2 November 2016

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Metropolitan: 

Dr Asim, Rauf, 

Qaimkhani, Moazzam 

bailed out in terrorists 

treatment case 

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National: 

Pakistan Army 

major martyred 

in Waziristan 

IED blast 

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Biz: 

PSX makes 

historic jump 

as PTIpostpones 

‘lockdown’ 

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FO summons Indian 

Deputy HC over 

ceasefire violations 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: 

Pakistan has lodged 

strong protest with India 

over the ceasefire violations 

over the Working 

Boundary and Line of 

Control (LoC) by Indian 

forces. 

The Director General 

(SA & SAARC), Dr. 

Mohammad Faisal, summoned 

the Indian Deputy 

High Commissioner, J.P. 

Singh on Tuesday at 

Foreign Office. 

KP CM says rejected 

Shehbaz’s offer to 

abandon workers 


Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 

Chief Minister Pervez 

Khattak has disclosed that 

he had declined an offer 

by Chief Minister 

Shehbaz Sharif to abandon 

his supporters and 

cross into Punjab alone. 

“I received a telephone 

call from Shehbaz Sharif 

about half an hour before 

our march set off for 

Islamabad. He offered me 

safe passage to Punjab 

alone, but rejected his 

offer,” Khattak told the 

media. 

PTI files intra court 

appeal against IHC 

verdict of sit-in 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: PTI 

has filed an inter-court 

appeal against Oct 31 verdict 

of sit-in on November 

2 in Islamabad High Court. 

The intra-court appeal 

was filed by PTI’s leader 

Muhammad Bilal. In plea, 

it is adopted that facts were 

not considered by the single 

bench of the court in its verdict 

adding that stance was 

not heard by the court and 

the verdict was issued in 

emergency. PTI wants the 

complete inquiry of panama 

leaks and it is its constitutional 

right and requested 

the court that verdict of Oct 

31 should be declared null 

and void. 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: PTI 

has postponed its planned 

'lockdown' of the federal capital 

(today) on November 2. 

During his address in Bani 

Gala, PTI chief Imran Khan 

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PTI to celebrate ‘Thanksgiving Day’ today 

Imran backs down from 

threat to Islamabad 'lockdown' 

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman, Imran Khan addressing party 

workers and media persons during press conference. 

told party workers to go home 

rest and reach Parade Ground 

today (Wednesday) at 2 PM 

where Youm-e-Tashakur (day 

of thanks) would be celebrated. 

“We will gather one million 

people in Parade Ground 

tomorrow,” Khan said. 

Khan stated that the protest 

had been called off as the SC 

had started investigation of 

Panama Leaks. 

The PTI chief praised the 

Supreme Court for summoning 

a reply from Prime 

Minister Nawaz Sharif on 

November 3. 

“I am glad the Supreme 

Court has directed the prime 

UN observers visit LoC to obtain 

first hand info of Indian firing: ISPR 

RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: The 

Indian border forces committed 

178 ceasefire violations 

at Line of Control 

(LoC) and Working boundary 

in 2016 due to which 19 

civilians embraced Shahadat 

and 80 were injured, according 

to the Inter Services 

Public Relations (ISPR). 

In a statement issued on 

Tuesday, the ISPR said that 

a group of United Nations 

Military Observer Group in 

India and Pakistan 

UNMOGIP visited the LoC 

near Kotli today and 

obtained first-hand information 

of Indian high handedness 

of targeting civil population 

near the Line of 

Control. 

The ISPR said that during 

this year 11 civilians have 

embraced Shahadat due to 

unprovoked Indian firing 

minister to present himself for 

accountability,” Khan said. 

The PTI chief paid tribute 

to party workers, especially 

Pervaiz Khattak and his team. 

PTI had announced that it 

will ‘lockdown’ Islamabad on 

November 2 to pressurize the 

prime minister to hold himself 

accountable for alleged 

offshore accounts owned by 

his family named in the 

Panama Papers. 

Other parties including the 

Pakistan People's Party which 

initially formed joint opposition 

with the PTI had asked it 

to wait for the Supreme Court 

hearing. 

Won’t be part of PTI’s 

rally: Tahirul Qadri 

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chief Tahirul Qadri on 

Tuesday said his party would not be a part of Imran’s ‘thanksgiving’ 

rally as Imran Khan did not take him into confidence over 

matters. PAT chief Qadri said that if a protest was taking place 

then he would have considered joining, but now it is ‘out of question’. 

PTI has postponed its planned lockdown of the federal capital 

and is instead celebrating a day of gratitude today. 

and 29 were seriously 

injured. It said that 8 civilian 

embraced Shahadat at the 

Working Boundary near 

Sialkot and Shakargarh and 

51 were seriously injured 

due to Indian unprovoked 

firing since January 2016. 

Some of the pictures of 

civilians who were injured 

on October 30 near Kotli on 

Line of Control are appended 

below. 

PPP to table Panama bill on Nov 4 

in Parliament: Khursheed Shah 


Opposition leader in the 

National Assembly Syed 

Khursheed Ahmed Shah has 

stated that his party would 

table Panama bill in the 

Parliament on Nov. 04 

demanding to initiate measures 

for the elimination of 

corruption and unemployment 

in the country. 

Talking to media outside 

the parliament house, he said 

that all the parties have signed 

on the proposed bill of PPP. 

He strongly condemned the 

incident of previous day with 

Chief Minister KPK and said 

that government wants to 

destabilize the federation and 

playing with federation 

adding that anti-Pakistan 

forces can take this opportunity 

into granted. 

“In PPP’s regime Wali 

Khan had threatened to lockdown 

the KPK but the government 

settled all the matters 

with him on table”, he added 

and maintained that more 

measures are required to rescue 

the country from corruption 

and the tenure of existing 

government should be 

reduced from 5 to 4 years. He 

said that our people got tired 

and all the problems would be 

resolved if one year is 

reduced from the tenure. 

13 dead, over 60 hurt in Gadani 

ship-breaking yard explosion 

Staff Reporter 

GADANI, Nov 1: At least 

13 people were killed and 

more than 61 injured on 

Tuesday after a huge blast 

ripped through an oil tanker 

at a ship-breaking yard, 

trapping others inside the 

vessel, local officials said. 

The leader of a shipbreaking 

workers union said 

fire had engulfed the vessel 

moored in Gaddani, 45km 

(28 miles) northwest of the 

port city of Karachi. 

"Things are really bad 

here," union president 

Basheer Mehmoodani told 

GADANI: Smoke seen rising high from a ship in which fire 

erupted after a blast at Gadani Ship Breaking Yard. 

reporter by telephone. 

"There’s an unclear number 

of workers said to be 

trapped in the burning ship." 

At least 13 people were 

killed and another 61 

injured in the blast, said 

Zulfiqar Bokhari, a senior 

administrative official in the 

area. Nasir Mansoor, a representative 

of the National 

Trade Union Federation of 

Pakistan, said the explosion 

sent pieces of metal flying 

up to two kilometres (one 

mile) away. 

The blast occurred in the 

fuel tank of the ship, which 

was still on fire, he said. 

Firefighters from 

Karachi and from the air 

force and navy were 

attempting to put out the 

blaze, he said. 

PML-N, PTI agree on Panama 

Commission; SC seeks ToRs 

CJ orders all sides to show restraint in the present situation 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The 

Supreme Court of Pakistan on 

Tuesday sought Terms of 

Reference (ToRs) from 

Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan 

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after 

they agreed on formation of a 

Commission to probe Panama 

leaks. However, PTI said that 

it would accept the 

Commission under terms of 

reference (ToRs) prepared by 

the Joint Opposition. 

A five-member bench of 

the apex court headed by 


Interior Minister Chaudhry 

Nisar while addressing a press 

conference on Tuesday in 

Islamabad referring to the 

events of the past few hours 

said, "There are no winners or 

losers today." 

Nisar's statement comes as 

the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf 

(PTI), pivoting from protest to 

Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer 

Jamali and comprising Justice 

Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice 

Amir Hani Muslim, Justice 

Sheikh Azmat Saeed and 

Justice Ijazul Hassan resumed 

hearing of petitions on 

Panama Papers in Islamabad 

at 01:00 am on Tuesday. 

The Court sought ToRs and 

suggestions about Panama 

Commission from both the 

parties. The Court also asked 

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 

and his family to submit their 

replies in two days. 

In his remarks, the Chief 

Justice said that the 

Commission would enjoy 

equal powers as the Supreme 

Court had. 

The Chief Justice asked 

both parties to show restraint. 

“We have to save the country 

from unrest and crises,” 

Justice Jamali said, adding 

that the Panama Papers issue 

had affected the entire country. 

Justice Asif Saeed Khosa 

said that the Court would not 

take too long to announce its 

verdict. 

Pakistan won, no one suffered 

a defeat today, says Nisar 

Nisar welcomes PTI's withdrawal of 'Islamabad lockdown' call 

peaceful celebration, said its 

planned Nov 2 'lockdown' 

would instead be marked as a 

day of thanksgiving. 

The party's turnaround 

came as the Supreme Court, 

hearing the Panamagate case, 

asked the government and 

opposition to submit their 

Terms of Reference on the formation 

of a judicial commission 

to probe the Panama 

leaks. "Today Pakistan has 

won," Nisar said. "Pakistan's 

win is in peace, democracy, 

rule of law and reliance on our 

institutions." 

"I appreciate and welcome 

what Imran Khan has said," 

Nisar said, referring to the 

PTI's decision to shelve their 

'lockdown' plans. 

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016 

Metropolitan 

Dr Asim, Rauf, Qaimkhani, Moazzam 

bailed out in terrorists treatment case 

KARACHI, 

Dr. SJA Jafri 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Sindh 

High Court (SHC) on Tuesday 

granted bails to Dr Asim 

Hussain, a former petroleum 

minister belonging to Pakistan 

People's Party, Muttahida 

Qaumi Movement MPA Rauf 

Siddiqui, Pak Sarzameen 

Party leader Anis Qaimkhani 

and a Pasban-e-Pakistan 

leader Usman Moazzam in a 

case pertaining to treatment 

and harbouring of terrorists at 


KARACHI, Nov 1: Jamaat-e- 

Islami karachi (JI) Karachi 

chief Engr. Hafiz Naeem-ur- 

Rehman hailed the services of 

Alkhidmat and termed the JI's 

welfare wing as role model for 

other nongovernmental organizations. 

He expressed these views 

on Tuesday while inaugurating 

a pharmacy and laboratory 

Ziauddin hospital. 

A division bench, headed 

by Justice Muhammad Ali 

Mazhar, approved the bail for 

the applicants against the surety 

bond of Rs500,000 each. 

The bench was specially constituted 

by the SHC chief justice 

after four different benches 

of the court declined to proceed 

with bail pleas of the 

accused persons owing to 

separate reasons. 

The court also restrained 

and collection unit facilities. 

He said that a large number 

of NGOs have been working 

in the society with massive 

funds but the services rendered 

by Alkhidmat are 

matchless. 

The JI leader said that 

Alkhidmat's services range 

from hospitals to orphan 

homes and fumigation spray 

campaigns to provision of 

potable water. 

all the accused from leaving 

for abarod without permission 

of the trial court. It asked them 

to deposit their passports in the 

anti-terrorism court. 

Dr Asim has been facing 

charges of providing medical 

facilities to the militants 

belonging to MQM and 

banned outfits at two branches 

of his hospital. While other 

leaders, including Waseem 

Akhtar, Mayor Karachi, Rauf 

Siddiqui, Anees Qaimkhani, 

He said that provision of 

health facility is among basic 

obligations of a government 

but the deteriorating situations 

of government run hospitals is 

evident on the inability of the 

ruling regime. He added due 

to the dismal situation of public 

health sectors, Alkhidmat 

has founded health facilities 

in Gulshan-e-Memar Zone, 

like other parts of the city. 

On the occasion, he 

Usman Moazzam and Abdul 

Qadir Patel has been booked 

by police for allegdly asking 

Dr Asim to make treatment of 

the suspected terrorists. 

Dr Asim has been arrested 

for last 15 months as the 

Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) 

nabbed him in August 2015. 

He was detained for 90 days 

and was handed over to police 

in November 2015 after the 

registration of an FIR. 

Whereas, Waseem Akhtar, 

Rauf Siddiqui, and Anees 

Qaimkhani were arrested in 

July 2016 within the premises 

of Anti-Terrorism Court after 

their interim bails were cancelled 

by the judge who 

ordered their arrest. 

The accused persons had 

moved the high court seeking 

their bail after arrest. During 

the hearing, Barrister Sardar 

Abdul Latif Khosa, who represented 

Dr Asim, argued that 

the case lacked legal ground as 

it was registered on the basis 

of the joint investigation team 

(JIT) report. The investigation 

officer had recommended 

dropping the charges against 

Dr Asim but the administrative 

judge of the anti-terrorism 

courts rejected his report. 

Rauf Siddiqui's lawyer 

JI demands govt to take notice against fake medicines 

Online system of quality assesment of 

education is vital, Dr. Munir Hussain 

Karachi: Director, Quality Enhancement Cell, M.AJinnah University,Karachi Dr. Munir 

Hussain presiding over a meeting to review standard of higher education with senior faculty 

members of the University, last evening. 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Director, 

Quality Enhancement Cell, 

(QEC) Muhammad Ali Jinnah 

University, Karachi Dr. Munir 

Hussain said that we have initiated 

the online system of 

quality assessment of education, 

faculty, programs and 

courses. This he stated while 

he was presiding over a meeting 

Which was called to discuss 

overall improvement in 

present higher education system 

of the university. The 

meeting was attended by 

Associate Dean, Management 

Sciences Dr. Shujaat Mubarak, 

head of Business 

Administration, Dr. Shafiq Ur 

Rehman, Head of Computer 

Science department Dr. 

Shoukat Wasi, Director 

Research & Academic Dr. 

Syed Imran Jami and other 

senior faculty members. 

Dr. Munir elaborated that 

new and enhanced system of 

quality will increase our affiliation 

with the corporate sector, 

alumni and education regulatory 

bodies. He said that this system 

also provide the foundation 

to evaluate and enhance 

our academic program and 

courses according to international 

standards. Moreover, 

this system helps us to better 

connect with student’s academic 

needs and development, 

he added. He further emphasized 

that in addition we have 

enhanced the system to monitor 

and enhance the faculty 

needs and development. 

