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Metropolitan:<br />
Minhaj Qazi reveals<br />
details about Hakim<br />
Saeed’s murder<br />
during interrogation<br />
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National:<br />
Teenage Kalash girl<br />
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EU referendum<br />
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Obama hosts<br />
powerful Saudi<br />
prince<br />
WASHINGTON, Jun 17:<br />
US President Barack<br />
Obama hosted youthful<br />
Saudi Arabian Prince<br />
Mohammed bin Salman at<br />
the White House Friday,<br />
underscoring his guest’s<br />
meteoric rise and increasingly<br />
pivotal role in managing<br />
strained US-Saudi ties.<br />
The 30-year-old deputy<br />
crown prince who has<br />
become the driving force<br />
behind economic reform<br />
and a more activist Saudi<br />
foreign policy swept into<br />
the West Wing with a band<br />
of aides for hour-long talks.<br />
Parents 'kill pregnant<br />
woman for honour'<br />
in Gujranwala<br />
GUJRANWALA, Jun 17:<br />
Relatives slit the throat of<br />
a young mother who was<br />
pregnant with her second<br />
child after she married<br />
against their will in eastern<br />
Pakistan, officials said<br />
Friday, the latest in a<br />
spate of so-called "honour<br />
killings".<br />
Muqaddas Bibi, 22,<br />
married Taufiq Ahmed<br />
three years ago in defiance<br />
of her family, who<br />
considered a marriage for<br />
love rather than an<br />
arranged marriage shameful,<br />
police investigator<br />
Mohammad Arshad said.<br />
Scrutiny of<br />
nomination papers for<br />
AJK elections begins<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Scrutiny of nomination<br />
papers for the AJK elections<br />
is in progress. Over<br />
four hundred candidates<br />
have filed their nomination<br />
papers for the elections<br />
being held on 21st of<br />
the next month.<br />
PML-N has fielded its<br />
candidates on thirty-eight<br />
seats out of forty-one,<br />
PPP on thirty-nine seats,<br />
PTI on thirty-four seats<br />
and Muslim Conference<br />
on twenty-six seats.<br />
MQM linked to ‘dozens<br />
of UK bank accounts’<br />
Scotland Yard seeks custody of Imran Farooq murder suspects<br />
LONDON, Jun 17: The<br />
Muttahida Qaumi Movement<br />
(MQM) is reportedly linked to<br />
more than seventy bank<br />
accounts in London.<br />
UK police documents<br />
obtained by the BBC revealed<br />
that twenty-six of the accounts<br />
are in the name of MQM<br />
leader Altaf Hussain.<br />
Six British detectives were<br />
recently in Pakistan seeking<br />
co-operation in the alleged<br />
money-laundering case. The<br />
Scotland Yard documents,<br />
which include details of both<br />
open and closed bank<br />
accounts, were submitted to<br />
Pakistan’s Federal<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Special Assistant to the<br />
Prime Minister on Foreign<br />
Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi<br />
on Friday said Pakistan has<br />
hosted three million Afghans<br />
for decades but now would<br />
no longer host Afghan residents<br />
here.<br />
“Pakistan will welcome<br />
the move if Afghanistan<br />
installs biometric system at<br />
its borders. Hopefully,<br />
Investigations Agency (FIA)<br />
as part of a British request for<br />
assistance. The UK’s Crown<br />
Prosecution Service is already<br />
considering whether leading<br />
MQM officials should be<br />
charged with money-laundering<br />
offences but police say that<br />
does not stop them making further<br />
inquiries.<br />
"The investigation continues<br />
and any further relevant<br />
information would be discussed<br />
with the CPS," said a<br />
spokesperson at Scotland<br />
Yard. The MQM has said<br />
Scotland Yard’s claims about<br />
the bank accounts are baseless.<br />
British police have been<br />
Afghan land will not be used<br />
against Pakistan,” he said.<br />
He said Pakistan could<br />
not overlook improvement<br />
of border system as it was<br />
mandatory.<br />
Tariq Fatemi said both<br />
the countries could resolve<br />
the mutual issues through<br />
talks, therefore, PM’s<br />
Advisor on Foreign Affairs<br />
Sartaj Aziz has invited<br />
Afghanistan Foreign<br />
investigating the MQM for<br />
several years but the investigations<br />
have picked up the pace<br />
after a meeting in London in<br />
April between Interior<br />
Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali<br />
Khan and British Home<br />
Secretary Theresa May.<br />
During their investigation<br />
into the murder of Farooq the<br />
police found £167,525.92<br />
(about $235,000) in the<br />
MQM’s offices in London and<br />
a further £289,785.32 in<br />
Hussain’s home in Edgware,<br />
north London. Previous investigations<br />
in London uncovered<br />
a list in Altaf Hussain’s home<br />
numbers of weapons, including<br />
mortars, grenades and<br />
bomb-making equipment. The<br />
list included prices for the<br />
weapons. In 2010, MQM<br />
founding member Imran<br />
Farooq was stabbed to death in<br />
London. Party insiders say he<br />
had major differences with<br />
Husain before his death.<br />
Altaf Husain is now under<br />
investigation in Britain for<br />
Farooq’s murder, as well as<br />
Pakistan will no longer host<br />
Afghans, says Tariq Fatemi<br />
BAGH, Jun 17: Federal<br />
Minister for Information,<br />
Broadcasting and National<br />
Heritage Senator Pervaiz<br />
Rashid Friday said Prime<br />
Minister Muhammad Nawaz<br />
Sharif was bringing investment<br />
worth $ 46 billion<br />
under the China Pakistan<br />
Economic Corridor (CPEC)<br />
project while internal and<br />
external enemies were creating<br />
obstacles.<br />
He was speaking at a ceremony<br />
here to welcome leaders<br />
and workers of different<br />
political parties who joined<br />
Pakistan Muslim League(N).<br />
The minister said Imran<br />
Khan and Tahirul Qadri were<br />
starting politics of sit-ins<br />
while following agenda of<br />
enemies of Pakistan.<br />
He asked people to foil<br />
the politics of sit-ins and agitation.<br />
The minister said Rs 50<br />
billion have been allocated<br />
for roads of Azad Kashmir.<br />
“We will spend this amount<br />
Minister to Pakistan.<br />
“Drone attacks have put<br />
question mark over efforts<br />
made for peace process. The<br />
attacks are against the<br />
integrity and sovereignty of<br />
Pakistan which should be<br />
stopped,” he said.<br />
Meanwhile, Tariq Fatemi<br />
has sought support of<br />
Belarus and Kazakhstan to<br />
its application for joining the<br />
Nuclear Suppliers Group.<br />
Pervaiz urges masses to<br />
ignore Khan, Qadri protests<br />
DHEERKOT: Senator Pervaiz Rashid Federal Minister for<br />
IB&NH, addressing a ceremony for joining of political members<br />
into PMLN from different political parties.<br />
in five years and Rs 10 billion<br />
will be spent every<br />
year.” He said AJK is a<br />
mountainous area and it is<br />
difficult to take patients to<br />
hospitals in a difficult terrain.<br />
62% Senate proposals<br />
incorporated in budget document<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Finance Minister, Senator<br />
Ishaq Dar Friday informed the<br />
National Assembly that the<br />
government had approved as<br />
many as 86 recommendations<br />
forwarded by the Senate for<br />
incorporation in the Finance<br />
Bill <strong>2016</strong>-17.<br />
The Senate submitted 139<br />
recommendations to be incorporated<br />
in the budget document,<br />
out of which 86 have<br />
been approved by the government,<br />
which is 62 per cent of<br />
the total recommendations and<br />
a record in the parliamentary<br />
history of the country, Finance<br />
Minister said while concluding<br />
the debate on budget <strong>2016</strong>-17<br />
in the National Assembly.<br />
Giving detailed break up, the<br />
Finance Minister said that out<br />
of the 86 proposals, 34 were<br />
accepted in totality while 30<br />
were approved in principle<br />
with remaining 22 approved<br />
partially, he said.<br />
The Finance Minister<br />
thanked the Leader of the<br />
Opposition for his positive<br />
response on the idea of formulating<br />
Economic Charter.<br />
charges of money-laundering.<br />
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard<br />
has approached Crown<br />
Prosecution for the custody of<br />
three key suspects arrested by<br />
Pakistan in connection with<br />
Imran Farooq murder case.<br />
The Crown Prosecution<br />
Services (PCS) provides legal<br />
advice to the police and other<br />
investigative agencies during<br />
the course of criminal investigations,<br />
to decide whether a<br />
suspect should face criminal<br />
charges following an investigation<br />
and to conduct prosecutions<br />
both in the magistrates'<br />
courts and the Crown Court.<br />
The Scotland Yard is due to<br />
get a verdict on its application<br />
within three weeks and has<br />
informed the Pakistan’s<br />
Federal Investigation Agency<br />
of the development.<br />
The FIA would file an<br />
application for the extradition<br />
of Khalid Shamim, Moazzam<br />
Ali Khan and MohsinAli Syed<br />
to UK after the Crown<br />
Prosecution ruling on Scotland<br />
Yard’s application.<br />
Taftan: Foundation<br />
of Pakistan gate laid<br />
at Pak-Iran border<br />
TAFTAN, Jun 17: Foundation<br />
of the Pakistan gate on Friday<br />
was laid at the Pakistan-Iran<br />
border in Taftan. Civil-military<br />
leaders attended the event<br />
along with tribal leaders.<br />
Collector customs Saeed<br />
Gadhaun, Brigadier Khalid<br />
Baig, Commandant Taftan<br />
Rifles Colonel Kashif Ijaz<br />
Chaudhary and Deputy<br />
Commissioner Chaghai Qadir<br />
Buksh Parkani laid foundation<br />
of the two 30-feet long gates.<br />
The construction of the gates<br />
cost Rs 200 million.<br />
The first ever gate constructed<br />
at the Taftan border<br />
by Pakistan Customs shall not<br />
only serve to improve the<br />
country’s image towards the<br />
visitors coming from Iran but<br />
will also be used to improve<br />
the security measures taken<br />
towards the imports and<br />
exports being made from the<br />
border along with providing<br />
facilities to travelers heading<br />
to Iran. While addressing the<br />
media during the event,<br />
Brigade Khalid Baig stated<br />
that the construction of the<br />
gate at the Taftan border will<br />
prove to be an important milestone<br />
and will serve as<br />
increasing Pakistan’s prestige.<br />
WASHINGTON, Jun 17:<br />
More than 50 State<br />
Department diplomats have<br />
signed an internal memo critical<br />
of U.S. policy in Syria, calling<br />
for military strikes against<br />
President Bashar al-Assad's<br />
government to stop its persistent<br />
violations of a civil war<br />
ceasefire.<br />
The "dissent channel cable"<br />
was signed by 51 mid- to highlevel<br />
State Department officers<br />
advising on Syria policy.<br />
It calls for "targeted military<br />
strikes" against the Syrian<br />
government in light of the<br />
near-collapse of the ceasefire<br />
brokered earlier this year, the<br />
Wall Street Journal reported,<br />
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tahreek workers taking part in a sit in demonstration on the 2nd<br />
anniversary of the Model Town Incident.<br />
PML-N, Nawaz to be possible<br />
if govt suffers: Imran Khan<br />
SIALKOT, Jun 17: Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)<br />
Chairman Imran Khan on<br />
Friday stated that he backed<br />
the sit-in organised by<br />
Pakistan Awaami Tehreek<br />
(PAT), adding that 14 members<br />
of PAT were martyred<br />
two years ago but justice has<br />
yet not been served.<br />
While addressing the<br />
media, Khan said that the<br />
people are angry over<br />
Pakistan Muslim League-<br />
Nawaz (PML-N). He further<br />
stated that Prime Minister<br />
(PM) Nawaz Sharif should<br />
relinquish his post until the<br />
investigation of the Panama<br />
Leaks is not completed. He<br />
said that another member of<br />
PML-N can serve as PM until<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: The<br />
joint opposition met on<br />
Friday to finalise the Terms<br />
of Reference (ToRs) that<br />
will form a judicial commission<br />
to probe allegations<br />
over the Panama Leaks. It<br />
was decided that documentary<br />
evidence against the<br />
government will be shared<br />
on Monday.<br />
Sources said that Leader<br />
of the Opposition in the<br />
National Assembly<br />
Khursheed Shah expressed<br />
his reservations over<br />
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<br />
chief Imran Khan’s<br />
announcement to launch a<br />
long march in August.<br />
He was reported to have<br />
said, “If the joint opposition<br />
had to work together how<br />
can Imran Khan announce a<br />
citing copies of the cable it had<br />
seen. U.S. Secretary of State<br />
John Kerry, visiting<br />
the investigation is being carried<br />
out.<br />
Khan accused PM Nawaz<br />
Sharif and the Sharif family<br />
of being involved in money<br />
laundering. PTI Chairman<br />
said that if the government<br />
suffers then PM Nawaz and<br />
PML-N will be responsible.<br />
Imran said that rigging was<br />
proved in the constituency of<br />
Defence Minister Khawaja<br />
Asif whereas 54,000 bogus<br />
votes were cast in his own<br />
constituency which have yet<br />
not been investigated.<br />
Khan said that the government<br />
is giving rise to doubts<br />
by prolonging the investigation<br />
of the Panama Leaks<br />
issue. He stated that an independent<br />
National<br />
Joint Opp to share<br />
documentary evidence<br />
against govt on Monday<br />
long march or sit-in in<br />
August?”<br />
To this PTI leader Shah<br />
Mehmood Qureshi pacified<br />
him saying that “his party<br />
will not take a solo flight”,<br />
a source said.<br />
Speaking to the media<br />
after the meeting<br />
Khursheed Shah said,<br />
“Enough is enough. Now<br />
we will tell everything to<br />
the public.”<br />
He added that on<br />
Monday the joint opposition<br />
will conduct a press<br />
conference at Aitzaz<br />
Ahsan’s house.<br />
Members of the joint<br />
opposition claimed that the<br />
prime minister was ready<br />
for accountability however<br />
his close-aides were creating<br />
hurdles for him.<br />
Copenhagen, told Reuters on<br />
Friday: "It's an important statement<br />
and I respect the process,<br />
Accounatabilty Bureau<br />
(NAB) shall be introduced in<br />
Azad Kashmir.<br />
PTI Chairman said that the<br />
amount of funds raised during<br />
an Iftari held at Shaukat<br />
Khanum Memorial Cancer<br />
Hospital (SKMCH) were the<br />
highest during the 21-year<br />
history of the hospital. He<br />
said that the current government<br />
s behaviour is even<br />
worse than animals as hospitals<br />
are not even attacked during<br />
the time of war.<br />
He criticised the Prime<br />
Minister by stating that there<br />
is not even a single hospital in<br />
the country where the PM<br />
could have been treated.<br />
"These are a mafia who need<br />
to be defeated", Khan said.<br />
Dozens of US diplomats urge military<br />
strikes against Syria's Assad<br />
ALEPPO: Smoke and flame rise after what fighters of the<br />
Syria Democratic Forces said were U.S.-led air strikes on the<br />
mills of Manbij, where Islamic State militants are positioned.<br />
Pervaiz Rashid<br />
heads committee on<br />
appointment of CEC<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Minister for Information,<br />
Broadcasting and National<br />
Heritage Senator Pervaiz<br />
Rashid on Friday was elected<br />
Chairman of Parliamentary<br />
Committee on appointment of<br />
Chief Election Commissioner<br />
(CEC) and members of ECP.<br />
The first meeting of the<br />
committee was held here in<br />
which Parliamentarians<br />
including Arshad Laghari,<br />
Junaid Anwar, Shazia Mari,<br />
Shah Mehmood Qureshi and<br />
Yousaf Talpur, participated.<br />
MNA Junaid Anwar had<br />
proposed the name of Pervaiz<br />
Rashid for Chairman and<br />
Yousaf Talpur seconded this<br />
proposal.<br />
Talking to media,<br />
Chairman of Committee,<br />
Pervaiz Rashid thanked all the<br />
representatives of political<br />
parties who reposed confidence<br />
in him.<br />
very, very much. I will ... have<br />
a chance to meet with people<br />
when I get back (to<br />
Washington)."<br />
He said he had not seen the<br />
memo.<br />
Military strikes against the<br />
