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Imran shuns seeking PM’s resignation – Wants ISI, MI to be part of rigging probe body FroM our Correspondent RAHIM YAR KHAN - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Sunday demanded a judicial commission to probe the allegations of rigging in general elections 2013, adding that Nawaz Sharif can remain Prime Minister if the inquiry is apt.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said that members of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) should should sit on a commission headed by the Supreme Court to investigate rigging in the 2013 General Elections.

While addressing a large public gathering in Rahim Yar Khan, the PTI chief said that 2013 General Elections were conducted in a free and fair

manner. He said that the government should set up the commission by November 30.

“People from MI and the ISI should also sit in the commission,” the PTI leader said.

He said that the commission should take six weeks to investigate alleged rigging in the election.

“If the commission gives the decision the rigging took place, then Nawaz Sharif has to hand in his resignation,” Imran Khan said. ‘I spent spent eight days in jail in Dera Gazi Khan for the independence of the judiciary,” Imran said.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan Sunday proposed a programme to the government to end the political stalemate.

Addressing a public rally here at Khawaja Farid College ground, Imran Khan proposed

to get the charges of rigging probed through a judicial commission formed under the Supreme Court. The commission, he said, should also include members from ISI and MI. He said the government has time till November 30 to form this commission tasked to complete its investigation in 4 to 6 weeks. The head of the commission can be appointed by both sides, he added.

Imran said his party’s ongoing sit-in will continue as it is during the period of the probe and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can also continue to remain in his office. And if rigging was proved you (PM) will have to resign and organize mid-term elections under a reconstituted Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), he added.

Pakistan, China vow to cement connectivity BEIJING – China, Pakistan and their neighbors pledged to enhance connectivity and deepen practical cooperation to seek Asia's common development and ensure better living of their people.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, along with leaders of seven other neighboring countries and two international organizations, reached consensus on a host of measures to boost regional connectivity, ranging from speeding up infrastructure construction to innovating financing mechanism, according to a joint press communique released at the ongoing Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.

According to the Chinese

media's reports, Xi chaired the dialogue which was attended by leaders of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos,

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif offering dua after inaugurating 76 KM long Shakai – Makeen Road in South Waziristan Agency, here on Sunday. – Agencies

FATA uplift a priority task, says COAS

Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tajikistan, and representatives

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif Saturday said development of FATA is a priority task being undertaken by the Army as a well-considered strategy.

The army chief said this after inaugurating an important section of upcoming Central Trade Corridor (CTC) along with the largest bridge on this road in South Waziristan Agency.

General Raheel said the Pakistan Army has undertaken 178 projects so far in social sector, communication infrastructure and power sector in FATA and Malakand areas. He said these projects are aimed to improve the quality of life in tribal areas and address the problem of militancy on longterm basis.

CTC is a strategic road link to facilitate trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan and

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Pakistani, Indian journalists pledge to promote peace, harmony, friendship Indian journalists seek formation of Pak-India Media Friendship Association | Pakistani journalists express desire to promote peace with India through media overtures | show deep desire to enhance ties between peoples of both countries through media endeavors

By AsghAr Ali MuBArAk ISLAMABAD- Pakistani and Indian journalists have pledged to promote peace and harmony amongst the Pakistani and Indian nations by exercising healthy and substantial journalism and by enhancing people to people contacts, using media platforms and also to remove misconceptions, established amongst the ordinary people from both countries over the past many decades.

These pledges were made here yesterday when a team of independent Indian journalists that is visiting Pakistan on a peace and harmony promotion visit, headed by celeberated

Indian journalist and Anchorperson Manju Dagar, called on

the Editor-In-Chief of The Daily Mail and Chairman of

Pak-China Media Friendship Association Mr. Makhdoom Babar.

Ms Manju Dagar, who holds the Best Regional Anchorperson Award, honored to her by Media Federation of India as she has the amazing experience of working with a number of famous Indian media organizations, including Indian Stet media organizations like Doordarshan TV and All India Radio, in the backdrop of her professional experience agreed to Mr. Makhdoom Babar’s thoughts that since both Pakistan and India were nuclear armed countries, it was highly pivotal Continued on Page 7

India’s Military-Hindutva nexus stirs serious security concern Border hostilities with Pakistan, LoC aggressions, threats to China main policy of nexus | Army-Extremists nexus very effectively exposed by Mumbai’s ATS probe | ATS chief got assassinated under the garb of 26/11 for exposing nexus of evils | Indian army officers arrested in November 2002 for running suicide training camp on the outskirts of Mumbai | General Premnath Hoon former Chief of Western Command and Colonel Jayant Jayant Chitale, imparted training on Sri Lankan Tamil militants of LTTE | Extremist Hindu officers like Col Chitale served at Army Selection centers to inducted like-minded youngsters as commissioned officers in Indian army | Col Jayant Chitale also headed the Army Services Selection Board Centre in Pune for several years | Unholy nexus carried out a number of unauthorized and unsanctioned operations in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and China’s Tibet and Xinjiang areas | Former Indian PM V.P. Singh disclosed before the Jain Commission that first batch of training of LTTE militants was done by Indian Army and RAW in 1983 and later by IB | Former Advisor (to Mrs. Gandhi) K. Mohandas in his affidavit number 64/92-JCI disclosed to the Jain Commission that LTTE and other militant groups were also provided training in Indian Military Academy Dehra Dun | N.K. Narayanan deliberately overlooked known involvement of Indian Military Intelligence (MI) and ultra-right wing Hindu terrorist outfit ‘Abhinav Bharat’ in a string of terrorist acts, including Samjhota Express train blast | RDX used in Samjhota blasts was supplied by serving MI officer, Lt. Col Purohit who procured it from the Army Ordinance Depot in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) | Hindutva terror operatives were trained in making sophisticated Low Intensity Explosive Devices by serving Indian Army experts that were used to trigger inferno in Samjhota Express | Batch of SIM cards used in numerous blasts by Abhinav Bharat, clearly pointed to link up of India’s MI and Hindutva terrorists | Lt. Col Purohit, Maj Upadhyay, General JJ Singh, Brig Mathur , Col Hasmukh Patel, Col Shailesh Raikar, Maj. Nitin Joshi, Maj. Prayag Modak, Brig. Lajpat Prajwal, Col Dhar were named by ATS investigators as main players of Hindutva-Army nexus | Audio tapes recovered by Mumbai ATS during investigations make spine chilling revelations about nexus of evils | Tapes also reveal future threats to regional countries we well so India itself by this nexus including taking over India with force of 300,000 soldiers of Indian army | Aseemanand confessed that Indian Military Intelligence and RSS were fully involved in planning, financing and execution of many terrorist attacks | Radicals’ dominance discouraging youth to join Indian army, Forces suffer acute shortage of officers

By MAkhdooM BABAr (editor-in-ChieF With inputs FroM AnjAli shArMA And Bhopinder singh dhillon in neW delhi (AdditionAl reporting By john nelson, kApil VerMA, guru MAhAdeV, pryAnikA joshi, Asotosh Cheterji And ZArA khAn)

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HE recent state of affairs in Indian army, especially with regard to its hostilities towards Pakistan on the

LoC in Kashmir sector and also along the working boundary between the two countries emerges as a result of deep routed nexus between the extremist Hindu militant outfits of Hindutva ideology that are now united under the umbrella of ruling BJP government and the Indian army and this nexus of evils is not only threatening Pakistan

but is surfacing as a major threat to regional peace, reveal the investigations of The Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the Army-Hindutva nexus was first and very clearly exposed

by India’s own investigating agencies as the Joint Commissioner of Mumbai’s Anti Terrorism squad (ATS, Hemant Karkare, during ATS’s investigations under his

command, into high profile terror incidents, including the Samjhota Express attack, Malegaon attack and Mecca Masjid attack, crystal clearly led the investigators to undeniable nexus of Hindutva extremists and Indian army.

These investigations, carried out by Hemant Karkare and his associates at Mumbai ATS, though eventually caused Karkare his life and he mentioned threats to his life to the then officials of the Indian government, yet the findings

of these concrete investigations came as an eye opener

for the global community and specially for the countries in

the region. Karkare investigation not only exposed the

deep Hindutva-army links but

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‘Sit ins cuased delay in crushing energy crisis’ FroM ABid usMAn

LAHORE: DG Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) Major General Khan Tahir Javed Khan offering Fateha after laying floral wreath on the Mazar-e-Iqbal to mark 137th birth anniversary of National Poet and Philosopher of the East Dr. Allama Mohammad Iqbal, here on Sunday. – Agencies

Iran, US, EU tackle nuke issue in Oman MUSCAT - With two weeks to a deadline for a breakthrough deal, senior envoys of Iran, the United States and European Union met in Oman on Sunday to tackle stumbling blocks in efforts to defuse the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program.

Reiterating Iran's official line, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted by Iranian media as saying the Islamic Republic would not abandon its nuclear "rights" but was committed to the negotiations under Khamenei's leadership.

Western countries and close U.S. ally Israel suspect Iran has covertly sought to develop the means to build nuclear weapons, and a decade-long confrontation over the issue has raised the risk of a wider war in the volatile Middle East. The discussions, between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and EU envoy Catherine Ashton, aim to put verifiable limits on Iran’s uranium enrichment work - and any other potential path to a nuclear weapon in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.

Worst shelling in east Ukraine DONETSK - East Ukraine's rebel stronghold Donetsk was pummeled on Sunday by the heaviest shelling in a month, and the OSCE said it spotted an armored column of troops without insignia in rebel territory that Kiev said proved Moscow had sent reinforcements.

A two-month-old ceasefire to end a war that has killed 4,000 people has appeared shakier than ever in the past few days, with both sides accusing the other of having violated the terms of the peace plan.

Reuters journalists inside Donetsk, who have been there throughout the fighting, said the shelling sounded more intense than at any time since early October, a period when a playground was struck killing at least 10 people. Sunday's strikes appeared to come from territory held by both government and rebel forces.

Ukraine's military said its standoff with the Russianbacked separatists in the east had intensified in the past week, which saw the rebels swear in new leaders after elections the government says violated the terms of the truce pact. Ukraine has accused Russia of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to support the pro-Russian rebels in recent days. Moscow has long denied its troops operate in east Ukraine, although many have died there.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which includes Russia and Ukraine as well as the United States and NATO countries, operates in East Ukraine with the blessing of all sides and is widely seen as neutral. Its statement that it spotted an unidentified armored column in rebel territory helps support Kiev's position that Moscow has been sending in reinforcements to protect separatist enclaves the Kremlin now refers to as "New Russia". – Agencies

The negotiations at a luxury hotel appeared to be intense. The Iranian, U.S. and European delegations met from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. local time, broke for lunch and consultations, and then resumed three-way talks just before 6 p.m. (1400 GMT). Iran denies any secret nuclear weapons agenda, saying it wants peaceful nuclear energy only, but has refused to curb enrichment capacity and has been hit by damaging U.S., EU and U.N. Security Council sanctions as a result.

The thorniest unresolved issues are the size of Iran's enrichment program, the length of any long-term agreement and the pace at which international sanctions would be phased out, according to Western and Iranian diplomats involved in the negotiations. Washington also wants intensive verification and monitoring measures to ensure Iran is living up to its end of the bargain.

As Kerry arrived in Oman, a senior U.S. official said the three-way talks would be "an important meeting," with

the focus on making progress in order to meet the deadline. U.S. officials say major gaps still remain in negotiating positions. Kerry said last week that the United States and its partners were not contemplating an extension of the Nov. 24 deadline, although he held out the possibility that negotiations could go beyond that date if major issues were resolved and there were only technical details to wrap up.

Speaking to Iranian state television on his arrival in the Omani capital Muscat on Saturday night, Zarif reiterated that sanctions imposed on Iran had brought "no result" for the West. "If the West is interested in reaching such a solution, there is possibility to find a solution and to reach an understanding before November 24," he said.

Quoted by Iranian student news agency ISNA in Tehran, Velayati said Iran "will not abandon our rights" over nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Arak as well over the size of its centrifuge program that enriches uranium for nuclear fuel. – Agencies

FATA uplift a priority task: COAS From Page 1 will directly and indirectly help revive local economy of FATA and KPK. An international standard, 705 KM long road network through southern KPK & FATA, CTC is being built by Army Engineers and funded by friendly countries. The 76 KM long Shakai-Makeen road funded through USAID is an important lateral along the CTC which connects the two main axes of Trade Corridor i.e., Road Bannu-Miranshah-Ghulam Khan and Road WanaAangoor Adda. Apart from other economic, security and strategic advantages, the newly constructed roads have reduced travelling times considerably.

Meanwhile, addressing

the tribal elders, the COAS appreciated their support in combating terrorism and acknowledged their sacrifices in war against terrorism. He reiterated the Pakistan Army’s resolve to bring peace and stability to the affected areas.

Referring to Operation Zarb-e-Azb, the COAS said that the operation is progressing successfully as per plan.

He said while focusing on early completion, the army will continue with rehabilitation and reconstruction activities. He said a comprehensive plan in this regard has been chalked out in consultation with the government.

Earlier, on his arrival in SWA, the COAS was received by Corps Commander Lieutenant General Hidayatur Rehman and tribal elders. – Agencies

Pakistan, China vow to cement connectivity From Page 1 of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

They believe that strengthening connectivity involves work in five areas, including policy communication, infrastructure connectivity, trade link, capital flow and understanding among peoples with the infrastructure development being the basis and priority.

"Strengthening connectivity, which is conductive to identifying new growth point and fostering new competitive edge, offers new driving force for Asian cooperation and sus-

tained prosperity," the document said. According to the communiqué, the meeting hailed the building of "One Belt and One Road," or the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, saying the initiative will inject strong impetus in enhancing political mutual trust, deepening economic cooperation and promoting cultural and people-to-people exchanges among relevant countries.

