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Pervez Musharraf fears another military coup in Pakistan

Pakistan Army playingdouble game onAfghanistan: report

Ashraf eyes ‘acceptablesolution’ ofBalochistan problem

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NATOwheels All seT TO rOll

NATOwheels All seT TO rOllg DCC to take crucial decision today, cabinet toratify decision tomorrow g US assures paymentof $400 million against CSF dues

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fter months of wrangling over the reopeningof NAtO supply routes, Pakistan has finallymade up its mind to reopen the key landroutes and a decision in this regard is mostlikely to be made during the DCC meetingbeing held today (tuesday).However, the announcement in this regard is

most likely to come on Wednesday following an approvalby the federal cabinet, it has been reliably learnt.the DCC meeting would be attended by the ministers ofdefence, foreign affairs, interior and information. the CJCSC, services chiefs, principal secretary to PM,secretaries of the cabinet and defense and foreign affairs,ISI director-general, director general militaryoperations and the Intelligence Bureau director generalwould also be attending the meeting. Meanwhile inBrussels, NAtO Secretary-General Andres foghrasmussen expressed hope that Pakistan would reopenthe NAtO supply route soon.“Ambassador Sherry rehman has arrived here. She willbrief the DCC about her meetings with the US officials.Prime Minister raja Pervaiz Ashraf has convened themeeting of Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) fortoday while federal cabinet meeting the following day –on Wednesday – to take a final decision in this regard,”said a well-placed source. the source said the primeminister visited the Presidency on Monday andbriefed Asif Zardari on the outcome of the dialogueprocess between Pakistan and the US. earlier in theday, the source said Hina rabbani Khar and HafeezShaikh called on the prime minister and briefed himon the talks held with the US delegation.

PESHAWARAgencies

Security officials have claimedkilling six militants late on Sundaywho were part of dozens who infil-trated the Afghan border to attacka checkpost in Dir, while reportsfrom Kurram Agency said around60 militants in Afghan army uni-forms had crossed into Pakistaniterritory and sparked clashes thatkilled two tribesmen.

The two attacks are the latest ina series of escalating cross-borderattacks reported in Afghanistan andPakistan that are inflaming ten-sions along the porous border, justas NATO prepares to end its com-bat mission against the Taliban in2014. Both countries blame eachother for harboring the Taliban,fanning distrust between Kabul andIslamabad, and complicating thepeace process in Afghanistan.

Kabul threatened to report Is-lamabad to the UN Security Coun-cil over what it alleged was shellingof villages, while Islamabad said itwould protest formally to Kabul

against the latest incursion.“If our bilateral discussions re-

garding this issue bring no result,we will refer this issue to the UnitedNations Security Council,” Afghanforeign ministry spokesman Fara-marz Tamana told AFP.

In the Kurram incident, secu-rity officials said two tribesmenwere killed in Upper Kurram when60 “Afghan army soldiers” clashedwith a local peace militia and secu-rity personnel. Another tribesmanwas also wounded “after theytraded fire with Afghan army sol-diers on seeing them inside Pak-istani territory”, a senior official

said.The clashes lasted for more

than 90 minutes after which secu-rity forces were sent to the areaalong the Afghan border, he said.

Local residents said the Afghanswere pursuing attackers fleeing She-har-e-Nau village in Paktia province.Afghan defence officials denied thealleged incursion. “We are not awareof such an operation by ANA (AfghanNational Army) in that area,” DaulatWazir, spokesman for the Ministry ofDefence said. In Dir district, dozensof militants based in Afghanistan at-tacked a checkpost late on Sunday,the second time in eight days.

Officials said six militants werekilled after crossing into Sabir Kil-ley village in Soni Darr area ofUpper Dir. An official said the “fire-fight continued late into the night”.Another said there were reports of“hundreds of militants” gatheringin Afghanistan’s eastern Kunarprovince. Intelligence officials saythe attackers are loyalists of Pak-istani cleric Mullah Fazlullah, whofled to Afghanistan after the armyrecaptured Swat valley in 2009.

Twin cross-border attackstry Pakistan’s patience

g 60 militants in Afghanarmy uniforms crossinto Kurram Agencyfrom Afghanistan, killtwo tribesmen

gSecurity officials killsix militants whocrossed over into Dir

LAHOREAgencies

Following Sunday’s massive crackdown on its lead-ership by the Punjab government, the Young Doc-tors Association (YDA) intensified its strike onMonday, refusing to work even in emergency and in-door wards of all major hospital across the province,resulting in the deaths of 11 patients, including threeminor children.

On the other hand, the Punjab government con-tinued with its steely stance and dismissed 24 doc-tors, while arresting more than 50 others.

To cope with the crisis, the Punjab governmenthad requested the Pakistan Army to send in doctorsfor managing patients and around 149 army medicalofficers started work in various hospitals of Punjabon Monday. The Inter-Services Public Relations said90 army medical officers had been employed in hos-pitals in Lahore, 15 each in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad,Multan and 14 in Gujranwala.

The government had initiated action against theyoung doctors after they refused to end the strikeand warned of laying siege to the Punjab CM’s Sec-retariat to get their demands approved.

The Punjab government on Monday arrested 34YDA doctors under MPO-16 and shifted them to KotLakhpat Jail, while 3 doctors in Gujranwala weresacked from services and two others were chargedwith murder. Lahore District Coordination OfficerNoorul Ameen confirmed the arrests.

Declining to bow down to the Punjab govern-ment’s pressure tactics, the YDA announced a Pun-jab-wide strike from Monday. The call for strikedrew support from YDA Islamabad and the SindhDoctors Association who shut out patient depart-ments (OPDs) and operation theaters for two hours.

The Pakistan Medical Association Punjab alsoannounced to observe black day today (Tuesday)against the police action on young doctors. TheFaisalabad Medical Teachers Association (MTA)also supported the demands of YDA and demandedthe release of the arrested doctors in Lahore andother cities of the Punjab. The Young Doctors Asso-ciation Balochistan had also announced to call astrike, but it ended the strike after seven hours afterBalochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani took seri-ous notice of sufferings of the patients.

11 patients die as Punjabgovt, doctors lock hornsg Three children among dead g YDA announces Punjab-wide strike g Medical

associations slam arrests, manhandling of doctors g Health department says

918 protesting doctors have rejoined duties

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SC orders judges’ appointmentin special courts by today

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The Supreme Court has ordered appointment of special judges for anti-cor-ruption courts in Karachi and Hyderabad, asking the authorities to producea notification Tuesday (today). A three-member bench, headed by ChiefJustice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the case against the absenceof judges in the special courts. A deputy attorney general told the benchthat a summary for the appointment of judges for anti-corruption courtshad been sent. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary remarked the court’s or-ders were not being implemented. “Many corrupt and criminal elementsare acquitted because of absence of judges,” the chief justice said, directedthe high-ups to investigate how many indicted persons got free because ofdelay in the appointment of judges. Justice Jawad S Khwaja said it seemedthe government ws not interested in the corruption and accountabilitycases. He warned if the government did not accept the court’s order, a con-tempt of court notice would be issued. The court adjourned the hearing, di-recting the government to appoint special judges by Tuesday (today).

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has offered his servicesto the Punjab government to resolve the crisis emerging after strike by theYoung Doctors’ Association. The PTI chairman on Monday said his partywas ready to play its role in resolving the issue. Khan said President AsifAli Zardari had “purchased all politicians”, adding that he had looted thesteel mills while PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had reached a compromisewith the government to protect his corruption. Doctors have been boy-cotting their duties at outpatient departments in public hospitals sinceJune 18 to demand changes to their service structure.

Six of a family gunned down

over marriage feud MARDANAgencies

Armed men gunned down six members of a family and injured three othersover a marriage feud here on Monday. Reportedly, Sajjad Khan, an FC consta-ble from Afzalabad area of Mardan, solemnized a second marriage to a localwoman five months back. The in-laws of Sajjad were against this marriageand were repeatedly threatening him. On the Monday morning when Sajjadwas on duty, the relatives of his first wife entered the house and started indis-criminate firing on the residents. As a result, the parents of the FC constable,his second wife, brother, sister and a 20-day-old niece were killed on the spotwhile three others sustained wounds. Those killed are Mehar Badshah, HajiRasool, Abdullah, Ayesha, Fiaz and a 20-day-old infant Haiba.

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Unknown miscreants blew up a government primary school with a timebomb here on Monday. According to police, miscreants had planted a timebomb outside a government school in village Darra of Swabi district, whichexploded with a bang. The school building was destroyed due the blast whilewindow panes of a surrounding house also smashed owing to the intensity ofthe blast. However, no causality or injury was reported as no person was liv-ing in the building at the time of the blast. The police cordoned off the areaafter the explosion and launched a search operation with no arrest.

NAIROBIAFP

FOUR foreign aidworkers kidnappedin Kenya’s Dadaabrefugee camp re-turned safely to

Nairobi on Monday tired butsmiling after being releasedovernight in southern Somaliafollowing a short gunfight.

“We are happy to be alive, weare happy this has ended,” saidCanadian-Pakistan nationalQurat-Ul-Ain Sadazai as she andcolleagues — from Canada, Nor-way and the Philippines — ar-rived in Nairobi by Kenyanmilitary helicopter. The two menand two women with the Norwe-gian Refugee Council (NRC)looked exhausted and were cov-ered in dust after their three dayordeal, but managed a wearysmile to reporters before they

boarded buses and left the air-port. NRC said in a statement itwas “relieved and pleased” attheir release, naming them re-spectively as Steven Dennis, 37,Astrid Sehl, 33, Glenn Costes, 40and Sadazai, 38.

Costes limped from a bulletwound to the leg, but the four ap-peared to be otherwise in goodhealth after arriving from thesouthern Somali border town ofDhobley, where they been freedearlier on Monday. “They werereleased by a joint force of So-mali and Kenyan forces, duringwhich one of the kidnappers waskilled,” Kenyan army spokesmanCyrus Oguna told AFP. Threeothers were arrested.

Mohamed Dini Adan, a So-mali military commander inDhobley, an area under controlof Somali forces allied to Kenya,said the army had stopped the“kidnappers who were trying to

hide and sneak past the army.”Somali forces heard reports

the gunmen were heading for adense remote forest some 25kilometres (15 miles) fromDhobley, and rushed to huntthem down. “Thanks to God wefoiled their aims of taking thehostages into the forest,” said So-mali General Osmail Sahardid,who led the operation. Residentsin Dhobley said the local RasKamboni militia — commandedby a former powerful Islamistwarlord now allied to Kenya —were also involved in the rescue.

Kenyan security forcesscrambled military helicoptersand aircraft after gunmen at-tacked the NRC convoy at aroundmidday Friday in Dadaab, some100 kilometres (60 miles) fromSomalia, killing a Kenyan driverand wounding two others. How-ever, the aid workers’ vehicleseized by the gunmen was found

abandoned a few hours after theattack, and fears grew the ganghad escaped with the hostagesthrough the remote scrublandacross the porous border intolawless Somalia. Kenya, which in-vaded southern Somalia in Octo-ber to attack Al-Qaeda-linkedShebab insurgents, has troopssome 120 kilometres (75 miles)deep into Somalia. However, theforces control only pockets of thevast territory. “We are thankful toknow that our four colleagueshave been found and safely re-turned to Kenya. This is a day ofrelief for us and for the families ofthe abducted,” the NRC chief Elis-abeth Rasmusson said in a state-ment. “Our thoughts go to thefamily of the NRC driver, AbdiAli, who was killed during the at-tack Friday, and to our two localemployees who are currently un-dergoing treatment in hospital forinjuries inflicted in the incident.

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Cracks emergewithin PML-Q

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Most of the PML-Q leaders have decidedto leave the party, as the differenceshave intensified between them and theChaudhry brothers.The leaders of the PML-Q have allegedlysaid that three persons, Chaudhry Shu-jaat Hussain, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi andMushahid Hussain Syed had formed acartel inside the party and were ignoringall workers and leaders, including par-liamentarians, in the decision makingprocess within the party.President of PML-Q Lawyers Wing, Jus-tice (r) Azam Khan, has sped up effortsto join the PML-N or PTI. Most of the leaders are fed up with therude behavior of the Chaudhry brothersand Mushahid Hussain Syed.They said the gang of three had madethe party their personal property.“The suggestions of Mushahid have leftthe party in the middle of nowhere andit cannot even contest election,” theysaid.The sources revealed that several leaderswould leave the party before generalelections and would take part in thepolls as independent candidates. In casethey win the election, they would jointhe PML-N.The agitated leaders have shown resent-ment over the alliance with the PPP andsaid it was the personal decision of the“troika” and they were never consultedor taken into confidence over it.They said that whenever Chaudhrybrothers took such important decisions,they called a meeting of their personalservants.Azam Khan confirmed the rumors andsaid the Chaudhrys and Mushahid hadruined the party and made alliance withthe ruling PPP for their personal gains.

ISLAMABAD/LAHOREAgencies

Adviser to the Prime Minister on In-terior Rehman Malik on Mondaylashed out at the Punjab government,saying action against protesting doc-tors was not justified.

In a statement, the adviser saiddoctors were a respectable part of thesociety, adding that in civilized soci-eties issues were resolved through di-alogue. He said suppressing anyone’svoice for their rights only aggravatedthe situation.

He said Punjab Chief MinisterShahbaz Sharif, “who likes strikes”,took special care of those officialswho worked against the federal gov-ernment.

Responding to Malik’s statementduring interaction with reporters inLahore on Monday, Punjab Law Min-ister Rana Sanaullah said the adviseron interior should not interfere inprovincial matters.

“I will advise Mr Adviser to mindhis own business,” Sanaullah said,adding that Malik’s statements hadno significance.

He said Malik should take care oftargeted killings in Karachi insteadof meddling in Punjab’s affairs.

The provincial law minister saidMalik should not side with the on-

strike doctors who were playing withthe lives of the patients.

He said they could not be givenany relaxation anymore as they hadsabotaged the peace of hospitals be-

sides leaving the patients on fate’smercy.

He was of the view that youngdoctors while protesting for accept-ance of their demands left the hu-manity and social norms behind.

“Inhuman attitude of the youngdoctors is not tolerable at all andstrict action would be taken againstthose who tried to sabotage peaceand played with innocent lives,” headded.

The provincial minister said doc-tors were bound to follow the serv-ices act. He said the provincialgovernment had prepared a strategyto deal with the protesters with aniron hand.Sanaullah said the govern-ment had spent billions of the pub-lic’s money on doctors for theireducation.

He said the OPDs in Punjab hadstarted functioning and 2,000 doc-tors would start working within thenext two days through the PunjabService Commission.

He said 600 of the striking doc-tors had resumed their duties, addingthat 36 doctors had been taken intoprotective custody for 30 days.

opposition not hindering appointment ofnew CeC: nisar

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Leader of the Opposition in the Na-tional Assembly Nisar Ali Khan hassaid the opposition is not creating hur-dles in the appointment of new chiefelection commissioner.In a statement issued on Monday,Nisar said the deadlock would onlyemerge if the government tries to put aperson of its choice on the covetedpost.He said the view of the PML-N on thisissue was quite clear, adding that theparty would propose a panel of peopleapproved by all opposition parties inand outside the assembly. “Though it is not a constitutional re-quirement but to promote healthydemocratic traditions, the PML-N willrespect the viewpoint of other partieswhich have no representation in the as-semblies,” he said.Nisar said the PML-N had given a listto the parliamentary committee to con-sult Jamaat-e-Islami, PakhtunkhwaMilli Awami Party, PPP-Sherpao Pak-istan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, National Partyof Balochistan and Sindh NationalistParties.He said appointment of a CEC was pos-sible if the objective was to organisefree, fair and transparent elections.However, he was of the opinion thatthe government was not sincere.Nisar said the PML-N would adopt asimilar course of action for the ap-pointment of caretaker government. Itwould propose name of people whohold spot free past and enjoy goodreputation.

Musharraf fears another military coup in Pakistan

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CLAIMING that Pak-istan was being run tothe ground, formerpresident General (r)Pervez Musharraf did

not rule out a fresh militarytakeover in the country.

“The state is being run to theground at the moment, and people areagain running to the military to savethe country,” Musharraf told a gather-ing in Aspen, Colorado.

While agreeing to the fact that thecountry’s constitution was sacrosanct,the former dictator questioned,“Should we save the country and dosomething unconstitutional or upholdthe constitution but let the state godown?” Vowing to return home on his“own accord”, Musharraf shrugged offcalls in his country for Interpol to ar-rest him, saying he was prepared torisk arrest by returning for elections,which he claimed would be held thisyear.

The former president’s appear-ance in the US came just days afterthe federal intelligence agency sent asecond reminder to the Interpol to ar-rest him, labelling him a “proclaimedoffender” in the assassination of for-mer prime minister Benazir Bhutto in2007, reported The Guardian. The re-tired general repeated his previous as-sertions that he would returnvoluntarily, “even at risk to my life”.

“I know I see Pakistan and I knowit has all the potential to do well for it-self, now at this moment it’s being runto the ground,” said Musharraf who

currently lives in the UK and Dubai.The former president did not give

specific dates for his return to Pak-istan. He has previously said he wouldreturn in January this year and thenin March, but on both the occasionshe failed to return home.

The Guardian said, in a wideranging interview to a US media com-pany later, Musharraf claimed thatIran was “determined” to develop anuclear arsenal.

During the interaction, TheGuardian said Musharraf reminiscedabout travelling to Iran in 2004 in anattempt to dissuade President Mah-

moud Ahmadinejad and the SupremeLeader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei frompursuing nuclear weapons.

Musharraf discussed talking toAhmadinejad and Khamenei in 2004.

“You should not adopt a con-frontational course, you should adopta conciliatory course, for the sake ofthe world and the region,” Musharrafrecalled telling Ahmadenijad, how-ever he said the Iranian president didnot listen to his suggestion.

“They are determined to developa nuclear arsenal, although I do notthink they have a reason to develop,”Musharraf said.

