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Saturday, <strong>March</strong> 3, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Metropolitan<br />
SHC turns down Sharjeel’s bail<br />
application in ‘Rs5.76bn Scam’<br />
KARACHI: The Sindh High<br />
Court on Friday turned down bail<br />
plea of former provincial minister<br />
Sharjeel Inam Memon in a case<br />
pertaining to the Rs5.76 billion<br />
corruption in the Sindh information<br />
department.<br />
A two-judge bench headed by<br />
Justice Iqbal Ahmed Kalhoro<br />
rejected the request of bail of<br />
Memon and other accused and<br />
maintained that accused have filed<br />
bail applications after the arrest<br />
and, if they want, can approach<br />
the apex court in this connection.<br />
The lawyers of the Memon<br />
filed the bail application on health<br />
grounds.His counsel Advocate<br />
Sardar Latif Khosa requested the<br />
bench to hear Mr Memon’s bail<br />
application at an earlier date<br />
SZABIST Karachi organizes ‘Career Fair <strong>2018</strong>’<br />
telling the judges that the former<br />
minister had not been provided<br />
due medical facilities in jail.<br />
The Pakistan Peoples Party<br />
leader and 11 others were arrested<br />
in October outside the Sindh High<br />
Court after their interim bail pleas<br />
were revoked in a case pertaining<br />
to corruption of Rs5.76 billion in<br />
the information department.<br />
The PPP leader along with former<br />
provincial information secretary,<br />
other officials of the information<br />
departments and heads of different<br />
advertisement agencies was<br />
booked by the National<br />
Accountability Bureau for embezzlement<br />
of Rs5,766,479,766 purportedly<br />
paid to seven advertising<br />
agencies for awareness campaigns<br />
from 2013 to 2015.<br />
Govt provides funding<br />
for 50,000 unemployed<br />
students annually<br />
KARACHI: Executive which participated in the GulAhmed Textiles, Habib O l i v e d i g i t a l / g o t o ,<br />
Development Center (EDC) eventincludeAdamjee Life Metropolitan Bank, Omnicom Media Group<br />
Department of SZABIST Assurance, AGP Limited, Hashwani Group, Hilal (manhattan international),<br />
(Karachi), organized Career AIESEC, Al Baraka Bank Confectionery (Pvt.) Ltd, Pakistan Mercantile<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
Fair<br />
<strong>2018</strong>from (Pakistan) Limited, Aman HRSG Outsourcing, Hum Exchange Limited, Pakistan<br />
14thFebruary to Foundation, Bank Alhabib, Networks, Human Capital State Oil (PSO), Pharmevo,<br />
16thFebruary <strong>2018</strong> at the Binary Vibes, Blitz, BMA HR Solutions, IBM PREMIER Group, Prime<br />
University Campus in Capital, Brand Edge, China Pakistan, Icon group, ICS HR, Professional<br />
which over seventy (70) Overseas Ports Holding Pvt. Group, IFFCO Pakistan, Employers Private Limited<br />
national and multinational Ltd, CitiBank, Cloud BPO InterwoodMobel, ITCODE, (PEOPLE), Rastek<br />
organizations participated. & Robotics Labs, J & P Coats Pakistan Technologies Pvt Ltd, SGS,<br />
During the three-day Career CONZEPT CONNEC- (Private) Limited, A.A. Joy Sindh Education<br />
Fair, more than 600 students TION – PAKISTAN, Daraz Land, JS Bank, Kinetics, Foundation, TCF, TCS E-<br />
including our alumni, final Group, EMI (Pakistan) Ltd, Leopards Courier, Com Private Limited,<br />
year students of graduate English Biscuit Logicose, MarkematicsPvt Tectonic Pvt Ltd, The Aga<br />
and postgraduate level submitted<br />
Manufacturers, ePlanet Ltd, Master Group, Meezan Khan University, Team A<br />
their application for Communications (Pvt) Ltd, Bank Ltd, Multinet Pakistan Ventures, TPL Corp Ltd,<br />
employment, training and Fancy Group of Companies, Private Limited, National U&I Garments Pvt Limited<br />
internship. TapalDanedar Faysal Bank, Gadoon Data Consultants (Pvt) Ltd, (JunaidJamshed / Almirah),<br />
was one of the major sponsor<br />
Textile Mills Limited, NOWPDP, Nizam Energy, Vibrant Minds and<br />
