Saturday, 2 February, 2013 Rabiul Awal 20, 1434Rs 17.00 Vol III No 216 19 Pages Islamabad — Peshawar Edition

Pakistan ended a fascinating

opening day of the series

with the advantage after

chipping South Africa out for

253 at the Wanderers.

Mohammad Hafeez bagged

career-best figures of 4 for 16

to run through the lower

order, building on a

consistent performance from

the visiting attack throughout

the day, as the early

exchanges lived up to the

hope of a competitive series.

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Senate passes Fair Trial Bill to

prevent and effectively deal

with scheduled offences.

The Bill will also regulate

powers of the law

enforcement and intelligence

agencies. Page 24

Fair investigations,finally!

PML-N MNA from Mianwalisays his area was never a part

of South Punjab on anyadministrative or ethnic

basis. Page 24

new provincedraws new

divisions, alignments in na

time to make goodon your promises,antony tells Pakistan

For ayn rand, with love!

Mortars from Afghanistan hitcivilians in South Waziristan’sAngoor Adda area. Page 04

Talking tough to Pakistan, India’sdefence minister says New Delhi wantsto see Islamabad’s promises translatedinto sincere action. Page 04

History of the world is essentially thehistory of its great men and women. Andmany of us are mere talents, cleverchildren in the play of life, that when agenius like Ayn Rand stands in ourpresence we can only bow down before itas an act of God, a continuance ofcreation. Women like Rand are the very‘life-blood of history, to which politics andindustry are but frame and bones’. Page 12

six Pakistaniskilled by afghan mortars

Pakistan ruinsmith’s celebrations

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GIlANI decIdes tocHAlleNGedIsquAlIfIcAtIoNFormer prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani hasdecided to file a review petition against hisdisqualification by the Supreme Court, aprivate TV channel reported on Friday.Sources said that Gilani would personallyappear before the apex court to file hispetition. The former premier was sentpacking for not complying with the apexcourt’s orders directing him to write a letterto Swiss authorities to reopen graft caseagainst President Asif Ali Zardari.However,Gilani’s successor Raja Pervaiz Ashraf hadwritten the same letter after the court issuedhim contempt notice. MONItOrING DEsK

fAtHer refuses toAllow exHumAtIoN ofKAmrAN fAIsAl’s Body ISLAMABAD: Father of Kamran Faisal, thedeceased National Accountability Bureauinvestigation officer, has refused to allowexhumation of his son’s body. The PunjabForensic Science Agency had asked for theexhumation of Faisal’s body to check fortorture marks as calls emerged toreinvestigate the alleged suicide of theanti-corruption official. Faisal’s father toldreporters that an investigation officerprobing into the death of his son, hadtelephoned him and sought permission forthe exhumation. “However, when I askedwhy they wanted to exhume my son’s body,he said he had only been directed to seekmy permission for the exhumation,” hesaid. The deceased officer’s father said hemade it clear to the investigation officerthat until he was told the real reason forexhuming Faisal’s body, he would not allowthem to proceed. Faisal, an assistantdirector at NAB, died under mysteriouscircumstances while investigating allegedkickbacks in the Rental Power Plantscandal, which has engulfed the sittingprime minister and a host of otherinfluential current and former governmentofficials. ONLINE

Karachi is now just a killing field. Everyone is complaining

and talking of conspiracies against Karachi. Will angels come

and fix the situation? — TV anchor Nasim Zehra

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Despite the fact Islamabad is a luxurious city where res-idents dream for a better life, sometimes residents arecompelled to resort to illegal activities. However, oneChristian youth by the name of Sunny Nathanial becamethe new face of the federal capital by his display of hon-esty and graciousness.

According to details, on the night of January 24,Sunny, a receptionist at Independent News Pakistan, wasreturning home when he chanced upon a drug addictwho offered to sell him a leather bag for Rs 500. Sunnyfound it to be a good bargain and agreed to buy the bag.

However, when Sunny reached home and openedthe bag, he found a laptop, an open cheque for Rs 1 mil-lion and some documents. He concluded that he had justpurchased a stolen bag.

“I really wanted to keep it,” Sunny said while talkingto Pakistan Today. “However, my conscience would notallow me to keep someone else’s belongings and I de-cided to find the owner of the bag and return its.

He said that it took him five days to contact theowner of the bag. He found a phone number in one ofthe documents in the bag and contacted Kashif Suleman,regional manager for the cellular company Ufone.Sunny then returned the bag, complete with all its con-tents, to its rightful owner.

Talking to Pakistan Today, Kashif Suleman said thaton the night of January 24, someone had stolen his bagfrom his car by breaking its lock. He said that he hadbeen very distraught as his life’s work was in his laptop.

“Sunny is a guardian angel for me,” he said. “WhenI got his call, I was overjoyed because I had never hopedto see my possessions again.”

Kashif Suleman commended Sunny on his honestyand said that the incident proved that there was still hon-est and hard working youth in the society. “As Muslims,we have a responsibility to be honest. However, thesedays no one even returns Rs 100 found on the roadside.So Sunny is an amazing young man who has proved thatgood humans exist regardless of religion,” he said.

Sunny’s friend, Kamran told Pakistan Today thatlast month he found Sunny being a part of protest sit-incamps at set up to protest against the Hazara killings inBalochistan.

When questioned, Sunny that he had participated inthe sit-in on the basis of humanity, not religion.

QUETTAstaff rEpOrt

In a major reshuffle after the imposition ofgovernor’s rule in Balochistan, the provincialgovernment has brought changes to thedistrict administration as well as various otherdepartments.

According to an official handout, 16 of 30deputy commissioners were transferred on Friday.

Quetta Deputy Commissioner (DC) HashimGhilzai, who has been asked to take over as PishinDC, was replaced by Abdul Mansoor Kakar, theKhuzdar DC.

Pishin DC Bashir Ahmad was posted as KalatDC while his predecessor Hafiz Mohammad Tahirwas asked to report to the Services and GeneralAdministration Department (S&GAD).

Gwadar DC Sohailur Rehman has been trans-ferred and posted as Nasirabad DC while FinanceAdditional Secretary Pervez Ahmad Nusherwanihas been asked to take over as Gwadar DC. Pan-jgur DC Balach Aziz and Kechh DC Javed Anwar

have also been transferred and asked to report tothe S&GAD. Jaffarabad DC Naseer Naasar hasbeen transferred and posted as Panjgur DC whileLabour and Manpower Deputy Secretary AbdulHameed Abro has been posted as Kechh DC.

Officer on Special Duty Zaid Bin Maqsood hasbeen posted in Loralai as DC while his predecessorAbdul Mateen has been posted in Barkhan.

Nasirabad DC Mohammad Ayaz has beentransferred and posted as Khuzdar DC while Agri-culture and Cooperative Societies Deputy Secre-tary Sardar Khan Bugti has been replaced byAwaran DC Ehsanullah Baloch, who has beenasked to report to the S&GAD. Syed Ejaz Haiderhas been transferred and appointed Kohlu DC,while Barkhan DC Nadeem Tahir has been askedto take over as Musakhail DC. His predecessor As-matullah was asked to report to the S&GAD.

Kohlu DC Abdul Samad Baloch has beentransferred and asked to report to the S&GADwhile Quetta Additional Commissioner Syed ZafarAli Bukhari has been appointed the Jaffarabaddeputy commissioner.

ISLAMABAD ONLINE

The Awami National Party (ANP) on Friday calledfor a targeted operation against terrorists inKarachi, where sudden surge in violence killed 18people in less than 24 hours.

Speaking to reporters outside the ParliamentHouse, ANP Senator Zahid Khan said the Sindhgovernment was responsible to protect life andproperty of citizens. He said Interior MinisterRehman Malik reaches London whenever some-thing happens in Karachi. The government, hedemanded, should crackdown on terrorists in

Karachi. The government has failed to maintainlaw and order, he said, adding that issuing warn-ings alone would not work. Another ANP sena-tor, Haji Adeel, said that faces of the killerscould be seen in the CCTV footage aired bymedia on Thursday. He said that Karachi shouldbe cleared of illegal arms.

Balochistan administration

undergoes major reshuffle

ANP demands crackdownon terrorists in Karachi

ZAHID KHAN SAYS SINDHGOVT RESPONSIBLE FORSECURING LIFE ANDPROPERTY OF CITIZENS

QUETTA: Businesses were closed in the city on Friday following a strike called by the Jamiat Ulema-e-

Islam and Balochistan National Party (Awami) against Governor’s Rule in Balochistan. ONLINE

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Shahbaz Sharif uses dozens of government websites

to promote his Facebook and Twitter profiles.

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A complete shutterdown and wheel-jamstrike was observed in parts of Balochistanagainst imposition of governor’s rule onFriday. All the markets and trade centres re-mained closed and traffic was thin on theroads in several cities. Schools and officesalso witnessed low attendance.

Political parties of the province, JamiatUlema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), BNP Awamiand a few members of the Pakistan People’sParty (PPP) supported the strike and de-manded the federal government to bring anend to the governor’s rule in the province.

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf hadimposed the governor’s rule following thefour-day long protest of Hazara communitywith the bodies of 86 people who were killedin the blasts in Quetta. The citizens in variousdistricts of the province had to suffer due toabsence of transport and closure ofmarkets.People were of the view that theprovincial and federal governments shouldchalk out a long-term strategy to overcome thetarget killings and violence rather than taking

temporary steps whichwere of no use. Besidesdemands of lifting thegovernor’s rule, theyalso criticised the per-formance of law en-forcers.

LONDONONLINE

Acclaimed Pakistani scientist PervezHoodbhoy on Friday warned that in-creasing radicalisation within Pakistan’smilitary could lead to its nuclearweapons being hijacked by radical ele-ments.

“Safety and security of Pakistan’s nu-clear arsenal is of a major concern. Thegrowing radicalisation within the mili-

tary, given attacks on its owninternal bases, could leadto these nuclear weaponsbeing hijacked by radicalIslamists,” Indian mediaquoted Pervez Hoodbhoy.He was in London for thelaunch of his book Con-fronting the Bomb.

The nuclear physicist

and defence analyst estimated Pakistan’sarsenal to be similar to India’s at around120 to 130 warheads.

Answering questions from membersof the Indian Journalists’ Association atthe Indali Lounge, he said, “Earlier, suchweapons were seen just as a means of de-terrence. The most dangerous develop-ment is the increasing search for fissilematerial as a new dimension of tacticalnuclear war has entered the picture. Thismeans the number of weapons willsteadily increase.”

Hoodbhoy, who received his PhD innuclear physics from Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology (MIT), stressed thatthe issue needed to be addressed for thesake of subcontinental as well as globalsecurity.

“India and Pakistan have come closeto nuclear war at least five times in 1987,1990, during the Kargil War in 1999,

after the attack on the Indian Parliamentin 2001 and the Mumbai attacks in 2008.Given the history of nuclear tension, wecan’t afford to be passive on this issue.The fallout, from the blast itself to the ra-dioactive effects, will be felt not just inthe sub-continent but around the world,”he said. Confronting the Bomb: Pakistaniand Indian Scientists Speak Out, pub-lished by Oxford University Press andedited by Hoodbhoy, is a compilation ofessays by scientists from both sides of theborder. It kicks off with the atomic age inIndia in 1974, followed by Pakistan andtraces the furious nuclear race after the1998 nuclear tests.

“Pakistan started developing its nu-clear weapons only because India em-barked on it. India has remained theprimary enemy. But to some extent thatperception is changing, with GeneralKayani recently saying that Pakistan’s

major challenge is the enemy within. Sothere seems to be a doctrinal shift withinthe army but Kayani himself is under at-tack within the forces,” said Hoodbhoy,who admitted to receiving threats againsthis own life. “Jihadists still operatewithin Pakistan and the state’s policy re-garding Islamists has been a confusedone,” added Hoodbhoy. The scientist isfamous for speaking out against the Pak-istan’s nuclear establishment.

He remained sceptical of the peacefuluses of nuclear technology in India andPakistan. “Whether electricity generatedfrom nuclear sources is really efficient isa big question mark,” he said.

“The construction of nuclear reactorsis very expensive and should an accidentsimilar to Japan’s Fukushima disaster in2011 were to occur in India or Pakistan,both countries may not have the capacityto deal with it the same way,” he added.

ISLAMABADstaff rEpOrt

THE Supreme Court (SC) on Friday di-rected National Accountability Bureau(NAB), Federal Investigation Agency(FIA), the Foreign Office (FO) and allother state authorities involved in the

OGRA case to ensure that the accused Tauqir Sadiqis brought back to the country by the next hearingon February 7.

According to details, a two-member bench of theSupreme Court conducting proceedings in the OGRAImplementation case, announced the order.

The court noted with regret that more than 14months after its initial order directing a prompt inquiryby NAB in the multi-billion corruption scam, littleprogress had been made. The court observed that theaccused Tauqir Sadiq had still not been brought backto Pakistan after being allowed to escape. Furthermore,the court observed that instead of a swift deportationprocess, long-drawn extradition proceedings werebeing contemplated. Hence, the court noted, the delaymight substantially hinder the progress of the case. Ac-cording to a press release of the Supreme Court, thecourt also noted a series of irregularities which indi-cated that certain NAB high-ups may have been delib-erately hampering the progress on the inquiry. Detailsof such irregularities, based on NAB’s officially filedreports to the SC, were quoted in the order at length.

The statement said, “If a deliberate attempt to ham-

per the investigation was established, this would con-stitute a serious offence against public justice, punish-able under various provisions of the PPC and theNAO.” The court called for an explanation from therelevant officials. The court also requested KhwajaHaris Ahmad, a respected lawyer, to assist it as amicuscuriae on legal issues concerning deportation and of-fences against public justice.

The court further noted the stunning disclosuremade by the investigation officer that at one point inthe investigation, NAB had tracked down no less than

Rs 3 billion lying in the name of Tauqir Sadiq and aclose family member held in various bank accounts.

However, just before NAB officially placed cautionon the accounts, the accused got a tip-off and managedto siphon all the money away. The court asked for anexplanation for this critical lapse in the investigation.

The court also noted that the draft warrants of arrestwent back and forth between the investigating officerand the higher-up four times, with seemingly unjustifiedobjections. The back and forth process went on for overone month at a stage when speed was of the essence.The court observed that in one of these episodes, whilethe chairman did sign the warrants, they were kept hid-den from the relevant investigation officer for 12 days.When the officer did get the warrants, he found out thatTauqir Sadiq was sitting right there in the NAB buildingand had him detained. Furthermore, the court observedthat when the investigation officer went to discuss a pro-cedural matter with one of his superiors, the latter torethe warrants into pieces in front of the officer and letTauqir Sadiq escape.

The court also noted the investigation officer’sstatement that during preparation of the reference, theNAB file was handed over to a legal advisor who alsohappened to be the legal advisor of two oil companies.The officer refused to consult the legal advisor andnoted the potential conflict of interest that might arisebecause of an industry insider. His objection was, how-ever, ignored. The NAB will be filing a report to ex-plain all of the irregularities. The court will resume thehearings on Thursday, February 7.

Bring tauqir sadiq to court onthe 7th, sc tells government

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In an explosive revelation, Colonel (r) Ashfaq Hussainhas accused former president General (r) PervezMusharraf of aggression against India in 1999, sayingthe former army chief had himself crossed the Line ofControl (LoC).

Hussain, in his book Witness to Blunder, said theKargil mission was masterminded by Major GeneralJaved Hassan, General Mehmood and General Aziz.“They made Musharraf agree to the plans which later ledto a limited conflict between India and Pakistan,” hewrote. Hussain claimed Musharraf had himself crossedthe LoC and spent a night on the Indian-controlled side.“On March 28, 1999 General Pervez Musharraf crossed11 kms beyond the LoC on a helicopter and was escortedby Colonel Amjad Shabbir at a location named ZakriyaMustakar.” He wrote Pakistan began its operation inKargil on December 18, 1998 when Captain Nadeem,Captain Ali and Hawaldaar Lalak Jaan crossed the LoCto carry out a recce.

“On May 17, 1999, Nawaz Sharif was given theKargil briefing,” the book said. Another former army of-ficer, Lt Gen (r) Shahid Aziz, who headed the analysiswing of the ISI during the Kargil conflict, recently re-vealed that the operation was masterminded by a groupof four generals led by Musharraf.

Musharraf, in response to the allegations, has saidthe 1999 Kargil operation was a big success militarily,

adding that if then prime minister Nawaz Sharif had notvisited the US, the Pakistan Army would have “con-quered 300 square miles of India”.

Rejecting the suggestion that he had willfully put a“tight lid” on details regarding the Kargil War operation,Musharraf told a news channel that Nawaz was solelyto blame for the defeat.

“Nawaz lost a political front which we had won mil-itarily,” the former president said, adding that the “primeconsideration for actions like the Kargil operation is se-curity and secrecy”.

“So the army leadership decides who is to be in-formed and when. As the operation progressed and theproper time arrived, a briefing of the corps commanderswas held,” he said.

Musharraf said the country lost only 270 men againstIndia’s 1,600 soldiers in the conflict.

He said “blaming the nation at this juncture of time,as Lt Gen (r) Shahid has done, seems to be part of a con-spiracy”.

Musharraf has said he would return home some twoand a half months before the forthcoming elections to

boost the electoral chancesof his party – the All Pak-istan Muslim League(APML).

However, Colonel Hus-sain, who was then part ofInter-Services Public Re-lations Directorate, said,“How can Musharraf callit an excellent operationwhen there were no Indiantroops on that location dur-ing winters? He crossedthe LoC when In-dian troops werenot present atall. He as-sumed that In-dians won’tcome to knowuntil June.The ones whowere launchedinto the opera-tion didn’tknow the aimsand objectivesof the opera-tion which isstrange.”

radicals might hijack Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, Hoodbhoy warns

musharraf himself crossed loc during Kargil mission: bookCOLONEL (R) ASHFAQ HUSSAIN, INHIS BOOK WITNESS TO BLUNDER,ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT OFAGGRESSION AGAINST INDIA IN 1999

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The worst kind of predictions about what could happen internally

and spilling over the borders of Syria are certainly within the

realm of the possible now. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

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At least six people were killed whenmortar shells fired from across thePakistan-Afghanistan border hit civil-ians in Pakistan’s South Waziristan

tribal area late on Friday.Official sources said around 30

mortar shells, fired from the Afghanside of the border, landed in AngoorAda area of the agency. However,they did not reveal the identity ofthe victims.

Cross-border shelling has height-ened tensions between Pakistan andAfghanistan as the two countries fre-quently accuse each other of firing.

The government has repeatedlyasked Kabul to stop the cross-bor-der shelling.