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The source said twosuccessive visits to Pakistanby ISAF Commander GeneralJohn Allen had provedcrucial in convincingPakistani civilian andmilitary officials to reopenNATO supply routes. GenAllen arrived in Pakistan onSunday on an unofficial visitand held meetings withPakistani military andcivilian leadership, includingforeign minister HinaRabbani Khar, financeminister Dr Abdul HafeezShaikh and Chief of ArmyStaff General Ashfaq Kayani.“During the meeting, GenAllen was assisted by the USDeputy Secretary of StateThomas Nides andAmbassador CameronMunter. Besides financialissues, both sides alsodiscussed a draft of the USapology over the Salalaattack. The DCC would alsodiscuss the draft and a finaldecision would be made inthis regard,” the sourceadded. Another source saidthe US had assured Pakistanthat it would release the CSF’sfirst installment of $400million within a week’s period,while the remaining $400million would be dispatchedlater. An official of the FinanceMinistry said on condition ofanonymity that the firstinstallment would betransferred to the government’sbank account in New York.

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AMID signs that Islam-abad and Washingtonare nearing a deal on

resumption of NATO suppliesthrough Pakistani landroutes, the State Departmenton Monday said the US con-tinues to work with Pakistanon the issue.

State DepartmentSpokesperson Victoria Nu-land confirmed that DeputySecretary of State ThomasNides held talks with Pak-istani officials in Islamabadon various issues includingreopening of routes forAfghanistan-bound suppliesand was heading home. Thespokesperson, however, hadnothing in particular to an-nounce on the issue.

She said the two coun-tries have been talking onwide-ranging issues includingworking on supply lines.

“That work continues. Wedon’t have anything in partic-ular to announce today,” shesaid. The spokesperson wasresponding to questions in thecontext of Pakistani and inter-national media reports thatthe two sides were close to re-solving differences and strik-ing an agreement on revival ofkey Pakistani routes. Mean-

while, Pakistan’s ambassadorto the United States SherryRehman is on her way to Is-lamabad, where top defenseand political leaders will meeton Tuesday to discuss a deci-sion on the issue. Americanmedia reports last week saidthe Pentagon has requestedmoving $ 2.1 billion dollarsfrom other heads to coverhigh costs of transportingsupplies into Afghanistan viathe northern routes and byair. Earlier reports said theclosure of Pakistani routeswas costing washington $ 100million in extra expendituresevery month.

US officials in Washing-ton have not publicly spokeson prospects of an imminentagreement on the issue butlately there has been amarked tone down in Ameri-can officials’ statements onPakistan Last week, Secretaryof Defense Leon Panetta saidthe two sides are working in“good faith” to make progresson the issue. His remarkswere conspicuous as theycontrasted with his earlier ex-pression of frustrations withPakistan’s perceived inactionagainst Haqqani militantgroup, which allegedly usesPakistani tribal areas to tar-get American interests inAfghanistan.

The Pakistani supplyroutes – which offer the leastexpensive and much shorteravenues than the northernroads snaking through Russiaand Central Asia – wereblocked by Islamabad aboutseven months ago in the af-termath of November 26,2011 air strikes on Salala bor-der posts, resulting in deathsof 24 Pakistani soldiers. Pak-istan has demanded an apol-ogy over Salala reports topave the way for resumingcounterterrorism coopera-tion. According to reports, theissue is likely to be resolved tothe satisfaction of both sides.

At the State Departmentbriefing, the spokesperson re-called the Pakistani andAmerican technical teamshad covered a lot of dimen-sions towards restoration ofthe land routes. Thespokesperson also told jour-nalists that the US Secretaryof State Hillary Clinton madea telephonic call to new Pak-istan Prime Minister RajaPervaiz Ashraf “ to wish himwell in his new post.” In hercall to the prime minister,Secretary Clinton also “notedthat we want to continue ourengagement and workthrough the issues “ the twocountries still have, thespokesperson said.

KANDAHAR/KABUL/BRUSSELSAFP

A suicide car bomb attackoutside a university in south-ern Afghanistan on Mondaykilled at least seven civiliansand injured more than 20, of-ficials said.

The attack happenedaround 7pm (1430 GMT) inKandahar city in front of Kanda-har University, around two kilo-metres from a major US militarybase, provincial police chiefGeneral Abdul Razaq told AFP.“This evening a suicide carbomb exploded near KandaharUniversity, killing seven civiliansand wounding 23 others.” hesaid. The provincial governor’sspokesman, Jawed Faisal con-firmed the death toll and saidmost of the victims wereAfghans working at the US base,which was once the compoundof Taliban leader Mullah Omar.“A Toyota Corolla packed withexplosives rammed into a mini-van full of workers coming fromthe base,” Faisal told AFP.BrItISh SoLDIerS:Meanwhile, an Afghan policeofficer killed three British sol-diers serving with NATO inAfghanistan’s troubled south,the latest in a series of escalat-ing “green on blue” attacks inthe decade-long war. Thedeaths take to at least 26 the tollso far this year from 18 attacks inwhich Afghan forces turned theirweapons against their Westernallies. The defence ministry in

London confirmed the soldierswere British, serving with anAfghan police advisory team,and were killed after meetinglocal elders in the Nahr-e-Sarajdistrict of Helmand province. Inkeeping with policy, NATO’s In-ternational Security AssistanceForce (ISAF) gave few details ofthe incident, which happenedaround 5pm (1230 GMT) onSunday, but said the gunmanwas wounded and detained afterthe attack.

“An individual wearing anAfghan National Civil Order Po-lice uniform turned his weaponagainst International SecurityAssistance Force service mem-bers in southern Afghanistan...killing three service members,”ISAF said. Helmand provincialspokesman Daud Ahmadi con-firmed the man who opened firewas a member of the civil orderpolice, an elite riot control forceset up in 2006. British PrimeMinister David Cameron saidhe was “deeply saddened” bythe killings, while Defence Min-ister Phillip Hammond vowedthat the “cowardly” attackwould not deter British troopsfrom their mission to build upAfghan forces. “Every day, tensof thousands of coalitionforces, including UK person-nel, live and work successfullywith their Afghan counter-parts to build an Afghan policeforce and army, which cantake the lead for their own se-curity by the end of 2014,”Hammond said.

PARISAFP

France, Britain, Germany andSweden called Monday on theUnited Nations to quicklydraw up a comprehensivearms trade treaty that will re-duce what they called “agrowing threat to humanity”.

The appeal came as UNmember states were set tolaunch talks later Monday inNew York on drafting the firstcomprehensive arms tradetreaty, which activists say is allthe more necessary given themounting bloodshed in Syria.

“There is a clear case for gov-ernments to act now,” said Swe-den’s trade minister in a jointstatement with the foreign min-isters of France, Germany andBritain. “Every year, millions ofpeople around the world sufferfrom the direct and indirect ef-fects of the poorly regulatedarms trade and the illicit traf-ficking of arms,” they wrote inthe statement published in Eu-ropean newspapers.

They said that hundredsof thousands of people werekilled or injured, many wereraped or forced to abandontheir homes, while others

lived their lives under a con-stant threat of violence.

“Coupled with a growth inthe illicit trafficking of arms, weare facing a growing threat to hu-manity,” they said, noting that assome of the largest exporters inEurope, their countries bore “aspecial responsibility in this mat-ter”. The ministers wrote that thearms trade treaty should belegally binding, but nationallyenforced. “This will ensure theglobal consistency required tomake the treaty effective, whilemaintaining state signatories’right to decide on arms trans-fers,” they said.

Meanwhile on Monday,OPDs of several hospitalsacross the province remainedopen as army’s medical offi-cers and senior governmentdoctors remained present totreat the patients.

Adviser to CM on HealthSalman Rafiq told reporters thatthe government was forced totake steps against the young doc-tors as they wanted to close in-door wards of the hospitals,adding that the YDA strike couldendanger the people’s life.

He said that the provincialhealth department deployedaround 596 new doctors acrossthe province to tackle the crisis.Rafiq said 57 new doctors weredeputed to Mayo Hospital, 90to Services Hospital, 50 to Jin-nah hospital, 27 to GeneralHospital, 40 to Sir Ganga RamHospital and 19 to Punjab In-

stitute of Cardiology. In Faisal-abad, the government posted30 new doctors in KPMC, 50 inAllied Hospital and 10 in FIChospital. The government de-puted 39 new doctors to HolyFamily Hospital Rawalpindi,six to DHQ Rawalpindi, while70 new doctors were deputedto Nishtar Hospital Multan and76 to Sheikh Zaid HospitalRahim Yar Khan.

Another 32 were posted inVictoria Hospital Bahawalpur,he added. The Punjab govern-ment has asked qualified candi-dates seeking paid jobs inteaching hospitals to contact thegovernment hospitals’ adminis-trations with their required de-grees and other attacheddocuments. Punjab Law Minis-ter Rana Sanaullah warnedyoung doctors to avoid partici-pating in the strike and said allthose who participated in thestrike would face serious conse-

quences. He said the govern-ment would not allow the doc-tors to play with the life ofinnocent people.

Also, reports said a two-year-old child died at Lahore’sMayo Hospital due to the ab-sence of the doctors and an FIRhad been filed against six doctors,of which four were arrested andpresented before a judicial mag-istrate. The magistrate sent thedoctors, Tajammul, Adil, Usmanand Matloob on a four-day phys-ical remand. Reports pouring inlate at night quoted the provincialhealth department as saying that918 young doctors joined duty invarious teaching hospitals acrossthe province on Monday. It said98 doctors took responsibilitiesat Mayo Hospital, 114 at ServicesHospital, 62 at Jinnah Hospital,45 at Lahore General Hospital, 41at Children’s Hospital, 46 at SirGanga Ram Hospital, while 25new doctors had joined PIC.

Al Qaeda plot tobomb uS jet during olympics

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Al Qaeda is plotting to blow upan American airliner in therun-up to this month’s LondonOlympics and has trained aNorwegian Muslim convert inan attempt to evade airportsecurity, British mediareported. Al Qaeda in theArabian Peninsula (AQAP) hastrained the Norwegian convertand is understood to have alsoselected a target, believed to bea US passenger jet; ‘TheSunday Times’ quotedintelligence sources as saying.“The Norwegian recruit goesunder the name of MuslimAbu Abdurrahman. He isunderstood to be in his thirtiesand a ‘clean skin’ , with noprevious criminal record,” itsaid. “He converted in 2008and quickly becameradicalized. He later travelledto Yemen , where he has spentseveral months, to completehis training,” the paper said.The plot confirms fears amongUS and British intelligenceagencies that al Qaeda isseeking to recruit radicalisedwesterners in an attempt toevade airport security, it said.The Norwegian was believed tohave been in the southeasterntown of Azzan, the longtimehome of AQAP, until lastmonth. He then moved toDammaj, a town in the north.The new plot is the terrorgroup’s fourth to be detectedsince 2009, when AQAP sent aNigerian-born British studenton a plane with an underpantsbomb. The bomb failed todetonate over Detroit and theman was arrested and jailed.

State Department sayswork continues onPakistan routes revival

european governments callfor robust arms trade treaty

CJ ignored Arsalanwarning: Aitzaz

ISLAMABAD: PakistanPeople’s Party leader andsenior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsanhas said that he had in-formed Chief Justice IftikharMuhammad Chaudhry of ru-mours regarding ArsalanIftikhar’s alleged links withMalik Riaz but the formerchose to ignore them. To aquestion, he said he wouldnot comment on whateverBabar Awan had said. He,however, added that the affi-davit Babar Awan had re-fused to sign was quitecorrect. Babar Awan shouldbe asked if it was wrong, headded. ONLINE

Afghan suicide carbomb kills at least seven

11 Patients die

ISLAMABADAgencies

Adviser to Prime Minister onInterior Rehman Malik failedto produce his British nation-ality renouncement certifi-cate in the Supreme Courtduring the hearing of the dualnationality case on Monday.

A three-member SCbench, headed by Chief Jus-tice Iftikhar MuhammadChaudhry, resumed the hear-ing of the case pertaining todual nationality-holding par-liamentarians. Malik’s coun-sel, Anwar Mansoorsubmitted documents, in-cluding a copy of Malik’spassport as an evidence of re-nouncement of his British na-tionality. Mansoor said hisclient had renounced British

nationality on April 27, 2008and that renouncement feehad been paid from his wife,Saeeda Rehman’s account.He said her name had beenmisspelt in the document as‘Saeed Rehman’.

Upon scrutinising thedocuments, the SC observedthat instead of SaeedaRehman, Syed Rehman waswritten on the document. Thecourt said the documents wereirrelevant and asked Malik topresent a certificate of the re-nouncement of his British na-tionality. The CJP askedMalik’s counsel to provide acopy of the aforementionedapplication, adding that hewas not dealing with a case ofan ordinary person. The CJPtold the lawyer that he couldseek the Pakistan High Com-

missioner’s help to get a dupli-cate of the document. The pe-titioner, advocate WaheedAnjum had alleged that asmany as 14 lawmakers belong-ing to the PPP, the PML-Nand the MQM held foreignpassports despite a clear barin the constitution on dual na-tionality-holders from becom-ing lawmakers. Anjumpresented the documents per-taining to the PPP’s provinciallawmaker Tariq Alwani’s dualcitizenship. He claimed thataccording to the documents,Alwani was an American citi-zen and the documents hadbeen verified by the office ofthe Federal InvestigationAgency (FIA) director general.

The hearing was subse-quently adjourned until today(Tuesday).

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RAWALPinDi: Pakistan Army doctors treat patients at the DHQ Hospital as the Punjab government moved to counter a strike

by the young Doctors Association on Monday. ONLINE

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SEVERAL persons who re-turned to India from Pakistanafter completing their sentencefor spying have decided to ap-proach the government for

compensation for the years they spent be-hind bars, the Daily Mail reported onMonday. They claim they were on a ‘spy-ing mission’ for Indian intelligence agen-cies and that the government discardedthem once they got arrested in Pakistan.

Even after their return to India afterlanguishing in jail, the authorities remained

indifferent towards them, they said. Theonly exception was Kashmir Singh, who gotland and monetary compensation from thePunjab government. He returned in 2008after spending over three decades in a Pak-istani jail. Karamat Rahi, who lives in Gur-daspur district’s Khaira Kalan village, said:‘I am living a pauper’s life now and havefallen off the agencies’ map. Former spieshave been coordinating with each otheracross the border states. We plan to high-light our plight to the government and de-mand compensation for giving our primeyears to the nation.’ Karamat had shiftedto India from Pakistan in 1980.

‘The security agencies took advantageof my background. They pushed me backinto Pakistan in 1983. I worked for theagency and got arrested in 1988 nearMinar-e-Pakistan with sensitive docu-ments. The agencies summarily condemnedme following my arrest,’ he said. Karamat’srelease was possible in 2005 after the inter-vention of then Punjab CM AmarinderSingh. ‘When I returned after spending 18years in jail, I approached the agency for re-habilitation. They told me not to make anoise about my plight. But I need help forsettling my son, who has grown up,’ Kara-mat said. Surjeet Singh, who returned toIndia after spending over three decades inprison, echoed similar sentiments. ‘I willrelax for a few days and then work out astrategy for seeking compensation from thegovernment,’ he said, adding that he wouldwelcome any move by fellow ‘spies’ towardsa joint effort for compensation.

Daniel aka Bahadur, who hails fromDadwain village in Gurdaspur and pulls arickshaw to earn his livelihood, also accusedthe ‘authorities who sent him to Pakistan’ ofrefusing to recognise him. Daniel was ap-prehended by the Pakistani rangers in 1993and imprisoned for over four years. ‘I triedto contact the officers who had sent me tothe country but no one bothered about me,’he said. According to him, he met manyother Indians incarcerated in jail in Pak-istan on espionage charges. Another resi-

dent of Dadwain village, Sunil Masih, wasarrested on February 2, 1999, in Shakargarhin the neighbouring country. He spent eightyears in jail and returned home in 2006. ‘Iwas in a bad shape when I returned. I wasvomiting blood and had wounds all over mybody,’ he recalled. Karamat revealed many‘spies’ had died in Pakistan unsung. Satpalof Dadwain village was arrested in the coun-try in 1999 for being a RAW agent. He diedin a Pakistani jail in 2000.

When the government tried to handover his body to India, the agencies dis-owned him. His body was kept in a Lahorehospital for a month. It was finally sent toIndia after the local press highlighted theissue. The ‘spies’ indicated that the secu-rity agencies require them to act as couri-ers. After picking them up, the agenciestrain them to identify military vehiclesand strategic installations. They alsoteach them the local language and cus-toms. ‘In Kashmir’s case, he assumed aMuslim name and learnt to offer namaz.He was also circumcised,’ Karamat said.How the spies source information is an-other tricky issue. Corruption is deep-rooted in Pakistan as well. ‘Money alwaysdoes the trick for us. What do you think,they will let me in at a cantonment if Ienter it for selling oranges?’ a personclaiming to be a former spy asked. He alsoclaimed that several Pakistani soldierswere on the ‘payroll’ of Indian agencies.

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Pakistan, indiaexchange listsof prisonersISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India onMonday exchanged the lists of prisoners ineach other’s custody under the Agreementon Consular Access that the two countiessigned in 2008. “According to the Agree-ment on Consular Access signed betweenPakistan and India on May 21, 2008, bothcountries are required to exchange lists ofprisoners in each other’s custody twice ayear, on January 1 and July 1, respectively,”said a Foreign Office statement on Mon-day. “Consistent with the provisions of thisagreement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairshanded over a list of Indian prisoners inPakistan to the Indian High Commission inIslamabad today, July 1, 2012 being aclosed holiday,” it said. STAFF REPORT

sHC grants 2-week interimbail to ali Musa

KArAChI: The Sindh High Court (SHC)on Monday granted interim protective bailto Ali Musa Gilani for two weeks in theephedrine quota case. Musa, son of formerprime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, appearedin the SHC along with his counsel for thehearing of his bail plea, in which he hadmaintained that he was being dragged intothe case on political basis, adding that he didnot have anything to do with it. He also saidhe feared that he would be arrested as soonas he entered Punjab. Justice Saeed HassanAzhar Rizvi of the SHC admitted his protec-tive bail in exchange of a bond of Rs 100,000and ordered him to appear in theRawalpindi court within 15 days. Talking toreporters after the hearing, Musa said hewas hopeful that he would get justice. INP

PML-n rejects Online news storyLAhore: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has rejected a news item reportedby Online news agency which was basedon Raymond Baker’s book “Capitalism’sAchilles Heel”. In a statement, Muham-mad Mehdi, media coordinator of thePML-N, said that the “eight citations”given in Baker’s book were a repetition ofallegations made against the former primeminister during various times. He saidthat all the eight citations hold no ration-ale or even a worth to be part of logicaltalk, adding that in his article published ina local newspaper, Dr Abdul Qadeer hadclaimed that Raymond Baker’s bookshowcased bank accounts of Nawaz Sharifin detail. However, the fact is that suchdetail is neither found nor available in thebook, Mehdi added. PRESS RELEASE

KAgHAn: A large number of tourists throng

saif-ul-Malook Lake on Monday. ONLINE

Mumbai attackers were Qaeda trained, claims abu Jundal NEW DELHI

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Abu Jundal, the alleged handler of 26/11terrorists, is fast turning out to be a treas-ure trove of information for the Indian in-vestigators as he has further revealed thatMumbai attackers had undergone trainingin al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.

