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Monday, 12 January, 2015 Rabi-ul-Awal 19, 1436 Rs 17.00 Vol V No 193 16 Pages Karachi Edition

At least 15 killed in separate accidents across country

BODIES CHARRED BEYOND RECOGNITION, SAMPLES COLLECTED FOR DNA TESTING TO ASCERTAIN VICTIMS’ IDENTITIES STORIES ON PAGE 03

KERRY ARRIVES TODAY FOR PAK-US STRATEGIC DIALOGUE STORY ON PAGE 02

ISI chief, Afghan president agree to boost anti-terror cooperation ISI CHIEF LT GEN RIZWAN AKHTAR MEETS AFGHAN PRESIDENT GHANI, BOTH SIDES DISCUSS WAYS TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN JOINT EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM, EXTREMISM STORY ON PAGE 02

WORLD LEADERS HEAD MILLION MARCH TO HONOUR PARIS TERROR VICTIMS

Arson attack at german paper that ran charlie hebdo cartoons STORIES ON PAGE 04

PM VOWS TO BRING PEACE TO PAKISTAN ‘AT ALL COSTS’

‘RECONCILIATORY POLITICS ON MILITARY COURTS HAS SAVED FUTURE’

MUSHARRAF DEMANDS CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE FOR ARMY

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02 NEWS Afghanistan to solve its problems through politics not arms KABUL: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has said that the people of Afghanistan from now on will solve their political problems through political means instead of using arms. “The Afghanistan nation in united voice wants peace, stability and prosperity,” said Ghani in his address after the swearing –in ceremony of new senators in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has greatly suffered over the past nearly four decades of war and wants reforms in government departments and the government is responsible before the nation, said Ghani. “The government of Afghanistan is a united government and has three independent forces which are working in unity and harmony,” the president said and called upon the senators to “safeguard” the “honour” conferred upon them. Ghani said that despite all problems, Afghanistan also has opportunities “as the heart of Asia”, adding that peace and prosperity of Asia was not possible without stability in Afghanistan. “We should pledge not to allow anyone to destabilise Afghanistan,” said Ghani, urging every Afghan to safeguard the country. INP

ISIS conspiring to start Shia-Sunni clashes: Malik

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ISI chIef, AfghAn PreSIdenT Agree To booST AnTI-Terror cooPerATIon ISI CHIEF LT GEN RIZWAN AKHTAR MEETS AFGHAN PRESIDENT GHANI, BOTH SIDES DISCUSS WAYS TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN JOINT EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM, EXTREMISM ISLAMABAD

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NTeR-SeRvICeS Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Sunday and discussed ways to boost anti-terror cooperation as well as peace and security in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region, among other matters.

According to a statement issued by the Afghan Presidential Palace, the Afghan president received ISI chief Lt Gen Akhtar in his office on Sunday and “both sides discussed ways to further strengthen joint efforts against terrorism and extremism.” A Pakistani security official reportedly confirmed the visit but refused to comment on the nature of the meeting saying, “The Afghan statement is enough and we will not add anything more.”

This is Lt Gen Akhtar’s third visit to Afghanistan since he assumed office in November 2014. He first travelled to Kabul just after taking charge as ISI chief.

Later, he accompanied Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif during a visit to Kabul in wake of the Peshawar Army Public School attack in December.

Pakistani and Afghan security officials have increased contacts after Ghani assumed the Afghan president office in September. In December 2014, General Raheel and his Afghan counterpart General Sher Muhammad Karimi agreed that their commanders would begin meetings immediately to further coordinate cross-border security operations. In a sign of growing military cooperation, Islamabad and Kabul reached an understanding to “reactivate” border con-

trol centres to coordinate operations against militants.

Two AfPak Border Coordination Centres will be revived at the border points of Torkham and Spin Boldak, officials and Afghan sources say.

Military commanders of the two countries have reportedly increased interaction in recent weeks.

Moreover, the Afghan president’s visit to army headquarters in Rawalpindi in November was seen as an important step to enhance security cooperation.

In addition, Kabul has also ended its traditional blame game that was common during the 13-year rule

of former Afghan president Hamid Karzai. The massacre of 150 people by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gunmen at APS Peshawar paved the way for closer cooperation between the two uneasy neighbours to counter the militant threat on both sides of the nearly 2,500 kilometre border. The Afghan president met the ISI chief just two days after he received senior Pakistani Pashtoon political leaders who were amongst the first batch of Pakistani leaders to visit Afghanistan following Ghani’s invitation to Pakistani leaders to visit Afghanistan for discussing matters of mutual concern.

PM vows to bring peace to Pakistan ‘at all costs’ LAHORE: Former interior minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Rehman Malik has said that ISIS is conspiring to start violence between Shia and Sunni communities and emphasised that the government and the law enforcement agencies would have to take coordinated and serious steps to foil this conspiracy. Addressing a press conference Sunday, Rehman Malik said that military courts are necessary to punish the terrorists and these courts could not be termed as extra constitutional. He said banned TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah was indulging in terrorism in Pakistan by sitting in Afghanistan and time has come that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani should arrest him and handover to Pakistan so that he is punished for his crimes. Answering a question, Malik said the political jirga was still keen that the government and PTI succeed in their dialogue and for this purpose the jirga was in touch with both the sides. He hoped that the situation would improve in the next few days. INP

PUNJAB CM BRIEFS PM ABOUT SECURITY MEASURES ADOPTED FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES LAHORE staff rePort

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Sunday discussed strategies for the complete implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) to improve the security situation in the country.

During a meeting between the two Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders, the CM informed the premier about the steps taken to eliminate the menace of terrorism and to ensure foolproof security arrangements for educational institutions.

PM Sharif said it was a welcome sign that all political parties were united against terrorism.

He said that big successes had been achieved during Operation

Zarb-e-Azb and expressed the resolve to eliminate all terrorists from the country “at all costs”.

“The sleeper cells of terrorists would be unearthed in every city and town of the country with the help of intelligence agencies, police and the people at large,” said Nawaz, adding that anti-state elements would not find

any place for hiding in the country.

The morale of the security institutions and the Pakistani nation is high and terrorists cannot scare them by their activities, said the premier.

The PM also reiterated his resolved to make Pakistan peaceful so that it could embark on the journey to development.

Two TTP men awarded 38 years imprisonment LAHORE: Justice Haroon Latif of AntiTerrorism Court-III, Lahore, has awarded a 38-year prison sentence to Tariq and Ziaur Rehman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) Pakistan for keeping explosives. According to details, the ATCs of Lahore, Sargodha and Dera Ghazi Khan have announced imprisonment and heavy fines for ten high profile criminals during the current week.

ATC Sargodha announced life imprisonment for Muhammad Hanif alias Meera and a 14-year sentence for Noor Muhammad. Property was also confiscated for the possession of explosive material.

The criminals were arrested from Musa Khel. The same court has also given a 14year sentence to Abdul Samad arrested from Kundian; his property was also confiscated.

The court also gave a three-year sentence along with a fine of Rs 50,000 to a culprit for keeping provocative literature in Darya Khan. ATC Dera Ghazi Khan announced life imprisonment for five culprits including Fahad, Suleman, Riaz, Fateh Muhammad, and Muhammad Iqbal for torturing to death, a person under arrest. The representation of the prosecution department was made

by DPGs Rauf Watto, Zahid Malik, and Rizwan, who were awarded commendatory certificates by Special Assistant to Chief Minister Rana Maqbool Ahmad. Courts seem to be coming into action a lot more than before now. oNLINe

Kerry arrives today for Pak-US strategic dialogue ISLAMABAD staff rePort

The US Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving today (Monday) in Islamabad for Pakistan-US strategic dialogue.

“The US diplomat will exchange views with Pakistani leaders on PakAfghan relations and tension on PakIndia borders,” said Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid during an interview on Sunday. Rashid also said that nine military courts would become functional in the country in the “next few days”.

He said that all educational institutions would open today (Monday), adding that the government has adopted foolproof security measures for all institutions. Moreover, he said the government

would try to assure that there was no difficulty to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Fazlur Rehman due to the actions against terrorists, adding that the ice has melted following the Fazl’s meeting with Punjab chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

In the meanwhile, diplomatic sources informed Sunday that Kerry would hold a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the evening to discuss bilateral and regional issues. On Tuesday, he would participate in Pak-US strategic dialogue, discussing bilateral ties and enhancement of relations in five important areas namely: energy; security, strategic stability and non-proliferation; the defence consultative group; law-enforcement, counter-terrorism; and economy and finance.

Kerry would also convey a special message from President Obama to PM Sharif, urging for resumption of Pak-India dialogue to defuse tense situation after firing incident killing Pakistani civilians and soldiers, the diplomatic sources said.

During his stay in India on Sunday, he has already secretly raised the issue with India for normalization of its ties with Islamabad, they added. The US secretary would meet Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif after the strategic dialogue meeting to discuss bilateral defence ties, security issues, counter-terrorism and concerns arising after drawdown from Afghanistan. The sources revealed that Operation Zarb-e-Azb, terrorism and other issues of mutual interest would also be discussed. Kerry’s visit to the Army

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Public School in Peshawar, that was brutally attacked last month, is also expected.

With the energy sector being part of the Pak-US strategic dialogue, he would likely to visit Terbela Dam, according to media reports. The talks between Pakistan and the US would mainly focus on discussing the avenues and means as how to go further in bilateral cooperation.

The strategic dialogue between the two countries covers the five areas of bilateral cooperation that had discussed through working groups. The ministerial level meeting would give it a strategic touch. Officials in the foreign ministry say that the scope of the talks could be expanded to other areas later. Meanwhile, diplomatic sources also said that Kerry is likely to brush aside the Indian criticism

over financial assistance to Pakistan.

“He is expected to announce financial package for Pakistan for the coming years,” they said.

Under the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill, the US promised in 2010 to pay Pakistan $ 7.6 billion to Pakistan in five years.

Until now Obama administration has paid $4.3 billion to the country, the payment of outstanding money would come under discussion, the sources informed.

The issuance of $ 532 million would also be raised and Kerry is like to give a positive node as the US understand Pakistan’s difficulties when a full-fledge country-wide action against terrorism is going on. After concluding his talks with Pakistani officials, Kerry is expected to fly to Kabul.

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deadly road accident between an oil tanker and passenger coach late Saturday night left at least 62 dead with scores wounded as both vehicles caught fire, hospital officials said.

The collision occurred at the National Highway when the bus was en route to Shikarpur from Karachi. Investigation into the cause of the accident is still underway.

Rescue workers were busy evacuating bodies and any injured at the fiery site.

“We have received more than 57 bodies but the death toll may rise as most of them are completely burnt and stuck to each other,” said Karachi’s Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Deputy executive Director Dr Seemi Jamali.

Jamali said the bodies of at least six children were stuck to women who may have been their mothers, adding it was impossible to separate the remains. “They are beyond recognition, they can only be identified by DNA test,” she said.

Gul Hassan, a resident of Karachi, said he lost 9 relatives including the 80year-old head of the family and a twoyear-old child. The dead also included two women and another child, Hassan said.

“They were travelling in the same bus. I cannot recognise any of them, all the bodies are completely burnt,” he said.

Rescue sources said that Ata Muhammed, the driver of the ill-fated bus was also among the deceased, adding that the fire had already enveloped the bus before the fire-brigade reached the site from Landhi.

This is the second major fatal crash in Sindh province in less than three months.

Close to 9,000 road accidents are reported to the police every year since 2011, killing over 4,500 people on average, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).

‘reconciliatory politics on military courts has saved future’ LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday said that by supporting the formation of military courts his party has helped secure the lives of future generations. However, he added that the “unjustified” use of military courts will not be allowed.

Zardari said that terrorists could not be given a free hand and their elimination was a national requirement for which military courts were necessary.

“Through the 21st constitutional amendment, future generations have been saved. However, we will not allow the unjust use of military courts,” said the PPP leader during a meeting with PML-Q President Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain and PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhary Pervez elahi who called on him at Bilawal House. During the meeting, the PML-Q leaders and Zardari discussed in detail the downstream effects of military courts.

Zardari said that his party helped save the country from a civil war by not lending support to PTI’s anti-government movement. The former president also said that in the current situation, political parties along with state institutions need to work towards reconciliation, adding that “everyone should go beyond personal attacks in the interest of Pakistan”.

The apprehensions voiced by JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman regarding military courts should be addressed shortly, Zardari opined. Addressing PPP members at the meeting, Zardari announced that he would hold party meetings throughout Punjab after the weather improves and a formal scheduled in this regard would be announced soon. He also announced that PPP would hold rallies in KP and other parts of Pakistan and directed the party’s district presidents to start organisational work at union-council level. staff rePort

NINE OF A FAMILY AMONGST THOSE KILLED, DEATH TOLL EXPECTED TO RISE

MEDICO-LEGAL FORMALITIES UNDERWAY: In the meanwhile, in order to identify the charred bodies, JPMC’s Medico-legal Department has asked for blood samples from those claiming to be immediate family members of the victims. Talking to reporters, Dr Jamali said that sample collection of each of the 59 charred bodies is also in process for providing them to police.

“Since a blood sample cannot be obtained from these mutilated bodies, we have to collect parts as essential samples,” she said, adding that the sample collection would be completed by Sunday evening and the samples would be handed to the police authorities to be despatched to National Forensic Laboratory Centre Islamabad to ascertain the identity of the dead.

Dr Jamali said the bodies would be placed at edhi Welfare Trust’s mortuary till all legal formalities were completed.

WHO IS TO BLAME? various reasons were cited for the accident including the poor condition of the track, overloading

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of the bus, negligence of either the driver of the oil tanker or the bus or both and the failure of the fire brigade to arrive in time.

Taking notice of the accident, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul ebad Khan has directed an enquiry into the mishap. Talking to reporters, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon said the accident occurred mainly due to the mistake of oil tanker’s driver, adding the people responsible for the mishap will not be spared.

“The bus and all passengers were so badly burnt that we have to carry out DNA tests for identification,” said the minister. earlier, senior police official Rao Mohammad Anwaar said the bus “hit the oil tanker, which according to initial reports was coming in the wrong direction” and caught fire.

Another senior police official Aamir Shiekh said an investigation has been launched but it appeared the poor condition of the single track road also contributed to the cause of the accident.

“We are trying to ascertain if the driver

of the oil tanker was solely at fault or whether the bus driver also showed negligence,” Anwaar said. A few passengers escaped unhurt after they jumped out of the bus windows, police official Mohammad Jan said. According to Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Siddiqui, the crash was the result of negligence on the part of the oil tanker driver. Due to the presence of petrol, the flames were difficult to control, he added. Arriving on the accident site along with the commissioner, Sindh Transport Minister Mir Mumtaz Hussain Jakhrani said, “Had the fire-fighting vehicles arrived from Steel Town on time, there would not have been so much damage.”

It will be investigated why the fire brigade failed to reach the site in time, he said, adding that the Steel Town manager displayed dereliction of duty. “Steel Town manager should have immediately dispatched the fire-fighters,” said the minister.

One survivor said that the passenger bus was overcrowded, a common practice amongst local public transport operators in

the absence of safety regulations. It should be mentioned here that three hours after the accident, traffic was restored on the road.

The accident site was washed even before the investigation and the oil tanker and gutted bus were removed from the road.

CONDOLENCES: Following the incident, President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, NA Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari expressed grief over the loss of precious lives and extended condolences to the families who lost their loved ones.

The premier also directed for provision of best medical facilities to the injured and directed the authorities concerned to take steps to improve road safety.

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chairman Altaf Hussain also expressed condolence to the bereaved families and directed MQM workers and volunteers to help in the rescue operation.

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At least 15 people were killed and several others were injured in a spate of road accidents across the country on Sunday.

Six people, including three children, were killed and 20 others were critically injured in a deadly road accident near Uthal area of District.

According to details, a party for marriage of Ali Hassan Baloch was going to Karachi form Bela in a wagon. The wagon overturned at Dubai Masjid between Uthal and Winder along RCD Highway when one of its tyres burst, said Lasbela Deputy Commissioner Fawad Sumro.

As a result six people including Ghulam Rasool, Bashir Ahmed, Nasreen, Nasrullah Baloch, Yasmeen and Shehla died on the spot. The bodies were shifted to Uthal District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.

Twenty people including bridegroom Ali, his father Ghulam Hyder Baloch, mother Gul Jan and a

close relatives were injured. They were taken to Uthal DHQ Hospital and on the directives of Lasbela DHO Dr Muhammad Farooq Hote they were referred to civil hospital Karachi. Condition of four of them is stated to be serious. “At least six dead including three children, and 16 injured people were brought to the hospital,” confirmed Uthal DHQ Hospital Medical Superintendent Hassanullah.

