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Rs 17.00 Vol IV No 78 16 Pages Karachi Edition

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Mullah Baradar won’t be sent to afghanistan

12 dead in Us navy Yard shooting

3 women killed for ‘honour’, jirga gives up 2 men

plans for a party of his own killed imran Farooq

tareen set to replace Khattak as pti secy gen

Pakistan’s foreign policy chief, Sartaj Aziz on Monday said the key Taliban prisoner detained in Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was likely to be released in the next day or two but he won’t be handed over to Afghanistan Baradar, however, will not be handed over to authorities in Afghanistan, the advisor on foreign affairs to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif added while talking to a private media outfit. pag e 03

At least 12 people were killed after as many as three shooters dressed in military style uniforms opened fire in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said. DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said in a mid-day news conference that one of the suspected shooters is dead, while authorities are looking for two other suspects wearing green and tan military style clothing. “We have potentially two other shooters that we have not located at this point,” Lanier said. pag e 04

Taking prompt notice of the killing of three women on the directives of a tribal jirga in Darra Adam Khel, the administration on Monday announced suspending all perks and privileges of tribesmen and in return, two men have been surrendered. The political administration said two men, including the husband of one of the slain women, had been arrested so far. It said efforts for arrest of all jirga members, who on Sunday ordered execution of the three women, were underway. pag e 02

The Metropolitan Police Service London (MPS), also known as the Scotland Yard, has said that Dr Imran Farooq was about to launch a new independent political career before his death and that remained a key line of inquiry in the investigation. Police know that in July 2010, Dr Farooq set up a Facebook profile and amassed a large number of contacts through the social network.

“However, we retain an open mind as to his murder,” the force said. pag e 02

Jahangir Khan Tareen, a close comrade of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, is set to replace Pervaiz Khattak as the party’s secretary general, Pakistan Today has learnt. Khattak has decided to retain his office of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister after the party asked him to relinquish his post, as according to the country’s constitution no one can hold for dual offices. pag e 05

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mqm reJeCtS CLaim imran waS LaunChinG new party KARACHI STAFF REPORT

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday ruled out claims made by the London Metropolitan Police regarding the murder investigation of slain MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq in which it was asserted he was seeking an independent political career.

British detectives said earlier on Monday that the fact Dr Farooq was about to launch an independent political career before his murder remained a key line of inquiry in the probe.

The former MQM leader was stabbed to death on September 16, 2010 outside his residence in London.

Talking to reporters at MQM headquarters Nine-Zero, Rabita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and senior leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said anyone who doubted allegiance of Dr Farooq with the party should investigate it further.

Ruling out claims of the Met Police, both the leaders said the thought that Imran Farooq was seeking to form a new political party was simply unimaginable. “We can’t even think that Dr Imran Farooq was forming a new party.”

Dr Khalid said the party would not create hurdles in the ongoing murder probe by any investigating agency.

“Conspiracies are being hatched to link MQM with the murder of Dr Imran Farooq,” said Haider Abbas Rizvi.

The MQM leaders said Dr Farooq was a symbol of the party’s struggle and those who considered him an enemy were adversaries of the “movement”.

pLanS for a party of hiS own kiLLed imran farooq SCOTLAND YARD SAYS MURDERED MQM LEADER HAD SET UP FACEBOOK PAGE FOR INDEPENDENT PARTY LONDON ONlINE

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He Metropolitan Police Service London (MPS), also known as the Scotland Yard, has said that Dr Imran Farooq was about to launch a new independent political career before his death and that remained a key line of inquiry in the investigation.

Police know that in July 2010, Dr Farooq set up a Facebook profile and amassed a large number of contacts through the social network. “However, we retain an open mind as to his murder,” the force said.

It is thought that his murder would have required careful planning and help from other people, some of whom may have provided assistance or information unwittingly.

Scotland Yard issued a fresh appeal for assistance in the Imran Farooq murder investigation on Monday.

On the third death anniversary of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's former leader, the police appealed again to the people to come forward with any in-

formation that may lead to the identification, arrest and prosecution of those involved in the murder and offered a reward of up to £20,000 in this regard.

MQM stages walkout against Karachi operation MQM LAWMAKER SAYS PARTY WORKERS ARE BEING VICTIMISED IN THE NAME OF TARGETED OPERATION ISLAMABAD ANWER ABBAS

Criticising the government for victimisation of its workers in Karachi, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday staged a walkout from the National Assembly.

The session opened with recitation of verses from the holy Quran that was recited by an NA employee, as the official muezzin was absent. The Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan pointed out the issue and urged National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to inquire

from the service branch of the NA. According to rules and regulations, the NA session could not open without recitation of the holy Quran. If it opens without the recitation then the proceedings are not recorded.

Following a point of order by the minister, the House prayed for the army officials who were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

During the first day of the ongoing fifth session, five newly elected MNAs took oath. While participating in the debate on presidential address, MQM lawmaker Asif Hasnain gave hard knocks to the government benches as saying that the MQM was being victimised in the name of targeted operation in Karachi.

The decisions regarding Karachi, he said, were being made in Islamabad and the MQM’s unit in-charges were being abducted in the name of action against

extortionists and criminals. He said further the MQM neither planned Jinnahpur nor designed Sindhudesh.

“Still using fake allegations of Mohajir Liberation Army, an operation on the pattern of 1992’s military operation was underway against the MQM that is largest party of Urdu sleeping class of the country,” he added.

MQM lawmaker Abdur Rasheed Godail demanded that the government introduce action against criminals, land mafia and target killers instead of victimising his party.

He also demanded that the government launch inquiry about Uzair Baloch’s escape from the country and uncover those involved in his escape.

Protesting against what they called abductions and detentions of MQM leaders and workers, Hasnain, followed by other MQM lawmakers staged a walkout.

Three women killed for ‘honour’, jirga surrenders two men PESHAWAR SHAMIM SHAHId Taking prompt notice of the killing of three women on the directives of a tribal jirga in Darra Adam Khel, the administration on Monday announced suspending all perks and privileges of tribesmen and in return, two men have been surrendered.

The political administration said two men, including the husband of one of the slain women, had been arrested so far. It said efforts for arrest of all jirga members, who on Sunday ordered execution of the three women, were underway.

Per details, one of the women belonged to Jawaki clan of Afridi tribe. She was married to a relative, who was living in Karachi. The woman was reportedly having illicit relations with another man.

A couple of months ago, she eloped

with her lover to Swat. The relatives registered a case in Karachi and forced Swat Police for her arrest. The Swat

Police reportedly arrested the woman and handed her over to relatives. In accordance with the tribal traditions, a

jirga of the tribal elders ordered the execution of the woman along with two of her older female relatives, who had reportedly helped her flee Karachi.

An official of the political administration said all three women were shot dead by close relatives on Sunday and were later buried in a local graveyard.

As Darra Adam Khel is a frontier region governed by the Kohat deputy commissioner as its political agent, the Kohat DC took a notice of the matter and directed the assistant political agent to ensure an early arrest of the culprits involved in killing of three women. The administration also announced suspending all perks and privileges of tribal elders.

Two men were subsequently handed over by the jirga members to the officials. The political administration has demanded the jirga members also surrender.

Dr Farooq was on his way home from work when he was attacked in Green Lane, edgware, London, shortly before 17:30hrs on September 16, 2010.

Dr Farooq, 50, died as a result of multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma to the head. A five and a half inchbladed kitchen knife and a house brick used in the attack were recovered at the scene.

Detectives from the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) who are investigating his murder are committed to finding those responsible.

To date they have spoken to 4,076 people, reviewed 6,350 documents and followed up 2,114 lines of inquiry in order to bring his killers to justice.

SC SeekS report on LG poLLS from provinCeS QUETTA APP

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the provincial governments to submit report about the progress made for holding local government (LG) polls.

While hearing the Balochistan law and order case at Quetta Registry, a threemember bench, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry, said the LG elections were being delayed.

Around 80 percent problems faced by the people across the country would finish once the LG system is restored, Chaudhry remarked.

The representatives of all provinces briefed the court about progress made in holding LG polls.

The court directed the provinces to take steps for conducting LG polls. A written reply in this connection will be submitted before the court on Tuesday (today).

mauLana tariq JamiL eSCapeS aSSaSSination bid MONITORING DESK Two gunmen opened fire on Maulana Tariq Jamil’s car late on Monday, a private TV channel reported.

Reports suggest that he was on his way to Faisalabad when his car was fired at. The gunmen fled after the incident.

Jamil is a well-known Deobandi preacher whose religious activities took root in Raiwind. He was one of the few hundred scholars to participate in an Ijtima which was held in Gilgit recently. He had been invited there by Shia clerics in a move clearly intended to reflect tolerance at some level.

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no ConditionS, no diCtation KAYANI VOWS NOT TO BOW TO TERMS OF TERRORISTS

REITERATES ARMY’S RESOLVE TO FIGHTING MENACE OF TERROR AT ANY COST

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by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the past two days, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani on Monday warned the terrorists that the army would not bow down to their terms, adding that the military had the ability and the will to take the fight with the terrorists to its logical end.

In four successive terrorist attacks during the past two days, as many as five army men have embraced martyrdom, including Malakand Division General Officer Commanding (GoC) Major General Sanaullah Khan and Lt Colonel Tauseef Ahmad.

A statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) quoted Kayani reiterating Pakistan Army's resolve and unflinching commitment in fighting the menace of terrorism in accordance with the will of the nation and at all costs.

He vowed to spare no effort in bringing the perpetrators of the cowardly acts of terrorism to justice.

Reaffirming army's support to the political process

SUPPORTS POLITICAL DIALOGUE, BUT WON’T ALLOW TERRORISTS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE

agreed upon during the recently convened all-parties conference, the COAS said unequivocally that terrorists would not be allowed to take advantage of it.

“He (Gen Kayani) emphasised again that while it is understandable to give peace a chance through a political process, no one should have any misgivings that we would let terrorists coerce us into accepting their terms. Army has the ability and the will to take the fight to the terrorists,” the statement said.

GOVT’S OPTIONS NARROWED: Noted defence analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi said that the successive attacks by Taliban against top military officers and putting strings to the government’s dialogue offer had narrowed down the options with the government.

However, he added, the attack may not hamper the dialogue process. “It’s a welcome sign that the army chief has reiterated his resolve to give a chance to peace process initiated by the civilian leadership despite killings of top military men. However, the warning by the COAS is reflective of the fact that more terrorist attacks against army men may jeopardise the peace process,” Rizvi said.

“The COAS also spoke his mind about the chances of success of a dialogue with the TTP. But Gen Kayani

has resolved to take fight against terrorists to its logic conclusion which reflects the army’s resolve that the primacy of the state of Pakistan should be accepted and that the army would not bow to the terms of the terrorists,” he added.

“The army’s reservations and concerns have come true even before the start of the peace process. It’s all happening for what the government had been told in advance by the army. Now the civilian government would have to deliver the goods in dialogue process or it would be discredited totally.” He said that the government’s all-parties conference (APC) did not mention a single word about preconditions for talks with the TTP, but the militants not only put strings to the offer, but also targeted army’s top commanders. “It reflects that the Taliban have full confidence and they feel no need for talking to the government. While the civilian government is shaky and now has limited space and limited options,” he asserted. Analyst on security af-

Baradar will be freed but won’t be sent to Afghanistan ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s foreign policy chief, Sartaj Aziz on Monday said the key Taliban prisoner detained in Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was likely to be released in the next day or two but he won’t be handed over to Afghanistan Baradar, however, will not be handed over to authorities in Afghanistan, the advisor on foreign affairs to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif added while talking to a private media outfit. Aziz earlier last week had said the former Taliban second-in-command could be released as soon as this month to help advance peace efforts in neighbouring Afghanistan, He said that handing over the key Taliban commander to Afghanistan will sabotage the purpose behind the decision of releasing him. “Mullah Abdul Ghani

veSted intereStS tryinG to SabotaGe peaCe taLkS, SayS fazL LAHORE: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) chief Fazlur Rehman has said hidden hands had started their nefarious endeavours to sabotage efforts to promote peace and harmony in Pakistan. Addressing various delegations in DI Khan, Fazl strongly condemned the killing of high-ranking army officials in Upper Dir, declaring it a serious issue. “Efforts to promote peace and harmony had started, but conspiracies have been let loose to sabotage the noble endeavours,” he regretted, cautioning both the government and militants to proceed with utter care about the issue and remain consistent about their intentions for peace and harmony. He also expressed the party’s efforts to strengthen the ‘actual’ Pakistan rather than the ‘new Pakistan’ (PTI’s slogan), warning that the JUI-F would resist any move to implement this (PTI’s) new agenda merely because of a new slogan.

Fazl also criticised the use of public assets in electioneering campaign in NA-25, and demanded the Election Commission take notice of the violation. ONlINE

one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in 1994, and is believed to be a close aide and one of the most trusted commanders of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taliban. He was captured from the port city of Karachi in February 2010. Afghanistan has been pushing Pakistan to release Baradar, whose release they believe would prove fruitful in negotiations with Taliban militants prior to the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from the war-torn nation.