Indian media reports on Mondayclaimed that the startling disclosure madeby Abu Jundal has for the first time estab-lished the Afghan link to the deadly 26/11

carnage. Jundal is believed to have in-formed the interrogators that the 26/11terrorists were trained by hardcore alQaeda militants at a Lashkar-e-Tayyaba(LT) camp near the Pakistan-Iran border.

Jundal, the highest-ranking Indiancommander of the LT, claimed there was a“great degree of coordination now betweenthe LT, al Qaeda and even the Taliban”.These disclosures are part of Jundal’s inter-rogation report, details of which are beingreported by the Indian media on a day-to-day basis. Jundal told a joint multi-agency

team during sustained questioning thatsince LT did not want to leave anything tochance, it decided to rope in al Qaeda fortraining. The LT felt that hardcore al Qaedaterrorists could provide foolproof training tothe module used to attack Mumbai. Initially,per reports, there were 22 to 25 militants inthe group that was to attack Mumbai. How-ever, since al Qaeda’s training was so intensethat more than half of them dropped out andonly 10 were selected for the final onslaught.

“Had all the 25 militants completedthe training and made it to Mumbai the

carnage would have been much worse,” asenior investigating official was quoted assaying. Finally, a module of 10 terrorist at-tacked Mumbai in what is viewed as theworst terror strike in independent India.Jundal claims that though he did visit LT’straining facility at the Pakistan-Iran borderbut he was not present during the time thatthe Mumbai module was undergoing train-ing there. Indian investigating agenciesasked Jundal to identify the exact locationof this camp with help of Google map butJundal failed to do so.

Alleged LT commander

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al Qaeda for training

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KARACHIAAMiR MAJeeD

ACivil Aviation Authority(CAA) Jinnah Interna-tional Airport (JIA) elec-t r o - m e c h a n i c a ltechnician Saif-ur-

Rehman was beaten up by Airport Secu-rity Force (ASF) staff for failing toresolve an electrical problem at the ASFDeputy Director Deneral (DDG) Col Fa-rooque’s residence. In an interview withPakitan Today on Monday, Rehmansaid: “In the night between June 13 and14, we had received complaints fromsome of houses of the CAA staff colonyabout an electrical fault and a team wasrushed to the spot to correct it. The teamcame back and demanded electrical wireto fix the fault. Meanwhile, DDG ASFstormed the CAA Electric Complaint Cell(ECC) with ASF guards over a failure toremedy an electric fault at his residence.DDG ASF was welcomed warmly, butstarted abusing the staff present at thecomplaint cell. I briefed him about de-velopments regarding his complaint andassured him that I had sent the teamwith the necessary equipment to dealwith the electric fault. However, he didnot listen to me and started abusing me.When I asked why he was misbehaving,he called 10 to 12 ASF guards and or-dered them to beat me, saying that I ama terrorist and a member of the Taliban.”

“The ASF guards bet me brutally andleft the office. I was rushed to a CAAhealthcare facility and later shifted to theJinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre(JPMC) for treatment. I went to the air-port police station to lodge a FIR againstCol Farooque but the police only regis-tered my report and told me to come backwith request by Airport Manager NasirSheikh to register the case. I went to theairport manager’s office the very next daybut he presented lame excuses to me toprotect the DDG ASF. Since then, I havebeen visiting offices of CAA officials butthey have turned deaf ears to my issue. Iam neither a terrorist nor a member ofthe Taliban. I need justice from the CAA,”he added. CAA Senior Works EngineerAbid Hussain said that the departmenthad sent a letter to Inquiry, Industrial Re-

lations and Management General Man-ager (GM) Muhammad Ali Arshad Khanfor necessary action. “Saif-ur-Rehmansent a team to for correction of the fault,but electric wire was required as the oldone was burnt due to excessive load. Ithink the team returned with electric wirein 20 minutes, but ASF DDG, along withASF guards, reached the complaint celland stormed at Saif,” he verified.

When approached for comments onthis issue, Nasir Sheikh rejected Saif-urRehman’s claims. “I have not stoppedhim from taking any action against ColFarooque. Saif came to my office the nextday and told me about the incident and Ilistened to him. The next day, I called ColFarooque to verify Saif-ur-Rehman’sclaims. I tried to settle the issue andcalled him to come to a compromise buthe did not return to the table talks. Saifdid not say that he was interested in reg-istration a FIR against Col Farooque andhe did not discuss the issue with me,”said Sheikh. In absence of Inquiry, In-dustrial Relations and Management GM,who sustained bullet wounds on resistinga robbery in Gulistan-e-Jauhar a fewdays ago, an official of the department,who wished to remain anonymous, saidthat the matter had been referred to thedefence secretary. He added that the de-partment had requested the secretary toform a joint committee of ASF and CAAto probe into matter and had not yet re-ceived a response.

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3 more killed KARACHIOnLine

At least three people were killed in firingincidents in different parts of Karachi,officials said on Monday.According to police, some unidentifiedpersons opened fire and shot dead aman in Sachal area of Karachi. The iden-tity of the deceased was yet to be ascer-tained.Meanwhile, two men who were shotdead in a firing incident in Karimabadarea were identified as 35 years old NoorMuhammad and Shakeel.The dead bodies were shifted to AbbasiShaheed Hospital for autopsy.Two more people were also wounded infiring incidents in Ghareebabad andBhitaiabad areas of the city.

Man who showedshoe threatens tokick the bucket

NAWABSHAHsTAFF RePORT

The activist of Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) who held out a shoe humiliat-ingly towards Sindh Minister for Lawand Prisons Muhammad Ayaz Soomroon Monday reached the city’s pressclub to register his protest.The PPP Jiala, Shahid Ali, complainedthat he was being given life threats forinsulting the minister with a shoe, as-serting that his justifiable demandswere not being fully met.The man warned he would commitself-immolation at the mausoleumof Benazir Bhutto if his demandswere not met.

It’s an educationemergency!

g uneSCo proposes enforcement of Article 25-A

KARACHInni

Education is a human right and a meansfor social and human development. As asignatory of the Education For All (EFA)Declaration and to the United Nations’(UN) Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), Pakistan works to bring everychild into school by 2015. One of themajor steps taken to meet this target isthe introduction of the Article 25-Athrough the recent 18th Amendment ofthe Constitution of Pakistan. The articlestates that “the State shall provide freeand compulsory education to all chil-dren of the age of 5 to 16 years in suchmanner as may be determined by law”.UNESCO, in collaboration with Pak-istan Association for Continuing andAdult Education (PACADE), held aforum with the media for the enforce-ment of Article 25-A and promotion ofEFA in Sindh at the Karachi Press Club.UNESCO Pakistan Director Dr KozueKay Nagata made a request for accel-erating efforts to achieve the interna-tionally committed targets ofachieving 86 percent literacy by theyear 2015 and meeting the goal of Uni-versal Primary Education as laid downin the UN’s MDGs.UNESCO exhorted the Sindh govern-ment to come up with a requisiteprovincial law to enforce the Right toEducation under the Article 25-A. Theorganisation also observed that neitherdemocracy nor the economy could func-tion meaningfully and pick up strengthand momentum if the masses lackedbasic human skills of reading and writ-ing in this day and age.

Till death do Pakistanand US apart

KARACHIsTAFF RePORT

In light of the current deteriorating re-lations between the United States (US)and Pakistan, the Pak-American Initia-tive (PAI) has announced its mission toimprove the situation.

The PAI is a non-governmental ef-fort which aims to build mutual confi-dence between the two countries tobring peace and harmony to the region.PAI Convener Syed Jawaid Iqbal saidthat the prime purpose of the PAI wasto resolve differences between the twocountries. “This is all the more impor-tant as Pakistan is a frontline statefighting terrorism in the region. We re-alise that it is vital to keep this organi-sation purely a non-governmentaleffort so that it is not perceived asbeing biased by either the US or thePakistan side and is considered a neu-tral platform which is free from the in-fluence of any bias,” he said.

Iqbal said that it was significantthat while governments kept comingand going, the people were constant.“Therefore, steps need to be taken onan urgent basis to resolve issues suchas the NATO supply deadlock, apologyon the Salala check-post incident, shel-ter allegedly provided to Osama binLaden, backing of Haqqani networkand imprisonment of Dr Shakil Afridi,”he said.

He added: “We accept that this will

not be an easy; nonetheless, we arecommitted to this effort and wish toprovide a public space for the people ofboth the US and Pakistan. In addition,the PAI will address and resolve con-flicts associated with the respectivecountries, create awareness about pos-itive developments in both countriesand highlight the current develop-ments taking place to improve rela-tions between the US and Pakistan.”

Iqbal will be leaving shortly on atwo-week visit to the US and is sched-uled to meet and discuss the idea withpeople from the US Congress, acade-mia, community leaders, political, eco-nomic and defense analysts, NGOs,think tanks and other key opinion-makers. He will also be talking to influ-ential Pakistani-Americans aboutopening chapters at various locationsacross the US.

Haven’t we had enough of uS already

KARACHIsTAFF RePORT

Ameer Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) HafizMuhammad Saeed said on Mondaythat Pakistan’s decision of strategicpartnership with US was wrong andthe country had to pay a high pricefor this partnership by sacrificing itsown men.Addressing a convention of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) leaders,Hafiz Saeed blamed the currentleadership for its limited politicalinterests and their inability to re-store the country’s stability and sov-ereignty.“Politicians are relying only on issu-ing statements to protect personaland party interests,” he said.He said that Pakistan had alreadysuffered a lot by taking part inAmerica’s war and it could not af-ford more damages.Hafiz Saeed said that DPC would re-sist any steps by the government re-garding reopening of the NATOsupply route.Maulana Samiul Haq, Asad UllahBhutto and other leaders of DPCalso addressed the convention.

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WAiTing FOR THe us’ APOLOgy: nATO trucks parked at the boat basin area are stuck here till an agreement is reached between the us and Pakistan. ONLINE

water level in kotri barrage dangerously low

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Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority(SIDA) revealed on Monday that Kotribarrage and its off-shoot canals are fac-ing a water shortage of about 50 percentof its season share.SIDA’s spokesman Hizbullah Mangriosaid that as per Indus River System Au-thority (IRSA) 1991 Water Accord, thebarrage should have a water dischargeof 34,200 cusecs. However, it was re-ceiving a flow of 17,630 cusecs only, headded. Similarly, two of a total of 4 off-shoot canals of the barrage - which arecontrolled by SIDA - are also facing ashortfall.According to Mangrio, the New FuleliCanal was flowing at 6,765 cusecsagainst its seasonal discharge of 13,330cusecs showing a shortage of approxi-mately 49 percent. Akram or the LineChannel was also experiencing a short-age of 41 percent with the water dis-charge reading at 2,050 cusecs againstits July share of 3,460 cusecs.Mangrio said that due to such condi-tions, SIDA was unable to ensure thesupply of water to tail end growers whowould consequently suffer crop losses.He added that SIDA was implementingwater rotation in all areas under its ju-risdiction, with the situation expected toimprove over the next 10 days. He ex-pressed hope that water rotation wouldbe brought to an end after 10 days.

we need teachers,and we need19,000 of them: CM

SUKKURAPP

Chief Minister (CM) Sindh Syed QaimAli Shah Monday said that the govern-ment would soon appoint 19,000 teach-ers on merit basis.Addressing large public gatherings inTharri Merwah and Faiz Ganj talukas ofKhairpur after inaugurating various de-velopment schemes, he said the provin-cial government had createdemployment opportunities for morethan 90,000 youths. The CM said overone hundred thousand unemployedyouths had been trained through BB-SYDP, out of which 30,000 to 35,000were given jobs in various governmentdepartments and private sector.

KARCHIOnLine

In a statement issued on Monday,prominent social worker Abdul SattarEdhi said that the doctors’ strike in Pun-jab is against the ethics of the medicalprofession, adding that it is tantamountto playing with human lives.

Edhi said that a number of precioushuman lives have been lost due to theyoung doctors’ strike and closure ofOPDs and other departments of govern-ment hospitals. He added that there wasmore live could be lost if the strike con-

tinued. He appealed to the doctors on strike

not to endanger human lives for theirown demands and to return to hospitalsimmediately.

He said that young doctors shouldadopt a peaceful approach to ensure theacceptance of their legitimate demands.JI LeADer DISCuSSeS BoguSentrIeS In voterS’ LIStS wIthSInDh CeC: Jamaat-e Islami (JI)Karachi Chief Muhammad Hussain Ma-henti called on the Provincial Chief Elec-tion Commissioner Sono Khan Balochand visited his office on Monday.

The two discussed irregularities andbogus entries in voters’ lists. JI DistrictWest Ameer Raja Arif Sultan was alsopresent at the meeting.

Mahenti told Baloch that the presentvoters’ lists were full of deliberate flawsand irregularities, added at the behest ofa particular political party so as to allowto rig the polls easily. He added that vot-ers were in a state of hopelessness due tothe lack of corrections of the irregulari-ties and flaws in the voters’ lists.

The JI leader also said that the sta-tistics department was asked to completethe information and give the compiled

data to NADRA but the task had not yetbeen completed. He added that the JIhad already complained to the electioncommission about these issues, with thecomplaints falling on deaf ears.

Mahenti said that the JI believedthat the dream of free, fair and transpar-ent elections would never come true ifelections were held with flawed voters’lists.

Baloch assured the JI chief that theirregularities in the voters’ lists wouldsoon be corrected and measures wouldbe taken to improve the display of thevoters’ lists.

KARACHITARiQ HAbib

Karachi remains at the mercy of terror-ists as the recovery of dead bodies con-tinues to bring misery to residents ofthe city. According to data collected byPakistan Today, deaths due to the on-going infighting among ethno-politicaland sectarian factions in Karachireached a whopping 181 for the monthof June, which raised the death toll forthe current year to a staggering 873. Atleast 19 bodies were found in gunnybags, all of whom were tortured todeath.

According to the data, 16 of the 181victims were killed for their associationwith various political parties, 12 fortheir ethnic background and 13 on sec-tarian grounds. Fifty percent of the tar-geted killings were reported in the westzone of the city.

The data showed that of the peoplekilled on ethno-political and sectariangrounds, eight belonged to the Mut-tahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), fourto the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP),five to the Awami National Party(ANP), seven to the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal-Jamaat (ASWJ), six to the Shia sect and18 to the Baloch community. Mean-while, the banned outfit People’s AmnCommittee (PAC) claimed that 12 oftheir activists had also been killed.

Nine police personnel were also tar-geted during last month while four se-curity guards belonging to the Pakhtuncommunity and three traders were alsokilled. The statistics show that 124 peo-

ple killed in the city during the perioddid not have affiliation with any politi-cal party.

Three women were also shot deadwhile more than 121 persons were in-jured in different incidents in the city.Five grenade attacks occurred in differ-ent parts of the city, three of which oc-curred in Lyari.

Police and Rangers claimed to havearrested 13 target killers in search op-erations conducted in west and southzones of the city. Meanwhile, the policecrime investigation department ar-rested four members of banned outfitTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and theAnti-Extortion Cell of Karachi arrestedone kidnapper.

Mothers and computers: A deadlycombination

KARACHIAPP

In order to promote computer literacyamong Pakistani young mothers andhomemakers, the Intel Pakistan collabo-rated with `WeldonMoms’ to train as-piring young housewives in Karachi. Astatement on Monay said that underIntel’s computer literacy drive, a day-long training programme was organizedfor a batch of 50 women using the latestmachines, with an aim to help themventure into a business owing to lack ofsupport, resources and confidence.It said that this move would largely helpthose stay-at-home mothers and house-wives who wanted to make an extra in-come while staying in their home.Speaking at the event, Asma Aziz ofIntel Pakistan said that the PC was amultifunctional device that would allowconsumers to work, play, learn and domore things simultaneously.“We believe that mothers and home-makers have the ability to shape the fu-ture of the entire family, and thisinitiative will help our women explorethe wonders of a PC and the internetright at their door step,” she added.The training covered a wide range oftopics like understanding componentsof a PC, browsing the internet, chatting,sending emails and how they could usethe computer to search informationabout schools and colleges, find newrecipes, pay bills and payments throughinternet banking etc. Speaking at the oc-casion, Anila Weldon, founder for Wel-donMoms, said that computers hadbecome an important part of everydaylife in today’s world. She said, “We havestructured this training to develop tech-nology literacy skills which involves ex-ploring and discovering what can bedone with these machines.”

Current flood situationnormal in Sindh

KARACHInni

Irrigation Department of Sindh on Mon-day issued the current flood situation andreported that river Indus was flowing atits normal level at Guddu, Sukkur, KotriBarrages and it would remain in normalflood conditions. As per the details, theriver discharging situation at Guddu Bar-rage is 135944 upstream discharge and99010 downstream discharge, at SukkurBarrage 83600 upstream discharge and30900 downstream discharge, and atKotri Barrage discharge situation is17630 upstream discharge and down-stream discharge is nothing.

Commissioner moves

against bad foodKArAChI: Commissioner KarachiRoshan Ali Shaikh ordered a crack downagainst those selling sub-standard fooditems and those selling food items at therates higher than those approved by thegovernment and give them strict legalpunishment. He was presiding over ameeting on ensuring the sale of fooditems on the government approvedprices, here in his office on Monday. APP

Edhi appeals doctors not to play with lives of people

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DATe: June 19 To JuLY 19, 2012Venue: CAnVAS GALLerY

Internationally acclaimed artist Hamra Abbas, recipient of the Abraajcapital art prize and the Sharjah biennale jury prize, exhibits herculturally loaded, iconographic works at Canvas Gallery on TuesdayJune 19th 2012, from 5 pm - 8 pm. Hamra received her bFA and MAfrom the national College of Arts, Lahore and a Meisterschuelerfrom universitaet der kuenste, berlin. She lives and works betweenLahore, Pakistan and boston, uSA. The show remains open dailyuntil July 19th 2012, from 11 am - 8 pm (excluding sundays)

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tHe OFFiCe 2: Rise OF tHe FiRed

After the grand success of "All in the Family", "Thoda

Pyar Thoda Murder", "The office" and "The

Sketchathon!", Firefly Theatre and Communications is

back with a bang! This time, along with b.G.

