23 Feb 2018

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Need comprehensive 

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curb street crimes: 

IG Sindh 

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International: 

Iran may withdraw 

from nuclear deal if 

gets no benefits: 

Araqchi 

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Music, festivities and 

fireworks aplenty at 

PSL 2018 opening 

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Musharaf announces 

to return back to 

Pakistan 

DUBAI: Former 

President and Army 

Chief General (R) 

Pervez Musharraf has 

announced to return 

back to Pakistan. 

He announced that he 

will return to Pakistan 

before the 2018 general 

elections. 

Talking to his supporters, 

Musharraf said 

the ruling Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) always 

opposed him, but he has 

never been afraid of 

them. 

Ahad Cheema remanded 

in NAB custody 

LAHORE: An 

accountability court 

Thursday handed over 

former head of Lahore 

Development Authority 

(LDA) Ahad Khan 

Cheema on 11-day physical 

remand to the National 

Accountability Bureau 

(NAB) in Ashiana-i-Iqbal 

housing scam. 

The NAB officials produced 

Ahad Cheema, who 

currently heads two 

power companies, before 

Accountability Court 

Judge Muhammad Azam 

in a special vehicle amid 

strict security arrangements. 

LoC violations 

Pakistan lodges 

protest with 

Indian HC 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Pakistan has denounced 

unprovoked Indian firing 

on the Line of 

Control in Rawalakot 

sector on Thursday that 

resulted in the martydrom 

of one civilian. 

The Indian Deputy 

High Commissioner 

J.P Singh was summoned 

to Foreign 

Office on Thursday 

and a strong protest 

was lodged with him. 

LAHORE: PPP chairman 

Bilawal Bhutto said 

that Nawaz Sharif got himself 

into trouble through 

confrontation. 

Talking to the media 

after meeting party leaders 

at Model Town Secretariat 

on Thursday, he said that 

Nawaz Sharif wants a constitutional 

crisis and confrontation 

with the parliament 

and the judiciary. 

“The PML-N will have 

KARACHI EDITION – Friday, February 23, 2018, Jumada-al-Thani 6, 1439 

LAHORE: PPP Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addresses during party workers meeting held at Bilawal House. 

Nawaz got himself into trouble 

through confrontation: Bilawal 

Pak's ties with Saudia, 

UAE regionally 

important: ISPR 

DUBAI: Inter-Services 

Public Relations (ISPR) 

Director General Major 

General Asif Ghafoor said 

on Thursday that maintaining 

ties with Saudi Arabia 

and United Arab Emirates 

(UAE) is regionally important. 

Talking to media in 

Dubai, the spokesperson of 

Pakistan Army’s media cell 

told that Pakistan shared 

strong ties with both Gulf 

countries. He said, 

“Pakistan’s ties with Saudia 

Arabia and UAE are important 

for the region.” 

ISPR DG added that the 

bilateral relations are 

improving with every passing 

day. “Saudi Arabia and 

UAE supported Pakistan in 

the war against terrorism,” 

he stressed. He reaffirmed 

that the armed forces have 

eradicated terrorists from the 

border areas. 

to undergo accountability 

of 30 years, not only 

Panama. People will continue 

to hear wailing,” he 

said. 

The PPP chairman said 

that Musharraf should also 

be tried to prove that the 

law is equal for everyone. 

“There will be a stigma on 

the judiciary if it did not 

happen. It will also 

strengthen the narrative of 

Nawaz Sharif,” he said. 

He said that legislation 

cannot be done to benefit a 

person. “When they were 

formulating the law, all had 

stated that it will be struck 

down,” he said. 

Bilawal Bhutto said that 

Nawaz Sharif and Imran 

Khan are not representatives 

of the people. “Why I 

was ousted is not the problem 

of the poor. We do not 

want the fake change of 

Imran Khan,” he said. 

Avenfield case 

UK forensic expert 

admits Calibri font 

was available in 2005 

ISLAMABAD: A key 

witness introduced by the 

National Accountability 

Bureau (NAB), forensic 

expert Robert Radley, 

advised the courtroom on 

Thursday that the Calibri 

font was available in 2005, 

albeit on a restricted scale. 

The accountability courtroom, 

listening to the supplementary 

reference in the 

Avenfield case, was conducting 

corruption proceedings 

in opposition to former 

prime minister Nawaz Sharif 

and his household additionally 

recorded the assertion of 

Forensic 

one other witness, solicitor 

Akhtar Raja — by way of 

video-link from UK together 

with forensic handwriting 

and doc examiner Robert W. 

Radley. 

In his findings included 

in the JIT report, Radley had 

famous that he “recognized 

the kind font used to provide 

each licensed declarations as 

‘Calibri’. However, [the 

font] was not commercially 

available earlier than Jan 31, 

2007 and as such, neither of 

the [documents] is appropriately 

dated and [appear] to 

have been created at some 

later level in time.” 

Radley, principal of his 

personal agency Radley 

Laboratory, had claimed that 

the kind font used in belief 

deeds of two firms was 

Calibri which was not commercially 

available earlier 

than Jan 31, 2007. 

Pakistan on 117 out of 180 

countries in corruption, Report 

Staff Report 

KARACHI: Transparency International 

(TI) has categorized Pakistan worst in the 

annual Corruption Perceptions Index 

released. 

According to details, TI has ranked 

Pakistan 117th out of total 180 countries 

surveyed for global corruption index. 

Report stated that menace of bribe is 

present on every scale in Pakistan. On scale 

of 100, Pakistan managed to secure 98th 

position whereas Bangladesh—who split 

from Pakistan in 1971—has been placed on 

93rd slot. Pakistan has received 32 score in 

latest rankings of 2017. The country had 

shared similar points on corruption index in 

2016 and was ranked 116th out of 176 

countries surveyed. 

This year, New Zealand and Denmark 

rank highest with scores of 89 and 88 

respectively. Syria, South Sudan and 

Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 

and 9 respectively. The best performing 

region is Western Europe with an average 

score of 66. The worst performing regions 

are Sub-Saharan Africa (average score 32) 

and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (average 

score 34). 

The report states that majority of countries 

are making little or no progress in ending 

corruption, while further analysis 

shows journalists and activists in corrupt 

countries risking their lives every day in an 

effort to speak out. 

Political stability is requisite to police reforms: Ahsan 

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for 

Interier Ahsan Iqbal has said that one of the 

biggest challenges, Pakistan is faced with 

for the last 70 years, is the lack of a stable 

political system and discontinuity in policies. 

He was speaking at a seminar titled: 

“Disparities in police systems in provinces 

and the federal capital”, organized by 

Sustainable Development Policy Institute 

(SDPI) and attended by a select number of 

police officials, lawyers, and legislators here 

on Thursday. 

The Interior Minister said since independence, 

every single political government 

was either derailed or destabilized, which 

led to non-implementation of reforms, especially 

in the police department. 

Survival of 

country lies in 

rule of law: CJP 

ISLAMABAD: Chief 

Justice of Pakistan (CJP) 

Mian Saqib Nisar has said 

the country can survive 

only if rule of law would 

be prevailed here. 

He said this while 

addressing a ceremony 

here in Islamabad High 

Court Thursday. He said 

that it is no compulsion for 

a judge that what he has to 

say. But he has to think, 

what he has not to say. 

When you are in the position 

of not saying anything 

then you cannot say many 

things;. 

“We have not to pursue 

the path of confrontation 

with any one. Whatever I 

do I do it in synch with 

law. I am not hypocrite. 

Three things fear, expediency 

and interest serve as 

poison for a judge. The 

best decisions can be given 

only by coming out of the 

ambit of these things”, he 

added. 

CJP said he agrees 100 

percent over some things. 

Thee should be rule of law 

in the country as survival 

of the country lies in rule 

of law. We have to fight the 

war for those who don’t 

have resources to seek court in Islamabad, 

their rights. We are 

endeavoring that speedy 

and good justice is administered 

to the people soon. 

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ISLAMABAD: With the heavy heart the 

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) 

has barred the Pakistan Muslim League 

Nawaz (PML-N) candidates from contesting 

Senate elections under party’s capacity. 

Now the candidates of the party will be considered 

independent in the Senate elections. 

Earlier, the ECP has rejected the application 

of PML-N for awarding of fresh tickets 

to their candidates in Senate elections. 

The decision was taken by the ECP during 

a special session called by the chief 

election commissioner, who had also taken 

the chair of the session. 

Order was issued by the ECP in pursuance 

of the verdict by the Supreme Court 

in Election Reforms Act Case. Now the 

candidates of the party will be considered 

independent in the Senate elections as well 

as by elections. 

The election body further said that 

Senate polls will be held as per schedule. 

PML-N's candidate contesting the upcoming 

PP-30 Sargodha by-polls was also 

declared as independent. 

Raja Zafar-ul-Haq along with other 

party leaders visited ECP on Thursday and 

submitted papers of party candidates for the 

Senate elections. 

The move came a day after the Supreme 

Court ruled that a disqualified politician 

cannot lead a political party, ordering the 

removal of former prime minister Nawaz 

Sharif as head of the country’s ruling party. 

Later talking to the media PML-N 

Chairman Raja Zafar-ul-Haq said the party 

http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

PML-N out of Senate 

elections race 

ECP allows PML-N candidates to contest 

Senate elections as indenpendent 

ISLAMABAD: Former 

premier Nawaz Sharif 

Thursday said that decisions 

against him are being 

announced in anger and 

revenge. 

Speaking to the media 

outside an accountability 

where 

he appeared with his daughter 

Maryam Nawaz for the 

hearing of corruption references 

against himself and his 

US Indian defense accord disturbs 

regional power balance: NSA 

ISLAMABAD: National Security Advisor Lt. Gen.(R) 

Nasir Janjua has said that balance of power in the region is 

being deteriorated due to the strategic agreement between 

India and USA . 

While speaking to a seminar at Bhria University on the 

topic of “ Naval economics, geo politics in Indian occasion 

and increasing threats for Pakistan” arranged by Institute of 

Strategic Studies of Islamabad(ISSI)on Thursday. 

He said that said that the activities of India is on rise in 

Pacific Occasion after Indian occasion. 

“If we compare the economies of USA and China , we 

would see that the budget deficit of China is less and ate of 

productivity is much higher”. 

KARACHI: Council members of 

DMC Malir started strong protest on 

the continued atrocities, hardships 

imposed by by the KMC and Mayor 

Karachi, Waseem Akhtar, as soon as 

meeting begins today on Thursday. 

They said that KMC is doing huge 

injustice to the residents and people of 

Malir and even in the previous era of 

Nazim System, the KMC had completely 

damaged the infrastructure of 

Malir. 

Mayor Karachi who claimed to be 

innocent and always cry for his rights 

from Sindh govt and used to speak 

against provincial govt but in fact has 

family members - said the 

Supreme Court's ruling on 

the petitions challenging the 

Elections Act 2017 was not 

unexpected for him. 

Without specifying them 

he said are of deliberating 

over how to deprive Nawaz 

Sharif of participation in politics 

for the rest of his life. 

The former PML-N chief 

said that the apex court's ruling 

which stripped him of 

Shehbaz Sharif to be 

nominated as PML-N head 

LAHORE: After setback of losing the 

president as Supreme Court (SC) disqualified 

Nawaz Sharif from the position, ruling 

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) has decided to nominate 

Shehbaz Sharif as head. 

Sources privy to PML-N claimed that 

the party leaders agreed unanimously to 

appoint Shehbaz Sharif as PML-N president. 

It was added that all key matters will 

be decide by Nawaz Sharif himself who 

will keep his identity as the party chief 

without being formally declared. 

Since Shehbaz Sharif is the senior 

most leader in the party, he will be asked 

to come forward to rule the party, the 

source claimed. 

chairman or president has the discretion to 

issue party tickets. He said consultations are 

underway to fill the position of party president. 

Haq told reporters outside the ECP 

that as chairman of the party, he held the 

authority to issue party tickets. 

He said that he had submitted an authority 

letter and other relevant documents to 

the ECP. Haq, when asked about the 

prospect of a new leader for the party, said 

that a consultation process had been initiated 

to appoint an acting president. The PML- 

N's central working party will appoint a 

new president next week, he added. 

Deliberations underway to disqualify 

me from politics for life: Nawaz 

forcefully snatched the rights of the 

people of Malir, funds of Malir cattle 

market are illegally taken into KMC 

account and behaving like step-mother, 

they said. Mayor Karachi is a dignified 

position and mayor for whole city but 

unfortunately he has become ‘Mayor- 

Of -Three-Districts’. 

The council members told that the 

municipal facilities to Malir cattle market 

are being provided by the DMC 

Malir then it is very unfair to take cattle 

market revenues to KMC account 

which is high injustice to the people of 

Malir which is already comprising of 

mostly poor class and they had also 

party presidency was not 

unexpected for him. "First, 

they paralyzed the executive," 

Sharif said. "Then yesterday, 

they snatched away 

the authority of Parliament." 

He added that after the 

Panamagate verdict stripped 

him off his premiership and 

yesterday's ruling took away 

his position as party head, 

he was now only left with 

his name. 

MARY: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi meets 

President of Turkmenistan Mr. Gurbanguly 

Berdimuhamedov in Turkmenistan. 

DMC Malir alleges Mayor Karachi for illegally 

usurping Malir cattle market income 

Council members demand KMC to immediately return of their funds 

been neglected in previous regimes and 

public is continuously being neglected. 

Malir roads, streets are also quite 

damaged since Nazim System and 

resulting accidents everyday, sewerage 

systems at even UC-level are also collapsed. 

In the prevailing situation, council 

members demanded Chairman DMC 

Malir to talk to Mayor Karachi for 

bringing their rightful cattle market 

revenues, funds back to DMC Malir. 

The council members also indicated 

for possible public reaction; if this vital 

district source of income isn’t brought 

back soon, they concluded. 

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Metropolitan 

Need comprehensive action plan 

to curb street crimes: IG Sindh 

KARACHI: Inspector 

General of Police, Sindh, 

AD Khawaja has said that 

the police need a comprehensive 

action plan to curb 

street crimes and terrorist 

activities in the city. 

Speaking at the passing 

out ceremony of Police 

Training Center, 

Razaqabad, IG Sindh told 

the graduates that all eyes 

were going to be on them 

thereon. He advised new 

recruits to protect the citizens 

and the state, and not 

be anyone’s personal servant. 

He said that when he 

came to the police department, 

he had two dreams: 

renovation of Sindh police 

and recruitment on merit. 

He informed the audience 

that ever since he came, all 

recruitments have been on 

KARACHI: IGP Sindh A D Khawaja awarding medal to best recruit during passing out 

parade at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, Elite Police Training Centre Razzakabad. 

merit and the department 

has been purged of all 

those who did not come 

through proper channels. 

