19 Feb 2018

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Metropolitan: 

MQM MNA Salman 

Mujahid Baloch cries 

character assassination 

through 'fake' video 

Page 2 

National: 

Prosperity can’t come 

through Nawaz, 

Zardari governments: 

Maulana Fazl 

Page 3 

International: 

‘Shame on you!’ 

student tells 

Trump at Florida 

anti-gun rally 

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FOREX RATES 1800GMT 

GBP/USD 1.40 

EUR/USD 1.24 

USD/JPY 106.31 

USD/CHF 0.93 

PSO receivables 

soar to all-time 

high of Rs334bn 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

State Oil’s receivables 

have augmented to alltime 

high of Rs334 billion 

as state-owned company 

continues to cope 

with financial difficulties 

in the wake of nonpayments. 

Insiders of the liquidity 

front have told our 

correspondent that only 

power sector owes a 

mammoth Rs285 bn 

whereas debt liabilities 

of Hub Power Company 

stands at whopping Rs85 

bn. Likewise, Korea 

Electric Power 

Corporation has not yet 

released payments worth 

Rs43 bn. 

On the other hand, 

state-owned conglomerate 

Pakistan 

International Airlines is 

in debt of Rs16 bn. 

FC Balochistan 

arrests 5 suspected 

terrorists 

Senior Staff Writer 

R A WA L P I N D I : 

Frontier Corps (FC) 

Balochistan on Sunday 

conducted intelligence 

based operations (IBOs) 

in various areas and 

apprehended five suspected 

terrorists. 

The operations were 

carried out in Bostan, 

Dera Murad Jamali, 

Sibi, Pishin Lehri and 

Chathar areas of 

Balochistan, said a statement 

issued here by 

Inter-Services Public 

Relations (ISPR). Cache 

of arms and ammunition, 

including rockets, 

sub machine guns, 

mines, explosive and 

ammunition were also 

recovered. 

Pir Sialvi admitted 

to hospital 

FAISALABAD: Pir 

Hamid ud Din Sialvi 

was on Sunday shifted to 

hospital after his health 

deteriorated. 

The firebrand cleric 

is being shifted to Civil 

Hospital Sargodha, 

media reports said. He 

was traveling to Amin 

Pur Bangla to attend a 

conference on Finality 

of Prophet (PBUH) 

when his health deteriorated 

and was shifted to 

the civil hospital. 

S H E I K H U P U R A : 

Former prime minister and 

president of the Pakistan 

Muslim League-N (PML- 

N) Nawaz Sharif, addressing 

a party rally at Company 

Bagh on Sunday, urged supporters 

to take revenge by 

voting for the party in the 

upcoming general elections. 

Nawaz said he has not 

seen a bigger public rally in 

Sheikhupura, adding that it 

seems from today's crowd 

that they will "surpass 

Lodhran" in the next general 

elections. 

The PML-N recently 

won a by-election in 

Lodhran against the incumbent 

Pakistan Tehreek-e- 

Insaf. 

"You have welcomed a 

disqualified prime minister 

today," he said, asking the 

party supporters if he is in 

fact 'disqualified'. Nawaz 

complained that he wasn't 

allowed to complete his 

five-year tenure despite 

being elected for that time 

period by the people. 

Praising the "transformation 

of Lahore" by Punjab 

Chief Minister Shehbaz 

Sharif, Nawaz criticised the 

Pakistan Peoples Party and 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for 

neglecting development. 

"God willing, the [ballot] 

boxes of [those talking 

about] umpire's fingers will 

remain empty in the next 

KARACHI EDITION – Monday, February 19, 2018, Jumada-al-Thani 2, 1439 http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

Public vote to take 

'revenge': Nawaz 

SHEIKHUPURA: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif 

and his daughter Maryam Nawaz wave to their supporters 

during a large public gathering. 

general elections," said 

Nawaz. 

The three-time premier 

said he is scared of no one 

but God, vowing that he will 

change the country's destiny 

with the help of the people. 

The country will be in 

extreme danger if the things 

that have been happening 

for the past 70 years are 

allowed to continue, he 

added. 

Continuing the practice 

of asking party supporters to 

raise their hands if they support 

the 'respect the vote' 

movement, Nawaz asked 

why he was removed from 

office. 

Taking out local currency 

of various denominations, 

from Rs1,000 to 

Rs10, Nawaz challenged his 

detractors to prove any corruption 

against him. 

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chief Imran Khan in pleasant mood with his 3rd wife Bushra Manika 

and Mufti Saeed after nikkah. 

Tanvir terms putting 

names of Nawaz, Maryam 

as revengeful activity 

F E R O Z E W A L A : 

Federal Minister for 

Defence Production Rana 

Tunvir Hussain has 

termed putting names of 

Nawaz Sharif and 

Maryam Nawaz in the 

ECL as a revengeful 

activity. 

Addressing party 

workers in Rachna Town, 

Ferozewala on Sunday, he 

said that the names of 

absconders are not enlisted 

in ECL but the names 

of those who present 

themselves in courts are 

put in the ECL. He questioned 

the authority of 

Aisha Gulalai that 

PML(N) will offer her 

Senate ticket. 

Rana Tunwir further 

said that PML (N) will 

clean sweep in 2018 elections 

and will form governments 

in Punjab and 

federation. To oust Nawaz 

Sharif from the politics is 

a big conspiracy, he 

added. 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Election Commission of 

Pakistan (ECP) will publish 

revised list of candidates 

for Senate elections 

from four 

provinces today 

(Sunday). 

Candidates can withdraw 

their nomination 

papers tomorrow 

(Monday). Revised lists 

of candidates for the 

Senate elections against 

All 66 on board killed after 

plane crashes in central Iran 

TEHRAN: A passenger 

plane has crashed in central 

Iran during a flight from 

Tehran to the southwestern 

city of Yasuj, killing all 66 

people on board, authorities 

said on Sunday. 

The ATR 72, a twinengine 

turboprop operated 

by Aseman Airlines, crashed 

in bad weather into Mount 

Dena near the town of 

Semirom, an official at the 

Iranian carrier said. 

Local officials in 

Semirom said the crash site 

was hard to reach and rescue 

helicopters had been unable 

to land because of heavy fog 

and rain. 

Spokesman for Iran's 

emergency services Mojtaba 

Khaledi said rescue teams 

had traveled to the crash site 

by land and were trying to 

find the debris. 

"The weather is currently 

cloudy and rainy and rescuers 

are searching for the 

plane but they have not 

sighted it yet. Despite the 

No militant 

camps on Pak 

soil: COAS 

ISLAMABAD: Chief 

of Army Staff (COAS), 

General Qamar Javed 

Bajwa has said that 

Pakistan’s lasting domestic 

peace hinges on peace and 

stability in Afghanistan. 

According to details 

issued here by Inter- 

Services Public Relations 

(ISPR) on late Saturday, the 

COAS was speaking at 

Munich Security 

Conference where he gave 

Pakistan’s perspective on 

global and regional security. 

He said despite limited 

resources Pakistan is trying 

its best to export peace to its 

neighbours in the west. He 

said Pakistan and 

Afghanistan are sovereign 

countries and both countries 

have a right to peace and 

progress. “However, this 

will only be possible if our 

respective soils are not used 

against each other,” he said. 

ECP to publish revised 

list of Senate candidates 

the seats of Federal 

Capital and FATA will 

be published on 

Tuesday. 

Polling for the Senate 

elections will be held on 

3rd of next month. 

KARACHI: Candidates nominated by Pakistan peoples’ Party (PPP) for the upcoming 

Senate elections called on PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at Bilawal House. 

Chairman Senate Mina Raza Rabbani, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, 

President PPP Ladies Wing MNA Faryal Talpur, Leader of the Opposition in the 

National Assembly Khursheed Ahmed Shah, PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed 

Khuhro and General Secretary Waqar Mehdi, PPP Karachi Division President Saeed 

Ghani were also present on the occasion. 

poor weather conditions, 

relief groups are continuing 

their search," he said. 

Air controllers said the 

plane went off radar screens 

50 minutes after take-off 

from Mehrabad airport in 

Tehran at around 8:00 am 

(0430 GMT). The flight had 

60 passengers, including a 

child, and six crew. 

The Islamic Republic of 

Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) 

said the plane crashed 

Ayatollah Khamenei, 

President Rouhani offer condolences 

TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah 

Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani 

have expressed sympathy with the bereaved families and 

offered their condolences to the people of Iran. The 

Leader has urged responsible authorities to exert all efforts 

required by them in the aftermath of the accident, and 

ensure the honorable interment of the victims. President 

Rouhani has also expressed “immense sorrow.” He called 

it incumbent on the Ministry of Roads and Urban 

Development to form a taskforce to arrange for timely 

emergency and relief response, and properly investigate 

the cause of the incident to prevent any future recurrence 

of similar tragedies. 

Jamil Ahmed 

Senior Staff Reporter 

KARACHI: MQM-P 

Bahadurabad faction on 

Sunday termed the intraparty 

polls conducted by the 

party’s PIB faction led by 

Farooq Sattar as illegal and 

against the organizational 

TEHRAN: Relatives of Iranian passengers onboard the 

Aseman Airlines flight EP3704 gathered in front of a 

mosque near Tehran’s Mehrabad airport. 

around 23 kilometers (14 

miles) from Yasuj, some 500 

kilometers south of the capital. 

Franco-Italian planemaker 

ATR has a deal with flag 

carrier Iran Air for the delivery 

of 20 ATR 72-600 passenger 

planes. The company 

delivered eight aircraft in 

2017 and plans to deliver a 

further 12 by the end of this 

year. The 70-seatATR planes 

are aimed at domestic routes, 

which Iran seeks to revitalize 

after the lifting of sanctions 

in early 2016. 

MQM-P Bahadurabad terms Sattar 

led intra-party-polls as ‘illegal’ 

KARACHI: Leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM- 

P), Farooq Sattar casts his vote during Intra Party 

Election held at KMC Ground PIB area. 

Qadri demand 

implementation on 

Zainab murder case 

without any delay 

ISLAMABAD: Head of 

Pakistan Awami Tehrik 

(PAT), Dr. Muhammad 

Tahirul Qadri has welcomed 

the decision of 

Zainab murder case and 

demanded implementation 

without any delay. 

In a statement issued on 

Sunday, he said when the 

accused involved in heinous 

crimes are not punished on 

time then lawlessness, fundamentalism, 

torture and terrorism 

increase. In the Zainab 

murder case he appreciated 

the roles of people in general, 

media, judiciary, army chief 

and at the last the Punjab 

government took action and 

arrested Imran Ali who was 

involved in many heinous 

crimes in Qasur. 

He said police opened fire 

to quell the protesters in 

Qasur and added further 

dead bodies. Media played a 

vital role and added that such 

incidents can not take place 

without the patronage of a 

high up and the government 

is concealing the facts. 

ISLAMABAD: Interior 

Minister Ahsan Iqbal has 

said that pressure tactics 

like motion for putting 

Pakistan on Financial 

Action Task Force watch 

list will negatively impact 

Islamabad's efforts against 

policies. In a statement 

issued on Sunday, the 

Bahadurabad faction said 

that the party activists would 

foil the efforts of behind the 

scene actors who were trying 

to divide the party 

through their unity. 

It said that unfortunately, 

Farooq Sattar is being misled 

by the advisors around 

him. “As per the party’s 

constitution, it is the twothird 

majority of the coordination 

committee that could 

decide on the issue,” the 

statement read. 

After 23 August, the 

party has ended the powers 

for an individual to decide 

on the issues and even the 

election commission of 

Pakistan has accepted the 

powers of Khalid Maqbool 

Siddiqui to decide on the 

nominations for Senate 

elections. 

The party constitution 

have the process to resolve 

the issue and before going to 

any court, such procedure 

should be adopted, it said. 

They said that the loyal 

party activists reject any 

move to create divisions 

within the party on permanent 

basis. 

Tactics to put Pakistan on FATF watch 

list invites negative impact: Ahsan 

terrorism. 

Talking to the media in 

Lahore, he said it seemed 

that the West wanted to pressurize 

Pakistan to achieve 

certain objectives, so it is 

pushing to place the country's 

on FATF watch-list. 

Nasir Shah appeals CJP to review 

Sharjeel’s case on health grounds 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Minister for Info, Labour, 

Transport Mass Transit & 

Human Resources Syed 

Nasir Hussain Shah has 

appealed to Honorable Chief 

Justice of Pakistan Mian 

Saqib Nisar that please consider 

Sympathetically in the 

case of former Information 

Minister Sharjeel Inam 

Memon regarding his shifting 

from Jinnah Post 

Graduate Medical Centre to 

Central Jail Karachi. Syed 

Nasir Hussain Shah said the 

Medical Board was constituted 

by the order of National 

Accountability Court . He 

said that Medical board has 

been after thoroughly medical 

examination advised him 

for immediate operation. 

Nasir Hussain Shah said in the 

report of Medical board has 

been advised that if operation 

process will not done immediately, 

it is clear chance that 

sharjeel Inam Memon will be 

disable. Medical board also 

recommended the south city 

hospital and Jinnah hospital 

for his immediate operation. 

He further said that 

Honorable supreme court 

may kindly consider his illness 

on humanitarian 

grounds and reconsider his 

decision for shifting of sharjeel 

Inam Memon from hospital 

to central Jail Karachi, 

he concluded. 

