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Brig Ali, 4 majorsjailed over hizbuttahrir connection

No compromiseon right to legislate, decides govt

no ImmunItY for contemnorsg Supreme Court revives Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003 from July 12

ISLAMABADSTAFF REPORT

THE Supreme Court onFriday declared the Con-tempt of Court Law 2012unconstitutional, voidand non-est, and revived

the Contempt of Court Ordi-nance, 2003 with effect from

July 12, the day when the newlaw was enforced with allconsequences.Chief Justice Iftikhar Mo-hammad Chaudhry read outa 21-page short order in theopen court. Earlier, Attor-ney General for PakistanIrfan Qadir concluded hisarguments before the five-judge bench in favor of the

newly-enacted law.While reading out the

order, the chief justice said allpetitions were maintainable

under Article 184(3) as questionsof public importance with reference

to enforcement of fundamental rightswere involved. He said under Article 204

read with Entry 55 of the Fourth Schedule tothe constitution, the high courts and the

Supreme Court had powers to punish any per-son who was found guilty of contempt of courtfalling within the definition of contempt of courtgiven in clause (2) of Article 204.

“Section 3 of the COCA 2012 as a whole isvoid and contrary to the Articles 4, 9, 25 &204(2) of the constitution for the reasons that-the acts of contempt liable to be punished men-tioned in Article 204(2)(b) and some actions ofcontempt of court falling under Article204(2)(c) have been omitted from the defini-tion of contempt of court given in Section 3 ofCOCA 2012,” said the order. The court saidCOCA 2012 had been promulgated underclause 3 of Article 204, which conferred poweron the legislature to make law to regulate theexercise of power by the courts, and not to in-corporate any substantive provision or de-fenses as it has been done in the proviso.“Powers of the courts have been reduced by in-corporating expression ‘by scandalizing aJudge in relation to his office’ whereas in Arti-cle 204(2) the word `Court’ has been used.Similarly, the definition provided by Section 3runs contrary to the provisions of Article63(1)(g) of the constitution according to which,if a person has been convicted/sentenced forridiculing the judiciary, he will be disqualifiedto hold a pubic office, and in Section 3 this ex-pression has been omitted and instead of insti-tution of judiciary, scandalisation of a judge

has been confined in relation to his office,” theorder said. The court also declared subsection(4) of Section 4, Section 6(2), Section 6(3), Sec-tion 8, Section 10(b), Section 11(3) and variousothers unconstitutional. The CJ said the trans-fer of proceedings form one judge/bench toanother judge/bench was the prerogative ofthe chief justice being administrative headof his court, which could not be con-trolled by the legislature, therefore,subsection (3) of Section 8 was in vi-olation of the principle of inde-pendence of judiciary. “Undersubsection (5) of Section 8,legislature cannot exercisepower of transferring acase from the file of chiefjustice to next senior

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ISLAMABADSTAFF REPORT

Striking a defiant note inwake of the SupremeCourt’s verdict declaringthe new Contempt ofCourt law null andvoid, thePakistanPeople’sParty anditscoalitionpartners onFriday nightdecided thatthe governmentwould uphold atall costs theparliament’s rightto legislate. Ameeting of heads ofthe allied partieschaired by President AsifZardari and Prime MinisterRaja Pervaiz Ashraf at thePresidency reiterated thatunder the constitution, the powerto legislate belongs only to the electedrepresentatives and they would notcompromise on this right. SenatorFarhatullah Babar, the spokesman ofPresident Asif Zardari, said in a statementthat the meeting agreed that in thepresent situation there was even greaterneed to remain united and firm. Thecoalition partners resolved to remainunited and firm and face the emergingchallenges with unity, force andconviction, he said. The meeting wasattended among others by SenatorChaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Senator HajiMuhammad Adeel, Senator AfrasiabKhattak, Dr Farooq Sattar, Senator BabarKhan Ghouri, Senator Abbas Khan Afridi,Munir Khan Orakzai and HameedullahJan Afridi. Babar said that Prime MinisterAshraf briefed the meeting participants onthe current power situation in the country.The PM said that the energy situation wassteadily improving and expressed thehope that the crisis will soon be overcome.The spokesperson said that PresidentZardari directed that the cabinet decisionabout zero duty on the import of solarpanels should be implemented withoutdelay to encourage the growth of solarpower and reduce pressure on powersector. The meeting also decided thatspecial measures would be taken toaddress the issues of traders andbusinessmen in Karachi and curb themenace of extortion with an iron handregardless of the political affiliations ofthe suspects. Earlier in the day, ChiefJustice of Pakistan Iftikhar MohammadChaudhry remarked while hearingpetitions challenging the newly passedContempt of Court that the immunityprovided by the new law was contrary tothe fundamentals of the constitution andSections 6 and 8 of the new law wereunconstitutional and were against thefreedom of judiciary. Section 11, whichsays that a hearing will be suspendedwhen an appeal is filed, was also declaredagainst the freedom of the judiciary, withthe chief justice stating that the new lawwas contradictory to Articles 4 and 9 ofthe Constitution. The five-member benchmaintained that no government officialcould be given any immunity, andordered that the 2003 Contempt of CourtOrdinance will now come into effect.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)Chairman Imran Khan on Friday put forward 11questions for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, challenging him to answer thequestions live on TV. Addressing Nawaz, Imranchallenged the PML-N chief to “come in front of thepublic and answer my questions like I am answeringnow”. In response to Opposition Leader Nisar Ali

Khan’s allegations that Imran had not paid any taxes,Imran put forward tax returns for the year 1981-82,saying he paid tax worth Rs 36,000 that year. “YousufIslam is my tax agent and all information about mytaxes is available with him. Anyone can contact him fordetails,” Imran said. The PTI chief said he bought landworth £40 million after selling his London flat in 2003for around £70 million. “All my assets have been

declared and they will also go up on my website. All ofmy properties are in my name, they are not in anyoneelse’s name.”He said he earned the remaining moneyduring the World Cup in India. “In every World Cup,they invite me for commentary and match analysis andthey pay me for it. I am presenting to you the contractof the game plan. The registered company will tell youhow much I earned through it.” staff report

Imran fires 11-question salvo at nawaz

raymond Baker, an internationalrenowned author, wrote in his bookthat nawaz sharif did corruptionworth $417 million. the book saysthat nawaz sharif took a commissionof $160 million from daewoo for themotorway which was recentlymade. If Baker had made a falseallegation, then why did you notinitiate a case against him?

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You bought four apartments inmayfair worth more than rs 1billion. now their value has gone upto rs 4.5 billion. where did you getthe money from?

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In 1994, you stated your income asrs 150,000 and you gave a tax of rs 14,000. If this is your income,then how did you buy a property in mayfair?

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You took a loan from Al taufiqBank worth $30 million and then youdefaulted. they took you to courtand attached your property. fromwhere did you get the money to payback those $30 million?

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where did the people’s tax moneygo? how much of the tax money wasput into raiwind?8

You have 1,700 acres of land inraiwind. where did you get themoney from to buy that land?

You planted a steel mill in Jeddah of $150m.Your tax return does not show that you have enough income to plant a mill.

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You froze your foreign accountsin 1998, but tell us, how much

money did you transfer abroad

the night before?

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Ishaq dar gave an affidavit sayingthat nawaz sharif did moneylaundering by opening a fictitious account by the name ofqazi family in London. the BBc dida film on that too?

You took a loan worth rs 6 billionfrom Pakistani banks and youdefaulted. did you return the loan?

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Saturday, 4 August, 2012

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The road to Shafilea’s family village runsthrough the flat fertile land of Punjab, pastgun shops advertising AK-47s, dingy motor-bike repair shops and butchers’ stalls, theirdarkening meat attracting swarms of flies.

Water buffalo laze in shady copses by theroadside.

There is not a woman in sight.When Shafilea made that journey in

2003 to the farming village of Uttam it musthave been like arriving on a different planet,a world away from her teenage life in War-rington. Her relatives, who live side by side onthe land where they grew up, are tightly inter-married. Honour killings claim the lives ofhundreds of women here each year.

And she would have found that herBritish passport made her a desirable bride ina place where village elders would decide hergroom. That visit provided crucial evidence ofShafilea’s troubled home life, and it was in heruncle’s bathroom – a dark, dingy outhousewhere the lavatory is a hole in the ground –that the prosecution said she deliberatelyharmed herself by drinking bleach after hermother joked that she wouldn’t be returningto Warrington.

Imtiaz Ahmed, her uncle, insists it was anaccident. “The power went out and she drank

the bleach because she thought it was hermouthwash,” he said, sitting on a traditionalcharpoy bed in the spacious entrance hall ofhis new home.

“If there were problems in the familythen we did not know about them. They keptit to themselves.” But he admitted thatShafilea, then 16, had already been offered inmarriage to a local man, Rafakat, who waskeen to marry a woman with a British pass-

port. “His father was looking for an opportu-nity for him to come to the UK,” said MrAhmed. “But that issue had already been set-tled by the time she visited and he had beenrejected.” As he talked, the power cut out - afrequent occurrence in this part of Pakistan -bringing the overhead fan to a halt and inten-sifying the hot, sticky heat.

One of his young sons brought a tray ofsweet, milky tea. He described Shafilea as a

happy girl keen to learn about her Pakistaniroots, who would follow him around the vil-lage meeting neighbours and relatives.

Yet he made no secret of the fact thatfamily wanted the British-born woman tomarry a local, probably a relative.

“In these villages we always want tomarry inside the family,” he explained. “I’mnot in favour of forcing people to marry if theydon’t want to but for us in the family, our chil-dren have always respected our decisions.They are included in our deliberations, sothey respect our decision.” Neighbours saidMr Ahmed was the brother of Shafilea’s fa-ther, Iftikhar, and the two had married sisters– their first cousins – also from the wheatfarming village of Uttam.

Imtiaz Ahmed insisted that neighbourswere mistaken and had assumed they werebrothers as they were so close.

But DNA evidence presented in courtalso suggested that Ifitikhar Ahmed had liedabout the identity of his father, wronglyclaiming he was the son of a British citizen.

Imtiaz, a wheat farmer who minds thefamily land while the rest of his family hasemigrated to the UK, had spent the previousday attending the funeral of a distant relative,who had been murdered as he slept on theroof of his house, the victim of gang rivalries.

The episode is a bitter reminder of the

high rate of killings Pakistan. Women, inparticular, frequently suffer at the hands ofhusbands, brothers and fathers.

Almost 1000 were murdered last yearin “honour killings”, according to theHuman Rights Commission of Pakistan, forapparently damaging their family’s name.Police officers rarely investigate, preferringto accept explanations of suicide at facevalue.

Mr Ahmed reeled off details of dozensof cases in neighbouring towns and villages.

“Everybody knows about it. It’s a regu-lar thing,” he said. “When there are unlaw-ful relations, that’s when they are killed.”

He added that he was shocked to hearof Shafilea’s death and prayed that it wouldnot break up the tightly knit family.

Yet others in the village said they hadlong suspected the family hid a dark secret.Iftikhar, they said, had an explosive temperand had fallen out with his parents, not re-turning even when they were ill. “We neverknew what happened to Shafilea in Englandbut once a member of this family told methat she did not have a good character in theUK,” said a neighbor, on condition ofanonymity. “He did not explain it further tome but they did not seem too upset abouther murder and there were no prayers of-fered here on her death.”

What drove Shafilea to drink bleach?g The Telegraph’s Rob Crilly travelled to Uttam village in Punjab to find out why British national Shafilea Ahmed drank bleach to avoid an arranged marriage

ISLAMABAD APP

INTERIOR Minister RehmanMalik informed the Senate on Fri-day that 14 organisations were op-erating in Balochistan and bothfriends and foes of Pakistan were

equally involved in financing and encour-aging them to cause the uprising.

Enlightening the members on the latestsituation, Malik said, “Give me an opportu-nity and let me tell you what our friends are

doing with us. Let our enemies be put asideand let me give you astonishing facts aboutthe friends.”

In continuation of his Thursday’sspeech delivered to wind up the discus-sion on Balochistan, Malik unveiled nu-merous evidences of linkages among theBaloch dissidents and neighbouringcountries like Afghanistan and India. He,however, avoided naming the friendlycountries and once again requested foran in-camera briefing.

He also showed proof of training campsin Afghanistan and number of official letterswritten by the Afghan State government toits departments regarding providing funds,visas, passports and arms and ammunitionto Brahamdagh Bugti and his operators in-side Balochistan.

He also showed proof of trainingPakistani insurgents within Afghanistanin Kandhar and other areas who werelater sent to Pakistan for carrying outterrorist activities.

Friends, foes equally involved in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD: The cabinet’s special committee on Balochistan on Fridaydecided to meet local Baloch leaders, politicians and people belonging to thesocial sector next week. The committee meeting, presided over by DefenceMinister Naveed Qamar, was held at the Cabinet Division. It was decided in themeeting that the committee would go to Balochistan on Tuesday and would meetthe Baloch leadership. The committee would also ask for recommendations fromthe local Baloch leaders for the recovery of the missing persons. Therecommendations would then be submitted to the Cabinet meeting. INP

Cabinet committee to meet Baloch

leadership next week

LONDON: A British courtfound a Pakistani-born coupleguilty on Friday of murderingtheir “westernised” teenagedaughter in an apparent honorkilling. Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, andhis wife Farzana, 49, were bothfound guilty of murder atChester Crown Court inCheshire, north-west England,after suffocating their 17-year-old daughter Shafilea in 2003.In a high-profile case, Shafilea’ssister Alesha had told the juryher mother had said: “Just finish it here,” as they forced a plastic bag into Shafilea’smouth in front of their other children. Iftikhar Ahmed stood impassively as the verdictswere given, while his wife wiped tears from her eyes with a tissue. They were due to besentenced later on Friday. Three of their children also broke down in tears as theywatched from the courtroom. Shafilea had disappeared from the family home in thetown of Warrington, near Chester, in September 2003, and her body was found fivemonths later on a riverbank in Cumbria, north-west England. Prosecutors said thecouple murdered her because they felt her “western” habits, such as wearing make-upand talking to boys, had brought shame on the family. The court heard that Shafilea hadrun away from home and asked the local authority to provide her with emergencyaccommodation, just before she was drugged and taken to Pakistan in February 2003 tobe forced into a marriage. In a letter to social services, she said she had suffered fromregular domestic violence since she was 15. “One parent would hold me whilst the otherhit me,” she wrote. “I was prevented from attending college and my part-time job.” Hermain reason for running away was that her parents “were going to send me to Pakistanand get me married to someone,” she added. Iftikhar Ahmed, a taxi driver, denied themurder and said Shafilea ran away from home. His wife also denied the killing, but toldthe jury she saw her husband beating Shafilea and believed that he killed her. AFP

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Arif Nizami says;War games: The PTI and the PML-N will learn the hard way.

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The lengthening shadows: With credibility dented, the arduous path ahead.

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Saturday, 4 August, 2012

LAHORE/ DERA GHAZI KHANAGENcIES

FOLLOWING in the footsteps ofhis father Zulfiqar Khosa, formerPunjab chief minister DostMuhammad Khosa on Friday re-signed from the Pakistan Muslim

League-Nawaz (PML-N).Khosa sent his resignation to the PML-

N Punjab office but will remain a memberof the Punjab Assembly. According tosources, Dost Muhammad has excusedhimself from meeting the top leadership ofthe PML-N. Talking to a private TV channel,Dost Khosa was very critical of Punjab ChiefMinister Shahbaz Sharif and termed himthe main reason for the Khosa family’s de-cision of leaving PML-N.

“One man is holding on to several port-folios and refuses to listen even to his party

leaders. Is this how the government is run.It’s time Nawaz Sharif intervenes in thematter?” On Thursday, a PML-N meetingchaired by Nawaz Sharif in Murree dis-cussed the resignation of Dost Muham-mad’s father Zulfiqar Khosa from the party.It is expected that Nawaz Sharif will meetwith Zulfiqar Khosa when he returns to La-hore. It merits mentioning here that DostMuhammad Khosa had differences withPunjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.Khosa’s stature in the party was damagedbadly after his alleged involvement in theSapna case. Zulfiqar Khosa, father of DostMuhammad Khosa, had also resigned fromthe party on Thursday owing to reservationsover the party’s attitude. He complainedthat he and his son were left alone by theparty in hard times.

However, sources have reported thereare possibilities of a meeting between

Nawaz Sharif and Zulfiqar Khosa in thecoming days in which Nawaz will try tomend fences with the Khosa family. Mean-while, INP reported that Khosa’s sons DostMuhammad and Saifuddin had had meet-ings with important Pakistan People’s Partyleaders, including Faryal Talpur. Accordingto INP sources, the PPP had offered theKhosa family complete discretion abouttheir choice of candidates for the con-stituencies in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajan-pur. The sources further said that ZulfiqarKhosa would retain his independent statuseven if he permanently quits the PML-N.They said Saifuddin Khosa was inclined to-wards the PPP. However, the Khosa familywould not join the PTI owing to its politicalrivalry with Legharis. The sources saidKhosa brothers had asked their father not tomeet any PML-N leaders until the outcomeof their contacts with other political leaders.

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dost Muhammad khosaalso abandons PMl-ng former Punjab Cm criticizes Shahbaz Sharif’s handling of affairs

Sharifs getsummons incorruption case

LAHOREINP

The Sharif family has received thesummons issued by RawalpindiAccountability Court in NationalAccountability Bureau (NAB) corruptionreferences relating to Ittefaq Foundriesand Raiwind assets. Iftikhar Ahmed, thesecurity in-charge of Sharif family’sRaiwind palace, received the court’ssummons. The court summoned NawazSharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz,Hassan Nawaz and Mariam Nawaz toappear before the court on the nexthearing of the reference.

ISLAMABADNNI

Attorney General Irfan Qadir on Fri-day said calling the Contempt of CourtAct 2012 null and void was unconsti-

tutional.Commenting on the Supreme

Court’s verdict on Friday‚ he said thedecision had stunned him, adding thatlegislation was the job of parliamentand in this way it was supreme.

The attorney general said the ju-diciary should not interfere in theworkings of the legislature. He alsosaid the court had no power to restoreContempt of Court Ordinance,adding that the Contempt of CourtAct 2012 was good law. Meanwhile‚PPP leader and prominent lawyerFawad Chaudhry said in Friday’s ver-dict‚ the Supreme Court bench hadtransgressed its authority.

Commenting on the verdict in thecontempt of court case‚ he said someobservations were contemptuous to-wards the legislature.

PTI hails SCverdict on newcontempt law

ISLAMABADONlINE

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Fridaywelcomed the Supreme Court’s decisionthat declared the new contempt of courtlaw null and void. A PTI spokesman saidthe party welcomed with open arms thedecision of the Pakistan Supreme Courtstriking the new contempt of court lawwhich was in conflict with Article63(1)(g) of the constitution. Thespokesman said the PTI vehementlysupported justice, humanity and selfesteem and this decision was in line withall these values. “This law has upheld thesupremacy of the law and has paved theway for a more egalitarian andtransparent society,” he said.

JI welcomesstriking down ofcontempt law

LAHOREONlINE

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasanon Friday said the Supreme Court’sdecision striking down the Contempt ofCourt Law 2012 was in line with theconstitution of the country and theaspirations of the nation. The JI chief saidthe law had been cooked up to provideprotection to the rulers and was inconflict with the Quran and the Sunnahas well as the constitution. “No such lawcan be framed or enforced in the countryunder the constitution.” He expressedhope that the Supreme Court’s decisionwould further strengthen the constitutionand constitutional institutions.

