21 Jan 2018

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Sunday, January 21, 2018
National
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI
CHANGES were made by some governments as
demanded via protests and demonstrations by
their nations who instituted gradual as well as
drastic changes in their governments' wrong policies
like slavery under big powers.
MIDEAST situation resembles a ball of fire raging
in some parts of a number of Muslim countries at war
against each other. That confronts Pakistan with a critical
diplomatic problem to find a solution that could be
acceptable at home as well as abroad.
NUCLEAR power Pakistan, the only one in the
Muslim world, can have a considerable influence on
friends and foes alike within and outside the country to
change its own direction from such negative and
defaming stance and move towards freedom and independence
by reducing and ending an internationally
induced slavery to big powers and their Mideast satellites
where rules and principles think nothing of any
diplomatic or military solutions being right or wrong.
CROSS roads for Pakistan: To do Mideast, big powers’
bidding and, for instance, play its significant role in
abstaining from support to oppressor Muslim majority
leaders' wars under centuries old enmity that continues
to kill an oppressed Shi'ite Muslim minority. Islamabad
can follow up with a later advocating of a termination
of militarist adventures. Briefly, Pakistan, which has
among largest Shi'ite populations in the world, can let
this helpless Muslim minority be killed like they were
in centuries past, or make a decision to save it from
denial of basic human rights and stop centuries old
inhuman discrimination and persecution of all kinds.
REVIEW of history of performance of Pakistani
governments have led researchers towards that constant
historical problem faced by state leaders, institutions,
officials and law enforcing agencies, who sometimes
spoke and did right, and sometimes spoke and
did wrong. There was not any clear cut policy that
actions could otherwise prove to be true.
EXAMPLE: Rulers and leaders of both Islamabad
and provincial governments were accusing each other
with grave charges of supporting terrorism against
Muslim Shiite community. However, neither side, even
though daring each other to do so, was taking signficiant
proper action and were not punishing self proclaimed
killers in all those decades of freedom ever
since Pakistan came into existence.
ZARB-E-AZB operation, which Pakistan Army
launched launched despite dislike of some rulers, did
By, Giulio Boccaletti
With climate change accelerating and its
effects exacerbating other geopolitical and
development crises, the role of environmental
protection in preserving and improving human wellbeing
has become starkly apparent. This recognition
lies at the heart of the concept of "planetary health,"
which focuses on the health of human civilization and
the condition of the natural systems on which it
depends.
The concept's logic is simple: if we try to deliver
better health to a growing population, without regard
for the health and security of our natural resources, we
will not just struggle to make new strides; we will
reverse the progress already made. Where things get
complicated is in applying the concept, particularly
when addressing the nexus of water services, health,
and ecosystem integrity.
Since at least 1854, when John Snow discovered
that cholera was spread through contaminated water
supplies in central London, humans have understood
that polluted water is bad for our health. The degradation
of freshwater ecosystems often brings disease, just
as the protection or strengthening of such ecosystems
improves health outcomes.
But, while it is now well understood that progress in
one area improves outcomes in another, such co-beneficial
dynamics often are insufficient to spur investment
in both areas.
For example, investing to protect a watershed can
also protect biodiversity and improve water quality in
associated rivers, thereby benefiting human health. But
if the goal is explicitly to improve human health, it
might be more cost-effective simply to invest in a
water-treatment plant.
A more compelling dynamic is complementarity:
when investment in one area increases the returns on
investment in other areas. In this scenario, investments
in protecting a watershed would aim not just to produce
returns directly, but also to boost the returns of simultaneous
investments in human health.
Complementarity produces mutually reinforcing
dynamics that improve outcomes across the board.
A well-functioning water sector already attempts to
balance complementary interventions. Indeed, such a
system amounts to a multidisciplinary triumph of
human ingenuity and cooperation - involving engineering,
hydrology, governance, and urban planning - with
far-reaching complementary impacts on both human
EDITORIAL
Nations can change state policies
like slavery under big powers
OPINION
reduce and ended terrorism to a great extent that was
not expected anytime soon, but a large number of civilians
were made homeless and suffered, though rehabilitated
by the army. If media is any indication, the operation
marked a respite in anti-Shia terrorism. However,
before any operation, precautions to avoid innocent
casualties and displacements can be made and any
fresh start of sectarian violence and killings can be
ascertained. That is nearer to ideal, though it may not be
realistic to expect any miraculous results or creation of
a superhuman situation.
WARS led and waged by Saudi Arabia and many of
its allied Arab countries in the Mideast may subdue
Shi'ites in their victimized and invaded countries.
Majority of extremists have a usual "wait and see" attitude
before deciding for taking any action. However, its
follow ups in ways and methods similar to the outcome
and results of those majority Muslim states' wars
against minority of Muslim states.
PEACE in practice without persecution of minorities
and a guarantee for protection of their human rights
as can be observed in practice after those wars on
Shi'ites ended may have more favorable impact for betterment
of that Muslim minority.
