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Volume: 02 | Issue: 05 | 06th Feb - 12th Feb 2015 | Friday | English Weekly | Pages: 08 | Rs. 3/- | Baramulla

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Grievance cell established at DC office Baramulla; 5 control rooms also established.

A grievance cell has been established at Dy. Commissioners’ office Baramulla .general Pub-lic of District Baramulla are informed that they can submit their complaints and grievances to telephone No.s 01952-238444 or email at pa.dcbla@gmail .com.

In view of the recent snowfall and also to ensure availability of essential services/supplies during winter days , a control room bearing telephone No.01952-234119 has been established in Dc office Baramulla under the supervision f Additional Deputy Commissioner Baramulla .

Simlarly,Control Room with No.01954-222234 has been set up in the office of SDM Sopore, control Room with No.9419031386 at SDM of-fice Uri, control Room with No.01954-231455 at SDM office pattan while as control room with the NO.01954-225435 set up in the office of SDM Gulmarg .All the concerned have been directed to immediately make the control rooms functional in all respects.

Inspection at Kunzer and Boniyar

Acting upon the directions of the Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, Tehsildar Kunzer, Shuaib Mohammad Naikoo made a surprise visit of Public Health Centre Kunzer. During the inspection, the Tehsildar found two officials of the PHC absent from duty. Moreover, in the report submitted before the Deputy Commis-sioner, the Tehsildar has highlighted the fact that a Doctor was on casual Leave, but the sig-natures in the casual leave were not verified.

It may be noted that the Concerned Tehsildar has been on a regular inspection of the Govern-ment Offices besides on a routine market check-ing.

Similarly, a team of Officials headed by Teh-sildar Boniyar, Irfan Manzoor conducted mar-ket checking at Chandanwari Boniyar. Many shopkeepers who violated the relevant clauses of Law were fined under rules. Meanwhile, 1 kg of Polythene was destroyed on spot under the campaign Polythene Free Uri. Moreover, a few coaching centres were also inspected and the functionaries were warned to abide by the in-structions of the Honourable High Court.

Water manage-ment training held at RRC Wadoora

Three day training programme under the

component, “ On Farm Management’’, under the scheme National Mission for Sustainable

Agriculture ( NMSA) for the year 2014-15 for Orchadisits and field staff kick-started today at Regional Research Station Wadoora. As many as 30 Orchadisits are going to participate in the training programme besides the field staff.

NMSA aims at enabling farmers and Orchad-ists for conserving water and efficiently using water resources in their Fields. The main motive of the programme is the Sustainable develop-ment of the Agriculture sector in the area.

The Programme Coordinator, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Horticulture Officer Baramulla and other concerned officers were present on the occasion. A presentation regarding Irrigation with speedily reference to the Micro-Irrigation was shown and the participants were made aware about the need for micro-irrigation in the agriculture sector.

The participants were also made to visit the fields at Regional Research Centre Wadoora to make training programme is mad successful.

Passengers want reduction in transport fare.

The general passengers have criticized the State Transport Authority (STA) for its failure to slash the passenger fares despite considerable fall in the prices of diesel and petrol from past three months.

According to passengers, despite consider-able fall in petrol and diesel prices from past three months, authorities did not bother to reduce the passenger fare. They have urged the Governor N N Vohra to decrease the transport fare and provide relief to inflation-ridden mass-es of the region.

“It’s the demand of the general public who have no personal means of transport. The un-justified and illogical fare being charged is an open loot of the poor people who travel daily by public transport,” they said, adding that the transporters are part of the society and they should understand their social responsibility towards the public.

When contacted Regional Transport Kashmir Mehmood Ahmed Shah said it is the domain of State Transport Authority that is headed by Transport Commissioner.

“Transport Commissioner had sought rec-ommendations from me as well as RTO Jammu and Kathua in this regard. After talking to transporters, civil society and consumer forum, we submitted our recommendations asking for reduction in transport fare. We expect a deci-sion in this regard in coming days,” Mehmood added.