FOUR KILLED IN MUZAFFARABAD: In the meanwhile, at least four passengers were killed and five others injured Sunday when a jeep fell into River Neelum at Deevlian, some 45 kilometres away from Muzaffarabad.

According to police sources, the jeep was coming from Jheeng area of Neelum and fell into the river near Deevlian Bridge after the driver lost control of the vehicle. As a result, Mangta Khan, Ahmad Ali, Abdul Ghafoor and Noor Begum died on the spot while five others including Nisar Ali, Raja Mir Hussain, Murtaza, Muhammad Sadiq and Muhammad Suleman were injured. The injured were shifted

to Military Hospital Muzaffarabad.

THREE KILLED IN NAUSHEHRO FEROZ: Moreover, at least three people were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident near Naushero Feroz on Sunday. According to details, a coach en route to Karachi from Peshawar collided with a truck. As a result, three people, Shabana, Gul and Mariyam were killed on the spot while 10 others were injured. The injured were rushed to a local hospital and later referred to People’s Medical College Hospital Nawabshah.

Police have lodged a case and stared investigation.

TWO SISTERS KILLED IN BADIN: Furthermore, two sisters were killed and their father was injured when their vehicle overturned near Badin on Sunday.

Police said that a speeding jeep turned turtle as it attempted to overtake a tractor near Matli Bypass, killing the two girls on the spot. One girl was a teenager while the other was below 10 years of age.

The girls’ father was wounded in the accident.

The bodies and injured were shifted to hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Musharraf demands constitutional role for army FORMER PRESIDENT GEN (R) MUSHARRAF DEMANDS CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE FOR ARMY TO ERADICATE TERRORISM, REACTIVATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL FOR COORDINATION BETWEEN POLITICIANS AND ARMY KARACHI staff rePort

Former president and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Chairman General (r) Pervez Musharraf has demanded a constitutional role for the army in order to completely eradicate terrorism and take the country on the path of development.

Talking to APML Secretary General Dr Mohammad Amjad at his residence

on Sunday, Musharraf said that during his tenure he had formed the National Security Council (NSC) for the army’s role in security and other issues so that there could be “complete understanding between politicians and the army on critical issues and they could debate openly on any issues including internal and foreign affairs as well as national security matters”.

The former president emphasised that the NSC was the only institution

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which could play an effective role to improve the working of the government.

He pointed out that in the past several governments could not deliver because they made the NSC ineffective.

“If the council is kept viable, many hurdles in the way of national development can be overcome and bring an end to uncertainty in the country. During the meeting, matters relating to organisation of the party and political situation in the country came under detailed discussions. Musharraf said the country today needs more unity than before and to protect the country, the army will have to be given a constitutional role.

He stressed for speedy trial and sentences to terrorists, pointing out that notorious terrorists were arrested in the past but were never given sentences.

“Military courts are necessary for speedy trial of terrorists,” he said,

adding that due to the delay in the execution of sentences, the terrorists got encouragement.

On return from Karachi, Dr Amjad told media that the former president is keeping a close watch on the evolving situation in the country and is interested in playing a role for the well-being of the country and its people. “General (r) Musharraf would have an important role in the future,” said the APML leader.

He said that APML fully supports the Pakistan army and the government to cleanse the country of terrorists.

Dr Amjad demanded immediate opening of educational institutions “to save the precious time of students”.

He also asked the government to complete the Metrobus project at the earliest to save the people from pollution and enable traders of Islamabad’s Blue Area to resume business activities.

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World leAderS heAd Million MArch to honour PAriS terror victiMS LEADERS IN ATTENDANCE INCLUDED GERMANY’S ANGELA MERKEL, BRITAIN’S DAVID CAMERON, ITALY’S MATTEO RENZI, MARIANO RAJOY OF SPAIN, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, UKRAINE PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMUD ABBAS

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ORe than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honour 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks.

The march began at 3 pm (9 am eT) at the Place de la Republique, near the Charlie Hebdo offices. It will then break up into three marches–one down Boulevard Voltaire, one down Rue Bastille, and the third down Rue Philippe Auguste. The leaders were heading a demonstration of at least tens of thousands of people who converged on the capital after three gunmen attacked a newspaper office, kosher supermarket and police. Deafening applause rang out over the square as the leaders walked past, amid tight security and an atmosphere of togetherness amid adversity.

Leaders in attendance included Germany’s Angela Merkel, Britain’s David Cameron, Italy’s Matteo Renzi, Mariano Rajoy of Spain, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, european Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestin-

ian President Mahmud Abbas.

Families of the victims, many weeping and embracing, were also at the front of the march along with the world leaders, including French President Francois Hollande, top representatives of Russia and Ukraine, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. Also, a new shooting was linked to that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday along with the brothers behind a massacre at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.

“Today, Paris is the capital of the world,” said French President Francois Hollande . “Our entire country will rise up toward something better.” Rallies were also planned in London, Madrid and New York — all attacked by alQaida-linked extremists — as well as Cairo, Sydney, Stockholm, Tokyo and elsewhere.

“We are all Charlie, we are all police, we are all Jews of France,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared on Saturday.

us and they want to divide us. We must do the opposite. We must stand up and we must stay united,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French TV channel iTele on Sunday.

It was France’s deadliest terrorist attack in decades, and the country remains on high alert while investigators determine whether the attackers were part of a larger extremist network. More than 5,500 police and soldiers were being deployed on Sunday across France, about half of them to protect the march. The others were guarding synagogues, mosques, schools and other sites around France.

“I hope that we will again be able to say we are happy to be Jews in France,” said Haim Korsia, the chief rabbi in France, who planned to attend the rally.

“I hope that at the end of the day everyone is united. everyone, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists,” added Zakaria Moumni, who was at Republique early Sunday. “We are humans first of all.

And nobody deserves to be murdered like that. Nobody.”

At an international conference in India, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the world stood with the people of France “not just in anger and in outrage, but in solidarity and commitment to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause that extremists fear so much and that has always united our countries: freedom.”

Posthumous video emerged Sunday of Coulibaly, who prosecutors said was newly linked by ballistics tests to a third shooting — the Wednesday attack on a jogger in a Paris suburb that left the 32year-old man gravely injured. In the video, Coulibaly speaks fluent French and broken Arabic, pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing the terror operation he said was about to unfold.

The Kouachi brothers claimed the attacks were planned and financed by al-Qaida in Yemen.

The three days of terror began Wednesday when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people. Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen said it directed the attack by the masked gunmen to avenge the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, a frequent target of the weekly’s satire. On Thursday, police said Coulibaly killed a policewoman on the outskirts of Paris and on Friday, the attackers converged.

While the Kouachi brothers holed up in a printing plant near Charles de Gaulle airport, Coulibaly seized hostages inside a kosher market. It all ended at dusk Friday with near-simultaneous raids at the printing plant and the market that left all three gunmen dead. Four hostages at the market were also killed. Five people who were held in connection with the attacks were freed late Saturday, leaving no one in custody, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

The widow of the man who attacked the kosher market is still being sought and was last traced near the Turkey-Syrian border. early Sunday, police in Germany detained two men suspected of an arson attack against a newspaper that republished the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. No one was injured in that attack. “The terrorists want two things: they want to scare

Paris terror attacks: Muslim worker saves six by hiding them in cold store PARIS: A Muslim shop assistant has been hailed a hero after saving at least six people by hiding them in a walk-in freezer at the Jewish grocery store besieged by an Islamist gunman.

Lassana Bathily, 24, originally from Mali in West Africa, ushered customers into the cold store at the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes on Friday, where Ahmedi Couibaly had taken a number of people hostage. The siege ended when police raided the shop, shooting him dead. Four hostages also died. However, according to reports, the toll might have been much worse if it were not for Bathily’s quick thinking. “I went down to the freezer, I opened the door, there were several people who went in with me. I turned off the light and the freezer,” he told the French television station BFMTV. “I brought them inside and I told them to stay calm...

When they got out, they thanked me.” AGENCIES

Do not confuse extremists with Muslims, says slain cop’s brother PARIS: The brother of a French Muslim police officer who was gunned down by terrorists in the Charlie Hebdo attack made an emotional appeal Saturday for tolerance. The Guardian reports that Ahmed Merabet’s brother Malek Merabet paid tribute to Ahmed who sacrificed his life while countering terrorists. “I address myself now to all the racists, Islamophobes and antiSemites,” Merabet said on Saturday. “One must not confuse extremists with Muslims; mad people have neither colour nor religion.” “Devastated by this barbaric act, we associate ourselves with the pain of the families of the victims,” he said adding, “I want to make another point: don’t tar everybody with the same brush, don’t burn mosques or synagogues. You are attacking people. It won’t bring our dead back and it won’t appease the families.” Merabet said that Ahmed was French, from Algerian origin and a Muslim. Ahmed was proud to represent the police and defend the values of the Republic which are liberty, equality and fraternity. AGENCIES

Strong signals detected in AirAsia black box hunt PANGKALAN BUN: The Indonesian authorities said Sunday that strong signals were emanating from the crucial black box recorders of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board. Military divers were trying to follow the pings to the boxes, believed to be on the floor of the Java Sea about 30 metres (100 feet) underwater, SB Supriyadi, a director with the National Search and Rescue Agency said. The hunt came after the mangled tail of the Airbus jet was lifted from the sea on Saturday. “The ping was detected about one kilometre (0.6 miles) east of the tail,” Supriyadi said at the search headquarters of Panglakun Bun. APP

Arson attack at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons BERLIN AGENCIES

A German newspaper in the northern port city of Hamburg that reprinted Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was the target of an arson attack early Sunday, police said.

“Rocks and then a burning object were thrown through the window,” a police spokesman said.

“Two rooms on lower floors were damaged but the fire was put out quickly.” The regional tabloid daily, the Hamburger Morgenpost, had splashed three Charlie Hebdo cartoons on its front page after the massacre at the Paris publication, running the headline “This much

freedom must be possible!”

No one was hurt in the attack, which police said occurred at about 0120 local time.

Two people were detained, while state security has opened an investigation, police said.

Whether there was a connection between the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and the attack was the “key question”, the police spokesperson said, adding that it was “too soon” to know for certain.

Police declined to provide further information about the suspects. No one at the Hamburger Morgenpost, known locally as the Mopo and which has a circulation of around 91,000, could immediately be reached for comment.

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in the air, the police are looking

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its online edition. Media reports said the newspaper’s publishers had ordered private security protection for the building in the western district of Othmarschen.

German news agency DPA reported that the attack had occurred from a courtyard of the building and hit the newspaper’s archive room where some records were destroyed. It quoted a police spokeswoman as saying that the editorial team should be able to continue work in the building as the damage was relatively minor.

Two extremists stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, killing a total of 12 people including some of France’s bestloved satirists. Both men were killed Friday in a standoff with po-

lice. Several German newspapers had published the Charlie Hebdo cartoons on their front pages Thursday in a gesture of solidarity with the French cartoonists and in defence of free speech.

Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported earlier Sunday that the bloodshed in France could signal the start of a wave of attacks in europe, citing communications by Islamic State leaders intercepted by US intelligence.

Shortly after the bloodbath in Paris, the US National Security Agency had intercepted communications in which leaders of the militant group announced the next wave of attacks, the tabloid said, citing unnamed sources in the US intelligence services.

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MQM CAlls oFF KArAChi sTriKe For TodAy RABITA COMMITTEE WITHDRAWS STRIKE CALL FOR TODAY ON MQM CHIEF’S DEMAND

CM SINDH ORDERS FORMATION OF JUDICIAL COMMISSION TO PROBE CUSTODIAL KILLINGS

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HE Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has called off a strike announced for Monday but will continue to mourn the custodial death of a party activist. MQM Chairman Altaf Hussain directed the party’s Rabita Committee to appeal to transporters and traders to resume activity and business by 5pm on Sunday. “We have decided to leave to God the matter of the MQM worker’s death,” said the MQM chief in a statement issued in London.

The government has failed to ensure peace and security, said Hussain, alleging that foreign terror outfit Islamic State (IS) has entered Pakistan.

Earlier on Sunday, the MQM leadership announced an extension of protest till today (Monday) and called for a strike in Sindh and mourning across the country. Party supporters gathered outside the Sindh Chief Minister House and demanded that CM Qaim Ali Shah meet the families of the victims and order a probe into the killing.

The MQM chief gave Shah a “15minute deadline” to express solidarity

with the grieving family members.

On the chief minister’s failure to meet the deadline, MQM called off the protest and announced a strike call.

Talking to reporters outside the CM House on Sunday, MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said the party would the conduct funeral proceedings of the dead workers later in the day while announcing a shutter-down strike in Sindh for today (Monday). Earlier, the Rabita Committee meeting had strongly condemned the “worst form of torture on

Bomb targets Quetta cops, no causalities reported QUETTA: A remote controlled bomb was planted to target a police mobile in Quetta on Sunday, however, no human loss was reported as a result of the explosion.

According to the police, the mobile was on a routine round at Mustang road when unidentified terrorists exploded the bomb placed at the national highway through a remote. The bomb was heard several miles away. The explosion caused two feet deep and five feet wide ditch on the road and also damaged the front screen of the police mobile, however, the police officers present in the mobile miraculously survived. The police and Frontier Cops (FC) officials along with Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) soon arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. Moreover, BDS sources told that eight kilogram explosive was used to carry out the blast. inP

Iran, Pakistan keen to strengthen mutual cooperation QUETTA: Iran’s Sistan and Balochistan Governor General Ali Osat Hashemi has said that Tehran and Islamabad are resolved to enhance bilateral relations, especially in trade areas. Hashemi made the remarks during a visit to Pakistan’s Balochistan province, where the two sides discussed ways to bolster mutual cooperation between the two countries in various fields. Hashemi reiterated that Tehran and Islamabad are determined to “increase the volume of trade ties to three to five billion dollars in the near future”. inP

Nine including 3 TTP Swati militants arrested in Quetta QUETTA: The security forces detained at least nine suspects including one suicide attacker and three members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swati group in Quetta on Sunday. According to the sources, security forces on a tip off, raided three different areas of Quetta and taken as many as nine suspects into custody. Moreover, detainees belonging to Pishin, Waziristan and Dera Ismail Khan were shifted to an undisclosed location for investigation. inP

party worker Faraz Alam in police custody”. Alam, a MQM party activist, had died Saturday in the Khokhrapar Police Station while under custody.

CM ANNOUNCES JUDICIAL COMMISSION TO PROBE KILLING: On the other hand, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon appealed to MQM leaders to review the strike call, adding that the Sindh government would take action against those found “guilty of the murder”.

Memon assured that MQM’s de-

mand of a judicial probe would be met, adding that the issues could be discussed through talks. “Government is always ready for talks with MQM.” The minister said that the 15-minutes deadline given by the MQM chief was not appropriate as nothing could be done in such a short time. Later, Sindh CM Shah announced to form a judicial commission to probe the custodial killing of the MQM activist.

Sindh CM Adviser Waqar Mehdi said action would be triggered against any police personnel, in case proof was found to substantiate his involvement in the extra-judicial assassination.

PROTEST BUT DON’T STRIKE: Moreover, National Assembly (NA) Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah Sunday urged MQM to hold protest instead of observing strike over its party worker’s demise in police custody.

“MQM has the right to protest but they should not give strike calls,” said Shah. The senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said that an enquiry should be conducted to find out if the deceased was a terrorist or not. Shah said that MQM is the second largest party in Sindh, adding that the ruling party PPP is always in contact with MQM.

INDIAN ED SUMMONS PIA FOR VIOLATING FOREX LAWS NEW DELHI inP

The Indian Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued summons to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) over alleged violation of forex laws in purchase of Indian properties by the Pakistan’s flag-carrier.

PIA’s local office in-charge in New Delhi has been issued summons for appearance and submission of documents after the probe agency found that PIA has “acquired/ purchased” some immovable official premises in alleged contravention of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and as stipulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

“The PIA has been issued summons and their executives have been asked to depose before the agency on January 13,” ED officials said. The ED had found that Pakistan’s national carrier has acquired five flats/offices at Barakhamba road area in central Delhi without obtaining necessary clear-

ances from the banking regulator – RBI. Officials said FEMA laws stipulate that “no person being a citizen of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Nepal or Bhutan without prior permission of the RBI shall acquire or transfer immovable property in India other than lease, not exceeding five years.”

The PIA, they said, has allegedly been found contravening this clause and hence ED has issued summons to it for scrutiny of official documents and records after which the agency will decide to initiate penal action which can either be levy of financial penalty or cancellation of the purchase deal.

Officials said initially the alleged violation was detected by the RBI and subsequently the ED was informed to initiate investigation into the case.

They said the probe agency has obtained land and ownership documents of the flats/properties in question from relevant government agencies and it has now sought PIA’s version in the case.

