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Metropolitan:<br />

Man killed in<br />

crossfire between<br />

police and suspected<br />

robbers in Karachi<br />

Page 2<br />

National:<br />

Sialvi warns to<br />

shut Punjab if<br />

Sharia not<br />

imposed in 7 days<br />

Page 3<br />

International:<br />

US government<br />

shuts down as<br />

Trump feuds<br />

with Democrats<br />

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KARACHI EDITION – Sunday, Jaunary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong>, Jumada-al-Awwal 3, 1439 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />

Pakistan<br />

needs honest<br />

leadership: CJP<br />

Judiciary is independent, will not let democracy<br />

get derailed says Mian Saqib Nisar<br />

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'Sharif mafia'<br />

destroying moral<br />

values of youth: Imran<br />

ISLAMABAD: PTI<br />

Chairman Imran Khan<br />

on Saturday took a jibe at<br />

the Sharif family, alleging<br />

that it was destroying<br />

the moral values of the<br />

country's youth.<br />

"Shameful! In no<br />

democracy in the world<br />

wld [would] this be<br />

acceptable: A disqualified<br />

money launderer's<br />

face on a govt health<br />

card! Apart from using<br />

taxpayer money to<br />

project criminals,<br />

Sharif mafia destroying<br />

moral values of our<br />

youth:As if nothing<br />

wrong with corruption/money<br />

laundering,"<br />

Imran tweeted.<br />

Soon after Imran took<br />

to twitter to object to the<br />

placement of the former<br />

prime minister's picture<br />

on government-issued<br />

health cards, Maryam hit<br />

back at the PTI chief,<br />

stating he was destined to<br />

complain and be afraid.<br />

Two jailed over<br />

sexually assaulting<br />

minor in Karachi<br />

KARACHI: A local<br />

court in Karachi sent<br />

two criminals to jail for<br />

sexually attacking a deaf<br />

and mute girl here on<br />

Saturday.<br />

According to details,<br />

a court in Malir district<br />

of Karachi handed 22-<br />

year jail sentence to<br />

Sajid and Muneer over<br />

gang raping a disabled<br />

child. Sajid and Muneer<br />

had raped the child after<br />

kidnapping her from<br />

Sachchal area of the<br />

metropolis.<br />

It is pertinent to mention<br />

that the whole country<br />

was left shocked by<br />

the brutal rape and murder<br />

of seven-year old<br />

Zainab Ansari in Kasur.<br />

Rulers’ politics is to<br />

protect feudal lords'<br />

interests: Siraj<br />

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-<br />

Islami chief Senator<br />

Sirajul Haq on Saturday<br />

said that the sole objective<br />

of the rulers’ politics was<br />

to protect the interests of<br />

the feudal lords and they<br />

had least respect for the<br />

constitution and the law.<br />

He said this while<br />

addressing the advisory<br />

council of the JI Lahore<br />

at a local hotel. The<br />

meeting was attended by<br />

JI deputy Secretary<br />

General, Azhar Iqbal<br />

Hasan, JI Lahore chief,<br />

Zikrullah Mujahid and JI<br />

Information Secretary<br />

Amirul Azeem.<br />

LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan,<br />

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar addresses during<br />

seminar on Bar and Bench Two Wheels<br />

Same Chariot held at Al-Hamra Hall.<br />

LAHORE: Chief Justice Mian Saqib<br />

Nisar on Saturday said an honest leadership<br />

can change the fate of the people. He<br />

added that the country needed an honest<br />

leadership, education and a strong judicial<br />

system. Addressing a seminar in Lahore,<br />

he said that the judiciary in the country is<br />

completely independent and the nation<br />

should be proud of it.<br />

Praising the apex court’s bench Justice<br />

Nisar said all judges were capable and an<br />

epitome of honesty.<br />

He also said that judges have no right to<br />

make decisions based on their own likes<br />

and dislikes, and are bound by law to make<br />

independent decisions.<br />

"If anyone thinks that being a judge is a<br />

paid vacation, they should think again.<br />

Every judge has the responsibility of dispensing<br />

justice to the people. We are<br />

answerable for the work we do here. If<br />

judges cannot dispense what is required of<br />

them and give justice according to law,<br />

then they should retire," he said.<br />

The judiciary may be considered a<br />

watchdog according to modern jurisprudence,<br />

which helps citizens in getting their<br />

rights, the chief justice added.<br />

He also vowed that the judiciary will<br />

not let democracy to be violated. The<br />

country will continue to see rule of law<br />

and constitution, he said.<br />

Turning to lawyers, the chief justice<br />

asked the bar and the lawyer community to<br />

strictly avoid engaging in vandalism.<br />

Commenting on contempt of court<br />

notices, he said that the Supreme Court<br />

seldom try people for contempt despite<br />

being criticised so much.<br />

Justice Nisar said the same while<br />

addressing the 3rd Sindh Judicial<br />

Conference in Karachi on <strong>Jan</strong>uary 13,<br />

when he also stated that judges had the<br />

responsibility to provide justice on time<br />

and in accordance with the law.<br />

He said they are to provide justice<br />

based on law and not on choices.<br />

He said at the conference that, unfortunately,<br />

the orders being announced at present,<br />

they are based on choices, instead of<br />

the law. "We accept the supremacy of the<br />

Parliament, and it is very important in a<br />

democracy that institutions do not<br />

encroach upon each others' jurisdiction.<br />

But has the parliament updated these laws.<br />

This is a question I can't answer," he said<br />

the conference.<br />

He said that the judiciary is often<br />

blamed for delay in cases but there is more<br />

to the issue. Judges, whether of the apex<br />

court of lower courts, have a lot of cases<br />

pending before them, which makes it<br />

extremely difficult to resolve them on time.<br />

People have rejected politics of<br />

agitation, says Nawaz Sharif<br />

Conspirators to renew election rigging allegations<br />

after flop show, says Maryam<br />

HARIPUR: A helicopter showering rose petals during PML-N public meeting at Curtis Ground.<br />

HARIPUR: Former assembly to come into cannot cast votes.<br />

Prime Minister Nawaz power.<br />

Maryam said the entire<br />

Sharif on Saturday said the “I salute to those judges team of conspirators was<br />

masses have rejected the who declared this man failed to take out the masses<br />

politics of agitation and<br />

division as his opponents<br />

have recently been failed to<br />

gather a crowd in grand<br />

protest.<br />

[Imran Khan] Sadiq and<br />

Ameen [honest and truthful]<br />

despite he admitted to<br />

own an offshore company,”<br />

Sharif said.<br />

in a recently held protest<br />

in Lahore. “What the opponents<br />

make you to recall,”<br />

she posed a question to the<br />

crowd.<br />

Addressing a public Taking credit for undertaking<br />

“They remind us their<br />

rally here, Sharif said the<br />

countrywide proj-<br />

hue and cry over their fail-<br />

opponents have been ects, Sharif said Imran ure to garner support from<br />

indulged in politics of allegations.<br />

Khan couldn’t name a single<br />

project which has been<br />

the masses,” she said in<br />

response.<br />

“People have rejected completed in Khyber Taking a jibe at opponents,<br />

the politics of agitation,”<br />

he thundered while referring<br />

Pakhtunkhwa (KP).<br />

“What has he done for she said the allega-<br />

tions of rigging in the elec-<br />

to Lahore grand you?” he asked the crowd. tions must not be levelled<br />

protest. He said the opposition<br />

parties were completely<br />

Taking a jibe at opposition<br />

parties and referring to<br />

as ‘vacant seats’ couldn’t<br />

cast votes.<br />

failed in their recent the Lahore protest, former Enumerating country-<br />

show three days ago. Prime Minister Nawaz wide projects, Maryam<br />

Alluding to PTI chairman<br />

Sharif’s daughter Maryam said a triumph of Pakistan<br />

Imran Khan, Sharif Nawaz said the opposition Muslim League-Nawaz<br />

said that the people who parties are to complain (PML-N) in next General<br />

are cursing parliament are again about rigging in Elections is certain after<br />

one having a desire to upcoming General undertaking number of<br />

make a majority in the Elections as ‘vacant seats’ development projects.<br />

HUB: Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari waves hand to his supporters during public gathering<br />

meeting held at Jam Ghulam Qadir Stadium.<br />

PML-N tried to make CPEC a<br />

controversial issue: Bilawal<br />

Bilawal Bhutto blames PML-N to deprive Balochistan rights<br />

Zohaib Khan<br />

HUB: Chairman<br />

lic rally at the Jam Qadir<br />

Stadium in Balochistan's<br />

Pakistan People's Party Hub city on Saturday,<br />

(PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said<br />

Zardari claimed that the ruling<br />

that the whole nation knows<br />

PML-N tried to make who brought CPEC to<br />

China Pakistan Economic<br />

Corridor (CPEC) a controversial<br />

Pakistan.<br />

During his speach<br />

issue.<br />

Bilawal criticised the ruling<br />

“All political parties party, he said the PML-N is<br />

were responsible for the<br />

worst Balochistan who were<br />

enjoying with ruling government,”<br />

he claimed<br />

Addressing a big power<br />

show through gigantic pub-<br />

trying to take undue credit<br />

for the CPEC project adding<br />

that government is using<br />

CPEC for its own personal<br />

and political gains and hold<br />

responsible all ruling parties<br />

Naqeebullah killing<br />

Rao Anwar<br />

removed from post,<br />

placed on ECL<br />

KARACHI: Hours<br />

after a three-member<br />

probe committee tasked<br />

with probing the killing of<br />

Naqeebullah Mehsood in<br />

a police encounter submitted<br />

its report to the Sindh<br />

IGP, SSP Malir Rao was<br />

removed from his post.<br />

The Sindh government<br />

has issued notification for<br />

the removal of Anwar,<br />

giving the charge of Malir<br />

SSP to Adeel Chandio.<br />

According to media<br />

reports, the government<br />

has also put the officer on<br />

the Exit Control List<br />

(ECL). The people on the<br />

ECL are prohibited from<br />

leaving the country.<br />

The committee submitted<br />

its initial report to<br />

IG Sindh last night,<br />

declaring the deceased<br />

innocent, the TV channel<br />

reported citing unnamed<br />

sources.<br />

The probe committee,<br />

headed by Counter<br />

Terrorism Department<br />

(CTD) Additional IG<br />

Sanaullah Abbasi, has<br />

termed SSP Rao Anwar’s<br />

allegations against<br />

Naqeebullah baseless,<br />

adding that no such evidence<br />

has been found that<br />

the deceased had affiliation<br />

with any terrorist<br />

group or proscribed outfit.<br />

It is learnt that the committee<br />

in its report has also<br />

recommended registering<br />

a case against SSP Malir<br />

Rao Anwar and other<br />

security personnel<br />

involved in extra judicial<br />

killing of Naqeebullah that<br />

sparked countrywide<br />

protests.<br />

WASHINGTON: Defense<br />

Secretary Jim Mattis said<br />

Friday that America is facing<br />

growing threats from China<br />

and Russia, and warned that<br />

the US military´s advantages<br />

have eroded in recent years.<br />

Mattis´s assessment<br />

came as he unveiled the<br />

Pentagon´s vision for the<br />

future detailed in a document<br />

called the national<br />

defense strategy.<br />

"We face growing<br />

threats from revisionist<br />

powers as different as<br />

China and Russia,<br />

nations that seek to create<br />

a world consistent<br />

with their authoritarian<br />

models," Mattis said.<br />

"Our military is still<br />

strong, yet our competitive<br />

edge has eroded in<br />

every domain of warfare<br />

-- air, land, sea,<br />

for the worst condition of<br />

Balochistan.<br />

“If PML-N brought<br />

CPEC so why didn’t have<br />

the people of Gwadar access<br />

to clean drinking water until<br />

now,” Bilawal asked<br />

The PPP chairman said<br />

that Former president Asif<br />

Ali Zardari signed the<br />

CPEC project in the presence<br />

of the Chinese president<br />

in the President House<br />

in 2013.<br />

The PPP chairman stated<br />

that he knows that the people<br />

of Balochistan were not<br />

treated well. He said that the<br />

Baloch people were not<br />

given their rights and were<br />

not promoted.<br />

“PML-N government<br />

did not treat Balochistan any<br />

better than a colony,” he<br />

said.<br />

The People's Party chief<br />

said that no one can separate<br />

Balochistan from Pakistan.<br />

"They will keep killing us<br />

and we will keep saying<br />

Jeevay Jeevay Pakistan," he<br />

added<br />

Mattis warns of ‘growing<br />

threats’ from Russia, China<br />

Pakistan's enemies' conspiracies<br />

will always fail: Air Chief<br />

Air chief pays glowing tribute to renowned war veteran Sattar Alvi<br />

KARACHI: Chief of the<br />

Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal<br />

Sohail Aman Saturday said<br />

Pakistan’s enemies were<br />

joining hands<br />

together in hatching conspiracies<br />

against it but they<br />

would always fail.<br />

“This is the ideological<br />

state made in the name of<br />

Allah and nobody dare to<br />

cast an evil eye on it,”<br />

according to a press release<br />

issued here by the Media<br />

Affairs Directorate of PAF,<br />

the Air Chief said stated this<br />

while addressing a unique<br />

ceremony held at PAF<br />

Museum, Karachi to pay<br />

tribute to Air Commodore<br />

Sattar Alvi (Retd), a<br />

renowned war veteran of<br />

1974 Arab Israel war.<br />

Alvi had shot down an<br />

Israeli Air Force Mirage aircraft<br />

during an aerial combat<br />

in Syria. In the ceremony he<br />

presented flying coverall<br />

(suit) of deceased Israeli pilot<br />

(Capt Lutz) to PAF Museum.<br />

The air chief said, “The PAF<br />

together with sister services<br />

and the nation would thwart<br />

their nefarious designs and<br />

they would meet the same<br />

fate as always, Insha Allah.”<br />

KARACHI: Air Commodore (retd) Sattar Alivi presenting<br />

Israeli pilot’s coverall as War Trophy to Chief of the Air<br />

Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman.<br />

space and cyberspace --<br />

and is continually eroding,"<br />

he added.<br />

President Donald<br />

Trump and his administration<br />

worry that the<br />

vast US military force is<br />

feeling the effects of<br />

years of budget shortfalls<br />

and atrophy, and<br />

needs a full reboot to<br />

restore it to an idealized<br />

strength.<br />

Pakistan raises<br />

Kulbhushan<br />

Jadhav's case in<br />

UNSC debate<br />

NEW YORK: Pakistan<br />

raised the issue of Indian<br />

spy Kulbhushan Jadhav in<br />

the UN Security Council.<br />

Hitting back at countries<br />

alleging that safe<br />

havens for terrorists are<br />

present in Pakistan,<br />

Permanent Representative<br />

of Pakistan to the UN<br />

Maleeha Lodhi remarked:<br />

“indeed, with its safe<br />

havens inside the country<br />

and income from the narcotics<br />

trade, the insurgency<br />

doesn't really need<br />

any outside assistance or<br />

support centres to sustain<br />

itself.”<br />

She remarked that<br />

Afghanistan and its partners,<br />

especially the United<br />

States, need to address the<br />

challenges inside<br />

Afghanistan. It is better to<br />

focus on the challenges<br />

inside Afghanistan “rather<br />

than shift the owners for<br />

ending the conflict onto<br />

others,” she said.<br />

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Sunday, <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

Metropolitan<br />

Family demands justice<br />

Man killed in crossfire between police<br />

and suspected robbers in Karachi<br />

KARACHI: A man travelling<br />

in a rickshaw lost his<br />

life after being injured in a<br />

crossfire between police<br />

and suspected robbers on<br />

Karachi's Sharea Faisal on<br />

Saturday, police said.<br />

A group in a white<br />

Toyota Corolla had been<br />

involved in robbing commuters<br />

from the airport for<br />

the past few months by pretending<br />

to be police officials,<br />

Station House Officer<br />

(SHO) Ali Hassan told<br />

reporters.<br />

When a police party<br />

intercepted them on<br />

Saturday morning, they<br />

attempted to escape in a<br />

rickshaw being driven by a<br />

certain Abdul Rauf, who<br />

was accompanied by his<br />

friend Maqsood.<br />

Rauf, Maqsood and two<br />

allegedly fleeing robbers<br />

were injured in the crossfire<br />

while one suspected robber<br />

managed to escape.<br />

KARACHI: Sindh<br />

police on Saturday<br />

appointed Adeel Hussain<br />

Chandio, an officer of<br />

Police Service of Pakistan<br />

(BS-18), as SSP District<br />

Malir in place of Rao<br />

Anwar.<br />

Sheeraz Nazeer, an officer<br />

of Police Service of<br />

Pakistan (BS-19), Senior<br />

Superintendent of Police<br />

District, Qambar-<br />

KARACHI: Car of the person killed in alleged police encounter at the site of incident<br />

at Shahrah e Faisal.<br />

The injured were taken<br />

to Jinnah Postgraduate<br />

Medical Complex (JPMC)<br />

where Maqsood succumbed<br />

to his injuries, the<br />

SHO said, adding that the<br />

two robbers have been<br />

arrested. An eyewitness to<br />

the incident said he too was<br />

Shahdadkot range has<br />

been transferred and posted<br />

as SSP District city<br />

Karachi range in place of<br />

Chandio.<br />

Dr. Assad Ijaz Malhi, an<br />

officer of Police Service of<br />

Pakistan (BS-18), Senior<br />

Superintendent of Police<br />

Clifton Division, South<br />

Zone, Karachi has been<br />

transferred and posted as<br />

Superintendent of Police<br />

KARACHI: The<br />

Chinese team of Doctors<br />

& support staff successfully<br />

completed the free<br />

eye surgeries of poor and<br />

needy patients from 9-<br />

19th <strong>Jan</strong>uary, <strong>2018</strong> at<br />

Pakistan Eye Bank<br />

Society Hospital North<br />

Karachi. The project is a<br />

part of Pak-China Medical<br />

Corridor organized by<br />

PMA & CMA.<br />

The team headed by<br />

Prof. Li Zhaohui of PLAG<br />

hospital Beijing China,<br />

arrived at Karachi on 7th<br />

of <strong>Jan</strong>uary along with<br />

Equipments, IOLs and<br />

medicines to be provided<br />

free to poor patients.<br />

The Project Bright<br />

Journey Pakistan is totally<br />

funded & financed by Life<br />

Line Express China,<br />

PEBS hospital provided<br />

logistic support services<br />

to the team and conducted<br />

free eye camps last<br />

month for the screening &<br />

registration of patients.<br />

Pre-op & post- op care<br />

were also be provided by<br />

the hospital. A total of 531<br />

Cataract patients were<br />

operated during the Eye<br />

camp. The concluding ceremony<br />

was held at PEBS<br />

on 19th of <strong>Jan</strong>uary<strong>2018</strong>.<br />

Those who spoke on<br />

the occasion include;<br />

Dr Sikandar Mandhro,<br />

Minister of Health<br />

Governmet of Sind.<br />

Mr Naveed Kamran<br />

Baloch Federal Secretary<br />

of Health Government of<br />

Pakistan. H.E. Mr. Yao<br />

Jing, the Ambassador<br />

P.R.China in Pakistan<br />

Ms Le Aimi, Honorary<br />

Poverty Alleviation Work,<br />

Ambassador of Ministry<br />

of Foreign Affairs. P.R<br />

in the rickshaw, besides<br />

Rauf and Maqsood, when<br />

the shootout happened.<br />

Narrating his version of<br />

events, the eyewitness said<br />

the trio were travelling in<br />

the rickshaw when two<br />

men tried to stop them and<br />

opened fire upon their<br />

District Qambar-<br />

Shahdadkot in place<br />

Nazeer.<br />

Abid Hussain<br />

Qaimkhani, an officer of<br />

Police Service of Pakistan<br />

(BS-18), ADIGP (ADMN)<br />

training Sindh Karachi,<br />

has been transferred and<br />

posted as Superintendent<br />

of Police Investigation-II<br />

East Zone Karachi against<br />

an existing vacancy.<br />

refusal to stop. He said he<br />

heard another burst of fire<br />

and the rickshaw then toppled.<br />

After being pulled out<br />

from the rickshaw, the eyewitness<br />

said he saw that the<br />

other men had been injured<br />

in the gunfire.<br />

SHO Hassan said that<br />

Chandio appointed as SSP Malir vice Rao Anwar<br />

KARACHI; Members of All Paramedical Staff Korangi NO:05 Hospital are holding<br />

protest demonstration for acceptance of their demands, at Karachi press club.<br />

