7 April 2018

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Fire breaks out in Multan
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI
EDITORIAL
Is a piece of land called Kashmir more important,
or human rights without misery for Kashmiris?
ANOTHER Kashmir Day went by with its
usual annual protests and speeches, for and
against both India and Pakistan in respective
countries, raising usual claims and counter claims,
but an issue called Kashmir remains unresolved since
last seven decades. Needless to say, both nuclear
states must resolve it, and fulfil constitutional rights
of their nations, developing and advancing everything
and everyone by beating poverty and militarism,
to create a best life with peace, not a delusional
living with wars.
ANALYSTS believed that among best solutions
for worst problem between India and Pakistan is for
both countries to relinquish their claim on Kashmir,
for India to let their “occupied Kashmir” be governed
like Pakistani part of Kashmir is governed, with its
own almost free and independent government.
IDEAL though it may be from Kashmiri viewpoint,
it seems almost impossible for both the
Kashmirs of these two countries to unite, with a new
country created without dependence on either India
or Pakistan, or free from monopoly and manipulation
by any one or the other side.
INDEPENDENT geo-political experts, civil
rights and human liberties organs and war (renamed
“defense”) analysts on international media and world
affairs have a lot to say on “why Kashmir issue” continues
and won’t be resolved in any short or medium
term foreseeable time, and this writing delves into it,
with problems known, but solutions not dared to be
thought or made known, much less implemented.
KASHMIR, India insists, is a bilateral issue with
Pakistan, and therefore it has exhausted all national
and international channels to frustrate Pakistani
attempts on national or international level not to have
any crisis centered around Kashmir, described as
“jugular vein” of Pakistan, or to be resolved with its
own defied might. Pakistan could not involve and
settle this Kashmir issue through any third party,
superpower, big power, European Union, or any
other association of countries, like the NATO, of
which Pakistan itself was a member. Pakistan has
failed in international diplomacy in strongly presenting
its Kashmir case at the International “Criminal”
Court charging Indian leaders against Kashmiri
genocide, nor could Pakistan lobby enough, post
9/11, or in having resolutions of the United Nations
Organization, which India violates internationally
and does not obey, implemented. As a phrase goes
India “got away with murder” and Pakistan could not
prosecute any of the lacs of Kashmir killings at an
available ICC forum nor anywhere else. Pakistan can
try all afore mentioned possibilities, and fail, rather
than not try at all. Maybe it can achieve at least a relative
success to further build upon, if it tries.
By Ishaan Tharoor
The Donald Trump administration’s schizophrenic
messaging around Syria has only got
more confusing in recent days. As some of the
war’s biggest outside players jockeyed in Ankara,
reports indicated that the United States is building two
new military bases in northern Syria. About 2,000 US
troops are stationed there in support of Kurdish and
Arab militias allied with Washington. Daesh is in
retreat, driven from the vast majority of the territory it
once commanded, but military commanders and government
officials speak of staying the course and stabilising
areas once controlled by the terrorists.
However, US President Donald Trump has made
no secret of his personal eagerness to wind down
American military commitments in the Middle East.
At a rally in Ohio last week, he gloated about “knocking
the hell out of Daesh” and added that “we’ll be
coming out of Syria, like, very soon”. Then, at a White
House news conference on Tuesday, he lamented that
the country had got “nothing out of $7 trillion [spent]
in the Middle East over the last 17 years” — a suspect
measurement of the cost of the US war effort in Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere. “I want to get out,” Trump
said of Syria. “I want to bring our troops back home.”
Trump, of course, is liable to change his mind at
any time — or simply not follow through on his
proclamations. After all, he has bemoaned the seemingly
endless (and fruitless) American involvement in
Afghanistan, yet presided over a troop increase there
last year. Trump’s transactional view of things also
tends to dominate his thinking. He reiterated last week
that Arab countries should compensate the US for its
military presence in the region, as if American troops
were almost mercenaries for hire.
On Wednesday, though, it seemed that Trump had
made a clear decision following a meeting with top
officials in his administration. A White House statement
confirmed that the “military mission ... in Syria
is coming to a rapid end, with Daesh being almost
completely destroyed”. It added that the US and its
allies would “remain committed to eliminating the
small Daesh presence in Syria that our forces have not
already eradicated”. But it left the matter of building
OPINION
SUMMARILY, the long and the short of it is that,
with all the human casualties and material damages,
inside and outside Kashmir, neither India nor
Pakistan could really solve this problem, through
force or talks. Prolongation of Kashmir problem may
be for obvious reasons recalled above, and due to
some more factors, lesser or well known to specialists,
now abreast with electronic media developments
on international affairs.
PAKISTAN’s policy on Kashmir, it is claimed by
some analysts wrongly or rightly, has at times benefited
India more. It did not bring brimming grace to
Pakistan's cup. India made it appear like Pakistan
wanted more land but did not care for life of
Kashmiri people. Indian Army and Central Reserve
Police kill, injure, and torture Kashmiris against what
is called as law breaker opposition. Indian Muslims
are oppressed in many Indian cities and states more
or less like they're oppressed in Kashmir, but
Pakistani leaders mostly condemned oppression over
Kashmiris, for known reasons of water supply etc
said to flow from Kashmir into Pakistan.
