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Metropolitan:<br />
MQM MNA<br />
Salman Mujahid<br />
accused of sexual assault,<br />
blackmailing woman<br />
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National:<br />
PTI losing<br />
popularity even<br />
before coming to<br />
power: Reham<br />
Page 4<br />
International:<br />
Khamenei hails<br />
unity between<br />
Iran’s Shia,<br />
Sunni Muslims<br />
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IHC refuse to give<br />
more time to FIA<br />
in Axact case<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Islamabad High Court<br />
(IHC) has rejected plea<br />
by FIA for seeking time<br />
in appeal plea filed by<br />
federation against Axact<br />
besides issuing notices<br />
to all the concerned parties.<br />
A two member bench<br />
of IHC comprising<br />
Justice Athar Minallah<br />
and Justice Mian Gul<br />
Hassan Aurangzeb took<br />
up the case for hearing<br />
Tuesday.<br />
Raja Rizwan Abbasi<br />
and advocate Imdad Ali<br />
appeared in the court on<br />
behalf of Axact.<br />
Deputy Attorney<br />
General (DAG) Raja<br />
Khalid told the court<br />
FIA has appointed special<br />
public prosecutor in<br />
the case.<br />
Dr Farooq still<br />
MQM-P convener,<br />
PIB group tells ECP<br />
KARACHI: Muttahida<br />
Qaumi Movement-<br />
Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Dr<br />
Farooq Sattar group has<br />
submitted a letter to<br />
Election Commission of<br />
Pakistan (ECP), informing<br />
CEC of decisions taken by<br />
the party’s ‘General workers<br />
meeting’.<br />
According to the letter,<br />
Dr Farooq Sattar has told<br />
the CEC that article- (J) of<br />
the party constitution<br />
allows general workers<br />
meeting to regularize<br />
adhoc and interim changes<br />
in the organization or party<br />
structure and inclusion or<br />
removal of any office<br />
bearer. Letter said a resolution<br />
was unanimously<br />
passed by the party workers<br />
in party’s General<br />
Workers Meeting on 11<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary, declaring the<br />
meeting convened by<br />
Rabitta Committee at<br />
Bahadurabad was illegal<br />
and the resolution passed<br />
in the meeting was also<br />
illegal and void.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Former<br />
prime minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif on Tuesday questioned<br />
why those who<br />
breached the Constitution<br />
and arrested judges are not<br />
being brought to accountability.<br />
Speaking to the media<br />
after appearance before an<br />
accountability court in the<br />
federal capital, Nawaz<br />
Sharif, who seemed contented<br />
over the unexpected<br />
victory of the PML-N in<br />
NA-154 by-election in<br />
Lodhran, said the result vindicated<br />
his stance that he<br />
was being subjected to<br />
revengeful accountability.<br />
He asked how long they<br />
will have to appear before<br />
courts and face supplementary<br />
references.<br />
The PML-N chief questioned<br />
the rationale behind<br />
filing of a supplementary<br />
reference against him and<br />
members of his family, saying<br />
had there been anything<br />
incriminating in the previous<br />
reference, the anti-graft<br />
watchdog would not have to<br />
file the new reference.<br />
He claimed the Sharif<br />
family was facing fake<br />
cases.<br />
People were fighting his<br />
case, said Nawaz Sharif.<br />
KARACHI EDITION – Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2018</strong>, Jumada-al-Awwal 27, <strong>14</strong>39 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />
People of Pakistan are fighting my case<br />
PML-N victory in<br />
Lodhran vindicates<br />
my stance: Nawaz<br />
Hearing of NAB references against Sharifs adjourned<br />
due to lawyers strike<br />
KABUL: General<br />
Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief<br />
of Army Staff (COAS)<br />
said Pakistani territory is<br />
not allowed to be used<br />
The sanctity of vote was<br />
being restored, which is evident<br />
in the Lodhran by-poll,<br />
he added.<br />
He stated that he was<br />
being avenged in the name<br />
of accountability and vowed<br />
to face charges against him<br />
forcefully.<br />
Why those who violated<br />
the country’s constitution<br />
and arrested judges were not<br />
being caught, he asked.<br />
Without naming anyone,<br />
the former premier said, the<br />
powers that be wanted him<br />
to be punished at any cost.<br />
He said the PML-N will<br />
lead the country in the right<br />
direction, adding that his<br />
government eradicated<br />
power blackouts and terrorism<br />
from the country.<br />
In a jovial mood, Sharif<br />
said, by the grace of Allah<br />
the moon of the upcoming<br />
general elections has been<br />
sighted in Lodhran by-elections.<br />
Earlier, Nawaz, accompanied<br />
by his daughter<br />
Maryam, reached the court<br />
from Punjab House. Safdar<br />
had already reached the<br />
Federal Judicial Complex<br />
where the court is located.<br />
A number of Pakistan<br />
Muslim League-Nawaz<br />
(PML-N) leaders, workers<br />
and government figures<br />
were present at the court to<br />
welcome the PML-N chief.<br />
As proceedings began,<br />
Judge Mohammad Bashir<br />
inquired if the summoned<br />
witnesses are present in<br />
court to record their statement,<br />
to which NAB's<br />
Deputy Prosecutor General<br />
Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi<br />
replied in the affirmative.<br />
However, the hearing<br />
could not take place owing<br />
to the lawyers' boycott of<br />
courts over the death of<br />
noted lawyer Asma<br />
Jahangir, who passed away<br />
due to a stroke in Lahore on<br />
Sunday.<br />
The prosecution<br />
expressed displeasure at the<br />
adjournment, saying the<br />
witnesses and prosecution<br />
suffer owing to adjournments.<br />
During the hearing, the<br />
judge admonished the prosecution<br />
for failing to present<br />
supplementary references in<br />
the Al Azizia and Flagship<br />
cases. It then issued a notice<br />
to NAB's Rawalpindi director<br />
general to furnish an<br />
explanation as to why the<br />
supplementary references<br />
have not been filed so far.<br />
The hearing was<br />
adjourned until <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 15.<br />
Gen Qamar Bajwa in Kabul for high-level military meeting<br />
Pakistan’s territory not allowed to<br />
be used against any country: COAS<br />
KABUL: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed<br />
Bajwa speaks during Chief of Defence (CHOD) Conference.<br />
United States (US) Army General John Nicholson, the commander<br />
of the Resolute Support mission also seen in picture.<br />
against any other country<br />
and Pakistan expects the<br />
same in reciprocity.<br />
The army chief made<br />
these remarks while attending<br />
Chiefs of Defence<br />
(CHOD) Conference held<br />
at Kabul on Tuesday.<br />
Commander USCENT-<br />
COM, Commander<br />
Resolute Support Mission<br />
(RSM) and Army Chiefs of<br />
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan,<br />
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,<br />
Turkmenistan and<br />
Uzbekistan also attended.<br />
The conference concluded<br />
to continue cooperation<br />
for peace and stability<br />
in the region.<br />
Speaking at the occasion,<br />
COAS reiterated that<br />
path to regional peace and<br />
stability passes through<br />
Afghanistan.<br />
The army chief said that<br />
regions develop as a<br />
whole, not individual<br />
countries.<br />
UN Military Observer Group in India,<br />
Pakistan must be expanded: Maleeha<br />
NEW YORK: Pakistan has called for an<br />
expansion in the UN Military Observer<br />
Group in India and Pakistan to counter the<br />
rising threats to peace and security in the<br />
region.<br />
Speaking in the Special Committee on<br />
Peacekeeping, Pakistan’sAmbassador to UN<br />
Maleeha Lodhi said that the UN Mission,<br />
UNMOGIP is a critical factor for stability in<br />
the region. “This needs to be expanded to<br />
respond to existing threats and realities”, she<br />
stressed.<br />
She reiterated Pakistan’s unflinching support<br />
to UN peacekeeping, both as one of its<br />
largest and consistent contributors and also<br />
as host of one of the UN's oldest peacekeeping<br />
missions, UNMOGIP.<br />
The Special Committee on Peacekeeping<br />
is a unique forum that brings together all<br />
peacekeeping stakeholders, troop and police<br />
contributors, financial contributors, Security<br />
Council members and the UN Secretariat to<br />
discuss every aspect of peacekeeping. Lodhi<br />
emphasised the need to address the root<br />
causes of conflict to bring about lasting<br />
peace. Peacekeeping, she said, needs to be<br />
strengthened through support for political<br />
solutions and mediation processes.<br />
Asma Jahangir’s funeral prayers offered<br />
LAHORE: Prominent<br />
lawyer and human rights<br />
icon Asma Jahangir's<br />
funeral prayers have been<br />
offered at Gaddafi<br />
Stadium.<br />
Maulana Haider Farooq<br />
Maududi led the funeral<br />
prayers, which were<br />
attended by scores of men,<br />
women and children.<br />
Asma was buried at her<br />
family's farmhouse on<br />
Bedian Road, as per her<br />
wishes.<br />
Jahangir, who co-founded<br />
the Human Rights<br />
Commission of Pakistan<br />
and came to be known as a<br />
fearless voice of the marginalised<br />
sections of the<br />
society, passed away on<br />
Sunday after suffering a<br />
cardiac arrest. She was 66.<br />
She was known for<br />
speaking against human<br />
rights violations and her<br />
courageous stand against<br />
dictatorships. She was also<br />
a vocal opponent of judicial<br />
Ali Tareen thanks<br />
Lodhran voters<br />
despite shock defeat<br />
LODHRAN: Defeated<br />
PTI candidate Ali Tareen<br />
said that he would continue<br />
to work for the development<br />
of South Punjab<br />
despite his defeat in the byelection<br />
of Lodhran.<br />
Tareen, who was<br />
favorite to win the contest,<br />
lost to PML-N’s Pir Iqbal<br />
Shah by a huge margin of<br />
more than 26, 000 votes in<br />
a major upset.<br />
The young politician<br />
broke his silence after the<br />
shock defeat on Twitter.<br />
“First and foremost I’d<br />
like to thank the 90 thousand<br />
people in Lodhran<br />
who voted for me. I am<br />
overwhelmed by the love<br />
and friendship shown by<br />
you,” Tareen said in a<br />
series of tweets.<br />
11 dead bodies to<br />
arrive in Pak today<br />
ISLAMABAD: Eleven<br />
dead bodies of<br />
Pakistanis who lost their<br />
lives in boat tragedy in<br />
Libya will arrive in<br />
Pakistan today<br />
(Wednesday).<br />
According to Foreign<br />
Office Spokesperson, the<br />
dead bodies are being<br />
dispatched via SV 722<br />
flight which will arrive<br />
at Benazir Bhutto<br />
International Airport at<br />
four in the afternoon.<br />
KARACHI: Chinese<br />
Consulate, as part of its<br />
social responsibility initiatives<br />
has partnered with the<br />
Aman Foundation to support<br />
their life-saving Ambulance<br />
program. The partnership<br />
was announced at the launch<br />
of a woman empowerment<br />
event here at Aman<br />
Foundation head office. The<br />
woman empowerment program<br />
at Aman Tech is a<br />
female vocational training<br />
program focused to empower<br />
women from marginalized<br />
communities. The ceremony<br />
Senate pays tribute to late human rights icon<br />
LAHORE: A large number of people are offering the funeral prayers of prominent<br />
lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir at Gaddafi Stadium.<br />
overreach and would often<br />
confront the superior judiciary<br />
when it would extend<br />
its jurisdiction in her opinion.<br />
ISLAMABAD: The<br />
Supreme Court, during the<br />
Naqeebullah Mehsud murder<br />
case hearing on<br />
Tuesday, granted protective<br />
bail to former SSP Rao<br />
Anwar, ordering him to<br />
appear on Friday.<br />
A three-member bench<br />
headed by Chief Justice<br />
Mian Saqib Nisar heard the<br />
case of extra-judicial<br />
killing at the Islamabad<br />
registry.<br />
During today’s hearing,<br />
a representative of Rao<br />
Anwar filed his letter to the<br />
Earlier, Asma's body<br />
was transported to her<br />
house in Gulberg from the<br />
hospital where it was<br />
placed in a morgue. From<br />
there, her funeral procession<br />
headed towards<br />
Gaddafi Stadium, with<br />
mourners surrounding the<br />
van carrying her body on<br />
foot.<br />
Condolences poured in<br />
from all over the country as<br />
well as abroad following<br />
Jahangir’s demise, as people<br />
paid tribute to her services<br />
for democracy and<br />
Chief Justice of Pakistan in<br />
which he claimed innocence.<br />
Chief Justice Mian<br />
Saqib Nisar observed that<br />
Rao Anwar should not be<br />
arrested but be given an<br />
opportunity to present himself<br />
before the court.<br />
“Let him come to court.<br />
We shall constitute a JIT for<br />
him,” said the chief justice.<br />
“If something happens to<br />
Rao Anwar then all evidence<br />
will be eliminated.”<br />
The bench granted protective<br />
bail to Rao Anwar<br />
efforts in the movement to<br />
restore the judiciary.<br />
Meanwhile, Senators<br />
eulogized the services rendered<br />
by late Asma<br />
Jahangir for restoration of<br />
democracy, judiciary and<br />
human rights and said she<br />
would be remembered forever<br />
for her great efforts<br />
against dictators.<br />
Naqeebullah murder case<br />
Rao Anwar gets protective bail<br />
SC restrains police from arresting Rao Anwar, orders to appear in court on Friday<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Minister for defence engineer<br />
Khurram Dastgir khan<br />
said on Tuesday Pakistan<br />
will pay India in its own<br />
coin in case of any Indian<br />
misadventure.<br />
In a press statement to<br />
answer allegations of<br />
Indian Defence Minister,<br />
he said any Indian aggression,<br />
strategic miscalculation,<br />
or misadventure<br />
regardless of its scale,<br />
mode, or location will not<br />
go unpunished and shall be<br />
met with an equal and proportionate<br />
response.<br />
He further said they will<br />
defend robustly every inch<br />
of Pakistan’s soil.<br />
He noted, “Instead of<br />
the knee-jerk reaction of<br />
blaming Pakistan without<br />
substantiation, India must<br />
and directed him to appear<br />
on Friday.<br />
Rao Anwar had claimed<br />
on January 13 he killed four<br />
operatives of the banned<br />
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan<br />
(TTP) in an encounter near<br />
Shah Latif Town in<br />
Karachi. Naqeebullah was<br />
one of them.<br />
Naqeeb remained unaccounted<br />
for at least ten days<br />
after which his family recognized<br />
him when news<br />
channels aired pictures of<br />
terrorists killed in an<br />
encounter.<br />
Pakistan will retaliate any of<br />
Indian misadventure: Def Minister<br />
was attended by Mr. Wang<br />
Yu, Honorable Consul<br />
Pakistan rejects baseless<br />
Indian allegations<br />
ISLAMABAD:Responding to a question regarding<br />
the recent comments of the Defence Minister of India,<br />
the Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal<br />
while rejecting the Indian baseless allegations, said the<br />
now familiar Indian tendency of apportioning blame to<br />
Pakistan, without a shred of evidence, is regrettable.<br />
The Indian allegations are premature and inopportune,<br />
especially as India itself admits that the operation still<br />
continued and investigations had just started, when<br />
those comments were made, a statement said.<br />
General of China and Mr.<br />
Nasir Hussain Shah,<br />
answer for state-sponsored<br />
espionage against Pakistan.<br />
Living evidence in person<br />
of Kulbushan Yadev is in<br />
front of the world.”<br />
Nasir Shah says Aman Foundation will<br />
spark with a new wave of revolution<br />
Consulate of People’s Republic of China donates life-saving ambulance to Aman Foundation<br />
Information and Labor<br />
Minister among other supporters<br />
of Aman Foundation.<br />
The Aman Foundation's<br />
flagship Aman Ambulances<br />
have made 950,000+ interventions<br />
to date. While<br />
there are other ambulance<br />
services present and doing a<br />
