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Tuesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>13</strong>, 20<strong>18</strong><br />
National<br />
FIA summons ten politicians in MQM<br />
founder's money laundering probe<br />
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
A 3-Point April Fool of Big Powers joked through<br />
Muslim Rulers against nations and Islamic World<br />
SURPRISING or otherwise, a 3-point April<br />
Fool agenda of big powers is played upon<br />
Ummah as a joke, played through Muslim<br />
rulers, and is worth knowing, if it's not already<br />
recognized for what it's, though many do. It's said<br />
that historically Muslim slaves are promised freedom<br />
but their ship to freedom is sunk in the middle<br />
of the waters, with this declaration: "You can<br />
now have your freedom"! Muslims even joke<br />
against themselves by playing April Fool. May be<br />
this last part of the joke where non Muslims make<br />
Muslim joke against themselves ought to be<br />
stopped. It's not amazing that Israelis and<br />
Westerners joke a lot among themselves against<br />
Muslims on April Fool:<br />
1. Joke 1: Post 9/11 Israeli directed bombing<br />
mostly through Saudi nationals is assumed to<br />
have led to a big powers' anti-terror war mostly --<br />
but truly wrongly -- against Muslim world countries,<br />
instead of its original planners within White<br />
House, FBI, CIA, MOSSAD and a few US allies<br />
abroad, especially pro-Israel and anti-Islam<br />
rulers. It's said that politicians who themselves<br />
trigger violence and bloodshed are entrusted with<br />
millions and billions of dollars to fight an ensuing<br />
and so called anti terror war. This war was later<br />
diverted by Muslim leaders in majority, against<br />
Islamic Shi'ite minority's non compromising spiritual<br />
and religious forces. Last part of the joke: It's<br />
war for terrorism, not against terrorism. Proof?<br />
WoT increased terrorism, and did not decrease terrorism<br />
in many countries of Islamic world!<br />
2. Joke two: Fake and hypocritical leaders<br />
against religion are made whole and sole authority<br />
on anything and everything concerned with<br />
religion. The idea of this joke aims for religion to<br />
destroy religion. Like through mischievous leaders<br />
and satanic rulers, drunkards, adulterers, liars,<br />
hypocrites, extortionists, killers and blackmailers<br />
in many so called countries in the name of Islam<br />
and Islamic system. Cruelty of this joke is likely,<br />
planned or executed agenda of desecration, damaging,<br />
dynamiting or bombing for blasting sacred<br />
By Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian<br />
The Vatican appears to be seeking a rapprochement<br />
with China, almost 70 years after Beijing<br />
broke ties. But the Catholic Church has little to<br />
gain and much to lose from mending ties with the<br />
Communist Party-ruled country. And Pope Francis<br />
should be under no illusions: Any agreement the two<br />
sides may strike will be entirely on Beijing’s terms.<br />
This month, the Vatican asked two underground<br />
Chinese bishops to step down in favour of their<br />
Beijing-approved counterparts, one of whom the<br />
church in Rome had already excommunicated. Then,<br />
the Vatican indicated it would recognise the legitimacy<br />
of seven Communist Party-approved bishops. The<br />
moves come after several years of statements and other<br />
indications from Pope Francis that he hopes to mend<br />
ties with China. The Vatican currently maintains diplomatic<br />
relations with the self-governed island of Taiwan.<br />
A split has long divided Chinese Catholic clergy into<br />
those appointed by the state-sanctioned Catholic<br />
church formed in the 1950s and those loyal to the pope<br />
and secretly ordained as part of an underground<br />
Catholic movement. The Vatican believes the decline in<br />
the Catholic population in China, now about 10 million<br />
(although estimates vary) after peaking in 2000, is due<br />
to tensions over this split. Pope Francis hopes that reconciliation<br />