6 Pakistanis killed by Afghan mortars

NEW DELHIONLINE

Talking tough on Friday, In-dian Defence Minister AKAntony said promises madeby Pakistan must be trans-lated into sincere action.

“At the moment, tensionat the LoC is much reduced.Again I said yesterday thateven though the tensions havereduced, we cannot relax. We

have to be on a vigil 24x7 be-cause a lot of promises weremade. Promises are notenough, we want to see howthese promises are translatedinto sincere action,” Antonywas quoted as telling re-porters. “For that, we have towait and watch… we shouldnot take any serious steps un-less we are convinced thatthese promises are actuallytranslated into action,” he

said. The Indian defence min-ister had on Thursday rejectedPakistan’s claims that Indiantroops had beheaded severalof its soldiers in the past, dub-bing the allegations ‘’totallybaseless’’.

Antony said India couldnot afford to be slack in pro-tecting the border it sharedwith Pakistan

“The series of reportscoming about Kargil also

shows that even though atthe moment, after the sec-ond round of talks at theDGMO (Director Generalof Military Operations)level, the situation at theLoC, (where) tension hasreduced, we cannot lowerour guard. We have to bevigilant 24x7. That is whywe are taking all precau-tions to face any eventual-ity,” he told reporters.

ANKARAaGENCIEs

tWO security guardswere killed in a blastoutside the US em-bassy in Ankara on

Friday, local television re-ported, amid speculation itwas a suicide attack.

The force of the explo-sion damaged nearby build-ings in the Cankayaneighbourhood where manyother state institutions andembassies are also located.NTV television reported thata person detonated a bomb atthe security roadblock nearthe entrance to the embassy’svisa section, where dozensof people wait every day.

Police have cordoned offthe area but there has beenno official comment on theblast outside the highly for-tified complex.

NTV television said twosecurity guards were killedand several people wounded.

US embassy staff werenot immediately reachablefor comment.

Predominantly MuslimTurkey is a close US ally anda member of the North At-lantic Treaty Organisation.

The blast comes barely aweek after NATO declaredthat a battery of US-made Pa-triot missiles went operationalon Turkey’s border with war-torn Syria on Saturday.

In July 2008, three gun-men and three Turkish po-licemen were killed in anattack outside the US con-sulate in Istanbul.

In November 2003, foursuicide car-bomb attacks ontwo Istanbul synagogues, theBritish consulate and Britishbank HSBC killed 63 people,including Britain’s consulgeneral. The bombings wereclaimed by an al Qaeda cell.

CAIROaGENCIEs

Protesters and security forcesclashed at the presidentialpalace on Friday as thousandsof people rallied in citiesacross the country againstEgypt’s divisive leader Pres-ident Mohamed Morsi.

The Republican Guardappealed for calm as demon-strators hurled petrol bombsover the palace walls and se-curity forces responded withwater cannon and tear gas

and troops fired warningshots into the night sky.

Egypt’s official MENAnews agency quoted a Re-publican Guard statement assaying protesters had tried toenter the palace grounds.Police then advanced on theprotesters in armoured vehi-cles, firing tear gas.

People took to thestreets in a show of opposi-tion to Morsi and his Mus-lim Brotherhood after awave of deadly unrestswept the country last week

in the worst violence sinceMorsi was elected presi-dent last June.

Protesters marchedthrough rare rainfall towardsthe capital’s iconic TahrirSquare and the presidentialpalace, chanting “Freedom!”and “Morsi is illegiti-mate!”Scores of protestersskirmished with riot policeseveral hundred metres(yards) from the square, wit-nesses said, and two werewounded by birdshot firedby police.

time to make good on yourpromises, Antony tells Pakistan

two killed in blastoutside usembassy in Ankara

egypt protest targets morsipalace as violence flares

LAHoRE: The LahoreHigh Court on Fridaysummoned AttorneyGeneral of Pakistan (AGP)Irfan Qadir along withnotification aboutformation of aparliamentary commissionto carve a new provincefrom Punjab. LHC JusticeKhalid Mahmood Khanheard the case. Thepetitioner’s counselargued that thecommission formed bythe government had nolegal or constitutionalstatus and theconstitution could not beamended byimplementing itsrecommendations. Thejudge asked whether thecommission was namedby the National AssemblySpeaker Dr Fehmida Mirzaor President Asif Zardari.The court asked the AGPto appear along with thesaid notification afterFriday prayers. ONLINE

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KAHUTA: A woman diedon Friday while five others,including four children,sustained burn injuries dueto a gas leakage explosion.According to details, anexplosion occurred in theearly hours of the daywhen gas started to fill aroom as a result of gasleakage. After theexplosion, a fire engulfedthe house. As a result ofthe fire, one woman diedand five others sustainedsevere burn injuries. Uponreceiving information, therescue teams reached thescene and rushed theinjured persons to a localhospital for medicalattention. The doctors saidthat the injured were incritical condition andexpressed fear of morecasualties Meanwhile, aresident of the areaclaimed that the explosionwas enormous and it hadbeen heard in far-off areasas well. ONLINE

womAN dIes,fIve INjured INGAs leAKAGeexPlosIoN

QUETTA: Unidentified

motorcyclists on Friday

gunned down a barber

and injured another in

the city’s Faqirabad

area. According to

reports, unidentified

motorcyclists opened

fire on a barber shop,

killing its owner Abdul

Rashid on the spot.

Another man, Abdul

Aziz, who was inside the

shop for hair cut, was

critically injured.

Police reached the

scene and shifted the

victim to Civil Hospital

while the attackers

managed to flee from

the scene.

Police said it was an

incident of target

killing. They also said

the deceased hailed

from Punjab. ONLINE

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RAWALPINDIONLINE

The recent change in weather has prompted thePunjab government to direct relevant healthdepartments to initiate measures to check thegrowth of dengue mosquito larvae in the province.The surveillance programme will commence onFebruary 15, in accordance with decisions taken ata meeting presided over by the chief minister.

According to a health department spokesperson,Health Secretary Arif Nadeem had directed healthofficers in the province to begin dengue larvaesurveillance from February 15. He said thatinstructions had been issued regarding training of

staff members responsible for thesurveillance. Medical college principalsand medical superintendents have beentold to set up ‘High Dependency Units’(HDU) in their hospitals, for the treatment ofpotential patients. The Punjab healthdirector general hadbeen directed toconstitute a team to checkall HDUs and submit a report in this regard.

The Dengue Expert Advisory Group(DEAG), headed by Prof Dr FaisalMasood, has been directed toconvene a meeting beforeFebruary 15 to update

guidelines for treatment of dengue.These guidelines will bedisseminated in all hospitals, the

spokesman said.All departmentshave been told to

make concertedefforts to control

the breeding ofdengue mosquitoes toprevent an outbreak.

All departments havebeen told to cooperate andcoordinate efforts to check

the menace at an early stage.

90 acres land

approved in sector

H-16 for district jail isLAMABAD: The CapitalDevelopment Authority (CDA) board hasapproved the allotment of 90 acres ofland in Sector H-16, for the constructionof a district jail. CDA Chairman TahirShahbaz gave approval for the allotmentin a meeting held to discuss the matter.Planning and Design Member MustafinKazmi briefed the meeting about thecase. According to sources, the districtadministration had paid Rs 72 million tothe CDA for the land. The role of theallotment scrutiny committee was alsodiscussed at the meeting. Boardmembers agreed to minimise the role ofproperty dealers and allot plots todeserving people on merit. INp

students to receive

laptops on feb 4

rAWALpiNDi: Laptops will bedistributed among students on February 4,under the Punjab chief minister’s LaptopScheme. In the programme’s secondphase, 1,325 laptops would be distributedamong college students, and 6,012 studentswill receive solar panels. A list ofdeserving students from all schools andcolleges in the district has been prepared inthis regard. Students from Fatimah JinnahWomen’s University, Pir Mehr Ali ShahArid Agriculture University, University ofEngineering and Technology Taxila,Government Post Graduate College forWomen Satellite town, Government PostGraduate College for Boys Satellite town,Government Post Graduate College AsgharMall and Government Post GraduateGarden College, will receive laptops in theprogramme’s second phase. ONLINE

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ISLAMABAD KasHIf aBBasI

THE previous year had provedfavourable for marriages inthe federal capital as divorcerates fell while reports of

domestic violence also dropped,compared to incidents in 2011.

Around 472 divorce cases had beenreported at the Conciliation Court ofIslamabad (CCI) in 2012, compared to524 cases that had been reported in 2011.CCI Judge Qamar Hussain Mirza toldPakistan Today that even though divorcerates had witnessed a slight drop in 2012,the rate was still higher than pastprecedents. He said most cases pertainingto divorce, second marriages ormaintenance allowance that had beenreported in the court had come from well-off families. According to data received,252 divorce cases had been moved bymen, while women had initiated 220Khula-divorce cases. The CCI had dealtwith 10 cases pertaining to secondmarriages and 13 cases for maintenanceallowance (domestic violence).

In 2011, 284 men had initiateddivorce proceedings, while 240 womenhad moved for Khula in the CCI.Around 15 cases of second marriagesand 18 maintenance allowance cases

had been reported that year. Hussainsaid a constitutional amendment madein 2002 that allowed women to seekdivorce through courts had led to asharp increase in the number of divorcecases moved by women. He said anupward trend of second marriages anddivorces in educated and well-offfamilies had been noticed following theamendment. He said some women hadfiled for divorce in civil courts but were

referred to the CCI for a final decision. According to the law, a married

woman is entitled to obtain a decree forthe dissolution of marriage on thefollowing grounds: if the husband hadbeen missing for at least four years, ifhe had failed to provide formaintenance, and if he had beensentenced to imprisonment for sevenyears. Divorce cases could also bemoved if the husband had failed to

perform his marital obligations for threeyears, if he was impotent, sufferingfrom leprosy or venereal disease, if hewas cruel, was unfaithful, or had a wifein violation of the MFLs Ordinance1961. A woman could move for divorceif her husband had attempted to forceher to lead an immoral life, disposed ofher property, or prevented her fromexercising her legal rights over it.Obstruction in observance of religiouspractices has been deemed sufficientgrounds for divorce as well. Types of Divorce: There arethree kinds of permissible divorce.

Revocable divorce (Talaq-i-rajaee),when the husband pronounces the word‘divorce’ once and at later realises thathe had made a mistake and decides torescind the pronouncementunconditionally and resumes a normalspousal relationship. Irrevocable minordivorce (Talaq-i-bian sughra), in whichthe parties, if they agree, can reinstatetheir marriage contract.

Irrevocable divorce of a majordegree (Talaq-bain Khubra), in whichthe husband cannot re-enter themarriage contract with his divorcedwife unless she, after a re-marriage andconjugal relations with a new husband,is divorced again and is willing toremarry her former husband.

weddING KNotsstAyed tIed IN 2012

ISLAMABAD: Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat activists chant slogans during a demonstration organised outside the National Press Club. ONLINE

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Extraordinary vigilance is needed to protect

our national assets – Inspector General Arms,

General Headquarters, Lt Gen Salim Nawaz

IslamabadIsaturday, 2 February, 2013

4.3m overseasPakistanisregistered asvoters: Naek isLAMABAD: The Senate wasinformed on Friday that a total numberof 4.3 million overseas Pakistanis hadbeen registered as voters in theelectoral rolls for the relevant electoralareas throughout the country on thebasis of Identity Cards for OverseasPakistanis. According to details, LawMinister Farooq Naek told the Housethat preparation and computerisation ofelectoral rolls for elections to theassemblies was the responsibility of theElection Commission of Pakistan. Hesaid Ministry of Law was considering alaw to enable overseas Pakistanis tocast their votes at Pakistani embassiesor through other means in the elections.Furthermore, he said at present thefacility was available in a few countriesonly including the United State. FarooqNaek said constitution of Pakistanallowed overseas Pakistanis to casttheir votes but did not allow foreignnationality holders to contest inelections. To a question‚ he said thatelectoral rolls containing photographsand blank columns for obtaining thumbimpression of voters at the time ofcasting of votes would be availablewith the presiding officer on thepolling day for general elections.Moreover, he said that the purpose ofthese measures was to discouragepolling of bogus votes. State forCommunication Minister DostMohammad Mazari told the House thatwork on Gwadar-Turbat-Hoshab (M-8)was ongoing since 2004 but wascurrently suspended due to law andorder situation. Furthermore, he saidthat the prime minister had approvedmobilisation of FWO on the saidproject for completion of balanceworks with appropriate securitypackage. The work would becompleted within one year aftermobilisation of FWO, he added.Members of JUI-F staged a walkoutfrom the House on the impositionGovernor Rule in Balochistan.Members of ANP also staged awalkout on violence and killings inKarachi. ONLINE

massive crackdownagainst criminalsisLAMABAD: Police InspectorGeneral (IGP) Bani Amin Khan onFriday directed police officials totake effective steps to control crimein the city and adopt a professionaland responsible attitude. He stated this while addressing ameeting held to review the crimesituation and efforts in ensuringfoolproof security arrangements inthe city.The IGP ordered strict patrolling andvigilance to ensure effective policingand a special crackdown againstgambling dens and guest housesinvolved in immoral activities.He ordered the police to ensure thearrest of proclaimed offenders andother criminals involved in crimes ofheinous nature. staff rEpOrt

Inmate diesin Adiala jail rAWALpiNDi: An Adiala Jailinmate, who had been arrested forpossession of hashish, passed away dueto illness the other day. The prison administration said that theNaseerabad Police had arrested Ansarfor possession of hashish. He had beensuffering from fever in Adiala Jail andhad been shifted to the jail hospital,where he passed away during thecourse of his treatment.After completing legal formalities,Ansar’s dead body was handed over tohis relatives. ONLINE

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US Ambassador RichardOlson has congratulatedPakistani journalists ontheir contribution towards

advancing democracy in the country.Over 70 journalists from various TV,radio, and print outlets had gatheredfor a three-day media summit. Thesejournalists were part of the alumni of aUS funded exchange programme titled“US-Pakistan Professional Partnershipin Journalism”.

“The US government stronglysupports a vibrant and independentmedia in Pakistan,” said Olson at theopening ceremony. “A free press is thecornerstone of democracy as itprovides the information and factsneeded to hold governmentsaccountable,” he added.

The summit includes paneldiscussions with media professionals,breakout sessions on topics likeconflict-sensitive reporting and socialmedia, and a “train-the-trainer”workshop where the alumni will beencouraged to share all they hadlearned with other journalists in theircommunities. The US governmentinvests nearly $30 million annually in

exchange programmes with Pakistan.More than 1,000 Pakistanis

participate in various high school,undergraduate, graduate, and

professional US-sponsored exchangeprogrammes each year.

A free Press Is tHe corNerstoNeof democrAcy: olsoN

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A painting exhibition titled“Encrypted Satires” by acontemporary distinguished painter

Tassaduq Sohail will open today(Saturday) at Gallery-6.

Sohail’s work is in the form of anarrative laden with symbols. Hispaintings feature trees, caves, oldcastles, fish, mermaids, women in all

shapes and contours, men, elephantswith raised trunks, parrots, peacocksand other birds. The paintings givethe impression of a story about tounfold.

Sohail was born in Jullundar in

1930 and later migrated to Lahore.His family moved to Karachi in 1952where he found a rich Urdu literarycircle. He was called a ‘qissa-go’ forhis talent in narrating Hasan Askari’sstories.

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THE media may be puzzled bythe emergence of anarchistsin Tahrir, but the truth isthat anarchism was be-hind the insurrectionary

impulse from the start. When tens ofthousands of Egyptians swarmedback into Tahrir Square on Friday tocommemorate and continue the rev-olution that started two years ago, aremarkable and unexpected specta-cle began to unfold itself. After twoyears of broken promises and contin-ued state violence, a group of ac-tivists – vowing to protest fellowprotesters — positioned themselvesat the barricades dressed in blackfrom head to toe, brandishing im-provised flamethrowers and clubs,and wearing self-made securityforce uniforms.

When approached by journal-ists, the masked activists said theyrefused to talk to the media, butmysteriously “mentioned anar-chism” as a source of inspirationfor their tactics. A day before, theAssociated Press already reportedthe emergence of a “previously unknown group calling itself theBlack Bloc,” who had warned the Muslim Brotherhood not useits “military wing” to crack down on protesters and who claimedresponsibility for recent fire-bombings of Muslim Brotherhood of-fices. So what is the Black Bloc, and why is it suddenly emergingon the streets of Cairo? While commonly reviled by the liberal andconservative media as a hardcore wing of violent thugs, the BlackBloc is in reality not a clearly defined group but rather a tactic ofdirect action, whereby (sometimes militant but oftentimes peace-ful) activists dress in similar clothing in order to present them-selves as a unified front and to not be recognized by securityforces. While most participants in Block Bloc actions explicitlyoppose violent acts against people, targeted property destruction

is one form of direct action that makesup the arsenal of their ‘diversity of tac-tics’. In this respect, Egypt’s anarchistsare clearly inspired by some of theBlack Bloc tactics we have seenelsewhere: from the German auton-omist Left of the 1970s to the alter-

globalization movement andthe Battle of Seattle in 1999, on to themore recent 2008 youth uprising inGreece in response to the police killingof 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos.But while inspiration from move-ments elsewhere certainly played arole in the Black Bloc’s recent emer-gence in Cairo, the truth is that anar-chism is not new to Tahrir. Indeed,anarchist activists, ideas and practiceshave been at the heart of Egypt’sleaderless popular uprising from thevery start. Many of the politicizedfootball fans – the so-called ‘Ultras’who gave the militant impetus for theoverthrow of Mubarak – havelong identified with anarchist ideas,while anarchism was one of the mainsources of inspiration behindthe April 6 Youth Movement, whose

solidarity action with a factory strike in El-Mahalla El-Kubra in2008 is commonly cited as an important antecedent of the 2011 up-rising. The ranks of these movements have recently been strength-ened by disillusioned youths who fought in the front-lines againstMubarak’s security apparatus, only to encounter the same stateforces under Islamist rule. As one activist put it, “We are only ruledby bastards.” Now that the Muslim Brotherhood has effectivelyhalted the revolution’s “long march through the institutions”, andnow that opposition parties have amply demonstrated their woefulinability to pose a credible counterweight to the forces of funda-mentalism, many young Egyptians have simply lost their faith inthe ability of representative institutions to realize the revolution’sdemands for bread, freedom and social justice. In this era of shat-

tered illusions, many of theseyoung revolutionaries find thatanarchism – with its radicalemphasis on direct democracy,horizontal self-organization andmutual aid – provides the onlyhopeful alternative to furthertyranny. It is here that the struggle ofthe Egyptians begins to visibly con-nect with the ongoing struggles inthe West. While Egyptian anar-chists are taking an activestance to stamp out fundamen-talist rule and state violencemore generally, their coun-terparts across the Mediter-ranean are now one of thelast remaining bulwarksagainst the spread of anti-im-migrant violence in the streetsof Athens. Members of theneo-Nazi Golden Dawn partyhave recently been implicatedin racist attacks on non-Greeks, including Egyptianfishermen. But while the statesits back and allows GoldenDawn to infiltrate the policeforce, the anarchists havechosen to fight. RaidingGolden Dawn offices andriding through poor neigh-borhoods in thousands-strong anti-fascistmotorcycle rallies, theGreek anarchists arenow greeted as he-roes by the city’sterrorized immi-grant minority.COurtEsy rOarMaG

In egypt, anarchists carry the revolution forward

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pAris: French PresidentFrancois Hollande, For-eign Minister LaurenFabius and DefenceMinister Jean-Yves LeDrian will visit Mali onSaturday, Hollande’soffice has announced.Development MinisterPascal Canin will alsomake the trip, which fol-lows a three-week military in-tervention in the former colony inwhich French forces have recaptured large areas of north-ern Mali from al-Qaeda-linked rebel fighters.France’s Liberation newspaper quoted unnamed sourcessaying Hollande also planned to visit the fabled desert cityof Timbuktu, which French and Malian forces seized backfrom the rebels who had held the northern part of the for-mer French colony since last year. The announcement ofthe visit comes as human rights group Amnesty Interna-tional said it has documented cases of the Malian militarykilling civilians. It also said many people have disap-peared since the conflict began. In the report released onFriday, Amnesty cited witnesses saying the Malian armyhad arrested more than 24 civilians on the eve of theFrench-led intervention on January 11. aGENCIEs

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BAghDAD: Thousands of Sunni protesters havegathered for protests in Iraq’s Anbar province,complaining of marginalisation by the Shia-ledgovernment. Big rallies were held in the provincialcapital of Ramadi and in Fallujah on Friday.Protesters complain of official discrimination, sayinganti-terrorism laws and other policies largely targetminority Sunnis. The protests were sparked by theDecember arrests of bodyguards of Sunni FinanceMinister Rafia al-Issawi. Tribal leaders and politicalactivists had called for protests in Fallujah insolidarity with seven young men killed in clashesbetween government forces and protesters in the citylast week. Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf, reporting fromFallujah, said many had walked for hours to attendFriday’s protest and had turned the highway into amosque for the weekly prayers. “Prime MinisterNouri al-Maliki is under increasing pressure to listento their demands,” she said, adding that a lot of theprotesters, mostly young men, were unemployed andthat a lot of them have been in jail. aGENCIEs

MExICO CITy aGENCIEs

Rescuers are searching the rubble for sur-vivors after an office building blast killed 25people and injured 101 at the headquartersof Mexico’s state-owned oil company.

