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India’s NSA causing acute threat to regional, global peace Ajit Kumar Doval running plan of re-engaging TTP militants by establishing Deash-TTP nexus | Syrian envoy in India confirms Doval having complete data of Daesh militants, provided by Syrian authorities | Doval organized TTP-Daesh meeting in Kandhar last month at Indian Consulate | Doval, deceiving Obama administration, held series of meetings with Daesh warlords in Iraq, Syria, with or without CIA blessings | Indian media confirms Doval’s secret trip to Syria and Iraq, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admits Indian role in financing terror | IPS officers of different state cadres very strongly follow Hindutva ideology after joining spy agencies; develop deep links with RSS | Ajit Doval, B Raman, Sanjeev Tripthi, Alok Joshi, Amitabh Mathur formed unholy nexus to promote Hindutva mission of Akhand Bharat, Hindu supremacy | Raman purposely kept Doval in IB to maintain a deep association for unauthorized projects despite acute professional rivalry of the two spy outlets | Doval, Raman, Tripathi formed Chhota Rajan gang for hall of unauthorized, unsanctioned operations in region and beyond regional ambits | Funds for such unauthorized operations are also generated through underworld gang of Chhota Rajan | Chhota Rajan gang works jointly for RAW and IB while MI is also given its services under Hindutva nexus | US Embassy in India, according to leaked diplomatic cables, confirmed deep links of Doval with Chhota Rajan gang | 1990s Hazrat Bal Shrine episode in IOK was also orchestrated by Doval | It was a Doval Plan under which Foreigners were kidnapped in IOK in 1995 | Gujarat’s anti-Muslim riots were also scripted by Ajit Doval and Sanjeev Tripathi group | Doval, Raman organized hijacking of Indian airliner IC 814 in 1999 to fulfill an infiltration plan | Tripathi, with Doval’s association formed plan to penetrate into Pakistani media and laid down projects like Aman Ki Aasha and SAFMA | Doval’s philosophy of depending more in Human Intelligence helped creating more moles in regional media | Former army Chief VK Singh’s unauthorized Technical Support Division of army was also organized by Doval, Tripathi blessings | China’s Tibet riots of 2008 and constant Xinjiang violence are also result of Doval scripted Hinudtva policies for region By makhdoom BaBar (editor-in-chieF) With inputs From anJali sharma and Bhopinder singh dhillon in neW delhi ( additional reporting

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nDIA’S national Security advisor Ajit Kumar Doval has selected to move on a very deadly path of destruction and devastation not only in the region but across India as well and is leading the

APEC Summit in Beijing set to reshape the future From sandra Johnson Special to The Daily Mail WA S H IngTOn – The forthcoming AsiaPacific economic Cooperat i o n (APeC) Summit, that is being held in Beijing is expected to produce tangible outcomes and achieve greater regional economic integration, says a US expert on Asia affairs.

With the theme of "Shaping the Future through AsiaPacific Partnership," China has laid out several areas to focus on during this year's APeC gathering, including trade and investment integration, innovation, inclusive growth and connectivity.

"These efforts would help promote economic and interconnected development in the region," says Matthew goodman, who holds the William e. Simon Chair in Political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington.

In terms of infrastructure development, goodman said China's proposal of establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is "very understandable," as there are large infrastructure needs in the region and China has great capacity to potentially help bridge the financing gap in the area.

Reviewing APeC's development, goodman said the forum has been a useful "incubator" to create good ideas on trade and integration, and it has also been a useful part of the architecture in the Asia-Pacific region.

APeC should continue to bring diverse economies together to deepen economic integration in the region, and it is useful for the forum to have "a long-term vision like the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP)," he said.

The FTAAP concept was proposed in 2004 and written into the declaration of the APeC economic leaders' meeting in 2006. In February this year, China proposed to launch feasibility study on the subject.

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unholy nexus of Hindu extremists militants with the help of his former IPS colleagues and in a rare move, is reported to has established a special liaison with the militant warlords of Syria and Iraq based Deash ( aka ISIS) and is re-engaging the deeply wounded network of Pakistani Taliban, establishing their nexus with Daesh to put Pakistan in more troubled waters, reveal the Investigations, carried out by The Daily Mail.

According The Daily Mail’s investigation, the recent announcement by, on the run, Pakistani Taliban about supporting Daesh in Syria and Iraq and bid to

motivate Pakistani youth for the purpose has not come merely out of nowhere but in fact it has deep roots with new Delhi. Investigations indicate that India’s national Security Advisor who is also the former Chief of India’s Intelligence Bureau and headed a variety of IB’s foreign operations in the region and even beyond regional ambits, carried out a series of open and secret visits to Iraq and Syria and held meetings with Daesh leadership. Diring these meetings, he proposed them to establish a

Imran, Siraj vow to break ‘status quo’

By Jamshed ullah ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief, Imran Khan and Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer, Sirajul Haq renewed their pledge to fight against corruption and the status quo on Wednesday.

Addressing a joint press conference at Deputy Ameer JI, Mian Aslam's residence, where Imran Khan called on Sirajul Haq to iron out any misunderstandings.

Imran Khan said PTI and JI share similar ideologies and are naturally close to each other. “Leadership of both parties believe that massive rigging during the general elections of 2013, broke all records.” he said.

Khan said, corruption and rigging could not be eliminated from future elections, as long as those involved in such practices are not held accountable and awarded punishments. The PTI Chief added, that instead of verification of ballots in four constituencies, members of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-n were trying to hide behind ‘stay orders’. “They are trying to protect their rigging,” he

alleged. He said a government that comes to power through rigging is never interested in resolving genuine issues faced by the people. “Their policies are only aimed at protecting their personal interests,” he added.

He said PTI’s ongoing sitin will continue till ‘we get justice’. “Qadri is gone but make no mistake we will continue our protest,” Imran Khan asserted. earlier, JI Amir Sirajul Haq said his party supported PTI right from the beginning for its demand for bringing about electoral reforms in the country.

He said respect of the ballot box is indispensable and revolutionary steps are needed

to protect its sanctity. Haq further said that those involved in rigging elections must be brought to justice adding that when rigging takes place there should be a mechanism in place to carry out a transparent probe.

Speaking on PTI's ongoing sit-in, he said, it is government’s responsibility to resolve the issue by re-engaging the stakeholders in talks.

He said, when it comes to holding negotiations with PTI, the government is dilly-dallying. Sirajul Haq criticized the Hasina Wajid-led Bangladesh government for awarding capital punishments to those who stood with the Constitution of Pakistan.

nexus with Pakistani Taliban who are on the run and very deeply require a blanket arrangement like getting tagged with a Daesh like organizations. These investigations further indicate that Ajit Doval flew at different occasions in the last few months to Damascus and used certain elements of Syrian intelligence agencies that had contacts with the ISIS or Daesh, in their private capacities.

It remains a fact that though ISIS had declared war on Syria, there are many State and non-State actors who are

ISI Chief bids farewell call on PM

By Bushra makhdoom ISLAMABAD – Outgoing Director-general of the InterServices Intelligence (ISI) Ltgen Zaheerul Islam met with President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister nawaz Sharif on Wednesday.

During the meeting with nawaz Sharif at the Prime Minister House, the premier praised Zaheerul Islam's efforts and services in relation to counter-terrorism and national security.

The outgoing spy chief, who retires from his post on nov 7, also apprised the premier on professional matters relating to the ISI. nawaz Sharif wished him luck for the future.

In the meeting with President Mamnoon Hussain at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, the president commended the services rendered by the outgoing Dg ISI for defence of the country and for strengthening the intelligence apparatus.

The president wished the outgoing Dg ISI good health, success and happiness in his future life.

Lt gen Rizwan Akhtar, who was named as the new ISI director general, will be taking charge of the position upon Zaheer's retirement.

friends of the dissidents. These State and non State actors were holding old ties with Ajit Doval ever since his joining of the Indian IB. The investigations of The Daily Mail further reveal that Ajit Doval had misused Syrian Ambassador in new Delhi and took a handsome data of Deash activists to establish contacts, under the garb of ensuring the unwitting Ambassador that through this data, Indian government will try to help Syrian government in hunting down Daesh.

In a recent media interview, Syria’s Ambassador to India, Riad Kamel Abbas claimed that his country had vast databas-

es of information on the militant group Daesh (or ISIS), its sponsors and its designs. He admitted that same data was shared with India through India’s national Security Advisor Ajit Doval. .” We have huge information on this group and their sponsors from the region.

“We shared all information with Indian nSA in this fight against terrorism. Some nationals from India's neighboring countries have also joined ISIS and, therefore, could trouble Delhi in future.” Ambassador Raed Kamel said in his interview,

‘Parliament emerges as triumphant’ dm monitoring WASHIngTOn – Pakistan’s parliament is emerging as the main beneficiary of the country’s crisis as the months long protests in Islamabad weaken along with their main target, Prime Minister nawaz Sharif, a report in Wall Street Journal said.

Opposition politician Imran Khan, who continues to lead protests even after the larger contingent drawn by cleric Tahir ul Qadir pulled out last month, accuses the prime minister of rigging the May 2013 election, a charge Mr Sharif rejects. In the initial days of the protest, which began in Islamabad on Aug. 15, Mr. Sharif’s government tottered on the brink of collapse, but later all parliamentary parties except Mr. Khan’s united behind the prime minister.

“This winner is parliament,” said Ijaz gilani, head of the polling organization gallup Pakistan. “never before has the parliament stood up to defend civilian

supremacy and the constitution.”

Since 1958, parliament has been dismissed nine times under the sort of crisis that Mr. Khan provoked, with the military repeatedly citing political division as grounds to shut down the legislature. The difference this time was that all the other opposition parties sided in parliament with the government, seeing Mr. Khan’s demands as undemocratic and backed by undemocratic forces.

As for Mr. Khan, a former cricket star, Mr. gilani’s polling found that the constant airing of his message on Pakistani TV channels hasn’t increased his following. His polls suggests the crisis has solidified existing support for Mr. Khan but turned the opinions of others firmly against him.

In the past, Mr. Khan personally polled favorably even among voters of other parties, offering him a possible opening to convert those voters into supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

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5 militants killed, three troops martyred BARA/KALAYA – At least five persons including three security personnel were killed and 10 others injured in three blasts in Khyber and Orakzai Agencies on Tuesday.

Security sources said that the security personnel were on routine patrol in Zakhakhel Bazaar in tehsil Landi Kotal of Khyber Agency when a roadside bomb went off.

As a result of explosion two security personnel and a member of peace committee died on the spot while another sustained injuries. Another bomb exploded during rescue operation due to which another security personnel was killed and another injured.

The security force detained 10 suspects during search operation in tehsil Jamrud of Khyber Agency.

In another incident, a man was killed and eight others injured in roadside blast in Kalaya area of Lower Orakzai Agency.

The injured of the three blasts were shifted to different hospitals where condition of some was stated to be critical.

The security forces cordoning of the area after all three blasts launched search operations. – Agencies

Red-carpet awaits Premier at Beijing From Jassica Zhang BeIJIng – Prime Minister Mian nawaz Sharif will receive a warm welcome when he arrives here this week to have bilateral talks with Chinese leaders and to attend Asia Pacific economic Cooperation Summit, said Madam Cui Yuying Chinese vice minister for the State Council Information office.

She told a visiting media delegation here today that they are awaiting the visit, hoping it will be another milestone in the development of their bilateral relationship. “We are expecting concert outcome of the visit for deepening our socio-economic partnership".

Madam Cui further said the government and the people of China attached great importance to their relations with Pakistan, and wished these should keep growing to meet the common aspirations of

their people.

We are old friends who are eager to cooperate with each other for promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. She underlined the need of strengthening relationship in information and media sector.

Media, she said could play a key role in enhancing peopleto-people contacts.

Madam Cui hoped that the two governments will pay greater attention to promote interaction and exchanges among the journalists.

She said China is prepared to extend all possible support to the media to work as a bridge among the people of the two countries for their greater cooperation and understanding.

“We are expecting concert outcome of the visit for deepening our socio-economic partnership".

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif with DG ISI, Lt. General Muhammad Zahir-ul-Islam, in a farewell call bid by the latter, at PM House, here on Wednesday. – Agencies

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2014

Civil servants urged to eradicate graft By asghar ali muBarak ISLAMABAD – President Mamnoon Hussain Wednesday urged the civil servants to do their best in ensuring corruption free governance and serve the people of Pakistan with utmost dedication and honesty. The President emphasized that the officers should perform their duties with maximum commitment while remaining conscious of the fact that the decision and actions taken by them would impact the lives of 180 million plus citizens of the country.

The President said this during a meeting with civil

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in a meeting with CM Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, CM Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, CM KPK Pervez Khattak and CM Balochistan Dr. Abdul Maalik at PM Office, here on Wednesday.

Russian troops moving toward Ukraine border: NATO Chief BRUSSeLS – Russia has moved troops closer to the border with Ukraine and continues to support rebels in the country's east, nATO's chief said on Tuesday, after an election held by the pro-Russian separatists and condemned by Kiev and Western leaders.

Ukraine's president said Sunday's vote flouted terms of a plan to end a war that has killed more than 4,000 people, and that newly formed army units would be sent to defend a string of eastern cities against a possible new rebel offensive.

"Recently we are seeing Russian troops moving closer to the border with Ukraine," Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of nATO, told a news conference with eU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

"Russia continues to support separatists by training them, by providing equipment and support them by also having Russian special forces inside eastern parts of Ukraine."

Russia has denied military involvement in eastern Ukraine despite what Western officials have cited as overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

"We call on Russia to make genuine efforts towards a peaceful solution," Stoltenberg said, "and to use all their

Saudi diplomat thrashed in Delhi park From our

correspondent neW DeLHI – A Saudi diplomat was allegedly roughed up by some Indian youth for taking his pet dog into a park in the posh enclave of Safdargunj in new Delhi recently.

The diplomat had been unable to read the sign at the gate in Hindi which stated that it was prohibited to take dogs inside the park.

The Delhi Police are yet to make any arrests, according to the latest media reports. Identified only as Abdul Rehman, a secretary rank officer working with the embassy in new Delhi, had gone to a community park with his pet dog for an evening stroll when the incident occurred.

“A man came and started yelling at Abdul Rehman in Hindi, so he requested him to speak in english as he couldn’t understand Hindi,” reports quoted a senior police officer as saying. In his complaint, the victim told the police that a man informed him that dogs are not allowed inside the park and showed him the signboard. The man later threatened to call the police. But he brought his friends instead.

“The victim later informed the youths that he is a diplomat and also showed his identification card. As he was about to leave, two other miscreants joined them and asked him to leave the spot as well as the country immediately,” the police officer said.

Subsequently, when the victim walked out of the park, the miscreants attacked him and one of them held him by his neck and started punching him. When the victim resisted, he was allegedly pushed to the ground and beaten up, reports said.

influence on the separatists to make them respect the Minsk agreements and to respect the ceasefire which is a precondition for a political solution to the difficult situation in Ukraine."

Stoltenberg said Russia was also trying to show strength by increasing military flights close to nATO air space in europe.

