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US foreign policy,drones alienatingfriends: Jimmy Carter

Another coalition beforeelections is on the cards,says Nawaz Sharif

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Asma stirs up a hornet’snest, says creators of PTIbehind judiciary conspiracy

Pervez Elahi becomes DeputyPM, finally

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Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid leaderChaudhry Pervez Elahi has been appointeddeputy prime minister. according to aprivate tV channel, a notification to thiseffect was issued late on Monday that statedthat Elahi would not exercise the powers ofthe prime minister. some media reportsstated that the position had been created toprovide a backup for times when theincumbent prime minister was not availableor incapacitated. Earlier, 15 membersbelonging to the PML-Q were sworn in asfederal ministers and ministers of statewhile former minister Riaz Hussain Pirzadarefused to rejoin the cabinet. President asifali Zardari administered oath to sardarBahadur khan sehar, Liaquat abbas Bhatti,sardar talib Hussain nakai, sheikh Waqasakram, anwar ali Cheema, Ghous BukhshMehr, Jam Muhammad Yousaf andChaudhry Wajahat Hussain. Rana asiftauseef, Malik nauman ahmed Langrial,sardar shahjehan Yousaf, senator saeedkhan Mandokhel, Chaudhry Ghias ahmedMela, akram Masih Gill and khawajasheraz Mehmood were inducted as the newministers of state. Meanwhile, Online newsagency reported that Riaz Pirzada hadrefused to join the federal cabinet.according to Online sources, after failing tosecure important ministries for PML-Qmembers, Chaudhry shujaat and his cousinPervez Elahi were having a hard time inconvincing their party’s parliamentarians totake charge of their previous ministries.the source said that shujaat had set up aconsultative committee headed by Elahi toremove and review reservations of theannoyed parliamentarians. Earlier, Faisalsaleh Hayat and Raza Hayat Hiraj hadrefused to join Pervez ashraf’s cabinet.

Pakistan says

won’t tolerate

intrusionsTaliban behead seven Pakistani soldiers as Islamabad warnsKabul of ‘hot pursuit’ in case of future cross-border attack

ISLAMABADShaiq huSSain

Pakistan lashed out atafghanistan for failing toprevent cross-border militant

attacks in Dir district in which scoresof Pakistani soldiers were killed,including seven who were beheaded bymilitants on Monday.Pakistani authorities also raised therecent cross-border attacks in Dir withthe Us and natO officials across theborder in afghanistan, cautioningthem that the continuation of theseassaults by the taliban from afghansoil would have negative impact on theongoing efforts by islamabad andWashington to repair the damaged and

strained relations.according to diplomatic sources said,Pakistani authorities warned theafghan government that in case therewere no halt to cross border militantattacks then Pakistan would be leftwith no other option but to go for ‘hotpursuit’ of taliban militants.“Pakistani authorities respect thesovereignty of afghanistan but it isalso extremely perturbed over thekilling of its soldiers in these crossborder attacks and it has the right touse all options to protect itssovereignty including the hot pursuitof militants,” said a source,requesting anonymity.

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Another coalition beforeelections is on cards: Nawaz

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Pakistan Muslim League-nawaz President nawaz sharif hasannounced that a major wide-ranging political coalition willbe unveiled before the general elections. addressing the inauguration ceremony of a newly-formedsecretariat of the PML-n on Monday, nawaz said the newsecretariat would be a major think-tank for development andprogress of the country. He said the PML-n had a very talented and experienced teamthat was well-versed in the art of governance, with ideas thatcould change the socio-economic-political scenario of the fed-eration. Reminding his audience about many past successfulendeavors of the PML-n for overseas Pakistanis, he said therewere more in the offing for the right talent. nawaz also resolved that some very major and importantprojects/policies would be evolved in the newly-establishedsecretariat. Castigating the government, he said the masses would neverforget the faces who were currently abetting President asifZardari’s government. addressing Zardari, nawaz asked as to how many moreprime ministers would he sacrifice on the altar of his laun-dered wealth in the swiss banks. “Currently the main ques-tion that dominates the scenario is about the exact departuredate of President Zardari himself,” he said.

Court rejects Musa’s warrant challenge

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an additional sessions judge on Monday rejected an appealfiled by Mna ali Musa Gilani challenging the warrants is-sued for his arrest by an anti-narcotics court in theEphedrine drug scam.the anti-narcotics Force (anF) had obtained arrest warrantsof ali Musa Gilani and Federal Minister Makhdoom sha-habuddin from an anti-narcotics judge. While shahabuddinhad managed to obtain bail from the Peshawar High Court,ali Musa Gilani had filed an appeal against the court order.

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awami national Party sindh President shahi syed on Mon-day refused to meet Prime Minister Raja Pervez ashraf.spokesperson for awami national Party President shahisyed, Bashir Jaan, said syed had refused to meet the primeminister as he had not accepted his invitation of visiting anPheadquarters. “We are also government’s ally and we shouldalso be given importance, he refused to visit and i refused tomeet him as we are in no need to have a meeting with primeminister,” he said.the spokesperson expressed his party’s anger over the PM’splan of visiting the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)headquarters nine Zero, saying if the PM could go meet otherallies, he should visit anP headquarters too. He said the party did not believe in superficial meetings andthe PM should have given due importance to the anP.the next meeting with the PM would be decided by partyhead asfand Yar Wali khan, he said. Meanwhile, the prime minister visited Pakistan MuslimLeague-Functional headquarters at kingri House andnine Zero.

LAHOREStaff REPoRt

SHE is surely not theone to avoid a storm ifit emanates from herplain talking. But evenby her highly flamma-

ble standards former presidentsupreme Court Bar association(sCBa), asma Jehangir on Mondaystirred up quite a hornet’s nest. andthere was something in it for mak-ing quite a few see red: the PPP, thePti, the higher judiciary and theubiquitous agencies.

talking to media at the LahoreHigh Court, asma made full use ofthe opportunity. Here’s a samplingof what she said: “the elevation ofRaja Pervez ashraf, the man deeplyinvolved in the rental power scam,sends a wrong message to the peo-ple; “those who created the Ptiwere behind the conspiracy againstthe supreme Court of Pakistan

[obliquely referring to the arsalaniftikhar case]”. and, “if it was allabout writing a letter, the courtcould have ordered its own Regis-trar Office to do that.”

asma Jehangir minced nowords on her perception of the newprime minister. “the sC has ruled

in several corruption cases, but iam really sure about just one: RajaPervez asharaf’s”.

and to her view the motive be-hind ‘the conspiracy against the ju-diciary through the arsalan iftikharcase’ was to wrap up the democraticsetup and to threaten the judges.

“and those who created tehrik-e-insaf were the conspirators”, saidshe, adding, “the destruction ofone institution can trigger a chainreaction.”

Clearing her own name, shesaid, she had not conspired againstthe court for she had never met thelinchpin, the real estate tycoonMalik Riaz.

Continuing in the same hard-hitting vein, she said, if the intentwas just to write the letter, “the sCcould have written to swiss author-ities through its own Registrar”.

the preparations, she said,were underway to impose the mar-tial law by derailing the democraticsystem.

Of all the people, asma hastaken on the most incensed are thePti cadre, which is quite evidentfrom the traffic that is being gen-erated on the social media wheretheir reaction is being posted thickand fast.

Asma stirs up a hornet’s nestg ‘Raja Rental’ as PM wrong message to people g PTI’s creators behind conspiracy against higher judiciary

SRinaGaR: People look on as flames rage

from the Dastagir Sahib Shrine on Monday.

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Dastagir SahibShrine in Srinagardestroyed in fire

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the over 200-year-old shrine of Dastagirsahib was gutted in a fire in khanyar area ofsrinagar old city on Monday, triggeringmassive protests by locals.an official of the Disaster Management Cellsaid the fire broke out in the shrine of syedabdul Qadir Jeelani at around 6:30am andengulfed the entire complex within no time.“the shrine was made of wood, the firespread quickly and the complex has beengutted,” the official said. the official said therelics of the preacher, known as Ghaus-ul-azam among the local populace and reveredworldwide, are safe as these were retrievedfrom the fire-proof vault. Fire tenders wererushed to the spot but the blaze spreadquickly. the cause of the fire was not imme-diately known, but police was investigatingthe possibility of sabotage. the fire in theshrine triggered protests by locals, sourcessaid. the sources said a group of protestersstarted pelting stones at fire tenders fortheir alleged “slow response” in controllingthe fire. the protestors later attacked thenearby khanyar police station by peltingstones at it.Policemen fired several rounds of tear gasshells to disperse the protesters, they said,adding that additional police personnel hadbeen deployed in the area to bring the situa-tion under control. the sources said curfew-like restrictions had been imposed inkhanyar and surrounding areas to preventdeterioration of law and order.Local residents claimed that police had an-nounced imposition of curfew in the areabut a police spokesman denied the allega-tion. “Curfew has not been imposed any-where in the city,” he said.

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the commander of natO forces inafghanistan, Us General John allen,is likely to arrive here tomorrow(Wednesday) in a bid to press uponPakistani authorities to reopen thenatO supply routes, which the gov-ernment blocked in november in aprotest against a natO strike thatkilled 24 soldiers.

“General John allen, isaF com-mander, is likely to visit Pakistan onJune 27. He will call on Chief of armystaff General ashfaq kayani,” said anisPR statement. “the interaction willfocus on reviewing the progress madein the implementation of the recently-evolved border coordination meas-ures or standing operatingprocedures,” it said.

However, an official seekinganonymity said the top Us militarycommander in afghanistan was ex-pected to talk more on the reopeningof natO supplies and various propos-als that the two sides were discussing

for the purpose.“We believe that General allen

will speak on an alternative to formalpublic apology with General kayanisuch as reiteration on regret over lossof lives of Pakistani soldiers, which isbeing dubbed now as a ‘soft apology’,”the official said.

However, he refused to divulgewhat would Pakistan’s response to theUs stance on the apology and its readi-ness to repeat regret over the airstrikes last year be.

He also said General kayaniwould raise the vital issue of cross-bor-der militants’ attacks in Dir, whichkilled several Pakistani soldiers. UK defence chief: Mean-while, British Chief of Defence staffGeneral sir David Richards called onthe army chief at the General Head-quarters on Monday.

according to the isPR, the visit-ing dignitary was in Pakistan to at-tend the national security Dialoguebetween Pakistan and the Unitedkingdom. the two discussed mattersof mutual interest.

Dual nationality: PPP MNA Zahid Iqbal’smembership suspended

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the supreme Court on Monday suspendedthe membership of Pakistan People’s PartyMna Zahid iqbal for holding dual national-ity. a three-member bench headed by ChiefJustice iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhryheard the proceedings of the dual national-ity case. Lawmaker Zahid iqbal of the PPP,Jameel awan of the PML-n and anwarMansoor, the counsel for Rehman Malik,appeared in court. the counsel of Zahidiqbal said he would defend all allegationsleveled against his client.Chief Justice iftikhar MuhammadChaudhry said if Zahid iqbal provided evi-dence that he did not hold dual nationality,his membership would be restored.in the course of the proceedings, the chiefjustice remarked that the court was hearingthe dual nationality case under article 184and people did not appear before court evenafter issuance of notices.Malik’s counsel told the sC that his clienthad submitted the copy of his passport. the chief justice said the court did not needa copy of his passport, rather it needed na-tionality renouncement certificate ofRehman Malik and ordered its submissionon the next date of hearing.Moreover, Jamil Malik said he held Dutchnationality but he was not a citizen.the chief justice questioned his statement,“How can a person be a national and not acitizen?”MPa tariq alvana rejected the allegationsleveled against him and requested moretime from the court.Justice Jawad s khawaja remarked thatpeople holding dual nationalities should notbe part of Pakistan’s assemblies.Mna Farhat Mehmood, MPa nadia Gabol,MPa ashraf Chouhan, MPa Wasim Qadirand MPa nadeem Qadir were also issuednotices to submit their documents again.the supreme Court then adjourned thehearing until July 2.the apex court has already suspended themembership of Rehman Malik from senateand Farah nawaz ispahani for holding dualnationalities.

ISLAMABADaMER Sial

WatER and PowerM i n i s t e rChaudhry ahmadMukhtar said onMonday that na-

tional transmission and DispatchCompany (ntDC) Managing DirectorRasul khan Masud will be removed.

the minister had suspended thentDC MD on the first day of assum-ing his charge. However, the MD stillperforms his duties as he can be onlyremoved from office by the primeminister who is the appointing au-thority. talking to reporters, the min-ister said the MD is using hisinfluence to continue working in thedepartment. Mukhtar added that hehad ‘made up his mind’ that eitherMasud or he will have to leave.

Officials say the removal ofMasud, who is on an extension, willpave the way for removing all the in-cumbent chief executives of distribu-tion companies (DisCOs), a majorityof whom are on extension or actingcharge for the last many months.

their continuation is one of themajor hurdles in the smooth imple-mentation of the power sector re-forms, which stress the induction ofprofessional management to pave theway to resolve lingering issues.

the government announced inOctober last year that the professionalmanagement in all DisCOs will be in-ducted in a month to bring the powersector out of the crisis. However, theplan could not be implemented as theincumbent chief executives ganged upagainst the move and slowed down

the bill recovery and created an artifi-cial energy crisis.

Most of the incumbent CEs hadapproached the former prime minis-ter who assured them that they will begranted extensions till the end of thecurrent government’s tenure.

this stopped any further progresson the induction of new managementeven though the boards of five Dis-COs have submitted their recommen-dations to the former premier forchoosing a candidate for the post ofthe CEOs.

Mukhtar said the government hadfinalised some recommendations toovercome the power crisis, underwhich fuel supplies will be ensured forthe power plants. He said the logisticconstraints were hampering fuel sup-ply to power plants in Punjab.

He said the government had de-cided to provide more gas and fuel tothe karachi Electric supply Company(kEsC) and that the export of 700MW to the company will be divertedto other areas.

Under the plan, the governmentwill be implanting two days of gasload shedding for CnG and industrialunits in sindh. the additional gassupply will be diverted to the kEsC.

a study carried out by the Plan-ning Commission on gas allocationand its impact on the power sectorsaid the captive power plants (CPPs)are currently estimated to be using 1.2billion cubic feet gas per day out ofwhich 250 million cubic feet gas perday alone is allocated to plants inkarachi, which is higher than thekEsC supply of 153 million cubic feet.

For finding an immediate solutionto the power crisis, the study recom-mended diverting 800 million cubicfeet from the CPPs to the independentPower Plants (iPPs), which will in-crease generation by 3350 MW.

this will help in savings $ 5.2 bil-lion. it says the CPP only benefits afew industries while resulting in loadshedding for the entire nation. it alsostressed gas allocation on rationalbasis as it is a scarce commodity.

Mukhtar to axepower sector officialsg Authorities say higher officials throw roadblocks in solving the energy crisis

Allen likely to arrive tomorrow

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in a poignant critiqueof Washington’s for-eign and securitypolicies, former U.s.president Jimmy

Carter has said by toleratinghuman rights violations andcontinuing drone attacks inPakistan and several otherparts of the world, america isalienating its friends.

at a time when popularrevolutions are sweeping theglobe, the United statesshould be strengthening, notweakening, basic rules of lawand principles of justice enu-merated in the UniversalDeclaration of HumanRights, Carter wrote in anopinion piece in the newYork times. “But instead ofmaking the world safer,america’s violation of inter-national human rights abetsour enemies and alienatesour friends,” he noted.

Despite an arbitrary rulethat any man killed by dronesis declared an enemy terror-ist, the death of nearby inno-cent women and children isaccepted as inevitable, Carter,the winner of 2002 nobelPeace Prize, noted.

“after more than 30airstrikes on civilian homesthis year in afghanistan,President Hamid karzai hasdemanded that such attacksend, but the practice contin-ues in areas of Pakistan, so-malia and Yemen that are notin any war zone. We don’tknow how many hundreds ofinnocent civilians have beenkilled in these attacks, eachone approved by the highestauthorities in Washington,”

he questioned.“this would have been

unthinkable in previoustimes,” he observed.

“these policies clearly af-fect american foreign policy.top intelligence and militaryofficials, as well as rights de-fenders in targeted areas, af-firm that the great escalationin drone attacks has turnedaggrieved families toward ter-rorist organizations, arousedcivilian populations againstus and permitted repressivegovernments to cite such ac-tions to justify their owndespotic behavior.”

the United states isabandoning its role as theglobal champion of humanrights, he regretted in a bluntexamination of the americanrecent and current policies.

While the country hasmade mistakes in the past,the widespread abuse ofhuman rights over the lastdecade has been a dramaticchange from the past.

“With leadership fromthe United states, the Univer-sal Declaration of HumanRights was adopted in 1948as “the foundation of free-dom, justice and peace in theworld.” this was a bold andclear commitment that powerwould no longer serve as acover to oppress or injurepeople, and it establishedequal rights of all people tolife, liberty, security of per-son, equal protection of thelaw and freedom from tor-ture, arbitrary detention orforced exile.”

the declaration, he said,has been invoked by humanrights activists and the inter-national community to re-place most of the world’s

dictatorships with democra-cies, and to promote the ruleof law in domestic and globalaffairs.

“it is disturbing that, in-stead of strengthening theseprinciples, our government’scounterterrorism policies arenow clearly violating at least10 of the declaration’s 30 ar-ticles, including the prohibi-tion against “cruel, inhumanor degrading treatment orpunishment.”