Mullah abdul ghani Baradar will be freed into pakistan and he will remain in the country until he decides himself to move anywhere he deems necessary to initiate the peace process

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Baradar will be freed into Pakistan and he will remain in the country until he decides himself to move anywhere he deems necessary to initiate the peace process.” Citing security reasons, the foreign adviser did not elaborate on the specific date and time of the potential release. Baradar is

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no compromise on national security issues: nisar ISLAMABAD STAFF REPORT

Pakistan is an independent and sovereign country and no compromise would be made on its national security, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Monday.

Responding to MNAs’ questions in the National Assembly, Nisar said, “No foreigner, including any American security agency, is allowed to function in Pakistan.”

To a question he said the ban on arms licences of prohibited bores would continue indefinitely. Nisar said the previous government had issued 70,000 arms licences of prohibited bore, which deteriorated the law and order situation in the county. He said no foreign company had approached the government for issuance of arms licences. He said the government could not provide official guards to everyone, however added that protecting the peo-

ple was the state’s responsibility.

“The government is ready to bring legislation in parliament to prevent cases of sexual assaults against minors.

The term of punishment may be increased for this heinous crime,” he said in reply to another query. To another question he said 98,000 Afghan refugees were living in the slums of Is-

lamabad and most of them were criminals. “The registration process of these slum colonies will be completed within two and a half months,” he added. The interior minister said there should be strict punitive action against elements involved in illegal activities whether they belonged to the police, the CID or any other secret agency.

He said NADRA had not given even a single national identity card to any foreigner. He told the House that some 154 foreigners were arrested and cases were registered against 81 of them from January 1, 2008 to August 31, 2013.

“NADRA has set up special centres for women who cannot come out of their houses…these centres are set up to facilitate such ladies and senior citizens. He said there was also a facility available for womenfolk, who did not want their photograph to be pasted on their identity cards, adding that they could obtain their id cards without their portraits.

fairs, Amir Rana, termed the COAS’s statement a rational move, stating that it would help reinforce the impression amongst a section of society that the state was going to withdraw from its writ. “I don’t think that this (statement) reflects that the army and the (civilian) government are on different page vis-à-vis talks with Taliban are concerned. This (peace) process would continue simultaneously,” he asserted.

Rana said one should not have had high hopes from the peace process. “Despite talks’ process, the state should not look weaker. There was an impression among a section of the society that the Taliban had been given some concessions. This statement would diffuse this perception and it reflects the fact that the state is committed to its obligations.

Moreover, since the peace process is yet to start, one should also not be disappointed and jumping to conclusions would be wrong,” he added.

khan CaLLS for CeaSefire aS firSt Step of hoLdinG peaCe taLkS with taLiban ISLAMABAD STAFF REPORT

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday expressed grief and sorrow over the killing of a two-star general of the Pakistan Army, a senior officer and a soldier in an improvised explosive device (IeD) attack in Upper Dir, claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Talking to reporters, Khan said the country had been fighting a war for the past nine years and nothing had come out of it, adding that the issue could be resolved by holding negotiations. The PTI chief called for a ceasefire as a first step of holding peace talks. He said the country’s enemies did not want the state of Pakistan to hold conclusive peace talks with the militants. Khan said the recent attack by the TTP on the Pakistan Army could prove to be a setback for the peace process, adding that everyone wanted peace but the TTP had showed extremism by carrying out the attack.

Condemning the attack, he said he was saddened about the soldiers who lost their lives. “For nine years, we tried a strategy but that has only increased extremism. All parties agreed in the all parties conference (APC) that dialogue is the way forward,” he said. Asserting that all possibilities needed to be considered, he asked, “What other choice do we have?” “The situation that we are in right now has no easy solution.” The All Parties Conference (APC) held on September 9 saw all major political parties deciding that dialogue was the way forward to counter the increasing terrorism in the country. Since then, the TTP have been demanding that their colleagues be released and the army be withdrawn from the Tribal Areas before talks can be initiated.

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US, France, Britain to press Assad on chemical arms PARIS/BEIRUT AGENCIES

The United States, France and Britain on Monday stepped up pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to stick to a deal under which Syria must give up its chemical weapons, and warned he would suffer consequences if Damascus did not comply.

Russia immediately cautioned against imposing tough penalties on the Syrian leader, while in Syria itself fighting was reported on several fronts, with a monitoring group saying a government helicopter had been brought down.

The three Western permanent members of the United Nations Security Council said they would seek a strong resolution in the forum setting binding deadlines for the removal of Syria's chemical weapons, French President Francois Hollande's office said.

The statement followed talks in Paris, two days after the United States reached a deal with Assad's ally Russia on chemical weapons that could avert US strikes on Syria as punishment for a chemical attack in Damascus last month.

US Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference in Paris that the three powers agreed with Russia that Assad must suffer consequences if he fails to comply with U.N. demands.

Widespread Use oF cHeMical arMs in sYria: Un report UNitED NAtiONS: Chemical weapons have been used on a wide scale in the Syria war and there is clear evidence sarin killed hundreds in one key attack, UN inspectors said Monday. “The conclusion is that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic … against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale,” says the report to be released by UN leader Ban Ki-moon. The report said there was “clear and convincing” evidence of the use of sarin gas in an attack near Damascus last month. The United States says 1,400 people died in the attack. It added that “surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used” in the August 21 attack. The detail was in the first page of the report which was inadvertently leaked when it was included in an official picture of UN investigation leader Ake Sellstrom handing over the report to UN leader Ban Ki moon.

Ban was to give the full report to the UN Security Council on Monday. AGENCIES

"If Assad fails in time to abide by the terms of this framework, make no mistake, we are all agreed - and that includes Russia - that there will be consequences," Kerry said.

The accord offered the Syrian leader "no lifeline" and he had "lost all legitimacy", Kerry added.

After Hollande met Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague and their French counterpart Laurent Fabius, an aide to Hollande said: "The idea is to stick to a firm line".

"They've agreed to seek a strong and robust resolution that sets precise and binding deadlines with a calendar," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Russia accused the euro-

peans of trying to reinterpret the agreement.

Speaking in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any rush to draw up a resolution threatening to punish Syria in the event of non-compliance showed a "lack of understanding" of the agreement reached for Assad to give up his chemical weapons.

"Our (european) partners want to again unilaterally review what we've agreed on with the Americans. That's not how you do business, and I'm sure that despite these statements that are coming from european capitals, the Americans will, as proper negotiators, strictly stick to what has been agreed on," Lavrov said.

PeACe TALKS PLAN He also said it may be time

to consider efforts to force the opposition to attend an international peace conference instead of just urging them to do so. So far, the rebels have said they will not attend talks if the Syrian president is there too.

The deal reached in Geneva put off the immediate threat of air strikes, and Lavrov stressed at the time that it did not include any automatic use of force in the event of Syria's failure to comply. But President Barack Obama has said force remains an option if Assad reneges.

Syria's government at the weekend hailed as a "victory" the Russian-brokered deal, which rebels who have been fighting Assad's forces since 2011 say has benefited their enemy in the civil war.

terrorists torch 10 nato tankers in Hub HUB ONlINE Terrorists on Monday torched more than 10 NATO oil tankers near Hub. According to details, the terrorists opened fire on the tankers parked at a hotel some five kilometres from Hub in Balochistan. The tankers caught fire. However, no casualties were reported.

The fire also engulfed other vehicles parked at the hotel. The staff of oil tankers also remained unhurt.

The RCD Road was blocked after the incident causing a huge traffic jam. Pakistani contractors had stopped driving oil supplies from Karachi to the Torkham crossing on the Afghan border due to frequent strikes on their vehicles.

12 dead in uS navy yard ShootinG

THREE SHOOTERS DRESSED IN MILITARY UNIFORMS GO ON A RAMPAGE, ONE SUSPECTED ASSAILANT KILLED WASHINGTON AGENCIES

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T least 12 people were killed after as many as three shooters dressed in military style uniforms opened fire in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said.

DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said in a mid-day news conference that one of the suspected shooters is dead, while authorities are looking for two other suspects wearing green and tan military style clothing.

“The big concern for us right now is that we have potentially two other shooters that we have not located at this point,” Lanier said.

Lanier described one as a white male wearing what appeared to be a khaki tan military uniform and a beret, and carrying a handgun.

She said police also are looking for a black man, about 50, wearing an olive military-style uniform, and possessing a “long gun.”

Two law enforcement officials said there are at least 12 fatalities, including the shooter.

The dead shooter had an assault rifle and a handgun, two law enforcement officials said.

One said he also had a shotgun.

The officials said police are working under the theory that there may be additional shooters because of witness accounts and surveillance video. One of those officials also said all the weapons were not accounted for.

At least two police officers were among those shot. Police on the scene said one is a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was shot twice in the leg and was evacuated to a hospital. Lanier said he was in stable condition after engaging the shooter with gunfire. The other was a base officer.

Ten public and charter schools and a public school administration building in the District were placed on lockdown as a precaution, and flights out of Reagan National Airport were briefly halted, causing delays even after they began departing again.

Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of Naval Operations, was evacuated from his residence at the Navy Yard complex shortly after the first report of shots fired, Navy officials said. The US Navy said that three shots were fired around 8:20am at Building 197, where about 3,000 people work.

Missing persons case: SC rejects FC IG’s report CJP SAYS FORCES SHOULD NOT BE EMBARRASSED, THEY ARE BEING BLAMED BY EVERYONE QUETTA ONlINE

The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected a report by the inspector general of Frontier Corps (FC IG) regarding the missing persons issue, saying no progress had been made in resolving such a major issue. During proceedings of the Balochistan law and order case at the apex court’s Quetta Registry on Monday, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry expressed anger over the failure of the FC IG to appear before the bench. The chief justice asked the additional attorney general to inform the FC IG that the report regarding missing persons had not been accepted.

He said, “It is of no use for us to come here. What response will we give to relatives of missing persons?” The CJP said the IG did not even appear in the last hearing and was absent

again. “If you do not want to cooperate with the court and honour our decision, we can just go home.” “We do not want to see anyone’s face. We want the missing persons recovered.

Forces should not be embarrassed, they are being blamed by everyone,” Chief Justice Chaudhry said.

“In the last hearing, you told the court that complete determination was expressed at a highlevel meeting that missing persons would be recovered.

Where are the missing persons?” the CJP questioned. He also asked for those FC officers who had cases pending against them to appear in court, as only then they would hand over the missing persons. Justice Jawad S Khawaja said the FC IG should attend critical meetings, but according to the schedule, he should have been present on September 16-17. “We have not come here to listen to stories.

The FC IG should come no matter where he is right now.”

The CJP also questioned where the interior secretary was. To this, the attorney general told the court that the secretary had gone to Turkey with the PM.

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demonstrators demand justice for rape victim tHARPARKAR: Relatives of a rape victim continued protesting outside Matthi press club on Monday,on the fourth consecutive day, seeking justice and arrest of the accused. It should be mentioned that four culprits gang raped a 15-year-old girl hailing from village Babrrayio of Chachro, Tharparkar district. The accused also recorded the inhuman occurrence and to blackmail her. The family and relatives were protesting against the incident but police had so far only managed the arrest of one accused involved in the crime while three were still at large. The victims family has demanded the authorities to met out exemplary punishment to the rapists. It should be mentioned that the accused and victims belong to same family who have been targeting each others girls and women over family feud. INP

mafia in district courts opposing end of corruption: CJ KARACHi: Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Mushir Alam said on Monday that National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) identification section was set up in the high court over which few lawyers are worried. Addressing a full court reference here, CJ Mushir revealed that there is a mafia in the district courts which is against the alleviation of corruption. He said that Karachi Bar had sent him a notice, contending had he not fulfilled their demands they would take legal action. CJ Mushir said that few lawyers who struggled for the restoration of judiciary now wanted to reap the “fruits of independence.” INP

police arrest 73 accused in 24 hours KARACHi: The Karachi Police in their continued drive against criminals, arrested 73 accused from various parts of the city during the last 24 hours. A police official on Monday said that those arrested, included 13 absconders and others allegedly involved in cases of murder, dacoity and other crimes. It further stated that 21 weapons of various calibres were also recovered from their possession. APP

KARACHi: Children cross over railway track putting their lives at risk. INP

Sindh govt ready to hold LG polls in december KARACHI ONlINE

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OLLOWING the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the local body elections, the provincial government of Sindh submitted its response to the apex court on the matter.

The Sindh government presented its stance saying that it was ready to hold the local body elections scheduled for the third week of December 2013.

Sindh Advocate General Khalid Javed told reporters that the provincial government would complete all the necessary work by October 15 after which it would be ready for the local government elections.

However, since it was the duty of the election Commission of Pakistan (eCP) to conduct the local body elections, the Supreme Court’s

response on the Sindh government’s stance was awaited. The governments of Punjab, Khyber Pakthunkhwa and Balochistan have not submitted their responses in the Supreme Court regarding the local body elections.

Meanwhile, Sindh Assembly opposition leader, Faisal Sabzwari, told reporters that the local government system should introduce some amendments in local government bill in accordance with Article 140A of the constitution. He moreover added that the court should look into the matter because if the first democratically elected civilian government was conducting local body elections, it would have to be carried out correctly.

Furthermore, Provincial Information Minister Sharjeel Memon, said the local government bill was passed in the assembly following deliberations.

