

Emergency Center of Sindh 

Government Hospital 

Liaquatabad has been made of several years. 

operational after lapse of 

several years and admission 

of patients with cardiac 

emergency requirements has 

also begun in the healthcare, 

it was learned on Friday. 

An official at the hospital 

He said 

ealier, the Cardiac Center 

was non-functional due to 

unavailability of cardiologists 

and non-repairing of 

equipments. 

He said four cardiac 

monitors had been made 

operational out of total eight 

monitors. He said admission 

of patients with cardio 

emergency requirements 

had also started in the 

healthcare. He said the 

administration also appointed 

three cardiologists and 

two resident medical officers 

(RMOs) in Cardiac 

Center to run it smoothly. 

country on Wednesday by Federal 

Investigation Agency (FIA); the agency had 

stopped her when she was about to fly for 

Dubai after her name was removed from ECL 

on the SHC's directives. 

She got surprised when she reached 

Karachi Airport on Wednesday to travel 

abroad, where she knew that her name has 

been re-inserted in the list. She kept the SHC's 

order in hand and was showing to counter but 

to no avail. 

Alleged extortionist sent on physical 

remand: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on 

Friday handed over a suspect, allegedly 

belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban 

Pakistan, to police on physical 

remand till 27th June. 

The police produced suspect 

Tahir, who was allegedly 

involved in taking extortion in Karachi and 

sending it to Wazirstan, before the administrative 

judge of ATC to get the remand of the 

accused. 

The IO requested the court to remand the 

accused in police's custody as he was 

required for interrogation. While accepting 

IO's request, the judge handed over the suspect 

to police on physical remand. The investigators 

were directed to submit progress 

report in the next hearing. 

Studies, Board of Advance 

Studies and Research and 

Board of Faculties have been 

reactivated and highly qualified 

Faculty has also been 

hired. As a result of restructuring 

MAJU has now 4 major 

Faculties which are Finance & 

Economics, Computer 

Science, Electrical 

Engineering and Management 

Sciences for providing better 

educational environment, 

focused student societies of all 

departments have been revived 

to organize co-curricular and 

extracurricular activities. 

IGP seeks street 

criminals' list 

KARACHI, Jun 17: IGP 

Sindh AD Khowaja on 

Friday directed Karachi 

Police to make a list of those 

street criminals and target 

killers who got bail two 

years ago, according to 

Sindh Police's spokesperson. 

The IGP further said that 

steps should be taken to conduct 

raids in coordination 

with Sindh Rangers against 

criminals. He also instructed 

all SSPs to ensure effective 

security and patrolling at 

markets and places of 

Namaz-e-Turawi. 

Minor girl hit 

by block dies 

KARACHI, Jun 17: A minor 

girl died after a block falling 

from a building hit her had 

in Qasba Colony area of the 

city on Friday. 

The girl, Halmas, 5, a resident 

of Qasba Colony, died 

after a block hit her head, 

The block fell from a building. 

She suffered severe 

injuries and died on the spot. 

The victim's body was shifted 

to Abbasi Shaheed 

Hospital for medico-legal 

formalities. 

Karachi. He alleged that Zulfikar 

Haider, Mehmood Siddiqui, and 

Shakir aka Langra assisted in 

Hakim Saeed’s murder. 

Qazi said that Imran Pasha, 

Amir from Liaquatabad and others 

were arrested regarding the case. 

Mehmood Siddiqui at that time 

was the chairman of the party's 

student wing All Pakistan 

Muttahida Students Organisation 

Urdu (APMSO), Minhaj Qazi 

said. 

Hakim Saeed was gunned down 

on October 17, 1998 by armed 

assailants. 

Call for taking 

oath from elected 

representatives 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Karachi 

Ittehad leaders on Friday said 

that seven months had lapsed 

since local government elections 

were held, but 

Karachiites were still 

deprived of the mayorship, 

while government was also 

reluctant to resolve people's 

issues. 

They said while addressing 

a press conference at 

KPC, which was attended by 

Karachi Ittehad's President 

Najmi Alam from PPP, 

Dawar Khan from PTI, 

Sarfaraz Jadoon from ANP, 

Aman Afridi from PML-N, 

Fazal Haq from JI, and 

Muhammad Sadiq Khan 

from JUI-F. 

They said that the government 

had not resolved basic 

issues facing Karachiites 

since last seven months, 

including water, sewerage, 

street lights, and roads. They 

demanded of Election 

Commission of Pakistan and 

authorities concerned to take 

oath from Karachi mayor, 

deputy mayor and other 

elected representatives of 

Karachi Metropolitan 

Corporation. They appealed 

to take strict action against 

those who postponed oathtaking 

process. 

Sindh Rangers' authority to keep 

suspects in custody for 90 days expires 

Jun 17: Sindh 

Rangers’ authority of keeping 

terrorists in custody for 

a period of 90 days for 

interrogation has expired. 

Federal government has not 

issued any notification 

regarding the extension in 

the authority. 

While implementing the 

National Action Plan (NAP), 

the federal government 

granted the Rangers authority 

to keep suspects in custody 

for interrogation for a 

period of 90 days after making 

an amendment in the 

KARACHI: Group picture show C.E.O Siata Pakistan Pirzada 

M. Ajmal Faoorqi, German Consul General Rainer 

Schmiedchen, Russian Consul General Oleg N. Avdeev with 

Mrs. On the occasion of local hotel function. 

30 more dengue cases surface in Karachi 

KARACHI, Jun 17: At least 30 more dengue 

viral fever cases have been detected in Sindh 

province in a week, out of which 29 were 

reported from Karachi, taking the patients toll 

ti 722 since 1st January 2016. 

As per weekly report issued by Dengue 

Prevention and Control Program (DPCP), 

Sindh, to PPI, as many as 30 new dengue fever 

cases surfaced in Sindh province from June 10 

to 16, 2016, out of which 29 were reported 

from Karachi and one from Khairpur. 

A total 29 new dengue fever cases were 

detected in Karachi last week, out of which five 

KARACHI: Additional DIG Traffic, Tahir Noorani leading an operation against the vehicles 

parked in No Parking Zone and caused for huge gridline jammed at Abdullah Haroon Road. 

Anti-Terrorism Act. Rangers 

were given the very authority 

on June 15, 2014, for a 

period of two years based on 

the amendment of section 

11EEEE of the Act. 

After being granted the 

authority, Rangers conducted 

operations across Karachi 

and apprehended several terrorists 

for a period of 90 

days. Peace was restored in 

the city as a result of the 

efforts of the Rangers. 

Rangers arrested Dr 

Asim, Dr Nisar Morai, Uzair 

Baloch, Amir Khan, Obaid 

K-2, Faisal mota, Minhaj 

Qazi, Sultan Qamar Siddiqui 

along with over two hundred 

other suspects and carried 

out investigation against 

them but the authority to 

keep suspects in custody for 

90 days expired on the night 

of June 14, 2016. 

Two days passed but the 

federal government has not 

issued an extension in the 

Rangers’ authority yet via 

notification or ordinance. 

Rangers have also 

stopped presenting terrorists 

in the court from June 15. 

KMC Administrator reviews 

monsoon preparations 

KARACHI: Smoke rising from burning garbage creating pollution in atmosphere, nearby 

Saddar Parking Plaza. 

KARACHI, Jun 17: timely measures were not the place of incident and 

Administrator Karachi taken for monsoon. carry out rescue works 

Laeeq Ahmed on Friday He urged the officers to immediately soon after 

said that concerned departments 

complete their preparations receiving the call. 

of KMC have been for rainy season without He said all required 

made alert ahead of forecast 

delay and ensure full and machinery and staff would 

for excessive rains comprehensive coordina- 

be made available at 

during the coming monsoon 

tion among the depart- 

Liaquatabad No.10 for 

season in the city. ments. Administrator immediate drainage of rain 

The cleaning of five major Laeeq Ahmed said about water from Liaquatabad, 

city storm water drains was 350 city buildings had been Nazimabad 

and 

also started immediately. declared as dangerous and Gharibabad underpasses 

Laeeq Ahmed chaired a therefore such a strategy and such arrangements 

high level meeting to has been devised to enable have been made to save 

review the monsoon preparations, 

the fire brigade, rescue these underpasses from 

he warned citizens unit, building engineers rain water coming from 

would face acute trouble if and city wardens to get to adjoining areas. 

were reported from District Central, 10 from 

District South, two from District West, eight 

from District East and four from District Malir. 

In 2016, a total 722 dengue fever cases were 

reported in Sindh province since 1st January 

2016, out of which 668 were detected from 

Karachi, 12 from Hyderabad, five from 

Sukkur, four from Tando Muhammad Khan, 

three each from Dadu, Mirpurkhas, 

Tharparkar, Khairpur & Larkana, two each 

from Badin, Thatta, Jamshoro,Umer Kot, 

Sanghar Naushero Feroz, Ghotki, Shaheed 

Benazirbad and Shikarpur. 

KARACHI: Administrator District Council, Nadir Ali Wasan 

along with Chief Officer, Masroor Memon inaugurating Water 

Supply Scheme. 

KARACHI: Additional Executive Officer CBC, Arfeen Zubair 

Choudhry chairing the meeting to review rain emergency 

arrangements on the occasion of Monsoon. 

KARACHI: Administrator DMC Korangi, Nisar Ahmed 

Somrro along with Director Advertisement, Shahab Jalees, 

Director Information, Ayaz Muhammad Khan inspecting 

ongoing operation against hoarding Fixed at Natha Khan.


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Teenage Kalash girl denies reports 

of forceful conversion to Islam 

CHITRAL, Jun 17: 

Disputing reports of forced 

conversion to Islam, the 

teenage girl of Kalash 

appeared before the media on 

Friday and informed she converted 

her faith ‘wilfully’. 

Addressing a press conference 

in Chitral while 

flanking alongside her father 

and uncle at Chitral Press 

Club, Reena rejected a foreign 

news agency report that 

claimed she was converted 

forcefully. 

The 15-year-old underlined 

that she didn’t have any 

pressure in embracing Islam. 

She ‘drew inspiration from 

her Muslim school friends 

about Islam and decided to 

convert.’ 

Speaking on the occasion, 

girl’s father said Kalash girls 

are converting to Islam, but 

FATA adhoc lecturers protest enters 38th day 

PESHAWAR, Jun 17: The 

protest of ad-hoc lecturers 

of different FATA colleges 

entered the 38th day outside 

Peshawar Press Club 

demanding the release of 

salaries and regularization 

of jobs. Around 213 male 

and female lecturers working 

on an adhoc basis in different 

colleges of FATA 

have been protesting for 

disbursement of pending 

salaries and regularization 

of jobs. 

President of Ad-hoc 

Lecturers Afsar Khan while 

addressing to the protesting 

teachers said, “We have 

been working in hard areas 

of FATA. Our lives are at 

risk in hotbed of terrorism 

while on the other hand our 

salaries have not been 

released for the last 10 

months.” 

Sabina, a female lecturer, 

said that the lecturers risked 

their lives to perform duties 

like ‘soldiers of peace’ 

despite clashes and militancy, 

but the government was 

denying them their salaries 

and permanent jobs. 

“Some lecturers have 

been forced to live on debt 

as they have been facing 

financial problems,” said a 

woman lecturer, Alia. 

Nasir Ali said that on the 

floor of K-P assembly, 

Higher Education Minister 

Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani 

promised that an amendment 

bill would be introduced 

for the regularization 

of the lecturers , but he 

never kept his promise. 

He said that the KP Chief 

Minister Pervaiz Khattak 

had promised for regularization 

of the ad-hoc lecturers 

in one week time but he 

failed to keep his promise. 

Two travel agents held 

RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: The 

Federal Investigation Agency 

on Friday arrested two travel 

agents on charges of human 

trafficking and seized fake 

passports from them. 

On a tip-off, FIA personnel 

raided at travel agency 

office in Rehmanabad and 

apprehended two fake travel 

agents identified as Amir 

and Qaiser. The suspects 

were allegedly involved in 

human trafficking. 

The FIA also recovered 

eight passports, fake documents 

and stamps from the 

suspects’ possession. 

They were shifted to the 

anti-human smuggling cell 

for further investigation. 

SUKKUR: Residents of Mirani Muhallah hold a demonstration against failure of sewerage 

system in their area. 

AIOU practical exams from July 18 


Allama Iqbal Open 

University (AIOU) will conduct 

practical exams of FSc 

programme for Autumn 

Semester 2015 from July 18. 

According to a press 


According to a Gilani 

Research Foundation 

Survey carried out by 

Gallup Pakistan, 43% 

Pakistanis have stated that 

they would wish to go to 

Saudi Arabia if they were 

given an opportunity to 

visit another country provided 

all their expenditures, 

including accommodation 

and tickets, were 

borne by the Pakistani 

Government. 