Culture of research increases 

academic growth: Dr Qaiser 


KARACHI: Nov 1: The 

Vice Chancellor (VC) of 

University of Karachi (KU), 

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qaiser 

said that Culture of Research 

can play a pivotal role in the 

academic growth and development 

of universities. 

Teachers are the guardians 

of the educational system 

and the nation has high 

hopes attached with them. 

Modernization of educational 

system has played a significant 

role in raising the 

academic and research level. 

Culture of research and academics 

must be promoted in 

the varsities. Sincere and 

honest teachers are a prime 

asset to University of 

Karachi. He was expressing 

his views while addressing 

at the Annual Function of 

Karachi University 

Teachers’ Society at Shaikh 

Zayed Research Centre 

Auditorium KU. 

raised the issue of fake medicines 

and said that as per 

conservative estimates some 

40 percent medicines available 

in the city are fake and 

counterfeit. 

Terming the situation 

alarming, he demanded of 

the interior ministry to take 

notice of the issue and take 

strict action against all those 

involve in this heinous crime 

against humanity. 

E&T minister 

hands over offer 

letters to 27 ETOs 

KARACHI, Nov 1: 

Provincial Minister for 

Excise and Taxation 

Mukesh Kumar Chawla 

said on Tuesday that it is a 

prime duty of government 

officers to perform their 

duties honestly and they 

should have capability to 

work under pressure and 

not to bow before any illegal 

demands. 

This he said while distributing 

offer letters to 27 

ETOs who passed Sindh 

Public Service Commission 

Examination, here at his 

office on Tuesday. On this 

occasion, Secretary Excise 

and Taxation Dr Mansoor 

Abbas Rizvi and Director 

General Shoaib Ahmed 

Siddiqui were also present. 

He said that he was 

really happy to see young 

and talented officers who 

had qualified SPSC exam 

and to see a girl among 

them was also a pleasant 

surprise and it showed that 

girls were second to none 

in any field. 


KARACHI, Nov 1: Grand 

Fashion Bazaar by Ayesha 

Nizam 2016 (season#8) was 

organized at Grand Excelsior 

Hotel, Bur Dubai! It was 

dubai's biggest lifestyle and 

fashion exhibition in which 

designers from India, Pakistan, 

Bahrain and UAE participated 

and display their latest collections 

of designers' dresses, 

jewellery, handicrafts, etc. 

Huge footfall , Potential buyers 

& Excellent sale done by 

respected International & 

Local exhibitors. 

Event was attended by 

famous pakistani celebrity 

couple Mr. Faysal Qureshi and 

his wife Sana Faysal. 

contended that the investigation 

officer had recorded the 

statements of 19 witnesses but 

no witness had deposed 

against his client. The counsel 

for Anis Qaimkhani said that 

the investigation officer had 

not mentioned any injured or 

suspect who allegedly got 

treated at the hospital on the 

instructions from his client. 

Special public prosecutor 

Ayaz Tunio did not oppose the 

grant of bail to Dr Asim on 

Medical grounds. However, 

the Rangers counsel opposed 

the bail pleas, contending that 

the target killers who got 

injured during the encounters 

with the law enforcement 

agencies were brought to the 

hospital for treatment. There 

were 330 FIRs registered 

against those who were treated 

at his hospital, he added. 

After hearing the arguments 

from all sides, the 

SHC special bench granted 

bails to above mentioned 

accused. The bench observed 

that a considerable time had 

been passed, yet the trial 

court had not framed charges 

against the accused persons. 

It directed the trial court to 

conclude the trial within period 

of two months. 

PILER demands 

safety for shipbreaking 

industry 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Pakistan 

Institute of Labour Education 

and Research (PILER) has 

expressed shock and grief over 

death of 10 workers and 

injuries to others in an explosion 

on board an oil tanker at 

Gadani ship-breaking yard 

today and demanded the 

provincial government of 

Balochistan to ensure provision 

of proper health and safety 

facilities to all workers. 

In a statement here on 

Tuesday, PILER Executive 

Director Karamat Ali deplored 

the worst ever working conditions 

for the workers at the shipbreaking 

yard in Gadani town 

and despite various accidents in 

the past, no measure for provision 

of health and safety related 

arrangements have been made. 

PILER has demanded the 

provincial govt to ensure provision 

of all types of emergency, 

relief and medical services at 

the yard on permanent basis. 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Chief 

Secretary Sindh Muhammad 

Siddique Memon presided 

over a meeting regarding 

deceased quota pertaining to 

the Sindh Health Department, 

and finalized 55 cases for 

recruitment of the son/daughter 

of the deceased employees, 

thereof, duly approved by the 

Chief Minister Syed Murad 

Ali Shah. 

According to details till 

now, 365 employments on 

deceased quota linked to the 

14 suspects rounded up in Karachi 

Nov 1: In a 

major swoop, Karachi 

Police have conducted 

search operation in different 

areas and rounded up 

14 suspected persons. 

On a tip-off, police conducted 

door-to-door 

checking during search 

KARACHI, Nov 1: A delegation 

of senior members of 

Council of Pakistan 

Newspaper Editors (CPNE) 

met with Karachi Corps 

Commander Lieutenant 

General Naveed Mukhtar led 

by Secretary General Aijazul-Haq 

and discussed the 

internal and external situation 

of country besides safety and 

security of journalists. 

CPNE resolved to defend 

the supremacy of the constitution 

and determined that the 

365 jobs under 

deceased quota okayed 

operation in Baldia Ittehad 

Town and apprehended 

four suspects on Tuesday. 

During the search operation, 

all the entry and exit 

points of the area were 

sealed afterwards the 

search operation was 

launched in the area. 

all newspapers, magazines 

will never compromise on the 

national security. 

The delegation appreciated 

the Pakistan Army’s success 

and sacrifices in the Operation 

Zarb-e-Azb and also praised 

the restoration of peace especially 

in Karachi. 

Corps Commander 

Lieutenant General Naveed 

Mukhtar welcomed the 

CPNE delegation and assured 

full support to the editors to 

address the problems and 

Meanwhile, the Police 

also conducted a search 

operation in different areas 

of New Karachi area and 

rounded up 10 suspects. 

The suspected persons 

have been shifted to relevant 

police stations for 

further investigations. 

CPNE Delegation calls on 

Corps Commander Karachi 

KARACHI: Corps Commander Karachi Lt. General Naveed Mukhtar in a group photo on the 

occasion of meeting with a delegation of senior members of Council of Pakistan Newspaper 

Editors (CPNE) led by Secretary General Aijazul Haq. CPNE members Amir Mehmood, Wamik 

Zuberi, Dr Jabbar Khattak, Akram Sehgal, Qazi Asad Abid, Ghulam Nabi Chandio, Dr Yousaf 

Azeemi, Saeed Khawer, Rafique Afghan and Abdul Khaliq Ali are also present on the occasion. 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Huawei – 

the global technology-leading 

company in electronics and 

telecommunications has 

announced the beginning of its 

annual recruitment drive for 

departments of Agriculture, 

Irrigation, Excise & Taxation, 

Livestock & Fisheries, 

SGA&CD, Health and Works 

& Service, have been okayed 

by the Chief Minister Sindh, 

as well the cases for finalization 

have been processed by 

the committee headed by the 

Chief Secretary Sindh. The 

Chief Secretary stressed the 

need of filling up vacancies, 

under reference, transparently, 

in accordance with the rules 

and regulations. 

Ayesha Nizam organizes Grand 

Fashion Bazar 2016 

KARACHI: Models perform catwalk during the fashion show 

grand Bazar by Ayesh Nizam 

the year 2016. The first screening 

session was recently held 

at the Lahore University of 

Management Sciences 

(LUMS). This broad-based 

programme will comprise of 

security challenges being 

faced by journalists. He also 

reiterated commitment to save 

the country’s borders from 

external and internal threats. 

The participants of the 

delegation were Aijaz-ul- 

Haq, Aamir Mahmood, 

Wamiq A. Zuberi, Dr.Jabbar 

Khattak, Ikram Sehgal, Kazi 

Asad Abid, Ghulam Nabi 

Chandio, Dr.Waqar Yousuf 

Azeemi, Saeed Khawar, 

Rafeeq Afghan and Abdul 

Khalique Ali. 

Huawei begins its annual 

recruitment drive from LUMS 

numerous talent-hunt sessions 

being held at all the progressive 

institutions of higher 

learning, where Huawei will 

be selecting a fresh breed of 

management trainees and 

competitive professionals, 

who will get opportunities to 

be employed in the; 

Marketing, Service, Finance, 

Supply-Chain and Retail functions 

of Huawei. This transparent 

recruitment drive started 

off with a presentation 

delivered by the senior management 

of Huawei, including; 

Deputy General Manager - Mr 

Fraz Malik Khan. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC East, Syed Anwar Moid along with 

Senior Director Municipal Services, Masood Alam inspecting 

cleanliness work around Expo Centre. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi algon 

with Farhat Khan inspecting ongoing cleanliness drive at 

North Nazimabad. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Nayar Raza along 

with Municipal Commissioner, Ameer Bux Junejo chairing a 

meeting with Municipal Officers. 

KARACHI: Administrator DMC West, Iqtadar Ahmed presiding 

a meeting.


National 

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Hurriyet leaders extend protest 

call in occupied Kashmir till Nov 

SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Hurriyet 

leaders on Tuesday have 

extended the protest call in 

occupied Kashmir till 


Normal life remained 

affected in the strife-torn valley 

for the 116th consecutive 

day, today, due to the shutdown 

against the civilian 

killings. 

Shops and business establishments 

were closed and 

traffic was off the road. 

Forces’ personnel have been 

deployed in strength in markets 

and along the main roads. 

All routes leading to historic 

Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, 

remained closed and a large 

number of forces’ personnel 

remained deployed to prevent 

people from entering the area. 

Chairman of All Parties 

Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali 

Gilani has said that the killing 

of civilian people by Indian 

armed forces is a part of a 

well-planned strategy of the 

Indian authorities. 

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a 

statement urged the global 

Sending two electricity bills in one 

month to IESCO consumers protested 


IESCO has caused embarrassment 

among the poor 

consumers by allegedly 

sending two electricity 

bills in one month. 

Last date for payment 

of electricity bills for the 

month of September for 

consumers of Saham sub 

division was fixed 

October 4 and on the 

other hand last date for 

the payment of electricity 

bills for the month of 

October was fixed 

October 28. This way the 

consumers of this sub 

division were forced to 

pay two electricity bills in 

one month. 

The consumers have 

voiced strong protest over 

maladministration on the 

part of IESCO saying that 

it is next to impossible to 

pay two electricity bills in 

PhD seminar in English 

literature scheduled for Nov 7 

JAMSHORO, Nov 1: Prof. 

Dr. Syed Jawed Iqbal, Dean, 

Faculty of Arts, University of 

Sindh has announced that the 

schedule first PhD seminar of 

the scholar Fozia Chandio, 

Institute of English Language 

& Literature will be held on 

Monday 7th November at 

12:00 Noon at Institute of 

English Language & 

Literature. The scholar is carrying 

out her studies under the 

supervision of Dr. Faraz Ali 

Bughio and Co-Guide Prof. 

Dr. Rafique Memon; these 

supervisors will also present 

on the seminar. Dean, Faculty 

of Arts has invited all research 

scholars and teachers to attend 

this seminar. 

One-day workshop on how to write 

M. Phil and PHD Research Proposal? 

KHAIRPUR: A group photo of participants of the one-day workshop with Dr. Agha Nadia, 

Incharge, Institute of Gender Studies, Shah Abdul Latif University. 

KHAIRPUR, No 1: One-Day 

workshop on “How to write 

M. Phil and PhD Research 

proposal?” was organized by 

the Institute of Gender Studies, 

Shah Abdul Latif University, 

Khairpur. 

Dr. Agha Nadia was the 

Resource Person of this workshop. 

This workshop has been 

organized specifically for the 

faculty members of who are 

enrolled in M. Phil and PhD 

program. The teachers from 

the Departments of 

Commerce, Pakistan Studies, 

Public Administration, Media 

Studies, Political Science, 

Sociology, Institute of Islamic 

Studies and Institute of 

International Relations participated 

in the workshop. Dr. 

Nadia said, research plays a 

vital role in the strengthening 

any educational institution. 

The aim of this workshop 

was to mentor and prepare 

young faculty members at 

Shah Abdul Latif University in 

the embarking their research, 

writings research proposals in 

their respective fields. 

During the workshop, various 

types of research proposals 

were discussed in the detail. 

The workshop ended with 

question answer session. 

The Resource Person of the 

workshop assured the research 

scholars and teachers that such 

types of activities will be continued 

in future as well. 

DATE OF ADMISSIONS 

FOR M.S, M. PHIL L.L.M 

AND PHD EXTENDED: 

Prof. Dr. Nisar Ahmed Kanhar, 

Director, Post Graduate 

Studies, Shah Abdul Latif 

University, Khairpur has 

announced that the last date for 

the issuance and submission of 

admission forms of M.S, M. 

Phil, L.L.M and PhD programs 

in various disciplines is hereby 

extended up to 10th November, 

2016. The Pre-Entry test of 

cited programs will be conducted 

at the premises of the respective 

Departments on 17th 

November 2016. 

ISLAMABAD: Activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chant slogans during a protest against 

arrest party workers who trying to go towards the Banigala residence of chairman Imran Khan. 

one month. 

They demanded of 

IESCO chief executive to 

extend the date for payment 

of electricity bills 

for the month of October 

otherwise they will be 

forced to go to streets 

against this injustice. 

Rampant 

power outage 

hit Naundero 

NAUNDERO, Nov 1: The 

residents of Bhutto leaders 

hometown, Naundero, were 

again made victims of rampant 

power outage here on 

whole Tuesday night. 

Half of the town plunged 

into darkness as high tension 

live wires collided with each 

other outside grid station 

which were burnt and fell 

down due to which power 

remained off for consumers 

of feeder-1 throughout the 

night. It was restored at 9.00 

am on Tuesday morning. 

This is the second time in a 

week when live wires have 

crashed. 

Incharge SDO Sepco 

Naundero Amanullah Brohi 

told reporters that there was 

no proper staff to repair the 

cables, hence supply 

remained off during the night 

leaving the denizens at the 

mercy of thieves and mosquitoes. 