great service to Pakistan,<br />
Aman Ambulances are the<br />
only ones with the necessary<br />
life-saving medicines<br />
and medical equipment,<br />
along with trained medical<br />
personnel to handle emergencies<br />
effectively.<br />
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Metropolitan<br />
MQM MNA Salman Mujahid accused of<br />
sexual assault, blackmailing woman<br />
KARACHI: A woman on<br />
Tuesday alleged that<br />
Muttahida Qaumi<br />
Movement - Pakistan<br />
(MQM-P) lawmaker Salman<br />
Mujahid Baloch had sexually<br />
assaulted her.<br />
The woman named<br />
Aleena, filed a complaint<br />
against the MQM MNA at<br />
Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station,<br />
alleging that he had sexually<br />
assaulted and subsequently<br />
started to blackmail<br />
her. She has alleged that<br />
Mujahid sexually assaulted<br />
her for the first time on<br />
August 12, 20<strong>14</strong>, at<br />
Parliament lodges and made<br />
a video of it through a hidden<br />
camera.<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan<br />
Petroleum Limited (PPL)<br />
donated Rs. 9.02 million to<br />
Lady Dufferin Hospital<br />
(LDH), Karachi for purchasing<br />
equipment for its operation<br />
theatre. MD & CEO<br />
PPL Syed Wamiq Bokhari<br />
presented the donation<br />
cheque to Member,<br />
Management Committee<br />
LDH Dr. Faridon Setna and<br />
Medical Superintendent<br />
LDH Dr. Zeryab Setna at the<br />
KARACHI: In this undated picture, Salman Mujahid is seen with the accuser whose<br />
face has been blurred to protect her identity.<br />
In her application to the<br />
police, she said that Mujahid<br />
head office in the presence<br />
of representatives from both<br />
organizations.<br />
“As a frontline national<br />
company, PPL takes pride in<br />
reaching out to marginalized<br />
promised to marry her in<br />
order to keep her silent and<br />
communities in remote as<br />
well as urban areas of the<br />
country to improve their<br />
well-being for over six<br />
decades,” highlighted<br />
Bokhari while speaking on<br />
the occasion. He further<br />
emphasized on bringing<br />
together philanthropic measures<br />
for ensuring free-ofcost<br />
quality healthcare for<br />
mother and child against the<br />
backdrop of one of highest<br />
maternal mortality rates in<br />
added that when she reminded<br />
him of his promise, he<br />
PPL donates equipment to maternity hospital<br />
KARACHI: A view of sewerage water accumulated outside Quaid Govt Boys Primary<br />
School Ramsawami area creates problems for commuter needs the attention of concerned<br />
authorities.<br />
Two newborn<br />
babies found<br />
dead in Karachi<br />
KARACHI: The bodies<br />
of two newborn babies<br />
were found from a garbage<br />
dump in the metropolis on<br />
Tuesday. Rescue sources<br />
said that the bodies of two<br />
newborn babies were<br />
recovered from a garbage<br />
heap in Gulistan-e-<br />
Jauhar’s Block-12. They<br />
said that the bodies were<br />
two days old and shifted to<br />
Chhipa morgue after<br />
medico legal formalities.<br />
Cop gunned<br />
down in Korangi<br />
KARACHI: A policeman<br />
was killed in an armed attack<br />
in Korangi area of the city in<br />
the wee hours of Tuesday.<br />
According to rescue sources,<br />
a policeman, Muhammad<br />
Ashraf Tanuli, son of Faqir<br />
Muhammad, was injured in<br />
armed attack near Korangi’s<br />
Vita Chowrangi. He succumbed<br />
to injuries while on<br />
way to Jinnah Postgraduate<br />
Medical Center.<br />
KU announces exam results<br />
KARACHI: Karachi<br />
University’s (KU)<br />
Controller Examinations on<br />
Tuesday announced the<br />
results of M.A final external<br />
annual examinations 2016<br />
in Political Science, and<br />
Post Graduate Diploma in<br />
Tuberculosis and Chest<br />
Diseases (DTCD) annual<br />
examinations 2017.<br />
According to result, in<br />
M.A final external annual<br />
examinations in Political<br />
Science, 191 candidates<br />
appeared in total out of<br />
which <strong>14</strong> secured first divisions,<br />
91 secured second<br />
divisions while passing percentage<br />
remained 54.97.<br />
Savera Yousuf secured first,<br />
Kauser secured second<br />
while Saba Latif got third<br />
position.<br />
Pakistan.<br />
LDH was instituted in<br />
1898 as the first women hospital<br />
in Karachi to provide<br />
obstetric and gynaecological<br />
care services. Currently,<br />
LDH has wards to accommodate<br />
300 inpatients, 4<br />
operation theatres, neo-natal<br />
intensive care unit and outpatient<br />
department to provide<br />
latest healthcare facility<br />
to a large number of deserving<br />
women and infants.<br />
Workers protest<br />
non-payment of<br />
one-year salaries<br />
KARACHI: A group of<br />
people belonging to All<br />
Pakistan Clerks Association<br />
(APCA) and Food<br />
Department Employees<br />
Federation Sindh (FDEF) on<br />
Tuesday held a protest<br />
demonstration outside<br />
Karachi Press Club (KPC)<br />
against non-payment of their<br />
12-month salaries.<br />
The protest was led by<br />
APCA General Secretary<br />
Shahnawaz Bhutto,<br />
Mukhtiar Kalhoro and Gul<br />
Muhamad Abbasi. The leaders<br />
of Sindh small industries<br />
said that since 12 months,<br />
their salaries and dues had<br />
not been paid as a result,<br />
they were facing trouble.<br />
Leaders said they were<br />
bread earners of their families<br />
and had been protesting<br />
for long time for receiving<br />
salaries but the Sindh government<br />
did not pay attention<br />
towards their issue.<br />
KARACHI: Labour busy in making the kite the election symbol of Muttahida Qaumi<br />
Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) at Bahadurabad area.<br />
abducted her brother and tortured<br />
him.<br />
The woman also alleged<br />
that Mujahid has demanded<br />
a sum of Rs4 million for the<br />
video, adding that if any<br />
harm befalls her then the<br />
MQM lawmaker will be<br />
responsible.<br />
Earlier, the lawmaker had<br />
lodged a complaint against<br />
the same woman and had<br />
alleged that she fraudulently<br />
took Rs4million from him<br />
for her mother’s treatment at<br />
Shaukat Khanum Memorial<br />
Cancer Hospital. Mujahid<br />
had claimed that he came to<br />
doubt her when she asked for<br />
more money, and later came<br />
to know that she is a fraud.<br />
Alleged horse trading<br />
for Senate seats<br />
mocks democracy<br />
KARACHI: Allegations<br />
of horse trading ahead of the<br />
Senate elections are making<br />
mockery of democracy and<br />
constitution and the apex<br />
judiciary should once intervene<br />
to ensure uphold of<br />
law and constitution and<br />
defend the norms of democracy,<br />
said Pasban e Pakistan<br />
President Altaf Shakoor.<br />
In a statement here<br />
Tuesday, he said the honorable<br />
chief justice of<br />
Pakistan has already been<br />
taking efforts to ensure<br />
uphold of law and constitution.<br />
He said it needs that<br />
steps should be taken to<br />
check wrongdoing and malpractices<br />
at the higher levels.<br />
He said as the elections<br />
of the Senate are coming<br />
nearer allegations of horse<br />
trading are being traded<br />
amongst different political<br />
parties. He said allegedly<br />
Crores of rupees are being<br />
offered to the turncoats by<br />
some political parties to get<br />
more seats in the upper<br />
house.<br />
Altaf Shakoor said it is a<br />
welcome development that<br />
the apex judiciary, especially<br />
the honorable chief justice<br />
of Pakistan has already<br />
been taking suo moto<br />
notices on various issues.<br />
Corruption case<br />
SHC asks Sharjeel Memon if he<br />
wants to be operated at CHK<br />
KARACHI: The Sindh<br />
High Court (SHC) on<br />
Tuesday remarked that<br />
Pakistan Peoples’ Party<br />
(PPP) lawmaker and former<br />
provincial minister Sharjeel<br />
Inam Memon, who was<br />
arrested in Rs5.76billion<br />
corruption case, could be<br />
operated by the surgeon of<br />
his own choice at Dr Ruth<br />
KM Pfau Civil Hospital<br />
Karachi.<br />
The court passed these<br />
remarks while hearing the<br />
arguments of Sardar Latif<br />
Khosa, representing Sharjeel<br />
in post-arrest bail plea.<br />
During the hearing, the<br />
counsel said that the doctors<br />
had advised immediate surgery<br />
to the former minister<br />
as he was going through<br />
serious illness, requesting<br />
the court to grant him a bail<br />
on medical grounds.<br />
The judge offered the<br />
defending lawyer that his<br />
client could be operated by<br />
the surgeon of his own<br />
choice at Civil Hospital.<br />
“We could pass an order for<br />
Sharjeel’s treatment by the<br />
best doctors at the hospital,<br />
if he wishes so” the court<br />
remarked.<br />
Khosa replied that as per<br />
the Supreme Court’s orders,<br />
any court cannot bind an<br />
inmate to be treated by specific<br />
doctor or hospital, contending<br />
that it was pure<br />
patient’s right to acquire<br />
medical facilities of his own<br />
choice. “The cases would be<br />
heard until the accused person<br />
is alive,” he added.<br />
The counsel said that the<br />
PPP leaders were willing to<br />
face the courts as Dr Asim<br />
Hussain and Sharjeel had<br />
returned to Pakistan and<br />
appearing before it.<br />
After completion of the<br />
defence counsel, the court<br />
issued notice to National<br />
Accountability Bureau<br />
(NAB) prosecutor on <strong>Feb</strong><br />
15. Sharjeel, along with the<br />
officials of a private advertising<br />
agency Inam Akbar,<br />
Riaz Munir, Muhammad<br />
Hanif, Asim Amir Khan<br />
Sikandar and others was<br />
booked by the corruption<br />
watchdog for causing billions<br />
of rupees loss to the<br />
national exchequer through<br />
‘embezzling’ in the Sindh<br />
information department’s<br />
electronic campaign.<br />
According to NAB, the<br />
PPP lawmaker and 17 others,<br />
in connivance with each<br />
other, had caused Rs5.76billion<br />
loss to the national<br />
exchequer through the<br />
embezzlement in the Sindh<br />
government's advertisement<br />
campaign on electronic<br />
media.<br />
KARACHI: Members of All Pakistan Oil Tankers Association have the blocked the road<br />
while protesting in favor their demands at Bilawal House Chorangi.<br />
NGOs taken on board to<br />
improve education: minister<br />
KARACHI: Provincial<br />
Minister for Education and<br />
Literacy Jam Mehtab<br />
Hussain Dahar said on<br />
Monday that the Sindh government<br />
has taken many<br />
steps to improve education<br />
in the province.<br />
“For the purpose, we<br />
have also taken well reputed<br />
NGOs on board,” he said<br />
KARACHI: Karachi Faraz Khan and Nadir<br />
police claimed to have Hussaain. Police claimed to<br />
arrested 11 criminals, have recovered hashish and<br />
including two diesel smugglers,<br />
from different parts of<br />
the metropolis in the wee<br />
huge quantity of Gutka, Mawa<br />
from their possession.<br />
Meanwhile, Monghopir,<br />
hours of Tuesday. police on intelligence<br />
According to police reports, about the smuggling<br />
sources, Surjani town police<br />
on a tip-off, carried out raids in<br />
the area and arrested four drug<br />
peddlers, Wiki, Gul Rehman,<br />
of huge quantity of Iranian<br />
diesel, started checking a<br />
dumper-truck coming from<br />
Balochistan.<br />
while talking to a delegation<br />
of Join Hands, an NGO<br />
working in various fields.<br />
During checking, 10,000<br />
liters of Iranian diesel was<br />
seized from a loaded<br />
dumper-truck with a registration<br />
number TAK-415.<br />
The diesel was concealed<br />
into the specially designed<br />
hidden cavities of the truck.<br />
Driver Alawaudin, and<br />
Nasir, were arrested from<br />
the spot. Separately, a<br />
Monghopir police team<br />
Secretary Education<br />
Schools Iqbal Hussain<br />
Durrani, Head of<br />
Curriculum Wing Dr<br />
Fouzia Khan, Kashif Sehbai<br />
Chairman Shaheen Air and<br />
Sabrina Sehbai Director<br />
Shaheen Air were also present<br />
on the occasion .<br />
The delegation informed<br />
the education minister that<br />
they wanted to create an<br />
awareness in the fields of<br />
animals’ rights, wildlife<br />
and environment and were<br />
interested to make children<br />
socially aware because they<br />
had found incredible opportunities<br />
in these sectors.<br />
Police arrests 11 accused including two diesel smugglers<br />
KARACHI: Foundation<br />
Programme students of Indus Valley<br />
School of Art & Architecture (IVS),<br />
Karachi, prepared five large sized<br />
murals under the community-based<br />
project as an integral part of their<br />
curriculum.<br />
This was a collaborative project<br />
of IVS and Civil Hospital Karachi,<br />
which was an integral part of their<br />
curriculum.<br />
Professor Dr Khawar Saeed<br />
Jamali, the Pro-Vice Chancellor of<br />
Dow University of Health Sciences<br />
(DUHS), played an eminent role in<br />
designating prominent space for<br />
these murals in OPD of Civil<br />
Hospital Karachi and in the main<br />
waiting area of DUHS.<br />
The theme of these murals was<br />
arrested three drug peddlers,<br />
Skinder, Ataullah and Akbar<br />
Zada, and recovered 910<br />
grams of special quality<br />
hashish from them.<br />
Pakistan Bazaar police<br />
during patrolling arrested<br />
two criminals, Shoiab and<br />
Mehmood Ahmed. The<br />
police have registered FIRs<br />
against detainees and started<br />
further investigation.<br />
IVS paintings on nature installed in CHK, DUHS<br />
‘Nature’ so that some comforting<br />
and pleasant images could be introduced<br />
to the environment of trauma<br />
in the hospital. Foundation Year<br />
students created these colorful<br />
murals under the supervision of<br />
their faculty. IVS graciously<br />
extended the logistical support in<br />
transportation and installation of<br />
these pieces on the site.<br />
80 percent patients out of 500 found positive for Hepatitis<br />
B & C during two-day medical and surgical camp in Thatta<br />
KARACHI: More than<br />
80 percent patients hailing<br />
from city and outskirts of<br />
Thatta are found positive<br />
for hepatitis B & C during<br />
screening in two days free<br />
medical camp there.<br />
A medical and surgical<br />
camp was organized on<br />
Saturday and Sunday at<br />
Qadir Bux Bhutto Trust<br />
Hospital building by<br />
Hashmani's Medical<br />
Welfare Foundation, a<br />
Karachi based charity.<br />
These facts were shared<br />
by Chairman Hashmanis<br />
Medical Welfare<br />
Foundation renowned eye<br />
surgeon Dr. Sharif<br />
Hashmani while addressing<br />
a media briefing held at<br />
KARACHI: Hashmanis Medical Welfare Foundation, Dr.<br />
Sharif Hashmani addresses to media persons during<br />
press conference regarding Thatta Medical Camp held<br />
at Hashmani Hospital.<br />
Hashmanis Hospital here at<br />
Karachi on Tuesday.<br />
He told that more than<br />
1100 patients were examined<br />
during two days camp<br />
and over 500 of them were<br />
screened for hepatitis profile,<br />
cholesterol and diabetes.<br />
This is very alarming<br />
that we have found 80 percent<br />
lab samples positive<br />
for hepatitis B & C which<br />
warrants urgent attention of<br />
government officials. More<br />
than 25 percent patients<br />
were found diabetic too<br />
during laboratory investigations,<br />
Dr. Sharif<br />
Hashmani informed.<br />
As many as 123 cateract<br />
operations were performed<br />
on patients during these<br />
two days which will also be<br />
followed up. We will soon<br />
establish a charity hospital<br />
to cater medical needs of<br />
poor population of Thatta<br />
and its sorroundings, he<br />
announced.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi<br />
addressing a seminar at White House School.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman District Council, Salman Abdullah<br />
Murad visiting Union Council Chohar.<br />
KARACHI: Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI Women Wing) District<br />
President, Saima Nadeem visiting free medical camp in<br />
Liyari area of Karachi and also group photo with residents<br />
women of Liyari.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch<br />
alogn with Haji Muzafar Shajra presenting a trophy to<br />
the captain of the winning team.