MAJU Prof honoured<br />

KARACHI: Pakistan<br />

Council of Science &<br />

Technology (PCST) has<br />

published its new directory<br />

of “Productive Scientists of<br />

Pakistan-2017” (PSP)<br />

recently. Director (ORIC)<br />

and Assistant Professor of<br />

Electrical Engineering<br />

Department, Dr.Kashif<br />

Ishaque has secured number<br />

one position in Engineering<br />

Sciences category in this<br />

directory. Earlier the name<br />

of Dean, Faculty of Life<br />

Sciences, MAJU Dr<br />

Kamran Azim had also<br />

included in PCST directory.<br />

It may be mentioned here<br />

that the quality research<br />

contribution of scientists,<br />

including academicians,<br />

engineers and doctors of the<br />

country, particularly those<br />

involved in the production<br />

of new knowledge is regularly<br />

evaluated and ranked<br />

by PCST. It is further mentioned<br />

here that PCST has<br />

already published 8 directories<br />

on the subject of<br />

“Productive Scientists of<br />

Pakistan “in the last twenty<br />

years.<br />

This is the ninth study<br />

carried out and it include<br />

the data of 4154 scientists<br />

of Pakistan employed in<br />

public and private sectors<br />

universities, colleges and<br />

Research & Development<br />

(R&D) organizations who<br />

have contributed in scientific<br />

research from beginning<br />

of career up to 2016. It<br />

incorporates a wide range<br />

of indicators of for assessment<br />

of both quantity and<br />

quality of research and its<br />

impact. The Evaluation is<br />

done on the basis of criteria,<br />

which has been developed<br />

and approved by a high<br />

level committee in the year<br />

2017. Meanwhile,<br />

President, MAJU Prof. Dr.<br />

Zubair Shaikh has<br />

expressed his satisfaction<br />

over the inclusion of two<br />

academicians of the<br />

University and hoped that<br />

in future more faculty members<br />

of MAJU will be<br />

included in this directory on<br />

the basis of their quality<br />

research work.<br />

These transfers came<br />

after Inspector General of<br />

Police (IGP) Sindh AD<br />

Khowaja on Saturday<br />

removed top police officer<br />

Rao Anwar from the post<br />

of SSP Malir in view of the<br />

Sindh police's initial<br />

inquiry committee report<br />

that found Naqeebullah<br />

Mehsud as an innocent,<br />

who was killed in a police<br />

encounter.<br />

SHC says Sessions<br />

Judge can head<br />

judicial inquiry into<br />

Intezar murder<br />

KARACHI: Declining<br />

the Sindh government<br />

request to nominate a sitting<br />

judge to head the<br />

judicial inquiry into the<br />

murder of a 19-year old<br />

Intizar Ahmed, the Sindh<br />

High Court (SHC) on<br />

Saturday observed that<br />

the Sessions Judge could<br />

be approached in this<br />

regard.<br />

In its response to home<br />

department’s letter seeking<br />

that the judicial inquiry<br />

into the murder of Intezar,<br />

who was shot dead by Anti<br />

Car Lifting Cell (ACLC)<br />

personnel on <strong>Jan</strong>uary 14,<br />

be headed by a high court<br />

judge, the SHC said that a<br />

Sessions Judge was fully<br />

authorized to conduct the<br />

inquiry into the same<br />

offence.<br />

“As per policy made in<br />

2005, the Sessions Judge<br />

can carry out the judicial<br />

inquiry or nominate the<br />

Additional Sessions Judge<br />

for this purpose,” the reply<br />

added. The high court<br />

asked the home department<br />

to approach the relevant<br />

Sessions Judge in this<br />

regard.<br />

the arrested suspects had<br />

been involved in robberies<br />

in Bahadurabad and New<br />

Town areas yesterday and<br />

one of their victims has<br />

identified one of the injured<br />

robbers.<br />

He added that a fake<br />

walkie-talkie, police uniforms,<br />

a fake number plate,<br />

a pistol and an SMG rifle<br />

have been recovered from<br />

the car.<br />

The suspected robbers<br />

were identified as Babar<br />

and Ali while their accomplice<br />

Arfeen is still at large,<br />

Senior Superintendent<br />

Police (SSP) East Dr<br />

Samiullah Soomro said.<br />

He said that the robbers<br />

who hail from Lahore have<br />

confessed to their crimes.<br />

The police are searching<br />

for the escaped individual<br />

while Sindh Inspector<br />

General A.D. Khowaja has<br />

announced Rs200,000<br />

reward for the police party.<br />

Rangers recover<br />

arms from<br />

Kawari Colony<br />

KARACHI: Sindh<br />

Rangers on Saturday<br />

claimed to have recovered<br />

arms from underground area<br />

near sewerage line in SITE<br />

area of the city.<br />

According to rangers’<br />

spokesman, on an intelligence<br />

report, that some miscreants<br />

had hidden arms and ammunition<br />

underground near a<br />

sewerage drain in Kawari<br />

Colony for disturbing law &<br />

order situation in city, a<br />

rangers’ team conducted a<br />

raid in area. They recovered<br />

two hand grenades, a 222-<br />

bore rifle, a 30-bore mauser,<br />

a30-bore pistol, a magazine<br />

222-bore riffle, amagazine<br />

30-bore mauser, nine magazine<br />

99MM pistol, and 37<br />

different types of rounds.<br />

CM, Home Minister Sindh should be<br />

brought to dock in Naqeebullah extra<br />

judicial killing case: Farooq Sattar<br />

KARACH: Muttahida<br />

Qaumi Movement-Pakistan<br />

(MQM-P) leader Farooq<br />

Sattar has said that<br />

Naqeeullah extra-judicial<br />

killing issue will not stand<br />

resolved by shifting the<br />

responsibility to Rao Anwar<br />

but CM Sindh and home<br />

minister should also be<br />

brought to dock.<br />

He said this while talking<br />

to media men here<br />

Saturday after his appearance<br />

in Anti Terrorism<br />

Court (ATC) Saturday.<br />

MQM had demanded<br />

Karachi operation , he said<br />

adding we have rendered<br />

such unprecedented sacrifice<br />

for establishment of<br />

peace in Karachi.<br />

He said the cases registered<br />

against us are false<br />

Bright Journey Pakistan<br />

Chinese doctors successfully conduct over 500 eye surgeries<br />

KARACHI: A group photograph of Sindh Minister of Health Dr. Sikandar Mandhro,<br />

Federal Secretary of Health Naveed Kamran Baloch, Chinese Ambassador Mr. Yao Jing,<br />

President PEBS Qazi Sajid Ali, Ms. Le Aimi Ambassador of ministry of foreign affairs<br />

P.R China, Mrs. Fong Wong Founding Chairman lifeline express Hong Kong, Acting<br />

Consul General of China in Karachi Mr. Chen Xiaodong, Akhtar Jamal VP PEBS, Dr.<br />

Qazi Wasif with head of the Chinese Eye Surgeons Dr. Li Zhaohui and others on the<br />

occasion of the concluding ceremony of Bright Journey Pakistan Free Eye Surgeons<br />

Camp, operated 531 patients at PEBS .<br />

KARACHI: President<br />

MamnoonHussain inaugurated<br />

newly constructed<br />

building of Anjuman-e-<br />

Taraqqi-e-Urdu “Urdu<br />

Bagh” in Karachi on<br />

Saturday.<br />

Addressing ceremony<br />

on the occasion, he said as<br />

Urdu is a national language<br />

therefore everyone<br />

PTI demands registration of murder<br />

cases against Rao Anwar, his team<br />

KARACHI: Suspension<br />

of ‘encounter specialist’<br />

Rao Anwar was not enough<br />

and the government should<br />

lodge murder cases against<br />

him and his team so that<br />

justice could be doled out to<br />

the bereaved families<br />

whose loved ones were<br />

killed in ‘fake encounters’.<br />

This was said by<br />

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf<br />

(PTI) leader Haleem Adil<br />

Sheikh here on Saturday<br />

while addressing a protest<br />

rally held against the extrajudicial<br />

killing of<br />

Naqeebullah Mahsud. The<br />

rally marched from<br />

Dawood Chowrangi to the<br />

DC Office Quaidabad in<br />

which the angry protesters<br />

chanted slogans against the<br />

government and suspended<br />

SSP Malir.<br />

China.<br />

Mrs. FONG WONG,<br />

Founding Chairman<br />

Lifeline Express Hong<br />

Kong, Dr Ashraf Nizami,<br />

President PMA Dr Qaisar<br />

Sajjad, Secretary General<br />

PMA Mr Qazi Sajid Ali,<br />

President PEBS Dr<br />

Akhtar Jamal Khan, Vice<br />

President PEBS Dr Qazi<br />

Wasiq, Medical Director<br />

moderated the ceremony.<br />

Mr Chen Xiaodong,<br />

Acting Consul General of<br />

P.R China in Karachi<br />

along with other dignitaries<br />

from China also<br />

attended the ceremony.<br />

The team expressed satisfaction<br />

and arevery happy<br />

to be in Pakistan, they<br />

hoped that it will boost<br />

Pak China friendship<br />

among the people of the<br />

two brotherly countries at<br />

all levels.<br />

and baseless and they are<br />

politically motivated.<br />

He regretted that all the<br />

votes of Karachi are with<br />

MQM Pakistan but the<br />

mayor Karachi and opposition<br />

leader are not invited in<br />

the meetings related to the<br />

city..<br />

has to work for its promotion.<br />

He said that with the<br />

construction of Urdu Bagh<br />

the dream of Baba-e-Urdu<br />

Maulvi Abdul Haq has<br />

come true.<br />

President urged the universities<br />

in public and private<br />

sector to work for<br />

progress of Urdu language.<br />

On the occasion he<br />

Talking about<br />

Naqeebullah who was<br />

killed in alleged police<br />

encounter he said all the<br />

parties are condemning this<br />

incident now. No one will<br />

support wrong doing. All<br />

will condemn it. An impartial<br />

probe should be held<br />

into this incident. This is not<br />

the first incident of its<br />

nature. Who gave license of<br />

it. Action should be taken<br />

not only against Rao Anwar<br />

but also against chief minister<br />

and home minister<br />

Sindh.<br />

The resignation from<br />

chief minister and home<br />

minister should be demanded,<br />

he said. The apathy and<br />

silence of Sindh government<br />

on this matter is in<br />

fact its support to this incident.<br />

The entire burden<br />

should not be shifted to one<br />

police officer as this way<br />

the issue will not be<br />

resolved. If you remove<br />

one the second will replace<br />

him and he will be assigned<br />

task. The real thing is this<br />

who is assigning this task,<br />

he questioned. Therefore<br />

Sindh government should<br />

be held accountable. The<br />

courts should take suo<br />

motu notice on this matter,<br />

he demanded.<br />

President emphasizes<br />

to promote Urdu<br />

KARACHI: President Mamnoon Hussain being presented a memento during the inauguration<br />

ceremony of Urdu Bagh.<br />

Shaikh said that the suspension<br />

of Rao Anwar was<br />

not solution to the issue of<br />

fake encounters. He said the<br />

protest would continue till<br />

the registration of murder<br />

cases against Rao Anwar.<br />

He said that besides<br />

Naqeeb, many other innocent<br />

people had been killed<br />

by the police officer in fake<br />

police encounters. He said<br />

the stains of the blood of<br />

these innocent people could<br />

also taint the Sindh government.<br />

The PTI leader said if the<br />

Sindh government wanted<br />

to save itself from the allegations<br />

of patronizing fake<br />

police encounters, the murder<br />

cases should be lodged<br />

against Rao Anwar and his<br />

team to dole out justice to<br />

the affected families.<br />

KARACHI: The CIA<br />

Citizens-Police Liaison<br />

Committee (CPLC) and the<br />

Anti-Violent Crime Cell<br />

(AVCC) on Saturday in a<br />

joint operation apprehended<br />

two kidnappers involved in<br />

kidnapping of child Abdul<br />

Rehman. As per details,<br />

Abdul Rehman, son of<br />

Muhammad Akram, aged<br />

five, was kidnapped on 29<br />

December 2017 from<br />

Karachi’s PIB Colony.<br />

The kidnappers had<br />

demanded Rs 5 million from<br />

the child’s family. CPLC<br />

Chief Zubair Habib and DIG<br />

announced to name<br />

University Road Karachi<br />

after the name of<br />

renowned poet<br />

JameeluddinAali.<br />

Earlier, Dr. Fatima<br />

Hassan of Anjuman-e-<br />

Taraqqi-e-Urdu and<br />

ZulqarnainJameel in their<br />

speeches highlighted performance<br />

of the Anjuman.<br />

CPLC, AVCC nab kidnappers,<br />

recover abducted child<br />

Saqib Ismail Memon<br />

took immediate notice of this<br />

incident and formed a joint<br />

team, under the supervision<br />

of SSP Abdullah and<br />

Shaukat Ali Suleman,<br />

Deputy Chief (Operations)<br />

CPLC Sindh and Assistant<br />

Chiefs CPLC-CRC Shabbar<br />

Malik and Kashif Iftikhar.<br />

After detailed investigation<br />

and with the help of<br />

technical details, AVCC<br />

CIA in coordination with<br />

CPLC, Kandkot and Ghotki<br />

police conducted several<br />

raids in districts of Kandkot<br />

and Ghotki.<br />

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, <strong>Jan</strong> Muhammad Baloch<br />

along with Vice Chairman, Abdul Khaliq Marwat, Director<br />

Sindh Solid Waste A.D Sanjani chairing a meeting.<br />

KARACHI: Chairman DMC East, Moid Anwar inspecting<br />

ongoing development work at Gulshan-e-Iqbal.<br />

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi laong<br />

with Director Sanitation, Ghouse Mohiuddin inspecting<br />

cleaning work.