A nationally representative 

sample of men and 

women from across the 

four provinces was asked, 

“Suppose that you get an 

CHITRAL: Kalash women leader Shahi gul addressing a press confrence with newly converted 

Muslim girl Reena at Chitral press club. 

release issued on Friday, the 

practical exams will continue 

till July 29, while these 

exams will be held at 

Governemnt. College of 

Science Wahdat Road, 

Lahore, Government Islamia 

College Sargodha Road, 

Faisalabad and AIOU lab 

Islamabad. 

Roll number slips were 

being sent by post to the 

concerned students at their 

given addresses. 

43% Pakistanis would choose to go to Saudi Arabia if given an 

opportunity to go abroad on an all-expense paid trip: Survey 

opportunity to visit another 

country and all the associated 

expenditures such as 

accommodation and ticket 

are being borne by the 

Pakistan Government, then 

which Country would you 

like to go to?” 

In response to this question, 

43% Pakistanis said 

Saudi Arabia, 10% said 

United Kingdom, 10% said 

Dubai, 8% said the United 

States of America, 3% said 

Canada, 3% said China, 

2% said India, 2% said 

Japan, 1% said Iran, 1% 

said Germany, 8% mentioned 

some other country, 

5% said that they would 

not want to go to any other 

country and 4% gave no 

response. 

The study was released 

by Gilani Research 

Foundation and carried out 

by Gallup Pakistan, the 

Pakistani affiliate of 

Gallup International. 

The recent survey was 

carried out among a sample 

of 1825 men and 

women in rural and urban 

areas of all four provinces 

of the country, during April 

11 – April 18, 2016. Error 

margin is estimated to be 

approximately ± 2-3 per 

cent at 95% confidence 

level. 

Another teacher Haq 

Nawaz Burki said, “Our 

salaries have not been 

released since September 

last year.” 

Lecturers demanded 

immediate release of 

salaries and regularization. 

The protest camp and classes 

boycott will continue till 

the acceptance of their 

demands, they said. 

The 213 male and 

female lecturers working on 

Adhoc in different colleges 

of FATA have been 

deprived with salaries since 

September 2015. 

Dysfunctional 

escalators at metro 

bus stations a nuisance 

for senior citizens 

RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: 

Dysfunctional and out of 

order escalators and elevators 

at different metro bus 

stations in Rawalpindi and 

Islamabad have become a 

perpetual source of nuisance 

for passengers particularly 

senior citizens, who 

grapple to ascend stairs to 

board buses. 

During inspection of different 

stations it revealed 

that escalators and elevators 

at most stations have gone 

faulty and not functioning. 

The elevator installed at 

Mareer Chowk bus station, 

at G-9/3 of Ibn-e-Sina station 

and other stations has 

been dysfunctional for the 

last many days and no work 

has been carried out to 

repair them. 

The citizens have 

appealed to Chief Minister 

(CM) Punjab to hold 

inquiry into the issue as 

millions of rupees are 

released for maintenance of 

elevators and escalators 

each month but they remain 

shut for long days. 

When contacted, Furqan, 

project manager of Marine 

Company, which has been 

appointed for maintenance 

work of elevators and escalators, 

said that recent rainwindstorm 

caused immense 

damage to some elevators 

and escalators. He claimed 

that mechanics of the company 

were working on 

faulty elevators. 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Men 

with prostate cancer could 

slash their risk of death by 

more than a third by eating 

nuts regularly, a major study 

shows. 

Five 1oz servings a week of 

any type of nut cut mortality 

rates by 34 per cent, 

researchers found. 

But there was no evidence 

that eating nuts reduces the risk 

of developing the disease in 

the first place. 

The results come from the 

largest ever study into the 

effects of a nut-rich diet on 

prostate cancer. 

The disease affects 35,000 

in some of the cases they 

revert to their parent religion 

because they are not provided 

with their due rights. He 

said the Muslims should 

ensure provision of rights so 

that Kalash girls may not 

reconsider their decision. 

He also sought assurance 

in writing from Muslim elders 

that the girl wont be mistreated. 

More conversions ‘in the 

past’ The girl, during her 

presser, divulged that three 

girls also recently converted 

to Islam wilfully. ‘Why the 

issue is being created in my 

case,” she asked. 

The ninth-grader appealed 

to the media and people not 

to make a mountain out of a 

molehill and don’t portray 

her private matters a public 

affair. 

An FIR of 

dual murders 

registered 

Staff Reporter 

SHIKARPUR, Jun 17:An FIR 

of dual murders was registered 

against 09 culprits on the complaint 

of the deceased’s mother 

Mst Imamzadi Kehar at Lakhi 

Ghulam Shah Police Station 

on late Thursday. As per 

reports, two days ago unidentified 

ambushed armed men 

opened indiscriminate firing 

on two real brothers identified 

as Gul Muhammad Kehar and 

Muhammad Khan Kehar near 

Dodo goth when they were 

riding on their motorcycle to 

their native town Sultankot. 

As a result of firing they 

were killed on the spot while 

assailants ran away from place 

of incident after committing 

the crime.After passage of two 

days police have registered a 

double murder case against 09 

culprits including 

Rahmatullah, Imran, Anwar, 

Hashim, Karim dion, Rasool 

Bakhsh, Muhammad Salah, 

Dad Muhammad and Ghulam 

Akbar all of by caste Shar 

community persons at Lakhi 

Ghulam Shah police station. 

KHAIRPUR, Jun 17: The 

Spokesperson of Shah Abdul 

Latif University, Khairpur 

has announced that the long 

awaited Sweet and Clean 

Drinking Water problem of 

the students and staff has 

been resolved wit the untiring 

efforts of Vice Chancellor 

Prof. Dr. Parveen Shah. The 

water supply scheme amounting 

Rs. 15 Million has been 

started to provide the sweet 

and clean drinking water to 

academic block, hostels, 

teachers and staff residence. 

It is recalled that since 

1977 with the establishment 

of campus, no any Vice 

Chancellor have taken serious 

efforts for the provision 

100 suspects arrested, 

weapons seized in Peshawar 

PESHAWAR, Jun 17: Police 

claimed to have arrested at 

least 100 suspects including 

Afghans residing illegally 

during search operation here 

on Friday Police spokesman 

said that the search operations 

were conducted in 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, Jun 17: The 

scores of residents of 

Qasimabad township of 

Hyderabad held protest 

demonstration here on 

Friday against long power 

outage and cursed Wapda 

with slogans of BIJLI 

NAHIN KIUN BHALA, 

KARBALA KARBALA. 

The villagers of Sanjar 

Mirbahar told media that 

Faqirabad, Hayatabad, 

Tatara and Sarband areas 

where officials of lady 

police and sniffer dogs were 

also used to check around 

200 houses. 

Police said that some 16 

Afghans living without 

they were deprived of electricity 

since last 5 months. 

They said they were asked to 

purchase new meters yet the 

officers of Hesco were 

demanding bribe for restoration 

of power. The protest 

was led by Ghulam 

Muhammad Buledi, Soomar 

Halepoto, Kaleem 

Shambhani and Saleem 

Budha. They said that Hesco 

sub division Citizen Colony 

was demanding money from 

valid documents were 

among 101 suspected elements 

arrested during the 

operation. 

Police also recovered 16 

pistols, a short gun and hundreds 

of cartridges from the 

possession of the suspects. 

Qasimabad residents curse WAPDA 

them. They said they were 

fed up with roaming around 

offices of SDO and Line 

Superintendent but of no 

avail. They said the Hesco 

officers were insisting either 

payment of Rs.2 lacs as bribe 

or get electricity through 

Kunda by paying cash to 

them consuming power 

without meter. They warned 

if power was restored before 

Eid they would stage Dharna 

in front of his office. 

HYDERABAD: Residents’ of Qasmabad hold a protest against HASCO outside HPC. 

An alleged bandit arrested 

in injured condition 

Waheed Phulpoto 

SHIKARPUR, Jun 17: 

Shikarpur police claimed to 

have arrested a bandit after 

an exchange of firing in 

injured condition near 16 

Mori in the limits of Sultankot 

police station on late 

Thursday. 

As per official sources, 

after receiving the information 

about the presence of 

bandits for committing a 

of sweet and clean water for 

campus. In the absence of 

sweet and clean water, the 

students and residence were 

affected with water borne diseases 

and were facing hardship. 

On this occasion, Vice 

Chancellor Prof. Dr. Parveen 

Shah has extended her cordial 

thanks to Syed Qaim Ali 

Shah, Chief Minister Sindh, 

Mr. Jam Khan Shoro, 

Provincial Minister for Local 

Government & Public Health 

Department and Mr. Fayaz 

Ahmed Jatoi, Deputy 

Commissioner, Khairpur. 

The teachers, officer, 

employees and students have 

appreciated the efforts of 

Prof. Dr. Parveen Shah for 

resolving this genuine and 

long awaited problem. 

MEETING REGARD- 

ING TESTING ASSESS- 

MENT & RECRUIT- 

MENT THROUGH PTS 

HELD 

A meeting regarding the 

conduct of written test of various 

posts recently 

announced by the University 

in various teaching 

Departments was held at 

Shah Abdul Latif University, 

Khairpur presided over by 

Prof. Dr. Lutfullah Mangi, 

Pro-Vice Chancellor, 

Shikarpur Campus. 

Dr. Lutfullah Mangi 

briefed that the purpose of 

serious crime near 16 Mori, 

SHO Sultan kot rushed there 

to arrest them, seeing the 

police, bandits opened fire, 

on retaliation, police have 

arrested a bandit identified 

as Siraj Ahmed son of 

Bashir Bhayo in injured condition 

while his other 

accomplices fled away from 

place of firing. 

The police seized one 

Kalashnikov and good number 

of bullets from their possession. 

The Sultan-kot 

police shifted the injured 

person to Sultan-kot Rural 

Health Centre [RHC] for 

medical treatment. 

According to police 

sources, Sutlan-kot police 

have started search operation 

to arrest other accomplices of 

arrested bandit while neither 

police arrested other accomplices 

of arrested dacoit nor 

an FIR was registered till this 

story was filed. 

Work for the provision of sweet water for campus started 

LARKANA, Jun 17: 

Heatwave continue to hit hard 

Larkana and its adjoining 

areas, as 199 gastroenteritis 

patients reported at Accident 

and Emergency Center of 

Chandka Medical College 

Hospital (CMCH) here within 

last seven days from June 10 

to 16, 2016. Coupled with 

worst electricity load shedding 

in defiance of announced 

policy of the federal ministry 

of water and power, the fasting 

people continued to suffer 

despite paying their bills and 

taxes regularly, but there 

seemed no respite to them by 

Sepco authorities. 

Forty gastroenteritis cases 

emerged within week, while 

this meeting is to conduct the 

written test of various posts of 

Teaching Departments. The 

objective of the meeting is to 

conduct the test and short list 

the eligible candidates aimed 

at to maintain transparency 

and ensure the merit in the 

appointments. 

Mr. Safdar Ali Sohu, 

Regional Manager, Pakistan 

Testing Service (PTS), Sindh 

offered the services to conduct 

the test. 

Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed 

Shaikh, Pro-Vice Chancellor, 

Main Campus, Prof. Dr. Asad 

Raza Abidi, Registrar and Mr. 

Altaf Hussain Bhutto, 

Director Finance attended the 

meeting. 

Larkana: 199 gastro cases emerge in a week 

men a year in the UK, killing 

around 10,000. 

Previous studies have hinted 

a healthy diet and lifestyle, 

including frequent snacking on 

nuts, can have a protective 

effect. In 2014, scientists found 

walnuts in particular seemed to 

significantly lower the risk of a 

tumour. 

In the latest study, published 

online in the British 

Journal of Cancer, experts at 

Harvard Medical School in 

Boston tracked 47,000 men 

over 26 years. They identified 

6,800 who developed prostate 

cancer. 

Eating nuts regularly 

seemed to have little or no benefit 

in terms of preventing 

malignant growths. 

But when scientists looked 

at death rates, they found sufferers 

who ate nuts at least five 

times a week were 34 per cent 

less likely to die from their illness 

than those who ate nuts 

less than once a month. 

Most of the nut-eaters in the 

US study ate peanuts but the 

20 patients expired in the 

CMCH. Unannounced worst 

power outage is being carried 

out in entire Larkana district 

by the grid station incharge in 

connivance with operation 

sub-divisions. 

Eating nuts slashes prostate cancer death risk by a third 

health benefits seem to apply 

whatever the type of nut. Nuts 

are rich in tocopherols, a type 

of vitamin E which some 

research suggests can combat 

cancer. 