Investigators also sifted through shat-tered glass and concrete at the bottom of thebuilding in the early hours of Friday to try tofind what caused the blast.

Authorities promised a thorough investi-gation of the basement explosion in an ad-ministrative building next to the iconic,51-story Pemex tower in Mexico City.

President Enrique Pena Nieto urged peo-ple not to speculate. “We have no conclusivereport on the reason,” he told reporters aftervisiting the scene.

“We will work to get to the bottom of theinvestigation to find out, first, what hap-pened, and if there are people responsible inthis case, we will apply the full weight of thelaw against them.’’

A spokesman for the civil protectionagency said there was an apparent “accumu-lation of gas” in an electrical supply room.

Shortly after midnight, at least 46 victimswere still being treated in hospital, a Pemexspokesman said.

It was not known how many peoplecould be trapped inside the building.

Thursday’s explosion sent shocked em-ployees pouring out of the skyscraper be-neath a pillar of black smoke, some carryingwounded people out on office chairs.

Survivors described an earthquake-likerumble that shook the floor.

“It was dramatic. The building was shak-

ing and suddenly there was debris. Wecouldn’t even see the people next to us,”Pemex employee and union member CristianObele told reporters. Pemex, the world’sfourth-largest producer of crude with around2.5 million barrels per day, announced earlierthat it had evacuated the building due to apower failure.

The company has experienced deadly ac-cidents at its oil and gas facilities in thepast. A September fire at a Pemex gas facilitynear the northern city of Reynosa whichkilled 30 people. More than 300 were killedwhen a Pemex natural gas plant on the out-skirts of Mexico City blew up in 1984. Eightyears later, about 200 people were killed and1,500 injured after a series of undergroundgas explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico’s sec-ond biggest city. An official investigationfound Pemex was partly to blame.

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Govt committed to securing

minorities’ rights

— Minister of State Akram Gill

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INFORMATION MinisterQamar Zaman Kaira onFriday said Indian TVchannels are not airingPakistani pro-

grammes. “However, a jointworking group on informa-tion comprising on India andPakistan Ministries of Infor-mation and Broadcasting isworking on the mutual sharingof TV programmes between theTV channels of both the coun-tries,” said the minister in awritten reply submittedin response to aquestion dur-ing a ques-tion hoursession inthe Na-tional As-

sembly. The minister said that the informa-tion section, PAHIC, New Delhi

has informed that as per policyguidelines of the Indian Informa-tion Ministry only the regis-tered/licenced satellite TVchannels are down linked/re-ceived/transmitted and re-trans-mitted in India for publicwatching.

“Since Pakistani (TV)channels are not registeredwith or licenced from the In-dian Ministry of Information

and Broadcasting, there-fore, these are

not avail-able ondistri-b u -t i o nnet-

works for public viewing,” he added.He said that ARY, QTV and Madni channels

were being shown by some Indian cable opera-tors in few packets of Muslim majority areas ofIndia.

“A few Pakistani films like Bol and KhudaKe Liye were screened in the Indian cinema inthe recent past after clearance from the CentralBoard of Film Certification of Government ofIndia, the minister added.No BAN oN sALe of siMs iN opeN

MArkeT; NA iNforMeD: Minister In-charge of the Cabinet Division on Friday in-formed the National Assembly that there was noban imposed on the sale of mobile phone SIMcards in the open market since Jan 1, 2013.

“However, sale of SIMs through retailers i.e.those sale outlets which do not have directagreement with Cellular Mobile Operators(CMOs) has been banned with effect from 1stDecember, 2012.

The sale of SIM cards is continuing as perstanding operating procedure

(SOP) in vogue through cus-tomer services centres(CSCs), franchises andthose outlets which have di-rect agreements with theCMOs, the minister addedin a written reply submittedduring the question hour

session.

No Indian channel airing Pakistanicontent, Kaira tells NA

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Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Friday saidthe government was effectively channelising fundsthrough the Public Sector Development Pro-gramme (PSDP) for a uniform uplift of varioussegment of the society. Talking to parliamentari-ans, who called on him separately at the PrimeMinister’s House, Ashraf said the annual develop-ment plan had been prepared keeping in view theissues of the common man and provision of vitalinfrastructure in the country. The prime ministerurged the parliamentarians to personally monitorand supervise the development projects in their re-spective areas so that the quality of work as wellas their timely completion was ensured. He saidthe government would provide all necessary fundsfor the projects that had direct bearings on thecommon man. Ashraf emphasised sensitising thepublic about the development projects undertakenby the government. “We have set a tradition ofserving the people by allocating record publicfunds for welfare projects and hoped successivegovernments will continue the tradition,” theprime minister said. The parliamentarians apprisedthe prime minister about issues of people in theirrespective constituencies. They also briefed himabout the progress on ongoing developmentschemes in their respective areas. Those whocalled on the prime minister included Minister forReligious Affairs Khursheed Shah, Minister ofState for Defence Salim Haider Khan and MNAs,Natasha Daultana, Arif Aziz Shaikh, Tariq ShabbirMayo, Iftikhar Nazir, Inayat Ali Shah, TassadaqMasud Khan, Mehmood Hayat Khan alias TochiKhan and Engineer Usman Khan Tarakai.

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With planning for the Western militarywithdrawal from Afghanistan in fullswing, officials in Uzbekistan want tomake a deal, “We will provide the roadsout if you leave some of those extra vehi-cles and supplies behind for us”.

Uzbek officials have quietly contactedAmerican, German and British officialswith the offer, in their latest bid to supple-ment their military despite internationalembargoes, according to officials inNATO countries, human rights advocatesand German news reports.

On the wish list are armoured vehi-cles, mine detectors, helicopters, naviga-tion equipment and night-vision goggles,used and dusty would be fine, a report inthe New York Times said.

It is a proposal that has won the atten-tion of Western capitals and that is said tohave annoyed the Kremlin enough that itis pushing through an arms deal withUzbekistan’s neighbour, Kyrgyzstan.

“The Uzbeks see this as their windowof bargaining leverage,” Alexander Coo-ley, a professor at Barnard College and anauthority on the former Soviet states ofCentral Asia, said in a telephone interview.

Uzbekistan is ranked as the sixth mostcorrupt country in the world by Trans-parency International and has beenbanned from most arms purchases in Eu-rope and the United States since politicalprisoners were discovered to have died indetention a decade ago from scaldingwater, from, in fact, being boiled alive.

But what Uzbek officials are offer-ing, however, has value. Over the nexttwo years, NATO forces are expected toremove about 70,000 vehicles and120,000 shipping containers fromAfghanistan, and the way out will requirerail lines and well-surfaced roads.

Although Pakistani ports are seen asthe most efficient avenue for the cargo’swithdrawal, alternatives will be important,and allied officials are mindful of a poten-tial disruption if Pakistan ever de-cides to again close the routes orask for more money, as it did dur-ing a diplomatic crisis with theUnited States in 2011 and 2012.

The US government has taken theUzbek proposal seriously enough to par-tially lift a set of arms sales restrictionsthat have been in place for about adecade. And it has held interagencymeetings in Washington this month toconsider the latest Uzbek proposal, ac-cording to nongovernmental experts onAmerican policy in the region.

The Uzbek request illustrates the dif-ficult logistics of winding down the war,an unglamorous coda to a fight that beganwith troops parachuting in out of the nightsky.

As was the case in the withdrawalfrom Iraq in 2011, the cost of shippingused equipment to the United States oftenexceeds its value. The army left tens ofthousands of air-conditioned residentialtrailers in Iraq, and many of the armouredvehicles that were rolled across the borderinto Kuwait were mothballed there.

A legacy of abandoned weapons is acommon one in battle zones, includingAfghanistan, which became a bustlingsecondhand arms bazaar after the Sovietpullout in 1989.

The State Department issued a state-ment saying that it was “premature tospeculate on plans for any transfer of ex-cess equipment, or even what equipmentmay be declared excess” after the with-drawal, but it clarified the parameters forany potential deals with Central Asiancountries.

“Only equipment deemed in excess ofoperational needs by the Department of

Defense would be provided to foreigncountries, including Northern DistributionNetwork host nations in Central Asia,” thestatement said, referring to the name of thenorthern supply lines into Afghanistan.

Delighted with that possibility, theUzbeks have been

broadening thescope of their de-

m a n d s ,said a seniorAmerican of-ficial directly involvedin the diplomacy of theAfghan logisticalroutes, who spokeon condition ofanonymity to dis-cuss the delicate ne-gotiations.

The requests havegone from relativelycommon items like night-vision goggles to largeand expensive American-made goods like MRAPvehicles, the 14-tonne ar-moured utility trucks thathelp protect troops fromroadside bombs. Otheritems that the Uzbeks haveeyed in the American arsenalin Afghanistan are small arms,mine detectors, navigation equip-ment and possibly drones, accord-ing to Der Spiegel, the Germannewsmagazine, suggesting that theUzbeks are looking at the pullout nextyear as a sort of everything-must-go mo-ment for military shopping. The govern-ment is trying to broaden its scope beyondRussian military equipment standards, lestUzbekistan be beholden to Moscow in re-

gional conflicts over water rights or borderenclaves with its neighbors.

In December, Uzbekistan pulled outof Russia’s regional security bloc, theCollective Security Treaty Organisation,as it stepped up its requests for Westernweapons. Russia responded by offeringa $1 billion arms deal to Kyrgyzstan.Against the backdrop of its dispute withMoscow, the Uzbek government is saidto have quietly conveyed its requests formilitary surplus to officials from NATOcountries. After years of watching heli-copters fly in and out of Termez airfield,which is used as a German base inUzbekistan, the government in Marchtold German Defence Minister Thomasde Maizière, who was visiting, that itwould not mind getting its hands on afew of them, the newspaper

Frankfurter All-gemeine

Zeitung reported.A British delegation passed through

in July. On the diplomatic agenda be-tween the two countries, according toCraig Murray, a former British envoy toUzbekistan and now a critic of Britishpolicy in the region, is the handover ofused land rovers or other military vehi-cles as partial payment for shipping outother items. Such talks have alarmedmembers of the German Parliament,who requested clarification from theirgovernment. “Either the Uzbeks wantmoney, and quite a lot, or they wantweapons,” Viola von Cramon, a law-maker, said in a telephone interview.“What I’ve heard from informedsources is they are not interested in civil

assistance, or anything progres-sive like university ex-

changes. It’s reallyhard in that re-

spect. Theyreally pre-fer them i l i t a r ysector.”

As NAto prepares for Afghan withdrawal, uzbekistan seeks war’s leftovers: NytNATO FORCES AREEXPECTED TO REMOVE70,000 VEHICLES AND120,000 CONTAINERSFROM AFGHANISTAN

PAKISTANI PORTSTHE MOST EFFICIENTAVENUE FORTHE CARGO’SWITHDRAWAL

ALLIED OFFICIALSMINDFUL OF POTENTIALDISRUPTION IF PAKISTANDECIDES TO ASK FORMORE MONEY

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Roots National Institute of Teacher Trainingand Education-RNITTE launched 7th AnnualTeacher Development Conference on Friday,February 1st, 2013 on the theme; The Millen-nials Confident, Connected, Open to Change.A Millennium learners Confident, connectedand is adaptable to the changes in the learningenvironment. Roots Millennium Schools,Pakistan understand that the role of an “Edu-cator” and a “School Leader” is extremelychallenging, complex and continually chang-ing as we live in a time of constant change andinnovation. Today, learning experience focuson collaboration where learners “Connect,Communicate, Co-construct and contributecollectively” as a part of the Global Commu-nity. All the teachers and organizers were fully

charged, enthusiastic and highly motivated totake the learning initiative and training ahead.Over 450 teachers from all over Pakistan whoparticipated showed keen interest, enthusiasmand dedication. This year’s conferencebrought together leading national and interna-tional speakers like Mr. Wali Zahid, Mr. Kam-ran Rizvi, Mr. Umair Jaliawala, Dr. MoizHussain, Ms. Asma Mustafa, Dr. Maria Sul-tan, Mr. Amir Anzur and Dr. ProfessorRizwan Taj who motivated and injected newideas into the conference audience of dele-gates comprising Roots Millennium SchoolsCEO Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Director,Head Mistress’, Branch Heads, AcademicCoordinators and the Teaching faculty.

On first day of the conference, while ad-dressing the inaugural session ChaudhryFaisal Mushtaq CEO Roots MillenniumSchools, Founder RNITTE and CEO

CHANGE- IN EDUCATION said: “In sup-port of our legendary history of teaching,learning and knowledge creation we have or-ganized this conference to enlighten RMS au-dience on the teaching practices best suited inthe current scenario. From the beginning, thevision of our teacher development confer-ences has been to bring teachers into directcontact with leading scholars, academia, ed-ucational thinkers, in a stimulating environ-ment, surrounded by learning and academicresources. This conference aims to enlightenRoots Millennium Schools audience on theteaching practices best suited for ‘The Millen-nials’. Theme of the conference: The Millen-nial: Confident – Connected – Open toChange, this theme has very significance im-portance as it is not only related with ourschool brand but also associated with our Mil-lennial Educators & Millennial Learners.”

WASHINGTONspECIaL COrrEspONDENt

IN an effort to foster better under-standing in wide-ranging areas ofcommon interest to Pakistan and theUnited States, Ambassador SherryRehman has started meetings with

newly elected American senators.She started the diplomatic outreach by

holding separate meetings with DemocratSenators Christopher S. Murphy of Connecti-cut and Tim Kaine of Virginia. The two legis-lators have recently been elected to the Senateand are members of important Senate Com-mittees. SenatorMurphy is serv-ing on theForeign Re-lations Com-mittee whileSenator

Kaine, a former Governor of Virginia, is amember of the Foreign Relations and ArmedServices Committees.

The Pakistani embassy said discussions inthe meetings focused on the Afghan reconcil-iation process, the US drawdown and Pak-istan’s efforts to counter IEDs. The senatorswere briefed on the support that Pakistan hasbeen extending to the Afghan High PeaceCouncil’s initiatives.

Ambassador Rehman also informed themabout actions Pakistan has initiated to restrictthe smuggling of bomb making materialsacross the Pak-Afghan border. The ambassa-dor emphasized the importance for takingPakistan’s positions on issues critical to Pak-istan-US relations into account for Congressto reach informed decisions.

The US senators who expressed supportfor strong Pakistan-US relations agreed withthe Ambassador and promised to remain incontact, the embassy said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chief of the MissionDr. Asad Majeed, and Defence Attache, Brig.

Abdullah Dogar met with senior foreign pol-icy staff of Senator Jim Inhofe (Republican-Oklahoma) the senior Republican on theSenate Armed Services Committee.

The Pakistani outreach on the Capitol Hillcomes at a vital time for the region and Pak-istan-US relations, which now appear to beback on track after a hiatus of very difficultyear and a half since early 2011.

The White House is also in the midst oftransition of its national security team as Pres-ident Barack Obama is assembling a team tosteer his foreign policy in the second termwith Pakistan-Afghanistan and the MiddleEast likely to be key areas of importance.

According to Senator John Kerry, who isall set to assume the top USdiplomatic job as secre-tary of state, Pakistan iscritical to U.S. effortsfor peace and securityat the time ofAfghanistan transitionin the region and thatWashington needs to

build its partner-ship with theSouth Asiancountry.

sherry talks bilateral ties, Afghanreconciliation with new us senators

roots organises ‘Pakistan’s largest teacher’s development conference’

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Trilateral summitbetween Pakistan,Afghanistan and theUnited Kingdom willbe held in Londontomorrow (Sunday).President Asif AliZardari has arrived inLondon to attend thesummit on regionalpeace. He will havetwo-day trilateraldialogue with BritishPrime Minister DavidCameron and AfghanPresident HamidKarzai. During the talks,

the leaders of Pakistanand Afghanistan will

outline their strategicpartnership and evolve a joint

strategy for reconciliation inAfghanistan for establishment ofadministration that can ensure

stability in the war-torncountry in the wake of the

withdrawal of foreigntroops.It will be the thirdsummit between thethree countries in lessthan six months.Sources said PresidentZardari was also likelyto meet MQM chiefAltaf Hussain andwill return onFebruary 4.

cHINIoT: Devotees perform Dhamaal at the annual Urs of Hazrat Shah Sharafud Din Bu Ali Qalandar on Friday. INP

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GENERAL elections arearound the corner butamongst a sea of skepticsonly a few believe they aregoing to be held at all. The

government says it is committed to holdingelections on time. Even the Supreme Courthas warned against civilian or militarymoves to delay the elections. Neverthelessuncertainty persists about holding of elec-tions under the consensual arrangementenvisaged by the constitution.

