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KARACHI/LAHORESTAFF REPORT

FolloWInG Thursday’s“political drone strike” byMuttahida Qaumi Move-ment (MQM) chief AltafHussain and promises of

participating in Dr Tahirul Qadri’s longmarch at all costs, the party on Fridaydropped another shocker by excusingfrom participating in the march on thecapital, citing security risks. Shockedbut undeterred, Dr Qadri said he would

lead the march on Islamabad perschedule at all costs and there shouldbe no illusion in this regard.

Addressing a press conference lateat night with Pakistan Muslim league-Quaid President Shujaat Hussain andPervez Elahi, Qadri said he had for-warded his charter of demands to thePMl-Q leadership and the participantsof the march would not budge from Is-lamabad until the demands are met.

on Thursday night, President AsifZardari had tasked Shujaat with con-tacting Dr Qadri and try and make him

withdraw his call of long march. Shu-jaat told reporters he was hopeful of apositive outcome of the prevailingquagmire. Addressing a news confer-ence in Karachi earlier in the day, MQMDeputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar saidthe party leadership had decided to sep-arate itself from the long march, how-ever, it would continue to support DrQadri’s ideology.

He said that the decision wastaken in the backdrop of the deterio-rating security situation in the coun-try and it was dangerous to put the

lives of millions of people at stake.Sattar said the MQM had conveyedits decision, which had been en-dorsed by party chief Altaf Hussain,to Dr Qadri. Altaf Hussain had earliervowed to take active part in the longmarch, but the decision was apparentlywithdrawn after the deadly blasts inQuetta and Swat that killed close to 116people. Sattar said terrorists were out tosabotage the long march and the marchfaced immense security threats.

“Besides, Dr Qadri will unveil theways in which the long march is being

hampered,” Sattar added. Dr Qadrisaid earlier in the day that he wouldlead the march on Islamabad perschedule at all costs and there shouldbe no illusion in this regard. Affirminghis resolve to carry on with the march,he said the incumbent governmenthad lost legal, moral, and constitu-tional authority to rule after Thurs-day’s carnage that killed 116 people.

MQM SayS ParticiPation in lonGMarch too danGeroUS in cUrrent SecUrity SitUation

tahirUl Qadri SayS lonG Marchto Go ahead deSPite all oddS,handS over charter of deMandS to PMl-Q leaderShiP

Security of gains, notworkers, forced MQM out

ISLAMABADTAyyAb HUSSAIN

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement took a U-turn on its claimsof participating in Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march after cuttingan underhand deal with President Asif Ali Zardari, whopromised the party a lion’s share in the caretaker governmentin Sindh and federal government and holding of localgovernment polls in Sindh at the earliest. In return Zardariasked MQM chief Altaf Hussain to withdraw his support forthe marchers, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably. A source inthe PPP-led government said an MQM delegation, led byMQM Rabita Committee Convener Dr Farooq Sattar, metPresident Asif Ai Zardari on Thursday night and put twodemands for withdrawal of his party’s support to the longmarch. “Dr Farooq Sattar asked President Zardari to give alion’s share in the caretaker setup, especially in Sindh, and tohold local government elections in Sindh immediately, so thatthe party could sell the bargain to its voters,” the source said.He added that after the Supreme Court’s verdict fordelimitation in Karachi, the MQM leadership was perturbedand hence wanted a big share in the caretaker setup to ensureits win in the next general election.

QUETTAAGENCIES

Shia leaders on Fridaypublicly questioned PakistanArmy chief General AshfaqKayani over security in thecountry after the previousday’s bombings aimed at theminority sect killed at least102 people in Quetta. “I askthe army chief: What haveyou done with these extrathree years you got (inoffice). What did you give usexcept more death,” MaulanaAmin Shaheedi, a centralleader of the Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen, told anews conference. Most ofThursday’s deaths werecaused by twin attacks

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QUETTA:Hazara Shiasrefused tobury theirdead untilthe PakistanArmy assuredthem securityfrom thegenocidebeing carriedout by theSunniterroristoutfit, theLashkar-e-Jhangvi. Thesit-indemonstration wascontinuing bythe time thenewspaperwas sent topress at 2am.

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Kaira advises Tahirul Qadrito rethink long march

ISLAMABAD: Ministerfor Information QamarZaman Kaira on Fridayadvised Minhajul Quranchief Tahirul Qadri torethink his decision oflong march‚ as had theMuttahida QaumiMovement. Talking toreporters in Islamabadon Friday‚ he welcomedMQM’s change of mindand its decision of nottaking part in the longmarch. He hoped that DrQadri would listen to the

MQM and the people. Asked what course thegovernment would take if Qadri went ahead with thelong march‚ he said everybody had the right to protestand assemble. He‚ however‚ made it clear that nobodywould be allowed to disrupt public life. “It is theresponsibility of the government to protect the life andproperty of the people‚” Kaira said. ONLINE

Court orders release of BoPscam accused Sheikh Afzal LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday ordered therelease of Sheikh Afzal, accused in the Rs 8.4 billion Bank ofPunjab (BoP) scam, after accepting his plea bargainrequest. Earlier, Afzal’s counsel told the court that thenational Accountability Bureau had accepted the pleabargain deal. He submitted that an amount of Rs 3.5 billionhad been deposited as a down payment under the pleabargain deal while the remaining amount would be paid infive years. He requested the court to accept the agreementand order the release of the accused, which the courtaccepted. APP

