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LAHORE—A day after Indianspy prisoner Sarabjit Singhwas assaulted insideLahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, hisfamily has been granted visato visit him in hospital. ThePakistani High Commission Continued on Page 6

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India asks Pakistanto explain attack

in Delhi also said that it willextend all possible help tofacilitate their travel to Paki-stan.

Meanwhile, Sarabjit con-

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EU raps IsraelOCCUPIED JERUSALEM—The European Union hascriticized Israel for demolish-

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KARACHI—At least six per-sons were killed and scoresothers including PPP provin-cial assembly candidateAdnan Baloch were injuredwhen a blast occured near theelection office of the MQMand struck Pakistan People’scorner meeting on Saturdaynight in Lyari.

Three persons were killedwhile 25 others sustained in-juries when two successiveblasts occured nearMuttahuida Qaumi Move-ment Unit 132 office in Orangi

Bombs hit MQMoffice, PPP meetingSix killed, scores including PPP candidate injured

Town’s Qasba Colony areaon Saturday night.

The first blast was re-ported to be a cracker attackon a Fiqah-e-Jafria mosque,Masjid-e-Ali, located nearthe MQM office in the limitsof Pirabad Police Station,while the second one, thesources said was an impro-vised explosive device evi-dent from the pellet injuries.

DIG of Police (West),Zafar Bukhari, confirmed itwas most probably a vehicleborne improvised explosivedevice blast, which he saidwas likely planted in a pick-up truck.

BB case: FIAgrills Musharraf

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ISLAMABAD—The four-mem-ber team of Federal Investi-gation Agency (FIA) interro-gated former president ofPakistan General (Retd)Pervez Musharraf for twohours in Benazir Bhutto mur-der case.

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MQM not toboycott elections

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KARACHI—The Co-ordina-tion Committee of MuttahidaQaumi Movement (MQM)announced that the MQMwould not give up its demo-cratic right and would takepart in the general elections

BAHAWALPUR: PTI Chairman Imran Khan addressing a public meeting at lcoal sta-dium.

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BA H AWA L P U R —PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf chief ImranKhan has once again chal-lenged Pakistan MuslimLeague President NawazSharif to debate and askedhim (Nawaz) not to be scaredtoo much. Speaking to partyelection campaign rally hereat Hockey Ground on Satur-day, Khan hit hard on NawazSharif and said ‘jackals can-not be leaders’. Criticizingpolicies of Sharif brothers,Imran Khan said they did noth-ing in five terms what theycould do so at sixth time. Hesaid Mian Sahab and hisyounger brother were askingmasses for vote on the basisof experience, adding with thisexperience they had onlyraised number of factories.

PTI chief said provincescan generate electricity as per

the constitution and askedMian Sahab why he could notdo so. He pledged to createnew provinces after cominginto power. And added thathis party would establishmore provinces only after ad-dressing the issues of waterdistribution and other keymatters. He said that PML-N government failed to makereforms in police, health andeducation sectors.

He said that PML-N spentthe whole budge of Punjab onjust one road in Lahore.

“Punjab governmentspent billions of rupees on asingle project in Lahore, whilesetting aside the entire prov-ince at the mercy of fate”, hesaid. He said that it is recog-nized reality that you sup-ported President Asif AliZardari in looting and plun-dering the nation.

Khan pledged that he

Imran: Provinces to be set upafter resolution of key issues

Challenges Nawaz once againwould unite people of all eth-nic backgrounds in new Paki-stan. Khan said that his partywould make a new Pakistanaccording to the vision ofQuaid-e-Azam MohammadAli Jinnah.

He said Tehreek-e-Insaf isa democratic party and it hasintroduced democracy withinits ranks. Criticizing the mainpolitical parties he blamed thatthey did not produce a singleleader for the last twenty-fiveyears but his party has thecredit to award 35 percent tick-ets to the younger leaders.

He announced that hewould make Pakistan strongerwhere the powerful and weakwould get justice on equallevel. “If the PTI comes topower, no influential personwould be able to register falsecases against the poor in thename of so-called rules andregulations”, said Imran.

JARANWALA: PML-N President Muhammad Nawaz Sharif addresses a huge publicmeeting during the election campaign.

J A R A N WA L A — P a k i s t a nMuslim League-N ChiefNawaz Sharif said that May11 will be the day of hisparty’s victory and thecountry would then marchon the road to prosperity.

Addressing a big pub-lic gathering in Jaranwala,PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharifsaid the day is not far whenPakistan will become peace-ful and stable country.

He said that he had alsoplayed cricket but was seri-ous in politics and made thecountry the ‘nuclear power’by rejecting US president’soffer of $ five billion in re-turn for not carrying nucleartests .

He said while India car-ried out five nuclear tests,the strong government un-der him carried out six testsin response.

Sharif promised a strongPakistan after coming intopower saying that his partywill eliminate poverty, job-lessness, terrorism, loadshedding and other prob-lems. He said the PML (N)government would upgradeJaranwala as district andalso connect it withMotorway.

The PML-N Presidentsaid that rulers have madethe country a barren landwhere neither there is breadto eat nor water to drink noremployment. People are dy-ing of hunger and starva-tion while the rulers are col-lecting wealth for theirvested interests.

He said that he wouldconstruct specialMotorway for the people ofJaranawala which is a hubof PML-N workers. Giving

reference to Punjab chiefminister, he said thatShahbaz completed greatprojects for the masseswithout any discrimination.

He said it is regrettableto say that factories haveclosed down due to energycrisis; millions of workersare bound to wander in thestreets without any job.

There is an unendingchain of protests, demon-strations in the country.The question is that who isresponsible for this chaoticsituation, said Nawaz.

He said there was neveran hour of load sheddingduring his tenure as PrimeMinister.

He said, “We alwaysspoke truth with the nation.When the people of southPunjab were drowning,

PML-N to end poverty, terrorism: Nawaz

Tiger can’t be hunted down

Gas pipelineblasted inUmerkot

U M E R K O T — M i l i t a n t sblasted a gas pipeline carry-ing gas to Punjab with explo-sives suspending supply tovarious areas here on Satur-day.

According to details, un-known miscreants hadplanted explosive materialwith 30 inch diameter gaspipeline near Umerkot area ofSindh which exploded with abig bang. As a result of blasta portion of gas pipeline wasdestroyed.

Due to disruption, gassupply to CNG stations invarious cities of Punjab in-cluding Lahore, Sahiwal,Sheikhupura, Multan,Gujranwala and Gujrat wassuspended. Shortage ofgas also halted supply toindustries of Lahore Zoneone.—INP

PHC CJ forchanging entire

Fata systemPESHAWAR—Chief JusticePeshawar High Court (PHC)Justice Dost MuhammadKhan on Saturday said thattribal areas were being treatedlike that of British colonies.

Addressing a ceremony ofFata lawyers’ forum, JusticeDost Muhammad Khanstressed the need for chang-ing the entire system of Fata.

The parliamentary systemis present in Fata, however,the lawmakers are unable tolegislate for this region, thePHC chief justice regretted.

He said there was need tounearth the reasons that hadpushed the guards of borders(tribal people) to the bloodswamp.—INP

Balochistanminister rescuedQUETTA—Abducted formerBalochistan minister, SultanTareen was rescued from cus-tody of kidnappers here onSaturday. According to de-tails, former Balochistan prisonminister, Sultan Tareen, was re-leased from Qilla Abdullah areain Balochistan. According tothe family sources, SultanTareen was rescued by thejoint efforts of tribal elders andlocal administration and hereached his home in Harnaiafter release.—INP

Pistol recoveredfrom Qadir

Gilani’s vehicleMULTAN,—The police dur-ing search of vehicle of AbdulQadir Gilani, son of formerPrime Minister Syed YusufRaza Gilani on Saturday re-covered a 9mm pistol.

According to police, a9mm pistol was recovered al-legedly from a Land Cruiserduring checking. The driverand secretary of Abdul QadirGilani were present at the timeof search.

Police held the driver andsecretary. The Land Cruiserhaving a number plate of 7989is said to be owned by AbdulQadir Gilani.

It should be mentionedthat former prime minister’sson is the Pakistan PeoplesParty’s (PPP) candidate fromNA-151.—INP

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KARACHI—Former Sindh ChiefMinister and Pakistan People’sParty (PPP) candidate from PS-29 Syed Qaim Ali Shah saidthat the masses were fullyaware of tactics of the impost-ers and would reject them inforthcoming general elections.The masses would keep theirtrust in the PPP and wouldvote for the Teer (Arrow).

According to PPP MediaCell, Shah said that the PPP hadduring its previous tenure car-ried out historical works for thebetterment of the poor and thedeprived masses. The PPP hadserved the poor that lived inthe rural and urban Sindh with-out any discrimination.

He recalled the historic re-habilitation work for the mil-

lions of affectees of devastat-ing floods and said that thePPP had stood beside 7 mil-lion flood-hit population till allof them were fully rehabili-tated.

The PPP had spentRs251.49 billion for the reha-bilitation of the flood-hit Sindhibrethren and sisters and of-fered Rs10, 000 to each. ThePPP also spent Rs1515.33 bil-lion on rehabilitation of theaffectees of heavy rains in ru-ral Sindh, which had renderedaround 3.2 million peoplehomeless.

He said that Sindh hadmade tremendous progressduring the previous PPP-ledgovernment and the PPP neverbelieved in empty slogans butalways did oractical works forthe welfare of the poor.

Qaim: PPP to implementelectoral manifesto

ISLAMABAD—Federal fi-nance advisor Dr ShahidAmjad has claimed threehours relief in powerloadshedding would be pro-vided to consumers fromMonday.

He was addressing a jointpress conference with Min-ister Water and Power, DrMusadaq Malid and Minis-ter for Petroleum SohailWajahat here on Saturday.

Dr Shahid Amjad saidthat caretaker governmenthas already released Rs 20

billion to support the powersector, Rs 10 bln would bereleased by end of the ongo-ing month and Rs 35 billionwould be released in May toimprove the power genera-tion situation.

He said that release offunds would surely result inincrease of power generationwhich would ultimatelylessen the loadshedding andindustries would also be ben-efited.

Speaking on the occa-sion Petroleum Minister

3-hr relief in loadsheddingfrom tomorrow

Sohail Wajahat Saddiqqi saidthat within two days powerstations would be providedadditional 150 million cubicfeet gas.

Water and Power Minis-ter Dr Musadaq claimed that1900MW would be includedin national grid within twodays.

He also apologized to thenation for prolonged andunscheduled loadsheddingand assured that no effortswould be spared to mend thesituation.—INP

M. A. KAISERIMAM

LONDON—David Cameronis preparing to disappointthe majority of Afghan inter-preters working for Britishforces by refusing to re-settle them in the UK.

The British governmentis drawing up plans to en-sure that most of the 600workers remain in Afghani-stan after Nato forces leavenext year, provoking outragefrom interpreters and theirsupporters, who argue thatthey face the threat ofTaleban assassination.

The government plan

could include the offer ofmoney paid over a number ofyears to stay in Afghanistanrather than apply for asylumin the UK.

Ministers will argue thatthe educated group of inter-preters are critical to the fu-ture of Afghanistan. They willalso claim the support ofPresident Karzai in decliningto offer them homes in Brit-ain.

“What sort of messagewould it send if these peoplewere bundled into the backof a Chinook and flown outof the country?” said onesource. “It would say we

don’t think there’s a future.”]But Lord Ashdown ofNorton-sub-Hamdon, theformer Liberal Democratleader who wrote a letter toThe Times in support of theinterpreters, said: “I think itis deeply dishonourable.They put their lives at risk forus. Manifestly they are atmuch greater risk in Afghani-stan after we leave than werethe interpreters after we leftIraq.”

At least 20 interpretersserving with British troopshave been killed since 2001,with dozens wounded and atleast five murdered while on

leave.The Taleban carried out

assassinations of 698 allegedgovernment sympathiserslast year, according to UNfigures, 108 per cent morethan the previous year. ATaleban spokesman,Zabiullah Mujahed, prom-ised: “As soon as the for-eigners are gone, the col-laborators will pay a pricefor their treason.”

The Government wasdue to decide this weekhow to treat the interpret-ers but a meeting of theNational Security Councilbroke up without agree-

ment.It is understood that the

Prime Minister asked formore work to be done onthe “exit terms”, and a deci-sion is not expected untilnext month.

Nick Clegg, the DeputyPrime Minister, is believedto have been among thosearguing for an offer similarto that for interpreters fromIraq, where the governmentpromised 18 months’ salaryor entry to the UK. How-ever, the Iraq offer is seenby some in the Ministry ofDefence as giving too muchof an inducement to leave.

Ministers will argue thatit is easier to re-settlepeople in Afghanistan thanIraq, or perhaps even inthird countries such asUzbekistan if the individu-als are ethnic Uzbeks. “Youcouldn’t re-settle people inIraq; you can in Afghani-stan,” said a Whitehallsource.

Comparing the two was“apples and pears”.

There is also a hard-edged calculation about thelevel of threats. One sourcenoted that five Afghan po-licemen had recently beenbeheaded and that anyone

in uniform, not just inter-preters for Nato forces,was at risk. “What’s intimi-dation in a country whereintimidation is a way of life?”

Rafi Hottak, an inter-preter who escaped to Brit-ain after Taleban threats tokill him, said: “It is a shamethat the Government doesnot realise the conse-quences of their decision,which will have a direct im-pact on the lives of the in-terpreters and their families.”

The US, Canada, NewZealand and Australia havegiven Afghan interpretersthe right to asylum.

Afghan interpreters not welcome in UK

PPPP complainsagainst PML-N

candidatescarrying arms

IRFAN ALIGI

KARACHI—The PakistanPeople’s Party Parliamentar-ian (PPPP) filed a complaintwith the Chief Election Com-missioner (CEC) to probe theincidents of PML-N candi-dates openly carrying arms inLahore and to stop them frombrazenly violating the code ofconduct.

The complaint filed bySardar Latif Khosa with theCEC Saturday cited the inci-dents of rioting and firing onApril 20 and 23, 2013 at theDry Port, Lahore as well asthe attack on the convoy ofan independent candidateAyesha Ahad Malik.

Giving background of theincidents the complainantsaid that a riot like situationwas created by open use offire arms at a meeting of PML-N candidates and supportersat the Dry Port in the NA-124,Lahore area on 23 April, 2013resulting in grievous injuriesto some. Unfortunately, thePolice have tried to cover upthis blatant incident of vio-lence because the local po-lice continue to supportPML-N candidates. Yet an-other incident of naked ag-gression in NA-119 in Lahoreoccurred on Saturday April 20within the jurisdiction of Po-lice Station City Tibbi whenthe car of independent candi-date Ayesha Ahad Malik wasattacked by the henchmen ofthe PML (N) candidate.

Chinese troops19km inside

Indian territoryNEW DELHI—Indian govern-ment for the first time admittedthat People’s Liberation Army(PLA) troops had intruded asmuch as 19 km inside Indianterritory to pitch their tentsthere, even as it kept a thirdflag meeting between localcommanders in eastern Ladakh“on hold’’ to give China “timeand space’’ to withdraw itssoldiers on its own, Indianmedia reported on Saturday.

This formal admissioncame in a note submitted byIndian defence secretaryShashikant Sharma to the par-liamentary standing committeeon defence, which said Indiahas “deployed forces to keepa close watch on the border’’after over 30 PLA troops in-truded 19 km into the DepsangBulge area of Ladakh on April15. With rival soldiers lockedin an eyeball-to-eyeball con-frontation for the last 11days at an altitude of 16,300feet, this is the worst-everstandoff between the armiesin over 25 years. Amid theflurry of top-level meetingsamong defence minister A KAntony, national securityadvisor Shivshankar Menonand Army chief GeneralBikram Singh contingencyplans to plug operationalgaps and defences inChumar, Spanggur Gap andthe areas surroundingDepsang Valley were alsoreviewed.

The Indian Air Force,too, resumed its air-drop-ping of supplies to Armytroops on the ground in theDaulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sec-tor after they were brieflystopped in wake of the “deep’’Chinese intrusion.’—Online

ECP: Stern action againstpolling day absentee staff

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ISLAMABAD/QUETTA—Elec-tion Commission of PakistanECP has warned of stern ac-tion against government ser-vants refusing to performelection duties on one pre-text or another.

According to media re-ports, ECP has authorizedReturning Officers acrossthe country to issue arrestwarrants of government ser-vants not willing to performelection duties.

Besides this, the ChiefSecretary has also beenasked to take action againstsuch officers.

The Election Com-mission of Pakistan, express-ing grave concern over at-tacks on candidates contest-ing general elections andelection offices, has directedthe caretaker provincial gov-ernments for ensuring fool-proof security to them.

The ECP spokespersonsaid that strict action wouldbe taken against the indi-viduals who would refuseduty on the election day.

He said that under theArticle 220 of constitution allthe national institutions arebound to assist ECP for hold-ing peaceful, free and trans-parent polls.

The Election Commissionof Pakistan on Saturday is-sued a schedule for votingon May 11. The schedule,sent to the returning officers,said polling would start at 8am on May 11 and wouldcontinue until 5 pm.

The commission hasmoreover issued a pollingscheme for Punjab andIslamabad.

The ECP spokesmen saidthat chief secretaries of con-cerned provinces shouldtake action against thosewho would refuse to performassigned duty regarding poll-

ing.Earlier, Government

teachers of eleven districts ofBalochistan have refused toperform duties during May11, election due to securitythreats. According to details,government teachers asso-ciation Balochistan has saidthat banned organizationshave threatened to target thestaff performing duties atpolling centers therefore theycould not render their ser-vices putting their lives atstake. The Election Commis-sion of Pakistan (ECP) onSaturday took notice of Pa-kistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)Chief Imran Khan’s “per-sonal attack” on PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz.

The entire speech will beput before the ECP ChiefFakhruddin Ebrahim in ameeting on Tuesday, whereit will be evaluated whetherthe speech contained offen-sive remarks or not.

UK confirmsdrones use

LONDON—After the Ministryof Defence confirmed the UK’suse of armed drones in Af-ghanistan, anti-war protestorsgathered outside an RAF basein Lincolnshire. The RAF be-gan remotely operating itsReaper unmanned aerial ve-hicles deployed to Afghanistanfrom the Lincolnshire airbaseearlier this week.

Previously operated from aUnited States Air Force base inNevada, the aircraft are used tosupport coalition ground forcesin Afghanistan. Drone missionsover Afghanistan have beenflown by RAF pilots operatingon British soil for the first timeThe hi-tech Reaper drones areprimarily used to gather intelli-gence on enemy activity on theground, but they also carry500lb bombs and Hellfire mis-siles for precision strikes on in-surgents.—INP

TEHRAN —Iranian and Indianoil ministers are due to discussextension of a gas pipelineproject which is due to takeIran’s rich gas reserves to Pa-kistan and then to India in ameeting in New Delhi nextweek. Iranian Oil MinisterRostam Qassemi is slated to

Iran, India to mull IP Gas Pipeline extension next weekvisit New Delhi next week tohold a meeting with IndianPetroleum and Natural GasMinister Veerappa Moily onthe peace pipeline.

Pricing formula and secu-rity of the pipeline will standatop the topics to be discussedby the two ministers. Earlier

this month, Iranian Oil Minis-try Spokesman Alireza NikzadRahbar announced that NewDelhi has renewed interest inthe extension of Iran-Pakistan(IP) gas pipeline to India.“Since India has been moti-vated by Pakistan’s serious-ness in construction of the(Iran-Pakistan) peace pipeline,New Delhi is negotiating tojoin the project,” NikzadRahbar said.

The Iranian official notedthat “there has been consider-able progress in the IP gaspipeline, with Iranian contrac-tors starting work on the Paki-stani section of the pipeline,after finishing nearly 900 kilo-meters of the pipeline on Iran’ssoil”. Last month, Moily em-phasized that his country willnot halt imports of Iraniancrude oil, rejecting recentWestern news reports to thecontrary. While noting thatunilateral anti-Iran sanctionsby the US and the EU havecaused difficulties for India interms of insuring Iranian oilshipments, Moily told report-ers that his country intends toestablish a special fund for in-suring oil imports from the Is-lamic Republic. —Online

‘PPP loses interest in election’MULTAN—PTI Vice Chairman ShahMahmood Qureshi on Saturday claimedthe PPP leadership had not interest torun election campaigns of its candidates.“Where is Bilawal, Gilani or PervezAshraf to run the campaign while all po-litical leaders are intensifying their effortsto woo voters through every possiblemeans,” he said this while addressing ameeting in NA-148. He added that formerPM Gilani had focused only on NA-148

and NA-151 where his sons were contesting elections. Hecondemned terrorist attacks on ANP workers in Karachi andKP. He also condemned an attack on a PTI office at MasoomShah allegedly by PML-N workers. He termed the attack adeliberate attempt to sabotage the PTI election campaign.On the otherside PPP candidate for NA-121 Aurang ZebBurki held public meetings at Kot Kambo and Bund Roadand appealed people to vote for the PPP. Talking to APPhere, he highlighted achievements of former PPP govern-ment to the masses and apprised them about bad gover-nance of the PML-N in Punjab due to its failed schemes. Hesaid the PPP government had started power projects to gen-erate over 24,000 mega watt electricity. Pakistan People’sParty (PPP) Candidate for PK-46 Dr Qazi Adnan Bashir hassaid that PPP government provided relief to the masses inits previous tenure through various programmes like BenazirIncome Support programme, Waseela-e-Huq and WatanCard. Addressing the gathering, Qazi Adnan Bashir saidthat PPP was the party of poor masses and it always foughtfor their basic rights.—APP

KP Governor condolesStaff Reporter

PESHAWAR—The Khyber PakhtunkhwaGovernor, Engineer Shaukat Ullah Sat-urday expressed his deep shock and sor-row over the loss of precious lives dueto flood havoc in Bara Nala of Tehsil Bara,Khyber Agency. In his condolence mes-sage, the Governor while expressing hisheart felt sympathies with members ofthe bereaved families has also prayed forthe eternal peace of the departed soulsand courage to them to bear the irrepa-

rable loss with patience. The Governor has also wishedearly recovery of the injured. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Gover-nor, Engineer Shaukatullah has stressed for Pak-Iran coop-eration in trade, production, technology and knowledgeadvancement. He sait that mutual cooperation between thetwo countries could help in bringing close the people of thispart to the people of brethren Islamic Republic of Iran. Hewas addressing as the chief guest in a dinner at Consulateof the Islamic Republic of Iran arranged by the Consul Gen-eral Hassan Darvesh Vand in his honour last night. TheGovernor particularly mentioned the expertise of the Iranianbrethren in managing quality slaughter houses to provideHalal meat and said that this need of immediate nature of theprovincial capital of Peshawar, if materialized, can prove agood beginning. Similar is the case in respect of mineral andagricultural sectors wherein we can derive great benefitsfrom the experiences of each other, the Governor pointedout. The ceremony was attended by vice chancellors of thepublic sector universities, senior educationists, and promi-nent citizens. Referring to various proposes put forward byHassan Darvesh Vand, in his welcome address, the Gover-nor said, that indeed exchange of delegations comprisingstudents, writers, traders as well as leading figures from allwalks of life can be of great help towards promotion of aware-ness to make best utilization of the mutually available re-sources for benefits of the respective nations.