They also contain phytochemicals, 

naturally occurring 

plant chemicals thought to 

have potent anti-cancer properties. 

Other studies have found 

they protect against heart disease 

and type 2 diabetes. 

Reporting their findings, 

the researchers said: 'No significant 

associations were 

observed between peanut or 

other nut consumption and 

prostate cancer incidence.

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EDITORIAL 

BLACK AND WHITE TRUTH OF WORLD POLITICS: SICK JOKES ON HUMANITY 

Nations can change state policies 

like slavery under big powers 

CHANGES were made by some governments as 

demanded via protests and demonstrations by 

their nations who instituted gradual as well as 

drastic changes in their governments' wrong policies 

like slavery under big powers. 

MIDEAST situation resembles a ball of fire raging 

in some parts of a number of Muslim countries at war 

against each other. That confronts Pakistan with a critical 

diplomatic problem to find a solution that could be 

acceptable at home as well as abroad. 

NUCLEAR power Pakistan, the only one in the 

Muslim world, can have a considerable influence on 

friends and foes alike within and outside the country to 

change its own direction from such negative and defaming 

stance and move towards freedom and independence 

by reducing and ending an internationally induced 

slavery to big powers and their Mideast satellites where 

rules and principles think nothing of any diplomatic or 

military solutions being right or wrong. 

CROSS roads for Pakistan: To do Mideast, big powers’ 

bidding and, for instance, play its significant role in 

abstaining from support to oppressor Muslim majority 

leaders' wars under centuries old enmity that continues 

to kill an oppressed Shi'ite Muslim minority. Islamabad 

can follow up with a later advocating of a termination 

of militarist adventures. Briefly, Pakistan, which has 

among largest Shi'ite populations in the world, can let 

this helpless Muslim minority be killed like they were 

in centuries past, or make a decision to save it from 

denial of basic human rights and stop centuries old 

inhuman discrimination and persecution of all kinds. 

REVIEW of history of performance of Pakistani 

governments have led researchers towards that constant 

historical problem faced by state leaders, institutions, 

officials and law enforcing agencies, who sometimes 

spoke and did right, and sometimes spoke and did 

wrong. There was not any clear cut policy that actions 

could otherwise prove to be true. 

EXAMPLE: Rulers and leaders of both Islamabad 

and provincial governments were accusing each other 

with grave charges of supporting terrorism against 

Muslim Shiite community. However, neither side, even 

though daring each other to do so, was taking signficiant 

proper action and were not punishing self proclaimed 

killers in all those decades of freedom ever 

since Pakistan came into existence. 

ZARB-E-AZB operation, which Pakistan Army 

launched launched despite dislike of some rulers, did 

By Marwan Kabalan 

Over the next final months of his presidency, 

United States President Barack Obama will 

be preoccupied with solidifying the legacy of 

his administration as well as enhancing his personal 

image as an “exceptionally” successful US president. 

Domestically, that may not be a difficult task after all. 

Obama did indeed accomplish some of the most 

important social and economic reforms he had promised 

during his election campaign. 

In the US, millions of poor Americans will be 

grateful for him for having the courage to fight the 

greed of big insurance cartels in order to provide them 

with the health-care facility they have always yearned 

for. He will also be remembered for getting Wall Street 

under control and rescuing the US economy from its 

worst economic and finical crisis since the Great 

Depression in 1929. Yet, on foreign policy, Obama 

will not leave many good memories. On the contrary, 

his administration will always be remembered in this 

regard as one of weakest and most pathetic in the history 

of the US (this title has so far been reserved to the 

Jimmy Carter administration). 

Under his watch as president, Daesh (the self-proclaimed 

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) captured 

one third of Iraq and half of Syrian territories, posing 

great challenge to regional order, world peace and US 

interests. During his presidency also, the world witnessed 

the greatest humanitarian crisis since the 

Second World War. On Syria, the president of the 

world’s sole superpower and leader of the free world 

stood idle, watching a great disaster unfolding before 

his own eyes and aired live on TV screens across the 

globe; with hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians 

losing their lives and many millions getting displaced. 

Under Obama too, the world witnessed the 

resurgence of Russia. His weakness tempted Russian 

President Vladimir Putin to invade and annex the 

Crimean Peninsula without even having to think about 

the consequences. 

These great failures in foreign policy have given 

critics a lot of ammunition to target the very legacy 

that Obama is trying to uphold. At home and abroad, 

his administration has been accused of rolling back 

American power and influence around the world. 

American leadership has seen a waning as a result of 

his timid international policies, which were widely 

interpreted as hesitant and failures. 

Indeed, as a lawyer by profession and an eloquent 

orator, Obama did always have something to say in the 

face of these criticisms. He believes that the main 

challenges for the US today is to lead the world without 

becoming its policeman. 

The US should hence avoid involvement in 

reduce and ended terrorism to a great extent that was 

not expected anytime soon, but a large number of civilians 

were made homeless and suffered, though rehabilitated 

by the army. If media is any indication, the operation 

marked a respite in anti-Shia terrorism. However, 

before any operation, precautions to avoid innocent 

casualties and displacements can be made and any fresh 

start of sectarian violence and killings can be ascertained. 

That is nearer to ideal, though it may not be realistic 

to expect any miraculous results or creation of a 

superhuman situation. 

WARS led and waged by Saudi Arabia and many of 

its allied Arab countries in the Mideast may subdue 

Shi'ites in their victimized and invaded countries. 

Majority of extremists have a usual "wait and see" attitude 

before deciding for taking any action. However, its 

follow ups in ways and methods similar to the outcome 

and results of those majority Muslim states' wars 

against minority of Muslim states. 

PEACE in practice without persecution of minorities 

and a guarantee for protection of their human rights as 

can be observed in practice after those wars on Shi'ites 

ended may have more favorable impact for betterment 

of that Muslim minority. 

KILLINGS of Shi'ites after those wars are over may 

also trigger a worldwide killing against that minority 

sect in Islam. That post-war negative or positive impact 

after peace or end of war with more killings may determine 

the fate of Shi'ites in at least other Muslim majority 

countries with a long history of persecution of 

minorities. Under one or the other of these desirable as 

well as undesirable consequences, including undeclared 

anti-social behavior and uncivilized killings after peace, 

Muslim rulers must take precautionary and protective 

measures to ensure human equality and just rights for 

all sects in Islam. 

PAKISTAN can change its policy and play its positive 

role, but not as usual in verbal terms only, but in 

practice too: It can save all Muslim sects and strive to 

ensure their rights in Islam to the extent it can. Aside 

governments, nations can also make their rulers change 

a disgraceful and defaming policy and action towards 

one of human values and noble principles as ensured in 

Islam. 

NATIONS can also wake up and help their rulers 

and countries regain their lost place, pride, sense of justice 

and rising up to human world standards for one and 

all within their own nations. 

OPINION 

Fuzzy footprints of Obama foreign policy 

attempts at rebuilding every state that falls into crisis. 

“That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, 

spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately 

will weaken us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam; it’s the lesson 

of Iraq — and we should have learned it by now”, 

Obama said. 

The alternative to this direct projection of American 

power is its “wise application”, defined by Obama as 

the “smarter approach” of a patient and disciplined 

strategy that utilises all elements of American power. 

On issues of global concern, he says: “We will 

mobilise the world to work with us and make sure 

other countries pull their own weight.” Obama gave a 

number of examples in this regard to affirm the success 

of a strategy, which many see as a failure. In 

Syria, the US is “partnering” with local forces (meaning 

separatist Kurdish factions) and leading an international 

coalition against Daesh. 

In handling Iran, the US formed an international 

coalition that imposed harsh diplomatic and economic 

sanctions, ultimately resulting in the nuclear agreement. 

He also refers to the Trans-Pacific Trade 

Agreement, the Paris Climate Change Agreement and 

America’s and international efforts to fight infectious 

diseases in Africa and elsewhere. 

It is obvious that while attempting to protect his 

foreign policy legacy, Obama tries to exonerate himself 

and his administration from any responsibility for 

the chaos that has swept through the Middle East during 

his tenure. To realise that he tries to use everything 

he can muster, including twisted historic events. He 

stated: “The Middle East is going through a transformation 

that will play out for a generation, rooted in 

conflicts that date back millennia.” 

This represents an official endorsement of the myth 

of a Sunni-Shiite conflict as lying at the heart of the 

matter, disregarding the fact that conflicts so-designated 

only became fraught and violent after his predecessor 

decided to invade Iraq in 2003, established sectarian 

power-sharing there and left Iraq prey to Iran. 

If the George W. Bush administration was directly 

responsible for this situation, then Obama is not 

blameless either. He did absolutely nothing to stop the 

use of heavy weapons, including warplanes, tanks and 

missiles by the regime of Bashar Al Assad against 

civilians. He backed former Iraqi prime minister Nouri 

Al Maliki in the face of election results that favoured 

Ayad Allawi. He turned a blind eye to Al Maliki’s sectarian 

policies in Iraq and to Al Houthis in Yemen, 

leading to heightened sectarian tensions in the region. 

These policies will always haunt the legacy of 

President Obama and will tarnish the image he tried 

to make for himself as one of the greatest presidents 

of the US. 

Met Office forecasts 

hot and dry weather 

ISLAMABAD: Youngsters taking bath in the water to cool themselves off during hot weather 

in the capital. 

CMCH: No dialysis machine 

for Hepatitis B patients 

LARKANA, Jun 17: There is 

no dialysis machine for 

Hepatitis B patients in 

Chandka Medical College 

Hospital (CMCH), Larkana, 

which has put life of the visiting 

patients in danger. 

Sources revealed that all 

Hepatitis B patients have 

been deprived of this life-saving 

facility. There is also no 

professor of Nephrology in 

CMC to look after the 


patients of this vital department, 

which shows the hospital 

administration's utter negligence. 

The dialysis center, 

which was functioning in 

Urology Department in 

CMCH Teaching Block has 

now been shifted to city block 

owing to unhygienic ground 

water that was used in the 

dialysis process through 

Reverse Osmosis system. 

At the moment, there are 

SHIKARPUR, Jun 17: The 

special team headed by 

A/C HESCO Larkana 

Nazir Soomro, Sub 

Divisional Officer [SDO-2] 

Shafqat Lashari along with 

Ranges personnel conducted 

raid against power pilferage 

here on Friday. 

As per details, the special 

team conducted raids 

against power pilferage and 

to recover Wapda dues from 

bench No 8 and 9 Shikarpur 

city 2 and recovered Rs6.0 

millions out of Rs1.5 million 

while special team 

11 machines, out of which 

nine are reserved for 

Hepatitis negative patients 

and two for Hepatitis C 

patients. Out of these two 

machines one has completed 

its life which keep on 

creating troubles frequently. 

All these machines are not 

only outdated but also 

unworthy of usage as they 

keep on running in three 

shifts since years. 

HESCO recovers 0.6 millions rupees 

Policeman 

injured in hitand-run 

incident 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: A 

police man was injured in a 

hit-and-run incident within 

the Kohsar police jurisdiction. 

Sonstable Yunus Khan 

lodged a complaint with the 

police that he was going on a 

motorcycle when a car (YK- 

724) driven by Ghaniur 

Rahman hit him from behind 

and injured him. According 

to him, the car driver fled 

after public gathered and 

took notice of his reclessness. 

The police have registered 

a case and started 

investigation. 

Four hospitals 

to get model 

hospital status 

RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: A 

decision has been taken to 

accord model hospital status 

to four hospitals including 

Benazir Bhutto Hospital 

Rawalpindi. 

On the directives of 

Punjab Chief Minister 

Shahbaz Sharif, an inspection 

team visited four hospitals 

in the district and they 

have been recommended to 

be included in the list of 

model hospitals with all 

medical facilities and doctors 

and paramedical staff, 

said a senior health official. 

According to him, all 

medicines will be provided 

to patients from hospital 

stocks and life-saving drugs 

will also be available in 

these hospitals. 

Work on the plan has 

been completed and a committee 

headed MS Dr Asif 

Qadir Mir and three other 

members has been formed 

to give a final shape to the 

proposal. 

caught many direct Kunda 

connections. 

According to officials of 

HESCO that operation 

against power pilferage 

would continue in future. The 

HESCO employees including 

Jani and others were took 

part in the operation. 

Two persons drowned 


SHIKARPUR, Jun 17: Two 

persons were drowned in 

separate incidents on Friday. 

According to sources, a 

twelve years old boy identified 

as Siraj Mahar drowned 

in Jaara Waah [canal] while 

a senior citizen identified as 

Joungal Jagirani were also 

drowned in Kheer thal canal 

when they were taking bath 

into it. 

