17 Oct 2018

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'Mission Parwaz' 

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National: 

NHA showcases 

76 vehicles in 

first phase 

of auction 

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OIC warns 

Australia over 

Jerusalem 

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OIC’s Ministers elect 

Pakistan as member 

Water Council 

CAIRO: The 

Conference of the OIC 

Ministers for Water elected 

Pakistan as Member to the 

OIC Water Council for two 

years tenure, 2019-2020. 

Pakistan was also elected 

as Vice Chairman to the 

ICMW (Islamic Conference 

of Ministers Responsible 

for Water) Bureau. In his 

statement to the plenary session, 

Ambassador of 

Pakistan to Egypt, Mushtaq 

Ali Shah, highlighted the 

importance that the government 

of Prime Minister 

Imran Khan attached to sustainable 

water management 

and conservation and reaffirmed 

the desire of 

Pakistan to share its expertise 

and experience with the 

brotherly Islamic countries. 

NA session 

summoned on request 

of opposition today 

ISLAMABAD: The 

NA session that was convened 

on the requisition 

of Opposition parties will 

be held today. 

The matter of Arrest of 

opposition leader Shehbaz 

Sharif will be discussed in 

the session that is set to 

take place at 11:00 am. 

Pakistan, Russia 

to hold military 

drills in Pabbi 

ROSTOV-ON-DON: 

Russian-Pakistani military 

drills "Friendship 2018" 

will be held in the mountains 

of Pakistan from 

October 21 until 

November 4, head of the 

Russian Southern Military 

District Vadim Astafyev 

told reporters on Tuesday. 

The joint drills of units of 

the Russian and Pakistani 

armed forces 'Friendhsip 

2018' will be held from 

October 21 until 

November 4 at the training 

range of the National 

Counter-Terrorist Center 

in Pakistan's Pabbi. 

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister 

Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced 

that the federal government has decided to 

conduct an audit of power plants set-up by 

the previous government led by the Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). 

The information minister also clarified 

that no decision regarding a hike in power 

tariffs was taken during the Economic 

Coordination Committee (ECC) meeting. 

“Federal Minister for Energy Umar Ayub is 

out of town and a decision will be taken during 

the next ECC meeting,” he added. 

Chauhdry also stated that the premier 

will take the nation into confidence regarding 

all matters soon. “Pakistan’s future is 

bright and there will be good news soon.” 

Commenting on the by-polls that were 

held on October 14, the information minister 

stated, “The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 

KARACHI EDITION – Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Safar 7, 1440 

ECC defers decision 

on hike in power tariff 

Audit of power plants established by PML-N 

govt to be conducted: Minister for Information 

LONDON: Inter Pakistan. The world should 

Services Public Relations acknowledge Pakistan’s 

(ISPR) Director General unrivalled sacrifices in 

(DG) Major General Asif 

Ghafoor on Tuesday stated 

that without restoring peace 

in Pakistan there would be 

no peace in the world and 

region. 

WoT”, Gen Ghafoor was 

quoted as saying. 

DG ISPR added that the 

dream of restoring lasting 

peace in region and world 

can’t be achieved without 

Ghafoor made these the cooperation of 

remarks in his address to Islamabad. He stated, 

participants of Yorkshire 

University. 

“Al-Qaeda [a terrorist 

multi-national organization 

“Washington must stay in 

Afghanistan till situation 

turns normal”. 

Major General Ghafoor 

would not have been defeated 

continued, “The world 

without military and should be thankful to 

technical assistance from Pakistan for eliminating 

(PTI) set a new example as no minister visited 

any constituency.” 

Addressing a press conference in 

Islamabad, the information minister said, 

“The PML-N government signed agreements 

to produce electricity at extremely 

high costs.” 

“Quaid-e-Azam solar plant is the most 

expensive power plant in the world,” he 

claimed. 

The information minister further said that 

the price of electricity was increased by 

Rs1.32 owing to different power plants. 

“The National Accountability Bureau 

(NAB) has initiated inquiry against LNG 

plants set-up in Punjab.” Stating that the 

government has decided to carry out an 

audit of all power plants in the country, 

Chaudhry added, “We have already started 

the audit of two power plants.” 

Peace impossible in world 

without Pakistan: DG ISPR 

Pakistan wants US to stay in Afghanistan until peace is achieved 

LAHORE: The Punjab 

government on Tuesday 

unveiled its 2026.51 billion 

rupees budget for the fiscal 

year 2018-19 amid ruckus 

in the provincial assembly 

by oppositon members on 

the arrest of Shehbaz Sharif. 

Finance Minister 

Makhdoom Hashim Bakht 

while presenting the budget 

criticised the previous government 

over what he said 

was flawed planning which 

resulted in huge loss to the 

provincial exchequer. 

He said the PML-N left 

nothing but the option of 

taking loans for the incumbent 

government as the 

loans have become a necessity 

in order to run the 

affairs of the province and 

the country at large. 

Referring to the 100 

terrorism.” 

Regarding Afghanistan, 

the DG ISPR said, 

“Pakistan desires that the 

United States remains in 

Afghanistan till peace is 

established there.” 

“Peace in Afghanistan 

and Pakistan is connected to 

each other,” he added. 

Shedding light on Pak 

Army’s anti-militant drive, 

General Ghafoor professed 

that terror activities have 

plummeted to record low 

across the country while 

peace has been completely 

restored. 

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ISLAMABAD: PM Imran Khan in a group photo with a delegation of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) at PM Office. 

No tax on mobile 

phone top-ups till there 

is legislation: SC 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s 

top court ordered the government 

and service providers to 

not to collect any service tax 

on mobile phone pre-paid 

credit (top-ups) till there is 

legislation on it. 

In June, the Supreme 

Court had barred network 

providers and the FBR from 

collecting service tax on prepaid 

cards, saying it was 

exploitative and illegal. 

Prior to the court orders, 

the consumers were charged 

10% service tax, in addition 

to other taxes, such as withholding 

tax (5.5%) and sales 

tax (19%). On a Rs100 prepaid 

card, only Rs64 are 

availed by the consumers. 

On Tuesday, the court 

upheld its June orders and 

directed the companies and 

govt to not deduct this tax till 

proper legislation to address 

this issue. In a separate development, 

the Senate’s Standing 

Committee on IT has sought a 

report from the telecom regulator, 

which has announced to 

block all unregistered phones 

after October 20. 

Punjab unveils Rs2026bn budget 

amid opposition protest 

NAB grills Khawaja brothers in 

Paragon Housing Society case 

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) 

leader Khawaja Saad Rafique on Tuesday appeared before 

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) along with his 

brother Salman Rafique to record statements in Paragon 

Housing Society scam. 

As per details garnered, the anti-graft watchdog grilled 

Khawaja brothers and asked as many as 18 questions from 

them. Earlier, Khawaja brothers had appeared before NAB 

thrice in the same case. 

In November 2017, NAB launched its investigation 

into a mega land scam involving then Railways minister 

Khawaja Saad Rafique’s Paragon Housing Society 

in Lahore and the Punjab Land Development 

Company (PLDC).) 

The bureau had decided to initiate probe into the 

matters of Saad’s housing society after receiving a 

number of complaints regarding ‘illegal deal’ involving 

3,000 kanals of government land between the PLDC 

and the said companies. 

LAHORE: A female reporter is reading the copy of provincial 

budget after the session of Punjab Assembly. 

Ashiana Housing Scheme 

Shehbaz's remand extended by two weeks 

NA Opp leader tells judge NAB’s request for remand extension 

unnecessary as he’s already cooperating in probe 

LAHORE: An accountability 

court on Tuesday 

granted the National 

Accountability Bureau 

(NAB) a 14-day extension 

in the physical remand of 

former Punjab chief minister 

Shehbaz Sharif in the 

Ashiana Housing Scheme 

case. The court had earlier 

reserved its decision on 

NAB's request for a 14-day 

extension in the PML-N 

president's remand. 

However, the court later 

accepted the accountability 

bureau's request and granted 

an extension. 

Earlier, NAB presented 

Shehbaz before the court in 

Lahore as his 10-day 

remand in the housing 

scheme case ended. 

Strict security arrangements 

were in place on 

routes leading to the court 

premises with blockades 

installed in several places as 

Shehbaz was presented in 

court resulting in severe 

inconvenience for citizens 

commuting to office and 

schools. 

The Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz (PML-N) 

president was transported to 

the court in a car with tinted 

windows. Shehbaz's sons 

Hamza and Salman were 

also present in the accountability 

court for the hearing. 

Speaking to the journalists 

outside the accountability 

court, PML-N spokesperson 

Marriyum Aurangzeb 

said that Shehbaz had 

worked day and night for the 

development of Punjab. 

"The number of security 

personnel deployed here 

[outside the court] is indicative 

of their fear," she said. 

Recording his statement 

in the accountability court, 

Shehbaz said, “They could 

not prove a penny’s worth 

corruption against me.” 

“I call NAB officers 

myself to question me,” he 

added. 

Regarding the last hearing 

when he was pushed 

around by a crowd as he was 

walking towards an 

armoured vehicle, Shehbaz 

said, “I suffered back pain 

owing to that but am better 

now.” Taking a hit at the 

incumbent Pakistan 

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, 

Shehbaz said, 

“Their performance in the 

last two months has proven 

that the promises they made 

were hollow.” 

PM’s Bani Gala estate will be 

first to face regularisation 

SC denies permission for new construction in Bani Gala 

area until existing properties are regularized 

ISLAMABAD: Chief Development Authority 

Justice of Pakistan (CJP) (CDA) chairman and secretaries 

Mian Saqib Nisar on 

of the ministries of 

foundation of a progressive 

and prosper Punjab. 

He said that an estimated 

1,652 billion rupees have 

Tuesday said that Prime 

Minister Imran Khan’s Bani 

Gala residence will be the 

first to be regularised, as he 

housing, local government 

and climate change. The 

committee is due to submit 

its report in 10 days. 

been allocated for general heard a case pertaining to As the hearing went 

revenue receipts. He said 

that Punjab is expecting an 

income worth 1,276 billion 

rupees from the federal 

divisible pool. 

“There is an estimate of 

376 billion rupees in provincial 

revenue. The current 

expenditure estimate for the 

ongoing fiscal year is worth 

illegal encroachments and 

environmental denigration 

in Bani Gala. 

Heading a bench of the 

Supreme Court (SC), the 

chief justice directed for the 

formation of a special committee 

to ensure the regularisation 

of properties in the 

locality. 

underway, the additional 

attorney general informed 

the bench, “The fourth part 

in the report pertains to contamination 

in Rawal Lake 

and sewage from 50 union 

councils and 59 housing 

societies is dumped there.” 

To this, the chief justice 

questioned as to what the 

1,264 billion rupees. Formed under the chairmanship 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 

Days Agenda as public 

“A huge amount of 238 

billion rupees has been of the interior sec- 

retary, the committee will 

(PTI) members had done to 

rectify the situation. 

friendly, Bakht said the proposed for the annual include the Capital “They are the ones who 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf development expenditures,” 

(PTI) government will lay 

he added. 

Students among 10 killed 

in bus-van collision 

BHALWAL: At 

least eight people 

including seven students 

were killed in a 

collision between a 

passenger bus and a 

college van in Bhalwal 

Tuesday. 

On receipt of information, 

rescue teams 

arrived at the scene 

and shifted the injured 

to hospital for medical 

treatment. 

Moreover, the road 

has been reopened for 

traffic after a protest 

by students who 

torched the bus. 

Eight dead as 

train crashes into 

rickshaw in Kandhkot 

KANDHKOT: At 

least eight people, 

including three children 

and two women, were 

killed when a train 

rammed into a rickshaw 

in Kandhkot district in 

northern Sindh on 

Tuesday. 

According to details, 

14 people also got 

injured in the accident 

that occurred at a railway 

crossing near 

Tangwani. 

ATC hands over 

Mansha Bomb on 

transit remand 

LAHORE:An anti-terrorism 

court on Tuesday handed 

over alleged land grabber 

Malik Mansha Ali Khokhar - 

alias Mansha Bomb - to 

Punjab police on one day 

transit remand. 

Talking to media on the 

occasion, Superintendent 

Police (SP) Sadar Muaz 

Zafar said that the suspected 

land grabber was involved in 

as many as 82 cases. 

He added that Mansha 

became part of every political 

party that came to power 

in order to protect himself, 

adding that an investigation 

will be launched into his 

escape from police custody. 

PESHAWAR: A journalist 

working for a private 

television channel was on 

Tuesday gunned down in 

Haripur, Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa, months 

after bureau chief of another 

media organisation in 

the same district was shot 

dead. 

Sohail Khan, who 

worked for local TV channel, 

K2, was fired upon in 

Hitar area. A large contingent 

of police reached the 

area following the murder 

with the area surrounded 

for a search. The body was 

shifted to district headquarter 

hospital (DHQ). 

The deputy inspector 

filed a petition regarding 

this issue and now that they 

are in power, we want to see 

what they do.” 

Justice Nisar then turned 

to PM Imran’s counsel 

Babar Awan and asked, 

“What steps did you people 

take in the last 50 days?” 

Awan responded that 

Minister of State for Interior 

Shehryar Afridi was “looking 

over” the matter. 

The chief justice then 

asserted that when the due 

regularisation begins, PM 

Imran’s residence will not 

be exempted from the jurisdiction, 

and he did not mean 

it as mere political rhetoric. 

“PM Imran’s house will be 

the first to be regularised.” 

Another journalist shot dead 

in Haripur targeted killing 

general (DIG) police, 

Hazara has taken notice of 

the killing, directing the 

law enforcement agency to 

constitute a special team to 

arrest the culprits as soon 

as possible. 

In June last year, a senior 

journalist affiliated 

with a private media group 

was shot dead in Haripur, 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 

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Metropolitan 

Fakhr-e-Alam lands in Karachi 

as part of 'Mission Parwaz' 

KARACHI: Pakistani 

singer and activist Fakhr-e- 

Alam arrived in Karachi on 

Tuesday as part of "Mission 

Parwaaz" through which 

the singer is attempting to 

circumnavigate the globe. 

