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DeMONSTRATORS briefly stormed the US embassycompound in Yemen on Thursday while protesterspelted the egypt mission with stones after a night of

clashes, as anger spread over a film mocking Islam.Yemeni police used water cannon and fired warningshots to expel protesters who breached the perimeterwall, and at least four demonstrators were shot deadoutside the compound as police battled to preventany new incursion.Demonstrations were also held in Iraq and Iran asanger over the US-produced movie “Innocence ofMuslims” that initially erupted among Sunni Muslimsspread to the two Shia-majority countries.The protests came even as US and Libyan officialssaid they had launched investigations into a mobattack on the consulate in Benghazi that killed theambassador and three other US officials on Tuesday,amid growing speculation it was the work of jihadistmilitants rather than just demonstrators.In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, five protesters were alsowounded when police opened fire outside thecompound, a security official said.Police had earlier fired warning shots as a crowd ofthousands approached the main gate of the mission,an AFP correspondent reported.Some protesters said they saw three vehicles beingtorched inside the compound before police ejectedthe demonstrators who had broken through.After being driven back from the main gate, the crowdregrouped near a checkpoint some 100 meters back,chanting anti-Jewish slogans.In the egyptian capital Cairo, police fired tear gas todisperse the latest protest outside the embassy bystone- and bottle-throwing demonstrators, whichcame after a night of sporadic clashes in which thehealth ministry said 16 people were injured. Armoredvehicles were deployed around the mission, an AFPcorrespondent reported.On Tuesday night, protesters stormed the compound,tearing down the Stars and Stripes and replacing itwith a black Islamic flag. egypt’s Islamist PresidentMohammed Morsi condemned the offence caused bythe US-produced movie but warned against resortingto violence. “We egyptians reject any kind of assaultor insult against our Prophet (PBUH). I condemn andoppose all who... insult our Prophet (PBUH),” he saidin remarks broadcast by state television.“(But) it is our duty to protect our guests and visitorsfrom abroad,” Morsi said. “I call on everyone to take thatinto consideration, not to violate egyptian law... not toassault embassies.”The low-budget movie mocksMuslims and Islam. Libya announced that it hadlaunched an investigation into Tuesday’s deadly assaulton the US consulate in Bengazi after US officials saidthey were probing reports that it may have been carriedout by al Qaeda rather than a frenzied mob. Initialreports said that Ambassador Chris Stevens and thethree other Americans were killed by an angry mob asthey tried to flee in a car. But it is now believed Stevensdied from smoke inhalation after becoming trapped inthe compound when suspected Islamic militants fired onthe building with rocket-propelled grenades and set itablaze. In the Iraqi Shia shrine city of Najaf, hundreds ofsupporters of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protestedagainst the film on Thursday, shouting slogans hostile tothe United States and Israel. In the Iranian capitalTehran, up to 500 people protested, chanting “Death toAmerica!” and to the movie’s director. On Wednesday,protests were held outside US missions in Morocco,Sudan and Tunisia. In Tunis, police fired tear gas todisperse a crowd of several hundred.

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Ten laborers were killed and fourothers were injured when armedmen opened indiscriminate fireafter lining them up in a file inthe Dasht area of Balochistan’sMastung district on Thursday.

The injured included a youngboy. A previously unknown Balochmilitant group, United Baloch Armyhas claimed responsibility for themurders. A spokesman for the pur-ported group, who introduced him-self as Mureed Baloch, telephonednewspaper offices and claimed re-sponsibility for the Dasht killings aswell as yesterday’s bombing atQuetta’s Sariab road.Per details, agroup of laborers were busy in roadconstruction work in the Splingyarea of Dasht when two armedmen riding a motorcycle appearedand asked them to get into a singlefile. The assailants then opened in-discriminate fire on them, killingnine men on the spot and seriouslyinjuring five others. One of the in-jured succumbed to his injuriessome time later. Mastung DeputyCommissioner Shah IrfanGharshin said the dead were iden-tified as Barat, Naiko, Noor Mo-hammad, Aurangzaib, Daro Khan,Yar Mohammad, Akbar, Niamat-ullah, Mohammad Saleem andAbdul Ghaffar while the injured

included Barat Khan, Mirza Khan,Baran and Gulab Khan.

One of the injured, BaratKhan, said around 10 armed mencame to the laborers’ camp in twovehicles on Wednesday and askedthem to leave the area or face theconsequences. He said that onThursday morning, two motorcy-clists appeared on the site andasked the laborers to surrendertheir cash and mobile phones. Thelaborers followed their directionconsidering them robbers. Baratsaid one of the two attackers wasfilming the incident while the othergot to work. Following the incident,relatives of the deceased fromSamungli area, a suburb of Quetta,rushed to the hospital and staged a

protest on the Jinnah Road. TheQuetta deputy commissioner andDIG (Operation) held negotiationswith the protestors and persuadedthem to disperse peacefully. On theother hand, Pakhtoonkhawa MilliAwami Party also staged a protestoutside the Quetta Press Club andgave a call for a shutter-downstrike. The speakers strongly con-demned the killing of laborers anddemanded the authorities appre-hend the attackers.

Balochistan GovernorNawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi andChief Minister Nawab AslamRaisani strongly condemned thekillings and directed the admin-istration to arrest the culprits assoon as possible.

33 more killedin rain-hitareas of Sindh,Balochistan

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At least 33 more people were killed invarious areas of Sindh and Balochistan byflash floods and torrential rains, as thearmy continued its relief and rescueoperation on Thursday. The floodwaterhas swallowed vast swathes of land inBalochistan’s Naseerabad, Jafarabad andDera Murad Jamali districts, breakingdykes of canals and triggering exodusfrom the areas. Reports said bodies of 18more people killed in flash floods hadbeen recovered in remote areas ofBalochistan. The local administration alsocontinued relief operation in Dera GhaziKhan and Rajanpur districts. Locals anddistrict administrations continued theirefforts to drain out stagnant rainwaterfrom low-lying areas in Jacobabad,Sukkur, Shikarpur, Kashmor, Kharipurand Ghotki, where heavy rains wreakedhavoc last week. In a statement, the ISPRsaid relief and rescue operations byPakistan Army continued in flood affectedareas of southern Punjab, Sindh andBalochistan. It said the Pakistan Armyhad employed over 1,000 troops to rescuethe flood affected people and drain waterfrom flooded areas of Dera Ghazi Khan,Jampur, Rajanpur, Rojhan, Kandkot,Jacobabad, Ghotki and Dera MuradJamali. Army troops have moved over3,681 people to safer places through MI-17 and boats in Kashmore, Badani, RaeesAttaullah Bhutto, Meva Khan, Kot OmerBhutto, Bakhsha Pur, Jampur, Rajanpur,Rojhan and Dera Murad Jamali, theISPR said.

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Nawaz hurls responsibility offire incidents at MusharrafLAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharifhas thrown the blame of fire tragedies in Lahore and Karachi on his nemesis,former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf. Talking to reporters duringhis visit to the burnt factory in Lahore, he said the former military ruler hadchanged the Labor and Industries Act. He further said that the individualsresponsible for fire incidents in Lahore and Karachi should be bought tojustice. Nawaz said that it was binding upon the government to impose theFactory Act, adding that laws were already in place but needed to be strictlyenforced. Commenting on the 18-hour conflagration in the garments factorylocated in Baldia Town, Karachi, Nawaz said the incident was among one ofthe major fire tragedies of the world. “I will go to Karachi as well to visit theill-fated factory,” he added. Nawaz said that apart from the factory owners,government officials were also responsible for the fire incidents. “We haveannounced a day of mourning for today,” he said. While talking about thefire incident in Lahore that killed 25 people, Nawaz said the trend of settingup factories in residential areas was not a recent one, but had been going onfor the last 40-50 years. He said the government’s job was to prevent thistrend, while announcing that the relevant officials in Punjab governmentwould be held accountable for this negligence. AgENcIES

Punjab govt reluctant to probe intoshoe factory fire incident: Rehman ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed that the Sindhgovernment had launched an investigation into the factory fire that had lefthundreds of workers burnt alive while the Punjab government had beenreluctant to do the same. Regarding the Karachi fire incident, Rehman saidthat a witness had stated that a factory door, that remained opened mostly,was closed at the day of the incident. He said that the total death tollrecorded was 264 in that tragic incident. He said that there could have beena personal enmity against the factory owner, which could not be ruled out inthe fire incident. He said that the respective provincial governments shouldinvestigate whether safety measures were adopted by factory owners andactions must be taken against those violating these regulations. Counteringclaims of the opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar regarding massive fundingby the president for media advertisements, Rehman said that thegovernment would constitute a commission which would probe into whichprovincial government had allocated funds for personal and partycampaigning in the media. STAff rEPorT

BHC axes provincial exciseminister over fake degreeQUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Thursday disqualifiedprovincial excise and Taxation Minister Babu Ameen Umrani for holdinga fake degree. Petitioner Niaz Muhammad had challenged the degree ofMPA Babu Ameen Umrani, who was elected from the constituency PB-29, Naseerabad-II. The BHC also directed the election Commission ofPakistan to hold by-election on the PB-29 seat, besides registering a caseagainst Umrani for contesting election on fake degree. Meanwhile, inanother case, the court reserved its verdict over the eligibility ofprovincial Communications Minister Ali Madad Jattak. The court willannounce its verdict on Jattak’s eligibility next week. INP

PT photographer robbedKARACHI: Pakistan Today photographer Imran Gilani wasdeprived of his cell phones, cash and other valuables in thejurisdiction of Jackson police station on Thursday. Gilani and afreelance photographer Mohsin Hassan were returning to the PToffice after covering the Baldia Town carnage when they wereintercepted at Netty Jetty Flyover by five armed men on gunpoint.Gilani was deprived of two cell phones, laptop, camera and Rs 5,000cash while his companion Hassan also lost two mobiles, cash andother valuables. STAff rEPorT

QUETTA: Demonstrators take to the streets in protest after gunmen opened fire on laborers in the Dasht area on Thursday. AfP

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Special US envoy Marc Grossman is arriv-ing today (Friday) on a daylong visit tohold talks on reviving bilateral strategic di-alogue and giving safe passage to Talibanleaders for Afghan peace dialogue.

However, the special envoy’s visit islikely to be overshadowed by deep anger inPakistan over the anti-Islam movie re-cently made in the United States.

Pakistan’s top military brass also dis-cussed the bilateral relations in detail atthe corps commanders’ meeting onThursday held in Rawalpindi with Chiefof Army Staff (COAS) General AshfaqParvez Kayani in the chair, as Grossmanwould also meet the army chief apartfrom Pakistan’s civilian leadership dur-ing his one-day visit.

This is Grossman’s first visit to Islam-abad after the restoration of NATO suppliesin July, and diplomatic circles in Islamabadare attaching great significance to it. How-ever, the rage and anger in Pakistan overthe recent anti-Islam movie is likely toovershadow Grossman’s, according todiplomatic sources. They said that Pakistanwould raise the issue of blasphemous movie

with the senior American official. Duringhis meetings with the Pakistani leadership,Grossman is expected to discuss the revivalof bilateral strategic dialogue, which wassuspended by Washington last year becauseof tense Pakistan-US relations. Anotherlikely subject on his agenda would beAfghanistan peace process.

US, Pakistan, and Afghanistan recentlyheld a meeting on giving safe passage toTaliban leaders, who would participate inany future talks with US and Afghan offi-cials. During the meeting, it was agreed toaccelerate the process of these negotiationsso that the stalled reconciliation processcould be given some push and thrust.

However, a statement issued by theInter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)said that the “conference was part of reg-ular monthly meetings.” “The forum dis-cussed routine professional/operationalmatters,” it said. The horrible fire inci-dents in Karachi and Lahore that killedabout 300 people, were also discussed inthe meeting. “expressing shock and griefover the loss of precious lives in two sep-arate fire tragedies at Karachi and Lahore,the forum offered heartfelt condolencesand sympathies to affected families,” theISPR statement said.

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Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, counsel for MalikRiaz, has said the cases registered againstBahria Town are baseless.Talking to reporters on Thursday, he said nota single inch of land had been occupied oracquired by Bahria Town through illegalmeans.“No land owner has come up with anycomplaint against Bahria Town and there isno FIR lodged by any person against theadministration,” he said, adding that chargeshad been framed on the statements of four orfive revenue officers.Aitzaz said investigations against Malik Riazhad been held 11 times in the past but nocharge could be established.He said Bahria Town land case could betransferred to NAB, adding that refusal by theanti-corruption department was tantamountto contempt of court.Aitzaz said Bahria Town had earnedinternational awards for its philanthropicprojects. “Bahria Town has been defraudedand fake cases have been fabricated againstit,” he said.earlier, a Lahore High Court bench of JusticeShahid Hameed and Justice Maqbool Ahmadheard the case. NAB prosecutor KK Agha saidthe case could be transferred to NAB.

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ISLAMABADANwEr ABBAS

THe National Assembly onThursday unanimouslypassed two separate resolu-tions demanding bar on thecontroversial movie ‘Inno-

cence of Muslims’ carrying blasphemousmaterial intended to defame Islam andthe Holy Prophet (PBUH) and to initiateaction against those responsible for thefire incidents in Lahore and Karachi aftera judicial probe.

Both resolutions were tabled by FederalLaw Minister Farooq H Naik during the sit-ting of the National Assembly on Thursday.

The first resolution presented by Fa-rooq H Naik demanded the US govern-ment to take strict against the makers ofthe contentious movie having derogatoryscenes against Islam. The resolutionstated that the entire nation condemned

the anti-Islam movie in the strongestwords and stressed that feelings of the fol-lowers of other religions would have to betaken into account and respected.

This resolution was clipped by anotheridentical resolution presented by JamiatUlema-e-Pakistan President SahibzadaFazal Karim, and after its approval, the law-makers demanded the government to for-ward the draft to the United Nations and torecord protest on behalf of Muslims.

earlier‚ the House unanimously sus-pended the Order of the Day. Law MinisterFarooq H Naik also presented a separateresolution that recommended the provin-cial governments of Punjab and Sindh toconstitute judicial commissions to probeinto the fire incidents and fix responsibilityon owners for not providing proper facilitiesto workers and the concerned governmentauthorities for not ensuring and regulatingthe required laws and procedures.

expressed grief and sorrow over the

Karachi and Lahore tragedies, the draft ofthe resolution demanded proper legislationto avoid such incidents in the future.

It also recommended proper compen-sation for the families of the victims.

earlier, representatives from the PPP,PML-N, JUP, JUI-F and MQM demandedthe government to convey a strong messageto the US government against the blasphe-mous movie that has hurt the sentiments ofthe Muslim Ummah. Speaking on the issue,Minister for Information and BroadcastingQamar Zaman Kaira condemned the airingof defamatory video clip in the US and saidthe Foreign Office had already strongly con-demned the issue.

He said those who claimed to be cham-pions of human rights must also take careof the feelings of the others.

Kaira noted that the anti-Islam moviehurt the feelings of Muslims the world over.Leader of the Opposition Nisar Ali Khansaid freedom of expression was everyone’s

right, but offering prayers publicly was notallowed in most european countries.

“It is entirely unacceptable for us ifsomeone swears at our religion and it is notan unusual occurrence that a movie is madeagainst our religion,” he remarked.

Nisar said the blasphemous movie wasmore harmful than drone strikes and despitetall claims of freedom of speech, there ex-isted no freedom for Muslims in the US andeurope. “Muslim females are forbidden towear hijab, Azan is prohibited, and Muslimsare often detained for offering prayers atpublic places. Now revered personalities ofMuslims are being continuously targeted,”he said. Speaking about the tragic fire inci-dents in Lahore and Karachi, Nisar secondedthe resolution presented by the law minister,saying formulating a commission over theissue was not enough. MQM’s Haider AbbasRizvi said Muslims were 25 percent of theglobal population, but still their sentimentswere continuously being hurt.

ISLAMABAD KAShIf ABBASI

After the killing of the American am-bassador in anti-US demonstrationsin Libya, the law enforcement agen-cies in Pakistan, fearing anti-USprotests across the country over ablasphemous film, have beefed up se-curity arrangements for today (Fri-day) around the US embassy inIslamabad and consulate offices inother cities.

A low-budget film, Innocence ofMuslims, has sparked protests inMuslim countries across the world.

On Tuesday, hundreds of protest-ers stormed into the US embassy inLibya killing US Ambassador Christo-pher Stevens and three other staff

members. On the same day, a group of Mus-

lims attacked US embassy in egypt. On Thursday, hundreds of

Yemeni people stormed US embassyin Sanaa.

Police sources said massive ralliesand protest demonstrations were ex-pected in Islamabad and other partsof the country after Friday prayersagainst the blasphemous film. Islam-abad Inspector General of Police BinYamin on Thursday evening presidedover a high-level meeting to discusssecurity measures in the federal cap-ital for today (Friday).

The meeting was attended by thesecurity DIG, the operations DIG,AIG Special Branch, SP Diplomaticenclave and other officers concerned.

The sources said during the meet-ing the IG directed the DIG securityto beef up security in Islamabad, par-ticularly around the Diplomatic en-clave, where the US embassy ishoused.

They said citing secret reportsprepared by the special branch, theAIG told the attendees that there wasa likelihood that a large number ofpeople will stage a massive protest inIslamabad after the Friday prayersand they might try to go to the Diplo-matic enclave to stage a protestthere. The sources said the attendeesdecided to deploy extra cops in andaround the Diplomatic enclave andthe Red Zone.

“Yes, there are chances of protestsin Islamabad. We have decided to de-

ploy extra number of cops to cope anypossible untoward situation,” said ZiaBajwa, a spokesman for Islamabadpolice. earlier talking to reportersoutside the Parliament House, Inte-rior Minister Rehman Malik said thetrailer of blasphemous movie hadbeen banned in Pakistan. He said noone would be allowed to play with thesentiments of Muslims.

Foreign Minster Hina RabbaniKhar also strongly condemned theblasphemous film. While members ofthe National Assembly – both fromthe opposition and the treasury –through a resolution strongly con-demned the movie and asked the For-eign Office to convey their sentimentsto the US to take action against theperpetrators.

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At least eight people, including a womanand two children, were killed andanother four were injured in two acts ofviolence in Khyber Agency on Thursday.Officials and tribal sources said a vehiclehit an improvised explosive devise (IeD)in Toda Valla area of Landi Kotal. Theysaid five militants, including fourAfghan nationals, were on board thevehicle. The IeD explosion completelydestroyed the car and killed all meninside.Tribal sources said the militants wereassociated with the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad.The IeD was believed to have beenplanted by militants from Lashkar-e-Islam, a rival militant group of Jaish.Meanwhile, three people, including amother and her two children, werekilled and four others injured when amortar shell hit a house in Akakhel areaof Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency onThursday.The injured were rushed to a hospital atPeshawar, where two were said to be indanger.Tribesmen said security forces wereengaged in shelling suspected hideoutsof militants in Akakhel area when theincident occurred.

Two NATOtrucks set ablazenear Mastung

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Unidentified gunmen attacked twoNATO tankers in Balochistan onThursday, and set them on fire. The trucks, carrying hardware andgoods for ISAF and US troops inAfghanistan, were attacked and setablaze in the Dasht area of Mastung onNational Highway.earlier on Thursday, in the same area,nine laborers were killed inindiscriminate firing by unidentifiedmilitants.

PML-N afraid ofgoing to ‘court ofmasses’: Kaira

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Leader of the Opposition in the NationalAssembly Nisar Ali Khan knew that his partywill get a drubbing in the coming localgovernment and general elections, therefore,he has started crying foul, InformationMinister Qamar Zaman Kaira said onThursday. “The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is afraid of going to the court of themasses, where they will be judged thereforethey have started making excuses for theirdefeat in the elections,” he said. Talking toreporters after attending a seminar, he saidNisar’s allegations that the government wasplanning to rig the coming elections weretotally baseless. “The coming elections willnot be and cannot be rigged as for the firsttime a neutral and consensus chief electioncommissioner has been appointed.” He saidNisar was a senior politician and deservedrespect, but he should not use derogatorylanguage for others. About secret fund of theinformation minister, Kaira said he had beenexplaining since the last few days that only Rs12 million fund was at the discretion of theinformation secretary which was spent on thewelfare of deserving journalists and theirfamilies. “This amount is released to theministry in four quarters and auditdepartment releases the next installmentafter getting a detailed report about thespending of the previous installment.” Hesaid Nisar’s claims were against facts as everyfiscal transfer was recorded by the financedivision so no transfer could be kept secret.To a question, he said the PML-N took everyissue to the courts, however he said in thiscase Nisar had asked the government to go tocourt which he called strange. To anotherquery about the UN commission’s visit toPakistan, he said as the Foreign Office hadclarified, it was not an investigative role. “Nodoubt the Supreme Court is the highestjudicial institution in the country, butparliament is the supreme institution whichhas the power to form or amend theconstitution,” he said.

