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Metropolitan: 

Govt, industry, CNG 

Association have 

successful talks, 

resolves gas crisis 

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International: 

Australia 

recognises west 

Jerusalem as 

capital of Israel 

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Tripartite talks: Pakistan 

signs anti-terrorism 

cooperation MoU with 

China, Afghanistan 

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Senator 

Azam Khan Musakhel 

Passes Away 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Senator Sardar Azam 

Khan Musakhel has 

been passed away on 

Saturday after a prolong 

illnesss. 

Media reports said 

that the Baloch senator 

was under treatment in 

Karachi due to severe 

illness. 

Senator Azam’s 

funeral will be held at 

Musakhel. Various political 

and social figures 

have condoled the sad 

demise of the senator. 

Senator Azam Khan 

Musakhel was elected 

senator in 2015. He was 

a member of 

Pashtunkhwa Milli 

Awami Party. The senator 

met his fate today 

and his burial will be 

held at his native village. 

2 women killed 

being injected 

wrong vaccine 

GUJRANWALA: 2 

women were killed due to 

administration of wrong 

injection by a lady doctor 

after maternity. 

According to media 

reports, 2 women died 

due to negligence of 

lady doctor identified as 

Dr Saima as she administered 

a wrong injection 

after delivery in the 

limits of Cant police station 

Gujranwala. Dr 

Saima and her staff succeeded 

to flee after the 

incident. On other hand, 

Chief Minister Punjab 

Usman Buzdar while 

taking notice of the incident 

ordered secretary 

health for investigation. 

CJP orders Ahad Cheema 

to return money received 

beyond income 

LAHORE: The 

Supreme Court on 

Saturday ordered former 

Director General of 

Lahore Development 

Authority (LDA) Ahad 

Cheema to return money 

he had received beyond 

his income. 

Chief Justice of 

Pakistan Justice Saqib 

Nisar further ordered 

authorities to seize property 

owned by Cheema 

in case of non-payment. 

Abbas Kassar 

Bureau Chief 

HYDERABAD: Pakistan 

People's Party (PPP) cochairmanAsifAli 

Zardari on 

Saturday said that "We got 

rid of Musharraf in 100 

days, we got Swat freed in 

100 days," the PPP co-chairman 

noted, recalling his 

party's tenure in the centre. 

KARACHI EDITION – Sunday, December 16, 2018, Rabi-ul-Thani 8, 1440 

PPP get rid of Musharraf in 100 days, 

Swat freed in 100 days: Zardari 

PTI govt says 100 days are less and what could they do in such a short period 

HYDERABAD: Former President and Co-Chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari addressing to 

a public meeting at village Karan Khan Shoro. 

LAHORE: Supreme Court (SC) has 

declared government employees holding 

dual nationality a threat to the national 

interest of Pakistan and ordered federal 

and provincial governments for enactment 

of legislation on dual nationality. 

A two members bench of SC presided 

over by the Chief Justice of 

Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar 

announced the reserved judgment in the 

case of judges, government employees 

and others holding dual nationality 

Saturday. 

The judgment said that officers holding 

dual nationality cannot be appointed 

due to national security. Action should 

be taken against those who have 

acquired dual nationality for laundering 

ill gotten money and sending their families 

abroad after retirement. Such people 

should be given deadline for giving up 

other nationality. 

The decision said federal and provincial 

governments should legislate in this 

regard. The respective governments 

should give time to such employees 

either to quit job or give up other 

only parliament can take 

decisions for the nation, and 

that "individuals with threeyear 

terms" have no right to 

do so. "What right does an 

individual, who has a tenure 

of three years, to make decisions 

about my nation?" the 

PPP-co-chairman questioned, 

while addressing a 

public gathering here. 

"Only parliament has this 

right and no one else." 

Without naming anyone, 

he said they keep visiting 

different places, questioning, 

"What does you have to do? 

"There have been 

900,000 case pending in 

courts, you should look into 

those," Zardari said. 

"You have no future, why 

do you decide about the 

future of things? I say it even 

nationality. 

The governments should give time to 

abandon citizenship to the employees 

who have acquired dual nationality during 

their service tenure and if they don’t 

do so then proceedings should be initiated 

against them. 

The court maintained in the decision 

that the government employees holding 

dual nationality are threat to interests of 

state of Pakistan. 

Permission should be obtained from 

the cabinet before inducting any Non 

Pakistani on any post under unavoidable 

today that one should act 

remaining with legal and 

constitutional bounderies." 

He said only parliament 

has the right to make decisions 

about the nation. "It 

was better that transparent 

elections were allowed to be 

held and political parties 

could have formed a government 

through consensus." 

Criticising the government, 

he said that government 

functionaries say 100 

days were less for them and 

what could they do such a 

short period. 

He said only a party of 

the masses could understand 

their needs and problems, 

not the "parties that are 

made." 

Zardari said if he could 

run a government in a good 

way then it did not imply he 

could also play good cricket. 

"I don't know how to 

play cricket. I know politics 

and I can do that," he said. 

"Politics is when Musharraf 

reached home and said 'I 

don't know what happened 

and how it happened'." 

He suggested the government 

to provide opportunities 

to local businessmen 

and facilitate stock 

exchange, adding, "Only 

technology and experts 

should be invited from 

abroad." 

PTI is following Naya 

PM, Foreign Minister strongly condemn the 

Pakistan vision of Quaide-Azam: 

Imran Khan 

terrorist attack on security forces caravan in Kech 

ISLAMABAD: Prime 

ISLAMABAD Prime 

Minister Imran Khan has 

strongly condemned the terrorist 

attack on security 

forces caravan in Kech, district 

of Balochistan and said 

that these cowardly activities 

could not shake the 

courage of nation and 

youth. 

In an issued statement on 

Saturday PM said that we 

will root out the terrorist’s 

elements completely after 

chasing them till the end. 

PM also expressed solidarity 

with the bereaved 

family members and 

prayed for departed souls . 

Prime Minister also 

prayed for the early recovery 

of those injured in the 

terrorist attack. 

PM said that the day is 

not far off when the dream 

of establishment of full 

peace in Pakistan will come 

true. 

On the other hand, foreign 

minister Shah 

Mehmood Qureshi has also 

denounced the attack on 

security forces in Kech district 

of Balochistan. 

He said the sacrifices of 

security personnel’s for 

nation are laudable and 

exemplary. 

He said whole nation is 

standing like an iron wall in 

front of terrorists. 

He also prayed for the 

departed souls and prayed 

for the early recovery of the 

injured in the incident. 

It is vital to mention here 

that 6 security personnel 

were martyred during a terrorists 

attack in Kech district 

of Balochistan on 

Friday night. 

Govt employees holding dual nationality 

threat to interest of state: SC 

situation. The federal and provincial 

governments should compile the lists of 

the employees having dual nationality 

and put their names in negative list. 

A list should be worked out of such 

posts wherein people having dual 

nationality cannot be inducted without 

the approval of cabinet due to national 

security. The lists of posts in independent 

and autonomous departments under 

federal governments should be evolved 

whereon people holding nationality have 

been appointed. 

Minister Imran Khan has 

said that Pakistan Tehreek 

e Insaf is following ‘Naya 

Pakistan’ vision of founder 

of the Nation. 

In his message on social 

networking site twitter, PM 

said that, “Naya Pakistan 

vision is actually the vision 

of our great leader Quaide-Azam 

Muhammad Ali 

Jinnah”. 

PM said that PTI will 

practically translate the 

dreams of Quaid into reality. 

Security Council 

welcomes Yemen 

breakthrough 

GENEVA: Senior UN officials 

briefed the Security 

Council on the details of a UNbrokered 

ceasefire in Yemen 

in and around the key port city 

of Hudaydah, which is expected 

to restore a humanitarian 

lifeline to millions across the 

country, and kickstart imports 

of commercial goods. 

Joining the Council via a 

live videolink from Jordan, 

Martin Griffiths, UN Special 

Envoy of the Secretary- 

General for Yemen, said that 

the talks, which concluded in 

Sweden on Thursday, saw the 

highest level of common 

ground ever established 

between the warring parties, 

during consultations to end the 

country’s brutal war. 

Mr. Griffiths thanked the 

President of Yemen and the 

leader of the opposition 

Houthi delegation for their 

commitment to the consultations 

and expressed his hope 

that the commitments made in 

Sweden will be honoured. 

KHUIRATTA: Indian 

forces violated ceasefire 

and opened fire at 

Khuiratta Sector of Line 

of Control (LoC). 

http://www.dailymessenger.com.pk 

Indian forces violate ceasefire at LoC 

Fencing at 

Pak-Afghan border 

continues: ISPR 

R A W A L P I N D I : 

Pakistan 

Army 

Spokesperson Major 

General Asif Ghafoor, in a 

tweet, on Saturday said 

work on forts and fence 

continues on Pak-Afghan 

border. 

The fencing of border 

and forts will be completed 

in December next year. 

Pakistan shares 2,611 kilometer 

long border with 

Afghanistan. The fencing 

was supposed to be done on 

1,200 kilometer area. Out of 

1,200 kilometer, fencing at 

802 kilometer border area 

has been completed. 

The tweet says out of a 

total 843 forts, fencing of 

233 forts have been completed. 

The fencing working will 

be completed in December 

next year. He said the fencing 

will help to stop cross 

border terrorism and will 

also restrict terrorists’movement 

inside Pakistan. 

LAHORE: A delegation 

of Christian 

Community headed by 

Bishop Dr. Azad Marshal, 

Bishop of Raiwind, 

Church of Pakistan called 

Indian forces targeted 

civilian settlements at 

LoC. No injury was 

reported in the firing 

but it forced the people 

LAHORE: A sessions 

court in Lahore on 

Saturday acquitted two 

accused in jailed Indian 

spy Sarabjit Singh’s murder 

case. 

Additional session 

judge Moeen Khokhar 

announced the verdict after 

all the witnesses retracted 

from their testimonies. 

Singh had illegally 

crossed into Pakistan on 

Aug 29, 1990. He was 

arrested on charges of carrying 

out four bombings in 

Faisalabad, Multan and 

Lahore which killed 14 

Pakistani citizens. 

A convicted Indian spy 

on death row, Singh was 

attacked on April 26, 2013 

by two inmates Amir 

Tanba and Mudasir in Kot 

Lakhpat jail when hecame 

out for lunch from his special 

barrack. 

Singh suffered severe 

to stay indoors. 

Retaliated fire from 

Pakistani forces 

silenced the guns of 

Indian forces. 

Apex court acquits 2 

accused in Indian spy 

Sarabjit murder case 

on Chief Justice of 

Pakistan Mian Saqib 

Nisar in Supreme Court of 

Pakistan, Branch Registry 

at Lahore, Saturday and 

presented a cheque of 

injuries in the head when 

the prisoners assaulted him 

with bricks and other blunt 

weapons whereby he was 

admitted to the Intensive 

Care Unit (ICU) at 

Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital 

where a medical board 

comprising senior neurosurgeons 

treated him. 

He died on May 2, 2013 

after lying in a comatose 

state for five days. 

SC orders Khokhar brothers 

to submit their assets details 

LAHORE: The 

Supreme Court (SC) on 

Saturday ordered the 

Interior Ministry to 

include PML-N leaders 

Afzal Khokhar and his 

brother Sailul Malook 

Khokhar. 

The top court also 

directed the government 

to retrieve asset and 

property earned beyond 

means by Ahad Cheema. 

The orders were 

issued during hearing of 

a suo moto case pertaining 

to encroachment of 

19 acre land of LDA in 

Lahore registry on 

Saturday. The top court 

judge ordered Afzal 

Khokhar and Sailul 

Malook to submit details 

of their properties. 

A two-member bench, 

headed by Supreme 

Court Chief Justice Mian 

Saqib Nisar, conducted 

hearing of the case. 

The court also directed 

to the Khokhar brothers 

to declare whatever 

they have and how they 

owned them. The court 

also directed them to 

retrieve illegally occupied 

land to the government. 

The chief justice 

remarked, the court has 

lots of complaints against 

Khokhar brothers and 

most of the complaints 

are from widows and 

orphan children. He said 

the court will not spare 

any influential those capture 

the property of poor. 

Earlier, the chief justice 

asked Ahad Cheema 

to tell who is responsible 

of all destructions. 

Earlier, a private airline 

and train system and now 

they are going to 

destroyed LDA city. The 

chief justice said what 

was your specialty that 

the government paid you 

Rs1.4 per month salary 

instead of Rs100,000. 

What political benefits 

you provided the government 

that you were 

granted with heavy 

salary. 

Donation to Supreme Court of Pakistan 

and the prime minister of Pakistan 

Diamer Basha and Mohmand Dams fund 

Rs.1.5 Million for donation 

to Supreme Court of 

Pakistan and the Prime 

Minister of Pakistan 

Diamer Basha and 

Mohmand Dams Fund. 

LAHORE: Delegation of Christian Community headed by Bishop Dr. Azad Marshal, 

Bishop of Raiwind, Church of Pakistan presenting a cheque of Rs.1.5 million to Hon’ble 

Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Mian Saqib Nisar as donation to Supreme Court 

of Pakistan and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Diamer Basha and Mohmand Dams 

Fund, at Supreme Court of Pakistan, Branch Registry. 

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Sunday, December 16, 2018 

Metropolitan 

Govt, industry, CNG Association have 

successful talks, resolves gas crisis 

KARACHI: The government, 

industry and CNG 

Association have reached an 

agreement according to 

which the crises regarding 

gas supply to CNG stations 

in Sindh province would be 

resolved. 

In this connection a meeting 

with the leaders of CNG 

Association was held at 

Governor House. The government 

side comprised of 

Governor Sindh Imran 

Ismail, Federal Minister for 

Petroleum Ghulam Sarwar 

Khan and PTI Sindh’s 

General Secretary Haleem 

Adil Sheikh. 

