1 November 2018

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PM Khan to leave for 

China on 3-day visit today 

ISLAMABAD: PM 

Imran Khan is set to 

embark on a 3 day official 

visit to China today. 

PM will hold meetings 

with his Chinese counterpart 

Li Keqiang and president 

Xi Jinping, diplomatic 

sources said. Some 

important ministers of federal 

cabinet and a high 

level business community 

delegation are accompanying 

PM Imran in his official 

visit to a friendly state 

China from Nov 2 to 5. 

NEPRA imposes 

Rs 2mln fine on 

K-Electric 

ISLAMABAD: NEPRA 

has imposed a fine of Rs. 2 

Million on K-Electric. This 

penalty has been imposed 

on K-Electric for non-compliance 

of Performance 

Standards, particularly failure 

to restore Power Supply 

within prescribed time 

frame and to ensure the 

safety of public in Karachi. 

Large area of Karachi 

remained without electricity 

due to tripping of almost 

700 feeders during rainy 

weather on 28.06.2017 and 

onwards, which resulted in 

long power supply outage 

ranging from 24 hours to 48 

hours in almost 50% of 

Karachi. 

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme 

Court on Wednesday acquitted Asia 

Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to 

death over blasphemy allegations. 

Asia Bibi was cleared of all blasphemy 

charges and the apex court 

ordered her immediate release. 

A three-judge special bench headed 

by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice 

Mian Saqib Nisar and comprising 

Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice 

Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel heard 

Bibi's 2014 appeal against her conviction 

and death sentence under section 

295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code 

(PPC). 

The 56-page detailed judgement 

was authored by Chief Justice Mian 

Saqib Nisar and included a concurrent 

opinion by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa. 

The chief justice wrote that it was 

a “well settled principal of law that the 

one who makes an assertion has to 

prove it. Thus, the onus rests on the 

prosecution to prove guilt of the 

accused beyond reasonable doubt 

throughout the trial. Presumption of 

innocence remains throughout the 

case until such time the prosecution 

on the evidence satisfies the court 

beyond reasonable doubt that the 

accused is guilty of the offence 

alleged against him.” 

The top judge added that the 

KARACHI EDITION – Thursday, November 1, 2018, Safar 22, 1440 

SC frees Christian woman 

on death row for blasphemy 

Top court rules there were no legal grounds to prosecute Asia Bibi, 

who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Nov 2010. 

PM Imran, COAS meet to 

discuss security situation 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

Minister Imran Khan met 

with Chief of Army Staff 

General Qamar Javed 

Bajwa on Wednesday to 

discuss contemporary 

security situation in wake 

of threats after the 

Supreme Court’s verdict in 

Asia Bibi case, said 

Federal Information 

Minister Fawad Chaudhry. 

The COAS and Prime 

expression "proof beyond reasonable 

doubt" was of fundamental importance 

to the criminal justice and was 

one of the principles which sought to 

ensure that no innocent person was 

convicted. 

CJP Nisar added, "Keeping in 

mind the evidence produced by the 

prosecution against the alleged blasphemy 

committed by the appellant, 

the prosecution has categorically 

failed to prove its case beyond reasonable 

doubt. The judgments of the High 

Court as well as the Trial Court are 

reversed. Consequently, the conviction 

as also the sentence of death 

awarded to the appellant is set aside 

and she is acquitted of the charge. She 

be released from jail forthwith, if not 

required in any other criminal case." 

The CJP ended the judgement on a 

Minister Imran Khan held 

a meeting at PM House. 

The federal minister in 

a tweet said that the PM 

and army chief discussed 

important matters and 

overall situation of the 

country. 

"The entire nation is 

united for Pakistan's peace, 

stability and security," 

Chaudhry said in a Twitter 

post. 

Shehbaz vows to quit politics 

if PM proves NRO was sought 

ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader in the National 

Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday stated that he 

would leave politics if Prime Minister Imran Khan 

could prove that a request for a National Reconciliation 

Ordinance (NRO) was made. Speaking on the floor of 

the National Assembly, the Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N) president questioned who had asked 

the prime minister for an NRO, and challenged the premier 

to identify the person who had asked the Pakistan 

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for such a deal. 

“I curse the NRO,” Shehbaz said. "We cannot be 

scared off like this." "If the leader of the house cannot 

prove the NRO request, then he should come to the 

House and apologise here," he added. Taking aim at the 

ruling party, he said that never before in the history of 

the country a government lost its credibility so soon 

after assuming power. 

Zardari extends truce offer to PTI govt 

$3 bn aid not enough to overcome economic crisis 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party 

co-chairman and former president Asif Ali 

Zardari on Wednesday extended a truce 

offer to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, 

saying his party was willing to 

support five years of the government in the 

interest of the country. 

Speaking on the floor of the National 

Assembly, Zardari said his party had 

begrudgingly accepted Nawaz Sharif’s 

government and had also begrudgingly 

accepted the PTI government. 

“Come and sit with us. We should all sit 

together and prepare a long-term plan for 

the next 20 to 25 years to bring the country 

out of the present [economic] crisis,” the 

former president offered. 

He said there were no free and fair elections 

anywhere in the world, “not even in 

the United States or the United Kingdom.” 

“Weaknesses exist in democracies 

[also],” he said, adding that it was time “we 

all sat together and stopped undermining 

one another.” 

Zardari said the $3 billion aid was not 

enough to overcome the economic crisis 

facing the country. “It’s not a complete 

cure,” he said. 

He further said that dams are important 

and should be built but first, steps should 

be taken for conservation. 

Welcoming Zardari's truce offer, 

Federal Minister for Education and 

Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood 

said the former president's mindset is what 

is needed to take the country forward. 

ISLAMABAD: Iran’s 

foreign minister Javad 

Zarif on Wednesday said 

his visit to Pakistan was 

Hadith of the Holy Prophet 

Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) 

on the rights of minorities. 

Further, Justice Khosa "because of 

some important legal and factual 

issues involved in the case" decided 

to record his separate concurring 

opinion which stated that the prosecution 

had failed to prove its case 

against Asia Bibi beyond a reasonable 

doubt. “This appeal is, therefore, 

allowed, the conviction and sentence 

of the appellant recorded and upheld 

by the courts below are set aside and 

she is acquitted of the charge by 

extending the benefit of doubt to her," 

he stated. 

Justice Khosa’s opinion added, 

"Blasphemy is a serious offence but 

the insult of the appellant’s religion 

and religious sensibilities by the complainant 

party and then mixing truth 

with falsehood in the name of the 

Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be 

Upon Him) was also not short of 

being blasphemous." 

"It is ironical that in the Arabic 

language the appellant’s name Asia 

means ‘sinful’ but in the circumstances 

of the present case she 

appears to be a person, in the words 

of Shakespeare’s King Leare, “more 

sinned against than sinning," Justice 

Khosa's opinion read. 

Govt hikes petrol 

prices by Rs5 per litre 

ISLAMABAD: The government has raised the prices of 

petroleum prices, with petrol price hiking by Rs5 per litre. 

The price of diesel has raised by Rs6.37 while light 

diesel rates increased by Rs6.48. 

The new price of petrol per litre is Rs97.83, diesel is 

Rs112.94 and kerosene oil has increased to Rs86.50. 

The price for light diesel is RS82.84. 

The finance ministry has given approval for the hike 

in prices. A day ago, the Oil and Gas Regulatory 

Authority (OGRA) had sent a summary to the Ministry 

of Petroleum recommending an increase of Rs9 per litre 

in petrol prices. 

According to sources, the body had suggested an 

increase of Rs13 per litre in diesel prices and Rs6.47 in 

kerosene oil. 

The government on August 30 had reduced petroleum 

prices by as much as Rs6 for the month of September, 

according to a notification. 

The price of petrol was reduced by Rs2.41 bringing it 

down to Rs92.83 per litre. High speed diesel price went 

down by Rs6.37 at Rs106.57 per litre. 

aimed at further intensifying 

efforts for the safe 

recovery of Iranian border 

guards. 

ISLAMABAD/KARA 

CHI: Supporters of the 

T e h r e e k - e - L a b b a i k 

Pakistan (TLP) took to the 

streets in several parts of 

the country on Wednesday 

following a Supreme Court 

verdict acquitting Asia 

Bibi, a Christian woman 

sentenced to death over 

blasphemy allegations. 

Protests were being 

staged in different cities 

including Karachi, Lahore 

and Islamabad, with major 

roads blocked. 

Following the protests, 

Section 144 was imposed 

across Punjab, Sindh and 

Balochistan barring the 

gathering of more than four 

persons in public places as 

well as pillion riding. 

Section 144 has been 

imposed from October 31 

to November 10. 

In Lahore, the main 

protest led by TLP chief 

Khadim Hussain Rizvi 

was being staged at 

Charring Cross close to the 

Punjab Assembly. 

Cellular network services 

were also suspended 

in several parts of the city. 

According to the Safe 

City Authority, protests 

were being carried out at 

25 different locations, 

effectively blocking roads 

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Protests break out after 

SC acquits Asia Bibi 

Section 144 imposed in Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan; major roads 

blocked due to protests in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, and other cities 

ISLAMABAD: Activists of different religious parties are burn tyres and block road as 

they holding protest demonstration against the acquittal of Christian blasphemy convict 

Aasia Bibi, at Signal Free Expressway. 

In an interview with 

IRNA after his arrival in 

Islamabad, the foreign minister 

said Pakistani officials 

Don't compel state into using 

force, PM warns protesters 

Khan says Aasia Bibi verdict 

according to Constitution 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has 

appealed Nation on Wednesday to remain peaceful and 

warned protesters that state will establish its writ if 

they don’t call off their protests. 

Addressing the Nation, PM Imran said that the despicable 

language used by a small section of the society 

against the army, judiciary and the government is 

deplorable. 

“Such language is used by enemies of the state,” 

PM said that Supreme court’s decision regarding 

Asia Bibi is as per the constitution. 

Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a televised address 

to the nation, fully backed the judges in Asia Bibi case, 

in which they acquitted the Christian woman of all 

blasphemy charges against her and ordered her immediate 

release. 

“I’m here only because a Supreme Court verdict 

was announced and the way a small section reacted to 

it and the language that they used…I’m forced to 

address you,” Khan said. 

“The decision of the judges is according to the constitution 

and Pakistan’s constitution is according to the 

teachings of Islam.” 

He said that Pakistan is the only country, which was 

made in the name of Islam. 

and paralysing vehicular 

traffic across the city. 

Affected areas included 

Ferozpur Road, Ghazi 

Chowk, Ravi Road, 

Kahna Kachha, Chungi 

Pakistan promised to help 

recover abducted guards: Iran 

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a meeting with Iranian 

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at Foreign Office. 

had promised the Iranian 

authorities to do their level 

best to help recover abducted 

border guards. 

Zarif termed Iran and 

Pakistan as strong neighbours 

and said Tehran valued 

its ties with Islamabad. 

He said Iranian authorities 

were in constant touch 

with their Pakistani counterparts 

for the safe recovery 

of border guards. 

On October 16, terrorists 

had kidnapped the 

Iranian forces including 

local Basij volunteer forces 

and border guards near the 

town of Mirjaveh on the 

Pakistani border. 

IG TRANSFER CASE 

SC accepts Fawad’s explanation, grills Swati 

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of 

Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, 

while hearing a suo motu case 

regarding the transfer of Islamabad 

Inspector General of Police (IGP) 

Jan Muhammad, on Wednesday 

summoned federal ministers Fawad 

Chaudhry and Azam Swati and 

grilled them over their recent statements 

on the transfer. 

A three-judge bench headed by 

Justice Nisar heard a suo motu case 

on the transfer of the Islamabad IGP. 

IGP Muhammad was transferred on 

October 27 after he allegedly refused 

action on a complaint by Federal 

Minister Senator Azam Khan Swati's 

son regarding an incident at the 

farmhouse which, the minister 

claims, led to three of his employees 

being injured. 

Amar Sadhu, Shahdara 

Chowk, Data Darbar, 

Boota Mahal Chowk, 

Raiwind Road, Babu Sabu 

Interchange, and several 

other areas. 

Transactions worth Rs8bn 

made through rickshaw 

driver's account 

KARACHI: Another rickshaw 

driver in a poor locality 

of the metropolis was caught 

off guard when he discovered 

transactions of Rs8 billion had 

been made in his name from a 

private bank account, it 

emerged on Wednesday. 

According to details, about 

worth Rs8 billion transaction 

took place through the bank 

account a low-income neighborhood 

of the metropolis, 

Zoor Talab Khan. 

Fake bank accounts on the 

name of rickshaw driver were 

also opened in Karachi and 

Buneir. According to Sources, 

the transactions worth Rs4.40 

billion have been made from 

the rickshaw driver’s account. 

His case mirrors dozens of 

similar stories in recent weeks 

have been reported and riled a 

populace long accustomed to 

extravagant tales of corruption 

and theft. The incidents follow 

a similar arc bank accounts in 

poor residents names are 

flooded with cash, then suddenly 

emptied in a laundering 

scheme that has likely seen 

hundreds of millions of dollars 

moved out of the country. 

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Thursday, November 1, 2018 

Metropolitan 

Private schools across Pakistan 

to remain closed today 

KARACHI: Students of a school with parents return to their homes after protest demonstration of different 

religious parties against the acquittal of Christian blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi, at Shahrah-e-Faisal road. 

KARACHI: The 

employees of Sindh 

Government Children 

Hospital (SGCH), North 

Karachi has continued their 

protest demonstration and 

boycott of duties against 

authorities concerned of 

health department for not 

releasing funds for their 

salaries. 

The hospital is running 

under public private partnership 

through a non-governmental 

organization, 

Poverty Eradication 

Initiative (PEI), since last 

two years. The staff of hospital 

including doctors, 

paramedical staff, nurses 

and other administrative 

officials who are working 

under PEI has not been paid 

salaries since three months. 

