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Metropolitan:<br />
PSP to hold<br />
rally in Karachi’s<br />
Liaquatabad on<br />
Dec 24: Kamal<br />
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National:<br />
Strike observed<br />
against rising<br />
crimes in<br />
Naundero<br />
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International:<br />
Tehran earthquake:<br />
Magnitude 5.2<br />
tremor hits<br />
Iran's capital<br />
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Eleven dead, 21<br />
injured in road<br />
accident in Khanewal<br />
KHANEWAL: At<br />
least 11 people including<br />
women and children were<br />
killed and 21 were injured<br />
when a passenger bus collided<br />
with a troller on<br />
Thursday.<br />
In line with media<br />
reports, the bus toppled<br />
due to poor visibility on<br />
account of the smog.<br />
The bus was on its<br />
way from Lahore to<br />
Rajanpur when it met<br />
with the unfortunate accident<br />
in Khanewal.<br />
Among the 21 people<br />
injured in the accident,<br />
multiple were said to be<br />
in critical condition.<br />
The accident occurred<br />
at the M4 motorway when<br />
the passenger bus rammed<br />
into the troller which was<br />
parked on the road side .<br />
Dar assets reference<br />
AC adjourns<br />
hearing till<br />
January 2nd<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Accountability Court<br />
(AC) of Islamabad has<br />
adjourned the hearing of<br />
assets reference against<br />
former finance minister<br />
Ishaq Dar till January 2nd.<br />
AC judge Muhammad<br />
Bashir took up the case for<br />
hearing on Thursday.<br />
During the course of<br />
hearing, NAB prosecutor<br />
told the court that<br />
Islamabad High Court<br />
(IHC) had issued stay<br />
order in Dar’s case.<br />
Judge Muhammad<br />
Bashir asked NAB prosecutor<br />
that “ has he<br />
received any copy of court<br />
orders. Prosecutor Imran<br />
Shafique said he had filed<br />
an application in IHC for<br />
obtaining copy of orders<br />
but still he didn’t get it<br />
besides praying that if<br />
Accountability court gives<br />
any date after holidays<br />
then he will file orders in<br />
the court.<br />
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KARACHI EDITION – Friday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong>, Rabi al-Sani 3, 1439 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />
UN declare Trump's<br />
Jerusalem decision<br />
‘null and void’<br />
128 countries vote in favor of UN call for US to withdraw Jerusalem decision,<br />
35 countries abstain; Pakistan terms US Jerusalem move violation of int’l laws<br />
NEW YORK: Riyad H. Mansour (C), Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations, and<br />
his delegation members celebrate the results of the vote on Jerusalem at the General<br />
Assembly hall at UN Headquarters.<br />
UNITED NATIONS: A<br />
total of 128 UN member<br />
states voted in favor of a<br />
draft measure that makes<br />
US President Trump's<br />
Jerusalem decision "null<br />
and void." The overwhelming<br />
backing for the resolution<br />
came despite US<br />
threats to cut funding.<br />
An emergency session<br />
of the UN General<br />
Assembly passed a resolution<br />
on Thursday condemning<br />
US President Donald<br />
Trump's decision to name<br />
Jerusalem the capital of<br />
Israel.<br />
A total of 128 countries<br />
voted in favor of the measure,<br />
nine voted against it<br />
and 35 countries abstained.<br />
The United States and<br />
Israel were joined by<br />
Guatemala, Honduras and<br />
Togo in opposing the measure.<br />
Washington's North<br />
American neighbors<br />
Canada and Mexico<br />
abstained along with several<br />
eastern European countries,<br />
including Poland, the<br />
Czech Republic and<br />
Romania.<br />
Alongside many Middle<br />
Eastern countries, much of<br />
western Europe supported<br />
the measure, including<br />
Germany, France, the<br />
United Kingdom and<br />
SUKKUR: Opposition for motherland.<br />
leader in National Assembly PPP is guarantor of future<br />
(NA) Khurshid Shah on generation’s employment<br />
Thursday said that we have<br />
forced everyone to talk on<br />
and democracy, he added.<br />
Shedding light on the<br />
poverty-stricken people’s struggles of PPP founder<br />
troubles.<br />
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Shah<br />
Addressing the rally, said that he fought for<br />
Khurshid Shah congratulated<br />
Jamiat Ulema-e Islam’s<br />
(JUI) Sardar Ali Gohar and<br />
his companions for joining<br />
humanity and the people of<br />
Pakistan. He gave his life for<br />
the betterment of the country.<br />
Pakistan Peoples Party Talking on the cases and<br />
(PPP). He said that we have situation of Pakistan Muslim<br />
always rendered sacrifices League-Nawaz (PML-N)<br />
Spain.<br />
The support for the<br />
measure was lower than<br />
expected and 21 countries<br />
were absent, leading some<br />
to believe Washington's<br />
threat to cut off financial<br />
aid to countries that support<br />
the measure may have had<br />
an impact.<br />
Palestinian Foreign<br />
Minister Riyad al Malki<br />
referenced the US threat<br />
that it was "taking names"<br />
of those who vote in favor<br />
of the measure in his<br />
remarks to the assembly<br />
prior to the vote.<br />
"History records names,<br />
it remembers names — the<br />
Let nation decide who'll be next PM,<br />
Shehbaz or Bilawal: Khurshid Shah<br />
and its president Nawaz<br />
Sharif, the opposition leader<br />
said, “I used to ask Nawaz<br />
Sharif to not run from<br />
Parliament but he never<br />
bothered. Country cannot<br />
progress until a common<br />
man reaches Parliament,<br />
continued.<br />
Sharing views on next<br />
prime minister, Khurshid<br />
Shah said let the nation<br />
decide who will be the next<br />
PM, Shehbaz Sharif or<br />
Bilawal Bhutto.<br />
names of those who stand<br />
by what is right and the<br />
names of those who speak<br />
falsehood. Today we are<br />
seekers of rights and<br />
peace," he said.<br />
The draft resolution<br />
before the 193-member UN<br />
General Assembly reaffirms<br />
that Jerusalem is an<br />
issue that must be resolved<br />
through peace negotiations<br />
with Palestine and Israel. It<br />
would also make Trump's<br />
recent Jerusalem decision<br />
"null and void."<br />
US ambassador Nikki<br />
Haley earlier reiterated<br />
Washington's threat to<br />
other countries concerning<br />
the vote as she spoke in<br />
front of the General<br />
Assembly.<br />
"The United States will<br />
remember this day in which<br />
it was singled out for attack<br />
in the General Assembly<br />
for the very right of exercising<br />
our right as a sovereign<br />
nation," she said.<br />
"And we will remember<br />
when so many countries<br />
come calling on us, as they<br />
so often do, to pay even<br />
more and to use our influence<br />
for their benefit,"<br />
Haley added.<br />
Pakistan permanent representative<br />
to the United<br />
Nations (UN) Maleeha<br />
Lodhi said that the US<br />
recognition of Jerusalem as<br />
Israel's capital is a violation<br />
of the international laws.<br />
Politicians only<br />
come to rule for own<br />
benefits: Sirajul Haq<br />
Nawaz nominates Shehbaz as PM candidate for next elections<br />
PESHAWAR: Amir<br />
NAB arrests 14 KDA officials<br />
over 'China-Cutting'<br />
KARACHI: The NAB Karachi office<br />
here Thursday arrested 14 officials of the<br />
Karachi Development Authority (KDA)<br />
for their alleged involvement in illegal<br />
allotment, commonly known as China<br />
Cutting, of amenity plots as residential<br />
plots in the metropolis, causing a loss of<br />
Rs.1.5 billion to the national exchequer.<br />
The arrests were made on the premises<br />
of the Sindh High Court following cancellation<br />
of their interim bails by the concerned<br />
court.<br />
The accused were wanted in a reference<br />
filed against them with an accountability<br />
court on the charges of China<br />
Cutting of 23 amenity plots located in<br />
Gulistan-e-Jauhar and converting these<br />
illegally into 296 residential plots.<br />
Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Sirajul<br />
Haq said that Pakistani politicians<br />
only come to rule for<br />
their own benefits.<br />
Addressing a ceremony at<br />
Islamia College Peshawar,<br />
the JI Amir said that Pakistan<br />
needs such a leader whose<br />
Qibla is Khana Kaaba not<br />
Washington. In his view,<br />
politicians here come only to<br />
rule the country while their<br />
own properties and business<br />
are abroad. They go to<br />
abroad for medical checkups<br />
and their children also study<br />
there, he stated. Sirajul Haq<br />
said that Pakistan lacks basic<br />
needs in health and education<br />
sectors, adding that Pakistani<br />
nation comprises of lions<br />
while leadership is jackal.<br />
LAHORE: Punjab Chief<br />
Minister Shehbaz Sharif<br />
remarked on Thursday that<br />
those levelling false allegations<br />
must be unveiled and<br />
held accountable.<br />
While addressing an<br />
event, he said that National<br />
Accountability Bureau is<br />
free to investigate Multan’s<br />
Metro project.<br />
Punjab government<br />
spending billions of rupees<br />
NCA concerned over nuclearisation<br />
of Indian Ocean region<br />
ISLAMABAD: The National Command<br />
Authority (NCA) on Thursday expressed<br />
concern over the stockpiling of nuclear arms<br />
and plans for installation of Ballistic Missile<br />
Defence system by Pakistan's neighbours an<br />
apparent reference to India and noted that<br />
such destabilising manoeuvres could undermine<br />
strategic stability in South Asia.<br />
The 23rd meeting of the NCA, chaired<br />
by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi,<br />
backed Pakistan's defence forces to hold<br />
their own in case of any acts of aggression<br />
by the adversaries, but reaffirmed its commitment<br />
to Full Spectrum Deterrence the<br />
principle on which Pakistan's nuclear strategy<br />
is based.<br />
The meeting expressed full confidence in<br />
security measures in place to protect the<br />
nation's strategic assets, and reiterated that<br />
as a responsible nuclear state, Pakistan will<br />
keep on improving its nuclear security as<br />
well as non-proliferation measures.<br />
"The NCA asserted that Pakistan desires<br />
peaceful co-existence in the region and will<br />
endeavour to work with its neighbours to<br />
ensure strategic stability in South Asia," a<br />
press release said.<br />
During the meeting, the high standards of<br />
training and operational readiness of the<br />
strategic forces to dispel all kinds of threats<br />
were praised.<br />
The NCA also acknowledged the efforts<br />
of scientists and engineers whose contributions<br />
have led to the fortification of the<br />
national defence. In particular, the technological<br />
sophistication demonstrated during<br />
the Babur III submarine-launched cruise<br />
missile (SLCM) and Ababeel Missile<br />
System tests were singled out for praise.<br />
Meanwhile, the National Space<br />
Programme 2047 and Nuclear Power<br />
Programme were endorsed due to their<br />
potential to add to the national socio-economic<br />
prosperity.<br />
Nawaz asked PM to address<br />
Fazl's reservations on FATA bill<br />
LAHORE: Former premier<br />
Nawaz Sharif held<br />
meeting with Prime<br />
Minister (PM) Shahid<br />
Khaqan Abbasi and asked<br />
him to address reservations<br />
of Jamiat Ulema-e-<br />
Islam's (JUI-F) chief,<br />
Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman<br />
over the FATA Reforms<br />
Bill.<br />
During the meeting<br />
held on Thursday at<br />
Nawaz's Jati Umra residence,<br />
the political situation<br />
of the country was<br />
also discussed along with<br />
preparations for the<br />
upcoming general elections<br />
in 2018.<br />
It was also decided to<br />
increase the interaction with<br />
the public and party workers<br />
before the elections.<br />
The former prime minister<br />
also said that his party,<br />
Pakistan Muslim League-<br />
Nawaz (PML-N) was willing<br />
to make sacrifices for<br />
the cause of democracy.<br />
Chief Minister Shehbaz<br />
Sharif and other senior<br />
Pakistan Muslim League -<br />
Nawaz (PML-N) leaders<br />
were part of the meeting.<br />
The issue of FATA’s<br />
merger with KP remains<br />
one of the pending matters<br />
for the incumbent government<br />
and has dominated the<br />
political discourse of the<br />
country in recent weeks.<br />
LAHORE: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi meet Premier Nawaz Sharif in Jati<br />
Umra. Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif also present.<br />
PTI won't tolerate any<br />
delay in elections: Imran<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman<br />
Imran Khan Thursday said that his party will not tolerate any<br />
delay in election process.<br />
"Governance chaos exists because of political vacuum in<br />
Pakistan today," the PTI chief said in a tweet, maintaining<br />
that early elections are the only solution to it. He said the<br />
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), following passage<br />
of the relative constitutional amendment, is duty bound to<br />
complete process of delimitation of new constituencies as<br />
soon as possible. The Senate on Tuesday approved the delimitation<br />
bill with 84 votes polled in its favour and only one, by<br />
Senator Kamil Ali Agha, in opposition. Preferably, the<br />
process should be completed in three months, Khan added.<br />
The National Assembly had passed the bill on November<br />
16 with a two-third majority to consider the provisional<br />
results of Census <strong>2017</strong> in delimitation of new constituencies<br />
for the upcoming general elections in 2018.<br />
Must unveil those levelling<br />
false allegations: Shehbaz<br />
for federal government’s<br />
national highway projects,<br />
said Shehbaz, adding "for<br />
the first time in 70 years,<br />
the Punjab government is<br />
financing the projects of the<br />
federal government."<br />
He remarked that the<br />
government of Khyber<br />
Pakhtunkhwa took a loan<br />
for its metro project. On<br />
the other hand, “we are<br />
spending from our own<br />
pockets on projects worth<br />
billions of rupees,” he<br />
added.<br />
“We are serving the<br />
nation with good intentions<br />
and passion."<br />
On the development<br />
projects in the country, he<br />
shared that Pakistan’s first<br />
IT university is being built<br />
in Rahim Yar Khan, along<br />
with a Rs24billion new<br />
road in Khanewal.<br />
Seven killed, three<br />
injured in blast and firing<br />
incident in Dear Bugti<br />
DERA BUGTI: Seven<br />
people were killed and<br />
three were injured on<br />
Thursday as a bomb blast<br />