"We (nATO) are intercepting the Russian planes whether it is in the Atlantic Sea or in the Baltic Sea or in the Black Sea. The numbers of intercepts have so far this year been over 100, which is about three times as much as the total number of intercepts the whole of last year," he said.

The pro-Russian separatists staged swearing in ceremonies for their leaders in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday.

Moscow says the election of Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky as leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk "people's republics", which jointly call themselves "new Russia", means that Kiev should now negotiate with them directly.

Kiev has rejected this, describing the rebels as Russian-backed "terrorists" or "bandits", with no legitimacy.

Mogherini said the eU would assess whether to strengthen or ease sanctions imposed on Russia over its role in Ukraine depending on the situation on the ground.

"This is a process that is going to go on in the coming weeks," she said, when asked if Russia's response to Sunday's rebel ballot could trigger stiffer sanctions against Moscow.

The situation in Ukraine will be addressed at the next eU foreign ministers' meeting on nov. 17, she said. "...I would say the main topic of discussion today should be ... how do we make sure that we find a solution to the conflict?" the former Italian foreign minister said.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister grigory Karasin said on Monday that the newly elected leaders in eastern Ukrainian separatist regions have a "mandate" to negotiate with Kiev, Interfax news agency reported.

Mogherini said the "so-called elections" in eastern Ukraine were illegal and illegitimate and would not be recognized by the eU. There was a risk they could end chances for rebel dialogue with Kiev and dialogue between Kiev and Moscow, she said.

The eU has gradually tightened sanctions against Russia in response to its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in March, after the overthrow of Kiev's proRussian president by protesters, and its support for the rebel cause.– Agencies

India’s Kolkata port on high alert KOLKATA – Security forces in Kolkata are on high alert following a central intelligence warning that the city’s port may be the target of an attack by militants posing as fishermen, home ministry officials said.

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) headquarters in Delhi alerted top West Bengal and Kolkata police officials on Monday through an email, cautioning them of a possible attack.

The Indian navy moved two warships — InS Khukri and InS Sumitra — out of the port after receiving the alert and increased patrolling in the sea.

The ships were supposed to be open to the public on Wednesday and Thursday. “We came to know about the alert from the CISF,” said deputy commissioner of police (port division) Imran Wahab. “We had a meeting late

into the night and Indian navy officers were also present.”

Sources said security agencies intercepted conversations about targeting Indian naval assets at Kolkata and swung into action, in part, because of September’s Karachi attack.

“Marine patrolling at the IndiaBangladesh sea border in the Bay of Bengal has been enhanced in view of the alert,” said commodore Ravi Ahluwalia. “We have electronic surveillance on seagoing vessels, especially the fishing trawlers plying in the region.”

According to the alert, terrorists are likely to enter Indian waters posing as fishermen and are backed by Pakistan marines, an elite marine commando unit of the Pakistani navy, Indian media claimed, quoting government sources. – Agencies

APEC Summit in Beijing set to reshape the future From Page 1 upcoming APeC economic leaders' meeting.

China's proposal is "welcome" as it is an opportunity to move towards that vision in a specific way, said goodman, who served as White House coordinator for the APeC and the east Asia Summit forums during US President Barack Obama's first term.

Meanwhile, setting a timetable for the FTAAP can be useful as a driving force for Asia-Pacific economic integration, he added.

Referring to Obama's China visit, goodman expected both Washington and Beijing would try to deepen bilateral ties by managing dis-

agreements and expanding cooperation.

It is a "real opportunity" for the leaders of the two countries to sit down and have "frank" and "comprehensive" discussions about US-China relations, and about broader regional and global concerns the two sides share, said goodman.

"I would expect the full range of political, security and economic issues to be on the agenda," he added.

"I think both President Obama and President Xi Jinping very much want to find ways to manage differences and expand areas of cooperation to put US-China relations on a more positive path," goodman said.

Nepra notifies hike in power tariff

By mahnoor makhdoom ISLAMABAD – The national electric Power Regulatory Authority (nepra) on Wednesday notified 52-paisa per unit increase in power tariff. The on its part has also withdrawn subsidy on felectricity by Rs 1.50 per unit that would cost the consumers by about Rs 27 billion in a year.

Surprisingly, the latest increase was notified under the fuel adjustment head at a time when international oil prices are on a declining trend and the government has also substantially decreased the POL prices. According to nePRA sources, instead of reducing the electricity rates, electricity equalisation surcharge has also been imposed from first October, 2014 equal to Rs 1.50 per unit that would continue till 30th September, 2015.

The increase has also been notified at a time when there is lot of criticism and anger among the people over excessive electricity and the Prime Minister is to be briefed at the special cabinet meeting on Thursday(tomorrow) by the Cabinet Committee led by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar about the reasons behind the excessive billing.

As per the notification domestic users consuming less than 50 units a month would be exempted.

servants recently promoted to grade-22 here at Aiwan-eSadr.

“You have now reached the pinnacle of your career.

With this, greater responsibilities fall on your shoulders to work for the betterment and

welfare of the masses of our country”, stated the President.

The President said that the senior civil servants should be true ideals for their juniors to emulate.

“Your conduct, performance and professional capabilities should be such that the future generations of civil servants follow in your footsteps in dispensation of their official duties”, added the President.

He emphasized that the bureaucracy should act in unison and with commitment in achieving national goals and policies for the greater good of the people of Pakistan.

Minority couple beaten to death by mob KASUR – A Christian couple was beaten to death by a frenzied mob over charges of desecration of 'holy pages' in Kot Radha Kishan on Tuesday.

The bodies of Shama Bibi and her husband were burnt in a brick kiln after the killing.

DPO police said that the couple was accused of desecrating ‘holy pages’.

The police said that 42 people have been taken into custody over their alleged involvement into the killing.

According to eyewitnesses, hundreds of enraged villagers took part in the execution in the presence of five policemen who watched the gory incident as silent spectators. – Agencies

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Rossouw, bowlers star in SA win Australia v South Africa, 1st Twenty20 ADeLAIDA – Kyle Abbott harried Australia's batsmen and Rilee Rossouw achieved the rare feat of putting Quinton de Kock in the shade during a stand of 129 as South Africa secured a vast opening win in the Twenty20 match at Adelaide Oval.

Three days after they were comfortably beaten by a Cricket Australia Invitational XI in Sydney, the tourists combined impressively with ball and bat to deliver Aus-

tralia's third consecutive international defeat, albeit against two distinctly different teams in two vastly different formats on opposite sides of the globe.

The likes of David Warner, Mitchell Johnson and glenn Maxwell were missed by the Australians, but it must also be acknowledged that Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers were among South Africa's absentees.

Abbott and Rossouw were highly capable substitutes, the former's 3 for

21 and the latter's 78 from 50 balls the most telling contributions for JP Duminy's men.

Reeza Hendricks was out to a well-pitched delivery from Doug Bollinger in the first over of South Africa's chase, but Rossouw and de Kock had very few difficulties in rattling towards the target and ensuring that by the time they departed the asking rate was negligible.

Australia's only consolations were a pair of handy innings by Shane Watson and James Faulkner, while Pat Cummins and legspinner Cameron Boyce delivered decent-enough spells with the ball. Whether Boyce, missing out on two Sheffield Shield fixtures at a time when Australia's need to develop a worthwhile wrist-spin option after their travails against Pakistan, should have been playing was another question.

The hosts had given T20I debuts to Ben Dunk and nathan Reardon, their caps handed out by Michael Hussey. South Africa chose to name three debutants, the speedy 19-year-old Kagiso Rabada, Hendricks and Rossouw, who has played six ODIs in his international career so far.

Serving as the opener to Australia's international season, the match was also the first full T20I, and the first international, to be played at the Adelaide Oval since its redevelopment was completed earlier this year.– Agencies

NEW YORK, NY: Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns a shot against Serena Williams of the United States during their women's singles final match on Day fourteen of the 2014 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York.

Federer, Murray, Bryan brothers win ATP awards

Kvitova eyes one more trophy in 2014 PRAgUe – Tasked with leading the Czech Republic to victory in another home Fed Cup final this weekend, Petra Kvitova says the considerable pressure from compatriots is much less than what she puts on herself.

The Czechs go after their third title in four years, with germany on the other side of the indoor hard court at O2 Arena.

The ''beautiful memories'' of victories in 2011 and 2012, the republic's first since the end of communist rule, drives Kvitova to help set up a third celebration. ''It's not often we get to celebrate as a team. I love this competition and this team,'' the Wimbledon champion says.

Despite the presence of family and friends, and huge expectations and support from fellow Czechs, Kvitova says, ''It's a lot of pressure on me in the Fed Cup, but it's more pressure from myself when we are playing at home. everybody is expecting that I make it two points, and that's what I will try to do.''– Agencies

LOnDOn – Roger Federer, Andy Murray and the Bryan brothers are among the winners of the ATP World Tour Awards.

Federer was selected by his peers as winner of the Stefan edberg sportsmanship award for a 10th time. Murray receives the Arthur Ashe humanitarian award for his involvement in fundraising exhibitions and campaigns.

Bob and Mike Bryan take the doubles award for a sixth straight year.Also, 17-yearold Borna Coric of Croatia gets the Star of Tomorrow award as the youngest player ranked in the top 100, Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain was selected the most improved player, and David goffin of Belgium the comeback player of the year.

The battle for the yearend no. 1 ranking will be decided between Federer and novak Djokovic at the ATP World Tour Finals starting on Sunday in London.

The Czechs go after their third title in four years, with germany on the other side of the indoor hard court at O2 Arena. – Agencies

Johnson, Sangakkara lead ICC awards nominees LOnDOn – Mitchell Johnson and Kumar Sangakkara are in contention to win the ICC's Cricketer of the Year award for a second time after the 2014 shortlists were announced. Johnson's fiery resurgence helped Australia to an Ashes whitewash and victory in South Africa, while Sangakkara's run-scoring feats included becoming only the second man to hit a triple-hundred and a hundred in a Test match.

Sri Lanka's Test and ODI captain, Angelo Mathews, is also nominated. He was the second-leading Test run-scorer in the period from August 26, 2013 to September 17, 2014, behind Sangakkara; both were involved in Sri Lanka's World T20 win. AB de Villiers is the other candidate for the Sir garfield Sobers trophy, an award that has only been won twice by one player previously: Ricky Ponting in 2006 and 2007.

Johnson, Sangakkara and Mathews are included in the Test Player of the Year category as well, along with David Warner. De Villiers is joined by two of his South Africa team-mates, Quinton de Kock and Dale Steyn, in contesting the ODI award, with Virat Kohli making up the nominees.

Charlotte edwards and Stafanie Taylor, former winners of the the Women's Cricketer of the Year award, are nominated alongside India captain Mithali Raj, whose side achieved an historic Test victory over england in 2014, and Sarah Taylor. There will be a new winner of the Women's T20 award, after Taylor did not make the shortlist, with Australia's World T20-winning captain, Meg Lanning, facing competition from edwards, Raj and Taylor.

Despite a difficult 12 months, england have two contenders in the emerging Cricket of the Year category, as do new Zealand.

Only players under the age of 26 who had appeared in fewer than five Tests and/or 10 ODIs at the start of the voting period were eligible for the award. The shortlists were voted on by an academy of "32 highly credentialed cricket personalities", which included former players, members of the media and match officials. Longlists for each award were initially drawn up by a five-man selection panel chaired by former India captain Anil Kumble, and comprising broadcaster Jonathan Agnew, former Sri Lanka international Russel Arnold, former new Zealand captain Stephen Fleming and

Betty Timmer, one-time chair of the ICC Women's Committee.

ICC Teams of the Year Test: David Warner, Kane Williamson, Kumar Sangakkara, AB de Villiers, Joe Root, Angelo Mathews (capt), Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Broad, Dale Steyn, Rangana Herath, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor (12th man) ODI: Mohammad Hafeez, Quinton de Kock, Virat Kohli, george Bailey, AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Dale Steyn, Mohammad Shami, Ajantha Mendis, Rohit Sharma (12th man) The ICC has also announced its Test

and ODI Teams of the Year. "Team selection is one of the toughest jobs and when you have a large pool of outstanding players to select from in a 12-month period between 26 August 2013 and 17 September 2014, then it becomes even more difficult," Kumble said.

"However, we think we have selected the best possible sides, which are well balanced and capable of beating any side on any given day in any given conditions.

While selecting these squads, the selectors discussed various combinations and took into account several scenarios like opposition, pitch conditions and match situations."– Agencies

‘Australia need to learn the Asian temp’

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LMOST everything about Australian cricket's Test match resurgence last summer was about setting the pace of the game. There was Mitchell Johnson's bowling, David Warner's batting, Michael Clarke's quick thinking captaincy in the field, and above all, fast wickets. The pace was relentless, and england and South Africa could not keep up.

But on slower pitches in the UAe, Australia have been caught speeding by Pakistan. If it was a shock after the Ashes, it was also very familiar. Australian teams have battled for years to find a style of play that's going to work in those conditions, but after India in 2013 and now this result, a solution seems to be as far away as ever. These past two series have seen Australia a long, long way off the mark, not even competitive. A lot of what I saw was a bit frenetic, a bit fast. We didn't allow ourselves to get deep enough into those games to be in a position to try to win.

For a few minutes at the start of the first Test against Pakistan in Dubai it looked like Australia would be able to pick up the pace of the game, grabbing two early wickets and expecting more.

But as I learned slowly, and at times painfully over the years, Test matches in

Asia seldom run to an Australian schedule. Younis Khan dug in, the bowlers lost some of their earlier edge, and a major first innings was built. Unfortunately Australia seemed unable to pull back a gear or two after those earlier successes.

What Younis did was a classic example of following the style of cricket proven over many years on the subcontinent. The game meanders for the first three and a half to four days and then

tends to open up really late. What you've got to do is be in a position come tea on day three where you can still win the game, and in both of those Tests by late on day three Australia were completely out of the match. It's very rare that games don't last very late into day five in those conditions, and the way Australia played didn't allow them to get there.

It's hard work, of course. You've got to grind it out, bat for long periods of time

and try to build pressure with back-toback maidens when you're bowling - in short, play within yourself. Yet after the loss in Dubai it actually seemed as though the selectors were determined to force the pace even more by choosing the team they did.

In many ways, the path to victory in Asia is difficult for an Australian cricketer to grasp. Our desire to push the game along has to be suppressed sometimes, even though we may not exactly enjoy it.

We had been ten years without a Test tour of India when I first went there in 1996 for a one-off Test in Delhi, and all the players made mistakes as we returned in 1998 and 2001. That year, as part of Steve Waugh's team, I saw how we were pulled up after an opening victory in Mumbai, and the experiences of Kolkata and Chennai were put to good use three years later when we did finally win in India. That tour stands out as much for our style of play as for the rare result.

For an Australian side, we looked at things differently with our field placings, making sure they didn't score too quickly, not allowing them to get away from us. A lot of the time we attacked batsmen at their strengths, plugged their strong scoring zones with catching midwickets, and had a third man in play right from the

start. That was unusual, even uncharacteristic, for an Australian cricket team, but it worked. In 2008 and 2010 we tried similar approaches with less experienced sides. If we didn't win, we at least pushed India closer than these past two Asian series have been.