Pointing to the nature 

of the task ahead of the 

new recruits, he said that 

the city is among the heavily 

weaponised in the 

world. “Apart from that, 

unemployment and 

impoverishment are also 

formidable causes of 

crime,” he said, “And 

although stopping the 

crime is police’s prime 

responsibility, it is also the 

responsibility of the citizens 

to cooperate with the 

force in apprehending 

criminals.” 

According to academy 

source, 819 males and 215 

female police officers 

have passed out and joined 

the police force. 

Pakistani origin Canadian Lady appeals 

CJP's for protection from 'Qabza' mafia 

KARACHI: A Pakistani 

origin Canadian citizen 

lady Norzehra Ebrahim -- 

who owns a building complex 

over 90,000 sq ft. here 

at West Wharf near Karachi 

Port - has appealed to the 

Chief Justice of Pakistan 

and CJ Hight Court of 

Sindh for protection of her 

life and property from 

building 'qabza' mafia. 

In her appeal to Justice 

Saqib Nisar and Justice 

Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh , 

Ms. Norzehra Ebrahim,has 

submitted that qabza mafia 

once again wanted to 

occupy her building . Of 

this, the major portion was 

got vacated on judiciary 

orders after fighting for 

judicial relief in different 

courts of law over 14 

years, since 2004. The 

mafia was still occupying 

10,000 sq.ft. portion of this 

complex and High Court of 

Sindh was hearing the case. 

She says that 80,000 feet of 

office space is vacant, 

which took 14 years and 

key with nazir of Sindh 

High Court for safety from 

hostile take over through 

orders in suit No 840, 839, 

2010 She pleads to conclude 

only 5 remaining 

cases from150 of them, CP 

1058- 1059-2010 As Fixed 

for final hearing on March 

6th 2018 arinzing from rent 

case and suit 840-839-2010 

for Possesion as fixed on 

March 8th be heard on day 

to day basis. 

She prayed the Chief 

Justice of SHC to give verdict 

at the earliest possible 

so that she is relieved from 

the mafia by getting the 

property fully vacated. The 

mafia using all thier might 

had prepared to re-occupy 

the entire complex. The 

occupants were not even 

paying rent to her. 

Drive launched against tinted 

glasses, fancy plates 

Vehicles owners should abide by the law says Mukesh Kumar Chawla 

25 new model schools in Sindh soon: Jam Mehtab 

KARACHI: Provincial 

Minister for Education and 

Literacy Jam Mehtab 

Hussain Dahar said 

Thursday that Sindh 

Education Department is 

going to inaugurate 25 

English Medium and 

Comprehensive Model 

Schools in March in districts 

of Shaheed 

Benazirabad, Sukkur, 

Larkana, Thatta, Sujawal, 

Jamshoro, Naushehro 

KARACHI: In compliance 

of Chairman NAB initiative, 

DG NAB Karachi 

Mr Mohammad Altaf 

Bawany conducted Khuli 

Katchehry today by hearing 

& receiving complainants 

from public at his office 

today between 2 pm and 4 

pm. 

A large number of complainants 

gathered at NAB 

office and submitted applications 

regarding cases of 

corruption in various government 

departments. 

Majority of complainants 

got their complaints 

registered against 

land grabbers, builders and 

cooperative societies managements 

for their alleged 

role in cheating public at 

Feroz, Sanghar, Khairpur 

Mirs, Ghotki, Mirpurkhas, 

Mityari, Tando 

Muhammad Khan, Tando 

Allahyar, Badin and 

Umerkot. 

These schools will work 

as model schools, he said 

while presiding over a 

meeting here today in 

Sindh Assembly Building 

office. Secretary Education 

Schools Iqbal Hussain 

Durrani also attended the 

large for misappropriating 

properties of genuine owners 

and not handing over 

booked properties to owners 

on time. 

It has been decided in 

principle that NAB Karachi 

will soon initiate action as 

meeting. The minister said 

that the schools would 

work under Public Private 

Partnership mode and 

would be handed over to 

Education Management 

Organizations so that the 

desired goals could be 

achieved. 

The meeting was also 

informed that 15 schools 

are English medium and 10 

are Comprehensive Model 

Schools. Secretary 

2nd Khuli Katchehry 

held at NAB Karachi 

KARACHI: DA NAB Altai Beivssa By heNing consiplziirisints 

tii-onsi public at his office. 

per law in effective coordination 

with other Law 

Enforcement Agencies 

(LEAs) against land grabbers 

particularly in Karachi 

and against the concerned 

officials for their inaction 

and connivance. 

Pak students to attend Singapore festival 

KARACHI: Make the Future Singapore, 

a free festival of bright energy ideas and 

innovations for Asia, will take place at 

Singapore’s Changi Exhibition Centre from 

March 8 to 11, 2018. Returning to Singapore 

for a second year, the public festival will be a 

platform for conversation, collaboration and 

innovation around the global energy challenge: 

how to generate more energy, while 

producing less CO2 emissions. 

At Make the Future Singapore, virtual 

reality and hands-on experiences will take 

visitors on a journey to explore bright ideas 

from around Asia, see what is happening 

now to power our world and get a glimpse of 

what the future of energy might look like. 

They will be able to discover what it's like to 

generate electrical energy by dancing, play 

interactive games, build and race mini saltwater 

cars, and meet young scientists and 

energy start-ups. 

Headlining the festival is Shell Ecomarathon 

Asia, where over 120 student 

teams from 18 countries across Asia Pacific 

and the Middle East will put their self-built 

energy-efficient cars to the test. One of the 

world’s longest-running student competitions, 

Shell Eco-marathon is a global programme 

that challenges bright student 

minds to design and build ultra-energyefficient 

cars, and then put them to the test 

in competition. 

Pakistan will again be participating in 

Shell Eco-marathon Asia, with a contingent 

of 10 futuristic cars from 07 universities 

competing to be the most energy-efficient. 

Some of the teams participating are: 

Team Urban Ghulam Ishaq Khan 

Institute, category: Urban Concept ICE 

(Gasoline), Team Innova, University 

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and 

Applied Sciences, category: Urban Concept 

Vehicle, Team Mech the Tech, Air 

University, category: Battery Electric, while 

two Teams participating from National 

University of Sciences & Technology, 

Karachi include PNEC-NUST-URBAN, and 

PNEC-NUST-PROTOTYPE, in the 

Gasoline and Battery Electric category 

respectively. 

KARACHI: Chief guest Syed Sardar Shah Sindh Minister for Culture, Tourism & 

Antiquities is seen Inauguration an exhibition of 100 paintings, The Dream of World 

of Tassaduq Sohail “ at a local hotel ,Mr.Nasir Jawed and others guest are also seen 

in group picture. 

Education Schools 

informed the minister 

about installation of RO 

plants in government 

schools in order to solve 

the issue of pure drinking 

water to the students in 

schools. The minister 

expressed his satisfaction 

over the objectives of 

installation of RO plants 

and asked the secretary 

education to complete the 

project at the earliest. 

Murad seeks 

non-stop children 

OPDs in hospitals 

KARACHI: Sindh Chief 

Minister Syed Murad Ali 

Shah has directed the 

provincial health department 

to work out a plan to start 

non-stop pediatric OPD in 

all the government hospitals 

from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. 

He issued these directives 

while chairing a meeting in 

which Child Life 

Foundation, a government 

partner, gave him a presentation 

on child health in Sindh. 

The foundation told the chief 

minister that 250 children 

under the age of five die 

every year, while around 

21,000 children are brought 

to hospitals every day and 43 

per cent children belong to 

poor families, therefore, they 

face different health issues. 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) Sindh chapter 

activists on Thursday held 

a protest demonstration 

outside Karachi Press Club 

(KPC) against Mian 

Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification 

from heading his 

party. 

A large number of people 

including, president 

PML-N Sindh, Advocate 

Babu Sarfraz Khan Jatoi , 

MPA Sorath Thebo and 

Kheal Das Kohistani 

22nd Convocation of 

Hamdard University 

to be held on 

Saturday Feb 24 

KARACHI: The 22nd 

convocation of Hamdard 

University will be held 

on Saturday February 24, 

2018 at 4.30 pm at the 

main campus of 

University, Madinat al- 

Hikmah, Karachi. 

The Chief Guest will 

preside over the 

Convocation, in which 

diplomats, elite of the 

city, distinguished guests 

are expected to participate. 

Besides, Mrs. 

Sadia 

Rashid, 

Chancellor; Prof. Dr. 

Shahibul Hasan, members 

of Board of 

Governors, Hamdard 

University; teachers, students 

and their parents 

will also attend the convocation. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi along 

with MPA Sindh Assembly, Jamal Ahmed presenting 

shield to teacher during a ceremony. 

KARACHI: Chairman District Council, Salman Abdullah 

Murad exchanging views with MPA Sindh Assembly, Sajid 

Jokhio. 

KARACHI: Traffic police officials removing illegal number plate from a vehicle at 

Shahrah e Faisal. 

KARACHI: On the 

directives of Minister for 

Excise and Taxation & 

Narcotics Control Mukesh 

Kumar Chawla, as many 14 

teams of Sindh Excise 

Department in collaboration 

with Traffic Police has 

launched a campaign 

against vehicles bearing 

tinted glasses ,fancy number 

plates , vehicles plying on 

roads with applied for registration 

and motor cyclists 

Call to provide sun quota 

facility to KWSB employees 

KARACHI: Karachi Water and Sewerage Board 

(KWSB) employees’ children should be recruited on sun 

quota. KWSB employees problems should be resolved on 

priority basis. “Karachi needs 1250 million gallons of water, 

but at the moment, only 450 million gallons of water is 

being given to the city, which is very low,” said JI leader 

Naeem-ur -Rehman while addressing a protest demonstration 

in the city. He said former City Nazim Naimatullah 

Khan provided 100 million gallons of water to the city 

through K-3 project. 

Chairman vows to provide 

enduring development projects 

KARACHI: We would 

take every possible majors to 

ensure the disbursement of 

municipal facilities in pakistan 

quarters, Lasbela, Teen 

Hatti and its adjacent areas, 

Operation against removal of 

encroachments in these areas 

would initiate with collaboration 

of DMC East and 

KMC, Chairman DMC East 

Moid Anwar share these 

views while his visit along 

with Union Council representatives 

of UC 17 to 

review the situation of different 

areas regarding municipal 

facilities. 

During the visit 

Chairman gave instructions 

to the Sindh Solid waste 

management board officers 

“perform the work of cleaning 

and lifting of garbage on 

daily basis and also paid visit 

by themselves to monitor the 

reached the KPC to protest 

against Mian’s disqualification. 

The protesters carrying 

banners, placards and pictures 

of former Prime 

Minister Nawaz Sharif, 

were chanting slogan in 

his favor. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

Sarfraz Jatoi said that 

Nawaz Sharif would 

remain their party chief in 

one way or the other and 

all party decision would be 

taken by him. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC East, Moid Anwar visiting 

various areas of District East. 

situation of areas regarding 

cleaning”. 

Furthermore he also gave 

orders to the concerned officers 

to cover main holes. 

Moreover Chairman 

shared that “Wherever we are 

visiting issue regarding bad 

condition of sewerage awaits 

for us, it is basically the work 

of KWSB but we cannot say 

to the citizens that it is not 

come in our jurisdiction, 

not wearing helmets. 

This campaign will continue 

for one month. In first 

phase these Excise 

Department teams are working 

under supervision of SP 

District South on Shahre 

Faisal. Meanwhile the 

provincial minister for 

Excise and Taxation & 

Narcotics Control Mukesh 

Kumar Chawla has directed 

the officers and officials of 

these teams to fully coordinate 

with Traffic Police and 

perform their duties living 

in the limits of the law. He 

also asked the owners of 

vehicles having tinted glasses, 

bearing fancy number 

plates or plying on AFR to 

follow the law and remove 

all these illegal things. It is 

necessary to curb VIP culture 

and not only to abide by 

the law but they should also 

cooperate with law enforcement 

agencies. 

Demo against another disqualification of Mian 

KARACHI: Leaders and activists of Muslim League 

(PML-N) are holding protest demonstration against 

Supreme Court decision on former PM Nawaz Sharif 

ineligible to continue as president. 

KARACHI: Wildlife staffer showing recovered rare kind of 

tortoise after raid in Alkaram Square area of Liaquatabad. 

He said PML-N workers 

have righ to elects their 

party leader, adding the 

PML-N has always 

respected the courts and 

other national institutions. 

He regretted that it seems 

that Mian Nawaz Sharif 

and his family is being 

selectively targeted. 

He said the PML-N 

would form its next government 

after the coming 

general elections as 

Pakistani masses support 

Mian Nawaz Sharif. 

despite of limited funds we 

are taking every possible 

majors to resolve the issues 

regarding water and sewerage. 

He also added that 

“Union council representatives 

and officers should visit 

and inspect the quality of 

development works by themselves, 

In case of seen any 

compromise on quality of 

development work must play 

their role for its reliability”.

Nawaz Sharif made immense 

sacrifices unlike Imran: Javed Hashmi 

MULTAN: Veteran politician 

Javed Hashmi said that former 

prime minister Nawaz Sharif has 

rendered immense sacrifices which 

cannot be given by Pakistan 

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman 

Imran Khan. 

Addressing a press conference 

at the Multan Press Club, the veteran 

leader continued with his usual 

demeanour and said that the nation 

cannot progress as long as the 

supremacy of the constitution is 

not respected alike by judge, general 

and politician. 

Maintaining that he has the 

right to comment on the Supreme 

Court’s verdict which saw Sharif 

ousted as PML-N chief, he said 

that judiciary is the most respected 

institution, however, the sanctity is 

being gradually eroded and it is the 

responsibility of the people to 

restore it. 

He said that his prediction 

which he foretold four years ago 

has become true, and he had stated 

that the Supreme Court was 

attempting to dissolve the parliament. 

He said he was not ousted 

but had instead resigned from the 

parliament, and had spent the last 

Our Correspondent 

SHIKARPUR: At least 

07 children sustained 

injuries in substance material, 

which used to make 

cracker, at Sadar Mohalla, 

in the limits of New 

Faujdari Police Station, 

here on Thursday. 

At least seven children 

named Muhammad Umar, 

of 02, Abu Turab, of 04, 

MULTAN: Senior Politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi addresses to 

media persons during press conference at Multan press club. 

few years with immense patience. 

He further said that Nawaz 

Sharif had rendered immense sacrifices, 

unlike Imran Khan. He also 

said that Chief Justice of Pakistan 

both are son of Altaf 

Sadhayo, Saweera, of 02, 

Nigah Bibi, of 05, both the 

daughters of Hub Ali Shah, 

Gudi, 07, daughter of 

Mansoor Ahmed, Rishi, 

aged around 07, son of 

Sunil, and Michael, of 06, 

son of Parkash, both of 

Balmiki by caste sustained 

wounds, said New Faudjari 

police official. 