Grid station incharge 

Abdul Ghaffar Lashari said 

that he also called technical 

staff of the grid station from 

Larkana who repaired and 

restored the supply. 

Major portion of this town 

has been put on feeder-1 

where highhandedness of the 

Sepco staff has always been 

noticed by the consumers. 

They have been complaining 

about forced load shedding 

over and above the scheduled 

& announced outage due to 

which they had been protesting 

but the Sepco employees 

did not improve their working 

as if they are above the 

law of the land. 

“GRE training workshops to greatly 

assist scholarship aspirants”: Dr. Memon 

JAMSHORO, Nov 1: The 

Quality Enhancement Cell 

of University of Sindh in 

collaboration with US 

Education Foundation, 

Pakistan organized One- 

Day Workshop on GRE Test 

Preparation at the Senate 

Hall of Syed Ghulam 

Mustafa 

Shah 

Administration Building at 

the Varsity. A large number 

of faculty, researchers and 

advanced level students participated 

in this workshop. 

Syed Faraz Hussain, Senior 

Educational Advisor, USEF 

Pakistan and Zeeshan 

Rahat, Principal Advisor on 

GRE Test Preparation and 

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ISLAMABAD, 

forums to resolve the Kashmir 

dispute to avert escalation of 

tension between Pakistan and 

India. Hospital record says 

that over 1631 civilians have 

been hit in face with pellets by 

Indian armed forces during the 

115 days of uprising, with 

1,100 of them having injuries 

in eyes. 

Indian violence in the 

occupied valley has killed 

more than 100 Kashmiris and 

injured over 14,000 locals 

since the uprising that was 

triggered by the killing of 

Hizbul Mujahideen commander 

Burhan Wani by 

Indian forces on July 8. 

Moreover, at least 9000 

Kashmiris have been 

detained during the threemonth 

crackdown. 

Mulberry 

compound helps 

in weight loss 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: A 

new study suggests mulberries 

could be key to new 

treatments for obesity, after 

finding a natural compound 

in the fruit activates brown 

fat, boosting metabolism 

and aiding weight loss. 

Study co-author Wan- 

Zhu Jin, Ph.D., of the 

Institute of Zoology at the 

Chinese Academy of 

Sciences, and team set out 

to investigate the metabolic 

effects of rutin, with the 

aim of determining 

whether the compound 

might aid weight loss. 

Mulberries are believed 

to have a wealth of health 

benefits, including reduced 

cholesterol, improved 

blood sugar levels, and 

lower risk of cancer. 

Obesity has become a 

significant health concern 

in the United States; more 

than 1 in 3 adults and and 1 

in 6 children and adolescents 

are obese, putting 

them at greater risk of type 

2 diabetes, high blood 

pressure, heart disease, 

stroke, and some types of 

cancer. 

Fulbright Scholarship 

Program facilitated the 

event as trainers. The trainers 

appreciated active 

involvement of the participants 

and the relevance and 

quality of their questions. 

The participants expressed 

their gratitude to Prof. Dr. 

Muhammad Siddique 

Containers placed in Red Zone 

causing panic for students 

Nov 1: The 

authorities have sealed the 

Red Zone by placing containers 

causing panic for students 

and public. 

Sawan Khaskheli 

BADIN, Nov 1: Dozens of 

residents of Ahmed Rajo have 

held protest and token hunger 

strike for several hours infront 

of Badin Press Club on 

Tuesday against the illegal 

occupation of their land by 

influential when Pakistan 

Fisher Folk Forum Badin 

Chapter has also vowed to 

support the affectees. 

Kalhoro, Vice-Chancellor, 

University of Sindh and the 

management of USEFP for 

having brought them the 

given great learning opportunity. 

Earlier, Dr. Shahzad 

Memon, Director, Quality 

The authorities have 

blocked all the exit and entry 

points and sealed Red Zone 

owing to Pakistan Tehreek 

Insaf (PTI) mass protest. The 

According to the report, 

dozens of the protesters 

from Ahmed Rajo has held 

protest and token hunger 

strike in-front Badin Press 

Club along with children 

and women against illegal 

occupation of the their land 

when representatives of PFF 

Badin including Mithan 

Mallah, Umar Mallah, 

Qasim and Hassan Mallah 

have also joined the protest 

erection of containers in red 

zone caused panic for students 

and they went to schools by 

foot after their vehicles were 

stuck in erected containers. 

Dozens of residents hold token hunger 

strike against occupation of their land 

and hunger strike. 

Protesters said that some 

influential by the force of 

weapons have occupied their 

land which was under their 

control from ancestors 

adding they told they are 

threatening them for loss of 

their lives. They appealed to 

Govt of Sindh, SSP Badin 

and other high ups for the 

protection of the lives and 

recovered their land. 

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

theft and cutting defaulters’ connections and kunda. 

AIOU holds postgraduate 

exams as per schedule 


Allama Iqbal Open 

University (AIOU) continued 

its post-graduate programs’ 

exams in Rawalpindi and 

Islamabad as per schedule, 

notified earlier. 

The exams to take place 

daily, starting from Tuesday, 

said Controller Exams. The 

Programs include: PGD, 

MA/M.Sc, MS/M.Phil and 

Ph.D. Replying to students’ 

certain queries, he said necessary 

arrangements for timely 

conducing the exams have 

already been done. 

Roll Number slips have 

been dispatched to all the students, 

enrolled for Semester 

Spring 2016, at their postal 

addresses. The same have 

also been placed at the 

University’s official website. 

Nisar gets warm welcome at Mohenjo Daro 

LARKANA, Nov 1: 

Hundreds of people of two 

twin districts of Larkana & 

Kambar-Shahdadkot arrived 

at Mohenjo Daro airport to 

give rousing welcome to 

recently appointed Pakistan 

Peoples Party Sindh President 

Nisar Ahmed Khuhro who is 

also Sindh's senior Minister 

for Food Department. 

Rows of vehicles were 

seen following him as he was 

standing on top of truck along 

with MNA Aijaz Jakhrani, 

MPAs Khursheed Junejo, 

Muhammad Ali Bhutto, agriculture 

minister Suhail Siyal, 

Larkana mayor Aslam Shaikh 

and others. He was garlanded 

and people showered rose 

petals over him as he was also 

wearing a traditional Boski 

LARKANA: Large number of people of Larkana and Kambar- 

Shahdadkot Districts are welcoming to Sindh Senior 

Minister for Food, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on his arrival at 

Otha Chowk as he reached his hometown for the first time 

after being nominated as Sindh PPP President. 

turban. He waved to the crowd 

responding to their welcome 

slogans and Jeeay Bhutto. 

Welcome camps were also 

established almost at every 

village such as Wikro, Areeja, 

Bakrani, Hatti, Otha roundabout 

and so forth which came 

on the route. While addressing 

the activists he thanked PPP 

Chairman Bilawal Bhutto 

Zardari, Co-Chairman Asif 

Zardari and Faryal Talpur for 

appointing him as Sindh PPP 

Chief keeping in view the peoples 

mandate, he added. 

He said he is pleased to 

find a large welcome rally by 

the people of his hometown. 

He assured the participants 

that he will remain loyal to 

PPP Chief BBZ, co-chairman 

AAZ and Faryal Talpur 

adding he will work tirelessly 

for the welfare & well being 

of the masses. Khuhro said 

that he has been serving the 

poor and will continue to do 

so adding his life & death will 

be with them as they are his 

treasure. 

Enhancement Cell, in his 

welcome remarks observed 

that the events like the one 

being in session would 

enormously help young 

teachers and senior students 

towards getting better prepared 

to win national as 

well as international scholarship 

opportunities. Dr. 

Memon appreciated the 

joint venture and hinted at 

the productive outcomes of 

the day’s event. 

JAMSHORO: Syed Faraz Hussain, Advisor and Zeeshan Rahat, Principal Advisor on GRE Test Preparation of the USEF 

Pakistan and Dr. Shahzad Memon speaking in one-day workshop on "GRE Test Preparation and Fulbright Scholarship", 

organized by Quality Enhancement Cell, University of Sindh

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National 

Pakistan Army major martyred 

in Waziristan IED blast 

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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

Society is changing fast, not from good to best, but 

from bad to worst. It's duty of historians, thinkers, 

guides and spiritualists to point it out and amend it in 

as better ways as possible. Reminder: Being right is not 

wrong, and being wrong is not right. 

Do people think, say and do what is right, just, necessary 

and even compulsory, in a world which is so wrong 

that majority of ordinary people and common folks cannot 

even imagine, let alone believe, in a world not much known 

about its hypocrisy? 

Bad thinking, saying and doing was fast tracked, discouraged 

and terminated in others, at least a century ago, 

and good thinking, saying and doing was fast tracked with 

encouragement, appreciation and rewards. What’s bad was 

reduced, and what’s good was increased. 

Also to preach the right, and do the wrong, is that hypocritical 

culture that has downed the society more than 

sticks, stones, knives, rockets, missiles, bombs or drones 

could! Society’s structure of the wrong being the new right 

may be on a stretcher, wanting attention for transportation 

to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and lying neglected, half 

dead within sight of the public too afraid to touch it even 

with a 100 meter baton, lest any helpful samaritan is 

charged with crime on why he was doing any good for or 

saving the society! 

Means and resources, comfort and conveniences have 

increased up until this century and 

By Ramzy Baroud 

Despite all the threats and political grandstanding, 

Unesco’s World Heritage Committee has 

approved, on October 26, a new resolution that 

reaffirms the status of occupied Jerusalem’s Old City on 

the list of endangered world heritage sites. 

The approval of the resolution, entitled ‘Old City of 

Jerusalem and Its Walls’ comes only days after the UN 

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s executive 

board ratified a resolution in which it condemned 

Israel’s violations of the status of Palestinian holy sites. 

The text of both resolutions referred to the sites by 

their Arabic Muslim names only, which ignited a storm of 

criticism from Israel and a few Western countries as well. 

Oddly, leading the charge was Italian Prime Minister, 

Matteo Renzi. The nature of the latter’s angry remarks left 

one wondering if he even read the text of the first resolution, 

which was approved on October 12. 

“I think this is a mistaken, inconceivable resolution,” 

he said. “It is not possible to continue with these resolutions 

at the UN and Unesco that aim to attack Israel. It is 

shocking and I have ordered that we stop taking this position 

[his country’s abstention] even if it means diverging 

from the position taken by the rest of Europe.” 

True to his promise, Italy voted against the second resolution 

two weeks later. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin 

Netanyahu, replied in response, thanking Renzi for his 

anti-Palestinian stance. 

Renzi, who became Prime Minister in 2014 at the relatively 

young age of 39 knows exactly how the game is 

played. In order to win favour with Washington, he must 

first satisfy Tel Aviv. 

His country has abstained from the early October vote 

on the resolution that condemns Israel’s violations of the 

cultural and legal status of Occupied East Jerusalem. 

Then, the Unesco decision has ignited the ire of Israeli 

Ambassador to Rome Ofer Zaks, who riled the Jewish 

community in Italy to protest Italy’s abstention. 

Renzi engaged in damage control mode, clearly without 

truly understanding the nature of the resolution, which 

merely condemned Israel’s obvious violations of international 

law, and only called for Israel to respect the status 

of Palestinian culture in the occupied city. 

The subsequent resolution too hardly deviated from 

acceptable international legal norms. As described by 

Palestinian official, Saeb Erekat, the new resolution called 

for “respecting the status quo of its religious sites, including 

[Al Haram Al Sharif] that continues to be threatened 

EDITORIAL 

SHAME SERIES OF NEW WORLD 

Is being right a new wrong? 

Is being wrong a new right!? 

(I) 

OPINION 

"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong," is 

a quote from novel The Secret Purposes and may be condemned 

as utterly wrong and inhuman. But looked at from 

a historic, or sociological perspective. Does it not contain 

some truth? 

Is being wrong and forced to take hypocrisy to new 

heights is the new right lifestyle? It ought not to be. 

Right and wrong do exist in the culture we have created 

as humans. We all know that if violence without any right 

is wrong, that is why we as humans can coexist. It isn't the 

act of killing that is wrong but the reason behind it. If someone 

shoots someone only because he or she does not like 

them, then it’s widely considered as wrong. If someone 

unjustly or cruelly threatens someone’s life or life of anyone’s 

near and dear ones, without any reason or just for the 

fun, whim or pleasure out of it, then it’s a wrong. If someone 

is about to kill someone without enough reason or real 

justification, then killing in self defense may be a moral act. 

Humans are self-centered and will always do what is 

best for themselves. It is in our nature. Without an established 

norm and rules, majority idea of ethics, all kinds of 

vices will thrive: like murder, genocide, hate, evils. And 

every wrong is justified without a moral code of conduct 

and living. Of course some people don't share ideas of right 

and wrong but collectively there is a right way to live and 

treat people, and there is definitely a wrong way too, 

whether anyone accepts or rejects it, as that’s a truth. 

Jerusalem and its walls: Unesco 

refuses to bow to Israeli pressure 

by the systematic incitement and provocative actions of 

the Israeli government and extremist Jewish groups.” 

Just doing its job 

None of the procedures that led to the votes on the first 

or second resolution were accused of violating protocol, 

nor was the wording inconsistent with international law. 

In fact, Unesco was just doing its job: attempting to protect 

and preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the 

world. 

Occupied Jerusalem is a holy city to a large majority of 

humanity, simply because it is significant to the spiritual 

well-being of the adherents of the three monotheistic religions. 

In fact, the October 12 resolution stated so: 

“Affirming the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem 

and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions...” 

Renzi’s outburst is, however, particularly disappointing, 

to say the least, for the young, eager politician who so 

desperately tried to score cheap political points with Israel 

and the US without a full, or even partial comprehension 

of what the Unesco resolutions resolved. 

“To say that the Jews have no links to [occupied] 

Jerusalem is like saying the sun creates darkness,” he said, 

paraphrasing the sentiment displayed by the Israeli Prime 

Minister himself. Interestingly, the resolutions made no 

such reference. 

