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CHIEf of Army Staff GeneralAshfaq Kayani on Thursdaysaid there was no need of amilitary operation in Karachi,

as Pakistan Rangers were maintaininglaw and order in the city effectively.Kayani was apparently responding todemands from politicians to launch an

army operation in Karachi. He clarified that a civil governmentplaced the demand under theconstitution and the army could not takecontrol of the city by itself.The COAS said military contingents wereready to maintain stability duringMuharram, adding that they wouldcooperate in every possible manner withthe civil administration in this regard.He mentioned that military had been

deployed in almost all sensitive areas ofthe country. On Wednesday, IG Sindhfayyaz Leghari said an army operationshould not be conducted in Karachi andthe capacity of the paramilitary forcesalready present deployed in the cityshould be increased. He said the armywould not be called in during Muharramand they had only been asked to remainon standby. Earlier, lawmakers from theAwami National Party (ANP) demanded

an immediate military operation in thetroubled city, saying the Sindhgovernment had failed, whileKarachi’s ruling party, theMuttahida QaumiMovement (MQM),staged walkouts fromboth Houses ofparliament toregister their protestagainst thegovernment’sinaction.

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The Developing Eight (D-8) Summitconcluded on Thursday with thesigning of the landmark charter byforeign ministers of the eight partic-ipating member-states.

The leaders of the Muslim coun-tries witnessed the inking of the D-8Charter at the end of the daylongsummit aimed at forging strongereconomic alliance amongst the mem-ber states. The foreign ministers ofthe participating countries –Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia,Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan andTurkey – signed the document thatpromises a dynamic roadmap toboost their trade to an ambitious

$500 billion by 2018.The signing ceremony at the Presi-

dent’s House was witnessed by Niger-ian President Goodluck Jonathan,Iranian President Mahmood Ah-madinejad, Indonesian PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono, TurkishPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,Egyptian Deputy President MahmoudMakki, Malaysian Deputy Prime Min-ister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin andBangladeshi Adviser to Prime Ministerfor International Affairs ProfessorGowher Rizvi. The D-8 group was es-tablished in 1997 on an initiative ofTurkey to promote development co-operation among group members.

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Interior Minister Rehman Malik hassaid that a final decision on suspen-sion of cellular services and a ban onuse of motorbikes on the occasion of

Ashura would be taken after examin-ing intelligence reports. Talking to re-porters on Thursday after visitingthose injured in the Rawalpindi imambargah blast, Malik said the next threedays were critical and law enforce-ment and intelligence agencies had

been directed to prevent ter-rorist activities during Ashura.He hinted at the possibility ofincreased violence, saying in-telligence reports had pointedout towards further dreadfulincidents across the countryduring Muharram. Malik saidAfghan nationals and bannedoutfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi wereinvolved in the current wave ofterrorism in the country.

D-8 leaders vow strongereconomic allianceg Dynamic roadmap to boost bilateral trade to $500b by

2018 g Zardari says terrorists would not be allowed to

hijack Islam g Ahmadinejad calls for new world order

Cell phones may go silenton 9th, 10th Muharramg Interior minister says ‘third force’ trying to destabilise

country g Warns of more attacks within next few days

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MQM becomes party in voters’ lists case

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The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday allowed Muttahida Qaumi Move-ment (MQM) to become party in the voters’ lists case.Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary said that the court has or-dered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to confirm the voters’lists by going to the houses of the voters.ECP Director General informed the court that there were many errors inthe unofficial voters’ lists, which first need to be removed.

OGRA chairman warns CNG owners against strike

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Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Chairman Saeed Akhtar onThursday said that owners of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling sta-tions should close down their businesses if they considers it non-prof-itable; but they would not be allowed to go on strike.Talking to journalists outside Lahore High Court, he said that the deci-sion of increasing gas price would be made keeping in view the best inter-est of the consumers.The chairman of ORGA said that the concerned authorities would takestrict action against all CNG filling station owners who will observe striketo press their unlawful demands.

OGRA slashes diesel, raises petrol prices

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The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Thursday issued a noti-fication authorising a decrease in the price of diesel and a raise in theprice of petrol.According to the notification, the price of petrol has been increased whilethe prices of diesel, light diesel and kerosene oil have been decreasedwith immediate effect. The price of petrol was increased by Rs 1.57 perlitre, while the price of kerosene oil was slashed by Rs 4.32, Diesel by Rs3.52 and light diesel by Rs 3.79 per litre.

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The trial of Ajmal Kasab was completely transparent and fair, theUnited States said on Thursday. “We have reiterated that we welcomesteps towards justice. We have said many times that we want to see theterrorists behind these attacks brought to justice,” State Departmentspokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington.The 25-year old Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 2008Mumbai attacks, was hanged to death at 7.30 am in the Yerawada Cen-tral Prison in Pune on Wednesday.

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Peshawar Commissioner Dr Tariq Jamil,also the chairman of the frontier CrimesRegulations (fCR) Tribunal, on Thurs-day ordered a complete medical checkup of Dr Shakil Afridi, imprisoned for 33years on charges of helping the US nabal Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.

Jamil issued the orders while hear-ing pleas by Shakil’s brother JamilAfridi for a review of the sentence.Latif Afridi, Samiullah Afridi and oth-ers represented Shakil in the prelimi-nary hearing of the appeal against theKhyber Agency Political Administra-tion’s decision that gave the sentenceand a fine of Rs 330,000. The state was

represented by Iqbal Advocate, how-ever Shakil, who was represented by apenal of lawyers headed by Latif Afridi,was not produced in court.

After hearing the arguments infavour and against the appeal, the tribu-nal adjourned proceedings until Decem-ber 13. The chairman directed theHealth Department to carry out a de-tailed medical check up and provision ofmaximum health facilities to Dr Shakil.

Through an application, JamilAfridi alleged that Shakil had recentlybeen tortured by police personnel afterhis interview to a foreign media group.The torture led to chest infection, there-fore, he requested the court to direct thequarters concerned to ensure Shakilwas provided complete medical care.

Earlier, Latif Afridi pleaded thefCR tribunal chairman to declare nulland void the sentence awarded to DrShakil Afridi. He said under the fCR,an assistant political agent had nopowers to sentence any accused formore than three years, while in case ofDr Shakil, the APA made a decisionmuch beyond his powers.

He pleaded the court to set aside theverdict. Similarly, Latif Afridi pointedout that Dr Shakil was tried under CrPC121-a/fCR- 11. However, under the sec-tion, a person could only be tried if thepresident or governor lodged a formalcomplaint in written with the politicaladministration of any tribal agency thatthe accused was indulging in acts con-trary to interests of the state, he said.

Afridi said the AP mentioned noth-ing about such a complaint in his ver-dict, adding that that made the sentenceawarded to Dr Shakil unlawful.

On the other hand, Iqbal advocatedefended the sentence awarded to Dr

Shakil Afridi, saying he belonged tothe tribal areas and under fCR, theadministration had the power to takeaction against all those who were in-volved in criminal acts or acts con-trary to state’s interests.

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NATIONAL Accounta-bility Bureau (NAB)Chairman on Thurs-day took notice ofwhat he called ‘crimi-

nal negligence and incompetence’ onthe part of Civil Aviation Authority(CAA) and the Capital DevelopmentAuthority (CDA) which caused loss ofmore than one billion to the nationalexchequer and directed NAB Opera-

tions Division to conduct an inquiryinto the matter

Regarding the CAA, he said that theairport’s airstrip does not meet the in-ternational standards because the inter-strip distance is only 300 meters insteadof 800 meters; despite the vast amountof land lying vacant. “The CAA has beenlosing approximately Rs 10-14 billionper year since 1992,” he said. However,the chairman appreciated the new au-diting system adopted by the CAA.

“There used to be no transparentsystem of accounting and verification

of charges but the present set up ofCAA has done a good job and as a re-sult its revenue will increase from 13to 27 billion per annum,” he added.On the other hand, he revealed CDA’sfaulty planning regarding the al-lowance granted to high-rise build-ings in Islamabad.

“CDA’s negligence has caused aloss of approximately Rs 5 billion toone of the builders from Islamabadbecause of its lack of coordinationwith the CAA in calculating the per-missible safety height,” he said.

NAB takes punitive action against CAA, CDA g Exchequer suffered loss of over Rs 1 billion due to CAA’s incompetence

FCR tribunal chairman orders complete check up of Dr Shakil Afridi g Order comes during hearing of appeal against Afridi’s 33-year sentence

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The founder and leader of MuttahidaQuami Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain onThursday condemned the deadly suicideblast in the procession of mourners on Mis-riyal Road in Rawalpindi.Expressing his grief and sorrow over thekillings, Hussain said if killing of themourners and other innocent people con-tinued like this, ‘the fire of terrorism wouldengulf the entire country’.“The situation may reach a point where theterrorists would become unstoppable. Thiswave of terrorism will burn everything toashes,” he said. He urged that the authorities should pur-sue the terrorists and eliminate them fromthe country as the integrity and security ofthe country hinged upon it. He further said that the organizers of theprocession should take steps to protect themourners on a self-help basis and keep awatchful eye for miscreants.He asked all the religious and political par-ties of the country to come forward andplay an active role against terrorism. Sym-pathizing with the grieving families of themourners who lost their lives in the suicideblast, he prayed for their speedy recovery.

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ChairmanImran Khan has asked allied partiesto quit government after failing tocontrol law and order in the country.

Addressing a press conferenceon Thursday, Khan said the situa-tion in Sindh was very dangerousand eth government seemed help-less before the criminals andmafias.

“Peace cannot be restored with-out depoliticising the police depart-ment,” he said.

He said the PTI would not be apart of any alliance before or after

the elections, adding that the partywould sit in the opposition if itfailed to win majority to form gov-ernment.

Urging people not to vote forpolitical parties having militantwings, Khan said the people shouldnot waste their votes. He an-nounced that the PTI would soonhold a massive public gathering inSukkar. Khan said sectarian vio-lence in Pakistan was being fueledby international elements.

Criticising the economic poli-cies of the government, the PTIchief said the government had donenothing for the welfare of the peo-ple in their five-year tenure.

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India has rejected the resolutionpassed by the Organization of IslamicCooperation (OIC) on Jammu andKashmir and termed it as ‘factually in-correct and misleading’. “We note withregret that the Organization of the Is-lamic Cooperation (OIC) has once againmade factually incorrect and misleadingreferences to matters internal to India,including the Indian state of Jammuand Kashmir, which is an integral partof India. We reject all such referencesand resolutions,” official spokespersonof the Indian Ministry of External Af-fairs said. The OIC, in its 39th session ofthe Council of foreign Ministers, noted‘with regret the Indian attempt to malignthe legitimate Kashmiri freedom struggleby denigrating it as terrorism’ and appre-ciated that the Kashmiri’s condemn ter-rorism in all its forms andmanifestations’. It also took note of thereport which confirmed that there are2156 unidentified bodies in mass gravesin Kashmir and expressed concern thatthere is every possibility that the uniden-tified bodies buried in various places mayinclude the bodies of those who were be-lieved to have disappeared. OIC Secre-tary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglureaffirmed the organisation’s support forthe people of Jammu and Kashmir intheir struggle to achieve their legitimaterights and stressed on considering newmeans for supporting them.

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Unidentified men bombed the house ofa deputy superintendent police (DSP) inBannu on Thursday. However, no loss oflife was reported. The men had plantedexplosive material outside the house ofSaddar DSP Gul Naseeb in Kalakhelarea of Bannu district. A portion of thehouse was damaged in the blast but allthe residents remained safe. A surge inmilitant attacks on security forces hasbeen witnessed and four policemen, in-cluding an SHO were killed in firing onpolice mobile on Wednesday.

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DESPITE all its efforts, the govern-ment on Thursday could not gatherthe required 68 votes in the Senateto pass the 22nd and 23rd amend-ments, lifting the bar on members of

parliament against holding dual nationality. When Senate Chairman Nayyer Bukhari asked

Law Minister farooq Naik to move the bill to amendthe 22nd amendment, the law minister requestedhim to defer it. Sources in the government told NNIthat they had a dozen members less than the requiredtwo-thirds majority. In spite the efforts of the lawminister and the leader of the House, the requiredquorum could not be arranged. Therefore, the chair-man had to prorogue the session.

The copy of the 22nd amendment bill availablewith the NNI said, “Pakistan is one such countrywhich permits the holding of a dual citizenship/na-tionality in terms of the Pakistan Citizens Act 1951 (ActII of 1951). Many countries of the world permit theholding of dual nationalities/citizenships. A direct re-sult of this is that in those countries people holdingdual nationalities/citizenships can exercise the rightto vote and can also run for parliamentary elections.Our country’s economy has always been considerablysupported by the overseas Pakistanis; whole allegianceto Pakistan should not be in doubt. It has been a long-standing demand of the overseas Pakistanis that there

should be no impediment in their way to run for elec-tions for the parliament.

They are deeply concerned with events in Pak-istan and are keen to play an effective role and wantto contribute to national cause. Therefore, throughan amendment in Article 63 (1) (c), the constitutionalbar on dual-nationality holders to become membersof parliament is being lifted.”

In the draft of the bill it was also demanded thatthe bill become effectual from the first day of Novem-ber 2007 “notwithstanding any other provision of theconstitution or any proceedings, order or judgementof any court or authority, including, but not limitedto the Election Commission, shall apply to all trans-actions past and closed, except by-elections, heldafter the twentieth day of September and before thethirty first day, 2012”. Earlier, during the QuestionHour, the law minister, in a written reply, informedthe Senate that cases of 643 people had been fi-nalised at the inquiry stage and Rs 1189.201 millionshad been recovered from the federal and provincialgovernment officials from 2008 to 2011.

State Minister for Communication Dost Muham-mad Mazari said the National Highway Authority(NHA) network had frequently been used by over-loaded vehicles of NATO, ISAf and American transitfreight over the past couple of years and roads worthbillion of dollars were being damaged.

Minister for Communication Dr Arbab Alamghirinformed the House that 26 percent of 4,040 roadswere being affected.

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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimedthe responsibility for Wednesday’s blasts inKarachi and Rawalpindi in which more than 20people were killed.

Talking to a private TV channel on Thursday,TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the TTPwas responsible for the blasts carried out a day ear-lier near imambargahs in Rawalpindi and Karachi.

Giving details of the attacks, Ehsan said theorganisation had carried out a suicide blast inRawalpindi while the twin explosions in Karachiwere planted bombs, adding that it would stagemore attacks on Shias in the next few days.

The statement came after the TTP had claimedresponsibility for two earlier blasts on the same dayin Bannu and Shangla areas, bringing the tally ofcities targeted on Wednesday to four.

Meanwhile, the TTP also vowed to attack In-dian targets to avenge the country’s execution of

Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the militantsquad responsible for a rampage through Mumbaithat killed 166 people on 26 November, 2008. “Wehave decided to target Indians to avenge the killingof Ajmal Kasab,” the Taliban spokesman said.

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The interior minister said apartfrom law enforcing personnel,intelligence agencies would alsobe held accountable in case of se-curity lapses. Appreciating thework done by the Punjab Police,the federal minister said suffi-cient progress had been made inthe probe into the Rawalpindiblast. Malik said a “third force”was trying to destabilise thecountry, adding there was a seri-ous danger of terrorism over thenext few days. He said there werereports that three groups of ter-rorists wanted to create panic inthe country by attacking variousplaces. “It is regrettable thatthese miscreants are killing inno-cent people for a little benefit.”Referring to attacks on Muhar-ram processions‚ he said ene-mies of Pakistan wanted tocreate differences among varioussects of Muslims for their ownnefarious designs. To a question,he said he would take up theissue of involvement of Afghansin terrorist incidents with theAfghan government. Malik saida strategy had been made to shutmobile phone services to foil de-signs of terrorists during 9th and10th of Muharram. He said thisrestriction would be imposed inconsultation with provincial gov-ernments. Paying tribute to po-lice personnel, the interiorminister said terrorists could notbarge into mourning processiondue to impenetrable defence ofsecurity forces. He announcedQuaid-e-Azam medal for policeemployees who sustained in-juries during the explosion.

The Islamabad Summit coin-cided with the 15th anniversaryof the founding of the D-8 bloc.

Since its inception, tradevolume of the member coun-tries has increased from $433billion in 1997 to $1.73 tril-lion in 2011.

Intra-D-8 trade, however,stood at a modest $130 bil-lion in 2011, just 7.5 percentof the total trade of the D-8bloc – implying that barriersstill hinder trade amongstmember countries.

Earlier, President Asif AliZardari took-over as the newchairman of the D-8 as NigerianPresident Goodluck Jonathaninvited President Asif AliZardari to assume the chair.

President Zardari took theseat vacated by the Nigerianpresident, who proceeded to hisdesignated country desk afterdelivering opening remarks.

Later, the president in hisspeech, expressed resolve ofhis government to fight mili-tancy, stating that terroristgroups sought to impose theiragenda but Pakistan would notlet Islam be hijacked.

“Pakistan will continue tofight against the dark and de-structive agenda of terrorists …one of the most serious threatsfacing Pakistan is internationalterrorism, both from withinPakistan, and from abroad, seekto impose their agenda … Wecannot and will not allow Islamto be hijacked and will fight forour values and will fight for thespirit of our great religion thatour Holy Prophet (Peace beupon him) gave to us.”

Zardari said the govern-ment was fighting the terrorists’dark and destructive visionevery day. “Our soldiers, police-men and political workers serveon the front lines of this fight.”

He said al Qaeda affiliatesin Pakistan, like the TTP, posedserious threats to aspirationsfor the future and to the veryidentity. The president said theD-8 group was a group of eightdemocratic nations that hadthe ability to work on theiragenda, adding that the D-8could help cement relations be-tween the eight countries.

Zardari also condemnedthe Israeli attacks on Gaza andsaid Palestinians had beenawaiting promised self deter-mination for decades and theD-8 nations must look intothis matter.

Commenting on the pres-ent Palestine situation, the pres-ident said the people ofPalestine continued to sufferfrom Israeli aggression.

“We condemn the recentattacks in Gaza which have ledto the loss of innocent lives. Thepeople of Kashmir continue tosuffer unjust occupation.”

He said for decades theyhad been awaiting the promisedself-determination adding, “Wemust address these issues ratherthan blaming others, we need totake charge of our destinies.”

Recognising EgyptianPresident Morsi’s efforts to ne-gotiate peace between Hamasand Israel, President Zardaricongratulated the Egyptianpremier, adding that Pakistanwas proud of his leadership.

Zardari appreciated In-donesia’s support for Pakistanand said the nation had a glow-ing record of standing by Pak-istan in its hour of need.

Speaking about the D-8nations collectively, Zardarisaid the D-8 was a group ofvery important nations andtheir relations were beyondordinary partnership.

Endorsing the core valuesof D-8, namely peace, dialogue,cooperation, justice anddemocracy, Zardari said the D-8 nations had the potential toadvance the long term objec-tives of their agenda, addingthat Islamabad would buildupon the roadmap.

Reiterating the importanceof democracy, President Zardarireminded that democracy wasat the very heart of Pakistan’sidentity as it was foundedthrough democratic means.

Calling for D-8 countriesto work as a catalyst for peaceand prosperity in the world,Zardari said Pakistan and itspeople wanted peace, addingthat the Pakistani governmentwas making unprecedentedmoves to make peace withIndia and also supported thepeace process in Afghanistan.

In his address, IranianPresident Mahmoud Ah-madinejad called for a NewWorld Order. He said the worldneeded a new order on thebasis of justice and humanity.“The creators of the currentorder cannot play a role in thischange,” he said.

The Iranian president saidthe era of capitalism had cometo an end and the former colo-nial powers should not be al-lowed to reassert themselves in

the management of the world.Ahmadinejad also called

attention to the Israel-Pales-tine conflict, stating that Israelhad been occupying Palestineunder a false pretext.

Turkish Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdogan said jointprojects between the memberstates of D-8 countries were theonly way to make a dynamicmove towards prosperity.

The Turkish prime ministersaid it was time for D-8 coun-tries to pursue the global visionof prosperity and long term sus-tainable development.

Erdogan said economicdevelopment ensured secu-rity, peace and prosperity andurged the D-8 countries tomake efforts towards achiev-ing this goal.

He said the trade volumeof Turkey and the D-8 coun-tries was growing and termedit significant for all membercountries. He called upon theD-8 members to resolve theirconflicts that could hampertheir progress.

President of IndonesiaSusilo Bambang Yudhoyonosaid D-8 countries had the po-tential to play a bigger role inproviding new impetus for eco-nomic growth and keeping theworld stable and peaceful.