The local divers rushed 

on the spot and fished out 

the dead bodies of the 

deceased. 

Later, they laid to rest in 

their ancestral graveyards 

after offering funeral prayers 

at their native villages. 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Met 

Office has forecast mainly 

hot and dry weather in most 

parts of the country today 

(Saturday). 

Rain-thundershowers with 

strong gusty winds are 

expected at few places in 

Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, 

Lahore, Hazara divisions, 

Islamabad, Kashmir and 

Gilgit-Baltistan, added PMD. 

According to synoptic situation, 

a low pressure lies 

over central parts of the country 

with its trough extending 

south-eastward. Weak moist 

currents from Arabian sea are 

still penetrating eastern parts 

of the country and likely to 

continue during next 02 to 03 

days Westerly wave is still 

affecting Kashmir and its 

adjoining areas. 

Radio Pakistan 

contradicts report on 

non- payment of salaries 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Radio 

Pakistan has contradicted a 

media report on non disbursement 

of salary to its contractual 

employees of Rawalpindi 

station for the last eight 

months. 

A spokesperson Radio 

Pakistan said that the report 

published in a section of press 

was one sided and incorrect. 

“Salaries of contract employees 

are paid in time,” he said. 

It is pertinent to mention that 

Online had run the story. A 

source in Radio Pakistan 

Islamabad told Online that the 

contractual employees of 

Islamabad station have also 

not been paid their salaries for 

the month of April. The 

source further said that some 

of the contractuals, who have 

contacts with seniors, have 

managed to get their salaries 

for the month of April while 

the rest were yet to be paid. 

Two looted 

at gunpoint 

RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: A 

man and his sister were 

looted at gunpoint within 

the airport police jurisdiction. 

Waseem Safdar, a resident 

of airport, lodged a 

complaint with the local 

police that he along with 

his sister was going home 

when three armed men 

intercepted them at gunpoint 

and made off with 

Rs4,000 in cash, gold 

ornaments, two cell 

phones and other valuables. 

Meanwhile, Khalid 

Masih, a resident of 

Saddar Wah, lodged a 

complaint with the local 

police that van driver Sana 

Ullah stole Rs0.2 million 

from his pocket while he 

was traveling with him in 

his vehicle. 

The police have registered 

cases and started 

investigations. 

LAHORE: Renowned Religious Scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel delivering the Jumma Sermon 

before Friday prayers.


International 

5 

Britain mourns murdered lawmaker; 

EU referendum campaign in limbo 

BIRSTALL, ENGLAND, 

Jun 17: Britain mourned lawmaker 

Jo Cox on Friday after 

a man wielding a gun and 

knife killed the 41-year-old in 

an attack that has thrown a 

June 23 referendum on 

European Union membership 

into limbo. 

Cox, a supporter of Britain 

staying in the EU, was shot 

and stabbed after a meeting 

with residents in her own 

constituency near Leeds in 

northern England by a man 

who witnesses said had 

shouted "Britain first". 

She was pronounced dead 

just over 48 minutes later by a 

doctor working with a paramedic 

crew trying to save her 

life. A 52-year-old man 

named by media as Thomas 

Mair was arrested by officers 

nearby and weapons including 

a firearm were recovered. 

The killing prompted campaigning 

to be suspended in 

the EU referendum, the tone 

of which has become increasingly 

angry and bitter and 

included personal recriminations 

as well as furious debate 

of issues such as immigration 

and the economy. 

Though the motives of the 

JAKARTA, Jun 17: 

Indonesian authorities have 

stopped 44 migrants believed 

to be from Sri Lanka from disembarking 

from their boat and 

said on Friday the vessel had to 

head back out to sea after 

being supplied with food and 

fuel and repaired. 

FALLUJA, IRAQ, Jun 17: 

Iraqi forces recaptured the 

municipal building in Falluja 

from Islamic State militants, 

the military said on Friday, 

nearly four weeks after the 

start of a U.S.-backed offensive 

to retake the city an 

hour's drive west of Baghdad. 

The ultra-hardline militants 

still control a significant 

portion of Falluja, where the 

conflict has forced the evacuation 

of most residents and 

many streets and houses 

BIRSTALL: Women arrive to leave a floral tribute near the scene of the murder of Labour 

Member of Parliament Jo Cox in Birstal near Leeds, Britain. 

killer were not immediately 

clear, some suggested sympathy 

for Cox could boost the 

Remain campaign which 

opinion polls indicate had 

fallen behind Leave. 

Police said they were not 

in a position to discuss the 

motive of the attack. 

"Jo believed in a better 

Indonesia has for years 

been a stepping stone for 

refugees and migrants from the 

Middle East and South Asia 

hoping to reach Australia. 

Australia has been urging it to 

act to stop the flow of people, 

often traveling in unseaworthy 

boats. The boat carrying the 44 

remain mined with explosives. 

A spokesman for the U.S.- 

led coalition backing 

Baghdad's quest to recover 

large swathes of western and 

northern Iraq from Islamic 

State told Reuters that government 

forces were "close 

(to the building) but don't 

have control yet". 

A military statement said 

the federal police had raised 

the Iraqi state flag above the 

government building and 

world and she fought for it 

every day of her life with an 

energy and a zest for life that 

would exhaust most people," 

Cox's husband, Brendan, 

said. 

"She would have wanted 

two things above all else to 

happen now, one that our precious 

children are bathed in 

people, including several 

women and children, was 

found stranded off the coast of 

the northern Indonesian 

province of Aceh last week. 

"We fixed their boat and 

gave them the food and fuel 

they asked for. We also did 

health checks and we see their 

love and two, that we all unite 

to fight against the hatred that 

killed her." 

A U.S. civil rights group 

the Southern Poverty Law 

Center (SPLC), based in 

Alabama, said on its website 

that it had obtained records 

showing a Thomas Mair had 

links with the neo-Nazi 

Indonesia says 44 migrants must 

sail on after being resupplied 

condition is good," provincial 

governor Zaini Abdullah told 

media. 

"They can be on their way. 

We are waiting for high tide ... 

Don't look at it as if we are 

pushing them out or ejecting 

them. We have fulfilled the 

humanitarian obligations." 

It was not clear if the people 

on board the boat wanted to 

land in Indonesia or sail on but 

activists said they should have 

been given access to the U.N. 

refugee agency. 

Even though Indonesia is 

seen as a transit country on the 

way to Australia, many 

migrants end up staying there 

for years. 

More than 1,000 migrants 

from Myanmar and 

Bangladesh landed in Aceh 

last year after spending days 

on overcrowded boats, adrift in 

the Andaman Sea. 

EU extends sanctions 

US says it will stay in Black on Russia-annexed 

Crimea until mid-2017 

Sea despite Russian warning BRUSSELS, Jun 17: The 

ABOARD THE USS 

MASON, Jun 17: The United 

States will maintain its presence 

in the Black Sea despite a 

Russian warning that a U.S. 

destroyer patrolling there 

undermined regional security, 

the U.S. Navy Secretary said. 

The USS Porter entered the 

Black Sea this month, drawing 

heavy criticism from Moscow. 

Turkey and Romania are 

expected to push for a bigger 

NATO presence in the Black 

Sea at the NATO summit in 

Warsaw next month. 

Aboard the USS Mason, 

another U.S. destroyer, in the 

Mediterranean on Thursday, 

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus 

told Reuters that it was the 

U.S. Navy's job to deter 

aggression and keep sea lanes 

open. 

"We're going to be there," 

Mabus said of the Black Sea. 

"We're going to deter. That's 

the main reason we're there -- 

to deter potential aggression." 

Mabus spoke days after 

Russia criticized NATO discussions 

about a creating a 

permanent force in the Black 

Sea. 

"If a decision is made to 

create a permanent force, of 

course, it would be destabilizing, 

because this is not a 

NATO sea," Russian news 

agencies quoted senior 

Foreign Ministry official 

Andrei Kelin as saying. 

Russia, which annexed 

Ukraine's Crimea in 2014, has 

its own Black Sea Fleet based 

at Sevastopol. 

The NATO summit takes 

place as relations between 

Russia and the alliance are 

severely strained over 

Moscow's role in the Ukraine 

crisis and in Syria. While 

Russia says it poses no threat 

to alliance, NATO is considering 

what to do to counter what 

it sees as growing Russian 

aggression. 

Mabus said the United 

States follows the rules of the 

Montreux Convention, which 

states that countries without a 

Black Sea coastline cannot 

keep their warships there for 

more than 21 days. NATO 

members Turkey, Romania 

and Bulgaria are all Black Sea 

Basin countries. 

Bulgaria appeared to buckle 

to Russian pressure on 

Thursday. Prime Minister 

Boiko Borisov said he would 

not join a proposed NATO 

fleet in the Black Sea because 

it should be a place for holidays 

and tourists, not war. 

European Union extended for a 

year on Friday a ban on business 

dealings with the Black 

Sea peninsula of Crimea, 

which Russia annexed from 

Ukraine in 2014 in a move that 

has not been internationally 

recognized. 

Sanctions, now prolonged 

until June 23, 2017, prohibit 

imports of products from 

Crimea, any investment there, 

cooperation in tourism services 

as well as exports of some 

goods and services to the 

peninsula. EU is due next week 

to extend until the end of 2016 

its broader economic sanctions 

on Russia over its role in crisis 

in Ukraine. Following annexation 

of Crimea, Russia-backed 

rebels took up arms against 

Kiev in eastern Ukraine, where 

more than 9,000 people have 

been killed in fighting since the 

spring of 2014. 

organization National 

Alliance (NA) dating back to 

1999. 

The SPLC posted images 

showing what it said were 

purchase orders for books 

bought by Mair, whose 

address is given as Batley, 

from the NA's publishing arm 

National Vanguard Books in 

May of that year. The orders 

included a manual on how to 

build a pistol, it said. 

Britain's Union flag was 

flying at half-mast over the 

Houses of Parliament, Queen 

Elizabeth's London residence 

Buckingham Palace and 

Downing Street, where Prime 

Minister David Cameron has 

his official residence. 

In Birstall hundreds of 

people attended a vigil at a 

local church. Queen 

Elizabeth was due to write a 

private letter of condolence to 

Cox's husband. 

Some people, many weeping, 

laid flowers outside the 

Houses of Parliament. Beside 

a picture of Cox smiling, 

dozens of white candles lay 

beside bunches of flowers 

and a message board upon 

which people had written 

their condolences. 

Afghan police tell 

foreigners in Kabul to 

stay in or hire guards 

KABUL, Jun 17: Police in 

the Afghan capital have told 

foreigners living outside 

protected compounds to 

travel with guards, after the 

kidnapping of an Indian aid 

worker last week added to a 

growing sense of insecurity 

in Kabul. 

The push is for the safety 

of residents, said Fraidoon 

Obaidi, chief of the Kabul 

police 

Criminal 

Investigation Department. 

"All foreign citizens and 

their offices in Afghanistan 

are terrorists' targets ... the 

kidnapping and criminal 

threat is very serious," he 

told Reuters. "This will be 

prevented only if they use 

security guards and 

escorts." 

One document distributed 

by Obaidi's officers to 

private homes and organization 

instructs residents to 

take a variety of security 

measures, including using 

armed police escorts if necessary. 

But national security 

officials have distanced 

themselves from the police 

efforts, after critics complained 

that the measures 

were counterproductive and 

did not reduce the threats 

facing residents. 

KIEV, Jun 17: Politicians in 

Kiev worry that a vote by 

Britain to leave the European 

Union would weaken the 

EU's support for Ukraine and 

undermine its resolve to 

stand up to Russia. 

"I do not think Brexit 

would lead to a U-turn on 

Ukraine, but it would be a 

serious stick to beat those 

who favor EU integration" 

Serhiy Leshchenko, a member 

of President Petro 

Poroshenko's faction in parliament, 

told Reuters. 

His concern, ahead of 

Hearing in Amber Heard restraining 

order against Johnny Depp called off 

CAIRO, Jun 17: A second 

flight recorder has been 

retrieved from the crashed 

EgyptAir flight MS804, 

containing data from aircraft 

systems which could shed 

light on what brought the 

plane down last month, 

Egyptian investigators said 

on Friday. 

An Egyptian committee 

investigating the crash into 

were continuing to pursue 

insurgents. 

A Reuters photographer in 

a southern district of Falluja 

said clashes involving aerial 

bombardment, artillery and 

machine gun fire were continuing. 

Clouds of smoke could 

be seen rising up from areas 

closer to the city center. 

Heavily armed Interior 

Ministry police units were 

advancing along Baghdad 

Street, the main east-west 

road running through the city, 

LOS ANGELESA, Jun 17: 

hearing on the restraining 

order obtained by Amber 

Heard against Johnny Depp, 

in a divorce between the 

celebrity couple in which 

Heard has accused Depp of 

abuse, was called off on 

Thursday, a day before it was 

set to occur, court officials 

said. 