Calling Contempt of Court act

2012 void unconstitutional: aG

KARACHIAGENcIES

Even after a month of being notified, theprovincial government has still not suc-ceeded in overcoming the “Ranikhet”disease in peacocks spread over variousregions of Tharparkar, as seven morebirds fall victim to the dreadful conta-gion, raising the overall death toll to 180.

Following up on demands made byorganizations, working to protect pre-cious birds from extinction, the provin-cial government and livestockdepartment made tall claims of takingsolid steps, dispatching poultry expertteams, and carrying out vaccination, butno action was taken.

According to wildlife departmentsources, despite the presence of teamscomprising veterinary experts carrying

medicines to cure the disease, the prob-lem has not been overcome. Residentsof affected areas were terrified over thesituation and repeatedly requested au-thorities to control the disease as soonas possible. Residents of Tharparkarhave threatened to stage protests if moreteams and medicines were not dis-patched to the area to cure “Ranikhet”.

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THE constitution, laws andpolicies in Myanmar (for-merly Burma) restrict reli-

gious freedom and RohingyaMuslims face “severest” form of dis-crimination and restrictions, includ-ing access to education and health,a US report on the state of religiousfreedom said.

Released this week, the annualInternational Religious Freedom Re-port 2011 noted that Muslims acrossMyanmar, as well as ethnic Chineseand Indians, were often required toobtain permission from township au-thorities to leave their hometowns.Authorities often denied Rohingyaand other Muslims living in RakhineState permission to travel for anypurpose, the report says. However, itadds that the permission couldsometimes be obtained throughbribery. Muslims in other regions

were granted more freedom to travel,but still faced restrictions. For exam-ple, Rohingyas living in Rangoonneeded permission from immigra-tion authorities to travel into and outof Rakhine State.

“Muslims in Rakhine State, par-ticularly those of the Rohingya mi-nority group, continued toexperience the severest forms oflegal, economic, educational, andsocial discrimination,” the State De-partment report said, documentingthe plight of Rohingya Muslims dur-ing last year.

There were reports that Bud-dhist physicians would not provideMuslims the endorsement requiredby the Ministry of Health that per-mits Muslims to travel outsideRakhine State to seek advancedmedical treatment. The govern-ment denied citizenship status toRohingyas, claiming that their an-cestors did not reside in the countryat the start of British colonial rule,

as the 1982 citizenship law required.The Rohingyas asserted that theirpresence in the area predates theBritish arrival by several centuries.In November 2008, the UN Com-mittee on the Elimination of Dis-crimination Against Women urgedthe government to review its citizen-ship law. In February 2010, the UNSpecial Rapporteur on the situationof human rights in Myanmar visitedthe country and noted discrimina-tion against Muslims.

Many of the approximately28,500 Rohingya Muslims regis-tered in two refugee camps inBangladesh and the estimated200,000 Rohingya Muslims livingoutside those camps, also inBangladesh, refused to return to thecountry because they feared humanrights abuses, including religiouspersecution. Essentially treated asillegal foreigners, Rohingyas werenot issued Foreigner RegistrationCards (FRCs). Since they also were

not generally eligible for NRCs, Ro-hingyas have been commonly re-ferred to as ‘stateless’. In the run-upto national elections in November2010, the government issued Tem-porary Registration Cards (TRCs) toresidents in northern Rakhine State;the majority of them are Rohingyas.The issuance of TRCs was primarilydone, it appears, to allow Rohingyasparticipation in the elections.

The United Nations High Com-missioner for Refugees (UNHCR)worked with approximately 750,000residents of Rakhine State who didnot hold citizenship in the country.At the end of the reporting period,the UNHCR (quoting governmentestimates) indicated that 85 percentof eligible residents (637,500 state-less persons) over the age of 10 pos-sessed TRCs. The UNHCR noted thataccording to information from indi-viduals in northern Rakhine State,many individuals issued TRCs wereactually only given a TRC number

and no document. The UNHCR alsoassisted Rohingyas with education,health, infrastructure, water and san-itation, and agriculture. Without cit-izenship status Rohingyas did nothave access to secondary educationin state-run schools. Those Muslimstudents from Rakhine State whocompleted high school were not per-mitted to travel outside the state toattend college or university.

During the period covered bythe 2011 report, the document alsomakes note of the government’s im-plementation of considerable polit-ical reforms, but says it did notdemonstrate a trend toward eitherimprovement or deterioration in re-spect for and protection of the rightto religious freedom. The govern-ment maintained restrictions oncertain religious activities and lim-ited freedom of religion, although itgenerally permitted adherents ofgovernment-registered religiousgroups to worship as they chose.

ISLAMABAD AGENcIES

National Assembly StandingCommittee on Water andPower has taken a seriousnote of unscheduled load-shedding and said that thecommitment of exemptingSehar and Iftar timings fromload-shedding has not beenhonored.

A committee meeting washeld on Friday under thechairmanship of Syed Ghu-lam Mustafa Shah and at-tended by members andsenior officials from the Min-istry of Water and Power.

The committee censuredthe Ministry for removing theex-chairman of HESCOBoard of Directors unlawfullyand said that the new Chair-

man had not been appointedon merit. The Secretarynegated the views of themembers and said that theproper procedure had beenfollowed in the appointmentof the new Chairman howeverthe allegation will still be for-warded to SECP for furtherclarification.

On the issue of not fol-lowing scheduled load-shed-

ding timings, the Secretary ofWater and Power said thatdisruption occurred becauseof a severe thunder storm inthe Muzaffargarh area andcaused a shutdown ofChashma I and 2, however70% of the electricity hadbeen restored and effortswould be made not to carry-out unscheduled load-shed-ding during Ramadan.

LAHOREINP

The Punjab government hasstrongly rejected the impressionthat it had gotten a case registeredagainst Midas Advertising Agencyfor political victimization.

In a letter to the president of theAPNS on Friday, the Punjab Infor-mation Department also said a writpetition was filed by senior journal-ists Hamid Mir and Absar Alam inthe Supreme Court seeking ordersfor the anti-corruption DG to com-plete the enquiry pending for the lastthree years. The letter drew theAPNS president’s attention to an-

other writ petition filed by the Trans-parency International Pakistan in theapex court on the subject. It said thematter was sub-judice and progressin the case would be submitted to thecourt accordingly.

The Punjab Information andCulture Department gave details ofthe background of the case. It saidthe Punjab government formed acommittee, headed by Senator Per-vaiz Rashid and comprising the sec-retaries of the IC&YA and Finance,the Punjab additional IG, APNSPresident Mujeebur RehmanShami, Arif Nizami, Dr JabbarKhatak, and Syed Sarmad Aliamong others as members on the is-

sues of Midas. The committee had ameeting on August 5, 2009 andunanimously decided that in view ofthe lengthy process involved in theselection of audit firms, the ac-counts of DGPR Punjab be auditedby the Auditor General Pakistan. Acopy of the audit report was sent tothe APNS on June 22, 2011.

The letter drew the attention ofthe APNS to the fact that the Plan-ning deputy secretary, through a let-ter dated February 17, 2011,requested the society to persuadethe management of Midas (Pvt) Ltdto return Rs 63,25,90,464 to thegovernment as pointed out by theaudit but to no avail

The letter said the Anti-Corrup-tion Establishment had lodged anFIR after holding a proper enquiryinto the matter of bogus payment bythe Punjab Development Fund Ad-vertisements. It The said the en-quiry was pending since the lastthree years in the Anti CorruptionEstablishment and Midas alsojoined the enquiry proceedingsbeing conducted by the Anti Corrup-tion Establishment. Moreover, acase had been registered against theofficers of the DGPR and the Midaschief executive as well. Therefore, itwas not justified to say that it was aunilateral action against the agency.

The letter to the APNS stated

that the Midas chief executivemight join the investigation as theofficers of the DGPR were doingand could produce documentaryevidence of the agency’s inno-cence, if any, before the investiga-tion officer for its acquittal fromthe case. The letter stated that ofthe proposed recovery of Rs63,25,90,464 pointed out by theteam of the auditor general, anamount of Rs 9,43,86,075 relatedto the advertisements in the printmedia while the remaining recov-ery pertained to electronic mediaadvertisement bills, which obvi-ously did not come within thepurview of the APNS.

PESHAWARSTAFF REPORT

In accordance with instruc-tions from the KhyberPakhtunkhwa government,the administration in Chitralinitiated action against thosepeople locals who were re-cruited in the AfghanistanNational Army or by in theAfghan Police.

Through some highly-placed official sources, Pak-istan Today came to know onFriday that soon after gettingreceiving instructions fromthe Home and Tribal AffairsDepartment, the district ad-ministration arranged in anemergency meeting.

Beside high- ranking civilofficers, the meeting was alsoattended by senior officials ofthe Chitral Police, Levies andsecret agencies. The meetingdiscussed in depth the issue,pertaining ed to the recruit-ments of Chitral Youths in theAfghanistan National Army andother law enforcement agen-cies. The official sources said themeeting decided to establishcontacts with the communityand families as well from wherethe youths had joined theAfghan National Army.

In the first phase, suchfamilies would be requestedto ask the youths to returnotherwise all of their officialperks and privileges could bewithdrawn. Similarly, thegovernment departmentswould be directed to stop so-cial and utility services tosuch families and communi-

ties. The Chitral District Ad-ministration had earlier col-lected details of such Afghanyouths a year ago.

When contacted, the offi-cials in Chitral said a year-and -a –half ago, the admin-istration received reports re-garding some of the youthsbeing recruited in theAfghanistan National Army.

The administration inthis respect issued notices tothose people. and Seven ofthem haved quit the servicesand returned to their villages. Bbut some of them are werestill associated with theAfghan armed forces andother law enforcing agencies.In response to a question, theofficial said the number of lo-cals people recruited in theAfghanistan National Armymight be from 15 to 20. How-ever, he said the administra-tion was in contact with theelders and community lead-ers for their return.

“The administration hasalready directed local civiladministration and person-nel of law enforcement andsecret agencies for suspend-ing all official privileges tothese people and take actionagainst them accordingly.The official, however, saidnow they were going to con-duct another survey to con-firm who was reports of whowas recruited in the AfghanNational aArmy. He said peo-ple living along the Pak-Afghan border in Chitraldistrict were always gettingbenefits from both countries.

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judge as it would be againstthe independentfunctioning of the court andlegislative interference inthis behalf is tantamount toundermining the authorityof the chief justice andother judges as well. Assuch, this provision too isnot sustainable,” he added.Earlier, during the hearingof the case, Chief JusticeIftikhar MohammadChaudhry remarked thatthe immunity provided bythe new law was contrary tothe fundamentals of theconstitution and Sections 6and 8 of the new law wereunconstitutional and wereagainst the freedom ofjudiciary. The Section 11,which says that a hearingwill be suspended when anappeal is filed, was alsodeclared against thefreedom of the judiciary,with the chief justice statingthat the new law wascontradictory to the Article4 and 9 of the Constitution.No government official canbe given any immunity, thebench maintained, addingthat the 2003 contempt ofcourt ordinance will nowcome into effect. Earlierduring the hearing,Attorney General IrfanQadir completed hisarguments and petitionerswere ordered by the chiefjustice to give rejoinders aswritten statements due tolack of time. Qadir arguedthat the words of theconstitution should be“given new meanings” inaccordance with the law,leaving the bench in a shock.“You are the attorneygeneral of Pakistan, howcan you make such astatement?” remarked ChiefJustice Iftikhar MohammadChaudhry, with JusticeTassaduq Jilani warning,“You should know theconsequences of such astatement.” Justice Khawajaremarked that such astatement was not possible.

Prominent figures come

defectors and the delay hasbeen made just to makesure that all the pointsraised in responses are in-cluded in the references,”he added. Those who havesubmitted their replies in-cluded Kashmala Tariq,Asim Nazir, Krishan Chand Perwani,Sumaira Malik, Dr DoniyaAziz and others.“Under Shujaat’s directions,SM Zafar would submit thereferences against theparty’s eight defectinglawmakers under Article 63-A to the NA speaker soon,”Malik said. Defending theparty’s decision to put thereferences on hold, Maliksaid that since thereferences would be decidedby the new chief electioncommissioner, Justice (r)Fakharuddin G Ebrahim, itwas necessary for the partyto cover all aspects raised bythe Likeminded group’slawyer Salman Akram Raja.All the eight MNAs wereelected on PML-Q ticket in2008 polls. During primeminister’s election on June20, they refused to vote forPakistan People’s Party(PPP) candidate RajaPervaiz Ashraf.

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KARACHIAFP

Barkat Khan was shot dead as he slept, curledup in the muck in one of the roughest partsof Karachi. He was a dirt-poor 13-year-oldAfghan who never went to school and neverdared to dream of a better life.

Friends say he was an innocent victim ofan increasingly vicious cycle of ethnic vio-lence in the country’s largest city, a battle-ground between economic migrants from thenorthwest and Afghanistan, and original set-tlers from India.

Barkat was one of more than 20,000children – the vast majority of them Afghans– who work for $2 a day, collecting rubbishdumped by the 18 million residents ofKarachi.

They toil from dawn to night, braving thepunishing summer climate and health dan-gers posed by toxic waste. Without passportsand legal status, they have little protection.

And now they are caught up in one ofPakistan’s most under-reported wars: the vi-olence that tears neighbourhoods of thecountry’s richest city to shreds, trampling un-derfoot the unknown and the defenceless.

“Karachi has become too dangerous.People are being killed indiscriminately,among them, my friend,” said a mournful 12-year-old Jamali, picking up a soggy piece ofcardboard. He and Barkat came to Pakistanas babies when their parents fled the south-ern city of Kandahar when US-led troops in-vaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.

Like tens of thousands of Afghans, thefamily eventually moved to Karachi in searchof work, abandoning their first port of call,Quetta, where Taliban and their families aresaid to have settled.

“Barkat started collecting garbage rightafter arriving in Karachi, along with his fa-ther. Our families lived together for sometime,” said Jamali.

Five years later, Barkat was dead, shot in

May at point blank range as he slept outsidea food stall that offers free dinners toKarachi’s poorest. His parents are devastatedby the loss of their only child. “Barkat was alovable boy, very hardworking, who wantedto earn a lot of money to see his parentshappy, especially his mother who is shatteredafter his death,” said his cousin, MohammadMukhtar, 19, who also collects rubbish.

“Relatives told me that she hasn’t yet re-covered from the shock.”

Police say Barkat was an unwitting victimof ethnic and political violence that hasreached record levels in Karachi, the citywhich accounts for 42 percent of the GDP.

The Human Rights Commission of Pak-istan says more than 1,100 people have beenkilled so far this year – the vast majority with-out any political affiliation whatsoever.

If the killings continue at the same pace,2012 will top the 1,715 who perished last year,itself the worst death toll in 16 years.

The troubles are blamed on Mohajirs,Urdu speakers who migrated from India afterpartition and who dominate the city, and aninflux of Pashtuns from Afghanistan and thenorthwest.

Migration and population growth haveput enormous pressure on resources in theArabian Sea port city, where the economy has

been under serious pressure since 9/11.According to official figures, there are

500,000 Afghans in the city, 80 percent reg-istered as refugees and the rest undocu-mented or illegal economic migrants.

The vast majority of them live in poverty,like Jamali who lives in Koochi, one of threeghettos reserved for Afghans in the city.

His family lives near the neighbourhoodwhere a UN doctor from Ghana was shotwhile working on a polio vaccination pro-gramme that had been condemned by theTaliban.

But the rag-pickers live at around 400compounds dotted around the city, divided

by bamboo into dozens of cubicles shadedfrom the sun by polythene sheets.

Each cubicle is shared by two to three,who pile up plastic bags stuffed with waste tosnatch a few hours’ sleep, before rising atdawn to start again.

Karachi produces around 12,000 tonnesof waste a day and has no proper solid wastedisposal system. Much of it goes into thedrains or is dumped along roads or across thecity.

Part of it ends up at government desig-nated landfill sites, which seldom handlewaste disposal on any scientific basis.

Contractors pay money to their parentsevery week, based on the weight of the rub-bish they collect, and the children eat atrestaurants and charities offering free meals,in order to save as much of their salaries aspossible for their families.

The refuse is sold onto middlemen, whosell it to recycling factories – paper, card-board, copper, iron, animal bones and otherdiscarded articles are all in high demand.

Officials say rag-pickers do a valuablejob, but that there are risks involved.

Rana Asif Habib, head of Initiator, acharity working for underprivileged children,says they handle hospital waste without thenecessary protection kits, leading to contrac-tions of diseases such as hepatitis and scabies.

“They also get infected by eating foodfrom the garbage. They can’t afford to see adoctor. If they want to, no state-run hospitalstreat them well.”

Afghans are particularly vulnerable, headded.

“They are often antagonised by policeand their employers, but they can’t complainbecause they are not Pakistanis.”

Despite the dangers, Jamali still thinksKarachi is better than Afghanistan.

“Karachi is very dangerous. Nobodyknows when a bullet will hit, yet we have a lotmore opportunities here. We are not goinganywhere now.”

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ISLAMABADNNI

THE Supreme Court onFriday warned of ac-tion against InteriorSecretary KhawajaSiddiq Akbar if he

failed to appear before the benchon the next hearing in theephedrine quota case.

A three-member SC bench,headed by Chief Justice IftikharMuhammad Chaudhry, washearing the case.

Earlier on Wednesday, thecourt had accepted a requestfiled by Muhammad Tanvir, asenior official of the govern-ment’s drug regulatory body, forbecoming a party to the case.

Tanvir had requested thecourt to save him from victimisa-tion over his testimony in the

ephedrine quota case.During the hearing, the sec-

retary for National Regulationsand Services, Imtiaz InayatElahi, appeared in court but theinterior secretary did not. Thecourt expressed annoyance overthe secretary’s absence and thechief justice warned that legalproceedings would be initiatedagainst Abkar if he failed to ap-pear before the bench in the nexthearing.

The bench later adjournedthe hearing until August 6.

On August 1, Tanvir had ac-cused Akbar of threatening himto exonerate former health secre-tary Khushnood Akhtar Lasharifrom the ephedrine drug scam,or face consequences. The benchhad subsequently issued a noticeto the interior secretary.

Tanvir had also alleged that

he was being harassed by Minis-ter for National Regulation andServices Firdous Ashiq Awanand administration member DrAbdul Rashid.

Earlier on July 4, Tanvir hadtold the bench that he had beenmade an officer on special duty(OSD) and transferred to Gilgit-Baltistan despite the fact thatthere was no office, staff, budgetor any other equipment to per-form duty in the region.

The applicant had claimedthat he had been subjected tovictimisation because of thestatement he had recorded be-fore the Anti-Narcotics Force(ANF) investigating theephedrine scandal and for hisconstant opposition to the grantof unlawful and illegal drugsquotas of ephedrine on fake de-mand for manufacturing tablets.

EPhEdriNE CaSE

CJ warns of action ifinterior secretary failsto appear in court

ISLAMABADAPP

President Asif Ali Zardari Friday saidthat he looked forward to early con-stitution of the commission thatwould look into the issues of the cre-ation of separate province and to ini-tiate the process of amendments inthe constitution.

He added that creating a separateprovince was part of PPP’s nation-building process and it would furtherstrengthen the federation.