After the meeting talking 

to media, Governor Sindh 

Imran Ismail announced that 

an agreement has reached 

between government, industrialists 

and CNG 

Association. This three-party 

agreement has been reached 

with consensus of all parties 

and this problem resolved. 

He said that on special 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

Muslim League-Nawaz 

(PML-N) leader Abid Sher 

Ali on Saturday accused 

Federal Minister for Water 

Resources Faisal Vawda of 

making property worth billions 

through money laundering 

and china cutting. 

In a video shot in 

London, Abid said that earlier 

he made public Faisal 

Vawda’s property in the 

city’s Hyde Park. 

“Today I am going to 

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Petroleum, Ghulam Sarwar Khan addresses to media 

person during press conference held at Governor House. 

instruction of Prime Minister 

Imran Khan, efforts were 

made to resolve the issue of 

gas closure and the federal 

minister for petroleum had 

already been active in this 

regard. Later, talking to 

media federal petroleum 

minister Sarwar Khan said 

that he held meetings with 

the industrialists, CNG 

show the second property of 

Vawda in Quadrangle which 

is one of London’s most 

expensive area. Here one 

apartment costs five to six 

million pounds,” he maintained. 

Pointing towards the 

building he claimed that 

Vawda owns a property in it. 

“He has his residence 

here. I was waiting for his 

legal notice. Your party PTI 

had said that they will bring 

back looted money of the 

Association and other stakeholders. 

Efforts were made 

to know the reason of the gas 

shortage and agreement was 

made after knowing the 

basic facts. 

He said the PM has 

formed an inquiry committee 

over gas crisis and 

ordered to return only after 

resolving this matter. He 

nation. But people like you 

have bought this property in 

London through money 

earned from china cutting 

and extortion. You have 

brought the money of poor 

Pakistanis in London by illegal 

means,” claimed Abid. 

He went on to say that the 

PTI leader attained a 

National Reconciliation 

Ordinance (NRO) from 

Prime Minister Imran Khan. 

Vawda while responding 

to the accusations termed 

said the gas of the CNG sector 

is being reopened this 

night at 8pm. He said during 

the winter season, the CNG 

would remain closed for 

three days. The SSGC 

would implement the gas 

load management. 

Agreement has also been 

reached about gas supply to 

the captive plants and during 

War of words continues between 

Abid Sher Ali and Faisal Vawda 

Bunvit festival presents 

dance, music, theater, comedy 

KARACHI: Arts Council of Pakistan 

Karachi organized a three days Bunvit festival 

with the coordination of Department of 

culture Sindh and Kaifwala foundation at 

arts Council of Pakistan Karachi. The Three 

days Bunvat festival started on Wednesday 

12 December to Friday 14 December at 

Arts council auditorium. The festival presented 

dance, music, theater, storytelling 

and standup comedy and other cultural 

events on the Pakistani culture and tradition. 

On the first day of Bunvat Festival 

senior journalist Wasut Ullah Khan, writer 

Zafar Miraj, Tariq Siddiqui, Jameel Abbasi 

and Sameena Nazeer presented their art and 

tell stories by their pen. Festival started with 

the play of “Nay Bunvet” and young 

Munaj, Uzma and Sabeen performed a play 

before the audience. 

Annual Degree Show 2018 at KU 

By Staff Reporter 

KARACHI: Annual Degree Show 2018 

organized by Dept. of Visual Studies KU 

will start from 16th December 2018. 

Studios of Architecture, Fine Arts, Graphic 

Design, Textile, Design, Islamic Arts and 

Industrial Design will open from December 

16,17 and 18th, 2018 from 09 am to 4:00 

pm. All the programs will be held at STC 

building Visual Studies Dept. KU. 

SMIU’s weeklong Festival of 

Arts and Ideas concludes 

KARACHI: The annual Festival of 

Arts and Ideas organized by Sindh 

Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) on 

Saturday concluded after weeklong activities, 

which included 40 sessions on various 

subjects and issues, screening of documentaries 

and classical films and quiz 

competitions in which students actively 

participated. 

Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Vice 

Chancellor, SMIU, appreciated various 

committees comprising students and faculty 

which organized the weeklong event 

successfully. 

He also thanked the guests who 

arrived at the event from various parts of 

the country and from foreign territories. 

He said SMIU had pioneered the tradition 

to enhance the leadership qualities of students 

through various innovative means 

and that festival was part of the same 

scheme. 

He said the event provided platform to 

students to expose their talents in various 

forms that would boost their confidence 

and help them improve on that in future. 

He said the annual Festival of Arts and 

Ideas would resume next year as well. 

Speaking at the distinguished lecture 

series, Ameena Saiyid, a former managing 

director of Oxford University Press- 

Pakistan, appreciated the SMIU for 

organizing an inspiring event, adding, 

such events should be held in every university 

in the country. She congratulated 

the SMIU vice chancellor for spearheading 

a successful programme, which 

would provide a wonderful opportunity to 

students to expose their inner capabilities 

and bring young people close to literature 

and books. 

Abid as a ‘maniac’. “He is 

like an animal that can neither 

read English nor write 

in Urdu,” he asserted. 

Vawda pronounced that 

he had promised to get rid of 

Sharif family. “By the grace 

of Allah, Shehbaz Sharif 

was discarded during elections. 

Abid Sher Ali stands 

in front of every building in 

London and claims that it is 

mine. He can do the same 

for Buckingham palace,” he 

said. 

KU organizing beach 

cleaning drive 


KARACHI: A beach 

cleaning drive is organized 

by the Marine Reference 

Collection and Resource 

Center in collaboration with 

Higher 

Commission under HEC’s 

Social Integration Outreach 

Program. The event will be 

held on December 16, 2018, 

at Paradise Point beach, 

Karachi. 

The Principal Investigator 

of the Center, Dr Qadeer 

Mohammad Ali informed 

that the beach cleanup campaign 

focuses on the awareness 

and involving 

University’s students and the 

local community in cleaning 

coastal areas of Karachi. 

“It is a tangible activity 

and brings University’s students 

and locals together to 

do something good towards 

conservation and rehabilitation 

of beaches which would 

result in long-term sustainable 

management.” 

Dr Ali expressed that 

beach cleaning campaign is 

an educational and social 

program to combat with the 

problem of trash in our 

coastal areas. He mentioned 

that the participants would be 

trained in how to use the 

trash material in making various 

artic-rafts. 

the winter season they 

would get half supply. The 

supply of gas would remain 

closed on Sundays. The captive 

plants would be banned 

to sell electricity after making 

it from gas. The captive 

plants would get half supply 

for three months. 

He said the supply of gas 

to domestic, commercial 

and industrial consumers is 

our priority. He said that due 

to the crisis our exports were 

reduced and many people 

became jobless. He said we 

have brought the industry of 

Punjab on LNG and subsidy 

was given to the industries in 

Punjab. He said during last 

five years economic genocide 

was made of workers. 

He said the production from 

oil and gas fields has 

decreased. The Gambat gas 

field was not supplying gas 

to the SSGC. Now 

45mmcfd gas production 

has started from the Gambat 

gas field. 

Annual convocation of 

SIUT awards degrees 

in medical sciences 

Staff Report 

KARACHI: Habib 

University inaugurated a 

first-of-its-kind program, 

Comparative Liberal 

Studies (CLS), an undergraduate 

program bringing 

together four branches of 

knowledge within the neglected 

field of humanities, 

namely: History, 

Philosophy, Religious 

Studies, and Literature. 

Marking the launch of 

interdisciplinary program, 

Habib University held a 

day-long Symposium titled 

‘Critical Knowledge: 

Pioneering Comparative 

PTI distances itself from anti-land 

encroachment operation in Karachi 

KARACHI: Pakistan 

Tehreek-i-Insaf led government 

has distanced itself 

from the ongoing anti-land anti-land 

encroachment operation in 

Karachi as federal minister 

Faisal Wada alleged that 

PTI voters’ properties were 

being damaged in the disguise 

of court order. 

Speaking to media persons 

in Karachi on 

Saturday , Wada said PTI 

had nothing to do with this 

encroachment 

operation in the city. The 

reign of Karachi was not 

with PTI and it was not 

responsible for any such 

operations here. 

He alleged that corruption 

and cheating are being 

KARACHI: President, 

KARACHI: Over three Mohammad Ali Jinnah 

hundred candidates who University, Karachi 

completed different (MAJU) Prof. Dr. Zubair 

courses in the disciplines Shaikh said that in Pakistan 

of medical sciences every year around two lac 

received degrees at the students passed their intermediate 

annual convocation of 

examination out of 

Sindh Institute of Urology which only forty thousands 

Transplantation (SIUT) are being accommodated in 

here today. The candidates 

180 Universities of the 

included Phd's, country for higher educa- 

Bachelor of Sciences, tion. Around one lac sixty 

Nursing and post graduate 

in the field of medical sciences 

thousand youths are forced 

to deprive of getting higher 

and other allied education at university 

fields. 

Visiting professor from 

Harvard Medical School 

level which push them to 

move towards wrong path 

and to became a bad name 

Dr Francis Delmonico for society. In this situation 

was the chief guest while it is the responsibility of 

Dr Nancy Ascher from Higher Education 

University of California 

was the guest of honor. 

Both the visiting medical 

professors felicitated 

Commission, (HEC) and 

education ministry to find 

solution of this burning 

issue so that every youth of 

the graduates and said this country may be provided 

they are fortunate to 

a chance to continue 

obtain their education his education without any 

Education from SIUT which enjoys a 

great stature not only in 

the world of medical treatment 

but also in imparting 

high quality of education. 

They hoped that while 

hurdle which is his fundamental 

right. This he stated 

while talking to students 

and their parents at an 

Open House Session which 

was organized by admission 

serving the society they 

department of the 

will carry the torch of University for the 

SIUT of compassion and 

service to patients. 

Guidance of students who 

have applied for admissions 

in Semester Spring- 

2019. At open house session 

stalls of all bachelors 

and masters degree programs 

were established 

where senior teachers of 

the relevant degree program 

were present to provide 

all related information’s. 

Carrier counseling 

facility was also provided 

during open house session 

to select right subject 

according to capability of 

the student. Deans of 

Computing & Engineering, 

Business Administration & 

Social Sciences and Life 

Sciences faculties, Heads 

of Departments and senior 

faculty members were also 

present on this occasion. 

Speaking on this occasion, 

President, MAJU Prof. Dr. 

Zubair Shaikh said that it is 

our own responsibility to 

make a viable system here 

because the world is moving 

with a system not with 

any human being. He said 

that we must look upon 

towards a system in which 

we must empowered to our 

all stake holders which are 

our management, teachers, 

staff and students who 

should be provided an 

opportunity to have interpersonal 

link and to 

practiced in the disguise of 

so-called anti-land 

encroachment operation. 

The powerful men in the 

city are safe but the weak 

PTI supporters’ properties 

have been destroyed. 

“It is an effort to discredit 

the PTI’s slogan 

“Naya Pakistan” (New 

Pakistan)”, he said. 

OPEN HOUSE SESSION HELD AT MAJU FOR THE 

GUIDENCE OF STUDENTS 

One Lac sixty thousand youths are 

deprive of higher education every year 

KARACHI: Students are collecting information about various degree programs for 

admission in Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi next semester Spring-2019 at 

Open House session held at university campus. 

Liberal Studies at Habib 

University’, which discussed 

recovering local 

spiritual and historical traditions, 

investigating unexplored 

primary sources, 

and engaging in traditional 

or sacred arts and music. 

"One of the goals of the 

new program is to reinvent, 

re-imagine and revive the 

knowledge systems that 

have become marginalized 

and what the study of 

'humanities' has been in the 

past and in the ‘West’", as 

explained by Dr. Nur 

Sobers-Khan, Director of 

the CLS Program at Habib 

University. 

Starting off the event 

was the introduction of 

demonstrate their sense of 

responsibilities. He told 

that two years back when 

he took the charge of 

President, MAJU, he made 

a commitment with him to 

make this university one of 

the leading academic institutions 

of this region within 

next three years. He said 

that by the grace of God 

and continuous hard work 

and dedicated efforts during 

last two years, HEC 

through Chartered 

Inspection & Evolution 

Committee (CIEC) has 

declared MAJU as Ranked 

1st, University in general 

category of Sindh this year. 

He said that it is the duty of 

a University to promote 

research culture in society 

not to distribute Ph D 

degree without any purpose 

and justification. He 

told that at MAJU we 

always made every effort 

to create an effective link 

between industry and academia, 

for this reason we 

have inducted industry oriented 

teachers in our faculty. 

He further told that we 

also attract our students 

towards entrepreneurship 

on completion of their education 

instead of dreaming 

for a good job. 

Critical Knowledge: Reconnecting with Local Heritage 

KARACHI: Women lawyers are trying to convince their colleagues for vote during annual 

election of Karachi Bar at City Court. 


KARACHI: The 

University of Karachi on 

Wednesday advised students 

not to pay any attention 

to a deceiving 

Facebook post which is 

asking them to get register 

for a seminar after paying 

Rs500/- registration fees. 

In a press statement 

issued by the KU Public 

Relations Office, the 

spokesperson has said that 

the varsity has informed 

that the University of 

CLS by Dr. Nauman 

Naqvi, Assistant Professor 

of CLS. 

KU warn students 

not to lure to fraud 

Karachi has no concern 

whatsoever with the socalled 

event “seminar on 

Flat Earth” being viral on 

social media (Facebook) 

nowadays. 

He further said that 

Karachi University would 

like to make it clear that 

individual(s) or group of 

people are misguiding general 

public through the 

post regarding holding of 

such seminar at the Arts 

Auditorium, KU, on 

January 11, 2019.

Wealthy, influential don kidnaps girl 

on giving court witness by father 

ISLAMABAD: The 

owner of Ghuri Town , Raja 

Ali Akbar has kidnapped a 

girl to save his skin from the 

case of terrorism . 

According to the details, 

a case under terrorism act is 

registered in Police Station 

Khanna against seven persons 

including Raja Ali 

Akbar , his sons Raja Safeer 

Akbar and Raja Jahangir 

Akbar on the application of 

Muhammad Iqbal resident 

of Garden Town. 