Productions and S.S. Productions, Firefly Theatre

presents "The office 2: rise of the Fired".

DATe AnD TIMe: June 30 To JuLY 01, 2012 Venue: kArACHI ArTS CounCIL

Join us at T2F every wednesday for interactive sessions onMirza Ghalib’s poetry, conducted by author and translator,Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Ghalib Made easy by @MicroMAFThepoetry of Mirza Ghalib (27 December 1797 – 15 February1869) has been considered complex, abstract and difficultto comprehend. even for Ghalib’s contemporaries, hislanguage and imagery presented a challenge.

NEWS DESK

tHE longer one staysin Karachi, themore they discoverand the more theycome to appreciate

the city’s true beauty. It’s not abeauty in terms of appearancebut more a beauty in terms ofcharacter, writes BBC’s AndrewWebster.

Karachi is diverse andchaotic in character and it is thisthat I have come to love aboutliving here. However many of thepeople I speak to seem to havedifficulty picturing the city andas a result often decide not tocome here.

This has prompted me to tryand portray the Karachi that Iexperience in the hope that itmight fill in some of the gapspeople may have when imaginingit.SADDAr AnD ItS MAr-KetS: Saddar translates fromUrdu into centre, meaning it isthe hustling, bustling centralarea of Karachi. Although it isnot an area I spend much timein, it is still one of my favouriteparts of Karachi as the sights Isee never fail to amaze me.

You enter Saddar by passingby a group of high rise five starhotels. But don’t be fooled, thisis just the sugar coating on top ofthe real Karachi; a Karachi farmore raw and exciting.

Saddar is made up of roadslined with old battered imperial-ist buildings that have been con-verted into shops and offices.

The streets are always packedand markets stretch out onto theroad manned by the most enthu-siastic salesmen you are everlikely to meet.

My favourite market in thearea is Empress Market. It is lo-cated inside a court yard whichis fronted by an impressive, ifnot slightly worn out lookingclock tower. I imagine it wasquite an important area whenfirst built by the British, but nowit is has become home to thecheapest market stalls inKarachi.

To put it simply Empress hasan abundance of life - carefullypiled fruits and spices, scowlingmarket traders and a meat mar-ket so shocking I could barelybelieve my eyes when I first sawit.

If you ever wondered whathappened behind closed doors inyour local butchers, then justvisit this market and you willsoon find out! Still this just addsto the flair and character of aplace that many people use tobuy their daily necessities!eAtIng – the eSSenCe oFKArAChI: A common jokeamongst friends is that fun inKarachi means eating. And it hasto be said that this is very true; Ido seem to spend a lot of timeeating. However there are a cou-ple of places we eat at that aremore special than most.

Our most common eateriesare located at a place called BoatBasin. The actual Boat Basin is ahuge lake, too polluted to beused for anything as extravagant

as boats – the name has some-what lost its meaning.

Across the road however, is amile long line of cheap restau-rants, juice stalls and ice creamparlours. Literally every type ofcuisine known to man is servedalong this strip to people sittingaround tables just metres awayfrom the side of the road.

Our favourite spot is KarachiBroast, a place we would claim,serves the best Chicken Tikka intown. When we are feeling reallyadventurous though, we go‘crabbing’. Going crabbing en-tails a trip out of Karachi’s har-bour on an old boat in which livecrabs are cooked in front of youreyes before being served for youto feast upon.

It’s important not to pictureanything too high tech or poshhere. This is much more like ascene from Pirates of theCaribbean – wooden boats,shady looking sailors and eventhe remains of sunken vesselssticking out of the water.

Admittedly the huge militaryand cargo ships alongside theharbour partly spoil the illusion,but still it’s an illusion none theless and always a good night!LIvIng the hIgh LIFe: Ifthis sort of stuff gets a bit muchthough, you can always seek soli-tude in one of the city’s many cof-fee shops, shopping malls orparks. These places are as modern,well kept and comfortable as anythat you would find in London.

The favourite of my coffeeshops are in Zamzama, Karachi’scoffee shop central. Packed with

pretentious art, big comfy sofasand young trendy people theyoffer the perfect getaway fromKarachi’s craziness once in awhile!

This is especially the case inthe summer when their wirelessinternet connection, air condi-tioning and fancy coffee becomefar more appealing especiallyduring domestic power cuts.

Equally as refreshing aresome of the parks in Karachi. Myfavourite is Zamzama Park withits running track full of joggersand walkers circling the outside.In the middle are lounging cou-ples, families enjoying the play-ground and old men sitting atthe outdoor café putting theworld to rights

After a run, the café providesa welcome rest with its reason-ably priced banana milkshakesand comfortable chairs which sitout under the star lit sky. And ofcourse if I get chatting to one ofthe old men, its all the better!

This is far from a compre-hensive description of Karachi,but just a taster. It does take awhile to get used to life inKarachi, but once you do getused to it, it is just a case of dis-covering more and more to seeand do. Even after being here for9 months I still feel like there ismuch more to experience and inthat respect it is a shame that Ihave to leave in three monthstime. Still it’s been an amazingexperience living here, and one Ihope that many more peoplefrom the UK will have in thecoming years.

Karachi: As it once wasThis 2008 article by a visiting British reporter to encourage his countrymen to visitis a reminder of what this beautiful city is missing out on because of the bloodshed

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Foreign News

nATo calls for ‘political solution’ in Syria

BRUSSELSAFP

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday called onthe international community to enforce a political solution inSyria while reiterating there would be no militaryintervention. “The right response to this crisis remains apolitical response. And a concerted response by theinternational community against a regime that has lost allhumanity and all legitimacy,’ Rassmusen told a newsconference. Welcoming the weekend meeting of the ActionGroup on Syria in Geneva, the alliance head said “theinternational community has a duty to put an end” to theconflict “and to do it now”. World powers agreed on Saturdayon a plan for a political transition in Syria that could includecurrent regime members. Russia and China insisted thatSyrians must decide how the transition should be carried outrather than allow others to dictate their fate but the Westdoes not see any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a newunity government. “This conflict has already gone on for toolong. It has cost too many lives, and put the stability of thewhole region at risk,” said Rasmussen. But he reiterated thatNATO has “no intention to intervene militarily”.

russia unveils world’s longestbridge for landmark summit

MOSCOWAFP

Russia on Monday unveiled the world’s longest cable-stayedbridge as it put the finishing touches on a troubled multi-billion investment aimed at revitalising the country’s distantFar East. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev opened the1,104-metre (3,622-foot) link from Vladivostok to RusskyIsland during a personal spot-check of preparations forhosting September’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) summit. “Everything that we have been doing herein recent years is obviously linked to the summit,”Medvedev said in televised remarks from the Far East. “Butwe are not doing it for the summit. We are doing it for you— for those who live here.” Russia is spending $20 billion(16 billion euros) in pursuit of its Soviet-era dream ofturning the port into a Russian version of San Francisco toattract massive investment and rival China’s growingdominance. Politicians have long voiced fears that adwindling population and a minimal production base willsee Russia one day forced to give up the Far East territory.Preparations for the event however have been beset byproblems and huge cost overruns that only seemed tounderscore the bureaucracy and waste stunting Russia’seconomic growth. The gleaming span over the EasternBosphorus — dubbed “the bridge to nowhere” by criticallocal media — was hit by a serious fire during its finalconstruction phase this winter. Several new regionalhighways have experienced periodic cave-ins and Medvedevon Monday also personally toured a road that partiallywashed away after a heavy rain last month.

DAMASCUSAFP

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad issued three new“counter-terrorism” laws onMonday, the official SANAnews agency said, nearly 16

months into a deadly crackdown on anuprising against his rule.

“Those who create or direct terroristgroups may be sentenced with 10 to 20years of hard labor, but the punishmentmay be more severe if the goal is to

change the regime or the structure of thestate,” said the text of the laws passed onThursday.

“If these (terrorist) acts result indeath or disability for the victims, thedeath sentence may be imposed,” itadded. Moreover, “the financing of ter-rorism, including any action to collectand directly or indirectly provide money,weapons, ammunition, explosives, com-munication equipment or intelligence toaid acts of terrorism are punishable by 15to 20 years in prison.”

The lowest penalty is five years in

prison for acts that do not result in loss oflife or property.

Another law says state employeesconvicted of “any act of terrorism —whether he is directly engaged, an acces-sory to the crime, or providing materialor moral support to terrorist groups inany way — will be fired,” SANA said.

This law also applies to former gov-ernment employees, who risk losing theirpensions if convicted.

A third law provides for jail terms of 10to 20 years with hard labour and a fine forany kidnapping for ransom, the news

agency said. SANA said that during a de-bate on Thursday, members of parliamentsaid the laws were “needed at this stage,given the negative impact of terrorism onthe security of the country and its citizens.”

Human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunnisaid the new laws were not intended toestablish security. Instead, they were “an-other tool in the hands of the regime todefend itself and pursue its security solu-tion,” said the head of the Syrian Centrefor Legal Studies and Research.

“The new laws contain broader defi-nitions for acts of terrorism and strongerpunishments than the former PenalCode,” said Bunni, who has himself spentseveral years in prison.

Meanwhile, the Syrian army kept upits bombardment of rebel neighbour-hoods of the central city of Homs onMonday, a watchdog said, while vio-lence killed at least seven people acrossthe country.

Four civilians were killed in theeastern province of Deir Ezzor, said theSyrian Observatory for Human Rights,which added they died when the carthey were travelling in was shelled.

One civilian was killed when regimeforces shelled the rebel-held town of Ras-tan in Homs province, the Britain-basedgroup said, adding a rebel was killed inthe same province. Another civilian waskilled in Daraa, the Observatory said.

bAnDAR AbbAs: iranian children throw flowers into the sea as they commemorate the 24th anniversary of the downing of iran Air flight 655 by the us navy,

at the port of bandar Abbas on Monday. The plane was shot down by mistake over the gulf by the us navy’s guided missile cruiser, uss Vincennes, during

confrontation with iranian speedboats on July 3, 1988, killing 290 civilian passengers and crew members. AFP

BAMAKOAFP

Mali’s Islamist rebels smashed the entrance of a 15thcentury Timbuktu mosque on Monday, escalating acampaign of destruction of the city’s cultural treas-ures despite threats of prosecution for war crimes.

Some residents sobbed as the Islamist militants brokedown the ‘sacred door’ of one of the northern Malian city’sthree ancient mosques after they wrecked seven tombs ofMuslim saints over the weekend. Exclusive video footageobtained by AFP shows turbaned men chanting ‘AllahuAkbar’ (God is great) while smashing a mausoleum withpick-axes in a cloud of dust, the mud-brick tomb showinggaping holes in the side with rubble piling up alongside it.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation con-demned the destruction, saying in a statement the siteswere “part of the rich Islamic heritage of Mali andshould not be allowed to be destroyed by ... bigoted ex-tremist elements.” Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) be-lieve the shrines to be idolatrous and have threatenedto destroy any mosques housing the remains of the an-cient saints, prompting an outcry from government and

the international community. “The Islamists have justdestroyed the door to the entrance of the Sidi Yahyamosque... they tore the sacred door off which we neveropen,” said a resident of the town on Monday morning.

A former tour guide in the once-popular tourist des-tination said: “They came with pick-axes, they cried ‘Allah’and broke the door. It is very serious. Some of the peoplewatching began crying.” Another man, a relative of a localimam (religious leader), said he had spoken to membersof Ansar Dine, which occupied the city and the rest ofnorthern Mali in the chaos following a coup in Bamakothree months ago.“Some said that the day this door isopened it will be the end of the world and they wanted toshow that it is not the end of the world.” The door on thesouth end of the mosque has been closed for centuriesdue to local beliefs that to open it will bring misfortune.

It leads to a tomb of saints, however the Islamistsappeared unaware of this as one witness said if they hadknown “they would have broken everything.” Accordingto the website of the UN cultural agency (UNESCO) SidiYahya is one of Timbuktu’s three great mosques and wasbuilt around 1400, dating back to the city’s golden ageas a desert crossroads and centre for learning.

under fire, German

intelligence service

chief steps downBERLIN

AFP

The head of Germany’s domesticintelligence agency has stepped downover blunders made in a probe of 10murders, mainly of immigrants,blamed on a neo-Nazi gang, theinterior ministry said Monday. HeinzFromm, who has held the post for 12years, announced his decision to takeearly retirement from the end of themonth to Interior Minister Hans-PeterFriedrich, the minister said in a writtenstatement. Friedrich said that Fromm“was, as he conveyed, himself surprisedand distressed about the mistakes byemployees in his authority”. “He is, likeme, deeply worried about the resultingloss of confidence in the domesticintelligence agency,” the minister said.Germany was left reeling by last year’sdiscovery of a far-right trio calling itselfthe National Socialist Underground(NSU), which was blamed for a seven-year murder spree of 10 people, mostlyshopkeepers of Turkish origin. Thecase surfaced in November only whentwo members of the NSU were founddead in an apparent suicide pact andthe other, a woman, turned herself in.Investigators initially suspectedcriminal elements from the Turkishcommunity were behind the rash ofkillings. Authorities have facedcriticism over how the small far-rightgroup could operate with impunity for11 years and the government hasadmitted gross errors by the securityservices. Pressure further increasedlast week after it emerged that fileswith information about a group ofright-wing extremists were destroyedby authorities several days after theNSU came to light.

LONDONAFP

Prime Minister David Cameron cameunder further pressure over Europe onMonday when a senior lawmaker fromhis party said Britain should exit the EUif it failed to renegotiate its relationship.

Liam Fox, the former defence minis-ter, said Britain should be freed from “thedogma of ever closer union” with Europe,and called for a referendum on Britain’sties to the European Union.

In a speech, Fox said he wantedBritain to “negotiate a new relationshipwith the EU based on economic ratherthan political considerations”.

If Europe blocked the move Britain

“would have no alternative but to recom-mend rejection and consider departurefrom the EU”, he said.

Like his Conservative party leader,Fox stressed however that now was notthe time to hold the vote.

Cameron on Sunday opened the doorto the possibility of a referendum but saidit should not happen yet and left openwhat the question posed should be.

The prime minister faces mountingpressure from many members of his cen-tre-right Conservative party for an “in orout” referendum on a complete with-drawal from the EU.

But any such move would face strongopposition from the Conservatives’ juniorcoalition partners, the more pro-Europe

Liberal Democrats.“There are those, including a growing

number of my parliamentary colleagues,who call for a simple ‘in or out’ referen-dum to be held in Britain soon,” Fox tolda meeting organised by the Taxpayers’ Al-liance campaign group.

“I too believe that a referendum willbe vital but I believe that having one nowwould be an error with great tacticalrisks.” About 100 Conserva-tive lawmakers wrote toCameron last week calling fora legal commitment to holding areferendum in the next parliament.

“For me the two words ‘Europe’and ‘referendum’ can go together,”Cameron wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.

Syria’s Assad issues ‘counter-terror’ lawsg Army pounds Homs, 7 killed nationwide

British PM under pressure over EU referendum

islamists destroy entrance toancient timbuktu mosque

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To the hustings then, not to the courts

The unsteady applecart

With the elections expected to be held withinmonths, politicians would do well to prepare totake part in them instead of dragging each other tothe courts. The gesture on the part of the PPP to

ask NAB to postpone enquiry on a reference against the Sharifbrothers was presumably aimed at bringing down the politicaltemperature. A positive environment is needed to fulfil some ofthe constitutional requirements for holding fair and freeelections. These include agreement between the governmentand opposition on a CEC and an independent caretaker set up.The reference in question was filed by Rehman Malik andrelated to money laundering during the PML(N)’s secondtenure. What Zardari had asked the chairman NAB to do wasnot to withdraw the reference but to put it on hold till theelections were over.

Imran Khan sees collusion in the postponement of theenquiry. He has vowed to take the case against the Sharifs to thesuperior courts in case NAB delayed action on it. This showsthat the tendency to drag opponents to the courts instead ofdealing with them politically is not confined to the PML(N)alone. During the last four years, the PML(N) has lost noopportunity to file cases against the PPP leadership while manythought it should have made a more effective use of the floor ofthe house to expose the government. Once the cases had beenfiled, the practice was to issue statements of support for thecourt against the perceived transgression on the part of theaccused party. By appealing to the courts to settle what were infact political disputes, politicians yielded turf to the judiciary.

Now it is the turn of Imran Khan to act as PML(N)’snemesis. However, at a time when those reading the tea leavesspeak of conspiracies being hatched against the system, the PTIleader’s statement is likely to lead to accusations that he ishelping in the upsetting of the apple cart at someone’s bidding.During the last two months excerpts from Raymond W Baker’s“Democracy’s Achilles Heel” published way back in 2005 havesuddenly started appearing on the net. These include furthercharges of corruption against the Sharif brothers. While it is forthe PML(N)to clarify their position, the timing of theaccusations rouses suspicions. The government and oppositionare preparing to evolve a consensus on the vital pre-electionarrangements. A timely and peaceful transition of power doesnot suit the offstage players as it strengthens the institutions.Any unwise step at this moment has the potential to unleash achain of events that could upset plans for timely elections. Anystep of the sort has to be avoided.

Abill dealing with reproductivehealth presented by Atia Enay-atullah has met with some tur-

bulence courtesy the comments ofKashmala Tariq, the Information Sec-retary of the Pakistan Muslim League.Ms Tariq said that here in the ‘Islamic’Republic of Pakistan where all lawsmust be in conformity with Islam, theQuran, Sunnah and the Constitution,she was concerned that the bill may bein contravention of Islamic laws; thatwhere there was any doubt of a matterbeing in conformity with Islamic lawsit should be referred to the Council ofIslamic Ideology for its opinion. Sincethe bill includes the subject of abor-tion, she added that changing thename or camouflaging the true pur-pose of the bill with a title containingthe words ‘reproductive health’ mayhide another, actual purpose fromthe general public, for whom abor-tion is a sensitive issue. She said thatconsensus was required, and thateverybody should be taken on boardin the matter.

Ms Tariq also suspects the bill ofpursuing sinister ‘foreign agendas,’saying that some NGOs may be at-tempting to bypass procedures bymeans of this bill.