Allama Tahirul Qadri, the maverickcleric emerging from nowhere has mani-festly added to the confusion. On Jan 17,Chaudhry Shujaat with a number of fed-eral ministers in tow inked an agreementwith the bulletproof monk in his bullet-proof temporary abode at the dharna in Is-lamabad. This resulted in the culminationof Qadri’s long march.

Apparently the government’s negoti-ating team bit slightly more than it couldchew. Qadri is adamant on his demands,none of which are conducive to holdingelections on time. After the govern-ment’s refusal to reconstitute the Elec-tion Commission he has decided to movethe apex court challenging the appoint-ment of EC members and to block dis-cretionary funds of the prime ministerand the chief ministers.

Although the Chief Justice of Pakistanhas repeatedly expressed his firm belief indemocracy and holding of timely electionshe will have to walk the talk once the clericmoves the apex court. The PPP stalwartRaza Rabbani’s warning – ‘a conspiracy isbeing hatched’ – by certain elements todelay general elections by two to threeyears has added to the confusion.

When asked to name the conspirators[against democracy] the senator merely ap-pealed to forces committed to democracyto unite against the enemies of democracy,desisting from pointing his finger to thesource of his angst. Even the Chief Elec-tion Commissioner has warned that any

extension in the interim setup would provedetrimental to the country.

It is obvious that uncertainty aboutholding of timely elections is not the fig-ment of imagination of the ubiquitousdoubting Thomases amongst us. There is aclear and present danger to the system. Butit has not been spelt out who is behind theconspiracy?

Theoretically all mainstream politi-cal and religious parties support theholding of timely elections and not tin-kering with the system. Even the PTI andthe MQM harbouring a soft corner forQadri have studiously avoided hisagenda to delay elections in the name ofcleansing the system.

Then who is the Sancho Panza be-hind the cleric’s Quixotic manoeuvres?The military and the higher judiciaryboth claim that they have no truck withhim. But notwithstanding RehmanMalik’s histrionics, the cleric was al-lowed to bring his circus to Islamabadwhere he stayed put there until he had anagreement to flaunt.

The accord thus reached was inter-preted as a face-saver for Qadri. But un-less there is a method in this madnesshis interlocutors have boxed the govern-ment in a corner.

For example giving 30 days to scruti-nize candidates of provincial and nationalassemblies under articles 62 and 63 osten-sibly seems innocuous. But in practicalterms it could prove to be a pretext to delaythe elections as well as to exclude certainimportant players from the electoral race.

The said articles, amended by generalZia, in its arbitrariness could be used toput out of reckoning persons not to theliking of powers-that-be. Raza Rabbanihas sounded the alarm bells about dangersto the system. But why these so-called Is-lamic provisions inserted by Zia in theconstitution escaped his attention – or forthat matter of the Leader of the Opposi-tion in the National Assembly – whileheading the committee that made someotherwise commendable recent amend-ments to the constitution?

It will be difficult to find “sagacious,righteous and non profligate and honestand ameen men who have not opposedthe ideology of Pakistan”, to TahirulQadri’s liking. And therein lies the rub.Are powerful forces that want the Augeanstables to be cleansed to their satisfaction,backing him?

Nawaz Sharif like Zardari – but un-like many of his party stalwarts – shouldbe worried about the implications of de-mands for delay of elections in the nameof accountability and reconstituting the

Election Commission. Imran Khan andothers of his ilk might call it ‘mukmukaa’, but any elections with majorplayers excluded would be farcical.

Conspiracy theorists claim that themilitary leadership is not comfortableworking with Nawaz Sharif who theyclaim has never been able to get along withany of the army chiefs.

The PML-N supremo despite havingstarted his political career under Zia is aborn again democrat. He has never hiddenhis stance about military not dabbling incivilian affairs. Similarly the PPP neversaying no to the military is its bête noir.Nonetheless it is the biggest national po-litical party having support in all the fourprovinces, the AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan.

If there are Bonapartists within oursecurity establishment backing Qadri’sagenda, Gen Kayani should rein them inbefore it is too late. Any attempt to ex-clude Nawaz Sharif heading the mostpopular party in the Punjab would be dis-astrous for Pakistan.

In any case, having a military and pos-sibly judiciary backed caretaker setupcomprising of technocrats for a number ofyears is a naive and stupid idea. No doubtPakistan is facing multifarious internal andexternal challenges. But in this day and agehaving a setup not backed by the people isa recipe for disaster.

On the basis that it had failed inBangladesh, Gen Kayani on more thanone occasion while talking to media per-sons has rejected the “Bangladeshmodel”. How can he lend support to suchan infantile scheme of things now?

The same however cannot be saidabout the rest in the security establish-ment who might be feeling that people arefed up with democracy on the pretext thatit has failed to deliver.

The born again democrat Lt Gen(retd) Shahid Aziz has claimed that hewas part and parcel of Musharraf’s con-spiracy to oust Nawaz in 1999, becausethe GHQ was receiving telegrams to sendincompetent government of Nawaz pack-ing. However, on hindsight he now ad-mits that Pakistan was worse off whenMusharraf left than when he took over.

In present day Pakistan, the situationis much more complex than in 1999. His-tory will repeat itself with much more in-tensity if democracy is derailed in thename of accountability and elections aredelayed on whatever pretext. HenceTahirul Qadri’s mala fide agenda shouldbe vociferously rejected by all and sundry– to save Pakistan.

The writer is Editor, Pakistan Today

The government is equally responsibleA state of uncertainty

But who’s behind it?

conspiracies abound

Karachi bleeds

KARACHI is a city that never sleeps albeit with a reason altogetherdifferent. Being the largest city of Pakistan, any happening here isreverberated throughout the country. Take target killings, dead

bodies in gunny bags, kidnappings and turf war for example; all acts ofviolence and terrorism repercussions of which seem to have reachedthroughout the length and breadth of the state. The recent wave of violencein the megapolis cannot but be blamed on the government, LEAs,intelligence agencies and the political parties that claim a hold on the city.

At least 29 dead bodies were recovered the other day, including those ofthree ulemas and three who were kidnapped and apparently tortured too.While the religious leaders are calling for protests if any concrete action isnot taken to bring the situation to a halt, coalition government in theprovince is playing the blame game. Altaf Hussain, the MQM leader, hasassailed the PPP-led provincial government for not controlling the law andorder situation in the Sindh capital, forgetting the simple truth that it is theMQM that has a hold over the city and thus equally responsible for the lawand order situation.

In an effort to check the deteriorating law and order situation, CM QaimAli Shah has directed the LEAs to utilise their best abilities for therestoration of peace in the metropolis. All this deserves no commendation,for it is the prime duty of the government, and that of security andintelligence agencies, not to let the situation come to this point in the firstplace. It points to the fact that the government is either incompetent toperform its duties or is unwilling to, whether intentionally orunintentionally doesn’t matter.

Some say there is a conspiracy behind this all to conspiracy to delayelections. If the situation continues any longer, the political parties, alongwith the religious, ethnic and sectarian ones, would be forced to stageprotests and deliver exactly what the hidden hands behind all this want:chaos and lawlessness, an ideal environment to postpone the elections,bring into disrepute democracy and drag politicians through mud.Unfortunately, Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s decision of suspendingcellular services is not helping the government win people over. Not onlydoes it hamper communications, it also delivers a blow to the economicand financial activities. This has to stop, or the perception that thegovernment does not care about the civilians and has left them at the mercyof the terrorists, as has Nawaz Sharif blamed, would find justification.

ON Tuesday, an upbeat prime minister told lawyers in Gujjar Khanthat with every passing day democracy was gaining strength andall stakeholders including the army, judiciary and political parties

were on the same page. On Wednesday, he suddenly told the cabinetmembers that forces opposed to democracy were working against thesystem. What made the PM suddenly realise that the system was underthreat? What is the source from which the threat emanates?

Everything was moving peacefully towards an orderly transfer of power tillTahirul Qadri landed in Pakistan and announced a long march to overhaulthe system. After that, uncertainties have gripped the country. The manburst upon the political stage months before the elections and demanded aprior overhaul of the system even if it meant postponing the electionsindefinitely. What is more he spoke with an eerie confidence. It wassurprising to find two major partners in the ruling coalition coming out insupport of his demands. The government had to do a lot of backstageactivity to persuade the MQM and PML-Q not to abandon the coalition.Equally surprising was the fact that the government facilitated theCanadian cleric in pursuit of his objectives, allowing him to import abulletproof vehicle and deputing Chaudhry Shujaat and Deputy PrimeMinister Pervaiz Elahi to win him over. It yielded to several demands putup by Qadri when it should have opposed them. Qadri was allowed to holdthe sit-in at a place of his choice. A ten-member delegation, comprisingfederal ministers and PPP’s coalition partners, was sent on his demand tohold talks with him. Two of his demands that included the implementationof articles 62, 63, and 218 and setting up a caretaker setup in consultationwith Qadri, were immediately accepted. If the country is in the grip ofuncertainty, the government too bears a responsibility for it.

Tahirul Qadri was encouraged by the SC’s order to arrest the PM. Theorder led to widespread concerns about the future of democracy. Qadri isnow banking on the apex court to throw a spanner in the works. It remainsto be seen how the apex court disposes off the proposed petitions for theenforcement of the constitutional provisions regarding the candidates’qualifications and putting an end to the use of discretionary funds. Onlytime will prove whether the system sinks or swims as it navigates betweenthe Scylla and Charybdis.

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AN MPA from Gujranwala, an Nman, runs a chain of clinics in theUK. He was one of those who had

to lose his seat as a result of the whole dualnationality business.A building he bought in London has a pub onthe ground floor, which he decided to remainin business. He was seen recently, drowninghis sorrows along with other Pakistanis.Was it on the house, though? As they say insome pubs, if you’re drinking to forget,please pay up in advance.

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LAHORE’S elite club played host togolf team visiting from Indiarecently. They were being put up at

the rooms, as the club prides itself as beingbetter than any elite hotel.All was going well when one of the golfers,a lady, had a complaint. A necklace wasmissing from her room. Embarrassed, andadamant to play good hosts, the clubdecided to imbrues her to the tune of twolakh rupees.However, when the lady reached home, shefound her missing necklace. She promptlycalled the club and asked how she could sendthe money back.Chivalrous behaviour from both sides. Whydon’t both of these parties run the twocountries?

HUSSAIN Haroon, who wasour man at the UN, is beingtipped to be the caretaker

prime minister.An affable confirmed bachelor,Haroon likes the good life. His wasthe number you call if you want toknow where to do some fine dining inNew York, where he would be seenwining and dining other diplomats.

Back in the day, when Asif AliZardari was under treatment – andincarcerated – at the ZiauddinHospital in Karachi, the place wasdeclared a sub-jail. Haroon anexcellent gourmet cook himself usedto cook food and bring it specially tothe future president.The way to a man’s heart, they say, isthrough his stomach.

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“If I have rubbed people the wrong way, maybe

I have also been rubbed the wrong way.”

― Kuldip Nayar

comment Csaturday, 2 February, 2013

I am tired in my own life and the livesof those after me,

I am dying in my own death and thedeaths of those after me,

Let thy servant depart,Having seen thy salvation.

—T S Eliot

NEARING the elections, thestakeholders in the federaland the provincial govern-ments have suddenly remem-

bered all that had evaded their depletedintelligence throughout their five years inpower. So, one sees ‘development’schemes being remorselessly unfurled aspart of the enactment of an unending peo-ple-focussed (read voter-focussed)drama. Be it the thought of carving an-other province out of Punjab or providingthe people of Lahore with metro bus serv-ice, it is all happening with sickening

quickness. The underlyingobjective has nothing evenremotely connected withpublic welfare. The activityemanates exclusively from adesire to ‘buy’ votes whichis part of a conscious pre-poll rigging mechanism.

Why would otherwisethe Zardaris, the Sharifs, theChaudhrys, the Altaf Hus-sains and a host of othercolourful entities of thecountry have remained inperpetual slumber only to bewoken up by the knock ofthe general elections? Theceaseless and humiliatingdrama is only aimed atsomehow perpetuating theillicit fiefdoms that thesecorrupt leaders have craftilydeveloped by consumingfunds from the state excheq-uer. Imagine a few billionsthrown away on building asingle road leading to theSharif Empire in Raiwind oranother few billions sacri-ficed on the fortification ofthe Bilawal House inKarachi! It makes one sickto the core, but there is noregret, nor remorse on thefaces of these Machiavellian

leaders. On the contrary, each such crudeand heartless misadventure widens thegrin on their plastic appearances.

The handshake across political di-vides in the name of saving ‘democracy’is another shameless manifestation of theleaders’ refusal to let things change in thecountry. They know that if that happened,they and their ilk would not be able tofind their way into the power echelons.So, every effort is being made and allbounties showered on a hapless people inan endeavour to convince them of their‘sincerity’. The inherent problem is that,because of their own limitations includ-ing their economic captivity in the handsof a few, they may be forced to do the dic-tated bidding and, in the process, facili-tate the same bands of thugs and banditsto come into power to run the corruptcycle spread over another five years.

To escape public scrutiny and ac-countability, a series of deviations arebeing planned and enacted which arecleverly portrayed as threats to ‘democ-racy, and the ‘democratic system’. Part ofthe plan is a conscious effort to confrontthe judiciary and force it to back off fromits avowed assertiveness to contain cor-ruption and improve governance. Onehad hardly forgotten the NRO implemen-tation issue when a repeat drama is beingunfurled in the matter of the rental powerplants case where the Supreme Court hasordered the arrest of the sitting primeminister who was in-charge of the waterand power ministry when multiple con-tracts were fraudulently awarded to vari-ous power companies costing the nationalexchequer in billions. The Touqir Sadiqaffair is another manifestation of the samemindset. When the SC ordered his arrest,he was allegedly helped to escape theclutches of law first by NAB and then bythe senior members of the ruling hierar-chy. Now when the SC is pressing for itsorders to be implemented, it is being por-trayed as interference in the affairs of theNAB and other government agencies.The NAB Chief took the unusual step ofwriting a letter to the President threaten-ing to resign if this ‘interference’ did notstop. The SC, taking cognisance of theunusual step, has already served the NABChief with a show-cause notice and or-dered him to appear before it in person onFebruary 4.

This could be part of the overall planto stall the process of all investigation atNAB by accepting the resignation of itsChairman. That will create a void thatwould only be filled once another chief isappointed at the Bureau which, under-standably, may take months if not years.In the meanwhile, it’ll be time to dissolvethe assemblies and announce the nextelections. The PPP leadership is desperateto enter the election circus bearing thecross of persecution and portraying itselfas a victim at the hands of other state in-stitutions, most notably the judiciary, thuscleverly fabricating an excuse for its fail-ure to deliver on its promises, its abdica-tion of governance at all levels, itsinability to secure the lives of its peopleand provide them with opportunities tosurvive in an environment that has grownmenacingly difficult with the passage ofeach day. It is also keen to craft an excusefor the liquidation of all state institutionsand the involvement of its leading lightsin mega graft scandals.

In the larger context, what is reallyworrying is the extent to which the in-cumbent governments have politicised allstate institutions by offering them accessto avenues of corruption and then helpingthem with escaping accountabilitythrough a blatant use of state machinery.This is so because the leaders at top,whether at the centre or in the provinces,carry indelible stains of blood on theirsleeves but they refuse to surrender, thusobstructing the path of justice. In doingso, they have succeeded in inducingscores of others in their echelons withsimilar inclinations who have since be-come hardened criminals. Ostensibly, thishas not only blocked the path for the in-duction of any clean dispensation, it hasalso made conditions extremely difficultfor any such dispensation to survive evenif it somehow manages to find its wayinto power. So, should one say that we aredoomed to live with corrupt, inefficientand ineffective governments in the fore-seeable future?

This is a sad thought to contemplate,but it may not be far from true! The nextsequence of this degenerate drama isabout to be enacted.

The writer is a political analyst. He canbe reached at raoofhasan@hotmail.com

No respiteDoomed to live with corruption

Regulating electronic media

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the elephantin the room

Candid CornerraOOf HasaN

DR RobertM a y n a r dHutchison,Vice Chan-

cellor of Chicago Uni-versity who headedHutchison Commissionformed in US 1942 tomake recommendationson the freedom of ex-pression and media’sobligations towards thesociety, in the backdropof growing calls by theUS public for govern-ment intervention to check the indiscretions of the media andattempts by the media to avoid incisive government regulation,remarked that “freedom comes with responsibility”.

The report of the Commission submitted in 1947 is regardedas the Magna Carta of the modern concept of freedom of ex-pression and media’s responsibilities towards the society. It un-equivocally emphasised that the need for media to provideaccurate, truthful and comprehensive account of events acts asa forum for exchange of comment and criticism; presents andclarifies goals and values of the society and projects a repre-sentative picture of the constituent groups of the society. Thereport also reiterated the fact that society and public have a rightto expect high standards of performance and as such the gov-ernment intervention can be justified to secure public good. Eth-ical and professional codes of conduct for the media drawn upby UNESCO, International Federation of Journalists, media as-sociations, press councils in the countries where self-regulatoryarrangement is in place and the code of ethics which forms thepart of Press Council Ordinance and PEMRA Content Rules2012 in Pakistan, invariably espouse the principles of the ‘socialresponsibility theory’ propounded by Hutchison Commission.

Judged on the touchstone of the foregoing, the media land-scape in Pakistan is not so enviable. While it zealously tends tomaintain and protect its freedom, it is not showing the sense ofsocial responsibility that goes with the freedom of expression.The media, regrettably, like the political polarisation in thecountry, is also divided into anti-government, pro-government,and rightist groups with each entity trying to rub in its ownskewed and partisan views on national issues and even resortingto smear campaigns against their supposed rivals. Consequently,truth and social responsibility have become casualties of thisrampant media culture. A particular media group, which haswell established credentials of hostility towards the sitting gov-ernment, seems to have thrown all caution to the wind in com-plete disregard to the universally accepted professional andethical standards and is hell bent to distort its image.