Criticizing the recent leg-islation that has made legalthe president’s right to detaina person indefinitely on sus-picion of affiliation with ter-rorist organizations or“associated forces,” he saysthe broad, vague power canbe abused without meaning-ful oversight from the courtsor Congress (the law is cur-rently being blocked by a fed-eral judge).

“this law violates theright to freedom of expres-sion and to be presumed in-nocent until proved guilty,two other rights enshrined inthe declaration.”

in addition to americancitizens’ being targeted for as-sassination or indefinite de-tention, recent laws havecanceled the restraints in theForeign intelligence surveil-lance act of 1978 to allow un-precedented violations of ourrights to privacy through war-rantless wiretapping and gov-ernment mining of ourelectronic communications.

Carter is also piqued byother developments. “Popu-lar state laws permit detain-ing individuals because oftheir appearance, where theyworship or with whom theyassociate.”

Pakistansays won’ttolerate intrusions

the Foreign Ministry,meanwhile, said a strongprotest was lodged with theafghan government with ademand of all possiblemeasures to stop themilitants’ attacks in itsborder areas.“the afghan deputy head ofmission was called to theForeign Office and a strongprotest was launched on theintrusion of militants fromthe afghan side intoPakistani territory,” saidForeign Office spokesmanMoazzam khan.On sunday night, about 100militants from across theborder entered Dir andclashed with a Pakistanisecurity force patrollingparty. in the exchange of fire,11 militants were killed, sixsecurity personnel lost theirlife, while 11 soldiers wentmissing.the militants beheadedseven of the missing soldierson Monday.“the afghan diplomat wasinformed that thegovernment of afghanistanshould take appropriatemeasures to preventrecurrence of similarincidents in the future,”khan said.Pakistani authorities believethat Maulvi Fazlullah ledswat taliban, who fled toafghanistan after beingdefeated in swat, areresponsible for the spate ofborder attacks on Pakistaniposts.the militants also fired tworockets from across theborder on sunday followedby sniper fire into Pakistaniterritory in tripamanheights, Lower Dir,according to a militaryofficial.He also confirmed thesunday night attack, sayingmore than 100 miscreantsfrom safe havens from acrossthe border intruded intoPakistani territory and had aclash with Pakistanipatrolling party.“Reportedly, Pakistani troopskilled 14 miscreants. in theencounter six soldiersembraced shahadat while 11soldiers went missing. Out ofwhom, 7 soldiers have beenreportedly killed and thenbeheaded,” he said.

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US foreign policy,drones alienatingfriends: Jimmy Carter

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the Pakistan army has de-nied any involvement inevents leading to the ouster ofthe Yousaf Raza Gilani as theprime minister, saying the ac-cusations, some of whichcome from the Us, are “basedon false narratives that domore harm than good forboth nations”.

a senior Pakistani mili-tary official told the Wash-ington Examiner his nation’smilitary had been falsely ac-cused for years of using vari-ous insurgency groups,

branches of government orpolitical parties for their ownbenefit.

Recent charges that themilitary, with the cooperationof the courts, orchestratedthe removal last week ofYousaf Raza Gilani, are the“latest in erroneous accusa-tions,” he said. Gilani was re-placed last week by RajaPervez ashraf after thesupreme Court disqualifiedGilani for failing to investi-gate corruption chargesagainst President asif aliZardari.

“at first we were beingaccused of being in cahoots

with the government — andnow with the supreme Court— to have the government re-moved, “the military officialsaid. “We are not loyal to anindividual but to the constitu-tion of our country. Don’tplace us in a camp because itsuits the narrative of othersfor us to be placed in thatcamp.” “now we are the vil-lains,” the official added. “ifwe overstep our mandate itundermines us and our coun-try’s constitution. We did notdo this.”

still, some senior Us mil-itary and government offi-cials contend that Pakistan’s

military and its inter-servicesintelligence agency havebeen directing a systematicremoval of government offi-cials friendly to the Unitedstates. Bruce Riedel, a seniorfellow at the Brookings insti-tution who has advised thelast four presidents on southasia and the Middle East,said “the army and the courtwant to remove PresidentZardari and have tried onetactic after another.” “thearmy is politically powerfuland is believed to be steadilychipping away at Zardari’spower behind the scenes,”said Jim Phillips, a senior de-

fense analyst with the Her-itage Foundation.

the army, added Phillips,would be happy to under-mine the current governmentto prevent its civilian leadersfrom threatening its powerand privileges. a Us official,with knowledge of the region,said, “the political system isunder strain but it would bean overstatement to say it’s ata breaking point.”

However, Riedel said thehardliners and the “politicalchaos in islamabad makesany chance of an improve-ment in Us-Pakistan rela-tions very unlikely”.

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Rebutting Foreign Policy mag-azine’s inclusion of Pakistan inits failed states index, islam-abad’s embassy in Washingtonhas said the “cavalierly” ap-plied flawed methodologyoverlooks the country’s manyinherent strengths, domesticachievements and interna-tional contributions. “themethodology fails to capturePakistan’s myriad strengths,while exaggerating its per-ceived weaknesses,” aspokesman of the Pakistaniembassy, wrote in a rejoindercarried by the FP website.

Press attaché nadeemHotiana took exception to themethodology “so cavalierly”applied to Pakistan in theindex singles out “the erosionof legitimate authority tomake collective decisions,”the “inability to provide rea-sonable public services,” and“the inability to interact withother states as a full memberof the international commu-nity” as key attributes of afailing state. “the compilersget it wrong about Pakistanon all these counts,” the offi-cial asserted.

“Pakistan today is on thecusp of an epochal transition.Even as it fights a full-blooded war against terror-ists, it is completing a historictransformation from authori-tarian rule to genuine democ-racy. this is the mostlegislatively active parliamentin our history.” the embassydraws attention of the maga-

zine to Pakistan’s recentachievements since the incep-tion of the democratic gov-ernment.

the country has cleansedthe constitution of the debrisof past authoritarian inter-ludes and devolved power tothe provinces, passed land-mark legislation to help bringthe residents of our Federallyadministered tribal areas(Fata) and Gilgit-Baltistaninto the political mainstream,and taken the most compre-hensive set of measures to ad-dress the grievances of thepeople of our Balochistanprovince. “it has passed morelegislation on women’s rightsthan all of Pakistan’s pastparliaments combined, whiletackling such issues as do-mestic abuse and propertyrights and establishing a na-tional Commission onWomen. it also established anational Commission onHuman Rights with enforce-ment powers.”

the official reminds thecompilers of the index that a“ boisterously vibrant mediain the country complementsthe coming of age of Pakistanidemocracy. “the Pakistanimilitary is part of this demo-cratic evolution. it has earnedthe respect of the averagePakistani through its un-flinching resolve to take onthe terrorists and allow thepolitical leadership to set thecountry’s direction and poli-cies.” this is not to say thatPakistan does not face chal-lenges, the embassyspokesman says.

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key coalition partner of the PPPgovernment, the MuttahidaQaumi Movement (MQM), onMonday demanded the govern-ment hold transparent generalelections in the country.

During Prime MinsterRaja Pervez ashraf’s visit tonine Zero in karachi, the cen-tral leader of the MQM, Farooqsattar said holding of generalelection was necessary for thestrengthening of democracy inthe country. the prime minis-

ter was welcomed by a largegathering of MQM workers atnine Zero. ashraf held a meet-ing with the Rabita Committeeof the MQM and discussed thelaw and order in the city.

ashraf assured the MQMthat the federal governmentwould take every possiblemeasure to bring peace inkarachi, adding that the Centrewas ready to work with theMQM to restore peace in thecity. “in the past it was assumedthat the PPP and the MQMnever worked together but theMQM has proved its trustwor-

thiness,” adding that he wouldcom up to the expectation ofaltaf Hussain, ashraf said.

“Currently, the govern-ment is facing several chal-lenges, including powercrisis and law and order buteth PPP is committed toovercoming all these chal-lenges with the support of itscoalition partners,” he said.PM ashraf also had a tele-phonic conversation with theMQM chief while at nineZero and thanked him forsupporting ashraf duringthe recent election.

NAb again issuesarrest warrantsfor Malik Riaz, son

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national accountabilityBureau Rawalpindi onMonday re-issued arrestwarrants for property tycoonMalik Riaz and his son, aliRiaz, chairman of Bahriatown, in the 1,400 kanalland embezzlement case.naB resumed hearing in thecase of Mailk Riaz and hisson ali Riaz who wereaccused of illegallytransferring 1,400 kanals ofland of poor people in thename of Bahria town.Both the accused did notappear before the courtdespite issuance of arrestwarrants in the previoushearing.naB ordered the arrest ofboth the accused andproducing them in court onJuly 2. in the previous hearing, thecourt issued arrest warrantsof six persons, includingMalik Riaz and his son andwhen Punjab Police raided toarrest them, the islamabadPolice interfered in thematter and registered a caseagainst Punjab Policepersonnel.

Gunmen open

fire on private

television station

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Gunmen opened fire on alocal television station inPakistan’s largest city,injuring a guard and anemployee, police and tVofficials said late Mondayevening. “Four men on twomotorcycles attacked ourstation in karachi withautomatic guns,” RashidMehmood, local aaj newstV’s director of news toldaFP. “they also damagedsome cars and fled,” he said,adding that the guard’sinjuries were serious. Policeofficial asghar aliconfirmed the report. “thetwo injured men have beenshifted to a local hospitaland we are on the lookoutfor the culprits of theattack,” he said. Mehmoodsaid there had been nothreats made from anymilitant group to thetelevision station.

Pakistan reminds FPStates Index compilersof country’s positives

PPP, it is time to hold the general polls: MQM

Army denies involvement in Gilani’s ouster

PEShaWaR: Relatives of missing persons sit in a protest camp organised by Jamaat e islami on Monday. sTaff PhoTo

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THE senior academic staff in74 public sector universitiesall over the country on Mon-day observed a ‘Black Day’ inprotested against the non-re-

lease of grant to the HEC by the federal gov-ernment and the termination of 15 varsityprofessors at Jamshoru’s shaheed BenazirBhutto University.

Varsity teachers at 74 varsities of thecountry observed the strike under the bannerof Federation of all Pakistan Universities ac-ademic staff association (FaPUasa). thegovernment’s proposal of abolishing theHEC’s autonomous status and putting itunder the federal ministry of professionaland technical training was also denounced.Varsity teachers said, the federal governmentwas destroying the education sector and itsactions would result in the closure of manyuniversities. the professors also vowed thatthey will not allow this to happen.

the teachers’ protest rallies were initi-ated by the units of academic staff associa-tions (asa) at Quetta, islamabad, karachi,Peshawar and Lahore, where slogans wereraised against the federal government. at

most cities protests were held in front oflocal press clubs while inside the varsitiesteachers observed the black day by terminat-ing academic activity while discussion overthe HEC issue was common. Beside theteachers, students and research scholarsalso deplored the government on forcing theteachers to strikes, and joined their protest.

it is worth mentioning here that the HEChas been facing financing issues for the lasttwo years. But the intensity of the eruptionnow is reminiscent of 2010, when the govern-

ment had similarly tried to devolve the HECand stopped its funding. then too varsityteachers across Pakistan had observed blackdays and the supreme Court had restrainedthe government from devolving the HEC. atthe moment, due to the non-release of grants,the situation is precarious. the developmentwork at universities big and small hasstopped, and some newly-commissioned uni-versities may even have to close. Besides this,research scholars sent abroad for PhD and M.Phil programmes have also been left in the

lurch as the HEC, having no funds to drawfrom, has not paid their fees. in 2010 too, anumber of research scholars that sent abroadon HEC scholarships were either withdrawnhalfway through their courses or had paidtheir fees themselves. then, foreign universi-ties too had shown their concern over theHEC’s state of affairs.

in the past, the HEC had even asked thevarsities to generate funds on their own asthe HEC was not in a position to releasegrants in the absence of funding from the

government. On Monday teacher’s bodiesaccused the government for the sorry stateof affairs, and bringing them out on thestreets, pledging that they will continue theirprotest till the release of grant. kaleemBareach, the FaPUasa president, said thathe along with teachers’ bodies protested infront of the Quetta Press Club, adding that“our demands were genuine”. Condemningthe government on sacking teachers atJamshoru, he said, those teachers were justdemanding the appointment of a VC at thevarsity according to the laid down criteria.

the FaPUasa former president DrMumtaz salik said, it never happens in anycountry that an institution like the HEC washanded over to the ministry instead of re-leasing its grant. “Here it seems that liftingthe standard of higher education is not a pri-ority with the government”, said he.

Meanwhile, varsity teachers at Lahore’spublic sector universities observed protestedin front of the Lahore Press club.a varsityprofessor seeking anonymity said that lastyear 72 vice-chancellors had unanimouslyannounced that they cannot run the publicsector universities due to the non-release ofgrants. subsequent to that, the governmenthad pledged Rs6 billion for the current fiscalyear. this pledge has gone unmet.

NEW DELHIaGEnCiES

ahead of the foreign secretary-level talkswith Pakistan, india on Monday said it didnot expect “big solutions” to six-decade-old problems at a time when that countrywas going through “many upheavals” andneeded space to settle down.

“these problems have been there forthe last 60 years and you do not expect bigsolutions in six days or six weeks or in sixmonths,” indian External affairs MinistersM krishna said when asked about littleprogress made in the peace talks with Pak-istan, reported Pti.

He underlined the need to keep up thedialogue process with Pakistan which wasgoing through many upheavals.

“i think whole thrust is to keep Pak-istan engaged and keep talking to them.they are also going through many up-heavals in that country. so we will have toprovide space for them to settle down andindia which is a country which is stableand growing, will have to think,” he said.

asked whether india would take up theissue of ceasefire violations along the Lineof Control in Jammu and kashmir, kr-ishna said the two countries needed tomake sincere efforts to live as good neigh-bours.

“things are getting normalised withPakistan. it is our fond hope that a sincereeffort from both countries to live as good

neighbours has to be adopted. india hasalways been willing to do that. i hope thatPakistan will respond,” he said.

krishna was apparently referring tothe disqualification of Yousaf Raza Gilaniby the supreme Court as member of thenational assembly citing his conviction ina contempt of court case.

krishna also congratulated the DelhiPolice for arresting a key suspect allegedlyinvolved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror at-tack but refrained from saying whether theissue would be taken up with Pakistan.

“the Delhi Police has done a magnifi-cent job. i am sure that the investigationswill take place and we will wait till the in-vestigations,” he told reporters here.

sayed Zabiuddin alias abu Hamza, theHindi tutor of 10 terrorists who carriedout the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, wasarrested from the indira Gandhi interna-tional airport (iGi) last week.

asked whether india would raise theissue of Zabiuddin’s arrest with Pakistan,krishna said, “Let the Delhi Police first gothrough investigations and then they willsend a report to the government and thenwe will see what appropriate follow up ac-tion can be taken.”

On Bangladesh High Commissionerahmed tariq karim’s remark that Pak-istan army’s “selfish corporate” interestmay spark off a nuclear conflict with india,krishna merely said, “nuclear confronta-tion is unthinkable”.

‘Money, money, money! Give us our money!’g 74 public sector universities observe black Day against Islamabad’s assault on heC, unmet pledge of grant, sacking of 15 teachers

Not looking for magic to fixties with Pakistan: Krishna

iSlaMaBaD: Youngster takes a dive in the Rawal lake while his friends look

on a hot Monday afternoon. oNLINE

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ISLAMABADtaYYaB huSSain

in its bid to eliminate corruptionfrom Pakistan, the transparencyinternational Pakistan (tiP) hascalled on all political parties ofthe country to include its 14-

point recommendations to their respectiveelection manifestos to ensure ‘corruption-free’ Pakistan.

the tiP, which has been vigorouslycampaigning to point out corrupt practicefrom the country, has urged all politicalparties of the country to include 14 recom-mendations made by the tiP into their re-spective manifestos to ensure combatingcorruption and ensuring good governanceas a policy matter, making inductions,transfers, postings of the government em-ployees through a merit-based policy andtransparent mechanism.

since taking over the affairs of thecountry after 2008 general elections, thePPP-led coalition government has been

facing serious allegations of corruptionand malpractices in almost every state in-stitution though judiciary and armedforces have turned out to be more trans-parent than rest of the organs.

However, the tiP has called for bring-ing both institutions under scrutiny andsaid that the PaC should also hold both theinstitutions accountable.

in its letter sent to the 14 major politi-cal parties, a copy of which is available withthe Pakistan today, the tiP has asked thepolitical parties to ensure making commit-ment to the people that after if they areable to form new government in the postelection scenario in future, all appoint-ments and promotions of the civil servantsand heads of public bodies will be madeunder a merit-based policy on predeter-mined selection criteria.

“Within six months of taking over bythe new government, an independent na-tional accountability commission will beset up or the national accountability Bu-reau (naB) Ordinance will be amended

placing the accountability body under thePublic accounts Committee (PaC) insteadof law minister or the prime minister andthat accountability of all public office hold-ers including officials from civilian, armedforces, judiciary and private sector wouldbe made,” said the letter.

the tiP further said that the appoint-ments of auditor General Pakistan, Chair-man naB/DGs Provinces, DG Fia, allOmbudsmen, Chairman FBR, attorneyGeneral/advocate General, Chairman FPsCommission shall be made in consensuswith the opposition leader of the na-tional/Provincial assembly.