Assad government would represent<br />
a major change in the<br />
Obama administration's policy<br />
of not intervening directly in<br />
the Syrian civil war, while calling<br />
for a political transition that<br />
would see Assad leave power.<br />
Such strikes would put the<br />
United States on a collision<br />
course with Russia, which is<br />
backing Assad with air strikes,<br />
equipment, training and military<br />
advice.<br />
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VIDEO OF NINE ZERO’S SECURITY IN-CHARGE RELEASED<br />
Minhaj Qazi reveals details about<br />
Hakim Saeed’s murder during interrogation<br />
KARACHI,<br />
Dr SJA Jafri<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: A video confession<br />
of the Muttahida Qaumi<br />
Movement (MQM) headquarter<br />
Nine Zero's security in-charge surfaced<br />
on Friday in which he made<br />
revelations regarding former<br />
Sindh governor Hakim Saeed's<br />
murder case.<br />
Minhaj Qazi in the video said<br />
that when former Hakim Saeed<br />
was murdered he was not in contact<br />
with the organisation.<br />
Qazi said that at the time of<br />
Saeed’s killing, Zulfikar Haider<br />
and others were present in<br />
M.A. Jinnah University started admission in PhD program<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17:<br />
Mohammad Ali Jinnah<br />
University, Karachi has started<br />
admission in PhD degree program<br />
in Electrical Engineering,<br />
Management and Computer<br />
Science subjects from August,<br />
<strong>2016</strong>. MAJU will also introduce<br />
4 new degree program<br />
COURTS<br />
SHC seeks comments on<br />
Ayyan's other contempt<br />
of court petition<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Sindh High Court<br />
(SHC) on Friday sought comments from<br />
the ministry of interior for not removing<br />
Ayyan's name from Exit Control List (ECL)<br />
despite its order.<br />
The SHC bench, headed by Justice Aqeel<br />
Ahmed Abbasi, was hearing another<br />
contempt of court petition filed by<br />
Super Model Ayyan Ali requesting the<br />
court to initiate contempt proceedings<br />
against FIA, interior ministry, and<br />
immigration officials for not complying with<br />
its directives.<br />
The court issued notices to the respondents,<br />
directing them to submit their respective comments<br />
on 23rd <strong>June</strong> <strong>2016</strong>. The petitioner submitted<br />
that her name was not removed yet<br />
from ECL despite the court's earlier directions.<br />
This act from the interior ministry is the contempt<br />
of the court and proceedings should be<br />
initiated against them.<br />
The model was barred from leaving the<br />
(BS in Telecom, BS<br />
Accounting & Finance, MS<br />
Project Management and MS<br />
Economics & Finance) from<br />
next semester. M.A. Jinnah<br />
University has also finalized<br />
admission schedule for next<br />
semester according to which<br />
applications for admission will<br />
be received by July 23, <strong>2016</strong><br />
followed by admission test<br />
next day while the date of commencement<br />
of classes will be<br />
August 29, <strong>2016</strong>. It is mentioned<br />
here that the new management<br />
of the university<br />
under the dynamic leadership<br />
of President, Muhammad Ali<br />
Jinnah University, Prof. Dr.<br />
Zubair Shaikh has taken various<br />
steps to convert MAJU<br />
into one of the best university<br />
of this region. In order to provide<br />
outcome base education,<br />
modern teaching methodology,<br />
focus on research and professional<br />
training matters are<br />
being given more attention.<br />
Besides that comprehensive<br />
restructuring program of M.A.<br />
Jinnah University was also<br />
launched this year according<br />
which all statutory bodies such<br />
asAcademic Council, Board of<br />
Sir Syed University signed 2 contracts<br />
for Technological advancement<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Sir<br />
Syed University of<br />
Engineering & Technology<br />
signed two contracts to keep<br />
pace with technological<br />
advancement of modern era.<br />
The first contract was signed<br />
with Techlogix for developing<br />
campus management<br />
system, and second contract<br />
was signed with M/s Bell<br />
Cow for the development of<br />
state of the art website.<br />
Speaking at the signing<br />
ceremony, Chancellor<br />
Jawaid Anwar said, “It is<br />
just beginning and process<br />
for this technological<br />
advancement will continue<br />
to bring this university as<br />
best among top engineering<br />
university.”<br />
Chancellor Jawaid Anwar<br />
said, today a dream has<br />
come true to leading the university<br />
towards advance<br />
technological campus management<br />
and also presenting<br />
the brand face of the university.<br />
Selection of the products<br />
under these two innovative<br />
advancements would be<br />
par excellence and prove<br />
immensely not only for the<br />
university itself but more for<br />
its students.<br />
KARACHI: Chancellor Jawaid Anwar, Amir Gilani and Registrar Syed Sarfraz Ali at the<br />
signing ceremony between Sir Syed University and Techlogist.<br />
Cardiac Emergency Center, Lab made<br />
functional at Liaquatabad Hospital<br />
told PPI that Cardiac<br />
Emergency Center had been<br />
made functional after lapse<br />
KARACHI, Jun 16: Cardiac<br />
Emergency Center of Sindh<br />
Government Hospital<br />
Liaquatabad has been made of several years.<br />
operational after lapse of<br />
several years and admission<br />
of patients with cardiac<br />
emergency requirements has<br />
also begun in the healthcare,<br />
it was learned on Friday.<br />
An official at the hospital<br />
He said<br />
ealier, the Cardiac Center<br />
was non-functional due to<br />
unavailability of cardiologists<br />
and non-repairing of<br />
equipments.<br />
He said four cardiac<br />
monitors had been made<br />
operational out of total eight<br />
monitors. He said admission<br />
of patients with cardio<br />
emergency requirements<br />
had also started in the<br />
healthcare. He said the<br />
administration also appointed<br />
three cardiologists and<br />
two resident medical officers<br />
(RMOs) in Cardiac<br />
Center to run it smoothly.<br />
country on Wednesday by Federal<br />
Investigation Agency (FIA); the agency had<br />
stopped her when she was about to fly for<br />
Dubai after her name was removed from ECL<br />
on the SHC's directives.<br />
She got surprised when she reached<br />
Karachi Airport on Wednesday to travel<br />
abroad, where she knew that her name has<br />
been re-inserted in the list. She kept the SHC's<br />
order in hand and was showing to counter but<br />
to no avail.<br />
Alleged extortionist sent on physical<br />
remand: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on<br />
Friday handed over a suspect, allegedly<br />
belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban<br />
Pakistan, to police on physical<br />
remand till 27th <strong>June</strong>.<br />
The police produced suspect<br />
Tahir, who was allegedly<br />
involved in taking extortion in Karachi and<br />
sending it to Wazirstan, before the administrative<br />
judge of ATC to get the remand of the<br />
accused.<br />
The IO requested the court to remand the<br />
accused in police's custody as he was<br />
required for interrogation. While accepting<br />
IO's request, the judge handed over the suspect<br />
to police on physical remand. The investigators<br />
were directed to submit progress<br />
report in the next hearing.<br />
Studies, Board of Advance<br />
Studies and Research and<br />
Board of Faculties have been<br />
reactivated and highly qualified<br />
Faculty has also been<br />
hired. As a result of restructuring<br />
MAJU has now 4 major<br />
Faculties which are Finance &<br />
Economics, Computer<br />
Science, Electrical<br />
Engineering and Management<br />
Sciences for providing better<br />
educational environment,<br />
focused student societies of all<br />
departments have been revived<br />
to organize co-curricular and<br />
extracurricular activities.<br />
IGP seeks street<br />
criminals' list<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: IGP<br />
Sindh AD Khowaja on<br />
Friday directed Karachi<br />
Police to make a list of those<br />
street criminals and target<br />
killers who got bail two<br />
years ago, according to<br />
Sindh Police's spokesperson.<br />
The IGP further said that<br />
steps should be taken to conduct<br />
raids in coordination<br />
with Sindh Rangers against<br />
criminals. He also instructed<br />
all SSPs to ensure effective<br />
security and patrolling at<br />
markets and places of<br />
Namaz-e-Turawi.<br />
Minor girl hit<br />
by block dies<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: A minor<br />
girl died after a block falling<br />
from a building hit her had<br />
in Qasba Colony area of the<br />
city on Friday.<br />
The girl, Halmas, 5, a resident<br />
of Qasba Colony, died<br />
after a block hit her head,<br />
The block fell from a building.<br />
She suffered severe<br />
injuries and died on the spot.<br />
The victim's body was shifted<br />
to Abbasi Shaheed<br />
Hospital for medico-legal<br />
formalities.<br />
Karachi. He alleged that Zulfikar<br />
Haider, Mehmood Siddiqui, and<br />
Shakir aka Langra assisted in<br />
Hakim Saeed’s murder.<br />
Qazi said that Imran Pasha,<br />
Amir from Liaquatabad and others<br />
were arrested regarding the case.<br />
Mehmood Siddiqui at that time<br />
was the chairman of the party's<br />
student wing All Pakistan<br />
Muttahida Students Organisation<br />
Urdu (APMSO), Minhaj Qazi<br />
said.<br />
Hakim Saeed was gunned down<br />
on October 17, 1998 by armed<br />
assailants.<br />
Call for taking<br />
oath from elected<br />
representatives<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Karachi<br />
Ittehad leaders on Friday said<br />
that seven months had lapsed<br />
since local government elections<br />
were held, but<br />
Karachiites were still<br />
deprived of the mayorship,<br />
while government was also<br />
reluctant to resolve people's<br />
issues.<br />
They said while addressing<br />
a press conference at<br />
KPC, which was attended by<br />
Karachi Ittehad's President<br />
Najmi Alam from PPP,<br />
Dawar Khan from PTI,<br />
Sarfaraz Jadoon from ANP,<br />
Aman Afridi from PML-N,<br />
Fazal Haq from JI, and<br />
Muhammad Sadiq Khan<br />
from JUI-F.<br />
They said that the government<br />
had not resolved basic<br />
issues facing Karachiites<br />
since last seven months,<br />
including water, sewerage,<br />
street lights, and roads. They<br />
demanded of Election<br />
Commission of Pakistan and<br />
authorities concerned to take<br />
oath from Karachi mayor,<br />
deputy mayor and other<br />
elected representatives of<br />
Karachi Metropolitan<br />
Corporation. They appealed<br />
to take strict action against<br />
those who postponed oathtaking<br />
process.<br />
Sindh Rangers' authority to keep<br />
suspects in custody for 90 days expires<br />
Jun 17: Sindh<br />
Rangers’ authority of keeping<br />
terrorists in custody for<br />
a period of 90 days for<br />
interrogation has expired.<br />
Federal government has not<br />
issued any notification<br />
regarding the extension in<br />
the authority.<br />
While implementing the<br />
National Action Plan (NAP),<br />
the federal government<br />
granted the Rangers authority<br />
to keep suspects in custody<br />
for interrogation for a<br />
period of 90 days after making<br />
an amendment in the<br />
KARACHI: Group picture show C.E.O Siata Pakistan Pirzada<br />
M. Ajmal Faoorqi, German Consul General Rainer<br />
Schmiedchen, Russian Consul General Oleg N. Avdeev with<br />
Mrs. On the occasion of local hotel function.<br />
30 more dengue cases surface in Karachi<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: At least 30 more dengue<br />
viral fever cases have been detected in Sindh<br />
province in a week, out of which 29 were<br />
reported from Karachi, taking the patients toll<br />
ti 722 since 1st January <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
As per weekly report issued by Dengue<br />
Prevention and Control Program (DPCP),<br />
Sindh, to PPI, as many as 30 new dengue fever<br />
cases surfaced in Sindh province from <strong>June</strong> 10<br />
to 16, <strong>2016</strong>, out of which 29 were reported<br />
from Karachi and one from Khairpur.<br />
A total 29 new dengue fever cases were<br />
detected in Karachi last week, out of which five<br />
KARACHI: Additional DIG Traffic, Tahir Noorani leading an operation against the vehicles<br />
parked in No Parking Zone and caused for huge gridline jammed at Abdullah Haroon Road.<br />
Anti-Terrorism Act. Rangers<br />
were given the very authority<br />
on <strong>June</strong> 15, 2014, for a<br />
period of two years based on<br />
the amendment of section<br />
11EEEE of the Act.<br />
After being granted the<br />
authority, Rangers conducted<br />
operations across Karachi<br />
and apprehended several terrorists<br />
for a period of 90<br />
days. Peace was restored in<br />
the city as a result of the<br />
efforts of the Rangers.<br />
Rangers arrested Dr<br />
Asim, Dr Nisar Morai, Uzair<br />
Baloch, Amir Khan, Obaid<br />
K-2, Faisal mota, Minhaj<br />
Qazi, Sultan Qamar Siddiqui<br />
along with over two hundred<br />
other suspects and carried<br />
out investigation against<br />
them but the authority to<br />
keep suspects in custody for<br />
90 days expired on the night<br />
of <strong>June</strong> 14, <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Two days passed but the<br />
federal government has not<br />
issued an extension in the<br />
Rangers’ authority yet via<br />
notification or ordinance.<br />
Rangers have also<br />
stopped presenting terrorists<br />
in the court from <strong>June</strong> 15.<br />
KMC Administrator reviews<br />
monsoon preparations<br />
KARACHI: Smoke rising from burning garbage creating pollution in atmosphere, nearby<br />
Saddar Parking Plaza.<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: timely measures were not the place of incident and<br />
Administrator Karachi taken for monsoon. carry out rescue works<br />
Laeeq Ahmed on Friday He urged the officers to immediately soon after<br />
said that concerned departments<br />
complete their preparations receiving the call.<br />
of KMC have been for rainy season without He said all required<br />
made alert ahead of forecast<br />
delay and ensure full and machinery and staff would<br />
for excessive rains comprehensive coordina-<br />
be made available at<br />
during the coming monsoon<br />
tion among the depart-<br />
Liaquatabad No.10 for<br />
season in the city. ments. Administrator immediate drainage of rain<br />
The cleaning of five major Laeeq Ahmed said about water from Liaquatabad,<br />
city storm water drains was 350 city buildings had been Nazimabad<br />
and<br />
also started immediately. declared as dangerous and Gharibabad underpasses<br />
Laeeq Ahmed chaired a therefore such a strategy and such arrangements<br />
high level meeting to has been devised to enable have been made to save<br />
review the monsoon preparations,<br />
the fire brigade, rescue these underpasses from<br />
he warned citizens unit, building engineers rain water coming from<br />
would face acute trouble if and city wardens to get to adjoining areas.<br />
were reported from District Central, 10 from<br />
District South, two from District West, eight<br />
from District East and four from District Malir.<br />
In <strong>2016</strong>, a total 722 dengue fever cases were<br />
reported in Sindh province since 1st January<br />
<strong>2016</strong>, out of which 668 were detected from<br />
Karachi, 12 from Hyderabad, five from<br />
Sukkur, four from Tando Muhammad Khan,<br />
three each from Dadu, Mirpurkhas,<br />
Tharparkar, Khairpur & Larkana, two each<br />
from Badin, Thatta, Jamshoro,Umer Kot,<br />
Sanghar Naushero Feroz, Ghotki, Shaheed<br />
Benazirbad and Shikarpur.<br />
KARACHI: Administrator District Council, Nadir Ali Wasan<br />
along with Chief Officer, Masroor Memon inaugurating Water<br />
Supply Scheme.<br />
KARACHI: Additional Executive Officer CBC, Arfeen Zubair<br />
Choudhry chairing the meeting to review rain emergency<br />
arrangements on the occasion of Monsoon.<br />
KARACHI: Administrator DMC Korangi, Nisar Ahmed<br />
Somrro along with Director Advertisement, Shahab Jalees,<br />
Director Information, Ayaz Muhammad Khan inspecting<br />
ongoing operation against hoarding Fixed at Natha Khan.