Now to weaken the case 

, the accused the 12 years 

old daughter of the applicant, 

Qurat-ul-Aain . The 

father of the abducted girl 

lodged an FIR with the 

Police Station Khanna that 

his daughter went to shop, 

near to his house for buying 

something but she did 

not return home. He said in 

his application he had old 

enmity with Ali Akbar as 

he registered a case of terrorism 

against him. Latter 

he was informed on telephone 

that his daughter is 

captured by Raja Ali 

Akbar. He asked the police 

to arrest the culprits 

RAWALPINDI: Just things from market as the tal and they were provided 

after Bait –ul- mal has suspension of Baitul Mal financial assistance from 

stopped funding to the funds has become major Baitul Mal funds for purchasing 

local hospitals, difficulties hindrance in providing the 

medicines and 

for patients in their medical 

medicines to poor patients other treatment related 

treatment has been by hospital management. things from markets which 

increased. 

Poor Patients in the became out of stock in 

Under-treatment and Holy Family, Benazir hospitals. 

under operation patients Bhutto and District Due to suspension of 

are being given the chits Hospital were supplied funds by Bait-ul- Mal to 

for purchasing the medicines 

necessary medicines for local hospitals, the poor 

and other necessary their treatment from hospi- 

patients have to 

purchase 

involved in kidnapping the 

minor girl. 

“When I went court on 

8th December to attend the 

hearing , the accused 

threatened me that they 

Suspension of Bait-ul- Mal funds to hospitals 

adding to financial woes of poor patients 

ISLAMABAD: Singer Nadia Sheikh presenting live performance during Asian 

Excellence Performance Awards at Pakistan National Council of Arts. 

Early completion of construction 

work of girls’ high school demanded 


Citizens have demanded 

that construction work of 

Dhok Jumma Girls High 

School should be started 

again at the earliest. 


reports, Chaklala Cant 


Islamabad police will 

now reward the common 

citizens over following 

traffic rules. According to 

details, minister of State 

for Interior Shehryar 

Afridi has launched the 

Good Citizen Patrol Team 

on Saturday. The 

patrolling team will 

observe the drivers in 

Islamabad Capital 

board has stopped the construction 

work of Dhok 

Jumma Girls High School 

and staff is allegedly has 

lifted all the important 

material and iron for the 

construction of school. 

Boundray walls of the 

schools have been completed 

and now lanter was to be 

laid but work was stopped. 

This project was got 

approved from Malik 

Abrar former MNA during 

tenure of PML-N government. 

Capital police to reward common 

citizens over following traffic rules 

Territory. 

Not only that, they 

will give some reward to 

the good drivers in 

Islamabad. SP Traffic 

Police Farakh Bashir has 

also issued introduction 

video in this regard. He 

said that the initiative is 

meant to give a positive 

impression of police to 

the citizens. It will 

remove the misconception 

of people that police 

can only punish them, he 

said. 

He said that now the 

citizens will know that 

the police can reward 

over good behaviour as 

well. We want to tell the 

people that they are doing 

a good job by driving 

carefully. This will 

encourage them, he 

added. 

QUETTA: Police personnel are trying to stop the protestors of Newspaper Industry 

Action Committee on Judiciary Road. 

costly operation related 

material and medicines out 

of their own pockets which 

has become next to impossible 

for poor and indigent 

patients. The citizens have 

demanded restoration of 

funds from Bait ul Mall to 

allied hospitals to facilitate 

the poor patients. provision 

of funds to local hospitals 

have been stopped. 

Two die, 

one injured in 

road accident 

ALLAHABAD: Two 

people have been killed 

while one other was 

injured due to inefficiency 

of patrolling police. 


reports, a man while riding 

a car along with his wife 

hit with a standing truck 

having no reflectors for the 

last three days in Talondi, 

native village of Allah 

Abad and in front of PSO 

Deepalpur Road. 

As a result both husband 

and wife died on the 

spot while one other sustained 

injuries. 

A huge number of local 

people gathered around the 

place of incident and 

staged protest against the 

police patrolling while 

declaring them responsible 

of the incident. 

Court issues arrest 

warrants of DC 

Jacobabad 

JACOB ABAD: Court 

has issued arrest warrants 

of DC upon not presenting 

the record. 

Additional District Judge 

Ghulam Murtaza Mathelo 

court upon not presenting 

the record on civil appeal 

between Bashir Ahmad 

Pathan and Ghulam Murtaza 

has issued arrest warrants of 

deputy commissioner Jacob 

Abad Imran Butt. 

would kidnap my daughter 

, if I recorded my witness 

against them in the court”, 

he told the police. Though 

police has registered the 

case but could not retrieve 

back the girl. 

It is pertinent to mention 

here that the billionaire 

land mafia’s head 

,Raja Ali Akbar and his 

sons have made state within 

state in connivance with 

the police and other 

departments since two 

decades . They are so 

much powerful that they 

consider the law a rubber 

nose, but Islamabad police 

could not any action 

against them and kidnapping 

of the girl is the fresh 

precedent in this regard. 

District hospital 

Rawalpindi 

doctors will have 

separate cafeteria 

MUZZAFARABAD: 

An eight year boy killed 

two sisters mistakenly. 

Kids were playing at 

Namb Gwara village of 

LAHORE: Railways 

Minister Sheikh Rashid 

Ahmad raised objections 

R A WA L P I N D I : on Shehbaz Sharif’s 

Vice Chancellor appointment as the 

Professor Dr Umar Chairman of Public 

has issued orders for Accounts Committee 

setting up separate (PAC) saying that the 

cafeteria for doctors 

in district headquarters 

move has not sent a good 

message among the public. 

hospital While talking to news- 

Rawalpindi. 

men in Lahore on 

According to media Saturday, he criticized 

reports no cafeteria Pakistan Peoples Party 

was established for (PPP) and said that they 

doctors and other will gain nothing from 

staffers since several holding rallies. 

years and the male “All will be revealed if 

doctors residing in the case of falooda vendor 

hospital or performing 

long duties were 

forced to meet their 

cafeteria related 

requirements in the 

restaurants, hotels 

located outside the 

hospital. The lady 

doctors and female 

staff could not go outside 

hospital to meet 

their needs or take tea 

at the canteen allocated 

for patients. 

The young doctors 

have appreciated the 

announcement by vice 

chancellor professor 

doctor Umar for setting 

up cafeteria for 

doctors. 

ISLAMABAD: A advanced melanoma journal 

Nature 

sprayable anticancer gel tumors yielded promising Nanotechnology. 

that rouses the immune system 

results. 

According to the World 

could help stop tumor Half the mice remained Health Organization 

recurrence and spread after 

surgery. 

tumor-free for at least 60 

days following treatment. 

(WHO), "cancer is a leading 

cause of death worldwide." 

Researchers at the The scientists say that 

They estimate that 

University of California, 

Los Angeles (UCLA) are 

leading the team that is 

developing the gel, which 

comes in the form of a 

sprayable solution. 

not only did the treatment 

help prevent cancerrecurrence 

at the site of surgery, 

but it also helped stop 

tumors forming in other 

parts of the body. 

cancer will cause 9.6 million 

deaths in 2018. 

"One of the trademarks 

of cancer is that it spreads," 

explains co-senior study 

author Zhen Gu, a professor 

Their aim is that one day, A study report on their of bioengineering at 

surgeons will be able to 

spray the solution onto sites 

of tumor removal directly 

after surgery. 

work now features in the UCLA's Samueli School of 

The solution, which 

quickly forms a biodegradable 

gel, contains nanoparticles 

laden with drugs that 

"wake up" the immune system. 

Tests of the substance on 

mice that had undergone 

surgery to remove 


National 

Plandri when Hammad 

picked up a pistol considering 

it a toy. He opened 

fire and killed 6-year 

Aiman at the spot while 

3 

Two sisters killed in Azad Kashmir 

is opened,” he taunted. 

It emerged in 

September that a food vendor 

in a low-income neighbourhood 

of Karachi had 

an account in his name in a 

private bank which contained 

more than two billion 

rupees. 

Rashid also lamented 

over his video leak in 

which he told that Prime 

Minister Imran Khan had 

asked him to join Ministry 

of Information. 

The minister stressed 

that steps are being taken to 

improve the standard of 

Pakistan Railways and to 

her sister Noor was succumbed 

to injuries on way 

to hospital. Police registered 

a case and started 

investigation. 

Sheikh Rashid objects to Shehbaz's 

appointment as PAC chairman 

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Railways, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed addresses to media 

persons during press conference, at Railway Headquarters. 

I S L A M A B A D : 

Mushaal Hussein Mullick, 

wife of Chairman Jammu 

Kashmir Liberation Front 

Yasin Malik has strongly 

condemned the killing of 

ten Kashmiri youth in 

Pulwama district and questioned 

the silence of the 

world community in this 

regard. 

The Chairperson Peace 

and Culture organization 

in her statement on 

Saturday said that the state 

sponsored terrorism 

against the killing of the 

youth has witnessed a 

drastic escalation in recent 

days. 

She stated that Indian 

forces are martyring and 

injuring the Kashmiris on 

daily basis while using the 

prohibited arsenals; however 

she lamented that 

unfortunately the world 

community especially the 

United Nation has yet to 

take any step to stop the 

Engineering. 

The process of cancer 

spread is called metastasis. 

It is the main reason that 

people die of cancer, and it 

is a great challenge to treatment 

developers. 

For many people, a diagnosis 

of cancer leads to 

treatment that involves surgery. 

Nearly 95 percent of 

those with early-stage 

breast cancer, for instance, 

will need surgery. For people 

with brain tumors, surgery 

is often the "first line 

of treatment." 

However, despite surgical 

advances in the past 10 

years, the cancer often 

returns. 

The sprayable gel encapsulates 

calcium carbonate 

nanoparticles charged with 

antibodies that attack a protein 

called CD47. 

provide maximum relief to 

the people. “New passenger 

and freight trains will be 

inaugurated soon including 

a new train between Lahore 

and Rawalpindi,” he 

announced. 

Sheikh Rashid invited 

the private sectors to contribute 

in the development 

of railways, adding that 

VIP trains will be launched 

soon with the collaboration 

of private partners. 

The Minister said 

Pakistan Railways will 

introduce a mobile app for 

conveying trains schedule 

to the people. 

Mushaal strongly condemned killing 

of ten Kashmiri youth in IOK 

unabated human violations 

in the Indian Occupied 

Kashmir that raised many 

questions. 

Mushaal vowed that 

Indian forces cannot stop 

the Kashmiris from their 

right of self-determination 

by resorting to such atrocities, 

adding that independence 

is the fundamental 

right of Kashmiri people 

and no one can deprive 

them of their basic right 

through use of force. 

LAHORE: Security Personal stand alert deal with untoward Situation outside Supreme Court Registry in Provincial Capital. 

Spray gel could reduce cancer spread after surgery 

One of the ways that 

cancer cells avoid the 

immune system is by 

releasing CD47, which 

sends out a "don't eat me" 

signal. 

While the gel is helping 

the wound at the tumor site 

to heal, it slowly releases 

the antibody-charged 

nanoparticles into the body. 

Lead study author Dr. 

Qian Chen, who works as a 

researcher in Prof. Gu's laboratory, 

explains that they 

decided to make the 

nanoparticles out of calcium 

carbonate because the 

compound dissolves slowly 

in the slightly acidic environment 

of surgical 

wounds. 

Calcium carbonate also 

enhances the activity of 

immune cells called 

macrophages, Dr. Chen 

adds.

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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI 

Minxin Pei (Dragonomics) 

Western leaders and institutions should 

distinguish between state-sponsored 

activities and legitimate, mutually beneficial 

cultural, civic, and educational exchanges. 

Since the Cold War ended, the West has invested 

huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political 

liberalization in China, including through programs 

to promote the rule of law, civil society, 

transparency, and government accountability. The 

results have been disappointing. Far from becoming 

more democratic, China has lately been backsliding 

toward hard-line authoritarianism. 

And now it is investing resources in efforts to do 

some inducing of its own in the world's democracies. 

China's influence-peddling in the West has been 

the subject of media reports and think tank studies, 

and has elicited the concern of high-profile politicians, 

from US Vice President Mike Pence to former 

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. 

China's "influence operations," they argue, include 

cultivating ties with Western politicians, establishing 

Confucius Institutes around the world to promote 

Chinese language and culture, expanding the 

global reach of China's official propaganda networks, 

and donations to and exchange programs 

with academic institutions. 

How should Western liberal democracies confront 

a China that is taking a page from their own 

playbook, as it exploits their openness to advance 

its ideological and geopolitical objectives? 

For starters, Western leaders and institutions 

should distinguish between state-sponsored activities 

and legitimate, mutually beneficial cultural, 

civic, and educational exchanges among private citizens 

and entities. 

To be sure, the Communist Party of China's 

sophisticated "United Front" operation - which 

focuses on neutralizing opposition to its policies 

and authority, inside and outside China - often relies 

on private citizens to achieve its objectives. Private 

actors also have informal incentives to curry favor 

with China's rulers by behaving in CPC-friendly 

ways. 

As a result, even ostensibly independent or private 

activities can carry political and reputational 

risks for Western organizations, which may be 

accused of acting as "agents of influence" for 

China. 

Richard N. Haass (Geopolitix) 

To be precise, there is no solution of any sort. 

There is, however, a set of policies that, if adopted, 

would help leaders manage the challenges. 

It was not all that long ago - just a few years, as hard 

as that it is to believe - that Europe appeared to be the part 

of the world most closely resembling the end-of-history 

idyll depicted by Francis Fukuyama at the end of the 

Cold War. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed 

firmly entrenched. 

Not anymore. Parts of Paris are literally burning. The 

United Kingdom is consumed and divided by Brexit. 