Moreover, all regulatory authorities in-cluding sECP, CCP, PPRa, EPa, sBP,OGRa, PEMRa, Pta, PFRa, nEPRa etc,shall be fully autonomous, comprising ofprofessionals, without any nominationsfrom government.

“they shall be financially self-generat-ing-entities and not dependent on the gov-ernment finances and answerable only toPublic accounts Committee (PaC),” the

tiP added.“Within six months of the new govern-

ment, Freedom of information Ordinance2002 should be revised for deletion of allexemptions except for national securityreasons and all information under freedomof information ordinance 2002 shall bemade available on the website of all min-istries/departments/organizations to com-ply with the constitution article 19-a.”

the tiP further said that only a tax-payer should be allowed to buy propertyand cars and when a government isformed, foreign states be sent official let-ters to return Pakistani’s money in theirbanks which was not tax paid.

Motorway Police/Highway Police,models under use in Punjab, shall also beimplemented within one year in all majorcities of all provinces in Pakistan.

“the party will suspend its memberfrom the public post, in case he is facedwith court case on corruption charges, andwill only be restored once he is acquittedfrom the court. Moreover, land records of

provinces, federal territory and azad kash-mir will be computerized within one year”.

the tiP also said that the conflict of in-terest provisions shall be mandatory in allpublic office holding job description, aswell as corporations and authorities, in-cluding board of directors of all public sec-tor enterprises (PsEs).

the tiP said all state-owned urbanland will only be disposed off by open pub-lic auction while for preventing conflicts ofinterest, all officers of civilian, armedforces and judiciary, of above BPs-20 orequivalent, shall not accept any employ-ment or consultancy of any private sectorundertaking for a period of five years fromthe date from which they retire and ceaseto hold office.

the tiP will conduct a survey on sep-tember 15, 2012 about the election mani-festos of all political parties whether theyhave addressed the above 14 anti-corrup-tion recommendations for public aware-ness, and the survey report will be releasedin a press conference.

Rein in NAB, army and judicial officials: TIPg TIP letter calls on all political parties to include 14-point recommendations to ensure ‘corruption-free’ Pakistan

babar Awan turns guns on former bossRAWALPindi: after being completely sidelined by thePakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership, former law minis-ter Babar awan has rejected the Presidential Ordinance thatgives constitutional protection to Yousaf Raza Gilani. He wastalking to reporters outside Lahore High Court (LHC) onMonday. a presidential ordinance was issued to give consti-tutional protection to all legislative and administrative meas-ures taken by Gilani as prime minister between april 26 andJune 19. “We were against ordinance factory during PervezMusharraf’s regime and we are against it now, the privilegesgiven to Yousaf Raza Gilani are illegal and unconstitutional,”he said. awan said it was parliament’s decision to make RajaParvez ashraf the prime minister of the country. “By notconducting local government polls, federal and provincialgovernments failed to comply with the constitution,” hestated. He said Prime Minister ashraf should be asked aboutthe matter of writing a letter to swiss authorities while thenew law minister could be summoned for nRO cases. onlinE

NEWS DESK

When the taliban blew the face offa towering, 1,500-year-old rockcarving of Buddha in northwestPakistan almost five years ago, itfell to an intrepid italian archaeol-ogist to come to the rescue.

according to a report by theassociated Press, Luca Olivieri andhis partners are giving a facelift tothe 6-meter (nearly 20-foot)-tallimage near the town of Jahanabadand many other archaeologicaltreasures in the scenic swat Valleyare being excavated and preserved.

Just six months before thesept. 11, 2001 attacks, the talibanhad shocked the world by dynamit-ing a pair of 1,500-year-old Bud-dhist statues in centralafghanistan.

the Jahanabad Buddha,etched high on a huge rock face inthe 6th or 7th century, is one of thelargest such carvings in south asia.it was attacked in the fall of 2007when the Pakistani talibanswarmed across the scenic swatValley. the army drove most ofthem out two years later, but for-eign tourists who used to visit theregion still tend to stay away.

Olivieri himself had to leave in2008 after more than two decadesof tending to the riches dating backto alexander the Great and theBuddhist, Hindu and Muslim in-vaders who followed. the 49-year-old head of the italianarchaeological Mission in Pakistanreturned in 2010 and is back atwork.

taliban militants climbedropes to insert explosives in holesdrilled into the face and shouldersof the Jahanabad Buddha, saidOlivieri. the explosives in theshoulders failed to detonate, butthe others blew off most of the faceabove the lips and cracked otherparts of the carving and surround-ing rock.

Olivieri and his team beganwork this month on fixing thecracks and what’s left of the face. afull reconstruction is impossiblebecause detailed documentationand fragments of the face are lack-ing. “Whatever you do in the ab-sence of perfect data is a fake,” saidOlivieri, who says he has wanted tobe an archaeologist since age 6 andstill brings a youthful exuberanceto his work even as his beard growsgray.

arriving as a university studentin 1987, he was fascinated by swat,once an important center of Bud-dhist culture and trade. the monkcredited with introducing Bud-dhism to tibet, Padmasambhava,

was born in swat.in more recent decades, the

area was known as “the switzer-land of Pakistan,” popular with re-ligious tourists from China, Japanand south korea, and the hope isthat restoration of the JahanabadBuddha will spark a revival oftourism here.

Olivieri’s mission is funded bythe italian government, whichworks with local Pakistani antiqui-ties authorities. it has uncoveredover 120 Buddhist sites amongswat’s soaring hills and rushingrivers.

Of roughly 200 Buddhist rockcarvings in swat, the JahanabadBuddha was among the few to sur-vive with its face intact for so long,said Olivieri. Most were defacedcenturies ago by Muslim invaderswho, like the taliban, considerBuddha a false idol.

Maulana shamsur Rehman, aleading islamist politician in swat,says the attack on the Buddhashould never have happened. islampreaches freedom and protectionfor followers of all religions, he toldthe associated Press, and “in linewith islamic rules, nobody shouldhave an objection to the repairwork on the Buddha statue.”

in 2001, militants damagedthe excavated ruins of a 7th centuryHindu temple in swat overlookinga stronghold conquered by alexan-der in the 4th century B.C. Unableto protect the temple, the italianmission had to rebury it.

ironically, the site that Olivieriwas most worried about during the

taliban’s violent reign in swat wasan islamic one - the roughly 1,000-year-old Udegram Ghaznavidmosque, the third oldest in Pak-istan. He feared the militantswould occupy and damage it, butthat never happened.

Pakistani security officials saythe taliban are again trying to in-filtrate swat, but militants are notthe only threat to the archaeologi-cal sites. Looters are perhaps a big-ger problem. Many relics lootedfrom swat are in private and publiccollections around the world.

in December police arrestedseveral men in swat and seized aroughly one-meter-(three-foot)tall, 1,800-year-old Buddhiststatue that could have fetched tensof thousands of dollars on the in-ternational antiquities market.

the italian mission has postedguards at the most important sitesand is also training them to becomeguides by teaching them English,first aid and basic conservationtechniques, said Olivieri.

the mission opened in 1955 inan office provided by the Wali ofswat, the one-time princely ruler ofthe territory. to furnish a taste ofhome, its first draftsman painted amural of Rome’s spanish steps inthe dining room.

the feeling of glimpsing italyin the wilds of Pakistan’s northwestcontinues today. there’s espressoin the morning and italian olive oilon the dining room table. a FiatCampagnola jeep shipped fromitaly in 1955 is due to end up in amuseum in swat.

saving Buddha’s faceg Swat’s buddha attacked by Taliban gets a facelift

Veil or son’s collegeeducation? Choose

LONDONinP

g Maroon Rafique, banned from a

uK college for wearing a niqab,

missed an important talk concerning

her son’s university education

a Muslim mother was turned away from aparents’ evening at a British college as she re-fused to remove her full-face veil, an incidentthat left her feeling humiliated. Maroon Rafique, 40, was told that for the se-curity and safety of children and teachers atthe college, there was a ban on any type offace coverings. she was warned that unlessshe removed her full-face covering, she wouldnot be allowed into the college to attend thetalks important for her son’s education, theDaily Mail reported. in the end, a stunned Rafique was forced tocall her husband, who took her place andwent with their son awais, 18. Rafique, who is married to double-glazingfirm boss abdul, 40, and has a younger son,ibrahim, 12, said she felt humiliated. “i’m born in this country and i’m British. Whyshould what i wear offend anyone? i didn’twant to make any fuss. all i wanted was tofind out the information to help my son go touniversity,” Rafique said. “i offered to sit at the back or at the front, any-where where i wouldn’t be seen, if theythought i was going to offend anyone. i wasreally upset because whenever i’ve visited thecollege before there’s never been a problem,in fact the tutors have been welcoming andfriendly,” she said. Rafique, of WhalleyRange, Manchester, had been invited to at-tend the parents’ evening and talk about herson’s education at the Manchester College. But when the mother of two arrived she wasapprehended by security staff who did notallow her to attend the talk. “i do get abuse every now and again in thestreet, which i just have to deal with. How-ever, i was very surprised when i was treatedthis way by the college,” she added. aspokesman for the Manchester College saidRafique’s concerns were being taken “very se-riously”. “the Manchester College provides asafe and inclusive environment that fostersdevelopment and achievement. We apply asingle dress code to all college users, includinglearners and visitors,” the spokesman said.

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LAHOREaGEnCiES

Punjab Chief minister shahbaz sharif hassaid that President asif Zardari has no af-fection with the people of Pakistan andPunjab and the prime minister cannot doanything regarding present power crisis.

talking to reporters after attendingOpen Court in Lahore, shahbaz sharifsaid power energy crisis had taken its tollon public and Punjab was suffering themost from the crisis and no remedialmeasures were being taken.

He said the promise of uniform loadshedding by former prime minister hadnot been fulfilled and nothing good couldbe expected from the current PM either.

CM said due to flawed policies of fed-eral government people were compelledto protest. shahbaz also directed the con-cerned departments to stay alert to dealwith any emergency in case of possibleflood threat during upcoming monsoonseason. Officials of the concerned depart-ments attended the meeting.

shahbaz said that in consultationwith the international aid organisations,

a plan would be chalked out for buildingwarehouses to facilitate the flood victims.

He also directed the Provincial Disas-ter Management authority (PDMa) to

stock 15,000 blankets and hand over 100boats to Rescue 1122 to deal with anyemergency in monsoon season.

the CM also constituted as a three-

member committee to examine the em-bankments, flow of water in rivers andpopulation nearby which possibly couldbe affected due to floods.

shahbaz also officially launched thecampaign for the holding Punjab sportsand Youth Festival 2012 from his campoffice at Minar-i-Pakistan.

He flagged off various floats whichwill travel through different part of theprovince to highlight the theme of Punjabsports festival and to inspire them to be apart of this mega event.

a large gathering of sports personali-ties including former hockey OlympianManzoor Junior, shahnaz sheikh, Mo-hammad saqlain, Mansoor ahmed andplayers from different disciplines namelyarif karim saif, amer atlas and karinkhan witnessed the launching ceremonywhich was also attended by scores ofyoung athletes and officials of the organ-ising committee. Deputy speaker RanaMashhood, chairman of the organisingcommittee and Director General sportsPunjab Usman anwar were also presenton the occasion.

the CM, who himself was attired inan official track suit to be worn by theparticipants of the Youth Festival, vowedto make the sports festival a big success-ful by engaging the youth and with the ex-hibition of their talent and skills.

“Our youth is our future and it is im-perative to create healthy and positive ac-tivities for them so that they couldcontribute in building a prosperous Pak-istan”, he asserted.

LAHOREStaff REPoRt

Alarge number of patientswere facing trouble due tonon availability of treat-ment in the governmenthospitals across the

province as Young Doctors association(YDa) strike in different parts of Punjabagainst non-acceptance of their de-mands on Monday continued even oneighth consecutive day.

the young doctors have been onstrike in OPDs at all levels, includingrural healthcare centres, tehsil head-quarters hospitals, district headquartershospitals and teaching hospitals acrossthe province since June 18 on the call ofYDa Punjab chapter demanding revi-sion of service structure of doctors serv-ing under the provincial government.

Outdoor wards of all the governmenthospitals in Multan — nishtar, ChildrenComplex, Civil, Fatima Jinnah Womenhospital were closed.

Patients coming from remote areasfor medical aid faced immense difficul-ties. a large number of patients in Faisal-abad government hospitals had to returnunattended and uncared by the doctorsdue to their strike. the situation is nodifferent in Gujranwala District Head-quarters Hospital, Bhawalpur’s VictoriaHospital and Quaid-e-azam MedicalCollege, where the patients were seenpouring in but there was none to attendthem even in the OPDs, which remainedclosed due to the doctors’ strike.

the YDa alleged that despite strike in

OPDs, the concerned government author-ities had been paying no heed to the de-mands of young doctors compelling themto intensify their protest. the YDa also al-leged that the Punjab government hadfailed to keep its promise as it failed in im-plementing the decision of the LahoreHigh Court which directed the concernedauthorities in March 2012 to revise servicestructure of doctors within six weeks.

Punjab YDa General Council Chair-man Dr Muhammad Haroon said thatthe YDa supreme general council meet-ing will be held on June 28 at the HolyFamily Hospital in Rawalpindi. it will beattended by 24 presidents of chapters ofthe YDa wherein the YDa would plan tointensify the strike. He said that the YDawas planning to announce strike in iPDsas well during next week while the youngdoctors also have plans to come on roadsand stage sit-in protests all across theprovince against the government’s non-serious attitude.

the young doctors’ strike in OPDsfor last eight days in public sector health-care facilities in almost all major cities ofthe province, including Rawalpindi, hasadded to miseries of poor patients whocould not afford treatment at privatehealthcare facilities. Like other districtsof the Punjab, the OPDs in three teachinghospitals of Rawalpindi were closed onthe eight days of the strike. a large num-ber of patients have expressed annoysover the young doctors’ strike in health-care facilities could not be justified. theysaid that opting for medical professionsimply means to serve humanity anddoctors should not cause loss to patients.

Country’s first-ever

Youth helpline goes

live next monthLAHORE

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the country’s first ever Youth Helpline willbecome functional under the aegis of Pun-jab government from next month to createa sense of direction among the youth bysolving their day to day problems. Punjabsecretary sports Haroon ahmad khan andPlan international Country Director Rah-sid Javed signed a one-year MOU to pro-vide counselling to the youth of theprovince through a helpline, a modernconcept of guidance which is in practice inmost advanced countries of the world.also present were Punjab assemblyDeputy speaker Mashhood ahmed andYouth Festival 2012 Organising Commit-tee Chairman Usman anwar. Briefing jour-nalists about the agreement, RanaMashhood said through this helpline theyouth will be able to discuss their multipleproblems and to find their solution with thehelp of seven experts whose services havebeen acquired to extend guideline in differ-ent fields of life. Mashhood said that thehelpline would start functioning in amonth and half and after one year assess-ment the Punjab government will take itover to further carry on the mission of theyouth counselling. He also agreed thateven the youth ministry officials would re-quire training and they would move aheadwith letter and spirit. He said the Punjabgovernment with this helpline give theyouth career counseling, education coun-seling, sense of direction and most impor-tantly to work on their capacity building.“there is no country in the world with 100percent jobs available to the youth”, hesaid, adding that “Punjab has taken leadto make the youth self-reliant and self-in-tegrated because they will be the face ofthe country and leaders of tomorrow,”said the deputy speaker.“it’s a first step forward and not the last inthe working with the Punjab govern-ment,” said Rashid Javed. Rashid said thehelpline will work seven days a week from10 am to 8 pm and experts will be readilyavailable on a toll free hotline to listen theproblems of the youth and to come upwith a counseling solution.

Nobody loves Zardari, says Shahbaz g says President

Zardari has no affection

for the people either

In govt-doctorsstandoff, it’s thepatients who loseg Patients fear the worst as doctors gear

to extend the strike to inpatients

department, hold sit-ins to block roads

LAhORe: More than 1000 seats of doctors were lying vacant in Punjab and the Punjabgovernment had failed to hire doctors on these seats despite repeated advertisements inthe last 2 years, Pakistan today learnt on Monday. “the Punjab government is unfortu-nately presenting wrong facts about the salaries of doctors in the media to mislead thepublic,” claims a Young Doctors’ association (YDa) office bearer. “the reality is contraryto the claims made by the government,” said Dr Rana sohail. such misleading statementswere further aggravating the situation and creating unrest in the doctors’ community.“the salary of a new graduate doctor is Rs 24000 while the stenographer of high court isgetting about Rs 65000,” informed Dr talha sherwani. He further added that the Gov-ernment of Punjab was comparing doctors with the government departments’ employeeswho work from 8am to 2pm while the doctors were working 24/7 the whole week andwere on duties even on sunday and national holidays. another YDa office bearer Drsalman kazmi said that if the doctors were not to be in the hospitals to attend patients,all free medicines, new buildings, dialysis centers, aC and generators would go waste andthe public would be deprived of the medical facilities. Staff REPoRt

‘Punjab govt is lying about doctors’ salaries’

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‘Strange’ but not defeated

NEWS DESK

Ayoung man, who

has been plagued

with a rare condition

which left him with a

giant head, feet and

hands, is desperately searching

for a cure so he can finally find

love, Tammy Hughes of the Daily

Mail reported.

Saen Mumtaz, 22, has been seri-

ously disfigured by Proteus syn-

drome which has caused certain

parts of his body to continue

growing.