Saturday, <strong>June</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Teenage Kalash girl denies reports<br />
of forceful conversion to Islam<br />
CHITRAL, Jun 17:<br />
Disputing reports of forced<br />
conversion to Islam, the<br />
teenage girl of Kalash<br />
appeared before the media on<br />
Friday and informed she converted<br />
her faith ‘wilfully’.<br />
Addressing a press conference<br />
in Chitral while<br />
flanking alongside her father<br />
and uncle at Chitral Press<br />
Club, Reena rejected a foreign<br />
news agency report that<br />
claimed she was converted<br />
forcefully.<br />
The 15-year-old underlined<br />
that she didn’t have any<br />
pressure in embracing Islam.<br />
She ‘drew inspiration from<br />
her Muslim school friends<br />
about Islam and decided to<br />
convert.’<br />
Speaking on the occasion,<br />
girl’s father said Kalash girls<br />
are converting to Islam, but<br />
FATA adhoc lecturers protest enters 38th day<br />
PESHAWAR, Jun 17: The<br />
protest of ad-hoc lecturers<br />
of different FATA colleges<br />
entered the 38th day outside<br />
Peshawar Press Club<br />
demanding the release of<br />
salaries and regularization<br />
of jobs. Around 213 male<br />
and female lecturers working<br />
on an adhoc basis in different<br />
colleges of FATA<br />
have been protesting for<br />
disbursement of pending<br />
salaries and regularization<br />
of jobs.<br />
President of Ad-hoc<br />
Lecturers Afsar Khan while<br />
addressing to the protesting<br />
teachers said, “We have<br />
been working in hard areas<br />
of FATA. Our lives are at<br />
risk in hotbed of terrorism<br />
while on the other hand our<br />
salaries have not been<br />
released for the last 10<br />
months.”<br />
Sabina, a female lecturer,<br />
said that the lecturers risked<br />
their lives to perform duties<br />
like ‘soldiers of peace’<br />
despite clashes and militancy,<br />
but the government was<br />
denying them their salaries<br />
and permanent jobs.<br />
“Some lecturers have<br />
been forced to live on debt<br />
as they have been facing<br />
financial problems,” said a<br />
woman lecturer, Alia.<br />
Nasir Ali said that on the<br />
floor of K-P assembly,<br />
Higher Education Minister<br />
Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani<br />
promised that an amendment<br />
bill would be introduced<br />
for the regularization<br />
of the lecturers , but he<br />
never kept his promise.<br />
He said that the KP Chief<br />
Minister Pervaiz Khattak<br />
had promised for regularization<br />
of the ad-hoc lecturers<br />
in one week time but he<br />
failed to keep his promise.<br />
Two travel agents held<br />
RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: The<br />
Federal Investigation Agency<br />
on Friday arrested two travel<br />
agents on charges of human<br />
trafficking and seized fake<br />
passports from them.<br />
On a tip-off, FIA personnel<br />
raided at travel agency<br />
office in Rehmanabad and<br />
apprehended two fake travel<br />
agents identified as Amir<br />
and Qaiser. The suspects<br />
were allegedly involved in<br />
human trafficking.<br />
The FIA also recovered<br />
eight passports, fake documents<br />
and stamps from the<br />
suspects’ possession.<br />
They were shifted to the<br />
anti-human smuggling cell<br />
for further investigation.<br />
SUKKUR: Residents of Mirani Muhallah hold a demonstration against failure of sewerage<br />
system in their area.<br />
AIOU practical exams from July <strong>18</strong><br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: The<br />
Allama Iqbal Open<br />
University (AIOU) will conduct<br />
practical exams of FSc<br />
programme for Autumn<br />
Semester 2015 from July <strong>18</strong>.<br />
According to a press<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
According to a Gilani<br />
Research Foundation<br />
Survey carried out by<br />
Gallup Pakistan, 43%<br />
Pakistanis have stated that<br />
they would wish to go to<br />
Saudi Arabia if they were<br />
given an opportunity to<br />
visit another country provided<br />
all their expenditures,<br />
including accommodation<br />
and tickets, were<br />
borne by the Pakistani<br />
Government.<br />
A nationally representative<br />
sample of men and<br />
women from across the<br />
four provinces was asked,<br />
“Suppose that you get an<br />
CHITRAL: Kalash women leader Shahi gul addressing a press confrence with newly converted<br />
Muslim girl Reena at Chitral press club.<br />
release issued on Friday, the<br />
practical exams will continue<br />
till July 29, while these<br />
exams will be held at<br />
Governemnt. College of<br />
Science Wahdat Road,<br />
Lahore, Government Islamia<br />
College Sargodha Road,<br />
Faisalabad and AIOU lab<br />
Islamabad.<br />
Roll number slips were<br />
being sent by post to the<br />
concerned students at their<br />
given addresses.<br />
43% Pakistanis would choose to go to Saudi Arabia if given an<br />
opportunity to go abroad on an all-expense paid trip: Survey<br />
opportunity to visit another<br />
country and all the associated<br />
expenditures such as<br />
accommodation and ticket<br />
are being borne by the<br />
Pakistan Government, then<br />
which Country would you<br />
like to go to?”<br />
In response to this question,<br />
43% Pakistanis said<br />
Saudi Arabia, 10% said<br />
United Kingdom, 10% said<br />
Dubai, 8% said the United<br />
States of America, 3% said<br />
Canada, 3% said China,<br />
2% said India, 2% said<br />
Japan, 1% said Iran, 1%<br />
said Germany, 8% mentioned<br />
some other country,<br />
5% said that they would<br />
not want to go to any other<br />
country and 4% gave no<br />
response.<br />
The study was released<br />
by Gilani Research<br />
Foundation and carried out<br />
by Gallup Pakistan, the<br />
Pakistani affiliate of<br />
Gallup International.<br />
The recent survey was<br />
carried out among a sample<br />
of <strong>18</strong>25 men and<br />
women in rural and urban<br />
areas of all four provinces<br />
of the country, during April<br />
11 – April <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2016</strong>. Error<br />
margin is estimated to be<br />
approximately ± 2-3 per<br />
cent at 95% confidence<br />
level.<br />
Another teacher Haq<br />
Nawaz Burki said, “Our<br />
salaries have not been<br />
released since September<br />
last year.”<br />
Lecturers demanded<br />
immediate release of<br />
salaries and regularization.<br />
The protest camp and classes<br />
boycott will continue till<br />
the acceptance of their<br />
demands, they said.<br />
The 213 male and<br />
female lecturers working on<br />
Adhoc in different colleges<br />
of FATA have been<br />
deprived with salaries since<br />
September 2015.<br />
Dysfunctional<br />
escalators at metro<br />
bus stations a nuisance<br />
for senior citizens<br />
RAWALPINDI, Jun 17:<br />
Dysfunctional and out of<br />
order escalators and elevators<br />
at different metro bus<br />
stations in Rawalpindi and<br />
Islamabad have become a<br />
perpetual source of nuisance<br />
for passengers particularly<br />
senior citizens, who<br />
grapple to ascend stairs to<br />
board buses.<br />
During inspection of different<br />
stations it revealed<br />
that escalators and elevators<br />
at most stations have gone<br />
faulty and not functioning.<br />
The elevator installed at<br />
Mareer Chowk bus station,<br />
at G-9/3 of Ibn-e-Sina station<br />
and other stations has<br />
been dysfunctional for the<br />
last many days and no work<br />
has been carried out to<br />
repair them.<br />
The citizens have<br />
appealed to Chief Minister<br />
(CM) Punjab to hold<br />
inquiry into the issue as<br />
millions of rupees are<br />
released for maintenance of<br />
elevators and escalators<br />
each month but they remain<br />
shut for long days.<br />
When contacted, Furqan,<br />
project manager of Marine<br />
Company, which has been<br />
appointed for maintenance<br />
work of elevators and escalators,<br />
said that recent rainwindstorm<br />
caused immense<br />
damage to some elevators<br />
and escalators. He claimed<br />
that mechanics of the company<br />
were working on<br />
faulty elevators.<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Men<br />
with prostate cancer could<br />
slash their risk of death by<br />
more than a third by eating<br />
nuts regularly, a major study<br />
shows.<br />
Five 1oz servings a week of<br />
any type of nut cut mortality<br />
rates by 34 per cent,<br />
researchers found.<br />
But there was no evidence<br />
that eating nuts reduces the risk<br />
of developing the disease in<br />
the first place.<br />
The results come from the<br />
largest ever study into the<br />
effects of a nut-rich diet on<br />
prostate cancer.<br />
The disease affects 35,000<br />
in some of the cases they<br />
revert to their parent religion<br />
because they are not provided<br />
with their due rights. He<br />
said the Muslims should<br />
ensure provision of rights so<br />
that Kalash girls may not<br />
reconsider their decision.<br />
He also sought assurance<br />
in writing from Muslim elders<br />
that the girl wont be mistreated.<br />
More conversions ‘in the<br />
past’ The girl, during her<br />
presser, divulged that three<br />
girls also recently converted<br />
to Islam wilfully. ‘Why the<br />
issue is being created in my<br />
case,” she asked.<br />
The ninth-grader appealed<br />
to the media and people not<br />
to make a mountain out of a<br />
molehill and don’t portray<br />
her private matters a public<br />
affair.<br />
An FIR of<br />
dual murders<br />
registered<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
SHIKARPUR, Jun 17:An FIR<br />
of dual murders was registered<br />
against 09 culprits on the complaint<br />
of the deceased’s mother<br />
Mst Imamzadi Kehar at Lakhi<br />
Ghulam Shah Police Station<br />
on late Thursday. As per<br />
reports, two days ago unidentified<br />
ambushed armed men<br />
opened indiscriminate firing<br />
on two real brothers identified<br />
as Gul Muhammad Kehar and<br />
Muhammad Khan Kehar near<br />
Dodo goth when they were<br />
riding on their motorcycle to<br />
their native town Sultankot.<br />
As a result of firing they<br />
were killed on the spot while<br />
assailants ran away from place<br />
of incident after committing<br />
the crime.After passage of two<br />
days police have registered a<br />
double murder case against 09<br />
culprits including<br />
Rahmatullah, Imran, Anwar,<br />
Hashim, Karim dion, Rasool<br />
Bakhsh, Muhammad Salah,<br />
Dad Muhammad and Ghulam<br />
Akbar all of by caste Shar<br />
community persons at Lakhi<br />
Ghulam Shah police station.<br />
KHAIRPUR, Jun 17: The<br />
Spokesperson of Shah Abdul<br />
Latif University, Khairpur<br />
has announced that the long<br />
awaited Sweet and Clean<br />
Drinking Water problem of<br />
the students and staff has<br />
been resolved wit the untiring<br />
efforts of Vice Chancellor<br />
Prof. Dr. Parveen Shah. The<br />
water supply scheme amounting<br />
Rs. 15 Million has been<br />
started to provide the sweet<br />
and clean drinking water to<br />
academic block, hostels,<br />
teachers and staff residence.<br />
It is recalled that since<br />
1977 with the establishment<br />
of campus, no any Vice<br />
Chancellor have taken serious<br />
efforts for the provision<br />
100 suspects arrested,<br />
weapons seized in Peshawar<br />
PESHAWAR, Jun 17: Police<br />
claimed to have arrested at<br />
least 100 suspects including<br />
Afghans residing illegally<br />
during search operation here<br />
on Friday Police spokesman<br />
said that the search operations<br />
were conducted in<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD, Jun 17: The<br />
scores of residents of<br />
Qasimabad township of<br />
Hyderabad held protest<br />
demonstration here on<br />
Friday against long power<br />
outage and cursed Wapda<br />
with slogans of BIJLI<br />
NAHIN KIUN BHALA,<br />
KARBALA KARBALA.<br />
The villagers of Sanjar<br />
Mirbahar told media that<br />
Faqirabad, Hayatabad,<br />
Tatara and Sarband areas<br />
where officials of lady<br />
police and sniffer dogs were<br />
also used to check around<br />
200 houses.<br />
Police said that some 16<br />
Afghans living without<br />
they were deprived of electricity<br />
since last 5 months.<br />
They said they were asked to<br />
purchase new meters yet the<br />
officers of Hesco were<br />
demanding bribe for restoration<br />
of power. The protest<br />
was led by Ghulam<br />
Muhammad Buledi, Soomar<br />
Halepoto, Kaleem<br />
Shambhani and Saleem<br />
Budha. They said that Hesco<br />
sub division Citizen Colony<br />
was demanding money from<br />
valid documents were<br />
among 101 suspected elements<br />
arrested during the<br />
operation.<br />
Police also recovered 16<br />
pistols, a short gun and hundreds<br />
of cartridges from the<br />
possession of the suspects.<br />
Qasimabad residents curse WAPDA<br />
them. They said they were<br />
fed up with roaming around<br />
offices of SDO and Line<br />
Superintendent but of no<br />
avail. They said the Hesco<br />
officers were insisting either<br />
payment of Rs.2 lacs as bribe<br />
or get electricity through<br />
Kunda by paying cash to<br />
them consuming power<br />
without meter. They warned<br />
if power was restored before<br />
Eid they would stage Dharna<br />
in front of his office.<br />
HYDERABAD: Residents’ of Qasmabad hold a protest against HASCO outside HPC.<br />
An alleged bandit arrested<br />
in injured condition<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
SHIKARPUR, Jun 17:<br />
Shikarpur police claimed to<br />
have arrested a bandit after<br />
an exchange of firing in<br />
injured condition near 16<br />
Mori in the limits of Sultankot<br />
police station on late<br />
Thursday.<br />
As per official sources,<br />
after receiving the information<br />
about the presence of<br />
bandits for committing a<br />
of sweet and clean water for<br />
campus. In the absence of<br />
sweet and clean water, the<br />
students and residence were<br />
affected with water borne diseases<br />
and were facing hardship.<br />
On this occasion, Vice<br />
Chancellor Prof. Dr. Parveen<br />
Shah has extended her cordial<br />
thanks to Syed Qaim Ali<br />
Shah, Chief Minister Sindh,<br />
Mr. Jam Khan Shoro,<br />
Provincial Minister for Local<br />
Government & Public Health<br />
Department and Mr. Fayaz<br />
Ahmed Jatoi, Deputy<br />
Commissioner, Khairpur.<br />
The teachers, officer,<br />
employees and students have<br />
appreciated the efforts of<br />
Prof. Dr. Parveen Shah for<br />
resolving this genuine and<br />
long awaited problem.<br />
MEETING REGARD-<br />
ING TESTING ASSESS-<br />
MENT & RECRUIT-<br />
MENT THROUGH PTS<br />
HELD<br />
A meeting regarding the<br />
conduct of written test of various<br />
posts recently<br />
announced by the University<br />
in various teaching<br />
Departments was held at<br />
Shah Abdul Latif University,<br />
Khairpur presided over by<br />
Prof. Dr. Lutfullah Mangi,<br />
Pro-Vice Chancellor,<br />
Shikarpur Campus.<br />
Dr. Lutfullah Mangi<br />
briefed that the purpose of<br />
serious crime near 16 Mori,<br />
SHO Sultan kot rushed there<br />
to arrest them, seeing the<br />
police, bandits opened fire,<br />
on retaliation, police have<br />
arrested a bandit identified<br />
as Siraj Ahmed son of<br />
Bashir Bhayo in injured condition<br />
while his other<br />
accomplices fled away from<br />
place of firing.<br />
The police seized one<br />
Kalashnikov and good number<br />
of bullets from their possession.<br />
The Sultan-kot<br />
police shifted the injured<br />
person to Sultan-kot Rural<br />
Health Centre [RHC] for<br />
medical treatment.<br />
According to police<br />
sources, Sutlan-kot police<br />
have started search operation<br />
to arrest other accomplices of<br />
arrested bandit while neither<br />
police arrested other accomplices<br />
of arrested dacoit nor<br />
an FIR was registered till this<br />
story was filed.<br />
Work for the provision of sweet water for campus started<br />
LARKANA, Jun 17:<br />
Heatwave continue to hit hard<br />
Larkana and its adjoining<br />
areas, as 199 gastroenteritis<br />
patients reported at Accident<br />
and Emergency Center of<br />
Chandka Medical College<br />
Hospital (CMCH) here within<br />
last seven days from <strong>June</strong> 10<br />
to 16, <strong>2016</strong>. Coupled with<br />
worst electricity load shedding<br />
in defiance of announced<br />
policy of the federal ministry<br />
of water and power, the fasting<br />
people continued to suffer<br />
despite paying their bills and<br />
taxes regularly, but there<br />
seemed no respite to them by<br />
Sepco authorities.<br />
Forty gastroenteritis cases<br />
emerged within week, while<br />
this meeting is to conduct the<br />
written test of various posts of<br />
Teaching Departments. The<br />
objective of the meeting is to<br />
conduct the test and short list<br />
the eligible candidates aimed<br />
at to maintain transparency<br />
and ensure the merit in the<br />
appointments.<br />
Mr. Safdar Ali Sohu,<br />
Regional Manager, Pakistan<br />
Testing Service (PTS), Sindh<br />
offered the services to conduct<br />
the test.<br />
Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed<br />
Shaikh, Pro-Vice Chancellor,<br />
Main Campus, Prof. Dr. Asad<br />
Raza Abidi, Registrar and Mr.<br />
Altaf Hussain Bhutto,<br />
Director Finance attended the<br />
meeting.<br />
Larkana: 199 gastro cases emerge in a week<br />
men a year in the UK, killing<br />
around 10,000.<br />
Previous studies have hinted<br />
a healthy diet and lifestyle,<br />
including frequent snacking on<br />
nuts, can have a protective<br />
effect. In 2014, scientists found<br />
walnuts in particular seemed to<br />
significantly lower the risk of a<br />
tumour.<br />
In the latest study, published<br />
online in the British<br />
Journal of Cancer, experts at<br />
Harvard Medical School in<br />
Boston tracked 47,000 men<br />
over 26 years. They identified<br />
6,800 who developed prostate<br />
cancer.<br />
Eating nuts regularly<br />
seemed to have little or no benefit<br />
in terms of preventing<br />
malignant growths.<br />
But when scientists looked<br />
at death rates, they found sufferers<br />
who ate nuts at least five<br />
times a week were 34 per cent<br />
less likely to die from their illness<br />
than those who ate nuts<br />
less than once a month.<br />
Most of the nut-eaters in the<br />
US study ate peanuts but the<br />
20 patients expired in the<br />
CMCH. Unannounced worst<br />
power outage is being carried<br />
out in entire Larkana district<br />
by the grid station incharge in<br />
connivance with operation<br />
sub-divisions.<br />
Eating nuts slashes prostate cancer death risk by a third<br />
health benefits seem to apply<br />
whatever the type of nut. Nuts<br />
are rich in tocopherols, a type<br />
of vitamin E which some<br />
research suggests can combat<br />
cancer.<br />
They also contain phytochemicals,<br />
naturally occurring<br />
plant chemicals thought to<br />
have potent anti-cancer properties.<br />
Other studies have found<br />
they protect against heart disease<br />
and type 2 diabetes.<br />
Reporting their findings,<br />
the researchers said: 'No significant<br />
associations were<br />
observed between peanut or<br />
other nut consumption and<br />
prostate cancer incidence.
