18 June 2016

Saturday, June 18, 2016
National
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Teenage Kalash girl denies reports
of forceful conversion to Islam
CHITRAL, Jun 17:
Disputing reports of forced
conversion to Islam, the
teenage girl of Kalash
appeared before the media on
Friday and informed she converted
her faith ‘wilfully’.
Addressing a press conference
in Chitral while
flanking alongside her father
and uncle at Chitral Press
Club, Reena rejected a foreign
news agency report that
claimed she was converted
forcefully.
The 15-year-old underlined
that she didn’t have any
pressure in embracing Islam.
She ‘drew inspiration from
her Muslim school friends
about Islam and decided to
convert.’
Speaking on the occasion,
girl’s father said Kalash girls
are converting to Islam, but
FATA adhoc lecturers protest enters 38th day
PESHAWAR, Jun 17: The
protest of ad-hoc lecturers
of different FATA colleges
entered the 38th day outside
Peshawar Press Club
demanding the release of
salaries and regularization
of jobs. Around 213 male
and female lecturers working
on an adhoc basis in different
colleges of FATA
have been protesting for
disbursement of pending
salaries and regularization
of jobs.
President of Ad-hoc
Lecturers Afsar Khan while
addressing to the protesting
teachers said, “We have
been working in hard areas
of FATA. Our lives are at
risk in hotbed of terrorism
while on the other hand our
salaries have not been
released for the last 10
months.”
Sabina, a female lecturer,
said that the lecturers risked
their lives to perform duties
like ‘soldiers of peace’
despite clashes and militancy,
but the government was
denying them their salaries
and permanent jobs.
“Some lecturers have
been forced to live on debt
as they have been facing
financial problems,” said a
woman lecturer, Alia.
Nasir Ali said that on the
floor of K-P assembly,
Higher Education Minister
Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani
promised that an amendment
bill would be introduced
for the regularization
of the lecturers , but he
never kept his promise.
He said that the KP Chief
Minister Pervaiz Khattak
had promised for regularization
of the ad-hoc lecturers
in one week time but he
failed to keep his promise.
Two travel agents held
RAWALPINDI, Jun 17: The
Federal Investigation Agency
on Friday arrested two travel
agents on charges of human
trafficking and seized fake
passports from them.
On a tip-off, FIA personnel
raided at travel agency
office in Rehmanabad and
apprehended two fake travel
agents identified as Amir
and Qaiser. The suspects
were allegedly involved in
human trafficking.
The FIA also recovered
eight passports, fake documents
and stamps from the
suspects’ possession.
They were shifted to the
anti-human smuggling cell
for further investigation.
SUKKUR: Residents of Mirani Muhallah hold a demonstration against failure of sewerage
system in their area.
AIOU practical exams from July 18
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: The
Allama Iqbal Open
University (AIOU) will conduct
practical exams of FSc
programme for Autumn
Semester 2015 from July 18.
According to a press
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17:
According to a Gilani
Research Foundation
Survey carried out by
Gallup Pakistan, 43%
Pakistanis have stated that
they would wish to go to
Saudi Arabia if they were
given an opportunity to
visit another country provided
all their expenditures,
including accommodation
and tickets, were
borne by the Pakistani
Government.
A nationally representative
sample of men and
women from across the
four provinces was asked,
“Suppose that you get an
CHITRAL: Kalash women leader Shahi gul addressing a press confrence with newly converted
Muslim girl Reena at Chitral press club.
release issued on Friday, the
practical exams will continue
till July 29, while these
exams will be held at
Governemnt. College of
Science Wahdat Road,
Lahore, Government Islamia
College Sargodha Road,
Faisalabad and AIOU lab
Islamabad.
Roll number slips were
being sent by post to the
concerned students at their
given addresses.
43% Pakistanis would choose to go to Saudi Arabia if given an
opportunity to go abroad on an all-expense paid trip: Survey
opportunity to visit another
country and all the associated
expenditures such as
accommodation and ticket
are being borne by the
Pakistan Government, then
which Country would you
like to go to?”
In response to this question,
43% Pakistanis said
Saudi Arabia, 10% said
United Kingdom, 10% said
Dubai, 8% said the United
States of America, 3% said
Canada, 3% said China,
2% said India, 2% said
Japan, 1% said Iran, 1%
said Germany, 8% mentioned
some other country,
5% said that they would
not want to go to any other
country and 4% gave no
response.
The study was released
by Gilani Research
Foundation and carried out
by Gallup Pakistan, the
Pakistani affiliate of
Gallup International.
The recent survey was
carried out among a sample
of 1825 men and
women in rural and urban
areas of all four provinces
of the country, during April
11 – April 18, 2016. Error
margin is estimated to be
approximately ± 2-3 per
cent at 95% confidence
level.
Another teacher Haq
Nawaz Burki said, “Our
salaries have not been
released since September
last year.”
Lecturers demanded
immediate release of
salaries and regularization.
The protest camp and classes
boycott will continue till
the acceptance of their
demands, they said.
The 213 male and
female lecturers working on
Adhoc in different colleges
of FATA have been
deprived with salaries since
September 2015.
