1 March 2018

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Ahmed was targeted 

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martyred in Quetta 

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International: 

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CJ takes suo motu 

notice over provincial 

govt’s ad campaigns 

ISLAMABAD: The 

Supreme Court on 

Wednesday taken suo 

motu notice over the 

issuance of media advertisements 

by Punjab, 

Sindh and Khyber- 

Pakhtunkhwa. 

The chief justice 

remarked that the governments 

of KP, Sindh and 

Punjab are running advertisement 

campaigns at 

taxpayer’s expense. 

The chief justice 

directed the provincial 

chief and information secretaries 

to submit a report 

on the campaign in a week 

and adjourned the hearing 

until March 12, when he 

himself will hear the case. 

President summons 

NA session on 

Thursday 


President has summoned 

session of the National 

Assembly on Thursday at 

five in the evening. 

The house will discuss 

important national issues 

besides legislative business. 

The session will 

also discuss about developments 

in FATF 

(Financial Action Task 

Force). Ceasefire violations 

by Indian forces at 

LoC will also came under 

discussion in the house. 

FC recovers suicide 

jacket, explosive material 

from Balochistan 

QUETTA: Operation 

Radd-ul-Fasaad continues 

across the country as 

Frontier Cops (FC) took 

into possession suicide 

jacket, explosive material 

from Balochistan. 

According to FC 

sources, FC Along others 

law agencies conducted 

raids against terrorist in 

different cities of 

Balochistan and took into 

possession suicide jackets 

and heavy explosive 

material. 

KABUL: Afghan 

President Ashraf Ghani has 

proposed the recognition of 

the Taliban as a legitimate 

political group, as part of a 

process that could lead to 

peace negotiations and put 

an end to more than 16 

years of fighting. 

Ghani made the proposal 

during a February 28 

conference of countries and 

organizations involved in 

the so-called Kabul Process 

aimed at setting up a platform 

for negotiations with 

the militants. 

"Taliban leaders and all 

members, the decision is in 

your hands. Accept peace, 

come to the negotiating 

table, and let us build this 

country together," he said. 

Ghani offered the militants 

a cease-fire, a release 

of prisoners, passports, an 

office in Kabul or another 

agreed location, and the 

removal of sanctions. 

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Let's build Afghanistan 

together, Ghani tells Taliban 

Afghanistan ready to start new chapter with Pakistan says President Ghani 

KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani addressed the 

conference of countries and organizations involved in 

the so-called Kabul Process. 

The Afghan president 

also said he would be ready 

to accept a review of the 

constitution as part of an 

accord with the Taliban. 

In return, the militants 

would have to recognize 

the Kabul government and 

respect the rule of law, 

Ghani said. 

"We are making this 

offer without preconditions 

in order to lead to a peace 

agreement," he said, insisting 

that Kabul "will consider 

the Taliban's view in the 

peace talks." 

The one-day conference 

in Kabul was attended by 

representatives from more 

than 20 countries and several 

international organizations. 

The Taliban was not 

invited. 

Won't respect those who 

disrespect people's votes: Nawaz 

KOT MOMIN: Former 

premier Nawaz Sharif has 

said on Wednesday that the 

ruling Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz (PML-N) 

would not respect the ones 

who do not respect the 

sanctity of people’s mandate 

and votes. 

Nawaz Sharif addressed 

a political rally in Kot 

Momin today and complained 

in his speech that 

mere five people tore opinions 

of five crore people. 

He rhetorically asked 

why PML-N was being 

subjected to alleged injustice. 

Former president of 

PML-N reiterated that the 

top court disqualified him 

as the premier of Pakistan 

for not earning salary from 

his son’s company and 

over a resident permit. He 

asserted that no corruption 

in national treasury was 

NAB chairman terms elimination 

of corruption top priority 

KARACHI: National Accountability Chairman Justice 

(rtd) Javed Iqbal has termed complete elimination of corruption 

from state-institutions and society as his top priority. 

He was addressing a ceremony in Karachi. 

While equating corruption with cancer, Iqbal vowed to 

cripple the roots of menace of corruption. He said, “Efforts 

are underway for corruption-free Pakistan”. Iqbal termed 

NAB Karachi Bureau as one of the most important pillar of 

the organization. He extolled Karachi franchise for fruitful 

action against the corrupt elements on basis of concrete evidence 

and bringing looted money back. 

KARACHI: Chairman NAB Justice (R) Javed Iqbal offering 

Dua after inaugurating the second floor of NAB 

Regional Bureau after renovation. 

KARACHI: The APNS 

has welcomed the intent of 

the honourable Chief Justice 

of Pakistan to examine the 

basis of government advertising 

in the print media. 

Sarmad Ali, President 

and Umer Mujib Shami, 

Secretary General of APNS, 

in a statement, issued today 

have stated that the Chief 

Justice has observed that 

despite failure to provide 

utilities, the provincial governments 

spend tax payers 

money on massive advertisements 

in the media for self 

promotion at nation’s 

expense. The APNS clarified 

that government advertising 

serves as oxygen to the liquidity 

starved print media. 

Any stoppage of government 

advertisements to media at 

this stage will have a crippling 

effect on the economy 

proved against him. 

Notable legal experts 

across Pakistan disagreed 

with the July 28, 2017 verdict 

and said that it was 

unfair, Nawaz said. 

The lifetime founder of 

PML-N further complained 

that a candidate of 

PML-N was allotted a 

pick-up van as an electoral 

symbol in place of a lion 

that has been party’s sign 

for decades. 

Pakistan to be 

placed on FATF ‘grey 

list’ in June: FO 

ISLAMABAD: Foreign 

Office on Wednesday confirmed 

that Pakistan would 

be placed a grey list of the 

Financial Action Task Force 

(FATF) in June this year. 

Speaking at a weekly 

news briefing, FO 

spokesman Dr Muhammad 

Faisal said “Pakistan will 

be assigned to the ‘grey 

list’ in June, once an Action 

Plan has been mutually 

negotiated.” 

The spokesman, however, 

contradicted media 

reports that Pakistan was 

likely to be put on a 

‘black’ list. 

“The statement that 

Pakistan will be transferred 

from the ‘grey’ to the 

‘black’ list in June this year, 

is therefore not true. 

of the media as the viability 

of a free press is dependent 

solely on its financial independence. 

The APNS clarified 

that the prices of government 

advertisements were 

fixed at a fraction of market 

rates. The APNS also pointed 

out that print media in 

general and small and 

regional newspapers in particular, 

mainly depend on 

revenue earned from adver- 

It comes as the Westernbacked 

government in 

Kabul has been struggling 

to fend off the Taliban and 

other militant groups since 

the withdrawal of most 

NATO troops in 2014. 

The new U.S. strategy 

for Afghanistan, announced 

in August, is intended to 

break a stalemate with the 

insurgents and push them to 

the negotiating table. 

The United States has 

since deployed 3,000 more 

troops to the country to 

train, advise, and assist and 

to conduct counterterrorism 

missions, and increased air 

strikes against the militants. 

The United States currently 

has about 14,000 uniformed 

personnel in 

Afghanistan. 

Afghanistan has 

shown readiness to start 

dialogue with Pakistan 

forgetting past and start a 

new chapter. 

Government 

increases petroleum 

products prices 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Government has increased 

the prices of the petroleum 

products for the month of 

March and price of the 

petrol has been increased 

by Rs. 3.56 per litre making 

its new price of Rs. 88.07 

per litre from the previous 

price of Rs. 84.51 per litre. 

According to a notification 

issued by the Ministry 

of Finance today, the price 

of the diesel has been 

increased by Rs. 2.62 per 

litre making the new price 

at the rate of Rs. 98.45 per 

litre from the previous price 

of Rs. 95.83 per litre. 

Similarly, the Price of the 

Kerosene Oil has been 

increase by Rs. 6.28 per 

litre making its new price 

as Rs. 76.46 per litre from 

the previous price of Rs. 

70.18 per litre. The 

Ministry of Finance 

claimed that OGRA and 

Ministry of Energy had 

proposed increase in the 

prices of these products 

including a Rs.6.94 per litre 

raise in the price of diesel. 

However, it was increased 

by Rs. 2.62 per litre only, 

for benefit of the general 

public. So, the new price of 

diesel (HSD) would be Rs. 

98.45 per litre, Motor Spirit 

Rs. 88.07 per litre, SKO Rs 

76.46 per litre and LDO 

Rs.65.30 per litre. The new 

prices shall be effective 

from 1st of March 2018 till 

midnight on 31st of March. 

tisements as the cover price 

of newspapers does not even 

meet 5% cost of producing a 

newspaper. The advertisements 

issued by Federal and 

provincial governments basically 

highlight the performance 

of these governments 

by disseminating information 

regarding their respective 

achievements. This 

practice is not peculiar to 

Pakistan but is common 

ISLAMABAD: Former 

secretary of Bara Kahu 

Union Council (UC) has 

declared fake a No-objection 

Certificate (NOC) produced 

by Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf 

(PTI) chief Imran 

Khan for his residence in 

Bani Gala on Wednesday. 

During a hearing of a 

case over Khan’s Bani 

Gala residence in Supreme 

Court of Pakistan (SCP), 

UC ex-secretary 

Muhammad Umer said 

that the authority never 

issued an NOC to Khan to 

http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

Bani Gala NOC fake 

No NOC issued to Imran Khan for construction of 

Bani Gala Mansion, SC told 

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nehal 

Hashmi on Wednesday released fromAdiala 

prison after completing a one-month sentence 

handed to him by the Supreme Court 

(SC) in a contempt of court case. 

Speaking to media outside the jail, the 

PML-N leader said that he is not afraid of 

“conspirators” as they can only send him to 

prison or kill him but cannot stop him from 

working under their leader Nawaz Sharif. 

Hashmi maintained that he was a victim 

of revenge for he filed an appeal against the 

apex court’s verdict the very next day it was 

announced but the appeal has not been heard 

construct a residence. 

Umer maintained that he 

was serving as secretary of 

Bara Kahu UC in 2003 and 

Khan never sought any 

NOC. The office, at the 

time, was not equipped with 

digital record facility; a 

computer, he said. 

He asserted that Khan 

was asked to forward a map 

of the location for required 

legal process to take its 

course which was never 

produced so the authority 

did not follow the case. 

On the other hand, 

Islamabad Additional 

Deputy Commissioner filed 

a report in the case with the 

top court today. 

The report states that at 

least 300 kanals of land was 

purchased in 2002 in name 

of Jemima Khan, PTI 

chief’s ex-wife. No NOC 

was sought from interior 

ministry to purchase the 

land at the time, the report 

reads. 

It further states that the 

land was later gifted to 

Imran Khan in 2005 by the 

power of attorney. 

Nehal Hashmi released from Adiala Jail 

‘Not afraid of conspirators,’ 

says Nehal Hashmi 

even after his release. 

The PML-N leader claimed that the 

prison is full on people who were victimised 

by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 

as the accountability watchdog is the “most 

corrupt institution of Pakistan”. 

“Half of country’s looted wealth can be 

recovered if you (law enforcers) raid house 

of NAB officials,” said Hashmi. 

It is pertinent to note here that Hashmi 

was punished for he had threatened the 

Supreme Court’s appointed Joint 

Investigation Team (JIT) members for interrogating 

Nawaz Sharif and his family members 

pertaining to their foreign properties. 

RAWALPINDI: Muslim League (PML-N) leader and former Senator, Nehal Hashmi is 

being escorting by party workers after released from Adiala Jail. 

Bilawal challenges Shehbaz, Imran 

to contest election from Karachi 

KARACHI: As the political 

atmosphere heats up 

ahead of the upcoming general 

election, Pakistan 

Peoples Party (PPP) 

Chairman Bilawal Bhutto 

on Wednesday challenged 

PML-N’s acting president 

Mian Shehbaz Sharif and 

PTI chief Imran Khan to 

contest election from 

Karachi. 

Speaking to media during 

his visit to the PPP 

membership drive camp in 

Karachi, Bilawal said 

Advertisements are main source of information to people of a country 

Govt advertising serves as oxygen to liquidity starved print media: APNS 

Prices of govt advertisements fixed at a fraction of market rates 

Shehbaz and Imran will face 

worst defeat if they contested 

election from Karachi. 

“I hope people of 

Pakistan will support PPP 

because it is the only political 

party which speaks 

about public issues and try 

to resolve them,” he said. 

“People are not concerned 

that why Nawaz 

Sharif was ousted from the 

premiership, they only want 

elimination of unemployment, 

poverty and terrorism,” 

he added. 

across the developing world 

where advertisements are the 

main source of information 

to the people of a country. 

The APNS is of the considered 

opinion that action to 

limit government advertisements 

in the print media, 

would adversely affect the 

financial viability of newspapers 

which are already facing 

financial crunch due to economic 

and industrial slowdown 

in the country. 

APNS is confident that 

the Chief Justice understands 

that the freedom of press, 

enshrined in Article 19 of the 

constitution, is one of the 

fundamentals of any democracy 

and is the safeguard on 

which access to information 

and plurality of views function 

therein. There are so 

many real and looming 

obstacles to exercise of these 

NAB grills 

Moonis Elahi over 

offshore companies 

LAHORE: The National 

Accountability Bureau officials 

on Wednesday questioned 

Chaudhry Moonis 

Elahi, son of former Punjab 

chief minister and PML-Q 

leader Chaudhry Pervez 

Elahi, in connection with an 

inquiry pertaining to offshore 

companies. 

