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Metropolitan:<br />
I will be back,<br />
says Dr Asim<br />
before leaving<br />
for London<br />
Page 2<br />
National:<br />
Two dead<br />
as fire breaks<br />
out in Islamabad<br />
building<br />
Page 3<br />
Sportlight:<br />
Playing in<br />
Pakistan<br />
excites World XI<br />
players<br />
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On Tips<br />
Prayer Timings Karachi<br />
Fajr<br />
5:00am<br />
Sunrise<br />
6:16am<br />
Zohar<br />
12:28pm<br />
Asr<br />
4:56pm<br />
Maghrib<br />
6:40pm<br />
Isha<br />
7:57pm<br />
City Temperature<br />
Min Max<br />
Khi 26 ο C 31 ο C<br />
Lhr 26 ο C 34 ο C<br />
Isb 23 ο C 29 ο C<br />
Qta 18 ο C 32 ο C<br />
Psh 24 ο C 28 ο C<br />
FOREX RATES 1800GMT<br />
GBP/USD 1.32<br />
EUR/USD 1.20<br />
USD/JPY 107.84<br />
USD/CHF 0.94<br />
Death anniversary<br />
of Quaid-e-Azam to<br />
be observed today<br />
ISLAMABAD: The<br />
69th death anniversary<br />
of Father of the Nation<br />
Q u a i d - e - A z a m<br />
Muhammad Ali Jinnah<br />
will be observed today<br />
with due solemnity<br />
across the country.<br />
Quran Khawani and<br />
Fateha will be held at the<br />
Quaid’s Mazar while<br />
people of various walks<br />
of life will visit the mausoleum<br />
to lay floral<br />
wreath and offer Fateha.<br />
Nakyal: 8 drown as jeep<br />
swept away by water<br />
KOTLI: Eight persons<br />
of a family drowned on<br />
Sun when an official jeep<br />
coming from Khoi Ratta<br />
to Nakyal was swept<br />
away by furious and dispersive<br />
water waves while<br />
crossing a nullah Dhamoi<br />
near UC Mandhir<br />
Mithrani-Sikka Kas.<br />
Those become victims<br />
include former Deputy<br />
Director BISP, Chaudhry<br />
Ishaq, employee of Public<br />
Health department Ch<br />
Tariq, Ch Ijaz and 3<br />
nephews Adeel, Tauqeer,<br />
Owais, a girl child,<br />
woman and driver Anwar.<br />
According to locals,<br />
Ch. Ishaq along with his<br />
family members reached<br />
village Barali Gala from<br />
native village Kothian to<br />
see the relatives.<br />
8 Pages<br />
LONDON: Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman<br />
Imran Khan and other senior<br />
politicians and Bollywood<br />
film stars attended the wedding<br />
of businessman Aneel<br />
Mussarat’s daughter in<br />
London.<br />
Pakistani politicians such<br />
as Sheikh Rasheed,<br />
Makhdoom Ahmed<br />
Mehmood, BabarAwan, former<br />
premier Shaukat Aziz,<br />
KARACHI EDITION – Monday, <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2017</strong>, Zhul-Hijja 19, 1438 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />
Imran, other politicians and<br />
celebrities meet at London wedding<br />
ASTANA: The<br />
Organization of Islamic<br />
Cooperation (OIC) has<br />
demanded the Myanmar<br />
government to allow the<br />
United Nations Human<br />
Rights Council’s fact<br />
finding mission to probe<br />
into alleged violations of<br />
global human rights laws<br />
and bring the perpetrators<br />
to justice.<br />
The OIC members<br />
took this stance at a meeting<br />
held exclusively on<br />
the sidelines of the first<br />
OIC Summit on science<br />
and technology in Astana,<br />
Kazakhastan on Sunday.<br />
The OIC also censured<br />
Myanmar Government<br />
over ongoing persecution<br />
of Rohingya Muslims.<br />
The meeting expressed<br />
grave concern over systematic<br />
brutal acts perpetrated<br />
by security forces<br />
forcing nearly three hundred<br />
thousand Muslims to<br />
Shah Mehmood Qureshi,<br />
Ahmed Raza Kasuri were<br />
present alongside the PTI<br />
chairman at the function.<br />
London Mayor Sadiq<br />
Khan was also a guest at the<br />
wedding.<br />
Bollywood actors Anil<br />
Kapoor and Sunil Shetty<br />
also attended the wedding<br />
reception of businessman<br />
Mussarat’s daughter. Kapoor<br />
daughter and Bollywood<br />
flee to Bangladesh<br />
besides burning their<br />
houses and worship<br />
places.<br />
The OIC asked the<br />
Myanmar government to<br />
eliminate root cause<br />
including the denial of<br />
citizenship based on the<br />
1982 Citizenship Act<br />
celebrity, Sonam, was also at<br />
the wedding.<br />
It was earlier reported<br />
that this month major politicians<br />
would be in London<br />
this month — some to attend<br />
wedding of Mussarat’s<br />
daughter, while the Sharifs<br />
(excluding Maryam Nawaz)<br />
are already there due to the<br />
ongoing cancer treatment of<br />
Kulsoom Nawaz.<br />
Imran reached London<br />
earlier on Saturday to attend<br />
the wedding ceremony<br />
while senior PTI leader<br />
Naeem-ul-Haque arrived in<br />
London before him. Haque<br />
also addressed two meetings<br />
during his stay.<br />
Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed<br />
had spoken to Geo News<br />
and said: “I have come to<br />
attend the wedding event<br />
and also will be speaking at<br />
four events organised by my<br />
party.” He had said he would<br />
leave for Pakistan two days<br />
after the wedding.<br />
OIC urges Myanmar to allow probe<br />
into Rohingya Muslims’ killings<br />
270,000 flee violence<br />
in Myanmar<br />
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations migration<br />
agency today confirmed that 270,000 people have fled<br />
violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh over the<br />
past two weeks, and the number of new arrivals continues<br />
to increase.<br />
“Humanitarian agencies are deploying mobile medical<br />
teams, installing emergency latrines, providing<br />
water, and are distributing tarpaulins for basic shelter<br />
and food rations to new arrivals. But much more is needed<br />
and we are fast running out of stock,” Margo Baars,<br />
who facilitates the Inter Sector Coordination Group convened<br />
by the International Organization for Migration<br />
(IOM), said in a press release.<br />
which led to statelessness<br />
and deprival of rights to<br />
Rohingyas.<br />
It urged Myanmar government<br />
to take urgent<br />
measures for sustainable<br />
return of Rohingya<br />
refugees and internally<br />
and externally displaced<br />
population.<br />
CPNE Editors Club organized its first<br />
Eid Millan dinner and musical night<br />
KARACHI: Council of<br />
Pakistan Newspaper<br />
Editors (CPNE) organized<br />
its first Annual Eid Millan<br />
dinner and Musical Night<br />
on Saturday, the 9th<br />
<strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>2017</strong> at CPNE<br />
Secretariat Hockey<br />
Stadium.<br />
This event was a major<br />
success and was admired<br />
by those who attended the<br />
event. Approximately 40<br />
editors, journalists guests<br />
from throughout Pakistan,<br />
attended the evening. The<br />
master of ceremony was<br />
CPNE General Secretary,<br />
Ejazul Haq and he was<br />
assisted by club incharge,<br />
Syed Hamid Hussain<br />
Abidi who presented his<br />
welcome address and<br />
informed that despite constraints<br />
club will continue<br />
to offer club services with<br />
free refreshments to the<br />
visiting editors from<br />
evening-to-night daily.<br />
A splendid dinner was<br />
served , followed by a<br />
wonderful musical program.<br />
The wonderful<br />
evening was well by<br />
CPNE office bearers, and<br />
their efficient team. The<br />
audience fully enjoyed the<br />
delicious food and the<br />
entertaining music.<br />
Perhaps each new<br />
beginning means we need<br />
to grow and learn, to master<br />
new skills that will take<br />
us to the next beginning.<br />
FUNERAL PRAYERS OF HAWKESBAY BEACH<br />
‘No lifeguard was<br />
present when 12 family<br />
members drowned’<br />
PCG, PTI, JI criticized KMC arrangements<br />
Dr SJA Jafri<br />
KARACHI: Bashir<br />
Khan, a friend of the<br />
deceased family said 34 people<br />
had gone for a picnic at<br />
10am on Saturday where<br />
huge waves crashed into<br />
them as they sat on the<br />
shore, with the receding<br />
waves sweeping away the<br />
picnickers one by one but<br />
"No lifeguard, police officer,<br />
volunteer or any rescuer was<br />
present when the tragedy<br />
struck".<br />
Vice Chairman DMC<br />
Central, Syed Shakir Ali<br />
was continuously in contact<br />
with the victim family<br />
members and media during<br />
the whole last night for<br />
arrangement of funeral<br />
prayer of the deceased.<br />
The funeral prayers for<br />
eleven of the deceased were<br />
held after Zuhr prayers in<br />
North Karachi’s Bab-ul-<br />
Islam mosque. The deceased<br />
were laid to rest in Shah<br />
Muhammad graveyard<br />
while the burial of the 12th<br />
victim held in Paposh after<br />
Asr prayers.<br />
Speaking to the media<br />
before the funeral, Karachi<br />
Mayor Waseem Akhtar<br />
complained that despite<br />
warnings, picnickers do not<br />
heed the authorities' advice<br />
KARACHI: A large number of people have gathered at Matsal Ground to offer the funeral<br />
prayers of the 12 members of a same family who drowned at Hawks Bay. While, in the inset<br />
picture relatives of twelve members of a same family mourn their deaths with deep sorrow.<br />
to restrain from swimming<br />
in the sea.<br />
He said the city government<br />
is responsible for<br />
maintaining a 27km stretch<br />
of the beach for which they<br />
have deployed 46 lifeguards.<br />
Political leaders also visited<br />
the homes of the<br />
deceased after the incident to<br />
express their condolences.<br />
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi<br />
Chief Hafiz Naeemur<br />
Rehman, during his visit to<br />
the deceased's home, said<br />
this tragedy has paved way<br />
to numerous questions about<br />
4 killed, 2 injured<br />
in target killing<br />
Senior Staff Writer<br />
QUETTA: Four people<br />
were killed and two sustained<br />
injuries in an incident<br />
of target killing in Kuchlak<br />
Sunday. Kuchlak is 25 Km<br />
north of Quetta.<br />
Police however said that<br />
three people werekilled and<br />
two injured in firing.<br />
Police told that some people<br />
were coming to Quetta<br />
from Chaman today. Their<br />
vehicle stopped at a petrol<br />
pump in Jalogir Morr near<br />
Kuchlak for refueling. In the<br />
meanwhile armed men<br />
opened firing on the vehicle.<br />
As a result three people died<br />
instantly. They were identified<br />
as Mehdi, Yazdan and<br />
Ghulam Hussain. Three persons<br />
including two women<br />
were also injured. One of the<br />
injured succumbed to his<br />
injuries in hospital. He was a<br />
boy. Two injured Ismail and<br />
Wakeel were undergoing<br />
treatment at civil hospital.<br />
Security forces and<br />
administration reached the<br />
scene and shifted dead and<br />
wounded were shifted to<br />
Quetta.<br />
'Lion' will win <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />
17 clash: Maryam Nawaz<br />
LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz presided over a session of<br />
party members in Model Town .<br />
LAHORE: Daughter of ousted premier, Maryam<br />
Nawaz has claimed on Sunday in a rally that ‘lion’ would<br />
win the by-polls in <strong>Sep</strong>tember 17 clash.<br />
Maryam Nawaz presided over a session of party<br />
members in Model Town earlier in the day.<br />
The meeting was attended by senator Pervaiz<br />
Rasheed, Talal Chaudhry, Maiza Hameed among other<br />
senior party leaders.<br />
However, while addressing the rally participants in<br />
the evening, Maryam said that one family was humiliated<br />
in a case that ran for one and half years. She applauded<br />
workers’ enthusiasm to make Kulsoom Nawaz victorious<br />
in NA-120 by-elections.<br />
Maryam Nawaz was welcomed by the party workers<br />
on her arrival in UC-50 and UC-52.<br />
Kulsoom Nawaz, PML-N’s candidate for the<br />
<strong>Sep</strong>tember 17 by-polls in NA-120 is undergoing treatment<br />
for lymph nodes cancer in London. Disqualified<br />
premier Nawaz Sharif flew down there earlier to inquire<br />
on health of his wife. However, Maryam Nawaz is carrying<br />
on with electioneering in absence of her mother.<br />
the government.<br />
"The absence of rescue<br />
teams and lifeguards has<br />
resulted in many tragedies<br />
before as well," he said.<br />
PTI leader Haleem Adil<br />
Sheikh offered condolences<br />
to the bereaved family during<br />
his visit to their home.<br />
"Death by electrocution and<br />
drowning are becoming<br />
commonplace," lamented<br />
Sheikh. He criticized the<br />
government for 'taking<br />
notice' of things and not<br />
adopting substantial measures<br />
to improve the situation<br />
NEW DELHI: Officials<br />
of India and Pakistan will<br />
hold another round of discussion<br />
in Washington<br />
next week in presence of<br />
World Bank officials over<br />
construction of two<br />
hydroelectric projects in<br />
Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).<br />
"It will be technical<br />
discussion on Ratle and<br />
NA-120 LAHORE<br />
on ground.<br />
Meanwhile, in a statement,<br />
the Pakistan Coast<br />
Guards (PCG) said it is the<br />
job of KMC to manage lifeguards<br />
at the beaches.<br />
It said the coast guard<br />
only maintains a check post<br />
on Hawkesbay road to<br />
ensure no one takes<br />
weapons or drugs to beach.<br />
On August 26, the son of<br />
Saudi Vice-Council<br />
General, along with two<br />
other Saudi nationals,<br />
drowned near Neelam point<br />
at Hawkesbay Beach.<br />
Indo- Pak to hold talks on two<br />
J&K hydroelectric projects<br />
Kishanganga hydroelectric<br />
projects", said an<br />
Indian official while talking<br />
to media.<br />
First round of such discussion<br />
had taken place in<br />
Washington during July<br />
31 and August 1.<br />
India and Pakistan currently<br />
disagree over<br />
whether the technical<br />
design features of the two<br />
hydroelectric plants -<br />
Kishanganga (330<br />
megawatts) and Ratle<br />
(850 megawatts) - contravene<br />
the Indus Water<br />
Treaty.<br />
The Kishanganga plant<br />
is proposed on a tributary<br />
of the Jhelum river while<br />
the Ratle will come up on<br />
the Chenab river.<br />
Country will speak up<br />
against injustice on <strong>Sep</strong>t 17<br />
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader<br />
Maryam Nawaz remarked that the nation will raise its<br />
voice regarding injustices against its leader on<br />
<strong>Sep</strong>tember 17.<br />
Maryam was addressing a rally in Lahore’s NA-120<br />
constituency Sunday evening.<br />
“On <strong>Sep</strong>tember 17, the people will vote for the lion<br />
[PML-N’s electoral symbol],” she remarked, adding<br />
that lion will roar on the day of the by-election. Maryam<br />
is spearheading the NA-120 campaign while her mother<br />
and PML-N candidate for the by-poll, Kulsoom<br />
Nawaz, undergoes treatment for lymphoma in London.<br />
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Metropolitan<br />
I will be back, says Dr Asim<br />
before leaving for London<br />
KARACHI: Former<br />
petroleum minister, Dr.<br />
Asim Hussain has said,<br />
“Pakistan is my home and<br />
I will return shortly”.<br />
Talking to media<br />
before his departure for<br />
London from Jinnah<br />
International Airport on<br />
Sunday, Dr Asim said<br />
Pakistan is his home and<br />
he will return shortly.<br />
The Pakistan Peoples<br />
Party (PPP) leader, who is<br />
out on bail in two cases of<br />
corruption and one of terrorists'<br />
facilitation,<br />
recently managed to get<br />
his name struck off the<br />
Exit Control List (ECL).<br />
KARACHI: Sindh<br />
Madressatul Islam<br />
University organized a wonderful<br />
Annual Function in<br />
connection with 133rd<br />
Foundation Day of this great<br />
institution at a local hotel on<br />
Saturday evening. Various<br />
groups of students of SMIU<br />
presented cultural shows<br />
depicting cultures of different<br />
countries particularly those<br />
Dr Asim, a close aide<br />
of Asif Ali Zardari, had<br />
approached the Supreme<br />
Court to be allowed to<br />
which they have visited as a<br />
part of SMIU Leadership<br />