Islam, closely followed by thevague threat of foreign agendas (CIAand other American plots, Zionistconspiracies, Indian subversive ac-tion, et al) with NGOs hovering in thebackground, and failing all else, theundemocratic angle…these are flagsreadily and conveniently applied bypoliticians here.

Kashmala Tariq, by virtue of herqualifications and experience, such asher work relating to the dreaded Hu-dood Ordinance, would be expected torise beyond such clichés, but that ap-pears a vain hope. Depending on themotive, the results are useful: beardsbristle, righteous breasts heave, andfat fists thump the air, and whateverthe issue, it is drowned in the gunk ofdeliberately aroused emotion.

Islam is an unemotional religion,which has morphed under Pakistani

tutelage into a spittle flying label. Stickthe label onto a debate, and it acquiresa somewhat Manichean ‘you are ei-ther with us or against us’ view of theworld associated with Fox News,George W Bush and Geo Television.

Pakistan is a country with a pop-ulation that threatens to feed off itselfvery soon, if indeed it isn’t doing so al-ready. The naive view that familyplanning is evil is an evil in itself. Tofoster this view is irresponsible.

A family with fewer children is fi-nancially better able to provide for it-self. This requires no elaboration. Forindividuals to be provided with infor-mation and facilities that bring themto understand and implement this factis the aim of the government of everycountry where the population is out-growing its resources, and Pakistan,as the third most populous state in theworld has arrived at this stage.

There are many ways of limitingthe population of a country to enrichthe lives of its existing and futuremembers, and abortion is one used

within bounds only in extreme situa-tions. Leaving it unlegislated encour-ages quacks and dangerous medicalpractices. Until a true Islamic societyarrives with its welfare state and so-cialist ideals (and we are further awayfrom it than we could ever be), theonly alternative is for us to keep ournumbers down so that individuals cando what the government can/will not.

And since the governmentcan/will not, there are NGOs on thescene: Behbud, the All PakistanWomen’s Association (APWA), theFamily Planning Association of Pak-istan, Baahn Beli, Aurat Foundation,the Human Rights Commission ofPakistan (HRCP), Shirkat Gah,among the better known. Like withany other group of organisations,some are better than others. To tarthem all with the same sinister brushdismisses the achievements of allNGOs at one stroke.

Foreign governments interestedin subverting the interests of Pakistanwould provide free fertility treatment

to hamper development rather thanlimiting the population of this coun-try. Ms Tariq’s NGO reference wasprobably fuelled by the fact that theUN High Commissioner for HumanRights met women legislators in Pak-istan recently, and among those pres-ent was Ms Enayatullah. Butcollaborating with the UN is not nec-essarily a bad thing seeing that help ishardly available at home.

To suggest that ‘everyone’ shouldbe taken on board in this matter is tan-tamount to consulting a lion about agoat’s welfare, given that the crux ofthe problem at hand is exactly all thoseteeming ‘everyones’ mostly bearded,qualified to give neither a medical nora religious opinion on the matter.When faced with unconstructive com-ments, it is best to question the motivebehind such remarks, which in thecase of politicians is generally elec-toral. It is time to take bold measuresin the interests of the nation ratherthan of a few at the top, and those tak-ing such measures need support.

concern about reproductive health isn’t quite that

Of un-Islamic foreign agendas

Negotiating betterThe yDA-government faceoff could’ve/should’ve been avoided

Young Doctors have been on astrike for almost two weeks nowand many outpatient wings ofpublic hospitals have not beenfunctional or fully functional.

Given the number of people these hospitalstreat, this has brought a lot of heartache,heartbreak and in some cases tragedy for pa-tients and their families/friends. Who islegally and morally responsible for this pain?The doctors or the government that hastaken not been able to resolve the issue be-fore it went to a strike? We know it has beenthe patients and their families who have hadto pay for this.

If the workers in a factory strike, it isusually not a big public issue. The factoryloses output, the workers and the employersuffers and as long as the good is not a basicnecessity and that factory does not have amonopoly on the production of a good, saya toothpaste manufacturer as opposed to amonopoly manufacturer of a patented lifesaving drug, the effects of the strike are lim-ited to those associated with the factory. Insuch cases, as per the labour laws, theprocess of negotiation and arbitration cancontinue for some time and the matter re-solved through this process. If it takes a littletime to resolve the matter, depending on theurgency that workers or employers feel, it isnot that big a deal for the rest of the society.In other words, there are few externalities tothe process.

But where essential services are con-cerned, and there are few alternatives avail-able, like policing, fire brigade, soldiers,doctors, nurses and so on, the impact of astrike is not on the workers and the employ-ers alone, it has large externalities for alarger section of the population too. In manyplaces, recognising the need to continuethese essential services in all circumstances,legislations have been made so that thosewho supply essential services do not havethe right to disrupt supply. In other words,the right to strike, for such workers, is takenaway. Punjab has similar legislation in placeas well. Though, clearly, it is not as effectiveand not well implemented.

This is not a straightforward solutionthough. The right to strike is one of the basic

rights of labour against possibilities of ex-ploitation. It is needed to level the bargain-ing power between powerful employers likethe state or large companies and weak andfragmented workers. The question to ponderis that if workers in essential services are notallowed to go on strikes, what sort of alter-natives are put in place for them to ensurethat their legitimate demands are heard byemployers and that their bargaining powerremains effective even when the right tostrike is not there. Has Punjab ensured thatsuch provisions are present?

The Punjab government has been argu-ing that the demands of the Young Doctorsare unreasonable. They are asking for toomuch and this is not feasible for a cashstrapped government to agree to. The YoungDoctors are arguing that they are underpaid,overworked and need better working condi-tions. Which side is correct and to what ex-tent? Inflation has been high in Pakistanover the last many years and salaries in pub-lic sector, even though they have been ad-justed now and then, have generally laggedbehind inflation. Doctors go through a longperiod of training before they become doc-tors and young doctors do not have manyprospects for private practice too. So they dorely on salaries for their living. The govern-ment is saying that young doctors are al-ready being paid more than other civilservants in the same grades. Where thismakes it seem like doctors are already get-ting more, what if the other civil servantshave more perks (like those in district ad-ministration) or if it just implies that salariesof all civil servants need further adjust-ments. Before it went to strikes and calls fortaking licenses of striking doctors away andtheir arrests, could we have had a more neu-tral body assess the validity of the claims ofboth sides and possibly some arbitration onthe issues?

From game theory, we know that threatsare of little use if they are not taken to becredible by the other side. So the side threat-ening has to be genuinely able and willing tocarry out the threat they are making. Other-wise the threat will just be discounted asempty talk. If the government threatens to

implement the Essential Services Act, whichthey have done, they should be willing to fol-low through and use legal means now tobreak up the strike. Are they in a position todo that? If they are not, they should not havethreatened. If they threaten while bluffingand their bluff is called, they will lose a lot ofcredibility and then next time round it will beharder to take anything they say or do seri-ously. The Punjab Government has said thatif the matter is not resolved quickly they willfire/arrest these doctors and make alterna-tive arrangements to get the hospitals work-ing. This should now be followed throughwithout unreasonable delays if the doctors donot come back to work. Otherwise it is justan invitation for doctors as well as otherworkers to push the government around.

But moving forward the government hasto ensure they have more effective and fairermeans and protocols for negotiation inplace. In the last few years we have seenteachers, professors, doctors, nurses, andclerks on the streets. We know salaries ofmany of these groups are definitely notenough to sustain middle class life styles. Weknow inflation has taken a toll on purchasingpower. We also know that most of these pro-fessions do not have many official perks, andmost of them are not places where moneycan be made on the side like in civil admin-istration. But these professions are ex-tremely important for us. We should have inplace mechanisms that assess the needs ofthese professionals with empathy and justconcern and then ensure that just demandsare met. Once the mechanism is in placethen Essential Services Act makes moresense. Negotiations can be much betterstructured than they clearly are. If they arenot, the tamasha, for the government andthe doctors will continue, and we will havemore of such tamashas and it is the people,not a direct party to the dispute, who will paymost of the price.

The writer is an Associate Professor ofEconomics at LUMS (currently on leave)and a Senior Advisor at Open SocietyFoundation (OSF). He can be reached atfbari@sorosny.org

By Dr Faisal Bari

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For their pains, the doctors figure they should be better remunerated andhave more izzat than assorted government bureaucrats

In sickness/health

It is yet another scorching day in Short-Term-Memory-Loss-istan. The mainstream media is taking sides, again.The social media hacks are up in arms, again. In the

scorching heat of the summer sun, millions of ‘mango people’are being sunburnt, dehydrated and carted off to the morguefor want of basic medical attention. Therefore, the ‘young’doctors are out on strike. Again. The ‘old’ doctors, mean-while, are supposedly sipping cognac in their dinner jackets,holding their pinkys to their mouths and sniggering wildlyas they watch the mayhem unfold onscreen. If this were anOliver Stone movie, it would sweep the Razzies. Unfortu-nately, the story comes from the most infamous of the Stans;which is why it must be underplayed and glossed over. Butconsider some facts.

Since its inception in 2008, the Young Doctors Associa-tion has sent its members on strike a total of eight times. Inthe 2011-2012 period alone, this is the third such strike. Ob-viously, doctors play by baseball rules and are now ‘sittingout’ the remainder of the time that this impasse continues.Sunday’s closure of the emergency ward at Mayo Hospital isanother indication that the doctors are bent on seeing thisthrough to the bitter end. Much like the US government,these doctors also consider all casualties along the way are

‘acceptable collateral damage’, a smallprice to pay to achieve their long termstrategic goals. In fact, the blood ofthese casualties is not on the hands ofthe professionals at all: it is on themanic fangs of the monster that is thePunjab government. Those extremist-hugging right-wing sons of guns mustbe to blame for this; because they usu-ally are the most convenient of scape-goats. What with their ridiculoussloganeering of ‘good governance’.

Then there is the question of their‘demands’. In the words of ‘StrikingDoctors for Dummies’, the YDA hastwo principal demands: more pay andbetter employment benefits. Whilethis is an oversimplification, it is nottoo far from the truth. Doctors, afterbeing allowed to unionise, have nowrealised that their pay and servicestructures are quite unfair to those ofthem (read all of them) who have putthemselves through the extensive (andexpensive) trouble of medical school.For many, this is roughly the equiva-lent of two tours of duty in Vietnam,Afghanistan or Mozambique. For theirpains, the doctors figure, they shouldbe better remunerated and have moreizzat among the ranks of lowly secre-taries and other assorted governmentbureaucrats. While their demands formore pay were met last year, when thePunjab government agreed to raisedoctors’ salaries by 40 percent in thefiscal year 2011-2012 and by another

60 percent in the fiscal year that began last Sunday. That’sabout a 100 percent raise from March of 2011. That’s abouta 100 percent increase in a sixteen-month period.

Unfortunately, that is not all they want. The question ofizzat still remains unresolved. Doctors want to be free of theshackles of the Basic Pay Scale system. Either that, or theywant that all Medical Officers in government hospitals(which is like being a lecturer at a public sector university,an entry-level position for young graduates) to be BPS-18employees. Ostensibly so they can attest their friends’ docu-ments and help forge visa applications. Also, they want thatpostgraduate trainees be paid the same as aforementionedMedical Officers, mostly because they do all the work whilethe Medical Officer goofs off. And ‘supervises’: these traineesmust always be supervised. No, really. But on top of that, theywant that the ‘Health Professional Allowance’ (money theyget for just having taken the trouble to become doctors) bemade equivalent to each doctor’s basic pay.

On the face of it, these demands look quite benign. Ac-ceptable, even. In fact, if this were a first world country,there would be no need to have a strike in the first place, be-cause all these demands would’ve been accepted immedi-ately. Sounds legit, no? Well, it’s not. The world over, doctorsand healthcare professionals such as homeopaths and chi-ropractors grumble and complain about bad pay and unrea-sonable work hours, not to mention exceptional stress at theworkplace. But unlike other places, here, the doctors havean obstinate and broke Punjab government to deal with.And what the Punjab government can’t pay for, it will put inthe hands of a committee. Which is exactly what has hap-pened to these demands.

Being a doctor isn’t easy by any stretch of the imagina-tion. Especially when you have the Hippocratic Oath to hon-our and a family to feed. But somehow, oaths andprofessional commitments take a backseat when it comes tothe size of one’s wallet and ego. While the demands of theYoung Doctors may be reasonable, the means they are em-ploying to drive their point home are not kosher, to say theleast. While I do not support nor justify state highhandednessagainst medical professionals, I do believe that violence andincitement to violence begets a violent response. Doctors, asa profession, are not to blame. But it is incumbent upon their‘leadership’ to be true to the cause and focus on finding a ‘po-litical’ solution to the impasse. The closure of emergencywards is an underhanded tactic, one which cannot be en-dorsed, no matter what the circumstances.

It’s time the Khadim-e-Aala woke up and smelt the cof-fee. He needs a health minister like an addict needs his nextfix; right now. The government of Punjab needs to under-stand the gravity of the situation and come up with a com-prehensive plan that will solve this issue in the long run.And the doctors need to be less stubborn and more sympa-thetic to the plight of their fellow beings. Have we learntnothing from the last time, or the time before that, or theone before that?

But I digress. Welcome to Short-Term-Memory-Loss-istan

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Mighty ObviousBy Syed Hassan Belal Zaidi

Sindhi youth in crisisThe Sindhi youth is afflicted with perva-

sive poverty, chronic unemployment, drugaddiction and limited recreational avenues.Due to these problems, the youth has be-come susceptible to anger, disillusionmentand suicide in the upper and lower Sindhdistricts. The suicide of two young partyworkers of the PPP, both from the home dis-trict of the chief minister of the province,Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Kahirpur Mirs, inprotest of rising unemployment and theshowing of a shoe by an angry unemployedyoung man to the provincial law ministerMr Muhammad Ayaz Soomro, in the func-tion in Hyderabad is a reminder of the factthat the Sindhi youth is in a deep crisis.Their reservoir of patience is over now be-cause the incumbent provincial rulers havevirtually done nothing to change the lot ofthe deprived. Reliable statistics availablewith this scribe and a few other research-oriented NGOs testify to the fact that thereis very high incidence of suicides amongteenagers in upper and lower Sindh dis-tricts. The growing trend of suicides amongthe educated and skilled youths is a matterof urgent concern.

The incumbent rulers are requested totake concrete measures to prevent the lot ofthe youth in the province. In this connec-tion, the government is requested to set upeconomic zones in the upper and lowerSindh districts, preferably in Larkano,Shikarpur, Sanghar, Naushero Feroz. NGOsand other independent organisation thathelp the youth are requested to establishyouth development centres for their coun-selling and put them on right track so thatsuch youth can have some hope.

HASHIM ABROIslamabad

no SocratesFormer PM Yousaf Raza Gilani has said

that he drunk a cup of poison like Socratesto uphold the rule of law in the country al-though he knew that the decision to disqual-ifying him had already been madebeforehand. The comparison is, however,not valid since Socrates was awarded deathpenalty by an autocratic regime. But the for-mer PM was disqualified by the SupremeCourt of a democratic government in a con-

tempt case for not obeying the apex courtand interpreting the constitution as per hisown liking while that is the domain of theSupreme Court. He only wanted to safe-guard the co-chairman of his party forget-ting his oath of office. He did not realise thathe was the PM of the 180 million people ofPakistan and not just of the PPP voters.Now whatever laments he might have inprose and poetry are of no use as he did notuphold the law of land like Socrates but onlybecame a silent sacrificial lamb.

DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTILahore

on foreign remittancesPakistan’s economic crisis will deepen if

dual nationality holders are allowed to con-test elections for our parliament. The rightto represent is different from the right tovote. Those who seek to contest electionsshould renounce their oaths of allegiance toforeign countries and pledge to live in theconstituencies that they desire to represent.

Almost 90 percent of foreign remit-tances are sent by those Pakistani expatri-ates who do not hold, or cannot possessforeign nationality where they reside onwork visas such, as in Middle East, Gulfstates, Far East and other countries. ThosePakistani residents working in these coun-tries who hold any foreign nationality remittheir savings to the countries whose pass-port they hold. Bulk of $15 Billion foreignremittances sent through normal bankingchannels to Pakistan are rerouted by cor-ruption dominated mafia in the civil, khakibureaucracy, or the political elite and ourtraders who hold dual nationalities them-selves, or either their children hold them.

Foreign currency smuggling racket isdominated by professional careers workingfor Hundi traders or PIA and shipping crewmembers holding dual nationalities. Themoney send through Hundi from Gulf orthe Middle East is another channel used bythis mafia to transfer their ill-gotten moneyto foreign countries whose nationality or im-migration they hold. Money is paid to fami-lies of Pakistani expatriates in Pakistan atmore attractive rates than offered by banks,while savings of these expatriates are sent tobank accounts of dual nationality holders.

As long as Pakistan does not restrict thepolitical or bureaucratic power wielded bythese dual nationality holders occupyingsenior positions in our bureaucracy andstate owned corporations, laws will beframed and policies deliberately drafted tokeep loopholes for flight of capital from Pak-istan. The ministry of finance and StateBank are dominated by this mafia, whichshould explain cumbersome procedures,unattractive exchange rates and long delaysthat still exist for our expatriates eager toremit their savings to families in Pakistan.

RIAZ CHAUDHRYDubai

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FAShion AnD AwArDS

Here’s hoping for a nice, calm celebration. The headline-

making Lindsay Lohan is turning 26 years old today, and

with her busy schedule, we couldn’t possibly think of how

she’ll spend her special day. Sleeping, maybe? But that

could cause another ordeal. LiLo has had a roller-coaster

year: receiving lawsuits; settling them; allegedly get-

ting involved with club fights; making a guest appear-

ance on Glee; and snagging the role of Elizabeth

Taylor in a biopic. We just can’t tell which way her

day is gonna go. So how did the comebacking star

celebrate? Per Us Weekly, LiLo partied down with

a group of close friends early Sunday morning at

West Hollywood club Bootsy Bellows, where she

was reportedly treated to a cake and cupcakes,

along with a rousing rendition of “Happy

Birthday” sung by the whole room. no

word yet if her Canyons costar James

Deen was there. Agencies

Tom Cruise seen flyingover iceland after Katieholmes files for divorce

WHErE in the world is Tom Cruise?