OGRA decides to move CNGstations out of cities ISLAMABAD: The oil and Gas Regulatory Authority(oGRA) has decided to shift all Compressed natural Gas(CnG) stations from densely populated areas of thecountry. Reports said the CnG stations would be shiftedto outside of cities. Meanwhile, CnG station ownershave expressed concerns over the decision, calling it anunjust act. ONLINE

NATO terminal attacked,one person deadQUETTA: A nATo supply terminal located at Hazar Ganjiarea was attacked with rockets, resulting in the death of oneperson. 11 nATo tankers were destroyed by the rockets.Earlier, a blast was also heard on Saryab Road near theQuetta Development Authority (QDA) office. According topolice, the blast was followed by intense firing. DIGoperations said a police team had been sent to the area. Thenature of the blast was unknown as yet. The blast came a dayafter a string of bombings on January 10 that left at least 116people dead and over 150 wounded in one of the bloodiestdays of violence Balochistan has seen in years. ONLINE

ISLAMABADAGENCIES

AS tensions continue to simmerbetween India and Pakistanover the killings of two Indiansoldiers along the line of Con-trol (loC), Jamaatud Dawa

chief Hafiz Saeed on Friday warned newDelhi of an escalation in violence in Indianoccupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Saeed, who is accused of masterminding2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in an inter-view to Reuters said, “We do not want anyforce to be used or any military operationfor this. But the Indians are opting for theother alternative.”

Saeed also accused India of destabilisingPakistan. He also “challenged” the Indiangovernment to prove that he was present

near the line of Control a few days ago. A day after Indian Home Minister

Sushilkumar Shinde said that Saeed had vis-ited Azad Kashmir a few days before two In-dian soldiers were allegedly killed byPakistani troops in Kashmir, Saeed said ina tweet: “I CHAllEnGE the Indian Govern-ment, its ministers & agencies to prove mypresence near loC or remain exposed asliars in front of the world.”

Saeed also demanded that a Un probebe held into the ceasefire violations on theloC as well as into “the injustice, rapes,mass-graves and abductions in occupied#Kashmir”. The JuD chief alleged the ex-change of fire between Indian and Pakistaniforces was due to India “trying to shift focusfrom its internal problems of #Rape, #Com-munal Riots and exploiting the sentimentsagainst #Pakistan #loC”.

Union Home Minister SushilkumarShinde on Thursday had said Saeed had vis-ited the border areas in Azad Kashmir a fewdays before the attack on Indian soldiers.

India is opting for the other alternative:Hafiz Saeed on LoC violations

QUETTAAPP

Funeral prayers of three journalists, who fellvictim to Thursday’s bomb blast in Quetta,were offered on Friday and they were laid torest in graveyards of their native areas.

The three journalists who lost their lifeon duty included SAMAAA TV’s reporter Sai-fur Rehman, and cameraman Imran Sheikh,and Iqbal Hussain, an employee of newsnetwork International (nnI).

A powerful bomb blast took place at asnooker club on Alamdar Road in Quetta onThursday night. A second powerful blast oc-curred close by just as media team and secu-

rity and rescue personnel arrived at the siteof the first bombing.

The two bombs lefts 81 people dead, in-cluding journalists, police officials, rescueworkers and citizens. Imran Sheikh and IqbalHussain were reportedly killed on the spot,while Saifur Rehman expired at CombinedMilitary Hospital. The funeral of Sheikh wasoffered at Railway Eidgah and he was laid torest in a graveyard in Muslim Town. He issurvived by his wife and two daughters. Thebody of Saifur Rehman was taken to Karachifor burial. He has left behind three sons anda widow. Hussain’s funeral was offered innichari Imambargah and he was laid to restin a graveyard in Marriabad area.

Three journalists killed inQuetta blasts laid to rest

KP shoots downCentre’s FC platoons’deployment request

PESHAWARSHAMIM SHAHID

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government onFriday rejected the federal government’s requestfor dispatching Frontier Constabulary (FC)platoons to Islamabad to counter the potentialthreat of a law and order situation during DrTahirul Qadri’s long march on January 14.According to details, the federal governmentreached out to the KP government throughInterior Ministry to ask for FC platoons to bedeployed in Islamabad during Tahirul Qadri’slong march to the capital. The request by thefederal government was discussed in a high-levelmeeting of the KP government. However, therequest was rejected on account of no date ofreturn given by the federal government for theplatoons. Furthermore, the KP governmentofficials also reminded the federal governmentthat they too were in short supply of lawenforcement personnel. Moreover, the KPgovernment said that the province was in a war-like situation and the FC personnel wereguarding the boundaries between settled districtsand the Federally Administered Tribal Areas(FATA) region where militants were believed tobe holed up. A KP government official, oncondition of anonymity, told Pakistan Today thatthe KP government had been requesting thereturn of the FC personnel which had been at thedisposal of the federal government for the lastfive years. The FC personnel in Islamabad hadbeen engaged in guarding diplomatic missions,offices and residences of the VVIPs, the officialsaid. The official said that the federalgovernment had shown reluctance in returningthe platoon back to KP.

QUETTA: Hazara Shias mourn their loved ones at an imambargah on Alamdar Road on Friday,

a day after three bombings, one targeting an FC checkpost and two targeting Hazara Shias,

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CHIEF Justice of PakistanIftikhar MuhammadChaudhry on Friday ob-served that the sole ob-jective of the national

Accountability Bureau (nAB) was toeliminate corruption from the soci-ety.