and firing incident occurred<br />
in Dear Bugti.<br />
The incident occurred in<br />
Dera Bugti’s Toba Nohkani<br />
area where seven people<br />
were killed and two injured<br />
as an armed clash took<br />
place between rival clans.<br />
Assailants opened fire<br />
by breaking into the house<br />
of the representative of a<br />
tribal clan and killed him<br />
along with his two wives<br />
and three daughters.<br />
The daughters who were<br />
killed in the incident were<br />
aged between 1-5 years old.<br />
The vehicle carrying<br />
bodies of the victims ran<br />
over a mine, which triggered<br />
an explosion. One<br />
more person was killed and<br />
two people were injured as<br />
a result of the explosion.<br />
It is pertinent to mention<br />
here that on <strong>December</strong><br />
17, a suicide attack on the<br />
Bethel Memorial<br />
Methodist Church on<br />
Quetta's Zarghoon Road<br />
killed nine and injured at<br />
least 54 people.<br />
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Metropolitan<br />
PSP to hold rally in Karachi’s<br />
Liaquatabad on Dec 24: Kamal<br />
KARACHI: Pak<br />
Sarzameen Party Chairman<br />
Mustafa Kamal said on<br />
Thursday that people will<br />
have to come out on streets<br />
for their rights, announcing a<br />
rally in Karachi’s<br />
Liaquatabad.<br />
The PSP Chairman was<br />
addressing a press conference,<br />
where he said that the<br />
party doesn’t accept the result<br />
of the census regarding<br />
Karachi, held earlier this<br />
year.<br />
He said that the metropolis<br />
is going through a myriad<br />
of issues, blaming the provincial<br />
and local government for<br />
lack of appropriate action.<br />
Kamal said that it is the<br />
responsibility of the provincial<br />
government to provide<br />
the people with basic necessities<br />
and protection of their<br />
rights.<br />
“Karachi’s demand of<br />
Mustafa Kamal appears before NAB in land grabbing case<br />
KARACHI: Chief of Pak Sarzameen Party, Mustafa Kamal visiting Liaquatabad locality.<br />
water is 1,240 million gallons,<br />
the figure that the Chief<br />
Minister Sindh told is 600<br />
million gallons less,” said<br />
Kamal.<br />
The Sindh government<br />
needs to correct their statistics,<br />
said the PSP chief.<br />
Kamal said that government<br />
needs to pay heed to the<br />
party’s concerns, adding that<br />
usurping the rights of<br />
KMC Council approves six resolutions<br />
KARACHI: The council of the<br />
Karachi Metropolitan Corporation<br />
during its meeting held on Thursday<br />
unanimously approved six resolutions<br />
whereas two other resolutions<br />
were deleted from the proceedings<br />
and a resolution was sent to the concerned<br />
department for suggestions.<br />
The meeting was presided over by<br />
the Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar in<br />
the Council Hall of KMC Building.<br />
The council through a resolution<br />
appealed that people residing in illegal<br />
structures built on encroached<br />
lands may be provided justice as they<br />
bought such properties with their hard<br />
earned money.<br />
Akhtar asked the chairman of<br />
legal affairs committee of the council<br />
to take this matter to the court on<br />
humanitarian basis so that these people<br />
could be provided with some<br />
relief.<br />
In the meeting through two identical<br />
resolutions which were approved<br />
unanimously council members condemned<br />
US President Donald<br />
Trump’s decision of accepting the<br />
Bait-ul-Maqdas as capital of Israel.<br />
The resolution was moved by<br />
Precious lands in major<br />
city park encroached<br />
KARACHI: Workers of KDA and Enforcement Department use heavy machinery to<br />
demolish the encroachments in Korangi.<br />
KARACHI: Land grabbing mafia has<br />
encroached precious land of some major<br />
parks of Karachi including Kidney Hill<br />
Park, Jheel Park, Hill Park and Aziz Bhatti<br />
Park, while illegal allotment orders have<br />
also be issued to some of the encroachers.<br />
Land grabbing and China cutting mafia<br />
has even not spared the major parks of the<br />
city and encroached upon dozens of acres<br />
of the precious land of these parks worth<br />
billions of rupees. The China-cutting hit<br />
parks include Hill Park, Jheel Park,<br />
Kidney Hill Park, Aziz Bhatti Park, City<br />
Park, Ahmed Ali Park and other parks.<br />
However, the sources said that this is just<br />
the tip of iceberg as government lands<br />
worth trillions of rupees are grabbed by<br />
powerful China-cutting mafia in Karachi.<br />
Several dozens of houses, marriage<br />
halls, shops and other illegal structures<br />
have already been erected on the grabbed<br />
land. It is learnt that some influential persons<br />
and politicians are involved in these<br />
scams and removal of these encroachments<br />
would give a tough time to local<br />
administration.<br />
Junaid Mukati who said that Muslim<br />
countries must show their unity. He<br />
suggested introduction of a common<br />
Muslim currency that could be used<br />
like the Euro and Dollar.<br />
Through another unanimously<br />
passed resolution it was approved that<br />
Mayor Karachi would meet with the<br />
KWSB officials and the M.D KWSB<br />
on the issue pertaining to water and<br />
sewerage.<br />
The council through other resolutions<br />
condemned the Quetta Church<br />
attack and observed one minute<br />
silence for the victims.<br />
Digging of ancient<br />
city Banbhore’s<br />
ruins begins<br />
KARACHI: The digging<br />
of ancient city Banbhore’s<br />
ruins has been started by<br />
Sindh government’s archeology<br />
experts with the help<br />
of taly’s experts. The digging<br />
is being conducted<br />
under the leadership of<br />
archeology experts Simen<br />
and Alexer. It will continue<br />
for a month and more<br />
experts from foreign countries<br />
will provide guidance<br />
in this regard.<br />
Banbhore is situated on<br />
the northern bank of Gharo<br />
creek, about 65 kilometres<br />
east of Karachi in the Thatta<br />
district of Sindh, Pakistan.<br />
The city ruins are located on<br />
the N-5 National Highway<br />
between Dhabeji and Gharo.<br />
Banbhore is situated on<br />
the northern bank of Gharo<br />
creek, about 65 kilometres<br />
east of Karachi in the Thatta<br />
district of Sindh, Pakistan.<br />
The city ruins are located on<br />
the N-5 National Highway<br />
between Dhabeji and Gharo.<br />
Banbhore is an ancient<br />
city dating to the 1st century<br />
BC located in Sindh,<br />
Pakistan. The city ruins lie<br />
on the N-5 National<br />
Highway, east of Karachi.<br />
Karachi residents will not be<br />
allowed.<br />
Earlier, Mustafa Kamal<br />
appeared before the National<br />
Accountability Bureau<br />
(NAB)’s Karachi chapter in a<br />
case of illegal sale of plots<br />
during his tenure as the<br />
mayor.<br />
The top anti-corruption<br />
watchdog had summoned<br />
Kamal to record his statement<br />
before its investigators<br />
in a petition filed against<br />
Kamal.<br />
The case pertains to the<br />
illegal sale of around 5,000<br />
square-yard plots allocated<br />
for seashell craft sellers near<br />
Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine.<br />
Kamal appeared for a session<br />
with NAB investigators<br />
for the second time on<br />
Thursday along with his<br />
party leaders, including<br />
Waseem Aftab and Dr<br />
Sagheer Ahmed.<br />
15 among four<br />
kidnappers<br />
apprehended<br />
KARACHI: During a<br />
crackdown on criminals in<br />
different parts of the metropolis,<br />
Karachi police on<br />
Thursday claimed to have<br />
apprehended 15 criminals,<br />
including four short-term<br />
kidnapers.<br />
A joint team of Anti-<br />
Violent Crime Cell (AVCC)<br />
and Citizens-Police Liaison<br />
Committee (CPLC) carried<br />
out a raid in Lyari's Kalri area<br />
and apprehended four shortterms<br />
kidnappers, Fareed,<br />
Shahab, Muhammad Imran<br />
and Muhammad Iqbal.<br />
City SSP Adeel Chandio<br />
and AVCC SSP Abdullah<br />
Ahmed said that the held suspects<br />
confessed to their<br />
involvement in several shortterm<br />
kidnapping cases and<br />
told investigators that they<br />
got the ransom amount<br />
through mobile banking<br />
services.<br />
Separately, in search<br />
operations in Sharifabad,<br />
Ittehad town, Liaquatabad,<br />
Landhi, and Tamuria areas,<br />
police detained nine criminals,<br />
Asfandyar, Shehroz.<br />
KARACHI: Six people<br />
were killed and three others<br />
injured in different incidents<br />
in Karachi on<br />
Thursday.<br />
According to rescue<br />
sources, a speeding vehicle<br />
hit a 24-year-old man,<br />
Sadiq Rehman, son of<br />
Toseef Rehman near Water<br />
Pump Chowrangi. As a<br />
result, he suffered serious<br />
injuries and died on the<br />
spot. The body was shifted<br />
to Abbasi Shaheed<br />
Hospitalfor medico-legal<br />
formalities.<br />
A speeding vehicle hit a<br />
24-year-old man, Sadiq<br />
Rehman, son of Toseef<br />
Rehman near Water Pump<br />
KARACHI: Smoke rising from erupted fire at a pipe manufacturing<br />
factory located in SITE area.<br />
Six killed, three injured<br />
in Karachi incidents<br />
Karachi: The Institute of<br />
Chartered Accountants of<br />
Pakistan (ICAP) in collaboration<br />
with Unilever<br />
Pakistan organized<br />
National Finance<br />
Olympiad <strong>2017</strong>, the Grand<br />
Finale of which was held at<br />
a local hotel in Karachi.<br />
The event, organized by<br />
the ICAP’s Professional<br />
Accountants In Business<br />
(PAIB) Committee, was<br />
attended by the top management<br />
of renowned<br />
national and multinational<br />
organizations. The top six<br />
qualifying teams who competed<br />
against each other<br />
included Engro Fertilizers<br />
Limited, EY Ford Rhodes,<br />
Grant Thornton Anjum<br />
Rahman, Haleeb Foods<br />
Chowrangi. As a result, he<br />
suffered serious injuries<br />
and died on the spot. The<br />
body was shifted to Abbasi<br />
Shaheed Hospitalfor<br />
medico-legal formalities.<br />
A man, Mushtaq, 52,<br />
son of Muhammad Yosuf,<br />
fell down from the terrace<br />
of K-Electrics office building<br />
in Metroville area. As a<br />
result, he suffered severe<br />
injuries and died on the<br />
spot. The body was shifted<br />
to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital<br />
for medico-legal formalities.<br />
The body of a four-yearold<br />
girl, seemed to be a<br />
day-old, was found from a<br />
drain near Malir River in<br />
Limited, Linde Pakistan<br />
and Midas Safety Pakistan.<br />
In his opening remarks,<br />
Khalilullah Sheikh, FCA,<br />
Chairman PAIB<br />
Committee and Council<br />
Member ICAP welcomed<br />
the participants and<br />
revealed the concept and<br />
objectives for the<br />
Pakistan’s first ever<br />
Finance competition. He<br />
said that the main purpose<br />
of the event was to engage<br />
finance professionals in<br />
their professional development<br />
in a unique way,<br />
place them against each<br />
other in a healthy competition<br />
and encourage them to<br />
discover their potential,<br />
exhibit their talent and celebrate<br />
their competence in<br />
Noor Muhammad Goth.<br />
The identity of the<br />
deceased could not be<br />
ascertained yet. The body<br />
was moved to a morgue<br />
after completion of<br />
medico-legal formalities.<br />
A 25-year-old woman,<br />
Musarat, received serious<br />
electric shocks in Bhains<br />
Colony. As a result, she<br />
died on the spot.<br />
The body of a 25-yearold<br />
man, Muhammad<br />
Anwer, son of Muhammad<br />
Ibrahim, bearing torture<br />
marks, was found near Hub<br />
Chowki in Gadani. The<br />
body was moved to a<br />
morgue after completion of<br />
medico-legal formalities.<br />
ICAP holds Grand Finale of<br />
National Finance Olympiad <strong>2017</strong><br />
EY Ford Rhodes team wins NFO <strong>2017</strong> champions trophy<br />
a befitting manner.<br />
Shakaib Arif, FCA,<br />
Member PAIB Committee<br />
briefed the audience about<br />
the newly introduced<br />
Simulation Round in the<br />
NFO <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
The competition kicked<br />
off with a quick introduction<br />
of the teams followed<br />
by the Debate Round<br />
which was judged by a<br />
panel of three distinguished<br />
judges; Yacoob<br />
Suttar, Deputy Managing<br />
Director, Pakistan State<br />
Oil; Zafar Iqbal Sobani,<br />
Board Member,<br />
Privatization Commission<br />
and Maria Paola, Co-<br />
Founder, Family<br />
Educational Service<br />
Foundation (FESF).<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DCM Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch<br />
alogn with Vice Chairman, Abdul Khaliq Marwat and others<br />
cutting Christmas cake in a ceremony organized at UC<br />
Bhitaiabad.<br />
5000 teachers will soon be appointed in Sindh: Jam Mehtab<br />
KARACHI: Provincial<br />
Minister for Education<br />
and Literacy Jam Mehtab<br />
Hussain Dahar has said<br />
that Sindh Education<br />
Department would soon<br />
recruit more than 5000<br />
teachers of science,<br />
maths, computer science<br />
and English subjects in<br />
order to meet the shortage<br />
of the teachers in these<br />
subjects and it will also<br />
enhance quality education<br />
in the province.<br />
This he said while presiding<br />
over a meeting<br />
here in his office on<br />
Thursday. Secretary<br />
Education Colleges<br />
Pervaiz Ahmed Sehar, Dr.<br />
Fouzia Khan, Chief<br />
Engineer Fareed Ahmed<br />
Siddiqui, Chairman Sindh<br />
Text Book Board Agha<br />
Sohail and other officials<br />
also attended the meeting.<br />
KARACHI: Chief Secretary Sindh Rizwan Memon presiding a meeting with the World<br />
Bank delegates.<br />
He asked the Secretary<br />
Education Colleges to<br />
discourage ex-Pakistan<br />
leave and especially all of<br />
those who were habitual<br />
of availing leave again<br />
and again. Dahar directed<br />
the Chief Engineer<br />
Education Works to focus<br />
on development work and<br />
install solar system in<br />
schools on priority basis.<br />
While talking to a delegation<br />
of UNICEF here<br />
in his office, he said that<br />
an awareness and mobilization<br />
regarding education<br />
was going on in<br />
remote areas of Sindh and<br />
under Sindh Education<br />
Foundation more than<br />
2000 schools were working<br />
and over half a million<br />
students were getting<br />
education in these<br />
schools.<br />
KARACHI: Man carrying empty canes on wheel barrow passing<br />
through path in search of drinking water, in Sultanabad.<br />
KARACHI: Pakistani flags are being hoisting on poles in connection<br />
of Pak Sarzameen Party’s political gathering which is<br />
coming ahead on <strong>December</strong> 24, at Liaquatabad flyover.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi meeting<br />