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Metropolitan 

MQM MNA Salman Mujahid Baloch cries 

character assassination through 'fake' video 

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi 

Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) 

lawmaker Salman Mujahid 

Baloch Sunday appealed to the 

Federal Investigation Agency 

(FIA) director general to take 

notice of a "fake" video being 

spread on social networking platforms 

aimed at his character 

assassination. 

In his statement, Baloch denied 

any links to the video being 

spread on social networking sites 

and in Whatsapp groups. 

"This is a fake video and it 

does not feature me," he said. 

The MQM-P lawmaker 

appealed to the FIA Director 

General Bashir Memon to probe 

into the malicious campaign being 

run against him on social media. 

He also urged Memon to bring 

the individuals behind such acts to 

justice under the cybercrime law. 

Earlier this week, Baloch was 

accused by a woman of sexually 

exploiting and blackmailing her. 

The woman named Aleena, 

filed a complaint against the 

MQM MNA at Gulshan-e-Iqbal 

police station, alleging that 

Mujahid sexually exploited her 

for the first time on August 12, 

2014, at Parliament lodges and 

36.7m people living with HIV globally 

KARACHI: Since the 

beginning of the epidemic, 

more than 70 million people 

have been infected 

with the HIV virus and 

about 35 million people 

have died of HIV. 

According to WHO, 

globally, 36.7 million people 

were living with HIV. 

An estimated 0.8% of 

adults aged 15–49 years 

worldwide are living with 

HIV, although the burden 

of the epidemic continues 

to vary considerably 

between countries and 

regions. Sub-Saharan 

Africa remains most 

severely affected, with 

nearly 1 in every 25 adults 

(4.2%) living with HIV 

and accounting for nearly 

two-thirds of the people 

living with HIV worldwide. 

The human immunodeficiency 

virus (HIV) is a 

lentivirus (a subgroup of 

retrovirus) that causes HIV sexually 

infection and over time 

acquired immunodeficiency 

syndrome (AIDS). 

AIDS is a condition in 

humans in which progressive 

failure of the immune 

system allows life-threatening 

opportunistic infections 

and cancers to thrive. 

Without treatment, average 

survival time after infection 

with HIV is estimated 

to be 9 to 11 years, depending 

on the HIV subtype. 

In most cases, HIV is a 

transmitted 

infection and occurs by 

contact with or transfer of 

KARACHI: President Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Sindh, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro filling 

party membership form at membership drive camp. 

Dettol's influenza 

awareness campaign 

KARACHI: Dettol is a 

leading household name for 

germ protection and disease 

prevention, carrying out 

several awareness programs 

for mothers, their kids and 

households. 

Several illnesses are 

becoming common in the 

country and prevention is 

indeed the best cure to keep 

oneself safe from these. 

Staying true to its purpose 

of germ protection and disease 

prevention, Dettol set 

up three health camps each 

at Nishtar Medical Hospital, 

Nishtar Medical College 

and Nishtar Dental College 

& Hospital. 

The camps created 

Influenza awareness and 

also provided information 

for its timely prevention. 

Informational leaflets and 

handouts distribution was 

also done for better understanding 

of the public. 

Dettol sponsored hand 

washing units were placed 

at these camps to educate 

people on the importance of 

hand washing and how it 

can reduce the chances of 

several diseases including 

influenza. Frequent usage 

of a sanitizer or washing 

hands with a hand wash are 

some of the key ways of 

ensuring prevention. 

In addition to screening 

for Influenza performed by 

Doctors from Nishtar 

Medical Hospital, three 

other information desks 

were also spread across the 

complex for better guidance 

of people. 

Five organizations begin 

hunger strike in Karachi 

against sugar mills 

KARACHI: Five organizations 

of growers started a 

hunger strike outside Karachi 

Press Club on Sunday against 

sugar mills for not purchasing 

sugarcane at official rate of Rs 

182 per 40 kg. 

The hunger strike was led 

by Ali Palh of Sindh 

Agriculture Research Council, 

Javed Junejo of Farmers 

Organization, Fayaz Shah 

Rashdi of Sindh Abadgar 

Association, Irfan Jatoi of Hari 

Abadgar Etehad and Zahid of 

Tail Abadgar Action 

Committee. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

Sindh Agriculture Research 

Council leader Jamal 

Mehmood Khuhro said that 

the mills were not paying the 

official rate of Rs 182 per 40 

kg sugarcane in connivance 

with the Sindh government. 

He alleged: “The sugar mills 

have destroyed agriculture of 

Sindh and have broken the 

backbones of farmers. It is 

supporting the mills in the 

province on political basis. “ 

Khuhro said that the mills 

had also not implemented 

Sindh High Court order fixing 

cane rate at Rs172 per 40 kg 

besides not accepting a joint 

decision of fixing Rs 160 rate 

with growers. “It is matter of 

great concern that the Sindh 

government is still silent over 

the apathy of the sugar mills of 

Sindh, which is a great injustice.” 

“The mills are also not 

providing indents to many 

farmers and instead, are giving 

the same to brokers who purchase 

sugar at very low prices, 

which is tantamount to the 

economic murder of farmers,” 

he said. The growers’community 

leader further said that 

tail-ender growers were also 

facing water shortage for their 

crops, while wheat crop in 

many areas could not be 

grown due to delay in the lifting 

of sugarcane from crop 

fields. 

KARACHI: Rashid Siddiqui, Chairman Diplomatic 

Forum, hosted a dinner at his residence. Photo shows 

Mansoor Ahmed Kidwai, with other guests. 

blood, pre-ejaculate, 

semen, and vaginal fluids. 

Non-sexual transmission 

can occur from an infected 

mother to her infant 

through breast milk. An 

HIV-positive mother can 

transmit HIV to her baby 

both during pregnancy 

and childbirth due to 

exposure to her blood or 

vaginal fluid. Within these 

bodily fluids, HIV is present 

as both free virus particles 

and virus within 

infected immune cells. 

Newly reconstructed 

road needs another 

reconstruction 

KARACHI: A section of 

the newly reconstructed 

University Road has gone 

damaged soon after its inaugural 

and it needs yet another 

reconstruction or repair on 

urgent basis. 

A portion of the main and 

service road just in front of 

the Expo Center has gone 

damaged due to poor standard 

of reconstruction and it 

needs another repair to make 

it optimally useable. Some 

parts of this road have caved 

in due to hasty reconstruction 

and now the contractors 

have filled these ditched 

with earth and it is hoped 

that these damaged parts 

would be soon repaired. 

Pasban e Pakistan 

President Altaf Shakoor said 

this road is used by a large 

number of motorists and 

commuters and its damage 

soon after its reconstruction 

is tarnish to the good image 

of the Sindh government and 

its concerned departments. 

He said rival MQM has 

already charged that the contract 

of the reconstruction of 

the University Road had 

already been inflated. He 

said the apex court had also 

observed displeasure over 

wastage of taxpayers’money 

by giving contracts on 

unreasonably higher rates. 

He demanded an urgent 

repair of the damaged road 

and appealed that quality of 

work should be maintained 

in ongoing reconstruction of 

this road near Mosmiyat 

area. He said the University 

Road also needs repair near 

Safari Park/Samama flyover. 

He said quality of work 

should be strictly checked 

not only in the case of the 

University Road but for all 

civic infrastructure works. 

He said the spectacular 

win of the Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) in Lodhran has 

shown that the next elections 

would be fought on 

the slogan of development 

and uplift. He said the ruling 

party in Sindh, the 

PPPP, should consider this 

factor seriously and ensure 

that its uplift projects 

including those of roads 

and streets not go damaged 

soon after their construction, 

as it may backfire by 

tarnishing its image. 

made a video of it through a hidden 

camera. 

In her application to the 

police, she said that Mujahid 

promised to marry her in order to 

keep her silent and added that 

when she reminded him of his 

promise, he abducted her brother 

and tortured him. 

The woman also alleged that 

Mujahid has demanded a sum of 

Rs4 million for the video, adding 

that if any harm befalls her then 

the MQM lawmaker will be 

responsible. 

Prior to that, the lawmaker had 

lodged a complaint against the 

same woman and had alleged that 

she fraudulently took Rs4million 

from him for her mother’s treatment 

at Shaukat Khanum 

Memorial Cancer Hospital. 

Mujahid had claimed that he 

came to doubt her when she asked 

for more money, and later came to 

know that she is a fraud. 

Sugar rates falls 

after supply 

improves 

KARACHI: Rate of 

sugar in wholesale market 

of Karachi came down 

sharply after the supply 

of the commodity 

improved. 

Market sources said 

that during last four days 

the rate of sugar in wholesale 

has fallen by Rs2 and 

now it is being sold at 

Rs46per kilogram. 

However, the retail price 

of sugar in the city is 

Rs50per kilogram and it 

is expected that it would 

come down soon as huge 

stock of sugar is present 

in the market. 

It is said that the 

monopoly practices of 

sugar millers has artificially 

risen the price of 

this kitchen commodity 

and if the anti-monopoly 

entities take action the 

rate of sugar will further 

decrease. It may be noted 

that the rates of sugar in 

the international market 

are also on decline as 

people in developed 

countries have become 

more health-centered and 

the consumption of white 

sugar is on sharp decline. 

KARACHI: A press 

conference to create awareness 

about epilepsy was 

held at Najmuddin 

Auditorium at Jinnah 

Postgraduate Medical 

Centre (JMPC), here earlier 

today. Members of the 

print, electronic and social 

media attended the event in 

large numbers. 

After a welcome note by 

Dr Hiba Mahmud, who is 

actively involved with 

National Epilepsy Centre 

(NEC) at JMPC, Professor 

Hasan Aziz, president of 

the NGO spoke about the 

facilities at the Centre and 

the dire need for awareness 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi along 

with Vice Chairman, Shakir Ali inspecting road carpeting 

in F.B. area. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Nayyar Raza 

along with Vice Chairmen and Ward Councilors inspecting 

area to see municipal facilities. 

KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Vice President, Aamir 

Mehmood presiding Sindh Committee meeting. CPNE General Secretary, Ejazul Haq and 

senior members including Faqir Manthar Mangrio, Dr Jabbar Khattak, Ghulam Nabi 

Chandio, Hamid Hussain Abidi, Tahir Najmi, Dr Waqar Yousaf Azeemi, Amin Yousaf, 

Abdul Rehman Mangrio, Muhammad Younas Mehar, Adnan Malik, Arif Baloch, Mudasir 

Aalam, Muhammad Taqi Alvi, Ahmed Iqbal Baloch, Ali Bin Younas, Amjad Chaudhry, 

Usman Arab Satti, Bashir Ahmed Memon, Salman Qureshi, Suhbat Buriro, Syed 

Muhammad Raza Shah, Akram Mughal, Muhammad Hanif, Danish Channa, Khushi 

Muhammad, Muhammad Saleem, Zahida Abbasi, Hasina Jatoi and Bilquis Jahan. 

Press conference for 

epilepsy awareness 

KARACHI: Nadia Jamil, the face of Epilepsy, at the press 

conference sharing here. 

about how successfully this 

disease can be managed. 

Followed by this was a 

talk by Dr Zarine Mogal, 

another key person actively 

involved in and working to 

better the situation for those 

who battle with epilepsy. 

Discussing the holistic 

management at NEC, Dr 

Zarine spoke of how NEC 

covers all the medical, 

social and psychological 

aspects of every patient; 

how strict, close and regular 

follow ups are done for 

each patient; and also disclosed 

that NEC heavily 

subsidizes thenecessary 

medicines, which at other 

KARACHI: Mr. Steve Crossman, deputy head of mission of British Deputy High 

Commission, was chief guest the at dinner hosted by Mundia group of companies 

Chairman M. Ilyas Mundia, at his residence. Photo shows AIG police Ghulam Qadar 

Thepho, Junaid Mundia, and Mansoor Ahmed Kidwai, with chief guest. 

places are sold for more 

than triple the amount. 

After a talk on NEC’s 

role at JPMC by Dr Seemin 

Jamali, celebrity guest 

speaker and the new face 

of NEC, who had especially 

flown in for the occasion,was 

introduced-Nadia 

Jamil -- who has successfully 

been battling with 

epilepsy, herself. Nadia 

spoke frankly of her own 

experiences; she was diagnosed 

with it in 2011, and 

thanks to proper medical 

treatment and help has 

been living her life to the 

fullest in spite of it. The 

celebrity encouraged 

everyone who suffers from 

epilepsy to get treatment 

and carry on with their 

lives, and not feel ashamed 

to address the issue. 

A documentary was 

shown on NEC’s work and 

efforts over the years, highlighting 

the celebrities who 

have supported the cause, 

such as veteran cricketers 

like Shahid Afridi and 

Moin Khan, and the late, 

legendary, Abdul Sattar 

Edhi who also had epilepsy, 

as well as Suhaee Ali Abro 

– the performing artiste 

who has also been epilepticfrom 

a very young age 

but has not let it stand in her 

way of achievements. 

2 kids die in bikecoach 

collision 

KARACHI: Two children 

died and their parents were 

injured when a bike was hit by 

a coach near here on Sunday. 

