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Presidential ordinance restricts suit, prosecution or any otherlegal proceedings in any court or forum against former PM’s acts

ISLAMABADagencieS

PRESIDENT Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday issuedan ordinance to prevent actions taken in thepast two months by former PM Yousaf RazaGilani, recently ousted by judges, from beingchallenged in court.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the dismissal ofGilani as prime minister after convicting him of contempt inApril for refusing to reopen Swiss corruption cases againstZardari. The move was the culmination of a stand-offbetween the judiciary and the government, and forced thePakistan People’s Party to hastily elect Raja Pervez Ashrafas the new PM on Friday in a bid to end the crisis.The presidential ordinance aims to prevent actions takenand orders passed by Gilani between April 26 – when hewas convicted of contempt—and his dismissal on June 19from being challenged in any Pakistani court. Theordinance said, “This ordinance has been introduced in

light of aftermath of the notification regardingdisqualification of Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani as PrimeMinister, and short verdict of Supreme Court (circa-19Jun 2012), over various constitutional petitions”. “The functions including parliamentary functionsperformed, actions taken, orders passed, directionsissued, instruments made, MOUs executed, national andinternational commitments made, process ofcommunication issued, advice given to the President inany matter, including in respect of Acts and Ordinances,SROs and other legal instruments issued, powersconfirmed, assumed or exercised, or appointments made,by Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister of Pakistanfrom 26-04-2012 to 19-06-2012 (both days inclusive),shall be deemed to have been validly done, performed,taken, passed issued, made, given, confirmed, assumed,executed, exercised and provisions of this ordinance shallhave, and shall be deemed to always to have had, effectaccordingly,” the ordinance said.

PM says PPPto continuepolitics of reconciliationg Ashraf says party respects allinstitutions, to organise free,fair and transparent elections

g Visits mausoleums of Quaid-e-Azam, ZAB and Benazir

KARACHI/GARHI KHUDA BUXagencieS

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf onSunday said the Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) believed in politics of reconciliationand not confrontation, adding anarchywould benefit no one. Talking to reportersafter visiting the mausoleums of Quaid,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto,Ashraf vowed to hold elections in a free,fair and transparent manner so that no onecould raise a finger at the government.Ashraf said the PPP leadership was wellaware of the hardships faced bycountrymen due to the energy crisis andsolid steps were being taken to bringbetterment in the power supply situation.He said anti-democracy elements thoughtdemocracy would derail after Yousaf RazaGilani was disqualified, but another PPPactivist replaced him which disappointedthe opponents. The prime minister was ofthe view that democracy could not bewrecked and it would continue as his partywould continue struggle for the purposewith same commitment and sincerity. Hesaid he belonged to the middle class andhis appointment as prime minister hadproved that the PPP was a party of poorand it worked for their welfare. Ashraf saidthe PPP was desirous of strengtheningnational institutions, including judiciary,as it was in the larger interest of thecountry and its people. He said the countrywould progress if everyone followed theprinciples of unity, faith and discipline. Hesaid the PPP and allied parties werecommitted to promoting politics ofreconciliation in line with the vision ofBenazir Bhutto. Asked about law and orderin Karachi, the prime minister said the citywas the jugular vein of Pakistani economyand his priority was to restore peace to thecity along with dealing with the energy crisis.He said he had spoken to the governor andchief minister and they were committed tocontrolling crimes and taking action againstthose indulging in crimes. About therestoration of NATO supplies, he said thegovernment wanted to have good relationswith all countries, including the US, on anequal basis and dignity. He said decisionabout the restoration of supplies would betaken in line with the recommendations ofparliament. While addressing a meeting ofPPP leaders in Karachi, the prime ministersaid that their destination was not achievingpower but to implement the philosophy ofZulfikar Ali Bhutto. “People are well awareof every conspiracy being hatched againstthe Pakistan People’s Party,” Ashraf said,adding that his government would bepaying special attention to the energy crisisand the law and order situation. The newprime minister said he would decide onwriting the letter to Swiss government in thelight of the constitution. He said he did notwant any clash between differentinstitutions and the matter of writing letterto the Swiss government would be decidedaccording to the law of the land. RajaPervaiz also met Sindh Governor IshratulEbad and discussed with him the mattersrelated to Sindh province.

Three copsgunned down on duty in QuettaQUETTA: Unidentified armed men killedthree police constables in Quetta on Sunday.Officials said a police party of four consta-bles was on patrolling duty in eastern bypassarea of Quetta when unidentified armedmen opened indiscriminate fire on them andfled. As a result, two of the constables diedon spot, while the third succumbed to his in-juries at a hospital. They said the policeparty was on patrol and came under a sud-den attack, so none of them could retaliate.No one has claimed responsibility far thekilling so far. Superintendent of PoliceSariab Sikandar Tareen told reporters thatthe fourth constable remained unhurt in theattack. The bodies were moved to CombinedMilitary Hospital (CMH) for autopsy. Theywere identified as Abdullah Mengal,Shahjhan and Abdullah Pirkani, while thefourth official was named Mumtaz Sarpara.Police said an investigation was underwayinto the incident to unearth the real motivebehind the killing, however, preliminary in-vestigation showed that they had been tar-geted. Police have registered a case againstunidentified men and an investigation is un-derway. Shahzada zulfiqar

Afghan militants

ambush army convoy

in Upper Dir, 21 killedPESHAWAR

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Afghan militants on Sunday attacked amilitary convoy in Upper Dir, an areabordering Afghanistan, resulting in thekilling of at least 21 people, includingmilitants and soldiers. According to reports,Afghan militants attacked a military convoyin Upper Dir, killing at least 10 militarypersonnel, while several others were leftmissing. The sources further said that thesecurity forces retaliated to attack and killedalmost 11 militants. Militants fromAfghanistan have attacked checkposts inUpper Dir several times, causing a numberof causalities to security forces in the area.

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Karachi: Prime Minister raja Pervez ashraf offers Fateha after laying a floral wreath at Quaid-e-azam’s mausoleum on Sunday.

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afghan brain drain fears as Karzai urges education reforms Muhajirs, Pashtuns stand united: altaf hussain

Two women poisoned forhonour in ShikarpurSHIKARPUR: Two men poisoned two of their sisters in thename of honour in interior Sindh on Sunday and fled.According to Shikarpur SSP Faizullah Korejo, the twoaccused, stated to be real brothers, declared their sistersHassana Khatoon and Rukhsana “kari” for allegedly havingillicit relations with two villagers named Yaseen and Najam. Acase was registered against the accused at concerned policestation and police have started raids to arrest them. At least35 people including 18 women have been killed for honour indifferent areas of Jaccobabad and Kashmore during the lastone month. However, only one accused has been arrested sofar. The dwellers of Shikarpur, adjoining areas and non-government organisations (NGOs) have expressed graveconcern over the rise in the number of incidents of killing ofwomen for honour. inP

Warsi calls Britain’s newimmigration policy ‘racist’LONDON: Pakistani origin co-chairwoman of Britain’sruling Conservative Party, Saeeda Warsi has criticised her owngovernment’s new immigration policy, calling it “racist”. Alongwith her cabinet colleagues, she stated that she would table anew bill regarding the immigration policy. Warsi, the firstMuslim woman to sit in the cabinet, warned that such a policywould amount to a “whites only” entry rule, making itimpossible for people, who come to the UK from abroad, tobring their family members here. Online

Two women, child drownin Quetta sewerQUETTA: A seven-year-old boy, his mother andgrandmother, died due to suffocation in a sewer on Sunday.Rescue workers said that Abdul Rauf, 7, fell into an openmanhole while playing outside his house near Burma hotel onSariab area in the outskirts of Quetta. After knowing about theincident, the boy’s mother identified as Bibi Mariam went outof the house and climbed down the manhole to save her son.Later Bibi Zura, the boy’s grandmother, saw her daughterclimbing down the manhole also jumped into the gutter afterher. The boy had already died of suffocation due to poisonousgas, but unfortunately his mother and grandmother also died.Rescue workers say that the bodies had been retrieved fromthe main hole and were shift to hospital. The deceased wereAfghan refugees and living in a refugee camp in Sariablocality. Meanwhile, a Hindu trader was injured byunidentified gunmen in the main bazaar of Mastung district.Police said that a Hindu businessman was present in his shopwhen armed assailants riding a motorbike shot at him andfled. As a result, he sustained bullet wounds and was shifted tothe district hospital for medical aid. The reason behind theattack has not been ascertained so far. StaFF rePOrt

Two cops killed in KarachiKARACHI: Some unidentified armed assailantsattacked a police van in Karachi killing two officialsincluding an officer. Sources said that the police officialsbusy in snap checking were attacked by unidentifiedarmed miscreants in Nagan Chowrangi area of Karachi,killing both policemen. “The bodies were shifted to al0cal hospital in Karachi,” they said adding that Rangersand Police have cordoned off the area in order to findout the culprits. Online

Mubasher Lucman

offers his side of eventsLAHORE: Mired incontroversy over aninterview of Malik Riaz,Dunya News’ former anchor,Mubasher Lucman, hascome up with a video onYouTube, trying to clarify hisposition in the issue of nowinfamous footage leak almosttwo weeks ago. He says thathe did nothing wrong, thatthe interview was notplanted, that it was not anattempt to scandalise

judiciary and that if any anchor of other news channelswants to question him, he is available. Mubasher claimedhe wasn’t naming names or providing details of that day’sevents. “I am here to explain myself because I owe it to myfamily, my children, my friends and most importantly, myviewers,” he said and added, “For those who believe intruth, no explanation is needed; and for those who do notbelieve in truth, no explanation can be given.” In the 22-odd minutes two-part video, he says that he wants to clearthe situation about some objections raised by his critics. Healso offered an explanation as to why he was unable tocome on air or online soon. “My media channel hadsuspended me, that’s why I was unable to come on air butnow that I have resigned from my channel, I have chosenthis very channel [YouTube] – the same where that behind-the-scenes video was leaked – to offer my version of theevents.” He said he resigned from Dunya TV on his own willas the channel was under pressure because of him, andadded that he was not going anywhere and would continueto reside in Lahore. StaFF rePOrt

raja’s election shows PPP left

with no clean person: OppQUETTAagencieS

Opposition leaders on Sunday con-demned the Pakistan People’s Party forgetting Raja Pervaiz Ashraf elected thecountry’s prime minister, saying it hadshown that the PPP was left with no cleanman for the job.

Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadith leader SajidMir said the election of “Raja Rental” asprime minister proved that the rulingPakistan People’s Party (PPP) was leftwith not a single clean person in its ranks.

Addressing a news conference, Mirsaid the motive behind the change of PMwas to save the money looted throughcorruption. He said the PPP and its allieshad become a “corruption company” toserve their personal interests and that theruling coalition was engaged in prolong-ing its rule instead of working for publicinterest. To a question, he said the rulersshould explain their stance on NATOsupply routes and drone attacks. Com-menting on Balochistan, Mir said therewould be no improvement if killers ofNawab Akbar Bugti were not punished

and the dumping of bodies did not stop.Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader LiaquatBaloch said the most corrupt person ac-cused of corruption in the rental powerplant had been made the country’s primeminister. Addressing a rally, Baloch in-vited all democratic forces to unite on asingle agenda of immediate elections. Hesaid the Baloch youth, who were on thepath of rebellion, needed to be stopped.

Meanwhile, PTI chief Imran Khantold a public rally in Jamshoro that therulers would not be given further time forcorruption and the public should take tothe streets for a revolution.

“The judgments of the judiciary arenot being obeyed, and the country willsuffer more if the current rulers stay on,”Imran said, adding that the new primeminister would have to go home like Gi-lani if he refused to write to Swiss author-ities. He claimed that the PTI would bringsuch a change wherein every citizenwould be held accountable. “Sindhi peo-ple are innocent and their rights are beingexploited. Our party is gaining popularitywhich is threatening the ruling PPP andmajor opposition parties,” he stated.

Faisal refuses to

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Raja’s cabinet LAHOREOnline

PML-Q leader Makhdoom Faisal SalahHayat has refused to sit in the cabinetheaded by newly elected Prime MinisterRaja Pervez Ashraf.Talking to a private TV channel he saidthat he could not work under RajaPervez Ashraf.He said the decision regarding nottaking ministry was his personal onebecause he was not fond of any portfolio.To a question about casting his vote infavour of Raja Pervez Ashraf, he said itwas an obligation under party discipline.“I was the parliamentary leader of thePML-Q and if I did not cast my vote, itwould have given a wrong message.”He said the party had put immensepressure on him to accept the ministry,but his conscience did not allow him towork under Ashraf . He said that he hadtold the party leadership about hisdecision.

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KARACHIaPP

PRIME Minister RajaPervaiz Ashraf onSunday presided overa meeting at theSindh Governor’s

House to review the power situ-ation in the country.

The meeting was a follow-upof Saturday’s meeting held at thePrime Minister’s House in Is-lamabad, in which important de-cisions were taken to reduce loadshedding on the war footing.

The prime minister was ap-prised by Sindh Chief MinisterQaim Ali Shah and Sindh Gover-nor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan thatthey would hold negotiationswith all the stakeholders todayand tomorrow to get their coop-eration for increasing powergeneration in the province.

The chief minister and gov-

ernor assured the prime minis-ter that it would be their topconsideration to extend all pos-sible support to the federalgovernment in reducing loadshedding in the country assoon as possible.

Federal Minister for Petro-leum Dr Asim Hussain informedthe PM that the Faisalabadpower plant has started its oper-ation per decision taken in Sat-urday’s meeting at the PMHouse. It would produce 65MWelectricity each day, he added.

Others who attended themeeting were Information Fed-eral Minister Qamar ZamanKaira, Minister for Religious Af-fairs Syed Khursheed AhmedShah, Minister for Water andPower Syed Naveed Qamar,Federal Minister for KashmirAffairs Manzoor Ahmed Wattooand Federal Minister NazarMuhammad Gondal. Prime

Minister Ashraf ordered provi-sion of more oil to power plantsto produce more electricity.

A spokesman of the Ministryof Water and Power said they

had started providing 15 millioncubic feet gas to the Power Tur-bine Station Faisalabad, addingthat PSO had also providedmore oil to power plants.

NEW DELHIagencieS

India will soon deploy its anti-missile de-fence shield in the national capital and inMumbai in the first phase, defensesources said on Sunday.

“The shield will be able to interceptand destroy mid-air any incoming enemymissiles up to a range of 2,000 km. TheIndian capital and Mumbai will get theshield in the first phase as the DefenseResearch and Development Organistionchose the two cities considering their vul-nerability to outside missile attack,” theysaid. India’s Cabinet Committee on Secu-rity will soon give its final approval beforethe shield is deployed in the two cities, thesources said. The second phase will seeother cities like eastern India’s Kolkata

and southern India’s Bangalore andChennai get the shield, the sourcesadded. India had tested its anti-missiledefense shield earlier and plans to in-crease its range up to 5,000 km by 2016.

The system was first test-fired in No-vember 2006, making India one of thefew countries to have successfully devel-oped an anti-ballistic missile systemafter the US, Russia and Israel.

PM reviews power situation

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Markaz-e-Anjuman-e-Tajranhas threatened of starting a civil disobedience movement if thegovernment fails to end the prolonged load shedding within aweek. Rawalpindi MTA office bearers Zafar Qadri, Malik Shahidand Ghafoor Paracha said unscheduled load shedding haddestroyed their business. They said the country was facing theworst ever energy crisis but the rulers were busy looting thenational exchequer. “If the forced electricity load shedding did notend within a week, traders will start a civil disobedience movementand stage a sit-in outside the President House,” said ShahidGhafoor Paracha, and added that Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was adummy prime minister who could not resolve the power crisis. inP

Rawalpindi traders warnof civil disobedience ifload shedding continues

india to deploy missile shield in Delhi, Mumbai

Punjab govt‘withdraws’security coverfor Qadir Gilani RAWALPINDI: The Punjabgovernment has withdrawn thesecurity guards deployed with AbdulQadir Gilani, member of provincialassembly and son of former primeminister Yousaf Raza Gilani. “I havebeen told by the Punjab governmentthat no security will be available forme from today onwards,” Qadir toldAPP on Sunday. “This step of thePunjab government is apparentlylinked to the developments of thepolitical landscape”, he said. He saidhe was provided with security by thePunjab government in 2009 after hereceived a string of anonymousthreats. Visibly upset over thedecision, he said, “I am deeplyconcerned and Chief MinisterShahbaz Sharif will be heldresponsible if I suffer any harm at thehands of those threatening”. Qadirsaid he had approached the Punjabinspector general of police to knowthe reason for the sudden decision towithdraw my security. aPP

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The coordination committee– comprising presidents ofall Pakistan bar councils,Supreme Court Bar Associa-tion, all four provincial barcouncils and all four provin-cial high court bar associa-tions – has rejected a strikecall given by the lawyers,saying it alone had the au-thority to decide when tocall a strike.

This was stated in a jointstatement issued here onSunday by Supreme CourtBar Association PresidentYasin Azad, Pakistan BarCouncil Vice Chairman

Akhtar Hussain, Punjab BarCouncil Vice ChairmanMalik Ghulam AbbasNiswana, Lahore High CourtBar President Shehram Sar-war and Pakistan Bar Coun-cil member and former LHCBar vice president AhsanBhon Advocate.