with the delegation of Karachi Union of Journalist (KUJ).<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC West, Malik Muhammad Fayaz<br />
presiding a meeting.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC East, Moid Anwar visiting<br />
Naryal Park at Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Strike observed against<br />
rising crimes in Naundero<br />
N A U N D E R O :<br />
Lawlessness is at its peak<br />
in the hometown of Bhutto<br />
leaders. Thieves barged<br />
into the shop of<br />
Nizamuddin Junejo late<br />
Thursday night and stole<br />
cash of eight lakh rupees,<br />
other material worth two<br />
lakhs and fled in the cover<br />
of darkness.<br />
Naundero police was<br />
informed on Thursday<br />
morning which arrived late<br />
and after inspecting the<br />
shop left the place of incident.<br />
On hearing the this<br />
news, entire shopkeepers<br />
of the Shahi bazaar and<br />
market came out of their<br />
business places after shutting<br />
down their shops, held<br />
a protest demonstration at<br />
Allahwala roundabout,<br />
staged sit-in and then started<br />
marching towards sugar<br />
mill bypass where they<br />
burnt tyres and again held<br />
a demonstration against<br />
the ruthless performance<br />
of Naundero police.<br />
They blocked main<br />
Sukkur-Larkana highway<br />
for one hour and chanted<br />
slogans against the local<br />
police due to which all<br />
Vijay Kumar<br />
NAWABSHAH: First time two<br />
Govt jobs were given to two eunuchs<br />
in the History of Pakistan at Shaheed<br />
Benzair Bhutto University.<br />
A program was organized to celebrate<br />
their admission at university<br />
where Vice chancellor Saleem Arain<br />
handed over appointment orders of<br />
jobs to both transgender persons<br />
Adnan who was apppinted as junior<br />
clerk and other Yasir as a security<br />
guard.<br />
On the occasion both said with happiness,<br />
we are feeling now equal in the<br />
society, people see us in negative way<br />
we have also ability to do something<br />
for the society. We are so glad for having<br />
on such position.<br />
Vice chancellor Shaheed Benzair<br />
Bhutto, Saleem Arain also said that<br />
gender differences should be wiped out<br />
from our society , Why transgender<br />
are neglected they also have right for<br />
NAUNDERO: Residents of Naundero block road burn tyres as they are holding protest<br />
demonstration against high handedness of police department.<br />
kinds of traffic to & from<br />
Sukkur and Larkana was<br />
jammed. After which PPP<br />
Ratodero taluka general<br />
secretary Aijaz Laghari<br />
came there along with<br />
SHO Sartaj Jagirani and<br />
DSP Abdul Sami Vaseer<br />
and persuaded the protesters<br />
to call off their road<br />
blockade but they flatly<br />
refused. After lengthy talks<br />
and assurances by the<br />
cops, three days time was<br />
given to the police to<br />
recover not only the stolen<br />
cash & material of Junejo<br />
but all thefts which have<br />
taken place during the<br />
posting of both police officers<br />
in Naundero.<br />
The protest rally was<br />
led by trader's leader<br />
Abdul Khalique Bhutto,<br />
municipality vice chairman<br />
Sikander Ali Katpar,<br />
Khalid Memon, Comrade<br />
Hussain Bux Narejo,<br />
Ghulam Mustafa Narejo<br />
and others. While talking<br />
getting jobs in every department.<br />
This great step will prove the best<br />
for those who differentiate among the<br />
genders.<br />
They are also human being we<br />
should treat them in the same as we do<br />
to media they said that<br />
about 45 days ago thieves<br />
also 2nd time stole material<br />
worth Rs 150,000 from<br />
the shop of Ali Dino<br />
Channo which is located<br />
near the same shop. They<br />
said that another mobile<br />
shop owner was also<br />
deprived of cash and costly<br />
mobile sets and theft of<br />
cattle is also constantly rising<br />
but police have not so<br />
far recovered anything due<br />
to which the PPP voters<br />
No to gender discrimination: 2 transgeders<br />
given jobs at SBB University<br />
others. Now they can pass their lives<br />
easily with respectable earnings, he<br />
added. If any transgender wishes to<br />
study in the university , our doors are<br />
open for them. our administration will<br />
bear all the expenses.<br />
feel completely unsafe in<br />
their own government.<br />
They said that residents<br />
are passing sleepless<br />
nights just like orphans<br />
because not a night is passing<br />
without crime and<br />
posted cops here are sleeping<br />
without discharging<br />
their government duties.<br />
They said that they are<br />
not earning for criminals<br />
but for their families and<br />
police have to provide<br />
them proper protection<br />
legally & morally but here<br />
law is being daringly broken<br />
by the supporters of<br />
criminal gangs who are<br />
known corrupt. They<br />
warned that if entire stolen<br />
things are not recovered<br />
within three days then they<br />
will block all roads leading<br />
to Garhi Khuda Bux on<br />
27th <strong>December</strong>. They further<br />
demanded that strict<br />
disciplinary action must<br />
also be taken against the<br />
negligent corrupt police<br />
officers who are alleged to<br />
be black sheep in the<br />
police department because<br />
of their very poor performance<br />
where-ever they have<br />
been posted.<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
National<br />
Allah Bux Khushik<br />
DADU: Pakistan<br />
People’s Party Chairman<br />
Bilawal Bhutto Zradari has<br />
said that He and his all<br />
party leaders were following<br />
his mother and former<br />
prime minister of country<br />
Mohtarma Benizeer Bhutto<br />
policies in their party for<br />
country.<br />
Pakistan People’s Party<br />
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto<br />
Zardari was addressing to<br />
people through live<br />
progame of halo technology<br />
before provicional minister<br />
MPA Sinkandar Ali<br />
Shoro in Kotri town on<br />
Wednesday. PPP Chairman<br />
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said<br />
that his party on the mission<br />
BBs. He said that BBs<br />
his mother had formed government<br />
she protected<br />
democracy with any step.<br />
He said that his mother had<br />
love with people of Sindh<br />
and she fought for the right<br />
of Sindhi people. He said<br />
that his mother had scarficied<br />
her life for people right<br />
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PPP follows BB’s policies in<br />
country: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari<br />
be the winner and runnerup<br />
respectively.<br />
The Acting British High<br />
and she could not accept<br />
another demand. Bilawal<br />
Bhutto said that he has<br />
main priority to give people’s<br />
rights and it was related<br />
with his blood. He said<br />
on 27 december BBS<br />
aniversay every kind of<br />
people will attend anniversary<br />
event.<br />
On that Occasion, PPP<br />
leader Zulfiquar Ali Shoro,<br />
Akeel Sadiqui, Mukthair<br />
Korejo, Ayaz Korejo,<br />
Maqusood Khokhar and<br />
others addressed.<br />
British High Commission’s Great<br />
Debate competition comes to Peshawar<br />
Bureau Report<br />
ISLAMABAD: The<br />
British High Commission’s<br />
annual Great Debate competition<br />
Commissioner<br />
continued with a<br />
Syed Ali Gilani semi-final event at the<br />
Institute of Management<br />
condemns use of pellets Sciences in Peshawar.<br />
on civilians in IOK The semi-final event<br />
brought together debaters<br />
SRINAGAR: In occupied<br />
from across universities in<br />
Kashmir, the All KP. After a competitive<br />
Parties<br />
Conference<br />
Hurriyat<br />
Chairman,<br />
round of fixtures Sajjad<br />
Ahmed from IM Sciences<br />
Syed Ali Gilani has strongly<br />
University and Sher Afghan<br />
condemned the indis-<br />
from Abdul Wali Khan<br />
criminate use of pellets University, were judged to<br />
against civilians by Indian<br />
forces and blinding youth<br />
in Shopian, terming it as an<br />
inhuman and barbarous act.<br />
Syed Ali Gilani in a<br />
statement said Pervaiz<br />
Ahmad Dar, Imran<br />
Muneer, Feroz Ahmad and<br />
dozens of others had been<br />
the victims of the deadly<br />
weapon used nowhere else<br />
in the world. “The fact<br />
remains unchanged,<br />
Kashmir is the only place<br />
in the world where<br />
weapons like pellets are<br />
used against human<br />
beings,” he deplored.<br />
Richard<br />
Crowder said; “As a former<br />
student debater myself, I am<br />
delighted that the GREAT<br />
Debate is giving young people<br />
in Pakistan a chance to<br />
talk about the big issues that<br />
matter for the future of this<br />
country: prosperity, democracy<br />
and peace.’<br />
“Last year the winner of<br />
the Peshawar semi-final<br />
was among the top four<br />
debaters in the entire competition<br />
and I am confident<br />
that this year once again KP<br />
will give a strong showing.<br />
I wish the winner and runner-up<br />
the best of luck for<br />
the final!”<br />
The winner of this year’s<br />
Great Debate semi-final in<br />
Peshawar Sajjad Ahmed<br />
said; “I am very glad to<br />
have won. It was a tough<br />
competition to be a part of<br />
especially since some of the<br />
best debaters from KP were<br />
there. I hope to now repeat<br />
my success and win in the<br />
final in Islamabad.”<br />
Green day program held in Dadu<br />
Allah Bux Khushik<br />
DADU: Owing to increasing climate<br />
change issues in Country Specially in<br />
Sindh for decreasing climate change issues<br />
Army Public School dadu authorities held<br />
a green day program in School on<br />
Thursday for decreasing environment<br />
issues in Sindh . APS-dadu authorities held<br />
four participants program and installed<br />
stalls of science, Fun art and Hobby.<br />
Students of APS and teachers walked in<br />
School ground, rising slogans Go green,<br />
carried pants of various parts of trees and<br />
flowers they also carried banners of trees to<br />
aware people about green valley benefits<br />
for human in country.<br />
Students of Army Public School dadu<br />
display since exhalation where they displayed<br />
human bodies’ organs and they<br />
brought the effigy of human. In fun art<br />
gallery students of APS-dadu displayed art<br />
of handicraft, Pakistan Army made arms<br />
and map of held Kashmir was also displayed<br />
in map the slogans of Kashmir<br />
Bany Ga Pakistan was written with handmade<br />
drawing by students, the holy places<br />
handmade boxes and others pictures were<br />
displayed in art gallery.<br />
11th Degree Show concludes at CEAD, thousands<br />
of dignitaries witnessed the exhibition<br />
Partition period, lost heritage, recycled shoppers, plants, animals and birds design were inspiration for students in paintings and designs.<br />
JAMSHORO: The annual<br />
11th degree show concluded at<br />
the Centre of Excellence in Art<br />
and Design (CEAD), Mehran<br />
University of Engineering and<br />
Technology (MUET)<br />
Jamshoro. Thousands of visitors,<br />
civil society, intellectuals,<br />
galleries’ owners, industrial<br />
CEOs, artists, students of<br />
various schools and people<br />
from different walks of life<br />
witnessed the event that lasted<br />
for four days.<br />
The art work of students<br />
from fine art, textile design,<br />
communication design and<br />
architecture carried different<br />
messages related to social,<br />
political and economic issues,<br />
career counseling, comfortable<br />
living compartments and suggestions<br />
for planners. Rida<br />
Kazmi a student of fine art displayed<br />
her art work that<br />
depicted the memories of partition<br />
period that how her<br />
grandfather suffered in that era<br />
while migration was forced.<br />
Rida painted that when her<br />
JAMSHORO: A student briefing about her art work during Degree<br />
Show at CEAD, MUET.<br />
grandfather listens whistle of<br />
train he goes 70 years back and<br />
remembers that “Dukhi<br />
Express” in which he travelled<br />
to Pakistan. Soham Waqar a<br />
young artist painted the old<br />
buildings and objects which<br />
give the essence of lost heritage<br />
and also preserving that<br />
living style which is lost in<br />
this modern moving world.<br />
Shagufta Khan expressed her<br />
feelings through painting on<br />
Tawa (Daangi), a broken<br />
money pot and boats carved in<br />
soft soup. Her art work was<br />
inspired by her personality<br />
specially the village life where<br />
she belonged actually. Maham<br />
Tanweer’s topic was facts<br />
remain same while time runs<br />
out. She displayed the bundle<br />
of newspapers contained thousands<br />
of inside them, in general<br />
they look like a bunch but<br />
contains valuable information<br />
especially deep hidden meaning.<br />
In Textile Design the students<br />
looked inspired from<br />
grains, trees, flowers, animals,<br />
birds, history and nature to<br />
design their clothes. Wheat<br />
grain, peacock feathers, musical<br />
instruments, lemon plant,<br />
playing cards, Noor Kahan,<br />
Mehdi Hassan, Nusrat Fateh<br />
Ali Jahan, lily flower, spiral,<br />
lettuce leaf, butterfly, Wazir<br />
Khan Mosque Lahore, Ajrak,<br />
water lily, gul mohr tree,<br />
Sindhi embroidery in modern<br />
JAMSHORO: A student briefing about her work during Degree Show<br />
at CEAD, MUET<br />
way, rilli, lotus flower and<br />
poetry of Sachal Sarmat were<br />
major inspirations for young<br />
textile designers and each<br />
design contained background<br />
of different nature before<br />
screening on the fabrics.<br />
The students of<br />
Communication Design carried<br />
topics like as darker side<br />
of porn, Rangarang about<br />
style, fill in the blank, start<br />
from a small change, log kya<br />
kahenge (What people will<br />
say), hidden talent in gentleman,<br />
carve the genius, sex<br />
education in Pakistan and<br />
others.<br />
In Architecture social club<br />
at Hyderabad, co-working<br />
space, Pakistan Cultural<br />
Center, An Amusement Park at<br />
Almanzar Jamshoro, floating<br />
leisure holiday resorts at<br />
Churna Island, tourist guest<br />
chalet at Malam Jabba Swat,<br />
Rehab Center for drug addicts<br />
at Sehwan, redesigning the<br />
shrine of Qalandar Lal<br />
Shahbaz, interative spaces at<br />
CEAD, tourist resort at<br />
Keenjhar Lake, five star hotel<br />
at Bahria Town Karachi, shelter<br />
home for old age people,<br />
Recreational and water park at<br />
News Hyderabad city, environmental<br />
sustainability in commercial<br />
buildings of<br />
Hyderabad were key topics on<br />
which students presented different<br />
adeas for planning, construction,<br />
interior and exterior.