4<br />
Saturday, <strong>June</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
BLACK AND WHITE TRUTH OF WORLD POLITICS: SICK JOKES ON HUMANITY<br />
Nations can change state policies<br />
like slavery under big powers<br />
CHANGES were made by some governments as<br />
demanded via protests and demonstrations by<br />
their nations who instituted gradual as well as<br />
drastic changes in their governments' wrong policies<br />
like slavery under big powers.<br />
MIDEAST situation resembles a ball of fire raging<br />
in some parts of a number of Muslim countries at war<br />
against each other. That confronts Pakistan with a critical<br />
diplomatic problem to find a solution that could be<br />
acceptable at home as well as abroad.<br />
NUCLEAR power Pakistan, the only one in the<br />
Muslim world, can have a considerable influence on<br />
friends and foes alike within and outside the country to<br />
change its own direction from such negative and defaming<br />
stance and move towards freedom and independence<br />
by reducing and ending an internationally induced<br />
slavery to big powers and their Mideast satellites where<br />
rules and principles think nothing of any diplomatic or<br />
military solutions being right or wrong.<br />
CROSS roads for Pakistan: To do Mideast, big powers’<br />
bidding and, for instance, play its significant role in<br />
abstaining from support to oppressor Muslim majority<br />
leaders' wars under centuries old enmity that continues<br />
to kill an oppressed Shi'ite Muslim minority. Islamabad<br />
can follow up with a later advocating of a termination<br />
of militarist adventures. Briefly, Pakistan, which has<br />
among largest Shi'ite populations in the world, can let<br />
this helpless Muslim minority be killed like they were<br />
in centuries past, or make a decision to save it from<br />
denial of basic human rights and stop centuries old<br />
inhuman discrimination and persecution of all kinds.<br />
REVIEW of history of performance of Pakistani<br />
governments have led researchers towards that constant<br />
historical problem faced by state leaders, institutions,<br />
officials and law enforcing agencies, who sometimes<br />
spoke and did right, and sometimes spoke and did<br />
wrong. There was not any clear cut policy that actions<br />
could otherwise prove to be true.<br />
EXAMPLE: Rulers and leaders of both Islamabad<br />
and provincial governments were accusing each other<br />
with grave charges of supporting terrorism against<br />
Muslim Shiite community. However, neither side, even<br />
though daring each other to do so, was taking signficiant<br />
proper action and were not punishing self proclaimed<br />
killers in all those decades of freedom ever<br />
since Pakistan came into existence.<br />
ZARB-E-AZB operation, which Pakistan Army<br />
launched launched despite dislike of some rulers, did<br />
By Marwan Kabalan<br />
Over the next final months of his presidency,<br />
United States President Barack Obama will<br />
be preoccupied with solidifying the legacy of<br />
his administration as well as enhancing his personal<br />
image as an “exceptionally” successful US president.<br />
Domestically, that may not be a difficult task after all.<br />
Obama did indeed accomplish some of the most<br />
important social and economic reforms he had promised<br />
during his election campaign.<br />
In the US, millions of poor Americans will be<br />
grateful for him for having the courage to fight the<br />
greed of big insurance cartels in order to provide them<br />
with the health-care facility they have always yearned<br />
for. He will also be remembered for getting Wall Street<br />
under control and rescuing the US economy from its<br />
worst economic and finical crisis since the Great<br />
Depression in 1929. Yet, on foreign policy, Obama<br />
will not leave many good memories. On the contrary,<br />
his administration will always be remembered in this<br />
regard as one of weakest and most pathetic in the history<br />
of the US (this title has so far been reserved to the<br />
Jimmy Carter administration).<br />
Under his watch as president, Daesh (the self-proclaimed<br />
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) captured<br />
one third of Iraq and half of Syrian territories, posing<br />
great challenge to regional order, world peace and US<br />
interests. During his presidency also, the world witnessed<br />
the greatest humanitarian crisis since the<br />
Second World War. On Syria, the president of the<br />
world’s sole superpower and leader of the free world<br />
stood idle, watching a great disaster unfolding before<br />
his own eyes and aired live on TV screens across the<br />
globe; with hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians<br />
losing their lives and many millions getting displaced.<br />
Under Obama too, the world witnessed the<br />
resurgence of Russia. His weakness tempted Russian<br />
President Vladimir Putin to invade and annex the<br />
Crimean Peninsula without even having to think about<br />
the consequences.<br />
These great failures in foreign policy have given<br />
critics a lot of ammunition to target the very legacy<br />
that Obama is trying to uphold. At home and abroad,<br />
his administration has been accused of rolling back<br />
American power and influence around the world.<br />
American leadership has seen a waning as a result of<br />
his timid international policies, which were widely<br />
interpreted as hesitant and failures.<br />
Indeed, as a lawyer by profession and an eloquent<br />
orator, Obama did always have something to say in the<br />
face of these criticisms. He believes that the main<br />
challenges for the US today is to lead the world without<br />
becoming its policeman.<br />
The US should hence avoid involvement in<br />
reduce and ended terrorism to a great extent that was<br />
not expected anytime soon, but a large number of civilians<br />
were made homeless and suffered, though rehabilitated<br />
by the army. If media is any indication, the operation<br />
marked a respite in anti-Shia terrorism. However,<br />
before any operation, precautions to avoid innocent<br />
casualties and displacements can be made and any fresh<br />
start of sectarian violence and killings can be ascertained.<br />
That is nearer to ideal, though it may not be realistic<br />
to expect any miraculous results or creation of a<br />
superhuman situation.<br />
WARS led and waged by Saudi Arabia and many of<br />
its allied Arab countries in the Mideast may subdue<br />
Shi'ites in their victimized and invaded countries.<br />
Majority of extremists have a usual "wait and see" attitude<br />
before deciding for taking any action. However, its<br />
follow ups in ways and methods similar to the outcome<br />
and results of those majority Muslim states' wars<br />
against minority of Muslim states.<br />
PEACE in practice without persecution of minorities<br />
and a guarantee for protection of their human rights as<br />
can be observed in practice after those wars on Shi'ites<br />
ended may have more favorable impact for betterment<br />
of that Muslim minority.<br />
KILLINGS of Shi'ites after those wars are over may<br />
also trigger a worldwide killing against that minority<br />
sect in Islam. That post-war negative or positive impact<br />
after peace or end of war with more killings may determine<br />
the fate of Shi'ites in at least other Muslim majority<br />
countries with a long history of persecution of<br />
minorities. Under one or the other of these desirable as<br />
well as undesirable consequences, including undeclared<br />
anti-social behavior and uncivilized killings after peace,<br />
Muslim rulers must take precautionary and protective<br />
measures to ensure human equality and just rights for<br />
all sects in Islam.<br />
PAKISTAN can change its policy and play its positive<br />
role, but not as usual in verbal terms only, but in<br />
practice too: It can save all Muslim sects and strive to<br />
ensure their rights in Islam to the extent it can. Aside<br />
governments, nations can also make their rulers change<br />
a disgraceful and defaming policy and action towards<br />
one of human values and noble principles as ensured in<br />
Islam.<br />
NATIONS can also wake up and help their rulers<br />
and countries regain their lost place, pride, sense of justice<br />
and rising up to human world standards for one and<br />
all within their own nations.<br />
OPINION<br />
Fuzzy footprints of Obama foreign policy<br />
attempts at rebuilding every state that falls into crisis.<br />
“That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire,<br />
spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately<br />
will weaken us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam; it’s the lesson<br />
of Iraq — and we should have learned it by now”,<br />
Obama said.<br />
The alternative to this direct projection of American<br />
power is its “wise application”, defined by Obama as<br />
the “smarter approach” of a patient and disciplined<br />
strategy that utilises all elements of American power.<br />
On issues of global concern, he says: “We will<br />
mobilise the world to work with us and make sure<br />
other countries pull their own weight.” Obama gave a<br />
number of examples in this regard to affirm the success<br />
of a strategy, which many see as a failure. In<br />
Syria, the US is “partnering” with local forces (meaning<br />
separatist Kurdish factions) and leading an international<br />
coalition against Daesh.<br />
In handling Iran, the US formed an international<br />
coalition that imposed harsh diplomatic and economic<br />
sanctions, ultimately resulting in the nuclear agreement.<br />
He also refers to the Trans-Pacific Trade<br />
Agreement, the Paris Climate Change Agreement and<br />
America’s and international efforts to fight infectious<br />
diseases in Africa and elsewhere.<br />
It is obvious that while attempting to protect his<br />
foreign policy legacy, Obama tries to exonerate himself<br />
and his administration from any responsibility for<br />
the chaos that has swept through the Middle East during<br />
his tenure. To realise that he tries to use everything<br />
he can muster, including twisted historic events. He<br />
stated: “The Middle East is going through a transformation<br />
that will play out for a generation, rooted in<br />
conflicts that date back millennia.”<br />
This represents an official endorsement of the myth<br />
of a Sunni-Shiite conflict as lying at the heart of the<br />
matter, disregarding the fact that conflicts so-designated<br />
only became fraught and violent after his predecessor<br />
decided to invade Iraq in 2003, established sectarian<br />
power-sharing there and left Iraq prey to Iran.<br />
If the George W. Bush administration was directly<br />
responsible for this situation, then Obama is not<br />
blameless either. He did absolutely nothing to stop the<br />
use of heavy weapons, including warplanes, tanks and<br />
missiles by the regime of Bashar Al Assad against<br />
civilians. He backed former Iraqi prime minister Nouri<br />
Al Maliki in the face of election results that favoured<br />
Ayad Allawi. He turned a blind eye to Al Maliki’s sectarian<br />
policies in Iraq and to Al Houthis in Yemen,<br />
leading to heightened sectarian tensions in the region.<br />
These policies will always haunt the legacy of<br />
President Obama and will tarnish the image he tried<br />
to make for himself as one of the greatest presidents<br />
of the US.<br />
Met Office forecasts<br />
hot and dry weather<br />
ISLAMABAD: Youngsters taking bath in the water to cool themselves off during hot weather<br />
in the capital.<br />
CMCH: No dialysis machine<br />
for Hepatitis B patients<br />
LARKANA, Jun 17: There is<br />
no dialysis machine for<br />
Hepatitis B patients in<br />
Chandka Medical College<br />
Hospital (CMCH), Larkana,<br />
which has put life of the visiting<br />
patients in danger.<br />
Sources revealed that all<br />
Hepatitis B patients have<br />
been deprived of this life-saving<br />
facility. There is also no<br />
professor of Nephrology in<br />
CMC to look after the<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
patients of this vital department,<br />
which shows the hospital<br />
administration's utter negligence.<br />
The dialysis center,<br />
which was functioning in<br />
Urology Department in<br />
CMCH Teaching Block has<br />
now been shifted to city block<br />
owing to unhygienic ground<br />
water that was used in the<br />
dialysis process through<br />
Reverse Osmosis system.<br />
At the moment, there are<br />
SHIKARPUR, Jun 17: The<br />
special team headed by<br />
A/C HESCO Larkana<br />
Nazir Soomro, Sub<br />
Divisional Officer [SDO-2]<br />
Shafqat Lashari along with<br />
Ranges personnel conducted<br />
raid against power pilferage<br />
here on Friday.<br />
As per details, the special<br />
team conducted raids<br />
against power pilferage and<br />
to recover Wapda dues from<br />
bench No 8 and 9 Shikarpur<br />
city 2 and recovered Rs6.0<br />
millions out of Rs1.5 million<br />
while special team<br />
11 machines, out of which<br />
nine are reserved for<br />
Hepatitis negative patients<br />
and two for Hepatitis C<br />
patients. Out of these two<br />
machines one has completed<br />
its life which keep on<br />
creating troubles frequently.<br />
All these machines are not<br />
only outdated but also<br />
unworthy of usage as they<br />
keep on running in three<br />
shifts since years.<br />
HESCO recovers 0.6 millions rupees<br />
Policeman<br />
injured in hitand-run<br />
incident<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: A<br />
police man was injured in a<br />
hit-and-run incident within<br />
the Kohsar police jurisdiction.<br />
Sonstable Yunus Khan<br />
lodged a complaint with the<br />
police that he was going on a<br />
motorcycle when a car (YK-<br />
724) driven by Ghaniur<br />
Rahman hit him from behind<br />
and injured him. According<br />
to him, the car driver fled<br />
after public gathered and<br />
took notice of his reclessness.<br />
The police have registered<br />
a case and started<br />
investigation.<br />
Four hospitals<br />
to get model<br />
hospital status<br />
RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: A<br />
decision has been taken to<br />
accord model hospital status<br />
to four hospitals including<br />
Benazir Bhutto Hospital<br />
Rawalpindi.<br />
On the directives of<br />
Punjab Chief Minister<br />
Shahbaz Sharif, an inspection<br />
team visited four hospitals<br />
in the district and they<br />
have been recommended to<br />
be included in the list of<br />
model hospitals with all<br />
medical facilities and doctors<br />
and paramedical staff,<br />
said a senior health official.<br />
According to him, all<br />
medicines will be provided<br />
to patients from hospital<br />
stocks and life-saving drugs<br />
will also be available in<br />
these hospitals.<br />
Work on the plan has<br />
been completed and a committee<br />
headed MS Dr Asif<br />
Qadir Mir and three other<br />
members has been formed<br />
to give a final shape to the<br />
proposal.<br />
caught many direct Kunda<br />
connections.<br />
According to officials of<br />
HESCO that operation<br />
against power pilferage<br />
would continue in future. The<br />
HESCO employees including<br />
Jani and others were took<br />
part in the operation.<br />
Two persons drowned<br />
Waheed Phulpoto<br />
SHIKARPUR, Jun 17: Two<br />
persons were drowned in<br />
separate incidents on Friday.<br />
According to sources, a<br />
twelve years old boy identified<br />
as Siraj Mahar drowned<br />
in Jaara Waah [canal] while<br />
a senior citizen identified as<br />
Joungal Jagirani were also<br />
drowned in Kheer thal canal<br />
when they were taking bath<br />
into it.<br />
The local divers rushed<br />
on the spot and fished out<br />
the dead bodies of the<br />
deceased.<br />
Later, they laid to rest in<br />
their ancestral graveyards<br />
after offering funeral prayers<br />
at their native villages.<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Met<br />
Office has forecast mainly<br />
hot and dry weather in most<br />
parts of the country today<br />
(Saturday).<br />
Rain-thundershowers with<br />
strong gusty winds are<br />
expected at few places in<br />
Rawalpindi, Gujranwala,<br />
Lahore, Hazara divisions,<br />
Islamabad, Kashmir and<br />
Gilgit-Baltistan, added PMD.<br />
According to synoptic situation,<br />
a low pressure lies<br />
over central parts of the country<br />
with its trough extending<br />
south-eastward. Weak moist<br />
currents from Arabian sea are<br />
still penetrating eastern parts<br />
of the country and likely to<br />
continue during next 02 to 03<br />
days Westerly wave is still<br />
affecting Kashmir and its<br />
adjoining areas.<br />
Radio Pakistan<br />
contradicts report on<br />
non- payment of salaries<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Radio<br />
Pakistan has contradicted a<br />
media report on non disbursement<br />
of salary to its contractual<br />
employees of Rawalpindi<br />
station for the last eight<br />
months.<br />
A spokesperson Radio<br />
Pakistan said that the report<br />
published in a section of press<br />
was one sided and incorrect.<br />
“Salaries of contract employees<br />
are paid in time,” he said.<br />
It is pertinent to mention that<br />
Online had run the story. A<br />
source in Radio Pakistan<br />
Islamabad told Online that the<br />
contractual employees of<br />
Islamabad station have also<br />
not been paid their salaries for<br />
the month of April. The<br />
source further said that some<br />
of the contractuals, who have<br />
contacts with seniors, have<br />
managed to get their salaries<br />
for the month of April while<br />
the rest were yet to be paid.<br />
Two looted<br />
at gunpoint<br />
RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: A<br />
man and his sister were<br />
looted at gunpoint within<br />
the airport police jurisdiction.<br />
Waseem Safdar, a resident<br />
of airport, lodged a<br />
complaint with the local<br />
police that he along with<br />
his sister was going home<br />
when three armed men<br />
intercepted them at gunpoint<br />
and made off with<br />
Rs4,000 in cash, gold<br />
ornaments, two cell<br />
phones and other valuables.<br />
Meanwhile, Khalid<br />
Masih, a resident of<br />
Saddar Wah, lodged a<br />
complaint with the local<br />
police that van driver Sana<br />
Ullah stole Rs0.2 million<br />
from his pocket while he<br />
was traveling with him in<br />
his vehicle.<br />
The police have registered<br />
cases and started<br />
investigations.<br />
LAHORE: Renowned Religious Scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel delivering the Jumma Sermon<br />
before Friday prayers.