JK emerging as smoking capital: VHAI

Jammu and Kashmir is fast emerging as the “smoking capital” of north India as Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) today said that J&K’s cigarette consumption is almost double the nationwide prevalence of 5.7 per cent.

“The state of Jammu and Kashmir is fast emerging as the smoking capital of north India”, Media Officer VHAI, Binoy Mathew, said at a media sensitisation workshop for working jour-nalists in Jammu on Tobacco Control Laws-COTPA 2003.

The objective of the workshop was to sensi-tise the state level key media persons on the various aspects of tobacco control measures, implementation of COTPA 2003 and related issues.

“Jammu & Kashmir has 12 per cent cigarette smokers, 3.8 per cent bidi smokers and 8.0 per cent smokeless tobacco users”, he said.

Binoy further said “J&K’s cigarette use prev-alence (12 per cent) is almost double the nation-wide prevalence of 5.7 per cent”.

“It has come to light that the highest propor-tion of adults (67.9 per cent) exposed to to-bacco smoke in offices are in J&K and the low-est (15.4 per cent) are in Chandigarh,” he added.

Uber Altaf, Programme Officer VHAI, spoke on how to make educational institutions in Jammu region tobacco free by involving Chief Education Officer, Zonal Educational Officer, Principals and concerned SHO.

There was discussion and interactions over the tobacco control laws in the state, the role played by NGOs and Civil Society in combating the same and the level of intervention and ini-tiatives at the policy level of the concerned gov-ernment departments and Ministries, Media Consultant, Tobacco Control, J&K, Shafat Kira said.

Kira said that an appeal was made to the media persons to play an active role to support for the tobacco control programmes in Jammu and to play a very proactive role as agents of positive change in society.

Faulty PMSSS: Kashmiri students forced to return home

At least 90 male and female Kashmiri stu-dents admitted in a Chandigarh College under centrally sponsored Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) were forced to leave the College and spend the night in open sky as according to students the College au-thorities have been demanding hefty fee from them.

These students told CNS that they got admis-sion for B.Tech courses under PMSSS in Indo-Global College of Engineering in Chandigarh in 2013. “The College authorities asked us either to pay fee or vacate the College. The authorities informed us that Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has not released the sanctioned amount for the effective implemen-tation of the scheme, thus making them ineli-gible to study in the said College,” the students said, adding that they spent the night under open sky outside the College.

“Our career has been put at stake for no fault of ours. We had come here to study under PMS-SS, but the so-called free education has proved mentally torturous for us and our families,” said a student, adding that they have decided to return to Kashmir as College authorities are in no mood to permit them to sit in the class rooms.

Prime Ministers Scholarship Scheme was introduced by the then UPA Government for the students of Kashmir Valley.

When contacted, Chairman Indo-Global of Engineering, Sukhdev Kumar Shingla said that the College did not receive any grant from MRHD and as a result they asked Kashmiri students to pay from their own pocket.

Pertinently, the Ministry of Human Resource Development had launched the said scheme for the students of Jammu and Kashmir with much fanfare in 2011.

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Srinagar:Calling AFSPA the basic root of serious human rights violations, local Human rights watchdog,VOICE OF VICTIMS has deplored the continuation of said draconian law in Jammu and Kashmir.In a statement VOV Executive Director Abdul Qadeer has said that by having unlimited powers through AFSPA ,armed forces don’t see themselves accountable before any authority or court,so they didn’t hesitate to repeat any kind of seri-ous human rights violations.And that is why during last 25 years they killed dozens of innocent kashmiris in fake encounters or dur-ing custody.Giving example of Machill En-counter, Qadeer stated that after killing 3 innocents youths of Nadihal Baramulla in April 2010,army claimed that slain persons were foreign militants,however, later it came to fore that the victims were ordinary civil-ians, who were lured by the Army personnel and then killed in a fake encounter.He has said that AFSPA is a licence to armed forces officers and personals to kill innocent people after taking them into custody,disappeared

them,kill people in fake encounters and as well arrest innocent people without any rea-son.