Witnesses record statement<br />
in Zainab murder case<br />
LAHORE: A total of 26<br />
witnesses record their<br />
statements on Tuesday<br />
before the anti-terrorism<br />
court (ATC) hearing the<br />
Zainab rape and murder<br />
case. The ATC is holding<br />
the trial inside Kot Lakhpat<br />
Jail, where the primary suspect<br />
Imran Ali is jailed on<br />
remand.<br />
Punjab Prosecutor<br />
General Ehtesham Qadir is<br />
assisting the ATC as per the<br />
orders of the superior<br />
courts. Moreover, the prosecution<br />
department is<br />
expected to complete the<br />
cross-examination of the<br />
witnesses as well.<br />
A total of 56 witnesses<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD: The<br />
2nd Intentional Watercolor<br />
Biennale “Pearls of Peace<br />
Season-II” will start today<br />
(Wednesday) at Centre of<br />
Excellence in Art & Design<br />
(CEAD), Mehran<br />
University of Engineering<br />
& Technology (MUET),<br />
Jamshoro. The Biennale is<br />
organized by CEAD,<br />
MUET, Jamshoro in collaboration<br />
with International<br />
Watercolour Society (IWS).<br />
The Biennale will be inaugurated<br />
by Education<br />
have been named in the<br />
case.<br />
On Monday, ATC Judge<br />
Minister of Sindh Jam<br />
Mehtab Dahar, Cultural<br />
Minister Sindh Syed Sardar<br />
Ali Shah, Vice-chancellor<br />
MUET Prof. Dr.<br />
Muhammad Aslam Uqaili,<br />
Dean Prof. Dr. Khan<br />
Muhammad Brohi, Director<br />
CEAD Prof. Dr. Bhai Khan<br />
Shar, Prof. Dr. Raza Bhatti,<br />
Prof. Dr. S. M. Qureshi,<br />
Hameer Soomro, Prof. Dr.<br />
Abdul Rehman Memon<br />
jointly.<br />
Pearls of Peace through<br />
watercolour is the biggest<br />
art event in the history of the<br />
Sajjad Ahmad had indicted<br />
Imran and recorded the<br />
statements of 20 witnesses.<br />
country that includes the<br />
artists from U. S. A, Turkey,<br />
China, Hong Kong,<br />
Portugal, Russia, Romania,<br />
Serbia, Bulgaria, Iraq,<br />
Spain, Brazil, Czech<br />
Republic and Pakistan,<br />
whereas the watercolour<br />
paintings of 60 renowned<br />
artists around the globe will<br />
be displayed in the<br />
Biennale. The artists participating<br />
in the Biennale are<br />
Head of Joao Eudes Alves<br />
Correia, Selma Todorova,<br />
Krasimir Todorova, Liu Yi,<br />
Alexandara Bryksa, Vasyl<br />
Seven-year-old Zainab<br />
was kidnapped from near<br />
her aunt’s house in Kasur<br />
2nd World Watercolor Biennale “Pearls<br />
of Peace” to start at CEAD today<br />
Let’s stop cheating: education board<br />
safe education, safe society rally<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
HYDERABAD: Board<br />
of Intermediate and<br />
Secondary Education took<br />
out a big rally under banner<br />
of Safe Education Safe<br />
Society which was participated<br />
by scores of high<br />
schools and colleges of<br />
city. The rally Lets Stop<br />
Cheating was led by Dr.<br />
Muhammad Memon chairman<br />
of BISE and controller<br />
of examinations Dr.<br />
Masroor Ahmed Zai was<br />
taken from Model school<br />
of Sindh university to press<br />
club. The schools and colleges<br />
which took part in<br />
rally included islamia<br />
Modern Boys High<br />
School,Zais school system,<br />
Green watch high school,<br />
govt boys degree college<br />
Kohsar, G.G.H.S Society<br />
No.1,Rashid Minhas H.S<br />
Khahi road, government<br />
secondary teachers association,<br />
all private schools<br />
management association<br />
and others. Dr. Muhammad<br />
Memon, Dr. Masroor<br />
Ahmed Zai, Wing<br />
Commander Q.Hakim<br />
Khan and heads of participating<br />
schools and colleges<br />
addressed the rally. Dr.<br />
Muhammad said they have<br />
launched anti cheating<br />
trend in examinations and<br />
hoped with cooperation of<br />
people and all concerned<br />
including parents, students<br />
and teaching staff their<br />
campaign would succeed.<br />
He said cheating in examinations<br />
has turned as cancer<br />
as such it was must for<br />
all of us to make transparent<br />
and credible the system<br />
of examinations for better<br />
educational training for our<br />
young generation.He asked<br />
all and sundry to work<br />
jointly towards this noble<br />
cause to save education<br />
and society.<br />
Bryksa, Lai Ze Ze, Faisal<br />
Othoman Qadir, Amer<br />
Hassan Salman, Maria Ines<br />
Ferreira Madeira Rodrigues,<br />
Monteriro, and others.<br />
The renowned artists,<br />
critics and people who<br />
spent their lives for promotion<br />
of this field around the<br />
world will be honoured<br />
with awards. The cultural<br />
music a large scale painting<br />
jointly painted by all<br />
artists together will be the<br />
part of this event. The<br />
exhibition will last till<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 18, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Civil society on call<br />
of women action<br />
forum pays homage<br />
to Asma Jehangir<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
HYDERABAD: Civil society<br />
organizations, lawyers,<br />
intellectuals, teachers, students,<br />
journalists and peasants assembled<br />
in front of press club here<br />
tuesday and paid tributes to<br />
human rights activist and<br />
renowned lawyer Asma<br />
Jehangir who passed away 2<br />
days ago. WAF termed her<br />
death of Asma Jehangir as carnage<br />
for Pakistani women,<br />
minorities, oppressed nations,<br />
peasants, workers, backward<br />
people as also for democratic<br />
loving and human rights collective<br />
struggle. WAF said Asma<br />
was such an exemplary face of<br />
on January 4 and found<br />
dead in a garbage heap five<br />
days later. The Lahore High<br />
Court has directed the ATC<br />
to wrap up the trial within<br />
seven days of the suspect’s<br />
indictment.<br />
Imran was arrested on<br />
January 23. His DNA also<br />
matched samples taken<br />
from seven other minor<br />
girls who were abused and<br />
murdered earlier in Kasur,<br />
according to the police.<br />
After the police arrested<br />
Imran, the suspect reportedly<br />
confessed to assaulting<br />
eight minor girls at an<br />
under-construction site and<br />
two others in a garbage<br />
heap in Kasur.<br />
Timely completion<br />
of development<br />
project top priority:<br />
Khawaja Imran<br />
R A W A L P I N D I :<br />
Provincial Minister<br />
Primary and Secondary<br />
Health, Khawaja Imran<br />
Nazeer said Tuesday that<br />
timely completion of<br />
development projects is<br />
top priority of the Punjab<br />
government.<br />
He expressed these<br />
views while reviewing<br />
the headway of ongoing<br />
and new schemes under<br />
Annual Development<br />
Program 2017-18. These<br />
views were expressed<br />
while chairing review<br />
meeting of committee for<br />
implementation of development<br />
projects at commissioner<br />
office.<br />
C o m m i s s i o n e r<br />
Rawalpindi Nadeem<br />
Aslam Chaudhry, MPA<br />
Muhammad Nawaz<br />
Chochan, Director<br />
Finance & Planning<br />
Noureen Bashir, Deputy<br />
commissioner Attock<br />
Rana Akbar Hayat, DC<br />
Jehlum Iqbal Hussain,<br />
DC Chakwal Umer<br />
Jehnagir, ADC (Finance<br />
& Planning) Rao Atif<br />
Raza, Deputy Director<br />
development Saima<br />
Ghafoor, SE Highways,<br />
buildings and other concerned<br />
officers attended<br />
the meeting.<br />
enlightened and progressive<br />
Pak who had been challenging Staff Reporter<br />
the dictatorial and terrorist SHIKARPUR: Two<br />
forces at all times, tolerance in<br />
comparison to religious bigotry<br />
and importance to independent<br />
expression. They said she was<br />
such an benchmark of Pak in<br />
killed while 10 others were<br />
sustained severe wounds<br />
when a speeding coach<br />
coming from Karachi for<br />
Sawat went out of control<br />
which she preached human from its driver and<br />
rights without discrimination of rammed into a hotel at<br />
nationalities, religions, languages<br />
Shikarpur-Larkana Indus<br />
and continued to stand Highway beside Garhi<br />
with oppressed Pakistanis<br />
her last day.<br />
till Sahib Khan diversion, in<br />
the limits of Dakhan Police<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Bus-van collision claims 5 lives<br />
WAZIRABAD: Five van coming from opposite<br />
side on Wazirabad the bodies to their cus-<br />
rushed to the scene, took<br />
persons have died and<br />
other five have sustained Bypass on Tuesday. tody and shifted them to<br />
injuries in bus-van collision<br />
on Wazirabad Bypass. due to reckless driving. be handed over to the<br />
Accident took place hospital. The bodies will<br />
As per media report 5 Bodies and Injured were family members of<br />
persons were killed and shifted to hospital for deceased following completion<br />
of autopsy<br />
the other five were injured medico legal formalities<br />
after a bus collided with a and first aid. Police process.<br />
British High Commission’s GREAT<br />
Debate competition comes to Lahore<br />
Bureau Report<br />
LAHORE: The British<br />
High Commission brought<br />
its annual GREAT Debate<br />
competition to Lahore with<br />
a semi-final event at the<br />
FAST National University.<br />
The event brought<br />
together debaters from<br />
across universities in<br />
Lahore. After a competitive<br />
round of fixtures Ms<br />
Mohiba Ahmed from<br />
Government College<br />
University and Ms<br />
Rameesha Khan from<br />
University of the Punjab<br />
were judged to be the winner<br />
and runner-up respectively.<br />
Imtiaz Dharani<br />
MITHI: The first ever<br />
two-day Thar Science<br />
Festival is beginning today<br />
in Mithi where thousands of<br />
students of 73 registered<br />
schools both government<br />
and private sectors from<br />
across the district would participate<br />
in the event and<br />
The Acting British High<br />
Commissioner Richard<br />
Crowder said; “Colleges<br />
and universities in Lahore<br />
have a rich culture of<br />
debating and I am delighted<br />
that with the GREAT<br />
Debate we are able to provide<br />
another platform to<br />
the youth of this city.<br />
“I have been impressed<br />
by the level of debate and<br />
enthusiasm with which the<br />
youth have participated in<br />
the GREAT Debate and I<br />
look forward to a tough<br />
competition among the<br />
selected <strong>14</strong> debaters in the<br />
finale in Islamabad.”<br />
The GREAT Debate<br />
would also exhibit their various<br />
modules. " The twoday<br />
event is being organized<br />
by Thar Education Alliance<br />
in colloboration with different<br />
local organizations as<br />
well as Alif Ailan Mr<br />
Partab Shivani, the chief of<br />
Thar Education Alliance and<br />
Chief Monitoring Officer (<br />
education) Mr Samiullah<br />
Sanjrani talking to the media<br />
persons on Tuesday maintained<br />
that Thar Science<br />
2017 is the third annual<br />
edition of the competition<br />
that gives students from<br />
across Pakistan a platform<br />
to participate in debates,<br />
interact with other students<br />
from different universities<br />
and hone their skills in<br />
research, analytical thinking<br />
and public speaking.<br />
Winners and runner-ups<br />
from the semi-finals will<br />
be given one year British<br />
Council digital library<br />
memberships. The winner<br />
and runner-up of the overall<br />
competition will<br />
receive a scholarship<br />
reward to contribute<br />
towards their tuition fees.<br />
First ever 2-day Thar Science<br />
Festival is beginning today<br />
Station, here on<br />
Wednesday evening.<br />
According to Khalilul<br />
Rahman Massan, the SHO<br />
Dakhan Police Station, a<br />
man identified as Iqbal<br />
Shaikh, who was sitting at<br />
hotel and one motorcyclist<br />
identified as Mubarak<br />
Shar, who was crossing the<br />
road, were died while 10<br />
other coach passengers<br />
including Rehana Bibi,<br />
Zahoor Khan Khittab,<br />
Iqramul Hassan and others,<br />
whose names could<br />
not be known, sustained<br />
severe wounds when a fast<br />
moving coach went out of<br />
control from its driver and<br />
rammed into hotel.<br />
The accident took place<br />
due to over speeding, SHO<br />
elaborated.<br />
The area’s police<br />
rushed on the spot and<br />
Festival would abe a significant<br />
step in igniting the<br />
curiosity of the students and<br />
teachers towards Maths and<br />
Science. " This will not only<br />
be a platform for organisations<br />
working on science to<br />
engage students through fun<br />
science and robotics activities,<br />
but also for the students<br />
to show their talents to a host<br />
of stakeholders: they aded.<br />
Two killed, 10 injured in road accident<br />
transported the bodies and<br />
injured to Rural Health<br />
Centre Dakhan and dead<br />
bodies were handed over<br />
to their heirs after completing<br />
medical legal formalities<br />
while injured were<br />
shifted to Larkana<br />
Hospital and Rato Dero<br />
Hospital for further medical<br />
assistances after providing<br />
them first aid at<br />
RHC Dakhan, SHO said.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Students raveling on the roof of passenger bus may cause any serious<br />
incident needs the attention of concerned authorities.<br />
Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis failed<br />
to recover looted money from corrupts<br />
ISLAMABAD: Inspite<br />
of Supreme Court’s directives,<br />
Secretary, Ministry of<br />
Overseas Pakistanis, Qasim<br />
Muhammad Khan has<br />
made excuse to recover billions<br />
of rupees from<br />
bureaucrats who engulfed<br />
money from national<br />
exchequer under the patronage<br />
of candidate for Senate,<br />
Irfan Siddiqui.<br />
Reliable sources told<br />
that eight officers of<br />
Workers Welfare Fund, a<br />
sub-ordinate department of<br />
Ministry of Overseas<br />
Pakistanis, were expelled<br />
following the directives of<br />
apex court but Secretary<br />
Overseas Pakistanis has<br />
made lame excuse to recover<br />
plundered money from<br />
them due to pressure of the<br />
high-ups.<br />
Although the ruling party<br />
was making tall claims<br />
regarding eradication of corruption<br />
but the Supreme<br />
Court’s directives have<br />
unveiled these tall claims as<br />
no action was being taken<br />
by the government against<br />
corrupt bureaucrats.<br />
Candidate for Senate’s seat<br />
Irfan Siddiqui’s brother<br />
Tahir Kaleem Siddiqui was<br />
a contractual employee of<br />
Directorate of Workers<br />
Education, a subordinate<br />
organization of Ministry of<br />
CADD. Later, his services<br />
were transferred to Workers<br />
Welfare Fund (WWF). He<br />
joined the WWF along with<br />
his team.<br />
Sources said that<br />
inquiries were underway<br />
against Tahir Kaleem<br />
Siddiqui and other officers<br />
in NAB and FIA worth<br />
rupees billions but these<br />
officers were continuing<br />
corruption due to patronage<br />
of high-ups. Abdul Hameed<br />
Jamani was working in<br />
grade 17 in WWF Sindh. He<br />
joined the organization in<br />
2010 while reached till<br />
grade 20 in a short span of<br />
three years time. Ironically,<br />
he did not meet the educational<br />
requirements.<br />
Likewise this, Director<br />
Admin, Muhammad<br />
Noman Shah was working<br />
in grade 17 in the National<br />
Assembly and joined WWF<br />
in grade 19. Both officers<br />
have been sent back to their<br />
respective organizations.<br />
These officers collected millions<br />
of rupees from national<br />
exchequer in the name of<br />
medical, children fees, vehicles<br />
and construction of<br />
houses while Secretary<br />
Ministry of Overseas<br />
Pakistanis has made lame<br />
excuse to recover plundered<br />
money from them.<br />
Speakers term art and culture a<br />
bridge to bring the world together<br />
JAMSHORO: Speakers<br />
have stressed the need for<br />
greater cultural engagement<br />
between Pakistan and<br />
Japan; stressing that ‘culture’<br />
served as solid facilitative<br />
bridge to bring world<br />
communities and societies<br />
together. And that the same<br />
held true in case of cultural<br />
ties between Pakistan and<br />
Japan too; as the two countries<br />
had enjoyed resonating<br />
relations in the given spectrum<br />
for the last six to seven<br />
decades.<br />
This they stated in the<br />
augural ceremony of oneday<br />
Japanese calendar exhibition<br />
and film screening<br />
show at the Institute of Art<br />
& Design, University of<br />
Sindh organized by MEXT<br />
Alumni Association of<br />
Pakistan (MAAP) Sindh<br />
chapter and Institute of Art<br />
& Design, University of<br />
Sindh in collaboration with<br />
Consulate General of Japan,<br />
Karachi.<br />
VC-SU Prof. Dr. Fateh<br />
Muhammad Burfat in his<br />
speech as the event Chief<br />
Guest said that Japan was<br />
enviable model of modernity,<br />
progress and innovation<br />
in Asia. He added that<br />
Japan had taken new birth<br />
in 1945 in the aftermath of<br />
World War II; whereas,<br />
Pakistan had emerged on<br />
the map of the world on<br />
1947 which comes as a<br />
common ground between<br />
the two countries. “This<br />
resemblance of newly-born<br />
Pakistan and war-free Japan<br />
bound the two together in a<br />
camaraderie which continues<br />
until today”, he<br />
explained.<br />
Dr. Burfat said he was<br />
astounded to see Japanese<br />
peoples’ passionate love for<br />
fauna, flora, scenic beauty,<br />
land-sky-and-marine landscapes,<br />
originality and<br />
innocence of life, life’s pure<br />
abundance, rich variety,<br />
immense exuberance and<br />
varied visions.<br />
“The Japanese calendars<br />
that I have seen on display<br />
today reveal Japanese peoples’<br />
love for life, for life’s<br />
broad colors, its enormous<br />
diversity and scope.<br />
Japanese artists’ excited<br />
engagement with life with<br />
its ever-changing<br />
Kaleidoscope is simply<br />
incredible. I am amazed<br />
how Japanese people transform<br />
their life experience to<br />
annual calendars, and how<br />
as a result; they become<br />
able to perpetuate their history<br />
in the annals of time”,<br />
he elaborated.<br />
Dr. Burfat attributed<br />
Japan’s marvelous success<br />
in all fields to its people’s<br />
unshakable faith in them, in<br />
their tenacity to take on<br />
odds, in their invincible<br />
spirit to tackle challenges<br />
and their approach to accost<br />
arduous undertakings.