Chorus of denunciations 

This is what Netanyahu had said in response to the resolution 

and shortly before he suspended his country’s 

membership with Unesco. Using language that is as 

amusing as his cartoonish depiction of the Iranian nuclear 

bomb in his famous UN spectacle in 2012, he said: “To 

say that Israel has no connection to the [Al Haram Al 

Sharif] and the Western Wall is like saying that China has 

no connection to the Great Wall of China or that Egypt has 

no connection to the Pyramids.” 

Other Israeli officials followed suit with a chorus of 

denunciations. Minister of Culture, Miri Regev, cut to the 

chase by labelling the resolution “shameful and anti- 

Semitic.” 

In fact, it was neither. In addition to Renzi’s scathing 

reaction, the US and other Western governments reacted 

with exaggerated anger, again without remotely considering 

or addressing the situation on the ground, which 

prompted the resolutions — and numerous other UN resolutions 

in the past — in the first place. 

Israel is working diligently to appropriate Muslim and 

Christian heritage in occupied East Jerusalem, a city that 

is designated by international law as illegally occupied. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 

High Prices Of Text Books 

Dear Editor! 

Through the esteemed column of your newspaper I wish to draw the attention to the authorities of government 

Education is most important for all of us but the increasing prices of text books, note books are not affordable for 

everyone. Every year, there is a huge increment in the prices of text books and note books as the academic year 

starts. The month when an academic session starts prove to be really tough specially for the salary class. Book sellers 

take an amount equal to one or two months fee at the name of education material from parents. Parents become 

surprised over hearing the new raised prices of the text books. In order to cope up with the rising price of inflation, 

most of the parents buy courses in installments. 

Unfortunately, our government is doing nothing to control the increase prices of textbooks etc. I request you to 

take immediate and necessary actions to control this problem so the parents may be relieved. 

Farha Nisar, 

Karachi. 

Country heading towards 71 debacle: 

Gen Raheel be given extension 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD, Nov 1: 

Sindh National Tehrik has 

said that situation of country 

was heading towards 1971 

Dacca debacle and if rulers 

did not wake up, country can 

break up. The recent incidents 

of terrorism of Quetta and 

Nazimabad were ample proof 

that terrorists were reorganizing 

themselves. To eliminate 

terrorism from country and 

for finalization of army operation 

it was necessary that 

Army Chief General Raheel 

Sharif be given extension for 

2 years. This was stated by 

chairman Sindh National 

Tehrik Ashraf Noonari while 

talking with various delegations 

that called in him at 

Sindh House here Tuesday. 

He said it was misery of 

country that few corrupt 

rulers were holding power in 

country. One of their generating 

dismembered Pakistan 

while their second generation 

has eroded country from 

within. He said to loot the 

country their third generation 

was being prepared. He 

warned that patriotic people 

of Pakistan won’t leave 

country at mercy of Bilawal 

Zardari, Hamza Shahbaz, 

Mariam Nawaz and Asifa. He 

said Nawaz Sharif and Asif 

Zardari were running country 

like East India Company with 

no benefit to people but both 

were looting national wealth 

with both hands. He condemned 

Punjabi rulers action 

to severe land connection of 

federal capital with KPK 

which step he said was tantamount 

to hatred against small 

provinces. He said his party 

SNT demands extension in 

service of army chief General 

Raheel Sharif for at least 2 

years so the army operation 

against terrorism could reach 

its conclusion. 

The 77th anniversary of 

Bhagat Kanwar Ram celebrated 

Waheed Phulpoto 

SHIKARPUR, Nov 1: The 

77th anniversary of Shaheed 

Bhagat Kanwar Ram celebrated 

at Ruk Railway Station 

by his lovers and other multiple 

Hindu organizations here 

on Tuesday. 

Bhagat Kanwar Ram was 

a spiritual leader, singer and 

Sufi poet. Bhagat Kanwar 

Ram was assassinated over 

sectarian targeted attack at 

Ruk Railway Station in 

Shikarpur in December 1939 

when Sukkur was the district. 

Bhagat Kanwar Ram was 

born on 13th April in 1885 at 

village Jarwar, in Sukkur district. 

Nasim Bukhari, the 

renewed columnist said that, 

Girl student 

allegedly abducted 

in Rawalpindi 

RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: A 

girl student has allegedly 

been abducted within the 

Naseerabad Police jurisdiction. 

Faizan Ahmed, a resident 

of Naseerabad, lodged a 

complaint with the local 

police that kidnappers 

abducted his sister, while 

she had gone to Madrassa 

for studies. 

He suspected that Ayan 

could be behind the kidnapping. 

The police have registered 

a case and started 

investigation. 

Family looted 

at gunpoint 


family was looted at gunpoint 

within Civil Lines 

police jurisdiction. 

Malik Usman lodged a 


police stating that he along 

with his family was returning 

from their relatives 

house when two armed 

motorcyclists intercepted 

their car and held hostage 

them at gunpoint. 

He told they snatched 

Rs 25,000, four cell 

phones and jewellery 

worth thousands. The 

police have registered a 

case and started investigation. 

—Online 

it was said that when Bhagat 

Kanwar Ram used to sing the 

songs people would forget 

about everything while people 

used to offer a lot of money 

and expensive ornaments to 

Bhagat Kanwar Ram while 

during singing and dancing he 

had always unconsciously 

reached in another realm, but 

Bhagat Kanwar Ram never 

kept even a penny for himself 

or for his family out of that 

money whereas he would 

instead distribute it among the 

poor and deserving peoplewithout 

seeing their religion 

and caste. 

Saint Bhagat Ram was 

sang creations of famous 

saints and poets including 

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai 

[RA], Sachal, Sami and others, 

Nasim added. 

Nasim Bukhari further 

said and added that, saint 

Bhaghat was also sang "Raga 

Sarang" [Raga of Rain] on the 

reaction of “Raga Sarang” the 

clear sky started to fill with 

rainy clouds and a heavy rain 

followed. 

Man booked for allegedly 

hurling life threats at couple 


man has been booked for 

allegedly hurling life threats 

at a couple within the 

Westridge Police jurisdiction. 

Naved Khurshid, a resident 

of Westridge, lodged a 

PESHAWAR, Nov 1: The senior leadership 

of PTI falsely’ claimed that a mentally-challenged 

person, who committed suicide in 

Peshawar last month, was a party worker and 

died of police shelling in Swabi on Monday. 

Clashes had erupted between PTI workers 

and law enforcers on Monday as 

activists attempted to remove blockades 

from Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway in a 


police that Zakir called him 

on his cell phone and hurled 

life threats at him and his 

wife. 

The police have registered 

a case and started 

investigation. 

RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: Pakistan Army 

officer Major Imran embraced martyrdom 

and six soldiers were injured in an 

IED blast during a cordon and search 

operation in South Waziristan on 

Tuesday, Inter-Services Public 

Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. 

The incident occurred in the Wana 

district of South Waziristan agency. 

Last week a Pakistan Army officer, 

Lt Col Shahid, was martyred and 

another was critically injured in an 

accident on the Motorway while they 

were travelling from Rawalpindi to 

Nowshera. The officers had got off 

from their vehicle to look for an alternate 

route as the roads were blocked 

and fallen into a ditch. 

Private schools 

to remain closed 

for two days 

RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: Amid 

rising turmoil in the twin 

cities and PTI mass protest in 

the capital on November 2, 

private schools will remain 

closed for two days. 

The President Private 

Schools’ Management said 

that the decision has been 

taken after carefully evaluating 

the present situation in the 

twin cities and in the best 

interest of the students however 

all the teachers have 

been directed to make sure 

their presence in schools. 

SU faculty of education 

opens admissions to 

various programs 2017 

JAMSHORO, Nov 1: 

Admissions to various programs 

of studies (Morning and 

Evening) including B.Ed., 

M.Ed., B.Ed. Elementary and 

Post Graduate Diploma in 

Early Childhood Education 

(only for women) at Faculty of 

Education, Elsa Kazi Campus, 

Hyderabad are in progress. 

November 21, 2016 has been 

set as a deadline for submission 

of forms; whereas, the 

merit list will be issued on 

November 30, 2016. The last 

date for submission of fees will 

be December 10, 2016. The 

new session will commence on 

January 3, 2017. 

Thieves strike 

at a house 

RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: 

Thieves have struck at a 

house and made off with valuables 

worth millions within 

the Race Course Police jurisdiction. 

Zahid Mahmood, a 

resident of Dhok Chaudrain, 

lodged a complaint with the 

local police that thieves made 

their way into his house and 

made off with gold ornaments, 

prize bonds worth 

Rs0.2 million, laptop, hard 

disk, four wrist watches, 3 

cell phones, and other valuables 

worth Rs0.5 million. 

Family denies PTI claim of 'worker’s 

killing' in police shelling 

bid to reach Bani Gala — party chief Imran 

Khan’s residence in Islamabad, to take part 

in the party’s November 2 ‘Islamabad 

siege’. Party leaders claimed Inamullah was 

killed by police shelling of ‘expired’ teargas 

shells being fired on party workers during 

clashes with Punjab police at Swabi and 

Burhan interchanges on Peshawar- 

Islamabad motorway. 

LAHORE: Members of Young Doctors Association (YDA) chant slogans for acceptance of their 

demands during protest demonstration outside Punjab Assembly building.


International 

5 

Iraqi forces target Islamic State 

defenses on Mosul's eastern edge 

RIYADH, 

EAST OF MOSUL, Nov 1: 

Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.- 

led air coalition targeted 

Islamic State defenses on the 

eastern edge of Mosul with 

artillery fire and air strikes on 

Tuesday, a day after fighting 

for the first time inside the city. 

Blackish grey smoke hung 

in the air east of the Islamists' 

stronghold and the regular 

sound of outgoing artillery fire 

could be heard, said a Reuters 

reporter near Bazwaia, about 

five km (three miles) east of 

Mosul. 

Explosions could be heard 

further east. 

"We are currently fighting 

battles on the eastern outskirts 

of Mosul," Lieutenant- 

General Abdul Wahab al-Saidi 

of the elite Counter Terrorism 

Service (CTS) said. 

"The pressure is on all 

sides of the city to facilitate 

entry to the city center." 

Two weeks after Iraqi 

forces, backed by extensive 

U.S.-led ground and air support, 

launched their campaign 

to retake Mosul from Islamic 

State, they have cleared scores 

of villages and towns on the 

Nineveh plain east of the city 

and are advancing along the 

Tigris river from the south. 

But fighting inside the city 

itself, the jihadists' last big 

bastion in Iraq and still home 

to 1.5 million residents, could 

take months. 

The offensive, involving 

regular army forces, elite 

counter terrorism units, federal 

police, Kurdish peshmerga 

fighters and Shi'ite militias, is 

the most complex since the 

2003 U.S.-led invasion which 

toppled Saddam Hussein. 

Commanders have warned 

the fighting could last for 

months. 

In Bazwaia, CTS guards 

told Reuters that a suicide car 

bomber tried to attack their 

position early on Tuesday, but 

they halted it with machine 

gun fire. Rubble and parts of 

the attacker's body could still 

be seen by a nearby berm. 

As well as the suicide 

attacks, the Islamic State militants 

have slowed the army's 

advance with snipers, mortar 

fire, roadside bombs and 

booby traps inside abandoned 

buildings. 

They have also displaced 

thousands of civilians from 

villages and forced them to 

walk alongside retreating 

fighters toward Mosul, using 

Iran court issues verdict for suspects in Saudi embassy attack 

BEIRUT, Nov 1: Iran's judiciary 

has issued verdicts for 

20 people accused of storming 

Saudi diplomatic missions 

in January and will 

announce them in the near 

future, an official was quoted 

as saying by the judiciary 

news agency on 

Tuesday. 

Sunni Muslim Saudi 

Arabia cut diplomatic relations 

with its Shi'ite 

Muslim rival Iran after protesters 

stormed the kingdom's 

embassy in Tehran 

and consulate in Mashhad 

in response to Riyadh's 

execution of a prominent 

Saudi Shi'ite cleric. 

The Iranian government 

condemned the assault and 

Kremlin says Aleppo rebel attacks 

jeopardize pause in air strikes 

MOSCOW, Nov 1: Russia 

will not be able to prolong 

a moratorium on air strikes 

against targets in Syria's 

Aleppo if rebels in the city 

continue their attacks on 

the ground, Kremlin 

spokesman Dmitry Peskov 

said on Tuesday. 

"At the moment the 

pause is continuing, the 

exit of the civilian population 

from eastern Aleppo is 

being enabled, conditions 

are being created for 

humanitarian aid," Peskov 

told a conference call with 

reporters. 

"But all that is impossible 

if the terrorists continue 

to fire on neighborhoods, 

humanitarian aid 

routes, launch attacks, and 

continue to hide behind a 

(human) shield. That will 

not permit the continuation 

of the humanitarian 

pause." 

UK spy chief sees growing threat from 

Russian cyber-attacks, espionage 

LONDON, Nov 1: Russia 

is pushing its foreign policy 

in increasingly aggressive 

ways including cyberattacks 

and espionage, posing 

a growing threat to 

Britain and the rest of 

Europe, the head of 

Britain's internal intelligence 

agency MI5 has 

said. 

The Kremlin dismissed 

the allegations as untrue 

and challenged its critics 

to produce evidence. 

MI5 Director General 

Andrew Parker said Russia 

had been a covert threat for 

decades, but what differed 

now from the Cold War era 

was that there were more 

and more methods available 

for it to pursue its 

anti-Western agenda. 

President Hassan Rouhani, 

keen to improve Tehran's 

long-strained relations with 

its neighbors and the West, 

asked the judiciary to punish 

the protesters and prevent 

further attacks. 

The Mizan news agency 

quoted a judge as saying 

that the verdicts for 20 

defendants had been issued 

and "will be announced 

soon." He did not give the 

names of the 20 and did not 

say whether they had been 

convicted or not. 

Turkish opposition paper 

vows 'will not surrender' 

after staff detained 

ISTANBUL, Nov 1: Turkey's 

secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper 

vowed "we will not surrender" 

in a front-page headline 

on Tuesday, a day after its 

editor and a dozen top staff 

were detained on accusations 

of supporting a failed July 

coup. 

Dozens of people staged a 

vigil in protest at the arrests in 

front of the newspaper's 

Istanbul offices overnight, 

some wrapped in blankets as 

they slept on benches while 

police guarded barriers outside.The 

European Union and 

United States condemned the 

move against Cumhuriyet, a 

pillar of the country's secularist 

establishment. The government 

of Turkey, a NATO 

member which aspires to join 

the EU, has so far declined 

comment other than to say it is 

a legal issue. 