Rangers thwart smuggling bid at Wagah border LAHORE: Punjab Rangers foiled drug smuggling bid at Wagah Border Saturday night, rangers sources said. According to the sources, the accused were signalled to stop near Padana Post after which they opened fire. The rangers opened retaliatory fire and injured one suspected smuggler, while his two associates managed to flee. The injured smuggler has been taken into custody. 24 bottles of Indianmade liquor were also recovered from his possession, the sources said. inP

Two death row prisoners to be executed today FAISALABAD: Two people accused of conducting terrorist attack on former president Pervez Musharaf have been shifted to District Jail Faisalabad from Central Jail Faisalabad in tight security for execution.

Nawazish Ali and Mushtaq Ahmed were shifted in district jail due to absence of gallows in central jail Faisalabad. Nawazish Ali is resident of Chakwal while Mushtaq Ahmed hails from Karachi. The death warrants of both convicts have been issued.

The jail sources confirmed that the relatives of both convicts have been called for last meeting with the convicts. Both accused will be executed today (Monday). inP

Two businessmen kidnapped in Chaman CHAMAN: Unidentified armed men abducted two brothers in Guldar Baghicha near Chaman area of Killa Saifullah district on Sunday. According to Levies Force, the victims were on way to their shop from house in a vehicle when some armed men intercepted them. They took them away along with their vehicle to an unidentified destination on gunpoint. The both victims were reported to be traders in the town.

Levies Force registered a case and started efforts for their recovery. aPP

Nine Afghans held under Foreign Act CHAMAN: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested nine Afghan nationals under foreign act near Pak-Afghan border in Chaman area of Balochistan on Sunday. FIA Inspector Arif Baloch told APP that these Afghan nationals were apprehended because they were travelling without valid documents.

They were being interrogated. aPP

Coup averted in Sri Lanka, says new government COLOMBO agencies

Sri Lanka’s new government on Sunday accused toppled strongman Mahinda Rajapakse of having tried to stage a coup to cling to power after losing last week’s presidential election.

Rajapakse, South Asia’s longest-serving leader before losing last Thursday’s polls, had been widely praised for conceding defeat to Maithripala Sirisena before the final results had been announced. But a top aide to Sirisena told reporters that 69-year-old Rajapakse had in fact tried to persuade the island’s army and police chiefs to help him stay in office with the use of force.

“People think it was a peaceful transition. It was anything but,” Mangala Samaraweera, who is

expected to be announced as Sirisena’s foreign minister, told a press conference in Colombo.

“The first thing the new cabinet will investigate is the coup and conspiracy by president Rajapakse. He stepped down only when the army chief and the police Inspector General (NK Illangakoon) refused to go along with him.”

Illangakoon was “very vocal and did not want to be a party to this coup” while army chief Daya Ratnayake also refused to deploy troops for Rajapakse to seize power, said Samaraweera. The state attorney general’s department also warned that there would be “dangerous consequences”. US Secretary of State John Kerry and even Sirisena himself had thanked Rajapakse for quitting in the early hours of Friday, after his defeat in an election he had seemed certain to win when he called it in November.

Samaraweera said diplomatic pressure had also been brought to bear on Rajapakse, who came in for widespread criticism during his decade in office over his administration’s human rights record.

“Some world leaders also spoke with president Rajapakse and prevailed on him to ensure a peaceful transition,” Samaraweera said. “I don’t know who had spoken (to him), but we know some leaders did talk to him.” Samaraweera said it was important for the new administration to disclose what had happened while results were being released, and an independent probe would be a priority of the new cabinet. Sirisena is expected to deliver an address to the nation later Sunday from the hill station of Kandy, buoyed by securing a parliamentary majority after engineering a spate of defections from his predecessor.

Punjab sets up Higher Education Commission GOVERNOR SIGNS PHEC ACT, GUJRAT UNIVERSITY FORMER VC APPOINTED FIRST CHAIRMAN OF PHEC LAHORE sTaFF RePORT

Eminent educationist and former vice chancellor of University of Gujrat Professor Dr Muhammad Nizamuddin has been appointed as the first chairperson of Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC).

The commission will be a supportive and facilitative body for strengthening

higher education in the province and was set up after the president signed the PHEC bill. In order to strengthen and meeting the growing needs of higher education sector in Punjab, the provincial government promulgated the PHEC ordinance on October 2, 2014 to come up with PHEC. The ordinance was presented at the Punjab Assembly and handed over to the Education Standing Committee for further delibera-

tions. The committee suggested certain amendments in the bill including inclusion of college education, important pillar of tertiary education under the preview of PHEC and nomination of representatives of colleges in PHEC board. The Punjab Assembly passed the PHEC bill on December 29, 2014. According to the act, the chairperson of PHEC shall be the chief executive officer of the commission and will be responsible for all administrative, financial and academic functions of the commission.

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late guidelines under which public and private institutions may be opened and operated in the province, monitor and evaluate the performance of the institutions, undertake various faculty development programs and prepare plans for development of the higher education sector and take measures including allocation of funds for award of fellowships, scholarships, travel and research grants etcetera.

The establishment of PHEC was announced by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in February 2013 and it was included in Medium Term Development Framework

(MTDF) 2014-2017. After deliberations, a detailed road map for strengthening the higher education set up in the province was prepared by a five members Steering Committee notified by the CM. In order to address problems in the higher education sector of the province in a more effective and efficient way, the participants of a threeday national conference titled “Future Road Map of Higher Education” held in March 2014 at Govt College University Lahore also recommended the establishment of the provincial HEC as an autonomous body under the supervision of Punjab CM.

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PCMD, KU TO HOLD TRAINING COURSE Karachi staff report

The 5th international symposium-cumtraining course on Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (MMDR-5) will begin from January 12 to 15, 2015, at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) Karachi University (KU), said Director ICCBS Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary. He was presiding over a meeting of the symposium’s organising committee held at HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, KU, on Friday. He said over 100 scientists from 30 countries would attend the international event organised by Dr Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), KU. He said around 500 scholars from Pakistan would also participate in the conference. He said the aim of the event was to develop understanding and appreciation of this emerging field (Molecular Medicine and Drug Research) in Pakistan to bring together the leading experts in the field of molecular medicine from all around the world. The inaugural ceremony of the molecular event will be held on January 12 (Monday) at 09:00 am at Prof Salimuzzaman Siddiqui Auditorium-ICCBS. Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed will inaugurate the symposium while KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser, former HEC chairman Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rahman will also address the ceremony. Besides, KU Dean Faculty of Science Prof Dr Syed Abid Azhar and Director ICCBS Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary will also express their views in the inaugural ceremony, he added. He said: “The scientific programme of the symposium will include plenary and invited lectures by eminent scientists and poster presentations by young scholars from 30 countries of the world. The training sessions will focus on developing concepts of molecular medicines and its applications in understanding diseases at the molecular levels. These sessions will be conducted by international experts.”

City life paralysed as MQM Mourns its worker’s death Karachi

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USINESS and social activities were suspended in the metropolis on Sunday over the call of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to observe mourning day across Sindh against the killing of its four activists.

Major business markets and bazaars, including Saddar, Boulton and Liaquatabad, in the city remained closed while shops were also kept shut in many areas of the city. Public transport also remained off the roads. People used rickshaws and taxis to reach their offices and other destinations.

Educational institutions were already closed due to Sunday holiday.

Petrol pumps and gas filling stations

Funeral prayer of slain MQM workers offered KARACHI: Funeral prayers of four slain Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists and three sympathisers were offered on Saturday. The funeral prayers of MQM workers Faraz Alam, Muhammad Rehan, Abdul Rauf and Dr Ali Akbar were offered at Jinnah Ground in Azizabad, while funerals of the sympathisers Naeem Jafri, Jaffer Abbas and Dr Yawar Hussain were

offered in Rizvia Imambargah. The MQM is observing day of mourning over killing of its workers on Sunday.

Haider Abbas Rizvi, one of the MQM leaders, announced to continue mourning on Monday.

TWO INJURED IN VIOLENCE: Two persons were injured in separate violence incidents in the city on Sunday. A man, Sajjad Gul, 35, son of

Baz Gul, was shot and injured by unidentified armed men in Nazimabad No. 2. The injured was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for treatment. In another incident, a youth, Muhammad Aslam, 23, son of Muhammad Ali, was injured by unknown armed men in Orangi town.

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also remained shut which caused inconvenience to transporters and commuters. MQM Chief Altaf Hussain had announced mourning day in Sindh province for Sunday. Tense situation prevailed in the city due to ongoing vi-

olence. MQM chief Altaf Hussain said in a statement that one party worker Syed Faraz Alam was killed in police custody while three party workers Mohammad Rehan, Syed Naeem Jaffery and Jaffer Abbas were arrested, tor-

tured to death and then their bodies were abandoned in Mawach Goth.

However, he appealed to his party’s coordination committee to withdraw strike call of Monday given against these killings.

HYDERABAD: Rangers personnel standing alert during mourning day against alleged custodial killings of MQM workers. inp

GLOWING TRIBUTE PAID TO PESHAWAR SCHOOL MARTYRS Karachi ppi

DRY WEATHER LIKELY IGP asked to take action against 2 citizens for harassment IN CITY Karachi staff report

The Meteorological Department on Sunday forecasted dry weather with cool night and misty morning during next 24 hours in the metropolis. According to Met office the minimum temperature will remain between 13 and 15 degrees Celsius. Mainly cold/very cold and dry weather is likely to prevail in the region.

KARACHI: A social activist on Sunday demanded of the Sindh inspector general of police to take stern action against two persons - Koral Kori and Nadeem Ujjan - for harassing a respectable citizen Mumtaz Khuhro by issuing fake news and lodging false cases against him.

He said in a statement: “We held a protest demonstration on Razidero Bypass of Khairpur-Larkana highways against the murder of journalist Jeevan Arain to show solidarity with the vic-

tim’s family but the picture of this demonstration was linked to fake news which was totally irrelevant. Nadeem Ujjan with backing of Koral Kori got this news published in a Sindhi medium newspaper in which he accused Mumtaz of issuing threats to them and described that this demonstration picture was in their favour which was actually in the favour of slain journalist Jeevan Arain.

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published on December 24, 2014, to harass Mumtaz Khuhro in order to gain nefarious designs. As a matter of fact, this photo was old and had no link with the fake news, he added. A case lodged against Mumtaz in a local court of Gambat in connivance with these two irresponsible people had also proved false, he commented. He further said that Koral Kori had also issued false news against Mumtaz describing that he had issued him threats.ppi

The perpetrators of this heinous crime should be punished in severest possible terms and exemplary sentences should be awarded to those ferocious beasts who took the lives of our children in a cowardly attack.

This was the unified message of the condolence reference held at ABAD House to pay tribute to the martyrs of Peshawar school attack.

Speaking on the occasion, renowned social worker and human rights activist Ansar Burney advocated for unity of action among all irrespective of religion, sects, ethnicity or creed, and said: “this tragedy, which is the greatest of all in the history of Pakistan, has awakened the people. Now we stand united with army, police, Rangers and all other law enforcement agencies as we have realised that only in this way they can save themselves from these terrorists who are out to destroy our generations.” Sarim Burney said the Peshawar incident had shaken them so seriously that no words could describe their grief and pain.

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who approves Meningitis vaCCine for infants Karachi

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HE World Health Organisation (WHO) has opened the door to routine immunisation of infants in subSaharan Africa by approving for use an innovative and affordable vaccine that has all but rid the meningitis belt of a major cause of deadly epidemics.

According to a release from Geneva, in the four years since its introduction in Africa, MenAfriVac has had an immediate and dramatic impact in breaking the cycle of meningitis A epidemics, leading the safe, effective technology to be approved by WHO through its prequalification process for use in infants, and paving the way for protecting millions more children at risk of the deadly disease. The announcement was made today by the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP)

- a partnership between the global health non-profit PATH and WHO - and Serum Institute of India Ltd (SIIL) which manufactures the MenAfriVac vaccine.

“Initial mass vaccination campaigns with MenAfriVac® have been highly effective in reducing the number of meningitis A cases,” said Dr. Marie-Pierre Préziosi, director of MVP. “But epidemics will return when rising numbers of unprotected newborns become a larger proportion of the total population

over time. Now, with this decision, health officials will be able to ensure that population-wide protection is sustained by routinely immunizing infants.”

The WHO decision means that the new, 5 µg dose of the meningitis A vaccine meets international standards of quality, safety, and efficacy and can therefore be administered to children younger than one year of age in Africa. MenAfriVac® had previously been authorized for use in children and young adults, aged 1-29 years.

KARACHI: Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ulEbad Khan has directed vice-chancellors of all the universities of the province to ensure fool-proof security measures in view of the prevailing situation. In a statement issued on Sunday, he also called for remaining alert and use of modern technology and other resources to ensure effective security arrangements at universities. The governor also directed to create awareness among the teaching and non-teaching staff and students regarding security and remain in contact with law enforcement agencies for the purpose. Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad also gave necessary instructions to police, rangers and provincial administration regarding security steps at the universities. He said that security measures are necessary to ensure a safe and secure environment for academic activities and research work at universities. staff report

STUDENTS GET WHITE COATS ON ORIENTATION DAY OF LNHMC KARACHI: An orientation day was organised by Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College for the new students of MBBS. On the occasion, students were awarded with white coats, said a statement issued on Sunday. Director Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College, Salman Faridi addressing the participants of orientation day said that medical sector is a vast sector and new researches keep taking place in this field. He advised the students to work hard and study with dedication. Principal of the college Prof Dr Ameer Ali Shoro, Controller Academic Administration and Research Dr Shahina Akbani and Head of the ENT faculty Dr Shakeel Aqil also spoke on the occasion. The programme was attended by students, parents, teachers and faculty members. staff report

KARACHI: Relatives of MQM workers put their coffins outside the CM House during a protest against their killings. onLine

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ANTI-POLIO CAMPAIGN DEFERRED IN 9 SENSITIVE UCS KARACHI: A four-day anti-polio campaign in nine sensitive union councils (UCs) of Karachi suspended on second day in a wake of security situation here on Sunday. According to details, UC-4, 5, 8 of Gadap, UC-2 in Baldia, Site Town UC-9, UC-7 and 13 of Orangi along with UC-1 and 2 of Landhi have been listed as most sensitive UCs by local administration. During the campaign, more than 500 teams volunteered to vaccinate 73,718 children later when campaign to be resumed. staff report

Renowned psychiatrist and head of psychiatry department, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Prof Dr M Iqbal Afridi on Wednesday said the cases of psychological or behavioural disorders have gone up sharply in South Asian region including Pakistan owning to socio-economic changes in past few years.

Prof Afridi said mental health is as important as physical health for an overall well-being of individuals, societies and countries. He said various mental diseases had gone up sharply in the region due to manmade and natural disasters, and hype of print and electronic media.

He said depression, anxiety, somatoform, use of drugs and schizophrenia are the major mental diseases in society. He said depression is the most common disease in Pakistan and approximately 34 percent population of the country is living with this disease.

TEENAGE BOY INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT KARACHI: A teenage boy was injured in a road accident in the city on Sunday. A teenager, Subhan, 14, son of Zulfiqar, was injured when a speeding vehicle hit him near Murshid Hospital in Baldia Town. He was rushed to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for treatment. staff report

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He said big number of patients with depression symptoms visit the Psychiatry Department on OPD days in his hospital. He said only one percent population is suffering from schizophrenia, a common genetic psychological disorder.

He said cases of somatoform disorders are also on the rise and this disease is linked to stress. He said people with somatoform disorder may face stomach, joints problems and others issues.

Dr Afridi said a significant number of people between 15 to 65 year agegroup consume tobacco products in the country out of which 3.4 percent are youngsters. He explained that use of alcohol was common in highincome group, while cigarette, betel nut, betel leaf and other tobacco products are generally used by lowincome group. He said psychological disorders or mental diseases are more common in urban parts of country as compared to rural areas.

He said mental disorders are common but treatable. He said people should maintain a balance in life, and give proper attention to sleep, work, pray, exercise and diet.

He said at collective level we should focus in improving interpersonal relationship and communication to get rid from various psychological disorders.

US CG CELEBRATES ACCESS PROGRAMME STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS Karachi ppi

US Consul General Brian Heath presided over an awards ceremony for 600 students enrolled in the US State Department’s English access microscholarship programme.

The Society of International Education (SIE) manages the access programme in Karachi. The present access programme, September 2014 to August 2016, provides instruction to 13-18 year olds in six low-income localities in Karachi. The after-school classes and intensive summer activities help access students gain English-language skills that lead to better jobs, educational prospects and increased opportunity to participate in future exchanges.

Since its inception in 2004, more than 1,00,000 students in more than 85 countries have participated in Access.

The programme helps students develop proficiency in English language from beginners to intermediate level, and provides them a variety of experiences to enhance their confidence, and instil in them democratic values, volunteerism, and positive civic attitudes.