He was heading a three-memberbench comprising Justice GulzarAhmed and Justice Sheikh AzmatSaeed as its other members, whichresumed hearing in the quarterlyprogress reports related to imple-mentation of its verdict on RentalPower Plants (RPPs) case.

The CJ asked nAB officials towork for strengthening national in-stitutions.

He said the court decision wasvery explicit, but no tangible actionwas taken by nAB.

The chief justice directed the of-ficials to complete challans against

all the accused without any discrim-ination.

The bench in its order directedthe nAB chairman to personallyoversee the progress on the imple-mentation of its verdict and initiatecriminal proceedings against the ac-cused, besides ensuring recovery ofthe amount.

During the course of proceed-ings earlier, nAB Additional Prose-cutor General Fauzi Zafar apprisedthe bench that three officials had al-ready been suspended for removinginvestigation officer Asghar Khanfrom the case.

Justice Azmat Saeed said all peo-ple who had been protecting the ac-cused would have to face criminalproceedings as well.

Fauzi requested the bench togive him time for submission of acomprehensive report, as he was notfeeling well.

The bench accepted the requestand adjourned the hearing until Jan-uary 15.

NAB’s sole objective is toefface corruption, says CJ

ISLAMABADSTAFF REPORT

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)Chairman Imran Khan on Fridaystrongly condemned the terrorist at-tacks that took place in Quetta andSwat on Thursday causing a loss ofover 100 lives and leaving many in-jured.

This combined with terror at-tacks in other areas and targetedkillings left over 130 people dead in asingle day.

In a statement, the PTI chief saidinnocent people were being killed butthe government had limited its roleto issuing condemnation and condo-lence messages. “no strategy to com-bat terrorism and to find a durablesolution to the problem is visible,” hesaid.

Khan said the situation had dete-riorated to an extent that even per-sonnel of law enforcement agenciesand media were not safe. He stronglycondemned lashkar-e-Jhangvi for

its genocidal campaign against theHazara community in Quetta. “Thissectarian strife combined with ran-dom acts of terror is leading to astrong feeling of instability in thecountry,” Khan asserted.

He said the situation in the entirecountry, particularly in Balochistan,

had been chaotic for quite some timenow. “Unfortunately the govern-ments, both federal and provincial,have done nothing to take stock ofthe situation and devise a workableplan. The result is that this province,which is full of natural resources, isslipping out of control,” he said.

Imran expresses concern overrampant acts of terrorism

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men shot dead two labourers inQuetta’s Sariab area on Friday. Police sources said the armedassailants riding a motorbike came to a shop in Killi Kamalo Sariaband opened indiscriminate fire at two labourers sitting inside theshop. “The two labourers received serious bullet wounds andsuccumbed to their injuries on way to hospital,” they said. Theattackers managed to flee. The deceased were identified as Sirajand Abdul Mateen. Police have registered a case and investigationswere underway. APP

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Drone attack?That was a suicideattack: Nisar

ISLAMABADONLINE

national Assembly opposition leaderChaudhry nisar Khan on Friday saidthat the address of Muttahida QaumiMovement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussainwas a “suicide attack” which onlyserved to destroy the MQM leader’scredibility. Talking to journalists atParliament House, nisar that it wasnot the first time Altaf Hussain hadmade hypocritical statements and thestatements only pointed to hisdubious character. “Altaf Hussain hadinitiated discussion about the religioussect of Quaid-e-Azam in the past and ifwe do not get familiar with Hussain’sbent of mind, the whole nation willhave to bear the consequences of it,”he added. Answering a question, nisarsaid that he had finalised names forcaretaker government. “The caretakerprime minister would not be fromPakistan People’s Party (PPP) orPakistan Muslim league-nawaz (PMl-n) and will be acceptable to the entirenation,” he said.

ISLAMABAD: The clash between the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI)on the issue of allotment of ‘the scale’ as theelection symbol is going to end, as after hearingboth parties’ final arguments on Friday, theElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) reservedthe decision, which would be announced soon.Both right-wing parties had applied for theallotment of the weighing scale as their electionsymbol. During the hearing, PTI’s lawyer andsenior leader Hamid Khan pleaded that his partyshould be granted the ‘scale’ as a permanentelection symbol as it truly represented the party’sname and ideology. He said the PTI had used the

scale as an election symbol in the last electionsheld in Gilgit-Baltistan. JI’s lawyer Toufeeq Asif,on the other hand, pleaded that the scale hadbeen already allotted to the JI in 1970 elections,therefore, he said the party had a right to obtainit again. JI senior leader liaquat Baloch was alsopresent. He argued that in the 1970 elections, theJI was allotted scale as the symbol, but later on in1984 this symbol was omitted from the ECP’ssymbols list. The JI leader said that now onceagain eth ECP had included the symbol so itshould be allotted to the JI. The ECP told bothparties that the symbol would be allotted on meritand reserved its verdict. STAFF REPORT