Iceland…for a few moments at least. The

49-year-old rock of Ages star, who’s been

laying low since his split from wife Katie Holmes,

was spotted in a helicopter taking off from

reykjavik’s airport in Iceland Saturday, according to

the U.K.’s Daily Mail. not surprisingly, he didn’t have

a smile on his face as he departed. There’s no word

yet where Cruise was heading as he reportedly flew

off to the next location for his upcoming flick

Oblivion, but this is the first time the thesp has been

seen publicly since Holmes sent his marriage to

oblivion by filing for divorce Thursday. Holmes has

also managed to stay out of the public eye since

news of the couple’s split hit the media. neWs DesK

The Amazing Spider-Manis off to a flying start

In 13 overseas markets this weekend, the

superhero reboot grossed an estimated $50.2

million. “This is a very healthy start,”

BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino said Sunday.Spider-

Man’s studio, Sony, opted to describe the opening as

“fantastic.” Moviegoers in India, Korea, Japan and

elsewhere got the jump Friday on U.S.-based Spider-

Man fans, who can’t catch the film Stateside until

midnight Tuesday at the earliest. In India, The Amazing

Spider-Man scored the biggest opening ever for a

Hollywood film, its studio said. In Korea, the reboot

bested the debut there of The Avengers. In Japan, it

accounted for nearly all of the country’s Saturday and

Sunday ticket sales. Most promising for The Amazing

Spider-Man is that its international debut earned better-

than-favorable comparisons to the franchise’s Tobey

Maguire era. In India and Korea, the Andrew Garfield-

Emma Stone reboot outdid the respective opening

weekends of Spider-Man 3. In Vietnam, the movie

outgrossed the entire run of the same sequel. “For

whatever reason, the [original] Spider-Man trilogy

never performed quite as dominantly in the

international marketplace,” David Mumpower of Box

Office Prophets said in an email. Agencies

Arbaaz Khan’s car crusheswoman to death

An elderly woman was crushed to death by a high-

end car being allegedly driven by actor and

filmmaker Sohail Khan’s driver in suburban

Bandra late last night, police said today. Preliminary

reports suggested that the actor was not present in the

car at the time of the accident. The golden Lexus involved

in the accident is registered in the name of Arbaaz, but

youngest brother Sohail was the primary user. According

to police, the car, allegedly being driven by Dhananjay

Pimple mowed down the woman, identified as Chandan

Bala, about 60-70 years of age, near St Andrews Church.

The woman was rushed to a nearby hospital where she

was declared dead, police said, adding the driver was

arrested and further probe was on. cOuRTesy HT

LOS ANGeLeS: The fashion at the

2012 BET Awards — held last night

in Los Angeles and hosted by

Samuel L. Jackson — was hit and

miss. For every classy, pretty

ensemble, there was steaming

heap of tacky.

FAShion ATBeT AwArDS

TUrnS 26Lindsay Lohan

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NEWS DESK

Salman Khan the actor recentlycourted controversy after beingmistaken for a troublemaker bynone other than the North AtlanticTreaty Organisation (NATO). Theincident occurred when the actorwas shooting a gun chase in Zakho(on the Syria-Iraq-Turkey border),considered to be a volatile area, forKabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger. A source from the unit claims thatwhile shooting the actionsequences, the film’s unit were toldto stay put for a couple of hours bythe NATO forces. The official spokesperson of thefilm confirms, “Salman, along with40 crew members, came under theradar of the NATO forces in thearea while shooting a gun chaseand some firing sequences for thefilm. Katrina Kaif, who will be seenwith Salman after four years, wasnot present during this sequence.”

The espionage thriller was shotaround Mardin and Zakho. Thespokesperson adds, “Zakho is asensitive zone. While shooting theaction sequence, snipers picked upthe sound (of gunshots) as theirforces had a base on a hilltopnearby. Four army helicopters weresent and a red alert was declared.There was so much confusion thatthe unit had to lie on the groundfor hours until local authoritieswere called to let NATO know thatit was just a film shoot.”Kabir Khan is not new to shootingin troubled locations. Thedirector’s debut film Kabul Express(2006), which featured JohnAbraham and Arshad Warsi, wasshot extensively in Kabul,Afghanistan, after the Taliban’sregime ended. The film’s cast andcrew were reportedly sent deaththreats by the Taliban, but theAfghan government provided tightsecurity to enable filming.

Aamir Khan or VidyaBalan may open andclose 43rd iFFi

SUPEr star Aamir Khan or actor Vidya Balan

are likely to flag off the 43rd edition of

International Film Festival of India (IFFI),

Goa, from november 20 to november 30, 2012.

The union information and broadcasting ministry

in Delhi held an IFFI core committee meeting to

review and discuss the progress and preparation

for the IFFI. Sources present at the meeting said,

“The names of Aamir Khan and Vidya Balan were

discussed to invite them for the opening and

closing ceremony of IFFI.” Sources also said that

they have just discussed the names, but nothing

has been finalized so far. Shah rukh Khan had

inaugurated the 42nd edition of IFFI. Agencies

eddie Muphy debutsnew lady love

eDDIE Murphy made his hot new romance with

106 & Park star rocsi Diaz official on Saturday

night. The couple could be seen cozying up as

they attended a pre-BET Awards bash at Union Station

in Los Angeles. The sight of the stylish duo comes

after about a month of speculation that the two are

indeed an item. The couple had been photographed

out and about together in recent weeks, including a

trip to Hawaii. Agencies

Josh lucas’ familywelcomes a baby boy!

SWEET Home Alabama star Josh Lucas’ home

just got a whole lot sweeter. The actor

welcomed his first child, a bouncing baby boy,

on Friday with wife Jessica. And it looks like the couple

is indeed revving up for parenthood, because they

chose quite the appropriate name for their son noah

rev Maurer! The child was born in new York City and

weighed in at a strapping 9 pounds, 4 ounces. The

low-key couple caught celeb watchers by surprise

when they got married in a top-secret ceremony in

March. The 41-year-old, who recently appeared in a TV

redo of The Firm, famously proposed to Jessica in

January after a close encounter with a bear while

shooting on location in Big Sur. neWs DesK

worrieD The nAToWHY SALMAN KHAN

i F you thought Scientology had adisturbing influence on KatieHolmes’s marriage to Tom Cruise,just wait until you see what it’s

going to do to her divorce. TMZ isreporting that Katie is being followedby a team of Scientologists. Why? Whoknows! Maybe they just want to makesure she’s safe and happy? Or maybethey’re trying to catch her doingsomething horrible so their masterfellow worshipper Tom Cruise has anupper hand in the coming legal battle?Either way, creeps be creepin’. Sheapparently believes they’ve beentrailing her for the past severalweeks—coincidentally about the exactamount of time she and Cruise havebeen “spending time apart.”Nobody would blame her for beingparanoid about the notoriouslysecretive and strange religion, but thisdoesn’t appear to be all in her head.The photographers who are openlystalking her report that there havebeen some “mysterious” men and carstracking Katie’s movements. She is

also being followed by a “publication,”but the Scientologists appear to berunning their own separate, extrashady operation. For their part,Scientology took a break from its busyschedule of shedding Thetans to havetheir lawyer issue a statement sayingthey’re not following Katie orconducting surveillance on her. So useyour own Xenu-given powers of reasonto decide what you want to believe.Meanwhile, even though she’spotentially being tracked by a pack ofwatchers, Katie is reportedly lookinghappier and like she’s “been set free.”Tom Cruise, however, is not faring sowell. He is said to be suffering from amajor case of the sadfacesand was NOT smilingwhen he was spottedtaking off in ahelicopter from anairport in Icelandwhere he’sshooting amovie.

is Katieholmes beingstalked by Scientologists?

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COLOMBOAFP

rESOLUTE Sri Lankan bat-ting and wet weather frus-trated Pakistan's bid todrive home the advantage

on the third day of the second Test inColombo on Monday.

The tourists, who declared their firstinnings at 551-6, dismissed opener Tha-ranga Paranavitana for zero before thehosts recovered to post 70-1 by stumpsat the Sinhalese Sports Club.

The experienced duo of TillakaratneDilshan and Kumar Sangakkara led therevival by adding 59 runs for the secondwicket on a pitch that continued to assistbatsmen. Dilshan was unbeaten on 46with nine hits to the fence and San-gakkara was on 22.

Just 27 overs of the stipulated 90were bowled during the day as rainwashed out play in the last two sessions.The second day had also seen only 44overs sent down.

With more rain forecast over thenext two days, the match appearedheaded for a draw with Sri Lanka set toretain their lead in the three-match se-ries after winning the first Test in Galleby 209 runs.

A fired-up Pakistan attack were re-

warded with the breakthrough in thefourth over when left-handed Paranavi-tana was snapped up at short-leg byAzhar Ali off Junaid Khan.

But Dilshan and Sangakkara, whoboth scored centuries in Galle, settleddown to deny the tourists further suc-cess. Pakistan, who resumed on the

overnight score of 488-4, batted for anhour before skipper Misbah-ul Haq de-clared the innings.

Misbah himself remained unbeatenon 66 after Asad Shafiq was run out fortwo and Adnan Akmal was caught inthe covers to give left-arm spinnerRangana Herath his third wicket in the

innings. Pakistan's innings had re-volved around a second-wicket stand of287 between Mohammad Hafeez (196)and Azhar Ali (157), the highest part-nership by a visiting team on SriLankan soil. The third Test will beplayed in Pallekele from July 8.

LAUDERHILLAFP

West Indies notched up their secondcrushing Twenty20 victory over NewZealand in as many days here on Sun-day. After winning the first shortened

overs match by 56 runs on Saturday,West Indies again had explosive bats-man Chris Gayle and spinner SunilNarine to thank for a convincing 61-run win over the Kiwis. West Indiesmade 177 for five off their 20 overswith Gayle striking a fluent 53 off 39

balls, featuring three fours and foursixes, and Jonathan Charles andDwayne Bravo chipping in with usefulknocks of 36 and 35 not out respec-tively. New Zealand were then bowledout for 116 in the 18th over withDaniel Flynn top-scoring with 22 as

Narine followed up on his 3-32 inSaturday's match with a startling 4-12in four extremely tidy overs.bRieF scORes: west Indies 177 for 5 (Gayle 53,

Charles 36, Dwayne bravo 35) v new zealand 116

(Flynn 23; narine 4-12), west Indies won by 61 runs,

Series: west Indies win two-match series 2-0.

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Sharapova stunned byLisicki revenge mission

Rain ruins Pakistan’s chances england addwoakes toone-day squad

LONDONAFP

England have called up Warwickshireseamer Chris Woakes to their squad aheadof the third one-day international againstAustralia in Birmingham on Wednesday.Surrey pacemen Jade Dernbach, whoplayed in Sunday's six-wicket win at TheOval that gave England a 2-0 lead in thefive-match series, and Stuart Meaker will beunavailable for the Edgbaston as they willbe attending the funeral of their formercounty colleague Tom Maynard on Wednes-day. Maynard died in an incident on a Lon-don Underground train track, at the age ofjust 23, last month. His funeral will takeplace in his native Wales. Meaker wasadded to the England squad before Sun-day's win as cover for the injured James An-derson, who was replaced by Dernbach asSteven Finn's new-ball partner. Englandstill hope Anderson will be fit after his groininjury for the remainder of the five-matchseries, but have added Woakes as a precau-tion for possible inclusion on his Edgbastonhome ground where a win will give thehosts an unassailable 3-0 lead. ReViseD engLAnD sQuAD FOR THiRD ODi AgAinsTAusTRALiA: Alastair Cook (capt), Ian bell, JonathanTrott, ravi bopara, eoin Morgan, Craig kieswetter (wkt),Tim bresnan, Stuart broad, Graeme Swann, Steven Finn,James Anderson, Samit Patel, Chris woakes.

bopara praises ‘best’england oDI team

LONDONAFP

Ravi Bopara reckons both he and Englandare playing the best one-day international(ODI) cricket of his career. The Essex all-rounder made an impressive 82 as Englandbeat Australia by six wickets with morethan four overs to spare at The Oval hereon Sunday to go 2-0 up in a five-match ODIseries. Opener Ian Bell continued his recentgood form with 75 but it was a bowling at-tack without injured spearhead James An-derson who put England in a position towin by restricting Australia to a below par251 for seven. Bopara did his bit with theball too, the medium-pacer taking one for16 in five overs as he captured the prizewicket of Australia captain and star bats-man Michael Clarke, out for just 10.

Australia to play

Afghanistan in oDISYDNEY

AFP

Top-ranked Australia will play emergingcricket nation Afghanistan for the first timein a one-day international in the MiddleEast next month, Cricket Australia (CA) saidon Monday. The game will serve as a warm-up for Australia's series against Pakistan inthe United Arab Emirates, which immedi-ately precedes the ICC World Twenty20tournament in Sri Lanka in September-Oc-tober. CA chief executive James Sutherlandsaid Australia had been looking for a chanceto play Afghanistan and saw the opportunityonce details of the the Pakistan ODI andTwenty20 series in the UAE had becomeclear over the weekend. While no venue hasbeen yet finalised for the Afghanistan ODI,CA said the game was being scheduled toallow the Australian team time to acclima-tise before taking on Pakistan in three ODIsand three T20s in August. "Everyone inworld cricket have been really impressedwith how cricket has flourished inAfghanistan, despite its pressing nationalproblems," Sutherland said in a statement."As an ICC member, CA strongly supportsworld cricket's ambition for cricket to con-tinue to develop as a global sport and that,combined with the strong relationships be-tween our two countries, encouraged us tolook at how we might recognise and encour-age Afghanistan by playing them on thefield." Sutherland said Australia were alsolooking forward to hosting Afghanistan inthe ICC Under-19 World Cup in Australia inAugust. He said the details of theAfghanistan fixture had been finalised indiscussions at last week's annual meeting ofthe International Cricket Council (ICC) inMalaysia. ICC president Alan Isaac, speak-ing in Dublin where he will watchAfghanistan play Ireland, welcomed thematch by saying Monday: "This fixture sup-ports ICC's initiative to provide more oppor-tunities for our top rankingassociate/affiliate member (AM) teams toplay against better opposition." The NewZealander added: "It aligns perfectly withthe ICC strategic plan to build a bigger, bet-ter global game by developing more compet-itive teams at the highest level. "We havealready seen Pakistan play Afghanistan inSharjah this year in a high quality matchand we must commend Australia for creat-ing this opportunity. It has always beenwilling to contribute to development byplaying against AM nations as it recentlyshowed when it played against Ireland."

PAKisTAn 1sT innings (OVeRnigHT 488-4):

Mohammad Hafeez b Herath 196

Taufeeq umar c P. Jayawardene b Mathews 65

Azhar Ali c Kulasekara b Randiv 157

younis Khan lbw b Herath 32

Misbah-ul Haq not out 66

Asad shafiq run out 2

Adnan Akmal c Dilshan b Herath 5

Abdur Rehman not out 18

extras: (lb5, nb4, w1) 10

Total (for 6 wkts, dec, 147 overs) 551

Fall of wickets: 1-78 (Taufeeq), 2-365 (Hafeez), 3-435

(younis), 4-486 (Azhar), 5-491 (shafiq), 6-519 (Akmal).

bOWLing: Kulasekara 27-6-84-0, Mathews 15-1-55-1 (nb1),

Pradeep 24-3-103-0 (nb3, w1), Randiv 31-0-131-1, Herath 49-

5-164-3, Dilshan 1-0-9-0.

sRi LAnKA 1st innings:

T. Paranavitana c Azhar b Junaid 0

T. Dilshan not out 46

K. sangakkara not out 22

extras: (lb2) 2

Total (for one wicket, 15 overs) 70

Fall of wicket: 1-11 (Paranavitana).

bOWLing: cheema 6-1-31-0, Junaid 6-1-22-1, Ajmal 2-0-11-0,

Rehman 1-0-4-0

Toss: sri Lanka

umpires: ian gould (eng) and simon Taufel (Aus)

TV umpire: Ruchira Palliyaguruge (sRi)

Match referee: David boon (Aus)

scORebOARD

CoLoMbo: Junaid khan (2r) celebrates the wicket of Sri Lankan batsman TharangaParanavitana with teammates at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC). AFP

CoLoMbo: Sri Lankan ground staff pulls a tarp over the ground as rain stops play during the third day of the second Test. AFP

Windies rack up second T20 win over Kiwis

LAuDerHILL: west Indies bowler Sunil narine (C) celebrates with teammate JohnsonCharles after dismissing new zealand's batsman rob nicol. AFP

LAuDerHILL: west Indies batsman Chris Gayle hits a boundary off new zealand bowlerDoug bracewell during the second Twenty20 match. AFP

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LAHOREsTAFF RePORT

pAKISTAN coach Dav What-more wants senior batsmanMisbah-ul-Haq to be in-cluded in the preliminary

list of 30 probables for the ICC T20World Cup and has conveyed the mes-sage to the selectors. Reports comingfrom the Pakistan Cricket Board saidthat Whatmore had sent a request tothe national selection committee toconsider Misbah again for the T20 for-mat.

"Whatmore has requested the se-lectors from Sri Lanka to include Mis-bah's name in the T20 World Cuppreliminary squad that has to be sentto the ICC this week," one source said.

The request comes just few weeksafter the national selectors droppedMisbah from the national T20 team

and the Board also replaced him ascaptain with Mohammad Hafeez.

Misbah was retained as captain ofthe one-day and Test sides withHafeez leading the team in the twoT20 matches against Sri Lanka re-cently.

However another source said that,"the selectors are not keen on havingMisbah back in the T20 format andhave informed Whatmore about this."

Interestingly, another source saidwhen the decision to replace him ascaptain and drop him from the teamwas conveyed to Misbah by the selec-tors and senior board official IntikhabAlam, he had reacted strongly.

"Misbah had reacted strongly atthe meeting in which he was toldabout his ouster, insisting that he wasbeing treated unfairly and the selec-tors should give him one good reasonfor dropping him from the T20

squad," one source said.He said at the meeting Misbah ac-

cused the selectors of succumbing topressure from the public and mediawhich believed he did not fit into theT20 format.

Misbah had ranted at the meetingabout not being informed properlyand respectfully about the decision tochange him as T20 captain and latereven went to the PCB Chairman ZakaAshraf at his residence to lodge aprotest.

"Misbah's contention was that hehad accepted charge of the team in allthree formats at a tough time for Pak-istan cricket and gelled the team to-gether and also produced results. So,there was no justification for oustinghim from any format," the source said.

Pakistan are due to play a series ofthree ODIs and 3 T20 matches againstAustralia from next month.

