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WITH no respite in vio-lence in the insur-g e n c y - h i tBalochistan, the fed-eral government is all

set to deliberate upon its policy on the restiveprovince at a high-level meeting being heldtoday (Tuesday) to review the reconciliationprocess with rebel Baloch leaders, the dete-riorating law and order situation and theissue of missing persons and dumping ofmutilated bodies on the agenda list.

Meanwhile, two police personnel werekilled in a brazen gun attack in Quettawhile seven bullet-riddled bodies werefound in various parts of the province.

An official source said that PrimeMinister Yousaf Raza Gilani would chair

the meeting of the Cabinet Committee onBalochistan which would also be attendedby Chief of Army Staff General AshfaqKayani, Law Minister Farooq Naik,Balochistan Chief Minister AslamRaisani, the Balochistan governor andmembers of the Balochistan cabinet.

The source said the meeting wasbeing held after some specific remarksmade by Chief Justice of Pakistan IftikharMohammed Chaudhry during the recenthearing of the missing persons’ case.

He said the prime minister was per-turbed over the CJP’ remarks about im-position of emergency and this was thereason that he was time and again mak-ing statements that there was no optionof imposition of emergency or martial lawin the country.

ISI DG cancels

US trip over

Dr afridi row ISLAMABAD

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Amidst a new row between Islamabad andWashington over the sentencing of DrShakil Afridi, who helped the CIA intracking al Qaeda chief Osama bin Ladenlast year, ISI Director General Lt GeneralZaheerul Islam has postponed hisscheduled visit to the US. The ISI chief wasto leave for the US later this week to meetCIA Director General David Petraeus andother senior American officials and discusswith them matters related to counter-terrorism cooperation. An armyspokesman said on Monday that the ISIDG had postponed his visit to the UnitedStates due to his “pressing commitments”in the country and that there was no otherreason for postponing the trip.However, a diplomatic source said the ISIchief’s visit had been put off owing to therow over Dr Shakil Afridi, who hasawarded a 33-year sentence.

Balochistan unrest: Govtwakes up from slumberg pM, COaS, Balochistan leadership to discuss worsening law and order in wake of CJp’s warning ofimposing emergency in province g Two policemen killed in Quetta, seven bullet-riddled bodies found

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TOP legal experts be-lieve that the NAspeaker’s rulingagainst the disquali-fication of Prime

Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani waschallengeable in any court of lawand that the NA speaker enjoyedimmunity only on parliament’sproceedings under Article 69, notabout her individual decisions asthe speaker.

SM Zafar said, “This decisionwas to be challenged from dayone. The speaker’s decision is inher own individual capacity andnot by parliament. It has alsonothing to do with the parliamen-tary proceedings and rather it is adecision in her personal capacity.”

He said the speaker enjoyedimmunity regarding her rulingson parliamentary proceedings.“But this decision was not on par-liamentary proceedings. This de-cision is challengeable.”

Justice (r) Tariq Mehmoodsaid the speaker’s ruling “can bechallenged”.

He said Article 69 prohibitedthe speaker’s ruling on proceed-ings of parliament. “This is a deci-sion in her personal capacity.There is a precedence of a case ofSindh Assembly in 1992,” he said.

Justice (r) WajihuddinAhmed said the speaker had im-munity under some constitutionalprovisions which were strictlyabout the speaker’s rulings on par-liamentary proceedings.

He said he himself, in the ca-pacity of Chief Justice of Sindh

High Court, had decided a similarpetition against a decision by thethen Senate chairman Wasim Saj-jad in year 1998 regarding oath toPresident Asif Ali Zardari as a sen-ator. “The Senate chairman hadruled that he could only issue pro-duction orders for a member ofthe House but he could not do sofor a senator-elect. However, theSindh High Court bench, headedby me, overturned Wasim Sajjad’sdecison,” he said, adding that thecase was also decided Zardari’sfavour by the apex court and thiscase had also been reported in thejournal of 1998.

He said in Indian constitu-tion, the speaker had immunitybut the case was different in Pak-istan’s constitution. He said theruling by speaker could be chal-lenged in any court of law.

Pakistan the biggest victim of terror: CameronLONDON: British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron on Monday urged allpartners in war against terrorism toshow patience and understanding withPakistan because Pakistanis have suf-fered most from the menace. He said this in response to a questionby Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour MP inthe House of Commons who asked ifCameron deplored Barack Obama’s of-fensive discourtesy towards the Presi-dent of Pakistan, the sovereignty ofwhose country the United States hasviolated with deadly effect and whetherCameron could confirm that Britainwould stand shoulder to shoulder withits Commonwealth partner, Pakistan,in defying American Colonialism. Cameron said that Pakistan had com-plex politics and it needed to be giventhe space to resolve some of those is-sues.The British PM assured Pakistan thatits friends, such as Britain, would notleave it after the Afghan conflict wasover, and that Britain was there forlong term partnership, friendship andsupport. APP

Attack on Mulazai police station,FC Fort in Tank repulsed

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Scores of militants stormed Mulazai police station and FrontierConstabulary Fort with sophisticated weapons leading to ex-change of fire between the attackers and police but no loss of lifewas reported, official sources said on Monday. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the responsibility for the attack.According to police, dozens of militants attacked Mulazi po-lice station, 40 kilometers north of Tank, in the night betweenSunday and Monday. Tank District Police Officer Ejaz Abedtold reporters that the militants, armed with sophisticatedweapons, came on motorcycles at around 2am, adding thatthey were around 90 to 100 in number. The DPO said the at-tack was fully responded by the police and FC personnel forc-ing the attackers to flee. In another incident, two policepersonnel were injured when two IED blasts went off in DolatKot Korona area of Mulazai on Monday. The injured policeconstables identified as Muhammad Fayaz and Sameeullahwere rushed to District Headquarters Hospital Tank. Soonafter the incident, security forces and police cordoned off theentire area and initiated a joint search operation but no arrestwas reported during search of militants. TTP spokesman Ih-sanullah Ihsan contacted local journalists and claimed respon-sibility for the attack. Ihsan said the TTP would continue itswar against the government of Pakistan until shariah wascompletely implemented in the entire country. According topolice sources, security had been beefed up on all the policestations of the district after the attack.

Man kills sister, paramour in Naseerabad

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A man gunned down his sister and her paramour in Naseer-abad area of Balochistan on Monday. According to police, ac-cused Abdul Wahab Jatak, hailing from Goth Sharbat Khan ofTambu teshil, was suspicious of his sister’s character. OnMonday, the accused after seeing his sister Buz Bibi talking toa villager Shakar Khan, opened fire at them killing both on thespot and fled. The bodies were shifted to local hospital wherethey were handed over to heirs after postmortem. The policeregistering a case against the murderer started search for him.

Journalist among six killedacross Balochistan

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Six people, including a local journalist, were killed in armed at-tacks and clashes in various areas of Balochistan on Monday, asunknown gunmen attacked the residence of Turbat Press Clubpresident with heavy firing. Police officials said a local journalist,who was also the head master of a government school, wasgunned down by unknown armed men in Basima area of Washukdistrict. Levies sources said the journalist, Abdul Qadir Hajizai,who was working for a private Balochi language TV channel wason his way home when he was gunned down. Other reports saidunknown armed men opened fire at the residence of Turbat PressClub President Irshad Akhtar in Turbat. Talking to reporters,Akhtar said a group of armed men attacked his house, however,his family members remained unhurt in the firing. Meanwhile, three people were killed and one injured in an armedclash between two rival groups of Raisani and Khosa tribes.

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PLEADING justice for hisbrother Dr Shakil Afridi,sentenced to 33 years inprison for helping the USget to Osama Bin Laden,

Jamil Afridi expressed concern overthe indifferent attitude of governmentfunctionaries.

“From the last several days, mylawyers and I are requesting the po-litical administration of KhyberAgency and Khyber PakhtunkhwaPrison Department officials for giv-ing them a copy of the verdict andsigning of authority in favour of theattorney, but they have remainedmum,” he said during a press confer-ence in Peshawar on Monday.

Flanked by office-bearers andmembers of FATA Lawyers’ Forum andthe Aman Tehreek, Jamil said, “Mybrother did nothing against the inter-ests of Pakistan and its people”.

“I ask for justice and my brothermust be listened to,” he said, addingthat since last Friday, “we are visitingoffices of political administration andPeshawar Central Jail, but unfortu-nately, the functionaries are reluctantto give us a copy of the verdict or tolet us Shakil”.

“My brother, I and our family mem-

bers are proud to be Pakistanis and de-termined to serve its interests,” he saidto a question.

He said Shakil and other familymembers were serving the country invarious capacities.

“There is no protection for us andother relatives,” he said.

However, he avoided to identifyfrom where the threats were directed,saying “anything can happen in thiscountry anytime”.

Quoting media reports regarding

threats to life of Dr Shakil, Jamil saidthe “responsibility rests with the gov-ernment to provide him due security”.

He avoided answering a questionabout his expectations from the inter-national community in the case.

“It is our internal matter,” Jamilsaid, adding that “we have nothing todo with international politics. We areinterested in justice only”.

“I appeal to the chief justice of Pak-istan to provide us security and help usexercise our right of appeal,” Jamil said.

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islamist leadercharged over Bd war killings

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A Bangladeshi court on Monday charged thehead of the largest Islamic party with allegedatrocities including genocide and murder dur-ing the nation’s 1971 independence waragainst Pakistan. Motiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the op-position Jamaat-e-Islami party, was indictedon 16 charges including killing of some of thecountry’s top professors, journalists and doc-tors, a state prosecutor said.“Nizami was the head of a pro-Pakistan forcecalled Al Badr. The Al Badr men killed manyintellectuals on his orders just days before thecountry won independence,” Ghulam ArifTipoo told AFP. The killing of intellectuals atthe end of the nine-month war was one of thethe darkest chapters of Bangladesh’s inde-pendence struggle. Most bodies were found infields just outside the capital Dhaka. Nizami,71, who pleaded not guilty, was also chargedwith genocide, arson and the murder of scoresof Hindus in his constituency in the north-western district of Pabna during the war,Tipoo said.Another top ranking official of Jamaat, AbdulQuader Molla, was also indicted Monday bythe International Crimes Tribunal, a specialcourt set up by the country’s secular govern-ment in 2010 to try suspected war criminals.The indictment brought the number of oppo-sition figures to have been charged with al-leged wartime atrocities to five, including fourfrom Jamaat and one from the main opposi-tion Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).Both Jamaat and the BNP have dismissed thecourt as a “show trial”, while Human RightsWatch has said procedures used by the tribu-nal fall short of international standards.

Afridi likelyto be shiftedto Attock Fort

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Dr Shakeel Afridi, who was sentencedto prison for 33 years amid intelli-gence reports accusing him of treasonagainst Pakistan, is likely to beshifted from Peshawar Central Jail toAttock Fort. Reliable sources said intelligenceagencies had warned the governmentthat extremist organisations wereabout to attack Dr Afridi and his im-prisonment in Peshawar jail was dan-gerous with regard to securityconcerns. So the agencies asked forhim to be shifted to a safe and securelocation, the sources added. Dr Afridi had been working for theCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA)and had informed CIA about thepresence of al Qaeda leader, OsamaBin Laden in Abbottabad.Owing to this information, the USattacked the compound of BinLaden in Abbottabad and killed himon May 2, 2011.

Bureaucrats seek 5%income tax on theirvehicle monetisation

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The powerful civil servants in Grade 20 andabove, who were favoured this fiscal year inthe shape of vehicle monetisation rangingbetween Rs 65,000 to Rs 95,000 per month,have proposed to the government to not in-clude this allowance in their taxable incomeand deduct tax on it separately.An official source said the Federal Board ofRevenue (FBR), under the influence of thetop mandarins, had proposed that the com-pulsory monetisation of the officers in Grade20 and above should not be included in theincome of the officers. It should be shown ina separate account as it will be pushing themin a higher income tax category, it said. The FBR had proposed that monetisation al-lowance should be shown separately andtaxed at five percent after deducting the dri-ver’s Rs 10,000 salary per month.The source said the proposal irked other offi-cials who warned that if it was approved theywould also seek reduction in the income taxon their allowances just like their bosses.The federal government had introduced thetransport monetisation package for officersin Grade 20 and above in exchange forchauffeur-driven vehicles previously given tothem. However, a majority of the officerswere availing the offer while still retainingthe official vehicles earlier given to them.The government has failed to check the mis-use by mandarins. The monetisation pack-age was offered to 1,391 senior officers at thestart of current fiscal year.

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Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilanion Monday said the federal govern-ment had added more than 3,500megawatts of electricity to the na-tional grid and was working on long-, medium- and short-term projectsto resolve the energy crisis.

Talking in a TV show, CapitalTalk, Gilani said the government ini-tiated the Diamer Bhasha Dam proj-ect, Mangla Dam upraising project,CASA 1000, electricity imports fromIran and India and the Thar Coalproject to increase energy resources.He said there would be no unsched-uled load shedding in the countrynow.

The prime minister said thePunjab government did not addeven one megawatt to the nationalgrid.

Asked about the long hours ofload shedding and participation ofPunjab Chief Minister ShahbazSharif in protests, Gilani said “some-one should ask Shahbaz that whohad stopped provinces from gener-

ating electricity”.“It has never happened before

that the provincial government hastaken part in protests against thefederal government,” he added.

Gilani said there was no restric-tion on dual citizenship for legisla-tors in the constitution and he wasin favour of expatriate Pakistanis toget the right to vote and becomemembers of parliament.

The prime minister said morethan 300 councilors, mayors andmembers of the House of Commonsand House of Lords in Britain werePakistanis.

“There should be a debate on theissue of dual citizenship and parlia-ment should decide the issue andlegislate because now the world haschanged,” he said.

The prime minister said the lawand constitution were not made forindividuals and one had to look atthe situation in the country and theworld. “What will happen if Britainrevoked the citizenship of LordNazir Ahmed?” he asked.

Gilani said Pakistani citizens allover the world had the right of dual

citizenship.To a question, he said Dr Shakil

Afridi should be given the right todefend himself in the higher courtsaccording to law, adding that DrAfridi was wrong in what he did butshould get justice through the regu-lar courts.

On the issue of Pak-US relations,the prime minister said talks werecontinuing between the two coun-tries on the reopening of the NATOsupply routes. He said the relationsof countries could not be based onone incident but on solid grounds.

About reports of expensiveshopping done by him during his UKvisit, the prime minister said thosereports were “the joke of the year”.

He said army chief General Ash-faq Kayani would attend a meetingto discuss the missing persons issueon Tuesday. “The meeting will alsobe attended by federal and provin-cial representatives along with theheads of law enforcement agencies,”he added.

Gilani admitted that the numberof missing persons was once againon the rise.

Govt working on projects toresolve energy crisis: Gilanig PM says Punjab govt did not add even one megawatt to national grid

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SAnAA: Women take photos of portraits of victims of a suicide attack, during a protest to condemn the attack that killed over 100 soldiers, on Monday. REUTERS

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Gen Zaheer is likely to un-dertake his trip to Wash-ington after a few days.“The Obama administrationhas reacted very strongly tothe sentencing of Dr Afridiand it has caused greatharm to the ongoing effortsbetween Islamabad andWashington to resolve an-other serious row betweenthe two sides over the re-opening of NATO supplieslines,” the source said.Pakistan closed the NATOsupply routes about sixmonths ago when Americanaircraft raided its borderposts and killed 24 soldiers.“The conflicting issues werebeing resolved before thesentencing of Dr Afridi andit was expected that USwould agree to pay around$3000 to Pakistan as tax onevery NATO truck in re-sponse to Islamabad’s de-mand for $5000,” he said.“As for the other Pakistanidemand for US apologyover the airstrikes, leadingUS Senator John Kerry wassupposed to visit Islamabadand meet the families of thesoldiers killed in the NATOassault and also express hiscondolence along with anoffer of compensationamount,” the source said.Nonetheless, the sourcesaid both sides were nowonce again back to wherethey were, with tiesstrained and reconciliatoryefforts coming to standstillagain.A Pakistani official said oncondition of anonymity thatDr Afridi’s episode had im-pacted the efforts for patchwith the US, but the Obamaadministration must realizethat it was purely Pak-istan’s internal matter andDr Afridi was a Pakistanicitizen who had been pun-ished under the law of land.

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Afire thaterupted onMonday at anursery in amain shopping

centre in the Qatari capitalkilled 19 people including13 children, the interiorministry said.

Four of the childrenwho died were Spanish,

said a foreign ministryspokeswoman in Madrid.The blaze left “19 dead, in-cluding 13 children, amongthem seven girls and sixboys, in addition to fourfemale teachers,” theQatari interior ministrysaid on its Twitter page,citing the country’s healthminister. Two members ofthe civil defence also diedin the fire at the capital’smain Villagio mall, it said.

The fire started at anursery, state minister forthe interior Abdullah binNasser Al-Thani told re-porters. Firefighters had tobreak through the roof toget to trapped childrenafter a staircase to thefirst-floor nursery col-lapsed, he added. Densesmoke inside the mallcombined with the fiercetemperature from theflames made reaching the

trapped children very diffi-cult, a representative ofthe civil defence told anews conference. HealthMinister Khaled al-Qah-tani said 17 people were in-jured in the blaze, mostlyfirefighters. Footageposted earlier onlineshowed black smoke bil-lowing from the shoppingcentre as emergency vehi-cles rushed to the scene.

In Madrid, a foreign

ministry spokeswomansaid: “Four of the deadchildren are Spanish,” andadded that Spanish em-bassy officials were tryingto get more details. Thefire at the Villagio brokeout at 11:30 am (0800GMT), the ministry said,quoting Al-Thani as tellingreporters that the “publicprosecution has takencharge of the investiga-tion.”

Balochistan unrest:

The source added that theprime minister wanted to ad-dress the situation so that thejudiciary or the oppositioncould not score points overBalochistan. The prime minis-ter would discuss the role ofthe security forces inBalochistan and especially,the conduct of FC would betaken up during the meeting.Naik, who also heads the cabi-net committee on Balochistan,called on Prime Minister Gi-lani at the PM’s House onMonday and discussed severallegal matters. He also briefedthe prime minister on legalaspects regarding the missingpersons’ case. The law minis-ter discussed with the primeminister various subjects onBalochistan that would betaken up in the meeting today.In Quetta, a police vehicle, car-rying two officials, was on rou-tine patrol in the Sariab areawhen two armed men openedindiscriminate fire on them,killing the constable on thespot. The ASI initially receivedbullet injuries but later died atthe hospital. The ASI wasidentified as Abdul Qayyumwhile the constable was identi-fied as Mohammad Asif. Whencontacted, Sariab SP IskundarTareen told Pakistan Todaythat both police officials werekilled in the attack and no ar-rest had been made so far,adding that the attackers fledsoon after the attack. Meanwhile, seven bullet-rid-dled bodies including those oftwo real brothers were recov-ered in Quetta, Khuzdar andDera Bugti districts on Mon-day. Police officials said threebodies were found in gunnybags in Ferozabad area in theoutskirts of Quetta. The bodies were shifted toBolan Medical College wherethey were identified asMehran Khan Kiyazai, Mo-hammad Khan Marri and hisborther Muhammad NabiMarri. Another body wasfound in Pashtoonabad area.It was identified as that ofHabibullah Noorzai. Anothertwo bodies were recovered inthe Dera Bugti area. A spokesman for the BalochRepublican Party (BRP), SherMuhammad Bugti claimedthat these bodies were dumpedthe other day in Pinhinain areaof Dera Bugti district. He iden-tified them as Ali Khan Bugtiand Wali Muhammad Bugtiwho had been missing sinceMarch 12, 2005. Police tookthe dead bodies to Bolan Med-ical Complex for autopsy.

Qatar says 13 childrenamong 19 dead in mall fire

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Egypt’s landmark presiden-tial election on Monday nar-rowed to a contest pitting aMuslim Brotherhood candi-date against a Mubarak-eraprime minister, the country’selectoral commission said.

Announcing the results,commission chief Faruq Sul-tan said: “No candidate wonan outright majority, so ac-cording to Article 40 of thepresidential election law,there will be a run-off be-tween Mohammed Mursiand Ahmed Shafiq.”

The results confirmedpreliminary figures an-nounced by the MuslimBrotherhood, polarising anation now forced to choosebetween a conservative Is-lamist and a symbol ofousted president HosniMubarak’s regime. Egyp-tians went to the polls on

May 23 and 24 in the coun-try’s first free presidentialelection, made possible bythe 2011 uprising led by pro-democracy activists.

Sultan said Mursi hadwon with 24.77 percent of thevotes, slightly ahead of Shafiqwith 23.66 percent. Nasseristcandidate Hamdeen Sabbahicame third with 20.71 per-cent, ahead of moderate Is-lamist Abdel Moneim AbulFotouh with 17.47 percent.Former foreign minister AmrMussa was fifth, trailing with11.12 percent.

The commission put theofficial turnout in the vote —the first since the 2011 upris-ing that ousted Mubarak —at 46 percent of the 50 mil-lion Egyptians who were eli-gible to cast a ballot in thehistoric election. Sultan saidthe commission had rejectedseven appeals filed by candi-dates on May 26 and 27, cit-ing electoral irregularities

that “did not affect the out-come of the vote.”