As per details, a family 

was riding a bike when a 

speedy coach hit it at Gujjo on 

the national highway some 15 

kilometers from here. As a 

result two siblings, four years 

old Sughra and one year old 

Bushra died on the spot, while 

their parents, Bilawal and 

Haseena, were critically 

injured and rushed to Karachi 

as no proper trauma care facilities 

are present in the Civil 

Hospital Makli. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Mohammad Jan Baloch 

along with Vice Chairman, Abdul Khaliq Marwat inspecting 

cleanliness drive at UC-5 Bhains Colony ongoing for 

the last 15 days. UC Vice Chairman, Chaudhry Akram was 

also present on the occasion. 

KARACHI: Chairman District Council Karachi, Salman 

Abdullah Murad listening to the complaints of the residents.

Prosperity can’t come through Nawaz, 

Zardari governments: Maulana Fazl 

HYDERABAD: The 

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam 

(Fazl) leader Maulana 

Fazl ur Rehman said on 

Sunday said that prosperity 

can’t come in the 

country under the governments 

of Nawaz 

Sharif and Asif Ali 

Zardari. 

The JUI-F leader 

speaking in a party gathering 

said that he has 

always raised its voice 

against the prevailing 

feudalism in Sindh. 

He added that the 

poor farmers of the 

province are forced to 

work under the feudals, 

adding that the government 

has invested all its 

resources on counter-terrorism 

initiatives but the 

Three villagers kidnap near PARCO Shikarpur 

Naeem Ahmed 

SHIKARPUR: Three 

villagers were kidnapped 

from five next to 

Park Arab Refinery 

Limited [PARCO] road, 

in the limits of Faizo 

Police Station, some 40 

kilometers away from 

here, on last late night. 

According to reports, 

five villagers named 

Abdul Ghaffor, 

Muhammad Rafique, 

Abdul Wahab, 

Imamuddin, all of by 

caste Chachar and 

belonging to Kandhkot 

and Daharki town, and 

Muhammad Ismail 

Malik, were coming 

from village Haji Khan 

Kalhoro traveling on 

their Qingqi Rickshaw 

after collecting beds and 

its sheets for marriage 

purpose to accommodate 

their guests, which marriage 

was to be held at 

village Ali Jaan Shar. 

A few unidentified 

armed assailants intercepted 

them and kidnapped 

all of them at 

gunpoint after leaving 

their Qingqi Rickshaw at 

road side, and released 

two villagers named 

Imamuddin Chachar and 

Muhammad Ismail 

Malik after a while 

crossing some link roads 

and forcibly took away 

three villagers Abdul 

Ghaffor, MUhammd 

Rafique and Abdul 

Wahab all of by caste 

Chachar and managed to 

escape from crime scene. 

Following on the 

information, area police 

started search through 

footsteps and summoned 

the help of sniffer dogs 

and missed the footsteps 

of kidnappers at Katcha 

area of Ghari Tegho. 

Manthar Ali Shar, the 

SHO Faizo Police 

Station told this reporter 

that I am at Katcha area 

of Garhi Tegho along 

with heavy force to conduct 

operation to release 

abductees and cut the 

phone on the pretext of 

weak mobile singles. 

This correspondent 

tried his level best to 

contact with police chief 

Shikarpur Umar Tufail, 

but his cell phone was 

also found switched off, 

despite several attempts. 

The heirs and relatives 

of the kidnapped 

persons held protest 

demonstration and 

demanded high ups to 

take notice of the 

increasing worst condition 

of the law and order 

situation in Shikarpur. 

It is worthwhile to 

mention here that five 

persons including two 

villagers were named 

Jamalul-uddin-Indhar 

and Shahnawaz had 

been kidnapped from 

outside village Jami 

Quba near Rustam Town 

of tehsil Khanpur by 

ISLAMABAD: A girl is holding her dogs while participating in All Breed National 

Championship Dog Show held at Islamabad Gun Club. 

Teaser of Peshawar Zalmi 

new song released 

PESHAWAR: The 

teaser of Peshawar 

Zalmi's anthem for the 

third edition of Pakistan 

Super League (PSL) was 

released. 

The song for the 

defending champions 

poor segment of the 

society direly wants 

has been sung by rock 

band Call. 

The 20-second teaser 

features the band itself, 

ambassadors Hamza Ali 

Abbasi and Mahira Khan 

along with team players. 

The full song will be 

employment to feed 

their families. 

released on Sunday 

night. 

The winners of the 

2017 edition will begin 

their campaign against 

new-comers Multan 

Sultans on 22nd 

February at Dubai. 

JI IoK decries raids, 

use of force on people 

SRINAGAR: In occupied 

Kashmir, the 

Jamaat–e-Islami has said 

that Kashmir has been 

turned into a concentration 

camp where people 

are subjected to the worst 

kind of treatment. 

According to Kashmir 

Media Service (KMS), 

Jamaat Spokesman advocate 

Zahid Ali in a statement 

said, “A number of 

innocent youths have 

been apprehended during 

the nocturnal raids in different 

villages of South 

Kashmir by these forces 

including the Karimabad 

village in Pulwama district 

where during a predawn 

raid five innocent 

youth were apprehended 

besides causing irreparable 

loss to the property of 

the innocent civilians and 

beating a number of 

them.” 

Jamaat also expressed 

deep sorrow over the 

public rally manipulated 

by the communalist 

forces of RSS and BJP in 

Kathua area to save the 

rapist-murderer 

officer. 

police 

He said that the politicians 

should review their 

unidentified armed bandits 

and were taken 

away to unknown place 

for ransom on December 

18, 2017. 

Two brothers, Tanveer 

Ahmed Soomro and 

Naveed Ahmed Soomro 

along with their friend 

Shahid Kalhoro, while 

traveling to their village 

Haji Khan Kalhoro from 

Khanpur taluka of 

Shikarpur, were kidnapped 

by unknown 

armed dacoits on 23 

December of 2017 and in 

January 2018 five of the 

kidnappee have been 

released. 

On the other hand, 

J a m a i t - e - I s l a m i 

Shikarpur chapter took 

out a protest demonstration 

rally against worst 

law and order situation 

in Shikarpur and 

demanded high ups to 

take notice of the 

increasing kidnapping in 

Shikarpur. 

Air University 

announces 

Career Fair 2018 

ISLAMABAD: Air 

University has announced to 

host Career Fair to connect its 

students and alumni with 

potential employers for 

exploring job vacancies and 

internships. 

In a statement issued, the 

Career Fair is scheduled to be 

held on March 07 here at the 

Air University Main Campus, 

PAF Complex, E-9. 

On the occasion, students 

will be able to learn about 

the most recent trends of the 

job market. The career fair 

also aims to provide an 

excellent opportunity for 

organizations and employers 

who have quality jobs and 

internships related to 

Computer Science, Electrical 

Engineering, 

Engineering, Mechatronics 

Engineering and Business 

Administration. 

Air University is offering 

free stalls to few selective and 

valued organizations in order 

to facilitate their talent hunt 

and recruitment activities 

throughout the event. 


Researchers are investigating 

how some older adults 

are able to maintain elevated 

levels of cognition and 

memory as they age. 

Improvements in medicine, 

science and lifestyles 

continue to add years to the 

average lifespan. In the 

1970s, living to 100 got 

you a birthday card from 

President Richard Nixon, 

said Dr. Claudia Kawas, 

professor of neurology and 

associate director of the 

Institute for Memory 

Impairments and 

Neurological Disorders at 

the University of 

California, Irvine. 

But that stopped 

vision, adding that his 

party doesn't represent 

any particular segment 

of the society. 

"We criticise the policies 

but never hurl abuses." 

"All institutions are 

respectable but their 

decisions should not 

reflect vengeance or 

bias," he said. 

Maulana Fazl added 

that the JUI-F would not 

let foreign forces to play 

their dirty games in the 

country. 

He alleged that the 

US is prioritizing India 

over Pakistan, and the 

Afghan government is 

completely under the 

influence of Delhi and 

Washington. 

APHC condemns 

detention of 

party leaders 

SRINAGAR: In 

occupied Kashmir, the 

All Parties Hurriyat 

Conference has condemned 

the arrest and 

house detention of its 

leaders and activists 

including Muhammad 

Ashraf Sehrai, Ghulam 

Ahmad Gulzar and 

Muhammad Ashraf 

Laya. 

According to 

Kashmir Media Service, 

police arrested Umar 

Aadil Dar and Shah 

Wali Muhammad and 

detained them at 

Nowgam and Sopore 

police stations. 

Hurriyat leaders 

Muhammad Yaseen 

Ataie and Syed Imtiyaz 

Haider were arrested 

and lodged at Badgam 

police station. 

Condemning the 

authorities, the APHC 

termed the detentions as 

undemocratic and 

unconstitutional and 

repressive and arbitrary 

measures would not 

deter them from pursuing 

their mission. The 

APHC also condemned 

the re-arrest of Javed 

Ahmad Mir. 

Staff Reporter 

BADIN: Former home 

minister Sindh, Dr. 

Zulfiqar Mirza talking 

with local journalists at 

Badin on Sunday has said 

that people of Sindh were 

ready to get rid from current 

rulers and their atrocities. 

Dr. Mirza added that 

Sindh Grand Alliance 

(GDA) is suitable and reliable 

alternate to the people 

of Sindh. We would unite 

the nation on a platform of 

GDA by raising voice out 

against the thieves’ rulers, 

he added. Adding he said 

that people of Sindh would 

defeat the rulers like people 

of Badin. 

Former home minister 

Sindh, Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza 

said this while his departure 

to Moro city of Dadu 

district for attending massive 

public gathering 


National 

organized by Sindh Grand 

Democratic Alliance 

(GDA) in the carvan of 

hundreds of vehicles with 

his close aides. 

The carvan of hundreds 

of vehicles was departed to 

Moro for participation in 

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GDA is a reliable alternate to the 

people of Sindh: Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza 

Abdul Rauf 

SUKKUR: Degree alone 

is not enough for you people 

rather it should be coupled 

with skill, which 

makes you market worthy, 

said, the Vice Chancellor 

Sukkur IBA University 

while distributing certificates 

and toolkits among 

the successful students of 

Prime Minister Youth Skill 

Development Program 

Phase-II Batch-II at the 

auditorium of Sukkur IBA 

University on Saturday. He 

said, in the ever developing 

BADIN Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza while talking with Media. 

technologies, students need 

to equip themselves with 

diverse skills to survive the 

challenges of change. He 

said, in future technologies 

like Bid Data, Artificial 

Intelligence will replace 

human work force and 

therefore we need diversified 

skills. Certificates were 

distributed among 135 students 

on successfully completing 

different vocational 

courses including, 

Accountancy and 

Entrepreneurship, General 

Electrician, Solar 

public gathering led by 

Hassam Mirza, member of 

district council Badin, Ex- 

Nazim of Qasim Abad, 

Mehboob Khan Abro and 

elected councilors of 

Municipal Committee 

Badin and others. 

Degree alone isn’t enough, it’s skill which 

make you market worthy: VC IBA Sukkur 

Energy/UPS, Graphic 

Designing, Autocad and 

Sales and Marketing. 

Director CEL & Inc. 

and focal person for 

NAVTTC Ikhtiar Ahmed 

Khoso told that, these 

courses were offered at 

Sukkur IBA University 

under Prime Minister 

Youth Skills Development 

under National Vocational 

Technical Training 

Commission Prime 

Minister Office Islamabad. 

These courses are offered 

free of cost and students 

are also given stipend of 

Rs.3000/- per month, he 

told. According to him, 

Sukkur IBA University in 

addition to degree courses 

is also offering short 

courses for those who cannot 

afford degree education 

so that these under 

privileged people may get 

a skill and earn bread and 

butter for themselves and 

their families. 

Sarfaraz Ahmed one of 

the students, who have 

undergone Accountancy 

and Entrepreneurship 

course has been offered a 

job at Ufone on the position 

of Sales 

Representative and getting 

Rs. 25000 per month. 

Modalities, procedural formalities for establishing 

Neelum-Jhehlum sub-campus of AJK University discussed 

ISLAMABAD: Sardar 

Masood Khan, President 

Azad Jammu and Kashmir 

chaired a meeting called to 

discuss the modalities and 

procedural formalities for 

establishing the Neelum- 

Jhehlum sub-campus of the 

University of AJK, says in 

press release. 

The President who is also 

the Chancellor of AJK 

Public Sector Universities 

Mechanical asserted the need to provide 

quality higher educational 

facilities to the people of 

Azad Kashmir. He said that 

the Government is committed 

towards establishing tertiary 

level institutions in all 

districts of AJK. 

Prof. Dr. Kaleem Abbasi 

in his introductory remarks 

decades ago when the ranks 

of centenarians grew. 

Children born in the United 

States today are expected, 

on average, to live to age 

103, and by the middle of 

the century, the U.S. will 

have 8-10 million people 

age 90 and older, she said. 

“The sad thing is, 

we’ve added more years 

than we’ve added quality,” 

Kawas said during a press 

briefing on Feb. 17 at the 

AAAS 2018 Annual 

Meeting in Austin, Texas. 

About two-thirds of people 

over age 90 have dementia 

or some less severe cognitive 

loss. But, “there’s a 

remarkable core of individuals 

we see who maintain 

excellent cognitive 

skills and often motor 

skills,” she said. 

