11 December 2018

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Street criminals in 

Karachi to be jailed 

for up to 7 years: 

CM Shah 

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Government steals 

our projects, tells lies 

to nation, Marriyum 

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Top Democrats say 

Trump may face 

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Nawaz spent 

Rs60m govt fund on 

medical treatment 

ISLAMABAD: A 

total of Rs60 million 

were spent from the 

national exchequer on 

the medical treatment of 

former prime minister 

and Pakistan Muslim 

League-Nawaz (PML- 

N) supremo Nawaz 

Sharif. 

Ministry of foreign 

affairs informed the 

National Assembly session 

in written that the 

former prime minister 

travelled to Britain on 

special airplane on May 

22, 2016 and the special 

aircraft returned to 

Pakistan on May 29, 

2016 due the medical 

treatment of Nawaz 

Sharif. 

Pak Army 

undergoes staff 

reshuffle 

ISLAMABAD: The 

Inter-Services Public 

Relations (ISPR), 

Pakistan Army s media 

wing, on Monday has 

announced a reshuffle 

amid the military s 

ranks. 

Accoridgn to the 

detaisl of ISPR about 

new appointments and 

transfers, Lieutenant 

General Majid Ehsan 

has been appointed as 

Corps commander 

Lahore. 

Kidnapped person 

found dead near 

Shikarpur 

SHIKARPUR: The 

body of a kidnapped person 

was found near 

Mian Sahib town on 

Monday. 

The kidnapped person, 

Muhammad Hanif 

Brohi, 35, a resident of 

village 

Nek 

Muhammad Brohi, was 

brutally tortured. He 

was found dead from a 

land situated near Mian 

Sahib town. 

KARACHI: The 

Banking Court on Monday 

extended the interim bail 

of Pakistan People’s Party 

(PPP) co-chairman Asif 

Ali Zardari and his sister 

MPA Faryal Talpur till 

December 21 in Rs35billion 

money laundering 

case. 

The banking court 

heard the case of mega 

KARACHI EDITION – Tuesday, December 11, 2018, Rabi-ul-Thani 3, 1440 

Banking Court extends 

interim bail of Zardari, sister 

KARACHI: Former President and Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali 

Zardari leaving the Banking Court after his hearing. 

LAHORE, December 

10 (Online): The 

Accountability Court (AC) 

on Monday has granted 

one-day transit bail to 

Leader of Opposition in 

National Assembly and 

Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N) president 

Shehbaz Sharif to attend 

the National Assembly session. 

The home department 

today produced Shehbaz 

Sharif before the 

Accountability Court, 

seeking his transit remand. 

A police team would escort 

Shehbaz to Islamabad 

money laundering. 

Zardari, Talpur and Nimar 

Majeed appeared before 

the court and submitted 

plea, seeking extension in 

interim bail. The court 

extended their bail till the 

21th December. 

Nimr is the son of Omni 

Group head Anwar 

Majeed. Anwar and his son 

Abdul Ghani are already in 

jail in this case involving 

at least Rs35 billion funneled 

through fake bank 

accounts at three local 

banks. 

Zardari and Talpur’s 

interim bail had expired 

Monday and they filed an 

extension appeal. The 

hearing was adjourned till 

the 21st December. 

Non-bailable arrest 

where he would attend 

National Assembly session. 

Shehbaz Sharif was 

sent to jail on judicial 

remand court had rejected 

NAB request for further 

extension in his physical 

custody in the previous 

hearing. 

Recently, NA Speaker 

Asad Qaiser had issued a 

production order of the 

PML-N president to enable 

the leader of the opposition 

to attend the upcoming 

session of the lower house 

of parliament starting from 

Monday. 

Sharif is accused of 

ordering the cancellation 

of award of contract of 

Ashiana-i-Iqbal to successful 

bidder Chaudhry 

Latif and Sons, and engineering 

the award of the 

contract to Lahore Casa 

Developers, a proxy group 

of Paragon City Private 

Limited, which resulted in 

the loss of approximately 

Rs193 million. 

He is also accused of 

directing the Punjab Land 

Development Company 

(PLDC) to assign the 

Ashiana-i-Iqbal project to 

the Lahore Development 

Authority (LDA), resulting 

in the award of contract to 

Lahore Casa Developers, 

causing a loss of Rs715m 

and the ultimate failure of 

the project. 

warrants have been issued 

for absconders in this case, 

Naseer Abdullah, Adnan 

Javed and Muhammad 

Ameer. 

The FIA is investigating 

32 people in relation to 

money laundering from 

fictitious accounts, including 

Zardari and Talpur. 

Zardari’s close aide 

Hussain Lawai was arrested 

in July in connection 

with the probe. 

The former president’s 

other close aide and Omni 

Group chairman Anwar 

Majeed and his son, Abdul 

Ghani, were arrested by 

the FIA in August. 

Over 20 ‘Benami’ 

accounts at some private 

banks were opened in 

2013, 2014 and 2015 from 

where transactions worth 

billions of rupees were 

made, according to 

sources. 

The amount, according 

to FIA sources, is said to 

be black money gathered 

from various kickbacks, 

commissions and bribes. 

AC approves one-day transit Make Pakistan 

remand for Shehbaz Sharif 

polio-free: PM 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

SHC summons Secy agriculture 

on sugarcane rate issue 

KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) 

on Monday summoned secretary of agriculture 

in personal capacity on next 

hearing on a petition against new support 

price of sugarcane. 

Sugar mills owners challenged the 

new support prices of sugarcane in the 

SHC. A two-member bench headed by 

Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar heard 

the petition and issued notices to Sindh 

cane commissioner and other respondents. 

The bench also rejected the 

request of sugar mill owners, seeking 

stay order for new support prices. 

The bench remarked that when sugar 

ISLAMABAD: Rana 

Amjad, the General Manager 

of Sahiwal-Multan Rental 

Power Project, became 

approver against former 

Prime Minister Raja Pervez 

Ashraf on Monday in the Rs 

22 billion Rental Power 

Projects (RPPs) case. 

The court has accepted 

National Accountability 

Bureau’s (NAB) request to 

include Amjad in witnesses 

list after evicting his name 

from the suspects. 

The co-suspect Amjad has 

denied all charges against 

him filed in the reference. 

On the other hand, the 

accountability watchdog has 

also decided to file interim 

reference against Ashraf. 

Accountability court’s 

judge Muhammad Bashir has 

directed NAB to file the reference 

until next hearing 

mills owner did not pay last year’s dues 

to growers, why they are seeking the 

stay order? 

The court remarked that what would 

happen if the same support price for sugarcane 

is set in Sindh and Punjab. 

The counsel of the sugar mills owners 

told the court that without listening 

to the stance of the sugar mill owner, 

Sindh government has fixed the new 

support prices. 

The sugar mills owners pleaded for 

overturning the Sindh government’s 

notification of the 7th December regarding 

new support price of sugarcane. 

Rental power reference: Accused project GM 

turns approver against Raja Pervez Ashraf 

scheduled on December 21. 

Ashraf, a Pakistan 

People’s Party (PPP) politician 

who served as premier 

between June 22, 2012 and 

March 25, 2013, is accused 

of receiving kickbacks and 

commissions from nine 

rental power project firms for 

awarding contracts for setting 

up their projects in 2008 

to overcome electricity crisis 

in the country. 

Minister Imran Khan has 

said that it is our national 

responsibility to eradicate 

polio from the country. 

PM said that nation 

should step forward in unison 

to make Pakistan 

polio-free. 

In his message on social 

networking site twitter, PM 

said, “As the nationwide 

campaign against polio 

begins across Pakistan, I 

call on the nation to step 

forward, take responsibility 

and make Pakistan 

polio-free,”. 

On the other hand, federal 

minister for information 

and broadcasting 

Fawad Chaudhry said that 

97 percent polio cases have 

been overcome and now 

the ultimate goal is yet to 

be achieved . 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Chairman Pakistan 

People’s Party (PPP) 

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has 

called the world community 

to move forward and 

play their role in protecting 

rights of every human 

being. 

In a message on the 

World Human Rights Day 

today, Bilawal Bhutto said 

that upholding human 

rights was the sole way 

this planet can have for the 

http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

PM Imran decides not to 

replace any minister 

MADINA: President 

Dr Arif Alvi reached 

Saudi Arabia on late 

Sunday night. 

He was received by 

Deputy Governor Prince 

Saud Bin Khalid Bin 

Faisal on arrival at the 

Madina Munawara 

Airport. 

According to media 

wing of the President 

House, President Dr Arif 

Alvi will perform Umrah 

during his stay in Saudi 

Arabia. 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

Minister Imran Khan on 

Monday decided that 

review meetings will be 

summoned to judge performance 

of all ministries 

and divisions every three 

months. 

The decision was made 

at a meeting of the federal 

cabinet, presided over by 

the prime minister, which 

reviewed performance of 

ministries. 

Reports from all the 

ministries and divisions 

were presented to the premier 

at the meeting. 

"Discussions on actions 

already taken in terms of 

service delivery, austerity 

measures adopted and 

future plans was held in 

each case with a view how 

to improve performance 

under each of these heads 

further," said a statement 

issued from the PM's office. 

"It was decided that each 

ministry would be further 

tasked with a specific strategic 

plan for implementation, 

spread over five years 

so that all concerned work 

in tandem for optimum output." 

The meeting decided 

that such review meetings 

would be held every three 

months to judge performance 

of the ministries and 

adopt mid-way course corrections, 

where required. 

The review meetings 

will also ensure overall performance 

of the government 

is on track — main 

aim of which is improving 

the quality of life of 

Pakistani citizens, the statement 

added. 

President Arif Alvi reaches Saudi Arabia 

KARACHI: Pakistan has 

lot of natural resources and 

with serious commitment 

and determination this 

country could be like 

Turkey and Malaysia if not 

better than them within span 

of five years only, the noted 

nuclear scientist Dr Abdul 

Qadeer Khan expressed 

while speaking at the inaugural 

session of four-day 

long Fourteenth Biennial 

Conference organized by 

the Pakistan Society for 

Biochemistry and 

Molecular Biology 

(PSBMB) and Dr A.Q. 

Khan Institute of 

Biotechnology and Genetic 

Engineering (KIBGE), 

University of Karachi. 

He was the chief guest of 

MADINA: President Dr. Arif Alvi being received by 

Deputy Governor of Madinah, Prince Saud bin Khalid bin 

Faisal on his arrival. 

With serious commitment, Pakistan can be like 

Turkey and Malaysia, believes Dr A Q Khan 

peace and prosperity. 

Bilawal said that puppet 

rulers and the despotic 

regimes were posing serious 

threats to the protection 

of the human rights. 

He further said that societies 

infested with human 

inequalities and low 

respect to human rights 

and only democratic order 

can save these rights. 

“Today the humanity is 

in core need of respect and 

recognition of their rights, 

the first day of conference 

on molecular biosciences. 

The renowned nuclear scientist 

and a metallurgical 

engineer, Dr A. Q. Khan 

informed the audience that it 

is always his pleasure to 

attend such informative 

events at the KU. “I am so 

proud to be a former student 

of this prestigious institution.” 

He observed that 

Pakistan has tremendous 

talent but unfortunately, the 

expertise of competent individuals 

and group of people 

are not utilized and talents 

are ignored as merit does 

not valued. “In Pakistan, we 

will get best persons in their 

respective fields we just 

need to properly use their 

Bilawal Bhutto calls the world 

to protect human rights 

which are being violated 

everywhere in the world, 

particularly in countries 

where the people are ruled 

over by authoritarians and 

or where the democracy is 

controlled,” he added. 

Chairman PPP said that 

his Party has always promoted 

and protected the 

human rights and its struggle 

for the cause has no 

match among any other 

political parties in the 

country. 

KARACHI: PPP Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari exchanges views with Sindh Minister 

for Agriculture, Mohammad Ismail Rahu during meeting held at Bilawal House. 

abilities.” 

Dr A. Q. Khan said that 

the country needs new 

dams but insist that countrymen 

and governments 

should also work on alternate 

options. “As we have 

learnt from history the 

mega projects were never 

completed on time due to 

which their construction 

cost always increases. As a 

nation we have to carefully 

use water at homes, industries 

and agricultural lands 

to reduce the water shortage 

issue.” 

He acknowledged the 

contribution of the Director 

General KIBGE KU Dr 

Abid Azhar and his team 

and said that KIBGE is 

moving in right directions. 

Making history, two 

ECP's members retire 

by draw method 

ISLAMABAD: For the 

first time in the history of 

Pakistan , the two members 

of Election 

Commission of Pakistan 

have been retired on 

through draw system. 

Using the draw method, 

Chief 

Election 

Commissioner Sardar 

Muhammad Raza 

announced the retirement 

of Shakeel Baluch, member 

from Baluchistan and 

Abdul Ghaffar Soomro 

from Sindh, while the 

remaining two members 

will complete their five 

year tenure. 

The remaining members 

are Irshad Qaiser 

from KP and Altaf Ibrahim 

from Punjab. 

The government and 

opposition will appoint 

two members on the vacant 

positions till January. 

The tenure of Election 

Commission of Pakistan is 

five years. 

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Tuesday, December 11, 2018 

Metropolitan 

Street criminals in Karachi to be 

jailed for up to 7 years: CM Shah 

K 

KARACHI: Sindh Chief 

Minister Murad Ali Shah, 

while chairing the 23rd session 

of the apex committee 

in Karachi, vowed to end the 

rampant street crime in the 

port city, for which he 

claimed legal reforms are 

being considered. 

As part of amendments 

to the law, the chief minister 

said, the cases of streets 

crimes would be heard by 

special magistrates under 

Section 30 of the Code of 

Criminal Procedure 

(CRPC), adding that those 

convicted will be handed 

prison sentences ranging 

from three to seven years. 

"We need to end the menace 

of street crime," CM 

Shah said, adding that all 

law enforcement agencies 

were working together on 

the issue. 

The 23rd meeting of the 

apex committee was attended 

by Karachi corps commander, 

Sindh chief secretary, 

director general (DG) 

Rangers, Sindh inspector 

KARACHI: On one 

hand small shops made 

over footpaths are being 

razed but on the other hand 

as many as 21 acres of the 

land of major hospital of 

the megacity, Jinnah 

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah presides over a meeting regarding 

Malir Expressway, held at CM House. 

general of police and other 

officials. 

Furthermore, the apex 

committee was apprised that 

Sindh Police and Rangers 

had conducted a security 

audit of the entire province. 