Addressing the Summit,he said D-8 countries mustsustain their growth momen-tum as they had the potentialto make progress in diversesectors of the economy.

He noted that intra D-8 in-vestment increased by four per-cent in 2011 and stressed thatcountries in the groupingneeded to make progress on im-plementing the trade agree-ments made earlier.

More trade would providemore jobs and increase pur-chasing power of the people,thus raising their standard ofliving, he added.

Later, President Asif AliZardari hosted a luncheon inhonour of the heads of govern-ments and states attendingthe D-8 summit.

The luncheon at the Aiwan-e-Sadr was also attended bytheir respective foreign minis-ters and members of the delega-tions. Prime Minister RajaPervez Ashraf was also present.

D-8 Secretary General WidiAgoes Pratikto said the Islam-abad declaration would play avital role in strengthening tradeand economic ties among themember countries.

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Hamas leaders in Gaza declared vic-tory over Israel on Thursday, andthousands of flag-waving supportersrallied in celebration as the batteredterritory entered its first day of calmunder an Egyptian-brokered trucethat ended the worst cross-borderfighting in four years.

Eight days of punishing Israeliairstrikes on Gaza and a barrage ofHamas rocket fire on Israeli ended in-conclusively. While Israel said it in-flicted heavy damage on the militants,Gaza’s Hamas rulers claimed that Is-rael’s decision not to send groundtroops into the territory, as it had fouryears ago, was a sign of a new Hamasdeterrent power.

“Resistance fighters changed therules of the game with the occupation(Israel), upset its calculations,” GazaPrime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ofHamas, who had attended the rally,said later in a televised speech. “Theoption of invading Gaza after this vic-tory is gone and will never return.”

At the same time, Haniyeh urgedGaza fighters to respect the truce andto “guard this deal as long as Israelrespects it.”

The mood in Israel was mixed.Some were grateful that quiet had beenrestored without a ground operationthat could have cost the lives of sol-diers. Others — particular those insouthern Israel hit by rockets over thepast 13 years — thought the operationwas abandoned too quickly.

Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu said the offensive’s aimsof halting Gaza rocket fire and weak-ening Hamas were achieved. “I knowthere are citizens who were expectinga harsher response,” he said, addingthat Israel is prepared to act if thecease-fire is violated.

Despite the tough talk, the cease-fire raised hopes of a new era betweenIsrael and Hamas. The two sides arenow to negotiate a deal that would endyears of Gaza rocket fire on Israel andopen the borders of the blockadedPalestinian territory. Talks are sup-posed to begin sometime after a 24-hour period that began with thecease-fire late Wednesday.

However, the vague language inthe agreement and deep hostility be-tween the combatants made it far fromcertain that the bloodshed would endor that either side will get everything itwants. Israel seeks an end to weaponssmuggling into Gaza, while Hamaswants a complete lifting of the borderblockade imposed in 2007, after theHamas takeover of Gaza.

Israel launched the offensive Nov.14 to halt renewed rocket fire fromGaza, unleashing some 1,500 airstrikeson Hamas-linked targets, while Hamasand other Gaza militant groups show-ered Israel with just as many rockets.

The eight days of fighting killed161 Palestinians, including 71 civil-ians, and five Israelis. Israel also de-stroyed key symbols of Hamas power,such as the prime minister’s office,along with rocket launching sites andGaza police stations.

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05NewsJoint sitting of parliament cancelled as Morsicalls off visitISLAMABAD: Joint sittingof parliament scheduled forfriday (today) and which hadto be addressed by EgyptianPresident Muhamed Morsi,has been cancelled due to thecancellation of Morsi’s three-day visit to Pakistan. TheEgyptian president cancelledhis visit due to demise of hissister. However, according toThe Telegraph, Morsi – whowas thanked by the UnitedStates for helping to broker aceasefire between Israel andHamas – would now stayhome to monitor the truce.Pakistan had made elaboratearrangements to give a warmwelcome to Morsi as he wouldhave been the first Egyptianpresident to visit Pakistan innearly four decades. The firstdemocratically-electedpresident of Egypt was also tobe awarded with an honorarydoctorate degree by NUSTUniversity. Meanwhile,Egyptian Vice PresidentMehmood Makki arrived inIslamabad on Thursdaymorning to attend the D-8summit. He was received atNoor Khan Airbase byfederal Minister WakkasAkram. onLine

PIA MD ordersinquiry againstBirmingham airport managerLONDON: The PakistanInternational Airlines (PIA)managing director hasordered an inquiry into thealleged involvement of itsBirmingham airport managerin corruption and misuse ofauthority, PIA officials toldPakistan Today on Thursday.PIA MD Junaid Yunas askedPIA Customer ServicesDirector Mazhar Kiyani toinitiate an investigation intothe complaints againstManager Sultan Mir as well ashis deputy Rifaqt Zaman andsubmit a comprehensivereport within two weeks. PIAsources in London toldPakistan Today that PIAbosses had received a numberof complaints from overseasPakistanis against Mir andZaman. “The Pakistan HighCommission in the UK hasalso written to the PIAmanagement about thecorruption of PIABirmingham Airport staff,”the sources said. Accordingto a report by the PakistanHigh Commission in the UK,Rasheedullah, Mir’s frontman, had been involved incorruption, causing hugelosses to the national carrier.According to the report,excess luggage could becleared by paying £150-200to Rasheedullah, who wasopenly finalising deals withPIA passengers in the lounge.The officials of the PakistanHigh Commission in the UKalso recommended that theentire staff of the PIA inBirmingham airport shouldbe transferred immediately asthey were tarnishing therelations of overseasPakistan’s with thegovernment of Pakistan. Thesources also claimed Mirs’tenure as a PIA manager atthe Birmingham Airport wasto be completed by the end ofNovember but he had alreadystarted his efforts to get histenure extended by threeyears. MaJiD KHattaK

following is the text of the IslamabadDeclaration:1. “We, the Heads of State and Govern-ment of People’s Republic ofBangladesh, Arab Republic of Egypt, Re-public of Indonesia, Islamic Republic ofIran, Malaysia, federal Republic of Nige-ria, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Re-public of Turkey met inIslamabad on22nd day of November 2012, for theEighth Summit of the Developing EightCountries (D-8). We reaffirm our com-mitment to the goals and objectives ofthe D-8, including previous SummitDeclarations.

2. We further reaffirm our commitmentto peace, democracy, progress, dialogue,solidarity, tolerance, and moderation asthe core values and foundation forachieving economic prosperity and well-being of our peoples.

3. We reiterate the importance of consul-tation, coordination and joint efforts ineconomic and trade relations among ourmembers and commit ourselves to the re-alization of a just and equitable interna-tional economic system based on theprinciple of sustainable and inclusive de-velopment that take into account the pro-found impact of climate change.

4. We underscore the adoption of D-8Charter in Islamabad as a turning pointfor the Organization. On the occasion ofthe 15th Anniversary, the adoption of theGlobal Vision, collectively takes us on anew path of cooperation after we haveconcluded our mutually beneficial coop-eration from Istanbul to Islamabad. Weare confident that the principles and ob-jectives enunciated in the D-8 Charterwill improve interaction and foster closercooperation in economic relations amongMember States. We therefore pledge towork in solidarity to confront commonchallenges faced by the D-8 community,especially achieving food security, miti-gating the impact of natural disasters andcountering all forms of extremism whichundermine economic progress and nega-tively affect the livelihood of our peoples.

5. We note the continuing difficultiesfaced by the global economy, particularlyin Eurozone area, and the impact of theeconomic and financial crisis which stillovershadows the ability of the developingcountries to achieve their growth poten-tials. We underscore the need for bettercoordination and close engagement be-tween G20 and D-8.

6. We take note with concern of the con-sequences of the coercive economicmeasures on the livelihood of the people.

7. Recognizing the uncertain prospectsfor rapid and sustainable global eco-nomic recovery and growth, we resolve tofurther strengthen intra D-8 cooperationto counter the adverse fall-out of the eco-nomic crisis. Likewise, we renew ourstrong faith in multilateralism, in partic-ular under United Nations system. Ac-cordingly, we commit our nations toactive participation, effective coordina-tion and cooperation with all regionaland international multilateral institu-tions to maximize the realization of ourcommon interests, as well as those of theGlobal South.

8. We are mindful of the impact of glob-alization and its effects on our societies.To address these challenges, we pledge topursue national development through in-clusiveness, dialogue, and democraticvalues, particularly by promoting socialjustice, good governance and empower-ment of women. We also underline theimportance of collaboration in the fieldsof sharing best practices, lessons learnedand knowledge on democracy and goodgovernance in order to build a solid foun-dation for peace and development.

9. We commit ourselves to creating alevel playing field for all segments of thesociety, in particular for the youth tolearn modern skills to become active par-ticipants in the emerging knowledge-based economy and the informationsociety. We emphasize the need for sci-entific and technological cooperationand the development of joint industrialprojects and sharing of engineering andmanagement knowledge, with D-8 Cen-ters of Excellence at the fore front of thiscollaborative effort.

10. We recognize the facilitating role ofthe government as catalyst of economicand trade cooperation and underline theimportance of achieving intra D-8 invest-ment and trade targets through greatercooperation in these areas. Accordingly,we direct the Commission and the Coun-cil to explore, in consultation with na-tional investment and trade promotionagencies, D-8 Chambers of Commerceand Industry, Business forums, strategiesand plans for increasing D-8 trade and in-vestment levels at the next Summit. Inthis connection, we commend the untir-ing efforts by Nigeria during its Chair-manship in office to promote privatesector participation and cooperationamong D-8 Member Countries.

11. We underline the critical importance ofharnessing sources of energy in our coun-tries, which is the backbone for economicgrowth and development and place specialemphasis on investment in the energy sec-tor through public-private partnerships.We are firmly committed to creating aframework of cooperation in energy fieldto achieve long-term energy security in ourcountries. We reaffirm our commitment tobroaden and deepen cooperation in thiscritical area and stress the importance ofcollaborative efforts on capacity-building,transfer of technology, exploration of newenergy sources, development of alternativefuels, including renewable sources of en-ergy, as well as research, development andproduction of nuclear energy for peacefulpurposes. We welcomePakistan’s offer tohost the first Energy forum to evolve aframework of cooperation.

12. We reiterate our commitment to therealization of the objectives of the D-8Roadmap (2008-2018), in particular, thefive Priority Areas and direct the Com-mission through the Council to explorepractical ways and means for bench-marking the Priority Areas into concreteaction plans, policies and measures andprepare specific proposals for the reviewand decision at the Ninth D-8 Summit.

13. We note with satisfaction the progressin the area of Small and Medium Enter-prises (SMEs) and recognize the potentialfor its expansion within the D-8 commu-nity and request Member states to makeconcerted efforts to promote cooperationin this field, including through the pro-motion of micro-financing. In this regard,we welcome the proposal of Egypt to cre-ate a portal on the D-8 website for theSMEs. We further welcome Egypt’s pro-posal to create a portal on the D-8 websitefor the promotion of tourism.

14. We recognize the emergent role of Is-lamic Banking and finance in Muslim so-cieties, including within the D-8community, and urge Member States toassist in its development as a catalyst forexpansion in financial and trade activities.

15. We are mindful that the strength ofD-8 lies in solidarity and cooperation inthe widest possible areas, includingproactive liaison with and engagement inthe activities of other regional organiza-tions and institutions in particular OIC,ECO, ASEAN, SAARC, ECOWAS,COMESA, and the Arab League.

16. We note with great satisfaction thesuccess of the Organization in the devel-opment of the legal instruments, andtheir ratification and operationalizationwhich provides the framework for its ac-tivities through Visa Agreement, Cus-toms Agreement, the Preferential TradeAgreement (PTA) as well as MoU on CivilAviation and serves to facilitate, regulateand promote concrete cooperation

among the members.17. We welcome the ratification of the“Agreement on Simplification of VisaProcedures for the Businessmen of the D-8 Member States” by six member states,as well as the ratification of MultilateralAgreement among D-8 Member Coun-tries on Administrative Assistance inCustoms Matters by seven memberstates, and the entry into force of the twoAgreements. We believe that these Agree-ments will give further impetus to thepromotion of intra D-8 trade.

18. We welcome the ratification of thePreferential Trade Agreement (PTA) byIndonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pak-istan, andTurkey, and its entry into force,and the current efforts towards its imple-mentation. We invite these countries totake all the required measures to begin,as soon as possible, the implementationof the Agreement.

19. We encourage the remaining coun-tries which have not done so to ratify thethree Agreements as soon as possible.

20. We recognize that the private sectorin our respective countries has a decisiverole to play. We call upon the MemberStates to extend their valuable assistanceto the private sector in promoting effec-tive liaison with the Chambers of Com-merce at the national level towardsutilizing existing and emerging invest-ment opportunities within the D-8 com-munity. In this context, we stronglyrecommend the effective use of the D-8Website Business forum Page by thebusinessmen and companies.

21. We welcome the signing of the Memo-randa of Understanding with the Organi-zation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) andthe Economic Cooperation Organization(ECO) and call upon the Secretary-Generalto exert every effort, in consultation withthe Member States, towards the full imple-mentation of the provisions of both MoUs.

22. We considered the final report of the3rd Meeting of Agriculture Ministers onfood Security held early October in In-donesia and express satisfaction at theoutcome. We underscore the importancefor the D-8 Member States to strengthenand energize efforts towards achievingself-reliance and self-sufficiency at thenational level in food production.

23. We also express our serious concernat the growing challenges to food securityat national, regional and global levels. Ac-cordingly, we underscore the need for theD-8 Member States to develop strategiestowards promoting sustainable agricul-tural growth, through creating an en-abling environment that encouragesincreased public and private investmentin agriculture and agro based industry aswell as through raising productivity inagriculture. We also express our determi-nation to ensure fair and open market foragriculture products with a view to pro-moting better access to food.

24. We urge member states to exertevery effort to enhance industrial coop-eration through the development of jointventure as outlined in the D-8 Roadmap(2008-2018) as well as strengthen effortstowards achieving self reliance and suffi-ciency in food production.

25. We also considered the final report ofthe 3rd Meeting of Industry Ministersheld in Dhaka in October 2012 and ex-press satisfaction at the outcome of themeeting. We urge the Member States toexert every effort to enhance and institu-tionalize industrial cooperation within

the D-8 community, through develop-ment of joint projects for realization ofthe previously agreed objectives, partic-ularly in the D-8 Roadmap (2008-2018).

26. We commend Pakistan for choosing“Democratic Partnership for Peace &Prosperity” as the theme of the Eighth D-8 Summit as well as for organizing the D-8 Business forum, Meeting of D-8Central Banks Governors, first Meetingof Heads of Trade Promotion Organiza-tions, Trade Exhibition and InteractiveSeminar on “Exploring Trade Opportu-nities Among the D-8 Countries” on themargins of the Summit.

27. We welcome and express apprecia-tion for the ratification of the D-8 Head-quarters Agreement by the Parliament ofthe Republicof Turkey. We extend ourappreciation to the Government ofTurkey for providing new premises forthe D-8 Secretariat Headquarters.

28. We commend the Commission for fi-nalizing the draft Charter and assistanceprovided by the Secretariat. We remainconfident that member states will ratifythe Charter in the near future, providinginstitutional strength to the Organizationand its activities.

29. We express our deep appreciationand gratitude to the Commission for thepreparation of D-8 Global Vision and tothe Council for its approval which willhelp in guiding the work and activitiesof the Organization in the coming yearsfor the member states to confrontemerging challenges.

30. We acknowledge the commendablework done by the D-8 Secretariat, andrecognize and express our gratitude forthe meritorious service of Dr. Widi AgoesPratikto as the outgoing Secretary-Gen-eral of D-8. We welcome the appoint-ment of Dr. Seyed Ali MohammadMousavi as the new D-8 Secretary-Gen-eral and wish him success in his efforts.

31. We welcome the appointment of a Per-manent Representative of Nigeria to the D-8 Organization in Istanbul, and encourageother member states to follow suit.

32. We endorse the Report of the 15thSession of D-8 Council of Ministers, in-cluding the Calendar of Events for theYear 2013, as recommended by the Com-mission, as well as the Reports of the 2ndMeeting of the Central Bank Governors,first Meeting of Heads of Trade Promo-tion Organizations and D-8 Businessforum.

33. We express profound appreciation tothe President and Commander-in-Chiefof the Armed forces of the federal Re-public of Nigeria, His Excellency Dr.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for his exem-plary leadership and untiring efforts inpromoting the D-8 objectives during hischairmanship of the Organization.

34. We express profound appreciation toHis Excellency Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, Pres-ident of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,the Government, and the People of Pak-istan for hosting the Eighth D-8 Summitand for their warm and generous hospi-tality. We wish His Excellency, the Pres-ident, every success during Pakistan’schairmanship of the Organization anddeclare our unflinching support to HisExcellency in this regard.

35. We warmly welcome the graciousoffer of the Government of the Republicof Turkey to host the Ninth D-8 Summitin 2014.”

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KARACHI CID SSPChaudhry Aslam has ad-mitted that security risksin the city have in-

creased but vowed that securityforces would clutch the terroristsfrom their necks.

It’s worth mentioning here thatat least three bomb blasts have sofar rocked mourning public gather-ings and imambargahs in Karachiwith loss of several precious lives.However, the SSP claimed that thesecurity arrangements were up tothe mark.

Chaudhry Aslam asserted thatsignificant terrorist groups were ar-rested ahead of the holy month ofMoharram, but the security threats

still persist in the metropolis,

adding terrorists may launch moreattacks through motorbikes. He saidthe CID was going to arrest a vitalnetwork of terrorists who will soonbe in the grip of the law.

Replying to a question, SSPChaudhry Aslam said importantrevelations came to the fore duringinterrogations of the miscreants in-forming that saboteurs were using 3to 22 kilogram explosives in the sui-cide vests.

It should be mentioned herethat a CID team arrested at leastthree saboteurs hailing from abanned outfit in an overnight tar-geted operation in the metropolisand seized heavy cache of firearmsfrom their custody.

Meanwhile, Sindh Health Minis-ter Dr Saghir Ahmed has declaredemergency in all the public sector

hospitals across the province andordered availability of medics, para-medics and medicines from fridayto Sunday- Muharam 8 to 10. He di-rected all the executive district offi-cers of health and medicalsuperintendents of hospitals to en-sure their personal presence at thehealth units and see that all such fa-cilities including operation theatersare standby.

The minister directed the headsof civil hospital Karachi, AbbasiShaheed Hospital, Sindh Govt Hos-pital New Karachi, Liaquatabad,Qatar Hospital, Saudabad, Korangi,Ibrahim Hyderi, Lyari General Hos-pital and others to display dutyschedule of doctors at prominentplace and ensure availability ofneuro-surgeons, orthopedic, generaland other surgeons.

The minister directed the secre-tary and other high officials ofhealth department to pay surprisevisits to different hospitals for tak-ing stock of the situation.

The Sindh government has alsoannounced a holiday on friday inlight of Muharram 8. All educa-tional institutions and governmentoffices will remain closed in theprovince.

Earlier the government had an-nounced that 9-10 Muharram wouldnot be working days in the province.

On Thursday, the Private SchoolAssociation had announced thatschools would be closed on fridayin Karachi.

Meanwhile, in view of securityconcerns, the Mazar of Hazrat Ab-dullah Shah Ghazi has been closedfor the visitors.

Friday, 23 November, 2012

Security up to the mark?

