9 Nov 2018

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JF-17 Thunder aircraft performs
during Zhuhai Air Show in China I
ZHUHAI: A JF-17
Thunder fighter jet of the
Pakistan Air Force (PAF)
put up a dazzling aerial
performance during the
Zhuhai Air Show in
China.
The breathtaking aerial
display by the seasoned
aerobatics pilot wing
commander Zeeshan
Baryar included some
stunning maneuvers like
the muscle climb, thunder
turns, slow speed pass and
inverted flight.
An over fifteen minutes
jaw-dropping performance
by ‘Pride of The
Nation’, JF-17 Thunder
aircraft, concluded with
the trademark vertical
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s
King Salman has embarked
on a domestic tour this week
with his favourite son,
demonstrating his support
for his chosen heir despite
the crisis spawned by the
murder of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi.
Roads were lined with
Saudi flags and images of the
king and his son Crown
Prince Mohammed bin
Salman when they arrived in
the central region of Qassim
late on Tuesday.
Distinguished figures greeted
them and children offered
flowers.
The tour is the latest public
outreach by the 82-yearold
monarch, apparently
intended to shore up the
power of Prince
ZHUHAI: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) JF-17 Thunder performing aerobatics during
Zhuhai Air Show 2018.
rolls and disappearing in
the blue skies of Zhuhai,
leaving behind hundreds
Mohammed, known as
MbS, who has taken over
day-to-day rule but whose
international reputation was
battered in the month since
Khashoggi was killed in the
Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Media said the king laid
the foundation for new or
planned projects worth $1.12
billion and ordered the
release of some people from
debtors’ prison in Qassim, a
conservative province in the
heart of the Arabian
Peninsula.
“There is a lot of tension,
fear and apprehension
among Saudis in the aftermath
of the Khashoggi affair.
So it’s a trip that reassures
the various regions that the
king is still in his place and
he’s the highest authority,”
said Madawi al-Rasheed, a
London-based Saudi author
critical of the Al Saud.
Turkish officials have
accused MbS of ordering
Khashoggi’s murder. US
President Donald Trump has
suggested ultimate responsibility
lies with the crown
prince as de facto ruler.
Saudi Arabia, which
offered numerous contradictory
explanations for
Khashoggi’s disappearance,
now says the US-based
Washington Post columnist
was killed in a rogue operation.
MbS broke weeks of
silence on October 25 to vow
justice would prevail.
King Salman stepped in
to defuse the situation. He
sent a trusted aide to Turkey
last month, then fired five
of spellbound spectators.
The mesmerized audience
applauded the thundery
performance of the
jet as it landed back.
Besides aerial display, one
Saudi King Salman supports son MbS on
public tour despite Khashoggi crisis
Alvi urges religious scholars to spread teachings
of mystic saints for promoting peace
MULTAN: President Dr Arif Alvi addressing the International Sufi Conference held at
Bahauddin Zakariya University.
I S L A M A B A D :
President Arif Alvi has
called upon religious
scholars to spread the
teachings of mystic
saints for promotion of
of peace, love and tolerance.
He was addressing
the International Sufi
Conference at
Bahauddin Zakariya
University in Multan
today, held in connection
with annual urs of
great Saint of the Sub
Continent Hazrat
Bahauddin Zakariya
Soharwardy Multani
Rahmatullah Alai.
The President said
Sufis played important
role in flourishing
Islam in sub-continent.
Addressing the conference,
Foreign
Minister Makhdoom
Shah Mahmood Qureshi
said the teachings of
Hazrat Bahauddin
Zakariya (RA) provided
guiding path for people
all over of world.
He said by following
the teachings of the
great sufi saint, we can
promote brotherhood,
equality and religious
harmony in our country.
Jamaat e Islami chairs
office bearers meeting
LAHORE: Ameer Jamaat e Islami
Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq has said
that any attempt to amend the law safeguarding
the sanctity of the Holy
Prophet or to abolish the Islamic provisions
of the constitution would be fully
resisted by the nation.
He said this while addressing a
meeting of the JI office bearers convened
to decide the line of action in
this regard.
The meeting was attended by the
provincial chiefs of the party, decided
to hold public meetings in connection
with the Rabi ul Awwal, in all big cities
including federal and provincial capitals,
to propagate the message of the
Seerat of the holy prophet to ensure the
protection of the Namoos e Risalat and
for the enforcement of the Nizam e
Mustafa in the country.
The JI chief said that no nation had
progressed on the basis of loans. He
said had this been possible, the African
countries which had drawn maximum
loans, would have been much advanced
today. He said that until and unless the
country’s economy was strong, the
affairs of the state could not improve.