At this, CM Shah issued 

instructions to fix the weaknesses 

identified during the 

security audits. 

Postgraduate Medical 

Center (JPMC) has been 

illegally occupied but the 

government is not interested 

to get this hospital land 

vacated. 

Sources said land mafia 

had occupied the hospital 

land in 1973 in connivance 

with the corrupt government 

officials. In 1991 a 

survey of the hospital land 

was carried out which 

showed that some 850 people 

had occupied about 21 

acres of the hospital land. 

The occupiers of the hospital 

land include sitting and 

former JPMC employees, 

their relatives, cops and 

workers of political parties. 

Mostly the employees 

of the JPMC themselves 

are involved in this illegal 

act. Many of these 

employees have constructed 

multi-storied illegal 

The meeting was also 

informed that 62 buildings 

and other institutions in the 

province, previously named 

after Muttahida Qaumi 

Movement (MQM) founder 

Altaf Hussain, had been 

renamed. 

During the meeting, the 

implementation of the decisions 

taken in the previous 

structures on their allotted 

government quarters and 

given them on rent. The 

administration of the 

JPMC is helpless even to 

tame its own present and 

retired employees 

involved in land grabbing. 

The sources said that 

according to the survey 

the total area of the hospital 

is 75 acres and out this 

area, 21 acres are illegally 

occupied. The hospital 

administration wants to 

erect more wards and 

facilities on this land, but 

session were also reviewed. 

Sindh Chief Minister's 

Adviser on Information 

Murtaza Wahab on Monday 

refuted reports that the 

provincial governor had 

been removed from the apex 

committee. 

The 23rd session of the 

apex committee was held at 

the Sindh CM House earlier 

it is unable to get it vacated. 

It has written several 

letters to district management 

and law enforcing 

authorities to help them in 

getting vacated the hospital 

land, but no one is willing 

to take on the powerful 

land mafia. 

The JPMC is now 

transferred from the federal 

government to the government 

of Sindh, but the 

provincial government is 

also not serious to get the 

hospital land vacated from 

the grabbers. 

today and was attended by 

the chief secretary, corps 

commander Karachi, DG 

Rangers, IG Sindh and other 

officials. However, 

Governor Sindh Imran 

Ismail was not in attendance. 

In the past, the Sindh CM 

and governor used to cochair 

the apex committee 

meetings. 

Earlier reports had 

emerged that the Sindh governor 

had been removed 

from the apex committee. 

However, Ismail had said 

that he got no official notification 

in this regard. “If I 

have been removed from 

the apex committee then 

that is not a good thing,” he 

had said. 

However, speaking to the 

media after the apex committee 

meeting, Wahab said, 

“The notion that the governor 

Sindh has been removed 

from the committee is 

wrong. The governor is not a 

member of the apex committee 

and used to be called 

as a honourary member.” 

Pakistan Hindu 

No writ of law: 21 acres of JPMC hospital Council welcomes CJP 

visit to Tharparkar 

land under occupation 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

3 laborers die due to suffocation caused 

by generator smoke in a factory 

KARACHI: 3 laborers 

have died in a factory due 

to suffocation cased by 

generator smoke in the 

area of Shah Faisal Colony 

here. According to police 

due to prolonged load 

shedding and rain these 

three laborers slept in the 

factory at night with 

switching on gas generator. 

Early in the morning 

the other laborers reached 

the factory and they found 

them fainted. 

They were shifted to 

KARACHI: Relatives identify a dead body in mortuary 

their beloved in Jinnah hospital, three labors have died 

due to gas leakage in a factory at Shah Faisal Colony. 

hospital but they had 

already died. One of 

laborers has been identified 

as Raza. 

KARACHI: Allama Naqi Naqvi is addressing to the Majlis of death anniversary of Syed 

Tatheer Hussain Zaidi's wife Muneer Fatima Taqvi (late) at Imam Bargah Madina tul 

Ilm and Shabbar Zaidi & brothers presenting Souz Khuani. 

The 6-Day 2nd Festival of Arts and Ideas of 

Sindh Madressatul Islam University starts 

KARACHI: Sindh 

Madressatul Islam 

University’s 6-Day, `2nd 

Festival of Arts and Ideas` 

started from Monday, Dec 

10 in its premises. On its first 

day, the award winning documentaries 

and short films 

were screened at the auditorium 

of the university. This 

event was organized by Arts 

Society of SMIU. 

The second event of the 

day was a competition of 

documentaries and short 

films among the students of 

SMIU, which was held at the 

same venue, in which six 

documentaries and five short 

films were presented. 

Among these, three documentaries: 

Story of 

Amanullah by Syed Haider 

Rizvi, The life of a 

Karachians by Hamdan 

Brohi and Bhambhor by 

Syed Adeel, won first, second 

and third award. 

Likewise, the short films: 

Ugly by Nida Nayab, 

Zindagi ke Nishtar by Omar 

Wali and Laghan by Uzair 

Khan and Ms. Rahmeen, 

received first, second and 

third prize. Vlog competition 

among the students of SMIU 

was also held, which was 

organized by the Science 

Society. The jury was comprised 

of Mr. Maskwaith 

Ahsan, Mr. Fahamuddin 

Haqi and Mr. Saad Shakil. 

On this occasion Dr. 

Muhammad Ali Shaikh, 

Vice Chancellor of Sindh 

Madressatul Islam 

University, in his address 

appreciated creative and 

technical work, script writing 

skills and social consciousness 

of students of the university 

and said that he has 

impressed very much from 

direction and selection of 

subjects of documentaries 

and short films. 

PMA elects new 

office-bearers 

KARACHI: The elections 

of Pakistan Medical 

Association (Centre) were 

held during the 33rd PMA 

Biennial Medical Conference 

recently held in Peshawar. 

The process of elections 

was endorsed and declared by 

the General Body Meeting. 

Following candidates were 

declared successful: 

Dr. Ikram Ahmed Tunio 

(Larkana, Sindh) 

President 

Dr. Salma Aslam Kundi 

(Abbottabad, KPK) President 

Elect 

Dr. S.M.Qaisar Sajjad 

(Karachi, 

Sindh) 

Secretary General 

Dr. Qazi Muhammad 

Wasiq (Karachi, Sindh) 

Treasurer 

Dr. Amir Saleem (Kasur, 

Punjab) 

Joint 

Secretary - I 

Dr. Saeed Ahmed (Quetta, 

Balochistan) Joint 

Secretary - II 

KARACHI: In compliance 

with the direction 

of Chairman NAB 

and NAB’s motto “Our 

Faith, Corruption Free 

Pakistan” NAB Karachi 

has arrested (today) one 

accused person Abdul 

Hafeez Rahooja S/o 

Noor Ahmed Rahooja, 

Hindu Council, has welcomed 

the proposed visit of 

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar to 

Tharparkar. 

In its general body meeting, 

which was attended by 

Patron-in-chief Dr Ramesh 

Kumar Vankwani, 

President Gopal Khamuani, 

Vice President Raja 

Bhawan Lohana and other 

representatives across the 

country. 

President Gopal 

Khamuani, while exchanging 

his views, showed grief 

on the increased number of 

forced conversion incidents. 

According to him, 

such incidents are resulting 

in raising sense of insecurity 

among patriotic Hindu 

community. 

On the occasion, Dr 

Ramesh Vankwani 

informed that the Hindu 

Marriage Act has been successfully 

passed in the 

Parliament. "Now, it is time 

to boost our struggle for the 

implementation," he said. 

The issue of Evacuee 

Trust Property Board 

(ETBP) also came under 

discussion. Dr Ramesh 

Kumar Vankwani, in his 

address, told that there are 

as many 1122 Hindu temples, 

527 Gurdwaras and 

other religious places which 

come under the board. 

The participants, in a 

resolution, demanded to 

appoint Chairman ETPB 

from Hindu community. On 

the occasion, Bait-ul-Maal 

was also asked to ensure 

continuing healthcare support 

to deserving poor 

Hindu patients from the 

Zakat donations. 

NAB Karachi arrests accused in 

embezzlement of Rs.60 million 

Auditor, Education 

Department Thatta, 

Govt. of Sindh. 

The said accused in 

connivance with other 

officials of education 

department embezzled 

amount worth Rs.60million 

(approx) in adjustment 

of salaries / 

allowances in education 

department District 

Thatta. 

The accused will be 

produced before the 

H o n o u r a b l e 

Accountability Court for 

remand on 11-12-2018. 

CNS inaugurates new PMSA’s 

base at Keti Bandar 

A R A C H I : 

Inauguration ceremony of 

newly established Pakistan 

Maritime Security Agency 

(PMSA) Base at Keti 

Bandar was held today. 

Chief of the Naval Staff 

Admiral Zafar Mahmood 

Abbasi graced the occasion 

as Chief Guest. 

Upon arrival, Chief of the 

Naval Staff was received by 

Director General Pakistan 

Maritime Security Agency 

Rear Admiral Zaka ur 

Rehman. Later, the Chief 

Guest was given briefing on 

the Mission, Roles, Tasks 

and Operational Challenges 

of PMSA Base Keti Bandar. 

Chief Guest visited the base 

and appreciated the efforts 

of PMSA in establishing 

KARACHI: Skilled manpower 

is a major requirement 

to meet the current 

challenges of our economic 

development targets, population 

increase should not be 

treated as an important issue 

because China which is 

number one country of the 

world on populations basis 

has achieved tremendous 

economic development in 

current history through its 

highly skilled manpower is 

also now in need of more 

such peoples. These views 

were expressed by industry 

and academia experts at a 

seminar on “Current 

Challenges Facing Pakistan 

Economy” which was organized 

by Finance & 

Economics department, 

Mohammad Ali Jinnah 

University, (MAJU) Karachi 

last evening. Those who 

addressed to the seminar 

were included M.D. Indus 

Pharma and Vice President, 

FPCCI, Zahid Saeed, 

Karachi University Professor 

Dr. Noreen Mujahid, 

Director, R & D, FPCCI, Dr. 

Muhammad Bilal, Associate 

Dean, Business 

Administration & Social 

Sciences, MAJU Dr. Shujaat 

Mubarak and Assistant 

Professor, MAJU Dr. 

new Coastal Bases. 

Keti Bandar has a small 

population mainly dependant 

on fishing. PMSA Base 

will keep Area of 

Responsibility under effective 

surveillance through 

regular patrolling and prevent 

unauthorized exploitation 

of resources. PMSA 

Base Keti Bandar will help 

fishermen with Search & 

Rescue operations as well as 

facilitate registration of fishing 

boats and assistance to 

public. PMSA has recently 

launched a mobile application 

called “Assistance, 

Anytime, Anywhere at Sea 

(AAAS)” to facilitate maritime 

communities operating 

in Pakistan’s territorial 

waters. 

Rizwanul Hassan. Veteran 

T.V. anchor and faculty 

member, MAJU Ali Nasir 

was the host of this event. 

Addressing to the seminar on 

Economics Challenges 

Facing Pakistan Economy as 

Chief Guest, Zahid Saeed 

said that Pakistan is a country 

which is enriched with 

national resources, manpower 

is our biggest capital but 

unluckily we have not taken 

advantage of our this force. 

He said that until we will 

continue to higher foreign 

experts for the exploration of 

our coal, gold, copper mines 

and oil & gas wells in our 

country by ignoring development 

of our own workforce, 

we will not be able to 

achieve our goals of economic 

development and 

prosperity. He said that 

Pakistan is fourth largest 

exporter of live stock in the 

world, number sixth in lather 

export and despite a cotton 

grower country our readymade 

garments is on continuous 

decline. He asked the 

government to take appropriate 

measure to boost up 

exports of all these three sectors. 

Prof.,Karachi 

University, Noreen Mujahid 

asked the government to 

give priority to take full 

PMSA is the sole 

Maritime Law Enforcement 

Agency in Pakistan which 

has the responsibility to regulate 

the maritime affairs of 

a vast area covering approximately 

295,000 Square 

Kilometers, stretching coastline 

over 1000 Kilometers 

from Sir Creek in the East to 

Gwatar Bay in the West . 

PMSA is committed to prevent 

use of Pakistani waters 

for any unlawful purposes 

and will continue to shoulder 

its national obligation 

and responsibility to establish 

lawful order at sea. 

The event was attended 

by local MNA, DG PMSA, 

Flag Officers, Senior 

Officials of Pakistan Navy 

and civil notables. 

SEMINAR ON CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING 

PAKISTAN ECONOMY AT M.A.JINNAH UNIVERSITY 

Skilled manpower is vital to meet the 

challenge of national development 

KARACHI: Business and academia experts (R To L) Dr. Rizwan ul Hassan, Zahid Saeed, 

Prof. Noreen Mujahid, Dr. M. Bilal, Dr. Shujaat Mubarak Ali Nasir addressing to seminar 

on Current Challenges Faced Pakistan Economy which was organized by Finance & 

Economics department, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi last evening. 

Staff Reporter 

KARACHI: The British 

High Commission held the 

first semi-final event of its 

fourth annual GREAT 

Debate competition at the 

Sir Syed University of 

Engineering and 

Technology (SSUET) in 

Karachi. 

The competition featured 

students from sixteen 

universities in Karachi and 

was attended by senior 

members of academia and 

the media. At the end of an 

intense competition, Abdul 

Rafey from Tabani’s 

School of Accountancy was 

the winner while 

Muhammad Ammar 

Abbasi was the runner-up. 

The GREAT Debate 

competition will take place 

from December 2018 to 

February 2019 in five cities 

across Pakistan. Building 

from the success of the competition 

in the previous three 

years, this year’s debating 

events have expanded to 

include an event in Quetta. 

The British Deputy High 

Commissioner Karachi and 

Trade Director for Pakistan 

Ms Elin Burns said, “in the 

last three years, through the 

GREAT Debate we have 

engaged thousands of students 

in universities and colleges 

across nine cities in 

Pakistan. The ability to 

debate and discuss ideas and 

challenges is important, and 

I’ve been privileged to see 

advantage of our available 

natural resources, to maintain 

financial discipline, to 

bridge gap between import 

and export, to keep an eye on 

internal and external forces, 

to control trade deficit, to 

increase investment and to 

resolve social issues to meet 

the challenges facing 

Pakistan economy presently. 

Director, R & D, FPCCI, Dr. 