Prosecutors accuse staff at 

the paper, one of few media 

outlets still critical of 

President Tayyip Erdogan, of 

committing crimes on behalf 

of Kurdish militants and the 

network of Fethullah Gulen, a 

U.S.-based cleric. 

The authorities blame 

Gulen for orchestrating the 

July 15 coup attempt in 

which rogue soldiers tried to 

seize power, killing more 

than 240 people. 

them as "human shields", U.N. 

officials and villagers have 

said. 

Mosul is many times bigger 

than any other city controlled 

by Islamic State in 

either Iraq or Syria. Its recapture 

would mark the end of the 

Iraqi wing of the caliphate 

which it declared in parts of 

both countries two years ago 

although the hardline Sunni 

militants have recovered from 

previous setbacks in Iraq. 

Prime Minister Haider al- 

Abadi said on Monday that 

Iraqi forces were trying to 

close off all escape routes for 

the several thousand Islamic 

State fighters inside Mosul. 

"God willing, we will chop 

off the snake's head," Abadi, 

wearing military fatigues, told 

state television. "They have no 

escape, they either die or surrender." 

The United Nations has 

said the Mosul offensive could 

trigger a humanitarian crisis 

and a possible refugee exodus 

if the civilians inside in Mosul 

seek to escape, with up to 1 

million people fleeing in a 

worst-case scenario. 

Pope Francis praises 

secular Sweden over 

asylum seekers 

MALMO, Nov 1: Pope 

Francis celebrated Mass on 

Tuesday for Sweden's tiny 

Catholic community, made up 

of many refugees and 

migrants, praising as "blessed" 

those in this overwhelmingly 

non-religious nation who take 

in asylum seekers. 

The main purpose of the 

pope's two-day trip was to 

take part in a joint commemoration 

with Lutherans of the 

500th anniversary of the start 

of the Reformation. 

After the historic inter-religious 

ceremony on Monday, 

Francis turned his attention to 

largely secular Sweden's 

record of accepting tens of 

thousands of asylum seekers 

last year, in contrast to many 

other European nations. 

In a football stadium 

packed with some 15,000 

spectators, Francis weaved his 

homily around Jesus' "Sermon 

on the Mount," which lists the 

Beatitudes, but added a few 

modern twists. 

"Blessed are those who 

look into the eyes of the 

abandoned and marginalized 

and show them their closeness," 

the Argentine-born 

pontiff said. 

TAIPEI, Nov 1: Taiwan's opposition 

Kuomintang (KMT) party is pushing 

for peace with mainland China and it 

holds out the possibility of a peace 

pact, the party's chairwoman told 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday, 

the party said. 

Xi, general secretary of the 

Communist Party and China's president, 

met a delegation led by KMT 

chairwoman Hung Hsiu-Chu at 

Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the 

Xinhua news agency reported. 

Beijing sees Taiwan as a renegade 

province that must be reunited with the 

mainland, by force if necessary, 

although the island, which relies on the 

United States for arms sales, has ruled 

itself as a rival to China since the end 

of a Chinese civil war in 1949. 

Hung, once a presidential candidate, 

Saudi preacher jailed 

for defaming Saudi star 

Nov 1: The 

Criminal Court sentenced a 

preacher in Asir to prison for 

45 days after he was found 

guilty of libel and defamation 

of Saudi actor Nasser 

al-Qasabi for calling him an 

“infidel” and a “cuckold.” 

The judge also made the 

convict pledge that he will 

never commit such an act 

again. 

The preacher attacked 

Qasabi during a Friday sermon 

in a mosque in Asir in 

June 2015 and called him an 

“infidel” while criticizing an 

episode of the series Selfie 

which was aired during the 

holy month of Ramadan. 

In the episode which the 

preacher criticized, Qasabi 

was wearing a short garment 

and smashing musical 

instruments. The preacher 

later retracted his statements 

accusing Qasabi of 

infidelity. 

In his first statement on 

the criminal court judgment 

against the mosque imam 

accused him of blasphemy, 

the Saudi actor stressed that 

the decision was “an important 

step,” explaining that “a 

verdict such as this represents 

the courage of the judiciary 

to deal with the phenomenon 

of atonement.” 

Russia says resumption of Syria 

peace talks delayed indefinitely 

MOSCOW, Nov 1: Russian 

Defense Minister Sergei 

Shoigu said on Tuesday a 

Western failure to rein in violent 

Islamists in Syria had 

indefinitely delayed the 

resumption of peace talks. 

Shoigu said that rebels 

backed by Western governments 

had been attacking 

civilians in the Syrian city of 

Aleppo, despite a pause in 

Russian and Syrian air attacks. 

"As a result, the prospects 

for the start of a negotiation 

process and the return to 

peaceful life in Syria are postponed 

for an indefinite period," 

Shoigu said. 

Russia backs Syrian 

President Bashar al-Assad in 

Syria's civil war, and its military 

operation in Syria, now in 

its second year, has shored up 

Assad's position. That has put 

Moscow on a collision course 

with Washington and its allies 

who want Assad removed 

from office. Since Oct. 18, 

Russia and its Syrian allies say 

they have halted air attacks in 

Aleppo. Western governments 

had alleged that the strikes had 

been killing civilians in large 

numbers, an allegation 

Moscow denied. 

But the pause in the air 

attacks on Aleppo is fragile: 

Russian President Vladimir 

Putin said last month its continuation 

depended on the 

behavior of moderate rebel 

groups in Aleppo and their 

Western backers. 

South Korean prosecutors arrest 

woman at center of political crisis 

said the KMT would play an active 

role in pushing for the "institutionalistion" 

of peaceful relations between the 

SEOUL, Nov 1: The woman 

at the center of a scandal that 

has plunged the South 

Korean presidency into crisis 

was held for a second day on 

Tuesday after being detained 

overnight to answer allegations 

of exerting inappropriate 

influence in state affairs. 

Prosecutors have said they 

are investigating whether 

Choi Soon-sil used her 

friendship with President 

Park Geun-hye to gain access 

to classified documents that 

enabled her to influence government 

matters and benefited 

personally through nonprofit 

foundations. 

The growing scandal has 

sparked public anger and sent 

Park's approval rating to a 

record low, with thousands of 

protesters gathered in Seoul 

on Saturday night calling for 

her to step down. Park accepted 

the resignations of eight of 

her top aides over the weekend. 

Choi, 60, arrived at the 

prosecutor's office on 

Tuesday morning in handcuffs 

and a surgical mask and 

wearing a dark coat, escorted 

by correctional officers. A 

prosecution official and her 

lawyer said she had been 

detained late on Monday. 

Although Choi was being 

questioned at another location, 

a man used a heavy construction 

excavator to smash 

the front entrance of the 

Supreme Prosecutors' Office 

building in Seoul, injuring a 

security guard, in an apparent 

act of protest against Choi. 

He was arrested by police. 

Taiwan's KMT party tells China it is pushing for peace 

two sides and for the possibility of a 

peace agreement, the KMT said in a 

statement released in Taiwan. 

China debuts J-20 stealth jet in show of strength at country's biggest expo 

ZHUHAI, Nov 1: China 

showed its Chengdu J-20 

stealth fighter in public for the 

first time on Tuesday, opening 

the country's biggest meeting 

of aircraft makers and buyers 

with a show of its military 

clout. Airshow China, in the 

southern city of Zhuhai, offers 

Beijing an opportunity to 

demonstrate its ambitions in 

civil aerospace and to underline 

its growing capability in 

defense. China is set to overtake 

the U.S. as the world's top 

aviation market in the next 

decade. 

Two J-20 jets, Zhuhai's 

headline act, swept over dignitaries, 

hundreds of spectators 

and industry executives gathered 

at the show's opening ceremony 

in a flypast that barely 

exceeded a minute, generating 

a deafening roar that was met 

with gasps and applause and 

set off car alarms in a parking 

lot. Experts say China has 

been refining designs for the J- 

20, first glimpsed by 

planespotters in 2010, in the 

hope of narrowing a military 

technology gap with the 

United States. President Xi 

Jinping has pushed to toughen 

the armed forces as China 

takes a more assertive stance 

in Asia, particularly in the 

South China and East China 

seas. 

"It is clearly a big step forward 

in Chinese combat capability," 

said Bradley Perrett of 

Aviation Week, a veteran 

China watcher. 

State-owned Commercial 

Aircraft Corporation of China 

(COMAC) was also bullish on 

China's appetite for new civilian 

planes, estimating the market 

would need 6,865 new aircraft 

worth $930 billion over 

the next 20 years. 

The COMAC forecast - 

similar to long-term outlooks 

from well-established rivals 

Boeing Co andAirbus Group - 

said China would make up 

almost a fifth of global 

demand for close to 40,000 

planes over the next two 

decades. After screeching onto 

the Zhuhai stage as a pair at 

low-level, one of the J-20s 

quickly disappeared over the 

horizon, leaving the other to 

perform a series of turns, 

revealing its delta wing shape 

against bright sub-tropical 

haze. 

It was China's second successive 

display of stealth at the 

biennial show, following the 

2014 debut of the J-31. 

But analysts said the brief 

and relatively cautious J-20 

routine - the pilots did not 

open weapon bay doors, or 

perform low-speed passes - 

answered few questions.

6 


Biz 

PSX makes historic jump as 

PTI postpones ‘lockdown’ 

KARACHI, Nov 1: The 

Pakistan Stock Exchange’s 

(PSX) benchmark-100 index 

posted its largest gain in history, 

increasing 1,406.03 

points on Tuesday after 

Standard & Poor’s upgraded 

Pakistan’s credit rating and 

Imran Khan-led Pakistan 

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed 

down from its planned protest 

on November 2 in Islamabad. 

After remaining subdued 

for the past two weeks, the 

benchmark KSE 100-share 

Index rose 1,406.03 points or 

3.52% to close at 41,299.87. 

Absence of positive triggers 

and clashes between PTI 

protesters and the government 

meant that investors had 

remained cautious leading up 

to the planned protest on 


preparations to appoint 

Transparency International 

Pakistan’s former head Adil 

Gilani as the Ambassador to 

Serbia have shot up. 

According to the sources 

of the federal government, 

one of the lobbies in the government 

has reservations over 

Adil 

Gilani’s 

appointment.The federal government 

and the group of 

leaders from this circle 

believe that the appointment 

of Adil Gilani will not be beneficial 

for Pakistan and the 

opposition will get another 

chance to raise an issue 


However, news of S&P 

upgrading Pakistan’s longterm 

credit rating to ‘stable’ 

and Imran Khan’s retreat after 

the Supreme Court’s decision 

to form a commission on 

Panamagate led investors 

back into the game. 

“There was a sense that 

the Supreme Court may give 

a [positive] decision; that’s 

why the market opened positive 

and maintained its 

upward journey throughout 

the session,” said Ali Raza, an 

analyst at Elixir Securities. 

Equity investors acquired 

Decision to appoint Adil Gilani 

envoy to Serbia may be reversed 

against the government. It is 

also believed that the alreadytroubled 

government can face 

more issues after the appointment 

of Gilani. 

This group has shared its 

viewpoint with the prime 

minister and his friends. 

Sources claim that due to the 

reservations of these leaders, 

the federal government is seriously 

reconsidering its decision 

to appoint Adil Gilani as 

Ambassador to Serbia. Last 

year, Adil Gilani was appointed 

as a consultant to the Prime 

Minister’s inspection team. 

The appointment of any 

ambassador who is inexperienced 

or has no experience in 

fields related to diplomacy is 

always criticised. Critics have 

said that the role of diplomacy 

is seriously hurt when diplomatic 

positions are given to 

inexperienced people on the 

basis of personal likes or dislikes. 

The appointed individual 

is not in a capacity to provide 

required outcomes. 

According to statistics, 27 

non-diplomats and inexperienced 

people have been 

appointed as ambassadors of 

Pakistan in different countries. 

If Adil Gilani is appointed 

as an ambassador, he will 

be the 28th person. 

ADB $75 million loan to help finance 

Pakistan’s largest wind Energy farm 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The Asian 

Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $75 

million loan with Triconboston Consulting 

Corporation (TBCC) to support the development 

of the largest wind farm in Pakistan. 

The deal is ADB’s third wind energy 

investment in Pakistan’s burgeoning independent 

power producer segment. Power 

from the project will be sold under a 20 year 

take-or-pay energy purchase agreement 

under a feed-in-tariff to Pakistan’s Central 

Power Purchasing Agency. 

“This wind farm is a major contributor to 

Pakistan’s drive to scale up renewable energy 

use and to reduce its reliance on coal and petroleum 

for power generation,” said Mohammed 

Azim Hashimi, Investment Specialist in 

ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department. 

“The operation of this farm will avoid the production 

of over 350,000 tons of carbon dioxide 

equivalent emissions a year and help to close 

the country’s power shortfall.” 

KARACHI: President of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Shamim Ahmed Firpo, 

Senior Vice President KCCI Asif Nisar and Vice President KCCI Muhammad Younus Soomro 

writing remarks on sad demise of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the Condolence 

Book at Royal Thai Consulate General in Karachi. Consul General of Royal Thai Suwat Kaew 

Sook, Trade Advisor of Thai Consulate Arif Suleman and Senior Trade Officer of Thai Mubeen 

Ansari are also seen in the picture. 

LAHORE, Nov 1: Federal Minister for 

Science & Technology Mr. Rana 

Tanveer Hussain has said that federal 

government will leave no stone 

unturned in promoting quality culture in 

the country. He said that PSQCA is the 

National Standardization body which is 

responsible for formulating and implementing 

Pakistan Standards in all the 

provinces. He stressed that provincial 

governments must work in collaboration 

with the PSQCA to promote and 

strengthen the enforcement of standards 

specification. 

Addressing as a chief guest at a 

seminar titled "Standards Build Trust" 

at Lahore Chamber of Commerce & 

Industry, Rana Tanveer Hussain 

acknowledged the fact that industrialization, 

standardization and economic 

growth grow together as without standardization, 

optimum growth cannot be 

achieved. Standards and conformity 

assessment activities benefit public 

According to some media 

reports, Adil Gilani’s appointment 

has originated from personal 

liking. According to the 

same reports, Adil Gilani is 

being appointed as 

Ambassador to Serbia for fulfilling 

the requests of some 

reputed personalities. 