Both Mursi and Shafiq,who represent polar oppo-sites in the country’s frag-mented politics after lastyear’s uprising, are now try-ing to court the support ofthe losing candidates andtheir voters. The Brother-hood, which alienated manyother political parties afterits domination of parliamen-tary elections last winter,has warned that the nationwould be in danger if Shafiqwins and has pledged to be-come more inclusive.

Two of the losing candi-dates, Mussa and Abul Fo-touh, declined to endorseeither of the front runners,however. A “return to the oldregime is unacceptable. So isexploiting religion in poli-tics,” Mussa told a news con-ference, adding that hewould be willing to hold con-sultations with any parties if

asked. Abul Fotouh also re-fused to openly back a singlecandidate, and warnedagainst a return to theMubarak era. “The most im-portant thing is that peopledon’t vote for a felool,” hesaid, using a common pejo-rative term for members ofthe old regime. The Brother-hood has gained the supportof the ultra-conservativeSalafist Al-Nur party, whichhad supported Abul Fotouhin the first round. “The HighCommittee of the Al-Nurparty supports Dr Mo-hammed Mursi for presidentof the republic in the run-off,” the party said late onSunday on its official Twitteraccount.

But a pending legal casecould have serious implica-tions for Shafiq’s bid for thepresidency. Egypt’s SupremeConstitutional Court is ex-pected to rule on June 11 ina key case examining the

constitutionality of a lawbarring senior Mubarak-eraofficials from running for of-fice. On Saturday, Mursicalled a meeting of candi-dates that was ignored byboth Sabbahi and Abul Fo-touh. He promised at a newsconference after the meetingthat his party would be pre-pared to include aspects ofother parties’ programmesin its platform, but fell shortof reassuring critics who saythe group wants to monopo-lise power. “As president, Iwill be the president for allEgyptians. (My relationship)with the Brotherhood will bethe same as all Egyptians,”he said.

Shafiq also called on Sat-urday for broad supportfrom former rivals, callingon his competitors by nameto join him and promisingthere would be no return tothe old regime. “I reach outto all the partners and I

pledge that we would allwork together for the goodof Egypt,” he told reporters.

Addressing the youngpeople who spearheaded the2011 revolt, he said: “Yourrevolution has been hijackedand I am committed to bring-ing (it) back.” The contestpresents a difficult choice foractivists who led the revolt.For them, choosing Shafiqwould be to admit the revolu-tion had failed, but a vote forMursi could threaten thevery freedoms they foughtfor. The presidential poll hasfollowed a tumultuous mili-tary-led transition from auto-cratic rule marked bypolitical upheaval and blood-shed, but which also wit-nessed free parliamentaryelections. The SupremeCouncil of the Armed Forces,in power since Mubarak’sdownfall, has pledged to re-store Egypt to civilian rule bythe end of June.

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CHIEF Justice IftikharMuhammad Chaudhry hassaid that respect for law andrule of law are the availablesolutions to the menace of

terrorism and the judiciary can act as adeterrent against anyone who breaksthe law in order to create anarchy andchaos.

“Equality before law and equal pro-tection of law are the principles whichsubject all people to the same laws ofjustice,” the chief justice said in his in-augural speech at the International Ju-rists Conference in the UK.

He stressed that the courts musttreat every person without regard to hiscaste, colour and status. “The judiciary,by adopting an attitude of zero tolerancetowards crime and criminals, in accor-dance with legal procedures can nodoubt bring the society towards peaceand prosperity,” he added.

The CJP said the judicial system hada special role to play in securing thebasic human and fundamental rights ofthe citizens in a given society and inprotecting their life and liberty.

He said the judiciary acted as an ul-timate protector and upholder of rightsof citizens and civil liberties. He said the

1973 constitution had made specificprovisions for the protection of funda-mental rights.

He said the Supreme Court acted asa final arbiter and protector of constitu-tional norms by virtue of constitutionalmandate. “The apex court by taking itsconstitutional responsibility of adhering

to the principles of justice and fair playtried its utmost to redress the griev-ances in matters of public importanceand involving violation of fundamentalrights”.

The Supreme Court under its inher-ent powers of judicial review had set outprecedents of constitutional importance

that had led to the improvement ofcriminal and civil justice system in Pak-istan, he said.

Defending an autonomous and inde-pendent judicial system, the chief jus-tice termed it a sine quo non for afunctional democracy and it was centralfor social harmony and good governancein any given democratic society. “Inde-pendence of the judiciary from extrane-ous and internal influences is essentialfor the nourishment of good governancein all institutions of the State,” he said.

The CJP said rule of law bore a sub-stantial impact on the economic devel-opment of transitional states and itsestablishment rested on a strong consti-tutional and legal framework. “The su-premacy of the constitution,strengthening of state institutions andindependence of judiciary are some ofthe main factors that lead towards theformation of an integrated and impar-tial legal and judicial structure built onthe well established norms of justice”.

Apprising the conference of Pak-istani system, the chief justice said thatthe country was a democratic state hav-ing an autonomous executive, a bicam-eral legislature and independent judicialsystem. He said the principle of tri-chotomy of power was beautifully wovenin the constitutional scheme of Pakistandistributed and harmonised the powers

among the three organs of the state. “Jurisdictional domain of each of

these organs has been manifestly set outby the Constitution itself. Every organ isindependent within its domain and en-joys unfettered powers subject to speci-fied constitutional constraints”.

He said unfettered and unrestrainedinvesting of powers in one of the organsof the state was a recipe for authoritari-anism and mismanagement. “It merelyretards the growth and adversely affectsthe functioning of the other two or-gans”.

The chief justice said anarchy andchaos were the natural outcome of arbi-trary exercise of powers by the state in-stitutions thus the system of checks andbalances ran parallel to the system ofdistribution of power.

Talking about terrorism, he said ithad to be eradicated with the meansthat should be more humane and in con-formity with established human rightsand judicial norms. He said the recogni-tion of human rights was the foundationof tranquility, justice, societal freedomand peace in the world. “Protection ofthese rights is indispensable for the ex-istence of humanity.”

He told the conference that Pakistanenacted and enforced special anti-ter-rorism laws to counter terrorism andterrorist activities.

Pakistan capable ofshooting downdrones: AQ Khan

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Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khanhas said that Pakistan has the capabilityto shoot down unmanned surveillancedrone aircrafts, adding that the countrywas facing internal threats rather thanexternal. Talking to a private TV chan-nel on Monday he said that they hadbuilt missile in Kahuta some 15 yearsago which have the capability to shootdown drones. Dr Khan said the army hastaken oath for the security of bordersbut what is the use of oath if violation ofborder continues. “Ziaul Haq was a dic-tator but he was a patriotic ruler… thecurrent rulers are corrupt and robbers,”he said. Dr Khan said, “Pakistan’s de-fence looks very impenetrable exter-nally, but it is vulnerable internally dueto the internal situation of the country.We were hoping that the nation wouldfocus on progress, education and indus-trial advancement but rulers have plun-dered the public property for manyyears.” “Even having nuclear capability,it is a wrong perception that we can nottake action against the United States,England or France because we have ac-cumulated nuclear system againstIndia,” he said.

Talal Bugti asks world powers to stop bloodshed in Balochistan

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The world powers have to play their rolefor stopping the bloodshed in Balochis-tan, leader of Jamhoori Watan Party(JWP) Talal Akbar Bugti said on Mon-day. Addressing a press conference withSardar Niaz Muhammad, Syed SalehAgha and Chaudhry Naveed at BugtiHouse, he requested the chief justice ofPakistan to take notice of the free move-ment of the accused involved in themurder of Nawab Akbar Bugti and issueorder for action against them.He said the Baloch were innocent andthey would not apologize for anythingthey had not committed.“Rather, persons who murdered AkbarBugti and thousands of others Balochshould apologize, those who carried outthe operation in Lal Masjid, who ex-ploited the natural resources ofBalochistan.

ISLAMABADAgEnciES

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ChairmanImran Khan has said Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gilani is a convict whodoes not possess any understanding ofthe constitutional matters and is out tobring the institutions to war path withhis myopic policies. Addressing a pressconference on Monday, Khan said hisparty would not enter into an alliancewith the PPP, the PML-N or the MQM.

Throwing a challenge to the PML-N’s claims, he said the PTI’s successfulrally in Rawalpindi had negated claimsabout backing of the ISI.

Welcoming Shaheen Akbar, former

PML-N leader, who joined the PTI, hesaid such a change would be a harbin-ger of a new chapter in the politics ofthe constituency.

He claimed that dozen of MNAsfrom the PPP and the PML-N were re-questing his party to open its doors tothem but they could not do it.

About Nawaz Sharif’s statementover donation for Shaukat KhanumHospital, Khan said the Pakistani na-tion donated Rs 200 billion to the hos-pital every year.

He said Gilani, Zardari and Nawaz,along with the big fish, were reluctantto pay their taxes and questioned howcould they demand the nation to paytaxes when they themselves were not

paying their taxes.Expressing dismay over Nawaz’s

politics, Khan said after reaching at asecret dealing with the government,the hype created by him usually sub-sided. Mocking the PML-N move tochallenge the NA speaker’s ruling ofGilani’s contempt case, the PTI chiefsaid they knew that the party wouldfollow their precedent.

He also warned that if the SupremeCourt’s decision over PTI’s constitu-tional petition was defied by the gov-ernment, the PTI would stage a‘tsunami long march’.

He claimed that Gilani’s govern-ment could not survive more thanthree months.

No military solutionto Kashmir dispute,says Fazlur rehman

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Special Parliamentary Committee onKashmir Chairman Fazlur Rehman onMonday said there was no possible mili-tary solution to the Kashmir issue anddurable peace in South Asia could not beachieved without resolving the Kashmirdispute. The Kashmir Committee chair-man said this in a statement commentingon the statement of the Indian ministerfor petroleum, which he made on his visitto Pakistan. The Indian minister had saidthe Kashmir issue could not be resolvedthrough arms and military. He said theIndian minister was right in saying thattherefore, India should bring its forcesout of Jammu and Kashmir. Neverthe-less, it was a pity that instead of quittingKashmir, India was increasing the num-ber of its forces there, he said.

Gilani is convict, doesn’t understandconstitutional matters: Imrang PTi chairman says PM pitting institutions against each other

g Says judiciary can act as deterrent against anyone who breaks law to create anarchy

CJP urges rule of law to counter terrorism

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iSlAMAbAd: Prime Minister yousaf raza gilani in a meeting with a delegation of fATA paliamentarians on Monday.

RAWALPINDIAPP

Bodies of three soldiers have so farbeen recovered after they came undera huge snow slide at Gayari sector,Siachen on April 7.

According to an ISPR spokesman,bodies of two soldiers were recoveredduring the last 24 hours. All bodies re-covered from the checkpost area havebeen identified.

The body of soldier MuhammadHussain was buried at his native town(Skardu) yesterday while bodies of se-poys Rashid from district Sudhnoti,Azad Kashmir, and Ilyas from DistrictGhanche were being dispatched totheir native towns.

He said that work on excavationsites was in progress, adding, 312 engi-neers and workers, 48 plants including10 Dozers, 11 Excavators, 18 Dumptrucks and 9 FE loaders were workinground the clock to recover the remain-ing soldiers.

india, Pakistan alonecannot solve Kashmir issue: dr Fai

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Executive Director of Kashmiri Ameri-can Council Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai onMonday said India and Pakistan alonecannot solve the 65-year-old Kashmirconflict, and that genuine leadership ofthe people of Jammu and Kashmir mustbe included in all negotiations.He was speaking at a reception at RoyalBanquette Hall, Brooklyn, New York. “More trade between India and Pakistanwill do nothing to end the indigenousKashmiri resistance, which is fuelled byshocking human rights abuses perpe-trated by over 700,000 Indian militaryand paramilitary forces, and the denialof self-determination plebiscite for 17million Kashmiris that the United Na-tions Security Council has prescribed.And no power or combinations of pow-ers can bargain away the rights of Kash-miris; only they can determine their ownpolitical destiny,” Fai explained.“In Kashmir, during its centuries of vir-tual independence, communal violence orabrasiveness was unknown between Mus-lims, Pandits, Buddhists, and Sikhs.Kashmiris shared values and a heritagethat far transcended religious divides.

Pakistan responsiblefor delay in visa liberalisation: Aiyar

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Holding Pakistan responsible for delayin the implementation of the liberalisedvisa regime, Congress leader ManiShankar Aiyar on Monday said relax-ation in norms was essential for improv-ing trade relations between the twoneighbours. “I feel Pakistan is responsi-ble (for failure to ink the liberalised visaregime),” he told reporters when askedabout the reasons for India and Pakistanfailing to sign the much-anticipatedagreement for visa liberalisation. Hesaid Pakistan had suggested that suchan agreement should be signed by min-isters and not at the secretary level, re-ported PTI. Recently, at the homesecretary-level meeting between Indiaand Pakistan, both sides failed to ink thepact and merely agreed to do it at anearly date after Islamabad insisted onpolitical participation.

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THE Parliamentary Com-mittee on National Secu-rity (PCNS) hasannounced that recom-mendations from political

parties regarding the issue of missingpersons have been received.

Talking to reporters after con-vening an in-camera meeting onMonday, committee Chairman RazaRabbani said various stakeholdershad forwarded their recommenda-tions regarding the sensitive issue,which would be considered while fi-nalising the draft when it (draft)would be put forth in a meeting ofthe committee on May 31. The Inte-rior Ministry would be delivering aconcise briefing in meeting, follow-ing which another meeting, sched-uled for the same evening, wouldfinalise these recommendations.

To a question regarding droneattacks, Rabbani said they wereagainst national integrity and sover-

eignty, and the government’s stanceover the issue was quite clear.

“Even Amnesty International hasstrongly condemned these attacks,demanding their immediate cessa-tion, as being carried out in Yemen

and Pakistan,” he said. Referring to the question on the

18th Amendment, he said an effec-tive implementation of the 18thAmendment could help resolve thesordid issue of provincial autonomy.

He also expressed regrets andconcerns over the issues of mutilateddead bodies and missing persons,demanding an immediate end tothem.

Commenting on resolutions ofthe Supreme Court Bar Association(SCBA) over the issue of Balochis-tan, Rabbani agreed that the SCBAhad managed a joint consensus of allsegments of the civil society, whichwas agreeable to all.

He also emphasised on bringingBalochistan’s armed dissidents inthe national mainstream by offeringthem unconditional dialogue, with-out comprising national interests. Toanother question, he stressed an al-liance over national issues betweenthe judiciary and parliament, to en-sure positive progress on matters ofnational importance.

Two-day jirga onAfghanistan situation begins inPeshawar today

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The two-day jirga for debating the cur-rent situation on both sides of Pak-Afghan border will commence today(Tuesday) at Nishtar Hall Peshawar.The jirga will be attended by delegatesfrom Pashtun community not only fromPakistan and Afghanistan, but also fromrest of the world.The idea of jirga was floated by leadingnationalist politician Mohammad AfzalKhan, commonly known as Khan Lala,and is being supported by the AwamiNational Party.Beside ANP, the jirga will be attendedby leaders and representatives from thePakistan People’s Party, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid,National Party and the Pakistan AwamiParty.However, leaders of the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaaf, PPP-S and Jamaat-e-Islami have refused to attend the jirga.Former Afghan minister and ex-gover-nor of Kabul, Haji Deen Mohammad, isgoing to lead a delegation fromAfghanistan. President Hamid Karzai’smessage is likely to be read out by HajiDeen Mohammad. Similarly elders andrepresentatives of Pashtuns fromKarachi and Balochistan would also bearriving in Peshawar.The objective of the jirga, according toMohammad Afzal Khan, is to discuss thesituation arising out of the US invasionin the name of war on terror.

Pakistan delays release of Sarabjeet Singh

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Pakistan has formally delayed a decisionrelated to the release of Indian spySarabjeet Singh, while it has been de-cided that he would be released on theoccasion of Indian PM Dr ManmohanSingh’s visit to Pakistan. Sources saidPakistan had made a final decision re-garding the release of Sarabjeet Singhand had informed India about it. Indian Prime Minister Dr ManmohanSingh will visit Pakistan at the end ofthe current year. Pakistan had decidedto release the Indian spy in the currentweek, and but the Foreign Office hassuggested the government release Singhas a goodwill gesture during Manmo-han’s visit. The sources said the road forreleasing Sarabjeet Singh was pavedduring President Asif Ali Zardari’s visitto India and the president had assuredIndia in this regard.

Bodies of three soldiers recovered from Gayari: ISPR

Proposals regarding missingpersons finalised: Rabbani

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THE Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday stayedthe privatization process of Overseas PakistanisFoundation (OPF) schools and colleges as were ad-vertised on May 17 newspapers. The court also is-sued notices and sought para-wise comments from

the secretary ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and ManagingDirector OPF in this regard. Single member bench of IHC,comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui conducted the pro-ceedings of a plea filed by Syed Ishfaq Hussain Shah, Advo-cate High Court, seeking to restrain the respondents fromprivatization of OPF school and colleges. During the course ofhearing, petitioner Ishfaq Hussain apprised the bench thatoverseas Pakistanis Foundation was established to advancethe social welfare of Pakistanis working overseas and theirfamilies in Pakistan identifying their problems and by con-tributing to their solutions including education of children.He argued that OPF schools/colleges were established forwelfare of the overseas Pakistanis not for the commercialpurposes. But the Ministry of Overseas invited expression ofinterest to run these schools/colleges in national newspapersfrom the private sector, he added. The act of publishing ofadvertisement by the respondents is against the law of priva-tization, Privatisation Ordinance 2000 Sec.2.3 and minutesapproved by the cabinet committee on privatisation on Feb-ruary 17, 2009, and ratified by the cabinet on January 06,2010, he maintained. He contended that according to thesaid policy advertisement for the public private partnershipshall be published by the Privatization Commission and notby any other ministry of the government department. The petitioner prayed to the court to declare the act ofpublishing of advertisement for invitation of expression ofinterest for privatization of OPF schools/colleges againstthe law and misuse of authority. Further hearing was ad-journed till date in office.

ISLAMABADSTAff rEPOrT

Bhara Kahu police Islamabad on Monday ar-rested a fake pir who used to mint money fromthe people, especially depriving women of theirgold ornaments, on the pretext of treating themin case of any disease solving their problems onimmediate basis.

A policeman said that family members of twogirls called Rescue 15 and described that a per-son had deprived their daughters of gold orna-ments on the pretext of treating them.

Following this complaint, Bhara Kahu police,led by SHO Bhara Kahu, conducted a raid at thedescribed place and nabbed the fake pir who was

busy in cheating the simpletons. He was identi-fied as Ali Ahmed s/o Rehmat Khan, a residentof Mohallah Qazian, Nai Abadi Bhara Kahu.

He used to call visiting persons to a separateroom and deprive them of their valuables on thebasis of various false pretences. The police raid-ing team also recovered valuables and cash fromhim while further investigation is underway.

Meanwhile, Islamabad police arrested eightoutlaws and three proclaimed offenders besidesrecovering a total of 21 wine bottles, weaponsand looted items from their possession.

The nabbed outlaws have been identified asAkmal, Pervez Masih, Aloon Masih, YasirMehmud, Babar Hussain, Bilal, Abdul Ghaffar,Nosher Khan.

Art, Craft Village to

be revived soon

with renewed spiritISLAMABAD

APP

Potohari Art and Craft Villagewould be revived soon with re-newed spirit by organising ex-tensive cultural activities topromote traditional heritage ofPakistani, said Capital Develop-ment Authority Chairman Fark-hand Iqbal Monday. During hisvisit to the village, the CDAchairman said Art andCraft Vil-lage is situated at an ideal andenvironment-friendly area andlocals as well as foreigners havekeen interest in traditional andcultural activities which alsohelp promote soft image of Pak-istan. The chairman directed themember engineering to com-plete necessary beautificationand other repair work. The envi-ronment wing has been directedto plant flowers and trees of var-ious species around the Arts andCraft Village. Farkhand Iqbalsaid the Potohari Village wouldalso serve as a showcase for thenation’s traditional crafts andhandloom heritage and provideIslamabad with a unique shop-ping and entertainment experi-ence. He said the village wouldalso promote the Pakistani tra-ditional products in addition toproviding the opportunity of in-come generation, adding it is alandmark project that wouldadd colours to the unique char-acter and flavours of the Islam-abad. The CDA chief said theArts and Craft Village has beenconstructed to promote the in-digenous arts and handicraftsand enhance the inter-provin-cial harmony.

IHC stays

privatisation of OPF

schools, colleges

Capital police arrest fake pir

iSlAMAbAd: AJK President Sardar Muhammad yaqub Khan speaks during an Ulema Aman convention at a local hotel. STaff phOTO

iSlAMAbAd: Jamaat-e-islami Punjab naib Ameer Main Muhammad Aslam addresses a press conference at the

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Please join us this Thursday, 10 May 2012for Mohsin Shafi's first Solo Show atKhaas Art gallery at 5:00 p.m onwards.do spread the word and bring yourfriends to meet the artist in person andsee his work.

dATe: MAy 10 - 21, 2012VeNUe: KhAAS ArT gAllery (Free)

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STUDENTS of Digital Advertising andComputer Graphic on Monday show-cased their unexplored talents at an artexhibition ‘Pakistan in the Realm of Art’held at National University of Modern

Languages (NUML), promoting the different as-pects of Pakistani art and cultural heritage.

The exhibition arranged by the Departmentof Mass Communication NUML displayed a widerange of art work including mosaic art, abstractart, dough work of mirror and pots, calligraphyin Kufi style, drawings in pastel and charcoal,leather carvings, oil paintings and posters.