While there can be no doubt that the conditions are designed to stymie the way Australia play, it is a matter of working with those circumstances rather than fighting them. In the first innings of both Test matches they began with three days still to bat, and that's the way you've got to look at it. You've got to set yourself to try to bat for as long as you can in the game. Thoughts of running up to 500 as quickly as possible, feasible in Australia, are pipe dreams in Asia. The opposition don't allow you to do it, putting fielders out straightaway with spin on, and the inout fields all the time, making sure you can't score rapidly. If you don't wear them down, they will do it to you.

That 2001 tour taught me a lot about how not to bat in spinning conditions.

After making runs in the lead-up games and feeling pretty good, I went out to face Harbhajan Singh in the first Test and stretched forward to a ball that I was looking to defend. To my horror, it broke the surface, caught my glove and lobbed up

to bat-pad. I got back to the rooms, sat down and thought, "I don't think I've done much wrong there, so if he's going to keep bowling that way and I keep playing that way, more often than not it's going to pop up to one of those fielders."

Australia can expect to see more slow pitches in their Test match future. That being the case, I hope the harsh experiences of India last year and now the UAe can foster a style of Australian play that will stand a chance of succeeding in Asia So I worked during the week on sweeping a bit more, or using my feet and getting down the pitch. Instead of trusting my technique, I was trying to find a way to be different and change. Sure enough, in the next Test I was out sweeping, and the next Test I got out running down the wicket and stumped. I didn't trust my own game enough and it brought me undone.

Seventeen runs in five innings made it an easy lesson to remember.

In the UAe, the guys who trusted their technique were the ones who had the most success. Steve Smith in the second innings of each match, Mitch Marsh in the first innings in Abu Dhabi, and Warner in Dubai. Chris Rogers succeeded to a certain degree - it looked difficult, but he batted for a long time and soaked up a lot of balls. – Agencies

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India’s NSA causing acute threat to regional, global peace From Page 6 anti-Muslim riots in Bombay, Rajan soon came to be known as the Hindu Don in the Bombay’s underworld Rajan later managed to built up a steady business empire around the world acting as front offices for his illegal operations and thus got further promoted in the good books of Hindutva Brotherhood.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that the glamorous world of Bollywood immediately caught Ajit Doval and Sanjeev Tripathi’s attention for easy money extortion from the heroes, heroines, producers, directors and distributors etc., who personify virtues on screen and in real life are an amalgamation of deceit, treachery, conspiracy and temerity. RAW and IB, meaning Tripthi and Doval, for quite some time, had their eyes on the Indian film industry for various reasons. With Rajan’s coming to the scene Indian film industry soon become IB and RAW’s interest in Bollywood got new dimensions. It remains a fact that the film media serves as the best possible propaganda tool for the RAW as well as Hindutva Brotherhood not only in India but also abroad including Pakistan. A blatant glorification of Hinduism and an utterly distorted fanatic portrayal of Islam is the common message conveyed through the RAW and IB sponsored movies.

According to Pahlaj nehlani, a former President of Film Producers Association of India, the underworld lord (Chhota Rajan) started demanding overseas rights of all good movies without paying a penny in late 90s In words of a bollywood entertainment reporter Priya Bhose, “Top movies stars of the 90s including Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Sharof, govinda, Mithun Chakaraborty, Johnny Lever, Juhi Chawala, Mundakani, Manesha Koirala and many others were forced to do a number of free shows to raise funds for Chhota Rajan at Dubai, UK, USA and other countries. The entire Bollywood, at that time, had to dance to the tunes of Chhota Rajan for the annual funds raising shows at Shiv Sena’s ngO ‘Mukti’ without any charge. Those who dare to resist were left to face the music of Chhota Rajan’s mobsters. gulshan Kumar of Super Cassettes Industries was assassinated by Chhota Rajan’s ‘enforcers’ because he refused to sell part of his music empire worth Indian rupees 400 crore to the Zee music Company of RAW. The conspiracy was hatched when a galaxy of Indian movie starts participated in the opening ceremony of Chhota Rajan’s luxury hotel in Dubai. Rajan’s key man in Dubai Vivekt goswani conceived the entire plan.

Similarly, former film star and current producer and the father of a super bollywood star Hrithik Roshan’s father Rakesh Roshan’s car was fired upon in year 2000, for refusing overseas rights of his movie ‘Kaho na Pyar Hai’ to Chhota Rajan.

Roshan made repentance by asking his son Hrithik to sign RAW’s sponsored movie ‘Mission Kashmir’ produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra for less than his usual fee while in many other cases, Indian Showbiz stars were forced to sign anti-Pakistan movies like Zameen, Qayyamat, Border Hindustan Kaa, LOC Kargil etc., on fairly low rates under threats from Rajan as RAW wanted to minimize its budget for these films but at the same time desired to have leading film stars in these movies. This was a rather decent way of distortion for Doval, Raman and Tripathi to generate funds for unauthorized operations.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that Cable Operators in mega cities of India also operate with the blessings of Rajan. His brother Deepak runs the company by the name of Cable Cop, which offers film producers protection from Cable Operators who telecast new movies without authorization. According to a senior Bombay police officer Sunil Paraskar, all Deepak does is to give a call to the operators warning them not to telecast the movie for which he has taken protection money, officer Sunil also affirmed that never have the cable operators telecast a new film, produced by ‘Zee Movies’ (as Zee Movies enjoys comprehensive RAW protection). He later entered into Real estate world too, to manage the land grabbing by Rajan gang and is still in this “business” The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that since using Chhota Rajan gang had never been part of written or documented policy of RAW and IB, Chhoata Rajan gang had to suffer hard times at different occasions on the hands of certain professional rivals in the ranks of national politicians. This had force Rajan to get his gang a political platform too.

Rajan gang made a couple of tries in this direction but from some rather low-key political parties’ platforms but failed. For the purpose, Chhoata Rajan has now approached national Security Advisor and old time friend and mentor Ajit Doval to help his gang in this direction. The media reports in India suggest that Rajan was assured a political cover for his gang by Ajit Doval, the nSA and he promised to get his gang into politics with part support of BJP in last month’s state elections of Chembur. However, it is said that no political part ever wanted to have Chhota Rajan gang presence in its ranks as they believe that such an arrangement would jeopardize party position and that was why Shiv Sena, RSS and BJP never wanted Rajan’s family or gang member to be directly winning the election and the same happened this time when after Ajit Doval’s assurance of comprehensive support from BJP, Chhota Rajan’s brother Deepak, who was otherwise the business or corporate face of Chhota Rajan gang contested the Chembur polls from the platform of Republican Party of India (RPI) but lost once again, though stood 3rd with over 3600 votes and with 27% of voting aggregate.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that Hindutva Brotherhood’s tilt towards occupied Kashmir rose in 1990s. At that time Hindutva confidante Ajit Doval, who was by then fully prepared by B Raman and was placed at Intelligence Bureau, was moved to the occupied valley. Doval first started a fake insurgency movement to suppress the genuine and unarmed struggling freedom fighters and portrayed them as Pakistan-backed militants and then arranged their killings by creating counter insurgent groups that paved the way for what the Indian army, RAW and IB are doing in IOK today under the garb of combating militant insurgency and that too under the garb of highly controversial and rather draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) and POTA etc.

During this period, Ajit Doval, who was IB Area Incharge of IOK, organized a high voltage drama to counter Kashmiris’ struggle and to demoralize the freedom fighters and also to create religious controversies amongst freedom fighting groups about their leaders.

Under this conspiracy, in October 1993, Ajit Doval informed some likeminded media persons in new Delhi that some freedom fighters of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) had occupied the famous Shrine of Hazrat Bal in the valley with some highly ulterior motives that threatens the sacredness of the shrine.

On the other side, Ajit Doval, using IB platform, sent a classified SOS to Lieutenant general Zaki, Security Advisor to the then governor of

IOK, informing him that locks securing access to the Moe-e- Muqaddas sanctum had been tampered with, and that 40 militants had entered the shrine with 12 LMgs. Upon receiving this IB reports from Doval, general Zaki, without awaiting verification, called governor KV Krishna Rao and Union Home Secretary nn Vohra and informed them that an attempt had been made to steal from the shrine its famous relic, a purported hair from the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)s beard. He also hurriedly summoned a meeting of the Unified Command. The governor asked Zaki to intervene and eventually, two battalions of the Indian Army laid siege at the shrine on October 15, 1993. This is said to be the first major operation under the Hindutva-army nexus, at least with regard to IOK in which Hindutva activist, in the ranks of IB provided a platform to Indian army to go wild in IOK under the garb of hunting down the militants.

But The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that it was merely a promo of the film as the evidences reveal the entire Doval game from the IB’s platform in IOK with regard to Harat Bal Shrine episode.

Decades down the line, the Indian government’s then Divisional Commissioner and Chief negotiator and later Chief Information Commissioner, Wajahat Habibullah has recounted the behind- the-scene maneuvering and the disconnect between various government agencies and higher ups during the said episode.

In an issue of India’s weekly Tehelka magazine, Hibullah writes that the militant leaders holed up inside the Shrine were already in touch with the outside world through an unlisted telephone connection installed inside the shrine at the behest of the Intelligence Bureau (IB). He writes that he was amazed the way the militants appeared always so well informed of daily events outside during his negotiations with them. One day the Telephone Department told Habibullah, who was also Divisional Commissioner of the Kashmir Valley, that they had discovered an unlisted telephone connection, inside the Hazrat Bal shrine premises. When he asked the department to disconnect the line, he was told by the IB that the line should be allowed to remain as it was there at their behest. The Telephone Department had in the meantime told Habibullah that they had discovered an unlisted number inside the premises of the shrine.

“I, of course asked that the line be disconnected forthwith, only to receive a call from the Intelligence Bureau that the line was there at their behest, and that it should be allowed to remain operational,” writes Habibullah.

According to Habibullah, when he discovered this development and brought it into the notice of general Zaki, general Zaki got furious and asked Habibullah to discuss the matter with him in person.

Habibullah says that on his way from Raj Bhavan to the shrine, he was asked by Lt gen Zaki to accompany him to his residence, so that the development could be discussed in details and with secrecy. “On the way, a military truck rammed our car injuring Zaki and almost killing me and it later proved that the crash was no mere accident,” says Habibullah.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that it was a multifaceted plan to not only create a rift between different freedom fighting groups and to disgrace the most prominent group JKLF in the eyes and minds of allied groups by creating a blame of bidding to steal the sacred hair of Holey Prophet (as JKLF was the most successful freedom fighter group had commanded a great respect and following amongst the other similar groups) but it was also aimed at paving the way for army operations and lastly to generate a feeling of insecurity and helplessness amongst the Muslims on the both sides of LoC by capturing of Hazrat Bal Shrine by Indian army with Muslims being helpless and merely on the mercy of Hindu soldiers, a philosophy that is key of Hindutva operations is very strongly exercised by Ajit Doval and his group while the same was behind Doval scripted gujrat’s massacre of Muslims in 2002 under Modi’s Chief Ministry and the current wave of military hostilities on LoC and along the working boundary by Indian army, under the newly implemented national Security Policy by nSA Ajit Doval is also part of the same Hindutva philosophy.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the plan was jointly conceived by B Raman and Ajit Doval as Raman had mastered in creating fake freedom fighting groups during his handling of Khalistan freedom struggle by the Sikh community of India. Under the plan Ajit Doval penetrated some IB supported individuals into the Shrine, fixed a phone line inside the Shrine to give instructions to the fake occupants as doing so through Radio (Wireless system) was not safe. Sent a fake report to media persons and to the governor’s security advisor; organized siege of most sacred shrine

by Indian army; arranged a safe and secret exit for his own sent occupants and in the meanwhile, after learning that his plan had been smelled by officials like Habibullah and general Zaki, gave them a life threat by arranging a lethal road crash and succeeded in doing all that he wanted and planned as neither Habibullah, nor general Zaki ever uttered a single word over the issue for decades. It, at the same time, speaks very high of Hindutva-army nexus as a Muslim officer with the rank of Lt. general in the Indian army could never utter a single word despite having the complete knowledge that a life attempt on him was made by none else but by a serving driver of the Indian army.

This episode led the Indian army and its socalled security forces to go for killing and brutally torturing of millions of Muslims in IOK under the garb of militancy combat. Kashmiris were not engaged in any armed struggle for their freedom until Ajit Doval managed to portray them as armed insurgents via exaggerated and glorified Hazrat Bal episode. It remains a mystery just like the 26/11 Mumbai attacks where the entire security chain of and establishment of India could not over power the attackers armed merely with AJ-47 assault rifle and a bunch of ordinary hand grenades for about 70 hours, in Hazrat Bal, two battalions, fully armed and equipped with all weaponry and sophisticated assault tools, could not over power merely 49 militants for days and days and eventually let them walk feely under an agreement. The safe exit of 40 militants who were reported to be armed with assault rifles highly mysteriously disappeared from the “Crime Scene” with at least 2 battalions of Indian army merely acting as silent spectators.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the original plan was to arrange the stealing of the sacred relics from the Shrine and let the occupants go vanished via a tunnel that Doval had already arranged and got dug with the help of army personnel. Doval believed that such blame on JKLF would put all other freedom fighters on the mission of eliminating all JKLF operators as part of Jihad and the most prominent freedom fighter group will be eliminated by its own followers. However, threat perception experts and evaluation analysts at the IB, RAW and Army headquarters, rejected this part of Doval plan as it was perceived that such a

move will bring a great religious wrath not only in IOK but also across India and most probably across the Muslim world and thus it was decided to end the mission in safe exit of occupants.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that back in 1993, a young Pakistani journalist Makhdoom Babar, who, at that time was working as an investigative reporter with Islamabad based newspaper Pakistan Observer, filed a comprehensive investigative report, proving that Ajit Doval had actually planned a tunnel out of Hazrat Bal Shrine to secretly flush out his ‘organized’ militants as according to the initial plan, they were supposed to flee along with sacred relics but after this part of the plan was rejected, the drama ended up in free and safe passage to the occupant militants but without taking away any of the belongings from the Shrines. But on the other side the tunnel was ready and was discovered by some media persons. To cover this up, it was officially stated that this tunnel was dug out by army personnel to penetrate into the shrine to overpower the militants. However, it was never explained by Indians as to why that tunnel was not utilized by the military commandos and secondly, why the tunnel was dug in a manner that was going from inside the shrine to outside and not from outside to inside?

The Daily Mail’s investigations further reveal that the rather soft freedom struggle in IOK though touched new heights after Doval organized the Hazrat Bal Shrine drama, yet there was another high profile incident, again organized by Doval with the help of Hindutva network in Indian army and with a close coordination of his guru, B Raman in 1995.