will re-energise the Church there.<br />
Beijing, meanwhile, fears foreign sway over its population.<br />
In any deal to restore relations with the Vatican,<br />
the party would almost certainly insist on having the<br />
final say over which bishops are appointed. Such a<br />
capitulation of spiritual authority would damage the<br />
Catholic Church in China for years to come. How do<br />
we know? Because this very scenario has played out<br />
before — in communist Hungary. After the communist<br />
takeover of Hungary in the late 1940s, the new government<br />
imprisoned the fiery anti-communist Cardinal<br />
Jozsef Mindszenty, the church’s leader there. Finally, in<br />
1971, the cardinal was permitted to leave Hungary<br />
under Pope Paul VI’s policy of Ostpolitik, by which the<br />
Church engaged with eastern European communist<br />
governments to try to improve the lives of Catholics<br />
there. But even before his departure, the Communist<br />
Party had already started selecting bishops as they saw<br />
fit, and the Church never raised any real obstacles to the<br />
practice after that. The dissident cardinal, who lived<br />
until 1975, excoriated the Church for giving in to communism.<br />
He became both a symbol of Catholic opposition<br />
to communism and a vocal critic of the Vatican’s<br />
policy of appeasement. But in the long run, Ostpolitik<br />
didn’t help the Hungarian church, which fell into a slow<br />
decline. “You can see what the consequences were in<br />
communist Hungary,” said Piotr Kosicki, a historian of<br />
modern Europe at the University of Maryland. “There<br />
were just fewer and fewer Catholics. There was a lot<br />
shrines of holy prophets, their companions and<br />
disciples.<br />
3. Joke three: To prove that Muslim people --<br />
that naturally includes leaders, rulers and nations<br />
-- are deaf, dumb and blind and mostly remain<br />
without words and deeds Israeli forces run with<br />
boots into sacred al-Aqsa mosque, abuse and<br />
arrest Namaazi Muslims in prayers. At most,<br />
Saudi rulers and OIC who pays lip service to big<br />
powers, speak against it, but does nothing in practice<br />
to stop this decades old Israeli atrocities!<br />
Zionists kill Palestinians, wage wars on them,<br />
usurp Palestinian land and punish the Arabs in<br />
their jails. Gaza is hungry and starving, its infrastructure<br />
all but destroyed, and is surrounded by<br />
Israeli soldiers who loot foreign ships and aid to<br />
Palestine. Later part of this Israeli joke is that<br />
Muslim countries not only fail to take action<br />
against Israel but even Egypt too with its blockade<br />
and bombing over Gaza supports Israel, and so<br />
does most of over 50 Muslim OIC member states!<br />
Perhaps, if not fake Muslim leaders, some true<br />
human leaders and nations can stop these jokes<br />
being played against the Muslim Ummah collectively,<br />
though free oil and petro-dollar supplies<br />
have shut up almost every leader's mouth in both<br />
Sunni and Shia Muslims for promotion of one true<br />
Islam of Saudi Wahabism and Salafism, without<br />
any Sunni or Shia in Islam, except Wahabis and<br />
Salafis.<br />
There are violent Muslim demonstrations by<br />
people and parties with killings and casualties,<br />
setting fire to public places and sit ins for days<br />
against some unpleasant incidents and insults<br />
against Prophet or Islam. But compared to so big<br />
jokes as written above, it all seem to be not more<br />
significant than damaging and destroying of<br />
Islamic sacred graves and shrines of holy prophet<br />
and his close family members and companions<br />
(may peace be upon them all). Why are there no<br />
protests and demonstrations by Islamic personalities<br />
and Muslim scholars against so big issues of<br />
Muslim honor worldwide?<br />
OPINION<br />
Pope is warming up to the Chinese Communist Party<br />
A capitulation of spiritual authority would damage the Catholic<br />
Church in China for years to come<br />
less energy in a church run with the Communist Party<br />