Sources say Elahi was 

grilled by a three-member 

team of the bureau about offshore 

companies for over an 

hour before he was allowed 

to leave the NAB office. 

important freedoms and we 

hope that the Chief Justice 

will address the removal of 

such obstacles in preference 

to dwelling on the problems 

of print advertising, which is 

done at a fraction of the tariff 

applicable to commercial 

advertisers. APNS requested 

the three member bench 

formed by the honourable CJ 

to take this critical issue into 

consideration. 

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Metropolitan 

Murder of Intizar Ahmed was 

targeted killing, claims witness Madiha 

Gender sensitivity awareness in police 

KARACHI: A girl, who was 

travelling with 19-year-old Intizar 

Ahmed when he was shot dead 

allegedly by Anti-Car Lifting Cell 

(ACLC) personnel, has claimed in 

a statement that his murder was an 

act of targeted killing. 

In a video statement, Madiha 

Kayani said she feared for her life 

and demanded that the Rangers 

personnel should provide her 

security. 

She said she had already pointed 

out in a statement to investigators 

that a mustached man opened 

fire at Intizar. 

Ms Kayani said the youth was 

murdered in targeted killing. She 

claimed the victim had told her 

that he was being chased by someone. 

She named two people – 

Mahrukh and Suleman – who she 

said be made part of the investigation 

into the murder case. 

She expressed doubts that 

some influential people might be 

behind the killing. There should 

be a fair probe into the incident, 

she demanded. 

Intizar Ahmed was shot dead 

under mysterious circumstances 

PNS Shamsheer provides medical 

assistance to Iranian fishermen crew 

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari greets 

Hindu community on Holi 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

Peoples’ Party (PPP) 

Chairman Bilawal Bhutto 

Zardari has extended 

heartiest greetings to 

Hindu community on the 

eve of Holi festival, which founder 

is being celebrated in 

Pakistan and across the 

world from Thursday. 

In his message, the PPP 

Chairman said that his 

KARACHI: Almirah 

Spring Summer 2018 Lawn 

collection launched at 

Dolmen Mall Clifton. The 

collection stars high quality 

lawn fabric in traditional 

cuts and silhouettes. The 

collection mainly features 

the ongoing pastels trend in 

terms of colors. 

In today's textile industry 

it’s a lawn and designer 

war. But the sad part is that 

in the local market no one is 

trying to come up with their 

own identity. At Almirah, 

we are trying to differentiate 

from others. Our customers 

have certain expectations 

and we have attain 

certain niche market share 

and rapidly growing with 

17 outlets across Pakistan. 

Also, with a new range of 

single kurti and very 

affordable prices in pret 

collection we are targeting 

mass market as well and 

competing with local lawn 

brands. We have an edge as 

best quality of fabric 

Party stands for equal 

rights and opportunities 

for the non-Muslim citizens 

of Pakistan as it was 

the true torch-bearer of 

the ideology of our 

Quaid-e-Azam 

Mohammad Ali Jinnah for 

an egalitarian society. 

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari 

pointed out that PPP has 

provided constitutional 

guarantees to the rights 

for the non-Muslim 

Pakistanis and gave 

unprecedented representation 

in the Parliament 

and Party organizations. 

He said that every 

Pakistani was free to celebrate 

and perform his or 

her religious ceremonies 

and festivals in a secure 

environment. 

Almirah launches spring 

summer 2018 collection 

finesse in every design with 

the sleekest and embroideries 

range, with a wide 

variety for Men’s collection. 

Wasim Akram shalwar 

kameez collection is another 

new addition to cater to 

high end customers. 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

Navy Ship PNS 

Shamsheer has provided 

medical assistance to the 

crew of Iranian fishermen 

in the open sea. 

According to 

Pakistan Navy 

spokesperson, seventeen 

Iranian fishermen on 

board the ship requested 

for medical aid to 

Pakistan Navy. 

Rangers nab two 

criminals including 

‘political activist’ 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Rangers on Wednesday 

claimed to have apprehended 

two criminals, 

including a political party 

activist, from Docks area 

of the metropolis. 

Rangers’ spokesman 

said the paramilitary forces 

carried out a targeted raid 

in Docks area and arrested 

a MQM-London activist, 

Farhan alias Dagah and a 

drug peddler, Muhammad 

Walid. The spokesman further 

said that the accused 

were involved in drug peddling 

and other crimes. 

The rangers also recovered 

weapons and drugs 

from their possession. 

Progress of 

driving license 

branches reviewed 

KARACHI: Inspector 

General of Police Sindh 

(IGP) AD Khowaja on 

Wednesday presided over a 

meeting at Central Police 

office (CPO) Karachi and 

reviewed functioning and 

progress of all driving 

license branches in Sindh 

province. 

The meeting was 

attained by DIG DL Sindh, 

Farhat Ahmed Janjua, DIG 

Headquarters Sindh, Naeem 

Sheikh, IG Operations 

Sindh, CPLC representatives 

and a delegation of 

National Bank of Pakistan. 

DIG DL briefed meeting 

that 99 percent issues 

regarding Android and IOs 

software have already been 

solved. 

by armed Anti Car Lifting Cell 

(ACLC) personnel when he didn’t 

stop his car after being signaled 

by them in Khayaban-i-Bukhari of 

Karachi’s Defence Housing 

Authority (DHA) on January 13. 

Eight ACLC officials have 

been arrested and sent to jail on 

judicial remand in the case while 

an accused has been out on bail. 

A day earlier, the victim’s 

father, Ishtiaq Ahmed, along with 

his counsel appeared before a 

joint investigation team formed on 

the directions of the Sindh chief 

minister. The JIT, headed by CTD 

chief Dr Sanaullah Abbasi and 

comprising DIG South Azad Khan 

and other officials of both military 

and civilian agencies, was formed 

to address the reservations of 

Ahmed as he believed that his 

son’s killing was not accidental. 

Seminar on 

child abuse 

concludes in KU 

KARACHI: The 

department of criminology 

in collaboration with 

Association of 

Criminologists for Crime 

Analysis and Victim 

R e h a b i l i t a t i o n 

(ACCAVR) organized a 

public institutional awareness 

seminar on child 

abuse, causes, consequences 

and its prevention 

in Pakistan at Arts 

Faculty Auditorium, 

University of Karachi. 

The seminar was 

attended by some 600 students, 

criminologists, faculty 

members and professionals 

from different 

organizations. 

It was opened with a 

welcome address by 

chairman, department of 

criminology Dr. Ghulam 

Muhammad Burfat. 

Abdul Hadi, faculty 

member and president, 

Association of 

Criminologists for Crime 

Analysis and Victim 

R e h a b i l i t a t i o n 

(ACCAVR), gave a presentation 

on child abuse 

and its causes, symptoms 

and signs. 

Provincial Minister 

and Advisor to CM Sindh 

for Social Welfare and 

chairman, Sindh child 

protection Authority 

(SCPA) Shamim Mumtaz 

spoke as the chief guest 

speaker. 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Health Department has 

decided to run four major 

departments of Sindh 

Government Lyari 

General Hospital (LGH) 

Karachi under public-private 

partnership to 

improve patients care in 

health facility. 

In this regard a memorandum 

Emergency 

of understanding 

(MoU) with National 

Institute 

of 

Cardiovascular Diseases 

(NICVD), Altamash 

Staff Report 

KARACHI: Deputy 

Inspector General of Police 

Training, Sharjeel Kharal 

said that gender equality is 

more than a goal in itself 

adding that it is a precondition 

for meeting the challenge 

of reducing poverty, 

promoting sustainable 

development and building 

good governance. 

Kharal was expressing 

his views in a consultative 

session attended by many 

senior police officials from 

Karachi Police organized 

by Individual Land Pakistan 

on Tuesday at Regent Plaza 

Karachi. 

Kharal said that gender 

sensitization in police needs 

for gender equality adding 

that the Constitution of 

KARACHI: An Anti- 

Terrorism Court (ATC) on 

Wednesday awarded life 

imprisonment to two 

Muttahida Qaumi 

Movement (MQM) men 

held from their party headquarters 

in a policemen 

murder case. 

The ATC-VII judge 

found Ubaid alias K2 and 

Pakistan provides equally 

status and opportunity to all 

citizens in the country. He 

said it also has a profound 

impact on policing in peace 

keeping and insisting the 

importance of equal representation 

of women in the 

police department. 

He asked to police officials 

here you people are 

talking very positively what 

happened while you are in 

ground; need such potential 

during duty as well. 

During session talking 

about the issue, DSP 

Garden Shehla Ghani said 

that Police facilities must 

meet the needs of the 

female officers. There must 

be equal opportunities for 

promotions and training. 

There must also be equal 

Nadir Shah guilty of killing 

two cops at MA Jinnah 

Road some 18 years ago. 

The judge pronounced the 

verdict after recording witnesses’ 

statements, evidences 

and arguments from 

both sides, observing that 

the prosecution successfully 

established its case. 

Besides, the court also 

opportunities for promotions 

and training and there 

should also be mechanisms 

for female officers to share 

experiences. 

Shiren Khan DSP 

Finance and Welfare 

expressed her point of view 

that it is very encouraging 

step but this type of session 

must be in routine so that 

the gap may be removed. 

She added that it is a very 

productive step which may 

broad the vision of male 

officials. SP Orangi town 

Abid Baloch said that 

Gender awareness requires 

not only intellectual effort 

but also sensitivity and 

open-mindedness. It opens 

up the widest possible 

range of life options for 

both women and men. 

MQM’s Ubaid K2, Nadir get 

life term for killing cops 

KARACHI: The 

Centre for Peace, Security 

and Developmental 

Studies (CPSD) hosted a 

seminar on the Kashmir 

issue titled "The Kashmir 

Cause-Socio Economic 

Projections". 

The proceedings 

included two sessions and 

were chaired by 

Ambassador (r) 

Najmuddin Shaikh and 

Ambassador (r) Arif 

Kamal, respectively. 

Institute of Dental 

Medicine, Indus Hospital 

Karachi and Childlife 

Foundation (CLF) would 

be inked soon to make 

functional the Shaheed 

Benazir Bhutto Institute 

of Cardiology, Dental 

Department, Blood Bank 

& Laboratory and Child 

Department 

in the LGH. 

The renovation of 

these departments has 

already been started to 

make them operational in 

the 550-deded hospital 

suited in old city area of 

Karachi. 

More than 30 healthcare 

facilities in Malir 

district are being run 

under public-private 

partnership while the 

Sindh Government 

Children Hospital, North 

Karachi and some 

departments in the 

National Institute of 

Child Health, Jinnah 

Postgraduate Medical 

Center, Civil Hospital 

imposed Rs 200,000 fine 

on both the convicts who 

will have to face more 

imprisonment if they fail 

to pay the fine amount. 

Ubaid K2 and Nadir 

along with others were 

arrested from MQM headquarter 

Nine-Zero in 

Rangers pre-dawn raid on 

11th March 2015. 

Kashmir Issue lingering due to no 

international pressure on India, moot told 

Participants at the event 

included members of the 

academia, experts and 

policy practitioners, as 

well as, members of civil 

society, businessmen, 

lawyers and media. 

In his opening remarks 

Lt Gen Agha Muhammad 

Umer Farooq (Retd) 

opined that issues of 

Peace and Conflicts were 

evolving the world over. 

The new phenomenon of 

fifth generation warfare 

and Hybrid war alongside 

their different tactics were 

redefining states across 

the globe. 

The Kashmir issue is 

one such issues, which 

has been deeply impacted 

by the changing global 

scenario hence there was 

a stark need to approach 

the issue from a new 

angle that would lead in 

the socio economic 

empowerment of the 

Kashmiri people. 

Major departments of LGH to go under 

public private partnership 

Karachi and others health 

facilities are also being 

operated with help of private 

partners. 

M e d i c a l 

Superintendent, Lyari 

General Hospital, 

Karachi, Dr Muhammad 

Aslam Pechucho, while 

talking to PPI, said a plan 

to run major departments 

of this healthcare center 

under public-private partnership 

is in pipeline. He 

said people will hear good 

news in this regard soon. 

Plantation pivotal for controlling heat waves: Dr Ajmal 

Staff Reporter 

KARACHI: Vice 

Chancellor KU Prof. Dr. 

Muhammad Ajmal Khan 

said the global warming 

and increased frequency 

of heat waves have threatened 

the natural balance 

of environment. The natural 

calamities tropical 

cyclones, tornadoes, 

floods and droughts combining 

with global warming 

have become a serious 

threat for the south Asian 

countries. The trees play 

an important role to 

reduce the impact of these 

calamities. Plantation is 

the only way to save our 

world from the danger of 

global warming. We must 

promote the culture of 

plantation since it plays a 

major role in controlling 

the heat waves. He was 

expressing his views 

while inaugurating the 

plantation campaign at 

University of Karachi. 

Deans, Registrar Dr. 

Munawar Rasheed, 

Students Advisor Dr. 

Syed Asim Ali, Controller 

of Examinations and a 

large number of faculty 

and students were present 

on the occasion. 

The Vice Chancellor 

and deans planted different 

plants to inaugurate 

the campaign in which 

more than 2,500 plants 

will be planted. Dr. Ajmal 

Khan also inaugurated 

cleanliness campaign at 

the varsity and visited 

departments. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch 

along with Municipal Commissioner, Imran Aslam offering 

dua after inaugurates development project. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi along 

with MPA Sindh Assembly, Waseem Qureshi inspecting 

cleaning work at North Karachi. 

