27 November 2018

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India breaks ground 

for construction of 

Kartarpur corridor 

NEW DELHI: Indian 

Vice-President M 

Venkaiah Naidu on 

Monday laid the foundation 

stone for the construction 

of a corridor 

connecting Dera Baba 

Nanak in India’s 

Gurdaspur district with 

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib 

in Pakistan’s Kartarpur 

area in Narowal district. 

Prime Minister 

Imran Khan will perform 

the groundbreaking 

of the corridor on 

the Pakistani side on 

November 28. 

“The corridor will 

become a symbol of love 

and peace between both 

countries,” Naidu said 

while addressing the 

groundbreaking ceremony 

of the four-kilometrelong 

corridor, according 

to Indian media reports. 

“This is a momentous 

and historic day we are 

fulfilling the wish of 

thousands of Sikh devotees,” 

the Indian VP was 

quoted as saying. 

However, India’s 

Punjab Chief Minister 

Amarinder Singh in his 

speech issued a ‘warning’ 

to Pakistan to not 

“vitiate the atmosphere”, 

reported Hindustan 

Times. 

Six canals of Sukkur 

barrage to remain 

closed from Jan 6 

H Y D E R A B A D : 

Some 6 canals of Sukkur 

barrage will remain 

closed for 15 days from 

January 6 to January 20, 

2019, for annual repair 

and maintenance works. 

In a press statement 

issued here on Monday, 

Chief Engineer Sukkur 

Barrage said that N W, 

Dadu, KhairpurFeeder 

East, Khairpur Feeder 

West, Nara and 

Rohricanals would be 

closed. 

PESHAWAR: “Pakistan 

shall not fight any imposed 

war inside its territory 

again,” Prime Minister 

Imran Khan said on 

Monday in an oblique reference 

to the war on terrorism 

which he has repeatedly 

said in the past, is not our 

war. 

Pakistan joined the USled 

war on terrorism after 

the 9/11 terrorist attacks and 

has suffered colossally since 

then, but Washington doesn’t 

acknowledge the matchless 

sacrifices of its on-off 

ally and instead keep pushing 

Islamabad to do more. 

The recent outburst of 

allegations by US President 

Donald Trump in an interview 

with Fox News further 

KARACHI EDITION – Tuesday, November 27, 2018, Rabiul Awal 18, 1440 

Pak will never again fight 

'imposed wars' on its territory 

PM Khan announces various welfare packages for the newly 

established districts of erstwhile FATA 

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar 

Javed Bajwa arrive at Miranshah. PHOTO: ISPR 

disillusioned Pakistan with 

Premier Imran saying that 

“now we will do what is 

best for our people, our 

interests”. 

Prime Minister Imran 

Khan, along with army 

chief General Qamar Javed 

Bajwa visited North 

Waziristan on Monday, 

according to the military’s 

media wing, the ISPR. It 

was his first visit to the erstwhile 

tribal region since 

assuming the office. 

Pakistan Army had 

launched a massive operation 

in North Waziristan, 

codenamed Zarb-e-Azb, in 

June 2014 to purge the 

region of local and foreign 

terrorists. The command 

and control centre of terrorists 

was destroyed in the 

operation which was later 

extended to hunt down 

financers and sympathisers 

in the urban centres of the 

country. 

Hundreds of terrorists 

were killed while the 

remaining slipped across the 

porous border into 

Afghanistan. The successful 

operation resulted in a 

marked decrease in terrorist 

violence in the country. 

“No other country or 

their armed forces have 

done what Pakistan and its 

armed forces have done in 

the war against terrorism,” 

the ISPR quoted the prime 

minister as saying at the 

Jirga where tribal elders 

from North and South 

Schools operating in 

residential areas to be closed 

SBCA gives one-month notice period before strict action 

will be taken agains¬t violat¬ors 

KARACHI: The Sindh 

Building Control Authority 

(SBCA) on Monday issued 

notices to all schools operating 

in residential areas of 

Karachi to wind up their 

operations within a month’s 

time. 

The authority has sprung 

into action and called for all 

private firms and schools 

setup in residential areas to 

shut up shop. 

The notice issued states, 

“The use of residential areas 

to operate schools or companies 

is a crime. All 

schools and companies must 

cease operations in these 

areas.” 

The Sindh Building 

Control Authority (SBCA) 

on Monday issued notices to 

all schools operating in residential 

areas of Karachi to 

wind up their operations 

within a month’s time. 

The authority has sprung 

into action and called for all 

private firms and schools 

setup in residential areas to 

shut up shop. 

The notice issued states, 

“The use of residential areas 

to operate schools or companies 

is a crime. All 

schools and companies must 

cease operations in these 

areas.” 

Faisalabad students hold press conference 

Indian Propaganda fails to project 

Pakistani students as terrorists 

FAISALABAD: Two 

Pakistani students who 

were declared as terrorists 

by the Indian authorities on 

Monday rejected claims 

saying "we are present in 

Pakistan and never visited 

India.” 

Addressing a press conference 

in Faisalabad on 

Monday, Pakistani students 

Tayyab and Nadeem said 

that they visited Lahore during 

Raiwind Ijtema on 

November 11 and the pictures 

were taken while they 

visited Ganda Singh border. 

The students further said 

that they do not know who 

shared the pictures on social 

media after which Indian 

authorities made propaganda 

against Pakistan. 

Responding to a question, 

the students said that 

let the enemy frighten if it is 

frightening. 

The head of the madrassah 

said assured the people 

that the Tayyab and 

Nadeem are their students 

of Jamia Taleemat-e- 

Islamia, Faisalabad and 

they haven’t even been to 

India. 

He said that the students 

of their institution do not 

engage in any political or 

religious activism. They are 

not a part of any organisation. 

The presence of 

Pakistani students in 

Faisalabad has flopped 

Indian propaganda of projecting 

them as terrorists on 

Ganda Singh border. 

Waziristan were in attendance. 

Earlier, the prime minister 

laid a floral wreath at the 

‘Martyrs’ Monument’. He 

was briefed about the operations 

conducted, ongoing 

stability operations, rehabilitation 

of TDPs (temporarily 

displaced persons), socioeconomic 

development 

projects and fencing along 

the Pak-Afghan border. 

The premier visited the 

terminal at Ghulam Khan 

border crossing, where he 

also witnessed the border 

fencing. 

Speaking at the Jirga, 

Premier Imran greatly 

appreciated the people of 

former tribal regions who 

have gone through very 

challenging and difficult 

times while facing terrorism. 

He hailed the achievements 

of army, all other 

security forces and intelligence 

agencies for their 

successful operations 

against terrorists. 

“We are for peace 

beyond borders, including 

in Afghanistan,” the premier 

said. “We shall play 

our role in the Afghan peace 

process along with other 

stakeholders as peace in 

Afghanistan is critical for 

achieving enduring peace in 

Pakistan.” 

Indian troops kill 

8 more youth in 

occupied Kashmir 

SRINAGAR: In occupied 

Kashmir, Indian troops 

in their fresh act of state terrorism 

martyred 8 more 

Kashmiri youth in South 

Kashmir, raising the toll to 

18 in the past three days, 

reported Kashmir Media 

Service. 

Six youth were killed by 

the troops during cordon 

and search operations and 

firing on protesters at 

Batagund in Kapran area of 

Shopian district, today 

morning. Bodies of the 

youth were recovered from 

the debris of a house 

destroyed by the troops during 

the operation. 

Another youth identified 

as a 10th class student, 

Nauman Ashraf Butt, was 

killed in the troops’ firing 

on the people protesting 

against the killings. 

The firing left many protesters 

injured including a 

five-year-old baby girl. 

http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

CJP proposes to restore tax on 

pre-paid mobile phone cards 

Chief Justice Nisar says will re-impose tax ‘if people of Pakistan allow us’ 

ISLAMABAD: Foreign 

Minister Makhdoom Shah 

Mahmood Qureshi 

Monday said India continued 

to ignore with impunity 

legitimate demands for a 

probe into gross and systematic 

human rights violations, 

in the Indian occupied 

Jammu and Kashmir 

(IoK), including use of 

excessive force and pellet 

guns, arbitrary arrests and 

detentions, as well as use of 

sexual violence as a 

weapon. 

The foreign minister 

was talking to Kjell Magne 

Bondevik, former 

Norwegian prime minister, 

who is on a two-day visit to 

LONDON: Chief Justice 

of Pakistan Justice Mian 

Saqib Nisar on Sunday proposed 

a re-imposition of tax 

on the top-up of prepaid 

mobile phone cards to collect 

funds for the construction 

of Diamer-Bhasha and 

Mohmand Dams. 

Addressing a dam 

fundraising ceremony hosted 

by UK Pakistan Chamber 

of Commerce and Industry 

in London, the top judge 

said, “It will not be appropriate 

to impose taxes to collect 

funds for the construction of 

dams, however, we had earlier 

suspended the withholding 

tax on the top-up of prepaid 

cards by cellphone 

service providers and learnt 

that through this Rs3 billion 

were saved per month.” 

“If the nation allows, 

then we will re-impose the 

tax on the top-up of prepaid 

cards and collect money for 

the dam fund,” he added. 

Justice Nisar urged the 

nation to put forth their 

viewpoints on his proposal. 

“The nation should apprise 

us of their thoughts on this 

proposal,” he said. 

Terming not constructing 

dams earlier as criminal negligence, 

the chief justice 

Pakistan and Azad Jammu 

and Kashmir. 

He said it was high time 

that the international community 

moved beyond rhetoric 

and took meaningful 

steps in putting an immediate 

end to the gross and systematic 

human rights abuses 

in Indian occupied 

Jammu and Kashmir. 

Qureshi also highlighted 

the United Nations OHCHR 

report on Jammu and 

Kashmir as well as the UK 

Parliament’s APPKG report 

on the region as evidence of 

international recognition of 

the severity of the problem, 

says a press release. 

He reiterated that peace 

said, “A dam needs to be 

constructed on every inch of 

Indus River.” 

Further, Justice Nisar 

expressed hope that “one 

day all four provinces will 

be in agreement over the 

construction of Kalabagh 

Dam”. 

“Karachi’s water crisis 

made me realise how crucial 

this issue is,” he added. 

“Tanker mafia and some 

others have been controlling 

the water supply in Karachi 

and in Lahore and Quetta the 

level of underground water 

is decreasing,” Justice Nisar 

asserted. 

India ignoring probe demands 

into IoK human rights violations 

and justice was indispensable 

for the region and it 

could only be achieved 

with the resolution of the 

Jammu and Kashmir dispute, 

in accordance with 

the aspirations of the people. 

Bondevik briefed the 

foreign minister on his visit 

to India, in particular to 

Srinagar, where he had the 

opportunity to interact with 

Kashmiri groups representing 

various walks of life. 

He further said the 

Kashmir issue should be 

high on the agenda of the 

international community 

and its resolution should be 

a priority for all. 

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi meeting with Former 

Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik. 

Sidhu to attend Kartarpur corridor 

ground-breaking ceremony 

NEW DELHI: Indian Punjab Cabinet Minister and former 

cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday has said he will definitely 

visit Pakistan to attend the opening ceremony of 

Kartarpur corridor. In a tweet, Navjot Singh Sidhu said Pakistan 

is his second home and he has been invited by the Pakistani 

government to attend the opening ceremony. He said the entire 

Sikh community is grateful to the Pakistani Prime Minister 

Imran Khan and the Army chief for taking this initiative. On 

November 24, former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot 

Singh Sidhu has said he has received an invitation from Prime 

Minister Imran Khan’s office to attend the groundbreaking ceremony 

of the Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan on November 28th. 

Railways to retrieve its land 

from grabbers: Sheikh 

RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for 

Railways Sheikh RashidAhmed on Monday 

said that the land belonging to 

PakistanRailways would be retrieved from 

the land grabbers. 

Talking to media at an oath taking ceremony 

held here at Gawalmandi Girls 

College, the Railways Minister said that solid 

steps were being taken to make Pakistan 

Railways a profitable institution. He said that 

the Ministry was ready to compensate the 

affected peoples of the scheduled antiencroachment 

drive on Pakistan Railways 

land, subject to availability of funds. 

Sh Rashid said that 10,000 houses illegally 

constructed on the land belonging to 

Pakistan Railways would be demolished during 

the drive on the orders of the Supreme 

Court. The Railways Minister said that the 

orders of the SC would be implemented in 

letter and spirit. 

He said, the Division Superintendent of 

Karachi had been directed to go ahead with 

the anti-encroachment operation. 

"We will try to compensate the affected 

people of anti-encroachment drive," he said. 

Sh Rashid said that he had requested for a 

solution under which the government would 

construct quarters or residential blocks for the 

affected people so that their accommodation 

issues could be resolved as the issue of 

accommodation is very serious in Pakistan. 

Paragon Housing scam 

LHC extends bail 

granted to Saad 

Rafique, brother 

LAHORE: The Lahore 

High Court (LHC) on 

Monday extended the bail 

granted to PML-N leader 

Khawaja Saad Rafique and 

his brother Salman Rafique in 

the Paragon Housing scam 

and directed the National 

Accountability Bureau 

(NAB) to decide immediately 

on the basis of law whether a 

team probing them will be 

changed or not. 

A two-judge bench headed 

by Justice Tariq Abbasi heard 

the petition filed by the 

Khawaja brothers for prearrest 

bail. In the petition, the 

brothers said that they were 

not involved in any form of 

corruption. “We fully cooperated 

with NAB in the investigation 

and our pre-arrest bail 

should be approved,” the petition 

stated. 

The bench then asked the 

NAB lawyer whether documents 

pertaining to the arrest 

been given to the Khawaja 

brothers to which he replied, 

“The documents will be given 

when they are arrested.” 