According to police 

children were playing near 

Railway station and found 

a shopping bag of 

“Gandraf” explosive material, 

which always used to 

make crackers, and they 

took the shopping bag and 

started playing with it after 

considering it as colors bag 

during which substance 

material exploded. 

had met with Imran Khan a couple 

of times, and have cancelled the 

leaves of judges before the verdict. 

Hashmi said that he had no contact 

with Nawaz Sharif since the 

7 minor children sustain injuries when 

substance material explodes 

53% say they are dissatisfied with 

how democracy works in Pakistan 


According to a Gilani 

Research Foundation 

Survey carried out by 

Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, 

majority of urban Pakistanis 

say they are dissatisfied 

with how democracy works 

in Pakistan. 

Dissatisfaction is lower 

in rural areas where only a 

minority is dissatisfied. 

A nationally representative 

sample of men and 

women from across the four 

provinces was asked, “How 

satisfied are you with the 

way democracy is working 

in Pakistan — very satisfied, 

somewhat satisfied, not 

too satisfied or not at all satisfied?” 

In response to this question, 

18% said very satisfied, 

36% said somewhat 

satisfied, 31% said not too 

satisfied and 14% said not 

satisfied at all. 1% did not 

know or wish to respond. 

In urban areas, 8% said 

very satisfied, 36% said 

somewhat satisfied, 37% 

said not too satisfied and 

16% said not satisfied at all. 

3% did not know or wish to 

respond. 

ISLAMABAD: President of Council of Pakistan newspapers Editors (CPNE), Zia Shahid presiding 

a standing committee meeting. Principal information officer press information 

department, Govt of Pakistan Muhammad Aslam Baig, CPNE senior vice president Shaheen 

Qureshi, Secretary General Ejaz ul Haq, Vice President Amir Mehmood, Rehmat Ali Razi, 

Mehtab Khan, Anwar Sajid, Tahir Farooq, Zubairi, Dr. Jabbar Khattak, Akram Majeed 

Soahil, Qazi Asad Abid, Mushtaq Ahmed Qureshi, Ghulam Nabi Chandio, Qazim Khan, Syed 

Mumtaz Shah, Dr. Waqar Yousuf Azimi, Irfan Athar Baloch, Waseem Ahmed, Muzaffar Ejaz, 

Alsma Khan, Tanveer Shouqat, Basheer Ahmed Memon, Khalil ul Rehman, Sohail Chaudhry, 

Mia Abrar Hussain, Sajid Abbasi and Naveed Shaikh also present on the occasion. 

KP govt spending Rs10b on construction 

of 200 higher secondary schools 

ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government 

is spending Rs 10 billion on construction of two 

hundred higher secondary schools in the province. 

A spokesman of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Department, in an interview said that seventy 

two schools have so far been completed in Dera 

Ismail Khan, Karak, Lakki Marwat, Hangu, Buner, 

Upper Dir, Shangla, Swabi Swat Mansehra and 

Kohistan districts. 

CORRIGENDUM 

This office NIT bearing No. XEN(EWD) 

TC/G-55/445 dated 09.02.2018 published in 

the newspapers viz: Roznama Jahan 8 

Pakistan Karachi dated 15.02.2018, Business 

Recorder Karachi dated 15.02.2018 and Daily 

Awami Awaz Sukkur dated 16.02.2018 may be 

treated as cancelled. 

EXECUTIVE ENGINEER 

EDUCATION WORKS DIVISION 

LARKANO 

INF/KRY NO. 1050/2018 

ANF supervises 

internationally 

collaborated operation 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s 

counter-narcotics endeavors 

are being undertaken completely 

in consonance with 

national policy, legislation, 

international obligations and 

domestic environment. All 

these factors coupled with 

organizational experience, 

assigned mandate, magnitude 

of drug threat, working environment, 

rationale and other 

guiding principles are kept in 

consideration while endeavoring 

for a unified national stance 

and international commitments 

on all matters related to illicit 

trafficking of drugs and prohibited 

chemical. lead Anti 

Narcotics Force Pakistan being 

premier drug law enforcement 

agency is leading internationally 

collaborated operation substitute 

to identify the illicit trafficking 

of precursor chemical. 

All of the children were 

transported to Civil Hospital 

Shikarpur for medical treatment 

while two of them, 

whose names could not be 

ascertained, were referred to 

Larkana Hospital due to 

their precarious condition 

while rest of children said to 

be out of danger, hospital 

sources added. Further 

investigation is initiated. 

Chitral’s 

women to get 

forest royalty 

CHITRAL: A meeting 

was held today at the Town 

Hall, in which women councilors 

expressed happiness 

that the women would soon 

get royalty from forest estate 

in southern sub-valleys of 

Chitral. 

The meeting appreciated 

the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 

government’s new move to 

give share to women from the 

forest in shape of royalty. 

Chaired by Assistant 

Commissioner Chitral Sajid 

Nawaz, the meeting was also 

attended by District Nazim 

Maghfirat Shah, District 

Officer Finance and Planning 

of Community Driven Local 

Development (CDLD) Hayat 

Shah and Assistant Director 

Local Government and Rural 

Development 

Eng Faheem Jalal. The 

women councilors termed the 

new move to give female 

members of royalty holding 

families a share in the royalty 

a milestone saying it would 

help empower women financially 

and reduce their 

dependence on others. 

last four years, and had struggled 

on his own and made sacrifices for 

the sake of the constitution, and the 

Supreme Court never came forward 

to defend the constitution. 

He further said that the court 

acquits criminals on serious 

charges on the basis of suspicion or 

lack of evidence, but also send a 

prime minister packing for similar 

reasons, adding that a movement 

should be launched against it. 

“Nawaz Sharif said he would be 

killed in he went to jail, and will 

instead launch a legal battle, and I 

said that if so then I will join him in 

this struggle,” he said. “This is not 

the final decision against Nawaz 

Sharif, they will also put him in 

jail.” He said the biggest strike 

against democracy was that an 

individual who received 126,000 

votes was given a severe blow by 

the judiciary. 

He advised PTI activists that 

nation was burning, past military 

dictators had clipped the wings of 

the constitution, and defending 

suspects was the courts responsibility. 

He said that Imran Khan 

only considers politics as means to 

gain favours. 

AIOU announces 

schedule of its meritbased 

admissions 

ISLAMABAD: Allama 

Iqbal Open University 

(AIOU) on Thursday 

announced the ‘admissions 

schedule’ of its 

merit-based programs 

offered in the current 

semester spring, 2018. 

The last date for the 

admission is March 5. The 

programs offered on merit 

based includes: Ph.D, 

MS/M.Phil/M.Sc(Honors), 

COL (Commonwealth of 

Learning) MBA/MPA, BS 

programs, M.Sc (Statistics, 

Physics, Mathematics, 

Chemistry, Sociology, 

Microbiology, EPM, Mass 

C o m m u n i c a t i o n , 

Sustainable Environmental 

Design, Environmental 

Science and Betony). 

All those interested 

for admission in these 

programs have been 

advised to send their 

application form directly 

to the concerned department 

without admission 

fee before the stipulated 

date. 

HYDERABAD: On the 

complaints of allottees, the 

Sindh Building Control 

Authority (SBCA) 

Hyderabad region cancelled 

licenses of many 

builders. 

The builders and developers, 

whose licenses were 

cancelled due to not giving 

possession to the allottees 


National 

within prescribed time and 

other violations of SBCA 

rules, include Pyramided 

Housing Services sponsors 

for project Mahem 

Residency in Gulstan e 

Sajjad, Qasimabad; Creative 

Construction Company 

sponsor of project Fantasy 

Apartments at Gulstan e 

Sajjad, Qasimabad, said 

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SBCA cancels licenses 

of two builders 

Talat Mehmood 

JAMSHORO: Pakistan 

serves as a bouquet of beautiful 

languages, each serving 

as a radiant and fragrant 

flower forming wide variety 

of mother languages. These 

languages also act as 

cementing force to unify 

people belonging to various 

provincial, regional, ethnic 

and religious outfits into one 

unanimous national fabric 

of being proud Pakistanis. 

This was stated by VC- 

SU Prof. Dr. Fateh 

Muhammad Burfat in his 

presidential remarks at 

International Mother 

Languages Day celebrated 

at Shaikh Ayaz Auditorium 

of Arts Faculty Building, 

University of Sindh by the 

varsity’s Institute of English 

Language and Literature 

yesterday. 

Dr. Burfat further said 

that all languages spoken by 

the people constituting 

social structure of Pakistan 

were beautiful in their own 

right. 

“Sindhi is also one of 

those striking mediums. It 

has its own charm, beauty, 

power and sweetness. 

Sindhi is also one of those 

lucky languages that possess 

fully-developed script”, 

VC explained. 

The Vice-Chancellor 

added that one should seek 

to learn as many languages 

as possible. He said language 

was one of those most 

influential tools which 

instantly connected a person 

with other communities 

binding them into life-long 

bond. He said, “While we as 

Sindhis love our mother language, 

we must also learn to 

respect all other languages 

across the world with equal 

degree of care, concern and 

affection”. The most attractive 

episode of the function 

was the documentary film 

meticulously researched, 

diligently prepared, ingeniously 

scripted and stunningly 

screened by CEO Sindh 

TV Network Dr. Abdul 

Kareem Rajper entitled ‘The 

Story of Indus Valley’. 

The documentary 

enthralled the audience as 

they sat in mesmerized 

silence through slide-afterslide 

accentuating the cultural 

diversity, historical 

evolution, trade and commerce, 

archaeological sites, 

the contours and kaleidoscope 

of mighty River Indus 

and the rich rituals that 

remained fabulous features 

of Indus Valley since times 

SBCA sources. 

The SBCA advised citizens 

not to invest in these 

projects or enter in any 

transaction with them 

regarding booking, buying 

and selling, adding further 

details and guidance could 

be obtained from the 

SBCA office, Civic Center, 

Thandi Sarrak, Hyderabad. 

Speakers say Pakistan serves as 

a bouquet of beautiful languages 

Deputy Attorney 

General (DAG) took the 

plea that record tampering 

has been done as per 

report. Maheen Fatima is 

behind the tampering who 

has been made witness. 

Witness Abid has told 

that case was with some 

other officer and file has 

been given to Maheen 

Fatima by chairman 

SCCP. 

Court inquired from 

immemorial. 

Another outstanding, 

impressive and audiencealluring 

feature of the program 

were the skits presented 

by the students of 

Institute of English 

Language and Literature 

highlighting the eminence, 

appeal, importance and 

prominence of multiple 

mother languages. It was a 

fascinating sight to see 

young, exuberant university 

girls in colorful costumes 

welcoming guests in as 

many as thirteen different 

mother languages cupping 

alight oil lamps in their 

handsome hands symbolizing 

the need to preserve and 

promote those languages by 

public adoption, ownership 

and interethnic tolerance. 

Vice-Chancellor, Liaquat 

University of Medical and 

Health Sciences Prof. Dr. 

Bikha Ram who was in 

attendance as a special guest 

said that Indus Valley civilization 

was one of the most 

ancient civilizations of the 

world and that Moen-Jo- 

Darro was an emblem of 

one of those grandiose cultural 

heritages. He added 

that people of Sindh loved 

Sindh and their country 

Pakistan beyond measure. 

FIA files forensic report in IHC in Chaudhry 

Sugar Mills record tampering case 

ISLAMABAD: FIA 

has filed Forensic report 

in Islamabad High Court 

(IHC) in connection with 

Department Chaudhry Sugar Mills 

record tampering case . 

A single bench of IHC 

led by Justice Mohsin 

Akhter Kyani took up the 

case for hearing on 

Thursday. 

Zafar Hijaazi and DG 

FIA Bashir Memon 

appeared in the court. 

ISLAMABAD: Normal 

blood pressure is vital to 

life. Without the pressure 

that forces our blood to 

flow around the circulatory 

system, no oxygen or nutrients 

would be delivered 

through our arteries to the 

tissues and organs. 

However, blood pressure 

can become dangerously 

high, and it can also get too 

low. 

In this article, we will 

discuss what blood pressure 

is, how it is measured, and 

what the measurements 

mean for our health. 

What is blood pressure? 

Without a pump or water 

tank, no water will flow. 

Hose pipe properties also 

affect water pressure. 

Similar principles apply for 

blood flow. 

Blood pressure is the 

force that moves blood 

through our circulatory system. 

It is an important force 

because oxygen and nutrients 

would not be pushed 

around our circulatory system 

to nourish tissues and 

organs without blood pressure. 

Blood pressure is also 

vital because it delivers 

white blood cells and antibodies 

for immunity, and 

hormones such as insulin. 

Just as important as providing 

oxygen and nutrients, 

the fresh blood that 

gets delivered is able to 

pick up the toxic waste 

products of metabolism, 

including the carbon dioxide 

we exhale with every 

breath, and the toxins we 

clear through our liver and 

kidneys. 

investigation officer that FIA made her a witness. 

why witnesses who are Supreme Court had 

involved have not been ordered for initiating 

made accused? 

departmental inquiry 

On which investigation against Maheen Fatima. 

officer told that the witnesses 

Investigation Officer 

had stated they has said that challan has 

were under pressure and been filed in trial court. 

Chairmen SCCP sent all Whatever decision is 

messages to them through 

Commissioner. 

given by the court will be 

acceptable. 

Court remarked that the The court has 

whole story revolved adjourned the hearing of 

around Maheen Fatima. the case till 7th March. 

What is a normal blood pressure? 

Blood itself carries a 

number of other properties, 

including its temperature. It 

also carries one of our 

defenses against tissue 

damage, the clotting 

platelets that prevent blood 

loss following injury. 

But what exactly is it 

that causes blood to exert a 

pressure in our arteries? 

Part of the answer is simple 

- the heart creates blood 

pressure by forcing out 

blood when it contracts 

with every heartbeat. Blood 

pressure, however, cannot 

be created solely by the 

pumping heart. 

Biology and physics 

Our circulation is similar 

to a highly sophisticated 

form of plumbing - blood 

has 'flow' and arteries are 

'pipes.' A basic law of 

physics gives rise to our 

blood flow, and this law 

also applies in a garden 

hose pipe. 

Blood flows through our 

body because of a difference 

in pressure. 

Our blood pressure is 

highest at the start of its 

journey from our heart - 

when it enters the aorta - 

and it is lowest at the end of 

its journey along progressively 

smaller branches of 

arteries. That pressure difference 

is what causes 

blood to flow around our 

bodies. 

Arteries affect blood 

pressure in a similar way to 

the physical properties of a 

garden hose pipe affecting 

water pressure. Constricting 

the pipe increases pressure 

at the point of constriction. 

Without the elastic 

nature of the artery walls, 

for example, the pressure of 

the blood would fall away 

more quickly as it is 

pumped from the heart.