At the dialogue, Xi, in his five-point proposal aimed at promoting inter-connected development in the AsiaPacific region, said China will contribute $40 billion to set up a Silk Road Fund. – Agencies

Xi proposes Asia-Pacific dream of security BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping called for efforts to create and fulfill an Asia-Pacific dream here Sunday, saying China's economy will bring huge opportunities and benefits to the region and the world.

He made the remarks while addressing the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, which attracted over 1,500 business people from 21 APEC member economies and 17 other countries and regions.

The Asia-Pacific has a strong impetus for development and a bright future, with a rising standing in the world, but the region now stands "at a crossroads", Xi said.

He listed several challenges facing the region, such as lingering impacts of the international financial crisis, fragile recovery in some economies, the daunting tasks of raising economic equality and efficiency, as well as different directions and priorities in accelerating the regional economic integration process. "The development prospect of our region hinges on the decisions and actions we take today," he said. "We are duty-bound to create and fulfill an Asia-Pacific dream for our people."

When elaborating on the idea, the president said the dream is about acting in the spirit of the Asia-Pacific community and out of a sense of shared destinies, following the trend of peace, development and mutually beneficial cooperation, and jointly working for the prosperity and progress of the region.

He added that the dream is about staying ahead of global development and making greater contribution to the wellbeing of mankind. The dream is also about having more economic vibrancy, free trade and investment facilitation, better roads, and closer people-topeople exchanges, the president said. – Agencies

LAHORE – Information Minister Pervazi Rashid has said politics of sit ins will be responsible for delay in eliminating energy crisis from the country.

Talking to newsmen in Lahore on Sunday, he said the government is determined to fulfill its commitments and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has just signed important energy agreements with China.

The minister said over 10,000 MW electricity would be added in national grid upon completion of these projects in next three years.

Pervaiz Rashid said more than 50 industries will get new businesses through the projects signed between Pakistan and China yesterday, which will generate new job opportunities for local workforce.

Responding to a question regarding terrorism, he said terrorists have no specific identity. He said all terrorists will be dealt with iron hands without any bias.

Regarding appointment of new Chief Election Commissioner, he said all political parties had reached consensus on the name of Justice Rana Bhagwan Das, but unfortunately he refused to accept the position.

He criticized Imran Khan and said no one was ready for CEC after Khan’s treatment with former election commis-

sioner Fakhruddin G Ibrahim.

The minister maintained that dialogues were not ended from the government side, adding that Imran Khan should open the handcuffs of his talks team.

The Information Minister said the accused in killing Christian couple in Kasur have been apprehended.

Pervaiz Rashid said: “the government stands by oppressed people in Kot Radha Kishan incident.”

Agencies Add: Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed stated that the accused of killing Christian couple in Kasur have been apprehended.

Talking to media here Sunday, the information minister said: “the government

stands by oppressed people in Kot Radha Kishan incident.”

Commenting on the appointment of Chief Election Commissioner, Pervaiz Rasheed said that the government had made contacts with other political parties in this regard. He said: “consensus was developed on the name of Rana Bhagwandas, however, he refused to accept the offer.”

He criticized Imran Khan and said no one was ready for CEC after Khan’s treatment with former election commissioner Fakhruddin G Ibrahim.

The minister maintained that dialogues were not ended from the government side, adding that Imran Khan should open the handcuffs of his talks team.

Top militant among 13 killed in Khyber Agency RAWALPINDI – At least 13 terrorists, including an important militant commander, were killed and 10 hideouts destroyed in airstrikes of the security forces’ jets here on Sunday.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that jet fighters of the Pakistan Army targeted the suspected hideouts of militants in Akakhel area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency. As a result of aerial strikes, 13 terrorists were reported killed and several others were injured and 10 hideouts were razed to ground.

The ISPR said a key militant commander involved in training the militants for carrying out terror attacks in settled areas and two suicide bombers were also among the terrorists killed in the action.

Security forces killed five terrorists of banned Lashkar-eIslam in Akakhel area of Tera valley in Khyber Agency on Sunday. Security sources said, in the action, top terrorist of the banned outfit Commander Munawar was also killed.

Meanwhile, a volunteer of Aman Lashkar lost his life in clash with terrorists in Neery Baba area of Tera vally. One militant was also killed. On the other hand, Aman Lashkar (peace militia) took control of Shalobar area of tehsil Bara and wipe out house of three militant commanders.

The terrorists fled from the area leaving behind their vehicles. Meanwhile, After the split between the Tehreek-eTaliban Pakistan (TTP) and the amir of its Mohmand Agency chapter Umar Khalid Khurrasani, Wali Mohammad, the militant outfit on Sunday appointed a new head for the agency. – Agencies

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Pakistan v New Zealand, 1st Test, 1st day

Hafeez, Shehzad lay down solid base ABU DHABI - Pakistan's team management was consistent in selection and tactics, and their openers displayed a heartening stability to provide their team an ideal start to the Test series against New Zealand. Pakistan fielded an unchanged XI for the third successive Test, Misbah-ul-Haq won his third consecutive toss and batted again - at a venue where his team had made 570 in the first innings against Australia last week and Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad gave them their best opening partner-

ship in 14 years.

New Zealand did not bowl too badly at the start on a pitch that had little in terms of pace and bounce, though it offered some degree of turn. They even came close to dismissing both openers. Shehzad was on 16 and the partnership 44 when he walked down the pitch to the offspinner Mark Craig and was beaten. The wicketkeeper BJ Watling fumbled the take, though. Shortly after Hafeez, on 35, edged a legbreak from Ish Sodhi but replays found Ross Taylor had

taken the catch on the half volley at first slip.

Those were the only blips on an otherwise wholesome performance. Hafeez, who had only 150 runs in his last 13 innings as opener, flicked his third ball - from Trent Boult - for four and batted with composure through the first session. He left when the ball was on a tight length outside off stump, but drove and cut when offered width. A return to form for him meant Pakistan had a line-up with every batsman in form.

Shehzad had edged his second ball from Tim Southee - through the cordon for four and then slowed down drastically. He was 12 off 58 at one stage but never looked out of sorts. And after his reprieve, Shehzad swept Sodhi for four and drove consecutive Corey Anderson deliveries to the straight and cover boundaries. New Zealand tried five bowlers in the first session without success, and their day got worse.

Pakistan had scored 85 runs in the morning, but they racked up 50 in the first hour after lunch as both batsmen played more aggressively. Hafeez pulled Southee to bring up his half-century, and the hundred partnership was achieved in the 38th over.

He pulled Jimmy Neesham as well - the short balls not getting high enough to cause discomfort on a slow pitch - and attacked Craig by stepping out and lofting and driving through cover and mid-on.

Shehzad too shed his conservative approach after lunch, and targeted Sodhi in particular, using his feet to loft the legspinner down the ground and then going back to cut and pull when the bowler pitched short.

He was troubled by one googly from Sodhi but remained unfazed enough to cut the next ball - a legbreak - to the backward point boundary.

The flurry of boundaries helped Shehzad catch up with his partner, but Hafeez steamed ahead again by sweeping Craig and cutting Anderson for two boundaries to move into the 90s. He was a shot away from a first Test century in two years when a ball from Anderson stopped on him and he popped a return catch to the bowler. New Zealand had finally snapped the opening stand on 178 in the 53rd over, but the batsman walking in was Azhar Ali, who had scored two hundreds in his previous Test against Australia. – Agencies

Hockey Olympian Mansoor Ahmed honored stAFF report ISLAMABAD - The renowned horned World Champion Olympian Mansoor Ahmed honored by '' Gandhi Peace Awareness Award 2014'' by Indianan media representative Dr.Manju Dagar Chaudhry a bereave female journalist of sub continent working with news channel Ru B Ru Today India and PFUJ President Mr Afzal Butt at NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ISLAMABAD during an impressive ceremony organized by NPC. Dr Manju Chaudhry journalist discussed peace mission visit with PFUJ President Mr Afzal Butt and other prominent media persons regarding bringing peace in subcontinent through sports diplomacy at NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ISLAMABAD on other day between.

She briefed media men about her peace mission struggle in SARAC countries Specially in Pakistan and India.

Olympian Mansoor Ahmed said at this ocean that for the promotion of peace this is great honor for me serving as sports diplomat for international Human Rights Commission .

Through FIFA plate form the title slogan ‘’PEACE THROUGN SPORTS’ ,is world wide spread through renowned sportsmen. It is mention here that the slogan ‘’PEACE THROUGN SPORTS’’ is the brain child by the Pakistani sports journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak and was introduce in a meeting last year.

Czech Republic leads Germany 1-0 in final

PRAGUE - Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova cruised past Andrea Petkovic 6-2, 6-4 to give the Czech Republic a 1-0 lead over Germany in the Fed Cup final on Saturday.

Petkovic double-faulted to hand Kvitova a match point in the final game and the fourthranked Czech converted it when the German sent a forehand too long. Kvitova improved to 22-6 in the Fed Cup singles and leveled her head-to-head record with

Petkovic at 4-4. ''She just played a really good match,'' Petkovic said about the Czech. ''We all knew if Petra is in her right spirit and if she plays that way it's going be difficult for all the players in this world, not only for me on a fast court.''

Kvitova was on top at the start and wore her opponent down with powerful serves and groundstrokes combined with occasional precise drop shots. She hit 25 winners com-

pared to Petkovic's seven. ''That was the tactics on the fast court, to attack from the very start,'' Kvitova said.

Petkovic came into the final having won in Bulgaria on Sunday for her third WTA title of the year but her relative lack of experience of big occasions proved decisive.

Kvitova led the Czechs to Fed Cup titles in 2011 and '12 while the Germans have not won the trophy since 1992. ''I was nervous but so was Andrea

and I was trying to capitalize on that,'' Kvitova said. ''It was not the first time and I have experience to play like that. I'm just glad I did everything well.''

Petkovic double-faulted to drop her serve in the second game of the opening set. Kvitova served an ace in the following game to build a commanding 3-0 lead and attacked Petkovic's second serve with big forehands to earn another break in the sixth game. – Agencies

MU joins race to sign Talisca Asghar Ali Mubarak is also coordinator for peace mission to Islamabad for Dr.Manju Dagar Chaudhry a female journalist of India. This slogan ‘’PEACE THROUGN SPORTS’’ is now a days worldwide introduce by renowned sportsmen like Michel Jordon , Mansoor Ahmed etc .

Olympian Mansoor is selected only Pakistani sports diplomat for peace mission in subcontinent. Mr.AFZAL Butt who was member of world peace mission for Sudan during the Daffar war crises, PFUJ President Afzal Butt also awarded '' Gandhi Peace Awareness Award 2014'' for his special role played world over for peace in sudan along with other world leaders at UNO plate form . '' Gandhi Peace Awareness Award

2014'' PFUJ President Afzal Butt appreciated the role and efforts of peace mission contingent headed by for Dr.Manju Dagar Chaudhry and Mukesh Chaudhry for peace ,harmony, friendship in India and Pakistan .

PFUJ President Afzal Butt hoped that media and sports of both countries can play a vital role for peace in subcontinent. At this ocean a savior for NPC and Pakistani media received Mr. Tariq Choudhery Sectary NPC by Indian media delegation.At the this stage PFUJ President Afzal Butt present National Press Club Islamabad,Pakistan NPC's PAKISTAN MEDIA shields to Indian journalist for their extra ordinary efforts for peace in sub continent for last one decade.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Manchester United have joined the battle to sign highly rated Brazilian midfielder Anderson Talisca, according to local media reports.

The 20-year-old has roused interest from at least seven major European clubs due to his stunning early-season form for Benfica, Brazilian news portal Lancenet reported. Having already been linked to Premier League clubs Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal, the Brazil under-23 international impressed United scouts by scoring the win-

ner in the Portuguese outfit's 1-0 victory over Monaco in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Talisca's recent performances are also said to have attracted the interest of Italian giants Juventus, AC Milan and Internazionale. Contracted from Bahia for four million Euros in July, Talisca has already scored nine goals in 14 matches for Benfica. Manchester United reportedly sent scouts to Benfica to keep tabs on Anderson Talisca in the Champions League in midweek. – Agencies

Ajmal undergoes unofficial testing S

AEED Ajmal, Pakistan's suspended offspinner, will undergo unofficial testing on his remodelled bowling action at Loughborough University on Monday. Based on results from his unofficial testing, the PCB intends to apply to the ICC for an official reassessment ahead of the 2015 World Cup. Over the last one month Ajmal has been working on his action at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore, under the supervision of former Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq. Ajmal is reckoned to have significantly reduced the flex in his elbow, though any change is yet to be measured since he has been working without the aid of a biomechanics lab at the NCA. Ajmal will depart for England on November 8, and will undergo testing by Dr. Mark King, a member of the ICC Panel of Human Movement Specialists, on November 10 at Loughborough, the ICC's latest accredited unit for testing illegal bowling actions.

"I have made some changes to my action and I am comfortable

with the new action," Ajmal said at the NCA on Thursday. "I am also confident whenever I am back I will be as effective as before. I have already undergone some informal tests under the supervision of our experts so I am going to England confident of clearing the tests."

Ajmal, who turned 37 last month, was suspended from bowling in international cricket by the ICC in September. He was reported after the first Test of Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka in Galle this August.

Subsequent testing of his action at an ICC-accredited facility in Brisbane found his average elbow extension to be more than twice the permissible limit.

In Ajmal's absence Pakistan brought in left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar and legspinner Yasir Shah, who took 14 and 12 wickets respectively during Pakistan's 2-0 Test series win over Australia in the UAE. Australia though remained unbeaten in the limited-overs leg of the tour."There was never a sense of competition with them and I am happy for the newcomers for their

performances recently," Ajmal said. "I never felt any insecurity

with the presence of any spinner in the Pakistan domestic circuit as

everyone who does the hand work reaps the fruit.

"I was probably the first one who during my playing days pointed out many potential spinners like Adnan Rasool. So there was never any competition. The important thing is victory of Pakistan and whoever plays it's the performance that matters. Sadly I wasn't part of Pakistan team that beat Australia and I do miss playing for Pakistan but it's all about destiny."