Overall, the programme aims at increasing students’ ability to participate successfully in the socioeconomic development of their country.

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Have pity on Sindh PPP and MQM both acting irresponsibly

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HOSE supposed to look after Sindh are unravelling the province through acts of commission and omission. The MQM announced a day long strike on Sunday and when the CM failed to come out to personally provide assurances demanded by them, they extended the strike in a cavalier fashion to Monday, caring little about its impact on the life of the citizens of Karachi and the economy of the country. The call was withdrawn only after Altaf Hussain’s intervention.

The MQM’s complaints about the alleged custodial killings of its workers needs to be thoroughly looked into during the judicial enquiry ordered by the Sindh government. Any police officer found to be responsible for the act should be administered exemplary punishment. The MQM has to realise that closing down the entire province including Karachi virtually amounts to economic sabotage which cannot be justified on any ground.

The way the PPP is running the province is an example of bad governance. It was sheer unresponsiveness on its part to let scores of children die in Thar during the drought and after it. Allowing the educational system to deteriorate by countenancing 40,000 ghost teachers and 5,000 closed schools is another indicator of the malaise. The overall state of neglect has taken toll of the transport system in the province. The roads are in shambles leading in november last year to the tragic accident involving a passenger bus and a truck near Khairpur, killing about 60 people. There is no check on the road worthiness of the vehicles or their speed. In April, a bus smashed into a tractor-trailer in a high-speed collision killing 42 people, while in March a horrific crash between two buses and a petrol tanker left 35 dead with many burnt alive when the fuel ignited. Another road accident on Saturday took the toll of over 60 people. The MQM and PPP Sindh need to realise that it is a suicidal policy to saw off the branch one is sitting on.

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HE Punjab government has announced a number of important anti-terror steps recently, especially with regard to controlling hate speech and limiting the outreach of provocative clerics using the mosque to spread religious and sectarian violence. The Punjab Sound Systems Ordinance 2015, therefore, is a long overdue step in the right direction as regards taking control of the narrative, at least on paper. CM Shahbaz Sharif has also ordered an extensive – and just as overdue – crackdown on other forms of hate material – CDs, literature, pamphlets, etc.

But the proof of the pudding lies in the eating. The n-league, both in the centre and in Punjab, has too often been too soft on the matter of taking the terrorism bull by the horns. Whatever hard steps it has taken have been in reaction to unfortunate incidents. And even though it has taken a number of initiatives following the Peshawar tragedy, its response to those who continue to spread hatred and polarise people on sectarian grounds – like the Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad – has been lukewarm.

Hopefully the government will need no more reminding that the ‘battle for hearts and minds’ is a crucial part of every existential war. For far too long both the government and the military have been unable to build a cohesive narrative around the war against terrorism. All the while the Taliban and their allies have cleverly leveraged religion to further their cause. There is only so much the bombs and bullets of Zarb-e-Azb can achieve in north Waziristan. The fight has finally come to the cities. And not only controlling enemy propaganda, but also proactively producing a national narrative, is of the utmost importance. Regulating the use of loudspeakers in Punjab is one small part of this lengthy exercise, but it will serve as a litmus test for the government. The chief minister will need to monitor his new committees at the district and tehsil level, which are mandated with monitoring the new anti-terror strategy minutely. Mosques just can’t be allowed to be used as springboards for sectarian/religious wars that are tearing Pakistan apart. This initiative should be turned into a law and implemented across the country.

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n September 11, 2001, a band of nihilists boarded planes bound for what was in their minds destination: paradise. In the aftermath of their attacks, as the black clouds of smoke and rage billowed up from the smothering rubble of collapsed towers and fallen ego of the world’s capital city, the national narrative in America quickly shifted to teaching the enemy a lesson never to be forgotten. “I am driven with a mission from God,” bellowed President George W Bush, as he tried to justify the Afghan invasion; a statement one would typically expect to come from the fiery pulpit of a rabid hate preacher in the tribal areas of Pakistan, not the White House.

The discerning among us may see echoes of something similar at work in the fallout of the Peshawar carnage, which many have dubbed the 9/11 of Pakistan. Here again we see a similar outrage and a familiar call for retribution against the enemy. Even the prime minister, moved by this deafening clamour for revenge, was quick to lift the moratorium on the death penalty and hang some TTP prisoners with a promise for more in the coming days.

Immediately after 9/11 when a blinding red mist had sparked madness in America, renowned author and journalist Fareed Zakaria wrote a famous essay “Why Do They Hate Us?” to offer some perspective and, perhaps, also to douse flaming emotions. Maybe, now, a few weeks after the heinous Peshawar shooting episode, we too can ask ourselves the same question that Zakaria asked of the American people. Why do they hate us?

What after all could invert a man’s con-

science so thoroughly that it would necessitate in him the urge to open fire on unsuspecting school children? Psychopathy comes to mind but is an unlikely answer considering that this attack, like similar attacks in the past, was not a lone wolf operation, but was in fact a planned and coordinated event by a notorious group – TTP – that vows retribution for the Pakistan army’s military action and its endorsement of US drone strikes in FATA. While there is no disputing that TTP’s actions on December 16th were murderous, unforgivable and utterly deserving of the highest punishment, it is equally the case that their grievances are not entirely without merit. Suggesting otherwise would be unfair to young nabeela who witnessed a drone strike blow her 68-year-old grandmother — Mamana Bibi – into pieces while she was gathering vegetables and wood in the family fields in Ghundi Kala village only metres away from her granddaughter. It was Mamana Bibi’s sons who later assembled her charred and mutilated remains to give her a traditional Islamic burial. One of the villagers from her community poignantly remarked that she was the “string that held the pearls together”. In a similar incident back in 2012, 18 men of village Zowi Sidqi that had gathered for an evening meal were mistaken for militants and killed in a drone strike.

Accounting for each of these incidents is like having to repeatedly hit the pause button on the reality based horror film that people of FATA have been living out since 9/11. According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), there have been a total of 367 such strikes, between 2004 and 2012, killing 2,562-3,325 people of whom 474-881 were civilians, including roughly 176 children.

The psychological effects of such sustained attacks are profound. According to the nYU/Stanford report on drone strikes, one interviewee – a father of three — said, “Drones are always on my mind. It makes it difficult to sleep.

They are like a mosquito. Even when you don’t see them, you can hear them, you know they are there.” One father, after seeing the bodies of three dead children in the rubble of a strike, decided to pull his own children out of school. “I stopped [them] from getting an education,” he admitted. “I told them we will be finished one day, the same as other people who were going [to school] and were killed in the drone attacks.”

The reality is that FATA is home to a traumatised people. People divorced from their

times and existing anachronistically in some dark obscure enclave of a bygone era, reduced to a diminished proxy existence — a mere means to other peoples’ ends; their history a blood-red trail of generational exploitation by one superpower after another. When generations grow up through such war and trauma, brutality often becomes a survival mechanism.

In his book The Lucifer Effect psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains that evil is generally a product of three types of variables: dispositional, situational and systemic. He also concludes that de-individualisation of the self, dehumanisation of the other and blind submission to authority, are, among other factors, some of the main catalysts for evil behaviour. What we see in radical groups like TTP is a contribution of all these factors (barring the dispositional component which applies more to individuals than groups). The outcome is a deadly mix of Salafi austerity, tribal xenophobia and the animus of the traumatised war orphan.

Surely, in all of this the moral imperative for the Pakistani establishment – the recipient of billions of dollars of aid money for its war on terror – was to build the long abandoned FATA area from ground up, to invest in education, health and general welfare of its people.

Sadly, that never happened. The aid money only made a few rich people richer.

But then there is also the matter of ideology.

While TTP’s grievances are steeped in a complex mix of geopolitical and sociological realities, they couch their ideological aspirations in a strictly Islamic narrative – imposition of strict Sharia rule. In this they are eerily similar to radical groups like ISIS, AQ, Boko Haram, Al Shabab etc. And this is one more thing the Peshawar massacre shares with the 9/11 attack: that they were both perpetrated in the name of Islam.

It would then stand to reason that there is a certain interpretation of Islam, albeit fringe, that has global appeal and is in the employ of those committing great acts of violence in its name. The fact that the said ideology is still alive, in fact has proliferated, in spite of 15 years of intense military engagement, suggests that military action alone is not enough. That such radical groups often justify their violence through a literal reading of the scriptures makes the need for Islamic reforms that much more urgent. Practical initiatives like increased military engagement, military courts, the 20-point national Action Plan and civic activism are a much needed temporary fix, but one might well ask how culling the landscape of all the poisonous plants will help while the seedbed lays menacingly unperturbed?

Taha Najeeb Khan is an engineering consultant based out of NY, USA. He is also a freelance writer/blogger. He can be reached at: tahanajeeb01@gmail.com.

Will Pakistan and India ever be good neighbours?

Easier said than done basic needs, the governments and the armies stay at loggerheads and spend huge amounts and exhaust resources to bring down their neighbour.

Let’s accept a few facts. India is a much larger country than Pakistan in terms of area and population.

While both sides having their own type of problems to pay attention to, they won’t stop interfering and picking a bone in each other’s business.

Even after fighting various wars against each other and finding no good in it, neither side seems to have come up with a better strategy that would take their relation away from war towards peace.

India’s huge spending on defence, presence of over 500,000 Indian soldiers in Kashmir, repeated attacks on the Sialkot border threatening Pakistan’s sovereignty and its intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing’s(RAW) involvement in Pakistan’s tribal areas is something Pakistan can’t digest They blame us for terror, we blame them for insurgency India has been supporting insurgency and militants in different regions of Pakistan. While talking to journalists, Lieutenant General (retd) Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai, KP governor, during Musharraf era, said that there was evidence of Indian hand in acts of terrorism in the tribal areas and some of the settled districts in the province. Indian weapons have been found from the compounds belonging to militants raided by security forces. Indian Embassy in Kabul and four consulate-generals in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat and Mazar-e-

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German proverb reads: Love your neighbours, but don’t pull down the fence. Unfortunately, only the later part is true for Pakistan’s relation with its eastern neighbour, India. Even after 67 years since the division of the subcontinent, neither side has shown what one could call “sportsman spirit” by accepting the other. Though a lot of efforts have been made to bring the two countries closer, the relation remains generally bitter.

Pakistan and India have been a constant source of pain in the neck for each other. Since 1947, both sides have fought wars, sacrificed a lot of lives, have been exhausting a lot of resources to fund their armies and intelligence agencies, develop nuclear arsenals and sponsor miscreants to cause instability in the neighbouring country.

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Sharif have been repeatedly accused for harbouring and supporting militants who vow to fight against the state of Pakistan. India’s keen interest in Afghanistan is ‘fishy’ and their presence and involvement in Afghanistan puts Pakistan at a strategic disadvantage.

While India alleges Pakistan’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa for 26/11 Mumbai bombings which killed 164 and wounded 308, Indian Abhinav Bharat has been involved in Samjhota Express bombings which killed 68 passengers. India’s own investigation teams have found clues that link the bombings to extremist organisations in India.

Spiritual dimension Pakistan is an Islamic Republic with majority Muslim population. According to few Ahadith of the Prophet (PBUH) Ghazwatul-Hind, the war of India, is inevitable. It says that fighters from Khurasan (a region that consists of areas from Afghanistan and Pakistan) will capture India and bring its rulers tied in shackles. At the same time centuries old Indian doctrine of Chankiya preaches a simple way to defeat your enemy. “Start making peace with you enemy, hug him and stab him in the back.”

This is what is indoctrinated in the youth. So no matter how many steps towards peace we may take, the spiritual prediction stays the same. Honestly, even after much efforts to bring the neighbours together, the current scenario is showing no signs of improvement.

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culture and values and that he loves Indian films very much, the ground realities will remain unchanged. no matter how many Pakistani artists perform in India, or media groups from both sides of the border undertake steps to promote peace and improve ties between the two countries, the forces will remain at war with each other. That is what they have been doing for the past 67 years and that is what you should expect them to do for the decades to come.

Two states that came into being after millions from both sides lost their lives, women were raped, children orphaned, young girls widowed and many left their land and migrated. How can nation states that come into being after such brutality be at peace?

India spends around $47.4 billion on its defence which is ranked 9th in the world rankings of largest defence budgets while Pakistan spends $6.98 billion and is on 25th spot in the rankings. With spending increasing every year, we are moving towards more aggression, life and tragedies.

Just for a fact Pakistan is believed to possess 100-120 nuclear warheads while India 90-110. With this huge nuclear base that could wipe out 20 million people in one go, war is inevitable. Wars result in deaths and deaths bear hate. Whose hate triumphs, who makes the most kills, who captures the most land is what Pakistan-India relation is all about. That’s how it has been for the past 67 years, and that is how it will be for the foreseeable future.

Ahad Awan is a management student and has keen interest in politics.

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northern-Italian miller in the sixteenth century, known as Menocchio, literate but not a member of the literary élite, held a number of unconventional theological beliefs. He believed that the soul died with the body, that the world was created out of a chaotic substance, not ex nihilo, and that it was more important to love one’s neighbor than to love God. He found eccentric justification for these beliefs in the few books he read, among them the Decameron, the Bible, the Koran, and “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,” all in translation. For his pains, Menocchio was dragged before the Inquisition several times, tortured, and, in 1599, burned at the stake. He was one of thousands who met such a fate.

Western societies are not, even now, the paradise of skepticism and rationalism that they believe themselves to be. The West is a variegated space, in which both freedom of thought and tightly regulated speech exist, and in which disavowals of deadly violence happen at the same time as clandestine torture. But, at moments when Western societies consider themselves under attack, the discourse is quickly dominated by an ahistorical fantasy of longsuffering serenity and fortitude in the face of provocation. Yet European and American history are so strongly marked by efforts to control speech that the persecution of rebellious thought must be considered among the foundational buttresses of these societies. Witch burnings, heresy trials, and the untiring work of the Inquisition shaped Europe, and these ideas extended into American history as well and took on American modes, from the breaking of slaves to the censuring of critics of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

More than a dozen people were killed by terrorists in Paris this week. The victims of these crimes are being mourned worldwide: they were human beings, beloved by their families and precious to their friends.

On Wednesday, twelve of them were targeted by gunmen for their affiliation with the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Charlie has often been aimed at Muslims, and it’s taken particular joy in flouting the Islamic ban on depictions of the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH). It’s done more than that, including taking on political targets, as well as Christian and Jewish ones. The magazine depicted the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost in a sexual threesome. Illustrations such as this have

been cited as evidence of Charlie Hebdo’s willingness to offend everyone. But in recent years the magazine has gone specifically for racist and Islamophobic provocations, and its numerous anti-Islam images have been inventively perverse, featuring hook-nosed Arabs, bullet-ridden Korans, variations on the theme of sodomy, and mockery of the victims of a massacre.

It is not always easy to see the difference between a certain witty dissent from religion and a bullyingly racist agenda, but it is necessary to try. Even Voltaire, a hero to many who extol free speech, got it wrong.

His sparkling and courageous anti-clericalism can be a joy to read, but he was also a committed anti-Semite, whose criticisms of Judaism were accompanied by calumnies about the innate character of Jews.

This week’s events took place against the backdrop of France’s ugly colonial history, its sizable Muslim population, and the suppression, in the name of secularism, of some Islamic cultural expressions, such as the hijab. Blacks have hardly had it easier in Charlie Hebdo: one of the magazine’s cartoons depicts the Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, who is of Guianese origin, as a monkey (naturally, the defense is that a violently racist image was being used to satirize racism); another portrays Obama with the black-Sambo imagery familiar from Jim Crow-era illustrations.

On Thursday morning, the day after the massacre, I happened to be in Paris. The headline of Le Figaro was “LA LIBERTÉ ASSASSINÉE.” Le Parisien and L’Humanité also used the word liberté in their headlines. Liberty was indeed under attack—as a writer, I cherish the right to offend, and I support that right in other writers—but what was being excluded in this framing? A tone of genuine puzzlement always seems to accompany terrorist attacks in the centers of Western power.

Why have they visited violent horror on our peaceful societies? Why do they kill when we don’t? A widely shared illustration, by Lucille Clerc, of a broken pencil regenerating itself as two sharpened pencils, was typical. The message was clear, as it was with the #jesuischarlie hashtag: that what is at stake is not merely the right of people to draw what they wish but that, in the wake of the murders, what they drew should be celebrated and disseminated. Accordingly, not only have many of Charlie Hebdo’s images been published and shared, but the magazine itself has received large sums of money in the wake of the attacks—a hundred thousand pounds from the Guardian Media Group and three hundred thousand dollars from Google.