Program. They presented the<br />
popular/folk songs of China,<br />
Malaysia, Turkey and UK.<br />
They also presented national<br />
and Sindhi folk songs including<br />
Ho Jamalo.<br />
On this occasion Dr<br />
MuhammadAli Shaikh, Vice<br />
Chancellor of SMIU gave<br />
away awards to about 43<br />
travel abroad for medical<br />
treatment. Dr Asim was<br />
expected to proceed to<br />
London via Dubai in an<br />
employees of SMIU ranging<br />
from highest grades to lowest<br />
grades, on their outstanding<br />
performance delivered during<br />
year 2016-17. Among<br />
seven recipients of Order of<br />
ExcellenceAward were Dean<br />
Faculty of Information<br />
Technology Prof. Dr Syed<br />
Asif Ali, Chairperson<br />
Department of Media and<br />
Communication Studies<br />
Emirates flight.<br />
On August 29, the<br />
Supreme Court ordered<br />
the relevant authorities to<br />
Sindh Madressatul Islam University<br />
organized a wonderful Annual Function<br />
KARACHI: Dr. Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Vice Chancellor of SMIU addressing the Annual<br />
Function of Sindh Madressatul Islam University at a local hotel.<br />
30 million children out<br />
of school in Pakistan<br />
Dr SJA Jafri<br />
KARACHI: 30 million<br />
children are out of school in<br />
Pakistan which depicts the<br />
dismal state of education<br />
and literacy rate in the country.<br />
Pakistan has one of the<br />
lowest literacy rates in the<br />
world and according to the<br />
UNESCO report, literacy<br />
rate of Pakistan is merely 55<br />
percent and Pakistan stands<br />
at 160th in total countries of<br />
the world in literacy rates.<br />
The government needs to<br />
declare education emergency<br />
and take serious<br />
measures to promote literacy<br />
and education in every<br />
nook and corner of the<br />
country. Everyone including<br />
the government, civil society,<br />
educational institutions,<br />
academia and students must<br />
play their role in this regard<br />
because its our collective<br />
responsibility. Government<br />
must fulfill the popular<br />
demand from the academia<br />
for raising the budget allocated<br />
to the education sector.<br />
These views were<br />
expressed by Professor Dr<br />
Shahana Urooj Kazmi, Vice<br />
Chancellor Dadabhoy<br />
Institute of Higher<br />
Education (DIHE) at a seminar<br />
on community Services<br />
on the eve of World Literacy<br />
Day at DIHE main campus.<br />
“Academia must come<br />
forward and devise a joint<br />
strategy for the eradication<br />
of illiteracy in the country,<br />
its not just the responsibility<br />
of the government but the<br />
prevelidged educated class<br />
must also take up this<br />
responsibility”, she added.<br />
On the occasion, MoUs<br />
were also signed with different<br />
community service<br />
o rg a n i z a t i o n s / N G O ’s<br />
according to which DIHE<br />
students will have to serve<br />
in any of these organizations<br />
for their one credit hour<br />
course of community services.<br />
“For the promotion of<br />
community services and<br />
inculcation of its culture<br />
among our students, DIHE<br />
board of Governors has<br />
introduced a one credit hour<br />
compulsory course of<br />
Community Services in its<br />
curriculum for its students.<br />
Collaboration between academia<br />
and industries always<br />
has a significant role and it<br />
must be vitalized in order to<br />
achieve the best possible<br />
outcomes for the prosperity<br />
and wellbeing of our society.<br />
Students are the agents of<br />
change, they must come up<br />
and take their responsibility<br />
for the societal uplift”, said<br />
Dr. Shahana Kazmi.<br />
On the occasion,<br />
Chairman Board of<br />
Governors DIHE Abdullah<br />
Dadabhoy, member BOG<br />
Majyd Aziz Memon and<br />
CEO Hope Welfare Trust<br />
Dr. Mubeena Agboatwalla<br />
also spoke, appreciating the<br />
efforts of Prof. Dr. Shahana<br />
Urooj Kazmi for these community<br />
services endeavors’,<br />
they called for joint efforts<br />
to raise literacy especially of<br />
technology in the society<br />
which is the dire need of the<br />
day.<br />
“Pakistani people are the<br />
best in the world and globally<br />
recognized for community<br />
services, we have produced<br />
legends like Abdul<br />
Sattar Edhi, Adeeb Rizwi<br />
and others. People of the<br />
country are so much committed<br />
towards the cause of<br />
humanity and community<br />
services. It’s the duty of all<br />
of us to promote and highlight<br />
this positive image of<br />
Pakistan to the world”,<br />
Abdullah Dadabhoy added.<br />
The organizations and<br />
NGO’s which signed the<br />
MoUs include The Citizens<br />
Foundation, Jafaria<br />
Disaster Cell, Help<br />
International Welfare Trust,<br />
Future Helping Hands,<br />
World Wildlife Fund<br />
Pakistan, Omair Sana<br />
Foundation, Kashif Iqbal<br />
Thalassemia Center, Indus<br />
Hospital Blood Center,<br />
Saylani Welfare Trust,<br />
Darul Sakun, Awareness<br />
Voluntarily Organization,<br />
Subhe Nau and Dr. Essa<br />
Laboratories. All the organizations<br />
lauded the decision<br />
of DIHE Board of<br />
Governors to introduce the<br />
community service course<br />
in DIHE curriculum and<br />
assured their full support<br />
for its implementation.<br />
KARACHI: Motorists making their way through the water accumulated outside Holy<br />
Faily Hospital which requires attention of the authorities concerned.<br />
Prof. Dr Ambreen Fazal,<br />
Chairman Department of<br />
Education Mr. Stephen John,<br />
Controller of Examination<br />
and Admissions Mr. Furqan<br />
Iftikhar, Director Finance Mr.<br />
GhulamAli Surhio, Registrar<br />
Mr. Gulzar Ahmed Mughal,<br />
Director HRM Mr. Shakeel<br />
Ahmed Abro and Director<br />
Planning and Development<br />
Mr. Ghulam Mustafa Shaikh.<br />
Other thirty six employees of<br />
SMIU who received<br />
Performance Awards were<br />
working in different departments<br />
and sections of the university<br />
including Quality<br />
Enhancement Cell, Office of<br />
Research, Innovation and<br />
Commercialisation (ORIC),<br />
Department of Planning and<br />
Development, HRM,<br />
Department of Finance,<br />
graphic designers, caretakers,<br />
security guards, peons and<br />
cleaning workers.<br />
Pakistan asked to<br />
provide relief aid to<br />
Rohingya's Muslims<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh<br />
Vice President Nusrat Wahid<br />
on Sunday strongly condemned<br />
the genocide of<br />
Rohingya's Muslim people<br />
in Myanmar.<br />
“The international<br />
community must take<br />
immediate notice of these<br />
brutal mass killings of<br />
innocent Muslims. In this<br />
hour of crisis, we will not<br />
leave our Muslims brothers<br />
of Myanmar alone,”<br />
she said while addressing<br />
a gathering.<br />
remove Dr Asim's name<br />
from the ECL, overturning<br />
an earlier Sindh High<br />
Court ruling. His name<br />
was placed on the ECL in<br />
November 2015.<br />
Asim has been allowed<br />
to leave for abroad for<br />
one month for medical<br />
treatment and had to submit<br />
a surety of Rs6 million.<br />
Dr Asim faces trial in<br />
two cases of alleged corruption<br />
of over Rs450 billion<br />
and another of<br />
allegedly facilitating and<br />
treating terrorists at his<br />
medical facility, Dr.<br />
Ziauddin Hospital.<br />
Roads leading to<br />
Karachi’s Hawke’s Bay<br />
close due to high tides<br />
KARACHI: All roads<br />
leading to Karachi's Hawke's<br />
Bay beach were closed due to<br />
high tides at the coastal areas.<br />
All recreational spots at<br />
the beach have also been<br />
closed down.<br />
Twelve picnickers from<br />
three different families<br />
drowned at Hawke's Bay<br />
beach in Karachi on<br />
Saturday.<br />
An Edhi official told that<br />
10 bodies had been recovered<br />
and shifted to Civil Hospital<br />
Karachi, while another body<br />
had also been retrieved from<br />
the sea and was being taken<br />
to the hospital.<br />
MLO Civil Hospital Dr.<br />
Arif confirmed that 10 bodies<br />
had been brought to the<br />
hospital.<br />
He said the victims were<br />
identified as Wahaj (28), son<br />
of Shahzad; Umair (30), son<br />
of Jameel; Ali (25), son of<br />
Noor Ali; Saud (50), son of<br />
Shoaib Ahmed; Filza (17),<br />
daughter of Saud; Ebad (15),<br />
son of Saud; Atif (30), son of<br />
Naseem Ahmed; Taha (20),<br />
son of Minhaj; Ali (26), son<br />
of Zameer; Hamza (12), son<br />
of Jameel.<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Youth are the greatest<br />
asset of any nation because these<br />
young people get higher education and<br />
join top slots of the government making<br />
policies of the country. Nations<br />
focusing adequately on their youth and<br />
students are now the leading nations of<br />
the world. Youth must be provided latest<br />
technologically advanced education<br />
and facilities so that they remain<br />
sincere to their state and nation. These<br />
views were expressed by Professor Dr<br />
NAB Karachi arrests an accused<br />
from Lahore in Fertiliser Urea scam<br />
KARACHI: One Manager Distribution in by Government of<br />
Mushtaq Ahmed Qaiser National Fertiliser Pakistan through Trading<br />
s/o Muhammad Shafi resident<br />
of Lahore, wanted in (NFML) and was responsi-<br />
(TCP). Another accused<br />
Marketing Limited Corporation of Pakistan<br />
an investigation at NAB ble for ensuring transparent<br />
marketing and distribu-<br />
Shaukatullah one of the<br />
person<br />
named<br />
Karachi has been arrested<br />
today at Lahore. The tion of imported urea at owners of M/S Shahmeer<br />
arrested accused was nominated<br />
in investigation, for his personal illegal cial remand. Accused<br />
farmers level. However, Tally is already under judi-<br />
along with nine other interests, he in connivance Mushtaq Ahmed Qaiser<br />
accused persons, on with other accused persons will be produced before<br />
charges of misappropriating<br />
imported fertiliser ness concerns misappro-<br />
Accountability Court for<br />
including owners of busi-<br />
Hon'ble<br />
Judge<br />
urea. The accused arrested priated urea worth Rs 143 physical remand after<br />
today was serving as million that was imported completion of transit.<br />
JI demands Pak military<br />
intervention against Myanmar govt<br />
KARACHI: Naib Ameer Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan Asadullah Bhutto addressing the participants<br />
of the million march at M A Jinnah Road launched to protest against the<br />
killing of Muslims in Burma.<br />
Sikandar Rajput<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KARACHI: To express<br />
solidarity with the oppressed<br />
Muslims of Burma, Jamaate-Islami<br />
(JI) Karachi on<br />
Sunday took out a big rally in<br />
Karachi.<br />
A large number of people<br />
from all walks of life participated<br />
in the rally. Protesters,<br />
carrying placards and banners,<br />
chanted slogans against<br />
the government of Myanmar.<br />
The rally was taken out from<br />
Nomaish Chowrangi to Tibet<br />
Center on MA Jinnah Road.<br />
On the occasion, a large<br />
number of children donated<br />
their pocket money. Besides<br />
this, Sikh community in<br />
Karachi announced to donate<br />
Rs 50,000, Karachi Bar<br />
Council Association<br />
President handed over a<br />
cheque of Rs125,000 in his<br />
personal capacity.<br />
The rally passed a resolution,<br />
demanding of the government<br />
to play its due role<br />
in connection with Rohangia<br />
crises and deport the envoy<br />
of Myanmar with immediate<br />
effect. The resolution also<br />
demanded of the government<br />
to pass resolutions in<br />
upper and lower houses of<br />
the parliament. It also asked<br />
the media to shun the policy<br />
of downplaying Rohangia<br />
crises. The rally demanded<br />
of the 34 countries Muslim<br />
military alliance to play its<br />
due role. Besides JI leaders,<br />
delegations and politicians<br />
from other political, religiopolitical<br />
parties, trade bodies<br />
Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Vice<br />
Chancellor University of Karachi<br />
(KU) speaking at the Inauguration ceremony<br />
of Higher Education<br />
Commission (HEC) recognized journal<br />
of department of social work KU.<br />
He also launched the department’s<br />
website and Khabar Nama Samaji<br />
Behbood on the occasion.<br />
He lauded the efforts of Professor<br />
Dr Nasreen Aslam Shah for being the<br />
dynamic role model for the department<br />
of social work and her academic<br />
and minority communities<br />
addressed the rally.<br />
Addressing the rally, JI<br />
Pakistan chief Senator<br />
Sirajul Haq said that mass<br />
murders, rapes and other<br />
crimes against humanity are<br />
being carried out against<br />
Rohangia Muslims in<br />
Myanmar. He said that it is a<br />
matter of grave shame that<br />
not a single solid measure<br />
was taken despite the fact<br />
that atleast 56 Muslims<br />
countries do exist in world.<br />
He recalled that the Saudi<br />
Arabia led military alliance<br />
was constituted to tackle terrorism.<br />
Tens of thousands of<br />
people were being subjected<br />
to killings, rapes, torture and<br />
other offences, is this not<br />
called terrorism, he raised a<br />
question.<br />
Inauguration ceremony of HEC journal at KU<br />
‘Heer Ranjha’ brings love back on<br />
stage, opens the show in Karachi<br />
KARACHI: The<br />
Citizens Foundation (TCF)<br />
in collaboration with Zain<br />
Ahmed presents ‘Heer<br />
Ranjha’, an Urdu Musical<br />
featuring fine actors like<br />
Sanam Saeed (Heer),<br />
Arshad Mahmood (Heer's<br />
father) and Samina Ahmed<br />
(Heer's mother). The play<br />
celebrates romantic love<br />
entwined with beautiful<br />
poetic verses and at the<br />
same time will raise funds<br />
for educating the less-privileged<br />
children of Pakistan.<br />
The stage theatre is currently<br />
being performed in Karachi<br />
and will be followed by<br />
Lahore and Faisalabad.<br />
Inspired by Waris Shah's<br />
poetry and based on the evergreen<br />
script of Kaifi Azmi,<br />
play is being directed by<br />
Zain Ahmed, currently the<br />
Artistic Director of the<br />
NAPA Repertory and<br />
Festival Director of the<br />
NAPA International Theatre<br />
and Music Festival.<br />
Audience will be able to<br />
enjoy live singing by Sanam<br />
Saeed, Hasan Raza (Ranjha)<br />
and the rest of the cast. The<br />
songs from the Bollywood<br />
movie Heer Ranjha (1970)<br />
have been redone with contemporary<br />
music under the<br />
able music direction of Nigel<br />
Bobby.<br />
“Heer Ranjha has been<br />
presented on stage and in<br />
cinema many times before so<br />
the expectations are really<br />
high. I wanted to present this<br />
love story with a twist and<br />
create a beautiful harmony in<br />
the new and old.<br />
activities in this regard.<br />
“According to the latest reports,<br />
only 4 varsities of Pakistan are in the<br />
list of top 1000 universities of the<br />
world. Last year there were 7 universities<br />
and this decline from 7 to 4 varsities<br />
depicts the dismal state of higher<br />
education in the country. Even India<br />
and Iran have 30 and <strong>11</strong> varsities in the<br />
list respectively. This dismal state is<br />
primarily due to low education budget<br />
since we are spending even lower than<br />
Bangladesh and India on education.<br />
KARACHI: Mayor Karachi, Waseem Akhtar along with<br />
Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi inspecting road<br />
repair at North Nazimabad.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Mohammad Baloch<br />
along with Vice Chairman, Abdul Khaliq Marwat inspecting<br />
construction of Govt Elementary Girls & Boys School<br />
at UC Bhittai Abad Moria Khan goth. MC Imran Aslam<br />
and UC members also present on the occasion.<br />
KARACHI: Administrator DMC West, Ghulam Farid along<br />
with municipal officers visiting various areas to inspect<br />
cleanliness and lifting of garbage.