Extremism affects KP social fabricsISLAMABAD—President, Awami Na-tional Party (ANP) Asfandyar WaliKhan said that extremism and violenceare the massive issues of the KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KP) province, which alsobadly affected the social and politicalfabric of the Province. Talking to Paki-stan television (PTV), he said thatthrough the promotion of education“We can combat with terrorism and ex-tremism to save the country from this

menace. President ANP, said that because of security is-sues investment has gone from province and investorshave strong reservations to invest in provincial market.Replying to question, he said that “We need cheap energysources to attract the investors to invest capital in marketto flourish our economy. Asfandyar said that country hasneed substitute energy sources to overcome energy crisisin the country. He added that Kala Bagh Dam has beencontroversial amongst the others provinces includingSindh, they has already opposed this project. Replying toan other question, ANP chief said that free, fair and trans-parent election would necessary for the survival of thecountry. He added that if war torn country like Afghani-stan, absence of strong political and administrative struc-ture can conduct election, there is no more critical situa-tion Pakistan. ANP leader said that all the political stake-holder have consensus to conduct dialogue with any indi-vidual or group under the constitution of the country. Hesaid that his party has achieve all the set target and objec-tive as compared to any other party in the country. Reply-ing to a question, he said that parliament is supreme demo-cratic institution, which can protect the political and con-stitutional rights of the people of the country.—APP

SHAFFAAT MALIK

TALAGANG—Party higherups should take notice ofPML-Q’s violation of seatadjustment with PPP in dis-trict Chakwal, said Vice Presi-dent PPP district ChakwalRaja Mushtaq Hussain Ad-vocate while talking to Paki-stan Observer. PML-Q issupporting independent can-didate in PP-22 without theconsultation of PPP leader-ship. It was decided thatPML-Q will come up with hisown candidate but it didn’thappen. Same things arehappening in NA-60, PP-20and PP-21 and PML-Q is

supporting Sardar Abbasgroup in all these constitu-encies which is causing un-rest in PPP workers, headded. He has demandedthat this matter should beaddressed urgently.

Meanwhile, thirteen poll-ing stations have been de-clared sensitive in TehsilTalagang out of 373 pollingstations. Local administra-tion has completed all thehome work regarding secu-rity measures. NA-61 con-sists of 33 union councils intotal, 23 UCs from TehsilTalagang, 8 from TehsilChakwal and two from TehsilKalar Kahar, while PP-22 and

PP-23 consists of 16 and 17UCs respectively.

FA I S A L A B A D—CaretakerHome Minister Punjab TariqParvaiz said that Counter Ter-rorism Plan was being imple-mented in its true spirit sothat all possible eventualitiescould be averted before theiroccurrence. Addressing apress conference after pre-siding over a high level divi-sional meeting at commis-sioner office here on Satur-day, he said that all arrange-ments had been completed toconduct fair, free and impar-tial elections in the province.

The Home Minister Punjabsaid the interim set-up hadbeen given clear-cut mandateto conduct impartial electionsin peaceful and congenial at-mosphere.

He said that law and orderwas a top priority coupled withcounter terrorism, mechanismand maintenance of publicpeace. In this connection allarrangements and strategieshave already been completedwhile divisional and districtauthorities have been directedto further fine-tune the arrange-

ments, he added. He said theinterim set-up was completelyimpartial and fully determinedto effectively implement theelection code of conduct.

He said that any one vio-lating the code of conductwould be dealt with an ironhand without any political orother consideration. He saidthat some minor complaints ofpublicity material were re-ported that had been ad-dressed immediately. Only fewcases of firing and intimidationwere reported and police is tak-

ing impartial actions againstthe violators, he added. Re-sponding to a question, hesaid that sensitive constituen-cies and polling stations hadbeen identified with differentlayers potential threats.

He said that elite forcewould be deployed on highlysensitive areas, and paramili-tary forces would also be keptavailable on request. He saidthat there would be one mo-torcycle squad for two sensi-tive polling stations while apolice mobile will cover ten

polling stations. He said thatapart from local media, inter-national observers would alsomonitor the election processparticularly on polling day. Heasked the local media to re-main vigilant and pin point anyviolation of code of conductso that immediate remedialmeasures could be taken toredress any discrepancy.

Earlier the Cabinet Commit-tee Punjab attended a briefingin which the overall law & or-der situation and elections ar-rangements were discussed.

Divisional CommissionerFaisalabad Mushtaq AhmadAnjum and Regional PoliceOfficer (RPO) Javed Islambriefed them about the electionstrategy and arrangementsmade to conduct the fair, freeand impartial election in this di-vision. The Divisional Com-missioner informed that asmany as 2,300 volunteershad been temporarily re-cruited by the Civil Defensedepartment for the assis-tance of Police Dpartmenton polling day.—APP

Interim set-up completely impartial; All set to conduct free, fair polls: Tariq Parvaiz

Counter-terror mechanism being implemented

PML-Q accused of violatingseat adjustment formula:PPP

84 electricityconnections

cut offFAISALABAD—As many as84 electricity connections ofvarious government depart-ments have been detacheddue to non-payment of Rs4.615 million. A spokesmanfor the Faisalabad ElectricSupply Company (FESCO)told here that among default-ers include Livestock, Health,WASA, Education, LocalGovernment and Police De-partments in Jhang Circle.

He said 36 electricity sup-ply connections of the Live-stock Department have liabil-ity of Rs.2.458 million whileeight electricity supply con-nections of Health Depart-ment have pending arrears ofRs.1.79 lakh.—APP

SWAT: A bridge between Mingora City and General Bus Stand, which was destroyed in the 2010 floods, has not yetbeen reconstructed.

KARACHI—Caretaker SindhMinister for Human Rightsand Women Development MsAnis Haroon has directed theDirector Human Rights De-partment to provide immediatefinancial help to those 500cases which are registered inthe department and have com-pleted the verification process.This she said while holding ameeting to review the progress

of the projects running underthe department, a statementsaid here Saturday. The Min-ister for Human Rights andWomen Development said thatcare- taker government hadtaken initiatives to enforce andestablish Provincial HumanRights Commission as perSindh Human Rights Act 2011which was passed by theSindh Assembly.—APP

Provincial conference onhuman rights soon: Haroon

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GILGIT—Speakers at thelaunch of the policy brief onWater Management in theCentral Karakorum NationalPark emphasised on the col-laborative and synchronisedefforts to practice the re-search on the impact of cli-matic changes in the high-lands. They said only the in-tegrated and collaborativeapproach would help con-serve the large glaciers forsmooth and steady provi-sion of water not only for thehuman life and livelihood in

the mountainous region butfor the downstream as well.

The policy brief on Wa-ter Management in the Cen-tral Karakorum National Park(CKNP) waslaunched by theSEED project of theEVK2CNR in collaborationwith the Karakorum Interna-tional University (KIU) andother partners. MuhammadJaved Malik, Member Agri-culture and Food, PlanningCommission of Pakistan, andDr Najma Najam, Vice Chan-cellor KIU, were the chiefguests. Domenico Bruzzone,the development head at theItalian embassy in Islamabad,was the guest of honour. Thekey speakers includedRaffaele Del Cima, Poject Di-rector SEED, Dr DanielaGiardina, SEED ScientificCoordinator, Dr ShaheenaTariq, Chairperson Metrol-ogy department at theComsats University, RainaSaeed Khan, the environmen-tal writer and columnist, andMunir Ahmed, ClimateChang Advocacy expert.

Javed Malik said our gla-ciers contribute volume ofwater to the Indus River thatruns across the country andagriculture and ecology of

Pakistan depends on thesmooth flow of water in allseasons. We need to takeimmediate bold steps to con-serve our water towers byconserving the natural habi-tats and indiscriminate use ofwater resources besides pro-tecting the rivers and lakesfrom the untreated wastewater, he said.

Dr Najma Najam said theKIU is one of the major part-ners in the implementation ofthe SEED project. As manyas 20 students have enrolledfor the PhD programmes onvariety of nature conserva-tion and social developmentwhile 40 research projects arebeing run.

Raffaele Del Cima said“The key objectives of thispolicy on water are to drawon the knowledge body gen-erated by the researches thathave been carried out since2009 through the Socio Eco-nomic Environmental Devel-opment (SEED) project forthe Central Karakorum Na-tional Park (CKNP) in Gilgit-Baltistan. Specifically, thedocument highlights waterissues and defines some pri-ority actions based on theresearch findings.

SEED project policy brief onwater management launched

ISLAMABAD—The local metoffice has forecast partlycloudy weather with chancesof dust storm for the city andits suburbs during the next24 hours. On Monday, maxi-mum and minimum tempera-ture was recorded as 38.2degrees Celsius and 22 de-grees centigrade, respec-tively.

Humidity was recorded as59 per cent at 8 am and 24 percent at 5 pm. A weak westerlywave is present over upperparts of the country and ex-pected to move eastward. Theweather will remain partlycloudy in the twin cities ofRawalpindi and Islamabad atevening and night time dur-ing the next 24 hours.

The temperatures willslightly increase in Sindh andBalochistan provinces dur-ing the next 24 hours. Thehighest maximum tempera-tures recorded during the last24 hours were Benazirabad41C, Chhor 40C, Hyderabad,Mithi and Padidan 39C. Themaximum temperatures re-corded during the last 24hours were Islamabad 26 C,Lahore 32 C, Karachi 34 C,Peshawar 27 C, Quetta 26 C,Skardu 23 C, Murree 20 C,Muzzafarabad 32 C, GB 29 C,

Partly cloudyweather forecast

Faisalabad 34 C, Multan 32 Cand Hyderabad 38 C.

The Multan Met officehas forecast partly cloudyweather with chances of lightrain and dust raising winds forthe city and its suburbs dur-ing the next 24 hours. On Sat-urday, maximum and minimumtemperature was recorded as30.5 and 21.5 degree centi-grade respectively.

Humidity was recorded as79 percent at 8 am and 49 per-cent at 5 pm. A fair/partlycloudy weather has been fore-cast for Sunday in Karachi,said a weather report on Sat-urday. According to theweather report issued by Pa-kistan Meteorological Depart-ment, the maximum tempera-ture is expected to remain inthe range of 36 to 38 degreecelsius. It said rain/thunder-storm is likely to occur at iso-lated places in Makran, Kalatand Zhob divisions ofBalochistan.—APP

Targeting electionrelated meetings

ELECTION related terrorist attacks continue and on Friday aswell eleven people were killed as bomb rocked ANP office inKarachi. Armed men also attacked the election convoy of the

JUI-F leader Hashim Shahwani in Mach area of Balochistan injuringfive people.

ANP and MQM maintain that their election meetings and candi-dates are being targeted by Taliban because of their liberal policiesand almost every time phone calls are attributed to Taliban spokes-men claiming responsibility for such dastardly acts. But there aresome other aspects that make the situation more complicated andraise many questions. The PPP also claims to be the target of suchattacks but no attack has so far been directed at the party. In fact,there are reasons to believe that the PPP is shielding itself behind thispropaganda as it is unable to gather masses because of its poor anddismal performance in full five years in which it got free hand to rulethe country the way it wanted. Then ANP and MQM are not alone inelectoral violence as provincial head of PML-N was attacked and inthe latest instance JUI-F candidate has also been targeted despite thefact that the latter two parties are being castigated by the former onesfor their ‘soft’ stance towards Taliban. Violence in Karachi is nothingnew and it is believed that it is more related to turf war than electionsor anything else while violence in KPK and FATA is also not a recentphenomenon. No doubt, the frequency of attacks has increased dur-ing elections but this could be the design of the enemy to derail Paki-stan from the path of democracy and push it further towards the abyssof political and economic instability. We believe that ruthless but tar-geted operation should be carried out to eliminate foreign agents andtheir local accomplices that have turned Pakistan into a hell.

Steps to reduceenergy shortfall

THE crippling load-shedding that is testing nerves of the peoplehas ultimately forced the caretakers to take notice of the situation

and opt for measures to address the challenge. Prime Minister’s Ad-visor on Finance Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry told newsmen on Fri-day that 45 billion rupees are being injected besides provision of ad-ditional 150 million cubic feet of natural gas into the power sector toincrease electricity generation by about 3,500MW before May 11general elections. This would reduce the current shortfall by over 75per cent.

While appreciating the initiative of the interim Government,one may point out that it also indicated that the electricity shortfallwas engineered by the inaction of the authorities concerned whowatched the situation with crossed-legs and took no action to uti-lize capacity of the IPPs. Many of the IPPs were either idle or wereoperating at much reduced capacity because of non-supply of fuelby the Government and that is why after provision of oil and gasthe generation would increase to a level to bring the load-sheddingdown by 75%. This being the case, one fails to understand why theGovernment did not take the required steps much earlier and itselfinflicted heavy damage to the industry especially in Punjab, caus-ing huge losses to businesses and ordinary citizen. We also knowthat Nargis Sethi, in her capacity as Secretary Water and Power,was able to bring the load-shedding to almost nill just because ofadministrative measures and plugging the loopholes. The circulardebt is at the centre of the entire controversy and problem and thenext Government should resolve this issue once for all through shortand long term measures. This has also made it crystal clear onceagain that the power crisis is mainly because of the IPP policy ofthe then PPP Government that agreed to purchase electricity onprices that the nation is unable to pay since then.

Attack onIndian spy Sarabjit

THE attack in Kot Lakhpat jail on Indian spy Sarabjit Singh bytwo inmates was a sad incident, which was the result of negli-

gence of the jail wardens as they failed to keep a close watch on thehardened criminals.

The Pakistani government did well by allowing Indian High Com-mission officials to see the injured prisoner and one hopes that withall the attention of doctors he will recover. But regrettably as usual,an orchestrated anti-Pakistan propaganda has started in India whilethe situation demands to keep the heads cool. The unfortunate inci-dent has in the meantime raised many questions. The first and fore-most is that Sarabjit had during the trial admitted of carrying outblasts killing many people and was awarded death sentence. The sec-ond question is that why his case was not taken to logical conclu-sion? Contrary to Pakistan, India went through the execution of AjmalQasab and Afzal Guru after questionable legal proceedings and re-jection of their mercy appeals by the higher court and the Presidentdespite strong protests by international human rights organisations.Though Sarabjit was sentenced sixteen years back, his case was de-layed and during the past five years there had been several attemptsto find a way out for his release. This indicates the indecisiveness ofthe government in handling terrorism cases and that is one reasonthat terrorists are carrying out blasts on daily basis without any fear.Anyhow Pakistan should extend all the facilities to the staff of theIndian High Commission to meet Sarabjit and in the treatment of theprisoner as a civilised and responsible country and a thorough in-quiry be conducted to unearth the facts behind the attack.

Needed an energy revolution?

Poverty is a greatenemy to humanhappiness; itcertainly destroysliberty, and it makessome virtuesimpracticable andothers extremelydifficult.

Is the FBIfocusedenoughon real

bad guys?

Law enforcement agenciescan’t be expected to stop every terrorist attack, any

more than they can prevent everymass shooting. If, as most inves-tigators now appear to believe,brothers Tamerlan and DzhokharTsarnaev acted on their own witha bomb design downloaded fromthe Internet, their plot posed asteep challenge to those agencies,including the FBI and Departmentof Homeland Security (DHS), re-sponsible for detecting threats.Nevertheless, there are reasons forconcern about the two agencies’performance, based on what isknown so far about their trackingof Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The older and more radicalbrother was first identified as apossible extremist by Russia,which asked the FBI to investigatehim in early 2011. Later that year,also after prompting from Russia,the CIA asked that his name beadded to a watch list maintainedby the National Counter-terrorismCentre, The Post’s Greg Millerand Sari Horowitz reported. Hissubsequent departure for Russia inearly 2012 resulted in “a ping” tocustoms officials, Homeland Se-curity Secretary Janet Napolitanotold Congress on Tuesday. How-ever, it appears the FBI neverlearned that Tamerlan had left thecountry and was not informedwhen he returned in July.

The FBI had concluded thatthe elder Tsarnaev posed no threat.It had reason to be skeptical aboutRussian warnings about emigreChechens, many of whom arewrongly regarded by Moscow asterrorists, and Russian authoritiesdid not respond to the bureau’s re-quests for additional information.That still leaves a couple of ques-tions: Was there a breakdown in“critical information-sharing,” asSen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) putit, that prevented the FBI and otheragencies from learning aboutTamerlan’s travel to Russia?

And did the bureau knowabout the CIA’s communicationswith Russia? No doubt Ms.Collins and others in Congresswill press the question of whether“stovepiping” still exists. Suchbureaucratic barriers to informa-tion-sharing were supposed tohave been eliminated by post-2001reforms — including the creationof DHS. But a deeper look at theFBI’s approach to counter-terror-ism would also be worthwhile. Inaddition to Tamerlan Tsarnaev,several people investigated by theFBI have gone on to commit at-tacks, including AbdulhakimMuhammad, who shot two sol-diers at a Little Rock military re-cruiting office in 2009, and Maj.Nidal Hasan, who is accused ofshooting and killing 13 people atFort Hood later that year.

Meanwhile, the FBI has de-voted considerable resources tosting operations against people itjudges to be terror suspects, some-times on what look like dubiousgrounds. Mother Jones magazinereported this week that, at thesame time the FBI was conclud-ing that Tamerlan Tsarnaev wasnot a threat in 2011, it launchedan elaborate sting operation inBoston against Rezwan Ferdaus,who eventually pleaded guilty tocharges of plotting to attack theU.S. Capitol with a remote-con-trolled model airplane loaded withgrenades.

In his case as well as others,it’s not clear that a sometimes far-fetched plot would have gone for-ward without the encouragementand help of FBI informants. As wesaid, not every plot by terrorists canbe detected. Respect for civil lib-erties means that not everyone whovisits a jihadist Web site or is thesubject of an inquiry by anothergovernment can be placed underpermanent surveillance. But it’sworth asking whether the FBI’smethods for identifying and follow-ing up on threats need refinement.— The Washington Post

MEDIA WATCH

—Samuel JohnsonBritish lexicographer

We have a number of aberrations and the latest onecomes from the comity of

politicians. Crisis it is but it hasbeen made worse by politicianswho assert what they can do in 6months, one and a half year andthen three years. All of them havesome take on the crisis and I canbet my last rupee that none of themwill be able to deliver. These guysare long on promises and short onaction. Pakistan is suffering fromanother temporary aberration calledindustrial capitalism that they thinkcan take them to the heights of MtEverest. By doing so what havepolicy makers done? They have de-stroyed the natural capital as wellas the naturally, properly function-ing societies of the country.

WAPDA’s current energy policydefies logic. In fact the ministry andWAPDA have put together a policythat lacks any logic for it requires acohesiveness that it sorely lacks. Aragbag collection of ideas and call-ing oneself names is not going tohelp. Has any political party exam-ined the requirements and takenstock of what is happening? Thereare many kinds of securityrequirement[s] that have to be takeninto consideration while workingones sums for the entire country.Generation is one issue but there areother issues too. These are the oneslinked to generically climate change,to generation, distribution and rev-enue collection. Why should any-body receive free energy? Why

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Where are the facilitators,the manipulators and thebeneficiaries? Was Gen-

eral Pervez Musharraf the one manarmy that we perceive him today?Is becoming an all too powerfuldictator an individual act? Can onebecome a President of a countrywithout a support base? Can a dic-tator run the country for eight longyears without the support of theinstitution that he commandedand which enabled him to becomethe President of the country? Ihave no love lost for a militarydictator who used his position ofauthority to scheme and usurppower by removing a democrati-cally elected government. Butwhy we as a society are not talk-ing about those accomplices whoput him in the office in the firstplace and from where he ruled usfor eight long years.

The judiciary may consider it-self as an institution that todaytreads the path of redemption butwill it revisit history and know thatit is as much a facilitator to the riseof the dictator as was the militaryas an institution that bowed its headto him in eternal submission. Thethen Chief Justice SaeeduzzamanSiddiqui(with whom I had theproud distinction of serving as hisADC when he was acting gover-nor of Sind in 1992) along with 5other judges of the Supreme Courtactually did what was required toprevent a military dictator fromviolating the constitution. Ridingon the call of their conscience andnot on the shoulders of a “circum-stantial lawyer’s movement” thesejudges made history. Demonstrat-

should we be cheating our-selves by calling non collectionas leakages? Why should thedecent citizen pay inflated billsto cover up WAPDAS ineffi-ciencies? Are WAPDA employ-ees getting free electricity is the

first question and is it not a fact thatthey are passing it on to the neigh-bors for a petty charge. Go to thehouses of any employees of WAPDAand you should be able to see foryourself or go to the rice growing ar-eas and see how some of the feudalof the country are siphoning off elec-tricity to water the rice and sugar canecrops. Let us face realities that we areas a nation cheats. What then are theother fundamental challenges?

What is the level of investmentthat is required if energy has to beprovided evenly across the board toeach and every citizen? Euro zonerequires to fill the gap by an invest-ment of 6.5 trillion pounds. Whatwould be Pakistan’s requirement? Iwonder what these giants inWAPDA are doing. Pakistan is a netimported of all kinds of energy. Itsbudgetary aspect is limited. We aredependent on the Middle East for anumber of aspects besides oil atcheaper rates [or so I am told]. Whenany Pakistani goes into exile all thathe does is go to Dubai. All our po-litical big wigs of any consequencehave residential permits from thatgovernment. So we are a nation ofbeholden or are we a collection ofpeople that lament all the time.