pulling the strings.” Kosicki thinks the same would<br />
happen in China if the Vatican lets Beijing appoint bishops.<br />
“Instead of having 9 million Catholics in China,<br />
there will be 3 million,” said Kosicki. “Or maybe there<br />
will be 9 million but most of them will just never go to<br />
Mass, which is what happened in Eastern Europe.”<br />
Pope Francis hasn’t forgotten the lessons of<br />
Hungary — but the lesson that concerns him is the rise<br />
of a vocal critic within the Church. Recently, he reportedly<br />
said he hopes to avoid “another Mindszenty case.”<br />
But that figure may already exist in Cardinal Joseph<br />
Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong. Zen has been increasingly<br />
outspoken, accusing the Holy See of “selling out” to<br />
Beijing.<br />
It’s not hard to see why opposition to Vatican<br />
appeasement would be widespread. Guo Xijin, one of<br />
the underground bishops asked to step aside, serves in<br />
a region in southern China that has about 80,000<br />
Catholics. Of those, 70,000 are affiliated with the<br />
underground church, according to Xi Lian, a professor<br />
of world Christianity at Duke Divinity School. To<br />
underground Catholics who have at times suffered<br />
fines and even imprisonment to remain loyal to the<br />
pope, the move to sideline one of their bishops is “a<br />
slap in the face,” Lian said. Fenggang Yang, a scholar<br />
of Chinese religion at Purdue University, says it could<br />
even “lead many underground Catholics to refuse the<br />
reconciliation.”<br />
For Beijing, restored relations with the Holy See<br />
would be a real windfall with no downside. The Vatican<br />
is the only remaining sovereign state in Europe that has<br />
diplomatic relations with Taiwan. The Communist<br />
Party has long sought to isolate the democratic island<br />
on the international stage, and it has stepped up those<br />
efforts since Taiwan elected a Beijing-sceptic president<br />
two years ago. Losing the Vatican would be a major<br />
blow for Taiwan and at the same time increase China’s<br />
prestige. Beijing doesn’t appear particularly interested<br />
in giving anything up in return, Yang said. China “has<br />
given very little or nothing to get closer to the Vatican’s<br />
position, such as accepting the underground bishops as<br />
legitimate bishops” or dissolving the parallel state-run<br />
church, Yang said.<br />
Thanks to a new set of strict religious regulations,<br />
making it far more difficult for the underground church<br />
to continue to operate in the gray area it has carved out<br />
for itself in the past several decades, China has the<br />
Church in a vise. In restoring relations, “the Chinese<br />
government has very little to lose, and the Vatican has<br />
a lot more to lose and very little to gain,” Lian said.<br />
“The Vatican risks losing its spiritual authority and<br />
dampening the spirit of the Catholics. That’s a price the<br />
pope shouldn’t be willing to pay.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Federal<br />
Investigation Agency<br />
(FIA) has summoned Dr<br />
Sagheer among ten senior<br />
members of Muttahida<br />
Qaumi Movement (MQM)<br />
in a notification issued on<br />
Monday in what comes as<br />
an important development<br />
in money laundering probe<br />
against MQM founder.<br />
MQM founder who has<br />
been living in self-imposed<br />
exile in London since 1992<br />
is facing a money laundering<br />
probe which at a time<br />
was pursued by multiple<br />
security departments<br />
including Scotland Yard of<br />
Britain.<br />
Dr Sagheer has been<br />
summoned by the authority<br />
to appear at 11:00am on<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 15, 20<strong>18</strong> at<br />
Counter Terrorism<br />
Wing/FIA Headquarters in<br />
the federal capital<br />
The inspector in the<br />
case has warned the leaders<br />
of punishment in accordance<br />
with the law in case<br />
of non-compliance with the<br />
order.<br />
Muhammad Shahid,<br />
Muhammad Zubair,<br />
Muhammad Tahir, Rauf<br />