But it is possible to defend the right to obscene and racist speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech. It is possible to approve of sacrilege without endorsing racism. And it is possible to consider Islamophobia immoral without wishing it illegal. Moments of grief neither rob us of our complexity nor absolve us of the responsibility of making distinctions. The A.C.L.U. got it right in defending a neo-Nazi group that, in 1978, sought to march through Skokie, Illinois. The extreme offensiveness of the marchers, absent a particular threat of violence, was not and should not be illegal.

But no sensible person takes a defense of those First Amendment rights as a defense of Nazi beliefs. The Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were not mere gadflies, not simple martyrs to the right to offend: they were ideologues. Just because one condemns their brutal murders doesn’t mean one must condone their ideology.

Rather than posit that the Paris attacks are the moment of crisis in free speech— as so many commentators have done—it is necessary to understand that free speech and other expressions of liberté are already in crisis in Western societies; the crisis was not precipitated by three deranged gunmen.

The U.S., for example, has consolidated its traditional monopoly on extreme violence, and, in the era of big data, has also hoarded information about its deployment of that violence. There are harsh consequences for those who interrogate this monopoly. The only person in prison for the C.I.A.’s abominable torture regime is John Kiriakou, the whistle-blower. Edward Snowden is a hunted man for divulging information about mass surveillance.

Chelsea Manning is serving a thirty-fiveyear sentence for her role in WikiLeaks.

They, too, are blasphemers, but they have not been universally valorized, as have the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.

The killings in Paris were an appalling offense to human life and dignity. The enormity of these crimes will shock us all for a long time. But the suggestion that violence by self-proclaimed Jihadists is the only threat to liberty in Western societies ignores other, often more immediate and intimate, dangers. The U.S., the U.K., and France approach statecraft in different ways, but they are allies in a certain vision of the world, and one important thing they share is an expectation of proper respect for Western secular religion. Heresies against state power are monitored and punished.

People have been arrested for making antimilitary or anti-police comments on social media in the U.K. Mass surveillance has

had a chilling effect on journalism and on the practice of the law in the U.S. Meanwhile, the armed forces and intelligence agencies in these countries demand, and generally receive, unwavering support from their citizens. When they commit torture or war crimes, no matter how illegal or depraved, there is little expectation of a full accounting or of the prosecution of the parties responsible.

The scale, intensity, and manner of the solidarity that we are seeing for the victims of the Paris killings, encouraging as it may be, indicates how easy it is in Western societies to focus on radical Islamism as the real, or the only, enemy. This focus is part of the consensus about mournable bodies, and it often keeps us from paying proper attention to other, ongoing, instances of horrific carnage around the world: abductions and killings in Mexico, hundreds of children (and more than a dozen journalists) killed in Gaza by Israel last year, internecine massacres in the Central African Republic, and so on. And even when we rightly condemn criminals who claim to act in the name of Islam, little of our grief is extended to the numerous Muslim victims of their attacks, whether in Yemen or Nigeria—in both of which there were deadly massacres this week—or in Saudi Arabia, where, among many violations of human rights, the punishment for journalists who “insult Islam” is flogging. We may not be able to attend to each outrage in every corner of the world, but we should at least pause to consider how it is that mainstream opinion so quickly decides that certain violent deaths are more meaningful, and more worthy of commemoration, than others.

France is in sorrow today, and will be for many weeks to come. We mourn with France. We ought to. But it is also true that violence from “our” side continues unabated. By this time next month, in all likelihood, many more “young men of military age” and many others, neither young nor male, will have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere. If past strikes are anything to go by, many of these people will be innocent of wrongdoing.

Their deaths will be considered as natural and incontestable as deaths like Menocchio’s, under the Inquisition. Those of us who are writers will not consider our pencils broken by such killings. But that incontestability, that unmournability, just as much as the massacre in Paris, is the clear and present danger to our collective liberté.

Teju Cole is a photographer and the author of two works of fiction, “Open City” and “Every Day Is for the Thief.” He contributes frequently to Page-Turner.

Saving the nuclear deal with Iran New York Times Twice recently, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, has acted boldly in support of his biggest political gamble, pursuit of a nuclear agreement with the major powers. In a speech last Sunday on Iran’s troubled economy, he argued that Iran will never enjoy sustained growth if it is isolated from the rest of the world. Three weeks earlier, he made clear that he would confront Iran’s hard-liners in his efforts to clinch a deal in which Iran would agree never to produce a nuclear weapon in return for the lifting of crippling international sanctions.

But Mr. Rouhani is not the only leader trying to keep a potential agreement from being savaged by domestic opponents. President Obama has a similar problem in Congress, where Senators Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, are expected to introduce legislation that could torpedo any deal by imposing new sanctions on Iran, including tighter controls on its battered oil industry.

Negotiators for Iran and the major powers — the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany — resume their talks next week in Geneva. While they have made significant progress, they remain at odds over how large a nuclear program — geared for energy production and medical uses — Iran will be permitted to have. Mr. Rouhani has shown his seriousness by openly challenging the Iranian hard-liners who are hostile to a deal and by appealing for support from intellectuals, academics, businesspeople and others who are open, even eager, for one. To rally political support, he has also hinted that he might bypass established power centers and submit the issue to a popular referendum.

“Our ideals are not bound to centrifuges,” Mr. Rouhani said in reference to the nuclear program.

Mr. Rouhani’s path to compromise is not easy. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s chief negotiator, won an informal vote of confidence in Parliament on Tuesday after hard-liners forced him to answer questions on the nuclear talks. But Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who will have the last word on any agreement, voiced new doubts on Wednesday about whether “the enemy” — America — could be trusted to really lift sanctions. His skepticism is not unfounded. President Obama has the authority to temporarily ease sanctions on Iran, and he has done that to a limited extent by allowing Iran

to receive about $700 million per month in assets frozen abroad under the terms of an interim nuclear agreement that has been in place since November 2013.

Even so, the power to permanently lift most sanctions lies with Congress, where many members deeply mistrust Tehran, and Republican leaders have said that new and stronger sanctions are near the top of their to-do list in the new Congress. Such a move might be justified down the road if negotiations collapse, or if Iran cheats on its commitments.

But at this stage it could easily undermine the talks, split the major powers and propel Iran to speed its nuclear development. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the new Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he doesn’t know where he will come down on any new sanctions legislation.

But he is working to ensure that Congress gets a vote on any final nuclear agreement. His handling of the issue will be a major test of his leadership.

His pledge to “figure out a way for Congress to weigh in” so that it improves the chances for a “good outcome” is not unreasonable. If the deal is good and Congress approves it, that should reassure Iran’s supreme leader of America’s commitment and improve the chances that the deal will “stand the test of time,” Mr. Corker told The New York Times. The question is whether such a vote could be exploited by opponents who would like to scuttle any deal. A deal that is verifiable and significantly limits Iran’s nuclear activities can succeed if it both enhances regional security and benefits Iran. There will still be some risk for all sides. But the bigger risk is squandering this moment and leaving Iran free to pursue an unconstrained nuclear program. This would invite more sanctions, new tensions and perhaps even military action and a cyberattack.

The Charlie Hebdo attack and the war within global jihad BrookiNgs Bruce riedel

The horrific terrorist attack in Paris comes in the context of an escalating ideological war within the global jihadist movement pitting the Islamic State against Al Qaeda. The last month has seen a sharp uptick in the ideological conflict.

The two groups have been at odds for months but their war of words intensified in December. In a coordinated offensive three Al Qaeda franchises (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the Al Nusra front) published on their media sites attacks on the legitimacy of the Islamic States Caliphate. AQIM published the longest (96 pages), most detailed and specific assault. AQAP published a criticism of the Caliphate that suggested all pledges of loyalty to it must be null and void because it is illegitimate. Interestingly Al Qaeda's core leadership in Pakistan did not comment perhaps refusing to deign to even discuss Caliph Ibrahim.

Islamic State responded late in December in the latest issue of its on line English language magazine Dabiq. It had an article entitled "Al Qaeda of Waziristan: A Testimony From Within” which was sharply critical of Al Qaeda and Mullah Omar's Taliban. Al Qaeda was accused of moving too slowly to create a caliphate and Mullah Omar for considering negotiations with the Crusader enemy. Dabiq even indirectly criticized Osama bin Laden for not being eager for a caliphate, crossing a red line in jihadists’ literature.

The articles on line produced a flurry of social media messaging. Islamic State lost ground by taking a swipe at bin Laden but gained ground by suggesting AQAP's caution had empowered the Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen to take Sanaa. Some Islamic State supporters suggested the criticism of bin Laden was a result of poor translation and editing.

The war inside the global jihad over the legitimacy of the caliphate and who is the proper heir to bin Laden (Ayman Zawahiri or Abu Bakr al Baghdadi) is bound to lead to competition to outdo each other on the battlefield as well.

In that context a major terror attack in Europe would be a significant achievement.

Bruce Riedel is senior fellow and director of the Brookings Intelligence Project, part of Brookings’ new Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. In addition, Riedel serves as a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy.

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SIAN Development Bank (ADB) Country Director Werner E Leipach told Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Sunday that co-operation between the ADB and Pakistan had been much more extensive as compared to the past years and the present government was keen to start work on key development projects.

Werner E Leipach met the finance minister on Sunday. He said the year 2014 saw the record disbursement of $900 million for different development projects including budgetary support whereas it was around $300 million in the past years.

The minister while appreciating the ADB’s contribution, impressed upon Werner to enhance the budgetary support. Warner also discussed the strategy of ADB for Pakistan in the next year which would be approved in the annual meeting to be held in May in Baku.

Warner said as per our commitment for facilitating infrastructure development and energy-related projects, the bank will be supporting projects

ISLAMABAD: ADB Country Director Werner E Liepach calls on Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar. INP

like M4, E35 and regional development projects like CAREC and TAPI. Our endeavour shall be to leverage more finances from DFID in the form of grants so that the loans extended for these projects should be replaced and

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recycled for other projects, the director said. The finance minister told him that for the purpose of arranging finances for infrastructure development projects, they had already created an SPV. The IPDF shall soon actively start its

Dar asks IERU to come more concrete on economic reforms ISLAMABAD StAff REPoRt

Brand Pakistan advisory board meeting held Brand Pakistan is an initiative to celebrate the outstanding achievements and inspiring stories of Pakistanis from Pakistan and around the Globe. Its aim is to unite all stakeholders in developing a positive perception of Pakistan and in creating the blueprint for building global Pakistani brands. The first advisory board meeting of Brand Pakistan was held in Islamabad and was chaired by Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reform. Deliberation was made on ways to improve the national and global perception of Pakistan and the importance of engaging and motivating the youth by establishing university chapters.

The Board of Advisors also deliberated on actively engaging the media to devote time to positive coverage about Pakistan and creating a more balanced approach between negative and positive news. The role and importance of national character building and celebrating the vibrant and diverse cultures as well as focusing on the unifying elements instead of divisive ones was also stressed upon. The Board emphasized the need to develop the template of building a strong export base and global Pakistani Brands. Other esteemed members of the Brand Pakistan Advisory Board who contributed their valuable ideas included Mr. Ijaz Shafi Gillani, Adm (r) Mushtaq Rashid, Nigar Nazar, and Abbas Bilgrami.

The Brand Pakistan conference will be held in Islamabad on 21st and 22nd April, 2015. PRESS RELEASE

work. The minister further said that with 15 per cent growth in the workers’ remittances, Pakistan will be better able to manage the balance of payment and divert more finances to development of the country.

Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq Dar on Sunday asked the implementation and economic reforms unit (IERU) of the finance division to strengthen further its capacity to contribute towards implementation of economic reforms.

The minister held a meeting with the IERU of the finance division. During the meeting, Dar said the government was making efforts to improve economic conditions and the IERU would have to strengthen further its capacity to contribute towards implementation of economic reforms in this regard.

The finance secretary, senior officers of the Finance Division, director general (IERU) and IERU officers participated in the meeting.

Dr Khaqan Hassan Najeeb, the DG IERU apprised the minister about the current work being done at the unit.

The minister said that the IERU had been facilitating economic reforms in the areas of investment climate improvement, energy sector, public sector enterprises and regulatory reforms along with providing overall policy support to finance minister’s office, finance division and other ministries and divisions.

Dar appreciated the performance of IERU and desired regular briefings to review progress of key reforms and implementation of economic decisions. He praised the establishment of ‘One Stop Shop’ for business registration, development of investment climate improvement plan, facilitation for energy sector reforms and research on regulatory governance issues.

He also appreciated the strength of IERU team and their support to strengthening the structural reform agenda locally as well as with international partners. He emphasized that the IERU was playing a pivotal role in implementation of economic reform agenda of the government.

SME sector asked to focus on value addition KARACHI PPI

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has advised the SME sector to focus on value addition to overcome the set back caused due to demand supply cycles in commodities. UNISAME urged the govt to roll up its sleeves to overcome the challenges as it expects very important changes in 2015 due to strategy adopted by the oil producing countries vis-a-vis one another and consequently affecting the economies of the countries and their financial turmoils.In the bargain Pakistan and other countries will be affected and need to fore plan.

President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said the SME sector is facing lack of demand from overseas customers due to the fall in prices of commodities. The buyers are holding back orders due to uncertainty and expecting the prices to fall further. The demand

supply position is causing uncertainty in the commodity market and the overall buying of commodities is affected. To overcome the situation UNISAME has advised the entrepreneurs to focus on value addition and instead of exporting produce items to add value to them and export value added products.

For example he said instead of exporting wheat they should export flour and instead of exporting cotton they should export fabric likewise in each and every produce item the entrepreneurs need to add value. UNISAME has announced a list of items of vegetables, fruits, grains and dry fruits, cotton, leather and even dairy products and livestock where forced selling could be avoided and holding back and selling with value addition recommended.

The SME sector can play a very important role in value addition and the government needs to recognize the fact and promote the sector and prepare it for the challenge.

Master Wind Energy to set up 49.50 MW power project at Jhimpir KARACHI: M/s Master Wind Energy Limited (MWEL), a subsidiary of Master Group, has secured a letter of intent (LOI) from Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) for the development of 49.50 MW wind power project in Jhampir, district Thatta under policy for the development of renewable energy for power generation 2006. M/s MWEL has received the generation license and tariff from NEPRA under upfront tariff regime. M/s MWEL has finalised the Energy Purchase Agreement (EPA) with Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA). The implementation agreement (IA) to be signed between AEDB and M/s MWEL has been finalised and AEDB will sign the IA with M/s MWEL. The project is expected to achieve financial close by 31 March 2015 and commercial operation by September 2016. The estimated project cost of 49.50 MW M/s MWEL project is US $ 125 million. It will be spread over 1408 acres of land.

The financing structure of project is 75% debt and 25% equity. The project is financed by OPIC and consortium of local banks. INP

LUMS, Nestlé celebrate success of agribusiness management course LAHoRe: Executive Certificate in Agribusiness Management (ECAM) - a programme offered by the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in collaboration with Nestlé Pakistan marked the completion of a successful first year with a certificate distribution ceremony. The first batch of participants of the year-long modular certificate programme included executives from industries including dairy, fertilizers, livestock, exports and processing as well as farmers. According to a World Bank report, national average yields of major crops like wheat and rice in Pakistan are only 55% of progressive farmer yields, the highest achievable yields in the country. PPI

Work on expansion of two roads will start soon: minister ABBoTTABAD: Provincial Minister for Information and Higher Education Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani has said that at least 13 new projects including mega project of Abbottabad bye- pass road and expansion of Muree-Abbottabad road will be started in current fiscal year in Abbottabad district. He said this while addressing as chief guest at the oath-taking ceremony of Al-Sheikh Welfare Society and later a reception arranged by the residents of Ward No 12 on Sunday. He said the PTI-led govt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was setting a unique example of good governance for which fool-proof mechanism was developed for the execution of development schemes and projects as they feel accountable to the masses and would never allow any one to waste the money of the poor people in haste. He said the PTI govt was not going to compromise on the quality of the work and had asked the people to be vigilant to monitor the schemes and projects. PPI

Punjab governor awards UIG for CSR services LAHoRe: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has awarded United International Group (UIG) for its outstanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) services and expressed his satisfaction over the direction of economic policies.

The award distribution ceremony was held at a Royal Palm Golf and Country Club on Sunday during which Chaudhry Sarwar lauded UIG for its services to humanity and for promoting Islamic insurance model. He asked the businessmen to keep serving the country while educating masses to overcome budget deficit and unemployment besides urging business community to assist the government through concrete proposals on economic matters and taxation etc so that the system could be improved which is imperative for economic development. INP

BISP TO LAUNCH PVI FOR TRACKING AMOUNT TO BENEFICIARIES ISLAMABAD APP

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) will launch payment verification interface (PVI) from next fiscal year for tracking of amount transferred to the beneficiaries. An official of BISP said the project was currently under

test run and it would take four to five months for this process, adding that after thoroughly checking this system, it would be formally applicable from the start of next fiscal year.