Saturday, <strong>June</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
International<br />
5<br />
Britain mourns murdered lawmaker;<br />
EU referendum campaign in limbo<br />
BIRSTALL, ENGLAND,<br />
Jun 17: Britain mourned lawmaker<br />
Jo Cox on Friday after<br />
a man wielding a gun and<br />
knife killed the 41-year-old in<br />
an attack that has thrown a<br />
<strong>June</strong> 23 referendum on<br />
European Union membership<br />
into limbo.<br />
Cox, a supporter of Britain<br />
staying in the EU, was shot<br />
and stabbed after a meeting<br />
with residents in her own<br />
constituency near Leeds in<br />
northern England by a man<br />
who witnesses said had<br />
shouted "Britain first".<br />
She was pronounced dead<br />
just over 48 minutes later by a<br />
doctor working with a paramedic<br />
crew trying to save her<br />
life. A 52-year-old man<br />
named by media as Thomas<br />
Mair was arrested by officers<br />
nearby and weapons including<br />
a firearm were recovered.<br />
The killing prompted campaigning<br />
to be suspended in<br />
the EU referendum, the tone<br />
of which has become increasingly<br />
angry and bitter and<br />
included personal recriminations<br />
as well as furious debate<br />
of issues such as immigration<br />
and the economy.<br />
Though the motives of the<br />
JAKARTA, Jun 17:<br />
Indonesian authorities have<br />
stopped 44 migrants believed<br />
to be from Sri Lanka from disembarking<br />
from their boat and<br />
said on Friday the vessel had to<br />
head back out to sea after<br />
being supplied with food and<br />
fuel and repaired.<br />
FALLUJA, IRAQ, Jun 17:<br />
Iraqi forces recaptured the<br />
municipal building in Falluja<br />
from Islamic State militants,<br />
the military said on Friday,<br />
nearly four weeks after the<br />
start of a U.S.-backed offensive<br />
to retake the city an<br />
hour's drive west of Baghdad.<br />
The ultra-hardline militants<br />
still control a significant<br />
portion of Falluja, where the<br />
conflict has forced the evacuation<br />
of most residents and<br />
many streets and houses<br />
BIRSTALL: Women arrive to leave a floral tribute near the scene of the murder of Labour<br />
Member of Parliament Jo Cox in Birstal near Leeds, Britain.<br />
killer were not immediately<br />
clear, some suggested sympathy<br />
for Cox could boost the<br />
Remain campaign which<br />
opinion polls indicate had<br />
fallen behind Leave.<br />
Police said they were not<br />
in a position to discuss the<br />
motive of the attack.<br />
"Jo believed in a better<br />
Indonesia has for years<br />
been a stepping stone for<br />
refugees and migrants from the<br />
Middle East and South Asia<br />
hoping to reach Australia.<br />
Australia has been urging it to<br />
act to stop the flow of people,<br />
often traveling in unseaworthy<br />
boats. The boat carrying the 44<br />
remain mined with explosives.<br />
A spokesman for the U.S.-<br />
led coalition backing<br />
Baghdad's quest to recover<br />
large swathes of western and<br />
northern Iraq from Islamic<br />
State told Reuters that government<br />
forces were "close<br />
(to the building) but don't<br />
have control yet".<br />
A military statement said<br />
the federal police had raised<br />
the Iraqi state flag above the<br />
government building and<br />
world and she fought for it<br />
every day of her life with an<br />
energy and a zest for life that<br />
would exhaust most people,"<br />
Cox's husband, Brendan,<br />
said.<br />
"She would have wanted<br />
two things above all else to<br />
happen now, one that our precious<br />
children are bathed in<br />
people, including several<br />
women and children, was<br />
found stranded off the coast of<br />
the northern Indonesian<br />
province of Aceh last week.<br />
"We fixed their boat and<br />
gave them the food and fuel<br />
they asked for. We also did<br />
health checks and we see their<br />
love and two, that we all unite<br />
to fight against the hatred that<br />
killed her."<br />
A U.S. civil rights group<br />
the Southern Poverty Law<br />
Center (SPLC), based in<br />
Alabama, said on its website<br />
that it had obtained records<br />
showing a Thomas Mair had<br />
links with the neo-Nazi<br />
Indonesia says 44 migrants must<br />
sail on after being resupplied<br />
condition is good," provincial<br />
governor Zaini Abdullah told<br />
media.<br />
"They can be on their way.<br />
We are waiting for high tide ...<br />
Don't look at it as if we are<br />
pushing them out or ejecting<br />
them. We have fulfilled the<br />
humanitarian obligations."<br />
It was not clear if the people<br />
on board the boat wanted to<br />
land in Indonesia or sail on but<br />
activists said they should have<br />
been given access to the U.N.<br />
refugee agency.<br />
Even though Indonesia is<br />
seen as a transit country on the<br />
way to Australia, many<br />
migrants end up staying there<br />
for years.<br />
More than 1,000 migrants<br />
from Myanmar and<br />
Bangladesh landed in Aceh<br />
last year after spending days<br />
on overcrowded boats, adrift in<br />
the Andaman Sea.<br />
EU extends sanctions<br />
US says it will stay in Black on Russia-annexed<br />
Crimea until mid-2017<br />
Sea despite Russian warning BRUSSELS, Jun 17: The<br />
ABOARD THE USS<br />
MASON, Jun 17: The United<br />
States will maintain its presence<br />
in the Black Sea despite a<br />
Russian warning that a U.S.<br />
destroyer patrolling there<br />
undermined regional security,<br />
the U.S. Navy Secretary said.<br />
The USS Porter entered the<br />
Black Sea this month, drawing<br />
heavy criticism from Moscow.<br />
Turkey and Romania are<br />
expected to push for a bigger<br />
NATO presence in the Black<br />
Sea at the NATO summit in<br />
Warsaw next month.<br />
Aboard the USS Mason,<br />
another U.S. destroyer, in the<br />
Mediterranean on Thursday,<br />
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus<br />
told Reuters that it was the<br />
U.S. Navy's job to deter<br />
aggression and keep sea lanes<br />
open.<br />
"We're going to be there,"<br />
Mabus said of the Black Sea.<br />
"We're going to deter. That's<br />
the main reason we're there --<br />
to deter potential aggression."<br />
Mabus spoke days after<br />
Russia criticized NATO discussions<br />
about a creating a<br />
permanent force in the Black<br />
Sea.<br />
"If a decision is made to<br />
create a permanent force, of<br />
course, it would be destabilizing,<br />
because this is not a<br />
NATO sea," Russian news<br />
agencies quoted senior<br />
Foreign Ministry official<br />
Andrei Kelin as saying.<br />
Russia, which annexed<br />
Ukraine's Crimea in 2014, has<br />
its own Black Sea Fleet based<br />
at Sevastopol.<br />
The NATO summit takes<br />
place as relations between<br />
Russia and the alliance are<br />
severely strained over<br />
Moscow's role in the Ukraine<br />
crisis and in Syria. While<br />
Russia says it poses no threat<br />
to alliance, NATO is considering<br />
what to do to counter what<br />
it sees as growing Russian<br />
aggression.<br />
Mabus said the United<br />
States follows the rules of the<br />
Montreux Convention, which<br />
states that countries without a<br />
Black Sea coastline cannot<br />
keep their warships there for<br />
more than 21 days. NATO<br />
members Turkey, Romania<br />
and Bulgaria are all Black Sea<br />
Basin countries.<br />
Bulgaria appeared to buckle<br />
to Russian pressure on<br />
Thursday. Prime Minister<br />
Boiko Borisov said he would<br />
not join a proposed NATO<br />
fleet in the Black Sea because<br />
it should be a place for holidays<br />
and tourists, not war.<br />
European Union extended for a<br />
year on Friday a ban on business<br />
dealings with the Black<br />
Sea peninsula of Crimea,<br />
which Russia annexed from<br />
Ukraine in 2014 in a move that<br />
has not been internationally<br />
recognized.<br />
Sanctions, now prolonged<br />
until <strong>June</strong> 23, 2017, prohibit<br />
imports of products from<br />
Crimea, any investment there,<br />
cooperation in tourism services<br />
as well as exports of some<br />
goods and services to the<br />
peninsula. EU is due next week<br />
to extend until the end of <strong>2016</strong><br />
its broader economic sanctions<br />
on Russia over its role in crisis<br />
in Ukraine. Following annexation<br />
of Crimea, Russia-backed<br />
rebels took up arms against<br />
Kiev in eastern Ukraine, where<br />
more than 9,000 people have<br />
been killed in fighting since the<br />
spring of 2014.<br />
organization National<br />
Alliance (NA) dating back to<br />
1999.<br />
The SPLC posted images<br />
showing what it said were<br />
purchase orders for books<br />
bought by Mair, whose<br />
address is given as Batley,<br />
from the NA's publishing arm<br />
National Vanguard Books in<br />
May of that year. The orders<br />
included a manual on how to<br />
build a pistol, it said.<br />
Britain's Union flag was<br />
flying at half-mast over the<br />
Houses of Parliament, Queen<br />
Elizabeth's London residence<br />
Buckingham Palace and<br />
Downing Street, where Prime<br />
Minister David Cameron has<br />
his official residence.<br />
In Birstall hundreds of<br />
people attended a vigil at a<br />
local church. Queen<br />
Elizabeth was due to write a<br />
private letter of condolence to<br />
Cox's husband.<br />
Some people, many weeping,<br />
laid flowers outside the<br />
Houses of Parliament. Beside<br />
a picture of Cox smiling,<br />
dozens of white candles lay<br />
beside bunches of flowers<br />
and a message board upon<br />
which people had written<br />
their condolences.<br />
Afghan police tell<br />
foreigners in Kabul to<br />
stay in or hire guards<br />
KABUL, Jun 17: Police in<br />
the Afghan capital have told<br />
foreigners living outside<br />
protected compounds to<br />
travel with guards, after the<br />
kidnapping of an Indian aid<br />
worker last week added to a<br />
growing sense of insecurity<br />
in Kabul.<br />
The push is for the safety<br />
of residents, said Fraidoon<br />
Obaidi, chief of the Kabul<br />
police<br />
Criminal<br />
Investigation Department.<br />
"All foreign citizens and<br />
their offices in Afghanistan<br />
are terrorists' targets ... the<br />
kidnapping and criminal<br />
threat is very serious," he<br />
told Reuters. "This will be<br />
prevented only if they use<br />
security guards and<br />
escorts."<br />
One document distributed<br />
by Obaidi's officers to<br />
private homes and organization<br />
instructs residents to<br />
take a variety of security<br />
measures, including using<br />
armed police escorts if necessary.<br />
But national security<br />
officials have distanced<br />
themselves from the police<br />
efforts, after critics complained<br />
that the measures<br />
were counterproductive and<br />
did not reduce the threats<br />
facing residents.<br />
KIEV, Jun 17: Politicians in<br />
Kiev worry that a vote by<br />
Britain to leave the European<br />
Union would weaken the<br />
EU's support for Ukraine and<br />
undermine its resolve to<br />
stand up to Russia.<br />
"I do not think Brexit<br />
would lead to a U-turn on<br />
Ukraine, but it would be a<br />
serious stick to beat those<br />
who favor EU integration"<br />
Serhiy Leshchenko, a member<br />
of President Petro<br />
Poroshenko's faction in parliament,<br />
told Reuters.<br />
His concern, ahead of<br />
Hearing in Amber Heard restraining<br />
order against Johnny Depp called off<br />
CAIRO, Jun 17: A second<br />
flight recorder has been<br />
retrieved from the crashed<br />
EgyptAir flight MS804,<br />
containing data from aircraft<br />
systems which could shed<br />
light on what brought the<br />
plane down last month,<br />
Egyptian investigators said<br />
on Friday.<br />
An Egyptian committee<br />
investigating the crash into<br />
were continuing to pursue<br />
insurgents.<br />
A Reuters photographer in<br />
a southern district of Falluja<br />
said clashes involving aerial<br />
bombardment, artillery and<br />
machine gun fire were continuing.<br />
Clouds of smoke could<br />
be seen rising up from areas<br />
closer to the city center.<br />
Heavily armed Interior<br />
Ministry police units were<br />
advancing along Baghdad<br />
Street, the main east-west<br />
road running through the city,<br />
LOS ANGELESA, Jun 17:<br />
hearing on the restraining<br />
order obtained by Amber<br />
Heard against Johnny Depp,<br />
in a divorce between the<br />
celebrity couple in which<br />
Heard has accused Depp of<br />
abuse, was called off on<br />
Thursday, a day before it was<br />
set to occur, court officials<br />
said.<br />
Heard was expected to testify<br />
at the hearing related to<br />
the restraining order in Los<br />
Angeles Superior Court on<br />
Friday, according to E! News<br />
and other media outlets.<br />
Instead, the next hearing in<br />
the divorce filed by Heard<br />
against Depp last month will<br />
occur on Aug. 2, court officials<br />
said in a statement. The<br />
restraining order is part of the<br />
divorce case.<br />
The delay allows Depp to<br />
gather more witnesses to<br />
defend himself against abuse<br />
allegations, while for Heard it<br />
allows the restraining order to<br />
remain in effect at least until<br />
the next hearing, said attorney<br />
Christopher Melcher, who<br />
previously served as chair of<br />
the state bar of California<br />
family law section, in a phone<br />
interview.<br />
It was not immediately<br />
clear which side moved to<br />
vacate the hearing set for<br />
Friday. Attorneys for Depp<br />
and Heard did not immediately<br />
return calls.<br />
There have been conflicting<br />
reports in the media about<br />
whether the two sides are<br />
moving toward a settlement in<br />
the divorce case.<br />
Depp's legal team had filed<br />
court papers seeking to prevent<br />
witnesses from testifying<br />
on behalf of Heard at the hearing<br />
on Friday, on grounds that<br />
the actress' legal team had not<br />
provided the names of those<br />
witnesses, according to a<br />
report on the website of<br />
People magazine.<br />
A judge on May 27 granted<br />
a temporary restraining<br />
order for Depp to stay at least<br />
100 yards (91 meters) away<br />
from Heard and move out of<br />
the eastern Mediterranean<br />
Sea made the announcement<br />
a day after search teams<br />
found the cockpit voice<br />
recorder in a breakthrough<br />
for investigators seeking to<br />
explain what caused the<br />
plane to go down, killing all<br />
66 people on board.<br />
The Airbus A320 crashed<br />
early on May 19 on its way<br />
from Paris to Cairo. The two<br />
and commandos from the<br />
counter-terrorism service<br />
(CTS) had surrounded Falluja<br />
hospital, the statement said.<br />
Sabah al-Numani, a CTS<br />
spokesman, said on state television<br />
that snipers holed up<br />
inside the hospital, considered<br />
a nest of militants, were<br />
resisting but the facility was<br />
expected to be retaken within<br />
hours.<br />
Government forces, with<br />
air support from the U.S.-led<br />
coalition, launched a major<br />
the couple's shared condominium<br />
in downtown Los<br />
Angeles. The couple married<br />
in February 2015.<br />
Heard, 30, said in court filings<br />
that Depp, 53, was abusive<br />
to her throughout their<br />
marriage and that it culminated<br />
in an argument last month<br />
in which he hurled a cell<br />
phone into her face and shattered<br />
various objects in her<br />
apartment.<br />
Second flight recorder retrieved<br />
from crashed EgyptAir flight<br />
BEIJING, Jun 17: A wellknown<br />
Chinese civil rights<br />
lawyer went on trial for<br />
fraud on Friday, an attorney<br />
with knowledge of the case<br />
said, the latest trial in a farreaching<br />
crackdown on<br />
political dissent.<br />
Xia Lin was detained by<br />
Beijing police in November<br />
2014 and later charged with<br />
fraud, said Mo Shaoping, a<br />
colleague of Xia's lawyer<br />
who is familiar with the<br />
case. Xia's lawyer could not<br />
be reached for comment.<br />
Xia had worked with Pu<br />
Zhiqiang, one of China's<br />
best-known human rights<br />
lawyers, who was handed a<br />
blackbox recorders are crucial<br />
to explaining what went<br />
wrong.<br />
The Egyptian investigation<br />
committee said preparations<br />
were under way to<br />
transfer the two flight<br />
recorders to Alexandria<br />
where they will be received<br />
by an official from the general<br />
prosecutor's office and<br />
investigators.<br />
China rights lawyer faces fraud<br />
trial in Beijing amid crackdown<br />
Thursday's referendum, is<br />
typical of pro-Western<br />
Ukrainian politicians who<br />
hope to integrate their ex-<br />
Soviet country into the EU<br />
and distance it from<br />
three-year suspended sentence<br />
last year for writing<br />
Internet posts the government<br />
said incited ethnic<br />
hatred.<br />
Xia had represented<br />
artist and dissident Ai<br />
Weiwei's company, Beijing<br />
Fake<br />
Cultural<br />
Development.<br />
Kiev worried that Brexit would weaken EU support for Ukraine<br />
Moscow.<br />
A decision by then president<br />
Viktor Yanukovich to<br />
reject an association agreement<br />
with the EU sparked<br />
the "Maidan" protests in<br />
2014 that brought a pro-<br />
Western government to<br />
power and precipitated<br />
Moscow's annexation of the<br />
Crimean peninsula.<br />
But two years on,<br />
Ukrainians and their<br />
Western backers are frustrated<br />
with Kiev's slow pace<br />
of reforms and drive to<br />
tackle corruption.<br />
Iraqi forces take Falluja government building from Islamic State<br />
operation on May 23 to retake<br />
Falluja, an historic bastion of<br />
the Sunni Muslim insurgency<br />
against U.S. forces that toppled<br />
dictator Saddam<br />
Hussein, a Sunni, in 2003,<br />
and the Shi'ite-led governments<br />
that followed.<br />
The city is seen as a<br />
launchpad for recent Islamic<br />
State (IS) bombings in the<br />
capital, making the offensive<br />
a crucial part of the government's<br />
campaign to improve<br />
security.