He has been ac-

cepted by locals

in his neigh-

bourhood on

the outskirts

of Lahore, in

Pakistan, but

the disease has

left him with ongo-

ing medical prob-

lems and he finds it

difficult to get

around.

It is thought that

Saen suffered from a unique vari-

ation of Proteus syndrome -

which also affected 'Elephant

Man' Joseph Merrick - because

of the symmetrical deformity on

his face and skull.

Heartbreakingly Sian once be-

lieved his terrible affliction was a

curse bestowed on him by a

vengeful God, leaving him listless

and depressed.

But supportive friends and family

have kept his spirits high and he

is now determined to embrace

life.

Kindly locals refer to him as their

'giant friend' and are determined

to discover a cure for Sian who in

turn hopes he will meet the

woman of his dreams.

He said: 'I've been this way since

I was born. My face, arms and

legs all differ in size and people

assume I'm not like other normal

human beings.

'But I'm mentally fit and un-

derstand everything, I live

like my life like everyone

else despite all my fam-

ily including my mother,

father, brothers and sis-

ters all being

born without

the condi-

tion.

'People used

to run away from

me. But now they treat me nor-

mally and sit and talk to me when

I am out.

'They call me their friend. One

day I hope to be cured and meet

a woman who will love me.'

Saen hasn't seen a doctor since

he was a boy when he was told it

was Proteus Syndrome and noth-

ing could be done to help him.

If Proteus is the correct diagnosis

for his condition there may be

nothing that can reduce the

weight of his massive limbs.

But his family cling on to the

hope that Saen is suffering from

some other overgrowth disorder

and if this is true then there may

well be treatments that can help

him.

His father, Wazir Ali, said: 'We

want to discover what is wrong

with him, and whether anything

might be done to improve his

day-to-day life.

'He has hopes for his future, one

day he would like to run a rick-

shaw business and find a wife.'

g Saen Mumtaz, from Lahore, is thought

to have the same condition as

'Elephant Man' Joesph Merrick

g He hopes that he will discover a cure

for the disease that has left him

seriously disfigured so he can find love

famiLy: Saen is pictured at his Lahore home with his fam-

ily who have been very supportive throughout his ordeal.

Love for Life: Despite his

appearance and related medical

problems Saen is embracing life.

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LAHOREStaff REPoRt

tHE Lahore University of Managementsciences (LUMs) held its 24th annualConvocation on saturday (June 23), inthe syed Maratab ali sports Complexat the university campus. the varsity

community came together in traditional, celebratoryspirit to mark the graduation of 713 students in a glit-tering ceremony that also featured as the largest Con-vocation in the history of LUMs.

Degrees were conferred to these graduates in var-ious majors and disciplines from all three schools ofthe university, while outstanding students, securingtop positions in various degree programmes were ho-

noured with awards and medals by the national Man-agement Foundation (nMF), the governing body atLUMs. the keynote speaker at the Convocation wassharmeen Obaid Chinoy, the Pakistani Oscar winnerfor her documentary “saving Face,” also included inthis year’s time Magazine list of the 100 most influ-ential people in the world. in her address Ms Chinoysaid, “Please take a moment to reflect on the hauntingdifference between the two scenarios. in 1947, thedream that our founding fathers had envisioned forthis land became a reality. today, the very citizens ofthis land do not dare to dream. But as a nation wemust dream, and we must dream big.”

While highlighting the significance of workingtowards a better Pakistan, Ms Chinoy added, “Youare all here for the very same reason. You want to

make something of yourself. and for many, you wantto make something of your country. it is your respon-sibility as Pakistan’s finest, to direct your talent to-wards the progress of this nation.” an eveningearlier, on June 22, the traditional Graduate nightdinner was held. at the ceremony, graduates fromthe suleman Dawood school of Business (sDsB)achieving distinction in business subject areas werepresented with 10 Corporate Gold medals. this wasfollowed by the presentation of the Deans’ HonourList shields to 129 graduating students from all threeschools for excellence in academic performance.

this year’s convocation was also notable as itmarked the first ever convocation for the inauguralbatch of school of science and Engineering (ssE)undergraduates.

LAhORe: On the directions of Punjab Chief Minister shah-baz sharif, the Health Department is working on a strategy toeliminate polio from Punjab during the current year. in thisconnection, all the DCOs have been tasked with strictly moni-toring the anti-polio campaign in their respective districts,whereas the Punjab chief secretary is monitoring the situationat the provincial level. this was stated by Punjab Chief Minis-ter’s special assistant on Health khawaja salman Rafiquewhile administering polio drops to gypsy children residingnear the Babu sabu interchange. He was inaugurating theshort interval additional Doze strategy (siaDs) activity forPolio Eradication on Monday. the campaign will continuefrom 26th to 28th June in forty one sensitive union councils offive towns during which more than four lakh children up tofive years of age will be administered polio vaccine drops forwhich 1200 mobile teams have been constituted. Staff REPoRt

LAHOREStaff REPoRt

Us Consulate General and the Us Education Foundation Pak-istan (UsEFP) conducted its annual Pre-Departure Orienta-tion Programme on Monday for over 20 Punjabi studentstravelling to the United states for study.the students will study in colleges and universities across theUnited states this fall for higher education degrees of variouslevels. the Pre-Departure Orientation Programme is ademonstration of the United states commitment to educationexchanges for Pakistani students and increasing understand-ing between americans and Pakistanis. Us Cultural affairsOfficer katie kiser, Consular Officer Chris Vogt, Public af-fairs Officer Brinille Ellis and information Officer LeslieGoodman all participated in the programme giving partici-pants advice on visa procedures and student life in the Unitedstates. “it is really wonderful to see Punjabi students gettingexcited about this new stage in their lives. in my experiencethe two things that most expand students’ horizons are traveland education. they are lucky to be doing both,” remarkedkiser. the orientation was designed to help prepare studentsnavigate the Us education experience. Presentations includedinformation on culture shock, port of entry procedures, hous-ing, financial and health issues.

LAhORe: the society for Human Rights and Prisoner’s aid (sHaRP) or-ganised a one-day festival for afghan refugees residing in Lahore as a part ofthe World Refugee Day events. the sHaRP afghan Mela was arranged nearan afghan locality in Manzoor Park. the main objective was to provide en-tertainment for the less fortune segment of society which does not get achance to enjoy life due to limited resources. a large number of refugeesfrom scattered localities throughout Lahore and its adjacent areas partici-pated in the afghan Festival. During the event, Dettol Warriors gave a lec-ture on hygiene and also distributed swords among the children. Godh, alocal nGO, presented a puppet show to spread awareness about educationand health. a magic show and a performance by Pashto singer ansar abbaswas also organised. GRaP Gender specialist Memoona Batool khan empha-sised the importance of educating afghan women. sHaRP Lahore FieldManager sher afgan khan said Pakistan had always welcomed the afghans.He said sHaRP had organised the programme to commemorate the WorldRefugee day with afghan nationals. Staff REPoRt

713 of the ‘country’s finest’pass out as LUMS graduates

Polio no more

Afghan Mela commemorates World Refugee Day

uS envoys help students prepare

for life in the united States

Lahore

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through judiciary this time

The smell of conspiracy

things are happening that give one a sense of déjà vu. thesC removed an elected PM who still enjoyed the supportof the majority in national assembly. the rulingcoalition accepted the decision without throwing

tantrums but the CJ still considers it necessary to send themessage that there could be no legislation which is repugnant toconstitution or islam. One fails to understand the need to affirmthis at a time when the national assembly cannot be accused ofacting in a belligerent way. there are many who think that the sCwould do well to avoid taking over the responsibility of definingwhere islam ends and heresy begins. an sC bench has beenformed, headed by the CJ, which is to start hearing the nROimplementation case among other cases. a new confrontationbetween the executive and judiciary may not be far off.

attempts are on to divide, pressurise and malign institutionsand civil society organisations. sidestepping the Pakistan BarCouncil and the supreme Court Bar association, Pti’s senior vicepresident Hamid khan convened a lawyers’ convention whichannounced a countrywide strike by lawyers on June 27. as theconvention and its announcements were declaredunconstitutional by the PBC and sCBa, there is likelihood of asplit among the lawyers. Many consider that the arsalan iftikharaffair was a conspiracy to pressurise the judiciary and malign themedia at the same time. While this happens, political partiesremain divided and sufficiently discredited.

the ruling coalition has committed enough sins of omissionand commission to gain unpopularity. these include an abysmalneglect to tackle the power issue, failure to put an end to targetedkillings in karachi and Quetta and to ameliorate the lot of thecommon man. the PML(n) has been mired by financialindiscipline and bad governance. after recruiting the whole lot ofpoliticians known for shifting party alliances, the Pti which wasconsidered earlier by the youth as a harbinger of change is nowseen by many as another party of the status quo. there is aperception that attempts are on by those who matter to oust thepresent PPP government through courts, install an interimadministration, give it indefinite extension and delay the generalelection.

a peaceful transfer of power is the only hope for putting thesystem, battered by one military intervention after another, on aneven keel. any interpolation by the army or the courts woulddamage the system beyond repair. What needs to be done by thepolitical parties is to agree on early elections, reach understandingon a permanent CEC and an interim set up and go for an orderlytransition of power.

if you’re looking for a new ca-reer path, look no further thanthe pages of this newspaper. if

you are talented, have the analyti-cal skills necessary to tell the dif-ference between your nose and ahumming bird, and can follow or-ders, no matter how inane; a careerin journalism is exactly what thedoctor ordered. Being on prescrip-tion medication is an added quali-fication, but not a prerequisite.

Like the many over-the-topreal estate ads that adorn 9PM bul-letins on our ever abundant newschannels – which would have youbelieve that there has never been abetter time to invest in real estatein Dadu and Hyderabad – therecan be no such illusions about thestate of the media in Pakistan.While viewers are distracted by thehigh-sounding news and scandalsbreaking on tV screens day in andday out, media houses lay peopleoff at least two days a week; coughup salaries for staff such as re-

porters, camerapersons, editors,technical, production and supportstaff every third month and buythemselves new talk show hosts al-most every other fortnight.

Journalists too have becomefickle creatures. With things get-ting tighter by the day, media pro-fessionals with more developedsurvival instincts have begun hop-ping from leaf to leaf, like veritablefrogs in a pond full of pitfalls andcrocodiles. One false step couldland them in the drink, or worse.Horse-trading may have beenbanned from parliament, but it hasreared its financially attractivehead in the media sector and hastaken everything by storm. this ap-plies more to talk show hosts andtheir lackeys more than it does toseasoned professionals, but that isinconsequential. What matters isthat the glorified mouthpieces ofmedia magnates, spewing forthpropaganda badly disguised as‘public interest journalism’, take

home a fat salary.But spare a thought for the

hardworking men and women whomake these anchors and tycoonswhat they are: you can’t, can you?this is because you don’t knowthem, can’t empathise with them.On a recent trip to karachi, i hadthe chance of visiting some of myold friends at their workplaces. atGeo news, i met with the old gangfrom the ill-fated channel GeoEnglish. Despite all the bhal safaiand bad blood, a good two dozenstrong were still there, toiling awayin an organisation that is a mereshadow of its former glory. Whilethe toys and the new studio arequite impressive, behind all theglitter is the sad fact that it is not ablood-sweat-and-tears news or-ganisation anymore, but a well-oiled machine. the chaos of thenewsrooms of old was gone and re-placed by an uneasy calm. therewas no yelling over the phones, nolast minute instructions to the an-

chor or any harried phone callsfrom the transmission departmentasking to cut to commercials.Everything was running smooth. alittle too smooth.

saMaa was no different.Everyone on the programmingfloor was quite pleased to still bethere. i saw several familiar faces,seated in the exact same seats thati left them in all those years ago. isaw many new faces, met many oldfriends who had now migrated tothe channel from other, less greenpastures. the consensus here wasthat the news business is no longerabout news anymore. Program-ming has gone from original, fac-tual content to dramatised andexaggerated soap operas. there isnow a great demand for gossip,hearsay and scandal. the new massmedia seldom has time to verifyand ample time to vilify.

i met with a lot of senior peopleas well, all of whom had the same,bleak story to tell. it is hard times

for the industry. newspapers andtV channels are spending (or los-ing) more money than they aremaking. this does not include po-litical injections from satisfied par-ties that go into the pockets ofthose in power. Each organisation,as an organisation, is crumbling.and being seths, media tycoons arenow opting to create their ownworkforce rather than hiring askilled one. these fresh recruits arethen burdened with responsibili-ties that range from camera workto hosting primetime talk shows.

in such dire circumstances, wecan ill-afford skeletons in ourcloset. it would be best if mediahouses steered clear of controversyand not became a party to all thatis going on in the country, lest theybe dragged into the mud them-selves. Wait, what?

Follow @mightyobvious onTwitter for more incoherence in160 characters or less

the new mass media seldom has time to verify and ample time to vilify

hard times

The emperor of all maladiesa plea for cancer awareness

in 2010, about six hundred thou-sand americans, and more than 7million humans around the world,will die of cancer. in the Unitedstates, one in three women and

one in two men will develop cancer duringtheir lifetime. a quarter of all americandeaths, and about 15 percent of all deathsworldwide, will be attributed to cancer. insome nations, cancer will surpass heartdisease to become the most common causeof death. —Mukherjee, siddhartha (2010-11-16). The Emperor of All Maladies.simon & schuster, inc. kindle Edition.

Dr Mukherjee, in the quote above,states that one in three women and one intwo men, in the Us, will develop cancer intheir lifetime. this is massive. though wedo not have country wide cancer registryin Pakistan, but some of the city registriesare showing that the incidence of cancer isgoing up in these Pakistani cities. andthough the percentages will surely belower than in Us, the numbers are likelyto keep on increasing and breast cancer,cervical cancer and lung/mouth/throatcancer seem to be the major ones showingincreases in Pakistan though some othersare also increasing. since these trends arenot from Pakistan wide databases and theconditions under which people live, acrossthe country, vary a lot, we should interpretthese numbers with due caution.

there seem to be many reasons for theincreasing numbers. Our ability to detectcancer, and earlier, has gone up. Our pop-ulations are also aging and cancer does af-flict the older population much more thanthe younger one. these two factors aloneexplain a significant increase in cancer in-cidence. But at the same time it does seemthat changes in our food, work, environ-ment, and life styles might also be expos-ing us to more carcinogens (cancercausing agents) and this might also be afactor in the increasing cancer incidence.

the word cancer covers a lot of differ-ent types of cancers and it can be causedby variety of reasons. it can attack any partof the body and any organ. there is hugevariety in how quickly it spreads and it cantravel from one organ/part of body to an-

other as well. We, in fact, might not knowall the reasons that cause cancer or itsspread. What we do know is that normalcells can get Dna mutations and these canturn them into cancer cells. so cancer cellis not alien to our body. these are cellswhere some functions of normal cells, likerestrictions on division, replicability andmortality, have been altered due to muta-tions and that makes these cells cancerous.this is what makes them difficult to find,target and destroy too: in some cases theylook and act too much like normal cells.But their added features, ability to repli-cate uncontrollably, ability to adapt tomedicines designed to kill them and abilityto defy normal cell mortality, is whatmakes them so difficult to destroy.

a cancer diagnosis still sends shiversdown the spine of most people. and itshould. though there has been a lot ofprogress we still do not have the cure formost cancers and if detected late, a lot ofcancers are fatal. the statistics quoted atthe start speak for themselves. the prob-lem is that cancer cells are hard to targetand hard to kill, without hurting nor-mal cells. there are three mainways of targeting: surgical exci-sion for tumours where thehope is that all of the cancercomes out, targeted killing ofcancer cells through expo-sure to radiation, andchemotherapies where differ-ent chemical agents are de-signed to target fastreplicating cells or cells withother specific characteristics thatonly cancer cells have and killthem. Chemotherapy agents arebeing developed at a rapidrate but we still do not havespecific agents for all oreven most cancers.

all of the therapiesand cures mentionedare quite expensiveand even wherethey either curethe cancer ormanage to sig-nificantly pro-long life of apatient, they canhave a significant ef-fect on the quality of lifeof the patient. Even a richcountry like the Us will have to figure outhow to manage the cost of treating canceras numbers continue to rise as predicted.

With a lot fewer resources (money, fa-cilities, human resource) and almost nocommitment from the state of Pakistan totake care of the health issues of the peopleof the country, any increases in cancer in-cidence would be devastating for manyacross the country. it makes sense, in our

condition, to have a lot more emphasis onawareness raising and prevention as wellas early detection campaigns. awarenessand prevention campaigns are hard to fi-nance as it is difficult, methodologically,to show their effectiveness (how do youmeasure how many cancers were avoidedand at what benefit), but they are essentialfor our environment.

For the carcinogens that we know ofand other risk factors known to be associ-ated with cancer, the society, even if thestate is not a party to it, should mountcampaigns. We know tobacco chewingand smoking is a definite cause. Why is itstill available in the country? Why issmoking still accepted? this is one of thebiggest causes of lung and mouth/throatcancers. We should do more to control ac-cess to the substance.

the list of known carcinogens is long.asbestos, exposure to radiation, x-rays,diesel fumes, some substances in fertilizer,pesticides, substances put in some de-odorants, bathroom and laundry cleansersand so on are all examples. it would be im-

portant to have some research, fo-cused on local conditions in

Pakistan, as to what are all/mostof the carcinogens that we en-counter daily or frequentlyand suggestions on how peo-ple can start avoiding themand weeding them out of thesystem.