of event. Organizations General Tyres, Groupm, OBS<br />
Pharma, WavetecPvt<br />
Ltd.<br />
‘Tree cover should be increased in big cities<br />
like Karachi to improve climate, environment’<br />
KARACHI: There is a<br />
need to train and provide<br />
basic information to concerned<br />
public, volunteers,<br />
and non-governmental<br />
organizations about methods<br />
to do plantation drive in<br />
Karachi for securing best<br />
results to maximally increase<br />
tree cover in the city.<br />
This was stated by<br />
prominent horticultural<br />
expert Toufeeq Pasha while<br />
speaking at a training seminar<br />
on plantation drive conducted<br />
jointly by National<br />
Forum for Environment and<br />
Health (NFEH) and Saylani<br />
Welfare Trust the other day.<br />
Mr. Pasha said on the<br />
occasion that just planting a<br />
tree sapling was not enough<br />
as one who participated in<br />
KARACHI: Renowned<br />
Poet, Literary Figure, Naat<br />
Khawan and Ex-Director<br />
Information Sindh Memon<br />
Roshan Tabassum’s Poetry<br />
Collection Book, Naatia<br />
CD’s and Monthly Saroopa<br />
Magazine Award 2017<br />
Ceremony was held in the<br />
Auditorium of National<br />
Museum of Pakistan here.<br />
President Karachi Rotary<br />
Dr. Mazar Imam, Senior<br />
Education Officer Kishwar<br />
Fatima, Ex Director<br />
Information A. B. Memon,<br />
Shehnaz Noor Qureshi,<br />
Social Figure Akram<br />
Bhatti, Social, Political and<br />
Religious figures attended<br />
the ceremony.<br />
the plantation drive should<br />
fully take care of the<br />
sapling planted by him or<br />
her till the time it became a<br />
fully grown tree.<br />
He said that decreasing<br />
forest cover in Pakistan was<br />
one major reason behind less<br />
rain spells in the country as<br />
more the greenery existed in<br />
any country, the more it<br />
would receive rain instances.<br />
KARACHGI: Workers use heavy machinery to remove the<br />
container that over turned at Native Jetty Bridge due to<br />
over speeding.<br />
He said that plantation<br />
drives should be conducted<br />
in Pakistan in full view of<br />
the peculiar seasonal<br />
requirements as local<br />
species of plants should be<br />
used in such drives. While<br />
useless foreign plant species<br />
like Conocarpus Erectus<br />
should be discouraged in<br />
such plantation drives, said<br />
the horticultural expert.<br />
Addressing the<br />
Launching and Award<br />
Ceremony, the President<br />
Rotary Dr. Manzar<br />
Imam while high lighted<br />
the work of Memon<br />
Roshan Tabassum in various<br />
fields through his writings<br />
and poetry, raised the<br />
voice of common men at<br />
every level. She played a<br />
effective vote in every<br />
capacity she holds even<br />
during her service tenure in<br />
Government Department,<br />
she had contributed a lot<br />
KU extends LLM<br />
examination forms<br />
submission schedule<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KARACHI: KU<br />
Controller of Examinations<br />
has notified that the examinations<br />
form and fees for<br />
LLM Previous and Final<br />
Annual Examinations 2017<br />
will be accepted from 5th<br />
<strong>March</strong> to 8th <strong>March</strong>, <strong>2018</strong> at<br />
their respective colleges with<br />
the examination fees of Rs.<br />
10,300/= (for each part) and<br />
late fees of Rs. 500/= (Total<br />
Rs. 10,800/-). All those candidates<br />
who were registered<br />
in 2011 or earlier and want to<br />
appear at B.A Annual<br />
External Examinations 2017<br />
can appear by paying Rs.<br />
5000/= as extra charges in<br />
addition to the normal examination<br />
fee.<br />
Seminar on ‘Understanding through<br />
Writings of Mubarak Ali’ at KU<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KARACHI: A seminar on<br />
“Understanding History<br />
through Writings of Mubarak<br />
Ali” was organized under IR<br />
discussion group under department<br />
of Int’l Relations,<br />
University of Karachi.<br />