Any body that has anything todo with capitalism of any kindknows and understands that energyis constantly required. But they arethemselves to blame for many a mis-demeanor that these industrialistshave created by paying tinted moneyto the linesmen and the locally

charge supervisor. The chickens arenow coming home to roost. Hadthese industrialists been more hon-est and circumspect and used elec-tricity more economically thepresent crisis may never have oc-curred. The urbanization aspect andthe stupidity of the policy makingpoliticians of the past for encourag-ing growth through urban develop-ment is responsible for the currentseriousness of the problem. Paki-stanis were told that growth is goodfor you. The period after 1947 to thelate seventies there was no such fe-tish. Growth has to be pristine tohave any meaning. It is not neces-sary to sell one’s horse to feed one’sguest. The simple ways of life werebetter. Development has destroyeda way of life. “The buses were ontime the trains used to run and themuddy roads were not hurt full. Youcan wrap your motor way and takeit away to Lahore for one wouldrather go through the roads given tous as the Grand Trunk Road.

A new model is required thatwould include removal of inefficien-cies and determine the optimum useof energy for everything that usesthis as a source of energy. Prudentuse of energy and that means strik-ing at the root of those in Karachicome his summer season. They usethe cooling system indiscriminately.We used to do it in the summers inLahore and other parts of the coun-try. The energy system of the futurewill be different from the one in thepast. It can no longer be possible tohave fossil fuel for this purpose. Re-newable energy may well be the an-swer. But we have allowed moronsto head the organization[s]. Thatmeans that innovations in low car-bon technologies will have to beworked out. How many motor sys-

tems are there in this country andhow is energy used in the house?Can we earn carbon points by us-ing the motor speeds according torequirements? How do we distrib-ute energy in Baluchistan? Is it notwasteful and why should we not tryand have the system based on indi-vidual housing generating theirown through solar or wind energy?How do we check emissions? Thereare many how’s to deal with.

The issue is to do away withinconsequential CEOs. The needmay be to bring in some one whohas the leadership qualities that in-clude in the person of the leaderperceptive, conceptual and cogni-tive abilities. But then we are whatwe are and our motives are differ-ent from our stated intentions. It istrue for every serious leadershipposting that we do. We have madea mockery of ourselves. Get theCEO of any organization to discussthe future. You will find out hisdepth and I mean every one that isholding a position that requiressome extra mileage from that CEO.

The world has developed sys-tems that suit there very own wayof life. Why cant we? The simpleanswer to this is that we take ev-erything for granted and are notwilling to work experimentally.WAPDA needs to be made effi-cient. Engineers have made a messof it. That is asking for the sky. It issome ones connective tissue that isappointed to such organization. Fororganizations that matter to the en-tire economy a better system of ap-pointments needs to be determined.It is possible to go through the Par-liamentary system of appointment.Maybe. If you see how this hasplayed out wait for some high pro-file cases to come to fruition.

ing professional ethics and prin-ciples these judges refused to takeany oath in contravention to the oaththey took under the 1973 Constitu-tion. Had the other judges done thesame, General Musharraf wouldhave been deprived of the legalcover that persisted and sustainedhim in power. The judiciary thattermed Musharraf’s take over as a“case of constitutional deviation fora transitional period” was headed byjudges who took oath under hisPCO. These judges very much actedas facilitators to the dictator. Thatour current Chief Justice was partof this judiciary is not news for thereaders.

I feel sad to see the Generalmaking rounds of the judicial courtsand being humiliated by the slogansraising lawyers. While he faces theodds today that are stacked upagainst him missing from the sceneare the men who helped him becomethe man with absolute power. Someof them still sit in the positions ofauthority, that too without an iotaof remorse that they were also partof the system that ran dictatorshipin this country. Sadly for us like forChicago in the 1920’s ‘the only wayto clean it up was not by capturingAl-Capone alone’.

It were his advisors, the Mayorof Chicago, the corrupt judges aswell as his fellow Italian and Sicil-ian gangsters who were to beditched to put an end to the “equal-opportunity mob business” that tri-umphed in Chicago. There are manybeneficiaries of Musharaf’s dicta-torship. They can’t hide their headsnow in the sand. It’s not Musharrafwho wants a safe exit it’s the otherjoint stake holders who don’t wantthe Pandora’s Box to be unwrapped.The supporters, facilitators and ex-ecutors of the system of dictatorshipwere part of the ‘equal opportunity

mob’. If justice is to be served it mustbe served in its entirety. Alreadypoliticians who supported the dicta-tor have been allowed to run in elec-tions while the dictator has been pre-vented to do that. Why? If this is notselective justice what else is?

When the army initiated thecoup it did that without its boss be-ing present in the country. Lt GenShahid Aziz (Retd) who now re-grets supporting the coup was

DGMO, the person only on whoseadvice and orders the army canmove. Lt Gen Mehmood Khan(Retd) the Corps Commander 10Corps, Lt Gen Muhammad AzizKhan (Retd) the CGS, Lt GenMuzzafar Usmani (Retd) theKarachi Corps commander andmany other senior military officerswere instrumental in assisting Gen-eral Musharraf in overthrowing acivilian government. By all ac-

counts the coup was not an indi-vidual but an institutional act andthat makes these and other seniormilitary officers part of the groupthat facilitated the launching of thecoup in 1999. The army had morethan its responsibility in taking theabsolute decision while its bosswas in mid air. Now that the bosshas been put under arrest whythese officers move about free?

The little we talk about the poli-ticians the better. How else wouldyou describe the MMA deal thathelped Musharraf to muster thetwo-thirds majority required to passthe Seventeenth Amendment? Thisnot only legalized the 1999 coupbut also many of the dictator’s de-crees. Missing from the spot lightare also the 658 vote givers who in2004 were part of both houses ofthe parliament as well as the fourprovincial assemblies. Where arethese legislatures who made historyby being part of the electoral col-lege of Pakistan that gave 56%majority vote of confidence to thedictator? Call him a dictator,usurper of civilian rights, an anti-democrat or whatever. The Generalto his credit has his word. He saidhe would come back and face allthe charges. Here he is doing ex-actly the same. His fate we can’tpredict. But as I write this I know Ilike this 69 years old General whoknows well that if he goes downhe will take along with him the“equal opportunity mob” as well.

P. S. I salute you general forone thing; teaching both the seniorand junior leadership of the armythat when a senior officer takes aposition he defends it as well. Nomatter what the cost.—The writer is retired Lt Col fromthe army who is doing his PhD incivil-military relations fromKarachi University.

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I have no lovelost for a militarydictator who used

his position ofauthority to schemeand usurp power by

removing ademocratically

electedgovernment. But

why we as a societyare not talking

about thoseaccomplices who

put him in office inthe first place and

from where heruled us for eight

long years.

Voice of the People

Younus shouldtake rest

MUHAMMAD RIZWAN

Mohammad Younus Khan wasborn in 29 November 1977. His 1st

ODI debut was at national stadium;Karachi. He is a Pakistani cricketerand also a former captain of the Pa-kistan national cricket team. He isonly the third Pakistani player toscore 300 or more runs in an in-nings. Like Imran Khan, Younus ismost remembered for his leader-ship letting Pakistan win 2009 ICCWorld Twenty20.

Under his captaincy Pakistanbecame a champion but with thepassage of time there is no consis-tency in his performance. To me heshould take rest now and givechance to another person. He is agreat source of inspiration foryoung generation.—Karachi

Khan’s youngguns vs guns

SYED HANI

Imran Khan gave his words that al-most half of the party tickets willbe given to the youngsters of Paki-stan. And he fulfills his promise as37% candidates of PTI belong toage group of 25-35, which is com-mendable and should be appreci-ated. But the big question is.

Are the young guns of PTI mo-tivated and skilled enough to runthe campaign against the big fishesof the other parties and the‘electables’? As we all know it thatthere’s big money involved in theprocess of election campaigns andone should have that experienceand popularity to run those. But inthe end morality not popularityshould win the day.—Karachi

Saving PakistanRailwaysHUMNA KHAN

The important infrastructure of thecountry has collapsed due to cor-ruption and mismanagement withthe Pakistan Railway’s collapse,nobody will be affected other thanthe lower middle class, as the af-fluent can easily avail themselvesof PIA flights and Daewoo busesas their normal means of transpor-tation.

It seems nobody’s botheredeven to find out what went wrongwith this important , money-gen-erating state institution. In the en-tire world, railways are used tomake profits, whereas in our coun-try they go in perpetual losses. But, come what may , one thing is forsure: nobody has been asked re-garding corruption and no headshave rolled!

In other countries, efforts aremade to lay additional railwaytracks , whereas in our country rail-way tracks laid by the British havebeen uprooted by one of the previ-ous governments.

I think we need not one butmany people like Anna Hazare ofIndia to emerge and clean the rot .keeping the existing hopeless stateof the railways in view, one can justurge the government to pay full at-tention to speed up its revival forits proper functioning.—Karachi

Violence scenesWAHAJ ALI KHAN

l am so frustrated and angry rightnow. Last night I was going throughfrom some old newspapers for myproject. Anyways, while I was read-ing I found some news they re-ported a nine-year-old boy waskilled by a bullet and his motherwas shot also, and there were lotsof reports like a boy was shot byhis friend in jealousy.

Two days back I watched amovie with my younger brother, inthat there was a teenager who mur-dered his friend by a gun as he wasmaking fun of him, and suddenlymy younger brother said “I wish Ican do the same with my friendwho laughs at me” This situationis serious. We need more than that.

Myanmar massacreARSHMAN NASEER

Our media has been showing footage from a horrific video, initially aired by the British media, aboutthe massacre of the Burmese Muslims – a tragedy that could not catch international attention

earlier. Violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine region erupted in June2012 and led to scores of deaths and mass displacement of hundreds of people. The entry of Burma’ssecurity forces into the province after the declaration of emergency worsened the conflict instead ofcontaining it. The Myanmar massacre, a classic example of state-sponsored terrorism, was largely andconveniently ignored by the champions of human rights. Only recently, President Obama visited Myanmarand the US established ties with the country’s dictatorial regime. The international and national mediaare quick to report and show images of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan but they are silenton the persecution going on in Myanmar. The UN, the OIC and the international community needs towake up and take immediate steps to halt the bloodbath.—Karachi

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What are we going to do about theviolence on TV, in videos, music,video games and on computer? If asix-year-old boy’s dad goes to see“Bullet to the Head” and the boyasks his dad what it was about, howis he going to respond? Well, son, Ipretend I’m the killer and I like tosee people getting killed. What is hisson going to think? Wake up andsmell the roses, people. This is a cri-sis! There’s violence all around us.What can you do to help?—Karachi

Modernismor ‘Jehad’SAQIBA WAHID

Modernism in our society is like apath decorated with flamboyantlights leading towards darkness. Inour society what we call modernismis having a residence in a posh area,having a couple of cars, wastingmoney recklessly, having clothes onbody that are making it semi nakedand among all is to having a lifestylethat has a reflection of Europeanculture.

We actually are making our-selves psychologically ill. We arefollowing trends and values thatwere called as JIHALAT before therevelation of Islam. We are not mak-ing ourselves modernized but mak-ing our souls dark inside.—Karachi

Street beggingM AHSAN KHALID

Street begging is a regular nuisance.It is a blot on the fair name of ourcountry. Begging is an evil. But inPakistan it has become an organizedprofession. Almost at every step youare greeted by a beggar. They gatheraround you in business in trains inthe bazaars and near the places ofworship. Our national prestige suf-fers a good deal when beggars greetforeigners at every turn of the road.

Unfortunately in our countrygiving alms is believed a part of re-ligion. The most painful thing is thatmost of these beggars are able bod-ied. They can do manual labor. Ifthey so desire. But they find it moreeasy to live on other people’s hardearned money.

This easy got money they spendon drinking and gambling. Then thetragedy is that these beggars encour-age even their children to beg. Thusthis so called charity leads to somany vices.

The need of the hour is that thissocial evil must be put to an end.Healthy beggars should be made towork. The disabled, the crippled andthe blind beggars however should bemaintained at state expense. Theyshould be kept in some suitablehouses outside the city where thyshould be fed at Government ex-penses. Not only begging should bedeclared illegal by an act of parlia-ment, but public opinion should alsobe educated against it. Those whogive alms to the strong and able bod-ied men women and children shouldbe punished.—Karachi

Is Musharrafbeing victimised?MUKHTAR AHMED BUTT

This is with reference to your edito-rial “Perception of Musharraf beingvictimized” (April 25) highlightingthe importance of free and fair trialof ex ruler. Gen Musharraf came athis own knowing well that so manypolitical cases have been filedagainst him wanted to prove theworld and Pakistan that he shall facethe cases. There is no doubt that thisis one of the high profile case in thehistory of Pakistan where formermilitary ruler who served as presi-dent and COAS for 10 years hasbeen arrested.

It is very strange our so calledanalysts and some media anchors arecriticizing administration for declar-ing farm house as sub jail. I fail tounderstand why our memories areso short how we can forget AlMurtaza and 70 Clifton being de-clared as sub jails in the past. GenMusharraf has been President andCOAS of this country who is stillrespected in the outside world withprotocol therefore he deserves

China’s Middle East footprint

China these days is consumedwith concerns about domestic stability. Notwithstanding

this internal preoccupation, theMiddle Kingdom’s increasing appe-tite for Persian Gulf oil has sparkedunprecedented Chinese interest inthe Middle East. Some of this is fu-elled too by Washington’s “pivot toAsia” and less American dependenceon Persian Gulf oil. During a recenttrip to China, I spent a week talkingwith analysts about the Arab Springand the changing strategic dynamicin the Middle East. In surprisinglycandid discussions, Chinese expertson that region — many of whomspoke good Arabic — described anevolving view of Chinese involve-ment in a troubled part of the worldthe state has long avoided.

China imports nearly 55% of itsoil from the Persian Gulf, and it haslong benefited from the US securityumbrella there. One Chinese analystwent so far as to describe the long-standing US aircraft carrier presencethere as a “public good.” But thesedays Beijing is concerned aboutwhat the Obama administration’s

pledge to downsize the US presencein the Middle East means for energyand regional security. Closer tohome, the Chinese worry about theimpact of rising Islamism on thestate’s restive Muslim population inthe gas-rich western province ofXinjiang.

China’s think-tankers concedethat the People’s Liberation Army isnot yet capable of playing a securityrole in the Middle East. Considerthat the navy’s first deployment out-side of Asia — a three-ship anti-pi-racy escort mission in the Gulf ofAden — occurred less than fiveyears ago, and it was reportedly astretch for the force. And even if thePLA were able to field troops in theregion, Washington wouldn’t wantto “make room” for China in thegulf, I was told.

But the Chinese I spoke withgrudgingly recognized that thePeople’s Republic would eventuallybe compelled to start playing a big-ger role in the Middle East. As onescholar noted, “China is a powerfulstate but doesn’t act it.” While Chinawill not soon contribute in a mean-ingful way to security in the region,it has been increasing its presencethere, including deploying peace-keepers to UN contingents in Sudan

and Lebanon. It is also laying thegroundwork for a more robust re-gional military presence, establish-ing its so-called string of pearls net-work of naval bases that spans fromAsia to the Persian Gulf.

Beijing is also raising its profilein the region in other ways. In 2009,Beijing appointed its first specialMiddle East envoy. And since 2011,China has vetoed three UN SecurityCouncil resolutions condemningSyria’s Bashar Assad regime. Like-wise, despite significant investmentsin Iran’s energy sector, China hasthus far complied with US-led sanc-tions against Tehran to dissuade thetheocracy from developing a nuclearweapon. Beijing is also projectingsoft power in the Middle East, mak-ing a concerted effort to increasetrade and investment, especially inthe energy sector. China and GulfCooperation Council states are ne-gotiating a free-trade agreement.State-owned Chinese companies arebuilding joint-venture refineries inSaudi Arabia and have secured con-tracts to construct mosques — in-cluding a $1.5-billion shrine — inoil-rich Algeria.

This new activism is not moti-vated by altruism. Beijing’s priorityis to secure ongoing access to Middle

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Views From Abroad

Eastern energy. At the same time,it doesn’t want to see Iran gonuclear. It is not likely that Chinawill soon contribute to a morestable region. Instead, what theMiddle East needs, according to aMarch 20 editorial by the officialNew China News Agency, is “help-ing hands from a responsible andconstructive superpower” likeWashington. Regrettably, absent aconcerted US effort to cajoleBeijing to provide grant assistanceto struggling Arab states and to sup-port tough UN Security Councilmeasures against Iran, the MiddleKingdom will remain a peripheralactor in a turbulent Middle East.

After all, China recognizes thatAmerica’s commitments to Japanand South Korea — states depen-dent on gulf energy — will longoblige Washington to underwritesecurity in the Middle East. So evenas the Arab awakening has piquedChinese concerns about stability,energy security and Islamism, forthe time being, I was told, Beijingis content to remain a “free rider.”The writer is a fellow and directorof the Programme on Arab Politicsat the Washington Institute for NearEast Policy.— Courtesy: Los Angeles Times.

Polls: A battle between right or wrong

Being a keen student I havebeen fond of learning from thegreat lives of those immortal

men and women who have left an in-delible imprint on the sands of timeand contributed enormously in be-queathing to the humanity high pris-tine values of civilised norms ofpeaceful co-existence and motivatingforces for the advancement of humankind. I also believe in the words ofwisdom of American philosopherGeorge Santayana that “Those whodo not remember the past are con-demned to repeat it.”

People of Pakistan today arestanding at the cross roads of a de-fining moment in their chequered po-litical existence roller coasting fromdictatorship to democracy. We aremoving fast towards May 11 landmark elections when all is set for thefirst time ever for transfer of powerthrough vote instead of extra-consti-tutional and Praetorian interventionsas had been the practice in the past.

Although the distance and timeto the goal post is short, it still seemsa long way to go. The path ahead is

strewn with blood andrampant acts of terrorismas we are witnessing to therun up for polls. It is nowclear that the die has beencast for the final round be-tween forces of right and

wrong, good and evil—betweenthose who want Pakistan to revertback to Quai-e-Azam’s vision of ademocratic, liberal, progressive andegalitarian Pakistan versus those whowant a bigoted, obscurantist and vio-lence ridden country with no roomfor tolerance and no space for a soci-ety in which all its citizens will beequal, free to practice their religiousbelieves as a personal affair, no re-strictions on caste, creed, colour orgender. The Quaid was also categori-cal that Pakistan would not be a theo-cratic state and religion will not haveanything to do with the business ofthe state. The increasing number ofattacks by TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pa-kistan) on selected parties professingto translate Quaid’s vision of a lib-eral and tolerant Pakistan into a real-ity and open support for those whoare not opposed to Talibanisation anddo not openly condemn them—haveclearly drawn the battle line.

It is a matter of now or never. Pa-kistani masses including martyredleaders like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto andBenazir Bhutto have suffered and

sacrificed in blood for establishing ademnocratic polity and empower-ment of its people. Democracy be-ing the best tried system for humanand state management that getsevolved through trial and error, hasmade its impact in Pakistan with farreaching consequences strengtheningdemocratic roots of a nation-statethat we have to be for our federalsurvival. Prophets of doom in themedia continue to forecast ominouslyabout the prospects of polls and fateof democracy itself. Notwithstandingtheir ill-conceived prognosis andthreats by Taliban to disrupt polls, itis a challenging time for the nationto prove them wrong by voting insupport of a democratic, tolerant andprogressive Pakistan.

In conclusion I am a remindedof a story from the life of Buddha.We need to learn a lesson from it. Itis synonymous to the evolution ofdemocracy. Once when Buddha waswalking from one town to anotherwith his followers and they happenedto pass a lake. They stopped there andBuddha said to one of his disciples,“I am thirsty. Go and get me somewater from that lake there.”

The disciple walked up to thelake. When he reached it, he noticedthat some people were washingclothes in the water, and right at thatmoment, a bullock cart started cross-

ing through the lake. As a result, thewater became very muddy and tur-bid. He thought how could he givemuddy water to Buddha to drink!So he came back and informed Bud-dha that he did not bring the waterfrom the lake as it was very muddy.“I don’t think it is fit to drink.” Bud-dha kept quiet but after about anhour, again Buddha asked the samedisciple to go back to the lake andget him some water to drink.

The disciple obediently wentback to the lake. This time he foundthat the lake had absolutely clearwater in it. The mud had settled downand the water above it looked clearand fit to be had. So he collectedsome water in a pot and brought it toBuddha.Buddha looked at the water,and then at the disciple and said, “Seewhat you did to make the water clean.You let it be, and the mud settleddown on its own and then you gotclear water. Your mind is also likethat! When it is disturbed, just let itbe. Give it a little time. It will settledown on its own. You don’t have toput in any effort to calm it down. Itwill happen. Same is applicable todemocracy as seen in its evolution-ary process where-ever it has cometo be a way of life. Pakistan has tofollow suit, come what may!—The author is Pakistan HighCommissioner in UK.

proper respect till the finalization ofthe cases. Who has authorized blackcoats to gather outside court roomon each hearing and beat up law en-forcement agencies and try to hitGen with shoes, chairs and tables?How many FIR’s have been lodgedagainst them?

It is very strange that the honor-able judge asking police to add moreclauses in the FIR? It is very strangethat case is still in the court and eachchannel starts debate on each andevery sentence uttered by the hon-orable judges. Yes every one hasright to discuss the case but not be-fore the final judgement, it is onlyafter the judgment it becomes pub-lic property.

There are no two opinions aboutthe fact that every one is equal be-fore the law, as a result he is beingtreated as per country laws. But theway the proceedings are being con-ducted gives an impression of vin-dictiveness that has to be dispelledas suggested in the editorial. Therecan be no disagreement that some-times justice is best served by let-ting history be the judge, rather thanforcibly dragging a belated issue intothe judicial corridors.—Karachi

Animal rightsin Pakistan

SYED UMARULLAH HUSSAINI

I know it is outlandish in Pakistanto initiate a discussion or to showconcerns over animal rights, where,on the other hand we all know howbasic human rights are persecuted.But the mounting numbers of straydogs in all parts of the country areposing severe threats to the lives ofthe general public. The only optionwe think of is to kill them all. No-body cares or thinks, what is the faultof the stray dogs?