On the early detectionside, putting in protocols, aspeople age, and especially for

cancers like breast andprostate, would be a big help aswell.

Cancer is deadly. and in-creases in cancer incidence,

as it seems to be happen-ing the world over,

would be devastatingfor us especially given

the lack of prepara-tion on the part of

our health sector.Given the cost

of interven-tion, our bestbet is to work

with preven-tion and early de-

tection. But here toothe society will have to

become more active than the state: cannotexpect much from the state. But there is alot that can be done through preventionand early detection.

The writer is an Associate Professorof Economics at LUMS (currently onleave) and a Senior Advisor at OpenSociety Foundation (OSF). He can bereached at fbari@sorosny.org

By Dr Faisal Bari

Mighty obviousBy Syed Hassan Belal Zaidi

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Democracy has evolved over a period of centuries asa system of governance, where rulers are accountablefor all their decisions, acts and deeds done while inpower. there is no need to reinvent the wheel as they,the system exists and only way it can function is if thoseelected adhere to its norms, strictly follow constitutionwhose interpretation is solely at discretion of supremeCourt and not those who are elected to legislate, northose who amongst them are selected by parliament toserve as President, PM or CM. it is the failure of ourpaid servants and our political elite to adapt todemocracy, rather than tailoring it to suit their feudalmindset which is the problem.

Democracy is a system where there is a governmentof laws, not of men and fundamental article of political

creed is that unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power,is alien to it. it is experimentation with democracy andtrying to adapt it to sick feudal mindset, where men orindividuals matter more than laws, that democracy hasfailed to gain roots. Democracy cannot be tailor made tosuit whims of rulers, but the mechanics of the systemcan be varied to suit the electorate, without makingchanges in system of checks and balances, or judicialreview, built in to prevent abuse of powers.

Every elected civil government over past twodecades is responsible for compromising democracy byfailing to deliver to people and address basic issues suchas poverty, health, education and an infrastructure forlocal industry to develop and generate employment.Unfortunately civil and khaki bureaucratic system that

Pakistan inherited was trained to serve their colonialmasters and not people of this country. Even after morethan six decades this British trained bureaucracyconsiders that this country and its 180 million peopleare there to serve them.

What we have witnessed in past four years is anoutright abuse of power, democratic norms andtraditions. John adams, President of Usa, stated that“Liberty cannot be preserved without a generalknowledge among the people, who have a right and adesire to know—-divine right to that dreaded and mostenvied kind of knowledge, i mean of the characters andconduct of their rulers”.

MALIK TARIQ ALILahore

what a tragedy!When Zardari became President,

many were sorry for the development. idon’t know why and how BB nominatedhim as Co-Chairman but BB wassuddenly gone. We reconciled to thatfact. Many institutions in Europe termedZardari as lunatic but we could not helpit. now a new bomb has explodes on us.Raja Pervaiz ashraf has assumed chargeas Chief Executive and our present andfuture goes into his hands. But Raja’scompetence is questionable; he fooledthe nation on load shedding by givingdates and meaningless assurances.

the country is facing economic andpolitical issues along with national andinternational complications. He has nocomprehension of things or their gravity.PPP or no PPP, elections or no elections,the future of Pakistan is clearly at stake.

AMJAD H MIRZALahore

lyari operationa karachi court has ordered to

register murder case against the policeofficer who led the april 27 – May 04Lyari operation. During this botchedoperation, police faced a spectacularresistance from the well-armed and well-positioned alleged criminals againstwhom the operation was launched. thisis evident from the fact that despite tallclaims, police party was unable to movebeyond the Cheel Chowk and Faqir Eisakhan Road even in eight days. there isno doubt that it was an ill-plannedoperation, initiated without taking all thelaw enforcing agencies on board(Rangers didn’t take part despite theirpresence in the vicinity). But puttingaside the shortcomings of the operation,no one can deny the fact that a number ofcriminals and gangsters, who areinvariably involved in kidnappings,murders, extortion, arms-trade, drugpedalling and gambling, are taking refuge

in Lyari. instead of taking on the criminals,various governments, including this oneas well, have preferred to deal with thisor that Lyari-based gang. this hasstrengthened them to the teeth.

We understand court instructions topolice to register the first informationreport (FiR) against its own officer, buthow about the criminals who were firingrockets, throwing grenades and sprayingbullets on the police force during theoperation. What about the six policeofficers killed in action while scoredinjured? Who will take up police caseagainst these gangsters? also who willbother to find out who armed these gangsat the first place? Who will highlight thefact that fall out between PPP and its blue-eyed boys of PaC was the main reasonbehind this operation? Unless politicsand criminal activities are differentiated,this and many operations are bound tofail, not one time but every time.

MASOOD KHANJubail, Saudi Arabia

Not a stupid letterthe article titled “all over a letter”

written by Mr Hamayun Gauhar inPakistan Today on 24 June is not ingood taste when the writer himself wantsto be educated on the subject.

We have trichotomy of power in thecountry i.e., Executive, Legislature andJudiciary. none of these is supreme to lordover the others as such but each one has afunction and is balanced by certain checks.the legislature enacts laws, executiveimplements these laws and the judiciaryinterprets laws and the supreme Court isthe final arbiter of Constitution.

ii. as for as the humans asvicegerents are concerned, all of us,including the speaker, the lowly peonand the judges, are all vicegerents intheir own spheres with allah almighty asthe sole sovereign.

iii. there is no Court of speaker butthe courts are duly defined as per

Constitution. the so-called peoples courtcan only elect the representatives but hasno power to adjudicate in disputes whichis the sole domain of superior courtjudges who are answerable to onlysupreme Judiciary Council and not tospeaker. also there is no law defining thecontempt of speaker as such which is animaginary concept.

iV. the letter to be written as perorders of apex Court is no stupid letter.it is the fundamental symbol of justicethat states all citizens are equal beforelaw and entitled to equal protection oflaw. there was no immunity in islameven for the Holy Prophet (PBUH) whooffered himself for open accountability.Can Mr Zardari not do so in the footstepsof the law giver?

V. the supreme Court did not electMr Gilani. it was the corrupt systemwhich threw up such wonders.

Vi. Mr Gauhar, it appears, needs someeducation before he ventures on such aslippery subject as checks and balancesin our system of government as per theConstitution of islamic Republic ofPakistan as per aspirations of the people.

DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTILahore

better be on safe sidethanks to the next general elections

which are fast approaching, the federalgovernment was kind enough to providesome relief to the people in general andmotorists in particular by not increasingbut instead reducing the POL products’prices for the second time in June 2012.But there is no guarantee whatsoeverthat this relief would persist and there isevery possibility of yet another petrolbomb hitting the people in less than aweek from now.

so better be on the safe side and do notrelax too much on this temporary reliefdespite which the POL products are stillconsiderably high-priced and continuemaking efforts for searching fuel saving

measures in order to minimise the petrolexpenses to the maximum extentpossible without compromising on thelong and short distances travelling onehas to do every day. this is in particularfor the kind attention of the motoristswith modest resources like me.

BiLaL aHMaD kHanLahore

worthless battleground?this is with reference to resolution of

the siachen conflict. sadly, mutualdistrust has led the two countries to beara heavy financial and human cost ofkeeping troops at such a high altitude.More than 2000 people have died so farin this inhospitable terrain.

the presence of troops at the siachenglacier has not improved the security ofPakistan or india. since 1984, india andPakistan twice came close to resolvingthe siachen dispute but failed to clinchthe final deal mainly because of mutualdistrust.

On 11-12 June islamabad hosted around of talks with india over thesiachen glacier in a bid to come to somesort of settlement on the issue. talks,however, remained an exercise in futility.adding to the misery was the fact thatthe indian army rejected all Pakistanisuggestions of demilitarisation of siachenglacier unless Pakistan agrees to actualGround Position Line on the glacier.

it is high time for india tounderstand that keeping troops atsiachen is useless proposition. neitherPakistan nor india has gained anythingfrom it. in fact, they have lost a largenumber of people only to protect falsenotions of national pride. UnlessPakistan and india overcome theirhistorical biases and mutual distrust,both will continue to lose their soldiersand waste a huge amount of materialresources for a worthless cause.

SHAMSA ASHFAQIslamabad

Comment 11Tuesday, 26 June, 2012

Mr Prime Ministeri would like to congratulate our

newly elected Prime Minister, Mr RajaPervaiz ashraf, on assuming the office ofprime minister of Pakistan and woulddraw the attention of our newly electedPM and other concerned authoritiestowards a very serious issue that isunscheduled load shedding in ourcountry. sir, we know that previouslyyou, being minister of water and power,could not fulfil your promise to eradicateload shedding from our country. nowallah almighty has blessed you with theposition of PM of Pakistan and we thepublic are looking towards you toprovide us relief from the hazards of loadshedding.

Moreover i would like to add here that Pakistan is enriched with many natural resources like coal andnatural gas.

Despite this we are far behind theothers. i can’t understand why ourpresent and previous governments didn’teven think to use alternate energyproduction ways, instead of usinghydropower which is more expensive.We are suffering a lot, our businessesand industries are closing down andunemployment is increasing. i haveobserved that many people have losttheir jobs due to unscheduled loadshedding. they are living hand to mouth.there are some homes where hardly aone-time meal is available.

Do not wait for the day when peoplecome out in front of the parliament andask questions from our leadership as towhy they failed to provide them relief.

i would like to request you, MrPrime Minister, to awake up and not towaste time in meetings etc. takepractical steps and resolve the issue ofload shedding as on priority basis. if youfulfil your promise of eradicating theload shedding from our country, thenyou will be remembered in history inpositive words.

SULTAN SHAHNAWAZLahore

Mushrraf’s returnshe wrote, ‘General Pervez

Musharraf is plotting his politicalcomeback’ (June 25).

Before he comes back, it would bebetter for his election prospects that hesolved a mystery left behind by him:How was he able to differentiate betweenunilateral, presidential, constitutionaland the decisions orders, importantinstructions and many directives ofnational importance he took while hewas COas?

Z A KAZMIKarachi

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MuMBai: here’s some information that mightupset all the fans of Salman Khan. The actor,who had flown to the uS to treat aneurological problem, hasn’t fully recoveredfrom his illness. his condition is frail andhence he has been advised to be verycautious while filming action sequences. Infact, he has been asked not to have actionscenes in his films.A source close to the actor said, “even aslight misjudged punch on the face couldtrigger off his condition and cause acutepain,” The friend revealed that a collectivedecision has been taken by the family

members and the filmmakers of Salman’supcoming ventures to keep him “out ofdanger as much as possible.” Ironically, theactor’s upcoming films, ‘Dabangg 2’, ‘SherKhan’ and ‘Kick’ are all action films whichrequire him to perform dangerous stunts. Andfilmmakers are already working out a way todeal with solutions to prevent Salman fromactually performing the scenes. “Arbaaz istrying hard to convince him to stay away fromthe sets when the action sequences areperformed,” added the source. here’s wishingSalman a speedy recovery and hope to seehim back at his healthiest best. aGEnCiES

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H iRinG Lindsay Lohan isclearly a high-risk,high-reward endeavour.Following the casting ofLindsay Lohan in the

tV movie about Elizabeth taylorand Richard Burton’s storied loveaffair, the actress was back to mak-ing headlines — first when thestriking official production imageswere released and then after the ac-tress was involved in a car crashthat left her Porsche totalled. the

last month made the risk abun-dantly clear, but which way will itbreak for Lifetime? that remains tobe seen, but she’s got the ‘Liz andDick’ producers spooked. Havinghired Lindsay Lohan as Elizabethtaylor, the network received morepublicity than they could’vedreamed but not always for the rea-sons they’d like. Understandably,higher-ups are upset and worriedover her car accident and the recentepisode in which she passed out sohard people had to call 911. threeweeks into filming, producers arefearing the following: that thecompany who insured LindsayLohan might bail, that her proba-tion will be violated for lying to po-lice, that she will get into yetanother bad car accident, that she’llsurround herself with the wrongpeople, that her exhaustion was awarning sign. On the flip side, if theworst case scenario doesn’t happenthink about all the PR she’s getting!Has anyone ever talked this muchabout a Lifetime film? Lohan couldblow the network’s previous proj-ects out of the water, if she doesn’tcompletely self-destruct. the mil-lion-dollar question: Can she keepit together?!

the producer say they were nottotally sure of Lohan’s level of com-mitment but that she had lived upto expectations. “there’s a curiosityfactor about Lohan and a high ex-pectation of the movie by the audi-ence in general,” he said.

CHARLIZE THERON

can’t handle live audience loS anGElES: Charlize Theron saysshe cannot do theatre as she isunable to handle live audience. “I’mjust not made for that kind of liveaudience where you don’t create afourth wall. I take my hat off tothose guys. It’s not disconnectedenough for me. Some people aregood at performing in front ofpeople like that, but I’muncomfortable at it,” the 36-year-oldtold Interview magazine. “I thinkmaybe that’s the difference betweenacting and being a performer. Assoon as there are 200 people in atheatre watching me, I get reallyscared,” she added. Theron alsorevealed that she had turned downoffers from director Jason Reuitmanto be part of his famous theatricalreading at los Angeles’s CountyMuseum of Arts because she couldnot handle the stress. “I’ve even saidto Jason, ‘I will jump off a buildingfor you, but I will not do that,” shesaid. aGEnCiES

‘Dabangg’ Salman Khan’s neurological problem worsens

lonDon: brad Pitt and AngelinaJolie, who got engaged in April,are reportedly planning to tie theknot in britain. “They’ve alwaysplanned to have the official partsecretly with just their kids andfamily,” the Daily Star quoted asource as telling. “They’re lookingat windsor register office, whereCharles and Camilla and eltonJohn and David Furnish tied theknot. “It allows same-sexmarriages, something the couplepassionately believe in.”According to reports the 48-year-old actor, who splurged 160,000pounds on the engagement ring,had considered having a simplewedding in the bahamas, on thebeach where Jolie’s mother’sashes were scattered. but asthey’re both based in uK nowand both of them are busyshooting for their respectivefilms, they’ve decided on aquickie english wedding. “It justseems easier. They’ll keep it verylow key,” the insider said.“They haven’t finalised a date, butthey are planning to slip out andget married with the minimum offuss.” After the ceremony, theduo plans to fly to the south ofFrance for a posh bash at‘Chateau Miraval’, their hugeestate in Provence. aGEnCiES

Johnny Depp’s ‘Thin Man’ remake reportedly hits skidsLOS AnGeLeS: Johnny Depp’s‘thin Man’ remake won’t be com-ing soon to a theatre near you. ac-cording to Deadline.com, WarnerBros has slowed down the processon the presumed blockbuster, withattached director Rob Marshallmoving on to ‘into the Woods’.that leaves ‘the thin Man’ withouta director, leading actress or greenlight; Warner Bros. has received abudget for the project, but nothing has been acceptedjust yet. Per Deadline.com, the party line is that Deppneeds a break. a closer look at the last couple ofmonths, however, paints a slightly more bleak outlook.For starters, there was the Depp-led ‘Dark shadows’,which Warner Bros released on May 11 and for whichthe profit margin is slim at best. Budgetary problemsare also at the forefront of Depp’s current project, ‘theLone Ranger’. Disney is producing that reboot, andwhile director Gore Verbinski and producer JerryBruckheimer were forced to drop the budget down to$210 million, it has reportedly shot up to $250 million— a number that Disney previously bristled at last year.to make matters worse, Depp’s personal life is in thenews as well. the actor announced that he had splitfrom his long time girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis, after 14years together. the pair have two children. aGEnCiES

Disney’s ‘Brave’ rides to box office winLOS AnGeLeS: Disney’snew animated movie,‘Brave’, about a rebellious,red-headed princess bat-tled to the top of movie boxoffice charts over the week-end, scoring $80 million inticket sales around the world. the fairy tale from Disney’sPixar studio pulled in $66.7 million at domestic theatres,plus $13.5 million from international markets. ‘Brave’ eas-ily topped new historical/horror mashup ‘abraham Lin-coln: Vampire Hunter’, which finished the weekend inthird place. the 3D ‘Brave’ is set in the ancient scottishhighlands and centres around horseback-riding teenprincess Merida, who defies her mother and her kingdom’straditions. Merida, voiced by scottish actress kelly Mac-donald, must then use her courage and archery skills toundo a curse. the movie brings the 13th consecutive no.1 opening to Pixar, which has become Hollywood’s mostreliable studio during its 17-year history of making films.‘Brave’ is a departure for Pixar, and is its first film to fea-ture a strong female as the lead character, following a longDisney tradition with female heroines that in recent yearshave included ‘Mulan’ and ‘Pocahontas’. ‘Brave’ knockedanother animated family film, ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’sMost Wanted’, to no 2 after its two weeks in the topspot. another new release, ‘seeking a Friend for the Endof the World’ pulled in $3.8 million, for a disappointing10th place. the dark comedy starring steve Carrell andkeira knightley tells the story of a man who goes on aroad trip as an asteroid speeds toward Earth. REutERS

Lindsay Lohan to cost (or make) tens of millions

loS anGElES: Matt Bomer arrives at the premiere of ‘Magic Mike’. AFP

IN LIMELIGHT

loS anGElES: olivia Munn arrives at the premiere of ‘Magic Mike’. AFP

loS anGElES: Matthew McConaughey and Camila McConaughey arrive at thepremiere of ‘Magic Mike’. AFP

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W itH her power-house portrayal ofjournalist MarthaGellhorn who alsoengaged in a tu-

multuous marriage as ErnestHemingway’s third wife, kidmanhad the rare opportunity of pre-miering a movie in Cannes. andbefore this Oscar winning star(the Hours) showed there ispractically nothing she won’t dofor her art as the trampy south-ern trollop in Precious directorLee Daniel’s first film since thattriumph, ‘the Paperboy’, inwhich she stars opposite MatthewMcConaughey, Zac Efron andJohn Cusack. the movie dividedcritics but everyone seemed toagree kidman nailed it. Clearlythis major movie star is on a rolland now she goes where the in-teresting parts are now whetherit’s the movies, theatre or eventelevision, which in ‘Gellhorn’gave her one of the roles of a life-time. When asked whether shewas familiar with Martha Gell-horn, kidman said: “i didn’t evenknow who she was. then i startedresearching her and called direc-tor Phil and said ‘i have got toplay her.’ and to play her old andlooking back. she had that per-

spective. and the final images ofthe film are her looking back andon the phone and saying ‘i willpay my own way.’ i had totell that story. she trail-blazed a lot of femalejournalists, butalso she was arole modelfor women.”Her nextprojecti sshootinga Grace kellystory withOlivier Dahan. shesaid: “i’ve been of-fered to play famousactresses before, but itwasn’t thetime forme tod othat.B u t

this has a great script. i know alittle about Grace kelly. i wasn’t a

massive obsessed fan ofGrace kelly, but i

want to find outwho she wasand find the

truth ofthat. We

s t a r ti n

late fall.But now idon’t doanything. i

go on a planeand go back tomy family and

say ‘Oh i am a nor-mal person after all’.