A book on truck art which was made by usingsome latest graphic software was also a source ofattraction for the visitors. The exhibited items re-ceived a lot of applause from visitors comprisingof local and foreign students of different depart-

ments, faculty members, heads and deans of thedifferent department of the university.

The visitors appreciated the concept ‘Arton Wheel’ in which the student painters andartists through the use of different mediumprojected colourful and eye- catching art oftruck decoration.

They painted different pictures, carvings,decorations to depict the different trend and erain truck art industry. A book ‘Historical Shields’by Anum Faryal in adobe and coral beautifullycombined the depleting cultural beauty andgrandeur of three forts of Potohar which werePhawala Fort, Rewat Fort and Rohtas Fort.

Talking on the occasion, Coordinator ofthe event, Amna Zulfiqar said that “the pur-pose of this exhibition is to provide our stu-dents an opportunity to exhibit and markettheir artistic potentials because talent with-out opportunity is nothing”.

NUML is a place where there is a diversified

audience with a diversified international back-ground and they are invited to see students workand most of the time we find many potential cus-tomers of a single art work. This all encouragesthem for more efforts and struggle, she added.

A student Marryum Khalid said that all this isa debut attempt by armature students includingherself, Anum Faryal, Asma Aqeel, Sadaf Arif,Nazish Fawad, Saira Rafique, Jawad Ali Shah,Hamad Awan and many others contributed theirart works for the exhibition and this platform hasadded into their confidence and interest to seekfor excellence in their skills”. The art exhibitionwas inaugurated by Rector NUML Maj Gen(R)Masood Hasan and he appreciated the stu-dents for coming up with an artwork which wasfull of aesthetic and artistic appeal. Director Gen-eral Brig Azam Jamal, Head of Mass Communi-cation Department Col (R) Syed Munawar Aliand many others also visited exhibition and ap-preciated students for their d‚but effort.

Exhibition ‘Pakistan in the Realm of Art’ mesmerizes visitors

ISLAMABADAPP

Physical activity improves kids’ fitness and low-ers their risk of obesity. And research shows thatkids who take breaks from their class work to bephysically active during the school day are oftenbetter able to concentrate on their school workand may do better on standardised tests.

Boosting students’ levels of physical educa-tion improves their grades, a new, small studysays. Swedish researchers followed more than200 schoolchildren, starting from first throughthird grade for nine years. Some children were

assigned to an intervention group that receivedphysical education five days a week, plus extratraining in motor-physical skills such as balanceand coordination. The other children were as-signed to a control group that received usual lev-els of physical education.

The study showed that 96 percent of stu-dents in the intervention group achieved gradesthat made them eligible to advance to upper-sec-ondary school, compared with 89 percent of stu-dents in the control group.

This difference was especially evident amongboys (96 percent in the intervention group and83 percent in the control group). The boys in the

intervention group had significantly highergrades in Swedish, English, math, physical edu-cation and health than those in the control group.

The study also found that in ninth grade, 93percent of students in the intervention grouphad good physical motor skills, compared with53 percent of students in the control group.“Physical education has been pared down fromthree lessons a week to one or two,” study authorIngegerd, Ericsson of Malmo University, said ina news release. “We scientifically confirm herethat daily timetabled physical education andmotor skill training not only improves motorskill but also school achievement.”

physical Education is good for kids’ grades

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iSlAMAbAd: PMl-n chairman raja zafar-ul-haq addresses a function to mark yaum-e-Takbeer at the district courts. STaff phOTO

ISLAMABADAPP

DEFICIENCY of properparking facilities inmost of the markets andshopping centers of theFederal Capital is creat-

ing hindrance for the commuters andthe situation is worsening day by daywith increasing number of vehicles.

The oldest and busiest businesscenters including Aabpara, MelodyMarket and Blue Area are worst hitwhich remain packed with vehiclesthroughout the day till late at night.

Muhammad Amir, an owner of agarments shop, told APP that in BlueArea he had parked his car at least400 yards away because he could notfind a parking space near the store.

He said that sometimes it took 5to 10 minutes to find parking.“Where should we park our vehicle,”asked one woman looking for park-ing.

A traffic police official in the areasaid that people needed to be edu-cated in parking their cars. He saidthat if people parked their cars prop-

erly, less space would be used leav-ing more parking area for others.

When contacted, a CDA officialsaid that the authority was aware ofthe situation and was taking steps toredress the problem.

The CDA should solve the trafficand parking problems in differentplaces of the capital city and to findout appropriate ways for expansionand up-gradation of the roads androundabout so that the task is exe-cuted with minimum cost.

He said the CDA also initiatedthe projects for developing pedes-trian underpasses to facilitate gen-eral public; however, these facilitiesshould be state of the art havingcommercial area on both sides toearn revenue for the authority.

He said that provision of the pro-tected U-turns, fish bellies and othersuch facilities is the need of hour inwake of increase of traffic load in thecity.

On the directions of the task force,the CDA has initiated the work onthese projects and has sought expres-sion of interest for construction of thepedestrian underpasses connecting G-

6 and F-6 and the G-7 & F-7. The work for expansion of differ-

ent roads and avenues in addition toprovision of fish bellies has alreadycommenced to ensure smooth move-ment of vehicles and avoid the acci-dents. IeSCO POWer SuSPeNSIONPrOgrAmme: Islamabad ElectricSupply Company (IESCO) on Mon-day issued power suspension pro-gramme for various areas of itsregion due to necessary maintenanceand routine development work.

According to an IESCOspokesman, power supply of theareas falling under the following gridstations/feeders would remain sus-pended as under:-

May 29 (Tuesday) from 9am to12pm, Scheme-I feeder, Scheme-Iand surrounding areas; May 30(Wednesday) from 9am to 12pm,Scheme-I feeder, Scheme-I andsurrounding areas; May 31(Thursday) from9am to 12pm,Scheme-I feeder,Scheme-I and sur-rounding areas.

Deficiency of parking lots createshinderance for commuters

Man-made hurdles

affecting faunal habitat

at Margalla ParkISLAMABAD

APP

The Margalla Hills National Park isfacing many threats, including stonecrushing, forest fires and tree cuttingwhich will ultimately result in squeez-ing of the habitat and concentrationof animals and birds in certain pock-ets. The ever-increasing human set-tlements, mining, fuel woodextraction, wildlife hunting, livestockgrazing, road construction, air, noise,water pollution and recently installedlights on Daman-e-Koh Road are themain problems in the park area.Pakistan Museum of Natural History(PMNH) Zoology Department Direc-tor Dr Muhammad Rafique said thatsuch hurdles in the habitat and re-source partitioning would lead to acompetition among species, resultingin drastic changes in species composi-tion and their associations.He said the park is important, as itforms the southern most distribu-tional limit for many Himalayan ani-mal species and the northern mostlimits for many species of the plainareas in the south.“This park providesa refuge to many indigenous specieslocally migrating from northern partsof the country when those areas arepacked with snow during the winters. It also serves as a transit place formany species of birds migrating fromnorthern hemisphere, and also serv-ing as an important recreational placefor the people of Rawalpindi and Is-lamabad,” he said.He added the park also provided anexcellent spot for birdwatchers asmany people in Islamabad had thishobby. Dr Rafique said the park wasunique in the sense that it had a re-markable variety of microhabitats,which was an indicator of high species’diversity. As a result of a series of fau-nal survey of the park, 54 species ofbutterflies, 37 of fish, nine of amphib-ians, 20 of reptiles, 380 of birds, 21 ofsmall mammals and 15 species of largemammals were recorded.

Kaira condoles

death of journalist’s

motherISLAMABAD

APP

Federal Information and Broadcast-ing Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira onMonday expressed sorrow and griefover the demise of the mother of APPreporter Arshad Malik. In a condo-lence message, the minister prayed toAllah Almighty to rest the departedsoul in eternal peace and grantcourage and fortitude to the bereavedfamily to bear the loss.Arshad Malik’s mother breathed her lastat a local hospital on Sunday after a pro-tracted illness.QuL Of APP StAffer’S mOtherheLD: Meanwhile, qul of the mother ofAPP staffer Arshad Malik, held here onMonday, was largely attended by emi-nent politicians, journalists, social fig-ures and professionals. The mother ofArshad Malik had breathed her last at alocalhospital on early Sunday morningafter protracted illness.Her Namaz-e-Janaza was offered atDarbar Saain Bhaag Sarkar, Sohan vil-lage. Former information ministerMuhammad Ali Durrani, APP ManagingDirector Rao Tehsin Ali Khan, senior of-ficer of the Ministry of Information, Za-hoor Ahmed Barlas, political leaders andhad attended the funeral prayers.

ISLAMABADOnlinE

Don’t stress yourself too much, else an increased release ofstress hormones could trigger Alzheimer’s disease, to go bynew research based on mice. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Ger-many, have discovered that increased release of stress hor-mones in rats leads to production of excess tau protein inthe brain and ultimately, memory loss. Clumps of protein deposits in nerve cells are a typical fea-ture of Alzheimer’s disease, caused by overabundance oftau protein, the Journal of Neuroscience reports. As a result, nerve cells die, particularly in the hip-pocampus, a part of the brain that plays an importantrole in learning and memory, as well as in the pre-frontal cortex which regulates higher cognitive func-tions, according to a Max Planck statement. “Our findings show that stress hormones and stress cancause changes in the tau protein like those that arise inAlzheimer’s disease,” explains Osborne Almeida from theMax Planck Institute.

ISLAMABADAPP

Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge JusticeKhilji Arif Hussain has urged the districtattorneys to take their professional re-sponsibility seriously.

He expressed these views in the inau-gural ceremony of one-week course on‘District Attorneys and Management ofCivil Cases’ for attorneys/ deputy districtattorneys from all over Pakistan, includingAzad Jammu and Kashmir and GilgitBaltistan, here at the Federal JudicialAcademy (FJA) Islamabad on Monday.

Shedding the light on the reason whydecisions in the civil cases more oftencome against the authority/the govern-ment including the public sector organiza-

tions such as corporations, he opined:It is noticed that the law officers, in-

cluding the district attorneys/deputy dis-trict attorneys, are given properinstructions in the case in question.

They are not provided with the factsabout the case because senior officers in thepublic sector organizations take it light and itis also seen that they depute a lower grade of-ficer to brief the district attorney/deputy dis-trict attorney, then, as a result of that thedecisions come against the authority. “What-ever may be the circumstances and situationbut you have to work with devotion and ded-ication and professional honesty. You musthave to read the noting and correspondencefile of the organization and have to save thenational exchequer with your caution andcare,” he advised the trainee attorneys.

Attorneys asked to perform duty seriously

Bid to smuggle heroin

to China foiled

ISLAMABADAPP

A man who allegedly tried to smug-gle heroin, concealed in his luggage,to China was caught by the Islam-abad Airport security officials onMonday, a private TV news channelreported. According to the airportsources, a Pakistani passengernamed Israr Khan was carrying onekilogram of heroin in his luggageand leaving for China, but the secu-rity officials at the airport caughthim. He was handed over to Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) for further in-vestigation.

Stress may aggravatealzheimer’s risk

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Islamabad

iSlAMAbAd: All Pakistan cng Association activits protest in favour of their demands. STaff phOTO

ISLAMABADAPP

The International LabourOrganization (ILO) hasreceived more than 900entries for its nationallevel photo competitionon the fight against childlabour in Pakistan.

The objective of thecontest is to encouragejournalists, students andgeneral public to enter thephotographs depictingvarious aspects of childlabour in the competition,media coordinator of ILOPakistan, Zaheer Arif, toldAPP on Monday.

He said the nationallevel photo competition2012 was launched inJanuary in collaborationwith the European Unionunder a project ‘Combat-ing Abusive ChildLabour II.’

He said panel ofjudges, comprising masscommunications and pho-tograph experts, ILO tech-nical persons, andtechnical persons of pho-tography, has beenformed which would selectthe best photos in cate-gories including profes-sional, students andgeneral public.

The best 20 photo-graphs of each categorywill be displayed in an ex-hibition on the occasion ofWorld Day against ChildLabour in June and thebest selected persons willbe honoured with cashprizes.

The first prize winnerof each category would begiven Rs 50,000 whilesecond and third winnersof the competition wouldbe given Rs 30,000 and Rs20,000, respectively. Cer-

tificates of recognition for20 winners in each cate-gory would also beawarded, he said andadded photographs wouldalso be selected for web-site, ILO publications, an-nual journalist diaries,calendars etc.

Zaheer Arif said thebasic objective of thephoto competition is topromote public participa-tion in action for the elim-ination of child labour inPakistan, raise publicawareness and under-standing on the issue ofchild labour and to advo-cate and campaign on be-half of child labourerstowards ending childlabour in Pakistan.

Another aim is to mo-bilize the country toachieve the goal of endingthe worst forms of childlabour by 2016.

PVC flooring

chemicals taken up

by children’s bodiesISLAMABAD

APP

Higher levels of the potentially harmfulplastic chemicals known as phthalateshave been detected in the bodies of chil-dren from homes with PVC flooring. Phthalates are a group of chemicals widelyused in the production of common con-sumer goods such as toys, cleaning sol-vents and packaging, Press TV reported.The substances are suspected to cause sev-eral chronic health conditions such asasthma and allergies especially in children. Some phthalates are categorized amongendocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)which can cause significant harm tohuman and other species health by inter-fering with the body’s hormone systems.Researchers from Karlstad University inSweden have found that children can in-gest these softening agents with food butalso by breathing and through the skin.They took urine samples from 83 ran-domly selected children between the agesof two and six months and measured theprevalence of four types of phthalates. The results revealed that the levels of cer-tain phthalates were higher in babies thathad PVC flooring in their bedrooms. “Withthis study as a basis, we can establish thatthere are other sources that should betaken into consideration in regard to theuptake of banned chemicals and that wedo not only ingest them in our food,” saidsenior author Carl-Gustaf Bornehag.

women home-based

workers display crafts ISLAMABAD

APP

As many as 300 women home-basedworkers displayed a large collection ofcrafts including dresses, home decors andfashion accessories here Monday in a 2-day exhibition.Sabah Pakistan (Saarc Business Associa-tion for home based women workers)arranged the exhibition to facilitatewomen workers for earning respectablelivelihood.Products created by the ruralcraftswomen including items related towomen and children, dresses, handbags,home textiles, garments and interiordecors attracted a large number of visi-tors mostly women for getting shoppingopportunity of perfect extravaganza.Sabah Pakistan organised the event tomainstream home based women workersand partner organisations into a businessenvironment and ensure fair wages bysocial and ethically secure fair tradepractices, said an official of Sabah onMonday.The organisation works with the objec-tives to economically empower home-based women workers, improve theirstandard of living and revive indigenoushandicrafts to create sustainable incomefor rural folk and independence by beingmarket-oriented.

Sadequain’s show serves as choice of visual art

ILO receives 900 entries for

photo contest on child labour

ISLAMABADAPP

THE saga of Sadequain, a soloexhibition of legendary Sade-quain’s works, is serving asan engaging opportunity forresearchers, art students,

critics, historians and other interested tovisit and explore the philosophy behindeach one of his canvas here at the Na-tional Art Gallery.

The Pakistan National Council ofthe Arts (PNCA) has dedicated a galleryfully to Sadequain with permanent dis-play of large illustrative mural paint-ings that visualize the poetry of Iqbal,Ghalib and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

The exquisite collection of art bylegendary artist Sadequain is the major

attraction for visitors of National ArtGallery, said Director General PNCA,Tauqeer Nasir, while talking to APPhere Monday.

The rich and versatile display is thesecond largest exhibition of Sadequain’swork since he expired in 1987.

Large murals visualizing the poetry ofGhalib, Iqbal and Faiz with eye-catchingdisplay not only feature masterly tech-niques but also beautifully serve the artlovers as a treat of visual art.

The solo show captures illustrationsand interpretations on ‘Mystic Expres-sions by Sadequain’ an odyssey to exalta-tion with Ghalib, Iqbal, Faiz andSadequain with comprehensive retro-spect of his palette representing a conflu-ence of the most extraordinary talent ofthe art and literature.

The prolific painter and a poet ofsubstantial standing who ruled the artscene for over five decades, during thecreative journey, created amazinglylarge body of work which include count-less paintings, murals, sketches, draw-ings, calligraphies and composed andillustrated his ‘Rubaiyaat’.

His large murals earned him world-wide respect and admiration while hewas awarded ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz’ at theage of thirty followed by “Laureate Bien-nale de Paris.” President’s Medal for‘Pride of Performance’, ‘Sitara-e-Imtiaz’,‘Quaid-e-Azam Award’ and InternationalGold Mercury Award.

The rich collection of Sadequain’swork and the exhibition of relevantlylarge-size paintings (murals) put togethercelebrates and acknowledges the contri-

butions of the celebrity.The show presents 13 murals (il-

lustrations/interpretation) on Iqbal’spoetry, visual references from two ofhis monumental Murals, 12 illustra-tions, oil on canvas on Faiz AhmedFaiz’s poetry and three images show-casing colossal Murals done for La-hore Museum.

Sadequain was deeply interested inthe issues that have challenged the bestminds of the human race – the questionsabout the mysteries of the universe,meaning of life, role of human beings inthe universe, freedom and self determi-nation, survival and progress, and thefine line between reason and emotion.

The verses that Sadequain selected toillustrate reflect various states of self-re-alization and consciousness. As arche-

typal expressions of mystic vision, thesepaintings hold a beacon to the path of en-lightenment and guide through the gate-way of spiritual freedom. In thesepaintings, Sadequain seeks to share hisobservations, experiences and interpreta-tions of the truth and his relationship tothe world around him and beyondthrough the poetry of his choice.

Sadequain is known to have paintedday and night all through his life and it isestimated that he painted over 15000pieces but did not keep an inventory andtraces of most of his works do not exist.

“The exhibition is an effort to relivethe legacy, celebrate it in a benefitingmanner and let the world know aboutthe great painter of his time, who shallcontinue to rule the art world,” TauqeerNasir said.

ISLAMABADAPP

Scientists have developed a newneedle-less device which injectsmedications through the skin at thespeed of sound without causing anotable pain.

The high-speed jet injector,developed by researchers of theMassachusetts Institute of Tech-nology (MIT) in the US uses asmall, powerful magnet and elec-tric current to administer drugs,Press TV reported.

“It’s capable of pressurizingthe drug up to 100 megapascales(MPas), and we can do that inunder a millisecond.”

The new technology can de-liver different sorts of medicationswith less pain and more accuracycompared to syringes and hypo-dermic needles.

The prototype injector’s nozzleis only about as wide as a mos-quito’s proboscis which is farlower in the pain scale comparedto needle injections.

Another advantage of the newtechnology is that the velocity of thedelivery of a drug can be adjustedby controlling the current applied tothe actuator.

“There’s a magnet in thecenter of our jet injector that’ssurrounded by a coil of wire,and when we apply a current tothe coil, we create a force thatpushes this piston, which forcesthe drug out of the ampoule,”said Dr Catherine Hogan.

“This gives us a tremendousamount of control depending onhow much current we put in, so thatwe can successfully deliver a widevariety of volumes of drug at a widevariety of velocities with a very lowdegree of error, something a needlecan’t do,” she added.

The new device has also foundto be successful in deliveringdrugs directly to the middle orinner ear and even can be used forinjecting directly to very tiny tis-sues such as the retina, the light-sensitive tissue lining the innersurface of the eye.

Needle-less device

injects without pain

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Editor’s mail 11Tuesday, 29 May, 2012

is world a better place?Many people today believe that the

world is a better place than it was 20 to30 years ago. But I believe that the worldis becoming a very dangerous place.Even though the world’s super powerscondemn nuclear and biological warfare,I believe that the next millennium willbring a war that will make them changetheir beliefs towards weapon of mass de-struction.

There are many countries with theseweapons and other countries are seekingto develop these weapon. Some of thesecountries pay for the technological se-crets or for the actual ingredients forthese weapons. If every country pos-sesses nuclear weapon than what willhappen to this world? If every nation be-comes powerful, who will win?

SEHRISH ALTAFKarachi

Bilawal’s interviewAfter Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s recent

interview to CNN, I have little doubt thathe is an accomplished politician. So far,we had heard of killing two birds withone stone, young Bilawal has tried to killthree with one.

About his mother’s assassination, hesaid that Al-Qaeda had ordered it, Tal-iban had carried it out, and Gen Mushhad cooperated in the gruesome act bylowering her security. BB’s assassinationwas investigated not only by the ScotlandYard but also by the UN. When the Scot-land Yard boys arrived with their hi-techcameras round their necks, we thoughtthe proverbial water and milk would sep-arate. But no such thing happened be-cause the Scotland Yard had a limitedmandate to investigate.

Similarly, the UN devoured five mil-lions of taxpayers’ money but failed to fixresponsibility of the assassination on anyindividual or group conclusively. PPP hasbeen in power since BB’s assassinationbut its members have only played politicsover her murder and grave. However,young Bilawal has played a smart one byroping Al-Qaeda, Taliban, and Mush to-gether. The first two are nebulous andvolatile; the last one is a fugitive fromlaw. It’s only Naheed Khan and hubbyAbbasi who truly miss BB and look likeorphans.