Dr Naeem Ahmed,<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
International Relations delivered<br />
the welcome speech and<br />
explained his views on Dr<br />
Mubarak Ali’s writings as comprehensively<br />
written and easy to<br />
understand adding that Dr Ali is<br />
critical as well as analytical in<br />
his writings. “History was not<br />
only about people and events<br />
rather it was a wider discourse<br />
to ponder upon”, Dr Naeem<br />
added. Dr Irfan Aziz, Asst.<br />
Professor at Federal Urdu<br />
University elucidated how Dr.<br />
Mubarak took the narrative to<br />
his reader which is an art that he<br />
masters. Dr Aziz unfolded the<br />
reality before the audience as<br />
how number of people who<br />
read books/newspapers was<br />
rapidly shrinking with the evolution<br />
of smart phones and<br />
social media which was responsible<br />
in giving us the information<br />
that is highly questionable<br />
and lacks credibility.<br />
Memon Roshan Tabassum’s launching of poetry book,<br />
Naatia CD’s and Saroopa Award 2017, ceremony held<br />
and did justice with every<br />
task and assignment<br />
through she had activity<br />
participated in social political<br />
forum and also did<br />
work as Naatia Poetry too.<br />
Dr. Mazar Imam also<br />
lauded her services, has<br />
said that Ms. Memon<br />
through a high officer in<br />
government department,<br />
being a working lady, she<br />
taught her children as good<br />
mother good wife and recognized<br />
herself at every<br />
level. He hoped that she<br />
would continue to use his<br />
work for the betterment<br />
development and flourish<br />
the healthy activities in<br />
future too.<br />
KARACHI: Federal<br />
Additional Secretary NIP M<br />
Ashraf said that now days<br />
students don’t have working<br />
experience after doing<br />
Bachelors and Masters but<br />
first requirement of any job is<br />
experience. Government of<br />
Pakistan has initiated<br />
National Internship Program<br />
to bridge this gap for youth<br />
which worth 23 billion and<br />
for three years. Government<br />
provides funding for 50,000<br />
unemployed students graduates<br />
every year for this program.Around<br />
47 percent students<br />
get jobs right after the<br />
internship. He was expressing<br />
his views at the certificate<br />
distribution ceremony of<br />
National Internship Program<br />
at Arts Auditorium,<br />
University of Karachi. He<br />
thanked Vice Chancellor Dr.<br />
Ajmal Khan and Registrar<br />
KU for their support and<br />
assured to convince VC KU<br />
and Federal Secretary to provide<br />
internships to KU<br />
unemployed graduates at<br />
KU. KU is biggest university<br />
so its student deserve such<br />
opportunities and we will<br />
provide funding for that.<br />
KARACHI: There is a need of<br />
strategic alignment in Pakistan among<br />
Federal Education Ministry, Federal<br />
Higher Education Commission,<br />
provincial HECs and universities.<br />
Pakistani universities have been<br />
advised to; in line their strategic plans<br />
with the national policy of ‘Vision<br />
2025’. Ministry of Federal Education<br />
& Professional training and Higher<br />
Education Commission (HEC) should<br />
KARACHI: A view of a broken nullah at Punjab Chorangi<br />
hindering the smooth flow of traffic which requires attention<br />
of the authorities concerned.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Central, Rehan Hashmi<br />
inspecting green belt around Liaquatabad flyover.<br />
Gen Bajwa hails Sindh<br />
Rangers’ performance<br />
KARACHI: Pakistani<br />
mother and noted woman<br />
scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui is<br />
witnessing her another birthday<br />
in illegal detention and<br />
counting, but the Pakistani<br />
government has just ignored<br />
her case, said Aafia<br />
Movement Pakistan leader<br />
and noted neurophysician of<br />
the country, Dr Fowzia<br />
Siddiqui here Friday.<br />
In a statement, she said<br />
