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Metropolitan:<br />
Anyone dumping<br />
garbage in public<br />
spaces will be<br />
prosecuted: Sindh govt<br />
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National:<br />
95 percent MQM<br />
workers accept<br />
Maqbool Siddiqui their<br />
convener: Farogh<br />
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International:<br />
'Case closed' in<br />
death of Bollywood<br />
star Sridevi:<br />
Dubai police<br />
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NAB starts tightening<br />
noose around<br />
Fawad Hasan Fawad<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
National Accountability<br />
Bureau (NAB) has started<br />
tightening noose<br />
around Secretary to the<br />
Prime Minister Fawad<br />
Hasan Fawad and it has<br />
sought details of all<br />
assets.<br />
Sources said that<br />
NAB has started tightening<br />
noose against Fawad<br />
Hasan Fawad after<br />
appearing his name in<br />
Ashiana Housing<br />
scheme as he was directly<br />
involved in misappropriation<br />
in Ashiana<br />
housing scheme while<br />
ex-DG LDA Ahad<br />
Cheema has provided all<br />
important details and<br />
information to NAB.<br />
Firing at LoC kills<br />
boy in Nakyal Sector<br />
Azad Kashmir<br />
NAKYAL: Another<br />
boy was martyred by<br />
Indian forces on Tuesday<br />
in unprovoked heavy<br />
shelling at Nakyal sector<br />
of Line of Control (LoC).<br />
According to media<br />
reports, death toll in ceasefire<br />
violations in the area<br />
increases to at least 14 in<br />
the ongoing year. A media<br />
report quoting Waleed<br />
Anwar, assistant commissioner<br />
of AJK's Nakyal<br />
sector said Indian forces<br />
resorted to heavy mortar<br />
shelling at about 8:30 am<br />
and as usual they targeted<br />
the civilian population.<br />
Woman harassed<br />
at PML-N rally<br />
in Pattoki<br />
PATTOKI: A woman<br />
present at the PML-N<br />
rally was harassed here on<br />
Tuesday. The woman, a<br />
resident of Kasur, is a<br />
member of the PML-N<br />
women’s wing. “I came<br />
here to support the party,<br />
but treatment by those<br />
present here is shameful,”<br />
she said.<br />
LAHORE: The brother of ousted<br />
Pakistani prime minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif took a small step closer to the<br />
premiership Tuesday after he was<br />
named head of the ruling party before<br />
a general election due this year.<br />
The promotion of Shahbaz Sharif<br />
comes after the Supreme Court last<br />
year toppled his elder brother Nawaz<br />
following corruption allegations, then<br />
last week banned him from leading<br />
his eponymous Pakistan Muslim<br />
League-Nawaz (PML-N) party.<br />
The move by the judiciary sparked<br />
fresh fears of political infighting within<br />
the PML-N before the election due<br />
sometime in <strong>2018</strong>, with Nawaz’s<br />
daughter Maryam Sharif gaining<br />
increasing influence over the party in<br />
recent months.<br />
But the party presented a united<br />
front with the election of Shahbaz,<br />
while Nawaz was appointed the<br />
party’s guide “for life”.<br />
“I propose the name of<br />
Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif,” Nawaz<br />
announced during a meeting in<br />
KARACHI EDITION – Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2018</strong>, Jumada-al-Thani 11, 1439<br />
Shahbaz inches<br />
closer to power<br />
with party vote<br />
PML-N elects Nawaz as ‘Quaid for life’,<br />
Shahbaz Sharif as interim president<br />
ISLAMABAD: Chief<br />
Justice of Pakistan (CJP)<br />
Mian Saqib Nisar has<br />
remarked “ By God he has<br />
no political agenda.<br />
He further remarked “ he<br />
does not even feel like dealing<br />
with political cases,"<br />
He expressed these<br />
remarks while presiding<br />
over a three members bench<br />
of Supreme Court (SC) during<br />
the hearing of medicines<br />
prices suo motu notice.<br />
CJP remarked “ it is my<br />
Taking oath as PCO judge<br />
is ‘biggest crime’: Nawaz<br />
We are one, PML-N stands united: Maryam Nawaz<br />
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif stated that taking oath as<br />
a Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) judge is the ‘biggest crime’.<br />
The former prime minister made the statement while addressing the<br />
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Central Executive Committee<br />
(CEC) on Tuesday.<br />
Sharif, making the judges a target of his criticism, said that the judges<br />
keep taking oath under the Provincial Constitutional Order.<br />
He said, “It is the biggest crime.”<br />
“Should we respect your decision?” he asked.<br />
Meanwhile, Maryam Nawaz Sharif – daughter of former prime minister<br />
Nawaz Sharif – said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stands<br />
united as Shahbaz Sharif was elected interim chief and Nawaz Sharif was<br />
named the leader of the party for life. She tweeted, “We are, Alhamdolillah<br />
ONE. We stand united. PMLN stands united.”<br />
Lahore to huge applause. Maryam<br />
later tweeted a message congratulating<br />
her uncle.<br />
The younger Sharif, currently the<br />
chief minister of powerful Punjab<br />
By God, I have no political agenda: CJP<br />
ABBOTTABAD/ISLAMABAD: The<br />
Peshawar High Court circuit bench in<br />
Abbottabad on Tuesday suspended the<br />
conviction of 25 suspects in the Mashal<br />
Khan lynching case.<br />
A two-judge bench gave this order on<br />
appeals filed by the suspects who were<br />
awarded three years of jail term in the<br />
case by an anti-terrorism court.<br />
The bench also ordered their release<br />
desire that medicines<br />
become available to the<br />
people at cheaper rate. I say<br />
to all lawyers to help us.<br />
Now the time has come that<br />
some thing is given to the<br />
country. Our intention is<br />
clear. The judiciary could<br />
be tested now as you will.<br />
Pharmaceutical companies<br />
have no powers to enhance<br />
prices of the medicines on<br />
their own. Drug Regulatory<br />
Authority (DRAP) connived<br />
with pharmaceutical<br />
companies before introduction<br />
of drug policy. The<br />
applications were kept<br />
pending deliberately and<br />
relief was got provided to<br />
the companies from the<br />
courts.<br />
DRAP authorities told<br />
that companies file incomplete<br />
applications.<br />
Therefore the matter is<br />
delayed. DRAP gives<br />
increase by 8 percent but<br />
they seek high relief from<br />
the courts.<br />
25 convicts in Mashal lynching<br />
case released on bail<br />
SC wraps up suo motu hearing into Mashal Khan lynching case<br />
NEW YORK: Senior PPP leader, Chaudhry Javed Akhtar<br />
has a very busy schedule during his US visit these days.<br />
Chaudhry Javed Akhtar meeting with Jerry Nedler and<br />
New York congressmen.<br />
on bail. Mashal, 23, a student at Abdul<br />
Wali Khan University (AWKU) in<br />
Mardan, was beaten and shot to death on<br />
April 13 by an unruly mob instigated by<br />
rumours that he had committed blasphemy<br />
by posting sacrilegious content<br />
online.<br />
On <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 07, the ATC sentenced<br />
the prime suspect to death while five others<br />
to 25 years’ imprisonment in the case.<br />
EC directs PML-N to<br />
file reply in foreign<br />
funding case<br />
ISLAMABAD: Election<br />
Commission (EC) has<br />
directed PML-N to file reply<br />
in foreign funding case<br />
besides adjourning the hearing<br />
of the case till March 06.<br />
A 4-member bench of EC<br />
presided over by Chief<br />
Election Commissioner took<br />
up for hearing foreign funding<br />
case against PML-N on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
PML-N counsel Jahangir<br />
Jadoon did not appear before<br />
EC while Faisal Chaudhry<br />
represented PTI in the EC .<br />
During the hearing of the<br />
case, member of EC Arshad<br />
Qaisar inquired has PML-N<br />
reply been received.<br />
province, is seen as a political dealmaker,<br />
with many crediting him for<br />
the string of by-election victories<br />
since his brother was removed from<br />
the premiership.<br />
‘Not much progress<br />
done regarding missing<br />
persons’ cases’: Report<br />
ISLAMABAD: The<br />
Supreme Court (SC)<br />
acknowledged that not<br />
much progress had been<br />
made as far as the missing<br />
persons’ cases are concerned,<br />
it was reported<br />
This was said by a<br />
three-judge bench comprising<br />
Justice Ejaz Afzal<br />
Khan, Justice Maqbool<br />
Baqar and Justice Faisal<br />
Arab while hearing the<br />
missing persons’ case.<br />
The bench also<br />
requested the registrar of<br />
the Commission of<br />
Inquiry on Enforced<br />
Disappearances, Khalid<br />
Naseem, to submit a<br />
report about any progress<br />
that has been made in the<br />
case.<br />
Justice Ejaz also said<br />
that in case any missing<br />
persons’ families were<br />
stopped from approaching<br />
the COIOED, they would<br />
pass an order. He said that<br />
when the state fails in performing<br />
its responsibilities<br />
and if someone comes forward<br />
for a cause, then they<br />
should not be stopped.<br />
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has sacked<br />
its top military commanders, including<br />
the chief of staff, in a series of late-night<br />
royal decrees.<br />
Saudi King Salman also replaced the<br />
heads of the ground forces and air<br />
defences.<br />
The news was published by the official<br />
Saudi Press Agency (SPA), but no<br />
reason for the sackings was given.<br />
They come as the war in Yemen,<br />
where a Saudi-led coalition is fighting<br />
rebels, is nearing the end of its third<br />
year.<br />
Crown Prince Mohammed bin<br />
Salman, who is also the defence minister,<br />
is believed to be behind various<br />
recent shake-ups in the country.<br />
http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk<br />
LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz, daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulates<br />
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif after he elected party’s interim president in<br />
PML-N Central Working Committee meeting at Sharif family’s Model Town residence.<br />
Amid tensions<br />
Trump aide says US seeking 'new<br />
relationship' with Pakistan<br />
ISLAMABAD: A senior<br />
aide to U.S. President<br />
Donald Trump said during a<br />
visit to Pakistan that<br />
Washington wants a “new<br />
relationship” with<br />
Islamabad, the U.S.<br />
embassy said on Tuesday,<br />
amid worsening ties<br />
between the two nations.<br />
Lisa Curtis, deputy<br />
assistant to the U.S. president,<br />
also voiced U.S. concerns<br />
about Pakistan’s<br />
“deficiencies” in preventing<br />
terrorist-financing during<br />
her two-day trip to the<br />
nuclear-armed South Asian<br />
nation.<br />
Relations between the<br />
allies plummeted again last<br />
ISLAMABAD: Supreme<br />
Court (SC) has given one<br />
week time to FIA to furnish<br />
relevant documents and<br />
reply to questions of Interpol<br />
in Hussain Haqqani memo<br />
gate case.<br />
A 3-member bench of SC<br />
presided over by Chief<br />
Justice of Pakistan (CJP)<br />
Mian Saqib Nisar took up<br />
the case for hearing Tuesday.<br />
week when Washington<br />
persuaded member states of<br />
the Financial Action Task<br />
Force (FATF) to put<br />
Pakistan back on the watchlist<br />
of nations with inadequate<br />
terrorist financing or<br />
money laundering controls.<br />
The U.S. move infuriated<br />
Islamabad amid fears it<br />
could hurt the fragile economy<br />
of Pakistan, whose de<br />
facto finance minister<br />
accused Washington of trying<br />
to “embarrass” his<br />
country.<br />
“Ms. Curtis said that the<br />
United States seeks to move<br />
toward a new relationship<br />
with Pakistan, based on a<br />
shared commitment to<br />
CJP orders FIA to take action against<br />
Hussain Haqqani within a week<br />
Hussain Haqani, his lobby become active after<br />
case is heard in open court: AAG tells SC<br />
Additional Attorney<br />
General (AAG) Rana Waqar<br />
appeared in the court. He<br />
said that letter on the application<br />
seeking issuance of<br />
red warrants in the name of<br />
Hussain Haqqani has been<br />
sent to Interpol. Interpol has<br />
sought judicial record of<br />
Hussain Haqqani and sent<br />
questions through which the<br />
respective record has been<br />
summoned. Dossier has to<br />
be prepared and sent to<br />
Interpol.<br />
Rana Waqar said Husain<br />
Haqani become active when<br />
the news find way in media.<br />
It will be appropriate if I am<br />
heard in chamber.<br />
Last year dozens of prominent Saudi<br />
figures, including princes, ministers and<br />
billionaires, were locked up in Riyadh's<br />
five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel as the prince<br />
led a drive against corruption and abuse<br />
defeat all terrorist groups<br />
that threaten regional stability,”<br />
the U.S. embassy said<br />
in a statement.<br />
This new relationship<br />
would also be based on a<br />
“shared vision of a peaceful<br />
future for Afghanistan”, the<br />
embassy added.<br />
Tensions with historic<br />
ally Washington have<br />
pushed Pakistan further into<br />
the arms of China, officials<br />
and analysts say. Closer<br />
diplomatic and military ties<br />
between Beijing and<br />
Islamabad have come at a<br />
time when China is helping<br />
Pakistan’s economy grow<br />
by investing billions in<br />
infrastructure projects.<br />
OGRA recommends<br />
Rs 3.56/litre hike<br />
in petrol price<br />
ISLAMABAD: OGRA<br />
has forwarded a summary to<br />
finance ministry on Tuesday<br />
recommending Rs 3.56 per<br />
litre hike in petrol price.<br />
The regulators have recommended<br />
the ministry to<br />
hike prices of petroleum<br />
products for the month of<br />
March with an upward revision<br />
of petrol price by Rs<br />
3.56/litre and that of highspeed<br />
diesel by Rs 6.94/litre.<br />
Summary dispatched to<br />
ministry has sought increase<br />
in prices of light-speed diesel<br />
and kerosene oil by Rs 1/litre<br />
and Rs 6.<strong>28</strong>/litre.<br />
Saudi king replaces military chiefs in shake-up<br />
of power. This is another sweeping<br />
overhaul of Saudi institutions that has<br />
become the hallmark of the reign of<br />
King Salman, although the driving force<br />
is once again his son and heir, Crown<br />
Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<br />
The Saudi intervention in the Yemen<br />
conflict was his initiative - one of the<br />
first indications of just how dramatically<br />
he was going to break away from the<br />
country's traditional caution.<br />
And it has so far failed, even if it has<br />
forced the Houthi rebels out of the south<br />
of Yemen and allowed the ousted government<br />
to re-establish a foothold. The<br />
cost for Yemen itself has been a humanitarian<br />
disaster, while it has also drained<br />
Saudi coffers in a time of austerity.<br />
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Metropolitan<br />
Sindh bans garbage dumping in open spaces<br />
Anyone dumping garbage in public<br />
spaces will be prosecuted: Sindh govt<br />