Mughal, Manzoor Ahmed,<br />
Muhammad Irfan, Rafeeq<br />
Rajput, Kamal Siddique<br />
and Kaiful Warra are the<br />
other members who have<br />
been summoned.<br />
The British investigative<br />
agency had dropped<br />
money laundering probe<br />
against MQM founder in<br />
October 2016 however, the<br />
case continues with FIA.<br />
According to a notification<br />
issued today, the<br />
agency has summoned ten<br />
leaders of the political<br />
organisation which is<br />
chased by allegations of<br />
LAHORE: Visitors take keen interest in painting during Art Painting Exhibition held at<br />
local art gallery.<br />
PBM officers spend lavishly<br />
from fund allocated for poor<br />
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan<br />
Bait-ul-Maal (PBM), established<br />
purely to help the<br />
poor and helpless has set<br />
new records of lavish<br />
spending by the bureaucracy<br />
with the elusion of its<br />
Managing Director.<br />
A hefty amount is being<br />
spent by officers instead of<br />
spending on the poor people<br />
but the concerned authority<br />
MD PBM was not paying<br />
heed towards this genuine<br />
matter, revealed a document<br />
available with “Online”. It<br />
disclosed that officers were<br />
spending Rs 930 million<br />
instead of Rs 800 million<br />
per annum while a sum of<br />
Rs <strong>13</strong>0 million extra money<br />
was being spent by the officers.<br />
Ironically, these funds<br />
Result of class x<br />
supplementary exam<br />
of science & general<br />
groups announced<br />
Bureau Report<br />
HYDERABAD: Board<br />
of Intermediate and<br />
Secondary Education<br />
Hyderabad announced<br />
result of Secondary School<br />
Certificate part-II(Class-X)<br />
supplementary examination<br />
according to which 7668<br />
students were registered<br />
while 7437 appeared in<br />
Science group out of whom<br />
6559 had passed making it<br />
88.19 percent. In general<br />
group 173 candidates were<br />
registered while 156<br />
appeared in examination out<br />
of whom 121 passed making<br />
77.56 pass percentage.<br />
3 persons involved in<br />
street crimes nabbed<br />
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad<br />
industrial area police have<br />
arrested three persons<br />
involved in streets crimes<br />
and a sizeable quantity of<br />
arms and ammunition has<br />
been recovered from their<br />
possession.<br />
A team headed by SP<br />
Industrial area Liaquat Niazi<br />
has carried out the raid.<br />
The arrested persons<br />
include Sheraz Beg, Waeem<br />
Zaman and Usman.<br />
Cases have been registered<br />
against the arrested<br />
persons in the industrial area<br />
police station. According to<br />
preliminary investigation<br />
they have disclosed their<br />
involvement in several incidents<br />
of street crimes.<br />
were allocated to be spent<br />
on the poor and needy people.<br />
In 2016, Pakistan Baitul-Maal<br />
(PBM), was given<br />
Rs 4 billion to be spent on<br />
the poor while Rs 800 million<br />
were given to administration<br />
to meet its expenditures.<br />
Officers overseeing<br />
administrative affairs spent<br />
Rs 930 million instead of Rs<br />
800 million and spent overall<br />
over Rs 3.27bilion and spent<br />
Rs 610 million on lavish<br />
expenditures. During Nawaz<br />
Sharif’s regime instead of<br />
lessening administrative<br />
expenditures, were increased<br />
upto 16.29 percent while on<br />
the other hand, funds allocated<br />
for the poor and need persons<br />
were decreased, which<br />
unmasked the dishonesty<br />
Vijay kumar<br />
NAWABSHAH: Uderal<br />
lal welfare organization is<br />
serving the Humanity<br />
since long time.<br />
They announced winter<br />
relief program for down<br />
trodden area of tharparkar,<br />
it commenced from<br />
9,10,11 <strong>Feb</strong> 20<strong>18</strong>,<br />
It is another feature in<br />
and ill intention of PBM officers<br />
and the Head.<br />
The documents further<br />
revealed that PBM also purchased<br />
two flats in Pakistan<br />