On his arrival in 

Karachi, the singer was 

greeted by Sindh Governor 

Imran Ismail who lauded 

the singer's efforts and welcomes 

him. 

Talking to reporter, 

Alam said, “There was a 

different feeling when I I 

entered the Pakistani airspace.” 

Thanking the Tampa 

Bay Aviation Chief Pilot 

Joshua Barken and 

Managing Director Chris 

Rowe, Alam said, "This 

would not have been possible 

without Joushua Barken 

and [Chris] Rowe." 

KARACHI: The 11th 

death anniversary of 

Martyr’s of Karsaz incident 

will be observed on 

October 18. 

At least 150 people 

were killed and thousands 

got injured in twin explosion 

at Shahrah-e-Faisal 

KARACHI: Governor Sindh, Muhammad Ismail received Fakhr-e-Alam, Renowned 

Singer, Song-Writer during his journey of a lifetime under MissionParwaaz, at Jinnah 

International Airport. 

"If the weather is suitable, 

I will complete the 

tour in 28 days otherwise it 

can take longer," the 42 

Karsaz area of Karachi 

during the welcome rally 

of Benazir Bhutto on 

October 18, 2007, Quran 

reciting and prayer’s services 

will be organized and 

public meeting will be 

held under People party at 

Mazar-e-Quaid. 

When former Prime 

Minister Benazir Bhutto 

returned home after 9 

years, the ever worst terrorism 

at Shahrah-e-Faisal 

Karachi Karsaz occurred 

and 11th death anniversary 

of Martyr’s in this incident 

will be observed on 

year-old said. 

He also urged the people 

to pray for his successful fly 

and complete the tour within 

the given time. 

The 28-day tour which 

kicked off in Clearwater, 

Florida on October 10 will 

11th anniversary of martyr’s of Karsaz 

incident to be observed on Thursday 

KARACHI: Minister of State for Interior, Shehryar Khan Afridi being received a memento 

during his visit to Pakistan Coast Guard Headquarters. 

Teenager electrocuted by high-tension cable 

KARACHI: A teenage 

boy was injured when an 

electrical wire fell on him 

in Bin Qasim Town area 

of the city on late Monday 

night. 

According to police 

sources, a 14-year-old 

unknown boy was near 

the N-5 National 

Highway when a hightension 

electrical cable 

fell over him. As a result, 

he received sever burn 

injuries and fell unconscious. 

Police further said they 

were searching for the 

boy's family since he was 

not carrying any identification 

documents with 

him. 

The injured was shifted 

to a private hospital 

near Stadium Road, 

where his condition was 

stated to be serious. 

Planned fasting may help 

reverse type 2 diabetes 

KARACHI: Planned 

intermittent fasting may 

help to reverse type 2 diabetes, 

according to doctors 

who were able to cut out 

the need for insulin treatment 

for three patients in 

their care. Lifestyle 

changes are key to managing 

type 2 diabetes, but 

patients themselves cannot 

always control blood glucose 

levels. 

According to doctors 

from the University of 

Toronto’s Faculty of 

Medicine and Scarborough 

Hospital in Canada, three 

men, aged between 40 and 

67, planned intermittent 

fasting to see if it might 

ease their symptoms. “The 

use of a therapeutic fasting 

regimen for treatment of 

type 2 diabetes is virtually 

unheard of,” doctors wrote 

in the journal BMJ Case 

Reports. “This present case 

series showed that 24-hour 

fasting regimens can significantly 

reverse or eliminate 

the need for diabetic 

medication,” they wrote. 

The patients were taking 

various drugs to control 

their disease as well as 

daily units of insulin. In 

addition to type 2 diabetes, 

they all had high blood 

pressure and high cholesterol. 

Two of the men fasted 

on alternate days for a 

full 24 hours, while the 

third fasted for three days a 

week. On fast days they 

were allowed to drink very 

low calorie drinks, such as 

tea/coffee, water or broth, 

and to eat one very low 

calorie meal in the 

evening. 

October 18 (Thursday). 

Quran Khawani , 

Prayer’s and Seminars 

will be arranged in the 

memory of Martyrs’ of 

Karsaz incident across the 

country including Jahania, 

Thatta and in other small 

cities by People Party. 

Training program 

takes over three 

major cities 

KARACHI: This year 

School of Leadership (SoL) 

kick started its program Train 

the Young Trainer in three 

major cities of Pakistan; 

Karachi, Islamabad and 

Lahore. TTYT was a sevenday 

customized master training 

program that empowers 

young leaders of tomorrow 

to be impactful trainers and 

confident individuals. 

TTYT was attended by 64 

graduates and was specifically 

designed for new trainers, 

teachers, young professionals 

and students.The program 

insured that participants taking 

part in the program will 

walk out developing skills in 

communication, presentation, 

and facilitation techniques 

to maintain attention 

and how to handle difficult 

situations. The program had 

been divided into seven very 

important modules that 

included: Fundamentals of 

Training, Content 

Development, and Training 

Delivery: Presentation & 

Communication Skills, 

Branding your profile, 

Practice Training Sessions 

and Final presentations & 

evaluation. 

Maalik 

Executive Director at School 

of Leadership said :'Train the 

Young Trainer is a master 

training program that offers 

limited investment with an 

unlimited opportunity to 

enable participants discover 

concepts, competencies and 

the crafts required to make 

learning meaningful and 

effective.’ 

take Alam to 32 countries. 

From Florida, the 42- 

year-old had flown to 

Boston and then to the 

Canadian Airbase in Goose 

bay Canada and then to 

Greenland. 

From Greenland, Alam 

flew to Iceland, United 

Kingdom, Egypt and then 

to Bahrain and then Dubai. 

From Dubai, the singer 

flew Karachi from where he 

will next visit Islamabad 

and Lahore. From Lahore, 

he will be on his way to 

Dhaka, Bangkok, 

Singapore, Jakarta and then 

Darwin in Australia. 

Other countries where 

he will be making a pit stop 

include Philippines, 

Taiwan, South Japan, North 

Japan, the Pacific Bay, 

Russia, Alaska and then 

back to the US. 

Recruitment of 

clinical staff for 

NICVD approved 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Minister for Health and 

Population Dr Azra Fazal 

Pechuho has said that 

National Institute of 

Cardiovascular Diseases 

had been providing excellent 

health services to the 

cardiac patients and had 

become an institution of 

great value. 

This she said while presiding 

over 5th Executive 

Committee Meeting of 

NICVD here in her office 

on Tuesday. Additional 

Chief Secretary Health Dr 

Usman Chachar, Executive 

Director NICVD Professor 

Nadeem Qamar and others 

also attended the meeting. 

The meeting was informed 

that at present, a total number 

of 8 NICVD Satellite 

Centers were fully in operation 

across the province. 

It was decided in the 

meeting to complete mega 

project Shaheed Mohtarma 

Benazir Bhutto Cardiac 

Care Hospital (SMBBCH) 

Tando Muhammad Khan at 

earliest to facilitate the 

people of TM Khan and its 

adjacent areas. 

KARACHI: Students of Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi presented musical 

evening at a welcome party given to new students of Semester fall-2018 held at university 

auditorium last evening. 

BIEK announces HSC Part-II result 

KARACHI: Board of 

Intermediate Education 

Karachi (BIEK) on Tuesday 

announced the results of 

HSC Part-II annual examination 

2018 Commerce 

Private Group. 

According to Board 

Charmin Prof Inam Ahmed, 

in annual examination of 

Commerce private group all 

the top three positions were 

bagged by female candidates, 

Nuzhat Fatima 

daughter of Rehan 

Muhadmmad, secured the 

top position by bagging 902 

marks out of 1100, while 

Uras daughter of 

Muhammad Javaid, got the 

second position by bagging 

843 marks while Maryam 

daughter of Mukhdum 

Muhammad Ashraaf, got 

the third position by acquiring 

831 marks. 

A total of 6934 students 

appeared in the examination 

out of them 1447 passed it 

with a percentage of 

(20.87%) 

One candidate got A-1 

grade while 32 secured A 

grade, 140 got B grade, 446 

got C grade, 725 secured D 

grade and 103 got E grade. 

KARACHI: Flags of political parties are still hanging in NA-247 constituency after the 

by-elections. 

SHC summons FIA official in 

money laundering case 

KARACHI: Sindh High 

Court (SHC) on Tuesday 

issued notice to Federal 

Investigation Agency’s 

(FIA) investigation officer 

on a petition filled by 

Anwar Majeed, accused in 

a money laundering case. 

SHC heard the petition 

filed against the FIA by 

Anwar Majeed, Omni 

Group chairman and a 

close-aide of PPP leader 

Asif Ali Zardari. The FIA 

requested for time for submitting 

its reply. 

The SHC summoned 

FIA’s investigation officer, 

Najaf Mirza on 20th 

November. However, the 

counsel of Majeed did not 

appear before the court. 

the event, Kamal Siddiqi, 

CEJ-IBA Director, said, 

“This is the second consecutive 

year that we have 

joined hands with the ICRC 

for Humanitarian Reporting 

Awards. We are pleased to 

have organized this very 

successful workshop followed 

by recognition of the 

humanitarian reporting our 

brave and talented journalists 

are doing for the second 

year in a row.” 

Also commenting on the 

event, Najum Abbasi, Head 

of Communications at 

ICRC, said that, “The aim 

of ICRC Humanitarian 

Awards is to acknowledge 

and appreciate the efforts of 

The petitioner had 

prayed that FIA had registered 

fake case against 

him, and it should be 

stopped from harassing 

him. He also requested that 

details of cases against him 

should be also provided to 

him. The SHC adjourned 

the hearing till 20th 

November. 

ICRC joins hands with CEJ-IBA to organize 

2nd Humanitarian Reporting Awards 

KARACHI: The people with disabilities, 

International Committee of disaster response/preparedness, 

the Red Cross (ICRC) is all 

and other similar 

set to organize issues. 

‘Humanitarian Reporting 

Awards 2018’ in coordination 

The three humanitarian 

beat categories for which 

with the Centre for journalists’ contributions 

Excellence in Journalism will be awarded include 

(CEJ) at the Institute of Mainstream Broadcast 

Khaskhely, Business Administration. (Urdu), Mainstream Print 

The objective of the & Online (Urdu) and 

awards is to acknowledge, 

appreciate and embrace the 

Mainstream Print & Online 

(English). Over 200 entries 

unrecognized efforts of were received from across 

humanitarian reporters, Pakistan which were rigorously 

who out of their comfort 

zones, manage to capture evaluated by a panel 

of Pakistan’s veteran journalists 

and pen down the humanitarian 

followed by the 

crises like violence 

against healthcare, disaster 

reporting, issues related to 

selection of the winning 

journalists. 

Sharing his thoughts on 

humanitarian journalists 

whose struggles of covering 

different aspects of 

humanitarian crises and 

plight of the people affected 

are itself inspiring. We 

aim to carry forward the 

zeal of organizing this 

award ceremony in coordination 

with CEJ-IBA to 

appreciate the work produced.” 

The award ceremony is 

scheduled to be held on 

Thursday, October 18, 

2018 at the CEJ office – 

Aman Tower, IBA Saddar 

Campus; where the shortlisted 

winners and runnersup 

will receive the awards 

amid noted journalists. 

Mayor to facilitate motorcyclists with 

separate road on Shahra-e-Faisal 

KARACHI: Mayor 

Karachi Waseem Akhtar on 

Tuesday said the work of 

setting up of separate track 

for motorcyclists alongside 

Sharea Faisal has been 

started which will cover the 

whole area from Malir Halt 

to the Metropole Hotel in 

Saddar. The anti encroachments 

department of KMC 

in this connection has 

already begun its operation 

against encroachments 

from today. 

Talking to media representatives 

after laying floral 

wreath at the mazar of 

Shaheed-e-Millat Liaqat 

Ali Khan on his death 

anniversary on Tuesday, he 

said: “This is first time that 

a separate track is being 

made for motorbikes alongside 

main corridor of the 

city. This being a model 

project, other major corridors 

will also be provided 

with such tracks for motor 

bike riders.” 

Mayor said that all 

efforts were being made to 

bring improvement to the 

city infrastructure especially 

to clean the city roads. 

Meanwhile, on the 

directive of Mayor, the anti 

encroachments department 

of KMC took action against 

encroachments from Malir 

Halt to Metropole Hotel 

and removed all encroachments 

in about 6 kilometer 

area and seized the cabins, 

stalls, sugarcane juice 

machines and other obstacles 

from this area and 

deposit it in the store. 

KARACHI: Anti encroachment operation in progress demolishing illegal encroachment 

during anti encroachment drive under the supervision of Karachi Development 

Authority (KDA), at Shahrah-e-Faisal near Jinnah International Airport. 

KARACHI: Mayor Karachi, Waseem Akhtar along with 

Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch offers 

Fateha after laying floral wreath on the grave of Shaheede-Millat 

Liaquat Ali Khan on the occasion of his Death 

Annivarsary. 

KARACHI: Vice Chairman DMC Korangi, Syed Ahmer Ali 

inspecting ongoing decoration work at Shah Faisal colony.

LHC rejects plea for public 

hanging of Zainab’s killer 

LAHORE: The Lahore 

High Court (LHC) on 

Tuesday dismissed a petition 

filed by Amin Ansari, 

the father of seven-yearold 

Zainab, seeking a public 

hanging of his daughter’s 

rapist and murderer, 

Imran Ali. 

A division bench of the 

high court dismissed the 

petition, terming it nonmaintainable. 

Justice Sardar Ahmed 

Shamim, who was heading 

the bench, asked if the 

petitioner had submitted a 

request to the government 

in this regard. 

Ishtiaq Chaudhry, the 

lawyer for the petitioner, 

said they had submitted a 

request to the government, 

but to no avail. 

At this, the judge said 

the petitioner should have 

approached the court at 

that time. “You have come 

here late. The date of the 

execution has been fixed 

for tomorrow,” said Justice 

Shamim. 