Italy is led by an unwieldy left-right coalition that is 

resisting EU budget rules. Germany is contending with a 

political realignment and in the early phases of a transition 

to a new leader. Hungary and Poland have embraced 

the illiberalism seen across much of the world. Spain is 

confronting Catalan nationalism. And Russia is committing 

new acts of aggression against Ukraine. 

In what by historical standards constitutes an instant, 

the future of democracy, prosperity, and peace in Europe 

has become uncertain. Much of what had been widely 

assumed to be settled is not. NATO's rapid demobilization 

after the Cold War looks premature and precipitous. 

There is no single explanation for these developments. 

What we are seeing in France is populism of the 

left, the result of people having difficulty making ends 

meet and rejecting new taxes, whatever the justification 

for them. This is different from what has fueled the rise 

of the far right across Europe: cultural defensiveness 

amid local and global challenges, above all immigration. 

The European Union, for its part, has gradually lost 

its hold on the public imagination. It has been too remote, 

too bureaucratic, and too elite-driven for too long. 

Meanwhile, renewed Russian aggression may simply 

reflect President Vladimir Putin's judgment that, having 

realized large political returns on his previous military 

"investments" in Ukraine and Syria, he had little to fear 

or lose from further actions. 

Europe's political class deserves its share of responsibility 

for today's growing disarray. 

The EU introduced a common currency without a fiscal 

or banking union, making it all but impossible to conduct 

a coherent economic policy. The decision to put the 

UK's continued EU membership to a popular vote, while 

allowing a simple majority to decide the issue and failing 

to spell out the terms of departure, was misguided. 

Likewise, opening Germany's borders to a flood of 

refugees, however pure Chancellor Angela Merkel's 

motives, was sure to trigger a backlash. Most recently, 

French President Emmanuel Macron did himself no 

OPINION 

West must handle China with care 

OPINION 

But that does not mean that Western entities 

should reject outright any opportunity for cooperation 

with Chinese entities and individuals. 

So while the West must exercise vigilance, it 

should avoid overreaction. A donation from a 

Chinese state-owned enterprise to, say, a Western 

academic or cultural institution must be handled 

with extraordinary care, if not rejected outright, 

because it could compromise the recipient's reputation 

or constrain its freedom. But a gift from a 

wealthy Chinese businessperson should be welcomed, 

as long as it is transparent and includes no 

conditions that would infringe on the recipient's 

mission. 

In fact, transparency is one of the most powerful 

mechanisms for protecting Western democratic 

processes from Chinese influence operations. A 

shared code of conduct for dealing with China 

would also help to ensure that democratic values are 

upheld in any deal or collaboration. 

Upholding these values also means that Western 

governments must take care to avoid another kind 

of overreaction: targeting their societies' own citizens 

of Chinese origin. 

Given China's long record of exploiting its diaspora 

for economic and political gain, some in the 

West will be tempted to look upon all ethnic 

Chinese with suspicion, exposing them to discrimination 

and potentially even subjecting them to surveillance. 

But allowing ethnic Chinese to be harassed, 

intimidated, or punished for exercising their civil 

and political rights - say, by making political donations 

or speaking out on issues that matter to them, 

including those related to China - would be a grave 

injustice. 

Western institutions benefit from unparalleled 

resilience, thanks to the liberal-democratic values 

that underpin them. They cannot be easily subverted 

by an authoritarian regime, no matter how many 

cultural exchanges or language institutes it builds. 

In fact, what is most notable about China's efforts to 

spread its influence abroad is not their success, but 

the ease with which they are exposed. Portraying 

them as a genuine threat to the world's democracies 

not only betrays the West's own insecurity, but also 

gives China more credit than it deserves. - Minxin 

Pei is a professor of government at Claremont 

McKenna College and the author of China's Crony 

Capitalism. 

Europe is crumbling, can it 

find common ground? 

favors by backing down to the "Yellow Vest" protesters 

and offering compromises more likely to fuel additional 

demonstrations and exacerbate his country's budget 

predicament. 

We should not assume things will get better. It is only 

a matter of time before France's far-right National Rally 

(formerly the National Front) and political parties across 

Europe figure out how to combine economic and cultural 

populism and threaten the post-World War II political 

order. Italy's hybrid populist government is a version of 

just that. 

The UK will remain torn over its relationship (or lack 

thereof) with the EU no matter what comes of Brexit; 

and it is entirely possible that a post-Brexit UK might 

come under serious strain itself, given renewed calls for 

Irish unity and Scottish independence. There is no formula 

for dividing power between Brussels and capitals 

that would be acceptable to both the EU and national 

governments. Meanwhile, it is far from certain that Putin 

is content or done with his aggression against Ukraine or 

conceivably others. 

Moreover, in a world of increasing inequality, violence 

within and between countries, and climate change, 

the pressures posed by immigration are more likely to 

worsen than fade away. And economic dislocation is 

bound to intensify in a world of global competition and 

new technologies that will eliminate millions of existing 

jobs. 

Why this matters should be obvious. Europe still represents 

a quarter of the world's economy. It is the largest 

constellation of democratic countries. The last century 

demonstrated more than once the cost of a breakdown of 

order on the continent. 

Alas, just as there is no single cause that explains 

Europe's increasing disarray, there is no single solution 

either. To be precise, there is no solution of any sort. 

There is, however, a set of policies that, if adopted, 

would help leaders manage the challenges. 

A comprehensive immigration strategy that balances 

security, human rights, and economic competitiveness is 

one such policy. A defense effort that focuses more on 

how money is spent than on how much is needed would 

go a considerable way in buttressing Europe's security. 

Moreover, deterrence should be strengthened by bolstering 

NATO and further arming Ukraine. Weaning Europe 

from Russian natural gas makes sense as well, which 

implies halting the Nord Stream II pipeline that is meant 

to bring gas directly from Russia to Germany, bypassing 

Ukraine. And additional retraining programs are needed 

for workers whose jobs will disappear as a result of globalization 

and automation. 

Teachers protest against 

ban on casual leave 


Teachers community from 

district Rawalpindi has 

voiced strong protest over 

imposition of ban by education 

department on 

availing casual leave by 

them. 

2 casual leave every 

month and overall 25 casual 

leave during entire year 

were granted to teachers to 

deal with health and death 

related matters and urgent 

works. 


reports, education department 

Rawalpindi has given 

verbal orders to school 

headmasters to stop granting 

casual leave to the 

teachers because monitoring 

teams have started surprise 

raids to check attendance 

of teachers and the 

casual leave is adversely 

affecting the ranking of 

teachers. 

Headmasters have 

informed the teachers that 

only district education 

authority will grant casual 

leave. 

QUETTA: Members of Balochistan Education Employees Action Committee lodge a sitin 

protest in favor of their demands in front of Balochistan Assembly. 

Daherki people 

deprived of train facility 

DAHARKI: Daherki 

city, the economic hub of 

Ghotki District, lacks 

train facility since long 

time. This journey issue 

not only affect citizens 

and people of nearby 

areas but also hits business 

community hard. 

Many businessmen 

have been compelled to 

Encroachment on 300 

acres of land removed 

near Larkana 

LARKANA: Encroachment 

on 300 acres of Sindh forest 

department’s land was 

removed in compliance 

with the orders of the 

Supreme Court of Pakistan 

with the help of heavy 

machinery on Saturday. 

All standing crops were 

destroyed from Bahman 

Plot near Larkana. The 

police and forest department 

officials supervised 

the removal of the 

encroachment. 

Vegetables and wheat 

crops have been grown on 

the land by the habitual 

land grabbers. However, 

Range Forest Officer 

Karim Bux Mangrio and 

District Forest Officer 

Muhammad Ali Unar did 

not disclose the names of 

occupants. 

They told newsmen that 

forest department lands 

were being retrieved from 

the encroachers on the 

directives of the apex 

court. They said standing 

crops, such as wheat and 

vegetables, were recently 

sown in the encroached 

land, which had been 

destroyed with the help of 

heavy machinery and tractors. 

They said that the forest 

department lands would 

now be taken over with the 

help of police as they also 

had received such directions 

to get the state land 

evacuated from the influential 

land grabbers, 

adding no one would be 

spared in this connection. 

It must also be mentioned 

here that millions of 

acres of land and forests of 

Katcha area had been 

forcibly occupied by influential 

Sardars, Pirs and 

landlords having strong 

political support who are 

also involved in deforestation 

on massive scale 

which also need to be 

removed on priority basis 

as they have also been selling 

forest wood which has 

destroyed ecosystem. 

travel by bus to Lahore, 

Karachi and Faisalabad 

for business. It is pity 

that only two trains have 

stop at Daherki Railway 

Station and this is why 

the businessmen of the 

city are using buses for 

long journies for business 

purpose, which is 

not safe journey. 

CHITRAL: Around 85 

families have shifted to 

lower Chitral from 

Rerioveer due to water 

shortage while the remaining 

families are also weighing 

options to migrate. 

Furthermore, 200 families 

have also migrated 

from Morilusht area to 

Chitral City due to looming 

water crises. Chitral district 

is the worst-affected by the 

climate change where people 

are facing severe water 

shortage despite the fact 

that it is home to dozens of 

glaciers, natural streams 

and a river. 

Today, 200 children on 

snow-capped mountains 

area at Rerioveer of Chitral 

A businessman, 

Chaudhary Raza Ashraf 

have appealed to 

Minister Railways 

Shiekh Rasheed Ahmed 

that trains’ stops should 

be restored here besides 

establishing online booking 

offices so that people 

of this region could take 

a sigh of relief. 

staged a protest demonstration 

against water shortage 

and appealed to the Chief 

Justice of Pakistan to take 

notice of the issue. 

The children of various 

schools at Rerioveer in 

upper Chitral were holding 

banners and placards 

inscribed with demands for 

construction of irrigation 

channels, safe drinking 

water schemes and forestation 

to control climate 

change in the Chitral Valley. 

The protesting children 

said their parents had no 

source of income to feed 

families but were bearing 

their school expenses. 

“They used to do farming 

and sell dry fruits but due to 

IBD police register 

FIR against man for 

threatening a woman 


Islamabad police have registered 

an FIR against a 

man after a video of him 

threatening a woman with 

a gun and verbally abusing 

her went viral on social 

media. 

Officers at the Ramna 

police station say the 

footage is old and the suspect 

is currently in China. 

In the video, the man is 

seen waving a pistol at the 

woman and hurling abuses 

at her while she begged for 

forgiveness. The man has 

been identified as Wasif 

Abbasi. 

The case was filed at the 

Ramna police station in 

Islamabad by a friend of 

the woman’s. The woman 

says that Abbasi fooled her 

and wanted to marry her. 

When she refused to meet 

him, he threatened her. 

When she found out he 

was already married, she 

refused to meet him, igniting 

his anger. When she cut 

off communication with 

him he began threatening 

her life. Now she is too 

afraid to go to university. 

Woman, daughter 

beaten, injured 

over petty issue 

PAKPATTAN A woman 

and her minor daughter was 

beaten and injured under 

undisclosed circumstance in 

Pakpattan area on Saturday. 

According to details, the 

victim woman lodged a complaint 

with the local police 

that a local resident 

Muhammad Ashraf along 

with a sub-inspector of 

Pakpattan City police station 

and his team broke into her 

house in Mohollah 

Kokanwala and started beating 

her and her minor daughter. 

The man snatched her 

daughter from her and threw 

her on a burning stove, leaving 

her with burn injuries. 

The police team also took the 

victim woman to the police 

station and threatened her for 

negative consequences. 

Later, the police allowed her 

to leave. 

The victim woman and 

her daughter were taken to 

the District Headquarters 

Hospital Pakpattan where 

they were under treatment till 

the filing of this story. 

85 families migrate to lower 

Chitral due to water scarcity 

climate change, they have 

lost their livelihood,” the 

students said, adding that all 

springs had gone dry and 

agricultural lands barren in 

upper Chitral. 

The protesting students 

appealed to the Prime 

Minister Imran Khan to 

allocate funds for construction 

of irrigation and drinking 

water channels in their 

respective villages. 

Local elders said that 

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, 

during his visit to the district, 

assured them that he 

would ask authority concerned 

to resolve the issue 

of water shortage. But nothing 

has happened as yet, 

they complained. 

HYDERABAD: Inundated road by overflowing sewerage water creating problems for 

commuters, showing negligence of concerned authorities.

Australia recognises west 

Jerusalem as capital of Israel 

SYDNEY: Australia now 

recognises west Jerusalem as 

Israel’s capital, Prime 

Minister Scott Morrison said 

Saturday, but a contentious 

embassy shift from Tel Aviv 

will not occur until a peace 

settlement is achieved. 

Canberra became one of 

just a few governments 

around the world to follow 

US President Donald 

Trump’s lead and recognise 

the contested city as Israel’s 

capital, but Morrison also 

committed to recognising a 

future state of Palestine with 

east Jerusalem as its capital. 

“Australia now recognises 

west Jerusalem – being 

the seat of the Knesset and 

many of the institutions of 

government – is the capital 

of Israel,” Morrison said in a 

speech in Sydney. 

Australia warns citizens 

ahead of expected Jerusalem 

move 

Both Israel and the 

Palestinians claim Jerusalem 

as their capital. 

Most foreign nations 

avoided moving embassies 

there to prevent inflaming 

peace talks on the city’s final 

status – until Trump unilaterally 

moved the US embassy 

there earlier this year. 

“We look forward to 

moving our embassy to west 

Jerusalem when practical, in 

support of and after final status 

of determination,” 

Morrison said, adding that 

work on a new site for the 

embassy was under way. 

In the interim, the prime 

minister said, Australia 

would establish a defence 

and trade office in the west 

of the holy city. 

COLOMBO, SRI Semasinghe, a legislator 

LANKA: Sri Lankan Prime 

Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa 

resigned on Saturday, his son 

and a party lawmaker told 

Reuters, seven weeks after 

from Rajapaksa’s party, told 

Reuters. 