6<br />
Saturday, <strong>June</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Biz<br />
Roundup: Pakistani equities roar<br />
to 4th straight all-time peak<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: The<br />
Pakistan Stock Exchange<br />
(PSX) achieved fourth straight<br />
all-time closing peak on<br />
Friday after investors continued<br />
buying positions following<br />
Pakistan's re-classification<br />
into the MSCI Emerging<br />
Markets Index.<br />
The Pakistan Stock<br />
Exchange's benchmark KSE<br />
100-Index gained 0. 07 percent<br />
or 25.34 points to<br />
38,776.94 points on Friday<br />
when compared with<br />
38,751.60 on Thursday.<br />
During the week that ended on<br />
Friday, the main index accumulated<br />
1,836.60 points with<br />
all the five trading sessions<br />
closing in the green range.<br />
The KSE All-Share Index<br />
increased 0.11 percent or<br />
27.33 points to 25,632.17<br />
points, the KSE 30-Index<br />
moved up slightly by 0.1 percent<br />
or 22.30 points to<br />
22,370.82 points, the KMI 30-<br />
Index fell by 0.52 percent or<br />
347.48 points to 67,099.60<br />
points, whereas the Islamic<br />
All-Share Index slipped by<br />
0.37 percent or 65.73 points to<br />
17,853.97 points.<br />
During Friday's trading<br />
session, the main index<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Sindh (Operation) Mr Wencai<br />
Chief Minister Syed Qaim Zhang. The other members<br />
Ali Shah has said that the of the delegation were<br />
Asian Development Bank Country Director Mr Werner<br />
(ADB) is most important E. Liepach, Advisor to<br />
partner of Sindh government Senior Vice President Mr<br />
in the development of the Huiping Huang, Senior<br />
province. "Out of Rs28.8 billion<br />
Economist Ms Farzana<br />
foreign assisted projects Noshab. The chief minister<br />
, ADB share 31.6 percent." was assited by Chief<br />
This he said while talking Secretary Siddique Memon,<br />
a high power ADB delegation<br />
Principal Secretary<br />
led by its Vice President Alamuddin<br />
Bullo,<br />
Additional Chief Secretary<br />
(Dev) Mohammad Waseem,<br />
Secretary Finance Sohail<br />
Rajput and others.<br />
The chief minister said<br />
that the Sindh government<br />
with the assistance of ADB<br />
has launched three important<br />
projects, Enhancing Public<br />
Private Partnership (PPP),<br />
Sindh Roads Improvement<br />
Project and Sindh Cities<br />
Improvement Programme at<br />
strolled in a condensed range<br />
of 316.76 points as it touched<br />
an intraday high of 38,958.44<br />
points as against an intraday<br />
low of 38,641.68 points.<br />
Market volumes depleted<br />
by 47.36 percent or 121.146<br />
million shares to 134.636 million<br />
shares on Friday when<br />
compared with 255. 782 million<br />
shares posted on<br />
Thursday. During the week<br />
under review, the top Pakistani<br />
bourse reported total volumes<br />
of 917.09 million shares at<br />
average daily turnovers of<br />
<strong>18</strong>3.417 million shares.<br />
Market capitalization<br />
improved by 0.11 percent or<br />
8.193 billion rupees to 7.685<br />
ADB VP MEETS CM<br />
ADB shows interest to construct harbour road,<br />
bridge to connect it with Northern Bypass<br />
Crude oil prices rise for first time in seven days<br />
LONDON, Jun 17: Crude<br />
oil prices rose on Friday for<br />
the first time in seven days,<br />
but are set to end the week<br />
lower as trading remains<br />
volatile before Britain's <strong>June</strong><br />
23 referendum on its EU<br />
membership.<br />
Brent crude futures were<br />
up $1.34 at $48.53 a barrel by<br />
1347 GMT, having dropped<br />
3.6 percent in the previous<br />
session. U.S. West Texas<br />
Intermediate crude futures<br />
rose $1.10 to $47.31 a barrel<br />
after falling 3.8 percent in the<br />
previous session.<br />
The two contracts are set<br />
to end the week 3.5-4 percent<br />
lower.<br />
"It's mainly Brexit at the<br />
moment, at least until next<br />
Thursday, before people start<br />
to look at the more fundamental<br />
oil/commodity drivers<br />
again," ABN Amro senior<br />
energy economist Hans van<br />
Cleef said.<br />
Analysts said investors had<br />
closed some short positions<br />
after a week of volatile trading,<br />
which helped to bring<br />
about some correction in oil<br />
prices on Friday.<br />
"I suspect markets will be<br />
very volatile overnight on<br />
Thursday and on Friday,"<br />
Julian Jessop, chief economist<br />
and head of commodities<br />
research at Capital<br />
Economics, told Reuters<br />
Global Oil Forum.<br />
Jessop said he would<br />
expect a sharp sell-off in oil<br />
if Britain votes to leave the<br />
EU, possibly sending prices<br />
as low as $40 for Brent<br />
before a rally sets in.<br />
He forecast Brent and WTI<br />
crude would be around $45 a<br />
barrel at the end of <strong>2016</strong> and<br />
around $60 at the end of 2017.<br />
Foreign investment lessened by 75<br />
pc in ten months of 2015-16: SBP<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun<br />
17: Foreign investment<br />
in Pakistan<br />
lessened by 75 percent<br />
in ten months<br />
of the fiscal year<br />
2015-16 than the<br />
previous financial<br />
year, reported on Friday.<br />
Statistics released by State Bank of<br />
Pakistan show that $ 680.31 million were<br />
invested in Pakistan in July 2015-May <strong>2016</strong><br />
period which is $ 2.11 billion lesser than the<br />
first eleven months of 2014-15.<br />
Direct investment rose by $ 1.8 billion<br />
however, withdrawals from the stock market<br />
resulted in stagnating total foreign investment<br />
in private sector at $ 700 million.<br />
USD 20 million were withdrawn from<br />
the government sector.<br />
a cost of Rs11.945 billion.<br />
He said that there are<br />
some promising projects in<br />
the province in which the<br />
assistance of ADB was<br />
needed. They are Karachi<br />
Harbour road and bridge,<br />
desalination Plants, Mass<br />
Transit project, poverty<br />
alleviation Keti Bander,<br />
energy sector {coal and<br />
wind power} and irrigation<br />
projects.<br />
Powers of dishonest<br />
brokers should be clipped<br />
immediately: PBIF<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
President Pakistan<br />
Businessmen and<br />
Intellectuals Forum (PBIF)<br />
Mian Zahid Hussain on<br />
Friday expressed satisfaction<br />
over re-entry of<br />
Pakistan Stock Market in the<br />
Emerging Markets classification.<br />
The return to the index<br />
after a gap of eight years is<br />
an accomplishment which<br />
has resulted in sharp and<br />
abrupt upward climb of<br />
stocks and strengthened<br />
hopes of large-scale foreign<br />
investor interest in the near<br />
future, he said.<br />
He said the credit of reentry<br />
goes to the efforts of<br />
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar<br />
who was trying for it since<br />
long. He said that now<br />
Government should try to<br />
keep the classification intact<br />
and try for the upgrade to<br />
lure badly needed local and<br />
foreign investment.<br />
The powers of regulator<br />
must be increased while the<br />
ability of dishonest broker<br />
mafia to manipulate rise and<br />
fall of market must be broken<br />
down so that local and<br />
foreign investors can invest<br />
with confidence in a transparent<br />
environment, there<br />
must be some mechanism to<br />
differentiate good and bad<br />
brokers, he demanded.<br />
Mian Zahid said that<br />
practice of the past<br />
Government to appointment<br />
representatives of brokers’<br />
mafia against important<br />
posts in the regulator should<br />
be discouraged as it has<br />
eroded the market to the<br />
benefit of few on the cost of<br />
masses.<br />
trillion rupees whereas trade<br />
value slipped by 35.74 percent<br />
or 6.275 billion rupees to<br />
11.285 billion rupees.<br />
Among 338 active scrips<br />
on Friday, prices of 194 issues<br />
declined and 122 advanced,<br />
whereas values of 22 other<br />
companies stayed unchanged<br />
for the week.<br />
Karachi Electric Ltd<br />
(KEL), Pakistan International<br />
Bulk Terminal Ltd (PIBTL),<br />
and Habib Bank Ltd (HBL)<br />
were the top traded companies<br />
with turnovers of 17.689 million<br />
shares, 8. 125 million<br />
shares and 7.092 million<br />
shares, respectively.<br />
Colgate Palmolive was the<br />
top price gainer with an increment<br />
of 50.01 rupees to 1,550<br />
rupees while on the other hand<br />
Bata Pakistan led the major<br />
price losers with a decrement<br />
of 100 rupees to 3,600 rupees.<br />
CDWP okays<br />
13 development<br />
projects<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Central Development<br />
Working Party chaired by<br />
Planning Minister Ahsan<br />
Iqbal here on Friday<br />
approved Rs 91 billion for<br />
13 development projects<br />
related to energy, water<br />
resource, transport and communication,<br />
physical planning<br />
and housing.<br />
The meeting also recommended<br />
seven development<br />
projects worth 88 billion<br />
rupees to Executive<br />
Committee of National<br />
Economic Council.<br />
The projects recommended<br />
to ECNEC include<br />
H a s a n a b d a l - H a v e l i a n<br />
Expressway, Lahore-Sialkot<br />
Motorway, Kalashah Kaku<br />
to Lahore Ring Road,<br />
220KV Mirpur Khas<br />
Substation, 220KV Dera<br />
Ismail Khan-Zhob Double<br />
Circuit Transmission, 7th<br />
Secondary Transmission<br />
Line and Grid Stations and<br />
500KV HVAC Transmission<br />
Lines for Interconnection of<br />
HVDC with HVAC at<br />
Matiari and Lahore.<br />
It also approved<br />
Construction of Pre-stress<br />
bridge from Mangri to<br />
Fatehpur Afghan Nullah<br />
Bahein Narowal. In Water<br />
resource and environment<br />
sector, the CDWP approved<br />
construction of 100 dams in<br />
Tehsil Dubandal Gulistan<br />
Killa Abdullah and Chaman<br />
Area District Killa<br />
Abdullah.<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: The<br />
weekly inflation for the week<br />
ended on <strong>June</strong> 16, for the combined<br />
income group witnessed<br />
decrease of 0.38 percent as<br />
compared to previous week.<br />
The Sensitive Price<br />
Indicator (SPI) for the week<br />
under review in the above<br />
mentioned group was recorded<br />
at 216.27 points against<br />
217.10 points registered in the<br />
previous week, according to<br />
data of Pakistan Bureau of<br />
Statistics (PBS).<br />
As compared to the corresponding<br />
week of last year, the<br />
SPI for the combined group in<br />
the week under review<br />
increased by 0.50 per cent.<br />
Corporate Corner<br />
Zong to offer Samsung and Huawei<br />
handsets at CSC in Gujranwala<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: <strong>June</strong> 17, <strong>2016</strong>: Zong 4G, in partnership with<br />
Muller and Phipps, recently launched one-of-its-kind Handset<br />
Zone in the industrial city of Gujranwala, featuring cellular handsets<br />
of top brands Huawei and Samsung.<br />
The state-of-the-art Handset Zone has been set up at the Zong<br />
4G Customer Services Centre (CSC). This initiative will now enable its customers in<br />
Gujranwala to have unrestricted access to latest mobile phones featuring exclusive Zong<br />
4G services.<br />
“Our CSCs are the best in telecom industry and we are offering a platform for handset<br />
companies to partner with us not only to boost their sales but also give access to customers<br />
to test their handsets before a purchase,” Moied Javeed, Executive Director<br />
Commercial, Zong explained.<br />
“That top cellular companies like Huawei and Samsung are opting to partner with us<br />
is a testament of our telecom supremacy. Zong offers unmatched data speeds and highly<br />
competitive data bundles,” Mr Javeed further added.<br />
Muller and Phipps, the distribution partner of Samsung and Huawei, has facilitated the<br />
availability of handsets of these two brands at the Zong CSC. It is pertinent to mention<br />
that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has rated Zong as the country’s number<br />
one cellular network with widest 4G coverage.<br />
Huawei’s Most awaited P9 LITE<br />
Launches in Pakistan<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Finally the wait is over, Huawei P9 Lite is here<br />
another star P series product. Huawei P9 lite is successor to the best<br />
selling Huawei P8 Lite and it is strongly expected to sweep the<br />
market.<br />
Recent launch of Huawei P9 in London and Dubai had created<br />
huge media hype in Pakistan. Consumers showed great eagerness<br />
for the new product, they are anxiously waiting for the new product to hit the shelves.<br />
Huawei launched P9 lite during eid festive period to wish there customers the best of the<br />
Eid, P9 lite is an elegant device smartly designed and booming with new enhanced tenchology<br />
and features.<br />
Huawei P9 LITE offers an extraordinary Primary camera powered with new Sony<br />
IMX214 13megapixel stacked CMOS image sensor. High Res screen and perfect lens<br />
combine with CMOS image sensor that elaborates the level of photography and quality<br />
of image remarkably. It has the F2.0 big aperture, 7cm microspur, 28 mm wide angle and<br />
5P lens. P9 Lite has a powerful front camera powered with 8 MP shooter to gurantee perfect<br />
selfie.<br />
Huawwei P9 lite is jam packed with features and to power this all, Kirin 650 Octa core<br />
provides seemless power with great efficiency. This enhances customers experience with<br />
lagless and smooth UI.<br />
Huawei P9 Lite is a mid range smart phone that works equally good to flagships available<br />
in the market with just fraction of the price. Huawei once again delivered taylor<br />
made solution for smartphone consumers needs, So far the results are extraordinary for<br />
the P9 Lite smart phone in terms of acceptance in the market, sales, social media hype<br />
and most importantly the endorsements by the technology experts and media icons.<br />
Moreover, this smart-phone is not only available with accidental coverage and Jazz Free<br />
Unlimited 3G internet for one month but also provide postal service newly initiated by<br />
Huawei, all this at the amazing price of Rs. 28,499.<br />
Gree launches Digital campaign to highlight<br />
performance of its Air Conditioners<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Gree is a leading brand of air-conditioners<br />
in the world, distributed in Pakistan by DWP<br />
Group. Gree has launched a fresh digital campaign to<br />
highlight its recognition as the most reliable brand in<br />
terms of performance and quality. The campaign will communicate GREE Inverter AC's<br />
ability to save upto 65% on energy, while consistently giving the most powerful cooling.<br />
It also shows the other unmatched features of Gree products to create awareness among<br />
the consumers. Information about the robust business performance of the GREE brand<br />
will also be provided to the consumers through this digital campaign.<br />
Gree has been consistently innovating new technologies to create the best-suited products,<br />
in accordance with the experts’ insights and the changing needs of the consumers.<br />
Whereby Gree's most advanced INVERTER technology can now ensure faster cooling<br />
with much lower consumption of electricity. Due to the hot weather conditions, rising<br />
costs and unstable supply of electricity in Pakistan, Gree has created the most reliable air<br />
conditioners, to ensure best performance in Pakistan's hot climatic conditions and environment.<br />
There is a rapidly increasing trend in Pakistan market, as the consumers are now opting<br />
for air conditioners based on inverter technology, which greatly reduces electricity<br />
consumption and the overall cost of air-conditioning. A research study in Pakistan has<br />
revealed that; In the long-run Gree Inverter AC proves to be the most economical product,<br />
due to consistent performance and low maintenance costs.<br />
Weekly inflation eases 0.38pc<br />
The weekly SPI has been<br />
computed with base 2007<br />
2008=100, covering 17 urban<br />
centers and 53 essential items<br />
for all income groups and<br />
combined.<br />
Meanwhile, the SPI for the<br />
lowest income group up to Rs<br />
8000 also decreased by 0.28<br />
percent as it went down from<br />
207.26 points in the previous<br />
week to 206.67 points in the<br />
week under review.<br />
As compared to the last<br />
week, the SPI for the income<br />
groups from Rs 8001 12,000,<br />
Rs 12,001 <strong>18</strong>,000 and <strong>18</strong>,001<br />
35,000 decreased by 0.34<br />
percent, 0.37 percent, 0.40<br />
percent and 0.40 per cent<br />
respectively.<br />
SIALKOT: Women workers are busy in preparing surgical instruments at a local factory in<br />
Sialkot. Surgical Instruments Industry is a major contributor of the total exports.<br />
US housing starts hurt by weakness in multi-family units<br />
WASHINGTON, Jun 17:<br />
U.S. housing starts slipped in<br />
May as the construction of<br />
multi-family housing units<br />
dropped, but further gains in<br />
building permits signaled a<br />
rebound that would support<br />
economic growth in the second<br />
quarter.<br />
Groundbreaking fell 0.3<br />
percent to a seasonally adjusted<br />
annual pace of 1.16 million<br />
units, the Commerce<br />
Department said on Friday.<br />
May's decline followed a 4.9<br />
percent surge in April.<br />
Building permits rose 0.7 percent<br />
to a 1.14-million unit<br />
rate in May.<br />
"Another month of gains<br />
in building permits coupled<br />
with near record low mortgage<br />
rates provide opportunity<br />
for a bounce back," said<br />
Bill Banfield, vice president<br />
at Quicken Loans in Detroit.<br />
Though the pace of home<br />
building has slowed after a<br />
brisk first quarter, housing<br />
remains a pillar of strength<br />
for the economy. Residential<br />
construction added almost<br />
six-tenths of a percentage<br />
point to first-quarter gross<br />
domestic product, the biggest<br />
contribution in more than<br />
three years.<br />
The economy grew at a<br />
0.8 percent annualized rate in<br />
the first quarter. The Atlanta<br />
Federal Reserve left its<br />
growth forecast for the second<br />
quarter unchanged at a<br />
2.8 percent pace after Friday's<br />
housing starts data.<br />
Economists polled by<br />
Reuters had forecast housing<br />
starts falling to a 1.15 millionunit<br />
pace last month.<br />
The S&P homebuilding<br />
index .SPLRCHOME rose<br />
1.21 percent, outperforming a<br />
broadly weaker U.S. stock<br />
market. Shares in the nation's<br />
largest homebuilder, D.R.<br />
Horton Inc (DHI.N),<br />
advanced 1.31 percent and<br />
Lennar Corp (LEN.N) gained<br />
1.0 percent. Luxury homebuilder<br />
Toll Brothers rallied<br />
1.82 percent.<br />
Prices for U.S. government<br />
debt fell and the dollar<br />
.DXY was trading lower<br />
against a basket of currencies.