Back from the dead?LOndOn:MichaelJackson’sghost isapparentlyhauntingtheBeverlyHillsmansionwhere hebreathedhis last. neighbours insist that theyhave seen the king of Pop strollingaround his old La home like a scenefrom his ‘thriller’ video. and theyhave even heard his music and singingduring the night. “Everyone thinksthat Michael’s ghost walks around thehouse,” the Daily star quoted one ofhis neighbours as saying. “it hasfreaked everyone out. When he wasliving there, Michael would regularlylook through the curtains and see whowas around. People have heard hismusic coming from the house andeven singing. it is so weird. the worldknew that Michael was obsessed bythe afterlife, from his songs likethriller. “He believed in spirits – nowhis own has returned,” the neighboursaid. the legendary singer used to liveat the mansion with his childrenPrince, now 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket,10. the star, while preparing for acomeback tour, suffered a cardiacarrest after he was given sleeping pills,painkillers and then injected with anoverdose of anesthesia drug Propofol,three years ago. aGEnCiES

Ashton and Mila spark dating rumours LOSAnGeLeS:Mila kunisinsiststhey're justfriends, butrecently,the actresshit up aromanticitalianrestaurant with her former ‘that 70sshow’ co-star ashton kutcher -- and theyeven left in the same car. the two havebeen rumoured to be secretly datingfor months -- but Mila adamantlydenies they're anything more thanplatonic pals...who eat out togetheralone... and go on romantic weekendtrips to quaint little towns. aGEnCiES

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Elizabeth Taylor’s

‘Cleopatra’trailer goes under

the hammerMuMBai: Two decades ago a new hindi filmsuperstar emerged: Shahrukh Khan, who debutedwith ‘Deewana’. on completing 20 years, SRKsays he just “got lucky” and admits he has mademistakes all along. “Twenty uninterrupted yearsof serving. Not enough talent or looks or gameplan. Thank you all. I guess I got lucky, lucky to beworking all the time,” tweeted Shah Rukh, whoentered filmdom with ‘Deewana’, which releasedJune 25, 1992. Superstardom, disappointment andcontroversies - Delhi guy SRK has seen it all inhis celebrity hood. For Shah Rukh, it’s been twodecades in bollywood, but his tryst with showbizbegan in 1988, the year he started his journeywith TV series ‘Fauji’, after being trained at Thebarry John’s Acting Studio. Next year he featuredin another successful show ‘Circus’ and ‘DoosraKeval’. If people loved his act on small screen, hewon hearts as a crazy lover in ‘Deewana’, inwhich he was competing with none other thanRishi Kapoor in the lead role. but lady luck wassmiling on him and audiences loved his chemistrywith late Divya bharti. There was no looking backthereafter. his success earned him titles like KingKhan and bollywood badshah. he redefined theromantic hero with films like ‘Dilwale Dulhania leJayenge’, ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’, ‘Kal ho Na ho’and ‘Rab Ne bana Di Jodi’. After making it big inshowbiz, he turned businessman by launching hisproduction house and later by investing in the IPlfranchise Kolkata Knight Riders. Now, one of themost lovable bollywood actors is set to return tohis lovey-dovey avatar with Yash Chopra’s nextdirectorial venture. he will be seen romancingKatrina Kaif in it. aGEnCiES

Knightley’s

comic actlonDon: british actress KeiraKnightley will soon be seentickling audience’s funny boneswith her comic act in ‘Seeking AFriend for the end of the world’.The story of the film revolvesaround the news that earth willbe destroyed in 21 days by anasteroid. Directed by loreneScafaria, the film also starsSteve Carell. After ‘Seeking AFriend for the end of the world’Knightley will return to herdramatic roles with ‘AnnaKarenina’, an adaptation of leoTolstoy’s novel by the samename, reportscontactmusic.com. Knightley,who has been recently engagedto musician James Righton, waslast seen in 2011 historical film –‘A Dangerous Method’. aGEnCiES

Brangelina marrying! ‘It was

sheer luck’

Nicole Kidman packs a powerful performance in ‘Hemingway and Gellhorn’

loS anGElES: Joe Manganiello arrives at the premiere. AFP

loS ANGeleS:Channing Tatum

arrives at thepremiere of

‘Magic Mike’. afP

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the lavish and one-of-a-kind vanity van of the lateElizabeth taylor, which was used on the set of 1963movie classic ‘Cleopatra’ is all set to be auctionedoff over the weekend. the 36-foot long trailer fea-tures hand-painted murals on the walls, a workingphone in the bathroom, full bar and intricate hand-made decor. it had cost twentieth Century Fox ex-ecutives 75,000 dollars 50 years ago is estimatedto cost 350,000 pounds today. But before a newowner can get his or her hands on the trailer, it willbe used by Lindsay Lohan, who is playing taylorin new biopic ‘Liz ‘n’ Dick’. the trailer was report-edly gifted to a Fox studio boss as a token gesture,for investing in the film after ‘Cleopatra’ wrapped.

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Venus crashes to15-year wimbledon low

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nUWan kulasekara and surajRandiv combined to vanquishPakistan as sri Lanka won thefirst test by a massive 209

runs on Monday, their biggest win overtheir asian rivals. the tourists, set a nearimpossible victory target of 510, werebowled out for 300 just before stumps onthe fourth day despite defiant batting fromYounis khan and asad shafiq. the pairkept the sri Lankan attack at bay for threehours to add 151 for the fifth wicket, Younismaking 87 and shafiq 80, before both fellon either side of the tea interval.

Off-spinner Randiv and seamer ku-lasekara grabbed three wickets each to en-sure sri Lanka ended the match with a dayto spare after Pakistan appeared to be tak-ing the fight into the final day.

Randiv finished with seven wickets inthe game, but it was team-mate kumar san-gakkara who was named man-of-the-matchfor his unbeaten 199 in sri Lanka's first in-nings. "it's nice to continue the winning mo-

mentum," said sri Lankan captain MahelaJayawardene, whose team won the preced-ing one-dayers 3-1 and now leads 1-0 in thethree-test series. Jayawardene defended hisdecision not to enforce the follow-on despitea lead of 372 runs after sri Lanka shot outPakistan for a modest 100 in the first in-nings. "the idea was to bat Pakistan out ofthe match and also give my bowlers a bit ofa rest," he said. "the weather was a bit of aconcern but then kulasekara was outstand-ing with the new ball. Younis and shafiq bat-ted really well, but we knew that once we

broke the stand, we will go through."Younis, 34, the most experienced bats-

man in the Pakistan side with 77 test ap-pearances, held the innings together duringhis 26th half-century in the five-day format.shafiq, a 26-year-old playing his 14th test,matched his senior partner with a fluentknock that contained 13 hits to the fence. Butjust when the duo appeared to have survivedthe entire post-lunch session, shafiq was dis-missed against the run of play, edging left-arm spinner Rangana Herath to MahelaJayawardene in the slips. Younis, who went

to tea on 81, fell in the first over with the sec-ond new ball when he edged kulasekara towicket-keeper Prasanna Jayawardene.

Mohammad Hafeez, who led Pakistanafter regular captain Misbah-ul Haq wasbanned from the test for a slow over-ratein a one-day match, said he was proud ofthe entire team. "Ours is a young side andthis match was a learning experience foreveryone," he said. "there was very goodspirit in the side and it was really satisfyingto see Younis and asad fight till the end.

"But we need to work hard at the nets.it will be a big boost when Misbah returnsfor the next test." Randiv claimed the lastthree wickets to give sri Lanka their thirdwin in the last five tests, a turnaround inform following a dip after the retirement ofthe legendary Muttiah Muralitharan fromthe five-day game in 2010. Pakistan lostnightwatchman saeed ajmal in the day'ssecond over, run out by a direct throw fromthe covers by suraj Randiv. Younis earneda reprieve on nine when tillakaratne Dil-shan picked up a low catch at mid-off, buttelevision replays proved inconclusivewhether the catch had been taken cleanly.

SL crush Pakistan in first test hales confident ofsecuring place inengland’s T20 side

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alex Hales looked to have played his wayinto England's squad for their Worldtwenty20 title defence in sri Lanka in sep-tember after making a brilliant 99 againstthe West indies on sunday. Hales, on hisnottinghamshire home ground, thrilled asell-out trent Bridge with a barnstorminginnings that saw England to a seven-wicketwin as they chased down a target of 173.significantly, the 23-year-old Hales did it inthe opener's spot vacated by kevinPietersen -- England's man of the tourna-ment when they won the World twenty20in the Caribbean two years ago. Pietersenquit all white ball internationals after theEngland management refused his request tocontinue playing twenty20s while optingout of 50-over one-dayers. Concerns hadbeen expressed as to how England wouldscore quick runs at the top of the order inPietersen's absence but the 6ft 5in Hales didhis best to answer those with a 68-ball in-nings featuring four sixes and six fours.Hales's score was the highest by an Englandbatsman in a twenty20 international, sur-passing Eoin Morgan's 85 not out againstsouth africa in Johannesburg in 2009.the only sadness for Hales and a capacitycrowd was that, in sight of becoming only theseventh batsman to score a twenty20 inter-national hundred, he was yorked by fastbowler Ravi Rampaul. Hales was visiblyupset as he returned to the pavilion but after-wards the man-of-the-match had recoveredhis composure sufficiently to realise he'dtaken a huge stride towards making theWorld twenty20 squad.

ICC declaresDRS mandatory

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Cricket's chief executives Monday backedthe mandatory use of video umpires intests and one-day internationals, a yearafter they were made optional at the requestof powerful india. the international CricketCouncil's (iCC) chief executives' committeesaid independent tests had proved the relia-bility of the Decision Review system (DRs),which incorporates ball-tracking and"hotspot" thermal imaging. "We have madegood progress in independently testing ball-tracking and the new enhancements haveresulted in the CEC (Chief Executives' Com-mittee) unanimously supporting the iCCCricket Committee's recommendation touniversally apply the DRs in all testmatches and ODis," iCC chief executiveHaroon Lorgat said in a statement. therecommendation for compulsory DRs --provided host countries can afford theequipment -- will now be considered bythe iCC Board, which is meeting on tues-day and Wednesday in kuala Lumpur.

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the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) set to re-lieve around 100 contracted employeeswhose contracts are going expired on June30, reports said.

according to a reports, around 100contracted employees including seven ex-cricketers contracts are set to complete onJune 30 and all of them have been issuedletters regarding expiry of their contractsand these contracts could be renewed onlyafter the approval of PCB chairman Zakaashraf, who is presently attending the iCCannual meeting being held at kualaLumpur, and he will return on June 30,the last day of their contract. the PCB

chief will issue order for contracts renewalof only those staffers whom he feels nec-essary for their jobs and posts. the em-ployees' contracts will be terminated dueto financial crunch faced by the cricketboard. the employees, including sevenformer cricketers, have been started feel-ing the heat as it is very difficult for themto earn the bread and butter for their fam-ilies in these difficult conditions and theprevailing price hike in the country despitehaving no other way of earning.

the PCB should acknowledge the for-mer cricketers' services and achievementsfor the country and oblige them by renew-ing their contracts, the source added. Hesaid that these employees would make ap-peal to the PCB chief for renewal of their

contracts and if, the board required theirservices, then they will get extension and ifnot then they would be should be relievedfrom their jobs, the source added.

if the PCB want to utilize austeritymeasures then a lot of officials are workingon deputation in the board. they should berepatriated to their parent departments tosave money and accommodate these pooremployees of the board for their survival.

the source said that these officers whorecently joined the board and are workingon deputation, if they leave the board, thejobs of more than fifty percent employeescould be saved. now, it is up to the PCBchief either prefer to oblige his blue eyedor save the jobs of contractual employeesby extending their contracts. the cricket

board presently facing financial crisis asno team bothers to visit Pakistan due tosecurity concern after the terrorists attackon sri Lankan team in 2009 in Lahorewhich forced Pakistan to play their homeseries at neutral venues. these series havebeen played on no-loss and no-profit basisand that created financial crunch for thePCB, the source claimed.

in a recently-held meeting of the PCBGoverning Board held at naudero, the Gov-erning Board approved board's deficitbudget and now it just banking on indian bi-lateral series which Zaka ashraf feels will beheld soon. if it happens then there will besome relief for the board to meet its ex-penses, the source added. if, it not happens,then there will be some difficulty to pull on

with the expenses of the board and it maycreate some trouble for them to pay staffsalaries and other expenses, the source said.

Zaka is trying his utmost to compelindia to host Pakistan series there or any-where else as Pakistan is ready to play withthem where they want, the source added.the PCB chief and COO subhan ahmed arepresently in kuala Lumpur to attend theiCC Board meeting where they are set todiscuss the Pakistan-india series and alsodiscuss the issue with their indian counter-parts for hosting One-day or twenty20 se-ries in December because of indian team'sbusy schedule. india has the 20 days be-tween December 23, 2012 and January 10,2013 and during this period, they can hostPakistan and also visit to Pakistan.

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England named an unchanged squad Monday fortheir five-match one-day series against australiastarting at Lord's on Friday. the selectors retainedthe original 14 players who helped England beatthe West indies 2-0 in a three-match series, withone no result washout -- the team's sixth straighthome 50-over campaign win.

australia are the world's top-ranked one-dayinternational team and England one-day captainalastair Cook and all-rounder Ravi Bopara will getan early chance to face them when they play forEssex against the tourists at Chelmsford on tues-day. England national selector Geoff Miller, an-nouncing the squad, said Monday: "the series winagainst West indies was pleasing and we are mak-ing steady progress in one-day cricket with a sixthstraight series victory on home soil.

"australia are a strong one-day side and i'veno doubt this will be a challenging natWest seriesfor us and we will need to play some very goodcricket over the next three weeks," the former Eng-land off-spinner added. "Playing against the num-

ber one ranked one-day side in the world is an ex-cellent test for us as we look to keep steadily im-proving ahead of next summer's iCC Championstrophy and the 2015 iCC Cricket World Cup."

Middlesex duo steven Finn and Eoin Morganhave been released for games in tuesday's roundof county twenty20 matches, as has somerset'sCraig kieswetter. England could be forced into onechange during the series with the funeral of sur-rey's tom Maynard taking place at Llandaff Cathe-dral in Cardiff on July 4 -- the same day as thethird one-day internaional in Birmingham. May-nard's surrey team-mate Jade Dernbach, a seambowler, could be granted leave to travel to Cardiff.

EnGlanD SquaD: Alastair Cook (capt), James Anderson, Jonathan bairstow, Ianbell, Ravi bopara, Tim bresnan, Stuart broad, Jade Dernbach,Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter (wkt), eoin Morgan, SamitPatel, Graeme Swann, Jonathan TrottfixtuRESJune 29: 1st oDI, lord'sJuly 01: 2nd oDI, The ovalJuly 04: 3rd oDI, birmingham (D/N)July 07: 4th oDI, Chester-le-StreetJuly 10: 5th oDI, Manchester

England retain same squad for australia series

Downsizing likely in PCB by the end of month

SRi lanKa 1st innings 472 (t. Dilshan 101, K. Sangakkara 199

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

hafeez 3-55)

PaKiStan 1st innings 100 (S. Randiv 4-13, R. herath 3-30, n.

Kulasekara 2-27)

SRi lanKa 2nd innings 137-5 declared (t. Dilshan 56, Junaid

Khan 3-44, Saeed ajmal 2-47)

PaKiStan 2nd innings (overnight 36-3):

Mohammad hafeez c M. Jayawardene b Kulasekara 4

taufeeq umar b Kulasekara 10

azhar ali c Samaraweera b herath 7

Younis Khan c P. Jayawardene b Kulasekara 87

Saeed ajmal run out 12

asad Shafiq c M. Jayawardene b herath 80

Mohammad ayub lbw b Pradeep 22

adnan akmal not out 40

abdur Rehman c Sangakkara b Randiv 14

umar Gul c Samaraweera b Randiv 4

Junaid Khan c sub (Mendis) b Randiv 8

Extras: (b9, lb2, w1)) 12

total (all out, 114 overs) 300

fall of wickets: 1-8 (hafeez), 2-21 (azhar), 3-25 (taufeeq), 4-

38 (ajmal), 5-189 (Shafiq), 6-212 (Younis), 7-243 (ayub),

8-266 (Rehman), 9-280 (Gul), 10-300 (Junaid).