Security beefed up in Islamabad over fear of anti-Islam film protest

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QUETTA: Bystanders look on at smouldering NATo supply trucks in the outskirts of the city on Thursday. AfP

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CHINA’S officialnews agency saidThursday the as-sault that killedthe US ambassa-

dor to Libya highlighted an“arrogant” Washington’s“flawed” Middle east strat-egy, in unusually outspokencomments.

In a strongly wordedcommentary Xinhua said theviolent attack, which has beencondemned by governmentsaround the world includingChina’s, showed the need forWashington to reconsider itspolicies in the region.

“The United States hasbeen pursuing hegemony inthe Middle east for decades,and people in the region arefed up with the image of ‘thearrogant American’,” it said.

Ambassador ChrisStevens and three other USdiplomatic staff were killed inthe attack on the US con-sulate in Benghazi on Tues-day initially blamed on arampaging mob infuriated byan inflammatory film.

US officials have sincesaid it was a well-planned as-sault by militants using theprotests as a pretext.

The Xinhua commentarysaid the Benghazi attack andan assault on the US embassyin Cairo highlighted “Amer-ica’s flawed strategy in theMiddle east and the necessityfor Washington to rethink itspolicies toward the region”.

It contrasted stronglywith an official statementfrom foreign ministryspokesman Hong Lei, whosaid Beijing was “shocked” bythe attacks. “We strongly con-demn the violent deeds,” he

added.Beijing never accepted

the NATO air strikes on Libyathat led to the fall of MoamerKadhafi, saying the West hadgone further than authorizedin UN resolutions.

The Chinese govern-ment has been wary of dem-ocratic aspirationsspreading ever since theArab Spring revolts thatbegan in Tunisia in 2010and went on to sweep the re-gion. A separate editorial inthe Global Times daily onThursday said the attacksshowed that the UnitedStates “may have failed in itsstrategy to promote democ-racy in the Middle east overthe past 10 years”. “Thestrategy has brought neithera beneficial process of localorder nor has it given theArab world an obvious incli-nation to the West,” it said.

WASHINGTONAgENcIES

Federal authorities haveidentified a Coptic Christianin southern California who ison probation after his convic-tion for financial crimes asthe key figure behind theanti-Muslim film that ignitedmob violence against US em-bassies across the Mideast,said a US law enforcement of-

ficial. The official said author-ities had concluded thatNakoula Basseley Nakoula,55, was behind “Innocence ofMuslims,” a film that deni-grated Islam and sparkedprotests earlier this week inegypt, Libya and most re-cently in Yemen. It was notimmediately clear whetherNakoula was the target of acriminal investigation or partof the broader investigation

into the deaths of US Ambas-sador Chris Stevens and threeother Americans in Libyaduring a terrorist attack. At-torney General eric Holderconfirmed Thursday that Jus-tice Department officialswere investigating the deaths,which occurred during an at-tack on the American missionin Benghazi.

The official, who spokeon condition of anonymity

because he was not author-ized to discuss an ongoing in-vestigation, said Nakoula wasconnected to the persona ofSam Bacile, a man who ini-tially told the AP he was thefilm’s writer and director. ButBacile turned out to be a falseidentity, and the AP traced acellphone number Bacileused to a southern Californiahouse where it located andinterviewed Nakoula.

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eleven years after the Sep-tember 11 attacks a recordnumber in the United Stateswant a less active global role— and Americans for the firsttime see Asia as more impor-tant than europe.

The poll by the ChicagoCouncil on Foreign Affairsfound strong differences byage range, with youngerAmericans the most comfort-able with the Islamic worldand China and the least en-thusiastic about the use of USforce abroad. The poll, re-leased on the eve of the an-niversary of the September 11terror attacks, said 67 percentof Americans did not considerthe Iraq war worth fightingand only 30 percent said thatthe Afghanistan interventionmade the United States safer.

Sixty-one percent ofAmericans said that theUnited States should take anactive role in world affairs,but the 38 percent who dis-agreed marked the highestlevel taken by the Chicago

Council or comparable pollssince 1947. Nonetheless, 70percent of Americans de-scribed their country as thegreatest in the world. “There’sa strong sense of specialnessthat Americans have and thisis across generational andpartisan lines,” said MarshallBouton, president of theChicago Council.

The dwindling supportfor foreign wars is “not a dis-couragement about the char-acter of their nation. It’s anassessment in their mindsthat... the United States hasgot to trim its sails in certainrespects,” he said. The studyshowed public backing fordiplomacy and aid, particu-larly to Africa, and supportfor cutting military spending.Age groups differed on key is-sues. Only 23 percent ofAmericans between 18 and 29years old said Islamic funda-mentalism would pose a crit-ical threat over the next 10years, far down from the 50percent over age 60 who saidso. “Young people in generalsee the world in a less threat-ening fashion,” Bouton said.

LONDON: A series of politicaltransitions led by the ArabSpring uprisings are shifting thebalance of world power with theUnited States set to play a lessdominant role, a leading think-tank argued Thursday.

The International Insti-tute for Strategic Studies(IISS) warned that the opti-mism of the 2011 revolutionsin the Middle east had beenreplaced by disillusionmentat the pace of reform and

fears that Islamist partiesmay fill the power vacuum.

Presenting its annual re-port in London, the IISS alsohighlighted upcoming elec-tions in the US and leader-ship upheavals in China,North Korea and Russia asfactors changing the face ofworld politics.

“After a short burst of be-wildering change, the year tomid-2012 was one in whichpeople whose interests were

threatened tried to apply thebrakes,” said the report, called‘Strategic Survey 2012: TheAnnual Review of World Af-fairs’. “This was most obviousin the Arab world after therevolutionary wave of 2011...But it was also occurring in aeurope struggling to work itsown path to the future, in Rus-sia after the re-election ofVladimir Putin, and in Chinawhere a leadership changewas also under way. “The

United States remained intransition between an inter-ventionist era and a new role,yet to take shape,” it added.

The election of the Mus-lim Brotherhood’s MohamedMorsi as egyptian presidentfollowing the removal of vet-eran leader Hosni Mubarakdemonstrated the skill of theregion’s Islamist parties in ex-ploiting political insecurity,the report said. It also warnedthat the Islamist upsurge

would have a marked effect onthe area’s geopolitics, makingIsrael increasingly nervousand threatening a fraught re-lationship at the complexheart of Arab relations.

The ongoing unrest inSyria threatens a showdownwith Turkey and also prom-ises to further complicateIran’s position in the region,reasoned the report by theBritish research institute.

“Heated rhetoric between

Damascus and Ankara, Syrianincursions into Lebanon andquestions about the posture ofHezbollah... all held the poten-tial for military escalation,” itcautioned. The report sug-gested that the region’s powerswould be less inclined to lookto Washington for guidancedue to US budget cuts and les-sons learned from the Iraq warand the embarrassing leak ofdiplomatic cables through theWikiLeaks website. afp

american hostage appeals for releasein new video

HONG KONG: A UShostage held by al Qaedaurged his wife in a video tocontact American Jewishcommunities to call on USPresident Barack Obama tohelp secure his release,SITe Intelligence Groupsaid Friday. WarrenWeinstein, a relief workerwith USAID captured inLahore, Pakistan in August2011, appeared in the videoshared on Islamist websiteson Thursday, the US-basedmonitoring group said, inthe second video appealingfor his freedom in recentdays. Weinstein, who saidhe was being treated well,“asked his wife to makecontact with Jewishcommunities in the US topressure Obama and theAmerican government towork with and accept Al-Qaeda’s demands,” SITesaid. He also called on hiswife to “work with theAmerican Jewishcommunities in order towork with the Israeligovernment and PrimeMinister (Benjamin)Netanyahu” to help securehis freedom. afp

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Attorney General of Pakistan(AGP) Irfan Qadir on Thursdaysubmitted a reply in responseto the Supreme Court’s (SC)notice issued to him in connec-tion with the Dr ArsalanIftikhar–Malik Riaz case.

On August 30, theSupreme Court, in its rulingon Dr Arsalan’s review peti-tion against its own order,criticized the attorney generalfor hiding the fact that he hadappeared as counsel for MalikRiaz in the past, and said thecourt would not have taskedhim with any responsibility inthis case had he disclosed this

fact. In his five-page replysubmitted to the SC Regis-trar’s Office, Qadir, who hadbeen mandated to “set themachinery of the state in mo-tion” in order to bring to book“all those who may have com-mitted any illegal act,” statedthat there was no conflict ofinterest in the execution ofhis duties as attorney general.

Qadir further stated thathe was not representing anyparty in the case, but wassimply assisting the apexcourt. He said he had notcommitted any wrongdoingand that he had not exceededfrom the mandate assigned tohim by the court. He said thatas attorney general, he had

not favored any party, andhad only responded to legalpoints brought up by thebench. Qadir said that theSupreme Court had directedhim to “set the machinery ofthe state in motion” in thecase, adding that, he haddone nothing that could ben-efit Malik Riaz. He added thathe had spoken on record thata fair trial should be con-ducted in the case. The attor-ney general, however, raisedobjection to the commissionformed by the court to inves-tigate the controversy. Qadirsaid that he was amazed as to“how the judges thought ofShoaib Suddle” to lead the in-vestigation.

honest Pakistanitaxi driver rewardedby dubai Police

Omar Hayat Ajmal Khan, aPakistani taxi driver, wasawarded an appreciationcertificate and a symbolicgift for his honesty by DubaiPolice, Gulf News reportedon Wednesday. A bagcontaining 123,700 Saudiriyals (Dh121,102) and goldjewellery was forgotten in histaxi. Khan said that he hadtaken a passenger from AlRiqqa in Dubai to Sharjah,and on his way back toDubai he stopped at a petrolstation to refuel. He said thathe was going to clean theback seat when he noticedthe bag and took it to AlGhusais police station. Lt ColKhalfan Al Muhairi said thatthe bag’s owner immediatereporting of the lost baghelped in the bag beingreturned to him within ashort time. Colonel KhalfanBin Suhail Al Muhairi,Deputy Director of the AlGhusais police station,awarded Khan and said thatthis award comes within theframework of activating apartnership between thecommunity and DubaiPolice, as well as spreadingthe spirit of cooperation, inorder to establish a secureand safe society NEWS DESK

US to take back seat in changing world order: think-tank

China media blameenvoy’s death on US policy

US identifies anti-Muslim filmmakerUS sours on global role,

looks to Asia: poll

DErA MUrAD JAMAlI: flood-affected residents wade through floodwaters on Thursday where a bridge once stood. afp

road mishap claims 6 lives in muzaffargarh MUzAffARGARH

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At least six people were killed while 20 were injured as a speedy bus overturned onThursday. According to police sources, the bus was carrying people going to attend awedding ceremony from Dera Ghazi Khan to Muzaffargarh. The accident occurred in theJatoi area, where the bus overturned. Injured passengers were shifted to the nearesthospital for treatment. Victims included women and children.

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THe global mortality rate foryoung children has beennearly halved in the past twodecades, but Africa andSouth Asia have not kept

pace with Pakistan suffering five percentinfant deaths, the United Nations saidThursday.

The number of infants and childrenwho die before reaching the age of fivehas dropped from 12 million in 1990 to6.9 million in 2011, according to the UNChildren’s Fund, UNICeF. The numberof lives saved has sped up over the pastdecade.

However, “any satisfaction at thesegains is tempered by the unfinishedbusiness that remains,” said UNICeF’sexecutive director, Anthony Lake. Some19,000 children are still dying each dayfrom largely preventable diseases.

The geographic and social disparityalso worries UN experts, who called fordevoting more resources to at-risk re-gions and boosting investment in mater-nal and child health, along witheducation for girls.

The biggest improvement in childhealth has been recorded in Latin Amer-ica and the Caribbean, east Asia and thePacific, Central and eastern europe, theMiddle east and North Africa. These re-gions have cut the child death rate byhalf since 1990.

Under-five deaths are now increas-ingly concentrated in sub-SaharanAfrica and South Asia, which now ac-count for 80 percent of the world total,said the UNICeF report, titled “Commit-ting to Child Survival: A Promise Re-newed.”

Sub-Saharan Africa has only cut itsdeath rate by 39 percent, and accountsfor nearly half the deaths each year. Onechild in nine in the poorest African re-gion still fails to live past his or her fifthbirthday.

In eastern and southern Africa,deaths have been cut through “massive”investment in fighting AIDS, measles

and malaria, said the report. South Asiaaccounts for about a third of totalunder-five deaths each year.

India (24 percent of the total), Nige-ria (11 percent), Democratic Republic ofCongo (seven percent), Pakistan (fivepercent) and China (four percent) makeup half of the total number of worlddeaths between them.

UNICeF said that poverty is not theonly decisive factor in deaths. Childrenare more likely to die early if they areborn in a rural area or if their motherhas not had primary education. Conflictand political instability also hit childhealth prospects.

Some poor countries have madespectacular progress on child health inrecent years, UNICeF said. Laos cut itsmortality rate by 72 percent between1990 and 2011, east Timor by 70 per-cent, Liberia 68 percent and Bangladesh67 percent.

“A diverse group of countries includ-ing Oman, estonia, Turkey, Saudi Ara-bia, Portugal, Peru and egypt, amongothers, have been able to sustain highannual rates of reduction in under fivemortality,” said the report.

“Others such as Rwanda, Cambodia,Zimbabwe and Senegal have succeededin substantially accelerating their ratesof reduction in mortality during the lastdecade.”

Infectious diseases such as pneumo-nia, diarrhea and malaria account fortwo thirds of child deaths.

About 40 percent of the childrenwho die are struck down in the firstmonth of life. Factors weighing againsta child’s survival include whether themother is very young, or has had a pooreducation, and whether there is poor hy-giene or no access to water.

Mickey Chopra, head of UNICeF’shealth department, said that poorercountries are getting faster access tovaccines developed in the rich world.

Vaccines now reach poor countriesin two to five years, against 20 years inthe past, he stressed. Governments andhealth agencies are also negotiatinglower prices with pharmaceutical firms.

Africa, South Asia lag in boost

to global child healthg Five percent infant mortality rate in Pakistan

Moderate earthquake jolts upperPunjab and Khyber PakhtunkhwaISLAMABAD: An earthquake of moderate intensityjolted upper parts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwaon late Wednesday night, but no causalities or propertyloss was reported. According to the geological wing ofPakistan Metrological Department (PMD), a tremor of5.5 magnitude on Richter scale was felt in Islamabad,Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Swat, Malakand, Dir, NorthPunjab and other northern parts of Pakistan. Peoplerushed out of their homes in panic, but no causality,injury or property loss was reported due to theearthquake. According to PMD the epicenter of thequake was near the Afghan-Tajik border. INP

Meningitis casesup by 83% in onemonth: FAFEN

ISLAMABADINP

Cases of meningitis have almost doubled– 12 districts reporting 267 in June ascompared to 132 in 11 districts recordedin the preceding month, a Free and Fairelection Network (FAFeN) report saidon Thursday.FAFeN governance monitors visited 96health offices in as many districts tocollect statistics on diseases. The datashows that Upper Dir (69), Lahore (62)and Karachi east (53) were the highestreporting districts of meningitis in thereporting month.On the other hand, the total diseaseburden went down by 29 percent inJune (24,515 per district) as comparedto May (34,565).As many as 2,353,432 cases of variousdiseases were reported in the monitoredmonth. Of these, 49 percent were casesof Respiratory Tract Infections (RTIs)with Punjab reporting about three-fourths of them. Among diseases transmitted throughmosquitoes, FAFeN monitors observeddengue and malaria. Like the precedingmonth, no case of dengue surfaced.However, 154 cases of malaria perdistrict were registered as compared to252 recorded in May. In the viral diseases category, hepatitis(3,704) was most frequently reportedalthough the number of such cases fell32 percent – from last month’s 132 perdistrict to 90 in June.Similarly, measles also saw a 33 percentdrop – from 30 cases per district lastmonth to 21 in June. Suspected AIDS fell by 39 percent (from46 to 28). One polio case was reportedin FATA.As for cases of maternal, child andinfant mortality, 149 mothers died in 35districts due to pregnancy and delivery-related complications. May had seen 120such deaths in 29 districts. Thecomparative per district cases remainedunchanged.

lANDI KoTAl: Political administration officials destroy seized cans of locally brewed liquor on Thursday. INp

DUBAIAfP

Al-Qaeda on Thursday posted anonline video of two plane hijack-ers of the September 11, 2001suicide attacks, which they saidwere part of a war to drive USforces out of the Arabian Penin-sula.

Salim al-Hazmi and Khalidal-Mihdar, two of the 19 extrem-ists who hijacked the four airlin-ers, appeared reading their wills,in a video produced by As-Sahabmedia arm of Al-Qaeda and pro-vided by the US-based SITeMonitoring Services.

Mihdar, dressed in a militaryjacket and a white turban, with amachinegun to his left, said hewas reading his will on 21 Safar1422, on the Islamic calendar,which was April 26, 2001.

Mihdar is believed to havelanded in the United States in

January 2000.“Arab leaders... have gone far

in betraying their nation andhave permitted Christian Ameri-cans into the land of the two holysites” of Mecca and Medina, hesaid.

The operation was “part ofjihad (holy war) campaignagainst the United States and itssupporters,” said Hazmi in a sep-arate message.

“It is to restore dignity forMuslims and to drive you out ofthe Arabian Peninsula,” saidHazmi, who appeared with apatchy beard, wearing a brownthawb garment and a black tur-ban.

“The Aqsa mosque (inJerusalem) is being desecrated...and the Arabian Peninsula is fullof US and British troops thatfight Allah,” he said in a clear ref-erence to foreign troops based atthe time in Saudi Arabia.

Nearly 3,000 people werekilled when Al-Qaeda hijackersslammed two airliners into NewYork’s World Trade Centre.

Another plane hit the Penta-gon, while the fourth slammedinto a field in Pennsylvania afterpassengers fought the hijackers.

The two assailants appearedin a video titled “The emergingSun of Victory Over the Victori-ous Ummah and the VanquishedCrusades,” which comprisesmainly of another audio messageby Al-Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri slamming Muslimcountries for not being able todefeat Israel.

“These governments cannotliberate Palestine. In fact, theyare helping in keeping occupa-tion in Palestine,” he said, con-demning the new Arabgovernments run by Islamists for“declaring that they will keep(peace) agreements” with Israel.

India arrestssuspect in 1999Kandahar hijacking

NEW DELHIAfP

Police in Indian-held Kashmir havearrested a militant suspected ofinvolvement in the 1999 hijacking of anIndian passenger plane that was flown toAfghanistan, a government spokesmantold AFP Thursday.Mehrajuddin Dand, alias Javed wasarrested by police in Kashmir’s Kishtwardistrict on Thursday morning, ending anear 13-year-old pursuit of the militantsbehind the high-profile hijacking.The New Delhi-bound Indian Airlinesaircraft with 157 people on board wasseized and flown to the southern Afghancity of Kandahar by five men after it tookoff from the Nepalese capital Kathmanduon December 24, 1999.Kuldeep Singh Dhatwalia, a spokesmanfor the home ministry told AFP thatDand was arrested in the morning andthat the “initial investigation revealsthat he provided logistical support tothe hijackers”.Media reports said that Dand hadprovided assistance and fake traveldocuments to the five hijackers, none ofwhom were apprehended by police afterthe incident.Dhatwalia said Dand moved across theborder between India and Pakistan foryears until police nabbed him.“He is being questioned in a number ofother cases as well, but we cannot revealthose details yet,” he said.The 1999 hijack crisis ended afterIndia’s then Hindu nationalistgovernment swapped three Islamistmilitants imprisoned in New Delhi forthe captives.

Qaeda posts video of two 9/11 hijackers

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KARACHINNI

The factory which was gutted in a mas-sive blaze claiming 289 lives was clearedon Thursday morning.

Chief fire officer ehtishamud Dinsaid the operation continued all the nightlong and after drainage machinespumped water out of the basement, thebuilding was now cleared after 41 hours.

Talking to a private TV channel, hesaid the upper three storey had alreadybeen cleared, however, the basementthat was filled with water became ex-tremely hot as a result of continued 18-hour inferno. The fire officer ehtishamasserted there is no more dead body leftat the factory now. earlier at night, thesecond storey of the gutted garment fac-tory caught fire again, however, the fire-tenders brought it under control.

On Thursday morning, the affectedfamilies staged protest demonstration as

the heavy machinery could not be trans-ported to the blaze site, which delayedthe relief work at the basement of the fac-tory. The affected people warned theywill themselves drain out the accumu-lated water after breaking the wall of thefactory, if the administration continuesto display disregard over the tragedy ofso immense proportions. As many as 217bodies were kept at edhi Center; of them,107 have been delivered to the bereavedfamilies after identification process.

eight bodies will be dispatched todifferent areas of Punjab includingMuzaffargarh and Rahim Yar Khan.

edhi Center Sohrab Goth’s officialsaid the bodies being shifted to Punjabcities will be given free-of-cost service. QAIM ORDERS pROBE INTOfIRE INCIDENT : Sindh Chief Minis-ter Syed Qaim Ali Shah has ordered athorough investigation into Karachi gar-ments factory inferno killing aroundthree hundred workers including female

workers and for submission of the de-tailed report with in next three days.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah, on behalf ofSindh Government, announced to giveRs 0.3 million each for the deceased andRs 50,000 each for the injured alongwith proper treatment on the govern-ment expenses.