Handling and regulating the electronic media is arguably themost difficult, arduous and sensitive undertaking for any govern-ment whether in the developed or developing countries. While thegovernments, especially in the democratic polities have the obli-gation to provide any enabling environment to the media in car-rying out its professional responsibilities in regards to informing,educating and entertaining the people, it is also ultimately its re-sponsibility to ensure that the media remains within the parametersset by the constitution, law, ethical norms and the regulatorymechanism in place. It follows from this responsibility that thegovernment entities charged with the responsibility to regulate themedia are manned and headed by thoroughly professional peoplewho understand the media culture and have the necessary expert-ise in creating a balance between the need for ensuring freedomof expression and the imperative of social responsibility.

It is an undeniable fact that due to the lack of proper trainingof the personnel manning these channels and those handling thecurrent affairs programmes, certain media outlets have showna growing propensity to use the freedom of expression as a li-cense to transgress the professional and ethical codes and floutthe regulatory legal apparatus in place.

PEMRA, a regulatory body for the electronic media in Pak-istan, also shares the blame for this undesirable situation for itsinability to reach out to these media outlets in a professionalmanner and establishing a productive relationship with them inregards to sorting out the issues arising out of the indiscretionsof the media without any incisive interference in their working.The reason for inadequate and inept handling of the electronicmedia is that the organisation has been headed and manned bynon-professional people who had no inkling of the internationalmedia culture and the ground realities in Pakistan.

It is, however, heartening to note that for the first time sinceits inception PEMRA has a professional chairman in the personof Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed. He has rendered services as pressofficer in the Pakistan embassies in Tehran and Colombo. It ishoped that relying on his vast experience and the professionalingenuity, he will be able to create conducive environment forthe electronic media and the government to play their compli-mentary roles in the most cordial and cooperative manner.

This is an age of specialisation and there is no room forsquare pegs in the round holes. There is an imperative need torevamp the entire structure of PEMRA to make sure that onlypeople with media background and expertise are posted in theauthority and all the non-professional are shunted out to turnthe organisation into a vibrant and pro-active entity.

The writer is an academic.

MaLIK MuHaMMaD asHraf

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The question isn't who is going

to let me; it's who is going to

stop me — Ayn Rand

drew doesn'twant daughterto enter showbiz

DReW Barrymore has revealedthat she doesn't want herdaughter Olive to follow in

her child star footsteps. The 37-year-old former child star, who grew up inthe spotlight and landed in rehab atthe tender age of 13, admitted in aninterview to Harper's Bazaar that sheappreciates her journey, but as amother she doesn't want the samelife for her four-month-old daughter,the Daily Mail reported.The GoldenGlobe winner said that she had anexposed childhood, as her motherJaid took her to nightclubs when shewas just eight and to auditions beforeshe was a year old. She added thatshe lives her life in the public eye,and she didn't want the same for herdaughter. NEWs DEsK

RANA HUSSAIN TAHIR KOSHAL

HISTORY of the world isessentially the history of itsgreat men and women. And

many of us are mere talents, cleverchildren in the play of life, that when agenius like Ayn Rand stands in ourpresence we can only bow down before itas an act of God, a continuance ofcreation. Women like Rand are the very‘life-blood of history, to which politics andindustry are but frame and bones’.Today, Ayn Rand - a source of inspirationto millions - would have celebrated her108th birthday. While ancient moral codesgave importance to those who served andsacrificed for others, Rand’s “new code ofmorality” adorned “the concept of man asa heroic being, with his own happiness asthe moral purpose of his life, withproductive achievement as his noblestactivity, and reason as his only absolute”.She developed and defended Objectivism.Born in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1905,Ayn Rand learnt how to read at six. By theage of nine, she had decided to makefiction writing her career. Thoroughlyopposed to the collectivism of Russianculture, she thought of herself as aEuropean writer, especially afterencountering Victor Hugo, the writer shemost admired. When introduced to American history inher last year of high school, sheimmediately took America as her model ofwhat a nation of free men could be.In late 1925 she left Soviet Russia to visither relatives in the United States. Althoughshe told Soviet authorities that her visitwould be short, she was determined neverto return to Russia. After arriving in NewYork City in February 1926, she spent theinitial six months with her relatives inChicago, obtained an extension to her visa,and then left for Hollywood where sheworked as a screenwriter.She began writing The Fountainhead in1935 (taking a short break in 1937 to writethe anti-collectivist novelette Anthem). In

the character of the architect HowardRoark, she presented the kind of herowhose depiction was the chief goal of herwriting: the ideal man, man as “he couldbe and ought to be.” According to The AynRand Institute, The Fountainhead wasrejected by twelve publishers before it wasaccepted by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.When published in 1943, it made historyby becoming a best-seller by word ofmouth two years later, making Rand achampion of individualism.Working part time as a screenwriter, shebegan writing Atlas Shrugged in 1946.Five years later she moved back to NewYork City and devoted herself to thecompletion of Atlas Shrugged.Atlas Shrugged (published in 1957) washer greatest achievement and last work offiction. In this novel she dramatized herunique philosophy in an intellectualmystery story that integrated ethics,metaphysics, epistemology, politics,economics and sex. Although sheconsidered herself primarily a fictionwriter, she realized that in order to createheroic fictional characters, she had toidentify the philosophic principles whichmake such individuals possible.Fountainhead and Atlas Shruggedinculcate in the reader a feeling that therewas someone else in the world, whothought about life just like they do. Whofelt that one cannot be servile to another.Who felt that one has a right to one’s ownhappiness. Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged tends tokindle passion for one’s work and hatredtowards meaningless ‘objects’. In a fanletter to Rand, one college student reportedthat "as a result of my enthusiasm I havelost two friends. I am beginning to realisehow unimportant these people are."

Such was Ayn Rand’s power.Ayn Rand came into spotlight once againduring the US Presidential elections whenPaul Ryan, an Ayn Randian at heart, wasnominated by the Republican camp for thepost of vice president. However, whenObama was asked about Ryan’s obsessionwith Ayn Rand, he tried to belittle him bysaying that Ayn Rand was for teenagerswho thought they were being understood. In retaliation, The Ayn Rand Institute saidthe president was pulling the same old trickthat collectivists had been pulling for the last150 years. Rather than openly defending theproposition that he had a duty to servesociety, he misrepresents and smearsindividualism. “Contra Obama, what AynRand appeals to is youthful idealism”.“President Obama claims he has read AynRand, but you wouldn’t know it from hisrecent comments,” said Don Watkins, afellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and co-author of “Free Market Revolution: HowAyn Rand’s Ideas Can End BigGovernment.” “To be an individualist,Obama suggests, is to be concerned withyourself with no regard for other people —indeed, at the expense of other people.That is a total distortion of Rand’sindividualism.”When Rand saw Moscowfor the first time in 1921 she said, “Iremember standing on a square. And itsuddenly struck me! How enormous it is,and how many people; and it’s just onecity. I suddenly had the concrete sense ofhow many large cities there were in theworld—and I had to address all of them.All of those numbers had to hear of me,and of what I was going to say. And thefeeling was marvelously solemn.”Today, with the image of her flowing cape,ivory cigarette holder, dollar-sign pin anda pen name lifted from a typewriter in ourminds, ‘Ayn Rand will not only beremembered (in every ‘large city’) as amajor intellectual of the 20th century whochallenged a collectivist world but herpowerful and cohesive philosophy iscapable of significantly improving thefuture’ (Younkins).

For Ayn Rand, with love.remembering thelegend on her108th birthday

mary ann, ayn rand’s typist of Atlas Shrugged, talks about her study and the way she wrote.

it was very small, and very simple. Actually, it

was quite bare. There was only one window, and

her desk was placed right in front of it. she didn’t

have an inspiring view, just windows of an

apartment house across the way. To the left of her

desk, along an adjoining wall, there were book

shelves. on one of the bottom shelves, she kept

the typed manuscript of Atlas shrugged in boxes

that had contained typewriter paper. The

handwritten pages she was working on were kept

in manila folders on the desk; she did her writing

on a blue-green blotter. opposite the desk were

filing cabinets, on which there was a telephone

and a pencil sharpener.

she was very disciplined. she seldom left her desk.

if she had a problem with the writing—if she had

what she called the “squirms”—she solved the

problem at her desk; she didn’t get up and pace

around the apartment, or wait for inspiration, or

turn on the radio or television. she wasn’t writing

every minute. once i heard a flapping sound

coming from the study—she was playing solitaire.

she might read the newspaper. At times, i entered

the study to find her sitting with her elbows on the

desk and resting her chin on her hands, looking

out the window, smoking, thinking.

one morning when i arrived, she was still in bed.

i started my work, and soon i heard her call out:

“oh, frank. i’m falling asleep. oh no, i can’t!” A

few minutes later i heard her slippers slapping on

the tiles. she washed her face, took a cup of coffee,

and went to work. Later that morning, she

explained that she had been up very late the night

before, and had had little sleep. she had a

deadline to meet with random house, and she

was determined to meet it—exhausted or not.

Her

study

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Bollywood star salman khan could

face up to 10 years in jail after an

indian court decided it will try him for

homicide following a fatal road

accident more than a decade ago. khan

initially faced negligence charges,

which carries a lighter sentence of two

years, but government prosecutors

successfully asked the court to upgrade

the case to homicide. one man was

killed and another three were injured

when the actor allegedly rammed his

car into a group of homeless people

sleeping on a sidewalk in Mumbai in

september 2002. A police bodyguard

who was with khan said the actor was

the driver of the Land cruiser, when

the accident happened. khan's lawyer

Deepesh Mehta, however, told The

Times of india that they will challenge

the decision in the high court, saying

there is no change in circumstances

and "the evidence is still not

complete". khan had starred in

several blockbuster Bollywood films

and is a popular product endorser. But

he has also faced several controversies

for his run-ins with the law. in 1998, he

was found guilty for poaching a rare

buck in a desert wildlife preserve. he

managed to remain free even as the

conviction carried five years jail time.

khan also faced several separate

charges of illegal possession of weapons

stemming from the incident, when he

and several other people allegedly

drove into the Thar desert to shoot

deer while on a break from filming.

khan's homicide trial is set to begin on

March 11. indian courts are notorious

for delays and a trial can take years to

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We're two very passionate producers with one great aim —

to entertain. Both Karan and I want to make our

fathers proud. Cheers to our new venture — Akshay Kumar

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Academy Award-winning actress MarionCotillard has taken home the puddingpot after being honored as woman of theyear by Harvard's Hasty PuddingTheatricals. Cotillard smiled, waved andcaught a teddy bear from the crowdduring a parade through Cambridge'sHarvard Square on Thursday. Theprocession was followed by a roast of the37-year-old French actress at HastyPudding headquarters, during whichCotillard sang a song from "La Vie enRose." Cotillard won a best actress Oscarfor her portrayal of famed French singeredith Piaf in that 2007 film. Cotillard hasappeared more recently in " Inception"and "The Dark Knight Rises." ClaireDanes was the woman of the year in2012. The awards are presentedannually to performers who have made alasting and impressive contribution toentertainment. NEWs DEsK

lilo will come outon top eventually:charlie sheenCharlie Sheen, who co-starred withLindsay Lohan in horror spoof 'ScaryMovie 5,' thinks that the actress is a"terrific" person. The 47-year-old actorsaid that Lohan is smart and superfabulous and he thinks that she will comeout on top eventually, the Daily Mailreported. earlier, it had been revealedthat Sheen gave Lohan 100,000 dollars tohelp her out when she was struggling tofind money to pay her tax bill. But he saidthat he might not have been so generoushad he realised that she would bespending the money on taxes. NEWs DEsK

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RANA HUSSAIN TAHIR KOSHAL

HISTORY of the world isessentially the history of itsgreat men and women. And

many of us are mere talents, cleverchildren in the play of life, that when agenius like Ayn Rand stands in ourpresence we can only bow down before itas an act of God, a continuance ofcreation. Women like Rand are the very‘life-blood of history, to which politics andindustry are but frame and bones’.Today, Ayn Rand - a source of inspirationto millions - would have celebrated her108th birthday. While ancient moral codesgave importance to those who served andsacrificed for others, Rand’s “new code ofmorality” adorned “the concept of man asa heroic being, with his own happiness asthe moral purpose of his life, withproductive achievement as his noblestactivity, and reason as his only absolute”.She developed and defended Objectivism.Born in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1905,Ayn Rand learnt how to read at six. By theage of nine, she had decided to makefiction writing her career. Thoroughlyopposed to the collectivism of Russianculture, she thought of herself as aEuropean writer, especially afterencountering Victor Hugo, the writer shemost admired. When introduced to American history inher last year of high school, sheimmediately took America as her model ofwhat a nation of free men could be.In late 1925 she left Soviet Russia to visither relatives in the United States. Althoughshe told Soviet authorities that her visitwould be short, she was determined neverto return to Russia. After arriving in NewYork City in February 1926, she spent theinitial six months with her relatives inChicago, obtained an extension to her visa,and then left for Hollywood where sheworked as a screenwriter.She began writing The Fountainhead in1935 (taking a short break in 1937 to writethe anti-collectivist novelette Anthem). In

the character of the architect HowardRoark, she presented the kind of herowhose depiction was the chief goal of herwriting: the ideal man, man as “he couldbe and ought to be.” According to The AynRand Institute, The Fountainhead wasrejected by twelve publishers before it wasaccepted by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.When published in 1943, it made historyby becoming a best-seller by word ofmouth two years later, making Rand achampion of individualism.Working part time as a screenwriter, shebegan writing Atlas Shrugged in 1946.Five years later she moved back to NewYork City and devoted herself to thecompletion of Atlas Shrugged.Atlas Shrugged (published in 1957) washer greatest achievement and last work offiction. In this novel she dramatized herunique philosophy in an intellectualmystery story that integrated ethics,metaphysics, epistemology, politics,economics and sex. Although sheconsidered herself primarily a fictionwriter, she realized that in order to createheroic fictional characters, she had toidentify the philosophic principles whichmake such individuals possible.Fountainhead and Atlas Shruggedinculcate in the reader a feeling that therewas someone else in the world, whothought about life just like they do. Whofelt that one cannot be servile to another.Who felt that one has a right to one’s ownhappiness. Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged tends tokindle passion for one’s work and hatredtowards meaningless ‘objects’. In a fanletter to Rand, one college student reportedthat "as a result of my enthusiasm I havelost two friends. I am beginning to realisehow unimportant these people are."

Such was Ayn Rand’s power.Ayn Rand came into spotlight once againduring the US Presidential elections whenPaul Ryan, an Ayn Randian at heart, wasnominated by the Republican camp for thepost of vice president. However, whenObama was asked about Ryan’s obsessionwith Ayn Rand, he tried to belittle him bysaying that Ayn Rand was for teenagerswho thought they were being understood. In retaliation, The Ayn Rand Institute saidthe president was pulling the same old trickthat collectivists had been pulling for the last150 years. Rather than openly defending theproposition that he had a duty to servesociety, he misrepresents and smearsindividualism. “Contra Obama, what AynRand appeals to is youthful idealism”.“President Obama claims he has read AynRand, but you wouldn’t know it from hisrecent comments,” said Don Watkins, afellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and co-author of “Free Market Revolution: HowAyn Rand’s Ideas Can End BigGovernment.” “To be an individualist,Obama suggests, is to be concerned withyourself with no regard for other people —indeed, at the expense of other people.That is a total distortion of Rand’sindividualism.”When Rand saw Moscowfor the first time in 1921 she said, “Iremember standing on a square. And itsuddenly struck me! How enormous it is,and how many people; and it’s just onecity. I suddenly had the concrete sense ofhow many large cities there were in theworld—and I had to address all of them.All of those numbers had to hear of me,and of what I was going to say. And thefeeling was marvelously solemn.”Today, with the image of her flowing cape,ivory cigarette holder, dollar-sign pin anda pen name lifted from a typewriter in ourminds, ‘Ayn Rand will not only beremembered (in every ‘large city’) as amajor intellectual of the 20th century whochallenged a collectivist world but herpowerful and cohesive philosophy iscapable of significantly improving thefuture’ (Younkins).

rANveer sINGHArm twIstsPrIyANKA cHoPrA

Ranveer Singh's boisterous nature is not going down too well with many of hiscolleagues. A few days back, he managed to tick off Kareena Kapoor at a partyby repeatedly making weird gestures and feigning to be in love with her, andnow it is his Gunday co-star Priyanka Chopra who is also apparently annoyedby his antics. Priyanka, who is going through an emotional crisis with herfather not keeping well, is apparently having a tough time shooting the YashRaj film with the Band Baaja Baaraat actor. Recently, while shooting a scene,Ranveer was required to pull Priyanka gently. However, he got so rough withthe actress that she was in tears. According to a source present on the set:"When it happened for the first time, Priyanka did not complain. However,when Ranveer continued to be rough, she started feeling a strong ache in herarm. At one point he almost twisted her arm, prompting her to yell at him and'take it easy'." And it seems Ranveer has finally got the message. "He is

maintaining a distance. He was obviously not hurting herdeliberately. He just seems too exuberant all the time,"

said the source."Actually, Ranveer is bubbling withenergy all the time and he tries to put extra effort

in everything he does. Even during normalconversations, he is so loud that he often ends upembarrassing himself and the person he istalking to. When on the set, he is always up tosomething. He needs to calm himself down abit," added the source. Ranveer confirmed andsaid "We were shooting an

intense scene in which Ihad to grab Priyanka's

arm. I din't realise theforce I was using. Later I

saw that she had beenbruised. I apologise to

her profusely."

his gunday co-star had to bear the brunt oF hisover-enthusiasm during a recent shoot

swIft wANts

NotHING to do

wItH styles

Singer Taylor Swift, who

recently parted ways from

singer Harry Styles, does not

have any intention of

remaining friends with him,

Swift's friends say.

"Concerning her and Harry,

they don't talk to each other at

all. The relationship is as over

as possible. They want nothing

to do with each other,"

contactmusic.com quoted a

close friend of Swift as saying.

The former couple split

following a huge argument

while on holiday in the British

Virgin Islands in January.

Swift, 23, is also reportedly

embarrassed about her string

of failed relationships with

celebrities including Taylor

Lautner, Joe Jonas, Jake

Gyllenhaal and John Mayer.