While giving an introduction of dangerous and disputed act’AFSPA’ Qadeer said that this Act is called the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958.He further stated that If, in relation to any State or Union Territory to which this Act extends, the Governor of that State or the Administrator of that Union Ter-ritory of the Central Government in either case, is of the opinion that the whole or any part of such State or Union Territory, as the case may be, is in such a disturbed or danger-ous condition that the use of armed forces in aid of the civil power is necessary, the Gov-ernor of that State or the Administrator of that Union Territory or the Central Govern-ment, as the case may be, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare the whole or such part of such State or Union Territory to be a disturbed area.Abdul Qadeer said that Any commissioned officer,warrant officer,non commissioned officer or any other person of

equivalent rank in the armed forces may, in a disturbed area :

VOV executive director said that if the above said rank army officer is of opinion that it is necessary so to do for the maintenance of public order, after giving such due warning as he may consider necessary, fire upon or otherwise use force; even to the causing of death, against any person who is acting in contravention of any law or order for the time being in force in the disturbed area prohibit-ing the assembly of five or more persons or the carrying of weapons or of things capable of being used as weapons or of fire-arms, ammunition or explosive substances;

Qadeer said that if the above said rank is of opinion that it is necessary so to do, destroy any arms dump, prepared or fortified position or shelter from which armed attacks are made or are likely to be made or are at-tempted to be made or any structure used as a training camp for armed volunteers or uti-lised as a hideout by armed gangs or abscond-ers wanted for any offence:He stated that

Arrest without warrant, any person who has committed a cognizable offence or against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed or is about to commit a cog-nizable offence and may use such force as may be necessary to effect the arrest;

VOV Executive Director Abdul Qadeer has said that GOI’s failure to repeal or amend the draconian law AFSPA,it is still encouraging for those army and forces officers and personals who for promotion and other incentives misused the immunity from pros-ecution.In his press statement Abdul Qadeer has further stated that AFSPA that protects soldiers from being prosecuted for even the most egregious abuses has no place in a civ-ilized society and democratic system.While calling Immunity a cover for unaccountable army officers and personals VOV executive director has cautioned that till AFSPA isn’t been repealed there is no guarantee that seri-ous human rights abuses like fake encounters.extra judicial killings,rape of women etc. would have any end.

To review the situation raised due to snow fall in Baramulla District and also to ensure smooth supply of essential commodities, a meeting of concerned officer was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Com-missioner Baramulla Talat Parvez here today.

The meeting was attended by the ADC Baramulla, S.E R&B, Engineers of Mechanical Depart-ment, PHE, PDD besides Assistant Director CA&PD Baramulla and the officers from Health and other De-partments.

During the meeting, thread-bare discussion was held with regard to snow fall and the efforts taken up by the concerned departments in order to combat the situation. The Deputy Commissioner impressed upon the officers to gear up their manpower and machinery so that all the services are smoothly pro-vided to the general public. He di-rected the engineers of the mechan-ical Department to ensure complete restoration of all the major roads while the PDD and PHE Departments were asked to ensure adequate sup-ply of drinking water and electricity in the District. While reviewing the stock and supply position in the Dis-

trict, the Deputy Commissioner directed the Department of CA&PD to ensure smooth supply of rice, Atta, Kerosene Oil and LPG so that the people face no inconvienice in this behalf. Traffic Management Plan and Sanitation Management Plan were also reviewed during the meeting.

The Deputy Commission-er directed the concerned Officers for restoration of roads and preven-tion of water logging on roads and in habitations. Moreover, special directions were given regarding snow clearance, community advisories and disinfection campaigns, so that people face no inconvenience.

Moreover, the DC impressed upon the Additional Deputy Commis-sioner to be vigilant and entrusted upon him the duty of being the Su-pervisor for the district in view of any sort of emergency arising because of the current snowfall.