He further said that the Muttahida

three perish in violence as 52 outlaws nabbed KARACHI STAFF REPORT

The metropolis was witness to more bloodshed as usual as at least three persons were gunned down by unidentified criminals while Rangers apprehended 52 suspected criminals on Monday.

According to police sources, unidentified assailants shot a man in Orangi Town who later died due to his wounds.

In an unrelated incident, another person was shot dead in the area of Orangi town.

Police claimed that the deceased was identified as Muhammad Iqbal.

Meanwhile, in another incident, a dead body bearing marks of torture was recovered and the victim was identified Muhammad Asif. Police and Rangers continued their crackdown against criminal elements and have so far claimed the arrest of 52 suspects, including proclaimed offenders Noshad, ex MPA Nadeem Hashmi found in

the murder of police personnel in the Federal area. Karachi police along with Rangers also launched operation in Peerabad, Hasan Square and arrested 25 suspects who were subsequently shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation. Police nabbed Noshad belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) who is also a member of North Nazimabad unit who and was found involved in the murder of law enforcers along with MPA Nadeem Hashmi.

Police and Rangers also launched operation in Peerabad and apprehended 27 criminals and recovered 2TT pistols. Meanwhile, police also raided the area of Lyari at Baghdadi and a firefight continued with criminal elements due to which one accused sustained wounded but his accomplice took him and fled away from the scene successfully. Police recovered 5 repeaters, 75 cartridges and Police also launched operation in the area of Liyari at Niazi Chowk against outlaws.

Qaumi Movement (MQM) was more than welcome to propose amendments, adding that every law had room for improvement and that all political parties of Sindh were consulted and their proposals were made a part of the local government law. earlier, the Supreme Court ordered local body elections to be held on September 15.

“It is necessary to hold the local government elections not only to fulfill the constitutional command but also to ensure participation of people for good governance,” the court observed.

The law was just the beginning of the process for local government elections. It was to be followed by delimitation of constituencies in line with the new law and the entire nomination and voting process which at the minimum took 60 days to complete. These factors subsequently led to the delay.

4 LJ activists held, extortionists dying away, claims CCpo KARACHI ONlINE

Karachi Police Chief Shahid Hayat has claimed that phones calls for extortion have dropped by 80 per cent due to a new strategy adopted by the local police.

Addressing a media briefing here on Monday, he said that under the new strategy, SIMs and cell phones of extortionists were blocked, thereby rendering them useless.

Hayat told reporters that four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) members were arrested in a raid last night, involved in a number of extortion cases.

He said, “Our goal and strategy is clear, no killings, no extortion, and no kidnapping for ransom will be tolerated in the city,” adding that the city police was working in coordination with rangers.

The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) women wing has taken strong exception to an increase in the incidents of violence and crimes committed against women and minor girls.

JI women wing Secretary General Dr Rukhsana Jabeen, while addressing her party workers during its annual reporting meeting held at JI Karachi office, attributed the situation mainly to frustration caused due to aggressive and unethical promotion of consumerism in the society.

“The issue is extremely serious and must be handled in an extremely pragmatic manner,” said Dr Rukhsana.

She said commercialisation of each and every aspect of life has seriously affected the social fabric of family which has been further aggravated due to consumerism.

The JI women leader regretted that women and girls too have been projected as objects and are also considered to be weak.

“We are at a critical juncture and this is high time that women themselves as well as their men counterparts must come forward and inculcate the religious injunctions as a mode to counter the challenge of waywardness,” said the activist. The JI Secretary General further said no religion allowed heinous practices.

Neither does it approve traditions and practices reflective of rampant disparity which again is a cause of frustration at different levels. On the occasion participants of the meeting, including office bearers of JI women wing’s national, provincial and district chapters besides heads of party’s different department unanimously adopted a resolution seeking exemplary punishment for perpetrators of crimes including that of rape. They also recommended immediate formation of a code of ethics to control spread of such crimes, victims of which may even be hapless boys. Victims must not be used to attract attention of the people but incidents should be projected in a manner that they may create a strong will in the society to prevent repetition of such unfortunate incidents, they resolved.

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the new women empowerment programme in town KARACHI INP

The Sindh Department of Labour and the United Nations entity for Gender equality and the empowerment of Women (UN Women) inaugurated a two-year project to support home-based bangle workers in Hyderabad on Monday, which will focus on the registration of Women Home-Based Bangle Workers (WHBBWs) and other Home Based Workers (HBWs).

Secretaries from the Departments of Labour and Women’s Development, and Cooperatives participated in the event, along with representatives from support departments, UN agencies, civil society organisations, and women home-based bangle workers. Home-based bangle workers represent a particularly marginalised category of informal workers in Pakistan. According to various studies, women home-based bangle workers are located in urban centers with the majority of them residing in Hyderabad, over the years, the Department of Labour, UN agencies, civil society organizations, and informal workers working towards women’s economic empowerment have advocated for the recognition of HBWs in Pakistan. Legislation and a policy for home-based workers are being pursued at provincial level.

The Sindh Department of Labour Secretary Wasim Ursani and UN Women Pakistan Deputy Representative Sangeeta Thapa chaired the inauguration.

Ursani emphasized that the registration of informal workers by the provincial government is a pioneering initiative to enhance women’s access to social protection and was a step towards reducing poverty amongst informal workforce, especially women.

Thapa emphasized the importance of women’s economic empowerment while highlighting the role of informal women workers especially the bangle workers.

She said that according to informal statistics, there are an estimated 11.6 million women home-based workers in Pakistan, with approximately 2.62 million in Sindh, engaged in 68 different types of home-based work.

preserving coastal ecology should be ensured KARACHI APP

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LL over the world 60 percent of the population lives in coastal zones, human activities are increasingly contributing to the vulnerability of coastal communities.

This is being exacerbated by climate change, warned Dr Steen Christensen, Coordinator, Mangroves for the Future (MFF) at its 10th Regional Steering Committee. An MFF communication received on Monday mentioned that countries have been urged to come to terms with the implications of these dangerous trends and introduce effective ways to manage natural resources, while allowing economic growth and securing better lives for coastal communities. “This is the reason we focus our resilience initiative on

prevention and planning rather than response,” said Dr Christensen. He said MFF activities underpin the vital links between humans and natural systems.

The initiative also stresses the importance of engaging all sectors for coastal management including governments, NGOs, local communities and increasingly, the private sector. “There is growing consensus that the private sector has a crucial role to play in finding sustainable solutions to environmental problems.

Success in coastal management will largely depend on the will and proactive involvement of the private sector for sustainable practices,” said IUCN Asia Regional Director Aban Marker Kabraji speaking on the importance of MFF. The RSC meeting and associated learning event was said to provide an invaluable opportunity for people to

share knowledge and exchange experiences with a diverse group.

The 10th MFF regional meeting held at Viet Nam with focus on building community resilience was attended by representatives from the nine member countries including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. The regional initiative currently funded by SIDA, NORAD and Danida and is cochaired by IUCN and UNDP is working to address climate change and developmental impacts on Asia’s coasts and coastal dwellers.

Started in 2007, it works through National Coordinating Bodies in member countries to provide grants for local project delivery and other activities building resilience of ecosystem-dependent coastal communities.

University of Karachi (KU) ViceChancellor (VC) Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser said literature and journalism are quite closely related.

He was speaking as chief guest at a poetry session organised by the KU Department of Mass Communication, an official of the institution said.

He stated that the faculty members as well as the students also attended the poetry session.

The VC further pointed out that those belonging to the literary world had attained prominent positions in the realms of journalism.

The poetry session was presided over by prominent poet Anwar Shaur, while Arif Shafiq, Fatima Hassan, Fehmida Riaz, Hussain Javed, Khawaja Razi Haider, Mahmood Ghaznavi, Qaiser Wajidi, Sabiha Saba, Saeed Agha, Salman Siddiqui, Shaukat Abid and Shahida Hassan also recited their poetry on the occasion.

Commissioner felicitates Green panel for its victory in kuJ polls KARACHI APP

Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui has felicitated the Green Panel of Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) for winning en-masse the professional body’s polls 2013-14.

In a message sent to the newly elected office bearers of KUJ, led by G M Jamali and his team, the commissioner and Commissioner’s Office Media Director Mohammad Shabih Siddiqui hoped that the team would succeed in solving the problems of their coprofessionals.

They also prayed that all office bearers, executive body members and delegates would serve with utmost sincerity and absolute impartiality the cause of professional journalism.

Problems and difficulties faced by the journalists is also well understood by the newly elected panel, and therefore it is expected that these would also be addressed in the larger interest of the community, said the commissioner.

aKUH undertakes ambitious expansion projects KARACHI STAFF REPORT

The Aga Khan University and confectionary english Biscuits signed a memorandum of understanding to expand the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the University Hospital. The MoU was signed by a representative of english Biscuits and Aga Khan University President Firoz Rasul.

The expansion will enable the university hospital to treat patients in a specifically equipped unit and accommodate seriously ill babies who need specialised care. Pakistan is one of 10 countries that have the

highest number of preterm births in the world as at least one in six babies are born too early. The 200million-rupee project includes increasing the number of beds from 12 to 24 and the addition of special equipment to care for critically ill babies.

“We are proud to be associated with the Aga Khan University Hospital’s commitment to providing international standard healthcare and to partner with them in investing in bringing this quality care to those who have just entered this world” said the representative of english Biscuits. “The NICU facilities will offer hope to many more children and their families

and we are grateful for the opportunity to be able to support the University Hospital’s dedicated and committed paediatric staff to offer unparalleled newborn intensive care.”

Karachi’s 20-million strong population requires at least 600 NICU beds with ventilators for preterm babies to have a better chance of recovery. But, excluding the Aga Khan University’s Hospital’s current facility, just 18 working ventilated beds are available at 10 healthcare facilities across the city.

“In 2012, we admitted 557 newborns: half were premature babies and 25 weighed less than one

kilogramme. The smallest baby we have treated weighed just 600 grammes and survived,” said Dr Anita Zaidi. “We treat babies born at the Aga Khan University Hospital and from hospitals around the city.

Our NICU is constantly full and we regretfully have to turn babies away.

Now we will be able to treat more of these very delicate newborns.”

“We are extremely grateful for this exceptional generosity from english Biscuits. This is the first gift in our campaign to raise substantial funds from the corporate sector in Pakistan,” said Firoz Rasul. “Donations such as these give us the confidence to continue to expand our services and facilities in Karachi.

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AHANGIR Khan Tareen, a close comrade of Pakistan Tehreek-eInsaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, is set to replace Pervaiz Khattak as the party’s secretary general, Pakistan Today has learnt.

Khattak has decided to retain his office of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister after the party asked him to relinquish his post, as according to the country’s constitution no one can hold for dual offices.

This would be the first top office change in the country’s political history. In past and even presently, many politicians holding dual offices have never resigned from their party or public offices.

The PTI has already set new standards by holding true and authentic party elections.

A well-placed source in the PTI told Pakistan Today that the decision had been made as a quid pro quo to the demands made by Khattak that were reconciling with JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and stop meddling in the KP government’s affairs.

“This is final now. But Khattak has requested Khan to appoint his close aide, Jahangir Khan Tareen, as party’s secretary general until elections are held for the slot.

Khattak hopes he will still be influential in the party’s affairs if Tareen is given the slot,” the source said. He said Tareen wanted to run for the party’s secretary general office in the recent elections but had agreed with Khattak to delay his plans. He had wholeheartedly helped Khattak defeat Dr Arif Alvi. The source said following Khattak’s election as KP chief minister, a debate had started within the party that been launched

by Alvi’s Karachi group. He said the party was facing an internal crisis following a demand made by the group during the recent meeting of the PTI’s top decision-making body – the central executive committee (CeC) - asking Khattak to relinquish one office as under the country’s constitution, no person could hold two offices.

However, Khattak strongly refused to the demand and even threatened to resign as the chief minister, saying he would pre-

fer remaining the PTI secretary general.

Though the PTI’s constitution is silent over the matter, the source added, the demand was being seen within the party as legitimate and had full backing from the party’s top office-bearers including Khan.

Later, the source added, Khan held two consecutive meetings with Khattak. They were joined in by Khan’s close aide and childhood friend Naeemul Haq. “During these meetings, it was agreed in principle that Khattak would relinquish his office as Khattak has party’s secretary genrequested Khan to eral while Imran appoint his close aide, Khan would not indulge into operaJahangir Khan Tareen, as tional affairs of party’s secretary general the KP governuntil elections are held for ment and would 22. When contacted, also reconcile the slot. Khattak hopes he party’s Information with JUI-F chief will still be influential Secretary Dr Shireen Fazlur Rehman,” in the party’s affairs if Mazari confirmed the dethe source added. velopment but said it was He said both party Tareen is going to happen in the upleaders agreed to apgiven the slot coming CeC meeting. point Tareen vice Khattak.

“I just got back this morning but The source said formal announcement in this regard would be I believe this is the case,” she said in remade during the party’s CeC meeting sponse to a question whether Khattak had scheduled to be held on September 21- agreed to relinquish his office as the PTI

secretary general.

Asked if a new secretary general would be elected or a caretaker appointee would be installed to function until the next elections, Mazari said all these decisions will be taken during the CeC meeting scheduled for next week.

