26 Oct 2018

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National: 

Operation against 

land grabbers on 

the cards: Ali 

Muhammad Khan 

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International: 

European court rules 

insulting Prophet 

Mohammed ‘not 

freedom of expression’ 

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Back: 

Strain in Indo-Pak 

ties natural till 

resolution of Kashmir 

dispute: Qureshi 

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Pillion riding 

banned for five 

days in Karachi 

KARACHI: The 

Home Department of 

Sindh has imposed a fiveday 

ban on pillion riding 

in Karachi on account of 

Chehlum of Hazrat Imam 

Hussain (RA) and companions, 

the home secretary 

announced Thursday. 

The ban will be in 

effect from October 28 to 

November 2, the home 

secretary said. 

The restriction has 

been imposed in order to 

ensure security of majalis 

and procession on 

Chehlum. 

Two FC personnel 

martyred 

PANJGUR: Two FC 

personnel were martyred 

when some unidentified 

armed assailants opened 

firing on convoy of 

Frontier Corps South 

Inspector General Major 

General Saeed Ahmed 

Nagra in Panjgur on 

Thursday. 

According to security 

sources, FC IG and all 

other personnel remained 

unhurt in the attack. 

Later, addressing a 

press conference in 

Quetta, Minister of State 

for Interior Sheharyar 

Khan Afridi strongly condemned 

the terror bid. 

Trader’s brother 

shot, injured by 

extortionists in Karachi 

KARACHI: Extortionists 

on Thursday shot and 

injured brother of a trader 

in Karachi as the trader 

avoided to pay the extortion 

money. According to 

the details, Muhammad 

Tufail, a Karachi trader, 

had received a call via 

WhatsApp from abroad 

seeking extortion money. 

Later, the culprits opened 

fire which resultantly 

injured his brother, 

Kashif, as the trader evaded 

to respond to the call. 

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RAWALPINDI: Chief 

of Army Staff (COAS) 

Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa 

on Thursday visited 

Pakistani troops deployed 

at the Line of Control in 

Azad Jammu and Kashmir 

(AJK), the military's media 

wing said in a statement. 

The army chief appreciated 

the "operational readiness 

and high morale" of 

troops during his visit to 

the Sarpir and Pandu sectors. 

He said Pakistan Army 

is "fully invested in peace 

and stability of the region". 

"However, we are ready 

and resolute in defending 

the motherland against any 

misadventure," Gen Bajwa 

was quoted as saying by 

Inter-Services Public 

Relations (ISPR). 

KARACHI EDITION – Friday, October 26, 2018, Safar 16, 1440 

COAS vows to defend 

motherland against 

any misadventure 

"We stand by the Kashmiris in their just historical 

stance," Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa tells troops 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran 

Khan says the government will remove all 

the obstacles in the way of investors in the 

country. 

He was addressing inaugural ceremony 

of Deli-JW Glass Manufacturing Complex, 

a Pakistan-China joint venture in the private 

sector, in Islamabad on Thursday. 

The Prime Minister said the government 

will ensure ease of doing business. 

He said investment in Pakistan will be 

encouraged, which will help generate 

employment opportunities and alleviate 

poverty. 

Imran Khan said Pakistan wants joint 

ventures in the private sector and establishment 

of Special Economic Zones and 

transfer of technology under China- 

Pakistan Economic Corridor. 

He expressed hope CPEC will prove a 

The army chief said the 

Kashmir issue continues to 

be a "core unresolved 

agenda" and reiterated his 

support for the right to 

self-determination of 

Kashmiris. 

"We stand by the 

Kashmiris in their just historical 

stance," he was 

quoted as saying. 

The COAS's statement 

comes days after violence 

across India-held Kashmir 

left at least 14 people dead. 

The victims included 

six who were killed when 

an explosion occurred 

among a crowd protesting 

against Indian occupation. 

Earlier, Foreign Office 

Spokesperson Dr 

Muhammad Faisal on 

Thursday said Pakistan 

wants uninstructed dialogue 

with India to resolve 

all outstanding issues. 

The spokesperson 

termed recent visit of 

Prime Minister Imran 

Khan impressively successful 

as Pakistan succeeded 

to get tremendous 

bailout package from 

Saudi Arabia. Imran Khan 

also invited Saudi King to 

visit Pakistan. 

He said this while giving 

weekly briefing at the 

Foreign Office in 

Islamabad on Thursday. 

The spokesperson said 

Pakistan doesn’t afraid 

from initiating dialogue 

with India to resolve all 

outstanding issues, including 

the Jammu and 

Kashmir. He further said 

every issue can be resolved 

through dialogue. 

Pakistan to remove barriers 

in way of investors: PM 

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat- 

Ulema-Islam-F chief 

Fazlur Rehman on 

Thursday advised Prime 

Minister Imran Khan to 

refrain from threatening 

him, calling his mandate 

to rule “fake”. 

The government who 

got a stolen mandate 

should not make threats to 

the opposition, he said. 

“Who has asked for 

NRO,” Fazl asked, in 

reply to PM Imran’s statements 

in his Wednesday 

address vowing not to give 

criminals any deal. 

Commenting on the 

efforts to unite opposition 

against the government, 

Fazl said that 75% of the 

work has been done and 

the opposition would unite 

to play a role in the parliament. 

He said that Pakistan 

Muslim League-N supremo 

Nawaz Sharif has 

asked for three days 

before an all parties conference. 

Fazl and PPP co-chairman 

Asif Zardari have met 

base to build the future relationship 

between the two countries. 

The Prime Minister said he is looking 

forward to going to China next week to 

further strengthen trade and economic 

bilateral ties. 

He said the government will also bring 

foreign investment to the country for its 

housing project of constructing five million 

affordable houses for people. 

Earlier Speaking on the occasion, 

Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing said Deli- 

JW Glass Manufacturing Complex is the 

beginning of joint ventures in the private 

sector between the two countries. 

He said the Chinese leadership will 

encourage similar business ventures 

between the private sectors of the two 

countries. He said China would like to be a 

partner in a brighter Pakistan tomorrow. 

Fazl tells 'those with fake mandate' 

to stop threatening opposition 

more than once in the past 

few days in an effort to 

unite opposition and call 

an APC. 

Zardari said Monday he 

was up for uniting the 

opposition parties against 

the government, saying 

the country does not seem 

to be running this way. 

The JUI-F chief on the 

occasion said that they 

will contact opposition to 

formulate a joint strategy 

and an all-parties conference 

would be summoned 

next week. 

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F) Chief Fazal ur Rehman addressing 

a press conference. 

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RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa being briefed about operational situation on 

Line of Control (LOC) during his visit, in Sarpir and Pandu Sectors. 

SC summons 20 Pakistanis 

owning properties abroad 

FIA submits report in court saying foreign properties 

owned by Pakistanis are estimated at $100 billion 

ISLAMABAD: The 

Supreme Court on Thursday 

directed the authorities to 

produce 20 people who hold 

properties abroad and had 

opted for the previous government's 

amnesty scheme, 

during the next hearing of 

the case. 

Chief Justice of Pakistan 

(CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar, 

who was heading a threemember 

bench, issued the 

orders while hearing a case 

pertaining to the foreign 

accounts held by Pakistanis. 

During hearing, Federal 

Board of Revenue (FBR) 

Chairman Jahanzaib Khan, 

Federal Investigation 

Agency (FIA) Director 

General Basheer Memon, 

State Bank of Pakistan 

(SBP) Governor Tariq 

Bajwa and the attorney general 

appeared before the 

court. 

First Pakistani 

space mission 

in 2022 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Pakistan’s first space 

mission has been planned 

for 2022 and the Federal 

Cabinet has approved 

this in meeting. 

An agreement 

between Pakistan Space 

and Upper Atmosphere 

Research Commission 

(SUPARCO) and a 

Chinese company has 

already been signed, 

Federal Information 

Minister Ch Fawad 

Hussain said after the 

cabinet meeting. 

Pakistan in July this 

year launched two of its 

satellites into the orbit 

from Jiuquan Satellite 

Launch Centre in China. 

The satellites, 

Pakistan Remote Sensing 

Satellite-1 (PRSS-1) and 

Pakistan Technology 

Evaluation Satellite-1A 

(PakTES-1A), were propelled 

into space through 

the Chinese Long March 

2C launch vehicle. 

The PRSS-1 is to be 

mainly used in Pakistan 

for land resources survey, 

evaluation, dynamic 

monitoring and management, 

resource utilisation, 

environmental disaster 

monitoring, agricultural 

survey, and urban 

construction. 

The FIA submitted in the 

court a report detailing foreign 

properties of Pakistani 

citizens. "You've stated that 

the foreign properties 

owned by Pakistanis are 

estimated at $100 billion," 

the CJP said while addressing 

the FIA chief. "A dam 

could be built in Pakistan 

with such a huge amount." 

While briefing the bench 

on the report, Memon 

revealed that 894 Pakistanis 

have properties in the 

United Arab Emirates 

(UAE). Out of these, 374 

individuals have taken 

advantage of the government's 

amnesty scheme, 150 

people have admitted that 

they have properties abroad, 

69 people said they have 

shown their properties in 

their tax returns and 82 people 

denied having any property 

abroad. 


Foreign Secretary 

Tehmina Janjua on 

Thursday called the 

ambassador of the 

Netherlands to the Foreign 

Office and lodged a strong 

protest on the blasphemous 

tweets by Dutch 

Parliamentarian Geert 

Wilders. 

The foreign secretary 

conveyed deep concern 

and disappointment of the 

government and people of 

Increase in power 

tariff deferred many 

times: Asad Umar 

Cabinet approves increase in power 

price by Rs1.27 per unit 

Pakistan on continued and 

deliberate malicious 

attempts of the Dutch parliamentarian 

to hurt the 

sentiments of hundreds of 

millions of people across 

the world. 

She underscored that 

such acts could not be 

allowed with impunity 

under the pretext of freedom 

of expression. 

“These discriminatory 

incidents spread hate and 

intolerance and provoke 

Islamabad: Finance 

Minister Asad Umar has 

said that “we deferred the 

increase in power tariff 

repeatedly”. 

He explained about the 

price hike in his press conference 

on Thursday that 

the bills on account of 

power theft were being 

recovered from the general 

public in the past but we 

will not let it continue in 

future. 

He said that “we concede 

“we were not voted for 

dearness” but in the last 

year the circular debt was 

Rs. 453 billions and it could 

have risen to Rs. 500 billion 

if we had not increased in 

power tariff. 

NEPRA had proposed 

for Rs. 3.82 per unit 

increase in power tariff but 

we enhanced with the average 

of Rs. 1.27 per unit. 

He added that there will 

be no increase for the consumers 

of 300 units while 

15% tariff has been 

increased for the consumers 

who exceed 300 units. 

He further clarified that 

tariffs were not increased 

for small traders while Rs. 

5.35 per unit to agricultural 

tube wells will remain the 

same. 

He said that for the 

industrial consumers Rs. 

0.78 was increased while 

the tariffs for schools and 

hospitals were not 

increased. 

He said that we are trying 

to improve the system 

but it will take time. He 

added that bills have been 

added to 70% consumers 

only, while gas prices were 

increased only 10%. 

Pakistan lodges strong protest 

with Dutch ambassador 

Imran should clarify his 

stance on NRO: Marriyum 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) spokesperson 

Marriyum Aurangzeb on 

Thursday said Imran Khan 

should clarify as to who was 

seeking a National 

Reconciliation Ordinance 

(NRO). 

Talking to media outside 

the accountability court in 

Islamabad, Marriyum said 

former prime minister 

Nawaz Sharif and opposition 

leader Shehbaz Sharif 

were already facing court 

cases. 

“Whose NRO is it about? 

Who is seeking an NRO? 

Imran Khan should clarify 

all the fuss he has created,” 

she added. 

The PML-N spokesperson 

also demanded of the 

prime minister to offer an 

apology to the masses, saying 

Imran Khan had backtracked 

on his decision of not 

to approach the International 

Monetary Fund (IMF). 

Prime Minister Imran 

Khan on Wednesday lashed 

out at PML-N and the 

Pakistan People’s Party 

(PPP), stating that both the 

parties who have been ruling 

Pakistan for the last 10 

years have accumulated 

Pakistan’s debts from 

Rs6,000 bn to Rs30,000 bn. 

Shahid Masood escapes arrest 

ISLAMABAD: A special 

court rejected an application 

filed by anchorperson 

Dr Shahid Masood for 

pre-arrest bail and ordered 

the authorities to arrest him 

in the PTV corruption case. 

However, the anchorperson 

fled the court and 

could not be arrested. 

Masood, the former 

PTV chairperson, is being 

investigated for his alleged 

involvement in the embezzlement 

of funds worth 

Rs38 million. 

According to the FIA, 

Masood allegedly signed 

an agreement with a fake 

company to obtain the 

media rights for the 

Pakistan Cricket Board. 

The officials had said 

earlier the state-owned television 

channel suffered a 

huge loss because of the 

agreement. 

extremism and violence, 

which are prohibited 

under human rights laws 

and standards,” she said. 

“Such remarks give rise 

to intolerance and extremism; 

such incidents will 

not be allowed in the name 

of freedom of speech.” 

Tehmina called upon 

the Dutch government to 

condemn and take suitable 

measures to counter and 

prevent such actions from 

taking place. 

NAB reopens 

LNG case against 

Khaqan Abbasi 


National Accountability 

Bureau (NAB) on 

Thursday reopened the 

Liquefied Natural Gas 

(LNG) case against former 

Prime Minister Shahid 

Khaqan Abbasi and decided 

to summon him for 

investigation. 

NAB is also intended to 

summon other former officials 

of Petroleum Ministry 

and asked relevant departments 

to submit record of 

the case. 

It is pertinent here to 

mention that NAB had 

blamed two former prime 

ministers Nawaz Sharif 

and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi 

for alleged misuse of 

authorities by giving a contract 

of LNG terminal to 15 

different companies of 

their choice. 

NAB had taken the 

action just a week after the 

Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N) government 

completed its fiveyear 

term and handed over 

the reins of power to the 

caretaker set-up. 

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Metropolitan 

Poverty-stricken Karachi rickshaw 

driver attempts self-immolation 

KARACHI: Driven to 

desperation by poverty, a 

rickshaw driver attempted 

self-immolation on 

Thursday, three days after 

another driver succumbed to 

his wounds after setting himself 

on fire alleging ‘police 

extortion’. The driver, 

Shahid, set his rickshaw on 

fire in North Nazimabad area 

of the city and was attempting 

to do the same to himself 

after sprinkling petrol over 

him, when the onlookers 

intervened and stopped him. 

