Friday, 5 April, 2013 Jamadi ul Awwal 23, 1434Rs 17.00 Vol III No 278 19 Pages Islamabad — Peshawar Edition

sc orders eliminationof karachi’s ‘no-go’areas in a week

During Thursday’s hearing of the Karachilaw and order case, the Supreme Court(SC) ordered all ‘no-go’ areas in the citybe eliminated within a week, mediareported. A five-judge larger bench ofthe SC, headed by Chief Justice (CJ)Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard thecase pertaining to implementation of its2011 order in a suo motu notice overunrest in Karachi. page 04

sc orders government to recover mengal

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered theBalochistan government to take effective stepsfor the recovery of Salahuddin Mengal, formeradvocate general (AG). A two-member benchcomprising of Justice Gulzar Ahmed and JusticeSheikh Azmat Saeed resumed hearing on theBalochistan law and order situation. Directinglaw enforcers, the bench said that kidnappingwas still a routine in the province even afterrepeated directives of the court. page 09

afghan taliban attackcheckpost in kurram,4 militants killed

Four militants were killed and fiveinjured when Afghan Taliban attacked acheck post in Kurram Agency onThursday. According to security sources,the Afghan Taliban attacked a securitycheck post in Lower Kurram early onThursday and injured two securitypersonnel. Four militants were killed andfive injured when the security forcesretaliated. page 04

anp pushes pppaside to secure ownbackyard

With general elections round the corner,the solidarity and camaraderie betweenthe Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and theAwami National Party (ANP) that lastedfor five years seems to be fast fading away. Both these politicalparties have failed to build upon the relationship they hadestablished as allies after the 2008general elections. page 08

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culling of election hopefuls continues

sheikh Waqas’ o Level degree declared fake

moonis elahi amongowners of secret firmsin British virgin islands

sharif brothers’ candidacyat risk after naB objects

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ppp strengtheneddemocracy in

pakistan duringits five years

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Moonis Elahi amongowners of secretfirms in BritishVirgin Islands

Scion of the Chaudhries of Gujrat, Moo-nis Elahi has denied that he owns a se-cret company in the British VirginIslands. The denial came as Elahi’sname appeared on Thursday among alist of fresh names of owners of secretoffshore companies in the British VirginIslands. Moonis Elahi was named as theowner of an offshore company, OliveGrove Assets Ltd. The company was in-corporated in the BVI 2006, and the ad-dress listed in BVI records is theChaudry family’s residence in Lahore.Elahi was acquitted in a Pakistan courtin 2011 of receiving payments in a cor-ruption scandal.Refuting the claims, Moonis said, “I donot own” nor control the BVI com-pany. The latest cluster of names to emergefrom the huge leak of BVI financialdata include Georgian Prime MinisterBidzina Ivanishvili and prominent fig-ures of India, Thailand and Indonesia.They also include a Briton, NeilGaitely, nominally a director of a com-pany reported to be a front for the Iran-ian regime. nEWS dESK

Kalsum’s cousin to contest against NawazSharif in Lahore

ISLAMABADInP

Saira Bano, a cousin of BegumKalsum Nawaz, on Thursday an-nounced she will contest election fromthe constituency NA-120 Lahore,against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif.She made the announcement after ameeting with All Pakistan MuslimLeague (APML) chief Pervez Mushar-raf, who assured Bano of completesupport.According to sources in APML, SairaBano met Musharraf at his farm housein the federal capital.On the occasion, Bano said she wouldgive Sharif a humiliating defeat in theMay 11 polls.Bano is granddaughter of renownedsub-continent wrestler, GamaPehlwan, daughter of Bholo Pehlwanand wife of Jhara Pehlwan.

No dialogue with Taliban,

elections in FATA will be free and

fair. – Governor Shaukatullah

LAHORE/PESHAWARStAFF rEPOrt

TH U R S D A yproved to be a dif-ficult day for elec-tion hopefuls asseveral leaders of

the former government and oppo-sition parties either faced rejec-tion of their nomination papers orwere sent to prison altogether. They DIDn’T hAve An eDucATIon

In an almost domino-like ef-fect, the tragic comedy began inthe early hours of Thursdaymorning when Additional Dis-trict and Sessions Judge SheibarKhan sentenced former AwamiNational Party’s (ANP) law-maker from KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KP), Syed AqilShah, to one year imprisonmentand imposed a fine of Rs 3000for holding a fake degree.

Shah became the fourth MPfrom Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa tobe convicted on the charges offake degree. Earlier former inde-pendent MPAs Sardar Ali Khanfrom Swabi, Khalifa Abdul Qay-oom, an independent MPA fromDera Ismail Khan and Kishwar

Kumar, JUI-F former minorityMPA had been sentenced to var-ious terms over the last few days.Another independent MPA from

Swabi, Javed Ali, was also sen-tenced on the charges of dual na-tionality.

Shah had served in the previ-ous provincial cabinet as ministerfor sports, tourism and archives.He was elected from PF-4 Pe-shawar, from where he was con-testing again when his electoralambitions were cut short. Barelytwo hours later, former memberof the National AssemblyJamshed Dasti was handed athree-year jail term by a districtsessions judge in Muzaffargar.

A tearful Dasti was arrestedin the court premises and wasshifted to a jail amidst security.The former MNA was alsohanded a penalty worth Rs 5,000.

Dasti announced that hisbrother would now contest fromhis constituency in the upcominggeneral elections. His lawyers saidthat they would move the high

court against his disqualification.Moreover, a district and ses-

sions judge in Pakpattan de-clared a former Member ofNational Assembly, SyedSalman Mohsin Gilani, of Pak-istan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) a proclaimed offenderover possessing a fake degree.

Gilani was elected as anMNA from NA-165 Pakpattan inthe 2008 election.ecP TAkeS IDeoLogy SerIouSLy

Ayaz Amir’s commitment to

Pakistan’s ideology was put toquestion as the Election Com-mission of Pakistan told therenowned columnist and PML-Nhopeful that his nomination pa-pers had been rejected.

According to details, an ob-jection on Amir for writing arti-cles “against the ideology ofPakistan” was filed against his

nomination papers by com-plainant Babar Salim.

Amir told a private TV chan-nel that he had not received theverdict so far, but had been in-formed that the papers were re-portedly rejected on objectionsraised by the president of a localpress club over his two articles onthe ideology of Pakistan. The de-cision against Amir’s nominationpapers was taken by an ECP re-turning officer on Wednesday.FAISAL SALeh and ABIDIMAM

Furthermore, the ECP dis-qualified former Pakistan Mus-lim League-Quaid (PML-Q)leader Faisal Saleh Hayat andpolitician Syeda Abida Hus-sain’s son, Abid Imam.

Hayat was contesting as anindependent candidate, whileImam submitted his nominationpapers as the Pakistan People’s

Party (PPP) candidate.Imam, who was contesting

election for the first time, hadfiled an application againstHayat which resulted in the dis-qualification of Hayat, who hadbeen winning seats from his con-stituency without fail.There’S More…

Today (Friday) will also be adifficult day as the Higher Edu-cation Commission deadline ex-pires and cases of at least 140leaders are lying pending with nofollow up. Who will be next?

Culling of poll hopefuls continues Aqil ShAh, JAmShed dASti Sent to JAil,AyAz Amir’S nominAtion reJected on‘ideologicAl’ groundS

Sheikh Waqas’ O Leveldegree declared fake

ISLAMABAD: The edu-cation certificate of

Shaikh WaqasAkram, ex-federalminister for edu-cation and aleader of the Pak-istan MuslimLeague-Nawaz,

has been declaredfake by the Higher

Education Commis-sion on Thursday.

Sources said Cambridge Uni-versity had said it had no record of Waqas’ qualifi-cation with them.An Inter-Board Committee submitted its findingto the HEC in which Waqas’s ‘A-level’ had beentermed fake. It may be mentioned that WaqasAkram had not submitted his O-level certificate. Waqas is the first high-profile leader whose edu-cational certificate has been declared dubious.Several members of the former national andprovincial assemblies are already behind bars oncharges of submitting fake degrees.Meanwhile, Waqas accused Higher EducationCommission (HEC) Chairman Javed Leghari ofhatching conspiracies against him.Talking to reporters, he begged the media not totalk about his educational ability as CambridgeUniversity, in a letter, replied that record of his de-gree had been lost but it would be verified on pro-viding more details.He said he challenged the HEC chairman overdual nationality and assets of Rs 40 billion andfiled references against him in the National Ac-countability Bureau (NAB), upon which Legharistarted a media campaign against him.To a query about fake degree, Akram remindedthat he had verified his A-Level degree in 2007and 2010, but expressed surprise that it had now“become fake”.OnLInE

ISLAMABADStAFF rEPOrt

The National Accountability Bureau(NAB) Thursday objected to the can-didature of Nawaz Sharif and Shah-baz Sharif in the upcoming generalelections over alleged scam of Hu-daibiya Paper Mills.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab presidentand the former chief minister, alongwith his brother PML-N chief NawazSharif, are accused in the Rs 3,486million loan default case.

They have been accused of accu-mulating money and assets beyondtheir declared means of income bymisusing authority. The case wasfiled with the Attock NAB Court onMarch 27, 2000.

Abbas Sharif, Hussain Nawaz,Hamza Shahbaz, Shamim Akhtar,Sabiha Abbas, Maryam Safdar andIshaq Dar are other accused in thecase.

The bureau has conveyed its rec-ommendations to the election com-mission in this regard.

The NAB had set up electioncells to help the election commission

in the scrutiny of candidates for theMay 11 elections. The decision to es-tablish the cells was taken at a meet-ing held on Feb 20.

The meeting, presided over byChief Election Commissioner (CEC)Fakharuddin G. Ebrahim, was at-tended by heads of NAB, FederalBureau of Revenue (FBR), State

Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and NationalDatabase Registration Authority(Nadra).

The meeting had decided that theECP, with the help of relevant organ-isations, will identify tax-evaders,loan and utility bill defaulters andbeneficiaries of written-off loans toprevent them from contesting polls.

Sharif brothers’candidacy at riskafter NAB objects

BiLLions oWed By aspiring LaWmakers

The State Bank of Pakistan on Thursday forwarded a list ofloan defaulters to the Election Commission of Pakistan,which is currently scrutinising the credentials of aspirantsfor national and provincial assemblies in the coming elec-tions. Noted among the names are three former federalministers who owe millions of rupees to various banks. PPPleader Ahmed Mukthar owes Rs 13 billion to four banks. Ha-roon Bilour owes over Rs 20 million, PTI’s Jahangir Tareenowes Rs 407 million, while ANP’s Ghulam Ahmed Bilour owesRs 4.5 million to commercial banks. MONITORING DESK

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Need to resolve Kashmir for

India, Pakistan to coexist

peacefully. – Hina Khar

BNP-M threatensto boycottelections

QUETTAAPP

The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has warned that it would not participate inthe general elections 2013 if incidents of killingof its workers continued and “no go areas” inKhuzdar were not set up.This was stated by the BNP-M acting president,Dr Jahanzeb Jamaldini who along with theparty’s Information Secretary Agha HassanBaloch and other leaders was addressing a pressconference at the Quetta Press Club on Thurs-day.“Khuzdar has become a no-go area and a spe-cific armed group is involved in killing of BNP-M activists while our party leadership andworkers in Kalat are also receiving threats,”Jamaldini alleged.He said although Chief Election CommissionerFakhruddin G Ibrahim and caretaker Balochis-tan Chief Minister Ghous Bakhsh Barozai hadheld meetings with BNP-M chief Akhtar JanMengal in Karachi and had assured him of pro-viding a peaceful environment for conductingfree and fair elections, the party was still facingdifficulties in continuing its election campaign.“The BNP-M is fully prepared to participate inthe general elections 2013 with full enthusiasm,but, hardships and difficulties are being put inthe way of the party,” he claimed. Jamaldini said his party had fielded candidatesin 28 districts of Balochistan to contest generalelections.He said his party was ready to make an alliancewith likeminded political parties, adding that thenext chief minister of Balochistan might befrom nationalist Baloch and Pashtun politicalparties.Jamaldini demanded the federal government in-duct another Baloch minister in the federal cabi-net.Meanwhile, Haji Zahid, a tribal and politicalleader from Panjgur announced joining theBNP-M.

NAUDEROInP

President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thurs-day that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)had strengthened democracy in thecountry during its five year tenure andhad made the weak democratic structuremuch stronger.

Addressing the party members inNaudero on the occasion of PPPfounder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s death an-niversary on Thursday, Asif Ali Zardarisaid for the first time in the history ofPakistan, a democratic process hadcompleted its 5-year tenure.

“Continuous progress of democ-racy will strengthen the democratic

system in the country,” he said, addingthat the PPP government had put thenation on the right path.

He reminded the people that hehad given up all his powers to the par-liament, making the institutionsupreme.

“Supremacy of the parliament isthe supremacy of the people of Pak-

istan,” he said.“There was no political prisoner in

our tenure and the only political prisonerwho was in jail was Hamid SaeedKazmi and he was sent to jail by the ju-diciary,” he added.

He further said that the PPP govern-ment had done things which wouldprove fruitful for the next generations.

PPP strengthened democracy during its 5 years in govt: Zardari

LAHOREnAdEEm SyEd

THE PTI onThursdaywitnessed amini revoltin its rankand file

when seven party leaders, allfrom Lahore district, makingthrough to the final list ofprobable candidates from La-hore, returned their tickets ina protest against what theytermed “a skewed selectionprocess” while awarding tick-ets.

The rebels includedAleem Khan, Mansha Sindhu,Hamid Miraj, Jamshed IqbalCheema, and Mian Iftikhar,all of whom were recipient ofparty tickets on provincial andnational levels.

Aleem, who led the showtoday, received one partynomination from NA-127 andone provincial seat whileMiraj and Sindhu were pickedfor NA-123 and NA-130 re-spectively. The other rebels,who returned tickets, receivedparty’s nomination for provin-cial seats.

The other day, the PTI re-leased a list of probables fromLahore after its ParliamentaryBoard concluded its delibera-tion on the award of tickets inIslamabad. The party decidedto make formal announce-ment after the scrutiny of can-didacy papers.

In response to the devel-opment, PTI Information Sec-retary Shafqat Mahmood saidthere was no point in return-ing tickets when the party had

not given tickets to anyone sofar. “The decision in this re-gard will be made afterscrutiny,” he said.

The trouble was brewingin the Lahore chapter of thePTI from the day the party’sParliamentary Board turnedits focus on Lahore andstarted deliberation on theaward of tickets. There werereports that Aleem waseither not happywith the party’sdecision, or hewas not beinggiven con-stituenciesof his liking.It was re-ported thathe had an ar-gument withthe board chair-man as well asImran Khan over theselection process for award-ing tickets to the candidatesfrom Lahore.

On Thursday, Aleem andthe other rebels, mostly mem-bers of his Unity Group, gath-ered at the party’s districtoffice and took everybody bysurprise.

After a brief meeting,they decided to return thetickets but not before makinga big show out of it, creatingscenes before TV cameras,delivering lengthy fieryspeeches against the party’stop leaders and its selectioncriteria. The party workersgathered there also clashedwith each other and ex-changed hot words.

In a show of power, 10town presidents, 30 district

leaders and 12 UC presidentsalong with party workerswere gathered on this occa-sion.

The party insiders say thatthe protest was a calculatedmove to influence the selec-tion process by pressurisingPTI Chairman Imran Khan.They said these leaderswanted to pick and choose

tickets for themselvesand their group

members whichthe party couldnot afford es-p e c i a l l ywhen thou-sands ofpeople werein the race

to get tickets. It is learnt

that ImranKhan took a

strong exception tothe position taken by the

rebel leaders. The party sources foresee

the move getting backfired.“Imran Khan does not

take any pressure or acceptblackmailing tactics as beingemployed by this group,” onePTI leader said.

Others say it was wrongin the first place to let out-siders, having no ideologicalbond with the party, to enter.

Talking to PakistanToday, Aleem said it was awell-considered decision toreturn the tickets. He saidseven to eight members hadreturned the tickets, addingthat he along with other mem-bers of his group were electedmembers of the party. He saidhis protest was against the se-

lection criteria in whichprecedence was given to theboard over the town and dis-trict bodies elected recently.He said the board ignored therecommendations of districtbodies while awarding tickets.He denied the impression thathe was quitting the party.

Commenting on the situ-ation, PTI Chairman ImranKhan tweeted, “I have faith inr ppl so I simply opened mygate & spoke 2 PTI’s angrybut dedicated workersprotesting outside. Mutualtrust reinforced!”

MINI rEVOLT IN PTIThe trouble was

brewing in the Lahore

chapter of the PTI

from the day the

party’s Parliamentary

Board turned its focus

on Lahore and started

deliberation on the

award of tickets. There

were reports that

Aleem was either not

happy with the party’s

decision, or he was

not being given

constituencies

of his liking.

PTI workers clashover party ticketsin Quetta

QueTTA: Workers of the Pak-istan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) clashedon Thursday in a row over the dis-tribution of party tickets inBalochistan. According to details,PTI Balochistan President QasimSoori was addressing a press con-ference when his opponents stoodup on their seats. Soori’s oppo-nents within PTI blamed him offavouritism in awarding tickets forthe general elections of the na-tional and provincial assembly inBalochistan.“Soori was disqualified by court,we do not accept him,” AsifTareen, a local leader of PTI said.PTI workers also exchanged hotwords with each other. However,the situation was contained fol-lowing the intervention of otherpeople present at the scene. Tensions got so high that the po-lice was called to ensure peace inthe aftermath of the clash.

ISLAMABADStAFF rEPOrt

In another move towards a seat-to-seat adjustment, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan onThusrday ensured his party’s sup-port to the Awami Muslim Leaguechief Sheikh Rashid during the up-coming elections. The assurancecame after a meeting between thePTI chairman and the AML chiefon Thursday.

Both the leaders agreed thatthe PTI would assist SheikhRashid in NA-55, Rawalpindi

during the upcoming general elec-tions. In return, Rashid pledgedsupport to Imran Khan for NA-56,Rawalpindi. Furthermore, the PTIchief said that he would deliver aspeech during Sheikh Rashid’selection rally in NA-55. Rashidfurther said that his party workerswould continue to support PTIcandidates across the country.

Both leaders also discussedthe prevalent political situation.Neither party, however, an-nounced any formal seat-to-seatadjustment in any other parts ofthe country.

Imran Khan, Sheikh Rashidcozy up to each other

ECP steers clear of candidates’ scrutiny process ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pak-istan on Thursday kept itself at bay from the grillingof politicians by returning officers during the ongo-ing process of scrutiny of the nomination papers forthe implementation of articles 62 and 63.It was reported that during the scrutiny of nominationpapers some returning officers asked the candidatesquestions regarding the ideology of Pakistan andIslam. In some cases, they even asked the candidatesto recite some verses of the holy Quran. The ECP onThursday said it had received various inquiries in re-lation to the scrutiny proceedings being conductedby the returning offices across the country.“It is hereby clarified that the returning officers aremembers of Pakistan’s judiciary. They are carryingout their duties as returning officers independently.The ECP does not instruct or direct them on how todecide the fate of the nomination forms. The ECPonly provides data, as received, from the FBR,NAB, SBP and other governmental authorities, tothe returning officers,” said a press release issued bythe ECP. The press release added that the decision ofthe returning officers to accept or reject nominationpapers was subject to the right of appeal before theelection tribunals comprising of learned Judges ofthe high courts. StAFF rEPOrt

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ISLAMABAD: Prominent lawyer Asma Jahangir speaks during the launching of annual reportof Human Rights Commission of Pakistan ‘State of Human Rights in 2012’ on Thursday. InP

LONDONOnLInE

PAKISTAN will be-come the largest re-cipient of UK aidnext year, a contro-

versial move given the back-drop of corruption, taxavoidance and political insta-bility, MPs warned.

Although there is a “pow-erful case” for continuing aidto the nation, British taxpay-ers must not be left to foot thegrowing bill unless Pakistan’swealthy are made to pay theirfair share, the Commons In-ternational Development se-lect committee said.

“Any increase in the UK’sofficial development assis-tance to Pakistan must be con-ditional on Pakistanincreasing its tax collectionand widening the tax base,”its report states.

“We cannot expect thepeople in the UK to pay taxesto improve education andhealth in Pakistan if the Pak-istani elite is not paying in-come tax. In the past, donormoney has not been spent ef-fectively in Pakistan for a va-riety of reasons. Corruption isrife in a social order based on

patronage and kinship net-works. Pakistan’s rich do notpay taxes and exhibit little in-terest in improving conditionsand opportunities for Pak-istan’s poor.” The governmentplans to increase its £267 mil-lion bilateral aid programmein Pakistan, which has one ofthe smallest tax bases in theworld, for the financial yearthat ends today to £446 mil-lion in 2014/15.