Monday, <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
National<br />
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Two dead as fire breaks<br />
out in Islamabad building<br />
RAWALPINDI: Police<br />
and district administration<br />
has chalked out a foolproof<br />
security plan for Youm-e-<br />
Ashura.<br />
According to reports, the<br />
district administration has<br />
ISLAMABAD: Fire extinguishers busy in dowsing the blaze that broke out at the building<br />
of Software Technology Park (old Awami Markaz) in Red Zone area. The blaze<br />
broke out in Federal Tax Ombudsman office. The tax record is damaged due to the incident.<br />
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) centre of excellence was also in<br />
the same building, and has burnt down along with its computers and important documents.<br />
At least two people expired and four others were injured in the incident.<br />
Police chalks out security<br />
plan for Youm-e-Ashura<br />
HASANABDAL:<br />
imposed ban on aerial firing,<br />
possession and waving of<br />
arms, pillion riding and<br />
standing on rooftops and<br />
windows of shops, plazas<br />
and houses from 7th of<br />
Muharram till 10th on the<br />
routes of procession in the<br />
district.<br />
Three thousand officials<br />
of police and Rangers have<br />
been deployed on the route<br />
of the procession whereas<br />
army will remain on red<br />
Missing person Zaheer Burfat<br />
returns home after 1 month<br />
Bureau Report<br />
HYDERABAD: Zaheer Burfat one of three forcibly disappeared persons of<br />
Burfat community who were forcibly taken away from their homes at Sindh university<br />
housing society Jamshoro a month back, has returned home last night.<br />
Zaheer Burfat is a bank officer. He told that he and other whisked away persons<br />
were kept on changing different places. About other 2 picked up same day with him<br />
from same place: Ghulam Rasool Burfat and Asif Burfat, he expressed unawareness<br />
saying he was kept away from them. Ghulam Rasool Burfat is senior journalist and<br />
sub editor at daily Sindh Express. Zaheer was left on super highway last night blind<br />
folded at Toll Plaza ahead of Mehran university Jamshoro. He said they were asking<br />
from him the whereabouts of Jeay Sindh Muthida Mahaz chief Shafi Burfat.<br />
JSMM is one of the proscribed organizations.<br />
alert. All reentry points<br />
have been sealed by erecting<br />
barbed wire and placing<br />
containers. Data of all occupants<br />
of the room s alongside<br />
Murree road will be<br />
collected.<br />
Pak more secure,<br />
peaceful and<br />
economically viable<br />
country: Shahbaz<br />
ISLAMABAD: Punjab<br />
Chief Minister Shahbaz<br />
Sharif has said that Pakistan<br />
is more secure, peaceful and<br />
economically viable country<br />
today as compared with the<br />
past.<br />
Talking to a delegation of<br />
PML-N in London on<br />
Sunday, he said that Pakistan<br />
is strengthening economically<br />
due to solid economic programmes<br />
of the government.<br />
The Chief Minister said<br />
the government is taking<br />
every possible step for welfare<br />
of citizens and country.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Two<br />
people were killed and 12<br />
were rescued after a fire<br />
erupted in the Awami<br />
Markaz building in the<br />
capital's Red Zone.<br />
The building, located<br />
close to the PTV headquarters<br />
and a five-star hotel,<br />
houses several private and<br />
government offices.<br />
Initial reports stated<br />
that the fire erupted in the<br />
upper floors of the sixstorey<br />
building; however,<br />
later officials said the fire<br />
began on the ground floor<br />
near an office of the<br />
Federal Tax Ombudsman.<br />
Rescue officials said<br />
the two people who died<br />
did not need to jump from<br />
the building as a fire exit<br />
was available. They added<br />
that the two worked at a<br />
call centre inside the building<br />
and were injured from<br />
the fall. They were shifted<br />
to separate hospitals but<br />
succumbed to their<br />
injuries.<br />
Seven fire tenders were<br />
on site to douse the flames,<br />
according to rescue officials.<br />
The firefighters were<br />
able to extinguish the<br />
blaze in around an hour<br />
and later continued the<br />
'cooling efforts'.<br />
Sources said the fire<br />
was reportedly caused by<br />
short-circuiting but investigations<br />
will determine<br />
the exact cause of the<br />
flames.<br />
Two vehicles parked in<br />
the building's parking area<br />
were also damaged as a<br />
result of the fire.<br />
Rangers and police<br />
were on site to assist in<br />
rescue efforts.<br />
One killed<br />
over family<br />
dispute<br />
One<br />
person has been shot dead<br />
over a family dispute. The<br />
intruders fled from the<br />
scene.<br />
As per media reports, the<br />
gory incident took place in<br />
the area of Hasanabdal district<br />
Attock three accused<br />
broke into house and opened<br />
fire due to which one person<br />
succumbed to death.<br />
Police has registered the<br />
case against three nominated<br />
accused and started<br />
investigations.<br />
<strong>11</strong>.5 million rupees<br />
embezzled in HEC<br />
ISLAMABAD: A case<br />
of embezzlement amounting<br />
<strong>11</strong>.5 million rupees has<br />
been surfaced in Higher<br />
Education Commission<br />
(HEC) as contracts have<br />
been given to blue eyed illegally.<br />
According to Online, in<br />
2014-15, the administration<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD: Sindh<br />
High Court decision to allow<br />
national identity cards for<br />
immigrants from other<br />
provinces has been termed as<br />
verdict against provincial<br />
autonomy. Sindh National<br />
Tehrik criticizing this decision<br />
has said with it the<br />
aliens from other provinces<br />
will be grabbing resources,<br />
employment and power.<br />
SNT chairman Ashraf<br />
Noonari has said people of<br />
Sindh would not accept the<br />
decision. In a statement he<br />
said at present more than 4<br />
million aliens Bengalis,<br />
Biharis, Burmese and<br />
Afghanis were living here<br />
of HEC issued an amount of<br />
2.3 million for renovation<br />
of building, 1.6 million for<br />
overhauling of electronic &<br />
IT equipment and one million<br />
for purchase of computers<br />
and other apparatus.<br />
6.4 million rupees have<br />
been issued for other works<br />
during the year.<br />
who have got their NICs prepared<br />
in exchange of bribe<br />
by NADRA and they were<br />
occupying employment<br />
resources and other facilities<br />
primarily made for local people.<br />
He said Sindh was only<br />
province in Pakistan where<br />
Balochis, Pathan, Punjabi,<br />
Siraeki, Afghanis and<br />
Gilgitis were holding posts<br />
of<br />
MNAs,<br />
MPAs,Senators,ministers<br />
and advisors while no Sindhi<br />
has ever been elected as<br />
MPA in any of other<br />
provinces. He said under<br />
constitution and provincial<br />
autonomy quota in armed<br />
forces and federal services<br />
have been fixed for<br />
HEC failed to provide<br />
details of all these contracts<br />
when asked by the auditors<br />
as all these contracts had<br />
issued without tenders.<br />
Auditors have requested<br />
HEC to nominate those<br />
who were responsible of<br />
these ambiguities so that<br />
recovery could be done.<br />
SHC decision allowing NICS for<br />
people of other provinces termed<br />
against provincial autonomy<br />
R A W A L P I N D I :<br />
Custom Collectorate has<br />
transferred 69 Inspectors,<br />
five Assistant and Deputy<br />
Collectors.<br />
All Custom Inspectors<br />
from Benazir Bhutto international<br />
Airport Islamabad<br />
provinces and 70 year history<br />
of country no Sindhi has<br />
been elected on reserve seat<br />
of any other province. He<br />
said in services of any<br />
province the right invests to<br />
people of that province. If the<br />
aliens and people of other<br />
provinces were given right of<br />
NICs and PRCs then they<br />
would become legal partners<br />
in resources of Sindh. He<br />
reminded that under constitution<br />
it were only residents<br />
of that provinces who happen<br />
to be masters of<br />
resources. He made appeal to<br />
SHC to review its decision<br />
and recognize the right of<br />
Sindhi people on resources<br />
of Sindh.<br />
Custom Collectorate transfers 69 Inspectors,<br />
5 Assistants and Deputy Collectors<br />
have been transferred.<br />
They have been ordered to<br />
report for duty at new<br />
places on <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>.<br />
PESHAWAR: A view of the mansion of renowned Indian actor late Prithvi Raj Kapoor in<br />
Dhaki area.<br />
Over Rs670m being spent to strengthen<br />
Home Department, civil LEAs in GB<br />
ISLAMABAD: Gilgit<br />
Baltistan (GB)<br />
Government is spending<br />
over Rs 670 million on<br />
strengthening of Home<br />
Department and civil law<br />
enforcing agencies.<br />
According to a report,<br />
under current annual<br />
development program<br />
twelve projects are being<br />
implemented in this connection<br />
which will be completed<br />
by end of this financial<br />
year.<br />
The projects include<br />
establishment of twentyeight<br />
seasonal police check<br />
posts, setting up of Special<br />
Branch sub-offices in all<br />
districts and extension of<br />
rescue <strong>11</strong>22 service to<br />
Ghizer and Astore.<br />
Establishment of<br />
District complex in Hunza,<br />
computerization of revenue<br />
record, special protection<br />
unit and CTD<br />
police will also be set up in<br />
the area.<br />
Extra fares charges<br />
by transporters<br />
irks passengers<br />
R A W A L P I N D I :<br />
Transporters have started<br />
charging extra fares by the<br />
passengers on Wah Cantt-<br />
Rawalpindi route which<br />
irked citizens who used to<br />
travel through the route<br />
daily to earn their bread and<br />
butter.<br />
According to reports,<br />
passenger Khizar and others<br />
told the Online that drivers<br />
of Rawalpindi and Wah<br />
Cantt do not complete their<br />
route and demand more fair<br />
after 10 in the evening.<br />
“Often drivers demand<br />
rupees 80 to 100 whereas<br />
the route fare set by the<br />
authorities is just Rs. 50/.<br />
Commuters requested<br />
the authorities concerned to<br />
take a note of it.<br />
It is worth mention here<br />
that in the case who do not<br />
heed to pay more to them,<br />
he is meted out a rough<br />
attitude by the drivers and<br />
conductors.<br />
HYDERABAD: Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party workers on hunger strike against forcibly disappeared Asad Jaskani.<br />
The Quaid stood for discipline, freedom, democracy,<br />
rule of law and social justice: NA Speaker<br />
ISLAMABAD: Sardar<br />
Ayaz Sadiq, Speaker<br />
National Assembly paid<br />
rich tribute to the Father of<br />
the Nation Quaid-e-Azam<br />
Muhammad Ali Jinnah<br />
saying “Quaid-e-Azam<br />
always stood steadfast in<br />
the face of adversity, never<br />
compromised on principles<br />
nor allowed expediency<br />
to influence his judgment.”<br />
He also desired that<br />
every citizen should have<br />
equal opportunities of education,<br />
health, progress<br />
and justice. The Speaker<br />
expressed these views in<br />
his message to the nation<br />
on 69th Death Anniversary<br />
of Quaid-e-Azam<br />
Muhammad Ali Jinnah,<br />
(<strong>11</strong>th <strong>Sep</strong>tember, <strong>2017</strong>).<br />
He said the guiding<br />
principles of Unity, Faith<br />
and Discipline are as relevant<br />
today as during any<br />
part of our history. The<br />
challenges Pakistan is facing<br />
today could only be<br />
confronted through united<br />
efforts.<br />
He said the Quaid’s<br />
achievement was a unique<br />
event in the history of<br />
nations as it was characterized<br />
by non-violence and<br />
strict adherence to principles.<br />
He said best tribute<br />
which we can pay to the<br />
Father of the Nation is<br />
allegiance to principles<br />
which he espoused vigorously<br />
and the values which<br />
he promoted consistently<br />
in his career.<br />
He said Quaid’s death<br />
anniversary calls for reappraisal<br />
of the situation and<br />
a solid commitment to<br />
complete Quaid’s mission<br />
of consolidating Pakistan<br />
and ensuring its stability.<br />
Murtaza Javed Abbasi,<br />
Deputy Speaker on this<br />
occasion has said that we<br />
should not forget his<br />
unmatched qualities of<br />
leadership, which included<br />
impeccable integrity,<br />
incorruptibility and a truly<br />
remarkable capacity for<br />
hard work.<br />
“I am confident that on<br />
this day we would come up<br />
to the expectations of our<br />
great Quaid and pledge to<br />
extend all possible efforts<br />
to overcome the challenges<br />
confronting the<br />
nation and turn them into<br />
opportunity to make<br />
Pakistan a better and<br />
strong country”, he said.<br />
Alzheimer’s disease, asthma and high cholesterol being ‘weeded out’ by natural selection: study<br />
COLOMBIA: Genes<br />
linked to Alzheimer’s disease,<br />
asthma and high cholesterol<br />
are being ‘weeded<br />
out’ by natural selection, a<br />
study has found.<br />
Scientists at Cambridge<br />
and Colombia universities<br />
discovered that genetic<br />
variations associated with<br />
these illnesses were less<br />
common in people who<br />
lived longer.<br />
Those who survive to an<br />
older age are more likely to<br />
successfully pass on their<br />
genes than people who die<br />
relatively young, the<br />
researchers said, and therefore<br />
these traits for good<br />
health become more common<br />