It is very necessary to fix the respon-sibility for this worst tragedy and learntabout the causes. The factory ownersmust come on the surface and play activepart in the investigation otherwise theywould be held totally responsible andtaken to task, the chief minister saidwhile talking to media during his visit toKarachi garments factory in SITe areahere on Thursday. Pakistan People’sParty (PPP) member of National Assem-bly and President PPP Karachi DivisionAbdul Qadir Patel, Sindh Ministers Rafiqengineer, Nadeem Bhutto and HajiMuzaffar Shujra, and Special Assistantsto the CM Rashid Hussain Rabbani,Waqar Mehdi and Siddique Abu Bhai,and Commissioner Karachi Roshan AliShaikh, Administrator Karachi Metro-politan Corporation Muhammad Hus-sain Syed were also present.

The chief minister said that he wason three-day visit to interior Sindh wherethe rains have caused big loss.

On receipt of the information aboutthis fire incident, he ordered immediaterescue and relief operations. He said thathe had ordered the Investigation Officerto submit a detailed report about the fac-tory inferno within next three days to as-certain the responsibility and causes ofthis incident. He said that Sindh Govern-ment has announced three day mourningon this gory incident. Meanwhile, he saidthat the Chief Justice of Sindh High Courthas taken notice of this serious incident.

KARACHIAAMIr MAJEED

THe nationalists’ call forstrike against the Sindh Peo-ples Local Government Or-dinance (SPLGO) 2012 fellon deaf ears as residents of

Karachi failed to respond to it on Thurs-day. The metropolis remained open forall types of routine activities, and shopsand markets in the financial hub re-mained open for business throughout theday.

All government, semi-governmentand private offices also worked per rou-tine, while academic activities in all pub-lic and private educational institutes werealso not disturbed in any way.

Availability of public transport wasalso not a problem, while all petrolpumps and CNG stations in the city re-mained open for customers.

Nationalist leaders of Sindh hadformed the Sindh Save Committee (SSC)against the SPLGO and announced aprovince-wide strike in opposition of thenew ordinance.

However, the strike of the national-ists failed in Karachi as major politicalparties of the city called off their supportbecause of the factory fire tragedy thatkilled over 280 people on Tuesday.

The PML-N, ANP, JI and PTI, whohad earlier supported the SSC strikeagainst the SPLGO 2012, called off theirsupport due to large number of deaths inthe fire incident.

The mentioned parties announced aday of mourning instead of strike.

However, the nationalist parties andmember parties of SSC refused to call off

the strike and announced a completeshutter down across the province againstSPLGO 2012.

The Sindh United Party (SUP), JeaySindh Tehreek (JST), Jeay Sindh QaumiMahaz (JSQM), Sindh National Move-ment (SNM) and Sindh Taraki PasandParty (STPP) took part in the strike.

The National Peoples Party (NPP),Awami Tehreek (AT) and Pakistan Mus-lim League-Functional (PML-F) also an-nounced support for the nationalists’strike call against the SPLGO 2012, be-sides announcing a day of mourning overthe Karachi carnage.

A complete shutter down was, how-ever, observed in some parts of Sindh, in-cluding Dadu, Umarkot, Jamshoro andBadin, while a partial strike was observedin Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas and Hy-derabad.

In Karachi, some Sindhi-dominatedareas were closed partially to support thestrike. Parts of Steel Town, Safora Goth,Ayub Goth, Sachal Goth and HussainHazara Goth were closed down to showsolidarity with the nationalists.

“The strike failed in Karachi becausethose who were tasked with closing themetropolis called of their support at theeleventh hour under cover of the BaldiaTown carnage,” said All Karachi Tajir It-tehad ((AKTI) chief Atiq Mir, adding, “InKarachi, strikes are observed with power,not appeals.”

Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) chiefIrshad Bukhari said transporters alsoboycotted the nationalists’ strike.

“The transporters decided to bringtheir vehicles on roads after major polit-ical parties called off their support to thenationalists’ strike,” he added.

KARACHITArIQ hABIB

More than 6,500 illegal factories are run-ning in Karachi without following anystandard operating procedures (SOPs)which may cause untoward mishaps whilethe administration seems to be not inter-ested in any legislation against such typeof industries. It may be recalled that over325 persons have been killed in two citiesof the country when fire completely de-stroyed two factories, one in Karachi andone in Lahore.

The city has apparently become a safehaven for illegal industrial units as they areoperating without following any SOPs.These factories also have no futuristicplanning to curb the emissionof poisonous gases and smoke,posing serious health risks tothe people.

Sources told PakistanToday that more than 2,300 il-legal factories areset up in BaldiaTown, includingfactories manu-facturing plasticwater tank, fats liq-uefying, and chips.More than 1,700 facto-ries, including thoserelated to manufacturingpaints, handling garbage andplastic bags etc, exist in OrangiTown.

900 factories of fats liquefying, liquorand other narcotics, shoes are establishedin Lyari. Factories in Bakara Mandi areawere a cause of stinky smell in the area.Moreover, 600 plastic, shoe and chemicalfactories are also running in the surround-ing areas of Malir.

Illegal factories are also established inAzizabad, Liaquatabad and PeoplesColony. Over 110 marble and shoes facto-ries are illegally functioning in Korangi,Shah Faisal and Landhi.

“These industries in the urban limitshave always been a cause of untowardmishaps as well as concern for people’shealth, but the regrettable thing is that thepractice still continues under the nose ofthe government,” the official sources said.

The sources revealed that 212 factoriesare operating along the road from Shair-shah to Baldia Town without approvalfrom the ministry of industries.

“These illegal factories emit lethalgases in the air which is already unbearablein most parts of the city due to the emis-

sions by unfit vehicles, both publicand private,” said offi-

cial.Some of the small

units for liquor manu-facturing are situated

within 500 metersalong the MaripurRoad where hugequantities of differ-ent chemicals are

dumped. These chemi-cals might cause any unto-

ward incident. A renownedindustrialist told Pakistan Today

on condition of anonymity that alist of illegal units had been pre-

pared which were also damaging thecredibility of genuine industrialists. Theowners of such factories should be issuedshow-cause notices to explain as to whythey did not get approval before setting uptheir businesses, he said and added that incase of non-compliance, the units shouldbe fined and referred to concerned tribunalfor proceedings against them.

STRIKE CALL AGAINST SPLGO FAILS IN CITYAll major political parties call off support for strike over fire tragedy

More than 6,500 illegal factories in residential areasg Such factories are serious threat to lives, property and environment: officials

KARACHI INFERNO: Factory cleared after 41 hours

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KArAchI: Station commander and President clifton cantonment Board Brigadier Anis Ahmed

pictured with the groom omair Anis and bride Nadia Arif. Also seen are zahid hussain cEo Ken

lube , Khalid Tawab VP fccI, Munir hussain founder chairman KATI and actor Behroz Sabzwari.

KArAchI: oBS cEo Tarek Khan photographed with students Maham

Aftab and Myra Saeed who have been sponsored by oBS for International

Australasia Debates competition 2012.

hYDErABAD: Activists of Awami Tahreek hold a demonstration against local Bodies ordinance 2012, at Bypass. ONLINE

KARACHINNI

SINDH Board of Invest-ment Chairman Muham-mad Zubair Motiwala saidthat huge potential existsto increase cooperation

between the government of Sindh adIranian investors through joint ventureprojects specifically in power and en-ergy, shrimp farming and infrastruc-ture development projects.

He said this while meeting withIranian delegation here at Sindh Boardof Investment.

The SBI chairman extended warmwelcome to the Iranian counterpartsand said that regular exchange of tradeand investment delegations betweenIslamic Republic of Pakistan and Iranwill lead to improve economic ties be-tween two countries.

Detailed presentation was given to

the participants and information wasdisseminated about special incentivepackages being offered for facilitationof foreign investors in Sindh. He fur-ther added that Pakistan is a safe des-tination for all investors from all overthe world. He reiterated that theprovince of Sindh is blessed with hugequantities of coal reserves around 175billion tons. The chairman showedkeen concern to monitor cross bordertrade and strengthened investmentpromotion through regular channels.

On this occasion, Hammed Rezasaid that both Iran and Pakistan areideal strategic location and extensivecooperation is needed to further en-hance cooperation between the twocountries.

This was expressed by HammedReza at his visit to SBI as a part of hisofficial Tour to Pakistan. SecretaryGeneral Iran electrical Industry Syndi-cate said the high-level Iranian delega-

tion visited Sindh Board of Investmentto explore investment opportunities inSindh Hammed Reza said also invitedGovernment of Sindh to constitute aninvestment delegation to visit Iran forenhanced cooperation in areas of mu-tual interest.

The delegation was led by HammedReza, Secretary General Iran electricalIndustry Syndicate and MemberTehran Chamber of Commerce, Indus-tries and Mines, TCCIM. It was also ac-companied by Seyed Kazem Abidi,First Consul, Consulate of Iran inKarachi and Shahrokh Zahiri, Advisor& Head of Agricultural, Food IndustryCommittee along with Iranian busi-nessmen prominent businessmen fromTehran Chamber of Commerce & In-dustry representing Textile, Agricul-ture and Financial CoS sectors. earlier,the delegation was received by DirectorGeneral Sindh Board of Investment,Mohammad Riazuddin.

Vehicle tax recovery campaign from oct 24

KARACHIAPP

Director General of excise and Taxation,Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, here on Thurs-day said the motor vehicle tax campaignwould be launched from September 24to October 2 in the province.While presiding over a meeting at his of-fice, Shoaib Siddiqui, said that the cam-paign is being initiated on the directiveof Provincial Minister for excise andTaxation, Mukesh Kumar Chawla.The purpose of this campaign is to col-lect motor vehicle tax and 13 teams inKarachi have been constituted for thepurpose while in other parts of theprovince these teams will work underdistrict officers.

cm condoleslehri’s demise

KARACHIAPP

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim AliShah has expressed deep sorrow andgrief over the demise of veteran film starSafeerullah Siddiqui alias Lehri whopassed away at a local hospital here onThursday. He recounted the contributions of thedeceased in the realms of fine arts andsaid these would be remembered long.The chief minister further said that lateLehri was a celebrated comedian andwas a very prominent artist. Special As-sistants to the chief minister, RashidHussain Rabbani and Waqar Medhi alsocondoled the demise of Lehri.

woman among 3 killed in firing incident

KARACHIINP

Two more persons were killed and twoothers sustained injuries in firing inci-dents in different areas of the city hereon Thursday.According to details, some unidentifiedarmed men opened fired at three per-sons in Quaidabad and Ayub Goth,killing two of them on the spot and in-juring another.In another firing incident, one personalso received bullet wounds in Gharib-abad area.The injured were shifted to Abbasi Sha-heed Hospital for treatment.Meanwhile, a woman died mysteriouslyin Shireen Jinnah Colony. The identityand cause of death of the woman wasnot yet known.

Seven injured indifferent areas

HYDERABADAPP

At least seven people were injured withgunshots as the Sindhi nationalist par-ties observed strike against the promul-gation of Peoples Local GovernmentOrdinance, 2012, here on Thursday.Four workers of the nationalist partieswere attacked by unknown persons inLatifabad Unit-4 area.According to the doctors at Civil Hospi-tal, they have been hit by bullets andpellets.The injured have been identified as RajaBhatti, Sunny Bhatti, Zaheer Lashariand Noman Junejo.In another incident a rickshaw driver,Shahbaz Khan, and a passenger, DialSarai who was worker of a nationalistparty Awami Tehreek were critically in-jured.The doctors at the Civil Hospital saidthat both have been hit in the neck andhead. According to police, the incidenthappened, on Shahrah-e-Qasimabad.A trucker identified as Wilayat, was in-jured on Hyderabad by-pass when un-known persons tried to stop the vehiclebut he attempted to run away.Meanwhile, the leaders and workers ofdifferent parties took out rallies, stagedsit-in different parts of the district.A partial strike was observed withQasimabad and rural taluka remainedcompletely shut while the markets inpart of City and Latifabad talukas werealso closed.

SBI chairman for increased coop between Sindh and Iran

IBa team to participate in contest in australiaKARACHI

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A two member team of the students ofthe Institute of Business Administration(IBA), Karachi, will participate in an in-ternational debate contest in Australia.

The team consists of Maham Aftaband Myra Saeed are both students ofBBA and will take part in the Aus-tralasian Women Debating Champi-

onship (AWDC) being held in Mel-bourne from September 21 to 24. Theyhave been sponsored by the OBS Pak-istan as part of its Corporate Social Re-sponsibility (CSR). The Chief executiveof the OBS Pakistan, Tarek Khan, hosteda reception for the IBA debating team.

Speaking on the occasion, he saidthat his firm is committed to try andmake a positive difference in the life ofthe people.

Tarek Khan said that participation ofthe IBA team in the international contestwould contribute towards fostering asoft image of Pakistan in the comity ofnations.

He said that the participation wouldalso help to promote confidence in thegirls from Pakistan and enhance theirtalents and capabilities.

On the occasion, Tarek Khan alsowished the IBA team well in their en-

deavours. Speaking on the occasion,Maham Aftab and Myra Saeed said thatthey would do their best to perform wellin the international debating contest andthanked the OBS Pakistan for the spon-sorship. They said that as many as 15teams would be participating in theevent and these include those from Aus-tralia, New Zealand, Singapore and thePhilippines etc besides the IBA teamrepresenting Pakistan.

KArAchI: A man weeps after failing to find

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CALLIGRAPHY

date: July 31 - auG 31, 2012 Venue: Serena hotel

Satrang gallery is celebrating this spiritual month by exhibiting awonderful calligraphy show. do join us as we present the work often exceptional artists. opening on tuesday , July 31, at 8:00 pm.

GHALIB MADE EASY

date: thurSday, 7:00 Pm, weekly eVent

Venue: the Second Floor (t2F)

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weather uPdateS

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08karachiMONEY LAUNDERING, FINANCING OF TERRORISM

HIDDEN AGENDA

"hidden agenda" an exhibition of Paintings by lahore based

artist ayesha Siddiqui opens on 11th august 2012 at 5 pm at

koel Gallery ,karachi. the exhibition will continue till

august 31st,20.

date: auG 11 - 31, 2012 Venue: koel Gallery karachi

Join us at t2F every wednesday for interactive sessions onmirza Ghalib’s poetry, conducted by author and translator,musharraf ali Farooqi. Ghalib made easy by @micromaFthepoetry of mirza Ghalib (27 december 1797 – 15 February1869) has been considered complex, abstract and difficultto comprehend. even for Ghalib’s contemporaries, hislanguage and imagery presented a challenge.

Friday, 14 September, 2012

KARACHIINP

THe State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)has made anti-money launder-ing and combating the financ-ing of terrorism (AML/CFT)regulations more comprehen-sive by revising the existing reg-

ulations M-1 to M-5 of prudential regulationson corporate/ commercial banking.

While most of the requirements of the newregulations are already in place, some of therequirements will be effective from October 31,2012. These regulations were issued Thursdayto all banks/ development finance institutions(DFIs) with a view to introducing a compre-hensive regulatory framework in line with in-ternational standards to mitigate the variousrisks arising from money laundering andterrorist financing.

The AML/CFT regula-tions provide a systemof risk based ap-proach under whichcustomers will beprofiled as per riskinvolved. A frame-work of scenariobased ranking ofcustomers has beendeveloped, whichwill help in detect-ing abnormal be-havior ortransactions duringthe course of rela-tionship. The re-vised system willensure clean andtransparent bankingtransactions on the one hand and will en-able the country to meet international stan-dards on the other.

The provisions of regulations introduce asystem of comprehensive list of ‘Red Alerts’ inthe context of Pakistan, which will triggerscrutiny of accounts and transactions to en-sure that proceeds of crime are not processedthrough the banking channels.

To address the issue of rigidity in obtainingdocuments for opening accounts, the list ofidentification and verification documents hasbeen expanded and NADRA Receipt/ Tokenincluded as eligible document for opening ofbank account. This will enable customers toopen bank account by submittingany document issued by NADRAincluding CNIC, Passport, NARA,POC or even a NADRA Receipt/Token. The new Regulationsnow require banks/DFIs tokeep record for a minimum pe-riod of 10 years.

With the view to tracing

back the illegal transactions, it is mandatoryon banks/ DFIs to obtain a copy of CNIC fromoccasional customers/walk-in customers con-ducting cash transactions above Rs 1 millionand in case of online transfers without anylimit. Banks/ DFIs now have to capture, retainand provide at the beneficiary end, all relevantdetails of customers while transferring fundsbetween the cities.

In case of wire transfers, clear responsibil-ities of ordering, beneficiary and intermediaryinstitution have been outlined for complianceof banks/ DFIs. Customers’ profiles should belinked with automated transaction monitoringsoftware for creation of alerts in case of suspi-cious transactions/activities.

Under the Regulations, every customer

shall be identified for es-tablishing business relationship. The Bank/DFI shall verify identity documents of the cus-tomers from relevant authorities/document is-suing bodies and where necessary using otherreliable, independent sources and retain on

record copies of all refer-ence documents

used for identifica-tion and verifica-

tion. The verification shall be the responsibilityof concerned bank/DFI for which the customershould neither be obligated nor the cost of suchverification be passed on to the customers.

Banks/DFIs shall not open or maintainanonymous accounts or accounts in the nameof fictitious persons or numbered accounts. Inthe case of joint accounts, CDD measures onall of the joint account holders shall be per-formed as if each of them were individual cus-tomers of the bank/DFI.

Government accounts shall not be openedin the personal names of the government offi-cial(s). Government account which is to be op-erated by an officer of theFederal/Provincial/Local Government inhis/her official capacity, shall be opened onlyon production of a special resolution/authority

from the concerned administra-tive department duly en-dorsed by the Ministry of

Finance or Finance De-partment of theconcerned Gov-ernment.

Banks/ DFIsshall not provideany banking serv-ices to proscribedentities and per-sons or to thosewho are associ-ated with suchentities and per-sons, whetherunder the pro-scribed name orwith a differentname. Theb a n k s / D F I sshould monitor

their relationships on a con-tinuous basis and ensure that

no such relationship exists. Ifany such relationship is found,the same should be immedi-ately reported to Financial

Monitoring Unit (FMU) and other actionsshall be taken as per law. With regard toNGOs/NPOs/ Charities’ accounts, the revisedRegulations said that Banks/DFIs should con-duct enhanced due diligence (including ob-taining senior management approval) whileestablishing relationship with Non-Govern-mental Organizations (NGOs)/Not-for-ProfitOrganizations (NPOs) and Charities to en-

sure that these accounts are used forlegitimate purposes and the trans-actions are commensurate withthe stated objectives and pur-poses. The State Bank of Pakistanalso issued AML/CFT Guidelineson Risk Based Approach to banks

to improve their Risk Based Ap-proach (RBA).

SBP makes comprehensive regulations

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DAMASCUSAfP

PeACe envoy Lakhdar Brahimiarrived in Syria on Thursday onhis first official trip aimed atending nearly 18 months of vio-lence as rebels advanced in

Aleppo where at least 11 people were killed.Brahimi, who replaced former United

Nations chief Kofi Annan who quit in Au-gust over Security Council divisions onSyria, was due to meet Foreign MinisterWalid Muallem at 18:30 pm (1530 GMT),an official source said.

On Friday, he will meet members ofthe Syrian opposition tolerated by the

regime, and will hold talks with PresidentBashar al-Assad on Saturday, the sourcesaid.

Brahimi highlighted to Arab Leagueenvoys in Cairo this week that he knowshe faces an uphill struggle, with nosign of any lull in the violence rav-aging the country.

He told envoys of theCairo-based League that“he was approaching thecrisis in Syria with his eyesopen and the full knowl-edge that it was an ex-tremely difficult task,” aUN spokeswoman told re-porters in the egyptian

capital.In Brussels on Thursday, egyptian

President Mohamed Morsi reiteratedthat Assad must step down as “a pres-ident that kills his own people is notacceptable.”

And British Foreign SecretaryWilliam Hague, visiting Iraq, saidthat the regime in Damascus wasdoomed.

“We believe that the Assadregime is doomed, that it is not possi-

ble for it to survive, and so manycrimes (have been) committed that it

should not survive,” Hague said at ajoint news conference with

Iraqi For-e i g n

Minister Hoshyar Zebari.On the ground on Thursday, Syrian

rebels advanced into the contested centralMidan district of the country’s commercialcapital Aleppo, witnesses and militarysources said, as combat rocked several cityneighbourhoods.

Aleppo has been the scene for nearlytwo months of fierce clashes betweenregime forces and rebels of the Free SyrianArmy (FSA), and Midan is strategic, as itopens the way to the main square.

elsewhere, several rebel-held districtsof the northern city were bombarded, theSyrian Observatory for Human Rightssaid.

At least 11 people died when a helicop-ter gunship targeted a crossroads in Tariqal-Bab, the Britain-based Observatory said.

It did not say whether the victims wererebels or civilians, but distributed video

footage showing several bodies,some bloodied and others badlyburned, in pick-up trucks and onpavements.