Reacting to a news itempublished in a section ofpress regarding All PakistanRepresentative LawyersConvention, they said therewas no link of lawyers withany announcement of a de-feated senior vice presidentof bar council and Tehreek-e-Insaaf senior vice presi-dent at a so-called lawyers’convention.

They said the lawyerstook decisions through theirelected bodies and they wereaware of their duties andrights. They said some de-feated elements could notmake the lawyers leave theirmission.

They said the meeting ofdefeated elements was un-constitutional and any callannounced by them was inviolation of the Pakistan BarCouncil Act and rules.

They said such ele-ments were not only scan-dalising the judiciary butalso wanted to make it aparty. The lawyers con-demned such negative ef-forts at all levels.

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Pakistan’s interior ministry onSunday issued new guidelines forthe foreigners traveling to Pe-shawar and the tribal areas of Pak-istan.

According to a notification is-sued by the interior ministry, theforeigners, traveling to Peshawar,should submit their requests atleast 12 working days in advancefor security clearance.

“The guidelines will be imple-mented on all NGO and aid workerstraveling to Peshawar and tribalareas,” the statement said.

“The foreigners will not be al-lowed to enter the tribal areas ofPakistan nor they would be permit-ted to contact or take an interviewwith the tribal elders,” it stated.

The notification further saidthat the foreigners would not be al-lowed to carry any weapons or pro-hibited material during theirjourney.

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It also said “no suit,prosecution or any other legalproceedings including apetition shall lie in any courtor forum including theSupreme Court” against anyorder made or functionsperformed by the formerpremier. The ordinance hasbeen ensured to be “an iron-clad one”, in order to endureany challenge posed against itby even the Supreme Court,since it would not bechallengeable in any court oflaw (including the SupremeCourt). The “ Legal causeOrdinance” , issued inaccordance with powersconferred on president asaccording to Article 89(section-1) maintains it as ofconsiderable importance thatall legislation carried out bythe disqualified PM, Gilanishould be given legal coverand acceptance in order toensure that all Assembly andSenate proceedings continue,unperturbed. The secondsection of ordinance, issuedunder the signatures ofPresident Asif Ali Zardari andreleased by Law SecretaryJustice (r) Yasmeen Abbasi,restricts any court actionagainst any appointed officialor ongoing implementationover any official directive asaccording to sub-section(1).

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TUNISaFP

Tunisia on Sunday extraditedMoamer Kadhafi’s formerprime minister to Libya, thegovernment announced, de-spite protests from his lawyersand rights groups that he facesexecution.

Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi,who fled to neighbouringTunisia last September shortlyafter rebel fighters took the

capital Tripoli, “was extraditedthis morning,” a spokesmanfor Prime Minister Hamadi Je-bali told AFP.

The extradition sparkeda row between the Tunisianprime minister and PresidentMoncef Marzouki, who hadsaid he opposed sendingMahmoudi back to Libya “onprinciple” and had de-manded guarantees he wouldreceive a fair trial.

Lawyers and rights groups

have long argued that Mah-moudi, who was Kadhafi’s pre-mier from 2006 until the finaldays of his regime, will be exe-cuted if he returns to Libya,where a February 2011 upris-ing ended more than fourdecades of the dictator’s rule.

But Libyan Prime MinisterAbdel Rahim al-Kib guaran-teed his rights would be pro-tected. “The Libyangovernment reiterates that theaccused will receive good treat-

ment in accordance with theteachings of our righteous reli-gion and according to interna-tional standards of humanrights,” he said.

He also expressed Libya’s“profound thanks and appreci-ation to the brotherly nation ofTunisia, as a president, govern-ment and people, for its his-toric stance with the Libyanpeople and its principled atti-tude in handing over thosewanted by justice.”

SEOULaFP

NORTH Korea onSunday de-nounced US-South Koreanmilitary drills

near the tense border as a“provocation” and vowed to“further bolster up its nucleardeterrent”, state media re-ported.

Some 2,000 South Koreanand US troops along with jetfighters, tanks and attack heli-copters took part in the live-fireexercise Friday to test re-sponses to any North Koreanattack, amid high tensions onthe peninsula. The allies on Sat-urday also launched a massivenaval exercise in the YellowSea, ahead of the 62nd anniver-sary Monday of the outbreak ofthe Korean War.

North Korea’s foreign min-istry accused the allies of firingat the North Korean flag.

“It is an extremely gravemilitary action and politically-motivated provocation to firelive bullets and shells at the flagof a sovereign state without adeclaration of war,” the min-istry said in a statement carriedby the official Korean CentralNews Agency. “The DPRK(North Korea) will further bol-ster up its nuclear deterrent for

self-defence as long as the US,the world’s biggest nuclearweapons state, persists in itshostile policy towards theDPRK,” it said. Tensions arehigh after the North’s failedrocket launch in April, seen bythe United States and its alliesas an attempted ballistic missiletest. Pyongyang has also threat-ened attacks on the South’sgovernment and conservativemedia for perceived insults toits regime.

The North has been devel-oping nuclear weapons fordecades. Its official position hasbeen that it needs them for self-defence against a US nuclearthreat, but that it is willing inprinciple to scrap the atomicweaponry. Under a September2005 deal reached during six-nation negotiations, Pyongyangagreed to dismantle its nuclearprogrammes in return for eco-nomic and diplomatic benefitsand security guarantees. But six-party talks on implementing thedeal have been stalled since De-cember 2008. The North hasstaged two nuclear tests, in2006 and 2009. The three-dayannual US-South Korean navaldrill will involve 10 South Ko-rean warships plus the USSGeorge Washington aircraft car-rier, 8,000 personnel and hun-dreds of combat aircraft, thedefence ministry in Seoul said.

raWalPindi: Markets remained closed in the city on Sunday after a strike was called by local traders against excessive electricity load shedding. NNi

N Korea vowsto boost nucleardeterrence

KABULaFP

A prominent Afghan lawyerclose to a possible presiden-tial candidate has been ar-rested on charges ofkidnapping and raping awoman, prosecutors saidSunday.

Kabir Ranjbar, the presi-dent of the Afghan Lawyers’Union and a former memberof parliament, was detainedon Saturday, deputy attorney

general Rahmatullah Nazaritold AFP.

Nazari said the woman,now aged 20, was kidnappedfrom Dehsabz district, north-east of Kabul, around two anda half years ago and held atthe home of Ranjbar’s niece.

Ranjbar, a familiar faceon Afghan television talkshows, allegedly got thewoman drunk and raped her,the prosecutor said, and twomonths ago she gave birth tohis child.

“I can confirm Kabir Ran-jbar, a former Kabul MP inthe lower house of parlia-ment, has been arrested bythe attorney general’s officeyesterday, accused of kidnap-ping and raping a girl,”Nazari said, adding that theinvestigation was at an earlystage. Ranjbar is a key mem-ber of the Right and JusticeParty, led by ex-interior minis-ter Hanif Atmar, who is seen asa potential candidate for thepresidential election in 2014.

SYDNEYaFP

Australian Foreign MinisterBob Carr Sunday said therewas “no hint” of a plan to extra-dite WikiLeaks founder JulianAssange to the United Statesshould he be sent to Sweden.

Assange, an Australian,took refuge in Ecuador’s em-bassy in London on Tuesdayto seek asylum so as to avoidhis extradition to Sweden onrape allegations, saying hefears Stockholm will hand himto the United States.

Carr said he had raisedthe issue of the possible ex-tradition of Assange, a for-mer computer hacker, to theUS on two occasions withAmerican officials.

“When I have raised it...I’ve received no hint that

they have got a plan to extra-dite him to the US,” Carrtold the Australian Broad-casting Corporation.

Assange says he believesthe United States wants to tryhim for divulging US secretsafter WikiLeaks released aflood of classified US infor-mation about the wars in Iraqand Afghanistan, and morethan 250,000 classified USdiplomatic cables.

But he has concededthere is no current US indict-ment against him.

“Of course not, at the mo-ment the matter is before thegrand jury,” he told Aus-tralian media on Friday.“Until it comes out of thegrand jury there will not besuch evidence afforded.”

Carr said he had no indica-tion this was going to happen.

“There’s not the remotestevidence that that is the case.No US figure has confirmedthat to us,” he said.

“I suppose you could arguethey wouldn’t confirm it to usto the last moment. You couldsay that the justice departmentis proceeding on this and USofficials in state or in a diplo-matic mission like in Canberrawouldn’t be aware of it. Cer-tainly that can’t be discountedas a possibility.

“But I can say, when I’vesaid to a senior US official,‘Assange is an Australian cit-izen, we’ve got an interest inthis. Have you got plans toextradite him?’, they haven’tsaid they have got plans to ex-tradite him.

“They haven’t been able torule out that one corner of theAmerican administration

might not be considering it, butI would suspect that the USwould not want to touch this.”

Carr said if the US, a closeally, had wanted to extraditeAssange they could have doneit during the two years he hasbeen in Britain, a country withwhich Washington has a “ro-bust extradition arrangement”.

Assange, 40, dramaticallysought refuge in Ecuador’sLondon mission last week, say-ing he felt his country of birthhad not protected him, a claimdismissed Sunday by Attorney-General Nicola Roxon.

“What Mr Assange andhis supporters... seem to mis-understand is that there isnothing that the Australiangovernment can currently dothat it has not been doing,”she told Channel Ten’s MeetThe Press.

Lawyer booked for

‘torturing’ female

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Model Town Policeregistered a case on Sundayagainst a former generalsecretary of Burewala BarAssociation for allegedlymanhandling andthreatening a female lawyerin the premises of a local baron Saturday. A member ofLahore, Multan andBurewala Bar Associations,Advocate Humaira Bashirregistered the case againstAdvocate Rana Altaf Hussainalleging that she appeared inthe court of Civil JudgeNaveed Ahmad on Saturdayand was returning to herchamber when Rana AltafHussain grabbed her hair inthe bar premises,manhandled and torturedher, and threatened her life.

Tunisia extradites formerKadhafi PM to libya

leading afghan lawyerarrested on rape charge

‘no hint’ of US plan for Assange’sextradition: Australia

Damascus said it downed theF-4 Phantom on Friday afterit violated Syrian airspace.Turkey had acknowledged onSaturday that the plane mayhave done so, in commentsseen as a bid to cool tensionsbetween the former allies,but it now appears to havetaken a harder stance.

“Syria was merely exer-cising its right and sovereignduty and defence,” Syrianforeign ministry spokesmanJihad Makdissi was quotedas saying on Sunday in Al-Watan, a pro-governmentdaily. “There is no enmitybetween Syria and Turkey,but political tension (exists)between the two countries.What happened was an acci-dent and not an assault assome like to say, because theplane was shot while it wasin Syrian airspace and flewover Syrian territorial wa-ters,” Makdissi said. CNN-Turk television reported

that search and rescueteams had located thewreckage of the jet at adepth of 1,300 metres(yards) in the sea, but didnot give its precise locationor refer to the fate of the twomissing pilots.

Ankara said it could notconfirm the report. Turkey-Syria relations have alreadybeen strained by Prime Min-ister Recep Tayyip Erdo-gan’s outspokencondemnation of the Assad’sregime’s bloody crackdown,which rights activists sayhas killed more than 15,000people since March 2011. Atleast 72 people were killedon Sunday in Syria, includ-ing 36 civilians, 27 soldiersand nine rebels, the SyrianObservatory for HumanRights said.

At least 16 soldiers werekilled in the northernprovince of Aleppo, whilethe rest died in neighbour-ing Idlib province and in theprovinces of Damascus and

Deir Ezzor in the east, thewatchdog said. The Obser-vatory reported that follow-ing an attack on an artillerybattalion also in Aleppo, anumber of soldiers defected,taking with them a largequantity of weapons.

The official SANA newsagency reported that regimetroops “were engaged incombat against a terroristgroup that attacked peoplein the Jabaliye neighbour-hood of Deir Ezzor killingscores of terrorists”. Syriangovernment uses the term“terrorists” to describe therebels. In another setbackfor the regime, rebels cap-tured 11 government sol-diers in the central provinceof Damascus, it added. “Thisis one of the bloodiest weeksin the conflict,” Rami AbdelRahman, head of the Obser-vatory, said. The Observa-tory also reported thatrebels had shot down a Syr-ian regime helicopter nearthe Jordanian border.

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Unidentified robbers brokeinto a jewellery shop on Sat-urday midnight and tookaway 8 kilograms gold worthmore than Rs 45 million.

The incident occurred inthe precincts of City policestation, where SHO TariqKhanzada told that police

had started investigation ofthe unfortunate incident.He expressed hope that fin-gerprints of the suspectswhich had been found onthe glasses would help de-termine their identities.

The robbers swept theentire gold including fin-ished jewelry sets andpieces which were placed inthe display. The Sarafa Jew-

elers Association con-demned the incident anddemanded of the police toimmediately arrest the rob-bers and recover the stolengold. SSP HyderabadHaseeb Afzal Beg, whoreached the spot, assuredthe shopkeepers of all ef-forts to retrieve the gold andto bring the criminals to thebook.

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SEVENTY-FOUR universitiesof the country are facing anacute financial crisis as theydid not get Rs 12 billion of theRs 44 billion allocated during

the financial year 2011-12.Sources privy to the information said

it had badly affected the education andresearch activities in the universities.

Meanwhile, All Pakistan UniversitiesAcademic Staff Association PresidentKaleemullah announced observing blackday in all the universities today (Mon-day). He has also convened an emer-gency meeting in Islamabad on June 27to devise a future strategy.

According to details, the not releas-ing of funds has put the future of half amillion students, 95,000 employees and

thousands of students who are studyingabroad on scholarships at stake. Foreignprofessors at the universities have notbeen paid for the last two months. Thesources quoting the Higher EducationCommission officials said the FinanceMinistry had held back 37 percent of thefunds allocated for the universities whichaccounted for Rs 12 billion.

The HEC said the funds werenot being released sinceApril and scholar-ships of 10,000students withinthe countryand abroadhad beenstopped. Ina d d i t i o n ,600 stu-d e n t swhose schol-

arships had been approved for Germany,South Korea, Italy and China for highereducation could not proceed due to theunavailability of funds. Similarly, prob-lems had also arisen in the payment ofsalary and pension to 95,000 employeesand thousands of pensioners. Most of

the universities have no funds to payfor utility bills and meet day-to-

day expenses.

NEW DELHIagencieS

The heads of the Pakistan Maritime SecurityAgency and Indian Coast Guard will meethere next month to hold talks for the releaseof each other’s fishermen.

During the talks scheduled between July5 and 7, the directors general of the twoforces will also hold discussions on evolvinga joint cross-border fishing mechanismunder which the two countries would take alenient view towards each others’ fishingcommunities. The talks come close on theheels of the two sides holding separate par-leys to address the long-pending Siachenand Sir Creek issues. Coast Guard DG ViceAdmiral MP Murlidharan and MSA DG RearAdmiral Waseem Akram will represent thetwo countries at the talks.

The sources said that while there were no

high expectations about the outcome of thetalks, the negotiations would help the twosides engage with the issues faced by the twosides in guarding their maritime boundaries.There is a hotline between the directors gen-eral of the two agencies through which theytalk to each other and discuss issues. The twocountries regularly arrest each other’s fisher-men who violate maritime boundaries.

FUEL TALKS: The second round of talksbetween the ministries of petroleum andnatural resources of Pakistan and Indiawould be held on July 12-13 in the Indiancapital. In the first round of talks held in Is-lamabad, Pakistan showed interest in pur-chasing furnace oil, diesel, jet fuel and petrolfrom India, whereas India assured that itcould fulfil Pakistan’s energy needs. The twocountries would discuss modalities for im-porting petroleum products from India,rates and route.

74 universities in financialcrunch awaiting Rs 12bg All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association to observe black day today

Pakistan, india tohold talks onjailed fishermen

BEIJINGaFP

A Chinese spacecraft on Sundaysuccessfully completed the country’s firstmanual docking in orbit, the officialXinhua news agency said, a milestone inan ambitious programme to build a space station.The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft manuallylinked with the Tiangong-1 module justover a week into a manned space missionwhich includes China’s first femaleastronaut, following an automatic dockingon Monday.“The first manual docking has beencompleted normally,” mission controlannounced in a live broadcast on statetelevision. The manual “space kiss” wasthe main goal of the Shenzhou-9 mission,testing the docking technique essential to

building a space station — which Chinaaims to do by 2020.The two spacecraft first came together inan automatic docking on June 18, andseveral hours later the three astronauts onboard Shenzhou-9 entered theexperimental Tiangong-1 module — a firstfor China. Earlier on Sunday, the twovessels separated in preparation for themanual docking, which state mediaoriginally said would take place aroundnoon (0400GMT), although it was notcompleted until roughly 45 minutes later.Manual docking is hard to master as itinvolves two vessels — placed in the sameorbit and revolving around Earth atthousands of kilometres (miles) per hour— coming together very gently to avoiddestroying each other.The Tiangong-1 will only stay in orbituntil 2013 and will later be replaced.