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Students spend day with 

army at Panu Aqil Garrison 

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EDITORIAL 

Big powers, world media must not use word 

"Islamists" instead of "terrorists", or prop up anti 

people dictators, instead of oppressed nations 

PRESIDENTIAL elections in United States 

have candidates seldom debate on glaring 

flaws in US foreign policy that even a failed 

student of international politics can easily see, 

understand and correct better than many of those 

rulers and contenders in an only and lonely superpower 

on decline and fallout. 

CANDIDATES in US presidential elections 

have seldom spoken about why US presidents were 

supporting oppressor dictators who robbed and tortured 

their own oppressed nations, why such a horrible 

practice was not stopped, and why US as a 

champion of human rights and civil liberties as 

well as supporter of democracy for nations around 

the world had not supported those oppressed 

nations, instead. 

WORLD media which should have significantly 

raised this evil side of US foreign policy and highlighted 

many of related unbelievable, surprising 

and defaming facts, realities and truths of this 

insane US policy can wake up in their internationally 

acclaimed new free world order, raise and 

highlight this issue and play its role in directing 

their politicians onto making changes with a thorough 

overhauling and changing of this insane 

world conquest spree of US administration and its 

allies worldwide: US and allies along with their 

lackeys and stooges including oppressors, dictators, 

corrupt leaders, rulers and despotic kings in 

Muslim world are violating international laws, 

interfering into internal affairs of other countries 

and having Muslim countries and their armies militarily 

invade and fight against each other. 

SANE nations and enlightened American nation 

cannot accept these merciless wars, especially of 

majority Sunni Muslim terrorists called rebels who 

are Mideast supported and trigger massive killings, 

massacres, suicide blasts and destruction all around 

imposed on minority Shia Muslim rulers and populations 

worldwide. These wrong policies and 

actions also include countries like France and 

Britain invading with consent of an orgnaization 

that was created to stop wars, that is, United 

Nations which even send UN peace keeping force 

to support the invaders killing and subjugating 

Muslim peoples abroad. A change in US foreign 

By Javier Solana 

Multipolarity is back, and with it strategic 

rivalry among the great powers. The reemergence 

of China and the return of Russia 

to the forefront of global politics are two of the most 

salient international dynamics of the century thus far. 

During United States President Donald Trump’s first 

year in the White House, the tension between the US 

and these two countries increased markedly. As the US 

domestic political environment has deteriorated, so, too, 

have America’s relations with those that are perceived 

as its principal adversaries. 

When China’s President Xi Jinping rose to power 

just more than five years ago, he presented the idea of a 

“new type of great-power relations” based on cooperation 

and dialogue, as well as respect for one another’s 

national interests. But China does not always live by 

what it preaches as far as cooperation is concerned, as its 

unilateralism in the South China Sea indicates. 

Likewise, the relative loss of influence of the Chinese 

diplomatic corps contrasts with the emerging symbiosis 

between Xi and the People’s Liberation Army. 

Russia’s military spending as a share of the gross 

domestic product has been increasing exponentially. On 

top of this, the US and Russia have accused each other 

of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces 

Treaty, the only Cold War-era agreement on armaments 

between the two countries that remains in force. 

While it makes sense to recognise the current 

challenges, we should refrain from exaggerating 

them. In the past few months, the US administration 

has published three important documents: The 

National Security Strategy, the National Defence 

Strategy, and the Nuclear Posture Review. In all of 

them, China and Russia are explicitly identified as 

serious threats to the international order. But the principal 

threat to the US today does not come from 

China or Russia; it comes from the confusion characterising 

its own policies, owing to Trump’s rejection 

of the very international order that the US helped 

forge and defend for decades. 

It is worth remembering that when Trump tries to 

intimidate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by 

boasting of US military power, the facts are — for 

once — on his side. US military spending is by far 

the world’s highest, almost three times that of second-place 

China, and almost nine times that of thirdplace 

Russia. Indeed, the US spends more on defence 

than the following eight countries combined, and 

possesses the world’s most sophisticated nuclear 

policy can do that and US presidential candidates 

have a prime responsibility to properly address this 

issue and make changes that American nation 

demands in US foreign policy. 

BIG powers follow a dictionary quite wrongly: 

Instead of following rights descriptions with right 

words and meanings, they turn meanings and synonyms 

into their own distorting words with misleading 

meanings for promoting their self-interests 

with dictators in Muslim and modern world. Their 

world media is building substitute words and 

meanings and an entirely different dictionary out of 

this world which did not reflect many an existing 

realities. 

UNITED States administrations have considered 

"Islamists" the biggest threat to US national 

security. Israel, US, Europe and allied powers must 

get their dictionary of terminologies right for applicability 

as they have turned Muslim synonyms into 

antonyms! They must stop their support to various 

anti people dictators and start supporting various 

nations. 

TO American leadership thinking, the rise of 

Islamists to power in some Arab countries could 

quickly spread across the entire Middle East as US 

supported dictators are swept aside by invigorated 

and emboldened popular movements under the liberating 

banner of Islam. This could result in political 

instability, unprecedented anti-US policies, 

overwhelming hostility towards Israel, oil supply 

disruptions and higher oil prices, withdrawal of 

financial assets from US financial institutions, and 

dumping of US government securities that would 

increase the cost of financing US national debt 

ranging in over a trillion dollar figure. The euphoria 

of Islamists could in time spread to the rest of 

the Muslim world and Islamists and the West 

would be confronting each other for decades, if not 

for centuries, to come. The only thing preventing 

this catastrophic scenario is a group of "friendly" 

dictators who "share" the US quest for peace and 

stability! Thus, the lesser of two evils, must be 

supported, as the Islamists must be undermined 

and defeated. Policy nonsense built on a pile of 

even more nonsense that will lead to centuries of 

conflict and pain. 

OPINION 

Horror of militarisation stalks the world 

A great-power conflict doesn’t look inevitable but US, Russia and China 

must avoid a narrative of confrontation 

arsenal. But, despite the Trump administration’s frequent 

declarations of military superiority, its actions 

imply that this superiority is not enough. 

Neutralising Russian capacity 

The Nuclear Posture Review is the best example of 

this cognitive dissonance. The new US doctrine stipulates 

an increase in the number of tactical nuclear 

arms with relatively small explosive potential. The 

objective of this measure is to neutralise Russian 

capacities in this field, thus “denying potential adversaries 

any mistaken confidence that limited nuclear 

employment can provide a useful advantage over the 

United States and its allies”. But if the confidence is 

indeed mistaken, why respond as if it were not? 

In contrast to the Pentagon’s view, the costly development 

of more tactical arms would in fact lower the 

threshold for nuclear conflict. And, as Brookings expert 

Robert Einhorn explains, the Nuclear Posture Review 

includes another doctrinal provision with a similar 

effect: the statement that the US could use nuclear arms 

in response to “non-nuclear strategic attacks” that are 

only ambiguously defined. 

Nine years after former US president Barack 

Obama’s speech in Prague, in which he committed to 

seeking a world free of nuclear weapons, disarmament 

has ceased to be a strategic priority for the US (which, 

as the world’s biggest power, should lead efforts in this 

area). A new arms race appears to be underway, though 

for now it may focus more on perfecting arsenals than 

on increasing their total size. 

Moreover, the Trump administration has just presented 

a budget proposal that would increase military 

spending, while cutting funds for the State Department 

by 25 per cent. This is one of the causes of degradation 

of America’s international image, a trend that doesn’t 

seem to trouble the current administration much. 

What really worries the Trump administration — 

aside from Iran and North Korea — is the strategic competition 

represented by Russia and, above all, by China. 

But, given mounting Russian and Chinese militarisation, 

it is critical to avoid adding fuel to the fire. A greatpower 

conflict is not inevitable — unless these powers 

act as if it were. 

What should alarm the US most is not the multipolarity 

that has been evolving throughout this century. 

Rather, the greatest risk to the US is that it could forget 

the principles and institutions that have shored up its 

global leadership. If the Trump administration continues 

emphasising a narrative of confrontation, it could end up 

creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

PANO AQIL: Students from different educational institutes ride on Al-Khalid Tank 

during their visit to Pano Aqil Garrison. 

Dozens of illicit housing 

societies plundering public 

RAWALPINDI: Some 

31 illegal housing societies 

in Rawalpindi are continually 

looting public with connivance 

of Rawalpindi 

Development Authority 

(RDA), Land mafia and 

extortionist groups. 

RDA Director 

Metropolitan failed to take 

any legal action, he has limited 

its performance, only to 

issuance of notices and press 

releases. 

On other hand, poor citizens 

who had invested all 

their assets are mendicant 

door to door. 

November Last year, 

Jamshed Aftab, RDA 

Director Metropolitan, 

RAWALPINDI: Excise 

and Taxation department 

Rawalpindi has sealed 32 

more properties during the 

operation against Property 

Tax defaulters. 

More than two and half 

released a list of 31 illegal 

housing societies and 

announced to take legal 

action against them, but 

uptill now no action has 

been taken against these illegal 

societies. 

According to sources, 

owners of these illegal societies 

are in contact with 

Director RDA and these 

societies also have backing 

of government and extortionists. 

These illegal housing 

societies include Jinnah 

Town, Airport Cooperative 

Housing society, Janjua 

Town I,II,III,Khayabe Millat 

(Adiyala), National Town 

(Jattal), Khayabane Quaid 

dozen residential and 

commercial properties 

were sealed during the 

operation. 

Staff of the department 

has recovered 2.8 Millions 

from Tax Defaulters. 

(Adiyala), T&T Housing 

Society (Morgah), OGDC 

Town, Hamza Town, Sukkur 

Town, Gulshan Town, Fazal 

Town Phase II, Gulberg 

Town, Lake Vista 

Residential Town, Rawal 

City, Palm City, Jabbar City, 

Usman Block, Billi Town, 

Laywers Town, Radio 

Colony, Federatation of 

EMployeed Cooperative 

Society, Samazar Housing, 

Gulraiz Housing, Metro 

Homes, Babar Homes, Paras 

Villas and Al Falah Homes. 

According to RDA representative 

Hafiz Irfan, 

RDA is mulling to start 

crackdown against illegal 

societies. 

32 more Properties of Tax Defaulters Sealed 

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi 

Development Authority (RDA) has 

decided to erect a overhead bridge for 

pedestrians in the area of ‘’Shahan Di 

Tahlian. 

It is pertinent to mention here that 

Pedestian Bridge was already existing 

before the initiation of construction work 

Under the supervision 

of Masood Bashir 

Waraich, the staff of 

Motor Branch has challanned 

more than 50 

vehicles of Token Tax 

defaulters. 

RDA decides to erect Bridge for 

pedestrians in ’Shahan Di Tahlian 

An FIR 

registers 

Our Correspondent 

SHIKARPUR: A case 

has been registered at 

Khanpur Police Station 

under Antiterrorism Act 

against 11 unidentified 

armed kidnappers, who kidnapped 

three villagers 

named Abdul Ghaffor, 

Abdul Wahab, belonging to 

Kandhkot district and 

Muhammad Rafique, 

belonging to Daharki town 

of Ghotki, all of by caste 

Chachar, who were kidnapped 

when they were 

returning towards village Ali 

Jaan Shar from village Haji 

Khan Kalhoro after collecting 

beds and its sheets to 

serve marriage guests next to 

Pak Arab Refinery 

Company [PARCO] at link 

road, on 18th of February 

2018. 

According to Khanpur 

police, a case [9/2018] under 

section 365A/ ATA 6/7 has 

been registered against 11 

unknown armed kidnappers 

on the complaint of Ghulam 

Mustafa Chachar, a close relative 

of kidnapped villagers. 

Nazeer Ahmed Lashari, 

the Deputy Superintendent 

of Police [DSP] Khanpur 

told this reporter that area 

police is trying its level best 

to rescue three kidnappees, 

however police operation is 

underway against criminals 

and kidnappers while he 

hoped that kidnappees 

would be rescued soon. 

in connection with Metro Bus project. 

Two educational institutes and office 

of District Education Officer are operating 

in this locality, therefore the staffers 

of these offices and residents of the area 

have to wait for hours to cross the road 

particularly in rush hours. . . 

This project will cost 12 millions. 

SMI opens general 

surgery facilities 

SHAHDADPUR: The Shahdadpur Medical Institute 

(SMI) has formally opened general surgery facilities for its 

patients after completion of its new operation theater. 

A team comprised of surgeons Dr Adeel, Dr Ghulam 

Mustafa and Dr Ghulam Muhammad Rajper conducted 

operation on a female patient of pancreas disease, successfully. 

The procedure was carried out free of cost. Director 

SIM Dr Bachal Garwan said previously their hospital had 

one operation theater, and now with the completion of their 

second OT, which is a modernized one, the people of this 

backward area would get free of cost surgical services and 

they would not have to visit bigger cities for their treatment. 

ISLAMABAD: A 

group of students and faculty 

members from different 

educational institutions 

spent a day with 

Army at Panu Aqil 

Garrison. 

The event was aimed at 

familiarizing students 

about functioning of 

Pakistan Army and its 

capabilities. 

The students and faculty 

members witnessed 

arms and equipment display, 

live firing and a 

demonstration by Quick 

Reaction Force. 

Unknown assailants 

kill 3 persons at 

farm in Chichawatni 

CHICHAWATNI: Three 

persons have been killed at 

a poultry farm in 

Chichawatni. Those killed 

include the owner of the 

farm, his cousin and servant. 

According to police in 

the village 112/113 L the 

owner of the poultry farm 

Chaudhry Zahid Hamid, 

his cousin, Rashid Naseer 

and servant Tulmeezul 

Hassan were fast sleeping 

in a room adjacent to poultry 

farm when unknown 

assailants entered the 

room and shot them dead. 

The killers managed to 

escape. 

Police said 12 bore 

arms were used to hit them 

in the head. Forensic team 

arrived at the scene and 

taken finger prints and 

recorded other witnesses. 

The dead bodies have been 

shifted to tehsil headquarter 

hospital for post 

mortem. 

MUET sets up 

sub-campus 

at Jacobabad 

J A C O B A B A D : 

Mehran University of 

Engineering and 

Technology (MUET) 

Jamshoro has set up its 

sub-campus at Jacobabad. 

Speaking at the foundation 

stone laying ceremony, 

MUET Vice 

Chancellor 

Dr 

Muhammad Aslam Uqaili 

said the regular classes in 

this sub-campus would 

start from 2019. He said 

after their sub-campus in 

Sukkur, the Jacobabad 

sub-campus would cater 

the needs of engineering 

students of the northern 

Sindh. 

Deputy Commissioner 

Jacobabad Naeem Ahmed 

Sandho said this sub-campus 

would help in raising 

education standards of not 

only his district but the 

whole region. He said 

more institutes of higher 

education should be 

opened in the rural areas. 