The Deputy Commissioner during the meeting directed all the officers to ensure attendance of their officials in respective offices and to remain vigilant in view of the predic-tions so that provisions of all the essential services are ensured in the entire District.

A warm Welcome–Cum–Farewell func-tion was organized in favour of new Dy.Com-missioner and outgoing Dy.Commissioner at Dak-Bunglow Baramulla today. The func-tion was attended by ADDC Baramulla, ADC Baramulla, JDP Baramulla, ACR Baram-ulla, Concerned SDMs, Tehsildars, and other officers.

Speaking on the occasion, Dy.Commissioner Baramulla Talat Pervez deliberated about his experiences and shared his vision for a developed district. He assured to focus upon Horticulture, Agriculture and employment. He also made a hope that sec-tors like Handicrafts, Handloom and other sectors will also be looked upon. Health sec-tor and Education will also be keenly pri-

oritized, the DDC admitted. While deliberating upon the achieve-

ments, the outgoing DDC Dr.Farooq Ahmad lone highlighted the role of Administrative machinery of the district, who played ex-traordinary role during the 2014-floods and the Assembly as well as the Parliamentary elections. He praised the efforts of the Of-ficers who made the functioning of the district a success in all respects.

Various Officers namely the Assistant Commissioner Revenue, ADDC and ADC highlighted the achievements and contribu-tion of the outgoing Deputy Commissioner Dr. Farooq Ahmad Lone during Elections and floods and in the development and se-curity sector of the district Baramulla.

Talat Parvez takes over as DC Baramulla

Stock, Supply Position Reviewed Officers Directed to be alert

AFSPA , lethal weapon not an ActImmunity is cover for unaccountable personals:VOV

NEWS

Baramulla: Horror spread among the residents of old town Baramulla when fire broke out from a residential house engulfing nearby houses too, in which five residential houses were burnt down to ashes here at Mir Sahab Mohalla of old town Baramulla on Thursday afternoon.

Eyewitness present at the site said that on Thursday afternoon a massive fire broke out from a residential house at Mir Sahib Mohla old town B a r a m u l l a which later on engulfed oth-er four houses within no time and goods worth crores of rupees were reduced to ashes.

The fire engulfed the houses of Abdul Razaq Bhat, Gulam Nabi Khan, Gulam Mohammad Sheikh and Mohammad Maqbool Sheikh in a very short span of time, though nearby fire service men and police personnel immediately swung

into action to extinguish the fire.The fire tenders from Baramulla,Sopore

Dangiwacha and from other areas along with Baramulla police reached the spot and saved the other property. However, locals allege that it was due to delay of fire service men that four other residential houses too were left to ashes.

Accord-ing to the e y e w i t -ness, the local youth did a splen-did job in controlling the fire t h e r e b y saving rest of the lo-cality from b u r n i n g down to ashes.

Mean-w h i l e , D e p u t y

Commissioner Baramulla Talat Pervaiz , ADC Reyaz Ahmed Wani and other officers vis-ited fire affected families and assured that relief would be provided to them.

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As you enter the recent flood hit Kanyari village -some 5 Kms from Sopore- of Sonawari belt, slippery heavy mud roads wel-come you. Roads full of mud which are not even feasible for person on foot, forget about driving a vehicle on this link road going through the village. On an otherwise 10 min-ute track, it took us half an hour to reach the house of Zooni Begum, a window residing at the end of this ill fated village which was hit badly in the recent devastating floods. Zooni, a mother of five is living in a makeshift hut amid dozens of empty inhabitable houses, in this bone chilling Kashmir weather with no ample facilities. She leaves early in the morn-ing to gather firewood from the ‘Rakh’-a for-est land, to prepare food and make charcoal for fire pots in order to subdue the harsh con-ditions of winter besides fishing in the waters of Wular lake. Peep inside the make shift hut which can otherwise hold two people but is a home for five people now. Unfortunate part is that there is no such warm matting, electric gadgets or gas heaters but few pieces of ragged mats, with no such strong, air-tight walls and roof. But Zooni and her children are facing the harsh winters bravely, which no other common man can do. Their house was partially destroyed in the floods that hit Kashmir in September 2014, in which hun-dreds lost their lives, besides the destruction of houses, crops and fruit industry worth crores of rupees. She lost all her belongings in this devastating flood and is left with a dam-aged house and a hope that government offi-cials will come once again and help this poor locality in a real sense.