China in first manualspace docking: Xinhua

hYderaBad: a man points to the empty cases in a jewellery shop, which was robbed by

armed men on Sunday. Shop owner said 10 kg of gold ornaments were looted. ONliNE

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A call by Afghan President Hamid Karzaifor more foreign involvement in thecountry’s higher education system risksexacerbating an already dangerous braindrain, analysts warn.With foreign forces set to leave Afghanistanby the end of 2014, the country badly needshighly skilled graduates to help it rebuildand progress economically after more than30 years of near-continuous war. Karzai onSaturday called for subjects such asmedicine and engineering to be taught ininternational languages such as English orGerman, and invited foreign institutions tocome and fund Afghan faculties. “If Francewants they can take over our medicaluniversity to teach. They can even bringteachers, books and teach in French,” hetold a seminar on reforming Afghanistan’seducation system. “If Germany wants totake over our engineering faculty we will bevery happy.” He also said Afghanistanwould allocate up to $15 million forscholarships to send more students abroadfor higher education next year.Decades of war and conflict inAfghanistan have destroyed hundreds ofschools and colleges and many of thosewho are well-educated have fled to othercountries, causing a severe brain drain inthe country. Writer and analyst Mostafa

Assir warned that Karzai’s proposals wereonly likely to make the situation worse.“There is no doubt that once Afghans areeducated here to an international level,they will not stay — the country is simplynot ready to accept them,” he told AFP.“There is no job security for them, nosecurity for their lives. Why wouldn’tthey leave the country to find a betterlife?” Afghanistan’s education system hasbeen through many changes since thecountry’s last monarch, King Zahir Shah,was overthrown in 1973, leading to aninvasion by the Soviet Union inDecember 1979 and 30 years of war.When Soviet troops were in Afghanistanin the 1980s, textbooks that preachedcommunism were printed and taught inschools. In turn, they were countered bybooks backed by the United States filledwith anti-communist ideas of resistanceagainst the Soviets. Then, during the rule of the Taliban from1996 until their overthrow by a US-ledinvasion in 2001, schoolbooks weredominated by the promotion of jihad. Girlswere banned from going to school andmadrassas, or religious schools, became themain source of education for boys. Sincethe fall of the Taliban, education inAfghanistan has expanded rapidly and theEducation Ministry says there are nowaround 8.2 million students in school, upfrom about 1.2 million 10 years ago. As well

as the problems of maintaining securityafter NATO pulls out, Afghanistan faces thechallenge of developing a successful andsustainable economy.Analyst Waheed Wafa accused thegovernment of having no long-term planfor education and warned thecountry would lose its brightestand best entrepreneurial talents.“Young educated Afghans arealready on the run — a youngAfghan who has studiedbusiness will have to leavethe country, as therewill be no job forhim,” he told AFP.“In order to stop thebrain drain which isalready happening,the internationalcommunity shouldshift its focusfromhumanitarianassistance tohelpingeducation —that is howwe will beable tobringchanges.”But noteveryone is

pessimistic about the proposals.Nasir Mahmood, a universitylecturer, welcomed the idea ofteaching in English. “Thereare a lot of updated books,especially in science, thatare in English, and sincemany of our studentsdon’t know English theycan’t use them,” he toldAFP. And he suggestedAfghanistan couldbenefit from studentsgoing abroad. “Even ifthey flee the country,the can always comeback with moreknowledge,” he said.

KANOaFP

ATTACKERS with guns andexplosives raided a jail ina restive Nigerian city onSunday, leaving fourprison guards dead and

freeing 40 inmates, authorities said.The raid occurred in the north-

eastern city of Damaturu, previouslyhit by heavy violence blamed on Is-lamist group Boko Haram and whichlast week saw gun battles between se-curity forces and extremists thatkilled at least 40 people.

It was not yet known who the at-

tackers were. Police claimed the jailwas not holding any Boko Harammembers.

“Forty escaped,” said state policecommissioner Patrick Egbuniwe,adding that one of the inmates was re-arrested and another was killed,though he did not know if police orthe assailants shot him.

The raid saw attackers throw twoexplosives and open fire, forcing theirway into the central prison inDamaturu, a prison officer said. “Aprison guard responded and therewas a shootout, but the attackersoverpowered the prison guards andbroke into the prison,” said the offi-

cer, who was not there at the time butgathered information from col-leagues.

“Four guards were killed and anunspecified number of the attackerswere shot, but their comrades tookthem away.” Boko Haram’s insur-gency has killed hundreds, mainly inNigeria’s north. The group has previ-ously targeted prisons and freed BokoHaram members. On Friday, Presi-dent Goodluck Jonathan fired his na-tional security adviser and defenceminister amid growing fears over spi-ralling violence in the north ofAfrica’s most populous nation andlargest oil producer.

afghan brain drain fears as Karzai urges education reforms

Prison raid frees 40 inmatesin restive Nigerian city

gilani to be madein-charge of PPPelection campaign

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The Pakistan People’s Party has decided toappoint former prime minister YousafRaza Gilani in-charge of the electioncampaign of the party. Sources in the PPPsaid President Asif Ali Zardari decided togive the important responsibility to Gilaniin the forthcoming general elections.According to the sources, Gilani would alsoaddress important public meetings.

PPP govt not capableof running the country: Nawaz

MURREEagencieS

PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has said thePakistan People’s Party-led government isimpassive and incapable of running thecountry. Talking to reporters in Murree, thePML-N chief said the current governmentwas worse than the Musharraf regime,adding that it had failed to prove itself inevery sector. “The government not onlydamaged democracy, it did not even sparethe judiciary. Today Karachi is ablaze andunrest prevails in Balochistan but no onecares,” the PML-N chief said. He said thegovernment had done nothing that could beappreciated. “The severe power crisis andload shedding has made the lives of thepeople miserable and the industrial sectorhas been destroyed,” he added. “Thegovernment has not only failed in everysector but also destroyed the nation’ssovereignty,” he said. Nawaz also praised thechief justice’s suo motu notice against hisown son and said the CJ’s step should belauded.

Three killed in Quettacoalmine blastQUETTA: At least three coal minersdied and another injured in a pre-dawnexplosion in the Marwar area of theprovincial capital, sources said on Sun-day. According to details, the incidenttook place in Jinnah coalmine in Mar-war mining area, some 80 kilometresnorth of Quetta where the coalminecaved in after explosion due to filling ofgas. Three miners identified as BariAlam, Muhammad Tarin and Shahje-han were killed in the blast, while an-other labourer Muhammad Shoaib wasinjured. Other miners present in thearea dug out the bodies and the injuredfrom the rubble and shifted them toQuetta Hospital. The victims belongedto the Swat valley of KhyberPakhtunkhwa. agENCiES

QUetta: Men fasten the coffins carrying the dead bodies of coalminers who died in a gas explosion on Sunday. three miners from Swat valley were killed in the blast. ONliNE

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ELEMENTS that have al-ways conspired againstKarachi by provokingMuhajir-Pashtun riotsshould see that both com-

munities stand united today, said Mut-tahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) ChiefAltaf Hussain on Sunday.

Altaf said this during his telephonicaddress to the MQM’s ‘Paigham-e-Mo-habbat’ rally in Karachi here at JinnahGround, Azizabad. The gathering’s aimwas to promote love and harmonyamong different communities living inthe provincial capital.

The MQM chief demanded of theSindh government to resolve the prob-lems of the Pakhtuns and Hazara peo-ple’s populated areas of the metropolis.MQM is not only the party of downtrod-den Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, Gilgit-Balistanis and Kashmiris but also of thePushto and Hindko speaking people, headded. “Pushto and Hindko speakingpeople are also our brothers,” he said.

He said MQM would foil conspira-cies aimed at creating hatred amongpeople and pitting them against one an-other. Altaf Hussain held feudals andlandlords responsible for hatching con-spiracies on the basis of divide and ruleformula. The MQM chief called upon the

Urdu speaking people to provide protec-tion to the push carts, roadside stalls, teacabins and hotels belonging to thePakhtuns. “Promise me that you willplay your role towards putting an end tothe fight in Karachi,” he asked the Urduspeaking people.

Altaf Hussain observed that the peoplefrom cities and other areas of KhyberPakhtunkhwa would not have come toKarachi after leaving their loved ones be-hind, had they found opportunities ofearning better livelihood there. CallingPakhtun people his brothers, he chanted‘Pathan Mohajir Bhai Bhai’ ‘Pathan Moha-jir Bhai Bhai’. The MQM chief added thattoday’s rally was an initiator to finish con-spiracies among both the communities.

Hussain asked Pashto and Urduspeakers to take oath that they wouldnot confront with each other and wouldfoil every conspiracy to create con-frontation between them. The MQMchief also said that all institutionsshould work within their parameters tostrengthen democracy. Meanwhile,ANP Sindh President Senator ShahiSyed also addressed a separate publicmeeting at KPT ground in Karachi. Hesaid his party believes in peace andnon-violence as used to be preached bytheir leader late Bacha Khan. He saidthe ANP will support every effort forpeace in Karachi as it was essential foreconomic development.

Six more fallprey to violence,several injured

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Unchecked target killing continues toclaim lives of innocent citizens as sixmore people became victims of thestrayed bullets in different areas of thecity while several others were leftinjured. According to police, unknownassailants shot at and injured one manin Banaras Colony area of Karachi. Theinjured was rushed to hospital but hesuccumbed to his wounds before gettingtreatment. In Baldia Town unknowngunmen opened fire at a shopkeeperidentified as Aslam, 23, leaving himcritically injured. The injured wasrushed to hospital but he expired duringtreatment. The police recovered bulletriddled and tortured body of a manfrom Memon Society area of Lyari. Hewas identified as Abdul Ghani Soomro.Three bullet riddled and tortured bodieswere recovered from Manghopir andLyari stream. Police said that thedeceased was shot dead afterkidnapping them. At least eight personswere injured in separate incidents ofviolence in different areas of the cityincluding Liaquatabad, Paposh Nagar,Orangi Town, Kharadar and other areas.Meanwhile, the citizens of Karachi haveexpressed grave concerns over theuncontrolled target killing andperformance of security forces to tacklethe situation. They urged the provincialand federal governments for takingsolid steps to stop the loss of innocentlives in the city.

Fire erupts in two factories

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Fires broke out in two factories innew Karachi which damagedstructure and destroying stocks. Afire brigade official said that firefighters with the help of 10 fire-tenders and three browsers wereinvolved in controlling the fire. Thefire erupted at a chemical factory inSector 6-B of New Karachi late onSaturday, and spread to the adjacentfactory. There were no reports ofany casualties.

Three abductedchildren recovered

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The Motorway police recovered threekidnapped children from nationalhighway here in the wee hours ofSunday. According to details,motorway police signaled to stop asuspected vehicle at NationalHighway in Nawabshah but theaccused present in car escaped fromthe scene leaving vehicle and threeabducted children on the spot. Therecovered children identified as RanaMuhammad Zahid, Fida Hussain andMahar Elahi were kidnapped fromLatifabad No 2 on late Saturday night.The children were handed over toHyderabad police from where theywere handed over to parents.

Muhajirs, Pashtuns standunited: Altaf Hussain g Urges Urdu, Pushto speaking people to foil all conspiracies

Karachi: MQM deputy convener dr Farooq Sattar and other workers stand on stage during

Jalsa Pegham-e-Muhabat on Sunday. ONliNE

Ownershiprights givento villagers HYDERABAD: As part of the Sindhgovernment’s village regularizationinitiative, the residents of 3 villagesincluding Masroor Ahmed Jatoi, HurrCamp and Shah Latif were givenproperty ownership rights at aceremony here on Saturday evening.Provincial Ministers Nadeem AhmedBhutto and Zahid Bhurgari handedover the ownership documents to thepeople on the occasion. Whileaddressing the ceremony Bhuttoannounced that all the villages in thedistrict would be regularized within 2months. “The Pakistan Peoples Partysoon after assuming the governmenthad declared that it would regularizeall the villages in Sindh. And, today weare honouring the commitment withthe people,” the minister said. Bhuttosaid the PPP was a party of the poorpeople, labours and peasants addingthat it was owing to that relationbetween the party and the people thatthe vested interests were always busyconspiring against the PPP. aPP

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Join us at T2F every Wednesday for interactive sessions onMirza Ghalib’s poetry, conducted by author and translator,Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Ghalib Made easy by @MicroMAFThepoetry of Mirza Ghalib (27 December 1797 – 15 February1869) has been considered complex, abstract and difficultto comprehend. even for Ghalib’s contemporaries, hislanguage and imagery presented a challenge.

Karachi: a scavenger takes a nap under a self-made shed alongside Shahrah-e-Pakistan to get shelter from the scorching heat on Sunday. ONliNE

GHARI KHUDA BUXagencieS

PRIME Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashrafvisited the graves of the martyrs ofBhutto family here on Sunday.Firstly, he visited Mazar of Mo-htarma Benazir Bhutto and then he

went to the mazar of the founder of PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, offeredFateha and laid a wreath.

He also visited the grave of Madre-i-Jamho-riat Begum Nusrat Bhutto and offered Fateha.Besides, the prime minister visited the graves ofMir Murtaza Bhutto and Mir Shahnawaz Bhutto.Recording his impressions in the visitors’ book,Raja Pervaiz Ashraf paid tribute to Shaheed Zul-fikar Ali Bhutto, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto andBegum Nusrat Bhutto for their immense contri-butions for the cause of democracy in the coun-try.

The prime minister mentioned that democ-racy was restored in the country owing to thecontributions of the Bhutto family.

He also vowed to carry forward the mission ofZulfikar Ali Bhutto and Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, federalministers Qamar Zaman Kaira, Syed KhurshidShah, Nazar Muhammad Gondal, Syed NaveedQamar and Manzoor Wattoo, advisers to the PMRehman Malik and Dr Asim Hussain, MNARamesh Lal and provincial ministers MuhammadAyaz Soomro and Agha Siraj Durrani were alsopresent. The prime minister also reviewed the de-velopment works at the mausoleum and saw the li-brary and other sections. Syed Khurshid Shah andMuhammad Ayaz Soomro briefed the prime min-ister about the development works.

PM DECLARES CITY A NATIONAL HERITAgE: Prime Minister Raja PervaizAshraf declared ancestral place of Zulfiqar AliBhutto (Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto) a nationalheritage. The announcement was made at a re-ception hosted in his honour by PPP DistrictLarkana, at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto, onSunday. He also announced that he would fulfill

the promise made by former prime ministerYusuf Raza Gilani of making Garhi KhudaBakhsh Bhutto a model village. The federal gov-ernment would bear expenses of the project, headded. On his way back from Garhi Khuda BuxBhutto, the prime minister waved to the waitingcrowd who were chanting slogans ‘Jeay BhuttoSada Jeay’ and zinda hay bibi zinda hay’.

Governor, CMcall on PM

KARACHInni

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan andSindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Shah called onPrime Minister Raja Parvaiz Ashraf here onSunday at the Governor’s House. The governorand the chief minister congratulated RajaParvaiz Ashraf on his election and onassumption of the Prime Minister office. Theysaid that his (Raja) premiership will definitelyensure continuity of the democratic process inthe country. The Chief Minister said thatelection of the Prime Minister withoverwhelming majority clearly suggested thatthe coalition partners were determined todefeat anti-democratic forces who were busy inhatching conspiracies to harm the democracyin the country. Earlier, the Prime Ministeralong with Federal Ministers visited GarhiKhuda Bakhsh to pay tribute to ShaheedZulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed MohtarmaBenazir Bhutto.

Pervaiz Ashraf visitsBhutto family graves inGhari Khuda Bux

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Karachi: labourers look at cameraman as they wait for employers at a roadside in liaquatabad dakhana area on Sunday. ONliNE

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Asurplus Rs 817 millionbudget of Sir Syed Uni-versity of Engineeringand Technology (SSUET)for the fiscal 2012-2013

was passed at a meeting of the institu-tion’s board of governors held hereunder the chairmanship of Vice-Chan-cellor Prof Dr Jawaid Hasan Rizvi.

A spokesman of the University saidon Sunday that in the budget the Uni-versity announced a 20 percent increasein the salaries of its employees while itshowed Rs 815 million as current ex-penditure for the next fiscal. He saidthat the budget shows Rs 816.89 millionas current income and Rs 814.27 millionas current expenditure thus making itsurplus by Rs 2.63 million.

According to the salient features, theuniversity will spend Rs 100.52 millionon development, Rs 37.6 million on thepurchase of additional equipment forlaboratories in all the Faculties includ-ing newly established Telecom Faculty.

Besides, Rs 16.5 million have beenearmarked for financial help to deserv-ing students and staff. The help willcome out of profits on EndowmentFund, while Rs 23.45 million would bespent on construction of new academicblock and Rs 9 million for developmentof New Campus/IT Park at its 200 acresof land in the upcoming Education City.

The University has earmarked Rs1.5 million for research projects, Rs 6million for research by faculty, Rs 1.6million for Ph.D. Graduate Programmewhile Rs 3 million set aside for pur-chase of new books, research journalsand equipment for its library.

As per budget documents some10,818 students had been awarded de-grees in six different engineering disci-plines since 1998 to date. This year, theUniversity allocated Rs 16.5 million fordevelopment fund and the accumulatedFund now stands at Rs 88.1 million.

The Endowment Fund which wasestablished with an amount of Rs 250million in 2006 has now soared to Rs310 million. The Board approved theproposition of Academic Council ac-cording to which syllabus has beenamended with respect to the presentdemands and modern trends.

The board meeting was attended,among others, by Lt Gen (r) MoinuddinHaider, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, Prof DrMD Shami, Justice Fazl-e-Ghani Khan,Engr Muhammad Adil Usman, Cdre (r)Salim A Siddiqui and Provincial Secre-tary Education.