Mohammad Bilal emphasized 

to adopt Chine’s model 

for economic development 

where every trees, roads and 

people seems standing very 

straight and have 500 billionaires 

businessman. He urged 

proper utilization of the 

youths for national development 

which are 65 % of our 

population. Associate Dean, 

MAJU Dr. Shujaat Mubarak 

asked the government to 

chalk out a comprehensive 

policy for youth to meet the 

shortage of skilled manpower 

in the country. He said that 

it is our national responsibility 

to provide education and 

training to our youths keeping 

in mind their capabilities. 

He said that optimistic 

nations never achieves their 

goals of developments, it 

requires continuous struggle 

and not to keep eye on 

immediate results. 

British High Commission organizes 

Great Debate in Karachi 

the quality and enthusiasm 

of this year’s competitors 

who represent the talent and 

potential of Pakistan’s 

young people. 

“The themes for this 

year’s GREAT Debate competition 

are trade, innovation 

and business which are 

so important for the UK and 

Pakistan. Moving forward 

we would like to see trade 

continue to increase 

between our two countries 

and an exchange of ideas 

between our people that can 

benefit both countries.


National 

3 

Government steals our projects, tells 

lies to nation, Marriyum Aurangzeb 

ISLAMABAD: Muslim 

League spokesperson 

Marriyum Aurangzeb 

lamented at PTI government, 

saying the real problem 

of the incumbent government 

was telling lies, 

which in turn evaporating 

the consecration of its 

actions. 

While talking to media 

on Monday , the former 

information minister 

alleged that Pakistan 

Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government 

was stealing the 

previous PML_N government 

projects by back to 

back inauguration ceremonies 

on the old projects. 

Speaking to media persons 

outside the 

Accountability Court she 

said “Prime Minister Imran 

Khan stolen the anti-money 

laundering agreements 

signed by former PML_N 

finance minister Ishaq Dar 

and credited himself with 

them”. She went on lamenting 

and said these people 

(the government) should be 

ashamed even they will not 

make any apology. 

Commissioner opens anti polio drive 

by administering drops to children 

Abbas Kassar 

H Y D E R A B A D : 

Commissioner Hyderabad 

Muhammad Abbas Baloch 

inaugurated 3 days anti 

polio drive by administering 

drops to children at 

Shah Latif Bhitai hospital 

at Latifabad on 

Monday.On this occasion 

Additional Deputy 

Commissioner-1 Ali 

Muhammad Babar, ADC- 

II Muhammad Tahir, DHO 

Dr. Nasrin Memon and Dr. 

Masood Jafri focal person 

of anti polio campaign, 

representatives of UNICEF 

and WHO were present. 

Dr. Jafri told that this campaign 

would continue from 

10 to 13 December during 

which 336695 children of 

the age of 5 and below 

would be given anti polio 

drops throughout all 4 

Talukas of district. He said 

for this purpose 992 mobile 

teams, 117 fixed points, 23 

transit points and 67 health 

facilities centers have been 

formed for 54 union councils 

of the district. He said 

1048 lady health workers, 

77 doctors and 11 supervisor 

doctors would take part 

in the campaign. Earlier a 

walk was arranged for 

awareness on prevention of 

polio which was led by 

Commissioner.Participants 

were carrying banners and 

placards against polio and 

pledged to eliminate polio 

from country. 

6300 students appeared in first ever Maths 

and Science Assessment Test in Laar region 

Non grant of time scale fueling fury 

among the “architects of nation” 

ISLAMABAD: Non 

granting time scale to 

teachers of different cadres 

working in educational 

institutes in federal capital 

under Federal Directorate 

of Education (FDE) has 

caused embarrassment 

among them. 


reports 3Grade 16, 17 and 

ISLAMABAD: Rain 

in different parts of the 

country, including 

Karachi and Lahore, on 

Sunday turned the weather 

cold. 

Light rain was also Sargodha, 

reported 

from Faislabad 

Sheikhupura, Shah Kot, Malakand, 

Mian Channu, Sangla Mardan, 

Hill, Mardan and other Kohat 

parts of the country 

which brought the mercury 

further down. 

According to Met 

Office, rain-thunderstorm 

with snow over the 

hills is expected at scattered 

places in 

Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, 

18 teachers who are performing 

their duties in 423 

federal educational institutes 

in federal capital 

under FDE stand deprived 

of time scale since and last 

two and half years. These 

teachers are from different 

cadres including SST, 

TGT, Computer teachers, 

senior teachers, vice principals 

an principals. 

The most agonizing situation 

is being faced by the 

teachers who have been 

retired with dreaming the 

wistful dream of time 

scale but this dream has not 

been translated into reality. 

It is worth mentioning 

that finance division had 

constituted committee on 

Rain in parts of country 

turns weather cold 

NATHIAGALI: Local people are walking on Murree Road, during first snowfall of the 

season in area. 

Lahore, 

divisions, 

Hazara, 

Peshawar, 

divisions, 

Islamabad, Kashmir and 

Gilgit-Baltistan, while at 

isolated places in Quetta, 

Zhob, Sukkur, Bannu, 

D.I khan, Multan, 

D.G.Khan, Bahawalpur 

and Sahiwal divisions 

during the next 24 hours. 

Snowfall over the hills 

is also expected during 

the next 24 hours in 

Malakand. Swat, Chitral, 

Kalam Malamjabba, 

upper Dir, Hazara division, 

Murree, Galliyat, 

Kashmir and Gilgit- 

Baltistan. 

International community should prevent India 

from human right violations in IOK : Mazari 


Federal Minister for 

Human Rights Dr 

Shireen Mazari has said 

that Pakistan needs to 

keep re-emphasizing the 

fact that when India 

took the Kashmir issue 

to the United Nations, it 

did not cite Pakistan as 

a transgressor. 

She was addressing 

at a public talk on 

“Human Rights 

Violations in Indian 

Occupied Kashmir”, 

organized by the 

Institute of Strategic 

Studies Islamabad 

(ISSI) on Monday. 

“We need to move 

beyond the rhetoric we 

are addicted to. Too 

many Kashmiris have 

died and too many generations 

have been lost. 

We need to move forward 

beyond rhetoric 

and take concrete steps 

for the solution of 

Kashmir issue adding 

that too many generations 

and innocent people 

in IOK have been 

suffered and lost their 

lives for the attainment 

of plebiscite which lies 

at the centre of UNSC 

resolutions” she added. 

Dr. Mazari said 

presently, the violation 

by Indian forces have 

broken all bounds. 

Never before were 

women and children targeted 

with pellet guns 

or dragged along the 

streets of Srinagar she 

said. She lamented that 

the Pakistani government 

should have 

allowed a committee to 

investigate the Pakistani 

side of Kashmir. She 

labelled this as a major 

blunder. 

She said UN finally 

did what they should 

have done and printed 

the report on human 

rights violations in IOK 

by India, which resultantly 

once again highlighted 

the world attention 

towards Kashmir 

issue. 

She said that 

Pakistan should have 

allowed UN committee 

to visit AJK, It was a 

big mistake, there is 

nothing to hide in AJK 

and there is no comparison 

of AJK with IOK 

adding that our absurdity 

has lost Pakistan to 

show contrast between 

IOK and AJK. 

Shireen Mazari said 

we should move to 

Human Rights Council 

to have investigative 

commission to conduct 

independent inquiry to 

investigate human 

rights abuses and violations 

in IOK. 

the summary of ministry of 

CADD in this regard. 

Government Teachers 

Association has demanded 

that government should 

set up a promotion section 

in FDE and ministry of 

education should constitute 

a committee in connection 

with professional training 

time scale. 

At least four drown 

as bus plunges into 

canal in DG Khan 

DERA GHAZI KHAN: 

At least four people lost 

their lives when a passenger 

bus plunged into 

Chashma canal in Dera 

Ghazi Khan today 

(Monday). 

According to details, 22 

people were onboard the 

bus when the driver lost 

control over vehicle and it 

fell into the canal. 

Eye-witnesses said that 

four passengers died on the 

spot while five others were 

saved by the rescue team 

and local people, however, 

rest are still missing. 

In two more separate 

incidents 10 people 

expired, 20 were injured in 

road crashes in DG Khan. 

On the other hand, on 

the Indus Highway a 

speeding coach carrying 28 

passengers overturned 

leaving four killed and 15 

critically injured, while, 

nine received minor 

injuries. The rescue teams 

have shifted the injured to 

the nearby hospital. 

CJP takes notice of 

murder of mother, 

daughter in Jehanian 

ISLAMABAD: 

Justice of Pakistan Justice 

Saqib Nisar has taken suo 

motu notice of alleged murder 

of mother and daughter 

in Jehanian on Sunday. The 

notice was taken after a 

video gone viral on social 

media which shows the 

women being allegedly murdered 

by their opponents 

when they were returning 

after attending the court. 

Taking notice of the issue, 

the Chief Justice has directed 

IGP Punjab to submit report 

within three days. 

ISLAMABAD: New 

research has revealed that 

targeted cognitive training 

can successfully reduce 

cognitive impairment in 

treatment-resistant schizophrenia. 

Schizophrenia is one of 

the 15 leading causes of 

disability globally. 

In the United States, this 

condition affects more than 

3 million people. 

Symptoms of schizophrenia 

include psychoses, 

hallucinations, delusions, 

and unusual thinking patterns. 

15 couples get 

married in mass 

wedding ceremony 

HYDERABAD: 15 couples 

got married in the ceremony 

of collective wedding 

in Hyderabad on Monday. 

The event of collective 

wedding of 15 couples has 

been held in Mustafa 

ground of Latif Abad 

under a Non-government 

organization (NGO). 

Both brides and grooms 

wearing red dresses and 

Sehra respectively were 

looking happy upon meeting 

their life partners. 

Dowry for all the brides 

apart from other arrangement 

of their marriages has 

also been made. 

Parents belonging to 

lower section of the society 

cannot wed their children 

due to the curse of dowry 

and poverty therefore; mass 

marriages’ is an effective 

way to wed their children. 

AIOU completes admission 

confirmation of 7, 50,000 

students this month 

I S L A M A B A D , 

December 10 (Online) : 

Allama Iqbal Open 

University (AIOU) will 

complete admission confirmation 

and books mailing 

process for autumn, 2018 

semester by the end of this 

month. 

According to the 

Director Admissions, the 

University has received 

over 7, 50,000 admission 

forms for the recent semester. 

Information is also 

made available on the website, 

in cases, where there 

are some objections on 

admission forms. 

Emotional numbing, 

reduced motivation, difficulty 

forming and maintaining 

social relationships, 

and cognitive impairment 

are also among the symptoms 

that tend to characterize 

the condition. 

Cognitive impairment 

in schizophrenia affects 

verbal and working memory 

especially. Some older 

research suggested that 

these cognitive difficulties 

are partly down to some 

deficiencies in the ability 

to process auditory information. 

For instance, a study 

published in the journal 

Imtiaz Dharani 

THAR: Over 6300 students 

from different public 

and private schools and colleges 

appeared in the first 

ever Science and Math test 

held at different parts of 

Laar region including 

Badin, Sujawal and Thatta. 

The mega test was conducted 

by Thar based 

organization working for 

the Education empowement, 

Thar Education 

Alliance (TEA) with the 

collaboration of Laar 

Education Campaign, 

Campaignistan , Child rise 

and Education Department 

GoS under the slogan of 

'Climate Change', Shell 

Pakistan and SMEDA are 

also supports of the event. 

Chief Monitoring 

Officer Thatta Samiullah 

Sanjrani explained his idea 

and said that this was 

indeed such a huge event in 

the history of Thatta where 

such big number of appearing 

under one roof. He 

appreciated teachers and 

parents who took interest 

and encouraged their children 

for the test. He invited 

stakeholders to be part of 

first ever Thatta Science 

festival to be held on 14-15 

December 2018 at Thatta. 

while sharing the details 

of the test, Partab Shivani, 

NeuroImage found that 

"impairments in [auditory] 

discrimination may contribute 

to higher-order cognitive 

and psychosocial 

deficits in [schizophrenia]." 

Recently, researchers 

set out to examine whether 

targeted cognitive training 

(TCT) — which uses specially 

designed computer 

games to change certain 

neural pathways — may 

an education activist who is 

also heading Thar 

Education Alliance, said 

that total 6300 students 

from over 168 schools 

appeared in the test held at 3 

centres. 

The test was just a teaser 

before the mega “Thatta 

Science Festival” which 

will be held on 14-15 

December in which students 

from around public 

and private schools of the 

Laar region will participate 

and showcase scientific 

models and other creatirve 

works related to science. 

Mr Shivani said that 

despite the fact the litercystrike 

district had poor education 

facilities, but there 

was huge talent laying the 

students who, he believed, 

were eagerly looking for 

such events and festival to 

show their talents and skills. 

This will not only be a 

platform for organisations 

working on science to 

engage students through fun 

science and robotics activities, 

but also for the students 

to showcase their talents to a 

host of stakeholders. Tests 

would be conducted from 

four to twelve grade students 

from both public and 

private institutions of Laar 

where as on 14th and 15th 

December Thatta Science 

bench had fixed the hearing 

on the request of the ministry 

of defence. 

IHC Chief Justice Athar 

Minallah and Justice Mian 

Gul Hassan Aurangzeb conducted 

hearing of the case. 

The AAG bagged more time 

for preparation. The court 

while accepting his request 

adjourned the case till indefinite 

period. 

It is pertinent to mention 

here that a single-member 

bench of Justice Mohsin 

Akhtar Kayani had ordered 

deduction in salaries of 

Interior and defence secretaries 

and IG Islamabad for 

their failure to recover a 

missing person on 

November 19 this year. 

The court had also order 

deduction of half salary of 

investigation team and 

under the light of the court 

decision as many as Rs two 

million were supposed to 

improve auditory perception 

and verbal learning in 

people with a difficult form 

of schizophrenia. 

Gregory A. Light, Ph.D 

— a professor of psychiatry 

at the University of 

California, San Diego 

School of Medicine — is 

the senior author of the 

new study, which was published 

in the journal 

Schizophrenia Research. 

Prof. Light, who is also 

the director of the Mental 

Illness, Research, 

Education, and Clinical 

Center at Veterans Affairs 

San Diego Healthcare 

System, explains the motivation 

for the study. 

He says, "Chronic, 

t r e a t m e n t - r e f r a c t o r y 

patients mandated to 

Festival would be held at 

Sports Ground Thatta in 

which students would present 

models. He added. 