KARACHI: Police<br />
have arrested Adnan<br />
Pasha accused in case of<br />
firing publically on<br />
Shahra-e- Faisal Karachi..<br />
Police said that a citizen<br />
named Zeeshan Syed<br />
lodged a report in Shahrae-faisal<br />
police station for<br />
KARACHI: Garbage transfer station in front of Asghar Ali Stadium in North<br />
Nazimabad is filled with garbage. The Sindh government has imposed section 144 in<br />
the city and also a issued a notification to the Water Commission in this regard, prohibiting<br />
the disposal of garbage on the roads, nullahs and open grounds.<br />
KARACHI: The Sindh<br />
government will proceed<br />
against those littering the<br />
city's public places, bazaars<br />
and roads. A notification<br />
issued by the Sindh home<br />
department on Tuesday,<br />
states anyone found dumping<br />
garbage on public property<br />
will be prosecuted.<br />
While the department's<br />
attempts to clear trash piles<br />
from Karachi and<br />
Hyderabad have not been<br />
as successful as anticipated,<br />
especially considering the<br />
political spats and rising<br />
costs, it has, however,<br />
banned littering in places<br />
that are not designated<br />
garbage dumps.<br />
Further, the notification<br />
added that action will also<br />
be taken against anyone<br />
who resorts to burning rubbish<br />
piles in the city's public<br />
places, bazaars or roads.<br />
The dumping of trash in<br />
open areas does not only<br />
hurling threats on him.<br />
According to SSP<br />
Samiullah, Zeeshan Saeed<br />
has registered a case<br />
against Adnan Pasha on<br />
hurling threats.<br />
Police arrested Adnan<br />
Pasha from Gulastan-e-<br />
Johar Karachi during raid.<br />
pollute the environment but<br />
also affect the health of<br />
those living there, stated<br />
It is to be mentioned<br />
that on the night between<br />
Friday-Saturday in<br />
Shahra-e-Faisal Karachi,<br />
accused resorted to aerial<br />
firing in drunken state. .<br />
He made a video of it. He<br />
used abusive language and<br />
also challenged Law<br />
the notification.<br />
The water commission<br />
appointed on the orders of<br />
Accused involved in aerial firing<br />
on Shahra-e- Faisal arrested<br />
Reconstitution of Students<br />
Societies at M.A. Jinnah University<br />
KARACHI: Director Students Affairs and Head of Social Sciences Department,<br />
Mohammad All Jinnah University, Karachi Dr. Aziz-Ur-Rrhman Saifee prodding over a<br />
meeting called for reconstitution of students societies at conference room of the university<br />
last evening.<br />
KARACHI: Head of<br />
Social Sciences Department<br />
and Director, Students<br />
Affairs, Mohammad Ali<br />
Jinnah University, Karachi<br />
Dr. Aziz-Ur-Rehman Saifee<br />
said that education philosophy<br />
states the importance of<br />
teaching students to be lifelong<br />
learners. There is<br />
much more education than<br />
classroom and textbooks.<br />
Extracurricular activities<br />
can provide opportunities<br />
for students to express<br />
themselves in activities and<br />
areas depending on their<br />
interests. It also teaches student<br />
to work as a “unit” and<br />
be team players. This he<br />
stated while he was presiding<br />
over a meeting called<br />
for reconstitution of student’s<br />
societies for the<br />
semester in session at conference<br />
room last evening.<br />
On this occasion performance<br />
of student’s societies<br />
of last semester was<br />
reviewed and discussed various<br />
ideas of the programs<br />
for semester in progress.<br />
The societies which were<br />
reconstituted were included<br />
Computer Science,<br />
Engineering, Business<br />
Administration, Marketing,<br />
Finance, Biosciences, Art &<br />
literature, Sports,<br />
Entertainment, Personality<br />
Development, Media and<br />
Social welfare. Dr. Aziz-<br />
Ur-Rehman Saifee asked<br />
the heads of societies to<br />
project work, character<br />
and teachings of historical<br />
personalities while organizing<br />
seminars, workshops,<br />
talk shows and conference<br />
enabling our<br />
young generation to realize<br />
their achievements. Dr.<br />
Aziz-Ur-Rehman Saifee<br />
emphasized while presenting<br />
students societies programs,<br />
unity, patriotism,<br />
national development and<br />
prosperity emotions is<br />
developed in out youths.<br />
He also asked to teach the<br />
students to keep themselves<br />
away from any kind<br />
of regional, linguistics and<br />
sectarian feeling in order<br />
to make them useful citizens<br />
for the society.<br />
Enforcing Agencies in the<br />
video. The video was later<br />
uploaded on social media.<br />
After the video became<br />
viral , Home Minister<br />
Sindh took the notice of<br />
this case and ordered to<br />
arrest the accused as soon<br />
as possible.<br />
Top police officers<br />
transferred in Sindh<br />
KARACHI: Top police<br />
officers transferred in<br />
Sindh police department,<br />
sources at CPO said on<br />
Tuesday. The changes<br />
were made by IGP Sindh<br />
AD Khawaja through a<br />
notification.<br />
Muzaffar Sheikh, DIG<br />
Establishment Sindh, was<br />
transferred and posted as<br />
DIG Special Branch with<br />
immediate effect against<br />
an existing vacancy.<br />
Muhammad Hanif and<br />
Muhammad Amin<br />
Yousafzai, officers of the<br />
police service of Pakistan<br />
(BS-20), awaiting posting,<br />
were transferred and<br />
posted as DIG Sindh<br />
Reserve Police (SRP) and<br />
DIG Central Intelligence<br />
Agency (CIA), respectively.<br />
Amir Farooqui,<br />
DIG Counter Terrorism<br />
Department<br />
Sindh, was transferred<br />
and posted as DIG West<br />
Zone and DIG West<br />
Karachi Range Zulfiqar<br />
Larik was transferred and<br />
posted as DIG East Zone,<br />
Karachi with immediate<br />
effect against an existing<br />
vacancy.<br />
Supreme Court had taken<br />
notice of industrial, medical<br />
and domestic waste being<br />
dumped in open areas.<br />
During a hearing held<br />
earlier in <strong>Feb</strong>ruary, Justice<br />
(retd) Amir Hani Muslim,<br />
who was heading the commission,<br />
observed that<br />
there was no improvement<br />
in the state of sanitation in<br />
Karachi. While talking<br />
about his recent visit<br />
around the city, he mentioned<br />
of seeing garbage<br />
dumped unattended on various<br />
spots of the metropolis.<br />
Justice (retd) Amir Hani<br />
also spoke about the cleanliness<br />
of public hospitals,<br />
telling the provincial health<br />
secretary that a very sorry<br />
state of hygiene was<br />
observed during his recent<br />
inspection of the facilities<br />
in Karachi.<br />
CS urges<br />
settlement of land<br />
for various projects<br />
KARACHI: Chief<br />
Secretary Sindh Rizwan<br />
Memon advised the<br />
Commissioners and Deputy<br />
Commissioners to ensure the<br />
settlement of the land for construction<br />
and establishment of<br />
various projects in accordance<br />
with the rules and government<br />
policy and in consultation with<br />
Sindh Board of Revenue and<br />
relevant departments. He was<br />
presiding over a high level<br />
review meeting at Sindh<br />
Secretariat. The meeting<br />
reviewed and discussed various<br />
projects i.e landfill sites for<br />
dumping the solid waste and<br />
garbage in Karachi and other<br />
cities, Lab-e-Mehran Tourism<br />
project in Sukkur, court buildings,<br />
byepasses, agriculture<br />
projects and other schemes.<br />
Sindh minister calls on Bilawal<br />
KARACHI: Sindh<br />
Minister for Works and<br />
Services Imdad Pitafi<br />
called on Chairman<br />
Pakistan People’s Party<br />
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at<br />
Bilawal House on Tuesday.<br />
The minister briefed the<br />
Chairman PPP about the<br />
development projects<br />
being carried out in Sindh<br />
and informed that thousands<br />
of roads have been<br />
constructed so far to benefit<br />
maximum number of<br />
people in the province.<br />
Bilawal said that instead<br />
of wasting money on showpiece<br />
type projects like<br />
KARACHI: Sindh<br />
Lower Staff Association<br />
belonging to Education<br />
Department Sindh held a<br />
march from Karachi Press<br />
Club towards Red Zone<br />
area for acceptance of their<br />
demands, but police<br />
stopped them from proceeding<br />
towards Sindh<br />
Chief Minister's House.<br />
The march was led by<br />
Central President of Lower<br />
KARACHI: PPP Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari<br />
exchanges views with Sindh Minister for Works and<br />
Services Imdad Ali Pitafi during meeting at Bilawal House.<br />
Staff Association, Wazir<br />
Ahmed Keerio. The<br />
protest was also joined by<br />
Muhammad Saleh, Baber<br />
Ahsaan Jamali, Mashooq<br />
Ali Abro, Ibrahim Soomro,<br />
Shaukat Ali Jamali and<br />
Qadir Zardari. A police<br />
contingent armed with<br />
water cannon and cops<br />
stopped the protesters.<br />
The protesters, carrying<br />
placards and banners, were<br />
PML-N was doing in<br />
Punjab, the PPP was laying<br />
a comprehensive communication<br />
network to the<br />
ground level in the<br />
province.<br />
Education employees<br />
hold march in Karachi<br />
KARACHI: Police staffs barricade employees of All Sindh Education Department<br />
Lower Staff Association when they tried to move towards Red Zone during protest<br />
demonstration outside Karachi press club.<br />
preparations and close<br />
cooperation between all<br />
stakeholders for bringing<br />
international and national<br />
players from their hotel to<br />
demanding time scale, promotions<br />
and other rights<br />
from the Sindh government.<br />
They also demanded<br />
restoration of expelled<br />
workers of Sindh education<br />
department forthwith.<br />
The employees said that<br />
they had been protesting<br />
since two years for their<br />
rights but Sindh government<br />
had adopted lull over<br />
their issue.<br />
Home minister reviews security<br />
measures for PSL match<br />
KARACHI: Sindh<br />
Home Minister Sohail<br />
Anwar Siyal on Tuesday<br />
chaired a meeting to discuss<br />
security measures for<br />
the Pakistan Super League<br />
(PSL) cricket match,<br />
scheduled to be held at the<br />
National Stadium Karachi<br />
on 25 March <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
The meeting was<br />
(CTD) attended by Home<br />
Secretary Sindh, Qazi<br />
Shahid Pervaiz; IGP<br />
Sindh, AD Khowaja;<br />
Additional IG Karachi,<br />
Mushtaq Ahmed Mehar;<br />
and other officials.<br />
Siyal was briefed about<br />
the ongoing security<br />
KARACHI: Sindh Home Minister, Sohail Anwar Siyal presides over the high level meeting<br />
on arrangement for Security Situation on the event of Pakistan Super League.<br />
the stadium. Law enforcement<br />
agencies personnel<br />
assured that foolproof<br />
security would be ensured<br />
to protect the players during<br />
the match.<br />
Siyal instructed officials<br />
that all deployment of<br />
police should be briefed<br />
about players’ security.<br />
Police arrest 21 criminals<br />
including two diesel smugglers<br />
KARACHI: Karachi<br />
police on Tuesday claimed<br />
to have apprehended 21<br />
alleged criminals, including<br />
two diesel smugglers, from<br />
different parts of the metropolis<br />
during the last 24 hours.<br />
According to police<br />
sources, during crackdown<br />
on street criminals, police<br />
conducted search operations<br />
in Ibrahim Hydari,<br />
Baghdadi, Shershah areas<br />
and apprehended 12 criminals,<br />
Yaseen, Abdul<br />
Hameed, Ilyas, Nazair<br />
Imran, Shoaib, Sagheer,<br />
Hameed, Ayaz, Rehmat Ali,<br />
Feroz, Nazeer Akhtar and<br />
Imran.<br />
The police recovered 11<br />
TT pistols, two snatched<br />
motorbikes, 13 cell phones<br />
and drug form their possession.<br />
On a tip-off, Steel town<br />
police foiled a bid of 5,000<br />
liters Iranian diesel smuggling<br />
and arrested two<br />
accused Shoukat Khan, son<br />
of Muhammad Yousuf and<br />
Muhammad Suleman son of<br />
Amir Alam. Police seized an<br />
oil tanker with registration<br />
No DUA -206 and handed<br />
over to the Customs officials<br />
for further investigation.<br />
KARACHI: SSP City Shehla Qureshi addressing a press<br />
conference at Garden Police Station regarding the<br />
apprehension of the ‘Tala Tor group’ from Old City area.<br />
Seminar on Marine<br />
Research & Introduction<br />
to SCUBA Diving at KU<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KARACHI: A seminar<br />
on “Marine Research and<br />
Introduction to SCUBA<br />
Diving” was organized by<br />
Institute of Marine Science,<br />
University of Karachi with<br />
collaboration from two<br />
Karachi based SCUBA diving<br />
training institutes (M/s<br />
Hiddenture and M/s<br />
Jointech) yesterday. The<br />
purpose of the seminar was<br />
to disseminate current<br />
marine research and introduce<br />
SCUBA diving as a<br />
tool for conducting underwater<br />
marine research.<br />
After formal opening Dr<br />
Ehsan Elahi Valee, in welcome<br />
address outlined the<br />
significance of marine science<br />
in current times and<br />
the need for utilization of<br />
modern techniques for<br />
exploration and sustainable<br />
use of marine resources.<br />
Prof Dr Tasneem Adam<br />
Ali, Dean Faculty of<br />
Science and Director, IMS,<br />
University of Karachi congratulated<br />
KU Institute of<br />
Marine Science for organizing<br />
the seminar and<br />
expressed his views about<br />
the significance of marine<br />
environment as a habitat, a<br />
resource provider and as<br />
focus of most of future<br />
research. She highlighted<br />
the pivotal role of an array<br />
of marine microbes and<br />
their future benefits.<br />
Prof Dr Ahmed Qadri,<br />
Dean Faculty of Social<br />
Sciences, UoK who was<br />
chief guest of the seminar<br />
said that Pakistan has one<br />
of the best pool of<br />
researchers in every field<br />
and marine scientist of<br />
Pakistan are no exception.<br />
He encouraged the students<br />
to leave no stone<br />
unturned in learning all<br />
modern skills for carrying<br />
out world class marine<br />
research for the betterment<br />
of Society. This was followed<br />
by keynote addresses<br />
of speakers from various<br />
organizations.<br />
-KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi presiding<br />
a meeting with Municipal Officers.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC East, Moid Anwar inspecting<br />
cleaning work in various areas of District East.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Nayar Raza<br />
inspecting ongoing developments.<br />
KARACHI: Deputy Commissioner DMC West, Shahzad<br />
Fazal Abbasi along with Administrator DMC West, Ayaz<br />
Hameedullah Baloch and Municipal Commissioner,<br />
Ashfaq Ahmed Mallah offering dua after planting a tree.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman District Council, Salman Abdullah<br />
Murad addressing a public gathering at Ibrahim Hyderi.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman Distract South Malik Fayyaz<br />
along with other in group photo during ceremony of<br />
Riaz Gadi Rajput Cricket Night Match Tournament held<br />
at Nashtar Park.