In the south of the city,Bustan al-Qasr was bom-barded and fighting was re-ported at Kalasseh, residentssaid.

A military source alsoreported clashes betweentroops and rebels in thewestern neighbourhood ofSaif al-Dawla.

Brahimi arrivesin Syria amidraging violence

Foreign News

VIENNAAfP

The UN atomic agency’s board of gov-ernors was set Thursday to debate ona resolution criticizing Iran broughtby world powers that is also aimed atdissuading Israel from military ac-tion.

However, a minor amendment tothe text proposed by South Africacaused a delay in proceedings at theInternational Atomic energy Agencymeeting in Vienna, possibly postpon-ing a vote until Friday. Once the reso-lution goes before a vote, it wasexpected to be approved by a crushing

majority. The resolution was intro-duced at the meeting of the IAeA’s35-nation board on Wednesday afterdays of haggling between Western na-tions and Russia and China, which areseen as more lenient on Tehran.

The draft text, seen by AFP, ex-presses “serious concern that Irancontinues to defy” UN Security Coun-cil resolutions for it to suspend ura-nium enrichment, a process whichcan be used for peaceful purposes butalso in a nuclear weapon.

It also highlights the IAeA’s com-plaint that activities spotted at theParchin military base, where it sus-pects nuclear weapons research took

place, would “significantly hamper”inspectors — should Iran let themvisit. It also “stresses that it is essen-tial for Iran to immediately imple-ment” a deal that the Iran and theIAeA have been trying to agree formonths on investigating alleged evi-dence of nuclear weapons research.

Non-Aligned Movement memberSouth Africa wants the text to includethe words “once it (the deal) had beenconcluded.” One Western diplomattold AFP that the amendmenttweaked “the spirit” of the sentence.

The IAeA’s resolution, whichWestern diplomats said had the back-ing of all but a couple of members of

the board, stops short of a referral ofIran to the Security Council, and is the12th in nine years. But it was signifi-cant that Western nations were ableto get Moscow and Beijing on board,and at a time of heightened specula-tion that Israel, the Middle east’s soleif undeclared nuclear-armed state,might bomb Iran, analysts say. Theresolution “reflects the desire of mem-ber states to underscore that diplo-macy is paramount and it warns Israelin two separate paragraphs that thediplomatic process should be sup-ported,” Mark Hibbs from theCarnegie endowment for Interna-tional Peace told AFP.

UN nuclear agency board set to admonish Iran

Egypt ex-PM AhmedNazif gets 3 years in jailCAIRO: An egyptian court on Thursday sentenced formerprime minister Ahmed Nazif to three years in prison and topay a fine of nine million egyptian pounds ($1.5 million)for illegal enrichment. Nazif, who left his post in lateJanuary 2011 at the start of a popular revolt against thenpresident Hosni Mubarak, was accused of abusing his postto make illegal gains, the official MeNA news agencyreported. The egyptian judiciary has put on trial severalsenior officials and businessmen close to the Mubarakregime since its ouster on February 11, 2011, including thelong-time leader and his sons. Nazif, who was close tobusiness circles and a main architect of economicliberalisation in egypt, was remanded in custody April2011. He was charged two months later with appropriatingstate property and embezzling public funds. In a separatecase, Nazif received a one-year suspended sentence for

illegal profiteering in a deal to importnew vehicle number plates with a

German business partner andtwo other ministers. Appointedprime minister in 2004, Nazifleft his post on January 29,2011, just four days after the

start of the popular revoltagainst Mubarak. Ahmed Shafiq,a former air force chief and civilaviation minister, replaced Nazif

but he was forced to leaveoffice shortly after the

fall of theregime.

AfP

MOSCOWAfP

President Vladimir Putin has urgedthe creation of a new sense of patriot-ism to serve as the basis of Russia’s fu-ture to replace the vacuum left by thefall of the ideologically-driven USSR.

Putin — who has made restoringnational pride one of the chief aims ofhis domination over Russia — said thecountry had forgotten to construct asense of national pride after the fall ofthe Soviet Union.

“Patriotism is not just a nice word.Patriotism is above all serving themotherland, the country, Russia, thepeople,” he said in speech to a meetingon fostering nationalism whose textwas published by the Kremlin onThursday.

“We must build our future on asolid foundation. And that foundationis patriotism,” said Putin.

The meeting in the southern city ofKrasnodar late Wednesday was at-tended by top members of the elite in-cluding the defence minister andminister of culture as well as leadingRussian cultural and sporting figures.

Putin said that inimperial Tsarist Rus-sia patriotism hadbeen promoted bythe Churchand itspr ies ts

across the country and in the SovietUnion by ideological departments ofthe Communist Party.

However modern Russia had neg-lected the task of creating a new na-tionalism, he said.

“No-one promoted this for 20years. Under the Soviet Union thislargely focused on ideology. Nowadayswe have no monopoly on ideology butwe threw the baby out with the bathwater. We stopped thinking of patriot-ism.”

But Putin added: “We should nottake myths and cliches from the past”and warned against creating a sense of“racial, nationalist or religious exclu-sivity” in a multi-national state likeRussia.

“We need to find new forms ofwork to nurture patriotism and civic

c o n s c i o u s n e s s . . .People are tired

of stupid prop-aganda andthey no longertrust it. It isimportant to

be honest,open and effec-

tive.”

Putin urges new patriotism

for post-Soviet Russia

Libya makes ‘arrests’ indeadly US consulate attackBENGHAZI: Libya has made several arrests over an attack on theUS consulate in Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three otherUS nationals, the deputy interior minister told AFP on Thursday.“The interior and justice ministries have begun their investigationsand evidence gathering and some people have been arrested,” Wanisal-Sharif said. He declined to give any details of the number of peoplein custody or their backgrounds “so as not to hamper the smoothrunning of the investigation.” Initial reports said that AmbassadorChris Stevens and the three other Americans were killed by a moboutside the consulate in Libya’s second largest city late on Tuesday asthey tried to flee an angry protest against a US-produced moviedeemed offensive to Islam. AfP

CAIRO: Egyptian protesters clash with riot

police near the US embassy on Thursday. Police

used tear gas as they clashed with a crowd

protesting against a film mocking Islam. afp

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The visit by the UN Working Groupon enforced or Involuntary Disap-pearances (WGeID) would nothave taken place if the governmenthad reined in those in Balochistan

who consider themselves above law. As late asSaturday, the Supreme Court has warned theconcerned officials that a UN delegation wason its way to review the situation of missingpersons in the province. Further that irrespec-tive of whether the UN delegation remarkedupon the missing person’s situation, it wouldstill be observing the entire situation. He hadasked the Balochistan advocate-general whatwould happen if the UN delegation visited theprovince and recorded statements.

Now that the WGeID has arrived all superpatriots who remained mum when disappear-ances took place are opposing the visit. A parlia-mentarian belonging to the PML-Q has termedthe arrival of the delegation a ‘threat to the coun-try’s sovereignty’ and ‘the first step leading to-wards the disintegration of the country’.

While Foreign Minister Khar had earliertaken the stand that the WGeID had been in-vited by the government itself, she is havingcold feet now. She has said that the UN missionwas not mandated to conduct any fact finding.

A petition moved in the Supreme Courtmaintains that the commission’s arrival in Pak-istan “to investigate missing persons’ case wasa conspiracy against the country”. Further thatthe commission visits the states where therewas no independent judiciary or democracybut Pakistan is independent having all facilitiesto investigate its internal matters. The peti-tioner asks the apex court to issue an order todeny any cooperation with the commission andits members should be sent back immediately.

As a member of the UN, Pakistan is re-quired to abide by the International Conventionfor the Protection of All Persons from enforcedDisappearance. Article 1 of the Conventionmaintains that no one shall be subjected to en-forced disappearance and no exceptional cir-cumstances whatsoever, whether a state of waror a threat of war, internal political instabilityor any other public emergency, may be invokedas a justification for enforced disappearance.

It is interesting that while some of us expectthe UN to stop human rights violations in Kash-mir and Palestine, they resent the visit by a UNgroup investigating similar crimes in Pakistan.

Hundreds of reports and scores ofcolumns and editorials in Pakistani media overthe years have highlighted the gravity of thesituation in Balochistan. The HRCP has sentseveral fact finding missions to the provinceand released about a dozen well researched re-ports which highlight enforced disappear-ances. These expose the involvement of lawenforcement agencies in the overwhelmingmajority of the cases. Baloch parliamentarianshave repeatedly pointed finger in the same di-rection. Some of them subsequently resignedtheir seats convinced that none in Parliamentwas willing to go beyond wringing hands. TheSCBA has held two national conventions to un-derline the plight of the Baloch people. Whenskeletons in the cupboard start rattling, out-siders are curious to know what is going on.

The enforced disappearances started underMusharraf when the PML-Q legislators, nowobjecting to the UN mission’s arrival, weremembers of the military ruler’s cabinet. Theycontinued to enjoy the perks and privileges andlooked the other way as Akbar Bugti was killedand Baloch political workers picked up andkept incognito in violation of law. It never oc-curred to them that large scale illegalities by theagencies can turn the population against thestate and thus endanger the country’s integrity.

Disappearances have multiplied under thePPP government. They are now followed by thedumping of scores of tortured bodies of someof those made to disappear earlier. The PPPhad apologized to the Baloch before assumingpower over excesses committee against them.To remain in office it has extended its policy ofreconciliation centered around “we won’t stopyou from doing what you want if you don’t stopus from doing what we do” to security agenciesalso. Theoretically, there is an elected govern-ment in place in Balochistan. Practically, thechief minister is powerless, which he has ad-mitted several times, while the province con-tinues to be ruled by law enforcement agencies.

The Supreme Court had taken up the issueof missing persons soon after the restoration ofthe independent judiciary. early this year itturned its attention to Balochistan. On a peti-tion filed by Balochistan High Court Bar Asso-ciation President citing widespread incidents ofviolence and deteriorating law and order situa-tion in the province, the court sought reportsfrom the chief secretary, IB and Special Branch.Finding the reports unsatisfactory, the apexcurt initiated proceedings at its Quetta Registry.

It didn’t take the court long to realize thatimportant government officials and bigwigs ofthe security agencies were trying to stonewallthe proceedings. Top officials sometime failedto appear when summoned, feigned ignoranceof enforced disappearances and made state-ments that turned out be untrue.

As the phrase goes murder will out. InJune, the apex court issued an interim orderin the case. The court held Frontier Corps (FC)responsible for the disappearances across theprovince. The order stated that the helpless-ness of Law enforcement Agencies (LeAs)

was against all expectations.In July, the court warned FC officials in-

volved in disappearances to put an end to theillegal acts. “enough evidence is available re-garding the involvement of the Frontier Corpsin picking up of every third missing person,”CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry observed.

We are reminded that Pakistan is ademocracy and the courts and media are free.Hence there is no need for the UN WGeID tovisit the country. Do democracies condoneagencies found involved in gross human rightsviolations? Do parliaments allow gross illegal-ities of the sort to take place year after year?Interestingly the opposition, which threatensto launch long marches if the government wasto defy the SC, didn’t put up even pretence ofsupport to the SC as the agencies continued toresist its authority.

At a sitting of the bench in July, the CJwarned that the Supreme Court should not beforced to issue orders for the appearance ofcommandants and other senior officers of theFrontier Corps before magistrates as therehad been no response to directives of the courtto produce the missing persons before it.

On July 12, The CJ ordered Balochistan FCCommander Major General Obaidullah Khat-tak to produce the 30 missing persons in court,maintaining that there was evidence that thetroops were involved in their disappearance. “Itis his (Khattak’s) duty to comply with the courtorders and affect the recovery of the missingpersons and produce them,” the CJ said. Thecourt rejected the commander’s denial of re-sponsibility as “unacceptable... in the wake ofevidence against the force in picking up miss-ing persons”. Another judge on the bench re-marked, “If there are some rogue elements inthe force, they should be exposed.” The pro-ceedings went on month after month withoutcompliance on the part of the security agencies.

At times attempts were made to malignthe Supreme Court. On July 30, the counsel forintelligence agencies had the cheek to tell thebench that it was ‘perpetuating an anti-stateagenda.’ Remarks of the sort had earlier beenmade against those criticising the agencies forhuman rights violations. The counsel was dulysnubbed by the CJ who remarked, “You areperpetuating an anti-state agenda, you shouldrefrain from making such statements.”

At a hearing towards the end of July, theSC made a highly serious observation which ithad never made before. The court said thatthe Constitution was not being implementedin Balochistan.

What are the consequences when the FCand other agencies decline to cooperate withthe Supreme Court, the government does notsupport the court and the opposition simplyignores what is going on? Should this not cre-ate worries about the integrity of the country?With friends like the PML-Q MNAs, Pakistanhardly needs an enemy.

The writer is a former academic and apolitical analyst.

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Some are unfounded, some not quite so

worries about un mission

When reports about the proposed visit of UNWorking Group on enforced or InvoluntaryDisappearances (WGeID) appeared more than amonth back in the media, there were signs of

perturbation in the government circles. We are now told thatthe issue was debated between all stakeholders, a consensusreached and a summary prepared in the light of the discussionfor the prime minister. It was let out that the visit of theWGeID was taking place at the invitation of Pakistan. Soonafter the mission arrived on Sunday, however, a couple ofparliamentarians expressed reservations. One of the agitatedmembers termed the visit as “the first step leading towards thedisintegration of the country”. A petition moved in theSupreme Court maintained that the commission’s arrival inPakistan was “a conspiracy against the country”. Further thatthe commission visits the states where there was noindependent judiciary or democracy but Pakistan isindependent having all facilities to investigate its internalmatters. The petitioner asked the apex court to issue an orderto deny any cooperation with the commission and its membersshould be sent back immediately.

There is no doubt that Pakistan is a democratic country,with an independent judiciary, a robust media and an activecivil society. Pakistan however was able to shed the militaryrule only after 2008 elections. The elected government has yetto come fully out of the shadow of the army. The securityagencies which have had a long field day under Musharraf arestrongly entrenched in Balochistan where there is still no endto enforced disappearances. The courts are free but attempts tostonewall the Supreme Court’s efforts for the recovery of themissing persons in Balochistan which it initiated in Januaryindicate that much needs to be done to rein in the agencies.What has added to the apex court’s problems is the failure onthe part of high government officials to fully cooperate with it.

Pakistan is a target of criticism in the international mediaon account of large scale enforced disappearances, terroristattacks on minority Shias and the ongoing migration ofHindus. The country which is keen to participate fully invarious UN bodies including its Human Rights Council cannotafford to paint itself into a corner. It will help Pakistan to becandid and upfront on the problems it faces. It should provideall possible help to the UN mission. By conceding thatdifficulties exist and convincing the mission that thegovernment is making serious efforts to overcome them wouldimprove the country’s image. Trying to create hurdles in theactivities of the WGeID would strengthen the perception thatPakistan condones human rights violations.

when skeletons in cupboard start rattling

By Aziz-ud-Din Ahmad

Friday, 14 September, 2012

Ghosts of deeds past

Hypocrisy is one of a multitude ofvices that we consider as beingetched in our national ethos. We

pretend to be philanthropists, yet hoardcharity donations in our personal accounts;we pretend to be patriotic, yet cannotfathom letting go of our provincial and eth-ical identities; we pretend to be politicians,yet in all honesty we’re illiterate mudslingersat best; we pretend to be journalists, yet sellourselves out to the biggest bidder; we pre-tend to be the chief justice, yet blatantlybreach a fundamental code of the constitu-

tion. We’ve been there, done that, masteredall levels of hypocrisy, this is commonknowledge, end of story… err not quite.

Hypocrisy in the garb of religion is onefront where we do not have any peers at all,but due to a myriad of reasons this unrivaledexcellence has not been fully appreciated assuch. Thus, it is worth highlighting that un-less we acknowledge the fact that religion inour neck of the woods, unfortunately, hasbecome more of a tool to assert your preten-tious supremacy over the rest, we cannottruly cherish our true hypocritical potential.

Take for instance the example of a cer-tain Mr Junaid Jamshed, former pop-starturned fashion designer cum face of thetableeghi mafia on television, who left hiscareer in music because music is ostensiblyharam in Islam. Fair enough, that’s hischoice, and while the claim is debatable onecould still try to understand his transition.However, when the same man performs liveon stage in Washington DC at the IslamicSociety of North America Convention 2012,with Salman Ahmed with drums and guitars– categorically declared to be haram multi-tudinous times by Mr Jamshed – beingplayed in the background, anyone with a

logical head on their shoulders would be dis-gusted by this hypocrisy. For, Mr Jamshed– a complete authority on the religious per-spective on potato snacks these days– hassat on air for nearly a decade now, with anaura of how he’s the quintessential Islamicscholar who propagates the message ofAllah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala (with exagger-ated stress on Arabic pronunciation). So ba-sically for JJ, guitars and drums on Aitebar,Hum Tum, Uss Rah Par et al are haram,but not haram at all on Dil Dil Pakistan andJazba Junoon since they are ‘patriotic an-thems’, seriously now JJ? Plus havingsleeveless clothes for women in his designeroutlet and accepting credit cards from banksindulged in riba, isn’t exactly according theschool of thought that Mr Jamshed propa-gates, now is it? But unfortunately no onesees any issue with all this at all.

With the blasphemy debate becoming a24/7/365 thing here, it is criminal to notethat the whole nation is discussing who doesand who doesn’t deserve to live, while con-veniently ignoring the sheer hypocrisy of‘scholars’ whose only qualification is don-ning the holier than thou persona. everyother person has become a ‘religious scholar’these days and is wearing their beliefs ontheir sleeves, oozing a sense of superiorityowing to the apparent closeness with the di-vine deity. Not only is this attitude pretty un-bearable for most, in all honesty – sincereligion and beliefs are a matter of opinionand perception, and cannot be stated as a

matter of fact – but when you only follow se-lective aspects of the school of thought thatyou follow and preach, declaring things to behalal or haram according to your owntastes, you unfortunately make a mockery ofyour own preaching.

Talking of selectiveness, why doesn’tany ‘scholar’ make a fuss about the prostitu-tion hub that is next to the Badshahimosque? Why are there no fatwas on someof our filmmakers and films, which wouldput the most vulgar of offerings from the restof the world to shame? Why do we find ithard to wake up at fajr, when no one iswatching, but dutifully massacre animals oneid to flaunt our ‘religious’ side? Why isthere public outrage when France bans theniqab and nothing at all when Saudi Arabiadoesn’t even let women drive? Why is therefuror following American drone attacks, andnothing at all when Taliban attack innocentpeople? Why does our constitution not grantdue rights to the religious minorities and re-fuses to recognize some other ideologicalminorities – that have to remain inside theirpretty crammed closet – declaring them aswajib-ul-qatal? Why are the only peoplethat have to hide their identity or go in a hid-ing at all are the ones that express their dis-agreement with Islamic teachings – are wethat insecure about our religion that we haveto chop off the head of everyone who doesn’tagree with us? Why do we use hindu and ya-hoodi with a negative connotation in com-mon discussions and popular literature,

disrespect their beliefs and their gods andyet expect everyone else to respect our reli-gious sentiments– and again butcher themif they don’t, because that is blasphemy?

Do we not realize that mocking Hanu-man Bhagwan, failing to recognize thatJesus is the son of God, claiming that theOld Testament has been tampered are allblasphemous in the context of other reli-gions – or does it only count as blasphemyif it’s against Islam?

We are selective about religious beliefsand only do what is easy, to fallaciously con-vince our conscience, and to maintain theaforementioned ‘holier than thou’ persona.Muslims collectively as a whole display thesaid persona as well, disrespecting other re-ligions but expecting the world to be sensi-tive about their beliefs. But the question is:why is this becoming increasingly commonin our society? And why are we all individu-ally becoming the structural units of a mas-sively hypocritical and intolerant social andreligious structure, failing to recognize whodeserves to be extolled and blindly followingthe leads of those that only pretend to be re-ligious connoisseurs? Well for starters, itcould be because that book that we believein and consider as the complete guide to ourlives and which has been locked up in ourcupboard for ages – we haven’t read it in alanguage that we understand.

The writer is a staff member and can bereached at khulduneshahid@gmail.com

Holier than thou

By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

hypocrisy in the garb of religion

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mqm and Pml-nThe MQM leader Altaf Hus-

sain is reported to have said on aprivate TV channel that PML-Nwas a dacoit of South Punjabrights. This preposterous claimdoes not behove a leader of hisstanding and smacks of starkprovincialism. On the contrary, itis the PPP and MQM combinedthat are usurping the rights of Pak-istan when they oppose the build-ing of Kalabagh dam which islifeline of the country. Both theabove have stubbornly opposedKalabagh dam. Mr Altaf Hussain ison record to have said during Gen-eral Musharraf’s tenure that hehad performed an act of divertingGen Musharraf’s attention awayfrom Kalabagh dam that he saidwas a more bold an act more thanthat of Rustam-e-Zaman’s.