During their inquiry, MPswere told that while one inthree people in Pakistan livedon less than 30p a day around70 percent of the nation’s MPsdo not file a tax return.

The committee indicated itwanted Prime Minister DavidCameron to push for action oncorruption and tax evasionwith Pakistan’s leadership andcalled for the government touse its influence within the In-ternational Monetary Fund(IMF) to press for urgent re-form of the tax system.

It criticised the Depart-ment for International Devel-opment (DFID) for failing totackle corruption, frequent ab-sences in the rule of law andlow tax collection at the top ofthe agenda for its governancework in Pakistan.

The committee also said itwas sceptical of the ‘scaling-up’ of DFID’s maternal andnew-born health programme,which is aimed at cutting thenumber of deaths among ba-bies and new mothers bytraining community mid-wives, after it was given a“very poor review” by inter-national assessors.

It also found that whilethe government believed edu-cational programmes wouldhelp counter extremism theconnection was “unclear”.

Committee chairman SirMalcolm Bruce said: “Thereis a powerful case for main-taining the UK’s bilateral aidto Pakistan. Britain enjoys aclose relationship and haslong established ties with Pak-istan which has real povertyand serious security problems.But the committee is con-cerned that not enough tax israised in Pakistan to fully fi-nance improvements in thequality of life for poor people.Pakistan’s rich must in turndemonstrate a clearer commit-ment to improving conditionsand basic opportunities for alltheir fellow citizens by payingmore in tax than they do underpresent arrangements.”

ISLAMABADStAFF rEPOrt

Bloodshed was frequent in2012, as 1,577 terrorist at-tacks claimed 2,050 liveswhile leaving 3,822 injuredacross the Pakistan.

Not only this, 2,284 peo-ple were killed in ethnic, sec-tarian, and political violencein Karachi. As many as 14journalists were also put todeath during the year.

These particulars werenoted down by the report titled“State of Human Rights in2012” launched by the HumanRights Commission of Pak-istan on Thursday at a cere-mony. The report shows that48 drone attacks took place in2012 which killed 240 to 400lives. The number of such at-tacks in 2011 was 74.

2012 was not good for re-

ligious minorities. Along withnon-Muslim minorities, ShiaMuslims were particularly tar-geted throughout the year. InMuharram, 929 clerics werebanned to enter Punjab and439 were forbidden from de-livering sermons.

Around 583 people werekilled and 853 injured in 213sectarian attacks. In Karachi,six churches were attacked,and in Mardan 150-year-oldBaba Karam Singh templewas destroyed by land mafia.As many as 20 Ahmadis werealso killed. Blasphemy wasagain a burning issue,Rimsha, a 14-year-old Chris-tian girl charged with burningthe pages of the holy Quranwas acquitted but, Ryan, a17-year-old kept behind thebars. Sherry Rehman, ambas-sador to the US, faced beingbooked in blasphemy.

Around 913 girls andwomen were killed for honourwhich includes 99 minor girls.74 percent of the girls marriedoff in Charsadda and Mardandistricts of KP were under 16.

Children rights wereagain ignored by the authori-ties and 10 million minorswere engaged in child labour.The country has the world’ssecond largest amount of out-of-school children aged be-tween five and nine.

Health and education, twobasic human rights acquired atiny amount in fiscal year2012-2013. For heath, it wasfurther declined to 0.2 percentof GNP. Pakistan ranked sixthamong the 22 high-risk tuber-culosis countries. On the otherhand, primary education onlygot Rs 71.6 billion and sec-ondary education got 69.4 bil-lion. About 121 schools were

targeted by terrorists.In this report it is also

cited that only 15 percent ofthe cases filed to greenbenches established in highcourts to deliver environ-mental justice could be de-cided and 20 percent of thefines imposed by them couldbe collected.

The report also stated thatenactment of 20th Amend-ment regarding electoral mat-ters is a success. But, law forthe establishment of NationalCommission of HumanRights remained unimple-mented. National Commis-sion on the Status of Womenbecame autonomous and, fourbills sponsored regarding mi-nority rights but little progresswas made concerning theirpassing. During the year 22Acts were made and eight or-dinances issued.

DHAKAAGEnCIES

Operators of top Bangladeshi blogs saidThursday they had blacked out theirsites to protest against a governmentcrackdown on atheist bloggers in theface of pressure from radicals.

The move by eight sites comesafter the arrests of four online writersthis week on charges of hurting reli-gious sentiment through their Internetwritings against Islam.

Their secular supporters haveblasted the crackdown, accusing thegovernment of kowtowing to Islamicgroups who are planning a march on

Saturday towards the capital Dhaka todemand a blasphemy law and the hang-ing of anti-Islam bloggers.

“Bangla Blogosphere begins black-out in protest against harassing andcracking down on bloggers,” reads a no-tice on the home pages of the protestingsites. All of them were inaccessible fromnoon on Thursday.

Home minister Muhiuddin Khan onWednesday said the government hadidentified 11 bloggers, including thefour detainees, who had hurt the reli-gious sentiments of the nation’s majorityMuslim population.

There has been vociferous debatebetween staunch atheists and funda-

mentalists in Bangladesh’s socialmedia for years, but it took a deadlyturn in February when an anti-Islamblogger was murdered.

Both secular and Islamic protestershave taken to the streets over the warcrimes trials of leaders of the Islamic Ja-maat-e-Islami party in cases related tothe 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.

The government has blocked abouta dozen websites and blogs to stem theunrest. It has also set up a panel, whichincludes intelligence chiefs, to monitorblasphemy on social media.

Under the country’s cyber laws, ablogger or Internet writer can face up toten years in jail for defaming a religion.

KARACHIStAFF rEPOrt

During Thursday’s hearing of the Karachi lawand order case, the Supreme Court (SC) or-dered all ‘no-go’ areas in the city be eliminatedwithin a week, media reported.

A five-judge larger bench of the SC, headedby Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar MuhammadChaudhry heard the case pertaining to imple-mentation of its 2011 order in a suo motu noticeover unrest in Karachi. The bench ordered thata judicial tribunal be set up within three daysover the land grabbing issue in metropolis.

The court also rejected police reports re-garding ‘no-go’ areas in Karachi, saying theywere identical in content. The bench observedthat it appeared that the reports were authoredby one person and ordered reports from all 112police stations in the city to be submittedwithin 30 minutes’ time. Moreover, the Lyaripolice SSP was ordered to submit a report fromfour police stations within his jurisdiction.

The CJ said during the hearing that in thecaretaker setup, the government had onlychanged faces but policies remained the same.

The bench also rejected a report submittedby Rangers’ officials over the law and order sit-uation in the city on grounds that the report didnot exhibit seriousness over the issue. The CJfurther said that despite presence of 11,500Rangers personnel, certain areas in Karachilike Lyari could not be cleared even after op-erations were conducted in the ‘no-go’ areas.

Justice Arif Hussain Khilji said the report ap-pears to indicate that either the Rangers had sub-mitted a misleading statement or that they werecomplicit. During the previous hearing, top law en-forcement officials who had failed to control crim-inal activities in the city were severely reprimanded.

The officials had admitted before the apexcourt bench that their men lacked the will tocombat the growing number of militants andgangsters in the city. This was on account ofsluggish follow-up of cases of their colleagueswho had been killed by criminals, they had said.

LAHOREPrESS rELEASE

South Asian Free Media As-sociation’s Secretary GeneralImtiaz Alam has condemnedleading columnist AyazAmir’s disqualification on“flimsy ideological grounds”.

“It is a sad reflection onthe low quality of intellectthat ordinary officials withlow intellect and academic

qualification are passingjudgements on matters of in-terpretations that have re-mained a bone of contentionamong historians and quali-fied academics, Alam said.

Ayaz Amir’s disqualifi-cation on the basis of his twoarticles being judged asagainst the ideology of Pak-istan by a local presiding of-ficer is a gross violation offreedom of expression and

an attack on press freedom,he said.

Imtiaz Alam expressedhis serious concern aboutthe tendency of election of-ficials to become ayatollahswithout having any spiritualand ideological credentials.He said Ziaist elementshave become very active todisrupt the democraticprocess by resorting to Mc-Carthy’s methods.

Empty boxon ballotpaperschallengedin LHC

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Insertion of an empty boxon ballot papers by ElectionCommission of Pakistan(ECP) was challenged inLahore High Court (LHC)on Thursday. The petitioner took the pleain his petition that theinsertion of an empty box inballot papers by the ECPwas an illegal andunconstitutional move,saying that it would landthe society in chaos andstrife. It was further said that ECPwas only authorised to printthe name of candidates, andby inserting an empty box,the ECP had overstepped itspowers. It may be recalled that apress release issued by theECP said that an empty boxwould be added in theballot paper and the voterswould be entitled to rejectall the candidates bystamping this box.

KURRAM AGENCY OnLInE

Four militants were killed andfive injured when Afghan Tal-iban attacked a check post inKurram Agency on Thursday.

According to securitysources, the Afghan Talibanattacked a security check postin Lower Kurram early onThursday and injured two se-curity personnel.

Four militants were killed

and five injured when the se-curity forces retaliated.

The sources said the mili-tants who came fromAfghanistan attacked thecheck post at 5:30am and theattack continued for morethan an hour.

Security sources saidthree security personnel werealso injured in the attack.

High-ranked securityofficials reached the site ofattack and were analysingthe situation.

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I am not quitting the party. I am just giving away my tickets.

This is a democratic way to protest for the candidates who ran

for party elections and were ignored. –Abdul Aleem Khan

ISLAMABADzAIn-UL-ISLAm

THE battle lines are drawn for the contest inNA-53 (Rawalpindi-IV). Once again, atwo-horse race is expected between PML(N) stalwart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan andhis old contender Ghulam Sarwar Khan.

But decision regarding Sarwar Khan’s fake degree casecan knock over the arena in the favor of Chaudhry Nisar.As previous record tells, Khan is the only political forcein this constituency who can compete with ChaudhryNisar on a level playingfield. Although Khanhas two brothers

(Muhammad Siddique Khan, former Tehsil NazimTaxila, and Muhammad Shafique Khan, former MPAfrom PP-7) to replace him, his disqualification can notonly alter the current scenario, but it could seriouslyimpact future politics in the constituency.

In the 2008 general elections, Chaudhry Nisardefeated Ghulam Sarwar Khan with the difference of 23,189 votes. At that time, Sarwar Khan was contesting fromPML (Q)’s platform. Earlier in 2002, Ghulam SarwarKhan had managed to overpower Nisar by 9,790 votes asan independent candidate. This time around Khan willconfront the PML-N stalwart from the platform ofPakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf.

The extent of Khan’s support in this constituency canbe garnered from the fact that he managed to obtain49,068 votes in 2008 despite his association with theunpopular Q-league. He is likely to receive 40 thousand

plus votes no matter which political partyis backing him by granting ticket.

On the other hand, ChaudhryNisar is an N-League stalwart and isa leading political force inRawalpindi district. Being

dominated by right wing voters, thisconstituency plays to Nisar’sstrengths. He has been elected to the

National Assembly seven times,and has never been defeated

in the neighboringconstituency NA-52.

If Jamat-

e-Islami (JI) and PML (N) agree on a plan for seatadjustment in NA-53, N-league will expectedlysupport JI candidate for PP-8, and in return JI willsupport Nisar. This will further damage Khan’schances of being elected.

Pakistan People’s Party vote bank in thisconstituency has suffered great set-backs over theyears. In 2002 elections, PPP candidate Sardar ShoaibMumtaz Khan managed to obtain a meager 6,673 votes.PPP’s present candidate Justice (retd) Syed IntikhabShah is a new-comer to the political arena. While hehas gained the support of Pakistan Ordinance Factories’

Workman Association byechoing their demands for

better wages and jobregularization, it isprobably safe to saythat labor politics inthis constituency will

not be able to create any major upsetsanytime soon.

NISar aNd SarWar TOSPrINT fOr Na-53

PTV NEEdS TO LIVE UP TOExPECTaTIONS,SayS NIzaMIISLAMABAD: Caretaker Minister forInformation and Broadcasting and PostalServices Arif Nizami said on Thursday thatthe upcoming general elections were verycrucial for the country and it was theresponsibility of the state media,especially Pakistan Television (PTV), togive a balanced coverage to all politicalparties. He was chairing a meeting at PTVHeadquarters.The minister said that PTV being thenational channel should strive to live up tothe expectations of the masses and re-establish its image as a neutral medium.He said that PTV should hire the servicesof experienced anchor persons who have astrong grip over national and politicalaffairs. Nizami said that during past fewweeks, PTV’s coverage of the activities ofvarious political parties had beenbalanced. Nizami also said that PTV’sEnglish news channel was a good additionthat could prove helpful in projectingPakistan’s positive image abroad.PTV Managing Director Yusuf Beg Mirzasaid that PTV had set up an Election Cellwhich would providelatest news andanalysis on theupcomingelections. The meetingwas alsoattended byInformationSecretary AghaNadeem andsenior officialsfrom the Ministry ofInformation.AGEnCIES

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Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS)court of Rawalpindi on Thursdaygranted post arrest bail to Tauqir AliKhan, an alleged front man of Ali MusaGillani, son of former prime ministerSyed yousaf Raza Gillani.

CNS judge Arshad MehmoodTabassum also accepted the bail ofanother accused Zunair Malik, ownerof a Lahore-based money exchangefirm, who has been charged withillegally transferring black money to

foreign accounts. The court directedboth the accused to deposit Rs 0.5million surety bonds.

According to the Anti NarcoticsForce (ANF) the prosecution agencyin the ephedrine case, Tauqir was thefront man of Musa Gillani who actedas an intermediary between healthofficials and two pharmaceuticalcompanies namely Berlix and Danas.

The prosecution alleged thatTauqir supervised the allocation of9,500 kg ephedrine from the healthministry to sale locally. Thepharmaceutical companies went on to

sell the ephedrine to narcoticssmugglers and pocketed billion ofrupees. The prosecution also pointedout that Zunair Malik was arrestedafter investigation disclosed that a sumof Rs 30 million was transferredabroad through Malik’s moneyexchange firm.

On the other hand, Malik’scounsel Abdul Rashid Sheikh arguedthat ANF had prepared fake records toframe his client. He requested thecourt to accept the bail plea becausehis client is ready to cooperate with theinvestigation agency.

SHOs grilled for

increase in crime during

last three months ISLAMABAD: Islamabad InspectorGeneral of Police served show causenotices to police officers on Thursdayafter a surge in crime during the lastthree months in the federal capital.Sources said IG Islamabad held a meetingwith Station House Officers (SHO) ofKohsar, Shalimar, Ramna, Margalla, Koral,Shahzad Town and Tarnol police stationson Thursday. The IG lauded theperformance of SHO Chaudhry Arshad ofKoral Police Station for low crime rate inhis jurisdiction during last three months. Kohsar Police Station SHO Hakim Khan wasreprimanded on the fact that seven vehicleshad been lifted in the period of last onemonth, while inspector Baqir of ShalimarPolice Station was given a warning toimprove his performance to overcome thecrimes. Due to an increase in robberies inthe jurisdiction in Ramna Police Station,SHO Inspector Abid was punished anddeprived of one year of employment.The IG deducted two years of service ofMargalla Police Station SHO and cancelledone year service of Shahzad Town PoliceStation SHO Sajjad Bukhari. In additionTarnol Police Station SHO Inspector FazalRehman was issued a warning to improvehis performance. InP

CNS grants bail to Musa Gillani’s ‘front-men’

AT A SNAIL’S PACE: Construction work at

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of the upcoming elections. –Arif Nizami

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The 34th death anniversary ofPakistan People’s Party’s foundingchairman and former prime ministerZulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) wasobserved on Thursday with a pledgeto continue his mission.

Bhutto was hanged on April 4, 1979inside the Rawalpindi Central Jail(Jinnah Park), which was laterdemolished and a new prison was builtat Adiala by the then military regime.The local PPP leadership, along with alarge number of party workersparticipated in the event.

Quran Khawani was held at 10 amin Jinnah Park and food was also

distributed among the participants. Thefunction was arranged by the local PPPleadership.

Former Baitul Maal managingdirector Zumrad Khan, on the occasion,said ZAB devoted his life to the peopleand to democracy.

“He created awareness about thesocial, civil, economic and politicalrights among the masses and stabilisedthe country by uniting the fourprovinces,” he added.

Speaking at the occasion, PPPRawalpindi President Amir FidaParacha said that the constitution of1973 which was passed with theconsensus of all political parties presentin parliament at the time, was amonumental achievement of Bhutto.

“Bhutto wanted to strengthendemocracy in the country and diedprotecting the rights of the poor and thepowerless of the society” he said.

PPP leaders, including CentralExecutive Committee Member QaziSultan Mehmood, AJK Minister AbdulIslam Butt, Rashid Mir, Raja KhalidMehmood, Shujaat Haider Naqvi, NasirMir, Tahir Gondal, Khalid Nawaz, MianImran Hayat, Jameel Qureshi, Haji SherZaman, Sohail Mukhtar and ex-nazimsand naib nazims also attended thefunction.

People Students Federation (PSF),People youth Organisation (PyO),Lady Wing (LW) People LawyersForums (PLF)and People’s Unity ofPIA also participated in the event.

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Prominent national election observationorganizations have endorsed internationalstandards in observation of the 2013general elections in Pakistan, in aconference held on Thursday. AuratFoundation, Free and Fair ElectionsNetwork (FAFEN), Human RightsCommission of Pakistan (HRCP) andSpecial Talent Exchange Program (STEP)pledged to observe elections according tothe recognized methodology defined in“Declaration of Global Principles for Non-Partisan Election Observation andMonitoring by Citizen Organizations”.

The Pakistani organizations werejoined by international associations ofcitizen observation groups from Asia,Middle East and Southern Africa and by

Democracy Reporting International(DRI), National Democratic Institute(NDI) and United Nations DevelopmentProgram (UNDP).

Vladimir Pran from DRI said, “Thestandards used by international anddomestic observer groups to assesselections are an extension of the obligationsand commitments Pakistan made under theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights andInternational Covenant on Civil andPolitical Rights (ICCPR). These treatiesinclude the obligation to facilitate electionobservation.”

Sharing observation plans for theupcoming elections, Naeem Mirza fromAurat Foundation explained that the focusof AF will be on participation of women“We will be reporting on how theauthorities are guaranteeing women’srights. Our special focus will be

arrangements made by the ECP.”Access of voters with disabilities

will be under scrutiny of STEP, anorganization promoting rights ofpersons with disabilities.

National civil society organizationsplanning election observation present at theconference acknowledged the importance ofadhering to internationally recognizedstandards for the responsible conduct of theirduties as observers.

Discussing the importance of therelationship between elections commissionsand observers, Zurab Tchiaberashvili, formerChairman of Georgian electionscommission, said: “Elections can never becredible and in line with internationalstandards without proper and long-termobservation. Simple fact is that electionauthorities need election observers to supportthe electoral process.”

ISLAMABADStAFF rEPOrt

FOLLOWING thedirections of ElectionCommission of Pakistan(ECP), the InteriorMinistry on Thursday

removed Federal InvestigationAgency (FIA) director general (DG)and Islamabad inspector general ofpolice (IGP) from their positions.

ECP the other day had directed thegovernment to remove all suchofficers from administrative posts whocould influence the election process inany manner to favour a particularparty or candidate.

On Thursday, Caretaker Interior

Minister Malik Habib transferred FIADG Anwar Virk to National CounterTerrorism Authority (NACTA). Theministry’s additional secretary SaudMirza has replaced him.

The ministry also removedIslamabad IGP Bani Amin Khan. Hehas been replaced by Capt (r) ZafarIqbal, who has earlier served asIslamabad senior superintend of police(SSP).

Earlier, addressing a pressconference, Habib said that his teamwould do its best to facilitate theholding of free, fair and impartialelections. “We would extend fullcooperation to the ECP, and allcontroversial police officers would beremoved from their posts,” he added.

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ZA Bhutto remembered onhis 34th death anniversary

POLICE arrEST 11,SEIzE STOLEN BIKE,faKE CUrrENCy

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The Islamabad Police have arrested 11outlaws from various localities of the cityand seized a stolen bike, fake currency,wine and heroine from their possession, apolice spokesman said on Thursday.According to details, CentralInvestigation Agency (CIA) arrestedArslan Farooq and recovered fakecurrency from him. Kohsar policearrested three criminals namely NaeemAhmad, Akram and Umer Sarwar andrecovered 11 bottles of wine from theirpossession. Bhara Kau police arrestedtwo persons namely Munwar Hussain andNadeem Chowan and recovered a stolenmotorcycle worth Rs 40,000.