Heard was expected to testify 

at the hearing related to 

the restraining order in Los 

Angeles Superior Court on 

Friday, according to E! News 

and other media outlets. 

Instead, the next hearing in 

the divorce filed by Heard 

against Depp last month will 

occur on Aug. 2, court officials 

said in a statement. The 

restraining order is part of the 

divorce case. 

The delay allows Depp to 

gather more witnesses to 

defend himself against abuse 

allegations, while for Heard it 

allows the restraining order to 

remain in effect at least until 

the next hearing, said attorney 

Christopher Melcher, who 

previously served as chair of 

the state bar of California 

family law section, in a phone 

interview. 

It was not immediately 

clear which side moved to 

vacate the hearing set for 

Friday. Attorneys for Depp 

and Heard did not immediately 

return calls. 

There have been conflicting 

reports in the media about 

whether the two sides are 

moving toward a settlement in 

the divorce case. 

Depp's legal team had filed 

court papers seeking to prevent 

witnesses from testifying 

on behalf of Heard at the hearing 

on Friday, on grounds that 

the actress' legal team had not 

provided the names of those 

witnesses, according to a 

report on the website of 

People magazine. 

A judge on May 27 granted 

a temporary restraining 

order for Depp to stay at least 

100 yards (91 meters) away 

from Heard and move out of 

the eastern Mediterranean 

Sea made the announcement 

a day after search teams 

found the cockpit voice 

recorder in a breakthrough 

for investigators seeking to 

explain what caused the 

plane to go down, killing all 

66 people on board. 

The Airbus A320 crashed 

early on May 19 on its way 

from Paris to Cairo. The two 

and commandos from the 

counter-terrorism service 

(CTS) had surrounded Falluja 

hospital, the statement said. 

Sabah al-Numani, a CTS 

spokesman, said on state television 

that snipers holed up 

inside the hospital, considered 

a nest of militants, were 

resisting but the facility was 

expected to be retaken within 

hours. 

Government forces, with 

air support from the U.S.-led 

coalition, launched a major 

the couple's shared condominium 

in downtown Los 

Angeles. The couple married 

in February 2015. 

Heard, 30, said in court filings 

that Depp, 53, was abusive 

to her throughout their 

marriage and that it culminated 

in an argument last month 

in which he hurled a cell 

phone into her face and shattered 

various objects in her 

apartment. 

Second flight recorder retrieved 

from crashed EgyptAir flight 

BEIJING, Jun 17: A wellknown 

Chinese civil rights 

lawyer went on trial for 

fraud on Friday, an attorney 

with knowledge of the case 

said, the latest trial in a farreaching 

crackdown on 

political dissent. 

Xia Lin was detained by 

Beijing police in November 

2014 and later charged with 

fraud, said Mo Shaoping, a 

colleague of Xia's lawyer 

who is familiar with the 

case. Xia's lawyer could not 

be reached for comment. 

Xia had worked with Pu 

Zhiqiang, one of China's 

best-known human rights 

lawyers, who was handed a 

blackbox recorders are crucial 

to explaining what went 

wrong. 

The Egyptian investigation 

committee said preparations 

were under way to 

transfer the two flight 

recorders to Alexandria 

where they will be received 

by an official from the general 

prosecutor's office and 

investigators. 

China rights lawyer faces fraud 

trial in Beijing amid crackdown 

Thursday's referendum, is 

typical of pro-Western 

Ukrainian politicians who 

hope to integrate their ex- 

Soviet country into the EU 

and distance it from 

three-year suspended sentence 

last year for writing 

Internet posts the government 

said incited ethnic 

hatred. 

Xia had represented 

artist and dissident Ai 

Weiwei's company, Beijing 

Fake 

Cultural 

Development. 

Kiev worried that Brexit would weaken EU support for Ukraine 

Moscow. 

A decision by then president 

Viktor Yanukovich to 

reject an association agreement 

with the EU sparked 

the "Maidan" protests in 

2014 that brought a pro- 

Western government to 

power and precipitated 

Moscow's annexation of the 

Crimean peninsula. 

But two years on, 

Ukrainians and their 

Western backers are frustrated 

with Kiev's slow pace 

of reforms and drive to 

tackle corruption. 

Iraqi forces take Falluja government building from Islamic State 

operation on May 23 to retake 

Falluja, an historic bastion of 

the Sunni Muslim insurgency 

against U.S. forces that toppled 

dictator Saddam 

Hussein, a Sunni, in 2003, 

and the Shi'ite-led governments 

that followed. 

The city is seen as a 

launchpad for recent Islamic 

State (IS) bombings in the 

capital, making the offensive 

a crucial part of the government's 

campaign to improve 

security.

6 


Biz 

Roundup: Pakistani equities roar 

to 4th straight all-time peak 

KARACHI, Jun 17: The 

Pakistan Stock Exchange 

(PSX) achieved fourth straight 

all-time closing peak on 

Friday after investors continued 

buying positions following 

Pakistan's re-classification 

into the MSCI Emerging 

Markets Index. 

The Pakistan Stock 

Exchange's benchmark KSE 

100-Index gained 0. 07 percent 

or 25.34 points to 

38,776.94 points on Friday 

when compared with 

38,751.60 on Thursday. 

During the week that ended on 

Friday, the main index accumulated 

1,836.60 points with 

all the five trading sessions 

closing in the green range. 

The KSE All-Share Index 

increased 0.11 percent or 

27.33 points to 25,632.17 

points, the KSE 30-Index 

moved up slightly by 0.1 percent 

or 22.30 points to 

22,370.82 points, the KMI 30- 

Index fell by 0.52 percent or 

347.48 points to 67,099.60 

points, whereas the Islamic 

All-Share Index slipped by 

0.37 percent or 65.73 points to 

17,853.97 points. 

During Friday's trading 

session, the main index 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Sindh (Operation) Mr Wencai 

Chief Minister Syed Qaim Zhang. The other members 

Ali Shah has said that the of the delegation were 

Asian Development Bank Country Director Mr Werner 

(ADB) is most important E. Liepach, Advisor to 

partner of Sindh government Senior Vice President Mr 

in the development of the Huiping Huang, Senior 

province. "Out of Rs28.8 billion 

Economist Ms Farzana 

foreign assisted projects Noshab. The chief minister 

, ADB share 31.6 percent." was assited by Chief 

This he said while talking Secretary Siddique Memon, 

a high power ADB delegation 

Principal Secretary 

led by its Vice President Alamuddin 

Bullo, 

Additional Chief Secretary 

(Dev) Mohammad Waseem, 

Secretary Finance Sohail 

Rajput and others. 

The chief minister said 

that the Sindh government 

with the assistance of ADB 

has launched three important 

projects, Enhancing Public 

Private Partnership (PPP), 

Sindh Roads Improvement 

Project and Sindh Cities 

Improvement Programme at 

strolled in a condensed range 

of 316.76 points as it touched 

an intraday high of 38,958.44 

points as against an intraday 

low of 38,641.68 points. 

Market volumes depleted 

by 47.36 percent or 121.146 

million shares to 134.636 million 

shares on Friday when 

compared with 255. 782 million 

shares posted on 

Thursday. During the week 

under review, the top Pakistani 

bourse reported total volumes 

of 917.09 million shares at 

average daily turnovers of 

183.417 million shares. 

Market capitalization 

improved by 0.11 percent or 

8.193 billion rupees to 7.685 

ADB VP MEETS CM 

ADB shows interest to construct harbour road, 

bridge to connect it with Northern Bypass 

Crude oil prices rise for first time in seven days 

LONDON, Jun 17: Crude 

oil prices rose on Friday for 

the first time in seven days, 

but are set to end the week 

lower as trading remains 

volatile before Britain's June 

23 referendum on its EU 

membership. 

Brent crude futures were 

up $1.34 at $48.53 a barrel by 

1347 GMT, having dropped 

3.6 percent in the previous 

session. U.S. West Texas 

Intermediate crude futures 

rose $1.10 to $47.31 a barrel 

after falling 3.8 percent in the 

previous session. 

The two contracts are set 

to end the week 3.5-4 percent 

lower. 

"It's mainly Brexit at the 

moment, at least until next 

Thursday, before people start 

to look at the more fundamental 

oil/commodity drivers 

again," ABN Amro senior 

energy economist Hans van 

Cleef said. 

Analysts said investors had 

closed some short positions 

after a week of volatile trading, 

which helped to bring 

about some correction in oil 

prices on Friday. 

"I suspect markets will be 

very volatile overnight on 

Thursday and on Friday," 

Julian Jessop, chief economist 

and head of commodities 

research at Capital 

Economics, told Reuters 

Global Oil Forum. 

Jessop said he would 

expect a sharp sell-off in oil 

if Britain votes to leave the 

EU, possibly sending prices 

as low as $40 for Brent 

before a rally sets in. 

He forecast Brent and WTI 

crude would be around $45 a 

barrel at the end of 2016 and 

around $60 at the end of 2017. 

Foreign investment lessened by 75 

pc in ten months of 2015-16: SBP 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 

17: Foreign investment 

in Pakistan 

lessened by 75 percent 

in ten months 

of the fiscal year 

2015-16 than the 

previous financial 

year, reported on Friday. 

Statistics released by State Bank of 

Pakistan show that $ 680.31 million were 

invested in Pakistan in July 2015-May 2016 

period which is $ 2.11 billion lesser than the 

first eleven months of 2014-15. 

Direct investment rose by $ 1.8 billion 

however, withdrawals from the stock market 

resulted in stagnating total foreign investment 

in private sector at $ 700 million. 

USD 20 million were withdrawn from 

the government sector. 

a cost of Rs11.945 billion. 

He said that there are 

some promising projects in 

the province in which the 

assistance of ADB was 

needed. They are Karachi 

Harbour road and bridge, 

desalination Plants, Mass 

Transit project, poverty 

alleviation Keti Bander, 

energy sector {coal and 

wind power} and irrigation 

projects. 

Powers of dishonest 

brokers should be clipped 

immediately: PBIF 


President Pakistan 

Businessmen and 

Intellectuals Forum (PBIF) 

Mian Zahid Hussain on 

Friday expressed satisfaction 

over re-entry of 

Pakistan Stock Market in the 

Emerging Markets classification. 

The return to the index 

after a gap of eight years is 

an accomplishment which 

has resulted in sharp and 

abrupt upward climb of 

stocks and strengthened 

hopes of large-scale foreign 

investor interest in the near 

future, he said. 

He said the credit of reentry 

goes to the efforts of 

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar 

who was trying for it since 

long. He said that now 

Government should try to 

keep the classification intact 

and try for the upgrade to 

lure badly needed local and 

foreign investment. 

The powers of regulator 

must be increased while the 

ability of dishonest broker 

mafia to manipulate rise and 

fall of market must be broken 

down so that local and 

foreign investors can invest 

with confidence in a transparent 

environment, there 

must be some mechanism to 

differentiate good and bad 

brokers, he demanded. 

Mian Zahid said that 

practice of the past 

Government to appointment 

representatives of brokers’ 

mafia against important 

posts in the regulator should 

be discouraged as it has 

eroded the market to the 

benefit of few on the cost of 

masses. 

trillion rupees whereas trade 

value slipped by 35.74 percent 

or 6.275 billion rupees to 

11.285 billion rupees. 

Among 338 active scrips 

on Friday, prices of 194 issues 

declined and 122 advanced, 

whereas values of 22 other 

companies stayed unchanged 

for the week. 

Karachi Electric Ltd 

(KEL), Pakistan International 

Bulk Terminal Ltd (PIBTL), 

and Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) 

were the top traded companies 

with turnovers of 17.689 million 

shares, 8. 125 million 

shares and 7.092 million 

shares, respectively. 

Colgate Palmolive was the 

top price gainer with an increment 

of 50.01 rupees to 1,550 

rupees while on the other hand 

Bata Pakistan led the major 

price losers with a decrement 

of 100 rupees to 3,600 rupees. 

CDWP okays 

13 development 

projects 


Central Development 

Working Party chaired by 

Planning Minister Ahsan 

Iqbal here on Friday 

approved Rs 91 billion for 

13 development projects 

related to energy, water 

resource, transport and communication, 

physical planning 

and housing. 

The meeting also recommended 

seven development 

projects worth 88 billion 

rupees to Executive 

Committee of National 

Economic Council. 