Talking to a delegation compris-ing notables and parliamentariansfrom Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagarhere at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, the presi-dent said the new province wouldhelp address the issues of fair distri-

bution of resources.He said it would also create eco-

nomic opportunities and addresslegislative and administrative em-powerment and other issues ofmajor concern to the people ofSouth Punjab.

The president said that theparty took the first concrete stepwith the help of its allies, tablingand adopting a resolution in thelower house of the parliament.

He called upon the parliamentar-ians and notables to go to the massesand put the issue of South Punjab inthe correct perspective as the creationof a separate province was not aimedagainst anyone but was part of the na-tion building process of PPP.

The president reiterated that the

PPP was an egalitarian party whichbelieved in the nation-buildingprocess and not merely in the politicsof sloganeering for getting votes.

He said that the PPP was sincerewith the people of South Punjab andthat is why it promised separateprovince to them keeping in viewtheir aspirations and legitimate de-mands. He said that the party willcontinue making all efforts to fulfill itspromise during its current tenure.

The participants also spoke onhost of issues with special referenceto the issues being faced by the peo-ple of Southern Punjab including theprevailing energy crisis. They alsobrought various developmental is-sues of their areas to the attention ofthe president.

‘StrENgthENiNg thE fEdEratiON’

president for early constitutionof commission on new provinces

dual NatiONality CaSE

LHC suspends PML-N MPA’s membershipLAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday suspended PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Rana Asif’s membership fromPunjab Assembly (PA) in dual nationality case. A petition was submitted inthe LHC against MPA Rana Asif, who holds Pakistani and Canadiannationalities. The petitioner said that according to the constitution, a dualnationality holder could not contest election. The court accepted the petitionfor hearing after suspending of Rana Asif’s membership. Rana Asif told thecourt that his Canadian nationality was temporary, and was not affected bythe constitution. The court barred the PML-N politician from attending thePunjab Assembly sessions, while remarking that Rana Asif possesses aCanadian passport, which is issued only to citizens. After suspending Rana’sPA membership, the court said the dual nationality holders could not becomemembers of the assembly. The LHC, adjourned the hearing until October 12,and asked Rana Asif to present his passport in the next hearing. STAFF REPORT

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KARACHIAGENcIES

AS many as four morepersons were declareddengue positive in thecity here on Friday. Ac-cording to the Provincial

Dengue Surveillance Cell report, in thecurrent week at least 17 more peoplewere declared dengue patients, takingthe number of dengue patients to 134since January 1. It said two of the pa-tients were stillunder treatment atCivil Hospital Karachiwhereas one patient had been dis-charged from the hospital after recov-ery from the disease. As many as fiveplatelets were also utilised for thesedengue patients. All the dengue patientswere from Karachi and no such casehas been reported from the interiorof Sindh so far, the cell furtherpointed out. The reportssaid that the governmenthad finalised its prepa-

rations towards controlling the disease.The doctors have advised the people toget anti-mosquito spray, close windowsfrom mosquitoes could enter home and

cover allfood items

and coverwater pots to

avoid the dis-ease. Dengue fever

is increasingly be-coming an epidemicin the country. Dueto high cost of treat-

ment, the disease spread more rapidly in2011 than in previous years. It has at-tracted the attention of the government,especially the Punjab government sinceit spread in the Punjab province. In2011, it killed over 300 people and over14,000 were infected by this mosquito-borne disease. Majority of the people in-fected were from Lahore. For

countering this fastspreading disease,the Punjab govern-

ment is working toincrease public aware-

ness on the dengueoutbreak. In an

awareness drive, PunjabChief Minister ShahbazSharif himself arrived at

local universities to handout pamphlets on dengue fever and

prevention. A seminar was alsoheld in Hyderabad by the local au-thorities. Various other awareness

programs were also in colleges andschools and teachers were urged to edu-cate students about this disease.

Mosquito menace returns!Four more dengue cases confirmed Total number of patients rises to 134 since Jan 1

KARACHI ONlINE

Violence has continued to grip thecity even in the holy month of Ra-madan, as another eight citizens wereruthlessly killed and dumped in Li-yari River, media reports said on Fri-day.

The relief workers scrambledthrough the night to take out the bod-

ies from different parts of LyariRiver. At least four of the eight bodieshave been hitherto recovered fromthe river. Two deceased have beenidentified as Ali Haider and Farhan.

Both the youths were residents ofthe city’s Ranchhore Line. The bodieshave been shifted to Civil Hospital.

According to eyewitnesses, thereare still four bodies in the river. Theefforts are underway to retrieve the

bodies.Meanwhile, two bodies were re-

covered from Sohrab Goth and DhobiGhat areas of Karachi. The bodieshave not been identified as yet.

During the pre-dawn raids,Rangers also arrested 30 suspectedpersons from Kawari colony andPakhtunabad and confiscatedweapons from them.

According to Rangers, the raids

were conducted on a tip off about thepresence of members of banned out-fits. All the entry and exit points weresealed during the operation.

Rangers have arrested suspectsduring search operation in KunwariColony and Pakhtunabad.

The Rangers sources informedthat the operation was launched afterreports that activists of a banned or-ganisation were present in the area.

eiGht more perish…Bodies dumped in Lyari River

Pml-n should notpoliticize ShaukatKhanam: APml

KARACHIONlINE

All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Cen-tral Information Secretary Aasia Ishaq hassaid that leaders of PML-N were upset tosee their expected defeat in the upcominggeneral elections and now they was levelingcharges against Shaukat Khanam Memo-rial Hospital which was providing cancertreatment to the poor.According to an APML central informationsecretariat press release issued here on Fri-day, she said Shaukat Khanam MemorialHospital was the only health centre of itskind in the country that was providing can-cer treatment to the poor but the corruptand ineligible leadership of PML-N waspoliticizing it for its vested interests.Aasia Ishaq said Shaukat Khanam was atrust, running with the donations butPML-N with its baseless allegationswanted to deprive it from donations sothat the poor patients could not be able toget cancer treatment.Shaukat Khanam Memorial Hospital is anasset of Pakistan but PML-N leadershiphas become blind in the enmity againstPTI chief Imran Khan and is using everyunfair means to surpass him, she added.Punjab government has failed in everyadministrative area and even the doctorsand paramedics are not satisfied with itshealth policy, then how it would deliverhealth services to the ailing community ofthe most populous province of the coun-try, she asked.

Phd degree in Biochemistry approved

KARACHIAPP

The Academic Council and the Syndicateof the University of Karachi has approvedthe conferment of PhD degree in Bio-chemistry to Ms Farhat Bano. This wasannounced by the Registrar of KarachiUniversity on Friday. He said that theUniversity’s Board of Advance Study andResearch (BASR) had already recom-mended the conferment of the degree.

Transfers and postings in HeSCo

HYDERABADAPP

The management of Hyderabad ElectricSupply Company (HESCO) Friday an-nounced transfers and postings of thesuperintending engineers and executiveengineers. Director Human Resourcesand Administration HESCO Ali AnwarJokhio has informed that Superinten-ding Engineer Operation Circle-IIUmaid Ali Qureshi has been transferredand posted as Project Director Construc-tion Hyderabad while Executive Engi-neer GC of GSC Division HyderabadAbdul Haq Memon has been transferredand posted as Superintending EngineerOperation Circle-II Hyderabad.Additional Manager Meter Reading CellKhalid Hussain Bhatti has been trans-ferred and posted as Regional ManagerM and T vice Imtiaz Ahmed Kalhoro hasbeen transferred and posted as ManagerMeter Reading Cell Hyderabad.The Deputy Manager Energy Cell AzizAli Khawaja has been transferred andposted as Deputy Manager TechnicalOperation Circle Nawabshah vice JavedIshaq Abro who has been transferredand posted as Deputy Manager MaterialManagement Hyderabad.Pervez Afzal has been transferred fromthe office of the General Manager Devel-opment (MC and C) and posted as Man-ager (Procurement) PMU Hyderabadwhile Additional Manager (NCPP) Hy-derabad Abdul Majeed Khatri has beentransferred and posted as Manager (Oand M) T and G Hyderabad.

High level securitymeeting held

KARACHIAPP

A high-level meeting held at the head-quarters of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh,here on Friday reviewed securityarrangements especially on the forth-coming `Youm-e-Ali’ to ward off any un-toward incident. The Director GeneralRangers, Sindh, Maj Gen Rizwan Akhtar,Additional IG Karachi, representative ofSindh Home Department, Joint DG IB,DIGs of three security zone in Karachi,DIG Traffic, Chief of CPLC and officersof rangers, KESC and City District Gov-ernment Karachi attended the meeting.A statement said that the Rangers andthe Police jointly finalised securityarrangements for ensuring law and ordersituation with regard to `Youm-e-Ali’. Itsaid that the Sindh Rangers and the Po-lice have been put on high alert. Tempo-rary pickets of Rangers and Police havebeen set up in the sensitive areas of themetropolis. Apart from a heavy policeposse, 5,000 more personnel of Rangerswould be deployed. The meeting ap-pealed to the Ulema to preach the spiritof brotherhood and extend full assis-tance to the law enforcement agenciesfor the maintenance of law and order.

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SUKKURINP

SINDH Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has ex-pressed concern over the reduction of votes in theprovince according to the new voters list. Speak-ing to reporters at the Sukkur airport, Shah said he

was astonished that the number of votes had decreased de-spite the inclusion of thousands of new voters. He added thathe would request the Federal government and the ElectionCommission to investigate this matter. When asked aboutthe general elections, Shah replied that they would be heldon time and the PPP was preparing for them.

OMAR SANA FOuNDAtION DIStRIButES

RAMzAN pACkAgES: Omar Sana Foundation distrib-uted Ramadan packages among 100 families on Friday. Thepackage includes enough rations to support a family of five.

The program took place at the foundation’s central officein Gulshan-e-Iqbal, and benefitted families of thalassemiaand Hemophilia patients. ‘ppp tO EMERgE vICtORIOuS IN tHE NExt gEN-

ERAL ELECtIONS’: Sindh education minister, PirMazhar ul Haq predicted hands down victory for PPP in thenext general elections.

He gave this statement while hosting some delegationsin his camp office on Friday.

He further stated that PPP believed in dialogues, andpursued policy of reconciliation. MONItORINg COMMIttEES SEtup FOR “SAStA

AttA” pACkAgE: The Government of Sindh has consti-tuted five monitoring committees for ‘sasta atta’ Ramadanpackage for all districts of Karachi on the order of SindhChief Minister Qaim Ali Shah.

The monitoring committees entrusted with the taskwould visit ‘sasta atta’ stalls setup by District Administrationin collaboration with Food Department and Supply andPrices Department. Wheat would be sold at governmentprices at these stalls.

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Zahid Umar appointed chairmanfPCCi committeeon leather

KARACHIAPP

Federation of Pakistan Chambers ofCommerce and Industry (FPCCI) Pres-ident Haji Fazal Kadir Khan Sheranihas appointed, Zahid Umar as theChairman of Federation of PakistanChambers of Commerce and Industrystanding committee on leather andleather products for this year.

KeSC replaces

old lights of

mazar-e-Quaid KARACHI

INP

Citizens of Karachi have laudedKarachi Electric Supply Company(KESC) for installing modern tech-nology decoration lights in the mau-soleum of Quaid-e-Azam MuhammadAli Jinnah.It should be mentioned that KESChas replaced the old lights installedinside the mausoleum of father of na-tion with modern LED lighting tech-nology. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ofKarachi Electric Supply CompanyTabish Gohar inaugurated the leadlights.Talking to media persons on the oc-casion, Tabish Gohar was of the viewthat KESC was sparing no efforts tomake Karachi the city of lights again.He said that Karachi Electric SupplyCompany has replaced 256 greentechnology conventional lights in thedome of Karachi museum with LEDlights which has further increasedthe beauty of the national asset.He said that old lights consumed8.32MW while new lights would con-sume only 1.78MW power whichwould save 79 percent electricitywith Rs4 lakh savings annually. Tabish said that new lights installedin the museum and inside Mazar-e-Quaid area also environmentfriendly.

KmC to setup 14

emergency

Response CentersKARACHI

APP

Karachi Metropolitan Corporation(KMC) Administrator, MuhammadHussain Syed said that emergency re-sponse centers were to be setup at 14locations in the city to provide emer-gency help. According to a Karachi MetropolitanCorporation statement, five centers havealready started round the clock work,and maintained contact with the firebrigade, ambulance services and citywardens. Hussain said that the centers were setupwith the directions of Sindh GovernorIshrat ul Ibad. He further added that thecontact numbers of these centers wouldbe advertised in newspapers for the con-venience of citizens.

Pml-f nominatesAkhter Sheikh asSr. VC Sukkur

KARACHIAPP

Pakistan Muslim League Functional(PML-F) nominated Akhter Sheikh assenior vice president for Sukkur Divi-sion. Zahid Hussain Dahri has been nomi-nated as general secretary for districtNaushero Feroz, while Jalees AhmedHashmi was nominated for the samepost in Mirpurkhas.

51st draw of prizebond on 15th

HYDERABADAPP

The 51st draw of Rs 1500 prize bondswould be held on the August 15 in thepremises of State Bank of Pakistan, Hy-derabad.The announcement was made by Assis-tant Director (HQ), Regional Direc-torate of National Savings, Hyderabad.

mPA inspects Youm-e-Ali arrangements

KARACHIAPP

Sindh Assembly member, NishatMuhammad Zia Qadri has directed au-thorities to make proper arrangementsfor Youm-e-Ali. The MPA issued the statement while in-specting arrangement work on proces-sion routes in the Shah Faisal Zone. Youm-e-Ali, the martyrdom anniversaryof Hazrat Ali (R.A), would be observedon 21st of Ramazan.MC DIRECtED tO OvERSEE

MAINtENANCE CIvIC CENtER

BuILDINg: Karachi Metropolitan Cor-poration (KMC) Commissioner, MatanatAli Khan has directed officers concernedto complete repair, coloring and renova-tion work at civic center on prioritybasis. He said that cleanliness of thebuilding would give a positive mes-sage to the people who visit thereon daily basis. Matanat expressedsatisfaction on progress of the im-provement work.

Chances of light rainKARACHI

APP

The Met office has forecast a partlycloudy and windy weather with chancesof light rain in the metropolis for thenext 24 hours.The maximum temperature will fluctu-ate between 31 to 33 degrees Celsius.

CM concerned over reduction in Sindh votes

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Saturday, 4 August, 2012

KARACHIAFTAB cHANNA

AS the Center is reluctant to em-power provinces under the18th constitutional amend-ment, the Sindh governmenthas decided to take up the issueof collecting zakat funds in a

bid to enhance its share from Rs 800 million toaround Rs 4 billion, Pakistan Today has learnt.

Under the 18th constitutional amendment,Sindh was supposed to get rights of collectingzakat funds in the province and distribute itamong the poor. In this regard, the Sindh gov-ernment had also worked out a comprehensiveplan for the funds. With the center’s continuousinvolvement in the provincial affairs, a high-powered meeting chaired by Federal Minister forReligious Affairs Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah inthe federal capital on July 24. It was decided inthe meeting that zakat funds’ collection rightswould remain with the federal government till2015, against the 18th amendment.

Following the devolution of federal zakat andushr ministry under the 18th amendment, theSindh zakat administration was to be establishedby the Sindh government and the zakat and ushrdepartment had a forwarded a summary to thelaw department for vetting of the proposed leg-islation required for setting up the authority, aswell as the approval of chief minister, sourcestold Pakistan Today.

Prior to the devolution of the zakat ministryat the provincial level, the Central Zakat Admin-istration (CZA) - set up at the federal level - man-aged the country-wide collection anddistribution of alms.

The CZA had power over the provincial ZakatCouncils (PZC) of each province. A District ZakatCommittee (DZC) was set up in each district,Tehsil Zakat Committees (TZC) in each tehsil (orsub-division), and Local Zakat Committee (LZC)was established to collect alms from each local-ity. Zakat money officially collected throughbanks and other agencies was deposited with theCZA, which released specified amounts fromtime to time to the PZCs.

The major share of these funds was in turnpassed on to LZCs through DZCs. In this way,the actual disbursement of zakat to the needywas carried out mainly by the LZCs, whereaspayment to institutions such as hospitals, semi-naries, welfare organisations and needy studentswas done by the PZCs. After the establishmentof the Sindh Zakat Administration, the provincewould itself be responsible for zakat collectionand distribution, the sources said, explainingthat zakat is being charged only on 11 assets con-tained in the First Schedule of the Zakat andUshr Ordinance 1980.

These assets include saving bank accounts;notice deposit accounts and receipts; fixed de-posit accounts and receipts, saving/deposit cer-tificates accounts and receipts, NationalInvestment Trust (NIT) units, Investment Cor-poration of Pakistan Mutual Funds Certificates,government securities on which the return is re-ceivable by the holder periodically, securities in-cluding shares and debentures of companies andstatutory corporations on which return is paid,annuities, life insurance policies and providentfund credit balances.

Meanwhile, ushr is collected on compulsorybasis at a rate of 5 percent of the produce fromevery land owner, grantee, allottee, lessee, lease-

holder or land-holder (except the one excludedfrom the definition of sahib-e-nisab). An individ-ual farmer is exempted from ushr if he is a “mus-tahiq” or if his produce is less than 948 kg ofwheat or its equivalent in value.

The farmers have also been given the oppor-tunity to assess ushr on their own, but an LZCmay also make their own assessment. An as-sessee has been allowed to reduce his ushr liabil-ity by one-third if land was irrigated by tubewellsand by one-fourth if irrigated by other means,the sources explained.

Furthermore, the sources said, the Sindhgovernment would continue the programme onthe pattern of federal policy - provision ofstipends to poor students of schools, colleges,universities and other educational institutions.

Besides, the regular budget for the studentsof Deeni Madaris would also be allocated at arate of Rs 150 for Hifzo Nazira, Rs 375 forMouqoof Aleh and Rs 750 for Daura Hadith. Thestudents of Model Deeni Madaris and those af-filiated with Pakistan Madrasah EducationBoard (PMEB) would also be paid Zakat - Rs 500for primary to matric, Rs 750 above matric andupto BA or equivalent and Rs 1,000 MA orequivalent and above.

For health, ceilings for free medical treat-ment of deserving persons would be Rs 3,000,for indoor patients Rs 2,000 and for outdoor pa-tients respectively. For weddings, Rs 10,000zakat would be granted to a Mustahiq woman asa one time grant by the local zakat committee.

Moreover, the sources said that Chief Minis-ter Qaim Ali Shah had chaired a high level meet-ing the other day to finalise the issues to bestrongly taken before the upcoming meeting ofthe Council of Common Interest (CCI).

Let us collect zakat funds!Sindh to take up issue of zakat fund collection at Council of Common Interests

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09Foreign News

Saturday, 4 August, 2012

ALEPPOAFP

SHELLS rained down on rebelpositions in Aleppo on Fridayahead of a UN vote to deploreboth the Syrian regime’s use ofheavy arms and world powers

for failing to agree on steps to end theconflict.

The official SANA news agency saidthe army and police killed 17 “terrorists”in Aleppo, the commercial capital whichthe regime and rebels have been battlingfor control of since July 20.

Six civilians were killed in Damascusas forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad moved on opposition enclaves,day after shelling killed 21 civilians atthe Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp inthe capital, a watchdog said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human

Rights said another three civilians werekilled in Houla, a central town where atleast 108 people were massacred at theend of May, triggering international out-rage.