Earlier, the petitioner 

Allah Bux Khushik of WPDA Pegam Union Jamshoro and other police 

DADU: Hyderabad President Sajan Panwer officers to produce in court 

High court bench has summoned 

PPP MNA Rafique The bench had ordered complaitnat allegation 

here Tuesday. 

on 30 October following 

Ahmed Jamali, leady MPA MNA Rafique Ahmed Sajan Panhwer. 

Dr Sajila Laghari and Jamali, MPA Dr Sajila Applicant Sajan 

other party leaders as well Laghari, Johi town committee 

chairman Majeed town had narreted in aplli- 

Panhwer resident of Johi 

as police officers in 

alleged case involvement Jamali, SSP Dadu, SSP cation that Rafique Ahmed 

submitted that convict 

Imran Ali, who will be sent 

to the gallows on Oct 17, 

should be executed publicly 

under Section 22 of 

the Anti-Terrorism Act, 

HC summons PPP MNA, MPA others 

over WAPDA president alleged case 

Chairman Pak Green Foundation 

inaugurates Tree Plantation campaign 

M A. Rehmani 

M I R P U R K H A S : 

Muhammad Nawaz Khan, 

chairman Pak Green 

Foundation donated hundred 

thousands plants to 

the Sindh Education 

Foundation here on 

Tuesday at Sindh 

Education foundation 

Mirpurkhas . chairmaen , 

was started tree plantation 

campaign collaboration 

with Pak Green 

Foundation in Hope High 

School Mirpurkhas . 

in this occasion 

Chairman Pak Green 

Foundation along with 

Regional Assistant 

Director Ashfaq Hussain 

Mirani, ,CEO HTP Ms. 

Shahnaz , school staff and 

students plant the trees, 

Interacting with the students, 

. 

Muhammad Nawaz 

said, “Every body knows 

how trees keep temperature 

in control. Hence, the 

significance of planting 

trees in the country is 

huge.” The premier then 

shed light , 

Ashfaq Hussain Mirani 

also said to students to 

play their part in saving the 

environment and shared 

that he will be initiating 

and participating in cleanliness 

drives throughout 

the country. 

Faisalabad power-loom workers 

protest for better working conditions 

FAISALABAD: Hundreds of 

power-loom workers staged a sit-in 

outside the deputy commissioner’s 

office here to press for their demand 

of appropriate raise in their wages. 

Protesting power-loom workers 

associated with the Labour Qaumi 

Movement (LQM) staged a nine-hours 

long sit-in protest outside the DC 

office. 

Addressing the workers their leaders 

said if their demands not accepted 

they will go to protest in the province. 

District administration Faisalabad has 

summoned a meeting of power-loom 

MULTAN: Since picking 

up a wrench as one of 

the first female car 

mechanics in conservative 

society, Uzma Nawaz has 

faced two common reactions: 

shock and surprise. 

And then a bit of respect. 

The 24-year-old spent 

years overcoming 

entrenched gender stereotypes 

and financial hurdles 

en route to earning a 

mechanical engineering 

degree and netting a job 

with an auto repairs garage 

in the eastern city of 

Multan. 

“I took it up as a challenge 

against all odds and 

the meagre financial 

resources of my family,” 

Nawaz told AFP. 

“When they see me 

doing this type of work 

they are really surprised.” 

Hailing from the small, 

impoverished town of 

Dunyapur in Pakistan’s 

Punjab province, Nawaz 

relied on scholarships and 

often skipped meals when 

she was broke while pursuing 

her degree. 

Her achievements are 

rare. Women have long 

struggled for their rights in 

conservative patriarchal 

Pakistan, and especially in 

rural areas are often 

encouraged to marry young 

and devote themselves 

owners on Tuesday. 

The workers’ sit-in suspended traffic 

on the District Council Road. The 

deputy commissioner held talks with 

workers and assured them to solve 

their problems. The district administration 

has summoned a meeting of 

stakeholders today to discuss matter 

and take decisions. 

In Feb power-loom workers had 

protested against working conditions 

in Faisalabad and demanded of factory 

owners to stop using weavers as oilmen, 

loaders and cleaners and issue 

them social security cards. 

entirely to family over 

career. 

“No hardship could 

break my will and motivation,” 

she says proudly. 

The sacrifices cleared 

the way for steady work at 

a Toyota dealership in 

Multan following graduation, 

she adds. 

Just a year into the job, 

and promoted to general 

repairs, Nawaz moves with 

the ease of a seasoned pro 

around the dealership’s 

garage, removing tyres 

Jamali, Dr Sajila Laghari 

and Johi town committee 

chairman Majeed Jamali 

had lodged fake FIR at 

Johi police station. The 

applicant had also 

appealed court to provide 

protection his family 

members. 

Senior journalist of Badin 

receives life threats 

Staff Report 

BADIN: Senior journalist 

of Badin, Shakeel Ahmed 

Ghanchi allegedly received 

life threats from some 

unknowns. According to 

reports, Senior Journalist of 

Badin and district reporter of 

news channels “Ab Tak” and 

“92 News” Shakeel Ahmed 

Ghanchi received life threats 

from some unknown culprits 

on Tuesday. 

While talking to media 

here at Badin Ghanchi added 

that he is being threatened for 

his true and intrepid reporting 

over different issues of the 

people of district Badin. He 

alleged that some unknown 

persons trying to forfeit him 

and his family and creating 

panic situation to his family. 

Ghanchi doubted that they 

can stretch big loss him or his 

family at any time if some 

stern actions were not taken 

for his protection. He alleged 

that those persons can be 

involved who had some 

weeks earlier attacked on him 

and he lodged the FIR against 

them in model police Thana 

Badin, a couple of weeks ago. 

Senior journalist, Shakeel 

Ahmed Ghanchi deplored that 

police is doing nothing to protect 

him and his family adding 

that he and his family have, a 

life threat from culprits. He 

demanded from the SSP 

Badin and others higher 

authorities to take notice of the 

matter and provide the protection 

to him and his family on 

immediately basis. 

Female car mechanic driving change in Multan 

from raised vehicles, 

inspecting engines and handling 

a variety of tools — a 

sight that initially jolted 

some customers. 

“I was shocked to see a 

young girl lifting heavy 

spare tyres and then putting 

them back on vehicles after 

repairs,” customer Arshad 

Ahmad told AFP. 

But Nawaz’s drive and 

expertise has impressed 

colleagues, who say she 

can more than hold her 

own. “Whatever task we 

give her she does it like a 

man with hard work and 

dedication,” said coworker 

M. Attaullah. 

She has also convinced 

some of those who doubted 

her ability to make it in a 

male-dominated work environment, 

including members 

of her own family. 

1997. He pleaded that the 

section allows the government 

to “specify the manner, 

mode and place of 

execution of any sentence 

passed under this Act having 

regard to the deterrent 

effect which such execution 

is likely to have.” 

Amin said the murderer 

of Zainab should be given 

exemplary punishment to 

stop such incidents in 

future. 

The convict will be 

hanged on the morning of 

October 17 at the Lahore 

Central Jail. He was found 

guilty of rape and murder 

of seven minors including 

Zainab. 

IHC adjourns hearing 

of bullet proof vehicle 

case regarding 

Iftikhar Chaudhry 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Islamabad High Court on 

Tuesday adjourned hearing 

in bullet proof vehicle 

case regarding the 

former Chief Justice of 

Pakistan Iftikhar 

Muhammad Chaudhray 

as both parties were 

absent. 

Two members’ bench 

of Chief Justice of 

Islamabad High Court 

Justice Anwar Khan Kasi 

and Justice Amir Farooq 

fixed the next hearing on 

November 29. 

It is pertinent to mention 

here, that Riaz 

Hanif, Shiekh Ihsan and 

others had challenged the 

Islamabad High Court’ 

March 29 ruling and 

requested to suspend the 

single member bench’s 

judgment. 

They had filed an 

intra-court appeal against 

single bench decision. 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD: World 

Food Day was observed 

under aegis of Food and 

Agriculture Organization 

(FAO) of UNO at local 

hotel here during which 

Food and Security and 

Nutrition report was also 

launched. Speakers included 

Senator Taj Hyder of 

PPP,Mujeeb Sahrai Vice 

Chancellor Sindh 

Agriculture University 

Tando Jam, Hidayatullah 

Chhajro director general 

Agriculture extension 

Sindh, Professor Mushtar 

Mirani, FAO first policy 

officer Geneviene Hussain 

and others. 

Senator Taj haider has 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Supreme Court of Pakistan 

constituted a committee 

while hearing a case against 

excessive private school fee 

headed by Federal 

Ombudsman to sort out the 

fees and formation of regulatory 

body. According to 

the details, the committee 

has been assigned to get 

annual audit report from the 

private schools. 

During the proceeding of 

the case the chief justice 

remarked that the education 

is not a product for sale. 

Parents should not be 

overstrain with the excessive 

fees, he emphasized. 

He said that private 


National 

schools will neither be finished 

off nor will be nationalized 

but we will arrange 

an apt fee structure. 

He further remarked that 

parents are eager to provide 

their children with quality 

education and directed private 

schools to submit audit 

report. 


schools charge the fee on 

whims that resulted into 

constant economic mess for 

the parents. 


school instead of imparting 

education are busy in making 

money as they have created 

a big gap between private 

and government 

3 

SC constitutes Committee for 

regulatory body on Private schools 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Decision has been taken to 

disconnect power supply 

to 425 tube wells in the 

upcoming week due to non 

payment of outstanding 

electricity bills of Rs 30 

million by Water and 

Sanitation Agency 

(WASA) to Islamabad 

Electric Supply Company 

(IESCO). 

According to media 

reports, WASA was to pay 

arrears of 190 million to 

IESCO after increase of Rs 

30 million but due to 

financial crisis it failed to 

pay these arrears despite 

issuance of notice. 

Therefore decision has 

been taken to disconnect 

schools. 

He said that education 

policy for private schools is 

inevitable under the circumstances 

when fees are 

imposed on the whims of 

the school owners. 

The chief justice referred 

Napoleon whereby he 

offered exoneration for 

those who took shelter in the 

teacher abode. 

He also referred the 

Islamic teaching that in 

order to get education you 

must go to Chine if you 

have to. Three member 

bench headed by Chief 

Justice heard the case and 

adjourned for an indefinite 

period. 

Decision taken to disconnect 

power supply to 425 tube wells 

supply to 425 tube wells. 

Teams have been constituted 

already in this 

regard and connections 

will be restored step wise. 

On the other hand, 

WASA officials said that 

they had sent a letter to 

provincial officials for 

bailout package of Rs 250 

million. 

CHINIOT: A man walks on a pipeline along with his bicycle over a nullah due to nonavailability 

of bridges. 

Food Security and nutrition: WFO launches report 

said that government 

intends to reduce the price 

of grains by providing transportation 

cost. He pointed 

out that how water usage 

should be standardized, and 

how it could be used for 

land improvement and 

increasing production. He 

emphasized small farmers 

should be supported with 

special focus on women 

peasants that how they 

should be uplifted from the 

poverty. He referred that 

government intends to 

reduce the price of grains by 

providing transportation 

cost. He said Benazir Kisan 

Card will help them to 

reduce their cost-share. In 

addition to that grain-purchase 

mechanism will be 

lined with zero hunger. He 

further said that the present 

government also plans to 

open and clean the natural 

waterways; it will help to 

revive the delta, and stop the 

sea-intrusion. He also spoke 

about the bio-saline-culture, 

and cotton research of 

Karachi University. 

Speaking on the occasion, 

FAO FIRST Policy 

Officer Genevieve Hussain 

pinpointed that around the 

world the alarming signs of 

increasing food insecurity 

and high levels of different 

forms of malnutrition are a 

reminder that we need to 

continue with our efforts. 

She told that FAO landed in 

Pakistan just after its independence. 

She told that FAO 

works with the federal and 

provincial frame works. She 

warned that the food security 

is a global challenge. 

Masood Lohar, National 

Program Manager, Gef- 

UNDP said that the situation 

of Pakistan is lagging behind 

in achieving the set targets. 

He referred the case of 

Phuleli Canal is the longest 

cannel and is being polluted 

by the waste of various 

types. He pinpointed that 

survival of Felta needs slit 

and water. If slit is stopped, 

then delta will die, and it has 

reciprocal effects with the 

monsoon pattern of the 

country.

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EDITORIAL 

A 3-Point April Fool of Big Powers joked through 

Muslim Rulers against nations and Islamic World 

SURPRISING or otherwise, a 3-point April 

Fool agenda of big powers is played upon 

Ummah as a joke, played through Muslim 

rulers, and is worth knowing, if it's not already 

recognized for what it's, though many do. It's said 

that historically Muslim slaves are promised freedom 

but their ship to freedom is sunk in the middle 

of the waters, with this declaration: "You can 

now have your freedom"! Muslims even joke 

against themselves by playing April Fool. May be 

this last part of the joke where non Muslims make 

Muslim joke against themselves ought to be 

stopped. It's not amazing that Israelis and 

Westerners joke a lot among themselves against 

Muslims on April Fool: 

1. Joke 1: Post 9/11 Israeli directed bombing 

mostly through Saudi nationals is assumed to 

have led to a big powers' anti-terror war mostly -- 

but truly wrongly -- against Muslim world countries, 

instead of its original planners within White 

House, FBI, CIA, MOSSAD and a few US allies 

abroad, especially pro-Israel and anti-Islam 

rulers. It's said that politicians who themselves 

trigger violence and bloodshed are entrusted with 

millions and billions of dollars to fight an ensuing 

and so called anti terror war. This war was later 

diverted by Muslim leaders in majority, against 

Islamic Shi'ite minority's non compromising spiritual 

and religious forces. Last part of the joke: It's 

war for terrorism, not against terrorism. Proof? 

WoT increased terrorism, and did not decrease terrorism 

in many countries of Islamic world! 

2. Joke two: Fake and hypocritical leaders 

against religion are made whole and sole authority 

on anything and everything concerned with 

religion. The idea of this joke aims for religion to 

destroy religion. Like through mischievous leaders 

and satanic rulers, drunkards, adulterers, liars, 

hypocrites, extortionists, killers and blackmailers 

in many so called countries in the name of Islam 

and Islamic system. Cruelty of this joke is likely, 

planned or executed agenda of desecration, damaging, 

dynamiting or bombing for blasting sacred 

By Ben Tarnoff 

Last month marked the 17th anniversary 

of September 11. All these years later, 

the wars of 9/11 continue, with no end 

in sight. By embracing the latest tools that the 

tech industry has to offer, the US military is 

now creating a more automated form of warfare 

— one that will greatly increase its capacity 

to wage war. 

