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4 Tuesday, November 27, 2018 National LHC directs to end encroachments within 24 hours KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989 messengerdaily@yahoo.com, editor@dailymessenger.com.pk Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Editor Special Reports: Muhammad Rafique Rajpar Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar - Islamabad Bureau Chief: Hameedullah Khan ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 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
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 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.
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