As the lead investigator 

of “The 90+ Study,” Kawas 

and other researchers have 

been testing and tracking 

subjects for the past 15 

years to find differences in 

their brains and lifestyles 

that might be responsible. 

One of Kawas’ most interesting 

findings is that when 

her team began autopsying 

the brains of those who 

were aging well and 

exhibiting no signs of 

dementia, about 40 percent 

apprised the President that a 

193 kanal plot of land for the 

Neelum sub-campus has 

been identified at Tangot. 

The VC informed that payments 

of the land will soon 

be made in order to guarantee 

it acquisition. He also 

briefed the President that 

funds for construction of 

Prefabricated Structures has 

been committed by the AJK 

Government and further 

coordination for acquiring 

the said funds will be made. 

President said procedural 

formalities for acquiring the 

said land needs to be completed 

on priority and a 

desired an update on the situation 

may be presented in a 

week’s time. He further said 

that additional land identifiedat 

Islampura will also be 

processed for the sub-campus. 

The President on the 

occasion thanked Shah 

Ghulam Qadir for dedicating 

his time and extending his 

sincerest efforts in assisting 

the university and district 

administration in addressing 

issues related to establishment 

of the Neelum subcampus. 

Speaker AJK Legislative 

Assembly said that he will 

also offer his complete assistance 

in matters relating construction 

of link roads to the 

campus, electricity connectivity 

and water supply. 

President said that timely 

completion of the derivative 

projects will be ensured and 

that too under the supervision 

of the Speaker. 

Prof. Dr. Mukhtar had 

also informed that in the first 

phase, HEC would provide 

Rs. 5 million for construction 

purposes of the Neelum subcampus. 

PresidentAJK commended 

the support of 

Chairman HEC and said that 

with the help of HEC we will 

ensure the highest standards 

of education is provided at 

all Public Sector Universities 

in AJK.Regarding the 

Jhelum sub-campus, the 

President desired that the 

basic modalities including 

land acquisition and allied 

amenities be presented soon 

in order to initiate the establishment 

of a modern educational 

facility for the people 

of Jhelum valley. 

Science begins to unlock the secrets of brains that age well 

had “full-fledged” 

Alzheimer’s Disease. “And 

the question is: ‘Why are 

they still thinking well?’” 

Kawas said. 

While they don’t have 

definite answers, besides 

having good genes, Kawas 

said, the answer is probably 

a combination of being 

resilient to Alzheimer’s 

Disease and also that they 

did not develop other 

dementia-causing conditions, 

such as microscopic 

infarctions that occur when 

blood flow is blocked from 

certain regions of the brain 

and hippocampal sclerosis, 

which causes neuron loss. 

Both conditions almost 

guarantee dementia.

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Rally supporting rapist, 

murderer a fascist act: JRL 

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Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi 

Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Editor Special Reports: Muhammad Rafique Rajpar 

Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar - Islamabad Bureau Chief: Hameedullah Khan 

ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

Land is encroached by, and calls for punishment 

against, some of the biggest land lords in 

Pakistan. Others are small frys, many directly or 

indirectly under their cover. Until these corrupt and 

criminals are punished, the small and big land owners 

will have a free hand to grab more land. This keeps people 

and their entire families enslaved, along with bonded 

labor for more inhuman as well as dehumanizing 

activities. These criminal activities have not stopped. 

But these activities can be stopped. It simply needs true 

Pakistanis to end any and all evils and reinstate goodness 

in and for fellow human beings. 

Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. 

Over the recent times, increasing demand for land has 

made the sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by 

those in a position to own or control land. 

The stakes have been raised over land not only in 

relation to large-scale land acquisitions, but also for who 

gets to register their title and secure their rural or urban 

land in the first place. 

The social and environmental fall-out has been significant, 

with millions of people turfed off land that they 

have traditionally lived on or farmed, and forests and 

eco-systems flattened through the industrialisation of 

land use. 

Tackling land grabbing effectively requires addressing 

the corruption that pervades the allocation and governance 

of land. The trouble is that too often experts 

working on land grabbing and corruption do so in siloes. 

The framing and terminology used by these two groups 

differ greatly, and both pursue different national and 

international processes. That gap stands in need to be 

bridged. 

Corruption enables land grabbing in a number of 

ways. It can be simply transactional – when government 

officials accept bribes from a company to gain access to 

land, or to look the other way if they’re behaving badly. 

When it gets trickier is when corruption is endemic, and 

institutionalised within government. 

This can mean policies and central state functions are 

skewed so that leaders can enrich themselves at the 

expense of the public good. 

In situations like that government decisions about 

land use aren’t based on recognition of rights, on sustainable 

development or long-term economic growth – 

land is handed to whoever has the best connections or is 

willing to pay the highest price. Perversely, this then 

feeds further corruption. Judges often require bribes to 

make the “right” decision when victims try using the 

courts to get their land back. While land, once grabbed, 

provides revenues to business and political elites, which 

consolidates their power even further. 

Land is different from other natural resources 

because it’s more than just a factor of production - it’s 

self-identity. It’s where ancestors are buried, it’s a place 

of spiritual worship and most of all, it’s home. So when 

people lose their land because of corruption, the socioeconomic 

impacts are only the start. 

E.J. Dionne 

The surest sign a political regime is failing is 

its inability to do anything about a problem 

universally seen as urgent and that has some 

obvious remedies. And it's a mark of political corruption 

when unaccountable cliques block solutions 

that enjoy broad support and force their selfish 

interests to prevail over the common good. 

On gun violence, the United States has become a 

corrupt failed state. 

This is the only conclusion to draw from the endless 

enraging replays of the same political paralysis, 

no matter how many children are gunned down at 

our schools or how many innocent Americans are 

slaughtered at shopping centres and other public 

places. Whatever happens, we can't ban assault 

weapons, we can't strengthen background checks, 

we can't do anything. 

In corrupt failed states, politics is about lying and 

misdirection. On guns, our debate is a pack of lies 

and evasions. 

In no other country is the phrase "thoughts and 

prayers" a sacrilege, a cover for cowardice. 

In no other country are the words "mental health" 

so empty. They are muttered by politicians who 

have no history of caring in the least about programmes 

to help those with psychological or psychiatric 

difficulties. But they need to say something 

to rationalise their allegiance to a gun lobby that 

appears to be utterly indifferent to mass murder. 

President Trump's rote address to the nation after 

the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman 

Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, had all 

the passion of a CEO delivering a middling annual 

report. He told us: "We are committed to working 

with state and local leaders to help secure our 

schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental 

health." 

EDITORIAL 

Land And Corruption Needs Just Actions 

The impunity granted to political and business elites 

as a result of grand corruption can so infect society that 

it can be hard to know where to start. 

Corruption is a system - we can get disheartened trying 

to destroy the whole thing, but even the smallest, 

everyday step to try to disrupt, reduce or block it is a 

worthwhile starting point. Also helpful are solutions 

presented in global events that gather together governments, 

civil societies, enforcement agencies, journalists 

and related experts to discuss ways of tackling land 

grabbing and corruption. 

Supreme Court and other concerned departments 

had given the provincial executioners of Sindh time 

deadlines to vacate land illegally occupied by government 

agencies and their other affiliated mafias. In one 

case, about 59,800 acres of government land had been 

occupied, adding that the encroachers included several 

government agencies including Housing as well as 

Development authorities. Out of the total 59,803 acres 

of the land that was encroached, 52,130 acres of land 

were under institutional encroachment. About 2,864 

acres of the land was retrieved sometime back. 

The courts had ordered the Sindh government to 

vacate all the encroached state land within a few months 

time. Another issue was more grave: Forest land measuring 

1,446.46 acres was vacated on the orders of the 

Supreme Court but was re- encroached by the influential 

persons. 

Effective legislation and its implementation to abolish 

illegal land mafia occupying minorities’ properties 

and trust land was also part of the problem. Serious concerns 

exist on the ineffective police investigation reports 

submitted before courts of law with regard to illegal 

land possession and the failure of administration to end 

illegal occupation of lands, especially of the weak segments 

in society. Because of ineffective laws the courts 

are giving stay orders for indefinite periods in these 

cases, which is causing delay in the provision of justice. 

Government's stance is to ensure that with the cooperation 

of the civil society, the officials are amending the 

existing laws especially the Illegal Possession Act, 

2005. Insecure urban land rights were open to fraud. 

This stresses for the importance of not only campaigning 

for better laws, but also better law enforcement in 

land governance with accountability. Laws, orders, recommendations 

and bylaws for reforms to overcome the 

issue of delayed justice with regard to the continuing 

and unending illegal possession cases is an urgent call to 

be honored and fulfilled on every scale and level, from 

lowest to the highest officials and authorities. 

Punishing the small criminals will solve only part of 

a very big problem and therefore big criminal land lords 

who illegally occupy land in this country can be brought 

to book. Some or the other official or department, 

leader or ministry have got to be patriotic enough to end 

illegal land and real estate occupation and to administer 

the land justly for progress and prosperity countrywide 

soonest. 

OPINION 

Americans must think, 

guns are a real problem 

Politicians must not duck the real issue behind mass shootings 

Trump's speech, as Vox's German Lopez 

observed, was "one giant lie by omission." Those 17 

people were killed by an AR-15, not by a knife or a 

sword or a bomb. But God forbid the president mention 

guns. Vox also noted that people with mental 

illness are more likely to be the victims, not the perpetrators, 

of violence. Yes, and if Trump cared so 

much about mental health, he wouldn't be proposing 

a $250 billion cut over a decade in Medicaid, which 

pays for more than 25 per cent of the nation's mental 

health care. 

Memo to the media: Stop saying in somber, serious 

tones that we must do more about mental health. 

This might well be true, but in the context of crimes 

such as those at Stoneman Douglas High, offering 

such sentiments is to be complicit in propaganda by 

pretending that a cover story is actually on the level. 

We should not have to point out over and over that 

while mental illness exists everywhere, other countries 

do not have killing sprees comparable to ours. 

Our political system is failing, first, because the 

Republican Party has become a paid agent of the 

gun manufacturers' lobby. The party of law and 

order cares about neither if doing so means causing 

the least disturbance to the National Rifle 

Association. This is where corruption comes in. 

One Republican politician after another who 

couldn't even utter the word "gun" following the 

Parkland horror turned out to have received millions 

from the NRA. And it's no wonder that 

Trump decided he cared so much about mental 

health. The organisation spent $30 million to 

defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. 

Aggravating our difficulty in regulating weapons 

is the vast overrepresentation of rural states in the 

US Senate, which makes some Democrats wary of 

taking on the NRA. This is another classic problem 

of failed regimes: Their structures are no longer 

capable of responding to current needs. 


Kashmir, the Joint 

Resistance Leadership, 

while lashing out at a 

protest march by the Hindu 

Ekta Manch in support of a 

special police officer 

involved in rape and murder 

of an eight-year-old 

girl, has warned of an agitation 

if the victimization 

of Jammu Muslims is not 

stopped. 


Media Service (KMS), 

Resistance leadership 

comprising Syed Ali 

Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar 

Farooq and Muhammad 

Yasin Malik in a joint 

statement in Srinagar said, 

“A rally by some Hindu 

chauvinists led by a BJP 

leader under the banner of 

India flag in support of a 

rapist and murderer of 

innocent eight-year-old 

Asifa with full police protection 

is a glaring example 

of how the Indian ruling 

regime has fallen with 

RAWALPINDI: The 

Benazir Bhutto Hospital 

doctors have totally 

ignored the directions of 

Provincial administration 

regarding duty timing as 

majority of patients at 

Hospital were facing problems 

in getting medical 

treatment because of nonavailability 

of doctors during 

duty timing. 

The sources have disclosed 

that even the 

provincial government 

established committees and 

hospital administration 

KATHUA: A view of the protests organised by the Hindu Ekta Manch. 

regard to humanity and 

ethics.” 

“It has also exposed the 

hypocritical politics of 

Mehbooba-led regime that 

in Kashmir does not tolerate 

any political program 

and imposes curfew, 

unleashes reign of terror 

against resistance camp 

and arrest political 

activists under black laws 

like Public Safety Act to 

have badly failed to make 

routine of hospital’s doctors.The 

Punjab government 

had issued directions 

that all government hospital’s 

OPD would be operated 

and provides medical 

treatment to patients from 

8am to 3pm without any 

break and it had also constituted 

committees for 

monitoring this. Sources 

stated that most of the doctors 

of Benazir Bhutto 

Hospital were not following 

the duty timings and 

came late as large number 

Patients face problems due to 

non-availability of doctors 

Bar President stresses 

need of urgent construction 

of judicial complex 


President Islamabad 

District Bar Association 

Riyasat Ali Azad said that 

problems being faced by 

the legal fraternity and 

courts wouldn’t be resolved 

without construction of 

judicial complex. 

While talking to “Online” 

on Saturday, he said that district 

courts are not dispensing 

justice because these 

were established on temporarily 

basis from day first. 

“Most of the courts are 

working in the shops of 

plazas of sector F-8 which is 

a matter of grave concern” 

he added. District administration 

had not paid the rents 

of vacated offices and shops. 

Consequently, these courts 

have defaulted. 