Saturday, <strong>June</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Sportlight<br />
7<br />
Pakistan to wear Edhi<br />
Foundation logo kit in England<br />
LAHORE,<br />
LAHORE, Jun 17: Pakistan<br />
Cricket Board (PCB) has<br />
granted permission to use<br />
Edhi Foundation logo on<br />
Pakistan teams kits during<br />
England tour.<br />
The media reported that<br />
captains from All three formats<br />
of will attend a ceremony<br />
later today to endorse the<br />
charitable organisation<br />
before departing for England<br />
tomorrow morning at<br />
9:00am.<br />
This would be the first<br />
time in Pakistan cricket<br />
team’s history that players<br />
would wear logos of a charitable<br />
organisation on their<br />
official kit.<br />
Pakistan’s long-awaited<br />
tour of England will begin<br />
from tomorrow, when the<br />
team flies for England<br />
tomorrow. However, the<br />
four-match Test series will<br />
begin from July 14, next<br />
month.<br />
Pakistan will play four<br />
Test matches, 6 ODIs and<br />
only T20 in 2 month long<br />
England tour.<br />
Moreover, Pakistan<br />
Cricket team will be wearing<br />
new kit in the One Day<br />
International (ODI) and<br />
Twenty20 (T20) series<br />
against England this summer.<br />
M Amir says goodbye to Karachi Kings<br />
Jun 17: Pakistan’s<br />
premier fast bowler<br />
Mohammad Amir, who represented<br />
Karachi Kings franchise<br />
in Pakistan Super<br />
League (PSL), has reportedly<br />
said goodbye to its team.<br />
Mohammad Amir has<br />
part ways from Karachi<br />
Kings, and his name will<br />
again be in drafts for PSL’s<br />
second edition.<br />
No any official statement<br />
regarding the news has come<br />
from Amir as yet.<br />
Mohammad Amir took 7<br />
wickets in PSL first edition<br />
with a hat-trick against<br />
Lahore Qalandars.<br />
Amir, who has finally<br />
received his visa and other<br />
traveling documents for<br />
England tour, stated that he<br />
is not afraid of facing the<br />
English crowd again this<br />
summer when Pakistan travel<br />
to England.<br />
Pakistan aim for upward movement<br />
in ICC Women's Championship<br />
Spinner Faraz Ahmed five wickets haul<br />
Dr M. Arif Hafeez<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: left Arm<br />
spinner Faraz Ahmed was on<br />
song with a five-wicket haul<br />
as Tapal ccb beat host Aga<br />
Khan Gykhana in 29 AKG<br />
Ramazan Festival T20 cricket<br />
tournament in Group<br />
“A”fixture.<br />
The seasoned slow leftarmer<br />
grabbed five wickets<br />
for mere 17 runs in four<br />
overs to restricted Aga khan<br />
BIRMINGHAM, Jun 17:<br />
Sania Mirza playing with<br />
American partner Coco<br />
Vandeweghe were beaten by<br />
Naomi Broady and Heather<br />
Watson 6-4, 6-4 in the first<br />
round of the AEGON<br />
Classic tournament.<br />
Second seeds Sania and<br />
Vandeweghe were broken<br />
twice in each set and never<br />
really recovered as they lost<br />
their way in the first match<br />
of the tournament at<br />
Birmingham. The two<br />
breaks proved crucial as the<br />
Indo-American pair went<br />
down in straight sets.<br />
In the second set, Mirza<br />
and Vandeweghe saved two<br />
match points when they<br />
were 3-5 down, but couldn't<br />
save a third as the unseeded<br />
British pair of Broady and<br />
Watson closed down the<br />
match.<br />
Earlier, Rohan Bopanna<br />
and his Romanian partner<br />
Florin Mergea were beaten<br />
by Frenchmen Julien<br />
Benneteau and Edouard<br />
gymkhana on 132-7 in 20<br />
overs afte the bating<br />
first.Captain mir Afzal baig<br />
was the punishing mood<br />
struck 70 off 51 balls with<br />
four hug sixes and a four but<br />
he failed to his team from<br />
defeat,Zulfiqr Ali made 31<br />
in 43 balls.off spinner Yasir<br />
Hussai took-22.<br />
Tapal cc in reply reach<br />
the target 136-3 17.3 overs<br />
thanked to Sehyar Ghani 52<br />
from 37 deliveries ( four<br />
fours and two sixes), and<br />
Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 3-6, 10-<br />
12 in the opening round at<br />
the Queen's Club<br />
Championships in London.<br />
The AEGON Classic is a<br />
Captain Zeeshan Jameel.52<br />
0 from 48 balls(two fours<br />
and brace of sixes),they did<br />
126 runs for the Third wicket.off<br />
spinner saud islam<br />
took2-19 Faraz’s outstanding<br />
spell won him the manof-the-match<br />
award.Ho’n<br />
Secretary AKG Khaliq<br />
Pasnani was the chief guest<br />
on the occasion Senior<br />
Member Finnance AKG Al-<br />
Amin. Turyani, Ameen.<br />
Marchant (Tapal) Cricket<br />
,conveenor AKG Mir Afzal<br />
KARACHI: Chief guest honouray secretary AKG Khaliq Pasnai gave awy the Man of the match<br />
award to Faraz Ahmed(Tapal cc).Senior Member finnance AKG Al-Amin Turyani, Ameen<br />
Marchant (Tapal),Cricket conveenor AKG Mir Afzal Baig, member Irfan Surani also seen.<br />
Sania and Vandeweghe lose in the first<br />
round of the AEGON Classic tournament<br />
tournament considered as a<br />
warm up tournament for<br />
Wimbledon and a sister tournament<br />
to the men's Queen's<br />
Club Championships.<br />
IOC and IPC sign long-term agreement<br />
supporting the Paralympic Movement<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: The<br />
International Olympic<br />
Committee (IOC) and the<br />
International Paralympic cooperation,<br />
Committee (IPC) signed a<br />
Memorandum of<br />
Understanding outlining<br />
the principles for a new<br />
long-term agreement<br />
between the organisations.<br />
Under this new agreement,<br />
the IOC and IPC will<br />
cooperate with the aim of:<br />
- Increasing the visibility<br />
of the Paralympic<br />
Games and enhance the<br />
Paralympic brand;<br />
- Deepening existing<br />
specifically<br />
on the implementation of<br />
Olympic Agenda 2020, the<br />
strategic roadmap for the<br />
future of the Olympic<br />
Movement;<br />
- Ensuring the financial<br />
stability and long-term viability<br />
of the IPC, the<br />
Paralympic Games and the<br />
Paralympic Movement.<br />
The new agreement<br />
would run through 2032<br />
and will build on the current<br />
partnerships and cooperation<br />
agreements that<br />
were signed prior to the<br />
London 2012 Olympic and<br />
Paralympic Games.<br />
“This agreement is an<br />
important milestone in the<br />
implementation of<br />
Olympic Agenda 2020,”<br />
said IOC President Thomas<br />
Bach.<br />
baig, Member tournament<br />
Irfan Surani slso seen.<br />
Summarised scores:<br />
Aga Khan gym. 132-7<br />
in 20 overs,(Mir Afzal<br />
Baig 70, Zulfiqar Ali.31,<br />
Fara,Ahmed.5-17,yasir<br />
Hussain 2-22); Tapal<br />
cc136-4in 17.3 overs<br />
(Sehryar Gahni 52,<br />
Zeeshan Jameel.52. Saud<br />
Islam 2-9:).<br />
Saturdays fixture: Bank<br />
Islamic vs Qasmi<br />
Gymkhana(Group ‘C’).<br />
Naya Nazimabad<br />
Ramazan Cup Cricket<br />
tournament held<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17:<br />
Muhammad Taimoor<br />
earned the distinction of<br />
striking the first century in<br />
the fourth edition of Naya<br />
Nazimabad Ramazan Cup<br />
Cricket Tournament as Sui<br />
Southern Gas Company<br />
(SSGC) crushed hapless<br />
Medicam Cricket Club by<br />
121 runs here at the Lawai<br />
Stadium.<br />
Taimoor bludgeoned a<br />
record dozen sixes and five<br />
boundaries in his hurricane<br />
58 balls knock while Asif<br />
Zakir cracked 58 runs off<br />
31 balls with nine boundaries<br />
and brace of sixes.<br />
Sent to bat first, SSGC<br />
constructed a massive 238<br />
runs for the loss of four<br />
wickets in 20 overs.<br />
Test discarded Fawad<br />
Alam smashed 22 in five<br />
balls came with two sixes<br />
and as many fours.<br />
Left arm pacer Zohaib<br />
Sheraz bowled well in difficult<br />
circumstances taking<br />
three wickets for 44 runs.<br />
Medicam CC, in reply,<br />
crashed for 117 on the<br />
penultimate ball of 20th<br />
over. Paceman Muhammad<br />
Irfan snapped up four wickets<br />
for 17 runs in four<br />
overs.<br />
With back to back victories,<br />
SSGC jumped on the<br />
top of five teams pool “C”.<br />
FRANCE, Jun 17: Italy<br />
moved into the knockout<br />
stages of Euro <strong>2016</strong> and continued<br />
to defy their doubters<br />
as Eder scored two minutes<br />
from fulltime to secure a 1-0<br />
win over a shot-shy and unadventurous<br />
Sweden on Friday.<br />
Eder ended a great run by<br />
firing home to move Italy<br />
clear at the top of Group E on<br />
six points after two matches<br />
following their 2-0 victory<br />
over Belgium in their opening<br />
encounter.<br />
The result left Sweden in<br />
an uncomfortable position<br />
with one point after two<br />
games ahead of their final<br />
group clash against Belgium<br />
next week. Sweden were well<br />
organised at the back but<br />
toothless in attack, with their<br />
danger man Zlatan<br />
Ibrahimovic looking a shadow<br />
of his brilliant best and<br />
hardly creating a chance.<br />
Italy, who came into the<br />
tournament with questions<br />
surrounding the strength of<br />
NBP beat Dollar<br />
East in cricket<br />
tourney<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17:<br />
Defending champion Dollar<br />
East chances of qualifying<br />
for the last-eight round in<br />
Naya Nazimabad Ramazan<br />
Cup Cricket Tournament suffered<br />
another blow when it<br />
went down against NBP by<br />
16 runs here at the Lawai<br />
Stadium on Friday morning.<br />
Former Pakistan captain<br />
Salman Butt, who was<br />
banned for ten years for spotfixing<br />
by the ICC, slammed<br />
63 off 42 balls with the help<br />
of seven boundaries and one<br />
six. But it failed to save his<br />
team from the eventual<br />
defeat. Chasing 170 for victory,<br />
Dollar East could manage<br />
153 after losing seven<br />
wickets in 20 overs. Faheem<br />
Ashraf grabbed two wickets.<br />
Earlier, NBP captain<br />
Kamran Akmal hit 48 off 31<br />
balls with five fours and two<br />
sixes to win the Man of the<br />
Match award.<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Unlike<br />
Mickey Arthur, who has<br />
expressed his desire to learn<br />
Urdu while coaching the<br />
Pakistan cricket team, Stuart<br />
Law may not have intentions<br />
of buying Hindi text books,<br />
but he believes the language<br />
will not be a barrier, if given<br />
opportunity to coach the<br />
Indian cricket team.<br />
The 48-year-old Law is<br />
one among the few foreigners,<br />
who has responded to the<br />
their squad, but surprised<br />
many with their superb performance<br />
against a highlyfancied<br />
Belgium side, relied<br />
on their trademark, tight<br />
defence against the Swedes.<br />
They rarely threatened up<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: The ICC<br />
Women's Championship<br />
moves into top gear when<br />
England hosts Pakistan in a<br />
three-ODI series in Leicester<br />
from <strong>June</strong> 20.<br />
This will be the last series<br />
of round five of seven, while<br />
the final two rounds will<br />
commence in October<br />
before the event culminates<br />
in November.<br />
The ICC Women's<br />
Championship is the pathway<br />
to qualification for the<br />
ICC Women's World Cup<br />
July 2017. The top four sides<br />
will automatically qualify<br />
for the event proper to be<br />
staged in England from <strong>June</strong><br />
26 to July 23 2017, while the<br />
bottom four sides will get a<br />
final chance of qualification<br />
through the ICC Women's<br />
World Cup Qualifier in<br />
March/April 2017.<br />
Plenty will be at stake for<br />
BCCI advertisement.<br />
He says, 'I am honoured to<br />
be named in the running to<br />
become the Head Coach to<br />
the Indian Cricket Team. As it<br />
is an extremely high profile<br />
position, the BCCI have<br />
expressed that the candidates<br />
be familiar with the Nations<br />
languages as well as having<br />
had extensive coaching experience<br />
either at a domestic or<br />
international level with some<br />
kind of success".<br />
"Communication skills<br />
befitting the coach of an<br />
front, however, until Marco<br />
Parolo hit the crossbar with a<br />
header shortly before Eder<br />
netted the winner.<br />
“It was a difficult game,”<br />
Italy coach Antonio Conte<br />
told Rai Sport. “We struggled<br />
both England and Pakistan,<br />
which are currently sitting in<br />
sixth and seventh positions<br />
respectively. England stands<br />
to move up to third if it wins<br />
the series, Pakistan will<br />
jump to fifth if it wins all the<br />
three matches.<br />
Australia leads the field<br />
with 24 points, but the<br />
recently crowned ICC<br />
Women's World Twenty20<br />
champion the West Indies is<br />
just four points behind in<br />
second place. New Zealand<br />
is another four points behind<br />
at 16, while South Africa is<br />
on 15 points. Sri Lanka is in<br />
eighth position with just 5<br />
points.<br />
Pakistan's ODI captain<br />
Sana Mir, who has chosen to<br />
step down from Twenty20<br />
duties to focus on the 50-<br />
over game, said she had a<br />
talented side to command<br />
with the likes of bowler<br />
International team are<br />
mandatory along with the<br />
ability to effectively convey<br />
the right messages and must<br />
demonstrate proficiency in<br />
English. The ability to communicate<br />
in an Indian language<br />
is desirable but by no<br />
means mandatory", one of the<br />
conditions the BCCI had ratified<br />
after initially made it<br />
mandatory.<br />
"This is their wish and still<br />
to be shortlisted will be<br />
extremely humbling".<br />
"I don’t know the Nations<br />
in the first half. “The boys did<br />
well to ride the storm and hurt<br />
Sweden when we needed to.”<br />
Italy had been praised for<br />
their unity and work rate in<br />
their opening win over<br />
Belgium, but appeared to<br />
Anam Amin, who is<br />
Pakistan's leading wickettaker<br />
in the women's championship<br />
with 16 dismissals.<br />
She believed Pakistan's<br />
improved performance at the<br />
ICC World Twenty20 in<br />
India, where it won two out<br />
of four matches compared<br />
with just one win in 2014,<br />
marked a move in the right<br />
direction.<br />
“We were extremely<br />
close to making it three wins<br />
out of four in India.<br />
“The Pakistan team now<br />
has a reputation of giving<br />
extra tough times to big<br />
teams and we really enjoy<br />
living up to this reputation.<br />
Apart from the top two<br />
teams in the table, no team is<br />
in a position to definitely<br />
secure a place in top four.<br />
This is going to be an exciting<br />
series with a lot at stake<br />
for both teams.”<br />
Language is NOT a barrier, says Stuart Law<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Day-night Test is the<br />
future of cricket’s longest format but the<br />
boards should not rush it, according to<br />
New Zealand pace great Richard Hadlee.<br />
Australia played the first daynight<br />
Test against New Zealand at<br />
Adelaide Oval last November and<br />
have agreed another floodlit match<br />
with South Africa at the same venue<br />
during the home summer.<br />
The concept has found ready takers in<br />
south Asia with India trialling pink balls<br />
and Pakistan agreeing to play a floodlit<br />
Test in Brisbane in December.<br />
“You try, it is the game of the future.<br />
Probably one Test in a series is fair<br />
enough,” Hadlee Said.<br />
“I think most people like to see the<br />
traditional format during the day.” The<br />
languages but having spent a<br />
lot of time on the sub continent,<br />
you learn how to pick<br />
up the mood of the conversation<br />
and determine the feelings<br />
of the group or individual<br />
by observation", Law<br />
said. Law has worked with<br />
the national teams in Sri<br />
Lanka and Bangladesh.<br />
"The majority of words<br />
used to talk about cricket are<br />
English, so it can be a little<br />
easier to communicate to<br />
players that aren’t comfortable<br />
speaking English".<br />
Day-night Test future of cricket’s longest format: Richard Hadlee<br />
durability of the pink kookaburra ball<br />
and the dew factor in India have raised<br />
doubts about the future of a floodlit Test<br />
in the country.<br />
Hadlee said the players must get<br />
ample practice before such a contest.<br />
“It is important for the players to have<br />
practice games; you cannot ask them to<br />
go out there and ask them to play a daynight<br />
game against the pink ball.<br />
Late Eder goal sends Italy through to last 16<br />
have no answer to Sweden’s<br />
organised rearguard until<br />
Eder’s late intervention.<br />
Sweden coach Erik<br />
Hamren had criticised their<br />
lack of attacking vitality following<br />
their opening 1-1<br />
draw with Ireland, and while<br />
there was an improvement in<br />
their overall performance,<br />
Ibrahimovic once again<br />
failed to provide a cutting<br />
edge and live up to his<br />
billing.<br />
“We were much better<br />
than the Italians for periods,<br />
but we didn’t create really<br />
dangerous chances,” Sweden<br />
midfielder Albin Ekdal told<br />
Swedish broadcaster SVT.<br />
Sweden are still without a<br />
shot on target at the tournament,<br />
although Martin<br />
Olsson proved a menacing<br />
threat down the left, sending<br />
an effort just over the bar on<br />
<strong>18</strong> minutes having set the<br />
tone with an early cross that<br />
prompted a nervous clearance<br />
from Giorgio Chiellini.