The announcement came 

shortly after the Supreme 

Court banned Rajapakse, 73, 

President Maithripala and his purported government 

Sirisena appointed him in 

controversial circumstances. from exercising the 

powers of the office they 

His son Namal claimed since October. 

Rajapaksa, also a lawmaker, A day earlier, the 

said his father would make a 

special statement at 0830 

GMT “He just signed the 

Supreme Court opened the 

way for potential impeachment 

proceedings against 

resignation letter in front of President Maithripala 

party members,” Shehan Sirisena ruling that he broke 

“Furthermore, recognising 

our commitment to a twostate 

solution, the Australian 

government is also resolved 

to acknowledge the aspirations 

of the Palestinian people 

for a future state with its 

capital in east Jerusalem,” he 

added. Morrison first floated 

a shift in foreign policy in 

October, which angered 

Australia’s immediate neighbour 

Indonesia – the world’s 

most populous Muslim 

nation. 

The issue has put a halt 

on years-long negotiations 

on a bilateral trade deal. 

Canberra on Friday told 

its citizens travelling to 

Indonesia to “exercise a high 

degree of caution”, warning 

of protests in the capital 

Jakarta and popular holiday 

hotspots, including Bali. 

Morrison said it was in 

Australia’s interests to support 

“liberal democracy” in 

the Middle East, and took 

aim at the United Nations he 

Sri Lanka's newly appointed PM 

Rajapaksa resigns - party lawmaker, son 

By SJA Jafri 

Bureau Chief Australia 

MELBOURNE: The 

860 Melbournians who 

stripped off in the name of 

art for a nude photo shoot 

during the heart of 

Melbourne's winter will 

today see the works they 

took part in. 

supermarket 

The naked men and Woolworths 

women joined a series of 

photo shoots in July by 

internationally renowned 

photographer Spencer 

Tunick. 

The final four selected 

images taken during the 

Return of the Nude photo 

shoots are being released 

today, and participants will 

receive limited edition 

prints at a gathering in 

Prahran, in Melbourne's 

inner south-east. 

A virtual reality video 

and a mobile app showing 

the staging of the photographs 

will also be 

released. The photo shoots 

sparked controversy when 

giant 

initially 

denied Tunick access to 

one of its Prahran carparks. 

The company said it was 

concerned about the impact 

on its customers at a weekend, 

but a compromise was 

reached when organisers 

rescheduled the shoot for a 

Monday morning. 

The photo shoot went 

ahead in streets around the 

busy retail strip, Chapel 

Street, with participants 

describing it as a "beautiful, 

respectful" experience. 

Tunick, who currently 

lives in New York's Lower 

Hudson Valley, will not be 

in Melbourne for the 

release but in the past, he 

has praised Melbourne and 

the photo shoot participants 

who braved the wintry conditions. 

"Chapel Street reminds 

me of the East Village in 

New York, Sunset Strip in 

LA, and San Francisco's 

Haight-Ashbury, but all 

combined into one juggernaut," 

he said. 

the law by dissolving parliament 

last month. 

A seven-judge bench 

unanimously agreed that 

Sirisena violated the constitution 

when he dissolved 

parliament last month to prevent 

Rajapakse suffering a 

humiliating defeat on the 

floor of the House. 

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar's 

president has turned a blind 

eye to widespread atrocities 

perpetrated against the 

Rohingya Muslims, describing 

the current year as “auspicious” 

for Rakhine state, 

the epicenter of the 

Rohingya crisis. 

In a statement on 

Saturday, Win Myint congratulated 

the “ethnic brothers 

and sisters” on the 44th 

anniversary of the Rakhine 

National Day and falsely 

claimed that “2018 has been 

an auspicious year.” 

He praised an agreement 

reached between Myanmar 

and Bangladesh to repatriate 

the Rohingya refugees and 

the arrangements made to 

receive “those displaced 

people who have gone over 

to the Bangladesh side.” 

“I wish to urge all 

Rakhine ethnic nationals and 

citizens to participate... (in 

the) transformation of 

Rakhine State into a beautiful 

and happy state,” Myint 

said at the end of his statement. 

The Myanmarese president 

was appointed to his 

position in March by the 

country’s de facto leader 

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has 

faced international condemnation 

for her silent and mishandling 

of the Rohingya 

crisis. 

The Rohingya Muslims, 

who had previously been 

based in Myanmar’s northwestern 

state of Rakhine, 

were subjected to a campaign 

of killings, rape, and 

arson attacks by the military, 

backed by the country’s 

majority Buddhist extremists, 

mainly between late 

2016 and August 2017 in 

what the UN has concluded 

Spencer Tunick's Melbourne nude Truck crash kills 20 

mourners in Nepal 

photos released in vivid colour 

KATHMANDU: At 

least 20 people have died 

when a truck carrying 

mourners returning from a 

funeral ritual plunged 

around 400 meters onto a 

river bank in central Nepal, 

police say. 

Fourteen others were 

injured as the vehicle 

veered off an unpaved narrow 

road in a hilly area 

around 70 kilometers north 

of the capital Kathmandu 

on Friday. 

Police retrieved 18 bodies 

at the site. One person 

died while being taken to 

hospital and another during 

treatment, police official 

Bhimlal Bhattarai said. 

"Bodies were found 

scattered on the river bank 

and slope and we are still 

searching the incident site 

because the total number 

of people on board is still 

not known," said Bhattarai. 

Authorities are yet to 

confirm the cause of the 

crash, but the police said 

excessive speed on the narrow 

road could be one of 

the reasons. 

said was a place Israel is 

‘bullied’. 

The Jerusalem decision 

could help the embattled 

Australian PM – who faces 

the prospect of an election 

drubbing next year – with 

Jewish and conservative 

Christian voters and win him 

friends in the White House. 

The opposition Labor 

party slammed Morrison for 

putting “self-interest ahead 

of the national interest”. 

“Recognising West 

Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, 

while continuing to locate 

Australia’s embassy in Tel 

Aviv, is nothing more than a 

face saving exercise,” shadow 

minister for foreign 

affairs Penny Wong said in a 

statement. “This is a decision 

which is all risk and no 

gain,” she said, adding it puts 

Australia “out of step” with 

the international community. 

Trump’s decision to 

move the US embassy from 

Tel Aviv last May prompted 

tens of thousands of 

Palestinian protesters to 

approach the heavily-protected 

Israeli border. At least 

62 Palestinians were killed 

by Israeli fire that day. 

11 die after 

eating 'toxic' rice at 

Indian temple 

MYSORE: Eleven people 

have died after eating 

rice that had likely been 

contaminated with a toxic 

substance at a Hindu temple 

ceremony, a health official 

says. 

Another 29 people were 

critically ill and undergoing 

emergency treatment 

across various hospitals in 

Mysore, a city in the state 

of Karnataka. 

"11 people have died so 

far and 93 others are hospitalized. 

Out of them, 29 are 

on ventilator support," said 

K. H. Prasad, the health 

officer for Chamraj Nagar 

district where the temple is 

located. 

"It is likely that some 

toxic substance got mixed 

with the rice. The samples 

have been sent for forensic 

testing," Prasad told AFP. 

The patients were being 

treated for vomiting, diarrhea 

and respiratory distress, 

Prasad added. 

LOS ANGELES: Harvey 

Weinstein bragged about 

sleeping with Jennifer 

Lawrence after another actress 

rejected his advances, a lawsuit 

has alleged. 

The latest allegation 

against the film producer 

emerged in court documents 

on Friday, with an unnamed 

woman claiming he forcibly 

performed oral sex on her. 

Weinstein has denied all allegations 

of non-consensual sex. 

According to the lawsuit, 

filed in Los Angeles, 

Weinstein pushed the 

unnamed actress to the ground 

during a meeting at his office 

in 2013 before sexually 

assaulting her. 

When she rejected his 

advances, Weinstein is alleged 

to have asked, "Do you even 

want to be an actress?", 

adding: "I slept with Jennifer 

Lawrence and look where she 

is; she has just won an Oscar." 

Lawrence issued a statement 

on Friday denying she 

had had a sexual relationship 

with Weinstein. "My heart 

breaks for all the women 

who were victimised by 

Harvey Weinstein. I have 

never had anything but a professional 

relationship with 

him. This is yet another 

example of the predatory tactics 

and lies that he engaged 

in to lure countless women." 

The latest accuser, listed 

in legal documents as Jane 

Doe, is suing both Weinstein 

and The Weinstein 

Company, the film studio he 

founded with his brother 

Bob. She alleges sexual battery 

and discrimination. 


International 

5 

Harvey Weinstein bragged about 

sleeping with Jennifer, lawsuit alleges 

Israel's Chief of General Staff traveled 

to UAE twice last month: Report 

JERUSALEM: The 

president of the American 

Israel Public Affairs 

Committee (AIPAC) says 

the chief of staff of the 

Israeli military, Gadi 

Eisenkot, secretly traveled 

twice in November to the 

United Arab Emirates, 

where he met with senior 

officials, as a number of 

Arab countries in the 

Persian Gulf region are 

warming their relations 

with the Tel Aviv regime 

after clandestine contacts. 

Mort Fridman said the 

58-year-old Israeli commander-in-chief 

met with 

Crown Prince of Abu 

Dhabi and Deputy 

ANKARA: Turkey´s 

President Recep Tayyip 

Erdogan and his US counterpart 

Donald Trump 

agreed Friday to "more 

effective coordination" 

between their countries´ 

operations in Syria, according 

to Turkish presidential 

sources, after Ankara threatened 

to launch a new offensive 

in the war-torn nation. 

The two leaders spoke 

by telephone and "agreed to 

ensure more effective cooperation 

on the subject of 

Syria", according to the 

source. 

The conversation came 

after Erdogan on 

Supreme Commander of 

the UAE Armed Forces 

Sheikh Mohammed bin 

Zayed bin Sultan Al 

Nahyan besides a number 

of high-ranking Emirati 

military officials, Israel’s 

Arabic-language MAKAN 

Wednesday warned Turkey 

was planning to launch a 

new operation within the 

"next few days" against the 

33 public television network 

reported. 

The senior AIPAC official 

further noted that an 

agreement on the sale of 

Israeli military hardware to 

the UAE was struck during 

the meeting. 

Erdogan, Trump agree ´more effective´ coordination on Syria 

was genocide. 

The brutal campaign 

forced some 700,000 

Rohingya to flee their homeland 

since August 2017 and 

seek refuge in neighboring 

Bangladesh. 

Many of the displaced 

Rohingya are either living in 

squalid camps or just across 

the border in a plot of land 

known as the “no man’s 

land.” 

The Rohingya Muslims, 

who have lived in Myanmar 

for generations, are denied 

citizenship and branded illegal 

emigrants from 

US-backed Kurdish 

People´s Protection Units 

(YPG) militia in northern 

Syria. 

Ankara views the YPG 

as a "terrorist offshoot" of 

the Kurdistan Workers´ 

Party (PKK), which has 

waged an insurgency 

against the Turkish state 

since 1984 and is considered 

a terror group by 

Ankara and its Western 

allies. 

But the YPG has spearheaded 

the United States´ 

fight against the Islamic 

State group under the banner 

of the Kurdish-led 

Syrian Democratic Forces 

(SDF) alliance. 

During their phone call, 

Erdogan shared with Trump 

"Turkey´s legitimate security 

concerns caused by the 

presence and actions of the 

terrorist organisation 

PKK/PYD/YPG", the 

source said. 

Earlier on Friday at a 

speech in Istanbul, Erdogan 

said he is "determined to 

bring peace and security to 

areas east of the Euphrates" 

River in Syria´s north. 

Washington´s support of 

the Kurdish militia has 

strained relations with 

Turkey over the past couple 

of years. 

Myanmar praises violence-hit Rakhine for ‘auspicious’ year 

Bangladesh, which likewise 

denies them citizenship. 

Their former communities 

in Myanmar have been 

razed. Report say Buddhists 

have been shuttled and settled 

there in newly-built 

structures to repopulate the 

area. 

In late October, 

Bangladesh and Myanmar 

agreed to begin to return 

hundreds of thousands of the 

Rohingya refugees who fled 

last year. 

But the refugees are not 

willing to return, citing serious 

security concerns.

6 


Biz 

Build Asia 2018 is an effort to 

make the world a global village 

RAWALPINDI: 

KARACHI: Mayor Karachi, Waseem Akhtar takes keen interest at stall during Build 

Asia International Exhibition held at Expo Center. 

Sikandar Rajput 

Staff Reporter 

KARACHI: The 14th 

Build Asia International 

Building Material and 

Construction Machinery 

Exhibition & Conference 

started from today and will 

continue till Monday (15-17 

December 2018) at Karachi 

Expo Centre wherein a large 

of number of companies 

over 750 companies exhibiting 

their products including 

250 foreign companies from 


Pakistan Economy Watch 

(PEW) on Saturday asked 

the government to take concrete 

steps to protect the vulnerable 

masses from inflation 

and shield the limping 

economy facing extreme 

pressure. 

Abrupt devaluations 

have filled the masses and 

the business community 

with bewilderment while 

over 20 countries participating 

in the biggest since last 

14 years on background of 

CPEC, Executive Secretary 

Pak-Iran Business and 

Friendship Council 

(PIBFC) Muhammad Taqi 

Alvi told this subscribe. 

According to the details, 

"International Housing, 

Real Estate & Construction 

Industry Show" 

14th Build Asia 

International Building 

Material and Construction 

the investment and expansion 

plans have been put on 

hold, it said. 

Pakistan’s long-term 

debt rating has been downgraded 

by a global rating 

agency due to repayment 

obligations, low foreign 

exchange reserves, and fragile 

fiscal situation which 

should be considered a tip of 

the iceberg, said Dr. 

Murtaza Mughal, President 

Machinery Exhibition & 

Conference is organized by 

full UFI member of the 

Global Association of 

Exhibition Industry (Paris – 

of PEW. 

He said that the government 

claims that the 

exchange rate has now 

reached near to equilibrium 

and is reflective of the market 

conditions while independent 

experts continue to 

question the assertion. 