Commenting on his likely appointment to the position, Tareen said, “No, nothing of this kind has happened. Pervaiz Khattak remains the secretary general.”

three killed in van cylinder explosion DERA GHAZI KHAN ONlINE

A woman and two children were killed and several passengers were injured on Monday after a gas cylinder exploded in a van near Dera Ghazi Khan. Police and rescue sources said the CNG gas cylinder exploded and the vehicle immediately caught fire. The terrified passengers jumped out of the burning van to save their lives. Many of them suffered burn wounds. Rescue team members said a woman and two children were critically injured and died before they could be taken to hospital.

DERA GHAzi KHAN: Rescue workers hose down flames from a burning passenger van which caught fire after its CNG cylinder exploded, killing three. ONlINE

Six die in malakand and Sargodha in roof collapse incidents MALAKAND/SARGODHA

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At least six people were killed and seven others injured in separate roof collapse incidents in Malakand and Sargodha due to heavy rain late on Sunday night.

According to the reports, the roof of a house located in Chappai area of Batkhela caved in as the area received heavy showers.

As a result a woman, her two sons and two daughters were killed while four others including the house owner Abdul Rehman and his three other sons were injured.

The relatives and local people on self help basis pulled out the bodies and the injured from the rubble and shifted them to Batkhela hospital.

Meanwhile, a man was killed and another three injured in roof collapse in Fatima Jinnah colony of Sargodha. The injured were rescued and taken to hospital.

All mobile operators in the country have agreed to install the biometric system and increased the SIM verification fee from Rs 13 to Rs 28 per transaction, a media outfit reported on Monday.

The installation of complete biometric equipment at every point of sale (POS) would cost between Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000 per outlet.

Mobile operators have agreed to bear the cost of purchasing the required devices that will be installed at some 75,000 POS across the country.

The installation of the biometric system at some 70,000-75,000 POS across

Pakistan will take a minimum of one year and cost approximately Rs 2.8 billion based on the availability of specialised equipment which will be imported from abroad.

When contacted, Ufone’s Manager Communication Sarfraz Ahmad Manager said, “Keeping in view the national security requirements, the cellular operators have agreed upon the installation. even in the past, all mobile operators have complied with the directives issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the government of Pakistan.” “If bringing in biometric system can increase national security, then we are

ready to welcome the new system,” he said. The sources added that the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) related payment by mobile operators (for SIM verification through biometric) would now increase from Rs 13 to Rs 28 per transaction. In the last 3-4 years, mobile operators have spent almost Rs2 billion in NADRA charges for different types of SIM verification processes, they added.

7 dengue-afflicted districts declared calamity-hit areas in kp PESHAWAR ONlINE

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has declared seven dengue-afflicted districts as calamity-hit areas of the province.

Dengue afflicted patients’ tally has mounted over 3,000 in Swat and KPK regime has declared all seven districts of Malakand Division as calamityhit areas of the province.

The KP Health Ministry has imposed emergency in all hospitals of District Swat, Buner, Shangla, Chitral, Malakand Division, Upper dir, and Lower Dir. KP Health Minister Shaukat Yousafzai said the provincial government would provide free treatment to all patients in these areas. The deputy commissioners of all dengue-afflicted districts have got power of relief commissioner to tackle with this menace promptly, he added.

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modi GoeS after pakiStan, but ChooSeS wordS CarefuLLy BJP’S PM CANDIDATE SAYS PAKISTAN CAN GROW MANIFOLDS IF IT ‘STOPS EXPORTING TERROR’ NEW DELHI ONlINE

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ing the same power at the Centre seems to be already acting as a tempering agent for Narendra Modi, the aspirant as Modi’s message to Pakistan was still firm but his words were carefully chosen, Indian media reported on Monday.

At a public rally here, in front of crowds seen only for Haryana satrap Devi Lal, Modi, BJP’s PM candidate for 2014 polls invoked Vajpayee’s Pakistan foreign policy, giving him credit for having made Pakistan-sponsored terrorism an international issue. Describing the crowds in the Congress-ruled state as a “lalkar” or challenge to the ‘Delhi sultanate’, he said India could no longer be governed by vote bank

politics and that true secularism could be learnt from the Indian Army.

Modi almost sounded conciliatory as he spoke about Pakistan, saying the two countries, along with Bangladesh, needed to rid South Asia of poverty and illiteracy, a discourse otherwise identified with Pakistani leaders. No doubt he blamed Pakistan for promoting terrorism in India and attacked defence minister AK Antony for his Pakistan army uniform goof up in parliament, but for the crowds subjected to a relentless diatribe against Pakistan by earlier speakers, this was a disappointment. There was no rabble-rousing; not even any talk of “befitting reply”.

“I publicly want to say that if Pakistan can put an end to the policy of promoting terrorism for 10 years, it will see double the economic progress it has seen in the past 60 years,” Modi said. “Pakistan ke irade theek nahi lagte (Pakistan’s intentions do not seem right even under Nawaz Sharif). Pakistan was created with an anti-India feeling but it can’t survive on that sentiment. You took to killing innocent civilians after you lost in wars,” he said, even as he emphasised that the Indian government had no coherent security policy. Modi was addressing a rally of retired army men, his first after his coronation last week as BJP’s PM candidate. The rally was also attended by former army chief General VK Singh.

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PESHAWAR: Women protest on Monday against the rape of a five-year-old girl in Lahore four days ago. INP

Zawahri urges restraint in nawaz arrives in ankara first ‘guidelines for jihad’ LONDON

conflict with them, except in the countries where confronting them becomes inevitable,” he said. Those comments are particularly relevant for North Africa, where Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has many analysts believe al Qaeda is using the issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, less restrictive environment which urging restraint in attacking other followed the 2011 Arab uprisings Muslim sects and non-Muslims to seek new followers, often and in starting conflicts in Fighting aims through local alliances, countries where jihadis at creating a safe while avoiding drawing might find a safe base to attention to itself by promote their ideas. haven for the eschewing attacks.

The document, published mujahideen in “...our struggle is a long by the SITe monitoring Pakistan, which can one, and jihad is in need service, provides a rare of safe bases,” Zawahri look at al Qaeda’s then be used as a said in his “general strategy 12 years after the launching pad for the guidelines for jihad” September 11 attacks on struggle of establishing posted on jihadi forums. the United States and the Zawahri spelled out where nature of its global ambitions an islamic system conflict was inevitable, from North Africa to the including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Caucasus to Kashmir.

Yemen and Somalia.

While al Qaeda’s military aim remained In Pakistan, where intelligence sources to weaken the United States and Israel, believe Zawahri is hiding, he said fighting Zawahri stressed the importance of “dawa”, “aims at creating a safe haven for the or missionary work, to spread its ideas.

“As far as targeting the proxies of America is mujahideen in Pakistan, which can then be used as a launching pad for the struggle of concerned, it differs from place to place. The establishing an Islamic system...” basic principle is to avoid entering into any ONlINE

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has arrived in Ankara on a three-day official visit to Turkey on the invitation of his Turkish counterpart.

He was received at the airport by the Turkish urban planning and construction minister.

Briefly talking to him on the occasion‚ the PM and Turkey enjoy everlasting relations of friendship.

He said close cooperation among the two countries would rid them from external pressure.

During his stay‚ the PM will hold meetings with President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep

Tayyib erdogan to discuss ways and means to further strengthen bilateral relations in diverse fields. He along with President Abdullah Gul will cochair the third session of the Pakistan-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council. The council is mandated to oversee and steer the unique partnership and intensify cooperation between the two countries. The two countries are expected to sign several memoranda of understandings and agreements covering areas such as housing‚ education‚ culture and trade. Nawaz will also address a business forum in Istanbul to be attended by a large number of Turkish investors and entrepreneurs.

AMRiStAR: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over an inadvertent border crosser to the Pakistan Rangers. BSF Deputy Inspector General RPS Jaswal on Monday said the troops at border out post Kamalpur Jattan falling in Gurdaspur sector had apprehended a Pakistani national Kasim, 12 on Sunday, according to Times of India.

Resident of village Nagaja under police station Baramanga, of Narowal district of Pakistan, Kasim had crossed the international border and entered the Indian territory. He was apprehended when he was approaching towards the border security fence. Jaswal said during questioning he was found to be innocent and an inadvertent crosser, besides nothing objectionable was found in his possession. On humanitarian grounds the Pakistani boy was handed over to the Rangers after holding a flag meeting with them.

During the current year, the BSF had handed over 16 Pakistani inadvertent crossers from the border in Punjab. ONlINE

top afghanistan female police officer dies KABUL: The most senior woman police officer in Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand province has died in hospital after being shot by unidentified gunmen, officials said on Monday. Lieutenant Negar, known only by her surname, was shot near the police headquarters in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gar. The attack came months after her female predecessor, Islam Bibi, was killed. Lt Bibi, a high profile officer seen as a role model for women, was shot dead in July on her way to work. Negar was shot by a gunman on a motorbike, officials say.

Helmand governor’s spokesman Omar Zawak said the 38-year-old suffered a bullet wound to the neck. She served as a sub-inspector in the police criminal investigation department in Helmand.

She took over when 37-year-old Islam Bibi was shot dead in July. The commander of 32 female police officers, Lt Bibi was hailed as a role model for other women in the conservative province. ONlINE

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HOSe strongly supporting talks with the TTP have to answer a number of questions after the killings of high ranking army officers. The country was being told that the militants were sincerely interested in dialogue. Anyone who raised questions about the identity of the groups who were to be approached for talks, or demanded that talks be held only with those willing to renounce violence and adhere to the constitution was condemned for creating hurdles in the way of peace. The supporters of talks shouted down anyone expressing doubts about the intentions of the TTP. They wanted the talks to proceed post-haste. There were to be no preconditions on the part of the government, they argued, as these were against the spirit of dialogue. The fact that the state had engaged the militants in talks over a dozen times but failed to achieve peace was ignored. Ch Nisar went to the extent of claiming that some forces wanted to sabotage peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban.

The reservations of those who advised caution have turned out to be well-placed. The government which is keen to hold talks brought together parliamentary heads of all mainstream parties in an APC. The army chief and the DG ISI briefed the APC which then authorized the government to go ahead with talks. What explains the killing of the GOC Swat under the circumstances? One had expected that the TTP would dissociate itself from the crime and even take action against the perpetrators. What happened was the opposite. The TTP spokesman brazenly accepted responsibility for the dastardly act on the part of one of its franchises. Going a step further he made the preposterous demand for the release of thousands of TTP killers and the evacuation of the army from the tribal areas as precondition for talks. ‘’If the government does not take these two steps, the peace process cannot go forward.’’ If anything, this is a refusal to initiate talks.

Some of the politicians who have condoled the killing of the officers and men of Pakistan army have declined to condemn by name the organization which claims responsibility for the act. The strong and unambiguous message conveyed to the TTP by the COAs on Monday should in fact have come from the prime minister himself. This would have carried more weight, produced better results and strengthened the PM. The killing of a GOC is no ordinary matter. The terrorists have in fact killed six security personnel in four separate attacks. This shows that they are determined to continue their deadly game. That this should come when the Taliban are talking peace makes the proposed exercise look farcical. While one realizes that the army has the ability and the will to take the fight to the terrorists, as Gen Kayani puts it, what it needs to avoid is to pick and choose between the terrorist groups.

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He Karachi operation has not yet turned out what it was supposed to be, though the strife and mayhem in Karachi is a long festering wound. Criminal gangs, extortion mafias, target killers and sectarian extremists have turned the city into a living hell for its citizens. The economic hub of the country cannot be allowed to be held hostage at gunpoint, or that’s how the government sounded when it started the ongoing operation in the mega city. But the operation does not seem to be going the way it was intended to.

Being conducted jointly by the Rangers and police, the Karachi operation was intended to be a targeted affair from the outset, but before it could start and when the government is debating as to who would have his say and to what extent in the execution of the operation, the criminals, at least the big shots, took advantage of the opportunity and fled – some moving inland to the interior Sindh while others making it good to Gulf states, as reported by the DG Rangers to the prime minister. The police and Rangers have rounded up a number of suspects, including some hardened criminals, but it is nowhere near the number of criminal gangs that were operating in the city some weeks ago. The current operation seems only to be targeted against the small time operators instead the big fish running mafias with well-established networks – and massive political backing.

As a consequence of the simultaneous occurrence – arrests and fleeing – there has been a palpable drop in the crime rate in the city, though the lull by no means is total. A DSP was shot and killed the other day in broad daylight in the same manner as target killings have been conducted in the metropolis for long. Meanwhile, the MQM has also lowered the ante on the arrest of its former MPA. One reason for this could be the MQM’s preoccupation with the investigation against Altaf Hussain in London in Dr Imran Farooq’s murder case, and a suit against Declan Walsh and The New York Times for ‘baseless reporting that had caused damage to the repute’ of the party’s chief, Altaf Hussain. Whatever the outcome of these cases, the government should not in any way be swayed by political point-scoring or engage in retaliatory politics.

However, as the current operation is not achieving its objectives, the government should look beyond standard solutions; it is imperative to do some out-of-the-box thinking. It needs to take permanent measures like depoliticisation of police, empowerment of law enforcing agencies, legislation on banning militant wings of political parties and an end to the no-go areas in the megapolis. Unless these steps are taken the partial quiet the city is currently witnessing may not last long.

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hey indians, beware of america Will Indian act as a US proxy?