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The Higher Education Commission(HEC) executive director said onThursday that the commission wastrying to resolve the issues being facedby the higher education sector inPakistan. During the meeting,Federation of All Pakistan UniversitiesAcademics Staff Association(FAPUASA) office bearers showeddeep concern over the financial crisisbeing faced by the higher educationsector of Pakistan. They demanded thatat least 4 percent of GDP should bespent on education and 25 percent oftotal allocated budget for educationshould be spent on higher education.They were of the view that due tountimely release of higher educationfunds, the employees of public sectoruniversities were not getting theirsalaries and development projectswere being affected. It was alsodemanded that the federalgovernment supplementary grant maybe approved against the 20 percentrecent increase in salaries for all theemployees of public sectoruniversities. In addition, FAPUASAoffice bearers discussed restoration of11 terminated faculty members ofShaheed Benazir Bhutto University inBenazirabad. The HEC chairmanassured that this issue would be takenup by the HEC. FAPUASA alsoraised the issue of a uniform criterionfor the appointment of vicechancellors throughout the country.“Experienced academicians withPhDs should be appointed through atransparent and merit based process.No retired person should be appointedon administrative posts,” they said.

armoured personnelcarrier at adiala Jail out of order

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The armoured personnel carrier (APC) atCentral Prison Adiala, which ensures safetransport of high-profile criminals to courtsfor proceedings, has been out-of-order forthe last one-and-half month, while policehave failed to repair or arrange alternateways for the purpose. Sources said thatpolice cite shortage of funds for notrepairing the armoured personnel carrierdue to which criminals involved in high-profile cases could not be brought toanti-terrorist courts for hearings. It may benoted that police failed to bring high-profile criminal Rana Faqir Hussain,involved in a suicide attack on formerpresident General Pervez Musharraf, tocourt for a hearing on Wednesday.

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ISraELI TrOOPS GUNdOWN PaLESTINIaNyOUTHS IN WEST BaNK TEL AVIV: Israeli troops have shot dead two Palestinianyouths in the occupied West Bank as confrontationsentered a third day following the death of a prisoner inan Israeli jail. The body of Naji Balbisi, 17, a cousin of16-year-old Amer Nassar who was also shot dead inclash at a military roadblock at Tulkarem in the north ofthe Palestinian territory, was discovered early onThursday morning, officials said. The Israeli army saidtroops fired on Palestinians who threw fire bombs at aguard post in the area after dark on Wednesday, but didnot confirm the teenager was killed by them. The armysaid it was investigating the incident, which left at leastone other Palestinian wounded. Tensions have risenrapidly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following thedeath from cancer on Tuesday of Maysara AbuHamdeya, 64, who was serving a life sentence in anIsraeli jail. Palestinians accuse Israel of withholding carefrom the man and failing to release him after diagnosingthat his illness was terminal. Israel said it followednormal procedures. Abu Hamdeya was convicted for aplanned attack on a Jerusalem cafe in 2002. In thesouthern West Bank city of Hebron, where AbuHamdeya is to be buried on Thursday, Israeli forcesclashed with dozens of Palestinian protesters onWednesday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at menthrowing stones and petrol bombs. AGEnCIES

N KOrEa’S TWITTEraCCOUNT HaCKEd aMId TENSIONSEOuL: Hackers apparently broke into at least two ofNorth Korea's government-run online sites Thursday, astensions rose on the Korean Peninsula. The North'sUriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr accounts stoppedsending out content typical of that posted by the regimein Pyongyang, such as photos of North's leader KimJong Un meeting with military officials. Instead, apicture posted Thursday on the North's Flickr site showsKim's face with a pig-like snout and a drawing of MickeyMouse on his chest. Underneath, the text reads:"Threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclearweapons/Wasting money while his people starve todeath." Another posting says "We are Anonymous" inwhite letters against a black background. Anonymous isa name of a hacker activist group. A statementpurporting to come from the attackers and widelycirculated online said that they had compromised15,000 user records hosted on Uriminzokkiri.com andother websites. The authenticity of the statementcouldn't be confirmed, but the North's official websitedid not open Thursday. Tweets on the North's Twitteraccount said "Hacked" followed by a link to NorthKorea-related websites. One tweet said "Tango Down"followed by a link to the North's Flickr page. NorthKorea opened its Twitter account in 2010. It has morethan 13,000 followers. The North uses the social mediato praise its system and leaders and also to repeatcommentaries sent out by North's official KoreanCentral News Agency. AGEnCIES

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NEWSFriday, 5 April, 2013

In the future, all ministers and MPs would have to declare

fully their personal finances. —French President

Francois Hollande on the recent financial scandal.N

BUENOS AIRESnEWS dESK

EMERGENCy workers in Argentina con-tinue to try to rescue residents stranded byflooding in Buenos Aires and La Plata.More than 50 people are known to havedied after one of the heaviest storms

recorded caused flash floods.Thousands were evacuated from their homes

and dozens are still stranded on rooftops, treetopsand the roofs of city buses, local media report.The government has declared three days of na-tional mourning after what it called "an unprece-dented catastrophe".'DeATh TrAP': "We've never seen anything likeit," provincial governor Daniel Scioli said.

"People were taken by surprise, and some didn'thave time to escape this deadly trap," Mr Sciolisaid, referring to the speed with which the watersrose.Provincial officials said 40cm (16in) of rainfell on the city of La Plata in the space of two hours

late on Tuesday night.Earlier, the storm had dumped 15cm of rainfall

on the capital, Buenos Aires. Local officials said atleast 48 people were killed in La Plata, six inBuenos Aires and two in its suburbs. The Red Crosssaid most of the victims had been elderly peoplewho drowned in their homes. So far, only half ofthe bodies have been identified and rescue workersfear the number of dead may rise as more bodiesare found as the flood waters recede.FeAr oF LooTIng: Firefighter Federico Lan-gone said in some areas of La Plata, the flood wa-ters had reached a height of 1.5m (5ft).

More than 3,000 people had to leave theirhomes and 80,000 still do not have electricity, withtwo of La Plata's hospitals also affected by thepower cuts. On Wednesday night, some of LaPlata's residents set up roadblocks to "protect theirneighbourhoods from looters".

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner onWednesday visited Tolosa, the worst affected neigh-bourhood of La Plata, where she grew up and where

her mother still lives. Ms Fernandez acknowledgedresidents' fears and promised to increase security.Before her arrival, dozens of people had looted asupermarket. Three police officers were injured inscuffles with people trying to break into two othersupermarkets. Officials said 400 extra police offi-cers and soldiers would be deployed to La Plata. cLeAn-uP: In Buenos Aires, where the rains hadbeen at their worst overnight Monday to Tuesday,the floods have begun to recede and residents havestarted the clean-up.

Damp clothes and furniture were piled by road-sides as neighbours assessed the damage to theirhomes. Mayor Mauricio Macri said about 350,000people had been affected by the torrents of rain.Hundreds are still in shelters. Pope Francis, an Ar-gentine, has called on the authorities to step up theirassistance to those left homeless by the storm.

The Pope sent a telegram to his newly ap-pointed successor as Buenos Aires Archbishop,Mario Poli, saying he was praying for those whodied, their families and survivors of the disaster.

More than50 dead inflash floodsin argentina

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FACT: Almost twice as manypeople were murdered by gunsfrom 2001-2010 in Arizonathan killed in combat inAfghanistan. #DemandAction

mohamed Waheed (President of Maldives)

Thanks to the Hon. Speakerand members of the Kuwaitparliament for the warmwelcome when I visited theMajlis ul Umma this morning.

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future is 5 per cent growth.

We grew at an average of

about 8% in the last ten

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there again."

BiLL gates (Chief of Microsoft Corp)Ghana has made great

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UK urges Saudi arabia to withdrawsentencing a man to be paralysedLonDon: The UK has urged Saudi Arabia not to carry out a reported sentencing ofparalysis for a Saudi man as punishment for paralysing another man. A Foreign Officespokesperson said London was "deeply concerned" by the sentence, describing it as"grotesque". Such punishment was "prohibited under international law", the officialadded. Saudi media reports earlier said the 24-year-old man could be paralysed from thewaist down if he could not pay his victim £250,000 in compensation. Ali al-Khawahirwas 14 when he stabbed a friend in the back in the Eastern Province town of al-Ahsa. Hehas been in prison for 10 years. The judge in the case has reportedly interpreted the Is-lamic law of qisas, or retribution, that Saudi Arabia follows as meaning that he in turncould face being paralysed. AGEnCIES

Top Swedish judge defends

Wikileaks' assange STockhoLM: A senior Swedish judge has said that the sexcrime allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assangeare "a mess", and praised him for leaking classified US docu-ments. Speaking on Tuesday, Stefan Lindskog, chairman ofthe Supreme Court of Sweden, also listed legal obstacles toextraditing the 41-year-old Australian to the United States toface prosecution for exposing thousands of classified docu-ments. AGEnCIES

PAju: South Korean soldiers

move barricades at a military

check point on Thursday. AGEnCIES

PYONGYANGAGEnCIES

North Korea has shifted a missile with"considerable range" to its east coast,South Korea's foreign minister says.

Kim Kwan-jin played down con-cerns that the missile could target theUS mainland, and said the North's in-tentions were not yet clear.

Pyongyang earlier renewedthreats of a nuclear strike against theUS, though its missiles are not be-lieved to be capable of carrying nu-clear warheads. The US is responding

to North Korea by moving missile de-fence shields to Guam.

Meanwhile Russia said Py-ongyang's attempts to "violate deci-sions of the UN Security Council arecategorically unacceptable". "This rad-ically complicates, if it doesn't in prac-tice shut off, the prospects forresuming six-party talks," foreign min-istry spokesman Alexander Lukashe-vich said in a statement on Thursday.The talks involving North and SouthKorea, the US, Russia, China andJapan were last held in late 2008.uS rAMPS uP DeFenceS

over n koreA ThreATS: TheNorth Korean army has warnedWashington that its military has beencleared to wage an attack using"smaller, lighter and diversified nu-clear" weapons. "The moment of ex-plosion is approaching fast," themilitary said, warning that war couldbreak out "today or tomorrow".

The statement, carried by the Ko-rean Central News Agency early onThursday, said troops had been autho-rised to counter US aggression with"powerful practical military counter-actions". The warning, the latest in a

series of escalating threats against theUS and South Korea, came after thePentagon said it would deploy a mis-sile defence system to the US Pacificterritory of Guam to strengthen the re-gion's protections against a possibleattack. Despite the rhetoric, analystssay they do not expect a nuclear at-tack by North Korea, which knowsthe move could trigger a destructive,suicidal war that no one in the regionwants. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secre-tary-General, said that he was "deeplyconcerned" over rising tensions onThursday.

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PESHAWARSHAmIm SHAHId

WITH general elec-tions round the cor-ner, the solidarityand camaraderie be-tween the Pakistan

People’s Party (PPP) and the Awami Na-tional Party (ANP) that lasted for five yearsseems to be fast fading away. Both thesepolitical parties have failed to build uponthe relationship they had established as al-lies after the 2008 general elections. Theprobable beneficiaries of this fallout isproving beneficial for political rivals, in-cluding the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl(JUI-F), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)and others in the Peshawar Division ofKhyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK) province.

During the 2008 general elections, boththe PPP and the ANP were contested on alleight national and 22 provincial assemblyconstituencies in Peshawar. The trendwould be different this time round as can-didates of both the parties were likely toface unfamiliar competitors in familiar ter-ritory.

In the 2008 elections, the ANP had

managed to bag four out of eight NA seatsfrom Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda,while three seats went to the PPP and oneto Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao, now re-named as Qaumi Watan Party (QWP). Inthe provincial assembly, the ANP domi-nance was more profound: out of 22 itgrabbed 14 seats, as six were won by thePPP and two by its Sherpao splinter.

So far, the ANP, PPP, JUI-F, JI and sev-eral other political parties have announcedthe names of its candidates for all eight na-tional and 22 provincial assembly con-stituencies in the Peshawar Division,including candidates for the crucial Now-shera and Charsadda districts.

Meanwhile, the PPP leadership waskeen to continue with its time-tested policyof making sure that all of its former MPA’swere kept happy, whereas the ANP hasmade drastic changes in its candidates list,according to which former MNA ArbabMohammad Zahir along with two MPsnamely Ateefur Rahman and Aurangzeb,and Fazal Shakoor from Charsadda havebeen replaced with fresh faces. To keeptheir chances alive and thriving, the ANPhad decided to nominate young TaimoorKhan from Charsadda, thus pitching himagainst former federal interior minister

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. It is importantto mention here that Taimoor Khan hadserved as an MPA in the outgoing parlia-ment. The catch here is that Sherpao had al-ready won against an extremely strongcandidate, Bashir Omarzai, in the 2008general elections. In that backdrop,Taimoor Khan seemed like fair game forthe experienced Aftab Sherpao.

So far, no election alliance has beenforged between the five important politicalparties at the KPK level. However, hobnob-bing amongst leaders of the JUI-F andPML-N, and PTI and JI has been going onfor seat to seat adjustment. Though it wasvery difficult to predict the impact of suchalliances in the near future, but it was nothard to predict that the failure of these al-liances would only be to the benefit of theANP and the PPP, as both have since longenjoyed a strong position in and around Pe-shawar valley.

Furthermore, the ANP was being con-sistently pestered by candidates of AftabSherpao’s QWP in half of Charsadda. It ispertinent to mention here that Sherpao’sparty had earlier lost two important person-alities, namely Pervez Khattak and IqbalHussain Khattak, who decided to opt for thedynamic and youthful PTI over him. The

QWP was presently finding itself in a tightsqueeze, as it could only fight from twoprovincial assembly constituencies in Pe-shawar.

Moreover, the ANP had also earlier lostsome of its heavy weights, includingHasham Babar and Fazal Shakoor, whilemost recently, some of the aspiring candi-dates have revolted against the parliamen-tary board. Though the ANP was weak inthe face of strong PPP candidates nomi-nated from Peshawar and Nowshera dis-tricts, but the nationalist party was provingto be a giant in its own backyard ofCharsadda where no other party seemed tobe in a position to pull it down.

While, the PPP and the ANP leader-ships were claiming maximum popularsupport in the above mentioned districts,the rival political parties have doubled theirefforts to make inroads into the loyal votebanks associated with both the political par-ties. As alliances are forged and broken byall political parties in the KPK province, theposition of ANP on most National andProvincial Assembly seats seemed morestable than any other political party thatwere pushing hard to gain as much groundas possible before election fever grips thewhole nation.

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Grouping and alienation of party mem-bers on the issuance of party tickets hasnot affected political parties as badly asit has affected Pakistan People’s Party inparts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The PPP,which had been struggling at the handsof Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, is now suffering from rifts existsamongst its own ranks throughout KPK.

Although PPP KPK President AnwarSaifullah Khan and his aides are of theview that the growing rifts and differencesamongst the party ranks would not affectPPP in the upcoming general elections butthe situation is rather bleak. While AnwarSaifullah is busy solving rifts in his nativedistricts of Lakki Marwat and Bannu, heis yet to resolve disputes elsewhere inKPK. Similar rifts and divisions havecome to the surface in other parties likeAwami National Party, Pakistan MuslimLeague-N, Jamiat Ulema-a-Islam-F, Pak-istan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Jamaat-e-Islami.

While the ANP and PTI are lookingfor ways to resolve rifts, the leadership of

PML-N and JUI-F seem to have adoptedsilence over the allegations of possiblebreak-ups among party ranks.

In Dera Ismail Khan, former provin-cial minister Samiullah Khan Alizai is notonly contesting polls as an independentcandidate but has also entered into an al-liance with JUI-F against former nationalassembly deputy speaker Faisal KarimKhan Kundi. A similar situation exists inTank, where Dawar Kundi is showing re-luctance to support Ahmad Kundi againstMaulana Fazalur Rahman on the NationalAssembly seat. Ahmad Kundi is FaisalKarim Karim Kundi’s younger brother.

Although cracks have emergedamongst PPP ranks, JUI-F has alreadystarted the healing process. JUI-F hasnominated Maulana Lutafur Rahman ontwo provincial assembly seats from DeraIsmail Khan, making him a favourite forthe slot. Lutafur Rahman is MaulanaFazalur Rahman’s younger brother.

In Peshawar, PPP has announcedZulfikar Afghani as the party’s candidatefor NA 1. Earlier, PPP nominated AzamAfridi but certain elements from Pe-shawar, especially non-Pakhtuns, op-

posed the decision. For the provincialseats, two PPP diehards Anwar KhanSaafi and Nazim Sharif Khan have op-posed the awarding of tickets to SyedZahir Ali Shah and Iftikhar Jaghra re-spectively. As a result Saafi has decidedto contest the elections independently,whereas Sharif has deflected to JUI-F.

A similar is prevalent in Mardanwhere a large number of PPP stalwartsand workers are unhappy with the award-ing of tickets to Zeeshan Khan, ImtiazShagai and Sher Afghan Khan forprovincial Assembly and KhanzadaKhan for national assembly. InMalakand, PPP seems divided over onenational and two provincial assemblyseats, thus to the benefit of Jamaat Islami.

In Nowshehra, PPP suffered a set-back when its former provincial presidentSenator Sardar Ali Khan decided to makehis son contest the elections as an inde-pendent candidate. Earlier, PPP lost DaudKhattak, Shahid Khattak, Pervez Khattakand Iqbal Hussain Khattak and now PPPworkers from all over Nowshehra havereservations over the nomination of can-didates Tariq Khattak and Baseer Khattak.

Senate body demandscapital punishmentfor elements misusingblasphemy laws

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Showing dissatisfaction over the performanceof Ministry of National Harmony in rele-vance to the Badami Bagh incident, Senate’sStanding Committee for National Harmonyhas demanded capital punishment against allthose misusing the blasphemy law. A memberof the committee, Kamran Michael pointedout that anyone could be easily accused ofblasphemy under the existing law. Meeting of Senate’s Standing Committee forNational Harmony was held under the chair-manship of Mir Muhammad Ali Rind in theParliament House on Thursday. Members ofthe committee, Ministry for National Har-mony Secretary and high-ups of the PunjabGovernment also attended the meeting. The committee also stressed upon the needfor legislation on preventing incidents similarto Badaami Bagh. Punjab Police DIG told the meeting that thePunjab Government secured the locals ofBadaami Bagh and gave Rs 500,000 to eachof the affected families. Lahore DCO saidthat the provincial government had builthouses for the victims by March 22. “In addition, the condition of the churcheswas also restored,” the deputy commissionermaintained.

OGra official fleesfrom court uponcancellation of bail

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OGRA Finance Member Mir Kamal FaridBajarani on Thursday fled from the LahoreHigh Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench afterhis interim bail was cancelled in a Rs 84 bil-lion corruption case. According to details, a division bench com-prising Justice Anwarul Haq and JusticeAbdul Sami Khan cancelled the interim bailof Kamal Farid Bajarani who is an accused inOgra corruption case. Soon after the cancellation of his bail, Ba-jarani succeeded in fleeing from the court. According to witnesses, no effort was madeby the police or NAB authorities to arrest Ba-jrani while he made his way out of the highcourt. Bajarani is co-accused with TauqirSadiq, former chairman OGRA in a 84 billioncorruption scam. NAB has filed a referencein Accountability Court (AC) Rawalpindiagainst Tauqir Sadiq, Kamal Farid Bajarani,Mansoor Muzaffar and several others. It may be mentioned here that the prime ac-cused, Tauqir Sadiq, has not been arrestedand brought back to Pakistan so far despitethe orders of the Supreme Court.

5.9 magnitude

earthquake hits

parts of Pakistan

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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Punjab,Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,as well as the adjoining tribal belt and AzadKashmir. According to news reports, thetremors were felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi,Lahore, Peshawar, Swat, Azad Kashmir, Chi-tral, Kurram Agency, Lower Dir, Battagram,Mianwali, Shangla, Mardan, Murree,Malakand division, Nowshera and otherareas. Furthermore, 5.9-magnitude earth-quake shook Afghanistan and Pakistan withtremors felt in Kabul and Islamabad, but offi-cials said there were no immediate reports ofdamage or casualties.The epicentre was on the Afghan-Tajikistanborder at a depth of 225 kilometres, a seniorPakistani meteorological official, Hazrat Mirsaid. “The quake was felt across northwest-ern Pakistan, Islamabad and in parts of Pak-istan’s central Punjab province,” he said.The US Geological Survey measured thequake at a magnitude of 5.4 in the HinduKush region of Afghanistan.