This was the incident that brought IOK under global scanner and introduced high voltage to the freedom struggle in Kashmir with adding high grade militancy to it. These investigations indicate that during the early 19990s, when BJP-backed Indian government of VP Singh put IB, RAW and MI together to run special operation in IOK to crush the freedom struggle in the occupied valley, Doval was posted as IB Chief while a former RAW Chief gC Saxena (yet another IPS officer with acute Hindutva following) was made governor of IOK and the RAW’s wing on IOK was placed under the supervision of B Raman. Doval, Saxena and B Raman organized a plan of creating fake freedom fighting organizations as V Raman had done the same very effectively in case of countering Sikhs’ similar freedom movement of Khalistan in the 1980s. Using this experience, Doval was advised by B Raman to form fake Muslim freedom fighting organizations out of jobless Muslims of the valley and also out of extremist Hindu activists from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that is a paramilitary wing of Hindu ultras. Doval, following Raman’s direction formed different fake Kashmiri freedom fighter organization with title names, similar to those of the original ones and thus the occupied valley saw a mushroom growth of Hrakat this and Harkat that and Hizb this and Hizb that, suddenly, on the patron of the same exercise in case of anti-Khalistan campaign while the same was later introduced in Pakistan in forms of different factions of TTP including Jindulla and Ahrar-ulHind etc.

In his book, titled, Kao Boys of R&AW, B Raman writes, “We were directed by Delhi to organize secret armed training for the cadres of RSS in the Jammu area to counter the freedom movement. This was originally the idea of LK Advani. So RAW held two secret meetings with RSS representatives from its Jammu Branch to discuss the beginning and modalities of the said training.

First meeting was at local hotel in Jammu while the 2nd one was held at Ambassador Hotel in Delhi.”

After these meetings the mission of militarization of IOK started off that would later see the Hazrat Bal Shrine episode in 1993 and kidnapping drama of some six Western tourists, on an expedition trip to IOK, organized jointly by RAW, IB and MI in 1995.

At that very juncture of time, CD Sahey, another IPS officer (of Hinudtva school of thought), merely one batch senior to Ajit Doval and some 6 batches junior to B Raman was made as Chief of RAW operations ( under immediate subordination of B Raman) in IOK with Ajit Doval being appointed as IB head for IOK ops. The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that in July 1995, in the mountains of IOK, six Western tourists, included two British, Keith Mangan (from Middlesbrough) and Paul Wells; two Americans, John Childs of Simsbury, Connecticut and Donald Hutchings of Spokane, Washington; a german, Dirk Hasert; and a norwegian, Hans Christian Ostrø were abducted by one of Doval created Kashmiri freedom fighters’ group with the comprehensive planning and assistance of RAW, IB, MI and the IOK Police.

The purpose of this drama was to portray Kashmiri freedom fighter as high profile and ruthless militants and not simple freedom fighters, in the eyes of the global and especially the Western communities and governments while the other purpose was to glorify certain “Doval converted” freedom fighters which ultimately were made extraordinarily glorified through Raman, Doval joint efforts later in 1999 through a hijacking drama. In their book, titled “Meadow, Kashmir 1995- where the terror began”, two British journalists and searchers Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark have categorically exposed this Indian drama. The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that despite all odds, it establishes as an undeniable fact that first seed of the armed terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir was seeded by Ajit Doval by Hazrat Bal episode and later flourished by the Kidnapping and hijacking dramas and perhaps Doval expects that the crop that he seeded in Kashmir, is about to be harvested in Kandahar via the Daesh-TTP drive.

Though Doval claims that he was spying inside Pakistan during those days and had achieved many goals during stay in Pakistan and thus had nothing to do with IOK developments during those years, yet his claims go completely wrong by checking his service record and going through his posting tenures. Doval claims of spying inside Pakistan also stand challenged by former senior army officer of Pakistan army Brigadier (Rtd) Junaid Zaman.

“One of the surefire ways to get popular among the Indian public is to claim that you have served as a spy in Pakistan sometime. The myth of Ajit Doval spending eight years as a spy in Pakistan is total pack of lies, and this is in fact a total responsible and well researched information which can be give in this regard”, says Brigadier Zaman.

“I do not say that it’s not possible that India could never have a spy in Pakistan, or there never was, or there is not a single Indian spy lurking in Pakistan. There will be hundreds of them for sure, as we have many on the other side. Bigger the country, more the spies. Anyway, more than the traditional spies there are better ways now to get what is important,” says the Brigadier in one of his columns in local media.

He further says “Narendra Modi believes in stronger government with a threatening attitude so it wasn’t a surprise when he appointed Ajit Doval as his national security advisor in India. Ajit, who thrived on the myth of him being the premier spy in

India who spent time in Pakistan and never was caught. On that basis, he rose within the ranks of BJP, though he never held any designation. His formed a think tank which was basically a front for BJP to formulate and push RSS-oriented espionage agenda to any incumbent government. Nobody took them real serious, not even the Indian army because they knew the truth behind Doval being the premier spy in Pakistan. Doval has been a real drama queen throughout. He tried back stab Sikh Movement while infiltrating within Golden Temple.

The truth is that when Doval tried to pass him as Pakistani spy within temple, nobody really cared, as they were welcoming even the people who claimed to be angels from heaven. There are also many fantastic stories about him creating a rift within separatist in different parts where India has occupied forcibly. Courtesy to all those myths, he even got himself Kirti Chakra award, and now also has managed to secure the juicy national security advisor seat.

The problem is that such hollow people always remain in quest to prove themselves. With fishy characters Doval in charge of Indian security with full backing up of Hindu extremists, the region might drift into a dangerous game because Doval likes to play dirty and secretive. But he still has to taste the real espionage, so he if tried any of that trick which he only has read in the books so far, he for sure is in for a nasty surprise from this side”, concluded Brigadier in his column.

According to Indian media, Doval does not want India to give an inch in Kashmir. In fact, he is against any agreement between India and Pakistan that allows the Line of Control to be recognized as the national boundary. India’s position can only be that it owns the entire Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “Pakistan, if not punished for waging a covert offensive against India, should, at least, not be rewarded by it,” Doval wrote in one of his media columns.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the 2002 butchering of thousands and thousands of Muslims in Indian state of gujarat when narendra Modi was Chief Minister there. This episode that earned Modi the title “Butcher of gujarat” across the world, is also attributed to Doval. In his last days in IB, Doval scripted the gujarat Carnage for Hindutva Brotherhood as Modi government in the state was very desperately looking for any such exercise to terrorize the monitories and to win the next elections. Investigations indicate that this time B Raman and Ajit Doval’s disciple from IPS, Dahyaji Gobarji Vanzara the then Deputy Inspector general of police was selected to head the mission. f. He has been in jail since 2007 on charges of having conducted a series of extrajudicial ("false encounter") killings while heading the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).

An IPS officer of the 1987 batch, Vanzara, an extremist Hindu and who would worship narendra Modi as “god” had his tenure as head of the city crime bureau full of spurt in encounter killings. He was known to be close to Home Minister Amit Shah, who made 331 calls to Vanzara and other police officers, many of them around the time of these killings.

Investigations indicate that indeed, there was considerable evidence that Vanzara had been carrying out home minister Amit Shah's orders on these killings. On May 18, 2008, ex-DSP n.K. Amin, also arrested in the case, told the court "that a police-politician-criminal nexus was in operation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case." The high level of direct communication from Shah, as minister, to an on-duty officer has also been questioned in court.

In the Tulsiram Prajapati case, the encounter killing took place in Banaskantha district. Just 13 days earlier, Vanzara was surprisingly transferred there as DIg Border range.

Vanzara’s resignation letter refers to political mileage obtained from the killings. In the 2007 elections, Modi had asked the electorate as to what was to be done with people like Sohrabuddin, to thunderous responses of "Kill him!

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that as a result for orchestrating and scripting the amazing plan of gujarat Carnage, Doval wanted to have some important assignment in Central government on contract basis after his retirement from IB. However he was advised to wait till Modi forms a government at new Delhi and in the meanwhile, he was accommodated by making him the head of a BJP, RSS fund ngO, a think Tank named Vivekananda International Foundation’s as its chief. He was asked to work there and to continue his liaison with IPS network in police, IB and RAW and continue giving his inputs to relevant quarters in IB and RAW for Hindutva’s cause. He was finally made nSA, superseding a number of BJP leaders and elected MPs, after Modi formed the government at Delhi.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that that the much glorified hijacking of an Indian Airlines’ flight, IC 814 in 1999 to Kandahar, Afghanistan by fake Kashmiri insurgents was also a handy plan of Ajit Doval and B Raman.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that since IB, RAW and MI operate under the Joint Intelligence Committee and by virtue of what, often carry out operations with collaborated efforts, once again in 1999, IB and RAW wanted to flush in some Kashmiri freedom fighters who were first abducted by IB, under Doval’s instructions and were later lured to operate for India, during their days in detention and they agreed to do so. However, there arose the issue of how to make them high profile Kashmiri freedom fighter across the world and specially in the eyes of Kashmiri sympathetic groups in Pakistan as otherwise they had not contributed to the freedom struggle of Kashmiris and were merely minting money in the name Kashmir Jihad while one of them was actually an MI-6 operator. To make them Kashmiri heroes to provide them an easy ingress and penetration into Pakistanbased Jihadi outfits, it was first attempted to achieve the goal via a high profile kidnapping of some Western tourists in IOK during 1995 by raising the demand of these freedom fighters in exchange of kidnapped hostagesl However, as contrary to the expectation of Ajit Doval, CD Sahey and B Raman, when this issue escalated too high, in the Western world, the idea of launching them as gloried Jihadis was dropped.

The Daily Mail’s investigation reveal that 4 years later, in 1999 it was decided they should now be launched as Jihadi heroes via a glorified hijacking.

The investigations indicate that since late B Raman was a maestro in arranging hijackings as he did it many times in 1980s through fake Khalistani groups to dent the Khalistan movement and also to implicate in the same, he gave a plan to Doval and the Indian airline flight was very conveniently hijacked by some very little known “Kashmiri freedom Fighters” The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that though a plane, en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, nepal to Indira gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India on Friday, 24 December 1999, was hijacked. Indians were very quick in accusing Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a Pakistan-based Islamist group, of the hijacking.

Hijackers ordered the aircraft to be flown to several locations. After touching down in Amritsar, Lahore and Dubai, the hijackers finally forced the aircraft to land in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which at the time was controlled by the Taliban. It was very interesting for security experts and counter terrorism specialists to observe that though the ultimate destination of the hijackers was apparently not known to any one on the earth, yet Indian media was very efficiently predicting about every nest destination of the hijacked flight while a Peshawar based journalist of a RAW-linked local media organization was also predicting every next mover of the hijackers with a great accuracy.

After landing at Kandahar air port, hijackers forwarded the demand of releasing three Kashmiri freedom fighters named, Azhar, Omar and Mushtaq. All the three were not very well known with regard to their contributions in freedom struggle of Kashmiris but became world famous after the hijackers spelled their names. On the other side, Doval; from IB and B Raman and CD Sahey from RAW, launched a global media and psychological operation campaigns of branding the demanded trio as being ISI backed Kashmiri militants, arrested by Indian authorities for terrorism.

It remains a fact that all the three remained engaged in Occupied Kashmir and were arrested by Indian authorities. Yet, it also remains a solid fact that all the three were arrested as part of a joint RAW, IB campaign of creating counter insurgents from within the ranks of the actual insurgents.

However these three were picked up with a different purpose as during their Five Star detention, they were trained to carry out well calculated operation in Pakistan, following RAW, IB instructions. The later series of developments proved that these militants, after being release by Indians and after reaching Pakistan, got hectically engaged in activities that were very much against Pakistan and very defaming for ISI. For instance Omar, who was originally an British MI-6 agent and later crossed over to RAW and IB, first formed a network with Al-Qaeda operatives and kidnapped and killed American journalist of Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl and later during his days of detention by Pakistani authorities, hurled a completely baseless allegation of Pakistanis being behind attack on Indian Parliament building in 2002. . none of them ever turned out to be of any service to Pakistan or its ISI. It also remains very interesting to notice that the Chief negotiator to negotiate with hijackers, appointed by Indian government was none other but great Ajit Doval, actual organizer of the entire hijacking drama, while his RAW partner from IOK, CD Sahey was the part of the negotiation team. Doval kept the negotiation process for about a week, to get maximum media coverage of the incident across the globe, like it was done in case of Mumbai attacks where drama was carried on for over 70 hours to bust just 9 attackers but the drama was kept alive for global media coverage for that much time. Such a similarity of media coverage related operations, speak very low of the professional approach of RAW and IB policy makers.

The Daily Mail’s investigation indicate that for dealing with Pakistani media, just before the launching of mega terror operations across Balochistan province of Pakistan, IB and RAW decided to deal with Pakistani media separately to avoid any linkage of the media persons and media houses of Pakistan with RAW alone. When Pakistani security agencies were focusing RAW’s penetration into Pakistani media, IB was forwarded, though the policy remained the same, collaborated and joint. These investigation reveal that since Ajit Doval very strongly believed in supremacy of human intelligence (Humint) rather than technical intelligence (Techint, or technological snooping) as he, even today feels that human assets, which can infiltrate nations and militant organizations, help intelligence agencies to understand the enemy’s mindset and get precise information, he discussed the matter with his accomplice in RAW, Sanjeev Tripathi who by that time was heading a RAW desk that deals with Pakistan related operations. Though this plan was organized when Doval was having his last days at office as IB Chief, yet Sanjeev Tripathi fully agreed with Doval’s vision in this direction and thus organized a comprehensive plan in this direction under which an ngO, South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) was generated, comprising certain unwitting as well as willing journalists from both countries while a separate media plan under the garb of Aman Ki Aasha was also launched with Doval giving complete input even after his retirement and the platform of his Thin Tank, mentioned above was used. Both SAFMA and Aman Ki Aasha were launched with a vision of discouraging the Kashmir issue and putting 50-50 onus on Pakistan for peace with India while the same was never the fact. Aman Ki Aasha however gained new dimensions later on and the entire clandestine mission was exposed in April 2014 when the media house, conniving with RAW and IB, itself blew its nexus by hurling a series of allegations and accusations on ISI chief after one of its journalists was targeted by unknown shooters in Karachi.

The Daily Mail’s investigations also indicate that when former Indian Army Chief and now a BJP elected MP, VK Singh decided to establish a special terrorists cell out of its military establishment to carry out terrorist operations inside Pakistan and code named it as Technical Support Division (TSD), he had no resources and infrastructure to carry on with plan as military laws were giving him no room for such an illegal adventure. Investigations indicate that at that juncture of time, general VK Singh sought help from Doval and Tripathi and the funding and resources of RAW and IB were used through Hindutva nexus for the creation, training, arming and financing of this TSD. Some reports also suggest that in this process, RAW and IB got certain week point of VK Singh himself and these week points were very much to force him to toe a certain line with regard to Pakistan and China The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that Dharamshala based Dalai Lama network is also jointly managed by RAW and IB and Sanjeev Tripathi, with the input of retired Doval, organized the 2008 riots in China’s Tibet, code named “Ashes on Snow” while supporting the CIA backed eTIM for generating violence and terrorism in China’s Xinjiang province is also on the manifesto of RAW and IB. These investigations clearly indicate that India’s national Security Advisor could be the Security Advisor for Indian Prime Minister but he, with this highly objectionable background and with even more alarming current profile and activities, is a constant and crystal clear threat to global peace and imminent terror for the regional countries, with even India itself cannot be considered safe from his venom of Hindutva. The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that if this state of affairs of Ajit Doval, Sanjeev Tripathy and Alok Joshi like extremist Hindutva planners would not be checked timely and properly by global powers and regional leaders, the Hindu extremism and militancy will soon emerge as a monster that no one could ever be able to handle.