Shivani said that, the 

Science Mela will target 

school children and invite 

them to participate from private 

and public schools, participation 

of multiple stakeholders 

is expected, including 

private sector science 

based organisations, private 

for-profit organisations, 

politicians, celebrities, universities 

and academia, and 

media. 

The objective beyond 

such event is that government 

of Sindh should 

announce to organize 

Science Festival in every 

district of Sindh. 

The result of the test will 

be announced 0n 14th and 

15th December during the 

Thatta Science Festival and 

the best three winners will 

be awarded laptops and 

tablets where as top ten 

position holders with certificates 

and shields. 

According to the reports 

and handouts they whole 

management team was 

based on the volunteerism, 

the main message of the 

whole theme were promoted 

by the social media team 

via indigenous resources of 

social networking sites. 

IHC adjourns hearing in a missing person case 

ISLAMABAD: The 

Chief Islamabad High Court (IHC) 

on Monday adjourned hearing 

of a case pertaining to 

the missing person. 

The court adjourned the 

hearing on the request of 

Assistant Attorney General 

Abdul Jabbar. The hearing 

was fixed by the IHC last 

week regarding imposition 

Rs two million fine and 

salary deduction of secretary 

defence and other official’s 

quarters and the stakeholders 

had challenged the ruling. 

The IHC divisional 

deduct from their salaries 

collectively. The stakeholders 

had appealed 

against the single bench 

decision. The applicants 

took stance in the petition 

that they had nothing to do 

with the missing person 

and efforts for his recovery 

were still ongoing. 

This form of brain training may help treat severe schizophrenia 

locked residential care 

facilities make up just a 

small subgroup of persons 

with schizophrenia, but 

they consume a disproportionately 

large share of 

mental health care 

resources." 

"Finding an effective 

therapy for them is critical," 

he continues. So, 

Prof. Light and team set 

out to examine the effects 

of TCT in a group of 46 

people with schizophrenia 

psychosis. 

The participants had 

been previously hospitalized, 

and at the time of the 

study, they were enrolled in 

a community-based residential 

care program as 

well as being legally under 

the care of a guardian.

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National 

CJP inaugurates new building 

of SC Quetta Registry 

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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 

Where is heavy load of oil 

and cash going even today? 

CONTROVERSIES, truths and lies surround 

the issues related to oil in 

Pakistan, as is the situation elsewhere in 

some other oil producing and exporting countries 

including and especially in the Muslim 

world. A former oil minister was under trial on 

charges of financial corruption too in Pakistan. 

REVOLUTIONS and overthrow of regimes 

has taken place on oil issue: It's said that foreign 

companies who have technological knowhow 

and expertise take wrong advantage of 

wealth of nations deprived by foreign installed 

governments in their war on human and natural 

resources of leaders and masses here and there 

around the world, especially the oil rich Muslim 

blocs run as if by chief executives of some 

commercial enterprise, cartels or big business 

corporations. 

BADIN crude, though of high quality and 

low in sulphur, has limitations for refining as it 

contains high percentage of wax and has to be 

mixed with imported crude oil. This has resulted 

in surplus Badin crude, to the level of 9,000- 

10,000 bpd, which was exported until 2005. 

Export of crude oil has emerged again since 

June 2014 as the government has allowed petroleum 

producers to ship surplus quantities to foreign 

buyers in the wake of availability of large 

quantities of ultra-light crude oil (condensate, 

coming out of gas-fields) that is difficult to 

process in most of local refineries. Resultantly, 

crude oil has now a significant share in 

Pakistan’s exports of the petroleum group 

amounting to $ 586 million in 2014-15. 

PRODUCTION of oil placed Pakistan on 

global ranking of 42nd among 98 oil-producing 

countries. From 10,000 bpd in 1980s, crude oil 

production increased to 60,000 bpd in 1990s, 

but remained static until the 2,000s. It was only 

in 2013 that oil production jumped to 80,800 

bpd, having achieved a high of 98,000 bpd in 

November 2014. Crude oil production registered 

91,000 bpd in May 2015 and 93,000 bpd 

in June 2015. 

PITIFULLY, Pakistan's share in total consumption 

of oil was about 10% until 1980s. 

Where does that other heavy load of oil goes? It 

needs a probe. It's said that foreign oil companies 

give a paltry single digit percentage to government 

and reaps most of the other financial 

and non financial rewards. One reason is that 

foreign companies have some know how, 

equipment and technology they won't give, 

except one way terms not favorable to Pakistan. 

If properly held accountable, Pakistan can save 

on double digit billions in oil import, satisfy 

domestic demands from internal oil production, 

and even export surplus oil to other countries. 

Present indigenous oil meets about 23% of total 

national demand of the oil refineries in the 

country. An integrated network of pipeline 

exists for transportation of indigenous crude oil 

to the refineries. 

Indeed, the availability of indigenous crude 

oil expands the opportunity to meet growing 

demand of oil and to reduce Pakistan's dependence 

on imports, but it is imperative for the 

government to accord high priority to developing 

the sector expeditiously. It may be advisable 

for the government to revisit the Petroleum 

Exploration & Production Policy in vogue, 

since discoveries are correlated with drilling 

efforts. 

Question that arises since many decades past 

up to now: Where is heavy load of oil and cash 

going? Iranians demonstrated and toppled their 

imperial majesty on issues that included oil and 

revenue and its exploitation by foreign companies. 

Same is the situation in many Arab nations 

in Middle East and Gulf countries. Answers to 

this question are expected by many nations 

from respective rulers! 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 

City of problems 

Dear Editor, 

Karachi is the center of exchange and monetary exercises. In past, it was viewed as the city of light as 

it was splendid and sparkling. The streets were washed consistently at night and the light post were there 

to light every spot. This all appears to be excessively intriguing and a fantasy at present, for today’s Karachi 

is the inverse of what we knew about it from our guardians. The Karachi we discover today is loaded with 

problems. 

Transport problem is one of the most serious problems of this city. Buses are the main means of transport 

in this city. But they are not in position to meet the need of the people. Most of the buses are not in 

good condition. The buses are generally over loaded. Karachi city is also faced with the traffic problems. 

A large number of vehicles run on the roads of this city. Generally our people do not observe the traffic 

rules. Careless driving, overtaking and driving on the wrong side are very common in Karachi. As a result 

road accidents are very common in Karachi. The irresponsible traffic police is also responsible for this. 

There are also water, electricity and housing problems. These problems still remain unsolved. Karachites 

are facing difficulties and hardships. Thus, Karachi is rightly called a city of problems. When one problem 

is solved many others crop up to take its place. These problems need an immediate attention of the authorities 

concerned. I am requesting they take care of these problems. 

Wasif Azhar 

Women’s Safety 

Dear Editor, 

Through the columns of your esteemed daily, I would like to express my feeling about women safety.When 

we turn the pages of a newspaper, we come across many headlines reporting cases of sexual 

assault, molestation, sexual harassment, rapes, trafficking, ill treatment of women in houses, violence 

against women in remote areas etc.The crime comes amid heightened concerns about sexual violence in 

India. it seems that criminals are no longer afraid of the law. It is also evident that cities in India can no 

longer claim to be safe for the growing number of working women.. we must have remedial or curative 

measures such as fast track courts especially dedicated to deal only with these offences and crimes. These 

can be made responsible to clear the cases on day to day basis with fair trial as its core principle.The law 

should be strong enough so that no body could ever imagine of doing such things.It is time the government 

undertakes drastic measures to put an end to crime against women. 

I would like to quote here that a country which do not respect women can not become developed country. 

so i would like to request our Indian people please provide equal respect and security to women. 

Poverty in Pakistan 

Dear Editor, 

Syed Hamza Abbasi 

Many people in this country are homeless due to which they face hardship and poverty. The majority 

are members of families where the father’s earnings are low and there are several children to support. 

Homeless people, no matter the age, are 3 times more likely to die from illnesses. Middle aged men and 

women are even more likely to get illnesses. Homeless people get similar illnesses as normal people that 

live in homes but their chances of get diseases are three to six times higher.Those lucky enough to live in 

shelters are more likely to get illnesses. Due to bad ventilated areas and crowdedness, diseases spread even 

faster. 

Even though most are for helping the homeless, many are actually against helping them. Some reasons 

that people are against helping are sealers are expensive to build, there are too many people to help and the 

more we help homeless creates a beacon for more homeless. But this is not a good enough excuse for not 

helping homeless. 

As you can see helping homeless is not an option, it is something that needs to be fixed. I know that we 

can’t get rid of homelessness for good, but there are many ways that it can be solve. 

Syed Adeel Ur Rehman 

QUETTA: Hon'ble Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Mian Saqib Nisar inaugurating 

new building of Supreme Court Quetta Registry . 

QUETTA: Chief Justice 

of Pakistan Mian Saqib 

Nisar inaugurated the new 

building of Supreme Court 

(SC) Quetta Registry on 

Monday. 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Decision has been taken to 

set up a hospital on 40 

Kanal land property of 

Varan Depot for residents 

of Cantt Rawalpindi. 


reports, in order to provide 

health facilities to communities 

of Cant areas, its surroundings 

and localities 

along side motorway, a 

CJP was presented a 

guard of honor by a smartly 

turned out contingent of 

police before the inauguration 

ceremony. 

Judges of the Supreme 

hospital will be constructed 

on the land of Varan 

Depot. 

Preparation for working 

out PC-1 has been started. 

The property for the 

construction of hospital is 

owned by Punjab 

Government while expenditure 

will be incurred by 

the federal government. 

Member Provincial 

Court Justice Asif Saeed 

Khosa, Justice Gulzar 

Ahmad, Chief Justice 

Balochistan High Court 

Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar 

and senior lawyers attended 

Decision taken to construct a new hospital 

on 40 Kanal land in Rawalpindi cantt 

RAWALPINDI The The problem of sui-gas 

claims by the concerned shortage and load-shedding 

authorities for improvement persists in localities of 

in gas supply were dashed to Rawalpindi including 

the ground as many localities 

Sadiqabaad, Muslim Town, 

in the Rawalpindi were Haji Chowk, Tarlai, Mehmood 

left with low to zero gas Pirwadhi, Rata Ammral, 

pressure and unannounced Bangesh Colony, Dhok 

load-shedding amid cold 

weather. 

Khaso and other adjoining 

areas. However, despite hue 

According to detail, residents 

and cry, the concerned 

of Rawalpindi are fac- 

ing acute shortage of gas 

authorities are not taking 

practical steps to mitigate 

which speaks volumes the problems to provide 

about the inefficiency of the relief to people. 

concerned authorities of The citizens said they are 

SNGPL and other department. 

facing problems in their 

homes in preparing their 

Assembly Umar Tanveer 

Butt said that hospital will 

be run under federal health 

ministry. 

He said hospital will be 

a model hospital according 

to international standard. 

Facilities like Labor 

ward, Operation Theater 

and a complete OPD will 

be made available in the 

hospital, he added. 

Zero gas pressure, unannounced 

load-shedding hit Rawalpindi 

Imran Khan should now take U-turn to 

provide relief to people: Liaqat Baloch 

LAHORE: JI leader 

Liaqat Baloch has said 

irresponsible attitude of 

government on economic 

front will render the 

country bankrupt and 

now Imran Khan should 

take U-turn for providing 

relief to the people. 

He held government 

has evolved no planning 

for future as development 

works stand shelved and 

business wheel stands 

jammed. Growing unemployment, 

inflation and 

Our Correspondent 

HYDERABAD: While 

addressing at the “Day 

One Ceremony/ 

Orientation Day” of the 

students selected for 

admission in the courses 

of MBBS & BDS session 

2018-2019, the Vice 

Chancellor Liaquat 

University of Medical & 

Health Sciences Jamshoro 

Prof. Bikha Ram 

Devrajani expressed that 

the newly admitted students 

are lucky enough 

that not only the dreams of 

their parents are becoming 

reality but it is also their 

good fortune that they are 

now part of an institution 

which is ISO-9001-2008 

certified. The graduates of 

this University are already 

working in the renowned 

hike in utility bills has 

become intolerable for 

common man, he added. 

He regretted that people 

are being rendered 

jobless and homeless in 

the name of elimination 

of encroachments all 

over the country. 

Bureaucracy is befooling 

government and fortifying 

its domination, he 

remarked. This state of 

affairs is very harmful for 

democratic system in the 

country. 

institutions all over the 

world and had proven 

their worth. Though it is 

not an easy task to become 

a good doctor; it require a 

lot of labor, devotion, dedication 

and more over a 

good human being with 

full of sympathetic attitudes 

and feeling the pain 

of suffering of patients 

being treated by them. 

He further added that 

one cannot construct a sky 

breakfast, lunch and dinner 

as the pressure of gas goes 

to zero and the stoves did 

not work. A resident of 

Muslim Town Asad 

demanded 

restoration of the gas supply 

as early as possible. Another 

resident of Tarlai Akhtar 

Khan said, “we need to heat 

our homes and cook food so 

gas should be supplied 

according to our needs. On 

the other hand people have 

also concerned over 

increased the price of liquefied 

petroleum gas (LPG) 

and dry wood. 

scraper without proper 

foundation, likewise without 

deep roots and proper 

grip over subjects of basic 

medical sciences in the 

initial years of medical 

education a good doctor 

will be merely a pie in the 

sky. 

The Vice Chancellor 

mentioned that the relationship 

you develop 

here with the faculty, 

staff, and students will 

the inauguration ceremony. 

CJP was also briefed 

about the building. 

Chief Justice Mian 

Saqib Nisar congratulated 

on completion of Quetta 

Registry project. 

While addressing the 

ceremony Chief Justice 

said that this project has 

been completed with the 

collective efforts of all and 

I pray God that this building 

should play its part in 

the administration of justice 

because Justice is very 

vital for any society. 

Chief Justice further 

said that this building will 

become the epi- centre of 

Justice and people will be 

provided better justice. 

Hearing of 10 cases will 

be conducted in the 

Supreme Court Quetta registry 

on the first day. 

AJK President 

calls on Acting 

President 


President Azad Jammu and 

Kashmir Sardar Masood 

Khan has called on , 

Acting President of 

Pakistan Muhammad 

Sadiq Sanjrani at the 

President House here in 

Islamabad. 

Both leaders exchanged 

views on important regional 

matters as well as development 

projects in Azad 

Jammu and Kashmir. 