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018 

Metropolitan 

IGP Sindh for strict security, smooth 

traffic flow during IDEAS-2018 

KARACHI: Inspector 

General of Police (IGP) 

Sindh Dr. Syed Kaleem 

Imam on Monday directed 

the police officials to ensure 

strict implementation of 

strategy made for the security 

during IDEAS-2018 

besides making proper 

arrangements for smooth 

flow of traffic. 

The police chief has particularly 

asked Deputy 

Inspector General of Police 

(DIGP) East for ensuring 

strict monitoring in and 

around the Expo Centre and 

to deploy personnel in civil 

dress at all the gates of Expo 

Centre. The technical sweeping 

and clearance from the 

Bomb Disposal Squad was 

also ordered. 

Dr Syed Kaleem Imam 

ordered adoption of foolproof 

security measures during 

the four days IDEAS 

from November 27 to 30 

specially for the participants 

and in this connection the 

organizers be also coordinated. 

The IGP directed the officials 

concerned to increase 

police picketing, patrolling 

and snap checking at the 

route from airport to Expo 

Centre, highways, important 

roads, and at the entry and 

KARACHI: Rear 

Admiral Adnan Khaliq has 

taken over the Logistic 

Command of Pakistan 

Navy in an impressive appointed 

change of Command ceremony 

held at PN Dockyard. 

He took over the command 

from Rear Admiral 

Imran Ahmad. 

Rear Admiral Adnan 

Khaliq would now be 

Incharge of Logistic support 

to all PN Units, Ships, 

Establishments and repair/ 

exit points of the city. The 

deployment of Special 

Branch officials along with 

the officials from the police 

stations concerned at the 

places of stay of participants 

maintenance facilities of 

Pakistan Navy. 

A guard of honour was 

also presented to the newly 

Commander 

Logistics during the ceremony. 

Later, Commanding 

Officers of the units under 

Command were also introduced 

to Commander 

Logistics. The ceremony 

was attended by a large 

number of officers, 

civilians and sailors of 

Pakistan Navy. 

of IDEAS-2018. 

IGP Sindh directed to 

enhance the on-going targeted 

operations against criminal 

activities following the 

defense expo. 

He also ordered DIGPs of 

West and South zones to 

ensure that the SSPs concerned 

supervise the conduct 

of random snap checking, 

patrolling and picketing during 

the four days expo. 

The police chief asked the 

officers to deploy traffic cops 

at the alternative routes following 

the adopted strategy 

for traffic management during 

the defense expo. He said 

that citizens must be made 

aware of the alternative 

routes. 

Dr. Syed Kaleem Imam 

also ordered to put the 

reserve platoonsfor ensuring 

quick police response. 

44 held during 

Rear Admiral Adnan Khaliq takes search operation 

KARACHI: Karachi 

over as PN Commander Logistics police conducted a search 

NAVTTC constitutes private 

sector engagement cell 

KARACHI: National 

Vocational and Technical 

Training Commission ( 

NAVTTC) has established 

a dedicated private sector 

engagement cell at its headquarter 

in order to streamline 

the collaboration with 

the private sector. 

The cell, headed by the 

Executive Director of 

NAVTTC, would comprise 

of a director and four 

deputy directors, which is 

mandated to ensure proactive 

liaison with the private 

sector partners, said a press 

release on Monday. 

According to a notification 

on establishment of the 

engagement cell, it will 

help in advancing the cause 

of skill enhancement of the 

youth and would pave way Professional 

for the employability of the 

graduates of the technical 

and vocational education 

and training sector. 

An active role of the private 

sector in planning, 

designing and delivery of 

technical and vocational 

education and training is a 

prerequisite for producing 

skilled workforce according 

to the demands of the 

labor market. 

The newly established 

cell would work for better 

coordination through the 

private sector engagement 

for access to quality skills 

training through various 

modes including on-the-job 

training. 

NAVTC, being an apex 

body of the TVET sector in 

the country, has given 

prime importance to private 

sector which is essential to 

build a demand-driven 

TVET system in Pakistan 

for increasing youth 

employability and industrial 

productivity. 

It is pertinent to mention 

here that Federal Minister 

for Education and 

Training 

Shafqat Mahmood has 

already inaugurated the 

National Skills Forum, a 

joint forum of NAVTTC 

and Federation of Pakistan 

Chamber of Commerce and 

Industry (FPCCI), which 

comprise of representative 

from industries, private 

sector and public sector 

organizations. 

Veteran actor Habib's birth 

anniversary observed 

KARACHI: Fans are 

celebrating veteran actor 

Habibur Rehman's 87th 

birth anniversary on 

Monday. 

Habib was born in an 

agriculturist Arain family 

of Patialastate Punjab, 

British India. He was highly 

educated and was considered 

quite stylish in the 

film industry of Pakistan. 

KARACHI: View of preparation works for the 9th International Defence Exhibition and 

Seminar (IDEAS 2018) that will be held tomorrow, at Expo Centre. 

Rehman's family 

migrated to Pakistan at the 

time of partition in 1947. 

He married fellow film 

actress Naghma, but later 

separated and got divorced 

from her. Rehman is the 

father of two sons and four 

daughters from his first 

wife, and another daughter 

later from his second wife. 

He made his debut in 

film Lakhat-e-Jigar (1956), 

then some of his films 

flopped till Aadmi (1958). 

He received an important 

role in the film Aadmi 

(1958), breaking through 

obscurity and first became 

well known as a film actor, 

and soon took other roles in 

Urdu hit films such as 

Ayyaz (1960), Zehr-e-Ishq 

(1958), Surayya (1961), 

Saperan (1961), Aulad 

(1962), Mehtab, Maa Ke 

Aansoo, Khandan, 

Aashiyana (1964), Fashion, 

Dil Ke Tukrey, Basheera 

(1972), Eid Mubarak 

(1965), Dil Aur Duniya, 

Haar Geya Insaan and 

Waqt. 

He was not successful as 

a film producer. Pardes and 

Haar Gaya Insaan were 

average box office films. 

Some other films he had 

produced had flopped at the 

box office. 

He won Nigar Award for 

Best Actor- film Aadmi in 

1958 and in 1961 for 

Surayya as well. 

KARACHI: View of smoke rising after fire broke out incident, 

at Bahria Icon Tower. 

Two youth drown 

in Keenjhar Lake 

KARACHI: Two youth 

men drowned into 

Keenjhar Lake on Monday. 

According to rescue 

sources bodies of two 

drowned youth were 

recovered during a rescue 

operation from Keenjhar 

Lake on Monday. 

They said three young 

picnickers had drowned 

into the lake last evening. 

One of them was rescued 

by boatmen, while two 

others drowned whose 

bodies were recovered 

today. 

Keenjhar Lake has 

become a killer picnic spot 

for Karachiites due to lack 

of watch towers, lifeguards, 

speed rescue boats 

and emergency medical 

facilities. 

operation in the megacity 

and detained 44 accused. 

Police raided in Lyari, 

Machhar Colony, 

Taimoria, Shara e 

Noorjahan and Gulbahar 

and arrested 34 criminals 

and 10 drug peddlers 

including a lady drug seller. 

Police recovered 

stolen motorcycles, arms 

and drugs from the 

detained accused and 

began further probe. 

Hit and run 

vehicle kills 

a woman 

KARACHI: A hit and 

run vehicle killed a 

woman in Orangi area of 

the megacity on Monday. 

According to rescue 

sources a woman died 

after being hit by an 

unknown vehicle in 

Orangi Town area. The 

victim was identified as 

Shamshad, 35. 

The body was shifted 

to Abbasi Shaheed 

Hospital. 

KARACHI: Eating leafy 

greens, red vegetable, berry 

fruits and drinking orange 

juice may be linked with a 

lower risk of memory loss in 

men over time, according to 

a research conducted by an 

expert of Harvard T.H. Chan 

School of Public Health in 

Boston. 

The research looked at 

27,842 men with an average 

age of 51 who were all health 

professionals. Participants 

filled out questionnaires 

about how many servings of 

fruits, vegetables and other 

foods they had each day at 

KARACHI: View of traffic jam due to Anti encroachment operation in progress, at Burns road. 

Pollution spreading skin diseases, 

472000 cases reported in 7 months 

KARACHI: Growing 

pollution is resulting in 

spread of skin diseases, 

and the Sindh Institute of 

Skin Diseases Karachi 

alone has recorded 472830 

cases in past 7 months, 

said Justice Helpline 

President and KDA’s advisor 

on environment 

Nadeem A Shaikh. 

Talking to PPI, he said 

majority of the recorded 

skin diseases cases is from 

megacity Karachi. He said 

KARACHI: NAB 

Karachi in compliance to 

the orders of Chairman 

NAB of expediting the 

arrest of accused initiated 

the operation in Karachi 

Region. In lieu thereof 

today the Bureau arrested 

accused Muhammad Arif 

Khan, DDO (Shifting) 

KDA in reference No. 

56/20016. The accused also 

signed note sheets for illegal 

transfer of these residential 

plots on amenity 

area, despite the fact that 

initial allotment was based 

upon fake and managed 

documents and none of the 

original allottees had 

appeared before any of 

them. In the same capacity, 

the accused also signed 

transfer letter of these plots. 

The said accused in connivance 

with other accused 

persons are responsible for 

causing loss to the government 

exchequer to the tune 

of RS. 168,000,000/- by 

pollution, especially water 

and air pollution, has 

become a grave threat for 

the Karachiites. He said if 

remedial steps are not 

taken on war-footing in 

the coming ten years this 

megacity would not be fit 

for human living. 

He demanded for banning 

smoke-emitting public 

transport, and planting 

more and more trees. He 

asked for promoting urban 

forestry culture in 

creating plots on amenity 

areas and selling them to 

general public. 

The accused will on be 

Karachi. He suggested for 

extensive urban forestry 

on both side of Lyari 

Expressway over along 

with the Lyari Nadi 

stream. He said the same 

should be applied on the 

Malir Nadi and other rainfed 

streams of Malir, Bin 

Qasim, Karachi West and 

Gadap towns. 

He said the KDA would 

soon launch an aggressive 

tree plantation drive in the 

megacity. 

NAB Karachi arrested KDA officer 

involved in illegal land transfer cases 

produced before the 

Honourable Accountability 

Court for remand 27-11- 

2018. 

KARACHI: Dr. Ameer Shaikh, Police Chief for Karachi, Additional Inspector General 

Sind Police addressing Rotary Club's joint meeting His topic will be 'Improving Law & 

Order in Karachi with participation of Civil Society President Rotary Club South 

Saleem Kassim Patel,DIG Sharjeel kharal also seen on the occasion at local hotel. 

Taking leafy greens, red vegetable, berry fruits 

and orange juice may lessen memory loss 

the beginning of the study 

and then every four years for 

20 years. 

“One of the most important 

factors in this study is 

that we were able to research 

and track such a large group 

of men over a 20-year period 

of time, allowing for very 

telling results. Our studies 

provide further evidence 

dietary choices can be 

important to maintain your 

brain health,” said study 

author Changzheng Yuan, 

ScD, of Harvard T.H. Chan 

School of Public Health in 

Boston. 

Participants also took 

subjective tests of their 

thinking and memory skills 

at least four years before the 

end of the study, when they 

were an average age of 73. 

The test is designed to detect 

changes that people can 

notice in how well they are 

remembering things before 

those changes would be 

detected by objective cognitive 

tests. Changes in memory 

reported by the participants 

would be considered 

precursors to mild cognitive 

impairment. The questions 

included: “Do you have 

more trouble than usual 

remembering a short list of 

items, such as a shopping 

list?” and “Do you have 

more trouble than usual following 

a group conversation 

or a plot in a TV program 

due to your memory?” 

A total of 55% of the 

participants had good 

thinking and memory 

skills, 38% had moderate 

skills, and 7% had poor 

thinking and memory skills. 

The participants were divided 

into five groups based on 

their fruit and vegetable 

consumption. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC Malir, Jan Muhammad Baloch 

along with Municipal Commissioner, Safdar Ali Bhagio 

inspecting road carpeting. 

KARACHI: Chairman DMC East, Moid Anwar inspecting 

beautification work at Hassan Square.

Hazara Motorway to become fully 

operational for traffic next month 

Abbas 

MANSEHRA: The 

remaining 12-km underconstruction 

section of 

Hazara Motorway from 

Shah Maqsood 

Interchange to Havelian 

Interchange will be opened 

for traffic next month, said 

the National Highway 

Authority (NHA) on 

Monday. 

According to the NHA, 

after completion of this 

portion, the motorway 

would become fully operational 

and provide a modern 

six-lane road facility to 

the people of Havelian, 

Abbottabad, Mansehra and 

OCCUPIED SRINAGAR: 

A complete strike was 

observed in the occupied 

Kashmir on Monday 

against ongoing genocide 

of Kashmiris civilians by 

the Indian occupation army 

adjoining areas. 

The 47-km section of 

the Hassanabdal-Havelian 

Motorway from Burhan to 

in Shoopian and Palwama. 

The strike was observed 

on the call of Hurriyat 

leadership, which in its 

message said that during 

past few months more than 

400 Kashmiri civilians 

Shah Maqsood interchange 

was opened for 

traffic in December last 

year. 

The stretch of motorway 

from Havelian passes 

through Abbottabad, 

Mansehra and Shinkiari, 

Complete strike in occupied Kashmir on Hurriyat call 

LAHOR: Chief Minister Punjab 

Sardar Usman Buzdar on Monday 

said, every inch of the state land 

would be retrieved from powerful 

squatters and operation would not be 

conducted in katchi-abbadis and 

against poor people like daily wage 

earners. 

Presided over a high-level meeting 

in which progress on the ongoing 

operation against land grabbing and 

encroachments was reviewed, the 

chief minister said, feasible recommendations 

be formulated to best 

utilize such properties and a complete 

data and record also be compiled. 

He directed that removed 

encroachments must not be reestablished 

on the retrieved lands. 