SSUET’s Rs 817mbudget passed with20pc salary increase

hYderaBad: PPP activists have blocked a road by burning tyres during a protest against Sakhi Pir Police Station ShO ONliNE

KARACHInni

Representatives from the private sectorparticipated in an advocacy event organ-ised by the Sindh Education Foundation(SEF) to highlight its pioneering adopt-a-school programme recently.

The program has mobilized private sec-tor support for public school reform andundertaken more than 250 successfuladoptions benefiting thousands of childrenbelonging to marginalized areas of Sindh.

Prof Anita Ghulam Ali, Managing Di-rector, SEF and Aziz Kabani, Director, SEFintroduced the school adoption processand during the session highlighted areas ofquality enrichment for enhancing students’learning outcomes. Contributions were in-vited through the donation of time, expert-ise and resources for improving school

environment and implementing child-cen-tered pedagogy in government schools.

The potential adopters and the SEFmanagement had a candid interactive dis-cussion where all questions regarding thedynamics and the process of school adop-tions were explored and answered.

The attendees inquired about the levelof commitment involved in such an en-deavor and the SEF management re-sponded that nurturing the future of thesechildren does require dedication but the re-wards of changing lives on such a scale hasfew substitutes. SEF urged the private sec-tor to do its part in helping the marginal-ized but to undertake the venture withresponsibility and conscientiousness.

Diverse segments of society includingconcerned citizens, social agencies, educa-tionists and private sector organizationswere represented at the forum.

youth affairs deptorganises summerprogramme

KARACHInni

A summer learning camp is beingorganised at the Institute for AdvancingCareers and Talents, here at Malir. Astatement on Thursday said it was beingorganized under the youth empoweringspaces (YES) under the leadership ofFaisal Ali Subzwari, Minister for YouthAffairs, Government of Sindh. It said thatthe Youth Empowering Spaces (YES) is apartnership project of Youth AffairsDepartment, Government of Sindh, andis being implemented by HabibUniversity Foundation. It aims tofacilitate the youth to explore and nurtureself, raise awareness, acquire neededinformation and guidance, buildrelationships and create the capacity tohelp them fulfill their aspirations for ahealthy and productive life. TheYES2Learn Summer Learning Camprecently inaugurated and attended by300 young fellows. A special theatreperformance by NAPA artists was thehighlight of the event. The launching ofthe camp is being followed by various funlearning activities like workshops andseminars, sports coaching sessions, andother recreational activities etc. The aimbehind this learning camp is to providemaximum, free of cost, fun learningactivities to the youth of Karachi duringtheir summer vacations. Around 450individuals got themselves registeredand have so far benefited from theactivities. One of the remarkablelearning sessions of YES2Learn wasorganized on June 16 titled U-TECH, anIT based seminar, at Muhammad AliJinnah University from which more than200 youth benefited. Mr. Shoaib AhmadSiddique, Secretary – Youth AffairsDepartment, Government of Sindh wasthe chief guest of the event. Some of theupcoming activities of this learningcamp include workshops on presentationskills, movie editing techniques, learningPhotoshop, sports coaching on Hockeyand basic Yoga for females, brain gamescoaching on Chess etc.

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Minister for Information andBroadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira hassaid the government has added 2,300megawatt of electricity to the nationalgrid to reduce the impact of loadshedding in the country. Talking tomedia persons at Sukkur Airport‚ hesaid Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashrafhas pledged to put the country on thecourse of rapid development. QamarZaman Kaira said PPP-led governmentplayed an important role to giveprovincial autonomy to the provinces.

chinese investors

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and marble sectors KARACHI

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Chinese investors are interested to investin mining, marble, energy, chemical andother potential economic sectors ofPakistan. However, business friendlyenvironment is the pre-requisite to attractthe foreign and local investment, saidTariq Sayeed, Vice President ofConfederation of Asia Pacific Chambers ofCommerce and Industry and President,SAARC Chamber of Commerce andIndustry. He said instead of lookingtowards United States and EuropeanUnion we should focus on Asian block fortrade and investment. Pakistani businesscommunity should take full advantage ofthe entry got in India’s textile sector, hesaid. He said China and India were the twoimportant countries in Asia and have vastmarkets. If we succeed in occupying goodspace in these markets, this would helpbring an economic revolution in ourcountry, he maintained. He informedFederation of Pakistan Chambers ofCommerce and Industry had opened itsoffices in main two Chinese market cities,Kuming and Chingdu.

SEF invites private sectorfor public schools’ reform

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Comment10Monday, 25 June, 2012

Arif NizamiEditor

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Yes and no

Anything they want?

The parliament cannot make laws that arerepugnant to the constitution. This was the chiefjustice the other day, speaking at a students’function in Islamabad. Not a problematic

statement, if taken out of context. If simply any law wereto be kosher, it would lead to majoritarianism, which is ananathema to the spirit of democracy. And even if a lawwere to be repugnant to the constitution, before it were tobe struck down, the constitution will usually takeprecedence over it. The way simple acts of parliament takeprecedence over regulations.

But it is not that simple. No statement is made in avacuum. The clash between the parliament and thejudiciary is very real and any and all statements made bythe leaders of either side are going to be mined for thesignificance therein. One cannot help but interpret theadversarial tone in the statement.

The fact of the matter is that if the parliament cannotdraft any law on account of it clashing with theconstitution, it can go ahead and amend the latter.Determining whether an act of parliament actually clasheswith the constitution in the first place is subject to theinterpretation of the Supreme Court.

The interpretative powers of the courts are large. Yes,it would do the parliament a whole lot of good to realisethat the sharper, tighter and clearer the legislation, thelesser that interpretative power is going to be but the courtcan still get away with a lot.

The idea is to take one’s work seriously but never totake oneself seriously. All institutions form the patchwork,the magical mix, that goes on to make countries smoothlyfunctioning democracies. No institution, not the judiciary,not the armed forces nor the political government, shouldnurture a messiah complex; that is usually the start of asob story. But, it is still important to realise that there is apecking order here. One that places the parliament at thetop. Some institutions may derive their bravado from theguns they wield, others from their right to decree. But it isonly the parliament and political government that derivesits power from the people themselves.

On the changing media landscape and information control

Cyberspace: the new battleground

he media debacle that unfoldedduring the last couple of weeks isnot unique to Pakistan; it has al-

ready rocked the West. Rupert Murdochand his media empire are under the gunin UK for the phone hacking scandal andreporting practices. During the secondIraq war, the credibility of the Americanmedia was questioned for not asking theright questions. Then came the Wik-iLeaks phenomena, the repercussions ofwhich are still being felt. As the reputa-tion of mainstream media got hit, alter-native sources of information gained instatus.

The connection between powerful in-dividuals and media is nothing new. In-ternational actors spent huge sums toprotect their image and influence themessages that reflect on them. The bot-tom line is, in the information age, media

has become a tactical and strategicweapon. It is used to shape perceptionsthat ultimately are instrumental in devel-oping pubic opinion.

For example, consider this reportthat indicates nearly one third ofAfghanistan’s media is either backed byIran financially or through providingcontent. Afghanistan’s National Direc-torate of Security had earlier alleged Iranwas funding weekly Ensaf, as well asTamadon and Noor TV channels. It wasfurther suspected that Iran might alsohave Afghan MPs on it pay roll, with 40of the 249 members receiving fundingfrom Iran. "What Iran wants, what theyare striving at, is a power base inAfghanistan that can counter Americaninfluence," said a senior government of-ficial.

What constitutes media has changedover times as well, and it’s no longer justthe print and the traditional electronicmedia. Modern communication technolo-gies and social media such as Facebook,Twitter and YouTube have been added tothe list and are playing a key role.

For instance, in the Arab awakening,WikiLeaks acted as a catalyst in ignitingthe resentment and discontent that ex-isted within the Arab society. The leakeddocuments reinforced the perceptionswidely held by the public about their du-plicitous rulers and elite. On the otherhand, with tools like Facebook and Twit-ter, people were able to vent their anger,organise and maintain the much-neededmomentum, as seen in Tahrir Square.

They empowered the otherwise power-less citizens of these countries to becomevoluntary reporters and spies in thismodern day information warfare. The vi-tality of social media has increased tosuch an extent that UN wants to classifyaccess to the internet as a basic humanright.

However, these modern tools havenot been able to generate leadership totake charge of the movement it has in-spired. Thus, while the social media hashad a galvanising influence and in pro-viding the initial momentum, it has adangerous side effect of not preparingpeople for the day after. Despite theselimitations, the social media tools ap-peared to be tremendously successful inbringing about regime change but consti-tute a threat to the forces of status quo.

With increasing dependence on In-ternet, protecting the infrastructure andnetworks that facilitates these informa-tion-based transactions to occur in thecyber space, has emerged as the most im-portant arena of the future warfare. TheUS and the West are spending big buckstowards beefing up cyber security, to pre-vent not only the extremists from exploit-ing the vulnerabilities, but to also protectagainst industrial espionage from coun-tries like China.

In June 2011, Defense SecretaryPanetta had commented, “The next PearlHarbor we confront could very well be acyber attack that cripples our power sys-tems, our grid, our security systems, ourfinancial systems, our governmental sys-

tems.”With cyber attacks becoming increas-

ingly frequent against government net-works, last year President Barack Obamaapproved guidelines that determine theparameters of the military responseagainst the perpetrators of a cyber attackor espionage. According to this strategy,US will consider the use of conventionalweapons.

Meanwhile, Li Shuiseng, a researcherat the leading military science academyof the People’s Liberation Army, stated inan interview at the time the new strategywas “fundamentally an attempt of the USto maintain its unparalleled global mili-tary superiority."

The allegations by the analysts cameafter Google accused Chinese officials ofattempting to hack Google email ac-counts relating to US officials, govern-ment offices, politicians, journalists andactivists - a claim denied by China. In-stead, Beijing asserts that America isusing online tactics to bring about regimechange in Arab nations and claims it hasevidence that the cyber assaults origi-nated in the US.

Some recent examples of cyber war-fare have come in the form of ‘Stuxnet’and ‘Flame’ viruses that were deployed byUS and Israel against Iran. While Stuxnetimpeded Iran’s progress towards acquir-ing nuclear capability, Flame reportedlywas used to map and monitor Iran’s com-puter networks. Flame virus has an ex-traordinary data snatching capability andcan eavesdrop on unsuspecting computer

users by manipulating its audio systemand listen to office conversations andSkype calls.

One can discern the following pat-terns from the above discussion. Withthe control of local governments, inter-national actors and powerful individualson the mainstream media, it is increas-ingly seen as preserving the status quo.On the other hand, social media is sup-porting the cause of those seekingchange. In this atmosphere, alternativesources are increasingly bringing out theshocking truth. And, as they do, it fur-ther erodes trust in the traditionalsources of news and information. Mean-while, the reporting business itself ischanging when Twitter provides 24hours coverage of the raw ground realityin different languages, to whom it mayconcern. While the forces of change maywant to keep the Internet switch on, theforces of status quo will like to have theability to turn it off.

In this context, the Mediagate in Pak-istan is just a tip of the iceberg. Theglobal trends that are impacting the in-formation and cyber warfare will ulti-mately have an impact in Pakistan aswell. The struggle for access to informa-tion and knowledge, and being able tocontrol and influence it, continues on likenever before.

The writer is the chief analyst for Poli-Tact (www.PoliTact.com and http:twit-ter.com/politact) and can be reached ataansar@politact.com

PolitactBy Arif Ansar

PPP’s human shieldsthe game hasn’t even begun yet

As far as human shields go, there isonly so much they can do. Keep-ing that in view, former PM Gi-lani did more than his part instanding by the president of Pak-

istan. Mr Gillani had to fall. From the PPP’sperspective, taking the hit was precisely thepoint. So no one in the PPP — or for that mat-ter no student of politics with enough realismand cynicism — was shocked when Mr Gilaniwas disqualified. The fact that the timing ofthis suits the PPP more than any other stake-holder or power broker is a no-brainer.

Now you can either be naively moralisticabout such things, which at some level I ad-mire, or you can be mature and skeptical.People often see their politics through amoral lens. This does not necessarily maketheir positions or justifications better — itjust makes people feel better about them-selves. The moral stance comes first and thereasoning is somehow tailored to accommo-date a more base approach. Some of us admitit and others don’t. If you don’t believe this,read The Righteous Mind: Why Good Peopleare Divided by Politics and Religion byJonathan Haidt.

Taking a moralistic approach to Gilani’sremoval will of course allow many to assumethe moral high ground. How could a PM floutthe orders of the highest court in the land?This was a fundamental issue of accountabil-ity for many. The higher the office, thegreater the power. The greater the power, thegreater the responsibility. Spiderman andOptimus Prime told us that and now so hasthe Supreme Court. Being a superhero has itsappeal.

Those at the other end of this debatemight argue that the contempt ruling neverreally, or at least meaningfully, engaged withthe question of the immunity of the presi-

dent. The Swiss prosecutor made statementssupporting the stance of Mr Gilani. Somemight argue that the SC cleverly skirted theissue of immunity by becoming hell bent onenforcement of one particular order.

Allegations of corruption against politi-cians in Pakistan are more effective when notproven. Lack of accountability and allega-tions to that effect go with it. The argumentcould go on: Supreme Court took on politi-cians and a party that is not popular with themedia or the army so forget about jurispru-dential advances — this is about appearances.This argument isn’t necessarily valid but de-serves contemplation.

The initial contempt ruling left the ques-tion of disqualification open but through anew petition the Court turned the office of theSpeaker of the National Assembly into a post-office and seemed to be saying, “disqualifica-tion was never really an open question.” Inthe SC’s defence, the bench that convicted MrGilani of contempt limited itself to the nar-row issue of contempt and left the issue ofdisqualification to be played out. But, ofcourse, others might argue that the SC knewthat the disqualification issue would comebefore it and it wasted no time in taking thatup. It made the most of the opportunity. Orhas it? Has the apex court, despite whatmedia frenzy indicates, handed the PPP whatit will cherish most close to an election, i.e. awound the party can show off to win greatsympathy? For the PPP, the battles and liveslost are opportunities—not catastrophes.

The PPP can now turn around and raisemany questions: why this obsession andfocus on the case of one man, i.e. Mr Zardari,when hardly anything has improved in the ju-dicial system that affects the common man.The SC is not the only court in this countryand without prejudice to the suo moto ac-tions it is not the court of first instance for anoverwhelming number of litigants in thiscountry. What do they gain from such focuson one case? Another question: has the armyand intelligence high command not beenguilty of contempt of court? Think aboutcases of missing persons or even Mush’sEmergency. Will corps commanders, armychiefs (past and present) and spy masters beremoved and punished? Or is our collectivedamnation limited to politicians? Are thewomen and minorities in this country anymore secure because of judicial activism? Isjustice more readily available to the ordinarylitigant who has spent crushing hours andhard earned money to pursue his claims be-

fore the lower courts? I am not, categorically not, endorsing the

PPP. I am trying to analyse where this debatemight lead and who might gain more. Thatdoesn’t mean I support the gains or losses.But these are issues we must think aboutsince they are often presented to us in waysfar too simplistic. They hardly ever are.

As the new PM enters his office, calcula-tions may already have been done. What willthe PPP gain by now writing the letter to theSwiss authorities? Nothing. So why not con-tinue to play hardball? Doesn’t mean I sup-port that position but it wouldn’t be anirrational call in politics. So they lost a PM inthe process but will they abandon the stance?They might gain huge sympathy especially ifthey use the right rhetoric. Losing one ormany PMs might be worth it if it means an-other five years in power. Will we now have aline of PMs being tried for contempt and thendisqualified? If that happens then it is notjust the PPP that might suffer embarrass-ment. In fact, just to mock the issue, what ifthe PPP says to the SC, “okay, let’s play hard-ball now. Let’s see how far you can go withfiring our prime ministers.” The commonman in constituency based politics is hardlylikely to view the PPP as corrupt and the SCas the messiah since justice has hardly im-proved at the grassroots level.

And how much more evidence will thencome forward regarding Dr Arsalan Iftikhar,and at what juncture, if the SC takes on thearmy and intel chiefs regarding the missingpersons and extra judicial killings? The lesseager the SC is in pursuing cases involvingthe army and intelligence agencies, thestronger the case for the PPP that it has beensingled out. In an election year, that is musicto the party’s ears.

Political cases are hardly ever only aboutthe rule of law. They relate to and reveal per-ceptions held by the actors involved — oftenof their own role in the present day and his-tory. “Rental Raja” is not a flattering choicebut why pick a strong man if he is only to bea human shield? If being the targets of vic-timisation is what has served the PPP histor-ically, then the scorecard might read like this.PPP Opponents: 1, the PPP: 0—but wehaven’t even arrived at the game yet. So be-ware.

The writer is a Barrister and has aMasters in Law from Harvard Law School. Hecan be reached at wmir.rma@gmail.com andon Twitter @wordoflaw.

By Waqqas Mir

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The widespread criticism of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf'selection as the new prime minister, especially on socialmedia by the pseudo-intellectual advocates of democ-racy, is an inconsistency in itself. These self proclaimedexperts on politics blame all evil on the absence ofdemocracy, but fail to see the contradiction in their ownstance when they criticise Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s appoint-ment on vacuous grounds. What is undemocratic aboutan elected member of parliament, qualified as such bythe constitution, being elected as the prime minister?

Political parties claiming to be frontrunners intheir own 'imaginary' struggle for restoration ofdemocracy are devoid of any trace of democratictrends within their parties. Office bearers are notelected but nominated, that too mostly from among

the family that 'owns' the party. Decisions are imposedupon the members and not discussed with them andwhen the party is in government, policies are madeoutside the parliament.