“We received the aid from government of-ficials. They visited our locality after the floods to review the situation and we were ac-cordingly paid for the destruction caused by the floods. Some people received Rs 14000, Rs 19100 and even some Rs 75,000 from the government for their houses were completely destroyed. But for a widow like me, who has to take care of her children, that sum is not enough and when you have to repair the house besides facing the harsh winters,” said Zooni.

The brick walls plastered with clay provide a grim situation of the destroyed walls of her house. In order to shift back the three room house, she and her children are working hard to smoothen the walls of the house. But there is a definite threat of collapsing the house if it snows heavily.

Abdul Ahad Kalwetho, a fisherman by pro-fession says that it is Allah’s mercy on us that this time Kashmir didn’t witness heavy snow-fall. Else our situation would have been alto-gether different. The cracks in the walls of houses is a threat for our families. If God for-bid it snows heavily, these houses will collapse and we may witness a fatal accident in that case.

“We will not say that government did not helped us. Yes they came, reviewed the situa-tion, gave us aid but how can a family com-prising of 5-6 members manage with few thousands. We can’t ask for lacs of rupees but let them do the justice with us,” added Abdul Ahad.

Due to the recent devastating floods that hit the state of Jammu and Kashmir, all key sectors of economy viz; tourism, horticulture, education were badly hit. This small village of Kanyari got a jolt when the district adminis-tration put an all over ban on fishing and use of fish production, fearing an epidemic due to the stagnant waters and rotten carcasses. But fortunately after the strong resentment of lo-cal fishermen, the ban was lift later on.

Like other sectors of economy, fish produc-tion also suffered huge losses. People stopped consumption of fish fearing diseases, fisher-men who lost their everything in the devas-tating floods stopped fishing. Fishing being the main source of income for the people of Kanyari, here also the floods proved fatal for them as they had no other source of income. On one side the devastating waters destroyed their houses and on other side snatched them of their income. Not only this, now winters are also proving drastic for them.

Mohammad Amin, a local of Kanyaari says that this business is in a total loss these days. On a daily basis we catch one kilo or half a

Amid winter chill, dozens of families in flood-affected villages of North kashmir are struggling to rebuild their lives but in the absence of adequate relief, they are living a life of desperation in their makeshift hous-es. NOOR-UL-HAQ takes us to one of these devatsted villages where people are sur-viving surrrounded by mud and misery.

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kilo fish, which we sell for Rs 100-200 in the market so as to feed our families. At times we even come back empty hands. It is very hard to live in such conditions when you have no other source of income.

“We have a genuine demand. We want to shift from this place as it can be hit by floods anytime. We want the government to allot us plots at upper Kanyari where we have con-structed the makeshift huts. See our roads are in a dilapidated condition. Whenever there is any delivery case or any eventuality we can’t even arrange a vehicle as nobody can drive on this road. Instead of spending huge money on road construction, why not to allot us plots at a place where there is minimum threat of floods, so that we can live without any fear” added Amin.

Pertinently government agencies, non-government organisations (NGO) helped people both during and after the flood wrath but Srinagar being the capital city remained the main focus of these agencies, somehow completely forgetting about the flood hit ar-eas of North Kashmir. The painful part of this whole process is that even after six months many families are still living in tents provided by government and NGO’s at vari-ous flood hit areas of North Kashmir, braving the sub zero temperatures.