This problem can easily besolved in much more civilized andhumane way by just transferringthem to a dog shelter where they canbe treated well. We do have Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals Act 1890,under which it is crime to kill anyuseless animal but it needs to beimplemented first and then can bealtered to a new or improved one.We really need to understand thatanimals are part of our world, and‘Animals make us Humans.—Karachi

Energy crisisMIR MURTAZA HUSSAIN

Thermal power plants are consum-ing 27,000 tons per day of mostlyimported oil for generating power atRs 16 per unit, which the govern-ment is supplying to the consumersat Rs 8 per unit, incurring hugelosses. Does it make sense for thePPP to say that had Benazir’s energypolicy not been reversed thingswould have been much better?

On the contrary, things wouldhave been much worse. We wouldhave been importing and consumingeven more oil and producing expen-sive power and subsidising it. Thispropaganda by the PPP is to coverup the faulty policy of putting all oureggs in the thermal basket. The IPPsat best should have been a short-termmeasure. If long-term hydel projectshad been initiated at the same time,we would not be importing oil to-day and would be getting power atabout Rs 1 per unit.

We would also be getting amplewater for irrigation. Indeed, it is badenough to pursue a faulty policy,but it is even worse to praise it tothe skies and to pull wool overpeople’s eyes. In view of the veryadverse impact on the economy,even the former Prime Minister hadsaid that no more oil-based powerplants would be installed in the fu-ture. What I cannot understand iswhy they are not considering solarenergy at all?—Karachi

A Voice of America report saysthat violent incidents are onthe rise as polling day nears.

According to the report, the purposeof [this] ….. can either be to get thepolls delayed or to sabotage the pro-cess. The Awami National Party hasso far borne the brunt of most terroracts ……the party has constantlybeen getting threats from the Tehreek– I – Taliban Pakistan. Electioneer-ing has yet to kick off in Karachi asno big meeting has been arranged bythe ANP, MQM or PPP.

So far, several reasons have ham-pered parties from campaigning en-thusiastically for the May 11 vote.These have included the initial un-certainty of the elections being heldat all. Indecision over party candi-dates and valid security concernshave been other reasons, with somecandidates and their supporters fall-ing pry to acts of terrorism. All this

has taken away from the festivity ofthe election season that has its owndistinctiveness in this part of theworld. Traditionally, after the Rajdays, public meetings and proces-sions were the most effective modeof political mobilization. This time,it is TV and social media on whichthe parties and candidates havelargely relied to convey their view-points to potential voters, and thismode of campaigning has not con-tributed to electoral vitality.

Now we come to this point thatthe culture of guns cannot be benefi-cial to any society but unfortunatelyit has been made a custom in ourcountry. Right from day one, a mali-cious campaign was launched againstpoliticians and military dictators con-tinued fulfilling their ulterior motive(to grab power).

The masses have been treatedas if they were the enemy on thewar front. One of the four militarydictators was instrumental inPakistan’s dismemberment and thethird dictator gifted the country ter-rorism and introduced the culture

of heroin and Kalashinkovs whilethe fourth dictator brought in droneattacks and Taliban suicide bomb-ers but is still desirous of taking partin the elections.

At stake are 849 general seats innational and provincial assemblies,contested by candidates. The numberof registered voters is 86,189,802, in-cluding 37,597,387, women. Thelater figure, although less than halfthat for male voters, indicates that thenumber of women participating in thepolitical process has kept pace withthe growing population. And it is re-freshing to know that women fromthe conservative tribal areas will becontesting alongside other women,including a former bonded laborerfrom Sindh. Since all campaigningmust come to an end 48 hours beforethe vote, the contestants have threeweeks in which to maximize theirefforts. This way, this will be theshortest campaign period inPakistan’s history.

Owing to the adventurism of such‘saviours,’ democracy did not get achance to flourish in the country. The

Jihadi elements have now restoredto blackmailing the government ….by attacking teams administeringanti polio drops to children and kill-ing political leaders and their sup-porters. Now the Pakistani nationhave this question that will the can-didates conform to the strict crite-rion laid down by the ECP? Willviolence not linked to the terroristthreat obstruct electioneering? Willrules against providing transport forvoters on polling day be flouted? Itwill be interesting to see how theseproblems are tackled by the ECPand the law enforcement authorities.There are of course limits beyondwhich the ECP and the law enforcescannot be fully effective.

Ultimately, it is the candidatesand their supporters who have todemonstrate restraint and make it aviolence free and transparent exer-cise. It is the responsibility of in-terim government, law enforcementagencies, and the political partiesthat they make sure the safety ofpublic and women giving them fullprotection at the time of voting.

Hazardous poll campaign

Opportunity always knocks.It’s just that most of us areso busy living either in the

past or future, most of us are so busydoing inconsequential things thatwe never hear the soft, but clearknock of opportunity. I wonderwhether some of you remember thedays of the telegram, when tele-graph operators worked at theirmachines with a tapping of theMorse code to send messages? Anold story comes to my mind from

the pre-telephone days when a youngman applied for a job as a telegraphoperator. He answered an ad in thenewspaper and went to the telegraphoffice to await an interview. Thoughhe knew Morse code and was quali-fied in every other way, seven otherapplicants were also waiting in thelarge, noisy office, who were nodoubt equally qualified.

He saw customers coming andgoing and heard a telegraph clackingaway in the background. He also no-ticed a sign on the receptionist’scounter instructing applicants to fillout a form and wait to be summonedto an inner office for an interview. Hefilled out the form and sat down towait. After a few minutes, the youngman stood up, crossed the room to

the door of the inner office, andwalked right in. Naturally the otherapplicants perked up, wondering whyhe had been so bold. They talkedamong themselves and finally deter-mined that, since nobody had beensummoned to interview yet, the manwould likely be reprimanded for notfollowing instructions and possiblydisqualified for the job.

Shortly, however, he emergedfrom the office escorted by the inter-viewer, who announced to the otherapplicants, “Thank you all very muchfor coming, but the job has just beenfilled.” They were all confused andone man spoke up: “Wait a minute –I don’t understand. We’ve been wait-ing longer than he and we never evengot a chance to come in.” The em-

Listen to opportunity knocking..!ployer responded, “Were you lis-tening to the telegraph? All the timeyou’ve been sitting here, the tele-graph has been ticking out a mes-sage, ̀ Come in now for your inter-view.’” Can you hear opportunitycalling? Today, we always onthe phone, do we need to chat somuch? Opportunity comes throughan idea, through a chance meeting,through a brain wave, in the qui-etness or stillness of the moment.Spend time without having to talk,without using you cell phone, andyou will hear the knock, knock,knock, that the others in that roomdid not hear. Listen in the silenceof the moment and you hear oppor-tunity knocking..!— Email:bobsbanter@gmail.com

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COURT NOTICE

In the Court ofMohammad Amin

Shahzad Family JudgeMalakwal

Tahira Yasmin etc Vs Mohammad Amjad KhanSuit for Dissolution ofMarriage, MaintenanceAllowance, Dowry Ar-ticles.Memo.

Mohammad AmjadKan s/o Nazar Mohammadcaste Bhati R/o MonaSaydan tehsil MalakwalDist Mandi bahaudin.

Whereas the servicesof above mentioned re-spondents is not possiblethrough ordinary means,therefore, he is directed toattend this court person-ally or through his councilon 4-5-13. Otherwise the exparty proceedings shall betaken against him.

Given under my handand seal of the Court.

Sd/-Family Judge Malakwal

COURT NOTICE

In the Court ofMohammad Amin

Shahzad Civil JudgeMalakwal

Bashir Hussain Shah VsShakil HussainSuit for Declaration.Memo.Shakil Hussain S/o BashirHussain caste Syed R/omohala Kotli kalanMalakwal tehsil MalakwalDist Mandi bahaudin.

Whereas the servicesof above mentioned re-spondents is not possiblethrough ordinary means,therefore, he is directed toattend this court person-ally or through his councilon 6-5-13. Otherwise the exparty proceedings shall betaken against him.

Given under my handand seal of the Court.

Sd/-Civil Judge Malakwal

EU raps IsraelFrom Page 1

ing several Palestinian struc-tures in the West Bank, in-cluding East Jerusalem (al-Quds), and displacing doz-ens of people.In a statement,EU missions in Jerusalem andRamallah expressed deepconcern over the move bythe Tel Aviv’s regime to de-stroy 22 structures across theWest Bank on April 23 and24, which displaced 28people, including 18 childrenand affected 120 others in-cluding 57 children.

EU missions said thatsome of the demolishedstructures had been financedby EU member states.“Sincethe year 2008 more than 2,400Palestinian houses andstructures have been demol-ished in Area C of West Bankand east Jerusalem, displac-ing more than 4,400 people,”the statement said.

It further read that, onMay 14, 2012 the EU hadcalled on Tel Aviv to meet itsobligations concerning theliving conditions of the Pal-estinians in Area C, includ-ing suspending forced trans-fers of people and demolitionof Palestinian housing andinfrastructure. Places in AreaC are under full control of Is-raeli security forces.

Meanwhile, French For-eign Ministry spokesmanPhilippe Lalliot denouncedthe move by the Israelitroops to demolish a Pales-tinian Bedouin camp in thenorth of the Jordan Valley asthe violation of internationalhuman rights standards.—Agencies

MQM not to boycott electionsFrom Page 1

tinues to be critical and inICU. Two prisoners havebeen charged and two offi-cials suspended. Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh hascondemned the attack andcalled it a ‘very sad incident’.

Condemning the attack,Indian Minister of State forHome Affairs RPN Singhsaid, “Our deputy high com-missioner has lodged a pro-test with the Pakistan For-eign Office. We want an ex-planation as to how it hap-pened. Our government triedits best to get him freed. Wecondemn the incident. It isPakistan’s responsibility toensure Indians in their jailsare safe.”

The police on Saturdayregistered a case of attemptedmurder against two prisonersfor brutally assaulting Indiannational Sarabjit Singh, whowas in a “deep coma” in ahospital in Lahore.

FIR against prisonersAmer Aftab and Mudassarwas registered following acomplaint from AssistantSuperintendent IshtiaqAhmed Gill of Kot LakhpathJail. The two men werebooked under sections 324(attempted murder) and 334(causing severe injuries) ofthe Pakistan Penal Code.

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi laid the foundation of Government College University, Kala ShahKaku campus on Saturday.

Iran wants EUlobbying with5+1 outcome

TEHRAN—Foreign Minis-ter Ali Akbar Salehi urgedthe EU foreign policy chiefCatherine Ashton tospeedily announce the re-sults of her lobbying withmember states of the5+1.He made the remarks ina meeting with his Swedishcounterpart Carl Bildt atthe sidelines of the ThirdHeart of Asia MinisterialConference 2013 in Almaty,Kazakhstan.

He said Ms Ashton hasto contact with the Iranianchief nuclear negotiatorSaeed Jalili in no time to in-form him of her lobbieswith the member states ofthe sextet to make it pos-sible to work on the out-come of the two rounds oftalks held in Almaty.Hestressed that s i tuation isapt for interaction and dia-logue, saying that no timeis to be wasted.—Agencies

India asks Pakistan toexplain attack

From Page 1

CNN-IBN has learnedthat doctors are waiting forSarabjit to stabilise beforeconducting further tests.Sarabjit has suffered injurieson his head and swelling onhis face. Doctors suspectthere may be other injuries aswell.

Meanwhile, Indian offi-cials have met Sarabjit Singhin Lahore. India got consularaccess to the death row con-vict Sarabjit Singh in the ICUof a hospital in Lahore, wherehe was admitted after beingattacked by two prisoners inthe jail. “Officials of India’sHigh Commission at JinnahHospital in Lahore. In regu-lar contact with MedicalBoard attending to SarabjitSingh,” Akbaruddin tweeted.

The attack on Sarabjitoccurred when the victim andother prisoners were broughtout of their cells for an hour-long break. The prisoners al-legedly assaulted Sarabjitwith blunt objects.

There is tight securityoutside Lahore’s JinnahHospital where Sarabjit isbeing treated. But it comestoo late to protect Sarabjitfrom being attacked inside theprison, despite several warn-ings and now Sarabjit Singh,the Indian on Pakistani death

row is battling for his life.

24 hours are extremelycrucial for Sarabjit Singh ashe fights for his life at a hos-pital, here on Saturday.

This was stated by apanel of doctors treating theIndian spy at Jinnah Hospi-tal, here.

Hospital sources con-firmed that the condition ofthe patient is critical, with ateam of specialists develop-ing a latest report of the case.

The spy has been onventilator for some time asmedical practitioners ob-served his minute to minutecondition.

Four family members ofSarabjit Singh were Saturdaygranted visas to travel to Pa-kistan to see the critically in-jured Indian death row pris-oner who was attacked inLahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.

“Four members ofSarabjit’s family have beengiven visas to visit Pakistan,”an official said.

Pakistan Foreign Minis-try had instructed its HighCommission in New Delhi tofacilitate provision of visasto family members of SarabjitSingh who may wish to visithim during his hospitaliza-tion.

His sister Dalbir Kaur,who has been spearheadingthe campaign for his release,his wife and his two daugh-ters are to travel to Pakistan.They arrived in Amritsar Sat-urday morning from theirhometown Bhikiwind, 50 kmfrom Amritsar.—INP

MusharrafFrom Page 1

The Anti-Terrorism Courthad granted 4-day physicalremand of Pervez Musharrafto FIA in BB assassinationcase.

The FIA team led by Ad-ditional Director GeneralKhalid Qureshi interrogatedPervez Musharraf at his farm-house, declared as sub-jailhere Saturday.

The interrogation contin-ued for two hours.

under all conditions.Talking to Altaf Hussain,

the founder and leader of theMQM, members of the Co-ordination Committee saidthat their spirits were high,and they were undaunted byterrorism, violence, killingsand threats.

The Co-ordination Com-mittee told Hussain that theywould face conspiraciesagainst the MQM but wouldnot surrender before terror-ism under any condition. Be-sides every worker of theMQM, each member of theCo-ordination Committeewas also steadfast and reso-lute.

Hussain paid tribute tomembers of the Co-ordinationCommittee on exhibitingcourage and firmness in test-ing time.He said that hisnameless workers had al-ways been a source ofstrength for him, and it wasreassuring to know that mem-bers of the Co-ordinationCommittee were also ready torender any sacrifice.

Addressing a publicgathering in Nawab Shahthrough Tele Phone Chief,Muttahida Qaumi Move-ment (MQM), AltafHussain said that MQM can-

not be frightened by violenceand attacks.

MQM leader stronglycondemned the terrorists’ at-tacks in the country. He saidinnocent people are beingtargeted in the attacks whichis condemnable.

It is conspiracy of de-structive forces that havenothing to do with the chal-lenges and problems facedby the people; rather theirmission is to derail the cara-van of democracy for inter-ests of foreign forces.

He said, “We know thatwhat real motives behindthese terror attacks are. TheMQM would not accept theSharia Law imposed by forceagainst the will of thepeople.”

He said that the MQMwould upgrade academicsystem if comes to power,adding that schools wouldbe upgraded to colleges with-out discrimination of maleand female students.

While highlightingwomen rights, Altaf said thatwomen enjoy equal rights ascompared to men. Theyshould be treated equally inevery walk of life without anydiscrimination.

It is regrettable to say that

innocent women are badlyand unscrupulously misbe-haved under the pretexts ofso-called traditions and ritu-als which have nothing to dowith reality.The object of such tactics isjust to make women depriveof their fundamental rightsenunciated by Islam and thegreat prophet (peace beupon him).

He said that feudal sys-tem has trapped the massesin its cruel clutches. Politi-cians come and go but thepoor are bound to remain onthe point from their forefa-thers had started their jour-ney. Their fate is in the handsof feudal lords who have en-slaved the Haris in the nameof so-called rules and regu-lations.

“If any Hari tries to raisevoice against outdated sys-tem, he is trapped in fake andfabricated and bogus casesforever”, said Altaf Hussain.

He said that if MQMcomes to power, it would rootout slavish traditions foreverand introduce positive, cre-ative and constructive activi-ties in the country so thatPakistan may be make a pro-gressive and advanced coun-try particularly in the region.

Militants hit MQM officeFrom Page 1

Rescuers and law enforc-ing agencies rushed to theblast site. So loud was thebang of the blast that almostall the Karachi heard it.

In yet another apparentterrorist attack on a PPP meet-ing, at least three people, in-cluding a woman, were killedand several others were in-jured in Lyari neighbourhood.

The PPP’s election gath-ering was underway in Na-tional Assembly constitu-ency, NA-249, when the bombwent off.

Reports said that PPP pro-vincial candidate AdnanBaloch along with otherpeople were injured in the at-tack.

Meanwhile the MQMRabita Committee in its meet-ing condemned the blasts andurged the people to observemourning day today. Thecommittee further asked thetraders and transporters toshut their business to protestagainst the bomb attacks.

The Rabita Committeealso advised the people to setup defence committees for theprotection of lives.

Meanwhile, a high levelsecurity meeting was held atthe Karachi’s Rangers head-quarters to review the situa-tion and evolve a strategy toto tackle the current situation.

It is pertinent to mentionhere that similar bomb attacks

earlier this week targeted anelection camp and an officeof MQM, killing severalpeople and injuring dozensothers. The proscribedTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistanhad claimed responsibility ofthe attacks.

A bomb explosion on Fri-day attacked representativesof Awami National Party near

its office in Mominabad areaof Korangi in which 11 peoplewere killed and over 40 othershurt.The TTP had earlier de-clared democracy ‘un-Isalmic’and issued threats of attack onMQM, Pakistan People’s Partyand Awami National Party.

‘Taliban totrigger new

spring attacks’KABUL—The Taliban in Af-ghanistan vowed on Satur-day to start a new campaignof mass suicide attacks onforeign military bases anddiplomatic areas, as well asdamaging “insider attacks”,as part of a new spring of-fensive this year.

The offensive was an-nounced via emails fromTaliban spokesmen.

The Islamist group hasmade similar announcementsin recent years, which havesometimes been followed byspikes in violence afterAfghanistan’s harsh wintermonths.

The announcement ofmore mass suicide and in-sider attacks will likely begreeted with concern by theNATO-led military coalition,which is in the final stages ofa fight against the Taliban-led insurgency that began inlate 2001.

However, there was noimmediate reaction to theTaliban’s statement from theNATO-led International Se-curity Assistance Force(ISAF).

After announcing theirspring offensive last year,the Taliban launched alarge at tack in Kabul in-volving suicide bombersand an 18-hour firefight tar-geting Western embassies,ISAF headquarters and theAfghan parl iament.—Reuters

Elahi: PML-Qto abolish taxes

by ShahbazLAHORE—Pakistan MuslimLeague (PML) leader PervezElahi said in Gujrat Saturdaythat towards end of his ten-ure Shahbaz Sharif also im-posed tax on poor farmersand owners of small houseswhich “we had abolishedduring our rule in Punjab”.

He said, on coming intopower again we will abolishthis tax on poor people andfarmers again. He said impos-ing tax on small shops andpoor people is unfair, theyeven feed their families withgreat difficulty, we will alsoabolish tax levied on them. ChParvez Elahi said that in theelection people will cast theirvotes on the basis of perfor-mance, this is the reason thatthose N-League and other par-ties candidates who had con-tested election in 2008 againstus because of our great per-formance are joining our party,we welcome in the PML foldand highly value them out ofour hearts, he added.—INP

ENGLAND: Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring his team’s opening goal during their EnglishPremier League soccer match at the Etihad Stadium.

HARARE—The ebb and flowof the second Test continuedon the third afternoon, asZimbabwe took three quickwickets at the start ofBangladesh’s second in-nings. The visitors were 43for 3 at tea, after Zimbabwehad been bowled out for 282in their first innings, 109 runsbehind. Mominul Haque andShakib Al Hasan were un-beaten batsmen, calming thedressing-room nerves. Thelead stood at 152, and noth-ing short of batting anotherthree sessions would giveZimbabwe a daunting chase.Bangladesh suffered in theirsecond innings, due to poorfootwork and two poor um-piring decisions.

Tamim Iqbal was the firstto go. He missed a deliveryfrom Shingi Masakadza by afair margin but umpire TonyHill decided it was a caughtbehind. Tamim took a longtime to trudge off the ground.

Mohammad Ashraful was thesecond victim of the umpire,this time Ian Gould adjudg-ing him lbw when the KyleJarvis delivery was seamingdown the leg side. The curi-ous thing about the wicketwas the mild appeal, but itturned into a large roar ofcelebration as soon as thefinger went up. Ashraful hasfailed in both innings of thisTest match.

In between the first andthird wickets to fall,Masakadza removed JahurulIslam. The opener’s footworkwasn’t adequate as he edgedto wicketkeeper RichmondMutumbami. It was Jahurul’ssecond poor shot of thegame.

Bangladesh had beengiven the advantage byRobiul Islam’s second five-for. He had taken the wicketsof Regis Chakabva andVusimuzi Sibanda on the sec-ond afternoon and added the

wickets of Elton Chigumbura,Mutumbami and Masakadza,though the last wicket was alucky one as the batsmandidn’t appear to touch theball.

Zimbabwe had a produc-tive day with the bat, espe-cially Chigumbura who madehis second Test fifty. Heended up with 86 off 111 ballswith eight fours and a six, andhelped Zimbabwe past thefollow-on mark. He added 85

for the sixth wicket withMutumbami, who made 42,after the 66-run stand withMalcolm Waller ended earlyin the morning.

The Zimbabwe tail didn’twag, and Sohag Gazi tookfour wickets to finish the in-nings. But the offspinner waslucky to pick up at least twoof those wickets. The otherZimbabwe wicket went toShakib, who looked to berusty with the ball.—AFP

Zimbabwe strike after concedinglead against Bangladesh

HARARE: Elton Chigumbura is bowled by Robiul Islam during Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh 2nd Test on Saturday.