The Poverty Eradication 

Initiative (PEI) management 

has shut downed the 

emergency and OPD services 

in protest for delay in 

release of funds for health 

facility. Around 350 

employees including doctors, 

nurses and staff of hospital 

has continued protest 

demonstration for payment 

of salaries. 

The protesting staff said 

have been deprived their 

salaries since three months 

and they were facing financial 

crises as they are 

unable to feed their 

dependents, pay for the 

education of their children 

and pay house rents. The 

children of employees 

were facing expulsion from 

educational institutes while 

some are facing house 

eviction. 

Deputy Medical 

Superintendent (DMS), 

SGCH, Dr Kausar Fatima, 

while talking to PPI, said 

doctors of Sindh government 

are running OPDs 

and established Emergency 

Department on temporary 

basis to deal emergency 

cases but administration 

unable to provide emergency 

services to patients in 

three shifts due to shortage 

of staff. 

Poverty Eradication 

Initiative (PEI) administration 

has closed emergency, 

diagnostic and other services 

to visiting and emergency 

patients in protest 

since ten days due to shortage 

of funds. 

The protest affected the 

provision of health services 

in Sindh second largest 

pediatric care hospital 

KARACHI: The All Pakistan 

Private Schools Association has 

announced that schools would 

remain closed today (Thursday). 

The decision to close schools 

comes as protests are taking place 

in several cities of Pakistan 

against the acquittal of Asia Bibi. 

Meanwhile, private schools in 

the metropolis may remain closed 

on today if the situation remains 

unchanged. 

A statement released by the 

Private Schools Association stated 

that due to the deteriorating situation 

in the city and roads being 

blocked students would not be 

able to reach schools. 

The association called on the 

Sindh Education Department to 

announce the closure of schools. 

Police arrest two 

Children Hospital staff continue robbers after 

alleged encounters 

protest, boycott of duties 

KARACHI: Karachi 

ANF recover 750gm heroin, 

45 Ecstasy tablets 

KARACHI: Anti- 

Narcotics Force (ANF) in 

separate actions recovered 

750gm heroin and 45 

Ecstasy tablets on 

Wednesday. 

ANF Sindh recovered 

750 grams of heroin from a 

parcel being sent to 

Barking Essey, UK, 

through a courier company. 

The parcel was booked 

from Karachi and the drug 

was concealed in 4 leather 

jackets. 

The value of the recovered 

drug in international 

market is more than 

Rs1mn. 

ANF Sindh also intercepted 

another parcel containing 

45 Ecstasy tablets 

weighing 25 grams. The 

parcel was booked from 

Netherland to Pakistan. 

Both cases were lodged 

and further probe initiated. 

FUUAST announces 

exam schedule 

of BA private 

KARACHI: Federal 

Urdu University of Arts 

Science and Technology 

(FUUAST) announced the 

annual examination date of 

private curriculum of BA. 

According to the university 

spokesman, Rais 

Jafari B.A (Private) Part I, 

II exam will be started 

from 10 November 

2018.Jafari said admit 

cards of all private candidates 

have been dispatched 

to their residential addresses 

who aspire to appear in 

the examination. 

It further said in case, 

any candidates have not 

receive their admit cards 

by November 5, they 

should collect it from 

November 6 from examination 

office in Gulashan- 

E-Iqbal campus. 

police on Wednesday 

claimed to have arrest two 

accused in injured conditions 

after two different 

encounters in the metropolis. 

According to police 

sources, a police team arrested 

an accused in injured condition 

after an exchange of 

fire near filter plant in Steel 

town. The arrested accused 

was identified as Zahoor Ali, 

son of Manwar Ali, and 

recovered a pistol with 

rounds and a motorbike from 

him.The accused was shifted 

to Jinnah Postgraduate 

Medical Center for treatment. 

Separately, Gadap town 

police arrested Noor 

Bahadur, son of Sher 

Bahadur, in injured condition 

after an encounter took 

place near Tool Palaza in 

Gadap town. 

The police also claimed 

to have recovered a TT pistol 

and a snatched motorbike 

from his possession. 

The accused was shifted 

to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital 

for treatment. 

President Alvi inaugurates 

local train service in Karachi 

KARACHI: President 

Arif Alvi inaugurated local 

train service on Wednesday 

in Karachi, which will 

become operational on 

November 1 for the general 

public. 

The local train will depart 

from City Station at 7 am 

and 5:45 pm, and go through 

seven stations including 

Drigh Road, Malir City, 

Landhi etc. 

The train ticket will cost 

between Rs25 to Rs80, 

according to the Railway 

administration. 

President Arif Alvi also 

addressed the inauguration 

ceremony, where he congratulated 

Minister for Railways 

Sheikh Rasheed. 

President Arif Alvi also 

addressed the inauguration 

ceremony, where he congratulated 


Sheikh Rasheed. 

The president said that 

Karachi faced the issue of 

KARACHI: Thousands 

of commuters faced 

immense difficulties in the 

megacity on Wednesday, 

due to protests and road 

blockades in in its different 

areas. 

Angry protester 

KARACHI: President, Dr. Arif Alvi visiting the Coaches of 

newly inaugurated Dhabeji Express during ceremony 

held at Cantt Railway Station. Federal Minister for 

Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmad is also present. 

lack of transport and the 

local railway service had 

ended a long while ago. 

He said that trains are 

among the basic means of 

transport around the world. 

Meanwhile, federal minister 

Sheikh Rasheed said 

that railways and people 

associated with it are crucially 

important to the country’s 

economy. 

appeared in different areas 

and closed down many 

streets, including important 

roads like M A Jinnah 

Road and Superhighway at 

some sections. 

Traffic flow remained 

disrupted in the whole city 

He said that the local train 

service has been inaugurated 

upon the directives of Prime 

Minister Imran Khan. In 

Karachi, local train service 

was inaugurated in the era of 

60s and more than two dozen 

trains with three different 

routes used to operate across 

in the city. From 2007 to 

2014, the local trains operating 

in Karachi were ended. 

Commuters in trouble due 

to protests, road blockades 

and commuters faced a lot 

of problems. In some are 

petrol pumps were also 

shut and public transport 

remained very thin. 

However, police and 

rangers were patrolling in 

different areas of the city. 

KARACHI: Road seen closed during protest demonstration of different religious parties 

against the acquittal of Christian blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi, at Orangi Town area. 

Alleged extortionist among 21 apprehended 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Rangers on Wednesday 

claimed to have arrested 

21 criminals including, an 

alleged extortionist, from 

different parts of the 

metropolis. 

According to a 

Rangers’ spokesman, a 

rangers’ team conducted a 

raid in Karli area and 

detained an alleged extortionist, 

Sajed alias Mulla. 

The accused was stated to 

be affiliated a Lyari gang 

war’s Sheraz Comrade 

group. 

During crackdown on 

street criminals the paramilitary 

force carried out 

raids in S a u d a b a d , 

Gulberg, SITE area, 

Taimuria, Baghdadi, and 

Kharadar and arrested 13 

street criminals. 

A rangers and police 

team in a joint search operation 

in Model Colony and 

Gadap town arrested five 

accused. 

Two drug peddlers 

identified as Javaid 

Hussain and Maheen alias 

Phlewan were arrested by 

rangers from Model 

Colony and SITE area. 

The accused were stated 

to be involved in extortion, 

robberies, snatching 

of valuables from citizens 

and drug peddling. 

The ranger also recovered 

weapons, drugs, 

snatched mobile phones 

and contrabands from their 

possession. They were 

handed over to police for 

further legal action. 

KARACHI: Provincial Advisor on Information Murtaza Wahab Amir is distributing 

shields among former office bearers for their best performance of Karachi Press Club 

during a ceremony organized at KPC. 

Seminar on clean and green Pakistan on Nov 2 

KARACHI: A seminar 

on clean and green Pakistan 

organized by Department of 

Chemistry University of 

Karachi will be held on 

Friday, 2nd November 2018 

at Arts Auditorium, KU at 9 

am. 

COURTS 

SHC seeks progress 

report in recovery of 

missing persons 

KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) 

on Wednesday sought a progress report 

within a month from Sindh 

police and law enforcement 

agencies pertaining to recovery 

of more than 70 missing persons. 

A two-member bench headed by 

Justice Naimtullah Phulputo heard the 

case and expressed annoyance on lack in 

progress in police reports. 

The bench ordered the Inspector 

Director Sindh 

Environmental Protection 

Agency Waqar Hussain 

Phulpoto will be the chief 

guest while Vice Chancellor 

KU Prof. Dr Muhammad 

Ajmal Khan will preside. 

Registrar Prof. Dr Majid 

Mumtaz, Dean Faculty of 

Science KU Prof. Dr 

Tasneem Adam Ali, 

Registrar PNEC NUST Lt. 

Cdr Dr Mobin Siddiqui, Dr 

Hajira Tahir and Dr Rafia 

Azmat will also deliver the 

address. 

General of Police (IGP) Sindh and 

Additional Inspector General (ADIG) 

Karachi to pay special attention toward 

the recovery of missing persons. 

The bench asked the IGP Sindh that 

he himself guide the case. The bench 

directed the police to apply modern 

devices for recovery of missing persons. 

The families of missing persons told 

the court that despite the court orders 

police were not cooperating with them. 

Investigation officer told the 

court that one missing person 

Zaman went disappeared after 

he was released from jail. 

Police reports said that disappeared 

men including Aqib, Syed Shah, 

and Shahid Khan have already reached 

safely their homes. 

The court sought progress within a 

month and adjourned the hearing. 

Dengue cases go 

up in Karachi 

KARACHI: As many as 

125 more dengue fever 

cases were surfaced 

throughout the city of 

Karachi in a week, taking 

the number of reported 

cases to 1,121 in the city 

since 1st January 2018. 

According to a weekly 

report issued by Prevention 

and Control Program for 

Dengue in Sindh, at least 

137 new dengue fever cases 

were reported across the 

Sindh province out of them 

125 were from Karachi and 

eleven from other districts 

of the province. 

In October, a total 205 

dengue positive cases were 

detected from Sindh out of 

them 197 from Karachi and 

eight from other districts of 

the province. 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

Medical Association (PMA) 

has always raised its voice 

for adopting healthy norms 

in the society and once again 

stress upon the need of time 

punctuality in every field of 

life and get together, specially 

wedding ceremonies 

which are usually held at 

marriage lawns. 

Secretary General, 

KARACHI: Rangers personnel stand alert to cope with any untoward situation during the protest of Tehreek-e-Labbaik 

Ya Rasoolallah (TLYR) activists in Tower area after the Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi of blasphemy charges. 

PMA for adopting healthy norms in society 

Pakistan Medical 

Association (Centre), Dr SM 

Qaisar Sajjad said it is 

observed that most of these 

functions starts very late and 

ends at late night. He said 

this practice makes very 

much difficulties especially 

school going children and 

every person who has to 

start his/her job early morning. 

The children and people 

attending such wedding 

functions cannot pay attention 

to their work and feel 

sleepy at their work places. 

Further on returning home 

people face criminals and 

incidents like snatching and 

looting occurs. 

He demanded of the government 

to make it sure that 

all marriage lawn are closed 

at 11:00pm. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch 

along with Vice Chairman, Abdul Khaliq Marwat inspecting 

road carpeting at Cattle colony.


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Policy to improve educational 

standard soon: NA told 

Govt considering to introduce uniform national curriculum in country 

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Affairs Ali 

National Assembly was Muhammad Khan told the 

informed on Wednesday 

that the government will 

House that that a comprehensive 

strategic business 

soon announce a policy to plan 2018-22 is being 

improve the standard education 

framed to completely 

in the country. restructure Pakistan 

Minister for Education 

and Professional Training 

Shafqat Mahmood told the 

House during the question 

hour that the policy envisages 

International Airline. He 

said the business plan is 

expected to be completed 

in six months. 

Parliamentary Secretary 

curriculum develop- 

for Overseas Pakistani 

ment and training programs 

for the teachers. 

He said the government 

is also considering introducing 

a uniform national 

curriculum in the country. 

Javeeria Zafar said both the 

Federal and provincial governments 

have been given 

representation in the newly 

formed content committee. 

She said the committee 

Opposition 

He said our universities are headed by Minister for 

lagging behind in meeting Information and 

the international standards. 

He said efforts are afoot to 

upgrade the standards of 

the Higher Education institutions. 

Minister of State for 

Broadcasting aims to scrutinize 

the TV commercials. 


Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told 

the House in a written reply 

that installation of tracking 

RAWALPINDI: The 

currency notes without signature 

of State bank 

Governor are in circulation 

nowadays in Rawalpindi. 

Some fraudsters are 

using fake currency notes 

to overcome the shortage of 

money due to which citizen 

are facing many difficulties. 

system in trains is in final 

stages which will ensure 

strict monitoring of trains’ 

movement. 

He said the number of 

freight and passengers 

trains will be increased as 

part of government’s one 

hundred day plan. He said 

Pakistan Railways has 

entered into an agreement 

with Pakistan State Oil for 

transportation of petroleum 

products from Karachi to 

up-country destinations. 

Taking the floor, 

Leader 

Shahbaz Sharif strongly 

denounced the recent wave 

of violence unleashed by 

Indian forces in Occupied 

Kashmir. 

He said the Indian 

human rights violations in 

the held valley are a blot on 

the face of international 

community. He said that 

According to the information 

received nowadays, 

the currency notes without 

the signature of State bank 

governor are started circulating 

in all over the city. 

Such Rs1000 currency 

notes are circulating in the 

open market of city on 

which there’s no signature 

of Governor. Due to circulation 

of these notes citizens 

are in a quandary to 

accept these currency notes 

or otherwise. 