He further directed that this operation 

should be continued with full 

vigor and made it clear that no 

leniency would be tolerated in action 

have been murdered by the 

Indian occupation army. 

They said during last three 

days 16 Kashmiri civilians 

have been killed. They criticized 

the silence of world 

community over the systematic 

genocide of the 

Kashmiris. 

On the occasion, funeral 

prayer of the Kashmiri 

martyrs was observed, 

attended by hundreds of 

thousands of Kashmiris. 

CM Punjab vows retrieval of state land 

HYDERABAD: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Hahaz Chairman Sanaan Qureshi on occasion of coming 

to attend Sindh High Court. 

7 human smugglers held: FIA 

LAHORE: FIA 

Faisalabad have arrested 

seven human smugglers/human 

traffickers human 

including two proclaimed 

offenders from various 

areas of Faisalabad and 

Sargodhadivisions during 

the last one week. 

According to FIA 

spokesman here on 

Monday, the arrested 

smugglers/agents 

were involved in defrauding 

people of heavy 

amounts on the pretext of 

sending them abroad for 

jobs. 

The accused are: 

Muhammad Ramazan, 

Muhammad Ashraf, 

Muhammad Yasin, Shabir 

Ahmad, Muhammad 

Mosa, Rashid Qamar Khan 

(PO) and Abid Rasheed 

(PO)Further investigation 

is underway. 

KP govt notifies members of provincial 

public safety commission 

PESHAWAR: The 

provincial government of 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwahas 

notified MPAs namely 

Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, 

Babar Saleem Swati, Mufti 

Ubaid ur Rehman, and Ms 

Shagufta Malik as members 

of the Provincial Public 

Safety Commission (PPSC) 

with immediate effect for a 

period of five years. 

They were duly nominated 

by the Speaker 

Provincial Assembly, 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as 

well as by the Leader of the 

Opposition, said a notification 

issued here by Home & 

TribalAffairs 

on Monday. 

against the big fish. "Districts showing 

best performance in this operation 

will be encouraged," he added. 

He directed that district-level 

anti-encroachment committees 

should regularly monitor the progressadding, 

he was regularly 

reviewing the progress. 

Chief minister was told in the 

briefing that as much as 84,000 acres 

land worth around Rs. 145 billionhad 

beenretrieved. 

Department 

'IAU' established for making capital 

police corruption free: IGP 

ISLAMABAD: In pursuance 

of the incumbent 

government's effort to root 

out corruption from the 

country, Islamabad Capital 

Territory (ICT) police has 

established an Internal 

Accountability Unit (IAU) 

to ensure transparency in its 

internal affairs, besides 

restoring public confidence 

in the police. 

Inspector General of 

Police (IGP) Islamabad 

Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar 

Khan Monday resolved that 

the capital police would be 

made corruption free force 

by advancing professional 

capabilities of its personnel 

and ordered to set up the 

IAU, immediately, a press 

release said. 

In the light of these 

orders, an IAU has been 

established in Central Police 

Office, Islamabad for which 

an instant Standing Order 

has also been issued. 

The IAU would report to 

the office of the Assistant 

Inspector General (AIG) of 

Police Operations, 

Islamabad, while one DSP 

as incharge and four inspectors 

as members of the unit 

would perform their duties 

under direct supervision of 

AIG Operations. Likewise, 

one team for all four respective 

zones of ICT comprising 

of one inspector, one 

sub-inspector and two constables 

had been appointed. 

The IAU had been established 

at central level to 

carry out internal accountability 

of the ICT police. The 

Primary purpose of IAU 

was to deal with complaints 

related to corrupt practices 

within policeworking. 

This unit would provide 

a foresight forum for expeditious 

disposal of complaints 

of the citizens and 

would also help restore public 

confidence in police. 

The main function of this 

IAU was to carry out discreet/fact-finding 

inquiries 

into complaints about corrupt 

practices, information 

and news/media reporting 

about corruption. The unit 

would also inquire into the 

allegations of misuse of 

ISLAMABAD: Men 

who follow a healthful diet 

could be protecting their 

brains, according to a new 

study that tracked a large 

group of men for more than 

2 decades. 

Leafy greens and red 

and orange vegetables correlated 

with reduced memory 

loss in a new study. 

Researchers from the 

Harvard T.H. Chan School 

of Public Health in Boston, 

MA, analyzed data from a 

study that had followed 

27,842 men for 26 years. 

The men had all filled in 

detailed surveys about their 

food and drink intake at the 

start of the study in 1986 

— when they were aged 51 

years, on average — and 

then every 4 years until 

2002. 

The follow-up lasted 

funds/vehi- 

until 2012, by which time 

their average age was in 

government 

cles/facilities. 

Rawalpindi solid 

waste achieves 

zero waste target 

in 10 UCS of city 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Rawalpindi Solid Waste 

Management Company 

(RSWMC) under its 20- 

day special cleanliness 

drive concluded on 

Monday, has achieved zero 

waste target in 10 Union 

Councils (UCs) of the city. 

The company launched 

the drive on November 5 

in 10 UCs under Clean 

and Green Punjab program 

and succeeded to 

remove 3990 tons solid 

waste which was shifted 

to Losar landfill site. 

The participants of an 

awareness workshop held 

here at Rawalpindi Arts 

Council (RAC) were 

informed that all out efforts 

were made to make 10 UCs 

of the city model localities. 

The workshop was 

attended by Member 

Provincial Assembly 

Memona Waheed, ADC, 

Finance and Planning 

Noseen Sarwar, MD 

RSWMC, Rizwan Ali Sher 

Dil, Shakeel Chohan, 

Nafees Iqbal, Deputy 

Director Social Welfare 

Nabila Malik, Chairman 

UC 26 Azhar Satti, 

Coordinator PP-17, Raja 

Nazakat and others. 

ending at Thakot. 

It will have five tunnels 

-two at Abbotabad, one 

each at Battal, Karmong 

and Mansehra. 

Minister of State for 

Communications Murad 

Saeed in a statement last 

month said that completion 

of the CPEC was the 

top most priority of the 

government. 

He said the CPEC was a 

highly important project in 

the history of the country 

and the government was 

responsible for ensuring 

provision of its benefits to 

common people. 

Farah Masood 

takes charge 

of MD PEF 

LAHORE: Dr. Farah 

Masood has today assumed 

the charge of the post of 

Managing Director of 

Punjab Education 

Foundation. She is a senior 

civil servant from 26th 

Common Training Program 

of Pakistan Administrative 

Service (PAS) with a vast 

managerial experience spanning 

well over two decades. 

She has served 

on different positions of 

importance including 

Commissioner Sahiwal, 

Secretary Labor and as 

District Coordination 

Officer. 

After assuming the 

charge of the post of MD 

PEF, Ms. Farah Masood was 

briefed by staff about working 

and expansion plans of 

the Foundation in a meeting 

held at the head office. 

While addressing the 

meeting, Farah Masood 

emphasized that it is satisfying 

that PEF has an important 

roleto uplift educationpromotion 

in the disfranchised 

segments of the society 

and to spread the light of 

knowledge in nook and corner 

of the province. 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Islamabad Traffic Police on 

Monday issued driving 

license to a member from 

transgender community in a 

first in the Federal capital. 

IG Islamabad M Amir 

Zulfiqar Khan handed over 

the license at his office to 

transgenderAli Laila, who is 

a leader of the transgender 

community. The document 

was issued after the applicant 

fulfilled allprocedural 

formalities including the 

practical driving test. 

During his interaction 

with Ali Laila, the IGP listened 

to the problems being 

faced by the transgender 

community and assured to 

resolve those on priority. 

the mid- to late-70s. 

During the last few 

years of the follow-up, 

they had also completed 

short tests to find out 

whether they had noticed 

any decline in their own 

ability to think and remember 

things. 

The analysis showed 

that consuming higher 

amounts of certain foods 

Kassar 


Retired and serving 

employees of Sindh Auqaf 

department have not been 

paid their salaries and pensions 

since last 6 months. 

In this regard welfare committee 

of retired Auqaf 

employees meeting was 

held under chair of Gul 

Hassan Memon which was 

attended by retired 

employees from 

Hyderabad, Larkana, 

Sukkur , Nawabshah, 


National 

Mirpurkhas, Thatta and 

other districts and briefed 

meeting about difficulties 

they were facing due to 

non payment of pension. 

Meeting expressed concern 

that despite directives 

of Supreme Court they 

were deprived of their 

right of pension. They told 

that due to non payment of 

utility bills of electricity 

and gas have been disconnected 

rather fines 

imposed. They said even 

they were unable to get 

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Auqaf Sindh retired, serving employees 

salaries not paid since 6 months 

JAMSHORO: The second 

semester (Morning/ 

Evening) regular and 

improver/ failure examinations 

2018 have commenced 

at University of 

Sindh, Jamshoro and it’s all 

campuses yesterday. All 

necessary arrangements 

including fool-proof security, 

transportation facility, 

issuance of admit cards and 

other infrastructural preparations 

have been put into 

place. Apart from that, a 

special team comprising 

senior faculty has also been 

formulated to check admit 

cards of the students before 

allowing them entrance to 

the examinations halls. 

Vice Chancellor Prof. 

Dr. Fateh Muhammad 

Burfat, visited various 

examination centers at 

Allama I.I. Kazi Campus 

Jamshoro and expressed 

and drinks was tied to 

lower risk of decline in 

memory and thinking 

skills. 

The foods that most 

strongly showed this effect 

were leafy greens, red and 

dark orange vegetables, 

berry fruits, and orange 

juice. 

The journal Neurology 

recently published a paper 

satisfaction over the 

arrangements made for 

smooth conduct of examinations 

in addition to 

improved security, transportation 

and availability of 

first aid. 

The Vice Chancellor 

visited Dr. M.A. Kazi 

Institute of Chemistry, 

Department of Economics, 

Department of Public 

A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , 

Department 

of 

Criminology, Department 

of Urdu, Department of 

Philosophy and Institute of 

Languages. 

Dr. Burfat advised students 

to focus on their studies 

leading to their future 

success. He also said that 

the university was trying its 

best to improve the functioning 

of the varsity. Dr. 

Burfat also issued instructions 

towards facilitating 

about the study and its 

findings. 

"Our studies," says first 

author Dr. Changzheng 

Yuan, who works in the 

school's departments of 

nutrition and epidemiology, 

"provide further evidence 

[that] dietary choices 

can be important to maintain 

your brain health." 

Subjective cognitive 

treatment of ftheir ailing 

family members which has 

cast death of few. It was 

told in meeting that even 

serving employees were 

also deprived of their 

salaries for last 6 months. 

They said their families 

were starving. They 

demanded from chief minister 

to order immediate 

payment of salaries and 

pensions to serving and 

retired employees of Auqaf 

department to save their 

families from starvation. 

Second semester 2018 examinations get 

under way amid tight security arrangements 

After receiving the driving 

license, Ali Laila was 

delighted and commented, 

"Today I am happy after getting 

the license. This development 

will pave way for 

other members of my community."In 

Pakistan, Khyber 

the students during examinations 

in every possible 

way, especially towards 

provision of all required 

amenities. 

Dr. Burfat advised students 

to focus on their studies 

leading to their future 

success. He also said that 

the university is trying its 

best to improve every 

aspect for betterment of 

students. Dr. Burfat also 

issued instructions for facilitating 

the students during 

examinations in every possible 

way. 

Incharge Dean Faculty 

of Natural Sciences Prof. 

Dr. Abdul Rasool Abbasi, 

Incharge Dean Faculty of 

Arts Prof. Dr. Rafique 

Ahmed Memon and 

Incharge Dean Faculty of 

Social Sciences Prof. Dr. 

Naghma Mangrio were also 

present on this occasion. 

First transgender gets driving 

license in federal capital 

Pakhtunkhwa government 

has already been issuing 

driving licenses to transgenders 

since March this year. 

Men who eat lots of fruits and vegetables have less memory loss 

function test 

The purpose of the subjective 

cognitive function 

(SCF) tests that the men 

completed was to discern 

changes in memory and 

thinking abilities that they 

had noticed themselves. 

The SCF test contains 

six items, and the study 

authors note that its "validity 

was supported by strong 

associations" with a gene 

that is linked to 

Alzheimer's disease. 

How coffee protects the 

brain 

This study reveals some 

of the mechanisms through 

which coffee helps stave 

off mental decline, 

Alzheimer's, and 

Parkinson's disease. 

The subjective test can 

uncover decline in memory 

and thinking skills before 

they begin to show up in 

objective tests.

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National 

LHC directs to end 

encroachments within 24 hours 

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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

EDITORIAL 

RULERS 'CONSTANTLY UNIQUE' IN FAILURES! 

Law enforcers embarrassed on civilian corruption: 

Army overpowers domestic crimes, terror, gangsterism 

SUCCESS of Pakistan Army, after civilian 

leaders seek its help after every critical 

civilian indiscipline and mismanagement 

along with failure of governmental and state 

administration in establishment of almost 

always worsening lawlessness and disorder situation 

had caused embarrassment for lowly displayed 

capabilities of elected public servants, 

and had earned constantly earned high praise 

and prayers of this deprived and oppressed 

nation for sacrificial performance and regular 

victories of Pakistan Army in setting right all 

that was the duty, function and responsibility of 

elected civilian leadership in federal government, 

Islamabad as well as in provincial capitals 

and cities, at the first place. After police failure 

with many dead and 17 policemen kidnapped, 

Army's victorious Shawal operation against 

strongly rooted dacoits and terrorists. That 

included the end of Chhotu Gang, all of whose 

members unconditionally surrendered, after 

Zarb e Ahan operation. 

QUESTIONS that now automatically arise in 

thinking or sane minds are endless: Should such 

incompetent civilian leaders who proved themselves 

to be "constantly unique with failures" in 

honoring a sacred trust of their voting public 

should continue to stick around in power? 