Bangladesh 1st innings: 391Zimbabwe 1st innings:Sibanda c Mushfiqur ..... 10Chakabva c Mushfiqur . 12Masakadza b Shakib ...... 14Taylor* c Shakib ............ 36Waller b Sohag Gazi ....... 32Chigumbura b Robiul .... 86Mutumbami lbw b Robiul.42AG Cremer not out ......... 11KO Meth c MushfiqurRahim b Sohag Gazi ....... 16Masakadza b Robiul ........ 5Jarvis b Sohag Gazi .......... 0Extras: (b 5, lb 11, w 1, nb 1)18Total: (all out) .............. 282Fall of wickets 1-23, 2-26, 3-45, 4-97, 5-163, 6-248, 7-257,8-274, 9-281, 10-282Bowling .............O-M-R-WRobiul Islam ...... 33-11-85-5

ASajidul Islam ........ 16-5-48-0Ziaur Rahman ......... 7-3-8-0Shakib Al Hasan . 19-4-66-1Sohag Gazi .......... 19-1-59-4Ashraful .................. 2-2-0-0

Bangladesh 2nd innings:Tamim b SW Masakadza . 7Jahurul b SW Masakadza 2Ashraful lbw b Jarvis ...... 4Mominul b Masakadza .. 29Shakib not out ................ 40Mushfiqur not out ......... 22Extras: (lb 2, nb 2) ............. 4Total: (4 wickets) ........ 108Fall of wickets 1-7, 2-12, 3-18, 4-65Bowling ............. O-M-R-WKM Jarvis ............ 11-0-38-1SW Masakadza .. 14-2-33-3AG Cremer ............... 1-0-3-0E Chigumbura ..... 10-0-32-0

M A N C H E S T E R — S e r g i oAguero and Yaya Toure gavedeposed Premier Leaguechampions Manchester Citya 2-1 win at home to WestHam United on Saturday, al-though victory also featuredan uncharacteristic error fromgoalkeeper Joe Hart. Mo-ments after being injuredwhile making a save fromWest Ham striker AndyCarroll, Hart allowed a shotfrom the same player tosquirm through his grasp,and his legs, as he gifted thevisitors an injury-time conso-lation. Earlier, Aguero’s 16thgoal of the season, his 11thin the Premier League, put thehosts in control after 28 min-utes of a contest that waspredictably subdued, comingat the end of a week in whichCity had finally seen theirleague title move across thecity to Manchester United.

Samir Nasri exchangedneat passes with both Toureand David Silva on his wayinto the West Ham area,where, having reached theleft-hand by-line, he pulledthe ball back for Aguero toconvert clinically from sixyards. City had to wait untilthe 83rd minute to be certainof the three points, when

Toure collected a short passfrom Nasri and sent a stun-ning 20-yard shot soaringinto the roof of the West Hamgoal, but victory should havebeen far more comfortable.

Moments after the openinggoal, defender Pablo Zabaletaalmost doubled the lead whenWest Ham goalkeeper JussiJaaskelainen failed to hold asharp, long-range shot fromNasri. The Finn made up for hiserror, however, with a reflexblock to deny the Argentine’sfollow-up attempt.

There was also a gilt-edged chance for Agueromid-way through the half, af-ter Silva’s pass had been de-flected into his path, but onthis occasion, the City for-ward hit the foot of the postfrom 12 yards when a goallooked a certainty. In re-sponse, Carroll placed aheader over the crossbar, al-though the forward’s majorcontribution to the first halfwas a trip on Silva that earnedhim a 19th-minute caution;the fourth consecutive gamein which he has been booked.

The visitors opened the

second half in more enter-prising fashion, althoughCity came closest to addingto the goals tally, after 54 min-utes, when Nasri’s excellentpass split the West Ham de-fence and played in CarlosTevez, who showed poortechnique in flashing a shotover the bar from eight yards.Tevez returned the compli-ment six minutes later with apass that put through theFrenchman, whose fierceshot from the corner of thesix-yard area was well savedby Jaaskelainen.

As the City pressuremounted, Tevez was againdenied when a desperationblock from Joey O’Brienstopped his six-yard shot af-ter more good approach playfrom Aguero. West Ham’s in-creased desire to commit menforward was allowing Citymore room to play and yetanother incisive counter-at-tack ended with Tevez deliv-ering a superb low cross fromthe right with which Nasrisomehow failed to connectfrom point-blank range, withan open net gaping.—AFP

Man City defeat West Ham 2-1in English Premier League

Life ban onKaneria upheld

LONDON—Controversial Paki-stan leg-spinner DanishKaneria failed in his appeal tooverturn his lifetime ban fromcricket. Kaneria was bannedlast year for his role in a spot-

fixing plot, but denied all in-volvement and immediately in-dicated his intention to contestthe decision.

The 32-year-old wasfound guilty of “cajoling andpressurising” former Essexteam-mate Mervyn Westfieldinto accepting cash in returnfor trying to concede a setnumber of runs in an over dur-ing an English county Pro40match in 2009. The PakistanCricket Board said in July thatKaneria would be suspendedfrom playing in his home coun-try until the outcome of the ap-peal was known.—AFP

ST U T T G A R T , Germany—Defending champion Maria

Sharapova had anothertough battle as she booked

her place in the semi-finalsof the Stuttgart WTA tour-nament with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4quarter-f inal win againstformer world number oneAna Ivanovic.

The 26-year-oldSharapova, who is using theclaycourt tournament tohelp prepare for the defenceof her French Open title atthe end of May, was againtaken to three sets asIvanovic rallied in the sec-ond set.

Having needed threehours to beat LucieSafarova in Thursday’ssecond round, the statu-esque Russian has nowplayed more than five hoursof tennis inside 24 hoursafter needing two hours, 16minutes to beat Ivanovic.

After Sharapova tookthe first set, claycourt spe-cialist Ivanovic rallied inthe second with plenty ofaggressive shots on herforehand and is on her wayback up the rankings, butlacks consistency.

Sharapova brokeIvanovic twice in the third,in a sequence of threebreaks, before her aggres-sive game finally woredown the 25-year-old Serb,who reached the worldnumber one ranking just

after winning the 2008French Open t i t le .Sharapova, ranked secondin the world, will now playthird-seed AngeliqueKerber in Saturday’s semi-final after the German beatKazakhstan’s YaroslavaShvedova 6-3, 7-6 earlier.

Qualifier BethanieMattek-Sands of the USA,ranked 104th in the world,has made it through to thesemi-finals on her first ap-pearance in the main drawafter she enjoyed a 6-4, 6-2win over Germany’s SabineLisicki.

Having failed to qualifyon her last attempt here in2005, the 28-year-old willnow faces face Chinesesecond-seed Li Na for aplace in Sunday’s final.

Li enjoyed a 6-3, 7-5 winover fifth-seed Petra Kvitova,but the Chinese faced somenervous moments in the sec-ond set after her strong startleft her 2-0, then 5-2 up, be-fore her Czech opponent lev-elled at 5-5, but Li clung on.Mattek-Sands is on her wayback from injury and hav-ing won their last meeting,a three-setter in the quar-ter-f inals at the 2011Madrid Open, Li said sheis relishing her chance toreach the final. —AFP

Gritty Sharapova booksStuttgart semis berth

STUTTGART: Russia’s Maria Sharapova returns the ballto former world number one Ana Ivanovic.in their match ofthe WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

A STUDY of the evolution of our teethover the last 7,500 years shows that humans today have less diverse oral bacte-

ria than historic populations, which scientists be-lieve have contributed to chronic oral diseasesin post-industrial lifestyles. The researchers,from the University of Adelaide’s AustralianCentre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), the Univer-sity of Aberdeen (Dept of Archeology), Scot-land, and the Wellcome TrustSanger Institute, Cambridge,England, published theirstudy in Nature Genetics.

The authors say that ana-lyzing the DNA of calcifiedbacteria on the teeth of hu-mans throughout modern andancient history “has shedlight on the health conse-quences of the evolving dietand behavior from the StoneAge to modern day”.

The scientists explainedthat there were negativechanges in oral bacteria asour diets altered when wemoved from being hunter-gatherers to farmers. Furtherchanges were observed whenhumans started manufactur-ing food during the Industrial Revolution.

Study leader Professor Alan Cooper,ACAD Director, said, “This is the first recordof how our evolution over the last 7500 yearshas impacted the bacteria we carry with us, andthe important health consequences.”

The introduction of processed sugar mayhave completely changed the composition oforal bacteria in humans. “Oral bacteria in mod-ern man are markedly less diverse than his-toric populations and this is thought to con-tribute to chronic oral and other disease in post-industrial lifestyles.” The scientists extractedDNA from calcified dental plaque (tartar) from34 prehistoric human skeletons from northern

Europe. They examined the changes in thenature of oral bacteria that were first presentin prehistoric hunter-gatherers, through to theBronze Age when farming became estab-lished, then to Medieval times and finally tothe Industrial Revolution and later.

Dr Christina Adler, lead author, who wasa PhD student at the University of Adelaideduring the study, said “Genetic analysis of

plaque can create a powerfulnew record of dietary impacts,health changes and oral patho-gen genomic evolution, deepinto the past.” Dr. Adler nowworks at the University ofSydney. The modern mouthexists in a permanent diseasestate Professor Cooper said:“The composition of oral bac-teria changed markedly with theintroduction of farming, andagain around 150 years ago.With the introduction of pro-cessed sugar and flour in theIndustrial Revolution, we cansee a dramatically decreased di-versity in our oral bacteria, al-lowing domination by caries-causing strains. The modernmouth basically exists in a per-

manent disease state.”Professor Cooper has been working with

Professor Keith Dobney from the Universityof Aberdeen on this for the last 17 years. Pro-fessor Dobney said “I had shown tartar de-posits commonly found on ancient teeth weredense masses of solid calcified bacteria andfood, but couldn’t identify the species of bac-teria. Ancient DNA was the obvious answer.”

In an Abstract in Nature Genetics, theauthors wrote that “modern oral microbioticecosystems are markedly less diverse thanhistoric populations, which might be contrib-uting to chronic oral (and other) disease inpostindustrial lifestyles.”

Modern diet is rotting our teeth

RAWALPINDI: As election campaign gains momentum, large number of banners are seen on overhead bridge at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Road.

RAWALPINDI: Visitors taking interest in items displayed during Jashn-e-Baharan festivalat Arts Council.

ASHRAF ANSARI

ISLAMABAD—The acting highcommissioner of South AfricaMr Sarel van Zyl hosted a verywarm reception in the federalcapital to celepreate the 19thFreedom Day of his country.

The federal minster forpetroleum Sohail WajahatSiddiqui was the chief guest onthe occasion who joined thehost and other guests in cut-ting of the ceremonial cake,after the national anthems ofPakistan and South Africawere played.

A large number of ambas-sadors, other diplomats, Paki-stan Foreign Office officials aswell as senior civil and mili-

Freedom day of the Republic of South Africa

South Africa wants to boost cooperation with Pakistantary officials and prominentpeople graced the reception. Thereception turned out to be inter-national social gathering wherethe guests readily engaged them-selves in exchange of views onissues ranging from Afghani-stan, Pakistan’supcoming elec-tions and chal-lenges beingfaced by Paki-stan due to militancy.

The foreign diplomats gen-erally thought that Pakistan wasa nation full of potential andwould be able to overcome itsinternal problems during thenext elected government.

The acting High Commis-sioner of South Africa said Paki-

stan and his country enjoy verycordial and cooperative relationsand there is desire on both sidesto further strengthen bilateral ties.He said, there is vast scope of in-creasing trade between the twocountries. There are also possibili-

ties of joint ven-tures betweenthe private sec-tors of the twocountries. The

two countries can boost their co-operation in several fields to theirmutual benefits.

South Africa is a multi-eth-nic and multi-lingual country butit has developed into harmoniousdemocracy on the basis of mu-tual understanding among vari-ous ethnic and lingual groups.

This has been possible due to ademocratic system of govern-ment which guarantees justiceand fair play to all people of thecountry without any discrimina-tion on any account.

South Africa is a nation ofdiversity, with 51.77-millionpeople and a variety of cul-tures, languages and religiousbeliefs. According to Census2011, the country’s populationstands at 51 770 560 people.Africans are in the majority at41 000 938, making up 79.2%of the total population. Thecoloured population is esti-mated at 4 615 401 (8.9%), thewhite population at 4 586 838(8.9%), and the Indian/Asianpopulation at 1 286 930 (2.5%).

CITY REPORTER

RAWA L P I N D I—Three-dayJashn-e-Baharan festival gainedmomentum on Saturday as largenumber of visitors turned up atRawalpindi Arts Council to en-joy neat and clean entertainment.

Locals as well as the artisansfrom remote cities attracted theattention of the visitors by theirunique art work. Besides work ofartisans different cultural pro-grams are being presented to en-tertain the audience. Famous so-cial worker Amjad Hussain Alvi

and Naheed Manzoor inaugu-rated the festival. Amjad HussainAlvi applauded the efforts ofWaqar Ahmed, Resident Direc-tor for providing entertainment tothe people of twin cities and giv-ing a platform to the artisans.

He said that it was not aneasy task to gather people inpresent critical situation but artscouncil did it.

Naheed Manzoor said thatRAC is famous for its qualityprograms and presented neat andclean entertainment to the people.Waqar Ahmed, Resident Direc-

tor, RAC that said such kind ofactivities will be continued forthe people. The colorful eventwas organized by RawalpindiArts Council in collaborationwith Artists’ Welfare Organiza-tion.

The folk music, folk dances,magic & puppet show, traditionalfoods besides stalls of prominentartisans of the region becomeprominent in the festival. Localsingers of the region Ishaq Saqi,Muhammad Arshad, SadiaBatool, Rukhsana Khan andSami performed at the festival.

Jashn-e-Baharanattracts large crowd

CITY REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—General Elections2013, as getting closer, a hecticelection campaign is taking placefor NA-48, 49 and candidates aredesperately wooing voters to electthem. The candidates are usingall available tactics during theircampaigns to gain votes from theresidents of their respective con-stituencies.

The campaign takes placeacross the city until late at night.Many of the candidates havehired professionals to design theirposters and run their campaignsin the city. The political partiesand their candidates are usingpanaflex, banners and posters topublicise their slogans, flags,manifestos, feelings and senti-

ments. Social media has also be-come a useful tool for the politi-cians as well to disseminate theirmessages to the masses as effec-tively as never observed before.

Social media is being usedas a launching pad for electioncampaigning by almost all themajor political parties and can-didates who have developedtheir websites and have profilepages on popular social network-ing sites. Attractive messagesbased on political activities arebeing circulated to gain maxi-mum support of the people.

The parties have also hiredthe services of Information Tech-nology (IT) experts for this pur-pose as it is the fastest way ofconveying messages to millionsof people simultaneously. As

many as 708,813 male and fe-male voters from two NationalAssembly constituencies — NA-48 and NA-49 — of the federalcapital will exercise their right offranchise in the upcoming gen-eral elections.

According to Election Com-mission of Pakistan (ECP) vot-ers list, 284,698 of total regis-tered voters from the federal capi-tal are female. On the directivesof the Election Commission ofPakistan (ECP), the City DistrictGovernment Rawalpindi(CDGR) has specified 29 placesfor political gatherings and largecorner meetings in the district.

In Rawalpindi, LiaquatBagh, Railway Ground, DhokMangtal and Harley Street plothave been included in the list of

Election 2013

Election campaign gainsmomentum in NA-48, 49

April 30

ON BIRTH day of HazratSyeda Fatima Zahra a cer-emony will be held at 10:30am, at Jamay ul Kausar Uni-versity H-8, Islamabad.Prominent Ulmas from allover country will participate.

the places specified for politicalmeetings. Meanwhile, ReturningOfficers have started sendingpostal ballot papers to govern-ment and armed forces officialsto cast their votes. These papershad been issued to those who areaway from their native constitu-encies and are unable to casttheir votes. On the other hand,Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU)has expressed concerns overtaking multiple election dutiesfrom teachers at different poll-ing stations.

The PTU central presidentSyed Sajjad Akbar Kazmi saidthat tougher election dutiesschedule has added to the miser-ies of teachers as they are orderedto perform duties at four separatepolling stations simultaneously.

Pir of GolraSharif for PTI

ISLAMABAD—Pir of GolraSharif announced his full supportfor PTI candidates MakhdoomJaved Hashmi and GhulamSarwar in Islamabad.

Addressing a joint press con-ference here, Pir Jalaluddin said:“We will support Javed Hashmiin NA-48 and Ghulam SarwarKhan from NA-53 inIslamabad.”Pir Nizamuddin wasalso present on this occasion.

Earlier, Hashmi met Pir ofGolra Sharif at his residence andsought support for his party in thecoming election.—Online

STAFF REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—Chairman Capi-tal Development Authority(CDA), Syed Tahir Shahbaz Sat-urday said that the authority willintroduce the new varieties ofseasonal flowers to enhance thebeauty of the Federal Capital.

Syed Tahir Shahbaz said thiswhile addressing the prize distri-bution ceremony of the SpringFlowers Show 2013 organized byCDA in collaboration withIslamabad Horticultural Society(IHS).

The officers of EnvironmentWing, office bearers ofIslamabad Horticulture Society,gardeners and a large number ofparticipants of the flowers showwere also present on this occa-sion. Chairman CDA said thatthe Authority is making all outefforts for further enhance beautyof the capital by developing thelandscapes, adding that all kinds

of encroachments would beeradicated to restore the beautyof the city.

He said that the increasedparticipation of the private sec-tor in the flowers exhibition re-flected the efforts of the peoplefrom different walks of life whoreally care for the environment.

“We have chalked out acomprehensive programme un-der the ‘Clean and GreenIslamabad’ campaign, which isbeing implemented in letter andspirit,” said the Chairman CDA.

He said that CDA has alsoinvolved school children, tradeunions, civil society and citizensin the campaign to resolve com-mon issues faced by the public.

He said that apart frombeautification, flowers are greatsource of recreation and enter-tainment for the residents andsuch exhibitions encouragepeople for plantation of flowersat their homes.

Seasonal flowersenhance capital’s beauty

ISLAMABAD—NUST hasawarded bachelor degrees to 240graduates in the discipline ofBusiness Administration, Bach-elor of Science and in Econom-ics. A graceful 4th undergradu-ate convocation ceremony ofNUST Business School washeld at National University ofSciences and Technology onSaturday.

A renowned industrialistand Chairman Nishat Group andMCB Mian Muhammad Manshawas the chief guest.

The ceremony was attendedby distinguished guests, gradu-ating students, their parents andfaculty members. Gold Medal

and Merit Certificates wereawarded by the guest to the stu-dents on their outstanding per-formances in their respectivefields.

President’s Gold Medaland certificates were awarded toZahra Naeemi (BBA), NeelamEjaz (BBA), Walia Jamshan(BBA) and Zahra Bilal (BSECO).

Merit Certificates were be-stowed upon Mehik Firdous(BBA), Kinza Sohail (BBA),Bushra Amin (BBA), AminaEjaz (BS ECO), Kanwal Ashraf(BBA), Fareeha Shahid(BBA),Ayesha Javed (BBA), andAmina Batool (BS ECO).

Speaking at the occasion, MianMuhammad Mansha com-mended the remarkable statureNUST had acquired in a shortspan of time and extended hisheartiest felicitations to the es-teemed faculty, graduating stu-dents and their parents.

He said that the epicentreof the world had shifted fromEurope to Asia. He asserted thatPakistan had abundant resourcesin all sectors; the only need wasto explore and utilize them to thefullest.

Mian Muhammad Manshasaid that graduates from NUSThad a leading role in upliftingthe nation’s economy.—APP

NUST awards bachelordegrees to 240 graduates

Three-day‘Tableeghi

Ijtemaa’ startsCITY REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—The three-day‘Tableeghi Ijtemaa’ started inSector I-11 of the federal capitalnear the Carriage Factory here onSaturday amid tight security.

Under the security plan forthe religious gathering, 700 po-lice officials and contingents ofRangers are deployed around theplace of the gathering and a con-trol is formed for coordinationbetween the officials deployed.The armed officials in uniformand civil dresses are performingduty and check the participantsby metal detectors, whilewalkthrough gates are installedat entry and exit points of thegathering.

The entire area of the reli-gious gathering is covered by theorganizers and security officialsare also deployed to check theluggage and belongings of theparticipants to avoid any unto-ward incident. Four teams ofRangers are assigned the duty ofpatrolling the area.

Trainingindispensable for

lawyersISLAMABAD—Judge of the Su-preme Court, Justice Sh AzmatSaeed Saturday said that contin-ued “self-education” and “train-ing” is indispensable to honingthe skills of lawyers in the emerg-ing areas of practice and to theirsocial relevance in this rapidlychanging world.

He expressed these views inthe concluding ceremony of a one-week training course on “LegalEducation” for lawyers fromHigh Court Bar Association,Rawalpindi, here at the FederalJudicial Academ.—APP

Sale ofadulteratedmilk posing

health hazardsRAWALPINDI—Sale of adulter-ated and unhygienic milk hasposed health hazards to the citi-zens.

An influential mafia in col-lusion with the corrupt elementsof district administration is be-hind this heinous crime whichhas not only unleashed loot andplunder spree but it is playingwith the life of people blatantly.

This mafia have hired largegodowns in the city where theyare preparing the toxic milk bymixing time barred power milkwith the water in drums and sup-ply it to the citizens in the nameof pure milk.

Citizens demanded immedi-ate crackdown on these tradersof death who are playing withtheir lives for pocketing heftymoney by selling adulteratedmilk.—Online

Happiness does notcome from doing easy

work but from theafterglow of satisfac-tion that comes afterthe achievement of a

difficult task thatdemanded our best.

— Theodore IsaacRubin

Lotte Chemicalsposts lossesSTAFF REPORTER

KARACHI—The managementof Lotte Chemical Pakistan Ltdhas announced company’s1Q2013 results. On a consoli-dated basis, the company postedloss after tax of Rs164 million(LPS: Rs0.11) in 1Q2013, ascompared to earnings of Rs151million (EPS: Rs0.1) in the sameperiod last year.

Meanwhile on a standalonebasis the company reported aloss per share of Rs0.08. Theresult is below our expectations(EPS: Rs0.08) due to lower thanexpected revenue, analysts said.

In 1Q2013, Lotte’s top-linedipped by three percent YoY onthe back of a decline in PTAprices, while cost of sales wasflat due to power cost savingsthrough the co-generation powerplant.

Overall, on the back oflower PTA-Px margins, thecompany reported a gross lossof Rs 155 million. Further dentto earnings was due to 86 per-cent YoY decline in finance in-come owing to lower cash bal-ance, they said.

AMANULLAH KHAN

KARACHI—Energy crisiscoupled with worsening lawand order situation has put thenational economy into inten-sive care unit(ICU) was theconcern of the business com-munity which met here at Fed-eration of Pakistan Chambersof Commerce and Industryhere today.