KILLINGS of Shi'ites after those wars are over may
also trigger a worldwide killing against that minority
sect in Islam. That post-war negative or positive impact
after peace or end of war with more killings may determine
the fate of Shi'ites in at least other Muslim majority
countries with a long history of persecution of
minorities. Under one or the other of these desirable as
well as undesirable consequences, including undeclared
anti-social behavior and uncivilized killings after
peace, Muslim rulers must take precautionary and protective
measures to ensure human equality and just
rights for all sects in Islam.
PAKISTAN can change its policy and play its positive
role, but not as usual in verbal terms only, but in
practice too: It can save all Muslim sects and strive to
ensure their rights in Islam to the extent it can. Aside
governments, nations can also make their rulers
change a disgraceful and defaming policy and action
towards one of human values and noble principles as
ensured in Islam.
NATIONS can also wake up and help their rulers
and countries regain their lost place, pride, sense of justice
and rising up to human world standards for one and
all within their own nations.
Save water, it's good for health
It is no coincidence that one of the World Bank's largest lending
portfolios - $35 billion worth of investments - comprises water projects
health and economic development.
Governments worldwide have recognized the
potential of water infrastructure to complement other
economic and social policies, including those intended
to improve health outcomes. It is no coincidence that
one of the World Bank's largest lending portfolios - $35
billion worth of investments - comprises water projects.
But understanding the potential of complementarity
is just the first step. To maximize results, we must
design a coherent strategy that takes full advantage of
the dynamic, at the lowest possible cost.
The question is whether there is an optimal mix of
environmental protection and direct health interventions
on which policymakers can rely to maximize
investment returns for both. A recent analysis suggests
that, in rural areas, a 30% increase in upstream tree
cover produces a 4% reduction in the probability of
diarrheal disease in children.
Another study found that an estimated 42% of the
global malaria burden, including a half-million deaths
annually, could be eliminated through policies focused
on issues like land use, deforestation, water resource
management, and settlement siting.
Worldwide, around 40% of cities' source watersheds
show high to moderate levels of degradation. Sediment
from agricultural and other sources increases the cost of
water treatment, while loss of natural vegetation and
land degradation can change water-flow patterns.All of
this can adversely affect supply, thereby increasing the
need to store water in containers - such as drums, tanks,
and concrete jars - that serve as mosquito larval habitats.
Can we show that ecological restoration of the
watershed could do more than just insecticides or mosquito
nets to support efforts to reduce malaria (and
dengue) in cities? In all of these cases, finding the best
option requires knowing not just the relative contribution
of different interventions, but understanding their
complementarity.
Some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to
safe, readily available water at home, and more than
twice as many - a whopping 4.5 billion - lack safely
managed sanitation, severely undermining health outcomes
and fueling river pollution. With a growing
share of the world's population - including many of the
same people - feeling the effects of environmental
degradation and climate change firsthand, finding solutions
that simultaneously advance environmental protection,
water provision, and health could not be more
important.
AJK PM appeals int'l community to
take notice of Indian firing along LoC
MUZAFFARABAD:
AJK Prime Minister Raja
Farooq Haider Khan has
appealed international
community and global
human rights organizations
to take notice of Indian
unprovoked firing on civilian
population residing
along the Line of Control.
In a statement in
KP speaker, ministers
spend hefty amount
on foreign tours
PESHAWAR: Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KP)
Assembly Speaker Asad
Qaisar, members and
provincial ministers have
spent a hefty amount of
money on foreign tours
despite prohibition.
Private tv has learnt that
more than Rs5.40 crore
have been spent overall.
Speaker Asad Qaisar made
ten foreign tours in four
and half years which cost
more than Rs5.5 million.
I n f o r m a t i o n
Technology Special
Secretary spent around
Rs4.1 million in eight trips.
Asad Qaisar’s close relative
and Assistant
Director IT Tahir Nadeem
is also in the list of those
who used government
funds on foreign tours
along with opposition
leader Maulana Lutf ur
Rehman, advisors and
assistants.
Serving inflated
electricity bills by
IESCO protested
R A W A L P I N D I :
Electricity consumers from
Sub division Saham Dhok
Karam Abad Chakra have
voiced strong protest
against serving them inflated
electricity bills by
IESCO on the basis of
average units.
According to media
reports the consumers said
that the IESCO sub division
has sent them electricity
bills running into thousands
of rupees by showing
their meters locked
and the picture of meter
reading is also not found
printed on the bills. The
citizens complained that
the sub divisional office
has sent them bogus bills
to show their recovery.
Staff Reporter
HYDERABAD: Civil
Judge and Judicial
Magistrate Hyderabad
Junaid Faiz Memon on
directives of Sindh High
Court reached civil hospital
here for thorough
Muzaffarabad on Saturday,
he urged world powers to
exert pressure on India to
respect ceasefire agreement
of 2003.