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Hoffman praises Shahid ‘Haider’ Hollywood director Michael Hoffman says that the Hindi film industry is not only finding its space in international film festivals but is also becoming more ‘sophisticated’.

Hoffman while promoting his movie ‘The Best of Me’ said in an interview, “Bollywood is shifting and changing. Bollywood is getting more sophisticated and broader but still maintaining the roots of Indian cinema”.

“It's getting more respect from all over the world, and even at the international film festivals it is making its place," Hoffman added.

According to media reports Hoffman praised Vishal Bhardwaj's two most appreciated works, which are adaptations of Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’. Interestingly, his ‘The Best of Me’ too is an adaptation. It is based on Nicholas Sparks' similarly titled romantic novel.

“I also feel that Bollywood is sort of coming up. People are a lot more interested and the marriage between the Bollywood style and strong content like ‘Haider’ that kind of film (with) serious content and distinctive style will definitely get crossover recognition,” he added. – Agencies

Why Dionne Warwick might not pay $10m to IRS emily green Cameron and Jamie are starring together in a new remake of the musical Annie.

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t costs a lot to be Dionne Warwick. The “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” songstress filed for bankruptcy through a federal court in her home state of new Jersey last week, claiming that while she brings in nearly $21,000 in monthly income, she spends all but $10 of it on expenses.

The documents also state that she only has $25,500 in assets and owes more than $10 million to the IRS. The need to file for bankruptcy, Warwick’s publicist Kevin Sasaki said in a statement sent to omg!, was thanks to “negligent and gross financial mismanagement” during several consecutive years in the 1980s and 1990s.

Though the actual overdue back taxes have been paid, according to Sasaki, Warwick owes the mind-blowing amount in accrued penalties and interest.

“In light of the magnitude of her tax liabilities, Warwick has repeatedly attempted to offer re-payment plans and proposals to the IRS and the California Franchise Tax Board for taxes owed. These plans were not accepted, resulting in escalating interest and penalties,” continued Sasaki.

Los Angeles-based bankruptcy attorney

Ali Zafar’s song ‘Nakhriley’ from ‘Kill Dil’ released S

IngeR turned actor Ali Zafar has made Pakistan proud with his versatile acting and singing across the border. ‘Tere Bin Ladin’ actor has released a song ‘nakhriley’ with two other Bollywood singers Shankar Mahadevan and Mahalakshmi.

Source revealed that the song is the most ambitious track in the film especially with sets that took almost 2 weeks to build and song pays tribute to the ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson with a unique twist. Video of the song has been picturised on the three leads Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra and Ali Zafar.

According to media reports Ali Zafar while discussing about the song said, “Shad always had mad and interesting ideas and wanted something that pays tribute to MJ in a crazy way. This has certainly been the most technical song for me in terms of singing and dancing.

I'm really kicked about ‘nakhriley’”.

The song ‘nakhriley’ has been composed by Shankar-ehsaan-Loy and the lyrics has been written by gulzar.

Directed by Shaad Ali, movie stars Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Ali Zafar and govinda in the lead roles and the film has been scheduled to release on november 14. – Agencies

David L. neale, who isn’t involved with Warwick’s case, but has studied her filing,

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Katrina is Seeta & Geeta!

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uzz is that Katrina Kaif has been offered to play Seeta and geeta in the ‘70s hit remake.

Fancy seeing Katrina Kaif in a double role? Our sources say that Kat has been approached to play the twin protagonists in the remake of the ‘70s hit Seeta Aur geeta.

The actress apparently is very fond of the original Hema Malini starrer. Sources say at one point of time, she even harboured intentions of producing the remake.

While the grapevine suggests Ramesh Sippy, who directed the original film, will also helm the project but his son-director Rohan denies it. `Dad is not directing the movie,` states Rohan.

Industry insiders say the makers are apparently so happy with Kat’s interest in the project that they have given her a free hand at selecting the team she wants to work with. Another source says, `The rights are not with Sippy as there is a dispute between the Sippy brothers regarding it. Ramesh could be directing it but only after he wins the rights.` Apparently Katrina and Sippy’s banner are now busy working out details of the project. Both the senior Sippy and Kat were unavailable for comment.—Agencies

t’s been a week of firsts on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” with the first jazz of the season, the first nines of the season, and the first cut of the season (which we know is always the deepest!) But this week featured a major surprise: no one was voted off.

In a results shocker, former Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill withdrew from the competition, following doctor’s orders for a cyst on her spine.

While the 56-year-old had the poten-

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aami gautam’s mother travels to UK to surprise her ailing daughter. There’s no bigger antidote than a mother’s love to beat the health blues. When Yaami gautam fell sick on the sets of her upcoming film in London, her mom decided to surprise her by travelling across continents and landing up in London unannounced.

A unit member says, `It is a long schedule and Yaami is expected to be out of the country for more than a month. She is used to living alone in Mumbai but this is her first long outdoor schedule.` It was during a regular call home that Yaami’s mom noticed her daughter was feeling unwell. `She flew all the way from India with home cooked food for Yaami. The actress was stunned,` adds the informer. An overjoyed Yaami tells us, `I was really missing my mom and ghar ka khaana. The surprise was yummy!`

tial to become the oldest mirror ball winner in the history of the show (as evidenced by her gorgeous and inspiring “Tiny Dancer” contemporary routine), Week 2 had the Olympic champion hobbling due to a cyst on her lower spine that was pinching a nerve. The ongoing medical problem was exacerbated by the show’s grueling dance rehearsals. She and partner Tristan MacManus missed several days of practice this week due to it. Dorothy told TV guide after Monday’s performance show that quitting the show wasn’t an option: “I don’t give up,” she said. “I made the commitment to do the show and I love it. And as long as I’m not doing anything to make things worse, I want to continue. I really want to learn how to dance and I don’t want to leave.”

Something clearly changed, though.

On Tuesday night Dorothy announced, “I’m taking the advice of my spine surgeon and I need to withdraw from the competition. I have an injury that could be irreparable — a nerve damage — and it would be completely unfair for me to stay in this and have any of these people go home.”

tells omg! that it’s very likely the singer could walk away with a clean slate, since her tax obligations reach so far back that they would most likely be considered dischargable. Though other parties she owes could ostensibly sue her for payment, of the $10.72 million Warwick’s filing states she owes to creditors, only about $500,000 is owed to parties other than the IRS. “That kind of tax liability suggests that there was a period when she was making a lot of money and through mismanagement or her own negligence didn’t pay her taxes. now that her income has declined dramatically she’s dealing with this $10 million tax problem,” says neale.

Warwick is far from the first celebrity to declare bankruptcy. Mike Tyson, elton John, Willie nelson, and Toni Braxton have all filed in the past, blaming their financial troubles on everything from overspending to bad investments to unscrupulous managers. “There are no specific requirements to be a business manager,” neale points out. “An artist can hire a friend or family member who doesn’t know what he’s doing or is dishonest and, by trusting that person, winds up with debts they don’t even know they owe.”

Finally, Ahmad Ali Butt to tie the knot amina parVeZ

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amous actor and the lead vocalist of the entity Paradigm band Ahmad Ali Butt is set to tie the knot with his UK based girlfriend Fatima at the end of this month.

Ahmad Ali Butt is a known TV artist and musician who has many achievements throughout his career. He is the grandson of legendary singer Madam noor Jehan and is the son of renowned singer Zille Huma. After splitting with his band entity Paradigm , Ahmad Ali Butt turned into comedian and got fame for PTV Home’s sitcom “Inspector Khojee” and then for Jutt and Bond, with Fawad Afzal Khan and also the Rubber Band. Reportedly, Ahmad Ali Butt is now getting married to his girlfriend for which the couple and their friends are practicing dance performance.

All of Ahmad Ali Butt’s fans will really be happy to know about his nuptials. We congratulate Ahmad Ali Butt for beginning this wonderful relationship.

Fawad ranked among top 5 Bollywood celebrities by ‘Times Celebex’

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AKISTAn’S most celebrated actor Fawad Khan has ranked among top 5 celebrities of Bollywood in a recent rating by ‘Times Celebex’ While, Bollywood ‘Dabbang’ Khan has topped the list.

‘Times Celebex’ is a monthly rating index launched in 2012. They measure the popularity of Stars through different research tools, like by their box office performance, their presence in news, their popularity on social media and brand endorsements. It is the first ever ranking system of Bollywood that collects data from more than 60 publications and more than 250 channels.

From the recent survey done by ‘Times Celebex’ Salman Khan has beaten Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan by being on the top of the ranking list. Salman Khan is on top while Hrithik and Shahrukh come on second and third respectively, media reported. Pakistani heartthrob and ‘Khoobsurat’ actor Fawad Khan had a big leap to land himself on 5th position from 26th position.

Pakistani superstar Fawad Khan ranks fifth in the list, leaving behind Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan,Ranbir Kapoor and other milestone of Bollywood. According to that report Imran Abbas stands on 30th and Ali Zafar on 38th place, local media reported.– Agencies

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Pakistan to be Polio free within six months: PM staFF report ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister nawaz Sharif Wednesday expressed his resolve to defeat polio in six months and said any negligence in this regard shall be considered a crime against future generations.

The premier was addressing the steering committee on polio eradication and vowed to make Pakistan polio-free in six months. He instructed all the provinces to take this matter up with seriousness, adding that it was about the future of the nation's children. nawaz said the federal government, armed forces and civil society stand united in the country's fight against polio.

The premier said Pakistan shares the international com-

munity's concerns on polio, but that the world should also understand the issues faced by the country. "We face challenges like inaccessibility, terrorism and misconceptions in tribal areas about the campaign," he added. nawaz Sharif said Pakistan has faced many problems in the anti-polio drive as the frontline health workers have been targeted by the militants.

He said a military operation is successfully underway to flush out the militants. “We have also seen some breakthroughs in the polio eradication campaign with children of South and north Waziristan agencies are now being immunized,” he said. nawaz also said that polio

vaccination of international travelers was in compliance with international health regulations.

He met with chief ministers of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in this regard and urged them to utilise all resources for eradicating polio in their respective provinces. During the meeting, the chief ministers informed the premier about their efforts and plans for controlling the virus as well as immunisation campaigns.

The chief ministers told Prime Minister nawaz that extra security measures were being taken for the protection of polio teams. nawaz assured Islamabad's full support to the provincial governments in the campaign against polio.

RAWALPInDI: High Commissioner of Pakistan Maj general (Retd) Qasim Qureshi and Sri Lankan Deputy Chief of Staff Maj general emm Ambanpola with Pakistan Air Force and Army Officers at Katunayake Airport, Sri Lanka. – Agencies

Police, Rangers hailed for Ashura security By uZma ZaFar ISLAMABAD – Despite intelligence reports of possible terrorist attacks on the Muharram processions and Majalis, hundreds of main processions and thousands of Majalis were held peacefully due to extra ordinary multi layer security arrangements made by the Provincial governments with the cooperation of federal agencies and not even a single untoward incident took place on Tuesday, the 10th of Muharram. The mourners observed Ashura with religious zeal paying rich tributes to the Martyrs of Karbala for the glory of Islam.

The security arrangements were in place since the beginning of Muharram and it was accelerated on 9th and 10th Muharram. Credit also goes to the administration and the police, who held parleys with religious leaders and Ulema of difficult schools of thought to ensure sectarian harmony.

NAB to probe graft in clean drinking water project staFF report ISLAMABAD – The national Accountability Bureau (nAB) had received a complaint in which it is alleged that massive corruption had been com-

mitted in the award of tender of “Clean Drinking Water for All” by the Officers/Officials of the Ministry of Special Initiatives in 2005. The “Clean Drinking Water Initiatives” was started in February 2005.

India’s NSA causing acute threat to regional, global peace From Page 1 without realizing that the data, he and his government shared with India, was actually attained by Indians to establish fresh links with Daesh fighters to bring them to the focal point of collaborating with Pakistani Taliban, who were deeply hurt and massively destroyed in Pakistan army’s mega anti-terror operation, code named “Operation Zarb-e-Azb”.

In another rare development, Indian TV Channel ‘India TV’ and a US media organization claimed that Ajit Doval carried out a “Top Secret Visit” to Iraq, very recently. These media reports suggested that Doval’s visit was apparently part of India’s diplomatic efforts and help for stranded Indians in Iraq. However these reports do not explain as to why such an otherwise diplomatic visit was kept Top Secret by India? The Daily Mail’s investigations however indicate that it was only after such Doval trips to Syria and Iraq that the fabricated and premeditated news of certain Pakistani Jihadi elements leaving for Syria, followed by the similar natured news of the TTP’s announcement of supporting Daesh, started appearing in international and specially in the Indian media. It remains a fact that ever since Pakistan army has launched Operation against TTP terrorists in Wazirinstan, just one statement from a so called spokesman of these Taliban, Shaid Ullah Shaid, has surfaced in the media and that statement was about TTP joining hands with Daesh.

A Similar Top Secret visit was also carried out by Ajit Doval to Iraq on June25 this year, just when Pakistan started the aforesaid army operation and began effective and smart crushing of the TTP. At that time, this visit was carried out under the garb of bringing home some 46 Indian nurses, stranded in Tikirit, a mission, which by no means, required a secret or open trip by an official of the level of national Security Advisor of India, until and unless the trip had a further classified purpose. The Investigations also reveal that Doval had made it clear to Daesh leaders that despite the fact that the Indian government wanted to extend Daesh a handsome financial and weaponry support, yet it was not possible to be materialized due to certain international reservations while same could easily be done via TTP nexus as India was already doing it in case of TTP, without anyone’s objection from amongst the global leaderships.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that a meeting in regard between certain Daesh leaders and TTP’s Afghanistan based leader Mulla Fazalullah was organized by Doval through Indian Consulate in Kandahar last month. The Investigations reveal that for the said meeting Daesh participants travelled to Kandahar by road from Iraq via Iran while Fazalullah (aka Mullah Radio) and his team were specially flown to India’s Kandahar Consulate from nuristan area of Afghanistan where he is running a proper military base of TTP. nonetheless, on the same night, Daesh representatives were also introduced to Khalid Khorasani, a former TTP Commander and a dissident of Fazalullah but running parelel militant organization from Kunhar province of Afghanistan under RAW patronage. Both Fazulah and Khorasani were not informed each other’s

presence in Kandahar while the separate meetings with Daesh were also kept completely confidential from each other, though later it became an open secret in Afghanistan’s militant world.