Prominent business lead-ers and representatives of dif-ferent trade association haveexpressed their deep concernover what they called fast de-

Energy crisis, law & order put economy in ICUTrade associations meet at Federation House

clining foreign exchange re-serves and dried up externalflows, extremely bad law & or-der situation and ever worsen-ing energy crisis which if notimproved may result in a totalcollapse of the economy.

In fact, an interaction ses-sion was arranged by ZubairAhmed Malik, President of Fed-eration of Pakistan Chambers ofCommerce and Industries at theFederation House which wasattended by a vast range of rep-resentatives from city trade as-sociations to find concrete so-lutions of the threatening law

and order situation.FPCCI President Zubair

Malik described incorrigibleenergy situation as responsiblefor every day load shedding forlong durations and shortage ofgas which have consequentlyforced a total shut down of in-dustries in Punjab and adverselyaffecting the industrial out putin the industrial hub of Karachi.

Zuabir expressed his dismayover the total installed capacitywhich 25000 mw of powerwhile it is hardly producingsome 9500mw creating a yawn-ing gap between demand and

supply. The Independent PowerProducers are not running theirplants to the capacity due to nonpayments by the state ownedutilities which has also createda nasty issue of circular debt.Although the government ac-cording to reports has decidedto release Rs45 billion to addressthe issue but such adhoc basissteps may not resolve the issueon permanent basis.

Although the leaders ofbusiness community were dis-cussing the energy issue but thecentral point which is respon-sible for creating circular debt

issue was ignored. Actually it isthe cost of generation due tocostly fuel oil which is respon-sible for energy crisis. It is sur-prising that almost every devel-oped economy has shifted oncoal fired power generation andover 50 percent of their poweris generated on cheaper fuel ofcoal. But unfortunately we arebehaving like princes and burn-ing valuable natural gas forpower generation or dependingon much costlier fuel oil importswhich is burning the nationaleconomy from both ends. Thecoal fired power generation re-

duces the cost of generation andsafe precious foreign exchangewhich calls for no rocket scienceand we can shift to that cheapercoal fired system within monthsbut despite agreeing in principlewe continue to depend on im-ported fuel oil.

Unless harsh decisions aremade to shift on coal and otheralternative energy resources theeconomy would continue to suf-fer from circular debt issue, loadshedding and shutter down ofthe industries.

Zubair rightly pointed outthat election campaigns are car-

ried out only in Punjab whichbeing noticed by Karachi politi-cians regretfully while Punjabraising accusing finger at muchless load shedding in Karachi.This was the responsibility ofthe caretaker government to takesteps for normalizing law andorder situation across the coun-try to allow all political partiesto participate in the election asthe electioneering con fined toPunjab only would not be ac-ceptable even to the businesscommunity, he remarked.

However, the situation wasalso not good of Karachi indus-

tries facing 8-hour long powerload shedding every day, saidSM Muneer, a prominent busi-ness leader while expressinghis concerns over the state ofthe national economy.

Commenting on what hecalled worsening situation ofthe economy, he warned thatan alarming situation is hov-ering on the economic front asforeign exchange reserves duefast depleting foreign ex-change reserves which havereduced to the lowest level of$6 billion which may beContinued on Page 11

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KARACHI—All industrial unitsin the seven industrial estates ofthe city remained closed on Fri-day owing to Muttahida QaumiMovement’s (MQM) call of ob-serving mourning say over thedeath of its workers in a bombattack on Thursday.

The industries have also re-mained closed on last Wednes-day due to MQM’s mourningday to register protest against abomb blast near it electioncamp.

The industrialists urged thecaretaker government to takestock of the prevailing situationand adopt appropriate measuresto improve law and order con-dition. They asked the govern-ment to direct law enforcingagencies to keep an eye onmovement of miscreants nearelections camps of different po-litical parties as well as askingKarachi Electric Supply Com-

No industrial activity across Karachipany (KESC) to provide unin-terrupted power to industrialunits and allow industry to op-erate on Sunday.

This week power supply toindustries remands suspendedon Monday to Friday for eighthours in a day which hurt indus-trial production activities.

The industrial sector is pay-ing 99 percent KESC bills regu-larly, but despite that the utilityis carrying 8 hours long powersupply suspension in industrialareas which would ultimatelyreduce KESC billing and pushthe company toward financialcrisis.

The present two days clo-sure of units and 8-hour longload shedding daily has almostbroken the backbone of indus-trial sector and so far hundredsof millions of rupees and thou-sands of production hours havebeen lost, they added.

Chairman Site Associationof Industry (SAI), Dr Arshad

Vohra said entire industrial unitsremained closed on Friday ow-ing to MQM call to observe dayof mourning.

He said there was no letupin load shedding and industrialunits not operate in these condi-tions and they may go out ofproduction.

President, Site Superhigh-way Association of Industry(SSHAI), Aslam Rayaz said thatno industrial units operated onFriday owning to workers fail-ure to report on duty.

Chairman, Korangi Associa-tion of Trade and Industry(KATI), Zubair Chhaya, said thatthere was no labour, no export,no transport and shipment ofgoods from the industrial estate.

He urged the government toallow industries to operate onSunday and direct SSGC to pro-vide gas to meet production tar-get. To a question, he said KESCwas carrying out load sheddingas usual.

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LAHORE—Sui Northern GasPipelines Limited (SNGPL) isall set to launch a crackdownagainst gas defaulters of asmany as 22 public sector or-ganizations, which owed anamount of Rs 17.3 million andtheir gas connections would bedisconnected.

The SNGPL has an-nounced to disconnect the gasconnections of 22 provincialgovernment departments. Ac-cording to SNGPL press state-ment this is the first list of dis-connections by SNGPL ofgovernment defaulters of

SNGPL to launch crackdown soonApril 2013.

The defaulter include DCOoffice Lahore which is the de-faulter of Rs 516,140, RailwayRest House Lahore Rs 593,320,Forest Officer Cooper Road Rs300, 930, District Jail MultanRs 8,580,160, SSP KutcheryRoad Multan Rs 2,241,300,Circuit House Bahawalpur Rs1,209,100, Aziz Bhatti ShaheedHospital Gujrat Rs 1,200,800,PITAC Ferozpur Road Rs535,800, DCO officeBahawalpur Rs 313,060, ZilaCouncil office Gujrat Rs281,790, XEN Pak RailwayHead quarters Lahore Rs208,260, Directorate of Social

Welfare Lahore Rs 195,220,Government Girls HighSchool Model Town LahoreRs 190,330, Railway PoliceLahore Rs 169,120, SecretaryChief Minister Lahore Rs149,450, SP Transport officeLahore Rs 141,280, ExecutiveEngineer Central EM DivLahore Rs 119,700, DG sur-vey of Pakistan Lahore Rs98,540, Sub Division officerWAPDA Building Lahore Rs84,330, Nazim office AzizBhatti Town Lahore Rs75,030, SP crime BranchLahore Rs 57.430, RailwayHead quarter Canteen LahoreRs 47,380.

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ISLAMABAD—The printing indus-try has proposed the Federal Boardof Revenue (FBR) to remove tar-iff anomaly in the Chapter 48 and49 of the Pakistan Customs Tariff(PCT) in Budget (2013-14) tocheck huge difference in duty onthe import of paper used for booksprinting and finished products.

Pakistan Association of Print-ing and Graphics Arts has draftedits budget proposals for 2013-14.According to the association, Pa-kistan currently stands at the high-est rates of customs duties on im-ports of paper and paperboard inthe world, whereas, the develop-

Printing industry seeksproper tariff

ing countries and developed coun-tries stand at 0-5 percent rate of cus-toms duties on the same. PakistanCustoms Tariff levies 20 25 per-cent customs duty, 16 percent salestax and 5 percent withholding taxon the import of paper which isused for printing text books, otherbooks and magazines; and on pa-perboard used as a hard and soft-cover of the printed material.Whereas the finished product(printed publications) is being im-ported on 0 percent customs duty,sales tax and withholding tax. TheChapter 48 and 49 of the PakistanCustoms Tariff (PCT) gas createdthis anomaly/irregularity.

The industry is heavily de-

pendent on import of paper, pa-perboard and printing paper.Paperboard is used in packag-ing of numerous consumer andindustrial products, such as,pharmaceuticals, food items,shoes, auto parts, electric appli-ances, etc. Another end-use ofpaperboard is graphic printing.Once tariffs are rationalized anda stringent trade policy is adoptedto facilitate the printing industryof Pakistan, it is an imperative re-action that all the investment thathas departed from Pakistan, islikely to return ten folds and withsignificant chances of exponentialincrements over the future,sources said.

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ISLAMABAD—Small and Me-dium Enterprise DevelopmentAuthority (Smeda) has proposedthe Federal Board of Revenue(FBR) to abolish one percentwithholding tax on export ofgold products and charge cus-toms duty on the import of goldfrom ad-valoram to specific ba-sis 1 percent of value to Rs 15per gram.

Smeda has submitted itsbudget proposals for 2013-14 tothe FBR for consideration in thenext fiscal budget. Smeda in itsrole as the premier SME devel-opment agency of the govern-ment has proposed measures forfiscal budget (2013-140 to thefederal government. These taxa-

Abolition of 1pc WHTon gold proposed

tion proposals are designed onthe basis of recommendationsreceived from chambers of com-merce, trade associations, sec-tor development companies andSMEs across Pakistan.

According to the taxationproposals of Smeda, for years,gold was imported against anominal duty of Rs 2.5 pergram. In 2006-07, 1 percentwithholding tax was imposedon the import of gold. It is pro-posed that the duty on the im-port of gold may be changedfrom ad valoram to specificbasis i.e 1 percent of value toRs15 per gram. The small dutyon gold enhanced its importthrough legal channels result-ing in sizable revenue genera-tion for the government. Since

2006-07, illegal import of goldhas increased after the imple-mentation of withholding tax.Import of gold through legalchannels will be encouragedwhich will provide revenue tothe government.

It has further proposed thatone percent withholding tax ischarged on the export of goldproducts. It is proposed thatkeeping in view the nature of thesector, 1 percent withholding taxmay be waived off to promotegems and jewelry exports. Thegems and jewelry is a non-tra-ditional sector and levey ofheavy taxes on exports hits theprofit margin of producerswhich discourages exports. Ex-port of gems and jewelry sectorwill increase.

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ISLAMABAD—The All PakistanCNG Association (APCNGA)on Saturday asked the govern-ment to review gas load-shed-ding schedule and ensure unin-terrupted supply of natural gasto CNG sector for five days aweek.

In a statement, GhiyasAbdullah Paracha, ChairmanSupreme Council APCNGAsaid that CNG is the only busi-ness in the world which remainsclosed for 18 days a month whileit work partially in the rest ofthe days due to unprecedentedload-shedding pushing us to thebrink.

He said that APCNGA has

APCNGA demands 5-daygas supply to CNG sector

repeatedly given practical rec-ommendation to the caretakergovernment to resolve the en-ergy issue but unfortunately nota single proposal was accepted.

The proposals, he said, wouldhave added 1500 mw power to thesystem and made gas available foradditional 24 hours a week to theCNG and fertilizer sectors and thegeneral industry, he said.

Ghiyas Paracha said thatfollowing the suit of former gov-ernment, the incumbent govern-ment has been taking unilateraldecisions which will result indestruction of the CNG sectorfor which the top functionarieswill be responsible.

He said that CNG, fertilizer,general industry and country is

being destroyed to promote in-fluential owners of captivepower plants which will not betolerated.

The leaders of the CNG sec-tor said that other sectors havealternatives fuels available andthey can store their producewhile CNG sector enjoys nosuch facility.

He said that unjust load-shedding is also taking toll onelection related activities but thegovernment is following theunjust gas distribution policiesof the former setup which is be-yond understanding.

He said that CNG sector isbeing pushed to the wall forwhich the sitting governmentwill be responsible.

ZONG celebrated its 5th anniversary with great zeal and excitement. Cake cutting ceremo-nies were organized in all offices of China Mobile Pakistan across all regions. Picture showsFan Yunjun cutting the cake with senior executives of ZONG.

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ISLAMABAD—ZONG, the fast-est growing network of Paki-stan, said thank you to its cus-tomers, franchises, vendors,media, government and allstakeholders after completing 5years of its operations in thecountry. ZONG, a brand ofChina Mobile Pakistan, beingthe last entrant in Pakistantelecom market came in withstate-of-the-art equipment thatenabled them to provideunmatchable services to its sub-scribers.

ZONG which has becomethe digital partner of this nation

ZONG thanks Pakistan atsuccessfull 5-year duration

in a short span of time celebratesSub Keh Do Day every year.However this year the telecomgiant decided to say somethingitself and said thank you to thepeople of Pakistan for their trustand confidence in the brand.China Mobile Pakistan started itsoperations in April 2008 and in ashort span of time, it has becomethe most progressive player in themarket. This aggressive stanceis reflected in the rapidly increas-ing subscriber base and the rev-enue achievements.

Speaking about ZONG’sjourney in the country, CEO ofZONG Mr. Fan YunJun said,“We are delighted to have

achieved this milestone. Todaythere are over 19 million loyalZONG customers and its cov-erage extends throughout Paki-stan. Our services, our commit-ment to the customers, our ap-proach towards innovation intechnology, our dedication tothis country, and our philosophyof being a responsible corporatecitizen – all these things are evi-dent in our daily operations, ser-vices and future plans. Althoughwe face a lot of challenges anddifficulties, we shall alwaysproactively and consistentlytreat challenge as a valuableopportunity for improvementand rise high above the others.”

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KARACHI—Lint trading activ-ity remained suspended inKarachi and parts of Sindh tomourn the deaths of MuttahidaQaumi Movement’s (MQM)workers in another bomb blastnear its election office. Tradingin Punjab stations also remainedsluggish, traders said.

Apart from Karachi, tradingactivity remained dull atHyderabad, Mirpurkhas,Sukkur, Shikarpur, Larkana andother parts of Sindh.

Hundreds of deals betweenPunjab and Sindh traders re-mained suspended.

Shrinking stocks in Punjabstations kept the trading dull

Mourning call hurts cotton tradewhile prices of all grades werealso on the lower side whileKarachi Cotton Association(KCA) kept the spot rate un-changed at Rs 6,600 per maundin order to provide support toraw grade sellers for gettingbetter prices, floor brokerssaid.

During the trading session,mills in Punjab stations boughtselective lots for immediate usebesides spinners made fewerdeals, floor brokers said.

Grade issue remained a ma-jor hurdle in firm trading as sell-ers and buyers were entangledin price war on back of shrink-ing stocks, floor brokers said.

General buyers bought lim-ited stocks on competitive prices

at around Rs 6,075 per maundto Rs 6,175 per maund whileleading buyers made deals forfine grades in Punjab stations ataround Rs 6,780 per maund,traders said.

Sellers withholding finegrades asked slightly higherprices for their stocks on backof shrinking fine grades, as somedeals changed hands at aroundRs 6,900 per maund in Punjabstations, floor brokers said.

Private sector commercialexporters bought little quantityof all grade around Rs 5,100 permaund to Rs 5,400 per maundin order to strengthen their longpositions in anticipation of in-crease in prices in the next com-ing trading sessions.

Govt encouragesUK-based bizStaff ReporterKARACHI—Minister Exciseand Taxation Syed ShabbarZaidi has said that thecaretaker government willmake efforts to remove hurdlesfor the businessmen who arebased in England, to encour-age business in Sindh. This hesaid while talking to UKChamber of Commerce andIndustries President Razi Khanhere in his office. He assuredhim of all kinds of cooperationfor the foreign investors tostart business activities inSindh especially in Karachi.He added, “Foreign investmentis an essential for the progressof the province and foreigninvestors will be provided allfacilities.”

IPO officesacross country

soonSTAFF CORRESPONDENT

LAHORE—The IntellectualProperty Organization Pakistan(IPO) has decided to open IPOoffices in all parts of the coun-try very soon to create aware-ness among the masses about theimportance and benefits of safe-guarding the Intellectual Prop-erty Rights.

“The IPO was also workingtowards strengthening its liaisonwith the LCCI to promote andbring to light the significance ofIPRs,” observed Tarik FeroozKhan, the IPO DG. He said thatestablishment of a separate IPOdesk at the Lahore Chamber ofCommerce and Industry was agreat national service as is fa-cilitating the businessmen of allsectors in enforcing their IPrights such as Copyrights, De-signs, Trademarks and Patents.

The Co-Convener BarristerAsjad Saeed, gave a detailedbriefing to the participants aboutthe significance of awarenessabout IPRs. He said that vari-ous Multinational Companieshad also been taken on board toaddress the various IPRs-re-lated. issues

The Co-Convener high-lighted the fact that IPO Paki-stan is an important organizationas much as the Securities & Ex-change Commission of Pakistan(SECP), and Competition Com-mission of Pakistan (CCP). It isvery important that IPO Paki-stan should have a direct liaisonwith these organizations whichare regulating other companies.This liaison will enhance theprofile of IPO Pakistan.

He added that Currently,IPO Pakistan is looking aftermultinational companies in Pa-kistan. He suggested that IPOPakistan should also focus onthe local brands of Pakistan. Heidentified that CompetitionCommission of Pakistan andSecurity Exchange Commis-sion of Pakistan are playingtheir role actively in respect ofgood governance in industrialsector. However, IPO is theonly forum which directly iden-tifies creations and brands thenensures that consumers are notmisled.

Pre-budget seminaron April 29Staff ReporterKARACHI—Pre-budgetseminar 2013-14 is beingorganized by Karachi Chamberof Commerce and Industry(KCCI), in collaboration withAssociation of Chartered andCertificate AccountantsPakistan on April 29 at a hotelhere. Former Governor ofState Bank of Pakistan, DrIshrat Hussain will be the chiefguest of the seminar scheduleto start at 2:30 pm, said astatement.

Growers to userecommended varietiesStaff ReporterLAHORE—Punjab AgricultureDept has advised paddy growersto use recommended varieties toincrease produce. A spokesmansaid Air-6, KS-282, KSK-133and Nayyab Ari-9 should besown till June 7 while SuperBasmati till June 20. He aid thatBasmati-370, Basmati-385,Basmati Pak, Basmati-2000 andBasmati-515 should be sownfrom June 1 to June 20 so that thecrop could be saved formdifferent diseases. He said thatBasmati-198 was suitable forJoka Sahiwal, Okara and insuburban areas and its sowingshould be completed from June 1to 15.

End ofanti-dumping dutyObserver ReportMULTAN—Multan Chamberdemanded for issuance of anotification for ending the anti-dumping duty on the import ofpolyester. In a statement issuedhere Muhammad Khan Saddozaisaid that National TariffCommission (NTC) had imposedprovisional anti-dumping dutiesfor a period of four months onimports of polyester filamentyarn (PFY) into Pakistanoriginating in or exported fromIndonesia, China, Korea,Malaysia and Thailand, whichhad ended on April 21, 2013.

Gold Tezab 49028.00Silver Tezabi 814.28

Gold Tezabi (24-Ct) 48428.00Gold 22 Ct 46010.00SilverTezabi 895.00Silver Thobi 815.00

USA 98.30 98.10

UK 151.92 151.61

EURO 128.14 127.88

Canada 96.40 96.20

Switzerland 104.23 104.02

Australia 101.30 101.10

Sweden 14.91 14.88

Japan 0.9912 0.9892

Norway 16.77 16.74

Singapore 79.45 79.29

Denmark 17.19 17.15

Omani Riyal 255.00 245.00

Saudi Arabia 26.21 26.16

Hong Kong 12.66 12.64

Kuwait 345.09 344.39

Malaysia 32.38 32.32

Newzeland 83.76 83.59

Qatar 27.01 26.71

UAE 26.76 26.71

KR WON 0.0886 0.0884

Thailand 3.359 3.352

2-day seminar onfood rightkicks off

ISLAMABAD—A two-dayWorkshop on Right to Food(RTF) has been started atPakistan Agricultural Re-search Council (PARC) onSaturday.

The theme of the work-shop is “Right to AdequateFood” and it has been orga-nized by Roots Pakistan agrass root development ac-tion, which is Member ofFood First Information &Action Network (FIAN) In-ternational.

The inaugural sessionwas participated by delegatesfrom abroad, diplomats,academia, researchers,policy makers, Govt offi-cials, civil society/NGOs andthe farming community.

The Chief Roots Paki-stan, Dr. Syed Wajid Pirzadain his welcome and inaugu-ral address spoke about thesocio-economic system fail-ure to address global hunger,which has reached to 850million people, despite tollclaims about development.

He said hunger is a bigstigma on human face, and itis a major impediment im-pacting development, such asattainment of MillenniumDevelopment Goals(MDGs).

He underlined the needfor paradigm shift in foodsecurity, realizing humanrights (HR) approach whereboth individuals and commu-nity have access to produc-tive resources to sustainhousehold, national and glo-bal food security.

The German FIAN Co-ordinator Sabine Pabstspeaking on the occasionhighlighted the role of FIANas a campaign, which seeksworld face of hunger.

She said almost billion ofpeople are suffering fromhunger in the world out ofwhich 304 million live inSouth Asia.However, themajor causes of hunger arewars, natural disasters, un-equal distribution of food andlack of access to and controlover resources.

Meanwhile, the work-shop recommended thatthe dichotomy and con-flicts in global and nationalpolicies with regard to re-spect and protection of hu-man rights needs to be re-moved and rights basedplanning be instituted as abasis for policy formula-tion in general and for foodsecurity policy in particu-lar to realize the paradigmshift towards food sover-eignty.

He underlined the needfor paradigm shift in foodsecurity, realizing humanrights (HR) approach whereboth individuals and commu-nity have access to produc-tive resources to sustainhousehold, national and glo-bal food security.

The workshop is an op-portunity for the participantsto enhance their skills andcapacity to analyze andmonitor food security usingright-based approach, theworkshop was conductedwith technical support fromPARC.—Online

KARACHI—Follow-ing were the bullionrates in major citiesyesterday.

KARACHI:

MULTAN:

ISLAMABAD: PR and Marketing Manager Intel Pakistan Asma Aziz and Project ManagerKhadija Bashir posing for a photo with the best performers of Intel International Science &Engineering Fair 2013.—PO photo by Sultan Bashir

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ISLAMABAD—Intel Pakistanheld a ceremony to praise andencourage the 10 finalists ofNational Science Fair whowill represent Pakistan in theupcoming Intel InternationalScience & Engineering Fair2013, to be held in Phoenix,Arizona from May 12 – May17.