DR A P SANGDILOslo, Norway

Police actionTerrorism has faded down in our

country in last few months, courtesy ofthe military operations in the terrorists’filled areas. Pakistani police has alsoplayed its part to perfection in combatingterrorism as well. During different opera-tions, they have arrested various terror-ists in last few years.

Just yesterday, The Mingora localpolice managed to arrest a Taliban com-mander from Tehsil Matta of KhyberPakhtunkhwa. The police conducted raidin Kala Kot area of Tehsil Matta and ar-rested a prominent commander of theterrorists, Barkat Ali who was involved inmany heinous crimes including blowingof many schools during 2008.

This is a major success for police andthe nation and we all should stand upand praise them.

FARRUKH SARWARIslamabad

Terrorists using FacebookThe Australian Ambassador for

Counter Terrorism, Bill Paterson, hasclaimed that terror outfits that have em-braced the rise of technology, the inter-net in particular, to spread theirmessages and attract followers, are usingFacebook to recruit loners from westernnations like Australia to their cause. Hestressed that social media has also en-couraged the rise of home-grown terror-ism, particularly among 'disaffectedloners sometimes on the margins of soci-ety,' adding that Norwegian mass killerAnders Breivik is a prime example.

He also pointed out that in demo-cratic countries where internet censor-ship is seen as an 'infringement offreedom of information' or a breach oncivil liberties, stopping terrorists fromcommunicating on social media is diffi-cult.

The report does not specify as towhat terrorist outfits – Islamist or non-Islamist are involved. But it does indicatethat if the desperate under-stressed anddepressed western loners can be re-cruited and they can resort to acts likethat of Anders Breivik, the Oklahoma-bombing Christian-convicts, the block-buster movie-inspired Americanschoolchildren cum ‘killer-kids’ or theAfghan-war weary US-army soldier-killers, why then they cannot recruit theunemployed poor individuals from athird-world country like Pakistan to be-come merchants of death.

As Bill Paterson suggests financialand psychological rehabilitative meas-ures to let the lone westerners live apeaceful and productive life, why can’tthe world comes to Pakistan’s help forinitiating massive rehabilitative and de-velopment projects in the country, par-ticularly FATA and Balochistan?

Instead of using trillions of dollarsweaponry, channelizing of even half ofthis amount into generating economicactivities in South Asia can prevent theregion and subsequently the entire worldfrom being vulnerable to terrorismthreat.

ESCHMALL SARDARPeshawar

TV talk showsI wish to draw the attention of elec-

tronic media experts and channels sen-iors and directors to the messy talkshows that are being telecast these days.Almost all private or government controlchannels are telecasting shows on dailybasis.

A talk show is supposed to be aforum where experts come and expresstheir viewpoints on issue/s decently,cool-headedly and within. But our TVtalk shows look like a mini-parliament orlike WWW wrestling bout taking place.All participants shout and speak at thesame time.

No one even listens to the anchor.There is complete commotion and pan-demonium during discussion. They scoretheir points by using extremely un-par-liamentary language. They make facesand highly despicable gestures. They aretaunting and sarcastic. They try to proj-ect decency which they don’t have andthat includes female and male partici-pants in as much.

The TV talk show turns into a battleground where each party member seemsto have the battle. Even some anchors goout of control. They go emotional andraise the pitch of their voices. I have evennoticed that some anchors finish theirprogrammes on conclusively consentedviewpoint on a controversial issue andfeel extremely happy over the results.Even some Federal Ministers use theirpositions to prevail upon other’s view-points.

I don’t think we can bring some civi-lization in a short period of time. Let mesuggest that the speakers of all partici-pants should be shut off except of theone speaking. The media people shouldfrankly brief them on basic manners andnorms before the start of this mockgame.

The programme producer has lots ofpower and influence over the pro-gramme. That programme is going in‘air’ and will be watched by ladies andchildren too. They must be made awareof that therefore some code of ethicsmust be observed.

AMJAD H MIRZALahore

“remember Saleem Shahzad!”Today is the first death anniversary

of Saleem Shahzad: a time for collectiverecollection of his life, work and death.Mr Shahzad, an Islamabad based inves-tigative journalist working for a HongKong-centred online news service, wastortured and then murdered on May 292011.

Since Oct 2010, Saleem Shahzad wasbeing pressurized by ISI to name thesource of a story that said that MullahBarader has been freed, or to retract hisclaim. Mullah Barader, a high-rankingcommander of Afghan Taliban, was cap-tured from the outskirts of Karachi. Theway the above question was put signifiedthat the Taliban had actually been freed.

This was not an isolated incident ofharassment of Saleem Shahzad. Duringthe previous five years, he had beenquestioned by ISI a number of timesabout his writings on terrorism on Oct17th 2010 he was called to ISI headquar-

ters in Islamabad for a meeting with DGMedia Wing Rear Admiral AdnanNaseer. At the end of the meeting, the ad-miral made the following comment,which Mr Shahzad considered a deaththreat: “I must give your a favour. Wehave recently arrested a terrorist and re-covered a lot of data, diaries and othermaterial during the interrogation. Theterrorist had a hit list with him. If I findyour name on the list I will certainly letyou know.”

This information was emailed by MrShahzad to President APNS Hameed Ha-roon and Ali Dayan of Human RightsWatch. Sometime before his death, hehad again sent emails to them that hewas being threatened by ISI. A high-pow-ered committee, headed by a judge of theSupreme Court, inquired into the killing,but failed to fix responsibility. However,it did recommend that ISI should bemade answerable to the government.

Targeted killing of newspersons hasbecome commonplace in Pakistan: dur-ing the last ten years, forty-five newsper-sons have met a violent end in the line ofduty. Only in one case have the killersbeen caught, that of Daniel Pearl. Thehatchet men may be privately employed,or more horrifyingly, may be agents ofthe State. What makes the demise ofSaleem Shahzad so horrifying is that a lotof evidence points towards the State’s in-volvement in it. There are at least threemore documented incidents which showthe State acting violently against thepress.

On 4 September 2010, UmerCheema, an investigative reporter for TheNews was tortured and then dumpedoutside Islamabad. He was told by histormentors that his reporting had upsetthe government. In mid-2011, WaqarKiani of The Guardian was beaten blackand blue for publishing an account of his

kidnapping by an intelligence agency ofthe country two years back. In Nov 2011,a warning was sent by Baloch MusallahDefa Army to the president of KhuzdarPress Club against using the club for“negative activities”. BMDA is a groupingof goons raised by the State to do todeath marked Baloch nationalists, gener-ally struggling peacefully for their rights.

So instead of catching the perpetra-tors of violence against reporters, thestate itself has become a party to suchbrutality. The nation, the press and themedia have to fight back. Their battle-cryshould be “Remember Saleem Shahzad!”Their main ammunition, the ballot paperwhich means that they would not vote forthe PPP in the next elections, if the PPPgovernment did not stop killing of jour-nalists or could not punish their murder-ers.”

JAVED ASGHARLahore

On 28 May 1998, Pakistan became the first Muslim countryto detonate nuclear bombs and thus got this so-called title of afirst Muslim nuclear power. The effects of this action of ourtrigger happy military and credulous politicians can still be seenin the form of a poor population, sanctions, nuclear prolifera-tion, international discrimination and severe criticism. In other

words, even the atom has not helped us much in becoming astronger, better and prosperous country. But if we had workedbetter on the economic front, no such issue would have arisenin the first place.

KAINAT FATIMALahore

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on dual nationalityPM Gillani has stated that there was

no restriction on dual nationality for leg-islators in the constitution. Perhaps otherthan clause for immunity he is not awarethat Article 63(1)(c), says that a Personshall be disqualified from being electedor chosen as and from being an MP if heceases to be a citizen of Pakistan, or ac-quires the citizenship of a foreign state. Isour PM aware that false or incompletedeclaration before Election Commissionof Pakistan is a serious crime which mer-its disqualification. There is no issue giv-ing voting rights to expatriate Pakistanisholding dual nationality, but under nocircumstances can they be eligible for anypublic office or diplomatic assignment.

An expatriate can serve on a contractif he has specialization in field with noneavailable in Pakistan. There is also no baron investment in Pakistan or to own anybusiness or private property, as long ashe pays taxes. In certain countries likeUK, nationals residing abroad are onlyentitled to enjoy privileges of nationalityif he/she has paid taxes in preceding 3years. When a Pakistani citizen who hasacquired citizenship by birth, chooses toacquire another nationality, he pledgeshis absolute loyalty to new adopted coun-try. If a US or UK citizen by birth, decidesto adopt foreign nationality, he cannotassume any public office in his formercountry.

Pakistan has faced many hardshipsbecause of greed of such men with splitloyalties, who siphoned billions of dollarsto foreign bank accounts. The powerfulcorrupt mafia in this country comprisesmostly of those who hold dual residentialor immigration status. It is unfortunatethat few vultures have brought a badname to large majority of our honest ex-

patriates, who repatriate billions of dol-lars annually to their families residing inPakistan, while a handful who haveshifted lock, stock and barrel to foreigncountries are involved in massive corrup-tion and flight of capital. There is a longlist of such men and women startingfrom 60s with M Ahmed, MoeenQureshi, Shoaib, Shaukat Aziz, HameshKhan, Syed Jamaat Ali Shah etc.

It was a dual nationality holder SyedJamaat Ali Shah who escaped to Canadaon 29 November 2011 as media reportedagainst his negligence to take up issue of45 MW Nimoo Bazgo hydro-power proj-ect built by India on the Indus River. Hehad earlier failed taking timely action onconstruction of Baglihar Dam in HeldKashmir and Kinshanganga Dam onNeelum river at Gurez.

MALIK TARIQ ALILahore

Poppy in AfghanistanPoppy production in Afghanistan has

never been as high as it is these days as itis the only crop that seems to be able tosurvive in the war destructed country.Evidently the colossal amount of moneythat a small amount of opium fetches isthe only and most lucrative industry thatflourishes despite the war. All efforts bythe American have proved to be merelysymbolic in nature as the increased pro-duction of it continues despite all odds.Apart from the money that the militantsreceive for the passage of Nato goods in-side Afghanistan, which makes up for thebiggest source of revenue generation forthe Taliban, drug money becomes thesecond largest source that aids insur-gency in Afghanistan.

Amazingly, no US strategy hasworked in curbing the growth of this in-

dustry that is one huge factor whycounter insurgency operations have notyielded desired results. The US formerenvoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrook,too had envisaged that it was rather es-sential to break the narco-state inAfghanistan or “else all will fail”. All elseit seems, has been leading to failure inAfghanistan as the militants are still en-joying strongholds in Afghanistan andoperate with impunity to launch legionattacks to target highly securitized areasin the Afghan heartland. That surge aftersurge of US troops hardly achieved theobjective set to defeat the militants or toweaken them to an extent that to dealwith them from a position of strengthwould be the best means of attainingpeace.

According to poppy growers, the pro-duce this year has been very less due tobad weather conditions, thus resulting inthe further skyrocketing of its price. Thisprovides an incentive to other small scalefarmers to grow poppy as the increasingrates allow them to survive in relativecomfort considering a kilo of opium caneasily be sold for US$ 300 by the Afghanfarmer. This was something that ought tohave been looked at by the US for beinginextricably linked to the insurgency.Strangulation through curbing thisdeadly industry would have been a muchbigger blow rather than killing each andevery single militant. Why the US strate-gies have failed so miserably inAfghanistan is still an unanswered ques-tion. With the amount of money flowingin the region, one would have expecteddevelopment and industry to have flour-ished, but the only thing that thrives inAfghanistan is incompetency and corrup-tion.

PROFESSOR KABIL KHANPeshawar

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Arguments for and against

dual nationalities

The Supreme Court’s suspension of FarahnazIspahani’s membership of parliament on the basis ofher dual-nationality has stirred up the all-toofamiliar feeling of persecution of the ruling party.

But that is far from the truth. For one thing, it is not onlythe ruling party that has a thing or two to say about the issuebut many other parties as well. For having dual-nationalmembers is not something restricted to the PPP alone.Hypernationalist parties like the PTI have also, recently,made a case against disbarring such individuals fromcontesting the polls.

The argument that these parties give is understandablebut ultimately flawed. They treat overseas Pakistanis asassets, which they undoubtedly are. They also explain how itwould be difficult to be very successful abroad, as a numberof them are, without being nationals of these newercountries. Not allowing these people to contest the pollswould be tantamount to disenfranchising this valueddemographic.

Well, let’s not throw words around. Disenfranchisementwould not be giving them the right to vote – though there is acase against that as well. Here, it is an issue of whether theseindividuals have the right to be representatives.

There can be a varying number of issues here. Forinstance, in the constitution, an MP hopeful need not be aresident of a constituency to contest elections from there;his/her proposer and seconder need to be. Why, then, shoulda candidate who actually lives in a constituency but happensto have the nationality of another country be disbarred?

The answers to these questions lie in deep rooted ideas ofwho qualifies as a committed and loyal citizen of theRepublic. At the time of acquiring a new nationality, aforeign national renounces, in a manner of speaking, hisoriginal nationality. That doesn’t sit well with those seeking asincere leadership for the country. If, in the art of thepossible, candidates can’t be bothered enough to changenationalities, they could scarcely be expected to sit throughin a country when the going gets really tough.

is the realisation more than skin deep?

Politics of agitation

The two fire eating opposition parties seem to haverealised that the threats of a political tsunami or longmarches did not suit the system. How deep therealisation has sunk remains to be seen. During his

address at Liaquat Bagh on Sunday, PTI President ImranKhan was more sedate than ever. While he criticised Gilani’spolicies as well as those of the PML(N) leadership, he heldout no threats of agitation. Instead he announced that he wasgoing to file a petition in the Supreme Court against thespeaker’s ruling which has exonerated the prime minister.Meanwhile, PML(N) too has decided not to go beyondchallenging the speakers’ ruling in the apex court. Many hadcriticised the two parties for issuing calls that could onlyupset the apple cart. Hopefully both have realised now thatwith no restriction on freedom of speech and expression andwith no political prisoners except in Balochistan, there islittle sense in issuing calls of the last sort. Mian NawazSharif’s meeting with the Turkish prime minister too seemsto have had a sobering effect. Whatever the factors behind it,the realisation needs to be welcomed.

Recent reports from Balochistan also suggest that despitethe unending complaints against the security agencies’highhandedness, political parties of all shades of opinion arekeen to take part in the forthcoming elections. This isperhaps because of a perception that the continuation of thedemocratic system alone offers a way out of the sufferings inBalochistan. While some still entertain reservations aboutthe adequacy of the quantum of provincial autonomyensured under 18th amendment, there still is a faint hopethat the only way to get it extended is through parliament.Meanwhile, CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry has also made it clear thateven a week democracy is better than a martial law. Thisshould provide confidence to the government leaders. Theywould hopefully realise that what the apex court wants is nottheir scalp but adherence to the constitution. What needs tobe ensured is a fair and free election without any pre-poll,mid-poll or post-poll manipulation by the agencies.

Only those who do not hope to win the elections are stillitching for an agitation. Let them for a while stew in theirown juice.

The Deep Stategrand narrative and its perpetuation

Francois Hollande sounds rational whether it is foreignpolicy or economics. The new French president has, atleast, distanced himself from the crowd who believe in

playing to the gallery and sticking with the stigma of statusquo.

His debut foreign policy initiative of calling it a day forAfghanistan, and vowing to bring back his troops by year-end,24 months before the Coalition deadline, is genuine leader-ship. It is perhaps not exigency that Hollande is catering to buta well-calculated piece of wisdom wherein he wants to see thewar-torn southwest Asian country stand and decide on its own,and that too at the earliest. His conviction that a prolongedstay of allied forces would come to derail whatever they haveachieved in terms of security and reconstruction over thedecade is a valid submission.

This is why Hollande made it a point to visit Kabul withindays of his inauguration and assured his more than 2,000 menin action that there won’t be any lingering on his part as theWestern allies keep shifting the poles. He aired the same as he

point-blank told more than 50 heads and state and govern-ments at the Nato summit in Chicago.

So is his distanced perception when it comes to economy.Paris is now no more part of the elite club that used to lecturethe developing economies to tighten their belts and opt forausterity. Hollande has a way out of his own, and has proposedfor pan-European bonds to generate liquidity for the banksand the respective governments.

This is so at a time when private investors are jittery andcash flow is at its lowest bid. How articulately France managesto convince Germany and the like for an exceptional treatmentfor ailing economies in the region will go on to redefine hisleadership skills. Greece will be closely watching out for what-ever France does and steals the show from the clutches of theinternational donors — who have spelled out the harshest ofterms for recovery.

The eurozone is desperately in need of a proper strategy tofend off debt-servicing, inflation and unemployment crises athand, and France as one of the leading growth engines of Eu-rope cannot sit back to see the demise of euro. While Hollandehas exhibited initiatives, he is in need of walking the extra mileto strike a difference.

The French initiativeKhaleej Times

foreign Press

There is a grand narrative ofPakistan that the ‘deepstate’ has constructed overthe last 65 odd years. It isa narrative that is nation-

alistic but it draws heavily on religion,language, ethnicity, and a reading ofhistory that is almost linear startingwith the arrival of Muslims in SouthAsia. There are clearly elements oftruth in it, as all grand narrativeshave, but, equally clearly, it lacks thenuance and subtlety that is requiredfor grand narratives that can becomea culture of a place and represent thereality of multiplicity and complexitythat exists in any society.

Challenges to the grand narrativehave been many. Starting with the lin-guistic challenges of the 1950s wehave had nationalistic, ideological,progressive, ethnic, religious, sect andcaste based challenges all along andthese challenges continue. But thegrand narrative continues to survive,largely due to the pernicious and,often, vicious nature of suppressionexercised by the deep state, but alsodue to the fragmentation of alterna-tive narratives.

The deep state is vicious. Let therebe no doubt about that. Any personsor groups of people who poses a chal-lenge to the grand narrative favoured,built and believed in by the deep statestand vulnerable, are expendable andhave been/are paying the price for it.Be it the nationalists in Baluchistanand/or Sindh, religious minorities orindividuals who have challenged evensmall parts of the grand narrative.

The case of the nationalists is theclearest. They have been challengingthe unitary narrative of Pakistaniidentity and culture and this has beenseen as a grave existential threat bythe deep state. And the deep state hasreacted predictably. Rather than en-gage the alternative narratives to en-rich the official one, the state haschosen to suppress alternative voicesby terming these as treason and bykilling and/or hounding people stand-ing up for these alternatives.

But it is not just the nationalistswho have paid the price. Every personor group that has been outside of the

mainstream of the grand narrativehas either paid the price or stands ex-posed and can only think of him/her-self as a minority. The progressives inthe country, women, religious minori-ties, other sects, other ethnicities: thelist is a long one. It is a mistake toeven think that the ‘people’ aroundwhom the grand narrative is build arenot so exposed either. A Sunni Pun-jabi nationalist male is also going tobe hounded by the deep state if hechooses to challenge the grand narra-tive: the people in the Punjab do notfeel any safer than people anywhereelse in Pakistan.

And even the people in powershould understand that the deep statedoes not work for them, it is they whoare working for the deep state. Andthey are serving the interests of thedeep state. The day they stop servingthese interests, it does not matterwhether they are the Prime Ministeror the President, are from Sindh orfrom the Punjab, they will get theboot, or worse.

In fact no individual, even if theyare in the ISI and have been helpingkeep the narrative going by makingchallenges and challengers disappear,is non-expendable for the deep state.Musharraf became expendable whilehe was a general and a President. Hecannot even come to the country heonce ruled. And it is not just the polit-ical and judicial set-up that he has tofear, he has to be afraid of the very in-stitution, or elements in it, that heused to serve. How many assets, thatthe ISI developed, have later beenkilled by the agencies themselveswhen they became expendable. Howmany retired officers have been sacri-ficed when their utility was not there?Even the generals serving todayshould know that they ride tigers: it isthe tiger who has the control, they arejust the pretty face visible to the pub-lic.

The power of the deep stateshould not be underestimated. Theyused to work more behind the scenesbut over time as their intrusion intothe society has gone up they havebeen forced to come to the front. Themissing persons case, in particular,has brought the pernicious role of andpower of the deep state in front of allto see. For many years the judiciary,executive, and legislative branches ofthe state were not even willing to ac-knowledge that such a phenomenonas missing persons existed eventhough the families of hundreds ofsuch people were on the streets eventhen. And now that the existence ofthese cases has been acknowledgedand the role of the agencies, in a largenumber of such cases, has been estab-lished, despite efforts of the threebranches of the state, and despite a lotof support from the media, the deepstate has refused to deal with these

cases in any transparent or coopera-tive manner. And the representativesof the deep state, the generals, havenot even acknowledged the problemrather than come to the aid of the pil-lars of the state that they are sup-posed to serve. The grand narrative,of security threats and all, of course,is used to refuse cooperation anddeny transparency.

The deep state does not act alone.It has allies that they use for some pe-riod and for specific issues. And mostpolitical parties and leaders haveserved as allies at one point or an-other. The Jamaat with General Zia,Muslim Leagues of various hues withvarious military dictators, the variousfringe groups that have been trying toforce particular versions of Islamdown our throats, and a number ofother smaller parties as well. As longas these groups serve the interests ofthe deep state, they are given freedomto pursue their own agendas as well.The Jammat’s control over studentpolitics, the rise of the MQM, rise ofthe extremists in the Punjab, forma-tion of extremist groups in KhyberPakhtunkhwa are all parts of thestory. Given this nexus how can mi-norities or people challenging thegrand narrative in any way, ever feelsafe in the country? Even if the deepstate does not consider them to be adirect threat, groups that deep statesupports will definitely come after the‘deviants’. And given the weakness ofstate institutions, in the face of thedeep state and these fringe groups,those who stand outside of the main-stream can never be safe.