According to the citizens, 

these currency notes 

look real but it’s beyond 

their comprehension that 

why there’s no signature of 

governor on them? Are 

they fake notes? Or 

Pakistan should forcefully 

raise the Kashmir dispute at 

the forum of United 

Nations. He said that we 

should demand the UN to 

send its fact finding mission 

to the Occupied 

Kashmir and cases should 

be registered against those 

involved in repression 

there. 

The Opposition Leader 

also asked the government 

to send official delegations 

comprising members both 

from the Opposition and 

the Treasury benches to 

important capitals to 

acquaint them with the prevailing 

situation in 

Occupied Kashmir. 

He said the Parliament 

should adopt a united 

stance on the Kashmir dispute. 

He especially appreciated 

the resolution passed 

by the House the other day 

Beware citizens: Currency notes without 

sign of Governor State bank in circulation 

HYDERABAD: Shops are seen closed due to strike called by Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) 

against the acquittal of Christian blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi. 

PTI to fulfill its commitment 

with people of Pakistan: Murad 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 

(PTI) will fulfill all its 

commitment with people 

and would follow prudent 

policies to ensure progress 

and prosperity through 

strong economy. 

State Minister for 

Communications Murad 

Saeed held out the assurance 

while speaking in the 

National Assembly on 

Wednesday. 

Responding to the 

speech of the Leader of the 

Opposition, the State minister 

said that cases being 

faced by the some political 

leaders were instituted in 

previous tenure and the 

incumbent government has 

not initiated any case so 

far. 

He said those who plundered 

the country, would 

have to face imprisonment 

and to be accountable. He 

said those now sitting in 

Opposition, did accuse 

each other in the past but 

they had united now to 

apparently protect personal 

interests. 

Murad Saeed said that 

one project in past tenure 

was completed at cost of 

Rs. 242 billion, enhancing 

its actual cost, while 

impression was given to 

save the money on it. 

During the last 75 days, 

the minister said that people 

did witness Prime 

Minister talking about their 

issues and showing commitment 

to provide shelter 

to the poor. The implementation 

on the project of five 

million houses is underway 

while electricity charges on 

tube-wells had been 

decreased, he added. 

He said that Prime 

Ministers during the past 

tenures failed to bring foreign 

investment despite 

their tours to various countries. 

However, he said that 

Prime Minister Imran 

Khan recently succeeded in 

bringing aid from Saudi 

Arabia while China is giving 

positive signals about 

the upcoming visit of 

Prime Minister. 

because of some technical 

fault these notes came up 

in open market. 

Still no statement has 

been issued by the State 

bank regarding this issue 

while citizens are in a state 

of confusion because of 

the circulation of these 

non-signed 

notes. 

AJK to mark 2019 

as tourism year: 

PM Raja Farooq 

MUZAFFARABAD: 

Azad Jammu and Kashmir 

government has decided to 

take special measures for 

the promotion of tourism in 

the state including beautifying 

the entry points of the 

territory. 

It was decided during a 

high level meeting presided 

over by Prime Minister AJK 

Raja Farooq Haider Khan 

held here Wednesday to grow 

different plants, flowers and 

fruit trees in the upper and 

lower areas of the state keeping 

in view of their climate. 

“Gardens of flowers, local 

fruits and handicrafts would 

be promoted at tourist’s destinations 

like Neelum Valley, 

Rawalakot, Muzaffarabad, 

Jhelum Valley, Bhimber and 

Kotli besides holding food 

festivals at tourist resorts,” 

the officials told the meeting. 

The meeting was also 

informed that special targets 

had been set for tourism, forest 

and agriculture departments 

for year to attract the 

tourists in the region with the 

aim to development this sector 

as an industry contributing 

in socioeconomic uplift. 

to express solidarity with 

the Kashmiris. 

About the Saudi 

Assistance Package, the 

Opposition Leader said that 

the entire nation and the 

Parliament should express 

their gratitude to the 

Kingdom for giving a sizable 

package to Pakistan. 

He said Saudi Arabia is 

our sincere and trust worthy 

friend which always 

stood by Pakistan in difficult 

times. He said this 

package is for the welfare 

and development of the 

whole country. 

Responding to the 

points of Opposition leader 

Shahbaz Sharif regarding 

CPEC, Defense Minister 

Pervez Khattak categorically 

rejected the impression 

that the present government 

is against the mega corridor 

project. 

ISLAMABAD: Rangers personnel stand alert outside the Supreme Court to cope with 

any untoward situation during the protests of various religious parties against the 

acquittal of Asia Bibi in blasphemy case. 

ISLAMABAD: The 

All-Party Parliamentary 

Kashmir Group (APPKG) 

in the UK Parliament has 

condemned Indian government 

for using excessive 

force against 

Kashmiris and refusing to 

Special squads established 

allow independent 

to ensure imposition of observers from Britain to 

ban on burning tyres, enter into Jammu and “repeated 

plastic bags etc Kashmir to monitor the 

RAWALPINDI: Special 

squads have been set up to 

true scale of human rights 

tragedy. 

ensure imposition of ban Labour MP Chris 

orders announced by Leslie launched the report 

home department Punjab on Wednesday in the 

under section 144 on burning 

municipal waste, tyres, 

British parliament, accompanied 

by dozens of MPs 

platic, polythene bags, and from both Labour and 

rubber and leather made Conservatives and AJK 

currency 

goods 

This was said by Deputy 

President Sadar Masood 

Khan. 

Director Environment The release of this 

Rawalpindi Azhar Iqbal. 

He stated that these 

squads are visiting 

Rawalpindi city. This ban 

was imposed from October 

1 and will remain in place 

till December 16 and purpose 

of this ban is to secure 

Air from pollution and to 

remain safe from smog 

which starts besides fog in 

winter season. 

He added that surprise 

visits are being made at 

junk stores, , urban areas, 

brick kilns and markets for 

the implementation of these 

ban orders. Strict action 

will be taken against the 

violators of this ban. 

ISLAMABAD: Against 

the backdrop of worsening 

water crisis in Pakistan and 

prompted by the potential 

threat of turning into a 

water 

scarce 

c o u n t r y , N a t i o n a l 

University of Sciences and 

Technology (NUST) has 

embarked on a robust countrywide 

campaign to raise 

awareness on water conservation 

among the general 

masses. 

As the saying goes, 

“charity begins at home,” 

NUST kicked off the massive 

campaign, starting 

APPKG report accuses India for massive 

human rights violating in IoK 

report is seen as second 

big break through after 

United Nations High 

Commissioner for Human 

Rights (OCHR) report on 

Kashmir in June 2018 

highlting human rights 

violations in Indian occupied 

Kashmir.The report 

noted in the beginning that 

requests 

notwithstanding, no representative 

of either Indian 

central government or the 

J&K state government has 

agreed to give evidence, 

verbally or in writing”. 

Former Prime Minister 

AJK Sardar Attiq Ahmed 

Khan said the true face of 

India has been started 

exposing before the international 

community. He 

regretted that the so-called 

Indian and Pakistani government 

kept covering the 


Jammu and Kashmir in the 

past 10 years. 

PPP Azad Kashmir 

chapter President Latif 

Akbar said international 

community has started 

pressurizing India after the 

UK parliament report. JI 

AJK chapter leader Abdul 

Rasheed Turabi said the 

issuance of report on 


Jammu and Kashmir is a 

matter of satisfaction and 

result of the sacrifices of 

Jammu and Kashmir’s 

martyrs. AJK Secretary 

Information Abdul 

Hameed Lone said the UK 

parliamentary report seconds 

the stance of APHC. 

AIOU dispatches books to over one 

lakh twenty thousand students 

Our Correspondent 

HYDERABAD: Various 

religious parties took out 

big rallies here Wednesday 

against acquittal of blasphemy 

convict Christian 

woman Aisha who was convicted 

of death sentence by 

lower court. As Supreme 

court verdict was 

announced on media the 

infuriated workers of various 

religious parties including 

JUI (Fazal), JUP, Sunni 

Tehrik and others came out 

on roads protesting against 

verdict and chanting slogans 

against CJP Justice 

Saqib Nisar and law minister 

Farugh Nasim calling 

him as belonging to terrorist 

party. The city shops and 

markets were closed down 

with rallies of religious parties 

taken out in almost all 

main areas of city including 

Kohinoor Chowk, Hyder 

Chowk, Goal Building, 

Shahi bazaar and tower 

with an intra NUST drive, 

wherein students, faculty 

and staff were educated 

about the imminent threats 

of water scarcity and the 

urgency both for individual 

and collective efforts to 

convert this disastrous situation 

into an opportunity. 

In his message to NUST 

students, faculty and staff, 

Lt Gen Naweed Zaman, HI 

(M), (Retd), Rector NUST, 

stressed the need for 

spreading the word to their 

respective neighbourhoods, 

asking people to economise 

on water from its household 

to commercial usage. 

NUST has already 

advanced to the second tier 

of its campaign, which 

aims to awake common 

people to the looming 

water crisis. 

In this context, NUST 

organised a “Water 

Conservation Walk” in 

Islamabad on Tuesday, 

which started from 9th 

Avenue signal on the Jinnah 

Avenue and culminated 

near main F-10 roundabout. 

An overwhelming number 

of students, faculty and 

people from different walks 

market. Speakers at rallies 

noted religious scholars 

condemned the announcement 

of apex court acquitting 

Christian woman Asha. 

They demanded immediate 

dismissal of CJP Saqib 

Nisar, law minister Farugh 

Nasim and also prime minister 

Imran Khan. They said 

people of Pakistan can tolerate 

hunger, thirst, poverty 

and any misery but would 

never tolerate insult to 

Islam and prophet 

Muhammad (PBUH) and 

by acquitting blasphemer 

ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open 

University (AIOU) has so far dispatched 

text books to its over One lakh and Twenty 

thousand students of Matric and, F.A. programs 

who had registered themselves for 

Autumn 2018 semester. According to the 

University’s Mailing Department, books 

and other allied materials to ten thousand 

students enrolled in BA program are being 

sent today. Later, the students of post-graduate 

and teachers’ training programs will 

start getting their books. 

A new computerized tracking system 

has been introduced, facilitating the students 

to check the books’ mailing status. 

A new computerized tracking system 

has also been developed through which the 

student using website can simply enter 

his/her roll number and registration number 

to track the mailing package. 

The students have been advised to contact 

their relevant post offices in case of 

delay in the books’ delivery. 

In case of delay in receipt of books, students 

have been advised to contact 

University’s helpline: 051-111-112-468. 

They can also contact on email address: 

mailing@aiou.edu.pk. 

NUST holds “water awareness walk” 

of life participated in the 

water friendly walk. They 

were holding placards and 

banners inscribed with 

"Pani bachana hamara 

qoumi fareeza hai!" (water 

conservation is our national 

duty), "Pani k istemal or 

zian mein farq janiay!" 

(Understand the difference 

between use & misuse of 

water), etc. 

Water Awareness Stalls 

were installed at various 

frequently visited spots in 

Islamabad, including Blue 

Area, F-7 and F-10 

Markaz. 

City closed, rallies demand dismissal of CJP, law 

minister on SC verdict aquiting Christian woman 

accused the CJP has openly 

violated Islamic laws and 

also constitution of Pakistan 

which has guaranteed 

Islamic tenets. They said 

Pakistan was not made for 

throwing away Islamic laws 

on behest of Yahud and 

Nisara. They said today’s 

SC verdict has trampled 

Pakistan Resolution and 

ushered in law of jungle. 

They warned prime minister 

saying Khan Saheb by 

challenging Ashqan Rasool 

you have signed your own 

death warrants.

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Moulana Fazl postpones 

Multi-party Conference 

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EDITORIAL 

Has The End Of US Superpower Begun 

With War Monger Allies & Death Culture? 

One percent plus leaders are on wrong side of 

history as they incite terrorism against good 

leaders, groups or governments, and support 

kings of terror and their obedient horses, with divide 

and rule war mongering in Mideast and around the 

world. 

Big powers and their Mideast allies led by Saudi 

Arabia and Emirates with +50 OIC Muslim heads of 

state are reportedly partners in crime as their stooge 

dictators ruling against democratic system and are 

committing treason against their own countries and 

nations. They wage wars instead of resolving the 

problems through dialogues. Most low states went up 

to their high points and later down slided. 

Promoting state terrorism instead of really countering 

and ending non state terrorism will still breed 

more terrorism on both the state and the non state 

sides. 

Like of US and allies with Mideast pawn rulers, 

deceptions in war policies, etc, may all be defeats in 

long term ahead, even when majority triumphs 

against minority, individual or group terrorism. As for 

counter terrorism against Taliban or al-Qaida, both 

US and some al-Qaida affiliates, notably and allegedly 

US CIA creation Islamic State of Syria and Iraq 

(ISIS or IS), are partners in terrorism in Syria, Iraq, 

Lebanon, Libya and other countries. So one ought to 

ask: Is this war for terrorism or against terrorism? 

Why have governments been unable or lazy to reduce 

or end terrorism instead of increasing it worldwide? 

There are more terroristic attacks in so many countries, 

so many wars being waged inside and against so 

many countries, than there were before allegedly 

Mossad architected 9/11. Some intelligence heads had 

already warned against anti-American Spying Jew 

Americans with inroads into US intelligence system 

as one of the biggest security risk against national 

American interests at home and abroad. 

Each US presidential candidate ought to be thoroughly 

investigated and fully introduced with his or 

her personal, social, financial and political character 

for the great American nation who had embraced all 

nationalities from all over the world and accommodated 

them a proud and benefitting United States as 

their own home to enjoy its freedom, independence, 

human rights, civil liberties and opportunities for all 

to prove their mettle in their respective fields. Both 

these sides made each other. 

