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Man killed in<br />
crossfire between<br />
police and suspected<br />
robbers in Karachi<br />
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US government<br />
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Trump feuds<br />
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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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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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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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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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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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