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />
By Raja Shehadeh<br />
My nephew Aziz, a bright young man who<br />
returned to Ramallah this summer after<br />
studying in London, called me on a Thursday,<br />
the day after the decision by the United States to recognise<br />
occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<br />
“I don’t know what can be done,” he said, with obvious<br />
pain in his voice. I didn’t have much to propose. I<br />
had just heard an announcement from the nearby<br />
mosque calling on people to go to the centre of town at<br />
noon. There we could gather to denounce the US decision.<br />
I suggested to my nephew that we go together and<br />
see what was happening.<br />
On the way over, the taxi driver told me that he felt<br />
let down by the Palestinian response to the news. I asked<br />
him about the call of the Hamas leader, Esmail Haniya,<br />
for another intifada. “What intifada, when we are all burdened<br />
by loans?” he answered. “Thirty years ago, I<br />
never thought twice about taking part in every strike that<br />
was announced, but now if I don’t make money I will<br />
not be able to pay back the bank loan on this car. How<br />
then will I survive without it?”<br />
When I met my nephew, he told me he was pleased<br />
that the Bethlehem city government had decided to turn<br />
off the lights of the Christmas tree in Manger Square in<br />
protest of Washington’s decision. A few days earlier, he<br />
had gone to the tree-lighting ceremony, which he found<br />
impressive. Now, he was praising the lights gone dark.<br />
At the centre of Ramallah, we found scores of people<br />
milling around. No one knew what was expected, and<br />
the police had not made any preparations to divert the<br />
traffic. Drivers were forcing their way through the<br />
crowds, causing havoc.<br />
I asked around to see if anyone knew the plan for the<br />
day. I’m a stranger to social media and thought I could<br />
have missed an announcement. Ramzi, a musician I<br />
have known for many years, had also come intending to<br />
take part in a demonstration. He said he kept obsessively<br />
checking Facebook and found nothing. “There were<br />
no mobile phones during the first intifada when I was a<br />
boy of 10 in the Amari refugee camp, yet I remember<br />
that people knew when to assemble and what to do,” he<br />
said.<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
How To Stop ‘Rat Race’, Bell ‘The<br />
Corrupt’ and Awaken ‘People’!?<br />
OPINION<br />
IN our childhood and schooldays, we read with joy<br />
a story of rats (can anyone now imagine or understand<br />
in adult years that those rats could be meaningful<br />
as ‘people’ themselves?) being caught and eaten<br />
up by a cat (meaning a fraudulent politician, party head<br />
or a leader in government?). They were of course very<br />
much sad and painful, on how to escape such unwarranted<br />
decay and death. Until an intelligent, crafty and<br />
shrewd rat came up with a solution: Bell the cat, to<br />
know cat’s arrival and departure, and save the rats!: A<br />
lot of hurrahs, clapping and loud shrieks of victory followed.<br />
But, alas, one question remained: Who will bell<br />
the cat or how to bell the cat? Thus, a grand master-plan<br />
was left asunder with this unanswered question, leaving<br />
behind a big problem unsolved: Transfixed, a<br />
‘ready, steady, go’ stood standstill.<br />
1, 2, 3: In this mouse and cat game such as unsuspecting<br />
and fooled voters what with fear and dread<br />
against fraud of politicians almost countrywide, it’s a<br />
tragicomedy to stop people ever speeding on their<br />
dreamy racetracks in what is now a world famous terminology<br />
and usually called a ‘rat race’ against themselves<br />
-- though it has nothing to do with rats, but has<br />
everything to do with people -- for fear of being caught<br />
and eaten up by eagerly awaiting cats, meaning especially<br />
and specifically those who are among ‘The<br />
Corrupt’leaders, politicians, party heads, governmental<br />
officials, etc. People devise ways and means to know<br />
how to bell those corrupt ones before they come, catch<br />
and eat up the little voters, but they do not find a place<br />
to escape, as they find themselves pinned down by<br />
other greedy and rewarded voter relatives, friends,<br />
associates, members of parties etc, and they do not easily<br />
find a hiding place. Moreover, they need to escape<br />
some of the corrupt politicians only a short time before,<br />
during or after election time when ceremonial lies are<br />
even publicly relayed and announced by loudspeakers<br />
for all people to hear and wonder about its hypocrisy,<br />
and those among poor voters revel and lament in their<br />
compulsions to vote against their own choice and selection<br />
inwardly.<br />
ISN’T there a need to play it all differently? It sure<br />
is. However, here too there is again another problem of<br />
‘before’ and ‘after’! Politicians treat poor people and<br />
especially voters like Very Important Persons (VIPs)<br />
and themselves as ‘servants of the people’ before elections!<br />
But after they get votes, poor voters have no<br />
access to their own voted and elected representatives as<br />
their leaders then turn from being ‘servants’ to ‘masters’!<br />
Politicians come to people only, usually or when<br />
they need to, which are the few times politicians are<br />
reachable: Otherwise, people are treated worse than<br />
servants of politicians in access with their master craftsmen.<br />
Perhaps, politicians have not felt the need to be<br />
different, to be servants of the people to serve the people<br />
and to respect the trust of their votes. Call it as a<br />
problem or a solution, either voters must vote differently<br />
and elect non-corrupt contestants in their constituencies,<br />
or politicians once elected must be compelled<br />
to fulfill their promises like people’s servants<br />
and not like people’s masters. But again, there is a little<br />
problem to implement “electoral reforms” first! People<br />
can move, if they’re not arrested again after asking for<br />
reforms, and make politicians enact electoral reforms.<br />
Those who’re among corrupt politicians won’t institute<br />
reforms as they themselves are corrupt and that’s a<br />
main reason why electoral reforms were not made.<br />
Nothing suggests it ever will be. Much precious time<br />
was already lost for reforms that may never be made<br />
before fast approaching 2018 elections.<br />
IN FACT, anti-reform jargon in deceptive disguise<br />
was introduced as “electoral reforms”, voted with a<br />
majority mandate and made into law against reforms!<br />
It ought to be reversed by those politicians who genuinely<br />
want electoral reforms. But they’ve only paid lip<br />
service, and were either absent or silent and inactive,<br />
and only raised an uproar and went public with speeches<br />
for electoral reforms, while not doing anything practical<br />
for it. Pro-reform leaders must act now, and act<br />
urgent, even though it’s late, for reforms before next<br />
general election takes place 2018.<br />
STORY of another kind, otherwise, may be in order<br />
and is worth a reminder for change, both to the people<br />
and the politicians: The Blind (let us mean people)<br />
were desperate since they were in 7th Istan and could<br />
not see the way to reach, let us say, Heaven Istan. In 7th<br />
Istan, The Lame (let us mean politicians) could not<br />
walk. The lame saw and met the blind. They agreed that<br />
the lame will take the blind for a free ride whereby the<br />
lame will show the way and the blind -- guided by the<br />
lame on shoulders of the blind -- will take the lame to<br />
their destination! It’s worth a thought as to where The<br />
Lame rider is taking The Blind forward, to a a lawless<br />
and anarchic no man’s land or to what kind of destination,<br />
for better or for worse. Only people who are not<br />
indifferent or puppets of politicians but have vision and<br />
courage of grace under extreme pressures can change<br />
all that for a better life and living for themselves, their<br />
dear children and next generations: If they act properly<br />
and are capable to write or tell their own story, if media<br />
can galvanize accordingly, and change their own fate<br />
and destiny. Dire need shrieks on us all that a sea<br />
change must take place for better in ways that politics<br />
is done in Pakistan.<br />
Quote:<br />
However good a Constitution may be, if those who<br />
are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be<br />
bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those<br />
implementing it are good, it will prove to be good. -- B.<br />
R. Ambedkar<br />
A cruel blow to Palestinian hope<br />
Trump may have unwittingly lit a fuse that Israel will be at great difficulty to put out<br />
He noted the scarcity of young participants at the<br />
gathering. “Some people,” he said, “feel they can stay<br />
home and yet consider that they’re taking part; they<br />
think they can have virtual participation.” He concluded<br />
by saying: “Spirits are low. The leadership has abandoned<br />
Jerusalem.”<br />
I didn’t say anything. But I thought the city had been<br />
abandoned by Palestinian leaders long ago. The<br />
Palestinians in Jerusalem have been on their own, without<br />
effective leadership, for years, enduring heavy taxation<br />
and overcrowding that makes their lives miserable,<br />
while suffering the Israeli discrimination that leaves the<br />
Palestinian side of the city underdeveloped.<br />
There had been a moment of hope among<br />
Palestinians after the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993,<br />
when our leaders believed that the status of Jerusalem<br />
would soon be negotiated. They began developing their<br />
political presence in the city, which we thought would<br />
lead to an improvement in daily life.<br />
But Israel’s right wing fought hard against the Oslo<br />
Accords, and the mood eventually deflated. Right-wing<br />
Israelis lobbied the US Congress, which in 1995 passed<br />
a bill calling for the US Embassy to be moved from Tel<br />
Aviv to Jerusalem. The act was disregarded by US presidents<br />
until President Donald Trump’s announcement.<br />
Ramzi told me that he hadn’t been able to get a permit<br />
to visit occupied Jerusalem in 15 years. I realised<br />
that he was not aware of the cultural revival that has been<br />
taking place in occupied East Jerusalem. An old movie<br />
theatre has been renovated and a music academy has<br />
been established. Bookstores and cafes are popping up,<br />
along with dance and drama festivals. Despite the hardships,<br />
Palestinian Jerusalemites have been determined to<br />
revive their city.<br />
Feeling dismayed<br />
Crowds began to swell and an hour later a demonstration<br />
came together. We roamed the Ramallah streets,<br />
where businesses had closed up shop as a sign of protest.<br />
At the exit of the city, where the Israeli army still has a<br />
presence, it wasn’t so calm. Young men and women<br />
were attempting to break through the barriers that prevented<br />
Palestinians from reaching occupied Jerusalem,<br />
but they were being rebuffed by the Israelis.<br />
Weeklong Shaikh Ayaz Festival<br />
starts: speakers pay rich homage<br />
to Sindh’s National Poet<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD: Shaikh<br />
Ayaz, Sindh’s national poet<br />
was paid rich tributes here<br />
with start of Melo (festival<br />
with his name) at Khana<br />
Bgadosh, Sindh Museum<br />
last night with speeches by<br />
veteran politician and intellectual<br />
Rasool Bux Palijo,<br />
liberal writer Noorul Huda<br />
Shah, MPA Mehboob<br />
Akbar Rahdi and professor<br />
RAWALPINDI: A<br />
Chinese engineer, working<br />
on a tunnel linked to a river<br />
for the Karot power project<br />
in Kahuta went missing on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
According to media<br />
reports, security agencies,<br />
Police, and special protection<br />
unit (SPU) personnel<br />
have launched a search<br />
operation in and around the<br />
camp where the workers<br />
live to find 36 year old<br />
Amar Sindhu chairperson<br />
of Ayaz Melo orgnising<br />
committee.<br />
Paying homage to<br />
Shaikh Ayaz Palijo said it<br />
was very difficult to understand<br />
Ayaz. He always<br />
stood with Sindh at times of<br />
trials and tribulance. He<br />
was teacher of Sindh and<br />
sang motherland through<br />
his poetry. Ayaz stood with<br />
opponents of One Unit. He<br />
Pingzhi Liu.<br />
Security Agencies were<br />
of the view that Liu is likely<br />
to have been swept away by<br />
the river however, the police<br />
did not deny a possibility of<br />
kidnapping as Lui’ cell<br />
phone was switched off.<br />
In line with police, the<br />
associates of the missing<br />
engineer had seen him talking<br />
on the phone around<br />
3.00 at night in the tunnel<br />
linked to a river.<br />
Chinese engineer goes<br />
missing in Kahuta<br />
LAHORE: MD & CEO<br />
Pakistan Petroleum Limited<br />
(PPL) Syed Wamiq Bokhari<br />
formally handed over six<br />
anaesthesia machines to<br />
Mayo Hospital (MH),<br />
Lahore for its emergency<br />
surgical ward in the presence<br />
of officials from both organizations,<br />
including Medical<br />
Superintendent, MH &<br />
President, Patient Welfare<br />
Association (PWA) Dr.<br />
Tahir Khalil, on <strong>December</strong><br />
21. The company had earlier<br />
donated Rs. 10.05 million to<br />
MH’s PWA for purchase of<br />
the machines.<br />
“As a major national<br />
organization, PPL gives<br />
utmost attention to the wellbeing<br />
of underserved communities<br />
with a focus on<br />
improving the health profile<br />
of deserving population not<br />
only in remote operational<br />
areas but also in large cities,”<br />
highlighted Bokhari while<br />
speaking on the occasion.<br />
Established in 1871,<br />
At least five divers were<br />
working on the sight in tunnel,<br />
revealed in the initial<br />
report.<br />
The police investigated<br />
divers about the Chinese<br />
engineer but they five had<br />
no clue.<br />
It is pertinent to mention<br />
here that The Chinese engineer<br />
had come to Islamabad<br />
last year to work on the<br />
power project, the police<br />
added.<br />
PPL donates anaesthesia<br />
machines to Mayo Hospital<br />
One more petition<br />
filed against<br />
Fawad Hasan Fawad<br />
ISLAMABAD:<br />
approving one more petition<br />
against Principal Secretary<br />
to Prime Minister (PM),<br />
Fawad Hasan Fawad over<br />
making billions of rupees<br />
property by using his powers<br />
unlawfully adjourned the<br />
hearing till 24th of January.<br />
Divisional bench comprising<br />
of Justice Amir<br />
Farooq and Justice Mohsin<br />
Akhtar Kiyani on Thursday<br />
held hearing of the petition<br />
filed against Fawad Hasan<br />
Fawad over making billions<br />
of rupees property by using<br />
his powers unlawfully.<br />
When hearing started, the<br />
applicant submitted another<br />
application in the court along<br />
with presenting record of<br />
applications being sent to<br />
NAB, the court approved<br />
miscellaneous application<br />
for hearing also. During the<br />
hearing, applicant Khurram<br />
Advocate while arguing<br />
requested the court that<br />
NAB should be allowed to<br />
take action against Secretary<br />
to PM, Fawad Hasan Fawad<br />
as he misused his powers but<br />
NAB officials were not<br />
allowed to take action.<br />
Mayo is one of the largest<br />
and oldest hospitals in<br />
Pakistan with 3000-bed<br />
capacity and separate outpatients,<br />
accidents and emergency,<br />
surgical and medicine<br />
wards besides a nursing<br />
school. The hospital provides<br />
free-of-cost treatment<br />
to an average of over 6000<br />
out-patients and emergency<br />
cases and nearly 500 inpatients<br />
as well as carries out<br />
over 50 emergency surgical<br />
procedures on a daily basis.<br />
Over Rs2b to be spent to<br />
promote tourism in Hazara<br />
IHC ISLAMABAD: The<br />
government of Khyber<br />
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is<br />
spending more than two<br />
billion rupees on promotion<br />
of tourism in Hazara<br />
division.<br />
According to a report<br />
quoting sources of<br />
Tourism Department,<br />
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,<br />
the government has<br />
already completed several<br />
tourist spots in the<br />
area to attract maximum<br />
tourists.<br />
Similarly, the government<br />
has also established<br />
control rooms to ensure<br />
safety and security of the<br />
tourists visiting Hazara<br />
division.<br />
encouraged those fighting<br />
against oppression and<br />
repression by his poetry<br />
against tyranny. Though he<br />
accepted post of vice chancellor<br />
but never spoke a<br />
word against his nation and<br />
its people.<br />
Noorul Huda Shah criticized<br />
Sindhi youth as they<br />
were attending religious<br />
gatherings in large number.<br />
She said it was more hurting<br />
when heard that Sindhi<br />
youth were joining extremist<br />
religious groups. We<br />
must engage them by<br />
organizing gatherings to<br />
keep our heroes like<br />
G.M.Syed,Palijo, Ayaz,<br />
Joyo and others alive in<br />
their hearts.<br />
MPA Mehtab Akbar<br />
Rashdi was critical of culture<br />
department for not<br />
supporting Ayaz Mela.<br />
Amar Sindhi said<br />
G.M.Syed, Shaikh Ayaz,<br />
Rasool Bux Palijo and<br />
Ibrahim Joyo were 4 pillars<br />
of modern who Sindh who<br />
promoted secular and pluralist<br />
ethos in Sindh. She<br />
slated mud slinging of<br />
Amar Sindhu and Arfana<br />
Mallah on social media and<br />
said she has come to attend<br />
this festival to show her<br />
support for both and salute<br />
them for their literary services<br />
at Khana Badosh. She<br />
said it was not hotel as few<br />
people have been running<br />
campaign against Khana<br />
Badosh but it was center of<br />
knowledge.<br />
Top police official<br />
admits pellets hitting<br />
on faces in IOK<br />
SRINAGAR: In occupied<br />
Kashmir, the police<br />
have admitted that pellets<br />
fired by the personnel of<br />
Indian army, paramilitary<br />
forces and police are hitting<br />
the Kashmiri protestors<br />
above-waist and on their<br />
faces in violation of the standard<br />
operating procedures<br />
governing crowd control.<br />
The acknowledgement<br />
has been made in a communiqué<br />
issued by Inspector<br />
General of Police Muneer<br />
Khan to all senior superintendents<br />
of police deployed<br />
in the occupied territory. The<br />
communiqué reads that pellets<br />
are fired above the waist<br />
and sometimes on the faces<br />
which is completely against<br />
the prescribed SOP devised<br />
for the use of pellet guns.<br />
The communiqué has<br />
been issued on <strong>December</strong><br />
19—the day scores of people<br />
were hit by pellets during<br />
protests in Shopian. At least<br />
eleven people were hit in<br />
their eyes and were admitted<br />
to SMHS hospital in<br />
Srinagar.<br />
Boy torched<br />
in Faisalabad<br />
FAISALABAD: A<br />
teenage boy on Thursday<br />
was set on fire by his<br />
friends in Faisalabad.<br />
According to reports, 11<br />
year old Nazar was on his<br />
way to home when his<br />
friend Umar and his associate<br />
Rafaqat tried to snatch<br />
money from him, upon<br />
resistance Umar and his<br />
friend sprinkled petrol on<br />
him and fled the scene.<br />
Nazar received critical<br />
burn wounds on face and<br />
arms before the blaze could<br />
be put out.<br />
ATTOCK: A polling officer marks the thumb of a woman before casting her vote during<br />
councilor by-election in Union Council Mithial.