POLICIES of both India and Pakistan could not
stop killings, injuries, maiming, torture, rapes and
illegitimate children in Kashmir, nor were helpful in
having finally resolved Kashmir issue as per wishes
of Kashmiris on which Pakistan rightly emphasizes
upon, and justly supports through diplomatic channels.
This policy must be renewed to reflect more
practical and genuine help with undue strings from
any side for Kashmiris, and for especially Pakistan to
decrease India’s killing, injuring, arrests, torture, kidnappings,
rapes, extra-judicial orders, imprisonment
without charges or trials, etc. All this is rightly or
wrongly assumed not to have been done by Pakistan,
though the fact is that Pakistan has tried, but may be
not enough, to help and ease continued pain and miseries
of Kashmiri Muslims since 70 years past from
creation of Pakistan ion 14 August 1947 up to now,
partly because of India's wider reach and influence
on political and diplomatic fronts worldwide.
MEANTIME, contrary accounts believed
Pakistan did everything it could, but reality of
breakup of India and carving of Pakistan itself has
made Indian forces cruel upon Muslims in India in
general, and against ever protesting Kashmiri
Muslims in particular. Such continued crisis in
Kashmir is an ideological defeat for Pakistan for a
simple reason that Hindu India’s violence on
Kashmir Muslims may be attributed to Muslims’
breaking an undivided India and creating a new
country called Pakistan based on religion which must
have pursued a policy with minimum casualties to
Kashmiri Muslims, which remained an impossible
dream up to now.
Can America really quit Syria?
Trump seems to care more about winning his war than building long-lasting peace
peace in the country in the hands of other actors: “We
expect countries in the region and beyond, plus the
United Nations, to work towards peace and ensure that
Daesh never re-emerges.”
“In some ways, Trump has split the difference
between his own desire for a quick exit and military
concerns about leaving a vacuum in Syria,” my colleague
Karen DeYoung wrote. “By ordering a ‘conditions-based’
departure, pegged to [Daesh] destruction,
but not giving a date, he has left wiggle-room for further
discussion as to what that ‘destruction’ means.”
But the White House’s rhetoric still seemed to contradict
the statements of senior US officials involved in
the anti-Daesh fight, who show no signs that they plan
to leave soon. General Joseph Votel, the head of US
Central Command, told a gathering at the US Institute
of Peace in Washington that the “hard part” in Syria “is
in front of us”. He referred to “stabilising these areas,
consolidating our gains, getting people back into their
homes, [and] addressing the long-term issues of reconstruction
and other things that will have to be done”,
adding that “there is a military role in this”.
Brett McGurk, the US State Department’s special
envoy to the anti-Daesh coalition, concurred. “We’re
not finished,” he said at the same event. “And we have
to work through some very difficult issues as we
speak.”
These difficult issues include the dizzying complexity
of bringing the broader war in Syria to an end.
On Wednesday, the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran
met in Ankara in the latest round of talks over Syria’s
future. Turkey, once a vociferous opponent of Syrian
President Bashar Al Assad, has seen the tide of the
war tilt against its interests and is trying to find common
cause with Al Assad’s chief patrons. The Turks
are also furious over continued American support to
Syrian Kurdish factions operating along their border.
Given the tough realities of the Syrian war,
Trump can’t be blamed for wanting to extract the
US from the country once Daesh has been pronounced
dead. But a host of Trump allies have
urged Trump to be patient and resolute. The
Washington foreign-policy establishment is also
wary of quitting the fight too soon.
MULTAN: Smoke rises from the fire which erupted in a local shopping plaza due to
unknown reasons in Multan Cantonment area.
MULTAN: Goods costing
millions of rupees have
been burnt into ashes in a
major fire that broke out in a
department store in Multan
on Friday morning.
Fourteen vehicles of fire
brigade department are taking
part in the operation to
extinguish the blaze in
Cantonment Bazar.
No loss of life has been
One kills, 27 injured in road accident
Our Correspondent coach heading to Muhammad, Hameed,
SHIKARPUR: One Peshawar collided with a Khalid, Hazrat Umar,
commuter was killed fast moving wagon, it was Zakir Khan, Imran,
while at least 27 passengers
going for Sukkur from Bukhtiar, Jan Muhammad
sustained severe Kandhkot, owing to over and others sustained grave
wounds in a collision took speed, which resulting, wounds.
place between commuter one passenger identified Rescue teams immediately
coach and passenger as Kamran Mahar, of 30,
shifted the injured
wagon beside Khanpur said to be a wagon driver, and dead body to Civil
town at Indus highway due killed and 27 other passengers
Hospital Shikarpur and
to over speeding in the
including five women Taluka Hospital Khanpur
limits of Faizo Police identified as Mst Salman, for medical attention and advanced
Station, some 40 kilometers
away from here, on
Friday.