“We recognize it that 

lawyer’s chambers and 

courts setup in shops are illegal 

but the authorities concerned 

should think whether 

any venue or place is allocated 

for courts? If not, then 

what is its reason? Lawyers 

did not establish their chambers 

in football ground on 

his personal will. It is clear 

that this ground is made for 

our children but the judicial 

complex for lawyers and 

courts has not been constructed”, 

he reiterated. 

Responding a question, 

he stated we invite Chief 

Justice of Pakistan Mian 

Saqib Nisar to visit and see 

dilapidated condition of 

courts and lawyer’s chambers. 

Judges have constructed 

illegal rooms on the roofs 

of plazas to preserve the 

court record. He said that 

Chief Justice did good initiative 

of taking suo moto 

notice and would inform the 

CJ that National Disaster 

Management 

(NDMA) has declared that 

the building of existing court 

rooms can be collapsed anytime. 

Moreover due to dilapidated 

condition of these 

buildings some lady judges 

have refused to sit in these 

court rooms, he added. 

ISLAMABAD: Owing 

to growing number of car 

theft incidents in federal 

capital, the Inspector 

General Police has introduced 

a mobile application 

in collaboration with a private 

bank. 

The new procedure consists 

of QR code technology 

which is given the name 

of park securer. This 

android application has 

been started from 

Peshawar Mor to Sunday 

Bazar at first phase and it 

would be launched in few 

patients witnessed waiting 

outside the rooms. When 

inquire from them they 

claimed that that were providing 

treatment to all 

indoor patients on time. 

However the ground situation 

was telling other story. 

When “Online” contacted 

Medical Superintendent 

Admin Masood Safdar he 

stated that hospital’s OPD 

was working from 8am to 

3pm without any break and 

added they strictly following 

the directions of Punjab 

government in this regard. 

Capital police introduces 

Mobile application 

days across the district. 

Application would issue 

QR coupon to all vehicles 

entering in public parking. 

Complete details of vehicle 

would include on this tag. 

The owners of the vehicle 

would give this coupon 

to police officer while leaving 

the parking area. The 

police officer would scan 

this coupon through mobile 

and fulfilling all requirements 

concerned police 

officer would allow the 

vehicle to leave the parking 

venue. 

ISLAMABAD: A traffic police personnel uses a speedometer 

to check the speed of vehicles at Jinnah Avenue. Over 

the last few months, traffic police personnel are seen less 

using speedometers to check the speed on vehicles. 

act. They said daughter of 

Eve was murdered by brutal 

hands and government 

was unable to punish those 

wicked persons. 

They said atrocities and 

inhuman act was scoring 

day by day with assistance 

of government representatives 

and Influential but 

law remained silent. They 

prevent such programs but 

on other hand provides full 

police protection to an 

anti-human rally by fascist 

forces in Jammu,” the 

statement said. 

The leaders termed the 

rally a slap on the face of 

the entire humanity. 

“This rally was led by 

BJP leader, which is actually 

a glaring proof of the 

fascist mindset of the ruling 

class in India and 

Jammu and Kashmir,” the 

statement added. 

The JRL said, “By this 

act of utmost shamelessness 

these fascists have 

clearly shown that for their 

religious fantasy they can 

stoop to any extent 

because honor and dignity 

of women and life of a 

human holds no value for 

them.” 

Yasin Malik 

pays tributes to 

Dr. Farooq Ashai 


Kashmir, Jammu 

Kashmir Liberation Front 

(JKLF) Chairman, 

Muhammad Yasin Malik 

has paid rich tributes to 

slain doctor Farooq Ahmad 

Ashai, saying that he was a 

great soul who throughout 

his life stood for the cause 

of freedom and justice. 


Media Service, 

Muhammad Yasin Malik, 

who is currently undergoing 

treatment at Soura 

Medical Complex, in a 

statement said, “Martyr Dr 

Ashai always remained 

steadfast while fighting for 

the human rights of 

Kashmiris and as a doctor 

he always cared for his 

patients.” 

“Kashmiri struggle for 

freedom is adorned with the 

sacred blood of martyrs’ 

life and hence no earthly 

power can defeat this struggle,” 

Yasin Malik said. 

GB govt to set up 

10 girls’ schools 

in Diamer: Hafeez 

ISLAMABAD: Gilgit- 

Baltistan (GB) Chief 

Minister Hafiz Hafeez-ur- 

Rehman has said that CPEC 

and Diamer Bhasha Dam 

projects will put the entire 

region and Gilgit-Baltistan 

on the path of economic 

development. 

This he said while talking 

to a delegation of 

Diamer Press Club who 

called on him in Islamabad. 

The Chief Minister said 

establishment of Karakorum 

International University 

(KIU) campus and Chilas 

Cadet College in Diamer 

will pave way for promotion 

of education in the region. 

Sindhiani Tehreek Badin stages 

protest against honor's killing 

Staff Reporter 

BADIN: Sindhiani 

Tehreek & Awami Tehreek 

Badin staged protest 

demonstration against 

honor's killing, ill and 

biased customs and atrocities. 

The demonstration 

which was began from 

Kazia Canal bridge and 

concluded at Badin Press 

Club was led by Marvi 

Gopang, president, 

Sindhiani Tehreek, Jakhro 

Nuhani, president, Awami 

Authority Tehreek Badin, Advocate 

Kamran Lakho and others. 

Addressing the gathering 

representatives said by 

promoting Jirga system, 

feudal phenomena and 

influential aspects women 

of Sindh were behaved 

with inhuman and vicious 

said despite of various 

protests government and 

concerned departments 

were unable to take stern 

action against Jirga and 

feudal system in Sindh 

province. They demanded 

stern action against Jirga 

system and feudal system 

for their inhuman and 

dreadful act and practice. 

BADIN: Sindhiyani Tahreek Protest at Badin.

Israeli PM sends condolences 

over Iran plane crash 

Over 600,000 Melbournians enjoy 

White Night’s Light Shows 

Dr SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

MELBOURNE: More 

than 600,000 people have 

turned out in Melbourne to 

be thrilled by the spectacular 

White Night event. It is 

the sixth time the spectacle 

has been held in the city, 

which sees the CBD flooded 

by crowds. 

Roads were closed from 

around Federation Square 

on the Yarra River, all the 

SOFIA: Hundreds of farright 

extremists marched 

through the center of Sofia 

on Saturday to honor a 

Bulgarian general who led a 

pro-Nazi organization in the 

1930s and 1940s. 

The march, which has 

raised concern in local 

media about the rise of the 

right wing in the Balkan 

state, went ahead despite 

international condemnation. 

It included a torchlight 

procession by youths in 

dark clothing and the laying 

of wreaths at the former 

home of General Hristo 

Lukov, a leader of the pro- 

Nazi Union of Bulgarian 

Legions in the 1930s and 

1940s. 

The Sofia municipality 

initially banned the event, 

but its decision was overturned 

in court. Sofia Mayor 

way to Carlton Park, so 

people could stroll along 

and enjoy the show. 

White Night artistic 

director David Atkins said 

he was thrilled by the 

turnout, and pleased there 

were not as many crowd 

bottlenecks as in past years. 

"(I'm) surprised by the 

size of the crowd but also 

what was interesting was 

that it was so spread 

through the entire 

precinct," he said. 

Yordanka Fandukova 

repeatedly said the procession 

“has no place in our 

city”. 

Critics said the procession 

would overshadow 

government efforts to present 

the ex-communist 

Balkan state, which joined 

the EU in 2007, as a progressive 

and open-minded 

country at a time when 

Bulgaria holds the bloc’s 

rotating presidency. 

The government, the 

country’s largest political 

parties and several Jewish 

organizations including the 

World Jewish Congress all 

called for the march to be 

suspended, while an international 

petition against it 

gathered more than 178,000 

signatures. 

The U.S. embassy in 

Sofia said in a statement that 

"The parklands received 

a really big crowd as well 

so it was evenly distributed 

which made the pedestrian 

traffic move really well." 

Among the highlights 

were special light shows 

projected onto iconic 

Melbourne buildings, like 

the Exhibition Hall. 

Another favorite was a 

massive sculpture, called 

The Serpent Mother, which 

put on a show by spitting 

huge pillars of flame into 

Far-right extremists march in Sofia 

to honor pro-Nazi general 

FORT LAUD- 

ERDALE: A student survivor 

of the Parkland 

school shooting called out 

US President Donald 

Trump on Saturday over 

his ties to the powerful 

National Rifle 

Association, in a poignant 

address to an anti-gun 

rally in Florida. 

“To every politician 

taking donations from the 

NRA, shame on you!” 

said Emma Gonzalez, 

assailing Trump over the 

multi-million-dollar support 

his campaign 

received from the gun 

lobby — and prompting 

the crowd to chant in turn: 

“Shame on you!” 

Wednesday’s massacre, 

which claimed 17 

lives at Marjory 

Stoneman Douglas High 

School, has fueled urgent 

calls for an end to the 

national deadlock over 

gun control — with a 

string of shooting survivors 

rallying behind the 

cause. 

The gunman, 19-yearold 

Nikolas Cruz, was 

able to legally buy an 

assault rifle despite a history 

of troubling and violent 

behavior. 

In Washington, however, 

the political response 

has made clear that the 

powerful NRA pro-gun 

lobby remains formidable, 

while Trump himself 

suggested the root cause 

of mass shootings was a 

crisis of mental health — 

it was “saddened and troubled 

to see the display of 

intolerance represented by 

the Lukov March”. 

“General Hristo Lukov 

was a Nazi supporter who 

promoted hate and injustice, 

and is not someone deserving 

of veneration,” the 

embassy said. 

Far-right groups from 

several European countries, 

including Germany, 

Sweden, Hungary and 

Estonia joined the marchers, 

calling themselves 

Bulgarian nationalists and 

describing Lukov as a 

“Bulgarian war hero”. 

the air. The piece has featured 

at numerous Burning 

Man festivals in the United 

States, and pulled a large 

crowd in Melbourne. 

Many families were in 

attendance for the first few 

hours of the evening, 

before tired children forced 

parents home. 

Late at night, many were 

still lining up to get into 

buildings like the State 

Library, which featured 

entertainment. 

Victoria Police said they 

were pleased with the 

crowd's behavior at the 

event, with no major incidents 

or serious injuries, 

and only 31 people were 

arrested for a range of 

offences including assault 

and robbery. 

Atkins said organizers 

were excited and relieved 

the event had been a success 

in its sixth year. 

Careem to trial 

food delivery 

in Middle East 

DUBAI: Careem, a 

Middle East competitor to 

Uber Technologies 

[UBER.UL], said on Sunday 

it had acquired RoundMenu 

and would start trialing food 

delivery services through the 

restaurant listing and reservation 

online platform this 

month. 

The Dubai-based ride 

hailing firm acquired the 

website and app for an 

undisclosed sum. 

“Careem will begin testing 

a delivery capability for 

RoundMenu customers on a 

small scale later this month,” 

it said in a statement to 

Reuters. 

RoundMenu has a presence 

in 18 cities across nine 

Arab countries, including 

Saudi Arabia, the United 

Arab Emirates, and Egypt, 

according to its website. 

There is demand for 

delivery services in the 

Middle East, particularly in 

the Gulf Arab states where 

temperatures can soar above 

50 degrees in the summer. 

MUNICH: Israeli Prime 

Minister Benjamin 

Netanyahu on Sunday 

offered his condolences 

over the 66 people killed in 

an Iranian plane crash, just 

moments after he launched 

a blistering attack on 

Tehran’s government. 

“I take this opportunity 

to send condolences to the 

families of the 66 civilians 

that lost their lives in the 

plane accident today,” 

Netanyahu said at the 

Munich Security 

Conference. 

“We have no quarrel 

with the people of Iran, only 

with the regime that torments 

them,” he added. 

Earlier in his fiery 

speech, the premier warned 

Tehran not to “test Israel’s 

resolve” as tensions 

between the arch enemies 

have reached fresh heights 

over Iran’s activities in 

Syria. Israel fears that Iran, 

which is supporting Syrian 

President Bashar al-Assad’s 

regime, is seeking to 

entrench itself militarily 

next door. 

Officials said an Iranian 

passenger plane on a 

domestic flight crashed into 

the country’s Zagros mountains 

Sunday, killing all 66 

people on board. 

SRK turns down 

Sanjay Leela 

Bhansali’s films 

BOLLYWOOD: Shah 

Rukh Khan and Sanjay 

Leela Bhansali gave a 

spectacular film Devdas in 

2002. Since then, fans have 

been waiting for the two to 

collaborate again. 

Reportedly, SRK has 

turned down offers to star 

in Bhansali’s films. 

Last year, SRK revealed 

that Bhansali offered him 

two scripts and he was not 

sure which one he will be 

doing. However, as reported 

by a leading daily, Shah 

Rukh Khan has turned 

down SLB’s films. A 

source told the daily, “Shah 

Rukh is not doing Sanjay’s 

film anymore. They had 

several meetings to discuss 

the scripts in hand last year, 

but nothing really worked 

out. SRK politely turned 

down the movies that were 

offered to him.” 

But Shah Rukh and 

Bhansali are still good 

friends even though the 

superstar turned down the 

offers. The source adds, 

“SLB and SRK are both 

extremely professional. 

They don’t let work affect 

their personal equation. 

They are good friends and 

they remain so. They have 

promised to work together 

on something very soon.” 

The Swades actor is currently 

busy with Aanand L 

Rai’s Zero. 