Tehran earthquake: Magnitude<br />
5.2 tremor hits Iran's capital<br />
Quake comes five weeks after a major earthquake in the country killed at least 600 people<br />
TEHRAN: The head of<br />
Iran’s Seismology Institute<br />
says the risk of a major<br />
earthquake in the capital<br />
city of Tehran has<br />
decreased as several weak<br />
aftershocks were registered<br />
following a magnitude 5.2<br />
tremor, which affected six<br />
Iranian provinces.<br />
Ali Moradi said seven<br />
2-3 magnitude aftershocks<br />
have been registered in<br />
Tehran so far, adding,<br />
“There is no more concern<br />
for larger tremors” after the<br />
major quake occurred,<br />
IRNA reported on<br />
Thursday.<br />
According to the<br />
Seismological Center of<br />
the Institute of Geophysics<br />
of Tehran University, the<br />
quake hit the Iranian city of<br />
Malard in western Tehran<br />
Province on Wednesday at<br />
23:27 local time (1957<br />
GMT) at a depth of seven<br />
kilometers.<br />
The epicenter of the<br />
tremor was 3 kilometers<br />
from Malard, about 40<br />
kilometers (25 miles) west<br />
of the capital.<br />
According to the governor<br />
of Malard, Bahman<br />
Khatibi, one pregnant<br />
woman lost her life and 20<br />
others were injured in the<br />
city as they tried to escape<br />
the quake in panic.<br />
The quake was also felt<br />
in the central and northern<br />
JERUSALEM: Prime<br />
Minister Benjamin<br />
Netanyahu described the<br />
United Nations as a “house<br />
of lies” ahead of a vote on<br />
Thursday on a draft resolution<br />
calling on the United<br />
States to withdraw its recognition<br />
of Jerusalem as<br />
Israel’s capital.<br />
“The State of Israel totally<br />
rejects this vote, even<br />
before (the resolution‘s)<br />
approval,” Netanyahu said in<br />
a speech at a hospital dedication<br />
in the port city of<br />
Ashdod.<br />
The 193-member U.N.<br />
General Assembly will hold<br />
a rare emergency special session<br />
on Thursday at the<br />
request of Arab<br />
and Muslim countries to<br />
vote on the draft resolution,<br />
which the United States<br />
vetoed on Monday in the 15-<br />
member U.N. Security<br />
Council.<br />
Generating outrage from<br />
Palestinians and the Arab<br />
and Muslim world, and concern<br />
among Washington’s<br />
Western allies, President<br />
Donald Trump abruptly<br />
reversed decades of U.S. policy<br />
on Dec. 6 when he recognized<br />
Jerusalem as Israel’s<br />
capital. Palestinians have<br />
protested daily in the occupied<br />
West Bank and in the<br />
provinces of Alborz, Qom,<br />
Qazvin, Markazi and<br />
Gilan.<br />
No destruction has been<br />
reported, but there have<br />
been several reports of<br />
injuries and panic attacks<br />
in different parts of Tehran<br />
and Qazvin provinces as<br />
people rushed to escape the<br />
quake.<br />
Meanwhile, police<br />
Gaza Strip since Trump’s<br />
announcement, throwing<br />
stones at security forces and<br />
burning tires. Gaza militants<br />
have also launched sporadic<br />
rocket fire.<br />
Eight Palestinians have<br />
forces, firefighters, rescue<br />
operation teams and crisis<br />
management bodies in the<br />
six quake-hit province are<br />
on alert. They have urged<br />
people to remain calm, but<br />
cautious.<br />
The head of Tehran’s<br />
Israel's Netanyahu calls U.N. 'house<br />
of lies' before Jerusalem vote<br />
SEOUL: A fire broke<br />
out in an eight-storey fitness<br />
center in the scenic<br />
South Korean city of<br />
Jecheon on Thursday,<br />
killing 28 people, most of<br />
them as they were taking a<br />
sauna, officials said.<br />
The fire started in a car<br />
parked on the first floor<br />
and spread, one official<br />
told Reuters. The fire station<br />
said 12 women and<br />
three men were known to<br />
have been killed. Thirteen<br />
bodies were unrecognizable.<br />
The fire station official<br />
said most of the victims<br />
were found in the sauna.<br />
Jecheon is southeast of<br />
the capital Seoul and is<br />
popular with visitors to its<br />
mountains and lakes.<br />
been killed by Israeli gunfire<br />
during the demonstrations<br />
and dozens wounded,<br />
Palestinian health officials<br />
said. Two militants were<br />
killed in an Israeli air strike<br />
in Gaza after a rocket attack.<br />
Crisis Management<br />
Organization, Ahmad<br />
Sadeghi, had earlier told<br />
reporters that “the earthquake<br />
can have more aftershocks.<br />
The aftershocks<br />
can even be more powerful.<br />
The Crisis<br />
Management Organization<br />
calls on people to stay vigilant<br />
and move to nearby<br />
safe places.”<br />
Universities and state<br />
organizations will be<br />
closed in Tehran, Alborz<br />
and Qom provinces on<br />
Thursday.<br />
The quake disrupted<br />
phone lines in some parts<br />
of Tehran and Alborz<br />
provinces. It also caused<br />
panic, prompting people to<br />
come out on the streets and<br />
public places and stay outdoors<br />
overnight.<br />
This comes as Iran is<br />
still reeling from a magnitude<br />
7.1 earthquake, its<br />
deadliest in over a decade,<br />
which hit the western<br />
province of Kermanshah<br />
on November 11, killing<br />
more than 500 people and<br />
causing extensive material<br />
damage there.<br />
British PM May forces<br />
her deputy to resign over<br />
pornography scandal<br />
LONDON: British Prime<br />
Minister Theresa May<br />
forced her most senior minister,<br />
Damian Green, to<br />
resign for lying about<br />
whether he knew pornography<br />
had been found on computers<br />
in his parliamentary<br />
office.<br />
The resignation of one of<br />
May’s closest political allies,<br />
who had helped pacify her<br />
deeply divided party, is a<br />
blow as she navigates the<br />
final year of tortuous negotiations<br />
ahead of Britain’s exit<br />
from the European Union in<br />
March 2019.<br />
Green, who voted to stay<br />
in the EU, was appointed as<br />
first secretary of state just six<br />
months ago in a bid to shore<br />
up May’s premiership following<br />
her disastrous bet on<br />
a June snap election that lost<br />
her party its majority in parliament.<br />
But Green’s future was<br />
thrust into doubt when the<br />
Sunday Times newspaper<br />
reported last month that<br />
police in 2008 had found<br />
pornography on his office<br />
computers in the Houses of<br />
Parliament. In response,<br />
Green said the story was<br />
untrue.<br />
MUMBAI: The<br />
grapevine was abuzz with<br />
reports of Bipasha Basu's<br />
pregnancy, when she was<br />
clicked outside the hospital<br />
with her husband, Karan<br />
Singh Grover, on Tuesday.<br />
However, the actress refuted<br />
the rumours and told<br />
SpotboyE, "I am not pregnant,<br />
please end this speculation."<br />
Bipasha and Karan visited<br />
the Hinduja Hospital in<br />
Khar, Mumbai. Hinduja<br />
Hospital is the choice for<br />
many B-Town celebs to<br />
deliver their babies, from<br />
Shahid Kapoor and Mira<br />
Rajput to the more recent<br />
Esha Deol.<br />
However, the 'monkey<br />
lovers' went to get Karan's<br />
stomach infection checked,<br />
if a report in Pinkvilla is to<br />
be believed.<br />
This is not the first time<br />
that Bipasha's rumoured<br />
pregnancy has made headlines.<br />
Earlier this year, she<br />
said that the "constant guessing<br />
game is tiring" and that<br />
when she and Karan are having<br />
a baby, she will<br />
announce it to the world herself.<br />
On the work front,<br />
Bipasha and Karan recently<br />
decided to endorse a condom<br />
brand, and shot a toohot-to-handle<br />
commercial<br />
for the same. While Karan<br />
will be seen next inAnkoosh<br />
Bhatt's thriller Firrkie,<br />
Bipasha is yet to sign a film<br />
after Alone (2015).<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
International<br />
5<br />
Bipasha has denied reports that she<br />
is expecting her first child with Karan<br />
Kurdish-led Syrian groups plan<br />
to attend Sochi talks: officials<br />
BEIRUT: Kurdish-led Syrian groups<br />
plan to attend Russia’s proposed Syria<br />
peace talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi,<br />
Kurdish officials have said.<br />
The Syria peace congress was originally<br />
scheduled for Nov. 18 but was postponed<br />
and the Kremlin said on Thursday that no<br />
new date had been set.<br />
If the invitation is renewed, “we will<br />
attend Sochi and every other meeting that<br />
concerns the Syrian crisis as representatives<br />
of the people’s will” Sihanouk Depo, an<br />
official of Syria’s main Kurdish party, PYD,<br />
OVER 14 INCLUDING A CHILD INJURED, 2 PERSONS ARRESTED<br />
Vehicle attack on a busiest pedestrian<br />
crossing in Melbourne’s street<br />
SJA Jafri<br />
Bureau Chief Australia<br />
MELBOURNE: A small child was taken<br />
to The Royal Children’s Hospital with serious<br />
head injuries along with more than 14<br />
others as two men were arrested after a car<br />
ploughed into city workers and Christmas<br />
shoppers at one of Melbourne’s busiest intersections.<br />
A vehicle attack on a busiest pedestrian<br />
crossing in Melbourne’s Flinders Street<br />
which left 14 people in hospital was the work<br />
of a mentally ill drug addict, police believe.<br />
The Australian understands the attack,<br />
which occurred at 4.42pm yesterday in the<br />
heart of downtown Melbourne, is not being<br />
treated as terrorism.<br />
Rather, the driver is thought to be a mentally<br />
ill man with a history of addiction to the<br />
drug ice.<br />
It is understood he has no known links to<br />
extremism and is not known to counter-terrorism<br />
authorities.<br />
A second man pictured arrested at the<br />
scene was unconnected to the attack.<br />
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews<br />
described the event as a “horrible incident”<br />
and urged people to avoid the area.<br />
“As you will know, there’s been a horrible<br />
incident on Flinders St. Police have<br />
secured the scene and will provide info as it’s<br />
confirmed.<br />
“At this stage we believe it was a deliberate<br />
act, at this stage we do not know the motivation.<br />
It is still early days in the investigation,”<br />
Commander Russell Barrett said.<br />
Victoria Police have confirmed they have<br />
arrested two men in connection to an apparent<br />
road attack on Melbourne’s Flinders<br />
Street.<br />
Police confirmed they have arrested the<br />
driver of the vehicle in addition to another<br />
man, but they have not given any reason for<br />
the second man’s arrest. They advised all car<br />
and pedestrian traffic to avoid the area, as<br />
they urged all witnesses who had seen anything<br />
to come forward.<br />
JAKARTA: Indonesian<br />
police appealed on<br />
Thursday for tolerance and<br />
respect for other people’s<br />
religious celebrations after<br />
an Islamist group threatened<br />
to raid businesses to<br />
check for Muslims being<br />
forced to wear Santa Claus<br />
hats or other Christmas<br />
garb.<br />
The hardline Islamic<br />
Defenders Front (FPI) said<br />
this week it would conduct<br />
“sweeping operations” in<br />
the world’s biggest<br />
Muslim-majority country,<br />
and that forcing Muslims<br />
to wear Christmas attire<br />
was a violation of their<br />
human rights.<br />
Indonesia is home to<br />
several religious minorities,<br />
including Christians,<br />
Hindus, Buddhists and<br />
people who follow traditional<br />
beliefs.<br />
The constitution guarantees<br />
freedom of religion<br />
in an officially secular<br />
state though tension<br />
between followers of different<br />
faiths can flare.<br />
“There can be no<br />
sweeping operations ...<br />
members of the public<br />
should respect other religions<br />
that are carrying out<br />
celebrations,” national<br />
police chief Tito Karnavian<br />
told police during a security<br />
exercise in the capital,<br />
Jakarta.<br />
Bureau Report<br />
MELBOURNE: A<br />
man was drowned at a<br />
Victorian beach after he<br />
rushed into the water to<br />
save his two children,<br />
police said.<br />
SEOUL : South Korean<br />
guards fired warning shots<br />
across the heavily militarized<br />
border with North<br />
Korea on Thursday as a soldier<br />
from the North defected<br />
in thick fog, complicating<br />
efforts to ease tensions over<br />
Pyongyang’s nuclear and<br />
missile programs.<br />
A South Korean defense<br />
ministry official said up to<br />
20 warning shots were fired<br />
as North Korean troops<br />
approached too near the<br />
“military demarcation line”<br />
at the demilitarized zone<br />
(DMZ), apparently in search<br />
of the missing soldier.<br />
Fire in South Korean fitness Indonesian police warn<br />
Islamists against raids<br />
center kills at least 16 in search of Santa hats<br />
BEIJING: Chinese military<br />
aircraft have again carried<br />
out drills in the Western<br />
Pacific, Xinhua state news<br />
agency said on Thursday, with<br />
bombers and fighters from a<br />
South China Sea naval air arm<br />
exercising with warships.<br />
Chinese aircraft, most of<br />
them from the air force, have<br />
carried out increasing numbers<br />
of drills far from<br />
Chinese shores in past few<br />
years, most recently focused<br />
on self-ruled Taiwan,<br />
claimed by China as its own,<br />
and near Japan. Xinhua said<br />
dozens of aircraft, including<br />
bombers, fighters and early<br />
warning aircraft, drilled in<br />
told an affiliated website on Wednesday.<br />
“We are still invited,” Badran Jia Kurd,<br />
a senior Kurdish official, told Reuters on<br />
Thursday. If the framework for the congress<br />
still stands, “we will attend”, said Jia<br />
Kurd, an adviser to the administration that<br />
governs Kurdish-led autonomous regions<br />
of Syria. It would mark the first time<br />
Syria’s main Kurdish groups are brought<br />
into peace talks. Although they now run at<br />
least a quarter of Syria, they have so far<br />
been left out of international talks in line<br />
with Turkish wishes.<br />
Chinese aircraft drill again in Western Pacific<br />
Thursday’s defection<br />
came about five weeks after<br />
a North Korean soldier suffered<br />
critical gunshot<br />
wounds during a defection<br />
dash across the border.<br />
Two North Korean civilians<br />
were also found in a<br />
fishing boat on Wednesday<br />
and had sought to defect,<br />
officials in the South said.<br />
That brings the total<br />
number of North Koreans<br />
who have defected by taking<br />
dangerous routes either<br />
directly across the border or<br />
by sea to 15 so far this year,<br />
including two other soldiers.<br />
That is three times the number<br />
last year, according to<br />
South Korean officials.<br />
Tensions on the Korean<br />
peninsula were already high<br />
after reclusive, impoverished<br />
North Korea accelerated<br />
testing of its missile<br />
and nuclear programs this<br />
Western Pacific along with<br />
warships, but it did not give<br />
an exact location. Exercises<br />
were normal drills, part of<br />
annual plans, and accorded<br />
with international law and<br />
norms and were not aimed at<br />
any specific country or<br />
region, Xinhua said, citing<br />
the military.<br />
Shots fired at DMZ as North<br />
Korean soldier defects to South<br />
Emergency services<br />
were called following<br />
reports a 41-year-old<br />
Sydenham man had<br />
drowned at Skenes Creek<br />
beach about 1.20pm on<br />
Thursday. The beach on<br />
the Great Ocean Road is<br />
un-patrolled.<br />
Victoria Police understands<br />
the man was<br />
attempting to rescue his<br />
two children when he<br />
started to struggle. An 8-<br />
year and 12-year-old<br />
boys were rescued safely.<br />
A family member<br />
went to his assistance but<br />
he was unable to be<br />
revived.<br />
"Two primary school<br />
year in defiance of international<br />
pressure and UN<br />
sanctions.<br />
The defections also<br />
threaten to complicate<br />
South Korea’s efforts to<br />
ensure the smooth running<br />
of the 2018 Winter<br />
Olympics, which begin in<br />
Pyeongchang in February.<br />
Father drowns after rescuing two children at Victorian beach<br />
aged children have been<br />
taken to Geelong<br />
University Public Hospital<br />
in a stable condition with<br />
no obvious injuries," an<br />
Ambulance Victoria<br />
spokeswoman said.
