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4 Saturday, July 15, 2017 National KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989 messengerdaily@yahoo.com, editor@dailymessenger.com.pk Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Editor Special Reports: Muhammad Rafique Rajpar Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar - Islamabad Bureau Chief: Hameedullah Khan ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI WAH: An amazing news item puzzled the brain's normal thinking as it was reported that Palestine, an only country worldwide most war ravaged with destroyed infrastructure since decades, was planning to hold -- yes, hold your breathe -- a trade expo in Islamabad! PALESTINE'S commercial exhibition deserves a lot of congratulatory "Wah, Wah" considering that India and Pakistan wars had crippled their economies in a few days of fighting, while a large Palestinian land was usurped by military aggressor Israel bit by bit who hit and reduced Palestine into a tiny land and a tiny Gaza strip in several battles and wars fought. BLAH refers for those countries like Pakistan as well as other Arab states who watched as idle spectators, while some paid only lip service without any action. Useless diplomatic language could not, however, support their unnecessarily high and tall claims. That kind of hypocrisy remains overdue for a change in reversal now. Palestine needs active support, not verbal lambasting. What Palestine, especially its Gaza part, got from Muslim world in general and Arab world in particular was were highly condemnable Blah, Blah, Blah. FEW countries dared for any action: They can within international law, where one part of Palestine compromised and got some rights, though with questionable obedience to unreasonable dictates of big powers in some main respects. US superpower with Jewish inroads and control over American elections and life, supported Israel. Arab oil producing and exporting countries who catered to capitalistic machinery in US, Europe and elsewhere, did most of their clients' bidding. Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat was supported by Arabs as long when he did what Arab leaders demanded. After that PLO chief, his followers and Palestinians were shown out of Arab countries when they refused to sacrifice their freedom fight on Mideast and Western whims and pleasures. Palestinian liberators under PLO/al-Fatah were ultimately branded and introduced as terrorists due to their violent bravado. Al-Fatah opted for going along international diplomacy, won a UN seat and was recognized as a country with related rights of existence! Hamas faction and Gazans opted for noncompromise with Israel and were deprived of their legitimate rights to live as free people with deserved international rights. US and Europe on the outward for world diplomatic requirements fulfilled their public announcement formalities by condemning Israeli aggression and calling Zionist displacements of Palestinians from West Bank as illegal. But did not take any action against Israel, nor did they help By Paul R Ehrlich One should not need to be a scientist to know that human population growth and the accompanying increase in human consumption are the root cause of the sixth mass extinction we’re currently seeing. All you need to know is that every living being has evolved to have a set of habitat requirements. An organism can’t live where the temperature is too hot or too cold. If it lives in water, it requires not only an appropriate temperature range, but also appropriate salinity, acidity and other chemical characteristics. If it is a butterfly, it must have access to plants suitable for its caterpillars to eat.Alion requires plant-eaters to catch and devour. A tree needs a certain amount of sunlight and access to soil nutrients and water. A falciparum malaria parasite can’t survive and reproduce without Anopheles mosquitos in its habitat and a human bloodstream to infest. The human population has grown so large that roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s land surface is now farmed to feed people — and none too well at that. Largely due to persistent problems with distribution, almost 800 million people go to bed hungry, and between one and two billion suffer from malnutrition. As a consequence of its booming population, Homo Sapiens has taken much of the most fertile land to grow plants for its own consumption. But guess what? That cropland is generally not rich in food plants suitable for the caterpillars of the 15,000 butterfly species with which we share the planet. Few butterflies require the wheat, corn or rice on which humans largely depend. From the viewpoint of most of the Earth’s wildlife, farming can be viewed as “habitat destruction”. And, unsurprisingly, few species of wildlife have evolved to live on highways, or in strip malls, office buildings, kitchens or sewers — unless you count Norway rats, house mice, European