4<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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EDITORIAL<br />
UNO misused by Secuirty Council:<br />
Battles for peace lost on US, Israel,<br />
Europe and Saudi led wars worldwide<br />
CRITICS argue that many destructive wars<br />
could not be stopped by United Nations<br />
Organization on US, Israel, Europe and Saudi<br />
led devastation with casualties that astound an entire<br />
humanity. These wars continue, one in Syria since<br />
five years. Wars elsewhere including Iraq and Yemen<br />
left hundreds of thousands of casualties. These wars<br />
made tens of millions homeless in their home countries<br />
as well as refugees abroad. Let us recall some of<br />
this criticism.<br />
WARS and civil strife is still going on in these and<br />
a number of other countries. The plight of Gaza in<br />
Palestine remains unaccounted. Such a dismal history<br />
makes the UN Charter largely unenforceable, critics<br />
believe, and that UN had become a tool which was<br />
misused -- again and again -- by big powers and their<br />
UN Security Council for waging wars, accompanied<br />
with UN peace-keeping force, and not for establishing<br />
peace either.<br />
Has the United Nations Organization or the UNO<br />
failed in its duties? There are many different and contradicting<br />
opinions on the effectiveness of the organization.<br />
Illogical as well as reasonable criticism heaped<br />
on the United Nations has been economically and ideologically<br />
diverse. Much of it is focused upon the<br />
UN's purported inability to collect finance -- even<br />
membership fees from countries including the US --<br />
making it incapable of properly handling international<br />
conflicts, sometimes even on a small scale.<br />
Other criticisms tend to focus on the UN's alleged<br />
elitism or its presumed support of genocidal policies.<br />
Lack of accountability in UN was also on focus. In<br />
regards to criticism of corruption within the UN system<br />
by its employees, its investigator for instance was<br />
dismissed from his field job and the UN was directed<br />
to compensate him for the wrongful dismissal.<br />
Only 75 of the then 184 member states in near past<br />
were free democracies which had the effect of tipping<br />
the scales of the UN so that the organization as a<br />
whole was more amenable to the requirements of dictatorships<br />
around the world.<br />
Reporters witnessed a rapid increase in prostitution<br />
in Cambodia, Mozambique, Bosnia, and Kosovo after<br />
UN and, in the case of the latter two, NATO peacekeeping<br />
forces moved in. Sexual misconduct by<br />
United Nations troops had earlier been reported in<br />
Congo, Cambodia and Haiti, as well as in an earlier<br />
incident involving Moroccan peacekeepers in Côte<br />
d'Ivoire. The United Nations Population Fund has<br />
been accused by different groups of providing support<br />
for government programs which have promoted<br />
forced-abortions and coercive sterilizations.<br />
There has been criticism that the five permanent<br />
By Waqar Mustafa<br />
To my daughter fear is our greatest issue as it<br />
impedes development, both personal and<br />
collective. But human rights champion<br />
Asma Jahangir, who passed away in Lahore only a<br />
fortnight after turning 66, had overcome that quite<br />
early in her life. Or, should I say, she was fearless<br />
by birth. Courage was in her genes. Her father,<br />
Malik Ghulam Jilani, a civil servant had entered<br />
politics on retirement and spent years both in jail<br />
and under house arrest for opposing military rule.<br />
Her mother had set up her own clothing business<br />
when the family's lands were confiscated in 1967<br />
as punishment. She was 18 when her father was<br />
arrested again and she moved the Lahore High<br />
Court for his release. Her petition remained unsuccessful<br />
but after she appealed to the Supreme<br />
Court, the martial law that had led to her father's<br />
arrest was also declared illegal.<br />
From then on, activism did not remain personal<br />
for her. According to Pakistan's independent watchdog,<br />
the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan<br />
(HRCP), which she co-founded in 1986, the human<br />
rights movement in Pakistan was founded and is<br />
defined by Asma Jahangir. She was also a cofounder<br />
of the Women's Action Forum, which was<br />
set up to oppose law that reduced a woman's testimony<br />
in court to half that of a man's. She served as<br />
HRCP's Secretary General and Chairperson and was<br />
currently its Spokesperson and the United Nations<br />
Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran,<br />
among the numerous other significant appointments.<br />
"Asma Jahangir's unique and outstanding contribution<br />
to the human rights discourse is acknowledged<br />
by friends and foes alike, nationally and globally.<br />
HRCP has not known a braver and more tireless<br />
human rights defender than Asma Jahangir," Dr<br />
Mehdi Hasan, the Commission's chairperson, said in<br />
a statement.<br />
I have had the honour of sharing the stage with<br />
her, mainly at the launch events of HRCP's flagship<br />
annual report, The State of Human Rights, which I<br />
edited for four years. She would make the events<br />
lively and vibrant by vociferously and fearlessly<br />
OPINION<br />
members of the United Nations Security Council or<br />
the UNSC (China, France, Russia, the United<br />
Kingdom and the United States), who are all nuclear<br />
powers, have created an exclusive nuclear club whose<br />
powers are unchecked. Unlike the General Assembly,<br />
the United Nations Security Council does not have<br />
true international representation. This has led to accusations<br />
that the UNSC only addresses the strategic<br />
interests and political motives of the permanent members.<br />
The practice of the permanent members meeting<br />
privately and then presenting their resolutions to the<br />
full council as a fait accompli has also drawn fire.<br />
Another concern is that the five permanent members<br />
of the UN Security Council are five of the top seven<br />
largest arms exporting countries in the world.<br />
Still other nations have advocated abolishing the<br />
concept of permanency altogether. A "Get US out of<br />
the UN" campaign happened in 1959, charging that<br />
the UN's aim was to establish a "One World<br />
Government." Some have questioned whether the UN<br />
might be relevant in the 21st century.<br />
While the UN’s first and second Charter mandates<br />
require the UN: “To maintain international peace and<br />
security.... (and if necessary to enforce the peace by)<br />
taking preventive or enforcement action,” due to its<br />
restrictive administrative structure, the permanent<br />
members of the Security Council themselves have<br />
sometimes prevented the UN from fully carrying out<br />
its first two mandates. Without the unanimous<br />
approval, support (or minimally abstention) of all 5 of<br />
the permanent members of the UN's Security Council,<br />
the UN's charter only enables it to "observe", report<br />
on, and make recommendations regarding international<br />
conflicts[citation needed]. Such unanimity on<br />
the Security Council regarding the authorization of<br />
armed UN enforcement actions has not always been<br />
reached in time to prevent the outbreak of international<br />
wars.<br />
In the Srebrenica massacre, Serbian troops committed<br />
genocide against Bosnian Muslims in the<br />
largest case of mass murder on the European continent<br />
since World War II. Srebrenica had been declared<br />
a UN "safe area" and was even protected by 400<br />
armed Dutch peace keepers, but the UN forces did little<br />
to prevent the massacre. In 1967, Richard Nixon,<br />
while running for President of the United States, criticized<br />
the UN as "obsolete and inadequate" for dealing<br />
with then-present crises like the Cold War. A<br />
review of UN action during the final months of the Sri<br />
Lanka's civil war in 2009, in which tens of thousands<br />
of people were killed, criticized the UN leadership,<br />
UN Security Council and top UN officials in Sri<br />
Lanka.<br />
Asma Jahangir was fearless, she had it in her genes<br />
Jahangir had won scores of national and international awards<br />
speaking in defence of human rights. She wanted to<br />
spread the word through radio. She had planned to<br />
use some award money for setting up FM radio stations<br />
for human rights education in different areas of<br />
the country. On her bidding, HRCP, under a twoyear<br />
project, produced programmes carrying human<br />
rights messages for a state-run radio channel.<br />
A dedicated and accomplished lawyer, Asma<br />
Jahangir cared less for money and had fought a lot of<br />
human rights cases for free. In 1980, she, along with<br />
women lawyer colleagues, opened the first legal-aid<br />
centre in Pakistan. Over the next decade, she went to<br />
prison for opposing military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's<br />
chauvinistic laws, and lent voice and legal support to<br />
the oppressed - women, children, labourers, political<br />
workers and people from minority faiths.<br />
In 2007, she was put under house arrest for her<br />
role in the so-called lawyers' movement, which<br />
helped end Pervez Musharraf's dictatorship. She<br />
became the first woman president of the country's<br />
Supreme Court Bar Association.<br />
A fierce defender of democracy and human<br />
rights, she knew her subject and her speech featured<br />
logic and reason - both biting and funny. Time magazine<br />
honoured her through its list of 100 most<br />
influential women. She was repeatedly threatened<br />
for raising her voice for the voiceless. Several years<br />
ago, she had to briefly send her family out of the<br />
country following threats.<br />
Jahangir had won scores of national and international<br />
awards. In Pakistan, she was awarded the<br />
Hilal-i-Imtiaz and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, the second<br />
and third highest civilian honours. Internationally,<br />
she was awarded the Unesco/Bilbao Prize for the<br />
Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights, an<br />
Officier de la Légion d'honneur by France, the 2010<br />
Freedom of Worship Award, Martin Ennals Award<br />
for Human Rights Defenders, the Ramon<br />
Magsaysay Award and the Right Livelihood Award<br />
in Sweden in 20<strong>14</strong>.<br />
The fiery activist, whose name was virtually synonymous<br />
with human rights in Pakistan, will be<br />
missed, always and immensely, by all whose lives<br />
she touched. She died way too soon!<br />
Lodhran by-poll<br />
PTI losing popularity even<br />
before coming to power: Reham<br />
ISLAMABAD: Reham<br />
Khan, former wife of Imran<br />
Khan, said on Tuesday that<br />
the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<br />
faced a heavy defeat in the<br />
recent Lodhran by-poll, and<br />
its the first time a party is<br />
losing popularity even<br />
ISLAMABAD: Allama<br />
Iqbal Open University<br />
(AIOU) has declared the<br />
final results of its Matric<br />
program for the Semester<br />
Spring, 2017.<br />
It has been placed at<br />
University’s website.<br />
before coming in power.<br />
Pakistan Muslim<br />
League-Nawaz's (PML-N)<br />
candidate Iqbal Shah<br />
received 113,542 votes,<br />
while his competitor,<br />
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's<br />
Ali Tareen, contesting his<br />
first election on his father,<br />
Jahangir Tareen’s seat, got<br />
85,933 votes in the by-election<br />
held on Monday.<br />
Khan in a video message<br />
said that she feels sorry for<br />
the party workers and its ideological<br />
supporters.<br />
AIOU declares results of Matric program<br />
Bureau Report<br />
H Y D E R A B A D :<br />
Christian Peace Alliance<br />
Pakistan has said that<br />
wine/alcohol was declared<br />
Haraam in all religions<br />
including Christians but in<br />
Pakistan some vested interests<br />
were continuing this<br />
ugly business under guise<br />
of and using name of<br />
minorities and playing with<br />
lives of innocent<br />
Pakistanis. Now that<br />
Christian community was<br />
observing Lent( fasting<br />
days) from ASH <strong>14</strong><br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary to 1st April<br />
According to Controller of<br />
Exams, result cards are<br />
also being sent by post to<br />
all the concerned students<br />
at their given addresses.<br />
The students can also<br />
download their results<br />
from the University’s website<br />
to apply for continuation<br />
of their future study.<br />
They are allowed to enroll<br />
themselves with the<br />
University during the<br />
ongoing admissions<br />
(Spring <strong>2018</strong>-session) that<br />
will continue till March 5.<br />
Christians demand to close<br />
wine shops during the lent<br />
3 SHOs of<br />
federal police<br />
transferred<br />
ISLAMABAD: Federal<br />
Police have issued transfer<br />
orders of SHOs of three<br />
police stations including<br />
Karachi Compnay,<br />
Secretariat and Sihala in<br />
federal capital.<br />
According to notification<br />
issued by DIG<br />
Operations CIA inspector<br />
Akhtar Khan has been<br />
posted as SHO Karachi<br />
company and SHO<br />
Karachi company Fayyaz<br />
Tanoli has been transferred<br />
to CIA.<br />
Shaukat Ali, SHO<br />
Sihala Police station has<br />
been transferred to<br />
Rescue-15 and SHO Rural<br />
Secretariat Qaisar Niaz<br />
has been transferred to<br />
Rescue-15.<br />
Likewise Shabbir<br />
Ahmad Tanoli, sub inspector<br />
Kohsar police station<br />
has been appointed as<br />
SHO Secretariat.<br />
Abdul Rauf<br />
SUKKUR: Mayor Sukkur<br />
Barrister Arsalan Islam Shaikh inaugurated<br />
the Online Driving License<br />
branch at DIG Office Sukkur.<br />
During the conversation with media<br />
on the occasion, he said that online<br />
driving license is a new technology<br />
through which the ordinary persons<br />
can make easily online registration<br />
sitting at home, which is very beneficial<br />
and positive for the public. On<br />
the occasion, the Incharge of the<br />
online driving license briefed that<br />
the online driving license will be<br />
taken for academic and driving test<br />
and the license will be provided in<br />
case of passing. He further added<br />
that the standard of commercial and<br />
non commercial license For one<br />
year the temporary commercial<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
SHIKARPUR: A joint<br />
program was organized by<br />
Shikarpur Press Club and<br />
Community Action for<br />
Development<br />
Shikarpur [CARD] to pay<br />
tribute to Asma Jahangir, a<br />
prominent advocate of<br />
Supreme Court of<br />
Pakistan, who died owing<br />
to cardiac arrest, here on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
Abdul Salam Unar,<br />
(Easter) they have demanded<br />
from government and<br />
chief justice of Pakistan to<br />
order closure of all wine<br />
shops in Pakistan (sale and<br />
purchase) as mark of<br />
respect during fasting season<br />
of Christian community<br />
of Pakistan.<br />
president press club<br />
Shikarpur, Iqbal Detho,<br />
human rights activists,<br />
Deen Muhammad Shaikh,<br />
Mian Zafar Alvi, Pervaiz<br />
Abro, Nasim Bukhari, Ali<br />
Asghar Pahore, Mumtaz<br />
Mangi and others highlighted<br />
the services rendered<br />
by Asma Jahangir<br />
and expressed their deep<br />
sympathies with bereaved<br />
family members.<br />
Senior Journalists<br />
"Whenever they are in<br />
pressure they start attacking<br />
people like me," she said,<br />
"they consider Nawaz Sharif<br />
or Maryam Nawaz behind<br />
conspiracies against them.<br />
Was selection of Ali<br />
Jahanghir Tareen a conspiracy<br />
by Nawaz or God forbid<br />
suggestion by me."<br />
She said that the voters<br />
have rejected PTI as the<br />
party has deviated from its<br />
vision. "You (PTI) have<br />
given space to dynastic politics.<br />
You have taken all the<br />
garbage from other party in<br />
yours. PTI was attacking status-quo<br />
but today has<br />
become its cheap copy," the<br />
former journalist said.<br />
Khan alleged that three<br />
groups within the party has<br />
come in public.<br />
"It has been proven that<br />
you can buy leadership<br />
from money but not votes,"<br />
Khan said.<br />
Blacklisted absconder<br />
arrested at Allama<br />
Iqbal airport<br />
LAHORE: A black listed<br />
and absconding person<br />
coming from Dubai was<br />
arrested by immigration<br />
staff and handed over to<br />
Anti human trafficking<br />
circle at the Allama Iqbal<br />
Airport on Tuesday.<br />
FIA Spokesman said<br />
that accused Jasim on his<br />
arrival at Lahore from<br />
Dubai presented his documents<br />
at immigration<br />
counter. The Staff during<br />
the checking of his documents<br />
found that he was<br />
black listed and an absconder.<br />
They arrested him and<br />
handed over to the anti<br />
human trafficking circle.<br />
TFC made functional at<br />
Rescue-15 Liaqat Bagh,<br />
Kutchery Facilitation Centre<br />
RAWALPINDI: Traffic<br />
Facilitation Counter (TFC)<br />
have been made functional<br />
at Rescue-15 Liaqat Bagh<br />
and Facilitation Centre<br />
Kutchery to facilitate the<br />
citizens.<br />
According to media<br />
report CTO Shahid Ali<br />
Yousu said that City<br />
Traffic Police have made<br />
TFC functional in Rescue-<br />
15 Liaqat Bagh and<br />
Facilitation Centre<br />
Kutchery.<br />
Tribute pays to Asma Jahangir<br />
license will be confirmed after the<br />
90 ninty days, the work on the old<br />
including Rahmatullah<br />
Soomro, Waheed<br />
Phulpoto, Zahid Noon,<br />
social activists including<br />
Shahnawaz Abro,<br />
Mukhtiar Shaikh, Nadir<br />
Balcoh, Zafar Channa, and<br />
the number of persons<br />
belonging to every walk of<br />
life was present on the<br />
occasion.<br />
Candles were also lit to<br />
pay homage to Asma<br />
Jahangir.<br />
Mayor Sukkur inaugurates<br />
online driving license branch<br />
driving license will continue to be<br />
done shortly.