Bowling: Kulasekara 23-8-48-3 (w1), Pradeep 15-4-56-1,

herath 42-9-91-2, Mathews 4-1-8-0, Randiv 30-4-86-3

Sri lanka won by 209 runs; lead 1-0 in three-match series.

toss: Sri lanka

umpires: ian Gould (EnG) and Steve Davis (auS)

tV umpire: Ranmore Martinesz (SRi)

Match referee: David Boon (auS)

SCoREBoaRD

GAlle: Sri lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene (l) shakes hands with Pakistan captain Mohammad hafeez at the end of the match while Sri lankan cricketers celebrate their victory. afP

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THE country’s first ever YouthHelpline will become functionalunder the aegis of Punjab Gov-ernment from next month to cre-

ate a sense of direction among the youthhelping them to become more effective insociety building. secretary sports Punjab,Haroon ahmad khan, and Rahsid Javed,Country Director Plan international, signeda one-year MOU to provide counseling tothe youth of the province through a helpline,a modern concept of guidance which is inpractice in most advanced countries of theworld. also present were Rana Mashhoodahmed khan, Deputy speaker Punjab as-sembly and Chairman Organising Commit-tee Youth Festival 2012 and Usman anwar,Director General sports Board.

Briefing journalists about the agree-ment, Rana Mashhood said that throughthis helpline the youth will be able to discusstheir multiple problems and to find their so-lution with the help of seven experts whoseservices have been acquired to extend guide-line in different fields of life. Rana Mash-

hood informed that the helpline would startfunctioning in a month and half and afterone year assessment the Punjab Govern-ment will take it over to further carry on themission of the youth counseling. He alsoagreed that even the youth ministry officialswould require training and they would moveahead with letter and spirit.

He said that the Punjab Governmentwith this helpline give the youth careercounseling, education counseling, sense ofdirection and most importantly to work ontheir capacity building. “there is no coun-try in the world with 100 percent jobs avail-able to the youth”, he said, adding: “Punjabhas taken lead to make the youth self-re-liant and self-integrated because they willbe the face of the country and leaders of to-morrow,” said the deputy speaker.

“it’s a first step forward and not the lastin the working with the Punjab Govern-ment,” said Rashid Javed. Rashid also cred-ited Chief Minister Mian shahbaz sharifand Rana Mashhood for taking this initia-tive. “there are very few people who work.they have passion for work and work withpassion. there would be around seven toeight experts sitting at the helpline to facili-

tate the calling youth. they would identifytheir problem and resolve it.” He said Planinternational is working in the country since1997, safeguarding the rights of the youthand doing the community work. He furtherstated that by 2020 as an estimate around1.4 billion of the world population will bedominated by the youth and there would beonly 300 million jobs available then. simi-

larly, getting 63 percent youth of the countryengaged would be a challenge and providingthem job would not be possible. But whatthis helpline would do is guide them. Hesaid the helpline will work seven days aweek from 10 am to 8 pm and experts willbe readily available on a toll free hotline tolisten the problems of the youth and to comeup with a counseling solution.

Helpline for youth guidance launchedICC has no objectionon Pak’s six-T20sseries against Aussies

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the international Cricket Council ChiefExecutives' Committee has no objection toPakistan staging a six-match twenty20international series against australia. thePakistan Cricket Board were originallyeager to secure a string of three t20is andthree ODis in the United arab Emirates inaugust, but the extreme temperatures ex-pected in the gulf raised concerns fromCricket australia. the iCC has a rule limit-ing the number of matches in a bilateralt20i series to three, but nations are al-lowed to seek special dispensation in ex-ceptional circumstances. "the PCBrequested support for the flexibility tostage a six-match twenty20 internationalseries against australia potentially in theUnited arab Emirates in august," the iCCsaid in a statement. "this request requireda special dispensation from the CEC andthen the iCC Board as the current regula-tion permits only three t20i in a series."Because of the extreme daytime heat inthe UaE at that time of the year, the CECraised no objections to the principle of asix-match t20i series replacing the sched-uled series of three ODis and three t20isshould the PCB elect to make that switch."

Sammy wants englandloss for windies boost

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West indies captain Darren sammy saidthey had been "dominated by the number-one team in the world in all formats of thegame" as their tour of England ended with-out an international win. sunday's seven-wicket twenty20 defeat at trent Bridgefollowed 2-0 reverses in three-match testand one-day international series (rain led toa draw in the third test and washed out thefinal ODi). not that the West indies willhave much time to lick their wounds, giventhey fly out from Britain on Monday aheadof twenty20 matches against new Zealandin Florida on June 30 and July 1. the teams then head to the Caribbean forfive one-dayers and two tests that willtake them through to august."We fly tomorrow (Monday), we've got agame on saturday against new Zealand inFlorida and we don't get a break until au-gust 7," said sammy .What made the limited overs defeats allthe more galling for the tourists was thatthe West indies had believed their bestchance of success lay in the shorter for-mats. However, they lost the two ODiswhere play was possible by margins of 114runs and eight wickets.

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Uncapped leg-spinner samuelBadree was included in theWest indies squad announcedsunday for two twenty20 in-ternationals against newZealand in Florida this com-ing weekend. the 31-year-oldtrinidad and tobago bowlerwas the only player from out-side the party selected for thetour of England to be includedin the 13-man squad for the twogames with the Black Caps atCentral Broward Park in Lauder-hill. West indies will be lookingfor a boost after sunday's seven-wicket twenty20 defeat at trentBridge meant they'd failed to beatEngland across all three formatsthis tour, having gone down 2-0in preceding test and one-dayseries. in a statement issued in not-tingham, chief selector Clyde Butts saidthe squad had been picked with a viewto the World twenty20 in sri Lanka,which starts in september and thatBadree's performances in domestictwenty20s, where he has taken 39 wickets at15.61, merited his selection. "the team is well-balanced and has been selected with thetwenty20 World Cup in mind," said Butts. "Look-ing at the team, we expect this side to do very wellagainst new Zealand." as for the new recruit, Buttsadded: "Badree has been a consistent performer in

regional tournaments over a period of time and the selec-tors felt it was the right time to introduce him to the team."

all-rounder Darren sammy continues as captainand is set for another lengthy campaign given,

after the two twenty20s in Florida, West in-dies and new Zealand travel to the Caribbeanfor five one-day internationals and two tests.

WinDiES t20 SquaD to PlaY nZ: Darren sammy (capt), samuel

Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles,Fidel Edwards, Chris Gayle, sunil

narine, kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin(wkt), Ravi Rampaul, Marlon samuels,

Lendl simmons, Dwayne smith

nZ to WESt inDiES fixtuRESJun 30: 1st twenty20, Central

Broward Regional Park, United statesJul 01: 2nd twenty20,

Central Broward Regional ParkJul 05: 1st ODi, sabina Park, Jamaica

Jul 07: 2nd ODi, sabina ParkJul 11: 3rd ODi, Warner

Park, st. kittsJul 14: 4th ODi, Warner ParkJul 16: 5th ODi, Warner Park

Jul 20-22: Wis a v nZL,Vivian Richards Cricket

Ground, antiguaJul 25-29: 1st test,

Vivian RichardsCricketGround

Aug 02-06:2nd test,

sabina Park.

CM officiallystarts YouthFestival campaign

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Chief Minister Punjab Mian shahbaz sharifhere on Monday officially launched the cam-paign for the holding Punjab sports andYouth Festival 2012 from his camp office atMinar-i-Pakistan. Mian shahbaz sharifflagged off various floats which will travelthrough different part of the province to high-light the theme of Punjab sports festival andto inspire them to be a part of this megaevent. a large gathering of sports personali-ties including former hockey Olympian Man-zoor Junior, shahnaz sheikh, Mohammadsaqlain, Mansoor ahmed and players fromdifferent disciplines namely arif karim saif,amer atlas and karin khan witnessed thelaunching ceremony which was also at-tended by scores of young athletes and offi-cials of the organising committee. Deputyspeaker Rana Mashhood and Director Gen-eral sports Punjab Usman anwar were alsopresent on the occasion. the Chief Minister,who himself was attired in an official tracksuit to be worn by the participants of theYouth Festival, vowed to make the sports fes-tival a big success by engaging the youth andwith the exhibition of their talent and skills.“Our youth is our future and it is imperativeto create healthy and positive activities forthem so that they could contribute in build-ing a prosperous Pakistan”, he asserted.

WI call up Badree for NZ T20s

lAhoRe: Secretary Sports Punjab haroon Ahmad Khan and Country Director Plan InternationalRahsid Javed exchange documents after signing Youth helpline Mou. sTaff PhoTo

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FOLLOWinG italy’s dramaticpenalty shoot-out win against Eng-land at Olympic stadium, kiev on

sunday night (June 24), just four teams re-main in the running to hoist the Henri De-launay Cup aloft at kyiv’s Olympic stadiumon sunday (July 1).

Holders spain are aiming to becomethe first team to win three consecutivemajor tournaments but will have to get pastPortugal in the first semi-final at Donbassarena, Donetsk on Wednesday (June 27) tokeep that dream alive. the winners of that

match will then keep a close eye on the ac-tion at national stadium,Warsaw as Ger-many take on italy for the right to join themin the showpiece.

the semi-final action gets under way atthe Donbass arena on Wednesday night,with two-time winners spain hoping to ad-vance beyond their iberian neighbours –just as they did in the round of 16 at the2010 World Cup, when David Villa’s sec-ond-half strike sealed a 1-0 success for theeventual tournament victors. Portugal tri-umphed the last time the sides met at thislevel, however, nuno Gomes earning a 1-0group stage win for the hosts at 2004 Eu-ropean Cup that knocked La Roja out.

Portugal also came out on top the last

time the teams crossed paths, posting aneye-catching 4-0 friendly victory in Lisbonin november 2010. With Cristiano Ronaldofinding form and scoring all his team’sgoals in the 2-1 defeat of the netherlandsand the 1-0 quarter-final win against theCzech Republic, Paulo Bento’s side will behopeful of prevailing. spain, though, will behigh on confidence after a comfortable 2-0success against France in the last round.

the following night, italy take on Ger-many for the first time in a competitive fix-ture since the azzurri ended their bid toclinch the 2006 World Cup on home soil inthe semi-finals. Fabio Grosso and alessan-dro Del Piero found the net in extra time torecord a 2-0 victory in Dortmund, ten years

after the last meeting between the teams inthe European Championship – a 0-0 groupstage draw at Old trafford. the great rivalsalso famously contested the decider at the1982 World Cup, when italy won 3-1 toclinch their third global title and last beforegoing all the way six years ago.

Joachim Low’s current crop are in ex-cellent form at EURO 2012, being the onlyteam to win all four of their games. they arealso the competition’s top scorers so far,adding four more as they saw off Greece inthe last eight. italy have kept a lower pro-file, meanwhile, though they earned plau-dits for their opening 1-1 draw with spainand reached the last four by holding theirnerve from the spot in kviv.

Kiev: italian team

reacts after winning

the penalty shoot-out

against england. AFP

Italy throughas england paythe penalty

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italy rounded off the quartet of Euro 2012semi-finalists on sunday as England onceagain exited a major finals in a penaltyshootout. Both sides had failed to find thenet in 120 minutes of play, though italyhad been unfortunate not to win it well be-fore they prevailed 4-2 on penalties as Eng-land's ashley Young and ashley Cole failedto convert their spot kicks. it fell toalessandro Diamanti to slot the winningpenalty to send the 2006 World Cup win-ners on to a semi-final with Germany -who were beaten by the italians in the2006 World Cup semi-finals - in Warsawon thursday. Holders spain meet Portugalin Donetsk on Wednesday. Whilst Englandhad very little to offer in attack throughoutthe match their defence was magnificent indenying the italians, for whom their age-less playmaker andrea Pirlo ran the game.italy coach Cesare Prandelli said thatpenalties were a lottery but insisted thebetter side had won. "We did the things wewere supposed to do but then we had someluck and we did well," he said. "When youhave penalties anything can happen but wereally deserved it." Despite the result Eng-land coach Roy Hodgson was justifiablyproud of his players and could look backon his first campaign in charge with a lot ofsatisfaction. "i can't fault the players fortheir efforts, i thought we were quite mag-nificent. But by the end they were runningon empty," he told BBC. "We've gone outwithout being beaten with our heads heldhigh and making the country proud. "Bothashleys were knocking in the penalties inpractice but in reality practice doesn'ttranslate into the real thing as you can'ttake into account energy levels that are rundown, tired legs and minds. "they got theirbit of luck and it wasn't to be for us." Hodg-son, who has won over a lot of the criticshere after they wondered why he had beenchosen and not Harry Redknapp in May toreplace Fabio Capello, who stood downearlier in the year, said he had no doubtEngland would move on from here.

Saudi women getthe green signal

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saudi arabia, where public sports eventsfor women are banned, will allow femalesto compete in the Olympic Games for thefirst time, its embassy in London said ina landmark statement issued sunday.the saudi Olympic Committee will"oversee participation of women athleteswho can qualify", the BBC quoted thestatement as saying. the issue of womenin sport remains extremely sensitive inthe ultra-conservative Muslim state,where women are not even allowed todrive cars and the authorities shut downprivate gyms for women in 2009 and2010. Equestrian contestant Dalma Mal-has is likely to be the country's only fe-male athlete to qualify for this summer'sGames in London which get underway onJuly 27. Malhas, born in the Unitedstates, won a bronze medal at the 2010singapore Youth Olympics withouthaving been nominated by her country,following an invitation from the inter-national Olympic Committee (iOC).

Regional Inter Districtu-19 Cricket event

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the East Zone Whites U-19 has made241/8 in the 1st innings in the Re-gional inter District U-19 CricketEvent, at the end of the 1st day EastZone Blues has made 71/2 in 32 oversat LCCa ground on Monday. SCoRES: east Zone whites 241/8 in 70 overs in

1st innings. Ahsan Raza 71(no), Gul Khan Afridi 57,

Agha Shehryar 53, Salman Zahoor 20(no). Sadam

ul haq 4/71, Zeeshan Mughal 2/37, M bilal 1/38,

Daniyal Rana 1/22. east Zone blues 71/2 in 32 overs

in 1st innings. M Asad 34(no), umer Afzal 11, Daniyal

Rana 12, Rehan Malik 10(No). Gul Khan Afridi 1/17,

hasan Raza 1/16.

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american Brittany Lang earned her firstLPGa tour victory sunday, winning theManulife Financial Classic by makingbirdie on the par-five 18th hole three con-secutive times in a playoff. Lang held offa wave of south korean contenders in theplayoff after shooting a four-under 67 inregulation to reach 16-under 268.

"i just tried to stay down in the puttand have nice tempo," Lang said. "ihaven't been in this position much. i'mjust trying to learn. "i can't believe i finallywon. i've had my chances and i still can'tbelieve i did it." she edged out south ko-reans seo Hee-kyung, Chella Choi andinbee Park at the Grey silo Golf Course.

Choi was knocked out on the first extrahole, third-round leader Park was elimi-nated on the second hole, setting the stagefor a head-to-head battle between Langand seo. Lang rolled in a five-foot putt forthe win. Four of the top six and six of thetop 13 finishers sunday were from southkorea. the birdie made amends for ashorter putt that Lang missed on the 18thhole in regulation that would haveclinched the tournament for her.WAiT iS OveR fOR LeiShmAn:Marc Leishman had to sweat it out beforetasting his first PGa tour victory. the 28-year-old australian claimed his first PGatour title, firing an eight-under 62 to takethe clubhouse lead at the travelers Cham-pionship then waited it out as a series ofcontenders fell by the wayside.

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semis picture takes shape in Euro 2012

MUMBAIBiPin Dani

FORMER England captain tonyGreig will deliver the 2012 MCCspirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture

at Lord's on tuesday. tony who wasbusy in doing commentary in the sriLanka-Pakistan test match went backto London as he is committed to deliverhis lecture today. When asked in Lon-don, that whether he would narrate theinfamous run out involving himself andalvin kallicharran in a test Match in

1974, he did not replied.it was on the second day of the first

test match at the Queen's Park Oval intrinidad, the Windies had build a firstinnings lead of 143, mainly due to 142not out from the great kallicharran.With four wickets intact, the Wi teamwas in a great position until the lastball of the day was bowled to BernardJulien, who sent it past Greig, who wasfielding at close-in position and thenboth the batsmen headed off to thepavilion. Greig got hold of the ball,threw down the stumps appealing for

running out kallicharran. Umpire Dou-glas sang Hue had no option but to givehim out. suddenly a riot erupted,crowd ran into the ground demandingthe decision to be revoked. technically,the decision was correct as the umpireshad not yet called the day off butGreig's actions were considered un-sporting. the England captain revokedthe appeal and kallicharran was rein-stated the following day.

at least one man will be keen to lis-ten what tony Greig says on tuesday.speaking exclusively from his Jamiaca

home, the 81-year-old former umpiresaid: "Greig's appeal was technicallycorrect, but certainly against the spiritof the Game".