Sialvi warns to shut Punjab if<br />

Sharia not imposed in 7 days<br />

LAHORE: Cleric Pir<br />

Hameeduddin Sialvi has<br />

warned Government of<br />

Punjab on Saturday to<br />

impose sharia law within a<br />

period of seven days lest<br />

the religious groups would<br />

shut down the entire<br />

province.<br />

Sialvi, who is leading a<br />

sit-in protest of thousands<br />

of people outside rushy<br />

shrine of Data Gunj<br />

Bukhsh in Lahore has<br />

demanded the government<br />

to impose the sharia law.<br />

In an address delivered<br />

to the protesters, Silavi<br />

said that innocent minor<br />

girls are murdered in multiple<br />

cities and the government<br />

has failed to arrest<br />

the perpetrators.<br />

Staff Reporter<br />

SHIKARPUR: Early<br />

breast cancer detection<br />

device invented by the BS<br />

Computer Science and<br />

BBA students of Sukkur<br />

IBA University, has been<br />

selected for <strong>2018</strong> Hult<br />

Prize, on Saturday.<br />

The final round of the<br />

competition will be held in<br />

San Francisco, USA on<br />

March 9 & 10 of <strong>2018</strong>. The<br />

students including, Falak<br />

Hanif of BBA, Ghalib<br />

Hassan, Fazal-ur-Rehman<br />

and Aakash of BS<br />

Computer Science had<br />

won the regional competition<br />

was held in 2017, in<br />

which more than 100,000<br />

students from 120 countries<br />

participated.<br />

Students of Sukkur IBA<br />

University and University<br />

He urged the participants<br />

of the sit-in protest to<br />

not let the Khatam-e-<br />

of Lahore won the competition<br />

and now they will be<br />

showcasing their ideas in<br />

the final round in San<br />

Francisco and Boston USA<br />

in March <strong>2018</strong>.<br />

Talking to the media the<br />

students Falak Hanif,<br />

Ghalib Hassan and others<br />

told the media that around<br />

1.7 million women worldwide<br />

were diagnosed with<br />

breast cancer in 2016. They<br />

went on saying that, with<br />

90,000 breast cancer cases<br />

being annually reported in<br />

Pakistan and over 40,000<br />

deaths caused by it,<br />

Pakistan has the highest rate<br />

of breast cancer in Asia. But<br />

like any other cancer, breast<br />

cancer can only be cured if<br />

diagnosed at an early stage,<br />

they said. Referring to the<br />

report of Breast Cancer<br />

Society they said that, onethird<br />

of these cancer deaths<br />

could be saved if detected<br />

and treated early which<br />

means worldwide nearly<br />

400,000 lives could be<br />

saved every year.<br />

Keeping in view the<br />

grave situation, we started<br />

working on it and finally<br />

come up with “SymCan-<br />

Detector” which is a bra<br />

insert wearable, similar to<br />

brazier cups, enabled with<br />

numerous bio-sensors, the<br />

proud students added.<br />

According to them,<br />

women would be recommended<br />

to wear this once<br />

in a week for an hour only,<br />

after that SymCan-<br />

Detector detects earliest<br />

sign of breast cancer by<br />

looking at the circadian<br />

metabolic changes and<br />

Nabuwwat movement die<br />

at any cost. He said that it<br />

was his will to all those listening.<br />

The cleric urged the<br />

participants to take a vow<br />

passes that data to the<br />

application software which<br />

analyses it with the help of<br />

some AI based algorithms<br />

and generate an alarm in<br />

case of finding any kind of<br />

abnormalities. They said<br />

that, rather than a mammogram<br />

or ultrasound,<br />

SymCan-Detector can be<br />

used at home. Thanks to<br />

the modern invention,<br />

because now precious<br />

lives of many women<br />

could be saved through<br />

early detection of breast<br />

cancer, remarked Falak<br />

Hanif adding, most commonly<br />

women in their forties<br />

fall prey to this disease.<br />

Our device will help<br />

protect many precious<br />

lives, which otherwise go<br />

waste due to late detection<br />

of the disease, she said.<br />

today to follow the footsteps<br />

of Prophet<br />

Muhammad (PBUH). He<br />

prayed that the Almighty<br />

grants them the strength to<br />

spread the movement to all<br />

parts of Pakistan and<br />

beyond.<br />

Sialvi further said that<br />

there would be no dependence<br />

on the government if<br />

the people began to live<br />

their lives in accordance<br />

with the teachings of the<br />

Holy Quran and Hadith.<br />

He complained that the<br />

leaders have not kept the<br />

Holy Quran ‘as near to<br />

them as they have kept law<br />

minister Rana Sanaullah’.<br />

Sialvi urged the protesters<br />

to not cast their votes to<br />

‘such people’.<br />

Early breast cancer detection device<br />

Reshuffling in<br />

federal police<br />

invents by Sukkur IBA students<br />

ISLAMABAD: As<br />

The driver behind alleged kidnapping of<br />

school girl sent to jail on judicial remand<br />

ISLAMABAD: The<br />

palmist driver allegedly<br />

involved in kidnapping of<br />

school girl outside Roots<br />

School System has been<br />

sent to Jail on judicial<br />

remand. The girl has been<br />

kept in Darul Iman for<br />

recording her statement<br />

under 164.<br />

According to well<br />

placed sources the driver<br />

who had abducted a girl<br />

student outside a private<br />

school located in sector I-<br />

9/3 Islamabad on <strong>Jan</strong>uary<br />

17 and later he had taken<br />

her to Lahore has been sent<br />

to judicial remand after<br />

investigation under the<br />

orders of a local court.<br />

Sources said the<br />

abducted girl was recovered<br />

in the area near<br />

Kalashah Kaku Lahore<br />

Motorway. The driver had<br />

taken girl forcibly under<br />

the threat that she would<br />

be possessed by a jin if she<br />

would not come along with<br />

him. SHO i-9 sector said<br />

that the girl will be presented<br />

before magistrate<br />

for recording her statement<br />

on Monday.<br />

The kidnapper was<br />

working as driver since the<br />

last 3 years with the affected<br />

family.<br />

KOHAT: Chairman KP Assembly's Standing Committee on Information and Public<br />

Relations, Ziaullh Khan Bangash offering Dua after Inaugurate Rescue 1122 service in<br />

the city.<br />

KP govt spending Rs9bn on provision of<br />

clean drinking water schemes to masses<br />

PESHAWAR: The government<br />

of Khyber<br />

Pakhtunkhwa is spending<br />

about nine billion rupees on<br />

provision of clean drinking<br />

water schemes in southern<br />

districts of the province.<br />

A spokesman of Public<br />

QUETTA: Registration<br />

of 801 Non Governmental<br />

Organization (NGOs) has<br />

been canceled in<br />

Baluchistan for want of<br />

renewal of the registration.<br />

Under National Action<br />

LAHORE: Pir of Sial Khawaja Hameeduddin Sialvi nad other leader on stage for sit-in at<br />

Data Darbar, which will continue till resignation of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah.<br />

Health Engineering<br />

Department told that government<br />

has initiated work<br />

on more than nine hundred<br />

clean drinking water<br />

schemes in Kohat, Bannu,<br />

Karak, Laki Mart, Tank and<br />

DI Khan districts, out of<br />

which four hundred and<br />

forty five water schemes<br />

have been completed.<br />

Similarly, one hundred tubewells<br />

converted into solar<br />

energy in southern parts to<br />

ensure un-interpreted supply<br />

of clean drinking water.<br />

Registration of 801 NGOs<br />

cancelled in Baluchistan<br />

Plan (NAP) renewal of<br />

their registration has been<br />

made compulsory for<br />

NGOs and advertisements<br />

in the news papers<br />

were also given to this<br />

effect from time time. As<br />

many as 403 out of 1204<br />

NGOs have got their registration<br />

renewed<br />

According to official<br />

sources the registration of<br />

801 NGOs has been cancelled<br />

because they have<br />

failed to get renew their<br />

registration.<br />

SC restrained all govt<br />

sector universities from<br />

granting affiliation to<br />

new private law colleges<br />

many as 7 Superintendent<br />

Police (SPs) have been<br />

transferred in Islamabad as<br />

a result of reshuffling in<br />

federal police.<br />

According to media<br />

reports the SPs who have<br />

been transferred include<br />

SP investigation. The<br />

transfer orders of these SPs<br />

have been issued under<br />

directives of Chief<br />

Commissioner Islamabad.<br />

SP Muhammad Hassan<br />

Iqbal has been transferred<br />

as SP Secretariat security<br />

and has been appointed as<br />

SP Logistic. Muhammad<br />

Bin Ashraf has been<br />

appointed as additional SP<br />

Security operations. SP<br />

City Zubair Sheikh has<br />

been appointed as SP<br />

investigation. Capt (Retd)<br />

Zeeshan Haider has been<br />

appointed as SP Supreme<br />

Court Security. He will<br />

perform additional duty as<br />

SP SSG.<br />

SP Supreme Court<br />

Ahmad Iqbal has been<br />

appointed as SP City zone.<br />

Addition SP Security<br />

LAHORE: A threemember<br />

bench of the operations division<br />

Supreme Court has Hissam bin Iqbal has been<br />

restrained all the government<br />

appointed as SP Rural<br />

sector univer-<br />

zone. Dr Syed Mustafa<br />

sities in the country<br />

from granting affiliation<br />

to new private law<br />

colleges.<br />

Tanvir has been appointed<br />

as SP anti terrorism force.<br />

He will also be in- charge<br />

of safe city project.<br />

The bench, headed<br />

by Chief Justice Mian<br />

Saqib Nisar, passed<br />

these orders while<br />

hearing a suo motu<br />

notice regarding the<br />

private law colleges at<br />

the Supreme Court<br />

Lahore Registry in<br />

Lahore on Saturday. ISLAMABAD: Land<br />

The court also mafia which is notorious<br />

directed Chief for constructing their residences<br />

Secretary Punjab Zahid<br />

in the guise of<br />

Saeed for early mosques have illegally<br />

appointment of the occupied state land in<br />

voice chancellors of another sector of<br />

different government Islamabad.<br />

home.<br />

universities in the The Qabza group has<br />

province.<br />

allegedly occupied illegally<br />

Chief Justice Mian<br />

five kanal land on green<br />

Saqib Nisar directed all belt between sector F-10<br />

the voice chancellors and E-10.<br />

of public sector universities<br />

Ulema takes possession<br />

to ensure high of the land in the name of<br />

quality law education religion and later use it for<br />

in their respective universities.<br />

their personal interest<br />

because they know it<br />

well<br />

LARKANA: All four<br />

ground water samples collected<br />

from Chandka<br />

Medical College Hospital<br />

(CMCH), Larkana, have<br />

been found micro-biologically<br />

and chemically contaminated.<br />

This was revealed in a<br />

letter written by the Health<br />

Department, Government<br />

of Sindh, Karachi to the<br />

CMCH Medical<br />

Superintendent (MS). The<br />

samples were collected<br />

and checked by a team of<br />

experts from Pakistan<br />

Council of Research in<br />

Water Resources<br />

(PCRWR), Ministry of<br />

Science & Technology,<br />

Government of Pakistan,<br />

Islamabad, who visited the<br />

CMCH and collected<br />

water samples from four<br />

different places - Casualty,<br />

Filtration Unit behind<br />

Orthopedic Department,<br />

water tank besides Kidney<br />

Ward and hand pump<br />

opposite Surgical Ward-II.<br />

The team recommended<br />

that in the past, ground<br />

water of Larkana was<br />

potable (sweet). Presently,<br />

its quality has deteriorated.<br />

Sunday, <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

National<br />

Hence, the TDS level of all<br />

the ground water sources<br />

in the hospital have been<br />

found beyond safe limit<br />

((1000 mg/l). The filtration<br />

for ground water is also<br />

useless because the water<br />

used for filtration is unsafe<br />

due to high TDS.<br />

It was also observed<br />

that the filtration system<br />

increases the intensity of<br />

bacterial contamination in<br />

feed water. The water<br />

analysis carried out by<br />

PCRWR showed that<br />

Casualty water sample had<br />

Sodium (mg/l) 224,<br />

Sulfate 355 and TDS 1061.<br />

In Orthopedics, it was<br />

respectively <strong>21</strong>4, 370 and<br />

1138 and it had also Coliform/ml<br />

and E/Coli/ml 68<br />

and 09 respectively.<br />

In Kidney Ward, the<br />

ratio of chemicals was<br />

401, 610 and 1536 respectively.<br />

It also had Coliform<br />

and E/Coli as 57 and<br />

01 respectively. The<br />

Surgical Sard hand pump<br />

had 880, 1050 and 2803<br />

respectively. It also contained<br />

Fluoride 2.83 and<br />

its E/Coli was too numerous<br />

to count. Hence in<br />

3<br />

All samples of water at Larkana<br />

hospital found contaminated<br />

RAWALPINDI: Special<br />

courts have been set up in<br />

Rawalpindi under Punjab<br />

Food Authority Act.<br />

According to media<br />

reports, Presiding Officers<br />

and technical members in<br />

respect of these courts have<br />

also been appointed.<br />

Presiding officers who are<br />

appointed in Rawalpindi<br />

include Assistant<br />

Commissioner city, Sub<br />

registrar Urban-1 and<br />

Urban registrar Urban-2<br />

Technical members will<br />

remarks the research officers<br />

of PCRWR said that<br />

"the water is unfit for<br />

drinking purpose due to<br />

parameters mentioned<br />

above under prescribed<br />

standards". The letter further<br />

directed the MS to<br />

address the observations<br />

and ensure compliance of<br />

the recommendations of<br />

PCRWR along with latest<br />

report and action taken and<br />

submit the same to this<br />

office.<br />

It must be mentioned<br />

here that a water commission<br />

had already observed<br />

recently that 88% of the<br />

water supplied to Larkana<br />

residents is contaminated.<br />

The CMCH sources said<br />

that they did not have the<br />

required expertise to suggest<br />

improvement in supply<br />

of safe drinking water<br />

in the hospital as per<br />

required standards as 1500<br />

patients remained admitted<br />

in the hospital. These<br />

sources further said that<br />

entire budget was kept by<br />

the Health Department and<br />

no separate budget was<br />

allocated for improving<br />

water quality.<br />

Special courts set up in Rwp<br />

under Punjab Food Authority Act<br />

include district officer<br />

health, Anam Noreen, agricultural<br />

field officer Taxila<br />

and agricultural field officer<br />

Kallar Syedan.<br />

Notification to this effect<br />

has been sent to deputy secretary<br />

food department.<br />

CHINIOT: A view of garbage heap shows the negligence of Municipal Committee.<br />

Land Mafia occupies illegally<br />

five kanal land on green belt<br />

I S L A M A B A D :<br />

Coconut oil has been all the<br />

rage for some time.<br />

Endorsed by a number of<br />

celebrities as a superfood,<br />

this tropical-smelling fat —<br />

often liberally applied to<br />

our skin and scalps — is a<br />

favorite of many. But the<br />

question remains: is it<br />

healthful or not?<br />

Are the health claims<br />

that adorn coconut oil<br />

based on fact or fiction?<br />

Fat suffered a bad reputation<br />

for a long time and<br />

we were told to opt for lowfat<br />

options instead. But the<br />

tides turned eventually,<br />

prompting us to see fats in a<br />

new light.<br />

Our lives became simpler.<br />

We learned how to<br />

avoid bad (saturated and<br />

hydrogenated) fats and eat<br />

good (unsaturated) ones to<br />

keep our tickers and arteries<br />

healthy.<br />

Then the humble<br />

coconut came along in<br />

2003, and the waters were<br />

once again muddied. Seen<br />

by some as a superfood but<br />

that no administration can<br />

take any action against<br />

them because of their religious<br />

stature.<br />

One Abdul Wahid<br />

occupied illegally CDA<br />

land and constructed his<br />

Later he started<br />

constructing mosque to<br />

protect himself against the<br />

administration. The donations<br />

are being collected<br />

from locals for the construction<br />

of this mosque.<br />

A big chunk of land has<br />

been taken into illegal possession<br />

for construction of<br />

mosque on the main road<br />

recently labeled by the<br />

American Heart<br />

Association (AHA) as part<br />

of the pool of unhealthful<br />

fats, the controversy goes<br />

on.<br />

So, what are the scientific<br />

facts behind the coconut<br />

oil hype, and what are the<br />

latest developments?<br />

Secret ingredient:<br />

of sector F-10/3. The<br />

wreckage of construction<br />

has been thrown on the<br />

road which is creating difficulties<br />

for citizens.<br />

Maulana sahib has<br />

thrown the entire wreckage<br />

on green belt and<br />

destroyed the trees and<br />

greenry.<br />

CDA environment is<br />

keeping mum over this<br />

matter. Maulana has<br />

extended the building of<br />

mosque to cover up his<br />

home. This way his home<br />

will remain hidden behind<br />

the mosque.<br />

'Medium-chain' fatty acids<br />

Many of the purported<br />

health claims surrounding<br />

coconut oil stem from<br />

research published in 2003<br />

by Marie-Pierre St-Onge,<br />

Ph.D. — a professor of<br />

nutritional medicine at<br />

Columbia University in<br />

New York City, NY.<br />

Prof. St-Onge found that<br />

in overweight women, consumption<br />

of medium-chain<br />

fatty acids — such as those<br />

found in coconut oil — led<br />

to an increase in energy<br />

expenditure and fat oxidation<br />

compared with women<br />

who ate long-chain or saturated<br />

fatty acids.<br />

But Prof. St-Onge used<br />

a specially formulated fat<br />

CDA environment<br />

department did not bother<br />

to attend our telephonic<br />

call.<br />

A CDA officer said on<br />

the condition of anonymity<br />

about 47 mosques constructed<br />

in Islamabad are<br />

illegal as per CDA survey.<br />

A majority of illegal<br />

mosques have been constructed<br />

in sector i-11. A<br />

portion of illegally constructed<br />

is used for offering<br />

prayers and most of the<br />

portion is used by Maulvis<br />

for construction of their<br />

homes.<br />

Coconut oil: Healthful or unhealthful?<br />

diet in her study, not<br />

coconut oil, and she never<br />

claimed that coconut oil<br />

was the secret to the results<br />

seen in her research.<br />

The rumor mill had<br />

begun to spin and coconut<br />

oil became widely hailed as<br />

a superfood.<br />

In fact, a 2009 study<br />

involving 40 women<br />

showed that 30 milliliters<br />

of coconut — consumed<br />

daily for a 12-week period<br />

— increased good highdensity<br />

lipoprotein (HDL)<br />

levels, accompanied by a<br />

reduction in waist circumference.<br />

As more studies have<br />

followed, the picture<br />

became less clear-cut.