The US defence department is going to 

launch the Joint Enterprise Defence 

Infrastructure (Jedi), an ambitious project to 

build a cloud computing system that serves US 

forces all over the world, from analysts behind 

a desk in Virginia to soldiers on patrol in 

Niger. The contract is worth as much as 

$10billion (Dh36.7 billion) over 10 years, 

which is why big tech companies are fighting 

hard to win it. The real force driving Jedi is the 

desire to weaponise AI — what the defence 

department has begun calling “algorithmic 

warfare”. 

The US has also established the Joint 

Artificial Intelligence Centre (JAIC), which 

will oversee the roughly 600 AI projects currently 

under way across the department at a 

planned cost of $1.7 billion. And in September, 

the Defence Advanced Research Projects 

Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s storied 

R&D wing, announced it would be investing 

up to $2 billion over the next five years into AI 

weapons research. 

AI has already begun rewiring warfare, even 

if it hasn’t (yet) taken the form of literal 

Terminators. There are less cinematic but 

equally scary ways to weaponise AI. You don’t 

need algorithms pulling the trigger for algorithms 

to play an extremely dangerous role. 

To understand that role, it helps to understand 

the particular difficulties posed by the 

forever war. The killing itself isn’t particularly 

difficult. With a military budget larger than 

that of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, 

France, Britain and Japan combined, and some 

800 bases around the world, the US has an 

abundance of firepower and an unparalleled 

ability to deploy that firepower anywhere on 

the planet. 

The US military knows how to kill. The 

harder part is figuring out whom to kill. In a 

more traditional war, you simply kill the 

enemy. But who is the enemy in a conflict with 

no national boundaries, no fixed battlefields, 

and no conventional adversaries? 

This is the perennial question of the forever 

shrines of holy prophets, their companions and 

disciples. 

3. Joke three: To prove that Muslim people -- 

that naturally includes leaders, rulers and nations 

-- are deaf, dumb and blind and mostly remain 

without words and deeds Israeli forces run with 

boots into sacred al-Aqsa mosque, abuse and 

arrest Namaazi Muslims in prayers. At most, 

Saudi rulers and OIC who pays lip service to big 

powers, speak against it, but does nothing in practice 

to stop this decades old Israeli atrocities! 

Zionists kill Palestinians, wage wars on them, 

usurp Palestinian land and punish the Arabs in 

their jails. Gaza is hungry and starving, its infrastructure 

all but destroyed, and is surrounded by 

Israeli soldiers who loot foreign ships and aid to 

Palestine. Later part of this Israeli joke is that 

Muslim countries not only fail to take action 

against Israel but even Egypt too with its blockade 

and bombing over Gaza supports Israel, and so 

does most of over 50 Muslim OIC member states! 

Perhaps, if not fake Muslim leaders, some true 

human leaders and nations can stop these jokes 

being played against the Muslim Ummah collectively, 

though free oil and petro-dollar supplies 

have shut up almost every leader's mouth in both 

Sunni and Shia Muslims for promotion of one true 

Islam of Saudi Wahabism and Salafism, without 

any Sunni or Shia in Islam, except Wahabis and 

Salafis. 

There are violent Muslim demonstrations by 

people and parties with killings and casualties, 

setting fire to public places and sit ins for days 

against some unpleasant incidents and insults 

against Prophet or Islam. But compared to so big 

jokes as written above, it all seem to be not more 

significant than damaging and destroying of 

Islamic sacred graves and shrines of holy prophet 

and his close family members and companions 

(may peace be upon them all). Why are there no 

protests and demonstrations by Islamic personalities 

and Muslim scholars against so big issues of 

Muslim honor worldwide? 

OPINION 

Weaponised AI is the future of war 

US military is creating a more automated form of warfare — one that will 

further enhance its capacity to wage war 

war. It is also a key feature of its design. The 

vagueness of the enemy is what has enabled 

the conflict to continue for nearly two decades 

and to expand to more than 70 countries — a 

boon to the contractors, bureaucrats and politicians 

who make their living from US militarism. 

But the vagueness of the enemy also 

creates certain challenges. It’s one thing to 

look at a map of North Vietnam and pick 

places to bomb. 

It’s quite another to sift through vast quantities 

of information from all over the world in 

order to identify a good candidate for a drone 

strike. When the enemy is everywhere, target 

identification becomes far more labour-intensive. 

This is where AI — or, more precisely, 

machine learning — comes in. Machine learning 

can help automate one of the more tedious 

and time-consuming aspects of the forever 

war: finding people to kill. 

Pathfinder project 

The Pentagon’s Project Maven is already 

putting this idea into practice. Maven, also 

known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross- 

Functional Team, made headlines recently for 

sparking an employee revolt at Google over 

the company’s involvement. Maven is the military’s 

“pathfinder” AI project. Its initial phase 

involves using machine learning to scan drone 

video footage to help identify individuals, 

vehicles and buildings that might be worth 

bombing. 

In the case of weaponised AI, however, the 

knives in question aren’t particularly sharp. 

There is no shortage of horror stories of what 

happens when human oversight is outsourced to 

faulty or prejudiced algorithms — algorithms 

that can’t recognise black faces, or that reinforce 

racial bias in policing and criminal sentencing. 

The line between civilian and combatant 

is highly porous in the era of the forever 

war. The so-called “signature strikes” conducted 

by the US military play similar tricks with 

the concept of the combatant. The problem isn’t 

the quality of the tools, in other words, but the 

institution wielding them. And AI will only 

make that institution more brutal. 

AI also has the potential to make wars more 

permanent, by giving some of the country’s 

largest companies a stake in perpetuating it. 

Silicon Valley has always had close links to the 

US military. But algorithmic warfare will bring 

big tech deeper into the military-industrial complex, 

and give billionaires a powerful incentive 

to ensure the forever war lasts forever. 

ISLAMABAD: A large number of people are visiting the car auction organized by 

National Highway Authority (NHA) in G-10 Football Ground. 


National Highway 

Authority on Tuesday 

kick-started the first phase 

of auctioning of 76 vehicles, 

following the PTI’s 

government austerity 

drive. 

K.B. RIND 

SAKRAND: In 

Sakrand increased substantially 

in incidents and 

events, which caused fear 

in the citizens. In the latest 

incidents, the robbers 

robbed the family members 

of the Sakrand Press 

Club, and Mehran TV 

Reporter Raza Mohammad 

Sial. The gold and precious 

goods worth Rs.6 Lakhs 

have been returned, which 

is being sold more than six 

lakh rupees. The robbery 

included valuable mobile 

phones, after robbery, the 

thieves easily escaped 

from the targeted site and 

easily moved another location. 

Reporter Mehran TV 

Raza Mohammad Sial, 

speaking to the media, 

requesr and asked SSP 

Nawabshah Tanvir Tanio 

to return our valuables 

gold, mobile phones and 

all material immediately. 

The residents of Sakrand 

The auction started at 

10:30 am at G-10/4 

Football Ground, 

I s l a m a b a d . 

Communications State 

Minister Murad Saeed is 

also attending it. 

At the auction, the participants 

have to deposit a 

Pay Order of rupees 

25,000 as a token money 

with a copy of CNIC. The 

highest bidder has to pay 

25% of the bid amount at 

the spot, otherwise, the bid 

shall be rejected and token 

Sakrand law and order situation 

are very serious: Qadir Bux Rind 

Suspicious man 

held from red zone 


Islamabad police on 

Tuesday arrested a suspected 

man and seized 

weapons and ammunition 

from his possession. 

According to details, 

the nabbed man, identified 

as Naseem Khan, a 

resident of Charsadda, 

was acting suspiciously 

when the Secretariat 

police officials took him 

into custody. The police 

team, during his body 

search, seized a pistol 

and many bullets. When 

the police team made 

further interrogation the 

suspected man attempted 

to call influential 

persons. 

However, the police 

later shifted him in the 

police station for further 

i n t e r r o g a t i o n . 

Investigation was under 

way till the filling of 

this report. 

JAMSHORO: SU organized a 

graceful ceremony to confer excellence 

awards 2017 on top- scoring ten 

students from each class of nine departments/ 

institutes under second phase 

from the Faculty of Social Sciences. 

Bureau of Students Tutorial, 

Counseling Co-curricular and 

Guidance Services (STAGS) of the 

varsity hosted the ceremony; which 

was presided over by VC-SU Prof. Dr. 

Fateh Muhammad Burfat. 

This award was conferred on a total 

of 400 students. The awardees 

belonged to the department/ institutes 

as mentioned ahead: Pakistan Study 

Centre, Sindh Development Studies 

Centre, Criminology, Library 

Information Science, General History, 

Economics and Psychology. 

The vice chancellor, accompanied 

demanded that action 

should be taken against 

the criminals and to 

improve the security situation. 

AIOU's exams 

begin from Oct 22 

ISLAMABAD: Final exams of various programs of 

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will begin in 

Rawalpindi-Islamabad and other parts of the country from 

22nd October. 

According to the Controller Exams, the programs 

include Associate Degree in Commerce (ADC), Associate 

Degree in Education (ADE), B.Ed and BA Programs. Roll 

Number slips have been dispatched to all the students, 

enrolled for Semester Spring 2018, at their postal addresses. 

The same have also been placed at the University’s official 

website. Special teams have been constituted to supervise 

and monitor the examination process. There is a `zerotolerance’ 

policy against any kind of unfair practice. Strict 

vigilance system has been enforced. 

by the deans and academic heads of the 

concerned departments/ institutes/faculty 

gave away the excellence awards. 

Dr. Burfat, in his presidential 

money will not be adjusted. 

The remaining amount 

can be paid within the next 

10 days. 

Other than these 76 

vehicles a few more 

including 24 in KPK, 41 in 

Punjab, 23 in Sindh, 35 in 

Balochistan and 20 in 

Gilgit Baltistan would be 

placed for auction on later 

dates on their respective 

stations. 

On September 25, 

Saeed announced the auction 

of 219 vehicles of 

NHA during a meeting of 

Senate Standing 

Committee 

on 

Communication. 

Last month, the 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insafled 

federal government 

had auctioned 62 ultra-luxury 

PM vehicles for a total 

of Rs180 millions, as part 

of PM Imran Khan’s austerity 

drive. 

49 PM’s house 

vehicle to be 

auctioned today 

ISLAMABAD: Under 

the Prime Minister’s (PM) 

Austerity campaign, more 

49 PM’s house vehicles 

will be auctioned on 

Wednesday (Today). 

Earlier vehicles were 

presented for inspection, 

Auction will be on 

Wednesday. 

Grant of more than 

Rs 180million released 

for Rawalpindi schools 

RAWALPINDI: The 

third quarterly grant of 

180 million rupees for the 

period July to October 

2018 has been released to 

1806 schools in 

Rawalpindi district by 

Punjab Government 

As per media reports, 

for the period of July to 

October 2018 Punjab government 

has released more 

than 180 million rupees 

grant for 1806 schools of 

Rawalpindi district and 

transferred the amount in 

school’s accounts. 

After receiving grants, 

now schools can spend 

money against expenses 

including expenses on 

ordinary routine matters. 

The said grant was to 

be released in July however 

election and later withholding 

of grant by new 

government had added to 

the difficulties of all 

schools of Punjab including 

in Rawalpindi . 

Anti-measles drive 

starts in Nawabshah 

NAWABSHAH: Along the launch 

of anti-measles campaign in the country, 

the same was started in the district 

Shaheed Benazirabad for vaccinating 

the children aged from 6 

months to 5 years. 

Assistant Commissioner, Nawabshah 

Nabeel Riaz Sindho and District Health 

Officer, Dr. Muhammad Yousaf Zardari 

in Mother and Child Healthcare Institute 

formally administered vaccination to a 

child to launch the campaign. 

Ceremony to award VC’s excellence certificate 

2017 to second segment of social sciences toppers 

remarks on the occasion said that 

all prestigious higher education 

institutions in the country conferred 

such awards.

OIC warns Australia over 

Jerusalem embassy move 

Morrison said he was “open to” relocating the Australian Embassy to Jerusalem 

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: 

The Organization of Islamic 

Cooperation (OIC) on 

Tuesday warned Australia 

of “grave consequences” of 

relocating the country’s 

embassy from Tel Aviv to 

Jerusalem. 

In a statement, the 

Jeddah-based body called 

on Canberra “not to take 

such an illegal step, which 

constitutes a violation of 

international law and UN 

Security Council resolutions”. 

OIC Secretary-General 

Yousef bin Ahmed Al- 

Othaimeen said Jerusalem is 

part of Palestinian land 

occupied by Israel in 1967. 

“[OIC] rejects any action 

or attempt that would prejudice 

the legal status of the 

occupied city of Jerusalem,” 

he said in the statement. 

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s 

anti-corruption agency has 

arrested nine people, 

including a top district government 

official and a company 

director, in a bribery 

investigation linked to the 

Lippo Group’s $21 billion 

Meikarta real estate project 

near Jakarta. 

In a sting operation on 

Sunday, the Corruption 

Eradication Commission 

(KPK) arrested two Lippo 

Group consultants and an 

employee accused of trying 

to pay off city officials to 

obtain property permits for 

Meikarta, KPK chairman 

He went on to call on 

Australia to support the twostate 

solution with a view to 

achieving peace and promoting 

regional and world 

security. 

Australian Prime 

Minister Scott Morrison 

said that he was “open to” 

relocating his country’s 

embassy to Jerusalem and 

recognizing the city as the 

capital of Israel. 

“We’re committed to a 

two-state solution, but 

frankly, it hasn’t been going 

that well,” Morrison said. 

“Not a lot of progress has 

Laode Muhammad Syarif 

told a news conference late 

on Monday. 