Despite the violence, new weeklyanti-regime protests were held acrossSyria in solidarity with the easternprovince of Deir Ezzor, which troopshave also pounded for weeks.

Activists were still counting the tollfrom Thursday, one of the bloodiest daysin the uprising, when Kofi Annan quit asinternational envoy for Syria complain-ing his peace plan never received thebacking it deserved.

The Observatory said more than 179people were killed — 110 civilians in-cluding 14 children, 43 soldiers and 26rebels.

Dozens more civilians and rebelswere killed in Al-Arbaeen, a besieged

district of the central city of Hama, itsaid, adding it was hard to establishwhat had happened as communicationswere cut.

“The number of martyrs andwounded is not known as bodies wereleft lying in the streets, regime forcespreventing residents from helping thewounded and burying the dead,” said theopposition Syrian National Council.

The bloodshed mounted ahead of aUN General Assembly vote on a Saudi-drafted resolution that condemns Russiaand China for blocking tougher actionagainst Damascus at the UN SecurityCouncil.

But Arab nations have dropped anexplicit demand for Assad to quit in anattempt to secure as large a majority aspossible.

Explaining his decision to resign asUN and Arab League envoy, Annan

voiced regret at the “increasing militari-sation” of the nearly 17-month conflict.

The former UN secretary generalalso hit out at “continuous finger-point-ing and name-calling” at the SecurityCouncil, which he said had stalled coor-dinated action to stop the violence.

“I did not receive all the support thatthe cause deserved,” Annan said. “Theincreasing militarisation on the groundand the lack of unanimity in the SecurityCouncil fundamentally changed myrole.”

But Annan predicted Assad would go“sooner or later,” and did not rule outhis successor having more luck or suc-cess, despite his warning there was “noPlan B.”

On Friday, the Russian foreign min-istry said “a worthy candidate” to suc-ceed Annan should be urgently foundbecause “in the developing situation,

keeping a UN presence in the countryacquires special significance.”

Meanwhile, protesters in Aleppotook to the streets on Friday to demanddeath for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even as violence raged betweenregime forces and rebels, an AFP jour-nalist and rights watchdog said.

Hundreds of protesters gathered inthe al-Shaar neighbourhood of the coun-try’s economic capital, chanting: “Thepeople want the execution of Bashar!”and “The people want freedom andpeace,” an AFP reporter saw.

“We go down the street with a singleobjective: the liberation of the country,”said 20-year-old protester Abu Ahmed.

“Today you can take to the streets.Before there were shabiha” pro-regimemilitiamen, he said, adding: “For 20years we supported the military, but infact this army is against us.”

Syria’s aleppo battered ahead of Un voteg Russia calls for ‘a worthy candidate’ to succeed Annan g Aleppo protesters demand death for Assad

JUBAAFP

The two Sudans must strike an urgent com-promise deal to end bitter disputes and re-sume oil production, US Secretary of StateHillary Clinton said Friday, warning thenewly separated nations that they “remaininextricably linked.”

Sudan and South Sudan “will need tocompromise to close the remaining gaps be-tween them,” Clinton said, after meetingSouth Sudan’s President Salva Kiir.

“It is urgent that both sides, north andsouth, follow through and reach timelyagreements on all outstanding issues, in-cluding oil revenue sharing, security, citi-zenship and border demarcation,” sheadded.

Clinton, the most senior US official tovisit since South Sudan’s independence lastyear, highlighted Washington’s concernover the bitter dispute between Juba andKhartoum.

South Sudan’s government has yet toagree on a raft of issues with Sudan, left un-resolved after they split in July 2011, includ-ing border demarcation and contested areas

in oil-rich regions.Long running African Union-led talks

in the Ethiopian capital have so far failed toproduce a deal, with Khartoum rejectingJuba’s offers and demanding that border se-curity must be ensured before any economicaccord.

The UN Security Council had given thetwo countries, which earlier this year cameclose to a return to all-out war, until Thurs-day to reach a deal or face sanctions.

At independence, landlocked SouthSudan took with it two-thirds of the region’soil, but the pipelines and processing facili-ties remained in Sudan.

In January, Juba cut off all oil produc-tion, even though oil provides some 98% ofits revenue, crippling the economies of bothcountries, after accusing Khartoum of steal-ing its crude.

“You have made your point, you havebrought Sudan to the negotiating table,”Clinton said, standing alongside ForeignMinister Nhial Deng Nhial, stressing theimportance of getting the oil to start “pump-ing again.”

“An interim agreement with Sudan overoil production and transit can help address

the short-term needs of the people of SouthSudan, while giving you the resources andthe time to explore longer-term options.”

Clinton warned that “significant chal-lenges” face the world’s youngest nation,with “persistent poverty in a land rich withnatural resources.”

Those include “continued violencealong the border with Sudan, unresolvedethnic tensions, gaps in infrastructure andthe rule of law,” she told reporters.

“Continued progress hinges on SouthSudan’s ability to overcome these chal-lenges,” Clinton added.

“While South Sudan and Sudan havebecome separate states, their fortunes re-main inextricably linked,” she said.

“The promise of prosperity rests onthe prospects for peace. And SouthSudan’s ability to attract trade and invest-ment depends on greater security on bothsides of the border.”

Clinton spent around three hours inthe steamy heat of Juba — a rapidly growingcity largely made up of simple tin-roof hutsstrung out alongside the White Nile river —before flying to Uganda.

“There must always come a point wherewe look forward and recognise the need tostop fighting over past wrongs so we canbuild toward a new future,” she said.

“It’s time ... to dig wells instead ofgraves,” she added, quoting a South Su-danese bishop. “Time to reach an agree-ment that allows both countries to prosper.”

Sudan, South Sudan must strike‘compromise’ deal: Clinton

CAIROAFP

A senior Egyptian Coptic bishop saidon Friday attacks on Christians areon the rise and criticised the inclu-sion of only one Copt in IslamistPresident Mohamed Morsi’s govern-ment.

“The general climate is turningagainst Christians,” said BishopMorcos. “Assaults on Christians haveincreased. It’s not just a matter ofhaving one ministry,” he told AFP.

On Wednesday, Muslims at-tacked a church and Christian homesin a village outside Cairo, leading toclashes that injured 16 people after aMuslim man died of wounds from afight with a Christian.

A day later, President Morsi, whohad pledged to include Coptic repre-sentatives in his government, sworein a new cabinet with only one Chris-tian, the scientific research ministerfrom the outgoing government.

“There is a difference betweenpromises and implementation,” saidMorcos. “Perhaps there were obsta-cles in implementing the pledge, orthe promise is one thing, and the ac-tual implementation is another.”

Dozens of Copts have died in sec-

tarian clashes since a popular upris-ing overthrew president HosniMubarak early last year.

The United States warned onMonday that despite gestures byEgypt’s interim military leaders to-wards greater inclusiveness, sectar-ian tensions and violence hadincreased. Washington’s 2011 Inter-national Religious Freedom Reportexpressed concern over “both theEgyptian government’s failure tocurb rising violence against CopticChristians and its involvement in vi-olent attacks.” The Copts, who makeup roughly 10 percent of Egypt’s 82-million-strong population, were alsothe target of sectarian attacks beforeMubarak’s ouster.

Muslim-majority Egypt has fordecades been marked by deep sectar-ian tensions, with religious violencebetween Muslims and Christiansoften sparked by disputes over landor love affairs between members ofthe two communities.

In January 2011, a suicidebomber killed more than 20 Chris-tians outside a church in the coun-try’s second city Alexandria, afterIslamists accused the Coptic Churchof detaining a woman who convertedto Islam.

attacks on egyptChristians on rise

France calls forBangladeshU-turn onRohingya refugees

PARISAFP

France said Friday it regretted adecision by Bangladesh to stop threenon-governmental organisations fromhelping Rohingya refugees fleeingpersecution in neighbouringMyanmar.“Until a lasting peace is established in(Myanmar’s) Rakhine state, we urgethe authorities in Dhaka not to sendback from the border people whoselives are under threat,” a Frenchforeign ministry spokesman said.Two of the three charities affected bythe Bangladesh government’s decisionare French: Doctors Without Borders(Medecins sans Frontieres, MSF) andAction Against Hunger.Britain’s Muslim Aid UK has alsobeen told to suspend its services inthe Cox’s Bazaar district borderingMyanmar.The Bangladesh authorities maintainthat the aid provided by the charitieshas encouraged the Rohingya — aMuslim minority in predominatelyBuddhist Myanmar — to cross theborder.Aid workers say the Rohingya havelittle option but to flee in the face ofsectarian attacks in Myanmar andfear the latest move could result in ahumanitarian disaster.Bangladesh estimates that there arenow some 300,000 Rohingya livingon its territory after having fledMyanmar.

Thousands in Japan stage anti-nuclear rallytOkYO: Thousands of people staged a rally in front of the Japanese primeminister’s office Friday, maintaining anti-nuclear sentiment triggered by lastyear’s atomic crisis at Fukushima. It was the latest in a string of protests inJapan, which has seen a rising tide of anti-nuclear momentum since PrimeMinister Yoshihiko Noda in June ordered the restart of two reactors. Nodadefended the move citing looming power shortages after Japan switched offits 50 nuclear reactors — which provided the resource-poor country with athird of its energy — in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. Weeklydemonstrations outside the prime minister’s residence have drawnthousands of people and a rally in west Tokyo last month saw a crowd thatorganisers claimed was about 170,000-strong. AFP

KUAlA lUMPUR: Myanmar ethnic Rohingya Muslims living in Malaysia shout slogans during a protest against the persecution of

Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, outside the Myanmar embassy on Friday. afp

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Near election time, the dirtytricks department of thePML-N has come into fullswing. The knives are out forImran khan, the new kid on

the block. The Sharifs have unleashed theirstalwarts, Khawaja Asif and Ch Nisar AliKhan, on the PTI chief.

The present spat started when ImranKhan accused Nawaz Sharif’s younger scionof conducting mega deals abroad with laun-dered money. Naturally, Nawaz Sharifcould not take this affront lying down.

Nisar has bitterly complained (with somejustification) that Imran khan’s every pressconference starts with criticism of NawazSharif. “Why are Zardari, the PML-Q leader-ship and the MQM spared?” he laments.

The answer is simple. Imran is knock-ing at the doors of the Sharif’s heartland,the jewel in the crown: the Punjab. Al-though the Khan believes that he alreadyhas the support of seven million voters inthe four provinces of Pakistan, the Sharifsare amply aware that his main focus is theirdomain in Punjab.

To be fair to Imran, as far he is con-cerned, there be a plague on both thehouses. Nawaz is merely singled out as ithis long-held constituency, ideological aswell as electoral, which is being challenged.

Ironically, there is a confluence of inter-ests between Zardari and Imran. Both needtime before the polls, albeit for differentreasons. Imran wants to organize his partyand galvanize the phenomenal number ofyoung voters, which he believes to be hiscore constituency.

The PPP wants as much time as possi-ble before the elections to get a handle onelectricity shortages and other governance

issues. And, of course, to simply remain inpower for as long as possible.

But the PML-N wants elections to beheld at the earliest. The Sharifs used toperennially enjoying the perks and privi-leges of power have never been big crowdpullers. Although they think it is below theirdignity to directly engage Imran, his popu-larity and appeal has certainly rattled them.

Harebrained projects like the laptopscheme and concerted efforts by the Punjabchief minister Shahbaz Sharif - who insistsupon being addressed as “khadim-e-aala(the first servant)” - to woo the young andthe uninitiated are a direct consequence ofthe PTI’s so-called tsunami.

On the ideological front, Imran Khan isdirectly challenging the long heldsuzerainty of the Sharifs. Ch Nisar pro-nounces ad nauseam that Imran is the testtube baby of the establishment, morespecifically of the former spy chief generalShuja Pasha. But so was Nawaz Sharif, andfor donkey years, he did their bidding.

It is only when Nawaz Sharif refused toplay ball with the establishment that theyadopted a credible alternative in the formof Imran Khan. Not so much to do their bid-ding but to protect the ideological frontiersas perceived by the deep state.

Not unsurprisingly, both Imran andNawaz have the same worldview. Both areright-of-center in their policies. They arereluctant to criticize the Taliban favoringnegotiations with them. And both believe inprivate enterprise and supporting big busi-ness. But, despite confluence of views andideology, they have become sworn enemies.

The reason is simple; they appeal tosimilar constituencies. In spite of having atechnocratic dream team gleaned from theprivate sector as well as defectors from dif-ferent political parties, Imran Khan has astrong contingent of right wing jihadi ele-ments amongst his core team.

Digging dirt against political opponentsis nothing new in the PML-N culture. TheSharifs are rather good at this game. In thenineties when Benazir Bhutto was theirnemesis, they subjected her to a concertedsmear campaign.

Even forgeries were resorted to. A fakeletter was leaked to the media ostensiblywritten by Benazir Bhutto as prime minis-ter to her Washington-based friend andstaffer on the US Senate foreign relationscommittee, Peter Galbraith. A personalsmear campaign through false allegations

was also launched against her.During the same period when Imran

Khan was emerging as a possible politicalthreat, he was not spared either. Interviewsand pictures of Sita White, Imran’s formergirlfriend and mother of his child, suddenlystarted appearing in the pro-Sharif media.Imran after initial denials had to own up tothe paternity of the girl.

Nisar while accusing Imran of being atax evader has hinted at revealing detailsabout his person. The leader of the opposi-tion in the National Assembly claiming tobe a classmate of the PTI chief has threat-ened that he will go viral if Imran does notstop attacking the Sharifs.

Meanwhile, Zardari and his cohorts arelaughing all the way to the bank. In theirview Imran is cutting into the vote bank ofthe Sharifs in Punjab and the PML-N isfeeling the heat.

The PML-N and the PTI going to townagainst each other suits the ruling party fine.The more they castigate each other, the moredifficult it will be for them to form an allianceor an understanding after the elections.

Imran firmly believes on the basis of hissuccessful rallies and support of the youththat he will sweep the next elections.Hence, he feels that he does not need to gointo a coalition with any of the mainstreamparties, post elections.

Judging by the ground realities, neitherthe PTI nor the PML-N seems to be in a po-sition to sweep the next elections. Imranwho claims to be an agent of change ratherthan merely being a third alternative hasvowed to sit in the opposition if he is unableto eke out a majority. He is loath to form acoalition ‘with the corrupt elements.’

Nawaz Sharif realistically speaking can-not expect a repeat of the heavy mandate hegot in the 1997 elections. Imran is not sosure either about his electoral appeal. If hewere, why would he be pulling electablesfrom other parties?

The most likely scenario in the nextgeneral elections is a fragmented mandatewith no party on its own being in a positionto form a government. Hence if the futureis a coalition government, why take thingsto a point-of-no-return? The Zardari-ledPPP learnt this lesson post-2008 and havesuccessfully played coalition politics totheir advantage. The PTI and PML-N willlearn this the hard way.

The writer is Editor, Pakistan Today

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Thorough investigation, a must

A sensitive case

While the issue of a new body to investigate the case ofArsalan Iftikhar is yet to be decided, another seriousallegation has been leveled against Arsalan in a reportpublished on Friday in a national daily. It has been

alleged that Arsalan had been using the official address of the ChiefJustice House, Islamabad, for commercial purposes. If correct, thiswould give birth to a host of suspicions about the motives behindusing the address for conducting business.

When Malik Riaz publicly made allegations against Arsalan, hesaid things that were meant to cast aspersions on the CJ and theSC. The financial transactions and activities of Arsalan havetherefore to be properly probed. There should be nothing thatcreates the perception of favor being extended to him. Afterallowing the lawyers to debate the various options available, the SCbench directed the AG “to set the machinery of the state in motionso that all those who may have committed any illegal acts,including Malik Riaz Hussain, Dr Arsalan, Salman Ali Khan etc arepursued and brought to book with the full force and rigor of thelaw.” The AG asked the NAB chief to form a joint investigationteam(JIT) to probe the case. Arsalan, however, expressedreservations about two members of the JIT maintaining that theywere under the influence of Malik Riaz. The NAB prosecutorgeneral has now told the court that both the members of the JIThave been taken out of the team, leaving the remaining threemembers, all belonging to NAB, to investigate the matter. He saidNAB could even disband the JIT and give the task to anotherinvestigating agency if the court so desired.

It is now for the court to decide how to get the enquiryconducted. Referring to Malik Riaz’s statement that he did not getany relief whatsoever in his cases from the SC, the bench had lastmonth maintained that this was sufficient to settle the question ofpublic importance. It was also maintained that the court’sreputation cannot be considered to have been tarnished on accountof the alleged misconduct of the relatives of judges, since suchrelatives are not officers of the state. The reports regardingArsalan’s Rs 900 million worth of assets having been accumulatedwithin less than five years and his allegedly using the address of theCJ House for conducting business transactions are matters that canrouse suspicions if not probed carefully. The cases of financialmisdoings on the part of powerful politicians or their scions wereprobed by FIA, NAB and ANF. Arsalan’s case too could similarly behanded over to either the FIA or NAB.

War gamesThe PTI and the PMl-N will learn the hard way

By Arif Nizami

With credibility dented, the arduous path ahead

the lengthening shadows

candid cornerBy Raoof Hasan

Saturday, 4 August, 2012

With the elections near-ing, the venomous-ness of accusationsamong political lead-

ers is intensifying at an alarmingpace. It remains a paradox that theonly party that is likely to suffer asa consequence of this maliciouscampaign is the party that has afair reservoir of credibility: Pak-istan Tehreek-e-Insaf. All the otherleaders have thick layers of muckpasted all over their faces as theygo around unashamedly layingclaim to national leadership.

In spite of contentious decisionstaken in the wake of the unprece-dented success of the October 30gathering in Lahore with regard toallowing a vast cross-section of lead-ers with a dubious past into theparty, PTI remains clean in the con-text of not having been tried so far.Imran Khan can also lay claim to na-tionally- and internationally-ac-claimed successes in the field ofsports and social welfare. His workin building a cancer hospital thattreats most of its patients withoutcharge and Namal University thatprovides quality education in anumber of domains to the economi-cally- and socially-deprived seg-ments of the national population areprojects that accord him a distinc-tive place. His work in providing re-lief to the calamity-struck people has

also won him countless admirers.In a country where such initia-

tives are scarce, where extensive andintensive corruption is the hallmarkof all public sector projects andwhere every leader worth a mentionhas benefited from the state largessein despicable manners, there wasmuch hope associated with theemergence of Imran Khan as a po-tential leader. His integrity was un-challenged, his achievements wereirrefutably ground-breaking and hisleadership qualities were broadly ac-knowledged. Then, why is it that, inspite of these integral ingredients,there are not only serious questionmarks about his prospects to suc-ceed in the coming elections, butalso on the conduct of his profes-sional and social projects?

One point-of-view is that sincehe is the only leader who hasemerged as a threat to the forces ofthe status-quo, there is an unseencollusion among his opponents tosow seeds of doubt about his partyand his person. But there are otherswho say that the promise of changehas long since been submerged bythe influx of battalions of turn-coatsand self-promoting constituencypoliticians who have literally takenover the party and are influencingits decision-making. In spite of seri-ous preparations for holding theintra-party elections, discretionary

appointments continue to be madeat senior positions in the party, thusdiluting the prospect of PTI emerg-ing as the only genuinely demo-cratic party in the country.