starlings and German roaches. Virtually everything humanity constructs provides an example of habitat destruction. The more people there are, the more products of nature they demand to meet their needs and wants: timber, seafood, meat, gas, oil, metal ores, rare earths and EDITORIAL Wah And Blah OPINION Palestinians as champions of human liberties. STATE-TERROR of Israel was therefore not properly made known to the world for its untold miseries caused against Palestinians brutally displaced from their own land or in legal purchases, which meant almost a similar homeless fate and destiny, and among most tortuous life for Palestinian survivors. Arab world can change all that with their finance, manpower, economic assistance, diplomatic dialogues, a strong ceasefire with Arab world's all out support to Palestine, especially in Gaza. They did not. They still can. IRAN, with centuries of history as having most humble people famous for their selfless hospitality to the world and among richest kingly and national culture of civil and human behavior, its universities a having been a cradle of civilization for centuries worldwide, were misrepresented by world media as being terrorists, while Iranians were so alien to terrorism. However, Iranian revolutionary leader Imam Khomeini and Islamic democracy were undiplomatically true and not hypocritical liars in dealing with outside world. That should have made a positive difference in favor of Iran but it backfired and a world turned against Iran itself, instead of benefiting Iran. That showed the kind of politics a topsy turvey world without principles engage in, a highly questionable approach that can change for better. Iran, an anti US antagonist and enemy of Israel as well as supporter of Palestinian cause despite everything, and another country namely Israeli-hit Lebanon were different as they allied with Gaza. Even Qatar offered multi million dollar financial help to Gazans who, instead of choosing economic development, had families of martyrs who opted to fire hundreds of rockets and small missiles on Israel after the Jews staged as many hits on Palestine. ARAB world, however, did not help as it could or should have their fellow Palestinian brethren living a life of fear and dread of daily Israeli gunfire, arrests, imprisoning, torture and deaths in custody of leaders and followers of Gaza and Hamas, who barely have basic living provisions or facilities, as it's encircled by both Muslim and Israeli countries, who fought several wars against PLO's breakaway faction of Hamas in Palestine. Gaza tunnels of shelter for women and children from bombing, used for "smuggling" food and essential products as all routes were closed where neither a Gazan could leave their own land nor anyone could come into Gaza. Egypt and Israel bombed those tunnels. Hamas also used those tunnels for smuggling arms, and built inroads into Israel, where Palestinians staged suicidal missions. What’s causing the sixth mass extinction? It’s simple. It’s us. The more people there are, the more habitats we destroy. Human civilisation can only survive if the population begins to shrink rare animals to eat or to use for medicinal purposes. Human demands cause both habitat destruction and outright extermination of wildlife. So when you watch the expansion of the human enterprise; when you see buildings springing up; when you settle down to dinner at home or in a restaurant; you are observing (and often participating in) the sixth mass extinction. The expanding human population not only outright destroys habitats, it also alters them to the detriment of wildlife (and often people themselves). The more people there are, the more greenhouse gases flow into the atmosphere, and the greater the impacts on wildlife that require specific temperature ranges. And the more people there are, the more cities, roads, farm fields, fences and other barriers preventing wildlife from moving to areas of more favourable temperature or humidity in a rapidly changing climate. Less recognised, but perhaps even more dangerous to both people and wildlife, is the increasing toxification of the entire planet with synthetic chemicals. Growing populations want myriad more items of plastic that often leak toxic chemicals: more cosmetics, cleansing compounds, pesticides, herbicides, preservatives and industrial chemicals. Many of these novel chemicals mimic natural hormones, and in tiny quantities can alter the development of animals or human children, with potentially catastrophic consequences.As with climate disruption, this is one more case of human overpopulation threatening civilisation. So we don’t really need the evidence meticulously gathered and analysed by the scientific community showing the unusual and accelerating extermination of wildlife populations — and ultimately, species — to know that human population growth is a major and growing driver of the sixth mass extinction, just as it is with the related