Whatmore wants Misbahin World T20 probables

east zone whites,north zone whitesmatch drawn

LAHOREsTAFF RePORT

The match between East Zone Whites U-19 and North Zone Whites U-19 hasdrawn in the Regional Inter District U-19Cricket Event played at at Ali Garhground on Monday. Resuming 105/8East Zone Whites were all out at 123 runsand after 1st innings 26 runs lead NorthZone Whites were all out at 186 runs inthe 2nd innings. So North Zone Whitesgive target 213 runs to win the Match toEast Zone Whites but at the end of theday 149/6 runs has scored. SCoreS: East Zone Whites 123 all outin 46.4 overs. M Asif 15(no). M Waleed5/50, Abdullah 1/11, Abaas Shah 2/24,Ali Raza ¼. North Zone Whites 186 all out in 46.5overs. M Waleed 47, Arslan Bajwa 45, MWateen 38(no). M Rameez 6/63, MQasim 4/80. East Zone Whites 149/6 in 41 overs. GulKhan Afridi 43, Adnan Danish 60(no), MRameez 15(no). M Waleed 3/41, AsfandMehran 2/28, Abdullah 1/31. Scores: North Zone Whites 149, 186. EastZone whites 123, 149/6. Scorer M Arif.eASt Zone BLueS, weSt ZoneBLueS MAtCh DrAwn: The Matchbetween East Zone Blues U-19 and WestZone Blues U-19 has also drawn in theRegional Inter District U-19 CricketEvent played at at Iteefaq Hospitalground on Monday. Resuming WestZone Blues 131/2 runs all out were all outon 235 runs so West Zone Blues has got36 runs lead , At the end of the play EastZone Blues has made 197/5. SCoreS: West Zone Blues 235. MZahid 62, Daniyal Zahid 47. Sadam ulhaq 5/51, Zeeshan Mughal 3/52, Rehmatullah 1/16, Farhan Maqsood 1/24. East Zone Blues 197/5. M Asad 32, DaniyalRana 46, Umer Afzal 39, Sikandar Medi23(no), Rehmat ullah 26(no). Moaz 2/96,Irfan Hanif 1/18, Qadoos 1/19. East ZoneBlues 199, 197/5. West Zone Blues 235.MughALpurA whIteS outpLAytAuSeeF CLuB: Mughalpura Whiteshas moved into the next round of 2ndIqbal Yousuf Memorial cricket event whenthey outplayed Tauseef Club by 180 runs.Fine batting by Meer Saeed KamranYousuf, HAssan Nasir and equally goodbowling by Faheem Askari and M Riazwere the main feature of the match. SCoreS: Mughalpura Whites 266/5.KAmran Yousuf 50, Meer Saeed 53, Zainul husnain 13, Imran Ali Shah 13, HAsanNasir 58(no), Faheen Askari 13(no). IsrarBaig 1/58, M Ali Rana 1/64, Aqais Man-zoor 1/38, Sheraz Baig 1/51. Tauseef Club 86 all out. Junaid Mudassar26, Zeeshan Butt 12. M Riaz 4/4, FaheemAskari 3/21, Meer Saeed 1/28, IShtiaq 1/7,HSaan Nasir 1/15.

LAHOREsTAFF RePORT

The Sport Board Punjab has urged allof its divisional, district and tehsilsports officers across the province tostart preparations for holding the up-coming Punjab Youth Festival 2012 ina befitting manner.

Director General Sports PunjabUsman Anwar here on Mondaypresided over the meeting which dis-cussed ways and means for holdingsports events of the Youth Festival inrespective, divisional, district andtehsil shortly after Eid-ul Fitr.

“It is a challenging task and wemust accomplish it in a professionalway by holding the sports and otherevents of the festival by making top ofthe line arrangements,” said UsmanAnwar while presiding over the meet-ing.

In the initial assumption, everyfield officer highlighted the elemen-tary problems they were facing at theirrespective divisions and districts.

Usman Anwar responded to all theproblems, urging them to work withcommitment and devotion for achiev-ing a collective cause of making thefestival a big success.

“It is going to be one of the world’sbiggest festivals which will involvepeople from various walks of life insports and other society building activ-ities,” said the DG.

“Pakistan has the hidden talentwhich needs to be polished andbrought to the fore and the Youth Fes-tival would provide them a platform to

excel and show their skills,” he said.”We should be proud of being the

organisers of this festival which isgoing to be the part of Guinness Bookof World Record,” he maintained.

In the end, he encouraged all theofficials to conduct the events activelyand avail this historic opportunity toprove their sportsmanship.

Clarke saddenedby Cummins exitfrom england tour

LONDONAFP

Australia captain Michael Clarke said it was"very disappointing" Pat Cummins had beenruled out of the rest of the tour of Englandafter Australia lost the second one-dayer inhis absence by six wickets. Shortly beforeSunday's match here at The Oval got under-way, Cummins was withdrawn after suffer-ing a side strain in Friday's 15-run defeat atLord's. "Pat sustained an abdominal musclestrain on his left side during the first ODI atLord's," Australia team doctor John Orchardsaid in a statement. "Whilst he was able tocomplete his 10 overs, he was sore after thegame and was scanned, the results of whichhave revealed a medium grade side-strain."This will keep him out of the remainder ofthe England tour. "His return to cricket willbe decided in due course, based on follow-up examinations in Australia." Clarke,speaking after a loss on Sunday that leftAustralia 2-0 down in the five-match se-ries, said of Cummins: He's obviously verydisappointed. I don't know how severe it is,but obviously he's going home. "He flieshome tomorrow (Monday) but I thinkthere's a bit of precaution there as well; wewant to make sure we look after him."

SBP asks field officials to hold PunjabYouth Festival in a befitting manner

LAHore: Director General Sports Punjab usman Anwar addressing the officials of theSports board Punjab during a meeting at the Conference Hall.

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KIEvAFP

Spanish striker Fernando Torres won theGolden Boot award for top scorer at Euro 2012edging out Germany's Mario Gomez UEFA an-nounced on Monday. The 28-year-old - whosegoal in the 4-0 win over Italy in the final madehim the only player to score in two Euro finals- like Gomez scored three goals and providedone assist during the tournament. However,UEFA gave it to him on the tiebreak of havinghad less game time during the finals, theSpaniard having had 189 minutes on the pitchcompared to Gomez's 280. Four other playersalso ended up with three goals, Italian strikerMario Balotelli, Portuguese captain CristianoRonaldo, rising Russian star Alan Dzagoev andone of the revelations of the tournament, Croa-tia's Mario Mandzukic. For Torres it sees himcomplete an incredible latter part of the2011/12 season where he also collected FA Cupand Champions League winners medals withChelsea having been all but written off for themajority of the campaign as he failed to fire forthe English club. However, there was to be a letdown for the former Atletico Madrid and Liv-erpool star as he missed out on being named in

the 23-man squad of thechampionship named by

UEFA later on Monday.While he came on as asubstitute during thefinal - he also set up

Juan Mata for the fourthand final goal - rightback

Alvaro Arbeloa was theonly one of the starting XI

against Italy who failed tomake the UEFA squad.

sQuAD OF THe euRO 2012Squad of the euro 2012 championship as selected bya ueFA-approved 11-man technical committee an-nounced on Monday after Spain beat Italy 4-0 in Sun-day's final to retain the trophy:sQuAD: Goalkeepers: Gianluigi buffon (ITA), Iker Casil-las (eSP), Manuel neuer (Ger)DeFenDeRs: Gerard Pique (eSP), Fabio Coentrao(Por), Philipp Lahm (Ger), Pepe (Por), Sergio ramos(eSP), Jordi Alba (eSP)MiDFieLDeRs: Daniele De rossi (ITA), Steven Gerrard(enG), Xavi (eSP), Andres Iniesta (eSP), Sami khedira(Ger), Sergio busquets (eSP), Mesut ozil (Ger), An-drea Pirlo (ITA), Xabi Alonso (eSP)FORWARDs: Mario balotelli (ITA), Cesc Fabregas(eSP), Cristiano ronaldo (Por), zlatan Ibrahimovic(Swe), David Silva (eSP).

Sports16Tuesday, 3 July, 2012

Woods wins National, passes Nicklaus for second placeBETHESDA

AFP

Tiger Woods won the storm-hitAT&T National on Sunday for his74th career title to pass Jack Nick-laus for second place all-time on thePGA Tour list. Woods won for thethird time this year by outlasting fel-low American Bo Van Pelt in a back-nine duel that went down to the finalhole. "What an incredible week,"Woods said. "I remember there wasa time when people were saying Icould never win again."

Woods closed with a two-under69, giving him a two-shot victoryand moving him into second placeon the tour's career list, one ahead ofNicklaus. He needs eight more toequal Sam Snead. Woods, who fin-ished at eight-under 276, took the

lead on 17 where Van Pelt madebogey after his ball sailed over thegreen. All Woods had to do wasmaintain the lead on the final hole.

He sealed the victory with a su-perb nine-iron approach thatlanded and rolled onto the flat partof the green on 18. "It was downhill,the wind was hot and the ball wasflying," said Woods, who also wonat Muirfield Village and Bay Hillthis year. "It fit my eye for some rea-son. I just saw it and hit it."

His win capped a bizarre weekof golf at the Congressional Coun-try Club course. A violent heat-fu-eled storm wreaked havoc on thecourse, blowing down trees andforcing organizers to shut thecourse to spectators on Saturday,making for a peculiar scene as thegolfers teed off without galleries.

Atotal number of 76 goals-60 in the round robinleague, nine in quarterfinals, three in the semi

finals and four in the final -werescored in 31 matches at an averageof 2.45 goals per match.

As many as 77 goals- 57 in theround robin legaue, 11 in quarter fi-nals, eight in the semi finals and onein the final -were scored in 31 matchesat an average of 2.48 goals per matchin the last European Championship inAustria and Switzerland four yearsago while the same number of goalswere scored in the 2004 EuropeanChampionship in Portugal.

The highest number of goals werescored in the 2000 edition played inHolland. As many as 85 goals werescored in 31 matches at 2.74. Only 32goals were scored in 15 matches at2.13 in the 1992 edition which is thelowest in 14 championships.

Fifty three players scored thesegoals. Fernando Torres scored oneand set up another in the closingstages of the championship to takethe adidas Golden Boot award. Fer-nando Torres finishes tied with fiveother players on three goals for thetournament, with he and Germany’sMario Gomez also on one assistapiece. The Spain striker, a second-

half substitute in the 4-0 final winagainst Italy, takes the top-scorers’honour having played fewer minutes(189 minutes) at the finals thanMario Gomez (282 minutes).

Four years ago, Fernando Tor-res scored the only goal in the de-cider against Germany but it wasteam-mate David Villa who finishedas leading scorer. At the time, DavidVilla became the first player toclaim both that honour and theHenri Delaunay Cup since Den-mark’s Henrik Larsen earned ashare of the scoring prize in 1992.

England's Glen Johnson scoredthe only own goal, against Sweden atKviv, in this tournament.

Irish goal-keeper Shay Givenconceded nine goals in three matcheswhile Italy's Gianluigi Buffon con-ceded seven in six. Czech Republic'sPetr Cech and Germany's ManuelNeuer shared the third spot with sixgoals each.

Apart from the two goalless en-counters, seven matches ended 1-0,five matches ended 1-1, four ended 2-0 another two ended 3-2, six ended 2-1, two ended 4-0 another one ended4-1, one ended 3-1 and one ended 4-2.

A total number of 887 fouls werecommitted and 123 yellow and threered cards were shown in the 24 dayslong tournament. As many as 1118 foulswere committed and 122 yellow andthree red cards were shown in the 23days long tournament four year ago.

Euro 2012in figures

S.PERvEZ QAISER

stats corner

MOsT gOALs scOReD

PLAyeR MTs gOALs Min

Fernando Torres (Spain) 5 3 189

Alan Dzagoev (russia) 3 3 253

Mario Mandzukic (Croatia) 3 3 270

Mario Gomez (Germany) 5 3 282

Mario balotelli I (Italy) 6 3 421

Cristiano ronaldo (Portugal) 5 3 480

MOsT gOALs cOnceDeD

PLAyeR MTs gOALs Min

Shay Given (Ireland) 3 9 270

Gianluigi buffon (Italy) 6 7 570

Manuel neuer (Germany) 5 6 450

Petr Cech (Czech republic) 4 6 360

FinAL sTAnDings

cOunTRy M W D L gF gA DiFF success%

1. Spain (1) 6 4 2 - 12 1 +11 83.33

2. Italy (7) 6 2 3 1 6 7 -1 58.33

3. Germany (2) 5 4 - 1 10 6 +4 80.00

4. Portugal (8) 5 3 1 1 6 4 +2 70.00

5. england (-) 4 2 2 - 5 3 +2 75.00

6.Czech republic (11) 4 2 - 2 4 6 -2 50.00

7. France (15) 4 1 1 2 3 5 -2 37.50

8. Greece (16) 4 1 1 2 5 7 -2 37.50

9. russia (3) 3 1 1 1 5 3 +2 50.00

10. Croatia (5) 3 1 1 1 4 3 +1 50.00

11. Sweden (10) 3 1 - 2 5 5 0 33.33

12. Denmark (-) 3 1 - 2 4 5 -1 33.33

13. ukraine (-) 3 1 - 2 2 4 -2 33.33

14. Poland (14) 3 - 2 1 2 3 -1 33.33

15. netherlands (6) 3 - - 3 2 5 -3 00.00

16. Ireland (-) 3 - - 3 1 9 -8 00.00n AccORDing TO FiFA, Tie-bReAKeR sHOOTOuTs DOn'T cOunT As VicTORy OR LOss.

n LAsT euRO cuP's POsiTiOns in bReAcKeTs

Fenerbahcepresident guiltyof match-fixing

ISTANBULAFP

An Istanbul court sentenced Monday thepresident of top side Fenerbahce, AzizYildirim, to six years and three months inprison in its final verdict on a match-fixingscandal that has rocked Turkish football.The court also fined Yildirim 1.3 millionTurkish lira (725,000 US dollars) for estab-lishing a criminal organisation and rigginggames, NTV news channel reported. Inview of their detention times, the court re-leased all of the four arrested suspects, in-cluding Yildirim. A total of 93 people werecharged in the trial that began in February.The decision will be forwarded to a highercourt for approval, and if upheld, Yildirimis likely to be put behind bars again, NTVreported. He was held in custody for a yearafter the scandal erupted last summer. Butthe legal process is expected to drag for an-other year before any final decision isreached, lawyers interviewed by NTV said.

iniesta wins bestplayer award

KIev: Spanish leftwing Andres Iniestawas named player ofEuro 2012 on Mon-day by Europeanfootball governingbody UEFA. The 28-year-old - who wasman of the match inSpain's historic 4-0win over Italy in

Sunday's final - was selected by a techni-cal committee made up of 11 people.Whilst the Barcelona star failed to scoreand set up just one of the Spaniards goalsthrough the tournament he won theaward for his overall influence and effecton the Spanish attacking play. AFP

beTHeSDA: rob Forsyth, Vice President General Manager at AT&T Mobility,presents Tiger woods with the winner's trophy after the final round of the AT&Tnational at Congressional Country Club. AFP

torres gilds the lilywith Golden Boot prize

ai Miyazato rallies to winrogerS: Japan's Ai Miyazato camefrom behind to win the NW ArkansasChampionship on Sunday for her sec-ond victory of the year and ninthLPGA Tour career title. Miyazatoovercame a five-shot deficit as shemade a five-foot birdie putt on No. 18at the Pinnacle Country Club course tofinish at 12 under for the tournament.She outduelled Mika Miyazato, whomissed a 15-foot birdie attempt on thefinal hole. The two women are not re-lated. Ai Miyazato had seven birdiesand one bogey in the final round tofinish one shot ahead of Mika

Miyazato and Azahara Munoz. Ai Miyazato became just the thirdplayer to win multiple tournaments this season as she also won theLOTTE Championship in April. Three-time winner Yani Tseng, ofTaiwan, and American Stacy Lewis also have multiple wins. AFP

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LONDONAFP

World number one Maria Sharapovacrashed out of Wimbledon on Monday,while four-time winner Serena Williamsand defending champion Petra Kvitovasurvived major scares to reach the quar-ter-finals. Sharapova had been a finalistin three of the last four Grand Slams, andarrived at Wimbledon on a high afterwinning the French Open for the firsttime last month. But the top seed cameback down to earth with a bump on

Court One as German 15th seed SabineLisicki avenged last year's Wimbledonsemi-final defeat against the Russianwith a 6-4, 6-3 fourth round victory.

"I certainly had chances. I didn't takethem, but I think a lot of the credit goesto my opponent," Sharapova said. "Sheplayed extremely well and did manythings better than I did. You just have tohand it to her." Lisicki had lost in the firstround of her last four tournaments, butshe has hit form at the right time and the22-year-old's reward is a last eight meet-ing with compatriot and eighth seed An-

gelique Kerber. "It's just unbelievable.I'm so happy. I had lost the last threemeetings with her, so it's nice to finallywin one," Lisicki said.rAIn SoAKS wIMBLeDon ASSCheDuLe hItS rooF: Wimble-don was hit by heavy rain on Monday asfears grew that Centre Court's £80 mil-lion roof was transforming the 126-year-old event into an outdoor and indoortournament at the same time. With allcourts covered early in the day, matchesin the last 16 of both the men's andwomen's singles were delayed.

KIeV: Italian defender

Leonardo Bonucci

(top) reacts as Spanish

players celebrates after

winning the euro 2012

football championships

final match Spain. aFP

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national Junioropen Squashrolls into action

LAHOREsTAFF RePORT

The National Junior Open SquashChampionship commenced on Mondayhere at the Punjab Squash Complex. The event was inaugurated by the DCOLahore and around 92 players were en-rolled for the championship. Boys willbe taking part in the under-11, under-13 and under-15 categories while girlsin the under-15 category. On the opening day around 40 matchesin different age groups were played.The championship will conclude onJuly 4 while the quarterfinals will beplayed on July 3.