Comparatively, oppressor kings and kingdoms had 

By Jared Bernstein 

Aweek out from a critically important United 

States midterm election, I’m struck by the role 

that fear has played in getting us to this 

moment. 

Diagnosing how fear became such a powerful political 

force is tricky because the minute you point fingers, 

you trigger precisely the divisive fight that keeps 

America stuck in this dark hole. This leads some to try 

to ascribe blame to both sides, but that’s often just a thin 

tactic to try to sound balanced. 

In fact, over the past two years, US President Donald 

Trump’s strategy has become transparent: Get the 

potentially politically powerful working-class to fear 

each other. 

As long as groups whose political alignment could 

seriously improve, their lot are at each other’s throats, 

the political machine can quietly go about its business. 

The accompanying media strategy is equally key to 

the success of the agenda: Keep the actual policies off 

the front pages, and when they show up there, discredit 

them. Keep the fearmongering part on the front pages. 

Adam Serwer, writing in the Atlantic, correctly 

describes this powerful strategy: “Trump considers the 

media ‘the enemy of the people’ only when it successfully 

undermines his falsehoods; at all other times, it is 

a force multiplier, obeying his attempts to shift topics of 

conversation from substantive policy matters to racial 

scaremongering.” You could hope members of Trump’s 

party might care about the future enough to mediate the 

damage, but their political cowardice of standing up to 

Trump and their allegiance to the tax cut/deregulation 

agenda renders them hopeless. 

This all sounds awfully cynical, and it is, but if that’s 

all it was, it wouldn’t be so effective. A key element of 

Trump’s endless fear campaign is making a group with 

a disproportionate electoral power (thanks to both 

Senate apportionment and the electoral college) — 

older, non-urban, white voters in swing, rust-belt states 

— feel like they’re finally being heard. This empathetic 

embrace not only includes acceptance and validation of 

their fears and prejudices. It also targets establishment 

politicians as dismissing these voters’concerns and giving 

jobs and incomes that they believe should be theirs 

to immigrants and people of colour. 

Some readers may cringe at the claim of Trump’s 

empathy with this group, but to do so may well be to discount 

what may be his only genuine, heartfelt sensibility. 

He connects with his base because he too has been 

(and is even more so now) looked down upon by elites 

who discredit his intelligence, wealth and ability. He’s 

OPINION 

their glory and prime time before their oppression 

expedited their downfall. Soviet Union, a superpower 

with iron curtain until recently, had its glorious rise 

and then an anti-climax fall, without a single soldier 

invading or through any conventional war. Many 

small and big countries apparently seem powerless to 

set a natural human course. However, they can try it 

as a worthwhile effort for a human or reasonable survival 

with pro-people rule. 

Since time immemorial, Mideast was among hot 

climatic and short tempered people's region where so 

many prophets were sent by God centuries ago: 

Middle Eastern prophet defying and prophet killing 

people had religions which now have largest following: 

including Judaism in particular. Instead of physically 

abusing and killing their prophets as they did in 

ancient times, nations who follow major world religions 

are abusing and killing divine orders of their 

prophets they claim to follow but defame and dishonor 

in practice. 

Muslims must now supplement their daily Namaaz 

prayers with daily practical proofs of aims and purpose 

of worship, without un-Islamic bloodshed, as 

Mideast is on war missions and killing spree, while 

claimed Islamic rules are supposed to live with obedience 

to Allah without human distortions of divine 

commandments to suit an ideology of terrorism that 

defamed Islam and Muslim Ummah worldwide. 

However, world may do well to remember that 

Mideast Muslims since past fourteen centuries 

gave as much knowledge and progress to the world 

as much as they incited in recent century civil wars 

and terrorism, by latest count through big powers 

promoting culture of death through sectarian 

killings like in Syria against culture of life worldwide. 

Yesterday it was Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, 

Iraq and Libya and now it is Gaza, Syria, Bahrain 

and Yemen. 

Great Prophet Muhammad (S) was sent by God 

as a mercy for all the worlds. Even in Christianity 

"Man is called to a fullness of life which far 

exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence," 

said Pope John Paul II in Nineties. Where political 

leaders failed, truly religious Muslim and Christian 

leaders can unite, end hatred of leaders and unite 

Muslims and Christians and their leaders on some 

acceptable human and divine framework as these 

nations do not hate each other, thereby terminating 

deathful wars. 

A referendum on America’s future 

As the crucial US midterms draw near, scaremongering has peaked, but 

we must not let the politics of fear kill our hopes 

not just riling up his base at those rallies; he’s sharing 

their anger at being viewed as “deplorable”. 

It’s an incredibly effective strategy. Fear of immigrants, 

“the caravan” embedded with “Middle- 

Easterners”, people of colour, Muslims, the government, 

“globalists”, environmentalists, and so on, is, 

under economic conditions that prevail today (economic 

insecurity in a period of global and technological 

change), political rocket fuel. 

But it has two fundamental problems, two flaws in 

its DNA that ultimately destroy its host, two unstable 

ingredients that render its powerful fuel combustible. 

First, it is politically non-representative, and second, it is 

model for seizing power, not for governing. 

Regarding governing, those in power haven’t a clue 

as to what to do about health care, education, climate 

change, infrastructure, poverty, inequality, retirement 

security, housing, trade, geopolitics, or any other of the 

challenges for which complex societies need functioning, 

amply funded governments. They only know how 

to use fear to stay in power, and how to use that power 

to redistribute wealth upwards. 

As for representation, even when you combine them, 

Trump’s base voters and the high-end beneficiaries of 

the Republican agenda are a minority of the electorate 

(here again, structural aspects of America’s antiquated 

system reinforce this problem). The rest of us are getting 

increasingly angry about the extent to which national 

politics fails to represent Americans. After the Judge 

Kavanaugh debacle, I asked whether US politics still 

had the capacity to self-correct this flaw. The most 

recent incidents of domestic terror and murderous hate 

crimes only increase the urgency of that question. 

Before the current dystopia set in, I had worked in 

the previous US administration, but until I sat down to 

write this op-ed, even I — perhaps because of my privileged 

position as a white man — didn’t fully understand 

the meaning of “the audacity of hope”. As I read 

that phrase today, it speaks to the audacious, if not ahistorical, 

hope that the power of unifying with others 

based on our commonalities will be strong enough to 

block the fearmongers from exploiting our differences. 

Young people may not know this, but for a precious 

minute, such hope prevailed. Even today, many of us 

remember it vividly and long to recover it. The politics 

of fear has not killed our hope. But fear is once again 

proving to be a powerful adversary, and not just in 

America. 

Next Tuesday is more than “a referendum on our 

future”. It is a test to see whether hope has any life left 

in it, or whether fear has, at least for now, overtaken it. 

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat 

Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) 

chief Maulana Fazlur 

Rehman Wednesday 

announced he had postponed 

a multi-party conference 

of the joint opposition. 

Fazl stressed the need 

to hold a session of leaders 

of the parliamentary parties, 

saying he would 

approach Opposition 

Leader in the National 

Assembly Shehbaz Sharif 

in this regard. 

Earlier, Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) Chairman Raja 

Zafarul Haq called on the 

JUI-F chief at his residence. 

Talking to reporters 

after the meeting, Fazl said multi-party conference. 

the joint opposition had We have to decide on some 

agreed that all parties basics and then move forward 

should be on the same 

page. 

“Raja Zafarul Haq has 

suggested to finalise rules 

with the conference,” 

he added. 

The PML-N chairman 

on his part dismissed the 

and regulations of the impression that Nawaz 

THARPARKAR: Three 

more infant succumbed to 

malnutrition in civil hospital 

Tharparkar on 

Wednesday. 

The recent three casualties 

take death troll to 521 

for this year due to malnutrition 

and other diseases. 

According to the Health 

Department, Three kids 

died in civil hospital Mithi 

Sharif and Asif Ali 

Zardari’s decision to pull 

out of the conference 

resulted in its failure. 

“Opposition will soon 

emerge on the same platform,” 

he said. 

Earlier on October 30, 

Three more die due to malnutrition in Thar 

Staff Report 

BADIN: Education 

department Badin organized 

bewitching award distribution 

ceremony of Latif 

Shanasai in Gymkhana hall 

Badin on Wednesday. The 

gorgeous ceremony was 

participated by large number 

of education officials, 

Principals and Head 

Masters of different 

schools, educationists, 

teachers and students. The 

stunning ceremony awarded 

prizes among the successful 

contestants of taluka 

and district level competitions 

for different categories 

including speeches, 

drawing and others while 

appreciation certificates 

were also awarded to 

teachers for their active 

and encouraging role. 

While addressing the 

in age groups of 2months 

and 5 months while 1 was 

infant. The death toll of 

kids due to malnutrition has 

climbed to 45 during this 

month. 

Education department Badin organizes award 

distribution ceremony of Latif Shanasai 

ATC adjourns 

Barrister Fahad Malik 

case till Thursday 


Anti Terrorism Court 

(ATC) on Wednesday 

adjourned the hearing of 

Barrister Fahad Malik 

case till November 1 due 

to the strike of the 

lawyers. 

The case was presented 

before the judge of an 

ATC Kausar Abbas 

Zaidi. 

The accused were 

present in the court 

whereas no charges were 

framed against them. 

The defence counsel 

was also not present in 

the court due to the strike 

of the lawyers. 

The accused party had 

already filed an application 

for recording more 

witnesses which the 

court had approved but 

no further proceeding 

was held. 

The court has fixed 

next date of hearing as 

November 1. 

DADU: One suspected robber was 

killed during a police encounter in Dadu 

on previous evening. 

According to police, three suspected 

robbers were waiting for a chance to rob 

someone, when suddenly a police party 

came there. 

The robbers allegedly opened firing on 

ceremony Syed Rasool 

Bux Shah, Regional 

Director, secondary 

schools Hyderabad and 

chief guest of the event 

said Shah Latif was not 

poet of Sindh but he was 

poet of the world.He said 

Latif's poetry was lesson of 

peace, love, harmony, 

brotherhood, struggle, sacrifice, 

tolerance, truth and 

bouquet of such flowers 

and fragrance which leads 

towards result oriented 

aspects. 

Syed Rasool Bux Shah 

said the aim to organize 

such programme was to 

spread the valuable message 

of Shah Latif among 

the children. He said such 

programmes would also 

encourage students to compete 

the challenging world 

through hard struggle, sincerity 

and positive turn as 

Shah Latif's poetry encourages.While 

addressing 

Muhammad Siddique 

Soomro, president, GSTA 

district Badin, Noor 

Ahmed Chandio, DEO secondary 

Badin, Allah Dino 

Mallah, Assistant Director 

schools, Muhammad Khan 

Samoon, focal person,education 

department Badin, 

Muhammad Saleh Korejo, 

DEO primary, Miss 

Shehnila Rahimoon, 

DDEO Badin and others 

said following Shah Latif's 

message peace, stability, 

brotherhood, tolerance and 

destination could be 

achieved. 

They said such opportunities 

would inspire new 

generation and they would 

understand the enormous 

message of Shah Latif. 

Pakistan Muslim League 

Nawaz (PML-N) supremo 

Nawaz Sharif met party’s 

president Shehbaz Sharif 

at the Parliament House 

to take a decision regarding 

Moulana Fazl’s proposed 

APC. 

Armed bikers 

snatch cash and 

mobiles from AIGJ 

PESHAWAR: On 

Pachokhara Ring Road, 

armed motor bikers have 

snatched cash and mobiles 

from Additional Inspector 

General of Jails (AIGJ) 

Khalid Abbas and his 

spouse and managed to 

escape. On resistance AIGJ 

has been injured. 

According to police on 

Sunday night AIGJ Khalid 

Abbas along with his 

spouse was travelling in a 

vehicle on Ring Road 

when he was intercepted 

on gun point by motor bikers 

made them hostage in 

the vehicle and snatched 

Rs 50,000 and mobile 

phones. On resistance from 

AIG armed men resorted to 

firing and injured Khalid 

Abbas on foot. 

According to SSP 

(Operations) a case has 

been registered in Thana 

Pachokhara and probe is on. 

Novartis to treat 

400 cancer patients 

free of charge 

ISLAMABAD: A delegation 

of Novartis Ltd 

Pakistan led by M Javed 

Islam Head Market Access 

and IAM Wednesday 

called on Federal Minister 

for National Health 

Services Aamer Mehmood 

Kiani and discussed proposed 

sharing cost model 

for the access of 100 percent 

free cancer treatment 

for the patients of cancer 

from Islamabad, Gilgit 

Baltistan and Azad Jammu 

and Kashmir. 

Hardened criminal 

killed in encounter 

the police, which was returned and I 

which one robber was killed and two others 

escaped. The killed robber was identified 

as Abdul Sattar Gaincho. 

The police claimed to have recovered 

a Kalashnikov. The killed robber was 

involved in 16 high-profile cases. Further 

investigation was in process. 

LAHORE: Female lawyers are taking selfies during the annual elections of Supreme 

Court Bar.

Afghan army helicopter crashes, 

killing 25 on board: officials 

An official says the aircraft crashed due to 'bad weather' in Anar Dara district, 

HERAT, Afghanistan: 

An Afghan army helicopter 

carrying 25 people crashed 

in western Afghanistan on 

Wednesday, killing all 

those on board, officials 

said. 

The aircraft crashed due 

to "bad weather" in Anar 

Dara district, which borders 

Iran, Farah provincial 

governor spokesman Nasir 

Mehri said. 

The Taliban claimed its 

militants brought it down. 

Both pilots and 23 passengers 

were killed. 

Among the dead were 

the deputy army corps 

commander for western 

Afghanistan and the head 

of the Farah provincial 

council, Mehri said. 

Provincial council 

member Dadullah Qaneh 

said the helicopter hit a 

mountain peak in poor 

WASHINGTON: U.S. 