Citing poverty as the reason, 

Shahid lamented that he 

was unable to get any passengers 

because the CNG 

stations are closed every 

other day. He said he has 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Minister for Energy Imtiaz 

Ahmed Sheikh on 

Thursday appealed to 

Prime Minister Imran Khan 

to give permission to several 

projects of Sindh pending 

with center for creating 

power and energy so that 

power crisis in the country 

could be resolved. 

The country is facing 

serious power crisis, particularly 

in Sindh, wheras 

Karachi's citizens are facing 

long hours load shedding, 

he said while addressing 

a press conference at 

his office on Thursday. 

KARACHI: Rickshaw driver burn his rickshaw due to price hiking of CNG Gas, at 

Nazimabad area. 

PM asked to allow Sindh to 

generate its power and energy 

KARACHI: Beach 

Luxury is proud to 

announce the successful 

inaugural of “Prawn 

& Lobster Festival” at 

Casbah restaurant . The 

three months Prawn &; 

Lobster Festival officially 

inaugurated by His 

Excellency, Noor-e-Helal 

Saifur Rahman, Deputy 

High Commission of 

Bangladesh along with Mr. 

Azeem Qureshi( GM, 

Beach Luxury Hotel, Avari 

International). 

Inauguration ceremony 

attended by diplomats 

The energy minister 

said: "There are several 

corridors in Sindh which 

could provide cheap power 

and energy, but the Center 

is ignoring all these power 

projects presented by Sindh 

long time ago. The federal 

government is creating hurdles 

in the projects which 

can generate power on 

cheap rates. If permission is 

not given by the federal 

government for these 

power and energy projects, 

we would move the court 

that can be a problem for 

the Center." 

He said Sindh had full 

from France, Malaysia, 

SirLanks, and VP 

Oprations Avari Group Mr. 

Grant also The concept of 

the event is to promote 

Seafood specially Prawn 

& Lobster in 

Pakistani society and let 

the people gain utmost flavor 

of Prawn & lobster 

from Casbah, “where 

they can have chose their 

live Prawn & 

Lobster”. From past many 

years the Casbah is the 

best seafood restaurant in 

town and provides the best 

seafood menu through its 

capacity to generate solar 

power energy, while its liquid 

gas and coal reserves 

could generate huge quantity 

of power, but the Center 

was creating hurdles. He 

said it was very unfortunate 

that Sindh was never taken 

on board while framing 

energy policy. Imtiaz asked 

as to why Sindh was 

ignored. He said that 4000 

mega watts energy could be 

produced in Sindh through 

solar power and coal 

reserves. 

The minister apprised 

that there are 99 percent of 

coal reserves in Sindh and 

“Prawn & amp; Lobster Festival” 

held at Beach Luxury Hotel 

KARACHI: Mr. Noor - E Helal Saifur Rahman, Dean of the Diplomatic Corp and Deputy 

High Commissioner of Bangladesh, was the chief guest at Prawn & Lobster Festival 

held by the Avari Group of Hotels International at Beach Luxury Hotel. Photo shows 

Mr Grant VP Operations Avari Hotels, GM, BLH, and group sales director Avari Hotels 

Azeem Qureshi, diplomats from France, Malaysia, SriLanka, with other guests. 

ambiance, flavor & 

chef expertise of Casbah Major 

restaurant in Beach Luxury 

Hotel. 

The participant guest in 

prawn and Lobster Festival 

really enjoy the taste, 

ambiance and expertise of 

Beach Luxury Hotel Chef 

and really appreciated the 

concept and idea of the 

festival, according to the 

participant the best part 

today in Prawn & 

Lobster Festival that you 

can have the order from 

the live prawn and lobster 

selection from aquarium. 

Call for electoral, economic reforms to 

ensure implementation of rule of law 

KARACHI: Speakers at 

a consultation on rule of 

law here on Thursday 

linked the electoral and 

economic reforms for 

effective rule of law in the 

country. They said reforms 

in every aspect of life are 

essential for implementation 

of the laws without 

discrimination at all levels. 

They were speaking at 

the provincial consultative 

conference on "Rule of 

Law: Access to justice and 

citizen inclusion", organised 

by Sindh Agriculture 

and Forestry Workers 

Coordinating Oganisation 

(SAFWCO) in collaboration 

with Oxfam GB, held 

at a local hotel. 

Karamat Ali, Executive 

Director, Pakistan Institute 

of Labour Education and 

Research (PILER) and veteran 

trade union leader 

said the law makers and 

those responsible for 

implementation of the laws 

consider themselves as 

above the law. They often 

violate the law they have 

made, that is why the laws 

are formed but are not 

being implemented and 

citizens face hardships and 

we see increasing anarchy 

in the society. 

Trade union formation 

is included in the fundamental 

rights under the 

Constitution, but unfortunately 

only one percent 

workers are registered with 

the trade unions, despite 

the fact the number of 

workers is in millions, 

associated with formal and 

informal sectors. 

He recalled the past 

when 60 percent unionization 

was there in the government 

departments, 

including police officials 

and non-uniform employees 

of the Army. The purpose 

of unionisation is to 

ensure the workers living a 

decent life. 

38 percent of oil is produced 

in Sindh despite this 

Sindh was being given a 

step motherly treatment. 

Sheikh apprised that 

with the help of World 

Bank, they were providing 

solar power energy to 

schools and hospitals in 

Sindh which was far cheaper 

than K electric. He 

demanded that Sindh be 

given immediate permission 

to launch these projects 

of power so that energy 

crisis could be eliminated. 

On this occasion, Director 

Press Information Zeenat 

Jahan was also present. 

Drug addict 

dies of overdose 

KARACHI: A drug 

addict died of an overdose 

in Civic Center area of the 

metropolis in on Thursday. 

According to rescue 

sources, a 45-year-old 

unknown man took an 

overdose of a drug that 

deteriorated his health. As 

a result, he died under 

Civic Center Bridge. 

The body was shifted to 

Chhipa morgue for want of 

identification. 

Sikh community 

lauds role of Pak 

Rangers to restore 

law and order 

KARACHI: A delegation 

of Sikh Community 

called on Director General 

Pakistan Rangers Sindh 

General 

Muhammad Saeed at 

Rangers Headquarters in 

Karachi. 

During the meeting, the 

DG Rangers said that it is 

the top priority of Pakistan 

Rangers Sindh to maintain 

peace in the city, overcome 

crimes including the protection 

of minority community. 

During the meeting, the 

Sikh community lauded 

the role of Pakistan 

Rangers Sindh to restore 

law and order across the 

province and security steps 

taken for the protection of 

minority communities. 

been unable to afford his 

expenses and has not paid 

the rent on his house since 

three months. His children 

are suffering from an eye disease, 

he added. 

Police took the driver in 

their custody and brought 

him to the police station to 

record his statement. 

Earlier this week, rickshaw 

driver Khalid succumbed 

to his wounds after 

he set himself alight near city 

police office in Karachi's 

Saddar area claiming that he 

had become fed up with 

daily challan and “extortion” 

by police. Sindh police chief 

had taken notice of incident 

and ordered DIG traffic to 

launch an inquiry into matter. 

NAB holds 

‘Khuli Katchehry’ 

KARACHI: In compliance 

of Chairman NAB 

initiative, DG NAB 

Karachi Brig (R) Farooq 

Naser Awan along with his 

team conducted Khuli 

Katchehry today by 

receiving complaints from 

general public, at NAB 

office today between 3 pm 

and 5 pm. 

A large number of complainants 

gathered at NAB 

office and submitted applications 

regarding cases of 

corruption in various government 

departments. 

Majority of complainants 

got their complaints 

registered on land 

frauds committed by Govt 

officials in connivance 

with private persons. 

Also, a number of complainants 

lodged complaints 

against 

Cooperative Societies 

Managements, Mehran 

City, Railway Cooperative 

Society, Saudagaran cooperative 

society, Safina 

Builders & Developers, 

Sadaf Cooperative Society 

and Mashriqi Cooperative 

Society. 

DG NAB Karachi 

issued orders on the complaints 

for initiation of 

prompt actions as per 

National Accountability 

Ordinance 1999.DG NAB 

appreciated the overwhelming 

response of general 

public, which he said, 

was a sign of trust deposed 

by public in performance 

and delivery by NAB on its 

efforts against corruption. 

Khuli Katchehry will 

be conducted every last 

Thursday of each month at 

NAB office. 

KARACHI: Karachi 

police claimed to have 

arrested four robbers in 

injured conditions during 

two different encounters in 

the metropolis in the wee 

hours of Thursday. 

According to police 

sources, a police team signaled 

to stop a suspected 

motorbike in Lyari’s Karli 

area. However, the 

accused resorted to firing 

on police and tried to 

escape. The police chased 

them and after an 

Nutrition program soon to 

support 50,000 families in Thar 

KARACHI: Advisor to 

CM on Information, Law 

and Anti-Corruption, 

Barrister Murtaza Wahab 

said Thursday that the 

Sindh government had 

decided to launch a comprehensive 

nutrition program 

for 50,000 families of Thar 

from coming Monday. 

“Under a pilot project, 

ration bags containing 

essential items of nutrition 

will be provided to 50,000 

families, and each bag will 

cost Rs 4,500. These families 

have been selected with 

the help of NADRA 

records,” the advisor said in 

a statement. 

He said that the pilot 

project having three months 

KARACHI: Director dents. The DG was presented 

General Rangers Sindh 

a briefing on 

Major General Muhammad 

Saeed on Thursday visited 

Sindh Madressatul Islam 

University (SMIU). 

Karachi operation and said 

law & order situation of 

Karachi was much improving 

as the year-wise statistics 

He was welcomed on 

clearly indicate 

his arrival by the university’s 

Vice Chancellor Dr 

descending trends in all the 

violence incidents. 

Muhammad Ali Shaikh, He further said that educational 

administration and stu- 

intuitions take 

duration would cost Rs 220 

million every month and 

would go a long way reducing 

rate of mortality and 

morbidity among poorest 

families. Through Benazir 

Income Support 

Programme, we also provide 

an assistance of a 50kg 

wheat to each family separately, 

he concluded. 

DG Rangers visits SMIU 

basic role of society’s positive 

development. He urged 

students to use their powers 

to getting better education 

and creation of a peaceful 

environment in country. 

On this occasion, the 

Vice Chancellor, teachers 

and students appreciated 

the role of Rangers in 

restoring peace in Karachi. 

KARACHI: View of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Signing ceremony between 

Recruits Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Obaid Ullah and Kashif Farooq, Chief Executive 

Officer (CEO) of Qarsiga on 1st Annual Pakistan Sourcing Summit during press conference 

held at Karachi press club. 

SHC expresses displeasure over 

police report on missing children 

KARACHI: Sindh High 

Court (SHC) on Thursday 

expressed displeasure over 

no progress in recovery of 

missing children and 

ordered the police to submit 

a progress report in 

this regard by 15th 

November. 

A two-member bench, 

headed by Justice 

Naimatullah Phulpoto, was 

hearing a case regarding 

more than 20 missing children. 

The bench expressed 

displeasure on police over 

failure to recover children 

and said police did not 

appropriately work for 

recovery of children and it 

is not submitting any 

progress report regarding 

their recovery. 

The 

Crime 

Investigation Agency 

Police arrest four criminals 

in injured conditions 

exchange of gunfire, the 

suspects were arrested in 

an injured condition, said 

Karli police. 

The police also recovered 

weapons, bullets, 

mobile phones and a motorbike 

from their possession. 

They were shifted to the 

Civil Hospital Karachi for 

treatment. 

Separately, police arrested 

two street criminals in 

injured condition after 

encounters in Quaidabad 

and Tipu Sultan area. 

KARACHI: Activists of nationalist party hold demonstration shortage of water and 

construction of several dams on River Indus in Sindh, outside Governor House. 

(CIA) Deputy Inspector 

General (DIG) Amin 

Yousufzai informed the 

court that prior to a previous 

hearing of the case, 

two missing children had 

been recovered. 

He told the court that 

two children, Sajid from 

Faisalabad and Farwa from 

Karachi’s Korangi were 

recovered after advertisements 

were placed in 

Sindhi, Urdu and English 

newspapers. 

He said that a team led 

by him was formed by the 

Inspector General of 

Police (IGP), which is in 

contact with the police of 

other provinces regarding 

the recovery of missing 

children. He said that since 

2014, 129 children missing 

had been recovered. 

Yousfzai said they are 

achieving success in new 

cases of missing children, 

while there is some difficulty 

in old cases. Further 

investigation was under 

way in this regard, he said. 

During the proceedings, 

parents of a missing girl 

Saima from the Baldia area 

told the court that she had 

been missing for two 

years. “The police were 

not cooperative.” 

The bench ordered 

police to look into all its 

aspects of the cased of 

missing children. 

‘The police should 

work seriously for recovery 

of the missing children 

and should use model 

devices in the course of 

action, the bench 

remarked. 

KARACHI: A laborer is busy in excavating the road in 

Mehmoodabad for installation of sewerage pipelines. 

KARACHI: Workers are installing a new board at Gate 

number 4 of the zoo. 

KARACHI: Nishtar Road has been excavated for development 

work causing hindrance in smooth flow of traffic.

‘We cannot end smog, but can reduce 

it,’ says Punjab’s EPD spokesperson 

P 

LAHORE: The Punjab 

government is taking ‘solid 

measures’ to combat smog, 

however we are unable to 

end it completely but we are 

trying to reduce it through 

steps at all levels, according 

to Punjab Environmental 

Protection Department 

(EPD) Spokesman 

Naseemur Rehman. 

He said that the ban on 

traditional brick-kilns 

would help promote new 

cleaner ones under zig-zag 

technology and it could 

reduce pollution up to 70 

percent. He added that the 

International Centre for 

Integrated Mountain 

Development, a Nepalheadquarters 

non-governmental 

organisation, carried 

out a two training programme 

on the technology 

for kiln owners in Pakistan, 

aiming to reduce smog and 

ISLAMABAD: The Services Regulation and 

Convener of Sub- Coordination, and Drug 

Committee on delegated Regulatory Authority of 

legislation Senator Rubina Pakistan (DRAP). 

Khalid showed displeasure Meeting commenced 

regarding delay in finalization 

with a briefing of the 

of rules for National National Institute of 

Institute of Technology Technology Board (NITB). 

Board (NITB) and said that Convener Committee 

Information Technology is Senator Rubina Khalid 

the future of the world and 

instead of facilitating its 

growth and development in 

Pakistan we are curbing its 

progress. 

The meeting of the subcommittee 

showed displeasure regarding 

delay in finalization of 

rules for NITB and said that 

Information Technology is 

the future of the World and 

instead of facilitating its 

on delegated growth and development in 

legislation was held on Pakistan we are curbing its 

Thursday. Convened by progress. 