95 percent MQM workers accept<br />
Maqbool Siddiqui their convener: Farogh<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Barrister Naseem Farogh,<br />
counsel for MQM Rabita<br />
Committee Group has said<br />
constitutional crisis has hit<br />
MQM and they have resorted<br />
to Election Commission<br />
(EC) on this count.<br />
He further said that<br />
notice was received by<br />
Farooq Sattar 10 days<br />
back but his counsel told<br />
the EC during the course<br />
of hearing that he was not<br />
ready to give arguments<br />
therefore, he should be<br />
given more time.<br />
Talking to journalists<br />
outside the EC he said<br />
Tuesday “ opposing this we<br />
have said senate polls are<br />
round the corner and this<br />
issue be addressed before<br />
Senate polls. The EC has<br />
fixed March 1 for filing<br />
reply and giving arguments.<br />
He held that it is their<br />
ISLAMABAD: New Convener of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P)<br />
Bahadurabad faction Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui talking to media outside Election<br />
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) after their hearing. Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar,<br />
Barrister Farogh Naseem, Rauf Siddiqui and Amir Khan are also present.<br />
stance 95 percent workers<br />
accept Dr Khalid Maqbool<br />
Siddiqui their convener and<br />
reject the intra party election<br />
organized by Dr<br />
RAWALPINDI: The ence is against Ismail<br />
Regional Board Meeting Zafar Ex-Conservator,<br />
(RBM) of National Saleemullah Khan EX-<br />
Accountability Bureau DFO and Qadar dan EX-<br />
( N A B ) RFO regarding Illegal cutting/transportation<br />
Rawalpindi/Islamabad was<br />
of<br />
held under the chairmanship<br />
Timber from Makhley<br />
of Irfan Naeem Forest and Minar Forest<br />
Mangi, Director General Gilgit Baltistan during<br />
NAB (R) at NAB Timber Policy 2013.<br />
Rawalpindi.<br />
The meetingwas attended<br />
The second investigation<br />
approved for the filing of<br />
by Deputy Prosecutor reference is against<br />
General Accountability, Saleemullah Khan Ex-DFO<br />
Nouman Aslam Director Astore, Fareedullah Khan<br />
Gilgit Baltistan, Directors Ex-Superintendent and Secretary<br />
and other concerned officers.<br />
The following decisions<br />
were taken during<br />
the meeting.<br />
Muhammad Iqbal, Forest<br />
Lessee regarding transportation<br />
of Illegal cut Timber<br />
from Chilas Forest Division<br />
Provincial<br />
The Regional Board without collection of fine<br />
approved three investigations<br />
for the filing of reference.<br />
The first investigation<br />
approved for refer-<br />
during the Timber Policy<br />
2013. The responsible officers<br />
/ Officials of Forest<br />
Department have already<br />
Farooq Sattar. We hope<br />
MQM crisis will soon<br />
come to end.<br />
Babar Sattar counsel for<br />
Dr Farooq Sattar while<br />
been arrested and are<br />
presently in judicial custody.<br />
The third investigation<br />
approved for filing of reference<br />
is regarding illegal<br />
appointments/adjustments<br />
in the National Program<br />
for Family Planning and<br />
Primary Health Care GB<br />
wherein officials of lower<br />
grades were appointed<br />
against higher posts in violation<br />
of rules/regulations<br />
and on the basis of fake<br />
documents by the then<br />
Health,<br />
Coordinator,<br />
and Director Health.<br />
In addition, a new investigation<br />
against the officials<br />
of forest department GB<br />
was also authorized regarding<br />
the illegal cutting of<br />
timber in HookarGah,<br />
Gilgit forest due to which<br />
talking to media men said<br />
two petitions were filed<br />
against Farooq Sattar in<br />
EC. One petition was filed<br />
against his convener-ship<br />
Regional Board Meeting (RBM) of NAB<br />
LAHORE: U.S Consul General Elizabeth Trudeau being briefed on the occasion of her<br />
visit to Jamia Naeemia in Lahore.<br />
PPP ladies wing Badin stages protest against removal<br />
of Benazir picture from Benazir Income Support Card<br />
Staff Report<br />
Perhiar, Amina Mallah,<br />
BADIN: Pakistan Hajiani and others.They<br />
Peoples Party ladies wing chanted slogans against<br />
Badin staged protest federal government's such showing<br />
demonstration in front of step.While talking with failure.They<br />
Badin press club against journalists representitives<br />
removal of shaheed of ladies wing said it was<br />
Benazir Bhutto's picture conspiracy to make poor<br />
from Benazir income support<br />
programe card.The assistance. They said<br />
deprived of financial<br />
protest led by PPP ladies political rivals were afraid<br />
wing representitives of popularity of PPP and<br />
Tanzila Qambrani, Farhat sympathy of poor with<br />
party. They said shaheed<br />
BB was leader of the<br />
world and anti PPP were<br />
their<br />
demanded<br />
that picture of shaheed<br />
Benazir Bhutto be displayed<br />
on Benazir income<br />
support card.They also<br />
demanded removal of<br />
Marvi Memon,chair person<br />
of Benazir income<br />
support programe.<br />
Int’l Conference on women contribution<br />
in Islamic studies commences at IIUI<br />
ISLAMABAD: A two<br />
day International conference<br />
on “contribution of women<br />
to various discourses of<br />
Islamic studies in contemporary<br />
times” commenced here<br />
at Faisal Masjid campus of<br />
the university on Tuesday.<br />
The conference would<br />
discuss concurrent trends in<br />
Seerah writing, Islamic<br />
intellectual thought and<br />
social welfare services,<br />
scholarships of Islamic studies<br />
in different regions,<br />
Study of Quran and Hadith,<br />
Dissemination of Religious<br />
education and employing literary<br />
approaches to the<br />
study of Islam through<br />
national and international<br />
scholars from USA,<br />
Germany, Algeria and<br />
Pakistan.<br />
Famous Islamic Scholar,<br />
Dr. FarhatHashmi in her<br />
presidential address<br />
stressed upon a match in<br />
actions and knowledge. She<br />
opined that a disparity in the<br />
gained knowledge and<br />
practical life was a source<br />
of most of the issues. She<br />
also hailed women Muslim<br />
scholars for contributing in<br />
the field of Islamic studies<br />
and hoped for valuable recommendations.<br />
Dr. Marcia Hermensen,<br />
Director, Islamic world<br />
studies program, Loyola<br />
University, Chicago delivered<br />
a keynote address on<br />
the occasion. Shestressed<br />
upon women Islamic scholars<br />
to take the role as public<br />
intellectuals and utilize<br />
media and social media<br />
with a special focus on<br />
involvement of religion in<br />
public affairs to solve the<br />
contemporary issues. She<br />
also discussed injustice in<br />
various western societies<br />
regarding Muslim women.<br />
Dr. Marcia urged for<br />
searching<br />
between present and past of<br />
Islam for dealing with the<br />
contemporary challenges.<br />
the loss caused to the<br />
national exchequer is estimated<br />
to be around 40 million.<br />
The RBM also authorized<br />
a fresh inquiry against<br />
the officials of Health<br />
Department Gilgit Baltistan<br />
regarding Illegal appointments<br />
of Junior Medical<br />
Technicians in various districts<br />
of Gilgit Baltistan.<br />
Director General NAB<br />
Rawalpindi said that under<br />
direction from the<br />
Chairman NAB Justice<br />
Javed Iqbal is committed to<br />
eradicating corruption by<br />
ensuring accountability for<br />
all through effective<br />
enforcement and prosecution<br />
as well as by raising<br />
awareness among the general<br />
public against ill<br />
effects of corruption.<br />
CDA sacks<br />
325 employees for<br />
holding fake degrees<br />
ISLAMABAD: CDA has<br />
sacked its 325 employees of<br />
grade 1 to grade-16 for holding<br />
fake degrees.<br />
Sources said cases of<br />
some officials who were suspected<br />
to be holding fake<br />
degrees were sent to FIA for<br />
inquiry. The FIR report is still<br />
awaited in this matter even<br />
after passage of two years.<br />
FIA issued inquiry report<br />
in respect of some officers<br />
but CDA HRM department<br />
shelved the files of these officers.<br />
The FIAconfirmed that<br />
120 officers including 90<br />
percent officers from Sindh<br />
were holding fake degrees.<br />
The c ase was sent to establishment<br />
division.<br />
Establishment division had<br />
directed CDAto hold inquiry<br />
again and take action against<br />
the fake degree holders.<br />
CDA HR department<br />
constituted inquiry committee<br />
comprising four members<br />
under member Adman<br />
and DDG Human Resources.<br />
and second was filed<br />
against intra party election.<br />
We have sought time from<br />
EC for filing its reply. EC<br />
has given us the time till<br />
March 01. We will file our<br />
reply on March 01.<br />
Talking to journalists,<br />
party leader Kamran Tessori<br />
and Abdul Wasim said Dr<br />
Farooq Sattar is head of the<br />
party and workers have reelected<br />
him. We have filed<br />
all details of intra party election<br />
in EC. The claim of<br />
enjoying two thirds majority<br />
by MQM Bahadarabad<br />
group is false. Farooq Sattar<br />
has given us directives that<br />
party will not be divided,<br />
they added. Rabta<br />
Committee group has also<br />
desired that Farooq Sattar<br />
should be elected convener.<br />
We hope the crisis will soon<br />
come to end and party will<br />
be united ahead of next general<br />
election.<br />
Villagers<br />
compelled to drink<br />
contaminated water<br />
LARKANA: The subsoil<br />
water of village<br />
Saindad Junejo has become<br />
so contaminated that the<br />
residents have stopped to<br />
drink it. This village is<br />
located near World<br />
Heritage monuments of<br />
Mohenjo Daro. The residents<br />
- Muhammad Ali<br />
Junejo, Hasan Junejo and<br />
Allah Dino Junejo told<br />
media on Tuesday during a<br />
visit that a water filter plant<br />
was installed here, which<br />
was powered by solar system,<br />
but soon it became<br />
non-functional and again<br />
they had been forced to get<br />
water from far away places.<br />
They said that due to<br />
highly contaminated<br />
underground water, many<br />
villagers had been infected<br />
with dreaded viral disease<br />
Hepatitis, but<br />
nobody, including the<br />
elected representatives,<br />
had sent any medical team<br />
to examine them or to<br />
screen their blood.<br />
Allah Bux Khushik<br />
DADU: Public health<br />
engineering and rural<br />
development department<br />
minister Fayaz Ahmed<br />
Brutt government of Sindh<br />
has said that Pakistan<br />
People’s party government<br />
had helped public of country<br />
and they would continue<br />
their struggle as PPP<br />
government would provide<br />
all basic facilities.<br />
Minister for public<br />
health engineering Fayaz<br />
Ahmed Brutt was speaking<br />
to media person after<br />
inuragation of various<br />
developments schemes of<br />
roads and canals including<br />
Syed Village road, Radhan<br />
village to Matchi, Thari<br />
Mohbat to Vahai Kondhi,<br />
Village Jumo Narje,<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
National<br />
Mulkani to Thari road,<br />
Thari Muhamad petrol<br />
Pump to village Mureed<br />
Khan road in Mehar town<br />
on Tuesday.<br />
He said those opponents<br />
were criticizing on Sindh<br />
government that it had<br />
made corruption but corruption<br />
was main reason in<br />
country because PPP’s<br />
opponents had nothing to<br />
critizes. He said the public<br />
of sindh was witness that<br />
despite PPP opponents<br />
were remained their power<br />
but they had failed to deliver<br />
their government. He<br />
said that when PPP had<br />
come in his power it had<br />
helped to public of country<br />
and it had decreased poverty<br />
in country. He said that<br />
public of country with PPP<br />
3<br />
PPP govt helped countrymen and<br />
provided needed facilities: Fayaz Brutt<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD: Rich<br />
tributes were paid to Iqbal<br />
Qaimkhani, provincial secretary<br />
of All Pakistan<br />
Wapda Hydro-electric<br />
workers union on his<br />
Soyem at a mosque in<br />
Phuleli area near on last<br />
day. The workers and officers<br />
of Hesco, Sepco,<br />
NTDC power houses from<br />
all over Pakistan including<br />
central general secretary of<br />
APWWU Khurshid<br />
Ahmed, central president<br />
Abdul Latif Nizamani,<br />
Hesco chief Raham Ali<br />
Otho, social and religious<br />
leaders, Labour leaders of<br />
various labour unions<br />
Qamoos Gul Khatak, Javed<br />
Baloch, Walirehamn, Nisar<br />
Shaikh, Sajan Pahanwar<br />
paid homage to Iqbal<br />
Qaimkhani for his untiring<br />
efforts for cause of working<br />
class especially workers<br />
of Wapda and Hesco for<br />
which he devoted whole<br />
and they had proud on<br />
younger PPP chairam<br />
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari<br />
who had respected country.<br />
He said that those political<br />
are following sit-ins political<br />
they had backward to<br />
country. He said that PPP<br />
every activist was ready to<br />
sacrifices for country. He<br />
claimed that PPP would<br />
win next general election<br />
and PPP would formed<br />
government.<br />
On that occasion,<br />
Pakistan People’s Party<br />
general secrity Ghulam<br />
Dastghari Gorar, Taluka<br />
mehar president<br />
Muhammad Khan and others<br />
also spoke and visited<br />
Mallah festival and distributed<br />
awards among Malah<br />
fighters.<br />
Tributes paid to Iqbal Qaimkhani:<br />
great leader of working class<br />
his life. The Some was also<br />
attended leaders and workers<br />
of PPP, PML, MQM,<br />
Sunny Tehrik and other<br />
political parties. Those<br />
who paid him tributes for<br />
his dedication to cause of<br />
working class included<br />
Hanif Siddiqui,Abdul<br />
Wahid Inqilabi, Abid<br />
Qadri,Iqbal Ahmed Khan,<br />
Malik Sultan, Azam Khan,<br />
Hanif Khan, Rafiuddin<br />
Shah, Abdul Wahid Pathan<br />
and others.<br />
HYDERABAD: Mother of missing 14 years old girl Sana trying to self-immolate during<br />
a protest for her recovery, outside Hyderabad Press Club.<br />
Sadiq Fakeer paid rich tributes<br />
on his 3rd death anniversary<br />
on the importance of Safety<br />
on the roads, and how each<br />
and every member of the<br />
society can contribute<br />
towards the better future.<br />
The Police presentation<br />
demonstrated to drivers the<br />
latest local traffic laws and<br />
the steps and tips they need<br />
Imtiaz Dharani<br />
MITHI: The glowing<br />
tributes were paid to legendary<br />
singer Sadiq Fakeer<br />
on his 3rd death anniversary<br />
held in Benazir<br />
Bhuitto Cultural Complex<br />
in Mithi on Monday night<br />
by Sadiq Fakeer<br />
Foundation . The known<br />
critic, poet and prolific<br />
writer Taj Joyo speaking on<br />
the occasion expressed his<br />
deep sorrow over the tragic<br />
accidental of the acclaimed<br />
singer and observed that it<br />
was irreparable loss to<br />
Sindhi music." Sadiq was<br />
among the greatest singers<br />
of Sindh has ever produced"<br />
he added and vacuum<br />
created with death<br />
would never be filled. Mr<br />
Joyo said that he had the<br />
grip on the scents of various<br />
regional languages by<br />
singing the poetryt of many<br />
poets he immortalized their<br />
poetry. The living legend<br />
Singer Ustad Shafi Fakeer<br />
was of the opinion that late<br />
not only singer high caliber<br />
but was loving personality<br />
adding he said he still did<br />
not believe that rather<br />
whole Sindh had lost such<br />
great singer and soul.<br />
Professor Noor Ahmed<br />
Janjhi, the noted writer in<br />
his speech said that Sadq<br />
Fakeer had introduced new<br />
trends in the music and the<br />
to take to ensure their rides<br />
are as safe as possible.<br />
Speaking about the<br />
workshop, IG Islamabad<br />
Dr. Sultan Azam Temuri<br />
said, “It is a great initiative<br />
by Uber to hold these sessions<br />
as it is important to<br />
know the traffic laws and<br />
way he sang the poetry of<br />
many poets just expectational<br />
and splendid.<br />
Professor Janjhi observed<br />
he was the true voice of<br />
Thar, who had enriched the<br />
language and greatly contributed<br />
to the world of<br />
music. " The histroy of<br />
world of music will be<br />
incomplete withoout the<br />
mention of Sadiq" he added<br />
He giving the reference of<br />
Shaikk Ayaz he said the<br />
giant poet had rightly said<br />
that had Sadiq not sung his<br />
verses he poetic work<br />
would not have been properly<br />
introduced to people of<br />
Thar and rest of Sindh.<br />
The popular Thari poet<br />
how to be safe on the road<br />
and avoid accidents and<br />
mishaps. Uber’s effort to<br />
educate and create awareness<br />
about this is highly<br />
appreciated.”<br />
SSP Islamabad Traffic<br />
Police Malik Matloob,<br />
added, “Following road<br />
Saindad Saand said rthat<br />
with the 'untimely' death of<br />
singer he had not only lost<br />
a best friend but a person,<br />
who had immortalized his<br />
poetry. Mir Hasan Arisar,<br />
Mir Buledi, Dr Manoj<br />
Malani, Imam Ali Janjhi,<br />
Munwar Sagir, Suleman<br />
Rahimoon and others also<br />
spoke on the occasion and<br />
spoke on the life and music<br />
of late singer,, who had<br />
died in a road accident in<br />
Saudi Arabia three years<br />
back. The muasic concert<br />
was cancelled to mourn the<br />
death of two trader brothers,<br />
who were killed during<br />
robbery attempt some<br />
weeks back in Mithi.<br />
Uber Pakistan hosts safe driving workshop for drivers<br />
Uber Pakistan launches Safety Driving Tips workshops together in collaboration with law enforcement agencies<br />
ISLAMABAD: Uber,<br />
the leading global smartphone<br />
app seamlessly connecting<br />
riders to drivers in<br />
Pakistan’s seven cities,<br />
held a Driver Safety<br />
Workshop in collaboration<br />
with various law enforcement<br />
agencies.<br />
During the session, the<br />
Uber team and representatives<br />
from law enforcement<br />
presented safety tips for<br />
those behind the wheel, but<br />
also educated drivers about<br />
traffic laws in the city.<br />
Drivers also had the opportunity<br />
to ask questions and<br />
get their concerns answered<br />
by various spokespeople,<br />
which helped to ensure the<br />
connection session was both collaborative<br />
and insightful.<br />
A very impactful presentation<br />
from Police focused<br />
ISLAMABAD: Uber Pakistan launches Drivers Safety workshop together in collaboration with law enforcement agencies<br />
safety procedures is of paramount<br />
importance for any<br />
driver and this is what we<br />
tried to communicate in<br />
today’s workshop. We support<br />
Uber’s safety initiatives<br />
and will look to partner<br />
further on such avenues<br />
in promoting the message.”