It must be kept in mind that 

the performance of Sindh, 

Balochistan and Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa was termed as 

unsatisfactory and disappointing 

while the performance of 

Punjab government was portrayed 

as excellent when 

Gilani headed Transparency 

International. 

Meeting reviews 

11 development 

projects in AJK 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: A 

meeting of the AJK Working 

Development Party (WDP) 

presided over by Additional 

Chief Secretary Development 

Dr. Syed Asif Hussain Shah 

was held in Muzaffarabad on 

Tuesday. 

The meeting accorded 

approval to development projects 

worth 91.706 million 

rupees. The meeting reviewed 

eleven development projects 

relating to education, social 

welfare and women development, 

information and media 

development, sports youth and 

culture and research and 

development. 


Planning Minister Ahsan 

Iqbal has said that political 

stability and continuity of 

policies are imperative for 

development and prosperity 

of the country. 

Addressing a function 

here on Tuesday, he said 

political instability and 

absence of continuation of 

policies have greatly 

stocks across the board 

where heavy weights in the 

banking, energy and cement 

sector played a major role in 

pulling the index above 

41,000. 

As many as 412 stocks 

were active during the session, 

out of which share 

prices of 356 stocks closed 

up, 43 down, while remaining 

13 closed unchanged. 

Earlier during the day, 

the PTI chief backed down 

from his threat to shut down 

the capital city on 

Wednesday, vowing instead 

to hold a celebratory rally 

about the top court’s decision 

to pursue a case linked 

to the Prime Minister 

Nawaz Sharif’s Panama 

Papers controversy. 

Shell and BP beat earnings 

forecasts as oil majors 

adapt to low prices 

LONDON, Nov 1: Royal 

Dutch Shell and BP on 

Tuesday joined peers in 

reporting higher than expected 

earnings by making further 

deep cuts in spending to 

cope with an oil price downturn 

now in its third year. 

The companies said they 

were well on the way to 

adapting to the more than 

halving in prices, but continued 

uncertainty will test their 

ability to invest for future 

growth and retain relatively 

large dividends expected by 

their shareholders. 

Shell's stock rose by over 

3 percent as it announced 

higher quarterly earnings 

than arch-rival U.S. Exxon 

Mobil, the world's largest 

listed oil company by output. 

The Anglo-Dutch major, 

which acquired rival BG for 

$54 billion earlier this year, 

had been under pressure to 

cut costs after second quarter 

earnings came in around 50 

percent below forecasts. 

By contrast, BP's stock 

fell by 2.1 percent by 0745 

ET as some analysts said its 

results were boosted by a 

one-off tax gain, meaning its 

longer-term profits and ability 

to pay dividends could still 

be at risk. 

Shell's Chief Executive 

Officer Ben van Beurden 

said the oil sector had yet to 

emerge from troubled waters, 

but huge cost savings meant 

oil majors were getting closer 

to balancing their operations 

at today's oil prices of around 

$50 a barrel. 

PSQCA should accelerate its conformity assessment for consumer safety, protection 

Federal govt is committed to provide all resources to PSQCA for effective enforcement of its activities 

operations in the field of conformity assessment and standardization: Rana Tanveer 

health, safety and environment. The 

consumer gets benefit from the development 

and design of new and 

LAHORE: Federal Minister For Science & Technology and Defence Production, 

Rana Tanveer Hussain launching PSQCA mobile phone app at LCCI. 

Political stability, imperative 

for country's prosperity: Ahsan 

harmed the country in the 

past. 

Ahsan Iqbal said we 

should not make the mega 

project of China Pakistan 

Economic Corridor controversial 

as it is a major gamer 

changer for Pakistan and the 

region. He said many countries 

including Iran, Saudi 

Arabia wanted to join 

CPEC. 

improved requirements for the safety 

and quality of the products. Conformity 

assessment provides assurance to consumers 

by increasing consumer confidence 

when personnel, products, systems 

or services are evaluated against 

the requirements of specific standard. 

Federal Minister assured that federal 

government is committed to provide all 

the necessary resources to PSQCA for 

effective enforcement of its activities. 

He assured that field staff deficiency 

will be made up very soon to make 

PSQCA’s operations in the field of conformity 

assessment and standardization. 

He acknowledged the role of 

PSQCA in regulating mandatory items 

and emphasized that PSQCA should 

accelerate its conformity assessment 

activities so that consumer safety and 

protection may be ascertained. 

Corporate Corner 

Meezan Bank announces Financial 

Results for Third Quarter 2016! 

KARACHI, Nov 1: The Board of Directors of Meezan Bank in its 

meeting, held in Dubai on October 27, 2016 approved the unconsolidated 

condensed interim financial statements of the Bank and its consolidated 

financial statements for the nine months ended on 

September 30, 2016. The meeting was presided by Mr. Riyadh S.A.A. 

Edrees, the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board 

Mr. Faisal A. A. A. Al-Nassar also attended the meeting. 

By the Grace of Allah (SWT), Meezan Bank has continued its growth momentum and 

recorded profit after tax of Rs 4,114 million as compared to Rs 3,950 million in corresponding 

period last year. The Bank recorded Earnings per Share (EPS) of Rs 4.10. Non 

funded income registered a growth of 26% while fee, commission and brokerage income 

grew by 28%. The Bank’s CASA mix improved to 75% as compared to a CASA of 71% 

in December 2015 with current account contributing to 34% of the total deposits as compared 

to 32% in December 2015. 

On asset side, Islamic financings and related assets grew by a remarkable 43% from 

September 2015 while SME/commercial and consumer financing (primarily Car Ijarah 

and Easy Home) grew by 107% and 62% respectively over the corresponding period last 

year. 

A major milestone during the quarter was the successful issue of Shariah-compliant 

sub-ordinated Sukuk (Tier II) amounting to Rs 7 billion. The Sukuk will further strengthen 

the Bank’s capital adequacy ratio and support its future growth strategy. The issue 

received an excellent response from investors as a result of which the Bank exercised its 

green shoe option and accepted offers totaling Rs 7 billion - 

KARACHI: Mr. S. M. Muneer, CE, TDAP presenting a shield to Mr.Ahsan Mukhtar Zubari 

Secretary General/CEO of Karachi Council on Foreign Relations.Also seen in the picture. 

Mr. Mohammed Farooq Afzal,Diplomatic Forum International , Mr.Murad Mashooqullha 

C.E.HRSI And Mr.Nasir Hamid. D.G.TDAP 

Shaheen Air wins Award for successful Hajj operation 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Shaheen Air International (SAI) 

proudly announces that it has been awarded with a certificate 

of appreciation by the Directorate General of 

Hajj - Pakistan. The award has been bestowed upon 

the airline for its successful completion of the Hajj operation 2016 / 1437 AH. 

The award was presented by Dr. Sajid Yoosufani, Director General (Hajj), Consulate 

General of Pakistan in a ceremony held in Medinah. Throughout the course of the operation, 

33,000 pilgrims from six cities of Pakistan: Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, 

Faisalabad and Peshawar, were transported to Jeddah and Medinah through exclusive 

flights. 

Previously, Shaheen Air International had also received a letter of appreciation by 

Sardar Muhammad Yousuf, Federal Minister of Religious Affairs for its successful Hajj 

services which the airline rendered in 2015. 

Telenor Pakistan launches “Telenor Automate” 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: Expanding itsInternet of Things (IoT) portfolio, 

Telenor Pakistan has launched Telenor Automate, an internet 

connected plug and play device that enablesvehicle owners toenjoy 

real-time insights on exact location of the car. 

Telenor Automate is extremely simple to install and operate. It 

works withvehicles, which are On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) 2.0 compliant. Currently, 

all cars produced and imported in Pakistan are OBD 2.0 compliant with minor variations. 

The OBD standards are also followed in many high end commercial vehicles. The plug 

and play device is plugged in the OBD port located under the dashboard and has an array 

of sensors that makes it possible to run Car’s diagnostic and monitoring services. It uses 

GPS and an Internet enabled SIM to communicate the insights from Car to user’s Smart 

Phone App and Web Portal. 

In addition to finding out car’s location anytime, Ownerscanget details on how their 

car is driven, by themselves as well as by other drivers. Driving behaviors including 

Driver’s fatigue, harsh acceleration ordeceleration, over speeding, sharp turning and idle 

time (how long the driver kept engine running on still car) are automatically calculated 

and shown as notifications on Smart Phone App and Web Portal. 

Samsung offers free ‘Battery-Pack’ with Galaxy S7-Edge 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Samsung Pakistan has launched a special offer 

to give a free ‘Battery-Pack’ to every buyer of its premium smartphone 

device – the Galaxy S7 Edge. The Samsung battery pack, with 

a 5200mAh capacity allows you to charge your Fast Charge-compatible 

Samsung device from 0 to 50% in only 30 minutes. So now the customers can enjoy 

this Fast-Charge technology on-the-go, as the Battery-Pack can be recharged over and over. 

With a universal USB port output, the Samsung Battery-Pack can also charge other smartphones, 

tablets or electronics capable of charging via USB. This makes it compatible with; 

Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 active, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 

Edge+ and Galaxy Note5. When fully powered, this Battery-Pack holds enough juice to 

charge these devices at least 1.5 times. 

The Galaxy S7 Edge is a sleek and powerful device, equipped with a 3,600mAh battery 

that lasts longer and also offers fast-charging & wireless-charging features. This cutting-edge 

smartphone boasts a powerful 12.2 Mega Pixel primary camera, with BRITE- 

CELL Sensors, along with an 8 MP Front facing camera with Dual Video call feature. Its 

advanced camera captures more light to deliver high quality images. The F1.7 lens on 

both sides of the phone and larger pixels on the rear camera’s image sensor allow for 

brighter and sharper images – even in low light. 

KARACHI: Chairman KPT Vice Admiral (R) Shafqat Jawed Hi (M) inaugurates the recommissioning 

of Oil Pier-1 at Keamari Groyne Yard Complex Keamari today. Photograph 

released is given below as attachment.


Sportlight 

7 

Brathwaite, Holder put 

West Indies in charge 

SHARJAH, Nov 1: For the 

first time on a long, fruitless 

tour of the UAE, West Indies 

found themselves ahead in a 

game, after a stellar century 

and a spirited bowling effort 

on the third day in Sharjah. 

Kraigg Brathwaite's unbeaten 

142 off 318 balls - he carried 

his bat - steered West 

Indies to a hard-earned lead 

of 56 in the first innings, 

before Jason Holder made 

three breakthroughs in a 

lively spell after tea. 

Pakistan lost four wickets 

before erasing the deficit, 

but Azhar Ali and Sarfraz 

Ahmed stabilised the 

innings with an unbroken 

39-run partnership for the 

fifth wicket and took 

Pakistan to 87 for 4 by 

stumps. 

The inroads into Pakistan 

came via a short-ball barrage. 

Holder bowled a fast 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Tenth 

friendly football match was 

played between International 

Veteran Eleven and Sialkot 

Veteran Eleven at 

Government Jinnah Islamia 

College Sialkot for the 

restoration of football activities 

in Pakistan, which are at 

low ebb during last two years 

because of some bigwig’s 

issues. A grand dinner was 

hosted by Ishfaq Bhatti of 

Sheraton City hotel for football 

legends at Sheraton City 

Sialkot. Sialkot is the main 

hub for football. The chief 

guest of the dinner was 

Chaudhry Ashraf, Chairman 

Referee Association Sialkot, 

Iftikhar Ghani, District 

Sports Officer Sialkot. (1) 

Forward Group factory was 

also visited by the legends 

and briefing was given by the 

management of the Forward. 

President Committee Asif 

bouncer to Sami Aslam that 

the batsman could only top 

edge to fine leg. Another 

well-directed bouncer got 

Khakwani 

from Tanveer-ul-Hussnain from 

Bahawalnagar, Khalid Butt Lahore and Muhammad 

from Gujranwala, Shahid Ali Amir from Lahore were representing 

Khan from Rawalpindi, Mr. 

International 

Sarwar Teddy, former captain 

and well known International 

Veteran Eleven. Two hours 

training session was also Possession, 

strikers former Captain conducted before the match 

Sharafat Ali from Multan, a for the soccer youth of 

distinguished striker and former 

Sialkot in which penal of 

captain Muhammad trainers shared their expertise 

Imtiaz Butt from Faisalabad, with them. 

Muhammad Ejaz from International Veteran 

Lahore, International striker 

Haroon Yousuf from Mandi 

Baha-ud-Din, Zahid Luqman 

from Jaranwala, well known 

Striker Amjad Zakria from 

Eleven beat Sialkot Veteran 

Eleven by 1:0 in friendly 

match being played for the 

restoration of football activities 

in Pakistan. After a warm 

Kabirwala, International evening a large number of 

Goal keeper Tariq Mateera 

from Bawalanagar, international 

defender Ashfaq from 

Sahiwal, Chaudhry Amjad 

people came to see the match 

as the cool breeze in the 

evening provided some comfort 

to families. The match 

from Rawalpindi, Tahir was full of thrill and excitement 

Qureshi from Rawalpindi, 

as both teams contested 

Shaukat Ali Shoki, aggressively and made a 

Muhammad Fiaz Faizi from series of aggressive inroads 

Rawalpindi, Muhammad in each other’s area. The solidarity 

Jamshaid from Rawalpindi, 

goal was struck by 

big on Asad Shafiq and had 

him fending to Darren Bravo 

at gully. Then Younis Khan 

got a faint tickle on a legside 

delivery to give Holder 

his third. When Misbah-ul- 

Haq pulled offspinner 

Roston Chase straight to 

10th friendly match between International Veteran Eleven and 

Sialkot Veteran Eleven being played at Jinnah Islamia College Sialkot 

It was just a celebration, nothing 

else, Shakib defends his salute 


KARACHI, Nov 1: While 

Pakistani skipper Misbah-ul- 

Haq is being criticized for 

his team's celebratory pressups 

which came after highprofile 

successes against 

England in July earlier this 

year, Bangladeshi allrounder 

became hero when 

he saluted after grabbing the 

wicket of Ben Stokes. 