THe ResuLTs OF DAy One ResuLTsQualification round under-11: Ahmed Maqbool beat Ar-

slan khawar 11-3, 11-0, Hamad khan beat zain Anwar

11-3, 11-5, Ahmed Anwar beat Ghulam Mustafa 11-3, 11-1,

Meer Faiz beat Farhan Tahir 11-2, 11-5, Hamza Ali

Shahid beat bilal Sultan 11-2, 11-4, M. Ayoub beat

Salman Ishaq 11-1, 11-5, baaz Ali khan beat Shahab

khan 11-7, 8-11, 11-7, Farhan Hashmi w-o Ahmed Hassan

Main round under-11 (1ST rounD): rafay Hasnain beat

Ahad Shoukat 11-8, 11-9, Arman Ali beat Ali nadeem 11-

1, 11-1, khakan Farooq Malik beat Hassan Mustafavi 11-1,

11-1, Hamza Ali Shahid beat Abdul Hanan 11-2, 11-1,

waleed Hasnain beat Abdullah Iqbal khan 12-14, 14-12,

1--9, Abdul Moiz beat Hozaifa Shahid 11-4, 11-3, Ahmed

Anwar beat zeeshan 11-6, 11-6, Hamad khan beat

Afnan Mudassir 11-1, 11-4, baaz Ali khan beat Taimoor

Hassan 11-3, 11-3, usman butt beat Hassan Ali 11-9, 11-3,

ozair raja beat Ghulam Mohiuddin 11-6, 4-11, 11-9, M.

Aoub beat Mukarram Munir 11-3, 11-4, M. zubair beat

Meer Faiz 11-0, 11-0, nouman Tahir beat Ghulam

Mustafa 11-1, 11-2, Ibtisam riaz beat Ahmed Maqbool 11-

6, 11-9, Farhan Hashmi beat Ahmed Hassan 11-2, 11-0

under-11 (2nD rounD): baaz Ali khan beat usman

butt 11-9, 11-9, khakan Farooq Malik beat waleed Has-

nain 11-2, 3-11, 11-9, Hamad khan beat Abdul Moiz 11-8,

11-3, Farhan Hashmi beat Arman Ali 11-3, 11-3, uzair

raja beat noman Tahir 11-1, 11-2, Ibtisam riaz beat M.

Ayoub 11-3, 11-9, Hamza Ali Shahid beat M. zubair 11-9,

11-7, Ahmed Anwar beat rafay Hasnain 11-3, 11-5

unDer-13 (1ST rounD): Haris Qasim beat M. umer

nawaz 11-0, 11-1, uzair rashid beat Atif Malik 11-9, 11-6,

rehan Tahir beat M. Faizan Ashraf 11-0, 11-3, Salman

khan beat Mustafa butt 11-0, 11-6, Darosham khan

beat bilawal bukhari 11-4, 11-1, Saram bin Shoukat beat

Haseeb Hassan 11-2, 11-3, Shahzad Ali khan beat Asad

ullah khan 11-4, 11-2m, Taimoor Tariq w-o Aun Abbas

unDer-15 (1ST rounD): wajid Akbar beat M. Tahir Ar-

shad 11-3, 11-8, usama bin Salman beat nouman

Ahmed Aulakh 11-6, 11-6, Ijaz khan beat M. bin Sohail

11-1, 11-2, Mian M. Shahzad Shoukat beat Salman khan

11-7, 10-12, 11-9, M. kibria beat M. Abdullah Ashraf 11-0,

11-1, Azhar Ali khan beat M. Akhnas Jamil 11-2, 11-3,

Asaad Abid khan beat M. usman 13-15, 11-6, 11-3,

Hamza Arif beat zia Shahid 11-7, 11-9, M. nadeem butt

beat Hozaifa Mehmood 11-6, 11-2

unDer-15 (2nD rounD): Arslan ramzan beat usman

bin Salman 11-2, 11-4, Ijaz khan beat Mahid Amin 10-

12, 11-9, 12-10, Asaad Abid khan beat Hamza Arif 11-8,

11-7, M. kibria beat kashif Arif 11-3, 11-5, Abdul Qadir

beat Azhar Ali khan 11-1, 11-7, usmar Hassan beat M.

nadeem butt 11-2, 11-2, wajid Akbar beat Mian M.

Shahzad Shoukat 11-5, 11-7, 11-4, khizar Qasim beat

M. Farooq 11-4, 11-5.

Sports 17Tuesday, 3 July, 2012

KINGSTONAFP

Yohan Blake upset reigning Olympic champUsain Bolt by winning the 200 metres in19.80 seconds at the Jamaican Olympic Ath-letic Trials on Sunday, just two days afterbeating him in the 100 metres.

It was the latest clash between thetwo Jamaican stars ahead of the LondonOlympics, where Bolt's supremacy in thesprinting world appears to be in danger.Bolt finished second in 19.83 while War-ren Weir also earned a ticket to the Lon-don Games by finishing third. "I havebeen working hard and am seeing it pay-ing off now," Blake said.

"I was not surprised by the big win. Iknow what Bolt has to offer and I know he

was not at 100 percent. I just tried to keepmy form." Blake had won his 200m semi-final in 19.93 seconds Saturday to set upanother finals showdown with Bolt, whotook his semi-final race in 20.26. Blakeproduced his first upset of the weekendand one of the biggest in the sport this yearby beating Bolt in Friday's 100m final witha time of 9.75 seconds, becoming thefourth fastest man ever in the event.

Bolt, the 100m and 200m Olympicchamp and world record holder, was sec-ond in 9.86 seconds after a poor start andAsafa Powell was third in 9.88 seconds. "Ican't train for one person," Bolt said Sun-day. "No one was talking about Blake andsee what he did." Bolt says he now hasplenty to prove heading into the Olympicsand vowed to come back from these defeats.

nishan–e-HaiderHockey at bahawalpur

LAHOREsTAFF RePORT

The eight edition of All Pakistan Nishan-e-Haider Floodlights Hockey Tournament (Regional Round) will be held from July 7 atMoti Ullah Hockey Stadium, Bahawalpur.District hockey association Bahawalpur onbehalf of Pakistan Hockey Federation is or-ganizing the event whose final will beplayed on July 13. The Pakistan HockeyFederation has appointed technical officialsfor the smooth conduct of the event whichwill be participated by leading teams.FOLLOWing WiLL OFFiciATe: TecHnicAL DiRecTOR: zahid Iqbal, Assistant tourna-ment director,Muhammad Arshad, Tournament officers,Ansar Mahmood, Mirza waheed baig & Muhammadzahid. uMPIreS MAnAGer: Saeed Ahmed Siddiqui,Judges,: Allah Dad, Habib-ur-rehman, Mian Farooq, zul-fiqar Ali bhutto, Haroon Saeed, Taimoor Sameen, Muham-mad Ali bhatti, Iftikhar Ahmed, waqar Alvi, riaz Awan &Ihsan-ul-Haque babar. umpires,: waqas Ahmed butt,rana Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Imran, Atif Malik,Munir Ahmed, Mahmood, Shahid rabbani, Mubarik Ali &Muhammad Afzal. Chief coordinator, olympian AnjumSaeed. orrganising secretary,Mahar Muhammad riaz.The Pre-Tournament briefing Meetings will be held bythe Tournament Director on 6TH JuLY 2012 at the venue.

Islamabad victoriousin women Football

LAHORE sTAFF RePORT

In the match number 30 of the 5th Na-tional Inter club Women Championshiphere in Islamabad between Eagle WFCIslamabad and Frontier College WFCPeshawar at The Jinnah Sports Com-plex. The match was won by Eagle WFCIslamabad 1-0.

Blake stuns Bolt twice at Olympic trials

wIMbLeDon: Germany's Sabine Lisickicelebrates her fourth round victory overrussia's Maria Sharapova during thewimbledon Championships. AFP

Missing hawk returnsLonDon: The highly-trained hawk used to scarepigeons away from thepristine grass courts ofWimbledon was returnedto its owners on Sundayafter being stolen duringthe first week of the tennistournament. Rufus, a Har-ris Hawk, was off-duty inhis cage when he wassnatched by thieves lateThursday but is now homeafter being handed into of-fices of The Royal Societyfor the Prevention of Cru-elty to Animals, police saidSunday. Rufus' Twitter account, written by his owners, said: "We can confirm thenews is true Rufus has been found safe and well and reunited with family!! Thank youso much for your support £FindRufus". Visitors to the world's most famous tennistournament often stop to have their picture taken with the four-and-a-half year old,which was reared by the family-run business Avian Environmental Consultants. AFP

spearmon earnsredemption run eugene: Wallace Spearmon gave himself anotherchance at an Olympic medal in the 200 meters after beingdisqualified in the 2008 final by winning on Sunday atthe US Olympic Track and Field Trials. Spearmon, whoselane violation late in the Beijing Olympic final cost him abronze medal, surged ahead with 50 meters remainingand took the trials title in a wind-aided 19.82 seconds, a2.3m/sec tailwind boosting him to the finish. "That'ssomething that has definitely been on my mind since2008," Spearmon said. "It's hard enough to make oneteam. If I didn't make the team this year, that would havebeen on my mind for the rest of my life. "This is a chanceat redemption. I don't take my second chances lightly. I'mgoing to go out there and leave it all on the track." AFP

Sharapova stunned by Lisicki,Serena, Kvitova survive

wIMbLeDon: rufus, the Harris Hawk with his owner ImogenDavis seen before play on day seven of the 2012 wimbledon. AFP

Yohan blake smiles after winning themen 200m final of the Jamaican olympicAthletic Trials at the national Stadium. AFP

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ISLAMABADsTAFF RePORT

AFTER the failure of Yousaf Raza Gi-lani’s government to woo Baloch rebelsto the negotiation table, the new primeminister, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, on Mon-day called Balochistan resolution one of

his top priorities, stating that he would soon visitBalochistan with a view to find out an “acceptable so-lution” of the problem after holding detailed discus-sion with all stakeholders, including rebels.

Addressing a meeting on Balochistan, Ashrafsaid Balochistan, electricity and good governancewere his top priorities and would be pursued vigor-ously. Referring to the government’s amnestyscheme, the prime minister said the governmenthad withdrawn many cases against political workersnot involved in heinous crimes and a number ofmissing persons had been reunited with their fami-lies. “The withdrawal of army and deployment ofFrontier Constabulary brought tangible results. FCwas directed to seek guidance/instructions from theBalochistan chief minister regarding internal secu-rity of the province,” he said. “I have invited theBaloch leadership for dialogue to address theirgrievances within the framework of federation,” hesaid. The prime minister directed the law ministerto hold a meeting today (Tuesday) exclusively on

missing persons which would be attended by the de-fence, interior and law secretaries, Balochistan ChiefSecretary, FC IG, IB DG, ISI DG in Balochistan andBalochistan IGP. He also directed the Ministry of Fi-nance and Planning Commission to prioritize theprojects in Balochistan having direct bearings on thepeople of the province. In this regard, he said proj-ects of the road from Gwadar to Rato Dero, KacchiCanal, RCD Highway, Solar Tube Well etc, shouldbe given due consideration.

“Let me categorically declare that Balochistanissue is on my priority list and I have invited dis-gruntled Baloch leaders to start dialogue with thegovernment to resolve the crisis at the earliest.Bringing stability and prosperity in Balochistanwould be the top priority of my government,” Ashrafsaid. He said Balochistan was an important part ofthe country and because of its strategic location, themaintenance of peace was of utmost importance.The federal government was fully aware of the pastexcesses against the people and the province whichcaused a serious sense of deprivation, he added.“The Pakistan People’s Party has been seriously tak-ing into account the factors resulting in discontent-ment of the people of Balochistan and continuingunrest here, since assumption of power.” The gov-ernment introduced Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-BalochistanPackage in 2009, which included 61 reforms pro-posals, in the categories of constitutional, adminis-

trative, political and economic matters.A cabinet committee under the chairmanship of

Senator Raza Rabbani was also constituted to ana-lyze the needs of the Balochistan and to veryminutely review the situation and firm up its recom-mendations for reduction in the sense of alienationand deprivation. “The self-styled independence offederal agencies is being checked and it will be en-sured that the federal agencies do not act independ-ently in connection with law and order issue, butthey should provide assistance to the provincial gov-ernment in aid to civil power as and when required,”the PM said. He said financing mega projects ofGwadar Ratu Dero Road (M-8), Kachhi Canal,Gwadar Deep sea port were accorded top prioritiesand the federal government had committed 6,000scholarships for the youth of the province for higherstudies within the country and abroad. “The federalgovernment is especially focusing on establishmentof vocational and technical centers at the provincialand divisional headquarters of the province. Thegovernment has committed an amount of Rs 1 bil-lion for the rehabilitation of IDPs of Dera Bugti,”Ashraf added. “Although politically motivated activ-ities are quite serious, the graph of conventionalcrimes in Balochistan is also on the rise. The gov-ernment has sanctioned 3,000 posts of federal leviesfor maintenance of law and order duties and high-way security in Balochistan.

WASHINGTONOnLine

Slamming Pakistan for refusing to cutties with the militant Haqqani network,leading US daily New York Times saidthe military of the ‘crippled andchaotic’ state continued to play a “dou-ble game” of accepting aid from Amer-ica while enabling the Afghan Taliban.

The Times said in the editorial piecetitled ‘Crippled, Chaotic Pakistan’ that foryears, Pakistan ignored the Obama ad-ministration’s pleas to crack down on mil-itants who cross over to attack Americanforces in Afghanistan. Recent cross-bor-der raids by Taliban who kill Pakistani sol-diers should give Islamabad a reason totake that complaint more seriously, it said.“Fighting extremists should be groundsfor common cause, but there is no signthat Pakistan’s military leaders get it. Theysee the need to confront the virulentAfghan-based insurgency that threatenstheir own country and has killed thou-sands of Pakistani soldiers and civilians.

“But they refuse to cut ties with theHaqqanis and other militants, who giveIslamabad leverage in Afghanistan andare the biggest threat to American effortsto stabilise that country,” the Times said.

It added that Pakistan’s politicalsystem was growing “ever more dys-functional”, even as the need to take onthe border chaos became more urgent.Obama administration officials were“reaching the limits of our patience”,Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hadsaid recently. The paper said theUnited States could not just walk away.

“It needs Pakistan’s help in reopen-ing a critical supply route toAfghanistan and in urging the Talibanto engage in peace talks so that combattroops can be withdrawn fromAfghanistan by the end of 2014. It alsoneeds to monitor Islamabad’s growingnuclear arsenal,” it said. “Some in Con-gress want to designate the Haqqanisas a terrorist organization. That wouldbe unwise because such a move couldlead to Pakistan’s being designated a

terrorist state subject to sanctions andmake cooperation even harder. TheUnited States has no choice but to tryto work with Pakistan, including thearmy, when it can,” the paper said. Of-ficials hope the crisis in relationscaused by the killing of Osama binLaden and other events will pass.

But they are holding the Pakistanismore at arm’s length and setting nar-rower goals, President Obama declinedto hold an official meeting with Presi-dent Asif Ali Zardari at the NATO sum-mit meeting in Chicago in May. TheNYT said Pakistan received billions ofdollars in aid and the promise of billionsmore, which Washington has begun tosuspend or cancel. “But the army con-tinued its double game — acceptingmoney from the Americans while en-abling the Afghan Taliban — and thepoliticians remain paralyzed. Soon,most American troops will be gone fromAfghanistan. And Pakistan will find itharder to fend off its enemies, real andperceived,” the editorial said.

nAb chief takes 180 degree turn

on Sharifs’ cases within 48 hoursISLAMABAD

sTAFF RePORT

Feeling the heat of criticism by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insafchief Imran Khan against National Accountability Bureau(NAB) for being “soft” against PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif,NAB Chairman Admiral (r) Fasih Bukhari on Monday saidproceedings on cases against former prime minister NawazSharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif were “underprocess” per provisions of National Accountability Ordinance1999. The NAB chief had on Saturday said that political cases,including those against Sharif family, would not be opened asthe country had entered the election year. However, within48 hours, the NAB chief took a 180 degree turn on his stance.“NAB clarifies that it has not closed even a single case againstthe Sharif brothers. Three references, including case of willfulloan default, Hudaibia Paper Mill, and assets beyond knownsources of income, are pending with the Accountability Court.NAB had filed an application to reopen these cases but thecourt refused to accept NAB’s point of view and adjournedthe case sine-die,” said a statement issued by NAB. Thestatement said in year 2010, NAB again moved an applicationfor recommencement of these cases, but the court rejectedNAB’s plea. “Meanwhile, the Sharif brothers moved thehonourable Lahore High Court through a writ petition inOctober 2011, seeking quashment of these references. Thecourt granted stay order in favour of the Sharif brothers,” thestatement added. It said the NAB chairman had constituted acommittee under the chairmanship of NAB’s prosecutorgeneral accountability to review the reference forwardedthrough the Crisis Management Cell of the Ministry ofInterior. “The committee is at its final stages to formulate therecommendations in the said case. These recommendationswould then be presented in the executive board meeting forfurther proceedings in the case,” the statement added.

Pakistan civilian deaths from

uS drones ‘lowest since 2008’ISLAMABAD

AFP

Fewer civilians have died in US drone strikes in Pakistan sofar this year than at any other time in the last four years, areport said Monday. Three to 24 civilians were reported killedby American CIA drones in Pakistan from January to June,according to the London-based Bureau of InvestigativeJournalism. Reported civilian casualty rates have not been solow since the first half of 2008, when 12-21 civiliansreportedly died under former US president George W Bush, itsaid. It was also a marked decline on the 62-103 civiliansreported killed by drone strikes in Pakistan in the first sixmonths of 2011, the bureau added. US drones target Talibanand Al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribalbelt on the Afghan border, where journalists and aid workersdo not have independent access. The programme is covert,but US officials have defended the attacks as a vital weaponin the war on terror, despite concerns from rights activistsover civilian casualties. The decline in casualties correlates toa decline in attacks as relations between Islamabad andWashington deteriorated since Osama bin Laden was killedin Pakistan in May 2011 and after US air strikes killed 24Pakistani soldiers last November.According to an AFP tally,101 US drone strikes were reported in Pakistan in 2010, 64 in2011 and only 24 so far this year. Pakistan has also becomingincreasingly vocal in its public opposition to the strikes.According to the bureau, between 2,496 and 3,202 peoplehave been reported killed by drones in Pakistan since 2004.Among them are 482-832 civilians, 175 of them children.

Pervaiz Ashraf eyes ‘acceptable solution’ of Balochistan issueg PM says Balochistan, electricity crisis, good governance his top prioritiesg Invites Baloch leadership for dialogue to address grievances within federal framework

Pakistan Army playing doublegame on Afghanistan: report

nAiRObi: Four foreign aid workers, including a canadian-Pakistani national, kidnapped in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp walk past a battery of journalists

after they landed at Wilson airport on Monday following their release overnight in southern somalia after a short gunfight. AFP

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