Then there is our esteemed lawyer fraternity. Theyproudly claim to have run a 'historic' movement tostrengthen the pillars of democracy: independence of ju-diciary and rule of law. And now they appear in agree-ment over the issue that anyone who brings a caseagainst a 'fraternity favourite' should not have the rightto be represented by council, and if a lawyer dares pro-vide them this fundamental right he should be banishedfrom their ranks. When it comes to the so-called heroesof the lawyer community, no adjudication is required -they can pronounce anyone guilty or not guilty on their

own. So this is the demented form of rule of law theystrived for?

We all have our own flawed concepts for notions ofdemocracy, rule of law and the like. It is likely that in aprocession of a 100 men all chanting for democracy,each one has a different picture of democracy in hishead. We want everything to be according to our ownindividual preferences; a prime minister that 'I' like, acourt decision that 'I' agree with and a law that suits myindividual needs. These trends are fundamentally dicta-torial and not, by any stretch of the imagination, demo-cratic. Are we a nation of wolves pretending to be lionsand asking to be governed like sheep?

ZAFAR ZULQURNAIN SAHILahore

in the intellectuals’ opinionI am surprised at the intellectuals

and the human right organisations ofPakistan who have expressed the opin-ion that Gilani's removal is counterpro-ductive to democracy. It seems thatthese individuals and organisations ac-tually represent PPP and their mis-taken concept of democracy iscorruption, lawlessness, dynastic poli-tics and running a one man show. Theyforget that democracy is the name ofaccountability and not lawlessness.They forget that in a parliamentarydemocracy it is the PM and not thepresident who runs the government.They forget that the courts interpret theconstitution. With intellectuals in Pak-istan being so gormless, even RajaRental stands out tall.

PROF JAUNAID R QURESHILahore

Judiciary and PPPThe PML(N) Chief Mian Nawaz

Sharif while addressing a rally in Swatsaid that those who mistreat the judgesof SC should meet the fate of disquali-fication like former PM Yousaf RazaGilani. I would like to ask him whatabout his own treatment as a PM waswhen his party coworkers attacked theSC and then the former CJ Sajjad AliShah had to leave unceremoniously.What about the role of a former judgewho was later awarded with the presi-dential post who took the chamak toBalochistan to divide the apex court?

It is a general perception that thePML(N) was more active in restoringthe judiciary to wash away its past sinalthough the PPP lost more workerswhile demanding the restoration andits leader Aitzaz Ahsan was one of theleaders of Lawyers Movement, (nowdiscredited by the section of lawyers).

A question that one is forced to askis why is the judiciary not prepared to

wait till President Zardari completeshis terms and then ask the governmentto write a letter to the Swiss Authori-ties to open cases against him as then aPM will not have to breach the consti-tution as was claimed by the formerPM Gilani because Article 248 clearlyprovides immunity to the presidentand governor. Why has the judiciarybeen so blatantly against PPP leaders?Shouldn’t they try not to be primarilyin the interest of justice but also par-ticularly because the sentencing of PPPfounder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979 isnow accepted by all to be a judicialmurder?

Why is an impression being createdby the judiciary itself that it is biased?Why did the CJ not show any restraintwhile taking a decision about the dis-qualification about Yousaf Raza Gilani?

How many PMs will be disqualifiedand how many will be elected by theparliament in the next eight months isthe question every thoughtful Pakistaniasks. Who will be the ultimate winneror loser? As they say, only time willtell.

S T HUSSAINLahore

Adding insult to injury?This decision by President Zardari

to appoint Raja Pervaiz as PM was justlike adding salt to the wounds of themasses who have been subjected tountold misery due to the cripplingpower shortages. Why is the PPP bentupon mocking the people, whose verywelfare it is supposed to safeguard? Itis an insult to memory of PPP found-ing Chairman to appoint a PM of ques-tionable integrity with mediocrecapability to hold an office that washeld by PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto andMohtarma Benazir. As it is, YousafRaza Gilani has done immense damageto the PPP’s image and this decision toreplace him with another shady char-

acter will damage this party im-mensely.

As far as this NAB is concerned,they would like to throw dust into oureyes and make us believe that the deviland his unknown disciples are respon-sible for fleecing Hajis, pilfering PSM,PIA, Railways, NICL, OGDC, PSO,PEPCO, the rental power scam, the70,000 missing containers and theEphedrine scam. The Rs 6 trillion debtpiled over 60 years can be attributedto a lot of things like Tarbela, Mangla,KAMRA, Motorway, Heavy MechanicalComplex, PSM, Nuclear Deterrenceetc, while the Rs 6 Trillion of addi-tional debt in the post 2008 periodseems to have been accumulated with-out any good reason and the moneyseems to have been spent on thin air.

With a NAB headed by a manwhose connections with Bahria are nosecret, or of an Attorney General whoas Prosecutor NAB had played a vitalrole in obtaining a favourable plea bar-gain for the most corrupt of all formersenior naval officers this country hasseen, the culture of corruption is sureto thrive. However what these men inpower have failed to realise is that thewrath of this nation will fall like alightning bolt from heaven and sweepthem away. The anger on streets, asmall trailer of which was witnessed inPunjab, once unleashed will consumeall those whose hands are tainted withlooted money and blood of innocentPakistanis. Political parties like ANP,MQM, PML(Q) and JUI(F) have beenexposed as opportunist parties willingto sleep with devil, if the price is right.

MALIK TARIQ ALILahore

cellular infringementsIn recent times, the life of the ordi-

nary person has been plagued withmany issues. Mobiles or cell phones,once a blessing, have become a nui-

sance with PEMRA sitting like a silentspectator.

The first problem is that if you donot receive easy load, or if you receive amessage that the card you loaded (evenafter scratching it in front of the shop-keeper is) used, you will find no solaceat any forum. The procedures for re-trieval of money are so lengthy andtricky that one prefers not to go for it.In this regard, PEMRA should issueSOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)for all cellular companies mentioning atransparent method of returning moneyto subscribers.

The second problem is the inflow ofcountless advertisements filling yourinbox. There is no bar, no check, no re-striction from any side on these ads thatirk you even at midnight. Your privacyis challenged too often.

The third and most frustrating isspecial offers from service provider al-ways busy in alluring you to listen tomusic, news, know about your stars,film stars, change your ring tones,ask for prayers timings, so on an soforth, trespassing your liberty andpeaceful life.

The forth problem is computer gen-erated calls from help lines of mobilecompanies enticing you to subscribe fordifferent schemes. These calls not onlywaste time, but also leave most of peo-ple angry for disturbing them as thesecalls are being made without the per-mission of the subscribers.

Last but not least, bumper offers towin a car or similar luxurious prizes onusing certain amount of balance in stip-ulated period of time has given impetusto many con artists in society whobadger you through your phone and tryto wring you out of phone credit.

The above horrendous situationcalls for immediate remedial action onpart of PEMRA to save time and moneyof billions of Pakistanis.

IFTIKHAR MIRZAIslamabad

Comment 11Monday, 25 June, 2012

nADRA’s incompetenceAt the turn of the century, the Na-

tional Database and Registration Author-ity (NADRA) was introduced whichlaunched the Multi-Biometric NationalIdentity Card. However, it seems that theauthority has been incompetent in usingthis new technology.

I came to this conclusion recentlywhen two of my acquaintances, who aretwins, applied for their CNIC and theirapplication got rejected in the verifica-tion and clearance process, on the basisof a ridiculous objection which said: “Un-natural age difference between twotwins.”

I would request NADRA to pleaserectify such errors in their system imme-diately, as obtaining or renewing one’sCNIC is already a tedious task.

MADIHA VIQUARKarachi

Use your voteChange comes through different

sources, in the form of a revolution, orwith an evolutionary process where atrend is set by starting a clear votingprocess. Democracy is the refection ofthe people’s choice. These are the peoplewho can mould the situations properlyby using the power of their vote.

Unfortunately, in Pakistan this trendhas still not taken root. A proper demo-cratic culture has not been cultivated,that has the ability to uplift a society.The chief reason for this is that Pakistanremained under the shadows of militarydictatorships for decades. Our politicsbecame a blend of democracy and dicta-torship. The desire to excel in a societyappears when there is continuity in asystem. Traditional politics has domi-nated our societal structures fordecades. Votes are diverted towards thepowerful segment of the society.

The present environment of thecountry is choking the people emotions.People are becoming well aware of is-sues of governance, statecraft and re-alpolitik. The election year isapproaching and the nation will get achance to choose their representatives.It is important that the elections mustbe free and fair, so that healthy resultsmust come across. If the phenomenonof rigging will prevail, then the reactionof the society will be over whelming. Itis the right time to bounce back byshowing the power of our vote. Everycitizen must give vote to those politi-cians which they think is best fit fortheir country. This strategy will help inuprooting the old structures and a real-ity will seep in the society.

MUHAMMAD UZAIR NIAZIMinawali

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British high street stores are flockingto the sprawling, chaotic megacity ofKarachi eager to cash in on a growingmiddle class with money to spend, ac-cording to ministers and businessleaders. Debenhams is the latesthousehold name to enter the marketand will become Pakistan's first inter-national department store when itopens next month. It means bravinga city notorious for corruption, powercuts, strikes, extortion rackets and re-peated bouts of bitter ethnic violence.The rewards more than make up forthe risks, according to Yasin Paracha,the man behind Team A Ventures,which is the franchisee for five Britishstores which have already openedtheir doors. "British brands have a

great name in Pakistan," he said reel-ing off some of the recent successes."Mothercare and Next already havetremendous awareness here." Headded that Karachi was home to arich jet set suspicious of Pakistanistores and who shopped instead inLondon, Paris or Dubai.The Britishinvasion is being backed by DavidCameron's government, which iscommitted to increasing trade be-tween Pakistan and the UK to £2.5bneach year by 2015. AlthoughKarachi's 18 million population andits status as Pakistan's commercialcapital make it an attractive destina-tion for British companies, the city'svolatile mix of ethnic, criminal andpolitical rivalries also leads to fre-quent violent convulsions. MrParacha said: "This is a large market

and a growing market," he told TheDaily Telegraph. "There's a burgeon-ing middle class. One hundred mil-lion people have mobile phones hereand there is all of the obvious appetitefor branded retail goods that you seein every other emerging market heretoo, so there's a lot to work on." Thenew stores – including Crabtree andEvelyn which opened in March – areclustered together in Dolmen CityMall, offering a haven of air-condi-tioned Britishness away from thehurly-burly of the Karachi streets. Aspokeswoman for Debenhams saidthe company had done extensivemarket research before deciding toopen in Karachi. "Internationalbrands in Pakistan in general are per-forming strongly and we have no cur-rent security concerns," she said.

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Cullen may have recently celebrated his 111th birthday,

but ‘Twilight’ fans are the ones receiving quite the gift.

on the heels of the 10-second teaser that was released

recently, comes the brand-new trailer for the highly

anticipated ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2’. Unlike the last

installment of the wildly popular ‘Twilight Saga’

franchise, Part 2 really seems hell-bent on

ramping up the action. And how can it not?

After all, you've got the Volturi, who are

anything but happy after learning that

edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella

(Kristen Stewart) have a newborn

daughter they think is an immortal child.

naturally, this eventually leads to quite

the climactic showdown, with the

Cullens reaching out to some additional

vampires for assistance. of course,

right there in the thick of it is Bella,

who's determined to use her newly

acquired undead skills (and motherly

instincts) to keep her daughter

Renesmee out of harm's way. "I'll

never let anybody hurt you," Bella

tells her offspring at one point.

We're guessing she's going to make

good on that promise. AgenCIeS

is ready for action!

JEnnifER loPEzrobbed in Argentina

MelBOUrne: Jennifer Lopez, who is in Argentina as

part of her Dance Again tour, was robbed just hours

after she left a clinic after being treated for a

stabbing pain in her lower back. According to local

entertainment website Primicias, the thief took

personal items from the 42-year-old singer’s

dressing room, while she performed at the GeBA

stadium in Buenos Aires. The stolen goods included

a computer, a camera and a bag with personal

documents such as iDs and passports. complicating

matters, Lopez’s manager Benny Medina, who has

also been robbed, has not been able to leave the

country since he has lost all forms of identification.

According to Spanish network Univision, the ‘on the

Floor’ singer had experienced extreme back pain and

had to interrupt her sound stage and had to be

taken to a clinic. Lopez later took to Twitter to talk

about the incident, revealing that her kids had

something to do with the hospital scare. “Got an

xray this morning...all good...pulled back muscle,” the

Daily Telegraph quoted Lopez as writing on Twitter.

“coconuts getting to big to carry both at once.

Awww... #timeflies :)” she wrote. Despite the

accident, Lopez did not cancel her elaborate, two-

hour concert, in which she performed old tunes

such as ‘Get Right’, ‘Let’s Get Loud’, ‘Waiting for

Tonight’ and her popular song ‘Jenny From the

Block’. agencieS

Depp close tomultiple womenbefore split fromVAnEssAlOS angeleS: Johnny Depp was reportedly spending time with other beautiful

women as his 14-year relationship with Vanessa Paradis crumbled. Depp, 49,

denied claims that he was involved with his 'Dark Shadows' co-star eva Green

who he shared a sensational, supernatural love scene within the Tim Burton flick.

But according to a report, he has struck up a more serious bond with his pretty

publicist, Robin Baum. "Robin and Johnny spend a lot of time together obviously

because of work but their relationship seems to be getting much closer than just

business," the Daily Mail quoted a source as telling Radar online. "Robin is twice

divorced and a mom but she and Johnny really seem to have some kind of crazy

connection that goes way beyond a professional level. "They travel a lot together

for work and get to spend a lot of time together and they definitely have a total

flirty vibe between them. i would put money on them having more than just a

friendly relationship," the source added. The source said that Paradis was aware of

the close relationship between her partner and Robin and wasn't happy about it.

"She knew that Johnny and Robin were together a lot and she didn't like it, but

there was nothing she could do because it was a working relationship she was

told," the source said. But currently, bisexual actress Amber heard, 26, is a "regular

visitor" to the new Mexico set of 'The Lone Ranger' where Depp is currently

filming. And Depp, who made an official announcement that he had split from

partner of 14 years Vanessa Paradis, is even said to have bought heard a horse so

they can ride together, according to Globe magazine.

VEEnA MAliKconfidentabout playingdouble role

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13Elvis Presleycrypt pulledfrom auctionLOS ANgELES: The crypt in whichElvis Presley was first buried has beenwithdrawn from a Los Angeles auctionafter protests it should be kept as ashrine. More than 10,000 fans signeda petition against the sale of the tombat Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis,Tennessee. Julien's Auctions said itwould not sell the crypt until thecemetery "finds a plan that best suitsthe interests of the fans whilerespecting and preserving the memoryof Elvis". The crypt has been emptysince 1977. Presley was temporarilyinterred there alongside his mother,Gladys, for two months after he diedbefore being reburied at his Gracelandhome. Fans argued on the ElvisMatters website: "Can you imaginevisiting the crypt and spend a fewmoments of silence, while an unknownis buried there? If the crypt is stillaccessible for fans, that is." With bidsstarting at $100,000 (£64,000) the lotwas to include the crypt itself, the rightto open and close the vault for a burial,a memorial inscription and the use ofForest Hill Cemetery's chapel for aservice. Fans will still be able to buyother Elvis memorabilia however - thesinger's personal telephone, medallionand X-ray of a karate injury are amongother items under the hammer. BBc

Maroon 5 inspired by80s rockers Journey WASHINgTON: Maroon 5 hasrevealed that they want to chart thecareer path of the American rock bandJourney. The ‘Payphone’ band want tobe like the 80s rockers, who’s track‘Don’t Stop Believing’ was a minor hitwhen originally released in 1981, but ahuge worldwide hit when it was re-released in 2008 after being used in TVshows. “We’re counting on the culturalfeedback loop to pull a Journey on us.Journey wasn’t cool,” Contactmusicquoted Adam Levine as telling Detailsmagazine. “Now I can’t go out one nightwithout somebody screaming the wordsto that song. That’s what we’re bankingon. We’ll play Coachella festival in 15years,” he said. The 33-year-old singer isaware that many people don’t perceivehis band as cool, or groundbreaking, butthey have their own sound, which isdifferent to other bands. “Everybodywanted to be the Strokes, and I wantedto sound like Michael Jackson and writepop songs. agencieS

2,3,4 MILAN: A model displays a creation aspart of Burberry Prorsum Spring-Summer 2013Menswear collection.

3 4

Coke Studio Season 5Episode 4 continuesmusical exploration

NEW DESK

We present an overview of songs seen and heardon episode 4 of ‘Coke Studio’s Seasons 5’.

BoheMIA AnD ChAKWAL gRoUP: This is a

love song written by Aziz Lohar, a

contemporary of the Chakwalis who hailed

from village Shah Khushi near Kalar Kahar in

Chakwal. There is little information available as

to the date it was written and no written

records of the poet Aziz Lohar. A fusion

between contrasting tragedies of love; One

referring to spiritual love, sung by the

Chakwali's in a joyful manner and the other

relating to people who are lost in the material

realm, performed by Bohemia.

KANDYAARI DHOL gEET

hAMAyoon KhAn: This is a famous Pashto

folk song which was tied together with

another folk song with a similar theme. ‘Tora

Bahraam Khaana’ is a love song sung from a

woman to her beloved. Her beloved, Bahram

Khan, has a very dark complexion – and not

considered handsome by conventional ideals

of beauty, however, that is of very little

significance to the girl and she sings about

how much she cares and loves Bahram Khan.