KARACHI: Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar AhmedKhuhro on Thursday said the supply of arms and ammuni-tion to Karachi and presence of the banned organizationsare the main reasons behind the law and order problem inthe city. He called for immediate blockade to this largescale arms supply to ensure peace and security in the city.for this purpose, there should be strong vigilance at theborders of Sindh and at all entry points of Karachi. Heavyvehicles bringing different cargo to the city should also bedully checked in a bid to check possible supply of arms. Thespeaker talking to a media here at Sindh Assembly secre-tariat said the army would remain standby during Ashura.However, he continued that giving control of the city to thearmed forces is no solution to any problem. During unde-

mocratic regime of General Pervez Musharraf, Karachi wasmore prone to bomb blasts and suicide attacks, he added.He said that PPP-led government was trying its best to pro-vide security to life and property of the people throughgood governance and merit in appointments and postingsof police officers. He appealed to political parties to supportthe government efforts to maintain security, peace and har-mony especially in Karachi. He said the recent bomb blastsin the city were aimed at fanning sectarian clashes. How-ever, he said, such terrorist activities would not weaken thegovernment. Our law enforcing agencies would have toreact quickly and in organized way. The speaker also in-formed the media about his meeting with the outgoingConsul General of Iran in Karachi, at the Assembly. app

Emergency declared in hospitals; govt announces three holidays

High alertat airportKARACHI: The security of all func-tional airports of the country includ-ing the Karachi airport was put onhigh alert on Thursday to avert anypossible terrorist attack during themonth of Muharram. Passengerswere directed to reach airport at leasttwo hours before their flights. The in-terior ministry issued its orders to theAirport Security force (ASf) to effec-tively manage security of the airports.The ASf has deployed additionalforces on the airports after the or-ders. Intelligence agencies have de-clared five areas as the most sensitivein the capital city of Islamabad wherethere was a threat of possible terror-ist attack on 8th and 10th day ofMuharram. The sensitive areas in-clude Shehzad town, Tarnol, Golara,Bhara Kahu and city’s main Imam-bargah. Pakistani intelligence offi-cials say extremist groups led byLashkar-e-Jhangvi have escalatedtheir bombings and shootings to trig-ger violence in the city. inp

President sanctionsAIOU Khudabad,Mithi campusesKARACHI: Allama Iqbal Open Uni-versity (AIOU) would set up Khud-abad and Mithi campuses in Sindh.Sindh Minister for Education and Lit-eracy, Pir Mazhar ul Haq and AIOUofficials on the directives of PresidentAsif Ali Zardari met to sanction theproject. The project would facilitatespread of education into peripherialareas of Sindh. The minister told thatan AIOU campus would also be set upat Shikarpur. The minister said thatduring Musharraf rule, higher educa-tion had been ignored in Sindh and ifShaheed Mohtarma BB had not laidthe foundation of optic fibre in Pak-istan, there would have had been noIT revolution in the country yet. PirMazhar announced 100 Sindh Gov-ernment's endowment fund scholar-ships for AIOU. He said that ChineseLanguage Centres were being set up toliterate youngster in the language ofthe most populated nation of theworld. AIOU VC Prof. Nazeer Sangiwas also present on the occasion. app

Stop it before it’s too late!PA speaker for quick blockade of arms supply to city

8 criminalsarrested in cityArms, explosives seized

KARACHI: The police andRangers during separatesearch operations in differentlocalities of city arrested eightcriminals including threemembers of defunct religiousorganizations and recoveredarms and explosives fromtheir possession. According todetails, the Rangers con-ducted ‘targeted operation’ inMalir and Orangi Town areasof city. During operation fivecriminals were nabbed andweapons besides explosiveswere recovered from the de-tainees. The detained culpritswere shifted to undisclosed lo-cation for investigation.The Criminal InvestigationDepartment (CID) of Sindhpolice arrested three sabo-teurs hailing from a bannedoutfit in targeted operation inthe metropolis. Police said ahuge cache of arms and am-munition including gunpow-der, Kalashnikovs and bulletswere seized from their posses-sion. The sources said the ter-rorists were planningsabotage activities in the cityduring Muharram. inp

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Sindh Minister for Health DrSagheer Ahmed reviewed capacity ofgovernment hospitals in the metrop-olis to impart medical assistance tothose injured in any potential acts ofterror and acts of violence.

The minister order all medicalsuperintendents, in charge emer-gencies and casualty departments to

coordinate with him, if there wereany shortage of essential medicinesand life saving items at their respec-tive institutions. Dr Saghir said thatmedical staff, including doctors,nurses, technicians and paramedicalstaff should standby for duty calls on9th and 10th Muharram. The healthminister urged senior professors, in-cluding physicians and surgeons forimmediate responses in any case ofemergency.

The minister said that the gov-ernment was committed to ensurelife and health of every citizen andsaid that “in view of the recent un-fortunate instances, the health de-partment in close coordination withconcerned professionals will chalk-out an elaborate plan for timely as-sistance to the victims of blasts andother acts of violence, in accordancewith the respective intensity and in-jury of individual cases”.

Minister reviews health emergency arrangements

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SINDH Population Wel-fare Department wouldeducate newly weddedrural couples on a wide

range of family planning facilitiesand techniques.

Sindh Secretary for Popula-tion Welfare Mohammad SaleemRaza addressing participants of aseminar titled "Postpartum IUCDInsertion," said that there was ur-gent need to reduce the rate ofpopulation growth in the countrythrough pragmatic approaches.He said that social factors couldnot be a hindrance in populationcontrol if respective couple wereeducated about the benefits of

small families in the 21st century.He said that provincial popula-tion welfare department was op-erating offices at all central andperipherial areas of the province.Saleem Raza said that

"we now plan to make ourservices more updated with equalattention towards attitudinal andbehavioral changes among ourstaff including doctors and mid-wives towards women in need."

Raza said that a modified ap-proach was extremely importantas the department could notachieve desired results in socialisolation. He urged the gynecolo-gists to promote insertion of in-trauterine contraceptive device(IUCD) to avoid pregnancies. Healso advocated promotion of con-

traceptive techniques, and saidthat high incidences of maternalmortality rates of (276 per100,000) in Pakistan and (314per 100,000 in Sindh wereshameful.

Provincial secretary for pop-ulation welfare said that maternaldeaths could be controlledthrough mandating presence oftrained birth attendants or mid-wives in all healthcare facilities ofthe province. She said that“healthy time spacing practicesare only possible if three years ofspacing is practiced”.

Dr. Azra Ahsan and Prof.Shireen Bhutta, lady doctors andmidwives hailing from varioushealth facilities of the provincewere in atttendence.

Population welfare depttto sermon rural couples

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Youth Festival2012 a success:Sabzwari

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Sindh Minister for Youth Affairs, Syedfaisal Ali Sabzwari said that Youth festi-val 2012 was a success in facilitatingrecognition of the talents of the youth.

The minister was talking to the youthfestival 2012 prize winners at his officeon Thursday. The minister said that theevent not only was a source of amuse-ment and entertainment but also actedas an advocate of soft powers who wereagainst giving into the violent dictates ofterrorists. Sabzwari said that the youthfestival would be organizedannually.Sindh Secretary Youth Affairs,Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui and DirectorYouth Affairs, Khurshid Ahmed Shaikhwere also present on the occasion.

Maternal mortalityawareness by iGHDS

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Participants of a seminar titled MaternalMortality Ratio (MMR) and MaternalNeonatal Health (MNH) suggested thatawareness seminars related to MMR andMNH be conducted in rural areas to lit-erate communities in averting death ofmothers during delivery.The health care providers lectured theunder the auspices of 1st CommunityAdvocacy Dialogue forum meeting titled'Saving Mothers in Communities' by theInter Global Human Development Soci-ety (IGHDS) at a local hotel on Thurs-day. IGHDS CEO Dr Jameel AhmedShakeel, , Dr Shabana Solangi, MaqsoodImam, Benish Mughla, Asma Mughaland Dr Huma Jamshed spoke on the oc-casion and a large number of Gynyhealth care providers and midwives werepresent.

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Physicians warned parents and guardianto be cognizant of a possible breakout ofmeasles during autumn. Karachi Civil Hospital pediatrics depart-ment Chairperson Prof. Ayesha Mehnaztalking to sources on Thursday said thatthere had be an outbreak of measles lastyear and it would be appropriate thatrelevant departments prepared for a re-lapse in the province this year. She toldthat rashes, red marks, fever and viralflu like symptoms such as a runningnose, a sore throat and chronic coughingwere manifestations of measles. Reply-ing to a question, she said that “childrenare vaccinated against the disease yet themeasles immunization coverage rate isthe lowest among all vaccinations ad-ministered to protect kids in the coun-try”. Ayesha Mehnaz said that sporadiccases of measles had been reported byvarious hospital of the metropolis andwarned that if timely care was not pro-vided to those suffering from the disease,empylitis, gastroenteritis and even deathcould follow.

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Sindh Additional Chief Secretary undersection 144 Cr.P.C. banned carrying ofweapons and nullified the directives ofSindh Home Department which author-ized carrying of licensed arms inKarachi,Hyderabad and Khairpur during9th, 10th and 11th Muharram. SindhACf in order to maintain law and orderand to control sectarian killing decreedthe order with immediate effect. He alsoordered police to lodge fIR’s under sec-tion 188 against those apprehended withfire arms and other weapons.

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The traditional annual Majlis-eAzhaprocession for women;'mehndi' HazratQasim (RA) commenced from Mehfil-e-Hussaini Station Road and marchedon the Gul Shah Jo Pir Gari Khata andShumaila Imam Bargahah routes afterAssar prayers on Thursday.Jamatian-jo-Pir and Jhula (cradle) ofHazrat Ali Asghar (RA) and over twodozens of Zuljana from Tando MirMehmood, joined the Mehndi HazratQasim (RA) processions at Gul Shah JoPir earlier today.

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Planning phase for the establishment of media city inKarachi was completed and the project would be ini-tiated soon. Sindh Minister for information Technol-ogy, Raza Haroon while addressing officers and staffof the Department of Information Technology onThursday said that biometric identification systemand E-learning projects had been approved and wouldbe initiated soon. He said that in accordance with thevision of chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement

(MQM), Altaf Hussain, Information Technology De-partment, undertook revolutionary steps whose fruitswould ripen for the masses soon. Raza said that Hos-pital management Information System had been in-stalled at the Civil Hospital Karachi. The minister toldthat Electronic driving and arms licenses would be in-troduced soon. He added that computerized domicileand PRC projects had also been initiated in collabo-ration with NADRA. Sindh secretary InformationTechnology, Saleh farooqui, Khalid Shamsi, SaeedQureshi, Dost Ali Baloch, Khawaja Umar Ali andJehan Ara also spoke on the occasion.

‘E-licenses and management system for Sindh’

Billions spent on womenempowerment: BozdaSuKKuR: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) MPA Rai Naz Bozda said thatSindh government had spent billions for the welfare of women in theprovince. She was talking to visiting delegations at her residence on Thurs-day. She said that everyone was bound to respect and protect women workingin educational institutions, hospitals and the corporate sectors. She told theIGHDS delegation to focus on development projects for women empower-ment in the province.The MPA said that women would play their role for the progress of Pakistanand added that no nation had prospered without active participation ofwomen. app

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T EENAGERS have been urged to play sports orrun for at least three hours a week to counter-act the potential damage to their bone healthcaused by prolonged spells of sitting. An in-

ternational team, including an expertfrom the University of Exeter, has foundevidence that adolescents who spendlong periods engaged in certain sedentaryactivities are more likely to have low bonemineral content in parts of the body where itcan be an indicator of the risk of developingosteoporosis. In the research, the team foundthat studying put girls at particular risk, whilefor boys leisure internet use posed the greatestthreat. Scientists found that participating in at leastthree hours of certain sports could significantlyreduce the threat in girls. The study foundevidence of the benefits of high-intensitysports where the participant is ontheir feet, such as football, basket-ball, netball or running. Scientistshave previously studied the impact ofan inactive lifestyle on problems suchas obesity or heart defects, but this isone of the first studies analysing theeffects of different sedentary behav-iours on bone health in the critical de-velopment period of adolescence.“Clearly we are not telling girls not tostudy. It is a fact of modernlife that teenagers spendmore time engaged indeskbound or sitting activities, but our research is one of thefirst to identify a connection between this behaviour in adoles-cents and low levels of bone mass in key regions of the body,”said Dr Luis Gracia Marco of the University of Exeter, who led

the research. “It is already well-known that an inactivelifestyle has implications for young people, such as obesity andheart diseases. Combined with that, our findings emphasise theneed for exercise, and we hope it will give some focus for youngpeople and their parents to ward off any health problems laterin life,” Dr Marco added. The research was carried out in col-laboration with scientists from the University of Zaragoza, theUniversity of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council

(CSIC), and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It wassupported by the European community Sixth RTD

framework Program, as well as with a grant fromfundacion Cuenca Villoro. The research assessedthe lifestyles of 359 Spanish adolescents partici-

pating in the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe byNutrition in Adolescence Study. It exam-ined bone mineral content in the femoral

neck region of the hip, which is a criticalarea for diagnosing osteoporosis. The research team

looked at the impact of different types of sitting activ-ity, including watching television and playing com-puter games. The strongest connection betweendeskbound behaviour and low bone mineral content

was found in girls’ hips, which is where most frac-tures occur. It was linked to study time, but re-gardless of how much time they spent studying,the risk was significantly reduced if they spent at

least three hours each week participating inhigh-intensity upright sport. Internet

leisure use was found to negatively af-fect whole body bone mineral con-

tent in boys. Dr Gracia Marcosaid: “More research isneeded to establish exactlywhy there are differencesbetween the two genders,and why these types of ac-tivity are particularly dam-

ageing to teenage boys and girls, but we can speculate that it islinked to how long they remain in the same position.”

Exercise can help wardoff bone disease in teens

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Philippines protest China e-passport map

MAnILLAaGenCieS

The Philippines has protested China’sdepiction of its claims over the entire SouthChina Sea in an image of a map printedon newly issued Chinese e-passports. In anote sent to the Chinese Embassy inManila on Thursday, Albert del Rosario,Philippine foreign secretary, said Manila“strongly protests’’ Beijing’s inclusion in thenew passport of the image, which showsChina’s claimed maritime borders. “ThePhilippines does not accept the validity ofthe nine-dash lines that amount to anexcessive declaration of maritime space inviolation of international law.” China’s movemeans other claimant countries will have tostamp the microchip-equipped passports ofthousands of Chinese tourists andbusinessmen containing the Chinese claimsthat they are disputing. Stand-offs betweenChinese vessels and the Philippineand Vietnamese navies in the South ChinaSea have become more common as Chinaincreases patrols in waters believed to holdvast reserves of oil and natural gas.

Australia deniesrefugee policy failure

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Australia denied on Thursday its policies tocombat people-smuggling have failed as adecision to release asylum-seekers into thecommunity with little help or support wasblasted as “a new low”. Canberra isstruggling with a record influx of asylum-seekers that is overwhelming its offshorecamps. More than 7,500 have arrived sincethe Labor government launched a harshnew offshore processing policy forboatpeople in August, swamping capacityin Pacific camps on Nauru and Papua NewGuinea. To resolve the impasseImmigration Minister Chris Bowenannounced Wednesday that some asylum-seekers would be released into thecommunity on severely restricted visas thatwould still apply even if they gain refugeestatus. The temporary visas will ban themfrom working while offering scant financialsupport or rights to family reunion. It ispart of a “no advantage” approach by thegovernment to ensure that those who paypeople-smugglers get no greater benefitsthan those who wait years for resettlementin United Nations camps. Human rightsgroups have criticised the approach as“extreme” and “cruel”, while theconservative opposition declared the policya failure and said the government had lostcontrol of Australia’s borders.

BRUSSELS aGenCieS

EU leaders are beginningtalks on the bloc’s seven-year budget, with manyof them calling for cutsin line with the savings

they are making nationally.Countries that rely heavily on EU

funding, including Poland and its ex-communist neighbours, want currentspending levels maintained or raised.

The EU’s Commission has calledfor an increase of 4.8%. EU leaders willtry to reach consensus on their own

figure. The bargaining in Brussels willcontinue on friday, or even longer.

The UK and some other net con-tributors to the budget say cuts haveto be made. Negotiations will startwith a draft budget - officially calledthe 2014-2020 Multi-Annual finan-cial framework (Mff) - drawn up byEuropean Council President HermanVan Rompuy. He has made cuts to theEuropean Commission’s original plan,and proposed a budget worth 973bneuros (£782.5bn; $1,245bn).

france objects to the proposed cutsin agriculture, while countries in Centraland Eastern Europe oppose cuts to co-

hesion spending - that is, EU money thathelps to improve infrastructure inpoorer regions. They are the biggestbudget items. The Van Rompuy plan en-visages 309.5bn euros for cohesion (32%of total spending) and 364.5bn euros foragriculture (37.5%). The EU budget is asmall fraction of what the 27 memberstates’ governments spend in total.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel- who wants to restrain spending -says another summit may be neces-sary early next year if no deal can bereached in Brussels now. In a speechto the European Parliament onWednesday, the EU Commission Pres-

ident, Jose Manuel Barroso, com-plained, “No one is discussing thequality of investments, it’s all cut, cut,cut.” Thursday’s business was begin-ning with short, individual meetingsbetween national leaders and Mr VanRompuy and Mr Barroso.

Only in the evening will they as-semble for talks as a group. The first tomeet the EU officials was UK PrimeMinister David Cameron. Arriving inBrussels, he said: “These are very im-portant negotiations. “Clearly at a timewhen we are making difficult decisionsat home over public spending it wouldbe quite wrong, it is quite wrong, for

there to be proposals for this increasedextra spending in the EU.”

However, Belgian Prime MinisterElio di Rupo argued the EU neededgreater spending, not less. “We can’thave a European Union which demands,which imposes, and a European Unionwhich doesn’t have the means to imple-ment its policies,” he said on Thursday.“It’s a shame that for the British, Europeis primarily a single market,” he added.“for me, for Belgium, Europe is moresolidarity and prosperity for all Euro-peans... I hope that other countries suchas Italy and france will support us forthe ambitious budget.”

GoMa, DeMoCRatiC RepubLiC of tHe ConGo: an M23 fighter climbs steps in the Volcanoes stadium after the fall of the city to the rebel group. AGENcIEs

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former french president Nicolas Sarkozy was dueto appear before an examining magistrate in Bor-deaux on Thursday to respond to charges that his2007 electoral campaign was financed with fundssecured illegally from france’s richest woman.

In a case that could wreck the 57-year-old’shopes of a political comeback, Sarkozy is suspectedof taking financial advantage of elderly L’Orealheiress Liliane Bettencourt at a time when she wastoo frail to fully understand what she was doing.

Examining magistrate Jean-Michel Gentil is ex-pected to spend most of the day quizzing Sarkozyabout how he obtained funding from Bettencourt.

Judicial sources have told AfP that the 57-year-old could be formally indicted on a charge of takingadvantage of someone in a position of weakness, al-though the magistrate also has the option of inter-rogating him as a witness under caution.

Bettencourt is now 90 years old and has been inpoor health since 2006. The allegation against Sarkozyis two-fold: that the money obtained from her took hiscampaign financing over legal limits and that it had

been secured without her full knowledge or consent.This latter claim was made by Bettencourt’s for-

mer accountant, Claire Thibout in 2010. She toldpolice that she had handed 150,000 euros in cash toBettencourt’s right-hand man, Patrice de Maistre,on the understanding it was to be passed on toSarkozy’s campaign treasurer, Eric Woerth.

Maistre, one of the biggest backers of Sarkozy’sUMP party, withdrew a total of four million euros incash from Bettencourt’s Swiss bank account inseven instalments between 2007 and 2009.

EU budget summit opens with hard bargaining

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North Korea has threatened to repeat its 2010artillery attack on a border island, as SouthKorea prepares to mark on friday the second an-niversary of the shelling that left four dead.

The South plans to hold several commemora-tive events over the next few days on Yeonpyeongisland near the disputed Yellow Sea border and willconduct a military drill in the area on friday. NorthKorea heaped scorn on the memorial activities,with the official Korean Central News Agency

(KCNA) on Thursday quoting a military spokesmanwho warned of another attack on the island.

“The commemoration... on Yeonpyeong Is-land will lead to the second Yeonpyeong Islanddisaster,” the spokesman said. The November23, 2010 shelling of the island left two

South Korean marines as well as two civil-ians dead in one of the most serious border inci-dents since the 1950-53 Korean War. The Northsaid the attack was in response to a live-fire drillby the South, which, it claimed, had resulted inshells falling on its side of the sea border.

South Korean troops responded with cannon

fire and the government met in an undergroundwar room, fuelling fears that the situation couldescalate into a full-scale conflict.

The de facto maritime boundary between thetwo Koreas — the Northern Limit Line — is notrecognised by Pyongyang, which argues it wasunilaterally drawn by the US-led United Nationsforces after the 1950-53 Korean War.

The North Korean spokesman said the South’splans to commemorate the anniversary of theshelling was a “ridiculous farce” that invited deri-sion and censure. The only regret on the North’sside, he said, was that the military had not seized

the opportunity two years ago “to send the wholeof Yeonpyeong Island to the bottom of the sea. “Itis the steadfast will of the service personnel not tomiss the opportunity to do so if the warmongersperpetrate another provocation,” he added. SouthKorea has stressed that friday’s military drill willnot include any live-fire exercises.