6<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Biz<br />
Pakistan is ideal country for<br />
investment: Governor Sindh<br />
LONDON: Governor<br />
Sindh Muhammad Zubair<br />
attended an event on<br />
Thursday, which was<br />
arranged by Pak-Britain<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
and Industries during his<br />
ongoing Britain visit.<br />
Many noted businessmen<br />
and other active overseas<br />
Pakistani and British<br />
nationals from different<br />
sectors and backgrounds<br />
also attended this event<br />
enthusiastically.<br />
Zubair while addressing<br />
the event, said that after<br />
overcoming the security<br />
issues and energy crisis in<br />
Pakistan, the business and<br />
foreign investments had<br />
been rising in the country<br />
day by day, but unfortunately<br />
there was still a negative<br />
perception about<br />
Pakistan in the world, so to<br />
wash it out and showcase<br />
the soft image of the country,<br />
many road-shows had<br />
been arranging to attract<br />
the business sectors in different<br />
parts of the world.<br />
The Governor Sindh<br />
stated that he had attended<br />
road shows in the USA,<br />
UAE and Doha before<br />
coming to Britain and had<br />
LONDON : Governor Sindh, Muhammad Zubair and Lord Mayor of London Mr. Charles<br />
Bowman after exchanging souvenirs at Mansion House.<br />
also interacted with the<br />
business class of each<br />
respective country and told<br />
them about the changing<br />
environment of Pakistan in<br />
terms of investments and<br />
business.<br />
“People of USA<br />
showed their keen interest<br />
to invest in different sectors<br />
of Pakistan which is<br />
the good news for<br />
Pakistanis. The<br />
Manchester trip is also a<br />
continuation of those road<br />
shows which Pakistan has<br />
been arranging in different<br />
countries.”<br />
He said that the today’s<br />
Pakistan is entirely different,<br />
progressive and more<br />
peaceful as compared to<br />
2013 sitatuion. Each and<br />
every sector of the country<br />
has been leading towards<br />
betterment and giving positive<br />
results. The new economic<br />
policies of the government<br />
have increased<br />
the business and investments<br />
in the country while<br />
the government was providing<br />
every possible help<br />
to the people in business<br />
sector.<br />
“The profitable multinational<br />
companies of<br />
Karachi are taking interest<br />
in more investments due to<br />
restoration of peace and<br />
overcoming the energy crisis,<br />
while the infrastructure<br />
in industrial sector has<br />
been reinstated.”<br />
Zubair ascertained that<br />
Pakistan is an ideal and<br />
attractive country for<br />
investment, where the government<br />
has also provided<br />
its full help and support to<br />
the investors because foreign<br />
investment is the key<br />
to eliminate poverty and<br />
inflation from the country.<br />
The Sindh governor<br />
also met and greeted overseas<br />
Pakistanis during his<br />
Manchester visit and also<br />
appreciated their efforts to<br />
serve the country despite<br />
living outside Pakistan.<br />
Need stressed for promoting<br />
Pak-Uzbek bilateral trade<br />
ISLAMABAD: Vladimir<br />
Norov, Director, Institute for<br />
Strategic and Regional<br />
Studies of Uzbekistan along<br />
with H.E.Furqat A. Sidikov,<br />
Ambassador of Uzbekistan<br />
to Pakistan visited<br />
Islamabad Chamber of<br />
Commerce and Industry and<br />
addressing the business<br />
community, stressed that<br />
Pakistan and Uzbekistan<br />
should focus on exploiting<br />
their geographical proximity<br />
for promoting bilateral trade<br />
and economic relations to<br />
achieve mutually beneficial<br />
outcomes for their<br />
economies. Maj. Gen.<br />
(Retd) Khalid Amir Jaffery,<br />
President. Center for Global<br />
and Strategic Studies of<br />
Pakistan also accompanied<br />
them.<br />
Vladimir Norov said that<br />
Uzbekistan had US$<br />
520million bilateral trade<br />
with Afghanistan and our<br />
target was to take it to US$ 1<br />
billion. However, with<br />
Pakistan its trade was just<br />
around US$ 24 million<br />
despite the fact that both<br />
countries have great potential<br />
to promote trade in many<br />
areas. He urged that Pakistan<br />
and Uzbekistan should<br />
accord high priority to<br />
improving two-way trade<br />
that would bring many benefits<br />
to the people of two<br />
nations.<br />
He said Pakistan and<br />
Uzbekistan could cooperate<br />
in many fields including textiles,<br />
agriculture, energy,<br />
automobiles, pharmaceuticals,<br />
chemicals and others.<br />
He said Uzbekistan has<br />
established 7 Free Economic<br />
Zones with attractive incentives<br />
for foreign investors<br />
and has envisaged 650 projects<br />
involving an investment<br />
of US$40 billion. He<br />
emphasized that Pakistani<br />
investors should explore<br />
joint ventures and investment<br />
opportunities in<br />
Uzbekistan.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State/Chairperson BISP MNA Marvi Memon and Secretary<br />
BISP Omar Hamid Khan in a meeting with Country Head DFID Ms. J oanna Reid at<br />
BISP Secretariat.<br />
PSX continues upward journey with 508 points gain<br />
KARACHI: The<br />
Pakistan Stock Exchange<br />
(PSX) Thursday continued<br />
upward rally after gaining<br />
huge 507.71 points to take<br />
the tally to 38715.77 level.<br />
The stocks recorded the<br />
highest trading level of<br />
38793.99 points and lowest<br />
level of 38014.84 points,<br />
with the volume of 179.63<br />
million shares and value of<br />
Rs6.92 billion. As many as<br />
366 companies were<br />
active; of which 196<br />
advanced, 152 declined<br />
and 18 remained<br />
unchanged.<br />
TRG Pak Ltd was the<br />
volume leader with 14.98<br />
million shares, adding<br />
Rs1.33 to reach Rs27.93. It<br />
was followed by Dewan<br />
Salman with 13.35 million<br />
KARACHI: Chief about visionary method of<br />
Secretary Sindh Rizwan economic development,<br />
Memon has assured that senior economist of World<br />
the Sindh Government Bank Amjad Basheer<br />
would leave no stone for<br />
betterment of the economic<br />
introduced the delegation.<br />
The Chief Secretary noted<br />
development process, that all department of<br />
with a view to improve Sindh Government are<br />
the ranking of ease of<br />
doing. While presiding a<br />
tremendously performing<br />
their duties the coordination<br />
meeting with the World<br />
with World Bank<br />
Bank delegates met to him shall be appreciated to this<br />
led by Ms. NICHA effect, he added.<br />
SATHORNKICH of bank Chairman Planning &<br />
of Thailand, who Development Board<br />
addressed the meeting Sindh Muhammad<br />
shares, shedding Rs-1 to<br />
end at Rs1.20 and DGK<br />
Cement with 8.80 million<br />
shares, adding Rs2.66 to<br />
close at Rs115.40.<br />
The top three gainers<br />
were Hinopak Motor with<br />
price per share of 1010<br />
(39), Murree Brewery with<br />
price per share of 7<strong>22</strong>.40<br />
(34.40) and Siemens Pak<br />
of 900.96 (31.16).<br />
The top three losers<br />
were Nestle Pakistanwith<br />
price per share of 11499.99<br />
(-565.01), Wyeth Pak Ltd<br />
with price per share of<br />
1238.70 (-64.51) and<br />
Sanofi-Aventis share of<br />
1053.55 (-46.66).<br />
The stocks opened on<br />
bullish note and added 32<br />
points in early trading to<br />
reach 38240 level. Despite<br />
World Bank team on economic<br />
development calls on chief secretary Sindh<br />
BANNU: A man buying Guava in a local market.<br />
Waseem maintained that<br />
all out efforts are being<br />
made by all the departments<br />
with harmony and<br />
devotion headed by the<br />
Chief Secretary Sindh<br />
Rizwan Memon.World<br />
Bank representative Ms<br />
Nasreen Ali, Additional<br />
Chief Secretary<br />
Information Technology<br />
Shabbir Ahmed and Abrar<br />
Shaikh the Director of<br />
SBOI (Sindh Board of<br />
Investment) were also<br />
present.<br />
volatility, the PSX<br />
remained in green zone till<br />
midday after gaining 98<br />
points to reach 38306<br />
points level.<br />
Yesterday, the PSX<br />
benchmark KSE 100-index<br />
remained positive throughout<br />
almost the whole trading<br />
session Wednesday to<br />
finally close at 38,208<br />
points, gaining 289 points.<br />
Top index point contributors<br />
were HBL (up<br />
5%), UBL (4.6%), MCB<br />
(2.7%), OGDC (2%) &<br />
BAHL (3.2%), which<br />
added 307 points to the<br />
index while stocks including<br />
DGKC (down 4%),<br />
HUBC (1.6%), SNGP<br />
(2.2%), LUCK (0.9%) &<br />
TRG (3.6%) held back 77<br />
points from the index.<br />
UN Economic and<br />
Social Commission<br />
signs agreement<br />
with COMSATS<br />
ISLAMABAD: United<br />
Nations Economic and Social<br />
Commission for Asia and the<br />
Pacific (UNESCAP) and the<br />
Commission on Science and<br />
Technology for Sustainable<br />
Development in the South<br />
(COMSATS) signed a<br />
Byco Petroleum’s<br />
profit up by 50pc<br />
KARACHI:<br />
Petroleum<br />
Limited (BPPL) declared<br />
profit after tax of Rs.2.1<br />
billion for the year ended<br />
June <strong>2017</strong>, a 50% increase<br />
over the same period last<br />
year. Byco’s operating<br />
profit also registered<br />
growth of 14% in FY17<br />
over FY16. Byco has<br />
shown stable earnings<br />
growth over the last several<br />
years. For the last 3 consecutive<br />
years the company<br />
posted operating profit of<br />
Rs. 3 billion or more.<br />
Earlier in the year,<br />
BPPL received approval<br />
from the High Court to<br />
merge with its wholly<br />
owned subsidiary and its<br />
parent company to integrate<br />
various parts of its<br />
petroleum supply chain.<br />
BPPL’s FY17 earnings per<br />
share (EPS) of Rs. 0.26 per<br />
share in consolidated<br />
accounts compared to its<br />
FY16 EPS of Rs. 0.40 per<br />
share is a major achievement<br />
given that following<br />
the merger the number of<br />
shares have increased by<br />
542% to 5.3 Billion shares<br />
as against 977 Million<br />
shares last year. This shows<br />
the positive trajectory of<br />
the company’s results.<br />
Ground breaking of<br />
pipeline project<br />
KARACHI: Prime<br />
Minister Shahid Khaqan<br />
Abbasi will be the chief<br />
Byco<br />
Pakistan<br />
guest at the ground breaking<br />
ceremony of White Oil<br />
Pipeline Mogas Project by<br />
Pak Arab Pipeline<br />
Company Limited<br />
(PAPCO) being held on<br />
Dec <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong> at PAPCO’s<br />
Port Qasim station.<br />
PAPCO intends to<br />
implement this Project in<br />
order to convert its existing<br />
26" dia 786 km long<br />
Memorandum<br />
of<br />
Understanding on Thursday to<br />
provide a framework of cooperation<br />
and to facilitate collaboration.<br />
UN Under Secretary for<br />
ESCAP Dr Shamshad Akhtar Byco’s significant<br />
and Executive Director COM-<br />
SATS Dr. S. M Junaid Zaidi<br />
signed the MoU in a ceremony<br />
growth in profitability has<br />
been the result of significant<br />
efforts in the improvement<br />
held here.<br />
of the company’s<br />
Federal Minister for logistics and imports of<br />
Science and Technology Rana<br />
Tanveer Hussain was the chief<br />
products at market competitive<br />
pricing.<br />
guest on this occasion while<br />
Yasmeen Masood, Federal<br />
Secretary, Ministry for Science<br />
and Technology, Ambassadors<br />
of various countries, UN<br />
Resident Representative and LAHORE: Chief<br />
diplomats from various missions<br />
Minister Gilgit-Baltistan<br />
were present to witness Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman<br />
this important milestone for has invited the private sector<br />
COMSATS. According to to join hands with the government<br />
agreement, ESCAP and COM-<br />
of Gilgit-Baltistan<br />
SATS will promote cooperation<br />
and start flight operation for<br />
in areas of research and this area.<br />
Pakistan<br />
joint publications; organizing While talking to the<br />
and participating in joint events LCCI President Malik Tahir<br />
and conduct capacity building Javaid, Senior Vice<br />
and training workshops. President Khawaja Kharar<br />
ESCAP will also undertake Rashid and Vice President<br />
measures and initiatives to Zeshan Khalil, Chief<br />
strengthen the activities of Minister Gilgit-Baltistan, he<br />
COMSATS including said that Gilgit-Baltistan is<br />
Network of Centres of abundant with huge opportunities<br />
Excellence and consider joint<br />
in tourism, energy<br />
publications and exchange of and infrastructure sectors.<br />
information and documents on He said that PIA operation<br />
issues of mutual interest and<br />
for Gilgit-Baltistan is<br />
experts in various fields. not enough to cater to the<br />
KARACHI: Delegates and research<br />
scholars, around the globe including East<br />
and West Africa, China, Uganda, Spain,<br />
Mauritius, USA and Pakistan are attending<br />
the Conference.<br />
The aim of the Conference is to fill the<br />
White Oil Pipeline (WOP)<br />
for Multi-product use. It is<br />
a strategic nature of project<br />
which involves construction<br />
of new HSD and<br />
Mogas storage tanks,<br />
Gantries for product delivery<br />
and Transmix<br />
Processing Facility including<br />
related civil, mechanical,<br />
electrical, instrument<br />
and control works.<br />
After completion of<br />
WOP MOGAS project,<br />
storage of 255,000 Tons of<br />
fuel capacity will be added<br />
in to system. The project<br />
has significant advantages<br />
for the country and the<br />
energy sector, including<br />
reduced cost of transportation<br />
for Mogas from<br />
Karachi to Mahmood Kot<br />
by less than 50%, bringing<br />
in efficiency, safety, reliability<br />
and improvement in<br />
the logistics system of the<br />
country and reduction in<br />
degradation of road infrastructure,<br />
says a release.<br />
Moot on sustainable business begins<br />
gap between the academia and the industry.<br />
It will provide an opportunity for the<br />
academicians, Research Scholars and<br />
Business Professionals from diverse<br />
fields to share their Research and generate<br />
academic discourse.<br />
RAWALPINDI: People are buying carrots from a vendor at a local market as fresh and<br />
juicy are available during the season.<br />
CM GB for investment in northern areas<br />
needs therefore private sector<br />
should come forward<br />
and avail this opportunity.<br />
Former LCCI President<br />
Mian Shafqat Ali also spoke<br />
on the occasion.<br />
He said that China<br />
Economic<br />
Corridor (CPEC) has generated<br />
lucrative investment<br />
opportunities that must be<br />
availed by the local<br />
investors. Under this project<br />
industrial and economic<br />
zones are being established<br />
which will create ample<br />
employment opportunities<br />
for the people of this area.<br />
On the energy sector,<br />
CM GB said that Gilgit-<br />
Baltistan is not linked with<br />
the national grid which is<br />
the major hurdle of taping<br />
the power generation potential.<br />
He said that GIZ and<br />
WAPDA have identified the<br />
potential of 40,900 MW<br />
through feasibility reports.<br />
He said that establishment<br />
of first grid in Gilgit-<br />
Baltistan is at tender stage.<br />
He said that no serious<br />
work had been done in past<br />
for Diamir Bhasha Dam but<br />
now situation is quite different.<br />
He said that land acquisition<br />
for Diamir Bhasha<br />
has been completed through<br />
transparent way. All record<br />
in this regard is available in<br />
this regard and a huge<br />
amount of Rs. 12 billion is<br />
saved through transparency.<br />
He said that Diamir Basha,<br />
Bujni and Dasu would generate<br />
4500 MW, 7500 MW<br />
and 5000 MW of cheap and<br />
environment friendly electricity<br />
of respectively that<br />
would reduce the oil import<br />
bill.<br />
The LCCI President<br />
Malik Tahir Javaid said that<br />
the region of Gilgit-<br />
Baltistan has immense<br />
importance in geo-economic<br />
and geo-strategic terms.<br />
Geographically, Gilgit-<br />
Baltistan shares borders in<br />
the northeast with China, in<br />
the extreme north with<br />
Wakhan corridor of<br />
Afghanistan, in the west<br />
with KPK province and in<br />
the south and southeast with<br />
Azad Kashmir.