Paradoxically, instead of exploit-ing the high of October 30 on theplatform of ‘change’, PTI has allowedthe tentacles of the status-quo to digdeep into its echelons. Imran Khanmay still be untarnished, but sur-rounded by scores of leaders whohave served every corrupt dictatorand ‘democrat’ alike, there is littlefreedom and maneuverability thathe would be able to exercise to bringhis cherished political dream tofruition. It is this decision alonewhich has also created the space forthe fence-sitters – even somediehard supporters – to start doubt-ing the seriousness of intentions andthe potential for delivery of the party.

The rationale that the intra-party elections would serve thepurpose of bringing forth cleanand credible leadership at all tiersthat would be acceptable acrossthe party spectrum also appears tobe faulty. In spite of the efforts tohold genuinely transparent elec-tions within the party, the resultswould be broadly contested whichmay lead to internal strife over aperiod of time. The curve that isgenerally accepted for bringingorder back to a political party may

stretch anywhere from three to sixmonths, but may leave behindscars that may never be healed.Moving into the general electionswith a party that is not fully unitedmay be taking a mammoth risk.

But the one thing that PTI can-not allow to happen is a questionmark about the integrity of its lead-ership or the transparency of itspast and ongoing ventures. Thematter cannot and should not bebrushed aside by an emotional out-burst or a campaign on the socialmedia. It requires serious debatingand strategizing. The core problemwith the party is the penchant toconsign such issues to the dustbinbecause of the very character of thepeople who have thronged theparty. They are distinctly insensitiveto these accusations because theythemselves are the product of suchundertakings. That unfurls the con-flict that is now emerging for theparty to address: should PTI stick toits popular claim of being a partycommitted to ‘change’, or should itforsake this and concentrate on con-stituency politics alone vide thesebattalions of status-quo leaders?

It also brings forth the problemof the missing orientation of theparty. Fighting against corruptioncan be an important ingredient ofthis orientation, but it alone cannotconstitute or sustain the drive to-

wards ‘change’. There has to bedeeper thinking that must go intoevolving a credible ideology backedby a sustainable program and im-plementation mechanism. Break-ing the votes of the right-of-centreparties will not be enough to bringPTI into power. The party has tocreate its own distinctive vote bankthat is independent of influencefrom either the right or the left.The intra-party elections may es-tablish a structure in the party, buta liberal orientation is the only wayfor it to move forward.

The credibility that PTI couldclaim on October 30 has beenvastly dented on account of unwise,hasty and unsustainable decisionstaken in the context of the party’sabiding political positioning forbringing ‘change’. Leaders guidetheir lieutenants to become lead-ers. They don’t ‘import’ leaders tomove forward. It is time to under-stand this cardinal principle andbegin the effort to undo the dam-age and reclaim a leadership posi-tion for the party – a position thatshould rest in the hearts of the peo-ple, not the over-emphasized abil-ity of the constituency politicians.

The writer is a political analystand a member of the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf. He can be reachedat raoofhasan@hotmail.com

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whitelIESBy ess Aich

The Chaudhrys of Gujarat are known formany things, a flexible politicalmorality being the highest on the list.

Figuring somewhat lower on the list is thefamous dastarkhwaan. They take it seriously.The former interior minister’s line about thewhole roti shoti business isn’t to be laughed at.

Seen recently at a lunch was a differentlooking dish, served only to the man himself,that too in a small portion. Upon inquiry, itturned out to be rice. But not “industrial” rice,mind you. Not even rice grown organically ina paddy. This was, for lack of a better word,wild rice, collected only from naturallyoccurring plants.

Since these plants are scattered randomlyin wild vegetation, collecting a full kilogramcan take a painstaking year. Which gives it aprice tag of a whopping Rs 100,000/ kg.

Not just food, this rice. It is said to be a“rejuvenator” as well. At a hundred Ks a KG, ithad better be.

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Amedia tycoon was around recently inLahore, and had gathered some seniorjournalists to explain to them how the

government had distributed, according to him,Rs 4.5 billion amongst sympathetic journalists.

Another journalist went as far as giving theludicrous figure of Rs 15 billion! Accusationsof corruption, especially in this government,are an anything-goes affair. If the governmentactually had such money only to throw around,they could get far better press by actuallyspending this money on development work.

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Seen flitting in and out of the apex court’spress gallery: reporters, a lot of them.One thought the tribe of scribes were

banned from going into the courtroom. Butthe TV channel tickers always relay the sort ofplay-by-play coverage that would put sportsreporters to shame. What gives?

After the agreementPakistan agreed to re-open land routes

for NATO goods on July 3, 2012 after theywere blocked for almost seven months due toa US airstrike on Salala that killed 24Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan on June 31, 2012signed a deal with the United States withregards to NATO convoys traveling toAfghanistan. It is the only post-9/11 writtenagreement between Pakistan and the US.Officials at the ceremony gave no details ofthe Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)and only vague details have been released tothe media.

Guidelines laid out by the Pakistaniparliament earlier this year insisted that infuture no weapons and ammunition betransported through the country. But a veryconfusing clause has been included in theMoU in this regard: it states that no weaponor ammunition can go through Pakistan toAfghanistan for the NATO Forces; but ifthere would be any need of capacity buildingof the Afghan Forces, then weaponry couldpass through Pakistan. Custom Officerswould receive 250 $ per container. Thequestion is this: what is the guarantee thatthe weapons which are being transportedthrough Pakistan for the Afghan Forceswould not be used by the NATO Forcesagainst Pakistan? It was also mentioned inthe agreement that the American weaponswould not be included in the non-lethalcargo, but at the same time they defined non-lethal cargo as US military equipmentvehicles and other military property and it isclearly against the Parliament’s resolution.This clause is also a question mark.

It was clearly written in the resolutionpassed by the Parliament earlier this yearthat there should be a clear writtenagreement with the US before the supplyroutes are reopened but NATO supply routeshad been opened two weeks before of thisagreement. This agreement was notpresented in the Parliament or press beforebeing signed, nor did they discuss it.

I think that the weapons which are goingthrough Pakistan to Afghanistan will be usedagainst Pakistan. I hope the our policymakers – both civilian and khaki – weremindful of such clauses when they signedthis agreement and that these clauses do notcome back to bite Pakistan in the nearfuture.

MUHAMMAD HASSAANIslamabad

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free and fair electionsOn July 29, an assurance has been given to the

nation by President Asif Ali Zardari while address-ing a meeting of PPP workers at the residence ofManzoor Ahmed Wasan in the Khairpur DG Kotarea that the polls would be held on time and thatthese would be fair, free and impartial and thisstatement is highly appreciated. But this will onlybe possible if the Election Commission, under theaegis of Chief Election Commissioner HonorableJustice (Retd) Fakharuddin G Ibrahim, keeps astrict check on the activities of the political partiesand make sure that they do not cross any bound-aries while campaigning and do not use ill-gottengains to splurge on illegal activities.

It is pertinent to note that, in the past, activistsof all political parties used to visit door-to-door inurban areas as well as in the rural areas and usedvarious intimidation tactics to persuade them tovote for their party. While there is nothing wrongwith conducting door-to-door publicity campaigns,this practice of intimidation must be curtailed. Tocurb this wrong practice, it is suggested that thereshould be a direct hotline phone number of theElection Commissioner on which information re-garding use of intimidation tactics by any politicalparty can be reported. If such reports are verifiedand found to be correct, the concerned politicalparty should be notified and the candidate shouldbe disqualified for participating in the general elec-tions. Similarly, the print and electronic mediashould also report such practices and should alsoname the political party whose activists are harass-ing people in a certain area. The government shouldalso monitor the political parties’ advertising cam-paigns and make sure that no party is being extrav-agant and using any unfair means to publicize itself.

The worth of every political party including the

ruling party is now very well known to our nationso let the people decide independently which politi-cal party they want to vote and wish to rule theircountry. If this is done then only the forthcominggeneral elections can be ‘fair, free and impartial’.

SQN LDR (RETD) S. AUSAF HUSAINKarachi

Just the 3 medalsAs the London Olympics progress, I was

searching for Pakistan’s record at the Olympics. Itwas very disappointing to see that a country of 180million people has only won 10 medals till now -three gold medals and silver medals each whereasfour bronze medals.

All three of the gold medals, and 8 of the 10total medals, were won by the field hockey team.Pakistan has also won a bronze medal in wrestling(1960) and boxing (1988). There are 326 individu-als athletes who have won three or more than threegold medals in the Olympics but Pakistan, as a na-tion, has only won three gold medals in 16 Olympics.

The record shows that concerned authorities inPakistan need to pay attention to this area.

MUBASHIR MAHMOODKarachi

interdependence day‘Islamabad: Spy chiefs of US, Pakistan to meet

on August 1-3 for intelligence sharing’.The meeting, being held after a lull of a couple

of month, may go through the speculation runninghigh and expectations going wild. All we desire isthat the outcome of the meeting helps to normalisePakistan by taking care of our land and life.

Z A KAZMIKarachi

PML-N leader Khwaja Asifaccused Imran Khan ofcommitting money laundering,gambling and using Zakat fundscollected for charity for personalgains and investment inspeculative real estate business inDubai and Muscat which resultedin major losses. Asif alleged thatdespite opposition from theBoard of Directors of theSKMCH, Imran Khan invested US$4.5 million from the collectionsof sadqaat, fitraana and zakatgiven by the general public.

In British Virgin Islands, Shellcompany was first registered thattransferred money to HRG inDubai which then bought sharesof Sugarland company worth $3million facing losses of 64%during 2009-2010 when Dubai’sproperty boom bubble burst.

Imtiaz Haideri who is one ofthe members of the board oftrustees at SKMCH is also theChief Executive of HRG and Shell

company in British Virgin Islands.Although the majority of

people do not doubt the honestyand integrity of Imran Khan yetthere are several questions thatneed clarification. Firstly, why wasImtiaz Haideri being a member ofthe board of trustees provided withfunds to invest? Why was hiscompany’s guarantee accepteddespite losses and over the bank’sguarantee? Why was the record ofthe meeting of the board ofgovernance and trustees not madeavailable on a public domain? Whyis Imran Khan not making theamounts of funds he is receivingfor PTI and SKMCH open to thepublic? What are the sources ofincome available to Imran Khanfor his personal expenses such astraveling abroad and politicalcampaigns? How many funds doesPTI have in its account and who ishandling the bank accounts?

Who are the board membersof endowment funds that decide

how to use the money collectedfrom foreign donations?

What justification doesImran Khan have for attackingthe Sharif brothers for beinginvolved in money launderingand having Rs 50 billion worth ofassets in foreign countries if hehimself is involved in moneylaundering and keeping 700,000pounds in UK bank accounts?

What will happen to SKMCHfund raising when Imran Khanwill no more be collecting funds?What long term planning andstrategy has been made by theboard of trustees? Which fundsare being used by Imran Khanfor building universities?

The people of Pakistan wantto trust Imran Khan but he needsto earn and uphold that trust. Todo that, he needs to ensure thathis financial teams use thepublic’s money transparently.

S T HUSSAINLahore

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The teaser of upcoming Bollywood movie Hero-ine has infuriated Dubai residents with a dialoguethat degrades Bollywood actresses who visit the city.A press conference scene from the trailer that came

out last week showed actress Kareena Kapoor re-buking journalists.

“You people should be writing scripts.If a heroine buys a car, it’s gifted to her bya businessman, if she goes to LA, she’sgetting plastic surgery done and, God for-bid, if she goes to Dubai, you peoplemake a rate card for her,” Gulf Newsquoted her as saying in the movie. Resi-

dents said that the suggestion that Bolly-wood actresses who visit Dubai end up ascall girls with price tags was sickening.“This is terrible. Bollywood has onceagain tarnished the image of Dubai bytypecasting it as the hub of illegal andimmoral activities,” popular radiojockey Kritika Rawat said.

“Let’s not forget that Dubai is hometo a number of Bollywood stars. Dubaistands for progress and developmentand has made a huge imprint on theworld map. “To use its name in such acallous manner shows the ignorance ofthe filmmaker and is just not accept-able,” she said. Dubai-based TV person-

ality Uma Ghosh Deshpande said thatshe couldn’t understand why Indianfilmmakers were still obsessed withtypecasts. “This is 2012; gone are thedays when Indians came to Dubaion a ferry to take odd jobs. Over thelast two decades, the Indian com-munity has worked up the ranks

and earned a reputation acrossvarious sectors, making theirmotherland proud,” she said.

“It’s high time Indian filmsstop associating Dubai with the

underworld and prostitution. Theirlopsided perception has to change.

Dubai is an important market for Bolly-wood which is why Indian films are rou-

tinely premiered here. “Bollywood moviesare loved by not just Indians but other com-munities including Emiratis too. Women are

given utmost respect in Dubai. It’s an extremely safeplace for them. I wish the filmmaker had done someresearch about the city,” she said. Ironically, Hero-ine has been directed and co-written by directorMadhur Bhandarkar, who in 2010, was honoured inDubai for his contribution to Indian cinema. Indiantechie and film buff Sameer Haider said when fadingactress Mahi Arora (played by Kareena Kapoor) ad-dressed journalists in the film, she was not statingthe views of the protagonist; instead she was lashingout at them for cooking up bogus stories — hence thesarcasm in her dialogue. neWs Desk

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zArA PhILLIPsqueen elizabeth II'sgranddaughter wasastonished after realizingshe won the silver medal inthe equestrian team event

rutA meILutYteLithuania's star swimmeris overjoyed after earningthe gold medal in thewomen's 100-meterBreaststroke event

mIssY frAnKLInthe us swimmer wipesaway her tears whilereceiving the gold medalfor the women's 100-meter Backstroke event

hArumY mArIKo de freItAsemotions got the best of thisBrazilian gymnast after herperformance on the balance beamfor the women's qualification event

JAn-dI KImKorea's fighter broke downafter being defeated byItaly's giulia quintavalleduring a judo match

Hollywood star Angelina Joliereportedly wants to play AnastasiaSteele in the movie adaptation ofFifty Shades of Grey. The 37-year-old actress hasapparently been readingthe novel after beingintroduced to it whileshooting her new filmin the UnitedKingdom,reportedContactmusic."Angelina kepthearing aboutthe book whileshe was in theUK. All the girlson set weretalking about itand how it's beingmade into a film."Angelina wentout and boughtherself a copy,thinking she'd lovea part in the hottopic on everyone'slips at the moment.She knows the filmis bound to be a hugehit," a source said.The fictional story byE L James tells thetale of college girlslowly consumed bythe charms of a mannamed Christian Grey.neWs Desk

WANTS TO STAR IN 50 SHADES OF GREY?

heroine’s trailer angersDubai residents

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Saturday, 4 August, 2012

Katy Perry hires shrink for her cats

SINGER Katy Perry, who is having major issueswith her felines, has hired a cat shrink to workon their abnormal behaviour. “Katy is getting

really worried about her cats and the way they havebeen behaving lately. In the last few months, they’vebeen disappearing for hours and are not respondingto her like they normally do,” an insider was quotedas telling Daily Star. “She thought it may be areaction to all the building works and the renovationgoing on in her home in Hollywood, which is gettinga huge makeover. So when she heard about catbehaviour professionals through a friend, shedecided to give it a go. The cat whisperer is nowworking with her cats to communicate with them andcalm them down,’’ the source added. For the singer,Kitty Purry and Krusty the Cat are not merely herpets. “Katy sees her cats as her friends, so she didn’tthink twice about hiring the cat whisperer. She oftentalks to Kitty and Krusty when she’s feeling down,and they manage to cheer her up,” said the source.Perry has even named her two fragrances Meow andPurr, and devoted a character to Kitty Purry in hersuccessful California Dreams tour. neWs Desk

home alone star not aheroin addict

MACAULAY Culkin has hit out at a magazine'sclaims that he is addicted to heroin. Apublicist for the 'Home Alone' star said the

National Enquirer's claim that the actor had a 6000pounds-a-month drug habit was "ridiculouslyfictitious" and "insulting." The tabloid alleged thatCulkin was hooked on heroin and painkillers."Macaulay Culkin is hooked on drugs and it's killinghim. He's been hooked for a year and a half, and hisdrug of choice is either heroin or oxycodone,"News.com.au quoted a source as telling the gossipmagazine. "Mac is surrounding himself with junkiesand lowlifes. It's a real tragedy," the source said. Thesource also claimed that Culkin had nearly died froman overdose. "Mac suffered a near overdose, andneeded help. Fortunately he didn't need to call 911 andthe near-OD was kept quiet among his pals. But Macgot very sick," the source said. neWs Desk

rachel weisz not botheredby husband’s kissing scenes

RACHEL Weisz has revealed that she is notbothered by Daniel Craig kissing his femaleco-stars. The 42-year-old actress revealed

that it does not bother her when Craig — one ofthe leading Hollywood heart-throbs — gets steamyon screen. “It’s just make-believe. It’s a strangejob in that way for sure,” the Sun quoted her astelling Claire magazine. “We don’t sit aroundtalking about acting but you both understandyou’ve got to be flexible. “Every few months youstart a new job,” she said. neWs Desk

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LeBron JAmesfor reasons we can't quiteunderstand, the nBA star shedsa tear before the men'sPreliminary round group Bmatch with spain vs china

LAm shInthe Korean fencer weeps after beingescorted offstage when a faulty clockended her match against Brittaheidemann of germany in the women'sepee Individual fencing semifinals

JordYn wIeBerthe us gymnast and medalhopeful breaks down after failingto qualify for the women'sIndividual All-Around finals

John orozcothe us gymnast is disappointed byhis low score because of a mistakeduring his pommel horse routine

for the Individual All-Around final

Liam Hemsworth is said to be growingimpatient with fiancee Miley Cyrus as sheis proving a distraction, while he workson his new film. A recent report claimedthat the 22-year-old Australian hunkwants the 19-year-old to return back toLos Angeles because she is proving tobe ‘too much of a distraction’ on thesets of his new movie Paranoia inPhiladelphia. A source on the setclaims that all Liam wants to do iswork, then rehearse his lines... but thatMiley, 19, is hellbent on enjoying theirtime together. “Miley is driving Liamcrazy at the moment,” a source toldRadar Online. “While he’s on set inPhiladelphia shooting his new filmParanoia, she gallivants around townshopping, getting pampered in nailsalons and just can’t sit still. “Then,when she sees Liam after he’s finishedfilming, she chews his ear off about heradventures and can’t wait to tell himwhat she did that day. “With the earlystarts and late finishes, all Liam wants todo is rest, go through his script so he’s readyfor his role and order a takeout or go for aquiet dinner. “But Miley wants to go to thelocal gay bars and hit up fancy restaurants,which Liam just isn’t in the mood for. “Andit doesn’t help that Miley brought along theirbulldog, Ziggy for the trip. Liam can’t get agood night’s sleep with Ziggy snoring nextto him. “So, Liam’s told Miley that he’s inPhiladelphia to work and can’t focus withher buzzing around him. “He evensuggested perhaps it was time for her to goback home,” the source added. neWs Desk

MILEY DRIVING FIANCÉ LIAM ‘CRAZY’

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14Infotainment

Prisoners offered math and englishclasses to improve job chances

PRISONERS are to be offered “military-style” classes in English and Maths afterbeing released to improve their chances of

finding a job. A pilot scheme will be held in sixprisons in north west England, based on how newrecruits in the armed forces are trained, such as 35hours of lessons in a one-week block. Ministerssaid the aim was to show offenders how importantbasic skills are when they try to find work.Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “Crimeblights lives, both for the offender and the victim.That is why we are piloting this programme inprisons, so we can give prisoners the basic skillsthey need to get their lives on track and bringdown re-offending rates. “This shorter but moreintensive approach means that it is less likely thattheir studies will be disrupted and by linkinglessons to other vocational courses, prisoners aremore likely to attain the skills that are needed toget a job and progress in life.” NEWS DESK

man tries to board with a sheep

THINKING of jumping on a UK bus or trainwith your pet cow, goat or sheep in tow?Stop right there! A long-standing rule

states that livestock aren’t allowed on publictransport, as one mystery man found out when hetried to board a train in Wimbledon with his sheepon Monday, reports Metro. (Honestly - can ewebelieve it?) Having been reminded of the rule by arailway employee, the man and his pet somehowtook the four-mile journey to New Malden byother means, where they were later seenattempting to board a bus to Kingston-upon-Thames. It was also here that eagle-eyed localOllie Milroy spotted the pair and posted thispicture of them on Twitter. NEWS DESK

IN a huge industrial cylinder,brightly dressed people arefloating towards the ceiling,feet first. Others spin around,float on carpets, and, offscreen, vomit. This is StarCity, a workplace where

philosophers, cosmonauts, doctors,scientists and artists experience zerogravity. Star City isn’t some anti-gravity chamber from science-fic-tion - instead, in the same wayastronauts are trained at NASA, thealternating G forces causing them tofloat in the air are created by flight.