GAZA CITY: Israeli 

jets struck the Gaza Strip 

on Saturday after four soldiers 

were wounded when 

an improvised explosive 

device blew up along the 

border with the Palestinian 

enclave. 

The explosion earlier 

Saturday, which left two of 

the Israeli soldiers severely 

injured, was one of the 

most serious incidents on 

the border of the Hamasruled 

enclave since the 

Islamist movement and 

Israel fought a war in 

2014. 

In response Israel’s 

army said “fighter jets targeted 

6 military targets in 

LONDON: British actor 

Robert Pattinson does not 

believe in true love, he said 

at the Berlin Film Festival 

on Friday, in contrast to the 

lovestruck pioneer he portrays 

in the western comedy 

period film “Damsel”. 

Directed by David and 

Nathan Zellner, “Damsel” 

stars Pattinson as the 

wealthy Samuel Alabaster 

who traverses the Wild 

West in search of his love 

Penelope, played by 

Australian actress Mia 

Wasikowska. 

“Do I believe in true, 

pure love? No. No, I think 


International 

it‘s, yeah, I mean it’s obviously 

more complicated,” 

he said at a news conference 

after the screening. 

5 

I don’t believe in true love, 

says Twilight star 

AJMER: Rescuers discovered 

nine more bodies 

Sunday beneath the ruins 

of a Indian hotel, bringing 

the known death toll from 

an explosion which tore 

through a wedding party to 

18, an official said. 

A gas cylinder exploded 

late Friday at the hotel in 

the city of Beawar, in the 

western state of Rajasthan, 

reducing the venue to ruins 

and sparking a huge fire. 

By Saturday evening 

officials said nine bodies 

had been found. 

But the figure rose 

sharply Sunday as rescue 

teams, aided by the army, 

found nine more victims 

including women and children 

under rubble. 

"So far 18 bodies have 

“Damsel” is one of 19 

films competing for the 

festival’s Golden Bear 

award. 

18 killed in gas cylinder 

explosion at Indian wedding 

SANTIAGO JAMILTE- 

PEC/Mexico: At least 13 

people on the ground, 

including three children, 

were killed when a Mexican 

military helicopter carrying 

top officials surveying damage 

from an earthquake 

crashed in a small town in 

the southern state of Oaxaca, 

authorities said. 

The helicopter, which 

was carrying Mexico’s interior 

minister and the state 

governor, crashed on top of 

Gaza belonging to Hamas, 

including: a terror tunnel 

in the Zaytun area and military 

compounds near Deir 

el-Balah and Khan Yunis”. 

The army then reported 

a “launch was identified 

from the Gaza Strip at 

making no mention of 

gun control. 

“If the president wants 

to come up to me and tell 

me to my face that it was a 

terrible tragedy and… 

how nothing is going to be 

done about it, I’m going to 

happily ask him how 

much money he received 

from the National Rifle 

Association,” said 

Gonzalez. 

“It doesn’t matter 

because I already know. 

Thirty million,” she told 

the rally attended by fellow 

students, parents and 

local officials, citing the 

sum spent by the NRA to 

support Trump’s election 

bid and defeat Hillary 

Clinton. 

Dividing that sum by 

two vans in an open field 

while trying to land at night 

in Santiago Jamiltepec after 

a tour of damage from 

Friday’s powerful quake. 

The senior officials survived 

but 12 people at the 

scene were killed and another 

died later in a hospital, 

Oaxaca’s attorney general’s 

office said in a statement. 

Another 15 people were 

injured. Luis Cabrera, a civil 

protection official at the 

scene, said authorities were 

Israeli territory”. 

Prime Minister 

Benjamin Netanyahu at a 

security conference in 

Munich called the Gaza 

border incident “very serious” 

and pledged to 

“respond appropriately”. 

the number of shooting 

victims in the United 

States so far this year, 

Gonzalez asked: “Is that 

how much these people 

are worth to you, 

Trump?” 

The young woman’s 

powerful address immediately 

went viral, with her 

name a top trending topic 

on Twitter. 

The US leader also 

tweeted a day after the 

massacre that that neighbors 

and fellow students 

had failed to flag Cruz to 

the authorities. 

“We did,” Gonzalez 

said, her shaking with 

emotion. “Time and time 

again. Since he was in 

middle school. It was no 

surprise to anyone who 

been recovered," said 

Gaurav Goyal, a senior 

administrative official in 

Ajmer, the district where 

the blast occurred, about 

200 kilometres from the 

state capital Jaipur. 

"Five seriously injured 

people, with severe burn 

injuries, are being treated 

in hospital," he told AFP. 

Recovery teams were 

sifting through mangled 

heaps of concrete and 

steel, removing victims on 

stretchers covered with 

white sheets. 

The blast all but levelled 

the three-storey hotel 

where a wedding was 

underway. Eyewitnesses 

told local broadcaster 

NDTV the explosion 

occurred as a chef tried to 

refill a cooking canister. 

Mexico helicopter crash kills 13 

on ground in wake of earthquake 

still investigating the cause 

of the crash. 

The 7.2 magnitude quake 

knocked out electricity in 

Santiago Jamiltepec, about 

28 miles (45 km) from the 

tremor’s epicenter, leaving 

the town in darkness Friday 

night. 

A journalist on board the 

flight told local TV that the 

helicopter had flown in over 

a clearing next to homes, 

raising a huge dust cloud 

before it crash landed. 

Israel strikes Gaza after blast wounds four soldiers 

A Palestinian security 

source said the Israeli air 

strikes hit three bases 

belonging to Hamas in the 

east of the blockaded Gaza 

enclave. 

Two Palestinians were 

injured in the raids, 

Palestinian medical 

sources said. 

Earlier in the day the 

army said “two soldiers 

were severely wounded, 

one moderately and one 

slightly” when an improvised 

explosive device 

blew up along the border 

fence with Gaza. 

None of the soldiers 

lives were in danger, a 

spokesman clarified. 

‘Shame on you!’ student tells Trump at Florida anti-gun rally 

knew him to hear that he 

was the shooter.” US 

authorities have come 

under mounting scrutiny 

for failing to act on a 

series of warning signs. 

The FBI admitted 

Friday it received a chilling 

warning in January 

from a tipster who said 

Cruz could be planning a 

mass shooting, but that 

agents failed to follow up. 

Cruz was also known 

to local police after his 

mother repeatedly called 

them over his violent outbursts, 

while records 

obtained by the South 

Florida Sun Sentinel 

show welfare services 

investigated Cruz after he 

cut his arms and said he 

wanted to buy a gun.


6 

Back to 

School 

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Story Time 

The hungry fox who got caught in the tree trunk 

The hungry fox who got caught in the tree trunk 

Once upon a time, there was a hungry fox that was 

looking for something to eat. He was very hungry. No 

matter how hard he tried, the fox could not find food. 

Finally he went to the edge of the forest and searched 

there for food. Suddenly he caught sight of a big tree 

with a hole in it. 

Inside the hole was a package. The hungry fox 

immediately thought that there might be food in it, and 

became very happy. He jumped into the hole. When he 

opened the package, he saw slices of bread, meat and 

fruit in it! 

An old woodcutter had placed the food in the tree trunk before he began to cut down 

trees in the forest. He was going to eat it for his lunch. 

The fox happily began to eat. After he finished eating, he felt thirsty and decided to 

leave the hole and drink some water from a nearby spring. However, no matter how hard 

he tried, he could not get out of the hole. Do you know why? Yes, the fox had eaten so 

much food that he became too big to fit through the hole! 

The fox was very sad and upset. He told himself, “I wish I had thought a little before 

jumping into the hole.” 

Yes children, this is the result of doing something without thinking about it first. 

Gorillas can't swim 

• Pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a 

single meal 

• Gorillas can't swim 

• House cats have 18 claws 

• Giraffes can't cough 

• The Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body 

through a hole the size of its beak 

• Deers don't like hay 

• Shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females 

• The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn 

each day 

• There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos 

• The average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years 

• A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day 

• Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle 

• Spiders have transparent blood 

• Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to 

brunettes 

• Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey 

• March 14 is 'save a spider day' 

• All the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube 

• There are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs 

• A fly's recation time is 30 milliseconds 

• Butterflies taste with their back feet 

• Moths have no stomach 

• Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second 

• Bees have 4 wings 

• The most eaten fruit in America is the banana 

• The ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine 

and not a food 

• Originally in 1886 Coca Cola was introduced as an 

'intellectual beverage' to boost brain power 

• Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii 

• The frozen foods were first introduced in the 1920. 

• The color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat 

(usually the smaller the the hotter) 

Alarm rings: such a clang! 

Such a contraption invented! 

With such a nasty bang 

Is my day started! 

No sleeping in anymore, 

Meandering in dreamland; 

Alas! No curling up anymore, 

This is reality land! 

A whirlwind of activities, 

Blurring my morning, 

Ending in curses, 

As my school bus doors slam. 

I feel like a zombie, 

Riding the school bus; 

A walking, dreaming zombie, 

Inhabiting the school bus. 

I follow the lot, 

Into the cubicles; 

As though smoking pot, 

My brain swirls. 

Thus is the school year begun, 

Thus it shall end! 

When will some sense dawn, 

Such cruelty to end? 

Proboscis Monkey 

It may seem hard to believe, but male proboscis monkeys 

use their fleshy, pendulous noses to attract mates. 

Scientists think these outsize organs create an echo 

chamber that amplifies the monkey’s call, impressing 

Fun Facts 

Type.........................................Mammal 

Diet..........................................Omnivore 

Size..........................................24 to 28 

Weight......................................Up to 50 lbs 

(23 to kg) (males) 

Group name..............................Harem or band 

Relative.................................Size relative to a 

6-ft (2-m) man 

Colour me 

females and intimidating rival males. 

Proboscis monkeys are endemic to the jungles of 

Borneo, never straying far from the island’s rivers, coastal 

mangroves, and swamps. They are a highly arboreal 

species and will venture onto land only occasionally to 

search for food. They live in organized harem groups consisting 

of a dominant male and two to seven females and 

their offspring. Various groups often congregate near water 

at night to sleep. 

Proboscis monkeys are the primate world’s most prolific 

swimmers, frequently leaping from tree limbs and hitting 

the water with a comical belly flop. They’ve evolved 

webbed feet and hands to help them outpace the crocodiles 

that are some of their main predators. 

Among the largest of Asia’s monkeys, male proboscis 

specimens can reach 50 pounds (23 kilograms), although 

females attain only about half that size. Adults wear a coat 

of light brown fur that turns red around the head and shoulders 

and gray at the arms, legs, and tail. Only males develop 

the namesake nose. 

Proboscis monkeys survive mainly on a diet of leaves, 

seeds, and unripe fruits but will occasionally consume 

insects as well. They have complex, chambered stomachs 

that rely on a host of symbiotic bacteria for digestion. 

Unfortunately, Borneo’s most threatened landscapes are 

home to these highly specialized primates. The rampant 

clearing of the region’s rain forests for timber, settlement, 

and oil palm plantations has depleted huge tracts of their 

habitat. The fragmentation of the monkeys' range means 

they are being forced to descend from the trees more frequently 

and often must travel perilously long distances to 

find food. Their land predators include jaguars and some 

native peoples who consider proboscis monkey a delicacy. 

Over the last 40 years, proboscis monkey populations 

have plummeted. They are currently protected from hunting 

or capture in Borneo and are listed as an endangered 

species.


Sportlight 

7 

England nick win but Munro's 

charge takes New Zealand into final 

HAMILTON: New 

Zealand lost, but they won 

the bigger prize. There will 

be a Trans-Tasman 

rematch in the tri-series 

final at Eden Park after the 

home side did enough to 

stay ahead of England on 

net run rate. Colin Munro's 

18-ball fifty, his third sub 

20-ball half-century, gave 

New Zealand breathing 

space as they hunted 175 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: The crucial 

matches played at the Lahore 

Polo Club (LPC) ground, set 

the finals between 

Rizvi’s/Master Paints against 

Army Whites. The heroics of 

Hamza Mawaz Khan and 

Juan Cruz Losada helped 

Rizvi’s/Master Paints set 

main final clash against 

Army Whites after they outlasted 

Barry’s by 6-3½ in the 

Spring Polo Cup 2018 crucial 

match played at the 

Lahore Polo Club (LPC) 

ground. 

Both Hamza and Losada 

were superb with sticks and 

ponies and outclassed their 

to ensure their progress, 

although Tom Curran held 

his nerve in the final over 

to earn victory as an enjoyable 

T20 encounter was 

decided off the final ball. 

England, pointless 

coming into this match and 

needing to win by a margin 

of at least 20 runs after 

being put in, had given 

themselves a chance with a 

strong batting performance 

opponents in all the departments. 

Both the heroes 

pumped in three tremendous 

goals each to guide 

Rizvi’s/Master Paints to an 

impressive victory. From the 

losing side, which had one 

and half goal handicap 

advantage, Tito Ruiz Gunazo 

scored both the goals but his 

efforts were futile in the end. 

The match started with a 

beautiful goal by Hamza off 

a spot penalty which gave 

Rizvi’s 1-0 lead, but it was 

soon equalized by Tito Ruiz 

Gunazo, who fired a field 

goal to draw the blood at 1-1. 