The Intel International Sci-ence and Engineering Fair(Intel ISEF), a program of So-ciety for Science & the Publicis the world’s largest interna-tional pre-college sciencecompetition. The premier glo-bal science competition forstudents in grades 9–12 pro-vides an annual forum formore than 1,500 high schoolstudents from 70 countries, re-

10 students to representPakistan at int’l fair

gions, and territories to displaytheir independent research.

Sharing her thoughts atthe occasion, Asma Aziz, PR& Marketing Manager, IntelPakistan said, “Intel ISEFopens a world of opportuni-ties to the young and talentedyouth of Pakistan by encour-aging them to study scienceand learn about research. It isa platform to identify, encour-age and promote young scien-tists. It not only helps them todream big, but teaches themthe skills required to achievethem as well. Many studentswho have represented Paki-stan at the international levelhave won laurels, but the im-pact that the program has onthese students is far greaterthan winning an award at thescience fair.”

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ISLAMABAD—Mobilink Foun-dation has upgraded the therapyand rehabilitation facility at theNational Institute of Rehabilita-tion Medicine (NIRM) by con-tributing a state-of-the-art Triton

DTS Spinal Retraction Unit aswell as refurbishing the treat-ment area. The facility was in-augurated by Rashid Khan,President & CEO Mobilink, inthe presence of Dr Fazle Maula,Director, NIRM.

The ‘Spinal Retraction Unit’was imported by the MobilinkFoundation to aid the NIRM inproviding specialized therapyand treatment for up to 1200patients every month..

Rashid Khan, President &CEO, Mobilink highlighted,‘The foundation is a reflectionof our responsibility towardsPakistan and the communities

Mobilink Foundationupgrades health facility

that we operate in. The provi-sion of this rehabilitation unitand the participation of ourTorchbearers in refurbishing thefacility is another step towardsour goal of improving healthcarein Pakistan. NIRM is Pakistan’sleading institution for helping

the physically challenged, andthis contribution is meant to fur-ther aid the NIRM efforts intheir noble cause.’’

Shafqat Hussain Naghmi,Secretary, Capital Administra-tion & Development (CA&D)emphasized, “NIRM is the lead-ing government-managed insti-tution in the country for provid-ing quality healthcare to thephysically challenged. I am gladto see their efforts being recog-nized by the Mobilink Founda-tion and the contributions beingmade to enable NIRM to furtherimprove treatment offered to theneedy.”

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ISLAMABAD—ICMA Pakistanorganized a workshop on Inter-national trade finance to providea cutting-edge and highly prac-tical topic that explored all themain risks in contemporarytrade finance products and struc-tures.

The course was designed tocover all aspects of internationaltrade and finance from a practi-cal perspective. Emphasis wasplaced upon risk assessment andproblem solving techniques,through a clear understanding ofa customer’s trade cycle. Whileeach of the banking productswas dealt with in detail, greatattention was paid to the effec-tive and appropriate use of thesemechanisms in meeting thecustomer’s needs, with a view

ICMAP organizes workshopon int’l trade finance

to generating remunerative andcontrollable business for thebank. The course was highly in-teractive and centers on a vari-ety of case studies, mostly basedupon live files. In an intensiveone day workshop, the trainingbroadened the horizon of theparticipants on the subject toimplement techniques in riskmitigation, ready to do businessin a safe and prudent manner.

The training was attendedby senior management of differ-ent banks, cement companies,import and export companies.The Chief Guest, Mr. Waqar AliKhan, Chairman IBC presenteda memento to Mr. MudassarHussain for conducting Work-shop on such a important topic.Mr. Muhammad Imran, Secre-tary IBC also presented bouquetto the Chief Guest.

AMANULLAH KHAN

KARACHI—The dilapidatedcondition of Jam Sadiq Bridgehas deteriorated further as it maycollapse any time. In a SOS tothe federal and provincial gov-ernments the industrialists’ bod-ies have earnestly demanded ofthe Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat ulEbad to immediately take noticeof the extremely fierce situationand instruct the KMC to start itsrepairs without further delay.

Chairman, Korangi Asso-ciation of Trade and Industry(KATI), Mohammad ZubairChhaya, has cautioned the gov-ernment that any disaster couldoccurred due to the dilapidated

Industry SOS on fast erodingJam Sadiq bridge

condition of Jam Sadiq Bridge,which needed total repair. Hesaid that the issue had beenbrought into the notice of thegovernment authorities manytimes but nothing had been doneyet.

He also appealed to the care-taker ministers Mian ZahidHussain, Khalid Tawab andIqbal Pakwala to use their goodoffices and take up this matterwith the government on prior-ity. He said that governmentshould take serious notice of thecondition and without delay or-ders its repairs as PC-I of its re-pairs have already been pre-pared.

He appealed to the federal

government to release funds forthe project with no more delayso that the work on PC-I shouldbe imitated by KMC. He furtherendorsed the KMCAdministrator’s statement thatthe decaying state of the Bridgehad already been brought to theknowledge of the governor andthe chief minister of Sindh. Hementioned that the Public Ac-counts Committee of the outgo-ing Sindh Assembly had alsotaken up this issue and called forits immediate repairs, he de-manded for complete revampingof the bridge, which is crum-bling fast and may collapse anymoment resulting in loss ofmany precious lives.

Saarc to explorebanking channel

for tradeSTAFF REPORTER

KARACHI—Finance ministersof South Asian Association forRegional Cooperation (Saarc)member countries may examinepossibility of banking channel toboost trade.

An important meeting ofSaarc finance ministers is sched-uled to be held in New Delhi,India on May 3 in which thecaretaker finance minister willrepresent the country in themeeting

Finance ministers of SriLanka, Bhutan, India, Maldives,Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladeshand Afghanistan will reach NewDelhi on May 2.

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LAHORE—Pakistan SoapManufacturers Association dis-cussed matters related to incometax, customs, shortage of powerand gas to the industry.

LCCI’s Standing Commit-tee Convenor on Sales TaxTanvir Ahmad Sufi chaired themeeting. Speaking on the occa-sion, he stressed that economiccondition of Pakistan could notimprove unless industries of Pa-kistan was facilitated to run attheir full capacity.

The meeting demanded thatall the SROs like 98(1)/2013,SRO 140(1)/2013 and SRO

Soap makers demand concessions153A should be deferred or can-celled immediately. Certainamendments / correctionsshould be made in these SROswith consultation of industryand trade representatives.

The meeting stressed thatduty structure for industrial rawmaterial and machinery shouldalso be revised in view ofpresent international scenario.

The speakers emphasisedthat maximum import duty slabon industrial raw materials andmachinery should not be morethan five percent. They also de-manded that the supply of powerand gas should be improved.

According to them, the world

trade is opening up relaxing theirrate of duty and tax system. Thegovernment of Pakistan shouldalso make their relevant policiesin line with the regional countriesand other part of the world. Sur-vival of industry can only be pos-sible if it gets due attention fromthe government of their problems.

They said the liquidity posi-tions were getting worst and worstdue to increased refund lying withthe government. Revenue couldalso be generated, if business ac-tivities are promoted by givingthem due incentives. Industry andtrade people are aware of this factthat the taxes are required for theadvancement of social sector.

Declareagriculture as

industrySTAFF REPORTER

LAHORE—Pakistan Agricul-ture Research Council (PARC)Chairman Dr Iftikhar Ahmadhas stressed the need of declar-ing agriculture as an industryand enacting legislation on thepattern of Australia to promotemechanization to meet the na-tional food requirements.

He was speaking at a semi-nar making barren lands culti-vable through mechanization. Itwas attended among others byagricultural experts and agri-sci-entists. The seminar was ar-ranged by the South Asian Con-servation Agriculture Network(SACAN).

Dr Iftikhar further statedthat there was a need to providetimely loans to small growers forpurchase of agricultural machin-ery in order to promote mecha-nization.

Former Director GeneralAgriculture (Irrigation)Mushtaq Gill speaking said thatper acre yield can be increasedsubstantially by promoting con-servation techniques. He saidthat 4 million acres of land inPunjab can be made availablefor agriculture by providing fa-cility of bulldozers to the grow-ers.

WBDCPorganizes

2-day exhibitionSTAFF REPORTER

PESHAWAR—Women BusinessDevelopment Centre Peshawar(WBDCP) organized a two-dayexhibition title “Gen-Y, JuniorEntrepreneurs’ Exhibition”.

The closing ceremony of theexhibition was held in the dis-play centre with Dr. Qibla Ayaz,Dean Faculty of Islamic Stud-ies, University of Peshawar aschief guest on the occasion.

Dr. Qibla Ayaz distributedcertificates among the partici-pants of Gen-Y. He appreci-ated the participants for theirhard work and lauded WBDCand SMEDA for their enor-mous efforts in promotion ofwomen entrepreneurship in theregion.

Speaking on the occasion,Project Manager, WBDCP, Ms.Nabeela Farman, the ProjectManager WBDCP said that thebasic purpose of this activitywas to provide the young girlsof secondary schools with a plat-form where they can presenttheir talents and skills in theform of innovative hand madeproducts.

The program was alsomeant to bring forward the in-ner skills and hidden talent inthese young girls and createawareness among them towardsentrepreneurship as a career op-tion in future.

Canadianslosing faith in

econo-miracle’OTTAWA—Factory workerNelson Claros has little time fortalk of the Canadian economicmiracle.

The 50-year-old was laid offlast year from his job of 22 yearsat a bus-assembly plant north-west of Toronto, and has sinceapplied for 130 jobs. His bestoffer: A job at $12 an hour, halfhis previous wage and notenough to pay his bills.

“Really there is a recessionright now. They don’t call it arecession, but the companies areclosing, there are a lot of lay-offs. How can this be a miracleeconomy?” he asked.

It wasn’t supposed to be likethis. Canada’s recovery from amild 2008-09 recession wasquick and job-filled, and thecountry added nearly 900,000jobs to take the jobless rate to7.2 percent from 8.7 percent atthe depths of the downturn.—Newswire

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P E S H AWA R — G o v e r n o r ,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Engi-neer Shaukatullah has said thatthe materialisation of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipelineproject will have far reachingpositive effects on the eco-nomic development of bothcountries.

Addressing a dinner ar-ranged in his honour by theConsul General of Iran hereat Iranian Consulate, he saidthat Pakistan is already ben-efiting from the surplus elec-tricity being produced in theIran, which is provided toGawdar port.

Engineer Shaukatullah hassaid that mutual needs basedcooperation especially in the

fields of production, trade,technological and knowledgeadvancement can prove ofgreat help in bringing thepeople of this part of our coun-try with our brethren IslamicRepublic of Iran and it is in-deed encouraging to witnesskeen interest especially of thetrading community of theprovince and Fata in makingthis possible.

The Governor particularlymentioned the expertise of theIranian brethren in managingquality slaughter houses toprovide Halal meat and saidthat this need of immediatenature of the provincial capi-tal of Peshawar, ifmaterialised, can prove a goodbeginning. Similar is the casein respect of mineral and agri-

cultural sectors wherein wecan derive great benefits fromthe experiences of each other,the Governor pointed out. Theceremony was attended by vicechancellors of the public sec-tor universities, senior educa-tionists, and prominent citi-zens.

Referring to various pro-poses put forward by HassanDarvesh Vand, in his welcomeaddress, the Governor said,that indeed exchange of del-egations comprising students,writers, traders as well as lead-ing figures from all walks oflife can be of great help to-wards promotion of awarenessto make best utilisation of themutually available resourcesfor benefits of the respectivenations.

IP gas project envisionsfar-reaching goals: Shaukat

LAHORE—Samsung Elec-tronics Co., Ltd. today an-nounced revenues of 52.87 tril-lion won on a consolidatedbasis for the first quarter endedMarch 31, 2013, a 6-percentdecrease from the previousquarter. Consolidated operat-ing profit for the quarterreached 8.78 trillion won, rep-resenting a 1-percent decline(QoQ), while consolidated netprofit for the same quarter was7.15 trillion won.

In its earnings guidancedisclosed on April 5, Samsungestimated first quarter consoli-dated revenues would reach ap-proximately 52 trillion wonwith consolidated operatingprofit of approximately 8.7 tril-lion won.

Highlighting the quarterlyperformance, the IT & MobileCommunications (IM) Divi-sion which comprises the Mo-bile Communications, Net-works, and Digital Imagingbusinesses, achieved profit-able results backed by strongsmartphone sales coupledwith reduced marketing ex-penses.

The IM Division rang upthe first quarter with revenuesof 32.82 trillion won, a 7-per-

cent increase from the previ-ous quarter. Sound sales ofGALAXY S III and GALAXYNote II devices aided profitmargins for Mobile Communi-cations, but in the second quar-ter global demand forsmartphones is forecast todampen, compounded byheightened competition. TheJanuary-to-March quarteragain proved trying on the PCbusiness, while the NetworksBusiness came around with astable supply of Long TermEvolution (LTE), fourth-gen-eration (4G) telecommunica-tions equipment.

Demand for consumer elec-tronics products in emergingmarkets stemmed further saleslosses but weak seasonality anda sluggish economy took theirtoll on Samsung’s sales of TVsand home appliances.

“Although market uncer-tainties from the European cri-sis and the slow global eco-nomic recovery are still linger-ing, we expect to increase R&Dspending for strengthening ourcompetitiveness ahead ofplanned new product launches,”said Robert Yi, Senior VicePresident and Head of InvestorRelations.—NNI

enough only for two weeks bal-ance of payments.

Muneer said that even IMFhas refused to grant any furtherloan to the negotiating team ofPakistan rather the internationaldonor agency has pressurized toincrease power rates and imposemore taxes on tax payers.

Actually the entire nation issuffering and if we did not buildup our forex reserves the coun-try is feared to reach a stage ofbankruptcy.

Muneer called upon everycitizen of the country to comeout on the day of election andcast their vote if they want toprotect their motherland fromhighhandedness of the corruptelements of the society. He re-gretted that the caretaker gov-ernment did not take the repre-sentatives of the business com-munity into confidence while

taking decisions for restorationof peace and maintaining lawand order in Karachi. We are thebiggest stake holders but thecare taker government did notbother to consult the situationwith the real stake holders of thecity

Speaking on the occasionSenator Abdul Haseeb Khansaid that the national exchequerhas been dried up dangerouslyand there is no other way outexcept to hold elections and runthe government.

Haji Shafiq Urrehmanformer President KCCI and aleading business leader whilesounding a note of warningsaid that care taker govern-ment was supposed to hold fairand free elections which can-not be held transparently in thepresence of extremely bad lawand order situation. The care

taker government is primarilyresponsible to ensure protec-tion of life and honor of thecitizens by ensuring stable lawand order situation. The moveto hire new police recruits bythe caretaker is an ill-timeddecision as the situation callsfor well skilled and experi-enced law enforcing people tobring the situation under con-trol.

One of the business leaderpointed out that Army hascome into power on three fouroccasion by its own now is theneed of the hour that theyshould be deployed for twoweeks for carrying smooth andfair election process especiallyin Karachi where the citizenshave become the hostage ofevery day bomb blast, targetkilling and strikes paralyzingthe economy in toto.

Energy crisisFrom Page 10

Samsung electronics announcesearnings for first quarter in 2013

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KARACHI—The dollar postedlosses against the rupee in theinterbank market, dealers said.It opened the day’s trading at Rs98.45 for buying, decreasedthree paisas and closed at Rs98.42 for buying and Rs 98.47for selling. The European cur-rency retreated against the rupeeas it started the day’s trading at

Dollar slips vs rupeeRs 128.57 for buying, depreci-ated by 37 paisas and closed atRs 128.20 for buying and Rs128.40 for selling. However, theBritish pound continued to gainversus the local currency as itinitiated the day’s trading at Rs151.86 for buying, appreciatedby 17 paisas and closed at Rs152.03 for buying and Rs 152.23for selling.

Open market: The dollar re-

treated against the rupee, deal-ers said. It began the day’s trad-ing at Rs 99.80 for buying, fell10 paisas and closed at Rs 99.70for buying and Rs 99.95 for sell-ing. The euro closed on a steadynote versus the local currency asit initiated the day’s trading atRs 128.85 for buying, and with-out recording any variation itclosed at the same rate for buy-ing and Rs 129.35 for selling.

Upfront tarifffor wind power

generationSTAFF REPORTER

ISLAMABAD—In a bid to facili-tate development of alternatesources of energy in the coun-try, National Electric PowerRegulatory Authority (Nepra)has set Rs13.1998/kWh freshupfront tariff for wind powergeneration for the delivery ofelectricity to the power pur-chaser.

The authority in the past hasbeen determining upfront tarifffor generation of electricity fromwind power. The most recentupfront tariff for wind powergeneration was determined bythe regulatory authority on 06October, 2011 which has expiredon December 31, 2012. How-ever, after the expiry, the author-ity decided to determine a freshupfront tariff for generation ofelectricity from wind powerwith a view to facilitate the windpower generation in the country.And, this upfront tariff is onBOO (Built, Operate, Opera-tion) basis, which will be avail-able for up to 365 days from thedate of its determination by theauthority.

This tariff is applicable forwind power generation only andwill be limited to the extent ofnet annual energy generationsupplied to the power purchaserup to 31pc net annual plant ca-pacity factor. Only those windpower generation companies areeligible for the tariff, which arerecommended by the AlternativeEnergy Development Board forthe grant of upfront tariff andcompanies whose proposedplant and machinery is con-firmed to be new and of accept-able quality by the AlternativeEnergy Development Board,companies with installed capac-ity in the range of 5MW to 250MW. Similarly, the companieswho have the consent of thepower purchaser for procure-ment of electricity, along with acertificate from the power pur-chaser that it will have the nec-essary infrastructure ready andin place to evacuate all thepower supplied by the applicant.More, the choice to opt for thistariff will only be available upto 365 days from the date of itsdetermination by the authority.

RCCI’s ‘MyRawalpindi’Expo startsSTAFF REPORTER

RAWALPINDI—A three-day“My Rawalpindi” Expo orga-nized by Rawalpindi Chamberof Commerce and Industry(RCCI) has started here atRCCI building.

The Rawalpindi Chamberof Commerce and Industry(RCCI) always promotes lo-cal products and plays its roleto enhance national exports,said its President ManzarKhurshid Sheikh while ad-dressing the launching cer-emony of 3-day “MyRawalpindi” Expo here at thechamber.

Commissioner Raw-alpindi Khalid MasoodChaudhery inaugurated theExpo. Envoys of Argentine,Romania, Malaysia andUkraine, Director GeneralRawalpindi Development Au-thority Ch. Naseer Ahmed,Chief Executive OfficerPunjab Industrial Estate JavidIqbal, Commissioner IncomeTax Aftab Ahmed, GroupLeader Najamul Haq Malikand other members of thechamber were also present onthe occasion.

The Rawalpindi Chamberof Commerce and Industry(RCCI) president said the ba-sic purpose of organising theexpo is to focus local indus-try and aware masses aboutthe rich culture and history ofRawalpindi. In developedcountries cottage industrycontributes 50 per cent of theGDP but in Pakistan contribu-tion of the said industry is al-most zero. He said that ifproper facilities are providedto the industry then desiredresults can be achieved.

In the expo over 100 his-toric pictures of the city wereput on display to educate thevisitors about the history ofthis rich land. Pictures, handi-crafts and other stalls of localproducts will strengthen smallindustry, he said.

Envoys from variouscountries appreciated theRawalpindi Chamber for or-ganizing the expo and showedinterest in local products.

They also visi ted thestalls, picture gallery and alsoenjoyed the local music. Theexpo will remain continue tillSunday.

A STUDY of the evolution of our teethover the last 7,500 years shows thathumans today have less diverse oral

bacteria than historic populations, whichscientists believe have contributed tochronic oral diseases in post-industriallifestyles. The researchers, from the Uni-versity of Adelaide’s Australian Centre forAncient DNA (ACAD), the University ofAberdeen (Dept of Arche-ology), Scotland, and theWellcome Trust Sanger In-stitute, Cambridge, En-gland, published theirstudy in Nature Genetics.

The authors say thatanalyzing the DNA of cal-cified bacteria on the teethof humans throughoutmodern and ancient history“has shed light on thehealth consequences of theevolving diet and behaviorfrom the Stone Age to mod-ern day”.

The scientists ex-plained that there werenegative changes in oralbacteria as our diets alteredwhen we moved from be-ing hunter-gatherers tofarmers. Further changes were observedwhen humans started manufacturing foodduring the Industrial Revolution.

Study leader Professor Alan Cooper,ACAD Director, said, “This is the firstrecord of how our evolution over the last7500 years has impacted the bacteria wecarry with us, and the important healthconsequences.”The introduction of pro-cessed sugar may have completely changedthe composition of oral bacteria in humans.“Oral bacteria in modern man are markedlyless diverse than historic populations andthis is thought to contribute to chronic oral

Modern diet is rotting our teethand other disease in post-industriallifestyles.” The scientists extracted DNAfrom calcified dental plaque (tartar) from34 prehistoric human skeletons from north-ern Europe. They examined the changes inthe nature of oral bacteria that were firstpresent in prehistoric hunter-gatherers,through to the Bronze Age when farmingbecame established, then to Medieval times

and finally to the IndustrialRevolution and later.

Dr Christina Adler, leadauthor, who was a PhD stu-dent at the University ofAdelaide during the study,said “Genetic analysis ofplaque can create a powerfulnew record of dietary im-pacts, health changes andoral pathogen genomic evo-lution, deep into the past.”Dr. Adler now works at theUniversity of Sydney. Themodern mouth exists in a per-manent disease state Profes-sor Cooper said: “The com-position of oral bacteriachanged markedly with theintroduction of farming, andagain around 150 years ago.With the introduction of pro-

cessed sugar and flour in the IndustrialRevolution, we can see a dramatically de-creased diversity in our oral bacteria, allow-ing domination by caries-causing strains.The modern mouth basically exists in a per-manent disease state.”

Professor Cooper has been workingwith Professor Keith Dobney from theUniversity of Aberdeen on this for the last17 years. Professor Dobney said “I hadshown tartar deposits commonly foundon ancient teeth were dense masses ofsolid calcified bacteria and food, butcouldn’t identify the species of bacteria.

KARACHI: Adam Thomson, British High Commissioner, cutting cake along with Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat ul Ebad Khan, Chief Minister SyedZahid Kurban Alvi to celebrate birthday of queen Elizabeth II at British Consulate.—Po photo by Sultan Chaki

KARACHI: Students of Jinnah University for Women on the occasion of 13thConvocation.—PO photo

KARACHI: Shopkeepers display political banners and posters for sale.