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nEW DELHIAGENCIES

InDIA’S ruling Congress partyon Friday talked tough bysaying India wanted peacewith Pakistan but theneighbouring country should

not take it as a sign of weakness.It also warned that if Pakistan did notstop violating the loC (line ofControl), India would have to think oftaking strong action. “We don’t wantto break the process of peace but atthe same time, we need to send astrong message to Pakistan that weare quite strong and can face anychallenge. They should not feel thatwe are weak in any respect,” Congressspokesperson Sandeep Dikshit toldreporters.“If Pakistan did not stopviolating the loC, India will have tothink of taking strong action. We arewatching the situation whether thePakistan government is maintainingthe status quo of ceasefire on the line

of Control. They should stop violatingthe ceasefire. A clear picture willemerge in the next three-four days,”he said. The Congress also rubbishedremarks made by BJP leader andformer external affairs ministerYashwant Sinha that both UnitedProgressive Alliance and nationalDemocratic Alliance had committed amistake in talking to Pakistan. “It ispossible they are feeling now thatthey might have erred in taking thebus to lahore. We want friendlyrelations with Pakistan and tostrengthen the same,” said Dikshitreferring to former prime ministerAtal Bihari Vajpayee’s famous busride to Pakistan in 1999.on the Pakistan government stoppingthe bus service (Paigam-e-Aman)between the two countries, Dikshitsaid: “As far as stopping the busservice is concerned, I think thegovernment of Pakistan is not clearwithin themselves for taking anydecision”.

WASHIngTOnONLINE

Visiting Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai on Thursday as-sured the US that with a strongsecurity force, Afghanistanwould not be threatened byterrorists from across its bor-ders when the America-led in-ternational force withdrawsfrom the country in 2014.

on a three-day official visit tothe country, Karzai, ahead of histalks with US Defence Secretary

leon Panetta, hoped that the twocountries would be able to workon the modalities of the bilateralsecurity agreement (BSA), whichis currently being negotiated be-tween the two countries. “I canassure you, Mr Secretary(Panetta) that with the help thatyou’ll provide, Afghanistan willbe able to provide security to itspeople and protect its borders soAfghanistan will never again bethreatened by terrorists fromacross our borders,” Karzai toldthe Defence Secretary in his

opening remarks ahead of themeeting between the two leaders.“I’m sure during this trip,Afghanistan and the US will workout the modality for bilateral se-curity limit that will ensure theinterests of the state ofAfghanistan and also the inter-ests of the United States,” Karzaisaid. The BSA would determinethe troop structure and nature ofUS presence in Afghanistan post-2014 after the withdrawal of theUS-led international forces fromthe country.

“Wrong policies of thegovernment causedcorruption and terrorism,”Qadri said, making it clearthat rulers who failed to haltterrorism were eitherineligible or aides toterrorists.The TMQ chief said no onein the country was safe, be itMuslims, Hindus,Christians or anyone else.Qadri praised the judiciaryfor dismissing writ petitionsagainst his march anddeclaring the march legal. “The courts declared thelong march lawful,democratic and according tothe fundamental rightsprovided by the constitutionof Pakistan. I would request

the local and foreign mediato highlight the news ofjudiciary rejecting thesewrit petitions,” he added.He took exception to thePunjab government’smeasures to create hurdlesin the way of his longmarch, saying theadministration wasdirecting the transporters toreturn advance money thatthey received to transportthe participants of themarch to Islamabad. Qadri said the Punjabgovernment was usingvarious tactics in order toput stumbling blocks in theway of his rally.“The media, the wretched ofthe earth and a majority ofpoor people will stand byme in the struggle of

restoration for peace anderadication of corruptionfrom the country,” he said.Without naming theInterior Minister RehmanMalik, Qadri said thegovernment was disfiguringthe facts in the name ofpolitics by levelling bogusallegations on TMQworkers.The TMQ chief said if anyattack was carried out onthe long march, PresidentAsif Ali Zardari, PrimeMinister Raja PervezAshraf, Interior MinisterRehman Malik, PMl-nPresident nawaz Sharif,Punjab Chief MinisterShahbaz Sharif and Punjablaw Minister RanaSanaullah would be heldresponsible.

aimed at Hazara Shias inQuetta, where members of thesect have long accused the stateof turning a blind eye toextremist militant deathsquads. The leaders were sooutraged at the latest bloodshedthat they called for the militaryto take control of the city toshield them and said they wouldnot allow the 82 victims of twinbomb attacks to be buried untiltheir demands were met.The burials had been scheduledto take place after Friday prayersbut the leaders said the bodieswould remain in place until Shiasreceive promises of protection.Shaheedi said scores of bodieswere still lying on a road.“They will not be buried until

the army comes into Quetta,” hesaid. According to reportspouring in from Quetta late onFriday, the protesting Shiascontinued with their sit-indespite rain and extreme coldweather. Violence against ShiaMuslims is rising and somecommunities are living in astate of siege, a human rightsgroup said on Friday. “last yearwas the bloodiest year for Shiasin living memory,” said AliDayan Hasan of Human RightsWatch. “More than 400 werekilled and if yesterday’s attack isany indication, it is just going toget worse.” The bannedextremist group lashkar-e-Jangvi (leJ) claimedresponsibility for the attack in apredominantly Shianeighbourhood where the

residents are ethnic Hazaras, amajority of whom are Shias whofirst migrated from Afghanistanin the nineteenth century. TheleJ has stepped up attacksagainst Shias across the countrybut has zeroed in on members ofthe sect who live in resource-rich Balochistan province.“The leJ operates under onefront or the other, and itsactivists go around openlyshouting, ‘infidel, infidel, Shiainfidel’ and ‘death to Shias’ inthe streets of Quetta and outsideour mosques,” said SyedDawwod Agha, a top official withthe Balochistan Shia Conference.“We have become a communityof grave diggers. We are so usedto death now that we alwayshave shrouds ready.” Among thedead in Quetta was Khudi Ali, ayoung activist who often wore aT-shirt with fake bloodstainsduring protests against the

rising violence against Shias.Ali’s Twitter profile said: “I amborn to fight for human rightsand peace.” The roughly500,000-strong Hazara peoplein Quetta, who speak a Persiandialect, have distinct features

and are an easy target, saidDayan. “They live in a state ofsiege. Stepping out of the ghettomeans risking death,” saidDayan. “Everyone has failedthem – the security services, thegovernment, the judiciary.”