ICC introduces ‘Fans Moment of the Year’<br />
award with Pak’s CT victory among nominees<br />
Dr<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan’s<br />
stunning victory against<br />
Sports Reprter<br />
KARACHI: The day<br />
started with very strong<br />
winds and choppy seas with<br />
white horses forming on the<br />
waves. We decided to keep<br />
our youngest (and newest)<br />
two competitors on land for<br />
their safety. The racing area<br />
was eventually shifted right<br />
infront of the yacht club so<br />
we decided that Yusuf<br />
would be able to handle the<br />
conditions. He could always<br />
come back if not able.<br />
Swells were large and<br />
our sailors were not used to<br />
such conditions. Despite it<br />
all, the experienced Laser<br />
sailors sailed brilliantly.<br />
Najeebullah placed 1st<br />
overall in Laser standard<br />
while M.Tanveer placed<br />
third. The gold and silver<br />
was ours. M. Toufiq who<br />
was also participating in his<br />
first international event finished<br />
5th overall.<br />
In the Laser 4.7, Ali had<br />
his best race and finished in<br />
the top 5. He was in the top<br />
3 in the earlier race as well<br />
but unfortunately capsized<br />
and lost his lead. Overall he<br />
India in the summit clash<br />
of the ICC Champions<br />
was ahead in the Pakistan<br />
contingent, followed by<br />
Awais, Minnah, Hana and<br />
Sakina.<br />
After a tough competition<br />
with the UAE fleet,<br />
Abdullah scored a second in<br />
Race #8 and ended up<br />
securing the bronze for the<br />
country. We are incredibly<br />
proud of our young 14 year<br />
old sailor! Despite being<br />
only 9 years old, Ahmad<br />
also held his own and finished<br />
in the top half of the<br />
fleet.<br />
Surprisingly the winds<br />
died down to 0 knots and the<br />
Race Committee decided to<br />
abandon the last race. The<br />
AP was flown and we headed<br />
back to shore.Mood on<br />
shore was jubilant. We<br />
quickly washed all boats<br />
and unrigged all sails and<br />
spars. Then started the arduous<br />
job of packing all equipment<br />
and bags in time for<br />
the closing ceremony. Team<br />
Pakistan was well represented<br />
on stage Alhamdolillah.<br />
After the event we said our<br />
goodbyes and rushed to the<br />
airport to catch our flight<br />
Trophy <strong>2017</strong> earlier this<br />
year, is among the nominees<br />
for inaugural ‘ICC<br />
Fans Moment of the Year’<br />
award.<br />
The ‘ICC Fans Moment<br />
of the Year’ will be chosen<br />
by cricket fans around the<br />
world, who will get a<br />
chance to vote for their<br />
favourite moment of <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
The voting window for<br />
this award is open and the<br />
winning moment will be<br />
announced along with the<br />
men’s ICC Awards <strong>2017</strong><br />
winners in January 2018.<br />
Starting the high-profile<br />
Champions Trophy<br />
tournament as lowest<br />
24th Al Bareh International sailing regatta, Bahrain<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan Karate Federation with collaboration of "POA" and "WKF" organising<br />
IOC Technical Coaches Course19 - 24 Dec, group photo with President & Secretary<br />
"POA" and Best Coach of "WKF" and Coaches from allover Pakistan.<br />
Amir Khan receives death threats for posting<br />
photo of Christmas tree, 'betraying Islam'<br />
happy.”<br />
But the post led to a<br />
horrific backlash from<br />
some his followers, who<br />
posted abusive and threatening<br />
messages in<br />
response.<br />
One troll wrote, ‘You<br />
must be dead and your<br />
family will be death. I<br />
promise and Allah must<br />
promise. I and Allah see<br />
DUBAI: Pakistani-<br />
British boxer Amir Khan is<br />
in hot waters yet again –<br />
this time for a terrifying<br />
reason. The 31-year-old<br />
recently posted a picture of<br />
a Christmas tree online.<br />
The former boxer, who<br />
is a practising Muslim,<br />
posted a photo of the tree<br />
on Instagram, saying his<br />
three-year-old daughter<br />
would like it when she you and check you.<br />
woke up.<br />
He posted, “While<br />
everyone’s asleep, daddy<br />
put the Christmas tree up.<br />
Lamaisah’s going to be<br />
your<br />
angel of death came to see<br />
you,” reported Daily Mail.<br />
Another user wrote,<br />
“That is a pagan practice. I<br />
mean you might as well eat<br />
pork…”<br />
“True Muslim believers<br />
wouldn’t be putting a<br />
Christmas tree in their<br />
house hence he doesn’t<br />
represent a TRUE MUS-<br />
LIM,” wrote a user.<br />
“Wow. I’m sorry if<br />
you’re a Muslim. You do<br />
not celebrate pagan festivals.<br />
Seriously @amirkingkhan<br />
what are you<br />
thinking? Surely, you<br />
know this is not acceptable,”<br />
wrote one user.<br />
However, some came<br />
up to his defence as well.<br />
An Instagram user<br />
wrote, “He hasn’t put the<br />
tree up to be offensive, his<br />
done it for his little girl,<br />
she is being brought up in<br />
a western country, and will<br />
see all her friends and<br />
places around her with<br />
them. Have you seen how<br />
many tress there are up all<br />
over Dubai and other<br />
Muslim countries? Saying<br />
he should die is way over<br />
the top!”<br />
Damn. Amir puts up a<br />
Christmas tree for his<br />
daughter, we go mad.<br />
back home.<br />
A special shutout is<br />
needed for our Optimist and<br />
4.7 sailors who did a great<br />
job despite this being the<br />
first international event for<br />
half of them. Some of our<br />
sailors have only started less<br />
than 6 months ago and it<br />
was amazing to see them<br />
manage their boats on water<br />
and completing races in<br />
tough conditions. A big<br />
round of applause for<br />
Abdullah, Ahmed, Muskan,<br />
Yusuf, Raed, Ali, Minnah,<br />
Awais, Hana and Sakina.<br />
No Pak women in<br />
ICC’s ODI, T20I<br />
teams of the year<br />
KARACHI: None of<br />
the Pakistani cricketer<br />
made it to the International<br />
Cricket Council Women’s<br />
ODI and T20I teams of the<br />
year, which ICC<br />
announced on Thursday.<br />
ranked side, Pakistan<br />
came from behind to eventually<br />
beat arch-rival India<br />
in a dream final by 180<br />
runs.<br />
Other nominees for the<br />
inaugural ‘ICC Fans<br />
Moment of the Year’<br />
award are, England and<br />
India cap a ground-breaking<br />
ICC Women's World<br />
Cup at Lord's; Ireland and<br />
Afghanistan earn Test status<br />
as ICC Full Members;<br />
The Netherlands win<br />
World Cricket League<br />
Championship, paving the<br />
way to ODI status.<br />
Lyari Blue FC,<br />
Shireen Jinnah<br />
FC clinch titles in<br />
Football tourney<br />
KARACHI: Lyari Blue<br />
Football Club won the<br />
girls event title while<br />
Shireen Jinnah Football<br />
Club won the U-12 boys<br />
event title in Standard<br />
Chartered Karachi United<br />
Youth League held in<br />
Karachi.<br />
Earlier, Korangi and<br />
Malir had won the U-14<br />
and U-16 boys editions<br />
respectively. This league<br />
was sponsored by<br />
Standard Chartered, as<br />
part of its community<br />
service mandate to promote<br />
sports amongst children.<br />
The final tournament<br />
was held at the Karachi<br />
United Stadium and was<br />
attended by more than 500<br />
spectators hailing from<br />
different areas of Karachi.<br />
The finals witnessed<br />
competitive fixtures and<br />
ended with the Shireen<br />
Jinnah Football Club boys<br />
U12 scoring in the last<br />
five minutes to seal the<br />
victory.<br />
A total of 700 boys and<br />
girls from across Karachi<br />
participated in this tournament.<br />
121 matches were<br />
played in eight different<br />
locations including Old<br />
Golimar, Clifton, Malir,<br />
Baldia, Lyari, Korangi and<br />
Mauripur.<br />
M Arif Hafeez<br />
Sports Reprter<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Sportlight<br />
KARACHI: Bangladesh<br />
Cricket Board (BCB) is yet<br />
to finalise the head coach<br />
for the national team.<br />
BCB president Nazmul<br />
Hasan Papon informed that<br />
they are trying to appoint a<br />
batting consultant before<br />
the tri-nation series in<br />
January 2018.<br />
Bangladesh will host Sri<br />
Lanka and Zimbabwe in<br />
January 2018. There is less<br />
possibility to appoint a head<br />
coach before the tri-nation<br />
series. Richard Pybus and<br />
Phil Simmons have already<br />
met with BCB but BCB yet<br />
to select any one.<br />
Papon said, "We do not<br />
take any final decision<br />
regarding head coach. We<br />
are talking with some people<br />
and we got mail from<br />
interested candidates today.<br />
We will play the tri-nation<br />
and Sri Lanka series by ourselves.<br />
We are trying to<br />
appoint a top class batting<br />
consultant but we cannot<br />
disclose his name."<br />
There is a humming in<br />
the air that BCB may<br />
appoint the former South<br />
African opener and former<br />
Indian coach Gary Kirsten<br />
as head coach.<br />
Regarding Gary Kirsten<br />
BCB chief said, "We are<br />
talking with Kirsten. But<br />
we do not want him as a<br />
coach. We are approaching<br />
him as batting consultant.<br />
He will not work with<br />
national team only. He will<br />
work with the other teams<br />
as well. But he will be not<br />
available before February.<br />
7<br />
BCB to appoint batting<br />
consultant before head coach<br />
Kirsten will be in IPL. We<br />
do not want our head coach<br />
work in other place. So,<br />
Kirsten cannot meet our<br />
demand as the head coach.<br />
Papon also informed the<br />
process of appointing head<br />
coach is delaying as they<br />
want to hire the best available<br />
one.<br />
He said, "The cricket of<br />
Bangladesh is now in a better<br />
shape so that we have to<br />
hire a coach considering<br />
many things. It will not be<br />
right to hire anyone we get.<br />
Now it is tougher to appoint<br />
a coach, because earlier, we<br />
were in a losing streak.<br />
Apart from that it may<br />
badly affect the team if we<br />
try to bring massive change<br />
overnight. We are trying to<br />
appoint a better coach considering<br />
all the aspects.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Players are in action during the first semifinal round of CAS<br />
International Women Squash Championship at Mushaf Squash Complex.<br />
Veterans Over-60 festival<br />
match on Sunday<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan<br />
Veterans Cricket<br />
Association (PVCA) is<br />
organizing its ninth annual<br />
festival cricket match comprising<br />
cricketers over 60<br />
years of age between Omar<br />
Associates and Naya<br />
Nazimabad on Sunday at<br />
the Naya Nazimabad Lawai<br />
Stadium.<br />
Omar Associates will be<br />
led by Nadeem Omar and<br />
Naya Nazimabad by Arif<br />
Habib.<br />
The floodlit T20 match<br />
will start at 5:45 pm on<br />
Moinuddin<br />
Muhammad<br />
Sunday, <strong>December</strong> 24. At<br />
the conclusion of the match,<br />
Chief Guest Brig (Rtd)<br />
Salahuddin will distribute<br />
the prizes.<br />
The teams are:<br />
Omar Associates:<br />
Nadeem Omar (Captain),<br />
Fawad Ijaz Khan, Ejaz<br />
Faquih, Islahuddin, Badar<br />
Ansari, Mian Sharif,<br />
Masroor Mirza, Nadeem<br />
Yousuf, Sajid Abbasi, Jamil<br />
Gul, Philip Dias, Shahid<br />
Wadood, Jamil Karimi,<br />
and<br />
Akram.<br />
three sons Saad, Zain and<br />
Ariz, also played for<br />
Phoenix.<br />
None of Mehmood’s<br />
sons were interested in<br />
cricket as their passion lies<br />
in football. Taha, who scored<br />
eight goals during Leisure<br />
Leagues Season 2, believes<br />
that the format of Leisure<br />
KhawajaKaleem(Manager).<br />
Naya Nazimabad: Arif<br />
Habib (Captain), Hanif<br />
Lakhani, Anis Younus,<br />
Qaiser Hussain,<br />
Ikramullah, Abid Bokhari,<br />
Fareedudin, Zaheer<br />
Hussain Zaidi, Younus<br />
Kapadia, Irfan Khan,<br />
Mumtaz Junaid, Ajmal<br />
Nazeer, Akber Alam,<br />
Sarfaraz Hussain, Shahid<br />
Javed. Imranul Haq<br />
(Manager). Umpires:<br />
Riazuddin and Junaid<br />
Ghafoor. Match Referee:<br />
Mazhar Alam.<br />
Leisure Leagues Season 2<br />
completes as five champions emerge<br />
England’s Heather<br />
Knight has been named as<br />
captain of the 50-over side<br />
and Stafanie Taylor of the<br />
Windies appointed captain<br />
of the 20-over side.<br />
Sports Reprter<br />
KARACHI: Leisure<br />
The two sides were Leagues Pakistan, which<br />
selected by the same hosted Ronaldinho and<br />
panel, which had voted for Friends earlier this year in<br />
the annual individual Karachi and Lahore, completed<br />
awards, and included<br />
its Season 2 here at<br />
Chloe Saltau, Mel Jones, lush-green 16-Star Ground.<br />
Lisa Sthalekar (all In its Season 2, Leisure<br />
Australia); Charlotte Leagues hosted five leagues<br />
Edwards, Kalika Mehta, of eight teams each. Leisure<br />
Alison Mitchell, Alan Leagues characterized three<br />
Wilkins (all England and of the five as Premier<br />
Wales); Anjum Chopra, Leagues while the remaining<br />
Snehal Pradhan (both<br />
two were Division ‘1’<br />
India); Olivia Caldwell leagues. Each team consisted<br />
(New Zealand); Firdose<br />
of ten players. Six players<br />
Moonda, Natalie are fielded in a given point who is the son of former<br />
Germanos (both South of time during the match, in international cricketer<br />
Africa); Sa’adi Thawfeeq a reduced ground. Mehmood Hamid, claimed<br />
(Sri Lanka) and Ian Phoenix emerged as the ‘Player of the League’<br />
Bishop, Fazeer Champions in a Premier award.<br />
Mohammad (Windies). League held at 16-Star He received a medal<br />
The panel took into Football Ground. The from Leisure Leagues Area<br />
consideration player performances<br />
Vikings were the runner-up Manager Karachi Riaz<br />
from September<br />
21 2016 to date.<br />
in the league. 14-year-old<br />
Taha Mehmood of Phoenix,<br />
Ahmed. Apart from Taha,<br />
Mehmood Hamid’s other<br />
SHARJAH: President of Z International School Zeeshan Altaf Lohia gave Best Fielder<br />
Award to David Miller on the occasion of T-10 Cricket League.<br />
KARACHI: President<br />
Pakistan Hockey<br />
Federation, Brig (Rtd)<br />
Khalid Khokhar and<br />
Secretary Shahbaz<br />
Ahmad expressed great<br />
grief over the passing<br />
away of mother of<br />
Pakistan's former hockey<br />
captain Mohammad<br />
Saqlain in Lahore and<br />
Leagues was very good to<br />
improve their football<br />
expertise.<br />
Himself a very good<br />
dribbler, Taha said that the<br />
game increases the speed<br />
and team game. “We have<br />
improved our short passes<br />
and team game while playing<br />
in Leisure Leagues.<br />
PHF officials<br />
condole with<br />
Saqlain, Riazuddin<br />
also of mother of veteran<br />
hockey commentator and<br />
journalist Riazuddin in<br />
Karachi.<br />
President and the<br />
Secretary prayed to<br />
Almighty Allah to bless<br />
the departed souls with<br />
eternal peace and grant<br />
courage to the bereaved<br />
families to bear the loss.