LHC questionsgovt’s negligenceon drone strikes

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When certain national and international insti-tutions have declared drone attacks a viola-tion of Pakistan’s sovereignty, how can thegovernment be so negligent on the issue,questioned Lahore High Court (LHC) ChiefJustice Umar Ata Bandial on Thursday, dur-ing hearing of the case on drones attacks. Pakistan Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeedis the petitioner in the case. Justice Bandialsaid United Nations (UN) commissions thatvisited Pakistan in March proclaimed droneattacks as illegal. In addition, Human RightsWatch expressed concerns on the trans-parency of these attacks, and the Parliamentalso confirmed their illegality through passageof two resolutions, he said, adding that thegovernment should raise the issue at the inter-national level. He said innocent people in-cluding children and women were, and arestill, being killed in these attacks. Deputy At-torney General yasmeen Sehgal said the LHCdid not have the prerogative to hear the caseand only the Parliament and the SupremeCourt could deal with the issue at hand. At this, the LHC CJ questioned whetherFATA, which is targeted by drones, is part ofPakistan. He said the children killed bydrones are children of the nation. Sehgal further said Hafiz Saeed lived in Punjaband had no right to take up the case. In replyJustice Bandial said Saeed is a citizen of Pak-istan and any citizen can approach any of thenational courts. The people directly assaultedby drones cannot approach courts on their own,he added. Sehgal said she needed time to takedirections from the newly appointed caretakergovernment on the matter, following which.Justice Bandial adjourned the case till April 18.

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aNP pushes PPP aside to secure own backyard

Cracks appear among PPP ranks in KPKSEHWAN: President Asif Ali Zardari offers Fateha on the Mazar of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalander in Sehwan Sharif.

JI to decide seat-adjustment

within a week. – Liaqat Baloch

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THE Supreme Courton Thursday orderedthe Balochistan gov-ernment to take ef-fective steps for therecovery of

Salahuddin Mengal, former advocategeneral (AG). A two-member benchcomprising of Justice Gulzar Ahmedand Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed re-sumed hearing on the Balochistan lawand order situation.

Directing law enforcers, the benchsaid that kidnapping was still a routinein the province even after repeated di-

rectives of the court.To the court’s queries, Shahid

Hamid, counsel for the Balochistanchief secretary, apprised the court thatthe inspector general had already is-sued strict instructions for the recoveryof Mengal and efforts would be fruitfulin short time.

Hamid presented a report beforethe bench stating the steps taken by theprovincial government for ensuringfree, fair and peaceful general elec-tions.

A report of CID regarding themissing persons was also submitted inwhich it was stated that 54 cases hadbeen lodged for 63 missing persons.

The report further revealed that of

these missing persons, 13 had been re-covered and sent to their homes afterrecording their statements. The benchwas also apprised regarding the reha-bilitation of people in Dera Bugti andstated that as many as 1,800 people re-turned to their homes until now.

The bench was informed that a de-tailed mechanism was also devised forthe rehabilitation of these displacedpersons and their participation in theupcoming elections. It was stated thatan amount of Rs 136 million was beingdisbursed among these people throughNational Bank of Pakistan in a trans-parent manner.

The bench praised the trend of allnationalist parties of Balochistan fortaking interest in the coming polls.

Later, the court directed theprovincial government to present acomprehensive report of the mecha-nism evolved for the homeless peopleand another report for the recovery offormer AG and adjourned further hear-ing for three weeks.

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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)on Thursday formed nine appellate tribunalsfor disposing appeals against rejection or ac-ceptance of nomination papers for the up-coming elections. A spokesman of the ECPsaid the tribunals have been formed with theapproval of President Asif Zardari. The ap-peals, if any against rejection or acceptanceof the nomination papers will be filed byApril 9. The appeals will be disposed of by

the tribunals by April 16.Peshawar High Court Justice Mian Fasi-

hul Mulk, Justice Mazhar Alam Miankheland Justice Irshad Qaiser will hear the ap-peals of NA-1 to NA-47, Tribal Area-XII,PK-1 Peshawar-I to PK-99 Malakand Pro-tected Area-II, reserved seats for women inthe National Assembly and provincial assem-bly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and reservedseats for non-Muslims in the provincial as-sembly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Likewise, Lahore High Court Justice RaufSheikh and Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh have

been assigned to hear the appeals of NA-48 Is-lamabad-I and NA-49 Islamabad-II, NA-50Rawalpindi-I to NA-74 Bhakkar-II, PP-1Rawalpindi-I to PP-50 Bhakkar-IV, reservedseats for non-Muslims in the National Assembly.

Similarly, LHC Multan bench JusticeIjaz Ahmed and Ibadur Ahmed Lodhi willhear appeals of NA-75 Faisalabad-I to NA-94 Toba Tek Singh-III and NA-171 DGKhan-I to NA-182 Layyah-II, PP-51 Faisal-abad-I to PP-90 TT Singh-VII and PP-240DG Khan-I to PP-266 Layyah-V.

Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh and JusticeShahid Waheed will dispose of the appeals ofNA-95 Gujranwala-I to NA-117 Narowal-III, NA-143 Okara-I to NA-147 Okara-V andNA-160 Sahiwal-I to NA-166 Pakpattan-III,PP-91 Gujranwala-I to PP-136 Narowal-V,PP-185 Okara-I to PP 193 Okara-IX and PP-220 Sahiwal-I to PP-231 Pakpattan-V.

Similarly, Justice Imtiaz Ahmad and Jus-

tice Khalid Mehmood Khan will hear appealsof NA-118 Lahore-I to NA-142 Kasur-V, PP-137 Lahore-I to PP-184 Kasur-X, reservedseats for women in the National Assemblyfrom Punjab, reserved seats for non-Muslimsand women in the Punjab Assembly.

LHC Bhawalpur bench Justice Aminud-din Khan and Justice Ameer Bhatti have beenassigned to dispose of appeals of NA-148Multan-I to NA-159 Khanewal-IV, NA-167Vehari-I to NA-170 Vehari-IV and NA-183Bahawalpur-I to NA-197 Ry Khan-VI, PP-194 Multan-I to PP-219 Khanewal-VII, PP-232 Vehari-I to PP-239 Vehari-III and PP-267Bahawalpur-I to PP-297 Ry Khan-XIII.

Sindh High Court Justice Ahmed Ali,Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Ri-azat Ali will hear appeals of NA-198 Sukkur-I to NA-212 Naushero Feroze-II, NA-215Khairpur-I to NA-217 Khairpur-II, PS-1Sukkur-I to PS-23 Naushero Feroze-V, PS-

29-29 Khairpur-I to PS-42 Kamber Shahdad-kot-III (old Larkana-VIII) and reserved seatsfor non-Muslims in the Sindh Assembly.

SHC Justice Faisal Arab, Justice GhulamSarwar Korai, Justice Munib Akhtar will dis-pose of appeals relating to NA-213 Be-nazirabad-I (old Nawabshah-I) and NA-214Benazirabad-II (Old Nawabshah-II), NA-218Matiari-cum-Hyderabad (old Hyderabad-I)to NA-258 Malir-cum-Karachi West, PS-24Benazirabad to PS-28, PS-43 to PS-130 andreserved seats for women in the National As-sembly and the Sindh Assembly.

Likewise, Balochistan High Court JusticeNaeem Akhtar, Justice Hashim Kakar and Jus-tice Noor Meskanzai will hear appeals relatingto NA-259 Quetta to NA-272 Kech-cum-Gwadar, PB-1 Quetta-I to PB-51 Gwadar andreserved seats for women in the National Assem-bly and Balochistan Assembly, reserved seats fornon-Muslims in the Balochistan Assembly.

LHC acquits Christian on death row for blasphemy

LAhore: The Lahore High Court has ac-quitted a Christian man who was sentenced todeath for blasphemy six years ago in thecountry’s second largest city, lawyers saidThursday. younis Masih, 34, a labourer, wasarrested in September 2005 in the low-incomeQenchi Amar Siddhu neighbourhood of La-hore after local residents accused him of in-terrupting a gathering of Sufi singing to makeblasphemous remarks.Masih’s lawyer, Naeem Shakir, said his clientwas sentenced to death in May 2007 andfined 100,000 rupees ($1,000), but appealedto the high court in Lahore. “The high courton Wednesday decided to overturn the deathsentence and ordered that Masih be acquit-ted,” Shakir told AFP. “I argued the case inFebruary and put to the court that there is nodirect evidence against younis Masih and thatthe case was based on hearsay,” he said.Blasphemy is a very sensitive issue in Pak-istan, where 97 percent of the 180 millionpopulation are Muslims, and even unprovenallegations can spark a violent public back-lash. Rights campaigners argue the blas-phemy laws, for which the maximum penaltyis death, are often abused to settle personalscores and should be reformed. Shakir saidhis client would be freed “in a couple ofdays” after he obtained a written copy of thedecision and a detailed judgement. Thedeputy prosecutor general confirmed the ac-quittal. AGEnCIES

14 Pakistanifishermenreleased fromKerala jail

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Fourteen Pakistani fishermen lodged in acentral prison after being taken into cus-tody by the Indian Navy six months agofor crossing into Indian waters near Lak-shadweep Islands, were sent back to Pak-istan on Thursday. “The Pakistani nationals left for Wagahborder by train last evening, escorted byKerala police personnel, after complet-ing the official procedures for their re-lease,” ADGP (Prisons) Alexandar Jacobsaid.“Kerala police would hand them over toIntelligence Bureau officials, who in turn,would entrust the group to their Pakistanicounterparts,” Mr Jacob said. The Pakistani fishermen and an Iranianwere taken into custody by the Navy aftertheir boat was intercepted near Kavaratiin Lakshadweep six months ago. “They were detained under the IndianPassport Act and the allied laws as theydid not have any travel documents withthem at the time of their arrest,” he said. Prison sources said since the Lakshad-weep administration did not have thelegal authority to handle cases involvingforeigners, the Navy first brought them toKochi and later took them to PoojappuraCentral Jail. Sources said the detainees were releasedafter the IB made an extensive inquiryand confirmed that none of them werewanted in any terrorism-related cases. The fishermen claimed they had sailed along distance in search of fish and gotcaught in the ocean currents whichdragged them to Lakshadweep. The IB officials informed their Pakistanicounterparts about the detention of theirnationals. The procedures for sending them back toPakistan were completed after gettingpermission from the central governmentand the local court. “The Iranian national is still under deten-tion as the due procedures have to becompleted in his case,” sources added.

Man severely tortures wife inBahawalpur

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A man cut off the nose and lips of his wifeand also broke her legs after a domesticquarrel in Bahawalpur on Thursday.The incident happened in Kotla Bukhsharea of the city within the limits of Alipurpolice precincts.The woman was admitted to Bahawal Vic-toria Hospital.Police registered a case against the man andstarted searching for him.

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ECP forms 9 tribunals to hear cases related to nomination papers AppeAlS AgAinSt reJection or AcceptAnceof nominAtion pAperS will be filed by April 9

tribunAlS willdiSpoSe ofApplicAtionS until April 16

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SC orders govt torecover Mengal

Free, fair polls, prime objective of

caretaker govt. – Dr Sania Nishtar

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10A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its

dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free

government is transformed into a tyranny. –Simone Bolivar

THE ongoing scrutiny ofthe nomination papersraises important ques-tions. Before the formsreach a Returning Officer

they are already vetted by over half adozen departments that include FBR,State Bank, Ministry of Housing andWorks, Pakistan TelecommunicationAuthority, Capital Development Au-thority (CDA), Sui Southern GasPipelines Limited (SSGPL), NationalTelecommunication Department, Pak-istan International Airlines (PIA) andEstate Officers who deal with the Pun-jab, Sindh, KP and Kashmir houses inIslamabad. No tax-evader, defaulter ofloan, utility bills and government dues,or a beneficiary of written-off loans ora NAB convict can get through the netunless he is able to perform a Houdiniact. If the idea behind the scrutiny is tocleanse the system and ensure the can-didate’s financial integrity this shouldbe enough. All those passing the testshould be declared eligible.

But there comes another test then.The threat of Article 62 looms ahead. Theway the Article is being applied indicatesthat the idea is to keep those with liberalview out of the political arena. This wasin fact the purpose behind its inclusion inthe constitution by General Ziaul Haq.

Clauses (d), (e) and (f) of the Articlecan be stretched to any extent by an in-terpreter. Clause (d) requires that thecandidate is “of good character and isnot commonly known as one who vio-lates Islamic injunctions.” This begsseveral questions:

Are card and chess playing, kite fly-ing, betting on horse races or pigeonflights to be considered worthy of moralturpitude? Are going to films, hearing orplaying music and shaving the beard vi-olations of Islamic injunctions? Eventhe ulema are divided over what reallyconstitutes a violation of Islamic injunc-tions. Keeping dogs as pets is consid-ered un-Islamic by the Saudi Salafis.They have also banned women fromdriving cars on the same ground. TheAfghan Taliban banned football byyoung males wearing shorts. The TTPconsiders singing or listening to music

and viewing videos as violation of Is-lamic junctions. It also puts shaving thebeard in the same category. The extrem-ist network has torched scores of musicand video shops and barbers’ saloons.Who will determine what constitutes Is-lamic injunctions – the Taliban, theSupreme Court or the Parliament?

According to Clause (e) a candidatemust have adequate knowledge of Is-lamic teachings and practices, obliga-tory duties prescribed by Islam as wellas abstain from major sins.

The clause needs to be eliminated al-together as it puts quite a huge chunk ofPakistanis out of the electoral race. Theclause ignores that non-practicing Mus-lims as well as nonconformists and non-believers also live in this country. Acursory survey of attendance in mosqueswould show that many more people fail tooffer prayers than those who do. Offeringprayers five times a day is an obligatoryduty. Interestingly while Article 62 makesall these requirements from the politicians,it excludes the judges, bureaucrats andmilitary officers from its purview.

Clause (f) requires a public repre-sentative to be “sagacious, righteousand non-profligate,honest and ameen,there being no dec-laration to the con-trary by a court oflaw.” Again allthese terms are rel-ative and subjec-tive. They leavetoo much to the in-terpreter.

The way theROs are interpret-ing the provisionsof Article 62 shouldbe an eye opener.

Media reportsshow that the ques-tions put to politi-cians amount to areligious studiesexamination. Excerpts from a newspa-per would make an entertaining study.

“In Lahore, aspiring candidateTayyaba Sohail Cheema was told by theprovincial election commissioner Pun-jab that she didn’t look her age. “youdon’t seem to be 35, show your face toall around so that people can see thatyou seem much younger,” the judicialofficial directed her.

“Another candidate, Saadia Sohail,who was accompanied by her husbandShahid Sohail, got a lesson in parent-ing. “When your wife will becomeMNA or MPA, all the arrangements atyour home will be ruined and no onewill be there to attend your childrenand they will be ruined,” the same gen-tleman told her husband.

“On the other hand, aspiring candi-date Shoaib Khan Niazi of NA-121, used

the occasion to profess his love for hiswife. When asked by the Returning Offi-cer…if he had any children, Niazi repliedthat he did not. He went on to tell the courtthat he had a wife whom he loved verymuch and who loved him in return. “I amnothing without my wife,” said Niazi.Seemingly satisfied with this response, theRO then asked him if he offered prayersto which Niazi candidly replied that he didnot.” The reporter commented that thescrutiny of electoral hopefuls has seem-ingly turned into a theatre of the absurd.

Article 62 was the brainchild of mil-itary dictator Ziaul Haq as were severalother laws militating against womenand minorities. The idea behind these“Islamic” provisions was to project thedictator as a champion of Islam and thusprovide legitimacy to his military rule.Zia miserably failed to achieve the aim.Even his ardent supporters like theSharif’s stopped attending his death an-niversary after a couple of years. Theyare now apologetic about the supportthey extended to the dictator.

The so-called ‘Islamic’ provisionshowever created an environment con-ducive to the spread of extremism and

militancy. Mushar-raf’s legacy contin-ues to play havocin the country.

The candidatesof the previous rul-ing party and theopposition who arebeing grilled de-serve the treat-ment. The PPP andPML-N couldhave removed thecontroversial Arti-cle 62 and Article63 or drasticallyamend them. Theybrought about anumber of consti-tutional amend-ments but shrank

back from touching the two Articles.They pandered to the extremist senti-ments. Perhaps they also hoped to usethem against their political opponents.

Opportunism still runs deep in thepolitical elite irrespective of which partythey belong to. In 2007, Imran Khan de-clared that only angels could pass thetest of Article 62. He now supports it asit hurts the PTI’s opponents.

While the constitution is to be imple-mented, being a part of the basic law doesnot make a provision sacrosanct. Thereare enough black laws on the statue book:the notorious FCR being one. The sameis the case with Article 62. There is a needto replace it with a more judicious amend-ment in sync with the spirit of the times.

The writer is a political analyst anda former academic.

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francis colony mob attack, ppp criticism test cm najam SethiPunjab caretaker under siege

Potent Korean nuclear cocktail

THE war of words has intensified alarmingly among North Korean armed circlesafter South Korea and its patron, the US, carried out military exercises in theregion despite warnings from the nuclear armed communist state to desist from

this provocation. While the reaction has been limited thus far to only rhetoric, thoughfrighteningly fiery in content, on the part of Pyongyang, the other side also lost no timein flexing its awesome military muscle by a show of reportedly long range B2 bombersand a couple of the stealth B1s over South Korean skies. Not exactly the wisest steps totake under the circumstances when the North is acting like a disturbed hornet’s nest.

To most people, the North, with its closed and apparently xenophobic mindset and aruling family dynasty that enjoys a near demi-god status among ordinary Koreans,remains a problem and an enigma. Occasionally, reports filter out from defectors orPyongyang-watchers of the lavish lifestyle of the ruling elite on the one hand andfamines affecting various parts of the country on the other. The recent succession of KimJong-un to the presidency and tussles between groupings in the communist party and themilitary for priority of influence over state policy are also cited as being behind NorthKorea’s apparently illogical and outlandish behaviour. But now it is a nuclear-armedNorth Korea with delivery systems and sufficient technical ability to launch rockets intospace. So its threats cannot be taken lightly.

Since Pearl Harbour, a ‘day that will live in infamy’ when Japan attacked the huge Pacificnaval base in 1941, the US remains extremely sensitive to any attack or threat of attackon its soil. For the sole superpower that would be a bruising dent to its pride and worldimage of invincibility. The 9/11 no doubt helped ratchet up that perception into a paranoia.

The present confrontational stance will no doubt receive top priority at the UN,whose current secretary general is a former foreign minister of South Korea. But the realplayer in the Korean game is undoubtedly China, which at times seems unable orunwilling to keep its strange protégé in check, and has so far only issued a mild advicefor ‘calm from all sides’. Although it would be the first to be caught up in a Koreanconflagration, the demands of geo-politics arising out of the US desire to check China’srapid rise as the next inheritor of world supremacy, and the American ‘pivot’ to thePacific from the European-Middle East regions in order to encircle it would no doubtalso enter into any Chinese calculations. North Korea with its long range rocketry alsocheckmates Japan – the US’s other major ally in the region. The volatile situation needsto be defused at once through dialogue instead of launching fifth generation aircraft inthe region. As for the North, it should also backpedal from its fiery talk of war andrestrict itself to rhetoric alone.

WITH the wounds of the Joseph Colony attack in Lahore barely filling up,Punjab has witnessed another attack on the Christian community. A Muslimmob attacked a Christian neighbourhood in Gujranwala and, as with the

Joseph Colony attack, the charges and the police response appears frivolous. WithShahbaz Sharif out of the picture, the ‘good governance’ narrative towed by the youngerSharif is being untangled and the brunt is falling on the current caretaker Chief MinisterNajam Sethi.

As details have emerged of the frivolous nature of the accusations that led to the mobattack in Gujranwala, it appears that Punjab, if not Pakistan as a whole, is headed for amuch more polarized future. The reported clash was between a Christian boy and a localprayer leader over the ‘accusation’ that the boy was playing music on his mobile phoneoutside a mosque. The prayer leader raised clamour over Christians “disrespecting Islam”and one of those ever ready mobs ransacked nearby Francis Colony. The police, as isnow habit, stood by and watched until things got serious. This was despite the newInspector General of Punjab Aftab Sultan assuring the Supreme Count that “no suchincident would occur in the future.” He said there had been 50 arrests for the JosephColony arson, while the responsibility had been fixed on one SP, a DSP and two SHOs.However, apparently the message is not going down deep enough in the police ranks whohave stood by and watched as another gruesome mob attack was undertaken onPakistan’s Christian community.