This statement alone is enoughto prove that the MQM leader isagainst the progress of not onlyPunjab but also whole of Pakistan.Sitting in the cozy environs of UK,he does not realize the pains ofPakistan as a result of water andpower shortages leading to massprotests and massive unemploy-ment engendered by non construc-tion of a hydroelectric dam sincefour decades in the country. Thewhole country has been takenhostage by anti-people policies ofPPP and MQM’s unholy nexus.

DR M YAQOOB BHATTILahore

the american 9/11History of the world reveals

that people and territories inpower attempts to subdue their ri-vals in order to impose their sys-tem of beliefs and life style. Indoing so, they kill the truth in firstattempt to let the others things fol-low. Since the Cold War ended, theUnited States of America neededen enemy to make other countriesof the world released its economicsystem, military might and techno-logical advancement. The think-tank of America found the Islamicway of life a threat for its futureand exposed its policy after waging

a war against Muslims all over theworld in an attempt to dictate oth-ers to follow its life style accordingto its culture specific and histori-cally determined system of beliefs.How can the people of the revealedscripture comply with the systemof belief and life style Americansexperience? But, some of the Mus-lims are confused due to the ma-nipulative international media.The media giants are workingagainst the Muslims openly and inthe garb of some other names.

In this regard, our media couldhave played a sensible role to in-form its audience about the realpicture of the volatile world sincethe war brought out against theMuslims. A newspaper or a newschannel or the medium of radioought to call a spade a spade.every newspaper and news chan-nel so claims. In Pakistan, theprint and electronic media seem tobe economically viable to keep itscorrespondents posted all over theworld to make their audiences in-formed about the true state of af-fairs. The entire world is seeing theone side of the coin. To know theother side of the coin, the printand electronic media in Muslimworld must broaden their sphereof reporting to reach the real stateof affairs and uncover the dirtyface of the manipulative media.

JAWED AHMED KHURSHEEDKarachi

division of SindhThere is a consensus across the

country, that if there is a need tocreate new provinces, it must bedone only on administrative rea-sons and not ethnic or linguisticbasis. This ordinance issued late inthe night of 6th September, effec-tively divides Sindh into two differ-ence administrative units, wherelocal governments of certain urbancenters would be run in accordancewith a particular system, while therural districts and towns will be ad-ministered through a separate sys-tem. The stage has been set forproviding justification for divisionof Sindh. If ever there is a demandby those who resorted to wallchalking in Karachi, it will be justi-fied on existing separate adminis-trative systems in force. The peopleof Sindh gave a mandate to PPPand unfortunately this very man-date is being abused. It seems thisPPP government will make anycompromise for their power politics,irrespective of the consequences,or its fallout on the country.

ANEELA CHANDIOSukkur

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And Talibanization of our society

pakistan after 9/11

It is an undeniable fact that not a singlePakistani, Iraqi or Afghani participated inthe dastardly attack on Twin Towers and

Pentagon on 9/11. But strangely, the U.S choseto attack Afghanistan, Iraq and made Pakistanscapegoat by once again assigning it the roleof frontline state in its “war on terrorism”.Consequently, Pakistan has suffered incalcu-lable destruction of an unprecedented magni-tude. Unlike the Western countries, the peopleand Armed Forces of Pakistan are continu-ously facing such terrorist attacks virtuallyevery day in Pakistan, resulting in loss of pre-cious lives of over 70,000 innocent civiliansand sacrifices of over 8,000 lives of our bravesoldiers including one Lieutenant GeneralMushtaq, one Major General Bilal Omer andfive brigadiers. Pakistan has not suffered sucha huge death toll of civilian and armed forcesand destruction of its assets and financiallosses in its four wars put together with India.Despite these unparallel sacrifices made byour citizens and Armed Forces, Pakistan isstill being defamed as a terrorist state and theWest is continuing to demand from Pakistan“to do more”. Why this most harmful percep-tion, image and propaganda against Pakistan?

We should also realize that we are not theonly neighbors of Afghanistan, which is sur-rounded by at least six countries. Why is it thatonly Pakistan is burdened with continuouspresence in the past three decades of about twomillion Afghan refugees and has immenselysuffered huge losses of all kinds on account ofthe first Afghan war and the present Afghanwar? Why is it that no other neighboring coun-try of Afghanistan has suffered such losses?The greater irony is that despite these sacrificesof Pakistan, it is blamed, accused and dislikedboth by the government and the people ofAfghanistan. There must be some blundersthat our rulers have committed to cause disas-ter for Pakistan. Similarly, there are 57 Muslimcountries in the world, why are they not suffer-ing such religious extremism, terrorism, sectar-ianism, bigotry, murders and mayhems of theMuslims by the Muslims in the name of Islam?Not even our former bigger part, east Pakistan,now Bangladesh, has such menace of sectari-anism, hatred, intolerance or religious terror-

ism or the spate of fatwas of “kaafir” or “wajib-ul-qatal” from any extremist mullah there?

No doubt, the Western countries are un-charitable and utterly selfish, but we mustalso examine our own conduct and detrimen-tal policies and priorities adopted by ourrulers that allow foreign mercenaries, Tal-iban or the religious fanatics and terrorists tofreely roam around and attack our military,navy and air force installations and commit-ting all sorts of terrorism, murders and may-hem with impunity. We cannot blame anyother country, but our own ruling elite andthe establishment for the same.

The process of degeneration in an alarm-ing degree of our society, its social, religious,cultural, academic institutions, political andeconomic, ethic, values and norms was nodoubt first pursued selfishly and callously bythe worst dictator Gen Zia who also deliber-ately introduced the “klashinkov and heroinculture”, more particularly in our academicinstitutions. Gen Zia also made radicalchanges in the syllabus and textbooks of ourschools and colleges and inserted highlydamaging hate material against other sects,non-Muslims and India to the detriment ofthe interest of Pakistan. Gen Zia also created,promoted, strengthened and armed the sec-tarian and ethnic terrorist forces in Pakistan.

This mission of Gen Zia was taken over andserved by his successor Gen Musharraf withfull commitment to the same agenda. Initially,even before the occurrence of the 9/11 tragedy,the Pakistani establishment and particularlyGen Musharraf adopted a most imprudent andcounterproductive notion that “Afghanistan isthe strategic depth of Pakistan”. Under thispretext, his hidden agenda was to spread Tal-ibanization and promote religious extremismand bigotry. To serve this hidden objective GenMusharraf extended all kinds of support andcooperation to strengthen the rule of bigotedTaliban in Afghanistan and at the same time al-lowed the rise of religious militancy, sectarian-ism and terrorism in Pakistan.

It may be recalled that on the pretext ofthe national interest Gen Musharraf hadsigned about five/six agreements with theworst militant groups of Taliban and religiousextremists such as Fazal-ul-Ullah during hisdictatorial rule. even the present elected gov-ernment while following the same policy ofMusharraf, signed yet another agreement withTaliban in May 2008. These agreements re-sulted in more favors and freedom to Taliban,with no benefit to Pakistan. Perhaps, it is forthis reason that till date, the government ofPakistan has not disclosed the terms and con-ditions of the agreements signed with Taliban.In February 2009, the government committedyet another blunder of surrendering beforethe demands of Sufi Mohammad, the father-in-law of Fazal-ul-Ullah. Shockingly, even ourNational Assembly also endorsed and sup-

ported demands of Sufi Mohammad and hisbrand of Shariah and Nizam-e-Adal. Theseunwise and detrimental decisions of both theKP and federal government naturally encour-aged Sufi Mohammad in denouncing the en-tire constitutional setup of Pakistan includingdemocracy, parliament and judiciary.

The catastrophic impact of all these deci-sions and agreements with Taliban naturallyresulted in the rise of bigotry, intolerance,militancy and sectarian killings of about 302innocent citizens in the past eight months,mostly Shia community, all over Pakistan. Atthe same time, Ahmedis, Christians, Hin-dus/Sikhs are also being harassed, victim-ized, forced to convert their religion withoutany let or hindrance. The sense of insecurityis rising among these minorities so much theso that they are persuaded to leave theirplaces of residence for protection of their lifeand properties. This appalling state of affairsis tarnishing the image of both Pakistan andIslam to such an alarming degree that eventhe United Nation has taken notice of thesame and a UN delegation is visiting Pakistanon a fact finding mission.

One cannot ignore the victimization andbeating suffered by op-ed editor of The News,Mr Zainul Abedin at the hands of the religiousfanatics who have threatened to kill him if hedid not stop watching the TV or listeningQawwalis/music in his own house. This is ob-viously part and parcel of the scheme to pro-mote Talibanization in Pakistan throughintimidation and terrorism. The unrestrainedand rampant killing and victimization of notonly Shia Muslims and other minorities butalso the repeated successful attacks of Talibanon our military installations and barbaric be-headings of soldiers appear to be a part of thescheme to Talibanize Pakistan and convert itinto an extremist state.

It is high time that our civil and militaryestablishment must radically change its poli-cies, priorities and improve its performance forthe protection of our military installations, lifeand property of our citizens rather than pro-moting and protecting Taliban and their ex-tremist supporters. I am not prepared tobelieve that our Armed Forces are not compe-tent enough to combat and defeat all brands ofterrorists or religious extremists including Tal-iban. All that is required is drawing up theright strategy and determination to completelycut off all kinds of supplies to the terrorists inPakistan. Whichever country supplies arms ormoney to the terrorists including Taliban can-not be regarded as our friend, may they be inthe Arabian Peninsula or in the Western block.

The writer is a Senior AdvocateSupreme Court, Former Attorney General& Federal Minister for Law, Justice,Parliamentary Affairs & Human Rights. Hecan be reached at ihaider45@yahoo.com

By Iqbal Haider

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konkona and Ranvirheaded for a divorce?

It seems all is not well between ranvir Shorey

and Konkona Sen Sharma. the couple who got

married two years back and have a one year old

son, seem to have hit a rough patch in their marriage.

there have been rumors about their separation for

quite some time now. According to a tabloid, the two

are now considering to separate legally although

sources state that couple has been living separate

lives since May this year. In May, during a screening

of a film, eyebrows were raised when Konkona and

ranvir arrived for the screening separately and sat far

apart from each other. they did not exchange a word

throughout the event and even left separately. While

Konkona remained silent about the entire episode,

ranvir, who was last seen in ‘Ek tha tiger’, had

snapped and said, “We are not conjoined twins!” the

couple who had been dating for a long time before

tying the knot in a hush-hush wedding in 2010 .When

contacted, both ranvir and Konkona remained

unavailable for comment. NEwS DESK

Aditya’s love for Rani, ShahRukh ki Zabani

For those who are swooning over the poetry

that came along with the first look of Yash

Chopra’s ‘Jab tak hai Jaan’, there is news. the

poetry has been penned by the film’s producer and

screenplay writer Aditya Chopra. While the world was

attributing the lines to the film’s lyricist, Gulzar, the

lines are actually penned by Adi who is known to be a

closet poet. A die hard romantic, Aditya is known to

write romantic prose for perhaps his lady love rani

Mukerji. the otherwise media shy filmmaker has

decided to share some of his poems via the film. "Adi

is a diehard romantic. he writes poems. But so far he

has kept his writings private and not shared them with

his closest friends either”, said a source to a daily. Adi

is extremely gung ho about his father’s comeback as a

director and is leaving no stone unturned in making

this film a super success. Needless to say, SrK will be

seen reciting some of Adi’s lines for his on screen lady

love Katrina. NEwS DESK

Venice-winning 'Pieta'for Oscar race

South Korea has chosen film director Kim Ki-

duk's "Pieta", which won the coveted Golden

Lion at the Venice Film Festival, as its entry

for best foreign film at next year's oscars. the

Korean Film Commission said thursday that "Pieta" -

- the story of a brutal loan shark who struggles for

redemption -- was the unanimous selection to

compete for a nomination at the Academy Awards in

February. "the plot, depicting the destruction of

human relationships by greed and poverty, can be

widely understood and shared by oscar juries and

American audiences," the commission said in a

statement. the oscar nominations will be announced

in Los Angeles on January 15, with the awards

handed out at a ceremony on February 24. AfP kOMAL NAHTA, kOIMOI.COM

RATING: *** 1/2There has to be something really special abouta movie with two of the lead charactersdisabled in some way and the third alwaysmissing something in her life, and yet it neverbogs down the movie or the story. Barfi! islovely in a touching way that is difficult todefine. It’s difficult to have two disabledcharacters and not portray their stereotype ormake the audience feel pity for them. ButAnurag Basu does it skillfully with the scriptand story. He builds the characters so finelythat you come to love each and every one ofthem by the end of the movie. Barfi! leaves youwith that warm, cuddly, magical feeling with afew tears to match. It’s really worth a watch.

TARAN ADARSH, BOLLYwOODHUNgAMA.COM

Rating: ****The late Rajesh Khanna put it acrossmarvelously in the memorable ANAND,'Zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi.'Notwithstanding the roadblocks in our lives,one should celebrate life every single moment,every single day. That, in a nutshell, is theessence of Anurag Basu's BARFI! The beauty ofthe film lies in the fact that it instantly absorbsyou into Barfi's world. Director Anurag Basu, aproficient storyteller, approaches Barfi'scharacter with acute sensitivity andperceptiveness. Also, a film like BARFI! issimplistic and unfussy to the core. I sincerelybelieve, no Hindi movie buff should deprivehimself/herself of watching this brilliantmotion picture. Also, the viewer needs to savorRanbir, Priyanka and Ileana's paramountperformances, one of the strengths of thismovie. Strongly recommended!

SUPARNA THOMBARE, BOLLYwOODLIFE.COM

Rating: ****The Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra andIleana D’Cruz starrer is a cinematic joyride.The strength of the film is the nonlinearnarration, raising your anticipation levels and

making you curious about how the story isgoing to unfold. Barfi! starts off rather slowly,but 15 minutes into the film and the leisurelypace of storytelling becomes pleasurable. Mostof the dialogues come in the form of narration,but the scenes are so beautifully crafted thatyou don’t really miss the dialogues at all. Thisis where Pritam Chakraborty’s music plays abig role. It is soothing and touching, and takesthe screenplay to a new level. Anurag Basu hasput his heart and soul into the film, and why itall works is because he keeps it light. WatchBarfi!, feel it and soak it because it is purecinematic joy. And above all its magical!

POOJA RAO, BOLLYSPICE.COM

Rating: *** 1/2Anurag Basu’s Barfi! takes a light look atrelationships, how each develops over time anddire circumstances, leaping thru physical, financialhandicaps that the society otherwise deemsstigma. The proficiency of filmmaker Anurag Basuin dealing with the various shades of relationshipsis admirable and his confidence in his subject isevident. While the narrative seems simplistic, thelayers of emotion each character resigns to istreated with ingenuous compassion and in tandemwith the sweetness of the title. You get as involvedin Barfi’s journey as all his fellow co-stars andyou’re taken on this breezy ride with the rightamounts of effervescence, leaving you withwarmth in your heart.

SOUMYADIPTA BANERJEE, IN.COM

Rating: **** 1/2Now, imagine a film without sex, violence or ascreenplay from the south. Also, throw in a pre-condition that the hero and the heroine wouldn’tspeak a word in the film. Any director attemptingto make such a movie must be prepared to puthis career in a coffin before taking his first shot.But people who have succeeded ended upcreating a masterpiece. Barfi is just that – amasterpiece which is comparable to India’s bestfilms. When everybody is busy making remakesof south films, thinking of a film like Barfirequires tremendous courage. Absolute courage,because you never know if the audience willreject your film and you will end up in a trash canwith other directors who have ventured off thebeaten track. Anurag has shown grit and courageto go full throttle with a subject like Barfi wherehe portrays the life of a deaf and dumb young boyand makes you laugh even at the grimmest ofsituations. This film will not excite you or thrillyou but will melt your heart.

CAST: Ranbir kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D'CruzDIRECTOR: Anurag BasuMUSIC: PritamPLOT: Set in the 1970's in a pretty corner of India (inDarjeeling), Barfi! is the story of three young peoplewho learn that love can neither be defined norcontained by society's norms of normal and abnormal.

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Ignore rumours about Talaash: Aamir khan

RuMorS have been rife that director reema

Kagti’s psychological thriller might be

‘inspired’ by multiple films. But the makers

haven’t attempted to deny or clarify any such

reports. here’s why: Aamir’s diktat to his team, right

from the start, has been that they should not clarify

or comment on this issue. “Even though rumors have

been doing the rounds, he has told the team to not

say anything. he wants everyone to focus on the

promos,” says a source from the production unit. to

start with, conjecture is that talaash could be a

remake of the tamil thriller Anniyan (2005).

Similarities have also been drawn to two hollywood

films — the 2003 American horror-mystery film,

Identity, and the Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer thriller,

Shutter Island (2010). coUrTESY hT

weight aaj hai, kal nahihoga: Shilpa Shetty

ONCE known for her picture-perfect curves and

lithe figure, Shilpa Shetty Kundra is happy

flaunting her mummy fat these days. the

actor, who gave birth to son Viaan in May this year, says

she is in no hurry to lose post-delivery weight. “My son

is my priority at the moment and I can only give him

my 100% ... weight has never been an issue ... in fact,

I haven’t even started losing weight. Aur weight ka kya

hai … aaj hai kal nahi hoga,” says Shilpa, adding,

“Actors are constantly scrutinised for our looks. But we

are humans too. If people want to be judgmental about

us, they can.” Being a mother, Shilpa says, is the best

role she has ever played. Interestingly, her trip to Delhi

on tuesday — which lasted just a few hours — was the

first without her baby, and had her taking a flight for

the first time in eight months. coUrTESY hT

kBC 6 opener getsrecord-breaking rating

MEGAStAr Amitabh Bachchan's magic touch

and powerful campaign Sirf gyaan hi aapko

aapka haq dilaata hai (only knowledge

gets you what you deserve), has helped the opening

episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 6 (KBC) in getting

maximum eyeballs. the show, which went on air

Sep 7, has registered a 6.1 television rating (tVr).

this season has bagged the highest opening out of

all three seasons on the channel. While the episode

aired Sep 7 received a 6.1 tVr, the episode aired on

the following day earned a 5.3 tVr, according to

television audience measuring agency tAM. the

show is said to have had the highest opening this

year across all shows on all general entertainment

channels, says Sneha rajani, senior executive vice

president and business head, SEt."We were

confident that viewers would really enjoy watching

this season of Kaun Banega Crorepati.” rajani said

in a statement. coUrTESY hT

Famous comedian,actor Lehri passes away

Famous actor and comedian Lehri passedaway on Thursday after protracted illness in aprivate hospital of Karachi. Lehri wasadmitted to intensive care unit (ICU) after hiscondition became deteriorated, private newschannel reported. He was 82 and sufferingfrom chest pain since many days while hissugar level also dropped. Safirullah Siddiqui‘Lehri’ is one of Pakistan’s greatest comedianswho made his name in Urdu films. His filmcareer started in the 1950s and lasted untilthe 1980s. Lehri won the Nigar Award foraround a dozen films including Paigham, Nailaila naya mujnu, Naya andaaz, Beewe ho toaisee etc. The late Prime Minister BenazirBhutto provided him with a monthly stipendof Rs. 2,500 during her first tenure, which hecontinued to receive. Lehri’s first film“Anokhi” was released in 1956, and his lastproduction was Dhanak in 1986. The vastmajority of his films have been in Urdu,though he did perform in a few Punjabiproductions. STaff REpORT

Bebo will have two of the most powerful namesafter marriage with Saif Ali Khan. Her signaturewill be KKK! However, the actress is notconfirming and has also refused to answer aquestion whether she would be converting toIslam after marriage.Kareena is tight-lipped about it. "You all knoweverything, then why are you asking," Kareenasaid to reporters during the promotion of`Heroine`.Asked why was she holding back herwedding date, she said that the "only thing is thatwe have not decided where it will be and when itwill be. So, whenever we will decide, we shall talk."Sharmila Tagore had converted to Islam when shemarried cricketer Mansur Ali Pataudi, donning thename Ayesha Begum. When asked whether shewill convert into Islam post her marriage, the 32-year-old Kareena said: "That`s a very wrongquestion, which I will not be answering." She alsorefused to elaborate on her wedding plans. "No Ican`t. I am so sorry. (But) This is not a pressconference about my wedding." But she confirmedthat she will wear red as

"red is my favorite color and you all will see me ina red sari." As Kareena Kapoor gears up to walkthe aisle to marry her long time beau Saif AliKhan, it is her dear designer buddy ManishMalhotra who has taken upon the responsibility

on his shoulders to dress herup for her dawat-e-walima

or reception.Talking to the media,Manish disclosed thatsince Kareena loves thecolour red, he has

designed a red sareefor her wedding

reception. “I amvery happy

for

Kareena and very excited about designing for her.I have designed a red sari for the Mumbaireception and I am designing the outfit for theDelhi function,” said an ecstaticManish. For themain nikaahceremony, it hasalready beendecidedthat Bebo willdon thesharara worn bySharmila Tagore onhershaadi. NEWS DESK

Ajay Devgntalks to TOI talks about his fascination fordaredevilry and his love for horses. On his two-bike stunt in

Phool Aur Kanteand his two-car stunt in the Golmaal seriesRiding two bikes or two cars was tough, but easier than

horses because at least bikes and cars have human riders whocan be asked to ride parallel to each other, unlike horses. On

two horses in Son Of Sardaar Riding horses is the mark of a man.They are the toughest animals to ride. The horses were trained,

but it still required a lot of practice to ride two together. eventhough the horses were tied, the risk was very high as they

were galloping and a great deal of control was required.Sitting on a horse itself is so tough but standing makes it allthe more difficult. While I have done a lot of action in myvarious films, this is the most difficult action scene I haveever done. With this film, we have brought back horsesafter a long time. COURTESY TOI

actors can't earnmillions right now: PittActor Brad Pitt says Hollywood doesn'thave the cash to splash on its big stars atthe moment due to the global financialcrisis. When asked if major stars couldexpect to earn $10 million per movie, hesaid: "That thing died. That arithmeticdoesn't really work right now... that deal'snot flying these days." Pitt, 48, wasquoted by showbizspy.com as saying: "It'sa really interesting time. A lot of thestudios have been challenged because ofthe economic downturn as well so they'vebeen betting on bigger, more tent polekinds of things. At the same time thatopens up a vacuum for really interestingnew filmmakers to come in." According toForbes' top 10 highest earning actors listpublished in July, Pitt banked $25 millionin the last financial year. Tom Cruisetopped the list with earnings of $75million. COURTESY TOI

NIgAR AwARD FOR BEST COMEDIAN IN FILMS

'Paigham' in 1964.'Kaneez' in 1965.'Mein wo nahi' in 1967.'Saiqa' in 1968.'Nai laila naya mujnu' in 1969.'Anjuman' in 1970.'Dil lagi' in 1972.'Aaj aur kal' in 1976.'Naya andaaz' in 1979.'Saima' in 1985.'Beewe ho to aisee' in 1986.