KARACHI: MPA Sindh Assembly, Saifuddin Khalid 

inspecting ongoing developments at Orangi Town. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Nayar Raza 

inspecting carpeting at Malir Model Zone.


National 

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Global alliance to fight children 

issues urged: HR conference 


Protection of child rights is 

a big challenge especially 

child abuse is a complex 

phenomenon which needed 

a global alliance to work 

collectively for securing 

our future generations. 

The suggestion was 

moved by the speakers at 

the International 

Conference on Human 

Rights (HR) titled, “Owing 

human Rights for a better 

world. They said that dark 

net has no boundaries as 

digital technology has 

made children more vulnerable 

through disseminating 

pornographic material easily 

available for virtual community 

within seconds 

from one corner of the 

world to another. 

The speakers recommended 

substantial policies 

Staff Reporter 

BADIN: On very stunning 

win of new elected 

body of Hyderabad Union 

of Journalists (HUJ), various 

social, political, elected 

representatives of 

provincial and national 

assembly and prominent Chairperson, 

figures have felicitated to 

new office bearers for the 

year 2018-19. 

Former Speaker of 

National Assembly and 

MNA, Dr. Fehmida Mirza, 

PPP Sindh Information 

Secretary, Senator Aajiz 

Dhamrah, Naib Ameer, 

Jamait Islami Pakistan, 

Asadullah Bhutto, former 

Chief Minister of Sindh 

and central leader of PTI, 

Liaquat Jatoi, former 

Sindh home minister, Dr. 

Zulfiqar Mirza, MPA, 

Barrister Husnain Mirza, 

Peoples 

Movement of Pakistan, Dr. 

Tanveer Zamani, president, 

PPP Ladies Wing, 

Karachi division and 

MNA, Dr. Shahida 

Rehmani and others in 

their messages have felicitated 

to new elected body 

of Hyderabad Union of 

for not only to ensure fundamental 

rights of children 

but also to give them a 

secure, conducive environment 

for their better 

upbringing so that they 

become productive part of 

the society. 

The first ever HR conference 

being organized by 

Ministry of Human Rights 

(MOHR) held two sessions 

on focusing on “Protecting 

Women and Children under 

National and International 

Frameworks”, “Humanity 

under Climate Change: 

Environmental Rights are 

Social, political & renowned figures 

felicitate elected new body of HUJ 

Journalists (HUJ) including 

president, Jai Parkash, 

senior vice president, 

Tanveer Ahmed Arain, G. 

secretary, Saeed Afzal and 

other senior journalists 

Iqbal Mallah, Zaffer 

Hakro, Khurshed Bugio, 

Khalid Chandio, Zahid 

Kalhoro, Mansoor Mari, 

Ghulam Fareed, Jan Ali, 

Muhammad Waseem 

Khan, Tariq Leghari, 

Fahim Baber, Abdul 

Khalique Chandio, 

Muhammad Ramzan 

Shoro, Azeem Barecho, 

Niaz Wighio and others. 

Human Rights”. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

Director General, 

International Coordination 

(IC), MOHR, Muhammad 

Hassan Mangi informed the 

participants that Pakistan 

has passed a number of legislations 

to protect rights of 

ISLAMABAD: Allama 

Iqbal Open University 

(AIOU) here on Wednesday 

organized a seminar at its 

main campus to create 

awareness about the hazardous 

impact of cyber 

crimes on national security. 

The event was arranged 

by the office of Research, 

Innovation 

and 

Commercialization in collaboration 

with Federal 

Investigation Agency (FIA). 

It was part of the 

University’s ongoing activities, 

keeping its students and 

the Faculty well aware of the 

socio-economic issues and 

their responsibilities towards 

the society to this effect. 

the children at federal as 

well as provincial level but 

still face lack of appropriate 

implementation mechanism, 

capacity building of 

institutions, absence of statistical 

data for establishing 

policies and lack of 

resources for child rights 

programming. 

Director General, South 

Asian Initiative to End 

Violence against Children 

(SAIEVAC), Dr. 

RinchenChophel said that in 

till 1989 children were not 

recognized as rights holders. 

But for last 30 years still a 

long way to go to safeguard 

their rights. There is a dire 

need to place mechanism for 

ensuring their rights, review 

present legislation, take 

steps to check early child 

marriages and their right to 

education and health. 

AIOU joins campaign to 

curb cyber crimes 

Vice Chancellor 

Professor Dr. Shahid 

Siddiqui said on the occasion 

that the University will 

continue its efforts to expose 

social crimes through academic 

and social activities. 

The common perception that 

cyberncrimes are low-level 

crimes must be removed 

since, in reality, they are as 

dangerous as other conventional 

crimes. 

A senior official of the 

FIA (Cyber Crimes Wing) 

Attiq Javed spoke in details 

about various elements and 

categories of Cyber crimes. 

He briefed the audience 

about the prevailing law on 

the subject. He also highlighted 

the role and achievements 

of the FIA in curbing 

menace of internet crimes 

that are mainly carried out 

through social media. He 

also spoke about the implications 

and challenges of 

this crime. 

He also underlined the 

major aspects of cyber crime 

law, according to which a 

citizen can lodge a complaint 

to Federal Intelligence 

Agency (FIA) with relevant 

proofs for further investigation 

and punishment (if 

proven guilty). 

Dean Sciences Dr. 

Nagmana Rashid who 

presided over the event 

spoke about the University’s 

continuous endeavor to 

purge the society of social 

evils. 

Japan provides USD 3.5 million for Educating 

15,000 Out-of-School children in Pakistan 


Government of Japan will 

provide a grant of 393 million 

JPY (approximately 

USD 3.5 million) to the 

United Nations Children’s 

Fund for supporting its initiative 

to provide Quality 

Alternative Education to 

out-of-school children and 

adolescents in Pakistan. 

Notes to this effect were 

signed and exchanged here 

today between H.E. Mr. 

Takashi Kurai, Ambassador 

of Japan to Pakistan and 

Ms.Aida Girma, UNICEF 

Representative in Pakistan 

andMr. Yasuhiro Tojo, Chief 

Representative of Japan 

International Cooperation 

Agency (JICA). 

The grant will be used by 

UNICEF during its new 

country programme (2018- 

2022), to establish 400 centres 

under the Alternative 

Our Correspondent 

SHIKARPUR: A mother 

of six kids were gunned 

down by her husband over 

suspicion of illicit relations 

with her neighbour at village 

Dilawar Marfani, in 

the remits of Dilawar 

Marfani police station of 

Garhi Yasin tehsil, some 

50 kilometers off, here on 

Wednesday. 

Shahzado Dasti, the 

SHO above mentioned PS, 

Learning Programme 

(ALP), led by the 

Government of Pakistan. 

Nearly 15,000 adolescents 

between ages 9 to 16 

as well as younger children 

would get a second chance 

to quality primary education 

at these centres to be established 

in Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and 

Balochistan provinces. It 

would also help these children 

and adolescents to be 

mainstreamed into the regular 

education system at the 

lower secondary and secondary 

level. 

Speaking at the signing 

ceremony, H.E. Mr. Takashi 

Kurai said, “Education plays 

a critical role not only for the 

development of individual 

talents and ability but for the 

overall economic development 

of nation. For the purpose 

of ensuring inclusive 

told this correspondent that 

suspect Wazir Ali Marfani 

shot his wife identified as 

Ms Aooraan, of 36, dead 

over pretext of Karo-Kari 

with her neighbour named 

Anwar Ali Marfani and 

managed to escape from 

place of firing after committing 

crime. 

Following on the information, 

area police 

reached on the spot and 

transported the body of 

and quality education for all, 

Japan will continue to support 

improvement of education 

in Pakistan and I do 

believe that the society in 

which everyone shines will 

be achieved.” 

JICA 

Chief 

Representative Mr. Yasuhiro 

Tojo said: “Non-Formal 

Education (NFE) has been a 

consistent priority of JICA 

since 2004. Our on-going 

technical assistance has multiple 

aspects including inputs 

to Pakistan Education 

Statistics to plan, implement 

and monitor NFE interventions 

across Pakistan 

through an integrated credible 

source of information. I 

hope that the new grant led 

by UNICEF in collaboration 

with JICA’s technical assistance, 

will contribute to the 

expansion of NFE in Sindh, 

Baluchistan and KP.” 

A mother of six kills for honour killing 

JAMSHORO: The 39th 

meeting of the Sindh 

University’s Academic 

Council was held at Vice- 

Chancellor’s Secretariat 

with VC-SU Prof. Dr. Fateh 

Muhammad Burfat in the 

chair yesterday. 

Before taking up the formal 

agenda for discussion 

the house offered ‘Fateha’ 

for those varsity teachers, 

officers, employees and students 

who had of late 

breathed their last. 

At the outset of the meeting 

VC-SU Dr. Burfat 

extended all attendees a 

word of warm welcome and 

confided in them that 

Academic Council was one 

of the most important bodies 

of the varsity to resolve 

academic matters, ponder 

deceased woman to Taluka 

Hospital Garhi Yasin for 

postmortem and handed 

over to her relatives after 

conducting autopsy. 

A case [01/2018] under 

concerned sections has 

been registered at Dilawar 

Marfani police station on 

the complaint of SHO on 

the behalf of state, SHO 

added. Further investigation 

is underway till filling 

of this news story. 

SU holds 39th meeting of its Academic Council 

over new proposals, innovate 

on various teachinglearning 

programs, initiate 

brand new academic projects 

and critically review all 

matters relating to learning 

and pedagogy. Dr. Burfat 

underlined the significant 

role the varsity faculty was 

playing to preserve and promote 

the image and standard 

of the university. 

PTV launching separate TV channels 

for Parliament, children, NA body told 

at Parliament r to discuss 

PSDP funds for financial 

year 2017-18 and 2018-19. 

Aslam Bodla, Chairman of 

the committee chaired the 

meeting. 

State Minister for 

ISLAMABAD: National 

Assembly Standing 

Committee on Information 

& Broadcasting and 

National Heritage was told 

on Wednesday that PTV is 

launching separate TV 

channels for the Parliament 

and children. 

Information 

Broadcasting, 

This was told by the officials 

of Ministry during 

meeting of the National 

Assembly Standing 

Committee on Information 

and Broadcasting & 

National Heritage held here 

and 

Mariyam 

Orangzeb briefing the committee 

told open air theater 

is being established in 

PNCA. She said all activities 

of PNCA are being 

shared on regular basis. She 

said youth and culture clubs 

are being opened, adding 

establishment of open air 

theatre was necessary. 

She said cultural infrastructure 

does not exist in 

the country and sought support 

for setting up open theatre. 

She added improvement 

in the cultural infrastructure 

was need of the 

hour. In this regard, she said 

first cultural and film policy 

has been introduced. She 

disclosed that directorate of 

film and publication is being 

restored after thirty years. 

Judicial commission 

chairman visits Shikarpur 

Naeem Ahmed 

SHIKARPUR: Retired 

Shikarpur. 

Also, he saw a 600KV 

Justice Ameer Hani Muslim, 

the chairman water commission, 

disconnected generator; on 

the occasion he directed the 

it was formed by DHO, MS and contractor to 

Supreme Court of Pakistan 

[SC], to inspect the quality of 

water and the real state of 

drainage in across Sindh, visited 

make sure generator functional 

so that 600KV generator 

could be used in proper 

manner in future. 

Rai Bahadur Udhodas Judicial commission 

Tara Chand [RBUT] Civil chairman during his visit also 

Hospital Shikarpur and issued directions to repair all 

expressed his anger over out of order laboratory 

poor cleanliness and machines so that all the tests 

drainage system, here on 

Wednesday. 

Retired Justice Ameer 

Hani Muslim asked why 

garbage destroyer machine is 

malfunctioned and as much 

as high level temperature of 

garbage destroyer machine 

from Dr Khursheed Ahmed 

of diseases could possible so 

that a common people could 

avail proper health facilities 

at government hospital 

Retired Justice Ameer 

Hani Muslim issued instructions 

to Chief Municipal 

Officer [CMO] Shikarpur to 

release salaries of sanitation 

Qazi, the Medical workers on time adding 

Superintendent of Civil white collar employees 

Hospital Shikarpur, but he 

could not give satisfactory 

answer to the chairman. 

should be removed from 

their jobs if they not want to 

do their jobs otherwise strict 

During his detailed visit action would be taken 

the water commission chairman 

saw a few useless government 

vehicles at hospital 

against those white collar 

employees who don’t want 

to discharge their proper 

premises he directed the duties. On the occasion, he 

District Health Officer Dr directed the Deputy 

Zulfikar Ali Abro to write a Commissioner Shikarpur 

letter to Health department 

high ups to sell that useless 

vehicles’ through auction so 

that the state of cleanliness 

Syed Hassan Raza to move 

the cattle from city Shikarpur 

to cattle colony as much as 

possible so that the state of 

could be improved for larger cleanliness could be 

interests of the people of improved.

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EDITORIAL 

RULERS 'CONSTANTLY UNIQUE' IN FAILURES! 

Law enforcers embarrassed on civilian corruption: 

Army overpowers domestic crimes, terror, gangsterism 

By Eugene Robinson 

The deliberately outrageous idea of arming 

classroom teachers is nothing more than a 

distraction, a ploy by the gun lobby to buy 

time for passions to cool. Don't get sidetracked. 