4<br />
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AFTER a dismal human rights record with man<br />
killing man mentally, spiritually and physically<br />
here, there and almost everywhere, at every<br />
house and office, at ever farm and field, advocating for<br />
animal rights seem absurd. And seeking legitimate<br />
rights for animals may appear funny, subjected to<br />
laughters and resemble like some kind of madness,<br />
while rights of humans are not honored by humans.<br />
Howsoever that be, but animals who cannot talk sense<br />
or think as sensible as humans still have some rights.<br />
And feelings of joys and pains that humans also feel.<br />
They have rights that hundreds of organizations are<br />
advocating and fighting for globally. Scientists with<br />
their follower students however want to continue and<br />
not stop their experiments they believe are a compulsory<br />
evil to find cures for treatment of human illness and<br />
for achieving progress and prosperity of ailing humanity.<br />
Most people eat flesh of animals permitted in their<br />
religion, though other religious followers desist as it's<br />
prohibited for them, and yet there is another kind, of<br />
vegetarian people who eat vegetables instead of chicken,<br />
beef, mutton or flesh of any other animals.<br />
THIS complex situation does demand a resolution<br />
acceptable to all these parties to such brutal as well as<br />
compassionate factors involved in this "Humans Vs<br />
Animals" case.<br />
ANIMALS in laboratories is a world of comfort as<br />
well as torture for animals which just passed with<br />
protests and expressions for and against experiments on<br />
animals in laboratories. World Lab Animal Day is<br />
observed every year on 24 April and the surrounding<br />
week has come to be known as World Week For<br />
Animals In Laboratories. The National Anti-<br />
Vivisection Society (NAVS) describe the day as an<br />
"international day of commemoration" for animals in<br />
laboratories. World Day For Animals In Laboratories<br />
was established in 1979 by the British National Anti-<br />
Vivisection Society (NAVS). This event is marked by<br />
demonstrations and protests by groups opposed to the<br />
use of animals in research. World Day and World Week<br />
For Animals In Laboratories have also attracted attention<br />
from scientific groups defending the use of animals<br />
in research. The day is not included on the official<br />
list of United Nations observances.<br />
MEANWHILE, hundreds of millions of animals<br />
suffer and die worldwide in laboratories every year.<br />
These innocent victims are subjected to addictive<br />
drugs, caustic chemicals, ionizing radiation, chemical<br />
and biological weapons, electric shock, deprivation of<br />
food and/or water, psychological torture, and many<br />
other horrors.<br />
WORLD Laboratory Animal Liberation Week is a<br />
By Bandy X. Lee & Jeffrey D. Sachs<br />
When Donald Trump took office early last year,<br />
many pundits believed that he would settle<br />
into his presidency and pivot to normality.<br />
But a large number of America's mental health experts<br />
didn't see it that way. They warned that Trump evidently<br />
suffers from a mental impairment that would worsen<br />
under pressure, possibly leading him to launch a war,<br />
even a nuclear war. And now, with the dangers of a<br />
Trump-led war with North Korea or Iran rising, the world<br />
needs to head off America's president before it's too late.<br />
In the view of many professional psychologists and<br />
psychiatrists, Trump is not merely a bully, a showman,<br />
and a liar; he is more likely a mentally impaired individual<br />
who is impulsive, aggressive, and relentlessly driven<br />
to manipulate and blame others. These professionals<br />
have called for an urgent, independent evaluation of<br />
Trump's mental capacity that goes far beyond the simple<br />
cognitive screen that he received earlier this year when<br />
undergoing a physical examination at Walter Reed Army<br />
Medical Center.<br />
To some laypersons, and obviously to many<br />
Americans, symptoms of mental impairment can appear<br />
to be strengths. A lack of self-control can be mistaken for<br />
candour. Aggression and manipulativeness can be mistaken<br />
for deal-making skills. Yet to mental health professionals,<br />
these traits are danger signs. Individuals who display<br />
such behaviour are often masking intolerable feelings<br />
of powerlessness, inadequacy, and an overwhelming<br />
need for approval that can curdle into violent destructiveness<br />
under pressure.<br />
This would not be the first time, of course, that a<br />
leader with a severe personality disorder has gained<br />
power. But such leaders have usually gained control in<br />
smaller countries that lack the world's most powerful<br />
military. Still, the record of such episodes is grim: Idi<br />
Amin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, and many others were<br />
able to wreak murderous mayhem.<br />
Unlike those leaders, Trump can plunge the world<br />
into a devastating nuclear war at his personal command.<br />
In recent months, he has repeatedly threatened to use this<br />
power. Trump believes that by threats, sanction, and<br />
bravado, he can force North Korea to relinquish its<br />
nuclear weapons. In fact, if Trump pushes the North<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
After Human Rights, Animal Rights<br />
Are Also Gaining Strength<br />
OPINION<br />
worldwide week of events held each April calling all<br />
concerned about the heinous acts performed each and<br />
every hour every day on animals in labs to rise up and<br />
be heard in unison as one. It seemed to be a lost fight,<br />
though. Human made necessities continued to outweigh<br />
their call. Still, organized are rallies, protests,<br />
news conferences, literature tables, and other events to<br />
fight for the animals that are "imprisoned in laboratories"<br />
and to raise public awareness of their plight.<br />
Animal rights advocates plead that these speechless<br />
animals are depending on each and every one of us to<br />
stand up and speak out on their behalf.<br />
RIGHTS activists urge people to use each and every<br />
resource and electronic communications to augment<br />
collective efforts on behalf of the hundreds of millions<br />
of animals that will suffer and die in laboratories worldwide<br />
this year. Most activists seek peaceful means of<br />
achieving a cruelty free society and unconditional love<br />
and compassion toward the whole of God's creation<br />
and living beings that includes animals. However,<br />
sometimes protests become violent and were dealt with<br />
as per law of the land.<br />
CLASH of wills, intent and actions opposed to each<br />
other by animal rights advocates and scientists for<br />
experiments on animals were constantly observed and<br />
reported in different parts of the world. For instance,<br />
Animal Rights groups and UCLA Pro-Test, an organization<br />
of students and scientists, gathered on this very<br />
same day for and against experiments on animals in<br />
laboratories. Pro-Research, Pro-Science demonstration<br />
stood up against animal rights extremism and<br />
explained the crucially important role than animals<br />
play in medical research, organizing a demonstration to<br />
show that the students and scientists of UCLA and its<br />
neighbouring universities support animal-based medical<br />
research.<br />
MANY people feel drawn to advocate for animals<br />
because animals also feel pain and suffer just as we do,<br />
they do not have a way to advocate for their own welfare.<br />
In fact, animals are viewed by many as nothing<br />
more than property to be treated in whatever good or<br />
bad ways their owner wishes. This view has created an<br />
inhumane situation for billions of animals that share<br />
our world. Many of the world's 60 billion farm animals<br />
are not treated humanely. 80% of the world's 1 billion<br />
cats and dogs are stray or neglected. They are tortured<br />
by other stronger animals or humans, die of hunger and<br />
thirst, run over and killed by human driven vehicles,<br />
etc. Millions of wild animals are killed or sold illegally<br />
on the black market worth $10 billion a year. Animals<br />
suffer greatly and are often forgotten during natural disasters<br />
and die.<br />
Nuclear war not the answer, world<br />
should rein in Trump<br />
America's traditional allies should be on guard against blindly following the US to war<br />
Korean regime into a corner, he is more likely to provoke<br />
a war. The South Koreans understand this, but they are<br />
being pressured by the US to take a hard line. The recent<br />
Olympics thaw in relations between North and South<br />
Korea is promising, but not the end of the story. Trump<br />
will most likely stir up tensions soon again; he can't help<br />
himself.<br />
Iran is the second flash point. Trump is surrounded by<br />
hardliners in his administration who are seeking a showdown<br />
with the Islamic Republic. Israel's government, led<br />
by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is pushing the<br />
US in the same direction. Again, Trump or his advisers<br />
may believe that bravado will cause the Iranians to back<br />
down from their regional assertiveness in Syria and<br />
Lebanon; but this is unlikely, in part because Iran can<br />
count on Russia's tacit backing.<br />
Trump's obsession with winning and inability to<br />
accept a balance of power constitute a dire threat. His<br />
declaration on Twitter in January that he is "a very stable<br />
genius" is a sign of weakness, not strength. Such statements<br />
are an alarm, not a reassurance.<br />
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation<br />
continues to raise the emotional and political pressure on<br />
Trump, the president's temptation to resort to war could<br />
rise dramatically. The danger is that Trump's emotional<br />
compulsions could become all-consuming, rendering<br />
him incapable of choosing any other course than violence.<br />
Trump's impairments usually involve great efforts<br />
by him and others to keep his inner wounds covered.<br />
People around him often display excessive fawning or<br />
comply with exceptional demands in order to "contain"<br />
him. Such is the reported atmosphere at the White House,<br />
where his aides apparently work hard to keep America<br />
safe from their boss.<br />
Given the warning signs, the US Congress should<br />
move urgently to remove Trump's unilateral ability to<br />
launch a war, especially a nuclear war. The Constitution<br />
is clear: According to Article I, Section 8, Congress, not<br />
the president, has the power to declare war. Presidents<br />
have relentlessly usurped that power in recent decades,<br />
and Congress, unfortunately, has acquiesced. But, with<br />
Trump in power, it is especially urgent - a matter of survival<br />
- that Congress clearly and explicitly reasserts its<br />
constitutional authority.<br />
Naval Chief, French envoy discuss<br />
maritime security situation<br />
ISLAMABAD: French Ambassador Marc Barety calls on Chief of the Naval Staff,<br />
Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi at Naval Headquarters.<br />
Eye witness of double murder of Dileep,<br />
Chandar Meheshwari commits suicide<br />
Imtiaz Dharani<br />
MITHI: The eye witness<br />
of the double murder of<br />
Dileep and Chandar<br />
Meheshwari on Tuesday<br />
committed suicide. Nagji<br />
committed suicide by jumping<br />
himself in deep water<br />
tank in his house in<br />
Meghwar Locality of the<br />
town. Nagji Meghwar 42,<br />
the labourer, who was one of<br />
the main eye witness in the<br />
double murder case was<br />
reportedly mentally upset<br />
after he was grilled by police<br />
number of the time during<br />
the ongoing interrogation.<br />
He had told the police when<br />
incident took place in Shahi<br />
Bazaar of Mithi town on<br />
January 5 this year he was<br />
present at the shop near the<br />
LAHORE: Two<br />
unknown motorcyclists have<br />
fired on the car of Former<br />
Additional IG in Lahore<br />
Cantt but no loss to life has<br />
been reported.<br />
As per media details, two<br />
motorcyclists fired on the<br />
vehicle of Former<br />
Additional IG Chaudhry<br />
shop of the victims and could<br />
identify the culprits if they<br />
were brought before him.<br />
While, the credible<br />
sources privy to police<br />
department revealed to the<br />
local journalists on Tuesday<br />
that Mirpurkhas police led<br />
by DSP Anwar Ali Lakho<br />
raided village Nanisar in the<br />
suburbs of Mithi town and<br />
recovered/ dug out the<br />
motorcycle and pistol which<br />
were used in the crime by<br />
two killers The same sources<br />
claimed that the raid was<br />
conducted on the pointation<br />
of one the prime facilitators<br />
Allah Warayo Umrani aka<br />
Kelo Umrani , who was<br />
arrested by police few days<br />
back from Mirpurkhas district."<br />
The major breakthrough<br />
has already been<br />
made in the high profile double<br />
murder case as most of<br />
the accused have been arrested"<br />
added the same sources.<br />
The police sources also<br />
shared some video clips with<br />
the media persons in which<br />
policemen were seen digging<br />
the field to trace the motorcycle<br />
and the pistol.<br />
When contacted SSP<br />
Tharparkar district told<br />
Dawn that police teams were<br />
busy round the clock to arrest<br />
the killers. " We will surely<br />
share the details once the<br />
major breakthrough is made"<br />
he added and avoided to<br />
comment on the reports of<br />
some media section that<br />
almost all those wanted in<br />
the case had been arrested.<br />
2 unknown motorcyclists fire<br />
on former Additional IG vehicle<br />
Thousands<br />
attend funeral of<br />
Chopan in Tral<br />
SRINAGAR: Thousands<br />
of people participated in the<br />
funeral prayers of a martyred<br />
youth, Mushtaq Ahmad<br />
Chopan, in Tral, today.<br />
According to KMS,<br />
Mushtaq Chopan was martyred<br />
by the Indian police<br />
during custody inside Tral<br />
police station in Pulwama<br />
district, yesterday. At least<br />
four rounds of funeral<br />
prayers were held to accommodate<br />
the huge rush of<br />
mourners who had turned up<br />
from Aripal, Tral and adjoining<br />
villages to participate in<br />
the funeral of Mushtaq at his<br />
native Wagad village. He<br />
was laid to rest amid profreedom<br />
and anti-India slogans.<br />
Freedom songs were<br />
played through the public<br />
address systems during the<br />
funeral.<br />
M A. Rehman<br />
M I R P U R K H A S :<br />
District Council<br />
Mirpurkhas, held a meeting<br />
, the chairmanship of<br />
Chairman Mir Anwar<br />
Talpur, here on monday at<br />
Syed Ghulam Nabi Shah<br />
Hall Mirpurkhas . basic<br />
agenda in the meeting, to<br />
eliminate the shortage of<br />
water and fair distribution<br />
of water . Elected Chairman<br />
Mir Anwar talpur councillors<br />
said , It is very important<br />
that the existence of<br />
human life without water is<br />
impossible, the District<br />
Council has to provide<br />
water on priority basis , he<br />
congratulated the whole<br />
house on the successful raily<br />
of former President Asif Ali<br />
Zardari in Mirpurkhas. he<br />
Abdul Rauf,<br />
Manzoor when his wife and<br />
daughter were on their way<br />
to market for shopping .<br />
Attackers fired 5 shots on<br />
the car, 4 on the front mirror<br />
and 1 on the bonnet, however<br />
the family remained safe.<br />
DIG Operations Haider<br />
Ashraf has said while talking<br />
to journalists that attackers<br />
were riding motorcycle<br />
and they were two in number.<br />
They are investigating<br />
the incident from all aspects.<br />
Bullets and other evidences<br />
have been gathered<br />
from the scene and they are<br />
taking help from CCTV<br />
cameras. Soon accused will<br />
be arrested, he added.<br />
District Committee meeting to make<br />
polio campaign successful, two-day<br />
training for supervisors: ADC Sukkur<br />
SUKKUR: Additional<br />
Deputy Commissioner<br />
Sukkur Ali Raza Ansari has<br />
emphasized on polio teams<br />
and officers that the work<br />
of the polio campaign to be<br />
effective and successful,<br />
removing the paperwork<br />
and performing practical<br />
work, prevented future<br />
builders from polio-pediatric<br />
disease. He expressed<br />
his views during the presidency<br />
of the district committee<br />
meeting regarding<br />
the eradicating polio in DC<br />
Office Sukkur. In the meeting,<br />
DHO Sukkur Dr.<br />
Abdul Sattar mahar and<br />
Focal Person Abdul Hayee<br />
Khoso and other concerned<br />
officers attended the meeting.<br />
The briefing was<br />
informed that the next campaign<br />
to drop polio vacination<br />
will continue from<br />
March 12 to 15th, which is<br />
the target of 2 lac 91 thousand<br />
198 children, for<br />
which 884 teams have been<br />
formed. ADC Sukkur Ali<br />
Raza Ansari emphasized<br />
the polio teams and officers<br />
that the use of fingermarking<br />
and verification of<br />
doors should be done efficiently<br />
and while monitoring<br />
the vaccine through<br />
mobile applications, in this<br />
regard the IRD section is<br />
full of The services of the<br />
polio teams will be given<br />
27-<strong>28</strong> <strong>Feb</strong> for training<br />
while the campaign will be<br />
inaugurated in a sidewalk.<br />
said , we are favorable to the<br />
party . who Mirpurkhas<br />
started a Mega Project in<br />
which drainage system ,<br />
Two roads in the city have<br />
constructed nearby Pass<br />
Road and directed the members<br />
of the district council<br />
to monitor their developmental<br />
activities in their<br />
respective areas so that they<br />
can improve their work, the<br />
Vice President of District<br />
Council Mirpurkhas<br />
Council member Khalid<br />
Hussein Bakhrani , said that<br />
the water situation has<br />
become very dry after 16<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Ambassador of France Marc<br />
Baréty called on Chief of<br />
Naval Staff Admiral Zafar<br />
Mahmood Abbasi here on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
Matters of mutual interest,<br />
regional maritime security situation<br />
and professional issues<br />
were discussed during the<br />
meeting.<br />
The Naval Chief highlighted<br />
the efforts of Pakistan<br />
Navy for maritime peace.The<br />
French Ambassador appreciated<br />
the role of Pakistan Navy<br />
in ensuring maritime security<br />
in the region.<br />
AIOU allocates<br />
Rs.170 million to<br />
support needy students<br />
ISLAMABAD: Allama<br />
Iqbal Open University<br />
(AIOU) has allocated Rs.<br />
170 million in its annual<br />
budget to provide financial<br />
support to the needy students<br />
in form of scholarships<br />
and fee-waivers, this<br />
was announced here<br />
Tuesday.<br />
The annual budgetary<br />
allocation to this effect has<br />
almost been doubled in<br />
order to ensure that the<br />
financial constraint should<br />
not be a hurdle in continuation<br />
of future study. We<br />
are fulfilling our social<br />
responsibility to take care<br />
of marginalized sections of<br />
the society, said Vice<br />
Chancellor Professor Dr.<br />
Shahid Siddiqui.<br />
The scholarships could<br />
be availed during the ongoing<br />
admissions that will<br />
continue till March 5.<br />
Indian troops conduct<br />
search operations in<br />
Srinagar, Badgam<br />
SRINAGAR: Indian<br />
troops arrested a youth<br />
during a siege and search<br />
operation in Chhatabal<br />
area of Srinagar.<br />
According to KMS, the<br />
troops entered Chaan-<br />
Mohalla and Mughal-<br />
Mohalla of Chhatabal,<br />
conducted house-to-house<br />
searches. People were<br />
pulled out of their houses<br />
and subjected to ill-treatment<br />
during the hour-long<br />
operation. The troops also<br />
arrested a youth during the<br />
crackdown operation.<br />
The Indian troops also<br />
conducted search operations<br />
in Soura area of<br />
Srinagar and Aharbal,<br />
Khaag and Charar-e-<br />
Sharief areas of Badgam.<br />
Imran Khan visits<br />
Lahore today<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Chairman PTI Imran Khan<br />
will visit Lahore today on<br />
(Wednesday).<br />
Imran Khan has also<br />
summoned PTI<br />
Parliamentarian meeting<br />
today. During the meeting<br />
PTI strategy on senate<br />
elections will be discussed.<br />
No life without water says Mir Anwar Talpur<br />
years. He said that water<br />
flow in the first Nara Canal<br />
was the first time . in the<br />
meeting of the Pray for the<br />
death of Mir Ahmed Khan<br />
Talpur. I had 14000 cusics,<br />
now that's just 7350 cusics<br />
that are highly concerned<br />
about farmers .