“Actually, the MQM leadership isconcerned due to the phenome-nal increase in the Pashtun votebank. So the support to DrQadri’s march was a pressuretactic. now after assurance fromPresident Zardari, they are hope-ful of making up their previouslosses,” the source added.The source said PresidentZardari gave categorical assur-ance on MQM’s share in thecaretaker setup, but he gave noclear assurance on holding thelocal bodies’ elections as theSindh Public local Governmentordinance 2012 had already hurtbadly the ruling party’s popular-ity in interior Sindh and the na-tionalist parties gained a lot.MQM DIVIDED: A source in

the MQM said there were “deepdivisions” within the RabitaCommittee over the deal, asZardari had a habit of dodgingits coalition partners and notmeeting his promises. “This de-cision might be right as my partywould get a good deal with thePPP, but this U-turn has badlyaffected the morale of partyworkers,” he said. “We had al-ready been facing criticism forthe party’s jumping from onebranch to another and then backwithin hours and days, but thismarch call had given us a lot ofboost. However, this deal hasbadly hit the party workers’morale, especially outsideSindh,” said the source.Despite repeated attempts, MQMspokesman Wasay Jalil was notavailable for comments.

Sikandar Jatoihanded over topolice on physical remand

KARACHISTAFF REPORT

An anti-terrorism court(ATC) on Friday handedSikandar Jatoi, father ofmain accused ShahrukhJatoi in Shahzeb Khan’smurder case, to police onphysical remand till 16th.Sikandar Jatoi was broughtbefore the ATC in anarmoured personnel carrier.Jatoi’s counsel informed thecourt that his client was adiabetic and heart patient.But the court rejected hisplea and handed overSikandar Jatoi to police onphysical remand. SikandarJatoi appeared before the SCon Thursday after acquiringa one-day protective bailfrom the lHC, however, hewas arrested from thecourt’s premises. Two more witnessesidentity accused: Twomore witnesses identifiedSiraj Talpur, Sajjad Talpurand Ghulam Mustafalashari in front of theJudicial Magistrate South onFriday. The witnesses saidSiraj Talpur and ShahrukJatoi fired at the moving carof Shahzeb Khan and itturned turtle. Prior to this,two other witnesses in theirstatements said Siraj Talpurshot at Shahzeb, whileSajjad Talpur and GhulamMustafa lashari raisedinstigated that Shahzeb wasstill alive and more shotsshould be fired.

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Altaf cuts Qadri’s long march short

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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry

Pervez Elahi meet with Tehreek Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri at his residence on Friday. online

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QUETTA: Local residents look at clothes left in a pile at the site of

twin suicide bombings on Friday. online

ceasefire violations are cause forserious concern: antonyNEW DELHI: India on Friday said the repeated ceasefire violations byPakistan along the loC in Jammu and Kashmir were a matter of “seriousconcern” and the provocative action of killing of two soldiers was a “turningpoint”. Defence Minister AK Antony said there were “enough troops” in Jammuand Kashmir and the government was taking all steps to protect the interest ofthe country. The Director Generals of Military operations (DGMos) of the twocountries were in touch, he said, adding “let us see the result of that talk”. Antonysaid such ceasefire violations and firing were a matter of serious concern. “It isnot an isolated incident, it’s increasing from the last one year. Ceasefireviolations are also increasing. It is a matter of concern to us and the tragic,provocative actions two days back, that was a turning point at the moment,”the defence minister said. online

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ISLAMAbAD: A girl lights a candle during a demonstration on Friday against the killing of Hazara shias in Quetta on Thursday. inP

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THE Federation of PakistanChamber of Commerceand Industry (FPCCI) onFriday said the long

march announced by Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) Chief Tahirul Qadri will result in losses worthbillions of rupees for the businesscommunity.

The long march will paralyse lifein the federal capital while busi-

nessmen of the Blue Area will haveto suffer major losses due to thethree-day closure, said FPCCI VicePresident Mirza Abdul Rehman in astatement issued by the FPCCI.

He said Qadri should considerthe problems the masses will haveto face and call off the long march orchange its venue.

He said the business communityhas been facing hard times and theycould not afford to close their shopsto ensure the smooth flow of thelong march.

"We are already facing manyproblems and it is possible that thelong march would result in a lawand order situation which wouldpose a grave threat to businesses",Rehman added.

FPCCI Media Chairman MalikSohail said Islamabad’s infrastruc-ture could not bear the load of hun-dreds of thousands of protesters inthe march.

The business leaders lauded In-terior Minister Rehman Malik’sstance, who said the government

would not issue a no-objection cer-tificate to Qadri for holding a rallyin the Blue Area.

Sohail said the governmentshould take no risks for the securityarrangements of the rally. Qadri’sparty had not even been registeredwith the Election Commission and itcould not bring out about any sort ofchange, but might even sabotage theelection to bring about another dic-tatorial regime, Sohail added.