The only way the deep state can beconfronted is if there are broad coali-tions that go across state institutions,political parties, media and the civilsociety of the country and force thedeep state to retreat so that it can beput under the control of state institu-tions that are supposed to controlthem. But the deep state will resist allsuch attempts. It will try to identify,isolate and destroy challenges, as ithas been doing. The only way tocounter this is by making all dealingsmore open and transparent. Intrigueis harder when large number of peo-ple are involved and dealings are donein the open. Today our institutionsand those who lead them stand too di-vided and fragmented (look at the ju-diciary/government relation) to beable to form these broad coalitionsand hence we stand victim to the con-tinued intrigues of the deep state andtheir allies. But if we are going tomove forward broad coalitions are theonly way to go.

The writer is an Associate Professorof Economics at LUMS (currently onleave) and a Senior Advisor at OpenSociety Foundation (OSF). He can bereached at [email protected]

By Dr Faisal Bari

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Comment 13Tuesday, 29 May, 2012

condemning the accused

Media trial or fair trial

i hope for the good doctor’s sake his friends in the ciA can spring him. ifnot, this loose end may be tied up quite soon

Due process?

Temperatures are soaring. Already, it is too hotto leave cigarette lighters in one’s car: they willhave exploded by the time you return to your

vehicle. Vegetation has already started to droop andmammals, bi-ped and otherwise, are seen pantingand jostling for a spot in any form of shade they canlay their paws on. Water holes are few and far be-tween and the whole country seems to have turnedinto Sibi. But the PTI and the PML(N) still persistwith their nationwide jalsa campaign and there isnow a widespread risk of most of the country becom-ing garmi mein kharaab.

In such circumstances, it is very difficult to getoutraged about a particular cause. Actually, let me re-phrase that. While it is easier to get inflamed, beingconsistently outraged over any issue other than load-shedding is just not humanly possible anymore.Under such circumstances, to see that a large chunkof Pakistanis are getting fired up over the fate of oneDr Shakil Afridi, is a terribly encouraging sign. Terri-ble, yes. But encouraging nonetheless.

He, for those of you who don’t follow the news re-ligiously, is no (direct) relation to our pugnaciouscricketing hero, Shahid Lala. However, he is the manwho gave the CIA Osama the Terrible of Abbottabad.

In the excitement of taking outthe final boss from all editions ofthe Call of Duty series, theMarines forgot to ‘extract’ DrAfridi from the L-Z down the road.As a result, he was captured, inter-rogated, incarcerated and sum-marily sentenced under verydodgy circumstances to about 33years in prison, ostensibly for‘high treason’.

Opinion at home is divided.There are those who believe thatthe government has rightfullylocked him up, because no oneshould have access to so manynon-taxable American dollars andlive to spend them. The apologistsmeekly argue that, “He did helpnab Osama”, while citizens of out-rage-istan are quick to condemnhis unscrupulous use of vaccina-tion programmes as a cover for hisclandestine activities. But viola-tions of the Hippocratic oathnotwithstanding, there seems tobe no clear consensus on what thegood doctor’s fate should be.

The final stab in the back forDr Afridi can be said to have comefrom the US itself, in the svelteform of Hillary Clinton. Indeed,her denouncement of Pakistan forawarding a ludicrously unjust jail-term to the part-time spook andthe threat to withhold a milliondollars for each year he would be

in prison obviously did not go down well with a lot ofpatriots, who are now convinced that the Democrats(who are really just an extension of the Indian state– they even adopted the elephant as their electoralsymbol) are out to get Pakistan and break it apart intolittle pieces any-which-way they can. Whatever DrAfridi’s approval ratings were before the sentencingtook place, Hillary made sure that they sank fasterthan Wile E Coyote tied to an anvil.

So what is the real deal? Would Dr Afridi not havereceived a similar sentence had he been tried in astandard civilian court rather than a tribal Jirga? Wasit really necessary to bend the Frontier Crimes Regu-lation law (which is draconian in its own right) like aclown would bend balloons to make latex animalshapes, just to try one man? Do crimes committed inAbbottabad really fall under the jurisdiction of a Jirgain Afridi’s native FATA? Did the military really havea part to play in the summary judgement handed outto the good doctor? While the answer to all of thesequestions may be far more complicated than a simple‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘perhaps, if the circumstances were con-ductive’; there is a good chance that asking such ques-tions can land you (and me) in a lot of trouble. Foryou see, the matter of Dr Afridi is one of ‘national se-curity’. This, as many of you are aware, is one abstractconstruct that serves as the foundation of all the free-doms (hah!) that we enjoy and if removed, couldthreaten the very fabric of Pakistani society. Anythingthat attempts to sabotage our ‘national security’ must,therefore, be dealt with a swift and iron hand.

Unfortunately, no one is really buying this narra-tive. Let’s just say that Jack Nicholson’s performancein ‘A Few Good Men’ was far more convincing thanthe procedure adopted to put Dr Afridi behind barsfor a goodly amount of time; and that if a trio ofseven-year-olds had grabbed hold of an Ouija boardand decided to conjure up spirits, they would’ve comeup with a more coherent story than the one beingconcocted at all levels of the civilian and military lead-ership, with regards to the case of Dr Afridi.

Whatever else come of this case, it is clear to methat this case will mark the moment in Pakistan’s his-tory when rulers no longer deemed it necessary to putany faith in the people of the country. While politi-cians and military dictators had always had a pen-chant for playing fast and loose with the facts, thegovernment of the People’s is the first one to actuallydispense with the formalities and the obsequious lan-guage and tell the people, essentially, to sod off.

With regards to Dr Afridi, there are more ques-tions than answers. More half-truths than facts. Aswith any other story in the Pakistani media, this tooshall pass from bulletin rundowns in a few days. I justhope for the good doctor’s sake that his friends in theCIA can spring him, like they sprang Senor RaymondDavis not too long ago. If not, I fear that this looseend may be tied up sooner than you could say ‘dueprocess’.

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Mighty ObviousBy Syed Hassan Belal Zaidi

“When your caseis weak, take itto the media,

instead of the court,” saysThomas Sowell. Laura Albersays, “If O J Simpsom wasguilty, the media was re-sponsible for his acquittal.”Both could be true. We areall witnesses to what isshown on the televisionevery day when personsunder arrest are brought tothe court or are taken backto prison. A host of photog-raphers and videographersgather and do not allow theaccused and the police toeven move. The suspectsunder arrest are depicted asif they are already declaredguilty. Press freedom is acherishable fundamentalright but it is not absolute.It is subject to restrictionand limitations mentionedunder Article 19 of the Con-stitution.

It is time to sit back andponder over the reasonabletrends of the media;whether the media is con-tributing in holding fair tri-als or rendering them unfairand may be illegal? The in-dividual who becomes thesubject of press or television‘items’ usually has his or herpersonality, reputation orcareer dashed to the groundalmost forever, after themedia exposures. When,years later, the court pro-ceedings end in a clean ac-quittal or acquittal for lackof evidence beyond reason-able doubt, the affected per-son can resurrect his or herlost position. In the abovecontext, few questions arise.Does the media in such

cases permit the law to takeits own natural course? Ispre-trial condemnation partof the law or fair trial? Canany body say who is guiltyor innocent until the courtsgive their final verdict? Thefate of victims and wit-nesses appears to be no bet-ter; the publicity they aresubject to makes it impossi-ble for the identity of vic-tims of crimes andprotection of witnesses.They are made vulnerableto pressures and intimida-tion by the offenders.

For the above facts, thesubject of trial by mediahas, therefore, assumed ex-traordinary importance.There is need to educatejournalists and media man-agers and to make them un-derstand and respect therights of their victims. Theymust be told not to intrudewith the fundamental rightto a fair trial of an accused.They also must understandand respect the boundariesof the freedom of press andat what point they crossthose limits. Even thecourts come under pressureor sometimes get influencedby media blitz. No one is fitto be who is likely to be in-fluenced except by what hesees or hears in court and bywhat is judicially appropri-ate for his deliberations.However, judges are alsohuman.

According to the IndianSupreme Court: “It wouldbe mischievous for a news-paper to conduct an inde-pendent investigation of itsown for a crime for which aman has been arrested andto publish the result of suchinvestigation while the trialis in progress. A trial bynewspapers, when trial by acompetent court is goingon, must be prevented.Such investigation on partof a newspaper wouldamount to interference withthe courts of justice.” (AIR1961 SC 633). During the in-vestigation or trial no one isallowed under the constitu-tion and law, consciously orunconsciously, to make a

public opinion against anyof the parties.

For the same reason,under law and even underthe code of conduct, judgesare not expected to speak ormake unnecessary com-ments publicly, take suchcomments seriously andmake up their minds. Thereare consistent grievancesfrom some quarters thatnowadays judges speakthrough words of theirmouth instead of their judg-ments during the midst ofproceedings. This is partic-ularly happening in thecases of political nature,wherein, one way or theother, political controver-sies are also involved. Thereis a growing view thatjudges make, prima facie,unnecessary but deliberatecomments knowing thatthey would be aired andpublished by the media toform public opinion to-wards a particular direction.

Sometimes, the com-ments by judges also giveimpression that undue pub-licity is being sought whichalso seriously affects therights of the parties appear-ing before the court. Itwould be pertinent to quotethe Code of Conduct for su-perior judiciary; Article 4 ofthe Code reads: “Function-ing as he does in full view ofthe public, a judge getsthereby all the publicity thatis good for him. He shouldnot seek more. In particu-lar, he should not engage inany public controversy,least of all on a politicalquestion, notwithstandingthat it involves a question oflaw.” Last but not least, Imay also state that the im-pact of pre-trial exposure bythe media is infringing uponthe fundamental rights ofthose facing criminal trialsbefore the courts such asthe rights to ‘life and liberty’guaranteed under Article 9;fundamental rights of pro-tection of equal treatment,person and reputationunder Article 4, and politi-cal rights under Article 17 ofthe Constitution.

By Shabbar Raza Rizvi

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Ranbir Kapoor to romance Alia Bhatt?MUMbAi: ranbir Kapoor’s filmwith Abhinav Kashayp isapparently titled ‘Besharam’.Abhinav Kashyap will start hisfilm before Anurag Kashyup’snext, ‘Bombay Velvet’. ranbirKapoor who plays the lead willdon a tapori look for the film.There was buzz about ParineetiChopra being signed as thefemale lead. Though Abhinavhasn’t announced the leadingactress opposite ranbir, he iskeen on having Alia Bhattopposite ranbir for hisromantic comedy. According toa source, Abhinav is very keenon this film since this is hisfirst project after his debut film‘dabangg’. ‘Besharam’ is a road-trip film that is going to beshot at several places in indiaand abroad. AgEnciES

MUMbAi: Jubilant after the win of his teamKolkata Knight riders at the iPl this season,SrK let bygones be bygones. After categoricallydenying apologising for the alleged brawl andrude behavior at wankhede stadium in Mumbai,Bollywood star Shah rukh Khan said sorry to allhis fans for the high-handed mannerism

displayed by him recently. Soon after histeam scored the winning runs, the actor

climbed on the railing and pointed atthe sky. SrK ran on to the field andjumped on Jacques Kallis, whosebrilliant innings brought KKrcloser to victory. The actor wasseen hugging almost every playerand staff, including wasim Akram.The excitement couldn’t stop thismid-40-year-old star docartwheels for the viewers. Afterthe celebration of the greatestever win by KKr, King Khandecided to redeem himself byapologising to his kids and fans. “iwant to apologise to the kids formy misbehaviour at MCA. iapologise to all who saw thatside to me. i shouldn’t havebehaved in that manner. Buttoday my team has won, so iguess, all you fans should forgiveme. we have won at last,” hesaid. All’s well that end’s well!right, SrK? AgEnciES

LOS ANgELESAgEnciES

Teen pop singer Justin Bieberis being investigated forbattery after an altercationwith a photographer tryingto snap pictures of thesinger and his girlfriend,actress Selena Gomez, ac-cording to ABC News. The pho-tographer said Bieber struckhim in the face as the megacouple exited a shoppingcentre in Calabasas. The pho-tographer was not identified.Bieber and Gomez left beforethe authorities could arrive.

The photographer complained of painand requested medical attention. Sheriff’s

officials said he was transported to anearby hospital, where he wastreated and later released. Policesay the alleged victim is pressingcharges, filing a police reportovernight alleging battery by the

18-year-old singer. Bieber hasnot commented on the

confrontation buttook to Twitterearly Monday

morning to say,“gonna focuson the impor-

tant stuff, themusic.”

Bieber being investigated in scuffle with photographer

CANNESrEUTErS

C RITICS lauded the Cannes filmfestival jury for awarding direc-tor Michael Haneke’s ‘Love’(‘Amour’) the coveted Palmed’Or for best picture, justifying

its status as favourite going into theawards ceremony. Slow and understated,‘Love’s portrayal of an elderly Frenchcouple facing the last stages of life hadaudiences in tears and critics rushing offto write five-star reviews. Conspicuous intheir absence from the awards ceremonythat wrapped up the 12-day festival wereUS productions, five of which made itinto the main competition of 22 entries.Not even the acting talent of A-listersNicole Kidman and Brad Pitt, alongsidehot emerging Hollywood names like Jes-sica Chastain, Tom Hardy and Zac Efron,was enough to win over the judges.

Cannes critics were cool towards most USproductions, although New Zealand-bornAndrew Dominik’s ‘Killing Them Softly’,starring Pitt as a mob enforcer in a reces-sion-hit US city, was reasonably popular.The other big loser on the night wasFrench-born director Leos Carax’s ‘HolyMotors’, an audacious and surreal filmabout a man, played by Denis Lavant,who adopts 10 alternative lives in a singleday. In addition to Haneke, two otherformer Cannes winners were awarded-Briton Ken Loach won third prize forScottish comedy caper ‘The Angels’Share’ and Romanian Cristian Mungiuwon best screenplay for exorcism drama‘Beyond the Hills’. The movie’s stars,Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan,were surprise dual winners of the actressprize, while Danish star Mads Mikkelsenscooped the best actor prize for his por-trayal of a man wrongly accused of childabuse in the harrowing drama ‘The Hunt’.

SAn frAnciScO: fireworksexplode over the golden

gate bridge, which celebratedits 75th anniversary. The 1.7

mile steel suspension bridge,one of the modern Wonders

of the World, opened totraffic on May 27, 1937. AFP

lAS VEgAS: MarcAnthony performsduring the ‘Q'Viva!The chosen live’

show. AFP

cAnnES: Audrey Tautou andAdrian brody arrive on stage forthe awards ceremony of the 65thcannes film festival. REUTERS

lAndgrAAf: chesterbennington of linkinPark performs during thesecond day of the 43rdedition of the PinkpopMusic festival. AFP

lOndOn: british actor rickygervais and his wife Jane fallon arrivefor the bAfTA Television awards. AFP

IN LIMELIGHT

WAShingTOn: Time magazine has includedraj Kapoor’s 1951 classic ‘Awaara’ among 20new entries added to its All-Time 100 list ofthe greatest films made since 1923.rethinking the movie masterpieces, Timecritic richard Corliss describes raj Kapooras “the great star-auteur of india’spostcolonial golden age of movies - Carygrant and Cecil B. deMille in one handsomepackage.” “The ‘50s films he headlined anddirected became huge hits not just in hisnewly freed homeland but also across theArab crescent from indonesia to NorthAfrica,” Time noted. Kapoor, who modelledhis screen persona on Charlie Chaplin’slittle Tramp, was 26 when he filmed‘Awaara’. Time calls ‘Awaara’ “a glisteningshowcase for Kapoor and the great indiasiren Nargis (his lover onscreen and off).”“And of course it’s a musical, whose mainsong, ‘Awaara hoon’ by the famed Shanker-Jaikishan duo, soared to the top of the popcharts in india, the USSr and China.”The original All-Time 100 list published in2005 included Satyajit ray’s ‘The ApuTrilogy’, Mani ratnam’s ‘Nayakan’ and gurudutt’s ‘Pyaasa’. last week, Time magazine

ranked Bollywood director Sanjay leelaBhansali’s 2002 film ‘devdas’ eighth amongthe ten greatest movies of the millennium(thus far). AgEnciES

SRK apologises for misbehaviour at Wankhede

Raj Kapoor’s ‘Awaara’ added to Time’s

100 greatest films

‘Love’ conquers all at Cannes, US films biggest losers

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NEWS DESK

A S ‘Coke StudioSeason 5’ returnedwith its secondepisode, we pres-ent a low-down onthe songs seen and

heard on the second episode.

Rabba SacheyaFor this song, Atif Aslam

has merged Faiz Ahmed Faiz’scritically acclaimed ‘RabbaSacheya’ with Khuwaja Ghu-lam Farid’s ‘Meda Ishq ViToon’ bringing together an in-teresting contrast. ‘RabbaSacheya’ is an example of

Faiz’s expression of sorrowand anger for the suffering ofhumanity.

Larho MujheyLarho Mujhey is one of

Bilal Khan’s recent and un-re-leased songs. The song waswritten and composed by Khanand talks of a sense of determi-nation, willingness to fight forones self and struggle toachieve his dreams. Khan ad-mits, “This song began as arally for a personal cause. Itwas a pushback against thechallenges and criticism anartist consistently encountersboth internally and externally.”

Ishq Aap Bhe AwallaPresented by the Chakwal

Group and Meesha Shafi, thesong uses allegorical referencesto everyday life to communicatea deeper, spiritual meaning. Thissong revolves around the life of awoman in love filling water froma well. Traditionally this song isperformed at weddings.

Khabaram RaseedaAccording to Fareed Ayaz

and Abu Muhammad thisqawali was composed by theirancestors who are descendantsof Mian Samat Ibrahim, a dis-ciple of Amir Khusro. Theqawwali has been presented inRaag Bageshri and is a compo-

sition of a ghazal written byAmir Khusro. ‘Coke Studio’smodal music treatment of thistrack renders new, previouslyunheard versions of qawali.

Pere Pavandi SaanTahir Mithu presented this

song that tells the story of Sindhifolk heroine Sassi, who searchesfor her lost lover, Pannu, afterhe was taken away from her dur-ing their wedding night. ShahLatif’s poetry are the words ofSassi-her prayers and her long-ing-as she goes on her search tofind Pannu. Mithu wanted tosing this song to present therichness of Sindhi language, cul-ture and literary heritage.PhOTOgrAPhEd by KOhi MArri

LOS ANgELESAgEnciES

The suits have knocked offthe superheroes at the boxoffice. Will Smith andTommy Lee Jones’ sequel‘Men in Black 3’ debutedas the number one movieover the weekend. Thatbumps ‘The Avengers’ intosecond-place after threeblockbuster weekends ontop for the superhero sen-sation. ‘The Avengers’ tookin $37 million over the lastthree days to become onlythe fourth movie ever totop a billion dollars. Uni-versal’s ‘Battleship’ wasnumber three in its secondweekend. Paramount’scomedy ‘The Dictator’ fin-ished fourth in its secondweekend. The WarnerBros. horror tale ‘Cher-nobyl Diaries’ opened atnumber five. ‘Men in Black

3’ reunites Smith’s AgentJ and Jones’ Agent K asthey battle a new alienmenace that travels fourdecades back in time to doaway with the youngerAgent K (Josh Brolin).‘The Avengers’ is expectedto pass ‘The Dark Knight’in the coming week, leav-

ing only two movies aboveit: ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’.But ‘The Avengers’ andnow ‘Men in Black 3’ havebeen the only notable suc-cesses for the summerseason so far, with big re-leases such as ‘Dark Shad-ows’ and ‘Battleship’fizzling globally.

‘Men in Black 3’ bumps ‘Avengers’, but can Will Smith top history?