Housing Society from the<br />
amount allocated for the<br />
poor people and a sum of Rs<br />
9.1 million were paid in<br />
advance. It further<br />
unearthed that PBM officers<br />
received Rs 253 million in<br />
advance, which is 35%<br />
increase in advance as compared<br />
to previous year.<br />
Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal<br />
(PBM) officers in the name<br />
of giving money to deserving<br />
people under child support<br />
programme, paid Rs<br />
700 million to bank as<br />
advance money while during<br />
the last year this amount<br />
was only Rs 12 million.<br />
the cap of Udero lal welfare<br />
Organization that it<br />
collected material, like<br />
winter dresses, blankets,<br />
shoes and cash money,<br />
from many houses and distributed<br />
to the most needy<br />
ones in various villages<br />
and schools of Tharparkar.<br />
Over 400 dresses, jackets,<br />
shoes distributed in 7<br />
illegal foreign funding and<br />
covert support of anti-<br />
Pakistan forces including<br />
Research and Analysis<br />
Wing (RAW) of India.<br />
The notification reads<br />
that Dr Sagheer among ten<br />
MQM members are summoned<br />
to appear before<br />
FIA team and answer questions<br />
concerning MQM<br />
founder and his assets.<br />
He was arrested by<br />
Scotland Yard in June 2014<br />
and was released in the<br />
days that followed, not<br />
unlike the nabbing and<br />
interrogations after that.<br />
IHC summons SHO,<br />
witnesses in Tayyaba<br />
torture case<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Islamabad High Court<br />
(IHC) has directed SHO I-9<br />
Police station Khalid<br />
Mehmood and other witnesses<br />
to appear before it on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
The hearing of Tayyaba<br />
torture case was adjourned<br />
without any proceedings by<br />
a single bench of IHC<br />
presided over by Justice<br />
Aamir Farooq.<br />
On previous hearing the<br />
court had summoned last<br />
investigation officer<br />
SHO Khalid Mehmood and<br />
now the court has directed<br />
SHO Khalid Mehmood and<br />
other witnesses to appear<br />
before it on next hearing.<br />
Hearing of<br />
ephedrine quota<br />
case adjourned<br />
R A W A L P I N D I :<br />
Hearing of ephedrine quota<br />
case and Hanif Abbasi former<br />
MNA and 7 other coaccused<br />
and petitions in<br />
respect of freezing of<br />
Hanif Abbasi bank<br />
accounts has been<br />
adjourned till <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 23<br />
without any proceedings<br />
due to non appointment of<br />
judge in Anti Terrorism<br />
Court Rawalpindi.<br />
Judge Raja Pervez<br />
Akhtar was transferred earlier<br />
and in his place no new<br />
judge has been appointed.<br />
Winter relief program<br />
organized by Udero Lal welfare<br />
Bureau Report<br />
HYDERABAD: Mutehida Qaumi<br />
Movement (MQM) which had been dreaming<br />
to divide Sindh has itself been divided.<br />
Its was destined to downfall over Senate<br />
tickets. Same destiny PPP was to meet over<br />
distribution of tickets for coming general<br />
elections of 20<strong>18</strong>. These views were<br />
expressed by chief organizer of Sindh<br />
National Tehrik Lala Qurban Sodhro, Mir<br />
villages of islamkot & nangar.<br />
While talking to media,<br />
Social activists said that<br />
We Really very thankful to<br />
all members of Tando<br />
adam & Umerkot who<br />
contribute in this noble<br />
cause.<br />
Service for all is service<br />
for God.<br />
MQM dreamt of Sindh division<br />
is divided itself: SNT<br />
Allahdad Talpur, Dr. Abida Siddiqui,<br />
Jhangi Mallah, Akhtar Sindhi and others in<br />
a joint statement here. They said MQM<br />
was not only a terrorist organization but it<br />
was also anti Muhajir party which has<br />
harmed more to Urdu speaking Sindhis, the<br />
manifesto is to kill Urdu speaking people in<br />
name of Muhajirs. In same way PPP has<br />
deprived Sindhis of Roti, Kapra and Makan<br />
posing itself as Nationalist.
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