Costing $21 billion and 

billed as the “Shenzhen of 

Indonesia”, after the booming 

Chinese city, Meikarta 

is Lippo’s largest project to 

date and is meant to be a 

center for the automotive 

and electronic industries, 

while including five-star 

been made. And you don’t 

keep doing the same thing 

and expect different 

results.” 

Morrison said the idea 

was suggested to him by 

former Australian ambassador 

to Israel Dave Sharma, 

who is a candidate for the 

Indonesia arrests nine in bribery probe 

linked to $21 billion Lippo Group project 

Northbound migrant group doubles 

in size, enters Guatemala 

AGUA CALIENTE, 

Guatemala: Up to 3,000 

migrants crossed from 

Honduras into Guatemala 

on Monday on a trek northward, 

after a standoff with 

police in riot gear and warnings 

from Washington that 

migrants should not try to 

enter the United States illegally. 

The crowd more than 

doubled in size from 

Saturday, when some 1,300 

people set off from northern 

Honduras in what has been 

dubbed “March of the 

Migrant,” an organizer said. 

The migrants plan to seek 

refugee status in Mexico or 

pass through to the United 

States. 

Reuters could not independently 

verify the number 

of participants, but images 

showed a group carrying 

backpacks and clogging 

roads near the border, some 

waving the Honduran flag. 

The impoverished 

nations of Central America, 

from which thousands of 

migrants have fled in recent 

years, are under mounting 

pressure from U.S. 

President Donald Trump’s 

administration to do more to 

curb mass migration. 

“We are seriously concerned 

about the caravan of 

migrants traveling north 

from Honduras, with false 

promises of entering the 

United States by those who 

seek to exploit their compatriots,” 

the U.S. Embassy in 

Honduras said in a statement 

on Sunday evening. 

'Turkey not to let illegal groups operate in judiciary' 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey continues to remove 

extension of FETO terror group in institutions 

ANKARA: Turkey will 

not allow polarization, factions 

and illegal groups to 

operate in the country’s 

institutions, including judiciary, 

President Recep 

Tayyip Erdogan said on 

Tuesday. 

Speaking at a ceremony 

of judges and prosecutors’ 

appointments at Bestepe 

Congress Center in the capital 

Ankara, Erdogan said 

Turkey continues to remove 

extensions of Fetullah 

Terrorist Organization 

(FETO) within the institutions, 

including judiciary. 

FETO and its U.S.-based 

leader Fetullah Gulen are 

accused of orchestrating the 

defeated coup of July 15, 

2016 which left 251 people 

martyred and nearly 2,200 

injured. 

Ankara also accuses 

FETO of being behind a 

long-running campaign to 

overthrow the state 

through the infiltration of 

Turkish institutions, particularly 

the military, police 

and judiciary. 

Erdogan said Turkey 

needs judges, prosecutors 

and judicial personnel who 

carry out their duties under 

the command of the law. 

hotels, shopping malls and 

universities. 

Shares in Lippo Group’s 

Lippo Cikarang, a parent 

company for Meikarta, 

dropped almost 15 percent 

after the news and ended 

down 13.36 percent on 

Tuesday. 

Syarif told reporters 

that Lippo director Billy 

Sindoro was arrested and 

named as the prime suspect 

in the case after 

detained Lippo employees 

said they had been acting 

on his instructions to bribe 

a top district government 

official. 

ruling conservative Liberal 

Party in a by-election 

Saturday in a Sydney electorate 

with a large Jewish 

population. 

In December, U.S. 

President Donald Trump 

triggered world outcry after 

unveiling plans to move the 

U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem 

and declare the city as the 

capital of Israel. 

Ever since, the 

Palestinian leadership in 

Ramallah has rejected any 

U.S. role in the stumbling 

Middle East peace process. 

Jerusalem remains at 

the heart of the Middle 

East conflict, with 

Palestinians hoping that 

East Jerusalem -- occupied 

by Israel since 1967 -- 

might eventually serve as 

the capital of an independent 

Palestinian state. 

French citizen freed 

after being held by 

Yemeni Houthis 

PARIS: Alain Goma, a 

French citizen who had been 

held captive in Yemen by 

Houthi forces, was freed on 

Tuesday, a statement from 

French president’s office 

said.In statement, President 

Emmanuel Macron 

acknowledged the assistance 

of Saudi authorities and of 

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin 

Said al-Said in bringing 

about Goma’s release. 

Goma had been in prison 

in the Yemen capital Sanaa, 

which is under Houthi control, 

after being transferred 

from the Red Sea port of 

Hodeidah, where his boat ran 

into difficulties in June. 

At least four people killed in 

train derailment in Morocco 

RABAT: At least four 

people were killed and 

dozens injured when a 

train derailed near the 

Moroccan capital Rabat on 

Tuesday, a railway official 

said. 

Another official said as 

many as eight might have 

been killed and 80 injured 

in the accident in Sidi 

Bouknadel, a town near 

Rabat. 

State news agency 

MAP said a train had 

derailed near the town on 

the Rabat Kenitra line but 

did not give any details. 

There was no immediate 

statement from the 

state-owned railway firm 

ONCF. 

Earlier local news outlets 

reported that two trains 

had collided but then published 

images showing a 

train derailed near some 

residential buildings. 

France confident of a Brexit deal, 

though not by Wednesday night 

PARIS: France is confident 

a Brexit deal can be 

struck, though unlikely by 

Wednesday night when EU 

leaders meet in Brussels, with 

the Irish border among the 

trickiest of issues to resolve, 

an official in the French presidency 

said on Tuesday. 

“We remain confident in 

the idea a deal can be 

reached, though probably not 

by Wednesday night,” the 

official briefed journalists. 

“We already said in 

Salzburg that we were at a 

moment of truth, time is running 

out.” 

The official said an extension 

of the article-50 negotiation 

period beyond March 29, 

2019, was legally possible 

SEOUL: North and 

South Korea held their first 

three-way talks with the 

United Nations Command 

(UNC) on Tuesday to discuss 

ways to demilitarize the 

border as the neighbors push 

for peace, Seoul’s defense 

ministry said. 

The two sides agreed this 

week to begin reconnecting 

rail and road links, in spite of 

U.S. concerns that a rapid 

thaw in relations could 

undermine efforts to press 

North Korea to give up its 

nuclear weapons. 

but “not desirable”. Such an 

extension was not being 

worked on by either EU or 

British negotiators, the official 

added. 

The official said France, 

which has taken a tough 

stance on preserving a united 

European front, expected the 

27 EU leaders to send a message 

of both “openness” and 

“urgency” to Britain on 

Wednesday. 

At the last summit in 

Austria, Macron called 

British Prime Minister 

Theresa May’s so-called 

Chequers plan “unacceptable” 

and denounced pro- 

Brexit campaigners as “liars” 

who sold Brexit to the public 

as an easy process. 

Tuesday’s meeting followed 

their agreement at a 

summit in Pyongyang last 

month to hold talks with the 


International 

MUMBAI: The 

Bollywood actress who 

helped trigger the #MeToo 

movement in India challenging 

sexual harassment and 

abuse sees it as part of her 

religious education after an 

experience 10 years ago she 

said effectively ended her 

career. 

“I feel God used me to 

start something which had to 

happen,” Tanushree Dutta 

told Reuters. “All these 

women had this buried deep 

in their hearts out of shame.” 

Dutta, who said she was 

inspired by Christianity, 

Buddhism, yoga and the 

#MeToo movement in the 

United States, said last 

month that prominent actor 

Nana Patekar had sexually 

harassed her on the set of a 

movie in 2008. 

Patekar has denied 

wrongdoing. 

Dutta said Patekar, 67, 

had demanded she do intimate 

dance steps with him in 

one song in the Hindi-language 

romantic comedy 

Horn OK Pleassss. When 

she refused, she said, members 

of a far right-wing 

Hindu group attacked her car 

while she was in it, including 

jumping on the roof and trying 

to smash the windscreen. 

Dutta, who walked out of 

the movie, went public with 

the allegations the same day, 

but was threatened with legal 

action by the Hindu group 

and felt so shamed by those 

questioning her story and by 

the way the Indian media 

treated her that she left 

Bollywood altogether and 

went to live in the United 

States. 

Other than a few bit parts, 

she hasn’t worked in a movie 

since. 

“All of that disgusted me 

- it took my faith and confidence 

from the industry,” she 

said in an interview. “I didn’t 

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Hadn’t intended to bring up harassment 

issue in public again: Tanushree 

TEHRAN: At least 14 

security personnel have been 

abducted near border with 

Pakistan, according to the 

Iranian television on 

Tuesday. 

The personnel were 

abducted by “terrorists” in 

the city of Mirjaveh in the 

southeastern Sistan and 

Baluchestan province, the 

television said. 

The abductees include 

five border guards, seven 

members of Basij militia and 

two members of Iran’s 

Islamic Revolutionary 

Guards Corps (IRGC). 

The abduction was 

quickly claimed by a group 

calling itself Jaish ul-Adl 

(Army of Justice), which is 

active in the province. 

The abductees are 

believed to have been smuggled 

into Pakistani territory. 

Meanwhile, the IRGC 

called on the Pakistani government 

to deal with the 

“terrorists” who abducted 

the security personnel. 

"We expect Pakistan to 

want to work here. I still kept 

in touch and did some work 

which needed short-term 

commitments.” 

Rajendra Shirodkar, 

Patekar’s lawyer, has sent 

Dutta a legal notice asking 

her to apologise to Patekar or 

face further legal action. He 

hasn’t specified what that 

action would be. 

The far-right group, 

Maharashtra Navnirman 

Sena (MNS), this month 

filed a complaint with the 

police against Dutta for comments 

she made about their 

chief. The police, in turn, 

filed a defamation case 

against Dutta, currently 

under investigation, based on 

the MNS complaint. 

Dutta, on holiday in 

Mumbai, said she hadn’t 

intended to bring up the issue 

in public again until she was 

asked by a reporter whether 

the #MeeToo movement 

would ever come to India. 

14 security personnel 

abducted in southeastern Iran 

SYDNEY: Australian 

Prime Minister Scott 

Morrison, whose government 

faces a crucial by-election 

in four days, said on 

Tuesday Canberra was open 

to recognizing Jerusalem as 

Israel’s capital, prompting 

concern from Indonesian 

and Palestinian officials. 

Morrison’s comments 

about recognizing 

Jerusalem and possibly 

moving Australia’s embassy 

there, just like U.S. 

President Donald Trump’s 

controversial decision in 

December, would reverse 

decades of foreign policy 

and inflame tension with 

some of Australia’s Asian 

neighbors. 

Australia is due to a sign 

a trade deal this year with 

Indonesia, the world’s 

biggest Muslim-majority 

confront these terrorist 

groups that are supported by 

some regional states and 

immediately release the kidnapped 

Iranian forces," the 

IRGC said in a statement 

carried on state television. 

Jaish ul-Adl -- designated 

as a terrorist group by Iran -- 

is an opposition group which 

says it aims to protect the 

rights of Sunni Baloch people. 

In April 2017, the group 

abducted an Iranian soldier 

before releasing him four 

months later. 

Australian PM criticized for possibly 

recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli capital 

UNC, which overlaps with 

U.S. forces in the South and 

oversees affairs in the 

Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), 

country, where the 

Palestinian question is a 

sensitive issue and tens of 

thousands protested against 

Trump’s decision. 

Foreign Minister Retno 

Marsudi, speaking at a joint 

news conference with 

Palestinian Foreign Minister 

Riyad al-Maliki in Jakarta, 

reaffirmed Indonesia’s support 

for a two-state solution 

to the Middle East dispute 

and warned Australia 

against the risk of insecurity. 

“Indonesia asksAustralia 

and other countries to support 

peace talks ... and not 

take steps that would threaten 

that peace process and 

stability of world security,” 

Marsudi said. 

Morrison told parliament 

on Tuesday he had been in 

touch with Indonesian 

President Joko Widodo to 

explain his position. 

Two Koreas, U.N. Command wrap up first session of talks on disarming border 

to smooth the way to disarming 

one of the world’s 

most heavily fortified frontiers. 

The meeting lasted for 

about two hours at the border 

village of Panmunjom, 

and was led by military officials 

of the rank of colonel 

from each side, including 

Burke Hamilton, secretary 

of the UNC Military 

Armistice Commission, the 

ministry said. 

“They discussed practical 

issues regarding demilitarization 

steps to be conducted 

in the future,” it said 

in a statement after the talks. 

The steps ranged from 

withdrawing firearms and 

guard posts to reducing personnel 

and adjusting surveillance 

equipment, the 

ministry said, adding that 

the three-way channel 

would be used for further 

discussions. 

North Korea and the rich, 

democratic South are technically 

still at war because the 

1950-53 Korean War ended 

in a truce, rather than a peace 

treaty.

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Biz 

Govt to fulfill all pledges made 

with business community: PM 

CORPORATE CORNER 

PSO’s 42nd Annual General Meeting highlights 

consistent progress despite challenges 

KARACHI: In what is 

yet another blow to the 

rupee, the greenback rose by 

Rs0.7 in the open market to 

be sold at Rs134 on 

Tuesday. 

Similarly, in the interbank 

market the dollar's 

price increased by Rs0.5 to 

reach Rs133.75. 

The US dollar continued 

to fluctuate against the rupee 

on Monday, after the latter 

downward spiral in the past 

week amid speculations of a 

bailout package by the 

International Monetary 

Fund (IMF). 

The greenback increased 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan meeting with a delegation of Federation of 

Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industries at PM Office. 

by Rs1.43 after initially rising 

by Rs1.57 and was being 

traded at Rs133.40 after 

closing at Rs131.97 on 

Friday. 

Following a steep 

increase in the greenback's 

price last week, the rupee 

made a recovery against the 

dollar in the interbank market 

on Friday as it was trading 

at Rs132.40 in the interbank, 

down Rs1.40 and 

closed at Rs131.93, down by 

Rs1.87. 

The US dollar had gained 

by over Rs6.50 to touch a 

new high in the open market, 

while in the interbank 

market it had risen by Rs9 to 

reach Rs133.64 on Tuesday. 