Senator Rubina Khalid; the 

meeting was attended by 

Senator Kulsoom Parveen 

and senior officers of the 

Ministry of Information, 

She was dismayed that 

these rules were received 

from NITB on 1st July 

2015. The case was examined 

by the Ministry of IT 

National Institute of and Telecommunications to 

Technology Board (NITB), ensure all codal formalities 

Ministry of National Health and legal requirements 

climate-changing emissions. 

“But, converting a 

conventional kiln to the 

new technology costs 

$15,000 to $20,000 which 

is a hefty investment.” 

Rehman said that the 

zigzag technology was 

environmental-friendly and 

energy efficient. The technology 

uses 30 to 40 percent 

less energy than traditional 

kilns, and cut the cost 

of bricks produced by up to 

half, he said. “Smog is a 

particular problem from late 

October through mid- 

January in Pakistan and we 

are unable to end smog at 

all but we are trying to 

were fulfilled. After 

detailed examination, the 

case was forwarded to 

Establishment Division on 

15th July 2015. Since then 

Establishment Division has 

posed a number of queries. 

Executive Director 

NITB Nasir Naqvi was of 

the view that hiring human 

resource and retaining it is a 

major challenge. He asserted 

that if remuneration 

packages are not up to the 

IT job market hiring capable 

individuals would not 

be possible. Retaining people 

on rules that were formulated 

centuries ago isn’t 

feasible, he said. 

Senator Kulsoom 

Parveen asserted the need to 

make NITB an autonomous 

body. Convenor 

Committee Senator Rubina 

Khalid said that she would 

push this case through both 

Committee Convener showed displeasure 

regarding delay in finalization of rules NITB 

HYDERABAD: Members of R.B.B Colony Action Committee are holding protest demonstration 

for acceptance of their demands, at Hyderabad press club. 

ECT recruitment test will conduct by STS on Sunday 

Abdul Rauf 

SUKKUR: Sukkur IBA 

Testing Services is going to 

conduct recruitment test for 

the post of Early Childhood 

Teacher-ECT (BPS-15), 

School Education 

&Literacy Department, 

Government of Sindh, on 

Sunday October 28, 2018 in 

various divisions of Sindh. 

In Larkana division, the 

venue for test is 

Government Pilot Higher 

Secondary School. In 

Shaheed Benazeerabad, the 

venue is Benazeer Public 

School for Girls, Qazi 

Ahmed Road, while in 

Hyderabad the test will be 

conducted in Public School, 

Hyderabad, in Karachi, the 

venue will be Federal Urdu 

University of Arts, Science 

and Technology, University 

road Gulshan-e-Iqbal, in 

Mirpur Khas the venue will 

be Mir Sher Mohammad 

Khan Talpur Public School, 

Jhuleri Road and in Sukkur 

the test will be conducted at 

Sukkur IBA University 

Airport Road Sukkur. 


Authorities are legalizing 

cannabis, particularly for 

medicinal use, in an increasing 

number of states. Many 

people stand by its alleged 

benefits, but new research 

warns that frequent use may 

lead to the "disabling" symptoms 

of cannabis withdrawal 

syndrome. 

A recent study led by the 

the Standing Committee on 

Information Technology 

and Telecommunications as 

well as this forum. She 

asserted that development 

of IT in the government 

sector would put an end to 

delays in putting up of files 

which will be extremely 

beneficial. 

While discussing issues 

related to the Drug 

Regulatory Authority of 

Pakistan (DRAP) Convener 

Committee Senator Rubina 

Khalid asserted that the 

Authority reviewed food 

supplements that are prescribed 

to gym-goers by 

trainers. Senator Kulsoom 

Parveen asserted that it was 

imperative that this regulatory 

body reviewed medication 

closely and ensured 

that production of all substandard 

medication is 

stopped. 

Islamabad Police 

comes in action against 

‘sheesha centers’ 


Federal Capital Police has 

launched operation 

against Sheesha and 

Hookah centers in the capital 

area. 

Sources said that in 

order to do away with the 

menace of drug addiction 

from the city including the 

education institutions, the 

intended teams headed by 

zonal Superintendents of 

Police (SP) have been set 

in motion to act against 

the crimes nabbing the 

culprits. 

In this regard, the 

police of Industrial Area 

police station raided a 

Sheesha Centre at I-8 

Markaz and arrested 13 

people including three 

women and the owner of 

the centre. 

The case has been registered 

against the accused 

under the smoking Act 

and recovered the material 

used in inhaling the 

banned Sheesha. 

Columbia University 

Mailman School of Public 

Health and Columbia 

University Irving Medical 

Center, both in New York 

City, NY — set out to investigate 

what percentage of 

people who frequently use 

cannabis may experience 

cannabis withdrawal syndrome. 

This condition is 

included in the latest edition 

of the Diagnostic and 

Statistical Manual of Mental 

Disorders (DSM-5), which 

was published in 2013. 

According to the DSM-5, 

a formerly frequent user of 

the drug has cannabis withdrawal 

syndrome when they 

experience at least three of 

the following symptoms 

within a week from cessation: 

irritability or hostility, 

nervousness or anxiety, poor 

sleep, loss of appetite, restlessness, 

feelings of depression, 

shakiness or tremors, 

sweating. 

In a rapidly changing 

landscape of marijuana laws 

and attitudes," notes study 

reduce it through steps at all 

levels,” he said. 

The EPD spokesman 

said that the government 

was going to establish 11 air 

monitoring stations. “From 

which three stations have 

already been activated in 

Gujranwala, Faisalabad and 

Multan whereas eight stations 

would be set up in the 

city area, ” he said. 

He said that crop burning 

had also been banned 

around the provincial capital 

and department concerned 

was collecting data 

of crop burning in the 

province. “Special smog 

committees have been 

formed to monitor and control 

the sources of smog in 

the province,” he added. 

Hospitals have been 

directed to set up special 

smog desks from where citizens 

could get help in 

smog-related issues. He 

said that masks would also 

be provided from these 

desks,” he added. 

“A smog monitoring station 

is also being established 

at the border near 

Barki to monitor air pollution 

coming from the neighbouring 

country,” he said. 

PHA chalks ambitious 

Safari, Botanical, 

Suzo park construction 

in Rawalpindi 

RAWALPINDI: Parks 

and Horticulture Authority 

Rawalpindi has chalked out a 

plan to construct a Safari 

Park, Suzo Park and 

Botanical Park on 50 acres of 

Lohi Bheer Park . 

Currently the Lohi Bheer 

Park is facing abject financial 

crises. 

According to media 

reports, Director PHA Saif 

Anwar Japa confirmed that 

an application has been submitted 

to Government of 

Punjab 

through 

Commissioner Rawalpindi 

for the acquisition of 50 acres 

of Lohi Bheer Park land for 

PHA to materialize the plan. 

On the other hand PHA 

has requested the Punjab 

Government to pay one year 

salary of its employees 

owing to the fact that the 

only source of its revenue 

generation has stopped. 

The plan entails opening 

of a MacDonald’s outlet at 

Nawaz Sharif Park, construction 

of a filling station at 

Shehbaz Sharif Park and 

transfer of land adjacent to 

Kid’s Park at commercial 

market and Nawaz Sharif 

Park to PHA. 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD: Noted 

environmental scientist Dr 

Iqbal Saeed Khan has 

called for small gardens on 

roofs of high-rise buildings 

to minimise heat, bring 

about better atmosphere, 

cause rains to meet water 

shortage and decrease 

urban heat in the country.Addressing 

meet the 

press at press club here 

Thursday he said “Urban 

heat impact is skyrocketing 

day by day in cities --- 

author Prof. Deborah Hasin, 

"cannabis use continues to 

increase among American 

adults." "As a result," she 

adds, "more information on 

the prevalence and correlates 

of clinical withdrawal in the 

general population is of critical 

importance. 

In their study paper, 

Friday, October 26, 2018 

National 

E S H A W A R : 

Peshawar traffic police 

Thursday exempted the 

Sikh community members 

from the helmet rules 

while biking. 

The minority member in 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) 

Assembly Sardar Ranjit 

Singh had taken up the 

issue in the house, requesting 

to exempt the Sikh 

motorcyclists from the 

compulsory use of helmets 

as they could not use it due 

to their religious turbans. 

But they are to follow 

all other traffic rules, 

including respect the signals 

and no-wrong crossing, 

police said. 

A social activist from 

Sikh community Baba 

Gorpal Singh has welcomed 

the decision and 

thanked the provincial 

government and traffic 

police, saying “we are 

thankful to the government 

and traffic police who 

accepted our long-awaited 

demand. A number of Sikh 

youth use motorcycles to 

commute in their schools, 

colleges and offices and 

they often got fined for riding 

without a helmet.” 

He said that there are 

3 

Sikh community exempted from 

wearing helmet in Peshawar 

around 30,000 Sikhs in KP 

and 14000 of them live 

only in Peshawar since 

long times. 

Traffic police also 

assured them of cooperation 

in issuing of driving 

licenses. 

SSP traffic Peshawar 

Kashif Zulfiar said that 

police will fully cooperate 

with their Sikh brothers. 

They are exempted from 

the helmet rules and all the 

traffic police personnel 

have been asked to not 

issue challans to Sikh 

motorcyclists who ride 

without a helmet. 

LHC imposes ban on sale of cigarettes in 

educational institutions across Punjab 

LAHORE: Lahore High 

Court has imposed ban on 

sale of cigarettes in all educational 

institutions of 

Punjab. LHC Judge Justice 

Ali Akbar took up the case 

filed against sale of cigarettes 

in educational institutions 

for hearing on 

Thursday. During the 

course of hearing, petitioner’s 

Counsel took the plea educational institutions 

that cigarettes are being across Punjab. 

sold openly in colleges, Court ordered that teachers 

schools and universities due 

to which new generation is should also not smoke 

during duty hours. 

being spoiled. 

Court has directed 

Petitioner prayed court Punjab Government and 

that ban should be imposed 

on sale of cigarettes. 

Court has imposed ban 

on sale of cigarettes in all 

secretary higher education 

to carry out strict action 

against those found selling 

cigarettes. 

BAHAWALPUR: Commander Punjab Rangers 19 Wing Lieutenant Colonel Afzal Ahmed 

Chaudhry interacts with a disabled man during the free medical camp organized. 

AIOU-Hashoo Foundation to promote 

early childhood education 

ISLAMABAD: Allama 

Iqbal Open University 

(AIOU) and Hashoo 

Foundation, an NGO will 

work together to promote 

early childhood education 

and development (ECHD) 

in the country. 

It was decided at a 

meeting held here between 

Karachi, Hyderabad, 

Nawabshah, Larkana, 

Sukkur, Islamabad and others. 

Main causes of this 

(urban) heat effect was cutting 

of trees, big buildings, 

pollutions caused by vehicles 

and industries, smoke 

following burning of 

garbage, population boost 

and others,”. President 

press club Nasir Shaikh 

moderated his address. 

He said that this kind of 

heat was taking a heavy 

toll on all livings including 

human beings, animals and 

trees. However there was 

less heat in rural areas in 

the country. 

Dr Khan suggested that 

people must use bicycles or 

Cannabis withdrawal can be 'highly disabling 

which appears in the journal 

Drug and Alcohol 

Dependence, the researchers 

report that, according to their 

analysis, 12 percent of people 

who frequently smoke 

the Vice Chancellor Prof. 

Dr. Nasir Mahmood and 

the Hashoo Foundation’s 

program advisor Shad 

Muhammad and Head of 

Education Shahida Sultan. 

The two sides agreed 

that they will coordinate in 

launching short diploma 

and certificate courses in 

vehicles producing less 

pollution to protect environment. 

He said that in 

Japan and other foreign 

countries, people rode 

bicycles as they love their 

environment. He said that 

if 25-litre petrol was filled 

into a tank of a vehicle, 

engine heat would consume 

45 percent of this 

(25-litre petrol). 

“we produce pollution 

but there is no space for 

discarding garbage. We 

produce garbage by burning 

it, but this is dangerous 

as energy cannot be 

destroyed and it can be 

marijuana experience 

cannabis withdrawal syndrome. 

The researchers also 

note that cannabis withdrawal 

symptoms appeared to be 

linked with mental disability 

and a family history of 

depression. 

Also, these symptoms 

were associated with a number 

of psychiatric disorders, 

including mood disorders, 

anxiety disorders (social 

phobia, agoraphobia, and 

panic disorder), personality 

disorders, and post-traumatic 

stress disorder. 

Of all the possible withdrawal 

symptoms, most frequently, 

the participants 

reported experiencing nervousness 

or anxiety (76 percent 

of the respondents), hostility 

(72 percent), sleep 

problems (68 percent), and 

depressed mood (59 percent 

ECHD. They will promote 

cooperative partnership in 

development of relevant 

curriculum and promotion 

of social entrepreneurship. 

The detail programs 

about the cooperative partnership 

will be decided 

later at the level of joint 

working committee. 

Big lakes be saved from pollution to 

serve as small dams: Dr.Iqbal Saeed 

transformed into another 

form,” he said. 

He stated that pollutions 

and smoke caused many 

diseases including problems 

of eye, asthma, lungs and 

others, while it also brought 

about hazardous effects on 

local flora and fauna. He 

said that according to international 

standard, Pakistan 

was among semi-arid areas 

in the world. He stressed 

that people should plant 

trees and launch tree plantation 

campaigns as more 

as they could. Trees could 

be called as lungs of land, 

he said. 

of the respondents). 

Fewer participants reported 

having physical symptoms 

of cannabis withdrawal. 

In cases wherein physical 

symptoms did appear, the 

most commonly encountered 

were headaches, 

tremors, and sweating. 

The researchers came up 

with a "profile" of the person 

who uses cannabis frequently. 

Typically, they are 

male (66 percent of the participants), 

white (59 percent), 

young adults ages 18– 

29 (50 percent of the participants), 

college-educated 

(49 percent), never married 

(54 percent), and residing in 

a low-income household 

(45 percent).

4 


National 

Operation against land grabbers 

on the cards: Ali Muhammad Khan 

KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan. 

Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989 

messengerdaily@yahoo.com, editor@dailymessenger.com.pk 

Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi 

Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Editor Special Reports: Muhammad Rafique Rajpar 

Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar - Islamabad Bureau Chief: Hameedullah Khan 

ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

11.5 MILLION documents of world's biggest 

leaked database now known as The Panama 

Papers from secretive shell companies, files 

and operations of the law firm Mossack Fonseca 

revealed details on rich, famous and powerful people 

who used offshore tax havens and stashed billions 

and trillions of illegitimate income, public funds, 

and deposits not properly accounted. It included big 

leaders and politicians of many countries, including 

Pakistan too where such corruption is so strong and 

widespread nationwide that its big corrupt leaders 

may never be caught, tried or punished after everything 

is said and done, unless some leader becomes 

a risk to this world of corruption itself. 