Syria war: Shelling and strikes<br />
despite Eastern Ghouta ‘pause’<br />
DAMASCUS: Fighting<br />
continued in the rebel-held<br />
Eastern Ghouta area in Syria<br />
during the first daily fivehour<br />
"pause" ordered by the<br />
government's ally Russia.<br />
Activists said there were<br />
government air and artillery<br />
strikes, while Russia said<br />
rebels shelled a "humanitarian<br />
corridor" meant to let<br />
civilians leave.<br />
As a result, there were no<br />
UN aid deliveries or medical<br />
evacuations.<br />
Some 393,000 people are<br />
trapped in the enclave near<br />
Damascus, which has been<br />
besieged by the government<br />
since 2013.<br />
Medics say more than<br />
500 people have been killed<br />
WASHINGTON: The<br />
United States has reportedly<br />
warned Turkey against the<br />
consequences of its decision<br />
to buy S-400 surface-to-air<br />
missile batteries from<br />
Russia, saying Washington<br />
could slapAnkara with sanctions<br />
over such a purchase.<br />
Speaking on condition of<br />
anonymity, an American<br />
official expressed concerns<br />
over Turkey’s plan to buy<br />
the Russian S-400 missile<br />
system, saying the purchase<br />
would potentially expose<br />
Turkey to a new sanctions<br />
law recently passed by<br />
Congress, according to the<br />
Turkish daily Haberturk.<br />
Moscow and Ankara<br />
finalized an agreement on<br />
the delivery of the S-400<br />
surface-to-air missile systems<br />
on December 2017.<br />
The deal has drawn concerns<br />
among some of<br />
Turkey’s NATO allies who<br />
claim the missile batteries<br />
are not compatible with<br />
those of the military alliance.<br />
since the government intensified<br />
its bombardment nine<br />
days ago in an attempt to<br />
retake the enclave.<br />
Meanwhile, France has<br />
urged Russia to use its influence<br />
over Syrian President<br />
Bashar al-Assad to secure a<br />
30-day truce covering the<br />
whole country.<br />
The UN Security<br />
The US official further<br />
said that the potential acquisition<br />
of the missile systems<br />
would “negatively influence<br />
the interoperability of<br />
NATO,” the US-led North<br />
Atlantic Treaty<br />
Council unanimously<br />
passed a resolution<br />
demanding a nationwide<br />
cessation of hostilities on<br />
Saturday, but it did not<br />
specify a start date.<br />
"Russia is one of the only<br />
actors that can get the<br />
regime to implement the<br />
resolution," French Foreign<br />
Minister Jean-Yves Le<br />
Drian told his Russian counterpart<br />
Sergei Lavrov at a<br />
meeting in Moscow.<br />
A spokesman for the UN<br />
Office for the Co-ordination<br />
of Humanitarian Affairs<br />
(OCHA) said it had<br />
received reports that fighting<br />
continued after the<br />
Russian-ordered pause<br />
began on Tuesday morning.<br />
"Clearly, the situation on<br />
the ground is not such that<br />
convoys can go in or medical<br />
evacuations can go out,"<br />
Jens Laerke told reporters in<br />
Geneva.<br />
Organization to which<br />
Turkey is a member.<br />
The official also said that<br />
Washington was seeking to<br />
“help Turkey find a better<br />
alternative to meet its air<br />
defense needs.”<br />
The Syrian Observatory<br />
for Human Rights (SOHR),<br />
a UK-based monitoring<br />
group, said the situation in<br />
the Eastern Ghouta had been<br />
relatively calm overnight.<br />
But it reported that in the<br />
first two hours of the<br />
Russian-ordered "humanitarian<br />
pause", a number of<br />
shells hit the towns of<br />
Douma, Harasta and<br />
Misraba.<br />
Later, it reported air<br />
strikes, including the dropping<br />
of two barrel bombs on<br />
the town of al-Shifuniya,<br />
and rocket fire.<br />
The Syrian Civil<br />
Defence, whose volunteer<br />
rescue workers are widely<br />
known as the White<br />
Helmets, said one person<br />
was killed in Douma by<br />
shellfire. But the Syrian<br />
Observatory said the attack<br />
happened before the pause<br />
began.<br />
With eye on US,<br />
US warns Turkey against China to revamp top<br />
tier of diplomats<br />
S-400 purchase from Russia<br />
BEIJING: China is<br />
South Korea prosecutors demand<br />
30-year term for ex-president Park<br />
SEOUL: Prosecutors in<br />
South Korea have demanded<br />
a lengthy prison sentence<br />
for former president Park<br />
Geun-hye, who was toppled<br />
last year amid an influencepeddling<br />
scandal.<br />
During a court session on<br />
Tuesday, prosecutors in the<br />
case demanded that Park —<br />
who was not present and<br />
who denies any wrongdoing<br />
— be handed a 30-year jail<br />
term.<br />
Park was formally<br />
removed from office and<br />
arrested in March last year<br />
over accusations of bribery,<br />
abuse of power, and coercion.<br />
The Seoul Central<br />
District Court, where Park is<br />
being tried on the charges, is<br />
to set a date for the<br />
announcement of its verdict.<br />
The same court sentenced<br />
Park’s confidante,<br />
Choi Soon-sil, to 20 years in<br />
prison earlier this month for<br />
her role in the influencepeddling<br />
scandal.<br />
Saudi Crown Prince to visit Britain on March 7<br />
LONDON: Saudi<br />
Crown Prince Mohammed<br />
bin Salman will begin a<br />
visit to Britain on March 7<br />
which will include talks<br />
with Prime Minister<br />
Theresa May on topics such<br />
as extremism and societal<br />
reform, May’s spokesman<br />
said on Tuesday.<br />
“The visit will usher in a<br />
new era in bilateral relations<br />
focused on a partnership<br />
that delivers wideranging<br />
benefits for both<br />
the United Kingdom and<br />
the Kingdom of Saudi<br />
Arabia,” the spokesman<br />
said.<br />
“The visit will also provide<br />
an opportunity to<br />
enhance our co-operation<br />
in tackling international<br />
challenges such as terrorism,<br />
extremism, the conflict<br />
and humanitarian crisis<br />
in Yemen and other regional<br />
issues such as Iraq and<br />
Syria.”<br />
May discussed the visit<br />
with her cabinet earlier on<br />
Tuesday, including the<br />
much anticipated stock<br />
market listing of state oil<br />
company Saudi Aramco -<br />
potentially the biggest listing<br />
in history and the subject<br />
of a high profile tug of<br />
war between Britain and<br />
the United States.<br />
“The fact that there is a<br />
potential listing of Saudi<br />
Aramco was discussed, but<br />
in no more terms than that,”<br />
the spokesman said.<br />
In a separate statement<br />
issued after the meeting<br />
with her cabinet, May said<br />
the crown prince’s visit -<br />
his first since his appointment<br />
in June 2017 - would<br />
allow Britain to talk<br />
“frankly and constructively”<br />
about areas of concern<br />
like Yemen and security in<br />
the Middle East.<br />
Colombia's ELN rebels<br />
kill five soldiers in<br />
bomb attack<br />
BOGOTA: At least five<br />
Colombian soldiers were<br />
killed and more than 10<br />
wounded early Tuesday in an<br />
attack by the Marxist ELN<br />
rebels near the border with<br />
Venezuela, the Army said.<br />
The attack came one day<br />
after the National Liberation<br />
Army (ELN) said it would<br />
hold a unilateral ceasefire<br />
during legislative elections<br />
next month. The government<br />
had said the gesture was the<br />
kind of action needed to<br />
restart stalled peace talks<br />
between the two sides.<br />
During the Tuesday<br />
attack, the guerrillas bombed<br />
military vehicles on the road<br />
between the towns of Tibu<br />
and Salazar de las Palmas in<br />
Norte de Santander province.<br />
“There was a terrorist<br />
action with the detonation of<br />
an explosive device installed<br />
by members of the Juan<br />
Fernando Porras Martinez<br />
unit of the ELN,” the Army<br />
said in a statement.<br />
The government suspended<br />
peace talks with the ELN<br />
in January, after the end of the<br />
two sides’ first-ever bilateral<br />
ceasefire, when the rebels<br />
resumed attacks on security<br />
forces and oil pipelines.<br />
MELBOURNE: Up to<br />
14 people were killed in<br />
landslides and by collapsed<br />
buildings during a powerful<br />
earthquake in the<br />
remote Papua New Guinea<br />
highlands, police and a<br />
hospital worker said on<br />
Tuesday, with unconfirmed<br />
reports of up to 30 dead.<br />
The 7.5 magnitude<br />
quake that rocked the<br />
region early on Monday<br />
also damaged mining and<br />
power infrastructure and<br />
expected to announce a<br />
reshuffle of its top diplomats<br />
at an annual meeting<br />
of parliament in March,<br />
aiming to deal with U.S.<br />
President Donald Trump’s<br />
growing suspicion of<br />
Beijing, several sources<br />
familiar with the plan<br />
said.<br />
The sources, including<br />
foreign diplomats, told<br />
Reuters that Wang Qishan,<br />
a close ally of President<br />
Xi Jinping, will likely<br />
become vice president<br />
with a portfolio specifically<br />
focused on handling<br />
ties with Washington. He<br />
would report directly to<br />
Xi.<br />
Current Foreign<br />
Minister Wang Yi will<br />
probably become a state<br />
councillor, replacing current<br />
top diplomat and<br />
State Councillor Yang<br />
Jiechi, who has been promoted<br />
to the Communist<br />
Party’s 25-member politburo,<br />
the sources said.<br />
State councillors, who<br />
report to the Cabinet, are<br />
more senior than the ministers<br />
responsible for the<br />
same portfolio.<br />
Wang Yi could also<br />
keep the foreign minister<br />
portfolio, the sources said.<br />
Another possibility was<br />
that Song Tao, head of the<br />
Communist Party’s international<br />
affairs department<br />
and close to Xi,<br />
could become foreign<br />
minister, the sources said.<br />
Song is a career diplomat<br />
who has worked in India<br />
and the Philippines and<br />
speaks good English,<br />
diplomats who have met<br />
him say.<br />
SJA Jafri<br />
Bureau Chief Australia<br />
MELBOURNE: Balloons, disposable<br />
food containers and cups are being<br />
banned at events held on council property<br />
in part of Melbourne's north.<br />
The City of Darebin, which<br />
includes the suburbs of Preston,<br />
Northcote and Thornbury, voted unanimously<br />
to ban the items from being<br />
used or sold on council land.<br />
DUBAI: An investigation<br />
into the death of<br />
Bollywood superstar<br />
Sridevi Kapoor, who<br />
drowned in her bathtub in a<br />
Dubai hotel, has been<br />
closed, police said on<br />
Tuesday (<strong>Feb</strong> 27).<br />
"The Dubai public prosecutor's<br />
officer has decided to<br />
release the body of Indian<br />
actress Sridevi to her family<br />
today (Tuesday) after the<br />
investigation into the incident<br />
was concluded and the<br />
case closed," read a tweet by<br />
Dubai police.<br />
Sridevi, 54, drowned in<br />
her bathtub after losing consciousness<br />
at the weekend in<br />
a hotel in Dubai, where she<br />
was attending a wedding.<br />
The Dubai government's<br />
media office added that a<br />
"comprehensive investigation"<br />
into the circumstances<br />
of her death had been carried<br />
out.<br />
It was earlier reported<br />
that the actress died of cardiac<br />
arrest. The Gulf News<br />
said on Monday that traces<br />
of alcohol were also found<br />
in Sridevi's body and police<br />
officials believe this "may<br />
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have led to the accident".<br />
Dubai had held the<br />
superstar's body since<br />
5<br />
'Case closed' in death of Bollywood<br />
star Sridevi: Dubai police<br />
LONDON: Amid a<br />
renewed Western push to<br />
blame Syria for “chemical<br />
attacks” against civilians,<br />
the UK says it will start<br />
“seriously” considering<br />
joining US military strikes<br />
against the Arab country if<br />
such claims are ever<br />
established.<br />
“If we know that it has<br />
happened, and we can<br />
demonstrate it, and if<br />
there is a proposal for<br />
action where the UK<br />
could be useful then I<br />
think we should seriously<br />
consider it,” Britain’s<br />
Foreign Secretary Boris<br />
Johnson told the BBC on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
On Monday, the socalled<br />
Syrian Observatory<br />
for Human Rights, which<br />
is sympathetic to anti-<br />
Damascus militants, said<br />
14 civilians had suffered<br />
breathing difficulties after<br />
a Syrian warplane struck<br />
the village in the Eastern<br />
Saturday, pending the<br />
results of the post-mortem<br />
investigation.<br />
UK may join US strikes on Syria if<br />
gas attack claims proven: Johnson<br />
Ghouta region in the<br />
Syrian capital’s suburbs.<br />
The report came just<br />
after Russia warned that<br />
militants were planning a<br />
gas attack there to pin it<br />
on the Syrian government.<br />
Russian Foreign<br />
Minister Sergei Lavrov,<br />
however, dismissed the<br />
report as “bogus stories,”<br />
stressing that government<br />
forces have attacked foreign-sponsored<br />
Takfiri<br />
terrorists there.<br />
EU: All Israeli settlements<br />
‘illegal, obstacle to peace’<br />
Greens councillor Trent McCarthy<br />
said the policy demonstrated leadership<br />
on the environmental issues concerning<br />
the community.<br />
"It's important that when we ask<br />
people to not leave plastics around in<br />
our public spaces, that we're also doing<br />
everything we can to reduce the use of<br />
those single-use plastics ourselves," Cr<br />
McCarthy said.<br />
The ban will be phased in over two<br />
years, and the council will provide<br />
Brussels: The European<br />
Union (EU)’s top diplomat,<br />
Federica Mogherini, has<br />
stressed that all Israeli settlements<br />
are illegal, condemning<br />
them as “an obstacle<br />
to peace.”<br />
“We have stressed,<br />
repeatedly, that all settlements<br />
are illegal and are an<br />
obstacle to peace,” High<br />
Representative Mogherini<br />
said before talks between<br />
EU and Arab League foreign<br />
ministers in Brussels<br />
on Monday, which she said<br />
would focus on “how to<br />
bring the Middle East peace<br />
process forward.”<br />
About 600,000 Israelis<br />
live in over 230 illegal settlements<br />
built since the<br />
1967 Israeli occupation of<br />
the Palestinian territories of<br />
the West Bank and East<br />
Jerusalem al-Quds.<br />
Mogherini also commented<br />
on the recent closure<br />
of the Church of the<br />
Holy Sepulcher in the Old<br />
City of Jerusalem al-Quds<br />
in protest against Israeli<br />
measures, saying “The special<br />
status and the character<br />
of the city [Jerusalem al-<br />
Quds] must be preserved<br />
and respected by all.”<br />
“We hope that a solution<br />
can be found quickly,<br />
Jerusalem is a holy city to<br />
the three monotheistic religions,”<br />
she added.<br />
Melbourne's council votes for balloon ban<br />
led ExxonMobil Corp to<br />
shut its $19 billion liquefied<br />
natural gas (LNG)<br />
plant, the country’s biggest<br />
export earner.<br />
Two buildings collapsed<br />
and along with a landslide<br />
killed 12 people in Mendi,<br />
the provincial capital of the<br />
Southern Highlands, said<br />
Julie Sakol, a nurse at<br />
Mendi General Hospital,<br />
where the bodies were<br />
brought to the morgue.<br />
“People are afraid. The<br />
exemptions at events where disposable<br />
plastic is unavoidable for health and<br />
safety reasons.<br />
The Council made headlines last<br />
year after voting to axe Australia Day<br />
celebrations, a move that prompted the<br />
Federal Government to strip the council<br />
of its power to hold citizenship ceremonies.<br />
Darebin's nine councillors include<br />
four Greens, three independents and<br />
two backed by Labor.<br />
At least 14 dead in Papua New Guinea quake; ExxonMobil shuts LNG plant<br />
shaking is still continuing.<br />
There’s nowhere to go but<br />
people are just moving<br />
around,” she said.<br />
Dozens of aftershocks<br />
rattled the area, including<br />
a 5.7 quake on Tuesday<br />
afternoon, the U.S.<br />
Geological Survey<br />
reported.<br />
Police in Mendi said 14<br />
people were killed in the<br />
initial quake, including<br />
three in Poroma, south of<br />
Mendi.