This is a studio inside a giantcargo plane which flies in a parabola- first steeply upwards for around30,000 feet, then freefalling thesame distance - producing zero grav-ity for around 30 seconds. A StarCity flight can last up to 45 seconds.

The organisation responsible,The Arts Catalyst, sent three groupsof people into zero gravity throughparabolic flights between the late 90sand early 00s. It is at their screeningevent, Kosmica, that assorted jour-nalist gather to hear those who tookpart share their experiences.

A short film introducing thespeakers, Gravitation Off! shows therange of responses Star City’s pas-sengers felt in zero gravity. For someit’s “physically, mentally, sensuallyhigh”, for others, it’s a heightenedawareness of their body and organs.

The studies and projects whichcause people to enter Star City arewide-ranging. Kevin Fong, an astro-physicist and doctor, was interestedin the effect of gravity on the humanbody - something he experiencedfirst hand by vomiting repeatedly.

Artist Kay Wilson was participat-

ing in a project which saw her “immo-bilised with packing tape” during zerogravity. Others went ‘into space’ tomake music, research future exhibi-tions or further academic study.

The irony of these intentions isthat zero gravity makes it quite dif-ficult to do very much at all. EvenFong, an aspiring astronaut and ex-pert in the field, describes Star Cityas a “completely alien experience”,in which “attempting to look cool forthe TV” becomes pointless.

Wilson says that her desire totake an ultrasound machine on-board and see the impact of gravityon the body remains a project whichmay happen in the future.

However, her interviews with herfellow passengers cited transcendentand religious experiences, a quickblend of “fancy thinking and HomerSimpson state”. Zero gravity, we hear,allows passengers to existing beyondthe “boundary of the untranslatablespace of the language of musicians.”

It sounds intangible, but thenhuman beings are meant to existwith two feet on the ground. It’s truethat few canvases are painted inspace (although there are a couple inour gallery below), but records of thezero gravity experience are inspiringin themselves. Arts Catalyst’s in-volvement in Star City is now over;having made the first steps to put-ting artists, scientists and bigthinkers into zero gravity, they’venow left people to ‘go solo’ into the Gforces. But who knows what kind offuture space art will have? We maysee an ultrasound machine float inthin air yet. NEWS DESK

The Zero Gravity Studio

Saturday, 4 August, 2012

man charged for callingmagnun ‘choc-ice’

Aman faces a possible ban on talking afterhe called a Magnum “a choc ice”. GioFernando made the remark while

discussing ice cream with one of his three millionfriends. “Magnum! A choc ice! Classic!Hahahahahahahaha!!” he said. But his bosses,Unilever, failed to see the funny side. “A Magnumisn’t a choc ice,” said a spokesman for thecompany. “It’s a silky, vanilla bean ice cream,covered in a thick layer of Belgian milk chocolate(available in a three-bar pack and in singles). “Tocall it a ‘choc ice’ is offensive and an insult to allthose who created the first widely available hand-held indulgence ice cream in the UK.” Fernandosays that his remark was never meant to causeoffence, insisting: “It’s just a slang term forMagnum”. This is the latest controversy to dog thecompany, after another of its workers, JohnMerry, called Fernando’s brother “a screwball”. Helater insisted that this wasn’t an insult, but in factmeant “a plastic cone of vanilla ice cream with abubblegum ball at the bottom”. The casecontinues, as long as the sun’s still out. NEWS DESK

‘NO BALLS’ insult now illegal,Italian courts rule Off to Italy for your holidays? A word to the wise:do try to refrain from accusing any new maleacquaintances of having “no balls”, as it’s now acrime punishable with a fine, following a rulingby the country’s highest court.The case, as reported by The Huffington Post, wasbrought to the supreme court by a lawyer namedonly as Vittorio against his cousin Alberto, ajustice of the peace.Apparently, naughty Alberto uttered the insult inquestion at Vittorio during a heated courtroomexchange in the city of Potenza.Having weighed up the case, judge MaurizioFumo sided firmly with Vittorio, explaining:“Apart from the vulgarity of the term used, theexpression definitely has an injurious quality. “It refers not only to the target’s lack of virility,but also to his weakness of character, lack ofdetermination, competence and coherence -virtues that, rightly or wrongly, are still identifiedas pertaining to the male gender.”But that’s not all! Because the phrase was utteredin the workplace with others present, the courtruled it could also be regarded as damaging toVittorio’s reputation. The latest? Another judge isnow making equally good use of his time by rulingon the fine Alberto should have to pay for hismisdemeanour. NEWS DESK

The number of fake accounts on

Facebook is roughly the size of

Egypt’s population and larger than

most of the world’s countries, reports

Mashable: 83.09 million.

The astonishing figure makes up

8.7% of all Facebook’s 995 million

active viewers, says the Daily Mail.

According to the London daily,

Facebook classified the fake accounts

in three groups:

-4.8% were duplicate accounts,

such as accounts set up by people to

keep their activities hidden from their

partner or their parents.

-2.4% were “user-misclassified”

accounts, where “users have created

personal profiles for a business,

organization or non-human entity

such as a pet” according to Facebook.

-1.5% were “undesirable”

accounts were profiles were deemed

to be in breach of Facebook’s terms

of service; accounts set up to send

out spam emails.

Facebook, reports BBC News,

whose business model relies on

targeted advertising, is coming under

increased scrutiny over the worth of

its advertising model which promotes

the gathering of likes from users.

NEws DEsk

fake accounts onfacebook the size ofegypt’s population

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LONDONAFP

Here are potted profiles of the mainmedal contenders for the men's 100mat the London Olympics, heats andround one for which are scheduledfor Saturday, with the semi-finals andfinal on Sunday:

USAIN BOlT (JAM)The 25-year-oldJamaican is bid-ding to replicatethe form heshowed in Bei-jing in 2008where he wontreble gold in-cluding the 100and 200m inthen worldrecord times.Bolt, who set the current world recordof 9.58 seconds in the 2009 Berlinworlds, arrived in London with manyquestioning his form after he wasedged into second in the 100m of theJamaican Olympic trials by YohanBlake. But Bolt has been there anddone it, and it would take a brave per-son to write him off.

YOHAN BlAKE (JAM)Blake, nick-named the"Beast" for hisappetite for workunder the keeneye of coachGlen Mills, hasemerged as gen-uine pretenderto the sprintingcrowns of train-ing partner Bolt.The 22-year-old

trumped Bolt in both the 100 and200m at the Jamaican Olympic trialsand the cricket-loving Blake is in confi-dent form, having already set theworld's lead time this season.

ASAFA POWEll (JAM)The LondonOlympics un-doubtedly offerPowell a finalchance of eras-ing the disap-pointment of thelast two Games.The 29-year-old,who held the100m record foralmost three years from June 2005 toMay 2008, has seen his status as thefastest man in the world eclipsed byhis younger rival and close friend Bolt.Powell, whose one individual title atthe 2006 Commonwealth Games is apoor reward for his obvious talent,must hope to safely negotiate the threeraces to the final, where, if injury-free,he could be a real title contender.

TYSON GAY (USA)Gay saw his Bei-jing Gamesdream shatteredby a hamstringinjury and hassaid that winningwhat would be afirst Olympicmedal is themissing piece ofhis heart. Gay,who will turn 30four days after the 100m final on Sun-day, has proved his sprinting worth withvictory in the 2007 Osaka worlds andremains the second fastest man in theworld after Bolt, having clocked 9.69sec

in 2009. After needing nearly a year torecover from right hip surgery, Gaymust manage himself carefully throughthe heats and channel the enormouspressure he feels into a performancethat will challenge the Jamaican trio.

JUSTIN GATlIN (USA)Gatlin claimedthe 100m gold inthe 2004Olympics inAthens, butmissed the 2008Games whileserving a four-year doping ban.The 30-year-old,who won theworld sprint double in 2005 but testedpositive for doping and was bannedfrom 2006-2010, will race in Londonwith hopes of legitimising his tarnishedlegacy. Gatlin ran the fastest 100m ofhis career, 9.80sec, to win the USOlympic trials final and will be lookingto repeat that kind of form on Sunday.

KIM cOllINS (SKN)The dark horsefrom St Kittsand Nevis, the36-year-old vet-eran formerworld championCollins has pre-dicted all eight100m finalistscould dip under10sec for thefirst time. Givenhis personal best is only 9.98sec,Collins seems out of his depth com-pared to his younger, faster rivals, butthat did not stop him claiming a shockbronze at last year's worlds in Daegu,South Korea.

Amuch anticipated weekendbeckons. After a sen-sational and contro-versy-laden, with

mostly China at the receivingend of the latter, theLondon OlympicGames 2012 entersits second week Sat-urday. Some eventslike women’s hep-tathlon already com-menced Friday but dubbed as the‘Super Saturday’, Aug. 4, the big-ticket,high-interest athletics events get un-derway in real earnest.

As many as 21 gold medals are upfor grabs on just one day! And withmarathon and triathlon on the pro-gramme, the streets of an already muchovercrowded London – with its surfaceand underground systems already in-undated to the point of choking and themain Stratford area already the stomp-ing ground of a cosmopolitan multitude– are likely to draw an even greatermultitude.

In one of the few truly multi-sport na-tions, the public interest in the Gamesand its ownership already knows nofathom. Great Britain may no longer be asgreat as it once was, yet the nationalisticpride at the Games knows no bounds.There is all-pervasive obsession with theGames and it is quite overwhelmingwhenever, wherever one steps on to theLondon streets – nowhere more so than

Stratford, the now transformed East Endpart of the great city.

The BBC, the television channel withexclusive broadcast-ing rights, is

w e a r i n g

its nationalcolours on itssleeves, with its com-mentators goingberserk at theslightest hint ofglory. And theBrits are lap-ping up itso v e r l ylopsidedcoverageof every-thing in-volving TeamGB and its quest to im-prove on its 47 medals andfourth position at Beijing.

To the extent, the signal achieve-ment of that great swimming phe-nomenon and Olympic legend,Michael Phelps of eclipsing theprevious record for most medalsat best got perfunctory treatment.

Yet midway through the first weekand still languishing around 20 on thesweepstakes with China soaring and theUSA playing catch up, hurt deep. But aslew of golds, as many as four of them ina mere 24 hours sent Team GB soaring to

fourth on the medals table,soothing the anxiety of a fren-zied nation. And always theones to know when to bask in

reflected glory, the politicianswere head over heels in rejoicing the tri-umph of its rowers and cyclists.

The enthusiasm for GB hoggingmore medals and more glory is

not going to wane aroundthese parts, but on Satur-

day the focus shall in-evitably shift to the trackand field. And no eventin athletics is bigger

than the 100 metresprint – its win-

ner winning thesobriquet of

the FastestMan on

Earth.

Quite pre-dictably, under the

spotlight now are the inim-itable Jamaican Usain Bolt, his

compatriot Yohan Blake and thepretender USA’s Tyson Gay – the 29-

year old making a comeback from in-juries, but one who is already clocked

behind Bolt the second fastest time, thesub 9.7 second run.

Bolt was all panache at Beijing –winning at a canter in world recordtime, glancing back to see his competi-tion back in the ‘distance’, waving tothe crowd and thumping his chest. Heset three astounding world records atBeijing, and what is all the more re-markable broke them within a year’stime at the World Championships.

At 26, Bolt this season is nowhereclose to such formidable form. In-juries, the greatest bane of an athlete,to back and hamstring that he down-plays have taken their toll. Blake beathim in both the 100 and 200 metres atthe Jamaican trials, and he absentedhimself from a preparatory event im-mediately before the Olympics. Thatsaid, the Olympics are likely to ignite afire in Bolt’s belly. And if he toucheshis prime, the big stage performer thathe is, he might shave a second or twofrom 9.58 second world record.

Lamine Diack, the IAAF presidentonly earlier this week told reportershere: “With Bolt anything is possible…If he is in shape possibly we will see9.40-something in the 100m."

From the looks of it, the likeli-hood of this Bolt striking here

again in spectacular fashionis so very high. Try

stopping onefrom getting a

vantage pointto watch thisone, fromheats to themedal run.

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Pride beats disappointmentover Afghan sprinter

martynov winsgold in 50mprone rifle

LONDONAFP

Sergei Martynov of Belarus clinched goldin the men's shooting 50m rifle prone onFriday after scoring an Olympic recordmaximum 600 points en route to the final.The 44-year-old veteran, competing in hissixth Olympic Games after making hisfirst appearance way back in 1988, securedthe first gold medal of his long careerahead of Germany's Lionel Cox and Raj-mond Debevec of Slovenia.

Hockey worldchamps Australiain surprise draw

LONDONAFP

World champions Australia surrendered atwo-goal lead as Argentina battled backfor a 2-2 draw in men's Olympic hockeyon Friday. Meanwhile the Netherlandscoasted to a third straight win of the tour-nament with a 5-1 victory over NewZealand. Australia continue to lead Pool Awith seven points from three matches,while New Zealand have just three fromas many games. The Dutch are on top inPool B with a maximum nine points inthree outings, followed by defendingOlympic champions Germany on sixpoints from two games. Germany playIndia later on Friday. Argentina captainMatias Vila's field goal on a counter attackin the 37th minute and Gonzalo Peillat'spenalty corner conversion in the 68thminuted brought the South Americanslevel with Australia, for whom EdwardOckenden opened the scoring by seizingon a penalty corner rebound in the 11thminute. Jamie Dwyer added the secondgoal right on half-time, making him Aus-tralia's highest ever scorer with 180 goals.Australia had several chances to add totheir lead but could not find another waypast Argentine goalkeeper Juan Vivaldi."We've got to improve all the way throughthe tournament. I don't think we finishedwell," said Australia coach RicCharlesworth. New Zealand took an earlylead with a field goal from Simon Child inthe fifth minute, but the Dutch bouncedback firing to be 3-1 up t half-time aftertwo penalty stroke conversions by Roder-ick Weusthof nd Mink van der Weerdenwere followed by Billy Bakker's open playstrike. Bakker scored another field goalin the 56th minute before Robbert (attneds: correct) Kemperman rounded offthe scoring three minutes from the end."We never had a feeling that we wouldlose despite conceding an early goal,"said Kemperman. "Before the game wethought we could score five goals."What we did well was that we passedthe ball into the midfield, which we hadnot done much in the past two games."

this bolt may strike again

Medal contenders forthe mens’ Olympic 100m

four arrestsso far at2012 games

LONDONAFP

British police have made four arrests sofar across the London 2012 Olympicsvenues, a spokeswoman said Friday. TheGames, centred on the Olympic Park inStratford, east London, are surroundedby Britain's biggest peacetime securityoperation. Florian Flesche, 25, from LeRevest-les-Eaux in southern France, wasarrested on Sunday at the shooting at theRoyal Artillery Barracks. He has beencharged with common assault and is dueto appear in a London court later thismonth. A 45-year-old man accepted a po-lice caution for actual bodily harm afterbeing arrested at Earls Court exhibitioncentre, the volleyball venue, on Sunday.A 50-year-old man who was arrestedTuesday at Lord's cricket ground, thearchery venue, accepted a police cautionfor theft. Petras Lescinskas, 36, fromRoehampton in southwest London, ap-

peared at StratfordMagistrates'

Court on Fridaycharged with aracially aggra-vated public

order offence.Police gave no fur-

ther details. A secu-rity force of morethan 40,000 mili-

tary and civilianpersonnel,backed by ahuge intelli-gence opera-

tion, is beingdeployed to protectvenues, athletes andmillions of visitors.

GB and its national fervour finds expression in the Games

AGHA AKBAR

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Japanese judoworst in 24 years

LONDONAFP

No Japanese man will win a gold medalin judo for the first time ever at anOlympic Games after Daiki Kamikawalost in the heavyweight division in Lon-don on Friday.Kamikawa's second round defeat byIhar Makaru of Belarus also con-demned Japan, the home of judo, totheir worst Olympic performance in thesport since 1988 in Seoul -- the lasttime they failed to top the judo medals'table. Only eight years ago, in Athens,Japan won eight out of the 14 judo goldmedals on offer.But in London they've won just one sofar through women's under-57kg worldchampion Kaori Matsumoto.

LONDONAFP

tHE Olympics glamour sport of track andfield made an electrifying start Friday asMichael Phelps prepared to chase downhis third gold medal of the Games. The

opening day of the athletics competition saw an un-precedented sell-out crowd of 80,000 pack theOlympic Stadium for the morning session, withBritish golden girl Jessica Ennis making her much-anticipated entrance in heptathlon.

With a vociferous home support roaring her on,Ennis did not disappoint, clocking the best time everrecorded in the 100m hurdles discipline of her open-ing seven-event heptathlon. The 26-year-old flew overher hurdles flawlessly in a superb 12.54sec, shaving0.25sec off her previous best and equalling the win-ning time of American Dawn Harper in the indivudalevent at the 2008 Olympics. Ennis's quest for gold willsee her participate in three events on Friday before theheptathlon is completed on Saturday. Two medals willbe decided in track and field on Friday, the women's10,000m and the men's shot put. A total of 22 medalswill be up for grabs across the Games, with hostsBritain adding to Thursday's three-gold haul early onwith a victory in the women's double sculls rowing. Aslice of history was made in the judo competitionwhere Wojdan Shaherkani became the first Saudi Ara-bian woman to compete at an Olympics. Shaherkani,16, lasted a mere 82 seconds on her Olympic debutafter a build-up which had been dominated by a rowconcerning her hijab. The Saudi teenager broke downin tears after her defeat in the heavyweight competi-tion against Melissa Mojica of Puerto Rico, admittingshe had been overwhelmed by the occasion.

"I was disturbed and afraid at the beginning, itwas my first time in a big competition and there wasa lot of pressure because of the hijab issue," she said."I was not comfortable because I didn't have any ex-perience of big events. It took its toll on me." At theAquatics Centre, Phelps will aim to consolidate hisposition as the most decorated Olympic athlete of alltime in the 100m butterfly. Phelps roared back toform on Thursday with an imperious victory in the200m individual medley, consolidating his newly-ac-quired status as the most successful athlete inOlympic history with a record 20th medal.