High court bench in Mirpurkhas need of hour 

M I R P U R K H A S : 

Ombudsman for the 

Protection of women 

against harassment at 

workplace Justice (R) 

Shah Nawaz Tariq has said 

that establishment of a 

bench of high court in 

Mirpurkhas is the need of 

the hour so that litigation 

costs could be reduced for 

local people. 

Talking to members of 

district bar council here, 

he said if a high court 

bench is established here 

it would be greatly beneficial 

not only for the citizens 

of Mirpurkhas but 

also for residents of nearby 

districts. 

SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah 

inaugurating Spring Tree Plantation campaign at Begari Bandi Zero Point.

Iran may withdraw from nuclear 

deal if gets no benefits: Araqchi 

LONDON: Iran says it 

could withdraw from the 

2015 nuclear deal if the 

“atmosphere of uncertainty” 

created by the new US 

administration continues to 

prevent Tehran from reaping 

the benefits of the multilateral 

accord, particularly in the 

business and banking sectors. 

Speaking at Britain’s 

Royal Institute of 

International Affairs in 

London, Iranian Deputy 

Foreign Minister Abbas 

Araqchi criticized US 

President Donald Trump 

over his threat to stop waiving 

anti-Iran sanctions, a US 

commitment under known 

as the Joint Comprehensive 

Plan of Action (JCPOA). 

“If the same policy of 

confusion and uncertainties 

about the JCPOA continues, 

if companies and banks are 

not working with Iran, we 

cannot remain in a deal that 

has no benefit for us,” he 

said. “Trump has created an 

atmosphere of uncertainty 

which is like a poison for the 

business community in 

WEST BANK: Israel 

forces have reportedly beaten 

a Palestinian youth to 

death after arresting him 

during a new wave of raids 

on homes in the West Bank 

city of Jericho. 

Yasin Omar al-Saradih, 

33, was arrested along with 

several other Palestinians 

during the raids on 

Thursday morning, 

Palestinian news agency 

Watan reported. 

Later in the day, Israeli 

officials informed Saradih’s 

family that he has lost his 

life, the report said. 

Rights groups have 

denounced Tel Aviv’s extrajudicial 

killings in situations 

where they say alleged 

assailants could have been 

detained in a non-lethal 

manner. Hundreds of 

Palestinians have been killed 

in similar circumstances. 

working with Iran.” 

Iran and the five permanent 

members of the United 

Nations Security Council – 

the United States, France, 

Britain, Russia and China – 

plus Germany signed the 

nuclear agreement on July 

14, 2015 and started implementing 

it on January 16, 

2016. 

Under the JCPOA, Iran 

undertook to put limits on its 

nuclear program in 

exchange for the removal of 

nuclear-related sanctions 

imposed against Tehran. 

According to the 

Palestinian human rights 

group, the Jerusalem Legal 

Aid and Human Rights 

Center (JLAC), Israel is currently 

holding the bodies of 

19 Palestinians killed in the 

past two years, along with 

260 bodies of those killed 

since 1967. 

Almost 6,280 

Trump has repeatedly 

described the nuclear deal, 

as “the worst and most onesided 

transaction 

Washington has ever entered 

into,” a characterization he 

often used during his presidential 

campaign, and 

threatened to tear it up. 

The US president on 

January 12 reluctantly 

agreed to waive sanctions 

against Iran that were lifted 

as part of the landmark deal, 

but said it would be the last 

time he issued such a waiver 

unless his conditions were 

Palestinians are currently 

being held in Israeli jails, 

465 of them under the controversial 

administrative 

detention, according to figures 

provided by the 

Palestinian prisoners’ rights 

group Addameer. 

Palestinian detainees 

have continuously resorted 

to open-ended hunger 

met. The US president said 

he wanted America’s 

European allies to use the 

120-day period before sanctions 

relief again came up 

for renewal to agree to fix its 

"terrible flaws," otherwise 

Washington will no more 

extend the bans relief. 

Araqchi further said, 

“The deal would not survive 

this way even if the ultimatum 

is passed and waivers 

are extended.” 

The Iranian official 

rejected Washington’s interpretation 

of the "sunset" 

Israeli forces beat Palestinian youth to death in West Bank 

Indonesian woman accused of Kim Jong Nam's 

murder was 'paid to fly to Macau', his home in exile 

KUALA LUMPUR: A 

woman accused of poisoning 

the North Korean 

leader’s half-brother, Kim 

Jong Nam, at a Malaysian 

airport had been paid to fly 

to Macau, Kim’s home at 

the time, just days before 

the killing took place, her 

lawyer told a court on 

Thursday. 

Kim Jong Nam, halfbrother 

of North Korean 

leader Kim Jong Un and a 

critic of his family’s dynastic 

rule, according to some 

South Korean lawmakers, 

had been living in exile in 

Macau, a special administrative 

region of China bordering 

Hong Kong. 

Indonesian Siti Aisyah 

is accused with another 

woman, Doan Thi Huong, 

from Vietnam, of murdering 

Kim Jong Nam by 

smearing his face with liquid 

VX, a banned chemical 

weapon, at Kuala Lumpur 

airport on Feb. 13 last year. 

Defence lawyers say the 

women thought they were 

playing pranks for a reality 

TV show, had been paid for 

playing similar pranks at 

shopping malls and airports 

elsewhere in the 

weeks before the killing 

and did not know they 

were poisoning Kim. They 

face the death penalty if 

convicted. 

On Feb. 8 last year, Siti 

Aisyah had been given 

4,000 ringgit ($1,020) by 

Hong Song Hac, a North 

Korean, to buy tickets to 

Macau so that she could 

play pranks for a reality TV 

show, her lawyer, Gooi 

Soon Seng, told the court. 

EU set to prepare sanctions on 

Myanmar generals: diplomats 

BRUSSELS: The European Union will 

start preparing sanctions against Myanmar 

generals over killings of Rohingya Muslims 

by formally calling on the bloc’s foreign policy 

chief next week to draw up a list of possible 

names, two diplomats said. 

Any new travel bans and asset freezes 

would be the EU’s toughest measures yet to 

try to hold the military accountable for the 

abuses, likely joining U.S. and Canadian 

sanctions already in place. 

“Ministers will call on (Federica) 

Mogherini to propose restrictive measures 

on senior members of the Myanmar military 

for systematic human rights abuses, without 

delay,” one diplomat said on Thursday, referring 

to EU sanctions. 

Foreign ministers will also ask Mogherini 

and the EU’s foreign service, the EEAS, on 

Monday to look at ways to strengthen the 

bloc’s 1990s-era arms embargo on the 

Southeast Asian country that remains in 

place. In a statement expected to be released 

on Monday at a regular gathering of EU foreign 

ministers, the bloc is also expected to 

reiterate its call for the release of Reuters 

reporters detained on Dec. 12 over accusations 

that they violated Myanmar’s Official 

Secrets Act. The two had been working on a 

Reuters investigation into the killing of 10 

Rohingya Muslim men who were buried in a 

mass grave in Rakhine state after being 

hacked to death or shot by ethnic Rakhine 

Buddhist neighbors and soldiers. 

strikes to voice their outrage 

at the administrative detention, 

which is a form of 

imprisonment without trial 

or charge that allows Israel 

to incarcerate Palestinians 

for up to six months. 

Palestinian prisoners 

complain that they have 

been subject to assault and 

torture at Israeli prisons. 

China probes report of 

possible North Korea 

sanctions breach at sea 

BEIJING: China said on 

Thursday it is investigating 

a Japanese report that a 

Chinese ship may have carried 

out a ship-to-ship 

transfer with a North 

Korean vessel in breach of 

U.N. sanctions. 

Japan said late on 

Tuesday that its military had 

spotted a North Koreanflagged 

tanker lying alongside 

a small vessel of 

unknown origin with 

Chinese characters on it in 

the East China Sea, indicating 

it was possibly an oil 

tanker from the southeastern 

Chinese province of Fujian. 

Japan suspects they were 

conducting ship-to-ship 

transfers banned by the 

U.N. Security Council and 

has informed the Security 

Council and shared the 

information with other 

countries, Japan’s Foreign 

Ministry said. 

SEOUL: North Korea 

will send a high-level delegation 

to South Korea for 

the Winter Olympics closing 

ceremony, officials said on 

Thursday, including the man 

blamed for the 2010 sinking 

of a South Korean navy ship 

that killed 46 sailors. 

The latest visit by officials 

from the normally 

reclusive North will coincide 

with a visit by a U.S. 

delegation led by President 

Donald Trump’s daughter, 

Ivanka. 

The North Korean delegation 

will be led by Kim 

Yong Chol, vice-chairman 

clause in the JCPOA as 

wrong. 

“There is no sunset 

clause in the JCPOA. 

Although the US administration 

and Trump are talking 

about sunset clause and 

that JCPOA is just for 10 

years, that is not true,” he 

said. “Iran’s commitment in 

the JCPOA not to go for the 

nuclear weapons is permanent.” 

Trump's administration 

has been upset at the deal’s 

"sunset" clause, which it 

says sets an expiration date 

for the limits on the Iranian 

nuclear activities after which 

Iran will be free to develop a 

nuclear weapon. 

However, under the 

JCPOA, the monitoring of 

Iranian nuclear activities by 

the International Atomic 

Energy Agency (IAEA) will 

technically not expire. Iran 

and its negotiating partners 

agreed under the deal that if 

the agreement is fully implemented 

by all sides, Tehran 

will in eight years ratify the 

Additional Protocol at its 

Parliament. 

Philippines' Duterte 

says may expand ban 

on outbound workers 

MANILA: Philippine 

President Rodrigo Duterte 

said on Thursday he would 

extend his ban on sending 

workers to Kuwait to 

include other countries if 

investigations showed 

Filipinos were being seriously 

abused by employers 

elsewhere. 

The Southeast Asian 

country has suspended the 

deployment of workers to 

the Gulf state since last 

month after Duterte said 

the abuse was unchecked 

and had driven several 

Filipino domestic helpers 

there to suicide. 

“We are doing an audit 

now (to) find out the places 

where we deploy Filipinos 

and our countrymen suffer 

brutal treatment and 

human degradation,” 

Duterte said in the central 

province of Iloilo. 

He was visiting the 

wake of a Filipino whose 

body was found this 

month in a freezer at an 

abandoned apartment in 

Kuwait, with signs of 

torture. 

SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

MELBOURNE: Police 

are searching for a gunman 

after a shooting at a 

tattoo parlour east of 

Melbourne, which left a 

man fighting for his life. 

The Armed Crime 

Squad and Echo 

Taskforce, Victoria 

Police's Anti-Gang 

Division, are investigating 

after a man in his 30s 

was involved in a shooting 

inside the Nitro Ink 

parlour in Hampton Park. 

Investigators believe 

LOS ANGELES: “The 

Shape of Water,” a contender 

for this year’s best 

picture Oscar, was hit with 

a plagiarism lawsuit on 

Wednesday, alleging that its 

fantastical plot about a 

romance between a cleaning 

woman and a mysterious 

river creature was lifted 

directly from an American 

stage play. 

The lawsuit, filed in federal 

court in Los Angeles, 

alleged that director 

Guillermo del Toro, producer 

Daniel Kraus and movie 

studio Fox Searchlight 

“brazenly copies the story, 

elements, characters and 

themes” from a 1969 play 

by the late Paul Zindel. 

“The Shape of Water” 

has a leading 13 Oscar 

nominations at the March 4 

Academy Awards ceremony, 

including nods for best 

picture and best director. 


International 

5 

Oscar contender 'Shape of Water' 

accused of ripping off 1969 play 

MOSCOW: Russian 

opposition leader Alexei 

Navalny was detained by 

police on Thursday but then 

released a short while later, 

weeks ahead of a presidential 

election in which he has 

been barred from running. 

A 41-year-old anti-corruption 

campaigner, 

Navalny has been repeatedly 

jailed for organizing 

some of Russia’s biggest 

protests in recent years, railing 

against what he says are 

the gilded lives of President 

Vladimir Putin and his 

inner circle. 

The lawsuit was filed the 

day after ballots went out to 

some 8,000 members of the 

Academy of Motion 

Picture Arts and Sciences, 

who vote on the Oscar winners. 

The lawsuit, filed by 

Zindel’s son David, listed 

more than 60 resemblances 

between the play “Let Me 

Hear You Whisper,” and 

“The Shape of Water.” 

They include the play 

and the movie’s basic story 

of the lonely janitor who 

works at a scientific laboratory 

during the Cold War, 

forms a loving bond with a 

captive aquatic creature 

and hatches a plan to liberate 

it. 

In the Zindel play, the 

creature is a dolphin. In the 

movie, it is a half-man, 

half-river creature. 

The lawsuit said that 

despite “the glaring similarities 

between the play and 

the obviously derivative 

picture, defendants never 

bothered to seek or obtain a 

customary license” for the 

rights to Zindel’s play, nor 

credit him. 

Fox Searchlight denied 

the claims as “baseless (and) 

wholly without merit.” 

The studio said in a 

statement that the lawsuit 

seemed timed “to coincide 

with the Academy Award 

voting cycle in order to 

pressure our studio to 

quickly settle. Instead, we 

will vigorously defend ourselves 

and, by extension, 

this groundbreaking and 

original film.” 

The lawsuit cited interviews 

given by Kraus and 

del Toro in which they said 

Kraus, an American novelist, 

came up with the storyline 

about a janitor who 

kidnaps an amphibian. 

Russian opposition leader Navalny 

briefly held ahead of March election 

that it was a targeted 

shooting. Emergency 

services were called to the 

scene about 1:15pm after 

the alarm was raised. 

The Alfred Hospital 

has since said the man is 

in a serious but stable 

condition. An extensive 

crime scene has been set 

up around the shopping 

complex that the parlour 

He has been barred 

from running in the March 

18 election over what his 

supporters say is a 

trumped-up suspended 

prison sentence, but has 

called for a nationwide 

boycott aimed at undermining 

Putin’s legitimacy. 

Man shot at tattoo parlour in Melbourne 

of the ruling Workers’ 

Party’s Central Committee, 

and will stay for three days 

from Sunday, South Korea’s 

Ministry of Unification said 

Kurdish YPG militia says Syrian 

army must come help stop Turkey 

BEIRUT/ANKARA: 

The Syrian Kurdish YPG 

militia said on Thursday 

that fighters backing the 

Syrian government were 

deploying on the frontlines 

to help repel a Turkish 

assault, but that assistance 

would be needed from the 

Syrian army itself. 

“Groups aligned to the 

Syrian army came to Afrin, 

but not in the quantity or 

in a statement. 

Kim also heads the 

United Front Department, 

the North Korean office 

responsible for handling 

capacity to stop the Turkish 

occupation,” YPG 

spokesman Nouri 

Mahmoud told Reuters. 