in the human gene<br />
pool.<br />
The study, published in<br />
the journal PLOS Biology,<br />
suggested that natural<br />
selection is slowly eliminating<br />
negative traits to<br />
adapt to our changing<br />
lifestyle.<br />
It said even genetic variants<br />
with late onset effects,<br />
such as those linked to<br />
Alzheimer’s, were being<br />
“weeded out”.<br />
“It’s a subtle signal, but<br />
we find genetic evidence<br />
that natural selection is<br />
happening in modern<br />
human populations,” said<br />
Joseph Pickrell, one of the<br />
study’s authors.<br />
In theory, illnesses such<br />
as Alzheimer’s could be<br />
wiped out of the human<br />
species within a few thousand<br />
years.<br />
The team studied the<br />
genetic make-up of<br />
150,000 Britons and 60,000<br />
Americans to analyse<br />
human evolution.<br />
It also discovered that<br />
people who were genetically<br />
pre-disposed to hitting<br />
puberty later and those who<br />
had their first child later in<br />
life were living longer.<br />
A one-year delay in<br />
puberty lowered the death<br />
rate by 3-4%, while a oneyear<br />
child-bearing delay<br />
lowered the death rate by<br />
6%.<br />
The researchers said<br />
traits linked to longer lifespans<br />
now may not be useful<br />
in the future as conditions<br />
change.<br />
To better understand<br />
genetic mutations and why<br />
they arise, researchers will<br />
need to study “millions of<br />
samples in the pipeline”,<br />
they said.
4<br />
Monday, <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
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MQM, PPP looted Sindh through<br />
Muhajir & Sindh cards: Palijo<br />
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Media does neglect, mostly knowingly but<br />
also sometimes unknowingly, certain most<br />
important issues, with or without material<br />
benefits or ideological affiliations.<br />
For example, grossly neglected were electoral<br />
reforms which easily qualifies as topmost priority since<br />
corrupt leaders were elected which made life of millions<br />
in this nation a living hell. Time is running out and it's<br />
already late for most significant electoral and administrative<br />
reforms for good governance. It is a criminal<br />
negligence.<br />
When it is done best, it is done by curious, hardworking<br />
people who are neither bound by allegiances<br />
nor suffocated by existing narratives. Of all the qualities<br />
of good journalists, it is the ability to question our own<br />
allegiances constantly that is the most difficult to maintain.<br />
We are, after all, only human. But we would like to<br />
think that we are able to manage our personal prejudices<br />
in the service of the truth.<br />
And it is exactly this quality of journalism — this<br />
awareness of its own prejudices, done within the framework<br />
of a free, independent media infrastructure — that<br />
ensures it remains a noble enterprise.<br />
On any given day, journalists poke at the evidence,<br />
accumulate facts, ask questions, cultivate sources, look<br />
at documents, win trust, receive rebuttals, start all over<br />
again and go on to report the news.<br />
Over the years, the news media have consistently<br />
been central to revealing corrupt practices and maladministration<br />
that taints the state.<br />
The real test of our commitment to a free press, however,<br />
lies in our ability to tolerate the information disseminated<br />
through the media that disrupts our prejudices.<br />
Our real commitment to a plurality of voices lies<br />
in our ability to tolerate information that threatens the<br />
neatly tucked corners of our worldview.<br />
We can question whether an affair is news. There is<br />
Kailash Satyarthi<br />
The world can stay silent no longer.<br />
With every new crisis that the world faces, humanity's<br />
differences appear increasingly intractable.<br />
Religion, ethnicity, history, politics, and economics have<br />
all become tools to denigrate and demean. People seem<br />
to be drifting apart, and no country is immune from divisive<br />
discourse.<br />
But there is one fundamental issue where contrasts<br />
dissolve into consensus: the desire to keep children safe.<br />
Protecting the physical, emotional, and psychological<br />
well-being of children is a universal instinct that no<br />
faith, dogma, or ideology can defeat. And yet, despite<br />
this shared instinct, children everywhere continue to be<br />
preyed upon. Too often, societies ignore child sexual<br />
abuse, owing to family pride or fear of stigma. The<br />
world can stay silent no longer.<br />
The numbers are truly alarming.According to a 2016<br />
World Health Organization report, one of every four<br />
adults was sexually abused as a child. A 2007 Indian<br />
government study found that 53 per cent of children in<br />
India faced some form of sexual abuse growing up.And<br />
human trafficking, especially trafficking of children, is a<br />
booming business, with annual average profits totaling<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
TIME RUNS OUT FOR REFORMS<br />
Let media write true history,<br />
admit truths, expose lies<br />
OPINION<br />
definitely a dirty tricks campaign afoot to influence. We<br />
must be aware of it and we must be able to guide our<br />
readers.<br />
But we also cannot stand for the obstruction of the<br />
free flow of information, even if it comes from a camp<br />
that has been judged to be right or wrong, or whosoever<br />
is running a country.<br />
What is dangerous, however, is when we have a very<br />
definite narrative of “good guy/bad guy” that we put<br />
forward without question and still maintain this as<br />
objective journalism. There was a certain level of<br />
hypocrisy and double standards at play for a long period.<br />
Any attempts to muzzle the media must be condemned.<br />
Often power brokers and power holders are priased<br />
or condemned, depending on nature of issues, policies<br />
and actions. Whenever power is being contested, it is<br />
ugly.<br />
Journalists and publications chose sides, become<br />
proxies for factional battles, and are often betrayed.<br />
Very professionals not really too dependent on anyone<br />
or anything find out, think and rethink, and say it as it is,<br />
setting aside everyone and everything else. That is<br />
unique and true journalism: to present all sides and let<br />
the world decide.<br />
We are journalists. But we are not freedom fighters.<br />
Noble though our work is, we must abandon our selfrighteous<br />
zeal. Truth, justice, and rainbows may follow<br />
later, if at all, if we’re able to report the news as we<br />
ought to.<br />
Again, it is reminded that without media's follow up<br />
in practical terms on and off the screens, another election<br />
with fraud may be held and corrupt politicians will<br />
be again elected and continue to make Pakistan a<br />
swampland.<br />
Let media write true history, admit truths and discourage<br />
lies, and do its duties without fear or hindrance.<br />
Speak out against child abuse,<br />
don't let predators get away<br />
Desmond Tutu<br />
In a letter posted on Facebook, Desmond Tutu says<br />
the price of silence is too steepMy dear Aung San<br />
Suu Kyi,<br />
I am now elderly, decrepit and typically retired, but<br />
breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out<br />
of depth sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority<br />
in your country, the Rohingya.<br />
In my heart you are a dear beloved younger sister.<br />
For years I had a photograph of you on my desk to<br />
remind me of the injustice and sacrifice you endured<br />
out of your love and commitment for Myanmar's people.<br />
You symbolised righteousness. In 2010, we<br />
rejoiced at your freedom from house arrest, and in 2012<br />
we celebrated your election as leader of the opposition.<br />
Your emergence into public life allayed our concerns<br />
about violence being perpetrated against members<br />
of the Rohingya. But what some have called<br />
'ethnic cleansing' and others 'a slow genocide' has<br />
persisted - and recently accelerated. The images we<br />
are seeing of the suffering of the Rohingya fill us<br />
with pain and dread.<br />
We know that you know that human beings may<br />
$150 billion. In other words, child sexual abuse is a<br />
moral epidemic afflicting the entire world - one that we<br />
can defeat only when we openly declare against it.<br />
Young victims and their families should not have to<br />
live in silence while predators roam fearless and free.<br />
That is why, in December 2016, I joined a diverse<br />
group of Nobel laureates and global leaders to launch<br />
the "100 Million for 100 Million" campaign. One of the<br />
campaign's objectives is to persuade, provoke, and<br />
inspire 100 million young people around the world to<br />
raise their voices against violence inflicted on children.<br />
The response so far has been overwhelming; tens of<br />
thousands have taken the pledge to defend the defenseless.<br />
But I believe we must do even more to awaken the<br />
world's slumbering consciousness on this evil. So on<br />
<strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>, I will embark on a bharat yatra(political<br />
pilgrimage), traveling across India to declare war on<br />
sexual abuse and exploitation of children everywhere.<br />
Together with dedicated campaigners and child-rights<br />
advocates, I will travel from Kanyakumari, on India's<br />
southern tip, to India's capital, Delhi. More than 10 million<br />
people are expected to join me physically and virtually<br />
on a march that will traverse <strong>11</strong>,000 kilometres<br />
(6,835 miles), touching all corners of India in a bid to<br />
raise global awareness.<br />
Suu Kyi, we are born to love,<br />
without prejudice<br />
look and worship differently - and some may have<br />
greater firepower than others - but none are superior<br />
and none inferior; that when you scratch the surface we<br />
are all the same, members of one family, the human<br />
family; that there are no natural differences between<br />
Buddhists and Muslims; and that whether we are Jews<br />
or Hindus, Christians or atheists, we are born to love,<br />
without prejudice. Discrimination does not come naturally;<br />
it is taught.<br />
My dear sister: If the political price of your ascension<br />
to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence,<br />
the price is certainly too steep. A country that is not at<br />
peace with itself, that fails to acknowledge and protect<br />
the dignity and worth of all its people, is not a free<br />
country.<br />
It is incongruous for a symbol of righteousness to<br />
lead such a country; it is adding to our pain.<br />
As we witness the unfolding horror we pray for you<br />
to be courageous and resilient again. We pray for you to<br />
speak out for justice, human rights and the unity of your<br />
people. We pray for you to intervene in the escalating<br />
crisis and guide your people back toward the path of<br />
righteousness.<br />
Bureau Report<br />
HYDERABAD: Qaumi<br />
Awami Tehrik president<br />
Ayaz Latif Palijo has<br />
lashed out at MQM<br />
Pakistan leader Farooq<br />
Sattar for his statement in<br />
which Farooq had termed<br />
plight of Rohinga Mulsims<br />
of Burma with Mohjirs in<br />
Sindh adding that<br />
Muhajirs have always<br />
shared the power with PPP<br />
in Sindh and both MQM<br />
and PPP have looted Sindh<br />
in name of Muhajir card<br />
and Sindh card. Both have<br />
plundered wealth and<br />
SRINAGAR: The Indian<br />
government has allocated<br />
funds for the purchase of<br />
bullet-proof vehicles for<br />
Jammu and Kashmir Police<br />
personnel<br />
This was announced by<br />
the Indian Home Minister<br />
Rajnath Singh during his<br />
interaction with cops in<br />
south Kashmir's Anantnag<br />
district.<br />
budget of Sindh and sent<br />
looted money to London<br />
and Dubai. He asked<br />
Farooq Sattar to stop the<br />
politics of hatred. Talking<br />
with delegates from<br />
Latifabad No. 7 and No 10<br />
at his prince town residence<br />
here, Palijo said seeing<br />
election close, Farooq<br />
Sattar has started to play<br />
Muhajir card. He said both<br />
PPP and MQM has been<br />
protection terrorism. He<br />
said Urdu speaking people<br />
cannot be made hostages<br />
any more through politics<br />
of hatred.<br />
Situation in J&K: Indian govt allocates<br />
funds to purchase bulletproof vehicles cops<br />
CHARSADDA: Motorway<br />
police issued a fine on<br />
Sunday to Pashtunkhwa<br />
Awami Milli Party<br />
(PkMAP) Chief, Mahmood<br />
Khan Achakzai for over<br />
speeding.<br />
As per reports,<br />
Motorway Police issued a<br />
As per media reports, he<br />
said that in the wake of the<br />
killing of six police personnel,<br />
including SHO Feroz<br />
Ahmad, in Achabal area of<br />
Anantnag district on June<br />
16. The slain SHO had requisitioned<br />
a bullet-proof<br />
vehicle in view of the danger<br />
posed by militants in south<br />
Kashmir, but was not provided<br />
one.<br />
ticket of Rs.750 to<br />
Achakzai for violation of<br />
traffic rules.<br />
The PkMAP chief’s land<br />
cruiser was speeding at 132<br />
km/hr near Charsadda,<br />
according to the police.<br />
This is not the first time<br />
a political figure was fined<br />
"We have allocated funds<br />
for purchase of bullet-proof<br />
vehicles for Jammu and<br />
Kashmir police," Singh said.<br />
Indian Home Minister<br />
also said that the government<br />
has approved funds for<br />
opening a trauma centre for<br />
police personnel and lauded<br />
them for working in the<br />
"extremely challenging conditions"<br />
in the Valley.<br />
Achakzai fined for over<br />
speeding on Motorway<br />