accelerating climate disruption. It will take a long time to humanely stop that growth and start the gradual shrinkage of the human population that is required if civilisation is to persist. All the more reason we should have started a half century ago, when the problem first came to public attention. Alleged terror facilitators including women operatives arrested in DG Khan DERA GHAZI KHAN: Security forces and law enforcement agencies while foiling terror bid in Punjab and Sindh have arrested 2 alleged facilitator gangs of terrorists from Dera Ghazi Khan. According to ISPR, development came after a joint Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) conducted by Pakistan Rangers Punjab along with police and intelligence agencies. The apprehended terrorists’ facilitator gangs also include women operatives. Huge quantity of illegal automatic weapons, ammunition and LEAs uniforms were recovered from the gangs. ISPR says that the ISLAMABAD: The Corporate Housing District Administration Societies for deliberately Islamabad claimed to have cancelled the NOC of seven delaying the development works on the projects and Corporate Housing sought reply from them. Societies located in But no reply was received Islamabad for violating from these societies. Corporate Society Act 1925. The NOC of following The NOC of seven housing societies have Corporate Housing been cancelled, which Societies were canceled include Real Garden after they failed to yield Corporate Housing reply to the final show - Society, NADRA cause notice issued to them Employees Corporate in April and were asked to Housing Society, Christan respond till June. Registrar Multipurpose Corporate Corporate Housing Housing Society, Balistan Societies Islamabad Corporate Housing Mohammad Ali issued several Society, Ahbab notices to the seven Multipurpose Corporate weapons and ammunition were being transported for Housing Society and Islamic University Staff Corporate Housing Society. According to sources, the District Administration Islamabad has also decided to auction the assets of Corporate Housing Societies and distribute the relevant amount among the affectees. Circle Registrar Mazhar Ali said that warning letter and notices were issued several times to housing societies, however, they violated act 1925 several times upon which their NOC were canceled. terrorist activities in major cities of Punjab & Sindh. Woman NOC of seven Corporate allegedly raped by Housing societies cancelled property dealer RAWALPINDI: A ISLAMABAD: Brig. (R) M.Ajaib, President, University of Lahore Islamabad Campus along with officer bearers, senior members of QAU Alumni Association and university faculty, handing over key of donated ambulance to Vice Chancellor QAU Dr.J aved Ashraf. 15 persons booked for allegedly hindering Cantonment anti-encroachment drive RAWALPINDI: At least 15 persons have been booked for allegedly resisting against cantonment anti-encroachment personnel within the Naseerabad Police jurisdiction. Cantonment Board Building Inspector Abdul Ghaffar, lodged a complaint with the local police that during anti encroachment drive in Naseerabad he tried to stop an illegal construction and those behind this encroachment Music evening held at RAC R A W A L P I N D I : Literary society Aalmi Adabi Forum in collaboration with Rawalpindi Arts Council arranged a music evening to honor poet and singer Dr Faisal Wadood in connection with Eid-ul Fitr celebration at RAC Adabi Baithak. Dr Faisal Wadood is not only good poet but also a famous singer of the region. Dr Faisal Wadood enthralled the audience with his wonderful performance by singing his own composition and renowned ghazals and received appreciation. The poets and intellectuals were present in a large number. Chairman Aalami Adabi Forum Shoib Naveed Khan thanked distinguished guests and applauded the efforts of Resident Director RAC Waqar Ahmed for extending full cooperation in promoting literary activities. Burqa clad women stage rally in support of PM Nawaz Sharif DERA GHAZI KHAN: Security personnel with arrested terrorists facilitator including women operatives. including including Afaraz Shah his 14 accomplices resisted and created hindrances on the way to operation. The police have registered a case and started investigation. woman has been allegedly raped by property dealer within the jurisdiction of airport police One “T” lodged a complaint with Airport police that she contacted Liaqat shah, property dealer for getting a house on rent. He called her to show house and took her into his flat in Wakeel Colony and raped her. Police have registered the case and started investigation. Married woman among four allegedly abducted in RWP RAWALPINDI: At least four persons including a married woman have allegedly been abducted within the Waris Khan, Saddar Bahroni, Taxila and Chauntra Police jurisdictions. Manzoor Hussain, a resident of Waris Khan, lodged a complaint with the local police that kidnappers