Hundreds and thousands of world media giants 

and smaller news organizations prided themselves 

on this biggest financial scam of political elite and 

class with expressions of varying viewpoints. And 

we'll have a look on it here though books may be 

written and films may be later made on this earthquake 

leak that has shaken both the politicians, their 

families and friends as well as the nations throughout 

the world. 

The “Panama Papers” are being called the largest 

ever leak of secret data. Articles based on those documents 

— developed by a global consortium of journalists 

— began appearing Sunday afternoon. 

Exposing the offshore bank accounts of bigwigs 

worldwide, the articles burst into the Sunday afternoon 

news lull, getting huge play in media outlets 

around the world and in the United States. This is a 

great trove of documents — certainly interesting and 

By Cami Rosso 

EDITORIAL 

Panama Papers Simply Confirmed 

Nations' Inklings On Thiefs In Power 

This is among toughest and most complex of media look and analysis of Panama 

Papers, more truths of it yet to emerge. This may take years. And more years than 

that for leaders and nations to act on - BUT NOT FOR CIVILIZED 

COUNTRIES ‘AS ICELAND PRIME MINISTER RESIGNED’ 

(I) 

valuable — and it takes a while to know what to 

make of them. Hundreds of reporters were working 

on it for a long time, though, but those documents are 

complex to analyze immediately for what they're. 

Also, the revelations raise the distinct possibility 

“that every political system in the world — even the 

nakedly authoritarian ones — is hopelessly rigged, 

and that the marvelous new world of the miraculous 

global economy is an even bigger thieves’ paradise 

than you, me, or anyone else can think about. 

Contrariwise, the temptation to conclude that all 

those names found in the papers are equivalent and 

rotten to the core is strong. But it is a temptation to 

resist: every case must be carefully judged on the 

specifics. 

However, nations have a right to know about how 

the elite hide and shelter so much money. The rich 

get to play by different rules than the rest of us. 

People ought to know about this unfairness. 

Tackling tax avoidance is the only way to restore 

trust in this secret riches and public rage over it. It 

has taken journalists in 80 countries months to tease 

it all out from the record-breaking bulk of the 

Panama Papers. It awakened people to an over-riding 

sense. The sense that normal rules do not apply 

to the global elite. In a new gilded age, taxes would 

once again appear to be for the little people. The big 

people can have people's tax money, pocket it, avoid 

tax and put it in their account, unquestioned, as it 

was until Panama Papers shook the political capitals 

of the world. That impression would be poisonous at 

any time. 

OPINION 

Play with your kids to prepare them 

for an AI-powered future 

The world might be migrating to digital platforms, but we should not rush 

our children. Instead we should spend time reading and playing with them 

If your child isn't a straight-A student today, don't 

worry, take the long view. In the future, artificial 

intelligence (AI) will automate many jobs and disrupt 

industries, outperforming people in many areas. In 

generations prior, college degrees and post-graduate 

degrees were a path toward having careers with higher 

than average income-earning potential. Automation due 

to AI will impact both white-collar and blue-collar jobs 

alike. Presently AI is already beginning to make inroads 

in the areas of medicine, legal, marketing, customer 

service, bookkeeping, financial services, business analytics, 

transportation, publishing, and others. What do 

you do in an uncertain future? Here are some tips that 

can help enable your child to learn the skills that she or 

he needs to flourish in a future impacted by AI. 

Encourage free play time, entrepreneurism, and creativity 

Benefit: Develop skills in critical reasoning, problem-solving, 

lateral-thinking, and applied creativity. 

In your child's lifetime, she or he may have multiple 

careers and personal pivots. As AI will increase job displacement, 

job security will depend on your child's ability 

to adapt and be flexible, creative, and resourceful. 

In the future, everyone will need to chart their own 

career paths, and having entrepreneurial skills will be 

essential in navigating uncharted waters. Develop your 

child's entrepreneurial and problem-solving skills by 

starting a business. It could be as simple as a neighborhood 

lemonade stand, or as ambitious as finding a way 

to solve one of humanity's greatest challenges. For 

example, Boyan Slat was a teenager when he conceived 

of the idea to anchor a massive bow-shaped floating barrier 

to the seabed to help clean up plastic pollution in the 

ocean. In September 2018, The Economist reported that 

Slat's idea became a reality when he was 25 years old 

with $23 million in funding and the launch of "System 

001," the first of a fleet to clean the Pacific Ocean. 

Encourage out-of-the-box-thinking, and use boxes, 

literally. Rather than discard cardboard shipping boxes, 

packaging, and single-use plastics, reuse them for art 

projects or make your own board game and toys. 

Teach your children how to learn, instead of having 

them memorise facts and figures. Use the Socratic 

Method when conversing with your child. Answer your 

child's question with a question in order to stimulate critical 

reasoning, develop ideas, and eliminate hypotheses. 

As AI becomes more sophisticated in imitating human 

voice, images, and writing, having the skills to perform 

critical reasoning will help in assessing the level of 

accuracy and bias in information sources. 

Play team sports 

Benefit: Develop teamwork skills, discipline, focus, 

self-mastery, and a sense of community. 

According to a research study published in Pae 

diatrics, physical activity may improve children's cognitive 

performance and brain function during tasks involving 

greater executive control. Playing team sports helps 

a child learn the value of practice, discipline, grit, 

resiliency, and hard work. Children learn how to be a 

member of a wider community, how to get along effectively 

with others, and how to work together as a team 

player. Team sports teach children how to respect 

authority and take constructive criticism from coaches. 

Physical fitness promotes emotional and mental wellbeing, 

and playing sports establishes a foundation for 

your child to maintain an active lifestyle into adulthood. 

Sports are a healthy outlet to counter the mental stress 

and anxiety that may arise from the job insecurities that 

AI automation will cause. 

Play board games 

Benefit: Develop social-emotional intelligence, good 

sportsmanship, and strategic thinking. 

Having strong social and communication skills will 

be critical in the future. Networking, communication, 

and interpersonal skills will be skills that every individual 

will need to use. Individuals with larger professional 

and social networks will be more likely to have more 

opportunities open to them. 

These soft skills can be learned. Encourage your 

children to play board games. Playing games helps 

develop your child's communication skills, sportsmanship, 

integrity, and social intelligence. Children learn to 

compete, take turns, play by the rules, and master their 

emotions whether they win or lose. 

An added benefit of playing board games is the intellectual 

development and mental exercise. Games like 

chess help develop strategic thinking, cause and effect, 

and long-range planning skills. There is a lot of math, 

reading, and strategy that is needed to play Monopoly. 

Games like Scrabble help develop math skills, spelling, 

and vocabulary. 

Minimise all forms of electronics, read printed books 

instead 

Benefit: Develop proactive life-long learning, 

curiosity, and self-directed exploration. 

How many times have you seen parents in restaurants, 

airports, and other public places using the 

"electronic babysitter," where their children are glued 

to glowing screens to keep quiet? From the teens and 

adults that you know, how many of them seem 

addicted to smartphones, television, social media, or 

video games? Move from passive to active neural 

engagement. Instead of tablets and smartphones, ask 

your child to bring a printed book along wherever 

they go. 

Encourage kids to read pages whenever they have 

the time, on topics of their choosing, to ignite their 

sense of wonder and awe. The concept is for the child 

to proactively seek ways to stimulate their minds on 

their own, versus being a passive recipient of electronic 

content. Unless you are raising a future competitive 

video gaming star in e-sports, minimise the 

electronics, and maximise reading printed books. 

RAWALPINDI: Workers of Cantonment Board use heavy machinery to demolish the 

buildings in Saddar area during an anti-encroachment operation. 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Minister of State for 

Parliamentary Affairs Ali 

Muhammad Khan on 

Thursday said that the government 

will soon launch a 

full-fledged campaign 

CHICHAWATNI: Police 

have taken five people into 

custody on matter of stolen 

watch of wife of governor 

Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar. 

According to media 

reports, the wife of governor 

Punjab Chaudhry 

Sarwar had forgotten her 

watch while performing 

Wudoo in Baldia Rest 

House. 

The cost of watch was 

30, 000 pounds. 

Police could not recover 

watch till yet but arrests 

have been made on the 

basis of suspicion. 

against land mafia. 

Talking to media in 

Khuli Katchery (open public 

forum) at Rawalpinid 

Commissioner Office, the 

minister promised that the 

operation against land grabbers 

will be across the 

board. 

“The government will 

fulfill all promises made 

with the masses and would 

come up to their expectations. 

A effective mechanism 

would be introduced 

to eliminate the menace of 

corruption,” said Ali 

Muhammad Khan. 

The minister assured all 

that the government is 

determined to eliminate 

corruption, adding that taxpayers’ 

money will only be 

spent on public welfare. 

The minister also directed 

the officials to work hard 

with honestly and delicately 

and warned them of strict 

action if they fail to perform 

their duties with honesty. 

The minister listened 

public complaints against 

police, WAPDA, Sui Gas, 

NADRA and other departments. 

Regional Police Officer 

(RPO) Fayyaz Ahmed and 

Acting Commissioner 

Rawalpindi Dr Umer 

Jahangir and other officials 

were present on the 

occasion. 

Rickshaw driver/Guard 

5 held on matter of stolen watch 

kidnaps newly born girl 

of wife of governor Punjab from Jinnah Hospital 

LAHORE: A newly 

Mother & daughter holds protest 

demo against atrocities of police 

Staff Reporter 

BADIN: Mother and 

daughter along with children 

held protest demonstration 

in front of Badin 

press club on Thursday 

against aggressive attitude 

of Dei police. 

Grade 9th student’s 

registration cards uploaded 

on BISE RWP website 

RAWALPINDI: Board of 

Intermediate and Secondary 

Education (BISE) 

Rawalpindi has uploaded 

the registration cards of 

grade 9th students on their 

website for educational year 

2018-20. 

According to the 

spokesperson of BISE 

Rawalpindi, for academic l 

year 2018-20 grade 9 student’s 

registration cards have 

been uploaded by the BISE 

on website. All the institutions 

can download by using 

their log in from the website 

of board i.e. www.biserawalpindi.edu.pk 

while exways 

will be used for any 

correction in the registration 

cards. The institutes whose 

registration cards have not 

gone online, they should 

contact with registration 

branch in connection with 

their objections according to 

the list on website. 

Imtiaz Dharani 

MITHI: The Chief Secretary 

Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah chairing 

the meeting of the government 

officials, representatives of non-governmental 

organizations working in 

Thar and members of the civil society 

in DC House here on Thursday 

urged them to work jointly to provide 

relief to drought-stricken people 

of Thar. He said that most of the 

NGOs and other organizations 

claiming to work on the nutrition 

miserably failed to perform for past 

many years and announced to order 

NAB, 

Anti-Corruption 

Establishment and other departments 

to launch the thorough probe into the 

While talking with journalists 

Mst. Bai Notiar and 

her daughter Inyat Notiar, 

inhabitants of railway 

colony Jhuddo said police 

personnel of Dei forcibly 

and illegally entered their 

houses and tortured women 

Allah Bux Khushik 

DADU: Buffalo hardsman 

who was allegedly 

beaten by police a day ago 

in Najam Colony was 

referred to Hyderabad hospital 

in serious condition 

from dadu hoisptil here on 

Thursday. 

After becoming serious 

condition of hardsman 

Zahid Kori, the owner of 

Befflo form Mr AD had 

contacted to dadu court and 

had submitted application 

brutely and Ali Nawaz was 

nabbed by the police. They 

said police disgraced 

women while a pregnant 

woman was critically suffered 

of torture.They said a 

case was proceeding in the 

court and due to non 

appearance of Ali Nawaz 

Notiar, such irrelevant and 

aggressive attitude was 

exercised by the police. 

They demanded from Chief 

Minister of Sindh, IG Sindh 

police, SSP Badin and 

Mirpurkhas for legal action 

against police personnel of 

Dei police for their brutal 

torture and justification. 

Police tortured buffalo's hardsman 

referred to Hyd hospital 

against CIA incharge dadu 

Ifthqur Jamali, constable 

Hubdar, constable Hussain 

Chandio among seven other 

constables were nominated 

in Application. 

Applicant Allah Dito 

Mastoi had narreted in application 

that CIA incharge 

Ifthar Jamali among 9 other 

police constable attacked his 

employ on his befflo form at 

midnight and looted his 

mobile phone, cash and 

other valuable things. 

alleged malpractices adding he 

warned nobody would be allowed to 

expoiit the condition of Tharis in 

their difficult times. 

He said that Sindh government 

born girl has been kidnapped 

from the Jinnah 

Hospital Lahore. 

According to police a 

baby of Nadeem and his 

wife was borne at Jinnah 

Hospital at 2 p.m. yesterday 

who was kidnapped at 

9 p.m in the presence of 

mother and grandmother. A 

veiled woman pretending 

to be hospital staffer took 

the girl for injection and 

disappeared . Police arrested 

a rickshaw driver cum 

guard at hospital with the 

help of CCTV and Safe 

City cameras who allegedly 

dropped the women at 

Darughawala and returned 

to hospital. 

On the other hand MS of 

Jinnah Hospital has constituted 

a three member committee 

for investigation. 

Young 

advocate killed 

HAFIZABAD: A young 

Advocate was killed after 

being allegedly kidnapped on 

love marriage dispute in 

Hafizabad. 

In Pindi Bhattian Tehsil of 

Hafizabad district Punjab a 

young Advocate has been 

killed after being allegedly 

kidnapped on love marriage 

dispute. 

According to the police, the 

dead body of Advocate 

Saqlain Abbas (25) has been 

found/recovered from Jhang 

Branch Lake near Chowkarian 

village of Pindi Bhattian. 

The relatives of murdered 

said that five months ago 

Saqlain shifted to New city 

WAH CANTT after his love 

marriage. 

Relatives laid blame that 

on the eve of October 19 girl’s 

Uncle and other relatives kidnapped 

Saqlain and later his 

dead body was recovered. 

The victims also registered 

kidnapping case in 

WAH CANTT police station 

a day ago. 

On the other hand, Pindi 

Bhattian Bar Association 

has announced 3 days 

mourn on this murder and 

demanded to arrest the 

killers immediately. 

Chief sec Sindh Mamtaz Ali shah visits Tharparkar 

over past few years had done a lot 

but there was urgent need to work 

in the region in wake of the severe 

drought conditions in the raindependent 

arid arid area.

European court rules insulting 

Prophet Mohammed ‘not freedom of expression’ 

STRASBOURG: The 

European Court of Human 

Rights (ECHR) ruled on 

Thursday that insulting 

Islam's Prophet 

Mohammed is not covered 

by freedom of expression. 

Defaming the Prophet 

“goes beyond the permissible 

limits of an objective 

debate" and "could stir up 

prejudice and put at risk 

religious peace,” the ruling 

stated. 