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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />

CHANGES were made by some governments as<br />

demanded via protests and demonstrations by<br />

their nations who instituted gradual as well as<br />

drastic changes in their governments' wrong policies<br />

like slavery under big powers.<br />

MIDEAST situation resembles a ball of fire raging<br />

in some parts of a number of Muslim countries at war<br />

against each other. That confronts Pakistan with a critical<br />

diplomatic problem to find a solution that could be<br />

acceptable at home as well as abroad.<br />

NUCLEAR power Pakistan, the only one in the<br />

Muslim world, can have a considerable influence on<br />

friends and foes alike within and outside the country to<br />

change its own direction from such negative and<br />

defaming stance and move towards freedom and independence<br />

by reducing and ending an internationally<br />

induced slavery to big powers and their Mideast satellites<br />

where rules and principles think nothing of any<br />

diplomatic or military solutions being right or wrong.<br />

CROSS roads for Pakistan: To do Mideast, big powers’<br />

bidding and, for instance, play its significant role in<br />

abstaining from support to oppressor Muslim majority<br />

leaders' wars under centuries old enmity that continues<br />

to kill an oppressed Shi'ite Muslim minority. Islamabad<br />

can follow up with a later advocating of a termination<br />

of militarist adventures. Briefly, Pakistan, which has<br />

among largest Shi'ite populations in the world, can let<br />

this helpless Muslim minority be killed like they were<br />

in centuries past, or make a decision to save it from<br />

denial of basic human rights and stop centuries old<br />

inhuman discrimination and persecution of all kinds.<br />

REVIEW of history of performance of Pakistani<br />

governments have led researchers towards that constant<br />

historical problem faced by state leaders, institutions,<br />

officials and law enforcing agencies, who sometimes<br />

spoke and did right, and sometimes spoke and<br />

did wrong. There was not any clear cut policy that<br />

actions could otherwise prove to be true.<br />

EXAMPLE: Rulers and leaders of both Islamabad<br />

and provincial governments were accusing each other<br />

with grave charges of supporting terrorism against<br />

Muslim Shiite community. However, neither side, even<br />

though daring each other to do so, was taking signficiant<br />

proper action and were not punishing self proclaimed<br />

killers in all those decades of freedom ever<br />

since Pakistan came into existence.<br />

ZARB-E-AZB operation, which Pakistan Army<br />

launched launched despite dislike of some rulers, did<br />

By, Giulio Boccaletti<br />

With climate change accelerating and its<br />

effects exacerbating other geopolitical and<br />

development crises, the role of environmental<br />

protection in preserving and improving human wellbeing<br />

has become starkly apparent. This recognition<br />

lies at the heart of the concept of "planetary health,"<br />

which focuses on the health of human civilization and<br />

the condition of the natural systems on which it<br />

depends.<br />

The concept's logic is simple: if we try to deliver<br />

better health to a growing population, without regard<br />

for the health and security of our natural resources, we<br />

will not just struggle to make new strides; we will<br />

reverse the progress already made. Where things get<br />

complicated is in applying the concept, particularly<br />

when addressing the nexus of water services, health,<br />

and ecosystem integrity.<br />

Since at least 1854, when John Snow discovered<br />

that cholera was spread through contaminated water<br />

supplies in central London, humans have understood<br />

that polluted water is bad for our health. The degradation<br />

of freshwater ecosystems often brings disease, just<br />

as the protection or strengthening of such ecosystems<br />

improves health outcomes.<br />

But, while it is now well understood that progress in<br />

one area improves outcomes in another, such co-beneficial<br />

dynamics often are insufficient to spur investment<br />

in both areas.<br />

For example, investing to protect a watershed can<br />

also protect biodiversity and improve water quality in<br />

associated rivers, thereby benefiting human health. But<br />

if the goal is explicitly to improve human health, it<br />

might be more cost-effective simply to invest in a<br />

water-treatment plant.<br />

A more compelling dynamic is complementarity:<br />

when investment in one area increases the returns on<br />

investment in other areas. In this scenario, investments<br />

in protecting a watershed would aim not just to produce<br />

returns directly, but also to boost the returns of simultaneous<br />

investments in human health.<br />

Complementarity produces mutually reinforcing<br />

dynamics that improve outcomes across the board.<br />

A well-functioning water sector already attempts to<br />

balance complementary interventions. Indeed, such a<br />

system amounts to a multidisciplinary triumph of<br />

human ingenuity and cooperation - involving engineering,<br />

hydrology, governance, and urban planning - with<br />

far-reaching complementary impacts on both human<br />

EDITORIAL<br />

Nations can change state policies<br />

like slavery under big powers<br />

OPINION<br />

reduce and ended terrorism to a great extent that was<br />

not expected anytime soon, but a large number of civilians<br />

were made homeless and suffered, though rehabilitated<br />

by the army. If media is any indication, the operation<br />

marked a respite in anti-Shia terrorism. However,<br />

before any operation, precautions to avoid innocent<br />

casualties and displacements can be made and any<br />

fresh start of sectarian violence and killings can be<br />

ascertained. That is nearer to ideal, though it may not be<br />

realistic to expect any miraculous results or creation of<br />

a superhuman situation.<br />

WARS led and waged by Saudi Arabia and many of<br />

its allied Arab countries in the Mideast may subdue<br />

Shi'ites in their victimized and invaded countries.<br />

Majority of extremists have a usual "wait and see" attitude<br />

before deciding for taking any action. However, its<br />

follow ups in ways and methods similar to the outcome<br />

and results of those majority Muslim states' wars<br />

against minority of Muslim states.<br />

PEACE in practice without persecution of minorities<br />

and a guarantee for protection of their human rights<br />

as can be observed in practice after those wars on<br />

Shi'ites ended may have more favorable impact for betterment<br />

of that Muslim minority.<br />

KILLINGS of Shi'ites after those wars are over may<br />

also trigger a worldwide killing against that minority<br />

sect in Islam. That post-war negative or positive impact<br />

after peace or end of war with more killings may determine<br />

the fate of Shi'ites in at least other Muslim majority<br />

countries with a long history of persecution of<br />

minorities. Under one or the other of these desirable as<br />

well as undesirable consequences, including undeclared<br />

anti-social behavior and uncivilized killings after<br />

peace, Muslim rulers must take precautionary and protective<br />

measures to ensure human equality and just<br />

rights for all sects in Islam.<br />

PAKISTAN can change its policy and play its positive<br />

role, but not as usual in verbal terms only, but in<br />

practice too: It can save all Muslim sects and strive to<br />

ensure their rights in Islam to the extent it can. Aside<br />

governments, nations can also make their rulers<br />

change a disgraceful and defaming policy and action<br />

towards one of human values and noble principles as<br />

ensured in Islam.<br />

NATIONS can also wake up and help their rulers<br />

and countries regain their lost place, pride, sense of justice<br />

and rising up to human world standards for one and<br />

all within their own nations.<br />

Save water, it's good for health<br />

It is no coincidence that one of the World Bank's largest lending<br />

portfolios - $35 billion worth of investments - comprises water projects<br />

health and economic development.<br />

Governments worldwide have recognized the<br />

potential of water infrastructure to complement other<br />

economic and social policies, including those intended<br />

to improve health outcomes. It is no coincidence that<br />

one of the World Bank's largest lending portfolios - $35<br />

billion worth of investments - comprises water projects.<br />

But understanding the potential of complementarity<br />

is just the first step. To maximize results, we must<br />

design a coherent strategy that takes full advantage of<br />

the dynamic, at the lowest possible cost.<br />

The question is whether there is an optimal mix of<br />

environmental protection and direct health interventions<br />

on which policymakers can rely to maximize<br />

investment returns for both. A recent analysis suggests<br />

that, in rural areas, a 30% increase in upstream tree<br />

cover produces a 4% reduction in the probability of<br />

diarrheal disease in children.<br />

Another study found that an estimated 42% of the<br />

global malaria burden, including a half-million deaths<br />

annually, could be eliminated through policies focused<br />

on issues like land use, deforestation, water resource<br />

management, and settlement siting.<br />

Worldwide, around 40% of cities' source watersheds<br />

show high to moderate levels of degradation. Sediment<br />

from agricultural and other sources increases the cost of<br />

water treatment, while loss of natural vegetation and<br />

land degradation can change water-flow patterns.All of<br />

this can adversely affect supply, thereby increasing the<br />

need to store water in containers - such as drums, tanks,<br />

and concrete jars - that serve as mosquito larval habitats.<br />

Can we show that ecological restoration of the<br />

watershed could do more than just insecticides or mosquito<br />

nets to support efforts to reduce malaria (and<br />

dengue) in cities? In all of these cases, finding the best<br />

option requires knowing not just the relative contribution<br />

of different interventions, but understanding their<br />

complementarity.<br />

Some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to<br />

safe, readily available water at home, and more than<br />

twice as many - a whopping 4.5 billion - lack safely<br />

managed sanitation, severely undermining health outcomes<br />

and fueling river pollution. With a growing<br />

share of the world's population - including many of the<br />

same people - feeling the effects of environmental<br />

degradation and climate change firsthand, finding solutions<br />

that simultaneously advance environmental protection,<br />

water provision, and health could not be more<br />

important.<br />

AJK PM appeals int'l community to<br />

take notice of Indian firing along LoC<br />

MUZAFFARABAD:<br />

AJK Prime Minister Raja<br />

Farooq Haider Khan has<br />

appealed international<br />

community and global<br />

human rights organizations<br />

to take notice of Indian<br />

unprovoked firing on civilian<br />

population residing<br />

along the Line of Control.<br />

In a statement in<br />

KP speaker, ministers<br />

spend hefty amount<br />

on foreign tours<br />

PESHAWAR: Khyber<br />

Pakhtunkhwa (KP)<br />

Assembly Speaker Asad<br />

Qaisar, members and<br />

provincial ministers have<br />

spent a hefty amount of<br />

money on foreign tours<br />

despite prohibition.<br />

Private tv has learnt that<br />

more than Rs5.40 crore<br />

have been spent overall.<br />

Speaker Asad Qaisar made<br />

ten foreign tours in four<br />

and half years which cost<br />

more than Rs5.5 million.<br />

I n f o r m a t i o n<br />

Technology Special<br />

Secretary spent around<br />

Rs4.1 million in eight trips.<br />

Asad Qaisar’s close relative<br />

and Assistant<br />

Director IT Tahir Nadeem<br />

is also in the list of those<br />

who used government<br />

funds on foreign tours<br />

along with opposition<br />

leader Maulana Lutf ur<br />

Rehman, advisors and<br />

assistants.<br />

Serving inflated<br />

electricity bills by<br />

IESCO protested<br />

R A W A L P I N D I :<br />

Electricity consumers from<br />

Sub division Saham Dhok<br />

Karam Abad Chakra have<br />

voiced strong protest<br />

against serving them inflated<br />

electricity bills by<br />

IESCO on the basis of<br />

average units.<br />

According to media<br />

reports the consumers said<br />

that the IESCO sub division<br />

has sent them electricity<br />

bills running into thousands<br />

of rupees by showing<br />

their meters locked<br />

and the picture of meter<br />

reading is also not found<br />

printed on the bills. The<br />

citizens complained that<br />

the sub divisional office<br />

has sent them bogus bills<br />

to show their recovery.<br />

Staff Reporter<br />

HYDERABAD: Civil<br />

Judge and Judicial<br />

Magistrate Hyderabad<br />

Junaid Faiz Memon on<br />

directives of Sindh High<br />

Court reached civil hospital<br />

here for thorough<br />

Muzaffarabad on Saturday,<br />

he urged world powers to<br />

exert pressure on India to<br />

respect ceasefire agreement<br />

of 2003.<br />

The Prime Minister said<br />

that India wants to divert<br />

the attention of international<br />

community from the<br />

deteriorating human rights<br />

situation in the occupied<br />

valley. He said Indian army<br />

after facing humiliating<br />

defeat in suppressing the<br />

right to self-determination<br />

movement of Kashmiris<br />

now targeting children and<br />

women at the Line of<br />

Control.<br />

Raja Farooq Haider<br />

Khan directed the concerned<br />

districts’ administration<br />

to provide best<br />

medical facilities to the<br />

people injured in the Indian<br />

shelling.<br />

He also directed the<br />

administration to take<br />

immediate measures to<br />

ensure the safety of the<br />

lives of civilian population<br />

living along the Line of<br />

Control.<br />

QUETTA: Members of All Parties Action Committee are holding protest demonstration<br />

against extra judicial killing of Naqeeb Ullah as they are demanding for justice.<br />

Mirwaiz expresses concern<br />

over Pak, India tension on Loc<br />

SRINAGAR: Chairman<br />

of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz<br />

Umar Farooq, has expressed<br />

concern over increasing tension<br />

between India and<br />

Pakistan on the Line of<br />

Control (LoC).<br />

According to KMS,<br />

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a<br />

statement issued in Srinagar<br />

said that he was distressed to<br />

see bloodshed taking place<br />

on the LoC every day. He<br />

urged the two nuclear neighbours<br />

to give up confrontation<br />

and come on the table to<br />

resolve the Kashmir dispute<br />

once for all.<br />

inspection of arrangements.<br />

SHC has formed<br />

inspection team headed by<br />

civil judge Junaid Faiz<br />

Memon. He saw illegal<br />

encroachments and<br />

garbage within hospital<br />

premises. He later visited<br />

The Mirwaiz appealed to<br />

the Kashmiri Pandits to<br />

return to their homeland.<br />

“People of Kashmir will<br />

welcome them with warmth<br />

and open arms. The migration<br />

of Kashmiri Pandits is a<br />

human issue and it makes all<br />

Kashmiris sad that they are<br />

away from their motherland<br />

and yearn to come back,” he<br />

said. “The Kashmiri Pandits<br />

are part of our joint ethos<br />

and culture and our common<br />

past and will always remain<br />

so. Kashmir belongs to them<br />

as much as it does to<br />

Muslims and we want to<br />

Civil judge reaches civil hospital on<br />

bike, takes stock of maladministration<br />

OPD and emergency<br />

wards. He also visited<br />

parking lot. He expressed<br />

anger on inferior and maladministration<br />

of hospital<br />

and got information from<br />

doctors on duty and<br />

patients.<br />

HRCP shocked at Munnu Bhai's demise<br />

LAHORE: The Human<br />

Rights Commission of<br />

Pakistan (HRCP)<br />

Saturday expressed shock<br />

and grief at the demise of<br />

Munnu Bhai, a poet,<br />

dramatist, columnist, and<br />

an ardent friend of the<br />

poor and the disadvantaged.<br />

In a statement, HRC<br />

said Bhai's contribution to<br />

the democratic dispensation<br />

in Pakistan is matchless,<br />

particularly during<br />

the 1970s and 1980s,<br />

which is acknowledged by<br />

friends and foes alike. In<br />

whatever form, he<br />

expressed himself, he was<br />

consistently a partisan of<br />

truth and the rights of the<br />

people.<br />

HRCP had the privilege<br />

of having Munnu<br />

Bhai as a member of its<br />

governing body for three<br />

years and his counsel was<br />

always greatly valued by<br />

the organization. He will<br />

be deeply missed for a<br />

long time by all whose<br />

lives he touched and the<br />

large number of admirers<br />

and distant friends, the<br />

HRCP statement said.<br />

ABBOTTABAD: A view of under construction bridge near Village Noshera as part of<br />

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.<br />

share our future together.<br />

Our demand for right of selfdetermination<br />

is for each<br />

inhabitant of Jammu and<br />

Kashmir and they have an<br />

equal right to have their say<br />

in its future dispensation,”<br />

he added.<br />

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq<br />

termed the rape and murder<br />

of a minor nomadic girl in<br />

Kathua district in Jammu as<br />

a shameful act, saying that<br />

the callousness of those at<br />

the helm in not acting<br />

promptly in tracing the missing<br />

child for a week is condemnable.<br />

SMIU students<br />

visit Koh Maree<br />

ISLAMABAD: The<br />

delegation of Sindh<br />

Madressatul Islam<br />

University comprising of<br />

students and faculty members,<br />

who are on the visit<br />

of national institutions of<br />

the country located in<br />

Islamabad under the<br />

National Leadership<br />

Program, visited Koh<br />

Maree on Saturday. Dean<br />

Prof Dr Zahid Ali Channar<br />

and Prof. Dr Syed Asif Ali<br />

led the delegation. During<br />

the visit of Koh maree they<br />

went round the various<br />

spots of city.<br />

Two motorcycle<br />

riders injured<br />

CHAKWAL: A speedy<br />

dumper hit motorcycle near<br />

Kallar Kahar and two persons<br />

riding on motorcycle<br />

were seriously injured. Abid<br />

Zubair told the Police that he<br />

along with his cousin<br />

Muhammad Raheem and<br />

Ammad Yaaqoob were coming<br />

back from the factory, a<br />

speedy dumper no.TLW 612<br />

that was driven by M. Ishfaq<br />

rashly and due to over speed<br />

hit the motorcycle resulting<br />

serious injuries to M.<br />

Raheem and Ammad<br />

yaaqoob who were shifted to<br />

DHQ Hospital Chakwal.<br />

Sub-inspector M. Irfan<br />

registered a case against the<br />

accused driver who was managed<br />

to make good his escape<br />

from the scene. Case was registered<br />

against the accused<br />

driver. In meantime Dhudial<br />

Police booked five persons<br />

who forcibly stopped a car<br />

and threatened of dire consequences<br />

to a person.<br />

Faheem Iqbal resident of<br />

village Mohra Alho told the<br />

police that he along with<br />

Faizan was going towards<br />

Islamabad airport when the<br />

five accused Ehtasham Ali,<br />

Bilal Shoukat, Zaheer<br />

Saleem, Baqir Aziz, Qamar<br />

Asghar armed with pistols<br />

stopped them and threatened<br />

of dire consequences.