Keep the focus where it belongs - on keeping military-style 

assault rifles out of civilian hands. 

The National Rifle Association and its vassals 

in the Republican Party would like you to exhaust 

your outrage on a possibility that is, from the start, 

impossible. Picture one of your grade-school or 

high-school classrooms. Imagine a loaded gun in 

there somewhere. 

Even on an average day, without an active 

shooter stalking the halls, the question isn't what 

could go wrong. It's how many dead or wounded. 

President Trump has touted the idea, but he 

tipped the NRA-GOP hand on Saturday with a 

tweet: "Armed Educators (and trusted people who 

work within a school) love our students and will 

protect them. Very smart people. Must be firearms 

adept & have annual training. Should get yearly 

bonus. Shootings will not happen again - a big & 

very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States." 

"Up to States" means abdicating the federal 

government's responsibility and urging state legislatures 

to waste time and effort debating whether 

to mandate that instruments of death be introduced 

to classrooms. Are parents going to be confident 

that the gun is securely locked away and no student 

will ever get his hands on it? That in an emergency 

the teacher would know how to use it? That 

an assailant wouldn't simply shoot the teacher 

first? 

According to The New York Times, police officers 

in the nation's largest city - men and women 

who are highly trained and periodically tested for 

firearms proficiency - hit their targets only onethird 

of the time. During actual gunfights, the 

paper reported, officers' accuracy drops as low as 

13 per cent. The idea that teachers would somehow 

do any better is ludicrous, as is the idea that most 

teachers and their powerful unions would agree to 

such a horribly bad idea. 

The fact that the GOP and the gun lobby are 

pushing this nonstarter is proof of how worried 

they are that the Parkland massacre has the potential 

to provoke real change. It's not so much that 

OPINION 

SUCCESS of Pakistan Army, after civilian 

leaders seek its help after every critical civilian 

indiscipline and mismanagement along 

with failure of governmental and state administration 

in establishment of almost always worsening 

lawlessness and disorder situation had caused 

embarrassment for lowly displayed capabilities of 

elected public servants, and had earned constantly 

earned high praise and prayers of this deprived and 

oppressed nation for sacrificial performance and 

regular victories of Pakistan Army in setting right 

all that was the duty, function and responsibility of 

elected civilian leadership in federal government, 

Islamabad as well as in provincial capitals and 

cities, at the first place. After police failure with 

many dead and 17 policemen kidnapped, Army's 

victorious Shawal operation against strongly rooted 

dacoits and terrorists. That included the end of 

Chhotu Gang, all of whose members unconditionally 

surrendered, after Zarb e Ahan operation. 

QUESTIONS that now automatically arise in 

thinking or sane minds are endless: Should such 

incompetent civilian leaders who proved themselves 

to be "constantly unique with failures" in 

honoring a sacred trust of their voting public should 

continue to stick around in power? Should not the 

civilian leaders resign on grounds of incompetency 

in running state affairs to the satisfaction of their 

nation? Should not top leaders honorably retire forever 

from politics and taking part in elections on 

their record failures and after Panama Papers indicated 

their amassing of wealth offshore without 

paying due taxes, or holding their unaccounted 

holdings? Should not allegedly corrupt leaders step 

aside at least temporarily to facilitate impartial 

inquiry without power pressures on independent 

basis either at or under Supreme Court of Pakistan, 

or if that's not possible, at International Criminal 

Court under United Nations Organization? 

ANSWERS to above questions therefore are 

obvious: Reasonable and logical answers to all of 

above may well be in affirmative with a unanimous 

YES. From top to bottom, leadership doings as well 

as undoings in dealing with domestic affairs led to a 

crisis series almost always unresolved since past 

many decades under different governments. 

Illiteracy, unemployment, rocketing prices of essential 

goods and services, petty street theft to and 

armed and bank robberies, gangsterism and terrorism 

with murders, killings, suicidal blasts, and civil 

unrest was ripening and decaying into nothing upon 

political crackdowns. In the midst of corruption 

mounting upon Pakistani nation, lack of accountability 

without punishments went on, and so did massive 

protests for reforms against corruption and 

electoral fraud. It's already much late to resolve 

these basic issues at first. Many other crisis points 

get bigger than solutions as they arise out of not 

dealing forthrightly with these long standing needs 

of people for their constitutional rights and privileges 

which must be honored by top leaders as none 

is above and beyond law. 

ARMY Chief Raheel Sharif himself has declared 

that Army expresses its willingness and is ready to 

conduct across the board accountability. The COAS 

has reportedly sacked 13 military officers on corruption 

charges amid Panama papers uproar. It's up 

to politicians to follow suit after what may be considered 

as this open and clear signal of support for 

civilian judicial proceedings against corrupt political 

leaders proved to be robbers of national wealth 

with reference to Panama Papers. Reformers against 

corruption can seize this opportunity to go ahead 

against corruption accordingly. 

WHILE there's an uproar, protests, demonstrations 

and Inquiry or Probe Commissions and 

Committees established on Panama Papers fallout 

in many countries, with top leadership resigning or 

stepping aside, not much is happening in Pakistan, 

with ruling party PML-N's PM and some family 

members involved in offshore stashing of wealth 

tax-free. Opposition parties, many leaders or members 

of whom are also involved in the thick and thin 

of it all, are not enthusiastic to approach this corruption 

topic: Back to square one. 

CONFLICTS and civil strife are frightening for 

common people's morales, their rights to at least a 

hope for a peaceful and legitimate life and living. 

Especially if countrywide lawlessness of their own 

political and civilian law enforcing institutions 

become among main causes and sources of grievances, 

complains and tragedies of people who loose 

their lives and properties each hour and day round 

the year, every decade. 

Arming teachers is not a solution, 

US needs strong gun control rules 

The fact that the GOP and the gun lobby are pushing this nonstarter is proof of how 

worried they are that the Parkland massacre has the potential to provoke real change 

Republicans would enact sensible gun control, but 

that voters might replace them with Democrats 

who will. 

That is why NRA chief executive Wayne 

LaPierre spent much of a foaming-at-the-mouth 

speech on Thursday making the insane claim that 

Democrats, if elected, will impose some kind of 

socialist tyranny. "You should be anxious and you 

should be frightened," he warned at the annual 

meeting of the Conservative Political Action 

Conference. Please, oh please, he wants you to be 

frightened. 

"If they seize power, if these so-called 

European socialists take over the House and the 

Senate and, God forbid, they get the White House 

again, our American freedoms could be lost and 

our country will be changed forever," LaPierre 

implored. 

The unhinged LaPierre wildly lobbed every cultural 

and racial grenade he could get his hands on. 

He railed against Black Lives Matter, the FBI, 

George Soros, college professors - and the media. 

Because, I guess, when a young man with an AR- 

15 walks into a high school and kills 17 students 

and faculty members, we write about it. 

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, in her CPAC 

speech, was equally shrill and desperate. "Many in 

legacy media love mass shootings," she said, despicably. 

"Crying white mothers are ratings gold to 

you." 

All this squealing can only mean that the NRA 

and Republicans think they're in trouble. The usual 

playbook for dodging an actual debate about gun 

control isn't working. 

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has come out in favour 

of raising the minimum age for gun purchases 

from 18 to 21. Some Republicans agree. That 

would be one tiny step in a long journey toward 

sanity, but the NRA's strategy is never to give an 

inch. It would be a disaster for the gun lobby if 

Republicans began heeding public opinion on 

guns. 

With the Parkland students continuing to speak 

and inspire, could common-sense gun control be 

the issue that turns expected Democratic gains this 

November into a historic wave? That's up to you. 

Ignore all distractions, and keep your eyes on the 

prize. 

4 security personnel martyred 

in Quetta suicide blast 

Two policemen martyred in attack on DSP's vehicle 

Bureau Report 

HYDERABAD: Sindh 

Human 

Rights 

Commission has taken 

exception to failure of 

Latifabad police to arrest 

killers of 4 women who 

were killed in Bismillah 

Square Latifabad No.10. In 

a statement issued by Ms. 

Shamshad Kanwal member 

SHRC said due to 

QUETTA: A FC personnel stand in front of bullet hit vehicle of DSP Hameedullah Dasti 

was attacked on Samungli Road by unidentified personnel from two sides resulting 

martyred two policemen. 

QUETTA: At least four 

security personnel 

embraced martyrdom and 

six wounded on 

Wednesday when a suicide 

bomber struck FC 

Camp in Quetta, the second 

incident of violence 

in less than 12 hours. 

The attack took place 

in No Hisar area of the 

provincial capital. 

Levies and FC personnel 

reached the scene and 

cordoned off the area. 

According to a source, 

security forces were conducting 

a search operation 

in the area when it came 

under attack. 

The injured were shifted 

to state-run hospitals. 

Nobody has yet 

claimed responsibility for 

the assault, but the city 

has been frequently targeted 

by militant groups 

in recent months. 

Earlier in the day, 

police inaction or siding 

with culprits their families 

were provoked and residents 

of whole Bismillah 

Square were scared and 

frightened. She added that 

the husbands of both victim 

women Raheel Dildar 

and Dildar Hussain advocate 

visited SHRC office 

and told that police was not 

taking interest in arresting 

unknown gunmen opened 

fire on the vehicle of DSP 

Abdul Majeed Dasti, 

Sindh HR slates Latifabad police 

inaction to arrest killers of 4 women 

Allah Bux Khushik 

DADU: Sindh Journalist 

Foundation Chairman 

Ghous Jhatial has condemned 

the act of registering 

fake FIRs across Sindh. 

The meeting was chaired 

by SJF-Sindh Journalist 

Foundation Chairman 

Ghous Jhatial, senior journalist 

Ghulam Hussain 

Laghari, Faiz Ahmed 

Pirzado, Liaquat Ali Malik 

and others attended the 

meeting. 

Speaking to meeting SJF 

chairman Ghous Jhatial said 

that it was big conspires 

against Sindhi’s reports to 

registered fake FIRs against 

them as they could not publish 

their truthfull news. He 

the killers due to which 

they were scared and feeling 

unsafe. Shamshad 

Kanwal made appeal to 

chief justice Pakistan, chief 

Justice Sindh,IG Sindh, 

DIG and SSP Hyderabad to 

help provide justice to victim 

families by pushing 

police to take step to arrest 

killers so to remove unrest 

among area people. 

Sindh Journalist Foundation condemns over 

registering fake FIRs against Journalist 

said that journalists are facing 

general threat and digital 

threat in Sindh but especially 

in Dadu district. He 

warned that if fake cases 

would not be withdrawn 

Sindh Journalist Foundation 

would start drive against 

area police those are registering 

fake FIRs against 

journalist. 

MIRPURKHAS: Shafiq Hussain Memon Director Information along with Sawi Khan 

Chalghari Deputy Director visits Press Club Mirpurkhas. 

7 suspects including 

4 Afghan nationals 

arrested in IBD 


Islamabad Police, Rangers 

and Intelligence Agencies 

conducted a joint search 

operation in Model Village 

Saidpur for security concerns. 

As per media details, 

Security agencies carried out 

a search operation in Saidpur 

village Islamabad and arrested 

7 suspects including 4 

Afghan nationals. 

SSP operations Najeebur-Rehman 

said that search 

operation was aimed at 

making Islamabad security 

effective. 

Our Correspondent 

J A C O B A B A D : 

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf 

[PTI] Jacobabad chapter 

taken out a protest rally 

against Israel and killing of 

innocent people in Sham, 

it was marched through 

various routes culminated 

at Deputy Commissioner 

Chowk, here on 

Wednesday. 

Rally was led by Raaz 

Khan Pathan, the PTI 

Jacobabad district information 

secretary, and others. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

Mr Pathan strongly 

Contractor protests unjust’ 

action against wahid Jat, 

High way Division Mirpurkhas 

M A .Rehman 

MIRPURKHAS. The 

Action Committee of the 

Contractors Mirpurkhas 

Protest here on wensday at 

front of SC Highway office 

Mirpurkhas . Rehmatulla 

pathan , Danish Qureshi , 

Riaz and other memers of 

the contractors action committee 

Mirpurkhas full 

throught salogans against 

the Highway Division 

Mirpurkhas officials . 

the highly violated of 

condemned the tactics and 

atrocities of Israel and set 

flag and effigy of Israeli 

Prime Minister Netanyahu 

on fire and condemned the 

SSPRA rules , tender ( NIT 

) and record curruption 

from officials of Highway 

Division , Wahid Jat head 

Clerk , Hanif Dal Exn and 

SC Zahid qureshi . 

Rehmatullaha khan , 

members of Contractors 

Action committee 

daily messenger , head 

chlerk wahid Jat have 15 to 

20 percent commission 

charge to the contractor and 

given to the successfully 

bidders award . 

killing of innocent peoples 

in Sham. 

On the occasion, PTI 

leaders demanded the 

authorities concerned to 

killing two police officers. 

The DSP survived 

unhurt. 

NAB kicks off 

probe against 

illegal allotment of 

Grand Hayat Towers 

ISLAMABAD: NAB 

Rawalpindi has formally 

started investigation against 

officials of CDA and M/S 

BNP (Pvt )Ltd regarding 

allegedly misusing of 

authority by CDA in allotment 

of plot to tfirm for construction 

of Grand Hayatt 

Tower at Constitutional 

Avenue Islamabad. Director 

General NAB Rawalpindi 

Irfan Naeem Mangi has said 

that NAB is committed to 

eradicate corruption under 

Chairman NAB Justice 

Javed Iqbal so that Pakistan 

could achieve the status of 

corruption free country. He 

said that NAB strongly 

believes accountability for 

all policy against corruption. 