as earlier on August 2, traffic<br />
officials fined Member<br />
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<br />
Assembly Zareen Gul for<br />
violating traffic rules.<br />
The MPA ran a traffic<br />
signal, following which<br />
traffic policemen took<br />
action.<br />
HUB: Activists of civil society burn a poster of Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu<br />
Kyi whle protesting against the killing of Muslims in Burma.<br />
AJK President appeals to UN to<br />
take notice of unprovoked Indian<br />
firing on civilian population at LoC<br />
ISLAMABAD: AJK Control.<br />
President Sardar In a statement issued<br />
Muhammad Masood here on Sunday, he said<br />
Khan has appealed to that India is continuously<br />
United Nations to take violating ceasefire agreement.<br />
notice of unprovoked<br />
AJK President<br />
Indian firing on civilian strongly condemned<br />
population at Line of Indian unprovoked firing<br />
Three years old<br />
baby girl allegedly<br />
abducted<br />
ISLAMABAD: Three<br />
years old baby girl has<br />
been allegedly abducted in<br />
Golra police jurisdiction.<br />
According to media<br />
reports, following the<br />
orders of Islamabad High<br />
Court (IHC) Police station<br />
Golra registered the complaint<br />
of Sadiya Malik in<br />
which she alleged her<br />
husband, his brother and<br />
his sisters for kidnapping<br />
her daughter and taking<br />
her to Dubai.<br />
in Poonch Sector on Line<br />
of Control.<br />
He said Indian troops<br />
on the one side are<br />
involved in state terrorism<br />
in the occupied valley and<br />
are targeting civil population<br />
at LOC on the other.<br />
Student<br />
dies as two<br />
bikes collide<br />
HALA: A matriculation<br />
student was killed in a collision<br />
between two bikes in<br />
Hala on Sunday.<br />
The student, Amaar<br />
Memon, was riding the<br />
bike in Hala town when<br />
he was hit by another bike<br />
in opposite direction. He<br />
suffered severe injuries<br />
and died.<br />
The body was shifted to<br />
Taluka Hospital Hala for<br />
medico-legal formalities and<br />
later handed over to heirs.<br />
Operation against<br />
encroachments, recover<br />
two trucks of goods<br />
R A W A L P I N D I :<br />
Municipal Corporation<br />
Rawalpindi has conducted<br />
operation against<br />
encroachments and recovered<br />
two trucks of goods.<br />
According to details,<br />
Municipal Corporation<br />
Rawalpindi has conducted<br />
operation in different areas<br />
of the city including Iqbal<br />
road, College road, Liaquat<br />
Market, Murree road and<br />
recovered a huge cache of<br />
goods stored in their warehouses.<br />
On the other hand,<br />
encroachment mafia again<br />
started their activities soon<br />
after the operation and citizens<br />
still facing difficulties<br />
due to this.<br />
Citizen Arsalan told<br />
Online that as soon as<br />
authorities went back after<br />
operation, the mafia reactivated<br />
and started installing<br />
their stalls.<br />
Hyderabad police<br />
arrest two criminals<br />
in encounter<br />
HYDERABAD: Police on<br />
Sunday claimed to have<br />
arrested two alleged criminals<br />
in an encounter in<br />
Hyderabad's Site area.<br />
Two criminals were roaming<br />
with intention of crime in<br />
Junejo Colony of Site area in<br />
Hyderabad city when a<br />
patrolling police team reached<br />
there. As a result, a shootout<br />
occurred between the police<br />
and the criminals in which<br />
two alleged criminals - Suhail<br />
and Yousuf - were injured.<br />
The police arrested<br />
them in injured condition<br />
and claimed to have recovered<br />
weapons from their<br />
possession.<br />
LAHORE: Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider addressing the “Meet The Editors” program<br />
organized by Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors.
Mexico earthquake:<br />
Death toll rises to 90<br />
ALABAMA:<br />
MEXICO: At least 90<br />
people have died in<br />
Thursday's 8.1 magnitude<br />
earthquake in Mexico,<br />
officials have confirmed.<br />
According to media<br />
reports, A government<br />
spokesman said 71 people<br />
had been killed in the<br />
south-west state of Oaxaca<br />
alone.<br />
Hundreds of families<br />
TORONTO: Jake<br />
Gyllenhaal put his “heart<br />
and soul” into “Stronger”, a<br />
film about Jeff Bauman,<br />
who lost his legs in the<br />
2013 Boston Marathon<br />
bombing, and in the process<br />
found inspiration and a special<br />
kinship with Bauman.<br />
According to details,<br />
Based on Bauman’s memoir<br />
by the same name, the<br />
film directed by David<br />
Gordon Green centers<br />
around his difficult journey<br />
toward walking again, his<br />
DAMASCUS: Syrian<br />
army soldiers, backed by<br />
allied fighters from popular<br />
defense groups, have managed<br />
to regain full control<br />
over a power station in Dayr<br />
al-Zawr as they push to<br />
drive the Daesh Takfiri terrorists<br />
out of the strategic<br />
military<br />
eastern city.<br />
Syrian government<br />
forces and their allies recaptured<br />
the facility, which lies<br />
west of Dayr al-Zawr air<br />
base, on Sunday following<br />
intense clashes with Daesh<br />
militants, pro-government<br />
and Arabic-language al-<br />
Masdar news agency reported.<br />
Moreover, Syrian soldiers<br />
managed to wrest control<br />
over the highway linking<br />
Dayr al-Zawr to the city<br />
of Sukhnah, and advanced<br />
on the Brigade 137 base as<br />
well as al-Panorama district.<br />
Scores of Daesh terrorists<br />
were killed and injured during<br />
the operations and their<br />
hardware<br />
destroyed.<br />
Syrian army units also<br />
tightened the noose around<br />
scores of Daesh terrorists on<br />
the outskirts of al-Taim oil<br />
field, killing and injuring<br />
many of them.<br />
The developments came<br />
only a day after Syrian army<br />
troops and pro-government<br />
fighters managed to break a<br />
nearly three-year siege<br />
imposed by Daesh Takfiris<br />
on Dayr al-Zawr air base.<br />
Syrian government<br />
forces and their allies had<br />
launched a new push on<br />
Friday towards the besieged<br />
military airport, as part of a<br />
multi-pronged offensive to<br />
retake the entire Dayr al-<br />
Zawr, located 450 kilometers<br />
northeast of the capital<br />
Damascus, from Daesh<br />
extremists.<br />
At least 40 trucks carrying<br />
basic commodities such<br />
have reportedly been<br />
camping in the streets,<br />
afraid of the dangers of<br />
aftershocks. The Mexican<br />
Seismological service said<br />
721 had been recorded<br />
since the initial tremor.<br />
It is pertinent to mention<br />
here that the earthquake<br />
was the strongest<br />
the country has seen in a<br />
century.<br />
Erdogan urges<br />
Gyllenhaal taps courage of Boston Muslim countries<br />
to help Rohingya<br />
bombing survivor for 'Stronger' ASTANA: Turkish<br />
struggle with post traumatic<br />
stress, and his bewilderment<br />
and reluctance to<br />
being called a “hero”.<br />
“No matter what you’ve<br />
been through in your life,<br />
Jeff shows you that can get<br />
through it,” Gyllenhaal said<br />
after the film’s premiere at<br />
the Toronto International<br />
Film Festival on Friday.<br />
“To me, I couldn’t think<br />
of a better movie to put my<br />
heart and soul into.”<br />
Gyllenhaal, whose production<br />
company Nine<br />
Stories chose “Stronger” as<br />
its first film, said he was<br />
faced every day with the<br />
fact that he probably could<br />
not do what Bauman did<br />
and called him one of the<br />
strongest people he knew.<br />
Gyllenhaal admitted to<br />
being intimidated when he<br />
first met Bauman, knowing<br />
the impossibility of matching<br />
the reality of Bauman’s<br />
experience. But as they<br />
spent time together, he<br />
quickly saw a connection<br />
and why Green cast him for<br />
the part.<br />
“We have a lot of similarities,”<br />
said Gyllenhaal,<br />
but “the friendship came<br />
from asking the hard questions.<br />
And we continue to<br />
do that together.”<br />
A simple query about<br />
what shoes Bauman wore<br />
the day of the bombing led<br />
to an explanation of how he<br />
saw his feet and shoes lying<br />
on the ground after the<br />
explosion.<br />
“That was the moment<br />
Hurricane Irma batters<br />
Cuba on way to Florida<br />
CAIBARIEN: Hurricane<br />
Irma battered central Cuba<br />
on Saturday, knocking<br />
down power lines, uprooting<br />
trees and ripping off<br />
roofs as it headed towards<br />
Florida, authorities and witnesses<br />
said.<br />
After leaving at least 19<br />
people dead on its path<br />
across the Caribbean, Irma<br />
was “seriously” damaging<br />
the center of the island with<br />
winds up to 256 kilometers<br />
(159 miles) per hour, Cuban<br />
state media said.<br />
Irma weakened slightly<br />
to Category 4 early<br />
Saturday after making landfall<br />
in Cuba, according to<br />
the US National Hurricane<br />
Center (NHC).<br />
There were no confirmed<br />
casualties in Cuba.<br />
The state meteorological<br />
service INSMET reported<br />
waves of up to seven meters<br />
(23 feet) on the northern<br />
coast.<br />
“It has now stopped raining,<br />
but all night there was a<br />
terrible wind” which ripped<br />
up trees, knocked down<br />
power lines and damaged<br />
roofs, Gisela Fernandez, a<br />
42-year-old nurse in central<br />
Villa Clara province.<br />
In the province’s main<br />
city Caibarien, a reporter<br />
said deafening gusts of<br />
wind were sweeping the<br />
area and 6,250 people had<br />
been evacuated to state<br />
refuges or other peoples’<br />
homes.<br />
Others were shut up in<br />
their houses.<br />
A large part of the center<br />
and east of the island was<br />
without power, television<br />
reports said.<br />
where I realized how brave<br />
he was,” said Gyllenhaal.<br />
“To face that - again, talking<br />
about what strength is?<br />
It’s in those little<br />
moments.”<br />
Gyllenhaal said he is<br />
often asked when he will<br />
play a super hero. “I finally<br />
kind of have. To me, that’s<br />
how I feel about him.”<br />
For Bauman, the real<br />
heroes are those who helped<br />
him over the years. “I lost<br />
something, but my heroes<br />
picked me up,” he said.<br />
In a Facebook post on<br />
Friday, Bauman said he saw<br />
his life accurately played<br />
out in the film, and that the<br />
movie’s Toronto opening<br />
gave him closure. He was a<br />
different person and in a<br />
better place, he wrote.<br />
“Everyone is fighting<br />
their own private battles<br />
without half of the support<br />
that I have had,” he wrote.<br />
“My hope is that they walk<br />
away feeling lifted and<br />
inspired.”<br />
Mali inaugurates<br />
five-nation<br />
anti-jihadist HQ<br />
MALI: Malian President<br />
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita inaugurated<br />
the headquarters for a<br />
planned five-nation force to<br />
combat jihadists in Sahel<br />
region, officials who attended<br />
the ceremony told.<br />
The HQ is located in central<br />
Mali at Sevare, about 10<br />
kilometres (six miles) east of<br />
Mopti, in a region that has<br />
been hit by a wave of terror<br />
attacks in recent months.<br />
The five-battalion, 5,000-<br />
strong force, decided at a<br />
summit in Bamako on July 2,<br />
is to comprise troops from<br />
Niger, Chad, Mali,<br />
Mauritania and Burkina Faso.<br />
It has an annual budget of<br />
about $496 million (423 million<br />
euros) a year, although so<br />
far only about $127 million<br />
(108 million euros) has been<br />
pledged. The participating<br />
countries rank among the<br />
poorest nations in the world.<br />
A plan seen by a foreign<br />
reporter on Saturday calls for<br />
the first battalion to be operational<br />
this month, and in<br />
October “cross-border operations<br />
will take place in the trifrontier<br />
zone” shared by Mali,<br />
Niger and Burkina Faso.<br />
President Recep Tayyip<br />
Erdogan Sunday urged<br />
Muslim countries to “use<br />
every means available” to<br />
stop the “cruelty” perpetrated<br />
against Myanmar’s<br />
Rohingya.<br />
“We want to work with<br />
the governments of<br />
Myanmar and Bangladesh<br />
to prevent the humanitarian<br />
plight in the region,” he<br />
told the opening session of<br />
an Organisation of Islamic<br />
Cooperation (OIC) summit<br />
in the Kazakh capital<br />
Astana.<br />
Erdogan said Turkey<br />
had offered aid and said he<br />
expected that Bangladesh<br />
authorities admit and help<br />
Rohingya Muslims fleeing<br />
the violence in Myanmar.<br />
“International organizations,<br />
and we as Muslim<br />
countries in particular,<br />
should fight together by<br />
using every means available<br />
to stop that cruelty,”<br />
he said.<br />
Erdogan had previously<br />
promised to raise the<br />
Rohingya issue at the<br />
annual meeting of UN<br />
General Assembly later<br />
this month.<br />
Rohingya, described by<br />
the UN as the world’s<br />
most persecuted people,<br />
have faced heightened<br />
fears of attack since<br />
dozens were killed in<br />
communal violence in<br />
2012.<br />
Last October, following<br />
attacks on border posts<br />
in Rakhine’s Maungdaw<br />
district, Myanmar security<br />
forces launched a fivemonth<br />
crackdown in<br />
which, according to<br />
Rohingya groups, around<br />
400 people were killed.<br />
LONDON: A French<br />
Muslim businesswoman and<br />
a mother Samira Amarir was<br />
struggling to find toys for her<br />
daughter which could help<br />
her impact Islamic faith, so<br />
she invented her own.<br />
According to Reuters,<br />
Amarir came up with a<br />
Barbie look-alike “Jenna”<br />