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Senators working to craft<br />
new gun control compromise<br />
PESHAWAR,<br />
WASHINGTON, Jun 17: A group of<br />
Republican senators on Friday were<br />
trying to craft compromise gun control<br />
legislation that could attract both<br />
Republicans and Democrats and have<br />
a hope of passing the U.S. Senate,<br />
unlike several measures that are<br />
expected to be voted on next week for<br />
which prospects appear dim.<br />
Congress is under pressure to act<br />
after the massacre last Sunday of 49<br />
people at a gay nightclub in Orlando,<br />
Florida, the worst mass shooting in<br />
modern U.S. history. But the gun control<br />
issue is deeply divisive and there<br />
have been no restrictions passed since<br />
1994, when Congress imposed a ban<br />
on semi-automatic assault weapons.<br />
That expired after 10 years.<br />
The new effort, led by Republican<br />
Senator Susan Collins of Maine,<br />
would aim to close a loophole in U.S.<br />
law that allows people on terrorism<br />
watch lists to buy weapons and explosives.<br />
Both the gunman in the Orlando<br />
attack and the married couple who carried<br />
out a mass shooting that killed 14<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
“Empowering the Afghan<br />
refugee youth in Pakistan<br />
through enhanced vocational<br />
training and livelihoods projects<br />
is an important initiative<br />
to bolster the human capital of<br />
Afghan refugees and allow<br />
them to contribute to the<br />
reconstruction and development<br />
processes upon return to<br />
Afghanistan”.<br />
This was stated by Mr.<br />
Jakob Rogild Jakobsen,<br />
Chargé d'Affaires of the<br />
Embassy of Denmark during<br />
a meeting held with Mr.<br />
Indrika Ratwatte, UNHCR<br />
Country Representative, says<br />
a press statement issued here<br />
on Friday. The meeting was<br />
held to discuss the current situation<br />
of Afghan refugees and<br />
internally displaced person in<br />
people in San Bernardino, California,<br />
last December were thought to have<br />
been inspired by militant Islamist<br />
groups abroad.<br />
Collins' proposal likely would be<br />
offered in the divided, Republicancontrolled<br />
Senate sometime next week<br />
- assuming that four other gun-control<br />
Pakistan.<br />
While discussing the current<br />
status of refugees and the<br />
voluntary repatriation<br />
process, Mr. Jakobsen appreciated<br />
UNHCR’s work and<br />
said that the Government of<br />
Denmark looks at the Afghan<br />
refugee crisis from a regional<br />
perspective and focus on sustainable<br />
solutions that would<br />
help refugees and internally<br />
displaced persons secure<br />
access to protection as close<br />
to their home as possible.<br />
Denmark is among the<br />
biggest contributors to<br />
UNHCR’s regional program<br />
in South West Asia.<br />
At the occasion, Mr.<br />
Ratwatte said that UNHCR<br />
Pakistan supports youth<br />
empowerment through a<br />
nexus of inter-linked interventions<br />
in the areas of education,<br />
skills training and livelihood<br />
support. He recalled that<br />
inclusive and equitable education<br />
and promoting lifelong<br />
learning opportunities for all<br />
has been agreed upon in the<br />
Millennium Development<br />
Goals (MDGs) and<br />
Sustainable Development<br />
Goals (SDGs).<br />
The Government of<br />
Denmark’s has allocated<br />
approximately USD three<br />
million towards UNHCR<br />
programmes in Pakistan for<br />
<strong>2016</strong>. Denmark’s contribution<br />
will support the implementation<br />
of Solutions<br />
Strategy for Afghan<br />
Refugees, UNHCR’s activities<br />
towards voluntary repatriation<br />
of Afghan refugees in<br />
Pakistan and efforts to<br />
proposals set for votes on Monday fail,<br />
as expected. Collins' office declined to<br />
provide a detailed account of legislation<br />
she is working on with Senator<br />
Jeff Flake of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte<br />
of New Hampshire.<br />
But Collins discussed the project<br />
with journalists outside the Senate on<br />
Denmark supports UNHCR to<br />
empower Afghan refugees in Pakistan<br />
Zainab and Usman will receive Queen’s<br />
Young Leaders Award on 23 <strong>June</strong><br />
LONDON: Jun 17: Her<br />
Majesty the Queen will present<br />
a Queen’s Young Leaders<br />
Award to two exceptional<br />
young people from Pakistan<br />
at a ceremony at Buckingham<br />
Palace in London on<br />
Thursday 23rd <strong>June</strong><br />
. As the Commonwealth<br />
celebrates the Queen’s 90th<br />
birthday, this year’s Award<br />
winners, Zainab Bibi (26)<br />
and Muhammad Usman Khan<br />
(27), are being recognised by<br />
The Queen for taking the lead<br />
in transforming the lives of<br />
others and making a lasting<br />
difference in their communities.<br />
As a Queen’s Young<br />
Leader, they will be representing<br />
Pakistan as they join winners<br />
from 45 different<br />
Commonwealth countries in<br />
London for five days of highlevel<br />
engagements, all<br />
designed to help them further<br />
their life-changing work.<br />
Before receiving their<br />
Queen’s Young Leaders<br />
Award at Buckingham Palace,<br />
the winners will visit 10<br />
Downing Street and the UK<br />
headquarters of global social<br />
networking company Twitter,<br />
and meet with senior executives<br />
from BBC World<br />
Service. They will also meet<br />
the Commonwealth Secretary<br />
General, Baroness Scotland,<br />
take part in workshops at the<br />
University of Cambridge,<br />
have meetings with UK business<br />
leaders and visit projects<br />
that are changing the lives of<br />
vulnerable people in the UK.<br />
Selected through a competitive<br />
process where thousands<br />
of young people from<br />
all over the Commonwealth<br />
applied to be a Queen’s Young<br />
Leader, Zainab Bibi said: “As<br />
the time is getting close, my<br />
excitement to meet The<br />
Queen is sky rocketing. I have<br />
no words to explain my feelings;<br />
I am anxiously waiting<br />
for the best week in my life."<br />
Every country faces serious malnutrition<br />
problem: WHO's new report<br />
KARACHI, Jun 17: Few challenges<br />
facing the global community<br />
today match the scale<br />
of malnutrition, a condition<br />
that directly affects one in<br />
three people. Malnutrition<br />
manifests itself in many different<br />
ways: as poor child growth<br />
and development; as individuals<br />
who are skin and bone or<br />
prone to infection; as those<br />
who are carrying too much<br />
weight or whose blood contains<br />
too much sugar, salt, fat,<br />
or cholesterol; or those who<br />
are deficient in important vitamins<br />
or minerals. Malnutrition<br />
and diet are by far the biggest<br />
risk factors for the global burden<br />
of disease: every country<br />
is facing a serious public<br />
health challenge from malnutrition,<br />
according to new<br />
Global Nutrition Report issued<br />
by World Health Organization.<br />
Economic consequences<br />
represent losses of 11 percent<br />
of gross domestic product<br />
every year in Africa and Asia,<br />
whereas preventing malnutrion<br />
delivers $16 in returns on<br />
investment for every $1 spent.<br />
The world's countries have<br />
agreed on targets for nutrition,<br />
but despite some progress in<br />
recent years the world is off<br />
track to reach those targets.<br />
This third stocktaking of the<br />
state of the world's nutrition<br />
points to ways to reverse this<br />
trend and end all forms of<br />
malnutrition by 2030.<br />
empower refugee youth in<br />
Pakistan through provision of<br />
vocational training and technical<br />
skills.<br />
The total of Danish funds<br />
for UNHCR Pakistan<br />
amounts to a total of USD<br />
13.2 million since 2013 to<br />
date. Mr. Ratwatte highlighted<br />
that due to the generous<br />
support from Denmark and<br />
other donors, UNHCR was<br />
able to implement a fiveyear<br />
Health transition strategy<br />
(2014-20<strong>18</strong>) which has<br />
been developed by UNHCR<br />
and has gradually been<br />
rolled out and aimed at<br />
implementing the progressive<br />
disengagement of<br />
UNHCR from the existing<br />
parallel system of Basic<br />
Health Unit (BHUs) exiting<br />
in the Rural Villages (RVs).<br />
Pak’s Ambassador<br />
to US meets<br />
Senator Ed Markey<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Pakistan Ambassador to the<br />
United States (US) Jalil<br />
Abbas Jilani held a meeting<br />
with US Senator Ed Markey<br />
in Washington and discussed<br />
with him Pakistan's application<br />
for membership of the<br />
Nuclear Suppliers Group.<br />
The Ambassador highlighted<br />
Pakistan's credentials<br />
for the NSG membership<br />
and briefed Senator Markey<br />
on the steps taken by<br />
Pakistan for its mainstreaming<br />
in the nuclear non-proliferation<br />
regime.<br />
They exchanged views on<br />
adopting a non-discriminatory<br />
and equitable approach for<br />
membership of the NSG.<br />
Matters related to strategic<br />
stability in South Asia also<br />
came up for discussion.<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: The<br />
Agreement for the Safe Blood<br />
Transfusion Project, for the<br />
Islamabad region, was signed<br />
here on Friday by Mr. Hassan<br />
Iqbal, Secretary, Capital<br />
Administration &<br />
Development Division<br />
(CA&DD) and Mr. Wolfgang<br />
Mollers, Country Director,<br />
German KFW Bank.<br />
Dr. Tariq Fazal Choudhury,<br />
Minister of State for CA&DD<br />
and Prof. HasanAbbas Zaheer,<br />
Project Director, SBTP were<br />
also present on the occasion.<br />
Speaking on the occasion,<br />
the Minister highly appreciated<br />
the German government<br />
support for the blood project<br />
and said that access to safe and<br />
quality blood was a key priority<br />
of the government in the<br />
health sector. With the development<br />
of the modern blood<br />
center in Islamabad through<br />
Thursday, noting that barring people<br />
on terrorism watch lists from weapons<br />
purchases carried with it the risk of<br />
affecting people who have been swept<br />
onto the lists without good cause.<br />
"What we’re trying to do is not<br />
deny constitutional rights to a large<br />
group of individuals" who find themselves<br />
on watch lists despite the fact<br />
that there might not be credible evidence<br />
of potential criminal intentions,<br />
Collins said.<br />
At least one Senate Democrat,<br />
Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, has<br />
been involved in the talks, according to<br />
a spokeswoman.<br />
A Senate Republican aide who<br />
asked not to be identified, said the bill<br />
"will aim to have teeth on preventing<br />
terrorists from getting guns and contain<br />
protections for due process" for<br />
those who should not be denied their<br />
rights to buy weapons.<br />
It will not be known whether a<br />
Collins bill would attract wide bipartisan<br />
support until the measure is<br />
unveiled.<br />
Passengers rush to<br />
Railway stations for<br />
advance Eid booking<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: A<br />
number of natives are rushing<br />
toward Railway Stations for<br />
advance booking of tickets to<br />
celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in their<br />
hometown with their near and<br />
dear ones. A report aired by a<br />
private news channel said, as<br />
Railway begins issuing<br />
advance tickets to passengers<br />
many travellers in cities<br />
crowded at Railway station<br />
facing problems to even get<br />
tickets for early booking.<br />
"I had tried to get ticket but<br />
couldn't succeed. Today, I<br />
have come here again to get<br />
the ticket on chance," Asad<br />
Umer told.<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD, Jun 17: Pak<br />
Sarzameen Party chief and<br />
former MQM Mayor of<br />
Karachi has accused MQM<br />
leader Altaf Hussain of working<br />
for enemy country India<br />
by getting RAW funding to<br />
kill our children. He was<br />
speaking at Iftar party his<br />
party arranged hereFriday<br />
evening. He said he has come<br />
out to challenge Fharao of<br />
today who has been taking<br />
votes and money from people<br />
of Hyderabad since last 30<br />
years but has , in return given<br />
nothing to people. He said<br />
the education has been devastated,<br />
there were no<br />
schools, no hospitals, no<br />
infrastructure and broken<br />
roads. He said he has come<br />
here to pinpoint how Altaf<br />
has made whole country as<br />
workers enemies and compromised<br />
lives of people of<br />
Karachi and Hyderabad. He<br />
Govt-number car driver makes<br />
youth butt of violence<br />
Jun 17: Man<br />
riding in a car bearing government<br />
number plate made<br />
a motorcycle-riding youth<br />
butt of his violence for nothing<br />
but overtaking his car<br />
and during all this fiasco<br />
suspect’s son also shot at the<br />
youth from the rifle of his<br />
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:<br />
Pakistan Electronic Media<br />
Regulatory Authority<br />
(PEMRA) has barred actor<br />
HamzaAliAbbasi and TV show<br />
host Shabbir Abu Talib from<br />
hosting their Ramazan shows<br />
on Aaj TV and News One<br />
respectively.<br />
In a statement issued on<br />
Friday, PEMRA said that it had<br />
received 1,133 complaints<br />
through Whatsapp, Twitter and<br />
telephone calls regarding the<br />
transmissions. The complainants<br />
said both shows had<br />
guard but the youth was fortunate<br />
to escape any injury.<br />
Police has declared the<br />
car’s registration number B<br />
2558 fake and is registered<br />
in three districts- in the<br />
name of Abbotabad’s Sadiq<br />
Abbas; Mardan’s Yusuf; and<br />
a denizen of Kohat.<br />
aired provocative content.<br />
"During these transmissions,<br />
ratings remain the focus under<br />
the guise of Ramazan shows,"<br />
read the PEMRA statement,<br />
adding that "provocative conversations<br />
took place during the<br />
shows which has led to much<br />
anger and sadness".<br />
The regulatory body asked<br />
both Aaj TV and TV One to<br />
implement the decision by 7pm<br />
on <strong>June</strong> 17, <strong>2016</strong>. "Even after<br />
clear instructions from<br />
PEMRA, unfortunately TV<br />
channel owners, anchors and<br />
According to details people<br />
riding in a car bearing<br />
Khyber Pakhtwankhwa<br />
number plate made the<br />
youth butt of their violence<br />
on the road. According to<br />
police sources a case has<br />
been registered but no arrest<br />
has been made.<br />
PEMRA bans Hamza Ali Abbasi<br />
from hosting Ramazan show<br />
said Altaf has now confessed<br />
his involvement in murder of<br />
Dr. Farooq Sattar, money<br />
laundering case and other<br />
crimes. He reminded that on<br />
<strong>June</strong> 11 last Altaf in his<br />
address to college students<br />
had said that if had been of<br />
their age he alone could have<br />
killed 100 persons easily.<br />
audience indulged in non-serious<br />
and irresponsible conversations,"<br />
added the statement.<br />
Hamza, who co-hosts the<br />
post-Iftar transmission, Ramzan<br />
Hamara Emaanwith Aisha<br />
Khan for Aaj TV, was holding<br />
discussions on the Ahmadi<br />
community and blasphemy<br />
laws during his show.<br />
"Why is Ahmadi such a<br />
taboo word? Ideological stances<br />
aside, my only goal is that when<br />
an Ahmadi is killed or persecuted,<br />
media shouldn't be scared to<br />
talk about it," he had said.<br />
Altlaf getting RAW funding for killing our<br />
children: PSP chief Mustafa Kamal<br />
HYDERABAD: Leader of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP)<br />
Mustafa Kamal addressing an Iftar reception for party<br />
workers at local hall.<br />
German Bank and CA&DD sign Agreement for Islamabad Blood Center<br />
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Capital Administration & Development Division<br />
(CA&DD), Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry witnessing the signing of agreement for the Safe Blood<br />
Transfusion Project (ICT Region) being signed by Mr. Hassan Iqbal, Secretary CA&DD and<br />
Mr. Wolfgang Mollers, Country Director, German KFW Bank.<br />
Mustafa Kamal said in this<br />
way Altaf was trying to convince<br />
students to become<br />
killers. He said he has not<br />
come here to ask you for vote<br />
or for support but to tell you<br />
the crimes of a man you call<br />
your Quaid. He said within<br />
short time of 3 months people<br />
have started to understand<br />
his point of view. He<br />
said when he meets DG<br />
Rangers he gives him list of<br />
arrested workers of MQM<br />
and requests him to release<br />
them as they were misguided<br />
by MQM. He said now<br />
after 3 months of launching<br />
of his party he feels people<br />
do not need Altaf but Altaf<br />
needs people. He asked<br />
people to beware of man<br />
who was making your children<br />
as agents of Raw and<br />
getting them killed. He<br />
wants to save your children.<br />
Anees Qaimkhani and<br />
Ashfaq Mangi MPA accompanied<br />
him.<br />
this Agreement funding, the<br />
citizens of the federal capital<br />
will soon have a model transfusion<br />
service delivery system.<br />
He further informed that in the<br />
vicinity of the new Blood<br />
Center, the government is<br />
building a large tertiary care<br />
hospital which will also benefit<br />
from the Blood Center.<br />
He said that the Safe Blood<br />
Transfusion Programme was<br />
working with great commitment<br />
and dedication to implement<br />
this project and to promote<br />
the culture of voluntary<br />
blood donations in Islamabad.<br />
The target is to have the new<br />
Blood Center completely<br />
reliant on the voluntary and<br />
regular blood donations who<br />
are the safest blood donors.<br />
This will also ensure that the<br />
patients are not burdened with<br />
the task of providing blood<br />
donors.<br />
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