DC Badin assures 

re-opening of 

Molvi Haji Ahmed 

Mallah library 

Staff Report 

BADIN: Deputy commissioner 

Badin, Dr. 

Shehzad Tahir Thaheem has 

assured to people of Badin 

and students of schools and 

colleges that he has taken initiatives 

and personal interest 

to re-open Molvi Haji 

Ahmed Mallah library 

Badin.He said he was 

already taking steps to 

improvise educational system 

in Badin and he has 

many meetings with educational 

officials to bring out 

betterment in ongoing system. 

He said he was optimistic 

that employees of 

Laar museum would obtain 

their salaries soon. While 

talking with journalists of 

Badin, he said library was 

benefiting lots of students of 

Badin and other cities.He 

said he would negotiate with 

protesters for early opening 

and functioning of library. It 

is pertinent to mention that 

employees of Laar museum 

told to have continued their protest 

and token hunger strike 

against non payment of their 

salaries for 17 months and 

regularization and library has 

remained closed for many 

days causing loss to students. 

Protest holds against Israel 

take notice of the atrocities 

of Israel and killing of people 

in Shaam which is 

sheer injustice with innocent 

people of Sham.

Militants, sponsors must act to 

make Syria truce work: Russia FM 

PARIS: 

MOSCOW: Russia says 

it has done its part to usher in 

calm in the militantbesieged 

Damascus suburb 

of Eastern Ghouta, where it 

has announced a humanitarian 

pause, saying the ball is 

now in the court of militants 

and their supporters to make 

the truce in Syria work. 

Speaking at the UN 

Human Rights Council in 

Geneva on Wednesday, 

Russian Foreign Minister 

Sergei Lavrov said militants 

in control of Eastern Ghouta 

are responsible for ensuring 

that the humanitarian pause 

would facilitate aid delivery 

to the violence-stricken residents. 

Eastern Ghouta has 

witnessed deadly violence 

over the past days, with foreign-sponsored 

terrorists 

there launching mortar 

attacks on the city in the face 

of an imminent humiliating 

defeat. 

Western powers, however, 

blame the violence on the 

Syrian government's 

Russian-backed airstrikes. 

On Monday, Russian 

RIYADH: Lebanese 

Prime Minister Saad Hariri 

has traveled to Saudi Arabia 

for the first time since last 

November when he 

announced a surprise resignation 

live on television 

from Riyadh only to rescind 

it later upon arriving home. 

Hariri’s media office 

said in a statement that the 

Lebanese premier had left 

for Riyadh late on Tuesday 

and was set to meet with 

Saudi King Salman bin 

Abdulaziz Al Saud and 

Crown Prince Mohammed 

bin Salman. 

The visit is paid in 

response to an invitation 

handed to Hariri by Saudi 

envoy Nizar al-Aloula during 

a meeting in Beirut on 

Monday, according to the 

statement. 

Aloula paid a two-day 

visit to Beirut, during which 

he held talks with Lebanese 

officials concerning Beirut- 

Riyadh relations and 

regional developments. 

He was the first highranking 

Saudi official to 

visit Lebanon since Hariri’s 

mysterious resignation as 

Lebanon’s premier on 

President Vladimir Putin 

ordered the implementation 

of a daily ceasefire in the 

area, effective from 

Tuesday, after the UN 

Security Council unanimously 

voted in favor of a 

resolution demanding a 30- 

day truce in Syria “without 

delay” to allow aid access 

and medical evacuations. 

Lavrov further told the 

council that “Russia together 

with the Syrian government 

have already announced the 

establishment of humanitarian 

corridors in Eastern 

Ghouta.” 

He said, however, that 

militants entrenched there 

“still continue shelling 

Damascus, blocking aid 

deliveries and the evacuation 

of those wishing to 

leave,” adding, “Now, it is 

the turn for the militants and 

their sponsors to act.” 

The Russian military 

says terrorists in Syria are 

blocking civilian evacuations 

from Eastern Ghouta 

by shelling the route out of 

Saudi soil. 

“The Saudi envoy’s visit 

has injected a new lease of 

life in Lebanese-Saudi relations, 

signaling a further 

the area in defiance of the 

humanitarian ceasefire. 

Lavrov further urged parties 

to the US-led coalition 

purportedly fighting Daesh 

in Syria “to ensure same 

humanitarian access to areas 

under their control, including 

Rukban refugee camp 

and the entire territory surrounding 

al-Tanf.” 

Rukhban lies close to the 

Syrian border in Jordan, 

while the hugely-strategic 

al-Tanf is situated inside the 

Syrian territory, where 

Lebanese PM visits Riyadh for 

1st time since shock 'resignation' 

For Yemen’s sake, stop giving 

Saudis WMDs: Rouhani to West 

TEHRAN: Iran’s 

President Hassan Rouhani 

has called on the Western 

countries to stop providing 

Saudi Arabia with weapons 

of mass destruction 

(WMDs) for the sake of 

Yemeni people, who have Arabia 

been suffering under 

Riyadh’s bloody attacks and 

siege. 

Rouhani made the 

remarks in an address to a 

large crowd of people in the 

southern port city of Bandar 

Abbas in Hormozgan 

Province on Wednesday. 

“We say to Europe and 

the world that if you truly 

care about the people of 

Yemen; Don’t give Saudi 

destructive 

bombs. If you really think 

of Yemenis, don’t give 

Saudi Arabia banned 

Napalm bombs, don’t 

give Saudi Arabia cluster 

bombs,” he said. 

The comments came 

two days after Russia 

vetoed a British-drafted resolution 

at the United 

Nations Security Council 

(UNSC) that seemed more 

to target Iran rather than 

address the Yemen crisis. 

The failed document called 

for “additional measures” 

against Iran over accusations 

that it violated the 

2015 arms embargo on 

Yemen. 

Canada: Myanmar committed 

ethnic cleansing in Rakhine 

OTTAWA: Canada’s foreign 

minister says what has 

taken place against the 

Rohingya Muslim community 

in western Myanmar 

constitutes “ethnic cleansing.” 

Speaking at a meeting 

of the United Nations 

Human Rights Council in 

Geneva on Thursday, 

Chrystia Freeland described 

the atrocities against the 

Rohingya people in 

Myanmar’s Rakhine State as 

“ethnic cleansing.” 

Thousand of Rohingya 

Muslims have been killed in 

state-sponsored violence that 

began in late 2016 and intensified 

in August 2017. 

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya 

have also escaped to neighboring 

Bangladesh since 

August last year. Myanmar, 

however, has constantly 

denied that ethnic cleansing 

has taken place, and claimed 

that its military has been 

engaged in “legitimate counterinsurgency 

operations.” 

boost in these relations with 

all the positive impact this 

entails on Lebanon,” an 

unnamed official told The 

Daily Star. 

Jerusalem church 

reopens as Israel suspends 

controversial plans 

JERUSALEM: The 

Church of the Holy 

Sepulchre in Jerusalem al- 

Quds has reopened its 

doors after Israel backtracked 

on its controversial 

tax and land grab plans 

targeting churches in the 

city. 

The church, seen by 

many as the holiest site in 

Christianity, reopened at 

around 4:00 a.m. local 

time (0200 GMT) on 

Wednesday after a threeday 

closure in protest at 

the Tel Aviv regime’s controversial 

measures. 

The Jerusalem al-Quds 

municipality had canceled 

a tax exemption it had 

granted church-owned 

commercial properties in 

the Israeli-occupied city. 

COLORADO: Students 

in the US state of Colorado 

walk out of their classes to 

protest the country’s gun 

laws two weeks after 17 

people were shot to death 

at a Florida high school. 

Hundreds of students 

from all five Poudre district 

high schools in Fort 

Collins participated in the 

walkout on Tuesday afternoon 

and marched to Old 

Town Square to congregate 

for an organized protest. 

Some were chanting, 

“This is what democracy 

looks like,” while others 

were carrying signs that 

read; “It’s not my job to 

know where to hide” and "I 

want to worry about 

grades, not guns." 

On February 14, a gunman 

opened fire at Marjory 

Stoneman Douglas High 

School, killing 17 people 

and injuring 14 others. 

The gunman, a former 

Syrian, Jordanian, and Iraqi 

borders intersect. The coalition 

has suspiciously been 

trying to exercise full control 

over al-Tanf, where 

Moscow says terrorists operate 

under the US military’s 

nose. 

The top Russian diplomat 

also said dividing terrorists 

into “good” and “bad” 

was unacceptable, and that 

Moscow would fight this 

practice of double standards. 

Moscow would continue 

to support the Syrian army 

until the total defeat of the 

“terrorist threat,” he added. 

He reminded all parties 

of the recent UN Security 

Council resolution, which 

introduced a 30-day ceasefire 

in Syria. 

“The people of Syria 

today face the most dire 

humanitarian crisis. UN 

Security Council Resolution 

2401 has established a 

framework for all parties to 

agree upon conditions to 

alleviate the plight of civilians 

throughout the territory 

of the country,” he said. 

Protests planned next 

week against bin 

Salman’s visit to UK 

LONDON: High-profile 

campaign groups plan to 

hold protests in London next 

week against a visit to Britain 

by the powerful Saudi crown 

prince to raise alarm over 

Riyadh’s war crimes in 

Yemen and its human rights 

record. 

The protesters will gather 

outside Downing Street next 

Wednesday, when 

Mohammed bin Salman 

arrives in the UK to meet 

with Prime Minister Theresa 

May. Among the organizers 

are the CAAT and Stop the 

War Coalition, which counts 

Shadow Home Secretary 

Diane Abbott among their 

patrons, Sky News reported 

on Wednesday. The activists 

have urged the premier to 

“show some backbone” over 

Saudi Arabia’s human rights 

violations and end Britain’s 

arms sales to the kingdom, 

which has been engaged in a 

deadly war against Yemen 

over the past three years. 

SJA JAfri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

MELBOURNE: The area around 

Crown Casino has been deemed safe 

by police after a man with a backpack 

behaving “erratically” forced a mass 

evacuation of the complex, spilling 

terrified workers and diners out onto 

the street. 

Police responded to multiple 

reports of the suspicious man about 

3.30pm on the first floor of the 

building. 

Members of the special operation 

Over 100 actresses 

and film professionals in 

France, including Vanessa 

Paradis and Diane Kruger, 

launched their own movement 

on Wednesday against 

sexual violence, and said 

they would sport white ribbons 

at a French awards 

event this week. 

Hot on the heels of 

Hollywood’s “Time’s Up” 

campaign against harassment, 

France’s “Now we 

act” is billed as an appeal to 

raise funds so that women 

who have suffered rape or 

other forms of sexual violence 

can take legal action. 

The French appeal also 

comes after veteran actress 

Catherine Deneuve and 99 

other French women caused 

a stir last month by saying a 

backlash against men following 

the Harvey Weinstein 

scandal had gone too far. 

The signatories backing 

the new fundraising appeal, 

published in the Liberation 

newspaper on Wednesday, 

include actresses Clemence 

Poesy, Julie Gayet, Kruger - 

who is German-American 

but lives partly in France - 

and author Leila Slimani. 

Campaigns against sexual 

harassment in the workplace 

and elsewhere have 


International 

taken off across the world in 

recent months. 

A #MeToo movement 

spread on social media platforms 

has exposed men 

accused of sexual assault and 

harassment in fields including 

entertainment, politics 

and business, and encouraged 

women globally to tell 

their stories. 

More than 300 

Hollywood industry figures 

5 

French actresses launch own 

'Time's Up' with white ribbons 

WASHINGTON: A US 

judge, who President 

Donald Trump criticized 

due to his Hispanic origins, 

has rejected a legal challenge 

to the construction of 

a wall along borders with 

Mexico. 

On Tuesday, Gonzalo 

Curiel ruled in favor of 

Trump’s planned wall, but 

said his decision was separate 

from the underlying 

issue of whether or not the 

wall should be erected. 

"Court is aware that the 

subject of these lawsuits, 

border barriers, is currently 

the subject of heated political 

debate in and between 

the United States and the 

Republic of Mexico as to 

the need, efficacy and the 

source of funding for such 

including actors, directors 

and writers have backed the 

“Time’s Up” call, with many 

wearing black at recent red 

carpet events to show their 

support. 

“It’s time to act. Together, 

let us support those taking 

concrete steps so that no-one 

has to say #MeToo any 

more,” the French campaigners 

said in 

Wednesday’s appeal. 

Judge questioned by Trump 

gives go-ahead to border wall 

CAIRO: Egypt’s chief 

prosecutor has called for 

strict monitoring of the 

media and taking legal 

action against any outlet 

whose behavior disrupts 

security or hurts national 

interests. 

Nabil Sadeq’s office 

issued a statement on 

Wednesday ordering his 

staff to closely watch the 

media activities. 

The statement said the 

measures were needed to 

respond to “the endeavors 

of the forces of evil to 

undermine the security and 

the safety of the nation 

through the broadcast and 

publication of lies and false 

news.” 

The term “forces of 

evil,” highlighted in 

barriers," he wrote. 

"In its review of this 

case, the Court cannot and 

does not consider whether 

underlying decisions to 

construct the border barriers 

are politically wise or 

prudent." 

In response, the president 

took to Twitter, 

laballing the order a 

vicotry. 