Saqlain, whose one-month contract ended on October 24, sees a realistic chance of Ajmal clearing the test. But in case Ajmal fails next week's unofficial test in Loughborough, PCB intend to rehire Saqlain to assist Ajmal in England with the help of biomechanics facilities.

Suspended off-spinner Saeed Ajmal's bowling action will be unofficially tested at an ICCaccredited laboratory in England on Monday. Ajmal will leave for England on Saturday and will go through testing on his remodeled action at the National Cricket Performance Centre at Loughborough University, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said.

The International Cricket Council suspended Ajmal in September after none of his deliveries during eight overs of biomechanical testing in Australia came close to meeting the required regulation of 15-degree elbow extension.

Former test off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq has assisted Ajmal in fixing his action. Earlier, The International Cricket Council on 9 September 2014 banned Ajmal over his bowling action. The statement said, "An independent analysis has found the bowling action of Pakistan's off-spinner Saeed Ajmal to be illegal and, as such, the player has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect. The analysis revealed that all his deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under the regulations."

There's a lot of protest on this decision made by International Cricket Council. Players criticised this decision because his bowling action was tested and cleared four years ago. Saqlain Mushtaq was called up to guide him in improving his bowling action. – Agencies

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MISCELLANEOUS

Monday, November 10, 2014

India’s Military-Hindutva nexus stirs serious security concern From Page 1 also brought to light the spine chilling and highly lethal future plans of the nexus of evil that clearly threatens the regional security and the security and solidarity of India itself via Saffron terrorism.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that there had been a comprehensively organized and managed conspiracy to transform the Indian army into an army of extremist Hindus and the things were going on very smoothly in this direction right from the grassroots level to the top leadership levels. While the formation of Abhinav Baharat like organization that was formed as the most effective tool to promote Hindutva –military nexus.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that Saffron terrorist groups belonging to Sangh Parivar were behind the 26/11 Mumbai Carnage as well as behind several suicidal attacks and assassinations in Pakistan and India.

According to these findings Indian terrorists setup Atma Ghataki Pathak (Hindu Suicide Squad), established by General (retd.) Premnath Hoon founder of Shiv Sena’s Military Wing and his disciple Colonel (retd.) Jayant Chitale, was responsible for planning and execution of this operation.

AGP, because of its close linkages with the Indian military, succeeded in forming an unholy nexus between the serving Indian military personnel and the Hindu extremist-terrorist groups. Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, alias ‘Mithun Chakraborty’ who was arrested in connection with the Malegaon blast and 2007 Samjhota Express blaze (killing 69 Pakistani passengers returning from India) was also working for General (retd.) Hoon and Colonel (retd.) Chitale’s Atma Ghataki Pathak (AGP). AGP was also responsible for Godhra train fire leading to Gujarat carnage against Muslims in 2002 and attack on Akshardham temple in Gujarat also in 2002.

Colonel (retd.) Jayant Chitale and his associate Sanjeev Atre, were arrested in November 2002 for running a suicide training camp on the outskirts of Mumbai but were later released at the intervention of RAW. It is no coincidence that Col (retd.) Chitale was actually the next door neighbour of Col Purohit, the main accused in Samjhota Express blaze and Malegaon blasts.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that there has been a long-standing internal feud amongst Hindutva groups

Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur organizing variety of killings and political assassinations and promoting antiPakistan sentiments in Bangladesh with latest being deployment of Indian army troops from Satkhira sector into Bangladesh to organize Hasina Wajid’s political success in 2014 General Election, assassination of Nepal’s MP Mirza Dilshad Beg in 1998 by Chhota Rajan gang, assassination of Nepal’s Royal family in June 2001at Narayanhity Royal Palace when the then King refused to allow RAW and Indian MI operations against certain regional countries from Nepal’s soil, continuous terror operations in Pakistan including funding, arming and training of TTP militants and militants of BLA and BRA like militant organization in Balochistan, organizing of Operation Ashes on Snow in China’s Tibet in 2008, occasional violence and terror incidents in China’s Xinxiang province through ETIM activists and forming military training and terror organizing headquarters across Afghanistan for operations inside China and Pakistan.

Daily Mail finding further disclose that top Indian jurist, Justice (Retd.) Jain headed a Commission to investigate and report on the murder of late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination by an LTTE suicide killer. This Commission documented the existence of ‘militant’ training camps for LTTE and other Sri Lankan Tamil secessionist groups throughout India, under the aegis of RAW and other Indian intelligence and security agencies. Former Indian Prime

Samjhauta Express completely ablaze with 68 passengers including 42 Pakistanis on board in 2007. vying for ascendancy with each other.

Although late Bal Thackeray was probably the most popular icon with cultist following amongst the Hindu fanatics yet at times he was shown signs of frustration that the popularity had not translated in electoral successes outside his home state of Maharashtra. Much to Thackeray’s annoyance whenever it come to votes, BJP through a broader and more organized supporting network of RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal managed to steel electoral success at the cost of Sena.

The Daily Mail’s findings further reveal that concept of suicide squads was introduced in South Asia for the first time by the Indian intelligence agency RAW when it trained the Tamil separatists groups of Sri Lanka such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) to start militant secessionist movement based on terrorism in the Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula. Daily Mail has learned that two names that surfaced in press in November 2002, in connection with Hindu Atma Ghataki Pathak (Hindu Suicide Squad), General (retd.) Premnath Hoon former Chief of Western Command and who after retirement became Chief of Shiv Sena’s Military Wing and Colonel (retd.) Jayant Chitale, had served on deputation with RAW imparting training on the Sri Lankan Tamil militants. Col (retd.) Jayant Chitale also headed the Army Services Selection Board Centre in Pune for several years, where he was able to select Hindutva militant sympathizers for regular commission in the army. Col (retd.) Chitale kept a contact with these selected officers while officers like Col. Purohit and top level Command like that of General Deepak Kapoor and General VK Singh managed the careers of these officers who through normal and sponsored progression in their careers went on to assume many responsible and important posts in the Indian army with many of whom now posted in Indian army formation that are deployed along LoC, Pakistan border and China border.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the extremist Hindu group formed an unholy nexus between Hindutva militants, Indian army officers, RAW officers and officials from Intelligence Bureau and carried out a number of unauthorized and unsanctioned operations in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and China’s Tibet and Xinjiang areas. These operations included formation, funding and training of LTTE in Sri Lanka,

Minister V.P. Singh disclosed during his in camera hearing before the Jain Commission on 5th November 1996 that the first batch of training of Sri Lankan Tamil militants was done by India in 1983 under the orders of then Prime Minister (Late) Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The camp was located at Chakrata, Tamil Nadu. Singh, however, declined to disclose exact location citing national security reasons. According to him all militants were also provided with weapons and monetary backup to carryout activities inside of Sri Lanka. He further disclosed that ironically late Rajiv Gandhi also encouraged and supported training of LTTE and other Tamil militant groups.

Former Indian Foreign Secretary Salman Haider also provided a very incisive insight to the Commission in his affidavit number 343/96-JCI. Haider who was liaising between the LTTE terrorist maestro leader Prabharkaran and Indian intelligence agencies at one time disclosed that “in the beginning Mrs. Indira Gandhi entrusted full responsibility of providing military training to Sri Lankan Tamil militants to RAW”. Prabharkaran was however, not pleased with the share of spoils that local RAW operatives were giving to LTTE in comparison with its rival militant terrorist groups TELO, EROS, EPRLF, and TEA. He thus asked for Haider’s intervention, upon which the former arranged a meeting of Prabharkran with the officials of Indian Intelligence Bureau (IIB). Thus training of LTTE was shifted to IIB from RAW. This created an inter intelligence agency rivalry and according to Haider, RAW was behind attacks by Tamil Elam Liberation Organization (TELO) and Elam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) on LTTE. Former Advisor (to Mrs. Gandhi) K. Mohandas in his affidavit number 64/92JCI disclosed to the Jain Commission that Military training to LTTE was provided by central agencies in Union government controlled camps in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnatka, Uttar Pardesh, Kerala, New Delhi and elsewhere.

According to Mohandas militants were trained, armed and launched into Sri Lanka to carry out subversion and attacks. Perhaps his most shocking revelation was that the LTTE and other militant groups were also provided training in the Indian Military Academy Dehra Dun, which incidentally is the basic military training institution for officers of Indian army. This all was happening due to the then emerging nexus of Hindutva and the Indian army and country’s secret

agencies while the things have taken high dimensions in today’s era.

According to Daily Mail’s findings the fanaticism of these Hindu suicide squads took a spine shuddering concept of ‘target reverse’ suicide attacks in early 2000s as witnessed in the reverse suicidal attacks against Hindu temples and government installations to blame Pakistan and Muslims. The attacks on Indian parliament in 2001, Godhra train fire in Gujarat and attack on Akshardham temple in Gujarat.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that the Indian investigation agencies under instructions of the then National Security Adviser (NSA) N.K. Narayanan deliberately overlooked the known involvement of Indian Military Intelligence(MI) and ultra-right wing Hindu terrorist outfit ‘Abhinav Bharat’ (Dominant India) in a string of terrorist acts, including the Samjhota Express train blast (February 2007). The investigations had established Indian Military Intelligence and Hindutva terrorist role but the Indian government placed wraps over the facts as disclosure of this sinister nexus would have exposed its lie to the world.

These investigations indicate that witnesses had told the investigators that the RDX used in Samjhota blasts was supplied by MI officer, Lt. Col Purohit procured by him from the Army Ordinance Depot in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). The investigations further reveal that the sophisticated locking mechanism used by the Indian Army was employed for all these blasts. According to the official Indian sources, the Hindutva terror outfits were trained in making sophisticated Low Intensity Explosive Devices by the Army which are very lethal and effective but require less quantity of explosive material and same were used to trigger inferno in the Samjhota Express. The same batch of SIM cards used in numerous blasts by Abhinav Bharat pointed to the link up of MI and the Hindutva terrorist outfit.

Narayanan who in his capacity as NSA was the overall Chief of IB, RAW and Joint Intelligence, simply hushed up this very issue and the most significant point of the high level investigations under his command.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that more than one-and-half year after Samjhota Express blasts, another lowintensity bomb with powerful impact exploded in the small town of Malegaon, Maharashtra, on 29 September 2008, leaving six dead and several injured. It was this blast that put Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS)’s slain Chief Hemant Karkare on the trail of selfstyled God-woman called Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur belonging to Abhinav Bharat.

Pragya’s Calls data opens Pandora’s Box of Hindutava-Army links Pragya’s interrogation and calls’ data from her cell phone opened a Pandora’s Box. Her close associate Shamlal Sahu, 42, a commerce graduate, was first to be arrested on charges of planting the bomb.

Shivnarayan Kalangasara Singh, 36, a science graduate, was arrested for setting a timer device in the bomb. Another science graduate, Sameer Kulkarni, 32, was arrested for his role in procuring chemicals for the bomb. The second big catch after Pragya was Maj (retd) Ramesh Upadhyay, 64, a resident of Pune. He had worked in the Indian Army’s Military Intelligence (MI) and had imparted training to those who had assembled the bombs planted in Malegoen. He had also headed the BJP’s ex-servicemen’s cell in Mumbai. The biggest fish was however, netted by Karkare on November 5, 2008, merely days ahead of 26/11 Mumbai attack, the first ever serving army officer, Lt. Col Purohit, belonging to MI, was arrested for procuring the RDX used in the blast. Arrest of Purohit however, proved more than Karkare could handle for he was later assassinated by Hindutva terrorists under the cover of Mumbai attack on 26/11. Congress Party’s Senior Secretary General Digvijay Singh has proved beyond doubts by showing phone records that Karkare called him merely a few hours before being assassinated saying that he feared for his life as he was being threatened of dire consequences if he did not stop probe into the terrorist activities of MI and Saffron terrorist syndicates. Karkare requested assurance of security and safety for himself and his family requesting Digvijay to talk to the Congress high command. According to Digvijay his first reaction when he heard the news of Karkare’s assassination was “oh my God they (Saffron terrorists) have killed him” Recovered Audio Tapes expose MIHindutva nexus The Daily Mail’s findings reveal that Karkare hit a minefield with the arrest of another Saffron operative Swami Dayanand Pandey alias Shankar Acharya-Shukhakar Dwivedi, on 14 November 2008 that completely exposed the MI and Abhinav Bharat link. Swami Pandey had a habit of recording all his conversations with his

co-conspirators on his laptop. The ATS retrieved three videos and 37 audiotapes.

These proved to be an unprecedented source of information. On 21 November 2008, 5-days before 26/11 attack, Karkare questioned Pune’s RSS leader Shyam Apte, named in the tapes. By now RSS and Army were screaming calling Karakare’s line of investigations “blasphemous”.

The Audio tapes revealed a chilling landscape. Political bigwigs, RSS functionaries, Sangh Parivar activists, Hindutva terrorist outfits, as well as serving and retired Indian army officers all formed an integral part of the conspiracy. The tapes spilled vitriolic hate for Pakistan, Muslims and even Hindus who did not subscribe to their ultra rightwing communal vision. The Group had set up Abhinav Bharat with the intention of infiltrating and subverting every institution in the country, particularly the Armed Forces, bureaucracy, media, TV, films and civil society.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that there are a total of ten serving and retired Indian army officers, whose names figure in these tapes. There are however, clear indications that the network has deep institutional roots in Indian army from top officers to the low levels of ordinary soldiers. At least four of the officers, named in the recordings have an MI background. Apart from Lt. Col Purohit and Maj Upadhyay, there are

names of General JJ Singh -Purohit’s mentor in Maratha Regiment, Brig Mathur (full name not known, but he was apparently posted at Deolali Cantonment near Nashik); Col Hasmukh Patel. A JNU graduate, Patel was commissioned into the Infantry Jat Regiment and later detailed with the MI. He is a specialist in threat analysis, background checks, physical- electronic-aviation security, vigilance, investigations, disaster management, negotiation and loss prevention. The investigators are understood to have questioned him recently.