The projects recommended 

to ECNEC include 

H a s a n a b d a l - H a v e l i a n 

Expressway, Lahore-Sialkot 

Motorway, Kalashah Kaku 

to Lahore Ring Road, 

220KV Mirpur Khas 

Substation, 220KV Dera 

Ismail Khan-Zhob Double 

Circuit Transmission, 7th 

Secondary Transmission 

Line and Grid Stations and 

500KV HVAC Transmission 

Lines for Interconnection of 

HVDC with HVAC at 

Matiari and Lahore. 

It also approved 

Construction of Pre-stress 

bridge from Mangri to 

Fatehpur Afghan Nullah 

Bahein Narowal. In Water 

resource and environment 

sector, the CDWP approved 

construction of 100 dams in 

Tehsil Dubandal Gulistan 

Killa Abdullah and Chaman 

Area District Killa 

Abdullah. 


weekly inflation for the week 

ended on June 16, for the combined 

income group witnessed 

decrease of 0.38 percent as 

compared to previous week. 

The Sensitive Price 

Indicator (SPI) for the week 

under review in the above 

mentioned group was recorded 

at 216.27 points against 

217.10 points registered in the 

previous week, according to 

data of Pakistan Bureau of 

Statistics (PBS). 

As compared to the corresponding 

week of last year, the 

SPI for the combined group in 

the week under review 

increased by 0.50 per cent. 

Corporate Corner 

Zong to offer Samsung and Huawei 

handsets at CSC in Gujranwala 

KARACHI, Jun 17: June 17, 2016: Zong 4G, in partnership with 

Muller and Phipps, recently launched one-of-its-kind Handset 

Zone in the industrial city of Gujranwala, featuring cellular handsets 

of top brands Huawei and Samsung. 

The state-of-the-art Handset Zone has been set up at the Zong 

4G Customer Services Centre (CSC). This initiative will now enable its customers in 

Gujranwala to have unrestricted access to latest mobile phones featuring exclusive Zong 

4G services. 

“Our CSCs are the best in telecom industry and we are offering a platform for handset 

companies to partner with us not only to boost their sales but also give access to customers 

to test their handsets before a purchase,” Moied Javeed, Executive Director 

Commercial, Zong explained. 

“That top cellular companies like Huawei and Samsung are opting to partner with us 

is a testament of our telecom supremacy. Zong offers unmatched data speeds and highly 

competitive data bundles,” Mr Javeed further added. 

Muller and Phipps, the distribution partner of Samsung and Huawei, has facilitated the 

availability of handsets of these two brands at the Zong CSC. It is pertinent to mention 

that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has rated Zong as the country’s number 

one cellular network with widest 4G coverage. 

Huawei’s Most awaited P9 LITE 

Launches in Pakistan 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Finally the wait is over, Huawei P9 Lite is here 

another star P series product. Huawei P9 lite is successor to the best 

selling Huawei P8 Lite and it is strongly expected to sweep the 

market. 

Recent launch of Huawei P9 in London and Dubai had created 

huge media hype in Pakistan. Consumers showed great eagerness 

for the new product, they are anxiously waiting for the new product to hit the shelves. 

Huawei launched P9 lite during eid festive period to wish there customers the best of the 

Eid, P9 lite is an elegant device smartly designed and booming with new enhanced tenchology 

and features. 

Huawei P9 LITE offers an extraordinary Primary camera powered with new Sony 

IMX214 13megapixel stacked CMOS image sensor. High Res screen and perfect lens 

combine with CMOS image sensor that elaborates the level of photography and quality 

of image remarkably. It has the F2.0 big aperture, 7cm microspur, 28 mm wide angle and 

5P lens. P9 Lite has a powerful front camera powered with 8 MP shooter to gurantee perfect 

selfie. 

Huawwei P9 lite is jam packed with features and to power this all, Kirin 650 Octa core 

provides seemless power with great efficiency. This enhances customers experience with 

lagless and smooth UI. 

Huawei P9 Lite is a mid range smart phone that works equally good to flagships available 

in the market with just fraction of the price. Huawei once again delivered taylor 

made solution for smartphone consumers needs, So far the results are extraordinary for 

the P9 Lite smart phone in terms of acceptance in the market, sales, social media hype 

and most importantly the endorsements by the technology experts and media icons. 

Moreover, this smart-phone is not only available with accidental coverage and Jazz Free 

Unlimited 3G internet for one month but also provide postal service newly initiated by 

Huawei, all this at the amazing price of Rs. 28,499. 

Gree launches Digital campaign to highlight 

performance of its Air Conditioners 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Gree is a leading brand of air-conditioners 

in the world, distributed in Pakistan by DWP 

Group. Gree has launched a fresh digital campaign to 

highlight its recognition as the most reliable brand in 

terms of performance and quality. The campaign will communicate GREE Inverter AC's 

ability to save upto 65% on energy, while consistently giving the most powerful cooling. 

It also shows the other unmatched features of Gree products to create awareness among 

the consumers. Information about the robust business performance of the GREE brand 

will also be provided to the consumers through this digital campaign. 

Gree has been consistently innovating new technologies to create the best-suited products, 

in accordance with the experts’ insights and the changing needs of the consumers. 

Whereby Gree's most advanced INVERTER technology can now ensure faster cooling 

with much lower consumption of electricity. Due to the hot weather conditions, rising 

costs and unstable supply of electricity in Pakistan, Gree has created the most reliable air 

conditioners, to ensure best performance in Pakistan's hot climatic conditions and environment. 

There is a rapidly increasing trend in Pakistan market, as the consumers are now opting 

for air conditioners based on inverter technology, which greatly reduces electricity 

consumption and the overall cost of air-conditioning. A research study in Pakistan has 

revealed that; In the long-run Gree Inverter AC proves to be the most economical product, 

due to consistent performance and low maintenance costs. 

Weekly inflation eases 0.38pc 

The weekly SPI has been 

computed with base 2007 

2008=100, covering 17 urban 

centers and 53 essential items 

for all income groups and 

combined. 

Meanwhile, the SPI for the 

lowest income group up to Rs 

8000 also decreased by 0.28 

percent as it went down from 

207.26 points in the previous 

week to 206.67 points in the 

week under review. 

As compared to the last 

week, the SPI for the income 

groups from Rs 8001 12,000, 

Rs 12,001 18,000 and 18,001 

35,000 decreased by 0.34 

percent, 0.37 percent, 0.40 

percent and 0.40 per cent 

respectively. 

SIALKOT: Women workers are busy in preparing surgical instruments at a local factory in 

Sialkot. Surgical Instruments Industry is a major contributor of the total exports. 

US housing starts hurt by weakness in multi-family units 


U.S. housing starts slipped in 

May as the construction of 

multi-family housing units 

dropped, but further gains in 

building permits signaled a 

rebound that would support 

economic growth in the second 

quarter. 

Groundbreaking fell 0.3 

percent to a seasonally adjusted 

annual pace of 1.16 million 

units, the Commerce 

Department said on Friday. 

May's decline followed a 4.9 

percent surge in April. 

Building permits rose 0.7 percent 

to a 1.14-million unit 

rate in May. 

"Another month of gains 

in building permits coupled 

with near record low mortgage 

rates provide opportunity 

for a bounce back," said 

Bill Banfield, vice president 

at Quicken Loans in Detroit. 

Though the pace of home 

building has slowed after a 

brisk first quarter, housing 

remains a pillar of strength 

for the economy. Residential 

construction added almost 

six-tenths of a percentage 

point to first-quarter gross 

domestic product, the biggest 

contribution in more than 

three years. 

The economy grew at a 

0.8 percent annualized rate in 

the first quarter. The Atlanta 

Federal Reserve left its 

growth forecast for the second 

quarter unchanged at a 

2.8 percent pace after Friday's 

housing starts data. 

Economists polled by 

Reuters had forecast housing 

starts falling to a 1.15 millionunit 

pace last month. 

The S&P homebuilding 

index .SPLRCHOME rose 

1.21 percent, outperforming a 

broadly weaker U.S. stock 

market. Shares in the nation's 

largest homebuilder, D.R. 

Horton Inc (DHI.N), 

advanced 1.31 percent and 

Lennar Corp (LEN.N) gained 

1.0 percent. Luxury homebuilder 

Toll Brothers rallied 

1.82 percent. 

Prices for U.S. government 

debt fell and the dollar 

.DXY was trading lower 

against a basket of currencies.


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Pakistan to wear Edhi 

Foundation logo kit in England 

LAHORE, 

LAHORE, Jun 17: Pakistan 

Cricket Board (PCB) has 

granted permission to use 

Edhi Foundation logo on 

Pakistan teams kits during 

England tour. 

The media reported that 

captains from All three formats 

of will attend a ceremony 

later today to endorse the 

charitable organisation 

before departing for England 

tomorrow morning at 

9:00am. 

This would be the first 

time in Pakistan cricket 

team’s history that players 

would wear logos of a charitable 

organisation on their 

official kit. 

Pakistan’s long-awaited 

tour of England will begin 

from tomorrow, when the 

team flies for England 

tomorrow. However, the 

four-match Test series will 

begin from July 14, next 

month. 

Pakistan will play four 

Test matches, 6 ODIs and 

only T20 in 2 month long 

England tour. 

Moreover, Pakistan 

Cricket team will be wearing 

new kit in the One Day 

International (ODI) and 

Twenty20 (T20) series 

against England this summer. 

M Amir says goodbye to Karachi Kings 

Jun 17: Pakistan’s 

premier fast bowler 

Mohammad Amir, who represented 

Karachi Kings franchise 

in Pakistan Super 

League (PSL), has reportedly 

said goodbye to its team. 

Mohammad Amir has 

part ways from Karachi 

Kings, and his name will 

again be in drafts for PSL’s 

second edition. 

No any official statement 

regarding the news has come 

from Amir as yet. 

Mohammad Amir took 7 

wickets in PSL first edition 

with a hat-trick against 

Lahore Qalandars. 

Amir, who has finally 

received his visa and other 

traveling documents for 

England tour, stated that he 

is not afraid of facing the 

English crowd again this 

summer when Pakistan travel 

to England. 

Pakistan aim for upward movement 

in ICC Women's Championship 

Spinner Faraz Ahmed five wickets haul 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI, Jun 17: left Arm 

spinner Faraz Ahmed was on 

song with a five-wicket haul 

as Tapal ccb beat host Aga 

Khan Gykhana in 29 AKG 

Ramazan Festival T20 cricket 

tournament in Group 

“A”fixture. 

The seasoned slow leftarmer 

grabbed five wickets 

for mere 17 runs in four 

overs to restricted Aga khan 

BIRMINGHAM, Jun 17: 

Sania Mirza playing with 

American partner Coco 

Vandeweghe were beaten by 

Naomi Broady and Heather 

Watson 6-4, 6-4 in the first 

round of the AEGON 

Classic tournament. 

Second seeds Sania and 

Vandeweghe were broken 

twice in each set and never 

really recovered as they lost 

their way in the first match 

of the tournament at 

Birmingham. The two 

breaks proved crucial as the 

Indo-American pair went 

down in straight sets. 

In the second set, Mirza 

and Vandeweghe saved two 

match points when they 

were 3-5 down, but couldn't 

save a third as the unseeded 

British pair of Broady and 

Watson closed down the 

match. 

Earlier, Rohan Bopanna 

and his Romanian partner 

Florin Mergea were beaten 

by Frenchmen Julien 

Benneteau and Edouard 

gymkhana on 132-7 in 20 

overs afte the bating 

first.Captain mir Afzal baig 

was the punishing mood 

struck 70 off 51 balls with 

four hug sixes and a four but 

he failed to his team from 

defeat,Zulfiqr Ali made 31 

in 43 balls.off spinner Yasir 

Hussai took-22. 

Tapal cc in reply reach 

the target 136-3 17.3 overs 

thanked to Sehyar Ghani 52 

from 37 deliveries ( four 

fours and two sixes), and 

Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 3-6, 10- 

12 in the opening round at 

the Queen's Club 

Championships in London. 

The AEGON Classic is a 

Captain Zeeshan Jameel.52 

0 from 48 balls(two fours 

and brace of sixes),they did 

126 runs for the Third wicket.off 

spinner saud islam 

took2-19 Faraz’s outstanding 

spell won him the manof-the-match 

award.Ho’n 

Secretary AKG Khaliq 

Pasnani was the chief guest 

on the occasion Senior 

Member Finnance AKG Al- 

Amin. Turyani, Ameen. 

Marchant (Tapal) Cricket 

,conveenor AKG Mir Afzal 

KARACHI: Chief guest honouray secretary AKG Khaliq Pasnai gave awy the Man of the match 

award to Faraz Ahmed(Tapal cc).Senior Member finnance AKG Al-Amin Turyani, Ameen 

Marchant (Tapal),Cricket conveenor AKG Mir Afzal Baig, member Irfan Surani also seen. 