The exchange rates generally 

move on demand and 

supply in the market and the 

key reason behind the recent 

France), Ecommerce 

Gateway Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd 

with an aim to focus on the 

immense potential of the 

Building and Construction 

Industry in Pakistan. 

Build Asia housing & 

building construction material 

& machinery exhibition 

and conferences will display 

latest Technological 

Advancements of 

Equipments, Materials, 

Services and Techniques in 

the related fields, providing 

opportunities to Overseas 

Exhibitors to interact with 

entrepreneurs in Pakistan 

for joint ventures, transfer 

of technologies and 

Concrete steps demanded to 

protect masses, economy 

ISLAMABAD: 

KARACHI: Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Federal Minister for Petroleum Presiding over a 

meeting at at Pakistan State Oil Head office. 

KARACHI: Justice (retd) 

Amir Hani Muslim said that in 

accordance with the rules & regulations 

the industrial units have 

the obligation to have the treatment 

plants. He said that all the 

industries have obligation that all 

the discharge effluent have to be 

treated at the industrial units primarily. 

He said this while speaking 

as Chief Guest in the first session 

at a seminar on Industrial 

Wastewater Management, organized 

by U.S.-Pakistan Centers for 

Advanced Studies in Water 

(USPCAS-W), Mehran 

University of Engineering & 

Technology (MUET) in collaboration 

with University of Utah, 

USA supported by U.S. Agency 

for International Development 

(USAID), on Saturday. He 

pointed out that before the formation 

of judicial water commission 

there was no treatment plant 

installed in any of the approximately 

four thousand industrial 

units in the province. He told that 

450MGD untreated water was 

being drained into the sea directly. 

It was the Judicial Water 

Commission that compelled the 

provincial and federal authorities 

to install treatment plants, he 

added. He further told that after 

the directions of the commission 

now though a treatment plant 70- 

80MGDwater is now being treated. 

By June 2019, another treatment 

plant with a capacity of 

treating 100MGD water will start 

functioning’ he told. Justice 

(retd) Amir Hani Muslim told 

that Karachi Port Trust has also 

committed to install a treatment 

plant with a capacity to treat 

100MGD water. Furthermore, 

another plant in a span of two 

years time will start operating, he 

mentioned. He said that mismanagement 

is one of the prevailing 

major causes of the water 

crises in Sindh. He said that 

approximately four thousand 

industrial units are operating 

without effluent wastewater 

treatment plants in the province. 

The Chairman said that all the 

industrial unites have been 

directed to install treatment 

plants at their units without ado. 

Justice (Retd) Amir Hani 

Muslim said that industrial units 

would have to be made accountable 

with the purpose of controlling 

untreated wastewater effluent 

in the province. He said that 

industrial pollution is hazardous 

for the people of the province 

and also for the marine life and 

needs not only to be monitored 

by the stakeholder together properly 

and affectively but also find 

out the sustainable solution for 

devaluation was the last fiscal 

year’s $19 billion current 

account deficit which is 

natural but the central bank 

should protect the rupeedollar 

parity, he added. 

Dr. Murtaza Mughal said 

that the forex reserves are 

not enough, therefore, the 

government should finalize 

talks with IMF without any 

delay otherwise rupee will 

come under more pressure. 

appointing agents, distributors, 

partnership for 

expanding their production 

line to Pakistan. 

The interest and overwhelming 

response, participation 

of neighboring 

brotherhood countries like 

China, Iran participation is 

the success of the event. 

KARACHI: Deputy Consul General of Iran, Mohammad 

Nasser Kamanghad and PIBFC Executive Secretary, 

Muhammad Taqi Alvi getting briefing of the products at a 

stall during Build Asia International Exhibition held at 

Expo Centre. 

Govt resolve to 

bolster investment 

climate welcomed 

The 

Federation of Pakistan 

Chambers of Commerce and 

Industry (FPCCI) on Saturday 

lauded the resolve of Prime 

Minister Imran Khan to 

reduce the cost of doing business 

and change the tax 

regime to boost business and 

investment in the country. 

The government seems 

committed to reducing the 

cost of doing business and 

improve country’s ranking in 

the ease of doing business 

index, it said. 

Call to control rupee fall 

to save national wealth 

KARACHI: As the State 

Bank of Pakistan Governor 

has indicated further devaluation 

of Pakistani currency 

against the greenback, All 

Pakistan Business Forum 

Satirdau urged the government 

to control surge of dollar 

against rupee, because 

huge depreciation of Rupee 

continues damaging national 

economy. 

APBF President Syed 

Maaz Mahmood observed 

that cost of deals done by 

the businessmen with their 

foreign counterparts had 

increased manifold due to 

massive fall of rupee against 

dollar. 

“Though the exports of 

the country are recorded at 

$24 billion against the huge 

imports of $60 billion with a 

deficit of $36 billion, but the 

government needs to take 

administrative measures, as 

cash dollars are being flown 

out of three major airports in 

Pakistan.” 

He also appreciated the 

positive development, related 

to the imports, which 

have now started decreasing 

in this financial year followed 

by the government’s 

initiative of imposing regulatory 

duties. 

this nausea. He said that the 

water crises of the province are 

to be resolved at the earliest and 

the commission has tried the 

level best to put all the efforts 

jointly to resolve the issue. He 

also emphasis on the effective 

work should be done for the solid 

waste management which also 

cause wastewater like situation 

around the living areas throughout 

the province. 

Addressing the USAID 

Acting Mission Director Sindh 

and Balochistan Mark Sorensen 

said that USAID is always supported 

the research and academic 

activities in Pakistan to find 

out the way forward for the persisting 

problems like water, energy 

and agriculture. He said that 

the seminar will pave the way for 

the networking, collaborative 

efforts and teamwork to improve 

the management of wastewater 

treatment in the province. He further 

said that USAID funded 

MUET Water Center has committed 

to produce the quality 

graduates which will ultimately 

Govt working to rationalize taxes, bring 

reforms in FBR: Abdul Razzak Dawood 

Adviser 

to the Prime Minister on 

Commerce, Textile, and 

Industries Abdul Razzak 

Dawood has said that the 

government had finalized 

the five-year national tariff 

policy to bring down tariffs 

on raw material and machinery 

imports for export-based 

industries. 

"We are working to 

rationalize certain taxes, regulatory 

and custom duties. 

There are roughly 34 different 

taxes and we are planning 

to shrink them to 12 or 

eight in next couple of years. 

This will help us to meet the 

challenge of one core 

impediment in ease of doing 

business and I know business 

community suffered a 

lot on multiple fronts with 

respect to tax slabs and tariff 

lines." Addressing the 

"Emerging Pakistan" ceremony 

organized by the 

Rawalpindi Chamber of 

NEW YORK: Oil prices 

dropped about 2 percent on 

Friday, weighed down by 

falling US stock markets, 

while weak economic data 

from China pointed to lower 

fuel demand in the world’s 

biggest oil importer. 

Brent crude futures fell 

$1.17 to settle at $60.28 a 

barrel, a 1.90 percent loss. 

US West Texas Intermediate 

(WTI) crude futures lost 

$1.38 to settle at $51.20 a 

barrel, a 2.62 percent loss. 

Global benchmark Brent 

posted a weekly loss of 

almost 2.3 percent, while 

WTI declined nearly 2.7 

percent. 

“The oil complex 

remains vulnerable to heavy 

Commerceand Industry 

(RCCI) at Jinnah 

Convention Center 

Islamabad, Razzak Dawood 

said the governmentin its 

first 100 days had kicked off 

reforms in the Federal board 

of Revenue (FBR) and done 

a major shift in its working. 

"We have decided to take 

policy matters from the 

FBR," and now the Finance 

Ministry would formalize 

the policy in consultation 

with key stakeholders, 

including the business community 

and chamber of 

commerce, he emphasized. 

He appreciated RCCI 

efforts in promoting business 

activities in the region 

through exhibitions and 

assured his cooperation in 

fulfilling their demands of 

converting the old airport 

building into a modern expo 

center and provision of grid 

station to RCCI's Rawat 

Industrial Estate. 

selling into the equities 

especially when combined 

with a strengthening in the 

US dollar as is the case so 

far today,” Jim Ritterbusch, 

president of Ritterbusch and 

Associates, said in a note. 

US equity markets 

broadly fell as China’s 

November retail sales grew 

at their weakest pace since 

He expressed the hope 

that in next 30 days the people 

would see a genuine 

change on economy side as 

"we have done major shuffling 

in policy matters pertaining 

to taxation, exports, 

refunds, regulatory and custom 

dutiesand incentives to 

business community with 

respect to ease of doing business."World 

renowned companies 

including Exxo 

Mobil, Pepsi and Suzuki had 

pledged more investment in 

Pakistan, he added. 

Oil drops 2pc on Wall St 

losses, weak China data 

Pakistani businessmen 

urged to facilitate 

Canadian counterparts 

KARACHi: Canadian 

Trade Commissioner 

Margaux McDonald has 

said that Canada, which has 

been on path to recovery 

since 2014, is open for trade, 

therefore, business community 

of Karachi should focus 

on improving trade ties with 

Canadian business community. 

Speaking at a meeting 

during her visit to KCCI, she 

said that the economy of 

Canada is mainly dependent 

on oil & gas and agriculture. 

Margaux 

said, “The global scenario is 

changing as Brexit is happening 

while the agreement 

of NAFTA was renegotiated 

by US Administration to a 

new agreement called 

USMCA. 

engage themselves to resovle the 

water crises in the country. 

MUET Vice Chancellor of 

Dr. Mohammad Aslam Uqaili 

said that four year ago USP- 

CASW was established with the 

generous support of USAID and 

the Center is primarily producing 

the water experts based on the 

latest curricula, state-of-the- art 

laboratory facilities to resolve the 

water issues of the country. He 

said that since without the quality 

graduates, reliable and tested 

data, one can resolve any related 

issue amicably. He informed that 

out that 35 sugar mills in the 

province are operating without 

any treatment plants which cause 

various water and environment 

issues, the community has to face 

badly. He further assured his full 

support as on academia can do 

for the sustainable solutions for 

the community across the board 

based on applied research. 

USPCAS-W Project 

Directors Dr. Bakshlal Lashari 

from MUET and Dr. Steven 

Burain from University Utah 

also spoke in the first technical 

session regarding the research 

efforts are being made by the 

Center. 

Sindh Minister for Climate 

Change, Coastal Development, 

Information, Science and 

Technology Nawabzada 

Muhammad Taimor Talpur 

speaking as chief guest in the 

second session said that to tackle 

any issue the focused way forward 

works like a torch bearer, 

same is needed to improve the 

2003 and industrial output 

rose the least in nearly three 

years. The report added to 

nerves about US-China 

trade relations. 

Chinese oil refinery 

throughput in November 

fell from October, suggesting 

an easing in oil demand, 

though runs were 2.9 percent 

above year-ago levels. 

World Bank, Canada, UK to assist 

countries in transition from foal 

KATOWICE: The 

World Bank, Canada, and 

the United Kingdom 

today announced financial, 

technical and advisory 

support for developing 

countries that have decided 

to transition away from 

coal and accelerate the 

uptake of cleaner sources 

of energy. 

The Canadian government 

pledged up to CAD 

$275 million to fund the 

Energy Transition and 

McDonald Coal Phase-Out Program. 

This funding will help 

developing countries in 

Asia to slow coal production, 

while scaling up 

energy efficiency and 

low-carbon energy alternatives. 

At the same time, the 

UK government pledged 

£20 million to the World 

Bank’s Energy Sector 

Management Assistance 

Program (ESMAP), a 

global knowledge and 

technical assistance program 

administered by the 

World Bank to help lowand 

middle-income countries 

implement environmentally 

sustainable energy 

solutions. 

Both these programs 

will support the deployment 

of solar and battery 

storage, geothermal and 

offshore wind development, 

coal plant closure, 

and improvement in energy 

efficiency, particularly 

in buildings and cooling. 

Primary responsibility of an industrial unit is to install 

a treatment plant: Justice (retd) Amir Hani Muslim 

management for wastewater 

treatment in the province. 

Quoting that future world war 

was be fought on the water so 

water is very much precious 

commodity the human being 

have but it is diminishing day by 

day. He said that instead of 

using shower for 5 minutes all 

of we misuse it for 20 minutes. 

He said that instead of environment 

friendly we become habitual 

of using anti-environment 

practices like plastics, vehicle 

having higher emissions, wasting 

water in great volume. 

Quoting that Government is for 

the government, of the government 

and by the government. 

He said before water commission 

the SEPA was working 

without any guided direction but 

now due to efforts of Justice 

Amir Hani Muslim, the agency 

is on its better way. He said that 

the educated people should 

come forward which are the 

focused group have to work 

ahead to resolve the problems 

faced by the people.


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Pakistan hockey team’s head 

coach Tauqeer Dar steps down 

Sri Lanka beat India to clinch 

2018 Emerging Asia Cup 

LAHORE: Tauqeer 

Dar resigned as the head 

coach of the Pakistan 

hockey team Friday 

evening. 

Danish Kaleem has 

also stepped down as 

assistant coach. Their resignations 

came shortly 

after Pakistan’s exit from 

the 2018 Hockey World 

Cup in India. 

The side put on a poor 

show in the tournament as 

they failed to register a 

single win. Their best 

Kohli leads Indian fightback on day two in Perth 

PERTH: India expects 

captain Virat Kohli to continue 

to lead from the front 

after he guided their fightback 

on day two of the second 

Test against Australia at 

Perth on Saturday. 

At stumps, the visitors 

had overcome a terrible 

start and were 172 for three, 

still trailing the Australian 

first innings total of 326 by 

154 runs with seven wickets 

in hand. 

The imperious Kohli 

was unbeaten on 82 and 

shaping as the major stumbling 

block for Australia, 

with Ajinkya Rahane also in 

fine form on 51, the pair 

having added 90 for the 

third wicket. 