"She is embarrassed over how

people are reacting to her and

her relationships, but honestly

believes it has been the guy's

fault every time," said a

source. NEWs DEsK

After former Australian batsman Brett Lee tried hishands at singing, we have Indian cricketerHarbhajan Singh following suit. on Tuesdayevening, Harbhajan tweeted on a micro-bloggingsite saying "watch my first song ever sung by meon YouTube..type Harbhajan Singh-IkSuneha..thanks a lot for your love and supportguys...bless." Following the tweet, the cricketerwas congratulated by Indian cricketers and friendsVirat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh. The song and videofeatures Harbhajan reciting a poem in Punjabi. Astrong worded piece of poetry, the video showcaseshim expressing "the real Punjabi and not what theyare shown to be otherwise." When contacted thecricketer admitted that when he heard the lyrics ofIk Suneha, it inspired him to take it up. "I am notsinging but reciting the lines that portray a verystrong message. I strongly believe in the lyrics thatsay so much about who Punjabi people really areand not what they are shown to be otherwise."Believing strongly in the poem, Harbhajan furthersaid, "For instance Jats are not people who fight,they are annadatas and play various other roles likethat of a judge, farmer etc. It's an importantmessage for a lot of people who have been singingsongs that don't mean anything. Ashleel gaane aredemeaning. People need to understand that we areresponsible for what we say. Saaf gaao, acha gaao,"he said. Harbhajan also mentioned that he sang fora track that pays tribute to all mothers. "I am not asinger and don't have what it takes to be a singer,but this message was close to my heart and when Iheard the lyrics of this track, I was impressed," heshared. NEWs DEsK

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Painter of kate’sportrait defendshis workWhen Paul emsley unveiled hisofficial portrait of Kate Middletonearlier this month, the criticism wasso savage that emsley retreated frompublic view and began asking himself,Did I screw this up? After weeks ofcontemplation and sketching, emsleytells the Washington Post he has hisanswer: No way. In fact, therenowned artist thinks the piece mayend up being what the Post calls the“masterwork” of his career.The portrait shows a “natural” Kate,rather than the glamorous one inmagazines, as per her request. “Idid not deliberately age her oranything like that,” emsley says. “Iwanted it to be an authentic record,but it’s very easy to put in moreshadows and things than areperfectly necessary, and I haven’tdone that. I’ve tried to record,in a polite way, what I regardas her natural beauty.” Oneproblem, he adds: Thepainting doesn’t photographwell and is meant to be seenin person. And for the record,Kate loves it. NEWs DEsK

internet saves‘gay’ dogThe Internet came together to savea dog after his owner dumped himat a Tennessee shelter ... becausehe thought the dog was gay. Apicture of the bulldog, who was indanger of being euthanized, wasposted to Facebook in an attempt tofind an adopter. “He hunchedanother male dog so his ownerthrew him away bc he refuses tohave a ‘gay’ dog,” wrote the poster.Gawker picked up the story, andsoon the Madison County animalshelter was flooded with calls, saysa worker there. In fact, when the Tennessean got intouch with the shelter for an update,the guy who answered the phoneestimated he’d gotten about “10million calls,” and urged people toplease stop because the dog is safe:“It has been adopted already. It isgone,” he says. “He’s in goodhands.” NEWs DEsK

Sony is poised to unveil the

next PlayStation at an event in

New York City in February 20.

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ARCHITECTS Fosters and Partnershave revealed designs for abuilding on the Moon that couldbe constructed from materialalready its surface. An inflatable

structure would be transported from Earth, thencovered with a shell built by 3D printers.

The printers, operated by robots, would use soilfrom the Moon, known as regolith, to build thelayered cover. The proposed site for the building isthe southern pole of the Moon. It is designed tohouse four people and could be extended, the firmsaid. In 2010 a team of researchers from

Washington State University found that artificialregolith containing silicon, aluminium, calcium,iron and magnesium oxide could be used by 3Dprinters to create solid objects.

The latest plans are the result of a collaborationbetween a number of organisations including theEuropean Space Agency. The consortium tested thepracticalities of using a printer on the Moon bysetting up a D-shape 3D printer, which are used toprint very large house-sized structures, in a vacuumchamber with simulated lunar material.‘fAsciNATiNg AND uNique’

“As a practice, we are used to designing forextreme climates on Earth and exploiting theenvironmental benefits of using local, sustainable

materials,” said Xavier De Kestelier, a partner inthe firm’s specialist modelling group.

“It has been a fascinating and unique designprocess, which has been driven by the possibilitiesinherent in the material.”

Buildings on this planet by the architect firminclude Wembley Stadium, the World Trade Centerin New York and Beijing airport.

Last week US company Deep Space Industries(DSI) announced plans to use asteroid material formanufacture by harvesting them and using 3Dprinters sent into space. The company is alsodeveloping a bespoke 3D printer calledMicroGravity Foundry for the purpose, it said, andhopes to be ready to start production by 2020.

go vegetarian, heart riskdrops by 32 percent One reason to ditch meat: A new studyfinds that vegetarians were32% less likely to die ofheart disease or betreated in thehospital for it,the BBC reports.University ofOxford scientistsstudied 44,500people over aperiod of 11years, and foundthat vegetariansalso had lowerblood pressure,lower “bad”cholesterol levels,and were athealthier weights.Says a researcher,“Vegetarians probably havea lower intake of saturated fatso it makes senses there is a lowerrisk of heart disease.” NEWs DEsK

France says non to hashtagAu revoir, “hashtag.” French language cops are strikingthe english word from their lexicon in favor of thefrancophone mot-dièse, reports the Local as picked upby Time. The Commission Générale de Terminologie etde Néologie is tasked with preserving the language, andsimilarly banned “email” in 2003—Frenchies aresupposed to use courriel. However, many French folksare complaining that mot-dièse (aka “sharp word”) isnot themot juste.And thetwitterverseis snarking:“Why don’tthey use‘ashtag - zisis veery French &we wouldundérstund. #motdiese,” tweeted oneuser. Dièse is actually theFrench word for a musicalsharp; the “#” symbol is acroisillon, reports the New

York Times. NEWs DEsK

COURTESy BBC

It’s the owl’s greatest trick - turn-ing its head almost a full circle.The puzzle has been how the birddoesn’t throttle itself in theprocess. If we did it, we’d cut theblood supply to our brains andpass out. But according to twoUS-based scientists, the owl hassome very smart bone and vascu-lar structures running along itsneck to the skull. These featuresprotect blood vessels from dam-age and maintain the flow evenwhen the head is swivelled 270degrees. “They haven’t developedjust one answer to the problem;they have several answers,” saidDr Philippe Gailloud from JohnsHopkins University School ofMedicine. “And it’s because ofthis set of solutions that we don’tsee lots of owls lying on the forestfloor having suffered strokes,” theinterventional neuroradiologisttold BBC News. Night-huntingowls must turn their heads in thisextraordinary way because theireyes are fixed in position in theirskulls. To change the view, thehead must rotate instead. It’s truethey have double the number ofbones in their neck comparedwith us - 14 versus seven cervicalvertebrae. But it’s really theway the animal managesthe flow of oxygenatedblood to its brainthat underpins thei m p r e s s i v efeat. Dr Gail-loud andscienceillus-tra-

tor Fabian de Kok-Mercado usedvarious imaging and dissectiontechniques to detail the anatomyof a dozen dead owls. Theyshowed that the big carotid arter-ies, instead of being on the side ofthe neck as in humans, are carriedclose to the centre of rotation justin front of the spine. As a conse-quence, these arteries experiencemuch less twisting and stretching.The potential for damage is there-fore greatly reduced. Thisarrangement is not specific toowls, of course; it is seen in otherbirds as well. What does appearunique to owls, however, is theway the vertebral arteries - thevessels that travel through chan-nels within the neck bones - aregiven extra space. In humans, thebony cavities are just big enoughto carry the vertebral arteries. “Bycontrast, in owls, the canal isabout 10 times bigger and it’sf i l l e dw i t han airsac ,”D r

Gailloud said. “You know birdshave air sacs to make themlighter, and somehow they man-age to put some of this inside thatbony canal and cushion the ves-sel.” In addition, between thecarotid and vertebral arteries,owls have a lot of smaller con-necting vessels that permit theblood to find alternative pathwaysshould one of the main flowroutes close down during rotation.But perhaps most significant ofall is the discovery that owls havewide segments in their carotidsjust under the skull base. The re-searchers found these could dilateand fill with a reservoir of blood.“We believe this is kind of a newstructure not really known be-fore,” said Dr Gailloud. “It’sprobably a way to pool blood andget some continuity of flow evenif there is disruption below at thenext level.” Mr de Kok-Mercado

completed the study aspart of his mastersresearch at JHU. Henow works at theHoward HughesMedical Institute.He commented:“There’s no realclinical relevancehere, other than‘don’t try this at

home’. But I thinkfrom a broader per-

spective, it just illus-trates the amazing

amount of biodiversityon our planet, and how

there are so many thingswe still haven’t discovered.

“You would have thoughtwe knew everything there was

to know about the owl. A lot ofthis is down to technology whichallows us to break new ground,”he told BBC News. The studywon top prize in the posters andgraphics category of the 2012 In-ternational Science & Engineer-ing Visualization Challenge. Thiscompetition is co-sponsored bythe journal Science and the USNational Science Foundation.

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OPTING to bat first,Australian women couldmanage only 175 in 46.1overs on a slow Barabati

Stadium track but then bowled with alot of purpose to skittle Pakistan out fora paltry 84 in 33.2 overs.

Title contenders Australia startedtheir ICC Women’s World Cupcampaign in a confident mannerwhipping minnows Pakistan by 91 runsin their group B league opener, here on

Friday. Opting to bat first, Australianwomen could manage only 175 in 46.1overs on a slow Barabati Stadium trackbut then bowled with a lot of purpose toskittle Pakistan out for a paltry 84 in33.2 overs.

Veteran all-rounder of Indian originLisa Sthalekar contributed an useful 32and then bowled nine overs ofcontrolled off-breaks to grab two for 19.Another notable performer was SarahCoyte who took three wickets andscored 35 runs. Pakistan team had toshift base to Cuttack for their groupleague matches after protests from

political parties against theirparticipation in the marquee event.

Australian batswomen didn’t have agood day as only opener Rachel Haynes(39) and Sarah Coyte (35) were the onlyother two, who crossed the 30-run markbarring Sthalekar.

The Australian total was propped upby the 17 wides bowled by Pakistaniwomen. Left-arm spinner Sadia Yousufwas the pick of the bowlers grabbingthree for 30 while Asmavia Iqbalchipped in with two wickets.

The target wasn’t a big one but save21-year-old batswoman Bismah Maroof

who contributed 43, only Nadia Yousfreached double figures. There wereabsolutely no partnerships and thePakistani women found it difficult toget going against the pce trio of EllysePerry, Megan Schutt and Sarah Coyte.Coyte was the most successful bowlertaking three for 20 while Perry andSchutt took two and one wicketrespectively.BRIEF ScoRES: Australia 175 in 46.1 overs

(Rachel Haynes 39, Sarah Coyte 35, Lisa

Sthalekar 32, Sadia Yousuf 3/30), Pakistan 84

in 33.2 overs (Bimah Maroof 43, Sarah Coyte

3/20, Lisa Sthalekar 2/19). Aus women won

by 91 runs. Pts: Auustralia 2 Pakistan 0.

Afridi urges worldto end PakistanisolationKARAcHI: Allrounder Shahid Afridihas made an emotional appeal to thecricketing world to end Pakistan's four-year isolation over terror attacks. Nointernational cricket has been played inPakistan, which suffers near dailyTaliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence,since gunmen attacked the Sri Lankanteam bus in March 2009, killing eightPakistanis and wounding seven visitingplayers. Minnows Bangladesh twicecalled off tours last year over securityfears and the head of the Federation ofInternational Cricketers' Associations(FICA) has warned players not to takepart in an inaugural Twenty20tournament in March. Former captainAfridi said Pakistan has been sidelinedand had "suffered because of being thefrontline state in the war" againstIslamist militants. "We are desperatelytrying to revive international cricket inour country and need co-operation butit's not coming," he said. For fouryears, Pakistan has been forced to playits home series at neutral venues inengland and the United Arab emirates,denying millions of local fans thechance of watching live internationalcricket. "Pakistan cricket is sufferingbecause of non-cooperation and it ishigh time that other nations contributeto our efforts. Don't leave us alone,"said Afridi, known for his hard-hitting

and wily leg-spin in limited overscricket. He said cricketingnations and FICA should helpthe Pakistan Cricket Board(PCB) bring foreign playersfor the PSL. aGENCIEs

taylor back inBlack caps squad

WELLINGToN: Ross Taylor hasreturned to the NZ squads for thismonth's one day internationalsand Twenty20s against england.Taylor did not tour South Africaafter he was dumped as captainlate last year by coach MikeHesson following the tour of SriLanka, an incident whichprompted a credibility crisis forNew Zealand Cricket. Theaggressive 28-year-oldrighthander has only recentlyreturned to first class cricket forCentral Districts. "Ross is a worldclass batsman who is a key part ofthis Black Caps side," Hesson saidin a statement. Otago openingbatsman Hamish Rutherford, whohad a strong domestic Twenty20competition, is the only uncappedplayer in the squads, while allrounder Andrew ellis returns toboth after missing the SouthAfrican tour with injury. aGENCIEs

All SA batsmen working really hard today for runs on a

good bowling, sporty pitch. Can't wait to see our bowlers

running in. A good test for Pakistan: Mark Boucher twits

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Pakistan has won only one match in its World Cuphistory, against Sri Lanka in the 2009 edition, whereit finished sixth. The team then had to qualify to playthe 2013 edition, which it did by finishing second tothe West Indies in the ICC 2011 Women's World CupQualifiers in Bangladesh in November 2011.

Going into its opening fixture against Australia,Sana Mir, the captain, admitted to having started asrank underdogs, given the side had never beaten itsopponent in a One-Day International before. But, atthe halfway mark, it looked like an upset was on thecards, with Pakistan chasing a modest 176.Unfortunately, its inexperience proved to be thedampener for Pakistan, as it was bowled out for just84 in the 34th over.

Mir rued losing a golden opportunity to get onepast Australia for the first time ever. "It sure is a bigdisappointment because I think we had a really goodchance today," she said. "Especially given kind ofwicket it was and the outfield was lightning fast, weshould have chased this score."

Only two batters managed to get into doublefigures for Pakistan, with the batting line-up unableto come to grips against Australia's pace attack. ButMir didn't agree that the listless batting performancewas due to lack of experience. "I take fullresponsibility because it was important to start welland we didn't do that," said Mir. "It was a case ofpoor shot selection from our batters. We have to bemore disciplined; we have to be responsible,because we undid all the hard work done by thebowlers. The batters simply have to step up."

Bismah Maroof offered some resistance with 43,but ran out of partners before she became the lastwicket to fall. Pakistan's innings lasted just 33.2overs but Mir, when asked if the pitch haddeteriorated, categorically blamed the batting unitand nothing else. "The pitch was keeping a little low,no doubt about that, but it was still a good wicket.

There is no excuse for this kind of performance. Ourshot selection was terrible and we need to get better.I hold myself responsible," said Mir.

Despite the disappointing outcome, Pakistan hadsomething to take away from the game courtesy itsbowlers. Sadia Yousuf, the left-arm spinner,thwarted Australia's progress with three wickets, butMir felt it was the pressure applied by the fastbowlers that helped the team restrict Australia.

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KAusHAlyAstArs IN stuNNINGsrI lANKAN wINMUMBAI: A brilliant counter-attacking half-century from eshani Kaushalya helped SriLanka hunt down a challenging target of 239to pull off a stunning one-wicket upset in alast-ball finish against england in a Group Amatch of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2013 atthe Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Friday(February 1). Chasing england’s total of 238for 8, Sri Lanka began well enough, withChamari Atapattu and Yasoda Mendis, theopeners, putting on 103 in good time.england, however, refused to let go, and acombination of tight bowling and efficientfielding got it back into the game. WhenKaushalya came to the crease, at No. 6, SriLanka still needed 86 from 85 balls. AsKaushalya settled in, the required run rateclimbed higher, but shewas undaunted, andbacked herself toplay the bigshot when theopportunitypresenteditself. Facedwithaggression,england’sbowlers let thingsslip, both shortdeliveries and full tossesbeing supplied generously. Kaushalya took fulltoll, slamming five fours and three sixes in her41-ball 56, all but sealing the deal beforebeing run out with one run still needed fromthree balls. The game still not settled,though, as Georgia elwiss, taking the pace ofher right-arm mediums, got in two dot balls.Dilani Manodara, who had sent back Kaushalyain the run out earlier in the over, had struckthe ball firmly, but only found the fieldersinside the circle. With just a single needed offthe final delivery, the field was up, andsensing the opportunity, Manodara gave alength ball everything she had, and easilycleared the midwicket fence even as heroverjoyed team-mates burst onto the field tocelebrate the moment. earlier, a late flourishby Jennifer Gunn, the right-hand bat, andsome steadying knocks by the lower middlerorder, saw englandput up 238 for 8. aGENCIEs

eshaniKaushalya’s

half-century sawsri lanka pull off

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If it does not get better than it is right now I

don’t know whether I will play on Saturday or not

– Garcia said after his opening 68 round

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Paceman Mitchell Starc helpedconsign West Indies to their thirdlowest total in one-day internationalsas Australia's top order needed lessthan 10 overs to race to a nine-wicketvictory at the WACA on Friday. Man-of-the-match Starc captured fivewickets for 20 and burly quick ClintMcKay returned figures of 3-10 as thetourists were skittled for 70, havingwon the toss and elected to bat first ona baking hot day.

Australia's response was short andbrutal with opener Glenn Maxwellblasting an unbeaten 51 and UsmanKhawaja finishing on eight not outafter pushing the winning single towrap up victory in the opener of thefive-match series. "I was given a job

to do and I just went out and did it,"Maxwell said in a television interviewafter his swashbuckling knock of ninefours and two sixes. "Was glad to getthe boys across the line."

Aaron Finch was the onlyAustralian wicket to fall, caughtbehind for 10 off the bowling of JasonHolder.

Starc took full advantage of somedevilish bounce and movement to routthe tourists' top order with fourwickets in eight balls and wrapped upthe innings in less than 24 overs withhis fifth. "It's nice when things cometogether and you get on a bit of a roll,"Starc said. "It's nice when it swings, Itried to keep it nice and smooth. Therewas enough in the deck, we knew ifwe put the ball in the right place, we'dget something out of it."

Reduced to 39-7 at the drinksbreak, the tourists flirted with their all-time lowest one-day total of 54 butcaptain Darren Sammy combined withpaceman Jason Holder for a 26-runpartnership to avert the humiliation.

As it was, they slumped to their

lowest one-day total against Australia."We didn't react properly to the swingand the seam," admitted Sammy.