‘Coke Studio Season 5’ wows with 2nd episode

Stewart, Lawrence eyeing same role

LOS ANgELESAgEnciES

Hollywood actressesKristen Stewart andJennifer Lawrenceare desperately try-ing to bag PeytonLoftis’ role in anadaptation ofWilliam Styron’sfirst novel, ‘LieDown in Darkness’.“I want to play Peyton more than anythingI can possibly taste or touch in my life. Iwant to play her so bad,” Stewart told Ellemagazine. Meanwhile, Lawrence said sheis obsessed with the character. “I am ob-sessed with that part. I have this feeling ofprotectiveness over characters I want toplay. If someone else gets the part, I’mafraid they won’t do it right. I’m trying towrite the director to convince him that Ishould be in his movie. I’ll chase him if Ihave to. I’ll sit outside his house,”Lawrence told W magazine. The respec-tive agents of both the actresses weretaken aback with their eagerness to playthe role, reports the New York Post.

lAS VEgAS:Mike love,

lead singerof the beachboys perform

at the redrock casino,

resort andSpa. AFP

lAS VEgAS:Jennifer

lopezperforms

during the‘Q'Viva! The

chosen live’show. AFP

MUMbAi: Kareena Kapoor has come along way when it comes to being athorough professional and how. Just alook at her work schedule is enough toprove that the lady is walking that extramile to deliver her professionalcommitments without any hiccups.reports say that Bebo has been picked upto perform an item number in ‘dabangg2’. The song will be composed bySajid-wajid and it is revealed that itis going to be more westernisedthan the popular number ‘Munni’. Forthat matter, Kareena, on her part isalready prepping up well for the daywhen she will actually be shootingfor the song on the sets of the moviewith none other than Salman Khan.A source says that the industriousactress has been taking out time outof an already jam-packed scheduleto diligently rehearse. Kareena willcomplete a hat trick post doing thisitem number. her earlier itemperformances include ‘yeh Mera dil’(‘don’, 2006) and ‘it’s rocking’ (‘Kyalove Story hai’, 2007). This ‘heroine’is undeniably going through a verydemanding yet rewarding phase ofher acting career. And with the right‘moves’, we are sure that she willcontinue to rule the hearts ofmillions. AgEnciES

Kareena Kapoor, the busy bee, all set to groove with ‘Dabangg’ Salman

MUMbAi: Trust Akshay Kumar to behelpful towards his costars. TheBollywood superstar saw to it thathis ‘Joker’ heroine, Sonakshi Sinha,did not have any problems whileentertaining the media recently. Asource said, “Sonakshi and Akshayhad to do a photoshoot involvingthe promotion of ‘rowdy rathore’.They also had to share a brief withthe media about the film. Thephoto session went on smoothly. infact Akshay and Sonakshi made agood pair and that comes across onscreen too.” After completing thephoto session when it came togiving a byte to the media Akshaymade sure that not only the castbut also the journalist werecomfortable. “Akshay told Sonakshiand journalists to do the interviewin the office and not outside thehouse in the heat. Thetemperatures were soaring that dayand it was Akshay’s sensitivity thatmoved the crew,” said the source.No wonder people can’t stoppraising Akshay. AgEnciES

Akshay displays

his charm

Pattinson not in'The Hunger Games'

sequelLOS ANgELES

AgEnciES

Actor Robert Pattinson has clarified heis not working in ‘The Hunger Games’sequel as reported in the media. "Un-fortunately, the rumours weren't true,or part of a clever stunt for the sake ofthe celebrity prank show. (My agent)was like no one's going to offer you thatpart," Pattinson was quoted as sayingby hollywood.com. "I was like, thanksfor the reassurance," the 26-year-oldsaid. ‘The Hunger Games’ is a sciencefiction movie directed by Gary Ross.

Space visit on Theron's wish list

LOS ANgELESAgEnciES

Actress Charlize Theron says shewould love to go to space. She wants tobe on board Sir Richard Branson's Vir-gin Galactic commercial space flightand fly off to space, reports contact-music.com. "I'm totally open to goingup in space. Isn't Richard Bransondoing it? But I hear it's expensive! Youcan go up for $200,000. I'm open toall of that stuff," Theron told You mag-azine. "I'm sure it would be scary, buthopefully I'd just be going to see whatit looks like, so I'd be coming back. Iwouldn't miss anything here because Itry to live in the present," she added.

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South Sudan said Monday Sudanese warplanes and artillery had bombarded itsterritory on the eve of peace talks, asSouthern officials set off to attend AfricanUnion-led negotiations in Ethiopia.

“They are bombing South Sudan, at-tacking South Sudan, and continuing tosend armed groups to destabilise SouthSudan... these are not the signs of peace,”South Sudan’s top negotiator PaganAmum told reporters. However, Amumsaid he was still “optimistic” that the talks

due to start on Tuesday in Addis Ababawould go ahead and produce results.

The former civil war foes foughtheavily in contested border regions lastmonth, the worst fighting since the Southwon independence last July and sparkinginternational concerns of a return to all-out war. International pressure haspushed both sides to return to the long-running talks stalled by the fighting inApril, when Southern troops seized an oilfield from Khartoum’s troops for ten daysas Sudan launched repeated air strikes.

Southern army spokesman PhilipAguer said that Khartoum’s army, the

Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), hadlaunched bombing raids by warplanes aswell as firing shells across their contestedborder. “For the last three days SAF hasbeen bombing Northern Bahr el Ghazal...this has also involved long range ar-tillery,” Aguer told AFP. “We remain onhigh alert for a possible ground attack.”

Sudan has repeatedly denied it haslaunched air strikes on the South, and itwas not possible to independently verifythe reports of the attacks.

A United Nations Security Councilearlier this month ordered both sidescease fighting and return to talks or face

possible sanctions. “We are returning tothe talks ready to negotiate with the Gov-ernment of Sudan to discuss all the out-standing issues,” Amum added. “We areactually more optimistic than any timebefore, as today we have the UN SecurityCouncil resolution giving a timeframe toachieve resolution within three months.It is good there is international backing.”

However, Amum accused Khartoumof “attempting to impose preconditionson the talks” and said that it was “clearand obvious that the Government ofSudan is not only hostile but is in viola-tion of the (UN) resolution.”

Khartoum’s foreign ministry has saidit will attend the May 29 talks and discussthe UN resolution that they resume dia-logue on “critical” issues unresolved afterthe South gained independence last year.

However, Khartoum on Sunday saidit had complained to the UN SecurityCouncil over reported “aggression” by theSouth, including alleged cross-border in-cursions, which it said had also brokenthe UN order to halt hostilities. SouthSudan broke away from Sudan in Julyafter a 2005 peace deal ended one ofAfrica’s longest civil wars, which killedabout two million people.

hamas permits

election committee

to work in gazagAZA CITY

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Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Monday gave thegreen light to the Palestinian CentralElection Commission to begin updatingvoter lists throughout the coastal strip, atop CEC official said. “Hamas has agreed tolet the CEC start working throughoutGaza,” said CEC president Hanna Nasser ata news conference in Gaza City, in a keystep to paving the way for elections. “Thecommission has started its operations nowwith five offices in the five governorates,”he said after meeting Hamas primeminister Ismail Haniya to discuss startingwork to update Gaza’s electoral register forthe first time since 2006. “We hope tobegin working immediately to prepare forthe process of updating voter lists,” Nassersaid, thanking Haniya for allowing the CECto start its long-overdue work. “We hopethat within six weeks, the voter lists will becomplete in Gaza as they are in Ramallah.”At a meeting in Cairo on May 20, seniorFatah and Hamas officials agreed that theCEC would start work in Gaza by the end ofthe month, and that both factions would atthe same time begin consultations onforming an interim “government ofindependents.” Holding elections andputting together a caretaker cabinet are twoof the main issues which have been holdingup implementation of a reconciliation dealbetween the rival Hamas and Fatahfactions which was inked on April 27, 2011.

Ahmadinejad criticre-elected to leadnew iran parliament

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One of the fiercest critics of IranianPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasvoted back in by lawmakers on Monday asspeaker of Iran’s new parliament formedfrom elections held in March and May. AliLarijani, a loquacious 55-year-old regimeinsider whose brothers also hold keyposts, fought off a challenge from GholamAli Hadad Adel, a 67-year-old formerspeaker who advocated a more moderateapproach to Ahmadinejad’s government.Both Larijani and Hadad Adel are seen asclose to Iran’s supreme leader, AliKhamenei, who has in recent years curbedAhmadinejad’s authority. Larijanifaithfully echoed Khamenei’s stanceswhile heading up the last parliament overthe past four years, and was a rival toAhmadinejad for the presidency in 2005.He was also Iran’s top nuclear negotiatorup to October 2007, when he resignedover differences with Ahmadinejad. Thatnuclear issue is currently the top foreignpolicy challenge facing the Islamicrepublic. Hadad Adel, an advisor to thesupreme leader, has a son married toKhamenei’s daughter. Lawmakersreturned Larijani with 173 votes, against100 for Hadad Adel. The new 290-seatassembly remains a staunchlyconservative body ranged againstAhmadinejad. Larijani’s family is a pillarof the Islamic establishment. His youngerbrother, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, is thehead of Islamic republic’s judiciary. Hiselder brother, Mohammad Javad, is anadvisor to Khamenei.

nAirObi: A policeman tries to push back a crowd at the site of a blast in central nairobi on Moi Avenue on Monday. afp

Sudan bombs South Sudan on eve of peace talks: South

Blast rocks centralNairobi, severalwounded

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A large blast that wounded dozens ofpeople in the centre of the Kenyan capitalwas likely caused by an electrical fault,Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere toldreporters Monday. “We are able to prove itwas not a grenade attack or bombattack...from the preliminary conclusionswe do think it was an electrical fault,”Iteere said, playing down fears it had beenan attack by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linkedShebab insurgents. The blast, whichripped through a small shopping complexon Nairobi’s Moi Avenue in the earlyafternoon, left around 30 people wounded.An official at Kenyatta hospital said 27people had been admitted there alone,with others ferried to other medicalcentres. Kenya has been hit by a wave ofgrenade attacks in recent months and thepolice have repeatedly blamed them onShebab or its supporters. Minutes after theblast the pro-Shebab Twitter site Al-Kataibreported a “huge explosion in Nairobi”although it did not specifically claim anyresponsibility. Last month the hardlineShebab again warned Kenya of revengeattacks for sending tanks and troops intoSomalia in October. Officials from theelectricity company were investigating atthe scene of the blast, where rescue teamswere working to see if anyone remainedtrapped in the caved-in building. Policepushed back thousands of onlookers whothronged the surrounding roads.

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VIOLENCE raged onMonday across Syria,where 25 people, mostof them regime forces,were reportedly killed

as clashes broke out in several restiveprovinces, monitors said.

The deadly violence came even asUN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annanarrived in Damascus to try and sal-vage a battered ceasefire, a day aftermonitors reported 90 people killed inSyria, more than a third in the city ofHama. The Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights said clashes raged inseveral provinces Monday, includingIdlib in the northwest and Daraa inthe south, where the uprising againstthe regime first erupted more than 14months ago.

Three civilians were among thosekilled on Monday, including a 14-year-old boy who was shot dead by asniper in Al-Faria neighbourhood ofthe central city of Hama, the Britain-based Observatory said. Three rebelfighters and a member of the pro-regime shabiha militia were alsokilled by gunfire on Monday.

But the military had the heaviestdeath toll with 18 regular army sol-diers killed in separate fighting, theObservatory said.

Eight troops died in clashes in theDamascus province while seven oth-ers were killed in an other districtwhen their vehicle was targeted nearTal Mneen, site of a mass funeral fora civilian killed on Sunday.

Three other soldiers were killedwhen their vehicle was hit by a blaston the road to Aleppo airport road,the Observatory said.

Also on Monday regime forces de-ployed heavily on the outskirts ofHoula, central Syria, where at least108 civilians were massacred on Fri-day and Saturday, the Observatorysaid, adding “the sound of gunfire washeard.” Regime troops also raided aneighbourhood of Hama, site of in-tense clashes and shelling on Sundayevening. Violence killed nearly 90 peo-ple on Sunday, 34 of them in randomshelling of Hama city by troops retali-ating for losses suffered in clasheswith rebels, the watchdog said.Demonstrators took to the streets intowns and villages across the country onMonday, to protest against the killings inHoula and Hama, activists said.

Crowds of children protested intwo Idlib towns, while hundreds tookto the streets of Jabal al-Zawiya, alsoin Idlib.

“Resist, resist!” chanted some ofthe protesters. “The UN is killing us,”read a poster held up by a demonstra-tor, according to amateur videosposted on YouTube by activists.

More than 280 unarmed militaryobservers in Syria to monitor a cessa-tion of hostilities that started officiallyon April 12 but lurches closer to col-lapse each day.

And Damascus shopownersstaged an “unprecedented” strike inAl-Hariqa market, near the historicHamidiyeh market, also to protest thekillings, said the Observatory.

Online activists saw the strike asa step forward for the anti-regime re-volt that broke out in March last year.

An activist who tweets under thename Free Syrian wrote: “A sign fromHama: ‘We don’t want foreign inter-vention, we want Damascus andAleppo intervention.’ True, the regimewill fall in these cities.”

More than 13,000 people havebeen killed in Syria since an anti-regime revolt broke out in March2011, according to the Observatory.

25 killed acrossSyria, clashes rage

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SUlAiMAniyAh: An iraqi Kurdish woman mourns over a coffin containing the remains of a relative killed in the Anfal massacre, during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah before

their reburial on Monday. afp

LONDONAfP

fORMER British primeminister Tony Blair told apress ethics inquiry Mon-day that he got too close toRupert Murdoch’s media

empire, in evidence disrupted by a pro-tester calling him a “war criminal”.

A middle-aged man burst into thecourtroom where the Leveson Inquiryis held and shouted “this man shouldbe arrested for war crimes” while Blairwas speaking, before being hustled out.

The reference was to Blair’s deci-sion to take Britain to war in Iraq andAfghanistan during his time in officefrom 1997 until 2007.

Judge Brian Leveson, who is head-ing the inquiry, apologised to Blair andimmediately ordered an investigationinto how the man had gained access toa “secure corridor” into the courtroom.

In his evidence, Blair, who is god-father to one of Rupert Murdoch’s chil-dren, was asked about his closerelationship with the media baronwhose tabloid The Sun — Britain’s top-

selling newspaper — gave Blair itsbacking. Blair said he had made astrategic decision not to take on thepower of the press during his time inoffice, despite calls for tougher mediaregulation following the death ofDiana, princess of Wales in 1997.

He said he had taken care to courtthe press because if media groups hadturned against him, it would have beena “huge and sustained attack”.

Asked whether he had got too close

to Murdoch’s News International, hereplied: “Yes.” But he added, “I don’tknow a policy that we changed as a re-sult of Rupert Murdoch. Part of my jobwas to manage this situation so that wedidn’t get into a position where wewere changing policy.”

The biggest problem in the Britishpress, he said, was blurred lines be-tween news and comment in some pa-pers, where reporting becomes an“instrument of political power”.

Blair, now a Middle East peaceenvoy, identified The Sun and theright-wing Daily Mail, owned by Asso-ciated Newspapers, as Britain’s mostpowerful newspapers.

“Once they are against you, that’sit. It’s full frontal, day in, day out; ba-sically a lifetime commitment,” he said.

“The fact is if you fall out with thecontrolling element of the Daily Mailyou are then going to be subject to ahuge and sustained attack,” he added.

“There is a substantial power there.In my view not simply in the Murdochmedia. The power is significant.

“If you’ve got a readership of threeto four million... that’s power.”

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India’s prime minister held talks withMyanmar’s president Monday in a his-toric visit aimed at boosting trade andenergy links and contesting the influ-ence of regional rival China.

Manmohan Singh, the first Indianpremier to visit Myanmar in a quarter ofa century, was greeted with a guard ofhonour as he met President Thein Seinin the capital Naypyidaw.

Energy-hungry India is eyeing a raftof agreements with its neighbour afterdramatic reforms in Myanmar ended itsinternational isolation.

Singh will travel to the main city ofYangon for talks with opposition leaderAung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, in a moveseen as a sign that India also wants to re-pair links with the veteran activist.

New Delhi was once a staunch sup-porter of the democracy icon, butchanged tack in the mid-1990s as itsought closer ties with Myanmar, anddrew international criticism for its en-

gagement with the former junta.India has since pointed to recent

dramatic reforms under a new quasi-civilian regime, including Suu Kyi’s elec-tion to parliament in April by-elections,as a validation of its stance.

Singh is the latest in a series of top-level visitors to Myanmar as the interna-tional community begins easingsanctions, raising hopes that the impov-erished nation could be the next bigfrontier market.

An Indian diplomat who declinedto be named told AFP that about 12agreements were set to be inked duringthe talks on Monday. Singh is seen aslooking to expand India’s influenceafter half a century of military rule leftMyanmar heavily reliant on Chineseinvestment and political support. In-dian-backed infrastructure projects inthe country include a port at Sittwe onthe Bay of Bengal but New Delhi’spresence lags well behind that of Bei-jing, which is behind a host of majorenergy developments.

“India does seem to have been rather

slothful in its response to Myanmar’s re-forms compared to the enthusiasmshown by many other world leaders,”said Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific ChiefEconomist at IHS Global Insight.

He said Myanmar was in the grips ofa “gold rush”, and that oil and gas are anarea of “considerable opportunity” for

investors. According to data from IHS,China led the ranking in investments inMyanmar last year, pledging $8.3 bil-lion, with India trailing in 13th place,with $189 million pledged.

Indian trade with Myanmar stood at$1.2 billion in 2010, far short of the $4.4billion between China and Myanmar.

Video of Saudi

woman defying

religious police

goes viralRIYADH

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A YouTube video of a Saudi womandefying orders by the notoriousreligious police to leave a mallbecause she is wearing nail polishhas gone viral, attracting more thana million hits in just five days.The three and a half minute videoposted on May 23 shows members ofthe Commission for the Promotion ofVirtue and Prevention of Vice telling thewomen to “get out of here (the mall).”But she refuses to comply, saying: “I’mstaying and I want to know what you’regoing to do about.” “It’s none of yourbusiness if I wear nail polish,” theunidentified woman, who is not seen ontape, is heard shouting at bearded menfrom the feared religious force. “Youare not in charge of me,” she defiantlyshouts back, referring to newconstraints imposed earlier this year onthe religious police banning them fromharassing Saudi women over theirbehaviour and attire. “The governmenthas banned you from coming after us,”she told the men, adding “you are onlysupposed to provide advice, andnothing more.” In January, Saudi KingAbdullah appointed a moderate tohead the religious police raising hopesthat a more lenient force will easedraconian social constraints in theIslamic country. Two weeks into hispost, Sheikh Abdullatif Abdel Aziz al-Sheikh banned volunteers fromserving in the commission whichenforces the kingdom’s strict Islamicrules. And in April he went furtherprohibiting the religious police from“harassing people” and threatening“decisive measures against violators.”As of Monday, the video was viewedmore than 1,142,000 times, with over12,000 people posting commentsonline, most of them denouncing thewoman’s behaviour. One posting saidshe had “no shame” and accused herof “prostituting” herself. Anothercalled her a “slut” and a “whore.” Theclip earned only about 1800 “likes.”The number of “dislikes” reachedalmost 7000. The woman filmed theincident herself and posted it onYouTube. At one point during thevideo, she cautions the religiouspolice that she has already posted theexchange online.

British woman

arrested under

phone-hacking probeLONDON

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British police investigating the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’sNews of the World tabloid arrested awoman on Monday on suspicion ofmoney-laundering, Scotland Yard said.The arrest of the unidentified 42-year-old is the latest in a series since police inJanuary 2011 reopened the investigationinto hacking at the now-closednewspaper. “She was arrested afterattending a southwest London policestation by appointment at approximately11:00 hrs (1000 GMT) on suspicion ofmoney laundering offences... and iscurrently being questioned,” a policestatement said. Police said the arrest wasmade by officers from OperationWeeting, the Metropolitan Policeinvestigation into the illegal hacking ofmobile phone voicemails. More than 40people have been arrested by under thatoperation and a linked investigation,Operation Elveden, which is probing thealleged bribery of public officials byjournalists from News Corp.newspapers. A 37-year-old femaleemployee of News International, theBritish newspaper arm of US-basedNews Corp., was arrested and bailedunder Operation Elveden on Friday.Murdoch shut down the News of theWorld in July 2011 after revelations thatthe tabloid had hacked the voicemails ofa murdered British schoolgirl caused awave of public disgust.

US drone strike,

clashes kill 10 Qaeda

fighters in yemen

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A US drone strike and clashes betweenYemeni troops and fighters of Al-Qaeda killed at least 10 members of themilitant group and a civilian in Yemen,officials and tribesmen said onMonday. Five militants of Al-Qaedawere killed when they were hit by a USdrone on Monday, a tribal source toldAFP. “A US drone struck a convoycarrying Al-Qaeda’s leader in Baydaprovince, Qaed al-Dahab,” the tribalsource said on condition of anonymity,adding that “Dahab survived but five ofhis guards were killed.” The strike hitthe militants as they were travelling inthe area of Manaseh, east of the city ofRadaa in central Yemen, he said.Western diplomats say that US expertsare assisting the Yemeni army in theirbattle to destroy Al-Qaeda in theArabian Peninsula, considered byWashington to be the network’sdeadliest and most active branch.

Blair admits beingtoo close to Murdoch

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SOUTH Korea thrashedmuch-fancied Pakistan 4-0to register their first win infour matches at the Sultan

Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournamenton Monday. Setting a brisk pace, theSouth Koreans benefited from Pak-istan's erratic strikers, who missedchances galore in the first half.

Nam Hyun-Woo converted twopenalty corners for the Koreans, whoopened the scoring in the 18th minuteon their second penalty corner award.

Pakistan came back strongly withnice field work, but MuhammadWaqas pushed a shot wide after get-ting a cross in front of an open goal.

Pakistan skipper Sohail Abbasthen came close to equalising fromtheir first penalty corner when hisshot hit the edge of goalkeeper LeeMyung-Ho's pads and deflected on tothe post before rebounding into play.

Abbas had an off day in office onMonday as he failed to penetrate theKorean defence on all four penaltycorners Pakistan earned in the game.

Striker Shafqat Rasool then failedto establish control of a diagonal ballinside the circle with an open goal infront. Nam again shot on target in the

44th minute to make it 2-0 for SouthKorea.

As Pakistan's game wilted underpressure, You Hyo-Sik increased thelead in the 55th minute after getting athrough pass inside the circle.

Hyun Hye-Sung then rounded offSouth Korea's scoring in the 62nd

minute from a diagonal pass.Down 0-4, Pakistan pressed hard

and managed to earn two late penaltycorners late in the game but on boththe occasion Abbas failed to producethe desired the result.