This song was tied together with another folk

song in which a man is singing to his beloved

who is very dark but he doesn’t care and will

continue to love her. Like Larsha Pekhawar

Ta, Tora Baram Khanna includes Pashto

couplets known as tappas.

TORA BAHRAAM KHAANA

ATIF ASLAM: This song

was supposed to be on

one of Aslam’s albums

but he wanted to do it

for Coke Studio. The

song talks about Aslam’s

journey. He writes about

the idea of searching for

someone and turning to God in pain of separation

from his beloved. In the song Atif writes that the

beloved returns but the person doesn’t need them

anymore because he has found God and needs

nothing else. Aslam decided to include a section

from 'Shaana Uchiyan' the renowned qawali

performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He felt the

qawali would help bring out the idea of searching for

God and add a higher spiritual dimension to his

music. A track created upon cyclic rhythm layers,

which evolve through shifting accents while the

underlying rhythm remains unchanged.

DHOLNA

UzAIR JASWAL: was

written in late 2011 and is

very different from Jaswal’s

other songs. Most of his

compositions are sad and

mellow and Jaswal wanted

to do something that would

appeal to people his own

age. ‘Bolay’ just came to him in a burst of creativity.

He was asked to send a few demos for Coke Studio

and wanted to include a faster track along with his

mellow ones. The song represents the freedom, love

and a carefree sense of life when you’re young –

one that Jaswal hopes will touch the youth at the

heart. A light-hearted track that inspired Coke

Studio to use a typical eastern folk-beat as its fusion

rhythm base.

BOLAY

RUNgFAReeD AyAz AnD ABU MUhAMMAD: This is a

Kalaam written by Amir Khusro in his early years.

Though there is no evidence to prove this, it is said

that Khusro was inspired to write the kalaam after he

met his pir Nizamuddin Auliya. This version of Rung is

considered to be the closest to the original rendition by

Amir Khusro. It has been featured this season along

with Hadiqa Kiyani's version to show the similarity and

contrast between two very different versions of the

same Qawali. One reason why traditional music

continues to survive today is because of its evolution in

time. By featuring two different versions of Rung in

one season, this point is highlighted and

experimentation with traditional music is encouraged -

provided the essence of the original is not sacrificed.

neWS DeSK

Pakistani actress Veena Malik is excited about playing a

double role in her debut Bollywood film ‘Daal Mein Kuch

Kaala hai’. She says she is confident she will pull it off

well as she has real life dual identities as well. "Playing

a double role in reel life is a new thing for me. But in

real life, i actually play the double role of two girls inside

me -- one is Zahida Malik and other is Veena Malik,"

Veena said in a press statement. "i am sure if i can play

a double role in real life, it will be exciting to play a

double role in a movie," she added. The actress, who

became popular in india after her stint on ‘Bigg Boss 4’,

has also signed the Telugu version of the Bollywood hit

‘The Dirty Picture’. She will even feature in hindi movies

‘Mumbai 125 km’ and ‘Zindagi 50-50’.

shahidKapoorfinds his girlMUMBai: Twice before, they were almost finalised

as the lead pair but it didn't happen. however if all

goes well, Katrina Kaif, who is gearing up to star in

Prabhudheva's next 'namak', will play the romantic

lead opposite Shahid Kapoor for the very first time.

in 2007, Rajkumar Santoshi had wanted to cast

Katrina and Shahid in lead roles in the film he was

planning to direct. Again, imtiaz Ali's wife Preeti

had wanted the pair to headline the 2009 remake

of the Korean film' My Girlfriend is An Agent' that

she was going to produce. ‘namak’ also marks the

coming together of Katrina and Prabhudheva for

the first time. While the two of them got

acquainted on the sets of Prabhudheva's hindi

directorial debut Wanted that starred the actress'

ex Salman Khan whom she would visit on sets,

they never got the opportunity to work together. A

source close to the film said, "Katrina too is very

enthusiastic about working with Prabhudheva. She

knows he is a commercial director, who

understands the pulse of filmgoers in the country.

She has told him she will be free to do his film

after Jaunary 2013. And Prabhudheva has no issues

waiting for her to be free." agencieS

When Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina

got intiMAtE…MUMBai: yash Raj’s latest directorial

venture has acted as a catalyst in

strengthening the bond between co-stars

Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif, both

professionally and otherwise. The two, who

will be seen romancing on screen for the

first time ever, recently shot an intimate

scene. A source from the sets of the film

said, “We shot the sequence at 19 Short

Gardens, covent Garden. it is a street

bustling with activity, but they cleared the

area for the shoot. Shah Rukh is very

popular here and so is Katrina. They did not

want the crowd to hamper the schedule.”

Apparently, the veteran filmmaker got

emotional on seeing the rushes of the

scene as he believed the duo looked

awesome as a couple.“Shooting the

intimate sequence, yashji got too

emotional. When he saw the shot on the

monitor, he got all nostalgic. As for Shah

Rukh and Katrina, they looked very good

together,” the source added. Looks like

Shah Rukh and Katrina are raring to set the

silver screen on fire! agencieS

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Monday, 25 June, 2012

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Djokovic all set todefend Wimbledon

GALLE aFP

SRI Lanka turned the screws onPakistan in the first Test inGalle after battering the touristswith both bat and ball on the

third day on Sunday. Sri Lanka bowledPakistan out for 100 in the first innings inreply to their own 472, with off-spinnerSuraj Randiv grabbing 4-13 and left-armspinner Rangana Herath taking 3-30.

The hosts surprisingly declined to en-force a follow-on despite a substantiallead of 372 runs and made 137-5 in theirsecond knock when skipper MahelaJayawardene declared in the final hour.Pakistan, set an improbable victory targetof 510 runs, were reduced to 36-3 bystumps after seamer Nuwan Kulasekaradismissed stand-in captain MohammadHafeez and Taufeeq Umar.

Herath had Azhar Ali taken at silly-point by Thilan Samaraweera, leavingnightwatchman Saeed Ajmal (11) and theteam's most experienced batsman YounisKhan (0) at the crease. The hosts, over-

whelming favourites to go 1-0 up in thethree-match series, have two days to forcea result on the spin-friendly wicket despiteforecasts of wet weather on both days.

Pakistan's target was way above thehighest fourth innings total ever achieved

to win a Test match -- 418-7 by the West In-dies against Australia in Antigua in 2003.Pakistan's best fourth-innings performanceis 343-3 which helped them draw theDubai Test against South Africa in 2010.

The Test has been marred by at least

10 contentious decisions over three daysby umpires Steve Davis of Australia andIan Gould of England, with six of themgoing against the tourists. But the Deci-sion Review System (DRS), which allowsreviews by the television umpire, is notbeing used in this series. Pakistan, whobarely managed to surpass their lowest-ever total against Sri Lanka of 90, werebundled out at the stroke of lunch afterresuming the day at 48-5.

The tourists were dealt a cruel blowwithin the first 30 minutes of play whenYounis was given out leg-before for 29by umpire Davis. Television replaysshowed a clear inside-edge off the bat onto the pad and a surprised Younis, whohad scored 14 of the first 17 runs of theday, stood his ground before walking off.There was no doubt over the next wicketas Adnan Akmal was run out for ninewhen Mohammad Ayub refused a sec-ond run and both batsmen werestranded at the same end. Ayub, makinghis Test debut aged 32, plodded for twohours to score a dour 25 when he wasninth out, leg-before to Herath.

Pakistan on verge of a big defeat Whatmore slamsabsence of DRSin Pak-SL series

GALLEaFP

Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore on Sun-day slammed the absence of the DecisionReview System (DRS) in the seriesagainst Sri Lanka after his team sufferedseveral umpiring errors in the first Test.The Test has been marred by at least 10contentious decisions over three days byumpires Steve Davis of Australia and IanGould of England, with six of them goingagainst the tourists. But the DRS, whichallows players to appeal for reviews bythe television umpire, is not being usedin this series reportedly due to cost fac-tors. Whatmore, a former Sri Lankancoach, said he was surprised the DRSwas not available for the series when itwas used for Sri Lanka's two home Testsagainst England in March and April."They had it for England, so why nothere?" Whatmore, who guided Sri Lankato the World Cup title in 1996, asked re-porters after the third day's play. "Itdoes not seem right to me that you haveit for one series and not for another."The DRS should be made compulsoryfor every series. That will go a long wayin helping a lot of things -- anything thatwill help make correct decisions." Askedif Pakistan will make an official com-plaint about the two on-field umpires,Whatmore said he would not make apublic comment on it. "Whatever I needto say will be done through official chan-nels," he said. "There will be a fair bit tosay, but I can't make any public com-ment. We will do it the right way. Wehave ways of communicating with thosewho matter." Whatmore said he was try-ing his best to boost the morale of hisplayers amid the umpiring controversy."We just make it known to the playersthat it is out of our control and theyneed to do what they have to do," hesaid. "We just try to make the most ofit." Pakistan were facing certain defeatin the first match of the three-Test seriesafter being reduced to 36-3 in their sec-ond innings while chasing a victory tar-get of 510. The International CricketCouncil, which had earlier said the DRSwas mandatory for all series, changedits stance last year and made it optionalfollowing objections from India.

KUALA LUMPURagencieS

An unbeaten 109 by Vijay Zol almostsealed a sensational victory for India be-fore they fell short by just one runagainst arch-rivals Pakistan in a nerve-wrecking match of the Under-19 AsiaCup cricket tournament here today.

Chasing a stiff 288 for victory, the In-dians could manage 286 for seven intheir stipulated 50 overs despite Maha-rashtra batsman Zol's 119-ball 109 notout and his three fifty-plus partnershipswith skipper Unmukt Chand (49 off 78balls), Akshdeep Nath (42 off 28) and

Rush Kalaria (30 off 16). Continue read-ing below

India needed 17 runs for a win fromthe last over bowled by MohammadNawaz and they were on course after hit-ting a six and two fours in the first, thirdand fifth balls.

India needed two runs for a win fromthe last ball but to the horror of the In-dian camp, Mohsin Sayyed failed to scorea single run, just driving back to thebowler. The 17-year-old left-handed Zol,who hit nine fours and a six during hisstay at the crease, was left stranded.

Kalaria had a good outing with boththe bat and ball and it was due to his

four-wicket haul that India managed torestrict Pakistan to 287 after openerSami Aslam set the tone with a 149-ball121 with the help of 15 fours and a six.

Sent into bat, Pakistan lost BabarAzam in the second over to MohsinSayyed. But Aslam's 213-run stand forthe second wicket with Imam-ul-Haq (88off 97) brought them right back into thematch at the Kinrara Academy Oval.

India didn't get off to a good startAkhil Herwadkar and Baba Aparajithwithin the first 10 overs. However, Zolalong with Chand shared an 88-runstand for the third wicket to reviveIndia's innings. After Chand's dismissal

to Akhtar Waheed, Zol found an able allyin Nath who hit four fours and threesixes during his enterprising knock.

It was however Zol's 51-run standwith Kalaria that brought India withinsniffing distance of victory. But Kalaria'sdismissal to Mohammad Nawaz in thelast over turned the tide in Pakistan'sfavour.

India are in the second place in theGroup A standings behind table-toppersPakistan.

The win gives Pakistan six points andhas all but assured their semi-final berthafter they beat Nepal U-19 by eight wick-ets on Saturday. They play their last

group match against hosts Malaysia U-19on Tuesday.

India, meanwhile, have three pointsfrom their two matches. They beatMalaysia by eight wickets and face Nepalnext on Tuesday, who beat Malaysia by103 runs.

In Group B, Sri Lanka U-19 havebeaten Afghanistan U-19 by four wicketsand Bangladesh U-19 by 43 runs.Bangladesh, meanwhile, thrashed min-nows Qatar U-19 by 328 runs earlier onSaturday.

The semi-finals will be played onThursday and Friday, with the final isscheduled for Sunday.

KUALA LUMPURaFP

Cricket's world body will appoint new senior offi-cials and haggle over plans to water down the influ-ence of leading nations -- hotly opposed bydominant India -- at annual talks from Sunday.New Zealand's Alan Isaac will take over as presidentand David Richardson of South Africa becomeschief executive, at a time when cricket is trying tomove on from spot-fixing scandals and find a bal-ance between its three formats. The body will alsoconsider minor changes to one-day internationals,the legality of switch-hitting and the use of videoumpires. On the sidelines, India will discuss resum-ing cricketing ties with militancy-hit Pakistan.

ICC annual talks are often fiery affairs but thetoughest debate in the Malaysian capital will focuson the self-commissioned Woolf report, which rec-ommended a radical revamp of its clubby struc-ture to modernise the sport. "The ICC reacts asthough it is primarily a members' club," said thereview headed by England's Harry Woolf. "Its in-terest in enhancing the global development of thegame is secondary." The report prescribed adding

independent directors to the executive board andcutting the representation of Test-playing nations.It also recommended a clearer pathway to Testcricket, which currently only involves 10 countries.It has already been rejected by India, which is es-timated to provide about 70 percent of globalcricket revenues and has been accused of bulldoz-ing its way at the ICC. But the ICC Council, meet-ing on Thursday, will be asked to ratify two ofWoolf's changes: creating a new position of chair-man of the board, and slashing the presidencyfrom two years to a one-year, ambassadorial role.The talks start on Sunday with a meeting of thechief executives' committee, and the ICC associateand affiliate members will elect their three boardrepresentatives on Monday. The board meets onTuesday and Wednesday. India's Sharad Pawar isthe outgoing president, while Richardson, a for-mer Test wicket-keeper, takes over from fellowSouth African Haroon Lorgat as chief executive.

Cricket is still reeling from the Pakistan spot-fixing affair, when players were caught arrangingno-balls to order during a Test against England.Former captain Salman Butt was released from aBritish prison only on Thursday.

iCC new chief gets appointed in Kl meeting

Pakistan pip India by one-run in a thriller

Sri lanKa 1st innings 472 (t. dilshan 101, K. Sangakkara 199

not out, M. Jayawardene 62, Saeed ajmal 5-146, Mohammad

hafeez 3-55)

PaKiStan 1st innings (overnight 48-5):

Mohammad hafeez lbw b randiv 20

taufeeq Umar lbw b Kulasekara 9

azhar ali c P.Jayawardene b Kulasekara 0

Younis Khan lbw b herath 29

Saeed ajmal c Paranavitana b randiv 0

asad Shafiq c P. Jayawardene b herath 0

Mohammad ayub lbw b herath 25

adnan akmal run out 9

abdur rehman lbw b randiv 1

Umar gul c P. Jayawardene b randiv 2

Junaid Khan not out 2

extras: (lb2, w1) 3

total (all out, 54.3 overs) 100

Fall of wickets: 1-17 (taufeeq), 2-17 (azhar), 3-43 (hafeez), 4-

43 (ajmal), 5-44 (Shafiq), 6-65 (Younis), 7-88 (akmal), 8-94

(rehman), 9-98 (ayub), 10-100 (gul).

Bowling: Kulasekara 13-7-27-2 (w1), Pradeep 9-2-28-0,

herath 21-6-30-3, Mathews 2-2-0-0, randiv 9.3-1-13-4

Sri lanKa 2nd innings:

t. Paranavitana lbw b ajmal 25

t. dilshan lbw b Junaid 56

K. Sangakkara c taufeeq b ajmal 1

M. Jayawardene c akmal b Junaid 14

t. Samaraweera c Younis b Junaid 15

a. Mathews not out 7

P. Jayawardene not out 9

extras: (b6, lb2, nb2) 10

total (for five wickets declared, 41 overs) 137

Fall of wickets: 1-81 (Paranavitana), 2-85 (dilshan), 3-93

(Sangakkara), 4-114 (M. Jayawardene), 5-119 (Samaraweera).

Bowling: gul 4-0-11-0, Junaid 13-2-44-3 (nb2), rehman 5-0-

25-0, ajmal 17-3-47-2, Younis 2-0-2-0.

PaKiStan 2nd innings:

Mohammad hafeez c Jayawardene b Kulasekara 4

taufeeq Umar b Kulasekara 10

azhar ali c Samaraweera b herath 7

Younis Khan not out 0

Saeed ajmal not out 11

extras: (b4) 4

total (for three wickets, 15 overs) 36

Fall of wickets: 1-8 (hafeez), 2-21 (azhar), 3-25 (taufeeq).

Bowling: Kulasekara 7-2-13-2, Pradeep 5-2-18-0, herath 3-2-1-1.

Pakistan need a further 474 runs to win with seven

wickets in hand

toss: Sri lanka, Umpires: ian gould (eng) and Steve davis

(aUS), tV umpire: ranmore Martinesz (Sri)

Match referee: david Boon (aUS)

ScOreBOard

KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan cricket Board coo Subhan Ahmad (c) shares a lightmoment with South Africa Acting chief executive officer Jacques Faul (R) duringthe international cricket council chief executives committee meeting. afP

GALLe: Kumar Sangakkarara walks back to the pavilion while Pakistan cricketers celebrate his dismissal as (R) Mohammad hafeez walks back to the pavilion after his dismissal. afP

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Sports 15 Monday, 25 June, 2012

NOTTINGHAMaFP

ENGLAND beat the West Indiesby seven wickets to win the loneTwenty20 international at TrentBridge here on Sunday. World

Twenty20 champions England, set 173 towin, finished on 173 for three with AlexHales making an England best 99 at thislevel. Together with Ravi Bopara (59), Halesput on 159 for the second wicket -- the thirdhighest partnership for any wicket in allTwenty20 internationals.