Defense Secretary James 

Mattis has called for a 

ceasefire in Yemen and the 

start of peace talks in the 

next 30 days. 

“We want to see everybody 

around a peace table 

but the Taliban claims its militants brought it down 

weather en route to neighboring 

Herat province. 

Senior government and 

military officials often 

travel by helicopter in 

regions where the Taliban 

has a large presence. 

Helicopter crashes are 

not uncommon in the 

mountainous, war-torn 

based on a ceasefire, based 

on a pullback from the border 

and then based on ceasing 

dropping of bombs,” 

Mattis said Tuesday during 

a speech at the United States 

Institute of Peace in 

Washington, DC. 

country. 

In September, an 

Afghan military helicopter 

carrying weapons and 

ammunition burst into 

flames during an "emergency 

landing" in Farah, 

killing at least 4 people. 

Earlier that month at 

least 12 people were killed, 

"We have got to move 

toward a peace effort here, 

and we can't say we are 

going to do it sometime in 

the future. We need to be 

doing this in the next 30 

days,” he added. 

Impoverished Yemen has 

remained wracked by violence 

since 2014, when Shia 

Houthi rebels overran much 

of the country, including the 

capital, Sanaa. 

The conflict escalated in 

2015 when Saudi Arabia 

and its Sunni-Arab allies 

launched a massive air campaign 

in Yemen aimed at 

rolling back Houthi gains. 

Following Mattis’ 

including two Ukrainians, 

when a helicopter owned 

by a Moldovan company 

crashed in the northern 

province of Balkh. 

The aircraft also was 

carrying munitions and 

exploded on impact, 

Afghan officials said. 

Western forces have 

US calls for ceasefire, peace talks in Yemen 

We have got to move toward a peace effort here,’ says Defense Secretary James Mattis 

Indonesian rescue workers believe 

fuselage of crashed plane found 

JAKARTA: Indonesian 

search and rescue workers 

believe they have found the 

fuselage of a Lion Air passenger 

jet that crashed with 

189 people on board, and 

are also trying to confirm 

the origin of an underwater 

“ping” signal, officials said 

on Wednesday. 

Ground staff lost touch 

with flight JT610 of 

Indonesian budget airline 

Lion Air 13 minutes after 

the Boeing 737 MAX 8 

took off early on Monday 

from Jakarta, on its way to 

the tin-mining town of 

Pangkal Pinang. 

There were no survivors. 

Indonesia’s military 

chief said he believed the 

plane had been located, and 

a transport safety official 

said divers would be sent to 

confirm the origin of a 

“ping” signal picked up by a 

search and rescue team late 

on Tuesday. “We strongly 

believe that we have found a 

part of the fuselage,” armed 

forces chief Hadi Tjahjanto 

told broadcaster TV One. 

Speaking on board the navy 

ship KRI Rigel, navy official 

Colonel Haris Djoko 

Nugroho told broadcaster 

TVOne that a 22-meter long 

object had been found in 

waters about 32 meters deep, 

and a sonar was being used 

to identify it. 

As Brazil shifts right, its leftists 

search for a way forward 

SAO PAULO: The victory 

of Brazil’s far-right 

presidential candidate Jair 

Bolsonaro has battered the 

country’s leftist Workers 

Party, which is now looking 

for a way to rebuild. 

After defining 

Brazilian politics for much 

of the past two decades, 

the party is still ruled by 

its imprisoned 73-year-old 

founder, threatened by 

internal divisions and concentrated 

in a region far 

from the center of economic 

power. 

The damage goes 

beyond the drubbing voters 

delivered to the party’s 

presidential candidate 

Fernando Haddad, who 

lost by a 10-percentagepoint 

margin in Sunday’s 

election. 

For millions of 

Brazilians, the PT, as the 

Workers Party is known, 

has become synonymous 

with corruption and mismanagement. 

PT governments 

in recent years 

presided over the biggest 

bribery scandal in the 

nation’s history and the 

worst economic downturn 

since the Great 

Depression. Street crime 

has also exploded. 

remarks, U.S. Secretary of 

State Mike Pompeo 

released a statement saying 

it was “time to end this conflict, 

replace conflict with 

compromise, and allow the 

Yemeni people to heal 

through peace and reconstruction”. 

Pompeo called on all 

sides to support UN Special 

Envoy Martin Griffiths in 

finding a peaceful solution. 

“The time is now for the 

cessation of hostilities, 

including missile and UAV 

strikes from Houthi-controlled 

areas into the 

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

and United Arab Emirates. 

Japan's nuclear 

industry growing, but 

slower than govt hoped 

TOKYO: Japan’s resurgent 

nuclear industry will 

miss a government target of 

providing at least a fifth of the 

country’s electricity by 2030, 

a Reuters analysis shows. 

With eight reactors running 

and one more set to 

come online in November, 

nuclear has this year overtaken 

non-hydro renewables in 

power output for the first time 

since the 2011 catastrophe, 

when all of the country’s 

nuclear plants were idled. 

Yet operators can expect 

as few as six units to restart 

in the next five years, and 

fewer than 20 by 2030, the 

analysis shows. That is far 

short of the 30 needed to 

meet the government target 

reiterated this year. 

Based on the analysis, the 

world’s third-largest economy 

may get about 15 percent 

of its power from nuclear in 

2030, compared with a government 

target of 20-22 percent. 

“It’s impossible to meet 

the target, that’s pretty much 

confirmed,” said Takeo 

Kikkawa, an energy studies 

professor at Tokyo 

University of Science, who 

sat on an official panel that 

reviewed Japan’s energy policy 

this year. 

WASHINGTON:Hate 

directed towards Islam has 

motivated many Muslims 

in the United States to 

enter politics, said a 

Muslim lawyer and contributing 

opinion writer for 

The New York Times. 

In an op-ed published 

Tuesday, Wajahat Ali said 

Muslims' presence in 

American politics "probably 

inspires fear" among 

those who support a ban on 

travelers from several 

Muslim-majority countries, 

a wall along the Mexican 

been rebuilding 

Afghanistan's air force, 

which was decimated by 

the civil war of the 1990s 

and the turbulent period of 

Taliban rule that ended in 

2001. 

NATO's Resolute 

Support mission in 

Afghanistan has been training 

pilots and ground controllers 

across the country 

as part of a modernization 

effort. 

US Forces' officials told 

Agence France-Presse in 

February 

that 

Afghanistan's air force 

includes 4 C-130 transport 

aircraft, 24 C-208 supply 

planes, 24 Russian Mi-17 

helicopters that will be 

replaced by 159 UH-60 

Black Hawks, 12 A-29 

Super Tacano attack 

planes, and 25 MD-530 

attack helicopters. 

Russia opens terrorism 

investigation after 

teenager blows himself up 

MOSCOW: Russia 

opened an investigation into 

suspected terrorism after a 

17-year-old youth blew himself 

up on Wednesday in the 

lobby of an office belonging 

to Russia’s Federal Security 

Service (FSB) in the north of 

the country. 

Russia’s Investigative 

Committee said the unnamed 

teenager had detonated a 

homemade bomb in the 

lobby of the FSB, the country’s 

main domestic security 

and intelligence service, in 

the city of Arkhangelsk. It 

said he had died on the spot. 

Investigators said they had 

identified the teenager as a 

resident of the city, which is 

around 1,000 km (620 miles) 

north of Moscow, but did not 

name him. 

Three FSB employees 

were wounded in the blast, 

the Investigative Committee 

said in a statement. 

It published what it said 

was a CCTV image of the 

bomber in the lobby of the 

building. The picture showed 

a young man with his right 

hand inside a bag that he was 

holding with his left hand. 

Pictures posted on social 

media by witnesses after the 

blast showed what looked 

like a body lying on the 

floor outside the heavy 

wooden entrance doors to 

the FSB building. 

SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

M E L B O U R N E : 

Australian cities are seizing 

up and no amount of 

new roads and rail lines is 

going to stop the squeeze, 

according to a new report 

that advocates radical 

action to curb congestion. 

In fact, many of the new 

motorways and rail lines 

under construction may be 

in the wrong places or not 

needed altogether. 

We do not need new 

LOS ANGELES: “The 

Nutcracker,” the beloved 

holiday season tale of toys 

that come to life, moves 

from the ballet stage to the 

big screen in an actionadventure 

story being 

released by the Walt Disney 

Co on Friday. 

In Disney’s “The 

Nutcracker and the Four 

Realms,” Mackenzie Foy 

stars as 14-year-old Clara, a 

girl who is fascinated by 

engineering and is trying to 

figure out how to unlock a 

Christmas gift left behind 

by her recently deceased 

mother. 

Clara soon finds herself 

in a beautiful but troubled 

parallel universe where she 

encounters a nutcracker 

soldier, and the pair embark 

on a dangerous search for 

the key to Clara’s gift. 


International 

“I think it really truly 

captures that spirit, that 

feeling of the holiday season, 

but it also has action 

and adventure and excitement,” 

Foy, best known for 

playing the daughter of 

Edward and Bella in “The 

Twilight Saga,” told 

Reuters at the film’s world 

premiere in Hollywood. 

The film is based on 

E.T.A. Hoffman’s short 

story written in 1816 and 

Alexandre Dumas’ retelling 

in the 1892 Tchaikovsky 

ballet “The Nutcracker,” 

which is now performed on 

stages around the world 

during the Christmas season. 

Disney’s film includes 

just a fraction of the ballet 

of a typical stage production 

of “The Nutcracker.” 

In the movie, American 

5 

Disney tells a different 'Nutcracker' 

story on the big screen 

ISTANBUL: Turkey 

has started work on making 

its first domestically 

produced long-range air 

defense missile system 

and the first delivery is 

planned for 2021, 

President Tayyip 

Erdogan said on 

Wednesday. 

Turkey is also purchasing 

S-400 surface-toair 

missiles from Russia. 

State-owned Anadolu 

Ballet Theater star Misty 

Copeland and Ukrainian 

dancer Sergei Polunin perform 

in a pageant for Clara 

after she arrives in the Land 

of Sweets. 

Keira Knightley plays 

the Sugar Plum Fairy, who 

in the film 

does not dance but welcomes 

Clara to the Four 

Realms with her over-thetop 

sweetness and pink cotton 

candy hair. Knightley, 

known for historical dramas 

such as “Pride & 

Prejudice,” said she 

enjoyed taking on a different 

type of role. 

“I’ve been doing work 

that the subject matters are 

quite serious,” she said, 

“and it was very nice doing 

something that was totally 

silly and not an ounce of 

subtlety in it.” 

Turkey to produce long-range air 

defense missiles, Erdogan says 

news agency quoted 

Defense Minister Hulusi 

Akar as saying last week 

that the installation of the 

S-400 missile system 

would begin in October, 

2019. 

British PM May backs US call 

for de-escalation in Yemen 

NEW MOTORWAYS & RAIL LINES NOT NEEDED 

roads in our cities; we need 

to do better with what we 

already have. And one capital 

is doing particularly 

badly. 

A report by think-tank 

the Grattan Institute has 

recommended time-of-day 

road charging be introduced 

in Sydney and 

Melbourne, rail fares 

increased during peak 

hours, and proposed multibillion 

dollar train links to 

regional cities scrapped 

and how about homeowners 

being able to sell off 

the parking outside their 

LONDON: British Prime 

Minister Theresa May backed 

a United States call for a deescalation 

of hostilities in 

Yemen. “We certainly ... back 

the U.S.’s call for de-escalation 

in Yemen,” May told parliament 

on Wednesday. “A 

nationwide ceasefire will 

only have an effect on the 

ground if it is underpinned by 

a political deal between the 

conflict parties.” 

‘Australian cities falling behind global peers’ 

border and increased 

restrictions on refugees. 

Ali cited a report by The 

Associated Press in July 

which revealed that it "is 

precisely the bigotry and 

hate that has been directed 

toward Islam — including 

in remarks and tweets by 

U.S. President Donald 

Trump — that has motivated 

so many Muslims to 

enter the political arena". 

According to Emgage, a 

Muslim civil rights group, 

up to 100 Muslims filed to 

run for statewide or national 

office this year. 

In early August, 

Rashida Tlaib, a 

Palestinian-American and 

former Michigan state legislator, 

won a narrow victory 

in the state’s Democratic 

primaries, edging out 

Detroit City Council 

President Brenda Jones, 

and is on track to become 

the first Muslim woman in 

Congress. 

Ilhan Omar, a Somali- 

American who came to the 

U.S. over two decades ago 

as a refugee from Kenya, is 

house to motorists who 

really want it? 

The recommendation 

comes as another piece of 

research, also out this week, 

took a step back and asked 

how our cities were faring 

against their global peers. 

Quick answer: not great. 

Anti-Muslim sentiment drives Muslims into US politics 

Muslims will 'serve God by serving people,' says Wajahat Ali 

expected to win in midterm candidates are not running 

elections next month, with their religion on their 

replacing Representative sleeves but instead as 

Keith Ellison in Democrats promoting 

Minnesota. 

unabashedly progressive 

"A majority of Muslim platforms," said Ali.

6 


Biz 

Promotion of agriculture, fish-farming 

foremost priority of govt: PM 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

Minister Imran Khan 

Wednesday said the promotion 

of all agricultural 

sectors including the fishfarming 

was the foremost 

priority of the present government. 

He expressed these 

views during a briefing 

here in which he was 

informed in detail about 

the current state of affairs 

in fish-farming in the country 

and the potential of this 

sector. 

He said the government 

would take all possible 

measures to facilitate the 

people related with fishfarming 

so as to benefit 

from the potential of this 

sector. 

He said strengthening 

bilateral cooperation with 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan chairs a meeting on promotion of Fisheries 

sector at PM Office. 