He said Qadri will be solely re-sponsible if anyone is harmed.

Businessmen urge Qadrito call off long march

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Citizens have been crowdingfilling stations to get fuel, aspetrol has become a rare com-modity in the twin cities.

Petrol pumps have wit-nessed long queues of vehicles,and people holding empty bot-tles and cans. Motorcyclistshave also been clusteringaround filling machines forpetrol.

The shortage of fuel oc-curred after rumours spreadthat the government hadplanned to close down petrolpumps before Qadri’s march onJanuary 14.

Very few petrol pumps arenow selling fuel to consumers.Azam Khan, a motorist, saidthat he had rushed to get hiscar’s tank filled with petrol afterhe had heard the rumours of aplanned shutdown. “My parentsare ill and I would have to takethem to the hospital in case ofan emergency, that’s why i re-ally need fuel in my car,” hesaid.

Motorists waiting in queuesat a petrol pump in Sector I-8were told that the station hadrun of fuel and most vehiclesdid not have enough petrol tomake it to the next nearest fill-ing station.

Many motorists and trans-porters have reportedly quar-relled at petrol pumps inPirwadhai, Scheme III, Com-mercial Market, Rawat, GTRoad, Sector G-8/4, Sector I-8,Melody Market and other areasover their turn to get fuel.

Siraj Din, a motorist at afilling station in Melody Market,said everyone knows that theadministration could announcea fuel shutdown at any momenttherefore we wanted our tanksfilled at the earliest.

Because of limited fuel stockin the twin cities, petrol pumpshave been providing a limitedamount of petrol to motorists.

Bilal Maqsood, a worker at afilling station, said the petrolpump owners had directedthem to sell a specific amount ofpetrol to motorists due to thehigh demand.

Petrol paranoia!

no schoolon 14th


The Federal Directorate Educationdirector general has announced thatall educational institutions in thetwin cities will remain closed onJanuary 14 due to the long march.According to the DG, the decision toclose educational institutions hasbeen taken keeping in mind the se-curity situation on January 14.Schools in suburban areas will alsoremain shut.The All Pakistan Private Schoolspresident announced that privateeducational institutions will also re-main closed on January 14.

How to buya long march

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The long march announced by Tahirul Qadri has taken a questionableturn as reports of people beingbribed to join the march have beenlooming large in the twin cities. “What difference would it make tothe bulging pockets of a religio-po-litical party if I am paid Rs 2,000 toattend its trumpeted procession inthe name of reforms?” asked JamilAhmad, a citizen who was beingchided by others for receiving pay-ment to join the long march.Muhammad Kashif, a student, said,“Yes we have been paid Rs 2,000 totake part in this march, it is easy tojust buy a congregation nowadaysyou see.” “loot sale is rampant inthis country, why would it botheranyone if we harvest some of itsfruits?” said Allah Ditta, a labourer,while pocketing Rs 4,000 with asmile. “I have been paid Rs 1,000 forhoisting a flag for the long march or-ganisers, I’m not the only one takingmoney for this, all my friends are,”said Muhammad Shakoor, a taxidriver. With a procession that hasbeen paid for, Qadri’s ‘revolution’seems to have joined the ranks ofthe regular political drivel fed to thepopulace in abundance.

ISLAMAbAD: People stand in a queue to buy petrol from a filling station as acute shortage of petrol was observed in the twin citiesdue to increase in demand. online

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ISLAMAbAD: Cuba Jazz A-3 band perform during a ceremony organised by the Cuban embassy at Lok Virsa. inP


THE Capital DevelopmentAuthority (CDA) has in-augurated a hiking trailequipped with exclusive

features including a track formountain bikes, a smooth slopefor senior citizens and a bird-watching facility.

The trail was inaugurated bythe Information and BroadcastingMinister Qamar Zaman Kaira in aceremony held on Friday. CDAChairman Tahir Shahbaz and En-vironment Member Kazim niazwere also present at the occasion.

Addressing the inaugural cere-mony of Trail-6, Shahbaz said thiswas the first hiking trail in thecountry that had a separate trackfor mountain bikers. A bird-watching facility at start of thetrail has added to the track’sbeauty, he added. Shahbaz saidthat private partners like the Pre-mier oil and Himalayan WildlifeFoundation had paid for the trail.He said Trail-6 will facilitate fami-lies and senior citizens as its sur-face is not uneven and bouncy andvisitors could easily climb thesehills. He said the CDA had also es-tablished sit-out areas on the trackfor elderly people. The chairman

said that bikers would be asked toadopt safety measures on the trail.He said an information centre hadbeen set up where visitors couldget information regarding thetrail, as well as the flora and faunaof the Margalla Hills. He said the

CDA would upgrade other trails byproviding similar facilities for hik-ers. The 4km trail passes throughthe Kavani Valley and will touchChak Jabbi on the hilltop. This isthe sixth trail opened in the capi-tal, as five hiking trails have al-

ready been opened for nature en-thusiasts. Addressing the cere-mony, Kaira said that Islamabadwas a model city for the countryand the CDA would take concretemeasures for making it a modelcapital of the world.

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Information and Broadcasting MinisterQamar Zaman Kaira on Friday con-demned the killing of journalists inQuetta and said that talks with the Em-ployees' old-Age Benefits Institution(EoBI) for the insurance of journalists,was underway.