doll, which she designed<br />
from scratch to help her<br />
daughter in learning the verses<br />
of Quran.<br />
The doll can recite four<br />
chapters of the Holy Quran.<br />
The doll has entered into a<br />
as fuel, food and medical<br />
supplies for civilians, in<br />
addition to two mobile clinics,<br />
arrived in Dayr al-Zawr<br />
on Thursday, only two days<br />
after Syrian army forces and<br />
Famous<br />
US singer and legendary<br />
vocalist, Don Williams<br />
breathed his last at the age<br />
of 78 as the industry<br />
mourned at the precious<br />
loss.<br />
According to details,<br />
Being nicknamed Gentle<br />
Giant, the artiste had sung<br />
several hit numbers like “It<br />
Must Be Love”. He was<br />
battling a short illness<br />
before losing his life during<br />
medical treatment. The<br />
six-feet-tall singer had<br />
won a place in the Country<br />
Music Hall Of Fame after<br />
It Must Be Love.<br />
He made a career into<br />
singing at an early age by<br />
performing in bands and<br />
releasing his single songs.<br />
He had joined Susan<br />
Taylor and Lofton Cline in<br />
Pozo-Seco Singers during<br />
1964.<br />
Williams released his<br />
first music single in 1972.<br />
It was titled “Don’t You<br />
Believe”. Having a large<br />
fan base in Europe, he had<br />
performed in various countries<br />
other than the United<br />
States.<br />
Williams had released<br />
more than 35 albums with<br />
his name. He had taken<br />
retirement after farewell<br />
tour in 2004.<br />
fighters from popular<br />
defense groups reached the<br />
eastern city and breached<br />
the Daesh siege.<br />
Daesh overran large<br />
parts of Dayr al-Zawr<br />
province, including its many<br />
oil fields, in mid-2014 as it<br />
seized swathes of land in<br />
Syria and neighboring Iraq.<br />
By early 2015, the<br />
Takfiri terrorists were in<br />
control of some parts of<br />
Dayr al-Zawr city and<br />
besieged the remaining<br />
parts, which were under<br />
government control. It is<br />
estimated that 100,000 people<br />
remain in the government-held<br />
parts of the city.<br />
The so-called Syrian<br />
Observatory for Human<br />
Rights estimates that more<br />
Monday, <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
International<br />
Syrian army, allies retake control over Dayr al-Zawr power station<br />
than 10,000 people may be<br />
living in the Daesh-held<br />
parts of Dayr al-Zawr.<br />
Meanwhile, in the central<br />
province of Homs,<br />
Syrian soldiers regained<br />
control over the villages of<br />
Rahhoum, Abu Hawadid,<br />
and al-Fao Shawish in the<br />
the eastern part of the<br />
province.<br />
US-led airstrikes kill<br />
over dozen in eastern Syria<br />
In a separate development<br />
on Sunday, more<br />
than a dozen people were<br />
killed when the US-led<br />
coalition purportedly<br />
fighting the Daesh Takfiri<br />
terrorist group conducted<br />
a series of aerial assaults<br />
on the eastern Syrian city<br />
of Abu Kamal near the<br />
5<br />
Famous US musician<br />
Don Williams dies at 78<br />
North Korean President hosts<br />
celebration after nuclear test<br />
PYONGYANG: North<br />
Korean leader Kim Jongun<br />
hosted a huge celebration<br />
to congratulate his<br />
nuclear scientists and<br />
technicians who steered<br />
the country’s sixth and<br />
largest nuclear test a<br />
ASTANA: Iranian President Hassan<br />
Rouhani (L) and his Uzbek counterpart,<br />
Shavkat Mirziyoyev, meet in the Kazakh<br />
capital, Astana.<br />
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says<br />
Iran can be the shortest route for<br />
Uzbekistan’s businesspeople to access the<br />
Persian Gulf and international waters.<br />
Rouhani made the remarks in a meeting<br />
with Uzbekistan's President Shavkat<br />
Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the first OIC<br />
summit on science and technology in the<br />
Kazakh capital, Astana, on Sunday.<br />
He said the exchange of visits between<br />
week ago.<br />
According to media<br />
reports, UN secretary general,<br />
Antonio Guterres,<br />
divulged about the news<br />
of the celebration during<br />
an interview about over<br />
North Korea’s nuclear and<br />
missile programme.<br />
The reports stated that<br />
instead, amid numerous<br />
events in the country, Kim<br />
threw a banquet topped<br />
with an art performance<br />
and a photo session with<br />
the leader himself.<br />
Iran offers Uzbeks shortest access<br />
route to Persian Gulf: Rouhani<br />
mass production and is<br />
already on sale in Gulf Arab<br />
senior Iranian and Uzbek officials revealed<br />
the two countries’ resolve to establish closer<br />
and broader relations.<br />
The Iranian chief executive welcomed<br />
further expansion of Tehran-Tashkent<br />
cooperation in all fields, particularly in<br />
trade and economic sectors, emphasizing<br />
that no obstacle could hinder the development<br />
of the two countries' ties. Rouhani<br />
stressed the importance of making joint<br />
investment and said improving banking<br />
cooperation was the cornerstone for the<br />
promotion of economic and trade<br />
exchanges between Iran and Uzbekistan.<br />
Muslim mother creates Quran reciting Barbie-like doll<br />
countries.<br />
“When my daughter<br />
Jenna turned two years old, I<br />
was looking for a toy or a<br />
tool,” Amarir said.<br />
“The idea was to come<br />
up with a toy that would<br />
enable her to learn the Quran<br />
fast and easily while she<br />
plays.”<br />
The word ‘Jenna’ which<br />
is derived from the Arabic<br />
word heaven, comes in a<br />
long “abaya” robe with a<br />
matching headscarf.<br />
Amarir used online modeling<br />
software to design the<br />
Barbie. She gave the doll a<br />
dark skin and little makeup.<br />
border with Iraq.<br />
The Syrian Observatory<br />
for Human Rights reported<br />
that 18 people, mostly<br />
civilians, lost their lives<br />
when the attacks struck a<br />
Daesh-run detention center.<br />
The US-led coalition<br />
has been conducting<br />
airstrikes against what are<br />
said to be Daesh targets<br />
inside Syria since<br />
<strong>Sep</strong>tember 2014 without<br />
any authorization from the<br />
Damascus government or a<br />
UN mandate.<br />
The military alliance has<br />
repeatedly been accused of<br />
targeting and killing civilians.<br />
It has also been largely<br />
incapable of fulfilling its<br />
declared objective of<br />
destroying Daesh.
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The Sorrowful<br />
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Story Time<br />
The Tree and the Travellers<br />
There was a big<br />
tree more than<br />
hundred years<br />
old located in the middle<br />
of a dry land. It<br />
gave rest and shelter<br />
to hundreds and thousands<br />
of travellers.<br />
The tree was located<br />
at the centre of four<br />
different towns, act as<br />
a connection point of<br />
all towns and villages<br />
in the nearby area.<br />
However, except the<br />
big old tree, there was<br />
no other tree that can<br />
offer rest to the people.<br />
The tree has a<br />
huge and broad trunk<br />
with innumerable<br />
branches which<br />
spread the shadow<br />
covering a wide<br />
space.<br />
One day, two travellers<br />
were travelling<br />
from a distant place<br />
and tried to reach a<br />
town located at the<br />
east of the tree. They<br />
were walking for several<br />
miles on a hot and sunny day. They started their journey from early morning and<br />
it was almost mid noon. The sun was too hot and they could not walk anymore due<br />
to the heat. They were completely exhausted! Fortunately, they reached the place<br />
where the tree was located.<br />
They were very happy to see such a big tree with breezing wind. They decided to<br />
take rest under the tree. They slept for some time happily enjoying the soothing cool<br />
breeze of the tree.<br />
They felt hungry and one of the travellers decided to climb the branches to see<br />
whether the tree has any fruit. Since it is not a fruit-bearing tree, the traveller was disappointed.<br />
He started cursing the tree owing to his hunger. ‘Oh, this is just a useless tree and<br />
it has nothing to feed us, not even a fruit or even nuts! It is of no use!’<br />
The other traveller composed him and asked him to stay cool. However, the traveller<br />
was so angry due to hunger and cursed the tree.<br />
The tree, which could not tolerate the cursing words of the traveller, in a sad yet<br />
strong voice, ‘You can’t be so ungrateful to me. Just look back at the condition when<br />
you reached here in the hot and dry sun! I offered you cool and comfortable place to<br />
rest and sleep with soothing breeze. If I’m not here when you are very tired you<br />
would have died now! I saved your life from the hot sun, but you humiliate me!’<br />
The traveller realized his mistake and apologized to the tree.<br />
The smallest bones in<br />
the human body are<br />
found in your ear<br />
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear<br />
• Perth is Australia's windiest city<br />
• Elvis's middle name was Aron<br />
• Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light<br />
• The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear<br />
• Cats spend 66% of their life asleep<br />
• Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year<br />
• Money is the number one thing that couples argue about<br />
• Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs<br />
• When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius<br />
(54,000 degrees fahrenheit)<br />
• Spiders are arachnids and not insects<br />
• Each time you see a full moon you always see the same side<br />
• Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand<br />
• Honey is the only natural food which never spoils<br />
• M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and<br />
Murrie<br />
• That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more<br />
you eat the thinner you become)<br />
• The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia<br />
• The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada<br />
Measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)<br />
• About 90% of the worlds population kisses<br />
• Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine<br />
• The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research<br />
Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense<br />
• Toilets use 35% of indoor water use<br />
• The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco<br />
They've caught my little brother ;<br />
And he was to me a twin !<br />
They stole him from our mother ;<br />
And the cage has shut him in.<br />
I flitted by and found him.<br />
Where he looked so sad and sick,<br />
With the gloomy wires around him,<br />
As he crouched upon a stick.<br />
And when I tried to cheer him<br />
With the cherry in my bill,<br />
To see me there so near him<br />
Oh ! it made him sadder still.<br />
His tender eye was shining<br />
With the brightness of despair,<br />
With sorrow and repining,<br />
As he bade me have a care !<br />
He said they'd come and take me,<br />
As they'd taken him ; and then<br />
A hopeless prisoner make me,<br />
In the fearful hands of men :-<br />
That, once in their dominion,<br />
I should have to pine away,<br />
And never stretch a pinion,<br />
To my very dying day :-<br />
That the wings which God had made him<br />
For freedom in the air,<br />
Since man had thus betrayed him,<br />
Were stiff and useless there.<br />
Coelacanth<br />
Colour me<br />
The primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced<br />
SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought to have gone<br />
extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years<br />
ago. But its discovery in 1938 by a South African<br />
museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated<br />
the world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre<br />
lobe-finned fish fits into the evolution of land animals.<br />
There are only two known species of coelacanths:<br />
one that lives near the Comoros Islands off the east<br />
coast of Africa, and one found in the waters off<br />
Sulawesi, Indonesia. Many scientists believe that the<br />
unique characteristics of the coelacanth represent an<br />
Fun Facts<br />
Type............................Fish<br />
Diet.............................Carnivore<br />
Average life<br />
span in the wild..........Up to 60 years<br />
Size.............................6.5 ft (2 m)<br />
Weight........................198 lbs (90 kg)<br />
Group name................School<br />
Relative.......................Size relative to a<br />
6-ft (2-m) man<br />
early step in the evolution of fish to terrestrial fourlegged<br />
animals like amphibians.<br />
The most striking feature of this "living fossil" is its<br />
paired lobe fins that extend away from its body like<br />
legs and move in an alternating pattern, like a trotting<br />
horse. Other unique characteristics include a hinged<br />
joint in the skull which allows the fish to widen its<br />
mouth for large prey; an oil-filled tube, called a notochord,<br />
which serves as a backbone; thick scales common<br />
only to extinct fish; and an electrosensory rostral<br />
organ in its snout likely used to detect prey.<br />
Coelacanths are elusive, deep-sea creatures, living<br />
in depths up to 2,300 feet (700 meters) below the surface.<br />
They can be huge, reaching 6.5 feet (2 meters) or<br />
more and weighing 198 pounds (90 kilograms).<br />
Scientists estimate they can live up to 60 years or<br />
more.<br />
Their population numbers are, predictably, not<br />
well known, but studies in the Comoros suggest only<br />
about 1,000 remain there. They are considered an<br />
endangered species.