Egypt's prosecutor urges strict media monitoring 

group, critical incident response and 

bomb squad descended on the area 

and quickly arrested a 55-year-old 

man who remains in custody. Nothing 

was found inside the man’s backpack. 

Special Operations Group officers 

could be seen leaving the casion’s 

Clarendon St entrance shortly after 

7pm. The area was deemed safe by 

police about 7.20pm. 

“Police are in the process of 

clearing the scene and Crown 

Casino will reopen to the public 

shortly,” a police spokesperson said. 

Sadeq’s statement, has been 

frequently used by the 

administration of President 

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to designate 

dissent and those 

close to the Muslim 

Brotherhood, the most 

dominant political party in 

Egypt and one of the oldest 

in the Muslim world which 

was banned after Sisi took 

power in 2014. 

Australian Police respond to Crown Casino incident 

student who was said to be 

19 years old, quietly surrendered 

to police after 

opening fire with an 

assault-style rifle. 

“What happened in 

Florida could happen anywhere,” 

Misty Hirsch, a 

student at Senior Liberty 

High School, said. 

There were local residents 

and parents who also 

joined the demonstration. 

“I’m terrified to have 

my children scared going 

to school. I have three kids 

and this affects us everyday. 

Something has to 

change,” Angela Paschall, 

a parent, said. 

In response to the walkout, 

the Poudre School 

District issued a statement, 

saying that, "We are aware 

of the planned student 

walkout today and honor 

our students’ right to 

express their views and 

opinions in a respectful 

way. We understand that 

the right to protest is a 

time-honored tradition in 

our country.” 

“We certainly would 

have preferred these activities 

take place outside of 

the regular school day,” the 

statement read. 

President Donald 

Trump and Republican 

lawmakers, who are under 

immense pressure, have 

proposed to raise the age 

limit for buying certain 

types of firearms. 

However, the National 

Rifle Association, the powerful 

US gun lobby, did not 

support the proposals by 

Trump, who is also suggesting 

banning bump 

stocks that enable semiautomatic 

rifles to shoot 

Sisters Ann and Barbara 

Hodgson said they saw the “bomb 

robot” enter the building about 6pm. 

“It came up on its tractor wheels and 

went through the front door,” 

Hodgson said. The sisters said the 

robot stayed for about an hour 

before leaving. 

Acting Commander David 

Clayton said there were no injuries to 

the suspect, police or public and the 

man did not resist arrest. It is understood 

the man was heard “making 

statements” before he was arrested. 

Colorado students stage walkout to protest gun laws 

hundreds of rounds a 

minute. 

“The NRA doesn’t back 

any ban,” Dana Loesch 

said on ABC’s “This 

Week.” 

Trump has also said he 

supports legislation to 

tighten background checks 

for gun buyers, although he 

has not provided specific 

details.

6 


Biz 

Saudi views Pakistan as one of 

top destinations for investment 

RIYADH: Saudi 

Deputy Minister for 

Foreign 

Trade 

Abdulrahman Alharbi has 

said that Saudi Arabia 

views Pakistan as one of 

the top destinations for 

making investments. 

The statement was 

made at a meeting of Pak- 

Saudi Joint Working 

Group on Trade and 

Investment in Riyadh. 

Commerce Secretary 

Mohammad Younus 

Dagha headed Pakistan 

delegation at the two-day 

talks. 

The two sides reaffirmed 

their commitment 

to strengthen bilateral 

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad 

Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 

collaboration with Trade Development 

Authority of Pakistan/Ministry of 

Commerceorganized a “Look Africa” 

Trade Forum that was aimed at exploring 

new avenues of promoting trade 

and exports with African countries. 

The diplomats of Nigeria, Kenya, 

Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, Mauritius, and 

Egypt attended the trade forum. Maria 

Qazi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of 

Commerce and Khalid Rasul, Director, 

trade and investment ties 

in line with the understandings 

developed during 

the meeting of Pak- 

Saudi Joint Ministerial 

Commission held in 

TDAP were also present at occasion. 

Addressing the Trade Forum, 

Sheikh Amir Waheed, President, 

Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & 

Industry said that 54 African countries 

were a market of over 1 billion people 

with huge potential for Pakistan to 

promote trade and exports. He urged 

that government should sponsor trade 

delegations to African region to 

explore new avenues of trade with it. 

He said that total trade volume of 

Africa was around $ 1 trillion, but 

Islamabad last month. 

During the meeting, the 

Saudi side acknowledged 

Pakistan’s total trade with it was only 

3 billion, which was quite negligible. 

He emphasized that government 

should provide incentives to private 

sector for organizing exhibitions in 

African countries to introduce more 

Pakistani products in the region. He 

said Pakistan has resident missions 

inonly 15 African countries and 

stressed that Pakistan should open its 

missions in all major African countries 

that would help in improving trade and 

economic relations with the region. 

and appreciated Pakistan's 

position as a preferred 

destination for investment 

in view of its macroeconomic 

indicators, growth 

projects, strategic location 

and overall investment 

regime. 

Saudi officials showed 

their interest in investing 

in Pakistan in many sectors 

including petrochemicals, 

dairy, livestock, mining 

and others. 

The two sides agreed to 

activate Pak-Saudi Joint 

Business Council within 

two months and that 

Pakistan will hold a single-country 

exhibition in 

Saudi Arabia this year. 

PSDC to provide 

Pakistan aims $5 billion annual training at Pakistan 

Auto Show 2018 

trade with Africa in next five years 

LAHORE: Pakistan 

Ecommerce Gateway to hold 5 major 

Industrial exhibitions in March 2018 

ISLAMABAD: The top 

trade-fair organizer of 

Pakistan – Ecommerce 

Gateway is all set to organize 

5 international megaexhibitions, 

starting in 

Karachi from 13th March 

and concluding on 15th of 

March 2018. The multiple 

events will be held at the 

Karachi Expo Center. 

These 3 day events will 

include Auto & Transport 

Asia, Engineering Asia, Oil 

& Gas Asia and Power & 

Alternative Energy Asia. 

These events will feature 

more than 1000 local and 

foreign exhibitors and is 

expected to be attended by 

more than 100,000 people, 

whereby all major players 

will get an opportunity to 

dsplay and market their 

products and services. It will 

also give a platform to the 

international investors, manufacturers, 

traders and foreign 

entrepreneurs to interact 

with various segments of 

Pakistani consumers. 

These diversified events 

include: The 17th 

International Auto, 

Transport & Logistics Asia– 

the biggest platform for the 

presentation of the products 

from Automobile industry, 

Commercial Vehicle industry, 

Railway Industry, Next- 

Gen Battery Industry and 

Airlines Industry. 

Facebook Introduces New Feature in 

Pakistan to Help Increase Blood Donations 

K A R A C H I : 

Today, Facebook 

is launching a 

blood donations 

feature in 

Pakistan to make 

it easier for people 

to sign up to 

be blood donors, 

and to help connect 

donors with 

people and 

organizations in 

need. Pakistan, 

like many countries, 

has a shortage 

of safe blood. 

In some cases, 

this shortage 

means patients 

and their families 

are responsible for finding donors to replace the blood they receive from blood 

banks or hospitals. This can cause high-stress situations as people try to find 

blood donors on their own. Many people are reaching out to their networks on 

Facebook. There are thousands of posts each month in Pakistan seeking blood 

donors on Facebook, and over 100,000 people in blood donation groups. 

This is where Facebook can help, by finding ways to more efficiently bring 

blood donors, people and organizations together. 

We have worked together with non-profit organizations, health industry 

experts, potential donors and people who have used Facebook to find blood 

donors to ensure that this feature was designed to be useful to people. We recently 

launched a similar tool in India and Bangladesh, where nearly 7 million people 

have signed up to be blood donors on Facebook. 

Pak, Philippines agree 

to enhance cooperation 

in diverse fields 


Pakistan and Philippines 

have agreed to enhance 

cooperation in diverse 

fields for shared progress 

and prosperity. 

The understanding was 

reached at the inaugural 

Session of two-day 

Pakistan-Philippines Joint 

Economic Commission in 

Islamabad. 

The session was Cochaired 

by Secretary, 

Economic Affairs Division 

Arif Ahmed Khan and 

Deputy Minister for 

Industry Development and 

Trade Policy Group of 

Philippines Dr. Ceferino S. 

Rodolfo. 

Auto Show 2018 exhibition 

would be held at the 

Lahore Expo Centre from 

2nd to 4th March 2018. 

The event will also serve 

as a platform for trainings 

and conferences 

Tariq Ahmed Khan’s 

lecture on the Toyota 

Production System. Abdur 

Razzaq Gohar will explain 

the role of “Integrated 

System of Management”, 

while Haseeb Tahir will 

make a presentation on 

Lean 5S and Naveed 

Ahmed Khan will speak on 

the “Global Best Practices 

in the automotive 

Industry”. 

Muhammad Tahir will 

discuss "The challenges 

faced by road transport, 

their impact on efficiencies 

on different entities". Ariel 

Danez will discuss the 

"Quality of Air for 

Automotive Paint Shop". 

Mian Ashfaq Ali will discuss 

"The Electric vehicles-future 

electro mobility: 

challenges & prospects" 

and Professor Dr. Riaz 

Mufti will speak about: 

"Test rigs & automated 

inspection". Towards the 

end of the conference, 

Kaiser J. Khatana will talk 

about "Road safety - Aimed 

at vehicles' safety”. 

Chinese, Pakistanis hold 

business meetings at PCJCCI 

LAHORE: Pakistan 

China Joint Chamber of 

Commerce 

and Industry (PCJCCI) 

here Wednesday organized 

B2B (business to business) 

meetings of 31-member 

high profile, multi-sector 

Chinese Trade delegation 

with Pakistani businessmen, 

investors, and entrepreneurs. 

The delegation was 

headed by Teng Shuang, 

Deputy Minister China 

Council for the Promotion 

of International Trade Jinan. 

The Delegation came with a 

purpose to hold interactive 

B2B meetings with potential 

partners in Pakistan. 

The area of interest was 

mainly Auto Parts manufacturing 

sector including 

electrical accessories, electrical 

equipment, sheet 

metal processing, , fiber 

laser cutting machine and 

precision machinery along 

with many other. 

CORPORATE CORNER 

Meezan Bank & IBA sign 

agreement for Fee Collection! 

KARACHI: Mr. Ijaz Farooq, Group Head Retail Banking, Commercial, SME & 

Agriculture Finance - Meezan Bank and Syed Amir Ali, Group Head Corporate & 

Investment Banking - Meezan Bank and Mr. Moeid Sultan, Director Finance- IBA 

along with their teams at the signing ceremony. 

KARACHI: Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s first and largest Islamic bank recently 

signed a fee collection agreement with the Institute of Business Administration, 

Karachi (IBA). Under this agreement, the Bank will provide Payments & Cash 

Management services to IBA through the Bank’s state-of-the-art web based electronic 

solution ‘eBiz+’. The agreement was signed by Mr. Ijaz Farooq, Group Head 

Retail Banking- Meezan Bank and Mr. Moeid Sultan, Director Finance- IBA. 

This agreement between IBA Karachi and Meezan Bank is a testimony of the 

Bank’s expertise in the field of payment and cash management services through 

which the Bank provides digitalized collections solutions to its clients for a hasslefree 

banking experience. 

Meezan Bank is the 8th largest bank in Pakistan and the leading Islamic bank of 

the country. The Bank provides a comprehensive range of Islamic banking products 

and services through a retail banking network of more than 600 branches supported 

by a countrywide network of over 580 ATMs, Visa & MasterCard Debit cards, a 

24/7 Call Center, Internet Banking and Mobile Application facility. 

Meezan Bank has consistently been recognized as the Best Islamic Bank in 

Pakistan by numerous local and international institutions, which is a testimony of 

the Bank’s commitment to excellence. These institutions include Islamic Finance 

News - Malaysia, Global Finance magazine - New York, Asset AAA - Hong Kong, 

Asiamoney – Hong Kong, The Banker – United Kingdom, South Asian Federation 

of Accountants, Islamic Finance Forum of South Asian Awards, Pakistan Banking 

Awards – Dawn & IBP Pakistan, Employers Federation of Pakistan and CFA 

Association - Pakistan. 

The JCR-VIS Credit Rating Company Limited, an affiliate of Japan Credit Rating 

Agency, Japan has reaffirmed the Bank’s long-term entity rating of AA (Double A) 

and short-term rating at A1+ (A One Plus) with stable outlook. The rating indicates 

sound performance indicators of the Bank. Meezan Bank is the only Islamic bank 

with AA credit rating in the Islamic banking industry in Pakistan. 

IT Ministry signs MoU with 

Huawei at Mobile World Congress 

ISLAMABAD: In a yet another significant development in the realm of ICT 

empowered socio-economic development, Ministry of IT and Telecom through the 

Universal Service Fund (USF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with 

Huawei at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona. 

USF was established by the IT Ministry to spread the benefits of the telecom revolution 

to all corners of Pakistan, and promote the development of telecommunication 

services. 

Chief Technology Officer USF Syed Asif Kamal signed the MOU on Tuesday 

with the representative of Huawei, witnessed by Minister for IT & Telecom, Anusha 

Rahman Khan. 

Through this MOU, Huawei will contribute towards digital development in 

Pakistan via USF programs through appropriate utilization of its expertise in program 

design, training and sharing successful experiences of its national ICT portfolio 

across infrastructure broadband services, vertical public services and intelligent 

digital platforms. 