Sania and Vandeweghe lose in the first 

round of the AEGON Classic tournament 

tournament considered as a 

warm up tournament for 

Wimbledon and a sister tournament 

to the men's Queen's 

Club Championships. 

IOC and IPC sign long-term agreement 

supporting the Paralympic Movement 


KARACHI, Jun 17: The 

International Olympic 

Committee (IOC) and the 

International Paralympic cooperation, 

Committee (IPC) signed a 

Memorandum of 

Understanding outlining 

the principles for a new 

long-term agreement 

between the organisations. 

Under this new agreement, 

the IOC and IPC will 

cooperate with the aim of: 

- Increasing the visibility 

of the Paralympic 

Games and enhance the 

Paralympic brand; 

- Deepening existing 

specifically 

on the implementation of 

Olympic Agenda 2020, the 

strategic roadmap for the 

future of the Olympic 

Movement; 

- Ensuring the financial 

stability and long-term viability 

of the IPC, the 

Paralympic Games and the 

Paralympic Movement. 

The new agreement 

would run through 2032 

and will build on the current 

partnerships and cooperation 

agreements that 

were signed prior to the 

London 2012 Olympic and 

Paralympic Games. 

“This agreement is an 

important milestone in the 

implementation of 

Olympic Agenda 2020,” 

said IOC President Thomas 

Bach. 

baig, Member tournament 

Irfan Surani slso seen. 

Summarised scores: 

Aga Khan gym. 132-7 

in 20 overs,(Mir Afzal 

Baig 70, Zulfiqar Ali.31, 

Fara,Ahmed.5-17,yasir 

Hussain 2-22); Tapal 

cc136-4in 17.3 overs 

(Sehryar Gahni 52, 

Zeeshan Jameel.52. Saud 

Islam 2-9:). 

Saturdays fixture: Bank 

Islamic vs Qasmi 

Gymkhana(Group ‘C’). 

Naya Nazimabad 

Ramazan Cup Cricket 

tournament held 



Muhammad Taimoor 

earned the distinction of 

striking the first century in 

the fourth edition of Naya 

Nazimabad Ramazan Cup 

Cricket Tournament as Sui 

Southern Gas Company 

(SSGC) crushed hapless 

Medicam Cricket Club by 

121 runs here at the Lawai 

Stadium. 

Taimoor bludgeoned a 

record dozen sixes and five 

boundaries in his hurricane 

58 balls knock while Asif 

Zakir cracked 58 runs off 

31 balls with nine boundaries 

and brace of sixes. 

Sent to bat first, SSGC 

constructed a massive 238 

runs for the loss of four 

wickets in 20 overs. 

Test discarded Fawad 

Alam smashed 22 in five 

balls came with two sixes 

and as many fours. 

Left arm pacer Zohaib 

Sheraz bowled well in difficult 

circumstances taking 

three wickets for 44 runs. 

Medicam CC, in reply, 

crashed for 117 on the 

penultimate ball of 20th 

over. Paceman Muhammad 

Irfan snapped up four wickets 

for 17 runs in four 

overs. 

With back to back victories, 

SSGC jumped on the 

top of five teams pool “C”. 

FRANCE, Jun 17: Italy 

moved into the knockout 

stages of Euro 2016 and continued 

to defy their doubters 

as Eder scored two minutes 

from fulltime to secure a 1-0 

win over a shot-shy and unadventurous 

Sweden on Friday. 

Eder ended a great run by 

firing home to move Italy 

clear at the top of Group E on 

six points after two matches 

following their 2-0 victory 

over Belgium in their opening 

encounter. 

The result left Sweden in 

an uncomfortable position 

with one point after two 

games ahead of their final 

group clash against Belgium 

next week. Sweden were well 

organised at the back but 

toothless in attack, with their 

danger man Zlatan 

Ibrahimovic looking a shadow 

of his brilliant best and 

hardly creating a chance. 

Italy, who came into the 

tournament with questions 

surrounding the strength of 

NBP beat Dollar 

East in cricket 

tourney 


Defending champion Dollar 

East chances of qualifying 

for the last-eight round in 

Naya Nazimabad Ramazan 

Cup Cricket Tournament suffered 

another blow when it 

went down against NBP by 

16 runs here at the Lawai 

Stadium on Friday morning. 

Former Pakistan captain 

Salman Butt, who was 

banned for ten years for spotfixing 

by the ICC, slammed 

63 off 42 balls with the help 

of seven boundaries and one 

six. But it failed to save his 

team from the eventual 

defeat. Chasing 170 for victory, 

Dollar East could manage 

153 after losing seven 

wickets in 20 overs. Faheem 

Ashraf grabbed two wickets. 

Earlier, NBP captain 

Kamran Akmal hit 48 off 31 

balls with five fours and two 

sixes to win the Man of the 

Match award. 


KARACHI, Jun 17: Unlike 

Mickey Arthur, who has 

expressed his desire to learn 

Urdu while coaching the 

Pakistan cricket team, Stuart 

Law may not have intentions 

of buying Hindi text books, 

but he believes the language 

will not be a barrier, if given 

opportunity to coach the 

Indian cricket team. 

The 48-year-old Law is 

one among the few foreigners, 

who has responded to the 

their squad, but surprised 

many with their superb performance 

against a highlyfancied 

Belgium side, relied 

on their trademark, tight 

defence against the Swedes. 

They rarely threatened up 

KARACHI, Jun 17: The ICC 

Women's Championship 

moves into top gear when 

England hosts Pakistan in a 

three-ODI series in Leicester 

from June 20. 

This will be the last series 

of round five of seven, while 

the final two rounds will 

commence in October 

before the event culminates 

in November. 

The ICC Women's 

Championship is the pathway 

to qualification for the 

ICC Women's World Cup 

July 2017. The top four sides 

will automatically qualify 

for the event proper to be 

staged in England from June 

26 to July 23 2017, while the 

bottom four sides will get a 

final chance of qualification 

through the ICC Women's 

World Cup Qualifier in 

March/April 2017. 

Plenty will be at stake for 

BCCI advertisement. 

He says, 'I am honoured to 

be named in the running to 

become the Head Coach to 

the Indian Cricket Team. As it 

is an extremely high profile 

position, the BCCI have 

expressed that the candidates 

be familiar with the Nations 

languages as well as having 

had extensive coaching experience 

either at a domestic or 

international level with some 

kind of success". 

"Communication skills 

befitting the coach of an 

front, however, until Marco 

Parolo hit the crossbar with a 

header shortly before Eder 

netted the winner. 

“It was a difficult game,” 

Italy coach Antonio Conte 

told Rai Sport. “We struggled 

both England and Pakistan, 

which are currently sitting in 

sixth and seventh positions 

respectively. England stands 

to move up to third if it wins 

the series, Pakistan will 

jump to fifth if it wins all the 

three matches. 

Australia leads the field 

with 24 points, but the 

recently crowned ICC 

Women's World Twenty20 

champion the West Indies is 

just four points behind in 

second place. New Zealand 

is another four points behind 

at 16, while South Africa is 

on 15 points. Sri Lanka is in 

eighth position with just 5 

points. 

Pakistan's ODI captain 

Sana Mir, who has chosen to 

step down from Twenty20 

duties to focus on the 50- 

over game, said she had a 

talented side to command 

with the likes of bowler 

International team are 

mandatory along with the 

ability to effectively convey 

the right messages and must 

demonstrate proficiency in 

English. The ability to communicate 

in an Indian language 

is desirable but by no 

means mandatory", one of the 

conditions the BCCI had ratified 

after initially made it 

mandatory. 

"This is their wish and still 

to be shortlisted will be 

extremely humbling". 

"I don’t know the Nations 

in the first half. “The boys did 

well to ride the storm and hurt 

Sweden when we needed to.” 

Italy had been praised for 

their unity and work rate in 

their opening win over 

Belgium, but appeared to 

Anam Amin, who is 

Pakistan's leading wickettaker 

in the women's championship 

with 16 dismissals. 

She believed Pakistan's 

improved performance at the 

ICC World Twenty20 in 

India, where it won two out 

of four matches compared 

with just one win in 2014, 

marked a move in the right 

direction. 

“We were extremely 

close to making it three wins 

out of four in India. 

“The Pakistan team now 

has a reputation of giving 

extra tough times to big 

teams and we really enjoy 

living up to this reputation. 

Apart from the top two 

teams in the table, no team is 

in a position to definitely 

secure a place in top four. 

This is going to be an exciting 

series with a lot at stake 

for both teams.” 

Language is NOT a barrier, says Stuart Law 


KARACHI, Jun 17: Day-night Test is the 

future of cricket’s longest format but the 

boards should not rush it, according to 

New Zealand pace great Richard Hadlee. 

Australia played the first daynight 

Test against New Zealand at 

Adelaide Oval last November and 

have agreed another floodlit match 

with South Africa at the same venue 

during the home summer. 

The concept has found ready takers in 

south Asia with India trialling pink balls 

and Pakistan agreeing to play a floodlit 

Test in Brisbane in December. 

“You try, it is the game of the future. 

Probably one Test in a series is fair 

enough,” Hadlee Said. 

“I think most people like to see the 

traditional format during the day.” The 

languages but having spent a 

lot of time on the sub continent, 

you learn how to pick 

up the mood of the conversation 

and determine the feelings 

of the group or individual 

by observation", Law 

said. Law has worked with 

the national teams in Sri 

Lanka and Bangladesh. 

"The majority of words 

used to talk about cricket are 

English, so it can be a little 

easier to communicate to 

players that aren’t comfortable 

speaking English". 

Day-night Test future of cricket’s longest format: Richard Hadlee 

durability of the pink kookaburra ball 

and the dew factor in India have raised 

doubts about the future of a floodlit Test 

in the country. 

Hadlee said the players must get 

ample practice before such a contest. 

“It is important for the players to have 

practice games; you cannot ask them to 

go out there and ask them to play a daynight 

game against the pink ball. 

Late Eder goal sends Italy through to last 16 

have no answer to Sweden’s 

organised rearguard until 

Eder’s late intervention. 

Sweden coach Erik 

Hamren had criticised their 

lack of attacking vitality following 

their opening 1-1 

draw with Ireland, and while 

there was an improvement in 

their overall performance, 

Ibrahimovic once again 

failed to provide a cutting 

edge and live up to his 

billing. 

“We were much better 

than the Italians for periods, 

but we didn’t create really 

dangerous chances,” Sweden 

midfielder Albin Ekdal told 

Swedish broadcaster SVT. 

Sweden are still without a 

shot on target at the tournament, 

although Martin 

Olsson proved a menacing 

threat down the left, sending 

an effort just over the bar on 

18 minutes having set the 

tone with an early cross that 

prompted a nervous clearance 

from Giorgio Chiellini.

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Senators working to craft 

new gun control compromise 

PESHAWAR, 

WASHINGTON, Jun 17: A group of 

Republican senators on Friday were 

trying to craft compromise gun control 

legislation that could attract both 

Republicans and Democrats and have 

a hope of passing the U.S. Senate, 

unlike several measures that are 

expected to be voted on next week for 

which prospects appear dim. 

Congress is under pressure to act 

after the massacre last Sunday of 49 

people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, 

Florida, the worst mass shooting in 

modern U.S. history. But the gun control 

issue is deeply divisive and there 

have been no restrictions passed since 

1994, when Congress imposed a ban 

on semi-automatic assault weapons. 

That expired after 10 years. 

The new effort, led by Republican 

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, 

would aim to close a loophole in U.S. 

law that allows people on terrorism 

watch lists to buy weapons and explosives. 

Both the gunman in the Orlando 

attack and the married couple who carried 

out a mass shooting that killed 14 


“Empowering the Afghan 

refugee youth in Pakistan 

through enhanced vocational 

training and livelihoods projects 

is an important initiative 

to bolster the human capital of 

Afghan refugees and allow 

them to contribute to the 

reconstruction and development 

processes upon return to 

Afghanistan”. 

This was stated by Mr. 

Jakob Rogild Jakobsen, 

Chargé d'Affaires of the 

Embassy of Denmark during 

a meeting held with Mr. 

Indrika Ratwatte, UNHCR 

Country Representative, says 

a press statement issued here 

on Friday. The meeting was 

held to discuss the current situation 

of Afghan refugees and 

internally displaced person in 

people in San Bernardino, California, 

last December were thought to have 

been inspired by militant Islamist 

groups abroad. 

Collins' proposal likely would be 

offered in the divided, Republicancontrolled 

Senate sometime next week 

- assuming that four other gun-control 

Pakistan. 