While the Muslim mob attack on Francis Colony in Gujranwala may have nothing todo with Sethi, who has barely stepped into his new hot seat, but the pressure will be onhim to act meaningfully. Sethi of course has much more to deal with. The PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP), which originally nominated him for caretaker CM, appears to haveturned about face. Former PPP prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has cast aspersions onSethi’s neutrality for his refusal to fire retired bureaucrats on key positions in the Punjabhierarchy. It is the PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rashid that had to come to Sethi’s defenseand vouch for his impartiality. Perhaps it is the Gujranwala incident that Sethi’sbenefactors would see as closer to his heart, but the shrewder Sethi would do well toweather the political storm brewing about his caretaker CM-ship. Having criticizedpoliticians and governments for their inaction in the casting couch a number of times,Sethi now sits in a seat of power, with the authority to make an impact. All eyes are nowturned to the orator par excellence, if he can deliver for the minorities of Punjab andshrug off the political storm hovering around his temporary perch.

pyongyang’s threats cannot be taking lightly

how pandering to the extremists made it stay

AzIz-Ud-dIn AHmAd

a pillion rider’s woeThe Sindh government`s latest effort to ostensibly curbrising street crime abd killings in Karachi comes in the formof a ban on pillion riding. This ban has been imposed timesand again in order to improve the law and order situationbut the state of affairs in Karachi has gone from bad toworse. While it is true that most street crimes are committedby men on motorcycles, banning pillion riding is no solution.

A large number of Karachites use motorcycles to goto work and to visit their dear ones. There are over 1.2million registered motorcycles in the city, which carryover 2 million commuters daily. The ban does not takeinto account the inconvenience caused to a sizeable chunkof Karachi`s commuting and working population. Why doauthorities punish ordinary people for a problem whichshould be resolved by better policing and law enforcement?

MUHAMMED ZAFIR ZIAKarachi

Turkish plays in PakistanI would like to draw the attention of authorities concernedto the increasing Turkish plays in Pakistani channels.

Turkish plays are increasingly being telecast inPakistan. For example, the dramas “Noor” and “Manahilaur Khalil.” However, the culture portrayed by thesedramas does against Islamic culture. These dramaspromise western culture. They advertise the use of drugs,drinking alcohol and wearing inappropriate clothing. Ihope the government and related departments will takeserious action against the telecast of these dramas.

MEHWISH NOORJinnah University for Women

Karachi

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In 2007 Imran Khandeclared that onlyangels could passthe test of Article

62. He now supportsit as it hurts the

PTI’s opponents.

The deviousarticle 62

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ELECTION Commission of Pakistan’s(ECP) implementation of Articles 62and 63 of the Constitution deserves a10-minute standing ovation all over

Pakistan, for it has aptly demonstrated how thetwo articles can be used to filter out the righteousin the country. The articles showcase who war-rants a place in the Parliament and who deservesto be given the boot, in turn telling us who is fitenough to be a politician and who isn’t. ECP’sviva voce ensures that only the able rise to the top.

I am amazed that no one has thought of im-plementing these articles in other professionalrealms. If you have such a foolproof mechanismin place to sift the competent from the inept, youpretty much have a one-pronged solution to ascer-taining that only the deserving get a chance toserve the country. Here’s how application of Arti-cles 62 and 63 can enhance professions in Pak-istan by making them go through various tests…

Scientists Candidates will be tested for their ability to

use water as a fuel. Furthermore, special prefer-ence would given to those applicants who canprove that the covalent bonding between Hydro-gen and Oxygen molecules in Aab-e-Zamzam en-sures that the shared electrons align themselves insuch a way so as to read “Allah,” according to theArabic text. Those who can elucidate that smartphone technology was conjured by the Arabs1,400 years ago, thanks to divine inspiration, willhave front row seats in science workshops.

Viva voce question: Name any five Muslimscientific discoveries stolen by kafirs.

DoctorsCandidates will be tested for their ability to

prove that all medicine has been derived from re-ligious scriptures, wherein all medical solutionscan be found. They will be asked to enlist themost common diseases in Pakistan and the corre-sponding duas that cure them.

Viva voce question: Enumerate the7,419,263,419 health benefits of praying fivetimes a day

BarbersCandidates will be tested for their ability to

crop out various beard styles, like for instance theMuhammad Bin Qasim cut, Sultan-e-Room chopand the Mawan II strip. They will also be askedto give a presentation on various beards and theircorresponding level of piety.

Viva voce question: What was the averagelength of Mahmoud Ghaznavi’s beard?

JournalistsCandidates will be tested for their ability to

chicken out of debates involving religion. Thoseaspiring to be a part of the English speaking mediawould be asked to showcase hypocrisy and refusalto be brutally honest when commenting on mat-ters pertaining to religion. Their ability to writeemotionally arousing pieces on terrorism withoutaddressing its root cause would be well-appreci-ated.

Viva voce question: What is the most effec-tive way of blaming everything that is wrong inthis country on the US?

Social WorkersCandidates will be tested for their ability to

be easily offended. They will be asked about themethods of orchestrating mobs to burn down thehouses of infidels and of those that insult religion.Feminists will be asked to prove how there is nobetter means of ensuring gender equality than al-lowing a man to marry multiple times. Humanrights activists will be asked to prove how homo-sexuality is unnatural despite its presence in aplethora of animal species.

Viva voce question: How many days havepassed since youTube was banned in Pakistan?

Fashion DesignersCandidates will be tested for their ability to

make shalwars for men that never slide below theankle. They will also be asked to take instructionsfrom male guardians to design clothes for womenthat ensure the men’s honour and dignity. Thosedesigners that design burkas, hijabs and abayasthat don’t make women look like Ninja Turtleswould be disqualified.

Viva voce question: Give examples of thetype of clothes women wear that can justify thembeing raped.

cricketersCandidates will be tested for their ability to

prostrate before the deity after the most minor ofachievements. Aspiring bowlers would undergo acheckup to see if they pray sufficiently enough toensure that their line and length is good, whilebudding batsmen would be asked to recite Dua-e-Cover-Drive and Dua-e-Slog-Over-Midwicket.Those failing to thank Almighty Allah in mockpost-match interviews would be dumped out.

Vice voce question: Which angel was sentdown to help Javed Miandad hit ‘that’ match win-ning six against India at Sharjah?

economistsCandidates will be tested for their ability to

prove that the only way to bridge the national fis-cal deficit is by imposing jizya on non-Muslims.

They will also be asked to demonstrate how Mus-lims should only engage in commerce with theDar-ul-Islam and avoid any trade ties with Dar-ul-Harb. Those that can break the back of capital-ist economic models, by showcasing theatrociousness of interest-bearing (Riba) and spec-ulative (Gharar) trading, will have a part to playin the national Bait-ul-Maal.

Viva voce question: Give reasons to supportthe argument that shifting from rupee to riyalwould solve Pakistan’s financial crisis

LinguistsCandidates will be tested for their ability to

give Arabic words fallacious double meaningswhen they are cornered by reason. They will alsobe asked to prove that unlike every other languageit is virtually impossible to translate Arabic accu-rately. It would also be examined whether or notcandidates can prove that those who read Arabicscriptures regularly have more of a tendency tomisinterpret it than those who virtually never gothrough them.

Viva voce question: Why is Arabic the easiestlanguage to take out of context?

MarketersCandidates will be tested for their ability to

market outdated brands and making them appeal-ing to consumers in the 21st century as well. Theywill be asked to hide the controversial side of theirproducts and mould them into appearing differentto what they are. Those passing the test will beasked to promote the most popular brand in Pak-istan on their own TV show.

Viva voce question: Would you prefer PeaceTV or QTV?

historiansCandidates will be tested for their ability to

portray imperialist Arabs as national heroes andthe guardians of our territory as our enemy. Theskill of always proving Muslims right and non-Muslims wrong throughout the course of historywould also be examined. Rage and irritation whiledealing with hard-hitting questions would be aplus.

Viva voce question: Was Sikandar-e-Azam,Zulqarnain?

JudgesCandidates will be tested for their ability to

count the number of female testimonies thatwould sum up to being equal to that of a singleman. They will also be asked about the number oflashes various social and religious deviants de-serve, and the reason behind ensuring that athe-ists, apostates, and homosexuals are stoned todeath while child rapists are not.

Viva voce question: How many witnessesdoes a woman need for her to fight a case if she isgang raped in the Arabian Peninsula?

The writer is a financial journalist and acultural critic. Email:khulduneshahid@gmail.com, Twitter: @khuldune

COMMENT CFriday, 5 April, 2013

11Religion is what keeps the

poor from murdering the

rich. –Napoleon Bonaparte

applying articles 62, 63 to other professionswill help filter out the righteous in the country

KUnWAr KHULdUnE SHAHId

the pakistan Army takes after an elite boys club

The patriarchalpapas of Pakistan

TO say that thePakistan Armyhas beenknown to dab-

ble in matters that super-sede its jurisdiction wouldbe an obvious understate-ment. The upcoming elec-tions mark a historicmoment as it is the firsttime that a democratic gov-ernment in a country proneto military coups has com-pleted its five-year term, tobe succeeded (almost cer-tainly) by another electedgovernment. Heavily criticized for its interference in politics, policy-making and other matters of national concern, the Army is often rec-ognized as the single most powerful institution in Pakistan. Tainted bya history of military regimes, democracy in Pakistan is under a constantthreat whereby non-compliance with the Army’s agenda might lead toa disavowal of the respective party. While such observances are com-mon place, marginally less attention is paid to the composition of theArmy which stands as the proverbial Goliath over a distraught nation.

Pakistan’s primary powerbroker, that has historically viewed itselfas the guardian of the country’s stability and a “cleansing force” inpolitics, has an active force of 620,000 personnel (IISS). Out of thisstaggering number, only 4000 are women and even fewer are minori-ties. Most of the women are recruited in the capacity of doctors ornurses – a study shows that 3,000 female officers are employed in theAFNS (Armed Forces Nursing Services), 600 serve as doctors in theAMC (Army Medical Corps) and a handful of the remaining officersserve as officers in non-combatant roles in the ISPR, Signals and En-gineering departments of the military. The failure to recruit women forcombative roles reinforces the normative gender ideals that womenare physically incompetent and lack emotional resilience. Furthermore,women are kept out of the strategic planning divisions and intelli-gentsia, pushing them back into ‘private’, safe spheres that garner theleast public attention. The systematic exclusion of women from a pow-erful state institution alienates them from a sense of ownership and be-longing to their country, reinforcing their status as the subordinate sexthat needs to be ‘taken care of.’ The contention with the current genderdynamic of the army is not only that women are not recruited, but alsothat their roles are made invisible. Take for example, that accounts ofour major wars tend to cast men as protectors and doers while womenare portrayed as passive bystanders – doctors, nurses, wives.

The Pakistan Army takes after an elite boys club, actively reflectingthe marginalization of women, ethnic groups and minorities. Much ofthe criticism of the Army’s composition has centered on the dispropor-tionately large number of Punjabis recruited by the army throughoutthe course of its history. While supposed efforts are being made to drafta greater number of personnel from Balochistan, Sindh and KhyberPakhtunkhwa, the current structure of the army reinforces that the cul-ture of ethnic supremacy that plagued the country in its formative yearshas only worsened with time. The intersection of militarism, patriarchyand ethnocentrism has undoubtedly contributed into making the Armythe hegemonic establishment that it is today. How can we expect anymilitary government or institution to enact social justice when its veryown structure and the values it imbibes are so blatantly discriminatory?

It can be argued that military forces, as they exist today, are inher-ently patriarchal. While increasing the recruitment of marginalizedgroups and inviting women into combat might seem like the answer,such progressions provoke us to question whether the very concept ofan army centered on war is hegemonic. Feminist Carol P. Christ arguesthat “patriarchy is a system of male dominance, rooted in the ethos ofwar which legitimates violence, sanctified by religious symbols, inwhich men dominate women through the control of female sexualityand in which men who are heroes of war are told to kill men, and arepermitted to rape women, to seize land and treasures, to exploit re-sources, and to own or otherwise dominate conquered people.” If weexamine the historical trajectory of war and the military, Christ’s defi-nition of patriarchy upholds the agendas of armies more justly than theirofficial mandate of ‘protecting their nation.’ This insinuates that merelybecoming more involved in a military force does not automatically lib-erate women from exploitive relationships. Rather, women who chooseto join military forces have to combat both external enemy and the pa-triarchal attitudes and actions within the military force itself. The realityis that militarism serves to reinforce and reproduce unequal gender re-lations as military organizations remain distinctly patriarchal institutionsby maintaining a sexual division of labor, with most women occupyingsubordinate positions in the military mirroring stereotypical female rolesin the civilian sector. The only time the military actively sought to draftwomen for assignments other than duties in medical setups was in 2006,during Gen. Musharaf’s era of “enlightened moderation.” However,this instance must be viewed with skepticism since no further steps weretaken to induct women in the military on a large scale, suggesting thatMusharraf’s decision stemmed from his desire to depict himself as a‘progressive leader’ rather promoting gender equality.

What is especially troubling about the military in Pakistan is thatit has an overarching influence in all socio-political spheres. The es-trangement of women and minorities from the military means thatthey cannot access positions of power and undermines any serious at-tempt at creating social justice. The ideology of militarism and mili-tary organizations produce, mobilize and construct gender identitiesin ways promote patriarchal ideologies and practices. It is time forthe Pakistan Army to step away from throne and carry out some in-trospection – how can it rightly defend its people and combat sectar-ianism when it does not open its doors to all varieties of Pakistanis?

The writer is a staff member of Pakistan Today and holds a degree from Mount Holyoke College.

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A first sign of the beginning

of understanding is the wish

to die. — Franz Kafka

arts

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Will not makemindless comediesanymore: dhawan

AFTER giving the industry some ofits hit comedies, veteranfilmmaker David Dhawan says

he wants to bid adieu to slapstick filmsand make meaningful films. Dhawan, 52,who is behind films like “Raja Babu”,“Coolie No. 1”, “Judwaa”, “Biwi No.1” andmany more, said the new filmmakershave inspired him to make cinema whichis more realistic and at the same timeentertaining. “After directing 40 films inmy career till now, I want to make filmswhich are more realistic. Our industry isgoing through the best phase and theyoung generation is extremely talented.This is the time for experimental cinema.I am also following the same trend andhave decided not to make mindlesscomedies. I want to make meaningfuland entertaining films,” Dhawan said.Dhawan is making a comeback after agap of four years with “ChashmeBuddoor” remake and for the first timehe did not cast his lucky charmsGovinda, Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor.The film will see a bevy of young talentsincluding Ali Zafar, Taapsee Pannu andDivyendu Sharma. It also stars southernstar Siddharth, who made his debut withAamir Khan starrer “Rang De Basanti” in2006. nEWS dESK

Knightley doesn’twant big fatwedding

ACTRESS Keira Knightley is notkeen on having a gala wedding,saying she doesn’t need all that.

The 28-year-old is engaged to musicianJames Righton and is currently enjoyingthe courtship period, reportsdailymail.co.uk. “I could have six fakeweddings. God, that would be expensive.We’re not big-wedding types. I don’tneed to have all that,” Marie Clairemagazine quoted Knightley as saying.“I’m just trying to enjoy the engagementbit. My parents are together after 40years. The fights are there, but they loveeach other. It’s not like the first threemonths, the first two years, whatever itis, but I think it gets more interesting, orI hope so,” she added. nEWS dESK

LAHOREmUHAmmAd OmEr HAyAt

aT only 25, Abeer Sheikh iscoming on strong as anelectronic dance music (EDM)DJ and producer with his own

trademark sound already established.The genre of music is largelyunknown in Pakistan but Abeer Sheikhhas been received very well by listenersand musicians in other parts of theworld. He is already signed to recordlabels and appears well connected inplaces that matter such as Berlin,Toronto, New york and of coursein Pakistan. Born in Lahore, AbeerSheikh began his musical journey atthe age of 12 when he started a bandwith his friends.“Music is my first love and something Inever see myself growing tired of. It’sliterally my comfort zone or sanctumsanctorum if you will!” he says. After anup-close interview with the talentedmusician, it’s hard to get a differentimpression! He had a Beatport top 10chart topping release “I wanna be likeyou” on Philip Bader and Nicones labelDantze Records in Berlin -that stayedon the Beatport top 10 charts for a solidthree weeks. Only a week following itsrelease, he was signed to GastspielRecords, Momentum League,Tretmuehle, Budenzauber Records(mostly based in Germany) and BleepBloop Records based in Brazil.Abeer Sheikh has also done remixes forTalal & Zoi and has a distinctivelyoriginal sound that encompasseseverything from Chicago House, DeepHouse, old school disco and techno intoone refined package. Abeer Sheikh iswithout a doubt an up and comingcontemporary EDM trail blazer. TheBerlin hit-maker talks to Pakistan Todayabout how he builds grooves, his flare forgoing into experimental areas withhis sound and the utility of technologyavailable at the click of a button that rivalsanalogue components in any big studio.

Q: So hoW DID IT ALL BegInAnD WhAT hAS chAngeDSIgnIFIcAnTLy BeTWeen TheBegInnIng AnD noW?A: I started singing and playing the guitarwhen I was 12. I was in a few bands andwhen I was 14 I heard my first AphexTwin song called windowlicker. That wasreally when electronic music entered intomy aspirations as a musician. It simplyblew me away and still does to this day! Itwas a revelation to realise that I didn’tneed a band. I just needed to know therecording and layering process and Ineeded to know the instruments. So Ilearnt how to play the piano, drums andbegan fiddling with synthesisers, learningmostly through trial and error. By the timeI was 15 I had two 14 track albumscompleted that I have never played to thegeneral public mostly because I was anamateur at the time so the quality is lowcompared to the stuff I do now, havinggone to music college and getting anundergraduate degree in music productionand sound engineering. Now everything iscomposed and made with professionalindustry standard software and the soundquality is at par with the professionalstandard required in clubs worldwide. Iuse everything from real instruments tosoftware synths in my music and I’m ahuge MIDI fan so I prefer using MIDI tosamples so that I can micromanage andfine tune every hit, melody, beat andinstrument per my requirements. It givesyou a huge array of control that just usingsamples to make your music does not. SoI make my own samples and synths andthen use those in my productions.

Q: hoW coMe you uSeyour reAL nAMe AnD noTAn ALIAS LIke MoSToTher DJS?A: To be honest, I feel my name isunique enough as it is- especially towestern people. So I never saw thepoint in creating an alias or evenputting a DJ before my name. I’vealways played as ‘Abeer Sheikh’ and Iplan to keep it that way.

Q: DID The DJ’Ing coMe FIrST,or ProDucTIon? ALSo WhAT’Syour TAke on neWcoMerS InThe DJ cIrcuIT In PAkISTAn?A: It started with producing music. I’vebeen producing electronic music since Iwas 14, when all I had was an oldyamaha MIDI synthesiser hybrid andfruity loops. The Dj’ing came next, muchlater. It was actually when I went toCanada that it started. One of myhousemates had a pair of pioneer cd-j’sand I would spend anywhere from four toeight hours at a stretch messing aroundwith them learning how to beat-match.One of my biggest complaints with mostof the new age DJ’s popping up inPakistan is they don’t know how to beat-match. They think hitting sync and playmakes you a DJ. It’s their loss thoughbecause if they manage to land a giganywhere abroad they’re going to getlaughed out of the DJ boothbecause standard equipment istwo pioneer 1000’s, an amazingmixer but no sync button whichis their lifeline. Most of themare also just following the trend.It’s the ‘IN’ thing to be a DJ nowso suddenly everybody wants tobe one! you hand them two cd-j’swhich don’t have a sync buttonand they are lost because theydon’t have a clue about how tomanually beat-match which is whatreally teaches you how to DJproperly and make a set flowsmoothly. Being able to beat-matchmanually is a pre-requisite to being agood DJ. Once you know how to do it,I’d condone the use of a sync button soyou can focus on other parameters of themusic like live sampling and using up tosix decks at a time!Q: WhIch counTrIeS hAveyou PLAyeD In?A: Canada was the starting point but thelargest show I’ve played was actually‘Shut Up 4.0’ at Haroon and Hamzaswarehouse in Lahore where we hadabout 800 to 900 people in attendance.The video is up on youtube. If yougoogle “Abeer Sheikh live at Shut up4.0” it will pop up on the front page.There’s a shot in there of the crowd from

the DJbooth whichwas on the second storey that actuallyshows the full crowd and the entireset up, which was quite spectacular tosay the least!

Q:WhAT WAS The FIrST evenTyou ever PLAyeD AT?A: It was a show at an art gallery inToronto where I was playing back toback with Talal & Zoi. I was nervous ashell but it went pretty well!

Q:WhAT WAS The FIrSTrecorD you BoughT?A: It was a track called “Fresh” by“Kool and the gang” from the 80’s. Iheard it in one of Magdas sets anddecided to drop it at one of my shows. Icut the bass bit out of it and mixed CarloLio’s Scylla in with it for the kick, snareand bass part. It was pure disco with abadass thumping beat and the crowdwent crazy. I still remember feelingnervous about whether it would workand when I saw the crowd’s reaction Icouldn’t stop smiling

through the entire setbecause I realised I had just blown theentire crowd away.