US government shuts down as<br />

Trump feuds with Democrats<br />

WASHINGTON: The<br />

world’s most powerful government<br />

shut down on<br />

Saturday after President<br />

Donald Trump and the U.S.<br />

Congress failed to reach a<br />

deal on funding for federal<br />

agencies, highlighting the<br />

country’s deep political<br />

divisions. For the first time<br />

since October 2013 - when a<br />

similar standoff that lasted<br />

16 days kept only essential<br />

agency operations intact -<br />

federal workers were being<br />

told to stay at home or in<br />

some cases to work without<br />

pay until new funding is<br />

approved.<br />

The shutdown began a<br />

year to the day after Trump<br />

was sworn in as president.<br />

His inability to cut a deal<br />

despite having a Republican<br />

YANGON: Myanmar<br />

was making final preparations<br />

to take back the first<br />

batch of Rohingya Muslims<br />

who had fled conflict in<br />

troubled Rakhine state, state<br />

media said on Saturday,<br />

despite growing doubts<br />

about the plan among<br />

refugees and in the United<br />

Nations.<br />

Rakhine state Chief<br />

Minister Nyi Pu “insisted<br />

on completion of the finishing<br />

touches on buildings,<br />

medical clinics and sanitation<br />

infrastructures” during<br />

a visit to repatriation camps<br />

in the state on Friday, the<br />

Global New Light of<br />

Myanmar newspaper said.<br />

majority in both houses of<br />

Congress marks arguably<br />

the most debilitating setback<br />

for his crisis-plagued<br />

administration.<br />

It published a photo of<br />

his delegation standing by a<br />

long, wooden house that<br />

will be used to house<br />

returnees at the camp near<br />

the town of Maungtaw. A<br />

wire-mesh fence topped by<br />

barbed wire appears in the<br />

background of the photo.<br />

Over 655,500 Muslim<br />

Rohingya fled to<br />

Bangladesh after the<br />

Myanmar military cracked<br />

down in the northern part of<br />

Rakhine in response to militant<br />

attacks on security<br />

forces on Aug. 25. The<br />

United Nations described<br />

the operation as ethnic<br />

cleansing of the Rohingya,<br />

which Myanmar denies.<br />

Democrats had insisted<br />

that any bill to renew government<br />

funding also contain<br />

permanent protections<br />

for approximately 700,000<br />

SHANGHAI: China’s<br />

foreign ministry has<br />

accused a U.S. warship of<br />

entering its territorial<br />

waters without permission<br />

and said it would take<br />

“necessary measures” to<br />

ensure its sovereignty is<br />

protected.<br />

On the evening of <strong>Jan</strong>.<br />

17, the missile destroyer<br />

USS Hopper came within<br />

12 nautical miles of<br />

Huangyan Island in the<br />

South China Sea, the ministry<br />

said on its website on<br />

Saturday.<br />

Huangyan Island is also<br />

known as the Scarborough<br />

Shoal, a disputed territory<br />

in the South China Sea<br />

claimed by the Philippines<br />

as well as China.<br />

China’s navy ordered<br />

the vessel to withdraw<br />

after determining its identity,<br />

Lu Kang, China’s foreign<br />

ministry spokesman,<br />

was quoted as saying.<br />

Lu said the ship violated<br />

China’s sovereignty and<br />

security interests and<br />

threatened the safety of<br />

China’s vessels and personnel<br />

in the vicinity.<br />

The United States has<br />

criticized China for constructing<br />

islands and military<br />

installations in the<br />

region, saying they could<br />

be used to restrict free nautical<br />

movement. U.S. vessels<br />

have conducted a<br />

series of “freedom of navigation”<br />

patrols in the<br />

Myanmar will start<br />

receiving Rohingya<br />

refugees from Bangladesh<br />

at two reception centers and<br />

the temporary camp near<br />

China accuses US warship of violating its sovereignty<br />

Cambodia's detained opposition leader<br />

rejects new opposition movement<br />

PHNOM PENH:<br />

Cambodia’s detained<br />

opposition leader Kem<br />

Sokha has declined to join<br />

a new movement, founded<br />

by prominent exiles following<br />

a ban on the main<br />

opposition party, his<br />

lawyer said on Saturday.<br />

The Cambodia National<br />

Rescue Movement<br />

(CNRM) was announced<br />

on <strong>Jan</strong>. 13 by Prime<br />

Minister Hun Sen’s veteran<br />

foe Sam Rainsy following<br />

the dissolution of the<br />

Cambodia National<br />

Rescue Party (CNRP) last<br />

year and the arrest of its<br />

leader, Kem Sokha.<br />

Signs of division<br />

emerged among CNRP<br />

members over the CNRM,<br />

of which Sam Rainsy said<br />

could launch appeals to the<br />

people to organize peaceful<br />

protests, to workers to<br />

go on strike and to the<br />

armed forces to join them.<br />

Kem Sokha’s lawyer<br />

Pheng Heng said on<br />

Saturday that the opposition<br />

leader had declined to<br />

join the CNRM, saying<br />

that he will continue to<br />

work under the CNRP.<br />

“He said that he doesn’t<br />

join or support any movement<br />

and he’s still with the<br />

CNRP, of which more than<br />

three million people had<br />

voted for it in recent elections,”<br />

Pheng Heng told<br />

Reuters, quoting Kem<br />

Sokha when he visited him<br />

in prison on Friday.<br />

Kem Sokha’s daughter<br />

Kem Monovithya said that<br />

it’s important not to get<br />

distracted from the CNRP.<br />

Yemen's Houthis fire ballistic<br />

missile toward Saudi Arabia<br />

DUBAI: Yemen’s casualties or damage.<br />

Houthi movement fired a The Iranian-aligned<br />

ballistic missile toward Houthis have launched<br />

the southern Saudi scores of missiles at the<br />

province of Najran on kingdom. While causing<br />

Saturday, the group’s official<br />

al-Masirah TV reported,<br />

little serious damage, they<br />

have deepened tensions<br />

and a Saudi military between Riyadh and Yemeni<br />

spokesman said air Tehran.<br />

defense forces had intercepted<br />

the missile.<br />

The TV channel said<br />

Saudi Arabia accuses<br />

Iran of supplying missile<br />

parts and expertise to the<br />

the short-range missile Houthis, who have taken<br />

targeted a military base.<br />

There were no reports of<br />

over the Yemeni capital<br />

Sanaa and other parts of<br />

the country during its civil<br />

war. Iran and the Houthis<br />

deny the charge.<br />

A Saudi-led military<br />

coalition intervened in the<br />

conflict in March 2015<br />

after the movement drove<br />

President Abd-<br />

Rabbu Mansour Hadi into<br />

exile.<br />

The conflict has killed<br />

more than 10,000 people,<br />

displaced over two million<br />

and unleashed a wave<br />

of hunger and disease.<br />

region.<br />

China “firmly opposes”<br />

efforts to use freedom of<br />

navigation as an excuse to<br />

hurt its sovereignty and<br />

urges the United States to<br />

“correct its mistakes”, Lu<br />

said. In a separate statement<br />

on Saturday, China’s<br />

defense ministry said the<br />

repeated dispatch of U.S.<br />

warships to the region was<br />

“undermining regional<br />

peace and stability” and<br />

hurting bilateral relations.<br />

Hundreds of police<br />

in Thailand block<br />

anti-junta march<br />

BANGKOK: Hundreds<br />

of police in Thailand on<br />

Saturday blocked protestors<br />

planning to march from<br />

Bangkok to Khon Kaen in<br />

the northeast of the country<br />

in a rare display of public<br />

discontent in the junta-ruled<br />

country.<br />

Thailand has been ruled<br />

by the military since 2014.<br />

Demonstrations have since<br />

become a rarity, partly<br />

because of junta orders banning<br />

public assembly.<br />

The United Nations has<br />

expressed concern over what<br />

it calls a deteriorating rights<br />

situation in Thailand, including<br />

harsh sentences for those<br />

convicted of violating the<br />

lese-majeste law, known as<br />

Article 112, as well as other<br />

restrictions placed on freedom<br />

of expression.<br />

“We want to tell the junta<br />

that you have taken Thailand<br />

back a long way. The people<br />

in the agriculture ministry<br />

are all generals. There are<br />

just generals!” said one<br />

protest leader. “Let’s hold<br />

hands! We are friends!” he<br />

said, appealing to around<br />

200 protestors gathered at<br />

the Thammasat University in<br />

Rangsit, north of Bangkok.<br />

Maungtaw starting on<br />

Tuesday and continuing<br />

over the next two years,<br />

under an agreement the two<br />

countries signed this week.<br />

young, undocumented<br />

immigrants who were<br />

brought illegally into the<br />

United States as children.<br />

Last week, Trump rejected<br />

a bipartisan Senate deal<br />

that would have accomplished<br />

that as well as hand<br />

the White House $2.7 billion<br />

in new money for<br />

immigration enforcement at<br />

America’s borders.<br />

Minutes before Friday’s<br />

midnight deadline for a<br />

funding deal, Trump’s<br />

White House issued a statement<br />

blaming Democrats<br />

for the shutdown. “We will<br />

not negotiate the status of<br />

unlawful immigrants while<br />

Democrats hold our lawful<br />

citizens hostage over their<br />

reckless demands,” it said.<br />

The shutdown was cemented<br />

when the Senate, meeting<br />

late into Friday night,<br />

blocked a bill to maintain<br />

the federal government’s<br />

funding through Feb. 16.<br />

Russia, US likely<br />

to discuss North<br />

Korea in Moscow:<br />

Minister to TASS<br />

MOSCOW: Diplomats<br />

from Russia and the<br />

United States are likely to<br />

hold their next round of<br />

consultations on North<br />

Korea in Moscow on a<br />

date yet to be decided,<br />

TASS news agency quoted<br />

Russian Deputy<br />

Foreign Minister Igor<br />

Morgulov as saying on<br />

Saturday.<br />

He also said a delegation<br />

from North Korea<br />

might visit Moscow<br />

before the start of next<br />

month’s Olympic Games.<br />

Morgulov told the<br />

news agency that he has<br />

sent an invitation for talks<br />

to Joseph Yun, the U.S.<br />

Special Representative for<br />

North Korea Policy.<br />

The talks about North<br />

Korea’s missile program<br />

and nuclear aspirations<br />

are taking place amid<br />

accusations from U.S.<br />

President Donald Trump<br />

that Moscow was helping<br />

Pyongyang evade international<br />

sanctions. Russia<br />

denies the allegations.<br />

The<br />

which was broadcast live on<br />

Facebook, was shared more<br />

than 900 times and viewed<br />

by more than 32,000 times.<br />

Sharing social media<br />

content deemed critical of<br />

the junta or royal family can<br />

land a person in jail in<br />

Thailand under its computer<br />

crimes act.<br />

Bangladesh will provide<br />

an advance list of prospective<br />

returnees with forms<br />

attesting to their residency<br />

in Myanmar, the newspaper<br />

LONDON: The roaring<br />

engines and burning rubber<br />

of “The Fast & The<br />

Furious” films - one of cin-<br />

Sunday, <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

International<br />

5<br />

'Fast & Furious' star Diesel brings<br />

high-octane live show to London<br />

CAIRO: Egypt’s<br />

President Abdel Fattah al-<br />

Sisi said on Friday he will<br />

run for a second term in<br />

office in an election in<br />

March, which the former<br />

military commander is<br />

widely expected to win.<br />

Sisi’s rule has brought<br />

some stability to the country,<br />

but critics say his popularity<br />

has been eroded by<br />

tough economic reforms<br />

that have hit people’s<br />

livelihood’s hard and by a<br />

crackdown on dissidents.<br />

His supporters on the<br />

other hand say measures<br />

are needed to keep the<br />

said. Some returnees will<br />

cross over by land and others<br />

via a river along the border,<br />

it said.<br />

Rohingya refugees at the<br />

sprawling Kutupalong<br />

camp in Bangladesh are<br />

balking at going back until<br />

Myanmar can guarantee<br />

their safety, among other<br />

demands listed in a petition<br />

drawn up by camp leaders<br />

and shown to Reuters.<br />

Even as Myanmar gets<br />

ready to start receiving the<br />

Rohingya next week, more<br />

of them are fleeing continued<br />

military operations in<br />

Rakhine, newly arrived<br />

refugees camp have told<br />

Reuters.<br />

country stable as it faces<br />

security challenges including<br />

attacks by Islamic<br />

State militants in the North<br />

Sinai region.<br />

“Today ... I tell you<br />

frankly and transparently<br />

that I hope you would allow<br />

and accept my candidacy<br />

for the president’s post,”<br />

Sisi told a cheering crowd.<br />

The vote will be held on<br />

March 26-28, with a runoff<br />

vote on April 24-26 if<br />

no candidate wins more<br />

than 50 percent in the first<br />

round. Candidates will register<br />

from <strong>Jan</strong>. 20 to 29.<br />

In the televised<br />

More than 100 Rohingya<br />

Muslims from northern<br />

Rakhine fled into<br />

Bangladesh and scores<br />

more were waiting to cross<br />

the Naf river that forms the<br />

border, they said.<br />

Rohingya Muslim insurgents<br />

said on Saturday the<br />

repatriation plan was “not<br />

acceptable” and “the<br />

Burmese terrorist government<br />

is deceitfully and<br />

crookedly offering<br />

Rohingya refugees to settle<br />

down in so-called temporary<br />

camps”. Burma is the<br />

former name of Myanmar.<br />

“Repatriated Rohingya<br />

refugees from Bangladesh<br />

will never be able to settle<br />

ema’s highest-grossing<br />

franchises - are skidding<br />

off the screen and into the<br />

real world, as a live stunt<br />

show based on the movies<br />

opens in London on<br />

Thursday.<br />

“Fast & Furious Live,”<br />

held in London’s O2 arena,<br />

aims to recreate the elaborate<br />

stunts for which the<br />

films are known.<br />

“We talked about a live<br />

show, but we’d never<br />

imagined it in the way that<br />

Rowland (creative director,<br />

Rowland French)<br />

imagined it,” actor Vin<br />

Diesel, one of the films’<br />

main stars, told Reuters.<br />

The show features<br />

around 40 vehicles, including<br />

tanks, trucks, a submarine<br />

and dozens of firespitting,<br />

customized muscle<br />

cars. It uses 3D projection<br />

technology to help<br />

give the illusion that car<br />

chases are taking place<br />

over distances much<br />

greater than the inside of<br />

an arena.<br />

“Fast and The Furious,”<br />

about a gang of illegal<br />

street racers, has spawned<br />

eight films since 2001,<br />

with two more in development,<br />

a forthcoming spinoff<br />

film, video games and<br />

theme park rides.<br />

The franchise survived<br />

the death of one of its main<br />

stars, Paul Walker, killed<br />

in a car crash in 2013.<br />

“I think he would totally<br />

get a kick out of, out of<br />

seeing our little movie turn<br />

into this show at the O2<br />

arena,” Diesel said. “He’d<br />

get a kick out of that.”<br />

Egypt's Sisi to run for second<br />

term in March election<br />

SUGEDIGI, Turkey:<br />

Turkish artillery fired into<br />

Syria’s Afrin region on<br />

Friday in what Ankara said<br />

was the start of a military<br />

campaign against the<br />

Kurdish-controlled area.<br />

The cross-border bombardment<br />

took place after<br />

days of threats from Turkish<br />

President Tayyip Erdogan to<br />

crush the Syrian Kurdish<br />

YPG militia in Afrin in<br />

response to growing<br />

demonstration, Kurdish strength across a<br />

wide stretch of north Syria.<br />

Direct military action<br />

against territory held by<br />

Kurdish militia would open<br />

a new front in Syria’s civil<br />

war and would see Ankara<br />

confronting Kurds allied to<br />

the United States at a time<br />

when Turkey’s relations<br />

with Washington are reaching<br />

breaking point.<br />

“The operation has actually<br />

de facto started with<br />

cross-border shelling,”<br />

Turkish Defence Minister<br />

Nurettin Canikli said,<br />

adding that no troops had<br />

crossed into Afrin.<br />

A U.S. State Department<br />

official said such moves<br />

announcement, Sisi listed<br />

Egypt’s achievements during<br />

his first term, including<br />

a nascent financial recovery<br />

after years of political<br />

turmoil and economic<br />

instability.<br />

“Building the state<br />

takes 16 to 20 years, I am<br />

trying to finish it in 8<br />

years, God willing,” Sisi<br />

said.<br />

Sisi came to prominence<br />

when he led the<br />

army’s ouster of President<br />

Mohamed Mursi of the<br />

Muslim Brotherhood in<br />

2013 - Egypt’s first freely<br />

elected leader - two years<br />

after the downfall of longtime<br />

ruler President Hosni<br />

Mubarak in the “Arab<br />

Spring” uprisings that<br />

swept the Middle East.<br />

The former general<br />

became president himself<br />

in 2014, winning 96.91<br />

percent of the vote,<br />

although turnout was only<br />

about 47 percent of the 54<br />

million voters, after voting<br />

was extended for a day.<br />

Turkey shells Syria's Afrin region,<br />

minister says operation has begun<br />

would undermine regional<br />

stability and would not help<br />

protect Turkey’s border<br />

security.<br />

“We do not believe that a<br />

military operation serves the<br />

cause of regional stability,<br />

Syrian stability or indeed<br />

Turkish concerns about the<br />

security of their border,” the<br />

official told reporters,<br />

stressing he had limited<br />

information about Turkey’s<br />

reported military moves.<br />

“The kind of threats or<br />

activities which these initial<br />

reports may be referring to,<br />

we don’t think advance any<br />

of these issues. They are<br />

destabilizing.” The United<br />

States has instead called on<br />

Turkey to focus on the fight<br />

against Islamic State militants<br />

and not take military<br />

action in Afrin.<br />

Myanmar finalizes Rohingya repatriation preparations as doubts mount<br />

down in their own ancestral<br />

lands and villages, rather<br />

than spending not only the<br />

rest of their lives but also<br />

the lives of their next generations<br />

to come in those concentration<br />

camps,” the<br />

Arakan Rohingya Salvation<br />

Army (ARSA) said in a<br />

statement on Twitter.<br />

Myanmar has said it<br />

would build a transit camp<br />

that can house 30,000<br />

returnees before they are<br />

allowed to return to their<br />

“place of origin” or “nearest<br />

to their place of origin.”<br />

Government spokesman<br />

Zaw Htay did not respond<br />

to requests for comment on<br />

the ARSA statement.