The decision by a 

seven-judge panel came 

after an Austrian national 

identified as Mrs. S. held 

two seminars in 2009 in 

which she insulted the 

prophet. 

The court said that the 

woman's comments could 

not be covered by the freedom 

of expression, stating 

that it had found that "the 

applicant's statements had 

been likely to arouse justified 

indignation in 

Muslims" and "amounted 

to a generalization without 

factual basis." 

An Austrian court convicted 

her of disparaging 

religious doctrines in 2011 

and fined her 480 euros 

(548 dollars), a judgment 

that was upheld on two 

appeals. 

“Mrs. S. appealed but 

the Vienna Court of 

Appeal upheld the decision 

in December 2011, 

confirming, in essence, the 

lower court’s findings. A 

request for the renewal of 

the proceedings was dismissed 

by the Supreme 

Court on 11 December 

2013,” it said. 

“Relying on Article 10 

(freedom of expression), 

Mrs. S. complained that 

the domestic courts failed 

to address the substance of 

the impugned statements 

in the light of her right to 

freedom of expression.” 

On today’s ruling, the 

ECHR said it “found in 

particular that the domestic 

courts comprehensively 

assessed the wider context 

of the applicant’s 

statements and carefully 

balanced her right to freedom 

of expression with 

the right of others to have 

their religious feelings 

protected, and served the 

legitimate aim of preserving 

religious peace in 

Austria.” 


International 

political prisoners held in Russia: European Parliament head 

Such defamation could stir up prejudice and risk religious peace, says European Court of Human Rights 

STRASBOURG: A 

Abdul-Mahdi sworn in as Iraqi 

PM; 14 ministers approved 

14 of prime minister's 22 cabinet nominees granted confidence by lawmakers 

BAGHDAD: Adil 

Abdul-Mahdi was sworn 

in as Iraq’s new prime 

minister late Wednesday 

after parliament approved 

most of his proposed cabinet 

lineup. 

Only 14 of Abdul- 

Mahdi’s 22 cabinet nominees, 

however, were granted 

confidence by a majority 

of lawmakers during the 

session. 

Nominees approved 

during Wednesday’s voting 

session -- which went 

on past midnight -- include 

candidates for the petroleum, 

finance, foreign affairs 

and labor portfolios. 

Parliament will convene 

again on Nov. 6 when 

MPs will vote on the eight 

remaining nominees. 

Sources close to the 

government-formation 

process told Anadolu 

Agency that certain political 

blocs were pressuring 

Abdul-Mahdi -- who 

enjoys the support of influential 

Shia cleric Ali al- 

Sistani -- for more representation 

in the incoming 

cabinet. 

Earlier this month, 

Conflict with Gaza 'inevitable': 

Israel's Lieberman 

‘We must attack them with great force,’ Israel’s 

hardline defense minister says 

JERUSALEM: Israeli 

Defense Minister Avigdor 

Lieberman said Thursday 

that another confrontation 

with Hamas-run Gaza was 

“inevitable”. 

“There is no avoiding 

another confrontation with 

Hamas; we must attack them 

with great force,” Lieberman 

told Israeli public radio. 

“Neither [the provision 

of] fuel nor [the disbursement 

of public-sector] 

salaries will calm the situation 

[in Gaza],” he said. 

“Hamas leaders say they 

want the blockade [of the 

Gaza Strip] lifted, but this is 

not possible,” he asserted. 

Lieberman added, however, 

that Israel’s defense 

establishment would “give a 

chance” to ongoing Egyptbrokered 

truce talks with 

Hamas, “so they don’t say 

I'm dragging Israel into conflict 

because of my personal 

agenda”. 

At dawn Thursday, Israeli 

fighter jets bombed three 

sites in Gaza affiliated with 

the Ezzedine al-Qassam 

Brigades, Hamas’s armed 

wing. 

Earlier the same day, the 

Israeli army claimed that a 

rocket was fired from Gaza 

into Israeli territory. 

Russian S-400 setup in Turkey 

to start in October 2019 

Turkish defense minister calls NATO, US concerns on Russian 

S-400 missiles ‘irrelevant,’ as they operate independently 

ANKARA: Installation 

of a Russian-bought missile 

defense system in Turkey 

will begin a year from now, 

in October 2019, according 

to the Turkish defense minister. 

“As of October 2019, 

installation operations will 

begin” for the Russian S- 

400 system, Hulusi Akar 

told Anadolu Agency on 

Thursday. 

“Currently, we are in 

process of selecting personnel.” 

“The selected personnel 

will be sent for training in 

Russia from the beginning 

of 2019,” Akar said. “They 

will get the necessary training 

there and then they will 

come back for duty.” 

Last December, Turkey 

announced it had concluded 

an agreement with Russia to 

buy two S-400 systems by 

early 2020. This April both 

parties agreed on early 

delivery of the systems. 

The S-400 is Russia's 

most advanced long-range 

anti-aircraft missile system, 

with the ability to carry 

three types of missiles capable 

of destroying targets, 

including ballistic and 

cruise missiles. 

Akar gave no details 

about where the Russian 

system will be established, 

saying the decision is still 

ongoing by the Turkish Air 

Forces Command. 

In June, the U.S. Senate 

passed a bill prohibiting 

sales to Turkey of F-35 jets, 

citing the S-400 purchase as 

well as Turkey’s detention 

of U.S. citizens. 

Saying that the anti-aircraft 

missile system will be 

used independently from 

NATO systems, Akar said. 

Barham Salih, Iraq’s 

newly-elected president, 

tasked Abdul-Mahdi with 

drawing up a new government. 

Abdul-Mahdi served as 

Iraq’s petroleum minister 

from 2014 to 2016. 

UK watchdog fines 

Facebook over user 

data breach 

LONDON: Facebook has 

been subjected to a huge fine 

by a British watchdog for failing 

to protect the privacy of 

their users. 

The U.K.’s Information 

Commissioner’s Office (ICO) 

said the social media platform 

is now to pay £500,000 

($645,000) for allowing the 

users’personal data being harnessed, 

adding Facebook permitted 

a "serious breach". 

“Facebook failed to sufficiently 

protect the privacy of 

its users before, during and 

after the unlawful processing 

of this data," said Elizabeth 

Denham, information commissioner 

at ICO. 

"A company of its size and 

expertise should have known 

better and it should have done 

better.” 

"Between 2007 and 2014, 

Facebook processed the personal 

information of users 

unfairly by allowing application 

developers access to 

their information without 

sufficiently clear and 

informed consent, and allowing 

access even if users had 

not downloaded the app, but 

were simply 'friends' with 

people who had," a statement 

from ICO said. 

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia 

has received information 

from Turkey that those 

responsible for the Oct. 2 

murder of Saudi journalist 

Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul 

had planned the crime 

beforehand. 

“Information obtained 

from Turkey indicates that 

suspects in the case planned 

the act in advance,” the 

Saudi Press Agency (SPA) 

quoted Saudi Public 

Russia accuses US 

of drone attack on 

its Syria base 

MOSCOW: The U.S. 

was behind a drone attack on 

Russian military bases in 

Syria this January, Russia’s 

Deputy Defense Minister 

Alexander Fomin said on 

Thursday. 

On Jan. 6, thirteen drones 

attacked Russian-controlled 

Hmeimim airbase and Tartus 

naval base in Syria. Six 

drones were destroyed, 

while Russian forces got 

control of seven, landing 

them at Hmeimim for further 

examination. 

The drones were moving 

in a common combat battle 

deployment while a U.S. 

Poseidon-8 military aircraft 

was loitering offshore near 

Syria, Fomin said, speaking 

at the plenary session of the 

Xiangshan security forum in 

Beijing. "When the drones 

encountered the action of the 

Russian jamming system, 

they moved to manual control 

mode, which was done 

from the Poseidon-8," he 

said. Fomin also said it was 

necessary to stop equipping 

terrorists with high-tech 

weapons. 

SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

MELBOURNE: Drivers 

for Uber and other rideshare 

companies are being ripped 

off, assaulted, threatened 

and racially abused, a new 

survey reveals. 

The survey of 1100 drivers 

released yesterday says 

more than 60 percent reported 

earnings below the average 

hourly $16 rate, before 

costs such as fuel, insurance 

and car maintenance. There 

were also 969 reports of 

harassment and assault. 

The survey, by the 

Transport Workers' Union 

and Rideshare Driver Cooperative, 

reported one-in- 

10 drivers being physically 

assaulted on the job while 

six percent were sexually 

assaulted. 

"A passenger pinned me 

into my seat with his body 

weight while he used a hand 

to sexually assault me," one 

respondent said. 

Thirty-seven percent 

jailed Ukrainian filmmaker 

who opposed Russian 

annexation of Crimea won 

the European Parliament’s 

Sakharov Prize for freedom 

of thought, the EU 

announced on Thursday. 

"Through his courage 

and determination, by putting 

his life in danger, the 

filmmaker Oleg Sentsov 

has become a symbol of the 

struggle for the release of 

political prisoners held in 

Russia and around the 

world,” said Antonio 

Tajani, head of the parliament. 

He said, "By awarding 

him the Sakharov Prize, the 

European Parliament is 

expressing its solidarity 

with him and his cause. We 

ask that he be released 

immediately." 

"His struggle reminds us 

that it is our duty to defend 

human rights everywhere in 

the world and in all circumstances,” 

Tajani added. 

In March 2014, Russia 

annexed Crimea after a controversial 

referendum, 

which drew the ire of the 

international community as 

Russian soldiers occupied 

the region during the voting 

process. 

Sentsov was convicted 

to 20 years in prison by a 

Russian court on Aug. 25, 

2015 for “plotting terrorist 

acts” against the Russian 

“de facto” rule in Crimea, 

according to the parliament’s 

website. 

“He was on hunger 

strike from mid-May until 6 

October, when he ended it 

because of the threat of 

being force-fed.” 

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Imprisoned Ukrainian film director 

Oleh Sentsov wins Sakharov Prize 

Oleg Sentsov has become symbol of struggle for release of 

ANKARA: Palestine and 

Jerusalem are Turkey's "red 

line", the Turkish foreign 

minister said Thursday. 

"Turkey always stands 

with its Palestinian brothers. 

Palestine and Jerusalem are 

our red line," Mevlut 

Cavusoglu said at a news 

conference in Ankara alongside 

Palestinian counterpart 

Riyad al-Maliki. 

The conference was held 

following the first meeting 

of the Turkey-Palestine joint 

committee. 

Stressing Ankara’s continued 

support for Palestine, 

Cavusoglu said the joint 

committee’s next meeting 

would be held in Ramallah, 

the Palestinian government’s 

administrative capital. 

Al-Maliki, for his part, 

said, “We can confront all 

threats with Turkey's support.” 

“Our people are determined 

to end the occupation 

and determine their own 

destinies,” the Palestinian 

FM added. 

He went on to thank 

The award ceremony for 

the prize, a certificate and 

€50,000 ($57,000), will be 

held in France's Strasbourg 

on Dec. 12. 

The Sakharov Prize for 

Freedom of Thought, 

named after Soviet dissident 

Andrei Sakharov, is 

awarded each year by the 

European Parliament. 

The finalists shortlisted 

for this year’s prize were 

Nasser Zefzafi, the leader of 

Hirak -- a mass protest 

movement in the Rif region 

in Morocco --, and nongovernmental 

organizations 

protecting human rights and 

saving migrant lives across 

the Mediterranean Sea 

Last year, the prize was 

awarded to the democratic 

opposition in the turbulent 

South American country 

Venezuela. 

Palestine, Jerusalem are 

Turkey’s red line: FM Cavusoglu 

Turkey continues to be in solidarity with brotherly 

Palestine, says Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu 

reported being threatened 

while almost a third 

received racist comments. "I 

have had drunk passengers 

call me a n***er and terrorist", 

one driver told the survey. 

One respondent filed a 

police report after being 

held at knifepoint, with the 

rideshare company failing 

to deactivate the passenger's 

accounts. 

Drivers also complained 

of being immediately deactivated 

from the ride-share 

apps when passengers leave 

wallets behind or make false 

reports. 

"Drivers want to be paid 

a fair rate, we want protection 

against threats and 

assaults and we want to go 

to work and know our company 

will not sack us without 

giving us a right of 

reply," said the co-operatives 

Emmett D'Urso. 

The Transport Workers' 

Union's Tony Sheldon said 

Turkey for its ongoing political, 

humanitarian and financial 

support for Palestine. 

According to al-Maliki, 

the Palestinian leadership is 

working closely with 

Turkey with a view to filling 

the vacuum caused by a 

recent U.S. decision to cut 

funding for the UN’s 

Palestinian refugee agency 

(UNRWA). 

Established in 1949, 

UNRWA provides aid to 

some five million 

Palestinian refugees 

throughout the region. 

Survey reveals Uber drivers being 'abused' in Australia 

Prosecutor Saud al-Mujeb 

as saying Thursday. 

According to al-Mujeb, 

Saudi prosecution authorities 

are continuing their 

investigations in light of the 

information received from 

Turkey. 

A columnist for The 

Washington Post, 

Khashoggi was last seen on 

Oct. 2 when he entered the 

Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. 

After days of denying 

any knowledge of his 

whereabouts, Saudi officials 

last week admitted that the 

journalist had been killed 

inside the consulate. 

In a related development, 

Saudi Crown Prince 

Mohamad bin Salman on 

the "shocking and disturbing" 

survey results reveal 

the true nature of the ondemand 

economy, where 

drivers are being ripped off 

and forced to struggle. 

The survey was conducted 

between July and 

October. Respondents, 

some of whom work for 

multiple rideshare companies, 

work for Uber (97%), 

Ola (46%), Taxify (26%), 

DiDi (22%) and others 

(15%). 

Ankara to Saudis: Khashoggi’s murder was premeditated 

Saudi authorities continue probe into journalist’s death in light of information received from Turkey 

Thursday chaired a meeting 

of a newly-created committee 

tasked with restructuring 

the Saudi intelligence apparatus, 

according to the SPA. 

Amid the ongoing furor 

over Khashoggi’s death, 

Saudi King Salman has 

sacked the deputy head of 

the Saudi intelligence 

agency -- and a top aide -- 

while also ordering the 

arrest of 18 suspects in the 

case.