Opener Hales, on his Nottinghamshirehome ground, faced just 68 balls with foursixes and six fours. But, in sight of becomingjust the seventh player to make a Twenty20international hundred, he was yorked byFidel Edwards.

Earlier the West Indies, who slumped to57 for three at the halfway stage, recoveredto 172 for four on the back of DwayneSmith's 70 and Dwayne Bravo's 54 not out.

Dwayne Smith's career-best 70 was thecornerstone of West Indies' 172 for fouragainst England in their lone Twenty20 in-ternational against England at Trent Bridge

on Sunday. The West Indies, looking to sal-vage some pride at the last this tour after los-ing Test and one-day series to England, werein deep trouble at 57 for three at the 10-overhalf-way point of their innings after opting tobat first against the World Twenty20 cham-pions. But 29-year-old Barbados opener

Smith hit back with a 54-ball knock featuringfive sixes and five fours as he topped his pre-vious best at this level of 63 against Australiaat his Bridgetown home ground in March.Together with Dwayne Bravo, he put on 77in 55 balls for the fourth wicket. Bravo, 54not out, then added an unbroken 65 with

Kieron Pollard (23 not out) as the West In-dies scored 107 runs in the final eight oversof the innings. England struck an early blowwhen they removed dangerman Chris Gaylefor just two after he top-edged a pull off aSteven Finn bouncer to Jonathan Bairstow,running round from fine leg.

Stuart Broad, England's Twenty20 cap-tain, marked his 26th birthday Sundaywhen, after coming on as first change hetook a wicket with his first ball. Lendl Sim-mons pulled a short ball and Bairstow, run-ning in from deep square leg to mid-wicket,ignored the back-tracking Alex Hales andheld the low catch. But Smith struck off-spinner Graeme Swann for two fours in suc-cessive balls and then drove left-arm spinnerSamit Patel for the first six of the match.

Smith completed his fifty when a pick-up shot off Broad sailed over the rope. Andthree balls later Smith drove fast-mediumbowler Broad for a magnificent straightsix. Smith sent the first ball of the 16th overfrom Finn over long-on for six. But nextball, deceived by a wider and slow delivery,he was caught behind off the Middlesexquick, who led the attack with two for 22in his four overs.

England beat West Indies to win lone T20

LAHORE StaFF rePOrt

Mustafa pehalwan beat Sarwar Sayinpehalwan to lift Fakhr-e-Lahore Dan-gal title here at the jam-packed IqbalPark Wrestling Stadium on Sunday.

Mustafa pehalwan proved too hotfor Sarwar Sayin pehalwan and after10 minutes, he defeated his opponentand won the title.

In other competitions of theevent, Asmat pehalwan defeated Ar-shad pehalwan, Aqib pehalwan beatJhara pehalwan and Mama pehalwanoutclassed Aamir pehalwan. The mostinteresting match of the event wasplayed between Chiri pehalwan and

Chamkeela pehalwan which ended ina draw while the matches betweenKala Shahporiya pehalwan and Azharpehalwan and Nomi pehalwan andNadir pehalwan also ended in draw.

MNA Pervaiz Malik was the chiefguest on the occasion along with MPAKhawaja Salman Rafiq who gaveaway title belt to the winner.

Speaking at the occasion, PervaizMalik said: “Mohsin Arshad has greatcontributions in promoting culturallyrich game across the province whichis really appreciable. He has been ful-filling his duties in a befitting way.The presence of big crowd to witnessthe title matches is a proof of theevent’s success.”

PcB hangs inbetween twovenues for seriesagainst Australia

MUMBAIBiPin dani

Pakistan and Australian Cricket Boardsare likely to finalise their next venue forthe forthcoming series on Tuesday, it islearnt here. According to the PCB chair-man Zaka Ashraf, who is in Malaysia forthe ICC meetings, none of the two venues,UAE and Malaysia, is ruled out yet. "Wehave the financial budget ready (from theMalaysia Cricket Board), if the series is tobe hosted here and our people who wentto UAE for inspection are likely to submittheir report shortly", he added. The PCBofficials were authorised to sign the MoU,if satisfied with the UAE venues. However,the most disturbing news is that theirchief, Dilawar Mani has stepped down. "Itwas a three year term and one should lookforward", Mani, the outgoing EmiratesCricket Board (ECB) chief said from AbuDhabi. The Australian Cricketers' Associa-tion (ACA) have expressed concern aboutplaying ODIs' in the summer heat of UAE."Yes, I do agree about the hot weather inUAE in August and September, but theplayers can still have late start-matches. Itis upto the two boards to decide whetherto play ODIs and Twnety20s or only theTwenty20 matches", Mani, the brother offormer ICC president Ehsan Mani furtheradded. The PCB had concern about therain during the period (Aug. 22-Sept. 10)when these matches are to be played. "Wehave only 20 % of chance of rain duringthis period. We have already submittedthe statistics of rain during this period forlast few years and also the report obtainedfrom Meteorological Department",Mahinda Vallipuram, the Vice President ofthe MCA said from Kuala Lumpur. TheMCA official did meet the PCB official,Shubhan Ahmed on Saturday. He maymeet the PCB chairman on this issue.

HARAREaFP

Zimbabwe crushed favourites SouthAfrica by nine wickets Sunday as thenon-cap Twenty20 tri-nations tour-nament at Harare Sports Clubreached a stunning climax.

It was the second time in five daysthat the host nation put their power-ful neighbours to the sword in awarm-up event for the ICC WorldTwenty20 in Sri Lanka this Septem-ber and October.

Zimbabwe won by 29 runs lastWednesday in the pool phase of atournament that includedBangladesh, but lost by six wickets toSouth Africa Saturday and enteredthe final as outsiders.

South Africa made 146-6 off 20overs with Faf du Plessis (66) topscoring and Zimbabwe reached 150-1

with 17 balls to spare thanks to a su-perb unbeaten partnership betweencaptain Brendan Taylor (59) andHamilton Masakadza (58).

Many South African cricket writ-ers had argued against the Proteasgoing to Harare, saying Zimbabweand Bangladesh were too weak to pro-vide meaningful opposition.

"I am over the moon after beatinga quality team and so proud of theboys," said No 3 batsman-cum-wick-etkeeper Taylor. "We don't get dayslike these very often so we are goingto enjoy ourselves tonight."

"The squad has been working re-ally hard over the past three monthsand we accept that we must put inmore hard yards than some otherteams. After losing on Saturday, I justtold the boys to remain calm."

It was a dismal tournament forSouth Africa opener and captain

Hashim Amla as an 88 not out wasfollowed by a string of low scores andhe made just three runs in the finalafter big hitter Richard Levi went fora duck off his first ball.

"I thought 146 was a defendabletotal so hats off to Zimbabwe," saidAmla. "While Zimbabwe were the bet-ter team on the day, we have learnt alot regarding who should go to SriLanka and who should hot."

Taylor was voted man of thematch and the four half-centuries ofNo 1 batsman Masakadza during theeight-day tournament earned him theman of the series award.SCORES: South Africa 146-6 (20overs) (F. du Plessis 66, A. Morkel34 not out, C. Ingram 19; K. Jarvis2-22) v Zimbabwe 150-1 (17.1)(B.Taylor 59 not out, H. Masakadza58 not out, V. Sibanda 23). Zim-babwe win by nine wickets.

cM launchesyouth Festivalcampaign today

LAHOREStaFF rePOrt

Chief Minister Punjab Mian ShahbazSharif will officially be launching thecampaign of holding the Punjab Sportsand Youth Festival 2012 and for the pur-pose he will flag off campaign floats fordifferent parts of the province today(Monday). As a first step forward towards the hold-ing of the Youth Festival 2012, the CMwill also meet the participating athletesand officials of the mega event at thecamp office at Minar-e-Pakistan on Mon-day morning at 7 am from where he willlaunch the campaign.The Punjab Government earlier, thismonth launched the first ever youth pol-icy for the development of the youngergeneration of the country and for thepurpose it is also holding a Youth Festi-val from next month.The CM will launch the Youth Festivalcampaign by a flag off ceremony to thefloats having the information regardingthe holding and participation of the peo-ple in the Youth Festival.Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood, who isthe chairman organizing committee, Di-rector General Sports Punjab UsmanAnwar and other government officialswill also be present on the occasion tosend off the floats to different parts ofthe province to promote and lure theyouth to the festival. This will be going tobe the biggest event to have ever been or-ganized in the world.

Kinnaird SummerSports Gala begins

LAHOREStaFF rePOrt

The Kinnaird College Sports Depart-ment is organising a Sports Gala fromJune 25 to 28 and competitions will beheld in different events. Following games are being held and astrong contest is expected among thetop players/ teams.MATCHES/gAMES SCHEDULEIS APPENDED BELOWBasketball: Daily matches will beplayed at 3:30pm, from 25th to 27thJune 2012Table Tennis: Matches will be played at03:00pm to onwards on 25th June 2012Hockey: Matches in progressBadminton: Matches in progressCricket: (Lahore T-20 1st FloodlightsPremier League, 2012 among threeteams at 3 pm): June25: Lahore Lions Vs Lahore TigersJune 26: Lahore Lions Vs Lahore EaglesJune 27: Lahore Tigers Vs Lahore EaglesJune 28: FINAL.

Mustafa lifts Fakhr-e-Lahore Dangal title

zimbabwe crush favouredSouth africa in T20 final

noTTinGhAM: england's bowler Dwayne Smith is dismissed during the internationalTwenty20 cricket match against england at Trent Bridge. afP

WeSt indieS

d. Smith c Kieswetter b Finn 70

c. gayle c Bairstow b Finn 2

l. Simmons c Bairstow b Broad 6

M. Samuels c Kieswetter b Swann 4

d. Bravo not out 54

K. Pollard not out 23

extras (b1, lb4, w8) 13

total (4 wkts, 20 overs) 172

Fall of wickets: 1-10 (gayle), 2-24 (Simmons), 3-30 (Samuels),

4-107 (Smith)

did not bat: d ramdin, d Sammy, S narine, r rampaul, F

edwards

Bowling: Finn 4-0-22-2 (1w); dernbach 4-0-46-0 (3w); Broad

4-0-33-1 (1w); Swann 4-0-32-1; Patel 4-0-34-0;

england

c. Kieswetter c Smith b rampaul 3

a. hales b rampaul 99

r. Bopara c edwards b Samuels 59

e. Morgan not out 2

J. Buttler not out 0

extras (lb2, w7, nb1) 10

total (3 wkts, 19.4 overs) 173

Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Kieswetter), 2-169 (hales), 3-171 (Bopara)

did not bat: J Bairstow, S Patel, S Broad, g Swann, J

dernbach, S Finn

Bowling: rampaul 4-0-37-2 (2w); edwards 4-0-33-0 (1nb, 5w);

narine 4-0-28-0; Bravo 2-0-21-0; Sammy 3-0-22-0; Pollard 1-

0-15-0; Samuels 1.4-0-15-1;

result: england won by seven wickets

Man-of-the-match: alex hales (eng), toss: West indies, Umpires:

richard illingworth (eng) and richard Kettleborough (eng), tV

umpire: rob Bailey (eng), Match referee: Jeff crowe (nZl)

ScOreBOard

hARARe: Zimbabwe's hamilton Masakadza in action during the T20 tri-nations final match against South Africa at harare's Sports club. afP

LAhoRe: Mustafa pehalwan with the officials of the organizing committee afterwinning the Fakhr-e-Lahore Dangal title. STaff PhOTO

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DONETSKaFP

Spain moved a step closer to an unprece-dented treble of consecutive major inter-national honours by beating France 2-0in Donetsk on Saturday to reach the Euro2012 semi-finals. Goals in each half fromXabi Alonso, on his 100th internationalappearance, sent the world and Europeanchampions into a semi-final with Iberianrivals Portugal in the same DonbassArena stadium on Wednesday.

"I think we had things well undercontrol throughout," said Alonso. "It wasnever going to be easy but I thought weplayed a great match."

It was Spain's first competitive winin seven attempts against France, whowere bidding to become the first team toeliminate Spain from a major tourna-ment since the French side that reachedthe 2006 World Cup final.

SIngAPoRe: Juliane Schenk

of germany smiles during the

awards presentation after

defeating Cheng Shao Chieh of

Taiwan in the women’s singles

final at the Singapore open. AFP

Boonsak winsSingapore openfor second time

SINGAPOREaFP

Thai ace Boonsak Ponsana claimed hissecond Singapore Open men's singlestitle on Sunday after beating China'sWang Zhengming in a hard-foughtfinal. The 30-year-old, whose worldranking has fallen from fourth in No-vember 2010 to 32nd, beat Wang 21-18, 21-19 at the Singapore IndoorStadium, in a boost for the Thai aheadof the London Olympics. Boonsakmade a sluggish start and trailed for-mer World Junior champion Wang 10-5 early on but he came back to win 10of the next 12 points and claim theopening game in 25 minutes. The sec-ond game was tight and Wang ap-peared to have the edge after taking a19-18 lead. But the Chinese playersmashed a shot wide on match point,leaving Boonsak to claim the finalthree points of the game and secure thetitle. The Thai first won the SingaporeOpen in 2007. Boonsak will compete atthe upcoming Olympics in London al-though a number of the world's leadingplayers opted to skip the SingaporeOpen as it falls outside the Gamesqualifying period. Second seed JulianeSchenk of Germany took the women'ssingles title with a straight sets winover fourth seed Cheng Shao-chieh ofTaiwan. Schenk won the opening game21-11 but the world number six had tobattle back in the second game whenCheng reeled off nine straight points totake a 19-15 lead. However, the Ger-man fended off three game points toforce deuce before she finally took thegame and match 26-24.

Another fourmatches playedin Women Soccer

LAHOREStaFF rePOrt

Another four matches were played in the5th National Inter-Club Women FootballChampionship-2012 on Sunday at differ-ent evnues of the country. At Karachi,Rubaisha WFC match against at the KPTFootball Stadium ended in favour of theformer team after Star WFC failed to getto the ground at Kick off Time. diYa WFc Beat cdSS Karachi WarriOrS WFc 10:0@ KPt FOOtBall StadiUM, KarachiScorer Diya: Kiran Ali 5 Goals @ 2, 22, 35, 41 & 57Minute, nadia naz 1 Goal @ 14 Minute, Rukhsana 1Goal @ 20 Minute, Kiran yousuf 1 Goal @ 61 Minuteand hajra 2 Goal @ 60 & 69 Minute. The match between Tc WFc and Karachi WFc endedin 2-2 draw at the KPT Football Stadium, KarachiScorer Tc: Farrah Jabbar 2 Goals @ 15 & 22 Minute.Scorer Karachi: Sumaya 2 Goals @ 61 & 66 Minute.At Lahore, LSe WFc beat cJM WFc 9-0 @ Model TownFootball Academy Ground, Model Town D Block, LahoreScorer LSe: Mehina 3 Goals @ 50, 55 & 56 Minute, Shanzaf1 Goal @ 20 Minute, Rida 2 Goals @ 28 & 46 Minute, Batool2 Goals @ 42 & 58 Minute and Amina 1 Goal @ 34 Minute.

Punjab Womenchess on 27th

LAHORE StaFF rePOrt

The Punjab Women Chess Championshipwill be held on Wednesday (June 27) hereat a local hotel. The Chess Association ofPunjab (CAP) spokesman on Sunday saidthat the association was organising theevent at the same venue where the men’schampionship was held. The event was apart of initiate undertaken by the CAP topromote the game among the ladies andchildren across the province, he concluded.

hec inter-varsitiesWomen Baseball starts

LAHOREStaFF rePOrt

Higher Education Commission organized 1stPakistan Inter Universities Women BaseballChampionship that begin on Sunday at theQuaid- I -Azam University ground. Nineteams are participating in the event and thatincludes Punjab University , Lahore CollegeUniversity for Women, FWO University,University Baseball Team, Sargodha Univer-sity, GC University Fasilabad, Islamia Uni-versity Bahawalpur, Karachi University andAbdul Wali University Mardan. Today three matches were played. First Match PunjabUniversity beat Lahore college University for Women by8-5 Score. Mumrium Butt- 2 Scores Mahvesh- 2 scores,Roma,Zunaria,Alia,and Sumia made each one score.La-hore college University for women , Ainy one score ,Saira two score , Rabia one score , Afreen one Score.Second Match Fwo University Women Baseball Teambeat University Women Baseball Team by 15-5.Third Match Sargodha University Women BaseballTeam beat Govt college University FasilabadWomen Baseball Team beat 10-9.

Sports16Monday, 25 June, 2012

Centurion alonso sendsSpain into Euro semi-finals

GDANSKaFP

Germany captain Philipp Lahm is back-ing Bastian Schweinsteiger to win his fit-ness battle and play in Thursday's Euro2012 semi-final, despite missing the lastthree training sessions. Germany face ei-ther Italy or England in the Warsawsemi-final, but vice-captain and play-maker Schweinsteiger is feeling the ef-fects of so much match time on his anklehaving played all four Euro 2012 games

so far. Having torn ankle ligaments inFebruary which kept him out for justover a month, Schweinsteiger is strug-gling to reach full fitness, but Lahm isbacking his team-mate to help Ger-many's bid to reach the final in Kiev onJuly 1. "It's true, having had to miss threetraining sessions makes things a bit un-clear for him," said Lahm.