Col Shailesh Raikar is a retired commandant, who belonged to the Maratha Regiment. According to the recordings, Raikar was commander of the Bhosla Military Academy in Nashik. He provided academy facilities to Purohit and other Abhinav Bharat members for weapons training. Others named in the tapes are Col. Aditya Bappaditya Dhar ; Maj. Nitin Joshi and Maj. Prayag Modak. No concrete action is yet to be initiated by the investigators against them. Apart from these men, there is a Brig. Lajpat Prajwal, posted on deputation with the Nepal Army. According to the tapes, Purohit and Brig Prajwal had trained together at Indian Military Academy (IMA) and that Purohit was in constant touch with him for logistic support.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that it has also been revealed that Lt. Col Purohit speaks in the recordings of sending thousands to Israel and Nepal for terrorist training. According to one Maharashtra ATS official “most of what Purohit says on the tapes about sending people to Nepal and Israel for training wasn’t taken seriously, and deliberately overlooked” adding “the entire truth on Purohit is still not out.” These recorded conversations between Lt. Col Purohit, Maj Ramesh Upadhyay, Col Dhar, Swamy Dayanand Pandey, BL Sharma; a two-time BJP MP, and RP Singh; an endocrinologist at Apollo Hospital and President of the World Hindu Federation, reveal diabolic conspiracies and hair raising terrorist activities. The World Hindu Federation also has active offices in US and Europe and collects enormous amounts of funds from the Non Resident Indians (NRIs), using these to promote communal agenda and terrorist activities. The transcript also sheds light on the links between Nepal’s deposed King Gyanendra and Indian Military Intelligence. Gyandendra took over after grisly murder of his brother King Birendra, under mysterious circumstances. Most Nepalese think King Birendra was got assassinated by Gyanendra with the help of Indian agents.

Here is an excerpt on the conversation: LT COL PUROHIT: Swamiji, we haven’t spoken about certain things, but two operations have been done by us.

One of our own officers has visited Israel for training and meeting and there was a very positive response… We demanded four things from Israel — continuous and uninterrupted supply of arms and training, our office with a saffron flag in Tel Aviv, political asylum and support for our cause of a Hindu Nation in the UN. Israel has asked us to show something on the ground and have promised at least a supply of arms and political asylum... I have a state-wise population of Muslims in each state but we need more arms and ammunition including AK-47s. We couldn’t buy much earlier because we didn’t have funds, now we have plenty.

MAJ UPADHYAY: AK-47 is available at Cox Bazaar in Gorakhpur, we can buy more from open sources as military weapons and ammunition can draw suspicion…

LT. COL PUROHIT: The Israelis ask us to give them proof of our involvement. What more proof do they need? We have completed two successful opera-

tions (investigators believe that Purohit was referring here to Samjhota and Ajmer blasts).

MAJ UPADHYAY: Don’t forget, the Hyderabad blasts were also executed by our man.

Elsewhere in the tapes, Purohit elaborates on other sinister strategies the Abhinav Bharat group plans on adopting against Pakistan and Muslims — including shooting people under false identities to create mayhem.

“I know that the army and the BSF don’t complement each other’s action,” says Col.Purohit. “Nor there is any coordination between the BSF, CRPF and state police. So if I buy two army vehicles from the scrap and paint them with army colours and send them along with our people in army uniform into Meerut, they can just fire and come out of the situation easily. There is so much confusion in this country.”

Some more excerpts of Lt. Col Purohit’s conversation with his Abhinav Bharat protégés about the nation they dreamed of creating are as follows: Col Dhar: “We must aim for militarization of the organization (Abhinav Bharat). Every member at all levels must have a basic knowledge of weapons. We have partially done it so far. We should indoctrinate them with our ideology. We should establish an academy for ideological indoctrination. At the end of the course, each member will be tested and only those who pass will be finally admitted to the organization. The level of testing is when he will be tried in ‘action’. Then our organization will propagate establishment of Ram Rajyah (mythological kingdom of Hindu God Ram) called Abhinav Bharat (Dominant India). There will be a uniform code of conduct irrespective of any caste.

Reporting channels like those in the armed forces will be established. This will ensure the smooth flow of information and passing of orders. An Honour Court Committee will exist at all levels.

This will ensure strict adherence to moral and ethical behaviour as decided by the core group by all the members based on our Vedas (Compilation of Hindu Preaching).” Purohit thus presented a completed recipe of a religiousfascist organization.

Plans of Military Takeover in India: An insightful transcript of conversations of Lt. Col Purohit and other army officers about military takeover of India have been revealed are on the tapes a portion of which is reproduced here: Col Dhar: Did you see one of my messages?

LT. COL PUROHIT: Yes... About how this country should be taken over by the army?

COL DHAR: Yes, yes. I have written three lakh (3-hundred thousand) letters... I distributed three lakh letters among the jawans(soldiers)... It is not a political stunt... And I distributed 20,000 maps of Akhand Bharat (Greater India) among the jawans on a 26 January event (India’s Republic Day)... It is my humble attempt to sow the seeds (of rebellion).

PANDEY: What if this organization is banned?

APTE: We will give it an international aspect... and a covert name. We have to fight. See, if you aren’t a Hindu, you are my enemy. I will be unsafe if you are alive… Obviously, this was not just empty bragging.

Links with Maoists, North East Secessionist movements and custodial killings: The recorded conversations also show common operations and linkup of MI with Maoists and separatist insurgencies in North East of India. Purohit goes on to talk of Khetomi Sema, a leader of the banned insurgent group, Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland.

Purohit says he had saved his life and Sema has issued a letter to all his generals to support Purohit’s cause.

“He has promised to give us seven years of logistic support,” Purohit tells Pandey. Purohit’s conversations further reveal that he had full backing of the Indian army machinery to serve Abhinav Bharat. He says he was in the process of indoctrinating like-minded army officers who could serve in Abhinav Bharat. He also admits to catching and killing two Maoists in cold blood in Delhi.

LT. COL PUROHIT: “A police officer helped me buy weapons in Assam. I kept one pistol with me and sent these weapons to Nepal. Our study is on… We will soon start action. We have got a list of top 5-6 Maoist financers. You know one Assam DIG had informed me about two Maoists who had arrived in Delhi to kill me. We caught them at the Vasant Kunj Civic Centre. We kept them in our secret place at Munirka through the night. You know we have encroached upon a property in Munirka that has sewer lid inside the house. We got the information out of them, then killed them and threw them in the gutter.”

Deep infiltration of Abhinav Bharat in Indian Armed Forces: PUROHIT’S conversations also suggest an alarming shared mindset among sections of the army. He tells Pandey, “There was a captain and a major posted in Delhi. I managed to do my work with them over the phone. This work otherwise would have taken more than three months. It happened because I belong to Sangh and he was also from Sangh. I didn’t even know him. He was from UP and he did the work in one day.

Tapping such people (with Sangh background) is important.”

PANDEY: I have to attend a programme organised by Deepak Rath, in Orissa on 17 February. This is his personal function.

LT. COL PUROHIT: Is it in Bhubaneshwar city? Let me know, I will arrange my Orissa military General Officer Commanding (GOC) to receive you…

The conversion betrays similar action taken by the Indian military intelligence when Purohit was posted in IOK. MI operatives and Abhinav Bharat mem-

bers dressed in Army uniform, had slaughtered Sikh community members in Chattisinghpura, IOK, when the then US President Clinton was visiting India in 2001 and blamed it on LeT. The fact that these conversations were not recorded under police custody or during interrogation is significant. An IB official based in Mumbai has raised a pertinent question that Lt. Col Purohit cannot smuggle RDX and weapons from IOK Army depot on his own nor can he alone sponsor sending men for military training to Nepal and Israel.” Surley a wider involvement of MI is apparent.

This question has even more alarming implications when one recalls that in the narco reports of Nanded blasts accused, Himanshu Panse and Sanjay Bhaurao Chaudhury, in 2006, the men clearly stated of how Army’s Col Chitaley alias Mithun Chakrabarty had trained them to make the IEDs for the blasts at the Sinhagad Fort. It may be recalled that Col Chitaley was the Chief Instructor in the Suicide Bombing Training Squad set up

by RSS under General Premnath Hoon.

A senior Maharastra ATS Official disclosed that after Lt. Col Purohit’s arrest, there was a lot of pressure on them to downplay the role of the army.

“We were told we couldn’t lower the morale of officers posted in sensitive positions. It could have a backlash. But with more cases involving military intelligence officials coming out, confirmed a dangerous trend,” Mumbai ATS investigation report says.

India’s MI is an important and lethal corps, even senior Army officers dread at its mere mention due to the arbitrary powers enjoyed by its personnel. As mentioned above, Indian MI especially focuses on destabilizing, conducting and sponsoring terrorist activities in Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Middle East. Many MI cadre officers (Lt. Col Purohit was one of them) do not wear uniforms and work in conjunction with the IB, BSF (‘G’ Force) and other intelligence agencies. MI officials work in field formations and report to their respective commanders. Nobody, except the commander, would know they are part of MI. Sources disclosed that Lt. Col Purohit had learned Arabic at the Army Education Corps Training Centre and College in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, in order to coordinate with Al-Qaeda and ArabAfghans. The disclosures of Lt. Col Purohit have exposed the Indian Army’s terrorist and communal overtones.

The Daily Mail’s investigations further reveal that role of Indian MI and Hindutva terrorists behind the spate of terrorist acts including Samjhota Express blasts, became further clear when investigators arrested Swami Aseemanand, one of the plotters. A Gujarat resident Bharat Bhai had deposed before the court that during various meetings held at Swami Aseemanand’s Ashram (Hindu seminary) numerous terrorist attacks including Samjhota Express blasts were planned.

After the Maharashtra ATS arrested Sadhvi Pragya in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast, Aseemanand went absconding. He was finally arrested from Haridwar on 19 November 2010.

Swami Aseemanand’s spine chilling confession has reconfirmed and provided strong legal evidence of RSS Pracharaks (proselytizers)’ involvement in the blasts that took place at the Malegoen (Maharastra)in 2006 and 2008, Samjhota Express in 2007, Ajmer (Rajasthan) in 2007, Mecca Mosque (Hyderabad) in 2007 and Modasa (Gujarat) in 2008.

In his recorded statement Aseemanand exposed involvement of numerous Hindutva leaders, including himself, in planning and executing a string of terror attacks against Pakistanis and Muslims. The account rendered by Aseemanad corroborated with the evidence revealed by the Abhinav Bharat’s other arrested leaders Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Dayanand Pandey, Lt. Col Shrikant Purohit. The 37 audio tapes seized from Swami Pandey’s laptop that featured all these people discussing their

Swami Aseemanand terror activities also corroborate with Aseemanand’s confession.

More than 90 percent of the development of the nexus of evil developed and flourished when the Godmother of the nexus, the BJP was not in power.

Today, the BJP is very much in power. Iy hold the government at New Delhi and at all important states of the country and the main players of the nexus are today part of this government. The players like Sanjive Tripathy, former RAW Chief, Ajit Kumar Doval, former IB Chief and VK Singh, former Army Chief and creator of Technical Support Divion (TDS), an unauthorized terrorist wing of the Indian army for terror operations inside Pakistan, are together under one roof, with no fear of any public or media exposure to this nexus. One can easily estimate that what could be the scale of the lethal activities of the nexus of evils towards regional countries and at what level this nexus will be flourishing and strengthening in coming few months.

The current situation at the LoC and long working boundary appears merely to be a trailer of a high voltage actionpacked thriller movie.

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Zafar, Fawad to star in Indian movie

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WO shining stars of Pakistani entertainment industry Ali Zafar and Fawad Khan are planning to come together in a same movie. Ali Zafar is likely to direct the movie which will also star many prominent faces of Indian film fraternity.

After earning a good rapport across the border Ali Zafar is now focusing to make a film for his homeland.

The film will include Indian divas in the star cast and will be started next year. Currently Ali is

negotiating with the financers. He needs a big team put through his dream venture. He will also act in the movie along with Fawad Khan, local media reported.

Recently, at an event launch of Samsung Note 4 in Lahore, both the stars bonded well with each other. Speaking about it ‘Khoobsurat’ actor said, “When I attended the event in Lahore last week I didn't know Ali was performing.

He's someone I've always admired. He is far more talented than I can ever be. We might come together for a film.

It would be a pleasure working with him,” media reported.

Fawad Khan has just made his Bollywood debut with ‘Khoobsurat’ along with Sonam Kapoor while, Ali Zafar has strongly put his feet in Bollywood film industry. Ali Zafar being a senior said that he will always support Fawad Khan in his Bollywood career and will go out of his way to promote his movies.

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FTER the two successful installments of ‘Don’ and ‘Don 2’ ‘King of Bollywood’ Shahrukh Khan will also appear in the third installment of famous franchise’.

Reportedly, director Ritesh Sidwani said in a statement, “Don is ShahRukh Khan and Shah Rukh is Don and hence there are zero chances of considering other actors to step into his role”. According to media reports, the film has been in the works for some time and buzz is that Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani and their team have already completed almost 50 percent of the script. SRK also had several meetings with Farhan and Ritesh during a short break after the release of ‘Chennai Express’ in 2013.

But, the super star of Bollywood has now come into open to deny the reports about casting for ‘Don 3’ and ‘Raees’ for now.

King Khan took to Twitter and said he has no clue about the casting of these two films. For now, Farhan Akhtar and Shah Rukh Khan are going to work together in ‘Raees’ and it will be quite exciting to see the duo back in action with ‘Don 3’ along with the producer Ritesh Sidhwani. But still things are yet to be finalized.