Pakistan’s close friend 

China in the agricultural 

sector and benefiting from 

their expertise was also 

part of the government’s 

priorities. 

ISLAMABAD: Adviser visit of Pakistani delegation 

to Prime Minister on led by Prime Minister 

Commerce, Textile, Imran Khan to China was 

Industry and Investment aimed at extending the 

Adul Razak Dawood cooperation in industries, 

Wednesday said the government 

Agriculture, engineering 

was committed to and Information 

expand the scope of China Technology. 

Pakistan Economic "Pakistan and China are 

Corridor (CPEC) to achieve the time tested friends who 

more economic benefits have a longstanding trade 

from this mega project. ties and these ties have further 

The CPEC would prove 

strengthened after 

to be a great opportunity for implementation of China 

transforming the country’s Pakistan Economic 

economy for industrial Corridor (CPEC)," he said. 

growth and also generate 

economic activities for providing 

employment opportunities 

in all areas of the 

country, he told APP here 

"We have made a comprehensive 

homework with 

regard to meetings to be 

held during the upcoming 

visit of Pakistani delegation 

on Wednesday. 

led by Prime Minister 

The adviser said Imran Khan to China." 

Pakistan would further Dawood said Pakistan 

develop and flourish after was hopeful regarding success 

completion of China 

of the upcoming visit. 

Pakistan Economic Replying to a question, 

Corridor (CPEC). 

He said the upcoming 

he said the government was 

introducing new reforms in 

The prime minister was 

informed that fish-farming 

sector was completely and 

continuously ignored in the 

past and the country could 

not benefit from this sector 

CPEC’s scope to be expanded for greater 

economic benefits: Razak Dawood 

all sectors for socio economic 

development of the 

country. 

He said Pakistan was 

also working on the revival 

of industries sector, adding 

enhancing country's export 

volume was the government's 

top priority as the 

economy could not be stabilized 

without ensuring 

boost in exports. 

The adviser said in the 

days to come, Pakistan 

would emerge in the list of 

developed countries of the 

world and assured that the 

government would fully 

facilitate the Chinese businessmen 

and other nationals 

working in Pakistan. 

He said it was need of 

the hour to promote 

Pakistani products abroad 

in an effective manner in 

order to increase foreign 

exchange reserves and steer 

the country out of the economic 

crunch. 

ISLAMABAD.: Abdul Razaq Dawood, Advisor to PM for Commerce, Textile & Industry 

Production and Investment, in a meeting with German Delegation. 

Pakistan is proud of its unique 

friendship with China 


Ambassador of China Mr. 

Yao Jing called on Speaker 

National Assembly Asad 

Qaiser here at Parliament 

House on Wednesday. 

Federal Secretary 

Planning, Secretary P&D, 

KPK, other high ups of 

Khyber Pakhtunkhawa 

Government and Chairman 

Economic Zone 

Management Committee 

were present in the meeting. 

The matters pertaining to 

bilateral relations, important regional 

regional and global issues, 

and RashaKai economic 

zone, and others ongoing 

projects under the CPEC 

were discussed in the meeting. 

While talking to 

Ambassador, the Speaker 

said that Pakistan was proud 

of its unique friendship with 

China. He said that 

Pakistan and China have 

cherished vibrant friendly 

relations. 

He said the present 

Government was committed 

to take the relations between 

two countries to new 

heights. He said exemplary 

relations between Pakistan 

and China were based on 

development, 

mutual trust and trade and 

economic cooperation. 

He said that cooperation 

between the two countries 

was rapidly expanding. 

While talking about the 

Pakistan Railways earns 1367.038 

mlns more then previous years 

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Railways 

Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Wednesday 

informed the House in a written reply that 

Pakistan Railway has earned 1367.038 

million more than previous years upto 20- 

10-2018. 

He said that installation of tracking 

system in trains is in final stages which 

will ensure strict monitoring of trains’ 

which had the potential of 

earning billions of rupees. 

He was told that the 

promotion of shrimp-farming, 

catch culture and troutfarming 

in Gilgit Baltistan 

KARACHI: A team from 

The World Bank visited the 

Karachi Chamber of 

Commerce & Industry (KCCI) 

to devise ways for Maximizing 

Finance for Development 

(MFD) and then advising feasible 

options to the government. 

The World Bank Team, 

which was led by Ms. Namoos 

Zaheer, Senior Financial 

Sector Analyst - Finance 

Competitiveness & 

Innovation, comprised of 

Marius Vismantas Lead 

Financial Sector Specialist and 

Amjad Bashir Senior 

Economist – Trade & 

Competitiveness South Asia 

while President KCCI Junaid 

Esmail Makda, Senior Vice 

President Khurram Shahzad, 

Vice President Asif Sheikh 

Javaid and KCCI Managing 

Committee members also 

attended the meeting. 

Ms. Namoos Zaheer, while 

referring to the issues of 

Karachi as per World Bank’s 

report “Transforming Karachi 

into a Livable and Competitive 

Megacity: A City Diagnostic 

and Transformation Strategy”, 

stated that this report has pointed 

out that Karachi needs 

around US$10 billion in 

financing over a 10-year period 

to meet its infrastructure 

and service-delivery needs in 

urban transport, water supply 

& sanitation and municipal 

and Azad Kashmir would 

not only help meet the 

country’s food requirements 

but would also create 

profitable job opportunities 

for the people 

through this low-expense 

business. 

The prime minister was 

further informed that with 

a large coastal line of 1100 

kilometers which had huge 

potential of fish-farming 

besides utilizing the vast 

barren and wet lands for 

shrimp-farming, this sector 

could be revolutionized. 

He was told that as part 

of PTI government’s first 

100 days agenda, a comprehensive 

plan was being 

devised to promote 

shrimp-farming, catch 

culture and trout-farming 

in the country. 

WB team visits KCCI to 

devise ways for maximizing 

finance for development 

Lucrative investment 

policies to achieve 

growth targets: Khusro 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Planning Minister 

China-Pak Economic 

Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar 

has said that Pakistan offers 

investment friendly policies 

to put the national economy 

Corridor (CPEC), Asad on growth trajectory for 

Qaiser said that the CPEC is 

a consequence of all-weather 

friendship between two 

achieving its socio-economic 

targets. 

He was talking to United 

countries. He said that Arab Emirates Ambassador 

CPEC will not only beneficial 

Hamad Obaid Alzaabi here 

for Pakistan and China on Wednesday. The 

but whole region. Minister said energy sector 

He stressed the need for of Pakistan offers huge 

early completion of CPEC 

Projects. He said that completion 

investment potential especially 

petrochemicals and 

of the Rashakai hydel energy generation and 

Economic Zone will prove a UAE can benefit from 

milestone in development of 

area. He said with completion 

of this Project the standard 

of the lives of the area 

will be improved. He said 

that equal opportunity will 

be provided to all Provinces 

in CPEC Projects. 

investing in these areas. 

He appreciated UAE’s 

investment in PARCO and 

hoped that more avenues 

will be explored to further 

bilateral economic cooperation. 

He said Pakistan will 

fully participate in EXPO 

2020 being organized by 

UAE, which will provide an 

opportunity to both countries 

to identify areas for 

future cooperation in 

diverse sectors. 

He noted that a large 

Pakistani diaspora in UAE 

is contributing in the development 

of the country and 

acting as a bridge between 

the two countries. He 

expressed optimism that 

UAE will also consider initiating 

humanitarian projects 

in South Punjab. 

movement. 

He said that the number of freight 

and passengers trains will be increased 

as part of government’s 100-day plan. 

He said Pakistan Railways has 

entered into an agreement with Pakistan 

State Oil for transportation of petroleum 

products from Karachi to up-country 

destinations. 

solid waste. There is a threat to 

livability in Karachi which has 

been acting as the engine for 

growth, she added. 

She was of the opinion that 

Pakistan needs around 7 to 8 

percent growth rate in order to 

create two million jobs for the 

youth entering the job market 

and in this regard, Karachi has 

to play the lead role but unfortunately, 

the city has been neglected 

for a very long period of 

time. 

She informed that the 

World Bank is funding several 

service delivery projects in 

Karachi like yellow line, water 

project and urban management. 

There is a need to maximize 


by efficiently utilizing the 

existing limited resources of 

the government which would 

yield much greater results. 

She further stressed that 

there was a need to mobilize 

the private sector to achieve 

the objective of maximizing 


while tax to GDP should be at 

least 15 percent in order to 

enable the government to 

ensure availability of basic 

needs to the citizens. Karachi 

is the country’s financial and 

economic hub, generating 

12–15 percent of Pakistan’s 

gross domestic product 

(GDP), and is a powerhouse 

of manufacturing employment 

in the country. 

CORPORATE CORNER 

50 organizations benefit 

from VAS program of JBS 

KARACHI: Jaffer Business Systems (JBS), one 

of the leading IT companies in Pakistan, is offering 

innovative Value Added Services (VAS) programme 

that is aimed at providing the customers 

something more than they pay for in terms of complimentary 

service. 

The VAS programme is an embodiment of JBS’s 

values and corporate philosophy. 

Last financial year, over 50 business customers ranging from financial institutions, 

manufacturing and services sectors had benefitted from this programme. 

The list of offerings of the VAS programme includes but not limited to; preventive 

maintenance and health check of the IT systems, expert advisory services (in 

areas where JBS operates), extended customer support hours and end-user trainings. 

The Director and CEO of Jaffer Business Systems, Veqar ul Islam, who is a keen 

believer of providing added value to every product and service the company offers, 

stated: “The customers are always the first priority of any business; therefore, in pursuit 

of becoming the most appreciated IT firm in Pakistan, we aim to offer something 

which gives us an edge over others – value addition.” 

JBS is known for conducting such initiatives in the past. Other than the VAS programme, 

JBS is also keen on a concept called ‘a bit earlier’, where they aim to meet 

all their deliverables before the committed time.\ 

PTCL & STARZPLAY by Cinepax 

collaborate for SVOD service 

KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication 

Company Limited (PTCL) collaborates with 

Starzplay by Cinepax, a leading Subscription Videoon-Demand 

(SVOD) service, to provide quality 

international & local entertainment content to its 

valuable customers. 

PTCL subscribers can now watch some of the latest blockbuster Hollywood 

movies, TV shows, documentaries, kids’ entertainment, Pakistani and Bollywood 

Movies. The monthly subscription cost is only Rs. 300/-. PTCL Smart TV App 

enables subscribers to watch this vast library of entertaining content on-the-go from 

their smart devices, anywhere, anytime. 

On the occasion, Moqeem ul Haque, Chief Commercial Officer, PTCL, said “We 

are pleased to announce our collaboration with Starzplay by Cinepax to provide easy 

access to quality & entertainment content for our Smart TV & Smart TV App subscribers. 

We are committed to provide digital lifestyle to our customers and continue 

to bring latest entertainment platforms and avenues.” 

Arif Baig Mohamed, Chairman, Cinepax Group, also said, “STARZ PLAY by 

Cinepax is a compelling business opportunity to provide high-quality service for 

both the mass and premium market segments. We are glad to partner with PTCL to 

offer our high quality service to its customers at an affordable price and look forward 

to mutual opportunities for customer engagement and satisfaction.” 

This collaboration is in line with PTCL’s commitment to provide latest offerings 

and entertainment content to its subscribers. 

PM China visit to help economic stabilization, 

cementing trade relations: SAARC CCI 

ISLAMABAD: SAARC 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry here on Wednesday 

expressed the hope that the 

maiden visit of Prime 

Minister Imran Khan to 

china will yield positive, 

durable impact towards 

strengthening of trade relations 

between the both countries 

and help cement further 

bilateral relations on sound 

footing. 

In a statement Senior 

Vice President SAARC CCI 

Iftikhar Ali Malik said that 

Prime Minister has taken 

LAHORE: Pakistan 

Furniture Council (PFC) a 

part of Prime Minister 

Imran Khan’s business 

entourage will leave for 

China on November 02 to 

gear up efforts for further 

enhancing mutual cooperation 

between two countries 

. 

In his statement issued 

here on Wednesday, PFC 

Chief Executive Mian 

Kashif Ashfaq said Prime 

Minister Imran Khan is 

paying his maiden official 

visit to China from Nov 2 

to 5 at the invitation of the 

personal interest to revive 

the national economy and 

his decisions taken in regard 

of austerity measures, commitment 

to end corruption 

and repatriate public funds 

are highly appreciated by the 

Chinese and other countries. 

He said he is much optimistic 

that Imran Khan 

would be succeeded to 

revive economy and his 

efforts to steer the country 

out of the crisis through 

seeking financial aid from 

friendly countries rather than 

totally relying on IMF are 

getting fruits as SaudiArabia 

had already assured the government 

to give the much 

needed money to Pakistan at 

this crucial stage. 

He said the focus of the 

visit will be expanding economic 

and trade ties besides 

strengthening partnership 

and finalizing a trade corridor 

between the two countries. 

Iftikhar Malik said that 

Pakistan was offering conducive 

friendly environment 

for foreign direct and indirect 

investment. 

PFC to leave for China along with PM entourage to 

enhance mutual cooperation in furniture sector 

Chinese counterpart 

and discuss whole 

range of bilateral issues 

besides inking a number of 

agreements including business. 

He said it is praiseworthy 

decision that Prime 

Minister is taking a high 

level delegation of businessmen 

on self finance 

basis accompanied by 

Finance Minister Asad 

Umar, Railways Minister 

Sheikh Rasheed and 

other officials and this tour 

will explore new heights in 

investment as well as production 

sector in Pakistan. 

BANNU: A shopkeeper is displaying pomegranates outside his shop to attract customers as fresh pomegranates are 

available during the season.