Inspite of the embarrassing de-feat, Pakistan coach Khwaja Junaiddefended his team.

"It's disappointing, but we man-aged to match the energy levels of theKoreans and generated severalchances. However, we failed to scoregoals. This is a grey area we need towork on," Junaid said.

"Like in the game against NewZealand, we conceded goals by indi-vidual mistakes," he said.

"We were unlucky to miss sitters.We cannot survive if we keep doingthat in international hockey."

South Korea now have four pointsfrom four games, while Pakistan havethree from as many matches.

New Zealand lead the table withnine points from three games.

Meanwhile in the second match ofthe day, Mathias Paredes scored twogoals as Argentina pulled off an upset3-2 victory over fancied Great Britain.

The defeat of Great Britain, thehighest ranked team in the tourna-ment at world number 4, has openedup the event and the fight for the top

two spots that will secure a place inthe final.

Paredes opened the scoring in theeighth minute when he picked up arebound from goalkeeper James Fairto shoot home.

Ashley Jackson, who convertedtwo penalty corners for Great Britain,shot wide on the first penalty cornerforced by his team in the 11th minuteand then Rob Moore shot wide aftercollecting a pass on top of the circle.

Jackson was on target with hispenalty corner flick that went in offthe goalkeeper's stick four minutesinto the second half, but Paredesagain put Argentina ahead in the42nd minute after receiving a longpass from Agustin Mazzilli.

Argentine striker Lucas Cam-mareri made it 3-1 by shooting on tar-get in a crowded circle.

Great Britain's efforts to bounceback were frustrated by Argentina'ssound defence.

Jackson managed to reduce thelead with another penalty corner goalin the 65th minute, but Argentinaheld fort to secure their second win infour matches.

This victory lifted Argentina to sixpoints, having defeated South Koreaon Sunday, while Great Britain havefour points from three matches.

Goalless Pakistan lose toKorea 4-0 in Azlan Hockey

LAHORESTAff rEPOrT

Fast-bowler Mohammad Samisaid that he was 'shocked andhurt' after his name did not fea-ture in the list of centrally-con-tracted players and the stipendcategory, which was announcedby the Pakistan Cricket Board(PCB) on Saturday.

The PCB released the much-awaited list, awarding contractsto 21 players besides announcingan equal number of names in thestipend category for their im-pressive performance in domes-tic cricket.

However, Sami, who hasbeen recalled to the squad for allthe three formats ahead of theseries against Sri Lanka, was asurprise omission.

While the fast-bowler, whoearned a place after an outstand-ing show in the domestic circuit,remained calm, disappointmentwas evident.

“It definitely hurts,” Sami re-ported to have said. “The feelingis natural as I was expecting myname to be there. The problem is

that the PCB also announced aseparate stipend category forimpressive performances in thedomestic events and my name isnot even in that list. I gave mybest and my performance chartspeaks for itself so it obviouslyhurts.”

But Sami said he will not letthe disappointment affect hisperformance in the upcomingseries that starts against SriLanka on June 1. “I've mademany comebacks through hardwork. I will display the same at-titude and earn the contractthrough my performance.

“The best thing for me is thatI am in the Pakistan team. Al-though a central contract is im-portant for a player, being in thenational team is more impor-tant.

“I'm working hard for a suc-cessful return to internationalcricket with an eye on trans-forming my domestic form to thetop level.”

The 31-year-old added thathe was in good shape and hasgained a lot from the trainingcamp that also featured warm-

up matches.Meanwhile, chief selector

Iqbal Qasim said the committeewill ask PCB Chairman ZakaAshraf to include Sami in the listof central contracts.

Apart from Sami, young fast-bowler Mohammad Talha'sname will also be recommended,the chief selector added.

“The names for central con-tracts were finalised when Samiwas not part of the team,” Qasimsaid in an interview.

“Talha was also not fit at thetime. But now the selection com-mittee will recommend theirnames for central contracts.”

According to a PakistanCricket Board official, little feed-back was taken from the currentselection committee, which re-lied on the list prepared by for-mer chief selector MohammadIllyas during his tenure.

“The names for central con-tracts were finalised when Samiwas not part of the team. Talhawas also not fit at the time. Butnow the selection committee willrecommend their names to thePCB chairman.”

Mohammad Sami vows good show

england down india

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Five-time champions India missedchances galore and went down 2-3 tofavourites Britain. India played a speedy game but failed tofinish the several good moves orches-trated by their strikers. Nonetheless, itwas a credible performance by India asthey came from two goals down to drawparity before a defensive lapse in the62nd minute helped Britain find thewinner through Nick Catlin.Britain scored their first two goalsthrough penalty corners from GlenKirkham (28th) and Ben Hawes (43rd).India struck back, scoring twice in thespace of four minutes through a penaltycorner conversion from VokkaligaRaghunath (55th) and a stunning de-flection by forward S.V. Sunil (59th) tobounce back in style.But three minutes after drawing parity,a poor defensive lapse cost India thematch as three defenders missed athrough ball that setup Catlin to scorethe winner for Britain.The win helped Britain moved to thesecond position with four points fromtwo matches behind table-toppers NewZealand, who registered their third suc-cessive victory by defeating Pakistan 3-1earlier in the day.India made a good start against Britianas their speed caught the rival defencecompletely off-guard. India came closeto open the scoring as early as in thethird minute but Sunil failed to connectto a precise Tushar Khandkar's crossfrom the right.Britain were lucky to break the dead-lock in the 28th minute from their thirdpenalty corner. India goalkeeper PRSreejesh made a brilliant block to stopAshley Jackson's shot but Kirkhamslammed in from the rebound to givehis side the lead. Hawes converted aset-piece penalty corner to double thelead in the 43rd minute.

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Coach Ric Charlesworth said Mondaythat he was hopeful the Australianmen's field hockey team would re-ceive a fairer draw at the LondonOlympics after lodging an officialprotest.

Charlesworth was furious lastweek when his world number one"Kookaburras" were handed threeearly morning starts in their groupmatches, while main rivals Germanyavoided the early timeslot altogetherin the opposite group.

Hockey Australia fired in an offi-cial protest, along with recommenda-tions, to the organising committee ofthe London Games and the Interna-tional Hockey Federation (FIH).

Charlesworth said he was opti-mistic of a positive outcome and ex-pected a decision to be made thisweek.

"There are 10 early starts, thereare 12 teams in the tournament andwe got three of them. That doesn'tmake any sense and I suspect therewill be an adjustment," Charlesworthtold reporters in Perth.

"I wouldn't have been so keen to

be vociferous if I didn't think wecould change it. "We expect to playearly games. We expect to play one ortwo, but we don't expect to play threespaced over the tournament like theyare. "That doesn't make any senseand it's unfair."

Charlesworth said the 8.30amtimeslot would require players towake up at 5am in a major disruptionto their daily tournament routine.

Australia have dominated inter-national men's field hockey sinceCharlesworth took charge of the na-tional team in 2009 and are stronglyfancied for the gold medal in London.

australia expect better draw Pak U-22 footballcamp begins

LAHORESTAff rEPOrT

After a few days of break following a tourof Thailand and Palestine, the PakistanU-22 football players were re-assembledin Lahore on Saturday (May 26) to starttheir final preparatory phase at Lahoreand Islamabad ahead of the Under-22Asian Cup Qualifiers Group B to be heldin Saudi Arabia from June 23 to July 3.ThE PrObAblES Of ThE TrAining cAMP ArE:Saquib hanif (gK, Krl), Muzamil hussain (gK, wAPdA),Tanveer Mumtaz (gK, Krl), Zaid Arif (gK, ZTBl),Naiman Khan (gK, France), Saddam hussain (dF, Krl),Naveed Ahmed (dF, Pakistan Navy), Ahsan Ullah (dF,Krl), Manzoor Ahmed (dF, wAPdA), Mohsan Ali (dF,Pakistan Navy), Noor Muhammad (dF, Pakistan Navy),Aamir Sidiqui (dF, NBP), Faisal iqbal (MF, NBP), KaleemUllah (MF, Krl), Mehmood Khan (MF, Krl), MuhammadAdil (MF, Krl), Shair Muhammad (MF, NBP), Bilawal-ur-rehman (MF, Krl), Junaid Qadir (MF, KPT), Abdulrehman (MF, wAPdA), imran Ali Khan (MF, huma ClubiFA), imran Abdullah (MF, PiA), Muhammad (Fw, KPT),Zakir lashari (Fw, hBl), Faisal Ali (Fw, ZTBl), riazAhmed (Fw, SSgC) and Jamal-ud-din (Fw, KPT).

domestic cricketneeds money: wasti

LAHORESTAff rEPOrT

Pakistan cricketer Wajahatullah Wasti hascited the lack of lucrativeness in domesticcricket as the reason for loss of local talents."We've had a lot of talent that was wasted,with many of these players ending their asso-ciation with Pakistani cricket as they settledabroad in different countries. The reason forthis is that in domestic cricket they earn nextto nothing and that is why I feel that theyneed to make domestic cricket more finan-cially lucrative for players," Pak Passionquoted Wasti, as saying. "In England, theyhave divisions and departments in their do-mestic cricket and when the season finishes,these players earn between 30-40 lakh ru-pees. On the other hand, in domestic cricketin Pakistan, if a player is playing for a depart-ment, he will end up earning only 1.5 to 2lakh rupees in the season," he added.

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eNGLAND beat West Indies bynine wickets to win the secondTest with more than a day tospare at Trent Bridge here on

Monday and take an unbeatable 2-0 leadin this three-match series. Set 108 for vic-tory on the fourth day, England finishedon 111 for one. England captain AndrewStrauss, who made 141 in the first inningsto follow his hundred in the five-wicketfirst Test win at Lord's, was out for 45when he chipped part-time spinner Mar-lon Samuels to short extra-cover with hisside just 19 runs short of victory.

But fellow left-hander Alastair Cook(43 not out) and Jonathan Trott (17 notout) completed the win. Earlier, Samuelsmade a dashing 76 not out, top-scoring forthe tourists for the second time in thematch after his first innings 117.

However, he merely delayed the in-evitable and this loss extended West In-dies' winless run in England to 16 Tests,with 14 defeats and two draws. West Indieswere all out for 165 in their second inningsshortly after lunch. Tim Bresnan took fourwickets for 37 runs in 17 overs for a Test-best match haul of eight for 141, whileJames Anderson was close behind his fel-low paceman with a second innings returnof four for 43 in 20.1 overs.

This victory meant Bresnan had beenon the winning side in all his 13 Tests. Con-sidering West Indies resumed on their

overnight 61 for six, their second inningstotal represented a considerable recovery.

Samuels started the day on 13 not outwith West Indies captain Darren Sammy,who made a maiden Test hundred in hisside's first innings 370, nought not out.They started positively, with Samuelsclipping Bresnan for a legside boundarywhile Sammy drove him through extra-cover for four. But Bresnan had Sammylbw -- his fourth leg before wicket of theinnings -- for 25. Sammy reviewed the de-cision and replays showed the ball, whichhit him on the back leg, would have justclipped the top of the stumps. As AleemDar had already given Sammy out, the

Pakistani umpire's call was upheld andWest Indies were now 110 for seven aftertheir two best batsmen of the match hadonly added 49 this time around. KemarRoach struck several fours before he waslbw to Anderson for 14, although Englandhad to review umpire Asad Rauf's originalnot out decision.

Samuels, on 58, survived a sharpchance to Cook at short leg off the bowlingof off-spinner Graeme Swann, who did dis-miss Shane Shillingford for nought. ButSwann then conceded 16 in an over toSamuels, who drove him for a four and asix in successive deliveries before, two ballslater, lofting him for a huge straight six.

England crush WestIndies to clinch Test series

WEST indiES 1ST inningS 370 (M SAMUElS 117, d SAMMy

106; T brESnAn 4-104)

EnglAnd 1ST inningS 428 (A STrAUSS 141, K PiETErSEn

80; r rAMPAUl 3-75)

West indies 2nd innings (overnight: 61-6)

A. barath lbw b Anderson 7

K. Powell b Anderson 1

d. bravo lbw b bresnan 22

S. chanderpaul c Trott b broad 11

M. Samuels not out 76

d. ramdin lbw b bresnan 6

K. Edwards lbw b bresnan 0

d. Sammy lbw b bresnan 25

K. roach lbw b Anderson 14

S. Shillingford c Anderson b Swann 0

r. rampaul c bresnan b Anderson 0

Extras (b1, lb2) 3

Total (all out, 60.1 overs, 277 mins) 165

fall of wickets: 1-5 (Powell), 2-14 (barath), 3-31 (chanderpaul),

4-45 (bravo), 5-61 (ramdin), 6-61 (Edwards), 7-110 (Sammy),

8-139 (roach), 9-148 (Shillingford), 10-165 (rampaul)

bowling: Anderson 20.1-6-43-4; broad 17-5-58-1; Swann 6-1-

24-1; bresnan 17-5-37-4

EnglAnd 2nd inningS (TArgET: 108)

A. Strauss c bravo b Samuels 45

A. cook not out 43

J. Trott not out 17

Extras (b5, nb1) 6

Total (1 wkt, 30.4 overs, 111 mins) 111

fall of wickets: 1-89 (Strauss)

did not bat: K Pietersen, i bell, J bairstow, M Prior, T bresnan,

S broad, g Swann, J Anderson

bowling: roach 5-2-16-0; rampaul 6-2-12-0; Sammy 6-0-32-

0; Samuels 5.4-0-18-1; Shillingford 8-1-28-0 (1nb)

result: England won by 9 wkts

Man-of-the-match: Tim bresnan (Eng)

Series: England lead three-match series 2-0

remaining fixture

Jun 07-11: 3rd Test, Edgbaston

Previous result

May 17-21: 1st Test, lord's: England won by 5 wkts

Toss: West indies

Umpires: Aleem dar (PAK) and Asad rauf (PAK)

TV umpire: Marais Erasmus (rSA)

Match referee: roshan Mahanama (Sri)

ScOrEbOArd

Ukraine gamesboss quits overticket scandal

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The general secretary of Ukraine's Na-tional Olympics Committee (NOC) re-signed on Monday following claims by theBBC he sought to sell tickets for the Lon-don Games on the black market."Volodymyr Gerashchenko has submittedhis resignation from the position of gen-eral secretary of the NOC," the committeesaid in a statement, adding he had pledgedto cooperate with an independent investi-gation commission. The BBC revealed lastweek that Gerashchenko had been ex-posed in a sting operation trying to sellsome 100 tickets for the London OlympicGames. In a bid to contain a growing scan-dal that also threatens to shadowUkraine's co-hosting of the Euro footballnext month, the Olympics Committee saidit has developed "an immediate reactionplan" over the scandal.It said that the creation of the independ-ent investigation commission has alreadybeen approved and it would consist ofthree top Ukrainian legal experts."The Ukraine NOC is an independent non-governmental organisation workingopenly and in accordance with the highestethical principles and it is committed toputting every effort into investigating thisissue," the statement added.The swift reaction to the claims has beenled by the president of Ukraine's NOC,pole vaulting great Sergei Bubka who im-mediately suspended Gerashchenko afterthe report emerged last week.After receiving information that some-one from the NOC might be prepared tosell tickets, a BBC reporter posing as anunauthorised ticket dealer from Britainspoke to Gerashchenko, who reportedlyconfirmed he would be prepared to selltickets.The BBC said Gerashchenko, general sec-retary since 1997, told the reporter: "I un-derstand you're a dealer -- that's why forme, you are priority number one, the top,the person, in case we have extra tickets tocontact you, we contact you."When asked by the BBC why he was pre-pared to break Olympic rules and Britishlaw in offering his country's Olympic tick-ets on the black market, Gerashchenko re-portedly claimed he had "never planned tosell tickets in the UK" and had been mak-ing "diplomatic talk to satisfy the persist-ent interest of the ticket dealer".Bubka said last week he had spoken tothe London Games supremo and run-ning legend Sebastian Coe and vowed to"ensure that we fully cooperate with anysubsequent investigation that takesplace in London".

COLOMBOAgEnciES

PAKISTAN’S national cricket teamwill arrive in the island today for asix week tour during which period

they will play three Test Matches, fiveODIs and two T-20s. This will be Pak-istan’s seventh tour of Sri Lanka and fol-lowing their recent successes, whichincludes a three nil whitewash againstEngland and triumph in the Asia Cup, theywill be buoyant against a Sri Lankan sidethat has lacked consistency, particularly inTest cricket. In Dav Whatmore, the touristshave someone who knows the oppositionquite well having had two successful stintsas Sri Lanka’s Head Coach.

The tour will get underway with twoT-20 games at Hambantota and theteams will move to Pallekele from therefor the first two ODIs before returning toColombo for the remaining three ODIs.All games will be day night encounterswith play scheduled for T-20 matches at7:00pm while for ODIs play will get un-derway at 2:30pm.

The first of the three Test series willget underway at the Galle InternationalStadium while SSC will host the secondTest. The third and final Test will beplayed at Pallekele.

The last time these teams met was sixmonths ago where Pakistan triumphed inTests, ODIs and the one off T-20 game

when UAE hosted the tour. Pakistan lasttoured Sri Lanka in 2009 and the hostswere able to record their first ever Testand ODI series wins against Pakistan athome on that occasion.

Of the 40 Tests played between thecountries Sri Lanka have won nine andlost 16 games while 15 matches have

ended in draws. Of the 127 ODIs betweenthe teams 47 have been won by Sri Lankawhile 76 have been won by Pakistan. Onegame has been a tie while three matcheshave ended in no results.

Pakistan are currently ranked at num-ber five in ICC Test Championship whileSri Lankans occupy the sixth slot. In ODI

cricket, Sri Lanka are fifth with Pakistanone slot below them.

Tour SChedule

JUnE 1ST: 1st T-20 at hambantota

JUnE 3rd: 2nd T-20 at hambantota

JUnE 7Th: 1st odi at Pallekele

JUnE 9Th: 2nd odi at Pallekele

JUn 13Th: 3rd odi in Colombo (rPS)

JUnE 16Th: 4th odi in Colombo (rPS)

JUnE 18Th: 5th odi in Colombo (rPS)

JUnE 22nd TO 26Th: 1st Test in galle

JUnE 30Th TO JUly 4Th: 2nd Test in Colombo (SSC)

JUly 8Th TO JUly 12Th: 3rd Test at Pallekele

Sri lAnKA T-20 SQUAd: Mahela Jayawardene (Cap-

tain), T.M. dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara,dinesh Chandi-

mal, Angelo Mathews, lahiru Thirimanne, Kaushalya

lokuarachchi, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Sa-

chithra Senanayake, lasith Malinga, Chamara Ka-

pugedera, Upul Tharanga and isuru Udana

Sri lAnKA Odi SQUAd: Mahela Jayawardene (Cap-

tain), T.M. dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara, dinesh Chandi-

mal, Angelo Mathews, lahiru Thirimanne, Jeevan

Mendis, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Sachithra

Senanayake, lasith Malinga, rangana herath, Upul

Tharanga, Nuwan Pradeep and dilhara Fernando.

PAKiSTAn T-20 SQUAd: Khalid latif, Ahmed

Shahzad, Mohammad hafeez (Captain), Shoaib

Malik, Umar Akmal, Shakeel Ansar, Shahid Afridi,

yasir Arafat, Umar gul, Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal,

raza hasan, haris Sohail, Mohammad Sami, ham-

mad Azam, Nasir Jamshed

PAKiSTAn Odi SQUAd: Mohammad hafeez, Nasir

Jamshed, younis Khan, Misbah-ul-haq (Captain),

Umar Akmal, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shahid Afridi, Umar

gul, rahat Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur rehman, Mo-

hammad Sami, Asad Shafiq, Aizaz Cheema, Azhar

Ali, imran Farhat

TEST SQUAd: Mohammad hafeez, Taufeeq Umar,

Azhar Ali, Misbah-ul-haq (Captain), younis Khan,

Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal, Umar gul, Saeed

Ajmal, Abdur rehman, Mohammad Sami, Faisal

iqbal, Junaid Khan, Afaq raheem, Mohammad

Ayub, Aizaz Cheema.

Pakistan reach Colombo for six-week tour

LAHORESTAff rEPOrT

The Governing Council of the Champi-ons League Twenty20 is learnt to haveapproved the participation of Pak-istan's domestic T20 championsSialkot Stallions in this year's event tobe held in October at different venuesin India.

According to reports received herefrom across the border, the council'sapproval was a mere formality after

the BCCI Working Committee on May12 had cleared the decks for the Pak-istan outfit's participation, a decisionwhich has far reaching implications inthe revival of Indo-Pak bilateralcricket ties.

It will be for the first time that ateam from Pakistan will take part inthe Champions League Twenty20since the event's inception. The Work-ing Committee had left it to the CLT20GC to take a final decision on the mat-ter. The Working Committee decision

indicated a thaw in Indo-Pak bilateralcricket ties which had been snappedafter the November 2008 terror at-tacks in Mumbai. It could also nowpave the way for participation Pak-istani players in the IPL for the firsttime after 2008.

The CLT20 GC also discussed onthe format of the tournament andother issues related to logistics, ac-cording to a source. Apart from India,the GC has representatives from SouthAfrica and Australia.