Since the Yeonpyeong shelling, South Koreahas upgraded its defences on frontline islands inthe area. Yeonpyeong’s 1,200 residents, who livejust 1.5 kilometers (one mile) from the disputedborder, are now outnumbered by the marine sol-diers posted there.

North Korea threatens repeat of island shelling

D-Day for former french

presiDent sarkozy

British immigration

officials misled

parliament: reportLOnDOn

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Senior British border officials misledparliament by claiming they had dealtwith a backlog of 147,000 asylum andimmigration claims, a report publishedon Thursday claimed. Chief Inspector ofBorders and Immigration John Vinesaid that inefficiencies in the UK BorderAgency’s operation to deal with thearchive of applications — submittedbefore March 2007 — meant it had100,000 items of unopened post at onepoint. “I found that updates given by theagency to parliament in the summer of2011, stating that the legacy ofunresolved asylum cases was resolved,were inaccurate,” said Vine. “In fact, theprogramme of legacy work is far fromresolved,” he added. Keith Vaz, chair ofthe Commons home affairs selectcommittee, called it “a devastatingreport into the way in which the UKBAadministrates the immigration system.

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our security system

No quick fixes

Deadly terrorist attacks on Wednesday that killed at least25 innocent people have again exposed the loopholes inthe security system. In Karachi, where motorbikes pliedon the roads and mobile phone service remained

unsuspended, a better state of alertness deterred the terrorists fromlaunching any devastating attack. In Rawalpindi, a bomber managedto detonate his suicide vest to kill at least 14, exposing the four tieredsystem of security promised by CM Shahbaz Sharif. Both theincidents were owned by TTP spokesman. In Bannu, another set ofterrorists killed three policemen in an ambush while they also firedon a checkpost injuring three fC personnel. Only in Quetta there wasa mention of a parked motorbike having been used to hide an IEDwhich was detonated to target army men escorting a school bus.

In all these incidents, a variety of methods were employed tolaunch attacks. This shows that the terrorists and militants areflexible and creative when it comes to the choice of weapons and theway to use them. Compared to them those in the securityestablishment display rigid thinking and insist on one-size-fits-allsort of formulas. This has allowed the terrorists to once again extendtheir reach to the interior of the country. The interior minister hasno solution other than banning the motorbikes and putting themobile phones on hold to stop the TTP and its subsidiaries fromharming the people. All that matters in fights of the sort is who isone step ahead of whom. The security agencies have to gather realtime information, not the type of highly generalised and practicallyuseless warnings the interior ministry issues from time to time. forthis the security agencies have to exhibit better efficiency. Again thecivil law enforcement agencies which are presently in bad shapeneed to be provided modern investigation tools, forensic laboratorieswith trained personnel and an efficient communication system.Political appointments have to be stopped as these tend to erodeprofessionalism and instead breed indiscipline and inefficiency.Instead of relying on draconian laws, the investigation departmentshave to be strengthened so that there are no loopholes in the casesthey send to courts. To ensure that the criminals get duepunishment, witnesses have to be provided security. That all the sixwitnesses in Wali Khan Babar murder case were killed is a reflectionon the Sindh Home Department’s performance.

And please stop calling on army to undertake actions which comeunder the purview of the civilian law enforcement agencies. Only thelatter can find the place where suicide bombers come from andwhere the IEDs are stored by terrorists.

Friday, 23 November, 2012

The youth all over the worldyearn for change but tendto lose interest in votingwhen regimes disappointthem. In the US the young

voter turnout fell 60 percent from2008 to 2010 and it was predictedthat the Democrats won’t win in 2012were the trend to persist. It was be-lieved that Obama managed to breakthe trend which led to his victory.

In Pakistan, widespread frustra-tion was witnessed among the youngpeople after 2002. This was caused bythe economic policies that led to risein unemployment, a widening gulf be-tween the richest and the poorest andwidespread corruption by politiciansand bureaucracy. With the trend con-tinuing after 2008, many thought thegraph of frustration would continue torise among the youth.

What surprised many was the wayyoung people gravitated to the publicmeetings organised by the PTI in La-hore, Karachi, Quetta and Hyderabad.This was attributed to the burgeoningurban middle class which supposedlywas fed up with cronyism and corrup-tion and wanted merit to prevail. Thechildren from these families studying inupscale English medium schools hadimbibed Western culture while they alsowanted to combine it with Islam. Theyfound their voice in Imran Khan. Cynics,however, maintained that most of thepeople in this category were not seriousenough and might not even turn up atthe polling booths even if they cared toget themselves registered as voters.

The intra-party election held bythe PTI in Islamabad has challengedthe perception. It must have surprisedmany that around 63,000 voters ofthe party, mostly in the category ofyouth, went for intra-party polls in thefederal capital on Sunday. few partiescan claim they have so many regis-tered voters in any single district.

The voting was conducted througha modern electronic system which wasa novelty in Pakistan and ensuredtransparency. All registered membersof the party, whose mobile numbersand CNIC numbers were already en-listed, were required to call any of thetwo UAN numbers and cast their votes

through SMS. There were naturally un-foreseen hitches. Some of the votersfound the dedicated land lines blockedand mobile phone networks chokedand had to turn up at the polling boothsset up as an alternate arrangement.

Islamabad, of course, has certain pe-culiarities that are absent in other places.It has a high literacy rate, a larger middleclass, and more technology savvy youththan in the rural areas which supply thebulk of the voters. The federal capital hasplenty of the type of voters who are at-tracted by Imran Khan. The test of thePTI’s popularity among youth will comewhen it holds intra-party elections in therural areas of the four provinces. Withfewer landline connections and mobilephones, it would pose bigger difficultiesin the way of mobilising its young cadre.The PTI claims it has installed a mecha-nism allowing over seven million partyvoters to participate in the intra-partyelections to be completed by the end ofDecember or in early January. In case theexperience succeeds, it would show thePTI has a big reservoir of committed vot-ers no other party can claim to possess.

According to the Election Commis-sion of Pakistan, almost half the totalregistered voters, or 47.5 percent of 84.3million, are under the age of 35. The fig-ure is likely to rise as about 400,000fresh CNICs are being issued everymonth at present. On paper the youngvoters look like a formidable force.

The PTI has an attraction for theyouth because the two other partieshave been tested and their performancefound dismal. The younger generationwants change. The political culture inthe older parties characterised by lead-ership centred in certain families andundemocratic functioning is unaccept-able to many. The PTI is seen as a partywhere promotion would depend onmerit rather than family connections.

Again, unlike Imran Khan, the PPPand the PLM-N have paid only cursoryattention to the youth as an importantsection of voters. Both the parties con-tinue to rely on the so-called electableswhose politics revolves around beradari,ethnic appeals, and at places communalvotes. Both hope to form governmentthrough wheeling dealing with smallerparties who would make it to the NA andthe provincial assemblies. The politicalor economic manifestos they announcehave little importance even in their owneyes. Reconciliation can be reached with

anyone who manages to reach the legis-latures. The basis for political alliancewould be sheer convenience.

The PML-N has lately tried to at-tract the youth through distribution oflaptops. In Punjab, it has held a weeklong well attended Punjab Youth fes-tival. It has initiated the Punjab YouthInternship Programme. The measureswould attract a small part of the youthand that too in one province.

The PPP has held two ‘PakistanLeaders of Tomorrow’ conferences ad-dressed by Bilawal Bhutto. As thesewere organised by the Ministry of In-formation and Broadcasting and heldin the Presidency, they turned out to belifeless gatherings of a few hundred.

The PTI, on the other hand, has fromthe beginning tried to engage the youth.It formed the Insaf Students federation.The arrival of the ISf may not signal theend of APMSO, IJT, or MSf, but it hasmade the most effective use of socialmedia and mobile phones for enlistingnew members, keeping in constant touchwith them and mobilising them. This ex-plains why the PTI can hold successfulintra-party polls with youth as the majorsection of voters, something not possiblefor PPP or PML-N.

Imran’s surge witnessed in 2011 hadlost momentum by the end of last year.The present year witnessed fewer activi-ties by the PTI other than the march toWaziristan which made little impact.There were, on the other hand, deser-tions on the part of some of the electableshe had brought to the party. Another im-ponderable is the role of the traditionalfactors like beradari, tribe, or ethnicityin the forthcoming elections. In 1971,these were swept aside by Bhutto whoseeconomic programme and personalityplayed a decisive role. The social or eco-nomic policies of the PTI, PPP and PML-N are not essentially different from oneanother. The party does not stand forland reforms. It holds out no solution forthe widespread unemployment. It offerslittle other than the mythical trickledownto bring down poverty and bridge theyawning gulf between the richest and thepoorest. Can the factor of the youthfulvoters alone become a catalytic agent inthe absence of an economic and socialprogramme which is not only realisticbut has also a mass appeal?

The writer is a former academicand a political analyst.

in the elections 2013

By Aziz-ud-Din Ahmad

The youth factor

And as is the norm, Pakistanisseemed to be more worried aboutthe killing of Palestinian ‘broth-

ers’ than the Pakistani ‘brothers’ thatwere biting the dust on a daily basis. Noone’s bothered about the turbulence inKarachi and Balochistan. Until Wednes-day’s blast, nobody was taking notice ofthe Shia killings and there is no coverageof the siege and massacre in Parachanar,which is dubbed the ‘Pakistani Gaza’,where more people are killed in a daythan the Palestinians over the past week.Deaths in Gaza make the front pageheadlines, while the turmoil PakistaniMuslims are facing is just another run-of-the-mill story. It’s like fretting over theailment of your second cousins, whileyour own siblings are on the deathbed.

Let’s also recall how we treated our‘Muslim brothers’ in East Pakistan until1971 did us part. That abhorring treat-ment is being matched by our treatmentof our ‘Muslim brothers’ in Balochistan.Let’s acknowledge the hate speechspurting out of speakers of mosques ofdifferent sects targeting ‘Muslim broth-ers’ of other sects. Let’s realise that asyou read this Saudis are upping the anteon their oil production, helping the USand Israel up their sanctions on Iran –our ‘Muslim brothers’. Another mani-

festation of the Arab concept of ‘Muslimbrotherhood’ is how they never seem tospeak in favour of Pakistan internation-ally and that there isn’t even as much asa murmur in the Arab countries aboutthe ‘Muslim brothers’ being killed inKashmir and Myanmar. And then thereare 165 Muslims on average being killedby Syrian Army in Syria on a daily basissince August this year, and yet noprotests or condemnations are wit-nessed in the Muslim media or socialmedia against these atrocities, while the20 that were killed in Gaza last fridaygrabbed the limelight and sympathies.

Oh but of course, a non-Muslimkilling a Muslim is obviously a moreheinous act than a Muslim killing a Mus-lim. Since everything is centred round theMuslim brotherhood, the bond of Islamthat binds the Muslims and non-Muslimsdon’t really have much of a say in this.And hence every Muslim being killed bya “kafir” is the collective responsibility ofthe Muslim Ummah who should fighttooth and nail to bring the infidels downto their knees. Yup, that mentality is a nailon the solution for peace.

How about condemning the act ofkilling regardless of religion, race, ethnic-ity, nationality, or any other discrimina-tion whatsoever? How about condemningthe killing of Jews that fall to Islamic ex-tremism as well? There is no yardstick togauge the comparative innocence of vic-tims in the Gaza conflict. Israel has more

militaristic wherewithal as things standand is hence doing more damage com-pared to Hamas. When Muslims hadmore military power they were the onesconjuring more destruction. How canyou criticise Israel for its annexations inPalestine and then conveniently forgetthat it was the Arabs that annexed thearea in the 7th century in the first place.

We need to realise that the Pales-tinian conflict existed before 14 May1948 as well. The holy city of Jerusalemhas been captured and recaptured 44times over the course of the past 4,000years, by the propagators of the threeAbrahamic religions. It is both histori-cally and logically unfair to highlightthe brutality in the region over the past64 years without acknowledging thecruelty served out by all concerned par-ties over the past four millennia. Theatrocities by the Jews are well-docu-mented in our neck of the woods butwe need to understand that Muslimshaven’t exactly been saints either.

Arabs once famously trapped a Jew-ish tribe in a fort and decapitated theirmen. There is the Granda incident of1066, fez incidents in 1033, 1276 and1465, Damascus Affair of 1840, amongmany other such noteworthy exampleswhere the Jews were subdued by theMuslims. Even after Israel’s formationyou’ve had examples of Arab countriesinstigating aggression and suppressingthe Jews that were present in their coun-tries initially. When the establishment ofIsrael was announced, Egypt, Syria,

Transjordan and Iraq all attacked it thevery next day, instigating the Arab-IsraeliWar of 1948, and Egypt expelled over25,000 Jews and sent thousands in de-tention following the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Again, who has committed moreatrocities over the course of history de-pends on which ‘brand’ of history youread. The guilty party has always con-cealed their violence by tampering his-torical narrations, shrouding aggressionin the garb of “self-defence” or simplyjustifying everything obnoxious as reli-gious duty. There is absolutely no way ofgetting a seamlessly balanced account ofa conflict that spans over almost 1,500years. Therefore, from both the Muslimand the Jewish point of view, clamour-ing for justice every time followers oftheir religion die and unyieldingly justi-fying the massacre of other party, addsmore fuel to a conflict that requires mas-sive compromise on both sides.

The first thing that the Muslim coun-tries need to do is to recognise Israel as asovereign state – you can’t talk to, accuseor negotiate with someone you don’t evenclaim exists. Muslims need to realise thatJews inhabited the region before Islamcame into being, and as holy as Jerusalemis for both Christians and Muslims, it isthe holiest city for the Jews. If hypotheti-cally at a time of global reshuffle, wherenations are being carved, boundariesbeing adjusted and people are being dis-placed left, right and centre you had topick one region to earmark as the onlyMuslim-majority region, you’d pick the

Arabian Peninsula – you’d pick Meccaand Madina. How hard is it for us to ac-cept a 22,000 square kilometre region asthe world’s only Jewish country, whenaround a quarter of the world is consti-tuted by Muslim-majority areas?

When you are not recognising Is-rael as a nation, when Hamas’ officialcharter has ‘Israel’s destruction’ writ-ten in its goals, when Muslim leaderslike Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openlymanifest anti-Semitism and talk abouteradicating Israel, how can you say thatthe Muslims want peace and Jewsdon’t. Sure Benjamin Netanyahu is abit of a nut-head, but then again so aremost of the Arab leaders. None of themactually wants peace; they just want toassert the superiority of their religionsand nations at the cost of the rivals,much like their predecessors did.

for peace in Palestine, and prettymuch every other part of the world, youneed people of every religion, ethnicityand nation to condemn the act of killing,period. Regardless of who the killers andvictims are. We need to stop recreatingthe horrors that mar the legacies of ourideological predecessors, and realise thatno ideology is worth killing anotherhuman being for. And as for Pakistan,we really need to rethink our lopsidedlove-in with the Arabs, and focus insteadon getting our own house in order.

Author’s note: 10,000 bucks say,this column would be declared by mostreaders as US/Israel funded. Is anyoneup for a wager?

The writer is Editor, Business andCity (Karachi) Pakistan Today. Email:khulduneshahid@gmail.com, Twitter:@khuldune

Blindfolded by Muslim brotherhood

By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

it’s a lopsided love story

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vigilance againstterrorists

The sudden increase of acts ofterrorism with particular reference tothe incidents in Karachi, Quetta, KPand Rawalpindi on 21 Nov, 2012,highlights the importance of preventivemeasures to curb the menace ofterrorism, which is causing severelosses to men, material and reputationof the country.

In fact, now it looks that the forcesadversely inimical towards Pakistanhave launched an all-out attack, whichhas no parallel in the past. for Pakistan,it is now almost a do or die battle, whichcannot be won alone by our securityforces fighting and suffering heavylosses of men and material, without thetotal involvement of the each and everycitizen of the country.

In the past cases of terrorist attackson the GHQ, PIDC house and PakistanNavy air base, it was reported that thegang of attackers were residing in arented house for quite some time in anarea not very far away from theirtargets. It was also reported that theneighbours of these houses werealthough, suspicious of these tenants,yet kept quiet and did not tip areapolice about their apprehensions.

Under the prevailing circumstancesthere is a dire need for motivatinggeneral public, to remain extra vigilantin playing their role of defending themotherland, by involvement of entirepopulation of the country to look outfor the stay and suspicious activities ofterrorists in their near vicinity.

As such, in order to make the stay ofterrorists at any place almostimpossible, it is proposed to activelyinvolve the entire population to lookout and hunt them. This objective canbe easily achieved by the announcementof the government that a reward of Rs50 million shall be paid to any personwho informs the police about theterrorists staying in a house, hostel,hotel, rest house or any such place.

If the war against terror is to bewon quickly, the entire population ofthe country has to be geared up andinvolved in the task of watch andvigilance.

SYED NAYYAR UDDIN AHMADLahore

CNG-run vehiclesAccording to media news, a gas cylinder of a

bus exploded at a gas station in Karachi that killedseveral people while several other vehicles alsocaught fire during the incident. Due to an increasein fuel prices, people are using CNG as an alternateof fuel because of price difference. Not only carsbut buses, mini buses and commercial vehicles areusing CNG as an alternative to petrol and diesel.But the reality is that due to poor safety standard,negligence of general public and weak laws, severalexplosions of gas cylinders have happened.

According to government and OGRA safetystandards, after every five years the CNG kit own-ers must check condition of their CNG cylindersbut only a few are following government instruc-tions. Cheap substandard gas kits all are also avail-able in the market. Cost of second hand CNG kit isonly 15,000 rupees which is easily available. Only afew days ago, Egypt’s transport minister resignedafter killing of several school children when a traincrushed their school bus but unfortunately in ourcountry there is no accountability culture.

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQKarachi

Our politiciansOur politicians are habitual in hoodwinking

people with false promises in order to gain power.But when in power, they forget the pledges made tothe people and do what suits their purpose of per-petuating their rules. Both the PPP and PML-Nruled twice, but failed to transform the country intoa welfare state their loud claims notwithstanding.The leaders of these two parties behave as if they

are destined to have monopoly on power. Every ef-fort is being made by these two parties to preventany third force to surface on the scene. However,PTI’s emergence has created stir and commotion inthe ranks and file of PPP and PML-N. Their lead-ers, who signed charter of democracy 2006 andvowed not to destabilise each other’s governmentby allowing turncoats to join their parties, in 2012,try to persuade the dissidents to rejoin their par-ties. In the wake of upcoming election the PPP andPML-N leaders make repeated claims to transformPakistan according to the vision of Mr M A Jinnah,but in practice they defy his vision altogether. His(Jinnah) motive was “work, work, and more work.”Quite contrary to this, probably, Pakistan stands ontop of those countries that observe highest numberof unscheduled holidays on pretext of one thing orthe other in a year. I wonder how these unsched-uled holidays fall in line with the Quaid’s vision.

RAJA SHAFAATULLAHIslamabad

Modernising agricultureThe president in a meeting with the Japanese

ambassador has called for modernising agriculturein Pakistan by incorporating Japanese technology.Will Japanese technology overcome the prevailingwater shortage? Crops can be grown without soilbut not without water. for how long will our twodams keep meeting the ever growing demand withever decreasing storage capacity? The issue ofwater shortage has serious ramifications in termsof agricultural production, agro based exports, for-eign exchange earnings, food inflation, job cre-ation, poverty alleviation, livelihood of the ruralpopulation etc. Small and medium dam will not

suffice and Bhasha dam with all its limitations is 15years away. Only Kalabagh dam can save the 19crore people from the hunger, thirst and povertylooming over their heads.

ENGR KHURSHID ANWERLahore

Speeches won’t work unless…Some people in India were rejoicing the hang-

ing of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught aliveduring the Mumbai attacks 26/11, but I wonderwhy such a sense of jubilation. Ajmal was just afoot soldier, an illiterate young boy brainwashedinto jihad, came to Mumbai to cause death to asmany as possible and then die. As long as his ideol-ogists, financiers and handlers remained out ofreach of law, mere hanging of a lone terrorist won’tachieve anything. This is equally applicable on bothsides of the border, Pakistan lost 45,000 civiliansand military personnel during the last decade whilelocally-groomed terrorists are still roaming thestreets of Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and elsewherewith impunity as Pakistan is unable to catch andimplicate real culprits for these crimes. What aboutSamjhauta Express bombers, instigators and killersof Muslims after the demolition of Babri Mosque,Mumbai riots of 92-93, Gujarat riots of 2002, thelist goes on? Unless we get away from the philoso-phies of blood-thirsty hatred which are used by thetrainers to indoctrinate a sense of achievement andafterlife reward, nothing will change. Statements,vows, speeches won’t work anymore unless weopen our eyes and see the real enemy who wants topush both the countries to Stone Age.