This PVI will enable the BISP management to monitor the flow of cash transfer and the trends of utilization of the disbursements

by the beneficiaries, he told APP. “Basically it is a software which would track transfer of amount from the finance ministry to BISP and then to bank accounts of beneficiaries till reaching to the hands of end users,” he informed. It will not only act as a control against corrupt practices, but also point out the delays in the cash transfer. The

availability of current and up-todate data would help the administration in many ways, he said.

The official informed that the initiative had been taken to make the cash transfer system online. It would ensure transparency by keeping track of the entire amount, he added. It would also assist in keeping track of all the registered

beneficiaries and the date-wise release and withdrawal of the disbursements. The information will be displayed on each level from regions, divisions and up to tehsils/talukas, he added. BISP is a social safety net programme launched in July 2008 with an immediate objective of benefiting the poorest of the poor, particularly

women. Since its inception, BISP has grown rapidly and is now the largest poverty alleviation programme in Pakistan. The cash transfer amount is raised by the current government from Rs 1,000 per month to Rs 1,500 per month to each beneficiary which is provided on quarterly basis amounting to Rs 4,500 per quarter.

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You may be running around in circles as you go from one activity to another today, even if you intend to finish everything you start. Your plan is to complete each job, but you're easily distracted by.

You are eagerly anticipating the rising energy of the day, but a bit of unexpected turbulence can make it tricky to surf the incoming cosmic waves. Instead of complaining about the intensity of the rough.

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You're so intensely focused on maintaining harmony in your relationships now that it's challenging to see what's around the next corner. But even if you attempt to ignore your current feelings of uncertainty,

Playing other people's games according to their arbitrary rules was acceptable for a while, but you are driven to add your critical opinion to the situation now. Your friends might expect you to continue.

It could take several more days for relationship dynamics to settle down, so it still makes sense to stir up the energy now to see where it goes. Conflicts that escalate today are symptoms of deeper material.

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Your emotions are very close to the surface today as the reflective Moon returns to your sign.

Nevertheless, turning feelings into decisive action is a daunting task. Your moods shift often and every single.

Gently floating downstream in the flow of your feelings sounds idyllic today, but each time you begin to get comfortable, practical thoughts wake you from your pleasant reverie. You may grow increasingly.

You might actually think your current solution to a lingering problem is a fair and sensible one. However, it's not very wise to move too quickly today, for you could change your mind a few more times.

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Although you desperately want to excel at your current efforts, you don't have to do it at someone else's expense. The Moon's shift into your 10th House of Status demands that you consider the needs of.

You could come across with more confidence than you actually feel now that the calculating Capricorn Sun forms an imbalanced alignment with effusive Jupiter.

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OBILE phone users in the country have exchanged a startling 301.7 billion SMS messages during one year (July 2013 to June 2014). This means the subscribers exchanged around 800 million text messages per day.

A comparison of last two years have showed that total SMS traffic during Fiscal Year 2014 decreased five per cent as compared to what we had in 2013, showing that mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Viber, Line and Facebook are making an impact.

Similarly, an average SMS per cellular subscriber in a month also reduced to 180 as compared to 214 last year.

According to stats the rising trend of smartphones coupled with increased use of mobile internet, Over the Top (OTT) and social media applications have reduced the dependency on traditional communication modes (voice and SMS) into reduced number of SMS exchanges over cellular mobile networks.

It is only the matter of time that voice and SMS revenues are going to get a serious hit and to get replaced by data revenues.

Clearly it is the time now that cellular operators need to start drawing their future strategies around data services.

China travellers open emergency exits to protest flight delay

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Upset by a delayed flight, at least two Chinese passengers decided to open emergency exit doors in protest as the plane was taxiing, forcing it to abort takeoff and landing them in jail instead, police said Sunday.

The latest in a growing number of air rage cases involving Chinese travellers happened in the early hours of Saturday morning in the southwestern city of Chengdu, after the China Eastern flight was delayed by a snow storm.

Angry passengers complained about

the delay and a lack of ventilation, and a man surnamed Zhou opened three emergency exits to prevent the plane from taking off, forcing it to return to the gate, according to state broadcaster China Central Television. A total of 25 passengers — all part of a single tour group — were held for questioning while the rest continued on to Beijing aboard a separate flight.

Kunming police said in an online statement that Zhou and a tour guide named Li have been placed under 15day “administrative detention” for opening the doors and inciting passengers with false information. The plane’s

ventilation system had been turned off for 30 minutes during de-icing work to prevent fumes from entering the cabin, China Eastern maintenance engineer Zhu Yun told CCTV. Although the copilot had been dispatched to explain, passengers remained irate even after the plane left the gate, reports said.

“Opening those doors was extremely dangerous because there was nothing to protect passengers from the force of the engines,” Zhu said. China’s fast growing air travel market is the world’s second biggest, but heavy traffic and tight military control of airspace have given it the world’s worst record for flight delays.

China’s National Tourism Administration said it fully supported the police action and said it had ordered its Beijing and Kunming offices to carry out further investigations, suggesting more passengers could be implicated.

The names of all those found to have been involved would be placed on a “national uncivilized traveller record,” to be distributed to travel related businesses around the country, administration spokesman Zhang Jilin said in a statement. Names can remain on such lists for up to 18 months, during which travel agencies can decide whether or not to accept listed travellers.

ScientiStS diScover what triggerS aggreSSive ‘triple-negative breaSt cancer ‘ COURTESY MAIL ONLINE Scientists have discovered what triggers one of the most deadly types of breast cancer, raising hopes of new treatments for it. They have pinpointed a gene that drives triple-negative breast cancer – an especially fast-growing and hard-to-treat form of the disease. It accounts for up to one in five cases of breast cancer and is particularly likely to strike women when they are still in their 20s and 30s.

Breast cancer drugs from the goldstandard treatment tamoxifen to ‘wonder drug’ Herceptin are useless against it and it has a worse prognosis than other forms of the disease. The breakthrough, spearheaded by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, brings hope of new treatments.

The study of breast cancers from almost 3,000 women revealed a gene called BCL11A to be particularly active in triplenegative tumours. Women with the gene had cancer that was more advanced.

And extra copies of the gene cut a woman’s survival chances, the journal Nature Communications reports.

Experiments on mice confirmed the gene’s importance. For instance, animals destined to develop breast cancer remained free of the disease when the gene was inactivated.

And ‘turning down’ the gene in cells made them less cancerous. Triple-negative breast cancer tends to be more aggressive than other types of breast cancer. Studies have shown it is more likely to spread beyond the breast and more likely to recur after treatment. These risks appear to be greatest in the first few years after treatment. Researcher Professor Carlos Caldas said: ‘This exciting result identifies a novel breast cancer gene in some of the more difficult-to-treat cases.’ Dr Emma Smith, of Cancer Research UK, said: ‘Figuring out the genes that play a role in triple negative breast cancer could lead to new ways to tackle the disease. ‘This study is a promising step forward.

‘But these results are from cells grown in the lab and studies in mice, so they’re still at an early stage. ‘The next steps will be finding out if the gene plays the same role in causing breast cancer in women, and whether drugs can be developed to target the faulty molecules. ‘Triple-negative breast cancer can be challenging to treat, so research into the biology of the disease is vital to help scientists come up with new treatments.’ This type of cancer tends to be more aggressive than other types of breast cancer.

JE SUIS FACEBOOK? MARK ZUCKERBERG’S POST RAISES FREE SPEECH QUESTIONS COURTEYS NBC NEWS In the wake of the terrorist attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, “Je Suis Charlie” has become a rallying cry in support of free speech. It’s printed along the bottom of Apple’s French-language website . On Twitter, 3.4 million tweets in 24 hours included the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie . It has also become popular on Facebook, where #JeSuisCharlie ended a message from the service’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

“Facebook has always been a place where people across the world share their views and ideas. We follow the laws in each country, but we never let one country or group of people dictate what people can share across the world.Yet as I reflect on yesterday’s attack and my own experience with extremism, this is what we all need to reject — a group of extremists trying to silence the voices and opinions of everyone else around the world.I won’t let that happen on Facebook,” he wrote on his official account on Facebook on January 9.

His post has garnered more than 400,000 “Likes.” But not everybody agrees that Facebook never lets “one country or group of people dictate what people can share across the world,” as Zuckerberg put it. That includes some

people who commented under Zuckerberg’s post, many of whom listed their location as in Pakistan or the Middle East.

“I’m not being ‘another extremist’ from Pakistan, but there should be proper guidelines as to what is appropriate and what’s not,” wrote a Facebook user ‘Tashfeen Ahmed’ based in Lahore. It also includes Jillian York, director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “When Mark Zuckerberg says that, he doesn’t mean it,” York told NBC News from Berlin. “I don’t think Facebook stands for free speech at all.”

She pointed specifically to Pakistan.

As a result of government requests, Facebook removed 1,773 pieces of content in Pakistan in the first half of 2014, according to the company’s most recent transparency report . That trails only India and Turkey, where 4,960 and 1,893 pieces of content were removed, respectively, in the same time period.

Facebook declined to comment for this story. On government requests, Facebook has said it only complies with them after a “thorough legal analysis.” But many requests don’t involve governments — instead, content is removed when users flag it with the “Report post” button. What actually gets removed can be confusing.

In 2013, Facebook vacillated between banning videos of graphic beheadings and allowing them as free speech. Everyone from ISIS to Mexican drug cartels now use social media to get their message out to the world. Facebook does not allow anyone with a “record of terrorist or violent criminal activity” to maintain a profile, but it can be hard to determine whether someone is part of a terrorist organization. Hate speech, threats of vio-

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lence and bullying are all banned , but some of those areas become gray when users talk about politics.

York and some of the users who commented on Zuckerberg’s post accuse Facebook’s moderator of being quicker to ban politically charged posts from Pakistan and Palestine than those from the U.S. and Europe. Of course, monitoring posts for all of these factors is a Herculean task. The fact that Facebook is approaching it with a sense of idealism is encouraging to Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis. “I think what Zuckerberg is trying to say is that Facebook is committed to Western notions of freedom of speech,” Richards told NBC News. “I think that is true and laudable.”

Facebook the giant: Many websites take down content people find offensive. Few have the global reach of Facebook, which has 1.35 billion monthly active users. Navigating the choppy waters of “free speech” is tough enough for a newspaper or a Supreme Court justice. For a social network of more than a billion people, it can seem nearly impossible, which might explain Facebook’s occasionally ad-hoc approach to taking down content. “Implementing a pro-speech policy internationally has its

own challenges because — even in the West — there is not a unified legal approach to protecting free speech,” Morgan Weiland, a graduate fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, told NBC News.

If Zuckerberg is committed to free speech, York would like to see Facebook engage in more back and forth with local communities. That includes hiring more moderators who can speak Urdu and Turkish. “I think the English-language moderation is much more consistent than the moderation in other languages,” she said. As for videos that show events like beheadings, warnings that require users to click through to watch should be used instead of taking the videos down, she said. Regardless, Facebook can’t just view itself as another social network.

Companies like Google, Facebook and Apple are reaching near-monopoly status across the globe, Richards said, and that means that they need to play by a different set of rules than those that apply to small Internet startups.

“When these platforms become so big, they have to act like they are bound by something bigger than narrow corporate self-interest,” Richards said. “They should allow raw, unfettered expression, including expression that people find offensive.”

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Blunders Begone! golden gloBes Burnish hollywood crediBility BEVERLY HILLS

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OUR years ago Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais turned his sharp tongue on voters of the awards show, ridiculing them for nominating the poorly reviewed Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie action thriller “The Tourist.” “I haven’t even seen ‘The Tourist.’ Who has? It must be good because it’s nominated,” he deadpanned at the 2011 awards, his last as host.

Those kinds of missteps may be a thing of the past for the Globes’ organizer, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which has become a more respected arbiter in the Hollywood awards season, which kicks off with Sunday’s Globes and ends with the Academy Awards on Feb. 22. “There was a period a few years ago where it seemed like the best thing for a movie in the Oscar race was to lose at the Golden Globes,” said Fandango’s chief correspondent and awards expert, Dave Karger. Take the Coen Brothers thriller “No Country for Old Men” and Kathryn Bigelow’s war drama “The Hurt Locker,” both of which lost out on the Golden Globes best drama accolade but went on to win the Best Picture Oscar in 2007 and 2008, respectively. This year, surreal showbiz satire “Birdman” leads the film nominees with seven nods in the comedy/musical film categories while

coming-of-age tale “Boyhood” has five nominations in the drama film categories.

Both have been warmly received by critics, who have bestowed numerous awards on them already, and both are hotly tipped as Oscar front-runners when nominations are announced next week.

For the most part, this year’s Golden Globe nominees have echoed critical favourites, with “Birdman” star Michael Keaton expected to win for best actor in a comedy/musical, JK Simmons tipped for best supporting actor for “Whiplash,” and Patricia Arquette to take best supporting actress for “Boyhood.”

‘JAW DROPPERS AND UPSETS’ The Golden Globes are voted on by about 90 foreign journalists who are members of the HFPA, with no overlap in the voting bodies of the rest of the major Hollywood awards including the Oscars, which are voted on by members of the film industry. “The Hollywood Foreign Press is very aware of the fact that they’ve been a punching bag to some highbrow critics over the years and I think they’re conscious of trying to change their perception,” Karger said.

In the last three years, Golden Globe winners appear to be extending their success to the Oscars. “The Globes are famous for jaw droppers and upsets that redefine the Oscar race,” said Tom O’Neil, founder of awards tracker Gold Derby.

“Boyhood” could be beaten by civil rights drama “Selma” or World War Two

biopic “The Imitation Game,” O’Neil said, and Jennifer Aniston could snatch best drama actress for “Cake” from overwhelming favourite Julianne Moore for “Still Alice.” “The Golden Globe is really your Oscar audition if you’re in the race,” O’Neil said. “If a star gives the performance of their life up there at the podium, that can hand them the Oscar right there.”

Both Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto delivered stirring speeches when they won best actor and best supporting actor for “Dallas Buyers Club”

at the Golden Globes last year that some have said helped lock in their subsequent Oscar wins.

In the television categories, the Golden Globes have earned a reputation as an early taste-maker, this year favouring shows on cable television and online steaming platforms over broadcast stalwarts. If Netflix’s “House of Cards” wins best TV drama and “Orange is the New Black” or Amazon Studios’ “Transparent” wins best TV comedy, it would be a “watershed moment,” Karger said, defining a new era in television.

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AAMIR KHAN’S ‘PK’ BREAKS ALL RECORDS, GROSSES RS 611 CRORE WORLDWIDE

Amidst all the controversies and hurdles imposed by various religious groups, Aamir Khan’s ‘PK‘ has stood victorious by becoming the highest Bollywood grosser, in India and Internationally. ‘PK’, also starring Anushka Sharma, has grossed Rs 611 crores worldwide. Mr. Perfectionist is in no mood to take the controversies to his head, instead is enjoying the success of the film. Rajkumar Hirani has definitely created magic and hit a six with this one. The movie earned Rs.6.85 crore on the first day of its release in India and Rs.11.58 crore in the opening weekend.

By the end of the third week, the movie had grossed Rs.305.27 crore in the country, according to official sources. B-Towners like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan pitched their voices in support of ‘PK’. The Indian Court also dismissed a plea to delete ‘defamatory’ content in Aamir Khan starrer film PK, as it did not find any offensive content in the movie. . With this and much more still happening with the film, there might be more to come in ‘PK’s’ way.

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Ibne Insha remembered on death anniversary Eminent Urdu poet, humorist, travelogue writer and columnist Sher Muhammad Khan (Ibne Insha) was remembered on his death anniversary on Sunday. His poetry has a distinctive diction, laced with language reminiscent of Amir Khusro in its use of words and construction that is usually heard in the more earthy dialects of the Hindi-Urdu complex of languages, and his forms and poetic style is an influence on generations of young poets. Renowned column writer and poet Jamilud Din Aali termed Ibne Insha unique among the unique - saying his humorous prose

eclipsed his poetry. His style was simple, and unique.

His most famous ghazal ‘Insha Ji Utthoo’ is a modern day classic. His other works include a number of travelogues recorded with a distinguished touch of humour, Aali added. Is Basti Key Ik Koochey Main (Poetry), first edition was published in Aug 1976 and till 2003, 22 more editions have been published. His famous poetry is including Chand Nagar,Dil-eWehshi. Travelogues included Awara Gard Ki Diary,Dunya Gol Hey, Ibne-Batoota Kay Taqub Main,Chaltay Ho To Cheen Ko Chaliye,Nagri

Nagri Phira Musafar. Along with his poetry, he was regarded one of the best humorists of Urdu. His contribution in humour is Khumar e Gandum, Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitaab. First edition was published in July 1971 and till 2003, 33 more editions have been published. Insha remained associated with various governmental services including Radio Pakistan, Ministry of Culture and National Book Centre and also served in the United Nations (UN) for a period.