The Prime Minister said
that India wants to divert
the attention of international
community from the
deteriorating human rights
situation in the occupied
valley. He said Indian army
after facing humiliating
defeat in suppressing the
right to self-determination
movement of Kashmiris
now targeting children and
women at the Line of
Control.
Raja Farooq Haider
Khan directed the concerned
districts’ administration
to provide best
medical facilities to the
people injured in the Indian
shelling.
He also directed the
administration to take
immediate measures to
ensure the safety of the
lives of civilian population
living along the Line of
Control.
QUETTA: Members of All Parties Action Committee are holding protest demonstration
against extra judicial killing of Naqeeb Ullah as they are demanding for justice.
Mirwaiz expresses concern
over Pak, India tension on Loc
SRINAGAR: Chairman
of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, has expressed
concern over increasing tension
between India and
Pakistan on the Line of
Control (LoC).
According to KMS,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a
statement issued in Srinagar
said that he was distressed to
see bloodshed taking place
on the LoC every day. He
urged the two nuclear neighbours
to give up confrontation
and come on the table to
resolve the Kashmir dispute
once for all.
inspection of arrangements.
SHC has formed
inspection team headed by
civil judge Junaid Faiz
Memon. He saw illegal
encroachments and
garbage within hospital
premises. He later visited
The Mirwaiz appealed to
the Kashmiri Pandits to
return to their homeland.
“People of Kashmir will
welcome them with warmth
and open arms. The migration
of Kashmiri Pandits is a
human issue and it makes all
Kashmiris sad that they are
away from their motherland
and yearn to come back,” he
said. “The Kashmiri Pandits
are part of our joint ethos
and culture and our common
past and will always remain
so. Kashmir belongs to them
as much as it does to
Muslims and we want to
Civil judge reaches civil hospital on
bike, takes stock of maladministration
OPD and emergency
wards. He also visited
parking lot. He expressed
anger on inferior and maladministration
of hospital
and got information from
doctors on duty and
patients.
HRCP shocked at Munnu Bhai's demise
LAHORE: The Human
Rights Commission of
Pakistan (HRCP)
Saturday expressed shock
and grief at the demise of
Munnu Bhai, a poet,
dramatist, columnist, and
an ardent friend of the
poor and the disadvantaged.
In a statement, HRC
said Bhai's contribution to
the democratic dispensation
in Pakistan is matchless,
particularly during
the 1970s and 1980s,
which is acknowledged by
friends and foes alike. In
whatever form, he
expressed himself, he was
consistently a partisan of
truth and the rights of the
people.
HRCP had the privilege
of having Munnu
Bhai as a member of its
governing body for three
years and his counsel was
always greatly valued by
the organization. He will
be deeply missed for a
long time by all whose
lives he touched and the
large number of admirers
and distant friends, the
HRCP statement said.
ABBOTTABAD: A view of under construction bridge near Village Noshera as part of
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
share our future together.
Our demand for right of selfdetermination
is for each
inhabitant of Jammu and
Kashmir and they have an
equal right to have their say
in its future dispensation,”
he added.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
termed the rape and murder
of a minor nomadic girl in
Kathua district in Jammu as
a shameful act, saying that
the callousness of those at
the helm in not acting
promptly in tracing the missing
child for a week is condemnable.
SMIU students
visit Koh Maree
ISLAMABAD: The
delegation of Sindh
Madressatul Islam
University comprising of
students and faculty members,
who are on the visit
of national institutions of
the country located in
Islamabad under the
National Leadership
Program, visited Koh
Maree on Saturday. Dean
Prof Dr Zahid Ali Channar
and Prof. Dr Syed Asif Ali
led the delegation. During
the visit of Koh maree they
went round the various
spots of city.
Two motorcycle
riders injured
CHAKWAL: A speedy
dumper hit motorcycle near
Kallar Kahar and two persons
riding on motorcycle
were seriously injured. Abid
Zubair told the Police that he
along with his cousin
Muhammad Raheem and
Ammad Yaaqoob were coming
back from the factory, a
speedy dumper no.TLW 612
that was driven by M. Ishfaq
rashly and due to over speed
hit the motorcycle resulting
serious injuries to M.
Raheem and Ammad
yaaqoob who were shifted to
DHQ Hospital Chakwal.
Sub-inspector M. Irfan
registered a case against the
accused driver who was managed
to make good his escape
from the scene. Case was registered
against the accused
driver. In meantime Dhudial
Police booked five persons
who forcibly stopped a car
and threatened of dire consequences
to a person.
Faheem Iqbal resident of
village Mohra Alho told the
police that he along with
Faizan was going towards
Islamabad airport when the
five accused Ehtasham Ali,
Bilal Shoukat, Zaheer
Saleem, Baqir Aziz, Qamar
Asghar armed with pistols
stopped them and threatened
of dire consequences.