These investigation further reveal that to keep maintain a high level camouflage for this meeting and divert the attention of Pakistan intelligence and other Western intelligence operatives, present in the region, Ajit Doval, revived his decades old links with certain top military officials of Iran and thus managed to organized a situation at Pak-Iran border in Pakistan Balochistan area and a small border clash over there, diverted every one’s attention from everywhere else, especially from Kandahar, to this new development.

Some seasoned security analysis’s and counter terror expert see this development going beyond the apparent perception as they believe that this Daesh-TTP network will be intensively used by Doval for militancy in Pakistan as well as in China’s Xinjiang region as they smell the alliance eventually getting teaming up with CIA-backed east Turkistan Islamic Movement (eTIM) that is engaged in rather limited terror and violent activities in Xinjiang via Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. They are of the firm opinion that once US troops are pulled out of Afghanistan and India gets a security role over there, this combination of Deash- eTIM – TTP will unleash a hell in Pakistan and China in particular.

These security experts and counter terror specialists are of the view that the way Indians fooled the US government with regard to terror attack on Samjhauta express train in 2007 and US, on the basis of intelligence provided by the Indians, took no time in declaring certain Pakistani elements as accused for the said terror act but which later turned out to be a handy work by Indian army’s serving officers in connivance with extremist Hindu militants and thus made the US to cut a very sorry figure, eventually, this time again the Indians are very conveniently fooling the Obama administration by ensuring India’s utmost resolve against terror across the world but at the same time continuing with their covert support to terrorists in Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, China etc. These counter terror maestros of the global clandestine community say that there is a possibility that this all is going on with the complete knowledge of White House and Pentagon and they have shut one eye over the issue with other being fully open or there could be a possibility of this being materialized merely between Indians and the CIA operators with little or even no knowledge, at least officially, to the White House. However, it remains no secret that the US government is very much aware of Indian nSA Doval’s deep connections with terrorists and top underworld mafias of the world that was disclosed by a classified ( declassified by Wikileaks) diplomatic cable, sent by the US embassy in India to Washington when the nSA had just vacated the office of IB Chief. Remarks made by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in 2013 in which he clearly stated that India has been exporting and financing in Pakistan, he very much meant the terror operation organized by Indian officials, Ajit Doval,

Sanjeev Tripathi, B Raman etc. Hagel said “India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border, and you can carry that into many dimensions.” This statement of US Secretary of Defense very clearly indicates that the Obama administration in general and its Secretary of Defense in particular are very well aware about what Ajit Doval and company have been doing over the past many years with regard to promotion and financing of terrorists and terrorism.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that the Hindu extremist elements of radical and militant outfits like RSS, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Shiv Sena etc, started placing a special focus on religiously motivated, young IAS (Indian Administration Services) and IPS (Indian Police Services) officers, right at the training academies level from the late 60s, after India faced a severe defeat in war with Pakistan in 1965. This Hindu extremists believed that despite huge numerical supremacy in terms of troops and weaponry of India over Pakistan, Pakistanis managed to defeat Indians in 1965 as they fought with religious motivation while there was no religious motivation on the Indian side and thus it was very pivotal for India to streamline religious motivation across the society via promotion of Hindutva. It remains a fact that after the assaination of India’s founder Mr. gandhi by activists of extremist Hindu outlet RSS ( that is now part of Indian government) in a planned manner, the major chunk of the Hindu society was repelled from religious extremism and got mainly disconnected with Hidutva ideology.

They started these young motivated Hindus under the philosophy and ideology of Hindutva Brotherhood and started transforming them into extremist Hindus.

These investigations indicate that this trend was proposed or introduced by none other but an IPS officer himself. This officer is known as Bahukutumbi Raman or B Raman, an IPS officer of 1961 batch of Madhya Pradesh Cadre, who later was inducted in IB and from where he went to Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) as its founding members and died last year in retirement. Despite being retired from RAW in the last decade, Raman was kept on board and he kept providing his constant input to RAW in post retirement life.

The investigations reveal that later there was a trivial shift in the policy and focus was slightly reduced from IAS officers and was enhanced more on IPS officers as it was planned that the most dedicated ones of these IPS officers would later by inducted into spy agency IB with later expanding it to RAW. The investigations indicate that a huge number of IPS and IAS officers of different state cadres were successfully dragged to Hindutva school of thought. These investigations indicate that though there was a rush of Hindutva motivated IAS and IPS officers in the 60s and 70s, later B Raman took the task of short listing them to form a comprehensive network of top most confidants by maneuvering their respective careers and eventually ending them up in IB, RAW, CBI and other relatively important organization and on highly sensitive assignments.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indi-

cate that B Raman managed to create 5 officers of IPS according his requirements in a period of ten to fifteen years and managed their postings and transfers till the end of his life, with all being junior to him in the service and thus being extensively loyal and obedient to him as well. These officer included Ajit Kumar Doval, an IPS officer of Kerala Cadre of 1968 Batch and ended up as IB chief of India with current political position of being national Security Advisor of India, Sanjeev Tripathi, an IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre of 1972 Batch and ended up as RAW Chief, Alok Joshi, an IPS officer of Haryana Cadre of 1976 Batch who first served in IB up till the position of Joint Director and was later managed to be placed at RAW and is the current RAW Chief, Amithabh Mathur, an IPS officer of 1977 Batch of Manipur Cadre and ended up as RAW’s #2 with B Raman, and IPS officer of 1961 Batch of MP Cadre being their godfather. Raman was called guru by his colleagues and likeminded juniors.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that interestingly, all the IPS police officers were somehow maneuvered by B Raman and Hinudtva Brotherhood to reach to the top positions at IB and RAW with Ajit Doval being the most successful in enjoying the extraordinary position of nSA in his political phase of life. These five IPS officers eventually defaced the organizational identities of RAW and IB amongst their own circle and continued to deliver with mere extremist religious devotion and motivation under Hindutva umbrella. There appears to be another commonality amongst these Cops that all of them, throughout their careers have been maintaining very strong connections with Most Wanted criminals, terrorists and Mafia Dons with Chhota Rajan and his gang being the most prominent in this direction.

These investigation further indicate that despite his great desire to jump into RAW, Ajit Kumar Doval was purposely kept back in IB on B Raman’s suggestions ad by keeping Doval at IB, Raman wanted to maintain a strong support platform in IB for certain Hindutva related operations, despite extreme professional rivalry between RAW and IB and he succeed in doing so as Raman got many operations completed with secret IB help via Doval and Chhota Rajan gang’s operations for RAW were possible only by Doval’s presence at IB as Doval was the mentor and creator of Chhota Rajan and his gang. In the clandestine community of India, it is said that Chhota Rajan and his gang was perhaps Ajit Doval’s best gift to RAW and B Raman while Raman-Doval duo delivered a lot through mutual cooperation at their respective organizational ends to the cause of Hindutva Brotherhood through Chhota Rajan gang’s operations.

Though the successive Indian governments continued to deny any links of its law enforcers or other top officials having any connection with terrorists and criminal mafias with current Modi government being no exception, yet these deep rooted links are open secrets in Indian media and society. However,in a highly classified diplomatic cable (later leaked by Wikileaks) sent by US Consulate in Mumbai on 8th August 2005, the US Mission in Mumbai confirmed this link to Washing-

ton with Ajit Doval being fully exposed in this direction.

In the cable, following assertion was made: “In early July a group of Mumbai policemen traveled to Delhi to stake out Vicky Malhotra, an underworld figure who had been charged with numerous acts of terror and crimes, including murder, extortion explosions and arms smuggling.

On July 11 the Mumbai police arrested Malhotra while he was driving through central Delhi. Accompanying Malhotra was Ajit Kumar Doval, former head of the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB. Doval himself as well as gOI officials from the Home Ministry later declined to comment about the incident. 9. (SBU) Thereafter the Indian media was rife with speculation about why the former head of India's premier intelligence service was caught with a known underworld figure. Malhotra is the right hand man of gangster Chhota Rajan, an otherwise Most Wanted criminal by Law in India. gOI and the Mumbai police have not commented on the incident. The arrests and the presence of former IB chief Doval are established facts. Since the authorities are not publicly talking, everything else about the incident is speculation of media outlets.”

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that though all the above mentioned IPS officers of Hindutva Brotherhood have always maintained spectacular relations with India’s homegrown terror networks and underworld mafias, yet the Chhota Rajan gang and Dawood Ibrahim gang emerged as the prominent one’s of this chain of protected rackets. Though when Hindutva brotherhood decided to exit Dawood Ibrahim gang out of the scene for his reluctance to carry out anti Muslim operations, all the IPS gang of five went against him and Ibrahim was declared a Pakistani agent, working for Pakistan’s ISI spy agency, despite the fact that ISI had no advantage in using the services of an Indian underworld gangster who was already operating under the protection of India’s own police and intelligence network, yet his being a Muslim was more than enough for the Indian Police and Intelligence as well the local media to portray Ibrahim as an ISI patterned criminal. Some reports however suggest that when life was made miserable for Dawood Ibrahim in India, he shifted to Dubai and formed an even wider network of with the connivance of certain friends from Italian and Russian underworld mafias. These reports also suggest that Dawood had some support from his Mumbai days partners of Karachi-based Pakistani elements of local underworld yet any of Dawood’s connection with any Pakistani State organization and specially the ISI could never be established on the basis of one single solid evidence and all the hullaballoo in this direction remained merely part of media and official propagation by the Indians.

The Daily Mail’s investigation indicate that Chhota Rajan gang’s services were first utilized by Doval at the large scale level during the attack of extremist Hindus on Babari Msjid in Ajodhya in early 1990s. As this assault was made in the name of religion, yet was carried out in a manner of organized crime, Chhota

Rajan gang’s input was very much required and gang’s contribution brought Chhota Rajan in the very good books of Hindutva Brotherhood. From there onwards, Chhota Rajan gang’s activities got the full support and blessings of the Hindu extremist groups while it had the IB and Police blessings already. The investigations indicate that when Ajit Doval introduced Chhota Rajan to B Raman, Raman straightaway took Rajan and his under the RAW cover and handed him over a sort of ex-officio RAW wing that was code named by Raman as “Special Operations Division” while gang’s association with IB continued under Doval’s leadership at IB and later under Alok Joshi’s patronage while Joshi is now looking after the gang in his capacity of RAW Chief. S Special investigative report on the overall activities of Chhota Rajan gang would be published soon.

However it is worth mentioning here that Chhota Rajan gang delivered handsomely for both IB and RAW while its services were often rendered to Military Intelligence at different occasions under the Hindutva- Army nexus arrangements.

Chhota Rajan gang was used from the level of eliminating defiant crime rackets in Mumbai and other parts of India to the massacre of nepal’s Royal family and then down to the level of killing of Indian Jai Dey of Mid-Day newspaper of India and assassination of Pakistani journalist Salim Shahzad a few years back when both the Indian and Pakistani journalists were working on investigative reports of exposing RAW, IB and Chhota Rajan gang’s nexus. However, very smartly, using RAW pawns in Pakistani media, on the advice of Sanjeev Tripathi, RAW tried to drag Pakistan ISI into the murder of Salim Shahzad to damage an outstanding professional relationship between ISI’s media wing and local journalists to combat anti Pakistan media propagation by the foreign media and especially by the Indian Media. Chhota Rajan gang was also used for execution of organized violence in China’s Tibet in 2008 and the follow up incidents of violence and terror in China’s Xinjiang province while in Pakistan, this gang has not only been operating in Balochistan but a strong presence of the gang members was discovered during anti- terror operation in Waziristan agencies and Swat area while Afghanistan has emerged as a regional headquarter of Chhota Rajan gang. These investigations believe that Ajit Doval has throughout been a devil’s advocate and has been insisting in use of underworld mafia’s for intelligence operations as he believes that Underworld gangsters had more ingress in society and were more effective in penetrating into any segment of life than the intelligence agency personnel.

The investigations indicate that after getting RAW and IB protection via blessings of Ajit Doval and B Raman and later Sanjeev Tripathi, Chhota Rajan aptly expanded the gang’s smuggling gold and narcotics, extortion, gambling, prostitution, contract killings and other racketeering operations. Due to his links with the Shiv Sena’s ideologue late Bal Thackeray and his gang’s involvement in Continued on Page 7

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enS of thousands responded to PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s call to attend his March 23 rally at the Minar-e-Pakistan if they wanted to create a ‘new Pakistan’. Aside from some 80,000 newly-elected office bearers - a feather in his cap for holding genuine intraparty elections - as is the common practice at such gatherings, aspiring candidates for party tickets had brought along workers and supporters to make a show of strength.

Also present in force were the urban middle-class youth inspired by Imran’s slogan of change, responding enthusiastically to every one of his six pledges to never break a single promise, to end oppression, to wage jihad against exploitation and injustice, to keep his money in Pakistan, not to indulge in nepotism, to stand by his stance on US drone strikes in the tribal areas, and to turn government leaders’ palatial residences into libraries.

If his last public meeting at the same place proved he had ‘arrived’, the one on Sunday showed he stays as a formidable alternative to the two other major parties although it is yet to be known how the PTI is perceived in the rural areas.

The important question at this point is whether or not he will be able to convert this groundswell of support into votes. One major positive development on that score is the just concluded intraparty elections.

The exercise has created a large body of stakeholders from the union council, to tehsil, and district all the way up to provincial and national level, although the top positions have been filled unopposed inviting criticism from detractors. Then there is a newly raised cadre of a million ‘Tabdeeli Razakars’ (change volunteers) who are to propagate the party programme and bring out people to cast their votes. The urban youth who have been participating in his rallies are active on the social media spreading the party message.

The fervour for change though may still be dampened if the usual electable types rather than new faces are dominant among the party ticket holders who are to contest assemblies’ seats. An equally, if not more, serious problem could be Imran Khan’s own misjudgements. His support for Tahirul Qadri’s campaign did not sit well with many. His hobnobbing with the Jamaat-e-Islami has long been a source of unease among urban middle-classes wanting to see this country rise as a progressive forward-looking society. Yet at a recent party meeting the PTI, contrary to its earlier declarations not to forge any pre-election alliance, decided to make seat-to-seat adjustments with the JI and Sheikh Rashid’s Awami Muslim League.

It remains a mystery as to why should the PTI make any kind of alliance with Rashid’s one-man party. Seat adjustments with JI can be a mixed bag of gains and losses. Small blocks of JI votes may benefit PTI candidates in Karachi and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But then the PTI on its own is believed to have a large following in KP. If the hope is to dip into religious types’ vote, it is already divided in KP where the JUI-F has a strong presence. Alliance with the JI may bring more loss than gain. It is likely to alienate a large number of liberal elements who think Imran, despite his right wing leanings, is a social liberal. Also, for those who may be willing to accept Imran’s position on negotiating with the Taliban on the ground that much of the violence in the tribal areas is the result of the US war in neighbouring Afghanistan and the anger generated by drone strikes, it would be an outrage to associate with the JI, whose chief Munnawar Hassan, has consistently been refusing to condemn suicide bombings killing innocent people all over the country. Imran needs to rethink his present strategy to turn the waves of support into ‘tsunami’ that, he says, is to destroy the old system for him to build a new Pakistan.