Q: ouT oF ALL The TuneSyou hAve, WhIch one‘never FAILS’?A: Well, I’m not about to reveal mytop three secret weapons for dancefloor annihilation because I’m willingto bet nobody else in this country evenknows the artists but if I had to picksomething people already knowabout I’d say “Tudo Vem” by “Gabe”.you can throw that in anywhere and acompletely dead crowd will suddenlycome to life and not be able to stoptheir legs from moving. The song has amagic bass line. Never fails!

Q: So hoW IS The Scene Inyour eyeS AT The MoMenT?A: It’s still young and has a lot ofpotential for growth in the right directionprovided organisers who are there just tomake money out of it whilstcompromising on setup and crowdquality get weeded out which theyeventually will.

Q: oTher DJS you rATe?A: These days my top 6 in theHouse/Techno circuit would have tobe Stimming, Frivolous, MaceoPlex/Maetrik, Oliver Huntemann,Rodriguez Jr and Robert Babicz. Ifit’s encompassing all EDM then FourTet, Dj Shadow and Bonobo would bein there too. Bonobos new album“North Borders” is a masterpiece!

Q: WhAT Do you Do ouTSIDeoF The DAnce MuSIc Scene?A: I have a project called Abeer Sheikh &The Wonderband which you can check outat www.facebook.com/abeersheikhandthewonderband. We’ve done a City Fm 89live session with a few videos up and havebeen on Fm 89’s show counter-revolutionand moonlight mile, twice. I neverstopped playing guitar and singing. Thisis my project for collaborating withother indie musicians such as ‘SaadFollows’ and ‘Poor Rich Boy’ who alsohappen to be really good friends. Iwrite pop/indie music with quite a bitof electronic stuff in there. Somethinglike Gorillaz meets Radiohead. I amalso currently in the process ofcompleting my second undergraduate

degree which is an LLB degree from TheUniversity of London.

Q: When you PLAy, IS The SeTPre-PLAnneD?A: Nope. I just chuck an appropriatenumber of tracks I feel like playing into aplaylist according to the number of hoursI’m going to be playing for and thenbounce off the crowd in terms of what tomix in next. So its 100% spontaneous!

Keep tabs on Abeer Sheikh on hisFacebook page(www.facebook.com/abeer.music) andhis Soundcloud(www.soundcloud.com/abeersheikh).His podcasts and sets are availableat www.abeersheikhspodcast.podomatic.com

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Kendall Jenner doesn’t look like a little sisteranymore! The leggy, 17-year-old half-sister of

Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian shows offher modeling chops in some colorful new

photographs taken for Cosmopolitan. Jenner,who’s struck a pose for brands such as Forever

21, Sherri Hill, and Hello Kitty, rocks brightlipstick and her usual long, glossy locks as

she tries on some fab looks for spring. Shemakes it clear in the accompanying

interview that she’s more interested inposing in front of the cameras for a photoshoot than being followed by them for a TV

show, so fans shouldn’t expect to see “Workin’ ItWith Kendall” or a similarly-themed show anytime

soon. When she’s asked about her immediatefuture, Jenner is adamant about what her plans donot include. “Not a reality-show spin-off,” she says,breaking the hearts of teenage boys everywhere.

“That’s not happening. Modeling is my numberone priority — one hundred percent.” Jenner also

admits that she has mixed feelings about thereality TV empire that her family has built

already. “The show brought us everything wehave, and I realize that, but sometimes I justwant to be left alone and be a normal kid for

like five minutes,” she confesses. “That’stough when the paparazzi are chasing you.”

When she’s feeling stressed, whetherbecause of her fame, her friendships, or

even her love life, Jenner says she relies onher family — all of it, not just her sisters —for feedback. “[Khloe’s husband] Lamar isreally good at giving guy advice,” Jenner

explains. “He always tells me to know myworth and never accept less than I

deserve.” nEWS dESK

modeLing,not reaLitytv is mypriority

Every musician wants to do

something which will hold up for a

long time, and I guess we did it with

‘Stairway to Heaven’. — Jimmy Page

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THE Times of India on Thursdayreported that parts of AmjadKhan’s film on teenage Pakistanieducation activist Malala

yousafzai would be shot in Kanpur.According to details, the film makerwill be in Kanpur to seek permissionfor the shoot and to finalise thelocations. In a telephonic interview,Amjad Khan said, “My film will be atribute to this teenage educationactivist – she has proved that age isno bar when it comes to courage.”“We will be shooting for at least 15days in Kanpur and our shoot isscheduled to begin between the datesof May 22-24. I will be coming tothe city to meet the administration toseek due permissions for theshooting,” he added. Khan said theywould guard the identity of the girlplaying the role of Malala for thesake of her security. “At the momentwe cannot disclose who will beplaying Malala’s role but yes, actorslike Danny, Naseeruddin Shah, OmPuri, KK Menon and Seema Biswasare playing strong roles in thismovie. We will be shooting in Bhuj,Iran and the USA, apart fromKanpur,” Khan said. The film-makerhas also decided to donate the firstday’s revenue from the film toMalala’s school in Swat.

pLansfinaLisedfor maLaLafiLm triBute

LADy Gaga is back on her feet …sort of. The “Born This Way”singer was snapped strutting herstuff in a pair of black kitten

heels as sheheaded to ayoga class inNew yorkCity’s East

Village onTuesday, April 2.While wearingsky-high pumps isnothing new forMama Monster(armadillo heelsanyone?), thefancy footwearlikely surprised

her fans,since shehas beenconfinedto a

wheelchair since undergoing hipsurgery February 20.Unfortunately, it looks like the yogaclass may have been a bit too much toofor the famous pop star to handle, asshe was spotted rolling out of thestudio in her trusty Louis Vuittonwheelchair. While she only managed torock her latest foot candy for a briefstint, perhaps it will give fans hope thatshe’ll be returning to the stage soon.Prior to her surgery, Gaga’s Born ThisWay Ball Tour was sidelined afterdoctors discovered that she had a labialtear in her right hip.Never one to keep her little monsters inthe dark, Gaga took to Twitter to explainher medical woes. “I’ve been hiding ashow injury and chronic pain forsometime now, over the past month ithas worsened. I’ve been praying itwould heal,” she tweeted February 12.“I hid it from my staff, I didn’t want todisappoint my amazing fans. Howeverafter last nights performance I could notwalk and still can’t.” Despite beingstuck in her fancy wheelchair thesedays, the 27-year-old, who celebratedher birthday on March 28, certainly getsaround. Last week she wasphotographed being wheeled into WindyCity eatery Spiaggo for a celebratorydinner with her boyfriend, “ChicagoFire” star Taylor Kinney. nEWS dESK

NEWS DESK

FORMER Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clinton has abook deal. She is working ona memoir and policy book

about her years as secretary of state,Simon & Schuster told a news agency.The book has yet to be titled and is ten-tatively scheduled for June 2014. Finan-cial terms were not disclosed. Clintonreportedly received $8 million for the2003 memoir, “Living History,” alsopublished by Simon & Schuster.“Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary publicservice has given her a unique perspec-tive on recent history and the challengeswe face,” Jonathan Karp, president andpublisher of the Simon & Schuster Pub-lishing Group and the book’s editor, saidin a statement Thursday. “This will bethe ultimate book for people who are in-terested in world affairs and America’splace in the world today.” By launchingher book tour in June 2014, Clinton willtravel the country as Democrats work torecapture the House in the fall midtermelections. Her itinerary will be closelyscrutinised for any signs she may run forpresident in 2016 – any book tour events

in early voting states like Iowa, NewHampshire and South Carolina wouldreceive broad attention. As with “LivingHistory,” Clinton was represented byWashington attorney Robert Barnett,who has handled deals for PresidentBarack Obama and Clinton’s husband,former president Bill Clinton. Karp pre-viously served as editor for another Bar-nett client, Senator Edward M Kennedy,and his memoir “True Compass.”Hillary Clinton, 65, stepped down assecretary of state earlier this year afterserving throughout Obama’s first term.Polls indicate she would be a leadingcontender for the 2016 Democratic pres-idential nomination, but she has yet toannounce a decision about a bid. Clintonwas defeated by Obama for the Demo-cratic nomination in 2008.

Will wait for Sanjay duttto make ‘Munnabhai’:Subhash Kapoor

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JOLLy LLB’ director Subhash Kapoor whowas in town for the Patna Literary Fest sayshe is ready to wait for Dutt for another three

years to make the next ‘Munnabhai’ film.IS ThIS your FIrST vISIT To PATnA?No, I have been to Patna before in 1998 when Iwas working as a journalist for an interviewwith Laluji.JoLLy LLB IS A SATIre on ThereALITIeS oF our courTS. IS SATIreyour FAvourITe genre?I have always depicted my thoughts through mymovies. If you watch Jolly LLB or Phas Gaye ReObama, these movies have depicted the reality ofthe society and if the reality is portrayed in acomic or satirical manner, the audiences tend toconnect to it and enjoy it more. In both thesemovies people have liked this style, so yes, itis my favourite genre and I would like tocontinue in it. I was able to convey mythoughts through satire.Where DID The IDeA oF JoLLyLLB coMe FroM?I was a journalist before I turned into afilmmaker. I have been to a few courtschasing a few stories and then I realizedthat filmy courts are far away from thereality and this has never been portrayed inHindi cinema. I have never seen a witnessbox or a Bhagwat Gita in a real court. That’show I decided to make a film which depicts thereality of the courts in our country.

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billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children

being taught mathematical concepts. –William Gibson

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There is no shortage of amazing in-dustrial commercial applications for3-D printing -- internal organs, stemcells, artificial limbs, art, cars, cus-tomizable furniture. But if you hada 3-D printer sitting on your desk athome, what would you make?

Some people know immedi-ately: They'd create physicalMinecraft models, make manga fig-urines, pop out replacement parts fora motorcycle. But most people willlikely see a 3-D printer, think it'scool, then have no idea what to donext and move on.

That could change, though, asdirt-cheap 3-D printers like the

Printrbot or new MakiBox simplifythe technology and put it in morepeople's hands and home offices.

"The market for desktop 3-Dprinters right now is really makers,professional users and people whohave a lot of patience and time," saidJonathan Buford, the entrepreneur be-hind the $200 MakiBox 3-D printer.

The MakiBox attempts to sim-plify 3-D printing for a more con-sumer-friendly experience, bylowering the price and reducing thecomplexity of assembling the de-vices and minting objects. Ama-teurs, basement inventors andhobbyists with no experience print-ing in three dimensions can jumpright in and start experimenting

with minimal investment. Thereare trade-offs, of course. The $200version uses only the less expen-sive PLA plastic, which can melt ata lower temperature than other ma-terials. A $300 version of theprinter is available that can workwith more substances. The finalproducts will be a step down fromwhat you could make with moreprofessional machines. "We're notoptimizing on quality because wethink there's actually room for'good enough,'" said Buford.

The idea for MakiBox grew outof the Makible crowdfunding site.The project's goal was to connect thedots between product prototypes,crowdfunding, and the eventualmanufacturing process. Say a prod-uct designer comes up with an ideafor a pedometer armband. He couldraise money from interested mall-walkers, then be guided through theproduct manufacturing process.

Buford has unique experience inall three areas. Based in Hong Kong,he studied mechanical engineeringat Carnegie Mellon University andhas worked as a toy designer.

In 2005, he struck out on hisown, crowdfunding a product beforestarting a co-working space in HongHong called Boot.hk. He launchedMakible in 2011. nEWS dESK

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Icollected the data for an experi-ment trying to reduce anger bymanipulating biases in emotionalprocessing. I was sceptical, butthe results surprised me

Before I started my PhD, I worked asa "research assistant". That's a fancy titlefor an academic dogsbody; well, it can be.I was lucky and had some great bosses inthe five years I had that job, but sometimesit can involve menial tasks like data entry,or running experiments you think are acomplete waste of time.

One such experiment, that I was askedto run by my boss while we waited forethics approval on another study, was pub-lished last week in the journal Psycholog-ical Science.

Shows what I know! It showed that asimple task involving looking at faces andjudging their emotion could reduce angerand aggression in a population of aggres-sive young people, and a group of controlsat Bristol University.

When I was asked to run the experi-ment, I was sceptical because it was anovel way to try and reduce aggression.There is a suggestion that antidepressantswork by changing the way a personprocesses emotions, reducing a negativeemotional bias that is a symptom of de-pression. But would the same be true foraggression?

The premise is: perhaps aggression isat least in part caused by biases in emotionperception. So if you see a neutrally emo-tional face, due to biases in your emotionalprocessing you view that face as angry orhostile. you respond with hostility towardsthe owner of that face, and, like a viciouscircle, they see your hostility and respondaccordingly. The experiment was simple.We showed people a series of emotionallyambiguous faces: happy and angry expres-sions blended together at different ratios tocreate a spectrum of faces. Those at eitherend were clearly happy or angry, but othersin the middle were ambiguous.

Each person will have a slightly differ-

ent boundary point, where on one side theysee happy, and the other side angry. If youwork out where a person's boundary is,you can then give them biased feedback totry and "shift" it so they see "happy" fur-ther along the spectrum than previously.

The feedback, "yes, that was angry" or"no, that was happy" (for example), is givenafter every face is responded to, and is tai-lored to each individual's boundary, attempt-ing to shift their perception of happy toinclude a larger range of ambiguous faces.

But would this really make people lessaggressive? I was tasked with running thepilot experiment. Half the participants gotbiased feedback, and half got unbiased

feedback consistent with where theirboundary actually was, as a control condi-tion. They were asked about their moodwith a couple of standard mood question-naires before and after the experiment.

As I watched people doing the task, Iconfidently predicted to myself that thosewho were getting the biased feedbackwould be angrier afterwards. After all, theywere being told they were wrong a lot ofthe time! When the experiment was overand we looked at the data, I was astoundedto see that the opposite was true. Thosewho had received the biased feedback hadnot only shifted their boundary by the endof the experiment, but they rated them-selves as less angry than the control groupafterwards (there was no difference inanger before the experiment). It didn't af-fect how happy or sad they were.

This is one experiment, and the plan isto replicate it in different groups of people,to see how robust the effect it. Also, whiletwo weeks post-training is a long time interms of an experiment, it's not that longin terms of the behaviour of a youth witha high probability of offending. It wouldbe great to run the experiment over alonger timescale, and with more realisticoutcomes, such as re-offending rates.

But this unexpected finding astoundedme, and may have really useful benefits. Andit just goes to show that ideas are worth test-ing, even if your data monkey (in this case,me) has doubts! COUrtESy tHE GUArdIAn

Body's anti-HIV 'training manual' offers vaccine hopes

Seeking a market for cheap 3-D printers

The eerie images of human cells inspace which revealwhat happens tothe body in orbit

There are some spectacular imagescaptured by astronauts in outer space.But these images of inner space, ofhuman cells taken on the InternationalSpace Station, offer a truly uniqueinsight of how the body reacts in orbit. This image, titled 'Goldfinger' byscientists, reveals a monocyteimmune cell as a translucent, burnt-orange vision flecked with green.The human cell photo in space wastaken under 'simulated gravity'conditions using the European SpaceAgency's Kubik incubator, which usesa centrifuge to mimic gravity in theweightlessness of space. Immunecells were placed on gold-coatedslides inside the incubator. As thecells migrated they removed the gold,allowing researchers on Earth tomeasure their movements in space.To record this image, antibodies thatlight up under a fluorescencemicroscope were added to revealcolours and identify specific proteins.The ESA said: 'Some cells, such asthose in muscles and our immunesystem, are mobile. 'Others, such asthose in our bones, are fixed.'Knowing how spaceflight affects themobility of cells is important forastronauts and mission designers.' On earth, cell motility depends on theintegrity of the internal cell structure,which is known as the cytoskeleton. Researchers from the University ofSassari, ETH Zürich’s Space BiologyGroup and Zero g-LifeTec found thatcytoskeleton changes in weightlessnesslead to reduced motility.This process may be one of thereasons why astronauts suffer fromweakened immune systems whenliving in space, the ESA said. Itadded: 'Humans bodies have evolvedto live on Earthly gravity. Astronauts’bodies adapt to living in weightlessnessin many ways. nEWS dESK

World’s largest freshwateraquarium, river Safariopens in Singapore

The world’s largest freshwater aquarium hasopened to the public at the nature-themed RiverSafari in Singapore. River Safari is Asia’s first river-themed wildlife park. The freshwater aquarium is a12-hectare park featuring fish and other wildlifefrom eight of the world’s major rivers: the Congo,Ganges, Mississippi, Amazon, Mekong, Nile, Murrayand Yangtze. The aquarium is made at a cost ofover USD 160 million. There are nearly 300 speciesof animals on display at River Safari, of which 42species are endangered.The new freshwater aquarium measures 2,000cubic meters and has a viewing area measuring 22meters by 4 meters. Singapore is already home tothe world’s largest oceanarium. SEA Aquariumfeatures more than 100,000 marine animals andcontains 45 million litres of water. The largest salt-water aquarium was opened in November.In the Amazon Flooded Forest exhibit, the touristscan wander through a viewing tunnel windowmeasuring 22m by 4m with a volume of 2,000cubic metres (around 440,000 gal). Animals thatcould be seen in the park include catfish,salamander and manatees. The exhibit houses 18different species of fish and animals, includingarapaima, piranha and river otters. The freshwateraquarium also has reptiles and amphibians such asChinese alligators, Indian gharial, giantsalamanders and frog-faced soft-shell turtles.The purpose of the aquarium is to create a greaterawareness of freshwater habitat conservation bybringing visitors up close to such fish species thatare dependent on freshwater habitats. In addition,through captive breeding programmes, it hopes tocontribute to the population of endangeredfreshwater species. River Safari is open daily from9am until 6pm and tickets are priced at the cost ofS$35 (£19) for adults and S$23 (£12) for childrenonce the full range of attractions, including boatrides, open later this year. In the meantime, ticketswill be available at a discounted rate. nEWS dESK

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The body's own "training manual" for attacking HIVhas been recorded by US scientists and it is hoped itcan be used to design vaccines. HIV mutates in orderto survive the onslaught of a patient's immune system.

However, some patients develop highly effectiveantibodies that can neutralise huge swathes of HIVmutants. A North Carolina team analysed the arms racebetween body and virus,published in the journal Na-ture, and has shown how these antibodies are made.

When someone is infected with HIV, their bodyproduces antibodies to attack it. But the virus mutatesand evades the offensive, so the body produces new an-tibodies that the virus then evades and the war goes on.However, after about four years of this struggle somepatients hit on to a winner by targeting something thevirus finds harder to change - an Achilles heel. "Eventhough the virus mutates and there are literally millionsof quasi-species of virus because of all these mutations,

but there are parts the virus can't change otherwise thevirus cannot infect - these are the vulnerable sites," ProfBarton Haynes, of Duke University, in North Carolina,explained. At this stage of the infection it is far too lateto make a difference for the patient as the virus is hidingin untouchable reservoirs. However, some researchersbelieve that vaccines that encourage the body to pro-duce these "broadly neutralising antibodies" may givepeople immunity to the virus.

SuPer AnTIBoDy: The research team's study isbased on a patient in Africa who had a rapid diagnosis,about four weeks after being infected with the virus.They were eventually able to produce an antibodynamed CH103 that could neutralise 55% of HIV sam-ples. It was not produced in one easy step. Rather itwas the product of the war of the immune system andHIV trying to out-evolve each other. However, throughregular genetic analyses of both the immune systemand virus, researchers could piece together each of thesteps that culminated in the production of CH103. ProfHaynes said: "What we were able to do was map outthe arms race of both virus and antibody, and in doingso we have now a map. This is the first time we'vebeen able to see the actual road map." He said the chal-lenge now was to see if re-creating those steps couldlead to a viable vaccine. However, he said it would al-most certainly need to be a vaccine combining multiple"Achilles heels" - in the same way that HIV therapiesare a combination of drug treatments. nEWS dESK

Smile and the world smiles back. Canlooking at faces lower aggression?

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Pakistan has been allocated the hosting of theinaugural World T20 Deaf cricket cup inSeptember-October next year.

‘ In all ten countries including Australia,Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, India,New Zealand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africaand hosts Pakistan will be taking part in thegrand event which will be held in Lahore‘,said Zaheer ud Din Babar, manager, PakistanDeaf Cricket Association on Thursday.

The mega event was allocated by theDeaf International Cricket Council at itsmeeting held recently at Dubai. President,PDCA, Raza Rafi, Secretary, Irfan MirajandZaheer attended the meting which tookimportant decisions for the furtherdevelopment of deaf cricket across the globe.