The IMF has asked 

Pakistan to disclose its debts 

with “absolute transparency” 

to receive a bailout 

package, as the government 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

Minister Imran Khan on 

Tuesday said contrary to 

the policies of previous 

governments, the present 

government would ensure 

the fulfillment of all the 

pledges made with the 

business community. 

He was talking to a 

Federation of Pakistan 

Chambers of Commerce 

and Industry (FPCCI) delegation, 

which called on 

him here. Minister for 

Finance Asad Umar and 

Advisor to the Prime 

Minister on Commerce 

Abdul Razak Dawood 

were also present in the 

meeting. 

The prime minister said 

the government was determined 

to provide all possible 

facilitation to the business 

community and 

industrialists on foremost 

priority so that the economy’s 

wheel moved ahead, 

the country achieved economic 

development and 

the skilled workers got 

maximum job opportunities. 

He said the government 

would ensure that every 

decision regarding the 

economy was taken in 

Rupee continues to depreciate 

against dollar in open market 

HYDERABAD: Women pack tomatoes in wooden crates to earn their livelihood for 

support their families at vegetable market 

SME uplift suggested for speedy exports 

KARACHI: Confidence 

of the consumer is always 

proportionate to safety and 

reliability of a product and 

this confidence can only be 

achieved through standardization 

said Mr. Abdul 

Aleem Memon Director 

General, PSQCA In the 

Seminar of World 

Standards Day 2018 on 

topic “International 

Standards and the Fourth 

Industrial Revolution” 

which was held at PSQCA 

Head office-Karachi 

organized by Pakistan 

Standards & Quality 

Control Authority 

(PSQCA) The objective of 

the seminar was to promote 

KARACHI: The Union 

of Small and Medium 

Enterprises (UNISAME) 

has invited the attention of 

Prime Minister Imran Khan 

to the big challenge of 

increasing exports by 

speedy SME promotion and 

development and fast track 

SME uplift to increase 

exports substantially to earn 

valuable foreign exchange. 

UNISAME reiterated the 

urgent need to increase 

exports through the majority 

SME sector by giving them 

marketing, technical and 

financial support and promoting 

and facilitating them 

on priority basis. As without 

putting the sector on fast 

track no significant progress 

will be made in exports. 

Value addition of goods is 

done by the SMEs and it is 

of paramount importance to 

exploit the full potential of 

the sector 

President UNISAME 

Zulfikar Thaver said no 

doubt the government is 

very sincere and dedicated 

but since the need of the 

hour is to increase exports 

the government needs to act 

promptly and take measures 

quality standards culture in 

Pakistan. Mr. Abdul Aleem 

Memon Director General, 

PSQCA was the Chief 

Guest in the Seminar on 

the occasion of 49th World 

Standards Day. He appreciated 

the efforts of National 

Standards Committees and 

welcomed chairmen of 

NSCs, who were present in 

the seminar and were specially 

invited to honor the 

day. In his speech he 

acknowledged the fact that 

industrialization, standardization 

and economic 

growth grow together as 

without Standardization 

optimum growth cannot be 

achieved. I am pleased to 

promptly. A scientific 

approach is required and 

stakeholders need to be consulted 

and their recommendations 

be implemented 

forthwith. 

Thaver said now with the 

depreciation of the rupee 

exports are likely to increase 

as we have become competitive 

but a strategy is needed 

for regaining lost markets 

and finding new markets 

and promoting non traditional 

goods. The textile 

sector is the biggest followed 

by rice and other 

export items. 

learn that NSC is already 

addressing this issue and 

have developed Pakistan 

Standards. Moreover, 

International Standards 

especially with regards to 

Pakistan is one single 

deals with the challenge of a 

prevalent financial crisis. 

If a package is agreed, it 

would be Pakistan’s 13th 

IMF bailout since 1988. The 

Fund lent Islamabad $6.7 

billion in 2013. 

5pc ST withdrawal on 

cotton import greeted 

KARACHI: Syed Mazhar 

Ali Nasir, Senior Vice 

President FPCCI lauded government 

decision to consider 

withdrawal 5 percent sales tax 

on the import of cotton and 

termed it in line with the 

demand of the textile sector. 

In a statement he said that 

the depressed textile sector 

has taken a sigh of relief 

because due to the high cost of 

doing business and inadequate 

supply of raw cotton almost 

140 textile mills closed their 

operations resulting in a loss 

of one million jobs. Further 

around 75 to 80 mills were on 

the verge of closure which 

would add another 0.5 million 

to the unemployment figure, 

he remarked. He pointed out 

that due to the closure of about 

140 mills and the mills operating 

under capacity, Pakistan's 

textile exports is suffering a 

loss of more than 4 billion 

US$ per annum which could 

have been a vital contribution 

in addressing the problem of 

the high trade deficit. 

Syed Mazhar Ali Nasir 

said that the cotton crop of the 

country is far behind the consumption 

requirement of 15 

million bales, for the third 

consecutive year, as a result, 

the industry is compelled to 

import cotton from other 

countries to meet its annual 

consumption requirement. 

important factor that could 

direct/channelize the entire 

outlook of business. 

He thanked to the NSC 

and welcomed all the 

guests for their presence 

and active participation to 

consultation with the business 

community. 

The prime minister said 

the country would move 

forward in the economic 

field through strong partnership 

between the government 

and the business 

community. 

The delegation felicitated 

Prime Minister Imran 

Khan on his election as 

well as on assuming the 

office. 

The delegation apprised 

the prime minister of the 

problems faced by the 

business community as 

well as the industrial sector. 

They also welcomed 

the government’s decision 

to restore the Engineering 

Development Board. 

ICCI shows concerns 

over 26 percent fall 

in value of rupee 

ISLAMABAD: Ahmed 

Hassan Moughal, President, 

Islamabad Chamber of 

Commerce and Industry on 

Tuesday expressed great 

concerns over the consistent 

falling value of rupee that has 

tumbled to over 26 percent 

within a year against dollar. 

He called upon the government 

to take solid measures 

to bring some stability in 

the local currency as continued 

falling value of rupee 

would further enhance the 

cost of doing business and 

adversely affect business, 

industry, exports and the 

overall economy. 

In a statement, he said 

value of Pak rupee was 

around Rs.105 against a dollar 

in October 2017 which 

has now come down to 

around Rs.133 against a dollar 

which was quite perplexing 

for the business community. 

It was badly disturbing 

business plans of private sector 

for expansion and 

growth. He said local industry 

was using most of the 

imported raw materials for 

manufacturing activities, but 

the falling value of rupee 

was causing manifold 

increase in the input cost 

making local products highly 

uncompetitive in the 

international market. 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Azerbaijan proposes to elevate 

bilateral trade associations 

with Pakistan, and 

esteemed the efforts of 

Rawalpindi Chamber of 

Commerce and Industry 

(RCCI) for encouraging such 

initiatives. 

Rufat Mammadov, the 

Deputy Minister of Economy 

of Azerbaijan, stated at the 

reception ceremony congregated 

by Rawalpindi 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry in his honor. 

He emphasized to amplify 

the quantity of trade within 

both the countries in order 

to strengthen business sector. 

He also said, there are numerous 

prospects to develop 

bilateral assistance in the 

KARACHI: Pakistan State Oil Company Limited, the country’s largest oil marketing 

company, held its 42nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Karachi where it 

shed on light on recent achievements and consistent growth trends in spite of some 

grave industry challenges. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Jahangir Ali Shah, 

Managing Director & CEO of Pakistan State Oil, along with senior officials including 

Mr. Yacoob Suttar, Deputy Managing Director - Finance, and Mr. Rashid Umar, 

the Company Secretary. 

PSO closed the year with a cumulative market share of 50%. The growth in 

MOGAS at 10.1% and HSD at 2.4% was the highest recorded in the last three years. 

The Company – which already rules the aviation fuels sector with 79.2% market 

share and operations at all 10 airports in Pakistan – further increased its dominance 

in the segment by commissioning a state-of-the-art refueling facility at the New 

Islamabad International Airport (NIIAP). 

PSO increased its gross profit despite a steep decline in Black Oil demand by 

29.6%. Reduction in markup received from PIBs due to their maturity in July 2017 

by Rs 4.3 billion, and reversal of deferred tax asset due to decline in future corporate 

tax rates by Rs 1.3 billion are the main contributors in reduction of profit after 

tax by Rs 2.7 billion in FY2018. 

Dawlance presents new refrigerator 

series 9150 LF with larger freezer portion 

KARACHI: Dawlance is the technology leader in home appliances; 

it has now introduced another innovative range of refrigerators 

in Pakistan with increased freezer portion without compromising 

the refrigerator portion. 

The new product has been designed after extensive research and development 

process, involving deeper insights into the evolving needs of the consumers. All the 

reliable and feature-rich refrigerators from Dawlance come with 12 years warranty. 

The Head of Marketing at Dawlance - Hasan Jamil said that; “The reliability and 

convenience promised by Dawlance products make them the best choice for the consumers. 

Dawlance is committed to continuing with its pursuit for more innovative 

products, to gain more trust and confidence of all consumer segments.” 

Hasan Jamil further stated that; “Dawlance’s energy-conservation technology 

reduces the spending on electricity bills. The R600A refrigerant used in this new 

product-range, saves more than 35% energy. The modern-day consumers look for 

appliances with sleek designs and prompt after sales-services that simplify their 

lifestyle. Dawlance is a pioneering brand that goes beyond the expectations of its 

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again succeeded in creating an extraordinary experience for its customers’ daily life, 

by launching these sophisticated refrigerators. The style tunes-in perfectly with the 

latest trends in kitchen design, so each of these products will certainly enrich the 

home interiors. 

Since meat-consumption is very popular in Pakistan and people often store meat 

in the freezer compartment, while the freezer is also the main source of ice at home. 

Thus, the freezer’s storage-capacity becomes an issue for many households. In this 

scenario, the 9150 refrigerator from Dawlance offers a special advantage, by providing 

30% extra freezing capacity; without compromising the refrigeration space. 

This model is also embellished with a Borderless Flush-Door handle-design and it 

gives a stylish look with its elegant sheet-design. 

Azerbaijan to augment bilateral trade with Pakistan 

tourism sector, since 

Azerbaijan had provided 

ease for tourist visa. 

Furthermore, he also proposed 

to enlarge collaboration 

in oil, gas and minerals 

related products. 

Malik Shahid Saleem, 

President RCCI said that 

Azerbaijan has always been 

make this seminar success. 

He further said that the 

changing face of international 

trade has led to single, 

globally acceptable 

technical standards for 

globally marketable products. 

At the international 

level, standards are becoming 

a pillar of the new 

global trade system. He 

said that I urge Pakistani 

companies to remain vigilant 

about the latest devel- 

very gracious and compassionate 

to Pakistan. The bilateral 

relations between both 

the countries are broaden to 

ultimate area whether it is 

political, economical, technological, 

security or culture 

related. 

Furthermore, he also 

added that, Azerbaijan and 

opment of international 

standards and get involved 

in standards committees of 

PSQCA. I am very much 

hopeful 

that 

Standardization with the 

collaborative efforts of the 

public and private sectors 

have maintained its dedication 

by bringing positive 

changes to this activity 

every year. He congratulates 

the efforts of the 

SDC-NSC Chairmen 

regarding their active participation 

in committee 

meetings and hard work to 

make National Standards. 

After the seminar distribution 

of certificates was 

done by Mr. Abdul Aleem 

Pakistan’s relation has entitled 

them as “friendly and 

brotherly” countries. 

According to him, China 

Pakistan Economic Corridor 

(CPEC) has now become 

ground reality for Pakistan, 

and new cooperative 

schemes shall also be 

explored under CPEC. 

International Standards only can guarantee the health and safety of the consumers 

KARACHI: Group Photo of participant of World Standards Day Seminar with Director General, PSQCA Mr. Abdul 

Aleem Memon at PSQCA-Head office. 

Memon Director General, 

PSQCA among the 

Chairmen of NSC. 

The seminar session 

was attended by large 

number of chairmen of 

National Standards 

Committees. On the occasion 

Mr. Naveed Ansari, 

Chairmen of NSC- 

Electronics, Mr. Gulzar 

Memon of NSC- 

Agriculture & Food, Mr. 

Jamal Naqvi of NSC- 

Mechanical and Mr. 

Khalid Ahmad Bablani, 

Director Standards 

Development Centre 

(SDC) also spoke on the 

importance of World 

Standards Day.

Abbas strikes after 

Fakhar, Sarfraz rescue act 

Dr 

ABU DHABI: No one 

really has a clue how Tests 

in the UAE go. "Slow burners" 

seemed to be the conclusion 

last week. Win the 

toss, bat first, put up a big 

score, and dominate. 

Nathan Lyon made a 

mockery of that formula in 

Abu Dhabi. He shredded 

his way through Pakistan's 

middle order and turned 

conventional wisdom on its 

head. Just after Pakistan had 

recovered from the loss of 

an early wicket and begun 

to put on a partnership that 

would reset them on course 

came a spell any grand old 

Asian spin master would 

remember in the rocking 

chair decades on. 

Spread across two overs, 

he took four wickets in six 

balls as Pakistan tumbled 

from the relative affluence 

of 57 for one to the penury 

of 57 for five within 10 

minutes. It didn't only tear 

Sports Reporte 

KARACHI: The 

Champion District East 

Azam Sports grabbed a 

narrow 1-0 victory with 

up the narrative of the opening 

session, it may yet be 

the defining period of this 

Test series. 

If it is not, that would be 

single-handedly down to 

one partnership, the one that 

came right after the carnage. 

Debutant Fakhar and 

a rejuvenated Sarfraz added 

147 to lift Pakistan from the 

doldrums and carry them 

self goal against. Famous 

team of district central 

Shah Faisal Nazimabad in 

All Karachi Abdul Waheed 

Memorial.5 Star Football 

tournament here on 

Sunday at Noorani Eidgha 

Ground New Karachi. 

The 60th minutes of the 

game it saw Shah Faisal 

Nazimabad FC dominating 

Azam Sports after self goal 

by mistake of Bilal Khan in 

12th minuet the Shah Faisal 

forward in with Ex 

International Anwar Saeed 

put the opposition under 

pressure by continue attack’s 

with short passes half. 