“The Syrian army must fulfill 

its duty... to protect 

Syria’s borders.” 

The YPG has called on 

Syrian President Bashar al- 

Assad’s government to send 

troops to the Afrin region in 

the northwest, and pro- 

Damascus militias arrived 

inter-Korean affairs. 

He was previously chief 

of the Reconnaissance 

General Bureau, a top North 

Korean military intelligence 

agency, which South Korea 

blamed for the deadly 2010 

sinking of the Cheonan, a 

South Korean navy corvette. 

South Korean 

Unification Minister Cho 

Myoung-gyon said the torpedo 

attack on the boat was 

carried by the North but the 

government had not been 

able to confirm exactly who 

was responsible. 

North Korea denied having 

anything to do with the 

there late on Tuesday. 

Hundreds of those fighters 

have deployed on front 

lines in Afrin battling 

Turkish forces, Mahmoud 

said. 

But Assad did not send 

the army itself, a deployment 

that could have 

sparked a wider direct confrontation 

with the Syrian 

government if Turkey did 

not back down. 

is in. 

Police are speaking 

with witnesses there, and 

are asking anyone with 

information to contact 

them. 

Nearby resident 

Rhonda Scott said it was a 

confronting scene to 

come home to. "All the 

police cars and police 

tape and an ambulance … 

I'm glad I wasn't here," 

she said. 

She said she believed 

there had been problems 

at the tattoo parlour in 

past. "Police have busted 

the shop before," she said. 

North Korean closing Olympics delegation includes man blamed for deadly sinking 

sinking. 

“Kim is in charge of 

South Korea affairs, which 

is why we’re accepting him 

as we believe it would help 

improve inter-Korean relations 

and resolve the matter 

of denuclearization”, Cho 

told parliament. 

The Winter Olympics in 

South Korea have given a 

big boost to engagement 

between the two Koreas 

after more than a year of 

sharply rising tension over 

the North’s missile tests and 

its sixth and largest nuclear 

test in defiance of U.N. sanctions.

6 


Biz 

Agriculture sector, most important 

in CPEC’s LTP: Ministry of Planning 


Agriculture is very important 

pillar of Long Term Plan 

(LTP) of China Pakistan 

Economic Corridor (CPEC) 

and the government is giving 

it priority aiming at modern, 

systematic, standardized 

and intensified construction 

of the agricultural industry. 

The governments of the 

two countries have agreed to 

constitute a group to explore 

and ensure implementation 

of different initiative in agri 

sector, an offcial in Ministry 

of Planning Development 

and Reforms said on 

Thursday. 

He said China and 

Pakistan had agreed to give 

full play to their own comparative 

advantages to 

strengthen agricultural infrastructure 

construction within 

the CPEC coverage and 

played their own roles in 

agricultural personnel training, 

technical exchanges and 

cooperation. 

It has already been decided 

to cooperate in key construction 

areas such as biological 

breeding, production, 

processing, storage and 

transportation, infrastructure 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Chief Minister Syed Murad 

Ali Shah while presiding 

over a meeting regarding 

preparation of next budget Mohammad 

for financial year 2018-19 

at CM House, has given 

guidelines to his team to 

control non-development 

expenditures, increase allocations 

in social sector such 

as education and health and 

water schemes be given 

special focus so that they 

ATTOCK: Farmers spraying pesticides in heir filed. 

could be completed well in 

time. 

The meeting was attended 

by P&D Chairman 

Waseem, 

Principal Secretary Sohail 

Rajput, and experts of the 

finance department. The 

chief minister was told that 

during 2016-17, the total 

provincial receipts, including 

SRB (GST on 

Services), tax excluding 

GST and non-tax were Rs 

166.033 billion. In 2016- 

17, the provincial receipts 

rose Rs159.294 billion in 

the same heads and during 

2017-18, the estimated 

amount is Rs 199.627 and 

receipts of first seven 

months is around Rs 100 

billion. 

The meeting was 

informed that during the 

current financial year, 2974 

schemes, including 2158 

on-going and 816 new, are 

construction, disease prevention 

and control, water 

resources utilization, conservation 

and production, land 

development and remediation, 

ICT-enabled agriculture 

and marketing of agricultural 

products to promote 

the systematic, large-scale, 

standardized and intensified 

construction of the agricultural 

industry. 

“China and Pakistan 

have an agreement to promote 

the transition from traditional 

agriculture to modern 

agriculture in the regions 

along the CPEC to effectively 

boost the development of 

local agricultural economy 

and help local people get rid 

of poverty and become better 

off, strengthen the upgradation 

of agricultural 

infrastructure, promote the 

construction of water saving 

modern agricultural zones, 

and increase the development 

and remediation of 

mediumand low-yielding 

land to achieve efficient use 

of resources,” the official 

added. 

Under CPEC, efforts are 

being made to strengthen 

drip irrigation technology 

for water efficiency, 

strengthen cooperation in 

the fields such as crop farming, 

livestock breeding, 

forestry and food growing, 

and aquatic and fishery, with 

in progress against an 

amount of Rs244 billion, 

including Rs 39.884 million 

revenue. The provincial 

government with the 

personal interest and intervention 

has released 60 per 

cent of the allocated 

amount which comes to Rs 

146.388 billion which is 

itself a record while the 50 

percent of the released 

amount or Rs 72.485 billion 

have been utilization. 

the highlight on technical 

exchange and cooperation in 

the fields of development of 

comprehensive agricultural 

production capacity, construction 

of farmland water 

conservancy facility and 

agricultural products circulation 

facility. 

The CPEC Agri sector is 

also focusing on improving 

post-harvest handling, storage 

and transportation of 

agricultural products and 

innovates in marketing and 

sales models, Improve 

water resources operation 

and management, strengthen 

development of pastoral 

areas and desert, and promote 

application of remote 

sensing technology. 

The key cooperation 

areas focus on strengthening 

production of agriculture 

inputs particularly pesticides, 

fertilizer, machinery 

and support services 

including agriculture education 

and research, collaboration 

in forestry, horticulture, 

fisheries and livestock 

medicines and vaccines as 

well as strengthening production 

of horticulture 

products. 

Oil reverses course and rises 

as dollar backs off highs 

Sindh CM chairs preliminary 

4000 farmers get 

training in modern 

meeting for next budget 

horticulture 

H Y D E R A B A D : 

Introducing of new agriculture 

techniques is necessary 

to make Sindh province a 

grain basket of Pakistan and 

4000 farmers of the 

province have already been 

given training in modern 

horticulture. Fourteen of 

these farmers were sent 

abroad for advanced training, 

said Director Sindh 

Agriculture Growth Project 

Hidayatullah Chajjro. 

Talking to media here, he 

said agrcilture provides 

21percent of our GDP. 

PM in Turkmenistan for inaugural 

ceremony of TAPI gas pipeline project 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

Minister Shahid Khaqan 

Abbasi has reached in 

Turkmenistan to attend 

inaugural ceremony of 

T u r k m e n i s t a n , 

Afghanistan, Pakistan and 

India gas pipeline project. 

At the airport, Deputy 

Chairman of Turkmen 

Cabinet received the Prime 

Minister and his delegation. 

Turkmenistan has 

project’s 

completed construction of 

gas pipeline in its section 

under TAPI project, following 

which a groundbreaking 

ceremony is 

scheduled to be performed 

at the Turkmen border city 

of Serhetabat tomorrow to 

take the pipeline to 

Afghanistan. 

The grand inaugural 

ceremony would be preceded 

by a Steering 

Committee meeting of the 

participating 

countries-Turkmenistan, 

Afghanistan, Pakistan and 

India at Mary City in 

Turkmenistan. 

CORPORATE CORNER 

THK Solutions partners with 1Link 

Staff Report 

KARACHI: Anwar Matin, CEO THK Solutions signed a tri-party agreement 

with 1LINK Limited and Faysal Bank Limited (FBL) to digitize their payment collection 

methods. 

Anwar Matin told that THK Solutions is operating in the payment landscape for 

few years and this partnership with 1LINK & FBL will provide the opportunity for 

THKS to enter a new market segment market; THK will play its role as an aggregator 

where Faysal Bank will cover the settlement function. 

“This strategic alignment, will make online payment transaction infrastructure 

accessible to all business entities and provide convenient, quick payment acceptance 

capabilities to any business that needs to process payments from their end customers,” 

said Anwar Matin after signing the agreement. 

Mr. Najeeb Agrawalla, CEO of 1LINK stated that times have changed and technology 

is changing rapidly. We need to stay competitive and offer the best solutions 

to our customers. We are proud of our success and through our collaboration with 

THKS, we are confident that our customers will be appreciative of the expediency 

that will be enabled in payment industry.” 

According to spokesman this collaboration will empower both THKS and 1LINK 

to jointly provide an efficient, cost effective and strong payment infrastructure. In 

addition, it will drive the growth of payments by promoting new, secure, and more 

convenient ways to pay, and thereby advancing e-payments in established and 

emerging markets of Pakistan adding that the collaboration allows ease of B2B & 

B2C payment collection through different service channels of banks. 

“TCS is one of the pillars of 

E-commerce in Pakistan” 

Qasim Awan, Director, TCS, talked about the juxtaposition 

of logistics and e-commerce in the future of business 

KARACHI The courier industry has been going through a 

transformation globally and e-commerce is a very important 

sector to capitalize on, said Qasim Awan, Director at TCS, 

during a panel discussion at Expo Center in Karachi. 

Titled ‘Momentum8 Creating Possibilities’ the 2-day conclave brought together 

tech professionals for a discourse on e-commerce, startups and fintech. 

“We plan to continuously innovate and make our customers comfortable in 

working with us,” he said as part of the discussion on the topic ‘Is Ecommerce the 

Future Mode of Business?’. 

Awan also spoke about the global scenario of e-commerce logistics and its 

impact in Pakistan. He highlighted what TCS was already doing for e-commerce 

online startups. 

“Online start-ups need more investment and liquidity during the early phase of 

their development and TCS supports online startups by providing them with special 

SME offers such as free deliveries for a certain time period,” he added. 

He was also of the view that due to TCS’s international alliance with UPS, deliveries 

were possible anywhere in the world just by being plugged into the TCS ecommerce 

platform. 

“We do believe that we have the capability and local knowledge, and we aim to 

remain the number one player in the ecommerce market,” he pointed out. 

Moderating the Panel was Raza Matin, with Hassaan of Trax Logistics, Imran 

Baxamoosa of BlueEx, Qasim Awan of TCS on the panel. 

A host of other industry specialists addressed such thought-provoking areas as 

‘New Face of the Pakistani Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’, ‘Opportunities in the ICT 

Sector’, ‘Why Telcos are Looking at Tech Startups’, etc. 

Oman Air continues its dynamic network 

expansion announcing three new routes in 

2018 – Casablanca Istanbul and Moscow 

LONDON: Oil rose on 

Thursday, reversing early 

losses, aided by a drop in the 

dollar that helped focus 

investors’ attention on a 

probable decline in U.S. 

crude inventories. 

Brent crude futures 

LCOc1 were last up 13 cents 

at $65.55 a barrel by 1500 

GMT, as were West Texas 

Intermediate (WTI) futures 

CLc1 which were last at 

$61.81 a barrel. 

The dollar eased back 

from earlier one-week highs 

after minutes from the 

European Central Bank's 

most recent policy meeting 

gave the euro EUR= a boost. 

Since the dollar began to 

grind higher a few weeks 

ago, the oil price has lost 

nearly 10 percent since hitting 

a multi-year high above 

$70 in January. 

“Given the market’s 

whipsaw reaction we could 

KARACHI: A delegation of Korangi 

Association of trade and Industry (KATI) 

called on Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zafar 

MehmoodAbbasi. While talking to a delegation 

lead by President KATI Tariq Malik, He 

said that Pak navy is guarding seas of 

Pakistan with the best of capacity and professionalism. 

He said that economic stability is 

the first step towards prosperity. The chief 

also said that CPEC would be game changer 

for Pakistan. 

President KATI Tariq Malik applauded the 

services of naval forces. He also said that 

business community always stand with Arm 

forces of Pakistan. On these occasion vice 

presidential of KATI JunaidNaqi, 

ZubairChhaya and FarukhMazhar was included 

in the delegation. 

add another key takeaway, 

that recent heightened market 

volatility could be here 

to stay,” LCG markets 

strategist Jasper Lawler 

said. 

The correlation between 

moves in the oil price and 

the dollar has strengthened 

in the last couple of weeks, 

as investors increasingly sell 

other assets to buy the U.S. 

currency on expectations of 

a faster pace of rate rises. 

ADB provides $360m for rolling 

stock to boost Bangladesh Railway 

MANILA: The Board 

of Directors of the Asian 

Development Bank (ADB) 

has approved loans totaling 

$360 million to buy modern 

rolling stock and support 

reform in Bangladesh 

Railway to help promote a 

shift from roads to rail. 

“Railways in 

Bangladesh potentially 

offer a cheaper, safer, and 

more fuel-efficient means 

of transport of goods and 

passengers than roads, but 

have been held back by 

lack of investment and 

aging and unreliable 

rolling stock,” said 

Tsuneyuki Sakai, an ADB 

Senior 

Specialist. 

KATI delegation calls on CNS 

Transport 

KARACHI: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zafar MehmoodAbbasi presenting Pak-Navy souvenir to 

PresidentKorangi Association of Trade & Industry Tariq Malik. At the occasion Vice President 

KATI JunaidNaqi, Former President ZubairChhaya and Syed FarukhMazhar. 

KARACHI: Oman Air, the national carrier for the Sultanate of Oman is launching 

three new routes this year to Istanbul, Turkey in June, Casablanca, Morocco in 

July, and Moscow, Russia in October. While Istanbul and Moscow will be served by 

Oman Air’s Boeing 737-800, Casablanca will be served by 787-8. 

The new flight to Istanbul will launch on 1st June. Flight WY163 will depart 

Muscat daily at 20.00, arriving at Istanbul at 00.25. The return flight WY164 will 

depart Istanbul each day at 01.25, arriving in Muscat at 07.25. The flight duration is 

approximately 5 hours and 25 minutes. 

The new Casablanca flight will start on 1st July and will be the only non-stop 

service to Casablanca from Oman. Flight WY171 will depart Muscat four times per 

week at 01.20, arriving in Casablanca at 07.10. The return flight WY172 will depart 

Casablanca at 08.20, arriving in Muscat at 19.15. The flight duration is approximately 

eight hours and 50 minutes, though the return flight from Casablanca will be 

shorter by approximately an hour. 

Moscow will be launched during the Winters Schedule 2018. The direct flight 

will be operated daily and it will be the only non-stop operation between Oman and 

Russia. 