Riding a horse isthe mark of a man

actresses kate hudson, left, and lea michele attend the "Glee" premiere screening at the Paramount lot in los angeles. afp

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A shy, brightly colored monkey species has beenfound living in the lush rain forests at the heartof the Democratic Republic of Congo, a find thatutterly surprised the researchers who came uponit. “When I first saw it, I immediately knew itwas something new and different — I just didn’tknow how significant it was,” said John Hart, aveteran Congo researcher who is scientific direc-tor for the Lukuru Wildlife Research Founda-tion, based in Kinshasa. In fact, the find wassomething of a happy accident. The image thatcaught his eye hadn’t been taken in the field. Itwas snapped in a village, and showed a younggirl named Georgette with a tiny monkey thathad taken a shine to the 13-year-old.

what is that? It was a gorgeous animal, Hart said, with a

blond mane and upper chest, and a bright redpatch on the lower back. “I’d never seen that onany animal in the area, so right away I said,‘Hmmm,’” he told Our Amazing Planet. Hartdecided to get to the bottom of the mystery.Fast forward through five years of field work,genetic research and anatomical study, and onWednesday, Hart and a list of collaborators for-mally introduced to the world a new primatespecies, dubbed Cercopithecus lomamiensis,and known locally as the lesula. Their work isannounced in the online journal PLOS One.“For a big mammal to go unnoticed is pretty

unusual,” said Kate Detwiler, a primatologistand assistant professor at Florida Atlantic Uni-versity, and an author on the paper.

The trees tower overhead, blocking out thesun, and the forest floor — the chief domain of thelesula — is steeped in a permanent gloom. The for-est is full of sounds. At first light, the lesulas raisea lilting chorus of booming calls, distinct from thecries of their monkey neighbors who pass theirlives in the trees high above the forest floor; atdusk, the cries of African grey parrots echothrough the canopy. The earth is wet and soft, andfeet sink into the ground with each step. There isa gentle, steady thud as fruit falls from the trees.

Blue buttocks The lesulas live in this isolated region in groups

up to five strong, and feeds on fruit and leafy plants.The males weigh up to 15 pounds (7 kilograms),about twice the size of the females. They also havesome rather arresting anatomical features. “Theyhave giant blue backsides,” Hart said. “Bright aqua-marine buttocks and testicles. What a signal! Thataquamarine blue is really a bright color in forestunder story.” “We don’t really know what thismeans because it’s very uncommon for monkeys inthis lineage,” she added. The only other monkey toshare this feature is the lesula’s closest cousin — theowl-faced monkey, a species that lives farther east.At first it was thought the monkeys were close kin,but genetic analysis suggests the two species splitfrom a common ancestor about 2 million years ago.

what’s for dinner?There’s a thriving market for bush meat, partic-

ularly in urban areas, Hart said, and the monkeysare just one of dozens of species, from snakes to ele-phants to apes, that are targeted. “People have dis-posable income, and this is the cheapest meat,” hesaid. “Bush meat is a go-to item because it’s less ex-pensive than chicken or beef. This is not a newproblem, but it’s a problem that doesn’t have a so-lution yet.” Hart and his wife, Terese, are partneringwith local people to try to set up a national park inthe lesulas’ territory, but it’s still a work in progress.In the meantime, researchers have set up cameratraps in the dense forest to try to better understandthe habits of the shy animals. “It was suspected thatsomebody in town had taken it in,” Hart said. “Andit ended up in their cooking pot.” NEwS DESK

F OR all the effort you’ve put into toningit—and for all the cupcakes you’ve givenup to maintain it—your midsectionshould be as rock-hard as a diamond andjust as much fun to show off. So why does

it seem like your quest for a sexy stomach alwayshits a bump...right about belly-button level?

You’re not alone in feeling frustrated: Sixty-two percent of women say the body part they’remost self-conscious about is their belly. But don’tgive up hope—just change your thinking. Turnsout, some of the old food advice you’ve been fol-lowing for years may actually be working againstyou, says Alan Aragon, a nutritionist in WestlakeVillage, California. The latest research is full ofnew culinary strategies for shrinking your stom-ach (and slimming down all over). After wadingthrough the data to answer your most commonquestions, Aragon presents his core counsel.

will eating smaller meals curb my hunger?

Contrary to what you’ve heard, the five-small-meals-a-day mantra doesn’t work for everyone. Thenew thinking? You’ll eat healthiest if you eat yourway—meaning, if you prefer substantial mealsfewer times a day, there’s no reason to force your-self to do the opposite, says Aragon. But while thenumber of meals doesn’t matter, their size does.

According to Purdue University researchers, thebiggest problem with our noshing behavior is thatsnacks have become meals, and meals have becomefeasts. In the past 30 years, snack sizes have in-creased from 360 calories to a whopping 580!When you consider that the average woman snackstwice during each workday, you’re looking at almost500 extra calories a day. In just two weeks, theseoversize bites—no matter how “healthy” they are—can contribute to an extra pound of fat. The take-away: However many times you eat, always makesure that you’re keeping an eye on your portions.

How do I know which fats are Ok to eat?

It’s been scientifically proven: eating fat helpsyou become slim, says Aragon. In fact, the Insti-tute of Medicine recommends that fatty foodsmake up 20 to 35 percent of your total calories.This, of course, isn’t an invitation to head over tothe nearest fast-food joint. You have to include theright fats—primarily monounsaturated fats(MUFAs) like nuts, avocados, and healthy oils—and stay away from processed foods that containtrans fats, such as baked goods. A report in theBritish Journal of Nutrition found that a MUFA-rich diet helped people lose small amounts ofweight and body fat even when they didn’t changetheir calorie intake. What’s more, dieters whotook a high-fat approach needed 25 fewer days tolose 10 pounds than those who used a high-carbapproach, according to researchers at Johns Hop-kins University—and that was on a diet of 30 per-cent fat! So go ahead and indulge (in moderation)in fatty foods that are good for your body, includ-ing beef (top round and sirloin), pork, eggs (yolkstoo), and reduced-fat sour cream and cheese.

Is counting calories the only way to guarantee a flat stomach?

What matters most for shedding belly fat boilsdown to calories in versus calories out. For sure,counting those suckers at every meal will help youstay consistent with a healthy eating plan, saysAragon—but it isn’t necessary to lose weight. Ifworrying about every. Single. Calorie. Is stressingyou out, put away the calculator (research showsthat stress itself can cause you to stuff your face).Instead, fill your plate with whole, energy-densefoods, such as lean protein, fruits, vegetables, andwhole grains. Because they pack a lot of nutritioninto comparatively few calories, you’re able to eatmore and feel full without expanding your waist-line. For an example of how to combine specificfoods into belly-flattening dishes.

Aren’t protein shakes just forbodybuilders?

Don’t be fooled by labels featuring ripped,bulked-up dudes. Anyone, jock or not, can benefitfrom the belly-flattening power of protein powder.Opt for whey protein over soy: According to astudy in The Journal of Nutrition, participantswhose diets included whey protein for 23 weekshad less body fat and a smaller waist than thosewho consumed soy protein. In fact, as strange asit sounds, dieters who included whey protein intheir eating plan doubled their fat loss comparedwith those who ate the same number of caloriesbut didn’t drink any shakes. To reveal your absonce and for all, try including a whey proteinshake once a day or at least a few times a week.

Do carbs cause tummy fat? Despite what nearly every diet plan in the late

‘90s led you to believe, carbs are not your enemy.Yes, if you overeat them, you’ll gain—just as withany other food. But when it comes to weight loss,your total calorie balance is what matters. If you eatmore than you burn, the unused calories turn intofat that gets stored in your belly (and elsewhere), re-gardless of what particular foods those caloriescome from, says Aragon. That said, if just the sightof carb-heavy dishes melts your willpower into goo,avoiding them is the foolproof way to control yourweight. More realistic, perhaps, is making sure mostof your carbs are the complex kind found in wholegrains and raw fruits and vegetables. Because thesetend to fill you with fiber, it’s easier to eat them incontrolled portions than it is with highly processedrefined carbs like white bread, pasta, and rice.

I’m losing pounds but not inches.what’s wrong?

This usually means you’re not strength train-ing or eating enough protein, says Aragon. Pick upsome weights, and add six ounces of lean meat toyour post-workout meal or mix two scoops of pro-tein powder into a smoothie or yogurt. each op-tion yields about 40 grams of protein, the amountyou need to lose fat while preserving metabolism-revving muscle.

Can I have dairy and still lose my belly? Absolutely. In fact, cutting back on the amount

of dairy you eat can signal your body to make morefat cells, according to a study in The AmericanJournal of Clinical Nutrition. When you don’t haveenough calcium in your body, it tries to hold on towhat’s there. This triggers the release of a com-pound called calcitriol, which increases the pro-duction of fat cells. If you want fewer fat cells,eating extra calcium suppresses calcitriol, whichbreaks down fat and makes your fat cells leanerand your tummy flatter. So enjoy the moo juice,yogurt, or a little cheese. Because dairy does tendto be high in calories, keep your portions small orstick to low-fat varieties. (The USDA recommendsthat women get three cups of low-fat dairy a day.)

Do artificial sweeteners really pack on pounds?

Nutritionists debate this topic as vigorously aspoliticos argue about tax hikes. There’s no direct linkbetween consuming these sweeteners and gainingweight. Still, some research indicates that by provid-ing you with the taste of a high-calorie meal withoutdelivering the calories your brain expects, diet foodsmade with chemicals, artificial sweeteners, andpreservatives can actually leave you craving morefood, which causes you to overeat. And another rea-son to tone down your diet soda habit, says Aragon:Scientists at the University of Minnesota found thatdiet sodas and fake sugars may increase your risk formetabolic syndrome, which results in higher levels ofbelly fat, blood sugar, and cholesterol. So it’s a goodidea to limit your intake to three or four servings a dayat most (one packet of sugar substitute in your coffeeis one serving; one can of diet soda is two). If your dietotherwise consists mainly of real foods, you can enjoya little sweetener, whether it’s artificial or not.

will taking supplements help reveal my abs?

Most fat-loss pills are a waste of money, andmany carry scary risks, says Aragon. The truth is, thefat loss caused by any supplement is minor and iseven less significant in people who have a substan-tial amount of weight to lose, he says. The best andonly real way to uncover your abs—permanently—isto focus on what you eat and how you exercise.

I always gorge after a workout. Bad habit?

This is actually the best time to have your largestmeal of the day—as long as it’s a reasonable size andnot a full-on feast. That’s because you’ve just reducedyour body’s fuel reserves, and food can help aid yourrecovery. Plus, when your body is in a recovery state,incoming calories and nutrients stand a better chanceof being absorbed by muscle tissue instead of beingstored in fat tissue. If your goal is to curb uncontrol-lable hunger after a workout, try lean beef, poultry, orfish—protein-rich foods tend to be very filling. Pairthat meat with whole-food, high-fiber carbohydratesources such as beans. Fiber is another elementthat can help you feel satiated quickly. NEwS DESK

14Infotainment

Friday, 14 September, 2012

Sleeping beauty wakes upfrom unexpected kiss

AN exhibit at Ukraine’s National ArtMuseum has captured the world’s attention- five women posing as sleeping beauties.

The concept was that suitors kiss the women and ifshe woke, they’d be contractually obligated to getmarried. One of the sleeping beauties actuallywoke up to an unexpected suitor, a woman. Themodel, Yana Gurzhiy, says “It was a very quickmoment, and I didn’t think about it for a long time.It happened in a second and I opened my eyes.When I saw a girl in front of me, I was naturallysurprised, but I would also have been surprised ifit had been a strange man.” The artist behind theinstallation, Taras Polataiko, says that he hopes thekiss will encourage conversation about changingUkraine’s same-sex marriage ban, though hedoesn’t expect the two women to wed. NEwS DESK

Tallest ever dog revealed

AGreat Dane who towers 2.2 metres (7 feet 4inches) on his hind legs is named the tallestdog ever recorded in the latest Guinness

Book of World Records launched on Thursday. Thegiant canine from Michigan in the United Stateseats an entire 14-kilogram (30-pound) bag of foodevery day and weighs in at 70.3 kilograms, the 57thedition of the global records book says. Measuring1.12 metres (44 inches) from paw to withers — thepoint between the shoulder blades at which theofficial height of a four-legged mammal is judged— he is officially the tallest dog ever recorded, thevolume claims. The Guinness Book of WorldRecords, first published in 1955, has sold morethan 120 million copies to date in 22 languages andin over 100 countries. AfP

10 new flat-belly food rules

New, colorful monkey speciesA bicycle built out of cardboard

Abicycle made from cardboard that costsonly $9 to $12 to build sounds unlikely.But, as surfaced on the blog Kottke,

designer Izhar Gafni got it in his head to make justthat. After three years of perfecting the design, hecreated the Alfa. It looks like a bike, rides like abike, and, at 20 pounds, can hold a rider weighingup to 485 pounds. And hey, when you’re done withit, you could practically throw it in the recycle bin.The design itself is made of cardboard and 100percent recycled materials. As described in theGiora Kariv Productions video “Izhar cardboardbike project,” Gafni first got the idea when heheard of a canoe crafted from cardboard. Althoughengineers told the bike enthusiast it wasimpossible, Gafni realized that as with origami,“You fold it once, then it doesn’t come twice thestrength, it’s almost three times the strength.” Thevideo was made six months ago and is starting toget some attention on the Web. The short filmfollows the ingenious design process, from figuringout how to use the cardboard, to producing aclunky prototype that looks like a UPS shipmentwith wheels, to creating the finished product. Youcan see Gafni take it for a spin in the video at the4:39 mark. The designer says of his creation, “It’sstrong. It’s durable. It’s cheap. What I like about itthe most: It’s made out of cardboard.” NEwS DESK

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Serena, Sharapova to start 2013 in brisbane

COLOMBOAfP

ARCH-RIVALS India andPakistan will get an earlychance to size up eachother ahead of the WorldTwenty20 when they

clash in a high-profile practice match inColombo next Monday.

The match, part of the warm-upschedule drawn up by the InternationalCricket Council, is the only one of 12practice games that will be beamed liveby the host broadcasters.

Pakistan captain MohammadHafeez welcomed the chance to playagainst India before the tournamentstarts on Tuesday.

"It is usually a high-pressure gameand good for us to experience it early,"Hafeez told reporters in Colombo onWednesday night.

India coach Duncan Fletcher saidhis team's two warm-up matches -- theother is against host Sri Lanka on Satur-day -- will be important preparations forthe main event.

"We have come here with the beliefthat we can win the World Twenty20and it is crucial we get attuned to theconditions," Fletcher said. "We have ob-

viously got a good build-up."We look forward to the two warm-

up games which will give us the prepa-ration we require for the tournament."

India and Pakistan have been drawnin separate groups for the preliminaryleague, but will meet in the Super eightsround in Colombo on September 30 if

the seedings go to plan.The two nations have played just two

official Twenty20 internationals againsteach other, both during the inauguralworld event in South Africa in 2007.

The league match in Durban endedin a tie with India winning the bowl-out,before the two sides met again in the

final in Johannesburg, which MahendraSingh Dhoni's Indians won by five runs.

Bilateral cricket ties between the twonations, which had been suspendedsince the Mumbai attacks in 2008, areset to resume later this year when Pak-istan tour India for three one-dayers andtwo Twenty20 games.

PAKISTAN FACE INDIA in World T20 tune-up

icc worldtwenty20 2012 setto break broadcastrecords

COLOMBOAgENcIES

In less than a week’s time, the world’s topTwenty20 cricketers will be playingacross four venues in Sri Lanka and hostbroadcaster and ICC Global MediaRights partner eSPN STAR Sports (eSS)is gearing up its production to make surethe people across the 226 territories, thehighest ever for an ICC event to date, willenjoy an unrivaled spectator experienceall from the comfort of their livingrooms.The event is set to reach an audience ofmore than 1.5 billion, a record for anycricket event, thanks to new and ex-tended agreements secured by eSPNSTAR Sports. This includes a ground-breaking partnership with eSPN in theUS, Caribbean, Central and Latin Amer-ica and the continued coverage of theICC World Twenty20 in europe via eu-rosport, this time in 18 languages.Following on from the world class pro-duction of the ICC Cricket World Cuplast year, eSPN STAR Sports will pro-duce High Definition (HD) broadcastcoverage using 29 cameras, an array ofon-air enhancements and compellinggraphic presentation to accompany theinsightful and trusted voices of its expertgroup of commentators.The live broadcast will feature 16 com-mentators and legends of the game fromthe leading participating countries.These include Sourav Ganguly, SanjayManjrekar, Wasim Akram, Ramiz Raja,Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, Mark Waugh,Damien Fleming, David Lloyd, NasserHussain, Ian Bishop, Simon Doull, Pom-mie Mbangwa, Russel Arnold, HarshaBhogle and Alan Wilkins.Campbell Jamieson, ICC General Man-ager – Commercial, said: “The ICCWorld Twenty20 2012 will have the bestreach ever for a cricket event and com-bined with the unique passion and en-thusiasm for our great sport in Sri Lanka,the event is set to create a new bench-mark. "And for those people around theworld who can’t be there in person,eSPN STAR Sports’ distribution effortshave ensured that more than 1.5 billionpeople across the globe can view everysingle match from the comfort of theirown home.” Peter Hutton, eSPN STARSports’ Managing Director, said: “We be-lieve that this event is an excellent way ofattracting new audiences to the gameworldwide, and hope that our productionand commentary teams will ensure thebest possible experience for viewersacross six continents.”

anderson signs

new deal with

lancashireLONDON

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england pace bowler James Andersonsigned a new two-year contract with Lan-cashire on Thursday despite his englishcounty's relegation to the Second Division.Anderson, who made his Lancashire debutin 2002, has played only a limited role forLancashire in recent years after becoming akey member of england's bowling attack.He has taken 276 wickets in 73 Tests forengland and also has 222 wickets in 164one-day international appearances.But the 30-year-old remains keen to helpLancashire's cause and even the team's sur-prise relegation from the top division of thetwo-tier County Championship, just a yearafter they won the english title, couldn'tshake that commitment."I always love coming back to play for theclub when my england duties permit me toand I'm delighted to sign for another twoyears," Anderson said.

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Mahela Jayawardene and TillakaratneDilshan hit half-centuries as hosts SriLanka prepared for the WorldTwenty20 with a nine-wicket win overthe West Indies on Thursday.

Skipper Jayawardene (57 not out)and opener Dilshan (50 not out) put

on 103 for the second-wicket to helptheir team achieve a 133-run targetwith 26 balls to spare in a warm-upmatch in Colombo.

The Sri Lankan captain smashedtwo sixes and six fours in his 35-ballknock while Dilshan's 38-ball inningscontained one six and five boundaries.

Johnson Charles (30), DarrenBravo (29) and Kieron Pollard (28 not

out) were the main scorers for theWest Indies, who rested star openerChris Gayle.

Sri Lanka are in Group C of the pre-liminary league with South Africa andZimbabwe. The West Indies are inGroup B with Australia and Ireland.

Two teams from each group will ad-vance to the Super eights round.

In another match in Colombo, wick-etkeeper-batsman Niall O'Brien crackeda 49-ball 62 with the help of two sixesand four boundaries to set up Ireland'seasy 54-run victory over Zimbabwe.