Looks like Don 3 isn’t happening for now. And even if it is then Shah Rukh Khan certainly is unaware about all the developments. We say so because last night Gauri Khan’s hubby dearest took to Twitter to announce that he has no clue whatsoever about Farhan Akhtar’s Don 3. The superstar also cleared the air about the casting of his upcoming film Raees. He wrote on the popular social networking site, “Don 3 is supposedly on!?Issues being discussed on Twitter I hav no clue about. – Agencies

Disney announces 'Toy Story 4' for 2017 LOS ANGELES – Walt Disney Co said on Thursday it will extend one of Pixar's most successful film franchises by making Toy Story 4 for release in 2017, directed by John Lasseter.

"John created Toy Story and directed its first two films and it's great to have him back directing one of our most valuable properties," Disney chief executive Bob Iger said on an earnings call.

Iger called 2010's Toy Story 3 a "tremendous success" with more than $1 billion at the global box office and $10 billion in retail sales.

He said that demonstrated that "these wonderful characters are clearly just as relevant and beloved as ever."

Toy Story was the first feature film made by Pixar Animation Studios, in 1995, and gave the famous animated characters Woody, the toy cowboy, and space ranger

Shahrukh strike back in ‘Don 3’

LA cop is also Saif’s fan

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Buzz Lightyear a prominent place in pop culture.

The first instalment made

$362 million at the global box office, while Toy Story 2 brought in $485 million.

Disney bought Pixar in 2006 in a deal worth $7.4 billion. – Agencies

AIF Ali Khan had a surprise in store for him in Los Angeles where he was shooting for 'Happy Ending'. While filming the song 'Haseena Tu Kameena Mein' on the streets of the city, Saif came across a middle-aged cop who couldn't curtail his excitement on meeting the actor.

Admitting to being his ardent fan, the cop disclosed that he has watched quite a few films of Saif and added that he thoroughly enjoyed Cocktail. Of course, the Nawab obliged the cop with a picture. – Agencies

London exhibition celebrates female empowerment through fashion LONDON: From a jade green wool dress suit worn by former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to the suffragettes' lace blouses, clothes have been a defining feature of women's empowerment, according to a new exhibition in London.

"Women Fashion Power" at London's Design Museum features items of clothing from the past 150 years that have come to be associated with key moments in the lives of women in positions of authority. Items on display include a delicate lace blouse worn by members of the 19th-century suffragette movement, which campaigned for British women to get the vote, Thatcher's green dress suit and a black beaded evening gown worn by the late Princess Diana.

"Throughout history women

have used dress in a very deliberate way to express power and authority.

We have tried to give a historical context and really introduce the

Lohan’s probation ended in necklace theft case

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judge on Thursday ended Lindsay Lohan’s probation in a necklace theft case and said she appears to be doing well with a plan to complete community service and counseling required in her last remaining criminal matter.

Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney said the actress received favourable reports from her counselor and an agency in London where she is performing community service. He ordered her to continue to receive psychological counseling and perform the community service as part of her probation in the 2012 case involving reckless driving and lying to police.

Dabney said Lohan has completed 102 hours of a 240-hour community service sentence. The judge Lohan has “picked up the pace” recently while working with the agency that aids neglected children and disabled adults. Over the years, Lohan was briefly jailed five times and sentenced to rehab for a variety of violations ranging from failing to perform her community service to skipping counselling sessions. Now 28, she is in London appearing in a stage production of the play Speed the Plow. – Agencies

whole idea of using dress to express power," co-curator Donna Loveday said. She is careful, though, to draw a distinction between women using clothes to express a sense of empowerment, and the 1980s trend for power dressing.

“I have not used the term 'power dressing' very deliberately, because I think that evokes a very particular image of that very masculine aggressive power look that we associated with the 1980s,” Loveday said. The exhibition is intended to show how women have used clothes to define how they want to be seen.

“So I think there is a new attitude to clothes, it’s not something that is silly or frivolous," Loveday said. "It is not something that restricts women or enslaves them. – Agencies

Williams's autopsy confirms suicide

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O B I N Williams' death has been ruled a suicide as his autopsy results revealed the actor died due to asphyxia and hanging. The 63year-old actor died on August 11 at his home in Tiburon, California in Marin County.

To x i c o l o g y reports reveal antidepressants, caffeine and levodopa, a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease, in his system. Alcohol and illegal drugs were not involved, the statement from the coroner's office said. Prescription drugs were found in therapeutic concentrations, the coroner said. The Oscar-winning actor had battled severe depression for years and had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's, his widow, Susan, revealed after his death. – Agencies

Nicole Kidman exuded true Hollywood glamour in a red floor-length dress at the Louis Vuitton Monogram celebration at the Museum of Modern Art, here the other day. – Agencies

'Rihanna stalker a ticking time bomb'

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New York City judge ordered a man to stay away from pop star Rihanna after he was arrested for lurking outside her Manhattan apartment building and sending threatening letters. Kevin McGlynn in September was found unfit to stand trial on stalking charges and committed to a psychiatric hospital in Staten Island. He has filed a petition seeking release. In a decision released earlier on Friday, Judge Orlando Marrazzo said the order would allow police to arrest McGlynn if he goes near the singer's home, instead of having to wait for him to do something more dangerous. McGlynn is also barred from contacting Rihanna by phone, mail or computer.

Marrazzo said McGlynn, 54, wrote a series of notes to the singer that made references to murder and sexual assault. He also accused Rihanna and other artists of using his material in their songs, the judge said. In his decision, Marrazzo compared McGlynn to Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed John Lennon.

"He appears to be a ticking time bomb who is wholly fixated on (Rihanna), and poses a direct threat of serious physical harm or death to her and anyone around her," he wrote. McGlynn's attorneys, who work for a state-run mental health agency, did not return requests for comment.Rihanna, 26, is one of the best-selling musical acts of the last decade and has won seven Grammy awards. – Agencies

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stAFF report ISLAMABAD - The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Sunday rejected the decision of SNGPL to close CNG stations across Punjab on the pretext of excessive load on the system.

The unilateral decision will hurt the interests of millions of masses and thousands of CNG filling stations owners therefore it cannot be accepted under any circumstances, said Pervaiz Khan Khattak, Central Chairman APCNGA. In a statement issued here today, he said that closure of CNG stations throughout Punjab on Nov 10 in the garb of load on system is unacceptable as there is no city in the province facing biting cold.

The unilateral and flawed decision will add to the problems of CNG operators and miseries of the masses, said

Pervaiz Khan Khattak.

He said that some of the government and business circles cannot tolerate CNG sector even if it is running for two days a week. The SNGPL has deprived masses of affordable fuel many times in recent days and now the department has repeated the decision without taking stakeholders on board which is unfortunate, he added.

Pervaiz Khattak said that closure of CNG stations will affect millions of jobs, thousands of CNG operators while drivers of taxis, rickshaws and wagons will increase fares.

He said that CNG is the only business in the world which is not allowed to operate for more than two days in a week and it is being strangulated which has left us with no option but to take a strict action.

He said that depriving Punjab’s CNG industry of gas is highly unfortunate therefore the CNG operators facing the wrath of SNGPL should be immediately compensated against the wastage of business days.

Hasham Saddique appointed VC NS By our deFenCe Correspondent ISLAMABAD - Vice Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Saddique has been appointed Vice Chief of the Naval Staff with immediate effect, said a notification issued here Sunday.

Vice Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Saddique was commissioned in the Operations branch of Pakistan Navy in June 1980. The Vice Admiral undertook initial training at Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, UK. On commissioning, the officer won the coveted Sword of Honour from Pakistan Naval Academy. He got his early education from prestigious PAF College Sargodha and FSc from cadet College, Petaro.

During his distinguished career, the Admiral attained vast experience of both command and staff appointments.

His command appointments include Command of a Destroyer, Commandant Pakistan Naval Academy, Commandant Pakistan Navy War College, Commandant National Security College at National Defence University, Commander Pakistan Fleet and Command of Multi National Combined Task Force 150 at HQ NAVCENT Bahrain.

His key staff appointments include Chief Staff

Officer to Commander Pakistan Fleet, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Plans), Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Admin), Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Projects). Prior to his appointment as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, the Admiral was serving as Chief of Staff at Naval Headquarters, Islamabad.

The Vice Admiral is a graduate of Joint Services Staff College and National Defence University Islamabad. He holds Master’s Degree in Operations Research from USA and joint warfare & war studies from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He also has M Phil degree in Public Policy and Strategic Security Management.

for media professionals of both countries to act with enormous maturity and responsibility and to avoid sensational journalism when it comes to reporting about the relations between these two nuclear neighbors and this particular factor required extraordinary responsibility in news reporting over Indo-Pak bilateral issues. “Yes Mr. Makhdoom Babar is absolutely right, there are certain hawkish anchorpersons and new reporters in both countries who often cross certain red lines while holding talk shows and reporting events with regard to Indo-Pakistan relations and particularly during tense situations. Such attitudes, yes, of course, are bound to create any untoward situation and thus it is about time that such elements should shun sensational journalism and better opt for substantial journalism with positive mindsets and with maturity and responsibility as irresponsible and merely sensation based attitudes and aggressive approaches could push both nations into some highly unfortunate scenario,” asserted Manju.

Makhdoom Babar emphasized on the need for media from both Pakistan and India to rise above to contribute for a lasting peace in this part of South Asia and must do the same with acute responsibility. “This is the call of the hour that both Pakistani and Indian journalists should shun the negative attitudes and must use all their energies to deliver to cater to the needs of common man in their respective countries. It is the prime responsibility of media organizations and individual journalists to promote peace between the two nations instead of enhancing negative feelings about each other as only peace could benefit the masses. I must take this opportunity to plead to Indian media to become a pressure group over Indian government to force New Delhi to shift its spending from military purchases to projects that could help the poor people of the nation of over a billion, improve their lives and to eradicate poverty. I would also take this opportunity to advise the individual Indian journalists to set aside hawkish attitude towards Pakistan as by doing so, they are actually tearing the two nations apart rather than bringing them closer to forge a real peace and harmony. I am sure that there are very sane and mature journalists like Ms, Manju across India but still certain hawkish and hostile journalists and anchorpersons are becoming more prominent in Indian media which is not a good sign to me,” said Makhdoom Babar.

He said that he was really shocked to see the attitude of certain unscrupulous and highly irresponsible anchorpersons in Indian media who remain 24x7 in anti Pakistan mod and they touch extreme heights when some highly sensitive episode occurs with regard to Pakistan-India relations like the one that happened on 26/11 in Mumbai when Indian media persons, instead of showing any level of maturity and responsibility, right in the middle of the tragic incident, even before the terror act was over, shifted their media canons towards Pakistan and by virtue of what, they even twisted the mindsets of the genuine investigators.

He said that despite the fact that no single person at any level, all over Pakistan, ever supported or appreciated the tragic 26/11 incident and instead deeply condemned this gory episode, yet, certain Indian media houses and prominent individual anchorpersons and print media journalists created an atmosphere to convince the entire Indian nation that it was the Pakistani nation that was responsible for 26/11. “Well who can call it responsible or substantial journalism? This was merely the journalism at its worst. In such a sensitive scenario, Indian media, that is perhaps the biggest and the oldest in the region and has otherwise a very profound background, starting from British rule era, should have shown some little level of responsibility while on the other side, a rather minnow, Pakistani media, showed great responsibility and kept its cool. I believe that the stronger and the vibrant Indian media is, it must display the matching and befitting maturity and responsibility. There was a time when both Pakistani media and Pakistani government used to blame India or it’s RAW for every bad thing happening in Pakistan. But that was till the 80s and 90s. It is no more there.

Now, Pakistani media, showing maturity and responsibility, do not jump straightaway to the conclusion of blaming India for every evil happening here, even amidst very strong doubts about the same and so have been doing the governments at Islamabad. May be this is because we have real-

ized that it is not India and its RAW or IB alone as many other foreign agencies and elements are also causing troubles in Pakistan or maybe we, the Pakistani media, have gone too cautious in getting into a blame game, to save our credibility and reputation across the world. But it is a fact; In Pakistan, you would hardly see such hurriedly hurled blames over India by media while in India, certain media persons have still locked themselves in the theory of blaming Pakistan for every evil happening in India. By doing so, they are actually eliminating the possibilities of tracking down the actual culprits, actual hands and actual forces behind these conspiracies and this is what has made Pakistan, India ties very vulnerable to everyone across the world to dent these ties by hatching such conspiracies. I have covered many wars as a journalist. I have seen wars and I have seen the miseries of masses during the wars from Lebanon to Iraq and from Iraq to Afghanistan. These wars only help the Western powers like the United States to sell their weapons and arms to the war locked countries. So to my professional advice to my worthy colleagues in Indian media is that instead of making efforts to create war like scenarios between Pakistan and India and instead of encouraging Indian Forces to go for aggression, they must make efforts to defuse tensions as a Pakistan India war. In today’s scenario, would serve none by would simply destroy at least half of the humanity,” asserted Makhdoom Babar.

Manju Dagar completely agreed to this view point and said that media from both countries must show acute responsibility to ensure that peace must prevail and should put all professional efforts to defuse tensions rather than adding fuel to the fire.

“Nobody, really, In India. also wants to witness a Pak-India war. We the Indians are also a peace loving nations but, Yes! There are certain hawkish media elements out there who very loudly talk of war. But they are not only in India but on both sides, may a bit more in number in India as number of media persons is also much high in India if compared. But I totally agree that media, in any part of the world should always play role for peace and not war, stated Manju, who is also the Secretary General of an Indian NGO named YUVSATTA (Youth for Peace), adding that there was the need of the hour that both Pakistani and Indian government should try to develop faith and trust in each and should judge each other’s sincerities by each other’s acts without listening to what other say. “ Yes! She is right, others like Americans should not be allowed to tell us that how should we, the Pakistanis and Indians, should behave with each others. They cannot be trusted as they do so for their own benefits and a very strong example in this direction is that of US Secretary of State Chuck Hagel, who back in 2011, when Americans wanted to sell weapons to Pakistan, state that India was supporting terror to Pakistan via Afghanistan and today when US is eyeing Indian kitty for its weapon sales to India, the same Chuck Hagel’s Pentagon has come up with a statement that Pakistan is supporting terrorism in India. So how can they be believed in such an inconsistent state of affairs?” questioned Makhdoom To a question Makhdoom Babar agreed with Indian journalists that there were hawkish elements in Pakistan that have been talking of hoisting Pakistan’s flag on Delhi’s Red Fort for years while similar hawks were there in India who talk of conquering Lahore by India and to have victory tea at

Lahore Gymkhana . “But here we have to realize the fact that those who talk of hoisting Pakistan flag on Delhi’s red Fort have no acceptance in Pakistani society as they could never win even a local body election of a Union Council anywhere in Pakistan while those who talk of destroying Pakistan and conquering Lahore etc have been very strongly accepted and acknowledged by Indians as they have obtained historic votes to form a strong single party government in India. I guess this difference must be kept in mind while talking of Hawkish elements in Pakistan and India,” asserted DM Chief.