Pentagon asks for major budget<br />
increase to confront Russia, China<br />
WASHINGTON: The<br />
US Defense Department<br />
has called on Congress to<br />
approve a major budget<br />
increase in order to counter<br />
“threats” from Russia,<br />
China, and North Korea.<br />
The Pentagon on<br />
Monday asked for a budget<br />
of $686 billion to be allocated<br />
to military spending<br />
in 2019. The requested<br />
TEHRAN: Leader of the<br />
Islamic Revolution<br />
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali<br />
Khamenei has lauded the<br />
strong unity among Iran’s<br />
Shia and Sunni Muslims<br />
despite all enemy attempts<br />
to sow discord among<br />
them.<br />
Ayatollah Khamenei<br />
made the remark during a<br />
recent meeting in Tehran<br />
with a number of officials<br />
in charge of a martyrs’ congress<br />
in Iran’s southeastern<br />
province of Sistan-and-<br />
Baluchestan.<br />
The Leader described<br />
Sistan-and-Baluchestan,<br />
along with the provinces of<br />
Kordestan and Golestan as<br />
the embodiment of Muslim<br />
unity and a role model of<br />
cooperation and brotherly<br />
coexistence for all Shias<br />
and Sunnis worldwide.<br />
amount is one of the largest<br />
in US history, and is also<br />
focused on beefing up the<br />
country's nuclear arsenal.<br />
The budget sees an increase<br />
of $80 billion from 2017.<br />
On top of the $686 billion<br />
budget request was an<br />
additional $30 billion for<br />
agencies including the<br />
Department of Energy,<br />
which maintains American<br />
Ayatollah Khamenei<br />
further called for vigilance<br />
among Muslims against<br />
divisive enemy schemes.<br />
The Leader also highlighted<br />
the sacrifices of<br />
Sistan-and-Baluchestan’s<br />
Sunni Muslims in defending<br />
the country over the<br />
past decades, citing the<br />
US military advantage versus<br />
China and Russia could<br />
undermine our ability to<br />
deter aggression and coercion<br />
in key strategic<br />
regions,” he added.<br />
According to the budget<br />
document, Beijing is "using<br />
predatory economics to<br />
intimidate its neighbors<br />
while militarizing features<br />
in the South China Sea."<br />
China "seeks Indo-<br />
Pacific regional hegemony<br />
in the near-term," the document<br />
claims, but in the long<br />
term seeks to "achieve<br />
global preeminence" over<br />
the United States.<br />
The request for more<br />
military spending comes as<br />
the budget proposed by<br />
President Donald Trump’s<br />
nuclear weapons.<br />
Under-Secretary of<br />
Defense David L. Norquist<br />
told reporters on Monday<br />
that the budget aims to neutralize<br />
threats posed by<br />
China and Russia which administration<br />
“want to shape a world consistent<br />
with their own<br />
authoritarian intentions.”<br />
"We recognize that, if<br />
unaddressed, our eroding<br />
martyrdom of a teenager<br />
during the 1980s Iraqimposed<br />
war as well as a<br />
cleric at the hands of counter-revolutionary<br />
elements<br />
as two examples that show<br />
"Shia and Sunni brothers in<br />
the Islamic Republic are<br />
standing shoulder to shoulder<br />
on the most arduous<br />
includes<br />
major cuts for international<br />
diplomacy and overseas aid.<br />
Promoting his proposal<br />
on Monday, Trump said the<br />
US military would be the<br />
Khamenei hails unity between Iran’s Shia, Sunni Muslims<br />
Israeli military trial opens<br />
for Palestinian girl hero<br />
TEL AVIV: The Israeli<br />
military has begun the trial<br />
of a Palestinian teenage girl,<br />
who gained international<br />
fame for slapping an Israeli<br />
soldier in the face, behind<br />
closed doors.<br />
Ahed Tamimi, 17, was<br />
taken away from her home<br />
by the military last<br />
December after a video went<br />
viral showing her slapping<br />
and punching two Israeli<br />
soldiers during a raid on the<br />
village of Nabi Saleh, northwest<br />
of Ramallah.<br />
She has been hailed as a<br />
heroine by many<br />
Palestinians for bravely<br />
TEL AVIV: Israel’s<br />
Supreme Court has<br />
authorized police to make<br />
recommendations regarding<br />
the indictment of<br />
Prime Minister Benjamin<br />
Netanyahu on corruption<br />
charges, rejecting a petition<br />
that had been filed to<br />
block those recommendations.<br />
standing up to the Israeli<br />
military aggression and recognized<br />
as a symbol of the<br />
Palestinian resistance<br />
against the Israeli occupation.<br />
Tamimi has been charged<br />
with 12 counts -- including<br />
assault, stone-throwing,<br />
incitement and making<br />
threats -- in connection with<br />
the events in the video as<br />
well as five other incidents.<br />
If convicted, she could<br />
face a lengthy jail term.<br />
A hearing into the case of<br />
Tamimi opened at the Ofer<br />
military prison in the West<br />
Bank village of Betunia on<br />
Right-wing attorney<br />
Yossi Fuchs had filed the<br />
petition last week, asking<br />
the top court to prevent<br />
police from publicly recommending<br />
to the attorney<br />
general to indict<br />
Netanyahu in the graft<br />
probes.<br />
The tribunal, however,<br />
dismissed the petition on<br />
Monday, saying that it had<br />
previously passed judgment<br />
on the system of recommendations<br />
and upheld<br />
its lawfulness.<br />
“There is no reason to<br />
interfere,” read the court<br />
ruling, meaning the police<br />
recommendations<br />
now be forwarded.<br />
can<br />
Tuesday.<br />
The judge ordered journalists<br />
and diplomats to<br />
leave the courtroom, but the<br />
girl's family members were<br />
allowed to remain there.<br />
Tamimi's lawyer Gaby<br />
Lasky criticized the judge<br />
for shutting the media and<br />
members of the public out of<br />
the trial.<br />
"They understand that<br />
people outside Ofer military<br />
court are interested in<br />
Ahed's case; they understand<br />
that her rights are<br />
being infringed and her trial<br />
is something that shouldn't<br />
be happening."<br />
fronts."<br />
Thanks to the people’s<br />
“faith and sacrifices,” the<br />
Islamic Republic has<br />
remained resilient in the<br />
face of “modern ignorance”<br />
despite the sanctions and<br />
the enemies’ military and<br />
cultural conspiracies,<br />
Ayatollah Khamenei noted.<br />
NATO chief backs<br />
bigger alliance training<br />
mission in Iraq<br />
BRUSSELS: NATO<br />
Secretary-General Jens<br />
Stoltenberg said on Tuesday<br />
the alliance was ready to<br />
answer a U.S. call for NATO<br />
to expand its small training<br />
mission in Iraq to support<br />
reconstruction of the country<br />
after three years of war with<br />
Islamic militants.<br />
U.S. Secretary of Defense<br />
Jim Mattis sent a letter to<br />
NATO last month calling for<br />
a formal NATO train-andadvise<br />
mission, Reuters<br />
reported,, part of President<br />
Donald Trump’s campaign<br />
for the alliance to do more<br />
against militants.<br />
Stoltenberg’s support is a<br />
sign the alliance may be<br />
dropping the resistance it put<br />
up last year. But the issue<br />
remains divisive, with<br />
European NATO allies fearing<br />
another open-ended foreign<br />
assignment after more<br />
than a decade inAfghanistan.<br />
“We have to win the<br />
peace,” Stoltenberg told a<br />
news conference, saying he<br />
expected NATO defense<br />
ministers to start planning for<br />
a bigger mission at a meeting<br />
in Brussels on Thursday,<br />
with a decision to launch the<br />
mission in July.<br />
strongest it has ever been.<br />
Last month, Defense<br />
Secretary Jim Mattis<br />
warned of “growing<br />
threats” from Russia and<br />
China, saying the US military’s<br />
advantages over the<br />
two countries have eroded<br />
in recent years.<br />
The assessment was part<br />
of an unclassified summary<br />
of the Pentagon's new<br />
National Defense Strategy<br />
Mattis unveiled on January<br />
19.<br />
"We face growing<br />
threats from revisionist<br />
powers as different as<br />
China and Russia, nations<br />
that seek to create a world<br />
consistent with their authoritarian<br />
models,” he said.<br />
"Our military is still<br />
strong, yet our competitive<br />
edge has eroded in every<br />
domain of warfare -- air,<br />
land, sea, space and cyberspace<br />
-- and is continually<br />
eroding," he added.<br />
Coalition members<br />
must help Iraq<br />
rebuild, Tillerson says<br />
KUWAIT: The United<br />
States urged members of<br />
the coalition fighting<br />
Islamic State on Tuesday<br />
to help rebuild Iraq or risk<br />
the reversal of the gains<br />
made against the group<br />
there.<br />
The U.S. leads the<br />
coalition and hopes that<br />
after a three-year fight to<br />
defeat the militants it can<br />
count in large part on Gulf<br />
allies to shoulder the burden<br />
of rebuilding Iraq and<br />
on a Saudi-Iraqi rapprochement<br />
to weaken<br />
Iran’s influence in the<br />
country, which is run by a<br />
Shi‘ite led government.<br />
Islamic State took control<br />
of large parts of Iraq<br />
and Syria in 20<strong>14</strong>.<br />
Donors and investors<br />
have gathered in Kuwait<br />
this week to discuss efforts<br />
to rebuild Iraq’s economy<br />
and infrastructure as it<br />
emerges from a devastating<br />
conflict with the hardline<br />
militants who seized<br />
almost a third of the country.<br />
Iraq declared victory<br />
over Islamic State in<br />
December, having taken<br />
back all the territory captured<br />
by the militants in<br />
20<strong>14</strong> and 2015. The fighters<br />
have also been largely<br />
defeated in neighboring<br />
Syria.<br />
SJA Jafri<br />
Bureau Chief Australia<br />
MELBOURNE: The<br />
diplomatic efforts from<br />
Australian authorities to get<br />
Israel to pursue a former<br />
Melbourne school principal<br />
accused of child sexual<br />
abuse were pivotal in leading<br />
to her re-arrest, a lawyer<br />
representing her alleged victims<br />
says.<br />
Malka Leifer is accused<br />
of abusing several pupils<br />
while she was the principal<br />
of the ultra-orthodox Adass<br />
Israel girls’ school in<br />
Elsternwick.<br />
BOLLYWOOD: The<br />
first official still of<br />
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan<br />
from her upcoming drama<br />
Fanne Khan was released<br />
on Tuesday evening.<br />
Production house KriArj<br />
Entertainment shared the<br />
actor’s look on Twitter<br />
with the caption, “There<br />
are divas and then there is<br />
#AishwaryaRaiBachchan..<br />
our shining star!<br />
#FanneKhan”.<br />
In the still, Aishwarya<br />
Rai is seen donning a<br />
green military jacket with<br />
a stylish black top. The<br />
photo suggests that Aish<br />
means business.<br />
Fanne Khan stars<br />
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,<br />
Anil Kapoor and<br />
Rajkummar Rao in lead<br />
roles. The movie is produced<br />
by Rakeysh<br />
Omprakash Mehra. Fanne<br />
Khan has been adapted<br />
from the Oscar-nominated<br />
film Everybody’s Famous<br />
(2000).<br />
The original Dutch<br />
film’s plotline revolves<br />
around a father who goes<br />
to extreme lengths to fulfill<br />
his daughter’s dream.<br />
And by extreme, we mean<br />
kidnapping the country’s<br />
singing sensation, so that<br />
her daughter can take the<br />
singer’s place.<br />
Here’s Aishwarya’s<br />
look from Fanne Khan:<br />
Earlier talking about<br />
Anil Kapoor’s character,<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
International<br />
the producer Arjun N.<br />
Kapoor had said, “Anil<br />
Kapoor plays a character<br />
who celebrates the<br />
extraordinary in the ordinary<br />
and hence looking<br />
5<br />
Fanne Khan: Aishwarya Rai looks<br />
like a complete diva in this still<br />
ANKARA: Turkish<br />
President Recep Tayyip<br />
Erdogan has warned that<br />
Washington’s refusal to stop<br />
funding the Kurdish militants<br />
in Syria will affect<br />
Ankara’s decisions, ahead<br />
of a visit by US Secretary of<br />
State Rex Tillerson this<br />
week.<br />
Addressing members of<br />
his ruling Justice and<br />
Development Party (AK<br />
Party) in parliament on<br />
Tuesday, Erdogan criticized<br />
Washington for supporting<br />
militants from the Kurdish<br />
People’s Protection Units<br />
(YPG).<br />
“Our ally’s decision to<br />
give financial support to the<br />
YPG... will surely affect the<br />
decisions we will take,”<br />
Erdogan said.<br />
Ankara views the YPG<br />
as a terrorist organization<br />
the part was extremely<br />
crucial. He managed to<br />
pull it off beautifully and<br />
continues to inspire all of<br />
us with his dedication and<br />
passion.”<br />
US funding of Kurdish militants in Syria<br />
to impact Turkey’s decisions: Erdogan<br />
SEOUL : The friend of<br />
former South Korean leader<br />
Park Geun-hye who was at<br />
the center of an influencepeddling<br />
scandal that<br />
rocked the country’s business<br />
and political elite has<br />
been sentenced to 20 years<br />
in jail, a Seoul court said on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
The court also sentenced<br />
the chairman of the Lotte<br />
Group, the country’s fifthlargest<br />
conglomerate, to two<br />
years and six months in<br />
prison in the same case.<br />
Choi Soon-sil, a confidante<br />
of Park, was convicted<br />
of receiving bribes<br />
from South Korean con-<br />
and an extension of the outlawed<br />
Kurdistan Workers<br />
Party (PKK) that has been<br />
fighting for an autonomous<br />
region inside Turkey since<br />
1984.<br />
Erdogan’s comments followed<br />
the release of the US<br />
Department of Defense’s<br />
2019 budget, which<br />
includes funds to train and<br />
equip local forces purportedly<br />
fighting Daesh.<br />
Lotte chief and ex-president's friend<br />
jailed in South Korea scandal<br />
In 2008, when the allegations<br />
were first raised, she<br />
fled to Israel, and was arrested<br />
there six years later when<br />
Australia filed an extradition<br />
request.<br />
She was released on bail<br />
but has avoided all of her<br />
extradition hearings since<br />
then, claiming poor mental<br />
health made her too unwell<br />
to face court.<br />
But overnight Israel<br />
authorities revealed Leffer<br />
glomerates including<br />
Samsung, the world’s<br />
biggest maker of smartphones<br />
and semiconductors,<br />
and the Lotte Group.<br />
Park was dismissed from<br />
the presidency last March<br />
after being impeached and<br />
standing trial separately on<br />
charges of bribery, abuse of<br />
power and coercion. She<br />
denies any wrongdoing.<br />
Lotte’s chairman, Shin<br />
Dong-bin, was in court at<br />
the time of the verdict and<br />
was taken into custody.<br />
Melbourne sex offender re-arrest in Israel<br />
Netanyahu is suspected<br />
of being involved in<br />
bribery, fraud and breach<br />
of trust.<br />
He has been questioned<br />
in two separate cases,<br />
involving allegations that<br />
he received lavish gifts<br />
from wealthy businessmen<br />
and negotiated a deal<br />
with a newspaper owner<br />
for more favorable coverage.<br />
He has denied any<br />
wrongdoing.<br />
Speaking before the<br />
court ruling, Fuchs<br />
claimed that his petition<br />
was a demand for “justice,”<br />
but also admitted it<br />
was meant to protect<br />
Netanyahu’s right-wing<br />
administration.<br />
A poll conducted by<br />
Hadashot TV news last<br />
December showed that 60<br />
percent of Israelis say<br />
Netanyahu should step<br />
down if police recommend<br />
an indictment<br />
against him.<br />
Israelis have been<br />
holding weekly protests to<br />
was back in custody after an<br />
undercover police operation.<br />
A lawyer representing<br />
some of Leifer's alleged victims,<br />
Nick Mazzeo, said his<br />
clients were "elated" at the<br />
news of the arrest.<br />
"The 10 years it's taken is<br />
unfortunate, but that things<br />
are moving in the right<br />
direction is a big plus for<br />
everyone involved."<br />
Mazzeo said there was<br />
"no doubt" numerous<br />
appeals from the federal<br />
and Victorian governments<br />
and other Australian<br />
authorities helped keep<br />
Israel on the case.<br />
Israeli court allows police to call for corruption indictment of PM<br />
demand Netanyahu’s resignation<br />
over the corruption<br />
scandals, but the premier<br />
has described the<br />
events as part of efforts<br />
meant to topple him “at<br />
any cost.”<br />
Last week, Netanyahu<br />
lashed out at Israeli police<br />
over their handling of the<br />
graft probes. This came<br />
after Police Commissioner<br />
Roni Alsheich said that<br />
officers investigating<br />
Netanyahu had been put<br />
under pressure.