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Biz 

NBP sign Belt and Road Cooperation 

Framework Agreement with Chinese bank 

DFID-funded Karandaaz launches 

Women Entrepreneurship Challenge 2018 

BEIJING: National 

Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has 

signed a framework agreement 

on regular cooperation 

under the “Belt and Road” 

with the Chinese Bank, 

ICBC here, according to 

state-run wire service. NBP. The signing ceremony, 

Assistant to Chief 

Deputy General 

as reported by the APP, Representative, National 

Manager, International was witnessed Zhang Leilei, Bank of Pakistan, 

Banking Department, ICBC Head of FI Division, Representative Office 

HO, Wang Kun signed the International Banking Beijing. 

agreement on behalf of Department, ICBC H O, Ge A detailed discussion 

ICBC and Chief Shengtian, Regional with Wang Kun was held 

Representative, Shaikh Manager, International prior to the signing ceremony, 

Muhammad Shariq inked Banking Department, ICBC 

regarding enhancement 

the agreement on behalf of H O and Zhao Peng, of mutual cooperation on 

LAHORE: SAARC 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry (CCI) Senior Vice 

President Iftikhar Ali Malik 

Thursday termed Prime 

Minister Imran Khan’s visit 

to Saudi Arabia as result 

oriented and will help steer 

the country out of imminent 

financial crunch. Abdulaziz 

Talking to a delegation 

of traders who called on 

him here on Friday, he said 

PM visit to brotherly 

Islamic country was imperative 

in changing global 

scenario as it yielded loud 

and clear message to the 

world that Pakistan and 

Saudi Arabia‘s bilateral 

relations are long lasting. 

He said prime minister’s 

visit has great significance, 

during which, Salman bin 

demonstrated 

extraordinary warmth for 

him. 

He said the visit would 

help in further strengthening 

the bilateral, brotherly, 

strategic and economic relations. 

Both the countries 

were ready to work together 

under 2030 Vision which 

was a game changer for 

Saudi Arabia, Middle East 

and the Muslim countries, 

he added. He said Pakistan 

had huge potential of natural 

and mineral resources. 

He further said there 

were great investment 

opportunities in Pakistan, 

and the Pakistani community 

was playing important 

trade business, RMB business, 

and credit line. 

Wang Kun highlighted 

the overall performance of 

NBP and reassured his full 

support in strengthening 

bilateral business ties with 

the bank. 

Since its inception in 

May 2017, the Regular 

Mechanism has been put 

into practice rapidly and 

now have more than 60 

members form Belt and 

Road countries. 

The signing of this 

agreement with ICBC will 

role in the development of 

Saudi Arabia. The 

Organization of Islamic 

Cooperation (OIC) should 

support Saudi Arabia and 

Pakistan in tackling all the 

issues facing the Muslim 

countries, he added. He said 

that if entire Muslim 

Ummah forge unity and 

pool their natural resources 

for collective welfare of 

Muslims and Muslims can 

emerge as on the globe as 

super power. 

provide NBP with as platform 

for information sharing, 

mutual policy negotiation, 

project recommendation 

and mutual support 

in business with banks in 

the countries along the 

Belt and Road. 

By now, more than 20 

overseas financing projects 

are recommended, 

with a total value of over 

US$ 2.5 billion, covering 

A/B Loan, international 

syndicates, asset trading, 

on-lending, and other various 

business. 

Former Govt 

Saudi timely assistance to help Pakistan 

blamed for power 

overcome imminent financial crunch sector woes 


Govt appoints Jameel Ahmad 

as deputy governor State Bank 

ISLAMABAD: The federal 

government has appointed 

JameelAhmad on the post 

of Deputy Governor of State 

Bank Pakistan. 

A notification issued by 

the Finance Ministry 

declared Jameel in charge of 

the Deputy Governor’s post 

of the State Bank. 

According to details, 

Jameel Ahmad, who had 

been previously serving as 

executive director of the 

State Bank, will now perform 

his duties as deputy 

governor for a period of three 

years. 

In his career, Jameel 

Ahmad’s had been associated 

with various sectors of the 

State Bank which include 

operations department, 

banking policy and regulation 

department, and development 

finance. 

Jameel Ahmed is a seasoned 

banker with more than 

26 years of banking experience. 

He is also the associate 

member of the Institute of 

Bankers, Pakistan and fellow 

member of the Institute of 

Corporate Sectors of 

Pakistan. 

During his educational 

life, Jameel received his 

Masters degree in Business 

Administration from Punjab 

University. It is pertinent to 

mention, on July 7, 2017, the 

then federal government 

appointed former finance 

secretary Tariq Bajwa as new 

governor of the State Bank 

of Pakistan (SBP). 

His appointment came in 

the wake of sudden depreciation 

and subsequent appreciation 

in the value of the 

rupee against the dollar in 

2017. 

Agriculture inputs worth US$ 2.324 bln 

imported in firs quarter of FY 2018-19 

ISLAMABAD: Imports 

of agriculture inputs into 

the country during first 

quarter of current financial 

year increased by 10.70 

percent as compared the 

imports of the corresponding 

period of last year. 

During the period from 

July-September, 2018 agriculture 

related inputs 

including fertilizers, insecticides 

and medicinal products 

worth US$ 2.324 billion 

imported to fulfill the 

domestic requirements as 

compared the imports of 

US$ 2.09 billion of same 

period last year. 

In first three months 

about 908802 metric tons 

of fertilizers valuing US$ 

344.173 million imported 

as against the imports of 

622.819 metric tons costing 

US$ 230.029 million 

of same period last year. 

According the data of 

Pakistan Bureau of 

Statistics, the import of 

fertilizers into the country 

during the period under 

review grew by 49.62 percent 

as compared the same 

period of last year. 

Meanwhile, 6,517 metric 

tons of insecticides 

costing US$ 43.531 million 

were also imported to 

tackle the requirements 

during current Rabi season 

as against the imports of 

6,185 metric tons worth 

US$ 42.349 million of 

same period of last year. 

About 421,313 metric 

tons of plastic material 

valuing US$ 552.566 million 

imported, which was 

recorded at 366,634 metric 

tons costing US$ 557.817 

million during same period 

of last year. 

From July-September, 

2018, country spent US$ 

292.612 million on the 

import of about 5913 metric 

tons of medicinal products 

for agriculture sector 

as against the import of 

4,755 metric tons valuing 

US$ 239.43 million of 

same period of last year. 

HYDERABAD: Farmers busy in their work to earn their livelihood for support their 

families, at a Spinach field. 

Call to avoid 

IMF loans 

KARACHI: Former 

Chairman Standing 

Committee of the FPCCI 

on Horticulture and Food 

Exports, Ahmad Jawad 

said Thursday after the 

announcement of Saudi 

Arabian funding of more 

than six billion dollars and 

some expected funds from 

China as well in the 

upcoming visit of Prime 

Minster Imran Khan, now I 

think Finance Ministry 

should wait and refrain 

from adopting IMF package. 

Jawad said in a statement, 

"Khan had promised 

in his election campaign 

that in Naya Pakistan, it 

will be a shame for us that 

through some dictation, we 

may increase electricity 

and gas prices and it will 

be shameful for us that we 

may devalue our currency 

under some IMF arrangement 

but now the same 

things have already happened. 

Now the government 

already did these measures 

for the IMF funding in 

advance, and in the presence 

of recent Saudis 

Arabia attractive package, 

what's the need to go to 

IMF again, he said. 

Islamabad Chamber of 

Small Traders on Thursday 

blamed the PML-N government 

for crippling power 

sector in the country which 

has become a threat to production 

and exports. 

Mismanagement, inefficiency, 

and corruption of the 

former government has 

damaged the power sector to 

an extent that it will require 

years of hard work to overcome 

the problems, it said. 

The former government 

spent billions of dollars to 

generate power but avoided 

improvement in transmission, 

distribution, line losses, 

theft, and recoveries, said 

Patron Islamabad Chamber 

of Small Traders Shahid 

Rasheed Butt. 

The incapability of former 

government resulted in 

surplus power generation in 

the system which cannot be 

provided to the consumers, 

he added. Shahid Rasheed 

Butt said that the incumbent 

government is paying for 

the surplus electricity but it 

cannot be delivered to the 

consumers due to weak 

transmission and distribution 

network. 

Our Correspondent 

JACOBABAD: Community 

Development Foundation (CDF) with 

support of Oxfam and Indus Consortium 

organized One - Day Community 

Orientation Session Tax and Budget 

Advocacy under “Finance for 

Development Project” at CDF Head 

Office, here on Thursday. 

Mr. Muhammad Jan Odhano CEO 

CDF said that Tax is means through 

which governments can be held accountable, 

rights be claimed and inequality be 

tackled while he further said that there 

are two types of tax system progress and 

regressive Progressive Taxes takes a 

higher percentage of tax from people 

with higher incomes, It means that the 

HUB: Huge ship AN African seen moored at Giddani ship 

reaking yard. 

Stocks plunge in Asia 

after Wall Street sell-off 

TOKYO: Asia stocks have joined a global sell-off 

after a bruising session on Wall Street which saw two of 

the three main indexes erase their gains for the year. 

Tokyo stocks slumped more than 3%, while losses 

pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 

500 into negative territory for the year. 

Technology stocks were also hit, with the Nasdaq 

index suffering its worst day since 2011. 

Concerns over corporate profits and slowing growth 

has rattled investors. 

In the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 

2.4% to 24,583.4 points, while the S&P 500 plunged 

3.1% to 2,656.1 points on Wednesday. 

The technology-focused Nasdaq dropped more than 

4.4% to 7,108.4 points amid concerns about weak corporate 

profits and global trade tensions. 

cohort, as announced by 

Karandaaz at a ceremony 

held in Islamabad, today. 

Speaking at the event, 

CEO Karandaaz Mr. Ali 

Sarfraz explained “We are 

very excited about this 

year’s round of Karandaaz 

Women Entrepreneurship 

Challenge as the businesses 

this time are much more 

diverse with a significant 

potential for revenue generation 

and job creation. 

Our programme is helping 

these dynamic entrepreneurs 

compete at par with 

other mainstream businesses 

in their domains 

and tackle impediments 

such as access to finance, 

market linkages, and lack 

of knowledge about industry 

certifications and standards 

that traditionally 

hamper women-led businesses’ 

growth.” 

Speaking about the pro- 

Bureau Report 


Karandaaz Pakistan has 

launched the second round 

of its flagship Women 

E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p 

Challenge with 19 womenled 

businesses from across 

the country. The annual 

challenge, funded by the 

UK’s Department for 

International Development 

(DFID), is a leading business 

support programme 

that promotes a culture of 

entrepreneurship amongst 

women. 

Karandaaz will invest 

up to PKR 20 million (per 

business) in enterprises 

that have potential for 

growth after a competitive 

pitching round to a panel 

of judges. It will also provide 

customized business 

development support to the 

businesses that have qualified 

for the programme. 

Women-led businesses gramme, 

from sectors as diverse as Development 

clothing and manufacturing, 

education, beauty and 

care, food and food processing, 

IT and digital 

media, and gems and jewelry 

make up this year’s 

ISLAMABAD: Federal 

Minister for Finance 

Asad Umer has said that 

government would take 

steps to boost exports. 

Talking to a private 

news channel, he said 

steps have been taken to 

bring improvement in 

various sectors. 

Asad Umer said the 

textile sector would also 

be given special attention 

so that desired 

Senior 

Adviser, 

Waqas ul-Hassan from 

DFID said “creating jobs 

and supporting economic 

growth is a top priority for 

the UK in Pakistan. We 

know through our experience 

that investing in 

women-led businesses not 

only empowers women but 

also lead towards economic 

growth in target communities. 

These businesses participating 

in the women 

entrepreneurship challenge 

will serve as role models to 

inspire other women entrepreneurs 

who can be drivers 

for growth and prosperity 

in Pakistan.” 

Last year, through the 

Karandaaz Women 

E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p 

Challenge, 36 women-led 

small and medium businesses 

from across 

Pakistan received incubation 

services and 15 were 

selected to receive support 

from Karandaaz. This year 

the programme targeted 

high-potential, established 

women-led businesses that 

have an operational history 

of at least three years and 

are looking to achieve 

growth. Karandaaz will 

undertake an assessment 

for each of the 19 businesses 

and work with the 

women entrepreneurs to 

develop a growth plan. 

Govt will take steps to boost exports: Asad 

more a person earns, the higher his average 

rate of tax will be. Regressive Taxes: 

A regressive tax is a tax that takes a larger 

percentage of income from lowincome 

earners than from high-income 

earners. 

A regressive tax is generally a tax that 

is applied uniformly to all situations, 

regardless of the payer adding a direct tax 

is paid directly by an individual or organization 

to an imposing entity. An indirect 

tax is a tax that is paid to the government 

by one entity in the supply chain, but it is 

passed on to the consumer as part of the 

price of a good or service. The consumer 

is ultimately paying the tax by paying 

more for the product. An indirect tax is 

shifted from one taxpayer to another. 

results could be 

achieved. 

He clarified that the 

government is not planning 

to privatize PIA, 

Pakistan Steel and other 

government institutions. 

Tax and Budget Advocacy under “Finance for 

Development Project” an orientation program holds 

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia 

said on Thursday the oil 

market could be shifting 

towards oversupply in the 

fourth quarter of the year as 

oil inventories rise and 

demand slows, and the top 

oil exporter will “mirror” 

such changes in its production. 

“We are of the view that 

the market in the fourth 

quarter could be shifting 

towards an oversupply situation 

as evidenced by rising 

inventories over the past 

few weeks,” Saudi OPEC 

governor Adeeb Al-Aama 

told Reuters on Thursday. 

“So we want to be 

watchful not to over-correct 

and cause a substantial 

inventory build,” Al-Aama, 

who heads a joint OPEC 

and non-OPEC committee 

which monitors compliance 

and market fundamentals, 

said after a recent meeting 

of the panel, known as the 

JTC, in Vienna. 

OPEC and non-OPEC 

oil producers agreed in June 

to relax their oil cuts, but the 

group said on Thursday they 

may need to change course 

because of rising inventories 

and economic uncertainties. 

Asked about concerns of 

Mr. QurbanAli facilitating the session 

said that tax justice case advocates for tax 

policies and system that are progressive 

and fair. Besides, to restore the taxes to 

whom they are due and ensure that 

everyone should pay taxes according to 

their wealth and income. 

The state allocates its expenditure 

with a pro-poor and gender sensitive perspective. 

Thereby spending the revenues 

rose on the citizens which need it most. 

He further added often assumed tax is a 

bad thing, it deprives citizens of hardearned 

money, and however taxes are 

crucial for 4 reasons including 1, 

Revenue:funding to deliver the services 

citizens need, 2, Redistribution: to 

address poverty and inequality. 

Saudi Arabia says oil market could 

shift to oversupply in fourth quarter 

slowing economic growth in 

countries such as China, a 

major oil consumer, Al- 

Aama said: “Growth risks 

are a concern particularly in 

emerging countries … we 

are aware that oil demand 

responds to global macroeconomic 

factors and will 

be responding with our partners 

proactively”. 

He added Saudi Arabia 

does not push oil to the market 

but responds to its customers’ 

needs and said the 

increase in the kingdom’s 

oil production over the past 

months was in response to 

rising demand.