have abducted his 22 year old daughter. He suspected that Nouman, Rahat, Amir, Rabia, Perveen, Masood and Ayesha could be behind the kidnapping. Mohammad Asif, a resident of Saddar Bahroni, lodged a complaint with the local police that kidnappers have abducted his 17 year old daughter, from the local market. Rizwan, a resident of Taxila, lodged a complaint with the local police that kidnappers have abducted his wife. He suspected that Ali Raza could be behind the kidnapping. Khalid Mahmood, a resident of Chauntra, lodged a complaint with the local police that kidnappers have abducted his 15 year old daughter. MULTAN: Burqa clad women staged pro-Nawaz Sharif rally at Kutchery Chowk Multan on Friday. . The women participants of rally were holding banners inscribed with pro Nawaz Sharif family slogans. They chanted slogans in support of Nawaz Sharif family and against Imran Khan besides torching PTI chief effigy at Kutchery chowk. We reject JIT report. Nawaz Sharif is elected representative of 200 million people. He will not resign against payment defaulters and power theft and cutting HYDERABAD: HESCO officials with LEAs crackdown under any pressure or on the basis of false JIT report. defaulters’ connections and kunda.
US judge narrows travel ban in defeat for Trump NEW MOSUL: Iraqi forces faced further pockets of resistance from Islamic State militants in Mosul's Old City on Friday, four days after the prime minister declared victory. Iraqi army helicopters flew overhead and explosions could be heard, residents said, while videos of alleged revenge attacks against people detained during the retaking of Mosul underlined future security challenges. "Three mortars landed on our district," a resident of Faysaliya, in east Mosul, just across the Tigris river, said by telephone. W A S H I N G T O N : President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries cannot stop grandparents and other relatives of United States citizens from entering the country, a U.S. judge said on Friday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu also opens the door for more refugees and deals Trump a fresh courtroom defeat in a long back-and-forth over an executive order that has gone all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state of Hawaii had asked Watson to narrowly interpret a Supreme Court ruling that revived parts of Trump’s March 6 executive order banning travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, as well as refugees for 120 days. The Supreme Court last month said the ban could take effect, but that anyone from the six countries with a "bona fide relationship" to a U.S. person or entity could not be barred. The Trump administration then interpreted that opinion to allow spouses, parents, children, fiancés and siblings into the country, but barred grandparents and other family members, in a measure Trump called necessary to prevent attacks. Watson harshly criticized the government’s definition of close family relations as "the antithesis of common sense" in a ruling that changes the way A few hundred Islamic State insurgents swept into Mosul three years ago, imposed a reign of terror after the Iraqi army collapsed and declared a caliphate spanning Iraqi and Syrian territory seized in a shock offensive. The victory of U.S.- backed Iraq forces in Mosul marked the biggest defeat for Islamic State, which is under siege in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, its operational base. Even though the Sunni Muslim group's caliphate is now crumbling, it is expected to revert to an insurgency and keep carrying out the ban can now be implemented. "Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents. Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members," he wrote. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. Trump’s order is a pretext for illegal discrimination, Hawaii Attorney attacks in the Middle East and West. Securing long-term peace in Iraq will not be easy. Prime Minister Haider al- Abadi faces the challenge of General Douglas Chin said in a statement. "Family members have been separated and real people have suffered enough," Chin said. Chin had asked Watson for an injunction allowing grandparents and other family members to travel to the United States. Hawaii and refugee groups also had argued that resettlement agencies have a "bona fide" relationship with the Iraq faces pockets of Islamic State resistance in Mosul's Old City Turkey's Erdogan plans Gulf visit to discuss Qatar dispute Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Qatar on June 5 over allegations it funds terrorist groups and is allying with their arch-foe Iran. Qatar denies the accusations. "All our efforts are focused on a solution that suits the laws of brotherly relations," Cavusoglu told reporters after talks in Ankara with his Qatari ANKARA: Turkey's visit the Gulf soon to discuss efforts to resolve the President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar's staunch regional crisis, Turkish Foreign counterpart Sheikh ally in its dispute with Gulf Minister Mevlut Mohammed bin Arab neighbours, hopes to Cavusoglu said on Friday. Abdulrahman al-Thani. UN urges Venezuela to allow dissent as asylum requests soar GENEVA: The United Nations called on Venezuela's government to let people take part in an unofficial referendum on the constitution on Sunday and make sure security forces do not use excessive force against protesters. TOKYO : Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, battered by a smoldering scandal and voters' perception he is taking them for granted, has fallen below 30 percent, the lowest since he returned to power in 2012, a survey released on Friday showed. Opposition groups have called the plebiscite after months of protests, saying Venezuelans should have their say on President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution. "We urge authorities to respect the wishes of those The suspicion of scandal over favoritism for a friend's business and missteps by cabinet ministers have taken a toll on Abe, who until recently was favored to win a third three-year term as party leader, and hence, premier when his current term expires in September 2018. who want to participate in this consultation and to guarantee people’s rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Liz Throssell told a Geneva news briefing on Friday. preventing revenge killings that could create more instability, along with sectarian tensions and ethnic strife that have dogged Iraq since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. Russia to decide next week on retaliation against U.S. over compound seizures MOSCOW: Russia will next week take a decision about if and how it will retaliate against the United States over the seizure of its diplomatic compounds on U.S. soil, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The outgoing Obama administration expelled 35 suspected Russian spies late last year and seized two diplomatic compounds over what it said was the hacking of U.S. political groups during the 2016 presidential election. Russian President Vladimir Putin decided not to retaliate immediately, saying he would wait to see what the new administration of Trump would do. Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for foreign ministry, told a news briefing on Friday that "time was running out" for the problem to be resolved. She said Moscow's course of action would depend on outcome of a meeting in Washington on July 17 between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon. refugees they help, sometimes over the course of years. The Justice Department said its rules were properly grounded in immigration law. Watson said the assurance by a resettlement agency to provide basic services to a newly arrived refugee constitutes an adequate connection to the U.S. because it is a sufficiently formal and documented agreement that triggers responsibilities and compensation. "‘Bona fide’ does not get any more ‘bona fide’ than that," Watson said. Melanie Nezer, vice president of global refugee advocacy group HIAS, said the ruling should mean that refugees can continue to be resettled in the United States, beyond a cap of 50,000 set by the executive order. That limit was reached this week. "We are thrilled that thousands of people will be reunited with their family members," said Becca Heller, director of the International Refugee Assistance Project. Bastille Day march-past closes Trump's Paris visit PARIS: President Donald Trump watched U.S. and French soldiers march together through Paris sunshine on Friday in a double celebration marking 100 years since the US entered World War One and France's annual Bastille Day holiday. Also featuring a binational fly-past of American F16 and French Rafale jets symbolizing military cooperation in the Middle East and elsewhere, the occasion followed a day of talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, a first ladies' tour of Paris, and a dinner for four at a restaurant in Eiffel Tower. "Great evening with President @Emmanuel Macron & Mrs. Macron. Went to Eiffel Tower for dinner. Relationship with France stronger than ever," Trump wrote in a tweet. Ceremonies brought to an end a visit Macron needs as a boost to France's standing on the world stage - one which could also help a U.S. leader left short of international friends by his stance on free trade and climate change. SEOUL: North Korea said on Friday it will take "corresponding measures" if the U.N. Security Council adopts another sanctions resolution in response to the North's test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) last week. The North's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency that the ICBM test was an exercise of its legitimate right to self-defense against nuclear threat from the United States. The United States has been trying to get China DELHI: Unfortunately, Salman Khan