MASOOD KHANJubail, Saudi Arabia

Apropos to a news item pub-lished in the English language pressabout the ill-approach to sensitivesecurity issues that potentiallythreatens the security of our coun-try. The news carried activities of aforeign NGO that continues to mapflood devastated areas using Geo-graphic Information System (GIS)despite having been declared as ‘se-curity risk’ by NDMA. Goingthrough the news item in detail, itreinforced my belief that we as a na-tion have an inbuilt tendency to re-main oblivious of the issues thatmay potentially affect security ofour homeland. This is also true forthe state and its security related or-gans. We failed to comprehend thevital information that might havebeen collected by US helicopters’operations in Pakistan in the north-ern areas of Pakistan during the2008 earthquake.

Incidentally, there were reportsalso that CIA took active part in theoperations and collected vitalground based information on Pak-istan’s air surveillance capabilities,ground mapping and location ofsensitive security installations. TheUS may have carried out its opera-

tions in Abbottabad to nab OsamaBin Laden based on ground basedinformation collected by CIA duringhelicopter missions in aid to victimsof 2008 earthquake. We are againignoring activities of foreign basedNGOs that may be carrying out theiroperations in aid of CIA or collect-ing vital data that could be used tofeed the trajectory of an in-flightmissiles targeting some sensitive se-curity installation located in oraround flood affected areas.

America has a history of capital-ising on events venturing into whichmay provide multiple informationfor their military actions or other-wise. No doubt that in today’s satel-lite technology, mapping of any areais not difficult but physical digitalsurvey eliminates all obstacles thatan in-flight missile can counterwhile heading towards its predeter-mined target.

More disturbing was the newsthat the NDMA, as per its ChairmanDr Zafar Qadir, had declared its dis-association with ‘Information Man-agement and Mine Action Program(IMMAP) operating under UN Of-fice for Coordination of Humanitar-ian Affairs in January but despite

repeated reminders to interior min-istry, DG UN in the foreign min-istry, economic affairs division andother homeland security organisa-tions, the organisation continues tomap flood hit areas using GIS.

As per the news item the organi-sation was hired by UNOCHA to de-velop a ‘single reporting formatproject’ to standardise the proce-dures. It failed to deliver on the re-quirement and in January this year,the contract was terminated. How-ever, the unmonitored digital map-ping of the ground by any of thestate organisations continues un-abated. The foreign ministry, on aquery by the NDMA, informed thatthe mandate of IMMAP was to focusonly on mines clearances and it usu-ally operated in conflict zones. Theforeign ministry also reminded thatPakistan was neither in a state ofconflict nor a post-conflict countryand therefore the ministry concurswith the NDMA that IMMAP dis-continue all of its activities.

Muazzam Khan, the foreignministry spokesman, has also said:“There are some international reliefand aid organisations working out-side their mandate in Pakistan.

They are performing unauthorisedfunctions, including spying underthe garb of humanitarian efforts andhave enrolled irrelevant foreignersto work in Pakistan.” The EconomicAffairs Division is also on record tohave admitted that IMMAP was notregistered with the governmentadding that its activities should be acause of concern for security agen-cies.

We have kept our eyes closed forlong on activities of some peopleand organisations knowing in whatmayhem those activities could endup. Terrorism and extremism aresome of the manifests of some ofthose overlooked activities that weconfront today fatally impacting onour image in the comity of nations.The dubious activities of foreignNGOs and even some of our own area cause of discomfort for all Pakista-nis and the state, therefore, mustmove to stop them working on agen-das exceeding their mandates andforeign employees working thereinthose NGOs whose visas have ex-pired must be sent home undermuch debated rule of law.

ENGINEER JAVED IQBALIslamabad

Unauthorised operations of NGOs in Pakistan

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Butler’s Indian birthday plansturned down by embassy

“PS I Love You” star Gerard Butler’s plans

to celebrate his 43rd birthday in India hit

a roadblock as he was denied permission

by the Indian Embassy. the actor, who turned 43 on

November 13, had headed to the Indian embassy in

Dubai for a travel permit but had to abandon his

plan when he was told the documents would not be

available for a week. “I am very disorganised. So at

the last minute here in Dubai, I decided I wanted to

go to India for my birthday. But I went to the

embassy. “they were excited to see me, but they

said ‘no’ and that it would take seven days. So this

year, I decided to go to Scotland and spend time

with my family,” Butler said in a statement. the

actor will be next seen playing the role of an ex-

soccer player in “ Playing for Keeps”, a light romantic

comedy. the film also stars Jessica Biel, who plays

his estranged wife. the film is set to hit theatres on

December 7. neWS DeSK

Tom Cruise terribly missesdaughter Suri

Actor tom cruise, who got divorced from

actress Katie Holmes, reportedly gets

emotional when he is away from his six-

year-old daughter Suri. “He cries at night because

he misses her so much. Both of them are taking

the divorce really hard, and it’s tough on Katie

because she has to deal with Suri’s public

meltdowns,” showbizspy quoted a source as

saying. “But Suri knows she’s deeply loved by

both her mom and dad. And she’s bravely facing

all the changes brought on by the divorce just like

any other normal little girl would,” added the

source. Holmes and cruise parted ways in August

this year. they got married in Italy in 2006 after

meeting in April 2005. neWS DeSK

Kutcher, Kunis enjoy date in Rome

Actor Ashton Kutcher was seen enjoying a

romantic stroll with girlfriend Mila Kunis on

the streets here. the couple seemed to be

enjoying the winter as Kunis took a small break

from filming for her next movie “the third Person”,

which is being shot in Italy. Kunis and Kutcher kept

themselves wrapped in warm clothes and held

hands while they walked together, reports

thesun.co.uk. the couple started dating each other

shortly after Kutcher split from estranged wife Demi

Moore in November last year. neWS DeSK

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DUCHESS of Cambridge Kate Middle-ton, known for her sense of style, hasbeen voted for sporting the best

celebrity hair in a new poll. Middleton toppeda survey, conducted by salon products retailerfabriah.com, which polled 500 women onwho they thought had the best celebrity hair,reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Experts at fabriah.com compiled theshortlist of the top ten celebrities, beforeopening it up to the public’s vote.

The Duchess, famed for luscious locks,polled over a quarter of the vote.

“Kate Duchess of Cambridge has becomesomewhat of a fashion goddess. Anythingshe wears seems to fly immediately off theshelves, likewise hairdressers across thecountry are seeing an increasing demand forthe Middleton-style locks,” said aspokesperson of fabriah.com.

Holly Willoughby came second in thepoll scoring just 19 percent of the votes. Thethird place was bagged by singing sensationLana Del Rey.

Once idolised for having the best hair ofthe decade, Jennifer Anniston slipped intofourth place only managing to achieve ninepercent of the vote. Only one per cent behind,in fifth place was Kelly Brook.

Sixth and seventh place were reserved fornewlywed Rochelle Hume, while VictoriaBeckham, respectively.

The bottom three places were reserved for

Kim Kardashian and Nicky Minaj, who bothpolled four percent, and the “X factor” judgeTulisa, who scored three. neWS DeSK

UK-BASED Yasmin Rafi famouslyrefers to herself as a fan of Mo-hammed Rafi, before she be-came family. Yasmin, who

married Khalid Rafi, the son of one of Bol-lywood’s most renowned playback singers,has written a biography in Hindi, ‘Mo-hammed Rafi My Abba - A Memoir’ trans-lated into English by Rupa Srikumar and AK Srikumar. Both versions will be launchedon November 25.

The biography is peppered with anec-dotes that reveal the cordial relationshipRafi, who was at one time the most sought-after playback singer, shared with mostpeople in the industry.

The book also touches on an old con-troversy that was recently resurrected byLata Mangeshkar, Rafi’s co-singer in sev-eral films, and his son Shahid Rafi, in Sep-tember 2012. Mangeshkar claimed in arecent interview that she had only agreedto sing with Rafi after he sent her a letterof apology. To which, Shahid Rafi threat-ened to sue Mangeshkar for the comment,saying, “I think she is insecure about myfather’s fan following and that is why shehas done this.” Excerpts from the interviewwith Yasmin and her book:

Two months ago, Shahid Rafi threat-ened to sue Lata Mangeshkar because shespoke of a letter of apology that Mo-hammed Rafi had written to her about theroyalty issue. What came of that?

I’m not really in a position to comment onwhat Shahid said as till this day, I’m not surewhat was said. However, I did read the newson Lataji’s statement and I must say it washurtful to read. There was no such letter writ-ten by Rafi saheb. I have always respectedLataji, not only for her amazing talent but forbeing a good person and that has not changed,even after this incident. You and your familyare not of the same opinion as Rafi saheb onthe matter of royalty, the biography reveals.

There is no doubt that most members ofthe family were, and perhaps still are, be-mused at why he did not explore royaltypayments. I don’t really have an explanationfor this apart from the simple fact that hestrongly believed that a singer should onlyreceive a one-off payment and nothingmore. What I can tell you is that in lateryears, there were times when he admitted

his mistake to my husband. Extracted withpermission of the publisher from ‘Mo-hammed Rafi My Abba - A Memoir’ by Yas-min Khalid Rafi and translated from Hindiby Rupa Srikumar and AK Srikumar In thebeginning of 1960, there came a phase whenLata Mangeshkar fell out with Rafi Saheband stopped singing duets with him. Theydid not work together for two or three years.Lata Mangeshkar sang with MahendraKapoor and Suman Kalyanpur sang withRafi Saheb during this period. The latemusic director Jaikishen finally effected rec-onciliation between the two.

The first duet they recorded togetherafter this episode was for the film, Palkonki Chhaaon Mein. Their differences hadarisen over the issue of royalty paymentson the songs sung by them. Lataji wantedto be paid royalty and raised this issuewith the producers; she expected RafiSaheb to support her point of view, whichwas in fact justified. But contrary to herexpectations, Rafi Saheb took a differentstand. He opined, ‘When the producer paysthe fee the singer demands for a song,thereafter the singer should not have ashare in the royalty.’ This was probably ahasty decision, taken without careful con-sideration. The singer breathes life into

song, so then why should he not share theprofits? The issue of royalty was discussedseveral times in our household, duringAbba’s lifetime and after he passed away,and continues to be today.

Khalid would say, ‘When I came toknow of this issue for the first time andwas able to comprehend the enormity ofwhat had happened, my mind was paral-ysed.’ While talking about this in London,Khalid told Abba, ‘Dad, out here whensomebody creates one song and it becomesa hit, that singer becomes a millionaire,overnight. You have done countless songs,how much would all that royalty be worth?’Abba was silent for a while, and then said,‘All I ever thought about was that onewould sing a song and get paid a fee for it.The other party should not incur a loss.’

After Abba’s passing away, Amma raisedthis issue many a time with Khalid. ‘Kaka,do something about this matter if you can.I’m quite sorry it turned out this way. It’swrong, horribly wrong that almost everyonein the world is making money out of Abba’sname. And what do we get?’ ‘Do you thinkit’s going to be that easy, fighting these peo-ple? It will take years. As the saying goes, itwill be like putting one’s hand into a snake’spit. But, we shall see.’ CouRteSy MM

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RANI Mukerji, 34, went againsther father to fulfill her mother’swish of wanting her daughter tobecome an actress. Today, 15

years later, her father is her biggest champion.We met her at her serene house in Juhu,where over a plateful of sandesh, she spokeabout Yash Chopra, the similarities betweenShah Rukh and Aamir and her unfulfilled wishto work with Rajinikanth. Excerpts:YASH CHOpRA HAS A SpECIALpLACE IN YOuR LIfE. DO YOu MISSHIM? Of course, I miss him every day of mylife. He was the most healthy man I knewwhich is what made it even more difficult as itbrought a lot of shock and pain. His phonecalls were as abrupt as his going away. Hewould just pick up the phone after reading myinterview and say, ‘Arey, you are my Bengalitigress’. He would just see a picture in thepaper and call and say, ‘you were looking verygood’. I just loved his spirit of eating and theway he enjoyed his food. You knew howpassionate a person he was just by the way heate his food. He loved his paratha and makhanand was always wanting to feed me in all mymeals with him. I would always tell him, ‘Nouncle, I can’t eat it’. When he passed away, Iactually ate paratha and makhan just to feelhow he used to feel. The warmth that he hadfor his employees, his actors or any personaround him made him a great human being.He touched so many lives that every one had aYash Chopra story to tell. When I worked withhim in Veer-Zaara, I found him to be such adown-to-earth person and realised why he isYash Chopra. He was only concerned aboutwhether people around him had eaten well.The love that he had for his people translatedinto people wanting to give him back theirbest.DID YOu MISS HIM ON HIS LAStfILM’S pREMIERE?It was one of the most cherished premieresthat cannot be replicated. The way Adi did the

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Justin Bieber talks aboutSelena Gomez with Oprah

TWo days after they were spotted on a date

together, Justin Bieber appears to have

confirmed that he is still together with Selena

Gomez. Speaking in a preview of a new interview with

oprah Winfrey, the teen pop idol discussed his

relationship - and pledged that he was determined to

treat Selena right. the Mirror quoted him as saying:

“Sometimes we gotta take the back exits, but I never

make her separate from me. I don’t want her to feel like

I’m ashamed of her. “A lot of guys do that - especially in

the business - they don’t want to be seen with the girl,

so they make them ride in separate cars and do all that

getaway stuff. “When we getaway, we’re getting away

together at least.” the famous pair had been rumoured

to have split, amid reports that Biebs had been involved

with a Victoria’s Secret model. neWS DeSK

Amitabh felicitated byAustralian government

AMItABH Bachchan has been honoured by the

Australian government for his contribution

towards Indian cinema and fructifying the

relations between the two countries. “Another

recognition by the Australian Government and its

commission here in Mumbai, in celebration for the

100 years of Indian cinema, and my contribution

towards fructifying the relations between the two

countries...I am most humbled...,” the 70-year-old

posted on his blog. Last year, Amitabh was conferred

an honorary doctorate from the Queensland University

of technology in Brisbane, Australia. He was also

awarded france’s highest civilian honour, the Knight of

the Legion of Honour, for his exceptional career in the

world of cinema and beyond. neWS DeSK

Daniel Craig - 007 gets hisNew York driver’s license -well done Daniel Craig,you’ve passed!

If we say the words ‘Daniel craig, driving in New

York,’ presumably you have an image of the

rugged Brit flipping an Aston Martin off the

Brooklyn Bridge, escaping unharmed and swimming to

safety, having rescued a drowning Bond girl. right?

right! Well, have WE got a news story for you! oK. It’s

not quite as dramatic as it might first appear. It definitely

does involve Daniel craig driving in New York but it also

involves a five hour road safety lesson, a written test

and a road test. that’s right folks, this is the news that

the James Bond star Daniel craig is now legally allowed

to drive in New York. craig lives in Manhattan with his

wife rachel Weisz and has clearly decided that he’d like a

little slice of independent mobility in the city and has

found time in his busy schedule to take the city’s pre-

licencing driving safety course to make sure he’s fit to

drive the New York streets. richard fernandez of the

Professional Driving School of the Americas, insisted “no

one is exempt, regardless of who you are,” thus

confirming that a license to kill does not apply to the

rules of the road, it would seem. neWS DeSK

Scarlett Johansson on her

way to The Late Show

with David Letterman

premiere, creating the theatre for just one nightand calling people who were close to Yash uncleand associated with him, was incredible. It was anight which we won’t be able to forget in our lives.We missed him being there, but the fact that wewere all together, made us feel he was somewherethere smiling and actually seeing everyone watchhis film.Out Of tHE MANY DIRECtORS YOuHAvE wORKED wItH, DO YOu HAvEANY fAvOuRItES?Yash Uncle, Sanjay (Leela Bhansali) and ManiRatnam Sir.wHAt MAKES tHEM SpECIAL?All three of them have their unique styles. When Iworked with Yash uncle as an actor in Veer Zaara,I was coming from an era where, for a director,using a monitor was extremely important to seethe performance of their actors. But Yash unclenever watched the monitor and he always saw uslive and even said ‘action and cut’ himself. Hewould stand next to the camera watching you liveand say cut without asking you to shoot multipletimes. He used to go with the basic emotion andhad a rawness to his approach, as he believed that

if he made you do the shot again and again, youwould turn mechanical as an actor. He was alwayscarefree on the sets, most concerned aboutfeeding everyone. I remember in the middle ofshooting Mujhse Dosti Karoge he would callKareena and me and say, ‘Come here and eatstrawberries and cream’. He always liked hisactresses to look full and Indian. I have once seenhim eating 30 mangoes at one go. He loved eatinghis parathas with makhan. Even knowing that mydad had a bypass surgery, he would say ‘Ram tubhi kha le’. Bhansali is outstanding and no oneshoots films the way he does. He gives a lot oftime to his technicians and actors before shooting.He just treats you as a queen and pampers you somuch that you want to give your best. He knowshow to extract the best out of you. When we wereshooting Black, Sanjay would treat me toRustomji’s ice cream at Churchgate everydaywhile coming back home. He would always tell methat I should eat whatever I wanted to, becausethat’s the only way I was happy. He used to tell methat my performance in Black was good onlybecause I ate well. for me it’s customary beforeevery film to go and spend time with Sanjay at hishouse and eat his mom’s khaana.Mani Ratnam Sir is always conscious that hisactors are acting. So he keeps telling you to notact and be natural. He makes you unlearneverything when you work with him. We actorsget caught in our mannerisms and the way wegive a shot and forget to surprise ourselves. WithMani Sir, you get tired of being natural and then,at some point, you give a shot which only lateryou realise what he has got out of you.DO YOu HAvE ANY fAvOuRItESAMONgSt YOuR CO-StARS?Has to be Shah Rukh and Aamir and of course MrKamal Haasan and Mr Bachchan. I workedsimultaneously with Shah Rukh in Kuch Kuch

Hota Hai and Aamir in Ghulam very early in mycareer and was impressioned by them. I observedthat inspite of being big stars they were particularabout each shot of theirs. While Shah Rukh wasenergetic on the set, Aamir was calm, but bothhad the same kind of energy in their work. Theyboth gave me so much love and respect as anewcomer that today when I work with newpeople I give them the same that I got. Theirpersonalities an styles are different, but they areactually similar in their work ethic and their lovefor the craft. They are also both technically savvy.from Shah Rukh you learn how differently youcan enact a casual scene that is far more difficultto do than a dramatic scene. Aamir’s dedication isamazing. As a newcomer, I respected it, but evenafter being in the industry for 15 years, I stillrespect it. Mr Bachchan is the most humblelegend and with him, you know that there isnothing he cannot do. Mr Kamal Haasan isextremely easy to work with and his commandover his craft is awe-inspiring. The only regret Ihave is that I have not worked with Rajinikanth.It SEEMS tHAt YOu LOOK up tOpEOpLE MuCH OLDER tO YOu. DOESIt HAvE SOMEtHINg tO DO wItH YOuAS A pERSON?I have wisdom of a 60-year-old (laughs). Alsoit takes a lot for me to respect a person, sowhen a person has a body of work behind him,it draws my respect.wHAt ARE YOu SEEKINg fROM YOuRLIfE At tHIS pOINt IN tIME?I just want to be at peace with myself, personallyand professionally. I want to lead my life the way Iwant to without having to worry about what theother person may be thinking. Professionallyagain, I would like to be able to just do films that Iwant to without having to explain my reasons tomy friends, family and fans. CouRteSy toi

Shah Rukh and Aamir are similar: Rani Mukerji

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HOLLYWOOD actressKristen Stewart hasexpressed a desire to

work in a Bollywood film withHrithik Roshan.

“If someone offers me a goodscript, I would love to work in aBollywood film. I would love towork with Hrithik Roshan. He issuch a wonderful actor and sogood-looking,” Stewart said in astatement here.

“In fact, if I have a boy, Iwould want him to look likeHrithik Roshan, but with Rob’s(her real-life boyfriend and on-screen husband) eyes,” she said.

There was a buzz in B-townsome two years back that film-maker Shekhar Kapur wanted tocast ‘Twilight’ in his ambitiousproject ‘Paani’ opposite Hrithik.

Kristen, who shot to fameplaying Bella Swan in Twilightand its sequel ‘The TwilightSaga: New Moon’, ‘The TwilightSaga: Eclipse’, ‘The TwilightSaga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1’ islooking forward to the release of‘The Twilight Saga: BreakingDawn - Part 2’.