Ibne Isha died of blood cancer on January 11, 1978 in London. He was buried in Karachi. APP

BRADLEY COOPER TO MAKE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT Actor Bradley Cooper is reportedly eyeing to make his directorial debut with ‘Honeymoon With Harry’, starring himself and Robert De Niro. The film’s story is about a man, whose fiancee dies 2 days before their wedding leaving the lover devastated. He then goes on a trip with her father, who despises him to, scatter the ashes, reported Deadline. Dan Fogelman has written the movie’s screenplay, based on Bart Baker’s novel ‘Honeymoon with Harry’. De Niro and Cooper have worked together on films like ‘Limitless’ and ‘Silver Linings Playbook’. AGENCIES

Hollywood set for Globes after website ‘winner’ glitch LOS ANGELES AGENCIES

Hollywood is holding its breath ahead of Sunday’s Golden Globes, with dark comedy “Birdman” leading the race for awards glory ahead of next month’s allimportant Oscars.

While an eve-of-show computer glitch appeared to suggest two other films could take the top prizes, “Birdman” is still in strong position, earning a string of accolades and other nominations leading up to the Globes. Unusually rainy weather looks set to dampen the arrival of A-listers on the red carpet in Beverly Hills for the Globes, second only to the Oscars in terms of Tinseltown awards buzz. “Birdman,” which stars former “Batman” Michael Keaton as a washedup film actor trying to revive his career on stage, has earned the most nominations with seven.

Coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” and Nazi code-breaking thriller “The Imitation Game” starring Britain’s Benedict Cumberbatch are also hotly tipped to take home trophies with five nods apiece.

British actors feature strongly at the Globes: Cumberbatch and his co-star Keira Knightley are among a batch of British nominees in both the film and television categories. Comic actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be hosting the show for the third straight year at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the festivi-

ties will begin at 5:00 pm (0100 GMT Monday). Some industry experts have highlighted the lack of a clear frontrunner, in contrast to previous years like in 2012, when “The Artist” had a virtual lock on Best Picture prizes straight through to the Oscars.

“It seems like a real toss-up,” Tom Nunan of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television told AFP, adding that actors in this year’s race had all turned in “career-best performances.”

DiD glitch reveal winners?

This year’s crop of nominated movies is heavy on true stories: four of the five Globes best drama contenders are based on real-life events. Among the historical figures featured are British geniuses Stephen Hawking and Alan Turing, and Martin Luther King Jr. In the best musical or comedy category, the widely acclaimed “Birdman” still seems to be the film to beat. The movie also earned nods for best actor for Keaton, best supporting actor (Edward Norton), best supporting actress (Emma Stone) and best director (Mexico’s Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu). Its rivals include Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Disney’s dark musical fairytale romp “Into the Woods,” “Pride” and “St Vincent” On the drama side, the best film contenders are: “Boyhood,” “Foxcatcher,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma” and “The Theory of Everything.” Barely 48

hours before the curtain goes up for the 72nd Globes ceremony, a website glitch appeared to suggest that “Selma” and “Into the Woods” could be set for best film honors. The films were briefly posted on the Globes website as winning the best drama and best musical/comedy film awards, before the captions were taken down, according to industry journal Variety. A spokesman said the films were chosen “randomly” from nominees’ lists as Web technicians fine-tuned the website ahead of the show, and that the captions should not have been live.

Open tv fielD: On the small screen, “Fargo” took the most nominations with five. In the television categories, critics see a free-for-all now that the widely acclaimed “Breaking Bad” is no longer on the air or in the running.

Victories for either “House of Cards” for best drama series and “Orange is the New Black” for best comedy would be sweet for online streaming giant Netflix as it battles the traditional broadcast and cable networks. Unlike the Oscars, which are voted on by some 6,000 industry members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Globes are selected by fewer than 100 journalists from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). But a Globes win can still provide a huge boost for an Oscars campaign. Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday. The Academy Awards will then be held on February 22.

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sangakkara returns to top of test rankings

Gayle and Narine refuse WICB contracts Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine have refused the annual retainer contracts offered to them by the WICB, while it would appear Kieron Pollard wasn’t offered one by the board. The contracts are for the period between October 1 2014 and September 30 2015. Dwayne Bravo, who along with Pollard was left out of West Indies’ squad for the 2015 World Cup, is among the 12 contracted players.

The contracts were approved at a WICB board meeting in Antigua on Saturday.

“Selection for central retainer contracts was done on the basis of player performance in the various formats, with Test cricket being the premier format followed by one-day internationals and twenty20 internationals,” the WICB said in a release.

List of contracted pLayers: Sulieman Benn, Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Jason Holder, Denesh Ramdin, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor SPORTS DESK

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uMAR Sangakkara has reclaimed the top position in the ICC Test Players Rankings, following his double-century in the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, which the hosts won by 193 runs. Though Sri Lanka lost the series 2-0, Sangakkara’s 203 in the first innings of the second Test helped him move up to 909 points in the rankings. Sangakkara managed just 12 runs in total from the other three innings, but it was enough to take him one point clear of AB de Villiers in second place. Sangakkara had earlier topped the run-scoring charts in Tests in 2014, hitting 1438 runs at 71.90, with four hundreds and eight half-centuries.

Kane Williamson, meanwhile, jumped seven places to a career-best seventh place in the rankings after a stellar series in which he ended as the leading run-scorer with 396 runs at an average of 198.

Williamson scored two fifties as well as an unbeaten 242 in the second innings in Wellington, which took him past the 3000-run mark in Test cricket, from just 39 matches. Australia’s Steven Smith, who scored a record-breaking 769 runs in the four-Test series against India, leapfrogged Angelo Mathews to fourth in the rankings, while Virat Kohli moved up three places to

12th after collecting scores of 147 and 46 in the SCG Test and 692 runs in the series overall.

Among the bowlers, Trent Boult was rewarded for his 11 wickets from four innings with a sixth-

placed position in the rankings, nine points adrift of Mitchell Johnson. Dale Steyn still heads the table, with a commanding 79-point lead over second-placed Ryan Harris.

PIETERSEN SACKING ‘UNNECESSARY’: BROAD SPORTS DESK Kevin Pietersen will not have the opportunity to line up against England in Canberra next week, after Chris Rogers was named Mike Hussey’s replacement to captain the Prime Minister’s XI, but he has received some sympathy from a former team-mate over the way his international career ended.

Stuart Broad has described Pietersen’s sacking by the ECB as “unnecessary” and said the issue could have been dealt with differently. However, he could not see a way back for Pietersen, due to the emergence of several talented young batsmen over the last 12 months. “It just became a bit of a media uproar, the whole sacking, it just seemed a bit unnecessary when every other player in the history of the game just gets dropped for poor form,’’ Broad told BBC Radio 5 Live. “His form was pretty poor over 18 months, but every other player just gets dropped. Obviously Kevin’s very disappointed with that and every player should be disappointed if you’re not going to represent your country again. It could’ve been handled very differently, I think, by everyone.’’

Pietersen was told he would no longer be considered for selection after the disastrous tour of Australia, which saw England whitewashed 5-0 in the Ashes. Although England’s fortunes have been up and down since then, they began the process of rebuilding the Test side with a 3-1 win over India.

Over the course of the Test summer, Joe

Root averaged 97.12 and his Yorkshire teammate Gary Ballance 70.40; Root also made impressive strides as England’s No. 4 in ODIs, scoring three centuries. With young players such as Moeen Ali, Alex Hales and James Taylor pressing their cases in different formats, Pietersen’s England career seems to have been consigned to the past, despite his stated ambitions to return. “The guys who have come in Joe Root, Gary Ballance - have been the shining lights of the England team,” Broad said. “When you lose a great player, younger guys come in and perform, so actually if Kevin Pietersen was still in the side would Joe Root have taken the responsibility on this summer and averaged 99?

Probably not, but he became the shining light of the England batting line-up.’’

England’s difficult 2014 ended with a change of the one-day captaincy and the upcoming tri-series will be the first test for Eoin Morgan in the permanent role. With the World Cup looming, the one-day side must attempt to move on quickly from the removal of Alastair Cook and Morgan’s hand will be strengthened by the return of Broad and James Anderson from injury. On the question of who replaces Cook in the XI, Morgan has confirmed that Ian Bell will be given a chance to re-establish himself at opener, after he was dropped down the order during the summer to accommodate Hales. England’s first tour match will be against an ACT Invitational XI on Monday, one of two warm-up matches before the tri-series opener on Friday.

Warner strikes ‘arrogant’ note for World Cup SPORTS DESK Last time Australia named a World Cup squad, David Warner wasn’t in it. He had been somewhere around the mark, making an ODI team to tour India late in 2010, and at the time made waves within the team and without by suggesting he wanted to emulate Adam Gilchrist. But when Andrew Hilditch named Australia’s 15, Warner was nowhere to be seen. The Twenty20 slugger had difficulty striking a balance between the demands of 20 overs and 50, and more than once looked lost with so much time spanning out ahead of him at the start of an innings.

“I was horrible when I first started,” Warner remembered. “I’ve worked my way into the Test team, scored a lot of runs there doing my job at the top of the order. Got selected again in the one-day stuff and then scored some runs there, so I think it’s just down to maturity and play-

ing the game I know best. “If I’m striking at 80 in Test cricket I don’t need to go any harder in white-ball cricket. That’s a thing I need to keep working on as well. Knowing I don’t have to hit boundaries from ball one. I can really get myself into the innings and I think that’s what I have learned over the last 18-24 months.

“If the ball’s in my area I’m still going to try and take it over the top or hit it through gaps, but you’ve got two brand new white balls so it is quite tough and challenging especially in the first 10 overs. If you get your eye in you can make a lot of runs in those first ten overs but my priority is to try to bat long periods of time.” While Warner is extremely confident about his prospects for the World Cup, citing the fact he has “taken down most” of the world’s bowlers in recent times, his ODI record is somewhat mediocre when lined up against a burgeoning Test aggregate and spring-loaded T20 game. Just 1539 runs

in 50 matches at 31.40 and a strike rate of 83.50. Those numbers would say Warner is no Shane Watson, Aaron Finch nor even George Bailey.

“There’s no bowler in the world that I’m scared of,” Warner said. “I’ll be arrogant and say I have taken most of them down. Dale Steyn is a very good one-day bowler, a very good Twenty20 bowler, and he is one bowler I try and take on because I know if I don’t take him on then he can really take it to us. “Someone who can swing the ball is quite hard to go after. That’s where if you can really knuckle down and be there at the end it can work in your favour because the ball is not going to be swinging much.” One reason Warner has not accumulated the sort of ODI ledger one might have imagined is continuity, or a lack thereof. He has often been rested from limited-overs assignments, whether it be the high-scoring tour of India in 2013 or last year’s venture to Zimbabwe.

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Lyon thwarted by fieLding restrictions One fielder was the difference between Xavier Doherty and Nathan Lyon - the extra boundary rider removed from the shot locker of international captains in October 2012 - in the World Cup deliberations of Australia’s selectors. The national selector Rod Marsh and his colleagues Darren Lehmann, Trevor Hohns and Mark Waugh, effectively concluded that their leading Test spinner Lyon was not up to the task of bowling with only four run-saving men shielding the boundaries. In the same breath they decided that Doherty was capable of doing so, in concert with his state captain George Bailey. Marsh also offered up the old argument that spinners need contrasts. The allrounder Glenn Maxwell’s place in the squad has often precluded Lyon from greater opportunity in limited-overs matches, and as a left-arm spinner it is thought that Doherty will pose different questions for the batsmen. SPORTS DESK

Clarke given February 21 World Cup deadline Michael Clarke admits he has his “work cut out” to make the deadline set by the national selectors to prove he his fitness after hamstring surgery, and accepts that he will be a spectator for Australia’s World Cup campaign if he does not. Clarke has until Australia’s second World Cup match against Bangladesh on February 21 to demonstrate his readiness. Named to lead Australia’s 15man squad, Clarke will be replaced in the group if he has not fully recovered by that time. George Bailey has been retained as Clarke’s deputy and the man who will captain the side should Clarke be ruled out, despite the rise of Steven Smith to the Test vice-captaincy. “We want to be settled - what we don’t want is talk about people’s fitness,” Marsh said. “We want to walk into that tournament and we reckon there’s an extra week after the 14th, that Bangladesh game is on the 21st and by the 21st of February we want to be completely and utterly settled. aUstraLia’s WorLd cUp sQUad: Michael Clarke (capt), George Bailey (vice-capt), David Warner, Aaron Finch, Shane Watson, Steven Smith, Brad Haddin (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins, Xavier Doherty. SPORTS DESK

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inter cLaim first home win since mancini’s return Inter Milan gave coach Roberto Mancini his first home Serie A win since his return to the club in November when they beat fading Genoa 3-1 on Sunday. Inter, stuck in an uncomfortable midtable position, took a 2-0 halftime lead through Argentine strikers Rodrigo Palacio and Mauro Icardi. Palacio gave them an early breakthrough when he snapped up a rebound after Mattia Perin parried Icardi’s volley, then Icardi scored with a glancing header for his tenth league goal of the season. Genoa, who have taken only one point from their last five games since reaching a dizzying third place, pulled one back through Armando Izzo in the 85th minute. However, former Manchester united defender Nemanja Vidic wrapped up the win when he headed Inter’s third from a corner three minutes later, the Serb’s first goal since joining the club at the start of the season. SPORTS DESK

ANDERSON BEATS HIS AGGRESSIVE INSTINCTS Corey Anderson may have risen to global attention for his world-record fastest century last January, but he had to rein in those natural instincts as he composed a match-winning 81 from 96 balls against Sri Lanka, Anderson said. New Zealand were 101 for 5, chasing 219 for victory when Anderson struck up partnerships with Luke Ronchi, then Nathan McCullum, to take New Zealand to within 10 runs of the win. Self-restraint did not come easy to him, Anderson said. “You know you’ve got something that a lot of guys don’t have - you know you can almost start playing aggressively from ball one. To try and pull that in, look at what the scoreboard is saying, and look at what the guys around you have done, all takes a little bit of time. I guess I’m still finding my way in the international scene as well. I haven’t played a lot of games, but an innings like that does a lot for me.” Anderson’s 131 not out off 47 balls last January had earned him a reputation as one of the most explosive young batsmen in the world, and the innings that followed that had also been highoctane affairs, including the 68 not out off 40 balls against India. However, this match required him to stray from the style of play now expected from him, he said. “I’ve had plenty of chats with Brendon McCullum and Ross Taylor and others, about playing these sorts of innings. When you have an innings like I did last year, you tend to think you’ve got to play that out all the time. That’s what people expect. I think it’s more about taking your ego out of it. Brendon said he suffered a bit from it when he played an explosive innings it at the IPL curtain-raiser. It’s nice to have those guys about me who have been through it.

To have played a more mature innings when it was needed was pleasing.” SPORTS DESK

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N aggressive Stanislas Wawrinka won his third Chennai Open title on Sunday beating qualifier Aljaz Bedene in the final for a perfect build-up to his Australian Open title defence later this month.

The world number four, winner in 2011 and last year, hardly broke sweat against his Slovenian opponent for a 6-3 6-4 victory.

“It’s just amazing to win it again, to start the year with a trophy,” the 29-year-old Swiss, in his seventh straight year in the south Indian city, said in a courtside interview.

In a match between opponents who had split their previous two encounters, Wawrinka drew first blood in the sixth game, breaking Bedene before going on to seal the first set.

In the second set, Wawrinka converted a second break point to forge 4-3 ahead and eventually clinched title without losing a set in the tournament which bodes well for his Australian Open campaign.

“It would be a strange feeling to come back as the defending champion in a grand slam,” he said the of the year’s first major starting on Jan. 19.

“First I’m going to enjoy a little bit (winning) this trophy. It’s not every week that you win a trophy.”

Bedene was the first qualifier in the 20-year history of the tournament to reach the final, winning seven matches en route to his maiden ATP Tour final.

Narine picked for World Cup

SPORTS DESK Sunil Narine returns to international cricket next month after being named in the 15-man World Cup squad which includes five allrounders, three specialist batsmen, four fast bowlers, two spinners and a wicketkeeper. Jason Holder, named captain for the South Africa ODI series, retains the position and as reported on Thursday, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard have been left out by the Clive Lloyd-led selection panel.

Also making a comeback is Darren Bravo, who had opted out of the Test series for personal reasons and wasn’t part of the ODIs scheduled to follow. Fast bowler Kemar Roach, who suffered an ankle injury in the

Centurion Test and had to return home, finds a place in the 15 as well.

“I believe we have selected a very good team which will do West Indies proud at the World Cup,” Lloyd said via a WICB media release. “We have a good mixture of some good seasoned players and some good youngsters who will fly the West Indies flag in Australia and New Zealand.