Shah Faisal Nazimabad 

got many chances of leveling 

the score but unfortunate 

they failed when Younis 

Khan’s kick struck the side 

bar in 42 minute, Striker 

Furqan Khan of Azam 

Sports missed a sure chance 

through to a relatively 

respectable 282. At the end 

of their careers, this innings 

is likely to rank near the 

top, and yet both were 

denied richly-deserved hundreds. 

Each fell for 94, 

ensuring that despite their 

brilliance, the day ended 

with honours even. 

Pakistan finished on a 

high, though, landing a significant 

blow to the visitors 

late on, a diving catch from 

- who else - Sarfraz dismissing 

last game's hero 

Usman Khawaja cheaply. 

The icing on the cake was 

Mohammad Abbas trapping 

nightwatchman Peter 

Siddle in front middle and 

leg off the last ball. 

For a man who had averaged 

almost 85 in the UAE 

Azam Sports victory in Abdul 

Waheed Memorial 5 Star Soccer 

KARACHI: The Chief guest Faisal Patni being introduced 

with both team Players While Vice president DFA 

Central Muhammad Akif Khan, Secretary DFA Central 

International Footballer M.Saleem Patni and 

Muhammad Tahir also seen. 

Abdul FC reigns supreme with immaculate 

run so far in Leisure Leagues Season 4 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: Abdul FC 

has been playing splendidly 

well winning eight out 

of eight matches accumulating 

16 points in the 

ongoing Leisure Leagues 

Season 4 underway here at 

Karachi United Football 

Stadium. 

The invincible team so 

far has maintained a brilliant 

40 goals goal difference 

– scoring 49 goals in 

eight matches while conceding 

only nine goals. 

Abdul FC bulldozed Karsaz 

FC recording a huge 10-0 

victory. Shahrukh Khattak 

scored four goals while 

Shahzaib Ahmed Khan and 

Affan Siddique both scored 

hat-tricks. 

Its closest rival in the 

eight-team event is Joga 

Bonito, which has won six 

out of its eight matches, 

while losing one and drawing 

one to accumulate 13 

points with a goal difference 

of 21 goals. 

Glory Days is occupying 

third place with five 

wins, two lost matches and 

a draw with 11 points and a 

goal difference of 10. 

to score the goal on penalty 

kick to double the lead in 

the 59th minute when Ex 

International goal keeper 

Hameed Alam Stopped the 

powerful kick. 

At the half time The 

Chief guest Faisal Patni were 

introduces with both team 

Players While Vice president 

DFA Central Muhammad 

Akif Khan, Secretary DFA 

Central International 

Footballer M.Saleem Patni 

and Muhammad Tahir were 

also present. 

The matches were supervised 

referees by Abdur 

Rouf Baloch, Noor Alam 

and Abid Hussain while 

Abdul Kareem was the 

match commissioner. 

Sohail Tanvir to 

represent Quetta 

in PSL 2019 


KARACHI: The first big 

trade of this year's Pakistan 

Super League (PSL) trade 

window is now official with 

experienced left-arm pacer 

and useful low order batsman 

Sohail Tanvir moving 

from Multan Sultans to 

Quetta Gladiators. 

As a result of this trade, 

the Gladiators have given 

up their Diamond round 

pick to Multan Sultans who 

will now have the second 

and third picks in the first 

Diamond round of the PSL 

Player Draft this year. 

Tanvir, a global T20 specialist, 

brings a wealth of 

experience to the Gladiators 

squad with 301 wickets in 

293 T20 matches. 

previously, there was no 

foreshadowing what Lyon 

was about to produce. The 

second wicket partnership 

had accumulated 52 hardfought 

runs, but Azhar Ali - 

struggling for form of late - 

chose unwisely to attack 

Lyon by charging down the 

wicket, only to scoop the 

ball straight into the 

bowler's hands. 

That opened the floodgates. 

Haris Sohail couldn't 

keep the first ball he faced 

down and Travis Head at 

silly point caught sharply.An 

over later, Lyon struck two 

more bruising blows to the 

solar plexus of the batting 

order, sending Asad Shafiq 

and Babar Azam on their 

way. Babar's dismissal could 

most kindly be described as a 

brain-freeze, with the youngster 

charging down the track 

off just his second delivery, 

hopelessly beaten by both 

flight and turn. 

Australian antidoping 

authority 

defends Bolt drug 

test request 

SYDNEY: The former 

athletics star is on trial 

with A-League club 

Central Coast Mariners as 

he seeks to launch a professional 

football career. 

Australia’s anti-doping 

authority has defended its 

decision to test Usain 

Bolt after the former 

Olympic sprint champion 

questioned why he had 

been selected while he is 

on trial with A-League 

club Central Coast 

Mariners. 

The eight-time gold 

medallist reacted with 

surprise after receiving a 

notice for a drugs test on 

Monday, just days after 

scoring his first goals in a 

friendly for the club. 

In a video posted on 

Instagram story, Bolt 

said: “I asked the lady, 

‘Why am I getting drug 

tested when I haven’t 

signed for a club yet?’ 

and she said they told her 

I’m an elite athlete so I 

have to get tested.” 

M. Arif Hafeez 


K A R A C H I : 

International Cricket 

Council has charged the 

ex-Sri Lanka skipper 

Sanath Jayasuriya with 

two violations of its anticorruption 

code. 

The reason behind the 

charges are because the 

49-year-old former Sri 

Lankan all-rounder neglected 

to co-operate with 

the investiagation proceedings 

being held by ICC. 

He is likewise accused 

of hindering the examination 

by “concealing, tampering 

with or destroying 

evidence”. 


Sportlight 

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ICC Cricket: Sanath Jayasuriya 

Booked Under Corruption Charges 


KARACHI: First 

FEGA Pakistan Ladies 

Amateur 

Golf 

Championship, was contested 

over three days at 

the Bahria Town Muree 

Expressway Golf Course 

and concluded after a 

sharp competitive activity 

that was exclusively meant 

for lady golfers. 

The Pakistan Ladies 

Amateur 

Golf 

Championship went into a 

competitive mode and 

champions like Parkha and 

Rimsha launched themselves 

to demonstrate powerful 

shots off the tees and 

back that up with crisp 

approach shots. To facilitate 

the relatively new 

golfers the events were 

divided into gold category, 

silver category and bronze 

category. 

After a tremendous display 

of golfing talent and 

expertise, Atya Anjum succeeded 

in picking up the 

2nd gross prize in Bronze 

section. The runner up was 

Mrs Saleem Akhter and 

gross winner was Mrs 

Ayesha Moazzam. While 

these ladies were the top 

ones in race for gross honours, 

those who won in net 

category were Ayesha 

Hamid, 2nd runner up net, 

Mina Zafar, net runner up 

and Falah Zara, net winner. 

In the competition in 

Silver category, 2nd runner 

up gross was Ms Rafaqat 

Abjad, runner up gross Ms 

Tehmina Rashid and winner 

gross D.S.P. Shehzadi 

Gulfam. 

Performers in Silver 

category were Ms. Faiza 

Imtiaz 2nd runner up net, 

Dr Shaheen Irfan runner 

up net and Ms Ayesha 

Fizza net winner. 

Gold category was a 

battle among the skilled 

ones and noticeable was 

the quality of their hitting 

and most importantly their 

battle hardened nerves. 

14 days are given to 

Sanath Jayasuriya to 

respond to the charges. 

Sanath Jayasuriya, is 

viewed as one of the best 

one-day players of all 

time, and has also 

remained a previous member 

of the Sri Lanka selectors’ 

committe. 

As indicated by a 

report, Sanath Jayasuriya 

declined to hand over his 

cell phone to ICC experts 

for ‘personal reasons’, 

after which he was booked 

with two violations of the 

ICC anti-corruption code. 

Prior this month, Alex 

Marshall, general chief of 

the ICC against defilement 

unit, reported an examination 

concerning genuine 

claims of corruption in Sri 

Lanka. 

The report comprehends 

Jayasuriya was executive of 

selectors amid the period 

under scrutiny. 

Jayasuriya claimed 323 

wickets in 445 ODI’s and 

also made 21 centuries. 

Additionally, he was the 

player of the tournament, 

when Sri Lanka managed to 

won the World Cup in 1996. 

He additionally averaged 

40.07 in 110 Test matches. 

The previous government 

minister resigned 

from global cricket in 2011, 

however kept playing 

Twenty20 matches until 

2012. 

1st FEGA All Pakistan Ladies Amateur 

Golf Championship: Winners Shine 

Competition was close and 

after a close fight winner 

in net category was 

Rimsha Ijaz and Ms Aruba 

Ali was runner up net. 

Gross section top one in 

Gold category was Anya 

Faqrooq followed by Ms. 

Parkha Ejaz who lost to 

Anya by one stroke. 

The Senior section best 

one was Yasmeen Mubarak 

with a score of 53 over 9 

holes. In the invitees game 

played in Texas Scramble 

format the winning pair 

was Nadeem and Bert. Bert 

shared his experience with 

fellow golfers of an app 

which can be searched for 

R&A rules while playing at 

the course. 

Noticeable was the driving 

distance achieved by 

the young girls and included 

a massive 260 yards shot 

that enabled Rimsha to 

claim the longest drive 

while Parkha accurately 

played the nearest to the pin 

at 6ft from the hole. 

Gareth Southgate praises ‘courageous’ England 

team after memorable win against Spain 

LONDON: Gareth 

Southgate lauded England’s 

players after their display of 

quality and courage stunned 

Spain in a Nations League 

victory that will live long in 

the memory. 

Raheem Sterling ended 

his 1,102-day wait for an 

international goal in style in 

Seville, where he opened 

the scoring before netting 

again once Marcus 

Rashford had fired home. 

It was a breathtaking first 

half that brought back memories 

of the 5-1 shellacking 

of Germany in 2001, but 

Spain rallied and piled on 

the pressure after the break 

as substitute Paco Alcacer 

pulled one back. 

Sergio Ramos grabbed 

another in stoppage time, 

but England had done 

enough to secure a 3-2 victory 

that underlines the 

progress being made by the 

World Cup semi-finalists. 

“I’m just extremely 

proud of the performance 

the players have given 

because they played with 

huge courage,” Southgate 

said. 

“We knew that to come 

here and just defend for 90 

minutes, you’re unlikely to 

get a result, so we needed to 

be brave with the ball. 

“We talked about the 

threat that our front three 

have and that they need to 

believe in themselves, but 

also we then have to get the 

ball to them. 

“We knew today, the 

way that Spain press, you 

have to get the first couple 

of passes out of that press 

spot on. 

“At times, we ran the risk 

of losing the ball near our 

goal, but when we got out of 

that press we were a huge 

threat in counter attack. 

KARACHI: Mr Shookat Mehmmod Hit the ball and Ingratiated the event 1 NBP Inter 

Academy Under-17 Cricket Tournament-2018 Mr iqbal Qasim also in the pic. 

No proper procedure was followed in appointing 

Rahul Johri, alleges former BCCI secretary 


KARACHI: On a day 

when the BCCI CEO 

Rahul Johri is facing allegation 

charges of woman 

harassment, the former 

secretary Niranjan Shah 

has raised his doubts over 

his appointment. 

"I have doubts whether 

the proper procedure was 

followed in his appointment. 

One fine day Rahul 

Johri was accompanied by 

the then BCCI secretary 

Anurag Thakur and introduced 

him to us in the 

board meeting as our new 

CEO". 

"I immediately objected 

to his appointment and 

asked what procedure was 

followed and who were 

the board members to 

interview him. I received 

no satisfactory answer". 

"It was only the suggestion 

of the Lodha Panel. 

There was no Supreme 

Court direction then and 

Johri was appointed at the 

salary of Rs. 8 crore", 

Shah added. 

Rahul Johri is a son of 

Dinesh Johri, who was 

actively involved in politics. 

He was a Member of 

the Legislative Assembly 

representing Bhartiya 

Janta Party (Bareilly 

(Assembly constituency) 

and Anurag Thakur, who 

also headed the Indian 

cricket board is a member 

of 16th Lok Sabha from 

Hamirpur in Himachal 

Pradesh. 

The lady, who has 

alleged charges of harassment 

on Johri has not 

revealed her identity and 

many in the Indian cricket 

board believe that the CoA 

would exonerate Johri if 

the woman does not come 

in person to lodge the 

complaint. 

National Junior Badminton 

Championship 2018: Champs Decided 


KARACHI: Raja 

Zulqarnain Haider (Punjab) 

won the U-18 Single Title 

and Alja Tariq 

(Balochistan) won the U-18 

single Championships. In 

the Boys U-16 Single Qari 

Adnan from Khyber 

Paktunkhawa and in the 

Girls U-16 Single Sumaiya 

Tariq from Balochistan 

won the title. Umar Khan 

from 

Khyber 

Pakhtunkhawa took the U- 

14 Boys Single title. 

in the Boys Doubles U- 

18 Raja Zulqarnain Haider 

& Tayyab Shafiq (Punjab) 

won the title and in Girls U- 

18 Doubles Amal Munib & 

Laiba Masoud (Punjab) 

won the Title. 

Muhammad Khalid 

Mahmood, Secretary 

General Pakistan Olympic 

Association was the chief 

guest of the final ceremony 

and distributed trophies, 

cash award and certificates 

amongst the finalists. 

The total Prize money of 

the tournament was Rupees 

150,000. 

Mr. Sam Benthan 

Sivaparumal, Development 

officer of Badminton Asia, 

Mr Pervaiz Ahmad 

Secretary Election commission 

of POA, Miss Ada 

Jaffery Secretary Education 

commission POA and 

Wajid Ali Chaudhry 

Secretary PBF were also 

present at the occasion. 