Should not the civilian leaders resign on 

grounds of incompetency in running state affairs 

to the satisfaction of their nation? Should not 

top leaders honorably retire forever from politics 

and taking part in elections on their record 

failures and after Panama Papers indicated their 

amassing of wealth offshore without paying due 

taxes, or holding their unaccounted holdings? 

Should not allegedly corrupt leaders step aside 

at least temporarily to facilitate impartial 

inquiry without power pressures on independent 

basis either at or under Supreme Court of 

Pakistan, or if that's not possible, at 

International Criminal Court under United 

Nations Organization? 

ANSWERS to above questions therefore are 

obvious: Reasonable and logical answers to all 

of above may well be in affirmative with a unanimous 

YES. From top to bottom, leadership 

doings as well as undoings in dealing with 

domestic affairs led to a crisis series almost 

always unresolved since past many decades 

under different governments. Illiteracy, unemployment, 

rocketing prices of essential goods 

and services, petty street theft to and armed and 

bank robberies, gangsterism and terrorism with 

murders, killings, suicidal blasts, and civil 

unrest was ripening and decaying into nothing 

upon political crackdowns. In the midst of corruption 

mounting upon Pakistani nation, lack of 

accountability without punishments went on, 

and so did massive protests for reforms against 

corruption and electoral fraud. It's already much 

late to resolve these basic issues at first. Many 

other crisis points get bigger than solutions as 

they arise out of not dealing forthrightly with 

these long standing needs of people for their 

constitutional rights and privileges which must 

be honored by top leaders as none is above and 

beyond law. 

ARMY Chief Raheel Sharif himself has 

declared that Army expresses its willingness and 

is ready to conduct across the board accountability. 

The COAS has reportedly sacked 13 military 

officers on corruption charges amid 

Panama papers uproar. It's up to politicians to 

follow suit after what may be considered as this 

open and clear signal of support for civilian 

judicial proceedings against corrupt political 

leaders proved to be robbers of national wealth 

with reference to Panama Papers. Reformers 

against corruption can seize this opportunity to 

go ahead against corruption accordingly. 

WHILE there's an uproar, protests, demonstrations 

and Inquiry or Probe Commissions and 

Committees established on Panama Papers fallout 

in many countries, with top leadership 

resigning or stepping aside, not much is happening 

in Pakistan, with ruling party PML-N's PM 

and some family members involved in offshore 

stashing of wealth tax-free. Opposition parties, 

many leaders or members of whom are also 

involved in the thick and thin of it all, are not 

enthusiastic to approach this corruption topic: 

Back to square one. 

CONFLICTS and civil strife are frightening 

for common people's morales, their rights to at 

least a hope for a peaceful and legitimate life 

and living. Especially if countrywide lawlessness 

of their own political and civilian law 

enforcing institutions become among main causes 

and sources of grievances, complains and 

tragedies of people who loose their lives and 

properties each hour and day round the year, 

every decade. Such was the case with police 

force against Chhotu Gang as police force, 

under service of politicians, low wages, indiscipline, 

irregular practices, lawlessness, etc. were 

unable to succeed in encounter with those 

dacoits and terrorists. However, calling Pakistan 

Army frequently to perform many such civilian 

duties of maintaining law and order for common 

people in cities and villages, urban and rural 

populations, may not be an honorable call by 

federal or provincial governments. Reason: 

Pakistan Army is distracted from its main duty 

of protecting its country, defenseless people, 

and national borders where all kinds of law 

breaking such as smuggling of narcotics, trafficking 

of terrorists, and anti-Pakistan military 

activities by enemies of Pakistan goes on daily, 

and which requires army's full attention, time, 

devotion and readiness for war, if necessary. 

PEACE is vital to control lawless crisis. 

While many governments are compelled to seek 

extra ordinary and exceptional help from their 

Army in extra ordinary and exceptional circumstances, 

such case cannot be considered as routine 

or normal event. It's embarrassing for ministry 

of interior with a long line of law enforcing 

agencies, departments and institutions in both 

public and private sectors to call in Army to do 

what they must do themselves as their own basic 

duties for which people are paying them taxes 

and expecting some protection of life and property 

of people. If people cannot have security of 

their own life and property, if people continue to 

face a series of crisis that unsettles and makes 

their life a hell, with terrorism, gangsterism, 

street sharlatans, immorality that threatens 

social fabric, then their paying up for peace does 

not make much sense. 

POLICE-REFORMS are a must. Police training 

and discipline, accountability and punishment 

within police force, still remains as important 

as ever. Recruitment without sufficient 

screening and background checks as well as 

continued police employment of opportunists, 

unqualified, lawbreakers or informers of criminals 

and gangsters who infiltrate into police 

force must be blocked. Presently serving police 

men with notorious performance of extortion 

and bribe taking with intimidation and without 

due process of law must be held accountable and 

dismissed. Potential and new duly qualified, 

honest and law abiding police force must be 

searched and recruited, the good cops who are 

still alive but were brutally eliminated by bad 

cops must be recalled with honors to continue 

their police service with due compensation, 

rights and privileges and authority. Strongly discouraged 

must be those many unwanted and disgraceful 

service of unfit, incompetent and corrupt 

policemen who must be eliminated from a 

present police force many of whom have dishonored 

and disgraced the good name and good 

service of police force. If these bad cops are not 

dismissed or retired from their defaming disservice, 

they will continue to make corrupt or 

eliminate presently working true and honest 

police men. That kind of practice by bad cops 

against good cops continue to remain on record 

as biggest of national police force tragedies that 

sadly happens every now and then. It's very 

important that police men are not under-paid 

and forced to take bribes. Their salaries must be 

increased so that police men do not become 

thieves, bribe takers or law breakers instead of 

becoming protectors of life and property of 

common people in their houses, offices markets 

and on streets ripe with crimes which were 

diminished considerably after Rangers operation 

with police force. Before majority of people 

were afraid to venture out of their homes unless 

extremely necessary: Individuals and families 

used to pray and recite Quranic verses for a safe 

journey and return back home safely and won't 

carry much cash or valuables lest especially 

their money and mobile phones are not robbed at 

gunpoint outside their home, on the streets, in 

the public transport and market places. Now 

they're a bit relaxed that security has improved 

due to recent operation. 

THEREFORE, and overall, engaging 

Pakistan Army in civilian affairs is not recommendable 

under normal conditions, except in 

exceptional cases like, as some political leaders 

suggested, to deal with Panama Papers, a 40 

years long world media investigative work 

revealing 11.5 million documents of corruption 

by leaders including scores of Pakistani politicians. 

A politician went to the extent of suggesting 

on television that army be given this special 

task to go into high offices, arrest top corrupt 

leaders, conduct trial, accountability and punishments 

etc. That it's better for Pakistan Army 

to clean national politics for national interests 

once and for always, so that army does not have 

to take over every now and then, due to treason 

of civilian leaders. And to give Pakistan a clean 

political arena without corruption which may be 

a great favor for Pakistani nation whose democratic 

protests and peaceful demonstrations, 

including Islamabad sit-ins on several occasions 

for national ideals towards reforms in elections 

and governments were defeated by brutal governmental 

force unconstitutionally. Or for army 

to be called exceptionally in emergency! 

LAHORE: Lahore High 

Court (LHC) on Monday 

Our Correspondent 

SHIKARPUR: A father 

of three kids gunned down 

at the house of his in-laws, 

situated at Latifabad 

Colony next to congested 

area of Haji Latif Shah, 

over alleged domestic issue, 

in the vicinity of Lakhi Gate 

Police Station, here on 

Monday. 

Imadad Ali Huliyo, the 

SHO aforesaid Police 

Station, told the reporters 

that at least six unknown 

armed assailants riding on 

has directed to end illegal 

settlements on Lahore’s 

three motorcycles stormed 

the house and opened 

straight fire on Ghulam 

Sarwar Soomro, a laborer 

by profession, over matrimonial 

issue and managed 

to flee from place of firing 

after committing heinous 

crime while assailants were 

believed to be Channa community 

persons, SHO 

informed the media men. 

Following on the information, 

area police moved 

the body of deceased to 

District Headquarters 

Mall Road, Shah Alam 

Market and adjoining 

A father of three shot dead 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Family stage play will be 

continued under auspices 

of Rawalpindi Arts 

Council till 30th 

November to provide neat 

and clean entertainment to 

the people of twin cities. 

On Monday a drama 

‘Crazy Family’ was staged 

at RAC auditorium which 

was written and directed 

Hospital Shikarpur for 

autopsy and handed over to 

his heirs after conducting 

necessary medical-legal 

formalities. 

The heirs of the 

deceased could not come to 

term with horrific attack. 

However, Lakhi Gate 

Police have launched a 

manhunt to arrest the 

assailants involved in murdering 

a labourer. 

A case was to be registered 

till filling of this 

news file. 

Stage plays to continue till 

30 November at RAC 

Garbage piles 

grow in Kotri 

KOTRI: Garbage hills are 

growing in Kotri, the home 

town of Water Commission 

Head due to negligence of 

local Municipal Committee, 

complain citizens. 

They said that residential 

and commercial areas of Kotri 

are untidy and many streets 

inundated with gutter water. 

They said the hometown of 

Water Commission Chief 

Justice (Retd) Amir Hani 

Muslim depicts a sorry picture, 

with piles of uncollected trash 

in almost all localities. Due to 

the blocked sewerage system 

streets are filled with sewage 

water. In Kotri’s old residential 

area Sheedi Muhala sewerage 

drains have been chocked for 

past two weeks resulting in 

growth of houseflies and mosquitoes. 

Malaria, dengue and 

other waterborne diseases are 

being reported in the town. 

LARKANA: Larkana 

Police started a drive on 

various roads of the city 

against vehicles having 

fancy number plates, 

tainted glasses and 

police lights. All illegal 

items were removed 

Vijay Kumar 

NAWABSHAH: On the call of Sindh Action 

Committee a protest held under the Leadership of Syed 

Jalal Shah against construction of new dams, abduction 

of political workers and settlement of out siders into 

sindh on sunday. 

The workers and their leaders gathered at siyal hotel 

near national high way road sakrand from where the 

rally started and finally reached at cinema choke 

sakrand. 

While talking to media, 

Syed Jalal Shah, Syed Zain Shah, Riaz Chandio and 

other nationalists leaders told that we reject the construction 

of dams over indus river because in this way 

the lands of sindh will be infertile and there will be deficiency 

of water so that no one will bear such kind of 

dams. 

They also said release all the political workers who 

are forcibly abducted if any one is involved in any crime 

or other activities then produce them in honourable court 

our struggle for the rights of Sindh is peaceful and we 

are against violence. 

Terrorism is getting raised in sindh due to settlement 

of bengali and other out siders. Out siders should be 

eliminated from sindh. 

by Rahat Ahmed Khan. 

Senior artists Masood 

Khawaja, Rahat Khan, 

Noor and other artists were 

included in the caste of the 

play. 

from the vehicles and 

challan issued to their 

owners. 

S.S.P Larkana 

Masood Ahmed Bangash 

said that traffic rules 

should be followed by 

every citizen. He said 

areas of Data Darbar with 

immediate effect. 

Hearing petition filed 

by a citizen against illegal 

encroachments, Justice Ali 

Akbar Qureshi has directed 

town administration to 

end encroachments within 

24 hours. 

As the hearing went 

underway, Lahore Deputy 

Commissioner (DC) Saleh 

Saeed appeared before the 

court. LHC ordered DC to 

launch indiscriminate 

antia-encroachment drive 

and implement orders of 

the court in true letter and 

spirits. 

LHC also directed DC 

to restore all roads in their 

primordial state. 

Four dead in Hub 

road accident 

HUB Four people died 

in road accident near Hub 

on Monday. 

Rescue sources said a 

passenger coach collided 

with a van at Hub near 

Gadani Turn. As a result 

four people died, whose 

bodies were shifted to hospital. 

Reckless driving was 

termed the cause of sad 

accident. 

JI supports due 

right to GB people 

LAHORE: Secretary 

General, Jamaat e Islami, 

Liaqat Baloch, has stressed 

upon the government to take 

necessary steps to remove 

the deprivations of the people 

of Gilgit and Baltistan. 

Addressing a seminar 

under the aegis of the Gilgit 

Baltistan Progressive Youth 

at a local college, he 

demanded that the Chief 

Minister of the area should 

be vested with powers. 

Besides, he said, the educational 

institutions including 

medical colleges and engineering 

universities should 

be set up. He called for 

increasing the quota of Gilgit 

and Baltistan students in the 

educational institutions of the 

Punjab. The JI Secretary 

General said that with suitable 

steps, the area of Gilgit 

and Baltistan could greatly 

help in the promotion of 

tourism and earn heavy foreign 

exchange. 

Action against fancy-number 

plates vehicles 

due to not following traffic 

rules accidents take 

place. He warned that 

strict action will be taken 

against citizens having 

fancy number plates, 

tainted glasses and 

police lights on their car. 

Sindh Action Committee 

held a protest


International 

5 

Iran nuclear chief slams 

unconstructive US approach to JCPOA 

Sussanne is my closest 

friend: Hrithik Roshan 

TEHRAN: Iran's nuclear 

chief has criticized the US 

administration's efforts to 

prevent the implementation 

of a multilateral nuclear 

agreement through exerting 

pressure on other countries 

to make them pursue 

Washington's policies vis-avis 

the deal. 

"This unconstructive US 

approach shows that this 

country, as a permanent 

member of the [United 

Nations] Security Council, 

is not committed to its international 

obligations," Head 

of the Atomic Energy 

Organization of Iran (AEOI) 

Ali Akbar Salehi said in an 

address to the third seminar 

on peaceful nuclear cooperation 

in the Belgian capital, 

Brussels, on Monday. 