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Biz<br />
RCCI to hold three-day<br />
APCPCI at Gawadar<br />
Islamabad: The<br />
Islamabad Chamber of<br />
Commerce and Industry has<br />
called upon the government<br />
RAWALPINDI: The<br />
national project.<br />
to consider extending PM’s<br />
Rawalpindi Chamber of<br />
Referring to a research incentive package of Rs.180<br />
Commerce and<br />
report he says that if China billion for exporters till<br />
Industry(RCCI) will hold<br />
three days “All Pakistan<br />
proceeds with just five percent<br />
of its trade through<br />
financial year <strong>2018</strong>-19 in<br />
order to improve competitiveness<br />
Chambers Presidents<br />
CPEC, this will give<br />
of exporters and<br />
Conference International”<br />
roughly 6 billion US dollar promote country’s exports.<br />
(APCPCI) on March 11-<strong>14</strong><br />
income annually to Sheikh Amir Waheed,<br />
at Gawadar.<br />
Pakistan along with 400 President, Islamabad<br />
President RCCI Zahid<br />
thousand employment Chamber of Commerce and<br />
Latif Khan said this during<br />
opportunities.<br />
Industry said that Pakistan’s<br />
a press conference held at<br />
Chamber office here on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
RCCI chief said we<br />
have invited representatives<br />
of chamber of commerce<br />
exports after touching a<br />
seven-year low of $20.4 billion<br />
in FY 2017, were now<br />
Addressing the press<br />
of neighboring recovering as during the<br />
conference, Zahid said that<br />
it’s an honour and legacy<br />
for RCCI that it has been<br />
countries including China<br />
to discuss possible trade<br />
and investment opportunities.<br />
first half of the FY <strong>2018</strong>,<br />
exports improved by 11.24<br />
percent compared to the<br />
Economic per-<br />
same period of last year,<br />
organizing this event for<br />
the last nine years on regular<br />
basis.<br />
rowings, circular debt, said the PM’s export pack-<br />
RAWALPINDI: President Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI)<br />
formance, foreign bor-<br />
which was encouraging. He<br />
Zahid Latif Khan addressing a press conference regarding RCCI’s three days All<br />
Pakistan Chambers Presidents Conference International (APCPCI) on March 11-<strong>14</strong> to<br />
This time we picked be held in Gawadarat RCCI.<br />
trade deficit, fiscal budget<br />
Gawadar as event venue so<br />
and trade policy will also<br />
that business community nomic issues at national for the upcoming conference<br />
regional trade barriers be discussed during the<br />
can see the development on level, providing suggestions/recommendation<br />
includes China (Tariff and non-Tarif barri-<br />
conference. President<br />
the ground and get awareness<br />
to Pakistan Economic ers) and settlement of inter-<br />
Gawadar Chamber of<br />
and future aspects of<br />
CPEC,he said.<br />
the government related to<br />
trade policy, business environment<br />
Corridor (CPEC) and its<br />
possible impacts on Inter<br />
national trade disputes.<br />
Answering a question<br />
Commerce Mir Naveed<br />
Baloch also attended the<br />
The major aim of the<br />
and all issues and Intra- Regional trade, related to CPEC, President briefing and on this occa-<br />
conference was to develop affecting businesses directly<br />
connectivity and regional RCCI said that no doubt sion RCCI inked MOU<br />
a common platform for All<br />
or indirectly, he added. trade integration, Trade it’s a game changer and its with Gawadar Chamber<br />
Chambers and Trade He said that the proposed<br />
and investment opportuni-<br />
our collective responsibili-<br />
related to RCCI upcom-<br />
Associations to raise eco-<br />
agenda highlights ties in Pakistan, Interty<br />
to make it a successful ing APCPCI<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Australian delegation visits Pakistan to<br />
explore trade opportunities for pulses<br />
Bureau Report<br />
ISLAMABAD: A delegation<br />
of Australian pulses<br />
producers concluded their<br />
three-day visit to Pakistan<br />
today. The delegation<br />
explored opportunities for<br />
increased pulses trade and<br />
production with Pakistani<br />
businesses and importers.<br />
The 13-member delegation<br />
from the Pulse<br />
Association South East<br />
(PASE), Fletcher<br />
International and Special<br />
One Grain and Full<br />
Business Spectrum, and<br />
was led by the Australian<br />
Government’s Trade and<br />
Investment Commission.<br />
Imtiaz Dharani<br />
ISLAMKOT: Germany<br />
is proud partner of the Thar<br />
Coal Block II project that is<br />
“good for Thar, Sindh and<br />
for Pakistan”, said by<br />
German Consul General<br />
Rainer Schmiedchen who<br />
visited the Thar Block II<br />
mining, power and community<br />
development projects<br />
here on Tuesday.<br />
“We [Germany] can collaborate<br />
on technology for<br />
the projects, like we can provide<br />
state-of-the-art turbines<br />
that we produce. We are<br />
proud that a German company<br />
is already part of the project,”<br />
he said.<br />
The German Council<br />
General paid a visit to the<br />
project and witnessed<br />
progress being made on the<br />
different fronts. He was<br />
The delegation attended the<br />
Pakistan Pulse Conclave<br />
<strong>2018</strong> in Karachi hosted by<br />
the Pakistan Pulses and<br />
Importers Association<br />
(PPIA) and also met with<br />
the Pakistan Pulses<br />
Importer Association<br />
Punjab Chapter and<br />
Karachi Grocers and<br />
Wholesale Association.<br />
Welcoming the visit, the<br />
Australian High<br />
Commissioner to Pakistan<br />
Margaret Adamson highlighted<br />
that Pakistan is<br />
Australia’s second largest<br />
destination for pulses<br />
exports, with trade valued<br />
at AUD465 million in<br />
briefed by Mr. Shamduddin<br />
Shaikh, Chief Executive<br />
Officer (CEO) of Sindh<br />
Engro Coal Mining<br />
Company.<br />
Mr. Rainer also praised<br />
the role of the Thar<br />
Foundation and said that the<br />
community development<br />
work done by it is "very<br />
impressive" and “best welfare<br />
model.”<br />
"I have seen the model<br />
house, I have visited the<br />
under-construction resettlement<br />
village for the Senhri<br />
Dars community and the<br />
projects are very good," Mr<br />
Schmiedchen expressed.<br />
He also discussed the<br />
impact of the Thar<br />
Foundation's women<br />
empowerment initiatives is<br />
bringing to the Thari women.<br />
Consul General said that<br />
2016/2017.<br />
“Australia and Pakistan<br />
are actively exploring<br />
avenues to expand trade<br />
and investment, particularly<br />
in agribusiness where<br />
Australian expertise is<br />
world class. Australia is the<br />
only country located in the<br />
southern hemisphere from<br />
which Pakistan increasingly<br />
imports pulses. This visit<br />
by Australian pulses producers<br />
provides an excellent<br />
platform for such activities<br />
to grow and for<br />
Pakistan-Australia bilateral<br />
trade to further strengthen,”<br />
High Commissioner<br />
Adamson said.<br />
Thar Coal-II projects are good<br />
for Thar, Sindh and Pakistan<br />
he was leaving with the message<br />
of collaboration from<br />
both sides.<br />
Earlier, briefing the<br />
guests, Mr. Shaikh told that<br />
both mining and power projects<br />
have achieved record<br />
completion progress of 70<br />
percent ahead of schedule.<br />
“We will continue to<br />
demonstrate quality project<br />
management along with the<br />
timely delivery and it is<br />
hoped that the first electron<br />
will be generated form the<br />
660MWs at the end of current<br />
year,” he added.<br />
He also said that the Thar<br />
Foundation is proactively<br />
initiating community development<br />
and skill development<br />
programs, which has<br />
generated substantial amount<br />
of jobs in the area,” he said<br />
further.<br />
CPEC has enhanced Pak’s regional importance: FPCCI<br />
LAHORE: Pakistan offers tremendous<br />
opportunities for businesses and the CPEC<br />
projects have increased Pak’s regional<br />
importance.<br />
Federation of FPCCI Regional<br />
Chairman and Vice President Chaudhry<br />
Arfan Yousaf expressed these views on the<br />
inauguration of Flynas Airline, according to<br />
Federation’s spokesman here on Tuesday.<br />
Chaudhry Arfan said, “We live in<br />
world of connectivity, and airline industry<br />
is rapidly changing. The growth of this<br />
industry is strongly associated with the<br />
phenomenon of globalisation; therefore,<br />
addition of Flynas to our air connectivity<br />
will robust our cooperation.”<br />
Pakistan is a regular<br />
importer of agricultural<br />
food commodities including<br />
chickpeas, lentils and<br />
canola oilseeds, with pulses<br />
being a major staple food in<br />
Pakistan. On average,<br />
Pakistanis consume 6-7 kg<br />
pulses annually.<br />
The Australian Centre<br />
for International<br />
Agricultural Research is<br />
also engaging with government-level<br />
policy makers<br />
in Pakistan for better productivity,<br />
profitability and<br />
harvesting of pulses<br />
through training and capacity<br />
building of farmers and<br />
traders.<br />
CDWP approves<br />
24 projects worth<br />
over Rs184 billion<br />
ISLAMABAD: Central<br />
Development Working<br />
Party (CDWP) has<br />
approved twenty-four<br />
projects in different sectors<br />
worth over Rs 184<br />
billion.<br />
According to a report,<br />
the meeting of CDWP<br />
presided over by Deputy<br />
Chairman Planning<br />
Commission Sartaj Aziz<br />
referred 10 projects worth<br />
over Rs 169 billion to<br />
ECNEC for approval.<br />
In energy sector,<br />
CDWP approved evacuation<br />
of power from Suki<br />
Kinari, Kohala and Mahl<br />
Hydro Power Project in<br />
Northern Areas.<br />
KARACHI: Karachibased<br />
diplomats have underscored<br />
the need to improve<br />
the perception about<br />
Pakistan in order to attract<br />
maximum number of foreign<br />
investors who will certainly<br />
be interested in massive<br />
investment opportunities<br />
available in Pakistan, particularly<br />
Karachi.<br />
Exchanging views at a<br />
Breakfast Meeting hosted by<br />
Karachi Chamber in a local<br />
hotel, they added that<br />
Foreign Investors from their<br />
respective countries were<br />
keen to explore investment<br />
opportunities in Pakistan but<br />
the negative perception,<br />
excessive paper-work and<br />
red-tapism were hindering<br />
FDI in the country. They also<br />
advised the business and<br />
industrial community of<br />
Karachi to focus on diversifying<br />
their exports as staying<br />
confined mostly to textile<br />
exports would not yield the<br />
desired results.<br />
Senior<br />
Commercial<br />
Modern agri<br />
tech to boost<br />
Sindh economy<br />
LARKANA: Introduction<br />
of modern agricultural<br />
technology to boost Sindh<br />
economy, noted experts at<br />
the livestock, dairy, fisheries,<br />
poultry seminar and exhibition<br />
(LDFA <strong>2018</strong>), which<br />
successfully portrayed the<br />
immense potential of Sindh.<br />
Provincial Minister Sindh<br />
Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said<br />
that agriculture, livestock<br />
and fisheries sectors and<br />
industrial infrastructure for<br />
fruits and vegetables will<br />
strengthen the economy of<br />
the country, particularly for<br />
Sindh.<br />
Commissioner Larkana<br />
Abbas Baluch, Secretary<br />
Agriculture department Sajid<br />
Jamal Abro, Chairperson<br />
Sindh Board of Investment/<br />
Sindh Enterprise<br />
Development Fund Ms.<br />
Naheed Memon, Chief<br />
Executive Officer SEDF<br />
Mehboob ulHaq, Director<br />
Admin, Abrar Ahmed<br />
Shaikh and other officials<br />
also attended the LDFA<strong>2018</strong><br />
exhibition. They also added<br />
that introduction of technology,<br />
efficient irrigation systems,<br />
hybrid seeds, quality<br />
pesticides and modern<br />
implements can help attain<br />
its true potential. Local and<br />
foreign investors have shown<br />
keen interest in this sector.<br />
The Government of Sindh<br />
has taken various initiatives<br />
in terms of subsidized<br />
financing, technological support,<br />
research and development<br />
and capacity building<br />
of farmers.<br />
Officer of United States<br />
Steve Knode, Consul<br />
General of Switzerland<br />
Philippe Crevoisier, Consul<br />
General of Turkey Tolga<br />
Ucak, Vice Consul of<br />
Consulate General of<br />
Germany Ingolf Vogel,<br />
Commercial Attaché of<br />
ICCI for extending Export Package<br />
till FY <strong>2018</strong>-19 for exports promotion<br />
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid<br />
Khaqan Abbasi has approved over Rs 700<br />
million for the up-gradation of Bannu airport<br />
project.<br />
In a statement on Tuesday, Federal<br />
Minister for Housing and Works Akram<br />
Khan Durrani said that the government will<br />
provide every facility to the people of Bannu<br />
that will lead to the development and prosperity<br />
of the region.<br />
age of Rs.180 billion played<br />
positive role in turning<br />
around the falling exports of<br />
the country and stressed that<br />
government should further<br />
extend this package up to<br />
FY <strong>2018</strong>-19 and broaden its<br />
coverage to additional nontextile<br />
sectors in order to<br />
further improve competitiveness<br />
of exporters and<br />
ensure sustainable growth<br />
of exports.<br />
He said since 2003, share<br />
of Pakistan in global exports<br />
has declined by 19 percent<br />
due to lack of long-term<br />
planning and other problems.<br />
He said Pakistan’s<br />
product and market mix was<br />
highly concentrated as few<br />
low value products were<br />
exported to few markets. He<br />
stressed that government<br />
should focus on diversification<br />
of products and markets<br />
to give boost to exports. He<br />
said government should<br />
transform export products<br />
mix from labor-intensive<br />
sectors to innovation-based<br />
high value sectors like pharmaceuticals,<br />
engineering<br />
and ICT that would help the<br />
country to achieve exportled<br />
growth of economy.<br />
Sheikh Amir Waheed<br />
said that Pakistan was targeting<br />
low-end market segments<br />
that fetched low<br />
prices as the average unit<br />
price of top 30 export products<br />
of Pakistan was 40 percent<br />
less than the average<br />
price achieved by China,<br />
Turkey, South Korea and<br />
India. He said Pakistan<br />
should target high end market<br />
segments to achieve better<br />
results from xports.<br />
ISLAMABAD: President and CEO of PTCL, Dr. Daniel Ritz cuts ribbon to inaugurate<br />
PTCL New State of the Art One Stop Shop during inauguration ceremony held at the<br />
Centaurus Mall.<br />
PM approves over Rs700m for<br />
up-gradation of Bannu airport: Durrani<br />
of PSX.<br />
This was the first IPO<br />
for the year <strong>2018</strong> in<br />
Pakistan and will add<br />
another company in the<br />
Food Sector on the PSX<br />
board. Matco completed<br />
the book building and public<br />
portion of the IPO in the<br />
end of January with a total<br />
issue of 29,<strong>14</strong>3,000 million<br />
ordinary shares, at a strike<br />
price of PKR 26 per share.<br />
The gross proceeds to<br />
Matco Foods Limited from<br />
this offering were PKR 757<br />
million before deducting<br />
KARACHI: Matco<br />
Foods Limited, one of<br />
Pakistan’s largest Basmati<br />
rice exporter was formally<br />
listed on today on the<br />
Pakistan Stock Exchange<br />
(PSX)”, said Mr Faizan<br />
Ghori (CFA), Director of<br />
Finance. The Gong<br />
Ceremony on the occasion<br />
of formal listing of Matco<br />
Foods Limited was held<br />
today at the PSX, with Mr<br />
Jawed Ghori Chairman of<br />
Matco Foods Limited ringing<br />
the historical Gong at<br />
the start of trading with Mr.<br />
Richard Morin, CEO of underwriting<br />
PSX and Mr. Hang You,<br />
Deputy Managing Director<br />
discounts,<br />
commissions and offering<br />
expenses.<br />
He said the approval of amount for the<br />
aforesaid airport will be a gift for the people<br />
and it will also facilitate the trade route of<br />
CPEC by providing faster way of communication<br />
and transportation with the neighboring<br />
countries.<br />
On the other hand, the CDWP also<br />
approved to release over Rs 700 million for<br />
up gradation and extension of BannuAirport<br />
for Airbus and Boeing aircraft operations.<br />
MATCO Foods completes listing on the PSX<br />
Turkish Consulate Murat<br />
Mustu, President KCCI<br />
Muffasar Atta Malik, Senior<br />
Vice President Abdul Basit<br />
Abdul Razzak, Vice<br />
President Rehan Hanif,<br />
Chairman of Diplomatic<br />
Missions & Embassies<br />
Liaison Sub-Committee<br />
Sohail Amin, Chairman<br />
Special Committee for My<br />
Karachi Exhibition<br />
Muhammad Idrees, Former<br />
Presidents Haroon Agar &<br />
Iftikhar Vohra along with<br />
Managing Committee members<br />
attended the breakfast<br />
meeting. Senior Commercial<br />
Matco Foods Limited<br />
intends to use the net proceeds<br />
from this public<br />
offering for the expansion<br />
of its existing Rice Glucose<br />
and Protein Plant from<br />
10,000 MT of glucose and<br />
1,000 MT of protein production<br />
capacity per annum<br />
to 30,000 MT of glucose<br />
and 3,000 MT of protein<br />
respectively. Speaking on<br />
the occasion Jawed Ali<br />
Ghori, Chairman of Matco<br />
Foods said “Listing on the<br />
PSX is an important milestone<br />
in the history of our<br />
Company and a matter of<br />
great pride for all the stakeholders<br />
of Matco.<br />
Diplomats for improving Pakistan’s perception to attract foreign investment<br />
KARACHI: President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry Muffasar Atta Malik<br />
along with Senior Commercial Officer of United States Steve Knode, Consul General of<br />
Switzerland Philippe Crevoisier, Consul General of Turkey Tolga Ucak, Vice Consul of<br />
Consulate General of Germany Ingolf Vogel, Commercial Attaché of Turkish Consulate<br />
Murat Mustu, Senior Vice President Abdul Basit Abdul Razzak, Vice President Rehan<br />
Hanif, Chairman of Diplomatic Missions & Embassies Liaison Sub-Committee Sohail<br />
Amin, Chairman Special Committee for My Karachi Exhibition Muhammad Idrees, Former<br />
Presidents Haroon Agar & Iftikhar Vohra along with Managing Committee members pose<br />
for a group photo after a Breakfast Meeting held at a local hotel on Tuesday.<br />
Officer of United States<br />
Steve Knode, while commenting<br />
on strong trade ties<br />
between Pakistan and United<br />
States, said that the trade ties<br />
between the two countries<br />
have been improving and<br />
today, the trade volume<br />
stands at all-time high. “I<br />
have seen lot of positive<br />
things and I will encourage<br />
US companies to take benefit<br />
of prospective opportunities<br />
in Pakistan”, he added.<br />
He informed that the<br />
United States has changed its<br />
global TravelAlert System in<br />
which countries around the<br />
world have been placed at<br />
different levels keeping in<br />
view their security situation.<br />
Pakistan was currently at<br />
Level 3 whereas some areas<br />
in the country were at Level<br />
4 due to security concerns.<br />
“Level 1 means that the<br />
country or area is completely<br />
safe to travel”, he explained<br />
and hoped that Pak’s current<br />
level improves further in US<br />
Travel Alert System.