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France-Iran oil trade tops<br />
$2 billion in 2017: Envoy<br />
TEHRAN: Oil trade<br />
between Iran and France<br />
surpassed $2 billion in<br />
2017, French Ambassador<br />
to Tehran Francois<br />
Senemaud said Tuesday,<br />
hoping bilateral business<br />
will continue as normal.<br />
France’s Total was the<br />
first Western oil major to<br />
sign a post-sanction deal to<br />
develop and operate phase<br />
11 of Iran’s South Pars, but<br />
the company has said its<br />
final investment decision on<br />
the $2 billion project hinges<br />
on the renewal of US sanctions<br />
waivers.<br />
President Donald Trump<br />
waived the nuclear sanctions<br />
“for the last time” in<br />
January and gave US<br />
Congress and European<br />
allies 120 days to change a<br />
nuclear agreement with Iran<br />
or face US abandonment of<br />
the pact.<br />
France’s Foreign<br />
Minister Jean-Yves Le<br />
Drian has said he would<br />
PESHAWAR: Chairman Council of<br />
OIC Federation of Pakistan Chamber<br />
of Commerce and Industry Haji<br />
Naseem ur rehman stressed the need for<br />
enhancing bilateral economic ties and<br />
trade relations between brotherly<br />
Islamic countries.<br />
While chairing the 1st meeting of<br />
FPCCI OIC Council here Tuesday, Haji<br />
Naseem ur rehman said that soon in<br />
visit Iran on March 5 for<br />
talks with Iranian officials,<br />
including Trump’s ultimatum<br />
to his country as well as<br />
Britain and France about the<br />
nuclear deal.<br />
Tehran is aggrieved by<br />
recent remarks by French<br />
officials, including le Drian<br />
accusing Iran of “hegemonic<br />
temptations” in the<br />
region.<br />
Paris, however, has<br />
vowed to defend the Joint<br />
Comprehensive Plan of<br />
Action (JCPOA) as the<br />
nuclear accord is officially<br />
known.<br />
French companies were<br />
among the first to resume<br />
trade with Iran after the lifting<br />
of sanctions on the<br />
Islamic Republic in early<br />
2016.<br />
“With the lifting of sanctions<br />
against Iran and the<br />
Pakistan Islamic trade fair of Islamic<br />
countries will be organized. The meeting<br />
was also attended by President<br />
Federation of Pakistan Chamber of<br />
Commerce and Industries Ghazanfar<br />
Bilor. The meeting discussed the agenda<br />
related to the single currency trade,<br />
to make strong linkages with Islamic<br />
Development Banks, to organize<br />
Islamic Trade fair in Pakistan and to<br />
implementation of the Joint<br />
Comprehensive Plan of<br />
Action, Iran-France cooperation<br />
on oil and gas resumed<br />
so that the volume of oil<br />
trade between the two countries<br />
exceeded $2 billion in<br />
2017,” Mehr news agency<br />
quoted Senemaud as saying.<br />
He made the remarks in<br />
an address to the opening of<br />
a workshop on health, safety<br />
and environment (HSE)<br />
Need stressed for enhancing bilateral economic<br />
ties between brother Islamic countries<br />
Uzma Sabir appointed as senior vice<br />
chairperson FPCCI Committee on standards,<br />
compliances, inspection and certification<br />
KARACHI: Ghazanfar Bilowr<br />
President Federation of Pakistan<br />
Chambers of Commerce and Industry has<br />
reappointed Miss Uzma Sabir as Senior<br />
Irrigated agriculture<br />
productivity enhancement<br />
launches project to strengthen<br />
agriculture in Sindh<br />
Our Correspondent<br />
HYDERABAD: Sindh<br />
Irrigated Agriculture<br />
Productivity Enhancement<br />
Project (SIAPEP) Has<br />
Launched different components’<br />
which would be used<br />
in Agriculture to make<br />
Sindh srong in context of<br />
Economy and the<br />
Agriculture. With<br />
Collaboration of World<br />
Bank Sindh Government<br />
through their Agriculture<br />
department (on farm water<br />
management) by SIAPEP.<br />
The SIAPEP Project initially<br />
providing the Growers and<br />
farmers Equipment which<br />
would be used in Agriculture<br />
land on Subsidy Basis to<br />
enhance the Agriculture sector.<br />
The project is providing<br />
an opportunity in 24<br />
Districts of Sindh and<br />
accommodating by the all<br />
aspects and SIAPEP Team<br />
spreading the information<br />
through different ways<br />
including Radio service,<br />
News papers, Broaches, TV<br />
Channels and other tact’s of<br />
Information to Growers and<br />
farmers for leading their<br />
Agriculture land.<br />
Vice Chairman on Standing Committee on<br />
Standards, Compliance, Inspection and<br />
Certification for the year <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Miss Uzma Sabir is a young enthusiastic<br />
entrepreneur energetic with 5 years'<br />
experience in the field of Standardization<br />
and Quality Consciousness in Pakistan,<br />
She is passes M.Sc. and MBA degree and<br />
lead Auditor of ISO 9001(2015) She is<br />
also Chairperson Icon Foundation<br />
Pakistan, Chief Executive of Icon PR &<br />
Communication, Editor In Chief of<br />
Standards Gazette International, Member<br />
Women Chambers of Commerce &<br />
Industry, Communicating Member of<br />
International Organization for<br />
Standardization (ISO) and CEO Icon of<br />
the Nation Awards.<br />
Miss Uzma Sabir has express her determination<br />
In the contributing positively to<br />
the field of Quality Standards,<br />
Compliances, Inspection and Certification<br />
with the support c FPCCI Management<br />
and would also focus on creating opportunities<br />
for Pakistan" Business Community<br />
at National and International level.<br />
KARACHI: Meezan mer Presidents and<br />
Bank’s President & CEO Chairmen of KATI<br />
Irfan Siddiqui has said that ZubairChhaya, Syed<br />
stability of Banking sector FarukhMazhar, Rashid<br />
is a matter of national interest,<br />
Ahmed Siddiqui,<br />
prosperity of industry AkberFarooqui, Dr.<br />
and trade is directly link to Samiuzzaman and others<br />
the prospers banking also expressed their view.<br />
industry, he was talking to<br />
office bearers of Korangi<br />
Association of Trade &<br />
President KATI Tariq<br />
Malik welcomed the delegation<br />
of Meezan Bank’s<br />
Industry(KATI) on his visit executives lead by<br />
to the association. On this<br />
occasion President KATI<br />
Tariq Malik, Vice President<br />
IrfanSiddqui, President &<br />
CEO of the bank. He said<br />
that industrial sector and<br />
Junaid Naqi, Senator SMEs were facing huge<br />
Abdul Haseeb Khan, for-<br />
burden of exceeding cost<br />
make website for FPCCI council on<br />
“OIC”. Rehman said the Muslim countries<br />
had enormous resources and<br />
potential to succeed, but the task was to<br />
transform the potential into real asset.<br />
Promotion of economic linkage within<br />
the Muslim communities by creating<br />
opportunities could help generate<br />
greater flow of capital from within and<br />
beyond the Islamic world.<br />
NA body okays<br />
MNFSR’s proposed<br />
budget for <strong>2018</strong>-19<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
National Assembly<br />
Standing Committee on<br />
National Food Security and<br />
Research Tuesday unanimously<br />
approved proposed<br />
allocation of Rs4.18 billion<br />
for various ongoing and<br />
new development projects<br />
of the ministry to be<br />
included in Public Sector<br />
Development Programme<br />
(PSDP) <strong>2018</strong>-19.<br />
The 43rd meeting of the<br />
committee was held here<br />
Tuesday under the chairmanship<br />
of Malik Shakir<br />
Bashir Awan, MNA.<br />
Secretary of Ministry of<br />
National Food Security and<br />
Research, Fazal Abbas<br />
Maken briefed the committee<br />
on ministry’s Public<br />
Sector Development<br />
Program (PSDP) for the<br />
financial year, <strong>2018</strong>-19.<br />
Meezan Bank’s President Called on KATI<br />
of doing business. He said<br />
that growth of banking sector<br />
in general and Islamic<br />
Banking in particular, was<br />
remarkable, now banks<br />
should play their role to<br />
cooperate with industry<br />
and Trade by easy processes<br />
and low rated lending.<br />
He was of the view that<br />
Baking Sector ignored<br />
SMEs, the most important<br />
element of the economy.<br />
Tariq Malik urged<br />
Meezan Bank’s officials<br />
to focus SMEs and industrial<br />
sectors.<br />
KARACHI: President KATI Tariq Malik presenting KATI shield to Meezan Bank’s<br />
President & CEO Irfan Siddiqui. At the occasion Senator Abdul Haseeb Khan,<br />
JunaidNaqi, ZubairChhaya, Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, Syed FarukhMazhar and<br />
AkberFarooqui are also seen in the picture.<br />
jointly held by Iran and<br />
France in Tehran.<br />
The ambassador<br />
“expressed hope that the<br />
development of cooperation<br />
between Iranian and French<br />
companies in the oil and gas<br />
industry, which also<br />
includes HSE, will continue,”<br />
Mehr reported.<br />
He said a French delegation<br />
had recently visited<br />
refining facilities at South<br />
Pars and been “impressed”<br />
by the dynamism which<br />
Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum<br />
has created in oil projects.<br />
Several deals were<br />
announced during Iran<br />
President Hassan Rouhani’s<br />
official visit to Paris in<br />
January 2016, including a<br />
joint venture between carmakers<br />
PSA Peugeot<br />
Citroen and Iran Khodro as<br />
well as plans for Iran to buy<br />
Airbus aircraft. There were<br />
also deals in the oil, shipping,<br />
health, agriculture and<br />
water sectors.<br />
Ecommerce Gateway<br />
to hold 5 major<br />
Industrial exhibitions<br />
Staff Report<br />
KARACHI: Pakistan<br />
Ecommerce Gateway is all<br />
set to organize 5 International<br />
mega-exhibitions, starting in<br />
Karachi from 13th March<br />
and concluding on 15th of<br />
March <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
According to Dr.<br />
Khurshid Nizam President of<br />
Ecommerce Gateway the<br />
multiple events will be held at<br />
the Karachi Expo Center.<br />
These 3 day events will<br />
include Auto & Transport<br />
Asia, Engineering Asia, Oil<br />
& Gas Asia and Power &<br />
Alternative Energy Asia.<br />
Nizam told that these<br />
events will feature more than<br />
1000 local and foreign<br />
exhibitors and is expected to<br />
be attended by more than<br />
100,000 people, whereby all<br />
major players will get an<br />
opportunity to display and<br />
market their products and<br />
services. It will also give a<br />
platform to the international<br />
investors, manufacturers,<br />
traders and foreign entrepreneurs<br />
to interact with various<br />
segments of Pakistani consumers.<br />
These diversified events<br />
include: The 17th<br />
International Auto, Transport<br />
& Logistics Asia– the biggest<br />
platform for the presentation<br />
of the products from<br />
Automobile industry,<br />
Commercial Vehicle industry,<br />
Railway Industry, Next-<br />
Gen Battery Industry and<br />
Airlines Industry. The 17th<br />
International Engineering<br />
Show- a leading event featuring<br />
the advancements in technology<br />
and breakthrough<br />
inventions in the Engineering<br />
Sector. The 17th International<br />
Oil & Gas Machinery and<br />
Technology Asia – is the<br />
largest platform in the continent<br />
for exhibiting high-end<br />
products and services of this<br />
sector.<br />
KARACHI: There has<br />
been no-let up in SSGC’s<br />
drive against the menace of<br />
gas theft. The Company, as<br />
part of its ongoing<br />
Operation Grift, continued<br />
its raids on those CNG<br />
Stations in Hyderabad and<br />
Badin that were carrying on<br />
their businesses even during<br />
official closures of these<br />
pumps.<br />
SSGC Control Gas Theft<br />
Operations (CGTO) team in<br />
coordination with the<br />
Company’s Customer<br />
Relations Department, FIR<br />
Cell and SSGC Police force<br />
sealed four CNG stations<br />
for a period of 48 hours.<br />
These pumps included Al-<br />
Falah CNG Stations located<br />
on Hyderabad by-pass,<br />
CORPORATE CORNER<br />
Standard Chartered booms,<br />
gets remarkable profits<br />
KARACHI: The transformation of the Group continued in<br />
2017 with the significant improvement in underlying profits, a<br />
strong capital position and emerging clarity on regulatory capital<br />
requirements allowing us to resume paying dividends. We<br />
are encouraged by our start to <strong>2018</strong> and remain focused on realising the Group’s full<br />
potential,” said Bill Winters, Group Chief Executive.<br />
Significant improvement in profitability and returns was a direct consequence of<br />
the many actions taken since 2015. Profit before tax of $3.0 bn was up 175 % and<br />
up 71% excluding Principal Finance. Statutory profit before tax of $2.4 bn is stated<br />
after restructuring and other items and was $2.0 bn higher. RoE improved from 0.3%<br />
to 3.5 %; just under half-way towards the Group's initial milestone of 8%. The<br />
bank's operating income of $14.3 bn was up 3% despite a 4 % drag from financial<br />
markets<br />
The bank recorded 13% income growth from key areas of investment (half of<br />
total), with particular strength in liability-led products. Industry-wide low volatility<br />
during 2017 impacted performance in financial markets. Income was 3% lower<br />
quarter-on-quarter due partly to the early achievement of a bonus in Wealth<br />
Management. Net interest income increased 5% and the net interest margin<br />
increased slightly to 1.55%<br />
Other operating expenses of $8.6bn were well controlled rising 2% due primarily<br />
to variable pay. Over 85%of the four-year $2.9bn gross cost efficiencies target has<br />
been achieved with a year to go. Gross savings funded investment of $1.5 bn (2016:<br />
$1.4bn), 50 % over the 2015 level. Anticipate operating expenses excluding the UK<br />
bank levy in <strong>2018</strong> to be below 2015. Regulatory costs rose 15%, with several large<br />
programmes including MiFID II and IFRS 9 being implemented<br />
Further significant progress in implementing financial crime prevention capabilities<br />
also recorded. Continuing cooperation and ongoing discussions was ensured<br />
with US and UK authorities to resolve historical matters. After updating prior-year<br />
estimates, the UK bank levy was $220m; the estimate for <strong>2018</strong> is around $310m.<br />
Asset quality overall has improved with the focus on better quality origination within<br />
a more granular risk appetite. Loan impairment of $1.2bn halved as management<br />
actions resulted in improvement across all client segments. Profit from associates<br />
and joint ventures rose $185m following better performances in China and<br />
Indonesia.<br />
The Board has recommended resuming a dividend given improving financial<br />
performance and strong capital. Full year dividend of 11 cents per ordinary share<br />
proposed for 2017.<br />
Samsung launches new S9 phone<br />
with augmented reality features<br />
BARCELONA: Samsung unveiled its new flagship smartphone on Sunday with<br />
a focus on augmented reality features as it seeks to keep its title as the world’s<br />
biggest smartphone maker.<br />
The South Korean firm showcased the Galaxy S9 on the eve of the official start<br />
of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which comes after a year of flat smartphone<br />
sales.<br />
With no other major handset maker using the annual event, the world’s largest<br />
phone show, to launch a new flagship device this year, Samsung had the opportunity<br />
to grab the spotlight.<br />
The S9 features essentially the same design as last year’s previous flagship, with<br />
the full screen and curved glass edge of the S8, which was followed by Apple’s<br />
iPhone X and others.<br />
But it includes louder sound, a faster processor and software that turns selfies into<br />
animated emojis, which will appeal to consumers who are increasingly preferring to<br />
use their phones to send text messages rather than talking.<br />
Samsung also included a dual lense camara on the Galaxy S line for the first time,<br />
which will improve low-light capture and enhance slow motion video, which is popular<br />
on social media.<br />
A service powered by artificial intelligence (AI) allows users to point its camera<br />
to instantly translate a sign in a foreign language.<br />
It is also one of the few flagship phones left that still comes with a standard headphone<br />
jack.<br />
“Despite these incremental innovations, Samsung will have to smartly leverage<br />
its brand and marketing machine to correctly position the new smartphones to a target<br />
audience,” said Forrester analyst Thomas Husson.<br />
Global smartphone sales fell by 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter due to slower<br />
than expected Christmas sales, according to research firm IDC.<br />
Overall global smartphone sales for 2017 were virtually flat — down 0.1 percent<br />
at 1.47 billion units — as phone makers struggled to come up with innovations that<br />
encourage customers to upgrade their devices.<br />
Operation Grift - SSGC raids garment factory<br />
and seals 4 law breaking CNG stations<br />
Rafiq CNG at the Super<br />
Highway, Noriabad’s<br />
Kohistan CNG station and<br />
Badin’s Baba CNG station.<br />
The team also warned the<br />
law breakers that if they<br />
will continue to open their<br />
facilities despite closures,<br />
they will be liable for punishment<br />
under the Gas<br />
(Theft and Recovery Act)<br />
2016.<br />
The CGTO team also<br />
conducted a raid on a garment<br />
factory of Karachi<br />
where miscreants were<br />
using gas on domestic connections<br />
for commercial<br />
purposes such as power<br />
generation. The team found<br />
the miscreants using 440<br />
cubic feet per hour of gas<br />
from direct line. The team<br />
disconnected the illegal<br />
connection and raised<br />
claims against the wrongdoers<br />
in accordance with the<br />
load consumed. The customers<br />
were also advised to<br />
apply for LNG connection<br />
for commercial usage.<br />
In the recent months,<br />
SSGC has intensified its<br />
campaign against gas<br />
thieves and meter tampering<br />
miscreants as well as the<br />
CNG stations who encroach<br />
upon official closures with<br />
impunity.
Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Sportlight<br />
7<br />
Half of PSL 2019<br />
matches will be held in<br />
Pakistan: Najam Sethi<br />
DUBAI: Najam Sethi<br />
hoped to organise at least<br />
half matches of the Pakistan<br />
Super League (PSL) 2019 in<br />
Pakistan, calling the tournament<br />
a ‘national asset’.<br />
In a video message<br />
while talking to a media<br />
person, he said, “Insha<br />
Allah at least half matches<br />
of PSL will be held in<br />
Pakistan next year.”<br />
“I have only one message<br />
for the people of<br />
Pakistan. This is your asset.<br />
It doesn’t belong to<br />
RIO DE JANEIRO:<br />
Argentina’s Diego<br />
Schwartzman beat Spain’s<br />
Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-<br />
4 on Sunday to win the<br />
Rio Open for his second<br />
career title.<br />
The five-foot-seven<br />
Schwartzman, seeded sixth<br />
in the clay-court event at<br />
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi,<br />
Quetta or Multan. And you<br />
have to protect it,” he added.<br />
When asked whether it<br />
has been confirmed that the<br />
PSL 3 final will be played in<br />
Karachi, he responded that<br />
“it is 100% confirmed”.<br />
The Pakistan Cricket<br />
Board (PCB) Chairman<br />
opined that a final match<br />
between Karachi and<br />
Lahore is what the people<br />
anticipate. Smiling at the<br />
camera, he saidAllah knows<br />
better whatever will happen<br />
Jockey Club Brasileiro,<br />
will enter the Top 20 in the<br />
world for the first time<br />
Monday. He also won an<br />
outdoor clay event in<br />
Istanbul in 2016.<br />
Ranked 23rd,<br />
Schwartzman beat<br />
Norway’s Casper Ruud,<br />
Argentina’s Federico<br />
in future.<br />
Sethi told that the PSL 3<br />
is being held successfully in<br />
UAE, however, the low<br />
attendance of spectators in<br />
the stadiums tell a different<br />
story.<br />
Ninth match of PSL<br />
<strong>2018</strong> is to be held tomorrow<br />
between Islamabad United<br />
and Quetta Gladiators at<br />
Sharjah. Karachi Kings lead<br />
the points table with three<br />
wins while Lahore<br />
Qalandars lost all its matches<br />
to land in the last spot.<br />
Schwartzman wins Rio Open,<br />
beating Verdasco 6-2, 6-4<br />
KABUL: Afghanistan<br />
cricket team suffered a blow<br />
ahead of their 2019 ICC<br />
World Cup qualifying campaign<br />
on Monday when captain<br />
Asghar Stanikzai was<br />
ruled out of the start of the<br />
tournament.<br />
Stanikzai will miss the<br />
start of the World Cup<br />
Qualifiers in Zimbabwe in<br />
March after undergoing surgery<br />
to remove his appendix,<br />
ST. PETERSBURG:<br />
Romanian tennis ace Simona<br />
Halep has returned to world number<br />
one in women rankings. She<br />
replaced Australian Open champion<br />
Caroline Wozniacki, who held<br />
the top spot for four consecutive<br />
weeks.<br />
Wozniacki, 27, did not compete<br />
in the Dubai Tennis<br />
Championships last week, leaving<br />
the way open for the Romanian to<br />
return to World No.1.<br />
Halep was also absent in the<br />
Dubai Duty Free Open due to an<br />
ankle injury.<br />
She is now over 400 points<br />
clear of the second-placed Dane.<br />
Garbine Muguruza is at the third<br />
spot after reaching the semifinals<br />
in Dubai, while winner<br />
Elina Svitolina, from Ukraine,<br />
remains fourth.<br />
the International Cricket<br />
Council announced.<br />
The surgery is likely to<br />
see him out of action for up<br />
to 10 days. The news will<br />
come as a blow to<br />
Afghanistan as they bid to<br />
reach the 2019 ICC Cricket<br />
World Cup.<br />
The 30-year-old middleorder<br />
batsman has scored<br />
1,565 runs at an average of<br />
21.14 in 83 ODIs.<br />
Delbonis and France’s Gael<br />
Monfils en route to the<br />
final. The eighth-seeded<br />
Verdasco teamed with<br />
countryman David Marrero<br />
to win the doubles title<br />
Saturday night, They beat<br />
Nikola Mektic of Croatia<br />
and Alexander Peya of<br />
Austria, 5-7, 7-5, 10-8.<br />
Stanikzai will miss the<br />
warm-up games this week as<br />
well as the tournament opener<br />
against Scotland on March<br />
4 although officials expect<br />
him to be fit to face hosts<br />
Zimbabwe two days later.<br />
Afghanistan are in Group<br />
B of the qualifying tournament<br />
which is being staged<br />
in Zimbabwe and will face<br />
the home country, Nepal,<br />
Hong Kong and Scotland in<br />
DUBAI: Joe Denly brought back memories of Jonty Rhodes, pulling a sensational catch out of thin air.<br />
Athar knocks<br />
ton as AA Foods win<br />
National Seniors Cup<br />
KARACHI: Athar<br />
Laeeq smashed a scintillating<br />
century to power AA<br />
Foods to a formidable 102-<br />
run victory over Civil<br />
Aviation Authority (CAA)<br />
here at the Naya<br />
Nazimabad Ground in a<br />
Southern Zone encounter of<br />
the 19th National Seniors<br />
Cup Cricket Tournament<br />
2017-18.<br />
Pakistan Veterans<br />
Cricket Association<br />
(PVCA) is organizing this<br />
tournament.<br />
In other matches, Gold<br />
Bridge Media defeated<br />
Airport Gymkhana by<br />
seven wickets at the TMC<br />
Ground and Haseen Habib<br />
whipped Lucky Knitts by<br />
eight wickets. Athar<br />
Laeeq’s whirlwind 124 off<br />
60 balls containing 11 sixes<br />
and seven fours powered<br />
AA Foods to a mammoth<br />
total of 276 for five in allotted<br />
25 overs against CAA.<br />
AA Foods followed it up<br />
with disciplined bowling<br />
performance to send their<br />
rivals packing for 174 in<br />
24.1 overs despite Abdul<br />
Rahman’s 62 off 45 balls.<br />
Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai to<br />
miss start of ICC World Cup qualifiers<br />
K A R A C H I :<br />
Mohammad Osama fired<br />
four goals while<br />
Mohammad Uzair scored<br />
three goals to help<br />
Targaryens Football Club<br />
thrash Enfuego Football<br />
Club by 9-1 score in<br />
Leisure leagues Season III<br />
underway here at Karachi<br />
United Football Stadium<br />
and Sixteen Star Football<br />
Stadium.<br />
In the eight-team event<br />
at Karachi United venue<br />
with matches played on<br />
Saturday, Targaryens FC<br />
dominated the match<br />
against Enfuego FC –<br />
thanks to Osama and Uzair.<br />
Ayaz and Ammar scored<br />
one goal each. Taikhum<br />
scored a consolatory goal<br />
for the losing side.<br />
In another match of the<br />
league at Karachi United<br />
Football Stadium,<br />
Liverpool FC overcame<br />
Iqbal Memorial by 2-1<br />
score. Mohammad Ali and<br />
Hammad Razik scored one<br />
goal each for the winning<br />
team. Mohammad Sameer<br />
the first round.<br />
Afghanistan face West<br />
Indies and the Netherlands<br />
in warm-up matches on 27<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary and 1 March<br />
respectively before their<br />
first CWCQ Group B clash<br />
against Scotland on 4<br />
March, but it appears the<br />
match against Zimbabwe on<br />
6 March could present a<br />
more realistic comeback<br />
opportunity.<br />
Osama, Uzair shine in Targaryens FC<br />
big triumph in Leisure leagues<br />
scored one goal for the losing<br />
side.<br />
At Sixteen Star Ground,<br />
another eight-team league<br />
is underway with its matches<br />
played on Sunday. RF<br />
United trounced Zaim C by<br />
3-0 score. Farhan Khan<br />
scored two goals while<br />
Saad Afzal scored one for<br />
the winners.<br />
Nidhas Trophy will not lose its gloss in the<br />
absence of India's top players, says SLC chief<br />
Dr M. Arif Hafeez<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Officials of<br />
the Sri Lanka Cricket<br />
(SLC) board and the<br />
Bangladesh Cricket Board<br />
(BCB) are not concerned<br />
about Indian cricket board's<br />
decision to rest the seniors<br />
and send relatively the<br />
younger players for the trination<br />
series to be played<br />
for Nidhas Trophy next<br />
month.<br />
The BCCI selectors<br />
have rested captain Virat<br />
Kohli and the other Limited<br />
Over specialists like MS<br />
MPCL sponsored<br />
players perform well<br />
in tennis tourney<br />
KARACHI: Mari<br />
Petroleum Company<br />
Limited (MPCL) sponsored<br />
the training of Mahin Aftab<br />
Qureshi and Huzaifa Abdul<br />
Rehman and both players<br />
performed well in ITF<br />
World Juniors Tournament<br />
concluded last week in<br />
Islamabad.<br />
Mahin qualified for both<br />
doubles and singles final<br />
and won the doubles title<br />
here teammate Yu Yun-Li of<br />
Chinese Taipei. Mahin is<br />
currently National Junior<br />
Under-16 Champion, who<br />
has improved 310 places in<br />
world ranking.<br />
Meanwhile, Huzaifa<br />
progressed to the semifinals<br />
after beating the top seed<br />
Ahmed Zayan of Great<br />
Britain in quarterfinals. He<br />
finished as Asian No 2 in<br />
Under 14 category.<br />
Huzaifa has trained in<br />
Potter's Wheel Tennis<br />
Academy, Beijing under<br />
supervision of Carlos<br />
Rodriguez, one of the top<br />
coaches in the world.<br />
Moreover, he participated in<br />
a couple of ITF Juniors<br />
tournaments each in UAE<br />
and Kenya. He got the<br />
chance to gain experience<br />
of playing against top world<br />
junior players.<br />
Mahin, with her<br />
improved rankings, has<br />
qualified for two ITF events<br />
to be held in Qatar, starting<br />
from March 16. She has<br />
also qualified for two ITF<br />
events to be held in<br />
Birmingham, UK from<br />
April 14.<br />
Simona Halep reclaims top spot replacing<br />
Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki<br />
Dhoni (his own request),<br />
Jaspreet Bumrah,<br />
Bhuvneshwar Kumar,<br />
Kuldeep Yadav and Hardik<br />
Pandya for the<br />
Independence Cup.<br />
"Sri Lanka is playing<br />
against India and not with<br />
the individual players", the<br />
SLC chief Thilanga<br />
Sumathipala, speaking<br />
exclusively, commented.<br />
"We have also kept<br />
Angelo Mathews, Kusal<br />
Jenith, Asela Gunaratne,<br />
Malinga away", he added.<br />
Few of the above players<br />
are on injury list, however,<br />
the tournament will not lose<br />
its gloss, believes<br />
Sumathipala. Bangladeshi<br />
fast bowler Mashrafe<br />
Mortaza was not willing to<br />
come out of T-20 retirement.<br />
According to the highly<br />
placed sources in Dhaka,<br />
the 35-year-old right-handed<br />
fast bowler was urged to<br />
come out of the retirement<br />
for the tournament but in<br />
the absence of any positive<br />
response from the bowler,<br />
the selectors have chosen<br />
the 15-member squad and<br />
the same was scheduled to<br />
be announced on Monday.<br />
"Our team has no<br />
Mortaza. He has not been<br />
considered because he<br />
showed no interest in spite<br />
of the request by the BCB<br />
chief", the source said<br />
exclusively.<br />
"The team has no bunch<br />
of new players. Our team is<br />
struggling in T-20s and<br />
therefore relatively experienced<br />
players are picked".<br />
The team is being led by<br />
Shakib ul-Hassan.<br />
The BCB is yet to finalize<br />
the coach post and<br />
therefore Sujon will travel<br />
with the team and will<br />
again act as a technical<br />
director", the source further<br />
added.<br />
KARACHI: Chairperson of Special Olympics Pakistan, Ronak Lakhani in group photo<br />
with disable persons during inauguration ceremony of planting sapling campaign held<br />
at Social International Academy.<br />
Shakib Al Hasan named captain and Walsh as<br />
head coach for Bangladesh in Nidahas Trophy<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
K A R A C H I :<br />
Bangladesh Cricket Board<br />
(BCB) announced a 16-<br />
member T20i squad for<br />
Nidahas Trophy keeping<br />
injury ridden Shakib Al<br />
Hasan as captain, while<br />
Mahmudullah Riyad<br />
named as Shakib's deputy.<br />
Five changes brought to<br />
the side of last T20 series<br />
against Sri Lanka. Shakib,<br />
who had to grasp stitches<br />
in his left arm for severe<br />
injury during the tri-nation<br />
ODI series final in<br />
LAHORE: Sri Lanka<br />
Cricket announced that the<br />
women’s team will host their<br />
Pakistan counterparts in<br />
March for three ODIs and<br />
three T20Is.<br />
According to reports, the<br />
bilateral series will be<br />
played from March 20 to 31,<br />
Sri Lanka’s first since the<br />
defeat in West Indies last<br />
October. Also, it will be their<br />
first match against Pakistan<br />
since the 2017 World Cup in<br />
England.<br />
Pakistan women team<br />
January, made come back<br />
along with Tamim Iqbal,<br />
Imrul Kayes, Nurul Hasan<br />
and Mehidy Hasan Miraz.<br />
had lost to Sri Lanka in a<br />
thrilling game, their 14th<br />
straight defeat in World<br />
Cups.<br />
The green shirts will seek<br />
victory in the three-match<br />
ODI series in Dambulla on<br />
March 20, 22, and 24. It will<br />
count for the ICC Women’s<br />
Championship. The threematch<br />
T20I series will be<br />
played in Colombo with the<br />
first match at the SSC on<br />
March <strong>28</strong>, second at the<br />
NCC on March 30, and the<br />
final game back at the SSC<br />
Mohammad Saifuddin,<br />
Mahedi Hasan, Zakir<br />
Hasan and Afif Hossain<br />
are the four caps in the last<br />
series, who have been<br />
dropped from Nidahas<br />
Trophy squad.<br />
Pace bowling coach<br />
Courtney Walsh is going to<br />
be the head coach for the<br />
Nidahas Trophy. Walsh is<br />
going to replace Richard<br />
Halsall, who was the interim<br />
coach for Tigers in the<br />
last series against Sri<br />
Lanka.<br />
Squad:<br />
Shakib Al Hasan (captain)<br />
Mahmudullah Riyad<br />
(vice-captain), Tamim<br />
Iqbal, Imrul Kayes,<br />
Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur<br />
Rahim, Sabbir Rahman,<br />
Nurul Hasan Sohan,<br />
Mehedi Hasan Miraz,<br />
Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel<br />
Hossain, Abu Haider<br />
Rony, Abu Jayed Rahi,<br />
Ariful Haque and Nazmul<br />
Islam Apu.<br />
Pakistan women to tour Sri Lanka in<br />
March for ODI, T20I series<br />
on March 31.<br />
The camp will be attended<br />
by Bismah Maroof (captain),<br />
Nahida Khan, Sidra<br />
Amin, Ayesha Zafar, Javeria<br />
Wadood, Irum Javed,<br />
Muniba Ali, Fareeha<br />
Mehmood, Sidra Nawaz,<br />
Sana Mir, Nida Dar, Kainat<br />
Imtiaz,<br />
Natalia<br />
Pervaiz,Waheeda Akhtar,<br />
Nashra Sandhu, Ghulam<br />
Fatima, Rameen Shamim,<br />
Diana Baig, Maham Tariq,<br />
Aiman Anwer and Anam<br />
Amin.<br />
Gavrilova and Tsurenko reach second<br />
round of WTA Mexican Open<br />
ACAPULCO: Australian Daria<br />
Gavrilova and Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko<br />
advanced to the second round of the<br />
Mexican Open inAcapulco on Monday after<br />
eliminating unseeded Americans Madison<br />
Brengle and Lauren Davis respectively.<br />
Gavrilova, the third seed, rallied to beat<br />
Brengle in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, in two<br />
hours and 21 minutes.<br />
Gavrilova won despite making 11 double<br />
faults compared to just three for<br />
Brengle. Gavrilova won 66% of her first<br />
serve points but had her serve broken five<br />
times. The defending champion and seventh<br />
seed Tsurenko defeated Davis 6-4, 6-<br />
1 in 77 minutes. On the men’s side of the<br />
joint WTA and ATP tournament, David<br />
Ferrer of Spain breezed past Russia’s<br />
Andrey Rublev 6-4, 6-3 in a night match to<br />
reach the second round.