has earned a reputation for making statements which become national news for all the wrong reasons. More often than not, he finds himself at the centre of controversy. However, we find it hard to blame him considering he is always subjected to media glare. When asked by an Indian newspaper whether he finds the constant attention and misinterpretation of his statements irksome, the Dabbang star said, "Everyone shares their opinion but when somebody like me says something, it’s twisted around. Then, a [TV] show runs [the comment], and it gets good TRPs. But if it’s their business, let them do it. The other option for me is to just stop talking. I hate doing interviews, and I get bored of them but I do them because if a fan of mine picks up a newspaper or a magazine; or watches a TV channel, he should know that a certain film of mine is up for release. That’s all." The 51-year-old star also stated that before the release of his film Jaan-E- Mann alongside Preity Zinta and Akshay Kumar in 2006, he never even stepped out the house for interviews and promotion for his films. Saturday, July 15, 2017 International “When did I do any publicity for any film? The films would still run and became big hits. But now that a precedent [of doing interviews] has set in, so it’s going on. Now, if I go on a TV show (for promotions), it feels good if their TRPs get boosted. Also, through that show, my fans will get to see me at home 5 My comments always create controversy, says Salman Khan for free. That’s the only intent of doing all of that. But then, a lot of times, journalists want a reaction about something because either their bosses have asked them for that or they want to make a name for themselves. But that’s wrong journalism, which I don’t appreciate at all”, the actor added. Two Israeli policemen shot dead near Jerusalem holy site, gunmen killed JAKARTA: Indonesia renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea as the North Natuna Sea on Friday, the latest act of resistance by Southeast Asian nations to China's territorial ambitions in the maritime region. Seen by analysts as an assertion of Indonesian sovereignty, part of the renamed sea is claimed by China under its contentious maritime boundary, known as the JERUSALEM: Three the area to Muslims gathering Arab-Israeli gunmen shot for Friday prayers dead two Israeli policemen afterwards, drawing a call near one of Jerusalem's for resistance from most holy places on Friday, and were then killed by security forces, police said. Palestinian religious leaders. The Palestinian Grand It was one of the most Mufti of Jerusalem, serious attacks so close to Mohammad Hussein, the volatile holy site, called on Palestinians to known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in defy the closure, and was later reported to have been detained. years. Palestinian President Israeli authorities shut Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but also said closing down the area could have repercussions. The three gunmen arrived at the sacred site, which stands on a marble and stone plateau on the edge of Jerusalem's Old City, and walked toward one of the nearby ancient stone gates, police spokeswoman Luba Simri said. Asserting sovereignty, Indonesia renames part of South China Sea and Russia to back a new U.N. Security Council resolution imposing stiffer sanctions on North 'nine-dash line', that encompasses most of the resource-rich sea. Several Southeast Asian states dispute China's territorial claims and are competing with China to exploit the South China Sea's abundant hydrocarbon and fishing resources. China has raised the ante by deploying military assets on artificial islands constructed on shoals and reefs in disputed parts of the sea. North Korea says to take 'corresponding measures' if U.N. adopts sanctions Support for Abe's government fell 15.2 points from a month earlier to 29.9 percent, according to a July 7-10 survey by Jiji news agency. The biggest reason cited for not backing the cabinet was a lack of trust in the prime minister. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters the government would take the drop "sincerely as the voice of the people". "While aiming for economic recovery as our top priority, we want to strive to solve various problems in and outside Japan one by one in a steady manner," Suga said. The survey is the latest to show Abe's support at the lowest since his return to office promising to revive the economy and bolster defenses. Natuso Yamaguchi, leader of the junior partner in Abe's ruling coalition, the Korea following its latest missile test. Japan PM Abe's support slides below 30 percent, new poll shows Komeito party, earlier on Friday urged the premier to focus on regaining public trust. Abe is considering a wholesale shake-up of his cabinet on Aug. 3, replacing more than half of his 19 ministers while keeping key allies, media have reported.
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