Ireland scored 181-5 off 20 oversbefore restricting Zimbabwe to 127-8,with paceman Alex Cusack finishingwith 3-6 off three overs and left-armspinner George Dockrell with 3-28 fromfour overs.

Kevin O'Brien, brother of Niall, hita brisk 30 not out off 14 balls while edJoyce contributed 29 for Ireland.

Opener Hamilton Masakadza top-scored for Zimbabwe with 44, hittingtwo sixes and five fours.

BrIEf ScorES

WEST INDIES vs SRI LANKAWEST INDIES 132-6 in 20 overs

(Johnson Charles 30, Darren Bravo29, Kieron Pollard 28 not out, NuwanKulasekara 2-35)

SRI LANKA 135-1 in 15.4 overs(Mahela Jayawardene 57 not out,Tillakaratne Dilshan 50 not out, Dil-shan Munaweera 24).IRELAND vs ZIMBABWE

IRELAND 181-5 in 20 overs (NiallO'Brien 62, Kevin O'Brien 30 not out,ed Joyce 29, Chris Mpofu 3-39)

ZIMBABWE 127-8 in 20 overs(Hamilton Masakadza 44, Craig ervine24, Prosper Utseya 23 not out, Alex Cu-sack 3-6, George Dockrell 3-28).

Gayle set to

revive happy Sri

lanka memories

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explosive West Indies opener Chris Gaylesays his Test triple-century in Sri Lanka twoyears ago will spur him on in the WorldTwenty20. The left-hander, who smashed acareer-best 333 in the opening Test at Gallein 2010, said he was eagerly looking for-ward to the tournament starting in SriLanka next Tuesday. "To get that triple-cen-tury was great for me. I have some happymemories here in Sri Lanka," Gayle, 32, wasquoted as saying in a West Indies CricketBoard press release on Thursday."I am hoping to use that as a booster to big-ger and better things during the tourna-ment. We know what we're about. We knowwhat we are here for." The West Indies aredrawn with Australia and Ireland in GroupB of the preliminary league, with the toptwo teams advancing to the Super eightsround. They play their first game againstAustralia in Colombo on September 22. TheWest Indies have not progressed through tothe final in the previous three editions ofthe World T20, but Gayle said they had theplayers to deliver this time.

Sri Lanka beat the Windiesin warm-up match

colombo: Sri lankan tillakaratne dilshan (l) is congratulated by his teammate mahela

Jayawardene (r) after scoring a half-century (50 runs) during a icc twenty20 cricket world

cup warm-up match against west indies at the (n.c.c) nondescripts cricket club. afp

colombo: (FileS) in this combination of photographs, Pakistan cricket captain mohammed hafeez (l) and indian cricket captain mahendra

Singh dhoni (r) address their respective press conferences in colombo. afp

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LAHORE STAff rEPorT

A good number of around 65,000 mem-bers of the Sports and Youth Develop-ment Councils of the 1193 Union Councilstook part in 523events throughout theprovince in the second level of the PunjabYouth Festival 2012on Thursday.

The Union Council level, which is thesecond phase of the Festival 2012 afterthe Neighbourhood and Village level,started on Saturday last and up till com-petitions were held in more than 1200events and the figure of participation inthis level has reached around 250,000.

Around 1200 took part in 60 eventsfrom 16 Union Councils in the Lahoredistrict alone. At Ravi Town and NashtarTown over 270 and 223 youngsters ex-celled in 14 events respectively while atShalimar, Aziz Bhatti, Iqbal Towns andSamanabad Towns more than 100 eacharea participated in these localities.Meanwhile in the other districts of La-hore Division, Sheikhupura’s 605 young-sters excelled in seven events includingbadminton, athletics, arm wrestling, bil-liard, tug of war and cricket tape ball.Here 26 Union Councils remained activein the said events. On the other hand atNankana Sahib 378 participated in sportsas well as general events like naatkhaniand qirat.

In Iqbal Town, which is one of the

nine Towns of Lahore, Cricket tapeballmatch was held among the teams ofUnion council 117 in which Razzaq XIbeat Arsalan XI by 13 runs.In Badmintoneventa team of Nabeel beat Arif 2-0 (20-16, 20-12) while Najeeb defeated Zahoor2-0 (20-19, 20-14).

In Arm Wrestling competitions of70kgs category, Malik Ilyas was declaredwinner.In 70-85 kgs, Malik Imran wonthe bout while in 85+ kgs, Abdul Wa-heedhis match with ease.In Billiard, Mo-hammed Shahzad outplayed AbdulRazzaq.

In Union council 118, Billiard compe-titions were held that saw MohammadAbbas beat Noman Ahmed 2-0.In Crickettapeball, Munawar Qadri XI beat ArslanXI by 14 runs. In Arm Wrestling, 70 kgs

category, Mohammad Naeem, in 70-85kgs, Shahid Ali were the winners. In Shal-imar Town, union council 21 block 2 de-feated union council 22’s block 3 by 51runs.

In Athletics 100 metres race, AliAwan of union council 22 won with flyingcolours, Waqas Miraj attained second po-sition while Faisal Majeed secured thirdposition. In Arm Wrestling, union council22’s 12 players participated and A teambeat B team 2-1. In 75 kgs category,Naveed was the winner.

In football of union council 20, block5 beat block 2 by 4-2 goals margin. In Tugof War, union council 20’s block 3 beatblock 7, 2-0. In badminton tat was playedbetween block 8 and block 3. Ijaz of block8 brought fame for his locality when he

defeat Mohib of block 3, 2-0.In other parts of the province, around

7622 from 172 UCs took part in 78 eventsheldin Rawalpindi division where 2437excelled in different sports and generalevents which also included handicraft,cooking, healthy baby competitions. Atchakwal 41 UCs’ 3434 competed in sevencategories of the second level. Similarly,Attock and Jhelum too remained in-volved in the festival to their fullest.

Sargodha Division had the participa-tion of 4887 with maximum interest seenin the Sargodha city where 1795 con-tested for 16 events top honours from 48UCs. Bhakkar had 1126’s participationand Mianwali got 1478 involved in 65events.

Gujranwala was another division

where 287 UCs lured in 17211 youngstersin 77 events with the main Gujranwalacity having 13602’s involvement in 37events while MandiBahauddin had 1268people’s involvement in 15 competitions.

Faisalabad figured around 11036 in66 competitions. In all 200 UnionCouncils had their involvement in theevents while Sahiwal had 117 UCs’ 8884participantsseen taking part in 49events. Likewise at Multan, 7049 tookpart in 48 events with around 4869 tak-ing part in nine events in Multan cityalone. A total of 114 Union Councils gotto the competition venues for the showof their talent. At Layyah 25 UCs’ 966took part in 25 events and 3854 partic-ipated in 45 events from 86 UnionCouncils of Bahawalpur.

Large number of participants makes events interesting

LAHORE STAff rEPorT

pReSIDeNT, PunjabOlympic Association, SyedShahid Ali Shah has re-signed from the officeunder protest expressing

his inability to hold the National Gamesin Lahore next month. The NationalGames which were to b held on October16 to 22 at Lahore has been postponedand will now be held in December. Thedecision was takn in a meeting of thePakistan Olympics Association here onThursday. POA president said that ifPunjab failed to organize the Games itwill be given to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“Some quarters have launched anegative campaign against me for notbeen able to organize the NationalGames being the head of the PunjabOlympic and in the given circumstancesI strongly feel and believe that I can nothandle it (holding of the games) and hasstepped down," Syed Shahid told news-men after a meeting of PbOA here.

Shahid Ali Shah who remained in of-fice for nine years expressed his disap-pointment over the sorry state of affairsin sports and said certain “quarters”were not in favour of holding the Gameson time in Lahore.

“What I have concluded is that I am

not in a position to organize the gamesfromthe platform of PBOA and left withno option but to resign,” he asserted.

The outgoing President made it clearthat he would not reserve his decision ashe has made up his mind to step downafter a thorough consideration.

“I am not a politician nor an individ-

ual who will consider to take back theresignation , I am a man of principlesand I am leading my life with them “,hesaid when an office bearers of the PbOAintervened and said (he) Shahid willconsider to reverse his decision.

He said he would take up the matterof his resignation to the highest author-

ities of the province to get justice and toprove that he did his best for the causeof promotion of sports in the province.

“This matter is not yet over ,now Iam no more associated with PbOA and Iwill do my best to unearth those aspectswhich led me to this point (resigna-tion),” he said.

National Games postponed till DecPunjab Olympic President Shahid Shah resigns

Protest againstolympic association

LAHORE STAff rEPorT

A group of sports lovers staged a protesthere on Thursday against the President,Pakistan Olympic Association, Syed ArifHasan and demanded him to step downfor his failure in promoting sports in thecountry. The protesters gathered outsidethe venue where a special meeting ofPunjab Olympic Association was inprogress and POA Chief was specially in-vited to attend it to discuss the holding ofNational games inLahore next month.The protesters who were holding plycards raised slogans against POA Chiefand held him responsible for the overalldown fall of sports in the country. Theyappealed to the Government to look intothe matter of debacle in country’s sportsand remove the President office bearersof the POA who had failed to promotethe games despite in office for a decade.

exhibition hockeymatch heldLAHORE: An exhibition hockey match inmemory of late N.A Saifi was held here atthe outer ground of the National HockeyStadium on Thursday. Ideal Hockey Club'steam and N.A Saifi XI played the matchwhich was organized by Ideal Club on thefirst death anniversary of their president.Ideal Hockey Club's team won the match3-2. Director Sports SBP Jalil AhmedChohan was the chief guest on this occa-sion. Rana Nadeem Anjum was the organ-izer of this match while it was sponsoredby Ilyas G.M and Dilbar Khan. STAff rEPorT

inter club weightliftingchampionshipLAHORE : Punjab Weightlifting Associ-ation in collaboration with WohaibWeightlifting Club Lahore is organizingAll Punjab Inter Club WeightliftingChampionship here from September 24 atPunjab University old campus grounds.the following weightlifting clubs from different divi-

sions have been qualified from their respective divi-

sions to participate in the two-day event, lahore:

Power Gym wl club, university Ground wl club,

wohaib wl club, Gor city wl club. Gujranwala: Pak

health wl club, amin Farooq health wl club

Faislabad: Samanabad wl club, Subhan wl club

Sargodha: diamandwl club

Sahiwal: nasirwl club

multan: universal wl club. STAff rEPorT

LAHORE STAff rEPorT

Vice President, Punjab Olympic Associ-ation, Rana Mujahid Ali has said thatPBOA has become an illegal body aftermajority of its present office bearershave completed two successive terms inthe office. “PbOA is being run by major-ity of those office bearers who are in of-fice for decades and they must respectthe decision of Supreme Court in imple-menting the national sports policywhich bars any office bearers in officefor a third term in running “,he told apress conference here on Thursday atNational hockey stadium.

He said it was a good omen that thePresident, PBOA, Syed Shahid Ali Shahhas resigned showing respect to the de-

cision of the supreme court and urgedSecretary, Idris Haider Khawaja andother office bearers who have completedmore than two terms to follow the deci-sion of their President. "He has showna good gesture and others should followit,” he added. Mujahid who is also theSecretary of Punjab Olympic Associationappealed to the highest authorities ofthe country to save the future of sportsin country and implement SupremeCourt's decision on National Sports Pol-icy in true letter and spirit.

“There is no justification to stick tothe posts after the judgment of the Courtand we are with the Government and thePakistan Sports Board as far as the im-plementation of the courts policy is con-cerned and we will go to every forum tohighlight this issue,” he asserted.

Mujahid said he has raised his con-cern at the forum of Punjab Olympic As-sociation and walked out of the meetingwhich was chaired by illegal Presidentand had the presence of President, Pak-istan Olympic Association, Syed ArifHasan who has also become an illegalPresident of the national Olympic com-mittee after the decision of the court.

“It is unfortunate that office bearersof the national Olympic association andthe provincial Olympic Associations arenot serious in implementing it and theyare still running the respective bodiesbut they have no legal status “,he said.

He said he will continue his strug-gle for implementing the nationalsports policy for the cause of sports inthe country and to safeguard the futureof sports.

Punjab Olympic illegal body: VP PbOA

BIRMINGHAMAfP

Jos Buttler's quickfire 32 not out pro-vided the platform for england to beatSouth Africa by 28 runs in the thirdand final Twenty20 international atedgbaston on Wednesday.

Victory saw World Twenty20champions england, who head to SriLanka on Thursday to defend the titlethey won in the Caribbean two yearsago, square this three-match series at1-1 with one no result.

Most of Buttler's runs, in a matchreduced by rain to 11 overs per side,came in a costly ninth over worth 32from left-arm quick Wayne Parnell.

It was the second most expensiveover in Twenty20 international historyafter Yuvraj Singh struck england cap-tain Stuart Broad for 36 runs made up

of six sixes in Durban during the inau-gural 2007 World Twenty20. englandmade 118 for five -- with man-of-the-match Buttler facing just 10 balls in-cluding three sixes and two fours.

South Africa, who were never upwith the rate, finished on 90 for five.

"It's nice it came off, it was one ofthose days," said Buttler, whose previ-ous england best was 13.

ScorEBoArDENglAND

c. Kieswetter b M Morkel 50

M. lumb b Parnell 5

l. wright c Amla b Botha 6

E. Morgan c ontong b Peterson 5

J. Buttler not out 32

J. Bairstow b M Morkel 4

T. Bresnan not out 1

EXTrAS (lb2, w11, nb2) 15

ToTAl (5 wkts, 11 overs) 118

fAll of wIcKETS: 1-20 (lumb), 2-43 (wright), 3-64 (Morgan),

4-112 (Kieswetter), 5-116 (Bairstow)

DID not BAT: S Broad, g Swann, J Dernbach, D Briggs

BowlINg: M Morkel 2-0-28-2 (2w); Parnell 2-0-37-1 (2w); A

Morkel 1-0-5-0; Peterson 2-0-16-0 (2w); Botha 3-0-19-2; Kallis

1-0-11-0

SoUTh AfrIcA

r. levi b Bresnan 1

h. Amla c Bairstow b Swann 36

f. du Plessis c Morgan b Briggs 8

AB de Villiers c Bairstow b Broad 2

A. Morkel not out 17

J. ontong c Morgan b Bresnan 10

J. Kallis not out 8

EXTrAS (b1, lb3, w4) 8

ToTAl (5 wkts, 11 overs) 90

fAll of wIcKETS: 1-9 (levi), 2-34 (du Plessis), 3-51 (De

Villiers), 4-53 (Amla), 5-69 (ontong)

DID NoT BAT: J Botha, r Peterson, w Parnell, M Morkel

BowlINg: Briggs 2-0-16-1; Bresnan 2-0-14-2; Broad 2-0-18-0

(2w); Swann 3-0-24-2; Dernbach 2-0-14-0 (2w)

rESUlT: England won by 28 runs

MAN-of-the-MATch: Jos Buttler (ENg)

SErIES: Three-match series level at 1-1

MAN-of-the-SErIES: craig Kieswetter (ENg)

ToSS: SoUTh AfrIcA

UMPIrES: richard Illingworth (ENg) and rob Bailey (ENg)

TV UMPIrE: Peter hartley (ENg)

MATch rEfErEE: Andy Pycroft (zIM)

Previous results

Sept 08: 1st T20, chester-le-Street: South Africa won by

seven wickets

Sept 10: 2nd T20, Manchester: No result (rain))

condolence LAHORE : Zahid Nisar Deputy SensesCommisioner cousin of Syed Tauqeer AliShah breathed his last. And President ofeast Zone cricket Association Syed KAmilAli Shah, Secretary HAbib-ul-Hassanshah,Chairman of east Zone Cricket Asso-ciation Tournment Committee Waqqar-ul-Munir, Tauseef Club, Wahdat eaglets,Service Club, Rising Stars, MughalpuraWhites, Model Town Club, Akhter AbdulRehman Club, Mehboob PArk Gymkhana,Aamir Memorial, Prince Club, ,GhariShaho Gym and many other clubs of thecity have expressed their deep shock andgrief over the sad demise of death ofZahid Nisar deputy Senses commisionercousin of Mr Syed Tauqeer Ali Shah presi-dent West Zone cricket Association.In acondolence messeges they conveyed theirsorrow on the death of cousin Zahid Nisardeputy Senses commisioner of Mr SyedTauqeer Ali Shah. STAff rEPorT

Buttler serves up England win against South Africa

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new Singaporestadium to hosttop teams

SINGAPOREAfP

Singapore's state-of-the-art new stadiumwill host an annual football tournamentfeaturing top european teams as one of itscornerstone events when it opens in 2014,organisers have revealed. The 55,000-seatfacility, centrepiece of a billion-dollar com-plex near the city centre, is also likely tohold international rugby and Twenty20cricket, and is the confirmed venue for the2015 Southeast Asian Games, they said.The dome-shaped National Stadium, witha retractable roof and seating cooled byducted air, is currently under constructionalong with two indoor arenas, an aquaticscentre and watersports facility, plus a largeshopping mall. Andrew Georgiou, chief op-erating officer of commercial partnerWorld Sport Group, admitted the roster ofevents was a "huge talking point" for thestadium, in a city with a patchy sportingcalendar. He said the aim was to createnew events that return on a regular basis,along the lines of Hong Kong's BarclaysAsia Trophy football tournament, whichdraws visits from english Premier Leagueteams. "I wouldn't call it an exhibition butI'd call it a regular event that we'll host inJune, July or August during the summerbreak," Georgiou said of the new tourna-ment involving european clubs.He added: "We're trying to avoid only hav-ing events which come in one year andthen don't happen again."So football is be going to be a main stapleof the event calendar and we're workingwith the FAS (Football Association of Sin-gapore) and regional football bodies tomake sure that football will be a regular,recurring content at the venue." Georgiouwas speaking at the sales launch of 62 ex-ecutive suites, available at a cost of up toSg$272,000 ($221,000) a year for corpo-rate entertaining, on Wednesday. WithSingapore's government guaranteed a re-turn on its investment, private-sector back-ers bear the risk of the project failing tomake a profit. Details of the new stadium'sroster are still under wraps but Twenty20cricket is a priority, possibly featuring In-dian Premier League or Australian, NewZealand and South African sides.

BRISBANEAfP

ReIGNING US Open andWimbledon championSerena Williams andFrench Open winnerMaria Sharapova will

start their 2013 seasons at the BrisbaneInternational, organisers said Thursday.

Williams, who defeated world No. 1Victoria Azarenka to win the US Openthis month for her 15th Grand Slam title,said she was looking forward to beingback in Brisbane.

"It helps me prepare. I get a greattournament -- tough field," she saidof the lead-up event to the AustralianOpen, the first Grand Slam of theseason.

"I had so much fun this year but un-

fortunately it ended fast for me with thedisaster of an injury. I want to do wellthere (in Brisbane)."

The 30-year-old American reachedthe quarter-finals of the 2012 event butwithdrew prior to the match with a leftankle sprain.

Sharapova, whose French Open wincrowned her return from a seriousshoulder injury that nearly wrecked hercareer, is set to make her first appear-ance at the December 30-January 6tournament.

"Going into Australia after a long offseason you always want to have the bestpossible matches," she said.

"I tried to put Brisbane on the maplast year but unfortunately couldn'tmake it out of injury -- I have heard somany great things about it. It is such abig event for all the players."

Serena, Sharapova to start 2013 in Brisbanequerrey v Ferrer asuS seek to sinkSpanish armada

GIJON: Sam Querrey will launch the USfight to upset holders Spain on their homered clay in the opening Davis Cup semi-final duel against world number five DavidFerrer in Gijon on Friday. Querrey's giant-slaying team-mate John Isner faces Nico-las Almagro in the second rubber of the tieas five-time champions Spain, nicknamedthe "Armada", aim to reach their secondDavis final in a row. On Saturday the six-foot-plus American twins Rob and MikeBryan, the top-ranked doubles players inthe world, face Marcel Granollers andMarc Lopez, before the return singles tieson Sunday, according to the draw made inGijon, northern Spain, on Thursday. Spainhave dominated the Davis Cup over thepast decade, winning it five times, and aresurfing a wave of 23 consecutive victorieson home soil. But they will have to dowithout their injured star Rafael Nadal,who continues to rest his troublesomeknees on the sidelines. US team captainJim Courier has called the trip to Spainthe toughest mission in the Davis Cup buthis team are hopeful of an upset havingwon their last four straight clay-court ties.The Americans have lost their last twoDavis Cup ties against Spain and they arewithout the newly-retired Andy Roddick,who has been his country's mainstay inthe competition over the last decade. But,under the captaincy of former Grand Slamwinner Courier, they have chalked upback-to-back away wins in Switzerland (5-0), where Isner shocked Roger Federer,and France (3-2), where he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. AfP

teenager tomicopens for australiaagainst Germany

HAMBURG: Australian teenagerBernard Tomic will face Germany'sCedrik-Marcel Stebe on Friday in theopening rubber of this weekend's DavisCup relegation match in Hamburg.The 19-year-old Tomic, who Australiateam captain Pat Rafter dubbed "dis-gracful" after a weak third set is his sec-ond-round defeat to Andy Roddick atthe recent US Open, will play Stebe inthe first of the five rubbers.Rafter admits he has been impressedwith Tomic since his weak displayagainst Roddick at New York's FlushingMeadows at the end of August."I think everyone has been really im-pressed with how Bernie has beengoing," said Rafter with Tomic ranked42nd in the world, with Stebe, 21, at127. "He has really put his hand up anddone everything that has been asked ofhim on the court and is hitting the ballreally well." With a place in next year'sWorld Group at stake in Hamburg, theabsence of Germany's top two singlesplayers has left the teams evenlymatched for the clash at Hamburg'sclay-court Rothenbaum stadium.Philipp Kohlschreiber, ranked 18th inthe world, was left out after a falling outwith team captain Patrick Kuehnen andTommy Haas, 21st in the world, hasopted to skip the tie. In Friday's secondsingles, top German Florian Mayer,25th in the world, takes on 31-year-oldformer world number one Lleyton He-witt, now ranked 100th. AfP

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MADRIDAfP

CRISTIANO Ronaldo sayshe is focused on winningfor Real Madrid and not onhis contract, beating downspeculation that he is un-

happy with his reported 10-million-euro ($13 million) salary.