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Money laundering case<br />
Axact CEO Shoaib Shaikh sent<br />
to jail on judicial remand<br />
KARACHI: Axact CEO<br />
Shoaib Shaikh was sent to<br />
jail on judicial remand till<br />
March 3 by the district court<br />
south which was hearing a<br />
money laundering case on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
Shaikh was arrested on<br />
Monday evening after the<br />
Sindh High Court (SHC)<br />
rejected his protective bail<br />
application, which was submitted<br />
after the court<br />
approved the Federal<br />
Investigation Agency's<br />
(FIA) appeal against the<br />
acquittal of those accused in<br />
the Axact money laundering<br />
case. The defendant was<br />
presented before the court<br />
earlier by officials of the<br />
Federal Investigation<br />
Authority.<br />
The court then adjourned<br />
the hearing of Shaikh's<br />
I S L A M A B A D :<br />
Chairman Standing<br />
Committee of National<br />
Assembly for Human Rights<br />
Babar Nawaz Khan has<br />
expressed concern over the<br />
non provision of electricity<br />
to the affected people of<br />
Mangla and Warsak dams<br />
despite passing decades.<br />
He said this while chairing<br />
the meeting of the committee<br />
held on Tuesday.<br />
The Chairman said that<br />
if the demands of affectees<br />
were not met by April 1st,<br />
<strong>2018</strong>, he would write letters<br />
to World Bank, Asia Bank<br />
and other international<br />
KARACHI: Pakistani CEO of software firm Axact, Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh is escorted by<br />
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) personnel as he appears at a court.<br />
request to grant bail till<br />
March 1.<br />
The court had earlier<br />
heard the case regarding the<br />
donor agencies in person<br />
and as Chairman<br />
Committee. It would not<br />
only cause the loss of<br />
Pakistan but it would<br />
deprived the country of<br />
1410 MW electricity<br />
adding that it is fear to cease<br />
the foreign aid.<br />
The Chairman has<br />
formed a committee headed<br />
by Minister of State Usman<br />
Ibrahim and directed to submit<br />
report within one week.<br />
It was also ordered to investigate<br />
for not providing manpower<br />
and identification of<br />
ministry by cabinet division.<br />
In the meeting, Sajid<br />
issuance of fake degrees and<br />
diplomas by the company.<br />
Additional district and<br />
sessions judge south<br />
Nawaz MNA has raised the<br />
issue of electric meters in the<br />
area of Warsak dam and said<br />
that 98 % local residents<br />
have not installed electric<br />
meters properly in their<br />
houses and pilfering electricity<br />
while remaining 2 %<br />
people have electric meters.<br />
He said that approximately<br />
7000 electric meters<br />
were installed with his personal<br />
efforts and suggested<br />
to write off their past dues<br />
and to supply electricity<br />
properly.<br />
Member PESCO Jaffar<br />
Ali told the committee that<br />
WAPDA is a commercial<br />
ordered the FIA to submit<br />
details of the appointment of<br />
a lawyer for the case.<br />
The judge, irked by the<br />
NA's body urges to accept demands of<br />
Mangla, Warsak dams affectees<br />
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain administering the oath of office to<br />
Kashmala Tariq as Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of<br />
Women at the Workplace at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.<br />
By-election for Senate seat in<br />
Punjab Assembly on Thursday<br />
ISLAMABAD: The byelection<br />
for a Senate seat<br />
vacated after the disqualification<br />
of former PML-N<br />
Senator Nehal Hashmi will<br />
be held in Punjab<br />
Assembly in Lahore on<br />
Thursday.<br />
There is one on one<br />
contest between Dr Asad<br />
Ashraf and Dr Suharwardy<br />
Taimur.<br />
KARACHI: The Higher<br />
Education Commission<br />
(HEC), Pakistan launched a<br />
documentary entitled “The<br />
Real AfPak Fighting<br />
Terrorism through<br />
Knowledge” during a ceremony<br />
held at Aiwan-e-Sadr<br />
in Islamabad here on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
Mamnoon Hussain,<br />
President Islamic Republic<br />
of Pakistan was chief guest<br />
of the ceremony, while Dr.<br />
Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman<br />
HEC and Omer Zakhilwal,<br />
Ambassador of Afghanistan<br />
to Pakistan along with a<br />
large number of vice chancellors,<br />
faculty members<br />
and Afghan students were<br />
also present on the occasion.<br />
The documentary by Ms.<br />
Sameera Aziz, a Saudi<br />
media figure reveals the cocurricular<br />
and extra-curricular<br />
activities of Afghan students<br />
pursuing their education<br />
in Pakistani higher education<br />
institutions under the<br />
scholarship programme. It<br />
includes interviews of Dr.<br />
Mukhtar Ahmed and the<br />
Afghan students with regard<br />
to the academic opportunity<br />
available to the youth of<br />
brotherly Islamic country<br />
under the programme.<br />
Speaking on the occasion,<br />
Mamnoon Hussain<br />
said that people of Pakistan<br />
and Afghanistan share<br />
mutual respect and affection<br />
owing to blood, religious<br />
and cultural bonds as well as<br />
regional proximity. The<br />
scholarship programme is a<br />
testimony to the mutual<br />
closeness. He said students<br />
of Afghanistan are extended<br />
The successful candidate<br />
will complete the<br />
remaining term of Nihal<br />
Hashmi who was elected<br />
Senator from Punjab in<br />
March 2015.<br />
Pakistan, Afghanistan lost many lives<br />
due to terrorism-wars: moot told<br />
the facilities being enjoyed<br />
by Pakistani students in the<br />
country’s universities. He<br />
hoped that the Afghan students<br />
will not only help<br />
compensate the losses<br />
caused by terrorism and<br />
wars but will also work for<br />
the well-being of humanity.<br />
The President stated that<br />
Pakistan and Afghanistan<br />
have lost many lives and<br />
suffered huge losses due to<br />
terrorism and wars.<br />
“Pakistan has borne casualties<br />
of over 70,000 souls<br />
apart from immeasurable<br />
infrastructural damages,”.<br />
He stressed that Pakistan<br />
and Afghanistan need to<br />
develop mutual trust and<br />
foil the conspiracies of enemies<br />
who create misunderstandings<br />
between the two<br />
countries.<br />
department and if a consumer<br />
did not pay the electricity<br />
bill for three months,<br />
the supply of electricity is<br />
disconnected.<br />
Chairman Committee<br />
has directed the officers<br />
concerned to submit<br />
detailed report within one<br />
month and directed to<br />
member PESCO to visit the<br />
area along with local MNA<br />
and submit report in the<br />
next meeting. On inquiring<br />
the Chairman, Chief<br />
Executive told that some<br />
100 transformer and 400<br />
electric polls were installed<br />
in his area.<br />
PML-N set to accord<br />
warm welcome to<br />
Nihaal Hashmi<br />
RAWALPINDI: Leaders<br />
of Pakistan Muslim League<br />
(PML-N) have completed<br />
preparations to accord warm<br />
welcome to ex-Senator<br />
Nihaal Hashmi who was<br />
awarded punishment in contempt<br />
of court and expected<br />
to be released today<br />
(Wednesday) from Adiyala<br />
jail. Leadership of PML-N<br />
has directed its activists to<br />
reach Adiyala jail to accord<br />
warm welcome to Nihaal<br />
Hashmi. His unconditional<br />
apology was turned down by<br />
the Supreme Court.<br />
JAMSHORO: The<br />
Centre of Excellence in Art<br />
& Design (CEAD), Mehran<br />
University of Engineering<br />
& Technology (MUET),<br />
Jamshoro and Switzerland<br />
have agreed to extend collaboration<br />
and work together<br />
for promoting art education<br />
in the region. Swiss<br />
Consul General Phillippe<br />
Crevoisier accompanied by<br />
Mrs. Phillippe paid visit to<br />
CEAD, MUET, Jamshoro.<br />
They were welcomed by<br />
Vice-chancellor MUET<br />
Prof. Dr. MuhammadAslam<br />
Uqaili, Dean Prof. Dr. Kahn<br />
Muhammad Brohi and<br />
Director CEAD Prof. Dr.<br />
Bhai Khan Shar. Swiss<br />
Consulate visited the exhibition<br />
of Pakistani and<br />
International artists at the<br />
Centre and appreciated their Switzerland.<br />
skills. Addressing a brief<br />
ceremony held in his honour<br />
Phillippe Crevoisier said<br />
that I am happy to be here<br />
and see the excellent ideas<br />
in the paintings by international<br />
artists. He said I hope<br />
we can find a way to<br />
improve the awareness<br />
media coverage, ordered<br />
police officials to remove<br />
all journalists from the<br />
courtroom.<br />
The court then adjourned<br />
the case's hearing till March<br />
3. The sessions court on<br />
Monday was ordered to<br />
charge the accused persons<br />
and wrap up the case within<br />
three months.<br />
The court had ordered<br />
Shaikh and others accused<br />
in the case to appear before<br />
the trial court on March 3.<br />
The Axact scandal surfaced<br />
in May 2015, when<br />
The New York Times published<br />
a report had claimed<br />
the company sold fake<br />
diplomas and degrees<br />
online through hundreds of<br />
fictitious schools, making<br />
“tens of millions of dollars<br />
annually”.<br />
US to assist in<br />
establishment of<br />
Pak’s First Renewable<br />
Energy Institute<br />
ISLAMABAD: The<br />
United States (US) will<br />
assist in establishment of<br />
Pakistan’s First<br />
Renewable Energy<br />
Institute in the country.<br />
This was stated by US<br />
Ambassador to Pakistan<br />
David Hale, while talking<br />
to Minister for Power<br />
Division Sardar Awais<br />
Ahmed Khan Leghari<br />
here on Tuesday.<br />
He assured that<br />
expertise of the US<br />
National Renewable<br />
Energy Laboratory will<br />
also be shared with<br />
Pakistan to enable its<br />
working as per international<br />
standards.<br />
The Ambassador said<br />
that the United States<br />
will also consider assisting<br />
Pakistan in formulation<br />
of National Energy<br />
Policy and National<br />
Electricity Plan.<br />
LONDON: The world order must<br />
be rule-based and not dictated by<br />
"realpolitik" driven by jingoism, xenophobia<br />
and warmongering. If the international<br />
rule of law does not become<br />
the norm, the world would, once again,<br />
plunge into a catastrophic global war.<br />
These remarks were made by<br />
Sardar Masood Khan, President of<br />
Azad Jammu and Kashmir, while<br />
addressing students and faculty at the<br />
regarding biennale to<br />
encourage more artists participating<br />
in future from<br />
Swiss<br />
Consulate said that beyond<br />
this exhibition art, fashion<br />
and communication design<br />
must be promoted in the<br />
region. My understanding<br />
regarding Pakistan is education<br />
like other parts of the<br />
world is must and it should<br />
not be a privilege or right<br />
Govt to support film<br />
industry for its revival: PM<br />
ISLAMABAD: Prime<br />
Minister Shahid Khaqan<br />
Abbasi says the government<br />
will support the film<br />
industry for its revival.<br />
He said this while talking<br />
to a delegation of<br />
prominent artists including<br />
producers in Islamabad.<br />
Issues related to the industry<br />
including films, TV, theater<br />
came under discussion.<br />
Minister of State for<br />
NEW DELHI: Actress<br />
Yami Gautam says her next<br />
film "Batti Gul Meter<br />
Chalu" is entertaining and<br />
has a lot of substance.<br />
"'Batti Gul Meter Chalu'<br />
is a social drama on the electricity<br />
issue faced by people<br />
in the country, especially in<br />
small towns," Yami told<br />
IANS.<br />
"And given the kind of<br />
films that producer Prernaa<br />
Arora<br />
(KriArj<br />
Entertainment) has been<br />
doing and what Shree<br />
Narayan Singh (director)<br />
has done with 'Toilet: Ek<br />
Prem Katha'"... you can<br />
expect a very fine amalgamation<br />
of entertainment and<br />
a relevant social issue which<br />
has been talked about for the<br />
very first time," she added.<br />
The actress is excited<br />
to play a lawyer for the<br />
first time.<br />
"I think it is very interesting,<br />
quirky, entertaining and<br />
has a lot of substance at the<br />
same time. I am extremely<br />
happy to be working with<br />
the team. I play a lawyer in<br />
a film for the first time. So, I<br />
am very happy," she said.<br />
Information Marriyum<br />
Aurangzeb on this occasion<br />
recounted various steps<br />
taken by the government<br />
for the revival of the industry<br />
and for the welfare of<br />
the artists’ community.<br />
These included among<br />
others tax exemption, tax<br />
rebate, construction of cinemas,<br />
establishment of<br />
film finance fund, film studio<br />
on public private partnership<br />
and declaring this<br />
sector as an industry.<br />
The delegation appreciated<br />
various steps taken by<br />
the government for the<br />
support and revival of the<br />
industry.<br />
The prime minister<br />
directed the information<br />
ministry to include the<br />
charter of demand from the<br />
artist in the films and culture<br />
policy.<br />
'Batti Gul...' is entertaining,<br />
has substance: Yami Gautam<br />
ISLAMABAD: Interior<br />
Minister Ahsan Iqbal has<br />
said that harmony in Pak-<br />
US relationship is vital for<br />
defeating terrorism in the<br />
region. He said this while<br />
talking to a delegation of<br />
United States National<br />
Security Council headed<br />
by Senior Director and<br />
Special Assistant to US<br />
President Lisa Curtis in<br />
Islamabad.<br />
He said the back of terrorists<br />
had been broken in<br />
Pakistan. He said Pak-US<br />
The film also features<br />
actors Shahid Kapoor and<br />
Shraddha Kapoor.<br />
Harmony in Pak-US ties vital for<br />
defeating terrorism in region: Ahsan<br />
Oxford University. Shazil Malik of the<br />
Oxford University Pakistan Society<br />
introduced the President and moderated<br />
the session.<br />
In a two-hour session that included<br />
an extended question and answers<br />
session, President Masood Khan<br />
said that the United Nations, which<br />
should be a symbol of rule-based<br />
global governance for peace and<br />
security on the basis of the Charter,<br />
but mandatory, he said.<br />
Vice-chancellor MUET<br />
Prof. Dr. MuhammadAslam<br />
Uqaili said that exhibitions<br />
like watercolour biennale<br />
are actually connecting us<br />
with the world and in education<br />
we believe education in<br />
art has not any religion, race<br />
and gender but is universal<br />
through which we can promote<br />
harmony and peace<br />
around the globe. He said<br />
knowledge corridor would<br />
help in increasing educational<br />
capacity of students<br />
of Pakistan. About<br />
Afghanistan, he said<br />
Pakistan wishes to develop<br />
sustainable peace in<br />
Afghanistan.<br />
Oxford University Pakistan Society hosts President Masood<br />
CEAD and Switzerland extend collaboration<br />
to promote art education in the region<br />
JAMSHORO: Group photo of Swiss Cosulate Phillippe Crevoisier,Mrs. Phillippe, Dr.<br />
Aslam Ugaili, Dr. Bhai Khan Shar & others.<br />
has failed miserably in resolving the<br />
issue of Jammu and Kashmir.<br />
While commending the UN’s<br />
achievements in the field of sustainable<br />
development, the President said<br />
that by forsaking implementation of<br />
its decisions on Kashmir, the UN<br />
has exposed itself as a weak, ineffective<br />
body unable to “unite our<br />
strength to maintain international<br />
peace and security”.<br />
that whenever we look at<br />
Switzerland we talk about<br />
the excellence and I must<br />
say that excellence is a habit<br />
which you inculcate in mind<br />
and pursuit of excellence is<br />
not one time activity but its<br />
continuous effort, when you<br />
develop it as habit you keep<br />
on doing it. Dr. Uqaili said<br />
that Switzerland is example<br />
for many countries of the<br />
world because yet they<br />
don’t have coco powder but<br />
produce best chocolates in<br />
the world, they don’t have<br />
army but having most<br />
secure banks in the world,<br />
they have tennis star Roger<br />
Federer who has broken<br />
records after record.<br />
JAMSHORO: Director LEAD Dr. Bhai Khan Shar briefing<br />
Swiss Cosulate Phillippe Crevoisier about exhibition.<br />
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