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AY God defend me from m y friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.” These precious ‘pearls of wisdom’ of the French philosopher Voltaire are quite relevant to India, today. India has many friends but the one with which she will have to be very watchful is the United States. Americans have no qualms about changing friends. During the Cold War, they treated India as the ‘Other’ for supporting the cause of non-alignment in international relations and for maintaining closer ties with the erstwhile Soviet Union – the underlying premise being that “my enemy’s friend is my enemy”.

After humbling Soviet Russia, the Americans have created a new enemy in the form of communist China. No wonder, there is a lot of chatter in the US media, intelligentsia and political elites from Hillary Clinton to President Obama magnifying the ‘ominous’ rise of China which needs to be contained like the USSR. The planned containment hinges around the policy of ‘Asia pivot’ under which, in addition, to yoking the South-east Asian nations in the Chinese neighbourhood into pro-American alliances, the two bigger states that are expected to play a key role in conjunction with the US against China are Australia and India. This time the US premise with regard to India is “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”: it being so because not only are India and China giants in terms of size and thus obvious rivals as ‘regional hegemons’; the two have fought a war in 1962 and stake contentious claims on a very large area of their contiguous borders.

Americans are making a conscious effort to convince Indians to join hands with them to ‘contain’ China because if they would then their “Pakistan problem” would be automatically addressed. One such effort can be seen in BASHARAT HuSSAIN QIzIlBASH the form of a rec e n t book entitled, “India as the n e x t global power: C h i n a ’s nightmare, Ameri c a ’s d re a m ” b y William H Avery, a former U S diplom a t , w h o served at the State Departm e n t during the administrations of Presidents B i l l Clinton a n d George

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W Bush. His message to the Indians is loud and clear.

Indians are reminded that the history of mankind has been a history of conflict and the twenty-first century would be no different. In the twentieth century, the US joined hands with UK to fight the ‘evil’ of Soviet communism; in the twentyfirst century, “India must become America’s new Britain”. This is an “obligation” that India owes not only to its 1.2 billion citizens but to all those in the world who look towards her as a ‘beacon’ of “freedom, liberal values, pluralism and democracy”. To assume this grand role, India should formulate a geopolitical strategy of global dimension and renounce the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence because pacifism suits only those people which struggle for independence and not those nations which have attained independence.

To become a top class world power, a country must have an invincible military which in turn requires a healthy economy. Never mind the enormous current poverty under which 400 million Indians live on less than $1.25 per day.

Indians are told that their recent centuries of poverty are merely an aberration in history because during most of the past two millennia, India produced about one quarter or more of the world GDP. Not long ago, the wealth of the Indian monarchs was much more than that of the english and French kings. For example, when the annual income of the Mughal emperor Jehangir was fifty million sterling, the same for the english and Scottish crowns was merely one million sterling and that of the French King Louis XIV just five million sterling. Such enormous wealth allowed the Mughals to keep an infantry of one million and a cavalry of three hundred thousand. Thus, not only has India a history of a ‘great’ power but in view of her recent economic spurt, notwithstanding the slowdown in the last few years, it is expected to surpass United Kingdom, Japan and Germany to become the third largest economy just behind the US and China by 2030.

The point is that India has the potential to become a great military power but it cannot become one unless it overcomes two obstacles: its defence industry is weak yet it can be built by building stronger ties with the US militaryindustrial complex. The relationship between the two countries has gone through a transformation: from indifference in 1990s after the end of Cold War to mistrust after India conducted nuclear tests in 1998 to a common purpose after the 9/11 in US and 13/12 in India, i.e., the terror attack on the Indian parliament. In fact, Avery proposes that the new motto of US and Indian intelligence should be: “Your terrorists are our terrorists.” The emphasis on India is to increase her financial allocations in intelligence and defence establishments because while the intelligence budget of US for 2010 was $53.1 billion; India’s Research and Analysis Wing’s (RAW) budget for 2000 was a paltry $150 million.

Inspite of these handicaps, India remained the world’s ninth largest defence market in 2010 with a potential to spend about $120 billion for weapons by 2015. To convert its military potential into a power with global outreach it should acquire forward naval bases

from the Horn of Africa to the Straits of Malacca. To initiate India in this direction, both the US and UK should make her a joint partner at their naval base at Diego Garcia from where India could extend her presence to the American bases in Bahrain and Singapore.

The biggest obstruction to the rise of India is China. With a thick brush, Avery paints a dark picture of China, whose economy outperforms India; its military expenditure is three times that of India’s; and as it out-innovates India through superior universities and scientific research, China has been able to extend its influence in India’s backyard, i.e., Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. For example, China is building an advanced port near Hambantota in Sri Lankan and if it gets the basing rights then the Red Army can easily ‘hop, skip and jump’ on to the Indian mainland.

This should not be acceptable to India who should insist on the ‘Finlandisation’ of Sri Lanka, which, in effect, means that the latter should accommodate the former than losing independence altogether. Avery suggests that “India must use all available tools of coercion to demonstrate to Sri Lanka that its future lies in close ties with India and India alone”. either Mr Avery is ignorant or his research is sloppy because when India did intervene militarily in Sri Lanka for the sake of “peace”, its so-called ‘Peace Keeping Force’ was ridiculed by the Sri Lankans as the Indian peace keeping dogs, and the then Indian Premier Rajiv Gandhi was physically assaulted by a Sri Lankan soldier during a visit.

In a somewhat similar fashion, the Chinese were expanding the Chittagong port with the plan to construct a deep sea harbour to link it with China through Myanmar.

Avery avers that “India should treat the Bay of Bengal as its own waters: permitting the Chinese Navy to dock in a Bangladeshi port is little different than letting it sail up the Ganges.” This analysis is a part of the American scare mongering whereby Chinese building of ports is propagated as a ‘string of pearls’ strategy to choke India.

It seems the Americans are poised to pit India against China.

Presently, it seems an uphill task because if China continues with what it has been spending on its defence in the first decade of this century; its defence outlay will reach $225 billion in 2020 and $425 billion in 2030 and to close this arms gap with China by 2030, India will be required to spend at least $380 billion on its defence between 2010 and 2030. Will India fall in this trap? There is at least one published report in the ‘Economic Times’ of 15 February, 2010, that does indicate that India plans to spend about $200 billion on defence equipment between 2010 and 2022.

Reading such works provides a window into the American thought processes about the likely power rivalries in Asia in which China is projected as an imperial power whose ambitions can be neutralised by propping up India as an American proxy. Whether India will bite the bait or not will depend upon the wisdom of those who will rule her in the coming years.

The writer is an academic and journalist. He can be reached at qizilbash2000@yahoo.com

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we’re all rape accomplices This may appear to be a little extreme, but let this nut-head explain

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five-year-old girl was brutally raped in Lahore on Thursday and was found dumped outside Ganga Ram Hospital around 8 pm on Friday. The very next day a 12-year-old girl in Faisalabad and another first year student in Toba Tek Singh were gang raped. This was followed by another gang rape of a 15-year-old girl yesterday in Tharparkar. Last year 7,516 cases of violence against women were reported in Pakistan with 822 of them being rape cases.

And anyone who’s familiar with the perverted concept of ‘honour’ in our country knows that 822 is a sorry fraction of the actual number.

While there is universal condemnation of the acts that would run the entire gamut from dubbing it any degree of ‘wrong’ to protesting on social media or even streets, there’s a criminal dearth of noise or endeavour with regards to actually deracinating the root cause behind rape: the reprehensible image of women. every individual who propagates the deplorable myth that women are inherently dependent on or weaker than men is a rape accomplice. every person who scorns at a girl for not catering to their definition of decency is a rape accomplice. Anyone who is a flag-bearer of double standards of modesty for men and women is a rape accomplice. everyone who teaches women to be ashamed of their bodies is a rape accomplice.

And if your respect for a woman is dependent on how well covered her body is, then you sir/ma’am, are a rape accomplice as well.

While this might appear to be a little ‘extreme’, let this nut-head explain his stance.

An accomplice is ‘a person who helps another commit a crime’. And while most of us won’t directly provide a rapist the aid that he needs to commit his monstrous crime, by propagating the aforementioned ideals we definitely help him unleash the loathsome ‘beast’ inside him.

Answer this: who would have more of a ten-

dency towards rape, a man who’s told that a woman not dressed up in synchrony with (insert any cultural/social/religious/individual standard of modesty) is dishonourable, or a man who’s told that how a woman chooses to dress up should be no one else’s concern, regardless of whether she’s wearing a burqa or a bikini?

Now answer this: who would have more inclination towards physically abusing a ‘party girl’ who’s drunk and has ‘many male friends’, a man who’s taught that women must follow a different set of morals as compared to men, or a man who’s taught gender equality in every single aspect of life?

And finally answer this: who has more of a chance to become a rapist, a man who lives in a society where a woman’s respect has got nothing to do with her body or a man who lives in a society where a woman not following a certain ‘dress code’ is dubbed an open lollipop inviting flies and insects?

Maybe in an abhorrent fit of ‘bestiality’, your son might not particularly mind temporarily being one of those insects.

Now a rather appalling flipside to this argument is that if the women are forced to dress up according to the ‘socially acceptable’ standards, men wouldn’t plunge to the lower echelons of humanity and that any woman who isn’t dressed up ‘properly’ or doesn’t ‘guard her modesty’ is actually ‘asking to be raped’.

First of all, in my very humble opinion, in an ideal world any person who says that any woman who’s raped, under any circumstances whatsoever, was ‘asking for it’, is ‘asking’ to be beaten up publicly. Secondly, as a man myself, I find men’s portrayal as a sex-hungry ‘monsters’ who lose their control at the sight of a woman’s skin, pretty hard to digest.

Let’s set the record straight. A woman not covering her head isn’t ‘asking for it’; one wearing a bikini isn’t ‘asking for it’ and yes, one who might not be wearing anything at all is still not ‘asking for it’. Those that justify rape under any circumstance shouldn’t merely be dubbed rape apologists but should instead

be called rape accomplices and should share a fraction of guilt for every rape where the victim was ostensibly ‘asking for it’.

The myth that the hijab, burqa, or following a particular definition of modesty protects women is busted by the fact that in a recent BBC report it was revealed that 99.3 per cent of egyptian women had experienced harassment, while the rate of sexual offenses in Saudi Arabia is 58.6 per 100,000 and Qatar and UAe have rates of 1.7 reported cases of rape per 100,000 population. Also, when 5-year-olds and 7-yearolds are being raped, it’s obviously not a case of what’s atop the woman’s head, more a case of what’s inside the man’s head. And those who want to flaunt the fact that forcing a woman to wear the hijab reduces the chances of her being raped, should know that those chances would be further reduced if you lock her up in a cupboard and throw away the key.

Rape cannot be prevented by forcing women to cover up, it can only be prevented by women empowerment, promotion of gender equality and the eradication of antediluvian myths that teach us how women are men’s property who must keep a watch on them and control them. When it is stated or implied that women are men’s property and that the latter have an upper-hand over the former, you’re cultivating a ground for rapists to grow. And everyone who plays even the most minor of roles in the cultivation should be called a rape accomplice.

Not only are we all rape accomplices because we promote the aforementioned ideals, but our law is quite possibly the grandest of all rape accomplices, since it doesn’t consider DNA as primary evidence in rape cases in the year 2013 AD. Furthermore, by asking for four witnesses – who can only be dubbed the closest of collaborators, since they preferred watching a woman being abused than preventing the act – it’s almost as if we’ve created a social and judicial setup to facilitate rapists.

Merely screaming bloody murder over a heinous act won’t suffice in its eradication, and propagating the West’s rape statistics won’t particularly help the cause in our neck of the woods, where rape is criminally misreported and prevails despite us purging our society from ‘Western evils’. To actually reduce rape, every single one of us must ask ourselves if we’ve ever, intentionally or inadvertently, promoted misogynistic ideals or tried to justify rape under any circumstances. If the answer to those questions is in the affirmative, we’ve all played a part in the physical and mental trauma of every raped woman in our society.

The writer is a financial journalist and a cultural critic. Email: khulduneshahid@gmail.com, Twitter: @khuldune

ADIR Shah, the Napoleon of Persia, invaded India in 1739.

His specialty was loot and plunder followed by mass killings. Governance and administration was not his forte. He took Koh-i-noor diamond and peacock throne with him to earn the title of ‘Plunder ke Badshah’ and ‘Lootera-e-Azam’.

Finally, his own people got fed up and when he was murdered in June 1747 there was a sigh of relief. dR FARId A MAlIK He left deep impact on India and Nadir Shahi became a way of life. Since then the Indian sub-continent has not been the same. Stories of his plunder are narrated in the bazaars of old cities like New Delhi and Lahore.

After the partition of India in 1947, the Muslims of India made a fresh start under Jinnah and his team of founding fathers. Despite a rough start Pakistan was moving away from Nadir Shahi. There was direction and honesty in purpose. Both institution and nation building was at its peak. A new generation was being raised to pass on the baton. In 1956, a democratic constitution was also formulated and elections were to be held, but that could not happen. Instead of light, darkness took over in the form of first martial law by a disciple of Nadir Shahi. He got rid of the founding fathers and introduced his brand of ‘Looteray Siasatdan’ like the Chaudhrys of Gujrat and Lahore. Nadir Shahi became the order of the day; those who opposed were taken to the dungeons of the ‘Shahi Qila’ and given a dose of Nadir Shahi. When the mother of Comrade Hassan Nisar came to receive his body, it was mutilated beyond recognition by torture. There were several progressives like him who met similar fate. even heavy weights like Faiz Ahmed Faiz were not spared.