Ronaldo shocked fans last week bydeclaring he was "sad" at the Spanishleague champions without explainingwhy, except to insist later that it hadnothing to do with money.

"I would like to reaffirm, withoutbeing concerned about contracts, thatmy focus is solely on winning everygame and every available trophy withthe essential company of my team-mates and all madridistas," Ronaldosaid on his Facebook account onWednesday evening, referring to thefans.

The Real Madrid star and Portugalinternational also said he was happywith his country's 3-0 victory overAzerbaijan on Tuesday.

"It is now time to return to the cluband think only about my club,"Ronaldo added on his Facebook ac-count. Spain's media have speculatedthat Ronaldo's real gripe is his level ofpay compared to other top playersworldwide.

Top-selling Spanish sports dailyMarca said this week that Real Madridpresident Florentino Perez was readyto offer him a "substantial" pay in-crease and an extension in his contract,without citing its source.

Marca said Ronaldo wanted 15 mil-lion euros a year, also without provid-ing a source. The paper says the star

forward now earns 10 million eurosand is 10th in the list of the world'sbest-paid footballers.

Ronaldo says he's focusedon winning, not contract

Flawless que takeslead in taiwan

TAIPEIAfP

Filipino Angelo Que carded a flawlessseven-under-par 65 that surprised evenhimself as he took the opening-round leadat the Yeangder Tournament PlayersChampionship on Thursday.The three-time Asian Tour winner markedhis card with seven birdies to take a single-shot lead over India's Gaganjeet Bhullarand American Jason Knutzon, who had thehonour of recording the event's first hole-in-one.Bhullar and Knutzon posted matching 66sto share second place while home favouriteLin Wen-tang of Taiwan fired a 67 to se-cure fourth place.India's Anirban Lahiri is a further shotback with Taiwan's Yeh Wei-tze after theysigned for 68s at the Linkou InternationalGolf and Country Club in Taipei.Que, who is seeking to end a two-yeardrought, was all smiles after learning thathe had grabbed the lead."Normally when I start well, I feel that Imay find ways to mess it up coming in," the33-year-old told the Asian Tour."Somehow I trusted myself today and com-mitted every shot, as well as commit towhat my plan was, which was to keep theball in play, and so far I've managed to pullthat off." Starting on the back-nine 10th,Que got off the blocks quickly with twobirdies in his opening three holes. Hebirdied the 16th and 18th holes to reach theturn in 32. The Filipino continued to seizecontrol with further birdies on the third andfourth holes before his seventh birdie onthe seven hole gave him the outright lead. "At one point, I didn't know how manyunder I was at and didn't really care aboutmy scores. I just kept going and concen-trated on playing," said Que. "I haven't been in this position for a while.It's been two years. Hopefully I'll just keepdoing what I'm doing and stay committedto what I'm doing."leading scores after round 1 of the yeangder tPc (par 72)

65 - angelo que (Phi)

66 - Gaganjeet bhullar (ind), Jason knutzon (uSa)

67 - lin wen-tang (tPe)

68 - anirban lahiri (ind), yeh wei-tze (tPe)

69 - namchok tantipokhakul (tha), berry henson (uSa),

michael tran (Vnm), Panuphol Pittayarat (tha), arnond

Vongvanij (tha)

f1 stars pay tribute to unsung hero WatkinsLONDON

AfP

Formula One stars on Thursday paid trib-ute to the sport's former medical delegateSid Watkins, who has died at the age of 84.

Watkins helped save the lives of Fer-rari's Didier Pironi at the 1982 GermanGrand Prix, Jordan's Rubens Barrichello atImola in 1994, and McLaren's Mika Hakki-nen at Adelaide in 1995 during an incident-packed 26-year career as Formula One'son-track surgeon.

The neurosurgeon's bid to improvemedical facilities in Formula One also dra-matically cut the number of deaths and se-rious injuries, and the sport's leadingfigures responded to Watkins' passing witha series of tributes.

Confirming Watkins' death, McLarenGroup chairman and close friend Ron Den-

nis said: "Today the world of motor racinglost one of its true greats.

"No, he wasn't a driver. No, he wasn'tan engineer. No, he wasn't a designer. Hewas a doctor and it's probably fair to say hedid more than anyone, over many years, tomake Formula One as safe as it is today.

"Many drivers and ex-drivers owe theirlives to his careful and expert work, whichresulted in the massive advances in safetylevels that today's drivers possibly take forgranted." Liverpool-born Watkins, whoworked in the sport from 1978 to 2004, wasa popular figure on the F1 circuit and Bar-richello wrote on Twitter: "It was SidWatkins that saved my life in Imola 94.greatguy to be with,always happy...tks for every-thing u have done for us drivers.RIP."

Bruno Senna, whose uncle and three-time world champion Ayrton was tended toby Watkins following his fatal crash at the

1994 San Marino Grand Prix, added: "RIPProf. Sid Watkins. Sad news for us who staybehind." F1's current medical delegate, GaryHartstein, who learned his trade for sevenyears under Watkins, said: "For a long timeI wanted to call him every time I had tomake a decision. Then I just started think-ing, 'What would he do in this situation?'

"And finally, for better or for worse, Irealised I was doing just what he'd do -- butprobably not as well. "When I told him thisa few years ago, he smiled and said, 'Ofcourse, old boy! You've had a bloody greatteacher!' "He kinda had a big place in mylife for a long time. Just about the most ex-traordinary person I've known."

World governing body the FIA alsopaid tribute to Watkins' work. "It's a realday of sadness for the FIA family and thewhole automobile community," said FIApresident Jean Todt in a statement.

aussie men'sbehaviour 'childish': trickett

SYDNEYAfP

The behaviour of some members of Aus-tralia's London Olympic men's swim-ming team was "childish", veteran LibbyTrickett said Thursday, amid accusa-tions of disciplinary problems andpranks.Australia endured its worst swimminghaul in decades in London, winning justone gold medal, six silver and threebronze for its lowest tally in the poolsince Barcelona in 1992.The lacklustre performance, in whichAustralia failed to pick up a single indi-vidual swimming gold medal for thefirst time since the 1976 MontrealGames, is being considered as part of anindependent review of the sport.Reports Wednesday claimed some mem-bers of the six-man freestyle relay teamhad an initiation ritual in the days lead-ing up to the Games that involved takingStilnox -- a sleeping medication bannedby the Australian team.There are also claims of swimmers up-setting teammates and coaches by prankcalling and knocking on their doors lateat night at their camp in Manchester,two days before the team went to Lon-don."I did hear about the knocking on doorsand prank phone calls," Trickett, athree-time Olympian, including in Lon-don, told reporters."I kind of look at this and think this isvery childish."I'm all for having a good time andbeing light-hearted but I just thinkthere's a time and place."

Police probemissing olympian's bikes

BOISEAfP

Law enforcement officials in Germanyand the United States are investigatingthe theft of a road bike and time trialbike owned by Olympic gold medallistKristin Armstrong.The two bikes went missing while theywere being shipped from Germany toBoise, Idaho, US media reported onWednesday.Armstrong's time trial bike was thesame one she used to win the goldmedal at the London Olympics and isvalued at $30,000. The bikes were ondisplay in Germany before being packedin boxes to be sent to the US. The bikeswere shipped from Germany on Fridayand made stops in Frankfurt and At-lanta, but the boxes that arrived at Arm-strong's house on Tuesday were empty.

BEIJINGAfP

China's status as a sporting super-power was achieved on the back ofpunishing state-led training in schools,but a softer approach has enabledtoday's students to seek a life beyondthe gym, they say.

China's Soviet-style sportssystem has been criticised inthe past for its methods ingrooming children for sportingsuccess from an early age atthe expense of basic educationand the conventional comfortsof childhood -- simply becausethey have been identified ashaving future potential.

But sporting authorities inChina have embarked on a pe-riod of soul-searching in recentyears, which has led to a morerelaxed training environmentfor the country's next genera-tion of sports stars.

eight-year-old Yu Zhengyang isone of thousands of youngsters inChina who is motivated by his ownsporting dreams rather than the de-

mands of the state.He said the decision to leave his

family home in northern China to de-vote five hours a day to table tennistraining at a school hundreds of milesaway was an easy one.

"I want to go to the Olympics. I canplay table tennis well so this is mydream. I can win the gold medal," Yu,

now ten years old and two years intohis training at Shichahai Sports Schoolin Beijing, told AFP.

"I believe in myself that I can playwell. I came here to practise more,"

adds the recently crowned champion ofa major under-12s tournament inChina, with one eye on the 2020Olympics.

Yu's first year at Shichahai wasspent in a school dormitory. But he leftthe school grounds when his motherand father arrived in Beijing fromShaanxi last year.

"I like it more now, livingwith my parents," he said.

"And at the weekendswhen I have finished myhomework, I have time torelax and watch television."

-- True cost of success --China began to reassess

its high-pressure trainingsystem after its rise to sport-ing superpower status wasenshrined by the 51 golds itwon at the Beijing Olympicsin 2008.

Questions were askedover the true cost of this suc-

cess, accompanied by widely circulatedphotos of small children crying in an-guish during intense training sessionsconducted with little time for rest orsocialising.

China eases pressure on future sports stars

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PAKISTAN Muslim League-Nawaz’s Leader of the Opposi-tion Nisar Ali Khan hasopened a new Pandora’s Boxby nominating seven leaders

from various segments of society for ap-pointment as caretaker prime minister,with almost no chances of reaching con-sensus over two nominees, which are to besent to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.

Nisar told reporters at ParliamentHouse that he had shared seven nameswith leaders of other opposition parties forthe appointment of a consensus caretakerprime minister, and the proposed list in-cluded two retired judges, one lawyerleader and four people who were related topolitics. However, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has not been taken intoconfidence, as the PML-N considers the re-ligious faction as a treasury party, he said.Background interactions with most of thePML-N and other opposition parties’ lead-ers have revealed that the PML-N has pro-

posed the names of Justice (r) Nasir AslamZahid, Justice (r) Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui,lawyer leader and human rights activistAsma Jahangir, Pakhtunkhwa Milli AwamiParty (PkMAP) chief Mahmood KhanAchakzai, Awami Tehreek leader RasoolBukhsh Palejo, Sardar Attaullah KhanMengal and the former chief of the Ja-maat-e-Islami (JI) Qazi Hussain Ahmed.

Moreover, Nisar said PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has proposed thenames of Federal Tax Ombudsman DrShoaib Suddle and leading entrepreneurand former commerce minister AbdurRazzaq Dawood. The chances of reachinga consensus look bleak, as approximatelyall nominees of PML-N are either nation-alists, vocal human rights activists knownto be anti-establishment or are formerpublic servants having an inclination to-wards the PML-N. The nomination of Sar-dar Attaullah Mengal looks like a symbolicmove as Mengal has time and againclaimed he had no faith in the federation.

Nisar said he had contacted SardarAkhtar Mengal in Dubai and sought his ap-proval for nomination of his father for

caretaker PM’s slot. However, Nisar addedthat Mengal said he should not do so asSardar Attaullah would not agree.

“But I insisted and told Akhtar Mengalthat we are doing so and he should try toconvince his father,” Nisar added, reflectingthat the nomination was merely symbolic towin hearts and minds of the nationalistforces in Balochistan. Moreover, the nomi-nation of Rasool Bakhsh Palejo would notplease President Asif Ali Zardari, as the for-mer is leading a rant against the PPP’s Sindhgovernment. Same is the case of MahmoodKhan Achakzai, who has been a vocal criticof the establishment and always speaksagainst dictators. Though Achakzai has re-cently visited the federal capital and met al-most all political leaders, he has failed to getmassive support. Qazi Hussain Ahmed isanother controversial name as left-wingparties like PPP, Awami National Party(ANP), and even Fazlur Rehman of theJUI-F would oppose his nomination for thetop slot. When contacted, a PPP leader saidhe could not comment over the nomina-tions that were yet to be made public.

PTI’s Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed

also said he would not comment prema-turely. However, the PTI’s nominees lookless controversial and acceptable for politi-cians and the judiciary. Abdur Razzaq Da-wood is a former minister with a goodreputation and also enjoys support of thebusiness community, Muttahida QaumiMovement (MQM) and even the PTI.Moreover, Dr Shoaib Suddle is known forhis integrity and competence, though somenationalists from Sindh might point fin-gers at him for his alleged role in the mur-der of Mir Murtaza Bhutto.

Despite his close links with the Presi-dency, Suddle is also acceptable to the ju-diciary, as an apex court bench recentlynominated him as a one-man commissionto probe the Dr Arsalan-Malik Riaz graftcase. However, PTI Information SecretaryShafqat Mahmood vehemently rejectedNisar’s claim that the party was consultedover the names for caretaker prime minis-ter, denying that it had suggested anyname for the post. Mahmood expresseddisappointment that someone as responsi-ble as the leader of the opposition in theNational Assembly was giving “fabricated

statements about the PTI”. The PTI official said that the party had

neither been contacted over proposals forcaretaker prime minister, nor had it sug-gested any names for the caretaker setup.“If and when the party is consulted, and itshould be, the party would discuss the mat-ter thoroughly and then suggest somenames. Until then the N-League should stopplaying politics and leveling false accusa-tions against the PTI,” Shafqat added. Com-menting on Mahmood’s denial, Nisar said,“We sent the names to PTI and it is on therecord.” He said the PTI had been informedabout the nominees and added that the PTIhad also sent two names to be included inthe list of the nominees. According to Nisar,PTI has now reneged from its stand and issaying that it has not suggested any names.

Nisar said that PTI first submitted thenames but then said that it was not donewith consultation within its party yet. “IfPTI did not consult its party members thenit is their fault, not ours. We will add thetwo names proposed by PTI if it accepts thefact that it had received these names fromthe PML-N,” he said.

WASHINGTONSPEcIAl corrESPoNDENT

The United States on Thursday “ab-solutely” rejected the contents andmessage of an anti-Islam film circu-lating on the Internet, with its chiefdiplomat Hillary Clinton also reaf-firming America’s commitment toreligious tolerance and respect forpeople of faith.

The US Secretary of State termedthe video as “disgusting and repre-hensible” and said it “appears to havea deeply cynical purpose to denigratea great religion and to provoke rage.”Clinton also strongly condemned theretaliatory violence against US diplo-mats as she spoke after protests brokeout in several Middle eastern coun-tries against the film made in theUnited States. The deadly reaction tothe video in Libya led to the killing USambassador to that country and threeother American personnel while pro-testors Thursday stormed Americanembassy in Yemen. “Let me state veryclearly — and I hope it is obvious —that the United States government

had absolutely nothing to do with thisvideo. We absolutely reject its contentand message,” she said.

“And we have the greatest respectfor people of faith,” she added. Con-tinuing, Clinton noted, “to us, to mepersonally, this video is disgustingand reprehensible. It appears to havea deeply cynical purpose to denigratea great religion and to provoke rage.But, Clinton stressed, there is no jus-tification, none at all, for respondingto this video with violence. “We con-demn the violence that has resulted,in the strongest terms. And we greatlyappreciate that many Muslims in theUnited States and around the worldhave spoken out on this issue.”

She said America’s commitmentto religious tolerance goes back tothe very beginning of the nation.“We are home to people of all reli-gions, many of whom came to thiscountry seeking the right to exercisetheir own religion, including, ofcourse, millions of Muslims.” The USSecretary of State also voiced thehope that steps will be take to avoidescalation of protests into violence.

“We are closely watching what ishappening in Yemen and elsewhere,and we certainly hope and expect thatthere will be steps taken to avoid vio-lence and prevent the escalation ofprotests into violence.” Clinton said :“violence, we believe, has no place in re-ligion and is no way to honor religion.”“Islam, like other religions, respects thefundamental dignity of human beings,and it is a violation of that fundamentaldignity to wage attacks on innocents. Aslong as there are those who are willingto shed blood and take innocent life inthe name of religion, the name of God,the world will never know a true andlasting peace.

“It is especially wrong for violenceto be directed against diplomatic mis-sions. These are places whose verypurpose is peaceful, to promote betterunderstanding across countries andcultures.” The top US diplomat re-minded that “all governments have aresponsibility to protect those spacesand people because to attack an em-bassy is to attack the idea that we canwork together to build understandingand a better future.” In her remarks,

Clinton also addressed the questionwhy the US cannot or does not pre-vent the inflammatory videos frombecoming public. “Now, I know it ishard for some people to understandwhy the United States cannot or doesnot just prevent these kinds of repre-hensible videos from ever seeing thelight of day.

“Now, I would note that intoday’s world with today’s technolo-gies, that is impossible. But even if itwere possible, our country does havea long tradition of free expression,which is enshrined in our Constitu-tion and our law. And we do not stopindividual citizens from expressingtheir views, no matter how distaste-ful they may be. There are, of course,different views around the worldabout the outer limits of free speechand free expression. “But thereshould be no debate about the sim-ple proposition that violence in re-sponse to speech is not acceptable.We all, whether we are leaders ingovernment, leaders in civil societyor religious leaders, must draw theline at violence.”

US senator preventedfrom moving vote onPakistan aid cutoff bill

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The majority Democratic leadership in the United StatesSenate prevented a key Republican senator from moving avote on his amendment that if passed would have cut off allUS aid to Pakistan till release of the imprisoned physicianwho helped the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) traceOsama bin Laden. “Not one more penny of Americantaxpayer dollars should go to Pakistan until the doctor whohelped us get bin Laden is freed,” Senator Rand Paul said onSenate floor as he moved the amendment in this regard. In astatement, Senator Rand Paul said that the Senate MajorityLeader, Harry Reid, blocked his attempt to allow a vote on hisPakistan amendment, as well as a new amendment cuttingfunding to egypt and Libya pending the discovery and releaseto FBI authorities the perpetrators of attacks on US consulateand US embassy. The two amendments were introduced onWednesday evening. “Today we are reminded that ourenemies are relentless but we are also reminded that our so-called allies are often not acting like allies at all. We aresaddened by the assassination of Ambassador Stevens andhis fellow workers. And we are appalled by lack ofprotection of our embassies by supposed allies. We sendbillions of taxpayer dollars abroad and what do we get inreturn? Disrespect, disdain, and ultimately violence,” Paulsaid moving his amendments. early this week, Paul hadwritten a letter to Harry Reid seeking a vote on his Pakistanamendment.

SC seeks report on ISI’s political cell

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The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the ministries ofdefense and interior to submit their replies over existence ofany political cell in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) whilehearing a petition filed by Tehreek-i-Istiqlal Chief Air Martial(r) Asghar Khan, pertaining to the distribution of moneyamong politicians by the ISI. A three-judge bench, headed byChief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprisingJustice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain,has been hearing the 1996 petition filed by Khan who accusedthe ISI of financing politicians in the 1990 elections bydishing out Rs140 million to create the Islami JamhooriIttehad (IJI) and prevent Benazir Bhutto’s PPP from winningthe polls. The petition was based on an affidavit of former ISIchief Lt Gen (r) Asad Durrani. During the hearing, AttorneyGeneral Irfan Qadir informed the bench that the notificationenabling the formation of the ISI’s political cell was notavailable. The chief justice remarked that it appeared thatthere were mere speculations about the existence of the cell.Khan’s counsel Salman Akram Raja failed to appear for thehearing, Raja’s Advocate-on-Record informed the court.Responding to which, Chief Justice Iftikhar remarked thatthe case was significant and its hearings were crucial.However, due to the counsel’s absence on account of illhealth, the hearing was being adjourned. The hearing wassubsequently adjourned to October 3.

PML-N to forward 7 names for appointment as caretaker PMg Two retired judges, four politicians, lawyer among pML-N nominees g Consensus unlikely as most nominees arecontroversial g pTI denies making two nominations, Nisar says Imran Khan’s party reneging from stance

US ‘absolutely’ rejects contentsof ‘disgusting’ anti-Islam film

KArAchI: A man mourns as he waits in the Edhi

morgue on Thursday to identify his relative who was

killed in a garment factory fire the other day. afp

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