CMYK<br />
CMYK<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK<br />
CMYK<br />
Model Town report<br />
Qadri convenes All Parties<br />
Conference on Dec 28<br />
LAHORE: Pakistan<br />
Awami Tehreek chairman<br />
Tahir-ul-Qadri announced to<br />
convene an All-Parties<br />
Conference on <strong>December</strong> 28<br />
where the next course of<br />
action will be unveiled after<br />
consultation with other<br />
political parties.<br />
Addressing a press conference<br />
on Thursday alongside<br />
Awami Muslim League<br />
chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed,<br />
the cleric announced that the<br />
APC will be attended by<br />
political and religious parties<br />
from across the country.<br />
The PAT chief said that<br />
the Bajir Najifi report<br />
released to probe the Model<br />
Town incident proves that<br />
police officers concealed the<br />
facts, and revealed that the<br />
incident was orchestrated<br />
under patronage of the<br />
Punjab government.<br />
He said that official<br />
police record shows that<br />
police contingents were<br />
deployed from over fortyfive<br />
police stations, and that<br />
KARACHI: Adviser to<br />
the PM on Aviation Sardar<br />
Mahtab Ahmed Khan has<br />
said that comprehensive<br />
strategy has been made to<br />
cope with the modern era<br />
challenges posed to the aviation<br />
sector due to the continuous<br />
growth in air traffic.<br />
He said the principle decision<br />
has been taken to<br />
review and redefine the aviation<br />
policy and to restructure<br />
the civil aviation<br />
authority along with level<br />
playing field to upgrade and<br />
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chief Tahir-ul-Qadri along with Awami<br />
Muslim League (AML) Chairman Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed addressing a press conference<br />
at Minhaj-ul-Quran.<br />
809 shooters and snipers<br />
were brought to Model<br />
Town, which implies that a<br />
large operation was being<br />
planned.<br />
“There is no authority to<br />
order such a large-scale<br />
operation, except for<br />
Shahbaz Sharif, who can<br />
call police officers and motivate<br />
them to take part.<br />
edifice the performance of<br />
airlines as per the requirements<br />
of contemporary markets<br />
and customers. He<br />
asserted the concerned<br />
authority to present a report<br />
after the consultation to all<br />
airlines in this regard. He<br />
said all out efforts been<br />
made to provide the best<br />
available facilities to the<br />
passengers.<br />
He expressed these<br />
views while chairing a high<br />
level meeting during his<br />
visit to the Headquarters of<br />
“Therefore, Rana<br />
Sanaullah and Shabaz<br />
Sharif, who were planning<br />
and presiding over the operation,<br />
along with their<br />
bureaucrats and officers,<br />
should step down and surrender<br />
to the law by Dec<br />
31.”<br />
In order to devise the further<br />
course of action, he<br />
announced that an All-<br />
Parties Conference will be<br />
held on Thursday <strong>December</strong><br />
28, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Expressing full support<br />
for the APC, Sheikh Rashid<br />
said he stands with Qadri on<br />
his quest to seek justice for<br />
Pakistan Civil Aviation<br />
Authority in Karachi on<br />
Thursday. Besides,<br />
Secretary Aviation, Irfan<br />
Ilahi, Director General,<br />
Civil Aviation authority, Air<br />
Marshal ® Asim Suleman<br />
and other high officials of<br />
the aviation division and<br />
PCAA were also among the<br />
attendants. A detailed briefing<br />
was also given to the<br />
Adviser regarding the functioning<br />
and working procedure<br />
of the organization.<br />
Sardar Mahtab reviewed<br />
the victims of the Model<br />
Town incident, and Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman<br />
Imran Khan has also assured<br />
to support them.<br />
He said the Nawaz and<br />
Shahbaz Sharif were playing<br />
a “dual game” and while one<br />
was claiming to be in conflict<br />
with the institutions,<br />
another was pretending to<br />
support them. He said that<br />
Sharif family was employing<br />
delaying tactics in the<br />
corruption cases.<br />
the existing procedures and<br />
regulations and directed to<br />
carry out independent complete<br />
diagnostic study of<br />
the organizational structure<br />
and provide necessary recommendations<br />
to improve<br />
the organizational structure<br />
without delay. He also<br />
directed to establish the<br />
grievance redressal forum<br />
immediately and conduct<br />
the training programs to<br />
enhance the capacity to<br />
meet business objective<br />
and goals.<br />
He also accused Prime<br />
Minister Shahid Khaqan<br />
Abbasi of playing “both<br />
sides of the field”, and<br />
alleged that he has amassed<br />
more funds than Ishaq Dar.<br />
He alleged that Nawaz<br />
Sharif, in order to garner<br />
support for his party, has distributed<br />
billions of rupees<br />
through retired Captain<br />
Safdar, Sheikh Aftab and<br />
another senator on the pretext<br />
of development.<br />
When asked over the<br />
prospect of Shahbaz Sharif<br />
becoming the next prime<br />
minister, Qadri said that both<br />
brothers were ‘two face of<br />
same body’ will not affect<br />
the reign of corruption and<br />
dynastic politics, and the<br />
nation will suffer.<br />
He said that the real case<br />
against Shahbaz Sharif is the<br />
Model Town incident and it<br />
is unfathomable to think that<br />
someone other than the<br />
Punjab chief minister could<br />
be behind such a large scale<br />
operation.<br />
Imran asks Ali Zaidi to<br />
Govt to introduce modernization standby with farmers<br />
against sugar mafia<br />
in aviation sector: Mehtab<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Cold-dry weather forecast<br />
in country’s most parts<br />
MURREE: A view of snow covered Queen of the Hills.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Mainly<br />
cold and dry weather is<br />
expected in most parts of<br />
the country. However,<br />
dense foggy conditions are<br />
likely over plain areas of<br />
Punjab and upper Sindh<br />
during morning hours, Met<br />
office said on Thursday.<br />
Dense foggy conditions<br />
are likely to prevail over<br />
upper and central parts of<br />
the province during morning<br />
and night hours. People<br />
make care while traveling<br />
during these hours. During<br />
the last 24 hours, weather<br />
remained cold and dry in<br />
the province. A shallow<br />
westerly wave is still<br />
affecting northern parts of<br />
the country and may persist<br />
next 24 hours. Today's lowest<br />
minimum temperatures<br />
is: Kalat , Malamjabba -<br />
05°C, Astore - 04°C,<br />
Quetta, Skardu -03°C.<br />
During the last 24 hours,<br />
weather remained cold and<br />
dry in most parts of the<br />
country. However, rainthunderstorm<br />
with snowfall<br />
over the hills occurred at<br />
scattered places in Kashmir<br />
and Gilgit-Baltistan, while<br />
at isolated places in<br />
Malakand division.<br />
The rainfall in milimeters<br />
during the last 24<br />
hours was as KP: Kalam<br />
12, Malamjabba 02,<br />
Gilgit-Baltistan: Bagrote<br />
08, Gilgit 04, Gupis 02,<br />
Chillas 01, Kashmir;<br />
Garidupatta 01.<br />
Pakistan committed to<br />
achieve energy security<br />
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate<br />
Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan has<br />
said that Pakistan is committed to achieve<br />
energy security.<br />
Addressing a workshop on carbon pricing<br />
in Islamabad on Thursday, he said Pakistan<br />
has less than one percent share in global carbon<br />
emission but this share is expected to<br />
increase considerably as the country climbs<br />
over the development.<br />
The Minister said besides following an<br />
ambitious plan to develop its energy sector,<br />
climate change has been recognized as a core<br />
component of the economic growth model<br />
which is linked to development and well<br />
being of the population.<br />
He said introducing instruments like carbon<br />
pricing can greatly developing countries<br />
like Pakistan to develop in a more sustainable<br />
and responsible way.<br />
Pakistan to release<br />
291 Indian fishermen<br />
in two phases<br />
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan<br />
has decided to release two<br />
hundred and ninety one<br />
Indian fishermen in two<br />
phases on humanitarian<br />
grounds.<br />
This was stated by<br />
Foreign Office Spokesperson<br />
Dr Muhammad Faisal at his<br />
weekly news briefing here on<br />
Thursday. He said the fishermen<br />
will be released in the<br />
first phase on 29th of this<br />
month and on 8th of next<br />
month.<br />
He reiterated Pakistan's<br />
belief that humanitarian<br />
issues should be facilitated<br />
instead of being politicized.<br />
The Spokesperson said that<br />
visas have been issued to the<br />
wife and mother of convicted<br />
RAW agent Kulbhushan<br />
Jadhav and their meeting<br />
would take place in<br />
Islamabad. Highlighting<br />
Pakistan's role in reconstruction<br />
activities in Afghanistan,<br />
the Spokesperson said that<br />
Pakistan has established three<br />
tertiary care hospitals in three<br />
different cities of that country.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Speaker<br />
National Assembly<br />
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has<br />
said that Pakistan values<br />
its relations with brotherly<br />
Islamic country of<br />
Oman.<br />
He was talking to<br />
ambassador of Oman Al-<br />
Sheikh Muhammad Umar<br />
Ahmad Al-Marhoon, who<br />
called on him here on<br />
Thursday.<br />
Ayaz Sadiq said<br />
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<br />
(PTI) Chairman Imran<br />
Khan telephoned Ali<br />
Zaidi, asking him to<br />
standby with farmers in<br />
fight against sugar mafia.<br />
Following the telephonic<br />
conversation with<br />
Imran Khan, Ali Zaidi<br />
held a meeting with Sindh<br />
Chamber of Agriculture<br />
Qabool Muhammad<br />
Khatian and supported his<br />
demand of selling sugarcane<br />
on government rates.<br />
Ali Zaidi said that Asif<br />
Ali Zardari is head of<br />
sugar mafia in Sindh and<br />
he is the biggest hurdle in<br />
payment of sugarcane<br />
prize fixed by the government.<br />
According to him<br />
Sindh government fixed<br />
the price of 182 rs for 40<br />
KG sugarcane while<br />
farmers are forced to sell<br />
it at Rs 130 per 40 KG.<br />
He warned that the<br />
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<br />
(PTI wouldn’t allow<br />
sugar mafia under Asif<br />
Ali Zardari to exploit<br />
poor farmers, saying they<br />
would support farmers for<br />
their right demands. He<br />
said they would come on<br />
roads if less payment was<br />
made to farmers.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman<br />
Mian Raza Rabbani on Wed criticised<br />
lawmakers for allegedly leaking details<br />
of in-camera briefing by Army Chief<br />
Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on<br />
Wednesday, saying they had violated<br />
the sanctity of upper house by doing so.<br />
Taking notice of the details from the<br />
session being made public, Rabbani<br />
Passing of Delimitation<br />
bill ensures timely polls<br />
ISLAMABAD: Minister for<br />
Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique has<br />
said that he passing of delimitation bill<br />
from Senate has removed the speculations<br />
about delay in general elections in<br />
the country.<br />
Talking to a private news channel, he<br />
said the credit of delimitation bill<br />
LAHORE: Pakistani<br />
diva, Mahira Khan rang in<br />
her 33rd year today by cutting<br />
a cake with her eightyear-old<br />
son.<br />
A video was released on<br />
Instagram which showed the<br />
actress cut a large, white<br />
cake while her son jumped<br />
around in excitement and<br />
blew out the candles on the<br />
cake.<br />
Khan also received some<br />
birthday love from across<br />
the border with Farhan<br />
Akhtar and Raees director<br />
Rahul Dholakia wishing her.<br />
At a recent event, Khan<br />
said that she plans to work<br />
less next year and will be<br />
taking a short break. While<br />
this is disappointing for her<br />
fans, we hope that she<br />
achieves what she is set out<br />
to.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> has been an interesting<br />
year for the starlet.<br />
She made her Bollywood<br />
debut opposite King Khan in<br />
the film Raees which was a<br />
box-office success and the<br />
star managed to steal hearts<br />
across the border despite<br />
opposition from Hindu<br />
nationalists. She was then<br />
embroiled in a controversy<br />
with Ranbir Kapoor when<br />
pictures of her surfaced in<br />
which was seen wearing a<br />
short, white dress and smoking<br />
with the Bollywood<br />
actor. The pictures not only<br />
sparked rumours that the<br />
two were involved in a relationship<br />
but also had the<br />
morality brigade point bash<br />
Khan for her choices and<br />
decisions.<br />
However, on the flip side,<br />
Khan was announced the<br />
through a constitutional amendment go<br />
to all political parties which ensured<br />
conducting elections in time.<br />
Rejecting the notion of early general<br />
elections in the country, he said the<br />
present government would complete its<br />
constitutional tenure and general elections<br />
will be held next year.<br />
Mahira Khan celebrates 33rd birthday<br />
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party<br />
(PPP) Parliamentary leader Syed Naveed<br />
Qamar has said in National Assembly (NA)<br />
that it is shameful that FATAreforms bill has<br />
not included in today’s business.<br />
He said opposition wanted that woes of<br />
people of FATA who are suffering from<br />
sense of deprivation should be allayed by<br />
approving FATA reforms bill on priority<br />
basis. However government is not paying<br />
due attention to problems facing the people<br />
of FATA. Resolution of problems of<br />
FAT is right of people.<br />
brand ambassador for Loreal<br />
Pakistan which immediately<br />
put her in the league of<br />
Bollywood divas like<br />
Aishwarya Rai and Sonam<br />
Kapoor.<br />
Govt will not allow any one to steal the credit<br />
of FATA Reform Bill: Minister for SAFRON<br />
said Rule <strong>22</strong>5 prohibits the publicity of<br />
an in-camera session.<br />
"If we keep up with the same attitude,<br />
no one will be able to take the<br />
house into confidence," the chairman<br />
said, adding that senators should know<br />
that in-camera sessions are not spoken<br />
about in the public. For allegedly<br />
breaching the privilege of the Senate,<br />
Government has time for Faizabad<br />
Dharna or any other issue but it has no time<br />
for people of FATA, he added.<br />
Is government waiting for such a situation<br />
that it may be isolated once again ? he<br />
questioned. Opposition walked out of NA<br />
session against such behavior of government.<br />
Reacting to Opposition walk out<br />
Federal Minister Safron Abdul Qadir said<br />
that Today’s on what bill, opposition is<br />
doing politics is actually the property of<br />
government and government has brought<br />
the bill in the house. Consultation process is<br />
underway on FATAreform bill. Government<br />
wants which bill is passed here should be<br />
accepted at national level, he added.<br />
He further added that government will<br />
not allow any one to steal the credit of FATA<br />
reforms bill.<br />
Later, the opposition staged a walk-out to<br />
record their protest. PPP MNA Ramesh Lal<br />
pointed out the quorum and the Speaker suspended<br />
proceedings of the House till completion<br />
of the same.<br />
Upon not finding the House in order,<br />
Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi read<br />
out the prorogation order.<br />
Leaking of details from army chief's<br />
in-camera briefing angers Rabbani<br />
Rabbani forwarded the matter to the<br />
House Business Advisory Committee.<br />
Rabbani tasked the committee,<br />
which will include leaders of the house<br />
and opposition in Senate and parliamentary<br />
leaders of all political parties,<br />
to investigate the matter and devise a<br />
strategy for future in-camera sessions to<br />
prevent similar situations.<br />
Pakistan wants to promote cooperation with<br />
Oman in diverse sectors: NA Speaker<br />
ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman Al Sheikh Mohammad Omar Ahmed<br />
Al Marhoon called on Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in Parliament House.<br />
Pakistan is desirous of<br />
strengthening parliamentary<br />
ties with all the<br />
friendly countries. He<br />
said Pakistan wants to<br />
promote cooperation with<br />
Oman in regional development<br />
and other important<br />
sectors.<br />
The Omani ambassador<br />
said his country<br />
wants to enhance parliamentary<br />
contacts with<br />
Pakistan.<br />
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