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Sunday, <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

Biz<br />

Pakistan’s major edible oil imports are<br />

from Malaysia and Indonesia: moot told<br />

G U J R A N W A L A :<br />

Defence Minister Khurram<br />

Dastgir Khan has said<br />

Nawaz Sharif is guarantor<br />

of Pakistan development.<br />

“Nawaz Sharif is guarantor<br />

of Pakistan development.<br />

Wherever I go<br />

KARACHI: Group photo of Minister of State for SAFRON Abdul Qadir Baloch, Minister of State for Maritime Affairs<br />

Ch. Jaffar Iqbal, Port Qasim Authority acting chairman Najaf Quli Mirza and other on the occasion 3rd Pakistan<br />

Edible Oil Conference & Global Price-outlook -<strong>2018</strong>.<br />

KARACHI: A one-day<br />

3rd Pakistan Edible Oil<br />

Conference (PEOC) was<br />

held in Karachi on<br />

Saturday to highlight the<br />

issues being faced by the<br />

industry.<br />

At the conference, leading<br />

and most renowned<br />

speakers and industry<br />

experts presented their<br />

papers and analyzed the<br />

market directions. All the<br />

leading Brands of Pakistan<br />

also set up their stalls on<br />

the sideline of the conference<br />

to showcase their<br />

products. While addressing<br />

the inaugural session<br />

of the conference, Minister<br />

of State for Frontier<br />

Regions Abdul Qadir<br />

Bloch said that with efforts<br />

of the present government,<br />

the security situation in the<br />

country had improved during<br />

the last couple of years<br />

and Pakistan had now<br />

become a favourite place<br />

for the investment.<br />

“Pakistan has fought terrorism<br />

for many years and<br />

conducted several operations<br />

to eliminate the terrorists<br />

and bring peace to<br />

the country. Now, there is<br />

no security issue in<br />

Pakistan and economy is<br />

on the pace of growth," he<br />

added.<br />

The minister said that a<br />

large number of participa-<br />

Nawaz Sharif fragrance<br />

comes”, he said this in a<br />

statement issued here.<br />

He held people know<br />

Nawaz Sharif is guarantor<br />

of prosperity of country.<br />

Nawaz Sharif completed<br />

several uplift projects in<br />

the country.<br />

Is former president Asif<br />

Ali Zardari guarantor of<br />

development in the country,<br />

he questioned.<br />

He went on to say Tahir<br />

ul Qadri has not a single<br />

councilor in the country<br />

tion of foreign delegates in<br />

the conference was also<br />

evidence that Pakistan’s<br />

security situation was<br />

much better than previous<br />

years.<br />

Minister for State for<br />

Maritime Affairs<br />

Chaudary Jaffar Iqbal said<br />

that the government was<br />

fully committed to facilitating<br />

the business community<br />

for long-term economic<br />

growth. He said:<br />

"Presently, three ports,<br />

including Karachi Port,<br />

Port Qasim, and Gwadar<br />

Ports, are fully operational<br />

and are providing state of<br />

the art services to the<br />

traders."<br />

PEOC Chief Executive<br />

Nawaz Sharif guarantor of development<br />

of Pakistan: Khurram Dastgir Khan<br />

Iftikhar re-elected VP SAARC<br />

Chamber for consecutive 6th term<br />

ISLAMABAD: Iftikhar<br />

Ali Malik ,Vice President<br />

of SAARC Chamber of<br />

Commerce and Industry<br />

(SCCI), an apex body of<br />

regional chambers in the<br />

region, sets a new record<br />

in South Asia getting reelected<br />

for the post unanimously<br />

for sixth consecutive<br />

two years term.<br />

According to the notification<br />

of SAARC chamber<br />

issued here by its Secretary<br />

General Hina Saeed<br />

Saturday, SAARC CCI<br />

President Suraj Vaidya, a<br />

leading business tycoon<br />

hailing from Nepal and<br />

SAARC General<br />

Assembly and Executive<br />

Committee members from<br />

India, Bangladesh, Sri<br />

Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal,<br />

Afghanistan and Maldives<br />

with majority votes reelected<br />

Iftikhar Ali Malik<br />

for the sixth term.<br />

Iftikhar also held the<br />

offices of the Presidents<br />

Federation of Pakistan<br />

Chambers of Commerce<br />

and Industry and the<br />

Lahore Chamber of<br />

Commerce and Industry,<br />

took action in line with the<br />

policy of the Federal Minister<br />

Rana Tanveer Hussain.06<br />

units of bottle drinking water<br />

(BDW) M/S Al- Syed Pure<br />

KARACHI: Pakistan<br />

Standards and Quality<br />

Control Authority (PSQCA)<br />

has launched a crackdown on<br />

illegal water companies in<br />

Karachi. Today PSQCAteam Drinking Water,<br />

raided Gulshan e Maymar<br />

area and 6 plants sealed due<br />

to sub standards and illegal<br />

license their total stocks were<br />

seized on the spot. PSQCA<br />

(Al-syed<br />

brand), M/S. R.O water. (R.O<br />

brand), M/s. Dew Fresh<br />

Water (Dew fresh brand),<br />

Ms.Aqua fresh pure drinking<br />

water (Aqua fresh<br />

besides founder President<br />

Pak US Business Council .<br />

He is currently working<br />

as Central Chairman<br />

United Business Group<br />

(UBG). He is also the<br />

chairman of the Guard<br />

Group of Industries and a<br />

chain of Mumtaz<br />

Bakhtawar Memorial Trust<br />

Hospitals.<br />

In his statement,<br />

Iftikhar Ali Malik reiterated<br />

to continue efforts for<br />

greater economic integration<br />

by fully exploiting all<br />

indigenous natural<br />

resources for the progress,<br />

prosperity, development<br />

and welfare of the people<br />

mainly aimed at doing<br />

away with abject poverty<br />

in South Asia.<br />

The SAARC should be<br />

more active to address<br />

major challenges the<br />

region faces, job creation<br />

for the youth of South Asia<br />

and alleviation of poverty,<br />

he added.<br />

brand) Director General<br />

PSQCA Engineer<br />

Muhammad Khalid Siddiq<br />

said that our surveillance<br />

teams were striving to trace<br />

illegal manufacturers of<br />

drinking water and strict<br />

action would be taken<br />

against the companies if<br />

they were found preparing<br />

substandard water.<br />

and even then he has disrupted<br />

the peace of the<br />

entire country. This is trick<br />

of the enemy and the people<br />

have given their verdict<br />

by not participating in<br />

Lahore Mall road public<br />

meeting.<br />

National Bonds to<br />

offer up to 4% profit<br />

in 2017, says CEO<br />

DUBAI: National Bonds<br />

Corporation, a Shariah-compliant<br />

saving and investment<br />

company in UAE, will offer<br />

nearly the same profit rate<br />

for 2017 as in the previous<br />

year, its chief executive said.<br />

"At the moment, we are<br />

aiming to offer profit rate at<br />

nearly the same level as<br />

2016 because we see<br />

increasing interest rates in<br />

the market and want to be<br />

competitive," Mohammed<br />

Qasim Al Ali, CEO of<br />

National Bonds, told<br />

Khaleej Times in an interview.<br />

National Bonds<br />

offered up to four per cent in<br />

annual returns for 2016 to<br />

bondholders.<br />

Al Ali said the company<br />

would invest Dh900 million<br />

to develop real estate projects<br />

in the UAE this year,<br />

with the first project being<br />

launched in Reem Island,<br />

Abu Dhabi. The second<br />

project will come up in<br />

Satwa near City Walk, with<br />

both targeted at the upper<br />

middle class.<br />

In order to ensure a consistent<br />

flow of revenue,<br />

National Bonds plans to rent<br />

out the new developments<br />

rather than sell it, Al Ali said.<br />

PSQCA starts crackdown<br />

Sub standard Bottled water<br />

Companies sealed LAHORE: Pakistan<br />

Railways Minister Khawaja<br />

Saad Rafique Saturday said<br />

that all coaches of trains<br />

would be upgraded in the<br />

next three years under the<br />

upgradation plan. Talking to<br />

the media after inauguration<br />

of the latest upgraded rake<br />

of 9-up/10-Down Allama<br />

Iqbal Express train, which<br />

runs between Karachi and<br />

Sialkot via Narowal, at<br />

Lahore Railway Station, he<br />

said that the PR had spent<br />

Rs 1.5 billion from its own<br />

resources on upgradation of<br />

trains and railway stations<br />

so far.<br />

He said that so far 636<br />

coaches of major trains had<br />

been upgraded while the<br />

state-of-the-art Okara railway<br />

station building would<br />

be inaugurated on Monday.<br />

It would be the second<br />

upgraded railway station<br />

which is being opened for<br />

the public after Sibbi railway<br />

station. He said that<br />

Rasheed <strong>Jan</strong> Muhammad<br />

said in his welcome:<br />

"Since Pakistan is a very<br />

significant market with<br />

annual consumption of<br />

around four million tons of<br />

edible oil. I strongly<br />

believe that this conference<br />

will be very consecutive<br />

for all stakeholder of<br />

the industry.<br />

Annual Business<br />

Education Conference<br />

to be held in Karachi<br />

ISLAMABAD: The<br />

National Business<br />

Education Accreditation<br />

Council (NBEAC) is<br />

organizing the annual<br />

two-day 5th Deans and<br />

Directors Conference<br />

"Creating Impact with<br />

CPEC" from February<br />

5-6, <strong>2018</strong> at Karachi.<br />

NBEAC was established<br />

by the Higher<br />

Education Commission<br />

in 2007 to assure quality<br />

in business education<br />

degree programmes.<br />

The Conference,<br />

which will bring together<br />

over 100 Deans and<br />

Directors of leading<br />

Business Schools, aims<br />

to evaluate how business<br />

education in<br />

Pakistan is preparing<br />

graduates to contribute<br />

to the local and global<br />

economic activities and<br />

identify unique themes<br />

and specializations for<br />

business education in<br />

Pakistan, keeping local<br />

needs and global trends<br />

in perspective.<br />

Islamabad: Muhammad<br />

Naveed, Senior Vice<br />

President, Islamabad<br />

Chamber of Commerce and<br />

Industry along with Baser<br />

Daud, former President<br />

ICCI called on Barrister<br />

Abid Waheed Sheikh,<br />

Managing Director, Pakistan<br />

Bait Ul Mal (PBUM) and<br />

lauded his valuable services<br />

for the nation.<br />

He said under the leadership<br />

of Barrister Abid<br />

Waheed Sheikh, Pakistan<br />

Raiwind junction railway<br />

station building was about<br />

to complete whereas upgradation<br />

work on<br />

Bahawalpur, Sahiwal,<br />

Nankana and Narowal railway<br />

stations was under<br />

way. The minister said that<br />

rakes of Mehran Express,<br />

Khyber Mail and Akbar<br />

Bugti Express trains would<br />

be upgraded till June <strong>2018</strong>.<br />

“By taking steps regarding<br />

punctuality and with<br />

the provision of facilities to<br />

LCCI hopes trade policy<br />

would be business friendly<br />

LAHORE: Lahore<br />

Chamber of Commerce &<br />

Industry has expressed the<br />

hope that upcoming trade<br />

policy will be focused on<br />

enhancement of export<br />

competitiveness of the<br />

country.<br />

In a statement, the LCCI<br />

President Malik Tahir<br />

Javaid, Senior Vice<br />

President Khawaja Khawar<br />

Rashid and Vice President<br />

Zeshan Khalil said that economic<br />

challenges, particularly<br />

low exports and high<br />

trade deficit have underlined<br />

the need for a well-consulted<br />

and powerful trade policy<br />

which can perform as driving<br />

force for the economy.<br />

LCCI Office-bearers<br />

said, government should<br />

realize that the country<br />

needs a paradigm shift to<br />

enable local businessmen to<br />

become globally competitive<br />

and can export those<br />

products which are valued<br />

LAHORE: A high level<br />

delegation of Pakistan<br />

Furniture Council (PFC)<br />

Saturday returned home<br />

from different European<br />

countries including<br />

Germany, Portugal,<br />

Austria, Spain and Italy<br />

after twelve days long<br />

extensive visit aimed at<br />

exploring new markets and<br />

strengthening existing<br />

bilateral trade relations<br />

more in the international<br />

market.<br />

LCCI President Malik<br />

Tahir Javaid said that today<br />

the country’s industry is facing<br />

multiple challenges<br />

including high input cost,<br />

poor innovation, low productivity,<br />

little foreign<br />

investment, lack of product<br />

and geographical diversification.<br />

They said that the<br />

high utility prices are the<br />

major factor therefore the<br />

government should focus on<br />

the issue that has not only<br />

jacked up the cost of doing<br />

business in the country but<br />

also fast making us uncompetitive.<br />

They said that the<br />

government would have to<br />

tackle pressing supply side<br />

constraints including cost of<br />

capital on priority basis for<br />

enhancing competitiveness<br />

as Pakistani merchandise<br />

are fast losing their due<br />

place in the global market<br />

only because their high<br />

with their counterparts in<br />

furniture industry during<br />

business to business contacts.<br />

Talking to newsmen on<br />

his arrival here today, PFC<br />

Chief Executive Mian<br />

Kashif Ashfaq said this<br />

business tour provided<br />

them ample chances to<br />

explore new avenues by<br />

sharing vision, expertise<br />

for formulation of future<br />

prices.<br />

They urged the government<br />

to focus on South<br />

America and African Union<br />

where competition is low<br />

and profits are high. They<br />

said that country’s exports<br />

can become an engine of<br />

growth and prosperity in<br />

Pakistan, if relevant institutions,<br />

both in public and private<br />

sectors implement a<br />

well tailored, well consulted<br />

and widely discussed strategy.<br />

They also suggested<br />

introduction of a new<br />

scheme for exports under<br />

which zero-rated import of<br />

some inputs should be<br />

allowed. They said that a little<br />

attention towards to identification<br />

of new markets for<br />

Pakistani merchandise can<br />

do a lot for the country and<br />

in this regard, Pakistani missions<br />

abroad and the Lahore<br />

Chamber of Commerce and<br />

Industry is ready to play a<br />

proactive role.<br />

PFC delegation returns home after 12-day<br />

business tour of five European countries<br />

policies, economic studies,<br />

sectoral and project specific<br />

reports besides promotional<br />

efforts. He was of<br />

the view that economic and<br />

trade relations between<br />

Pakistan and Europe possessed<br />

great potential and<br />

there was dire need for<br />

Pakistani business community<br />

to focus on improving<br />

their competitiveness in the<br />

European market.<br />

KARACHI: Chairman of Karachi Chamber’s Banking & Insurance Sub-Committee Shaikh<br />

Danish Iqbal presiding over the first meeting of his Sub-Committee at Aiwan-e-Tijarat. In<br />

the Picture, President KCCI Muffasar Atta Malik is seen addressing the meeting while,<br />

Senior Vice President KCCI Abdul Basit Abdul Razzak, Former President Iftikhar A.<br />

Vohra, Deputy Chairman Sub-Committee Hilal Shaikh, former VP Saqib Naseem, Advisors<br />

of the Sub-Committee Pervez Ashfaq, Ateeq ur Rehman, Abdur Rahim ACII, Altaf Hussain<br />

and Secretary General S.M. H. Rizvi are also present at the meeting.<br />

ICCI lauds services of MD Pakistan Bait Ul Mal for society<br />

Bait Ul Mal was taking good<br />

initiatives for poverty alleviation<br />

from the country by<br />

providing various social<br />

safety net services to vulnerable<br />

& under-privileged<br />

people.<br />

He said it was encouraging<br />

that Barrister Abid<br />

Waheed Sheikh has promoted<br />

transparency, efficiency<br />

and accessibility in Pakistan<br />

Bait Ul Mall by introducing<br />

IT integrated system and e-<br />

governance that has greatly<br />

All train coaches to be upgraded in 3 years: Kh Saad<br />

passengers, trust in the railways<br />

has been improved,”<br />

he added. He said that two<br />

more dedicated tenure were<br />

needed for complete rehabilitation<br />

of railways, as it<br />

had become a destroyed<br />

department in 2013.<br />

“But we have saved it<br />

from privatisation with the<br />

efforts of railways workers<br />

and a good team of officers,”<br />

he added. He appreciated<br />

the role of employees.<br />

He said that PR would<br />

facilitated the needy people<br />

including those in need of<br />

urgent medical treatment.<br />

He appreciated Barrister<br />

Abid Waheed Sheikhfor<br />

running some valuable<br />

projects to provide various<br />

social safety services to<br />

orphans, widows, disabled<br />

and other needy persons. It<br />

said it was laudable that<br />

PBUM has established<br />

hundreds of vocational<br />

schools for women empowerment<br />

and national centers<br />

cross the limit of Rs 50 billion<br />

revenue in June <strong>2018</strong>.<br />

He said that expenditures<br />

of the department had been<br />

raised; however, there was<br />

a visible stability in the<br />

deficit and earnings.<br />

He said that construction<br />

work of the quarters for<br />

employees was at the last<br />

stage and the current regime<br />

had focused on lower staff<br />

instead of building houses<br />

for the officers. He hoped the<br />

next elected government<br />

for rehabilitation of child<br />

labor to provide free education.<br />

He said PBUM was<br />

disbursing a huge sums of<br />

money to the needy persons<br />

including cancer patients<br />

which was highly laudable.<br />

He hoped that under the<br />

dynamic leadership of<br />

Barrister Abid Waheed<br />

Sheikh, Pakistan Bait ul<br />

Mal would launch many<br />

new projects for the welfare<br />

of needy and deserving<br />

persons.<br />

would also work with the<br />

same spirit for the railways.<br />

To a question about cursing<br />

the parliament by Pakistan<br />

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)<br />

Chairman Imran Khan and<br />

Sheikh Rashid, he said that<br />

all institutions had their<br />

respect as well the parliament;<br />

therefore using abusive<br />

language for the parliament<br />

by any politician meant<br />

cursing himself. About work<br />

on Main Line-1 under<br />

China-Pakistan Economic<br />

Corridor, the minister said<br />

that the PR administration<br />

did not want any haste in<br />

upgradation of ML-1.<br />

“Chinese are our friends but<br />

we have to be careful in signing<br />

any agreement with<br />

them. That’s why a delegation<br />

of four high-level officers<br />

are on making negotiations<br />

with the Chinese side<br />

for and only those decisions<br />

would be made in larger<br />

interest of Pakistan and railways,”<br />

he added.