Acting President Sadiq 

Sanjrani said that Pakistan 

and its Parliament would 

continue to extend strong 

moral, political and diplomatic 

support to the people 

of Jammu and Kashmir for 

the realization of their right 

to self-determination. 

The Acting President 

expressed his deep concern 

that every day innocent 

Kashmiris, particularly 

young men, were being 

killed by the Indian forces. 

These killings must stop 

and diplomacy must be 

given a chance, he said. 

The Jammu and Kashmir 

dispute, he said, can only 

be resolved through 

engagement and diplomatic 

means. 

Nadeem Zia Is Front-man of 

Saad, Investigation Reveals 

LAHORE: The investigation revealed on Monday that 

the front-man of former railways minister Khawaja Saad 

Rafique in Paragon city project, Nadeem Zia has the assets 

of billions of rupees. 

The documents received byAbbtakk News revealed that 

Nadeem Zia was not only the director of Paragon City, 

Paragon Exchange Limited, Paragon Holding but the owner 

of Bismillah Engineering as well. 

Nadeem’s company Bismillah Engineering had been 

grantedAsiana Iqbal contract, the project under NAB investigation 

and former chief minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, 

former DG LDA Ahad Cheema and Fawad Hassan had 

already been arrested. 

According to documents, Bismillah Engineering registered 

on residential address of Nadeem Zia. Nadeem had 

also shown low-cost price of his assets in income tax assessments. 

He showed his assets worth of Rs 864.68 mln and 

liabilities of Rs 378.888 million in income tax assessments. 

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Top Democrats say Trump may face 

impeachment, jail over hush money 

WASHINGTON: US 

President Donald Trump 

could face impeachment and 

jail time if hush money payments 

reported by his former 

lawyer are proven to be campaign 

finance violations, 

Democratic lawmakers said . 

Court filings on Friday in 

cases that stemmed from a 

federal probe into Russian 

activities during the 2016 

presidential election pointed 

to potential problem areas 

for Trump, including 

whether he instructed sixfigure 

payments to two 

women during the campaign 

to keep quiet about affairs. 

Federal prosecutors 

sought prison time for longtime 

Trump “fixer” Michael 

Cohen for paying off an 

adult film star and a former 

Playboy model at Trump’s 

behest, evading taxes and 

lying to Congress about a 

proposed Trump 

Organization building in 

Moscow. 

If the payments are 

proven to be felony campaign 

finance violations, 

Democratic US 

Representative Jerrold 

Nadler told CNN those 

would be grounds for 

impeachment. 

“Well, they would be 

impeachable offences. 

Whether they are important 

enough to justify an 

impeachment is a different 

question,” said Nadler, who 

will lead the Judiciary 

Committee when Democrats 

take control of the House of 

Representatives in January. 

Under US law, campaign 

contributions, defined as 

things of value given to a 

campaign to influence an 

election, must be disclosed. 

Such payments are also limited 

to $2,700 per person. 

The White House did not 

immediately return a request 

for comment. Press secretary 

Sarah Sanders said on Friday 

that Cohen has lied repeatedly 

and that the filing was 

insignificant. 

Friday’s court filings also 

BEIJING: China on 

Monday protested 

Canada’s "inhumane" 

treatment of an executive 

of telecom giant Huawei 

who is being held on a US 

extradition bid, citing 

reports she was not getting 

sufficient medical 

care. 

Huawei’s chief financial 

officer, Meng 

Wanzhou, has filed court 

papers in Vancouver arguing 

she should be released 

on bail from her Canadian 

jail. 

In a sworn affidavit, 

the 46-year-old woman 

revealed new information 

about contacts between people 

working for Trump and 

Russians in the cases of 

Cohen, Trump’s former 

longtime personal lawyer, 

and Paul Manafort, Trump’s 

short-lived campaign chairman 

who was convicted in 

August on tax and bank 

fraud charges. 

Special Counsel Robert 

Mueller said Manafort lied to 

investigators about his interactions 

with a Russian tied to 

Russian intelligence services. 

Mueller’s office said the 

lying prompted prosecutors 

last week to retract a plea 

agreement with Manafort on 

two separate conspiracy 

charges. 

“I think what these indictments 

and filings show is 

that the president was at the 

centre of a massive fraud — 

several massive frauds — 

against the American people,” 

Nadler told. 

Mueller is investigating 

Russian interference in the 

2016 presidential election 

and whether Trump’s campaign 

colluded with Moscow 

to sway the election. Russia 

denies interfering in the 2016 

election and Trump has 

denied any collusion 

occurred. 

The investigation has cast 

a shadow over Trump’s presidency, 

with its implication 

Moscow may have had a 

hand in his White House victory. 

The Republican president 

repeatedly has 

China blasts ‘inhumane’ treatment of Huawei executive 

Women activists stand up despite abuses 

in Middle East and North Africa: Amnesty 

DUBAI: Women rights 

defenders have stood up for 

change across the Middle 

East and North Africa in 

2018 despite a plethora of 

abuse from governments 

and armed groups, Amnesty 

International said Monday. 

Paying tribute to women 

activists in a report released 

on Human Rights Day, 

Amnesty said they had been 

"at the centre of compelling 

stories of hard-won 

change". 

Women in Iran, Saudi 

Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and 

the Palestinian territories 

had taken part in protest 

movements "and felt the 

backlash of authorities´ anxieties 

about those challenging 

the status quo". 

Amnesty said 66 women 

human rights defenders had 

been detained this year in 

Iran, 14 in Saudi Arabia and 

three in Egypt. 

"From successfully campaigning 

to lift the driving 

ban in Saudi Arabia to 

protesting against Iran´s 

abusive and degrading practice 

of forced hijab, women 

across the MENA region 

have been standing up," said 

Heba Morayef, the rights 

group´s director for the 

region. 

"In the process they often 

risk arrest and detention." 

Amnesty singled out 

"the outrageous arrest of 

Amal Fathy amongst many 

other women activists" in 

Egypt. 

She had been "arbitrarily 

imprisoned since May simply 

for posting a video 

online speaking about her 

experience of sexual harassment 

and criticising the 

Egyptian government for 

neglecting survivors". 

Campaigning underway in Bangladesh 

polls amid opposition arrests 

DHAKA: There is no opposition candidate 

for prime minister, hundreds of people 

have been arrested and incumbent premier 

Sheikh Hasina stands accused of ignoring 

democratic checks on her power, but 

Bangladesh began campaigning Monday for 

a year-end election. 

More than 100 million people are registered 

to vote on December 30 for either 

Hasina´s Awami League and its allies, or a 

beleaguered opposition that says it is being 

hobbled by police. 

On the eve of the campaign launch, the 

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which 

hopes to deny Hasina a record fourth term, 

said nearly 2,000 of its supporters had been 

arrested. 

Police said those detained since the 

election was announced in November — 

including a number of candidates about to 

hit the hustings — had prior warrants for 

their arrest. 

said she has been treated 

in a Canadian hospital for 

hypertension since she 

was arrested on December 

1 for possible extradition. 

China’s state-run 

Global Times newspaper 

reported, without citing 

sources, that "it seems that 

the Canadian detention 

facility is not offering her 

the necessary health care." 

"We believe this is 

inhumane and violates her 

human rights," foreign 

ministry spokesman Lu 

Kang said at a regular 

press briefing, citing such 

reports. 

'I can't breathe' were 

Jamal Khashoggi's final 

words, report says 

WASHINGTON: Jamal 

Khashoggi's final words were 

"I can't breathe," CNN said, 

citing a source who has read 

the transcript of an audio tape 

of final moments before journalist's 

murder. 

The source told the US network 

the transcript made clear 

the killing was premeditated 

and suggests several phone 

calls were made to give briefings 

on the progress. 

CNN said Turkish officials 

believe those calls were made 

to top officials in Riyadh. 

Khashoggi, a Saudi contributor 

to The Washington 

Post, was killed shortly after 

entering the kingdom's consulate 

in Istanbul on October 2. 

Transcript of the gruesome 

recording includes descriptions 

of Khashoggi struggling 

against his murderers and references 

sounds of the dissident 

journalist's body "being dismembered 

by a saw." 

PARIS: France's beleaguered 

president, 

Emmanuel Macron, will 

address the nation later 

Monday amid widespread 

protests that over the past 

four weeks have morphed 

from a grassroots movement 

against fuel tax 

hikes, to disparate demonstrations 

against his presidency. 

On Monday morning, 

as Macron met trade 

unions and business leaders 

ahead of tonight's 

much-anticipated national 

address, French students 

took further action. 

There were disruptions 

in up to 120 schools across 

expressed his impatience 

with the probe that Mueller 

took over in March 2017, 

saying it was politically 

motivated. 

“Time for the Witch Hunt 

to END!” Trump said in a 

Twitter post on Saturday. 

However, the end of the 

Mueller probe could be the 

beginning of bigger problems 

for Trump. 

“There’s a very real 

prospect that on the day 

Donald Trump leaves office 

the Justice Department may 

indict him, that he may be 

the first president in quite 

some time to face the real 

prospect of jail time,” 

RepresentativeAdam Schiff, 

the Democrat who will lead 

the House Intelligence 

Committee next year, told 

CBS’ Face the Nation. 

Legal experts are divided 

over whether a sitting 

president can be charged 

with a crime, as well as on 

whether a violation of 

campaign finance law 

would be an impeachable 

offence. Republican 

Senator Rand Paul warned 

against over-criminalizing 

campaign finance violations, 

telling NBC’s Meet 

Press that errors in disclosures 

should be punished 

with fines, not jail. 

Indian tycoon 

Mallya to find out 

extradition fate 

MUMBAI: Indian tycoon 

Vijay Mallya will appear in a 

London court on Monday to 

find out whether he will be 

extradited to his homeland, 

where he is accused of fraud. 

Mallya, chairman of the 

UB Group drinks conglomerate 

and chief executive of 

the Force India Formula One 

team, will discover his fate at 

Westminster Magistrates´ 

Court. 

He left India in March 

2016 owing more than $1 

billion after defaulting on 

loan payments to stateowned 

banks and allegedly 

misusing the funds. 

The loans from the stateowned 

IDBI bank were 

intended to bail out his failed 

carrier Kingfisher Airlines. 

Mallya said in July that he 

had made an "unconditional 

offer" to an Indian court in a 

bid to settle the charges, but 

denies that was an admission 

of guilt. 

"I cannot understand how 

my extradition decision... 

and my settlement offer are 

linked in any way," he wrote 

on Twitter on Thursday. 

"Wherever I am physically, 

my appeal is ´please 

take the money´. I want to 

stop the narrative that I stole 

money," he added. 

The case is being heard 

by England´s Chief 

Magistrate Emma 

Arbuthnot, who handles the 

most complex extradition 

cases. "The focus of our 

case is on his conduct, how 

he misused the banks," 

lawyer Mark Summers, representing 

the Indian authorities, 

said during an earlier 

hearing. 

the country -- including 40 

schools completely blockaded 

by students -- a 

spokeswoman for the 

Education Ministry said. 

MUMBAI: Even when 

there were just rumours of 

Nick Jonas and Priyanka 

Chopra being in a relationship, 

the two gave some 

major couple goals. And 

now that these lovebirds 

have actually called it official 

by tying the knot, the 

bar has been set higher. 

Giving some serious couple 

goals once again, Nick 

Jonas has taken it to his 

social media handle to 

share an adorable picture of 

him and Priyanka Chopra 

from their Christian wedding. 

The picture features 

the newlyweds cutting 

there huge and scrumptious 

look wedding cake. He captioned 

the picture as “One 

week ago on today

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Biz 

Govt considers introducing 

new Tax Amnesty Scheme 

ISLAMABAD: The government 

on Monday was 

considering to introduce 

another Amnesty Scheme. 

The Federal Board of 

Revenue (FBR) has started 

work on new amnesty 

scheme in which the tax 

payment percentage is likely 

to be made easy. 

The scheme would also 

give a chance to those who 

had not benefitted from the 

amnesty scheme launched 

by the previous government. 

Sources said that Rs125 

billion had been collected 

during the amnesty scheme 

launched by the previous 

government. 

“Overseas Pakistanis 

would also be able to advantage 

of the new scheme,” 

sources added. 

Earlier, as many as $64 

million had been remitted 

to Pakistan under the 

recently concluded tax 

amnesty scheme. A total of 

Agriculture and livestock 

farmers deserve protection 

ISLAMABAD: National 

Bank of Pakistan and 

United Insurance Company 

(UIC) have entered a deal to 

support the agriculture sector 

of the country. 

According to the deal, 

the UIC will provide insurance 

cover to agriculture 

and livestock farmers so 

that they can be saved from 

losses. 

Speaking at the occasion, 

Chairman of the 

United International Group 

Mian MA Shahid said that 

we initiated crop and livestock 

insurance in the country 

which resulted in record 

growth. 

We consider serving 

farming communities and 

CHINIOT: farmer is busy in preparing of their filed for new crop. 

FPCCI participates in Statutory 

Meetings of ECO-CCI 

KARACHI: FPCCI will participate in 25th Executive 

Committee and Specialized Committees Meetings of ECO 

Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ECO-CCI) scheduled on 

12-14 Dec 2018 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The meetings will be 

attended by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of all 10 

members countries i.e. Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, 

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, 

Turkmenistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan. FPCCI played important 

role in ECO-CCI when its presidency and Secretariat was with 

FPCCI for last three years during which five times statutory 

meetings organized by FPCCI in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and 

last Executive Committee Meeting held in Iran was attended by 

all 10 ECO countries. Forthcoming meetings of ECO-CCI going 

to be the first ever meeting taking place in any Central Asian 

Countries. ECO is one of the important region covered 7.93 mln 

square km area and 463 mln population with nominal GDP 

US$2.4 billion and intra-regional trade US$ 783 billion. 

Prior to Executive Committee meeting, Specialized 

Committee Meetings of Trade Facilitation, Industry, Investment 

and SMEs Promotion, Arbitration, Tourism, Transportation, 

Women Entrepreneur Council and Business Rating Program will 

be held wherein the issues related to establishment and finalization 

of rules and regulation of ECO Arbitration center, ECO 

investment conference, problems relating to SMEs sector, establishment 

of ECO Investment Web Portal, Promotion of Halal 

Industry, ECO tourism strategy, simplification and harmonization 

of visa procedure, financial rules and regulation, implementation 

of ECO Trade facilitation agreement, holding of ECO Business 

Forum, ECO-ASEAN and ECO SAARC Business Forum, ECO 

Trade Fair, early operation of ITI and KTAI trains, implementation 

of ECO Transit Trade Agreement etc will be discussed. 