Indian journalists highly appreciated the efforts of The Daily Mail’s Chief to form PakistanChina Media Friendship Association that was contributing since 2006 to promote healthy journalism in both countries and to enhance people to people contact but expressed that before forming PakChina media friendship body, he should have formed Pak-India Media Friendship platform.

The Indians said that since Pakistan and China were already enjoying very cordial relations and extraordinary freindship while the same was lacking a lot in case of Indo-Pakistan ties, it was important that Mr. Makhdoom should have initiated such drive in this direction and should have formed Pakistan, India Media Friendship Association first.

They however suggested that without wasting further time, as it was, though, never too late, Pakistan, India Media Friendship Association must be established at the earliest as such a step would not

of peace and harmony. “I totally agree with you.

There is much need of such a genuine media body in this direction. See, SAFMA didn’t work; Aman Ki Aasha went even worst as both had very shady backgrounds and had clouds and clouds of doubts behind the intentions. But a genuine media body like ours is with regard to China and has genuine acknowledgments from hundreds of genuine journalists from both countries, if launched with regard to India, would surely earn very good results with regards to ensuring peace and in eradicating misconceptions amongst both the people and the journalists of the two countries,” said Chairman of Pak-China Media Friendship Association.

In the end, The Daily Mail Chief ensured the visiting Indian journalists that The Daily Mail would continue to make all the professional efforts to ensure peace and harmony amongst the two nations with all the sincerity. “Please be sure that The Daily Mail is by no means against India or the Indians. We are by no means a hawkish media organization. We have never supported PakistanIndia tensions and thus have never encouraged, by any of our act and content a Pakistan, India war or even war like situation. We have always contributed to the efforts of the peace. Our only crime that has earned us a bad name by the Indian intelligence establishment and certain hawkish media persons from India is that we merely expose and confront the conspiracies of Indian intelligence infrastructure against Pakistan and especially against Pak-India peace overtures and that too on the basis of solid and concreted evidences, never merely as a propaganda campaigns. We would welcome if Indian media could do the same in case of Pakistan, on the basis of solid evidences like ours. We, as a media organization and I personally do not have any bad feelings for India or Indians at all. I watch Indian movies and enjoy Indian music.

I am hosting you here with all the warmth in my heart and with all the sincerity in my feelings. you must have realized that how open, how professional and how deeply the peace seeking and peace promoting media organization we, The Daily Mail, are and how much positive feelings do we have for people of India. However we, by no means can keep our eyes wide shut over the wrongdoings of Indian Intelligence agencies with regard to Pakistan, That is not on as that is our basic professionals duty as a professional media organization and we cannot do dishonesty to our profession. We are friends of Indian public and Indian media and expect Indian media to reciprocate in same manner” explained The Daily Mail Chief.

only be playing a vital role in bringing journalists from both countries closer and together to make joint efforts for peace, harmony and friendship between the two nations but this platform would also emerge as a pressure group for both the Indian and Pakistani governments to take solid and practical steps for lasting peace and cordial ties for the welfare of the people of both countries while it will also be very effective to eradicate misconceptions on both sides of the border and to discourage anti-peace hawks.

“We have made it as our next target to form Pakistan, India Media Friendship Association with clear and sincere intentions for forging peace, harmony and friendship amongst the two neighboring countries through media endeavors, without any official involvement,” stressed Manju. Responding to this, Mr. Makhdoom Babar very warmly welcomed the suggestion of the Indian media team and said that he would put his and his team’s all sincere efforts for such a cause for the promotion

In the end, Indian media team presented The Daily Mail’s Editor-in-Chief with a memento, a pen sketch of Mahatma Gandhi and invited him to visit India on his earliest availability.

Earlier, Indian journalists also visited the National Press Club, Islamabad where they were received by President and General Secretary of the NPC. Senior NPC leaders and veteran journalists Tarique Chudhary and Afzal Butt briefed the Indian journalists about activities of NPC and the wlfare projects that the NPC was running for the betterment of the journalists. Both Pakistani and Indian journalists during this brief interaction at the NPC pledged to promote Pakistan, India ties and vowed to spread peace, harmony and friendship amongst the two neighboring nations. They also agreed to increase the interaction between Pakistani and India media persons and stressed upon the need of intensive exchanges of media delegations between the two countries.

Pak-India Peace Initiative

‘Aaghaz-e-Dosti’ session held

ISLAMABAD - Aaghaz-e-Dosti, an Indo-Pak peace and friendship initiative of Pakistan-based The Catalyst – TC and India-based Mission Bhartiyam, organized Aman Chaupal, here the other day, at The Indus Group of Colleges, Blue Area campus. Aman Chaupal is an interactive session wherein someone from across the border (here, India) interacts with students in a school or college. The objective of Aman Chaupal is to counter stereotypes and misconceptions. It is to show the side of India that the media never shows.

This was the eleventh Aman Chaupal and the first Aman Chaupal in Pakistan. In India, Aaghaz-e-Dosti has organized ten Aman Chaupals so far. The guests for the session were Dr. Manju Dagar and Mr. Mukesh Kataria. Dr. Manju Dagar is an award winning journalist and news anchor with rich experience of anchoring with organizations like All India Radio, Doordarshan, Aakashvani and various other news channels. She hosts the well-known program “Pal Do Pal,” on channel Ru-B-Ru. Mr. Mukesh Kataria, basically from New Delhi, is the CEO and Chairman at IPCC Ireland. Additionally, Dr. Manju works as General Secretary and Mr. Mukesh Kataria as Programs Advisor for Yuvsatta (an NGO empowering youth), Chandigarh, India.

Aman Chaupal was co-ordinated by Aliya Harir, convener (Pakistan) of Aaghaz-e-Dosti.

The coordinator from Indus Group of Colleges was Mr. Junaid Abbasi, Senior Vice Principal.

The session consisting of 11th grade students was initiated with Dr. Manju’s pleasing expressions on seeing the multimedia welcoming slide that read “Pakistan mai apka swagat hai” in Devnagri (Hindi) script.

Dr. Manju shared her experience of meeting and interacting with Pakistani citizens for quite a number of years. Expressing her appreciation she said that Aman Chaupal is such a fantastic name as what our ancestors used to do was they

used to sit under the shade of a tree and discuss the issues that concern them. Today we do not have that common tree where we the layman can sit and discuss his/her problems so the idea of a cross border person interacting with students is yet another sort of chaupal where I think the one inch of shade is the visa that has been granted. I am here to make most of it and I am open to hear and discuss about your ideas as well.

After this, the interactive session began.

“India is very uncooperative in terms of bringing a solution to Kashmir issue. Why don’t you accept the UN plebiscite on Kashmir?” came from a student.

“I suggest you to go and read about the Indian narrative on the issue of Kashmir and the UN resolution. The debate would get lengthened.

But to answer your question in simple words I must say that if Pakistan is affix at the UN plebiscite on Kashmir, then the decision of Pak-

istani leaders talking with Indian or Hurriyat leaders needs a revision”. Dr. Manju Dagar continued with saying that Kashmir is not the only issues between India and Pakistan, there are millions of them but yes Pakistan and India must find out a solution to this long-standing issue in the interest of the people of the region. The Indian Kashmir enjoys the same status enjoyed by rest of the states of India.

“Then why innocent people are prey of atrocities?” – asked by a student. They are prey of atrocities everywhere, my dear; be it Quetta, Kashmir, Wagha, or Mumbai. No religion teaches violence be it Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, or Sikhism, replied Manju Dagar “Why does Mr. Modi order the Indian forces to attack Pakistani soldiers?” asked a student.

Dr. Manju with a gentle smile asked a counter question: Does Nawaz Sharif order the Pakistani soldiers to attack Indian forces? No. Similarly, Mr. Modi has nothing to do with the LOC

clashes. The LOC tensions are created by the security forces on both sides of the border. Have you ever been informed of the causalities in India because of the firing? No. You simply trust the narrative built by your media. News is created on desk to create hype and sensitize people.

Expressing about her experience of having worked with media and news channels in India, she discussed the politics of media in highlighting the negative and biased news.

Mr. Aqeel, a teacher expressed that ‘Pakistan and India share the same culture, food, spices, religions, languages and much more to talk about’.

“Not to talk about Salman khan and Shahrukh Khan being the ultimate heroes of the students sitting here. Katrina Kaif k baray mai apko utni knowledge nahe hogi jitni en sab ko hai”, added the Principal of the college. (The audience laughs) Mr. Mukesh Kataria who spends most of his

time in Ireland, said that South Asia has the potential to become the strongest and most powerful part of the Asia continent in the world. If Europe can create the Europeans union so can South Asian create the South Asian Union. What happened in 1947 must now be forgotten. We need to move on and respect each other’s identity and sovereignty. Exemplifying the Kashmir issue, he said that Northern Ireland a part of both the UK and Ireland. The region has people Irish and British people who share common influence from Ireland as well as UK. So is like Kashmir.

Kashmir has its roots in India as well as Pakistan. He expressed his pleasure on the gracious hospitality extended by the people of Pakistan.

Replying to a student’s query about success of peace activities in India, Dr. Manju said that people of India and Pakistan think alike. Like in Pakistan, people in India also have many misconceptions and stereotypes. She shared the efforts and contributions of Yuvsatta in creating peace-cities in India and around the world for people to live in harmony with man & nature.

She shared that the idea of an International Youth Peace Fest in India started with just 100 students of India and Pakistan in 2006 and now in 2014, we have hosted young peace activists from more than 40 countries of the world. She motivated the youth to take steps for the betterment of Pakistan’s relations not only with India but with all the regional and global countries.

Dr. Manju also discussed about the Global Youth Peace Festival 2015 and discussed its success in the preceding years.

The program was concluded with Dr. Manju presenting the GYPF-2015’s memento of ‘Let’s do more’ with Mahatma Gandhi’s photo, to the college principal. She also presented a shield to the school principal with flags of India and Pakistan that read ‘Aur b jahan hain es jahan se aagay, Aur b manzilain hain es manzil say aagay’. – PR

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The Wagah carnage I

MAgE THAT in spite of an effective ongoing antiterrorist military operation and civilian authorities' claims of putting in place matching fool-proof security arrangements a suicide-bomber could kill nearly 60 innocent unarmed spectators and injure twice that number at the Wagah flag-lowering ceremony on Sunday, is mind-boggling. That within hours of the incident two competing terrorist outfits claimed responsibility for the carnage was something that put paid to the officials who often find a terrorist incident as the last hurrah of the dying demon. On the very day Wagah parade ground turned into a mass killing field there were quite a few explosions at some places while bombs didn't explode at others. At this point of time it's difficult to know if the Wagah incident was part of the sect-based extremism that raises its ugly head during the holy days of Ashura. But, it has to be conceded that if a large part of Pakistan is locked down today, it is only because of the feared terrorist attacks. Who failed whom is that the crux of the blame game now on between the Punjab police and the Rangers establishment. It is only crying over the spilt milk and of no consolation to the families who lost their near-ones and dear-ones at the venue so much symbolic of our national pride. By all accounts the incidence of terrorism now besetting Pakistan is huge, stemming as much from failed state policies, misplaced preferences and unrelenting sectarian strife, a catastrophic breakdown that must be blamed on both the political elite and religious leadership. Invariably, we grieve for the dead and injured, pass condemnatory resolutions, pay visits to hospitals, announce compensatory payments, and even pledge to eradicate terrorism from its very roots - but all of it more as a curative treatment than preventive care. We have no beef with the interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan who claims that a warning of suicide bombing in Lahore was issued and 'investigation would be initiated against those who had not taken necessary steps to forestall this tragedy'. But how to prevent the potentially-primed suicide-bomber from exploding at a bus stop or railway station that would result in equal number if not more casualties, remains an unanswered question.

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young Christian man and his pregnant wife were subjected to unspeakable horror on Tuesday morning in Lahore's Kot Radha Kishan suburbs. According to reports, the couple worked as bonded labour at a brick kiln from whose owner they had taken Rs 200,000 advance and wanted to quit without being able to pay back the money. The owner locked them up in a room to prevent them from leaving while the village cleric asked people via the mosque loudspeaker to gather at the kiln where, he alleged, a Christian woman had burned the holy Quran. A similar announcement was made in an adjoining village. Soon a mob gathered and tore down the roof of the couple's room to take them out. They were beaten unconscious and then burned alive in the kiln furnace. The police have made 48 arrests while Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has set up a three-member committee to investigate the lynchings. He had done the same after the godra atrocity but nothing came out of it.

Populist measures: path to a deeper hole The federal government reduced the price of petrol this weekend under the Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) component defined as passthrough to consumers of any reduction in the international price of imported fuel. The price of fuel to domestic consumers is not directly linked to any International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition under the 6.64 billion dollar currently stalled Extended Fund Facility. However, the government does generate considerable revenue from sale of fuel through the petroleum development levy (budgeted to generate 123 billion rupees in the current year) as well as sales tax with collections rising with a rise in fuel price - revenue that is a component of any IMF package.

Jonathan Power

Russia growing tough P

RESIDENT Vladimir Putin is often painted as an ogre in the world’s media. The seemingly eternal president of Russia has an iron grip on his nation and a foreign policy to match. Yet a large majority of Russians give him their support.