The European Union 

hosted the AEOI chief at the 

seminar aimed at showing 

the bloc's continuing support 

for the deal, officially 

known as the Joint 

YALOVA, Turkey: 

Turkish police searched a 

remote villa in a coastal area 

southeast of Istanbul on 

Monday as part of the investigation 

into the killing last 

month of Saudi journalist 

Jamal Khashoggi, officials 

said. 

Authorities believe that 

one of the Saudi agents 

allegedly involved in the 

murder at the kingdom’s 

Istanbul consulate, Mansour 

Othman Abahussain, called 

the villa’s owner a day 

before the killing, the 

Istanbul chief prosecutor’s 

office said. 

Comprehensive Plan of 

Action (JCPOA), after the 

United States pulled out 

from it and reinstated sanctions 

against Iran. 

US President Donald 

Trump withdrew his country 

in May from the Iran nuclear 

deal, reached between Iran 

and six major powers -- the 

United States, Britain, 

France, Germany, Russia 

and China -- and decided to 

re-impose unilateral sanctions 

against Tehran. 

Under the deal, Tehran 

agreed to put limits on its 

nuclear program in 

exchange for the removal of 

nuclear-related sanctions. 

Earlier this month, the 

Trump administration 

announced the re-imposition 

of the “toughest” sanctions 

ever against Iran's banking 

and energy sectors with the 

aim of cutting off the country's 

oil sales and crucial 

exports. 

Afirst round ofAmerican 

sanctions took effect in 

August, targeting Iran's 

access to the US dollar, metals 

trading, coal, industrial 

software, and auto sector. 

The US administration 

The owner of the property 

is a Saudi national, 

Mohammed Ahmed 

Alfaozan, who had the 

codename “Ghozan”, it 

said. Two officials told 

Reuters that Alfaozan had 

purchased the property, near 

Yalova on the Sea of 

Marmara, around three 

years ago. 

The phone call was 

believed to be about the 

destruction or disappearance 

of the body parts, the 

prosecutor’s office said. 

Police used sniffer dogs 

to search the garden of the 

villa and the nearby wooded 

area, according to 

Reuters cameramen at the 

scene. Officials told 

Reuters last month that 

Khashoggi’s killers may 

have dumped his remains at 

hoped to get the other parties 

to the deal with Iran to likewise 

scrap the deal, but 

instead, they stressed that 

not only would they stick to 

the agreement, but they 

would also work to sustain it 

in the face of increased US 

pressure. 

Elsewhere in his address, 

Salehi underscored the irony 

that a permanent member of 

the Security Council criticizes 

the outcome of an 

international agreement, 

which has been endorsed by 

the same UN Council's 

Resolution 2231, and is violating 

its commitments 

about global peace and security. 

He once again reaffirmed 

Iran's commitment to continue 

and boost constructive 

interaction with the EU in 

the field of international 

nuclear cooperation, saying 

that this would be beneficial 

to Tehran and the 28-nation 

bloc as well as the entire 

a rural location near 

Yalova, which is a 90-km 

(55 mile) drive southeast of 

Istanbul. 

They had halted the 

search on Monday evening. 

international community. 

The Iranian nuclear chief 

also stressed the importance 

of adopting measures to 

allay regional and international 

concerns over peace 

and security in the world, 

particularly at the current 

insecure and chaotic situation 

that principles of multilateralism 

are being violated. 

Salehi then pointed to his 

meeting with Europe's 

Climate and Energy 

Commissioner Miguel Arias 

Canete in Brussels in 2016 

and said the two sides 

agreed to protect the JCPOA 

achievements on nuclear 

cooperation. 

Despite the US withdrawal 

from the landmark 

nuclear deal, Iran has not left 

the JCPOA yet, but stressed 

that the remaining signatories 

to the agreement have to 

work to offset the negative 

impacts of the US pullout 

for Iran if they wanted 

Tehran to remain in it. 

World powers meet 

Turkish police search villa outside in Geneva on Afghan 

reforms, peace prospects 

Istanbul in Khashoggi investigation K A B U L / G E N E VA : 

With little aid, Syria's Raqqa 

struggles to revive schools 

RAQQA, Syria: In the 

Syrian city of Raqqa, children 

wear hats, scarves 

and coats to guard against 

the winter cold as they 

struggle to catch up on 

years of lost learning in a 

classroom with no doors 

or glazed windows. 

More than a year since 

the United States and its 

allies defeated Islamic 

State at Raqqa, many of 

the city’s schools still look 

like battlefields with 

buildings left lying in rubble 

and playgrounds dotted 

with wrecked cars. 

“When the crisis started, 

we stopped studying, 

the schools closed. Now 

we’ve come back to study 

and we need help. Fix the 

windows, doors, we’re 

dying of cold,” said 12- 

year-old Abdullah al-Hilal 

at Uqba bin Nafie school. 

Islamic State, which 

turned Raqqa into the 

Syrian headquarters of its 

self-declared “caliphate”, 

kept schools shut as it 

tried to impose its ultraradical 

vision of Islam 

through its own education 

system. 

Indian police consult anthropologists on 

prospect of recovering dead American 

NEW DELHI: Indian 

police are working with 

anthropologists and psychologists 

to see if a plan 

can be forged to recover the 

body of an American missionary 

suspected to have 

been killed by an isolated 

tribe on a remote island, an 

officer said on Monday. 

John Allen Chau, 26, is 

believed to have been killed 

last week after traveling to 

North Sentinel - part of the 

Indian archipelago of 

Andaman and Nicobar in 

the Bay of Bengal - to try to 

convert the tribe to 

Christianity. 

The Sentinelese, generally 

considered the last pre- 

Neolithic tribe in the world, 

have violently resisted any 

contact with outsiders. The 

Indian government has for 

years placed the island offlimits 

to visitors to protect 

the tribe. 

“We are in constant 

touch with anthropologists 

and psychologists,” said 

Dependra Pathak, director 

general of police in the 

Andaman and Nicobar 

islands. 

“If they suggest any 

methodology to interact 

without disturbing them 

then we can draw (up a) 

strategy,” he said. “At this 

stage we don’t have any 

plan to confront our 

Sentinelese.” 

Chau, who described 

himself in social media 

posts as an adventurer and 

explorer, made several trips 

to the island by canoe on 

Nov. 15. 

He told fishermen who 

took him to the island a day 

later he would not be 

returning, Pathak said previously. 

Seven people who 

helped Chau reach the 

island have been arrested. 

Brazilian presidentelect 

adds fifth military 

man to cabinet 

RIO DE JANEIRO: 

Brazilian president-elect 

Jair Bolsonaro on Monday 

named retired General 

Carlos Alberto Dos Santos 

Cruz as his next government 

minister, adding a fifth 

military man to his cabinet. 

Right-wing politician 

Bolsonaro, a former army 

captain who surged to victory 

on a pledge to end years 

of corruption and rising violence, 

made the announcement 

in a Twitter post. 

Some Brazilians are concerned 

that the appointment 

of Dos Santos Cruz, who 

led United Nations peacekeepers 

in Haiti, and other 

current or former military 

officials marks a return to a 

militarized government. 

Bolsonaro takes office 

on Jan. 1. 

Seeking to defuse those 

concerns, Bolsonaro, a fan 

of the 1964-85 military dictatorship, 

has vowed to 

adhere to Brazil’s constitution 

and has moderated 

some of his more extreme 

views expressed during his 

nearly-three decades as a 

federal congressman. 

MOSCOW/KIEV: Russia on 

Monday ignored Western calls to 

release three Ukrainian naval 

ships and their crews it fired on 

and captured near Crimea at the 

weekend and accused Kiev of 

plotting with its Western allies to 

provoke a conflict. 

Ukraine in turn accused Russia 

of military aggression and put its 

armed forces on full combat alert, 

saying it reserved the right to 

defend itself. Ukrainian lawmakers 

were due to decide later on 

Monday whether to approve 

President Petro Poroshenko’s call 

to impose martial law in Ukraine 

for two months. 

With relations still raw after 

Russia’s 2014 annexation of 

Afghan leaders and international 

diplomats meet in 

Geneva on Tuesday to evaluate 

whether strategies and 

aid offered to Afghanistan 

are helping resolve the 

quagmire created by the 17- 

year war, paving way for the 

withdrawal of foreign 

troops. 

The two-day conference 

on Afghanistan, jointly 

hosted by the Afghan government 

and the United 

Nations comes at a time 

when U.S. President 

Donald Trump’s administration 

is actively seeking a 

peace deal with the Taliban. 

While no fresh financial 

commitments are expected, 

the conference will be a 

chance for donors to measure 

results against the $15.2 

billion committed for 

Afghanistan at the last funding 

meeting in Brussels in 

2016. 

“At least 60 percent of 

all the promises made by 

President Ghani at Brussels 

have been implemented. 

Discussions will be held 

regarding the challenges,” 

said Haroon Chakhansuri, 

President Ashraf Ghani’s 

spokesman. 

THE HAGUE/GENE- 

VA: The global chemical 

weapons agency will 

BOLLYWOOD: The 

announcement of Hrithik 

Roshan and Sussanne 

Khan’s split came as a 

shock to many, if not everyone. 

The two decided to go 

their separate ways after 14 

years of marriage, leaving 

fans heartbroken. 

As neither of them 

revealed the real reason for 

their breakup, many 

rumours began making 

rounds. Nonetheless, the 

pair managed to shut down 

all such speculations by 

remaining friends. 

Who says you have to be 

bitter with ex? Hrithik and 

ABU DHABI/DUBAI: 

The United Arab Emirates 

on Monday pardoned and 

released a British academic 

jailed for life on spying 

charges, granting a request 

for clemency after showing 

a video of him purportedly 

confessing to membership 

of the UK’s MI6 intelligence 

service. 

The case has strained 

ties between the long-time 

allies, leading London to 

issue a forceful diplomatic 

response after last week’s 

verdict was handed down, 

with a warning that it could 

hurt relations. 

The UAE president 

Sussanne didn’t allow their 

divorce to get in the way 

and are still pretty close. 

Sussanne even supported 

Hrithik through his feud 

with fellow actor Kangana 

Ranaut. From parties to 

vacations, the two have 

been spotted together on 

more than one occasion 

since their split in 2014. 

They still share a special 

bond and stick together as a 

family for their children, 

Hrehaan and Hridhaan. 

Recently, the Zindagi 

Na Milegi Dobara star 

posted a series of photos 

on his Instagram. The pictures 

featured Sussanne 

and their kids. “Here is 

Sussanne, my closest 

friend (also my ex wife) 

capturing a moment with 

me and our boys. A 

moment in itself,” read the 

caption. 

It continued, “It tells a 

story to our kids. That in a 

world separated by lines 

and ideas, it is still possible 

to be united. And that you 

can want different things as 

people and yet stay undivided. 

Here’s to a more 

united, tolerant, brave, 

open and loving world. It 

all starts at home.” 

UAE frees Briton sentenced 

to life as spy after pardon 

investigate an alleged gas 

attack in Syria’s Aleppo on 

Saturday that reportedly 

wounded up to 100 people, 

the head of the agency said 

on Monday. 

The Syrian government, 

which accused 

rebels of firing chlorine, 

asked the Organisation for 

the Prohibition of 

Chemical Weapons 

(OPCW) to send a factfinding 

mission to the city, 

Fernando Arias, the 

OPCW’s new head, said. 

Arias said the OPCW 

had asked the United 

Nations department of 

issued the pardon as part of 

a mass clemency of more 

than 700 prisoners to mark 

the country’s National Day, 

according to a statement on 

state news agency WAM. 

The pardon was effective 

immediately and 

Matthew Hedges, a 31- 

year-old doctoral student at 

Durham University held for 

more than six months, will 

be allowed to leave the 

country “once formalities 

are completed,” the statement 

said. 

A UAE official later said 

Hedges lad been freed. 

Chemical weapons agency to 

investigate alleged Aleppo attack 

Crimea from Ukraine and its 

backing for a pro-Moscow insurgency 

in eastern Ukraine, the crisis 

risks pushing the two countries 

towards a wider conflict and there 

were early signs it was reigniting 

Western calls for more sanctions 

on Moscow. 

Russia’s rouble currency weakened 

1.4 percent against the dollar 

in Moscow on Monday, its biggest 

one-day fall since Nov. 9, while 

Russian dollar-bonds fell. 

Markets are highly sensitive to 

anything that could trigger new 

Western sanctions, and therefore 

weaken the Russian economy. A 

fall in the price of oil — Russia’s 

biggest source of revenue — has 

made its economy more vulnerable. 

NATO called an emergency 

meeting with Ukraine on Monday 

after the alliance’s head Jens 

Stoltenberg held a phone call with 

security to say whether it 

was safe to deploy a team 

to Aleppo, where government 

forces two years ago 

ousted rebels from the last 

pocket of territory that 

they controlled. 

U.N. war crimes investigators, 

who have a standing 

mandate to examine all 

human rights violations 

committed in Syria, are 

also collecting information 

and asking sources for any 

evidence, a U.N. official in 

Geneva said. 

Russia ignores Western calls to free captured Ukrainian ships 

Poroshenko. He offered NATO’s 

“full support for Ukraine’s territorial 

integrity and sovereignty.” 

Ukraine is not a member of the 

U.S.-led alliance.

6 


Biz 

Pak-China express resolve to further 

strengthen cooperation and expand CPEC 

ISLAMABAD: Federal 

Minister for Planning, 

Development and Reforms 

Makhdum khusro Bakhtyar 

has said that attack on 

Chinese Consulate was a 

conspiracy to sabotage 

China Pakistan Economic 

Corridor (CPEC). 

The minister visited 

Chinese Embassy where he 

called on Ambassador Yao 

Jing and condemned the 

attack on Chinese Consulate 

in Karachi. Both sides 

expressed their resolve to 

further strengthen and 

expand Pak-China cooperation. 