From trading to sharing information, Oman has strong bilateral relations with 

Turkey, Morocco and Russia, and the introduction of these new flights will help 

strengthen relations even further. The new routes will also enable Oman Air’s guests 

to explore three of the world’s most exciting cities. 

Oman Air is currently undergoing an exciting fleet and network expansion programme, 

which will see the airline operate up to 62 aircraft to around 60 destinations 

by 2022. The airline is committed to constantly improving its product, whilst 

undergoing its dynamic fleet and network expansion, developing its brand and offering 

its guests an unrivalled experience as part of its mission to ‘become the best.’


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Music, festivities and fireworks aplenty 

at PSL 2018 opening ceremony in Dubai 

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DUBAI: The 2018 

Pakistan Super League 

(PSL) kicked off on 

Thursday with a glitzy 

opening ceremony at the 

Dubai International 

Cricket Stadium. 

Following a countdown 

to the big launch, the event 

officially began with 

Sachal Orchestra playing 

the national anthem of 

Pakistan. 

Moments later, Ali 

Zafar took the centre stage 

and entertained the crowd 

with a special PSL rendition 

of his famous track, 

Rockstar. 

Hareem Fatima and 

Bilal Ashraf spoke briefly 

Sports Reporter 

K A R A C H I : 

Goalkeeper’s role has 

assumed great importance 

in today’s hockey. In order 

to groom goalkeepers on 

modern lines, Pakistan 

Hockey Federation is conducting 

a two week coaching 

camp for up and coming 

goalkeepers male and 

female at Abdul Sattar 

Edhi Hockey Stadium, 

Karachi from February 25 

but soon made way for 

master presenter Ramiz 

Raja, who introduced the 

league's expansion franchise: 

the Multan Sultans. 

The Sultans were followed 

by Islamabad 

United and the Karachi 

Kings. The Lahore 

Qalandars and reigning 

champions Peshawar 

Zalmi didn't take long in 

joining their rivals in the 

middle. 

The tradition in sports 

is for the champions to be 

introduced last but the 

organisers, for some reason, 

reserved that honour 

for the two-time finalists: 

the Quetta Gladiators. 

Pakistan Hockey Goalkeepers 

coaching Camp 

to March 10, 

Pakistan’s two former 

celebrated goal keepers, 

World Cup winner 

Mansoor Ahmed, and 

Nasir Ahmad would conduct 

the course. 

Following 21 goal 

keepers have been asked to 

report to the course coordinators 

at the Abdul Sattar 

Hockey Stadium on 

February 24. 

Male: 

Waqar Younis , Adil 

Rao, Awais Rashid, 

Maseeh, Aun Ali, Hafiz Al 

Umair, Waleed Akhtar, 

Yasir Khan, Ali Raza, 

M u n e e b - u r - R e h m a n , 

Roman Khan, Ali Haider, 

Akmal Hussain, Arsal 

Eyjaz & Usman Malik 

Female: 

Rushna Khan, Anmol 

Arshad, Tahira Islam, Nida 

Majeed, Syeda Sadia & 

Sitara. 

DR M. Arif Hafeez 


KARACHI: The Jubilee 

Insurance 43rd National 

Snooker C’ship 2018 final 

day ended with Muhammad 

Asif convincingly winning 

the final by defeating 

Muhammad Bilal. 

Final Result were: 

Muhammad Asif (Pjb) bt 

Muhammad Bilal (Pjb) 8- 5 

(83-10(83), 69-48, 76-19, 

12-78(63), 28-93(60), 0- 

87(59), 57-77(77), 68- 

09(61), 79-34(79), 08- 

87(87), 75-51, 69-40, 66- 

37) 

The Cash Prizes and 

Trophies awarded to the 

winning players by Mr. 

Tahir Ahmed, Managing 

Director Jubilee General 

Insurance Co. Ltd. were: 

Winner Prize of Rs. 

100,000 + Trophy to 

Muhammad Asif 

Runner Up prize of Rs. 

50,000 + Trophy to 

Muhammad Bilal 

Highest Break Rs. 

10,000 Prize + Trophy to 

Muhammad Asif (132) 

Semi Finalist Rs. 20,000 

each Quarter Finalist Rs. 

10,000 each 

PCB Chairman Najam 

Sethi also addressed the 

crowd, saying: "A sixth 

member of the PSL family 

has joined us this year. 

Last year, 24 matches happened, 

this year there will 

be 34. The PSL is a national 

asset and we need to 

safeguard it. 

"We are honoured to 

work with the PCB and 

help with a platform that 

could launch the careers of 

many young cricketers," 

added HBL COO Sagheer 

Mufti. The first performer 

of the night was the legendary 

Sufi singer: Abida 

Parween. 

Once her set was over it 

Pre Quarter Finalist Rs. 

4,000 each 

Highest Break Rs. 

was pop star Shehzad 

Roy's turn to entertain the 

audience. 

Hareem and Bilal then 

introduced US pop star 

Jason Derulo, which drew 

loud cheers from the 

crowd. 

Last but definitely not 

the least on the list was Ali 

Zafar again, who presented 

his official PSL anthem: 

Dil Se Jaan Laga De (Put 

your heart in it). 

Fireworks around the 

stadium marked the end of 

the PSL 2018 opening ceremony, 

which means the 

stage is now set for the 

teams and the cricketers to 

take over. 

43rd National Snooker C’ship 2018: 

Muhammad Asif wears the winning cap 

10,000 each 

Above Century Breaks 

Rs. 2,000 each. 

KARACHI: Group Photograph KPK Cycling team wins 2 Gold medals and 3 Bronzes 

medals in special Olympics Pakistan national Cycling Championship 2018. 

ICCI’s Tenpin Bowling Championship 

concludes successfully 


KARACHI: Emma 

Terho from Finland (ice 

hockey) and Kikkan 

Randall from USA (crosscountry 

skiing) have been 

elected to the International 

Olympic Committee 

(IOC)’s Athletes’ 

Commission by their fellow 

Olympians at the 

Olympic Winter Games 

PyeongChang 2018. 

With a record participation 

rate of 83.86 per cent, 

athletes at the Olympic 

Winter Games made their 

way to the voting booths in 

the Athlete365 Space in 

both the PyeongChang and 

Gangneung Olympic 

Villages to cast their votes. 

Terho was elected with 

1,045 votes, followed by 

Randall with 831 votes. 

The announcement was 

made today at the Olympic 

Village by IOC Executive 

Board Member and Chair 

of the Election Committee 

Nicole Hoevertsz, Swedish 

IOC Athletes’ Commission 

member Stefan Holm and 

ISLAMABAD: The the finalists of the 

Sports Committee of Championship. Sheikh 

Islamabad Chamber of Amir Waheed, President, 

Commerce & Industry Islamabad Chamber of 

organized a two day Tenpin 

Bowling Championship to 

promote sports activities in 

the members of Chamber 

Commerce and Industry 

was the Chief Guest while 

former Senator Syed Zafar 

Ali Shah was the Guest of 

and their kids. The Honor of the closing ceremony. 

Championship featured 

men’s singles and team, 

females singles and doubles, 

Speaking at the occasion, 

he called upon the 

mixed team and sin- 

business community to 

gles for kids of the members.M. 

take active part in sports 

AshfaqChatha, for- 

activities to remain a 

mer Vice President ICCI healthy citizen. He stressed 

got the first position while that government should 

M. Faheem Khan, M. focus to promoting sports 

Wasil and Baser Daudwere activities in order to develop 

a healthy society. He 

said Pakistan achieved 

international trophies in 

cricket, hockey, squash and 

snooker that showed that 

our youth has great talent 

to excel in every sports. He 

said government should 

create conducive environment 

for sports and provide 

all needed facilities for 

promoting sports activities.He 

congratulated Nasir 

Mehmood Chaudhry 

Chairman and all members 

of ICCI Sports Committee 

for successful holding of 

Tenpin 

Championship. 

Bowling 

IOC Sports Director Kit 

McConnell. 

Terho represented 

Finland at five Olympic 

Winter Games, winning 

bronze at Nagano 1998 and 

Vancouver 2010. Randall, 

meanwhile, is currently 

competing in her fifth 

Winter Games in 

South Africa 

out-Klaasen India 

in second T20I 

CENTURION: For the 

second time in his short 

career, Heinrich Klaasen 

halted India’s cricketing 

juggernaut as South Africa 

won the second T20I by 

six wickets at SuperSport 

Park on Wednesday. 

Klaasen slammed 

seven sixes in hitting 69 

off 30 balls as South 

Africa chased down a target 

of 189 with eight balls 

to spare. 

The win squared the 

three-match series, taking 

it to a decider in Cape 

Town on Saturday. 

Both teams had to contend 

with a wet ball, with 

drizzle falling during both 

innings. 

“Klaasie got us ahead 

of the game,” said South 

African captain JP 

Duminy. 

The wicketkeeper-batsman, 

who only got his 

international debut after 

Quinton de Kock was 

injured during the second 

of six one-day internationals, 

was moved up the 

batting order when it 

seemed possible rain 

would cause the match to 

be decided on a 

Duckworth-Lewis-Stern 

calculation. 

PyeongChang. Earlier this 

week, she won the USA's 

first-ever Olympic gold 

medal in cross-country skiing, 

after topping the podium 

in the team sprint event 

alongside Jessica Diggins. 

Following approval by 

the IOC Session, to take 

place on the last day of the 

Games, Terho and Randall 

will become Commission 

and IOC Members for an 

eight-year term, representing 

their fellow Olympians 

on the IOC Athletes’ 

Commission, which serves 

as a link between the athletes 

and the IOC. 

They will replace current 

IOC Athletes’ 

Commission Chair Angela 

Ruggiero and Adam 

Bangladesh to face India in T20 on Mar 8 


K A R A C H I : 

Bangladesh will face India 

first in Nidahas Trophy 

Twenty20 International 

tri-series tournament on 

March 8. 

The tournament has 

been organised to mark the 

70th anniversary of Sri 

Lanka’s independence. 

The matches will be 

played under lights at the 

R Premadasa Stadium in 

Colombo. 

Apart 

PyeongChang Olympians elect two new 

members to IOC Athletes’ Commission 

from 

DG ISPR looking 

forward to PSL 

and Karachi final 

Pengilly, whose terms are 

finishing following their 

election at the Olympic 

Winter Games Vancouver 

2010. 

All 2,930 athletes competing 

in PyeongChang 

were eligible to vote and 

had six candidates to 

choose from representing 

three continents and five 

different sports. They were 

asked to cast votes for two 

different athletes from two 

different sports. 

Prior to the start of the 

Olympic Winter Games 

PyeongChang 2018, Kirsty 

Coventry was appointed as 

the incoming Chair of the 

Athletes’ Commission following 

a vote of confidence 

from her fellow members. 

Bangladesh, India and Sri 

Lanka will also be participating 

in the three-nation 

tournament. 

India will take on Sri 

Lanka in the opener of the 

tri-series tournament, 

starting on March 6. 

As per the schedule 

released on the Sri Lanka 

Cricket (SLC), the tournament 

will follow a roundrobin 

format in which the 

three teams play each other 

twice. The top two teams 

will lock horns in the title 


KARACHI: Director KARACHI: Rumeli 

General Inter-Services Dhar's parents had almost 

Public Relations (DG ISPR) given up home and had not 

Major General Asif Ghafoor anticipated daughter's 

tweeted on Thursday that he 

was looking forward to the 

comeback in the national 

women's team. 

Pakistan Super League "Six years is a long long 

(PSL) and the final of the 

tournament which will be 

played in Karachi. 

The third edition of the 

gap and we had never 

thought of her comeback", 

the parents (father Anup 

and mother Gauri) speaking 

PSL commences today, 

exclusively, said. 

with the first match Before being in the 

between defending champions 

final XI against South 

Peshawar Zalmi and Africa (T-20) at the 

new franchise Multan SuperSport Park, 

Sultans at 10 PM tonight 

(Pakistan time). 

Centurion, Rumeli's last 

international match, which 

was ODI, was against 

Australia (at Mumbai) in 

2012 and her last T-20 was 

even more than one year 

earlier than that (against 

West Indies at 

Ahmedabad). 

clash on March 18. 

“70 years is a long journey, 

and one that needs to 

be commemorated and 

celepated. We are happy 

that our closest neighbours, 

who share more or 

less the same journey of 

independence are joining 

us in this celepation, which 

we believe will be a milestone 

and an augur of the 

great things to come in the 

annals of cricket,” said 

SLC President Thilanga 

Sumathipala while 

"Rumeli, however, had 

not lost hope", they quickly 

added. 

"She was practicing 

hard all these years and 

was a regular attendee at 

the ground". "She played 

well in the domestic 

matches and that's how she 

is in the team". 

The pace bowler Jhulan 

Goswami's injury made 

announcing the tournament. 

The Complete Schedule 

is as follows: 

March 6: Sri Lanka v 

India 

March 8: Bangladesh v 

India 

March 10: Sri Lanka v 

Bangladesh 

March 12: India v Sri 

Lanka 

March 14: India v 

Bangladesh 

March 16: Bangladesh 

v Sri Lanka. 

Catch of the South African captain was a 

satisfying moment for Rumeli Dhar's parents 

DUBAI: The Lahore 

Qalandars management 

has decided against opting 

for an immediate replacement 

of Australian batsman 

Chris Lynn, with hopes he 

may get fit in time to play 

the last leg of Pakistan 

Super League (PSL) 

matches. 

An official of PSL, on 

condition of anonymity, 

confirmed that they are still 

waiting on Lynn’s medical 

reports. 

“We are waiting on his 

MRI reports to come, after 

that we will see if he can 

join PSL and Lahore 

Qalandars for the later part 

of the league,” said the 

official. 

Meanwhile, Lahore 

Qalandars have confirmed 

they are not seeking immediate 

replacement of the 

explosive batsman, who 

dislocated his shoulder 

during fielding against 

New Zealand in the triseries 

T20 final on 

Wednesday. 

“We are not calling for 

immediate replacement for 

Chris Lynn. Based on the 

results of his test we will 

the selectors to think about 

her recall. 

"It was team coach 

(Tushar Arothe) who conveyed 

the good news to 

her. She first conveyed the 

news to Anju Jain", the 

parents added. 

"Rumeli had instructed 

us not to disclose the news 

about her inclusion till her 

visas are cleared". 

Lahore Qalandars hoping for Lynn 

to be fit for last few PSL games 

see the situation and make 

the decision,” said Sameen 

Rana, COO and manager 

of Lahore Qalandars. 

“Dinesh Ramdin was 

supposed to come on 

March 1 as Mustafiz-ur- 

Rehman’s replacement, but 

now he is joining the team 

on February 23,” he added. 

Lynn was earlier feared 

to be ruled out of PSL, 

after his shoulder popped 

out while he was fielding 

in Australia´s 19-run victory 

over New Zealand in the 

tournament final in 

Auckland on Wednesday.