Zaheer said Pakistan faced a strongcompetition from India as far as getting thehosting the of the event was concerned. ‘ Wegave a detailed presentation to plead our caseand the successful hosting of the Deaf AsiaCricket Cup earlier this year Lahoreconvinced all the stake holders that Pakistanis capable of organising the first edition ofWorld T20 deaf cup. ‘The participatingcountries of the Asia Cup put their weightbehind Pakistan and then the house decidedto allocate it to us‘, he asserted.

PDFAofficial said they are thankful toPakistan cricket board, specially itsChairman, Chaudhary Zaka Ashraf forsupporting the cause of deaf cricket inPakistan and internationally. ‘We had the fullbacking of PCB when we organised the AsiaCup and Chairman PCB has assured his allout support for holding the World Cup in a

trend setting manner in Pakistan‘, he said. Hefurther said: ‘The staging of deaf World Cupwill portray a better image of Pakistan abroadand in our presentation we pointed out thatfool proof security was provided in the AsiaCup and efforts would be made to organisethe World Cup in a more better way'. He saidall the delegates of the meeting also visitedthe ICC headquarters as well as ICC globalacademy. ‘ We had productive meetings withthe ICC development programme manager,N.D.Hobbs and ICC GLOBAL academymanager, David Jenking who assured ICC’ssupport for the uplift of deaf cricket ‘,headded. He said the ICC officials told them thatGames Ruling Body will recognise thedisabled cricket including deaf cricket by year2015 and they have provided the documentscontaining the laid down criteria to get PDCAaffiliated with ICC.

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PAKISTAN'S cricketauthorities on Thursdayordered English-stylepitches to help their

struggling batsmen prepare for theChampions Trophy, to be played inEngland in June. Pakistani batsmen hada woeful time on the fast and bouncytracks in South Africa where they werewhitewashed 3-0 in tests and edged out3-2 in the one-day series last month.Teams from the sub-continent raised on

slow, dry pitches have traditionally

struggled in countries like England andSouth Africa, where conditions offermore help to quick bowlers.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)decided that after the South Africandebacle, in which the tourists were shotout for their lowest test score of 49 in thefirst test in Johannesburg, the teamneeded intense preparation for the eight-nation Champions Trophy to be heldfrom June 6-23. "The committee notedthat during the South Africa tour batsmenstruggled and considering the venue ofthe Champions Trophy it was decidedthat special pitches, which are close tothe English conditions, would be

prepared for the training camp," a PCBrelease said. The 10-day camp will beheld at Abbottabad, north of Islamabad,while legendary paceman Wasim Akramwill lead a separate 10-day fast bowlingclinic in Karachi. Wasim will later jointhe camp in Abbottabad for a few days,the PCB said. Media reports said captainMisbah-ul Haq had suggested the teamshould prepare on fast pitches for thetournament, in which Pakistan face theWest Indies, South Africa and arch-rivalsIndia in the initial group stage.

Defending champions Australia,England, New Zealand and Sri Lankamake up the other group.

Pakistan to host first World T20 Deaf Cricket Cup

Pak U16 teamrouts China inasia Cup HockeyLAHORE: Pakistan U16 hockey teamopened up its campaign in the 2nd AsiaU16 Cup on a rousing note routing China16-1 in Singapore on Thursday.Pak young side dominated the game withpersistent attacking and coordinationscoring goals on regular intervals, saidthe information made available here.Pak goal scorers were, Muhammad Atiq(5 goals), ShanIrshad (4 Goals), NohaidZahid Malik (3 goals), Junaid Kamal (1goal), AdeelLatif (1 goal), JunaidManzoor (1 goal) and Sikandar Mustafa(1 goal) = 16.On Friday, Pak team will two matches, at0700 hours (PST) and against Japan at1300 hours (PST).The matches are beingplayed on a shorterarena with eachhalf of the gameis of 12minutes withtwo minutesrest with fourhalves ofplay. StAFF

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The committee noted that during the South Africa tour batsmenstruggled and considering the venue of the Champions Trophyit was decided that special pitches, which are close to the Englishconditions, would be prepared for the training camp. – PCB

aJMaL IS fITTO PLay: PCB

LAHORE: The Pakistan CricketBoard doctors have said SaeedAjmal is "fully fit" and notsuffering from a hernia, asinitially feared. Ajmal had beensuffering from pain in his lowerabdomen, suspecting he had ahernia, but a recent assessmentby the PCB's panel of doctorshave cleared him. The panel hadsuggested he meet with a sportshernia specialist in either Englandor Australia to get furtherclarification. "As far as his hernia isconcerned, doctors have ruledout this possibility afterconsulting his reports," a PCBspokesman was quoted byCricinfo. "He is resting at themoment and is fully fit to playany upcoming series."Ajmal, 35, has been sufferingfrom mild pain in his lowerabdomen for the last two monthsand was suspected to havesustained a hernia. After theSouth Africa tour, he wasunavailable for almost theentirety of the Faysal Bank SuperEight T20 Cup. He featured in thefinal against Sialkot Stallions,after doctors had cleared him toplay.Pakistan's next major assignmentis the ICC Champions Trophy inEngland in June, with a few ODIsscheduled prior in Scotland andIreland. Ajmal however, in anycase, is available for selection.The PCB's doctors have beencriticised for their handling ofplayer fitness and injury issues.Last year, before the India tour,Harris Sohail twisted his ankleduring a training camp at GaddafiStadium, but after an initialassessment, was cleared to travelwith the team. He returnedwithout playing any match on theIndia tour, but was retained forthe South Africa Test series, wherehe redeveloped a strain in hisankle, and was subsequently senthome without playing. StAFF rEPOrt

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Former Pakistan cricket captain, Rashid Latif hassuggested that former skipper younis Khanwho was dropped from Pakistan’s initialsquad of 30 players for Champions Trophy,to quit one day cricket and to take upcoaching of the national side. ‘I feel thatit is high time for younis to call it a dayas far as one day international cricket isconcerned as his careers seems to beover in ODI after being dropped fromthe squad,’ he said on Thursday . Theformer wicket-keeper batsman wasof the view that such a juncture

comes in every player’s career when he passes hisprime in a particular format of the game and younisshould retire from ODI and to serve the game in adifferent role by taking up coaching of the

national side. He acknowledged youniscontributions as an ODI player and

termed him a wonderfulplayer who inspired thenational team to success

on many occasions. “I seean ideal coach in younis andthere is no harm in appointinghim as Pakistan’s assistant coach,who can take over when foreign

coach Dave Whatmoreleaves”, said Rashid Latif.

He said younis Khan is a certified level-two coach ashe attended the course few years ago under thesupervision of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) at the

National Cricket Academy . He said PCB islooking for a full time batting coach for the

national side before it takes part in theChampions trophy this summer in England . ‘

I think younis is n ideal choice as assistantcoach because of his experience in the gameand he has the potential to add to theconfidence and technique of our national

team’s batsmen ‘,he said. He said it isbest way to groom younis as a coach

and with the passage of time hewill polish his coaching skills tobecome a full time coach.

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IPL defending championsKolkata Knight Riders(KKR) chased down 129with ease against the

Delhi Daredevils in the openingclash of the 2013 edition of theIPL in Kolkata on Wednesday.Gautam Gambhir played acaptain’s knock of 42 off 29 whileSunil Narine earlier chipped inwith four wickets for just 13 runsas Kolkata cruised to a six-wicketvictory over Delhi. Narine wasinstrumental in setting up the winafter the hosts won the toss andchose to field first and barring afew blips in their chase, KKRmade the win look easy in the end.

Kolkata lost Manvinder Bislaearly on in the chase when a backof a length ball from Ashish Nehracaused his undoing as the batsmancompletely misplayed his shot andwas sent on his way aftercontributing just four runs. JacquesKallis joined Gambhir out in themiddle and the South Africandeparted after chipping in with 23off 20 as Shahbaz Nadeem struck,but the Knight Riders were stillfirmly in control at 52 for two after7.2 overs. Gambhir continued hischarge before he was caught in

front of his stumps by JohanBotha, but at 93 for three withclose to seven overs stillremaining, the hosts were still inthe pound seats. Tiwary was thelast wicket to fall and the job wasfinished off by Eoin Morgan andyusuf Pathan with the pairwrapping up proceedings with a30-run partnership and eight ballsleft to spare. The Daredevilsstruggled in their innings and itwas largely thanks to skipperMahela Jayawardene hitting ascintillating 66 off 52 that theDaredevils managed to pass the100-run mark. Brett Lee struckwith the first ball of the match todismiss Unmukt Chand with abrutal away-cutter, which sent theoff-stump clattering. DavidWarner contributed a crafty 21 off19 before he fell victim to Narine,who struck immediately afterbeing brought into the attack.

The ball turned just enough tooutfox the Australian who edgedthrough to first slip where Kallistook a simple catch. The visitorslooked in a spot of bother at 44 fortwo after 5.5 overs and it was up tothe inexperienced Manprit Junejato stick around with skipperJayawardene to rebuild the innings.The youngster struggled, though,and was soon undone by

Lakshmipathy Balaji as LaxmiShukla took a magnificent catch.The batsman threw the kitchensink at the delivery after skippingaway from his stumps and skiedthe ball to deep point where Shuklamade good ground and lungedforward to pouch the catch. TheDelhi outfit continued to struggleas Naman Ojha (9), Johan Botha(7), Irfan Pathan (4) and AndreRussell (4) were all dismissedcheaply and the visitors were in allsorts of trouble at 113 for sevenafter 17.5 overs. It was up to theskipper to try and lift his side to acompetitive total and Jayawardenelaunched a late-assault during thepenultimate over, hitting Lee for asix over mid-wicket and a fourploughed through long-on, butcouldn't keep it up and succumbedto a full toss. Trying to make roomfor himself, the skipper chippedthe ball straight to cover and hadto go with just one over left toplay and the Daredevils stuck on125 for eight. Narine kept thepressure tight in the final over,conceding just three runs from itand ensuring the Daredevils wereall bowled out as he picked up awicket and engineered a run out asthe visitors stumbled to a dismaltotal which, in the end, was easilychased down by the hosts.

KKr GET TITLE dEfENCEOff TO a WINNING STarT

Attacks such as this are divisive and unhelpful. For

the sake of the game the focus should now be on the

Blackcaps' upcoming tour of England. – Ross Taylor

Pattinson a doubtfor ChampionsTrophy

SYDNEY: James Pattinson is the latestname to be added to Australia's growinglist of Champions Trophy injury doubtswith the fast bowler needing abdominalsurgery for an existing condition on Fri-day. Captain Michael Clarke (lower back)is already facing a race against time to befit for Australia's defence of the June 6-23tournament in England, while injury-pronefast bowler Pat Cummins (upper back) ap-pears set to miss out completely. Pattin-son, who turns 23 next month, was un-dergoing the surgery in Melbourne andwas expected to return to training inabout a month, Cricket Australia (CA) saidin a statement on Thursday. "James Pat-tinson will be having surgery tomorrow fora non-cricket related medical condition inhis lower abdominal region that has beentroubling him during the latter part of therecently concluded tour of India," CA chiefmedical officer Justin Paoloni said. AGEnCIES

fresh uproar over Nzcaptaincy upheavalWILLINGTON: Former New Zealandcaptain John Parker weighed into the de-bate about the controversial sacking ofRoss Taylor as skipper on Thursday witha scathing report about how the situationwas handled. Parker is part of a groupsaid to include several former captainswho compiled a nine-page report on theaffair, critical of New Zealand cricketchiefs, coach Mike Hesson and BrendonMcCullum, who replaced Taylor as cap-tain. Parker's report calls for unresolvedissues to be addressed despite repeatedurging from New Zealand Cricket (NZC)chief executive David White that thematter be laid to rest. The documentbacks Taylor's claim that he was told be-fore the second test in Sri Lanka in No-vember that he was not wanted as cap-tain in any form of the game, althoughNZC argues Taylor was told he could re-main as test skipper. AGEnCIES

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South Africa could unleash a wild card inthe form of maverick leg-spinner ImranTahir at the ICC Champions Trophy inEngland and Wales later this year. Tahirhas been in the international wildernesssince suffering a drubbing in the AdelaideTest last year, where he was taken for 260runs and went wicketless against Australia.However, the Pakistani-born journeymanmay be offered a lifeline to resurrect hisProteas career after he was on Wednesdayincluded in a preliminary 30-man squadfor the eight-team tournament.

Knights left-handed batsman RileeRossouw was the only uncapped playernamed, with Henry Davids and Chris Mor-ris having previously only played Twenty20internationals. The squad will be trimmedto 15. Although Tahir has been more of aliability than an asset for the Proteas in Testcricket, especially in terms of his run-rate,he has been surprisingly economical in thelimited-overs format of the game.

He played five matches in the 2011World Cup as part of South Africa’s tri-umvirate of spinners – Robin Peterson andJohan Botha were the other two – and fin-

ished the tournament as the Proteas’ sec-ond-most successful bowler with 14 wick-ets. His strike-rate, and his wonderfullyenthusiastic celebrations, were not theonly standout features, but also his econ-omy rate of just 3.79, well below the ac-cepted rate of five per over in modern-day international cricket. Tahir has notplayed any ODIs since, as Peterson be-came entrenched as the Proteas’ premierone-day spinner after the World Cup.Botha sought greener pastures with SouthAustralia last September, hence limitinghis international participation. In the in-terim, Tahir’s Highveld Lions spin partner,Aaron Phangiso, has also overtaken hismore senior teammate by occupying therole as Peterson’s ODI understudy duringthe past home summer series against NewZealand and Pakistan. Phangiso, though,has had limited opportunities, playing justthe one match against the Black Caps in adead-rubber game, which the Proteas sen-sationally won off the last ball in Potchef-stroom in January. It was a competent per-formance, with Phangiso conceding 43runs off his eight overs.

However, the orthodox left-arm spin-ner did not claim a wicket, and it is herewhere Tahir is considered to have the ad-

vantage. The 34-year-old is believed tohave the “X-factor”, and could have that“something different” which the Proteashave craved at major ICC tournaments tohelp them break the jinx that has nowlasted 15 years. Although it is often for-gotten, South Africa did in fact win theICC Knockout Trophy in 1998 – the prel-ude to the Champions Trophy.

But while Tahir is no longer “the mys-tery bowler” that he was at the World Cupin India two years ago, another factor inthe veteran spinner’s favour is his knowl-edge of English and Welsh conditions. Hehas spent the last decade travelling aroundthe English county circuit, playing for theDurham 2nd XI, Hampshire, Middlesex,Sussex 2nd XI, Warwickshire and york-shire, to name just a few of his teams.

Whether it would be fair to dropPhangiso after just a solitary opportunity,or that a second spinner is even requiredin the early part of the English summerwill be discussed at length by the nationalselection panel, chaired by Andrew Hud-son, in the build-up to the tournamentopener, when the Proteas meet India atSophia Gardens in Cardiff on June 6.

Another notable inclusion is that of theinjured JP Duminy. The talented all-rounder

has still not fully recovered from his long-term Achilles ailment suffered in Australialast year, but has made steady progressand is already batting and bowlingin the nets. Duminy’s presenceat the Champions Trophywould not only be a significantboost to South Africa’s oftentroublesome middle-order, buthe would also be able to deliversome handy overs ofpart-time off-spinwhen required.M e a n w h i l e ,Marchant de Langeis another who coulduse the ChampionsTrophy as a returnto the Proteas. TheTitans speedsterlast played forthe nationalteam on thetour of NewZealand at thebeginning oflast year be-fore sufferinga stress fracture.He missed the England

and Australian tours and only recently re-turned to domestic action with his franchise,the Titans, where he quickly reached the

rapid speeds again that shot him toprominence.SquAD: AB de Villiers (capt),Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla,Farhaan Behardien, HenryDavids, Quinton de Kock,Marchant de Lange, JP Duminy,

Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, ImranTahir, Colin Ingram, JacquesKallis, Rory Kleinveldt, Ryan

McLaren, David Miller,Morné Morkel, Chris

Morris, Justin On-tong, Robin Peter-son, Wayne Par-nell, AaronPhangiso, VernonPhilander, RileeRossouw,Graeme Smith,Dale Steyn,Rusty

Theron, Lon-wabo Tsotsobe,Roelof van der

Merwe, Vaughnvan Jaarsveld.

Tahir could help end the 15-year jinx

LONDONAGEnCIES

England named four uncapped playerson Thursday in a provisional 30-mansquad for the ICC Champions Trophy inEngland and Wales in June. Theselectors included uncapped yorkshirebatsman Gary Ballance, Warwickshireopener Varun Chopra and seamersJames Harris and Chris Wright in thesquad which will be cut to 15 players byMay 5. "This is a balanced squad whichwill provide the selectors with strongoptions in all areas and reflects players'performances for both the seniorEngland teams and the England Lionsand EPP squads over the winter period,"said national selector Geoff Miller in astatement. England are hosting the

tournament, featuring the best eightone-day international teams playingacross 15 matches in 18 days, for thefirst time since 2004. The opening gamewill be in Cardiff on June 6 while thefinal is at Edgbaston on June 23.

SquAD: Alastair Cook (captain), JamesAnderson, Gary Ballance, Jonny Bairstow,Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan,Danny Briggs, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler,Varun Chopra, Rikki Clarke, JadeDernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales,

James Harris, Craig Kieswetter, StuartMeaker, Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions,Samit Patel, Kevin Pietersen, Joe Root,Graeme Swann, James Taylor, JamesTredwell, Jonathan Trott, Chris Wright,Luke Wright, Chris Woakes.

Four uncapped players in England CT squad

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Friday, 5 April, 2013

17I ensured that i move above Heather Watson in the national

rankings by winning my first-round encounter as I was the

16th seed at the claycourt event in Charleston. – Laura Robson

Model TownGreens outplayPunjab Club

LAHOREStAFF rEPOrt

Model Town Greens has moved into thenext round of 10th M Siddiq MemorialCricket Event wen they beat strongPunjab CLub by 44 runs played atTownship Whites ground on Thursday.Fine batting by Ahmed Dar and goodbowling by HAris Majid 3/7 includinghatrick were the main feature of the matchScores: Model Town Greens 187/8 in 20overs. Ahmed Dar 76, Saddullah Ghori38, Kamran younus 18, Daniyal Zahid 17,Waris Khan 15. Sami Aslam 1/38, HafizZahid 3/21, Haris Majeed 3/7 includinghatrick. Punjab Club 143 all out in 20 overs. SamiAslam 31, yousuf Ali 48, Haris Arshad42, Sahid Ali 12. Ahmed Dar 1/23, AdilSharif 2/33, Kamran younus 2/13, AkbarAli 2/32, Daniyal Zahid 2/26.

National Gymnastic insecond week of May

LAHOREStAFF rEPOrt

The 47th National GymnasticChampionship will be held in the secondweek of May 2013, upon the decisiontaken in the General Council Meeting ofthe Pakistan Gymnastics Federation heldon March 30. The meeting was chaired by Chairman ofPGF Khawaja Farooq Saeed. The exactdates and venue will be announced by thePresident Pakistan Gymnastics Federationafter consultation with the colleagues ofhost Province of Punjab, said an officialof the federation.All the affiliated units including PakistanArmy, WAPDA, Pakistan Railway, Policeand the four Provincial GymnasticAssociations including Capital GymnasticAssociation shall participate in thisChampionship. After the Championshippromising and up-coming gymnasts shallbe selected for the National Camp forTraining, which would continue for areasonable duration and the final teamshall be selected for participation in theforthcoming South Asian Games andAsian Gymnastic Championship for theyear 2013.The Chairman PGF is trying to find outsuitable sponsors to associate with thePakistan Gymnastics Federation for thedevelopment and promotion of gymnasticin Pakistan.

armstrongset to returnas a swimmer

TEXASAGEnCIES

Lance Armstrong is planning to make areturn to competitive sport as a swimmerthis weekend. The disgraced Americancyclist, who was stripped of his seven Tourde France titles after being part of a dopingscandal, is entered for the Masters SouthCentral Zone Swimming Championshipswhich takes place at the University ofTexas. Armstrong is billed to compete infreestyle races over 500 yards, 1,000 yardsand 1,650 yards at the event held in hishome city of Austin. The meeting is a USMasters Swimming event, and although heis banned for life from all competitionsthat adhere to either the US Anti-DopingAgency or World Anti-Doping Agencycodes, which means all high-profileprofessional and amateur sport, the low-profile Austin event falls outside thoserestrictions. The championships are opento all ages but most competitors areveteran swimmers. Armstrong, aged 41,will be racing against swimmers mostlyolder than he is. He appears on the start listfor the events on the championship'swebsite and appeared to confirm he wouldrace when he engaged briefly in dialogueon the races on Twitter, suggesting hewould struggle to break the five-minutemark for 500 yards.