McKay triggered the West Indiescollapse in the fifth over when heremoved Chris Gayle for 11, thedangerous opener nicking to the slipswhere Finch dived to his right tocomplete a sharp catch. Kieran Powellwas out for 11 three balls later whenStarc had the other opener edge onestraight to captain Michael Clarke at

first slip. Number three batsmanRamnaresh Sarwan was out for a duckthree balls later, bowled by Starcthrough the gate with a viciousinswinger that smashed into middlestump. Starc had Dwayne Bravo outfor another duck, the batsman nudginga quicker delivery off his pads straightto Phillip Hughes in close.

Kieron Pollard then played ontohis stumps to secure Starc his fourthwicket with a third duck, as the WestIndies flailed at 19-5. Debutant JamesFaulkner enjoyed his firstinternational wicket by coaxingDevon Thomas to nick straight toClarke in the slips for three, and tooka second when Darren Bravo wascaught behind by the same player for11. McKay ended Sammy's innings on16, the captain scooping a simplecatch in close to George Bailey, beforeSunil Narine was caught behind bywicketkeeper Matt Wade for a duck.The teams play the second match atthe same venue on Sunday.

JOHANNESBURGaGENCIEs

PAKISTAN ended a fascinatingopening day of the series withthe advantage after chippingSouth Africa out for 253 at the

Wanderers. Mohammad Hafeez baggedcareer-best figures of 4 for 16 to runthrough the lower order, building on aconsistent performance from the visitingattack throughout the day, as the earlyexchanges lived up to the hope of acompetitive series.

Only Jacques Kallis posted a half-century and sharp catching aidedPakistan's efforts while the bowlers sharedthe early wickets around before Hafeeznipped in. Younis Khan, who before todayhad seven Test wickets, provided a hugebonus for Pakistan when he claimedHashim Amla in his first over and Hafeezstruck first ball to remove AB de Villiers.

Junaid Khan, the left-arm quick, wasthe overall pick of the attack maintaininghis accuracy throughout the day, but it wasHafeez who ended with the biggest haul.Having been given the new ball mid overhe removed Robin Peterson, shoulderingarms, and then had Dean Elgar caughtdown the leg side. South Africa lost theirlast five wickets for 21, including a poorrun out of Vernon Philander, to meanPakistan had two overs to face before theclose. Misbah-ul-Haq deserves muchpraise for an excellent day as captain. Therewas an element of luck in Younis' surpriserole, but it was smart use of Hafeez to keephim in the attack with left-handed batsmenat the crease, rather than opt for what wouldseem the more obvious choice of a quickwith the new ball, although it is a roleHafeez is used to performing.

Despite the openers falling inconsecutive overs before lunch a stand of79 between Kallis and Amla wasthreatening to pull South Africa away in

familiar style. However, moments afterreaching a 74-ball fifty, Kallis failed tokeep a sweetly struck pull shot down andAsad Shafiq made significant groundfrom deep square-leg to hold a fine catch.

Kallis' innings had shown the side ofhis game that has evolved in the latter partof his career; a counter-attacking ability toseize the initiative. Both he and Amlaplayed Saeed Ajmal confidently, milkinghim for four an over in his first spell,although ironically it could have been thefact that Ajmal, who ended up wicketlessfrom 23 overs, did not pose a huge threatthat encouraged Misbah to give Younis his

profitable trundle. With his third ball,Younis dropped one short outside offstump, Amla cut it but did not keep theshot down and Azhar Ali, at gully, clungonto a flying chance above his head.

What will frustrate Smith and GaryKirsten is the number of wasted starts.South Africa had appeared to battlethrough the toughest conditions whenSmith and Alviro Petersen, leaving asmuch as they could early, bluntedPakistan's early efforts. However, one ofthe factors that makes the Wandererssuch a good Test venue is that thebowlers always have some

encouragement. Junaid, return for asecond spell, made the breakthroughwhen he found Petersen's edge bycramping him for room from round thewicket as he tried to play to leg. In thenext over Smith, who had been the focusof so much attention in the build-up tothe match, was also guilty of aimingacross the line and he edged a fulldelivery from Gul.

There had been plenty to distractSmith in the build-up to this match, as hebecame the first man to lead in 100 Testsand on his birthday, but he seeminglymanaged to put those events to one side.He looked steeled for a typically tone-setting innings and was angry withhimself at the mode of dismissal. Amlaand Kallis, the two pillars of SouthAfrica's middle order, firstly consolidatedeither side of lunch then started to expandtheir strokeplay including a period of fourconsecutive boundaries between them.

PAKIstAN tAKe oPeNING-dAy AdvANtAGesOutH afrICa fIrst INNINGs

G. smith c ahmed b Gul 24

a. petersen c Hafeez b Junaid 20

H. amla c azhar b younus 37

J. Kallis c shafiq b umar 50

a. De Villiers c ahmed b Hafeez 31

f. du plessis b Junaid Khan 41

D. Elgar c ahmed b Hafeez 27

r. peterson b Hafeez 0

V. philander run out 1

D. steyn not out 12

M. Morkel b Hafeez 0

Extras (b4, lb4, w1, nb1) 10

total (all out, 85.2 overs) 253

fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-46, 3-125, 4-135, 5-199, 6-232, 7-239, 8-

240, 9-243, 10-253

Bowling: Gul 19-2-56-2, Junaid Khan 18-8-33-2, rahat ali 14-0-

56-0 (w-1, nb-1), ajmal 23-4-68-0, younus Khan 4-0-16-1, Hafeez

7.2-1-16-4

paKIstaN fIrst INNINGs

M. Hafeez not out 6

N. Jamshed not out 0

Extras 0

total (for no wicket - 2 overs) 6

to bat: Misbah-ul-Haq, a.ali, younus Khan, a.shafiq, sarfraz

ahmed, u.Gul, s.ajmal, Junaid Khan, rahat ali.

Bowling: V.philander 1-0-6-0, D.steyn 1-1-0-0

south africa won the toss and elected to bat first

sCOrEBOarD sAs celebratesmith’s landmark day

JoHANNESBURG: Birthday boy GraemeSmith did not contribute much with thebat against Pakistan but it was still hisday at the Wanderers on Friday as hecaptained his 100th test and basked inthe adulation of the crowd. The 9000-strong crowd sang happy birthday toSmith as he celebrated turning 32 andreceived a cake in the shape of '100' onthe field at tea time, flanked by sponsorrepresentatives and sports minister FikileMbalula. His parents watched on fromthe stands. "This has been my favouritebirthday," he told the crowd on the firstday of the first test. "I would have likedto have scored a few more runs, but thisis a very proud moment for myself andmy family." A group of boys from hisalma mater, King edward VII School inJohannesburg, cheered and sang withgusto for him, and Smith made a pointof thanking them. It was perhaps apoignant reminder for him of where ithad all begun. He was also presentedwith a giant depiction of a Proteas jersey,signed by both sides, as messages ofcongratulations were displayed on thescoreboard from team mates andmembers of the SA set-up. aGENCIEs

starc grabs 5 wkts as Australia crush wIWEst INDIEs INNINGs

C. Gayle c finch b McKay 4

K. powell c Clarke b starc 11

r. sarwan b starc 0

Darren Bravo c Clarke b faulkner 11

Dwayne Bravo c Hughes b starc 0

K. pollard b starc 0

D. thomas c Clarke b faulkner 3

D. sammy c Bailey b McKay 16

J Holder b starc 7

s. Narine c Wade b McKay 0

K. roach not out 1

Extras (b-8 lb-3 w-6) 17

total (all out; 23.5 overs) 70

fall of wickets: 1-14 2-18 3-19 4-19 5-19 6-28 7-39 8-65 9-68 10-70

Bowling: C. McKay 7-3-10-3 (w-2), M. starc 6.5-2-20-5, J.

faulkner 5-1-14-2 (w-2), M. Johnson 5-0-15-0 (w-2)

austraLIa INNINGs

G. Maxwell not out 51

a. finch c thomas b Holder 10

u. Khawaja not out 8

Extras (w-2) 2

total (one wicket; 9.2 overs) 71

fall of wicket: 1-39

Did not bat: p. Hughes, M. Clarke, G. Bailey, M. Wade, J.

faulkner, M. Johnson, M. starc, C. McKay

Bowling: roach 2-0-29-0, Holder 4.2-0-18-1 (w-1), s. Narine 3-

0-24-0 (w-1)

australia lead five-match series 1-0.

sCOrEBOarD

di venuto picked to coachAustralia's batsmenSYDNeY: Former one day internationalMichael Di Venuto has been appointedAustralia batting coach ahead of one ofthe most testing years of cricket thecountry has faced. Di Venuto, andexplosive batsman who played nine one-dayers for his country in 1997, is thepermanent replacement for former testopener Justin Langer, who left the job tocoach Western Australia. Australia have losta wealth of experience from the middle order oftheir batting line-up with the recent retirements ofRicky Ponting and Mike Hussey but have little time to bed-inreplacements. With a four-test tour of India followed by back-to-back Ashesseries this year, the frequent fragility of Australia's top order will also onceagain come under scrutiny. Lefthander Di Venuto, who played for englishcounties Derbyshire, Durham and Sussex, was most recently an assistantcoach with his native Tasmania. Agencies

‘it’s nice When thingscome together andyou get on a bit oF aroll,’ starc said.

Button and Perezstart with a smile

WokiNg: Lewis Hamilton's departurefrom McLaren has left Jenson Button witha more talkative and smiley team mate inMexican Sergio Perez. The 2009 worldchampion, who rubbed along with fellowBriton Hamilton without them being thegreatest of mates, commented on thedifference at the launch of the FormulaOne team's new car on Thursday. "Checo(Sergio) has been around a lot this week,the last two weeks, which has been good,"the 33-year-old said after pulling thecovers off the MP4-28 alongside a teammate 10 years younger. "It's good to seehe has really been getting into the spirit ofMcLaren and spending a lot of time here,either doing sponsor activities ordeveloping his relationship with the team."When Lewis and myself were heretogether we never used to see each other.It used to be one day in the simulator andout the other," he added. McLaren were at

pains during theHamilton-Button

years to presentthe pairing as

two teamplayers,drivers whogenuinelygot along

despite beinghighly

competitiverivals. aGENCIEs

‘It’s good tosee he has really

been getting intothe spirit of

mclaren’

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Had a crazy photo session with some fans in

Pakistan. Really nice people I met and very supportive.

Now resting in my bedroom – Amir Khan twits

sportsSsaturday, 2 February, 2013

world championAsif in sf in thailandLAHoRE: Pakistan’s world snookerchampion Muhammad Asif made agreat come back before moving intothe semi finals of Sangsom MukdahanCup beatingPraprut Chaithanasakunin Mukdahan ,Thailand on Friday. Asifstormed back to repair the loss oftwo opening sets to post 47-66,26-52,71-29,62-50,100-29,7-72 and71-5 to oust Thai number seven infront of a packed crowd, said theinfomration made available here.Praprut, the 5 times NationalChampion of Thailand and two timesACBS champion was in great formagainst Supoj Saenla yesterday in hislast 16 round match and looked setto be on his way to win another whenthe IBSF World Champion struggled abit in the first two frames missingmany easy shots. Asif fired a break of47 in the beginning frame and misseda simple red on the top pocket.Praprut punished him with a break of59 from the last 5 red to the pink andsnatched the first frame of the matchat the score of 66-47. On frame 2,after losing his first frame in threematches, Asif was a bit vulnerableand continued to make more simplemistakes leaving chances to Praprutto win the 2nd frame at 52- 26 afterpotted the green. Asif pulled oneback on frame 3 with a break of 30 togo 56-9 in front. Praprut couldn'tcapitalize his chances and lost theframe when Asif finished off from theyellow to blue at 71-29. aGENCIEs

singh withdraws

from Phoenix open

ScoTTSDALE: Vijay Singh pulled outof the Phoenix Open on Thursdaybefore the start of the first round, aday after admitting he had used deerantler spray which contains aningredient banned by the PGA Tour.The former world number one, whowas scheduled to tee off in thecompany of American Ryan Mooreand Swede Carl Pettersson at theTPC Scottsdale, cited a back injuryfor his withdrawal. Singh, 49, wasreplaced in the field by AmericanRichard H. Lee. aGENCIEs

Islamabad in

deaf cricket final LAHoRE: Islamabad breezed intothe final of National deaf cricketchampionship making short work ofGujrat by 46 runs in the semi finalhere on Friday at Shah Faisalground. Islamabad,elected to batposted 153 runs in 38.1 over withRaheem top scored with sterling 84runs. Touqir from Gujarat took 3wickets for 24 runs. Gujarat werebowled out at 107 in 30.4.Muhammad Shakeel fromIslamabad took 4 wickets off just12 runs and was declared man ofthe match. Islamabad is leavingtomorrow, Saturday for Karachi toplay final Match to be played onFebruary 4. The second finalistteam will qualify from the Karachiround in which 16 teams as takingpart. Meanwhile,manager of thePakistan deaf cricket association ,Zaheer ud Din Babar has expressedhis gratitude to Chairman, PakistanCricket Board, Mohammad ZakaAshraf for extending all out helpand patronage for the successfulholding of the event at Lahore andKarachi. aGENCIEs

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MADRIDaGENCIEs

GARETH Bale hopes he can oneday emulate the achievements ofCristiano Ronaldo after

revealing that he has been trying tomodel his game on the Real Madrid star.The Welshman came to Tottenham'srescue for the umpteenth time onWednesday night, scoring a marvelloussolo goal to snatch a draw for Spurs atNorwich.

Bale's game has developedimmensely since he moved to White HartLane in 2007. The 23-year-old hasconverted himself from gangly left-backto one of the most powerful andmuscular attacking forwards in the game.

Bale's ability to cut in from thetouchline and fire powerful shots at goalstirs memories of Ronaldo's time atManchester United, and like thePortuguese, he has also become adept atplaying through the middle, as heshowed in the second half at CarrowRoad on Wednesday night.

The former Southampton man, whohas regularly been linked with a move tothe Bernabeu, admits he looks up toRonaldo and hopes one day that he canreplicate the success of the Portuguese,who has won one Spanish league title,three Premier Leagues, and a host ofindividual honours in his career.

"You put your targets high," Bale said."The way Ronaldo plays, he's the best all-round player in the world. "People havesaid things in the past and the stuff hedoes is similar to what I do. "He is abenchmark for every player who wants tobe that good and it's useful to look at otherplayers, watch how they do things andtake my game to another level.

Bale hoping toemulate ronaldo

wenger’s deadlineday dip with Nacho

LoNDoN: Arsene Wenger made a casefor his Arsenal defence on Wednesdaynight and did something about it,signing Malaga full-back Nacho Monrealon a long-term contract. Wenger lostanother defender, Kieran Gibbs, forthree weeks to a thigh injury during the2-2 draw with Liverpool - a game duringwhich the Gunners displayed thedefensive frailties that have blightedthem all season. Wenger's response wasto do an out-of-character piece of latebusiness, paying an undisclosed fee for26-year-old Spain international Monrealas the clock struck 11. "We are delightedthat Nacho Monreal has agreed to joinus. We have been monitoring him forsome time now and are really pleasedthat we've been able to agree this movetoday [Thursday]," Wenger said."Monreal is a strong left-sided defenderwith good experience at both club andinternational level. He is a technicallygifted player, a good crosser in the finalthird and strong in the air. "He will addquality to our squad and of course, toour defensive unit. We all look forwardto him playing for us." aGENCIEs

lI HoPeful of quIcK returNdesPIte sore ANKlehAMBerg: AustralianOpen runner-up Li Na willvisit doctors in Germany onMonday for treatment on hersore left ankle and is hopefulof returning to action in afortnight, the Chinese worldnumber five said onThursday. Li rolled her ankletwice in losing the final ofthe women's singles atMelbourne Park to worldnumber one VictoriaAzarenka on Saturday. "It'ssore, so (I) will see doctor onMonday," Li told reporterson a conference call. She hasbeen recuperating at home inChina and visiting familysince her near-miss at the year's first grand slam. Providingshe is fit, the 30-year-old would return to action at the QatarTotal Open in Doha on Feb. 11-17, she said. aGENCIEs

NEW yORKaGENCIEs

USA will be without both Williams sisters fortheir Fed Cup World Group first-round trip toItaly next month. Serena hurt her back duringthe recent Australian Open while Venus is alsoabsent from Mary Joe Fernandez's four-woman

team. She instead picks teenage sensationSloane Stephens, who knocked Serena out ofthe first Grand Slam of the season at thequarter-final stage, Varvara Lepchenko, JamieHampton and Liezel Huber. Italy have left outformer French Open champion FrancescaSchiavone for the claycourt tie, which takesplace on Feburary 9-10 in Rimini. With Flavia

Pennetta currently injured, the Italianshave chosen Karin Knapp and theuncapped Nastassja Burnett in theirteam, one which is led by Sara Erraniand Roberta Vinci. The latter duo areboth ranked in the top 20 in singles andare currently rated the world's topdoubles team.

Defending champions CzechRepublic had already named anunchanged side from November's finalsuccess over Serbia. World numbereight Petra Kvitova will lead them athome to Australia, with Lucie Safarova,Lucie Hradecka and AndreaHlavackova making up the team.

usA without williams sisters for fed cup

snedeker and co havelow-scoring fun watching PhilAriZoNA: While Phil Mickelson grabbed thespotlight in stunning style at the Phoenix Openon Thursday, FedExCup champion BrandtSnedeker and his two playing partners relisheda low-scoring day in the Arizona sunshine during the openinground. Snedeker took advantage of the ideal conditions to fire asparkling seven-under-par 64 at the TPC Scottsdale, finishing fourshots behind the pacesetting Mickelson wholipped out with a birdie attempt for a 59at the last. "Obviously I needed to goa little lower," a smiling Snedekertold reporters after his partners,Padraig Harrington (64) and 2010champion Hunter Mahan (67), hadalso gone low. "It was fun outthere. We had a great group of guys,me and Padraig and Hunter had agreat time out there today. We kind offed off each other, got off to a hot startand played pretty well." aGENCIEs

‘obviouslyI needed to

go a littlelower,’ a smiling

snedekersaid

MADRID: Gareth Bale

hopes he wants to look

like cristiano Ronaldo in

terms of achievements.

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CHARLEROIaGENCIEs

WORLD number one NovakDjokovic is angry at thestate of the court that willbe used for this week's

Davis Cup first-round tie between Serbiaand Belgium. Djokovic and the rest of hisSerbian team are unhappy that a claysurface has been laid on top of aparquet floor. "This isdefinitely the worst courtwe have ever played on,"he told a newsconference on Thursday."We're all putting ourhealth at stake here."How is it possible thata clay court can besolid and can be asuccessful, playablecourt if it's built on

parquet? We tried to slide a few times ...but our feet stayed under ground."Djokovic, back in the team for the firsttime since September 2011, also saidhe was still feeling jetlagged afterbeating Britain's Andy Murray at theAustralian Open final on Sunday. "I

am not fully recovered and I'm doing mybest in order to prepare myself for

tomorrow," he said. Serbia arewithout injured worldnumber nine JankoTipsarevic but are stillfavourites to progressagainst Belgium whoare led by worldnumber 50 DavidGoffin and 127th-ranked Olivier

Rochus. The othersingles player for theSerbs is world number39 Viktor Troicki.