Minister said “these 

detractors cannot change our 

resolve on this mega cooperation. 

Evil designs of these 

will have to face a clear 

defeat” 

He said that Pakistan and 

China bilateral relations are 

time-tested, as we have a 

long history of cordial, 

friendly and strategic cooperation 

in all areas and 

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Reform Makhdum Khusro 

Bakhtyar talking to Ambassador of China, Mr. Yao Jing, during his visit to Chinese Embassy. 

domains. The whole nation 

is standing in support of Pak 

planners and facilitators. 

Both side expressed their 

rorist attack against Chinese 

Consulate in Karachi. He 

China relations and the cooperation 

agreement to continue to appreciated the quick, 

in the shape of work together and firmly prompt and effective action 

CPEC. 

move forward with CPEC of Pakistan security and Law 

He assured that a thorough 

investigation is being 

by further strengthening and 

expanding its base. 

Enforcement Forces who 

sacrificed their lives to protect 

carried out to apprehend the Ambassador Yao Jing 

the Chinese Consulate. 

perpetrators their financiers, strongly condemned the ter- 

He said that the terrorist 

attack was an attempt to 

impact Pakistan China relations 

and to harm CPEC. 

He stressed that Pakistan- 

China brotherhood was clad 

in iron and such cowardly 

attacks could not affect it. 

Minister said that 

Government of Pakistan is 

fully committed to providing 

foolproof security to Chinese 

nationals in Pakistan and 

CPEC projects all across the 

country. The two countries 

will continue to cooperate to 

thwart the designs of hostile 

forces against their times' 

tested friendship. 

Both sides discussed 

progress on CPEC projects 

and preparation for the 

upcoming Joint Cooperation 

Committee Meeting, 

planned next month. 

Minister said that Pakistan 

attaches top priority to the 

promotion of social-economic 

development and 

industrial cooperation sectors 

as a focus for the apex 

bilateral forum of CPEC. 

CORPORATE CORNER 

Bankislami restores 

Electronic banking services 

KARACHI: BankIslami here on Monday announced to have 

restored and running absolutely secured its payment system. 

According to an official of the bank all its services could now 

be accessed and operated as usual including other banks' ATMs, 

internet banking and mobile App. 

It was, however, said Point of Sales (POS) services of the 

bank will be restored soon. 

"Our customers can now access all other banks' ATMs for Cash Withdrawal and 

BankIslami's nationwide ATM network for Funds Transfer (including IBFT), Utility 

and other Bill payments," said the official. 

Cash withdrawal via Biometrics was said to be available as perroutine. 

BISP, BMGF, Karandaz discuss 

implementing social sector development 

ISLAMABAD: Secretary BISP Omar Hamid Khan chairing a meeting with representatives 

of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Karandaz team at BISP secretariat. 

ISLAMABAD: Benazir 

Income Support Programme 

(BISP), Bill and Malinda 

Gates Foundation (BMGF) 

and Karandaz Monday discussed 

implementing social 

sector development in 

Pakistan. 

The meeting chaired by 

BISPSecretary Omar Hamid 

Khan was attended Michael 

Galway, Sr Program officer 

PakistanBMFG, CEO 

Karandaaz Ali Sarfaraz 

Karandaz along with his 

team, a press release said. 

The BISP secretary 

briefed the participants about 

the current programmes and 

new initiatives being undertaken 

by the BISP. BISP has 

been consistently engaged in 

graduation and nutrition 

related programs, and recently 

been approved by the 

prime minister to implement 

and expand the program to 

the national level, in next 

five years, he said. 

He said partnering 

BMGF through the platform 

of Karaandaz would definitely 

add value to the organizational 

assessment and 

defining diversified solution 

model for the BISP beneficiaries. 

Emphasizing the importance 

BISP database, secretary 

said the database has 

been developed on 25 major 

indicators and more than 80 

organizations are benefitted 

from this database. 

Terming the database 

"Pride of BISP", he said 

could be a key support 

towards infrastructure 

High gas price hinders 

indusrital growth: LCCI 

LAHORE: Uneven government had that industry of Punjab 

prices of gas and its announced implementation 

cannot compete in the 

unavailability is forcing 

of same industrial international market 

industrialists to import gas tariff across the when it has not a level 

raw material for the country and no discrimination 

playing field within the 

industrial sector is causing 

huge challenges for in gas supply but 

industry in Punjab still 

country. 

Likewise, he said, 

the export-oriented facing a lot of problems. very low gas pressure or 

industry therefore these “Government should its unavailability is also 

issues must be resolved ensure implementation hitting the industrial 

on priority. 

of same tariff of gas production hard and 

The LCCI Senior throughout the country”, 

exporters are unable to 

Vice President Khawaja 

Khawaja Shahzad fulfill their commit- 

Shahzad Nasir said that Nasir said and added ments. 

SAARC consultation meeting on small 

scale fisheries from Nov 27 to 29 

ISLAMABAD:Pakista production. Federal 

n Agriculture Research Minister for National Food 

Council (PARC) Security and Research, 

Aquaculture and Fisheries Sahibzada M Mehboob 

Program is organizing Sultan and PARC 

SAARC consultation Chairman Dr Yusuf Zafar, 

meeting on "Small Scale 

Fisheries In South Asia" 

which is going to be held 

here from November 27 to 

29. 

This consultation meeting 

will be beneficial for 

the development of fisheries 

sector in the country 

and knowledge dissemination 

about Asia's zone 

small fisheries production, 

a PARC press release 

Monday said. 

Fishery is an important 

sector of country's food 

will be the chief guest at 

the event. Other dignitaries 

from SAARC and different 

sector of food production 

will also participate in the 

meeting. 

support. 

The BMGF team 

informed that the BMGF 

launched its Gender Equality 

Strategy in November, 2017. 

Pakistan has been selected as 

one of the focus countries for 

3D Assessment entirely on 

the basis of BISP performance. 

The 3D Assessment aims 

to identify what makes the 

most difference to the economic 

empowerment of 

poor women participating in 

major social safety net program. 

It is intended to inform 

assessments of existing and 

proposed social protection 

programs by flagging areas 

that would be expected to 

enhance the results for 

women's economic empowerment, 

and those that may 

be barriers to change unless 

effectively addressed. 

Both parties shared the 

resolve to enter into long 

term partnership to bring 

change in the lives of BISP 

beneficiaries through 

women empowerment. 

Chinese consul 

general meets 

industry minister 

L A H O R E : C h i n e s e 

Consul General Long 

Dingbin and Provincial 

Trade and Industry 

Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal 

on Monday agreed to promote 

cooperation in different 

sectors along with 

establishment of industrial 

sectors and special economic 

zones. 

During their meeting 

here at the minister's 

office, the Consul General 

was briefed about investment 

opportunities and 

partnership with Chinese 

companies. 

On this occasion, Mian 

Aslam Iqbal said that 

Pakistan-China friendship 

was immortal and economic 

cooperation was being 

extended with every passing 

moment. 

Brazil keen to boost 

bilateral trade with 

Pakistan says Diplomat 

ISLAMABAD: Brazil is 

keen to boost bilateral trade 

with Pakistan as both countries 

have great potential to 

enhance trade in many items. 

This was said by 

Ambassador of Brazil 

,Claudio Gabaglia Lins while 

addressing business community 

at Islamabad Chamber 

of Commerce & Industry. 

The Deputy Head of Mission 

of Brazil Embassy also 

accompanied him. 

The Envoy said that new 

governments have taken over 

in Pakistan and Brazil and 

hoped that they would focus 

on further strengthening 

trade ties. He said that 

Pakistan was producing 

many products which had 

great demand in Brazil and 

stressed that Pakistani 

exporters should make more 

efforts to enhance exports 

with Brazil. He said the volume 

of existing exports from 

Pakistan to Brazil could be 

further enhanced with strong 

efforts. 

The Brazilian envoy said 

that many Pakistani products 

entering Europe were being 

resold to other countries 

including Brazil at higher 

prices and emphasized that 

Pakistani exporters should 

focus on promoting direct 

exports to achieve better 

results. He said that Brazil 

has great expertise in producing 

renewable energy as it 

was producing 65 percent of 

energy from water andwas 

using ethanol as biofuels. 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Resolving issues of business 

community is our responsibility. 

I am contesting the 

election with the sole passion 

of serving business community 

not to rule. We all have 

to plan for the growth of 

Country’s economy and people’s 

benefit said the presidential 

candidate of the 

BMP, former chief minister 

KARACHI: Abdul Razaq Dawood Advisor to Prime Minister for Commerce, Textile & 

Industries Production and Investment Inaugurating by Tape Cutting on The Landmark 

Occasion of 2 Million Vehicles Line-Off in Pakistan at Pak Suzuki Motors Karachi. 

Shaikhani says he would come to 

expectations of businessmen 

Abbas Kassar 


President Hyderabad 

Chamber of Small Traders 

and Small Industrialists 

Muhammad Farooq 

Shaikhani has said that it 

was honor for him that they 

have posed their confidence 

in my leadership and 

elected me on this post. He 

said he will try to come 

upto their expectations and 

would try to solve their 

problems and issues at 

every forum through mutual 

understanding and confidence. 

He was addressing 

reception in his honor by 

member executive committee 

and convener travel 

and tours sub committee of 

chamber Muhammad Idris 

Memon at Hyderabad Club 

last night. Earlier he welcomed 

guests office bearers 

of HCSTSI and presented 

traditional gifts to 

them and also assured them 

of his full cooperation. On 

this occasion former president 

of Hyderabad 

Chamber of Commerce 

and Industry Muhammad 

Amin Khatri, Haji 

Muhammad Yakoob, 

Muhammad Saleem Umer 

of Memon Motors, senior 

vice president Saleemddin 

Qureshi, vice president 

Arif Memon, members of 

executive committee Javed 

Qureshi , Sharif Punjani, 

Zulfiqar Farooqui, 

Rameezuddin, Abdul 

Saleem Arain, Jamshoro 

chamber of commerce and 

industry president Malik 

Iqbal Ghani, Hyderabad 

Site Association chairman 

Shahid Qaimkhani, former 

MPA Abdul Rehman 

Rajput, convener sub committee 

Younus Saeedi , 

Farhan Iqbal, Parvez 

Fahim Noorallah and 

ABAD’s Raja Raheel, 

Muhammad Kashif Shiakh 

and Kazi Aijaz were also 

present. 

KARACHI: A Group Photo Dinner in honour of S M Munir, Chief Petron UBG and former 

President FPCCI, Khalid Tawab, Senator Abdul Haseeb Khan, Hanif Gohar, Shaeen 

Ilyas Sarwana, Waseem Vohra,Arshad Jamal, Ms Aisha Bela Malik and other guest are 

also seen in the picture. 

Businessmen Panel struggles for resolving 

long awaited issues of business community 

However the UNISAME 

delegation led by its vice 

president Dr Shehzad Amin 

will further stress the need 

for the much needed friendly 

SME policies at the 3rd 

SME Conference at Lahore 

on 27th November organized 

by the Small and 

KARACHI: The Union 

of Small and Medium 

Enterprises (UNISAME) 

has demanded tax incentives 

and other facilities for 

small and medium enterprises 

In a statement, the 

UNISAME thanked Prime 

Minister (PM) Imran Khan 

for giving priority to SME 

Medium 

Development 

sector and directing 

strengthening of the sector 

at the Economic Advisory 

Council meeting. 

institutions. 

President 

Enterprises 

Authority 

(SMEDA) and other SME 

promotion and development 

UNISAME 

Zulfikar Thaver thanked 

SMEDA for providing platform 

and said the delegation 

will invite the attention of 

the policy makers present at 

the conference and highlight 

the requirements of the 

micro to medium sized sector 

and seek support from 

the stakeholders for friendly 

policies, priority for sector 

and a strong SMEDA. 

Listing the requirements 

of the majority under privileged 

sector he said the 

Balochistan Allauddin Marri 

while talking to delegations 

of various association and 

businessmen during their 

visit to BMP election office. 

BMP’s chairman Mian 

Anjum Nisar and senior vice 

chairman Mian Zahid 

Hussain said on the occasion 

that our struggle is to resolve 

the long awaited and critical 

issues of the traders, industrialists 

and investors which are 

being ignored by the so 

called ruling group of the 

FPCCI. 

In the backdrop of growing 

construction sector in the 

world marble exports have 

been increased but due to 

outdated extraction methods 

and lack of latest equipments, 

marble industry is 

underdeveloped, despite 

first is access to finance at 

affordable rates. He said 

uninterrupted energy and 

subsidy for alternate 

renewable energy should 

be given. The other 

requirements being technical 

support for up gradation 

and improving bench 

mark. 

Thaver said fall in 

exports is a major issue and 

requested for marketing 

support and urged setting 

up of the proposed SME 

availability of 50 types of 

marbles in the Country. 

More than 200 marble manufacturing 

units are operating 

on the half capacity causing 

the daily production loss 

of Rs. 27 million to the 

industry. Around 200 quarries 

are closed in the 

Baluchistan province owing 

to disputes among different 

clans. 

Tax incentives demanded for SMEs 

export promotion bureau 

without loss of time. The 

SMES need facilities for 

e_Commerce especially 

gateway for payments. 

Merchant accounts at nominal 

charges as this will 

increase exports. 

He emphasized the need 

for land at concession on 

pay as you earn scheme for 

SME investors to join 

CEPEC and attract collaborations 

and joint ventures 

with Chinese partners.

Yasir Shah's 10-wicket day leaves 

New Zealand with uphill battle 

LONDON: 

DUBAI: Yasir Shah's legspin 

defined the third day of the Dubai 

Test against New Zealand in a manner 

that would have made his childhood 

hero Shane Warne beam with 

pride. The Pakistan spinner became 

the first bowler since Anil Kumble, 

in 1999, to take ten wickets in a day, 

eight of them coming in a remarkable 

passage of play that sent New 

Zealand spiralling from 50 for no 

loss to 90 all out. New Zealand 

found respite in the follow-on 

through an unbroken 65-run thirdwicket 

partnership between Ross 

Taylor and Tom Latham. But all that 

did was make sure they could go 

into the fourth day without the 

match already being a lost cause. 

