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Metropolitan:<br />

Anyone dumping<br />

garbage in public<br />

spaces will be<br />

prosecuted: Sindh govt<br />

Page 2<br />

National:<br />

95 percent MQM<br />

workers accept<br />

Maqbool Siddiqui their<br />

convener: Farogh<br />

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Prayer Timings Karachi<br />

Fajr<br />

5:40am<br />

Sunrise<br />

6:56am<br />

Zohar<br />

12:44pm<br />

Asr<br />

4:55pm<br />

Maghrib<br />

6:33pm<br />

Isha<br />

7:49pm<br />

City Temperature<br />

Min Max<br />

Khi 19 ο C 33 ο C<br />

Lhr 14 ο C 29 ο C<br />

Isb 14 ο C 26 ο C<br />

Qta 08 ο C 19 ο C<br />

Psh 13 ο C 25 ο C<br />

KARACHI STOCK<br />

EXCHANGE<br />

VOLUME KSE-100<br />

INDEX<br />

144.88m 42,994.96<br />

22.74 83.94<br />

<br />

167.62m 42,911.02<br />

Last day’s Last day’s<br />

KSE-100 INDEX<br />

INTRA-DAY<br />

Highest 43,116.82<br />

Lowest 42,606.88<br />

FOREX RATES 1800GMT<br />

GBP/USD 1.39<br />

EUR/USD 1.22<br />

USD/JPY 107.45<br />

USD/CHF 0.94<br />

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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Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

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.”


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Wednesday, <strong>Feb</strong>ruary <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><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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Biz<br />

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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