While discussing the current 

status of refugees and the 

voluntary repatriation 

process, Mr. Jakobsen appreciated 

UNHCR’s work and 

said that the Government of 

Denmark looks at the Afghan 

refugee crisis from a regional 

perspective and focus on sustainable 

solutions that would 

help refugees and internally 

displaced persons secure 

access to protection as close 

to their home as possible. 

Denmark is among the 

biggest contributors to 

UNHCR’s regional program 

in South West Asia. 

At the occasion, Mr. 

Ratwatte said that UNHCR 

Pakistan supports youth 

empowerment through a 

nexus of inter-linked interventions 

in the areas of education, 

skills training and livelihood 

support. He recalled that 

inclusive and equitable education 

and promoting lifelong 

learning opportunities for all 

has been agreed upon in the 

Millennium Development 

Goals (MDGs) and 

Sustainable Development 

Goals (SDGs). 

The Government of 

Denmark’s has allocated 

approximately USD three 

million towards UNHCR 

programmes in Pakistan for 

2016. Denmark’s contribution 

will support the implementation 

of Solutions 

Strategy for Afghan 

Refugees, UNHCR’s activities 

towards voluntary repatriation 

of Afghan refugees in 

Pakistan and efforts to 

proposals set for votes on Monday fail, 

as expected. Collins' office declined to 

provide a detailed account of legislation 

she is working on with Senator 

Jeff Flake of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte 

of New Hampshire. 

But Collins discussed the project 

with journalists outside the Senate on 

Denmark supports UNHCR to 

empower Afghan refugees in Pakistan 

Zainab and Usman will receive Queen’s 

Young Leaders Award on 23 June 

LONDON: Jun 17: Her 

Majesty the Queen will present 

a Queen’s Young Leaders 

Award to two exceptional 

young people from Pakistan 

at a ceremony at Buckingham 

Palace in London on 

Thursday 23rd June 

. As the Commonwealth 

celebrates the Queen’s 90th 

birthday, this year’s Award 

winners, Zainab Bibi (26) 

and Muhammad Usman Khan 

(27), are being recognised by 

The Queen for taking the lead 

in transforming the lives of 

others and making a lasting 

difference in their communities. 

As a Queen’s Young 

Leader, they will be representing 

Pakistan as they join winners 

from 45 different 

Commonwealth countries in 

London for five days of highlevel 

engagements, all 

designed to help them further 

their life-changing work. 

Before receiving their 

Queen’s Young Leaders 

Award at Buckingham Palace, 

the winners will visit 10 

Downing Street and the UK 

headquarters of global social 

networking company Twitter, 

and meet with senior executives 

from BBC World 

Service. They will also meet 

the Commonwealth Secretary 

General, Baroness Scotland, 

take part in workshops at the 

University of Cambridge, 

have meetings with UK business 

leaders and visit projects 

that are changing the lives of 

vulnerable people in the UK. 

Selected through a competitive 

process where thousands 

of young people from 

all over the Commonwealth 

applied to be a Queen’s Young 

Leader, Zainab Bibi said: “As 

the time is getting close, my 

excitement to meet The 

Queen is sky rocketing. I have 

no words to explain my feelings; 

I am anxiously waiting 

for the best week in my life." 

Every country faces serious malnutrition 

problem: WHO's new report 

KARACHI, Jun 17: Few challenges 

facing the global community 

today match the scale 

of malnutrition, a condition 

that directly affects one in 

three people. Malnutrition 

manifests itself in many different 

ways: as poor child growth 

and development; as individuals 

who are skin and bone or 

prone to infection; as those 

who are carrying too much 

weight or whose blood contains 

too much sugar, salt, fat, 

or cholesterol; or those who 

are deficient in important vitamins 

or minerals. Malnutrition 

and diet are by far the biggest 

risk factors for the global burden 

of disease: every country 

is facing a serious public 

health challenge from malnutrition, 

according to new 

Global Nutrition Report issued 

by World Health Organization. 

Economic consequences 

represent losses of 11 percent 

of gross domestic product 

every year in Africa and Asia, 

whereas preventing malnutrion 

delivers $16 in returns on 

investment for every $1 spent. 

The world's countries have 

agreed on targets for nutrition, 

but despite some progress in 

recent years the world is off 

track to reach those targets. 

This third stocktaking of the 

state of the world's nutrition 

points to ways to reverse this 

trend and end all forms of 

malnutrition by 2030. 

empower refugee youth in 

Pakistan through provision of 

vocational training and technical 

skills. 

The total of Danish funds 

for UNHCR Pakistan 

amounts to a total of USD 

13.2 million since 2013 to 

date. Mr. Ratwatte highlighted 

that due to the generous 

support from Denmark and 

other donors, UNHCR was 

able to implement a fiveyear 

Health transition strategy 

(2014-2018) which has 

been developed by UNHCR 

and has gradually been 

rolled out and aimed at 

implementing the progressive 

disengagement of 

UNHCR from the existing 

parallel system of Basic 

Health Unit (BHUs) exiting 

in the Rural Villages (RVs). 

Pak’s Ambassador 

to US meets 

Senator Ed Markey 


Pakistan Ambassador to the 

United States (US) Jalil 

Abbas Jilani held a meeting 

with US Senator Ed Markey 

in Washington and discussed 

with him Pakistan's application 

for membership of the 

Nuclear Suppliers Group. 

The Ambassador highlighted 

Pakistan's credentials 

for the NSG membership 

and briefed Senator Markey 

on the steps taken by 

Pakistan for its mainstreaming 

in the nuclear non-proliferation 

regime. 

They exchanged views on 

adopting a non-discriminatory 

and equitable approach for 

membership of the NSG. 

Matters related to strategic 

stability in South Asia also 

came up for discussion. 


Agreement for the Safe Blood 

Transfusion Project, for the 

Islamabad region, was signed 

here on Friday by Mr. Hassan 

Iqbal, Secretary, Capital 

Administration & 

Development Division 

(CA&DD) and Mr. Wolfgang 

Mollers, Country Director, 

German KFW Bank. 

Dr. Tariq Fazal Choudhury, 

Minister of State for CA&DD 

and Prof. HasanAbbas Zaheer, 

Project Director, SBTP were 

also present on the occasion. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

the Minister highly appreciated 

the German government 

support for the blood project 

and said that access to safe and 

quality blood was a key priority 

of the government in the 

health sector. With the development 

of the modern blood 

center in Islamabad through 

Thursday, noting that barring people 

on terrorism watch lists from weapons 

purchases carried with it the risk of 

affecting people who have been swept 

onto the lists without good cause. 

"What we’re trying to do is not 

deny constitutional rights to a large 

group of individuals" who find themselves 

on watch lists despite the fact 

that there might not be credible evidence 

of potential criminal intentions, 

Collins said. 

At least one Senate Democrat, 

Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, has 

been involved in the talks, according to 

a spokeswoman. 

A Senate Republican aide who 

asked not to be identified, said the bill 

"will aim to have teeth on preventing 

terrorists from getting guns and contain 

protections for due process" for 

those who should not be denied their 

rights to buy weapons. 

It will not be known whether a 

Collins bill would attract wide bipartisan 

support until the measure is 

unveiled. 

Passengers rush to 

Railway stations for 

advance Eid booking 

ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: A 

number of natives are rushing 

toward Railway Stations for 

advance booking of tickets to 

celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in their 

hometown with their near and 

dear ones. A report aired by a 

private news channel said, as 

Railway begins issuing 

advance tickets to passengers 

many travellers in cities 

crowded at Railway station 

facing problems to even get 

tickets for early booking. 

"I had tried to get ticket but 

couldn't succeed. Today, I 

have come here again to get 

the ticket on chance," Asad 

Umer told. 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, Jun 17: Pak 

Sarzameen Party chief and 

former MQM Mayor of 

Karachi has accused MQM 

leader Altaf Hussain of working 

for enemy country India 

by getting RAW funding to 

kill our children. He was 

speaking at Iftar party his 

party arranged hereFriday 

evening. He said he has come 

out to challenge Fharao of 

today who has been taking 

votes and money from people 

of Hyderabad since last 30 

years but has , in return given 

nothing to people. He said 

the education has been devastated, 

there were no 

schools, no hospitals, no 

infrastructure and broken 

roads. He said he has come 

here to pinpoint how Altaf 

has made whole country as 

workers enemies and compromised 

lives of people of 

Karachi and Hyderabad. He 

Govt-number car driver makes 

youth butt of violence 

Jun 17: Man 

riding in a car bearing government 

number plate made 

a motorcycle-riding youth 

butt of his violence for nothing 

but overtaking his car 

and during all this fiasco 

suspect’s son also shot at the 

youth from the rifle of his 


Pakistan Electronic Media 

Regulatory Authority 

(PEMRA) has barred actor 

HamzaAliAbbasi and TV show 

host Shabbir Abu Talib from 

hosting their Ramazan shows 

on Aaj TV and News One 

respectively. 

In a statement issued on 

Friday, PEMRA said that it had 

received 1,133 complaints 

through Whatsapp, Twitter and 

telephone calls regarding the 

transmissions. The complainants 

said both shows had 

guard but the youth was fortunate 

to escape any injury. 

Police has declared the 

car’s registration number B 

2558 fake and is registered 

in three districts- in the 

name of Abbotabad’s Sadiq 

Abbas; Mardan’s Yusuf; and 

a denizen of Kohat. 

aired provocative content. 

"During these transmissions, 

ratings remain the focus under 

the guise of Ramazan shows," 

read the PEMRA statement, 

adding that "provocative conversations 

took place during the 

shows which has led to much 

anger and sadness". 

The regulatory body asked 

both Aaj TV and TV One to 

implement the decision by 7pm 

on June 17, 2016. "Even after 

clear instructions from 

PEMRA, unfortunately TV 

channel owners, anchors and 

According to details people 

riding in a car bearing 

Khyber Pakhtwankhwa 

number plate made the 

youth butt of their violence 

on the road. According to 

police sources a case has 

been registered but no arrest 

has been made. 

PEMRA bans Hamza Ali Abbasi 

from hosting Ramazan show 

said Altaf has now confessed 

his involvement in murder of 

Dr. Farooq Sattar, money 

laundering case and other 

crimes. He reminded that on 

June 11 last Altaf in his 

address to college students 

had said that if had been of 

their age he alone could have 

killed 100 persons easily. 

audience indulged in non-serious 

and irresponsible conversations," 

added the statement. 

Hamza, who co-hosts the 

post-Iftar transmission, Ramzan 

Hamara Emaanwith Aisha 

Khan for Aaj TV, was holding 

discussions on the Ahmadi 

community and blasphemy 

laws during his show. 

"Why is Ahmadi such a 

taboo word? Ideological stances 

aside, my only goal is that when 

an Ahmadi is killed or persecuted, 

media shouldn't be scared to 

talk about it," he had said. 

Altlaf getting RAW funding for killing our 

children: PSP chief Mustafa Kamal 

HYDERABAD: Leader of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) 

Mustafa Kamal addressing an Iftar reception for party 

workers at local hall. 

German Bank and CA&DD sign Agreement for Islamabad Blood Center 

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Capital Administration & Development Division 

(CA&DD), Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry witnessing the signing of agreement for the Safe Blood 

Transfusion Project (ICT Region) being signed by Mr. Hassan Iqbal, Secretary CA&DD and 

Mr. Wolfgang Mollers, Country Director, German KFW Bank. 

Mustafa Kamal said in this 

way Altaf was trying to convince 

students to become 

killers. He said he has not 

come here to ask you for vote 

or for support but to tell you 

the crimes of a man you call 

your Quaid. He said within 

short time of 3 months people 

have started to understand 

his point of view. He 

said when he meets DG 

Rangers he gives him list of 

arrested workers of MQM 

and requests him to release 

them as they were misguided 

by MQM. He said now 

after 3 months of launching 

of his party he feels people 

do not need Altaf but Altaf 

needs people. He asked 

people to beware of man 

who was making your children 

as agents of Raw and 

getting them killed. He 

wants to save your children. 

Anees Qaimkhani and 

Ashfaq Mangi MPA accompanied 

him. 

this Agreement funding, the 

citizens of the federal capital 

will soon have a model transfusion 

service delivery system. 

He further informed that in the 

vicinity of the new Blood 

Center, the government is 

building a large tertiary care 

hospital which will also benefit 

from the Blood Center. 

He said that the Safe Blood 

Transfusion Programme was 

working with great commitment 

and dedication to implement 

this project and to promote 

the culture of voluntary 

blood donations in Islamabad. 

The target is to have the new 

Blood Center completely 

reliant on the voluntary and 

regular blood donations who 

are the safest blood donors. 

This will also ensure that the 

patients are not burdened with 

the task of providing blood 

donors. 

CMYK CMYK 

CMYK 

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18 June 2016

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