Paceman Ishant Sharma, 

who claimed four first 

innings wickets and will 

start the Australian second 

innings on a hat-trick, said 

the game was still evenly 

poised. 

However, he believe 

Kohli is their trump card 

heading into day three. 

"We feel pretty confident 

whenever he is batting," he 

said of Kohli. "We finished 

the day in a strong position. 

"It’s equal right now, 

hopefully we’ll win the first 

session tomorrow and turn 

the game in our favour." 

Australian batsman 

Usman Khawaja admitted 

Kohli was the prized wicket, 

but believed his team 

still held the upper hand. 

"We’re still ahead of the 

game in a lot of respects," 

Khawaja said. 

"Virat’s a good batsman, 

he respects good balls and 

tries to put away bad ones. 

"It took them 70 overs to 

get 170, so I still think one 

or two wickets hopefully in 

the first session on Sunday 

will be pretty big for us." 

Up 1-0 in the four-Test 

series, India made a terrible 

start to their first innings 

after cleaning up the 

Australian tail in the morning 

session, before Kohli 

came to the rescue. 

With the last ball before 

lunch, left-arm paceman 

Mitchell Starc found a gap 

between opener Murali 

Vijay’s bat and pad to send 

his stumps flying for a 12- 

ball duck. 

Shortly after play 

resumed both openers were 

gone, with Josh Hazlewood 

getting through KL Rahul’s 

defences to bowl him for 

two with India slumping to 

eight for two on what 

appeared a tricky pitch on 

the first day. 

However, Kohli looked 

comfortable from the 

moment he strode to the 

crease, a crisp on-drive 

from the second ball he 

Amin, Yahya clinch 

titles in tennis tourney 

KARACHI: Amin Shafi 

anf Mohammad Yahya won 

titles in their respective 

events in the 1st NBP 

National Seniors and 

Juniors 

Tennis 

Championships, which 

concluded here at DA 

Creek Club. 

In U-18 singles final, 

Amin Shafi overpowered 

Parbat Kumer in straight 

sets recording a convincing 

6-4, 6-4 victory. 

However, in U-14 singles 

final Yahya faced 

tough resistance from 

Mahatir Muhammad before 

he won the match 7-6, 1-6, 

7-6 to claim the title. 

Meanwhile, Asad Ali 

Bhagat thrashed 

Hyderabad’s Rafi Darbari 

by 6-0, 6-2 score to claim 

the title of 35-plus singles 

event. In 60-plus singles 

final Karim Gul Agha overcame 

Zafar Hassan by 6-2, 

6-6, 7-3 score to annex the 

event’s title to his name. 

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic, Simona 

Halep named by ITF as World Champions 

LONDON: Novak 

Djokovic and Simona 

Halep were named the 

2018 World Champions by 

the International Tennis 

Federation on Thursday 

after each won Grand Slam 

titles and finished the year 

K A R A C H I : 

Mohammad Shoaib has 

won U-18 boys singles 

title after beating Subhan 

Bin Salik in the final in 

Begum Kulsum Saifullah 

Khan National Ranking 

Tennis Tournament 2018 

atop the world rankings. 

Djokovic, recognized 

by the ITF for the sixth 

time, won the Wimbledon 

and US Open titles a year 

after undergoing surgery 

on his right elbow. 

"I am particularly 

here Saturday at the PTF 

Complex in Islamabad. 

Shoaib proved too good 

for Subhan Bin Salik in the 

summit clash and recorded 

a convincing 6-2, 6-3 victory 

to claim the title. 

In U-14 boys singles 

proud of this achievement 

after all that I've been 

through physically this 

year, but part of me always 

believed I could make it 

back to the top," Djokovic 

says. 

Halep, who won the 

French Open in June, 

earned the honor for the 

first time despite being 

unable to compete at the 

WTA Finals because of a 

back injury. 

"To be recognized in 

this way is really special 

and provides extra motivation 

to keep working for 

next season," Halep says. 

Shoaib clinch title in Begum 

Kulsum Tennis Tourney 

semifinals, Sami Zeb 

thrashed Uzair Khan in 

straight-sets by 6-1, 6-4 

victory. 

Meanwhile, Sara 

Mahboob will face Ushna 

Suhail in ladies singles 

final today (Sunday). 

faced from Hazlewood racing 

to the boundary. 

His only real moment of 

concern came on 22, when 

he left a delivery from spinner 

Nathan Lyon and the 

ball just bounced over the 

bails. Kohli faced 181 balls 

and hit nine fours, with a 

25th Test century firmly in 

his sights on a wicket showing 

few of the devils of the 

first day. 

Rahane hit six fours in 

103 and had the honour of 

hitting the first Test match 

six at the new venue. 

The stubborn Pujara 

offered strong support for 

Kohli initially, but fell in 

surprising fashion for 24, 

caught down the leg side by 

wicketkeeper Tim Paine 

from a wayward Starc (2- 

42) delivery. Earlier, India 

had cleaned up the 

Australian tail with Sharma 

claiming 4-41. 

DCTO School wins 

as Leisure Leagues 

School League 

commences 

KARACHI: DCTO 

School defeated 

Blessings Star by 2-1 

score as Leisure 

Leagues Mini-Football 

School League commenced 

here at Kiran 

Foundation School 

Astroturf facility in 

Lyari. 

Ammad and Ishaq 

scored one each for the 

winners in the match. 

Muneer scored one for 

the losing side. 

Meanwhile, the 

match between Happy 

Kids and Foster School 

ended in a 1-1 draw. 

Saad scored for Happy 

Kids while Salah scored 

for Foster School. 

A total of 12 school 

teams are vying for top 

honors in the tournament. 

The 12 school 

teams are Kiran 

Foundation, DCTO, The 

Map, Happy Kids, Super 

Stars, Rose, Foster, 

Blessings Star, Pride 

Zone, DMC, Izzat Khan 

and Headway Grammar 

School. 

Each team will play 

11 matches and the team 

with the most points will 

become the champion of 

the league. 

LONDON: Liverpool 

and Egypt striker 

Mohamed Salah has 

capped a sparkling 2018 

for club and country by 

result was a 1-1 draw 

against Malaysia. 

They could only manage 

to make it to the 

crossover stage where 

they were eliminated by 

the Netherlands. 

Former captains had 

criticised the management 

for the team’s poor show 

in the tournament. 

The Pakistan Hockey 

Federation has formed an 

investigation committee 

to look into the reasons 

for the side’s defeat. 

ECB appoints 

Ashley Giles as its new 

managing director 

LONDON: Former international 

spinnerAshley Giles 

has been appointed as the 

new managing director of 

England men’s cricket, the 

England and Wales Cricket 

Board announced on Friday. 

Giles, currently sport 

director at Warwickshire 

County Cricket Club, 

replaces Andrew Strauss 

who stepped down in 

October. 

The 45-year-old Giles 

who previously served as 

England’s limited-overs 

coach, played 54 Tests for 

England and later worked as 

a national team selector from 

2008 to 2014. 

“I am delighted to be 

joining the ECB and shaping 

the future of England cricket 

throughout the men’s game,” 

said Giles. 

“I am very grateful for 

the opportunity and excited 

about working with some 

talented people. The legacy 

left by Andrew Strauss has 

put the performance programme 

in a stable place.” 

ECB chief executive officer 

Tom Harrison said 

Ashley was the “standout 

candidate”. 

“He will bring a fresh 

perspective to the role and 

build on the excellent work 

carried out by Andrew 

Strauss over the past threeand-a-half 

years,” said 

Harrison. 

“He has a tremendous 

passion for England cricket, 

extensive knowledge of our 

county game, and a wealth 

of experience from playing 

at the highest level to 

becoming a respected leader 

in the sport.” 

COLOMBO: Hosts Sri 

Lanka beat India by a slim 

margin of three runs to win 

the 2018 Emerging Asia 

Cup in Colombo. 

Sri Lanka won the toss 

and elected to bat first. 

They scored 270/7 as 

Kaminthu Mendis and 

Hasitha Boyagoda made 

half centuries. 

Mendis scored 61 runs 

LONDON: The Premier 

League has acknowledged 

that a small number of fans 

have behaved “unacceptably” 

at matches and urged 

supporters to conduct themselves 

in a respectful manner 

in light of recent alleged discriminatory 

incidents. 

Chelsea banned four supporters 

this week pending a 

police investigation into 

alleged racial abuse of 

Manchester City forward 

Raheem Sterling in the 

sides’ league fixture last 

weekend. 

The Metropolitan Police 

also charged four men following 

incidents in the 

North London derby 

between Arsenal and 

Tottenham Hotspur earlier 

this month. 

A banana skin was 

thrown on to the Emirates 

Stadium pitch by one supporter 

after Arsenal’s 

Gabonese striker Pierre- 

Emerick Aubameyang had 

scored in the 4-2 win. 

Anti-discrimination charity 

Kick It Out said last 

month that reports of discriminatory 

abuse within 

football were up 11 percent 

from last season. 

The Premier League 

released a statement on 

Friday calling for respect. 

“Some brilliant football 

off 55 deliveries, with 

three boundaries and a six 

to his name. Boyagoda 

made 54 runs from 62 balls 

after hitting eight boundaries. 

Shehan Jayasuriya 

played a knock of 46 runs, 

which included three 

fours. 

Ankit Rajpoot was the 

pick of the bowlers for 

India as he finished with 

has been played this Premier 

League season and the vast 

majority of fans have generated 

exciting and passionate 

atmospheres in stadiums. 

However, there have been 

incidents recently where a 

very small minority have 

behaved unacceptably,” the 

statement said. 

“As we head into the festive 

season, with matches 

coming thick and fast, we 

ask all supporters to get 

behind their teams in passionate, 

positive and respectful 

ways. 

“Support for a club 

should never include excessive 

aggression or discrimination 

towards the opposition.” 

figures of 2/61 in 10 overs. 

Indian skipper Jayant 

Yadav’s heroics went in 

vain as his side fell three 

runs short of the 271 target. 

Yadav played a knock 

of 71 runs, which included 

five boundaries. Nitish 

Rana made 40 runs off 48 

balls with two fours and a 

maximum to his name. 

Premier League condemns discrimination 

and asks fans to show respect 

LAHORE: Special students are in action of race during special student Olympics at Punjab Stadium . 

winning the prestigious 

BBC African Footballer of 

the Year Award for the second 

time in a row. 

"It's a great feeling to 

win again. I'm happy and I 

would like to win it also 

next year!" said Salah. 

The 26-year-old, who 

beat Medhi Benatia, 

Kalidou Koulibaly, Sadio 

Mane and Thomas Partey 

to the award, is just the 

second player after Jay-Jay 

Okocha to win it two years 

running. 

Yaya Toure is the only 

other player to have twice 

won the award in its current 

form while Nwankwo 

Kanu won it twice when it 

was a broader African 

Sports Personality award. 

Salah scored 44 goals in 

52 games for Liverpool 

last season, his first on 

Merseyside after joining 

them from Roma, and 

helped them to reach the 

Champions League final. 

His club form has continued 

this season with his 

winner against Napoli on 

Tuesday that saw the Reds 

Some Chelsea fans were 

also alleged to have engaged 

in anti-Semitic chanting in 

their Europa League group 

game against Vidi FC in 

Budapest on Thursday. 

The club said any supporters 

found guilty would 

face the strongest possible 

action. European soccer’s 

governing body UEFA said 

they would wait to receive 

their official reports before 

launching an investigation. 

“Anti-Semitism has no 

place in football. So we 

won’t stop fighting it. We 

won’t stop calling it out. We 

won’t stop reporting it. And 

neither should you,” Kick It 

Out told supporters on 

Twitter. 

Mohamed Salah retains BBC African Footballer of Year award 

into the Champions 

League last 16 taking his 

tally to 13. 

"There have been many 

good moments in 2018," 

he added. "I'm scoring 

goals and helping the team 

to get the points to be top 

of the league. That´s 

always a great feeling." 

Salah also scored twice 

for Egypt at the World Cup 

in Russia. 

Earlier in 2018, Salah 

won the English double — 

the Players' Player of the 

Year and the Football 

Writers' Player of the Year. 

Salah also won the 

2017 CAF Player of the 

Year and is one of 10 nominees 

for the 2018 award 

which will be announced 

in January.

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Tripartite talks: Pakistan signs anti-terrorism 

cooperation MoU with China, Afghanistan 

KABUL: Pakistan, 

China and Afghanistan 

signed an anti-terrorism 

cooperation Memorandum 

of Understanding on 

Saturday during the ongoing 

second trilateral ministerial 

dialogue in Kabul. 

The second round of 

Pakistan-Afghanistan- 

China trilateral dialogue is 

being held in Kabul to discuss 

peace as well as economic 

and counter-terrorism 

cooperation. 

Foreign Minister Shah 

Mehmood Qureshi who is 

leading the Pakistani delegation 

at the dialogue signed 

the document along with 

Chinese Foreign Minister 

Yang Yi and their Afghan 

counterpart Salahuddin 

Rabbani. The signing was 

witnessed by Afghan 

President Ashraf Ghani. 

Earlier in the day while 

speaking at the opening session 

of the trilateral talk, FM 

Qureshi said that Pakistan, 

China and Afghanistan will 

ATC seeks JIT report in militants 

shelter and treatment case 

KARACHI: An antiterrorism 

court on Saturday 

directed the Sindh Home 

Department to submit a 

complete report of the Joint 

Investigation Team (JIT) 

in a case regarding sheltering 

and treating suspected 

militants. 

The ATC-II judge heard 

the case and directed the 

Sindh government’s home 

department to submit JIT 

have to collectively foil the 

designs of enemies of peace 

in the region. 

Speaking at the trilateral 

dialogue, the foreign minister 

stressed the need for bolstering 

regional cooperation 

in diverse sectors. 

Reaffirming commitment 

to eradication of terrorism, 

the foreign minister 

said, "Better border management 

between Pakistan 

report. Pak Sarzameen 

Party (PSP) leader Anees 

Kaimkhani, Rauf Siddiqui 

and Usman Muazzam 

appeared before the court. 