“If they play to their potential I am quite sure we will do very well. I have really high hopes in this team - I believe they can do something special. We have the talent and if we can play to our potential we have a very good chance of lifting that trophy.”

Narine’s return will come as the greatest boost for West Indies. A

proven match-winner, he was ranked No. 2 on the ODI and T20 rankings when his action was reported as suspect in successive matches during the Champions League Twenty20 last September. Consequently, Narine missed out on playing in the final for Kolkata Knight Riders, who lost to Chennai Super Kings.

Although Narine’s citation in the CLT20 did not impact his chances of bowling in international cricket - he was only suspended from doing so in BCCI-organised tournaments - Lloyd had expressed annoyance at the scrutiny when West Indies arrived in India last October and withdrew Narine from that tour, which was cut short once the West Indies players pulled out after the fourth ODI owing to contractual disputes. According to WICB, Narine had opted to rehabilitate himself and considering that he has been picked, the selectors must be confident that he has made the necessary adjustments. It would be Narine’s first time at a World Cup as he made his ODI debut in December 2011.

West indies sQUad Jason Holder (captain), Marlon Samuels, Sulieman Benn, Darren Bravo, Jonathan Carter, Sheldon Cottrell, Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith, Jerome Taylor IN: Darren Bravo, Sunil Narine, Kemar Roach OuT: Carlos Brathwaite, Narsingh Deonarine, Leon Johnson

Darts: Chairs thrown as violence breaks out at Australian tournament sydney: Chairs were thrown and tables were stomped on as violence broke out at a international darts competition in Melbourne, with spectators describing chaotic scenes of people being bodyslammed into furniture while others urinated on the floor. Audience members at the Darts Invitational Challenge told local media the violence started when some people in the crowd, many in fancy dress, tried to build a pyramid out of chairs late Saturday night.

Video footage posted on social media showed plastic chairs and some tables being thrown towards a growing pile of furniture in the midst of the audience. “There were entire rows basically demolished, chairs being put on piles and tables started getting involved,” witness Andrew Portbury told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“People were diving on top of the tables and it just became this huge mess very, very quickly.” Organisers said they brought forward a scheduled break in play so that the stadium security and Victorian police could deal with the crowd. Police said they were called to the stadium after receiving reports of the chair pyramid being built. AGENCIES

HAZLEWOOD AND STARC TAKE STRIDES

Asif for promoting hockey at grass root level SIALKOT STAFF REPORT

Minister for Defence, Water and Power Khawaja Asif has stressed the need for making all out efforts to promote hockey in Pakistan at grass root level.

Addressing the prize distribution ceremony at Nawaz Sharif Hockey Stadium on Sunday, after the final match of 61st National Hockey Championship played between the PIA and Wapda, he said that there was immense talent in Pakistan, however, it was the need to explore, polish, encourage and promote this natural talent of the hockey players. He assured that the government would encourage and patronise hockey at every level helping Pakistan to attain its glory in this game. He hoped that future of hockey would be bright in Pakistan at every level. He lauded the performance of Pakistan Hockey Team against India, and assured full cooperation by the government in promotion of hockey. pia stUn Wapda to cLincH 61st pso nationaL HocKey cHaMpionsHip titLe: Earlier, he distributed cash prizes of Rs 50,000 to the winner team of PIA, Rs 30,000 to the runner up Wapda team, besides, giving Rs 20,000 to the NBP team for securing third position in the national hockey champi-

onship. Hammad Butt was adjudged the best player of the tournament and a reward of Rs 10,000 was given him. MPAs Chaudhry Muhammad Ikram, Manshaullah Butt, Sialkot DCO Nadeem Sarwar, Pakistan

Hockey Federation (PHF) Secretary Rana Mujahid, PHF Coach Shehnaz Sheikh, Asif Bajwa, Olympian Nasir Ali and a large number of Sialkot exporters and hockey lovers were also present on the occasion.

Australia had to settle for a draw in the Sydney Test, but the sight of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood hooping the reverseswinging Kookaburra around late on day five was an encouraging one for the future.

In the absence of the injured Mitchell Johnson, and with Ryan Harris tiring at the end of a series, much was required of Starc and Hazlewood. Both men are 24 and together with others such as James Pattinson and Pat Cummins, will form Australia’s pace core over the coming decade. Both men were also named in Australia’s 15-man World Cup squad on Sunday and will now turn their attention to the white-ball game for the triseries against England and India. Hazlewood has started his international career in both formats especially well, SPORTS DESK

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rI Lanka discovered that at Hagley Oval what goes for New Zealand’s Test team goes for their ODI outfit as well: the hosts’ seamers are deadly dangerous in the early overs, and while the New Zealand top order is daunting, their lower-middle order can turn matches on their own too. Brendon McCullum’s fast bowlers made Sri Lanka regret choosing to bat on a pitch sporting grass, reducing the visitors to 82 for 4 in the 23rd over. Mahela Jayawardene held the bones of a lethargic batting effort together with his masterful

104 off 107 balls, but a total of 218 always seemed at least 30 runs too light.

Then, although Sri Lanka had New Zealand by the collar when the chase slipped to 101 for 5, Corey Anderson showed he had composure to go with his cow-corner clubs. He composed a steady 81 off 96 balls, enlisting the help of Luke ronchi and Nathan McCullum to take his side to within 10 runs of victory. Anderson’s dismissal made for some late jitters, but the hosts got home with seven overs and three wickets unused to take a 1-0 lead in the series. While New Zealand lost four top-order wickets for 38 runs, at no stage were they under pressure to score quickly

Sri Lanka FDM karunaratne Lbw b MiLne 5 19 tM DiLShan St †ronchi b nL MccuLLuM 4 kc Sangakkara c wiLLiaMSon b MiLne DPMD JayawarDene c anDerSon b MccLenaghan 104 15 aD MathewS run out (bb MccuLLuM/†ronchi) hDrL thiriManne c wiLLiaMSon b MccLenaghan 23 bMaJ MenDiS c bb MccuLLuM b MccLenaghan 23 0 nLtc Perera c †ronchi b MccLenaghan kMDn kuLaSekara not out 6 SMSM Senanayake c †ronchi b anDerSon 7 rMS eranga not out 5 extraS (w 7) 7 totaL (9 wicketS; 50 overS; 214 MinS) 218 Fall of wickets 1-10 (karunaratne, 3.2 ov), 2-16 (Sangakkara, 7.2 ov), 3-51 (Dilshan, 14.3 ov), 4-82 (Mathews, 22.5 ov), 5-155 (thirimanne, 39.2 ov), 6-200 (Mendis, 46.2 ov), 7-200 (Jayawardene, 46.4 ov), 8-200 (Perera, 46.5 ov), 9-213 (Senanayake, 49.2 ov) bowLing: ta boult 10-1-46-0, aF Milne 10-1-37-2, MJ Mcclenaghan 10-1-36-4, cJ anderson 10-0-61-1, nL Mccullum 10-1-38-1 new ZeaLanD 0 MJ guPtiLL c DiLShan b kuLaSekara 51 bb MccuLLuM St †Sangakkara b Senanayake

kS wiLLiaMSon c JayawarDene b Senanayake 15 twM LathaM St †Sangakkara b DiLShan 15 1 gD eLLiott b kuLaSekara 81 cJ anDerSon Lbw b DiLShan L ronchi c MathewS b eranga 17 25 nL MccuLLuM not out aF MiLne not out 7 extraS (Lb 5, w 2) 7 219 totaL (7 wicketS; 43 overS; 186 MinS) Did not bat MJ Mcclenaghan, ta boult Fall of wickets 1-0 (guptill, 0.3 ov), 2-63 (bb Mccullum, 6.4 ov), 3-76 (williamson, 10.1 ov), 4-77 (elliott, 11.1 ov), 5-101 (Latham, 18.3 ov), 6-149 (ronchi, 26.4 ov), 7-209 (anderson, 40.2 ov) bowLing: kMDn kulasekara 10-1-43-2, rMS eranga 6-0-49-1, SMSM Senanayake 10-0-43-2, aD Mathews 2-0-17-0, tM Dilshan 7-0-28-2, nLtc Perera 7-0-29-0, bMaJ Mendis 1-0-5-0 Match DetaiLS: toSS Sri Lanka, who choSe to bat SerieS new ZeaLanD LeD the 7-Match SerieS 1-0 PLayer oF the Match cJ anDerSon (new ZeaLanD) uMPireS cb gaFFaney anD nJ LLong (engLanD) tv uMPire iJ gouLD (engLanD) Match reFeree J Srinath (inDia) reServe uMPire bF bowDen

- partly because Sri Lanka had made so few, but also thanks to McCullum’s 22ball 51 to kick off the chase. He smote three sixes and six fours in his in all, targeting the square boundaries in particular.

McCullum was also fond of launching the offspin of Sachithra Senanayaka down the ground and equalled his and ross Taylor’s record for fastest New Zealand fifty, when he deposited Senanayake high over longon off the 19th ball he faced.

McCullum, though, fell on his sword in the same over as Senanayake continued to flight the ball, made it dip and turn sharply to have the New Zealand captain stumped. Tom Latham and Kane Williamson were undone by spin too, and Grant Elliott was bowled by a Nuwan Kulasekara indipper, but Anderson worked his way steadily into the innings. Playing out plenty of dot balls before attempting to even begin collecting the singles, he slammed Kulasekara through cover to collect his first boundary off his 17th ball. He remained choosy with the expansive strokes and the heave across the line that sent Thisara Perera to the boundary, or the mighty pull off Shaminda Eranga that deposited the ball into the crowd were in contrast to the risk-

free innings Anderson strove to play.

Anderson added 48 runs for the sixth wicket with ronchi and an additional 60 more with Nathan McCullum. Neither of his sidekicks looked comfortable at the crease, but they did enough to support a largely-secure Anderson. Nathan McCullum remained unbeaten on 25, hitting the winning run with Adam Milne at the other end. It was fitting that Milne was at the crease to see the match won, because it had been he who cut the Sri Lanka top order open in the morning. He bent the ball in to strike Dimuth Karunaratne’s front pad in the fourth over, then dismissed Kumar Sangakkara in the eighth, as his full, seaming delivery collected the outside edge and flew to point. Milne occasionally pipped 150kph on the speed gun, but it was the movement he gleaned off the seam that made him threatening. Those early gains were not squandered by New Zealand, who were rarely loose with the ball, and kept attacking fields to every batsman throughout the game. Mitchell McClenaghan began a little waywardly, but was quickly hitting the back-of-a-length that Sri Lanka’s batsmen found difficult to score off, and he and Nathan McCullum controlled the run rate through the middle overs.

PakistaN haNdball federal fiNed $40,000 for NoN-issuaNce of visas to iNdia Players LahOrE AGENCIES Pakistan Handball Federation has been fined US dollar $40,000 for non-issuance of visas to Indian players during an event which was organised in December 2014, local media reported on Sunday. Hefty fine of $40,000 was imposed on Pakistan Handball Federation over non-issuance of visas to Indian players prepared to take part in an international event organised in December 2014 in Faisalabad, reports said.

President Lieutenant General (Retd) Syed Arif Hasan told local media that Indian team was invited in the Faisalabad’s event of International Handball Federation Challenge Trophy. Hasan said that an investigation should be started into nonissuance of visa to Indian players despite committments. He said that $15,800 out of full fine $40,000 was imposed on Indian team. It is noteworthy to mention here that Pakistan had won title of the International Handball Federation Challenge Trophy on December 8 by defeating Yemen in final match played at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF).

Misbah-ul-Haq to GAYLE LEADS retire from ODIs WEST INDIES IN after World Cup RECORD CHASE

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Pakistan’s Test and ODI captain Misbahul-Haq has formally informed the PCB that he will stop playing the 50-over format after the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

A top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) told PTI without wanting to be named that Misbah had conveyed to the board chairman that he would like to announce his retirement from ODIs through the board and not individually.

“Unlike Shahid Afridi who went ahead and announced he would retire from oneday internationals after the World Cup Misbah has said he would like to do it

through the board,” the official said.

He said Misbah had said he wanted to continue playing Tests but not 50 overs cricket. “He is keen to lead Pakistan in the Test series against Sri Lanka, England and India this year,” the official disclosed.

Misbah has been Pakistan’s Test captain since late 2010 and the ODI captain since mid-2011.

He stated that due to Misbah’s decision the board had already asked the national team head coach Waqar Younis and chief selector Moin Khan to submit a comprehensive post World Cup cricket plan under which appointment of new captains will take place.

“We are now basically looking at appointing a younger captain from amongst the current lot of players,” the official confirmed.

Asked whether another senior player, Younis Khan had also given any indication to the board about his plans after the World Cup, the official said there had been no discussion with Younis on this issue so far.

“But after Misbah and Shahid we expect Younis might also decide to quit ODIs after the mega event,” the PCB official said.

Asked if the PCB felt Misbah would be fit in time for the World Cup, the official said the Pakistan captain was confident and working hard on his rehabilitation process.

“He is also going to take a fitness test tomorrow and even if he is not fit in time for the World Cup than obviously we have other options to lead the team in mind including Shahid Afridi and some others,” the official stated.

Afridi led Pakistan in the last three one-dayers against New Zealand after Misbah suffered a hamstring injury from which he is presently recovering.

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SPOrTS DESK The Wanderers is home to what it calls the greatest ODI of all time - the 438 game - and now it is also home to what could become known as the most thrilling T20: the 236 game. West Indies pulled off the highest successful runchase in the shortest format, propelled

by Chris Gayle’s 90 off 41 balls, held together by Marlon Samuels’ seventh T20 half-century and finished by Darren Sammy, who led his side to a series win with a game to spare. South Africa could be forgiven for being shellshocked. They would have thought their

chances of squaring the series were strong after Faf du Plessis became the second South African to score a T20 hundred, helping them post their second-highest score in the format and with the knowledge they had never lost a T20 defending a 180-plus score before. There was one man who could change that and change it he did. Gayle scored his only international T20 century at the Wanderers - against South Africa in 2007 - and seemed set to bring up his second with a bruising batting performance. He could not quite repeat the feat but his team-mates ensured his efforts did not go to waste.

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South aFrica rr roSSouw c †raMDin b hoLDer 15 Mn van wyk c PoLLarD b benn 4 F Du PLeSSiS c bravo b hoLDer 119 Da MiLLer run out (ruSSeLL) 47 JL ontong c hoLDer b bravo 19 F beharDien not out 8 D wieSe c SMith b bravo 6 kJ abbott run out (†raMDin) 2 extraS (Lb 2, w 7, nb 2) 11 totaL (7 wicketS; 20 overS; 108 MinS) 231 DiD not batM De Lange, iMran tahir, aM PhangiSo FaLL oF wicketS 1-5 (van wyk, 0.5 ov), 2-21 (roSSouw, 2.2 ov), 3-126 (MiLLer, 10.3 ov), 4-156 (ontong, 13.3 ov), 5222 (Du PLeSSiS, 18.6 ov), 6-228 (wieSe, 19.2 ov), 7-231 (abbott, 19.6 ov) bowLing SJ benn 3-0-42-1, SS cottreLL 3-0-47-0, Jo hoLDer 4-040-2, aD ruSSeLL 4-0-39-0, DJ bravo 4-0-32-2, DJg SaMMy 1-0-17-0, ka PoLLarD 1-0-12-0 weSt inDieS Dr SMith Lbw b De Lange 17 ch gayLe c †van wyk b wieSe 90 Mn SaMueLS c beharDien b wieSe 60 ka PoLLarD c beharDien b wieSe 7 aD ruSSeLL c MiLLer b abbott 14 DJ bravo c ontong b PhangiSo 10 DJg SaMMy not out 20 D raMDin not out 7 extraS (b 4, w 7) 11 totaL (6 wicketS; 19.2 overS; 95 MinS) 236 DiD not batJo hoLDer, SJ benn, SS cottreLL FaLL oF wicketS 1-19 (SMith, 1.5 ov), 2-171 (gayLe, 13.4 ov), 3-178 (SaMueLS, 15.1 ov), 4-185 (PoLLarD, 15.5 ov), 5-198 (ruSSeLL, 16.4 ov), 6-209 (bravo, 17.4 ov) bowLing kJ abbott 4-0-68-1, M De Lange 3.2-0-42-1, D wieSe 4-0-433, aM PhangiSo 3-0-33-1, iMran tahir 4-0-29-0, JL ontong 1-0-17-0 Match DetaiLS: toSS - weSt inDieS, who choSe to FieLD SerieS - weSt inDieS LeD the 3-Match SerieS 2-0 PLayer oF the Match - ch gayLe (weSt inDieS) uMPireS - S george anD at hoLDStock tv uMPire - JD cLoete Match reFeree - rS MaDugaLLe (Sri Lanka) reServe uMPire - DJ SMith