With Ayub (Nadir) Khan, the era of nation building came to an end and empire formation started. The fruits of the hard work of the founding fathers were divested to a selected elite class. Loans, permits, patronage became the order of the day. The wealth of the nation came in the control of the infamous 22 families.

Since 1958, Nadir Shahi has been the order of the day with breaks in between. Most rulers focused on loot and plunder while governance became weaker and weaker. Only the methods changed, even the exploitation of religion was introduced. Any attempt to change was crushed under the boots. Democratic gains of the 1973 Constitution were neutralised by Zia (Nadir)-ul-Haq. Civilian institutions like Pakistan Railways, WAPDA and Steel Mills came under attack to be replaced by a Khaki empire.

The Benazir, Nawaz era also proved to be Nadir Shahi, high on plunder and low on governance. Now ‘Bhata Khori’ which is another form of ‘Nadir Shahi’ has taken over cities like Karachi and Hyderabad with overtones in Lahore as well. In fact, most political leadership today is the creation of the Nadir Shahi era with focus on empire building, not nation building. In 1985, the party-less elections proved to be the last nail in the coffin of democracy. The entire state apparatus started to focus on politics instead of governance. In order to win support, the elected representatives were given recruitment quota with no merit for selection. Inductions were made in education, police and other departments without due process resulting in collapse of these institutions.

Canal embankments have become unsafe as the ‘Baildars’ responsible for their regular upkeep are involved in politicking for the modern day Nadir Shahs. every year before the monsoons tall claims are made of the preparedness to handle the emergencies yet the city drowns and life comes to a standstill. The nation’s rivers are polluted as none of the sewerage treatment plants are functional. The infamous ‘Roohi Drain’ enters Pakistan with about 16 contaminants, by the time its untreated water falls into Ravi, the number increases to 24. Once the lifeline of Lahore the river has become a drain full of contaminated water unfit for aquatic life or human consumption. The water is then consumed by the lower riparian population resulting in diseases.

There is no glory or financial reward in maintaining Nadir Shahi.

Replacement and procurement suits Nadir Shahi, so the rot of vital national assets continues unabated. The night time repair of roads or early morning sanitation of the city is a thing of the past. Mechanical road sweepers are seen ceremoniously on city roads mainly obstructing the flow of traffic at peak hours.

National elections on May 11, 2013, were robbed under the terminology of ‘election Day Dynamics’. There can be no election or democracy without the sanctity of the ballot. every vote has to be counted for effective results and a meaningful mandate. Only Nadir Shahs ‘emerge’ from tainted ballots. In the words of Aitzaz Ahsan, ‘How can we expect useful outcome when we do not have faith in the process?’

‘Nadir Shahi’ is deep rooted in this part of the world. In 1739, Nadir Shah defeated the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah to gain control of Delhi followed by loot and plunder of the city. The progressives in Pakistan have been struggling for decades to overpower the forces of status-quo but with limited success. Now the battle plans have to change to overcome the menace of ‘Nadir Shahi’. Direct confrontation seems to be the only course of action left.

Imran Khan has asked for verification of votes based on NADRA data in four constituencies. The party will take to the streets after eid if this exercise is not carried out. The demand is fair for an evolutionary change process to continue through a fair and free ballot.

Change is inevitable and an end to ‘Nadir Shahi’ imperative. Time is running out as even mere survival has become difficult for the common man. Nadir Shahi skims the resources of the nation leaving very little for the basics like food, education, health, drinking water, employment and a dignified human existence. We need to make efforts for a welfare estate.

The writer is ex-Chairman, Pakistan Science Foundation. He can be contacted at: fmaliks@hotmail.com

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ranvir payS deepika a viSit, in dubai Ranveer Singh sure knows how to avoid awkward encounters. The actor promptly landed up in Dubai as soon as current flame Deepika Padukone's father Prakash Padukone ended his Emirati sojourn. After bonding with her father, Dippy was soon in the arms of her lover and this time too, her 'Happy New Year' co-star Shah Rukh Khan played host with aplomb. "Ranveer dropped by for a few days with Deepika as her Dubai schedule is a long one. Dubai is a great place for a young couple to enjoy a romantic few days," a source told TOI. The highlight was a party thrown by Shah Rukh at his Palm Jumeirah villa last Thursday where Ranveer and Deepika partied till the wee hours. "The whole cast and crew of 'Happy New Year' was present and everybody let their hair down.

Deepika and Ranveer were among the last ones to leave," added the source.

Dubai is a rather special milestone in the young relationship as the world first came to know of the brewing romance between the 'Ram Leela' costars when they were snapped kissing at a nightclub in the city. COuRTESy TOI

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ROPICAL forests may be making a comeback, and it could be their own doing. Scientists have discovered that trees "turn up" their ability to cap-

Angelina Jolie and her daughters have girls day out in Sydney.

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N unnamed Middle Eastern prince, who must be the biggest Twi-hard ever, paid $500,000 to chat with Kristen Stewart for 15 minutes, according to Harvey Weinstein.

The Hollywood producer, who apparently brokered the terms for the world’s most expensive small talk, told reporters about the meet-up during a screening Sunday for a Hurricane Sandy film, MSN News reports. The half-a-mil was donated to the Hurricane Sandy relief effort, paid in cash up front, and the Prince really into ‘Twilight’ and K Stew met at Madison Square Garden. “And Kristen sits with the guy for 15 minutes,” Weinstein said. (We’re guessing most of that 15 minutes was spent with the prince asking as politely as possible if Robsten was truly broken.) The Hurricane Sandy benefit concert, also organized by Weinstein, was held in the very same spot later that year and raised $30 million. NEWS dESK

ture nitrogen from the air and release it into the soil as the forest makes a comeback after being logged or cleared for agriculture. The findings have huge implications for forest restoration projects and

the ability to mitigate global warming. In order to examine how trees and forests recover in the face of clearing activities, the researchers examined a square mile of the Panama Canal watershed. There,

Comet CoLLiSionS

Spawn Life: reSearCherS A study has shown building blocks of life can spring into existence spontaneously when icy comets smash into planets. A similar process can create amino acids - bits of proteins - when a rocky meteorite strikes an ice-covered world. Imperial College London research scientist Dr Zita Martins says their work shows that the basic building blocks of life can be assembled anywhere in the Solar System and perhaps beyond. Scientists believe that about the time life first emerged, between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago, Earth was being bombarded by comets and meteorites. NEWS dESK

the scientists compared land-use options as they measured carbon storage, runoff and biodiversity. This allowed them to discover how mature tropical forests, native trees in forest restoration plots and aban-

doned pastureland compared. "This is the first solid case showing how nitrogen fixation by tropical trees directly affects the rate of carbon recovery after agricultural fields are abandoned," said Jefferson Hall, one of the researchers, in a news release.

"Trees turn nitrogen fixation on and off according to the need for nitrogen in the system." After examining the trees and the different areas, the scientists discovered something interesting. It turned out that tree species that fixed nitrogen from the atmosphere put on carbon weight up to nine times faster than their non-fixing neighbors during early stages of forest recovery. In fact, nitrogen-fixers provided enough nitrogen fertilizer in the soil to help with storage of about 50,000 kilograms of carbon per hectare during the first 12 years of growth. "Diversity really matters," said Sarah Batterman, the first author of the study, in a news release. "Each tree species fixes nitrogen and carbon differently so species important at 12 years drop out or become less common at 30 years. You can really see how different players contribute to the development of a mature tropical forest and the ecosystem services in provides." The findings are huge when it comes to carbon storage. If trees could grow and store carbon, they could essentially turn into a carbon sink, which could have major implications for halting the tide of climate change. NEWS dESK

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by overexCited fan Beyoncé handled yet another concert mishap like a pro. While performing at the Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, Sept. 15, the 32-year-old singer was pulled off stage by an overzealous audience member. A consummate professional, Queen Bey continued to sing "Irreplaceable" as a security guard swooped in to rescue her. When the R&B diva finished her song, she approached the fan and told him, "It's alright, it's alright." After shaking his hand, Beyoncé added, "Nice to meet you. Thank you, I love you, too." Less than two months earlier, Beyoncé endured another incident with a fan—albeit a mechanical one—while singing "Halo" as part of the Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in Montreal. Midway through the track, the Texas native's weave got tangled. A security guard freed the singer's tresses from the fan while she continued to belt out her No. 1 smash. Talk about performing under pressure! NEWS dESK

SaLman thumbS up Chennai expreSS Whether it was Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots' collections or Salman Khan's EK Tha Tiger's collections, Shah Rukh Khan's EID release Chennai Express has broken all the previous records at the boxoffice. The entire industry is overwhelmed with the response that the superstar's latest film has received. And the list of admirers for Chennai Express just grew longer when SRK's arch rival Salman Khan praised the recent hit. "Like Shah Rukh Khan recently beat everyone and all previous records with his film Chennai Express, I will also try to beat it with my film," said Salman.

Salman, who shares a love and hate relationship with Shah Rukh also went ahead to invite him on the new season of his TV show Bigg Boss 7 as a guest. "If Shah Rukh wants to promote his film on my show the why not? If he is willing to come on the show, he is always welcome," concluded the Bollywood heartthrob. COuRTESy TOI

Victoria Beckham at the Vogue dinner party in London.

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HE crown has been placed on Nina Davuluri's head. The Miss New York contestant, who was in the middle of some pageant drama, was named as Miss America for 2014 during the annual show, which was held in Atlantic City, N.J., tonight. Davuluri, 24, from Syracuse, walked away with the blingtastic tiara and the $50,000 scholarship cash after performing a Bollywood dance for the talent portion of the show and answering a question about plastic surgery and shared her hopes of becoming a doctor. During the question part of the pageant, Davuluri was asked

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ScientistsTeleport Data Across Chip UANTUM mechanics allows for some very strange things, like the teleportation of information and computers that can break even the toughest codes. Recently, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich made a step toward building a working quantum computer by teleporting bits of information across a computer chip. The results of the study were detailed Aug. 15 in the journal Nature. Creating such a circuit is an important milestone, said Benjamin Schumacher, a professor of physics at Kenyon College in Ohio.

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by Carla Hall about Julie Chen's decision to have plastic surgery to make her eyes less Asian. "I don't agree with plastic surgery, however I can understand that from a standpoint. More importantly I've always viewed Miss America as the girl next door.

And Miss America is always evolving...I wouldn't want to change someone's looks. Be confident in who you are," she said. Miss California Crystal Lee was chosen as the first runner-up, who will take over Miss America duties should Davuluri not be able to, and Miss Oklahoma Kesley Griswold was second runner-up. NEWS dESK

"Everybody really knows if you are ever going to make a real quantum computer, it must be solid state," said Schumacher, who was not involved in the new research. "Solid state" refers to computers built with single-piece transistors — with no moving parts and with components that are selfcontained. Almost every electronic device is built with solid-state electronics.

[Wacky Physics: The Coolest Quantum Particles Explained] Bill Munro, a research scientist at Japanese phone giant NTT, who has done extensive research into quantum computing, said the ETH team's work is a "very nice experiment," adding, "it really shows prototyping the technology" involved in making a quantum computer. Previous teleportation experiments have used lasers to transport quantum information

between photons. But that isn't as practical for building real computers. Solid-state circuits, on the other hand, are a well-known field and computer chip manufacturers have decades of experience in miniaturizing them, Schumacher said. In new experiment, the scientists took advantage of a property of quantum physics called entanglement to teleport the quantum bits, called qubits. When two particles interact, they form a connection — they are entangled — so that an action performed on one affects the other, even when they're separated by great distances. In addition, no matter how far apart they are, if you know the state of one particle, you instantly know the state of the other.

For quantum computers, though, instantaneous transmission isn't critical.

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By all accounts, Chris Harrison did a stand-up job co-hosting the 2014 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday, Sept. 15. Even so, that didn't stop the audience from turning on the 42-year-old after he cut off Miss Florida Myrrhanda Jones during the interview portion of the program. In order to keep the show moving, Harrison politely informed Jones that her time was up. The crowd started booing, but as The Bachelor host explained, "It's a timed answer! Don't make me the bad guy!" The jeers grew louder, but Harrison took it in stride. "Alright, I'm the bad guy," he relented. "Bring it on." Co-host Lara Spencer put her arm around Harrison as he asked viewers to weigh in on the competition via Twitter.

Harrison addressed the incident via Twitter later that night, writing, "I'm near Philly they must know I'm a Dallas boy! #MissAmerica @dallascowboys."