Momentous Doha summit

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He 24th Arab League summit, which opens today in Doha, promises to be one of the organization’s most important. As the crisis in Syria enters its third bloody year, the League, whose early concerted efforts to mediate between the Assad regime and the opposition were undermined by Damascus, has taken the historic step of awarding Syria’s seat at the summit to the opposition.

In a pre-summit move backed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Arab League foreign ministers’ meeting Sunday in Doha agreed that the true representatives of the Syrian people were those who oppose and are fighting to bring to an end 42 years of ruthless dictatorship. There can be no doubt that this is a major blow to Assad. He might have imagined that rather than send some mealy-mouthed minister to try to justify to the rest of the Arab world, his unjustifiable savagery, Syria’s empty seat at the summit would constitute some sort of mute rebuke to League members. In the event, Syria’s long-suffering people, rather than the regime that is oppressing them, will be represented today and tomorrow in Doha. The rebukes thus for Assad.

It is however deeply regrettable, that the head of the Syrian national Coalition, Moaz Al-Khatib, chose the eve of the summit to announce his resignation.

Though Al-Khatib has said that he will still come to address the League, there will be considerable concern among members that once again the Syrian opposition is damaging its cause by its inability to present a united front. In the eyes of some members of the coalition, Al-Khatib was wrong to continue to offer dialogue with the Assad regime, while it is reported that he was also unhappy with the formation of the provisional government. In a tweet message, Al-Khatib said that he had decided to come and speak to the summit “in the name of the Syrian people.” It can be confidently expected, that on the very same grounds, League members will be seeking to persuade AlKhatib to reconsider his decision.

What Syria’s opposition needs at this moment is unity. The League must use its good offices to impress this key factor, not simply on Al-Khatib but on the other dissenting parts of the coalition. Another League state with political challenges is Lebanon, which is being represented by its President Michel Suleiman, following the resignation on Sunday of Prime Minister najib Mikati. Suleiman is expected to tell the summit that it is imperative that his country should continue to disassociate itself from events in neighboring Syria. Lebanon is still recovering from its own brutal civil war, which only ended after 25 years with the 1990 Riyadh Conference.—AN

Tariq Saeed Khan

Fair elections & expectations from judiciary

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RAnSPARenT elections are aspiration of the entire nation. It is an open fact that it is only transparent elections which can install a competent government capable of solving the current problems. But it is a tyranny that the fundamental and essential demand of eCP for the approval of reforms package is lying the federal government for approval since 21st February. Is after the negligence of federal government and parliament once again SC has to act in this issue too?

In past it is SC who functioned for every issue of national interest, which was expected to be resolved by the government. Loan write off issue is an example. To make the people aware the Supreme Court made public on Feb 20 a report of a three-member commission formed to investigate billions of rupees of loans written off over the past four decades. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed had taken notice of media reports that the State Bank had quietly allowed commercial banks to write off non-performing loans estimated at Rs.54 billion under a scheme introduced by former president Pervez Musharraf. The estimate swelled to Rs256 billion after the scope of scrutiny of written off loans was extended to Dec 2009 from 1971.

A circular issued by the SBP governor had also raised serious questions with respect to the written off, remitted, reversed or waived loans & advances from 1971 onward under BPD circular 29 of 2002. Under the order, banks waived loans given out of public money during the Musharraf regime. Soon after the Oct 2002 general election, then finance minister Shaukat Aziz and his financial team at the SBP had approved the loan writeoff scheme to ease financial burden on business concerns owned by some leaders of the ruling party of that time.

Instead of launching an effective campaign to recover non-performing loans (nPL), the SBP had in Oct 2002 issued an incentive scheme to banks and DFIs to waive loans of organizations showing ‘loss’ for three years or more after dividing them into three categories : nPL up to Rs0.5 million; nPL from Rs0.5m to Rs2.5m and more than Rs2.5m.

According to media reports, politicians and big business concerns used the third category to get billions of rupees outstanding against them written off by banks. Shockingly, banks and DFIs were asked to recover maximum possible amount to settle loans falling under initial two categories through forced sale of available assets.

The purpose of the scheme was to clean the balance sheets owned by banks and DFIs. The three-member commission constituted under the Banking Companies Ordinance, 1962, was headed by a former SC judge, Justice (retd) Syed Jamshed Ali Shah. Its terms of reference included penalizing bankers who had waived loans without any justification. The commission had to hold bankers responsible for extending short-term or long-term loan facility to borrowers on inadequate securities and to recommend steps to be taken against them. It had to suggest measures to safeguard the amount of loans against arbitrary concessions extended in the past either on political or other considerations.

In Supreme Court, the voluminous report in twenty iron boxes was unsealed in the open court and three sets of volume I to II, along with a supplementary paper book, were taken out for perusal of the judges. The court ordered that the report be provided to

the counsel representing the banks and also made it available for inspection by all and sundry to be regulated by the court office. The court ordered that the rest of the volumes of the report be kept again in the sealed boxes in safe custody. The case will be taken up after three weeks.

On the same issue, the Supreme Court, while hearing a suo motu case on September 27, 2010, questioned the authority and jurisdiction of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to waive off Rs 256 billion bank loans during the period from 1971 to 2009 under Banking Companies Ordinance. The apex court

ruthlessly. The criminal culpability of successive governments, civil and military alike, in this matter has pushed Pakistan in a corner where the global community perceives this country as a haven for the corrupt, plunderers, criminals and tax evaders. The Supreme Court on January 21, 2008 asked the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to report in two weeks details of a scheme it allegedly approved in October 2002 for writing off loans of Rs 54 billion owed to commercial banks by business concerns run by some top politicians and other people. The court took suo motu action on a report appearing in a sec-

A circular issued by the SBP governor had also raised serious questions with respect to the written off, remitted, reversed or waived loans & advances from 1971 onward under BPD circular 29 of 2002. Under the order, banks waived loans given out of public money during the Musharraf regime. Soon after the Oct 2002 general election, then finance minister Shaukat Aziz and his financial team at the SBP had approved the loan writeoff scheme to ease financial burden on business concerns owned by some leaders of the ruling party of that time.

Instead of launching an effective campaign to recover non-performing loans (nPL), the SBP had in Oct 2002 issued an incentive scheme to banks and DFIs to waive loans of organizations showing ‘loss’ for three years or more after dividing them into three categories : nPL up to Rs0.5 million; nPL from Rs0.5m to Rs2.5m and more than Rs2.5m. directed the SBP counsel to submit details of at least ten cases from each year, which met two conditions set in Section 33B of Banking Companies Ordinance, 1962 and which were prerequisites for writing off loans. Banks have written off some Rs 125 billion worth of loans during the past six years, 2000-2006 period, against Rs 30 billion written off during 1985-1999, and larger number of loans have been written off under the SBP circular no 29/2002, of which major beneficiaries are politicians and industrialists.

The country’s banks and other financial institutions wrote off a staggering amount of over Rs 30 billion during the governments of Muhammad Khan Junejo, Benazir Bhutto and nawaz Sharif. During the two tenures of Prime Minister nawaz Sharif, 199093 and 1997-99, which the major chunks of these loans, were written off.

Two-thirds of the total loans, Rs 22.35 billion, were written off during the two stints of nawaz Sharif. In his first tenure, a total of Rs 2.39 billion were written off and during his second, the amount went up to a staggering Rs 19.96 billion. The written off loans, during the two tenures of nawaz Sharif, constituted approximately 74.5 percent of the total of Rs 30.18 billion, written off between 1986 and 1999.

During the two terms that Benazir Bhutto was in power, a total of Rs 7.23 billion loans were written off, constituting 24.2 percent of the total written off loans of Rs 494.97 million in her first tenure and Rs 6.74 billion in the second .

It is a matter of record that public money has continuously been looted by the rich and mighty in this country.

The facts quoted in press reports cited above reveal how colossal wealth of this nation i.e. public money lying in banks was plundered pitilessly and

tion of the press regarding SBP’s approval of a scheme to quietly write off a total of Rs 54 billion bank loans.

Based on a secret report to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the national Assembly, the newspapers reported that 50,000 people, including politicians, civil and military business concerns and business tycoons of Karachi, Lahore and other cities, had been favored through the scheme and their outstanding loans had been written off in 2002. The report had accused the then chief ministers of two provinces as being beneficiaries of the scheme because their families, having big business concerns like sugar mills and ghee mills also got a waiver on outstanding loans. even some foreign firms and multinational companies and a private bus service operating from Lahore to different cities of Punjab were also extended this facility.

Soon after October 2002 elections, the news item pointed out, the then finance minister Shaukat Aziz and his financial team at the SBP approved the loan write-off scheme, having yielded to the pressure from certain top politicians of the then ruling party. Instead of launching an effective campaign for the recovery of non- performing loans (nPL), it said, the SBP issued an incentive scheme to the banks & DFIs in October 2002 for waiving the nPL of the organizations, showing ‘loss’ for three years or more after dividing them in three categories. The politicians and the big business concerns exploited the third category of nPL, as mentioned above, to get billions of rupees outstanding against them written off.

Shockingly, the report said, the banks & DFIs were asked to recover maximum possible amount to settle loans, falling under last two categories through forced sale of available assets.

The purpose of the scheme was pur-

portedly to clean the balance sheets owned by banks & DFIs. It was just eyewash. The real purpose was to give unprecedented benefit to the rich and mighty.

This is not the first time that the Supreme Court has taken the matter of loan write offs. Way back in October 15, 1996, the Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance, under Article 189 of the Constitution, of mismanagement of public money and expressed its intention of studying all the laws governing the banking sector in this regard. The apex court vowed to make authoritative pronouncement that “would eliminate the chances of misusing the laws for siphoning of public money.” There is, however, no track what happened to that public interest litigation case.

From the latest proceedings, it appears that the issue is lingering on since 14 years. The said public interest litigation originated from a reference filed by the then President, the late ghulam Ishaq Khan, against a PPP MnA, Rao Rasheed Ahmad, who as a member of loan write off committee, blatantly ordered to write off a loan of his wife.

During the era of Musharraf, the loans write offs in just seven years (2000-06) crossed the figure of Rs 125 billion, whereas in the much-publicized “corrupt eras” of elected governments (1985-1999), it was just Rs 30 billion. This comparison speaks for itself and does not require any further comments.

Pakistan’s top defaulters were also exposed when such information was exposed to media in past. According to the Moeen Qureshi list of 1993, Fazalsons group was defaulting in the payment of 34 loans amounting to Rs 2,164 million, Hyesons was defaulting in Rs 1,174 million, Habib group in payment of 32 loans worth Rs 850 million, an obscure naqvi group was in default of Rs 676 million, Tawakkal Rs 479 million, Adamjee Rs 198 million, Dadabhoy Rs 191 million, Hashwani Rs 48.7 million and Fancy Rs 40.6 million.

Major defaulters among the politicians were Chaudharies of gujrat who were defaulting in payment of six loans worth Rs 109.66 million against Phalia Sugar, Punjab Sugar and Sapco Limited, Ittefaq group Rs 83 million against Ittefaq Foundry, Saifullah’s Rs 37.3 million while Zardari group was in default of Rs 7 million. This is one example of corrupt governance in this country. Irony is that all the steps necessarily to be taken by executive to eradicate this marauding were initiated by judiciary. This questions the credibility and proficiency of executive which was always compensated by judiciary. At this juncture of events when nation is expecting a transparent election ahead and execute along with parliament is inactive in performing their obligations, expectations from judiciary are high.

The election Commission of Pakistan (eCP) after a long wait since February 11th sent its own amended nomination forms for printing on 11th March, as the president could not take a decision on the matter after the Ministry of Law had raised several objections to the proposed changes. The eCP took the decision on legal basis stating that it is the mandate of the eCP to conduct free, fair and transparent elections under Article 218 of the Constitution; the approval of the President under section 107 of ROPA is merely a formality; and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of Pakistan has stated in the Worker’s Party that the eCP is empowered and independent to do all that is necessary to fulfill its Constitutional mandate’ and instruct that it do so.

Here too the Supreme Court came to rescue eCP and enable her for performance of her constitutional duties to hold free and fair elections.

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By Harun Yahya

Michael Spence

Turkish nation must be on guard China meeting new against PKK’s plan to split Country challenges

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he deep states of the USA and europe have been dreaming of establishing an independent Kurdistan in the Middle east for the last 100 years. In order for that state they dream of to come about, the Southeast of Turkey needs to break away from our homeland. The PKK, a communist terror organization, is a group that these secret structures in question are using to that end. every stage of this dream, which the Turkish nation will never allow to happen, has been planned in detail. According to this plan; 1. They are trying to establish an oppressive system through armed force, violence and terror and give the impression that the populace are on their side.

2. In the name of strengthening local administrations, they are trying to establish a way to enable the PKK to get hold of law enforcement units, the judicial system and public order in the region. europe has been pressuring Turkey for that stage to come about for decades.

3. By declaring autonomy, they are trying to establish a separate region with its own parliament, police, military and judicial system. The main idea behind saying, ‘We do not want to break away from Turkey, we just wish to govern ourselves,’ is this: "Let Turkey meet all the costs involved in our security, commercial and daily life, but let us develop a separate communist structure".

4. They demand freedom for Öcalan.

The first step towards that is house imprisonment for Öcalan, followed by his release.

That is the reason why certain circles in the USA and europe are constantly working to improve Öcalan’s image.

5. After establishing communist rule in an autonomous Southeast under the leadership of the terrorist leader Öcalan, they are planning to spread that system to the rest of

Turkey and the Middle east.

6. After making the Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist ideology of the PKK prevail in areas of Syria and Iraq with largely Kurdish populations, they plan to gradually unite these areas with the Southeast of Turkey, and thus to declare an independent communist Kurdistan.

7. After establishing such a communist Kurdistan, uprisings will be started in other countries in the region, and efforts will be made to impose communist rule across the Middle east.

8. At this stage, various circles in the USA and europe will then say that they are opposed to the existence of a communist state in the region and will use that as a pretext to incite a new war. On the pretext of destroying the monster they created, they will wage a pitiless war in the Middle east.

This war will result in the slaughter of masses of Kurds, and will certainly be a tragedy for the entire region.

An InTeLLeCTUAL STRUggLe AgAInST THe PKK IS THeReFORe eSSenTIAL TO PReVenT THe MIDDLe eAST FROM DROWnIng In BLOOD! First and foremost, the PKK is not the representatives of our Kurdish brothers. The Kurds are devout, well-mannered and virtuous people. The PKK, however, is irreligious, godless and rejects the concepts of moral virtue and the family. It is impossible for the immaculate Kurdish people to support the terrorist PKK. It is unacceptable to leave the needs and rights of the people in the region at the mercy of a despotic and aggressive organization such as the PKK on the pretext of strengthening local administrations.

The PKK is a Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist organization and as a prerequisite of its ideology, it permits no structure that thinks any

different. This will make it impossible for any other party or civil society organization to operate in the region. The PKK will deny the right to life and existence to those who now forcefully speak of releasing Öcalan, establishing local assemblies and autonomy, and will ruthlessly crush them all.