Moreover, the rehabilitation process got a jolt by the untimely state assembly elections held in December 2014 followed by the delay in government formation which is proving fa-tal for the flood victims. People have their hopes pinned on government who they think can take care of their needs and problems. But what actually is needed is to give priority to the flood victims, listen to them and solve their problems so as they can live a comfort-able life like anybody in our towns and cities.

YOUR SAYBaramulla town is looking like a

cesspool by just receiving few inches of snow. The authorities are in a deep slumber. there is no proper drainage system that is why whenever it rains or a snowfall happens, roads in the main town become inaccessible. There is always a threat as you may jump into a pothole.

Aarif

I am from old town Baramulla. I can’t just understand that after re-

ceiving few inches of snow our roads become cesspools, drainage system is blocked, vehicles are off the road and electricity is nowhere. Can’t the offi-

cials be ready to face such situation beforehand?

Daniyal

Come winters and we face a lot of problems. From electricity, drink-ing water, non availability of cooking

gas, there are many more problems which the government needs to take

care of.

Rouf Ahmad Dar

District administration needs to plan things in a proper way. Last year they macadamized the roads of Baramulla town and now are laying down 4G cable, thereby creating a mess in and around. Being the main town we have few working street lights while as the rest are faulty which need to be made functional for the benefit of people.

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BY RAMEEZ BHAT

Child labour issue now a days is consider as one of the most eye-catching issue. During the mid of 2014 I went to search for a rented room in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir and found it, in the western side of the city. When I went there to stay, I saw a child who was just 7 to 9 years old from North Kashmir, who was working as a servant there. I being enormously surprised to see a child who is too little for the work. His age was just to enjoy the childhood instead of enjoying he works as a worker. After few days I met him and asked him the reason of being a worker there, believe me his reply was heart-wrenching. His words stricken my heart. I offered him for an education. Whilst he was greatly pleasing to accept my offer, then after I went back to my home I narrated the story of that child to the Head of the School where he was admitted, to get education, without any question, with-out any charge, the school which is under the control of Islamic organization namely Jaamat-e-Islamia. I am hugely thankful to theprincipal of that school who accepted my request and admitted him and offer him free education. We need to contemplate on this on-going issue. In our society there are of thousands children’s like him whom want to study from different areas, but because of their impoverishment they remain uneducated.The question arises here? Why our hapless children’s remain un-educated? Hopefully because of their meagerness. But where is our state govern-ment? Where are our non-governmental organizations (NGO’s)? Where are our separatist leaders whom they incessantly delivered their lecture about the social evils? Doesn’t child labour is a social evil in front of them. Same is the case with our Islamic Organization’s whom they don’t take this matter gravely.This is genuinely an immense disaster for our children’s. As these organizations are under wake-less slumber.

It is the responsibility of state government and our non governmental organiza-

tions to offer them free education and admit them in different schools where they can get free and top-quality education. There are various Islamic organizations whom they offer free Islamic education to homeless and money-less children in our mother tongue they are gloriously identified as Dar-ul-uloom. But I would like to tell them in this contemporary period, they only not need Islamic education, try to give them a world education also. Bring them in a respective fields, where they can easily compete with different students in different subjects. We need to examine about this issue. We need to contemplate on this torment issue. Now it’s our responsibility to aware our society at ground level about the child labour, keepingthem the opportu-nity to attend schools. Child labour issue is highly a common social issue which eradicates our society badly. This issue halted our children from getting proper edu-cation and obstructed them to live their lives merrily. This is happening with the children because they belong to poor families, they try to contribute in their own way by earning throughout their working days and what comes the result, their edu-cation get wedged. The international labour organization [ILR] estimates that 215 million children’s between the ages of 5 to 14 currently working under conditions that are considered unlawful, hazardous or extremely deplorable. In our society large numbers of children’s are working as domestic servants, some are working as day labourers in different sections, like in a commercial agriculture, industries, fish-ing and so on, while some are working at work shops, even some of our beloved chil-dren’s are working as bus conductors, some are working as waiters in different res-taurants and hotels although in every sector we find a child as a worker. Most of the child labourers in our society are seen polishing the boots at different places. Is our conscience still alive? No! It is appearing dead.