“Bella as a character has re-ceived a lot of criticism for beinga throwback heroine, becauseshe sacrifices so much for herman. I strongly disagree. In fact,you have someone who isstronger than the guy she iswith, emotionally,” she said.

On playing an 18-year-oldmother to a six-year-old childin ‘The Twilight Saga’, shesaid, “That is something I’mgoing to miss the most. I didnot realise I had such a strongmaternal instinct until I playedmother to Mackenzie (Re-nesme). It was surreal.”

Ask her when she realisedthat ‘Twilight’ series haschanged her life, Kristen says,“‘Twilight’ changed my dailylife instantly. I was no one (be-fore the film released). I was akid. I had just turned 18. Theday the movie came out in thetabloids, the next day therewere images of me.”

Directed by Bill Condon‘Breaking Dawn 2’ stars Kris-ten Stewart, Robert Pattinsonand Taylor Lautner in the leadroles. The film releases on No-vember 23.

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RESEARCHERS estimated onWednesday that mammogramscaused more than 1 million Americanwomen over the past three decades tobe diagnosed with early-stage breast

cancers that would not have proved fatal if leftundetected and untreated, a controversial find-ing sure to provoke more heated debate over thebenefits of the screenings.

The study, published in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine, concluded that thesewomen were “overdiagnosed” and “overtreated”because there was not a corresponding declinein the diagnosis of tough-to-cure breast cancersthat have already spread. The authors saidmammography has saved few lives.

“There’s been a dramatic increase in early-stage breast cancers that coincides with an in-creased use of mammograms,” said studyco-author Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a professor ofmedicine at the Dartmouth Institute of HealthPolicy and Clinical Practice in Hanover, N.H.“But it’s not enough to find early-stage breastcancer; it must translate into fewer womenbeing diagnosed at a later stage, and we foundthis decrease to be remarkably small.”

But breast cancer specialists heatedly dis-puted the findings, with some calling the study“junk science” and others questioning the sizeof the overdiagnosis harms estimated by theresearchers. Dr. Leonard Lichtenfeld, deputychief medical officer of the American CancerSociety, said that the findings “must be viewedwith caution” and that the society stands by itsrecommendation for women to have annualscreening mammograms beginning at age 40.“We find that the evidence supports the con-clusion that mammography saves lives, andthat the benefits of screening mammographyoutweigh the risks and harms.”

The new findings may leave women in aquandary, because some breast tumourscaught early by mammography will turn outto be life-threatening, but doctors can’t tellwhich ones. Even the authors said womenshould continue to be offered mammograms.

Welch and his co-author Dr. ArchieBleyer, a clinical research professor at the Ore-gon Health and Science University in Port-land, culled through federal governmentcancer surveillance data of breast cancer diag-noses from 1976 (before mammograms came

into widespread use) through 2008, andfound that diagnoses of small, self-containedbreast tumours increased by 122 cases per100,000 women over three decades, while di-agnoses of advanced disease decreased by only8 cases per 100,000 women.

In 2008 alone, the researchers estimated,breast cancer was overdiagnosed in more than70,000 women, accounting for nearly one-third of all breast cancers diagnosed.

But getting to this conclusion involved alot of tricky calculations, such as accountingfor the routine use of hormone replacementtherapy in the 1980s and 1990s, which studieshave shown contributed to an increased rateof breast cancers. The researchers themselveswrote that their effort to erase the impact ofhormone therapy was “admittedly imprecise.”

Another subject of contention in the studyis how much mammography has contributedto a decline in the breast cancer death rate. Theresearchers argued that most of the decline canprobably be attributed to newer, more effectivetreatments, but other specialists disagreedwith that assessment. Dr. Leonard Lichtenfeld,deputy chief medical officer of the AmericanCancer Society, said that the findings “must beviewed with caution” and that the societystands by its recommendation for women tohave annual screening mammograms begin-ning at age 40. “We find that the evidence sup-ports the conclusion that mammography saveslives, and that the benefits of screening mam-mography outweigh the risks and harms.”

The new findings may leave women in aquandary, because some breast tumourscaught early by mammography will turn out tobe life-threatening, but doctors can’t tell whichones. Even the authors said women shouldcontinue to be offered mammograms. Welchand his co-author Dr. Archie Bleyer, a clinicalresearch professor at the Oregon Health andScience University in Portland, culled throughfederal government cancer surveillance data ofbreast cancer diagnoses from 1976 (beforemammograms came into widespread use)through 2008, and found that diagnoses ofsmall, self-contained breast tumours increasedby 122 cases per 100,000 women over threedecades, while diagnoses of advanced diseasedecreased by only 8 cases per 100,000 women.

In 2008 alone, the researchers estimated,

breast cancer was overdiagnosed in more than70,000 women, accounting for nearly one-third of all breast cancers diagnosed.

But getting to this conclusion involved alot of tricky calculations, such as accountingfor the routine use of hormone replacementtherapy in the 1980s and 1990s, which studieshave shown contributed to an increased rateof breast cancers. The researchers themselveswrote that their effort to erase the impact ofhormone therapy was “admittedly imprecise.”

Another subject of contention in the studyis how much mammography has contributedto a decline in the breast cancer death rate.The researchers argued that most of the de-cline can probably be attributed to newer,more effective treatments, but other special-ists disagreed with that assessment.

Dr. Daniel Kopans, a senior radiologist atMassachusetts General Hospital who has beena strong advocate for mammography, ques-tioned why the study was published in theprestigious New England Journal, calling it“junk science” that could be used to “denywomen access to screening.” Others, however,defended the researchers’ conclusions, sayingthe study verifies research data that’s beenpublished in other countries. “They just took adifferent way of looking at the likely benefits ofmammographic screening and the overdiagno-sis rate,” said Dr. Michael Barry, president ofthe Informed Medical Decisions foundation.

Previous research suggests that if 10,000women are screened for 10 years, there will be5 fewer breast cancer deaths and 50 extrabreast cancers diagnosed. That compares toprostate cancer screening, which leads to 7fewer cancer deaths per 10,000 men screenedand 350 extra cancers diagnosed. The highrate of overdiagnoses led an expert panel lastspring to recommend against the use of theprostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test toscreen men for the disease. The same panel,called the US Preventive Services Task force,three years ago stopped recommending mam-mograms for women in their 40s based on thenegligible lifesaving benefits seen in clinicaltrials and the high rate of false findings; thatdecision was met with heated criticism and amandate in the federal health law for insur-ance companies to cover mammography forall women age 40 and over. neWS DeSK

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Friday, 23 November, 2012

Woman’s Facebook photocauses fury online

TWO women have been placed on unpaidleave from their jobs after a facebookphoto taken at Arlington National

Cemetery angered thousands online and led to apetition for their resignation.Lindsey Stone, of Plymouth, Mass., was on a work-paid trip to Arlington National Cemetery inOctober when she posed for the photo in question,CBS Boston reported. In the photo, Stone stands atthe Tomb of the Unknown Solider next to a signthat reads “Silence and Respect,” giving the middlefinger and pretending to yell. She then posted thepicture to her facebook page. The photo, whichwas taken by a co-worker of Stone's, went viral asonline users criticized Stone for her insensitivity,according to the station. Stone attempted to quashthe outrage in a facebook response.“Whoa whoa whoa... wait,” she wrote on Oct. 20,according to Gawker. “This is just us, being thedouchebags that we are, challenging authority ingeneral. Much like the pic posted the night before,of me smoking right next to a no smoking sign.OBVIOUSLY we meant NO disrespect to peoplethat serve or have served our country.” neWS DeSK

‘Cannibal Cop’ talked aboutgirl meat for Thanksgiving

ANew York City police officer charged withplotting to kidnap, torture, cook and eat atleast 100 women had discussed having “girl

meat” for Thanksgiving. Prosecutors say GilbertoValle made the remark in an online chat in februarywith an unidentified man. They read the transcriptduring Valle's bail hearing Tuesday in Manhattanfederal court. Valle was quoted as saying that whileThanksgiving was still a long way off, he was gettinga plan in motion to abduct a woman for the meal. Hislawyer has said the alleged plot was pure fantasy. Thejudge on Tuesday denied bail, calling Valle's behaviour“depraved, bizarre, aberrational.” He set the trialfor Jan. 22. Valle has pleaded not guilty. neWS DeSK

Revealing scans showfoetuses yawn in the womb

WAITING toenter theworld is a

tedious business - soperhaps it should comeas no surprise thatfoetuses yawn.Scientists have shownconclusively for thefirst time that unbornbabies yawn repeatedlyin the womb. But it isnot because they aresleepy or bored. Themost likely explanation is that foetal yawning is anessential process linked to brain development.While it is well known that foetuses open and closetheir mouths, experts have disagreed over whetheror not they are actually yawning. The new study,using high resolution ultrasound footage, confirmsthat they really do yawn, and do it often.Researchers used a standard definition of yawningto distinguish it from non-yawn mouth opening. Atrue yawn involves a slow opening of the mouth toits full stretch, followed by more rapid closure. DrNadja Reissland, from the University of Durham,who led the study of seven male and eight femalefoetuses from six to nine months of pregnancy,said: “The results of this study demonstrate thatyawning can be observed in healthy foetuses andextends previous work on foetal yawning. “Unlikeus, foetuses do not yawn contagiously, nor do theyyawn because they are sleepy. Instead, thefrequency of yawning in the womb may be linked tothe maturing of the brain early in gestation.” foetalyawns occurred more frequently than simple mouthopenings early in pregnancy, but declined after 28weeks. A of total, 56 yawns and 27 non-yawn mouthopenings were observed from 58 scans. Thefindings are reported in the online journal PublicLibrary of Science ONE. Both humans and animalsyawn but why this strange behaviour has evolved isstill an unsolved mystery. Theories includecommunication, neurological function, regulatingtemperature and a link with stress. neWS DeSK

After sailing 2,500 miles from Turkey ina 16ft yacht, Ramazan Noyan Culumimagined that the British woman heloved would be swept off her feet and ac-cept his hand in marriage. Instead, hiseight-month odyssey took him only as faras an immigration removal office in Sus-sex, with the object of his desire tellinghim he will be arrested if he comes any-where near her. Mr Culum, a 38-year-oldTurkish businessman, was picked up byCustoms officials in the Channel thisweek after sailing the length of Europe towin the affections of Courtney Murray,whom he met at a restaurant in Cyprusin 2005. At the time, Ms Murray wasworking as a waitress on the island andonly served Mr Culum once. It wasenough for him to fall madly in love andhe stole her number from the restau-rant’s wall. His affections remainedundimmed even after Ms Murray turneddown his requests for a date and re-turned to her home, thought to be Liver-pool, where she later married. Last year,Mr Culum found her on facebook andbegan writing a blog about his plan totrack her down. After three months ofpreparation, he set out on April 23 fromthe Turkish port of Bodrum on his yacht,Ninova, writing: “Courtney I come. Prayfor me”. Mr Culum struggled againststorms as he crossed the Adriatic, theMediterranean, and passed through thestraits of Messina and Gibraltar andalong the Spanish coast. He then sailedup the Portuguese and french coastlines.At one stage, posting bearded pictures ofhimself, he claimed he was “ready to die”for his intended. Along the way heclaimed to have been deported ninetimes, imprisoned, gone on hunger strikeand slept rough. He wrote: “I spent myevery second with her in my mind and inmy dreams.” Addressing Ms Murray di-rectly, he added: “I love you too much.

The world is not beautiful without you. Idon’t want to continue to live withoutyou. Will you marry me?” He eventuallysailed into the Channel and was detainedoff Plymouth. Mr Culum, who once ran amobile phone company, was taken to adeportation centre and will send back toTurkey. Relations of Ms Murray appearto have become increasingly alarmed asMr Culum made his way to Britain, post-ing messages on his blog to warn him off.In April, her aunt florence wrote: “Court-ney is my niece. She has never and neverwill have a relationship with you. “If youever make it to the UK and make contactwith Courtney the police will be informedimmediately. Courtney is married andhappy. All you are doing is making your-self a fool and upsetting Courtney andher family.” The blog charts his infatua-tion with Ms Murray. At one stage, heraged: “You stupid girl, you didn’t under-stand even why I come to the UK. I willcome there, I will kneel down in front ofyou, I will kiss your hands and I will pro-pose marrying me. You can marry me oryou can imprison me. It’s yours to de-cide.” In his latest entry, on Tuesday, MrCulum recorded how he had been de-tained by the UK Border Agency and wasin an immigration removal office “lo-cated in Sussex”. He wrote: “After sevenmonths on the water, after a last monthunder highly bad conditions, after a lotof works, after a lot of efforts, I did neverdream to immigrate. But I was trying togain the heart of the angel of my life. ButI’m now at an immigration centre. I’mnot happy of course.” Peter Jones, of theUK Border Agency, said in a statementthat a 38-year-old Turkish national hadbeen detained. He added: “This manwas attempting to enter the UK withouta visa or a valid passport but wasstopped and will now be removed to hishome country.” neWS DeSK

Obsessed Turkish sailor's 8-monthsea odyssey to find British love

1 million women ‘overdiagnosed’ withbreast cancer due to mammograms

Pigeon shooters bring down aerial drone

AN animal rights group's attempted coupagainst a pigeon hunt ended with a bang lastweekend. Showing Animals Respect and

Kindness (SHARK) flew a remote-control cameraover a live pigeon shoot at the Wing Pointe Gun Clubin Berks County, Pa. on Sunday, WfMZ reported,and SHARK says one of the rifleman blew thecamera to pieces. “Shooting a drone is an extremelydangerous act,” SHARK president Steve Hindi statesin a press release. “What we were doing iscompletely legal. Someone at Wing Pointe isobviously so scared of our evidence that they aredesperate to stop it.” State police have been broughtin to investigate the destruction of the drone, whichSHARK claims was worth at least $4,000. “We wantto try and find out if the device was shot, who shot it.If we can find that out,” Trooper David Beohm toldWfMZ. “But then, on the flip side, we want to findout were they allowed to operate this device withouta permit or even over the property.” neWS DeSK

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Nadal back trainingafter knee injury

Kirsten defendssA’s battered attack

ADELAIDE: South Africa coach Gary Kirsten defended his team'spreparations after his pace brigade was laid low by injury in the sec-ond test on Thursday, leaving his back-up bowlers at the mercy of avoracious Michael Clarke and the Australian batsmen. South Africalost paceman Vernon Philander to a back strain prior to the match,and suffered a hammer blow after Jacques Kallis went off with a ham-string injury after capturing two wickets before lunch. Steyn returnedto the field after taking himself off after tea to be treated for a legstrain but the tourists finished the day bruised and demoralised asAustralia racked up a mammoth first-day total of 482-5 at the Ade-laide Oval. The team went fishing during a four-day layoff after thedrawn first test in Brisbane before training for four days in the lead-upto the second and Kirsten said that was enough preparation for hisbowlers. "first of all, we had four great days of prep leading into thisgame but it's always a thing that will come up. "Often when we'rehome for a test series we send players home and they come back twodays ahead to prepare. "There's no exact science to it. You can alwaysfind a way to criticise in some department. "Every team goes throughinjuries at some point in time. I don't think we're unique to that. Thefact that it happened on one day, I certainly don't have the answers tothat. It was unfortunate." Steyn, who captured the last wicket of theday by bowling Mike Hussey for 103, was not badly injured, Kirstensaid, but Philander's availability for the third and final test remained adoubt, while Kallis would be unable to bowl again in Adelaide. aGenCieS

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Marlon Samuels struck his fifth test cen-tury to move the West Indies towardsBangladesh's first innings total at the closeof the second day's play in the second teston Thursday.

The West Indies had earlier lost open-ers Kieran Powell (13) to pace bowlerRubel Hossain when the left-hander gavea catch to Shakib Al Hasan at deep squareleg then Chris Gayle (25) was quickly re-moved by off-spinner Sohag Gazi.

Wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahimsmartly caught Gayle when he tried tosweep Gazi but he could only manage aninside edge to leave the West Indies 43-2.

However Samuels and Bravo keptBangladesh at bay in the remaining hours,batting with ease on a pitch which did notoffer any significant turn to the local spin-ners.

Samuels, quiet in the tourists' first testwin in Dhaka, completed his century witha four off Shakib then raised his bat to ac-knowledge his teammates' applause.

Earlier West Indies needed a little overfive overs to end the first innings ofBangladesh, who added 22 to be all out for387.

Darren Sammy took a catch off hisown bowling to dismiss Mahmudullah for76 and end Bangladesh's record ninthwicket stand at 184.

Mahmudullah and Abul Hasan fell just12 runs short of the world record of 195,held by South Africa's Mark Boucher andPat Symcox against Pakistan at Johannes-burg in 1998.

Abul, unbeaten on 100 overnightwhich had made him only the second

debutant to score a century batting atnumber 10, missed another record whenhe was caught by Sammy off fidel Ed-wards for 113.

Another five runs would have seenAbul overtake Englishman Walter Read'sbest score by a number 10 of 117 againstAustralia at the Oval in 1884 but Edwards,with figures of 6-90 and his third six-wicket test haul in 55 matches, preservedthe record.

Samuels ton helps Windies edge towards B’desh total

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MICHAEL Clarke blastedhis second double-cen-tury in consecutive in-nings to drive Australia

to a mammoth first-day total of 482-5 in the second test on Thursday asSouth Africa's ailing pace attack wasbrought to its knees. Captain Clarkeblasted 39 fours and a six in asparkling unbeaten 224 at AdelaideOval to demoralise the Proteas afterthey lost paceman Vernon Philanderbefore play started with a back injuryand Jacques Kallis with a suspectedhamstring injury after lunch.

Dale Steyn, the world's top-ranked test bowler, took himself offafter tea with another suspected ham-string strain, leaving the tourists at themercy of a withering barrage fromClarke and fellow centurions DavidWarner and Mike Hussey. "We justmade 480 in a day, now I'm trying towork out what we've got to do tomor-row to set up this game to have a crackat winning," Clarke told reportersafter becoming the first player to scorefour double-centuries in a calendaryear. "It's a very good wicket... Sothere's a long way to go in this gamebefore anybody wins but certainly forus, we need to really focused on to-morrow morning and continuing thismomentum and making as many runsas we can in this first innings."

Steyn returned to the field andbowled Hussey with the last ball ofthe day but the horse had alreadybolted as Clarke and the rugged 37-year-old combined for a 272-runstand in bright sunshine. That fol-lowed a thrilling 155-run partnershipbetween Clarke and Warner after thehosts had slumped to 55-3 with Kallisstriking twice in the morning to skit-tle the top order. However, whenKallis went off injured, the pair hit outafter lunch as South Africa captainGraeme Smith rested Steyn andthrew spinner Imran Tahir to thewolves. Clarke and Warner plundered

108 runs in less than an hour afterlunch, with the latter lofting a six overbowler Tahir's head and then strokinga sublime cover drive for four on thenext delivery to bring up his third testcentury. Having had his place in thetest side questioned after an indiffer-ent run of form, an ecstatic Warnerbounded down the wicket andpunched the air in delight as the fanssqueezed into the half of the groundnot under renovation roared.

The belligerent 26-year-old openerwas eventually caught behind for 119off the bowling of paceman MorneMorkel, having blasted 16 fours andfour sixes, but Australia were in controlat 210-4. Clarke, in white-hot form fol-lowing an unbeaten 259 in the drawnfirst test in Brisbane, barely missed astep as he combined with Hussey aftertea to drive Australia to their highest

first-day total in decades. The 31-year-old skipper brought up his first hun-dred with a cut to the backward pointboundary off Tahir, having survived anappeal for caught behind when on 73off the bowling of paceman Rory Klein-veldt that umpire Billy Bowden gavenot out. South Africa referred the deci-sion but it was turned down after avideo review, the second declined forthe innings, leaving the visitors with nomore referrals. As shadows creptacross the ground, Clarke began a re-newed assault before stumps andcharged to his 200th run with a singleflicked off his pads to spark a standingovation from a roaring crowd. Thecrowd was back on their feet one balllater as Hussey slogged over midwicketfor six to bring up his 17th test centuryand second in succession after register-ing a ton in Brisbane.

Clarke doubles up to put OZs in charge PCB security

delegation

changes schedule

of visit to indiaLAHOREaGenCieS

The three members security delegationof Pakistan Cricket Board has changedthe schedule of its visit to India to re-view security arrangements ahead ofPakistan team's tour next month.The delegation was scheduled to leavehere on Thursday but its visit has beenpostponed for few days owing to Youm-e-Ashura ,said a spokesman of PCB.“Now the delegation will leave earlynext week,” he added.The delegation comprising , head ofPCB security and vigilance, AhsanSadiq, manager international cricket,PCB, Usman Wahla and security man-ager of Pak cricket team, Wasim Ahmadwill be visiting various venues wherePak team will be playing matchesagainst the Indian tea during its visitstarting from December 22.