Financial decline of Pakistan Steel 

started in 2008: PSLPA chief 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Steel Line Pipe Industry Association 

(PSLPA) Chairman Khalid Butt on Monday said financial decline of 

Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation Limited was started during the fiscal 

year 2008-2009 when the national entity faced Rs 26 billion losses. 

He said that the Steel Mills management had requested the government 

to release Rs20 billion as financial packages so that the financial 

affairs of the national entity can be managed but that time PPP government 

only release Rs10 million on heavy interest rate. The loan was 

given in different phases. Earlier, the Pakistan Steel was a profiting 

making entity, Butt said. 

The PSLPA chairman the PTI government had removed names of 

the Steel Mills from the list of institutions it wants privatization. 

Referring former management of the Steel Mills, Butt said that former 

Steel Mills chairman Moin Aftab Sheikh had requested the PPP government 

of that time to release a bailout package in order to avoid internal 

and external financial crunch. 

Despite his request for Rs20 billion, the PPP government had 

released Rs10 billion with the imposition of heavy interest rate. 

saving them from shocks as 

a social work which has 

helped our company a lot. 

Mian Shahid said that 

agriculture sector is prone 

to price and climate shocks 

for which an insurance 

cover is imperative. He 

noted that the share of agriculture 

has reduced to just 

18 percent from 21 percent. 

$32 million had been repatriated 

which, had been 

converted into rupees. 

Similarly $24 million had 

By: Imtiaz Dharani 

ISLAMKOT: With an aim to create 

highly skilled human resource from Thar 

and other districts of Sindh, a group 73 

Engineers have returned after completing 

their six-months training from China to 

take over operation and maintenance of 

newly built 660 MW Power plant of Engro 

Powergen Thar limited (EPTL) at Thar 

Coal Block II. 

A total of 73 engineers including three 

female engineers sent to China under Thar 

Project, were trained at Yunnan Xunjiansi 

and Xinjyi Powerplant in China through a 

series of classroom and simulators training 

modules. 

Out of 73 engineers, 47 percent are from 


President, Islamabad 

Chamber of Commerce & 

Industry (ICCI), Ahmed 

Hassan Moughal said that 

women accounted for 

almost half of country’s 

total population and bringing 

them in the economic 

mainstream was essential 

for sustainable growth of 

the country. He said this 

while exchanging views 

with a delegation of 

Rawalpindi Women 

Chamber of Commerce & 

Industry (RWCCI) that 

called on him led by its 

Senior Vice President Sadia 

Waseem Khawaja. 

He urged the government 

to take policy measures 

to create a conductive 

environment for promoting 

women enterprises in the 

country. RafatFarid Senior 

Vice President, Iftikhar 

Anwar Sethi Vice President 

ICCI and others were also 

present at the occasion. 

Ahmed Hassan 

Moughal said that our 

women were highly talented 

and if provided with 

Commerce 

right environment as well as 

better exposure, they had 

been repatriated and converted 

in bonds and $8 million 

taxes have been 

declared on foreign assets. 

Overall, 82,443 declarations 

had been filed in the 

fourth amnesty scheme of 

Pakistan Muslim League- 

Nawaz (PML-N) government 

in which around $1.9 

trillion had been declared in 

foreign and Rs1.47 trillion 

in domestic assets. 

In addition to this, the 

declarants had paid taxes 

of around Rs123 billion 

out of which around Rs46 

billion ($375.5 million) 

had been collected on foreign 

and Rs77 billion on 

domestic assets. 

ICCI asks govt to take measures 

for promoting women enterprises 

the potential to excel in 

every field. He stressed that 

the government should 

focus on policymaking for 

creating a friendly environment 

for women entrepreneurs. 

He said that PTI 

leadership had always 

raised voice for the economic 

empowerment of 

women and it was the right 

time for PTI government to 

transform its intentions into 

reality for women development. 

He said that the government 

has decided to separate 

policymaking and tax 

administration in FBR 

which was laudable move 

and hoped that its implementation 

would promote 

better tax culture in the 

country. However, he 

emphasized that the government 

should take urgent 

measures to resolve the tax 

issues of women entrepreneurs. 

On the occasion ,Sadia 

Waseem Khawaja, Senior 

Vice President, Rawalpindi 

Women Chamber of 

& 

Industryhighlighted the various 

issues being faced by 

the women entrepreneurs. 

China-trained Engineers takeover to 

operate 660MWs Power Plant at Thar 

Tharparkar and Umerkot districts and rest 

of them belong to other districts of Sindh. 

Upon successful completion of their 

training, these young engineers have 

become part of an engineering team to 

operate and maintain Thar coal power plant 

of Engro Powergen Thar Limited (EPTL). 

The EPTL’s 2x330MWs power plant at 

Thar Block II is all set to supply electricity 

to the national grid in February 2019. 

Construction work of the plant is 96 percent 

completed. 

During the course, the trainees acquired 

training on simulators especially on Boilers 

while working on site at the Yunnan 

Xunjiansi Powerplant which operates on 

the coal like Thar coal. 

Siraj Teli appreciates PM for taking business 

community’s input on numerous issues 

KARACHI: Chairman 

Businessman Group (BMG) & 

Former President Karachi Chamber 

of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) 

Siraj Kassam Teli, who led a KCCI’s 

delegation at Sunday’s meeting with 

Prime Minister Imran Khan at 

Governor House, appreciated the 

Prime Minister for taking business 

and industrial community’s input on 

numerous issues and immediately 

directing the relevant Ministers to 

take measures for creating an 

enabling business environment as 

per aspirations of the business & 

industrial community. 

According to a statement issued, 

Vice Chairmen BMG & Former 

Presidents KCCI Tahir Khaliq, 

Haroon Farooki and Anjum Nisar, 

President KCCI Junaid Esmail 

Makda, Vice President Asif Sheikh 

Javaid, Former Presidents Haroon 

Agar, Younus Muhammad Bashir, 

ShamimAhmed Firpo and Chairman 

KCCI’s Special Committee for 

Small Traders Majeed Memon were 

also part of the KCCI’s delegation. 

Siraj Teli said that KCCI’s delegation 

expressed deep concerns over 

Gas Infrastructure Development 

Cess (GIDC) issue which remains 

unresolved to date and also stressed 

that Sindh has the first right on its gas 

reserves under Article 158 of the 

Constitution of Pakistan. 

CORPORATE CORNER 

NBP, UIC sign agreement for 

protection of farmers 

ISLAMABAD: National Bank of Pakistan and United Insurance Company (UIC) 

have entered a deal to support the agriculture sector of the country. 

According to the deal, the UIC will provide insurance cover to agriculture and 

livestock farmers so that they can be saved from losses. 

Speaking at the occasion, Chairman of the United International Group Mian MA 

Shahid said that we initiated crop and livestock insurance in the country which 

resulted in record growth. 

“We consider serving farming communities and saving them from shocks as a 

social work which has helped our company a lot”, he added. 

Mian Shahid said that agriculture sector is prone to price and climate shocks for 

which an insurance cover is imperative. He noted that the share of agriculture has 

reduced to just 18 percent from 21 percent. 

Still, he said, this sector is providing jobs to 42 percent of the labour while 75 

percent of exports are linked to this sector. 

The business leader informed that country’s 64 percent population lives in rural 

areas which are tied to the agriculture sector which include four million livestock 

farmers. 

He noted that Pakistan produces 38 percent of wheat per acre as compare to 

France, 29 percent rice as compared to US yield and almost half cotton as compared 

to China. 

During the last twenty years, Brazil has increased agricultural production by 400 

percent but the situation at home is not satisfactory. 

Stabilized prices of seed, fertilizer, insecticides, and provision of cheap energy 

can help boost the agriculture sector, he said. 

Jubilee Insurance wins at the 

Lahore Open Polo Championship 

LAHORE: Jubilee Insurance team emerged victorious at the finals of the Lahore 

Open Polo Championship. Picture includes Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad 

Sarwar (third from left) alongside Aun Rizvi and Turab Rizvi. 

LAHORE: Jubilee Insurance team emerged victorious against team Eighteen at the 

finals of the Lahore Open Polo Championship given thespectacular performance from 

the young and sensational Rizvi brothers. 

The gifted duo AunRizvi and TurabRizvi, well known as the Rizvi brothers steered 

the Jubilee Insurance team through the entire series leading them towards victory as a 

result of their special performance in the third chakkar at the thrilling finals. The game 

concluded with Jubilee Insurance as the dominating team and the final score of 6-4 

with Edward scoring five goals whileAun scoring one. 

Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar graced the final as chief guest and 

distributed prizes and shields amongst the winners alongside, Malik AtifYarTiwana, 

Lahore Polo Club President. Executive committee members Ahmed Nawaz Tiwana, 

Usman Haye, Saqib Khan Khakwani, members, their players and a great number of 

polo enthusiasts were also present on the occasion to witness the enthralling and exciting 

final. 

Mr. Javed Ahmed, Managing Director & CEO – Jubilee Insurance stated “The 

game of Polo is greatly appreciated in our country and the emerging stars of today 

show immense potential and talent. It is a proud moment for us to see stars like Aun 

and Turabsetting the bar high and we wish them well towards presenting Pakistan 

internationally in days to come.” 

Jubilee Life Insurance has been the pioneer in Bancassurance distribution and is the 

market leader among private sector life insurance companies in Pakistan. With an 

average growth of 38% over the last five years, it is the most profitable and valuable 

life insurance company on the stock exchange. 

Jubilee Insurance is a global brand of Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development 

(AKFED) that offers diverse insurance solutions (life, health and general) and is committed 

to the vision of being Pakistan’s best service provider from the insurance industry 

and is among the top 25 companies of the Pakistan Stock Exchange; it happens to 

be the only insurance company to make it to this prestigious list. 

Haleeb Foods Ltd. proudly sponsors the 

winner of Kinnaird Business Week 2018 

10 December, 2018: Pakistan’s 

premier food and beverages company, 

Haleeb Foods Ltd. sponsored 

this year’s Kinnaird 

Business Week 2018 as a platinum 

sponsor. HFL also sponsored the 

winner of the inter-university competition 

held at KBW 2018. Like 

every year, KBW 2018 had a number 

of motivational speaking sessions 

by prominent people belonging 

to different industries of 

Pakistan including Haleeb Foods 

Ltd.’s Head of Marketing, Abdul 

Sami Qahar and Head of Human Resources, Sana Sheraz. 

Sana Sheraz addressed the audience and shared valuable advice and motivational 

ideas to help the young students to take bold steps and move forward towards a 

successful career. Her detailed interactive session was centred on “Follow your passion 

– That’s it?”, focusing on sustained discipline and commitment to remain steadfast 

in working hard for the pursual of one’s personal as well as professional goals. 

Weighing in with her opinion about the event Sana Sheraz said that, “We at HFL 

focus on developing our people and encourage them to think differently while working 

towards building and developing themselves.” 

Educational institutions from all over the country took part in activities at KBW 

2018 that spanned over four days and included panel discussions, networking sessions, 

case-studies and a musical night. One of the highlights of KBW was an interuniversity 

competition arranged wherein groups of students from different universities 

took part and presented their business plans to the judges and were marked 

accordingly. 

Haleeb Foods Ltd. prides itself in being one of the leading employers of choice 

in Pakistan. The company strives in providing an enabling environment where leadership 

and its culture work in tandem. Motivations like purpose and passion matter 

just as much or more than personal ambition. The company’s values and business 

goals are aligned in such unison that its culture tends to drive employees to strive 

for excellence making it one of the best companies to work for in the country.

India clinch first Test nail-biter to 

end 10-year win drought in Australia 

DR 

ADELAIDE: India won 

their first Test on 

Australian soil in a decade 

Monday, bowling out the 

home side in a nail-biting 

finale to clinch the opening 

match of the series at 

Adelaide Oval with 

Rishabh Pant equalling a 

world-record along the 

way. 

The hosts were set an 

improbable target of 323, 

which would have been a 

record run chase at the 

ground but gallantly battled 

to 291 before Josh 

Hazlewood became the last 

man to fall to 

Ravichandran Ashwin, 

who finished with 3-92. 

Shaun Marsh made 62 and 

Tim Paine 41. 

Wicketkeeper Pant 

made history by matching 

the record 11 catches in a 

Test currently held by 

ISLAMABAD: Skipper 

Mashrafe Mortaza and 

Mustafizur Rahman took 

three wickets each Sunday 

as Bangladesh restricted 

West Indies to 195-9 in the 

first one-day international 

in Dhaka. 

West Indies won the 

England´s Jack Russell and 

South Africa´s AB de 

Villiers. 

In doing so, he beat the 

record 10 catches in a 

game by an Indian that was 

previously held by 

Wriddhiman Saha. 

It was a huge breakthrough 

for Virat Kohli´s 

toss at the Sher-e-Bangla 

National Stadium and batted 

first on a slow pitch. 

The visitors were 

reduced to 127-6 after 40 

overs despite opener Shai 

Hope making 43 off 59 

balls. 

Roston Chase, who 

men, with Australia always 

proving a tough hunting 

ground. 

The last Test they won 

in Australia was at the 

WACA Ground in Perth in 

2008, and the last one in 

Adelaide was 2003, with 

just six victories now in 

more than 70 years -- and 

made 32, put on a partnership 

worth 51 runs with 

Keemo Paul for the seventh 

wicket to give West 

Indies some momentum. 

Paul made 36 off 28 

balls with two sixes and a 

four before he was dismissed 

by Mustafizur in 

never one in the first match 

of a series Down Under. 

Another blot on Indian 

cricket history is that they 

have never won a series in 

Australia. 

But with the home team 

missing the banned Steve 

Smith and David Warner, 

Kohli and his team sensed 

Bangladesh restrict Windies to 195-9 in first ODI 

Bangladesh Emerging beat Pakistan 

by 84 runs in Emerging Asia Cup 

Sports Reporter 

KARACHI: Bangladesh 

Emerging Team defeated 

Pakistan Emerging Team 

by 84 runs in the ACC 

Emerging teams Asia Cup 

played at the National 

Stadium, Karachi. 