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Pakistan Island of stability amidst 

unstable region: Khurram 

ISLAMABAD: Minister 

for Defence Engr. Khurram 

Dastgir Khan Thursday said 

Pakistan, under an elected 

government, had solved its 

most vexing issues and 

become an island of stability 

in the region. 

“Pakistan today has 

become an island of stability 

amidst an unstable region. 

This should give us confidence 

that Pakistan is on its 

way to assume its rightful 

role in the region and in the 

world at large as a prosperous 

and peaceful nation,” he 

said while addressing a seminar 

here. 

The seminar titled 

“Contemporary Relations 

between Pakistan, Iran and 

Saudi Arabia: Present 

Challenges” was organized 

by the Strategic Vision 

NEW YORK: World 

leaders are undermining 

human rights for millions of 

people with regressive policies 

and hate-filled rhetoric, 

but their actions have ignited 

global protest movements 

in response, a rights 

group said. 

US President Donald 

Trump, Russian leader 

Vladimir Putin, and China's 

President Xi Jinping were 

among a number of politicians 

who rolled out regressive 

policies in 2017, 

according to Amnesty 

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Defence, Engr. Khurram Dastgir Khan in a group 

photo on the occasion of one day International Seminar on “Contemporary Relations 

Between Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Present Challenges” organized by Strategic 

Vision Institute (SVI). 

Institute. 

The minister said 

Pakistan had come a long 

way from the dark period of 

terrorism and energy-shortage 

that the Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz (PML-N) 

International's annual 

human rights report published 

on Thursday. 

"The spectres of hatred 

and fear now loom large in 

world affairs, and we have 

few governments standing 

up for human rights in these 

disturbing times," Salil 

Shetty, Amnesty's secretarygeneral, 

said. 

"Instead, leaders such as 

el-Sisi, Duterte, Maduro, 

Putin, Trump and Xi are callously 

undermining the 

rights of millions." 

Shetty also alluded to the 

leaders of Egypt, the 

Philippines and Venezuela. 

Amnesty's The State of 

the World's Human Rights 

report cites Trump's controversial 

travel ban prohibiting 

entrants to the US from 

six Muslim-majority countries, 

Venezuelan authorities' 

use of force against 

demonstrators and unlawful 

killings in the Philippines' 

anti-drug war as evidence of 

policies resulting in an international 

regression on 

human rights. 

More than 20,000 people 

World leaders abandoning human rights: Amnesty 

Pak,Turkey to enhance 

cooperation in defence sector 

13th meeting of Pakistan-Turkey high level military dialogue group held in Ankara 

ANKARA: Secretary Defence of Pakistan Lt. Gen. (Retd) Zamir-Ul-Hasan Shah with 

Undersecretary for Defence Industry of Turkey. 

The Pakistani delegation 

at the dialogue is being led 

by Defence Secretary 

ANKARA: Pakistan 

and Turkey have reiterated 

the commitment to enhance 

cooperation in defence and Zamir-ul-Hassan 

security affairs. 

The understanding came 

at the ongoing five-day 

13th Pak-Turk High-Level 

Military Dialogue in 

Ankara, Turkey. 

Shah 

while the Turkish side is 

headed by Deputy Chief 

General of Turkish General 

Staff Amit Dundar. 

The two sides 

exchanged views on possible 

cooperation in the fields 

of military training, education, 

defence production, 

security and war-onterror. 

They also reviewed 

security, anti-terrorism and 

existing regional situation 

in Central East and South 

Asia specially Afghanistan. 

Ambassador holds wide-ranging 

engagements in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 


Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad 

Chaudhry spent a busy day 

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

on Thursday. 

He held a public talk at 

the prestigious Carnegie 

Mellon University, spoke at 

World Affairs Council, and 

addressed a gathering of 

Pakistani-Americans community 

in Pittsburgh, says a 

press release received here 

on Thursday from 

Pittsburgh. 

While talking at Carnegie 

Mellon University, the 

Ambassador emphasized the 

need for strong Pakistan- 

U.S. relations. 

He stated that Pakistan 

and the United States need 

to work together to achieve 

the common objectives of 

peace and stability in the 

region, especially in 

Afghanistan. 

KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah inspect the arrangements 

of Asia Pacific Film Festival at Expo Center. 

have been killed since June 

2016 in Philippine President 

Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug 

campaign, according to an 

internal report. 

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, 

the UN's human rights 

chief, has denounced 

Venezuela's excessive use 

of force against anti-government 

protesters, stating 

pro-government security 

forces and armed groups 

were responsible for 

dozens of demonstrator 

deaths between April and 

July last year. 

SC seeks complete 

record of land 

given on lease 

ISLAMABAD: The apex 

court on Thursday sought the 

complete record of land 

given on lease around Rawal 

Dam and directed to submit 

all record till Monday. 

While hearing the Bani 

Gala encroachments case, 

the Chief Justice questioned 

State Minister Tariq Fazal 

Chaudhry, who heads the 

Capital Administration and 

Development Division, on 

measures taken by the government 

to counter the population 

explosion under way 

in the country. 

CJ questioned to State 

Minister that what improvements 

his government has 

brought about since coming 

into power?. Tariq Fazal Ch. 

informed the apex court that 

his government has been in 

power since 2013, whereas 

the settlements around 

Rawal Dam, which supplies 

water to the twin cities, have 

been around for centuries. 

government inherited in 

2013. 

After the PML-N government 

assumed office in 

2013, former prime minister 

Nawaz Sharif began a 

process of regional recalibration 

of Pakistan’s foreign and 

security policies, with a view 

to give geo-economics a 

weight equal to geo-security. 

Nawaz Sharif espoused a 

vision of mutual prosperity 

through regional connectivity, 

and began a process of 

building up Pakistan’s relations 

with its immediate 

neighbors as well as with 

Central Asia. 

“Pakistan’s relations with 

the Middle East, however, 

have evolved as war and 

strife raged across Syria, 

parts of Iraq, and Yemen, in 

addition to tensions of major 

GCC countries with Iran as 

well as tensions within the 

Gulf Cooperation Council,” 

he said. 

Pakistan remains wary of 

being drawn into power 

struggles along sectarian 

lines as they are currently 

taking place in the Middle 

East, he said adding that 

Pakistan’s Middle East policy 

in recent years had been a 

balancing act between Saudi 

Arabia and Iran. 

CID report on Srinagar 

Central Jail termed 

as bundle of lies 

ISLAMABAD: In 

Occupied Kashmir, the 

Joint Resistance Leadership 

(JRL) comprising Syed Ali 

Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar 

Farooq and Muhammad 

Yasin Malik has termed the 

report released by Criminal 

Investigation Department 

(CID) on Central Jail, 

Srinagar, as illogical, 

ridiculous and a bundle of 

lies. 

The resistance leaders in 

a statement in Srinagar said 

that the CID had released a 

report in the media in which 

it had stated that Srinagar 

Central Jail was being used 

as the main recruitment hub 

by militants and the youth 

were being selected and 

lured from here to join the 

armed struggle. 

ISLAMABAD: After 

the arrest of Ahad Cheema 

in Ashiyana corruption 

case, the sphere is being 

tightened around Principal 

Secretary to PM, Fawad 

Hassan Fawad. 

The reliable sources 

told this scribe that after 

Ahad, Fawad Hassan 

Fawad may also be arrested 

in the corruption case in 

Ashiyana Housing Project. 

In this connection during 

a meeting held at GOR 

Lahore on Wednesday 

night the role of bureaucrats 

was also surfaced 

openly. In the meeting the 

most powerful bureaucrat, 

Fawad Hassan Fawad 

issued instructions to the 

Fawad Chaudhry says arrest of 

Ahad Cheema is important milestone 

ISLAMABAD: PTI 

spokesman Fawad 

Chaudhry has said that the 

arrest of Ahad Cheema is 

an important milestone. He 

said that the head of 

bureaucracy mafia is 

Fawad Hassan Fawad. 

He said this while talking 

to journalists in 

Islamabad. He said the 

breakage of mafia is 

indeed the breakage of 

Sharif mafia. Fawad 

Chaudhry said Khawaja 

Saad Rafique, Fawad 

Hassan Fawad, Ahad 

Cheema, DCO Lahore 

Mohammad Usman is a 

clique consisting of 5 

members. He added these 

five men are known in the 

Pakistan bureaucracy as 

MUMBAI: Pakistani 

singer Rahat Fateh Ali 

Khan, who is facing a backlash 

for singing the song 

titled "Ishtehar" -- a soulful 

rendition -- for Indian film 

production "Welcome To 

New York", says music has 

no boundaries. 

Singer-turned-Union 

minister Babul Supriyo 

had said Rahat's voice in 

the song must be removed 

and dubbed by someone 

else as he was not able to 

comprehend the need or 

desire to cross the border 

for entertainment content 

at a time when tensions on 

the India-Pakistan border 

had escalated. 

Following Supriyo's 

suggestion, the film's 

director Chakri Toleti said 

they are yet to decide the 

fate of the song. 

Rahat then tweeted on 

Tuesday: "In midst of so 

much being said all I can say 

KARACHI: SSGC’s 

SS&CGTO team in coordination 

with Company’s 

CRD, DSM and along with 

SSGC Police conducted a 

raid on a Nimco Factory in 

Yousuf Goth near Naval 

Colony, Korangi where a 

culprit Muhammad Farid 

S/o Muhammad Muneer a 

fake / unregistered customer 

was running Nimco factory 

by using direct gas from 

main line through rubber 

pipe. Muhammad Farid 

was selling gas onwards to shop) with load ofs 600 cft line for industrial use by 

50 houses for their domestic /hr and 225 cft/hr respectively. 

generating power for Silver 

usage in Yousuf Goth. The 

The meters were Rice Mills by tampering 

culprit was arrested from the 

spot. FIR was lodged and 

claim was raised against 

him. 

removed and gas supply 

was disconnected. Claim 

was raised in accordance to 

the load used by the culprits. 

meter and regulator and 

consuming gas load of 213 

Cft/Hr. Meter was removed 

and service line was killed. 

Two more raids were Earlier to this, Claim was raised according 

carried out in Korangi Area 

where Domestic customers 

were found using gas for 

SS&CGTO Hyderabad carried 

out two joint raids in 

Sujawal Subzone. 

to the load. 

In 2nd raid the customer 

was found using domestic 

commercial purpose In 1st raid the customer line for industrial use by 

(Confectionary and sweet was found using domestic generating power for 

Pentagon. He further said 

Khawaja Saad Rafique is 

front man of the head of 

this clique Shahbaz Sharif. 

He said that Ahad Cheema 

awarded illegal contract to 

Paragon in Aishiana 

Housing Scheme. Paragon 

company’s owner is 

Khawaja Saad Rafique and 

his brother is operating it. 

Ahad Cheema awarded 

illegal contract of Rs 14 

billion to the company of 

Khawaja Saad Rafique, he 

added. 

Fawad Chaudhry said 

that if Ahad Cheema 

becomes approver then the 

head of the gang Saad 

Rafique will be numbered. 

He said if DCO Lahore 

Usman is arrested then he 

is music has no boundaries 

and I thank everyone for 

showing so much love for 

the songs which I am a part 

of." Composer Shamir 

Tandon has defended the 

use of his voice in the film. 

will divulge the secrets of 

every one and every thing 

like a parriot. He said that 

Fawad Hassan Fawad 

takes direct advices from 

Jati Umra. He said that 

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is a 

Prime Minister on papers 

and real is Fawad Hassan 

Fawad and Fawad Hassan 

Fawad is a founder of 

mafia. To break the mafia 

is indeed break of Sharifs. 

Fawad Chaudhry further 

exhorted they assure 

the institutions that there is 

no room for any confrontation 

in Pakistan and PTI is 

standby with the constitution 

and institutions and 

they will counter every 

conspiracy against the 

institutions. 

Music has no boundaries: 

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan 

officers involved in corruption 

that how they can 

take the corruption as 

political issue to save their 

skins. 

When a senior officer 

was contacted he said on 

the condition of anonymity 

said that Fawad Hassan 

Fawad has made a group 

of his favorite officers that 

only comply his orders. 

On his suggestion the 

meeting of the group was 

convened in which he not 

only convinced his blue 

eyed officers to protest on 

the matter but also gave 

some “special instructions” 

to bureaucracy after 

the arrest of Ahad 

Cheema. 

The sources said that 

Principal Secretary to 

Prime Minister, by misusing 

his powers had showered 

many out of turn 

advantages to the group of 

officers of his choice. Now 

Fawad is getting expectations 

from them that it is 

the real time to pay back 

all the munificence. 

The sources said that 

the N AB Lahore had 

called Fawad Hassan 

Fawad in the same case of 

corruption, in which Ahad 

Cheema was arrested, but 

he had failed to satisfy 

Diamond Rice Mills where 

culprits consumed load of 

69 Cft/Hr by tampering the 

meter and regulator. Meter 

was removed and service 

line was killed. Claim will 

be raised accordingly. 

The stolen gas worth in 

millions of rupees which 

was being illegely used in 

these areas. 

SSGC is waging an all 

out war against all those 

Rahat has been singing 

for Bollywood films since 

2003. He has delivered 

many hits like "Mann ki 

lagan", "Jiya dhadak 

dhadak", "Bol na halke 

halke" and "O re piya". 

Fawad becomes extra active to save his skin 

National Accountability 

Bureau. “He may be called 

again as N AB has enough 

material in Ashiyana corruption 

case against him”, 

the sources added. 

Now Fawad Hassan 

Fawad has an apprehension 

that he might be taken 

into the custody soon, so 

he is making efforts to 

bring bureaucracy on 

roads to exert pressure on 

NAB. 

The sources added that 

after calling Fawad by 

NAB , Prime Minister 

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi 

has raised the issue in the 

Parliament by saying that 

the summoning of senior 

bureaucrats is effecting the 

government affairs , but on 

the other hand NAB is 

committed to take the issue 

to its logical end. 

Two Rice Mills and one Nimco factory raided in 

Karachi and Sujawal, Culprit arrested, Claim raised 

Intensifying the Gas Theft Operation SS&CGTO's wing carried out 5 raids in Karachi and Sujawal 

involved in gas theft by conducting 

raids on a regular 

basis in its franchise 

provinces of Sindh and 

Balochistan. 

Theft of gas affects the 

SSGC financial bottom line 

in millions of rupees which 

is not affordable to 

Company. The flow of raids 

and moves will be intensified 

against the culprits in 

Company’s franchise areas. 

CMYK CMYK 

CMYK 

Chief Editor and Publisher Muhammad Taqi Alvi, Office No.509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I. Chundrigar Road Karachi. Tel. 021-32214988/32214990 Fax: 021-32214989 Printed by Jilani Printing Press ST-8 Block-10/A Gulshan-e-Iqbal Karachi.

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