Let me depict the story during the period of Prophet (pbuh), it was the time of EID, there was a joyous moment in the streets of Medina. All the people were dressed up with adorable clothes. In the streets of Medina children were celebrating EID joyously and playing with each other, and at the same time Prophet (pbhu) de-parted from that street and suddenly he saw a little boy who was sitting on the side of the path. The little boy was crying and looked very sad. The prophet (pbhu) went to him and asked him the reason of being sad. The boy replied, I am an orphan. To-day is an EID, everyone is glad and celebrating EID with exuberance wearing new clothes and they have idyllic things to eat, but I don’t have new apparel to wear, nei-ther do I have pleasant things to eat nor do I have any shelter to live. The prophet (pbuh) could not control his emotions, his heart became melancholic, tears rhythmi-cally flow from his graceful eyes, and then he hugged him. And therefore prophet (pbhu) took him home and gave him new clothes and provided delicious foods on the day of EID. Indeed a little boy had a wonderful EID. The prophet (pbhu) was very kind to children’s and loved them very much.

As he said ‘’ O Muslims, O father and mother, O my followers, be kind and com-passionate towards children, for someone who is not kind to children has no place amongst the Muslims.

Now see in this present era. We have lost our conscience as well as the quality of being human. We need to rectify our behavior. The children’s are working in differ-ent fields, how pitiless we became. We even don’t consider it as a biggest social evil. The child labour is increasing day by day, under child labour [prohibition and regu-lation] Act, 1986’’ one who has been found guilty the act prescribes fine up to twen-ty thousand or imprisonment up to one year. The Union Cabinet has also sanctioned a proposal for amending the Act, to ban employment of children aged up to 17 in any form of industry. Child labour is a global problem it is mostly common in underde-veloped and developing countries, where parents cannot make an effort to give edu-cation of their children because of their poorness and therefore children remain un-educated. It is our duty to save our blooming flowers from this counterproductive burden. They are thejust like bed fragrant flowers in our garden, if we cutoff the flowers from the garden the garden turned back into a barren land. The barren land needs water supply to turn back into a blooming garden. Same is the case with our children’s. They need our assistance.

It is revealed that child labour is increasing day by day in our society. We need to take some quantitative steps to protect our children’s from this mental illness. For instance if we found someone guilty, we should make a complaint in respective po-lice stations and therefore police officer’s should try to cooperate to save our chil-dren from the child labour. We need to inaugurate some of the education sectors where our hapless children’s gets free education, and make their character of living in respective schools by giving hostel facilities without any charge.

There are many NGOs from different countries who are against child labour and they always try to eradicate child labour in their respective countries as well as in their own provinces. But I wonder why our society is too much backward to save our blooming flowers from this atrocious illness. It is deeply unfortunate for our chil-dren. How unlucky our blooming flowers are. The child Labour Day is being cele-brated on June 12. Throughout the day, various organizations put forth their mean-ingless addresses towards the child labour issue, they just try to play with the emo-tions of our beloved children’s, the Day is just too insurgence to the feelings of our children’s. Who cares about child labour? It is we people whom need to care about this issue. We need to aware the locals about this decimating problem as well as Government should ruminate on this torment issue. The government should take some measure steps to save the children’s life from child labour, develop public awareness programs to protect them and so on. Meanwhile different NGO’S (Non-Governmental Organization’s) who are presently working on this issue, they should need to work honestly to save our garden from getting barren. Concluding the whole issue with the lines of child activist and noble peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi. -” You can buy a child for lesser price than an animal. The buffaloes and cows are much more expensive than buying a child to work full-time and for the whole of his life.