Mst Tajul, Mst Rukhsana,
Mst, Jahahir, Mst Shazia
and Saifullah, Bhaghial,
postmortem of deceased
and handed over the body
of deceased to his relatives
According to police, a Azmatullah, Ghulam after completing necessary
fast moving commuter Akbar, Farman, Gul medical formalities.
State of art incinerator to be
installed in Holy Family Hospital
RAWALPINDI: The
Holy Family Hospital
Administration has decided
to install a state of art
mobile Incinerator to safely
destroy the hospital waste.
According to media
reports Rs 50 million worth
incinerator in this regard
has been purchased from
France with the help of
United Nations
Organization (UNO).
The new incinerator will
be installed, during this
moth where it has the
capacity to safely destroy
150 kg hospital waste in
only one hour.
Hospital waste from
Benazir Bhutto Hospital
and District Headquarter
Hospital will also be burnt
here.
According to the
Hospital Administration the
Holy Family hospital produces
around 250 kg,
Benazir Bhutto Hospital
200 kg and DHQ Hospital
150 Kg of Hospital waste
on daily basis.
Meanwhile Hospital
waste from private hospital
will be also burned down
here, they said.
Nawaz shoe attackers get bail
LAHORE: A local court
on Friday granted bail to
three accused involved in
shoe attack on former prime
minister Nawaz Sharif at
Chinese engineers
found guilty for fight with
policemen in Khanewal
KHANEWAL: The
Chinese engineers, who
had a brawl with policemen
a couple of days ago
in Kabirwala, has been
found at fault, according to
the inquiry.
On April 4, a fight
broke out between police
officials and Chinese engineers
after the latter
attempted to leave camp
without security in
Kabirwala, Khanewal.
The engineers, are
working on a motorway
project in Khanewal,
attacked a police mobile
van and cut off electricity
supply to the police camp.
The engineers wrote a
letter to PM Abbasi in
which they claimed that
their lives were in danger
due to the presence of
security officials.
The letter claimed that
Chinese engineers attempted
to leave camp for work
purposes but were stopped
and assaulted by police.
Jamia Naeemia.
The judge while granting
bail to all three accused
asked them to furnish surety
bonds of Rs100,000 each.
I S L A M A B A D :
Farmers across the country
should worry about
more frequent and intense
dust storms which could
disturb harvesting and
threshing of Rabi crops
and sowing of the next
Earlier on March 11, an
Islamic seminary students
were arrested for hurling a
shoe at Nawaz Sharif.
The incident occurred
when the former premier
reached Jamia Naeemia to
address a function organised
by the seminary.
The shoe hurling was
broadcast live on TV channels.
The perpetrator then
jumped onto the stage
where Sharif was standing
and began chanting before
he was overpowered by the
crowd and was handed over
to police.
Kharif crops, says the
National Weather
Forecasting Centre.
Heat waves are expected
to affect major cities
during April and May, it
said. The temperature will
rise 1-2°C. This will speed
reported but a worker sustained
minor burn injuries
during evacuation.
“Our first responders
conveyed a message that it
was a fire of third degree
after which deputed all the
fire engines to extinguish
the blaze,” said a Fire
Brigade official.
“Firefighting is underway
from front and back sides.
Many nearby buildings
have been evacuated.”
“Another problem we
have to encounter is that
grocery and cooking items
specially oil were kept in the
store due to which fire was
still raging,” said another
official. Army troops have
also been called to help put
out the fire. The cause of fire
is yet to be ascertained.
SIUs to be set
up in police
stations at IBD
ISLAMABAD: The
Inspector General (IG)
Federal Police (FP) Sultan
Azam Temuri has ordered
to establish Specialized
Investigation Units (SIUs)
in 22 Police station of
Federal Capital to investigate
cases with more
scientific
approaches.
During the first phase of
collective forums in FP the
selection of investigation
officer will be made cautiously
while once an officer
is trained will be
appointed for two years in
respective unit.
Inspector of the Police
will be the head of unit
while deployment of personnel
in each unit will be
done in proportion to number
of police officers who
have remained posted in
the respective police station
for five years.
MTP badly fails
to contain traffic
accidents
ISLAMABAD: MTP has
badly failed to contain the
accidents due to speedier
driving. Yesterday two persons
including an unidentified
girl have breathed their
last in different accidents.
On Islamabad
Expressway in the limit of
Thana Sehala a recklessly
driven car No. ADB 701 hit
Tunwir s/o Sher Akhtar
killing him on the spot.
Later on police has taken
the car into custody and
shifted the body to hospital.
On other hand in the area
of Thana Tarnol a fast moving
dumper hit and killed an
unknown girl and her body
was shifted to hospital.
Weather forecast: Dust storms,
heat waves in April, May
up snowmelt in the
Northern Areas and lead to
more water flows in the
Indus and Jhelum Rivers.
In the winter, we got
20-25% less snowfall than
average and it happened in
February and early March.
CHINIOT: A nomad family going towards their next destiny on motorcycle rickshaw.
ONLINE PHOTO by Malik Muhammad Ali