His salute, however, was 

not aimed at army. 

Stokes' wicket was 

Shakib's first among the 

three in four balls during the 

closing stages (43rd over of 

the innings) of the Test at 

Mirpur on Sunday. 

"It was just a celebration. 

Nothing else", he said. 

Incidentally, the players 

didn't have late-night party 

but gathered for dinner at 

night. They also celebrated 

Courtney Walsh's 54th 

birthday which coincided 

with the win. Walsh, the 

bowling coach was obviously 

on the moon. 

And so as the other 

members of the team 

including Mehedi Hasan 

Miraz, the 19-year-old right 

arm off-spinner, whom the 

Hon. Prime Minister 

Sheikh Hasina specially 

congratulated over the 

phone. 

The PM also spoke to 

the captain and other few 

senior members of the 

team. 

She is likely to invite the 

members of the Bangladesh 

team for dinner later in the 

week, it is learnt here. 

The players were also 

addressed by the BCB chief 

Nazmul Hasan Papon, who 

came late from Singapore. 

Though Rahim's team 

could not win the series, 

though came close to it, but 

the players are certain to get 

extra bonus for their first 

victory against England and 

they deserve too. 

IPC Minister Riaz Pirzada lauds 

national hockey team performance 


KARACHI, Nov 1: 

Federal Minister for Inter 

Provincial Coordination 

(IPC) Riaz Hussain 

Pirzada lauded the overall 

performance of the 

Pakistan hockey team in 

the recently-concluded 

Asian Champions Trophy. 

The minister said 

Pakistan hockey team 

played well especially in 

the semifinal and final of 

the tournament. 

“Pakistan hockey team 

expressed sportsman spirit. 

Defeat and victory are 

part of the game but one 

should not be discouraged. 

The team should continue 

hard work in similar 

spirit. 

“He also congratulated 

Pakistan hockey team 

management. 

Amjad Zakria in 28th minute 

on penalty Kick. 

In the second half of the 

match, both teams exhibited 

aggression game of Ball 

Dribbling, 

Dodging, Passing, Eye 

Contact and Intercepting 

which was highly appreciated 

by the young. The Work 

Rate and Match Traveling of 

International Eleven were 

highly appreciated by the 

jam-pack audience. The 

game of Khalid Butt, Shahid 

Ali Khan, Imtiaz Butt, Amjad 

Zakria, Asif Khakwani, 

Sarwer Teddy, Muhammad 

Amir, Tanveer-ul-Hassnain 

and Chaudhry Amjad were 

astonished to see. The game 

of International Goalkeeper 

Tariq Mateera was highly 

applauded by the lovers of 

football. The legendary 

International defender Ishfaq 

exhibited the superb Defend 

Technique. 

Pakistan still awaiting 

NOC for Junior World 

Cup in Lucknow 

KARACHI, Nov 1: Pakistan 

Hockey Federation (PHF) is 

still awaiting the No 

Objection Certificate (NOC) 

from its government to send 

its national squad for the 

Junior Hockey World Cup, 

to be held in Lucknow from 

December 8. 

PHF secretary Shahbaz 

Ahmed told the media on 

Tuesday that the Federation 

had applied for the clearance 

and NOC from the 

Ministry of Inter-Provincial 

coordination and Pakistan 

Sports Board (PSB) three 

weeks ago. 

“The ministry and PSB 

have taken up the matter 

with the foreign ministry 

and concerned authorities. 

We are confident that we 

will get the clearance to participate 

in the event in 

India,” Ahmed said. 

HARARE, Nov 1: Dimuth 

Karunaratne struck his second 

fifty-plus score of the 

match and his first Test century 

in a year to bump up Sri 

Lanka's lead to 411 before 

rain wiped out almost all of 

the third session. His 94-run 

stand for the fifth wicket 

with Dhananjaya de Silva, 

which came at 4.47 runs an 

over, on a surface with variable 

bounce, countered 

debutant fast bowler Carl 

Mumba's strikes and helped 

Sri Lanka re-establish their 

dominance in Harare. 

With a thunderstorm predicted 

for Wednesday, Sri 

Lanka might consider an 

overnight declaration to 

force a result. 

In the absence of Angelo 

Mathews and Dinesh 

Devendra Bishoo at deepbackward 

square leg, 

Pakistan had lost four wickets 

for 11 runs to slip to 48 

for 4. 

It could have been even 

better for West Indies. With 

Pakistan's score at 71, 

Shannon Gabriel bowled a 

nasty, steep bouncer at 

Sarfraz, batting on 9, who 

fended it to Bravo at slip. 

But Gabriel had overstepped 

- for the 26th time in the 

series - by a big margin and 

Sarfraz survived. He moved 

on to 19 by stumps, while 

Azhar had 45. But with 

Pakistan's lead still only 31, 

they were a fair distance 

from safety and heavily 

dependent on Azhar and 

Sarfraz to get them there. 

West Indies, for their part, 

had worked their way into a 

good position to push for 

their first win in 14 Tests. 

PVCA 

Condoles with 

Moin Khan 


LAHORE, Nov 1: Chief 

Executive PVCA Nawab 

Ashiq Hussain Qureshi, 

President LRCA Khawaja 

Nadeem Ahmad, Elite 

Umpire Aleem Dar, Amer 

Ilyas Butt, Muhammad 

Salman Khan, Mohsin 

Aftab Qarshi, Rizwan 

Nisar, Hammad Maqbool, 

Shan Shahid, Javaid 

Ashraf, Waleed Yaqoob, 

Muhammad Kaleem, 

Secretary General PSWA 

Manzoor Ali Arif and 

large numbers of 

International & National 

Players have offered their 

heartfelt condolences to 

the test captain Moin 

Khan on the sad demise of 

his father. 

“The Entire PVCA 

family expresses their 

deepest sympathetic to 

Moin Khan on this sad 

occasion. May the soul of 

the departed rest in eternal 

peace and grant the 

family and the dear ones 

the fortitude to bear this 

irreparable loss”, said the 

PVCA spokesman. 


Pakistan Cricket Board 

(PCB) has agreed to acquire 

services of former allrounder 

Azhar Mahmood as 

bowling coach of Pakistan 

cricket team, this time for a 

longer stint. 

Azhar, who previously 

had two short stings with the 

team during World T20 and 

tour to England, has now 

been appointed as bowling 

coach for a period of two 

years. 

Although the PCB has 

PDCA condoles with Moin Khan 

and Nihar Alam feather's 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 


KARACHI, Nov 1: Presiden 

Pakistan Disabled cricket 

association.(PDCA) Salim 

Kareem Hon Secretary Amir 

Uddin Ansari and Media 

Manager Muhammad Nizam 

coordinators Sabih Azhar, 

Jameel Kamran, Aslam 


KARACHI, Nov 1: PRSB 

Inter Divisional Cricket 

Championship Second Semi 

Final PRSB Eleven V/S 

Peshawar Division Played at 

Railway Stadium. PRSB 

Eleven Beat Peshawar 

Division by 202 Runs and 

qualify the Final. Captain 

PRSB Eleven Salman Ali 

Won the Toss and Choose to 

Bat First 380/6 after 50 

overs. Salman Ali Played 

Breach, Javed Ashraf,Sajid 

Khan, Kaleem Alam, Syed 

Rahat Ali Shah,Mohammad 

Tahir and All disabled cricketers 

of the country have 

condoled the sad demise of 

father of Pakistan disabled 

team captain Nihar Alam 

and father of former 

Pakistan captain Moin 

Khan.and Former test 

well 121 Runs Not out. Asim 

Ali Nasir 84, Muhammad 

Mohsin 37, Kashif Siddique 

39 and Haider Rameez 25 

Runs. Peshawar Division 

Bowling Fawad Malik 2/38, 

Niaz Muhammad 1/78, 

Fakhr-e-Alam 1/47 and 

Muhammad Zubair 1/29 

Wickets. In reply Peshawar 

Division 178 all out after 28 

overs. Salman Afridi 50, 

Waqas 46 and Junaid Akhtar 

42 Runs Not Out. PRSB 

Eleven bowling Hafiz 

bowler Nadeem Khan. 

The Entire PDCA family 

expresses their deepest sympathies 

to Nihar Alam and 

Moin khan on this sad occasion. 

May the soul of the 

departed rest in eternal 

peace. May Allah Almighty 

give Moin and Nihar's family’s 

strength to bear this 

huge loss. 

PRSB Inter Divisional Cricket Championship 

PRSB Eleven Beat Peshawar 

Division by 202 Runs 


LAHORE, Nov 1: 3rd 

Shami T-20 Veterans Cricket 

Cup Match. Lahore Whites 

V/S Shah Jamal Greens 

Played at Ali Ghar Cricket 

Ground. Lahore Whites Beat 

Shah Jamal Greens by 4- 

Wickets. Shah Jamal Green 

Batting First 164/4 after 20 

overs. Saqib Farooq 53, 

Azeem Aslam 29, 

Salman Ali 121 Runs Not Out 

Muhammad Aamer 31 Run 

Not Out and Muhammad 

Nadeem 28 Runs Not Out. 

Lahore Whites bowling 

Faisal Azeem 1/6, 

Muhammad Yousaf 1/37, 

Atiq Shah 1/24 and Riaz 

Masih 1/35 Wickets. In reply 

Lahore Whites 166/6 after 

14.2 overs. Muhammad 

Nawaz 56, Tahir Irshad 19, 

Rizwan Nasir 14, Shahid Ali 

21 and Tariq Ramzan 24 

Suleman 3/34, Naeem 

Ahmad 3/54, Kashif 

Siddique 2/39 and Umair 

Khan 1/31 wickets. Javaid 

Ashraf, Irfan Dilshad 

Umpire and Khalid Waheed 

was the scorer. Final Match 

PRSB Eleven V/S Lahore 

Division will be played on 

Wednesday 2nd November 

at Railway Stadium. Vice 

President PRSB Prof. Dr. 

Farhan Abadat Yar Khan 

Chief Guest on this occasion. 

3rd Shami T-20 Veterans Cricket Cup 

Lahore Whites Beat Shah 

Jamal Greens by 4-Wickets 

LAHORE: Chief Guest Rizwan Nisar giveaway man of the match award to Muhammad 

Nawaz. Nawab Ashiq Hussian Qureshi also present. 

yet to make an official 

announcement, but multiple 

sources have confirmed 

Azhar’s appointment ahead 

of team’s tour to New 

Zealand for two-match 

series. 

“Azhar has agreed for a 

two-year stint with Pakistan 

cricket team, he will be joining 

the squad in UAE in a 

day or two,” a source said. 

“He will formally join the 

team ahead of Pakistan’s 

Test series against New 

Zealand,” the source added. 

The agreement between 

Azhar and PCB is for two 

years, but both the parties 

can review it with mutual 

consent after one year. 

Azhar faced criticism 

back home after bowlers 

failed to deliver during 

Pakistan’s limited over 

series against England in 

England but was backed by 

players and other coaching 

staff. 

The former all-rounder 

will also join team Karachi 

Kings as the coach for the 

Runs Not Out. Shah Jamal 

Greens Bowling Alamgir 

Hussain 3/35 and Azeem 

Aslam 2/34 Wickets. Adnan 

Rasheed, Muhammad 

Kaleem Umpire and Azhar 

Hussain was the scorer. End 

of the match Chief Guest 

Rizwan Nisar giveaway man 

of the match award to 

Muhammad Nawaz. Nawab 

Ashiq Hussian Qureshi also 

present. 

PCB to appoint Azhar Mahmood as 

Pakistan bowling coach 

Chandimal, Karunaratne 

was the most experienced 

batsman in the side. Yet, he 

was under pressure going 

into the Zimbabwe tour, 

having bagged eight singledigit 

scores in his last 12 

innings. His slump could 

have been extended to 10 

single-digit scores in 14 

innings had Zimbabwe hung 

onto their chances. He, however, 

rode his luck, and followed 

his chancy 56 in the 

first innings with a more 

secure century in the second. 

He was dropped on 5 by 

Brian Chari, diving to his 

left at extra cover, on the 

fourth morning, but other 

than that Karunaratne 

seemed in control. He had 

joined forces with de Silva 

after Mumba had struck 

second edition of Pakistan 

Super League, during his 

stint as the bowling coach of 

Pakistan cricket team. 

Karunaratne ton stretches lead to 411 on rain-hit day 

either side of the lunch 

break. Kusal Mendis skied a 

leading edge to the right of 

mid-on where it was 

pouched, while Upul 

Tharanga drove away from 

the body and nicked behind. 

With Sri Lanka at 117 for 4, 

Zimbabwe sensed an opening, 

but the visitors slammed 

the doors on them. 

De Silva was fluent from 

the outset, punching and 

flicking with typical insouciance. 

The shot of his 

knock, however, was the 

check-driven straight four 

off a Chris Mpofu offcutter 

in 39th over. He further 

upped the scoring rate when 

he swatted Greme Cremer 

for two boundaries in the 

48th over. By then the lead 

was 345.

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Khan should have joined protest 

in Pindi on October 28: Rasheed 


Awami Muslim League 

(AML) chief Shaikh Rashid 

Tuesday said that PTI chairman 

Imran Khan should have 

joined his protest in 

Rawalpindi on Oct 28. 

Talking to reporters outside 

the Supreme Court in 

Islamabad, he said that he 

does not "complain during 

war times" but the PTI chief 

should have joined his party in 

Rawalpindi "at any cost". 

On Oct 28, Imran Khan was 

scheduled to address supporters 

at anAML-organised meeting at 

Lal Haveli but later cancelled 

the plan saying his party is 

instead gearing up for Nov 2 

protest in Islamabad. "We want 

to get rid of Nawaz Sharif at any 

cost," Rasheed said. 


Irregularities, corruption, 

nepotism and mismanagement 

engulfed Pakistan Civil 

Aviation Authority (CAA). 

Many officers and employees, 

who were found guilty 

for possessing fake degrees, 

still working on their posts. 

The authority, which is 

responsible to operate all airports 

including major international 

airports, has been 

run by top level officials 

having fake degree. 

The mega corruption and 

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed talking to media 

persons at outside Supreme Court of Pakistan after the hearing of the petitions regarding 

disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over Panama Papers. 