U19 National women

Cricket from 28thLAHOREaGenCieS

The national U19 women cricket cham-pionship will be played from November28 at Lahore Country club Muridke.“Twelve Regional U-19 teams divided intwo groups will be participating in theevent,” said a spokesman of PCB hereon Thursday.Pool A comprises Islamabad, Hyder-abad, Abbottabad, Karachi, Multan andfaisalabad while Peshawar.Sialkot, Lahore Rawalpindi, Quetta andBahawalpur are in the Pool B. The tour-nament will end on December 13.

banGLaDeSH fiRSt inninGS (oVeRniGHt 365-8)

tamin iqbal b Sammy 32

nazimuddin c powell b edwards 4

Shahriar nafees c Ramdin b Sammy 26

naeem islam b edwards 16

Shakib al Hasan c Ramdin b edwards 17

Mushfiqur Rahim c Ramdin b edwards 38

nasir Hossain c edwards b permaul 52

Mahmudullah c&b Sammy 76

Sohag Gazi lbw b edwards 0

abul Hasan c Sammy b edwards 113

Rubel Hossain not out 5

extras (b-4 lb-3 nb-1) 8

total (all out; 91.1 overs) 387

fall of wickets: 1-5 2-64 3-77 4-93 5-98 6-185 7-193 8-193 9-377

bowling: edwards 18.1-2-90-6 (1nb), best 10-3-31-0, Sammy 23-

4-74-3, narine 19-0-91-0, permaul 19-2-79-1, Samuels 2-0-15-0

WeSt inDieS fiRSt inninGS

C.Gayle c Rahim b Gazi 25

K.powell c Shakib b Rubel 13

D.bravo not out 85

M.Samuels not out 109

extras (lb-3 w-1 nb-5) 9

total (two wickets; 82 overs) 241

fall of wickets: 1-37 2-43

to bat: S.Chanderpaul, D.Ramdin, D.Sammy (captain), V.permaul,

S.narine, t.best, f.edwards

bowling (to date): Sohag Gazi 20-3-67-1, abul Hasan 14-0-56-0

(w-1 nb-3), Rubel Hossain 14-5-31-1 (nb-2), naeem islam 1-0-3-0,

Shakib al Hasan 26-8-56-0, Mahmudullah 7-0-25-0

bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat

West indies lead the two-match series 1-0

SCoReboaRD

auStRaLia fiRSt inninGS

D. Warner c Smith b Morkel 119

e. Cowan c & b Kallis 10

R. Quiney c Smith b Morkel 0

R. ponting b Kallis 4

M. Clarke not out 224

M. Hussey b Steyn 103

extras (lb-10, w-1 nb-11) 22

total (for five wickets, 86.5 overs) 482

fall of wickets: 1-43 2-44 3-55 4-210 5-482

Still to bat: M. Wade, p. Siddle, b. Hilfenhaus, J. pattinson, n. Lyon.

bowling: Steyn 17.1-1-62-1, Morkel 22-5-128-2, Kallis 3.3-1-19-

2, Kleinveldt 16.1-2-70-0 (nb-6, w-1), tahir 21-0-159-0 (nb-5),

Du plessis 7-0-34-0

South africa: Graeme Smith (capt), alviro petersen, Hashim

amla, Jacques Kallis, ab de Villiers, Jacques Rudolph, faf du

plessis, Rory Kleinveldt, Dale Steyn, imran tahir, Morne Morkel.

australia won the toss and chose to bat

third test: WaCa, perth nov. 30-Dec. 4

SCoReboaRD

LiSt of auStRaLia Captain MiCHaeL

Clarke's test innings in 2012 after he scored 224 (not out) in

the second test against South africa at adelaide oval on

thursday.

1St inninGS 2nD inninGS oppoSition Venue

329* -- india Sydney

18 -- india perth

210 37 india adelaide

73 6 West indies bridgetown

45 15 West indies port of Spain

24 25 West indies Roseau

259* -- South africa brisbane

224* -- South africa adelaide

totaL RunS in 2012: 1265+

battinG aVeRaGe foR 2012: 140.56

*not out

CLaRKe'S battinG

ADElAiDE: Another day, another Michael Clarke double-century.

clarke keento cash in atSA’s expenseADELAIDE: Michael Clarke pro-pelled his extraordinary year to newheights on Thursday, his second dou-ble century in consecutive inningsagainst South Africa charged by hisdesire to "cash in" during the goodtimes, the Australia captain told re-porters. Clarke's unbeaten 224, whichdrove Australia to a mammoth first-day total of 482 for five in the secondtest, followed his 259 not out in thedrawn first test in Brisbane and madehim the first player to grab four dou-ble-tons in a calendar year. aGenCieS

Marlon Samuels scored his third testcentury in 2012.

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MUMBAIaGenCieS

India will look to maintain their stranglehold over Eng-land when the second Test begins in Mumbai on fri-day. Already 1-0 up in what has been touted as the'revenge series', another victory for Mahendra SinghDhoni's men will ensure that England's quest for theirfirst series win on Indian soil in 27 years will continue.It will also keep India on track for a whitewash andavenge the 4-0 defeat they suffered during their lasttour to England. India totally outplayed England in theopening game of the four-match series on a dusty bowlat Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad, except for a fight-back by captain Alastair Cook and wicketkeeper MattPrior that kept them afloat till the final day after thehome side took a huge 330-run first innings lead. Bar-ring Cook and Prior, who scored 176 and 91 in Eng-land's second innings in Ahmedabad, the other visitingbatsmen looked all at sea against the Indian bowlingattack led by left-arm spinner, Pragyan Ojha, whoemerged with a nine-wicket haul.

The match at Wankhede Stadium, starting friday,would also be significant with Virender Sehwag set tobecome only the ninth Indian player to feature in100 Tests. The form of the dashing opener, whohit a run-a-ball 117 in India's massive first in-nings, would be crucial again to the outcome ofthe second match. India, however, may missthe services of pacer Umesh Yadav whopicked up a lower back injury while trying toget some extra pace and bounce on unrespon-sive Motera track during the first match.Yadav's injury has brought IshantSharma into the picture as apossible replacement. Yadavhad given the home sideimportant breakthroughs- including the wickets ofIan Bell and Samit Pateloff successive balls inEngland's second in-nings in the first Test

and it will be a blow for the home side if he is declaredunfit. Zaheer Khan, who used the old ball craftily intightening the screws on England on an unresponsivepitch at Ahmedabad, will spearhead the attack.

The gangling Sharma, who has recovered from hisviral infection that laid him low in the first Test, wouldbe his likely new-ball support if Yadav is ruled out,leaving the latter's cover Ashok Dinda in the reserves.India are also likely to retain R Ashwin, though he gaveaway over 100 runs while getting tail-end batsmanGraeme Swann in England's second innings to add tohis three-wicket haul in the first, and keep his off-spinrival Harbhajan Singh again in the reserves. The In-dian batting clicked in telling fashion with Sehwag rat-tling the England attack with a run-a-ball 117, his firstin more than two years. Cheteshwar Pujara would alsolook to continue from where he left in Ahmedabadwhere he hit an unbeaten 206 in a team score of 521for 8 declared. Senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar, whowas honoured last evening (Wednesday) by the cricketboard for his incredible achievement of scoring a 100international hundreds, strangely has hit only one Testton at his home ground -- 148 as captain against SriLanka in 1997. The 39-year-old cricketer, who is in the

twilight of his glorious career, would be eager toscore his second century here as this could well

be his final chance to achieve the feat beforehe retires. He had missed out on the chanceto score his landmark 100th ton by six runsin front of his adoring home city fans duringthe thrilling last-ball draw against the West

Indies last November. The Wankhede trackappeared to have an even coat of grass two

days before the match but is expected to sporta different hue on the morning of the

game. Skipper Dhoni had given aclarion call for a turning track

from day one after his spinnersOjha and Ashwin bowled 55and 43 overs on the low andslow Motera track as Englandmade over 400 runs in thesecond innings.

india look to maintain winning run

SYDnEYaGenCieS

ENGLAND'S second succes-sive Ashes series next winterwill begin in Brisbane on No-vember 21. Cricket Australia

released the dates for the five-Test por-tion of the 2013-14 tour, which also con-tains five one-day internationals andthree Twenty20 matches and begins justweeks after Australia depart England.

England have three tour matches,the first of which is against a WesternAustralia XI in Perth beginning on Oc-tober 31, before the first Test and afourth in between the first and secondTests.

further Tests will take place at theAdelaide Oval, the WACA, the Mel-bourne Cricket Ground - the traditional

Boxing Day game - and the SydneyCricket Ground, finishing on January 7.

Cricket Australia chief executiveJames Sutherland said: "We are de-lighted to be able to confirm the Ashesfixtures so far in advance of the Series.It means fans will be able to plan theirtrips around the country to follow all theaction.

"I am sure there will be a lot of fansfrom the UK who will want to make thetrip over and we look forward to hostingthem here."

England are facing the same oppo-sition in back-to-back series - at homenext summer and away in the winter - toprevent a quick turnaround between theAshes and the World Cup, which takesplace in Australia in early 2015.

The dates of the limited-overs fix-tures have not yet been announced.

aSHeS SeRieS 2013-14Brisbane, November 21-25, 2013: Australia v EnglandAdelaide, December 5-9:Australia v Englandperth, December 13-17:Australia v EnglandMelbourne, December 26-30:Australia v EnglandSydney, January friday 3-7, 2014: Australia v England

touR MatCHeSperth, October 31-November 2: WA XI v EnglandHobart, November 6-9:Australia A v EnglandSydney, November 13-16:NSW XI v EnglandCanberra, November 29-30:Chairman's XI v England

Ashes dates announced

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The Premier League champions needed a win tohave any hope of qualifying for the knockoutstages of the Champions League, but their gameagainst Real Madrid got off to the worst possiblestart when Karim Benzema's strike put Mour-inho's team in the lead. However, Los Blancosfailed to extend their advantage despite domi-nating in possession, and Roberto Mancini'smen equalized from the penalty spot after AlvaroArbeloa was sent off for hauling down SergioAguero. Speaking to uefa.com after the game,Mourinho bemoaned his team's inability to con-vert the chances they created in the firstperiod. "I think we should have won.We had plenty of chances to scorethe second goal, and if we haddone that in the first half thegame would have been over,but we did not score and theyhad a reaction. Then they hada penalty, and we had a mansent off. In those conditionswe had to go for the pointwhich would get us through," herevealed. "At 1-1, with 10 v 11City had thousands of attackingoptions, Tevez, Nasri,Aguero, Dzeko. They hadlimitless options. Wejust had 10 men.But we man-

aged to hold on. We resisted. We knew how tocontrol the game. The main thing is we qualified.Mission accomplished. We just played to drawthe game and we carried out our objective."Group D's other fixture saw Borussia Dortmundease past Ajax 4-1, allowing the Bundesligachampions to finish top of the pile ahead of Real,but the Los Blancos boss had a reason to bepleased with his team's second place finish.HARt DISAppOINtED BY CItY EuROExIt: Joe Hart said Manchester City only hadthemselves to blame as their Champions Leaguehopes came to an end with a 1-1 draw at hometo Real Madrid. Karim Benzema struck theopening goal for the Spanish champions and

Real should have had more in a devas-tating spell but City grew in confi-

dence as the match wore on andSergio Aguero levelled from thespot after Alvaro Arbeloa wassent off for a second yellowcard. City poured forward in

search of a winner againsttheir 10-man opposition in the

closing stages but it was not tobe and the result leaves the Bar-clays Premier League champi-

ons with just three points inGroup D and unable to progress.

"We're very disappointed. We'vehad a few opportunities in this

group when we could have done a lotbetter," England goalkeeper

Hart told Sky Sports 2.

‘Real should have beaten City’

Broad fitnessdoubt for test

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England vice-captain Stuart Broad missedtraining in Mumbai on Thursday and is adoubt for friday's second Test with India.Broad injured his heel in a warm-up matchbut played in the first Test, which Englandlost by nine wickets. The 26-year-old's ab-sence on Thursday is not thought to be re-lated to that injury, an England spokesmandescribing him as being "under the weather".fellow pace bowler Steven finn has beenruled out with a thigh strain. All three Eng-land seam bowlers struggled onthe flat surface in the Ahmed-abad Test,Broad fail-ing to takea wicket asIndiaposted 521-8 declared in the first in-nings. Many observers feltMonty Panesar should havebeen selected as a secondfrontline spinner, as India'sslow left-arm bowlerPragyan Ojha was the mostsuccessful bowler in thematch with nine wickets.Broad being sidelined wouldpresent an opportunity forPanesar, who made his debutin India six years ago and hastaken 142 wickets in 42 Tests.The 30-year-old Sussex bowlerhas not played for England sincethe Galle Test in March. Surrey'sStuart Meaker, who was calledinto the squad as cover andtook four wickets in the final warm-up matchagainst Haryana, plus Durham's GrahamOnions, are other seam bowling optionsshould the selectors persist with threequicker bowlers. England also need to find areplacement for batsman Ian Bell, who willmiss the match as he has returned home tospend time with his new baby son.

Rodgers gratefulfor Reds patience

LIVERPOOL aGenCieS

Champions League winners Chelsea sit agood eight places above Liverpool in thePremier League table, but it was RobertoDi Matteo who was shown the exit by Bluesowner Roman Abravmoich after the teamslumped to a 3-0 defeat against Juventusrecently. Rodgers admitted that the Redswere not a team that could afford to findthemselves in the bottom half, but he wasconfident the club's owners would supporthim in his vision to take Liverpool forward.

tottenhamfans injured inclashes in Rome

ROMEaGenCieS

A Tottenham Hotspur sup-porter has been seriously in-jured and several hurt inclashes with rival fans inRome. Spurs are due to playLazio in the Italian capital at18:00 GMT in a Europa Leaguematch. The Spurs fan wasstabbed at the DrunkenShip bar in the Campo de'fiori district and is un-derstood to have suf-fered a serious injury toan artery. The bar'sowner said some 40 men wearing helmetsand with faces covered attacked the Englishsupporters. The Italian newspaper CorriereDella Sera said at least seven Spurs fans,aged between 20 and 60, had been injuredand taken to San Camillo Hospital, HolySpirit Hospital and fatebenefratelli. Romepolice said five were British, one was fromCalifornia and one from Bangladesh.

Arsenal need to topgroup: wilshere

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Jack Wilshere wasunder no illusionsthat Arsenal needto improve if theyare to make an im-pression on theChampions League.Second-half goals forthe 20-year-old - hisfirst in almost two years -and Lukas Podolski made sure of at leastsecond place in Group B after leadersSchalke beat Olympiacos. The Gunnersmust now win in Athens in a fortnight tostand any chance of finishing top and sohead into the last 16 as one of the seeds.Wilshere knows they have to get better andtold Sky Sports 4: "We started off sloppy.But we've still got one game left. We needto finish top. "The first half was hard - wewere sloppy, we gave ball away and weren'tourselves so needed to come and get anearly goal." He added: "We have to step itup. "Tonight wasn't good enough, espe-cially in the first half. "We've got to playthe best teams to win it so it doesn't matterwho we get." Wilshere ran to embrace theArsenal physio after scoring and of his ownrecovery, he said: "It (fitness) will come -I've never been injured before so I can't tellyou how long it will take." Podolski echoedWilshere's sentiments about the perform-ance, saying: "In the first half we lost a lotof balls. "The first goal from Jack was goodfor us. "We were after three points and weare very happy about this." Gunners coachArsene Wenger also refused to considerwinning the competition, telling Sky SportsNews: "We don't worry too much aboutthat. "When you are in this competitionyou just want to get into the next round.

lAHORE Home Child is held by owner Shaheeb Butt, afterthe horse left all the favourite horses bhind to win in thelahore Race Club activity.

RDM still passionateMuNICH: Roberto Di Matteo has spoken of hispride at being Chelsea manager just hours after hewas sacked by the Barclays Premier League club.Di Matteo lost his job in the wake of Tuesday's 3-0Champions League defeat to Juventus in Turin.The Italian was replaced by former Liverpool bossRafael Benitez who has been appointed as interimfirst-team manager until the end of the season. DiMatteo spent eight months in charge at StamfordBridge winning both the fA Cup and for the firsttime in the club's history, the Champions League."It was an honour for me to be appointed managerof a club that I loved playing for and one that is soclose to my heart," he said in a statement issued bythe League Managers Association. aGenCieS

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Paul lawrie plays to a

second-place finish in DP

world tour Championship.

Els, Daly signup for indonesianMasters

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Major champions Ernie Els and big-hit-ting John Daly have confirmed their par-ticipation in the US$750,000 CIMBNiaga Indonesian Masters in 2013. Els,the reigning British Open champion andDaly, a two-time Major winner, willheadline the event alongside the talentedAsian Tour stars at the Royale JakartaGolf Club from May 2 to 5, 2013. PTBank CIMB Niaga Tbk (CIMB Niaga) wasexcited to continue their title sponsor-ship for the second year and emphasizedtheir commitment to develop the game ofgolf in Indonesia. "I am delighted thatthe CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters2013 will once again welcome some ofthe world's best golfers. Ernie Els andJohn Daly are not only legends in golfbut are also very popular and I am suretheir presence will further enhance ourcountry's premier tournament. We arecommitted to developing golf in Indone-sia and strongly believe that this eventserves as a great platform for junior, am-ateur and professional golfers to aspireto," said Arwin Rasyid, President Direc-tor of CIMB Niaga. Els, also known as"Big Easy", has won more than 60 pro-fessional tournaments around the world,including seven World Match Play titlesand four Major victories. He captured hissecond British Open title at RoyalLytham and St Annes in July. "Everyonewho knows me knows that I love playingin Asia and I am excited about returningto Indonesia. I thoroughly enjoyed play-ing in Bali many years back and I amsure playing in Jakarta at Royale Jakartawill be as good an experience for me. Mygame is coming into form and I look for-ward to contending in the CIMB NiagaIndonesian Masters 2013", said theSouth African. fan favourite Daly is oneof the most colourful and charismaticplayers. His "grip it and rip it" style ofplay will be put to test at the majesticRoyale Jakarta Golf Club. "I always enjoyplaying on new courses. Indonesia andRoyale Jakarta Golf Club have a greatreputation for golf so I am looking for-ward to my first trip there in May nextyear. I am also looking forward to playingagainst some of the best golfers from theAsian Tour as well as my old friend ErnieEls who is a great guy. It will be a greatweek and hopefully I can put up a showfor the fans," said Daly. A total of 156players will compete in the US$750,000event, with 120 from the Asian Tour and20 from the PGA Indonesia (ProfessionalGolfers Association of Indonesia). Therewill also be four invites going to the Ama-teur Golf Association of Indonesia (PGI),with one spot up for grabs to the winnerof the event's Amateur golf league which

runs from Januaryto March, 2013.

workshop

wins Railways

volleyball titleLAHOREaGenCieS

Workshop division won the title ofPakistan Railways inter division vol-leyball championship title beating La-hore 3-0 in the final here on Thursdayat Mughalpura institute ground.Workshop enjoyed all time supremacyin the match to post a straight set 25-20, 25-22, 25-18 victory.Peshawar Division obtained the thirdplace.Member Executive committee of Pun-jab Olympics Association, Asif Iqbalwas the chief guest on the occasion andgave away the prizes.

LAHOREaGenCieS

The visiting senior golfers from Delhi are here in La-hore to play golf and also revive friendships and insome cases pay a visit to the ancestral places of theirelders.

Playing golf and contesting under the banner ofDelhi Explorers this eight member golf team playedgolf at the majestic Royal Palm Golf Course yesterdayand included Admiral S. Jain, Vice Admiral S. C.Chopra, Air Marshall D. S. Sabhiki, R. M. Kaul of AirIndia, Ashok Malik, businessman, Mona Primlani,Mukta Malhotra(lady golfer) and Capt M. S. Kohli,the leader of Delhi Explorers.

During the golf playing round at Royal Palm theymatched wits and golfing abilities with a few seasonedgolfers of Lahore and they included Khalid AmirKhan, a former ambassdor, Col(r)Rao Qamar, TariqJamil, Brig(r)Javed Sheikh and Dr Tariq Malik.