NOCs to be issued to players 

for participation in T10 League 

India and Pak players to participate in T-10 League in UAE next month 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: The Pakistan 

Cricket Board (PCB) has 

decided to issue NOCs to 

some of its players for the T- 

10 League scheduled to take 

place 

in 

November/December 2018. 

The decision has been 

made after due diligence was 

carried out by the PCB in 

which the Board procured 

and processed detailed information 

from the 

International Cricket 

Council (ICC) and the 

Emirates Cricket Board. 

The Pakistan Cricket 

Board (PCB) has given permission 

to allow its players 

to participate in the second 

edition of the T-10 league to 

be held in UAE (UnitedArab 

Emirates) next month. 

This was revealed by 

Aaron Ved, the Operations 

Manager, attached to this 

league. 

Speaking exclusively, he 

says, "the news we are all 

waiting for. The PCB has just 

confirmed release of its players". 

"We have Indian players 

(Zaheer Khan, Praveen 

Kumar, RP Singh, Reetinder 

Singh Sodhi and 

Subramaniam Badrinath) as 

well. This will be the only 

league with players from 

India and Pakistan", he 

added. Barring ICC tournaments 

and initial phase of the 

Indian Premier League 

(IPL), players from India and 

Pakistan have not played 

together / against each other 

in the recent past. 

"We are in the process of 

finalizing the teams. Shahid 

Afridi, Shoaib Malik, 

Mohammad Sami, Sohail 

Tanvir are the few names 

from Pakistan to play in this 

tournament". 

The eight teams (Kerala 

Kings, Rajputs, Karachians, 

Pakhtoon, Maratha 

Arabians, Bengal Tigers, 

Northern Warriors and 

Punjabi Legends) will participate 

in this tournament 

which will run from 

November 21st to December 

2 in Sharjah. 

"At present no player 

from Bangladesh are chosen 

as they will be busy playing 

against West Indies. 

However, players from 

USA, Sri Lanka (Kusal 

Perera, Niroshan 

World Cup hopefuls running out 

of chances, says Bayliss 

LONDON: England's 

fringe players risk slipping 

out of contention for spots 

in next year's World Cup 

squad after failing to grab 

their chance in Tuesday's 

crushing one-day international 

defeat to Sri Lanka, 

said coach Trevor Bayliss. 

Bayliss slammed the 

attitude of his players after 

a record 219-run loss in 

Colombo and warned them 

that they were running out 

of chances. 

"It's one thing giving 

guys an opportunity, but 

those guys have to take 

hold of that opportunity," 

Bayliss told British media. 

"Those opportunities 

could determine who 

makes a World Cup squad 

and who doesn't. It's a 

tough school, international 

cricket. 

"There are not too many 

more opportunities before 

the World Cup squad is 

picked, so some of the 

guys will have to turn it 

around pretty quick." 

With only 11 more 

ODIs scheduled for 

England before their 

World Cup campaign on 

home soil, Bayliss said 

there was still an opportunity 

for fast bowlers to 

impress him. 

"Our batting and spinbowling 

line-up is pretty 

well set ahead of the World 

Cup, so it comes down to 

pace bowling," he added. 

"The West Indies series 

could mean a lot in that 

respect." England visit 

West Indies to play three 

tests, five ODIs and three 

Twenty20s in January next 

year. 

Bravo announces 

Angelique Kerber outlasts 

international 

Naomi Osaka at WTA Finals retirement 

KINGSTOWN: West 

S I N G A P O R E : 

Angelique Kerber held her 

nerve and held her serve, a 

combination that helped 

the Wimbledon champion 

beat Naomi Osaka 6-4, 5- 

7, 6-4 on Wednesday at the 

WTA Finals. 

Kerber saved 13 of the 

18 break points she faced, 

including five in the final 

game of the first set, to 

improve to 1-1 at the season-ending 

tournament. 

Osaka, who won this 

year's US Open, dropped 

to 0-2. 

Sloane Stephens and 

Kiki Bertens, who are both 

1-0 in the Red Group, 

were playing in the second 

match on Wednesday. 

Kerber had a chance to 

win straight sets, but she 

was broken while serving 

at 5-4. In the final set, the 

German didn't squander a 

second chance and an 

error from Osaka on match 

point ended it. 

Osaka finished the 

match with 50 unforced 

errors and 42 winners, 

while Kerber had 30 

unforced errors and 24 

winners. 

ABU DHABI: At the 

trophy unveiling on 

Tuesday, Aaron Finch and 

Sarfraz Ahmed stood 

together, posing for the preseries 

picture with the silverware 

the two teams 

would fight for. That it was 

called the TUC Cup for 

sponsorship reasons was 

unsurprising in today's age, 

but when you looked closely, 

you saw the Cup was 

rather aptly named. 

Perched on top of a set of 

three stumps and a cricket 

ball was a monstrously 

large TUC biscuit. 

That word is used advisedly. 

The trophy might 

have looked horrendous if 

it wasn't comical. It was 

hardly a prize worth fighting 

for. 

And so, on Wednesday, 

as Pakistan took on 

Australia in the first T20I, 

the visitors seemed to simply 

not fight for it. If they 

didn't want to take that trophy 

home, the way the top 

and middle order batted 

went a long way towards 

ensuring they wouldn't 

have to. Pakistan bowled 

well - of course they did; 

they're the No. 1 T20I side. 

But Australia seemed to be 

lining up to give their wickets 

away with a slew of 

shocking shots to collapse 

to 22 for 6, chasing 156. It 

was a minor miracle they 

lost by only 66 runs, making 

it to 89 before being 

bowled out in 16.5 overs. 

Imad Wasim, playing 

his first international match 

in almost a year, bowled an 

Indies all-rounder Dwayne 

Bravo announced his retirement 

from international 

cricket on Thursday. 

The 

Trinidadian, who made his 

West Indies debut in 2004, 

played 40 tests, 164 one-day 

internationals and 66 T20 

internationals. His last 

appearance for his country 

came in the shortest format 

against Pakistan in Sept. 

2016. "Today I want to confirm 

to the cricket world that 

I have officially retired from 

international cricket in all 

formats of the game," he said 

in a statement. 

"After 14 years when I 

made my debut for the West 

Indies, I still remember that 

moment I received the 

maroon cap before walking 

onto the Lords Cricket 

Ground against England in 

July 2004. The enthusiasm 

and passion I felt then, I have 

kept with me throughout my 

career. "However, I must 

accept that for me to preserve 

my longevity as a professional 

cricketer, I must do as others 

before have done, leave 

the international arena for the 

next generation of players." 

impressive first over. But it 

wasn't like Finch and 

D'Arcy Short made it hard 

for him. Third ball, Finch 

stepped towards leg stump 

Dickwella), England, 

Afghanistan, New Zealand, 

South Africa, Australia, 

Zimbabwe, Netherlands, 

West Indies, Nepal, Ireland 

and UAE have already confirmed 

their participation", 

Ved, the Sri Lankan official 

added further. 

Roshan Mahanama, who 

worked as an ICC match-referee 

in the past is also associated 

with this tournament 

and will recommend one 

more referee. 

"Alex Wharf, Billy 

Taylor, Paul Baldwin (from 

England), Ranmore 

Martinesz Lyndon Hannibai 

(both Sri Lankans) and 

Adrian Holstock are to 

umpire". "Yes, the ICC has 

consented to recommend the 

names of the Anti- 

Corruption officials to supervise 

the T-10 league. Last 

year (in the first edition of 

this league) India's 

Dharamveer Yadav (he is no 

more with the ICC now) was 

present". 

Rangana Herath 

has coaching 

aspirations 


KARACHI: Sri Lankan 

spinner Rangana Herath, 

who has decided to retire 

after the first Test against 

England at Galle, has 

coaching intentions in 

future. 

This was revealed by one 

of the former Sri Lankan 

cricketers who is now contracted 

with the SLC and 

coaching at junior level. 

"Herath has coaching 

plan in his mind. He wants 

to be involved in coaching 

in future, if not immediately 

after his retirement", speaking 

exclusively, he said. 

"Recently, he undertook 

the coaching course which 

was conducted by Sri Lanka 

Cricket (SLC) Coach 

Education Unit", the source 

added. The said Unit successfully 

completed a Level 

35-year-old 

2 Coaching Course from the 

16th-21st of October, 2018 

with 20 participants, who 

represent various levels of 

cricket in Sri Lanka. 

to make room to a ball that 

kept drifting in, his ungainly 

slash missing it as it clattered 

into middle stump. 

Three balls later, Short got 

DUBAI: Former 

legspinner Mushtaq 

Ahmed has ended his stint 

as spin bowling coach of 

Pakistan's National 

Cricket Academy to take 

up a consultancy role with 

West Indies. He is set to 

become the assistant 

coach and is on a contract 

that will need him to commit 

150 days in a year. 

He was to begin with 

the India tour, but couldn't 

link up with the squad 

because of visa glitches - 

Pakistani nationals have 


Sportlight 

found it hard to obtain 

work visas for India due 

to strained political ties. 

His first assignment will 

be West Indies' upcoming 

tour of Bangladesh, where 

they are slated to play two 

Tests, three ODIs and 

three T20Is. 

Mushtaq's contract 

with the NCA was 

renewed for a year in 

April after weeks of 

uncertainty. At the time, 

he was also contemplating 

offers from Bangladesh, 

Sri Lanka and West Indies 

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Mushtaq Ahmed signs with 

West Indies as assistant coach 


KARACHI: Abdul FC 

has resumed its winning 

streak win a formidable 4- 

1 triumph against Joga 

Bonito to mark their ninth 

straight win in the ongoing 

Leisure Leagues Season 4 

underway here at Karachi 

United Football Stadium. 

Shahrukh and 

Jehanzaib both braced for 

the table toppers. Yahya 

scored a consolatory goal 

for the losing side. 

In another match of the 

league, Targaryens United 

thrashed En Fuego 3-0. 

Sameer, Hammad and 

Demi scored one goal 

each. 

Karsaz FC overcame 

Inter United 2-1 with 

Mohammad Mohsin and 

Mohammad Usman scoring 

one goal apiece for the 

winners in the match. 

Wesley David scored one 

for the losing side. 

Glory Days defeated 

Nabeel FC 3-0. Anab 

braced while Hassan score 

one goal for Glory Days. 

About Leisure Leagues: 

Leisure Leagues, is a 

company of World Group, 

which is owned by The 

Trunkwala Family. It is the 

largest global organizer of 

5, 6 and 7-a-side football 

events. Leisure Leagues 

has considerably large 

footprints, having organized 

leagues in Wales, 

England, Scotland and 

Northern Ireland. Leisure 

has also been operational 

in United States. Leisure 

Leagues set foot in 

Pakistan in 2016. Last 

year, Trunkwala Family 

brought former football 

super star Brazilian 

Ronaldinho and Friends 

including former 

Manchester United stalwart 

Ryan Giggs, former 

England goalkeeper David 

James, Dutch star George 

Boateng, former French 

players Robert Pires and 

Nicolas Anelka and 

but decided to stay back to 

put himself in the fray to 

become Pakistan's spin 

bowling coach. However, 

he signed a month-long 

contract as spin consultant 

with Cricket West Indies 

before rejoining the NCA. 

Having previously 

worked with England, 

Mushtaq was Pakistan's 

bowling coach for 18 

months being replaced by 

Azhar Mahmood last year. 

Since then, he's been an 

integral part of the NCA 

set up in Lahore. 

Abdul FC continues winning run 

in Leisure Leagues Season 4 


KARACHI: In their 

fourth match of the round 

robin phase, Pakistan drew 

with Japan 1-1 at the Hero 

Asian Champions Trophy 

Hockey Tournament at the 

Sultan Qaboos Sports 

Complex in Muscat, Oman. 

Japan, recently won the 

Asian Games gold for the 

first time, defeating Pakistan 

in the semifinals. 

In fact, in the last five 

meetings against Pakistan 

before this match, the 

Japanese led three to one 

with one draw. 

In the first half, Pakistan 

had more of the possession, 

circle entries and chances. 

Tight marking in the circle 

by Japanese denied 

them. 

But Japan took the lead 

in the 11th minute. A swift 

right side move with neat 

passes resulted in Kitozato 

availing a return pass in the 

circle from a good spot. 

his feet stuck in the crease 

and was bowled for 4. 

Faheem Ashraf at the 

other end was suffocatingly 

tight as well, and Glenn 

Maxwell soon ran out of 

patience. Attempting to 

launch the ball out of the 

ground, he swung at thin 

air, while the ball rocked 

the middle stump again. 

The self-destruction continued 

from Finch's men, 

when Ben McDermott set 

off for a crazy run after 

punching to mid-off. 

Fakhar effected a direct hit, 

and Australia's chances 

were all but over. 

Things were so different 

just half an hour 

before. Australia had even 

Going behind, Pakistan 

made more meaningful 

attacks and equalised with 

the first penalty corner of the 

tie in the 25th minute. 

Mubashar Ali whipped 

the ball into the board left 

side of the goal keeper. 

come into the innings with 

momentum on their side 

after inflicting a startling 

collapse: Pakistan went 

from 105 for 1 to 133 for 8. 

Hussain Talat, Faheem 

Ashraf, Sarfraz Ahmed, 

Shadab Khan and Imad 

were all dismissed inside 

two overs for the addition 

of three runs. 

In what was a staccato 

batting performance by 

Pakistan, they had much to 

thank Babar Azam for. His 

relentless hunger for accumulation 

shows no signs 

of satiating, at least in the 

limited-overs game. At 

57.85, he averages nine 

points more than the man 

with the second highest 

Portuguese player Luis 

Boa Morte. Two high-voltage 

matches were played 

in Lahore and Karachi 

when foreign players of 

other sports including 

cricket were reluctant to 

visit Pakistan due to security 

apprehensions. Leisure 

Leagues is now organizing 

different small-sided football 

events throughout 

Pakistan in more than a 

dozen cities. Leisure 

Leagues is also organizing 

small-sided football events 

in schools and colleges as 

well. Leisure Leagues has 

also played an important 

role in establishing 

International Socca 

Federation (ISF) and also 

played an important part in 

organizing first ever ISF 

World Cup in Portugal. 

Leisure Leagues has also 

established Pakistan Socca 

Team, which has participated 

in ISF Socca World 

Cup and has won ‘Fair 

Play’ award. 

Pakistan and Japan in Thrilling 1-1 Draw 

In the dying moments of 

the first half, Attique 

Arshad's fine close range 

attempt was well saved by 

the net minder. 

Pace slowed down in the 

third quarter and it was 

mainly a mid field show. 