Court order haltsCricket Kenya elections

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Cricket Kenya (CK) were on Sunday pre-vented from holding national elections aftertheir biggest affiliate Nairobi ProvincialCricket Association (NCPA) were barredfrom taking part, outgoing chairman SamirInamdar confirmed. Former CEO and na-tional team captain Tom Tikolo won a courtorder on Friday restraining nine NCPA del-egates from representing the branch at thepolls, forcing the much-delayed elections tobe postponed yet again. "It's very disap-pointing that the whole process keeps beingfrustrated by people who don't want to seeelections being held," said Inamdar.

Indian governing council approvespakistan team’s participation

NoTTiNghAM: west indies Marlon Samuels (r) hits a six during the fourth day of thesecond Test match between england at Trent Bridge. afp

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RABAT: Belgian Hannelore

Desmet competes in the

High Jump event during the

5th International Mohamed

VI Meeting, 9th stage of the

IAAF World Challenge. AFP

PoTSdAM: Potsdam's Japanese striker yuki Nagasato (r) vies for the ball with leipzig's Jenista Clark (C) and Anna green during the women'sBundesliga match. Turbine Potsdam won the match 8-0 to take the women’s Bundesliga title for the 4th year in a row. afp

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Zach Johnson fired a two-over 72 thatincluded a two-shot penalty at the finalhole on Sunday to win the Crowne PlazaInvitational, denying Jason Dufner athird US PGA victory this season.

On a day of dramatic swings in theduel between Johnson and Dufner,Johnson appeared to be home and dryafter Dufner's triple-bogey seven at thepar-four 15th.

That gave Johnson a four-shot lead,and even after a bogey at 16, the 2007Masters champion arrived at 18 with athree-stroke lead. He had celebratedwhat he thought was a par for a three-shot win but then realized he hadmoved his ball marker on the 18thgreen and failed to replace it properly.

With the two-shot penalty, Johnsonsigned for a 72 and a 12-under total of268 -- giving him only a one-shot vic-tory over Dufner. "There's a number of

adjectives I'm calling myself right now.And lucky would be the biggest one,"said Johnson, who won for the first timesince claiming the same title two yearsago.

"Blessed would be another one,humbled would be another one. It's anhonor to put this jacket on once. ... I'min shock I got it twice."

Dufner, who won his first US tourtitle in his 163rd try on April 29 in NewOrleans and won again at the ByronNelson Classic last week, started the daywith a one-shot lead over Johnson.

But he faded down the stretch, fin-ishing with a four-over 74 that includeda double-bogey and two bogeys.

Johnson called Dufner's perform-ance in recent weeks "beyond impres-sive."

"I kind of feel like I somewhat un-seated a king to me because he has beenon top for four weeks," Johnson said.

Dufner's challenge was undone forgood at 15, where his approach shot

rolled off the green and into the water.His chip from a drop in the rough

rolled off the green, and his four-footputt for a double-bogey burned the edgeof the cup.

Dufner had surrendered hisovernight lead at the second hole with abogey from a fairway bunker as John-son birdied to seize a one-shot advan-tage.

Back-to-back birdies at five and sixsaw Dufner regain the lead, and hemoved two ahead with a par at the par-3 eighth, where Johnson missed thegreen en route to a bogey.

Dufner's lead was erased, however,when he took a double-bogey at the par-4 ninth, where he was in the water.

Johnson pulled two strokes aheadat the par-5 11th, where he got a breakas his tee shot kicked off a tree to landin the fairway, while Dufner's shot on asimilar line ends up under the trees.Dufner took bogey and Johnsonemerged with a birdie.

At the next hole, however, Johnsonsaw his lead erased with another two-shot swing. Johnson's first attempt toget out of a fairway bunker hit the lipand curled straight back toward him.He was short of the green with his thirdshot. A fine chip left him a tap-in forbogey, while Dufner rolled in an eight-foot birdie putt.

Johnson edged ahead with his lastbirdie of the day at 14, which provedenough after Dufner's disaster at 15.

"I just didn't have it today," saidDufner, who squeezed in his weddingbetween his two recent tour wins. "Ithas been a pretty exciting month or soof golf and personal things. "I'm notgoing to use that as an excuse. I justcouldn't get the ball in the fairway."

Even so, Dufner was comfortably infront of third-placed Tommy Gainey,who had six birdies and overcame adouble-bogey six at the 12th en route toa three-under 67 for 273. Jim Furyk wasfourth with a 68 for 274.

Johnson edges dufner to win at Colonial

BeNToN hArBor: roger Chapman of england poseswith the Alfred S. Bourne Trophy after winning the2012 Senior PgA Championship with a winning scoreof -13 at the golf Club at harbor Shores. afp

ROMEAfP

Lazio captain Stefano Mauri and severaltop players were arrested on Monday,while national team defender DomenicoCriscito's room was searched at Italy'sEuro 2012 training camp, as part of aprobe into illegal betting. Mauri was oneof 19 people implicated in the investiga-tion into alleged match-fixing in the do-mestic game, as police swooped in dawnraids on a number of addresses up anddown the country, according to Italy's do-mestic Ansa news agency.

The players are suspected of having re-ceived money to fix matches for betting syn-dicates, whose head is believed to be basedin Singapore. National team full-back Crisc-ito's room was searched at Italy's Euro 2012camp just outside Florence, while policealso searched the home of Antonio Conte,the coach of Serie A champions Juventus.

The public prosecutor in Cremona, Ste-fano Di Martino, said three Serie A matches-- Bari-Sampdoria, Lecce-Lazio and Lazio-Genoa -- were being investigated as well asseven or eight matches involving Siena last

season when they were in Serie B. Di Mar-tino said two million euros ($2.5 million)was won on the Lecce-Lazio match and600,000 euros was used to bribe players.The raids come less than two weeks beforethe European Championships begin inPoland and Ukraine, with Criscito usuallyItaly coach Cesare Prandelli's first choiceleft back. Prandelli was due to announce hisfinal 23-man tournament squad on Mon-day before a warm-up match against Lux-embourg in Parma on Tuesday.

Di Martino, however, said Criscitocould "calmly go to the Euros", as he wasmerely issued a notice of indictment, mean-ing he is helping investigators and has notbeen charged with any crime. The player'sagent, Andrea D'Amico, added that Criscito,who did not train with his team-mates onMonday morning, was calm and claims tohave simply met with his ex-club's fans fol-lowing a derby defeat to Sampdoria.

In May last year, Criscito, who nowplays for Zenit St Petersburg in Russia, is al-leged to have met with then-Genoa team-mate Giuseppe Sculli, two heads of theclub's "ultra" fans and a Bosnian with acriminal record in a restaurant in the city.

Lazio capt held in Italianillegal betting probe

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While a student in Paris, Roland Garros was aregular player at his tennis club in Porte d’Au-teuil in the Bois de Boulogne area of Paris. Helater became an aviator, performing some pio-neering flights. At the onset of World War I, hejoined the French Armed forces as a fighter pilotshooting down four German aircraft before hewas himself killed in action. During the war hehad invented a system where the pilot couldshoot his machine gun through the propellers ofthe aircraft, thus increasing its effectiveness andaccuracy. That was the reason for his fame.

Little would Roland Garros have realized thathis name would become a household word in thetennis world almost a century after his death.

As it happened, the French Four Musketeershad won the Davis Cup in 1928 and the FrenchFederation was looking for a site for a tennis sta-dium in which to host the next year’s challengeround. Garros’ club agreed to provide the landprovided the stadium was named after their erst-while war hero member.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

dJOKOVic chAncE

Novak Djokovic has a chance to make historynext week as the French Open 2012 commences.Should he win his seven matches, he would bethe third man after Don Budge and Rod Laver, tohold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time.The last time this was done was in 1969 whenRod laver won his second Grand Slam. Of course,Laver’s was a calendar year Slam, something onlyhe and Budge have done in men’s tennis.

But Djokovic’s achievement, should he attainit, would be only marginally less spectacular.

In order to win this year’s French Open,Novak has a mountain to climb in the name ofRafael Nadal. Nadal has been almost invincibleon clay courts for the past seven years, winningthe French six times amid a host of other claycourt titles. He has had a rousing start to thisyear’s clay campaign, wining at Monte Carloand Rome with a little blip on the blue clay ofMadrid. In both finals, Nadal defeatedDjokovic, his tormentor of 2011 when Novak in-flicted seven straight losses on his rival andthen at the Australian Open earlier this year inan epic marathon.

Nadal is the man to beat at Roland Garrosthis year and there are hardly any players withthe game to do so. Djokovic does, but he will haveto show much more fortitude than he has doneon clay recently against Nadal.

nAdAl, ThE MOST rElEnTlESS EVEr

Last year, Novak had been countering Nadal’scrosscourt forehand with an on the rise two handedbackhand that nullified Nadal’s strongest shot. Thisyear Nadal has added more variety to his game andthat match up no longer goes Djokovic’s way asmuch as it used to. Nadal is one of the most relent-less competitors ever and should he stay healthy,should win his seventh French Open.

It remains to be seen in whose half Roger Fed-erer ends up on, because Roger could be the spoilerfor the top two. Roger has won here in the yearSoderling upset Nadal and is a regular semifinalist.Against the top two, his inability to keep up his ag-gressive game for more than a set has been exposed.In the end, almost inevitably, Nadal and Novak reelhim in. It would require a Herculean effort on Fed-erer’s part to win this year, although one wouldnever put it past the Swiss maestro.

Andy Murray at number four, is struggling witha back niggle and could find it difficult to justify hisseeding. His results on the clay have been far fromconvincing, in fact there is now a question markover his ability to win any major event. Others inwith a chance to make it to the quarters stage wouldbe the usual suspects, Del Potro, David Ferrer, JohnIsner, Jo Wilfried Tsonga and the outsider MilosRaonic. Raonic possesses the most powerful servein the game and his strength is the pace on his sec-ond serve, something even the gigantic Isner cannotmatch. Raonic is strong off the ground as well andshould he win a couple of rounds, could build upsome momentum. Jo Wilfried Tsonga, with hispowerful go-for-broke game could be a threat, butlike Federer, it isn’t often that he can maintain hisaggression on clay against the very best for five sets.

fOr AiSAM, A bridgE TOO fAr?

Aisam ul Haq Qureshi is entered in the dou-bles with Jean Julien Roger. They have had someencouraging results of late, having beaten theBryan brothers, but winning a major at this stagemight be a bridge too far.

Victoria Azarenka will be the women’sfavourite, having won the Australian in convincingfashion, but she has had a couple of losses, to Shara-pova and Serena Williams. Sharapova is looking likea serious contender and if Serena hits form and fit-ness, she could wipe the floor with everyone else.

This summer promises to be a feast of tennis.The French Open will end in the first week ofJune. Wimbledon will start in the last week ofJune and the Olympics will be played at Wimble-don in end July. Look for Nadal to prevail at theFrench and for Federer and Djokovic to share theother two titles on grass. Tennis fans have a ver-itable feast in store for them.

Nadal, the man tobeat at Roland Garros

ALI AKBAR

SportS thiS Week

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VICTORIA Azarenka narrowlyavoided becoming the first topseed to lose in the French Openfirst round on Monday as Roger

Federer celebrated his 50th straight majorwith a record-equalling 233rd Grand Slamwin. World number one Azarenka had tocome from a set and 4-0 down to defeat Ital-ian world number 105 Alberta Brianti 6-7(6/8), 6-4, 6-2 and will face German quali-fier Dinah Pfizenmaier for a place in the last32. But for much of her rollercoaster 2hr16min battle with 32-year-old Brianti, whohad never won a match in four previousmain draw appearances at Roland Garros,Azarenka struggled. Brianti was on theverge of a 5-0 lead in the second set whenAzarenka sent down a second serve ace tostay in contention, the point proving to bethe significant moment in the tie. AustralianOpen champion Azarenka, who finishedwith 60 unforced errors, came into RolandGarros nursing a shoulder injury and it ap-peared that she was heading for a shock exituntil she reeled off 12 of the last 14 games.

"I started well but my game just col-lapsed," admitted 22-year-old Azarenka,twice a quarter-finalist in Paris. "I tried tostay concentrated. I don't know how I gotout of it." Meanwhile, defending women'schampion Li Na of China advanced to thesecond round with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Ro-mania's Sorana Cirstea, a quarter-finalist in

2009. Federer, the 2009 champion andfour times runner-up to Rafael Nadal, en-dured few problems getting past Germany'sTomas Kamke, the world number 78, win-ning 6-2, 7-5, 6-3. His win, achieved on asixth match point, also took him level withJimmy Connors' record for most GrandSlam match wins of 233. The 16-timeGrand Slam title winner next faces eitherDavid Nalbandian of Argentina or AdrianUngur of Romania. Federer, seeded three,is scheduled to meet world number oneNovak Djokovic in the semi-finals. Topseed Djokovic kicks off his bid for an his-toric Grand Slam later on Monday when hetackles Italian claycourter Potito Starace.

Azarenka survives, Federerlevels Connors record

Quickfire Li Na intoFrench open second roundPArIS: Chinese defending champion Li Na overpowered Romania's Sorana Cirstea6-2, 6-1 on Monday to advance to the second round of the French Open, sustainingAsia's hopes of another Grand Slam title. The 30-year-old, world number seven,took just 58 minutes to dispose of the 22-year-old Cirstea, ranked 43, with a displayof superior cross-court ball striking. Li is bidding to become the first champion sinceJustin Henin in 2007 to defend the women's singles title at Roland Garros. "I'll justtry my best," Li said, when asked to rate her chances of a successful defence, addingthat she worked hard on her footwork in the runup to the French Open. "It's toughfor me to stay at the same level all the time," she said. The sight of a Chinese flag asshe walked into centre court boosted her confidence before facing Cirstea. AfP

Federer changedtennis: BeckermADrID: German ten-nis legend Boris Beckerlauded Swiss maestroRoger Federer as havingdone more than anyoneto change the game withhis supreme technicalability. "The guy who haschanged tennis is Federer- beauty, technique, coordination and foot-work," Becker said in an interview publishedMonday in Spanish daily El Pais. Beckersaid he had - at least to begin with - beenless impressed with the raw, but at thatstage unhoned, athleticism of Rafael Nadal,who along with Federer has defined themen's game over the past decade with 26Grand Slam singles titles between them. AfP

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Australia's former world num-ber one Lleyton Hewitt made anearly exit from the French Openon Monday, beaten in four setsby unheralded Slovenian BlazKavcic. Two-time Grand Slamtitle winner Hewitt, 31, camehere as a wildcard entry with lit-tle to lose having undergoneradical foot surgery in Februaryin a bid to prolong his career.

But despite occasional

glimpses of his lingering top-drawer abilities, he was unable toprevent a 6-7 (2/7), 3-6, 7-6 (7/4),3-6 defeat in 3hr 50min as Kavcicearned the privilege of trying totopple world number one NovakDjokovic in round two, assumingthe Serb later ousted PotitoStarace of Italy. Former Wimble-don and US Open champion He-witt arrived at Roland Garroswith two screws and a metalplate locking permanently intoplace in the big toe on his leftfoot to fight against arthritis.

Hewitt’s Paris dream dies

CheNNAi: Bollywood star and co-owner of Kolkata Knight riders Shah rukh Khan (3rdl) poses with the dlF iPl 2012 cup ashe celebrates his team's victory at the end of the iPl Twenty20 final against Chennai Super Kings. afp

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NEW DELHIOnlinE

India on Monday said it would ex-plore all options to normalise rela-tions with Pakistan and itsintentions were “very transparent”in this direction.

“With Pakistan, speculationwill never stop and I wouldn’t liketo enlist myself in the club of spec-ulators. All I can convey to you isthat India’s intentions are veryhonest, India’s intentions are verytransparent,” Indian External Af-fairs Minister SM Krishna told re-porters in Myanmar.

“Dr Manmohan Singh wantsgood relationship, the people ofIndia want good relationship withPakistan and we certainly will makeevery effort from our side to seethat normalisation of relationshipas good neighbors could be possible

and we will explore all options to dothat,” he was quoted as saying.

His remarks came a few daysafter India and Pakistan failed tosign a liberalised visa agreement,agreed on between Dr Singh andPresident Asif Ali Zardari in April.India expressed disappointmentover it saying it had gone fully pre-pared to the home secretary-levelmeeting in Islamabad where thevisa deal was to be signed last week.

LAHOREAgEnciES

PAKISTAN MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N)President Nawaz Sharif onMonday said the Abbot-tabad operation had de-

stroyed the sovereignty of the country.Addressing a gathering in Lahore

to mark Youm-e-Takbeer, Nawaz saidduring his tenure, Pakistan had con-ducted nuclear explosions which actedas a deterrent against future explosionsby the country’s enemies.

“India could have attacked Pak-istan many times, but due to Pakistanbeing an atomic power, it could notgather courage to do so,” Nawaz said.

He said the day Pakistan became anuclear power, the begging bowl was

broken. “It was not easy to test a nu-clear bomb and I waited for 17 days,” hesaid, adding that Pakistan’s securitywas strengthened due to the explosions.

Nawaz said President Asif AliZardari had a discussion with him togive indemnity to former president Gen-eral (r) Pervez Musharraf when he de-cided to step down from the presidency.

He said Zardari had showed no in-terest in “becoming the president backthen” and later took over the Presi-dency by deception. “I was shockedwhen he became the president and sowere the people of Pakistan.” He saidhis party did not vote for Zardari as thepresident.

Nawaz also criticised Zardari forvisiting Chicago to attend the NATOSummit. “Zardari should tell the nationwhat he was doing in Chicago,” he said,

expressing concerns over the delay inthe report of judicial commission onthe Abbottabad raid.

The PML-N chief also questionedwasn’t there anybody in the govern-ment who could bring peace in Karachiand Balochistan.

In an obvious reference to PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf Chairman ImranKhan, Nawaz said those who wereclaiming to resolve all the problemswithin 90 days were lying.

He said some misguided peoplehad been part of the government andestablishment.

Following his address, party work-ers tried to meet Nawaz but werestopped by the security guards. This ledto party workers protesting with oneeven lying down in front of the PML-Npresident’s car.

Dronekills sevenin NWa

PESHAWARSTAff rEPOrT

At least seven suspected militants werekilled when a US drone fired missiles on acompound and a vehicle in Hassokhel vil-lage near Mirali, the main town of NorthWaziristan Agency, late on Sunday night.The latest US drone attack is the second onHassokhel within a week and the fourthacross North Waziristan during the sametime period. An official at Miranshah,headquarters of North Waziristan, said theUS drone fired two missiles at a home inthe village. Later, it targeted a moving vehi-cle with two missiles. Officials said at leastseven suspected militants had been killedand several others had been injured in thetwo attacks. The identity of those killedcould not be immediately ascertained, butlocal officials confirmed that the dead in-cluded foreign militants.

Three Shias

killed in firing on

bus in Kurram PESHAWAR

STAff rEPOrT

At least three people of the Shia commu-nity were killed and six others injuredwhen some unidentified men opened fireon a passenger coach in the Charkhel areaof Lower Kurram Agency on Monday.Reports said the passenger coach was onits way to Peshawar from Parachinar,headquarters of Kurram. The vehicle wasambushed when it reached Charkhel, anarea dominated by Sunni tribesmen. As aresult of indiscriminate firing, three peoplewere killed and six others were injured.Soon after the attack, officials along withpersonnel of law enforcement agenciesrushed to the site and shifted the victims toParachinar. No arrest was made by the au-thorities by the time this report was filed.Lower Kurram Agency is dominated bymilitants headed by Fazal Saeed, consid-ered in good books of Pakistani authorities.Around two months ago, the Fazal Saeedgroup claimed responsibility for a suicideattack on Shias in Parachinar that killedmore than 50 people. Over 1,500 peoplehave lost their life due to sectarian tensionand terrorist incidents in Kurram. Themain road connecting Parachinar to Pe-shawar and the rest of the country remainsclosed most of the time, compelling thepeople from Shia community to adopt al-ternate routes, including via Afghanistan.

Abbottabad raid endedour sovereignty: Nawazg PMl-N president says Zardari became president by deception

India sincerely wants

to normalize ties with

Pakistan: Krishna

PMl-N, PTi move

SC against NA

speaker’s ruling

in PM’s favour

ISLAMABAD/KARACHIAgEnciES

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)filed two separate constitutional petitionsin the Supreme Court on Monday againstthe National Assembly speaker’s ruling re-garding Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gi-lani’s conviction in the contempt of courtcase. PML-N leader Khwaja MuhammadAsif filed the petition in the SC that statedthat the May 24 ruling of National Assem-bly Speaker Fehmida Mirza in the Gilanicase was “arbitrary, capricious and illegal”.The PTI also filed a similar petition, chal-lenging the decision as well as Gilani’s re-cent visit to the UK. PTI’s lawyer Safdar AliShah filed the petition on behalf of theparty chairman, Imran Khan. “There is nomoral ground for Gilani to hold the officeany more,” the PTI advocate argued,adding that “Gilani’s visit to the UK alongwith an 80-member delegation was a bur-den on the taxpayers”. Meanwhile, the NAspeaker’s decision was also challenged inthe Sindh and Peshawar high courts. A pe-tition was submitted by Human RightsSouth Asia in the Peshawar High Courtseeking suspension of the speaker’s rulingbecause it was in violation of Article 63 ofthe constitution. The SHC issued notices tothe prime minister, the National Assemblysecretary and the chief election commis-sioner seeking their replies on June 6.

g Petitions also filed inSindh, Peshawar highcourts against the ruling

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