<strong>March</strong> 02 is the birthday of<br />
Aafia, which like her previous<br />
14 birthdays is observing<br />
in detention. She said<br />
Aafia is away from her family<br />
and languishing in the<br />
foreign prison, because the<br />
government of her country is<br />
showing apathy to raise her<br />
case on governmental level.<br />
She said there were many<br />
opportunities to seek her<br />
repartition, but our rulers<br />
dragged feet and they did<br />
KARACHI: Army chief<br />
Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa<br />
hailed the Sindh Rangers<br />
in maintaining the law and<br />
order situation in Karachi.<br />
During a visit to Corps<br />
headquarters and Malir<br />
Garrison, he said that<br />
peace in the metropolitan<br />
city was vital to the security<br />
and stability of Pakistan<br />
He said that efforts will<br />
continue to be made to further<br />
improve the law and<br />
order situation in the<br />
province. At Corps headquarters,<br />
the army chief<br />
was briefed on the security<br />
situation in the province,<br />
especially in Karachi. The<br />
not talk to the US administration<br />
and also did not send<br />
official letter in this regard.<br />
Dr Fowzia said that <strong>March</strong><br />
02 is also a festival day in<br />
Texas, USA, but the Pakistani<br />
embassy in the US is not<br />
sending birthday wish to<br />
Aafia, and nor taking efforts<br />
to arrange her meeting with<br />
her family. She reminded that<br />
army chief was also updated<br />
about the operational<br />
preparedness of the<br />
Karachi Corps. While<br />
addressing officers at<br />
Malir Garrison, Gen<br />
Bajwa praised the officers<br />
for the professional excellence<br />
towards defence and<br />
security of the country.<br />
Aafia Siddiqui observes another birthday<br />
in prison, as mum of rulers continue<br />
KARACHI: Children are cutting a cake on the occasion of<br />
birthday of Dr Aafia Siddiqui organized by Aafia<br />
Movement outside Karachi Press Club.<br />
the Pakistani government had<br />
given the US embassy in<br />
Pakistan full access to killer<br />
Raymond Davis. She said the<br />
Pakistani government was<br />
also generous enough to take<br />
care of the human rights of<br />
Indian spy Kulbushan, but it<br />
does not remember the daughter<br />
of the nation, Aafia, and<br />
her human rights.<br />
KARACHI: Members of Joint Employees Action Committee of Pakistan are protesting<br />
against privatization of steel outside Karachi Press Club.<br />
Pakistan is far behind in doctoral education<br />
from the world: Dr Munir Hussain<br />
develop an educational policy<br />
‘Educational Vision 2025’ in line with<br />
national policy of ‘Vision 2025’.<br />
These recommendations have been<br />
made in a research paper on “Macrolevel<br />
analysis of Doctoral Education<br />
in Pakistan” which has been written<br />
by Director, Quality Enhancement<br />
cell, (QEC) Mohammad Ali Jinnah<br />
University, Karachi Dr. Munir<br />
Hussain recently. The paper was read<br />
in seminar held at Agha Khan<br />
Medical University, Karachi.<br />
According to this research paper the<br />
countries which have highest number<br />
of doctoral graduates are USA, (67,<br />
4490) Germany, (28,147) UK,<br />
(25,020) and India (24,300) in a single<br />
calendar year. Rather in Pakistan<br />
around 163 universities have produced<br />
over 11,528 doctoral graduates<br />
in past 71 years.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Mohammad Baloch<br />
along with Municipal Commissioner, Imran Aslam praying<br />
after inaugurating construction project of Naik<br />
Mohammad Community Centre at UC-09.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DCK, Salman Abdullah presiding<br />
meeting with the municipal officers on performance.<br />
KARACHI: Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Nayyar Raza<br />
inspecting ongoing development works of municipal<br />
facilities at various zones.