Imad Wasim, Faheem Ashraf knock out Australia for 89 

T20I average - Virat Kohli 

(minimum 20 innings). He 

batted through the innings, 

leading Pakistan's charge 

for the first 15 overs, and 

looking in his own element 

as he did so. Along 

with an old hand in 

Mohammad Hafeez, he 

kept Australia under the 

pump during the middle 

overs. Much of the work 

the pair did helped cushion 

the blow of the collapse 

that came towards 

the end, and even as the 

madness unfolded at the 

other end, Babar, a picture 

of clarity, was there to 

steer Pakistan to a total 

they were comfortable 

defending.

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Strain in Indo-Pak ties natural till 

resolution of Kashmir dispute: Qureshi 

I 

ISLAMABAD: Minister 

for Foreign Affairs Shah 

Mehmood Qureshi here 

Thursday said that Pakistan 

wanted good neighborly 

ties with India but the strain 

in bilateral relations was 

natural until the Kashmir 

dispute was taken to its logical 

end. 

Addressing a seminar on 

Kashmir issue held at 

National Press Club, the 

foreign minister said the 

whole nation was united on 

Kashmir issue which was 

also a main component of 

Pakistan’s foreign policy. 

He thanked the Kashmiri 

leadership for lauding his 

address at the United 

Nations General 

Assembly’s recent session 

and told the audience that 

the meeting of the OIC 

Contact Group on Kashmir 

was also an impressive sitting. 

He particularly appreciated 

the foreign ministers 

of Turkey and Azerbaijan 

for categorically supporting 

the Kashmir cause in the 


ongoing differences 

between Pakistan People 

Party (PPP) and Pakistan 

Muslim League Nawaz 

(PML-N) would likely to be 

reduced in the forthcoming 

All Parties Conference 

(APC). 

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F 

Chief Maulana Fazlur 

Rehman was fully committed 

to hold this APC as top 

leaders of above mentioned 

parties including Asif Ali 

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi addressing a seminar regarding 

Kashmir issue at National Press Club. 

meeting. 

Shah Mehmood Qureshi 

said neither there was any 

confusion in the stance of 

Kashmiri people nor it has 

any moral or legal loophole. 

He said the Indian stance on 

Kashmir was contrary to 

the basic concept of the 

division of the subcontinent 

which was based on including 

the Muslim majority 

population in Pakistan. 

The foreign minister 

Zardari and Mian Nawaz 

Sharif would participate in 

APC. 

The inner sources stated 

that Maulana Fazlur 

Rehman was fully keen to 

reduce the differences and 

misunderstandings between 

PPP and PML-N. 

Maulana Fazlur Rehman 

recently held meeting with 

PPP head Asif Ali Zardari 

and during the meeting Asif 

Ali Zardari had given a task 

to Maulana to bring whole 

hoped that the Kashmiris’ 

slogan of ‘Kashmir banay 

ga Pakistan’ (Kashmir will 

become Pakistan) would be 

realized. He said Kashmir 

was illegally annexed with 

India and highlighted the 

role of Kashmiri Maharaja 

in this regard. The international 

community must be 

made realize the sensitivity 

of the issue which had 

begotten three wars 

between the two nations. 

opposition on one page. 

Sources stated that currently 

opposition leaders 

were felling hazard that 

government would make 

cases against them on political 

basic that why they 

called APC to counter the 

government strategy. 

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F 

Chief Maulana Fazlur 

Rehman has good relations 

with PPP and PML-N and it 

was highly possible that 

Maulalan would supervise 

ISLAMABAD: Chairman NAB Justice (r) Javed Iqbal hearing the public complaints at 

NAB Headquarters. 

Nullifying the Indian 

stance of dubbing Kashmir 

issue as mere a propaganda, 

the foreign minister questioned 

as why India had 

deployed around 0.7 million 

troops in Occupied 

Kashmir and enforced special 

laws there instead of 

ruling the territory with normal 

laws. 

He asked Indian leadership 

about the rationale 

behind the amendment in 

Ongoing differences between PPP, PML-N 

likely to be reduced in APC 

Ensuring sanctity of house, my 

duty: Ch Pervaiz Elahi 

LAHORE: Punjab 

Assembly’s speaker 

Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi 

has said ensuring sanctity 

of house is his duty. 

Talking to media persons 

on Thursday, he said 

when opposition would 

learn the ethics of dialogue 

we will definitely talk to 

them. The investigative 

report on smashing the 

Assembly’ possessions 

would be presented in the 

house, he said. 

Talking about the attitude 

of the opposition 

leader in Punjab Assembly 

Hamza Shahbaz Sharif the 

Speaker said that he is like 

LAHORE: Speaker Punjab Assembly, Chaudhry Pervez 

Elahi talking to media person outside Punjab Assembly. 

his own son. 

“If a child is stubborn, 

let him free for it and do 

not force him to abandon 

his stubbornness, but I 

think it is the duty of his 

other fellows to guide 

him,” he added. 

KP Assembly discusses Supplementary Budget 

PESHAWAR: The 

Provincial Assembly of 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa discussed 

the supplementary 

budget and passed a resolution 

against laying off of 

media workers, observes 

Free and Fair Election 

Network (FAFEN) on 

Thursday. 

The Assembly met for 

two hours and 35 minutes. 

The sitting started at 1055 

hours against the scheduled 

time of 1000 hours. As 

much as 45 members (36%) 

were present at the start and 

32 (26%) at the end of the 

sitting. The Deputy Speaker 

chaired the entire sitting as 

the Speaker was not present. 

The Chief Minister did 

not attend the sitting. The 

Leader of the Opposition 

attended the entire sitting. 

The parliamentary leaders 

of MMA, ANP and PPP 

attended the sitting. As 

many as two out of three 

minority members were 

present. 

The House unanimously 

approved a resolution recommending 

the government 

to take measures 

regarding laying off of 

media workers by their 

employers. The resolution 

suggested to make the payment 

of advertisement fees 

conditional with restoration 

of media workers. 

the APC. PPP leader Asif 

Ali Zardari had earlier stated 

that that all cases on him 

made by Nawaz Sharif, 

however it not mean we 

haven’t unite again. 

After this statement the 

going differences between 

PPP and PML-N starts to 

reduce. Sources stated that 

currently Maulana Fazlur 

Rehman has held contacts 

with all opposition parties 

and convince them to participate 

in upcoming APC. 

Senator Shahzad takes 

part in int’l moot on 

Human Development 

BAKU: PTI Central 

Secretary for Foreign Affairs 

Senator Dr. Shahzad Waseem 

participated in International 

Baku Conference held in 

Azerbaijan. 

This year title of the conference 

was "Creativity and 

Human Development in 

Shaping a New World." 

The conference is hosted 

by President of Azerbaijan 

Ilham Aliyev. Other attendants 

of the conference 

included Noble Laureates, 

Parliamentarians and representatives 

of international 

organizations including the 

United Nations. 

Speaking at Group discussions, 

Senator Dr. Shahzad 

Waseem said that the principles 

of Justice, equality, neutrality 

and respect for human 

rights are key factors for 

development of societies 

across the globe. 

Health, education prime focus of govt: Governor 

MULTAN: Punjab 

Governor Chaudhry 

Muhammad Sarwar 

Thursday said that health and 

education were very important 

fields and prime focus of 

the incumbent government. 

Speaking at the 1st convocation 

of Nishtar Medical 

University (MNU) here, he 

heaped praise on the position 

holder female doctors. He 

said that girls were knocking 

out boys in education field, 

adding that Pakistan might 

be the only country in the 

world in future where boys 

would be allocated quota for 

admission to medical colleges 

if the situation remains 

the same. 

The girl students were far 

ahead of boys as far as 

securing positions was concerned, 

he said adding that 

today three girl students got 

12 gold medals. 

He advised graduating 

doctors to always respect 

Article 35A of the constitution 

if the Kashmiris’ stance 

carried no weight. All of 

these facts negated the 

Indian stance and promoted 

the cause of Kashmiri people, 

he added. 

The foreign minister 

also rejected the Indian 

stand on Occupied Kashmir 

citing Lord Mountbatton’s 

letter to Maharaja and 

Jawaharlal Nehru’s letter to 

Nawab Liaqat Ali Khan 

which clearly mentioned 

Kashmir as a dispute 

besides suggesting its resolution 

though plebiscite. 

He said Pakistan could 

never be oblivious to the 

Kashmir issue. “My blood 

does not allow me to give 

up this issue. My conscience 

does not allow me,” 

he remarked. The foreign 

minister also apreciated the 

role of former Jamat-e- 

Islami leader late Qazi 

Hussain Ahmed and said 

there was no differnece of 

opinion in Pakistan on 

Kashmir issue. 

Pakistani peacekeepers 

repair a strategic 

road in Darfur 

their parents and teachers 

alike and never forget their 

roots, especially when they 

attain high positions in life. 

He said that he always 

approached his parents 

whenever he faced hard 

times, adding that their 

blessings and prayers 

always made a difference. 

Medicines was one of the 

noblest professions and doctors 

were the refection of 

Allah Almighty, he said 

adding that they were ‘messiahs’ 

for the ailing humanity. 

“If Allah blesses one with 

power and wealth, one 

should serve the humanity,” 

Chaudhry Sarwar said. 

About the NMU, the 

governor said it was one of 

the oldest and premier medicines 

institutions of the 

country, adding that the 

University of Health 

Sciences (UHS) and Nishtar 

Medical University (NMU) 

were gaining new heights of 

NA Speaker receives two applications 

for production orders of Shahbaz 

S L A M A B A D : 

National Assembly 

Speaker Asad Qaiser has 

received two applications 

in connection with 

issuance of production 

orders of opposition leader 

in National Assembly 

Shahbaz Sharif for the next 

session on October 29. 

MULTAN: Governor Punjab Ch Muhammad Sarwar addressing during 1st Convocation 

of Nishtar Medical University. 

success. 

Pakistan was facing 

shortage of electricity, the 

governor said and added that 

he had asked all public and 

private universities to shift 

to solar systems for which 

the government would 

extend full support. 

Earlier, NMU Vice 

Chancellor Dr Mustafa 

Kamal Pasha highlighted the 

achievements of the university 

in field of medicines. He 

said that they were working 

on water conservation and 

trying their level best to take 

the NMU to international 

standards. 

The governor gave away 

According to Assembly 

secretariat officials, the 

applications have been 

sent by the PML-N. The 

first application was sent 

by the senior leader of 

Pakistan Muslim League 

(N) Rana Sana Ullah on 

October 18 while the second 

had been sent by former 

Federal Minister for 

Information and 

Broadcasting Marriyum 

Aurangzeb on October 24. 

Assembly secretariat 

officials said that only the 

first application will be 

accepted as both the 

applications had same 

text. 

Alia's mother reveals someone 

tried to rape her on film set 

KHARTOUM: 

Deputy 

Representative 

The 

Special 

of 

MUMBAI: Bollywood 

actress Alia Bhatt’s mother 

Soni Razdan on Thursday 

recalled her sad memory 

when ‘somebody’ tried to 

“Like there was an incident 

that happened to me 

when I was on a film shoot 

once and somebody tried to 

rape me for example, you 

lem, he had a family and 

small children. And at that 

time, I said okay, nothing 

really happened, I managed 

to control it, but obviously I 

UNAMID, the joint African 

Union and UN peacekeeping 

rape her during a film 

shoot. 

know, that kind of a thing. 

Luckily, they didn’t succeed 

never spoke to that person 

again,” she added. 

mission in Sudan's Razdan narrated, "I have but it was like....you know Responding to the ques- 

Darfur region, Anita been very lucky in the the only reason why I never tion regarding not raising 

Gbeho, recently inaugurated 

sense that I haven’t faced it said anything at that time her voice against the issue, 

a road, repaired by very obviously when I have and it sounds really odd Razdan said, “I didn’t not 

Pakistani "Blue Helmets", gone and approached maybe but I realised that if I talk about it because of 

which links the towns of 

Golo and Nertiti in Central 

someone for work. But I 

have faced it in other directions.” 

had opened my mouth then 

that person would have 

shame or anything like that. 

I felt that I would be hurting 

Darfur, as part of the 

gone through a lot of prob- 

his family whom I knew.” 

Mission efforts to support 

local communities and 

improve infrastructure in Shahzad Akbar meets British home 

the region, according to a 

report received in New secretary, discusses extradition of suspects 

York on Wednesday. 

The 84-kilometer road LONDON: Special ties. 

of Parliament, John 

project was rehabilitated by Assistant to the Prime Akbar also met other Penrose at Portcullis 

the Pakistan Engineering Minister 

on representatives of the UK House to discuss strategies 

Company serving with Accountability Shahzad government including 

for making joint 

UNAMID. The company Akbar on Tuesday held a Deputy Chief Crown efforts in curbing corruption 

completed the project over meeting with British Prosecutor of the 

and plugging existing 

a 71-day period, well ahead Home Secretary Sajid International Justice & loopholes at home and 

of the scheduled 110 days, Javid in London and discussed 

Organised Crime abroad. 

despite challenges such as 

issues of mutual Division, Debbie Price Akbar spent a busy day 

the insecurity, rough mountainous 

interest. 

and Head of the UK in the British capital and 

terrain, tough During the interaction, Central Authority, also visited the Foreign 

weather conditions and difficulties 

the two officials dis- 

Philomena Creffield. and Commonwealth 

sourcing materials, cussed issues related to During the meeting, Office where he was 

the report said. 

the provision of mutual Islamabad and London received by UK Special 

"If you are going to legal assistance, extradition 

agreed on working close- 

Representative on 

have peace you have to 

requests, prisoner ly at an operational level Afghanistan and Pakistan 

talk, and infrastructure transfer agreement and and enhancing collaboration 

(SRAP) Gareth Bayley; 

such as this facilitates people 

steps to put an end to 

in the areas of infor- 

both sides discussed bilat- 

to speak," Ms. money laundering as well mation sharing. eral issues and expressed 

Gbeho said at the inauguration 

as recovery of assets Moreover, progress on their commitment to work 

ceremony. acquired through illegal specific cases for extradi- 

closely together. 

Reconstructing the road sources of income. tion requests made to the Bayley expressed the 

would not be possible if They also discussed UK government also British Government’s 

there was no peace in the matters pertaining to came under discussion. resolve to support 

area. By implementing a assistance and support on The premier’s special Pakistan in its anti-corruption 

project such as this, we are technical matters, analytical 

assistant also called on 

drive and carrying 

showing Darfuris and the 

advice and skills UK Prime Minister’s out the accountability 

world that peace is possible," 

capacity building so both A n t i - C o r r u p t i o n process for justice to 

she added. 

the countries can cement Champion and Member ensure 

transparency. 

medals and awards to positions 

holder doctors. 

Parliamentarians, VC BZU 

Dr Tahir Amin, VC 

MNSUA Dr Asif Ali, ED 

CPEIC Dr Rana Altaf, parents, 

high-ups of district 

administration and a large 

number of students attended 

the convocation. 

CMYK CMYK 

CMYK 

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