Counsel of the accused 

informed the court that Dr 

Asim Hussain is out of 

country for treatment on the 

orders of court. He said that 

Mayor Karachi Waseem 

Akhtar had immunity in the 

case. The court also granted 

and Afghanistan and intelligence 

sharing will be greatly 

beneficial for both the 

countries." "Pakistan will 

continue to play facilitative 

role on Afghan reconciliation 

process," he added. 

"We will do everything to 

support the growing 

momentum towards reconciliation 

provided others 

play their due role and share 

responsibility and create an 

one-day immunity application 

of Abdul Qadir Patel. 

According to prosecution, 

Dr Asim, a close aide 

to former president Asif Ali 

Zardari, has been booked in 

a case pertaining to allegedly 

treating and harbouring 

suspected terrorists, political 

militants and gangsters 

at the North Nazimabad and 

Clifton branches of his hospital 

at the behest of Wasim 

Foolproof security ordered 

for Christmas celebrations 

KARACHI: Sindh Police Inspector General (IG), Dr. Kaleem Imam presides over a high 

level meeting on law and order situation regarding Christmas Day celebration coming 

ahead, held at CPO Headquarters. 

KARACHI: Karachi Traffic Police, Water and 

administration Saturday Sewerage Board. 

ordered foolproof security Member Provincial 

arrangements for churches Assembly representing Christian 

so that the Christian community 

Christian Community 

can celebrate Anthony Naveed and reli- 

Christmas in a festive and gious and social leaders 

peaceful manner. 

from the community, 

The decision was made including Father Saleh 

at a meeting held under the Diego, Father Mario 

chairmanship of Rodrigues, Father Ashir 

Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar, Antony D’Silva, 

Iftikhar Ali Shallwani at his 

office to review the arrangements 

for the security of 

civic facilities around the 

churches as well as the 

Saleem Micael, and Pervaiz 

Gill were also present on 

this occasion. 

It was decided that all 

civic agencies would make 

neighborhood where the special arrangements for 

Christian community ensuring cleanliness around 

resides. The meeting was the churches and instal 

attended among others by 

all Deputy Commissioners, 

senior officials of police, 

KMC, DMCs, CTD, and 

street lights as well on this 

occasion. 

Water Board was asked 

to make special arrangements 

to ensure water supply 

to the churches and the 

neighborhood of the 

community. 

Traffic police was asked to 

make traffic arrangements at 

the churches and ensure no 

traffic congestion takes 

place around the churches. 

It was also decided that 

all deputy commissioners 

would hold meetings with 

the relevant agencies as well 

as the members of Christian 

community to review and 

finalize the arrangements 

with regard to civic facilities 

in their respective districts. 

The Commissioner Karachi 

asked the officials of district 

administration to keep close 

coordination to provide 

maximum cooperation to 

the community. 

Closing flights to Mohenjo Daro will 

create problems: PTI Sindh chief 

LARKANA: Pakistan 

Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Sindh 

Chief Ameer Bakhsh Bhutto 

said Saturday that the missing 

persons issue pertains to 

Sindh government for which 

police and other forces 

should play their role, but 

we will not sit comfortably 

on this pretext and Prime 

Minister will be informed 

about these issues including 

other unemployment and 

development issues in 

Sindh. 

He said the Sindh government 

had kept the people 

on false promises since over 

10 years instead of serving 

them; therefore, it was being 

considered to get Prime 

Minister Imran Khan visited 

every district every month 

for provision of education, 

health, infrastructure, highways 

and other development 

schemes through packages. 

He was while addressing a 

press conference at his residence, 

Dahesar House. 

He said closing flights to 

Mohenjo Daro would create 

a lot of problems for the people 

and we have talked to the 

adviser to PM Naeem-ul- 

Haq and federal minister for 

Civil Aviation Muhammad 

Mian Soomro for resolving 

the issue. 

enabling environment 

towards that end," the foreign 

minister further said. 

Qureshi continued, 

"Pakistan has always supported 

dialogue process for 

peaceful resolution of 

Afghan conflict and our 

stance has now also been 

vindicated by the international 

community. " 

Meanwhile, Chinese 

Foreign Minister Wang Yi 

Akhtar, Pak Sarzameen 

Party president Anis 

Kaimkhani, Muttahida 

Qaumi Movement leader 

Rauf Siddiqui, PPP leader 

Abdul Qadir Patel, former 

MQM leader Saleem 

Shahzad and Pasban leader 

Usman Moazzam. All 

accused in the case have 

been granted bail. The court 

was adjourned till 19 

January 2019. 

Zero: SRK and Salman 

match steps once again 

on 'Issaqbaazi' 

MUMBAI: King Khan 

who is currently gearing up 

for the release of 'Zero', has 

shared a million dollar picture 

featuring himself with 

Salman Khan, who has a 

cameo in the film. Taking to 

his Instagram handle SRK 

shared the picture in which 

the duo can be seen doing the 

signature step from 

'Issaqbaazi', a song from his 

upcoming film 'Zero', in 

which Salman also makes an 

appearance. 

Just a week prior to the 

release of film, SRK visited 

the sets of the reality show 

hosted by Salman to promote 

the movie. While Salman 

and SRK were grooving 

together on the song, the 

audience was having a blast 

watching them putting steps 

together in sync. 

in his remarks said that his 

country desires to make the 

Afghan reconciliation 

process successful. "We will 

play our role to reduce trust 

deficit between Pakistan 

and Afghanistan," Yi said 

and added that his country 

also wants to further 

strengthen relations with 

Afghanistan and desires to 

make it part of CPEC. 

"We support an Afghanled 

and Afghan-owned 

peace process," the Chinese 

foreign minister said. 

This is the second meeting 

of the three foreign ministers 

after their kick-off 

meeting in Beijing last year. 

FM Qureshi is accompanied 

by Foreign Secretary 

Tehmina Janjua and other 

senior officials of the 

Foreign Office on his oneday 

offical visit to Kabul. 

Further, during his daylong 

visit, the foreign minister 

will hold bilateral dialogue 

with his Chinese 

counterpart. 

Young generation 

should be cautious for 

5th generation war 

ISLAMABAD: Minister 

of State for Interior, Shahryar 

Afridi warned younger generation 

to beware of fifth 

generation war unleashed by 

enemy to divide Pakistani 

nation on linguistic, ethnic 

and sectarian basis. 

Addressing a yearly gathering 

of International 

Relations alumni here at 

University of Peshawar, the 

Minister said that youth 

should be flag bearer of 

Pakistani response to this 

hybrid war launched by enemies 

of Pakistan. "Youth 

should take it upon themselves 

to respond to enemy's 

propaganda on all fronts 

whether it is on social, digital 

or conventional media. We 

stand united to foil all sorts of 

propaganda against 

Pakistan," the Minister said. 

The minister said that 

Pakistan had been blessed by 

65 percent of youth who 

would fight Pakistan’s case 

at all levels as they're soldiers 

of Pakistan. 

"Prime Minister Imran 

Khan has said that youth are 

backbone of Pakistan. PTI 

government would heavily 

invest on our youth and all 

sorts of skills would be 

imparted as their capacity 

and skill building," he added. 

The Minister expressed 

resolve of govt to strengthen 

Madrassa (religious seminaries) 

in the country with a 

view to promote peace and 

humanity as per Quran education 

and Sunnah. 

Positive role of construction 

sector can transform economy 

KARACHI: Welcoming the decision of the Supreme 

Court of Pakistan to allow construction of six-storied 

plus buildings in the megacity, subject to following the 

building control rules, Pasban Democratic Party 

President Altaf Shakoor has said that construction sector 

is a real game changer and a positive role of this sector 

can transform our economy. 

He said in a statement here Saturday the megacity 

Karachi needs hundreds of thousands of new housing 

units on urgent basis to cater the pressing needs of growing 

population and without assistance of the real estate, 

builder and developer sector this target could not be 

achieved. He said boosting construction activities in the 

megacity can create plenty of new jobs and boost 

dozens of allied industries like cement and steel. He said 

in this backdrop the verdict of the apex court would give 

the necessary upward push to our sagging economy. 

Altaf Shakoor regretted that some black sheep in the 

construction sector are violating the building control 

rules and putting lives of people at the stake by erecting 

unsafe tall buildings. He said these people are active in 

the old city areas, where they erect multi-storied buildings 

in narrow streets without taking care of their structural 

strength. These dangerous buildings in the densely 

populated old city area could create a big human tragedy 

in case of heavy rains, earthquakes, fires and other 

calamities. He said the Sindh Building Control 

Authority should ensure that these greedy builders and 

unqualified contractors are not given impunity to play 

with the life of innocent citizens. 

Gov’t orders to fill vacant posts 

of lady doctors in hospitals 

MUMBAI: Bollywood 

diva, Anushka Sharma 

made her debut opposite 

Shah Rukh Khan in 2008 

blockbuster 'Rab Ne Bana 

Di Jodi', and later carved a 

niche with films like 'Band 

Baaja Baaraat', 'PK', 

'Sultan', 'NH10'. The actress 

has completed 10 years in 

the movie business and she 

believes the reason for her 

successful run is the unconventional 

choices she has 

made as a performer, producer 

and entrepreneur. 

Anushka will be seen 

again with the co-star from 

her debut film, Shah Rukh 

Khan in 'Zero'. Reportedly, 

the actress was naturally 

apprehensive when she was 

shooting her first film with 

SRK but with every movie, 

she is getting more comfortable 

in working with him. 

In her career, Anushka has 

played challenging roles 

effortlessly. In 'Zero', she 

essays the character of 

Aafia, a scientist suffering 

from cerebral palsy. 

Reportedly, while sharing 

her experience, she 

pointed out that, she is not 

superstitious and expectations 

don't blog her down. 

On the work front, 

Anushka is yet to announce 


Government of Punjab has 

ordered to appoint lady 

doctors on all vacant posts 

across the province including 

Rawalpindi. 

A formal notification 

has also been issued to district 

authorities in this 

regard. 

her next film after the release 

of 'Zero'. She said that she is 

considering three scripts but 

needs time to finalize one. 

She is currently spending 

It has been said in the 

notification that appointment 

on vacant seats of 

lady doctors should be 

made on Ad hoc basis. 

Anushka Sharma on 10 years of Bollywood: 

Expectations don’t blog me down 

KARACHI: Tando Muhammad 

Khanuhamamd Khan becomes the 4th city in 

Sindh on Saturday to get facility of open heart 

surgery at its newly built Cardiovascular 

Diseases (NICVD) Satellite Center. 

Cardiac surgeons announced the first successful 

bypass surgery at this Center, which is 

located in a remote district of Sindh. 

A Pediatric Cardiology Ward was also 

inaugurated by the senior Pakistan People’s 

Party (PPP) leader Syed Naveed Qamar on the 

occasion who vowed to transform the NICVD 

Satellite Center into one of the best cardiac 

hospitals in the country, saying this facility 

would provide cardiac treatment services to 

people of Thatta, Badin, Tharparkar and 

adjoining areas as well. 

Accompanied by Executive Director 

NICVD Prof Nadeem Qamar, Chief of 

Surgery Fazle Rabbi, Prof Khawar Kazmi, 

Head of Anesthesia NICVD Prof Amin 

Khuwaja, Prof Najma Patel, local MPAs and 

PPP leaders, Syed Nadeem Qamar visited different 

wards and sections of the cardiac hospital 

and vowed to bring other health facilities at 

par with NICVD in Tando Muhammad Khan. 

Terming availability of open heart surgery 

and pediatric cardiac ward a good omen for 

residents of Tando Muhammad Khan and 

adjoining areas, Syed Naveed Qamar said 

people of this area could not even travel to 

Karachi for treatment of cardiac ailments but 

now they could avail state of the art cardiac 

treatment closer to their abodes. 

Around 30,000 to 40,000 children are born 

with congenital heart disease or with defective 

hearts at the time of birth, but only a few hundred 

of them are diagnosed and manage to get 

their condition treated while thousands remain 

undiagnosed due to non-availability of heart 

health facilities in their area. 

quality time with husband 

Virat Kohli in Australia. The 

couple ringed in their first 

wedding anniversary on 11 

December. 

Dream of open heart surgery in 

Sindh’s remote area comes true 

“Thousands of children in this area – from 

Tando Muhammad Khan to Thatta, Badin, 

Tharpakar and adjoining areas - are born with 

congenital heart disease, but they remain undiagnosed 

throughout their life and eventually 

die without treatment. Opening of Pediatric 

Cardiology Ward in Tando Muhammad Khan 

would save thousands of lives of children,” 

Chief of Pediatric Cardiology NICVD Prof 

Najma Patel said on the occasion. 

She said that it was her dream to arrange 

diagnosis and treatment facilities for the children 

born in interior Sindh with holes in their 

heart and thanked Prof Nadeem Qamar for 

fulfilling her dream of a facility where poor of 

the poorest people could bring their children 

and avail free of charge cardiac treatment 

services in Tando Muhammad Khan. 

Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Nadeem 

Qamar said it was the 3rd Satellite after 

Sukkur and Larkana where facility of open 

heart surgery had been made available and 

added that soon facility of surgery would be 

made available to other satellite centers of the 

NICVD in the province. 

“Our training program is in full swing and 

soon we would be able to post permanent 

surgeons at each and every Satellite Center in 

Sindh where surgeries would be performed 

on regular basis”, he said adding that NICVD 

surgeons had already performed over 100 

successful heart surgeries at the NICVD with 

zero mortality during last one year. 

According to him, they now had a team 

of five pediatric cardiac surgeons after joining 

of three top surgeons from other hospitals 

in Karachi as well as abroad and added 

that by the time, their 250-bed pediatric 

unit would be completed, they would have 

one of the best pediatric surgery team in the 

world at NICVD. 

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah witnessing the Paradeduring 

57th Parent’s Day ceremony at Cadet College Petaro. 

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