In the dying moments of the 

first chukker, Losada banged 

in a field goal to give Rizvi’s 

2-1 edge once again. The 

anchored around Eoin 

Morgan's most convincing 

innings of the tour and 

another half-century from 

Dawid Malan. However, 

the early overs with the 

ball were horrid - feeding 

Munro's strength on his 

pads - and by the end of 

the Powerplay, New 

Zealand had 77 on the 

board. Martin Guptill's 

fine form continued with a 

Spring Polo Cup 2018: Day 5 

second chukker was fully 

dominated by Rizvi’s, who 

pumped in three back-toback 

goals to take healthy 5- 

1 lead. Hamza this time contributed 

with two goals and 

Losada one. Only goal of the 

third chukker was converted 

by Nafees Barry, which 

reduced the margin to 5-2. 

The last goal of the chukker 

came from high-flying 

Losada, who fired another 

field goal to further enhance 

Rizvi’s lead to 6-2, which 

remained intact till the final 

hooter. With one and half 

goal handicap for Barry’s, 

Rizvi’s/Master Paints won 

the match by 6-3½. 

Eulogio Celestino and 

Major Omer Minhas supervised 

the match as field 

umpires while Miguel Luis 

Duggan was match referee. 

The second encounter of 

the day saw Newage/Guard 

Group overpowering Master 

Paints Black by 8½-5. 

Salvador Ulloa emerged as 

star of the day for 

Newage/Guard Group by firing 

fantastic four goals while 

Taimur Ali Malik hammered 

a hat-trick and Raja Arslan 

Najeeb contributed one. 

47-ball 62 and Mark 

Chapman helped ensure 

New Zealand did the minimum 

they needed, but 21 

off the last two overs 

proved a little too much 

despite Chapman being 

dismissed off a no-ball by 

Chris Jordan. 

It was New Zealand's 

start that mattered. Munro 

clobbered seven sixes 

inside the fielding restrictions 

as David Willey and 

Curran were especially 

guilty of getting their lines 

wrong. The grass banks 

from deep backward 

square round to long-on 

were well peppered, those 

fans in sponsor shirts trying 

to earn NZD50,000 

with a catch given a few 

chances. One punter did 

win, during England's 

innings. 

CHOLISTAN: The car of Pakistan People’s Party MPA 

Sindh Nadir Magsi was overturned on Sunday during 

Cholistan Jeep rally but luckily, he remained unhurt. 

According to reports, the PPP leader’s jeep overturned at 

the track of 180 kilometers but the former champion of the 

Cholistan Jeep Rally remained unhurt. 

In another incident in the rally, two motorcyclists collided 

with each other, causing injuries to two people.The incident 

occurred due to absence of barrier on the track. The 

injured were shifted to the nearby hospital. It is pertinent to 

mention here that the four day desert rally is continuing at 

Cholistan and 90 drivers are taking part in the competition 

including foreign drivers from Canada and Thailand. 

KARACHI: Minister of Information, Transport and Labor 

Nasir Hussain Shah was the Chief Guest at the Opening 

Ceremony of Karachi Youth Festival 2017-18. He spoke to 

the crowd towards the end of the festival. He said that all 

of the attendees should take ownership of the festival 

since this has been organized for you all. Your participation 

will ensure its success and encourage Arts Council 

to continue with their efforts. He ended by wishing Arts 

Council and everybody all the very best for the festival. 

KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah addressing the Karachi Kings Send Off 

Ceremony at New Nazimabad. 

Nadir Magsi’ vehicle 

2nd National Schools & Colleges 

overturns in Jeep rally 

Girls Throwball C’ship 2018 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: The 2nd 

National Schools & 

Colleges Girls Throwball 

Championship 2018 for 

U-14 & U-19, was held at 

The City School Lahore 

Gulberg III, Lahore. In 

total 16 Schools & 

Colleges Girls Throwball 

Teams participated in this 

event from Karachi, 

Hyderabad. Quetta, 

Lahore and Islamabad. 

The final day concluded 

with the 1st position 

laurels going to DA Phase 

IV Defense, Karachi in U- 

19 category and to Hira 

School, Baluchistan in the 

U-14 category. 

In the closing ceremony 

the winners received 

the following Cash prizes: 

Winners U-19 & U14 

Teams: Rs. 100000. 

Runner Up Teams: Rs. 

50, 000. 

Third Position Teams: 

Rs. 20, 000. 

Additional Trophies, 

Medals, Certificates and 

Gift Hamper's were also 

awarded to the team 

Managers and Coaches. 

Mr. Maqbool Arain, 

Secretary, Pakistan 

Throwball Federation 

announced that the 3rd 

National Schools and 

Colleges Throwball 

Championship 2019, will 

be held at at Pakistan 

Sports Board, Islamabad. 

The category wise 

detailed results were: 

U-19 Category: 

First 3 Final Positions: 

1st. DA Phase IV 

Defense, Karachi. 

2nd. The City 

Darakhshan Campus, 

Karachi. 

3rd. Govt. Shah Latif 

Girls 

College, 

Hyderabad. 

Final Match: 

DA Phase IV Defence, 

Karachi beat The City 

School Darakhshan 

Campus, Karachi Set 

score: 2-1. 

Third Position Match: 

Govt. Latifabad Shah 

Latif Girls College 

Hyderabad beat 

Beaconhouse Defense 

Campus, Lahore … Set 

score: 2-0. 

U-14 Category: 

First 3 Final Positions: 

1st. Hira School, 

Baluchistan. 

2nd. The City School 

Shalimar, Lahore. 

3rd. Dapus Seaview 

School, Karachi. 

Final Match: 

Hira School 

Baluchistan beat The City 

School Shalimar Lahore. 

Set score 2-1. 

Third Position Match: 

Dapus Sea View 

School, Karachi beat The 

City School Ravi Campus 

… Set score 2-1. 

Saudi women to start own 

business without male permission 

LAHORE: 

MUMBAI: India’s City 

Union Bank said on Sunday 

that “cyber criminals” had 

hacked its systems and transferred 

nearly $2 million 

through three unauthorised 

remittances to lenders overseas 

via the SWIFT financial 

platform. 

RIYADH: Women in Saudi 

Arabia can now open their own 

businesses without the consent of a 

husband or male relative, as the 

kingdom pushes to expand a fastgrowing 

private sector. 

The policy change, announced 

by the Saudi government on 

Thursday, also marks a major step 

away from the strict guardianship 

system that has ruled the country 

for decades. 

“Women can now launch their 

own businesses and benefit from 

(governmental) e-services without 

having to prove consent from a 

guardian,” the ministry of commerce 

and investment said on its 

website. Under Saudi Arabia’s 

guardianship system, women are 

required to present proof of permission 

from a male “guardian” — normally 

the husband, father or brother 

— to do any government paperwork, 

travel or enrol in classes. 

Long dependent on crude production 

for economic revenue, 

Saudi Arabia is pushing to expand 

the country’s private sector, including 

an expansion of female 

employment under a reform plan 

for a post-oil era. 

Suffered cyber hack via SWIFT 

system: CEO City Union Bank India 

The comments come 

after the small private lender 

on Saturday had disclosed it 

had discovered the three 

“fraudulent remittances”, 

which were sent via correspondent 

banks to accounts 

in Dubai, Turkey and China. 

Chief Executive Officer 

TORONTO: A man using a mobile phone passes the logo 

of global secure financial messaging services cooperative 

SWIFT at the SIBOS banking and financial conference 

in Canada. –File Photo 

N Kamakodi called it a “conspiracy” 

involving multiple 

countries, and added the 

lender was still investigating 

how it had happened. 

“This is basically a cyber 

attack by international cyber 

criminals,” he told Reuters in 

a phone interview. 

Kamakodi added they 

saw “so far no evidence of 

any internal staff involvement,” 

but said, “we are very 

clear now the account holders 

are part of this conspiracy.” 

The disclosure from 

City Bank comes as India 

has been gripped by an 

announcement by Punjab 

National Bank earlier this 

week that it had been the victim 

of a $1.7 billion fraud, 

although that case is suspected 

to involve the transfer of 

unauthorised loans from 

bank employees. 

While women still face a host of 

restrictions in the ultraconservative 

Muslim kingdom, Saudi Arabia’s 

public prosecutor’s office this 

month said it would begin recruiting 

women investigators for the 

first time. The kingdom has also 

opened 140 positions for women at 

airports and border crossings, a historic 

first that the government said 

drew 107,000 female applicants. 

Crown Prince Mohammed bin 

Salman, the powerful heir to the 

Saudi throne, has been leading the 

drive to expand the role of women 

in the workforce in recent months. 

His father, King Salman, in 

September approved the end of a 

decades-long ban on driving, 

which goes into effect in June. 

The 32-year-old prince pledged a 

“moderate, open” Saudi Arabia in 

October, breaking with ultra-conservative 

clerics in favour of an image 

catering to foreign investors and 

Saudi youth. Prince Mohammed is 

widely seen as the chief architect 

behind Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 

2030” reform programme, which 

seeks to elevate the percentage of 

women in the work force from 22 

percent to nearly one-third. 

C’wealth business forum in UK 

in April, PFC to participate 

LAHORE: Pakistan Commonwealth can help 

Furniture Council (PFC) to unlock, the intra 

will send a high powered Commonwealth trade 

furniture producers delegation 

potential, especially postpate 

to UK to partici- 

Brexit” he added. 

in Commonwealth “To reap the benefits 

Business Forum 2018 of our common heritage 

being organized by we need to capitalise on 

C o m m o n w e a l t h the Commonwealth’s 

Enterprises and trade advantage. The 

Investment Council i n t r a - C o m m o n w e a l t h 

(CWEIC) from 16 to 18 trade advantage which 

April on the sidelines of 

Commonwealth Heads of 

currently stands at 19 percent 

has the potential to 

Government Meeting be enhanced a great 

(CHOGM). 

In a statement issued 

deal,” adding he said in 

this regard, PFC business 

here Sunday, PFC chief tour would provide a 

Mian Kashif Ashfaq said chance to explore new 

Pakistan attaches great avenues by sharing 

importance to its relations 

with the Commonwealth 

being one of the founding 

members. “It is high time 

we begin to explore the 

vision, expertise for formulation 

of future policies, 

economic studies, 

sectoral and project specific 

reports besides promotional 

opportunities that the efforts. 

A high level 

delegation of SAARC 

Chamber Pakistan chapter 

will participate in the 

forthcoming 3-days “6th 

SAARC Business Leaders 

Conclave” commencing 

from March 16 at 

Kathmandu, Nepal to promote 

trade among member 

countries and explore 

investment avenues. 

Vice President SAARC 

Chamber Iftikhar Ali 

Malik in a statement issued 

here Sunday that this mega 

event will bring together 

the region’s economic and 

business thinkers, doers 

and change makers on a 

one common platform to 

discuss ,debate and evolve 

solutions and generate 

opportunities to take South 

Asia on the path of shared 

prosperity through economic 

integration. 

He said that event will 

also feature interactive discussion 

and deliberations 

between torchbearers and 

influential leaders of South 

Asian economy. He further 

said that they would 

bring the issue of reduction 

of their respective sensitive 

lists under discussion 

so that volume of trade 

would be increased manifold 

times under SAFTA in 

Biz 

SAARC Chamber delegation to participate 

in business leaders conclave in Kathmandu 

JEDDAH: The Jeddah 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry (JCCI) has asked 

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of 

Labor and Social 

Development (MLSD) to 

cancel expat levy for firms 

that have equal number of 

Saudis and expat workers, 

reported Saudi Gazette. 

This is part of seven 

recommendations sent by 

the JCCI to the ministry in 

South Asian region. He 

said Pakistan under the 

dynamic leadership of 

Prime Minister Shahid 

Khaqan Abbasi would continue 

its work for boosting 

trade in the region and 

would remove all hurdles 

in the way of free trade. 

He further said that 

Pakistan is keen to 

increase trade activities 

with other countries.He 

added that SAARC countries 

would have to work 

jointly for the elimination 

of poverty, peace and prosperity, 

for which trade 

among SAARC countries 

is essential. 

Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry wants expat levy cancelled 

a report. 

It said that expat levy 

should not be collected for 

the remaining work permit 

period after an expat has 

been sent on an exit visa. 

The report said that companies 

should not be held 

accountable for the nonpayment 

of dependents’ fee 

by expat workers. If the 

ministry wants to take 

action, it should stop renewing 

the documents of the 

dependents of expat workers 

who fail to pay the fee. 

From January this year, 

the government started collecting 

SR400 per month 

per expat worker for companies 

where expats outnumber 

Saudis and SR300 

per month per expat worker 

for companies where expats 

and Saudis are in equal 

number. 

KARACHI: People are busy in shopping at the Birds Market in Liaquatabad number 10.

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Gwadar port, CPEC projects to open 

new vista of prosperity: Kh Asif 

KHANPUR: 

SIALKOT: Foreign 

Minister Khawaja 

Muhammad Asif on 

Sunday said the government 

was utilizing all 

available resources to 

improve means of communications 

evenly in 

urban and rural areas of 

the country. 

Addressing the laptop 

distribution ceremony at 

Government College for 

Women University, he said 

the basic concept for 

improving means of communications, 

was to bring 

far-off and neglected areas 

at par with the developed 

parts of the country. 