Dysfunctional
escalators at metro
bus stations a nuisance
for senior citizens
RAWALPINDI, Jun 17:
Dysfunctional and out of
order escalators and elevators
at different metro bus
stations in Rawalpindi and
Islamabad have become a
perpetual source of nuisance
for passengers particularly
senior citizens, who
grapple to ascend stairs to
board buses.
During inspection of different
stations it revealed
that escalators and elevators
at most stations have gone
faulty and not functioning.
The elevator installed at
Mareer Chowk bus station,
at G-9/3 of Ibn-e-Sina station
and other stations has
been dysfunctional for the
last many days and no work
has been carried out to
repair them.
The citizens have
appealed to Chief Minister
(CM) Punjab to hold
inquiry into the issue as
millions of rupees are
released for maintenance of
elevators and escalators
each month but they remain
shut for long days.
When contacted, Furqan,
project manager of Marine
Company, which has been
appointed for maintenance
work of elevators and escalators,
said that recent rainwindstorm
caused immense
damage to some elevators
and escalators. He claimed
that mechanics of the company
were working on
faulty elevators.
ISLAMABAD, Jun 17: Men
with prostate cancer could
slash their risk of death by
more than a third by eating
nuts regularly, a major study
shows.
Five 1oz servings a week of
any type of nut cut mortality
rates by 34 per cent,
researchers found.
But there was no evidence
that eating nuts reduces the risk
of developing the disease in
the first place.
The results come from the
largest ever study into the
effects of a nut-rich diet on
prostate cancer.
The disease affects 35,000
in some of the cases they
revert to their parent religion
because they are not provided
with their due rights. He
said the Muslims should
ensure provision of rights so
that Kalash girls may not
reconsider their decision.
He also sought assurance
in writing from Muslim elders
that the girl wont be mistreated.
More conversions ‘in the
past’ The girl, during her
presser, divulged that three
girls also recently converted
to Islam wilfully. ‘Why the
issue is being created in my
case,” she asked.
The ninth-grader appealed
to the media and people not
to make a mountain out of a
molehill and don’t portray
her private matters a public
affair.
An FIR of
dual murders
registered
Staff Reporter
SHIKARPUR, Jun 17:An FIR
of dual murders was registered
against 09 culprits on the complaint
of the deceased’s mother
Mst Imamzadi Kehar at Lakhi
Ghulam Shah Police Station
on late Thursday. As per
reports, two days ago unidentified
ambushed armed men
opened indiscriminate firing
on two real brothers identified
as Gul Muhammad Kehar and
Muhammad Khan Kehar near
Dodo goth when they were
riding on their motorcycle to
their native town Sultankot.
As a result of firing they
were killed on the spot while
assailants ran away from place
of incident after committing
the crime.After passage of two
days police have registered a
double murder case against 09
culprits including
Rahmatullah, Imran, Anwar,
Hashim, Karim dion, Rasool
Bakhsh, Muhammad Salah,
Dad Muhammad and Ghulam
Akbar all of by caste Shar
community persons at Lakhi
Ghulam Shah police station.
KHAIRPUR, Jun 17: The
Spokesperson of Shah Abdul
Latif University, Khairpur
has announced that the long
awaited Sweet and Clean
Drinking Water problem of
the students and staff has
been resolved wit the untiring
efforts of Vice Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Parveen Shah. The
water supply scheme amounting
Rs. 15 Million has been
started to provide the sweet
and clean drinking water to
academic block, hostels,
teachers and staff residence.
It is recalled that since
1977 with the establishment
of campus, no any Vice
Chancellor have taken serious
efforts for the provision
100 suspects arrested,
weapons seized in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Jun 17: Police
claimed to have arrested at
least 100 suspects including
Afghans residing illegally
during search operation here
on Friday Police spokesman
said that the search operations
were conducted in
Abbas Kassar
HYDERABAD, Jun 17: The
scores of residents of
Qasimabad township of
Hyderabad held protest
demonstration here on
Friday against long power
outage and cursed Wapda
with slogans of BIJLI
NAHIN KIUN BHALA,
KARBALA KARBALA.
The villagers of Sanjar
Mirbahar told media that
Faqirabad, Hayatabad,
Tatara and Sarband areas
where officials of lady
police and sniffer dogs were
also used to check around
200 houses.
Police said that some 16
Afghans living without
they were deprived of electricity
since last 5 months.
They said they were asked to
purchase new meters yet the
officers of Hesco were
demanding bribe for restoration
of power. The protest
was led by Ghulam
Muhammad Buledi, Soomar
Halepoto, Kaleem
Shambhani and Saleem
Budha. They said that Hesco
sub division Citizen Colony
was demanding money from
valid documents were
among 101 suspected elements
arrested during the
operation.
Police also recovered 16
pistols, a short gun and hundreds
of cartridges from the
possession of the suspects.
Qasimabad residents curse WAPDA
them. They said they were
fed up with roaming around
offices of SDO and Line
Superintendent but of no
avail. They said the Hesco
officers were insisting either
payment of Rs.2 lacs as bribe
or get electricity through
Kunda by paying cash to
them consuming power
without meter. They warned
if power was restored before
Eid they would stage Dharna
in front of his office.