Jones finished as the third runner-up, while Miss New York Nina Davuluri was named Miss America. NEWS dESK

obama dropS bomb on kabir’S fLiCk When US President Barack Obama issued a warning to the embattled Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria recently, little did he know that his announcement will wreak havoc far away in Bollywood. The dispatch from White House sent shivers down the spine of Kabir Khan who is all set to fly down to the Syria-Lebanon border with Katrina Kaif and Saif Ali Khan for his upcoming film. The latest political development has put the film's schedule abroad into a tizzy with concerns over the security of the cast and crew being raised. But Kabir and the film's producer Sajid Nadiadwala have decided to go ahead but with a newly fortified security cover. A source told TOI, "The new security cover will cost Nadiadwala about Rs 20 lakh more, but safety has to come first as both he and Kabir do not want to take any risks." COuRTESy TOI

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SatiSfied with team’S performanCe: moin khan

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket team manager, Moin Khan said Monday that he was satisfied with the performance of the national team during the Zimbabwe series. Members of the national team have started arriving in Pakistan after the completion of the tour and Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Faisal Iqbal, Khurram Manzoor accompanied by Moin Khan arrived in Karachi on Monday. Khan said he would not apologise for the team’s performance during the series in which Pakistan lost the final test match against Zimbabwe. “Senior players performed their role during the series.”

Meanwhile the hero of the first test match, Younis Khan did not speak to the media upon his arrival. STAFF REPORT

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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S he did in the Ashes, Shane Watson saved his best for the final match of the one-day series, as his 143 off 107 balls guided Australia to an imposing 298 at the Ageas Bowl, although Ben Stokes' five-wicket haul kept the target within england's range.

Watson and Michael Clarke, who overcame his troublesome back, which had made him doubtful for the match, added 163 for the fourth wicket after Australia had found themselves in early trouble.

It appeared a rain break in the 10th over might derail the visitor's innings when, on resumption, Stokes struck twice in consecutive balls to leave Australia 48 for 3. But england's inexperienced attack - even more so in than the other matches of this series due to Steven Finn being ruled out with a side strain - could not keep up the pressure as Clarke and Watson feasted on some wayward bowling during their rapid partnership.

However, there would be an impressive fightback in last 20 overs.

Watson reached his eighth one-day hundred from 87 balls in a muscular display of hitting and later latched on to Joe Root's sixth over, which cost 28 including three, massive leg-side sixes. He was threatening his best score against england - an unbeaten 161 at the MCG in 2011 - but edged behind to give Stokes his fourth wicket.

That became five when Mitchell Johnson lobbed his second ball back to the bowler, leaving the tail to try and bat out the overs. They failed to do even that, for the second match in a row, as Boyd Rankin removed Clint McKay with the first ball of the final over to complete a collapse of 7 for 87 in 18 overs.

AuSTRAlIA 2 PJ Hughes c Carberry b Jordan AJ Finch c Morgan b Stokes 26 143 SR Watson c †Buttler b Stokes 0 MS Wade† c †Buttler b Stokes MJ Clarke* c Pietersen b Jordan 75 GJ Bailey st †Buttler b Root 4 8 AC Voges c †Buttler b Stokes JP Faulkner c †Buttler b Jordan 10 2 MG Johnson c & b Stokes CJ McKay c Root b Rankin 5 4 Fawad Ahmed not out EXTRAS (lb 10, w 9) 19 298 TOTAl: (all out; 49.1 overs) FAll OF WICKETS 1-13 (Hughes, 3.1 ov), 2-48 (Finch, 9.4 ov), 3-48 (Wade, 9.5 ov), 4-211 (Clarke, 31.6 ov), 5-221 (Bailey, 35.2 ov), 6244 (Voges, 40.3 ov), 7-282 (Watson, 44.4 ov), 8-284 (Johnson, 44.6 ov), 9-294 (Faulkner, 48.4 ov), 10-298 (McKay, 49.1 ov) BOWlING: WB Rankin 9.1-1-26-1,CJ Jordan 10-0-51-3,BA Stokes 10-0-61-5,RS Bopara 10-0-54-0,JC Tredwell 4-0-380,JE Root 6-0-58-1 ENGlANd MA Carberry lbw b Faulkner 30 0 KP Pietersen run out (Fawad Ahmed/Hughes) 21 JE Root b Johnson 30 EJG Morgan* st †Wade b Voges lJ Wright run out (Bailey) 0 RS Bopara not out 46 JC Buttler† not out 23 8 EXTRAS: (lb 4, w 4) 160 TOTAl: (5 wickets; 34 overs) TO BAT BA Stokes, JC Tredwell, WB Rankin, CJ Jordan FAll OF WICKETS 1-1 (Pietersen, 0.4 ov), 2-50 (Carberry, 12.5 ov), 3-64 (Root, 15.5 ov), 4-68 (Wright, 16.5 ov), 5-103 (Morgan, 25.1 ov) BOWlING: CJ McKay 7-1-31-0,MG Johnson 8-0-19-1,JP Faulkner 5-0-16-1,Fawad Ahmed 3.4-0-30-0,AC Voges 4-0-25-1,SR Watson 1-0-3-0 MATCH dETAIlS TOSS Australia, who chose to bat OdI dEBuT CJ Jordan (England) PlAyER OF THE MATCH tba uMPIRES Aleem dar (Pakistan) and RJ Bailey TV uMPIRE S Ravi (India) MATCH REFEREE JJ Crowe (New zealand) RESERVE uMPIRE RT Robinson

Finn's place in the line-up had gone to Chris Jordan, the Sussex pace bowler, as he earned his maiden ODI cap having been with the squad throughout the series. england had been forced into another lastminute change when Jonathan Trott went down with a back spasm meaning Luke Wright also played his first game of the series.

Jordan soon caught the eye with his speed - nudging 90mph - and although he was twice driven by Aaron Finch in his first over, in his second he beat Phillip

Hughes for pace and the left-hander, who had replaced the injured Shaun Marsh, top-edged to midwicket. Jordan finished with an impressive 3 for 51 and a priceless learning experience.

Finch, who plundered a world-record 156 on this ground in last month's Twenty20, began positively but Australia did not restart well after a half-hour rain delay. Finch slashed at Stokes and provided a catch to backward pointing without giving himself a sighter and Stokes, who bounced out Marsh in

Cardiff, then sent down a well-directed short ball at Matthew Wade after he had been promoted to No. 4.

Clarke was not convincing at the start of his innings as england went after him with the short ball, testing out that fragile back, but consistency was lacking to allow both him and Watson plenty of scoring opportunities. Watson was particularly powerful as he picked off Stokes through the leg side and the same bowler was also straight-driven for six by Clarke.

Under-Fire selecTors To MUll sQUAd For sA likely to shortlist players in all three formats before the final squads are announced following consultations with coach Dav Whatmore, Test and ODI captain Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistan Twenty20 skipper.

Meanwhile, pressure is building on the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to act after Pakistan’s humiliating defeat in Harare.

Former stalwarts, critics and fans want the Board LAHORE to sack Misbah and coach Dav Whatmore.

STAFF REPORT Zimbabwe, who only started playing Tests in 2011 Pakistan’s selectors will be in an unenviable after a six-year exile due to lack of players and position when they meet in Lahore on Monday to facilities, pulled off an upset 24-run win against chalk out preliminary squads ahead of the ‘home’ number four ranked Pakistan in the second Test on series against South Africa getting underway in the Saturday, squaring the two-match series at 1-1.

The defeat left Pakistan cricket fraternity in a UAe next month.

The selection committee meeting comes just two shock as former players urged cricket authorities to days after Pakistan suffered one of their worst Test revamp the team.

Former captain Ramiz Raja said the Pakistan team defeats — in the second and final match against needed a fresh captain to replace Misbah-ul Haq. minnows Zimbabwe in Harare.

“Misbah contributed to a change of environment The shocking result has ignited scathing criticism and gave stability to the with experts demanding sweeping team but he seems to action ahead of the series against Proteas have run out of ideas, so which would be a very challenging we need someone with assignment. fresh ideas,” Raja said.

The selectors are themselves under Raja said every fire for failing to select a squad that was captain has a shelf life good enough to beat Zimbabwe and 39-year-old Misbah regarded as the weakest team in the has spent it.

Test-playing world.

“I think Misbah’s In the absence of a chief selector, shelf life is over and former Test pacer Saleem Jaffer will be with these ideas we will at helm during stand nowhere in front the meeting in of South Africa,” said Raja, now a which the commentator. selectors will The Pakistan team needed an aggressive mull various strategy, he added. combinations “It seems excitement and aggression is at for Tests, Onethe lowest point in our cricket, we want to day and avoid defeat and these hot-and-cold, up-andTwenty20 raMiZ raja down performances must change,” said Raja.

Internationals.

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PRESSURE IS BUILDING ON THE PAKISTAN CRICKET BOARD TO ACT AFTER PAKISTAN’S HUMILIATING DEFEAT IN HARARE

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pcB Won’t press panic BUtton, saYs setHi LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) caretaker chairman Najam Sethi feels a part of the blame for the country’s cricket problems and the recent poor results lies with the courts, which have come in the way of cleaning the system. His comments came after Pakistan were beaten by minnows Zimbabwe in the second Test in Harare leading to calls for changes in the team and set-up. The Islamabad High Court in its judgement in July restrained Sethi from exercising full authorities of the PCB chairman and directed him to hold fresh elections in 90-days time. “Why only blame the board or team. Also ask the courts. I want to do things but I can’t. I can’t appoint a chief selector, I can’t take major decisions. So what am I supposed to do. But if I get a chance I aim to set things right,” he said. Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said Pakistan cricket had hit rock bottom while former captain Rameez Raja said the defeat was frustrating, shameful and embarrassing. But Sethi lashed out at former players and the media for hounding the Pakistan team and players on Geo News on his talk show. “I don’t want to get into this issue of former players but some of them only criticise for their own interests. Once they get plush jobs in the board they will keep quiet but let me say this is not going to happen. The media also plays down our team’s victories and blows up a defeat. Let them say what they want,” Sethi said. The PCB chief made it clear he was not going to press the panic button for the coming South Africa series. “These things happen in cricket you win and lose. But yes they are some problems in our cricket set up and I want to clean up things and also bring about improvement. But how can I do this when my hands are tied by the courts,” he said. He pointed out that Pakistan cricket for the last few years had been facing many problems due to the situation at home and because of the spot-fixing scandal. “The internal problems in the team I don’t want to talk about them but they are there. I wanted to go to the West Indies to see things for myself but the media made a issue of it so I said fine I will not go,” he said. STAFF REPORT

need a vibrant coach to replace Dav Whatmore, the former Australian batsman who took over last year.

“Pakistan must address its batting woes because batting is letting us down, it has gone down badly,” said Akhtar.

Akhtar blamed Pakistan Cricket Board directors for the slump in team’s performance.”Misbah is leading the worst-ever Pakistan team. We don’t have good bowlers, we don’t have good batsmen and if Misbah is prominent amongst the batsmen

then it shows because, with due respect, Misbah is not world class,” said Akhtar, who retired in 2011.Pakistan legend Zaheer Abbas took a swipe at Pakistan’s poor showing stressing that a lowly-rated team like Zimbabwe almost outclassed them during the Test series. Another former captain Aamir Sohail said Pakistan cricket needs revamp. “We need to uplift our domestic cricket which is not producing top-level players and that’s why we are struggling at international level,” said Sohail.

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AKISTAN captain Misbah-ul Haq said he hoped Misbah will lead Pakistan’s domestic Twenty20 champions Faisalabad in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League starting in the Indian town of Mohali on Tuesday (tomorrow) after New Delhi cleared the tour.

India had stalled all bilateral cricket with Pakistan in the wake of 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai and — with the exception of a short tour by Pakistan late last year — there have been no signs of full series revival amid heightened tensions between the two countries. But Misbah said matches between the two cricket-obsessed nations should not be halted by politics.

“I feel cricket must go on.” Pakistan humiliatingly lost the second Test in Harare on Saturday to level the two-match series

Sammy deLiGhted with top-five teSt rankinG jAMAiCA: Darren Sammy, the West Indies Test captain, has expressed delight at seeing West Indies reach the top-five in Test rankings for the first time since August 2000. West Indies, who have won their previous six Tests, currently sit on 99 points, with Australia just ahead on 101, and Pakistan lagging slightly behind on 97. “One of our goals has always been to be in the top five by 2015,” Sammy said. “As a Test team, we have worked really hard in the last three years and to achieve that goal two years early is a plus for us. “We now have to continue working harder in order for us to keep moving forward. Massive praise must go to our head coach Ottis Gibson and his staff for creating the atmosphere where we as players can go out and work hard for each other and our fans in the Caribbean and everywhere else.” AGENCIES

at 1-1. Misbah joined the rest of the Faisalabad squad in India later on Sunday.

Despite the tensions between India and Pakistan, Misbah said people on both sides of the border enjoy cricket.

“It is a fact that people of both the countries enjoy Indo-Pak cricket and it is necessary for both the countries to have regular exchange of cricket tours because it

minimises tensions and brings people together,” said Misbah.

Misbah denied players would be scared by recent tensions, sparked by a string of recent clashes in the disputed Kashmir region.

“When we play cricket, people forget everything,” he said. “We never expect and never fear any aggression. I am going to India with an open mind, with a message of

friendship and peace, as always.”

Meanwhile, they have got the green signal to compete in the Champions League Twenty20, but Faisalabad Wolves players were on Sunday forced to shift out of the city after it emerged that their visas were only valid for Mohali.

The team arrived on Saturday after finally getting the visa to travel to India

to play in the event starting on Tuesday.

But they were forced to shift out of their hotels here to the clubhouse of Punjab Cricket Association stadium at Mohali due to visa issues.