Results 

Boys Single U-18 

Raja Zulqarnain Haider 

(Punjab) beat Tayyab 

Shafiq (Punjab) by 21-16, 

21-17 

Girls Single U-18 

Alja Tariq (Balochistan) 

beat Amal Munib (Punjab) 

by 21-15, 15-21, 21-11 


Umar Khan (Khyber 

Pakhtunkhawa) beat Saad 

Amir (Punjab) by 21-18, 

21-11 


Qari Adnan (Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa) beat Raza 

Ali Adil (Punjab) by 21-19, 

21-19 

Girls Single U-16 

Sumiya Tariq 

(Balochistan) beat Zainab 

Chauhdry (Punjab) by 21- 

5, 21-9 

Girls U-18 Double 

Laiba Masoud & Amal 

Munib (Punjab) beat Alja 

Tariq & Masooma 

(Balochistan) by 21-15, 21- 

17 

Boys Double U-18 

Raja Zulqarnain Haider 

(Punjab) bear Abdullah & 

Zubair Shah (Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa) by 25-27, 

21-13, 21-18.

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Pompeo meets Saudi king on Khashoggi 

case, Turks study 'toxic materials' 

Pompeo tells Saudis US is concerned about Khashoggi: State Department 

RIYADH/ISTANBUL: 

U.S. Secretary of State 

Mike Pompeo met Saudi 

Arabia’s King Salman on 

Tuesday to discuss the disappearance 

of Saudi journalist 

Jamal Khashoggi, as 

Turkish police prepared to 

search the Saudi consul’s 

residence in Istanbul in a 

widening probe. 

Khashoggi, a U.S. resident 

and leading critic of 

the Saudi crown prince, 

vanished after entering the 

consulate on Oct. 2. 

Turkish officials say they 

believe he was murdered 

there and his body 

removed, which the Saudis 

strongly deny. 

President Donald 

Trump, who dispatched 

Pompeo to Riyadh amid 

strained ties with the key 

ally, has speculated that 

“rogue killers” may be 

responsible after speaking 

LAHORE: PMLN 

spokesperson Maryam 

Aurangzeb has said the fake 

government faltering on the 

crutches of four votes is 

shivering with fear. 

“ corruption of not even 

a single penny has been 

proved against Shahbaz 

Sharif and Former Prime 

Minister Nawaz Sharif but 

sham government faltering 

on crutches of 4 votes 

arrested Shahbaz Sharif 

before by-elections due to 

RIYADH: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with the Saudi Crown Prince 

Mohammed bin Salman during his visits in Saudi Arabia. 

with King Salman. 

After talks with the 

king, Pompeo met Foreign 

Minister Adel al-Jubeir and 

will have dinner with 

Crown Prince Mohammed 

bin Salman. He may go on 

fear”, she said this while 

talking to media men outside 

Accountability Court 

(AC) here Tuesday. 

PMLN spokesperson 

said that PMLN supporters 

didn’t damage even a single 

flower pot while staging 

peaceful protest during previous 

hearing but today 

fake government barred us 

from staging peaceful 

protest too by deploying 

heavy contingents of 

Police. 

to Turkey. 

Overnight, Turkish 

crime scene investigators 

entered the Saudi consulate 

in Istanbul, the last place 

Khashoggi was seen before 

vanishing, for the first time 

and searched the premises 

for over nine hours, Reuters 

witnesses said. 

A Turkish foreign ministry 

source said the police 

would search the consulate 

again on Tuesday as well as 

Sham govt faltering on crutches of 4 votes 

is in state of fear: Maryam Aurangzeb 

67th Martyrdom anniversary 

of Liaquat Ali Khan observed 

KARACHI: Son of Liaquat Ali Khan is offering fateha at 

his father’s grave on the occasion of his death anniversary. 

KARACHI: The 67th 

martyrdom anniversary of 

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali 

Khan, Pakistan’s first Prime 

Minister was observed 

Tuesday. Liaquat Ali Khan 

struggled with Quaid-e- 

Azam Muhammad Ali 

Jinnah to get a separate 

homeland for Muslims of 

sub-continent and later 

served as its first prime minister 

at critical juncture. 

Liaquat Ali Khan was 

born on October 1, 1896 in 

Karnal (Punjab), India. He 

graduated from Anglo 

Oriental College in 1918. 

He refused to join Indian 

civil service and left for 

England for higher education. 

He returned to sub-continent 

in 1923 after completing 

his studies. Soon after 

his return, he decided to join 

politics. Liaquat Ali Khan 

was a member of the United 

Provinces Legislative 

Council from 1926-1940. 

He was also the leader of the 

Democratic Party of the 

Council. 

In 1946, he was appointed 

as a member of the 

Governor General’s 

Executive Council and the 

leader of the Muslim League 

Party in the Indian interim 

government. He held the 

portfolio of finance minister, 

becoming the first Indian 

Finance Minister. The budget 

for 1947-48 which he presented 

was acclaimed 

throughout the country as a 

‘Poor man’s Budget’. 

Corruption is mother of all evils: Chairman NAB 

ISLAMABAD: Justice (Retd) Javed 

Iqbal, Chairman NAB said that corruption 

is mother of all evils as corruption 

undermines economic development and 

deprives deserving persons of their due 

right as per law. He said Pakistan is committed 

to United Nations Convention 

against Corruption (UNCAC) in eradicating 

corruption in all its manifestations by 

implementing its articles through its three 

pronged Anti Corruption Strategy of 

SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

MELBOURNE: The 

royal couple has arrived in 

Australia and we’ve got the 

low-down on everything 

they’ll be doing and what 

you need to do so you can 

see them. 

The Duke and Duchess 

of Sussex are the most 

beloved couple in the 

world, having just four 

months ago had the mostwatched 

wedding of the 

century. 

The cute couple put a 

wild preacher into a stifling 

St. George’s Cathedral and 

watched all their friends 

and family squirm, and the 

world loved them for it. 

This week Prince Harry 

and Meghan will be in 

Australia to bless our 

shores with their love, in a 

tour that, according to a 

press release from 

Awareness, Prevention and Enforcement. 

He said this while chairing a meeting at 

NAB headquarters. 

He said NAB since its inception 

received about 3, 99,861 complaints from 

individuals and private / public organizations. 

During this period, NAB authorized 

13180 complaint verification, 8587 

inquiries, 4124 investigations, filed 3401 

corruption references in respective 

accountability courts. 

Royal couple arrives in Australia 

Kensington Palace, will 

“focus on youth 

“Leadership and projects 

being undertaken by 

young people to address 

the social, economic, and 

environmental challenges 

of the region/” 

There are three major 

opportunities for the public 

to meet with the newlyweds 

and shake hands or 

publicly faint, and we have 

all the details. 

Corruption of not even a 

single penny has been 

proved against Nawaz 

Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif, 

she claimed. 

Maryam said PMLN has 

brought betterment in 

Pakistan through hard work 

as a network of motorways 

has been laid in backward 

areas. 

Hundreds and thousands 

of people have reposed trust 

on them, she added. 

She said staggering government 

established by four 

votes arrested Shehbaz 

Sharif before by-elections 

due to fear. 

She claimed that 

Shehbaz Sharif will tolerate 

every hardship open mindedly 

because he has 

worked for the development 

of Punjab day and 

night. 

Replying to a query she 

said Forward block is not 

being made in PML-N but 

it will be carved out in PTI. 

PM adopted austerity 

measures to reduce 

expenditures: Fawad 

ISLAMABAD: Minister 

for Information and 

Broadcasting, Chaudhry 

Fawad Hussain has said 

that Pakistan Tehreek-e- 

Insaf (PTI) has emerged as 

the largest victorious political 

party in the by-elections 

as it had contested against 

all the opposition parties. 

Talking to a private 

news channel, he said the 

PTI government did not 

interfere in the by-elections, 

which were conducted 

in a free, fair and peaceful 

manner. 

He said the Election 

Commission of Pakistan 

did not allow members of 

National and provincial 

assemblies to take part in 

the by-election campaign. 

Responding to a question, 

he said Prime 

Minister Imran Khan has 

adopted austerity measures 

to reduce expenditures 

and lessen burden on 

national kitty. 

KARACHI: President Dr. Arif 

Alvi Tuesday said the government 

was fully cognizant of the need to 

the consul’s residence, 

which Turkish television 

has previously reported 

could be linked to 

Khashoggi’s disappearance. 

Turkish President 

Tayyip Erdogan, speaking 

to reporters in parliament, 

raised the possibility that 

parts of the consulate had 

been repainted. “The investigation 

is looking into 

many things such as toxic 

materials and those materials 

being removed by painting 

them over,” he said. 

The case has provoked 

an international outcry 

against the world’s top oil 

exporter, with media and 

business executives pulling 

out of an investment conference 

next week. 

HSBC CEO John Flint 

backed out on Tuesday, as 

did the CEOs of Standard 

Chartered and Credit 

Suisse. 

PML-N parliamentary 

party meets today 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan 

Muslim League (PML-N) 

parliamentary committee 

will meet today to discuss 

different issues, including 

the arrest of Shabaz Sharif. 

The parliamentary committee 

meeting will start at 

9:30a.m today (Wednesday) 

in Parliament House. 

By-elections, the arrest 

of opposition leader in 

National Assembly and 

PML-N president Shabaz 

Sharif and National 

Assembly sessions are the 

top issues on the meeting 

agenda. 

The party’s future strategy 

will be also discussed. 

NILAKKAL, India: 

Tensions rose at an Indian 

hill temple on Tuesday 

before an expected faceoff 

between women of 

menstrual age who can 

enter for the first time in 

centuries and conservative 

Hindu groups who want to 

stop them. 

The Sabarimala hill 

temple in the southern 

state of Kerala has been 

the site of widespread 

protests since late 

September, when the 

Supreme Court ruled that a 

ban on women between the 

ages of 10 to 50 entering 

the temple infringed on 

rights to equality of worship. 

Final talks between the 

state and temple priests 

broke down after the secular 

government said it 

Pakistanis to get visas to Morocco soon 

ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of 

Morocco to Pakistan Mr. Mohamed 

Karmoune called on the Federal Minister for 

Law and Justice Barrister Farogh Naseem at 

his office on Tuesday. 

During the meeting, the federal minister 

raised the issue of difficulty in obtaining 

Moroccan visas, which the Pakistani businessmen 

and genuine applicants often face. 

The Moroccan ambassador assured the 

minister that, following the background 

MUMBAI: Bollywood 

actor Dia Mirza, who did a 

cameo in Sajid Khan’s 

directorial Heyy Baby has 

said his behaviour was 

“obnoxious and sexist”. 

Sajid has been accused 

of sexual harassment by 

multiple women following 

which he stepped down 

from his role as Housefull 4 

producer. 

Speaking to India Today, 

Dia said: “I was deeply disturbed. 

I agree that Sajid 

was obnoxious, extremely 

sexist and ridiculous. Even 

for me, the details of these 

accounts are beyond shocking. 

I have personally 

always have had a radar for 

such people. I have never 

invested in a relationship 

with such people even in the 

workplace.” The actor said 

the incidents showed how 

deep patriarchy ran in society 

and Bollywood and predicted 

that in the coming 

weeks many more names 

will come out. “Many others 

are silent because of the 

relationship they share with 

such people,” she said. 

“We often brush off certain 

kind of behaviour. But I 

wouldn’t have imagined 

that Sajid could be capable 

of doing this to a woman. I 

completely understand the 

shock people are feeling 

right now, but it would be 

unfair to say that the names 

that are coming out is 

shocking,” she added. 

The actor further 

revealed that she has lost 

checks, the visas would be issued to the genuine 

visa applicants on the very same day. 

He reiterated that the Pakistani businessmen 

were welcome in Morocco and they would 

be facilitated in every possible way. 

The ambassador expressed his gratitude 

and said his tenure in Pakistan has been an 

amazing learning experience. Pakistan has 

stood with Morocco since 1952 and the 

friendly brotherly relations between the two 

countries are flourishing ever since. 

Sajid Khan’s behaviour was 

obnxious and sexist, says Dia Mirza 

would defend the rights of 

women to enter the site. 

Their first chance since the 

ban was lifted will come at 

5 p.m. local time (1130 

GMT) on Wednesday. 

Hindu groups say the 

work in the past because she 

was not willing to succumb 

to patriarchy. “Fortunately, I 

have never been a victim of 

sexual harassment. 

Tensions rise at Indian temple over 

entry of menstrual-age women 

Govt to provide all resources to enhance 

capabilities of Pak Navy: President 

Pak Navy has played vital role against international terrorism, pirates 

have a potent navy and would provide 

all necessary resources to 

enhance the capability of Pakistan 

KARACHI: President Dr Arif Alvi inspecting the Guard of Honour during the 

Commissioning Ceremony of Pakistan Navy Fleet Tanker (MOAWIN). 

Navy and help develop the maritime 

sector. 

The president was speaking at the 

commissioning ceremony of PNS 

MOAWIN, an indigenously constructed 

combat support ship which 

is the largest warship ever built in 

Pakistan. 

Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral 

Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, President 

of Turkish Defence Industry Prof Dr. 

Ismael DEMIR and Deputy Minister 

of National Defence, Turkey Muhsin 

Dere were also present on the occasion. 

The president said Pakistan was 

located at the cross roads of major 

civilizations and trade routes and its 

geo-strategic and geo-economic 

importance demanded collaborative 

efforts with regard to regional and 

global security. 

prohibition is required to 

appease the temple’s chief 

deity Ayyappan, depicted 

as a yoga-practicing god 

considered eternally celibate 

by followers. 

In some Hindu communities, 

menstruating 

women are regarded as 

unclean, leading to restrictions 

and in a few cases 

outright bans on women of 

child-bearing age from 

entering certain places. 

Sheikh Rashid 

inaugurates two new 

passenger trains 

SUKKUR: Federal 

Minister for Railways 

Sheikh Rashid Ahmad 

inaugurated two new passenger 

trains on Tuesday 

morning. 

According to details, the 

minister inaugurated the 

Mohenjo-Daro and Rohi 

Express passenger trains 

today. The Mohenjo-Daro 

passenger train will be running 

between Sukkur and 

Kotri via Larkana route 

while Rohi Express would 

be chugging from Rohri to 

Khanpur. 

Talking to media on the 

occasion, Sheikh Rashid 

said that the government is 

committed to eliminating 

corrupt practices from 

Pakistan Railways. 

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