The Indians were accurate off the tees and found

the excellent fairways to their liking and really en-joyed their shot making. The only lady golfer amongstthem Mukta Malhotra is certainly an accomplishedgolfer and has won many tournaments in India andyesterday appeared to be the best one, in fine trim anda smooth golf swing.

"I am really amazed at the hospitality of our Pak-istani hosts, of course not that we expected anythingless", said Mukta, a businesswoman who has a thriv-ing clothing business in Delhi. 'I normally practise atthe prestigious DLf Golf Course in Delhi and loveevery moment of it and would love and would be hon-ored if the lady golfers from Pakistan could visit us".

Another lady from India Usha Malik wife ofAshok Malik stated that a vist to Royal Palm is goingto be a memorable one and "I can only say that thegolf course is a beauty".

As regards the leader of the delegation Capt(r)M.S. Kohli, he is nationally known in India for his moun-taineering expeditions and was the first one to con-quer the Himalyas in 1971.

DUBAIaGenCieS

Paul Lawrie credits a second-placefinish in last year's DP World TourChampionship in Dubai as thespringboard to his golfing renais-sance. And the 43-year-old fromAberdeen is determined to build ona great 12 months by improving fur-ther. "This week last year was thestart of getting back up there," hesaid on the eve of this year's event inDubai. "To nearly win a tournamentof this quality with the field we hadwas a huge boost for my confi-dence."

Lawrie finished last year's end-of-season showpiece, featuring thetop 60 players in Europe, two

strokes behind Spaniard AlvaroQuiros - who posted a winning tallyof 19 under par. The 1999 Openwinner had been struggling, break-ing a near-nine year trophy droughtto win the Andalucian Open inMarch 2011.

And, following his good displayin Dubai, Lawrie was a model ofconsistency in 2012 - going on torecord nine top-10 finishes, includ-ing victories at the Qatar Mastersand the Johnnie Walker Champi-onship in Scotland.

"It was just a snowball effect atthe start of the year," he told BBCScotland. "Every week I played, Iseemed to be in contention to win."I had been working hard on myshort game, especially with the put-

ter, and I could see things slowlyhappening." Lawrie's excellent formearned him a place at the Ryder Cupafter a 13-year absence. And heplayed his part in Europe's unlikelycomeback victory over the UnitedStates in September, trouncingBrandt Snedeker during the dra-matic final-day singles.

"It's been good, but you don'twant to get carried away and youwant to keep going," he added. "Iwant to make next year even better.I don't want to put too much impor-tance on this year.

"I was 18th in the order of meritin 2011 and I'm currently 10th, soit's an improvement and, if I can dobetter again next year, it's an evenbigger step forward.

Lawrie seeks more Dubaiinspiration after a great 2012

Indian golfers at Royal Palm to revive friendship

lAHORE: the india Golfers at Royal Palm before their tee off.

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Olympic 100mbottle throw: AshleyGill-webb faces trial

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A man accused of throwing a bottle at thestart of the men's Olympic 100m final willstand trial next year. Ashley Gill-Webb, ofSouth Milford, North Yorkshire, was ar-rested after the incident in the LondonOlympic Stadium in August. He haspleaded not guilty to two public order of-fences. District Judge Jacqueline Comyns,at Thames Magistrates' Court, grantedhim conditional bail. He is due to appearfor trial on 3 January.The court heard he had been receivingpsychiatric treatment at Bootham ParkHospital in York after being sectionedunder the Mental Health Act, but was re-leased on 7 September. At a hearing on 6August, he denied using threateningwords or behaviour with intent to causeharassment, alarm or distress under Sec-tion 4A of the Public Order Act.Mr Gill-Webb has now also pleaded notguilty to using threatening, abusive or in-sulting words or behaviour or disorderlybehaviour within the hearing or sight of aperson likely to be caused harassment,alarm or distress, under Section 5 of thePublic Order Act.The conditions of his bail are that he staysat his home address in South Milford orBootham Park Hospital.His trial is set to take place at StratfordMagistrates' Court in east London.After the incident a Dutch judo championhit a man she had seen throwing a bottleon to the track. Edith Bosch, 32, who wona bronze medal in the 70kg category, saidshe had hit him on the back with the flatof her hand and the incident had madeher miss the race. A London 2012spokesman said at the time: "The incidenthad no impact on the competitors or theevent." However, US sprinter JustinGatlin, who took bronze in the race, saidthe bottle had been a "little distraction". He added: "I didn't know what it was,but when you're in those blocks, and thewhole stadium's quiet, you can hear apin drop."

BRISBAnEaGenCieS

tHE new WTA season willbegin with eight of theworld's top 10 competingin a star-studded field in

Brisbane. The Brisbane Internationalis the opening event of the 2013 cam-paign and it will be headed by worldnumber one Victoria Azarenka.

Her name was on the full entrylist unveiled on Wednesday. The2012 Australian Open winner joinsfellow Grand Slam championsMaria Sharapova and SerenaWilliams, who had already con-firmed their participation, in theline-up. Other members of the top10 heading to Melbourne are An-

gelique Kerber, Sara Errani, PetraKvitova, Sam Stosur and CarolineWozniacki.

Azarenka said: "I am very proudto have ended the year as worldnumber one and I am excited tostart my 2013 campaign in Bris-bane. I know I will get some toughmatches against the world's bestthere, which is perfect preparationleading into the Australian Open."Tournament director CameronPearson described the event's fieldas its strongest ever.

He said: "The women's field isspectacular, it's the strongest everseen in Queensland.

"We have the current worldnumber one, three former worldnumber one players plus five Grand

Slam winners, and between themthey have won 22 major titles. "In abattle between the top three, Victo-ria and Maria will be especially mo-tivated to turn the tables on Serena,who dominated their matches in2012, and this should make forsome electrifying tennis."

The full field for men's tourna-ment has yet to be confirmed butBritish star Andy Murray has al-ready committed to competing. Thetournament gets under way on De-cember 30. Meanwhile, the ASBClassic, which begins a day later, hasalso revealed its field with formerGrand Slam champion SvetlanaKuznetsova and 2010 Wimbledonfinalist Vera Zvonareva committingto the Auckland event.

Brisbane field excitesSerena, Sharapova

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Rafael Nadal says he is "getting bet-ter" after starting training as part ofhis recovery from a knee injury. Nadalhas not played a competitive matchsince losing to Czech Lukas Rosol inthe second round of Wimbledon. Hewrote on his facebook page: "My firsttennis practice after all these weeks.Getting better and hope to continuewith the positive trend."

The 26-year-old is aiming to be fitfor the Australian Open in Januaryand has started practising on a hardcourt. Nadal, ranked fourth in theworld, has struggled with knee prob-lems in the past and was unable to de-fend his Wimbledon title in 2009because of tendonitis. The Spaniardmissed the Olympics and the US Openafter revealing he had a partial tear in

his patella tendon.JOSH MAY REtIRE IN SuM-MER: Great Britain's number twotennis player Josh Goodall is consid-ering retiring from the sport next

summer because of financial con-cerns. Goodall, 27, is ranked at 232 inthe world, a massive 229 places lowerthan number one Briton Andy Mur-ray. Goodall's career earnings are

£258,969, which is dwarfed by Mur-ray's career haul of £15.6m. Murrayearned £333,000 from his first twotournaments of 2012.

His prize money has averagedaround £30,000 for the last eightyears. "If I don't see myself gettingcloser to the top 150 by next summerI will take a look at what I want to getout of this," Goodall said. "I'm 27 andI've got bills to pay."

Goodall, who mainly plays on theChallenger and future tours, has im-proved his ranking by more than 200places since last summer and filledin for Murray in the Davis Cupmatch against Belgium in April. Hisincome is increased by the LawnTennis Association's bonus scheme.The system is geared towards keep-ing players in the game longer andgives them extra money based ontheir performance.

Nadal back training after knee injury

Arriens takesover GermanDavis Cup team

BERLIn aGenCieS

Little-known Carsten Arriens was ap-pointed Germany's Davis Cup chiefafter his predecessor Patrik Kuehnenquit late last month, the country's ten-nis federation (DTB) said on Thursday.Arriens, who won one tour title andreached a career high ranking of 109 in1993, has been tasked with turning thefortunes of the three-times winnersaround. Their last victory stretchesback 19 years ago."With this quick decision Carsten Ar-riens will get the necessary time to pre-pare for his new task and the matchagainst Argentina," said DTB Vice Pres-ident and former pro Carl-Uwe Steeb.Kuehnen had been locked in a publicspat for months with world number 19and German number one PhilippKohlschreiber, who has ruled out a re-turn for the team's first tie in 2013against Argentina in february.

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Marvin Hagler is one of the lucky ones.Hung up the gloves, said goodbye to thering, embarked on a life more ordinary.Comfortable, ostensibly happy, plenty ofinterests, could do without boxing - al-though boxing, a watery imitation of therich, bloody spectacle it was in his day,could do with Hagler now. "I found thatthere is another life after boxing," Haglertells BBC Sport. "I'm doing films, televi-sion, commentating. Stuff that keeps mebusy and keeps my mind off the love of

my life, which is boxing. "I didn't have toreturn to the game just for the money oranything like that. I'd done the homeworkbeforehand. I got ready for the day, pre-pared myself, so that when I retired I did-n't have to go back. But even if you dowhat I did, boxing will always stay in yourblood and that's probably why Ricky Hat-ton is back."

tHe 5 GReateSt CoMebaCKSSuGaR Ray RobinSon: the former welter-weight and middleweight world champion re-tired after losing to light-heavyweight king JoeMaxim in June 1952; returned January 1955; re-claimed the world middleweight crown from

Carl 'Bobo' Olson in May 1956.eDeR JofRe: Brazil's former bantamweightworld champion retired after losing a rematchto new title-holder Fighting Harada in May 1966;returned August 1969; won world featherweightcrown from Jose legra in May 1973.MuHaMMaD aLi: Banned and stripped of hisworld heavyweight crown after refusing to bedrafted into the US military, following his defeatof Zora Folley in March 1967; returned October1970; reclaimed the world heavyweight crownfrom George Foreman in October 1974.SuGaR Ray LeonaRD: the former welter-weight world champion retired for a secondtime because of an eye injury after beatingKevin Howard in May 1984; returned in April1987, claiming the world middleweight crown

from Marvin Hagler in his first fight back.GeoRGe foReMan: lost the world heavy-weight crown to Ali in 1974 and retired after adefeat by Jimmy Young in 1977; returned March1987; reclaimed a portion of the world heavy-weight title with a KO defeat of Michael Moorerin November 1994.Hagler had a more compelling reason than mostto come back. the undisputed world mid-dleweight champion for seven years in the 1980s,he lost his crown to Sugar Ray leonard in 1987.Hagler accused the judges of giving the title toleonard, he accused leonard of fighting like agirl. Some writers agreed with him, some didn't.leonard retired rather than fight Hagler again.three years later, leonard, back on the come-back trail himself, offered Hagler the rematch he

so desperately wanted. Only he didn't want it,not any more. "A while ago, yeah, i wanted himso bad," said Hagler at the time. "But i'm overthat. i like me now. i love me. i think i'm a verynice guy carrying myself well." Here's Hatton,sweating like a pig in his gym in Hyde. All set forhis comeback, against vyacheslav Senchenko inManchester on Saturday. Different era, samedilemma. Hatton didn't like himself, didn't lovehimself. For a time before he came out of retire-ment, he wasn't a very nice guy carrying himselfwell. "if you saw what went on between the fourwalls of mine and my girlfriend Jennifer's house,how bad it got, it was unthinkable," Hatton, whostruggled with depression and substance abuseafter being knocked out in two rounds by MannyPacquiao in 2009, tells BBC Sport.

Ricky Hatton comeback: Hagler shows Hitman the way

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Published by Arif Nizami at Plot No 79, Sector 24, Korangi Industrial Area Karachi. Editor: Arif Nizami

LAHORE/PESHAWAR/QUEttAStaff RepoRt

D ESPITE stringent securitymeasures put in place, mili-tants managed to sneak intoprovincial capital Peshawar on

Thursday, killing two policemen in thecity’s Badhabher area, just as the fed-eral and provincial governments ranamok to find a way to deal with the spi-ralling violence.

Peshawar and the rest of the coun-try has been put on high alert due toMuharram processions and followingtragic attacks on two imam bargahs inKarachi and Rawalpindi on Wednes-day. In Thursday’s attacks, officials saidmilitants riding a car opened indis-criminate fire on police personnel man-ning a checkpost in Speen QabarBadhabher, in the outskirts of Pe-shawar at noon. As a result, constablesRahman Wali and Shamsur Rahmanwere killed on the spot.

As security during Muharram be-comes a continuously widening problemfor the federal as well as provincial gov-ernments, authorities on Thursday ranfrom pillar to post to mitigate terror risksin the remaining days of Muharrammourning, with the Punjab government

even issuing shoot-on-sight orders forterrorists. The Crime InvestigationAgency of the Punjab Police on Thursdayannounced they had arrested two would-be suicide bombers from AnarkaliBazaar in Lahore after tracing a suspi-cious telephone call from Miranshah.Police said the two men had four suicidevests on them and each had about eightkilogrammes of explosives attached to it.Officials added the two terroristsplanned to join a procession on the 8thof Muharram to carry out the bombing,adding that they were between 20 and22 years of age. The Punjab governmentalso announced a complete ban on pil-lion riding for the 9th and 10th ofMuharram across the province.

Outlining security measures dur-ing Ashura, Punjab DIG Operationssaid terrorists could strike Lahore dur-ing the coming days of mourning,adding that they could opt for indis-criminate firing, bomb blasts or suicideattacks. He said participants of themain procession would be checked atfour separate points, adding that re-newed instructions were issued follow-ing Wednesday’s blasts in Karachi andRawalpindi. The DIG said all routes ofthe processions would be monitoredthrough security cameras.

His orders came as the security ap-paratus across the country salvagedsome pride by claiming to have defusedseveral bombs and IEDs at variousplaces. A bid of terror was thwarted onThursday when the Bomb DisposalSquad (BDS) defused a remote-con-trolled bomb near an imam bargah inKarachi’s Orangi Town. Police said theexplosives weighed five kilogrammes.In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the PeshawarPolice was informed about two high-in-tensity bombs having been plantedunder the recently-constructed ArbabSikandar Khan bridge on GT Road. Po-lice parties rushed to the area and cor-doned off the site, after which expertsof the Bomb Disposal Squad managedto defuse the bombs.

The Peshawar Police had also re-covered a huge quantity of explosivesfrom a pick-up truck late on Wednes-day. Security forces in Khyber Agencyalso foiled attempts of blowing uptrucks or containers loaded with sup-plies for NATO troops by defusinghigh-intensity improvised explosive de-vices (IED’s) in Jamrud tehsil. InBalochistan, the frontier Corpsclaimed it had captured a truck loadedwith a huge quantity of locally madebombs and other explosive material.

ISLAMABADonLine

The Supreme Court of Pakistan onThursday resumed hearing in a case re-garding appointment of judges at theIslamabad High Court (IHC), but Attor-ney General Irfan Qadir refused to givearguments, questioning why the bench

resumed hearing on a public holiday.As the hearing in the case re-

sumed, Qadir did not appear beforethe bench, but the court ordered theattorney general to appear in court.

Later, Qadir arrived in the courtbut refused to give arguments, sayinghearing on a public holiday was aunique example. To this, Justice Arif

Khilji said a local holiday did mean anationwide holiday, adding that therewere clear instructions from the chiefjustice that the Supreme Court wouldfunction even on public holidays incases of important issues. The federalgovernment had announced a localholiday in Islamabad because of the D-8 Summit being held in the capital.

Upon arriving at the SupremeCourt, Qadir told reporters that theSupreme Court, which was locatedin the Red Zone, should have fol-lowed the federal government’s de-

cision of holiday. He said it was against the narrative

that the apex court was working despitean official holiday in Islamabad.

Qadir said he had come to thecourt after watching news reports. Toa query, the attorney general said thequestion regarding the issuance ofnotification for the appointment ofjudges at the Islamabad High Courtshould be asked from the president,not him. Meanwhile, the IslamabadBar approved a resolution condemn-ing the delay by the government in

appointing judges at the IslamabadHigh Court.

Two judges of the IHC stoppedworking on Wednesday after the expiryof their respective tenures. The retire-ment of Justice Noorul Haq Qureshiand Justice Shaukat Aziz raised appre-hensions about the smooth functioningof the court, as the federal governmenthas so far not issued a notification ontheir extension despite recommenda-tions by the Judicial Commission andthe parliamentary committee onjudges’ appointment.

g says court should have followed federal

govt’s orders of observing public holiday

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The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursdayreturned with objections the petitionfiled by former army chief MirzaAslam Beg against the verdict in theAsghar Khan case.

The former army chief filed a peti-tion on Wednesday with the apexcourt to review its ruling in the AsgharKhan case regarding political fundingby the spy agency of the country in therun up to 1990 elections. The courtturned down Beg’s petition with ob-jections that the number of actual par-ties of the case had been increased and

that the change of counsel was not re-quested in a proper manner.

The objection said the review peti-tion was submitted by Ali Zafar advo-cate instead of the actual counselAkram Sheikh. The court also objectedto quality of the affidavit and the an-nexed documents. Beg said in his pe-tition that he was not offered a fairchance to defend himself before thebench; hence, he should be heard atlength again. The former army chiefstressed, “Whatever I did was at thebehest of the supreme commander.And, in case of non-compliance, thedisciplinary action might have ensuedagainst him.”

Two more policemen killed asgovt scrambles over security

IHC judges case: AGP refuses to give arguments on holiday

g Two would-be suicide bombers arrested in Lahore, shoot-on-site orders issued in Punjab during Ashura g Pillionriding banned on 9th, 10th Muharram g Bombs defused inKarachi, Peshawar, explosives-laden truck captured in Quetta

ISLAMABADStaff RepoRt

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejadon Thursday said that United States andsome western countries do not want to seea strong and prosperous Pakistan

Addressing a news conference at theIranian Embassy in Islamabad, presidentof the Islamic Republic of Iran, MahmoudAhmadinejad said that Iran has some solidinformation that United States and someof the western powers want to weakenPakistan. Terming the D-8 conference apositive move, he said the world is headingtowards a major change and soon thesedark days will be over.

“We have to create a new world basedupon the principles of freedom, justice, un-derstanding and mutual respect,” he said.Defending the rockets fired by Hamas onIsrael during the recent conflict in Gaza,Iranian President said that self defence isthe basic right of every nation.

“A Zionist regime on the lands ofPalestinians is the basic cause of this con-flict. This Zionist state was created todestabilize the region,” he said. MahmoudAhmadinejad maintained that Zionists arenaturally coward and criminal minded.

“They still have not responded to thequestions being raised regarding theHolocaust,” he said. He further said that‘these cowards were defeated by Hezbol-lah and Hamas’. He said that the issue ofPalestine could have easily been resolvedby holding free and fair polls. Answeringa question, he said that a possible Israeliattack on Iran was not possible at thetime-being because Israel is waiting forthe right time to harm Iran. “And this isnot that time,” he added.

“Israel very well knows that Iran does

not believe in aggression, but we will de-fend our soil and knock them out if weneed to,” he added. Regarding the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline, Iranian Presi-dent confirmed that the part of the IP gasproject in Iran was under rapid progressand near completion. “As per the agree-ment we expect Pakistan to completetheir part of the work soon,” he said. Healso disclosed that Iran and other Muslimcountries have offered financial assis-tance to Pakistan for the completion ofthe project. He said that US pressureagainst IP Gas project would not affectthe venture and their interference in theissue would prove to be useless.

Iranian President warned the US tobring an end to their meddling in the is-sues of other countries. “The US hasvery long hands and a very long tongue,and keeps poking its nose into the af-fairs of every country,” he said. “Iranwants this project to be completed by2014 and that is how it will be,” headded with determination. He said thatIran is providing electricity to Pakistanand revealed that another accord hasbeen inked under which a further 1000mega watts of power will be supplied toPakistan, he said.

Regarding sectarianism in Pakistan,the Iranian leader said that colonialpowers are behind the promotion of sec-tarianism among Muslims. “However,the Muslims should stay united becausetheir God is the same,” he furtheradded. “The Holy Prophet (S) fought 70battles in which only 400 lives werelost. Our Prophet (S) never believed inthe killing of innocent human beings.Had the Holy Prophet (S) lived in thisage, he would never have had permittedsectarianism,” he said.

US, West wants a weak Pakistan,says Iran’s Ahmadinejad

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