Independence Cup to open doors for int’l<br />
cricket in Pakistan: Mickey Arthur<br />
Playing in Pakistan excites World XI players<br />
KARACHI: Monday’s<br />
scheduled arrival of the<br />
World XI side in Pakistan<br />
that will mark the end of<br />
country’s international<br />
cricket famine is, for obvious<br />
reasons, a huge source<br />
of excitement for the local<br />
fans, but the planned three-<br />
T20I spectacle is also a big<br />
deal for the international<br />
cricketers, some of whom<br />
are visiting Pakistan for the<br />
first time.<br />
A day after their touchdown<br />
on Pakistani soil, the<br />
World XI side will make<br />
history by ending their<br />
hosts’ eight-year wait for<br />
true international cricket in<br />
their own backyard.<br />
The <strong>Sep</strong>tember 12 opener<br />
at Lahore’s Gaddafi<br />
Stadium will be followed<br />
by two more on <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />
13 and 15.<br />
Due to security conditions<br />
of the past, not many<br />
on the visiting international<br />
contingent have played in<br />
Pakistan before, and so naturally,<br />
they are looking forward<br />
to the experience.<br />
As expected, the most<br />
excited of the entire bunch<br />
is predictably the affable<br />
Darren Sammy, who earlier<br />
this year visited Pakistan<br />
and famously captained<br />
Peshawar Zalmi to their<br />
title triumph in the second<br />
edition of the Pakistan<br />
Super League.<br />
“When I visited<br />
Pakistan for the PSL final<br />
and entered the ground I<br />
felt like I was playing in St<br />
Lucia,” recalled Sammy, a<br />
two-time T20 World Cup<br />
winner, during a media talk<br />
in Dubai prior to their<br />
departure for Pakistan.<br />
“The excitement and love<br />
Pakistani fans have for the<br />
West Indies is unmatchable<br />
and I am sure all the other<br />
cricketers would [get the<br />
same love]. They are just<br />
hungry for cricket and want<br />
to see their icons play the<br />
game in front of them.”<br />
He continued: “As soon<br />
as I heard about the tour of<br />
Pakistan, my wish was to<br />
be a part of the team and it<br />
would have been disappointing<br />
if I had not been<br />
called.”<br />
LAHORE: Head Coach<br />
of the Pakistan Cricket<br />
Team Mickey Arthur said<br />
on Sunday that the<br />
Independence Cup will<br />
open gates for international<br />
cricket in the country.<br />
Talking to private TV<br />
channel, Arthur said that the<br />
series against the World XI<br />
is very important for the<br />
Pakistani side and they are<br />
not taking the other side<br />
lightly at all.<br />
“We are also focusing on<br />
World Cup 2019,” said<br />
Arthur.<br />
Pakistan Cricket Team<br />
Manager Talat Ali said that<br />
the World XI coming to<br />
Pakistan is big news and the<br />
other side is a tough opponent.<br />
The morale of the<br />
players after winning the<br />
ICC Champions Trophy is<br />
very high, he added.<br />
The tickets for the<br />
m u c h - a w a i t e d<br />
Independence Cup’s first<br />
match on <strong>Sep</strong>tember 12<br />
have sold out.<br />
Meanwhile, Sarfraz XI<br />
and Imad XI are playing a<br />
practice match today to prepare<br />
for the Independence<br />
Cup.<br />
On Thursday, 13 players<br />
from the national squad for<br />
the series arrived at the<br />
camp in Lahore. The World<br />
XI squad, captained by<br />
South Africa's Faf du<br />
Plessis, will arrive in<br />
Pakistan on <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>.<br />
Islamabad<br />
Police win<br />
T-20 fixture<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Islamabad<br />
Police defeated Shalimar<br />
Cricket Club by 5 wickets in<br />
a friendly T/20 match<br />
played here at F-<strong>11</strong>/2<br />
Cricket Ground.<br />
Shalimar skipper won<br />
the toss and opted to bat first<br />
and were bowled out for 142<br />
in the 20th over. Azeem top<br />
scored with 32 while Jabbar<br />
made 27, Khalid 25 and<br />
Ghulam Mustafa 18. Ayub<br />
Awan was the pick of the<br />
ICT Police bowlers grabbing<br />
3 for 21 while M Tahir<br />
also chipped in with 3 for 22<br />
and Bilal Ahmad took 2 for<br />
19. Chasing 143 runs for<br />
victory, Police achieved the<br />
target in 19.5 overs losing 5<br />
wickets.<br />
Dr M Airf Hafeez<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
Monday, <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Sportlight<br />
KARACHI: ICC<br />
Security Consultant, David<br />
Smare along with Director<br />
Security PCB, Col M Azam<br />
Khan visited PSCA to gain<br />
first-hand insight of PSCA’s<br />
security arrangements for<br />
the upcoming Pakistan vs.<br />
World XI cricket matches.<br />
COO PSCA Akbar Nasir<br />
Khan took the ICC-PCB<br />
security team to PPIC3 for<br />
demonstration of project’s<br />
security and surveillance<br />
prowess fortified by integrated<br />
policing mechanism<br />
and network of strategically<br />
installed 217 high-resolution<br />
security cameras that cover<br />
full terrain of multiple possible<br />
World-XI routes and surroundings<br />
swathes of<br />
Gaddafi Stadium. The combined<br />
security team monitored<br />
the monitoring process<br />
of the possible routes along<br />
with additional supporting<br />
arrangements such as<br />
Mobile Command Center,<br />
and camera-capable Special<br />
Surveillance Vehicles. The<br />
ICC and PCB combined<br />
security officials expressed<br />
7<br />
ICC security consultant<br />
David Smare visits PSCA<br />
not only core satisfaction on<br />
the heightened security<br />
measures entrenched by IC3<br />
project but also highly<br />
appreciated CM’s vison of<br />
Digital Punjab behind the<br />
same. They were also hopeful<br />
of the fact that opening of<br />
similar IC3 projects in the<br />
imminent PSCA expansion<br />
drive to digitize and integrate<br />
security frontiers in<br />
Multan, Faisalabad,<br />
Sargodha, Bahawalpur,<br />
Gujranwala and Rawalpindi<br />
will prosper chances of<br />
international cricketing in<br />
those regions.<br />
KARACHI: The Head of CSR And Sports Division NBP Owais Asad Khan presenting a<br />
Sponsorship check of Rs.9,00000 (9 Lac) regarding 7th NBP Disabled T-20 Pentangular<br />
Cup <strong>2017</strong> to Hon, secretary Pakistan Disabled cricket Association(PDCA) Amiruddin<br />
Ansari at NSK, Former Test Cricketer Azeem Hafeez and Media manager PDCA<br />
Muhammad Nizam also present.<br />
Younis rejects PCB's farewell offer<br />
ISLAMABAD: Former<br />
Pakistan batsman Younis<br />
Khan has rejected the<br />
Pakistan Cricket Board's<br />
offer to attend a farewell<br />
event scheduled in his honour,<br />
and that of Misbah-ul-<br />
Haq and Shahid Afridi - the<br />
three stalwarts of Pakistan<br />
cricket who retired recently.<br />
While Afridi was initially<br />
supposed to be given a<br />
farewell T20I series last year<br />
against West Indies, the plan<br />
didn't materialise with the<br />
selectors not picking him.<br />
Misbah and Younis retired<br />
after helping Pakistan win<br />
their first-ever Test series<br />
win in West Indies earlier<br />
this year.<br />
China studying when to ban<br />
sales of traditional fuel cars<br />
LONDON:<br />
BEIJING: China has<br />
begun studying when to<br />
ban the production and<br />
sale of cars using traditional<br />
fuels.<br />
According to media<br />
reports, vice industry minister<br />
Xin Guobin predicted<br />
“turbulent times” for<br />
automakers forced to adapt<br />
the measures. He did not<br />
give details on when<br />
China, the world’s largest<br />
auto market, would implement<br />
such a ban. The<br />
United Kingdom and<br />
France have said they will<br />
ban new petrol and diesel<br />
LAHORE: Three-day<br />
China Electrical and<br />
Mechanical Machinery<br />
Expo <strong>2017</strong> has begun in<br />
Lahore.<br />
Commerce Minister<br />
Pervaiz Malik and Consul<br />
General of China Long<br />
cars from 2040.<br />
“Some countries have<br />
Ding Bin inaugurated the<br />
expo, which was jointly<br />
organized by Pak-China<br />
Joint Chamber of<br />
Commerce and Industry.<br />
Talking to newsmen on<br />
the occasion, the<br />
Commerce Minister said<br />
made a timeline for when<br />
to stop the production and<br />
China electric machinery<br />
expo begins in Lahore<br />
this big trade fair will<br />
serve as a convention for<br />
entrepreneurs from<br />
Pakistan and China to<br />
explore new investment<br />
opportunities in different<br />
manufacturing and services<br />
sectors.<br />
sales of traditional fuel<br />
cars,” Xin, vice minister of<br />
DUBAI: Dubai<br />
Properties, a leading Dubaibased<br />
real estate master<br />
developer of renowned destinations<br />
across emirate,<br />
will showcase an impressive<br />
realty portfolio at<br />
Cityscape Global <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
exhibiting alongside other<br />
Dubai Holding companies<br />
including Dubai Design<br />
District (d3).<br />
The premier property<br />
exhibition, Cityscape Global<br />
will run from <strong>Sep</strong>tember <strong>11</strong><br />
to 13 at the Dubai World<br />
Trade Centre. Over the years,<br />
Cityscape Global has gained<br />
tremendous traction, becoming<br />
the world's largest real<br />
estate investment and development<br />
event for emerging<br />
markets. Visitors to the<br />
Dubai Properties stand,<br />
S1D10 at Sheikh Saeed Hall<br />
1, will be treated to the master<br />
developer's innovative<br />
vision for the city's future<br />
development. Dubai<br />
Properties will highlight an<br />
exciting line-up of expanded<br />
the Ministry of Industry<br />
and Information<br />
Technology, was quoted as<br />
saying at an auto industry<br />
event in the city of Tianjin.<br />
Banning the sale of<br />
petrol- and diesel-powered<br />
cars would have a significant<br />
impact on oil demand<br />
in China, the world’s second-largest<br />
oil consumer.<br />
In July, Britain said it<br />
would ban the sale of new<br />
petrol and diesel cars from<br />
2040 to cut pollution,<br />
replicating plans by France<br />
and cities such as Madrid,<br />
Mexico City and Athens.<br />
Dubai Properties to showcase<br />
high-powered realty portfolio<br />
at Cityscape Global<br />
lifestyle destinations within<br />
Business Bay masterplan,<br />
including the new Marasi<br />
water homes along with<br />
intricate concept models of<br />
Cultural Village expansion.<br />
In addition, the master<br />
developer known for shaping<br />
renowned destinations<br />
across the emirate, will<br />
reveal two new residential<br />
projects - launching the first<br />
of the four Marasi towers<br />
located at the Dubai Water<br />
Canal and a new phase of<br />
Villanova, with Amaranta<br />
townhouses, as part of its<br />
next development within<br />
Dubailand.<br />
Speaking ahead of<br />
Cityscape Global <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
Abdulla bin Lahej, Group<br />
CEO, Dubai Properties<br />
Group, said: "As a founding<br />
partner, Dubai Properties is<br />
no stranger to Cityscape and<br />
we look forward to being<br />
part of the event's 16th edition,<br />
where we shall showcase<br />
our vision for the future<br />
of this incredible city.<br />
Biz<br />
UK overestimated<br />
sugar tax yield'<br />
The<br />
amount of money expected<br />
to be raised by an<br />
incoming sugar tax has<br />
been overestimated by<br />
almost €100m.<br />
According to reports, It<br />
is expected the incoming<br />
levy on sugary drinks will<br />
yield around €40m per<br />
year, rather than the<br />
€134m predicted in 2014.<br />
The Department of<br />
Finance's tax strategy<br />
group of UK admitted<br />
they relied on "imperfect"<br />
and "speculative approximations"<br />
in calculating<br />
that initial estimate.<br />
It is also believed that<br />
soft drink manufacturers<br />
have altered their recipes<br />
to reduce sugar content<br />
and avoid the tax.<br />
FAISALABAD: Women is selecting clothes from a stall at Sunday market.<br />
China bans imports of soft European cheese<br />
BEIJING: Chinese<br />
Customs officials have<br />
banned a host of soft, mouldripened<br />
cheese for containing<br />
“too much bacteria”,<br />
with authorities reportedly<br />
alarmed the mould contained<br />
colonies of bacteria that had<br />
not been officially approved.<br />
The ban mainly affects<br />
French and Italian cheese,<br />
including brie, camembert,<br />
gorgonzola and roquefort,<br />
as well as the English delicacy<br />
stilton.<br />
Sinodis, a distributor of<br />
foreign-based cheeses in<br />
Shanghai, sent a letter to<br />
customers announcing<br />
“cheese products containing<br />
certain moulds cannot<br />
temporarily be imported in<br />
China”. The company has<br />
stopped importing a laundry<br />
list of nearly 50 kinds<br />
of cheese since 23 August.<br />
The ban started in July in<br />
some cities, but was<br />
expanded nationwide this<br />
week.<br />
According to customs<br />
data, China imported more<br />
than £300m of cheese last<br />
year but the statistics do not<br />
specify which varieties<br />
made up the bulk of that.<br />
Scotland to sell cheese to France<br />
SCOTLAND: Five Scottish artisan cheeses will be<br />
shipped to Desailly, one of France's largest cheese<br />
wholesalers, to arrive in time for a three-day launch<br />
event on 12th, 13th and 14th <strong>Sep</strong>tember.<br />
This is the first time Scottish cheese will be present<br />
in the specialist cheese wholesaler’s range. Desailly<br />
deals in many types of cheese and supplies the independent<br />
retail and foodservice sectors in France.<br />
The cheeses will be exported by Clarks Speciality<br />
Foods of Penicuik, who supply hotels and restaurants<br />
with a range of speciality foods, including more than<br />
300 different types of cheese.