The harbinger of the remarkable 

day would be an over of pure sorcery 

from Yasir, which completely 

changed the tide of the match from 

a gritty, even contest to one that 

New Zealand are now resigned to 

battle for their lives in. He lay 

waste to a dogged opening partnership 

with a flurry of wickets that 

tore through New Zealand's middle 

order. The 50-run partnership 

between Raval and Latham had 

ended after Raval clumsily 

dragged the ball back onto the 

stumps off Yasir, but the real magic 

was yet to happen. In the penultimate 

over before lunch, the 

legspinner ripped through Latham, 

Ross Taylor and Henry Nicholls to 

DUBAI: A day after the 

Women's World T20 2018 concluded 

in the Caribbean with 

Australia beating England in the 

final, ICC confirmed it had submitted 

a bid for women's T20 

cricket to be included in the 

2022 Commonwealth Games 

that will take place in 

Birmingham, England. 

ICC chief executive David 

Richardson said the move 

would bring in several new fans 

and inspire more women to take 

up cricket. "We would like 

cricket to lead the way in the 

Commonwealth in inspiring 

more young girls to take up 

sport regardless of their background 

or culture," Richardson 

said. "Creating a new partnership 

between women's cricket 

and the Commonwealth Games 

leave New Zealand tottering at 63 

for 4 at the break. 

It began with the first ball of the 

over, when he drew Latham into a 

prod and Imam-ul-Haq scooped up 

a catch at short leg. That opened up 

demonstrates the commitment 

both organisations have to 

growing women's sport and 

delivering greater equality, fairness 

and opportunity in sport 

across the Commonwealth. 

"There's a saying that 'you 

can't be it if you can't see it' - 

imagine the impact of millions 

of young girls around the world 

watching women's cricket in the 

Commonwealth Games and 

being empowered with the 

knowledge that they too can 

play cricket, represent their 

country and compete on a global 

stage." The bid has been made 

in partnership with the ECB, 

and the possibility of cricket 

being part of the 

Commonwealth Games was 

welcomed by leading women 

cricketers. 

the opportunity to toy with the new 

batsmen; Taylor's second delivery 

was a ball that evoked memories of 

Shane Warne to Mike Gatting. It 

pitched around middle and leg 

before spinning past the dead bat 

PSL franchises want tax 

exemption before clearing dues 

LAHORE: In a bid to 

attain tax exemption, the 

franchises of Pakistan 

Super League (PSL) have 

not yet cleared their annual 

dues despite the issuance of 

invoice by the Pakistan 

Cricket Board (PCB), local 

media reported. 

According to the 

report, franchises are 

demanding for the exemptions 

of taxes from the 

fees, which the board is 

not willing to accept. 

The board had issued a 

deadline of November 14 

for the submission of the 

annual fee; however, not a 

single franchise followed 

it up. 

The report further stated 

that till date, only four franchises 

had deposited their 

bank guarantee while one 

franchise has deposited the 

half amount and asked the 

board that they will pay the 

players and the coaches on 

their own. 

The board responded 

against it and asked the 

franchise to follow the procedure. 

A source inside the 

board also revealed that a 

franchise has asked the 

board the return their bank 

guarantee, and has offered 

to deposit the complete fee 

in return, however, the PCB 

did not accept not accept 

that offer as well. 

PCB has an option to 

cash the bank guarantee if a 

franchise fails to deposit 

their fee by the end the 

deadline and in past it has 

been done as well. 

Currently, franchises 

have to pay 26% amount in 

taxes, where 16% of the 

amount goes to Punjab 

Government in shape of 

sales tax while the federal 

government takes remaining 

10% in the form of 

withholding tax. 

The franchises are 

demanding to give relaxation 

on taxes till they overcome 

their financial loses 

and, in this regard, and 

have also formed a twomember 

committee, which 

include Karachi Kings 

owner Salman Iqbal and 

Peshawar Zalmi’s Javed 

Afridi, who will meet the 

government officials in the 

coming days in order to get 

exemption from taxes. 

Ash Barty and Alex de Minaur share Newcombe Medal 

SYDNEY: Young guns Ashleigh 

Barty and Alex de Minaur have been 

named as joint winners of the 

Newcombe Medal on a historic night 

for Australian tennis. 

Judges were unable to split Barty 

and de Minaur after both enjoyed 

stellar seasons, ensuring Australian 

tennis' highest individual honour was 

shared for the first time in the award's 

nine-year history. 

Barty joins former US Open 

champion and French Open finalist 

Samantha Stosur (2010, 2011, 2012) 

as only the second multiple recipient 

after ending 2018 as Australia's highest-ranked 

player at No.15 in the 

world. 

Last year's Newcombe Medallist 

won the WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai, 

another singles title on grass in 

Nottingham as well as four doubles 

titles - including her maiden grand 

slam alongside American Coco 

Vandeweghe in New York. 

Barty amassed 46 singles wins for 

the season, reaching the Sydney final, 

semi-finals in Strasbourg, Montreal 

and Wuhan and making a career-best 

fourth-round run at the US Open in 

addition to her two title successes. 

De Minaur could not be denied 

either after being named the ATP's 

Newcomer of the Year following his 

meteoric rise from No.208 to a 

career-high 31st in the rankings in 

2018. 

The 19-year-old's breakout season 

began with runs to the Brisbane semifinals 

and Sydney final, which earned 

the teenager a Davis Cup debut, 

where he pushed then-world No.4 

Alexander Zverev to five sets. 

Taylor was offering to it to clatter 

into off stump. Nicholls' second 

delivery, too, was the stuff of nightmares, 

screaming through the gap 

between bat and pad to smash into 

middle stump. 

After lunch, Yasir sliced through 

the New Zealand innings like a hot 

knife through butter, finishing with 

the third-best figures in Pakistan's 

history. New Zealand could add just 

27 runs to their lunch tally of 63 for 

4, with Yasir responsible for four 

more wickets. He finished with 8 

for 41, giving Pakistan a monumental 

328-run lead, and made 

Pakistan's first-innings declaration 

look infinitely more prescient than it 

had yesterday. 

Kane Williamson had played a 

lone, forlorn hand at the other end, 

seemingly batting on a different 

pitch, but could do little about the 

carnage unfolding around him as 

his side lost 10 wickets for 40 runs 

to be bowled out for 90. With BJ 

Watling and the skipper himself 

being the last specialist batsmen at 

the crease as the second session 

commenced, how that partnership 

went was to be pivotal to New 

Zealand's hopes in the Test. Four 

balls after lunch, Watling was run 

out after a devastating mix-up 

with his captain, and even luck 

went Yasir's way as the ball he 

fumbled with went on to hit the 

stumps anyway. 

Smith and Warner 

help Aussie bowlers 

combat Kohli 

SYDNEY: Banned 

Steve Smith and David 

Warner won’t be playing 

any of Australia’s upcoming 

Tests against India, but 

they are being quietly 

eased back into the fold to 

help their bowlers combat 

Virat Kohli.. 

The duo, once national 

captain and vice-captain 

respectively, were suspended 

from state and 

international cricket for 12 

months over the ball-tampering 

scandal in South 

Africa. Despite a run of 

dire results, Cricket 

Australia last week ruled 

out relaxing their bans 

after a push to do so by the 

Australian Cricketers’ 

Association. 

But with batting maestro 

Kohli and dangerous 

opening pair Rohit 

Sharma and Shikhar 

Dhawan awaiting 

Australia in the first Test 

in Adelaide from 

December 6, they have 

been enlisted to help the 

pace attack prepare. 

ABU DHABI: Fernando 

Alonso has revealed that the 

“magic” donut gesture from 

Lewis Hamilton and 

Sebastian Vettel had not 

been planned. 

After the race in Abu 

Dhabi, possibly Alonso’s 

final race in Formula 1, he 

performed some donuts in 

his McLaren, in tandem 

with the two other World 

Champions. 

With 11 Drivers’ titles 

England captain Heather 

Knight felt there were many positives 

to the move. "It would 

mean a lot. There's always prestige 

around something like that," 

Knight said. "The women's 

game has gone from strength to 

strength, and this would be 

Somerset 

have confirmed the return 

of Pakistan batsman Azhar 

Ali as overseas player for 

the whole of the 2019 season. 

Azhar, 33, will be 

available to play a full part 

in the Specsavers 

Championship and the 

Royal London Cup. 

Azhar is currently 

Pakistan's leading active 

Test run-scorer, but he 

retired earlier this month 

from playing ODIs. With 

the 2019 summer dominated 

in part by the World 

Cup in England, and 

Pakistan only playing 

white-ball cricket between 

January and October, 

Azhar can throw himself 

into a full campaign at 

Taunton. 

"We are delighted to 

have secured a player of 

Azhar's quality and experience 

for the duration of the 

summer and having him 

available for all our 


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Specsavers County 

Championship and Royal 

London One-Day Cup fixtures 

fits our needs perfectly," 

Somerset's director of 

cricket, Andy Hurry, said. 

"Azhar fitted in seamlessly 

during his time with 

us towards the back end of 

the 2018 season. Knowing 

the positive impact that he 

will have both on and off 

the field, alongside his 

availability all summer 

were key factors in wanting 

to secure him. 

"Whilst he was here, he 

spent a lot of time working 

alongside the Second XI 

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Azhar Ali agrees 

Somerset return in 2019 

COLOMBO: Skipper 

Joe Root hailed England’s 

“complete team-effort” 

Monday after his team 

sealed a tense victory over 

Sri Lanka in the third and 

final Test to record their 

first overseas series sweep 

in 55 years. 

In the face of stubborn 

Sri Lankan resistance, 

spinners Jack Leach and 

Moeen Ali took four wickets 

each to set up the 42 

run win inside four days in 

Colombo. Needing 327 for 

an unlikely victory, Sri 

Lanka reached 284. 

Leach trapped captain 

another platform to show that." 

Australia captain Meg 

Lanning thought would have an 

added benefit too. "To have 

Suranga Lakmal lbw for 

11 to trigger celebrations 

for England who have not 

won all the games in an 

overseas series of three or 

more Tests since Ted 

Dexter’s side won 3-0 in 

New Zealand in 1963. 

It was the third time Sri 

Lanka have been whitewashed 

at home after India 

last year and Australia in 

2004. 

The third Test highlighted 

England’s pool of 

talent with Leach coming 

in as the third spinner with 

Ali and Adil Rashid, and 

Ben Foakes taking the 

cricket in there would be amazing," 

Lanning said. "It shows 

how far the game is coming It 

would give us another really big 

tournament to look forward to. 

The opportunity to win a gold 

medal at the Commonwealth 

Games would be great as an athlete." 

If the bid is successful, it 

would mark the second time that 

cricket has been part of the 

Commonwealth Games. The 

men had competed at 1998 

event, with South Africa beating 

Australia in the gold medal 

match. 

A report in The Guardian 

said there would be a presentation 

to the organising committee, 

and the Commonwealth 

Games Federation would then 

make the final decision, to be 

ratified by September 2019, 

players and giving them the 

benefit of his experience. 

That is exactly the sort of 

support you want from 

your overseas signing and I 

can't speak highly enough 

of him as a person." Azhar, 

a former captain of the oneday 

team, helped Pakistan 

lift the 2017 Champions 

Trophy in England. He has 

been a mainstay of the 

Test side since 2010, averaging 

close to 45 with 14 

hundreds. 

England claim landmark Test 

series sweep in Sri Lanka 

between them, they are the 

three best drivers of this 

generation, and they put on 

one last show for the crowd. 

Alonso said that the gesture 

from the pair was 

“magic” and he thanked 

them, saying he was privileged 

for his career. 

“The whole weekend 

has been amazing and the 

in-lap was not planned,” 

Alonso said. 

“I saw them doing 

donuts at Turn 8 and then I 

saw one car on the left and 

one car on the right and 

they kept going like this 

until the finish line. 

“It was a nice touch by 

them, so thank you 

Sebastian and thank you 

Lewis. 

“They are both great 

champions and I feel very 

privileged to race with 

them; it was a great race to 

be fighting with the Haas 

wicketkeeper’s gloves but 

also scoring big runs. 

“That’s been a big 

secret in our success — 

being able to bring different 

guys in, and pick a 

team that is going to take 

20 wickets and score 

enough runs to put teams 

under pressure,” said Root. 

“The experienced players 

have taken the extra 

responsibility. It’s been 

exceptional. It’s been a 

complete team effort, it’s 

been a great tour,” said 

Root, who has set the target 

of overtaking India as world 

number one Test team. 

Alonso: Hamilton, Vettel donuts were ‘magic’ 

drivers to the very end.” 

Despite everything having 

finished on Sunday 

evening, the Spaniard still 

needs some time to let it all 

sink in. 

“I think I need a couple 

of days to realize the whole 

weekend, because I have 

been very busy and I 

haven’t had five minutes for 

myself to think about it but 

it has been a very good 

weekend,” he added. 

ICC bids for Women's T20 cricket to be part of Commonwealth Games 2022 

while also elaborating on the 

process and the issue with West 

Indies, which is made up of several 

countries and cannot thus 

compete as 'West Indies'. 

"According to the submission, 

Edgbaston would be the 

primary venue for the eightteam 

competition, with county 

grounds at Worcester, 

Derbyshire and Leicester under 

consideration to serve as the 

secondary host during the group 

stages," the report said. "The 

top-eight ranked T20 sides 

would be granted qualification. 

The complication, as it was in 

1998, is West Indies, who represent 

several nations. It is understood 

they would be asked to 

nominate one country from the 

region to take part as an imperfect 

solution to the problem.