LONDONAGEnCIES

There is a "strong chance" that HeatherWatson should make a full recovery fromglandular fever and be back to her sportingbest, according to an expert. The 20-year-old, who will be replaced as Britishnumber one by Laura Robson on Monday,has said she is at the "tail-end" of thedisease, which usually affects youngadults. Professor Paul Farrell, who teachestumour virology at Imperial CollegeLondon, said recovery from the illness canvary from two to three weeks to a few

months, with a sufferer's general healthand fitness levels not having any bearingon how long this takes.

He said: "What she should be doing isresting herself throughout the time thatshe's feeling unwell and as soon as shefeels well enough she can resume normalactivity. "The key thing is that the timeframe of recovery is varied from oneperson to another. Some people literallyrecover in two weeks but some peopletake four to five to six months, althoughthat is very unusual. "If she has beenclinically diagnosed with this disease sheshould make a proper recovery. In all

likeliness she will recover and be back toperfectly normal within weeks to months."Some people get post-viral fatigue butthat is quite unusual." Prof Farrell said noone appears to be predisposed to sufferingfrom glandular fever and the likelihood ofcontracting it has nothing to do with howfit a person is to start with.

"It's probably fairly random," hesaid. Glandular fever is known as thekissing disease as it is passed throughsaliva. But the illness is caused by theEpstein-Barr virus (EBV), which themajority of people carry from when theyare a baby. "Most people get infectedwhen they are very young - babies fromsharing a spoon with their mother orfrom being kissed," he said. "For the vastmajority of people it doesn't have anyeffect, and they carry it in their saliva forthe rest of their life. "But if you're one ofthe relatively few people - maybe about10% of people in the UK - who was notinfected when they were a baby, andyour first infection is when you're anadolescent or adult, then you maydevelop glandular fever. "What thedisease essentially is is a very chaoticimmune response to EBV, so all thesymptoms like swollen glands in theneck and fever are just acute immuneresponse symptoms.

Ill Watson ‘should be back to her best’

CHARLESTONAGEnCIES

eX-CHAMPIONS SamStosur and CarolineWozniacki cruised into thethird round of the WTA

Tour's Family Circle Cup Wednesday,while Venus Williams had to battle herway through. The second-seededWozniacki breezed past Spaniard SilviaSoler-Espinosa 6-1, 6-1 just under anhour, while the third-seeded AussieStosur routed New Zealand's MarinaErakovic 6-1, 6-2 on the green clay atDaniel Island Tennis Center. Wozniacki,who won here two years ago, onlyentered the tournament on the weekend,after she and golfer boyfriend RoryMcIlroy postponed a trip to Haiti.

Stosur won here in 2010, whileWozniacki claimed the title in 2011. “Ifelt like I really served well and returnedwell today,” Wozniacki said. “Playingyour first match of the year on clay, it'salways going to be difficult to slide andmove unbelievably, but I felt like I did apretty good job of that out there and I'm

pleased with my work.” Stosur wasplaying her first match since withdrawingprior to the quarter-finals at Indian Wellsin March with a calf injury. “But as thematch went on I felt really good and theway I was playing all came together,”Stosur said. “And of course, I reallyenjoy playing on this court, so I alwaystry to do my best every time I'm outthere.” Williams, the fifth seed who wonthe title here in 2004, had to work harderto get past 19-year-old Puerto RicanMonica Puig. Puig pushed the seven-time

Grand Slam winner to three sets,Williams-advancing 6-2, 5-7, 6-3.

yet another former champion wastaken to the limit as seventh-seeded JelenaJankovic, the winner here in 2007, ralliedto beat French qualifier Caroline Garcia5-7, 7-6 (12-10), 6-3. American qualifierMallory Burdette surprised 15th-seeded2009 champion Sabine Lisicki 3-6, 7-6(7/5), 7-5 in their second-round match.Burdette booked a third-round clash withworld No. 1 and reigning Charlestonchamp Serena Williams.

Stosur, Wozniacki onform in Charleston

LAHOREStAFF rEPOrt

Another six matches were decided in thePCB T-20 Blind Cricket Trophy with threeeach at Lahore and Peshawar venues.

On day two of the trophy, Bahawalpur,Azad Kashmir and Lahore won theirmatches at Lahore while Abbottabad,Gujranwala, Peshawar registered victoriesat Peshawar.

At Lahore’s Iqbal Park Sports Complex(Minto Park), Bahawalpur won by 8wickets against Multan.

Multan posted 192 runs for 6 wicketsin 20 Overs. Zahid scored 75 runs whileAhtesham made 22. Bahawalpur in reply,reached the target in 12.5 overs for the lossof 2 wickets. Muhammad Bilal scoredunbeaten 106 and was named the Man of

the Match. Later, Azad Kashmir beat Karachi by

102 runs. Put into bat, AJK posted 321 runsfor 7 wickets. Nisar Ali 71 runs while Zahidand Muhammad Jameel made 60 and 46runs respectively. Wahab Khan picked 2

wickets.In reply, Karachi made 219 for the loss

of 9 wickets. Tahir Ali made 54 runs andTariq Samuel made 49 runs. Irfan Majeedtook 2 wickets. Nisar Ali was named Manof the Match.

Lahore beat Quetta by 158 runs.Lahore made 348 runs for the loss of 1wicket. Amir Ishfaq scored unbeaten 246runs. Bismillah Khan claimed 1 wicket. Inreply Quetta, managed 190 for 2. BismillahKhan remained not out on 103 runs.

At Peshawar Medical College CricketGround, Abbottabad beat Attock. Thewinners posted 274 runs for 8 wickets.Riasat 72 and Muhammad Haroon took 2wickets. In reply Attock made 158 runs for6. Asif Khan made 37 runs. Man of theMatch: Riasat Ali.

Gujranwala beat Sheikopura by five

wickets. Sheikopura scored 202 for 2. Tahir96. In reply, Gujranwala reached home in16th over for 5 wickets. Muhammad Waqas68 runs and Muhammad Akram 36 runs.Mohsin took 2 wickets.

Peshawar beat Islamabad one run.Islamabad made 191 runs for 9 wickets.Zeeshan Gul was the top scorer with 52runs, Anees 50. Khalid Zubeer took 2wickets.

Peshawar, in reply made 191 runs allout in 20th over. Muhammad Haroon made36 and Mohsin scored 27 runs. Mustafatook 2 wickets while Zeeshan Abbasiclaimed 1.

The match was decided in one over perside eliminator (OOPSE), in whichPeshawar made 6 runs for the loss of 2wickets and chasing 7 runs to winIslamabad made just 5 runs.

Six matches played in blind cricket

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LONDONAGEnCIES

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) strikerZlatan Ibrahimovic has encouragedWayne Rooney to swap ManchesterUnited for the French capital.

PSG are rumoured to be weighingup a summer move for the Englandstriker who is no longer consideredUnited's top marksman.

Rooney is still held in high regard byUnited boss Sir Alex Ferguson but thearrival of former Arsenal skipper Robinvan Persie this season has certainlylessened United's reliance on their one-time talisman.

The evidence was on full show inUnited's recent defeat to Real Madrid atOld Trafford where Ferguson set histeam up to play with only one recognisedstriker with Van Persie getting the nodahead of Rooney for the crucial UEFAChampions League tie.

Fellow United striker DannyWelbeck was also included in thestarting line-up but was deployed in adefensive role as part of Ferguson'stactics on the night.

By all accounts Rooney has no issuewith the club's decision to leave him onthe bench against Madrid butIbrahimovic feels the 27-year-old has adecision to make in the summer.

MADRIDAGEnCIES

Jose Mourinho warned Real Madrid theirwork was only half done after they openeda 3-0 lead over Galatasaray in theirChampions League quarter-final first leg.Goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and KarimBenzema set Madrid on the way to victoryat the Bernabeu, and Gonzalo Higuain'sheaded goal extended the advantage theywill take to Istanbul next week for thesecond leg. The wide margin of victory leftGalatasaray coach Fatih Terim fearing theworst, saying: "After losing the match 3-0we need a miracle but in Istanbul we willtry to play well and win the match." yetMourinho will not take the second matchlightly, the Portuguese said. "They need amiracle but miracles happen in football, thehistory of football is full of miracles, whycan they not dream of a miracle?" said theformer Chelsea manager.

"They will give their all to try to pull offa historic result and I have enough experienceto know that although I am happy with theresult, the tie is not over. I have to convincemy players to believe that too." Mourinhoadded: "The team played well and produced

a professional and balanced performance."We defended well and were dangerous onthe counter-attack. They knew that at thisstage of this competition that matches aredecided by the slightest of margins, and wewere concentrated and played with humility."Mourinho recalled Benzema to his startingline-up in place of Higuain, who startedagainst Manchester United at Old Trafford inMadrid's last Champions League match. Hewas pleased that both the Frenchman and

substitute Higuain, who replaced Benzemamidway through the second half, were ableto get on the scoresheet. Mourinho said:"Higuain and Benzema have scored goalsand that's great because that will improvetheir confidence but I would have beenhappy with their performances even if theyhad not scored."

The coach also rejected the notion thatMadrid benefited due to Galatasaray'sdefensive errors, stating: "The difference was

not Galatasaray, it was Real Madrid, and wedeserved to win the match. "When there is agoal so early on it changes the game. Theyplay an attacking style of football any way,but a goal will always make for a differentstory. They did everything to get a differentresult." Terim criticised referee Svein OddvarMoen's performance, above all his decisionto book striker Burak yilmaz instead ofawarding a penalty following a challengefrom Sergio Ramos late on. "Maybe thename Real Madrid affected Galatasaray andthe referee did not have courage," Terim said.

"The referee made many mistakes.Burak was fouled, everyone saw it except forthe referee, but despite everything there isnothing we can do, the result is there foreveryone to see." He also rued his side'scarelessness in conceding Ronaldo andBenzema's goals, as well as pointing thefinger at Didier Drogba and EmmanuelEboue, who both missed chances to score inthe first half. He said: "At this level in thesekind of matches you cannot make clearmistakes. The first and the second goals werebasic mistakes and then with Eboue andDrogba we couldn't take two clear chances.If we had taken advantage of those momentsthe match could have been different."

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18I know I need to get stronger. I know I have to lose some weight and

have skipped dinners to do this. I've lost about 8kg since the beginning

of this year. I want to keep trying to get it down. – Baek Seuk-hyun

wAtCh It LIve

Mourinho wary of Galatasaray miracle

Klopp 'canlive with' Malagastalemate

MADRIDAGEnCIES

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Kloppsays he can live with Wednesday's goallessdraw at Malaga in the first leg of theirUEFA Champions League quarter-final tie.Dortmund created 13 shooting chances andmanaged to land seven of them on target,but their attempts to score an away goalwere thwarted by a combination of Malagagoalkeeper Willy Caballero's brilliance aswell as some sloppy finishing from theGerman champions. Mario Gotze, inparticular, was wasteful and evensquandered a one-on-one chance in the firsthalf when he was put through on goal byRobert Lewandowski's flicked-on header.However, Klopp remains confident his teamwill finish off the Spaniards in the return legat BVB Stadion Dortmund next week. "Wedidn't take our chances and had to stay calmin order to get a result in the end," he said inhis post-match interview. "We somehowlost a bit of determination towards thefinish and Malaga started playing better.But we gave a good performance against agood team. We had the better chances anda 0-0 draw is a result we can live with."Klopp also revealed that he had told histeam at the half-time interval they neededto improve their finishing, and althoughthey did not heed his warning he waspleased with their overall display. "I toldmy team at half-time that they wereplaying great, but needed to improve inthe finishing department," he said.

Ibra urges Rooney to be part of PSG projectMcIlroy, Poulterseek Mastersmomentum

TEXASAGEnCIES

Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter will have todefy the odds if they want to win the ValeroTexas Open and then claim a first GreenJacket in next week's US Masters. Only twoplayers have won the week prior to theMasters and then gone on to win in Augusta;Sandy Lyle in the Greater Greensboro Openin 1988 and Phil Mickelson in the BellSouthClassic in 2006. But the Ryder Cup team-mates will both be trying to at least get intocontention in San Antonio after adding thetournament to their schedules at the lastminute - both on the advice of their caddy."JP (Fitzgerald) was the one that mentioned itto me," McIlroy explained to reporters at theHouston Open last week. "He said, 'If youjust play a few more rounds, I think you'regoing to be ready.' "I didn't really think aboutit too much and sat down, had some lunch,started to think about it and I texted him andsaid, 'I don't think this is a bad idea.' Probablytook me an hour or two to sort of think aboutit and decide." McIlroy's struggles this yearhave been well documented, with the 23-year-old walking off the course during hisdefence of the Honda Classic and losing hisstatus as world number one to Tiger Woods.And although the Masters will be his thirdtournament in succession - in stark contrast tolast year when he took three weeks off beforeAugusta - the Northern Irishman's poor formdoes have one advantage.

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InexperiencedCzech pair calledup for Davis CupCzECH REPuBLIC: The Czech Republic will field aninexperienced line-up on Friday as they continue thedefence of their Davis Cup crown in Kazakhstan.Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek, the players wholed the Czechs to glory in last season's competition,will both be absent for the opening singles rubbers inAstana. Berdych is out of the tie due to shoulderproblem, while Stepanek has only been named forSaturday's doubles as he is only just back followingneck surgery in January. Instead, the Czechs turn toJan Hajek and Lukas Rosol. The pair have won justone live Davis Cup singles rubber between them.Hajek opens against Mikhail Kukushkin before Rosol,famous for his Wimbledon upset of Rafael Nadal lastsummer, faces Andrey Golubev. Ivo Minar is namedalongside Stepanek for Saturday's doubles rubber.They are due to face Evgeny Korolev and YuriySchukin. The Czechs have won their last six ties withtheir last Davis Cup defeat coming against theKazakhs in the first round in 2011. AGEnCIES

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haLf of Lahore BLacks out LAHORE: Half of the city blacked out after 100 feederstripped due to a shortage of fuel late on Friday. The powerwent dead in localities including Wapda Town, Township,Green Town Johar Town, Sabzazar and Thokar Niaz Baig.According to Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO)officials, the shortfall had increased from 2,000megawatts. They also said the National Control CentreIslamabad was also suffering from shortfall. They said,“We need 3,000 megawatts, but we are getting less than1,000 mega watts. We are facing problems and that is whywe have closed the grid stations to save our electricitysystem.” The officials also said that due to a shortage offuel all power houses were closed down. StAFF rEPOrt

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Friday, 5 April, 2013

NAuDERO: President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Faryal Talpur, BakhtawarZardari and Aseefa Zardari at the 34th death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Thursday.

ISLAMABADSHAIq HUSSAIn

PAKISTAN, China and Russia areperturbed over the stalled Afghanreconciliation process and bothworld powers as well as Islamabad

want a “responsible” US exit from the war-torn country.

The observations came in a trilateral di-alogue on Afghanistan held in Beijing be-tween Pakistan, China and Russia on April3. According to diplomatic sources, therewas a consensus among officials of three

states at the dialogue that the stalledAfghanistan reconciliation process must bepushed forward and all key stakeholders,including the US and Afghanistan, shouldsupport the efforts to reach out to theAfghan Taliban for peace dialogue.

A source seeking anonymity said Is-lamabad, Beijing and Moscow also wantedthe US to ensure peace and stability in thewar-ravaged country before the departureof its troops from Afghanistan, which wasslated for 2014.

“Pakistan, China and Russia, all thethree states wants a responsible US exitfrom Afghanistan,” the source said.

He said that there was consensusamong the three countries that in case therewere no responsible US exit, Afghanistancould again plunge into war and strife thatwould be detrimental for the regional peace

and stability as well.With its eyes fixed on 2014 for the

smooth departure of American troops, theObama administration is eager to holdpeace talks with the Taliban and wants tosee the Mullah Omar-led Taliban insurgentstalking to the Afghan government.

Taliban, however, prefer talks withWashington over negotiations with theAfghan government led by PresidentHamid Karzai, but they (Taliban) also wantthe US to first release some of their keyleaders held at Guantanamo Bay prison.

Another reason for the ‘sluggish’

Afghanistan reconciliation process isPresident Karzai’s opposition to Talibantalks to all Afghan groups and he ratherwants a dialogue only between his gov-ernment’s representatives and the Tal-iban leaders.

Afghan authorities’ recent accusationsthat Pakistan was engaged in militaryconstructions near the Afghan border haveled to fresh feuds between the neighbour-ing countries and observers are of theview that this development could alsoprove to be harmful to the efforts forpeace and stability in Afghanistan.

Pakistan, China and russia wantresponsible US exit from region

wAnt uS to enSurepeAce And StAbility inAfghAniStAn beforeitS depArture

ISLAMABADAGEnCIES

Pakistan on Thursday deported threeFrenchmen who had been held secretlysince they entered the country illegally10 months ago to fight NATO troops inneighbouring Afghanistan. According to official sources,investigators were expected to questionthe men in France, where the case waslikely to draw parallels withMohammed Merah, the 23-year-old whoshot dead seven people in southwestFrance in March 2012 after returningfrom Pakistan.Investigators said Pakistani policearrested the trio on May 28 last yearafter they entered the country illegallyfrom Iran. They were detained alongwith Naamen Meziche, anotherFrenchman of North African extractionpreviously known to Western securityservices as a presumed member of al-Qaeda. “They said they came toPakistan to deepen their knowledge ofIslam and to fight in Afghanistan,” oneinvestigator on condition of anonymitysaid.Meziche’s arrest was announced last

June but French and Pakistani officialshad kept quiet about the other three. Atthe time, Pakistani officials saidMeziche was probably heading toSomalia.However, experts said he had been enroute to Pakistan’s semi-autonomoustribal belt on the Afghan border, said tobe an al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold.Investigators believed Meziche could have been taking theother three to the tribal belt close to thePak-Afghan border.Officials said the three men left Francein January 2012, telling their families inOrleans south of Paris that they weregoing on pilgrimage to Mecca in SaudiArabia. However, five months later theywere detained in Pakistan.On Thursday a French diplomatic sourceconfirmed that the last of the threesuspects was now back on French soil,after being deported over the last 48hours. Their precise link to Meziche,who will also be deported, remainsunclear. It also remains unclear whetherthey will face trial. A new law banningFrench citizens from going abroad formilitant training came into force lastDecember, only after their arrest.

QUETTAOnLInE

Chief of Army Staff(COAS) GeneralAshfaq ParvezKayani heldmeetings withBalochistanGovernorNawabZulfiqar AliMagsi andcaretaker ChiefMinister (CM)Nawab Ghous BakshBarozai on Thursday. They discussed the securitysituation in the province andsmooth conduct of upcominggeneral elections in themeetings. Kayani reiteratedPakistan Army’scommitment to extend allpossible assistance to theElection Commission ofPakistan (ECP) for holdingfree, fair and peacefulelections. The provincial leadershipwas assured by the COAS

that army wouldwholeheartedly welcome anall-inclusive election. Heemphasised the need forparticipation by all politicalparties in the May polls. Earlier, Commander of theSouthern CommandLieutenant GeneralMuhammad Alam Khattakbriefed the COAS on thesecurity situation anddevelopment projects beingundertaken by the army inBalochistan.

kayani commitsarmy support forfree, peacefuL poLLs

Interim cabinet todiscuss securityin maidenmeeting today

ISLAMABADtAyyAB HUSSAIn

The 13-member interim federal cabinet is goingto hold its maiden meeting on Friday (today), withcaretaker Prime Minister (PM) Mir Hazar KhanKhoso in the chair, to chalk-out a security plan toensure a peaceful and secure environment duringthe upcoming general elections.

“yes, the federal cabinet is going to hold itsfirst meeting on Friday. However, I am unawareof the agenda,” said press secretary to PM ShafqatJalil while talking to Pakistan Today.

A source in the government told PakistanToday that the federal cabinet is likely to be givena presentation on the security plan for the upcom-ing polls while briefings on an energy plan and abudget strategy paper for the year 2013-14 mayalso be presented. “Since the cabinet is going tohold its maiden meeting, the new ministers wouldbe taken into confidence on measures to beadopted to ensure peaceful elections,” the sourcesaid, adding that law and order was of paramountimportance for the country.

The source added that the budget strategypaper had been approved by the outgoing cabinetbut there was a need for the new cabinet to discussthe matter. “The matter may be delayed due to onereason- there is no minister for finance in place,”the official added.

anp respectsarmed forces:asfandyar PESHAWAR: AwamiNational Party (ANP)President Asfandyar WaliKhan on Thursday said thathis party respects the armedforces. He said thatstatement given by SenatorHaji Adeel regarding armedforces was his personal standand did not base on the

party’s policy. He urgedthe party leaders to

keep in view partypolicy whilegiving anystatement. Hesaid furtherthose who willviolate party

principles willbe expelled from

the party. nnI 3 frenchmen expelled frompakistan for militant links

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