Is it his early economic success?

Or is it because of a new stability? Or the nation’s growing self-respect after the ignominious years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union? Or is it a sense of besieged defensiveness because of the advantage the West undoubtedly took of Russia after that demise.

The answer is a bit of all these.

Few in the outside world seem to talk much about what happened after president Boris Yeltsin pushed aside Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union. Few recall the political and economic upheavals of that time and why the stability of Putin’s governance is welcomed by people at large. Perhaps it is because this was a quarter of a century ago and people now ruling the West, and the journalists who report on them, were only teenagers or in their twenties at the time- and suffer from that common Western political disease of lack of perspective and little knowledge of history.

Immediately after Gorbachev’s fall two things happened. Under the influence of misguided, radical, Western free-market economist advisors price controls were lifted and the price of food rose by 500 per cent, and later inflation soared. Second, the US sent a Treasury team to Moscow to check on whether the new Russia would pay back the Soviet debt without a word on economic aid. (Compare this with the enormous economic help offered defeated Germany and Japan at the end of the Second World War.) In March, 1993, Yeltsin went on TV to announce he was suspending the unhelpful and recalcitrant parliament and called for new elections. The vice president, Alexander Rutskoy, and parliamentary members attempted to

Immediately after Gorbachev’s fall two things happened. Under the influence of misguided, radical, Western free-market economist advisors price controls were lifted and the price of food rose by 500 per cent, and later inflation soared. Second, the US sent a Treasury team to Moscow to check on whether the new Russia would pay back the Soviet debt without a word on economic aid.

(Compare this with the enormous economic help offered defeated Germany and Japan at the end of the Second World War.) In March, 1993, Yeltsin went on TV to announce he was suspending the unhelpful and recalcitrant parliament and called for new elections. The vice president, Alexander Rutskoy, and parliamentary members attempted to impeach Yeltsin. Yeltsin retaliated with a referendum when he won a slim vote of approval but in a low turn out.

Moreover, the ballot papers were quickly incinerated. Yeltsin’s opponents, crying foul, saw no reason to back down. impeach Yeltsin. Yeltsin retaliated with a referendum when he won a slim vote of approval but in a low turn out.

Moreover, the ballot papers were quickly incinerated. Yeltsin’s opponents, crying foul, saw no reason to back down.

In September, the US-supported Yeltsin dissolved the Duma (parliament). In response 200 deputies occupied the building, voted to strip Yeltsin of the presidency, swore in Rutskoy as

Mahir Ali

After the wall I

T was 25 years ago this week that the wall came tumbling down. It didn’t exactly crumble until the bulldozers came to the party, but ordinary folks were able to begin chipping away at it with little danger of being shot down.

It made for powerful footage on the nightly television news. No other structure defined the Cold War quite so solidly, and seemingly ineradicably. Back in the early 1960s, when the wall was a novelty, young Germans got killed trying to climb over or dig under it. More broadly, the wall could be seen as a physical manifestation of what Winston Churchill had unhelpfully dubbed the Iron Curtain.

US president John F. Kennedy told his aides in 1961 that it wasn’t “a very nice solution, but a wall is a helluva lot better than a war”. Nikita Khrushchev would probably have seconded that sentiment.

Just as the wall symbolised the Cold War, its downfall 28 years later was a crucial juncture in the remarkable transformation that occurred during the latter half of the 1980s, beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev’s ascent to the pinnacle of the Soviet hierarchy in 1985.

Gorby, as he popularly became known in the West, was no spring chicken but he was considerably younger than his predecessors and, unbeknownst to most of his colleagues, was determined to drastically shift the status quo. “We cannot,” he had resolved, “go on living like this.” Albeit unwilling to publicly admit it initially, he had realised that the Soviet Union’s claim to being a workers’ paradise was substantially spurious.

The changes this realisation entailed included the recognition that it was unrealistic for Moscow to guide the fortunes of its East European allies, and to provide a military solution whenever things went awry, as they notably had in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia a dozen years later.

The Soviet Union broadly got away with its interventions in Hungary, Poland and East Germany in the 1950s (although it is worth noting that the reconquest of Budapest sparked an exodus from communist parties in the west), but its brutal response to the Prague Spring in 1968 was harder to dismiss as par for the course.

It was more than a decade later,

president and armed themselves.

Yeltsin ordered a shelling assault on the parliament building. Yeltsin, the “democrat” was photographed wielding a machine gun. The rebellion was put down. Yeltsin called elections.

With the aid of drugs to keep him going he won.

Yeltsin then backpedaled on economic reforms and his government became more nationalistic. It warned against the expansion of Nato and though, that the Soviet Union made its gravest military error by invading Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime. It is seldom noted, though, that the decision was preceded by a considerably more vigorous debate in Moscow than the power structures in Washington bothered with in 2001. What’s more, as the then US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has admitted, there was an American plot to lure the Russians into a war they couldn’t possibly win. It was revenge for Vietnam — even though no one has ever suggested that the Soviets had any interest in encouraging their adversaries to enter Indochina.

At the same time, the Afghanistan factor is all too frequently excessively weighted as a contributor to the demise of the USSR. Sure, it wasn’t just an awkward coincidence. But at a different juncture in its trajectory, the Soviet Union could have survived the blow to its prestige and reputation for military prowess. In the late 1980s, though, it faced a great deal more than humiliation on its southern flank. Under Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika policies, its internal weaknesses had become all too apparent — not just to the world at large, but to Soviet citizens themselves.

The imbalance in international affairs has been harder to cover up, though, and perhaps it is best epitomised by the fact that most of the Moscow’s old allies, as well as several former components of the Sovi-

argued with Ukraine over Crimea.

Meanwhile, corruption soared.

Rich businessmen, each struggling to be top dog, blew each other up with car bombs.

In December of that year the long war in Chechnya began.

The war dragged on, the economy was in dire straits and in the parliamentary elections a year later the Communist party looked set for a major rebound. Yeltsin’s party managed a narrow victory.

It was then- in August 1999- that Yeltsin appointed yet another prime minister: Putin. On December 31st Yeltsin resigned, having struck a deal with Putin that his family would be protected from prosecution if he made him president. It was the first peaceful and democratic transfer of power in Russian history.

Putin’s greatest achievement was to revive the economy. Inflation came down, pensions were paid and incomes increased by an average 250 per cent.

But on his watch Chechen gunmen took 800 hostages and 130 of them died when Special Forces made a mess of a relief operation. Later two passenger jets were downed and terrorists seized a school and hundreds of children, parents and teachers died in another botched rescue operation. The economy is no longer doing well.

Nevertheless, after the vicissitudes of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years, on the main issues that preoccupy most people, Putin seems to be a steady leader who gets on top of problems.

State controlled TV stations (as in France) help ensure popular support.

For now Putin’s support has put down deep roots. The West must understand why. It is far more than the popular take over of Crimea or the meddling in Ukraine. If only the West had given Gorbachev and Yeltsin a sound economic hand all this turbulent history might never have happened.

Now Russia, not just Putin, is in a very assertive mood.

– Courtesy KT et Union itself, are now members of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (Nato), which really ought to have bitten the dust when the rival Warsaw Pact ceased to exist after all, US secretary of state James Baker had agreed wholeheartedly with Gorbachev when the latter had declared that Nato’s expansion eastwards would be unacceptable. The ongoing crisis in Ukraine is in several ways a consequence of that promise being ignored by Baker’s successors.

The fact that many East European countries have veered to the opposite end of the ideological spectrum — with Hungary a clear example, while Poland and the Czech Republic have attracted ignominy by collaborating with the CIA’s extrajudicial activities — is one of many unfortunate consequences of the process that acquired unstoppable momentum 25 years ago this week.

And the existence, meanwhile, of pockets of nostalgia for the verities of the communist past across Eastern Europe and Russia is a reminder that the baby was thrown out with the bathwater, making it necessary for the post-capitalist path to be delineated once more.

It’s been a largely unrewarding process so far. It is not inconceivable, though, that shocks to the system roughly equivalent to the demolition of the Berlin Wall could usher in a more constructive phase in the progress of the 21st century.

– Courtesy KT

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Monday, November 10, 2014

John V. Whitbeck

General Mirza Aslam Beg

Wake up call to the West

The Consequences of ISIS (DĀESH) Surge

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AFTALI Bennett, Israel’s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of the current Israeli government, is widely seen as the politician on the rise in Israel and a potential successor to Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister after the next Israeli elections.

On Nov. 6, he published a highly significant opinion article, entitled “For Israel, two-state is no solution”, in the International New York Times.

In this article, Bennett argues that “for its security, Israel cannot withdraw from more territory and cannot allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank” and then proceeds to propose his own “four-step plan” for peace.

His “peace plan” notably includes Israel’s unilateral annexation of Area C, approximately 61 percent of the West Bank, so as to “reduce the scope of the territory in dispute, making it easier to reach a long-term agreement in the future.” In his vision of peace, any “Palestinian entity” on residual ink spots of Areas A and B of the West Bank “will be short of a state. It will not control its own borders and will not be allowed to have an army.” As for Gaza, “it cannot be a party to any agreement.”

Bennett concludes: “I am aware that the world will not immediately accept this proposal. It seems to go against everything Israel, the Palestinians and the international community have worked toward over the last 20 years. But I will work to make this plan government policy because there is a new realty in the Middle East, which has brought an end to the viability of the Oslo peace process.”

One may hope that Bennett’s blast of honesty will blow away any residual illusions within those western governments, which have for decades been blocking the realization of a Palestinian state by arguing that a it can only exist, even on a purely legal level, as a result of negotiations with Israel — i.e., after almost half a century of belligerent occupation, with the prior consent of the occupying power.

One may also hope that Bennett’s honesty will help western governments to recognize the urgent necessity to save the two-state solution by one or, ideally, both of the only two conceivable courses of action to do so — (1) the United States not vetoing an application by the State of Palestine for full member state status at the United Nations and, thereby, letting it happen and (2) building on the virtuous example of Sweden, a tsunami of diplomatic recognitions of the State of Palestine by the 19 European Union states, which have not yet done so, followed by a clear and coherent program for intensifying EU sanctions until Israel complies with international law and relevant UN resolutions by withdrawing fully from the occupied State of Palestine.

In a world that still professes formal respect for international law and the UN Charter, the occupation of a UN member state by a neighboring state cannot be permitted to endure indefinitely, and Europe is Israel’s principal trading partner and cultural homeland, with Israel enjoying special privileges that give it many of the advantages of virtual EU membership.

Either course of action would represent a wholesome and constructive reality check to Israeli society and render the end of the occupation a mere question of when

rather than of whether.

It appears that the legislatures of France and Spain are on track to vote on recognizing the State of Palestine prior to year-end, although, as in the case of the overwhelming favorable vote in the British House of Commons and the unanimous favorable vote in the Irish Senate, neither vote would be binding on their respective governments.

If the US government were to permit the State of Palestine to become a UN member state, there is good reason to believe that a wave of diplomatic recognitions by EU states, which have traditionally deferred to the US on all matters relating to Israel, Palestine and the so-called “peace process,” would rapidly follow.

There is also some reason for hope that the Republican Party’s new total control of the US Congress, which rules out any domestic achievement for President Obama in his final two years in office, will focus the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s attention on leaving a legacy of historic foreign policy achievements which remain within his discretion and power to achieve.

If, however, neither of these two courses of action has eventuated by mid2015, the Palestinian people and leadership, as well as all decent people who truly seek peace with some measure of justice in Israel/Palestine, should consign the “two-state solution” and the current “two-state legality” to the trash heap of history, accept the current “one-state reality” and embark upon a principled, long-term, anti-apartheid struggle for equal rights and human dignity in a unitary state for all who live in former Mandate Palestine.

Rafiq Ebrahim

An Exciting Endeavor E

VEN though one enjoys a comfortable and busy retirement, there comes a phase when one gets utterly bored, feels useless and craves for some real excitement. It was on one such day that I met Chris Basher after some seven years. I was a supervisor at a leading outlet store and Chris Basher used to come to the store for shopping very often. He had a charm of his own, a pleasantly looking guy and a good conversationalist. You naturally felt attracted towards him and liked him, that is, if you are prepared to overlook the fact that he was twice arrested for shoplifting!

Spotting me at a Starbucks coffee shop, he rushed towards me, his one hand waving heartily and the other holding a cup of coffee. Spilling coffee on my new shirt, he hugged me. “Long time no see! Where have you been, Raf? “I told him that I was now retired and asked, “How are you? Still at the old tricks?”

He laughed out and said very somberly, “No more of that stuff. I have turned a new leaf. A few years ago a sudden revelation got hold of me. I must do something good in life. Since then I have been helping people in distress. Everywhere in the world, there’re people who need money, time and your devotion, and I have been channeling most of my time towards collecting donations for such people. Right now I am busy helping retired firefighters who are either disabled or hospitalized, needing funds.”

“Good to hear that,” I said. “Wish you all the best in this noble endeavor.”

He nodded thoughtfully and said, “I was wondering if you can help me in this cause, put in some time since you are now retired?”

“Always ready to do whatever I can towards alleviating the sufferings of needy people. How can I help?” “ These days I am aiming at the residents of Addison. What I do is to contact the residents at their homes by phone, request donations for this noble cause and get their pledges. The following day, a representative of Daring Firefighters Foundation, a charity organization formed by me, goes to the houses and collects the promised donation. Would you like to be a representative?

I’ll give you ten percent of the collection the very same evening.”

I thought for a moment. Well, I was looking for some excitement in life, and here was a good chance for that. Meeting so many people and working for a good cause! I told him that I was ready for the job and that I really didn’t need the ten percent from this worthwhile collection. He insisted that I must at least be given gas money, as I’ll have to drive my own car a lot.