National cyclingfrom 16th LAHoRE: The 60th National CyclingChampionship has been rescheduledand will now be held from February 16to 19 at Lahore instead from February12-16. The affiliated units of thePakistan Cycling Federation areadvised to continue training of theircyclists for the championship. Thetrack events of 60th National CyclingChampionship will be held at CyclingVeldrome near Qaddafi StadiumLahore. The boarding/lodging andtravelling expenses will be provided tothe provincial teams. The units havebeen asked to confirm theirparticipation in the championship atthe earliest and the teams must reachLahore by 15th. staff rEpOrt

Hec score big

win in u-21 Hockey LAHoRE: Higher educationCommission scored the biggestmargin victory of the 32nd Junior U-21 National Hockey Championshipwith 18-1 thrashing of lowly ratedBalochistan at Faisalabad HockeyStadium on Friday. In the othermatches, PIA routed KhyberPakhtoonkhawa 11-0, PakistanCustoms outplayed Islamabad 8-1,National Bank of Pakistan beatPunjab Colour 3-1. HeC led the firsthalf 6-1 against Balochistan. Scorers,HeC:Adeel 5 Goals 13th, 45th, 52nd,62nd minutes (FG)& 66th minute(PC), Hassan 2 Goals 15th minute(PC)& 60th minute (FG), Babar 4Goals 24th, 30th, 51st & 63rdminutes(FG), Waseem 25thminute (FG),Shaheryar 2 Goals 28th& 67th minute(FG), Nadeem 2 Goals 36th &65thminutes (FG), Sohail 57thminute(FG) & Fareed 64thminute (FG).Balochistan :Qazi Asfand 20thminute(FG). PIA gained 6-0 lead over KPK atinterval and slammed another fivegoals in the following session for ahigh flying win. Scorers, PIA:Awais 4Goals 8th, 9th, 31stminutes (FG) &13thminute (PS), Ammad Butt 2Goals 20th minute (PC) & 53rdminute(FG), Muzammil 35th minute (FG),Ateeq 3 Goals 37th, 49th&68thminutes (FG) & Nohaiz Malik 57thminute (FG). Customs were 2-1 atbreak against Islamabad,Scorers,CUSTOMS:Shaheryar 11thminute(PC), Ihsan Usman 3 Goals 19th, 50th& 69thminutes (FG), Mohsin Sabir40th minute (FG), Atif Mushtaq59thminute (FG), Faisal Khan 59thminute (FG) & Amir Ali 66thminute(PC). ISLAMABAD:Saad Khan25thminute (PC) . aGENCIEs

Kabaddi matchon Kashmir dayLAHoRE: Pakistan KabaddiFederation will organize a kabaddimatch on February 5 on Kashmir dayto show commitment to Kashmircause at Islamabad’s Jinnah sportscomplex. The circle style match willbe played between Pakistan Greenand Pakistan White, said a spokesmanof PKF here on Friday. aGENCIEs

Well I am going to play (after) a long time in a tennis

tournament, professional tennis tournament, after seven

months – Nadal tells reporters after training in Majorca

sports Ssaturday, 2 February, 2013

wAtCh It LIve

STAR SPORTSHockey League:Lucknow v Mumbai03:00PM

STAR CRICKETBD League: Barisal Burnersv Duronto Rajshahi02:00PM

ESPNBarclays League: Chelseav Newcastle United 07:55PM

PTV SPORTS1st Test: Pakistanv South Africa01:30PM

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LAHOREstaff rEpOrt

Abdul Khaliq Khan,one of the mostdistinguishedservants of Pakistansports and a formersecretary general ofPakistan OlympicAssociation (POA),passed away hereFriday after a attack of paralysis thatfollowed some blockage of veins in thebrain a few days before. He was 80.

His sudden death sent the entireOlympic family into deep shock andmourning, and his funeral prayers post-Maghrib prayers Friday were attendedby a large number of athletes,aficionados and sports organizers, hisformer colleagues from Wapda, a sizablecircle of friends and family. Ch.

Muhammad Yaqub, Shaukat Javed,Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad AbidQadri, Muhammad Jahangir,Muhammad Shafiq, Khalid Rasheed,Ch. Asghar, Shamim Hashmi, FarooqIqbal, Muhammad Bux, Naseem Butt,Idris Haider Khawaja, Khawaja FarooqSaeed, Latif Butt, Kamran Butt,Muhammad Waqar, Yousaf Butt, ColAhmed Yar Lodhi, Mian MuhammadRafiq and all POA staff were alsopresent.

“Abdul Khaliq Khan shall in ourmemory remain in the forefront as far asgreat servants of Pakistan sports go.Both in terms of quality and longevity,his service to Pakistan sports was indeedremarkable. He worked with me asSecretary General of POA from 2005 to2012 before bowing out in the electionsearly last year and was elected vice-president. But his commitment to POAand Pakistan sports did not require the

trappings of an executive office, for hekept coming to the POA Secretariat dayin, day out and kept on assisting us withthe same efficiency that had been hishallmark throughout.

“In his death Pakistan Sports has losta most dedicated and selfless workerwho always maintained his balanceregardless of the pressures. We all grieveover his death, while remembering hisgreat contribution first as a player andskipper, and then as a mentor of Pakistanvolleyball in so many positions for sucha long time, with his services to theentire Olympic family taking pride ofplace in an organizational career thatonly be described as superlative”, saidthe POA President Lt. Gen. (Retd) SyedArif Hasan, HI(M).

Talking about Khan Sahib – as hewas addressed far and wide in Pakistan’ssporting circles and abroad, POA’s ChiefCoordinator Khalid Mahmood said: “It

is a very sad day for Pakistan sports andOlympic family. We have lost a greatfriend and a superb colleague who wouldnever tire of giving his best to the causeof Pakistan sports. His death hasdeprived us of a person with suchoutstanding qualities like utter devotion,hard work and self-sacrifice when itcame to Pakistan sports.”

Ch. Muhammad Yaqoob, Presidentof Pakistan Volleyball Federation, said:“There cannot be any doubt whatsoeverabout Khaliq Khan Sahib’s status inPakistan Volleyball. He was the bestwhen it came to organization, andwhatever successes Pakistan Volleyballhas achieved in the last three decadescould not have come without his ability,knowledge, focus and commitment. Thevolleyball family shall miss him dearlyand always remember him fondly. Hewas a great sports leader with highcaliber of competence and integrity”.

A chapter of Pakistan olympics concludes

LoNDoN: Andy Murray will miss Great Britain'sDavis Cup tie against Russia at Coventry's RicohArena on April 5-7 to focus on the clay season. TheAustralian Open finalist has decided to concentrateon his weakest surface immediately after the hardcourt tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami havebeen completed in March. Murray is determinedto make inroads into the advantage main rivalsNovak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadalhave traditionally enjoyed on clay. However, the25-year-old reigning US Open and Olympicchampion will participate in the next Davis Cup tiein September. "It's a shame to miss out on theDavis Cup, as I always enjoy playing," worldnumber three Murray said. "I speak to (GreatBritain captain) Leon Smith and the team on aregular basis and will definitely be available toplay the next Davis Cup tie laterthis year."

The clay season begins inCasablanca on April 8 andclimaxes with the French Openat Roland Garros whereMurray's best performance washis semi-final defeat by Nadal in2011. "We totally understandAndy's position. He has workedextremely hard on his game,elevating it to another level andwe have all seen the fruits of thatsince Wimbledon," Smith said."Andy's success continues to

inspire more and more young people to take up thesport and we look forward to welcoming him backinto the team in September." If they upset Russia,who have four players inside the top 100 of theworld rankings, Great Britain will progress to the16-nation World Group play-offs on September 13to 15.

"We are very excited to be taking Davis Cupto Coventry and taking advantage of strong homesupport," Smith said. "It will be tough againstRussia, who are arguably the strongest team in ourgroup, but we'll be giving it our best shot."

Jamie Baker is likely to be the team's numberone with James Ward, Josh Goodall and DanEvans competing for the other singles spot, whileColin Fleming and Jonny Marray are a potentialdoubles pairing. aGENCIEs

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DJOKOVIC AND THE REST OF HISSERBIAN TEAM ARE UNHAPPYTHAT A CLAY SURFACE

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ATTOCK: Members ofrival religious groupsclash in Shakr Daravillage on Friday. ONLINE

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HANGUstaff rEpOrt

Asuicide bomber detonatedhis explosives outside aShia mosque in Hangu asworshippers were leaving

Friday prayers, killing 28 peopleand wounding over 50 in the lat-est apparently sectarian attack inthe country.

Shia Muslims in Pakistan haveincreasingly been targeted by rad-ical Sunni militants, and 2012 wasthe bloodiest year for the minoritysect in the country’s history.

The attack on the mosque tookplace in the town of Hangu inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa province,which has experienced previousclashes between the Sunni andShia communities that live there.

The bomber staged his attackat one of the mosque’s exits lead-ing to a bazaar, said Hangu policechief Mian Mohammad Saeed.

The blast damaged severalsmall shops and peppered a wallwith shrapnel, leaving scores ofpockmarks. Ambulances rushed into pick up the dead and wounded,as police tried to keep back on-lookers in the crowded bazaar.

The explosion killed 28 andwounded over 50 people, said an-other police officer, Naeem Khan.One policeman who was guard-

ing the mosque was killed and an-other was injured. Most of thedead and wounded were Shias,but some of the casualties werealso from the country’s majoritysect since there is a Sunni mosquenearby, said Khan.

No group has claimed responsi-bility for the attacks, but suspicionwill likely fall on the Taliban orLashkar-e-Jhangvi, which have bothcarried out bombings against Shias.

The worst sectarian violencein Pakistan in recent years hasbeen in Balochistan province,

which has the largest concentra-tion of Shias in the country. Atwin bombing last month at a bil-liards hall in Quetta killed 86 peo-ple, most of them Shias.

According to Human RightsWatch, more than 400 Shias werekilled in targeted attacks in Pak-istan in 2012, including over 120in Balochistan. Sectarian militantgroups, such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,have increased their strengththrough alliances with al Qaedaand the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pak-istan, which has been waging a

bloody insurgency against the gov-ernment for the past several years.

Rights organisations havecriticized the government for notdoing enough to crack down onthe attacks against Shias.

Pakistan’s intelligence agen-cies helped nurture Sunni militantgroups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi inthe 1980s, to counter a perceivedthreat from neighbouring Iran,which is mostly Shia. Pakistanbanned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in2001, but the group continues tooperate fairly freely.

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The treasury benches had to face hulla-baloo and chaos from its own ranks onFriday as a report by the parliamentarycommission on the creation of newprovinces drew new divisions and align-ments in the National Assembly.

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MNA from Mianwali, Humair HayatRokari, came down hard on what he calledthe “partisan report” by the commission. Hetore its copies, threw the torn pages towardsthe chairman of the proceedings, NadeemAfzal Gondal, and staged a walkout fromthe House. The act angered Gondal, whocalled it a violation of the rules of the Houseas well as parliamentary traditions.

Rokari, who had been a mere silentspectator in the assembly during the past

five years, protested against the commis-sion’s recommendation to include Mianwaliinto the proposed Bahawalpur-South Pun-jab (BJP) province. The commission’s re-port also triggered a walkout by the JamiatUlema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) members inprotest. Earlier, PPP MNA Arif Aziz Sheikhpresented the controversial report in the Na-tional Assembly.

Speaking on a point of order, Rokarisaid Mianwali was never a part of SouthPunjab on any administrative or ethnicbasis, rather he said it was located in thenorthwest of the province.

He said there was no representation ofthe opposition in the commission, addingthat the report was also a violation of theunanimous resolution of the Punjab Assem-bly. Sardar Shahjehan Yousaf also protestedand staged a walkout from the session ac-cusing the government of ignoring the de-

mand for Hazara province. The JUI-F’sLaeeq Mohammad Khan from Hazara fol-lowed suit along with other members of theparty. Munir Khan Orakzai, a member fromFATA, also refused to extend any support tothe controversial report, the reason beingthat FATA was absent from the contents ofthe report. He said all FATA memberswould oppose it.

The report contained the draft 24thConstitutional Amendment Bill 2013.

It suggested that there will be only onenew province that should be named Ba-hawalpur South Punjab of which Ba-hawalpur would be the capital.

Per the recommendations, the newprovince will consist of three divisions ofMultan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khanand two districts of Mianwali and Bhakkar.

The proposed bill is now subject to itspassage by the National Assembly, theSenate and the Punjab Assembly with two-thirds majority before being sent for pres-idential assent. The bill proposes nineamendments in the constitution.

Recounting the deprivations ofSouth Punjab, the commission observedthat South Punjab seemed to be slidingdownwards in the NFC from 1970 with

Multan and Rahim Yar Khan beingbrought down in the development indexfrom serial number 4 and 6 in 1970, re-spectively, to serial 13 and 16 in 2011.According to the report, Punjab had 50percent of the share in the federal civilbureaucracy whereas South Punjab hadbeen getting 12 to 15 percent that wascontrary to its rightful 30 percent.

According to the commission, the newprovince would be highly sustainable eco-nomically as it would produce 84 percentof Punjab’s cotton crop, 41 percent ofwheat, 36 percent sugar, 85 percent of gin-ning cotton factories, 40 percent of flourmills, 30 percent of sugar mills and 25percent of fertilizer manufacturing units.

The commission, however, recog-nised that its mandate was limited only tothe consideration of the creation of a newprovince in Punjab as expressed in theunanimous resolution of the provincialassembly. “It could not take up any otherdemand in this regard that might havebeen raised from any quarter,” the reportpointed out. The commission identified adeep sense of deprivation in the southernpart of Punjab because of economic dis-parity and unequal share in development

projects and government jobs. It suggested various measures for dis-

tribution of resources. It proposed that theWater Accord of 1991 between the federat-ing units it might have to be revisited to pro-vide for a share of water to the newprovince. The report pointed out that articles1(2), 51(3), 59(1), 59(1) (f), 59(4), 106(1),175A(6) and 218(2)(b) of the constitutionwould need amendments for the creation ofa new federating unit in province.

While the report has been unani-mously adopted by the commission, it wasaccompanied by notes and observationsby Senators Haji Adeel, Kamil Ali Agha,Abdul Ghafoor Haidri, MNAs Arif AzizSheikh and Farooq Sattar. kArAchi LAW & orDer: The Housealso witnessed a walkout staged by thePML-N on the law and order in Karachi,and especially on the absence of InteriorMinister Rehman Malik from the House.The members said Malik’s statement hadcreated a very dangerous situation in the fi-nancial hub of the country.

Taking part in the debate, MQM’s SajidAhmed expressed concern over Malik’sstatement that Karachi “will see a bloodbathin the month of February”.

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Hearing the Kamran Faisal death case,the Supreme Court on Friday gave an-other 10 days to the National Accounta-bility Bureau (NAB) to submit its“reservations” on the bench.

During the last hearing, NAB expressedits lack of confidence in the two-memberbench of the Supreme Court that is hearingKamran Faisal’s death case. To this, the benchhad directed NAB Prosecutor General KKAgha to submit reservations in writing.

On Thursday, the bench headed by Jus-tice Jawwad S Khawaja resumed hearing ofKamran Faisal’s death case, who was probingthe Rental Power Projects corruption scam.But, before arresting some big-wigs involvedin Rs 22 billion scam, the investigator wasfound hanging from a ceiling fan at his offi-cial residence in Islamabad on January 18.

During the hearing, Agha submitted thatin pursuance of the court’s earlier order to filereservations in writing on the bench hearing

the instant case, he filed it with the SC regis-trar’s office, however, the office raised someobjections. He sought more time to file reser-vations in writing. While accepting his re-quest the court granted him 10 more days andfixed the matter for February 11.

On the other hand, Attorney General ofPakistan Irfan Qadir also appeared before thecourt in compliance of the court’s earlierorder and submitted notification of the com-mission of Justice (r) Javid Iqbal, formed bythe government to probe the death of KamranFaisal. The court also gave conditional ex-emption to NAB Chairman Fasih Bokharifrom appearing before the court on the nexthearing, but observed that whenever the courtsummoned him he would appear before it.

Faisal, who was probing into the RentalPower Project scam involving Prime Minis-ter Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and 15 others, wasfound hanging three days after the SC or-dered NAB to arrest PM and others in con-nection with the scam. The SC took a suomotu notice of Faisal’s death last week.

Meanwhile, a team of Islamabad policeheaded by Inspector Mubarak Shah left forMian Channu, hometown of Kamran Faisalto exhume the body for an independent ex-amination as suggested by the PunjabForensic Agency. “We are on way to MianChannu to carry out exhumation of Faisal’sdead body,” Inspector Mubarak told Pak-istan Today on telephone on Friday.

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The Senate on Friday passed The In-vestigation for Fair Trial Bill, 2012.

According to details, the bill movedby Law Minister Farooq Naek providesfor investigation and collection of evi-

dence by means of modern techniques anddevices to prevent and effectively dealwith scheduled offences. It will also regu-late the powers of the law enforcementand intelligence agencies. Under the bill,all the law enforcement and intelligenceagencies will be governed by a uniformlegal system for collection of evidence,which will be admissible even if collectedprior to the registration of an FIR. Thiswould provide a legal framework to theagencies to lawfully conduct the surveil-lance of an individual who is suspected ofengaging or preparing to conduct an act of

terror. Furthermore, the bill will rendernecessary assistance in successful prose-cution of perpetrators of such crimes.When it comes into effect, the law willprevent the arbitrary use and abuse of in-terception powers particularly by the in-telligence agencies and force them toabide by the law. It will encourage all in-vestigating including intelligence agenciesto only collect genuine evidence in accor-dance with law and curb the temptation ofplanting false and fabricated evidencesagainst individuals in violation of theirhuman rights and civil liberties..

fair investigations, finally!

New province draws new divisions, alignments in NAPML-N MNA FROMMIANWALI, JUI-FMEMBERS STAGEWALKOUTS IN PROTEST

COMMISSION SAYSBAHAWALPUR-SOUTHPUNJAB PROVINCE WILLBE SELF-SUFFICIENT

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sc gives NAB 10 daysto file ‘reservations’

NAB CHAIRMAN GETSCONDITIONAL EXEMPTIONFROM APPEARING BEFORE COURT

SENATE PASSESINVESTIGATION FORFAIR TRIAL BILL

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