LONDONAFP

American Angelo Taylor said he was confi-dent he could achieve something beyondeven legendary compatriot and two-timechampion Ed Moses and win a thirdOlympic gold medal in the 400m hurdles.

The 33-year-old -- Olympic championin 2000 and 2008 -- won his heat on Fridaybut came into the Games as an outside betfor the title behind world leader Javier Cul-son of Puerto Rico and British world cham-pion Dai Greene. However, Taylor said theform book meant little at an Olympics andhe was in shape to realise his dream.

"Most definitely I can win a third goldmedal," said Taylor, who also won Olympic4x400m relay gold in 2008. "That's whyI'm here. I started planning for this as soonas I crossed the line in Beijing. "There issomething very special about the Olympics

and it always seems to bring the best out ofme," added Taylor, who has never shone atthe world championships, reaching the400m hurdles' final just once in four at-tempts. Taylor admitted he hadn't beenfeeling too sharp when he was preparing toenter the London Olympic Stadium for hisheat, but that had soon changed. "I wasfeeling a tad lethargic, but once I heard theroar of the crowd and saw how packed thestadium was, I got goosebumps and I surewoke up. "I'm not used to normally run-ning in front of so many people that earlyin the morning, even at other champi-onships, so it was a pleasant surprise."

Moses won the Olympic 400m hurdlesat both the 1976 and 1984 Olympics, as wellas a bronze medal in 1988, but missed out in1980 because of the US boycott of theMoscow Games. Meanwhile Culson, biddingto give Puerto Rico their first ever goldmedal since their Games debut in 1948 and

first of any colour outside of the six they'vewon in boxing, ran the fastest time of theheats in 48.33sec. Taylor's team-mate Ker-ron Clement finished second behind Cul-som, posting the second quickest time of48.48sec, and the Trinidad-born naturalisedAmerican said he was determined to turnthe Olympic silver of four years ago into goldthis time round. Clement added he had usedthe huge roars from the crowd for the Britishrunner in the heat, Rhys Williams, to his ad-vantage. "I just pretended they were cheer-ing for me!" said the 26-year-old, a two-timeworld champion. Greene, like Taylor andCulsom, won his heat and said that, asBritish athletics team captain, it had beenimportant for him to post a victory. "As cap-tain, I wanted to set the tempo on the firstmorning and win my heat straight out," saidthe Welshman, bidding to complete a full setof major titles to add to his world, Europeanand Commonwealth crowns.

Usa’s taylor eyes hurdling treble

Saturday, 4 August, 2012

LAHORE STAFF REPORT

Mohammad Sadi Ahmed of Faisalabad will bepulling five vehicles with his mustache during theupcoming Punjab Youth Festival 2012 to write thecountry’s name in Guinness Book of World Records.

Sadi on Friday registered his documents withthe Sports Board Punjab official pledging to createthree world records and also demonstrated infront of media his skills by pulling a Pajero forabout 50 feet with his mustache.

Sadi was all praise of the Punjab Governmentand Director General Sports Board Punjab UsmanAnwar for providing him an opportunity to dis-play his world record attempt before the officialsof the Guinness World officials.

Speaking on the occasion, Usman Anwar saidthat they are providing the people of the countryan opportunity to show the world their talent. “It’sa great omen that apart from sports records, peo-ple are also coming up to show their physical

strength and the recognition of their talent at theworld level with the efforts of Punjab Governmentis in itself is a big incentive,” he added.

The Sports Board Punjab as part of the Pun-jab Youth Festival is formally registering seriouscontenders who will create world record or im-prove the previous best and get the country’sname written in the Guinness Book of WorldRecords. Sadi, who has been pulling vehicles forover the last 28 years, said that in his three worldrecord attempts, he will be pulling five vehicles,lift 40 kgs weight and pull and twist a 15 years oldkid, with his mustache.

Sadi, a 45 years old farmer of Faisalabad,said that he uses oil, egg and yogurt for thegrowth and to provide strength to his mustache.He further said that he has performed his worldrecord mark at 50 different occasions and nowduring the Punjab Youth Festival he will displayhis talent before the world. He thanked the Pun-jab government for having faith in him and giv-ing him a platform to show his skills.

Faisalabad farmer to pull five vehicles with mustache

lAHoRe: Sadi Ahmed demonstrates his skills before journalists bypulling a Pagero. Sadi will create guinness world Record during theupcoming Punjab Youth festival 2012.

athletics centre-stage asPhelps chases more gold

lAHoRe: Punjab Sports Board director general Usman Anwarand Sadi Ahmed during a media briefing at the national HockeyStadium. staf photos

guiNNESS wOrld rECOrd duriNg PuNJaB yOuth fEStival

Phelps’ golden hattrick

Michael Phelps became the first male swimmer to winthe same event at three successive Olympics when heclinched the men’s 200 metres individual medley goldmedal at the London Games on Thursday (August 2).The American may no longer be the unstoppable forcehe was in Beijing four years ago but he still provided aneverlasting reminder of his incredible talent and deter-mination by winning the gruelling multi-disciplineevent. Michael Phelps led all the way and got his gianthands on the wall first in a time of one minute, 54.27seconds, relegating compatriot and world championRyan Lochte to silver and Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh tobronze. At 2004 Olympic Games at Athens, MichaelPhelps finished first with a time of 1:57.14, an Olympicrecord. He won the gold medal in this event with aworld record time of 1:54.23 at Beijing four years ago.Only two swimmers had ever won the same individualevent at three successive Olympics, Australia’s DawnFraser, in 100 m freestyle in 1956, 1960 and 1964, andHungary’s Krisztina Egerszegi in 200 m backstroke in1988, 1992 and 1996. It is a feat that had eluded gener-ations of the best male swimmers but not MichaelPhelps, who now has a staggering total of 20 Olympicmedals, including 16 gold, and the chance to win twomore before his retirement at the end of the Games.

3 SUccESSIVE GOlD MEDAlS IN A SINGlE EVENT IN SWIMMING:

DAWN FRASER (AUSTRAlIA):YEAR VENUE EVENT TIME1956 melbourne 100 m freestyle 1:02.0 (wR)1960 Rome 100 m freestyle 1:01.2 (oR)1964 Tokyo 100 m freestyle 59.5 (oR)

KRISZRINA EGERSZEGI (HUNGARY):YEAR VENUE EVENT TIME1988 Seoul 200 m backstroke 2:09.29 (oR)1992 Barcelona 200 m backstroke 2:07.061999 Atlanta 200 m backstroke 2:07.83

MIcHAEl PHElPS (UNITED STATES)YEAR VENUE EVENT TIME2004 Athens 200 m individual medley 1:58.52 (oR)2008 Beijing 200 m individual medley 1:54.23 (wR)2012 london 200 m individual medley 1: 54.27

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P RIDE mixed with disap-pointment met the effortsof war-torn Afghanistan'sonly female athlete at the

London Olympics when she ran butcame last in her heat for the 100mFriday. Despite failing to qualify,Tahmina Kohistani, who competesin long black trousers, long sleevesand a head scarf, posted a personalbest time of 14.42.

"Even though Tahmina missedthe qualifications still the nation isproud of her -- sure difficult to run inhijab," said one post on Twitter.

Another Afghan tweeter, whomade it clear he was less than im-pressed, responded to criticism bysaying: "Well, I think we should notthink small and cheap. We are thereand we have to try not to be at theend (last) at least." But most com-ments were positive, with one onFacebook summing up the feelings

of many in this conservative Muslimcountry where government televi-sion does not even show women'sevents: "She was running for free-dom and equality and she won."

"In my society there is no sportfor females," Kohistani said in Lon-don ahead of the race. "My people donot accept sport for women; theythink sport is not good for them."Being a Muslim female athlete ismost important for me. I represent acountry where every day there aresuicide bomb blasts. It is importantthat a girl from such a country can behere." Many who watched the raceon private cable TV in Kabul sharedher opinion. "Let's not focus on thefact that she did not qualify, let's re-member that we are living in a soci-ety in which until 10 years ago girlswere banned from going to school,"said Naweed Farzan. "Tahmina is abrave girl, she sets a good example toother Afghan women that theyshould be brave. The country shouldbe proud of her," he said.

female runnermakes historyfor Brunei

LONDONAFP

Teenage 400m runner Maziah Mahusinspoke of her pride Friday at becoming thefirst woman from Brunei to represent hercountry at an Olympic Games after racingto a new national record in London.Mahusin, who carried the flag for thesmall Asian nation in last week's openingceremony in London, was the last to finishin heat six of the women's 400m, morethan eight seconds behind the winner. Butthe smiling 19-year-old, who said she wasnervous in front of the packed and vocalcrowd of 80,000 in the Olympic Stadium,said she was thrilled to run a personalbest and new national record of 59.28sec."I'm really proud, even though I didn'twin anything, even though I didn't getinto the semi-final or whatever," she said.When asked to compare the experiencewith carrying out the flag of the small oil-rich monarchy, she said: "It's different. Ifeel really happy, really excited. I was re-ally nervous but I managed to do well."

PRIDE BEATS DISAPPOINTMENTOVER AFGHAN SPRINTER

Saturday, 4 August, 2012

LONDONAFP

Roger Federer fought through the longestthree-set singles match in the Open eraFriday when he beat Argentina's JuanMartin del Potro 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 19-17 toreach the Olympic final.

Wimbledon champion Federer was onthe brink of a shock defeat on CentreCourt after dropping the first set, but theworld number one finally subdued delPotro after a marathon four hours and 26minutes. The match, 23 minutes longerthan Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic's

Madrid semi-final in 2009, comes afterJo-Wilfried Tsonga took 66 games to beatMilos Raonic in the second round -- themost ever seen in an Olympic three-setter.

The great escape means Federer, 30,is guaranteed at least a silver medal. InSunday's final, he will face world numbertwo Novak Djokovic or Britain's AndyMurray, who was beaten by Federer in lastmonth's Wimbledon final.

"I don't think I've ever played as longa set in a best of three match," Federersaid. "The whole match was nearly four-and-a-half hours, so it was very physicalat the end and so mental.

Federer into final in record three-setter

LONDON: Picture taken with a robotic

camera showing general view of the

athletics event at the Olympic stadium

during the heats of the women’s 400m

at the London 2012 Olympic Games. afP

london: Afghanistan's Tahmina Kohistani reacts aftercompeting in the women's 100m heats at the athleticsevent during the london 2012 olympic games. afp

Athleticschief applaudssell-out crowdLONDON: The head of world ath-letics Lamine Diack said it was"wonderful" to see an 80,000 sell-out crowd at Friday's opening ath-letics session at London's OlympicStadium. Diack, president of theInternational Association of Athlet-ics Federations (IAAF), said hecould not recall a similar turnoutfor the morning athletics sessionsin past Olympics. "It was wonderfulto arrive at the Olympic Games thismorning and see a totally packedstadium for the first session of ath-letics," the IAAF president said. "Ido not remember the last time thishappened and it shows the great af-fection Britain has for our sport. AFP

iPf suspendsindian federationLAHORE: The International Pow-erlifting Federation suspended theIndian Powerlifting Federation forpositive drugs test. An official of theIPF said: “The IPF is committed toassisting member nations and theirindividual lifters in their compli-ance to the World Anti-DopingAgency regulations. Please be awareof your nation's: Whereabouts Pro-gram; Therapeutic Use ExemptionInformation; Prohibited SubstanceList.” In order for the IPF to ensurethat they can protect all athletes’fundamental right to participate ina doping-free sport and thus pro-mote health, fairness and equalityfor athletes worldwide, there mustbe clear and strict consequences forindividuals and nations that do notcomply with the WADA regulations.It is on this note that the IPF Execu-tive informs all member nationsthat a suspension has been issued tothe Indian Powerlifting Federationdue to their doping positive rates inthe last 12-months period. Begin-ning the 1st of August, 2012 the In-dian Powerlifting Federation areput on a probation until 31st De-cember 2012 and is suspended fromthe 1st of January 2013 until 31stDecember 2013. If any of their ath-letes fails a doping test in-competi-tion or out-of-competition in 2012the suspension period begins at themoment, when the judgment is pro-nounced. While efforts to clean thesport of doping and to keep it cleanare acknowledged by the nationalfederations concerned, they are re-quired to further intensify their ef-forts. To that end, a precise step bystep program has been issued bythe IPF Executive to help themcomply with current anti-dopingregulations. SPORTS DESK

Sharapovareaches finalLONDON: Maria Sharapova admittedreaching her first Olympic final was a dreamcome true as the Russian world numberthree defeated compatriot Maria Kirilenko6-2, 6-3 in the semi-finals on Friday. The25-year-old will play Wimbledon championSerena Williams or world number one Vic-toria Azarenka in Saturday's final as shetries to complete the Golden Slam of titles inall four majors and the Olympic singles. AFP

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West Indies achieved what was expectedof them after winning the toss and optingto bowl, that was to bowl the oppositionout. Kemar Roach justified his captain'sdecision with a four-wicket haul, backedby Tino Best, to restrict the strugglingNew Zealand side to 260 on a Sabina Parkpitch which offered something more tothe seamers on the opening day than thesurface at Antigua. New Zealand, though,brought it on themselves with a series ofpoor shots and as a result they couldnever keep West Indies under pressurefor sustained periods.

The captain Ross Taylor said after thefirst Test that his team needed more cen-turies if they are to mount any pressure onthe opposition. But once again, they turned

in an underwhelming performance withthe bat, with two batsmen, including Tay-lor himself, making half-centuries but fail-ing to convert them. New Zealand hadmade decent progress till tea, but lost theirlast seven wickets for 99 runs to give WestIndies the upper hand.

The overnight rain had left somemoisture on the pitch and that promptedDarren Sammy to give his bowlers firstuse of the conditions. His seamers in-duced mistakes from the top order withan incisive opening spell. Best, in for theinjured Ravi Rampaul, made an impactstraightaway, beating the batsmen withpace and extra lift from a good length.There was no swing on offer but move-ment off the pitch, which kept the openersguessing. A couple of outside edges fellshort of the packed slip cordon, Guptilltook one on the chest, and it looked like a

wicket was around the corner. KemarRoach's four-wicket haul is his second ofthe series (five-for in the first Test) and

the sixth haul of four or more wickets inhis Tests. Since 2009, Roach's tally of 81wickets is comfortably the best among

West Indian bowlers. Martin Guptill con-tinued his good form with his third con-secutive half-century of the series. In fiveprevious innings, Guptill has scored fourhalf-centuries and averages 62.4.

Ross Taylor's 60 is his 16th half-cen-tury and first against West Indies. In sixinnings against West Indies, Taylor hasscored 191 runs at 31.83.

The 103-run stand between Guptilland Taylor is the fifth-highest third-wicket stand for New Zealand againstWest Indies. The four other centurystands for the third wicket have come inTests played in New Zealand. BrendonMcCullum's tally of ducks (10) is thefourth-highest among New Zealand top-order (1-7) batsmen (only includes in-nings played between No.1 and No.7).Stephen Fleming and Ken Rutherfordtop the list with 16 ducks each.

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LONDONAGHA AKBAR

AFTER an all-too-brief a glim-mer of hope, Pakistan wentdown to Great Britain 4-1 inwhat was a tame capitulation.

The heavy defeat does not quite end theirdream of a top-four finish, but with toomany ifs and butts coming into play, thescenario for them is not really heartening.

Pakistan’s remaining games areagainst South Africa and Australia, inthat order. To stay in contention, it ismandatory for Pakistan to win that en-counter, if possible with a decent mar-gin to make up on one-minus in goalaggregate and then spread its prayermat for others to do even worse tobring the permutations in their favour.As for beating Australia, it is not reallyimpossible: to the great surprise ofeverybody here Argentina held them toa 2-2 draw. But then the Aussies are byfar the most formidable of all squadswith a serious claim to top-of-the-podium. They are wont to self-destructnow and then. The misstep against Ar-gentina though would definitely wakethem up, the Greenshirts thus shall ex-

pect no favours.In group B’s two morning and after-

noon games, the form sides the Nether-lands and Germany gave theiropponents a sound thrashing, NewZealand going down to the former 5-1and India to the latter 5-2.

It was rather strange that after twopretty decent games, Pakistan werefound quite mournfully inadequatewhen actually they should’ve had theirtails up. After being conspicuous bytheir absence against Spain, and per-haps buoyed by their good show then,their throaty supporters too had filedinto the stands in good numbers – notas many to out-yell the loud Brits butenough to make their presence felt.

As usual, Pakistan was off to arather pensive and sluggish first fewminutes – they had gotten away withthis routine of taking their time to findtheir bearings on the field againstSpain and Argentina. Great Britain,with a much more strong craving for awin, was not to allow them that luxury.They came hard in the first few min-utes, made a sally deep into our areaand a goal was a very near miss in thevery first minute. Only two minutes lat-

ter another opportunity, a goalmouthpass and James Tindall unerringlysounded the board. A couple of min-utes further, one Irfan infringementgot England the short corner that wasshoved out of the harm’s way by‘keeper Imran Shah’s stick.

The attacks coming thick and fastnow gave Pakistan’s defence and mid-field a bout of jitters, and two greencards at the same time to MuhammadWaqas and skipper Sohail Abbas re-duced it to nine men on the field. Atthis critical stretch some imaginativelong balls and a bit of a counterattacksaved Pakistan from getting dented fur-ther. Pakistan by now were pushing upand asking some questions off a robustand physical GB defence but their ap-proaches were too feeble, to the extentthat there wasn’t a single serious at-tempt at the England goal.

England meanwhile got another op-portunity for a field goal on a counter-attack, and ‘keeper Imran Shah findinghimself too lonely with no defender insight, rushed out but failed to tackle theonrushing attacker from the right, andwhen the ball came to Jonty Clarke hehad the whole of Pakistan goal in front.

Even if he were blind with a brokenarm, he still would have banged it in.

Two goals down, the Pakistanistrudged off into the break in a thought-ful, somber mood. But they came outwith purpose, winning a short cornerthe very first minute that resulted inanother two on the go, yet the goal re-mained elusive. They kept pushing, butsomehow even the more respectable oftheir endeavours at best fizzled out be-fore raising a real challenge. Mean-while, Ashley Jackson convertedanother short corner to make it 3-0 inthe 50th and Pakistan had all been out-played comprehensively when Jacksonagain compounded the misery on an-other short corner to make it 4-0. Withthe hooter about to go, on a short cor-ner Sohail Abbas finally scored but itwas not quite enough to console hissorry men.

Pakistan have been beaten well andtruly. But the event is not over yet.They must pick themselves up, regroupand come back to fight another day –against South Africa Sunday. This cav-ing in that has so unsettlingly becomethe norm for the Greenshirts needs tobe shed. The time is now.

timid Pakistan capitulate to gb england makesolid start in reply

LEEDSAFP

England made a solid start to their replyafter South Africa stretched their first in-nings to 419 on the second day of the sec-ond Test at Headingley on Friday. Englandwere 48 for no wicket when bad light endedplay with 22 overs still due to be bowled.England captain Andrew Strauss and hisopening partner Alastair Cook batted confi-dently, aided by some wayward bowling bythe South Africans. South Africa's inningslasted until shortly before the tea break.Alviro Petersen made a career best 182 asSouth Africa ground out an imposing total,casting doubt on England's decision to pickan all-seam attack and send them in.