Speaking on the occasion, the IT Minister said that Huawei will provide the requisite 

expertise to MoIT through USF to develop National ICT services execution 

strategy, support Joint Innovation center (JIC) for empowering women benefiting 

from the USF ICT for Girls program and support and encouragement for the top 

three best performing graduates. 

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for it & Telecom, Mrs. Anusha Rahman witnessing 

the MoU signing ceremony between USF and Huawei in Barcelona 

NA Committee presents budget recommendations for financial year 2018-19 

ISLAMABAD: The National 

Assembly Standing Committee on 

National health services, regulations 

and coordination has presented its 

budget recommendations for the 

financial year 2018-19. 

The Committee briefed regarding 

Public Sector Development 

Program (PSDP) budget estimate of 

Rs. 37.710 billion of nearly fiftyeight 

projects. 

The committee meeting was held 

the chairmanship of Dr. Hafeez-ur- 

Rehman Khan. The Committee considered 

PSDP in detail and approved 

the same with some suggestions. 

Meeting participants highlighted 

the loopholes in on-going and new 

projects of the Ministry for PSDP 

2018-19 in reply of which, Ministry 

assured the Committee that Ministry 

will consider the suggestions in letter 

and spirit. 

The Committee considered the 

“HIV/AIDS (Safety and Control) 

Bill, 2013” (moved by Dr. Azra 

Fazal Pechuho, MNA) and after 

detail deliberation recommended 

that the Bill may be deferred till next 

meeting. 

It also considered the “The Drug 

Regulatory Authority of Pakistan- 

(Amendment) Bill, 2017” (moved 

by Dr. Nafeesa Inayatullah Khan 

Khattak, MNA) in detail and rejected 

the bill. 

Lawmaker shows concern on not receiving 

reply on Governor SBP's appointment 

ISLAMABAD: The National 

Assembly Standing Committee on 

Finance has expressed its displeasure 

for not receiving the reply about the 

procedure of appointment of Governor 

State Bank of Pakistan from SBP. 

The meeting of the committee was 

held in the chair with Qaiser Ahmed 

Sheikh MNA in parliament house on 

Wednesday. The Additional Secretary 

Ministry of Finance briefed the 

Committee that current account deficit 

is likely to remain from 15 to 16 billion 

US dollar. The reason of increase 

in current account deficit was the 

reduction in exports. “During the current 

fiscal year the volume of export 

was 24.1 US dollar while volume of 

imports was 53.5 billion US. The current 

account deficit was 12 billion US 

dollar during the last fiscal year”, he 

added. Asad Umer, parliamentarian of 

PTI said that I have asked the reply of 

this question during last four meetings 

of the committee but did not receive so 

far. He said that I have personally 

asked this question from Governor 

State Bank of Pakistan. On this 

Secretary Committee said that on Feb 

9, Governor SBP has sent his written 

reply in this regard. 

It is revealed in the meeting of the 

committee that it is fear to increase the 

deficit in current account approximately 

4 billion US dollar during current 

fiscal year. It is also revealed in 

the committee that during the four and 

half year of existing government foreign 

loans were increased 50 % while 

the total loan in 2013 was 66 billion 

US dollar. Presently foreign loan are 

some 93 billion US dollar. 

KARACHI: Minster of State for Finance & Economic Affairs, Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan being presented with a 

Memento during his meeting with members of Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD).


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Cricketer Shahzaib Hasan banned 

for one year in spot-fixing probe 

LAHORE: An anti-corruption 

tribunal on 

Wednesday banned cricketer 

Shahzaib Hasan for 

one year and fined him 

Rs1 million for his role in 

spot-fixing during the 

2017 season of the 

Pakistan Super League 

(PSL). 

Shahzaib Hasan, who 

represented Karachi 

Kings last year, was the 

fifth player to be suspended 

in the spot-fixing 

probe. The 27-year-old 

opener, who has represented 

Pakistan in three 

one-day internationals and 

10 T20 matches, was suspended 

on March 17, 

2017 and charged with 

three violations of the 

Pakistan Cricket Board’s 

(PCB) anti-corruption 

code. 

The PCB’s anti-corruption 

unit had charged him 

for violating three clauses 

of its anti-corruption 

code: for luring cricketers 

into the scam, not reporting 

approaches by the 

bookies, and hiding information 

regarding his contacts 

with the bookies. 

The tribunal hearing 

the case against Shahzaib 

had reserved its verdict on 

January 31. 

Along with Shahzaib, 

Islamabad United openers 

Khalid Latif and Sharjeel 

Khan were handed fiveyear 

bans last year after 

they were found guilty of 

spot-fixing and other 

breaches of the board’s 

anti-corruption code. 

Fast bowler 

Mohammad Irfan and allrounder 

Mohammad 

Nawaz were also suspended 

for twelve and two 

months, respectively, for 

not reporting the corrupt 

approach to the board in a 

timely manner. 

The probe is ongoing 

against former Pakistan 

opener Nasir Jamshed. 

Sangakkara, other foreign players of 

Multan Sultans ready to travel to Pakistan 

DUBAI: Multan 

Sultans, the debutant franchise 

of the Pakistan Super 

League (PSL), has confirmed 

its star batsman 

Kumar Sangakkara is 

“ready and excited” to travel 

to Pakistan for the later 

matches of the tournament. 

Lahore’s Gaddafi 

Stadium is set to host two 

eliminator matches of the 

PSL, while Karachi’s 

National Stadium will witness 

the final on March 25. 

Speaking to media in 

Dubai, Multan Sultans 

President Asher Schon 

said Sri Lankan veteran 

batsman Kumar 

Sangakkara, as well as 

other overseas players in 

the team, are ready to travel 

to Pakistan. 

“Yes, Kumar 

Sangakkara has agreed [to 

come to Pakistan] and he’s 

very excited about it, he 

has a lot of history in 

Pakistan,” said Schon, 

adding that other foreign 

players in his team would 

be travelling to Pakistan as 

well. The franchise president 

said it was good to see 

the big stars stepping up 

with their game. 

“Our big players have 

stepped up.. [look at] 

Kumar Sangakkara, 

Shoaib Malik. We have the 

strongest bowling lineup 

[in PSL].” 

He also lauded the professionalism 

of head coach 

Tom Moody and director 

Wasim Akram, who “must 

be given credit for the 

team’s performance.” 

Schon also shared his 

franchise’s plans to collaborate 

with Lahore 

Qalandars for players’ 

grass roots development. 

“We want to work 

closely with Lahore 

Qalandars for the players 

development program,” he 

said, while appreciating 

the efforts of the Qalandars 

management in developing 

grass roots cricket talent 

across the province. 

He shared that the 

Multan Sultans would be 

launching their own such 

program to develop cricket 

talent in the country, from 

April this year. 

Jan Sher wants federation to 

work on junior players as well 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: Pakistan’s 

former World Champion 

Jan Sher Khan says that to 

help Pakistan its lost glory 

in the game of squash, 

efforts has to be made on 

junior players junior players 

along with senior players 

at the academy. 

Jan Sher Khan, the 

record holder of World Open 

tournament, also said that 

Pakistan Squash Federation 

(PSF) should raise its voice 

in the international court of 


KARACHI: In the 

recently concluded KBA 

Bridge Teams Tournament 

2018, comprising of 9 

Round Complete Round 

Robin Movement was 

played at the Aslam 

Bridge Hall Karachi. 

The team Puri Real 

Estate won the 

justice for being sidelined by 

Indian lobby. 

“In Professional Squash 

Association (PSA), Indian 

lobby has been continuously 

working not to allow 

Pakistan hold tournament 

of less than USD 50,000 to 

70,000 for men and similarly 

in case of women less 

than USD 30,000,” alleged 

Jan Sher. 

He said that holding 

tournaments of USD 

50,000 to 70,000 for men 

and USD 30,000 for 

Tournament with a score 

of 133.92 having the services 

of Tehsin Gheewala, 

Hassan Askari, Mubashar 

Puri, Hamid Mohiuddin, 

Ziaullah Beg & Khaled 

Mohiuddin. 

The First Runners up 

position went to Bilal at a 

score of 118.72, comprising 

of Gulzar Bilal, 

women have advantages 

only for the international 

players. It was rather proving 

unproductive for the 

local players. 

“As a matter of fact, our 

players get no chance to 

secure points in such tournaments. 

In the end, international 

players take away 

high prize money from 

Pakistan.” 

“On the other hand, 

Indian lobby in PSA events 

has been successful to grab 

Indian open tournaments 

Puri Real won KBA Bridge 

Teams Tournament 2018 

Farrukh Liaquat, Anwar 

Kizilbash, Anisur 

Rehman and Mohsin 

Chandna. 

The 3rd position went 

to Karachi Aces at 101.91, 

comprising of Ghulam 

Mohammad, Nasir Raza 

Khan, Ashraf Kothari, 

Hussain Jaffer, Asghar 

Abbas, and Yawar Abbas. 

Boris Becker says tennis 'needs' 

Andy Murray to make a comeback 

PARIS: Boris Becker 

insists tennis "needs" Andy 

Murray and believes both 

he and Novak Djokovic 

will be motivated by Roger 

Federer and Rafael Nadal's 

own comebacks. 

Former world no. 1 

Murray is targeting a 

return for the grass-court 

season having been sidelined 

since last year's 

Wimbledon due to a hip 

problem that he had surgery 

on in the new year. 

Without Murray and 

Djokovic, another multiple 

Grand Slam winner 

recovering from injury, 

36-year-old Federer and 

31-year-old Nadal have 

risen back to the top of the 

ATP rankings. 

Yet Becker, speaking in 

Monaco in his role as an 

ambassador for Laureus, 

feels the sport would benefit 

from Murray's return. 

"Tennis needs him; tennis 

is not the same without 

Andy Murray," the 

German said. 

"He got this problem 

and he stopped when he 

was the number one player 

in the world. It's the last 

thing you want to happen. 

"It's a serious injury -- 

I'm not his doctor, I can't 

give you details of what the 

surgery was or how many 

surgeries he had - but what 

I hear is he is contemplating 

coming back on the 

grass because obviously it's 

a little easier for the hip. 

"I think you wouldn't 

come back if you wouldn't 

have the chance to come 

back fully fit. 

"Once he's fully fit, he's 

one of the best players in 

the world. Then it's a question 

of time. How much 

time are you going to give 

yourself to come back to 

this level you had before? I 

hope he does." 

for men for USD 35,000. 

PSA has approved them to 

hold such low prize money 

tournaments with open 

arms, which is quite 

unfair,” he accused. 

He also complained 

about below par living 

conditions at Pakistan 

National Squash Academy 

(PNSA) for players. He 

said that there should be 

accountability of officials 

at the academy as it has 

not provided results as 

expected. 

Stokes stars 

in England's 

domineering win 

M O U N T 

MAUNGANUI: Ben Stokes 

produced a starring allround 

performance in his 

second match back in the 

England fold to help level 

the ODI series. He helped 

seal a reasonably straightforward 

chase of 224 with a 

crisp 63 off 74 balls to follow 

two sharp run-outs, as 

part of an outstanding fielding 

display, and a brace of 

wickets. 

Stokes - who could have 

been run out on nought 

when Colin de 


KARACHI: On the cricket 

pitch, New Zealand's pace bowler 

fires with the ball. the 30-year-old 

right arm medium pacer wore a red 

fire helmet and save the lives of the 

people as a historic New Zealand 

landmark in his home town. 

Besides being a cricketer, 

Rance is also the Fire Brigade station 

officer at the Greytown. 

Speaking exclusively, Seth 

Rance said, "I’m not to sure of any 

other fireman and also international 

cricket player. If I am the 

first I am honoured. I enjoy helping 

people in need and helping our 

community when needed". 

"I have been a fire fighter since 

the age of 16. I am an officer in 

Simon Helmot appointed 

as Bangladesh batting 

coach for Nidahas 

Trophy in Sri Lanka 


KARACHI: Former 

Victoria (Australia) 

coach Simon Helmot has 

been appointed as a batting 

coach for the 

Bangladesh cricket team 

for the forthcoming trination 

series to be played 

in Sri Lanka for the 

Nidahas Trophy. 

According to the highly 

placed sources in the 

Bangladesh Cricket 

Board, Helmot was a 

club cricketer in 

Australia and was also 

part of the Bangladesh 

support staff during Sri 

Lanka's visit to the 

Bangladesh. 

The 46-year-old Sports Reporter camp to prepare the players 

Helmot played as a righthanded 

KARACHI: The 

for the upcoming ICC 

batsman for National Women’s Cricket Women Championship 

F i t z r o y - D o n c a s t e r , Selection Committee, Round 2 (Pakistan vs. Sri 

Hawthorn-Waverley in headed by Jalaluddin, has Lanka) in Sri Lanka. The 

the past. 

announced 21 probable camp will be held under 

In 2016, he was women players for the the supervision of head 

appointed as a High training camp commencing 

coach Mark Coles. 

Performance Coach in 

from February 28 to Pakistan Women’s team 

Bangladesh. Helmot has March 8 at National on the tour will feature in a 

extensive experience of Cricket Academy in three-match T-20I and ODI 

coaching sides including Lahore. 

series against Sri Lanka 

Sunrisers Hyderabad Pakistan Cricket Board Women’s team. 

team in India's IPL. (PCB) is organizing this Probable players: 

Grandhomme side-footed 

past the stumps in his follow-through 

LAHORE: The 

- and captain International Hockey 

Eoin Morgan added 88 in 15 Federation (FIH) on 

overs to break the back of Wednesday announced the 

the chase in Mount schedule of the Men’s 

Maunganui's first day-night Hockey World Cup 2018, 

ODI. Stokes, playing starting from November 28 

increasingly fluently, to December 16 in the 

reached his fifty from 54 

balls and gave a muted raise 

of the bat around the ground, 

before finishing the task 

Indian city of Bhubaneswar. 