"as an umpire i have always be-lieved in consistency, if a player tookwhat appeared to be an low catch, andis given out by the umpire. the fielderthen says that i did not take the catch”.should the umpire insist that he wasout? What’s the difference? Grieg actedwithin the law thus “it would be unfairfor me to pass my judgment on himnow," he added.

Tony ‘to appeal’ on Spirit of Cricket

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wATeRloo: brittany lang watches her teeshot during the Manulife lPGA Classic. afP

Lang claims 1st win with playoff birdie

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top seed and defending champion novak Djokovic reachedthe Wimbledon second round on Monday with a 6-3, 6-3,6-1 win over spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero. Djokovic, playingfor the first time since his French Open final defeat toRafael nadal, will face either america's Ryan Harrison orLu Yen-Hsun of taiwan for a place in the last 32.

World number one and defending champion novakDjokovic opens Wimbledon 2012 on Centre Court, waryof the threat posed by former French Open winnerJuan Carlos Ferrero. Djokovic, who defeated Rafaelnadal in last year's final for a maiden victory at the allEngland Club, hasn't played since losing to thespaniard in the final at Roland Garros two weeks ago.that defeat ended his hopes of becoming just the thirdman to hold all four Grand slam titles at once. Djokovicsplit his first two meetings with former world numberone Ferrero, but hasn't played the spaniard in five

years. "He definitely has a lot of experience playing onthe big stage, so i'm not underestimating him, that's forsure," said Djokovic. "it's going to be a good first roundmatch. Everybody who follows tennis, especially us, thetennis players, we really respect him a lot.

wATCh iT Live

ESPNSportscentre

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fiVE-tiME champion VenusWilliams suffered her worstWimbledon defeat in 15 yearson Monday, slumping to a first

round exit at the hands of Russia's ElenaVesnina. Williams lost 6-1, 6-3 to the79th-ranked Russian in what was the 32-year-old's first opening round loss at theall England Club since her 1997 bow.

Defeat for the american star, un-seeded for the first time since thatdebut year, will also cast further doubtsover her future in the sport. she arrivedat Wimbledon desperately short of fit-ness and confidence with a world rank-ing down at 58 following a six-monthabsence from the tour suffering fromsjogern's syndrome, which causes jointpain and fatigue. Monday's defeat wasjust her fourth loss at the first roundstage of a Grand slam against 52 winsand it also followed a dispiriting secondround exit at the French Open.Williams, the 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007and 2008 Wimbledon champion, wasbeaten in the quarter-finals in 2010 andfourth round in 2011, both times fallingto tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria instraight sets. Vesnina, who had lost inthe first round of nine of her last 10Grand slam apperances, will face Pol-ish third seed agnieszka Radwanska fora place in the last 32.ShARAPOvA inTO nexT ROUnd:World number one Maria sharapovaswept into the Wimbledon second roundwith a 6-2, 6-3 victory over australia'sanastasia Rodionova on Monday. shara-pova was playing for the first time sinceher French Open final victory over saraErrani earlier this month and the Russ-ian's confidence was clearly sky high asshe demolished Rodionova in just 70minutes. the 25-year-old will face Bul-garia's tsvetana Pironkova, who reachedthe semi-finals in 2010, in the last 64.

"the French Open was a wonderfulmoment in my career but only a few daysafter that you come to London and aregearing up for Wimbledon, so you don'thave much time to enjoy it," sharapova

said. "But when Wimbledon is on the linethat's the only way to do it and i'm reallyhappy to be back on Centre Court. "it's al-ways difficult coming into a grand slamwith little practice on grass. the firstmatches are always tricky.

"i'm happy with the way i played butthere's no doubt i can improve." shara-pova's triumph in Paris was a magicalmoment as it completed a career grandslam and capped her recovery from seri-ous shoulder surgery that, at one stage,looked capable of wrecking her career.

But there was no chance of shara-pova, who won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old, resting on her laurels as she still hasunfinished business at the all EnglandClub. the Russian has reached the finalin three of the last four grand slams, butthe first of those ended in a surprise de-feat to Petra kvitova here 12 monthsago. sharapova was back on CentreCourt for the first time since then andthe top seed looked determined to erasethose bitter memories.

Venus crashes to15-year Wimbledon low

lahore loinswin womanleague opener

LAHOREStaff REPoRt

Lahore Loins defeated Lahore tiger by 9wickets in the Woman Premier Leaguet-20 Championship 2012 match playedat kinnaird College on Monday. Lahore tigers scored 96 in their allotted20 overs. in reply Lahore Lionsachieved the target in just 14.2 overs,winning by nine wickets. ScOReS: Lahore tiger 96 all out in 20over. sania khan 21, sidra amen 20,Frzana 19. Elizabet 5 for 13, sabahat 3for 20, irum 2 form 17. Lahore Lions102 for 1 wicket. iram Javad 55 not out,Farah naeem 30 not out. anum ameen1 for 16. Women of the Match awardwent to iram Javad (Lahore Lion). nextmatch will be played between LahoreLion and Lahore Eagle.

PFF condoles LAHORE

Staff REPoRt

the mother of akhter Mohuddin, Ex na-tional Coach passed away for her eternalabode. Makhdoom saeed Fazal salehHayat, President PFF in his condolencemessage shared the grieve of Mohuddinand prayed to allah almighty to give placeto the departed soul in the paradise andgives strength to akhter to bear this ir-reparable loss. Lt. Col. ® ahmed Yar khanLodhi ti (M), General secretary PFF onbehalf of all football family prayed for theeternal peace of departed soul and wishedthat allah may give akhter strength to bearthis loss. siilar views were expressed byWing Cdm. ® Pervaiz saeed Mir, DirectorDevelopment & Competition, Lt. Col. ®Farasat ali shah, Director Managementassociates & Projects and staff of PFF.

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Russia's elena Vesnina plays a shot duringher match against Venus wIlliams. afP

Pakistan's challenge at Wimle-don 2012 will start on tuesday asaisam Qureshi and Jean-Julian

Rojer take on the British pairing ofGoodall and Ward. should everything goaccording to plan, the duo will face itsfirst real test in the pre-quarter finalsagainst Granollers and Lopez of spain.the third seeded Polish team of Fyrsten-berg and Matkowski will be their pro-jected foe in the quarters and a semifinalmatch up against the Bryan brothers inthe semis. the team that ousted aisamand Bopanna in a marathon first round

match, Cabal and Farah, are in theBryan's quarter.

novak Djokovic will start pro-ceedings on Monday against a for-mer world number one and FrenchOpen champion Juan Carlos Fer-rero. in a chat with journal-ists, Djokovic stated thatmoving from the clay ofRoland Garros to thegrass at Wimbledon wasdifficult to accomplishin the two weeks thatare presently availableand that it would bebetter to have at leastthree weeks to adjust fromthe slowest to the fastest sur-

face on the tennis circuit.this year's Wimbledon is perhaps

the first since rankings have beenkept, where three players have achance to become world number one

by winning the title. Roger Fed-erer, Rafael nadal and the cur-

rent world number onenovak Djokovic definitelyhave a lot to play for.

the fourteen practicecourts were busy overthe weekend and onopening day. all the top

players were gettingsome court time in be-

tween rain showers. thisJune in London promises to be

the wettest in a hundred years, althoughthe forecast for the first week is not too bad.

the busiest people are undoubtedlythe stringers who man the twelve Princestringing machines next to the practicecourts. they expect to string 400 racquetsa day during the first week. at £20 for astringing job (the players supply their ownstrings) each lasting about fifteen min-utes, it sounds like a nice payday.

But the pressures are also there.Each player wants his racquets preciselystrung to exactly the right tension. someuse one string on the length strings andanother on the cross strings. stringtechnology has come a long way fromthe old gut strings made out of beef (notcat) intestines. the latest craze is the

polyester strings, which allow the playerto impart tremendous spin on the ball ala Rafael nadal.

Players change their string tensionsall the time, the stringers told me. if it isa wet day, the court and the balls willplay heavy, so the racquets may be strunga couple of pounds looser. On a hot dryday, they would be strung tighter. theaverage string tension is between fiftyand sixty pounds with the extremes beingBjorn Borg at 80 and John McEnroe atless than 50 pounds. since the top play-ers get their racquets restrung every dayand change racquets every nine games,the costs can be quite significant. On theother hand, it costs Rs100 to get a rac-quet strung in Rawalpindi!

Dar Academy sweep

Germany’s National

Junior ChampionsLAHORE

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it was a tie anticipated by the Dar Hockeyacademy even before leaving Pakistan.HtC Uhelnhorst Mulheim are the Germanyouth champions and presently have themost players in the national youth squads.Dar Ha players appeared well motivatedfor the big test. they even had Germansupport as quite a few members of the HCEssen (the club which has made all thelodging arrangements for the Dar Ha con-tingent) traveled to Mulheim and watchedthe match waving the Pakistani flags. inthe 11th minute, salman, who has been ininspirational form throughout this Euro-pean tour, forced his way into the circleand tested the hosts’ net minder who eas-ily parried the poor attempt. Dar Ha re-gained complete ascendancy andeventually went ahead in the 18th minute.a Rizwan minus from the left side wasstroked into the goal by aamir ali fromthe middle of the circle. ScOReS: Dar Ha led 1-0 at theconclusion of the first half.tanvir Dar Ha, Pakistan:5 (awais 3, aamir ali, asad)HtC Uhelnhorst Mulheim,Germany: 1 (Phil neuheuser)

Aisam’s challenge commences Tuesdayg Federer, Nadal and the current world number one Djokovic definitely have a lot to play for

ALI AKBAR

at Wimbledon

Stosur intosecond round

LOndOn: Us Open champion saman-tha stosur of australia was the firstwoman to make the Wimbledon secondround on Monday, cruising past spain'sCarla suarez navarro. Fifth seed stosureased to a 6-1, 6-3 win over the 40th-ranked spaniard and goes on to face ei-ther arantxa Rus of the netherlands orJapanese lucky loser Misaki Doi. stosur,who was a semi-finalist at the FrenchOpen earlier this month, has never gotbeyond the third round at the all Eng-land Club. Monday's win also endedthe 28-year-old's run of first roundlosses at Wimbledon in 2010 and 2011.Li TAKeS exPReSS ROUTe:China's Li na took the express routeinto the second round at Wimbledonwith an emphatic 6-3, 6-1 victory overksenia Pervak of kazakhstan on Mon-day. after a frustrating clay-court cam-paign, which included a disappointingfourth round defeat at the FrenchOpen, Li looked right at home on thelush lawns of the all England Club. afP

Australia's Samantha Stosur plays abackhand against Spain's Carla Suarez. afP

Serbia's Novak Djokovic plays a forehand shot during hisfirst round victory over Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero. afP

Djokovic reaches Wimbledon second roundEasy for FedererLOndOn: third seedRoger Federer beat spain'salbert Ramos 6-1, 6-1, 6-1on Monday to reach theWimbledon second round,taking just 79 minutes tokick off his bid for a record-equalling seventh title. thesix-time champion, andrecord 16-time Grand slamtitle winner, will face colour-ful italian Fabio Fognini fora place in the last 32. Federer, shunted out on to CourtOne for his 2012 opener, fired down nine aces in hisstraightforward win over left-hander Ramos, the worldnumber 43 who has never won a match on grass. afP

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Mumbai attacks

‘handler’

arrested in IndiaNEW DELHI

aGEnCiES

indian police have arrested akey suspect accused ofcoordinating the 2008Mumbai terror attacks inwhich 166 people were killedand more than 300 wounded,the government saidMonday. abu Hamza, alsoknown as sayed Zabiuddin,an indian-born member ofLashkar-e-tayyaba, wasdetained at Delhiinternational airport on June21 when he arrived from theMiddle East. Hamza wasallegedly one of the handlersbased in karachi, who issuedinstructions by telephone tothe 10 gunmen as theystormed two luxury hotels, aJewish centre, a restaurantand a train station inMumbai. “the Delhi policehave done a magnificent job.i am sure that theinvestigations will take placeand we will wait till theinvestigations,” india’sExternal affairs Minister sMkrishna told reporters.Hamza, who has used a stringof aliases, had been living insaudi arabia in recent yearsand is now being held inpolice custody in Delhi, thePress trust of india (Pti)news agency reported. indianmedia citing police sourcessaid Hamza was aged 30 andcame from the western stateof Maharashtra, of whichMumbai is the capital.Pakistani nationalMohammed ajmal kasab, theonly gunman caught aliveduring the 60-hour assaulton Mumbai in november2008, was handed down adeath sentence by theBombay High Court last year.

lhC forms fullbench onZardari verdict

LAHOREStaff REPoRt

the Lahore High Court(LHC) Monday formed a fullbench for theimplementation of theverdict against Presidentasif ali Zardari holding dueloffices. the benchcomprising Chief JusticeUmar ata Bandial, Justiceijaz ul Hassan and JusticeMansoor would start hearingof the case from June 27(Wednesday).

g Ashraf to take up

upper Dir attack with

Afghan President Karzai

KARACHIaGEnCiES

PRiME Minister Raja Pervez ashrafhas termed the resolution of en-ergy crisis and karachi’s law and

order as the major challenges for the in-cumbent government.

talking to reporters after calling onPir Pagara at kingri House, the PM saidall major challenges would be counteredwith the help of coalition partners.

He said all institutions, including thejudiciary, were working freely and urgedall institutions to work within their limits,which would ensure progress of the coun-

try. to a query, he said no one could be-come the country’s prime minister on hisown, rather was the decision of allahalmighty. He said Pakistan MuslimLeague-Functional (PML-F) was PPP’simportant coalition partner and it hadplayed an important role in electing himas the prime minister. “it is our manifestoto love everyone and hate no one, wewant to move forward along with ourcoalition partners,” he said.

to a query on the natO attack onsalala, ashraf said parliament wassupreme and the government would takedecisions in the light of parliamentary de-cisions.Commenting on the Dir attack bymilitants from across the border, he said,“Pakistan has strongly protested over thematter and i will talk to afghan PresidentHamid karzai over the issue.” Earlier, thetwo leaders evolved consensus to sustain theongoing reconciliatory policy in larger inter-

est of the country and sindh. the primeminister also visited MQM headquartersnine Zero. talking to reporters after themeeting with MQM leaders, he said main-taining peace in karachi was the top priorityof the government and vowed that all theproblems facing the country, including loadshedding and law and order would be re-solved with the cooperation of allies. “theparliament is the mother of all institutionsand if all state institutions continue to workwithin their ambit, there will be no instabilityin the country,” the prime minister said.

He said the government would con-tinue to pursue the policies of former primeminister Yousaf Raza Gilani, which wereformulated in consultation with the alliedparties. to a question about his future,ashraf said, “i am here until allah, the PPPand the allied parties wish. i got the covetedpost because it is allah’s wish and i will stayhere until He wishes.” He said he would do

his best to follow the vision of Zulfikar aliBhutto, Benazir Bhutto and President asifali Zardari and would take along all the al-lied parties to serve the masses.

Following ashraf’s visit to nine Zero,MQM chief altaf Hussain spoke over tele-phone to party leaders and workers, sayingthe army, judiciary and parliament shouldwork within their jurisdiction. “the trendof institutions working outside their juris-diction is dangerous,” altaf said. altaf saidPresident asif ali Zardari had experienceda tough time during his four-and-a-halfyears in office and anyone else in his placewould have lost hope. “By acceptingYousaf Raza Gilani’s disqualification, thepresident avoided confrontation.” altafcalled on the opposition to becomeunited. the MQM chief said individualswho had stolen from the nation should beboycotted, but this could only happenwhen democracy was not derailed.

Chaudhrys noton same pageover defectingPML-Q MNAs

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the leadership of the Pakistan MuslimLeague-Quaid (PML-Q) is still in twominds over sending references to the chiefelection commissioner under the defectionclause against its eight Mnas for allegedviolation of party discipline during theelection of Prime Minister Raja Pervezashraf. those facing disciplinary actioninclude six Mnas linked with PMLLikeminded – Humayun akhtar, saleemsaifullah, kashmala tariq, Ghulam Haidersamejo, arbab Zakaullah and kishanChand Parwani. Moreover, two moreMnas may face the axe including sumairaMalik, who joined the PML-nawaz andawais Leghari, who joined the Pakistantehreek-e-insaf (Pti). the PML-Q, whichhas 51 members in the national assembly,is left with the support of 43 Mnas aftereight lawmakers defected. On sunday,Elahi went public over the issue, telling themedia that the references would be filedfor disqualification of his party’s nationalassembly members who did not cast theirvotes for Prime Minister ashraf. However,a well-placed source in the PML-Q toldPakistan today that party PresidentChaudhry shujaat and Elahi were not onthe same page over the issue. “thrilledwith his elevation to the post of eputyprime minister, Elahi is pushing shujaat tosend references against the dissidents toensure strict party discipline and to appeasethe PPP leadership. However, shujaat isreluctant to do so, for if disqualified, hisparty would not be in a position to winvacant seats,” the source said. He added thatafter failing to achieve consensus, theChaudhrys had decided to postpone thematter for a week and it was decided that thedecision would be taken after the dustsettled. “the references have not yet beenfiled. the matter is under discussion whilereferences are being finalised by a three-member committee,” said senator kamil aliagha, the party secretary-information.

Energy, Karachi security major challenges: PM

KaRaChi: Prime Minister Raja Pervez ashraf arrives at the Muttahida qaumi Movement headquarters nine Zero on Monday.

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