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Traders will not be left helpless in antiencroachments 

campaign: Mayor Karachi 

KARACHI: Mayor 

Karachi Wasim Akhtar has 

said that traders in Karachi 

will not be left helpless in 

anti-encroachments campaign 

as the Karachi 

Metropolitan Corporation 

(KMC) already halted auction 

of available shops in its 

marketsand those will now 

be allotted to affected traders 

through balloting procedure. 

He said this while talking 

to a delegation of Garden 

MarketAssociation and representatives 

of other marketsassociations 

who called on 

Mayor Karachi in his office 

on Monday, said a statement. 

He said that Sindh 

Minister for local government 

also coordinating and a 

committee is also working 

out for the relocation of 

affectees of this drive 

against encroachments 

under the chairmanship of 

the Commissioner Karachi. 

The Mayor said that 

KMC has also sent a summary 

to the Sindh 

Government for provision of 

land in each district of 

KARACHI: Anti encroachment operation in progress demolishing illegal encroachment 

during anti encroachment drive under the supervision of Karachi Municipal Corporation 

(KMC) over directions of Supreme Court of Pakistan orders, at Burns road. 

Karachi for construction of 

market and he is sure that 

this will be approved 

because all organizations are 

on one page and sympathetically 

considering provision 

of legal place to those 

traders who have been 

affected in this drive. 

He said removal of 

encroachments was being 

SUKKUR: Muttahida ‘Tahafuz Khatam-e- 

Majlis e Amal (MMA) Nabuwat million march’ 

President Maulana Fazalur-Rehman 

has said that the 

mandate of the PTI government 

is not genuine and the 

rulers do not represent the 

people. 

Addressing a mammoth 

staged by the MMA here 

Saturday night, he said the 

rulers do not believe in 

principles and ethics; for 

them people who tell lies 

and take U-turns of ‘leaders’. 

He said there is no real 

done on the clear directives 

of the Supreme Court of 

Pakistan that there would be 

no commercial activity on 

city parks, foot paths and 

drains. 

All city organizations 

including KMC and 

Government of Sindh are 

bound to implement these 

orders, he added.He said if 

democracy in Pakistan. He 

said we will not the rulers 

to make Pakistan a colony 

of America and the West. 

He said the apologies 

and explanations of Imran 

Khan are not sufficient neither 

acceptable. He charged 

that the puppets like Khan 

KMC or KDA had permitted 

any such activity then 

all that has been cancelled 

by the Supreme Court and 

we are working on alternative 

place to be provided to 

our tenants in KMC 

Markets, however no any 

construction will now be 

left on city parks, drains and 

pavements. 

MMA stages ‘million march’ in Sukkur: Rulers 

no more peoples’ representatives: Fazal 

In Italy, different sports were competed 

between refugees and Italian people 

In competition,teachers of CPIA Caltanissetta Sangiusto School 

and other political personnel participated in large numbers 

Ikramuddin 

SICILY: Different sports 

competitions were organized 

between immigrants 

and Italian citizens in Sicily 

italy. According to the 

details various sporting 

competitions among foreign 

refugees and Italian citizens 

were organized in the city of 

Sicily.Teachers of CPIA 

Caltanisstta Sangiusto 

school and other political 

members participated in 

large numbers.Participants 

from Pakistan, Afghanistan, 

Kashmir, Mauritius, 

Bangladesh, Romania, 

Nigeria, North and refugees 

from other countries have 

worn their own countries 

cultural dresses.The 

migrants flagged the flag of 

their own countries.On the 

occasion of arranged event, 

refugees living in Sicily said 

that Italy people and Sicily 

have given so much respect 

to the refugees and 

inshAllah settled refugees 

will always stand with italian 

people in time of sorrow 

and happiness.On this occasion,the 

political leaders of 

Sicily city expressed happiness 

for refugees and said 

that sports is very useful and 

important for health.On this 

occasion,refugees from all 

countries played their own 

national game in which they 

played table tennis, football, 

cricket and other sports. At 

the end of the 

program,Teachers of CPIA 

Caltanisstta Sangiusto 

school "Maria Rita Arenci, 

Vanna Di Mari, Lo Giudice 

Felice,and Sicily refugee 

camp director and other 

camp staff members appreciated 

the game of refugees 

and said that foreign immigrants 

living in Italy highlighted 

their country's name 

in the field of sports.Sicilybased 

refugees also appreciated 

the love of Italian citizens 

and other political and 

social personalities.After 

program end, guests and 

other participants were 

entertained with good food, 

political and social figures, 

guests and other refugees 

participated in the Sicily 

program thanked the staff 

and appreciated the food 

management. 

ISLAMABAD: Ch Fawad Hussain, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting cutting 

a cake on the occasion of 54th anniversary of Pakistan Television corporation. 

have no moral right to rule 

the country. He said 

Pakistan has virtually converted 

into a slave of international 

lenders. He said 

this nation would be independent 

when it is enabled 

to take its own decisions 

without any dictation. 

CM Buzdar 

condemns 

cruelties of Indian 

Army in IoK 

LAHORE: Punjab 

Chief Minister Sardar 

Usman Buzdar has strongly 

condemned the unabated 

cruelties of the 

Indianarmy in Occupied 

Kashmir. 

He also condemned the 

martyrdom of Kashmiri 

youth due to the firing of 

Indian armed force in 

Occupied Kashmir and 

extended heartfelt sympathies 

to the bereaved heirs. 

In a statement issued 

here on Monday, Chief 

Minister said that Indian 

army is continuously 

engaged in a spate of 

atrocities and barbarism in 

Occupied Kashmir and 

the international community 

should play its role to 

stop the monstrous actions 

of Indian armed forces. 

In fact, use of gun is no 

solution to any problem 

and India will have to sit 

on the table for dialogue 

by shunning its stubbornness 

he added. Durable 

peace cannot be maintained 

in the region by 

giving a right of selfdetermination 

to the 

Kashmiris. 

The Kashmiri people 

are writing the story of 

their struggle with their 

blood and Pakistan will 

continue all possible 

moral and diplomatic support 

to the Kashmiris, 

theChief Minister concluded. 

Anti-encroachment 

operation in 

full swing 

KARACHI: Operation 

against encroachers is in 

full swing by KMC and 

other agencies in different 

parts of the megacity. 

After getting Burns 

Road Food Street cleared 

from encroachments, the 

operation against 

encroachments is being 

conducted in nearby 

streets of Burns Road. 

Shops and other structures 

erected over footpaths 

are being demolished 

in the antiencroachment 

drive. 

The anti-encroachment 

drive is led by Syed Saifur-Rehman 

Metropolitan 

Commissioner (K.M.C). 

He says some 200 shops 

and structures on footpaths 

have already demolished. 

He said we are conducting 

operation on daily 

basis and will not leave a 

single encroachment in the 

megacity. 

Sikh Yatrees 

visit Gurdwara 

Darbar Sahib 

SIALKOT: Sikh Yatrees 

from different countries 

including US, Canada, UK 

and UAE visited Gurdwara 

Darbar Sahib Kartarpur- 

Narowal on Monday amid 

tight security. 

They performed rituals 

and refreshed their per-partition 

sweet memories. 

They also exchanged gifts 

with the local people. 

On this occasion, Sikh 

hailed the sincere efforts of 

the Pakistan government for 

ensuring religious freedom 

to minorities and safeguarding 

their worship places. 

They said that there 

was no doubt to say that 

Pakistan was a peaceful 

country and the people of 

Pakistan were also very 

peace-loving, saying that 

Pakistanis had given marvelous 

love, affection, 

care and unforgettable 

hospitality to the visiting 

Sikh pilgrims. 

K A R A C H I : 

Ambassador of France to 

Pakistan, Dr. Marc Barety 

called on Sindh Chief 

Minister Syed Murad Ali 

Shahand discussed different 

investment opportunities 

in the province. 

The chief minister said 

that the provincial government 

has decided to reconstruct 

the drainage system 

of the city, said a statement. 

"This system is very old 

and has either dilapidated 

our has capacity issues, 

therefore construction of 

the new one is need of 

hour," he said and asked the 

ambassador to engage 

French firms to work with 

provincial government on 

Public Private Partnership 

(PPP) mode. 

The ambassador said 

that the French were jointly 

financing Red Line BRT 

project and they would love 

1500 kg hashish seized in joint 

operation of Pak Navy, ANF 

MUMBAI: We got to 

see the usual quirky side of 

Ranveer Singh at a wedding 

party thrown by his 

sister in Mumbai recently. 

The actor has always won 

hearts by his charming and 

flamboyant personality, 

and he isn’t the one to turn 

away from the limelight. 

The newlyweds recently 

BALOCHISTAN: In a 

joint maritime operation in 

Ormara town in Gwadar 

District in Balochistan, the 

Pakistan Navy and the 

Pakistan Maritime 

Security Agency (PMSA) 

has captured approximately 

1500 kilograms of 

hashish worth millions of 

dollars. 

According to details 

provided by the spokesperson 

of Pak-Navy, the joint 

operation was conducted 

in the coordination with 

marked their presence at a 

party organised for them by 

Ranveer’s sister Ritika 

Bhavnani, which was attended 

by the couple’s close 

friends and family members. 

Ranveer introduced 

himself and his better half 

at the bash in an adorable 

fashion. He took to the 

stage and said, “Ladies and 

Anti Narcotics Force 

(ANF). The spokesperson 

also revealed that the 

seized drugs have been 

handed over to Anti 

Narcotics Force (ANF). 

Further investigation into 

the matter is underway. 

I married the most beautiful woman 

in the world: Ranveer Singh 

ISLAMABAD: Federal 

Minister for Climate 

Change Malik Amin 

Aslam Khan informed that 

Global Climate Fund 

(GCF) which provides 

finances for climate 

change mitigation projects 

has approved US$ 50 million 

for 'Zero Emission 

Metro' in Karachi. 

The project comes 

under Karachi Breech 

project whereas Global 

Climate Fund (GCF) that 

provides funds for climate 

change reduction and management 

projects all over 

the world has approved the 

finances for the Ecofriendly 

metroproject 

whose details would be 

shared later on, the minister 

added. 

While talking to media 

at a press conference here, 

he said the ministry of climate 

change (MOCC) had 

transgressed the 100 days 

agenda as if all the circles 

of development are completed 

then one can 

achieve set targets. 

Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf 

(PTI)'s 100 day agenda 

mainly focused on improving 

the course of direction 

and presented a plan 

before the nation about 

what to do for next 1800 

days. 

PTI's Vision regarding 

environment was very 

clear to implement various 

projects under environment 

change mitigation 

gentlemen, I married the 

most beautiful woman in 

the world. Guys, we are 

really happy to have you all 

together here, tonight. It is 

going to be an epic night. 

There are so many of you, 

all our lovers and friends. 

We are here to celebrate 

what is going to be an epic 

future… you and me.” 

GCF approved US$ 50 million for 

'Zero Emission Metro' in Karachi 

to invest in other projects. 

The projects which 

came under discussion 

were desalination plant, 

water supply system, agriculture, 

wind energy and 

grid system. 

The chief minister said 

that he has recently 

approved formation of 

`grid Company' so that 

renewable energy produced 

could be connected with 

the grid. 

"The French firms can 

work with us in the establishment 

of grid system," 

he offered. 

The ambassador assured 

the chief minister that he 

projects in the next 5 years 

whereas for the cause three 

mega projects have been 

formed including 10 

Billion Tree Tsunami 

(BTT), Clean Green 

Pakistan (CGP) and 

Recharge Pakistan (RCP), 

he added. 

"Project Cycle (PC-1) 

for 10 BTT project have 

been received by MOCC 

from all the provinces 

whereas it has reached far 

in terms of progress. 

However, the provinces 

would soon send their PC- 

1 for CGP project while 

RCP has been planned 

with the collaboration of 

China to control the outflow 

of huge amount of 

flood water. 

French envoy calls on Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah 

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah exchanging views with Mare 

Barety, Ambassador of France during meeting held at CM House. 

would invite state and private 

firms to work with 

Sindh government. 

The chief minister nominated 

chairman P&D 

Mohammad Waseem to 

coordinatewith French 

Embassy for moving forward 

in the investment 

assignment. 

Violence against women is a mark of shame on all societies: UN chief 

GENEVA: Violence against 

women and girls is not only a fundamental 

human rights issue but 

also a moral affront against them 

and a mark of shame on all societies, 

United Nations Secretary- 

General António Guterres has said, 

calling greater action by everyone 

around the world to root out the 

scourge. 

In a message on the International 

Day for the Elimination of Violence 

against Women, Mr. Guterres also 

underscored that such violence and 

abuse is a major obstacle to inclusive, 

equitable and sustainable 

development. 

“Not until the half of our population 

represented by women and girls 

can live free from fear, violence and 

everyday insecurity, can we truly 

say we live in a fair and equal 

world,” said the Secretary-General. 

The UN chief also noted that at 

its core, violence against women 

and girls is the manifestation of a 

profound lack of respect – a failure 

by men to recognize the inherent 

equality and dignity of women – 

and that it is tied to the broader 

issues of power and control in societies. 

“We live in a male-dominated 

society,” he said, adding that 

women are made vulnerable to violence 

through the multiple ways in 

which they are kept unequal, harming 

the individual and has farreaching 

consequences for families 

and society. 

The violence, he said, can take 

many forms: domestic attacks to 

trafficking, from sexual violence in 

conflict to child marriage, genital 

mutilation and femicide. Violence 

against women and girls is also a 

deeply political issue – Secretary- 

General Guterres 

In his message, the Secretary- 

General said that increasing public 

disclosure by women from all 

regions and all walks of life of the 

sexual harassment they faced is 

galvanizing power of women’s 

movements to drive action to eliminate 

harassment and violence 

everywhere. 

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