Sirajul Haq said the JI wanted the
supremacy of the constitution and the
law because these were the requirements
for an Islamic welfare state. He
said the tragedy with the country was
that individuals were stronger than the
institutions and that was why democracy
could not get roots in the country.
He said the common man had
expected relief from the PTI government
but with every passing day, the
problems of the people were increasing.
senior officials, including his
son’s most trusted adviser.
After weeks of lying low,
the prince has now returned
to the public stage. He visited
troops near the border
with Yemen, where Riyadh
is involved in a 3-1/2-year
war, appearing in an online
video on Monday with a
soldier he called a hero. In a
ceremony at a Riyadh university,
he laid the foundation
stone for a planned
nuclear research reactor.
Greg Gause, a Gulf
expert at Texas A&M
University, said the domestic
tour with his father did
not indicate that the royal
family is in the clear yet,
only that “the king is confident
that nothing is afoot
right now”.
Protest march in
France against Indian
brutalities in IOK
ISLAMABAD: In
France, a protest march
organized by Jammu and
Kashmir Forum France
was held at Eiffel Tower
to condemn brutalities of
India against Kashmiri
people in occupied
Kashmir.
A large number of
community members
from Azad and occupied
Kashmir and Pakistan
participated in the march.
Addressing the protesters,
speakers including
Raja Ali Asghar,
Chaudhry Razaq Dhal,
Abdul Qadeer and
Chaudhry Afzal Langah
said that even women and
children were not safe
from Indian forces’
aggression in occupied
Kashmir.
They said that India
has no justification to
illegally hold Jammu and
Kashmir against the
wishes of its people.
Meanwhile, a human
rights activist has said
that, at least, 16 mentally-challenged
persons
fell to the bullets of the
Indian forces near forces’
camps between 2002 and
2018.
JF-17 has been put on display
showing off its range
of weapons.
A large number of
spectators including the
potential buyers and
enthusiasts are taking keen
interest in JF-17 Thunder
aircraft. A PAF contingent
is participating in 12th
China International
Aviation and Aerospace
Exhibition being held at
Zhuhai, China.
The sleek and lethal
fighter aircraft JF-17
Thunder stands prominent
in its own class of combat
aircraft, indigenously built
by Pakistan Aeronautical
Complex, Kamra in collaboration
with China.
Arba’een walk
participants has
exposed India’s
real face: Gilani
ISLAMABAD: In
occupied Kashmir, the
Chairman of All Parties
Hurriyat Conference,
Syed Ali Gilani, has
praised the participants
of an annual walk from
Najaf to Karbala for
sharing the pain of
Kashmiri people inflicted
by brutal occupation
of India over Jammu and
Kashmir.
The people from Iran,
Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen,
Syria and Nigeria staged
a silent protest during
the yearly procession
known as Arba’een Walk
against the Indian
aggression on the
Kashmiri people.
The participants
raised slogans and placards
in favour of
Kashmir’s freedom
struggle as a mark of solidarity
with their
Kashmiri brethren in
occupied Kashmir.
Syed Ali Gilani while
hailing the participants
said Muslim Ummah is
like a single body and if
any part of the body is in
pain the whole body
feels and expresses it.
Existing railways network to
be upgraded: Sheikh Rashid
S L A M A B A D :
Minister for Railways
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
says the existing network
of Pakistan Railways
would be upgraded and its
services improved with
help of China.
In an interview with , he
LONDON: British pop
band the Spice Girls joked
on Wednesday about their
plans for a new album after
announcing they would
reunite for a UK tour next
year but said it would feel
strange performing without
“Posh Spice” Victoria
Beckham.
Fashion designer
Beckham posted on
Instagram on Monday that
she wouldn’t join the other
four Spice Girls on stage
again, but wished Geri
Horner (Ginger Spice),
said development of the
Railways' sector would
ensure success of China-
Pakistan Economic
Corridor.
About future of Gwadar
port, he said it would be
the world’s eighth largest
port, with a capacity to
Melanie Brown (Scary
Spice), Melanie Chisholm
(Sporty Spice) and Emma
Bunton (Baby Spice) well
for their six-date tour next
year. “She’s very excited for
us... It’s going to be strange,
you know, because none of
us can watch the Spice Girls
on stage but she will be able
to,” Chisholm said of
Beckham during an interview
for Heart Radio.
Brown said the quartet
would begin recording a
new album next week only
for Chisholm to dismiss the
accommodate around two
hundred ships after completion.
Sheikh Rashid said
Prime Minister Imran
Khan's recent visit to
China has silenced negative
propaganda against
Pak-China relations.