The Foreign Minister 

said the mega project of 

China Pakistan Economic 

Corridor (CPEC) would 

play an instrumental role in 

bringing revolutionary 

change and usher in economic 

stability and prosperity, 

not only in the country 

but also in the whole 

region. 

He was confident that 

ISLAMABAD: Federal 

Minister for Power 

Division Sardar Awais 

Ahmed Khan Leghari 

instead of preventing 

power thefts, declared 

other departments responsible 

for high tariffs. 

The credible sources 

have disclosed that ministry 

badly failed to control 

power thefts incidents and 

SIALKOT: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif addressing to Ceremony of Laptops 

Distributing among the Intelligent students at Government College Women University. 

Gwadar port would emerge 

as a busiest port and play a 

dominating role in ensuring 

drastic economic stability 

and overall development 

of the country as well 

as in the region. 

Gwadar port and CPEC 

projects would open new 

vista of prosperity and 

development and enlarge 

instead of admitting its 

mistake it putting responsible 

to other departments. 

According to documents 

submitted to National 

Assembly, Awais Leghari 

accepted this fact that due 

to high tariffs ordinary 

consumers unable to pay 

their bills, extraordinary 

taxes and power theft also 

among big reasons for high 

the scope of employment 

opportunities for the people 

of the country, he 

added. 

Asif said the economic 

stability had become more 

vital at this juncture for 

making the country economically 

stable, bringing 

prosperity and to boost 

development process in the 

bills. 

According to Federal 

Minister major power theft 

occurred in Sukkur Electric 

Power Supply Company, 

Haiderabad Electric 

Supply Company, Multan 

Elector Supply Company, 

Quetta Electric Supply 

Company and Peshawar 

Electric Supply Company. 

Financial system of 

country. 

Asif said banishing of 

backwardness and elimination 

of poverty were on the 

top of government agenda 

and many steps had already 

been taken in this direction. 

The linking of remote 

areas with developed areas 

would eventually bring 

Ministry failed to control power thefts 

Six persons killed as bridge 

in FR Kohat caved in 

KOHAT: Rescue teams use heavy machinery to remove the 

rubble of the under construction Jawaki Gate in FR 

Jawaki which collapsed. At least six laborers were killed 

and two others injured after getting buried under debris. 

PESHAWAR: As many 

as six persons were killed 

and two other injured 

when a under construction 

bridge in Shin Dhand area 

of FR Kohat suddenly 

caved in, an official police 

control Kohat confirmed. 

According to details, 

TRIPOLI: Thousands of 

Libyans marked the seventh 

anniversary of the start of 

protests that ousted dictator 

Muammar Gaddafi, with rallies 

and concerts despite the 

country’s political and economic 

morass. In the capital 

Tripoli, and across many 

cities in the North African 

country, thousands packed 

public squares where the 

authorities were organising 

concerts and other festivities. 

Libya descended into 

labourer were busy in their 

work on newly under construction 

bridge in Shin 

Dhand area of FR Kohat 

suddenly caved in killing 

six persons on the spot 

while two other received 

critical head injuries, APA 

Khalid Ilyas also confirmed 

the incident. 

Soon after the incident 

of the bridge collapse, the 

official of the rescue and 

police along with the officials 

of the political 

administration also rushed 

on the spot and started 

relief operation by recovering 

six bodies from the 

debris of the bridge while 

taken the injured to district 

headquarters hospital 

Kohat for medical treatment. 

Eye witnesses also confirmed 

the sudden collapse 

of the under construction 

bridge in FR Jawakai Shin 

Dhand area of district 

Kohat, however, no immediate 

report of the sudden 

collapse of the bridge 

received. 

Any misadventure by India to be 

given befitting response: Khurram 


Minister for Defence 

Engineer Khurram Dastgir 

Khan has said that any misadventure 

by India would 

be given befitting response. 

India was establishing 

cantonments and air-bases 

along the line of control 

(LoC), he said while talking 

to a private news 

channel. 

Pakistan Armed forces 

were fully capable to 

defend the mother land, he 

said India was working on 

“cold start doctrine”. 

He said that India had 

lost the opportunity of dialogue 

with Pakistan. In 

2017, India had made 

ceasefire violations along 

LoC, he added. 

Since 2015, Pakistan 

had intensified activities to 

wipe out the terrorism 

from this region. 

Operation “Radd-ul - 

Fasad” was also continuing 

unabatedly, he added. 

To a question he said 

“we want to provide complete 

peace to the next generation 

of Pakistan.” 

To another question he 

said we had expressed 

reservation over increasing 

strategic partnership of US 

with India. 

these area not streamlined 

so they use to steal electricity, 

also said that WAPDA 

officials are also directly 

involved in power theft. 

According to Ministry 

of Energy Power Division, 

measures haven’t being 

taken yet to prevent electric 

theft incidents or officials 

involved in this crime 

because of peak season. 

Minorities 

are not safe: 

Ghinwa Bhutto 

LARKANA: Pakistan 

Peoples Party (PPP-SB) 

Chairperson Ghinwa 

Bhutto said on Sunday 

that minorities are not 

safe here and due to nonimplementation 

of the 

law, people are looking 

for justice. 

"Due to corruption of 

the rulers, people are suffering 

very badly. The 

rulers are themselves 

enemies of the country 

who are dividing people 

on the basis of religion," 

she said while addressing 

the Sindh Council meeting 

of her party at Al- 

Murtaza House here 

today. The PPP-SB chairperson 

said that the state 

would never eliminate 

corruption here for which 

we required such organisations 

which could wipe 

out corruption. She said 

justice and rights could 

only be obtained through 

socialism. 

Meanwhile, provincial 

president Ali Ahmed 

Palipoto presided over 

the Sindh Council meeting 

in which they decided 

to hold a protest 

demonstration and stage 

sit-ins throughout Sindh 

on February 23 against 

registration of case 

against party's divisional 

president Inayat Umrani 

and others. 

about revolutionary 

changes in lifestyle and 

usher in a new era of development 

and prosperity, he 

added. 

He said under the programme 

1,800 KM long 

roads had been constructed 

in Baluchistan for improving 

and linking downtrodden 

areas with the developed 

parts of the province. 

The foreign minister 

said “Pakistan is making 

hectic efforts to maintain 

peace in the region but our 

neighboring country has 

been creating obstacles in 

the peace process and is 

indulged in patronizing terrorists.” 

He said India was in 

fever of war phobia and 

continuously violating on 

LOC and Working 

Boundary, besides killing 

the innocent civilians. 

Pakistan has rendered great 

scarifies in war against terrorism 

and efforts were 

still underway to purge the 

menace, he added. 

Rally staged against 

honor killings, 

forced marriages 

THATTA: Sindhyani 

Tehreek and Awami Tehreek 

took out a rally here on Sunday 

against honor killings, forced 

marriages, women harassment, 

and sexual assaults. 

The rally, led by Sindhyani 

Tehreek’s central leader Salma 

Lashari and Awami Tehreek’s 

district president Bilawal 

Lashari, marched through various 

roads of city and reached 

Thatta Press Club, where participants 

held a protest demonstration. 

They raised slogans 

against atrocities against 

women including honor 

killings, forced marriages, 

women harassment and sexual 

assault. Speaking on occasion, 

Sindhyani Tehreek's leader 

Amna Lashari and Awami 

Tehreek’s district president 

demanded of the government 

to take notice of the atrocities 

against women and take effective 

steps to stop them. 

Girl shot dead in Khanpur 

for refusing marriage 

A girl 

was shot dead in Khanpur 

Mahar reportedly on the 

pretext of refusing a marriage 

proposal. 

According to the 

details, a suspect Ali 

B O L L Y W O O D : 

Bollywood veteran actor 

Rishi Kapoor took to 

Twitter to praise internet 

sensation Priya Prakash 

Varrier, who has sent 

social media into a frenzy 

with her wink. However, 

his followers on Twitter 

pointed out how his praise 

ISLAMABAD: Models walk before the audience wearing 

dresses designed by Ahsan Umer during te launching ceremony 

of Sophia’s Couture at Bahria Town. 

Libyans mark 7 years since protests that ousted Gaddafi 

TRIPOLI: In the capital Tripoli and across many cities in the North African country, 

thousands packed public squares where the authorities were organising concerts and 

other festivities. 

chaos after the 2011 NATObacked 

uprising, with rival 

militias, tribes and jihadists 

vying for influence across the 

oil-rich country. A 2015 UNbacked 

deal to set up the 

unity government in Tripoli 

was meant to end the turmoil. 

But Libya has remained 

riven by divisions between 

the Government of National 

Accord (GNA) and a rival 

administration backed by 

military strongman Khalifa 

Haftar in the east. 

was, in a way, disturbingly 

creepy. 

In his tweet, 66-yearold 

Kapoor predicts “huge 

stardom” for 18-year-old 

Varrier. “So expressive, 

coy coquettish yet innocent,” 

he wrote. “My dear 

Priya, you going to give all 

others in your age group a 

Nawaz Mahar along 

with his accomplices 

stormed at the girl’s 

house and attempted to 

kidnaper her. 

The suspect gunned 

down the girl over resistance. 

The bereaved family 

said the police had 

refused their plea to register 

an FIR against the 

suspect because he 

belonged to an influential 

family. 

Rishi Kapoor regrets why Priya Varrier 

was not there during his career 

run for their money. God 

Bless and the best to you!” 

He then ended his tweet, 

saying “Mere time mein 

naheen ayeen aap! Kyon? 

[Why were you not there 

during my time?] Lol.” 

Given his age, Kapoor’s 

remarks were not received 

quite well. 

CPJ asks NIA to release 

Kamran immediately 

NEW YORK: New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked 

the New Delhi’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) to immediately drop charges 

against Kashmiri photojournalist, Kamran Yusuf and release him. 

Steven Butler, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator in a statement said, “India’s 

National Investigative Agency is way out of its league and has no business defining 

what ‘a real journalist’ should cover.” 

“Kamran Yousuf’s work taking photographs of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir is 

a public service in the best spirit of journalism. He should be freed immediately.” 

Kamran was arrested by the NIA on 7 September, last year, on charges of stone 

throwing. “Kamran Yousuf’s work taking photographs of conflict in Jammu and 

Kashmir is a public service in the best spirit of journalism. He should be freed immediately,” 

he added. The CPJ is a global non-profit organisation working towards 

press freedom worldwide. 

In its observations filed by the NIA in court, the agency had said that Kamran was 

not a real journalist as he not covered government developmental activities, statement 

of a political party, which, according to the NIA is the moral duty of a journalist. 

Yousuf is a freelance photojournalist from Jammu and Kashmir, who has been 

imprisoned since September 5, 2017. He was formally charged on January 18 with 

sedition, criminal conspiracy, and attempting to wage war against India. His next 

hearing is expected on February 19, according to The Indian Express. 

The GNA has failed to 

assert its authority across the 

oil-rich country, which is 

also grappling with deadly 

attacks, and a migration crisis 

seven years since the 

uprising erupted. 

Internationally-backed 

Prime Minister Fayez al- 

Sarraj acknowledged his 

government’s shortcomings 

in a televised speech on 

Saturday to mark the seventh 

anniversary, and called for 

national reconciliation. 

Federal govt to construct 

dam in Khyber Agency 

ISLAMABAD: Minister 

for Climate Change 

Mushahidullah Khan has 

urged masses to actively participate 

in ongoing countrywide 

spring tree plantation 

drive. “Through maximum 

trees plantation, the country 

can be safeguarded from the 

negative effects of climate 

change” he said while taking 

to media persons. 

He also highlighted that 

Pakistan has only 5 percent 

area under forest and the 

government was committed 

to bring the forest cover to 

the area as per international 

standard. He said cutting of 

forest at large scale and 

increasing of population in 

the country were affecting 

negatively the climate. 

Sharing the present government’s 

initiatives to protect 

the natural forests, he 

said. Under Green Pakistan 

programe the government 

had planted around 15 million 

trees while 85 million 

more trees would be planted 

ISLAMABAD: The 

federal government has 

decided to construct a 

dam in Bara Area of 

Khyber Agency at a cost 

of five billion rupees. 

According to a report 

quoting 

FATA 

Development Authority, 

the feasibility study of 

the dam has been completed 

while detailed 

design work is in 

progress. 

On completion, it will 

provide clean drinking 

water to more than one 

million people of the 

agency besides saving 

Jamrud, Hayatabad and 

University Town areas of 

Peshawar from floods. 

Mushahidullah for active public 

participation in tree plantation drive 

till 2021. The minister said, 

under “Ghar Ghar Aik 

Shajar” awareness campaign, 

free trees would be 

distributed door to door in 

Islamabad in 10,000 houses. 

Almost 100 students, he 

said, from different universities 

of Islamabad would participate 

in the program. “We 

have formulated New Forest 

Policy while first ever 

Wildlife Policy of the country 

is in final phase” he said. 

Sharing the last five years 

progress of the ministry, he 

said, under spring tree plantation 

drive about 407.3 millions 

trees had been planted 

while in Monsoon tree plantation 

drive 216.7 million 

trees had been planted with 

the survival rate of 70 percent. 

He said that the ministry 

of climate change, 

Capital Development 

Authority (CDA) and 

Metropolitan Corporation 

Islamabad were jointly 

working on capacity building 

of employees. 

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