American people, I must say, are very charitable. They lighten their wallet without hesitation for a noble cause. And so, collecting donation was so easy. In a day, on an average, I would get a thousand dollars, which I would hand over to Chris in the evening, and he would put a fifty-dollar bill in my pocket. Things were going on fine, till one evening when I rang a bell and the occupant turned out to be a local cop. Well, if he was only a cop it would have been okay, but he was a cop of a special temperament. He opened the door and looked at me with fire in his eyes. Seemingly, he was off duty, for he seemed to have got up from a couch where he was relaxing in pink shorts and a glass of liquor. He was short but very heavily built, with a generous growth of hair on his forearms, legs and chest. In contrast to his big round face his eyes looked small and menacing. He was chewing the hair that invaded his mouth from his offensive-looking moustache. “Well, how dare you ring the bell?

Didn’t you notice the sign at the door: No Soliciting. Trespassers will be prosecuted.”

“I just came to collect the donation promised by you to Chris Basher for his Daring Firefighters Foundation,” I said, nervously.

“Chris Basher? He is phony. His Foundation is phony and you look like phony too,” he roared. “Do you have any identification letter or card with you? If not, I’ll straightaway march you off to the Addison Police Station, sticking my gun at your back.”

Taken aback, I lied, “The papers are in my car. Do you want me to get them?”

“Of course! Go get them while I load my gun.”

Here was a chance to escape from this lunatic. I didn’t want to be marched off to the police station and got arrested. What would my grand children think of me when they grew up? I could imagine them discussing the topic with friends. The youngest, a talkative one, would say, “Listen dude, my grandpa was once marched off to a police station by a burly cop in pink shorts with a gun…”

I got into my car, turned on the ignition key and sped off like a racing car, not giving him a chance to note down my license plate number. I, however, could see him by the front door, dangling his gun and shouting, “Hey!” There was a mall nearby, and I parked my car in a parking space among hundreds of other cars. Heaving a sigh of relief, I lit a cigarette to soothe my jumpy nerves.

Later that evening, I went to Chris’ place and told him about the nerve-shattering experience. He was enjoying a jumbo glass of whiskey and seemed unperturbed.

“Well, there are nasty people everywhere.

Anyway, you just take a couple of days off and rest. Will see you next Thursday, and yes, you deserve some bonus today.” Saying so, he put a hundred dollar bill in my pocket.

A couple of days later, a news item caught my eye. It read: Scam artist absconding. A forty-year old person by the name of Chris Basher has been fleecing the residents of northwest suburbs of their valuable earnings by asking them to give donations for what he calls Daring Firefighters Foundation to help retired and needy firefighters. He has been active since last April and has amassed thousands of dollars. Police, when they came to know about the scam, raided the apartment where he lived, but found him absconding….

The copy of the newspaper, which I was reading, fell down from my hands. Excitement! I had enough of it. Retirement is the time to rest, to see the world, to love people and spread sweetness and light, to play with your grand kids, to enjoy the blessings bestowed by God and to thank Him.

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HE British analyst Alastair Crooks is new Sunni State – is taking shape at the very wrong in saying that: “There is really heart of what they regard as a historical Sunni almost nothing that the West can do patrimony, drawn by Dāesh Salafi about it (DĀESH), but sit and watch.” ideology.”(Alastair Crooke).

Whereas it is the West, whose primary responBeyond the Islamic State region, the Dāesh sibility is to develop a strategy and a new threat is likely to emerge in two forms. One approach, to deal with the growing may be the repeat of Afghan jihad fall-out. phenomenon of Dāesh, because West itself is After the defeat of the Soviets, “the 60,000 the catalyst, as Noam Chomsky rightly says: jihadis who had come from seventy countries “The appearance of ISIS and the general of the world – CIA” went back to their homespread of radical Jihadism is a fairly natural lands except those who were considered danoutgrowth of Washington wielding its sledge- gerous and were not allowed to return. They hammer at the fragile Muslim societies. The sit- became non-citizens of the world, like Aluation is a disaster for Qaeda and others, and the US, and a natural still continue to wage result of its invasions. The brutalities of ‘shock jihad in Afghanistan, One of the grim con- and awe’ committed on Pakistan, North Africa sequences of US –UK and the Middle East. aggression was to Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon Something similar inflame sectarian con- and Ghaza, drew the ‘hate- may happen in case of flict that are now tearDāesh also, as the ing Iraq and Syria to line’ of frustration, despair Jihadis from USA, shreds, and have UK, Europe and other spread over the whole and revenge and the conse- countries, start returnregion with awful quential growth of ing home, and there consequences.” should be no bar on

by Taliban, such The brutalities of resistance returnees, ‘shock and awe’ com- Dāesh, Hizbullah and Ham- because at home, they mitted on can be kept under Afghanistan, Iraq, mas. The world organiza- watch. The ‘ideologiLebanon and Ghaza, tions and the Security Coun- cal threat’ to Muslim drew the ‘hate-line’ of countries will be limfrustration, despair cil remained almost passive ited, because countries and revenge and the spectators like Afghanistan and of brutalities Pakistan, consequential growth follow the of resistance by committed on the Muslim “Dêobandi, Barelvi, Taliban, Dāesh, Qadria and Therefore the Maliki, Hizbullah and Ham- Societies.

Naqshbandi order, and mas. The world organ- West just cannot sit and are opposed to Dāesh izations and the Secuideology. rity Council remained watch. It has the responsiThe world at large almost passive specta- bility to find “proper seems to have no tors of brutalities viable option to deal with balming with committed on the response, Dāesh. Air Muslim Societies. effect, and not the bomb- strikes and Kurd reTherefore the West enforcements are just cannot sit and ings” which have caused weak responses and watch. It has the such prove counter chaos, death and will responsibility to find productive. Therefore, “proper response, destruction to the Muslims it would be better to with balming effect, of the world. Dāesh compris- look at the problem and not the bombings” dispassionately. The which have caused es three elements mainly – Dāesh are, attempting such chaos, death and to correct the wrong destruction to the the Iraqi, Syrian and Saudi. done in 1920” and Muslims of the world. The Iraqi group consists of want to establish the Dāesh comprises Islamic State of the three elements mainly Saddam’s disbanded army, Levant. To grant them – the Iraqi, Syrian and supported by Iraqi Sunnis. this right, is an option.

Saudi. The Iraqi group Nearer at home, in consists of Saddam’s Afghanistan the Taldisbanded army, supported by Iraqi Sunnis. iban are trying to correct the ‘wrong done in They are the strongest of the three, being well 1979 and 2001. To grant them the Islamic Emitrained and possess enough military hardware rates of Afghanistan, is an option, because the captured from the Iraqi military (INA). Their ground realities suggest that, with American commander is Izzat Ibrahimi, and the target is forces leaving, the Taliban would prevail. The Iraqi regime. Ideologically they are close to Afghan National Army (ANA) cannot stand-up Salafi school of thought. Their strength is esti- against them: mated at 50,000 – 60,000. The Syrian group “The ANA hide from battle. It cannot lead consists of The Syrian Opposition Army and or fight at night. Soldiers refuse to fight, and the Moderate Opposition of Syria, who were hide behind rocks and among trees. I am sure, trained and equipped by US and Sunni coun- when the Americans leave, Afghan Army will tries of the region, against the Syrian regime, scatter like leaves in the stiff breeze. There are now have joined Dāesh, yet their primary target no illusions about the consequences of ANA. is the Syrian regime. Ideologically they are Zero.” Maj. Gen. Robert Seals, Green Beret, close to Salafis. Their strength is estimated at USA, Washington Times, 26 October, 2014.

30,000 – 40,000. The Saudi Group consists of The West has to accept these realities and the Wahabi dissidents, who oppose the Saudi correct the course, by looking deeper into the regime, “because the Saudi government has “heart of the matter”, i.e. “abandoning the modernized / westernized and has drifted away politico-ideological crusade” which aims to from the puritan ways of the Wahabis”. “Their transform the Muslim societies into liberal/secreal potential for destruction lies – in the implo- ular and modern entities, “who prefer an order sion of Saudi Arabia.” Alastair Crooks. There is that favors individual autonomy and marginala constant flow of Saudi dissidents, joining the ized God. Not God first but We first, whereas group. The strength of the group, commanded Muslims believe that human existence should

by Khoshgi is estimated 8,000–10,000. be a God created human order.” – New York These three components form the coalition Times. Simply stated: “leave the Muslims under Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi, who has alone,’ the policy Chinese follow in dealing declared himself Caliph. His primary aim is to with the world beyond their borders. establish the Islamic State over the territories, The Muslim societies, during the last fourwhich once were part of the Ottoman Empire, teen hundred years have learnt to assimilate all but in 1920 were divided into several countries. such elements. Pakistan is a perfect example of Dāesh’s main asset is the perennial source of a moderate Muslim Society, living peacefully Jihadi volunteers, pouring-in from “eighty with all schools of religious thought such as, countries of the world. – UN.” Thus, Dāesh Kharji, Takfiri, Salfi, Wahabi, Qadri, Naqshposes threat to the three regimes mainly and a bandi, Dêobandi, Barelvi, Shia and Sunni. But lesser degree of threat to other Muslim coun- unfortunately the “political-ideological crutries. The threat to the regional states could be sade” has debased the very face of the moderas serious as described here: ate Muslim society of Pakistan. The West has to “Gulf will never be the same again and the accept the reality and correct the course, for the Middle East will be un-recognizable, as the good of the humanity.

L e t t e r s To T h e E d i t o r Laundering money via stock market HERE is jubilation in the stock market after the Finance Minister agreed T to the proposals put forward by the SECP. In fact, the market had rallied almost 10% ahead of the finance minister approval to the proposals, indicat-

ing clearly that insiders were aware that these measures will be approved. So what are these measures about?

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Source of income will not be asked till 2014 and after 2014 these funds will be treated as white money.

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Capital gains tax will be same at 10% till 2014.

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NCCPL will directly deduct CGT. 4.

Withholding tax on sale of shares will be abolished.

The most interesting and controversial clause is that no question will be asked regarding the source of funds for investments in the stock market till 2014 and which will subsequently be declared white after 2014.

This means that the tax authorities will not question anyone who invests in the stock market beyond his identifiable source of income till 2014. Is the finance minister trying to make the stock market a money laundering platform where the ill gotten wealth could be channelized and subsequently declared as legitimate asset of the individuals? Historically, during the times of various governments whitening schemes were announced but never before to such an extent.

One obvious benefit is that this move could entice people to channel their wealth away from the areas which don’t get declared for the tax authorities. A distinction should be made between what is ill-gotten wealth made through illegal means and the wealth made on real business activities without coming into in the ambit of tax. The latter includes areas such as real estate, retail businesses and whole sale distribution etc. These are the real business activities people are engaged in without getting themselves into the ambit of declaring their income. The wealth accumulated through such businesses normally doesn’t get declared and thus people are able to avoid paying taxes on their wealth.

However, at the same time, there are ways to make their wealth white by buying prize bonds etc at a cost not exceeding 10% of the wealth. So anyone wishing to make his wealth white has to pay 10% upfront, that’s it. It can be done when there is a need to do so as this window is always available.

Hence, these people are not going to start investing in the stock market just

because of this announcement. They will continue to invest in their own areas where they are making reasonable returns.

The people who could potentially start investing money in the stock market, who are not involved in any real business activities but park their investment in various informal businesses, buying of real estate or such business areas where they are not required to declare their source of funding.

Their original source of income is quite often ill-gotten wealth from dubious means. They can’t afford to bring out their wealth to the tax authorities as they don’t have the means to justify its origin from legal activities. By declaring that the stock market investment will not be questioned is tantamount to opening an easy way to launder ill-gotten money. Someone has commented that the minister has created a window for the present ruling elites of PPP to launder their money through the stock market which they have made while in office. These are the questions people will be asking the minister as the government is in the last year of its office. There are serious accusations of corruption against this government and therefore it is quite reasonable that people will voice their concern about the intention of this move at this stage.

Should FBR stop asking about the source of income then there is no limit to what people can declare as their wealth but it’s not going be like this. The measures announced on one hand intends to bring in money back into the stock market from apparently those who don’t want to declare their source of income and at the same time it wants to deduct capital gains in the form of withholding tax through the National Clearing Company (NCCPL). The message is… “Okay! You come to the stock market, we will not ask any question about the source of income but whatever gains you make it will be liable to pay capital gains tax at source”.

This appears to be a good arrangement on the surface but how this thing will work is rather difficult to comprehend at this stage. Whether its stock market investments, initiating any business or building a house; there is bound to be question about the source of income in most countries. While announc-

ing these measures for stock investments, one should ask the finance minister why single out stock market investments only, why not people should be exempted from declaring their source of funding if someone wants to start a business or for that matter why not people who make their own home should be exempted from declaring the source of funding.

Zahid Ali Khan, Karachi

Education is the third eye of a man UR country got independence almost 64 years ago, since then, it cannot be said that a public sector has not even fulfilled the requirement of O the people of Pakistan by providing them good education. The contribution

imparted by this sector is a little bit worth to be maintained. Our government system is moving towards destruction due to which not only the teachers are taking interest, nor the students are getting satisfied. Now, day by day, situation is getting so worst that in government institutions, teacher does not comes regularly which is definitely resulting in destroying the education system of Pakistan. Even, nowadays, the cheating has also become so common that, it is destroying the image of our education sectors. In my opinion, the basic reason behind this nuisance in our country is wide spread corruption.

I must say, our government should be blamed for all this, because they are not properly providing the funds to the institutions, or else, if the funds are provided, then they are being misused by our senior government staffs.

Secondly, our education has always remained as an orphan child in our society by facing double standard which is thus creating an atmosphere of frustration for the young ones. This is so because, our government themselves have divided the education system into several different boards.

Thus, this is creating a vast difference in the minds of the high and low class people for educating their generations. Kindly, I request you to please put an eye on this matter and take my advice as an appeal to the media and to our President. I am raising my voice, so that they must ponder of how to bring a change in our education system to improve our society. If our society will improve, then it would definitely help our country to move towards success and prosperity.

Yumna Tariq University of Karachi