“The PCA will accommodate them in the clubhouse for today and the BCCI is in touch with the Ministry of external Affairs and the Home Ministry to see that they get visa for Chandigarh also. We are hopeful that it will be done by tomorrow and they will be shifted back to the Chandigarh hotel,” PCA Joint Secretary G S Walia told reporters. “There are some issues and they are being sorted out,” added Faisalabad coach Naveed Anjum.

Kandurata Maroons of Sri Lanka and Sunrisers Hyderabad are the other two CLT20 teams which are currently based in Chandigarh.

Faisalabad were earlier denied visas on the ground that they faced a security risk in India. It was feared if the Faisalabad Wolves made their way up in the tournament, they would be playing at different cities across India and hence security could have been a problem.

Apart from New Zealand side Otago, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kandurata Maroons are the two other teams that Faisalabad will face in the qualifiers.

Faisalabad will be the second team from Pakistan, after Sialkot Stallions, to take part in the Champions League. The Stallions played the 2012 tournament in South Africa, but failed to qualify for the main round.

drs issue set to dominate icc meet DUBAI AGENCIES

The decision review system (DRS), along with the playing conditions at the 2015 World Cup, is set to dominate the proceeding at the two-day ICC chief executives’ committee (CeC) meeting here on Monday.

Although the ICC has discontinued to publish the agenda and the results of the CeC from this year, it is understood that the meet will see a divided house with england and Australia joining hands to take on the other front led by India with support from the sub-continental neighbours — Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh — especially on the topic of the referral system. england and Australia both had reasons to feel aggrieved about the DRS during the recently completed Ashes series. Jonathan Trott was given out lbw on review at Trent Bridge despite an apparent edge, while Usman Khawaja’s caught behind dismissal in Manchester during the third Test was upheld even though replays showed daylight between bat and ball. HotSpot’s inability to detect fine edges also created confusion, and

towards the end of the series, its evidence was routinely ignored by the third umpire.

Geoff Allardice, the ICC operations chief, met with the two sides before the fourth match in Durham to address some of their concerns. It is understood that the pair of David Collier, the eCB chief executive, and his Cricket Australia counterpart James Sutherland is expected to put forward a series of proposals at the CeC to make the DRS more consistent. According to an official privy to the eCB-CA plan, both members want to continue utilising the DRS in bilateral series despite its shortcomings. During the latest Ashes, one visible hindrance to the DRS was the amount of umpiring errors. To remedy

that, both england and Australia want the ICC to enhance the clarity in the communication between the third umpire and the on-field umpires. Another proposal is to make the role of the television umpire a specialist role. Dave Richardson, the ICC’s chief executive, had said that the exercise would help avoid incidents like the Stuart Broad one during the Trent Bridge Test, when the england allrounder edged Ashton Agar but stood his ground. Aleem Dar, the on-field umpire, failed to detect the edge and Australia, having exhausted their reviews, were left frustrated and annoyed.

The other suggestion england and Australia

want to discuss is if the DRS is just there to clear up a howler then a team should not lose a review when it becomes an umpire’s call. However, england and Australia feel not all umpires can adapt quickly to the challenges of being a television umpire. Collier and Sutherland are expected to discuss the issue with Simon Taufel, ICC’s umpires training and performance manager.

However constructive their suggestions sound, england and Australia still need India, the staunchest critic of the DRS, on their side.

What might make their defence of the DRS weak is the admission of Warren Brennan, the Hot Spot inventor, who stated that tests carried out recently on various modern bats revealed protective coatings across the edges of bats unquestionably diminished the thermal signatures. Such a reasoning can only enhance India’s doubts over the DRS being far from 100 percent foolproof, a condition they have set in order to accept the referral system. It is understood that N Srinivasan, the BCCI president, had a separate meeting with the representatives of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on the sidelines of the Asian Cricket Council held in Chennai to garner support.

‘HUngrY’ aisaM continUes to eYe elUsive grand slaM title LAHORE STAFF REPORT

Pakistan’s tennis ace Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi has said that he was a bit unlucky not to win any grand slam title this year but he is hopeful of finishing among top ten players of the world by the end of 2013.

Aisam said that despite hard work he lost good opportunities to claim major titles adding that he felt unlucky to lose close matches in tie-breaks. “It is a fact that I have started featuring regularly in big events for the last three years while the top guys who play against us are the ones with much more experience,” he said. Tennis is quite different sport, he added, and it is not like cricket or hockey when teams stand chances to come back in the contest even after losing a few matches. “Tennis is played on a knock-out basis. This is the reason why we cannot make a comeback if we lose opportunities due to any reason and there are many factors involved in defeat

or win of teams and players,” he said.

Aisam said he plays against different opponents most of the time, so it is quite difficult to know their weaknesses and strengths beforehand in order to prepare a strategy. “Doubles is getting tough day by day as many top singles’ players of the world

have started playing it. This is why we (Aisam and Rojer) lost close matches in grand slams. Yet, we are happy that we won Miami Masters this year which is called the fifth grand slam,” he said. Talking about his goal, Aisam said that his first goal is to feature in World Tour Finals in London in

November and then to finish among top ten players in doubles by the end of this year.

“This will be third time we will be playing World Tour Finals. Though my performance was not good in last two editions, this is itself an achievement for me being a Pakistani that I have played this prestigious event.

Secondly, I have lost some There is a ranking positions lot of hunger recently, in me. i can so my press myself to g o a l would be progress further. to end the i am motivated to c u r r e n t y e a r win at least one among top grand slam for ten doubles player of the my country. world.” Aisam said that he is

hungry to win more laurels for Pakistan.

Asked if he has any plans to change his partner, Aisam said he is not thinking about it, at least not this year. “I have to see where I finish 2013. Then I will think of changing my partner. See, doubles teams changes all the time, this is usual. So maybe next year I will go for it. I have many offers, like (Rohan) Boppanna contacted me again. I cannot say what will happen but I hope for the best,” he said, adding that at the moment he is looking for some big events in Asia next month.

Aisam, while talking about his plans to host inaugural Pakistan Tennis Festival as part of his ‘Stop War Start Tennis Programme’ this November in which more than 1,500 kids will take part, said he needs help of the Punjab government in this regard. Aisam said that he also wants to build a tennis academy in Lahore where he can train future champions of Pakistan. “I have been asking for a piece of land in this regard from the govt of Punjab for past four year but so far I haven’t heard anything positive about it,” he signed off.

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eRBIA will face defending champions the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final after defeating Canada 3-2 in the semi-finals on Sunday.

Janko Tipsarevic led Serbia into their second final in four years after defeating Vasek Pospisil 7-6 (7/3), 6-2, 7-6 (8/6). i played at earlier, world number one Novak Djokovic had beaten Milos Raonic 7my own tempo 6 (7/1), 6-2, 6-2 to level the tie at from the very 2-2. Serbia, the 2010 champions, beginning and i knew will host the November 15-17 final

the returns would be against the crucial, so i paid Czechs who defeated special attention Argentina 3-2 to them.

in their semi-final in Prague. "Czech Republic is extremely difficult, they have Tomas Berdych who has been in the top 10 for years, they have Radek Stepanek who always plays good in

Davis Cup, but we have Novak (Djokovic), Nenad (Zimonjic) and I hope we will have Victor back into our team," Tipsarevic said.

Serbia are without Viktor Troicki, who is serving an 18-month doping ban handed down by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).

After taking the first set, the 23rdranked Tipsarevic capitalised on the 41st-ranked Pospisil's claycourt

konta reaCheS SeCond round in GuanGzhou open GUANGzHOU: Briton Johanna Konta won her first round match against Richel Hogenkamp from Holland, 6-3, 6-2, while Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic beat Sweden's Johanna Larsson 6-4, 6-3. Galina Voskoboeva from Kazakhstan and Monica Puig from Puerto Rico will face off in the second round after both players won their first round games.

Vania King of the United States also booked her place in the second round after a hard fought 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over South African Chanelle Scheepers, a former winner in 2011. Laura Robson became the first British woman since 1990 to reach a main tour singles final at the Guangzhou Open last year and is seeded third this time. The Londoner plays her first round match on Tuesday. AGENCIES

inexperience to breeze through the second.

With the 10,000-strong crowd willing him on, Tipsarevic stretched out to 5-2 in the third set before Pospisil battled back for another tie-breaker.

The Canadian saved four match points before Tipsarevic finally sealed victory. "I had a feeling it could have been much easier, but somehow I could not capitalise on my opportunities, but nevertheless I won and Serbia are in the final," Tipsarevic said after the match. earlier, Djokovic got Serbia back into the match by defeating Raonic. Raonic put up a strong fight against Djokovic in the first set, but his hopes took a major blow when he lost the tiebreak 7-1.

In the second set Djokovic took total command and convincingly made two service breaks. The third set was similar as Djokovic grabbed another two breaks to lead 4-0 before Raonic, who defeated Tipsarevic in an exhausting four-hour match on Friday, managed briefly to get back into the match with a break of his own. But Djokovic stepped up the pace again and broke on Raonic's next serve.

Serbia's coach Bogdan Obradovic couldn't hide satisfaction as his team reached a second final in four years. "I could not expect anything better than this, turning Canada's 2-1 lead into victory with two 3-0 wins, this is really a spectacular result," Obradovic said.

LAHORE: The infighting within Pakistan’s sports officialdom continues to hurt national athletes as it feared that the country will not be able to feature in the 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games to be held from September 22 to October 1 in Indonesia.

Government-backed Pakistan Olympic Association (POA), which is battling to topple the IOC-recognised POA, will not be able to send the national contingent to Indonesia Sources said that “The organisers have asked the government-backed POA that they are taking up the issue at the highest level and will then intimate them about the final outcome,” a source said.

Sources said that the organisers had extended invitation to the foreign ministry of Pakistan. The foreign ministry had then forwarded it to the ministry of the Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) and from there it was sent to the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) and then to the Akram Sahi-led POA. Sources close to Sahi said that he had met the foreign secretary a few days back and he had ordered for pursuing the case but so far nothing concrete has been happened. The Sahi-led POA has already sent the required documents of the athletes and officials to the organisers.

Pakistan are to feature in the athletics, basketball, badminton, karate and wushu. The event is just six days away and it is extremely doubtful that the govt-backed POA will be able to send its contingent. The uncertainty has also confused the players.

Meanwhile, a source in the Arif Hasan-led POA said that they were going to send their contingent. “We had sent the entries in time and all the formalities have been fulfilled and I hope that we will be able to send the athletes to Indonesia,” the source said.

But a senior official in the POA said that Arif’s group will not be able to send the contingent to the Islamic Games due to financial problems while Akram Sahi group will not be able to send the contingent because of their recognition problem. STAFF REPORT

ronAldo exTends MAdrid conTrAcT MADRID AGENCIES

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo said he could end his career with the Spanish giants after signing a new contract with

"Maybe I will stay here until the end of my career. This club is the biggest in the world and I am extremely happy." With Ronaldo's previous deal set to expire in 2015, there had been strong speculation linking the 28-year-old with a return to Old Trafford, but he said United are very much in the past and that a verbal agreement had been in place for a new contract since the end of last season.

"The president gave me his word at the end of the season and I did to him too. It is something that I always wanted and the president also showed his feelings that he wanted me to stay. "I will be honest. I was in Manchester for six i am years and they gave me many things that I will never forget, but United going to is now in the past. "Now I am at home, my family is here and I continue with am happy. I respect all the other the same spirit clubs but my objectives are here and to play until possibly the of sacrifice and end of my career. "You never give everything know what will happen in the future, but I want to be here for for the five more years and win things." shirt.

Although Madrid did not give details of the contract extention, the

Madrid on Sunday that will run until 2018. And he is hoping to continue that sensational form for the next five years.

"It is a priviledge for me to continue with this club. It is just like my first day here," he told a press conference. It is a special day for me, I want to thank the president for making this happen and the fans who continue to support me.

THE PORTUGUESE INTERNATIONAL HAS SCORED A REMARKABLE 203 GOALS IN 203 GAMES SINCE JOINING FOR A THEN WORLD RECORD 94 MILLION EUROS FROM MANCHESTER UNITED BACK IN 2009 deal is expected to make Ronaldo the world's highest paid player with Spanish newspaper el Pais reporting that he will earn close to 20 million euros a season.

However, he claimed it was not money but the chance to lead Real to their 10th european Cup that was the decisive factor in his decision.

"Whether I am the best paid player in the world is not the most important thing. Money is obviously important, I am not going to lie, but it is not the

priority. "The priority is to be with the best club in the world. The president always tries to sign the best players and I feel included in that. This club has the capability to win more Champions Leagues, leagues and cups. It was not just a question of money."

The deal ends a series of drawn out negotiations that began back at the end of the 2011-12 season.

Speculation then mounted that Ronaldo could leave the Spanish capital after he said he was "sad" in September last year and was believed to be upset at the lack of support offered to him by the club in his quest to reclaim the Balon d'Or, which Barcelona rival Lionel Messi has won for the past four years.

Despite the rumours, Real president Florentino Perez was always confident that he would finally get his man and claimed it was a great day for the club to tie down who he sees as the best player in the world. "Today is a magnificent day for Real Madrid," he said. "The best player in the world knows that this is his home forever. A home that demands the most of him, but also loves him the most."

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