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KARACHI—Sindh Rangershad in a targeted operationthey conducted in Liyariraided the house of People’sAmn Committee (PAC) chief-tain Sardar Uzair Jan Baloch.

The raid on the house ofBaloch was a major stancethe Rangers had showed butperhaps due to lack of properintelligence sharing, Rangerscould not achieve much andalso failed to apprehend thewanted. What Rangers re-covered and took with themwas a laptop and otherstuffs. No details were avail-able from the Rangers till fil-ing of this report regardingrecovery of any big cache ofillegal arms and ammunition.

The operation was firstconducted in areas in closevicinity of House of Balochand was moved to the target,the residence of Baloch. Dur-

Rangers raid house of AmnCommittee chief

Police arrest 2 TTP men from Sohrab Gothing the targeted operation, agood number of female Rang-ers personnel also took partin the activity and the entireoperations was also super-vised from air through chop-per that continued to hoveraround the area till the Rang-ers moved out from the area.

However, Rangers hadheld several persons alleg-edly hardened criminals andclaimed to have recoveredweapons from their posses-sion, including rocket propel-ling gun (Rocket Launcher),Kalashnikov and pistols.

On the other hand, a copsustained bullet injuries af-ter some unidentified armedmen attacked him inChawkiwara area of Liyari.The injured cop was identi-fied as Naeem; The assailantshad easily managed to fleefrom the scene.

It is pertinent to mentionthat a few days earlier; A

Rangers DSR was shot in thechest and was shifted to hos-pital where he succumbed tohis injuries. The incident hadoccurred in Liyari area whenthe Rangers had moved in-side to conduct targeted op-eration.

Meanwhile, Policeachieved salient successduring a targeted operationthey had conducted in city’s‘No GO Area’ Sohrab Gothand had arrested 2 highvalue targets.

According to Police, thearrested belonged to Al-Rehman Group of Tehreek-eTaliban Pakistan and wereidentified as Ikramullah andHameedullah.Police hadshifted the arrested TTP mento an undisclosed venue forfurther investigation. Policealso claimed to have recov-ered a rifle, a sub machine gunand grenade from their pos-session.

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KARACHI—Pakistan Medi-cal Association (PMA)been presenting health-re-lated problems and theirpossible solutions to thegovernment and themasses. However, such along struggle by the PMAcould not get appreciation.

PMA (Centre) SecretaryGeneral Dr Mirza Ali Azharand Treasurer Dr S MQaisar Sajjad satetd this ina press conference theyhad addressed jointly at thePMA House, Karachi Sat-urday.

They said that as thegeneral elections were fewdays away from now, thepeople would make the bestof that opportunity to electonly their representatives,

PMA calls for extended health delivery systemwho would rule the countryfor the next five years. Allmajor political, politico-reli-gious, nationalist and otherparties were contesting theelections. They were makingtheir efforts through elec-tions campaign to get asmuch seats in the assemblypossible.

They said it consideredthat as crucial and definingmoment in the history of thecountry. The poor masseswere aware more than everregarding their rights. If theywould use their powerthrough their votes, theycould bring a positivechange in the society, par-ticularly in the area of healthand education.

They urged the mediashould play a vital role to cre-ate awareness amongst the

masses and put pressure onall political parties to give aclear-cut commitment regard-ing health system in the coun-try. The existing situation wasas gloomy as it had been forthe last many years. The factsand figures unfortunately re-mained unchanged.

They said that the exist-ing health delivery systemfailed to addressed thehealth-related grievances ofthe masses across the coun-try and the results that thePMA had gathered showedthat one child died everyminute from EPI disease, Di-arrhea and Acute Respiratoryinfection, 400,000 infants diedin first year of life every year,30,000 women died from preg-nancy related causes, 80 per-cent of births took place athome, with no or unskilled

birth attendants, numbers ofcases of Oral Cancer hadbeen increasing rapidly. Thiswas number one canceramong men in Pakistan.Most common cause wasbetel nuts (Chalia), manpuri,gutka and niswar, etc;

They further said thatthe country had beenmarked as the 6th largestburden of TB in the world177 patients per 100,000and 500,000 new malariacases were reported everyyear, including growingthreat of Pneumoniafalciparum, more than 25percent LBW (Protein de-ficiency) and 45 percentanemia (Iron deficiency) inchildren, 34 percent under-weight mothers and 65 per-cent anemia in CBAwomen.

‘Anti-GraffitiOrdinance to

preventmenace’

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KARACHI—Sindh Minister ofLaw and Prison MehmoodYusuf Mandviwalla said thathe had expectations that thepromulgation of the ‘Preven-tion of Defacement of PropertyOrdinance-2013’ would pre-vent the menace and upon thepromulgation of this Ordi-nance, it would no longer bepossible to ruin the aestheticsof the cities. Graffiti that hadbeen used without any formof fear or restriction and itsexcessive use had become amode of cheap marketing bylow-level companies.

The Minister said that thenew Ordinance would pro-hibit defacement of propertyand make the offence pun-ishable with an imprisonmentfor a term of 6 months or fineor both. He said that new lawalso introduces the establish-ment of an Anti Property-De-facement Task Force, whichwould have persons from thecivil society including amember of the electronic andprint media.

The Task Force wouldassess the scope and natureof defacement and suggestways to augment enforce-ment capability, survey theefforts of other jurisdictionsto combat graffiti and pro-pose a comprehensive antiDefacement, he said.IRFAN ALIGI

KARACHI—The intelligenceagencies had recently in-formed Sindh caretaker gov-ernment that PresidentZardari’s brother and PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP) candidatefrom PS-88 (Thatta) OwaisMuzaffar was at the hit list ofterrorists, therefore,Muzaffar’s security should beimmediately enhanced. Paki-stan Observer had reliablylearnt.

According to sources,Sindh Home Department hadwhile taking immediate noticeof threats to Muzaffar for hislife ordered Sindh Police In-spector General (IG) to ensureimmediate enhanced personalsecurity of Muzaffar.

Owais Muzaffar underserious life threat

However, the sources saidthat Sindh Police had yet toensure the personal securityof Muzaffar was enhanced. Onthe other hand, Sindh HomeDepartment said that SindhPolice IG, Hyderabad DeputyIG and district Thatta SSP hadbeen given written orders forbeefing up Muzaffar’s per-sonal security.

Meanwhile, while talkingto Sindh Media Cell Saturday,Muzaffar said that he had seri-ous life threats from the terror-ists and the PPP had sufferedcolossal loss during previouselections as the PPP Chairper-son was murdered despite thefact that the then authoritieswere approached for enhancedand fool proof security of theslain PPP chairperson.

He said that he had ap-proached Sindh caretaker gov-ernment for making his secu-rity fool proof, which was stillnot responded. However, PPPleaders and candidates had tolive among the masses underany situation.

He said that it was the re-sponsibility of the electioncommission to ensure safetyand security of the candidatesacross the board. The PPP be-lieved in service to the human-ity and would continue toserve the masses across theboard.

He said that the oppo-nents to the PPP had beenstunned to see notables andeminent politicians joining thePPP and were propagatingagainst the PPP.

Seven morekilled in city

violenceKARACHI—At least sevenpersons were shot dead andtwo police personnel injuredby unidentified culprits indifferent areas of Karachihere on Saturday, police said.

Police said HassanKashmiri was gunned downin Golimar, Tariq was killed inOrangi Town, Akram wasshot dead in Korangi No. 3.5,Naeem was gunned down byunidentified armed men inLyari Chakiwara, one waskilled in Defense Khyaban-e-Ittehad and unknown shotdead near Sabah Cinema NewKarachi.

The bodies were movedto different Hospital formedico-legal formalities.Separately, Allama SyedBaqir Zaidi, a prominent Shialeader survived a bid on lifeas his bodyguard laid downhis in the line of duty duringwhat could be said to be yetanother heinous act of sec-tarian violence.

He came under attackwhile traveling inLiaquatabad No. 4. All thecasualties were rushed to thehospital, but the emergencyroom doctors could not saveAllama Zaidi’s bodyguard.

Zaidi and his driver areunder treatment in the Hos-pital. Meanwhile, two policemen were injured near GujjarNala in Liaquatabad.—NNI

ANP announces tofully participate

in electionsKARACHI—Awami NationalParty leader Senator ShahiSyed has announced to fullyparticipate in the general elec-tions despite attacks on ANP.

Talking to media inKarachi on Saturday‚ he saidthat the situation of attackson the political parties beforethe elections is a questionmark on free‚ fair and trans-parent elections. He said thatthe people are with us andthey would cast their votesin elections despite threats.He said a great conspiracy isbeing hatched against hisparty.—NNI

Qaim visits hiselection

constituencyKARACHI—President Paki-stan Peoples Party, Sindh,Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Satur-day visited various villagesand towns in his election con-stituency PS-29, in connectionwith his election campaign.

Addressing differentgatherings, Qaim who is alsoformer chief minister of Sindhsaid record developmentworks had been executed inthe last tenure of the PPP-ledgovernment.—APP

KARACHI: Shahi Syed, President ANP Sindh, addressing a press conference at MardanHouse.—PO photo

RECENT research has shown thateven after dieting and losingweight, the body tends to try its best

to regain the lost fat stores. Holiday timestend to be tough for those trying to staytrim, and New Year resolutions often don’tstick.

Perhaps an article pub-lished in the AmericanJournal of Clinical Nutritionwill provide some extra in-centive. The study showsthat older women who loseweight tend to gain it backagain as fat not muscle.

Barbara Nicklas, Ph.D.,a gerontologist at the J.Paul Sticht Center on Ag-ing and Rehabilitation atWake Forest Baptist andprincipal investigator forthe study put it ratherfrankly :

“The body composi-t ion of some of thewomen was worse thanbefore their weight loss... When older women lose weight, theyalso lose lean mass. Most women willgain a lot of the weight back, but themajority of the weight regained is fat.”

Dr. Nicklas and her colleagues evalu-ated 78 postmenopausal women with anaverage age of 58. The women were cho-sen with a criteria of having lost aroundtwelve percent of their body weight as partof a study from a dieting program. Theirchange in body mass composition was re-corded at the end of the weight loss pro-gram, comparing muscle with fat compo-nents.

Regaining weight badfor the health

It was then measured again six and12 months later. During the year of studythe women did not follow any furtherweight loss program.

The aim of gathering the data was toestablish whether women who regained

weight did so in accordancewith their original bodymass ratios. At the end ofthe study, 53 of 78 (68 per-cent) of the women at thesix-month follow-up and 52of 68 (76 percent) thewomen at the 12-month fol-low-up had regained someof their lost weight. Elevenwomen (16 percent)weighed more at the 12-month follow-up than theydid at baseline, and 16 (24percent) women continuedlosing weight after the in-tervention.

Of those who regainedweight, three quartersgained more than fourpounds in the following six

months and this number increased tonearly 85% at the twelve month mark. Theso called “regainers” were then used toevaluate the type of body mass that con-stituted their weight gain.

Unfortunately for dieters everywhere,it appears that fat was regained far fasterthan muscle.

At the beginning of the study it wasassessed that the weight loss consistedof one third muscle (33%) and two thirdsfat (67%), whereas the weight regainshowed 81 percent fat and only 19 per-cent muscle.

LAHORE: Former Prime Minister and President PML-N Mian Nawaz Sharif holding ameeting with Iranian Ambassador, Ali Raza Haghighian.

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi laid the foundation of Government College University, Kala ShahKaku campus.

Sethi: Law supremacyguarantees success

CM lays foundation of new GCU campusSALIM AHMED

LAHORE—Punjab ChiefMinister Najam Sethi has saidthat supremacy of law is theguarantee to success ofdemocratic system. He saidthat upholding of law is ofkey importance in a demo-cratic set up and legal edu-cation served as backbone inthe promotion of democraticvalues. He said that countrycan be brought in the har-mony with the demands ofthe present age by promot-ing higher education. He saidthat young generation canplay a leading role and en-sure a glorious future for thecountry only by acquiringmodern knowledge.

The Chief Minister ex-pressed these views whiletalking to a delegation of

Center for Advanced LegalStudies during a meeting atChief Minister’s Secretariat.Director Center for Ad-vanced Legal StudiesMuneeb Qadir led the del-egation while other membersincluded Aleena Hussain,Mehwish Qadir, Ms. MawaraMaan and Muhammad AbuBakar. Matters regarding pro-motion of legal educationwere discussed in the meet-ing. The Chief Minister saidthat promotion of educationis essential for establishinga civilized society. He alsostressed the need for promot-ing the trend of tolerance andforbearance in the society. Hesaid that measures should betaken for acquiring consulta-tion services at governmentlevel with world reputed edu-cational institutions so that

best policies should beevolved in the public inter-est. He said that young gen-eration is the future of Paki-stan and nation has high ex-pectations of its youth.

Director Muneeb Qadirwhile speaking on the occa-sion, said that Center forAdvanced Legal Studies isplaying a vital role in the pro-motion of modern knowl-edge and providing latest le-gal education to the youth.Faculty members MehwishQadir expressed the hopethat Center for AdvancedLegal Studies will prove to bean important institution withregard to research in legaleducation. Member AleenaHussain said that renownednational and international le-gal experts are imparting edu-cation to the youth at the

center while Mawara Maansaid that the center will playan important role in the pro-motion of legal and constitu-tional knowledge. Facultymember Muhammad AbuBakar said that Center forAdvanced Legal Studies willprove to be a milestone in thepromotion of higher legaleducation.

Meanwhile, Punjab ChiefMinister Najam Sethi on Sat-urday laid the foundation ofthe Government College Uni-versity (GCU) Kala ShahKaku campus. Prof DrMuhammad KhaleequrRehman briefed the chief min-ister about the new campuswhich is being built on 370acres of land. Sethi an-nounced Rs 100 million ingrant for the construction ofthe new GCU campus.

JI calls for ECP noticeagainst massivepolls campaign

LAHORE—Secretary Gen-eral, Jamaat-e-Islami, LiaqatBaloch has called upon theElection Commission and theSupreme Court to take noticeof the massive election cam-paign of the PPPP, PML-Nand the PTI through elec-tronic and social media in vio-lation of the Code of Con-duct issued by the ECP.

Addressing corner meet-ings in his constituency NA-126, he said that some forceswanted to hijack the electoralprocess in the country on thedint of wealth, adding that thespate of terrorism was a partof the conspiracy.

The JI Secretary Generalsaid that the multiple prob-lems and grievances of thepeople could be solved onlyby the Islamic system. Hesaid the JI did not believe inmaking false promises but itwould ensure good gover-nance and try to achieve selfreliance. The JI, he said, hada team of competent andhonest leaders enjoyinggood reputation.

Liaqat Baloch also slatedthe promotion of vulgarityand obscenity through themedia and said if the peoplevoted for the JI, it wouldcheck this trend and promoteIslamic values.—APP

PPP to raisepeople’s living

standard: GhurkiLAHORE—Pakistan PeoplesParty will raise the living stan-dard of people in Punjab byproviding them with relief afterwinning the elections 2013. Ina joint press statement issuedhere on Saturday, PPP LahorePresident Samina KhalidGhurki and information secre-tary Abid Hussain Siddiqui saidthat former rulers of Punjab hadadded the miseries of thepeople of Punjab instead ofmitigating them.

They said the politicaldrama of Punjab based partywould be failed and thepeople would vote only thePPP on May 11. Meanwhile,PPP candidate for NA-121Aurang Zeb Burki on Fridayheld public meetings at KotKambo and Bund Road andappealed people to vote forthe PPP.

Talking to APP here, hehighlighted achievements offormer PPP government to themasses and apprised themabout bad governance of thePML-N in Punjab due to itsfailed schemes. He said the PPPgovernment had started powerprojects to generate over 24,000mega watt electricity.

Pakistan People’s Partycandidate for NA-121,Lahore, Aurang Zeb Barki saidthe PPP had taken practicalsteps for prosperity of thepeople during its rule insteadof political slogans. He wasaddressing a corner meetingat his constituency here onSaturday. Barki claimed thePPP was the largest party ofthe country and the peoplewould vote it in the upcom-ing elections.—APP

LAHORE: Models present creations of a designer during 6th Pakistan Fashion Design Council Sunsilk FashionWeek at Expo Centre.

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LAHORE—Secretary HealthPunjab Arif Nadim has saidthat a special mass vaccina-tion campaign againstmeasles is being launched inLahore from April 29 whichwould continue till May 5. Hesaid, during the Special Anti-Measles Campaign, childrenwould be vaccinated againstmeasles in all governmentand private schools. Hewarned that those schoolswhich would refuse to havechildren vaccinated againstmeasles disease, would besealed forthwith.

He expressed these viewswhile presiding over microplanning review meeting of

anti measles campaign, whichwas attended by all DeputyHealth District Officers of alltowns.

The meeting was also at-tended by DCO Lahore SyedRizwan Mehboob, Addl. Sec-retary Health (Admn) AmzatMehmood, Addl. SecretaryHealth (Tech), Dr. AnwarJanjua, Director GeneralHealth Punjab Dr. TanvirAhmad, EDO Health LahoreDr. Zulfiqar Ali, DirectorHealth EPI Dr. Munir Ahmad,Director News of DGPR RaiNazar Hayat and other offic-ers. Secretary Health informedthe meeting that the antimeasles vaccination would becarried out by 900 injectors atfixed points to the children

from six months to ten yearsage. This facility would alsobe provided all in all govern-ment hospitals of Lahore.

During the anti-measlescampaign, health workerswould visit every union coun-cil, and at every household atmohalla level, to inform aboutthe presence of vaccinationteams to the citizens in theirareas. Secretary Health di-rected that public awarenesscampaign regarding antimeasles vaccination, shouldalso be carried out at all areasthrough banners and steam-ers, alongwith announcingabout the presence of vacci-nation teams, through loud-speakers of mosques andother means.

Special vaccination campaign againstmeasles being launched: Nadim

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LAHORE—PML-N centralleader Maryam Nawaz Sharifhas said PML-N will achievemonumental success in May,11 polls. She was addressingparty workers while inaugu-rating several election officesof the party in the constitu-ency of Mian Nawaz SharifSaturday.

She went on to say dayof May 11 will prove Natureand nation are kind uponwhom. Allah never bestowssuccess upon those who areindulged in absurd talk andare arrogant. PML-N andNawaz Sharif have alwayspursued path of humblenessand “we are still pursuing thispath”.

Meanwhile, President ofPakistan Muslim League-NLahore and ticket holder forNA 123 Mohammad PervezMalik has said that May 11

PML-N to achieve stunningsuccess on May 11: Maryam

would be a day of defeat forthose paid no attention to theissues of poor masses dur-ing their five year tenure.Pervez Malik was speaking ata public gathering in his con-stituency here on Saturdaysaid that All those who arepointing finger at MianMuhammad Nawaz Sharifand Mian Shahbaz Sharifshould first review their per-formance.

“They are afraid of MianMuhammad Shahbaz Sharifas he would end load-shed-ding and solve major issuessoon after assuming thepower. He said that MianMuhammad Shahbaz Sharifserved the masses and giftedthem the projects of MetroBus and Lap top schemewhile the PPP-led regime didnothing practically ratherthey tarnished the image ofthe country through corrup-tion and cronyism.

He said that whole nationwas well aware that PML-Nleaders Mian MuhammadNawaz Sharif and MianMuhammad Shahbaz Sharifalways gave priority to thenational interests. Whilestrongly criticizing the PTI,Muhammad Pervez Maliksaid that the party actuallywas playing the role ofZardari’s front man.

He demanded of the PTIleadership to inform the na-tion thatswhy they had per-formed as silent spectatorduring the last regime, whythey did not uttered a singleword on killings in Karachiand Balochistan. PervezMalik said that historic winof Pakistan Muslim League -N is written on the wall andall those elements will be lostfor ever who are doing thepolitics and trying to makepublic fool with lie-basedslogans.

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LAHORE—Mr. Latif Khosa,Secretary General, PPP, haslodged a complaint to theChief Election Commissioner(CEC) urging him to take ac-tion against the culprits whohave violated the code ofconduct in Lahore on thebehest of PML(N) candi-dates.

In his letter to CEC, LatifKhosa said, a riot and freefight of extreme violent be-havior with open use of firearms took place at a meetingof PML-N candidates andsupporters at the Dry Port inthe NA-124, Lahore area on23 April, 2013. Supporters of

different PML-N candidatesfell upon each other andcaused grievous injuries toeach other. Chairs, brickbatsand use of fire arms was freelymade. Cognizable offenceswere committed. The incidentestablishes that the PML-Ncandidates are openly carry-ing weapons and fire arms inthe Election Campaign. Theyare thus intimidating votersand supporters of other par-ties, he said.

Unfortunately, he said thepolice have tried to cover upthis blatant incident of vio-lence because the local Po-lice in Lahore continue tosupport PML-N candidates.Even though the above inci-

dent was extensively re-ported by the electronic me-dia, the Police have tried tohush it up, thereby enablingPML-N Candidates to con-tinue to carry and display firearms.

Further, the PPP leadersaid violation of the code ofconduct and brazen nakedaggression by the PML (N)top candidate in the Lahoreconstituency NA-119 is re-flective from the fact that onSaturday 20-04-2013 withinthe percents of Police StationCity Tibbi. The car of AyeshaAhad Malik, a candidate, wassmashed while on campaignby the henchmen of the PML(N) candidate.

PPP leader complains to CEC

DRO summonsImran over rally

on The MallLAHORE—District Return-ing Officer (DRO) LahoreNazir Ahmad Gujana Satur-day summoned PTI chair-man Imran Khan for April30 on applications againsttaking out ral ly withoutpermission on The Mall.

Four applications werefiled by different petition-ers submitt ing that PTIleaders took rally on TheMall without permission ofthe district administrationand violated code of con-duct and election rules.

They pleaded the Dis-trict Returning Officer totake act ion against PTIleaders Imran Khan andAbdul Aleem Khan.

PTI President Lahore,Abdul Aleem Khan appearedbefore the district returningofficer who issued show-cause notice to him. Aleemkhan pleaded to exempt ImranKhan from personal appear-ance.

However, the Distr ictReturning Officer observedthat Imran Khan should ap-pear on April 30 to receivenotice.—APP