Talking to protesting media persons atthe national Press Club, he said, "Pay-

ment and compensation for journalistskilled in the Quetta blasts is not a solu-tion."

The national Press Club had arrangeda protest over the killing of two reportersand a cameraman in a bomb blast inQuetta on Thursday. The minister said thegovernment would provide the best possi-ble medical facilities to injured journal-ists. Kaira said the government was readyto hold talks on the issue of the WageBoard Award.

Trail-6 opened for bikers,elders and bird-watchers

talks underway with eobi forjournalists’ insurance: kaira

iHc disposesoff petitionagainst longmarch

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Islamabad High Court has disposedoff a petition filed by traders againstQadri’s long march and has declaredthe petition unconstitutional. The single Bench comprising ChiefJustice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman re-sumed the hearing on Friday. The petitioner’s counsel AabparaTraders Union Action CommitteeSecretary General Ajmal Baloch ap-peared before the court and said thatnot only the business community,but common people would also facedifficulties due to the planned longmarch. The traders would face eco-nomic loss and there were securitythreats due to the march, he added. The chief justice said an influx ofpeople in the capital would actuallyserve to increase business.The counsel maintained that the pro-posed long march should be heldoutside the city to avoid any unto-ward situation. It could create an an-archic situation in the city, he said.Justice Rehman said it was the re-sponsibility of the chief commis-sioner and deputy commissioner tomaintain the law and order situation,and only they could decide the loca-tion for the march. Therefore, the pe-titioner should contact theseauthorities, the CJ added.The court said that under Article-9,section 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the Con-stitution, everyone had freedom ofexpression and protest. The court could not stop anyonefrom protesting.

low gaspressureirks citizens

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Domestic consumers have been facingdifficulty in cooking food and warm-ing their homes during the icy winterwhich has broken all past records.Citizens have had to deal with lowgas pressure during the cold waveand have resorted to other forms offuel for cooking and heating pur-poses."Gas pressure is almost zero in themorning and evening, we have to goto hotels and 'tandoors' (bread bak-ing ovens) to get cooked food whichis quite expensive," said Shabana, ahousewife. She said government offi-cials had repeatedly said that asmooth supply of gas would be avail-able to domestic residents, but havedone nothing to solve the problem.According to a survey, residents ofsectors G-6, G-7, F-6/1, G-9, I-10, I-9and F-7 face low or zero gas pressure.Areas in Rawalpindi, including Com-mittee Chowk, Al-Mumtaz Colony,Adiala Road, Gulshanabad, TahliMorri, Dehri Hassanabad, Saddarand Babar Colony have been facingthe same problem. Munir Ahmed, acitizen, said the closure of Com-pressed natural Gas stations had noteased the situation. The use of lique-fied Petroleum Gas, as alternativeenergy source, had placed extra bur-den on his pocket, he added. Asima,a housewife, said she was unable tocook breakfast for her family andthey had to go to work and schoolwithout food.When contacted, a Sui northern GasPipelines limited official admittedthat certain localities had low gaspressure. He said the company wastrying its best to ensure smooth gassupply to consumers.

ISLAMAbAD: Federal Minister for Information and broadcasting Qamar Zaman Qaira and CDA Chairman Syed Tahir

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10 outlaws arrestedISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police has arrested 10outlaws including drug-pushers, and recovered 10.9kgnarcotics and several weapons from their possession.According to a press release, a special police teamunder the supervision of ASP Rana Tahir stoppedRahim Khan’s car at the Kashmir Highway and recov-ered 10kg opium hidden various cavities. The teamalso recovered a 30-bore pistol and 650g hashish fromnaeem and Bilal. Sub-Inspector Saleem Ullah fromthe Crime Investigation Agency arrested Sabir Masihfor possessing 250g heroin. The Tarnol Police nabbedShafaat Khan for possessing a 12-bore carbine, whileWajid Khan was arrested for illegally decanting gas incylinders. ASI Muhammad Ashraf arrested Imran forpossessing a tempered vehicle (lXM-5636), and ASIAsif Hussain nabbed Yaseen for driving a temperedvehicle (lWF-8885) as well. STAFF REPORT

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ISLAMABADAPP

h UnDREDS of Federal Directorateof Education (FDE) teaching andnon-teaching staff members havebeen waiting for the regularisation

of their services for a while.The decision to regularise all govern-

ment employees had been announced by thegovernment in 2010, and many depart-ments have already regularised their em-ployees, but teachers are still deprived ofthis right.

A Devolution Cell official said the Min-istry of Capital Administration and Devel-opment had approved the regularisation ofthree lists of FDE employees

The first list had 1,100 employees andhad been approved for regularisation in Au-gust last year. The second and third lists had500 employees each, and had been ap-proved in December. The cabinet committeehad approved the regularisation of theseemployees, but the FDE said there were no

seats and a file for the creation of posts waspending, the official said.

The official said that employees who hadbeen working for years had been deniedtheir rights, and the directorate was now ap-pointing new ones.

"It is very hard for teachers working ondaily-wage and contract basis to survivenowadays, we are anxiously waiting for theregularisation of our services while employ-ees of other public departments have al-ready been regularised," said Fozia Habib, ateacher at local college.

Umer Shah, another teacher at a localcollege, said that he had been working at amodel college for many years on a daily-wage basis and got a meagre salary whichwas not sufficient to meet his living ex-penses.