Roach, Best make it west indies’ day

GOLD COASTcRIcINFO

Australia Under-19s came back frommediocre performances in the initialtwo one-dayers to register a com-manding eight-wicket win, and sal-vage some pride, against PakistanUnder-19s in the final match at GoldCoast. Australia's bowlers rippedthrough Pakistan's top-order, reduc-ing them to 8 for 3, and then kept astranglehold on the innings beforeCameron Bancroft and Kurtis Patter-son guided the chase with half-cen-turies.

Pakistan, who had chosen to bowlin the other matches, batted this timebut fell into a hole early on withHarry Convay and Joel Paris amongthe wickets. Imam-ul-Haq, 77, and

Umar Waheed, 52, struck a 128-runpartnership for the fourth wicket butthe rest of the batting was shaky andthe last five wickets fell for 20 runs,thanks to off-spinner AshtonTurner's three wickets and two run-outs. Seamer Mark Stekeete sup-ported Turner well, conceding 14runs in his 7.5 overs and claiming awicket.

Cameron Bancroft, with a solid76, increased his runs tally to 143 forthe series and was named man of theseries. Kurtis Patterson, who struck83 in the opening one-dayer, re-mained unbeaten on 52.

Speaking after the win StuartLaw, Australia's coach, suggestedbowling first helped. "I think today'sresult is probably indicative of theother two games and we fought back

today to gain some respect and putsome pride back into our perform-ance. I think winning the toss andbowling first was a major asset forthose first two games and we had tocome out today and bowl well, and wedid."

"The first two losses made us situp and work out a plan against thiskind of attack - most teams are goingto have this sort of attack, and ourboys went about rectifying their ear-lier mistakes."

Australia travel to Brisbane onSaturday to play warm-up matchesagainst West Indies on August 7 andScotland on August 8. The Under-19World Cup starts on August 11. ScORES: Australia Under-19s 180 for 2 (Bankroft

76, Patterson 52) beat Pakistan Under-19s 179

(imam-ul-Haq 77, Turner 3 for 38) by eight wickets.

australia bowlersensure commanding win

Candyland stun nBP LAHORE

STAFF REPORT

Sami Afridi of Candyland surprised defend-ing champions NBP in the Advance Tele-com 2nd Corporate T20 Cup 2012 at theDHA Sport Club – Moin Khan Academy onThursday. Iqbal Qasim, Chief Selector PCBwas the chief guest on the occasion andgave the Man-of-the-Match award to SamiAfridi. Rehan Shaikh, Head of MarketingAdvance Telecom presented a Mementoand Nokia handset to the chief guest. ScORES: Candyland beat nBP by 41 runs. Candyland

140-8 in 20 overs (fawad 26, Sami Afridi 22; fawad

Alam 4-12, Uzair 1-21) nBP 99-10 in 17.4 overs (Amin

29; Sami 3-9, noman Alvi 3-21).

SOUTH AFRIcA, first innings (overnight 262-5)A. Petersen c Prior b Broad 182G. Smith c Bell b Bresnan 52H. Amla run out (Bresnan) 9J. Kallis c cook b Anderson 19A. de Villiers b Broad 47D. Steyn b Finn 0J. Rudolph st Prior b Pietersen 19J. Duminy not out 48V. Philander c Bresnan b Finn 13M. Morkel c cook b Broad 19Imran Tahir c cook b Anderson 0Extras (b5, lb6) 11Total (139.2 overs) 419Fall of wickets: 1-120 (Smith), 2-132 (Amla), 3-157 (Kallis), 4-254(De Villiers), 5-259 (Steyn), 6-318 (Rudolph), 7-353 (Petersen),8-375 (Philander), 9-414 (Morkel)Bowling: Anderson 33.2-10-61-2, Broad 35-10-96-3, Finn 32-3-118-2, Bresnan 27-4-98-1, Trott 5-1-9-0, Pietersen 7-0-26-1.ENGlAND, first inningsA. Strauss not out 19A. cook not out 20Extras (lb4, nb2, w3) 9Total (0 wkts, 18 overs) 48Bowling: Morkel 5-2-7-0 (1nb, 2w), Philander 6-0-21-0 (1nb, 1w),Steyn 4-0-15-0, Kallis 3-2-1-0To bat: J. Trott, K. Pietersen, I. Bell, J. Taylor, M. Prior, T. Bresnan,S. Broad, J. Anderson, S. FinnToss: EnglandMatch situation: England trail by 371 runs with ten wicketsstanding in the first inningsUmpires: Steve Davis, Rod Tucker (both AUS) TV umpire: Asad Rauf (PAK) Match referee: Jeff crowe (NZl)

ScOREBOARD

NEW ZEAlAND 1st innings

BJ Watling c Gayle b Roach 2

MJ Guptill run out (Best) 71

BB Mccullum c Ramdin b Best 0

lRPl Taylor c Ramdin b Best 60

KS Williamson c Sammy b Deonarine 22

DG Brownlie c Ramdin b Roach 0

cFK van Wyk b Deonarine 16

DAJ Bracewell b Narine 14

N Wagner c Best b Roach 23

TG Southee c Sammy b Roach 18

TA Boult not out 14

EXTRAS (b 6, lb 2, w 1, nb 11) 20

TOTAl (all out; 82.5 overs; 350 mins) 260

Fall of wickets 1-10 (Watling, 4.5 ov), 2-11 (Mccullum, 5.3 ov), 3-

114 (Taylor, 37.1 ov), 4-161 (Williamson, 56.3 ov), 5-162 (Brownlie,

57.4 ov), 6-170 (Guptill, 59.6 ov), 7-202 (Bracewell, 73.3 ov), 8-

202 (van Wyk, 74.3 ov), 9-225 (Southee, 78.1 ov), 10-260

(Wagner, 82.5 ov)

BOWlING: KAJ Roach 17.5-2-70-4, Tl Best 16-1-40-2, DJG

Sammy 10-1-31-0, SP Narine 26-7-66-1, MN Samuels 1-0-2-0, N

Deonarine 12-3-43-2

WEST INDIES 1st innings:

cH Gayle c Watling b Wagner 8

KOA Powell c Brownlie b Boult 10

AB Fudadin lbw b Boult 5

MN Samuels not out 30

S chanderpaul not out8

EXTRAS (w 1) 1

TOTAl (3 wickets; 30 overs) 62

To bat N Deonarine, D Ramdin†, DJG Sammy*, SP Narine, KAJ

Roach, Tl Best

Fall of wickets 1-11 (Powell, 8.3 ov), 2-17 (Fudadin, 10.4 ov), 3-53

(Gayle, 22.4 ov)

BOWlING: TA Boult 10-2-25-2, DAJ Bracewell 7-3-8-0, TG

Southee 7-2-19-0, N Wagner 5-1-9-1, KS Williamson-1-0-1-0

Toss: West Indies, who chose to field

Umpires: M Erasmus (South Africa) and PR Reiffel (Australia)

TV umpire: RA Kettleborough (England)

Match referee: RS Madugalle (Sri lanka)

Reserve umpire: GO Brathwaite

ScOREBOARD

SYDNEYAFP

Former Tasmania paceman Ali de Winter was Fridaynamed as Australia's new bowling coach, replacing CraigMcDermott who quit in May citing the conflicting demandsof constant touring with family life.

Cricket Australia team performance general managerPat Howard said de Winter beat a wide field of internationalcandidates, including Pakistan pace great Waqar Younis.

"We feel Ali has skills that will complement those ofMickey Arthur, Justin Langer and Steve Rixon and is wellequipped to pick up on Craig McDermott's previous good

work," Howard said, referring to the Australian coachingstaff.

Currently head coach of the Hobart Hurricanes in theBig Bash League side and assistant coach of Tasmania, deWinter said he intended to keep things simple with Aus-tralia's fast bowlers.

"I don't think it is too complicated -- it's about having astrong work ethic, building good relationships and doingthings like attacking the top of off-stump in Test cricket,"he said.

"I am particularly excited to get this chance, particularlynow as Australia has such a deep pool of fast bowling talentwith 10-12 young bowlers featuring at the moment."

golden eagledefeat Shah Jamal

LAHORESTAFF REPORT

Golden Eagle defeated Shah Jamal and wonEhsan Cup Flood Light Double WicketCricket Tournament trophy at Newly BuiltSmart Cricket Ground at Khaya-Ban-e-Ameen. Sajid Anwar was the organizer and32 top teams participated. Obaid Ullah andAbu Bakar of Golden Eagle Qualified for thefinal and after thrilling match defeatedJamshaid. Ismail of Shah Jamal Green, wonthe trophy. Cricket promoters and captainGold Eagle Cricket Club was the Chief Guestand gave away winner trophy, Cash Award.

id Celebrations at KCLAHORE

STAFF REPORT

Kinnaird College Sports Department is cele-brating Pakistan Independence Day by or-ganizing the following games on 7th August2012 at Kinnaird College. It will hold Basket-ball, Cricket, Hockey and Table Tennismatches among all desirous female players.They can register with Sports office KinnairdCollege by Monday 6thAug 2012 at 10:00am.

Australia name Ali de winter as bowling coach

g greenshirts hopes of a top-four finish in tatters

no india-Pakistanmatches in mumbai

LAHORESTAFF REPORT

Pakistan's proposed tour of Indialater this year will comprise threeOne-Day Internationals (ODIs) andtwo Twenty20s from December 24 toJanuary 5, according to the scheduledsent to the Pakistan Cricket Board(PCB) by its Indian counterparts. Thetour will start with the twoTwenty20s followed by the ODIs. TheBoard of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) has proposed matches in NewDelhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad,Kolkata and Chennai with Mumbainot chosen as venue with fear of abacklash because of the 2008 attacks.According to the PCB officials, theboard, after consultation with Mis-bahul Haq and Mohammad Hafeez,will send a reply to the BCCI shortly.

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Brig Ali, 4 majorsjailed over HizbutTahrir connection

ISLAMABAD: A military court has con-victed five senior officers, including BrigadierAli Khan, who was arrested after the killingof al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbot-tabad on May 2 last year, for having linkswith Hizbut Tehrir, a banned organization.Brigadier Ali was handed a five-year prisonsentence. The four others convicted by thearmy court are Major Sohail Akbar, who re-ceived a three-year sentence, Major JawadBaseer, who got two years and Major InayatAziz and Major Iftikhar, who received one-and-a-half year sentences, according to anISPR statement issued here on Friday. Thestatement did not name the banned organi-zation but it has been identified in the pastby Pakistani officials as Hizb-ut-Tahrir, aBritain-based political party, which has beenoutlawed in Pakistan. “Field General CourtMarshal (FGCM) proceedings againstBrigadier Ali Khan, Major Inayat Aziz, MajorIftikhar, Major Sohail Akbar and MajorJawad Baseer have been completed. All fouraccused have been convicted besides other,of the charges for having links with a pro-scribed organization,” said the ISPR state-ment. “Convicts have the right to an appealagainst conviction before the Army court ofappeals as provided in the Pakistan ArmyAct,” it said. Brigadier Ail was initiallycharged with conspiring to overthrow thecivilian government but some charges weredropped later, according to an official herewho sought anonymity. According to somemedia reports, which appeared after his ar-rest, Brigadier Ali had been highly critical ofthe Pakistani army command over its rela-tionship with the US. According to a BBC re-port, in his statement before the court,Brigadier Khan said that he was being vic-timized for speaking out against officers whohe said had let the al-Qaeda leader alive inPakistan for five years and then allowed USforces to kill him. “During the court-martialproceedings witnesses - mostly army officers- told the court that Brig Khan wanted tobring about an “Islamic revolution”, the re-port said. The army officers said he wasworking with Hizbut Tahrir to establish acaliphate in Pakistan, according to the re-port. staff report

WASHINGTONSPEcIAl cORRESPONDENT

The first meeting between the head ofPakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence LtGen Zaheer Ul Islam and his Central In-telligence Agency counterpart David Pe-traeus has been described as“substantive, professional and produc-tive” by a senior US official.

The visiting ISI chief held a meetingwith the CIA chief at the Americanagency’s headquarters in suburbanWashington, in an effort to bring the con-tentious relationship back on track.

According to a CNN report, the seniorUS official, who spoke on the condition ofanonymity because of the sensitivity ofthe discussions, would not comment onthe specifics of the meeting, but said thediscussions between Islam and Petraeus“provided an opportunity to discuss anumber of proposals for how we can en-hance our joint efforts against terrorism”.The American official added, “Both lead-ers reaffirmed their commitment to worktogether to counter the terrorist presencein the region that threatens both US andPakistani national security.”

The meeting between the two spy-masters coincided with discussions be-tween Pakistan’s army chief Gen AshfaqParvez Kayani and Gen John Allen, thetop American commander inAfghanistan, which noted significantprogress in Pakistan-US relations, after

the ties had been severely strained by aspate of incidents last year. Pakistani andAmerican officials here have not com-mented publicly on the meeting betweenheads of two intelligence organizations,which previously worked closely, in theyears since 9/11 attacks, to take many al-Qaeda operatives off the battlefield. ThePakistani spy chief is also meeting withother senior American officials during thethree-day visit, his first since assumingcharge of the powerful intelligence outfit.

The Pakistani-US relationship has im-proved somewhat since Secretary of StateHillary Clinton apologized last month forthe airstrike that killed the 24 Pakistani

soldiers in November 2011. Pakistan re-sponded by reopening the supply routes toAfghanistan that they had closed down inretaliation for the deaths, making the USand NATO allies to rely on a much moreexpensive and long northern supply routeinto landlocked Afghanistan. In the inter-vening seven-month period between No-vember 2011 and July 2012, Islamabadreassessed its relationship with Washing-ton, which were prompted by a series ofAmerican unilateral actions, particularlythe US raid on Osama bin Laden’s com-pound in Abbottabad, of which the Pak-istanis had no prior knowledge, and thedeaths of Pakistani soldiers operating

along the Afghanistan border by USairstrikes in November. The missilestrikes by CIA-operated drones againstsuspected terrorists in the tribal areashave also irked Pakistani officials whopublicly say such actions violate country’ssovereignty and incite militancy.

In its report, the Cable News Net-work also cited a senior unnamed Pak-istani intelligence official as saying thatthe ISI chief Islam was expected to urgethe US to end its drone strikes and pro-vide the Pakistanis with target informa-tion so that their forces can hitsuspected terrorists. Last week, a US of-ficial told the channel the United States“supports the Pakistanis taking more re-sponsibility for ridding the tribal areasof al Qaeda and its militant allies.”Without getting into specifics, the offi-cial had said there were actions Pakistancould take to get rid of al Qaeda and theHaqqani network, an Afghan militantgroup, allegedly based in the Pakistanitribal border region that launchesstrikes against US and coalition forcesin Afghanistan. Recently, cross-borderincursions into Pakistani territory byanti-Pakistan militants based in Afghanprovinces of Kunar and Nooristan havealso angered Islamabad. According to areport in the New York Times, the ISIchief was expected to seek Americanhelp in halting the militant attacks,which have killed more than 100 Pak-istani civilians and security officials.

Pakistani, US spy chiefs’ talks‘substantive, productive’

KARACHISTAFF REPORT

The US Congress has released $280 million innew aid to support Pakistan’s energy sector, astatement issued by the US embassy said onFriday. The funds, it said, would support im-provements to Mangla Dam and infrastruc-ture support and due diligence work on theKurram Tangi Dam project. This is the latestexample of the United States’ long-term andenduring support for Pakistan’s energy sectorand for the people of Pakistan.

“Relieving Pakistan’s energy crisis is a toppriority for our civilian assistance program.The US approach consists of high-impact proj-ects aimed at increasing Pakistan’s energy re-sources and helping power sector institutionsmore effectively meet the country’s energyneeds,” the statement said.

The US funds large-scale infrastructure ef-forts that, by 2013, are expected to add 900MWto the national power grid, enough energy topower two million households and businesses.“Our institutional support ranges from improv-ing the governance of the power sector tostrengthening the performance of Pakistan’s

power distribution companies. We are helpingdevelop new policies to rationalize pricing, re-duce subsidies, increase revenues, and improvethe distribution of energy resources. We alsowork with private sector entities and civil societyorganizations to enhance their role in decision-making and advocacy,” it said. Ongoing projectssupported by the US: The Gomal Zam Dam,which will generate 17.4MW of hydroelectricpower – enough to supply electricity to 30,000households – and irrigate almost 200,000 acresof land worked by 30,000 farmers.

The Satpara Dam, which will provide17.7MW of power to the local grid – enough tosupply electricity to 30,000 households – andmitigate flooding, provide water for irrigationand serve as a significant source of drinkingwater. The Muzzafargarh Power Station, whichwill increase the generation capacity of thepower station by 475MW, enough power to sup-ply electricity to about 680,000 households.The Jamshoro Power Station project, which willenable the station to restore at least 150MW ofpower generation capacity, enough power tosupply electricity to about 215,000 households.The Tarbela Dam modernization project, whichwill add 128MW in power generation capacity.

Pakistan gets $280m uSaid for energy projects

ISLAMABADTAYYAB HUSSAIN

The matter of referencesagainst eight PML-Q lawmak-ers for violating party disciplinetook a new turn on Friday, astop lawyers and politiciansjumped into action to save theestranged MPs who were is-sued show-cause notices.

A source in the PakistanMuslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) told Pakistan Today thateminent lawyer SalmanAkram Raja had drafted the

rejoinders for the Like-minded group MNAs. On theother hand, Sardar MaqsoodAhmed Khan Leghari, anuncle of Sardar AwaisLeghari, and some influentialpoliticians from Faisalabadand Sindh had contactedPML-Q chief Chaudhry Shu-jaat Hussain, and requestedhim to stop disciplinary ac-tion against Sardar AwaiKhan Leghari, Asim Nazir,and others. However, thesource said that Shujaat wasundeterred by the move and

was determined to move onwith the references.

However, PML-Q DeputyInformation Secretary GhulamMustafa Malik said: “After re-quests from different corners,Chaudhry Shujaat has deferredthe matter of filing referencesagainst the party’s eight law-makers, and decided to do thesame after going through thereplies submitted by some ofthe MNAs who had violatedparty discipline during theelection of Prime Minister RajaPervez Ashraf.”

Malik said that Shujaathad decided to forward the re-sponses submitted by someLikeminded MPs to his lawyer,who would review the re-sponses and prepare the refer-ences in light of the pointsraised by the estranged law-makers. The references wouldthen be sent to the National As-sembly speaker. “It is a decisionin principle by the party leader-ship that the references wouldbe sent against the party’s

ISLAMABAD: Minister forPetroleum and Natural ResourcesDr Asim Hussain has said that gasreserves in Sui will end in 2022.During a briefing to parliamentarycommittee on Friday, he said the gas

reserves in Sui, Balochistan wouldbe consumed by the year 2022. Hesaid that gas production from SuiGas Field was decreasing by 5percent annually. Dr Asim Hussainsaid that 12 percent gas royalty was

given to Balochistan and the chiefminister should be asked as towhether it had been spent. It ispertinent to mention here that gasreserves were discovered in Sui,Balochistan, in 1952. inp

gas reserves in Sui will end in 2022: dr asim

Prominent figures come to likemindedMPs’ aid against PMl-Q references

ISlAMABAD: President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf jointly chair a meeting of heads of allied parties at the Presidency on Friday.

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