New Zealand beat England<br />
by 12 runs in T20 tri-series<br />
LAHORE:<br />
WELLINGTON: Trent<br />
Boult grabbed two wickets<br />
on successive balls to help<br />
New Zealand to a 12-run<br />
win over England in their<br />
Twenty20 tri-series match<br />
at Wellington Regional<br />
Stadium on Tuesday.<br />
Left-arm seamer Boult<br />
bowled Chris Jordan and<br />
then Liam Plunkett on the<br />
final two deliveries of the<br />
18th over to reduce the visitors<br />
to 168 for eight in their<br />
pursuit of 197 for victory.<br />
Adil Rashid kept out the<br />
hat-trick delivery on the<br />
first ball of the final over<br />
but there was too much for<br />
the legspinner and Chris<br />
Wood to do and they finished<br />
on 184 for nine.<br />
"It was a must-win for us<br />
in terms of the series," New<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Few family<br />
members of Sandeep<br />
Lamichhane will travel to<br />
India to witness the IPL<br />
matches.<br />
The 17-year-old legbreak<br />
googly bowler is the<br />
first cricketer from Nepal<br />
to be playing the IPL. Last<br />
month, he was included in<br />
Zealand captain Kane<br />
Williamson said in reference<br />
to their seven-wicket<br />
loss to Australia in their<br />
opening match.<br />
"This is a very strong<br />
England side and we had to<br />
the list of players for auction<br />
in the <strong>2018</strong> Indian<br />
Premier League (IPL)<br />
where his base price was<br />
20 lakhs (Indian Rupee)<br />
and was bought by Delhi<br />
Daredevils at his base<br />
price .<br />
Speaking exclusively<br />
his dad, Chander Narayn<br />
Lamichhane said, "we are<br />
play some really good<br />
cricket."<br />
Australia have already<br />
qualified for the final at<br />
Eden Park on <strong>Feb</strong>. 21 after<br />
winning all three of their<br />
matches so far.<br />
planning to visit India during<br />
the IPL season. After<br />
the inclusion of my son in<br />
the IPL team, we have<br />
been following Indian<br />
cricket more than the game<br />
here in Nepal".<br />
Interestingly, Delhi is<br />
not new to this family. "I<br />
had served in Indian railways<br />
for 45 years in Delhi.<br />
Was a class IV employee<br />
and was promoted to class<br />
III before I opted for the<br />
voluntary retirement", the<br />
father, who was born in<br />
Nepal, said.<br />
"We have recently shifted<br />
to Chitwan but keep<br />
coming to India often. My<br />
other son, Mohan, who<br />
also played cricket at club<br />
level is in Indian railways<br />
in Delhi", he added.<br />
Sandeep's parents<br />
(mother Kopila Devi)<br />
lived in Delhi but Nepalborn<br />
Sandeep grew up at<br />
his one of the three sisters<br />
house in Nepal.<br />
"We wanted Sandeep to<br />
be a doctor or an engineer<br />
but Hhe wanted to concentrate<br />
more on cricket and<br />
we encouraged him. There<br />
is no pressure on him and<br />
Williamson anchored<br />
New Zealand´s 196 for five<br />
with 72 while he also<br />
shared in an 82-run secondwicket<br />
partnership with<br />
Martin Guptill, who scored<br />
65 from 40 balls.<br />
we respect his love for the<br />
game".<br />
Detailing more about<br />
his links with the former<br />
Australian captain Michael<br />
Clarke, the dad says,<br />
"Clarke saw him in Hong-<br />
Kong sixes tournament<br />
and my son explained him<br />
about our financial condition.<br />
Clarke immediately<br />
arranged for his more than<br />
2 1/2 month stay in<br />
Australia, where Sandeep<br />
learnt more about the<br />
bowling in his academy".<br />
"People here in Nepal<br />
call him Nepal's Shane<br />
Warne. His talent was first<br />
spotted by former Sri<br />
Lankan player Pubudu<br />
Dassanayake".<br />
Pubudu Dassanayake<br />
has served as a coach for<br />
the Nepal boys.<br />
"I had seen the auction<br />
live here and was not surprised.<br />
Delhi team was<br />
determined to hire him<br />
even if had he gone on bids<br />
by the other teams", the<br />
dad concluded.<br />
Nepal government and<br />
Cricket Association of<br />
Nepal (CAN) is looking<br />
after the youngster.<br />
Mark Chapman, who<br />
has also played international<br />
cricket for Hong Kong,<br />
and debutant Tim Seifert<br />
then did what they had been<br />
brought into the side to do<br />
with quick-fire cameos in<br />
the middle order.<br />
Chapman scored 20,<br />
while wicketkeeper Seifert<br />
hit two sixes in his six-ball<br />
innings of <strong>14</strong> to take the<br />
hosts to the equal highest<br />
Twenty20 international<br />
score on the ground.<br />
"We were able to build<br />
partnerships throughout<br />
that gave us momentum and<br />
the two debutants were outstanding,"<br />
Williamson<br />
added.<br />
"They showed their<br />
power which allowed us to<br />
get an above-par total."<br />
Sandeep Lamichhane's family following<br />
Indian cricket more than cricket in Nepal<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
Sharapova crashes out in<br />
Qatar Open first round<br />
DOHA: Five-time<br />
Grand Slam winner Maria<br />
Sharapova suffered a<br />
shock defeat in the first<br />
round of the Qatar Open<br />
on Monday, dumped out in<br />
three sets by outsider<br />
Monica Niculescu.<br />
The Romanian, ranked<br />
number 92 in the world, 51<br />
places behind the Russian,<br />
won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.<br />
In a match lasting more<br />
than two and a half hours,<br />
Sharapova hit 52 unforced<br />
errors as opposed to just 17<br />
from Niculescu.<br />
In blustery conditions,<br />
Sharapova also struggled<br />
to get to grips with the 30-<br />
year-old Niculescu´s distinctive<br />
style, which relies<br />
heavily on a sliced forehand.<br />
The former world number<br />
one, twice a winner in<br />
Doha, had been given a<br />
wildcard into the draw and<br />
was one of the tournament´s<br />
major attractions.<br />
Niculescu´s reward is to<br />
play either Magdalena<br />
Rybarikova or wildcard<br />
Fatma Al-Nabhani in the<br />
next round.<br />
Liu Jiayu wins China's first medal, making<br />
snowboard history at Winter Olympics<br />
PYEONGCHANG: Liu Jiayu snatched<br />
the silver medal of the women's snowboard<br />
halfpipe, the first medal for China at the <strong>2018</strong><br />
PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games at<br />
Phoenix Snow Park.<br />
Liu, the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter<br />
Games champion, earned 89.75 points in her<br />
second run of three to take the silver.<br />
The 25-year old Liu, who competed in<br />
three Olympics, became the first Chinese<br />
snowboard Olympic medalist.<br />
Liu's career, which included a world<br />
championship title at 16, has seen ups and<br />
downs since she started her professional<br />
training in 2003, the year when Chinese took<br />
up the sport.<br />
Mahira Khan<br />
becomes Peshawar<br />
Zalmi's ambassador<br />
KARACHI: Acclaimed<br />
Pakistani actress Mahira<br />
Khan announced on<br />
Tuesday that she would be<br />
supporting Peshawar Zalmi<br />
in the upcoming season of<br />
Pakistan Super League.<br />
In a post made on<br />
Twitter, the Pakistani diva<br />
confirmed that she has<br />
become part of the<br />
Peshawar Zalmi family.<br />
In response, Zalmi also<br />
welcomed her as their<br />
brand ambassador and it<br />
seemed they could not contain<br />
their excitement!<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
RAWALPINDI /<br />
ISLAMABAD: Peshawar<br />
Disabled Cricket Team beat<br />
Abbotabad Disabled<br />
Cricket Team by 53 runs in<br />
the Opening day of 2nd<br />
Phase 6th National<br />
Disabled T-20 Cricket<br />
Championship here at Pindi<br />
Cricket Stadium<br />
Rawalpindi.<br />
Islamabad Disabled<br />
Cricket Team won the toss<br />
and decided to field first,<br />
Peshawar Team scored<br />
191-6 in 20 overs, Adil<br />
Khan (46 in 38 balls with<br />
4x2, 6x2), Azhar Khan<br />
(45 in 43 balls with 4x2,<br />
6x2), Wajid Alam (33 in<br />
31 balls with 4x1, 6x1),<br />
Hayat Khab 25 in 17 ball<br />
4x1), Abdullah Afridi 17*.<br />
Left arms medium pacer<br />
Rehmat Ali took 3-42,<br />
Left arms spinner Yasir<br />
5th Bilal Bhaty<br />
Inter school college<br />
cricket tournament<br />
KARACHI: Cedar college<br />
beat Nixor college by 7<br />
wickets in the 5th Bilal<br />
Bhaty Inter school college<br />
cricket tournament <strong>2018</strong><br />
played at the Al Nadi al<br />
Burhani ground.<br />
Summarized Scored:<br />
Cedar college beat Nixor<br />
college by 7 wickets.<br />
Nixor college 121/9 (20<br />
overs)<br />
Opening batsman Umair<br />
Tariq 26 (24 balls) 3 fours,<br />
RH MO Burhan Saria 20<br />
(18) 2 fours.<br />
RH MO WK batsman<br />
Shahryyar Rizvi 18(9 balls)<br />
RM/F Muhammad<br />
Zaviyar 2/19 in 3 overs<br />
captain O/S Osama<br />
EJAZ 2/26 in 4 overs<br />
Cedar college 123/3 (18.3)<br />
RH MO batsman Hurair<br />
shahid 54 not out (37 balls)<br />
6 fours , 2 six<br />
RH MO Sharyar shoukat<br />
23(18) 2 fours<br />
Seeking<br />
divine inspiration ahead of<br />
the upcoming Pakistan<br />
Super League edition,<br />
Lahore Qalandars players<br />
visited the shrine of<br />
renowned Sufi scholar<br />
Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh<br />
on Tuesday.<br />
Yasir Shah, Umar<br />
Akmal, Fakhar Zaman<br />
along with other members<br />
of the squad paid their<br />
respects at the shrine, popularly<br />
known as ‘Data<br />
Darbar’ – considered as<br />
the largest Sufi shrine in<br />
South Asia.<br />
Qalandars Chairman<br />
Fawad Rana was also<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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present on the occasion.<br />
Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh<br />
was a Persian Sufi and<br />
scholar during the 11th<br />
century. He was born in<br />
Ghazni, Afghanistan (990<br />
AD) during the Ghaznavid<br />
Empire and settled and<br />
7<br />
Lahore Qalandars pay their<br />
respects at Data Darbar<br />
Dr M. Arif Hafeez<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Sri Lanka's<br />
High Performance manager<br />
Simon Willis resignation<br />
will be discussed on 16th<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary.<br />
According to the highly<br />
placed sources in Sri Lanka<br />
Cricket (SLC), the 43-yearold<br />
Willis resignation will<br />
be tabled on Friday and will<br />
be discussed by the<br />
Committee members<br />
before it is accepted.<br />
"Simon Willis has<br />
indeed given six months<br />
notice but this is due to a<br />
personal matter back at<br />
home that requires his presence<br />
there. He has to look<br />
died in Lahore spreading<br />
the spirit of brotherhood in<br />
Sufism. Hundreds of<br />
devotees, including religious<br />
scholars and Sufis,<br />
flock to Data Darbar to<br />
participate in the annual<br />
Urs every year.<br />
Simon Willis has resigned only in<br />
the interest of his kids and family<br />
after his kids and family<br />
and in their best interest<br />
only, he has resigned", the<br />
source, speaking exclusively<br />
from Colombo, said.<br />
Simon Willis does not<br />
have approval to say anything<br />
(at this stage) but the<br />
SLC may release the press<br />
statement once his resignation<br />
is discussed.<br />
KARACHI: Secretary Pakistan Sepaktakraw Federation Noushad Ahmed Khan gave<br />
Sepaktakraw ball to Dr.Farhan Essa on the occasion of Dr.Essa Lab Sepaktakraw<br />
Championship,Mahfooz ul Haq ,Ahmed Ali Rajput ,Shabbir Ahmed,Dr Arif ,And Arif<br />
Waheed Khan also present.<br />
Sindh Games: Committees formed<br />
for trials ahead of Sindh Games<br />
KARACHI: Sindh Secretary Ahmed Ali officials, their expertise<br />
Sports Minister Sardar Rajput, Ghulam and experience should<br />
Mohammad Bakhsh Mohammad Khan, also be importance.”<br />
Mehar announced that Khalid Rehmani, Meanwhile, Dr Niaz<br />
committees under the Asghar Baloch and told the participants of<br />
supervision of divisional<br />
Makhdoom Irshad. the meeting that the<br />
commissioners will “We do not only want objective of formation<br />
hold trials at their to promote message of of committees under the<br />
respective divisions brotherhood among supervision of commissioners<br />
ahead of the 17th edition<br />
of Sindh Games<br />
players of the province<br />
through Sindh Games was to select<br />
players on the basis of<br />
during special organizing<br />
but also to provide a merit and to provide<br />
committee meeting.<br />
The meeting was also<br />
attended by Secretary<br />
platform and infrastructure<br />
for players to polish<br />
and display their talent,”<br />
transport to players and<br />
officials back and forth<br />
from divisional head-<br />
Sports and Youth<br />
Mehar said on the quarter to Karachi.<br />
Affairs Sindh Dr Niaz occasion.<br />
“For this, a budget of<br />
Ali Abbasi, Director He further said that Rs 4.2 million has been<br />
Sindh Sports Board to hunt fresh talent, no approved, which will be<br />
Shahzad Pervaiz, Sindh compromise should be transferred into<br />
Olympic Association done during trials. accounts of divisional<br />
(SOA) Vice Chairman “Moreover, before commissioners,” he<br />
Asif Azeem, SOA appointing technical said.<br />
Ali 2-31.<br />
In reply Abbotabad<br />
Team were restrict 139-9 in<br />
20 overs, Faisal Hayat (48<br />
in 27 balls with 4x6, 6x2),<br />
Latif Ullah (27 in 19 balls<br />
with 4x4), M. Hussain (24<br />
in 21 balls with 4x2), Owal<br />
Khan scored 19. Slow left<br />
armers M. Osama griped 3-<br />
17, while Gohar Ali captured<br />
3-26.<br />
Later: Chief Guest<br />
Petron PDCA Saleem<br />
Karim was giving man<br />
of the match award to<br />
Gohar Ali.<br />
While the other scheduled<br />
matches of opening<br />
day at Pindi Stadium, host<br />
Rawalpindi Vs Sialkot, at<br />
Diamond Cricket Ground<br />
Azad Kashmir Vs<br />
Islamabad and Lahore Vs<br />
FATA were the washout<br />
due to heavy rain in<br />
Rawalpindi / Islamabad last<br />
night and all teams got the<br />
one points each according<br />
to tournament rules.<br />
It was also decided in<br />
the meeting that local<br />
players would receive<br />
daily allowance of Rs<br />
200 while outstation<br />
players would receive<br />
Rs 300 during the trials.<br />
He added that preparation<br />
for the trials were<br />
underway at venues.<br />
“Players will be provided<br />
with all facilities at<br />
the venues. Moreover,<br />
data would also be<br />
made of all players participating<br />
in the upcoming<br />
Sindh Games.”<br />
He added that this<br />
data would prove helpful<br />
for them in future<br />
for future interprovinces<br />
and national<br />
games’ events.<br />
Peshawar beat Abbotabad by 53 runs in opener rain disturb the inaugural<br />
matches of 2nd Phase of 6th National Disabled T-20 Cricket Championship<br />
Earlier the Opening<br />
Ceremony 2nd Phase of 6th<br />
National Disabled T-20<br />
Cricket Championship was<br />
held at the Pindi Cricket<br />
Stadium in Rawalpindi. On<br />
the occasion EVP<br />
Marketing<br />
and<br />
Communications Co-<br />
Sponsor PTCL Syed<br />
Shahzad Shah was the<br />
Chief Guest and Formerly<br />
inaugurate the event with<br />
Head of Communication<br />
Co-Sponsor ICRC Najamul-Saqib,<br />
former Captain<br />
and President PDCA<br />
Rashid Latif, Petron PDCA<br />
Saleem Karim, Hon.<br />
Secretary PDCA Amir<br />
Uddin Ansari, Director<br />
PDCA Sabih Azhar, Sadiq<br />
Khatri and Media Manager<br />
Muhammad Nizam participating<br />
teams players and<br />
officials were also present<br />
on the occasion.