Corruption, irregularities, mismanagement engulf CAA 

irregularities were revealed 

by departmental sources and 

applications sent by honest 

CAA employees to PM 

Secretariat which disclosed 

that three officers have been 

appointed on posts of 

Deputy Director General 

putting all rules and regulations 

aside. 

They further stated that to 

hide and give protection to 

corruption and irregularities 

in different departments of 

the authority, Director HR 

department Sameer Saeed 

has been awarded three additional 

charges in finance 

department. 

To record protest over this 

offense, Chief Finance officer 

was on leave for last three 

months and this harsh situation 

is a question mark how 

financial matters are being 

handled in the authority. 

Behavior of CAA Director 

General Air-Martial (R) 

Asim Suleman, who is brother 

of Punjab Home Secretary 

Azam Suleman, is very rude 

and unsuitable with staff as it 

Australian police hands over 

latest equipment to NAB 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: A ceremony 

for handing over latest 

equipment to NAB by 

Australian Federal Police was 

held at NAB Headquarter. 

A delegation of Australian 

Federal Police led by Philip 

Hunter, Senior Officer of 

Australian Federal Police met 

Chairman NAB Qamar 

Zaman Chaudhry and senior 

officers of NAB at NAB 

Headquarter Office. 

Qamar Zaman Chaudhary 

said that NAB is an apex anticorruption 

organization. It has 

established its own forensic 

science lab with an aim to 

equip NAB with latest technology 

to cater for its emerging 

needs to eliminate menace of 

corruption from the Country. 

He said that under our 

proactive approach, NAB has 

been engaging different governmental 

and non-governmental 

organizations and civil society 

in its fight against corruption. 

He said with the help of 

properly functioning forensic 

Science Lab, investigation 

Officers probing different high 

profile corruption cases are 

now able to conduct Complaint 

Verifications, Inquiries and 

Investigations transparently and 

ISLAMABAD: Phil Hunter, Senior Officer, Australian 

Federal Police handing over latest equipments to NAB in 

the presence of Qamar Zaman Chaudhary Chairman, NAB 

for its Forensic Science LAB to cater for its emerging needs 

to eliminate corruption. 

on merit. He said that NAB’s 

Forensic Science LAB has the 

facilities of Digital Forensics, 

Fingerprint Forensics and 

Questioned Documents. 

Establishment of Forensic 

Science LAB will help in 

retrieving of documents from 

electronic devices like Cell 

Phones, Computers, iPads and 

networks. 

The Chairman NAB said 

that in recent times, technology 

and modern techniques are 

playing vital role in reaching 

the logical conclusion of investigations. 

NAB ‘s own 

Forensic Science LAB is one 

such tool that is gaining importance 

in detecting and investigating 

white collar crimes. He 

said that we appreciated help 

of Australian Federal Police in 

establishment of Forensic 

Science Lab which is now a 

notified Forensic Lab by 

Federal Government in the 

fields of digital Forensics, 

Questioned Documents and 

Finger Prints. 

Air Chief attends opening 

ceremony of Zhuhai Air Show 

ZHUHAI, Nov 1: Air Chief 

Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief 

of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air 

Force attended the opening 

ceremony of Zhuhai Air 

Show-2016. 

A large number of delegations 

from different countries 

includingAir Chiefs of a number 

of Air Forces were also 

present at the occasion. JF-17 

aircraft of Pakistan Air Force 

has been put up for static as 

well as aerial display in theAir 

Show, says a PAF press statement 

issued here on Tuesday. 

The Air Chief witnessed 

the aerial and static display of 

ZHUHAI: Pakistan Air Force Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief 

Marshal Sohail Aman witnessing the static display of JF-17 

Thunder during the Opening Ceremony of Zhuhai Air Show- 

2016 held in Zhuhai. 

JF-17 Thunder. He also witnessed 

the aerial display of 

Chinese Air Force aerobatics 

team, Royal Air Force aerobatic 

team (RedArrows), J-20, 

FTC 2000 and various other 

aircraft. 

Later on he visited the 

Pakistan Pavilion, being set up 

by Pakistan Aeronautical 

Complex, Kamra where he 

interacted with the PAF contingent 

participating in the 

show. He appreciated the performance 

of PAF personnel in 

the show and said that the participation 

of Pakistan Air 

Force in this Air Show is a 

matter of pride for the nation. 

The Air Chief also called 

on General Ma Xiotian, 

Commander Peoples 

Liberation Army (Air Force) 

and discussed matters of professional 

interest. 

feels there is martial-law 

imposed in the authority. 

Illegal promotion of three 

blue-eyed officers which are 

appointed as Deputy 

Director General in the 

authority is big question 

mark on credibility of such 

key national institute. 

Syed Amir Mehboob 

Shah, who was promoted to 

three posts of Deputy 

Director General, is allegedly 

involved in mega corruption 

and has been facing investigation 

by NAB. 

PML-N FATA 

delegation calls 

on Governor 


Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) 

Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra 

has said that majority of tribal 

people of different walks 

of life have supported merger 

of FATA into the province. 

He was talking to a delegation 

of PML-N FATA led 

by Faqir Muhammad which 

called on him in Peshawar on 

Tuesday. The Governor said 

under the directives of Prime 

Minister Muhammad Nawaz 

Sharif, detailed meetings 

were held with different 

stakeholders of all agencies 

of FATA on this issue. 

About rehabilitation of 

Temporarily Displaced 

Persons of FATA, the 

Governor said repatriation 

of TDPs is successfully in 

progress in tribal areas and 

the process would be completed 

by end of this year. 

"Now the army need to 

decide if they are with Erdogan 

or with people," he said, apparently 

referring to Prime Minister 

Nawaz Sharif as the Turkish 

president. In reply to a question, 

he made it clear that he was not 

inviting the army. "Yes 

Musharraf was a dictator but he 

was better than these thieves." 

"We will not spare the prime 

minister and will follow him 

like a stinger or silkworm missile 

until and unless he is sacked 

from his office," he added. 

He further stated that he cannot 

stand with those who sold 

national integrity to Indian PM 

Modi, adding that he is standing 

with nation and will remain. He 

further stated that he will come 

out on November 2 like he came 

out on October 28. 

Will stand with 

Imran till PM’s 

resignation: Gabol 


Senior political leader 

Nabeel Gabol has said that 

there will be no compromise 

on national security. 

Talking to media in Bani 

Gala, he said he was with 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf till 

resignation of Prime 

Minister Nawaz Sharif. He 

said his workers who are not 

in millions but thousands 

will join the protest to be 

held on November 2. 

Answering a question, 

Gabol said he is leader of 

Lyari people and it is impossible 

to arrest him. 

“It will be too early to say 

anything about joining PTI”, 

he added. –Online 

Dr. SJA Jafri 

KARACHI, Nov 1: On the 

occasion of ‘International Day 

against Drug Abuse and Illicit 

Trafficking’, the drug control 

authorities on Monday 

torched about 20 tones of prohibited 

drugs confiscated by 

them over the year 2016. 

The United Nations and 

governments around the 

world mark June 26 as the 

International Day Against 

Drug Abuse and illicit trafficking, 

an annual event designated 

by the UN for reflection 

and action on the use of 

illicit drugs. However, the 

event was postponed from 

June 26 to October 31 due to 

Ramazan. 

The ceremony was organized 

by Anti-Narcotics Force 

(ANF) under the auspices of 

Inter Agency Task Force 

(IATF). The drug-burning 

event was carried out on the 

outskirt of Karachi. 

Pakistan Coast Guards 

(PCG) destroyed 160kgs of 

Heroin, 4,000kgs of hashish, Ateeq-ur-Rehman, 

2,000kgs opium, 40,500 bottles 

of foreign brand liquor 

and tins of beer, a press 

release said. ANF said that 

approximately 20 metric Tons 

of narcotics were burnt which 

also included five metric Tons 

of drugs seized by PCG says it 

stands firm to the commitment 

to fight the menace of 

drugs and narcotics. 

“Narcotics are a running 

sore that is weakening the 

country from inside. We cannot 

leave our coming generations 

on the mercy of drug 

peddler and smugglers. 

Therefore, as one voice, we 

will have to fight against this 

menace,” said Brigadier 

PCG’s 

Director General. 

The ceremony was witnessed 

by the members of the 

judiciary, Drug Liaison 

Indian troops martyr 17 Kashmiris in October 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: In 

Occupied Kashmir, Indian 

troops in their unabated acts of 

state terrorism have martyred 

seventeen Kashmiris including 

twelve teenagers and a 

woman during last month. 

According to data issued 

LAHORE, Nov 1: A compromise 

has been reached 

between Humera Arshad and 

Ahmed Butt after a serious 

legal battle over the custody 

of their child, says family 

sources. 

The source further 

informed that Butt would be 

soon withdrawing the case 

over the custody of child soon, 

and has vowed to remain with 

his wife after rendering an 

unconditional apology, which 

Humera has accepted. 

Earlier, Humaira Arshad 

decided to break her ties with 

her husband, and confirmed 

receiving first divorce. 

According to details, 

Humaira Arshad said that the 

couple mutually decided to 

part ways and she has been 

living with her mother for 

the last two months. 

She further said that legal 

formalities and religious 

requirements in this regard 

by Research Section of 

Kashmir Media Service 

today, eleven of those martyred 

were killed in a fake 

encounter. During the month, 

5,524 people were critically 

injured due to firing of pallets, 

bullets and teargas shells 

would soon be fulfilled. 

In May, pop singer 

accused her husband of 

deceit, domestic violence 

and attempts to kidnap her 

four-year-old son. 

At a press conference in 

Lahore, Humaira had said 

that she had been married to 

Butt for 12 years but the two 

by Indian police on peaceful 

demonstrators. 

Over one thousand civilians, 

mostly youth and 

Hurriyet activists, were 

arrested and hundreds of 

them booked under black law 

Public Safety Act. 

Humera Arshad reunites 

with her husband 


Minister of State-designate 

for Information and 

Broadcasting Maryam 

Aurangzeb has said the government 

fully trusts on 

Supreme Court and will 

accept its decision in 

Panama Papers case. 

In a statement on 

Tuesday, she said that the 

hearing of the case in the 

Apex court is according to 

law and now PTI chief 

had recently fallen out and 

were now separated. 

Two days prior to 

Humaira’s press conference, 

her husband in another press 

conference in Lahore had 

said that Humaira and producer 

Sakhi Sarwar would 

be responsible if any harm is 

done to him and his family. 

Govt fully trusts on SC, will accept 

decision in Panama Papers case: Maryam 

Independence of Gilgit-Baltistan celebrated 

GILGIT, Nov 1: The 69th 

Independence of Gilgit- 

Baltistan was celebrated 

across Gilgit-Baltistan on 

Tuesday. 

The day dawned with 

special prayers at mosques 

after Fajar prayer for solidarity, 

prosperity and 

integrity of Pakistan and 

Gilgit-Baltistan. 

Special ceremonies and 

functions were held in all 

the districts to pay tributes 

to the heroes and martyrs 

of liberation movement. 

Gilgit-Baltistan liberated 

from Dogra forces and 

declared its independent 

State on first November in 

1947. 

In their separate messages, 

Governor Mir 

Ghazanfar Ali Khan and 

Chief Minister Hafeez-ur- 

Rehman congratulated the 

people of Gilgit-Baltistan 

on the occasion of its 

Independence Day. They 

said the journey of 

progress and prosperity 

will continue. 

In his message, 

Minister for Kashmir 

Affairs and Gilgit- 

Baltistan Chaudhary 

Barjees Tahir felicitated 

the people of Gilgit- 

Baltistan and said the 

valiant people had struggled 

against Dogra rule 

and liberated the region in 

1947.He said government 

in Federal and Gilgit- 

'INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DRUG ABUSE & ILLICIT TRAFFICKING' 

Baltistan are taking keen 

interest in the development 

of the area. 

A ceremony was held in 

Ganish, Hunza to pay tributes 

to the heroes and martyrs 

of liberation movement. 

Speakers lauded the 

valour and courage of the 

participants of liberation 

movement. The speakers 

also lauded services of 

Subedar Major Fida Ali, a 

leading hero of liberation 

movement of Gilgit- 

Baltistan. The speakers 

said Fida Ali played key 

role in motivating and 

encouraging troops for 

launching liberation 

movement against the 

Dogra Raj in the region. 

Imran Khan should wait the 

decision of the court in the 

case. 

She said that PTI leadership 

should show its trust in 

the national institutions 

despite their disgrace. 

Kashmiris determined 

to defend homeland, 

repulse any aggression: 

Masood Khan 


President of Azad Jammu and 

Kashmir Sardar Masood 

Khan has urged the international 

community to ask India 

to abandon its reckless behavior 

fraught with grave risks 

for the peace and security of 

the region. 

In a statement on Tuesday, 

he said India has tried to deliberately 

mischaracterize its 

aggression to hide its crimes 

against humanity in the held 

Kashmir. He said people of 

Azad Kashmir and Pakistan 

are determined and ready to 

defend their homeland and 

repulse any aggression. 

PCG, IATF, ANF destroy huge cache of drugs in Karachi 

Officers of different countries 

and representatives of the 

venous agencies of Inter 

Agency Task Force. 

ANF officials say Pakistan 

attained the status of poppyfree 

country in year 2011, and 

is among the top three countries 

in global narcotic 

seizures. According to the 

United Nations Office on 

Drugs and Crime UNODC 

Report on Drug Use in 

Pakistan-2013, 7.9 million 

people aged between 15 and 

64 use drugs in the country. If 

drug users outside this band 

are added, the number may 

touch 9 million (4.5% of the 

total population). UNODC 

World Drug Report 2012, in 

2011 the estimated annual 

global production of the 

cannabis herb was 66,100 

tones, 9,900 tons of hashish 

were produced, while the production 

of opium stood at 

7,853 tonnes, heroin at 537 

tones, and cocaine at 1,135 

tones. UNODC World Drug 

Report 2013 told that of the 

world’s 4,833 million-strong 

population aged between 15 

and 64, 352 million (7%) used 

one drug or the other. 

Afghanistan is the world’s 

top producer of opium, from 

which heroin is made and 

which helps fund the 

Taliban’s insurgency. 

Pakistani officials say about 

70 per cent of Afghanistan’s 

drugs are smuggled through 

Pakistan and Iran, while the 

rest goes north through 

Central Asia. 

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