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Ehsan Mani has full faith in 

Sarfraz as Pakistan captain 

LAHORE: 

LAHORE: Chairman of 

the Pakistan Cricket Board 

(PCB) Ehsan Mani on 

Wednesday said that he has 

full faith in Sarfraz Ahmed 

as Pakistan captain across 

all formats. 

Mani’s comments come 

after Mohsin Khan, the 

chairman of a newly formed 

PCB committee, suggested 

that Sarfraz be relieved of 

Test captaincy. 

Speaking 

to 

ESPNcricinfo Mani said, “I 

have full faith in Sarfraz as 

Pakistan captain. He is the 

Pakistan captain, that is 

completely unambiguous. 

He is the Pakistan captain 

today, there is no other consideration 

or thought in anyone's 

mind.” 

“He has the absolute support 

of the board," the PCB 

chairman added. 

Mohsin Khan had aired 

his views about Sarfraz during 

an interview with a local 

news channel. "I have said it 

before and I will say it now 

too, with Sarfraz I was saying 

you got a new guy in 

and don’t put the burden of 

three formats on him.” 

“It will take such a physical 

load on him, T20s, 

ODIs and then Tests; if he is 

captain he will not get any 

mental relaxation.” 

“Sarfraz’s body language 

was so down. I felt sorry for 

him that he’s had so much 

pressure put on him, with 

T20s, ODIs and Tests. 

There’s no doubt he is so 

talented and it’s not as if he 

is 35-36." 

"He is young, he has a lot 

of time. That was my view 

before and it is now as 

well,” Khan had added. 

On October 26, the PCB 

announced a four-member 

special committee to oversee 

all cricketing matters in 

the country. Former cricketer 

and selector Mohsin 

Khan was named the chairman 

of the committee. 

Former captains Wasim 

Akram, Misbah-ul-Haq, 

Urooj Mumtaz are the other 

three members of the committee. 

The four-member committee 

will meet the chief 

selector and coach (men, 

women and junior teams) 

three times in a year, and 

review plans for the development 

of umpires, referees 

and curators. 

According to PCB 

sources, the team management 

and the selection committee 

are unhappy with 

Khan’s comments about 

Sarfraz. "It is incorrect to 

say such things about an inform 

captain who just led 

the team to a Test series win 

against Australia," the 

sources said. 

“Before becoming the 

chairman Mohsin used 

unacceptable words for 

coach Mickey Arthur [too]," 

the sources added. 

Misbah-ul-Haq will not 

be part of PSL 4 

Former 

Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul- 

Haq will not be part of the 

fourth edition of the Pakistan 

Super League (PSL), a statement 

from Islamabad United 

confirmed on Wednesday. 

Misbah, who captained 

the two-time PSL champions 

Islamabad United, had 

been with the franchise for 

all its last three seasons. 

"Islamabad United has 

always greatly valued 

Misbah as a player, leader 

and a superb team player. As 

he transitions into his nonplaying 

phase, we believe he 

can add a lot of value to 

Islamabad United as well as 

to Pakistan," the statement 

read. 

"The franchise continues 

to discuss with him avenues 

which could provide him a 

platform to pursue his next 

phase. These discussions 

continue and deserve the 

confidentiality which a senior 

player like him 

deserves," the franchise 

added. 

Islamabad United owner 

Ali Naqvi also took to 

Twitter to hail Misbah's journey 

with the franchise. 

“Misbah is undoubtedly 

one of the most brilliant 

cricketing minds of today. 

We as a team and I personally 

have been privileged to 

benefit from his leadership 

on and off the ground. We 

are looking forward to his 

next innings. Salute to you, 

Captain!," Naqvi tweeted. 

Karachi Club National 

Manzoor Hussian Memorial Golf Trophy: Seniors, Juniors Tennis 

begins Saturday 

M. Ilyas Wears Winning Cap 

KARACHI: The first 

Dr M. Arif Hafeez 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: The Syed 

Manzoor Hussain 

Memorial Golf trophy for 

senior golf professionals, 

amateurs and ladies was 

held at the par 72, Lahore 

Gymkhana Golf Course. 

This championship was 

arranged by his son Syed 

Shaghil Hussian based in 

United States, in memory 

of his late father, the eminent 

Syed Manzoor 

Hussain who was associated 

with golf for over fifty 

years. 

This competition is open 

to the senior golf professionals 

who have crossed 


K A R A C H I : 

Muhammad Wasey scored 

the lone goal of the match 

as Sixteen Star Academy 

overpowered Muslim 

School by 1-0 score in 

Leisure Leagues School 

and 

Academy 

Championship here at 

Sixteen Star Ground. 

In another match, 

Baloch Club defeated GSA 

by 2-1 score. Sher Ali and 

the age bracket of 50 years. 

Most of them have been 

accomplished golf champions 

in their youthful days, 

having won many national 

titles, but now with 

physique and limbs a little 

withered they can show 

their prowess only in the 

seniors category. There 

were also events for amateurs 

and the skilled ones in 

the ladies category. 

Participants in the golf 

competition included past 

golf professional champions 

like Manzoor Ahmed, a 

champion in the eighties 

and nineties, Ghulam Nabi 

who has won the Pakistan 

title six times, Javed Inayat, 

a notable golf professional 

Moiz scored one goal each 

for Baloch Club while 

Sufiyan scored one for 

GSA. 

The third match 

between Young Muslim 

and Red Army ended in a 

goalless draw. Roots 

School defeated Anglo 

School by 1-0 score. Ali 

scored the solitary goal of 

the match. 

Titans FC also defeated 

Sixteen White by 1-0 score 

of Karachi and M. Iqbal 

who has won the Syed 

Manzoor Hussain title 

many times. 

In the 2018 Syed 

Manzoor Hussain 

Memorial Golf trophy, the 

defending champion M. 

Iqbal, could not manage his 

dominance and his place 

was taken over by the 

golfer of immense strength, 

M. Ilyas. Throughout the 

18 holes he consistently 

produced shots of excellence 

and in the process 

produced regulation pars in 

a sequence. His shot making 

was superb and so was 

the control on the greens 

where he putted with 

authority. He aggregated a 

Sixteen Star Academy win in Leisure 

Leagues School and Academy C'ship 

with Sufiyan scoring the 

decisive goal. GSA Royals 

defeated Sixteen Star Gold 

by 1-0 score with Sharim 

scoring the lone goal. 

Sixteen Star Academy 

also defeated Red Army 

Junior this week by 1-0 

score-line. Muqim scored 

one for the winners. 

Hamza Siddiqui scored 

one goal to help Damned 

United beat Federal Public 

School 1-0. 

Govt to support establishment of sports 

grounds, complexes: Sindh CM 

KARACHI: Sindh Chief 

Minister Syed Murad Ali 

Shah said that the establishment 

of sports grounds, 

clubs and sports complexes 

is an encouraging move and 

his government supports 

them. 

He said this after inaugurating 

Al-Nadi Al-Burhani 

Sports Complex established 

by Dawoodi Bohra 

Community at Talpur Road, 

off M.T Khan Raod, said a 

statement on Wednesday. 

Accompanied by his 

Adviser on Information 

Barrister Murtaza Wahab, 

the Chief Minister Sindh visited 

different sections of the 

complex, including gym, 

polo-ground, arrow shooting 

club, cricket and football 

grounds. 

Murad Ali Shah congratulated 

the Bohra community 

for establishing such a state 

of art sports complex. 

He recalled that when he 

was a young boy he used to 

play cricket with his friends 

on the streets of Karachi. 

This was common in the city 

and then law and order 

became the worst and people 

stopped their children from 

playing on to the streets, he 

said. 

The Chief Minister Sindh 

said that this was the turning 

point when children 

switched over from physical 

games played in the open 

ground and in the streets to 

digital and indoor games, 

which he termed totally 

unhealthy. Talking to media 

just after performing inaugural 

ceremony of Al-Nadi Al- 

Burhani Sports Complex, he 

said that the cost of Greater 

Karachi Bulk Water Supply, 

K-IV project, has increased 

manifold. 

gross score of 73. This 

effort enabled him to prevail 

over his seasoned 

opponents like Ghulam 

Nabi, Manzoor, Iqbal and 

Javed. By achieving the top 

position he won a lucrative 

cash prize. 

In this contest the runner 

up in Professionals category 

was M. Arif. He came up 

with a score of gross 75. 

Special prizes like longest 

drive went to M.Iqbal and 

nearest to the pin was won 

by M. Arif. 

In the competition for 

amateurs, Nasir Irshad won 

the event with a gross score 

of 83 and the net winner 

was Maj. Gen (r) M. Tahir, 

his net score being 73. 

2nd ACBS / IBSF Snooker 

Asian Tour: Chinese vs 

Indian Final; Bronze For 

Defending Champ Bilal 


KARACHI: In the semi 

finals the main upset was 

ouster of the existing 

champion Muhammad 

Bilal from the finals of the 

2nd ACBS / IBSF Snooker 

Asian Tour 2018. 

The final of the championship 

will be between 

Advani from India and the 

host country China’s player, 

Ju Reti. 

Muhammad Bilal 

received the Bronze 

Medal. 

The score sheets of the 

Quarter Final and Semi 

Finals was: 

Muhammad Bilal (PaK) 

bt Ma Chunmao (China) 5- 

2 

(28-55(46), 94-0(94), 

09-75(75), 53-52, 55- 

0(55), 51-06, 61-0(61) 

Semi Finals: 

Pankaj Advani (India) 

bt Muhammad Bilal (PaK) 

5-1 

edition of Karachi Club 

Open National Seniors 

and Juniors Tennis 

Championships commences 

here at Karachi 

Club tennis courts. 

The events to be competed 

in the tournament, 

which carries national 

ranking points, for junior 

players are 18 Singles, 

Girls 18 Singles, Boys 14 

Singles, Boys and Girls 

10 Singles (with modified 

green dot balls). 

Seniors will be seen in 

action in 40 Plus 

Doubles and 60 Plus 

Doubles. 

Meanwhile, Men’s 

Singles and Men’s 

Doubles will also be 

organized which carries 

Sindh ranking points. 

The last date of entry is 


KARACHI: Karachi Development Authority (KDA) Director General, Sami Uddin 

Siddiqui along with Syeda Shehla Raza, Sindh Minister for Women Development 

addresses to media persons during press conference. 

Wasey stars in Sixteen Star Academy win 

in Leisure Leagues School, Academy C’ship 

K A R A C H I : 

Mohammad Wasey scored 

the lone goal of the match 

as Sixteen Star Academy 

overpowered Muslim 

School by 1-0 score in 

Leisure Leagues School 

and 

Academy 

Championship here at 

Sixteen Star Ground. 

In another match, 

Baloch Club defeated GSA 

by 2-1 score. Sher Ali and 

ZHUHAI: Top seed 

Daria Kasatkina overcame 

a stern test from Wang 

Qiang in the opening 

round-robin match at the 

WTA Elite Trophy in 

Zhuhai, outlasting the local 

favourite 6-1 2-6 7-5 on 

Tuesday. 

Competing as a top-10 

player for the first time, 

Kasatkina broke her opponent 

twice to claim the 

opening set. 

But Wang, China's topranked 

player, rebounded 

with a string of aggressive 

groundstrokes to force a 

decider. 

The final set was a 

topsy-turvy affair with nine 

successive games against 

serve before Kasatkina 

finally held her delivery 

together to clinch the victory 

in just under two hours. 

The 21-year-old 

Russian will next face 

American Madison Keys 

in Azalea Group, with a 

victory guaranteeing 

Kasatkina a spot in the 

semi-finals. 

Third seed Aryna 

Sabalenka, the youngest 

player in the tournament's 

four-year history at 20, 

battled past Australian 

Ashleigh Barty 6-4 6-4 to 

top the Orchid Group. 

The 20-year-old 

Belarusian came back 

from a break down in the 

second set to reel off four 

straight games on her way 

to a first victory in Zhuhai. 

"I didn't play some 

tournaments since a few 

weeks ago, so I was really 

missing tennis," 

Sports Reporter Chief Guest appreciated District Central. 

KARACHI: Hyderi efforts of Hussaini Foitball On the occasion 

Baloch FC win over Drigh Club and specially tournament 

Muhammad Siddique. 

Road Union by 3-0 on 

Secretary Muhamnad Muhamnad Shoaib, 

penalty shoot out and Sadiq Khatri,and his colleagues 

President Hussani Club 

moved in the semi final of 

to organized a suc- 

Muhammad Sabir Khatri, 

All Karachi Abdul Waheed cessful big tournament Secretary Muhammad 

Memorial 5 Star Football also promote football in Hasan Ghanchi, Vice 

Tournament 2018 being 

organised by Hyssaini 

Football Club (District 

Central) at Noorani Eidgha 

Ground 11-G New Karachi. 

The match remained 

goalless at full time. 

Azam Khan President, 

Hyderabad Dustrct 

Football Association and 

Famous Industrial Usnan 

Tara being introduced to 

the players as Chief Guest 

during the lemon time. The 

Moiz scored one goal each 

for Baloch Club while 

Sufiyan scored one for 

GSA. 

The third match between 

Young Muslim and Red 

Army ended in a goalless 

draw. Roots School defeated 

Anglo School by 1-0 

score. Ali scored the solitary 

goal of the match. 

Titans FC also defeated 

Sixteen White by 1-0 score 

Sabalenka, who recorded 

her 46th match win of the 

with Sufiyan scoring the 

decisive goal. GSA Royals 

defeated Sixteen Star Gold 

by 1-0 score with Sharim 

scoring the lone goal. 

Sixteen Star Academy 

also defeated Red Army 

Junior this week by 1-0 

score-line. Muqim scored 

one for the winners. Hamza 

Siddiqui scored one goal to 

help Damned United beat 

Federal Public School 1-0. 