"We need fit players in the semifinals,we can't have anyone who is missing threeor four percent. "Having said that, I don'tworry much about Bastian Schwein-

steiger's state of health, he knows his bodyas well as anyone and I'm sure he'll be onthat pitch on Thursday evening." Havingmissed a key spot-kick in Bayern Munich'sChampions League final defeat to Chelsealast month in a penalty shoot-out, Schwe-insteiger set up both Germany's goals intheir 2-1 group stage win over Holland atEuro 2012. But he admits he was belowpar in Germany's victory over Greece inFriday's quarter-final victory at ArenaGdansk as the Germans booked their placein the last four with a 4-2 win.

Schweinsteiger will be fit for semi-final: Lahm

DoneTSK: Xabi Alonso (R) celebrates with Santi cazorla after he scored a goal during theeuro 2012 football championships quarter-final match at the Donbass Arena. afP

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TEN SPORTSFirst Test: Pakistan v Sri Lanka09:30AM

LONDONaFP

NOVAK Djokovic insists therewill be no hangover from hispainful French Open finaldefeat against Rafael Nadal

as the world number one prepares to de-fend his Wimbledon title. Djokovic hasarrived at the All England Club in goodspirits despite suffering his first grandslam final loss since 2010 as Nadal endedthe Serb's bid to hold all four majors atthe same time. The 25-year-old hadbeaten Nadal in the Wimbledon, USOpen and Australian Open finals over thelast 12 months, but he couldn't continuethat remarkable sequence at Roland Gar-ros earlier this month.

Although Djokovic concedes it was ashock to the system to walk off court abeaten man in Paris, he is too much of acompetitor to dwell on the negatives forlong and he is already firmly focused onanother successful run at Wimbledon.

"It's behind me now," Djokovic said."I was so close and there was a slight dis-appointment after the match because Iwas aware of the chance that I had inRoland Garros. "But the day after I feltgood about my tournament because it wasthe first time I ever have been in the finalthere. That's something that made me sat-isfied. "You know, I'm still only 25, so I be-lieve that I have a lot more years and a lotmore chances to win Roland Garros."

After dominating Nadal throughout2011 and then beating the Spaniard in anepic Australian Open final at the start ofthis year, Djokovic has suddenly found itharder to impose himself on the worldnumber two. As well as losing in Parisagainst Nadal, he was also beaten by theleft-hander in Monte Carlo and Rome.

Yet the Serb claims his rivalry withNadal, and also Roger Federer, has playedsuch a key role in his own improvementover the last few years that he will alwaysrelish testing himself against the best re-gardless of the result. "Of course, playingagainst both of them made me a betterplayer," he said. "Just competing at this

top level, I was going through a lot ofemotions. I was going through the yearsof doubting if I could really win moreGrand Slams and overcome the chal-lenges of Nadal and Federer. "I managedto do that. They made me work harder tobe a better player and made me under-stand what I need to do on the court andoff the court as well."

Djokovic's admiration for Nadaldoesn't extend to agreeing with theSpaniard's views about the Madrid Mas-ters however. Nadal was unhappy tourna-ment chiefs opted to play this year's eventon blue clay rather than the traditionalred. ATP bosses have now decided tochange back to red clay in Madrid, butDjokovic believes the complaints fromNadal and other players were unneces-sary. "There's a lot of talk about the blueclay. It's a very sensitive subject. The factof the matter I think is that we had toomany players complaining about it in

Madrid," Djokovic said. As a player whoworks predominantly from the baseline,Djokovic has always thrived on clay, buthe has gradually managed to adapt tograss as well after initially disliking thefaster surface. Even so, he is convincedthere should be longer than two weeks be-tween the French Open and Wimbledonto give players time to adjust.

"My personal opinion, of course, isthat this it is too short. We need an extraweek because it would give especially thetop players a little bit more time to getused to the surface," he said. "The sched-ule is as it is and we all accept it, but wewill try to find the better solution andwork for the better of the sport."WIMBLEDON STARS THRILLEDBY OLYMPIC CHALLENgE: MariaSharapova admits representing Russia inthe Olympics at Wimbledon next monthwill be a dream come true. Sharapovasummed up the feelings of a host of topWimbledon stars including Rafael Nadal,Serena Williams and Roger Federer, whoare all thrilled to have the chance to playfor a gold medal at the All England Club.

The grasscourt Grand Slam event,which starts at the All England Club onMonday, will be followed by the Gamesjust three weeks later as Olympic tennisreturns for the first time since 1908.Sharapova just enjoyed one of the greatestmoments of her career as she won herfirst French Open title to complete a ca-reer Grand Slam after several years bat-tling to recover from shoulder surgery.

She also enjoyed an unforgettablemoment at Wimbledon in 2004 when,aged just 17, she announced her arrival onthe scene by beating Serena Williams inthe final. But even those glorious memo-ries will pale in comparison to carryingthe Russian flag at the Olympic openingceremony and then taking part in theGames themselves for the first time. "Itwill be my first one. It's been a dream ofmine since I was very young," Sharapovasaid. "Over the years, you've seen howsuccessful tennis has become in my coun-try and now how important it is to be atennis player as part of the Olympics."

Djokovic all set todefend Wimbledon

Jecheon: South Korea's Lee in-woo lifts the winner's trophy after the final round of theUS$ 300,000 Volvik hildesheim open golf at the hildesheim country club. afP

SEOULaFP

South Korea's Lee In-Woo fended off achallenge from 13-time Asian Tour winnerThaworn Wiratchant of Thailand Sundayby closing with a four-under-par 68 to winthe first Volvik Hildesheim Open J GolfSeries.

Lee posted a winning total of 12-under-par 276, putting on hold Thaworn'squest for a 14th title after he signed for a69 to take a share of second place with LeeSang-Hee at the event jointly sanctionedwith the Korean Golf Tour.

Lee, among six players tied for theovernight lead, knew that he had to be ontop of his game given the quality of hisclosest rivals and the 40-year-old put in aflawless round with four birdies to end aseven-year winning drought.

"When I took a share of the thirdround lead yesterday, I told myself thatthis was my chance of winning again andI cannot waste it, he said.

"My only victory came in 2005 on theKorean Golf Tour and I badly wanted towin again. What made this victory evensweeter was that I managed to win againsta strong field that included players fromthe Asian Tour."

Thaworn bemoaned a costly bogey onthe par-three 17th which ended hischances of winning. The Thai was tied forthe lead with Lee until a bad shot on the17th caused him to slip.

He could have forced a play-off on the18th but could not sink a birdie putt from20 feet.

"The turning point was at the 17th. Ifound the bunker on my second shot andthat left me with an uphill task to make an-other birdie as that would have given methe outright lead," said Thaworn.

"While it's disappointing, that's golf

and I'll try to win again in my next event,"he added, in comments released by the or-ganisers. Thailand's Pariya Junhasavas-dikul signed for a 69 to take fourth placewhile Spanish rookie Javi Colomo tookfifth place alongside South Korea's ByunJin-Jae at the Hildesheim Country Club.Final ScOreS at the the VOlViK hildeSheiMOPen J gOlF SerieS (Par 72):276 - Lee in-Woo (KoR) 71-68-69-68277 - Lee Sang-hee (KoR) 66-73-71-67, ThawornWiratchant (ThA) 69-71-68-69

278 - Pariya Junhasavasdikul (ThA) 68-70-71-69279 - Byun Jin-Jae (KoR) 69-71-69-70, Javi colomo(eSP) 69-70-69-71280 - Prom Meesawat (ThA) 71-71-71-67, Makoto inoue(JPn) 70-71-70-69, Park Boo-Won (KoR) 69-69-70-72,Park Jun-Won (KoR) 69-71-68-72281 - Kang Kyung-nam (KoR) 71-71-70-69, Song young-hoon (KoR) 70-70-71-70, Stephen Lewton (enG) 69-73-69-70, Thanyakon Khrongpha (ThA) 70-71-68-72282 - Lee Dong-Min (KoR) 73-71-69-69, Kim Gi-Whan (KoR) 72-71-69-70, Bae Sung-chul (KoR) 70-72-68-72, Kim Dae-hyun (KoR) 67-70-72-73, MaSoo-Kil (KoR) 66-75-68-73

Lee In-Woo wins Volvik Hildesheim Open

clijsters hasno regrets overdecision to retire

LONDONaFP

Former world number one Kim Clijsters be-lieves her recent injury problems prove sheis right to finally call a halt to her illustriouscareer. Clijsters confirmed last month thatshe will retire for the second time after theUS Open later this year and the 29-year-oldhas no regrets as she battles to recover froman abdominal injury in time to appear atWimbledon. The Belgian's preparations forthe grass-court grand slam, which gets un-derway on Monday, were hampered whenshe strained a muscle during the s-Herto-genbosch tournament and was forced topull out before her scheduled semi-final.Clijsters is confident she will be fit to appearat Wimbledon, but she also missed theFrench Open due to a hip injury. Feelingher body creaking under the strain of lifeon the gruelling WTA Tour has convincedClijsters -- who initially retired in 2007 --that she has made the correct decision toquit before the pain gets any worse. Askedif she had any thoughts about changingher mind, Clijsters said: "No, this is it. Ihave no regrets. I'm too old to play thegame that I want to play physically.

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WiMBLeDon: Defending men's singleschampion Serbia's novak Djokovic takes partin a press conference on the eve of the startof the 2012 Wimbledon championships. afP

Park opens two-shot lead WATERLOO: Former US Women's Open winner Inbee Park shot a five-under 66 toseize a two-shot lead after the third round of the LPGA Tour's Manulife Financial Clas-sic on Saturday. South Korea's Park completed 54 holes at 14-under par 199 at theGrey Silo course. Her lone win on the Tour came during the 2008 US Woman's Open.Park made birdie on the par-five 18 after posting a bogey on the par-three 17th hole.The event is new on the LPGA calendar this year but it got off to a rocky start due toweather delays in the opening two rounds. Seven players had to finish their secondrounds on Saturday morning. Brittany Lang and Hee Kyung Seo each shot four-under67 to reach 12 under, and Swede Anna Nordqvist is alone in fourth place at 10 under

following a 67. FengShanshan, of China, wasnine under along withKarin Sjodin, NicoleHage and SandraChangkija, who led afterthe opening round. Fengis coming off a major vic-tory two weeks ago at theLPGA Championship.Feng shot a 70, Sjodinhad 69, Hage 67 andChangkija 69. StacyLewis had a 69 to top thegroup at eight under.Lewis is a two-time win-ner this season. AmericanMichelle Wie is tied for53rd at even-par 213 aftera 73 on Saturday. aFP

WATeRLoo: inbee Park of South Korea hits her tee shoton the third hole in the third round of the Manulife FinancialLPGA classic at Grey Silo Golf course. afP

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DAMASCUSaFP

NATO said on Sunday it will discussTurkey’s accusation that Syria shotdown one of its warplanes ininternational airspace, as Damascussuffered heavy losses and violencescaled new heights.Syria’s surging bloodshed saw at least72 people killed, a bulk of them regimetroops who died in clashes with rebels,activists said.Turkish Foreign Minister AhmetDavutoglu warned Ankara’s southernneighbour not to challenge Turkey’smilitary, as Britain, another memberof the North Atlantic TreatyOrganisation, offered support for“robust” international action.

“According to our conclusions, ourplane was shot down in internationalairspace, 13 nautical miles from Syria,”Davutoglu told Turkey’s TRTtelevision. “The Syrians knew full wellthat it was a Turkish military planeand the nature of its mission,” he said.“Nobody should dare put Turkey’s(military) capabilities to the test.” USSecretary of State Hillary Clintonlashed out at Syria for the “brazen andunacceptable” shooting down of theTurkish jet and vowed to work withAnkara on a suitable response.“It is yet another reflection of theSyrian authorities’ callous disregardfor international norms, human life,and peace and security,” Clinton saidin a written statement. British ForeignSecretary William Hague said regime

of President Bashar al-Assad “shouldnot make the mistake of believing thatit can act with impunity. It will be heldto account for its behaviour”.Italy, another NATO member, alsocondemned the regime for the shootingincident. “This is ... extremely serious andunacceptable,” Foreign Minister GiulioTerzi said. He added that Rome voiced its“strong indignation and condemnation”and that Italy would “activelyparticipate” in the NATO meeting,which is to be held on Tuesday. A NATOspokeswoman said that “under Article4, any ally can request consultationswhenever, in the opinion of any of them,their territorial integrity, politicalindependence or security is threatened”.

CAIROaFP

MUSLIM Brotherhood memberMohamed Morsi was on Sun-day declared the first presi-dent of Egypt since a popularuprising ousted Hosni

Mubarak, capping a tumultuous and divi-sive military-led transition.Morsi, who ran against Mubarak-era ministerAhmed Shafiq, won 51.73 percent of the voteafter a race that had polarised the nation.“The winner of the election for Egyptianpresident on June 16-17 is MohamedMorsi Eissa al-Ayat,” said head of the elec-toral commission Faruq Sultan.Morsi’s victory marks the first time Islamistshave taken the presidency of the ArabWorld’s most populous nation, but recentmoves by the ruling military to consolidateits power have rendered the post toothless.Thousands of Morsi supporters who hadpacked into Cairo’s Tahrir Square eruptedin celebration, waving flags and posters ofthe Islamist leader.“God is greatest” and “down with militaryrule” they chanted as some set off fire-crackers minutes after the electoral com-mission formally declared the result.Across Cairo, cars sounded their hornsand chants of “Morsi, Morsi” were heard.Morsi won with 13,230,131 votes againstShafiq’s 12,347,380, Sultan said. The elec-tion, in which more than 50 million voterswere eligible to cast their ballot, saw a 51.8percent turnout.MILITARY RULER: Military ruler FieldMarshal Hussein Tantawi, who took powerwhen Hosni Mubarak was forced to resignin February last year, congratulated Morsion his win, state television announced.Shafiq supporters who had gathered tohear the result with his campaign team inthe suburbs of Cairo were devastated bythe result. Some women screamed andothers cried as several men held theirheads between their hands in despair.“It’s a very sad day for Egypt. I don’t thinkMorsi is the winner, I’m very sad thatEgypt will be represented by this man andthis group,” Shafiq supporter Maged told

AFP after the result.The capital was tense before the an-nouncement, with the city’s notoriouslybusy streets deserted and shops andschools closed. Extra troops and policewere deployed as military helicopters flewoverhead. The road to parliament wasclosed to traffic, and security was tight-ened around vital establishments as Egyp-tians waited nervously for the result.WELCOME: Arab governments and lead-ers welcomed Morsi as Egypt’s first presi-dent following the ouster of Mubarak.But in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu’s spokesman, Mark Regev, said hisoffice was “not saying anything at this stage”.There was celebratory gunfire in the GazaStrip, which borders Egypt and is ruled byHamas which has its roots in the Brother-hood and close ties with it.Senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar toldAFP the victory was “a historic momentand a new era in the history of Egypt,” asGazans cheered and fired volleys of cele-bratory gunfire in the streets of the coastalenclave. Zahar called Morsi’s victory “adefeat for the programme of normalisa-tion and security cooperation with theenemy”, referring to Israel.The Palestinian Authority also congratu-lated Egypt’s president-elect.“We congratulate Doctor MohamedMorsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candi-date, on his win in the Egyptian presiden-tial elections, and his election as presidentof Egypt,” Palestinian negotiator Saeb Er-akat told AFP.The United Arab Emirates likewise wel-comed Morsi’s victory, urging “stability”in the north African nation, which is theArab world’s most populous, state newsagency WAM reported. The UAE, “wel-comes the results of presidential elections(there) and respects the choice of thebrotherly Egyptian people in their track ofdemocracy,” said a foreign ministry state-ment carried by WAM.The Gulf state “hopes all efforts to com-bine now towards securing stability, har-mony, and cooperation among all parties... to fulfill the aspirations of the Egyptianpeople,” it said.

g Morsi won with 13,230,131 votes against shafiq’s 12,347,380g Military ruler congratulates Morsi on presidential wing Arab world welcomes Morsi’s election

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An earthquake hit a mountainous area of south-west China on Sunday, killing at least four peo-ple and injuring more than 100, state mediareported.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said thequake had a magnitude of 5.5 and struck theborder between the provinces of Sichuan andYunnan just before 4:00 pm (0800 GMT), at ashallow depth of just 9.3 kilometres (5.8 miles).The Chinese government put the magnitude ofthe quake at 5.7. It was followed two minuteslater by an aftershock of 3.3, the China Earth-quake Network Centre said.

The quake toppled houses and cut off com-munications with parts of Ninglang county in

Yunnan, the official Xinhua news agency said.The tremor killed three people in Ninglang whileanother one was reported dead in neighbouringYanyuan county in Sichuan. A total of 104 wereinjured in the quake with 20 in serious condition,Xinhua said, quoting local authorities.

Yunnan provincial authorities had sent re-lief supplies to Ninglang, where the quake wasstrongly felt, including 1,100 tents and 3,000quilts, it said. The province had also sent ateam to the area. An official in the historic cityof Lijiang, which administers Ninglang, toldAFP it was too early to have detailed estimatesof casualties and damage. Separately, aYanyuan county government official wasquoted by Xinhua as saying that “many”houses in rural areas had collapsed, but hegave no figure.

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