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PML-N govt fulfills all<br />
promises: Marriyum<br />
TEHRAN:<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Minister of State for<br />
Information and<br />
Broadcasting Marriyum<br />
Aurangzeb has said that<br />
marvelous triumph of<br />
PML-N in Lodhran bypolls<br />
is manifestation of<br />
fulfillment of all the promises<br />
made by the party in<br />
2013 elections.<br />
Talking to media outside<br />
the accountability<br />
court in Islamabad on<br />
Tuesday, she said now former<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif has pledged to work<br />
for restoration of justice<br />
and sanctity of the vote.<br />
She said the people of<br />
ISLAMABAD: In the<br />
aftermath of Pakistan<br />
Tehreek-e-Insaaf's (PTI)<br />
surprise defeat in the<br />
NA-154 Lodhran bypolls,<br />
the party on<br />
Tuesday constituted a<br />
fact-finding committee to<br />
probe the possible reasons<br />
behind the loss.<br />
The Pakistan Muslim<br />
League-Nawaz (PML-N)<br />
won the by-polls for the<br />
constituency of NA-154<br />
Lodhran, according to<br />
unofficial results on<br />
Monday.<br />
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Maryam Aurangzeb<br />
arrives at the Supreme Court for the hearing of contempt of court case against Minister<br />
of State for Interior Affairs and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Tallal Chaudhry.<br />
PTI forms fact-finding committee<br />
after shock Lodhran defeat<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Speaker National<br />
Assembly Sardar Ayaz<br />
Sadiq has said that German<br />
Pakistan is desirous of further<br />
enhancing its friendly<br />
ties with Germany by<br />
expanding parliamentary<br />
and economic interactions.<br />
He was talking to<br />
Ambassador<br />
Martin Kobler and a delegation<br />
of senior officers of<br />
Federal Academy of<br />
The former secretary<br />
general of PTI, Jahangir<br />
Tareen, has been appointed<br />
as the head of the committee,<br />
which will inquire into<br />
reasons for the defeat of<br />
the party from a seat<br />
believed to be a stronghold<br />
of PTI.<br />
The fact-finding mission<br />
constituted by PTI<br />
will submit its report to<br />
Chairman Imran Khan in a<br />
week's time.<br />
PML-N’s Iqbal Shah<br />
managed to attain 113,542<br />
votes, while his competitor,<br />
PTI's Ali Tareen, contesting<br />
his first election on<br />
his father’s seat, attained<br />
85,933 votes.<br />
PML-N won by a margin<br />
of 27,609 votes<br />
according to provisional<br />
results.<br />
The seat fell vacant in<br />
the wake of the disqualification<br />
of PTI leader<br />
Jahangir Tareen by the<br />
Supreme Court in<br />
December 2017.<br />
Considered the home<br />
ground of Tareen, PTI had<br />
won the seat with a margin<br />
Pakistan desirous of further enhancing<br />
friendly ties with Germany<br />
ISLAMABAD: Offices<br />
of EtImad company set up<br />
by Saudi Arabia for biometric<br />
verification of Hajj,<br />
Umrah pilgrims will<br />
remain open on Saturday<br />
and Sunday.<br />
Director Etimad Tariq<br />
Elahi told Morning Mail<br />
that the company has<br />
decided that its offices will<br />
remain open on Saturday<br />
and Sunday for some period<br />
to provide better facilities<br />
to Hajj and Umrah pilgrims.<br />
The biometric verification<br />
process of Umrah<br />
pilgrims will continue<br />
KARACHI: Nephew of Jameel Ahmed, Umair Ikhtyar married<br />
with Mehak Ejaz.<br />
Security Policy of<br />
Germany separately here<br />
on Tuesday. The Speaker<br />
said Pakistan and Germany<br />
share common views on<br />
important international<br />
and regional issues.<br />
Offices of Etimad company to remain open on<br />
Saturday, Sunday to facilitate Hajj, Umrah pilgrims<br />
uninterrupted from 8 am to<br />
5 pm daily.<br />
Following the<br />
announcement by Saudi<br />
government biometric verification<br />
process is underway<br />
in the country and<br />
verification is conducted<br />
over 10000 people daily.<br />
Khurshid asks people<br />
to propose name<br />
for nomination of<br />
credible interim PM<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Opposition leader in<br />
National Assembly (NA)<br />
Syed Khursid Shah has<br />
said that people should<br />
propose names so that a<br />
best and credible person<br />
could be nominated as<br />
interim PM.<br />
Reacting to PTI defeat<br />
in NA-154 Khursid Shah<br />
said in his statement<br />
issued here on Tuesday<br />
that people of Lodhran<br />
have rejected PTI Politics<br />
by giving their decision<br />
through votes. PTI had<br />
got the seat for the first<br />
time which he has lost<br />
now.<br />
of around 40,000 votes in a<br />
previous by-election in<br />
2015.<br />
PTI fielded Jahangir's<br />
son Ali Tareen, the PML-N<br />
Iqbal Shah and PPP Mirza<br />
Mohammad Ali Baig.<br />
Seven other candidates<br />
were contesting as independents.<br />
The government<br />
had deployed 4,000 security<br />
personnel, including<br />
army personnel, in the<br />
constituency in view of<br />
avoiding any unforeseen<br />
development and to ensure<br />
free and fair conduct.<br />
Larkana’s SSI<br />
employees protest<br />
against Sindh govt<br />
LARKANA: As many<br />
as 835 employees of<br />
Sindh Small Industries<br />
(SSI) have been deprived<br />
of their salaries for about<br />
one-year and their constant<br />
protests have also<br />
failed to yield any result.<br />
Agitating employees<br />
including Muhammad<br />
Hassan Abro, Zaheeer<br />
Ahmed Kehar, Ali Asghar<br />
Dhamraho, Manan<br />
Dhamraho, and Riaz<br />
Kalhoro held a protest<br />
demonstration in front of<br />
local press club here on<br />
Tuesday. They were<br />
chanting slogans and<br />
demanding payment of<br />
their salaries and posting<br />
of Managing Director of<br />
the SSI.<br />
They told newsmen<br />
that Sindh government<br />
had forgotten the industries<br />
department due to<br />
which no new industry<br />
had been established in<br />
the province which had<br />
created a lot of unemployment<br />
on the one hand and<br />
enhanced poverty on the<br />
other side.<br />
ISLAMABAD: The National<br />
Assembly on Tuesday passed three<br />
bills and adopted as many resolutions,<br />
observes Free and Fair<br />
Election Network (FAFEN) in<br />
Daily Factsheet.<br />
The National Assembly met for<br />
three hours and six minutes. The<br />
sitting started at 1038 hours<br />
against the scheduled time of<br />
1030 hours. The Deputy Speaker<br />
presided over the entire sitting.<br />
The Leader of the House (Prime<br />
Minister) did not attend the sitting.<br />
The Leader of the Opposition<br />
was present for an hour and nine<br />
minutes. As many as 16 (5%) lawmakers<br />
were present at the outset<br />
and 54 (16%) at the adjournment<br />
of sitting. The Parliamentary<br />
Leaders of PkMAP, PPPP, ANP,<br />
JI, AJIP and QWP attended the sitting.<br />
Four minority members were<br />
present.<br />
The House passed the National<br />
Assembly Secretariat Employees<br />
Bill, <strong>2018</strong> along with amendments,<br />
Pakistan stand by Nawaz<br />
Sharif and PML-N will<br />
emerge triumphant in <strong>2018</strong><br />
elections as well due to its<br />
unprecedented services to<br />
the people.<br />
Meanwhile, Former<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif has said the victory<br />
in Lodhran by-polls is an<br />
expression of masses faith<br />
in the government's policies.<br />
Talking to the media in<br />
Islamabad on Tuesday, he<br />
said that victory is the confidence<br />
of the people of<br />
Pakistan in the development<br />
projects materialized<br />
by PML-N government.<br />
Scrutiny of<br />
nomination<br />
papers for Senate<br />
polls completed<br />
ISLAMABAD: The<br />
scrutiny of nomination<br />
papers in all four provinces<br />
for the Senate elections has<br />
been completed.<br />
Appeals against the<br />
rejection and acceptance of<br />
nomination papers can be<br />
filed by Thursday while<br />
the tribunals will dispose<br />
of the appeals by Saturday.<br />
The revised list of candidates<br />
will be published<br />
on Sunday and candidates<br />
can withdraw their nomination<br />
papers on Monday.<br />
Scrutiny of nomination<br />
papers of candidates for<br />
Federal Capital seats is<br />
being completed today<br />
while scrutiny for FATA<br />
seats will be completed by<br />
Thursday.<br />
Polling for the Senate<br />
elections will be held on<br />
3rd of next month.<br />
the Federal Public Service<br />
Commission (Amendment) Bill,<br />
2017 and the Criminal Law<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2017.<br />
The Chair deferred the Tour<br />
Operators and Travel Agents<br />
(Regulation) Bill, <strong>2018</strong> on request<br />
of the movers while the National<br />
Commission for Human Rights<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2017 was<br />
dropped on mover’s absence.<br />
The House did not take up two<br />
bills including the Acid and Burn<br />
Crime Bill, 2017 and the Criminal<br />
Law (Amendment) Bill, 2017 (section<br />
489F).<br />
The House adopted three resolutions<br />
to reduce prices of petroleum<br />
products, promote religious harmony<br />
and allocate land for a graveyard<br />
in rural area of NA-48, Islamabad.<br />
The House did not consider two<br />
other resolutions to control environmental<br />
pollution and provide<br />
quality services to patients in<br />
Pakistan Institute of Medical<br />
Sciences Islamabad.<br />
Iran's president Hassan Rouhani<br />
to visit India this week<br />
Iran's<br />
President Hassan Rouhani<br />
will visit India this week for<br />
three days, Iran's local<br />
media reported.<br />
Mr Rouhani is due to<br />
leave for India on Thursday<br />
to discuss "the latest regional<br />
and global developments",<br />
semi-official ISNA<br />
news agency said. He was<br />
invited by Prime Minister<br />
Narendra Modi last year,<br />
ISNA said.<br />
India and Iran have collaborated<br />
on key projects,<br />
most notably the Chabahar<br />
port in southeastern Iran<br />
that was inaugurated in<br />
December. The port has<br />
been touted as a way for<br />
India to establish trade<br />
MUMBAI: Shah Rukh<br />
Khan paid a visit to legendary<br />
Bollywood actor<br />
Dilip Kumar Monday<br />
evening, and a heartwarming<br />
picture of the<br />
two has already gone viral<br />
on the internet.<br />
SRK is a regular visitor<br />
at the residence of Dilip<br />
Kumar, who is battling ill<br />
health like a fighter.<br />
The 95-year-old veteran<br />
looked frail as he held<br />
onto Khan’s hand, melting<br />
hearts as fans circulated<br />
the priceless photo<br />
online.<br />
The picture was shared<br />
on Dilip Kumar’s official<br />
Twitter handle which<br />
read: ".@iamsrk came to<br />
visit Saab at home today.."<br />
The 'Mughal-e-Azam'<br />
actor was hospitalised in<br />
August 2017 after he<br />
complained of dehydration.<br />
He ended up spending<br />
eight days in the hospital,<br />
during which he<br />
LAHORE: The Punjab<br />
Assembly rejected a resolution<br />
against the recent<br />
increase in the petroleum<br />
prices amidst the opposition’s<br />
protest on Tuesday,<br />
observes Free and Fair<br />
Election Network<br />
(FAFEN) in its Daily<br />
Factsheet.<br />
The Punjab Assembly<br />
met for 47 minutes. The sitting<br />
started at 1015 hours<br />
against the scheduled time<br />
1000 hours. The Deputy<br />
speaker presided over the<br />
entire sitting while the<br />
Speaker was not present.<br />
The Chief Minister did not<br />
attend the sitting. The<br />
Leader of the Opposition<br />
attended the proceedings<br />
for 45 minutes.<br />
As many as 15 MPAs<br />
(4%) were present at outset<br />
PPPP lawmaker proposed<br />
amendments in the Rules of<br />
Procedure and Conduct of Business<br />
in the National Assembly, 2007<br />
which were referred to the relevant<br />
Standing Committee for further<br />
deliberations.<br />
The House adopted amendments<br />
in rule 52, sub-rule (2) of<br />
rule 60, rule 110, sub-rule (3) of<br />
rule 118, sub-rule (2) of rule 129,<br />
sub-rule (5) of rule 170, sub-rule<br />
(3) of rule 170 A, rule 175, sub-rule<br />
(2) of rule 198, sub-rule (3) of rule<br />
198, sub-rule (2) of rule 200, subrule<br />
(4) of rule 200, rule 206, rule<br />
210, rule 244 of the Rules of<br />
Procedure and insertion of new<br />
clause 4 in rule 66.<br />
The House witnessed presentation<br />
of <strong>14</strong> reports on various legislative<br />
proposals by their respective<br />
Standing Committees. These<br />
legislative proposals were the<br />
Islamabad Capital Territory<br />
Prohibition of Employment of<br />
Children Bill, 2017; the Right to<br />
routes that bypass its rival<br />
Pakistan, but the project has<br />
seen multiple delays.<br />
India has been a key purchaser<br />
of Iranian oil and<br />
gas, and maintained trade<br />
ties even as international<br />
sanctions were imposed on<br />
Iran over its nuclear programme<br />
between 2012 and<br />
2016.<br />
Shah Rukh shares heartwarming<br />
moment with Dilip Kumar<br />
WASHINGTON: The US has dismissed<br />
reported discussions between<br />
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin<br />
Netanyahu and Washington officials over<br />
plans to annex Jewish settlements in the<br />
occupied West Bank.<br />
"Reports that the United States discussed<br />
with Israel an annexation plan for<br />
KARACHI: Jameel Ahmed’s niece, Aisha Ali snapped with<br />
her groom Jibran khan on their wedding.<br />
was also treated for kidney<br />
ailments.<br />
US denies alleged West Bank<br />
settlement annexation plan<br />
the West Bank are false," said White<br />
House spokesman Josh Raffel, late on<br />
Monday. "The United States and Israel<br />
have never discussed such a proposal."<br />
Raffel added the "focus remains<br />
squarely" on US President Donald<br />
Trump's "Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative".<br />
Punjab Assembly rejects resolution<br />
against petroleum price hike<br />
and 10 (3%) at adjournment<br />
of the sitting. The<br />
parliamentary leader of JI<br />
was present. One minority<br />
lawmaker attended the sitting.<br />
The House rejected a<br />
resolution moved by the<br />
Leader of the Opposition<br />
seeking withdrawal of the<br />
recent increase in the prices<br />
of petroleum products.<br />
The Chair disposed of<br />
four private members’ resolutions<br />
due to absence of<br />
the concerned lawmakers.<br />
As many as three out of<br />
nine Starred Questions<br />
were taken up for answers<br />
during the proceedings<br />
while six Starred Questions<br />
were disposed of due to<br />
absence of the movers. The<br />
lawmakers also asked eight<br />
supplementary questions.<br />
NA passes 3 bills, adopts 3 resolutions<br />
Free and Compulsory Education<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2017; the<br />
National Conflict of Interest Bill,<br />
2016; the Health Insurance Scheme<br />
for Disabled Persons Bill, 2017; the<br />
Right to Free and Compulsory<br />
Education (Amendment) Bill,<br />
2017; the Child Marriage Restraint<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2016; the<br />
Constitution (Amendment) Bill,<br />
2017] (Amendment of Article 37);<br />
[the Constitution (Amendment)<br />
Bill, 2017] (Amendment of Article<br />
160) ; the Constitution<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2015]<br />
(Amendment of Article 63); the<br />
Constitution (Amendment) Bill,<br />
2017] (Amendment of Article 5);<br />
the Constitution (Amendment) Bill,<br />
2017] (Amendment of Article 198)<br />
; the Pakistan Electronic Media<br />
Regulatory<br />
Authority<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2017; the<br />
Microfinance Institutions<br />
(Amendment) Bill, 2017 and the<br />
Pakistan Private Courier<br />
Regulatory Authority Bill, 2015.<br />
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