Daria Kasatkina overcomes Wang 

Qiang in WTA Elite Trophy opener 

season, said in her oncourt 

interview. 

Hyderi Baloch reached in the semi final in 

All Karachi Abdul Waheed 5 Star Footbal 

Presidet DFA Central Nzeerabad Master Riasat, 

Muhammad Akif Khan, Muhammad Tahir, 

Vice President Central M. Shakeel, Abdul Kareem 

Shamim, Secretary DFA Joji, Zakir Khatri, Shahid 

Central & International Tao, and others were also 

footballer Muhammad present. 

Saleem Patni, Secretary on penalty kicks Abbas 

DFA Shaheed Bay Ali , Shahrukh and Syed 

Rasheed netted while 

unfortunate from the Drigh 

Roard Union Ex 

International Star Nomi 

Martin, Haris and Noman 

all missed the penalties. 

Referee Sabir Baloch 

while Saleem uddin Babar 

and Syed Kaleem Hussain 

assisted him on the line. 

Babar Bassem as Fourth 

official while Abdul Karim 

was the Match 

Commissioner.

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Iran-US Rouhani: Iran government 

has no fear of US threats 

IRAN: President 

Rouhani assures the Iranian 

nation that his administration 

has no fear of US 

threats as Washington prepares 

to reintroduce a new 

round of sanctions against 

the country. 

President Hassan 

Rouhani has assured the 

Iranian nation of the government’s 

resolve to stand up to 

US threats, emphasizing 

that his team will do all in its 

power to resolve the economic 

problems caused by 

American pressure. 

“November 4 this year 

translates into a new 

instance of oppression by 

America,” he said, referring 

to the date, when 

Washington is set to reimpose 

sanctions on Iran’s 

energy sector. 

“Our people need to rest 

assure that the government 

is not afraid of US threats,” 

he added, during his address 

to the weekly cabinet session 

on Wednesday. 

The president said that 

representatives of various 

countries, including Asian 

IRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani addresses a government session. 

and European ones, had sent 

messages of assurance to 

the Islamic Republic “that 

they will stand by and continue 

their cooperation with 

Iran.” 

‘US in retreat’ 

“We are certain that the 

Americans will fail in their 

new plot, and that they are 

actually in gradual retreat,” 

the president asserted. 

President Rouhani 

recalled that US officials 

first said claimed that they 

would reduce Iran’s oil 

exports to zero, but then 

retracted their statement, 

saying that the process 

could take two to three 

months. 

“We tell them that ‘you 

will not reach any of your 

goals with regard to Iran’s 

oil sales. You will neither be 

able to bring it to zero nor 

reduce it,’” Rouhani stated. 

By escalating psychological 

and economic pressure, 

the US has been seeking to 

LAHORE: People are trying to take the ambulance through an alternate road at Thokar 

Niaz Baig as the roads are blocked due to protest of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasoolallah 

(TLYR) against the acquittal of Asia Bibi in blasphemy case. 

anger the Iranian people, 

President Rouhani said, 

adding however that Iranian 

were and would be angry at 

Washington's atrocities, 

rather than their own 

Islamic establishment, government, 

and country. 

“Because they (the 

nation) love their country 

Iran,” the president said. 

‘Setbacks to be overcome’ 

Rouhani said that Iran 

could easily overcome the 

Taliban assign ex-Guantanamo 

inmates as future peace brokers 

PESHAWAR: The 

Taliban have appointed 

five former commanders 

who spent more than a 

decade as prisoners in 

Guantanamo Bay as members 

of the political office 

in Qatar where they will Taliban 

take part in any future 

peace talks, officials in the 

movement said. 

The five commanders, 

Mohammad Fazl, 

Mohammed Nabi, 

Khairullah Khairkhwa, 

Abdul Haq Wasiq and 

Noorullah Noori, were 

held for 12 years in the 

U.S. detention center 

before being released in 

2012 as part of a prisoner 

exchange in return for U.S. 

soldier Berg Bergdahl. 

They were settled in 

Qatar following their 

release but until now had 

not been directly involved 

in political activities, 

spokesman 

Zabiullah Mujahid said. 

The appointments were 

made as momentum gathers 

for talks to end 17 years 

of war in Afghanistan. 

Qatar has emerged as a 

principal contact point 

between the Taliban and 

the U.S. government. 

Earlier this month, Taliban 

officials met the recently 

appointed U.S. special 

envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in 

the Qatari capital Doha, 

having already met Alice 

Wells, Principal Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for 

South and Central Asia, 

there earlier in the year. 

A Taliban official in 

Qatar said that while the 

former commanders, who 

were close to the movement’s 

late founder Mullah 

Mohammad Omar, had not 

been attached to the political 

office earlier, but the 

office has sought their 

opinions and advice in the 

past. 

“They have been contributing 

to certain important 

matters in their private 

capacity. Now they are 

Mazari assures full support 

for Dr Afia Siddiqui 

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen M Mazari talking to Dr 

Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Afia Siddiqui who called on her. 

ISLAMABAD: Dr 

Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister 

of Dr Afia Siddiqui has 

called on the Federal 

Minister for Human Rights 

Dr Shireen M Mazari here 

in Islamabad on 

Wednesday. 

They discussed the 

ways how to move ahead 

getting Dr Afia Siddiqui 

back in Pakistan. 

Talking to Siddiqui, the 

Federal Minster said that 

we were trying our best to 

bring Dr Afia Siddiqui 

back to Pakistan. 

Dr Mazari said we are 

well aware of the problems 

and anguish of Dr Afia 

Siddiqui’s family and 

assured her full support in 

their struggle for her sister's 

release. 

officially declared as members 

of the Qatar-based 

political council and would 

represent Taliban movement 

in peace talks with 

the foreign leaders,” said a 

member of the Taliban 

political office in Qatar. 

Requesting anonymity, 

the official said the five 

Taliban leaders had been 

subject to restrictions on 

movement earlier, but they 

would now be able to travel 

and attend peace negotiations. 

The appointments follow 

the release by Pakistan 

last week of senior Taliban 

figure Mullah Abdul Ghani 

Baradar. 

PM chairs meeting on 

water conservation 

ISLAMABAD: 

Minister Imran Khan 

Wednesday gave go-ahead 

to the Ministry of National 

Food Security & Research 

to develop three major 

projects for conservation 

of 9 MAF water through 

lining of the watercourse 

across the country and 

laser leveling of the fields, 

enhancement of 6,00,00 

acres of command area of 

small and mini dams and 

water conservation in 

Barani areas of Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa. 

PM was chairing a 

meeting on water conservation 

at Prime Minister’s 

Office.These interventions 

are in line with the agenda 

of the PTI Government. 

PTI should learn parliamentary norms from 

former senior leaders of opposition: Marriyum 

ISLAMABAD: PMLN 

spokesperson Marriyum 

Aurangzeb has said that 

ministers of ruling party 

should hold course to learn 

parliamentary norms from 

former senior ministers of 

the opposition. 

While talking to media 

men 

outside 

Accountability Court 

Marriyum Aurangzeb said 

that Fawad Chaudhry had 

become self styled 

spokesperson of SC, NAB 

and High court. 

SC summoned him very 

late and now NAB and 

High Court should call him 

as soon as possible and 

take notice of his statement, 

she added. 

setbacks, because it enjoys 

lasting relations with its 

trade partners, whereas the 

US pressure is only temporary. 

“The US will raise hue 

and cry for a few days, but 

will have to eventually leave 

[the region], because they 

cannot make decisions for 

the people of the region,” 

Rouhani noted. 

The United States exited 

a multilateral nuclear agreement 

with Iran in May, and 

threatened to reinstate all 

sanctions that had been lifted 

under the accord. 

Washington re-introduced 

the first round of 

sanctions in August. The 

next round is bound to take 

effect as of November 4th. 

Other parties to the deal - 

- the UK, France, Russia, 

China, and Germany -- have 

collectively censured the 

US withdrawal, stressing 

that the agreement has been 

ratified in the form of a 

United Nations Security 

Council, and thus the US 

departure violates international 

law. 

PPP govt starts BISP 

to provide financial 

assistance to poor 

ISLAMABAD: Member 

National Assembly (MNA) 

of PPP Naveed Qamar on 

Wednesday said that PPP 

government had started 

Benazir Income Support 

Programme (BISP) to provide 

financial assistance to 

the poor of the country. 

Talking to media outside 

Parliament House, he said 

that country was facing economic 

crisis, adding that if 

government is seeking help, 

PPP is ready to give suggestions 

for improvement of 

economic situation in the 

country. 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMl-N) Spokesperson Marriyum 

Aurangzeb talking to media outside the Accountability Court. 

She said Information 

Minister daily gives a new 

Pakistan Navy completes 

operation to clean up oil spill 

KARACHI: On the 

coast of Mubarrak village 

the operation to clean up 

oil spill by the Pakistan 

Navy with the cooperation 

of Maritime Security 

Agency (MSA) and other 

institutions has been completed. 

According to Pakistan 

NEW DELHI: Rani 

Mukerji's comeback venture 

'Hichki' left quite an 

impression at the Indian 

Box office. The film 

released in India on March 

23, 2018 and was wellreceived 

by audience as 

well as critics. It became 

one of the top grossers of 

2018 after 'Padmaavat', 

'PadMan', 'Raid' and 'Sonu 

Ke Titu Ki Sweety'. The 

film is produced under the 

Yash Raj Films banner and 

hit the screens in China on 

October 12. 

'Hichki' has won hearts 

internationally as well as it 

has now crossed Rs 200 

mark globally! Its net 

worldwide collection is Rs 

209.72 crore. 

While its domestic collections 

stand at Rs 58 

crore, it became a superhit 

in China and went on to 

collect Rs 131 crore alone 

there. In fact, the Rani 

Mukerji starrer became the 

sixth Indian feat to achieve 

the feat, after 'Dangal', 

list that now such person is 

going to be arrested. 

Navy spokesman more 

than a hundred personnel 

of Pakistan Navy have 

participated in the cleanse 

up operation. During the 

operation more than 15 

tons of oil waste has been 

cleansed up from the coast. 

Local fishermen have 

appreciated the cleanse up 

'Secret Superstar', 

'Bajrangi Bhaijaan', Hindi 

Medium' and 'PK'. In addition, 

it is the only Indian 

film led by a female protagonist 

to cross 100 crore 

mark at Chinese Box 

Office. 

The film is about the 

life of Naina Mathur, a 

school teacher who suffers 

from a rare Tourette syndrome. 

Her condition 

causes her to make uncontrollable 

sounds likened to 

hiccups. Shunned by the 

world, Naina finally finds 

acceptance in a bunch of 

students who are also the 

victims of oppression from 

the society. Naina and her 

students then embark on a 

Who tell him all this? 

Marriyum Questioned. 

operation, hailed the operation 

of the Naval personnel 

and chanted slogans in 

favour of the Pakistan 

Navy. 

The spokesman said 

that Pakistan Navy will 

pay its due role for the protection 

of the environment 

of sea. 

Rani Mukerji's Hichki stands tall, 

crosses Rs 200 crore mark globally 

It echoes many of the 

findings of the UN OHCHR 

Report on Jammu and 

Kashmir already published 

and is critical of the human 

rights atrocities being committed 

with impunity by 

Indian occupation forces in 

IoK, especially the use of 

pellet guns, draconian laws 

including the Armed Forces 

mission to show the world 

that they are no less than 

anyone else out there. 

The Siddharth Malhotra 

directorial, which was 

screened at the Shanghai 

International Film Festival 

in June this year, will be 

releasing in Hong Kong on 


Pakistan welcomes UK Parliamentary 

Group’s report on Jammu and Kashmir 


Report of the UK 

Prime Parliament’s All Party 

Parliamentary Group on 

Kashmir (APPKG), on the 

human rights situation in 

Jammu and Kashmir, has 

detailed severe Indian 

human rights atrocities in 

Indian occupied Jammu and 

Kashmir (IoK). 

Special Powers Act 

(AFSPA) and the Public 

Safety Act (PSA), a statement 

issued by the foreign 

office spokesperson here on 

Wednesday said. 

It said the report also 

mentions presence of 

unmarked graves in IoK and 

enforced disappearances, 

which confirm the humanitarian 

emergency in IoK. 

The report follows the 

visit of a nine-member delegation 

of the APPKG to 

Islamabad and Azad Jammu 

and Kashmir. The group’s 

report, following the visit, is 

a damning indictment for 

India and an encouraging 

step forward after the UN 

OHCHR Report. 

Cost of BRT not more than metro 

projects of other cities: Pervez Khattak 

ISLAMABAD: Minister for 

Defence Pervez Khattak Wednesday 

said that actual structural cost of Bus 

Rapid Transit (BRT) project in 

Peshawar is less than metro bus projects, 

introduced in cities of Punjab and 

Islamabad because it has comparatively 

more lengthy route than others. 

Speaking in the National Assembly 

on a point of personal explanation, the 

minister said that metro buses in 

Punjaband Islamabad were being run 

on rent while 220 buses have been purchased 

for the BRT project, thus 

increasing the cost from Rs. 7-8 billion. 

He said that high-rise buildings and 

shopping malls are being set up along 

the route of BRT project and parking 

lots are being set up there which had 

also increased the cost. 

The minister said that Rs. one billion 

has been reserved for those wagon 

drivers as compensation who would be 

affected through this project. 

PTI had made tall 

claims of depoliticizing 

police but they are doing 

politics on police and 

bureaucracy, she remarked. 

PTI is considering 

bureaucracy and police as 

their private employees 

therefore they are making 

transfer of officials every 

day, she added. 

She said whole ruling 

party especially information 

minister should do 

course of parliamentary 

norms and for learning 

course, former senior 

minister are there on 

opposition benches in the 

parliament and they will 

teach them parliamentary 

norms free. 

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1 November 2018

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