Two matches will be 

played every day at 5:30pm 

and 7:30pm PST. Pakistan 

alongside Jos Buttler, who will face Germany on 

clubbed 36 off 20 balls. 

They won with more than 

more than 12 overs to spare. 

This was a victory set up 

in the field, by the fielding. 

Four run outs, equalling 

December 1. 

Sixteen teams will take to 

the field at the Kalinga 

Stadium in the race for the 

title. The teams have been 

split into four groups consisting 

England's most in an 

four teams. 

innings, and three fine catches 

keeping the pressure on 

New Zealand throughout. 

Rio 2016 Olympic champions 

Argentina (WR 2) will 

compete with New Zealand 

the Greytown brigade. We attended 

a fire yesterday in the local 

KARACHI: Chief Guest Regional Director Colleges Hyderabad Dr Imam Ali Beg gave 

Trophy to Manager of Bhitt Shah College Shereen Bhatti on the occasion of Shuhdai 

Kashmir inter collegiate Table Tennis Tournament, Perwez Ahmed Sheikh, Prof. 

Shahida Abro, Prof. Abdul Hameed also present. 

National Women’s Cricket Selection 

Committee announced 21 probables 

(WR 9), Spain (WR 8) and 

France (WR 18), while 

reigning world champions 

Australia (WR 1) take on 

England (WR 7), Ireland 

(WR 10) and China (WR 

17) in Pool B. 

Belgium (WR 3) will 

compete in Pool C alongside 

hosts India (WR 6), Canada 

(WR 11) and South Africa 

(WR 15). Pool D consists 

Netherlands, Germany, 

Pakistan and Malaysia. 

India will face South 

Africa in their opener on 

November 28 followed by 

Belgium on December 2 and 

Fire fighting cricketer enjoys challenges 

and loves working under pressure 

hotel. As first on scene we controlled 

the blaze with help of 7 

Bismah Maroof 

(Captain), Nahida Khan, 

Sidra Amin, Ayesha Zafar, 

Javeria Wadood, Irum 

Javed, Muniba Ali, 

Fareeha Mehmood, Sidra 

Nawaz, Sana Mir, Nida 

Dar, Kainat Imtiaz, Natalia 

Pervaiz, Waheeda Akhtar, 

Nashra Sandhu, Ghulam 

Fatima, Rameen Shamim, 

Diana Baig, Maham Tariq, 

Aiman Anwer, Anam 

Amin. 

Pakistan grouped with Netherlands, Germany 

and Malaysia for Hockey World Cup 2018 

Canada on December 8. A 

first-place finish in each 

pool will guarantee a berth 

in the quarterfinals, with the 

second and third place finishers 

in each pool needing 

to win a cross-over match, 

which will be played on 

Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 

December, in order to reach 

the last eight. 

The last eight fixtures 

will take place on 

Wednesday 12 and 

Thursday 13 December. 

Following a rest day on 

Friday 14 December, the 

event semifinals will be 

played on Saturday 15 

December, with the bronze 

medal and the showpiece 

Final scheduled for Sunday 

16 December. 

other fire trucks". 

Seth Rance, who is married, 

and have two children, enjoys 

playing cricket more than help 

extinguishing fire. 

"I enjoy being a cricket player 

more but also enjoy being a fire 

fighter. They both have challenges, 

especially working under 

pressure", he further added. 

Rance has played 2 ODIs' and 

4 T-20s. His last international 

appearances in ODI and T-20 

were against Bangladesh (at 

Dublin in May 2017) and Pakistan 

(Auckland, earluer this year). 

Rance, however, is being 

ignored from the New Zealand's 

ODI squad for the ongoing series 

against England.

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PAF raises a new multirole squadron 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Air 

Force achieved another milestone, 

as a new multirole squadron, 

equipped with Pakistan’s Pride JF- 

17 Thunder, was raised at PAF Base 

Samungli (Quetta) today. The 

squadron has been number plated as 

No 28 Multirole Squadron with the 

motto. A grand ceremony was held 

at the base to mark this historic 

event. Air Chief Marshal Sohail 

Aman, Chief of the Air Staff, 

Pakistan Air Force was the Chief 

Guest at the occasion. 

The Air Chief reviewed a smartly 

turned out guard of honour by the 

personnel of the Base. He awarded 

the squadron emblem to Wing 

Commander Amir Imran Cheema, 

Officer Commanding No 28 

Multirole Squadron. To make this 

event memorable, a four ship formation 

of JF-17 Thunders presented a 

fly past over the venue. 

Addressing at the occasion, the 

Air Chief said, “We totally understand 

the kind of conspiracies the 

enemies of Pakistan continue to 

hatch but our resolve is very firm and 

response very clear. We are peace 

loving nation but we do not want 

anybody to interfere into our airspace 

and territory. We have done 

whatever is humanly possible on 

fighting the menace of terrorism and 

Allah has rewarded our efforts by 

restoring peace in the country. 

Reversal is not an option for us”. The 

Air Chief further said, “From now 

ISLAMABAD: The that as per rules and regulations 

Supreme Court has directed 

of Lahore 

to prepare a road map for Development Authority 

the determination of standard 

(LDA) and Karachi 

and prices of medi- 

Development Authority 

cines and submit it. 

On Wednesday, a three 

(KDA) if application was 

not decided within 90 days, 

member bench of apex the map of the house of 

court headed by Chief building is automatically 

Justice (CJP) Mian Saqib 

Nisar has conducted the 

hearing of the suo motu 

considers approved. 

“Such clause is included 

in drug policy too. The 

case regarding price object of such clauses was 

increase of medicines. 

During the course of the 

hearing, CJP has observed 

to benefit the people adding 

that such clauses of drug 

policy would be declared 

null and void”, he added. 

CJP said that automatic 

increase in the prices of 

medicine is benefited to 

companies while people 

face loss. After fixed period, 

application would not 

be considered approved. 

On delay, Drug 

Regulatory Authority of 

Pakistan (DRAP) will be 

fined Rs 5000 on daily 

basis. People say that medicine 

is substandard and 

very costly. The patient 

purchase medicine and did 

SC directs govt to submit roadmap for 

prices of medicines today 

SC rejects petition against 

former PM Nawaz Sharif 


Supreme Court has dismissed 

the petition filed 

against Nawaz Sharif about 

powers of local bodies representatives 

on the basis of its 

ineffectiveness. 

A three-member bench of 

apex court headed by Chief 

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has 

conducted the hearing of the 

petition filed against Nawaz 

Sharif (then Prime Minister). 

The petitioner has adopted 

QUETTA: Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman Chief of the Air Staff , PAF along with the Officers during the inauguration 

ceremony of No 28 MRS at PAF Base Samungli. 

that orders to empower local 

bodies representatives have 

not been implemented. 

The CJ has observed while 

announcing the verdict that 

petition was about the elections 

of local bodies and now 

it has become ineffective. The 

CJ has conducted the inchamber 

hearing of petition 

about the accountability of top 

military bureaucracy and judiciary 

against the objections of 

registrar office. 

not get relief. People say 

that medicines are cheap in 

India. The businessmen 

would not face their financial 

loss but the ratio of 

profit should be suitable. 

DRAP should itself review 

where complication exist 

in its law and set the formula 

about the increase the 

prices of medicines and 

this process be completed 

within days. Companies 

would not approach 

towards courts if DRAP 

itself justify. 

Aasiya Andrabi pays homage 

to bravery of Hajin people 

SRINAGAR: The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat 

(DeM), Aasiya Andrabi, has paid homage to the people of 

Hajin for their bravery and determination towards the ongoing 

freedom movement. 

According to KMS, Aasiya Andrabi in a statement in 

Srinagar condemned the assertion of a senior officer of 

Indian police that action would be taken against those who 

participated in the funeral prayers of a youth martyred by 

Indian troops in Hajin and arranged his last rites. She said 

that it reflected the frustration of the puppet authorities. The 

DeM Chairperson said that people took the body of the slain 

youth after finding it lying on a street. Thousands of people 

later came out of their houses and in the form of a massive 

rally buried him in a local graveyard. 

on, No 28 MR Squadron, equipped 

with Pakistan’s Pride JF-17, has the 

responsibility of providing day and 

night aerial defence of the country 

especially along the western borders 

of Pakistan. I am confident that No 

28 Sqn would create the desired 

strategic balance in a most befitting 

manner. We want to maintain peace 

with honour in the region, especially 

during these uncertain and challenging 

times. I want to assure the 

nation that despite all odds, our 

resolve shall remain unshakable and 

we shall defend our motherland 

against any aerial aggression.” He 

further added, “Baluchistan is a 

great province and has significant 

value for all of us. Its people are 

friendly, loyal to the country and 

have always given their best for the 

development of this country. 

Some anti-Pakistan 

forces trying to halt 

CPEC: Ahsan 


Minister for Interior Ahsan 

Iqbal has said that some 

anti-Pakistan forces wanted 

to sabotage China Pakistan 

Economic Corridor project 

the credit went to Nawaz 

Sharif for initiating the 

CPEC besides other projects 

to achieve speedy 

progress and prosperity for 

the people of country, he 

said while talking to a private 

news channel. 

The Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz (PML-N) 

government would complete 

all ongoing development 

projects executed 

after 2013 elections, he 

said. 

The PML-N would win 

the next general election 

with majority and support 

of the people due to its performance, 

he added. 

He said it was unanimous 

decision of the 

party that Nawaz Sharif 

would lead the PML-N 

and Shehbaz Sharif 

would be the acting president 

of the party. 

The PML-N was fully 

united and it supported the 

decisions of Nawaz Sharif, 

he added. 

Ahsan said Shehbaz 

Sharif was very popular 

due to record development 

and welfare projects in the 

province. 

Pakistani Labourer Musharraf 

dies in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia 

TABUK: In the Salman 

Mohallah of Saudi Arabian 

city of Tabuk one Pakitani 

labourer was killed by 

falling from the third 

storey of a building. 

NEW DELHI: Actress 

Aditi Rao Hydari says time 

is luxury and that she 

believes in living in the 

moment. 

"Time is a real luxury 

and it's the only thing that 

keeps moving and the only 

thing you have to grab and 

make the most of. So, I really 

believe in living in the 

moment and giving my 100 

per cent to that moment," 

Aditi told IANS. 

Aditi unveiled the new 

collection, inspired by 

Britain, of watch brand 

Swatch last week. 

Talking about it, she 

said: "I love London and I 

always pick that as a holiday 

spot so I feel it is a fun collection." 

But at a time when 

everyone has a mobile 

phone to see time, why is 

there a need for wrist 

watches? 

"Because it's so beautiful. 

I think wrist watches are 

so much fun and they are so 

personal. It's something that 

According to Saudi 

media reports that due to 

the imbalance of Saqala 

during working hours out 

of three labourers one 

Musharraf Khan fell and 

you wear on yourself all the 

time and it's really an extension 

of your personality... I 

died while two others 

remained safe. Musharraf 

Khan belonged to the 

Pakistani city of Bannu 

and he was in Saudi Arabia 

for a long time. 

I believe in living in the 

moment: Aditi Rao Hydari 

KARACHI: J. launched its Spring 

Summer Collection 2018 at Dolmen Mall 

Clifton. The Collection titled 

I S L A M A B A D : forms of calligraphy by 

President Mamnoon young calligraphers 

Hussain said the nations showed that cultural 

promoting their cultural 

heritage remained successful 

legacy of Muslims was 

being transferred from 

in all fields of one generation to the 

life. Speaking at the closing 

other and the artistic 

ceremony of Abdul expressions by the 

Majeed Parveen Raqam young Pakistani practitioners 

Youth Calligraphy 

was a reflection 

Competition, he said severing 

ties with heritage 

leads to lagging behind 

among comity of nations. 

The president said the 

exhibition of different 

of this bright cultural 

heritage. 

The president appreciated 

the strenuous efforts 

of National History and 

Literary Division under 

wear the watch like a piece 

of jewellery on myself so I 

love watches," she said. 

J. launched spring summer 

collection 2018 volume 1 

the inspiring leadership 

of Adviser to the Prime 

#RungHumSeHain features a fresh fusion 

of traditional ethnic style with a clash of 

contemporary baroque and realistic floral 

designs. 

Keeping in line with the theme, the 

collection features fresh new color 

palettes in both unstitched and stitched 

pret wear. #RungHumSeHainVolume 1 

will be available in J. stores nationwide as 

well as online. 

About the Brand: In 2002 J. became 

the first major fashion brand to cast no 

model in their campaigns. We as a brand 

believed that everything starts at home 

and wanted to be a brand that deeply connects 

with its culture. Be trendy yet modest 

or call it a Contemporary style culture! 

Today the move comes as modest fashion! 

As it has gained momentum and is 

supported by changing industry values 

towards the representation of women of 

different background and ethnicities. 

Nations fostering cultural heritage remain successful: President 

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain visiting “Abdul 

Majeed Parveen Raqam” Youth Calligraphy Exhibition. 

Minister Irfan Siddiqui 

for revival of this art. 

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