HYDERABAD: Residents’ of Qasmabad hold a protest against HASCO outside HPC.
An alleged bandit arrested
in injured condition
Waheed Phulpoto
SHIKARPUR, Jun 17:
Shikarpur police claimed to
have arrested a bandit after
an exchange of firing in
injured condition near 16
Mori in the limits of Sultankot
police station on late
Thursday.
As per official sources,
after receiving the information
about the presence of
bandits for committing a
of sweet and clean water for
campus. In the absence of
sweet and clean water, the
students and residence were
affected with water borne diseases
and were facing hardship.
On this occasion, Vice
Chancellor Prof. Dr. Parveen
Shah has extended her cordial
thanks to Syed Qaim Ali
Shah, Chief Minister Sindh,
Mr. Jam Khan Shoro,
Provincial Minister for Local
Government & Public Health
Department and Mr. Fayaz
Ahmed Jatoi, Deputy
Commissioner, Khairpur.
The teachers, officer,
employees and students have
appreciated the efforts of
Prof. Dr. Parveen Shah for
resolving this genuine and
long awaited problem.
MEETING REGARD-
ING TESTING ASSESS-
MENT & RECRUIT-
MENT THROUGH PTS
HELD
A meeting regarding the
conduct of written test of various
posts recently
announced by the University
in various teaching
Departments was held at
Shah Abdul Latif University,
Khairpur presided over by
Prof. Dr. Lutfullah Mangi,
Pro-Vice Chancellor,
Shikarpur Campus.
Dr. Lutfullah Mangi
briefed that the purpose of
serious crime near 16 Mori,
SHO Sultan kot rushed there
to arrest them, seeing the
police, bandits opened fire,
on retaliation, police have
arrested a bandit identified
as Siraj Ahmed son of
Bashir Bhayo in injured condition
while his other
accomplices fled away from
place of firing.
The police seized one
Kalashnikov and good number
of bullets from their possession.
The Sultan-kot
police shifted the injured
person to Sultan-kot Rural
Health Centre [RHC] for
medical treatment.
According to police
sources, Sutlan-kot police
have started search operation
to arrest other accomplices of
arrested bandit while neither
police arrested other accomplices
of arrested dacoit nor
an FIR was registered till this
story was filed.
Work for the provision of sweet water for campus started
LARKANA, Jun 17:
Heatwave continue to hit hard
Larkana and its adjoining
areas, as 199 gastroenteritis
patients reported at Accident
and Emergency Center of
Chandka Medical College
Hospital (CMCH) here within
last seven days from June 10
to 16, 2016. Coupled with
worst electricity load shedding
in defiance of announced
policy of the federal ministry
of water and power, the fasting
people continued to suffer
despite paying their bills and
taxes regularly, but there
seemed no respite to them by
Sepco authorities.
Forty gastroenteritis cases
emerged within week, while
this meeting is to conduct the
written test of various posts of
Teaching Departments. The
objective of the meeting is to
conduct the test and short list
the eligible candidates aimed
at to maintain transparency
and ensure the merit in the
appointments.
Mr. Safdar Ali Sohu,
Regional Manager, Pakistan
Testing Service (PTS), Sindh
offered the services to conduct
the test.
Prof. Dr. Noor Ahmed
Shaikh, Pro-Vice Chancellor,
Main Campus, Prof. Dr. Asad
Raza Abidi, Registrar and Mr.
Altaf Hussain Bhutto,
Director Finance attended the
meeting.
Larkana: 199 gastro cases emerge in a week
men a year in the UK, killing
around 10,000.
Previous studies have hinted
a healthy diet and lifestyle,
including frequent snacking on
nuts, can have a protective
effect. In 2014, scientists found
walnuts in particular seemed to
significantly lower the risk of a
tumour.
In the latest study, published
online in the British
Journal of Cancer, experts at
Harvard Medical School in
Boston tracked 47,000 men
over 26 years. They identified
6,800 who developed prostate
cancer.
Eating nuts regularly
seemed to have little or no benefit
in terms of preventing
malignant growths.
But when scientists looked
at death rates, they found sufferers
who ate nuts at least five
times a week were 34 per cent
less likely to die from their illness
than those who ate nuts
less than once a month.
Most of the nut-eaters in the
US study ate peanuts but the
20 patients expired in the
CMCH. Unannounced worst
power outage is being carried
out in entire Larkana district
by the grid station incharge in
connivance with operation
sub-divisions.
Eating nuts slashes prostate cancer death risk by a third
health benefits seem to apply
whatever the type of nut. Nuts
are rich in tocopherols, a type
of vitamin E which some
research suggests can combat
cancer.
They also contain phytochemicals,
naturally occurring
plant chemicals thought to
have potent anti-cancer properties.
Other studies have found
they protect against heart disease
and type 2 diabetes.
Reporting their findings,
the researchers said: 'No significant
associations were
observed between peanut or
other nut consumption and
prostate cancer incidence.