Sunday, <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

Sportlight<br />

7<br />

India beat Pakistan to win<br />

Blind Cricket World Cup<br />

World XI crush Pakistan’s<br />

young guns by 5-1<br />

AJMAN: India held<br />

their nerves to beat<br />

Pakistan by two wickets in<br />

the final of 5th Blind<br />

Cricket World Cup in<br />

Sharjah on Saturday.<br />

Batting first, Pakistan<br />

scored 308 for the loss of<br />

eight wickets in allocated<br />

40 overs after they were<br />

sent into bat first by India<br />

who won the toss.<br />

For Pakistan, Badar<br />

Munir scored 57, while<br />

Riasat Khan added 48 runs<br />

to the team’s total. Captain<br />

Nisar Ali could add 47 runs<br />

In response, India<br />

reached the target in penultimate<br />

over with two wickets<br />

remaining. Although<br />

Kamran,Arif and Talha star as Kemari Warriors moved in<br />

the Quarter Final of Innovators Karachi Super League<br />

Dr M. Arif Hafeez<br />

Sports Reporter<br />

KARACHI:A opening<br />

batsman Kamran Rehman<br />

struck a stylish half-century<br />

and leg-spinner Arif<br />

Yaqoob and Mohammad<br />

Talha shearing six wickets<br />

between them as the formidable<br />

Kemari warriors<br />

breezed into quarter-finals<br />

of the Innovators Karachi<br />

Super League here at the<br />

Naya Lawi Cricket<br />

Stadium Naya Nazimabad.<br />

Mean while,The lats<br />

Eight stage have been<br />

decide as teams will be<br />

competing in the Quarterfinals<br />

of Innovators<br />

Karachi Super League in<br />

progress at Naya<br />

Nazimabad Lwai Cricket<br />

Stadium Karachi.<br />

According to the detail,<br />

in 1st Quarter final, Orangi<br />

Hunters would face<br />

Nazimabd Loins and the<br />

second last eight,Lyari<br />

Riders wil play against<br />

Korangi Fighters.<br />

Opener Kamran<br />

Rehman hit 64 off 45 balls<br />

(three fours and two sixes<br />

), Arif Chakarzai unbeaten<br />

39 off 14 balls (three sixes)<br />

and Zia-ur-Rehman 27 to<br />

help Kemari warriors collect<br />

179-4 in the stipulated<br />

20 overs.Naveed Ahmed<br />

took 2-30.<br />

Baldia Blasters, in their<br />

chase, restricted ti 128-9 in<br />

20 overs.Zeeshan ameel<br />

was the top scorer with 35<br />

off 14 balls(three fours and<br />

three Sixes),Yar<br />

Mohammad made 27 off<br />

32 balls (two fours) and<br />

Naveed Ahmed scored 27.<br />

The Lading wicket<br />

taker of IKSL Right arm<br />

league spinner Arif<br />

Yaqoob continued his brilliant<br />

form when he took<br />

three wickets for mere nine<br />

runs to take his tally to 12<br />

scalps in the fuve league<br />

matches,slow left armer<br />

Federer keeps hunt for Slam<br />

number 20 on track<br />

M E L B O U R N E :<br />

Defending champion<br />

Roger Federer continued<br />

his dominance over<br />

Richard Gasquet to reach<br />

the round of 16 at the<br />

Australian Open on<br />

Saturday and keep his<br />

quest for a 20th Grand<br />

Slam title on track.<br />

The Swiss star beat the<br />

Frenchman 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 in<br />

just under two hours in a<br />

night match on Rod Laver<br />

Arena.<br />

Federer has unheralded<br />

Hungarian and one-time<br />

training partner Marton<br />

Fucsovics up next and a<br />

potential quarter-final with<br />

Tomas Berdych, who upset<br />

Juan Martin Del Porto in<br />

straight sets earlier<br />

Saturday.<br />

Federer, rated the<br />

favourite to win his 20th<br />

major even at the venerable<br />

age of 36, progressed<br />

to the fourth round at the<br />

Australian Open for the<br />

16th time.<br />

The Swiss has only lost<br />

twice to the stylish<br />

Frenchman in their 19<br />

meetings, winning all their<br />

four Grand Slam encounters.<br />

Significantly, Gasquet<br />

hasn't won a set against<br />

Federer since 2011, a run<br />

of 22 sets to the Swiss.<br />

"I was able to stay more<br />

on the offensive than he<br />

was and maybe I was protecting<br />

my own serve better<br />

than him," Federer said.<br />

"I was hoping I could<br />

play at that level. I´m very<br />

happy that I was able to<br />

rise to a level that I needed<br />

to beat Richard.<br />

"It was tough. The score<br />

shows it, as well. I could<br />

have done it maybe a bit<br />

faster.<br />

"At the same time I'm<br />

happy to have done it the<br />

way it happened. I was<br />

pleased. I think I had some<br />

good shots. I was happy<br />

the way I played. I also<br />

thought we both played a<br />

good level again, so it was<br />

fun."<br />

India still not a good fast<br />

bowling nation: Shoaib Akhtar<br />

NEW DELHI: Former<br />

Pakistan tearaway paceman<br />

Shoaib Akhtar said<br />

India still has a long way<br />

to go before they can call<br />

themselves a good fast<br />

bowling nation.<br />

Akhtar, also known as<br />

the Rawalpindi Express,<br />

though praised the Indian<br />

pace attack for their good<br />

work in the first two Tests<br />

of the ongoing three-match<br />

series in South Africa.<br />

"I would not say that. I<br />

would say they are gradually<br />

improving and there is<br />

a long way to go before<br />

India can call itself a good<br />

fast bowling nation,"<br />

Akhtar told Indian news<br />

agency. "Five years ago, I<br />

had thought that Varun<br />

Aaron, Umesh Yadav and<br />

Mohammed Shami will be<br />

the ones to lead India's<br />

pace department on overseas<br />

tours. "But that did<br />

not happen with Aaron<br />

having fitness issues,<br />

Yadav being good in<br />

patches and erratic other<br />

times, like Wahab Riaz.<br />

But Akhtar said the current<br />

performance of the<br />

bowlers is a "healthy sign"<br />

"The thinking that (Virat)<br />

Kohli and the team management<br />

seem to have,<br />

they will only get better."India<br />

have always<br />

been known for their batting<br />

but nowadays you are<br />

seeing emergence of fast<br />

bowlers too but still I<br />

would say long way to go,"<br />

said Akhtar, who will be<br />

seen in action at St. Moritz<br />

Ice Cricket in Switzerland<br />

next month.<br />

The bowlers certainly<br />

did their job at Newlands<br />

and Centurion, dismissing<br />

South Africa each time in<br />

four innings and out of the<br />

40, 30 wickets were taken<br />

by the pacers.<br />

As captain Kohli pointed<br />

out, it was the batting<br />

that let India down. To<br />

many, India's series loss in<br />

South Africa was not<br />

entirely surprising but<br />

according to Akhtar, the<br />

result was unexpected. "I<br />

saw the first two Tests in<br />

bits and pieces. It would be<br />

wrong to say that it (India's<br />

loss) was expected. It is<br />

still one of the best Test<br />

teams. "Yes, they did not<br />

play well. The batsmen<br />

should have applied themselves<br />

better. It is, may be,<br />

a result of a bad combination.<br />

Not taking wickets at<br />

the right time, not scoring<br />

enough runs.<br />

Mohammad Talha grabbed<br />

three wickets to gives<br />

away only 13 runs.<br />

Later Chief Guest<br />

Nomineted Chirman<br />

District west Mohammad<br />

Asif Khan. was given man<br />

of the match award to<br />

Kamran Reman, Shezad<br />

khan(USA) was presented<br />

best blower award to Arif<br />

Yaqoob,Malik Falak Sher<br />

Rana Deputy Collector<br />

custom west , was given<br />

Master Blaster award to<br />

Arif Chakarzai While<br />

Chudri Sajid Ali of<br />

Shameel cc was given best<br />

fielder award to Aqib<br />

Hassan Rizvi.<br />

Lashkarwala takes<br />

lead in 11th National<br />

Tenpin Bowling C’ship<br />

Sports Reporter<br />

KARACHI: Shabbir<br />

Lashkarwala took the lead<br />

in the masters’ category of<br />

the 11th National Tenpin<br />

Bowling Championship<br />

<strong>2018</strong>, after second round<br />

was played at Leisure City<br />

Bowling Club.<br />

In masters singles, last<br />

four games and graded<br />

final were played. Each<br />

player completed a set of<br />

eight games, in which<br />

M E L B O U R N E :<br />

Angelique Kerber crushed<br />

Maria Sharapova in<br />

straight sets in a battle of<br />

former champions at the<br />

Australian Open on<br />

Saturday.<br />

The 2016 winner from<br />

Germany and <strong>21</strong>st seed<br />

roared past the unseeded<br />

Russian 2008 champion 6-<br />

1, 6-3 in 64 minutes to<br />

reach the last 16.<br />

"I was just trying to<br />

enjoy every point," said<br />

Kerber after snuffing out<br />

Sharapova´s hopes in only<br />

her second Grand Slam<br />

tournament back since<br />

serving a 15-month doping<br />

ban.<br />

The hugely anticipated<br />

match-up of the only two<br />

Australian Open winners -<br />

- and indeed Grand Slam<br />

champions -- left in the<br />

women´s draw got top<br />

billing Saturday night on<br />

Rod Laver Arena.<br />

"I have so many good<br />

memories on this court,"<br />

Pakistan got three consecutive<br />

wickets as India was<br />

inching towards the target<br />

but a wide-ball that went to<br />

cross the boundary confirmed<br />

India’s victory in<br />

the final.<br />

This is India’s second<br />

title win in the Blind<br />

Cricket World Cup.<br />

Pakistan has also won the<br />

title twice while South<br />

Africa won the title once.<br />

The Pakistan Blind<br />

Cricket Council has invited<br />

ICC CEO David<br />

Richardson, former<br />

Pakistan captain Zaheer<br />

Abbas and former Indian<br />

wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani<br />

to witness the final.<br />

K-Electric<br />

participates in<br />

Boxing C’ship<br />

KARACHI: The 36th<br />

National Men & 1st National<br />

Women's Boxing<br />

Championship organized by<br />

the Pakistan Boxing<br />

Federation commenced in<br />

Lahore. The 5-day tournament<br />

is being held at the<br />

WAPDA sports complex in<br />

which K-Electric would be<br />

participating in the men's and<br />

women's boxing matches.<br />

The opening ceremony<br />

was held with the chief guest<br />

Lt. General (R) Syed Arif<br />

Hassan who is also the<br />

President of Pakistan<br />

Olympic Committee along<br />

with General (R) Muzamil<br />

Hussain, Chairman Wapda.<br />

K-Electrics head of Sports<br />

Mahmood Riaz was also part<br />

of the opening ceremony<br />

along with his team.<br />

Spokesperson<br />

added, "We are honored to<br />

be a part of this Grand<br />

event in which we will have<br />

6 Men and 1 woman boxer<br />

representing KE.<br />

KARACHI: Avari Towers Karachi celebrated the revival of Hockey in Pakistan as World<br />

Hockey XI stayed at Avari Towers Karachi.<br />

KARACHI: The young<br />

Pakistani side was outplayed<br />

5-1 by the experienced<br />

World XI in the first of twomatch<br />

series between<br />

Pakistan and World XI in<br />

Karachi.<br />

Pakistan got the earlier<br />

lead in the first quarter when<br />

Adeel Latif converted a<br />

good move into a goal in the<br />

6th minute of the match.<br />

Pakistan maintained their<br />

1-0 lead in two quarters but<br />

couldn’t keep the control in<br />

the third quarter which saw<br />

World XI turning the match<br />

around with four consecutive<br />

goals.<br />

Captain Roderick<br />

Weusthof converted a penalty<br />

corner into a goal for the<br />

World XI to put Pakistan<br />

under pressure.<br />

The Dutch striker scored<br />

in the 33rd and 36th minute<br />

to give World XI a lead of 2-<br />

1. Five minutes later,<br />

starting from <strong>Jan</strong>uary 22,”<br />

the press release read.<br />

It further added: “The<br />

committee reviewed the<br />

expert advice it received<br />

from the top medical consultants<br />

in New Zealand<br />

after conducting all necessary<br />

medical tests of Malik<br />

and decided, after briefing<br />

PCB management, to send<br />

him back from New<br />

Australian Grant Schubert<br />

scored to extend the lead 3-<br />

1. Phillip Meulenbroek<br />

scored the 4th goal for the<br />

touring side. Spanish David<br />

Alegre did it 5-1 for the<br />

World XI side with a beautiful<br />

flick to score his first<br />

goal in the match.<br />

Pakistan made some very<br />

good moves despite being<br />

under deficit but they could<br />

not convert the moves into<br />

goals and finish it properly.<br />

Malik ruled out of New Zealand T20I<br />

KARACHI: Pakistan<br />

all-rounder Shoaib Malik<br />

was asked to fly back home<br />

after showing symptoms of<br />

delayed concussion, a<br />

Pakistan Cricket Board<br />

press release said on<br />

Saturday.<br />

The all-rounder was hit<br />

on the head during the<br />

fourth ODI against New<br />

Zealand in the five-match<br />

series which Pakistan lost<br />

5-0.<br />

“Pakistan Tour<br />

Management Committee,<br />

consisting of Team<br />

Manager Talat Ali, Head<br />

Coach Mickey Arthur and<br />

captain Sarfraz Ahmed held<br />

KE a meeting with Pakistan<br />

team physiotherapist Vib<br />

Singh and Malik to discuss<br />

his participation in the<br />

upcoming three-match T20I<br />

series against New Zealand<br />

PyeongChang. Therefore,<br />

a final list of invited athletes<br />

cannot be published<br />

before that date.<br />

As of today, the original<br />

pre-registration pool of 500<br />

athletes has already been<br />

reduced by 111 by the<br />

Panel. For others in the<br />

remaining pool of athletes,<br />

pre-conditions such as further<br />

pre-Games tests and<br />

reanalysis from stored samples<br />

have been required.<br />

Only if these requirements<br />

are met can the athletes be<br />

considered for invitation.<br />

No athlete who has been<br />

sanctioned by the Oswald<br />

Commission is still in the<br />

pool.<br />

The suspended Russian<br />

Zealand. The committee<br />

was of the opinion that it<br />

would give him the best<br />

chance to recuperate from<br />

the symptoms of delayed<br />

concussion he is currently<br />

showing.”<br />

Singh clarified Malik’s<br />

position further in his statement<br />

saying the all-rounder<br />

needs at least seven to 10<br />

days to be match fit.<br />

Reduced pool of Russian athletes and officials who can be<br />

considered for invitation to Pyeong Chang <strong>2018</strong> determined<br />

Sports Reporter in the Olympic Winter<br />

KARACHI: The Games PyeongChang<br />

Lashkarwala Invitation Review Panel <strong>2018</strong> as an “Olympic<br />

and the Olympic Athlete Athlete from Russia”<br />

from<br />

Russia (OAR) can be chosen.<br />

Implementation Group More than 80 per cent of<br />

(OARIG) have taken a key the athletes in this pool did<br />

step in the process of inviting<br />

not compete at the<br />

clean Russian athletes Olympic Winter Games<br />

to the Olympic Winter Sochi 2014. This shows<br />

Games PyeongChang that this is a new generation<br />

<strong>2018</strong>. Following intensive<br />

weeks of work by the of Russian athletes.<br />

the OARIG, the delegation<br />

Independent Invitation<br />

which was authorised<br />

Review Panel members, in by the IOC Executive<br />

which they went into Board (EB) last December,<br />

detailed consideration of has formally approved this<br />

each individual athlete, pool. The invitations can<br />

they have established a be issued only at the OAR<br />

pool of clean athletes from Delegation Registration<br />

which athletes to be invited<br />

Meeting (DRM) on 27<br />

by the IOC to take part <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>2018</strong><br />

in<br />

Shabbir<br />

earned top slot scoring<br />

1549 pins with an average<br />

of 193.63. Ijaz Ur Rehman<br />

had to settle with second<br />

position with total 1430<br />

pins, while Karachi’s<br />

Daniyal Shah remained<br />

firm on third place. Daniyal<br />

was playing against the top<br />

players of the country but<br />

he managed to secure third<br />

position by scoring 1423<br />

pins. In graded final<br />

games, Naveed Ul Haq<br />

won the title with 376 pins<br />

while Faheem Akbar was<br />

second with 335 pins and<br />

Ali Saldera third with 326<br />

pins.<br />

said Kerber, who won her<br />

first Grand Slam title there<br />

two years ago when she<br />

beat Serena Williams in<br />

the final.<br />

"I knew before the<br />

match it would be a tough<br />

one."<br />

Sharapova only<br />

returned to the top 50 two<br />

weeks ago and Kerber to<br />

the top 20 last week after<br />

being on top of the rankings<br />

as defending champion<br />

in Melbourne a year<br />

ago. Sharapova reached<br />

the semi-finals in<br />

Shenzhen to start the year<br />

but Kerber´s form has<br />

been outstanding heading<br />

into the year´s first major.<br />

The German enjoyed an<br />

unbeaten singles campaign<br />

in the Hopman Cup, won<br />

in Sydney and surrendered<br />

only nine games in the first<br />

two rounds in Melbourne.<br />

The pair had played<br />

each other on seven occasions<br />

before Saturday, with<br />

Olympic Committee, with<br />

which a working relationship<br />

needed to be established<br />

for the implementation<br />

of the IOC sanctions,<br />

can now start proposing<br />

which of the clean athletes<br />

can fill the earned quota<br />

places by sport, discipline<br />

and event. Therefore, only<br />

a limited number of athletes<br />

can be chosen from<br />

the current pool. As the<br />

qualification process is<br />

still ongoing and more preconditions<br />

have to be met<br />

by some of the athletes, it<br />

is still not possible to project<br />

how many athletes will<br />

participate<br />

in<br />

PyeongChang in the OAR<br />

group.<br />

Sharapova crashes out of Australian Open<br />

Kerber edging the series 4-<br />

3 including their previous<br />

two meetings, the last of<br />

which came on the<br />

Stuttgart clay in 2015.<br />

Kerber sent an early<br />

reminder of her recent<br />

superiority, breaking the<br />

Russian and then holding<br />

serve to go 2-0 up for the<br />

loss of just two points.<br />

Sharapova finally got<br />

on the board, but flawless<br />

Kerber was finding winners<br />

almost at will and<br />

broke again to take a 4-1<br />

advantage in just 23 minutes.<br />

Six minutes later and a<br />

third break, this time to<br />

love, brought the first set<br />

to the German who celebrated<br />

her 30th birthday<br />

earlier this week by taking<br />

it with just two unforced<br />

errors.<br />

Sharapova was facing<br />

the biggest test of her<br />

comeback as the pattern<br />

continued at the start of the<br />

second.