Bearing this in mind, our state must take a firm stand against all proposals, particularly those that demand the release of Öcalan and autonomy, which would leave our Kurdish brothers at the mercy of the PKK. no good conscience would ever find it acceptable to abandon the Kurdish people, who were ruthlessly kept down by the alleged organization ergenekon for decades, to an oppressive Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist regime instead.

The deep states of the Western countries are no friends of the Kurdish people. The way that these bodies, which for decades watched as Saddam and Assad persecuted the Kurds, now appear to be supporting them is deceptive. These circles’ sole aim is to protect the godless, Bookless PKK and use it to establish an independent communist Kurdistan in the region. All countries of the region must be on their guard against this stratagem.

This plan to set Muslim against Muslim can be thwarted only by fully embracing the Qur’an, through Islamic Unity and the system of the Mahdi. By the leave of god, this is the century in which the PKK will be consigned to the dustbin history and the Truth will prevail.

Say: ‘The Truth has come.

Falsehood cannot originate or regenerate.’

(34/49) The writer has authored more than 300 books translated in 73 languages on politics, religion and science. He may be followed at @Harun_Yahya and www.harunyahya.com

S. M. Hali

The legendary man M.M. Alam

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ir Commodore Muhammad Mahmood Alam breathed his last on March 18, 2013 after a prolonged illness.

He was buried with full military honours at the graveyard at PAF base Masroor, Karachi. M.M. Alam shot to fame during the 1965 Pakistan-India War, when on 7th September; he became the world’s first fighter’s ace in the jet-age. His name became emblazoned with golden letters forever in the annals of Pakistan’s history and he is remembered for his feats as a fighter pilot but little is known about Alam—the man.

Alam was a humble person and he never let fame and success swell his head, if anything it increased his humility and faith in the Almighty. During the 1965 War, I was a student of class VIII in PAF Public School Sargodha. After the war, I requested him for his autograph. He didn’t spurn me away and to this day I proudly carry his autograph, scribbled in a neat hand: “god is great!” signed Muhammad Mahmood Alam. The next encounter with him was in 1967, just after the ArabIsraeli War, when Alam came to deliver the Friday sermon at our school mosque.

He was an outstanding orator and his speech was so full of vigour and fury as he spoke of Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians that we youngsters became so charged that had he given the command, we would have marched to Israel to defend the faith.

Much later in life, I used to have numerous sittings with him and listen spellbound to his views on life, politics and professionalism. He shared with me that whereas remarkable fighter pilots like Rafiqui, Yunus, Alauddin, Munir and numerous others embraced shahadat, Allah did not grant him his wish to make the supreme sacrifice of his life in the defence of the nation, perhaps because he was destined to serve other purposes.

On 6th September, PAF’s plan to carry out a preemptive strike at Indian air bases simultaneously with a time on target (TOT) at 5:05 pm did not materialize since the strike aircraft at Sargodha were not ready on time while no 19 Squadron from Peshawar successfully struck Pathankot at the designated TOT. PAF pressed on with the attacks, despite the delays. Resultantly,

sance mission over Jammu, his aircraft’s canopy was shattered by ground fire, but he continued the mission, destroying Indian heavy artillery and lived to fight another day.

The episode of downing numerous Hunters was no fluke; having flown the superior aircraft, he knew exactly where to outmaneuver it. During the rest of his service, Alam devoted his life to studying the latest tactics and strategy, sharing with his juniors. extremely fruMuch later in life, I used to them gal, he would support needy students have numerous sittings with and the poor. His departure from PAF was melodramatic. Being a princihim and listen spellbound to too pled person, distressed by the air his views on life, politics and chief’s involvement in shady defence he tried to apprise the reigning professionalism. He shared deals, military dictator of the air chief’s When the dictator with me that whereas remark- transgressions. responded that he was aware of it, able fighter pilots like Rafiqui, Alam stated that he had come to ask to take action against the air chief Yunus, Alauddin, Munir and him but if he (the dictator) chose to remain numerous others embraced oblivious of the air chief’s misdeeds having full knowledge, then shahadat, Allah did not grant despite the dictator had no right to serve; Alam him his wish to make the rendered his own resignation, spendhis time teaching the Quràn to supreme sacrifice of his life in ing youngsters in a mosque.

When the Soviets attacked the defence of the nation, perAfghanistan, he participated in the Jihad, haps because he was destined received serious injuries and returned. He continued his Spartan bachelor’s life, since to serve other purposes. he claimed to have been wedded to his profession. It was Air Chief Marshal having lost the element of surprise, Alam’s Abbas Khattak, who tried to resurrect the veterstrike formation, heading for Adampur, was an war hero, inviting MM Alam, to reside in any greeted by a vigilant formation of Hunters. officers’ mess. He also asked him to address In the ensuing air battle, Alam shot down PAF personnel and motivate them. The legone Hunter and extricated his formation. As endary war hero kept his side of the bargain and Alam and his boys were returning, wrote pamphlets on air combat and inspired airRafiqui’s formation was exiting to attack crew all over Pakistan to give their very best.

Halwara, where Rafiqui and Yunus With his demise, Pakistan has lost a genuine embraced shahadat. Alam’s faith in Allah warrior, who devoted his life to the service of and destiny was reinforced each day. Two the nation, sans any lust for power, pelf or days before the war, flying a reconnais- authority, unafraid to express his opinion.—OM

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ReSIDenT Xi Jinping and must not depend on protecting specific jobs Premier Li Kiqiang represent and companies, whether they are Statea new generation of leaders, owned or not. determined to continue and Maximizing the economic potential of accelerate China’s economic progress and the growing internal domestic market will social progress. They are smart, committed require removal of barriers and preferences, and articulate. The preceding decade was one many of local origin, and enhancing the of stupendous economic performance: mobility of people and labor. The status of growth approaching and sometimes exceed- migrants (those with rural registration living ing 10 percent, poverty receding, a growing in cities) will have to be upgraded to full citmiddle class projected to grow from 230 mil- izenship. This in turn means that urbanizalion to 630 million people in a decade, and an tion must work. national economy that is the second-largest China’s population is now just over 50 in the world. Resilience in the post-crisis percent urban. The massive investment in period has been urbanization under impressive, and cruthe leadership of the cial to the broader China’s population is now new premier will pattern of resilience drive growth, and partial de-cou- just over 50 percent urban. enhance mobility and pling in the develop- The massive investment in is required to make ing countries. China the pattern of urbanis an economic pow- urbanization under the lead- ization orderly and erhouse, the domi- ership of the new premier efficient. Also neednant force for growth ed are enabling in the global econo- will drive growth, enhance reforms of the fiscal my at this point. The financial sysmobility and is required to and dream, expressed fretems to support such quently by the make the pattern of urbaniza- investment. incoming President, But urbanization is to become an tion orderly and efficient. by itself is not suffiadvanced, creative, Also needed are enabling cient. It is crucial innovative, and equithat it be driven by table economy and reforms of the fiscal and expanding employsociety. ment opportunities in financial systems to support the Few doubt that urban sector this is possible. But such investment. rather than declining there are major, suroptions in the rural But urbanization by itself and mountable chaltraditional seclenges to achieving is not sufficient. It is crucial tors. Such opportunithis goal. The growth that it be driven by expand- ties require structural and progress of the change, growing last decade were ing employment opportuni- household incomes enabled by a combiand the rapid expannation of growing ties in the urban sector rather sion of a range of engagement with the than declining options in the service sectors. It is global economy and easy to see that the major structural and rural and traditional sectors. elements of the system reforms put Such opportunities require changing growth patin place in the 1990s. tern and supporting There is a wide- structural change, growing policy are closely spread understanding household incomes and the linked and complethat the existing mentary. growth pattern needs rapid expansion of a range of The State has a to change in multiple service sectors. It is easy to massive (by Western dimensions, in order standards) balance for progress to con- see that the elements of the sheet. Assets include tinue. Major system reserves that amount reform is needed to changing growth pattern and to almost half the support the altered supporting policy are closely gDP, land, dominant growth dynamics of a ownership of the rising middle-income linked and complementary.

State-owned entercountry. prises and more.

China is in the Public debt is less middle-income transition in which growth than 50 percent of gDP. This has enabled takes average incomes from $4,000 to China to maintain macro stability even when $10,000 per year. Most developing countries, imbalances emerge and to sustain high levels even high growth ones, slow down and get of public sector investment to support stuck at this stage, although there are excep- growth. It was a key element in weathering tions (the economies of Japan and the Repub- the 1997-98 Asia crisis and again in 2008lic of Korea). There are many reasons for 09. this. Labor intensive sectors in the tradable Chinese leaders and policymakers are sector lose their comparative advantage to unlikely to follow the Western model of other, earlier stage, countries and must be let smaller balance sheets and large unfunded go and replaced by functions and sectors with liabilities. But that leads to the major chalhigher added value. entry and exit of firms lenge of the effective management of public and innovation are important parts of the assets. There are ways to manage these assets shift in productivity and dynamic efficiency. that impede or promote the expansion of In China’s case, the demand side is competition, market efficiency and equally important. Because of its scale, dynamism. There will be debate within China China cannot rely on external demand as a about the benefits and costs of alternative buffer against transitional shortfalls in models and more generally about the details domestic aggregate demand. growth must be that will define the evolving role of the State. driven increasingly by domestic consumption Finally, meritocracy has deep historical and high return domestic investment. That roots in China. And generally citizens accept means household incomes have to rise and market outcomes if the competition is fair, the financial and investment systems need to and the elements of social insurance and change to enable demand and to screen out security are adequate. Both require developinefficient investment. ment. Recent rising anger and social tension Some of the reforms for the new leaders is linked to the perception that there are will be expanding the scope of market deter- insiders and outsiders and that economic mined outcomes and redefining the key ele- outcomes depend more on relationships than ments of policy needed to move in that direc- superior competitive performance. An tion. equally high on the agenda will be ele- important priority for China’s new leaderments of the social agenda. And they are ship therefore, are actions that signal to the related. As the scope of the market expands, people that there will be a determined assault the natural turbulence of structural change on this pattern and a commitment to a meriand competition require the support of social tocratic egalitarian society. security systems. Much useful experimentaOver the next few months, all of China tion and learning in a number of northern and much of the rest of the world will be european countries will help with the design watching as the system reforms emerge. A of social security programs that enhance huge amount is at stake, within China and in rather than impede growth. Social security the rest of the global economy.

L e t t e r s To T h e E d i t o r Time of Tribulation As I was going through the newspapers on 23rd March, I came across a campaign message titled “Just and Tolerant Pakistan” with the quote of Quaidi- Azam the epistle of which was that everyone shall be equal in the state.

There were so many things that stuck my mind like, have we really become that intolerant that we now have to take the help of campaigns? Are we the antecedents of that tremendous leader whose vision was that such a state shall be established where everyone’s rights will be protected? I was totally dejected when the inner voice inside me said that “YeS, we are going through this impaired situation these days where there does not exist ant such thing as TOLeRAnCe.” We are now the residents of a state where there is intolerance against the fellow countrymen and they are tagged in an abominable way as Minorities, Shias, Hazaras, Ahmedies, etc. Did all these communities not harmonize at that time with the leaders to establish a new state where their dreams were to come true of, where their rights of freedom, equality were to be protected in the future?

With all these accumulating thoughts, one more thing which I was admonishing in my mind was the essay of e. M. Forster on “Tolerance” where he has this view that whatever values one follows in one’s life but without following this single value, one can never advance in the right direction. We can get rid of all the pain of envy within ourselves if we culture tolerance in our lives. The vices of intolerance are abhorrent and if we continue to bounce back in the similar fashion in the future also, god forbid we will have to face more annihilative situations of that. Leaving back all what has happened in the past, let us all affiliate, gather together under one flag and become a “One nATIOn” regardless of any religion, cast, color or creed which was also the dream of our forefathers. May god be with our beloved country and may it soon come out of the arduous situation. Ameen!

Saba Saleem Rawalpindi

Call for religious dialogue newly elected Pope Francis has called for greater dialogue between Christianity and Islam. Unquestionable, this is a welcome move from the Vatican, principally because while speaking of dialogue with many religions, the pole

particularly saw the necessity to pave the way for better relations with the Muslim world. He has urged the West to intensify dialogue with Islam. In my opinion the Muslim world should positively respond to this call. A hand extended in friendship must always be grasped with warmth. Francis made his appeal in an address to diplomats accredited to the Vatican, sending a message through them to the leaders of the 180 states with which the Vatican has diplomatic relations. It is heartening to note that the first challenge the pope has taken up to meet after his election to the high office is to encourage interaction and dialogue. The world today, devastated by radicalism and misunderstood notions of religious struggle, is desperately looking for a healing hand. Pope Francis has sent a message of harmony, which other religions and spiritual frontrunners would do well to emulate and inspire in each of their communities for the safety and security of a better tomorrow.

Shaukat Naeem Ghumman, Riyadh

War against drugs The idea of a “major breakthrough in war against drugs” is a misguided notion that the US has already learned from its billions of dollars spent in the Columbia with no let up in this multibillion dollar industry. This is an un-winnable war as the rewards are too great despite the huge risks. There will be more production, more recruits, more weapons and always more customers. There is no shortage of raw materials to make drugs such as heroin as it brings in much more profit than broccoli or melons. There are countless individuals that can be exploited to serve as carriers and greedy criminals abound. Weapons, big business and we see no shortage throughout the world. And last, customers.

Plenty of demand ensures supplies will be available. So please, don’t propagandize good policing and successes by insinuating this “war” has some end in sight.

Abooismail, Through e-mail

The embattled SNC In all revolutions around the world, the innocent people bear the brunt of the conflict. This is unfortunately the case with the devastated country like Syria, whose people rose up peacefully on March 15, 2011 to demand a better life. Little did they know that the civilian protests would soon turn into a civil war that would claim about 70,000 lives by 2013, a million refugees, and two million internally displaced individuals.

In a recent report by the United nations, of the 1 million refugees, about half of them are below the age of 11. What is the fault of these innocent children?

Why should they suffer because of the mistakes that someone else committed?

The resistant people and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fearlessly continue to fight the government forces of the embattled President Bashar Assad.

As black and white as the picture may seem, there is a gray area in the conflict and it is naive to believe that all fighters are angels and all government soldiers are devils. In fact, Amnesty International and other like bodies recorded war crimes against the fighters.

The conflict seems to drag on with little progress on the diplomatic front.

Though most countries have recognized the Syrian national Coalition (SnC) as the legitimate voice of the Syrian people, it is worth noting that the SnC is internally divided with those fault lines shown by the recent resignation of its president, Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib, among other events. Al-Khatib had a pragmatic approach and seemed to seek a diplomatic solution by having talks with the Syrian leader, though most factions want a military settlement.

The recent appointment of the interim prime minister is not supported by some in the council as it is seen as a forced move by Qatar.

What concerns me most about post-Assad Syria is the ability of the SnC to unite all factions under one umbrella. The country might slide into further turmoil that may only worsen the already existing crisis.

The failure to form a united interim government will destabilize the country and make its already uncertain future even more precarious.

Naqi Haider Rizvi, Dammam