Summarized Scores: 

Bangladesh Emerging 

Team: 309-5 in 50 overs 

(Mosaddek Hossain 85*, 

3x4s, 4x6s, 74 balls, Zakir 

Hassan 69, 8x4s, 69 balls, 

Yasir Ali 56, 5x4s, 2x6s, 46 

balls, Khushdil Shah 3-48, 

Muhammad Musa 2-55) 

Pakistan Emerging 

Team: 225 all out in 46.5 

overs (Khushdil Shah 61, 

2x4s, 4x6s, 58 balls, 

Zeeshan Malik 47, 4x4s, 

1x6, 67 balls, Muhammad 

Rizwan 46, 3x4s, 1x6, 51 

balls, Nayeem Hasan 3-36, 

Mosaddek Hossain 2-32, 

Shafiul Islam 2-41). 

Result: Bangladesh 

Emerging Team won by 84 

Runs 

Player of the Match: 

Mosaddek Hossain, 

Bangladesh Emerging 

Team. 

Toss: Bangladesh 

Emerging Team 

Umpires: Muhammad 

Sajid and Izzat Safi. 

Referee: Aziz Ur 

Rehman 

In the Second Match at 

Southend Club Cricket 

Stadium, Karachi 

Abandoned Due to Rain. 

Summarized Scored: 

Hong Kong: 87-4 in 31 

overs (Babar Hayat 45*, 

5x4s, 86 balls) 

Result: Match 

Abandoned Due to Rain 

Toss: UAE 

Umpires: Riazuddin 

and Ahmed Shahab 

Referee: Ali Naqvi 

‘PCB constitution will be 

altered to create CEO post’ 


Cricket Board PCB) chairman 

Ehsan Mani said 

changes will be made to the 

board’s constitution to create 

a new chief executive 

position. 

Mani said the change, 

when formally made, will 

enable the incoming managing 

director Wasim Khan 

to become the CEO of the 

board. 

“The PCB is the only 

[cricket] board in the world 

which has no chief executive. 

We will bring changes 

in our constitution to create 

a new position and then the 

managing director will be 

called the chief executive 

officer, like it happens 

everywhere else,” Mani 

told reporters at the 

National Stadium. 

Wasim, currently serving 

as the Leicestershire 

County Cricket Club chief 

executive, was announced 

as the new managing director 

of the PCB on Thursday. 

“The responsibilities of 

a chairman are different 

from that of a CEO,” said 

Mani. “The managing 

director’s duty will be to 

run the day-to-day affairs 

of the board.” 

Constitutionally, Mani 

will retain significant powers 

within the PCB hierarchy, 

but Wasim is expected 

to take a leading role in the 

board’s corporate governance 

framework, working 

with the PCB’s board-ofgovernors 

committees and 

also work for the improvement 

of domestic cricket. 

Outgoing International 

Cricket Council head of 

media and communications 

Sami-ul-Hasan was also 

appointed at the same post 

by the PCB on Saturday. 

Mani said the appointment 

shows PCB’s intent to get 

more ‘professionalised’. 

“If two people who had 

been working in good positions 

abroad are willing to 

come to Pakistan, it’s a 

great sign and the PCB 

deserves credit for it,” said 

the PCB chief. 

the final over of the 

innings. 

Left-arm pacer 

Mustafizur finished with 

3-35 after fellow fast 

bowler Mashrafe grabbed 

3-30 playing his 200th 

ODI -- the first 

Bangladeshi to do so. 

Batsmen must 

take responsibility, 

says Sarfraz 

KARACHI: The embattled 

Pakistan captain Sarfraz 

Ahmed wants his batsmen to 

take responsibility during the 

upcoming tough tour of 

South Africa. 

Talking on the sidelines 

of a book launching of a senior 

sports journalist, Sarfraz 

said on Sunday: “We batted 

extremely poorly in the 

series against New Zealand 

and paid heavily for it. The 

batsmen have to take responsibility 

and play long innings 

in the South Africa series. 

This is one big issue that 

constantly troubled us in the 

10 Test matches Pakistan 

have played since the retirement 

of Younis [Khan] and 

Misbah [-ul-Haq].” 

The wicket-keeper/batsman 

said the tour of South 

Africa would be very 

demanding and that Pakistan 

have to improve their performance 

drastically to challenge 

the Proteas. “We did 

mistakes against New 

Zealand and they were lot of 

them. But on the upcoming 

tour we’ll try to avoid them 

and play positive cricket 

against South Africa.” 

Sarfraz lamented that 

whenever Pakistan lost, the 

captain was held responsible 

for it. When we win people 

usually say Pakistan played 

brilliantly but when the team 

loses the same people start 

blaming the captain. 



According to the instructions 

of secretary college 

education and literacy 

department Mr.Perwaiz 

Ahmed Seehar,Regional 

director colleges 

Hyderabad Prof.Dr.Abdul 

Hameed Channar constitute 

a regional sports committee 

comprising of the 

following officers: 

Regional director colleges 

Prof.Dr.Abdul 

Hameed Channar 

(Chairman), Additional 

director colleges (inspection) 

Prof.Shahida Perveen 

Abro(Secretary), Principal 

of Government Ghazali college 

latifabad Prof.sher 

khan seelro(Member), 

Principal of Government 

Shah Latif girls college latifabad 

Prof.Fareeda Bano 

(Member), Senior DPE of 

Government Sachal 

Sarmast commerce college 

Hyderabad Mr.Aqeel 

ahead of the tour that this 

could be their opportunity 

to make history. 

They now take the 

momentum into the second 

Test in Perth starting 

Friday, with Melbourne 

and Sydney to follow. 

Australia resumed the 

final day needing another 

219 for victory with four 

wickets down, but lost 

their last two specialist 

batsmen before lunch, 

shifting the odds heavily in 

India´s favour. 

Marsh and Travis Head 

had started cautiously, 

grinding out 11 runs in the 

opening seven overs before 

seamer Ishant Sharma 

struck with the score on 

115, bowling a bouncer 

that caught Head´s bat as 

he tried to fend it off and 

Ajinkya Rahane took the 

catch at gully. 

Ozil breaks 

with Arsenal 

and flies to Inter 

NEW YORK: The 

adventure of Mesut Ozil at 

Arsenal has now reached 

the end credits. According 

to reports from The Sun, the 

London club is not satisfied 

with the performance of the 

player, who arrived in the 

summer of 2013 from Real 

Madrid, and would be ready 

to sell him in the January 

session for just under 28 

million euro. 

The German player, not 

convened in the last two 

challenges, would risk staying 

out for about two 

months because of a back 

problem due to the posture 

that assumes in front of 

video games. Another piece 

that would have convinced 

the leadership of the 

Gunners to get rid of him. 

According to the tabloid, 

among the pretenders to the 

German in the first row 

there would be Inter. 


KARACHI: Joharabad 

Cricket Club defeated 

Mansoora Sports by 3 

wickets in first 

Quarterfinal of 

Muhammad Saqib 

Memorial Cricket 

Tournament played at the 

Mansoora Cricket Ground 

Organized by Pak Flag 

Cricket Club KCCA Zone 

2. 

Summarized Scored: 

Mansoora Sports batting 

first and Scored 185 

for 8 in allotted 35 

Overs.Mutiur Rehman 

Scored 54 runs while Sajid 

Nawaz scored 38 and 

Sufian Butt 38 not 

M. Arif Hafeez 



Sportlight 

Surprisingly, Pakistan 

and Belgium have played 

against each other just 

twice in the World Cup 

with Pakistan winning 2-0 

in 1973 and 3-2 in 2002. 

Currently ranked three 

in the world, till only a few 

years back, Belgium were 

a non-entity on the international 

hockey circuit and 


(3rd in pool D) play 

Belgium (2nd in pool C) 

on Tuesday in the cross 

over for a quarter final 

place. 

The two sides have 

reached this stage in contrasting 

fashion. quite a few times 

While Green-Shirts 

sneaked in with only one 

point from the three pool 

games, edging out 

Malaysia on goal difference. 

The Red Lions were 

unlucky not to qualify for 

the quarter finals directly, 

missing out only on goal 

difference. Belgium had 

won two and drew one 

with India, who topped 

the pool because of the 

better goal difference. 

even 

failed to qualify for the 

World Cup and the 

O l y m p i c s . 

Their mercurial rise in a 

very short time is simply 

amazing. 

Belgium's best positions 

at the top international 

title events have arrived 

in recent times. 

Olympics: 2nd in 2016, 

World Cup: 5th in 2014, 

Euro Hockey Nations 

Championships: 2nd in 

7 

Pakistan vs Belgium; Green 

Shirts Face an Uphill Task 


KARACHI: Student 

Talent Club (Qazi) organized 

Allama Iqbal Sports 

Festival with the collaboration 

of Sindh arm 

wrestling association , 

Sindh balochistan sports 

promotion and cultural 

society held at Badrul 

Hassan Sports Complex, in 

which arm Wrestling, mas 

wrestling and badminton 

events organized successfully. 

On the inauguration 

of badminton event Bakht 

Khan Sahibzada said to all 

players we all are so far in 

sports to the others country 

because we did not work 

on grass root level, we 

should work in sports on 

grass root level then we 

will get new talent, he was 

so inspired by the work of 

student talent club (Qazi) 

those always work on 

grass root level for the students, 

on this occasion, M. 

Rehan Akram , Kashif 

Ahmed Farooqui, S. M. 

Nasir Ali, Moin ud din, Dr. 

Altaf Ahmed, Abdul Rauf 

Butt, Rana parveen, Farah 

Riaz, Babra Ismil were 

there. In Badminton Event 

junior category Neha 

Raees beat wajiha Khan 

2013 & 2017, Junior 

World Cup: 2nd in 2016. 

At Bhubaneswar, the 

Red Lions are a serious 

medal contender and 

remain so after the pool 

stage. 

Pakistan had started 

well, going down 0-1 to 

Germany. Next, they had a 

hard fought 1-1 draw with 

M a l a y s i a . 

In the last pool game, they 

were outplayed by the 

Dutch in a 1-5 defeat. In 

the second half, most of 

the time, Pakistan 

appeared at a loss for 

ideas. 

All this means, Pakistan 

will have to play out of 

their skin to make it to the 

quarter finals; needing to 

overcome an in form side 

ranked 10 places above 

them. 

Arm Wrestling, Mas Wrestling and Badminton Championship 

Neha Raees, Rumessa Naz, Aiman Yameen 

and Sundus of STC got the Winning Titles 

KARACHI: On sports festival in badminton event Bakht Khan, Saeed Alam, M. Rehan 

Akram, Kashif Farooqui, S.M. Nasir Ali, Moin ud Dinm Dr. Altaf Ahmed, Abdul Rauf 

Butt, Rana Parveen, Farah Riaz, Babra Ismail all players and officials in group photo. 

out.Shoaib Aslam took 5 

wickets for only 22 runs 

and Umer Farooq got two 

for 41. 

In reply,Joharabad CC 

Scored 186 for 7 in 34.2 

Overs. Zainul Abidain 

scored 56 runs, Abdur 

By (11-7, 8-11, 11-5), In 

Middler group Rumessa 

Naz from STC beat Turfa 

easily by (11-2, 11-8), In 

senior group Aimen 

Yameen beat tasmia by 

(11-6, 5-11, 11-8) with tuff 

competition and get winner 

title and youth category 

Sundus Rehan beat 

Mehwish Khan by (21-15, 

21-17). Javed Akbar said 

to all players be active and 

try to engage yourself in 

physical activities, appreciate 

to all students, parents 

and STC officials and 

specially organizing secretary 

M. Rehan Akrm. 

Joharabad CC reached Semifinals in 

Saqib Memorial Cricket Tournament 

Ahmed(Focal Person), 

Senior DPE of Government 

Boys Degree college 

Qasimabad Shaikh Habib 

Kausar (Member), Senior 

DPE of Ali Baba 

Government Boys Degree 

college Kotri Mr.Perwaiz 

Ahmed Shaikh (Member), 

Senior DPE of Government 

Sindh College of 

Commerce Degree college 

Shaikh Muhammad Saleem 

(Member), Mr.Hussain 

imam DPE of Government 

College Hyderabad 

(Member) and Mst.Bushra 

Arif DPE of Khursheed 

Begum Government Girls 

College Hyderabad 

(Member).This Regional 

Sports Committee will 

coordinate in organizing 

sports events from intramural 

to inter district, inter 

zonal and inter regional 

tournaments of colleges. in 

this connection a meeting of 

RSC held in the chairmanship 

of Regional Director 

colleges hyderabad 

Prof.Dr.Abdul Hameed 

channar at his office. 

Rehman 22 not out and 

Hamza Siddiqui 21.Uzair 

Jawed and Mutiur Rehman 

captured 2 wickets each. 

Regional Sports Committee( RSC) meeting held in Hyderabad 

Hyderabad: Group Photo of the Regional sports committee( RSC) Hyderabad after the 

meeting under the chairmanship of Regional Director colleges hyderabad Prof.Dr.Abdul 

Hameed Channar.Additional director colleges (inspection) Prof.Shahida Parveen abro 

secretary of the RCS also present she is briefing the members in other picture. 

Additional director colleges 

(inspection) prof.shahida 

parveen abro secretary of 

the RSC after the recitation 

of holy quran brief the 

members about the purpose 

of formation of this committee. 

it was unanimously 

decided to conclude intramural 

sports activities 

before the commencement 

of winter vacations and the 

inter collegiate zonal tournaments 

of selected games 

will be started from the 10th 

january 2019 so as the finalist 

teams of each zone participate 

in inter collegiate 

regional tournaments 

Hyderabad.the finalist team 

will participate in inter 

regional tournament will be 

held in febuarary 2019.she 

directed the college principals 

to facilitate DPE's of 

their institutions and 

Regional Sports Committee 

(RSC) to organise the said 

events on given dates and 

schedule.

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Qadir Magsi asks parliament to send 

reference agaist CJP for collecting funds 

Abbas Kassar 

HYDERABAD: Sindh 

Taraqi Pasand Party chairman 

Dr. Qadir Magsi has 

demanded from parliament 

to send reference against 

chief justice Pakistan to 

supreme judicial council to 

review his campaign of collecting 

funds. He protested 

against Sindh and federal 

government for blocking 

his party’s rally scheduled 

for 9 December from 

Mazar Quaid to press club 

Karachi but his party’s 

workers were not only not 

allowed to take part in rally 

but they were arrested in 

various towns and cities of 

the province. They were 

not allowed to take out 

rally. He said he has noted 

that his party was not 

allowed to carry political 

activities since last 15 

years. He said if Qadir 

GENEVA: A new report 

by the World Health 

Organization (WHO) indicates 

road traffic deaths 

continue to rise, with an 

annual 1.35 million fatalities. 