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Sunday, <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

Abbasi inaugurates International Terminal at Faisalabad Airport<br />

PM slams Imran over 'anti-parliament' remarks,<br />

challenges him to dissolve assemblies<br />

FAISALABAD/BHAK<br />

KAR: PM Shahid Khaqan<br />

Abbasi slammed the PTI<br />

Chairman Imran Khan<br />

over his alleged anti-parliament<br />

remarks, daring his<br />

party to resign from the<br />

assemblies and dissolve<br />

them.<br />

“No one in past has<br />

cursed the parliament,” he<br />

recalled, stating that the<br />

politics of his party head<br />

Nawaz Sharif is based on<br />

decency. PM Abbasi asked<br />

the people to decide<br />

whether they want to follow<br />

the message of love or<br />

that of curse.<br />

PM Abbasi mocked that<br />

there were less number of<br />

listeners in the Mall Road<br />

protest. Without naming<br />

anyone, he criticised the<br />

political rivals in the opposition<br />

parties who appeared<br />

united in the Lahore<br />

protest.<br />

The PTI chief had stood<br />

FAISALABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurating the International<br />

Terminal of Faisalabad Airport .<br />

by his remarks related to<br />

parliament saying that<br />

"laanath" is a mild word to<br />

use for parliament where<br />

the law passed in the<br />

House for a disqualified<br />

person.<br />

The premier inaugurated<br />

the expansion project of<br />

Faisalabad International<br />

Airport on Saturday while<br />

accompanying the Adviser<br />

to PM on Aviation Affairs<br />

Sardar Mehtab Ahmed<br />

Khan, Minister for Health<br />

Saira Afzal Tarar, Federal<br />

Minister for Finance Rana<br />

Muhammad Afzal and<br />

Minister of State for Power<br />

Abid Sher Ali. The senior<br />

officials of the Civil<br />

Aviation Authority (CAA)<br />

were also joined by him in<br />

the inaugural ceremony<br />

took place.<br />

Costing Rs 1.5 billion,<br />

the project has been completed<br />

by CAA. It has<br />

expanded the covered area<br />

of the airport from 36,000<br />

square feet to 73,000<br />

square feet.<br />

The handling capacity<br />

of domestic passengers has<br />

been increased to 200 local<br />

and 400 international passengers.<br />

Twelve new facilitation<br />

counters have been<br />

established for international<br />

travellers while four for<br />

the domestic travellers.<br />

He told that the vision<br />

of ruling Pakistan Muslim<br />

League-Nawaz (PML-N)<br />

is to deliver public welfare.<br />

He noted that the PML-N<br />

government has executed<br />

several development projects<br />

including around<br />

1,800 kilometers long<br />

motorways, either completed<br />

or in final phase,<br />

during the last five years.<br />

5 lakh announced for each<br />

victim of border firing<br />

SIALKOT: The Punjab<br />

government has<br />

announced Rs.0.5 million<br />

financial compensation<br />

for each martyred by<br />

Indian shelling in Sialkot<br />

border villages and<br />

Rs.75000 for each injured<br />

person here.<br />

Sialkot Deputy<br />

Commissioner Dr. Farrukh<br />

Naveed told this while<br />

talking to the newsmen<br />

here on Saturday.<br />

DC added that as many<br />

as nine persons have yet<br />

been martyred and forty<br />

seven others were injured<br />

seriously during the last<br />

three days by the unprovoked<br />

intensified mortar<br />

shelling by Indian Border<br />

Security Forces (BSF)on<br />

Sialkot border villages targeting<br />

the civilian population<br />

there along the Sialkot<br />

Working Boundary here…<br />

Padmaavat gets another makeover<br />

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Ceasefire violations by India on 18, 19 and 20th <strong>Jan</strong><br />

ISLAMABAD: The years old Maria). Further,<br />

Director General (SA &<br />

SAARC), Dr Mohammad<br />

Faisal, summoned the Indian<br />

Deputy High Commissioner<br />

Mr. J.P. Singh on Saturday<br />

and condemned the unprovoked<br />

the number of casualties at<br />

the working boundary has<br />

also risen due to unprovoked<br />

and indiscriminate firing by<br />

the Indian forces.<br />

Four more innocent civil-<br />

ceasefire violations by ians embraced shahadat others.<br />

the Indian occupation forces<br />

along the Line of Control<br />

and Working Boundary on<br />

while 20 were injured on<br />

18th and 19th <strong>Jan</strong>uary <strong>2018</strong>.<br />

The Indian forces along<br />

20th <strong>Jan</strong>uary in Khuiratta, the Line of Control and the<br />

Bagsar and Khanjar Sectors,<br />

resulting in the shahadat of<br />

one 60 years old innocent<br />

Working boundary are continuously<br />

targeting civilian<br />

populated areas with heavy<br />

civilian, Mr. Ghulam Ali, mortars and automatic<br />

while injuring two girls (6 weapons.<br />

years old chaman bibi and 27 In <strong>2018</strong>, the Indian forces<br />

WASHINGTON: Tens of<br />

thousands of protesters were<br />

expected to take to the streets<br />

of New York, Los Angeles<br />

and Washington on Saturday<br />

for the second Women’s<br />

March, a multi-city mass<br />

rally hailed as the start of a<br />

new era of female political<br />

activism.<br />

This year’s demonstration<br />

is being held in coordination<br />

with rallies planned<br />

for the weekend in some 250<br />

other cities across the United<br />

States and overseas and<br />

marks the first anniversary of<br />

President Donald Trump’s<br />

inauguration.<br />

“People were pretty<br />

damn mad last year and<br />

they’re pretty damn mad this<br />

year,” said Tamika Mallory,<br />

co-president of the Women’s<br />

March board.<br />

Like last year, thousands<br />

of marchers are expected to<br />

don pink knit “pussy hats”,<br />

which were created as a joking<br />

reference to a comment<br />

made by Trump about<br />

female genitalia and quickly<br />

became a symbol of<br />

women’s empowerment and<br />

opposition to the new president<br />

in the early days of his<br />

administration.<br />

Mallory said the rallies<br />

may take on a light-hearted<br />

or even celebratory tone at<br />

times, but added: “We also<br />

know that serious business<br />

have carried out more than<br />

150 ceasefire violations<br />

along the Line of Control<br />

and the Working Boundary<br />

in just 20 days, resulting in<br />

the shahadats of 9 innocent<br />

civilians, while injuring 40<br />

Letter of exchange for cooperation<br />

signing ceremony performed<br />

LAHORE/RAWALPIN<br />

DI: Letter of Exchange for<br />

Cooperation between the<br />

Judiciary of England &<br />

Wales and the Judiciary of<br />

Punjab Province was signed<br />

in the presence of Chief<br />

Justice Lahore High Court<br />

Justice Syed Mansoor Ali<br />

Shah and Senior Judge<br />

Lahore High Court<br />

Rawalpindi Bench Justice<br />

Mamoon Rasheed.<br />

The ceremony was<br />

attended by Mirza Abdul<br />

Hafeez Additional Registrar<br />

LHC Rawalpindi Bench<br />

Director District Judiciary<br />

Akmal Khan, ShahidShafi<br />

and other high officials of<br />

Judiciary present on the<br />

occasion.<br />

Representative of the<br />

Lord Chief Justice of<br />

England & Wales was<br />

signed the document which<br />

was received in Pakistan<br />

while Registrar Lahore High<br />

Court Syed Khurshid Anwar<br />

Rizvi signed Letter of<br />

Exchange for Cooperation<br />

in the exclusive ceremony.<br />

Head of Rule of Law British<br />

High Commission<br />

Islamabad, UK aid Susan<br />

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC)<br />

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah shaking hand with Head of<br />

Rule of Law British High Commission Islamabad Susan<br />

Lougheed after signed Letter of Exchange for<br />

Cooperation between the Judiciary of England & Wales<br />

and Judiciary of Punjab Province, at Punjab House.<br />

Loughhead, Adviser<br />

Consultant British High<br />

Commission Racher Yates<br />

and Simon Charters Rule of<br />

Law Advisor, British High<br />

Commission represented<br />

British High Commission.<br />

Giving details , Justice<br />

Syed Mansoor Ali Shah said<br />

that the written agreement<br />

between the Provincial<br />

Judiciary and Judiciary of<br />

England & Wales was finalized<br />

after the 9 member judiciary<br />

visit of UK in which<br />

the judicial system of<br />

Pakistan and UK were come<br />

under discussion and keeping<br />

in view the similarity in<br />

developing these system on<br />

modern lines and in accordance<br />

with the automation it<br />

was decided to institutionalize<br />

the agreement so that it<br />

could be properly followed<br />

by the officials of judiciary<br />

from both sides. He said during<br />

mutual visits, the judiciaries<br />

of England & Wales<br />

and the Punjab Province<br />

have held fruitful discussions<br />

and working meeting.<br />

has to happen.”<br />

The biggest marches are<br />

expected on Saturday in<br />

This unprecedented<br />

escalation in ceasefire violations<br />

by India is continuing<br />

from the year 2017 when the<br />

Indian forces committed<br />

more than 1900 ceasefire<br />

violations).<br />

The deliberate targeting<br />

of civilian populated areas is<br />

indeed deplorable and contrary<br />

to human dignity, international<br />

human rights and<br />

humanitarian laws.<br />

The ceasefire violations<br />

by India are a threat to<br />

regional peace and security<br />

and may lead to a strategic<br />

miscalculation.<br />

The Director General (SA<br />

& SAARC) urged the Indian<br />

side to respect the 2003<br />

Ceasefire arrangement;<br />

investigate this and other<br />

incidents of ceasefire violations;<br />

instruct the Indian<br />

forces to respect the ceasefire,<br />

in letter and spirit and<br />

maintain peace on the LoC<br />

and the Working Boundary.<br />

Agitating elements<br />

will have to face<br />

defeat in next<br />

election: Shahbaz<br />

LAHORE: Chief<br />

Minister (CM) Punjab<br />

Shahbaz Sharif has said<br />

the agitating elements will<br />

have to face defeat once<br />

again in general election-<br />

<strong>2018</strong>. In a statement<br />

issued here Saturday he<br />

said the politics of agitation<br />

and chaos serves as<br />

poison for the development<br />

of country.<br />

“those behind dharna<br />

politics are not opposing<br />

me but they are opposing<br />

economic uplift of the people,<br />

he remarked. These<br />

elements are scared of the<br />

fastest ever development<br />

of the country, he added.<br />

Dharna group has done<br />

nothing during the last<br />

four and half years except<br />

wasting the time of people,<br />

he underlined.<br />

He held PML-N has<br />

always done politics of<br />

serving the people. The<br />

agitating elements have<br />

not delivered to the people<br />

of their respective<br />

provinces, therefore, they<br />

are feeling shame today ,<br />

he added.<br />

Washington and New York,<br />

with 10,000 and 37,000 people<br />

signed up on their respective<br />

Facebook pages. But the<br />

number of participants is<br />

likely to fall well short of the<br />

MUMBAI: Sanjay<br />

LeelaBhansali’scontrovers<br />

ial movies Padmaavat gets<br />

another makeover to avoid<br />

further damage to much<br />

awaited-project.<br />

any<br />

After the change in title, replaces<br />

the filmmakers have made<br />

significant cosmetic<br />

changes to the movie’s<br />

song Ghoomar to meet the<br />

guidelines advised by the<br />

Central Board of Film<br />

Certification.<br />

The new version of the<br />

song, which has been<br />

recently uploaded without<br />

Altaf Ahmed Shah, Peer<br />

Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar,<br />

Raja Merajuddin, Shahidul-Islam,<br />

NayeemAhmed<br />

Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar,<br />

Kamran Yousuf, Javaid<br />

Ahmed Butt and Zahoor<br />

Ahmed Watali and witnesses<br />

listed (in the case)<br />

are false and fake.” He<br />

called the entire NIA exercise<br />

as political vendetta.<br />

The APHC Chairman<br />

said that fake allegations<br />

and accusations spreading<br />

over 13,000 pages and<br />

announcement,<br />

Deepika<br />

Padukone’s bare midriff<br />

with a computer-generated<br />

cloth.<br />

After the song had<br />

released, the Rajput royalty<br />

had raised objections to<br />

Queen Padmini's [played<br />

by Deepika] character performing<br />

before an audience<br />

as according to their<br />

history, none of the Rajput<br />

maharanis has ever danced<br />

in front of anyone.<br />

The community also<br />

raised objection over<br />

midriff of the queen being<br />

visible in the song.<br />

NIA Charge sheet Against Hurriyat<br />

Leaders Termed Political Vendetta<br />

estimated 5 million who<br />

marched on <strong>Jan</strong>. <strong>21</strong>. 2017<br />

and made that one of the<br />

largest mass protests in U.S.<br />

history.<br />

Despite the more modest<br />

expectations this year, organizers<br />

hope to build on the raw<br />

energy felt by Trump opponents<br />

immediately after his<br />

surprise election victory and<br />

channel it into gains for progressive<br />

candidates in<br />

November’s midterm elections,<br />

using the theme<br />

“Power to the Polls.”<br />

Specifically, organizers<br />

want to register a million<br />

new voters and get more<br />

strong advocates for<br />

women’s rights into office.<br />

Activists say Trump’s<br />

policies rolling back birth<br />

control and equal pay protections<br />

have propelled many<br />

women into activism for the<br />

first time. A White House<br />

spokesman did not respond<br />

to a request for comment on<br />

the marches. The rallies also<br />

come during what has been<br />

seen as a pivotal year for<br />

women’s rights with the<br />

#MeToo and #TimesUp<br />

social media effort against<br />

sexual harassment and abuse<br />

that was born out of a string<br />

of scandals in Hollywood,<br />

Washington and elsewhere.<br />

Some critics said this<br />

year’s march lacked a focus.<br />

Targeting an issue such as<br />

lengthy list of 300 witnesses<br />

was a ploy to target the<br />

resistance leaders and<br />

activists to malign them<br />

and link them with subversive<br />

activities and prolong<br />

their unlawful detention.<br />

“The incarcerated leaders<br />

have nothing to do with<br />

funding case and therefore<br />

we demand their unconditional<br />

release. There is no<br />

constitutional and moral<br />

justification to arrest these<br />

people and detain them in<br />

Tihar Jail,” he added.<br />

Power to the Polls: Women's March 2.0 aims to harness Trump opposition<br />

WASHINGTON: People gather for the Women's March.<br />

Aasma rape-murder<br />

case: Aggrieved<br />

father demands strict<br />

punishment for culprits<br />

MARDAN: The father of<br />

a minor who was killed and<br />

dumped after being raped<br />

demanded the culprit(s) be<br />

handed out the strictest punishment.<br />

Talking to private tv,<br />

Behram said he is satisfied<br />

with police investigation in<br />

the case.<br />

The minor’s father said<br />

he works in Saudi Arabia as<br />

a labourer and returned to<br />

Pakistan on Friday, after<br />

receiving the news of her<br />

death.<br />

Four-year-old<br />

went missing on <strong>Jan</strong>uary 13<br />

from the Gujjar Garhi area<br />

and was found dead the next<br />

day at 3pm.<br />

As many as six more suspects<br />

were arrested in the<br />

case by Mardan police on<br />

Friday, authorities informed.<br />

DPO Mardan said that DNA<br />

samples of the suspects will<br />

be taken, adding that the<br />

authorities have conducted<br />

geo-fencing of the area.<br />

SRINAGAR: The<br />

Chairman of All Parties<br />

Aasma Hurriyat Conference, Syed<br />

Ali Gilani, and other profreedom<br />

leaders and<br />

organizations have termed<br />

the charges leveled against<br />

Hurriyat leadersby India’s<br />

National Investigation<br />

Agency (NIA) as fake and<br />

false.<br />

According to KMS,<br />

Syed Ali Gilani in a statement<br />

issued in Srinagar<br />

said, “The Charge sheet<br />

filed by the NIA against<br />

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo meets with people during<br />

his visit to city without creating any trouble for people.<br />

One in four Iraqi<br />

children impacted<br />

by conflict: UNICEF<br />

UNITED NATIONS:<br />

More than four million children<br />

have been impacted by<br />

extreme violence in Iraq,<br />

many robbed of their childhood<br />

and forced to fight on<br />

the frontlines, the United<br />

Nations Children’s Fund<br />

said Friday. “Last year alone,<br />

270 children were killed,”<br />

said UNICEF Regional<br />

Director Geert Cappelaere<br />

following a recent visit.<br />

“Some will bear the physical<br />

and psychological scars for<br />

life due to exposure to<br />

unprecedented brutality,” he<br />

added, pointing out that over<br />

one million children were<br />

forced to leave their homes.<br />

immigration would have<br />

greater impact, said Shikha<br />

Dalmia, a senior analyst at<br />

the Reason Foundation, a<br />

libertarian think tank.<br />

“Beating the feminist<br />

drum just seems to me beside<br />

the point. Maybe they are trying<br />

to cast as wide a net as<br />

possible,” Dalmia said by<br />

telephone. The marches will<br />

be followed by more events<br />

on Sunday, including in Las<br />

Vegas, which was chosen by<br />

organizers to honor the city<br />

where the deadliest mass<br />

shooting in modern U.S. history<br />

took place last August.<br />

Nevada is also a key battleground<br />

state in the <strong>2018</strong><br />

midterm elections.<br />

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