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Muslim world failed to pay proper<br />
attention to education: President Mamnoon LARKANA:<br />
ISLAMABAD: Country<br />
top counter terrorism body,<br />
NACTA Sunday said that<br />
terrorist attacks have<br />
decreased by 31 percent<br />
due to effective counter terrorism<br />
measures of the<br />
Zarmisha Dar launches new bridal couture collection Husn-e-Kham<br />
LAHORE: Designer Zarmisha<br />
Dar is all set to launch her <strong>2017</strong><br />
bridal couture collection, “Husn-<br />
E-Kham”; a linededicated entirely<br />
to the wedding season starting<br />
soon.<br />
Zarmisha Dar’s new collection<br />
‘Husn-e-Kham’ is made out of<br />
sleek cuts and simple lines, which<br />
goes back to minimalism. The collection<br />
is very sophisticated with<br />
its mid-calf hemlines, full A-line<br />
silhouettes, structured peplums<br />
and covered-up arms and shoulders.<br />
With its exquisite workmanship<br />
and aura of art-history-tinted<br />
romance, Husn-e-Kham aims to<br />
dress a modern day, dreamy bride.<br />
ASTANA: President<br />
Mamnoon Hussain said on<br />
Sunday that the Muslim<br />
world is lagging behind<br />
and failed over the years to<br />
pay adequate attention to<br />
education.<br />
Addressing the<br />
Organisation of Islamic<br />
Cooperation’s (OIC)<br />
Conference on science and<br />
technology in Kazakhstan,<br />
he said that from the determination<br />
expressed by the<br />
attendants of the conference<br />
it was apparent it<br />
would be a success.<br />
He asserted the Islamic<br />
countries to focus on science<br />
and technology studies<br />
including the fields of<br />
space sciences, astrology<br />
and marine life sciences.<br />
President Mamnoon,<br />
while thanking the organisation<br />
and Islamic development<br />
bank for cooperation,<br />
said that Pakistan will<br />
take all the necessary<br />
measures on its part.<br />
According to a Foreign<br />
Office statement, President<br />
government.<br />
According to official figures<br />
of National Counter<br />
Terrorism Authority<br />
(NACTA), surge in terrorism<br />
have decreased over the<br />
years as seven hundred<br />
Mamnoon also held a<br />
meeting with his Turkish<br />
counterpart Tayyip<br />
Erdogan along the sidelines<br />
of the conference.<br />
The two leaders<br />
expressed satisfaction over<br />
longstanding Pak-Turkey<br />
relations.<br />
The Turkish president<br />
said that the Muslim world<br />
needs to work together for<br />
Terrorist attacks decreased by 31pc: NACTA<br />
KARACHI: Education<br />
sector may provide guarantee<br />
for national development<br />
of a country only,<br />
keeping in view of this<br />
objective, Higher<br />
Education Commission(<br />
HEC) will establish a university<br />
campus in each district<br />
of Pakistan in order to<br />
promote higher education<br />
which ratio is less than five<br />
percent presently. This he<br />
stated while he was M.A.Jinnah<br />
addressing as chief guest to Karachi’s<br />
an open house session of<br />
Mohammad Ali Jinnah<br />
University, (MAJU)<br />
Karachi held here yesterday<br />
at the start of new semester<br />
from Monday. President,<br />
MAJU Prof. Dr. Zubair<br />
Shaikh, Dean, Faculty of<br />
Life Sciences, Prof. Dr.<br />
Kamran Azim, Associate<br />
Dean, Computer &<br />
Engineering Dr. Asim<br />
Imdad, Associate Dean,<br />
Business Administration &<br />
Social sciences Dr. Shujaat<br />
Mubarak and Director<br />
Student Affairs, Ahmer<br />
Umer also addressed to the<br />
open house session. Heads<br />
of departments, faculty<br />
members, a large number of<br />
newly admitted students<br />
and their parents attended<br />
the open house session.<br />
Javaid Memon said that<br />
university,<br />
contribution<br />
towards promoting higher<br />
education is very much<br />
appreciate able because this<br />
university have highly<br />
respectable educationists &<br />
experts like Prof. Dr. Zubair<br />
Shaikh and Prof. Dr. kamran<br />
Azim. He said that 15<br />
years back when HEC was<br />
established, 4 lac students<br />
were studying in 50 universities<br />
at that time in all over<br />
the country, but now in<br />
<strong>2017</strong> over 12 lac students<br />
are under study in 80 universities<br />
presently. Besides,<br />
around 10 lac students are<br />
also completing their education<br />
in other affiliated<br />
educational institutions, he<br />
added. He said that<br />
America achieved its targets<br />
of development by promoting<br />
Knowledge base<br />
economy only; therefore, it<br />
is also very necessary for us<br />
to encourage knowledge<br />
base economy here.<br />
Addressing to the session,<br />
President, MAJU Prof. Dr.<br />
Zubair Shaikh asked the<br />
students love to the country<br />
should be their first preference<br />
above all. He also<br />
advised to them that on<br />
completion of their education<br />
here to work for their<br />
own nation and country<br />
rather than to go abroad to<br />
eighty-five incidents<br />
occurred in 2016 and four<br />
hundred twenty-six incidents<br />
so far this year.<br />
Because of success in<br />
Karachi operation, target<br />
killings came down by ninety-seven<br />
percent, terrorism<br />
incidents were reduced by<br />
ninety-eight percent and<br />
robberies were down by<br />
fifty-two percent. Over thirty-three<br />
thousand weapons<br />
were also recovered.<br />
HEC appreciated MAJU’s role for<br />
encouraging higher education<br />
KARACHI: President, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi Prof. Dr. Zubair<br />
Shaikh presenting Shield to chief guest, Director, HEC Sindh Javid Memon at a open<br />
house session held yesterday at University campus for the guidance of new student<br />
and their parents at the start of new semester from Monday.<br />
serve the others. He said<br />
that at MAJU we are focusing<br />
to adopt modern way of<br />
teaching and to get full<br />
advantage of new technologies.<br />
He said that we are<br />
concentrating to establish<br />
Robotic, Forensic,<br />
Engineering, computing<br />
and other scientific labs<br />
here. He told that in order to<br />
promote computer & engineering<br />
education, we have<br />
already acquired PEARN<br />
connectivity, to link MAJU<br />
with research data base<br />
journals and top class world<br />
universities. He further told<br />
that now we are going to<br />
link the university with 155<br />
MIBT internet system of<br />
HEC, after this connectivity,<br />
MAJU will be the second<br />
university of the city<br />
for having this significant<br />
facility. Dr. Zubair informed<br />
that after launching<br />
Computer & engineering<br />
and Biosciences degree programs<br />
this year, we will also<br />
introduce<br />
MS<br />
(Biotechnology), MS<br />
(Bioinformatics) and<br />
Pharmacy educational programs<br />
from next year. He<br />
further informed that we are<br />
also planning to start Social<br />
Sciences education in our<br />
Business Administration<br />
Faculty. He said that in order<br />
to guide our students to start<br />
their own business after getting<br />
their degree, we have<br />
already started to provide<br />
business incubator facility to<br />
students for establishing<br />
their own office at MAJU<br />
campus with all required<br />
facilities for six months.<br />
the plight of Myanmar<br />
Muslims.<br />
President Mamnoon<br />
thanked the Turkish president<br />
for support on<br />
Kashmir issue.<br />
The OIC first science<br />
and technology summit is<br />
a one-day conference, having<br />
a view to ‘identifying<br />
priorities, goals and targets<br />
for the advancement and<br />
promotion of science,<br />
technology and innovation<br />
in the OIC Member<br />
States’.<br />
The summit which will<br />
be the first-ever heads of<br />
state and government<br />
meeting to develop<br />
prospects regarding<br />
Science and Technology<br />
will set priorities for the<br />
members countries to<br />
achieve goals over the next<br />
decade.<br />
FIR lodged against<br />
lawyers for locking<br />
Assistant Commissioner<br />
SARGODHA: Police<br />
have registered a case<br />
against 41 lawyers for misbehaving<br />
with a woman<br />
Assistant Commissioner<br />
(AC) in Sargodha.<br />
As per media reports,<br />
anti-terrorism clauses have<br />
been included in the First<br />
Information Report (FIR),<br />
which names the former<br />
district bar general secretary<br />
and five other lawyers.<br />
The case was registered<br />
after lawyers quarreled<br />
with the assistant commissioner<br />
(AC) and locked her<br />
inside a courtroom for not<br />
giving a decision of their<br />
choice.<br />
AC, Anum Ali<br />
remained locked in the<br />
room for some time. The<br />
police led by Deputy<br />
Commissioner (DC),<br />
Liaquat Chattha and<br />
Assistant Superintendent<br />
Police (ASP) city, Habibur<br />
Rahman Bugti reached the<br />
spot and unlocked the<br />
room later.<br />
The lawyers also damaged<br />
furniture in the office.<br />
Punjab Chief Minister,<br />
Shahbaz Sharif had taken<br />
notice of the incident and<br />
ordered an inquiry into the<br />
matter to bring the culprits<br />
to justice.<br />
Flaming reds and saffron yellows<br />
give the collection a dash of warm<br />
intensity, contrasting with more<br />
fragile tones of peach, aqua and<br />
gold.<br />
Speaking about the new collection,<br />
Zarmisha Dar says, “This is<br />
one of my favorite collections to<br />
date. A lot of effort has been<br />
invested making it perfect for the<br />
bride who wants to stay true to our<br />
culture and heritage. Age old<br />
craftsmanship techniques have<br />
been used in making this collection<br />
and I cannot wait to showcase<br />
it to our patrons.”<br />
Zarmisha Dar is a graduate of<br />
the Pakistan Institute of Fashion<br />
Girl shot dead over<br />
alleged illicit relation<br />
A man<br />
shot dead a girl in the pretext<br />
of illicit relations in<br />
Larkana on Sunday.<br />
Arif Chandio shot dead<br />
her cousin Rukhsana<br />
SRINAGAR: Normal life in Kashmir<br />
was on Sunday hit due to a strike called by<br />
Hurriyat leaders against the visit of Indian<br />
home minister Rajnath Singh.<br />
As per media reports, most of the public<br />
LOS ANGELES:<br />
Kristen Bell, who was in<br />
Florida when Hurricane<br />
Irma struck, saved actor<br />
Josh Gad’s family. She<br />
managed to get them to a<br />
room at her hotel in<br />
Orlando in time.<br />
Kristen Bell and Josh<br />
Gad have worked together<br />
in Frozen.<br />
“When they were<br />
stranded in Florida, she<br />
got them a hotel room at<br />
her hotel in Orlando and<br />
saved them, my brothers,<br />
my sister-in-law and<br />
niece and nephew,” Gad<br />
wrote on Instagram,<br />
alongside a selfie showing<br />
Bell with his parents.<br />
Kristen is in Florida to<br />
film her new comedy<br />
movie Like Father and<br />
has been hunkering down<br />
at a Walt Disney World<br />
resort. The theme parks<br />
are shutting down over<br />
the next few days because<br />
of Irma.<br />
“They don’t make<br />
them like this girl. Thank<br />
you Kristin. You are truly<br />
an angel sent from above.<br />
And thank you<br />
@ewablueeyes for bother<br />
her when I asked you not<br />
to!” Gad added.<br />
Chandio in Degree College<br />
area within the limits of<br />
Rehmatpur police station.<br />
The body was sent to<br />
Chandka Medical College<br />
Hospital Larkana for an<br />
autopsy and later handed<br />
over to heirs. The police<br />
could not register the case<br />
fill filing this report.<br />
Hower, police investigation<br />
was underway.<br />
Frozen actor Josh Gad thanks Kristen Bell<br />
for saving his family from Hurricane Irma<br />
Even Irma could not hamper delighted Three killed as<br />
trailer-truck hit bike<br />
tourists' plans to visit Disney World<br />
BHAN SYEDABAD:<br />
LAKE BUENA VISTA:<br />
Not even a hurricane could<br />
keep tourists from the happiest<br />
place on Earth on<br />
Saturday.<br />
According to details,<br />
With Hurricane Irma<br />
looming over the entire<br />
state of Florida, Walt<br />
Disney World’s Magic<br />
Kingdom remained open<br />
until 9 PM on Saturday<br />
night, well before the<br />
storm was expected to<br />
threaten the area but<br />
close enough to fray a<br />
few nerves.<br />
The four Disney parks<br />
just southwest of Orlando<br />
were due to shut down on<br />
Sunday and Monday, the<br />
company said in a statement,<br />
allowing guests,<br />
many of whom made plans<br />
months in advance, to<br />
enjoy the rides, parades,<br />
and actors dressed as cartoon<br />
characters until the<br />
last minute on Saturday<br />
night. A few attractions<br />
operated on modified<br />
hours.<br />
transport remained off the roads, shops and<br />
business establishments remained closed due<br />
to the strike called by separatist leaders Syed<br />
Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and<br />
Mohammad Yasin Malik.<br />
Three people were killed<br />
when a trailer-truck hit a<br />
bike near Bhan Syedabad on<br />
Sunday.<br />
A fast-moving trailertruck<br />
hit a motorcycle on<br />
Indus Highway near Bhan<br />
Syedabad. As a result, three<br />
persons Yousuf Khushk,<br />
Ibrahim and Ahmed Khushk<br />
suffered severe injuries and<br />
died on the spot. They were<br />
going to their native village<br />
Wahar from Bhan Syedabad.<br />
Hurriyat leaders call strike<br />
against Rajnath’s Kashmir visit<br />
GUJRAT: University<br />
PCP clarification<br />
ISLAMABAD: This is<br />
with reference to a news<br />
item appearing in a section<br />
of Print media ascribing to<br />
the Council and government<br />
that it is going to<br />
introduce repressive press<br />
laws in the country. It is<br />
clarified that the contents of<br />
the news story are incorrect<br />
and have created an<br />
impression that a democratic<br />
order in the country is<br />
going to be impacted as the<br />
press council of Pakistan, a<br />
print media regulator is<br />
framing a set of laws not<br />
consistent with the spirit of<br />
Article-19 of the constitution,<br />
1973 that guarantees<br />
right to speech.<br />
VC UoG lauds HEC’s<br />
role for promoting<br />
higher education<br />
Gujrat (UoG) vice chancellor,<br />
Prof. Dr. Zia-ul-Qayyum<br />
has praised the pivotal role of<br />
Higher Education<br />
Commission in paving the<br />
way to country’s progress<br />
through various higher education<br />
projects and congratulated<br />
the commission on its<br />
completing 15 fruitful years.<br />
“I would reckon the commission<br />
as more than an<br />
institution, something like a<br />
centre of excellence which<br />
has all the powers to turn our<br />
dreams and aspirations into<br />
reality,” he said this while<br />
talking to media persons.<br />
and Design. After graduation<br />
Zarmisha took no time to launch<br />
her line ‘Zarmisha Dar’ which<br />
quickly became a buzz not only<br />
within Pakistan but internationally,<br />
as well. Driven by an innate passion<br />
for individual style, she has<br />
evolved into a lifestyle collection<br />
designer.<br />
Husn-E-Kham is available for<br />
retail at Zarmisha Dar studio located<br />
at 34/A, Model Town, Lahore at the<br />
price range starting from PKR<br />
350,000.For more information and<br />
details pertaining to the collection,<br />
please<br />
visit<br />
www.facebook.com/dar.zarmishaor<br />
www.instagram.com/zarmishadar.<br />
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