[Author is CSE aspirant and Pursuing Masters in Economics. He can be mailed at ramizspeaks77@gmail.com]

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Despite of their inconsistency over the last 2 decades, Pakistan have been one of the giants of World Cricket. No matter how unpredictable they are as a team, you would surely regard them as dark horses, if not favorites when it comes to this month’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

The fact that the men in green have loads of talent in their 15 man squad cannot be denied. Lets take a look at eight concrete reasons why Pakistan can go all the way in Australia and New Zealand:

Form in World Cups:Pakistan may go into every World Cup not as the favor-

ites, but their form in most ICC’s major competitions over the last two decades hasnt been disappointing at all. Pak-istan won the 1992 World Cup when everybody least ex-pected them to. They reached the semi finals of the 1996 and 2011 World Cups, and made it to the final of the 1999 World Cup. Although, next month’s World Cup is the ODI world cup, Pakistan’s form in the World T20 shows how well the seem to show up in all major competitions, having reached the semi final two times, the final once, and win-ning it once too.

1992 world cup venue:The venue for this elite tournament is the same as the

one in the 1992 World Cup. Heading into the World Cup 2015, team Pakistan would surely have incredible moral backing and motivation of the side that triumphed fa-mously back in 1992.

Shahid Afridi’s last world cup: It is indeed going to be the end of an era, the era of

Shahid Khan Afridi. Lala has been a massive asset to the Pakistan cricket team over the last 1 and a half decade, with both, bat and ball. His last World Cup would surely spark some emotions and promises to bring the best out of the legend, who can single handedly win matches for his team.

Misbah and Younis’ solid duo:

The retirements of Inzamam ul Haq and Muhammad Yousuf left a huge void in the Pakistan middle order. Pak-istan have been lacking solid finishers who can see out games with a calm and composed attitude. The return of Younis Khan to the ODI fold and his partnership with Misbah can provide Pakistan with some much needed solidity right in the middle.

Magic of Spin bowling: Despite losing the services of both Ajmal and Hafeez

in the spin attack, Pakistan’s leg spinners should do the trick in Australia and New Zealand. What many good teams in the world lack is a lethal spin bowling attack. Pakistan certainly have that, and with 3 of the favorites in England, Australia toand South Africa known to struggle against spin bowling, the men in green seem to carry a deadly weapon with them.

Irfan , a more lethal ver-

sion of Wasim Akram:No disrespect to the legend Wasim Akram, who is un-

doubtely one of the greatest bowlers to ever bowl a cricket ball, Pakistan have a deadlier left armer in the footer Irfan. Besides just his good line and length, along with the abil-ity to swing the ball both ways with pace, Irfan’s incredible height promises to give him a massive edge over any bats-man in the World Cup.

First match against India:Its a fixture that might haunt every Pakistani when

they think about it. Pakistan have never succeeded in pick-ing up a win against their deadly rivals in World Cup tournaments. Many Pakistani legends have tipped the men in green to make history this time and topple the Indians over. A win in the opening game against India would be an enormous confidence booster for team Pakistan, who might take the momentum all the way.

Versatility in the squad: Unlike in recent years, the Pakistan squad for this World

Cup possesses variety in all departments. If they get going, the men in green can do wonders with the bat. Two special-ist openers in Hafeez and Shehzad would give Pakistan the perfect platform to take off right from the. The middle order contains the perfect blend of defence and with the likes of Younis Khan, Misbah, Sohaib Maqsood and Umar Akmal. Much like the batting, their bowling also looks a perfect mixture of pace and spin, with fast bowler Irfan, and two specialist leg spinners in Afridi and Yasir Shah.

8 Reasons Why Pakistan Can Win World Cup 2015When discussion of the most unpredictable teams in cricket history is done, Pakistan’s name is certainly the first name that comes to mind. Pakistan is a team, that which on its days can beat the worlds best with considerable else and on other days can come crashing down like a fairly average side.

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