Excited Spice Girls say reunion tour
will feel strange without "Posh"
ISLAMABAD: The
National Accountability
Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi
filed Reference against
Harron Rashid, Ex CEO,
Tahir Maqbool Khakwani, Ex
Additional Director, NTS,
Waqar Sami, Ex company
Sectary,Faiz Ul Akbar, Ex
Additional Director Ops,
NTS, Kamil Ahmad, M
Javaid, Ex Regional Head ,
Yaqoob Jan, Dy Director
NTS, Imran khan, Ex
Regional Head of National
Testing Service (NTS).
As per details, some
unscrupulous elements in the
top management of Nation
Testing Service (NTS) has
been found involved in corruption
and corrupt practices
and is intentionally playing
with the future of the candidates.
They are involved in
mal administration and financial
irregularities and have
caused loss of more than158
Millions to the organization.
The accused persons in
connivance with the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of
idea and say her band mate
was “fibbing”.
The six-date tour,
announced on Monday, is
the latest reunion for one of
Britain’s biggest girl bands,
who were formed in 1994
and sold tens of millions of
albums with hit singles
including “Wannabe” and
“Say You’ll Be There”.
Horner quit the band in
1998 and the remaining
members went their separate
ways two years later
after releasing the album
“Forever”.
NAB files references against ex officials of NTS
ISLAMABAD: Senate
Standing Committee on
Overseas Pakistanis on
Thursday revealed that the
human resources ministry
has been taken back after
the 18 Amendment.
The committee was
curious that why it has
been called as HRD yet.
The committee meeting
was held under the chair
of Chairman Halalur
Rehman on Thursday. The
committee was informed
that as many as 24 schools
were being run under the
overseas and cast Rs1.30
million annually.
The committee was further
informed that 3,366
students are getting education
in their schools. The
meeting decided to not
open any new school in
the near future.
It was also told the
meeting that negotiation is
in progress to send
100,000 Pakistani in Qatar
and there is hope that the
parties will reach on consensus
in December this
year. It was also observed
in the meeting that
Organization of Islamic
Countries (OIC)’s is satisfactory
but not good.
The chairman of the
committee however,
avoided to touch other
issue than overseas.
Senator Sabir Shah,
Senator Nighat Mirza,
Senator Najma Hameed,
Senator Saima Saeed and
Senator Shahzad Waseem
attended the meeting.
Overseas Secretary
Asif Sheikh informed the
meeting that Quranic education
is being given to
student up to class 5th
since 2017. He said as
many as 3,366 students are
enrolled in OPF schools
which cast over Rs1 billion.
He informed the
meeting that a comprehensive
plan has been prepared
to open new
schools.
In order to provide
facilities, the OPF students
will be compensated
if they take admission in
NTS Mr. Haroon Rashid, has
recruited fake consultants
through the regional heads for
misappropriating/ embezzling
huge chunks of amounts
from NTS funds and have
used these amounts for personal
gains / benefits. The
accused with his accomplices
manipulated the payments of
false claims of factitious consultancy
through bank
cheques and proceeds of
these cheques were received
in cash by the accused persons
for their personal uses.
Some two dozens schools operating under
overseas authority, Senate body told
ISLAMABAD: Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shah Farman in a group photo with the
members of the executive body of FATA Youth Jirga at Khyber Pakhktunkhwa House.
private schools. The compensation
will be equal to
the fee of OPF.
Responding Senator
Mirza’s question, he said
our students are going to
China for getting education.
He further said no
new labour law has been
signed nor they have any
authority regarding
CPEC.
Prime Minster Advisor
to Overseas Pakistani
Zulfaqar Bukhari
informed the meeting that
he recently took charge
and will try to lunch new
projects soon. Initially a
cell will be open one in
Pakistan and other in
abroad.
Pakistan expresses concern over
Indian nuclear submarine patrol
ISLAMABAD: Foreign
Office Spokesperson Dr.
Mohammad Faisal has said
that Pakistan has taken note
of the first "deterrence"
patrol of the Indian nuclear
submarine and the self-congratulatory
messages in
India.
Speaking at his weekly
briefing here on Thursday, he
said this development marks
the first actual deployment of
ready to fire nuclear warheads
in South Asia which is
a matter of concern not only
for the Indian Ocean littoral
states but also for the international
community at large.
He said the bellicose language
employed by the top
Indian leadership highlights
the threats to strategic stability
in South Asia and raises
questions about responsible
nuclear stewardship in India.
He said the increased frequency
of missile tests by
India, aggressive posturing
and deployment of nuclear
weapons calls for an assessment
of the non-proliferation
benefits resulting from the
Indian membership of the
Missile Technology Control
Regime.
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