The WHO Global status 

report on road safety 

2018 highlights that road 

traffic injuries are now the 

leading killer of children 

and young people aged 5- 

29 years. 

“These deaths are an 

unacceptable price to pay 

for mobility,” said WHO 

Director-General, Dr 

Tedros Adhanom 

Ghebreyesus. “There is no 

SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

CANBERRA/MEL- 

BOURNE: At last the 

Australian authorities would 

have to change its world 

worst decision against a 63- 

year-old Afghan refugee 

who belongs with Hazara 

minority and has ‘Shia 

Muslim Sect’ which is suffering 

not only advanced 

lung cancer but was also 

detained in Nauru since last 

five years. 

The Guardian Australia 

was flashed an exclusive 

report on 11 June 2018, with 

a sappy headline “Dying 

refugee on Nauru barred 

from coming to Australia 

for palliative care” which 

has some unique contents 

and brutally expose the real 

face of an independent modern, 

developed and civilized 

HYDERABAD: Chairman Sindh Tarraqi Passand Party Dr Qadir Magsi addressing to a 

Press Conference at HPC. 

Magsi was under ban to 

take out rally and carry out 

political activities then why 

government was not issuing 

such a notification 

through home department, 

then either I will accept or 

challenge same in the court. 

excuse for inaction. This is 

a problem with proven 

solutions. This report is a 

call for governments and 

partners to take much 

greater action to implement 

these measures.” 

The WHO Global status 

report on road safety 2018 

documents that despite an 

increase in the overall number 

of deaths, the rates of 

death relative to the size of 

the world population have 

stabilized in recent years. 

This suggests that existing 

road safety efforts in some 

middle- and high-income 

countries have mitigated 

country known as Australia 

and when the ‘authorities’ 

feel that the country may be 

declined from the list of 

United Nations and the 

whole world may spit on 

them, they did change their 

decision and allowed a 

dying Shia Muslim refugee 

to come to Australia for palliative 

care. 

Messenger would like to 

publish here some contents 

of the Guardian Australia’s 

said report for record, public 

awareness especially for its 

readers and future reforms. 

The report says, the 

Australian Border Force 

(ABF) has told 63-year-old 

He said many districts of 

Sindh were facing acute 

shortage of water while on 

the other sea was eroding 

fertile coastal lands where 

people have fallen to various 

diseases. He said CJP 

was stubborn on issue of 

the situation. 

“Road safety is an issue 

that does not receive anywhere 

near the attention it 

deserves – and it really is 

one of our great opportunities 

to save lives around the 

world,” said Michael R 

Bloomberg, Founder and 

CEO of Bloomberg 

Philanthropies and WHO 

Global Ambassador for 

N o n c o m m u n i c a b l e 

Diseases and Injuries. “We 

know which interventions 

work. Strong policies and 

enforcement, smart road 

design, and powerful public 

awareness campaigns can 

Road traffic deaths rise with 1.35m 

fatalities yearly: WHO report 


HYDERABAD: A seminar was 

held at press club here on Monday with 

reference to world human rights day 

under aegis of Human Friends 

Organization and National Minority 

Rights Network. Program was largely 

attended by human rights activists, 

organizations, lawyers, journalists, religious 

scholars and members of civil 

society. Program started with prayers 

of Bishop Younis Gull after which 

Sindhi traditional gift Ajraks were 

adorned to guests of honor. Sooba 

Bhatti, Pastor Daniel Fayaz, professor 

Imdad Chandio, professor Mushtaq 

Mirani, Younis Gull, father Liem, 

Pirbhoo bhai, advocate Amjad Palijo, 

professor Badar Soomro,Pushpa 

Kumari, Ghufrana, M. Parkash, Rufen 

Wilson addressed the seminar. 

Speakers said HFO and NMRN were 

working for human rights in Pakistan 

to forge unity among all people irrespective 

of religion, caste or creed and 

against terrorism, extremism and 

atrocities against minorities so that 

peace, democracy and human rights 

can get advantage in country. They 

deplored that despite Un charter of 

HR, the violations continue in whole 

world, freedoms are being snatched 

and people were being exploited 

through religious and sectarian bias. 

save millions of lives over 

the coming decades.” 

In the settings where 

progress has been made, it 

is largely attributed to better 

legislation around key 

risks such as speeding, 

drinking and driving, and 

failing to use seat-belts, 

motorcycle helmets and 

child restraints; safer infrastructure 

like sidewalks and 

dedicated lanes for cyclists 

and motorcyclists; 

improved vehicle standards 

such as those that mandate 

electronic stability control 

and advanced braking; and 

enhanced post-crash care. 

NATIONAL MINORITY NETWORK HOLDS SEMINAR ON WORLD HR DAY 

All humans born equal for rights, advancement: Sooba Bhatti 

They said minorities in Pakistan were 

being dragged in false cases, forced 

conversion, honor killings, hurdles in 

way of working of HR workers and 

defenders and kidnapping. They said 

minorities in Sindh were being made 

target of injustices, atrocities against 

their women and girls. 

Ali (Ali is a patronym, his 

full name is withheld to protect 

his family), who is suffering 

advanced lung cancer; 

he is deemed to have 

“refused treatment” because 

he declined to be moved to 

Taiwan to die. 

He told the ABF he did 

not want to go to Taiwan 

because he did not know 

anybody there, was concerned 

there would be no 

translator from his language, 

Hazaraghi, and that 

there would be no one to 

perform the Shia Muslim 

rituals and ceremonies on 

his body when he died. 

The ABF has told Ali he 

will not be moved to 

Australia to die. The ABF 

has also offered Ali $25,000 

to return home to 

Afghanistan. Ali is a member 

of the persecuted Hazara 

minority and has been formally 

recognized as a 

refugee – he faces a wellfounded 

fear of persecution 

in Afghanistan and cannot 

be forcibly returned there. 

Australia is legally obliged 

to protect him. 

Doctors familiar with his 

case say his prognosis is 

“dire”, and his life expectancy 

is “a matter of months”. 

Ali, who has a wife and 

children in Afghanistan, 

previously worked in construction 

during his five 

years held on Nauru but his 

illness has left him requiring 

around-the-clock care. 

On Nauru, the situation 

among the refugee population 

is already tense. The 

large cohort of Iranian 

refugees has been effectively 

excluded from the US 

resettlement deal by the 

presidential travel ban. 

This news definitely 

dam as with his arrogance 

media has also been directed 

not to publish or telecast 

news against dams. He said 

people of Sindh would 

never accept any dam on 

Indus river. He challenged 

that you (CJP and his supporters) 

have state power 

and media, we will see how 

you build dam.He warned 

if state power was used for 

dam then movement like 

MRD could also be 

launched. He said if those 

opposing dams are charged 

under article 6 then prosecute 

me and send me to jail. 

He said it was never written 

in oath taken by chief justice 

to hold political public 

meeting and collecting 

funds for dams leaving trial 

of cases pending in his 

court. He made it clear that 

issue of water and the like 

come under Council of 

common interest on which 

stand of Sindh government 

be heard. He asked why 

authorities removing 

encroachments were not 

removing same from Pucca 

Qila and other historical 

sites of Hyderabad. 

UNHRC must 

implement its report 

in IOK: Mishal 

ISLAMABAD: Lashing 

out at the Indian army for 

their unabated act of barbarism 

in Indian occupied 

Jammu and Kashmir (IOK), 

Mishal Hussein Malik, 

Chairperson Peace and 

Culture Organisation has 

urged the United Nation 

Human 

Rights 

Commissioner to step up its 

effort to ensure implementation 

of the recommendations 

of its report in letter 

and spirit as published on 

the on-going atrocities committed 

by Indian army in the 

IOK. 

Chairperson Peace and 

Culture Organization 

Mishal Malik , who is also 

the spouse of Chairman 

Jammu Kashmir Liberation 

Front Yasin Malik in her 

video message issued on 

International Human Rights 

Day said that Indian army is 

committing human rights 

violations on daily basis 

even despite the UN report. 

She lamented that the 

occupied forces have martyred 

around 755 

Kashmiris since July 8, 

2016 and gang raped as 

well as molested 903 

women during this period. 

She asked the world, 

when will there be demilitarization 

and shunning 

of human rights violations 

as occupied forces have 

injured more than eight 

thousands Kashmiris by 

pellets and hundreds of 

young people hasve lost 

their eye sight in last two 

years due to the use of 

pellet shot guns.Calling it 

the biggest mass blinding 

on mankind in recorded 

history. 

lessoned Australian authorities 

to change their attitude 

and behavior, to be serious, 

to improve their human 

development, to legislate 

new immigration laws, to 

follow other developed 

countries’ procedure regarding 

refugees, to decide millions 

of pending cases since 

a long, to avoid violation of 

international laws and 

ethics, do not try to become 

over smart and respect the 

humanity rather than do 

nothing look busy phenomena. 

After the publication of 

said news the Guardian 

Australia did follow-up the 

case and published another 

report which has a titled 

“Dying refugee moved from 

Nauru to Australia after 

intense campaign” with this 

sub-heading “Doctors say 

Afghan refugee hasn’t got 

long to live and should be 

Two killed after truck 

overturns, falls on a rickshaw 

BHAKKAR: 2 people 

have been killed while 

the other has been injured 

after a truck overturns 

and falls on a rickshaw at 

Multan Road, Bhakkar 

due to dense fog. 


reports, a truck carrying 

MUMBAI: Salman 

Khan introduced two new 

faces in Bollywood, 

Zaheer Iqbal and Mohnish 

Bahl's daughter Pranutan 

Bahl for the film titled 

'Notebook'. The film is 

backed by Khan is being 

directed by Nitin Kakkar. 

Zaheer is a son of 

Salman's old friend while 

Mohnish Bahl has worked 

with Khan in 'Hum Saath 

Saat Hai', hence they share 

a good bond with each 

other. 

Today, the superstar 

took to his social media 

accounts to reveal the 

release date of the film. 

Sharing a picture of a lead 

pair, he captioned, "The 

most beautiful love story 

has a release date... 

#Notebook hits the cinemas 

on March 19, 2019. 

Trailer coming soon." 

The love story has been 

some people was on its 

way when on Multan 

Road it hit and overturned 

and fell on a rickshaw 

due to dense fog in 

Darya Khan, district of 

Bhakkar. 

As a result two people 

died while truck driver 

shot entirely in Kashmir 

and the shooting for the 

received injuries. 

Rescue 1122 reached 

the scene and shifted the 

injured and dead into 

nearby local hospital for 

first aid. 

Bodies will be handed 

over to family members 

after complete autopsy. 

Salman Khan reveals the release date of Zaheer 

Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl's debut film 'Notebook' 



Human 

Rights 

Commission of Pakistan 

organized a seminar on 

human rights to commemorate 

70th anniversary 

ofUN Charter on human 

rights passed in 1948. It 

was largely attended by 

HR activists, lawyers, 

allowed dignity and respect 

in his last days” while the 

report has following contents; 

A dying Afghan 

refugee held on Nauru for 

five years has been transferred 

to Australia for palliative 

care after a sustained 

campaign of pressure from 

doctors, medical peak bodies, 

the media, members of 

the public and even members 

of the Australian 

Border Force. 

Previously, the 

Australian Border Force 

(ABF) and Department of 

Home Affairs had been 

adamant he would not be 

moved to Australia under 

any circumstances. But the 

Guardian learned that he 

was flown by air ambulance 

from Nauru to Brisbane on 

Saturday afternoon. He 

landed at 6:45pm local time, 

Hazara community members 

on Nauru said. 

The Guardian first publicity 

revealed Ali’s case last 

month, after doctors and 

members of the Afghan 

Hazara community on 

Nauru pleaded with the 

ABF for him to be moved. 

Nearly 24,000 people 

signed a change.org petition 

calling for Ali to be immediately 

brought to Australia. 

And an online open letter 

started by the Sydney GP 

Sara Townend garnered 

more than 2,000 signatures 

from doctors across the 

country, including former 

heads of the AMA, and 

those who had worked on 

Nauru. The letter said Ali’s 

current situation was “no 

way to die”. 

Thousands of natives, 

migrants, legal experts, 

intellectuals, students, 

teachers even children and 

same began in September 

2018. 

Human rights in Pakistan trampled despite 

constitutional guarantee: HRCP seminar 

journalists, peasants, Pakistan and UN charter 

women and civil society. guarantee human rights, 

HRCP coordinator but reality is that these 

Ghufrana Arain, professor 

Imdad Chandio, professor 

rights are trampled and 

violated on mass scale. 

Mushtaq Mirani, advocate They said citizens are 

Amjad Palijo, Parveen whisked away and then 

Soomro, Pushma Kumari their charred bodies are 

and others addressed the dumped while whereabouts 

seminar. They said despite 

of others still not 

fact that constitution of known. 

LAHORE: Bridals pose for photograph during walk on 

ramp on 3rd and last day of Pantene Hum Bridal Week at 

local hotel. 

Rally staged in 

Karachi for missing 

persons' recovery 

KARACHI: On the occasion 

of the International 

Human Rights Day, the 

Voice for Missing Persons of 

Sindh (VPMS), along with 

the families of missing persons, 

on Monday took out a 

rally from Gora Qabristan to 

Karachi Press Club (KPC) 

against non-recovery of 

missing persons in Sindh. 

A large number of people, 

including women and 

children joined the rally. 

They, carrying placards, 

banners and portraits of 

missing men, were chanting 

slogans for their recovery. 

The rally was led by VPMS 

Convenor Sorath Lohar, 

Sassui Lohar, Tanveer 

Areejo, Shazia Chandio and 

Taj Joyo. 

“It’s called the monitoring of Australian media” 

women told Messenger that 

now they do not want to live 

in country now because the 

Australian authorities hurt 

them and it seems that the 

both Liberal and Labour 

parties have nothing to do 

with it that what has happened 

yet and what’s happening 

now a days so, either 

the Greens, National or any 

other party should take the 

responsibility to take care of 

Australia otherwise, it will 

become worst than 

Afghanistan soon because 

Guardian Australia has published 

another news on 

September 06, 2018 which 

reveals “Nauru detention 

centre staff told they could 

lose jobs for talking about 

refugees.” 

People also appreciated 

Messenger and said, “It’s 

called the monitoring of 

Australian media”. 

CMYK CMYK 

CMYK 

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11 December 2018

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