FDE Director Model Colleges Tariq Ma-sood said the employees’ files were stillbeing processed for regularisation. The FDEhad forwarded the lists to the relevant au-thority so the employees could be regu-larised on time, he said.

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The city police has been trying to nab a ‘spiritual healer’, who tried to rape a woman call-ing it an essential part of her ‘healing’ process. Sonia told the police that she had gone to aspiritual healer, Aamil Sajjad Baba, for an amulet (taweez) at his ‘dera’ in Ali Pur, a suburbof the capital. She said that when she shared her disease with the Baba, he demanded oneblack goat and Rs 70,000 against the remedy she wanted. She said that she told the Babaof her disease, and he demanded a black goat and Rs 70,000 to cure her of her illness.Sonia said that she had followed the Baba’s orders and gave the sum and goat to him. Aftera few days, when she felt no change in her condition, she approached the Baba. Accordingto Sonia, the Baba called her to his private room, where she found him nude. The fraud-ster tried to grab her and said the intercourse was part of her healing process. Sonia saidshe had managed to flee the room and later approached the Shehzad Town Police to regis-ter an FIR against that ‘holy’ man. The police registered an FIR under section 354/320and began investigation, but the Baba hasn’t been apprehended yet.

fire inSecretariat

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Federal Interior Minister RehmanMalik has taken serious notice ofa fire that erupted in the R- Blockof the Secretariat on Friday.The minister directed the deputycommissioner to hold an enquiryinto the incident and submit a re-port within two days.According to eye-witnesses, thefire erupted due to short circuit-ing in the building. A fire-brigaderushed to the site and extin-guished the fire.

islamabadbar electiontoday

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Elections at the Islamabad Dis-trict Bar Association for 2013-14will be held today (Saturday).The High Court Bar Associationgeneral secretary said there weretwo candidates for the slot ofpresident, including Dr SyedMuhammad Anwar and ZahidMehmood Raja.Qamar Inayat Raja and Muham-mad Tariq would contest elec-tions for the post of generalsecretary, he said. Shaista Tabas-sum and Jam Khursheed Ahmadwill contest for the post of vicepresident and other office bear-ers of the Islamabad Bar Associa-tion would also be elected, headded.Around 1,951 lawyers would usetheir right of vote to choose theirrepresentatives.

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SYRIA has denounced interna-tional envoy lakhdar Brahimi as“flagrantly biased”, casting doubton how long the Un-Arableague mediator can pursue his

peace mission. The Syrian foreign ministrywas responding to remarks by Brahimi, aveteran Algerian diplomat, a day after heruled out a role for President Bashar al-Assad in a transitional government and ef-fectively called for the Baath Party leader toquit. “In Syria ... what people are saying isthat a family ruling for 40 years is a little bittoo long,” Brahimi told the BBC, referring toAssad, who inherited his post from his fatherHafez, who seized power in 1970 and ruled

for 30 years.“President Assad couldtake the lead in responding

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resisting it,” Brahimi said, hinting thatAssad should go. The foreign ministry inDamascus said it was very surprised atBrahimi’s comments, which showed “he isflagrantly biased for those who are conspir-ing against Syria and its people”. Syria’s AlWatan newspaper daily said Brahimi had re-moved his “mask of impartiality” to revealhis true face as a “a tool for the implementa-tion of the policy of some Western coun-tries”. Brahimi has had no more success thanhis predecessor Kofi Annan in his quest fora political solution to a 21-month-old conflictin which more than 60,000 people havebeen killed.REGIONAL RIVALRIESWilliam Hague, UK foreign secretary, gavewarning that violence in Syria might worsen,saying that the international communitymust “step up” its response if it does. So farregional rivalries and divisions among bigpowers have blocked any concerted ap-proach to the upheaval, one of the bloodiestto emerge from a series of revolts in the Arabworld. Russian and US diplomats, who backopposing sides of the war, are due to meet

Brahimi in Geneva on Friday. onSunday Assad, making his first publicspeech in six months, offered no con-

cessions and he said he would never talk tofoes he branded terrorists and Western pup-pets. As peace efforts floundered, rebels bat-tled for a strategic air base for a second day,pursuing a civil war that had briefly recededfor some Damascus residents who set asidetheir differences to play in a rare snowfallthat blanketed the city. For a few hours, peo-ple in the capital dropped their weapons forsnowballs and traded hatred for giggles.There was no respite on other battlefronts,with heavy fighting around the Taftanaz basein northwestern Syria, which rebels are try-ing to capture to extend their grip on Idlibprovince and weaken Assad’s control of theskies. Rebels assaulted the airport’s mainbuildings and armoury using heavy guns,tanks and other weapons and appeared tohave overrun half the area of the base, RamiAbdelrahman, director of the Syrian obser-vatory for Human Rights activist group, said.Having tried to take the base for months,rebels have been bolstered by the recent ar-rival of Islamist fighters including the al-legedly al-Qaeda-linked nusra Front, hesaid. opposition forces have seized chunksof territory in northern Syria in recentmonths, but remain vulnerable to attack bythe military’s jets and helicopters.

Syria rebels capturekey idlib airbase DAMAScUS: Syrianopposition fighters haveoverrun Taftanaz airbase, thelargest in northern Syria,after several days of fiercecombat, the Syrianobservatory for HumanRights has said. Anti-government activists saidfighters from Jabhat al-nusra and other groupsopposed to President Basharal-Assad seized control ofbuildings, ammunition andmilitary equipment in thesprawling Taftanaz airbasein northern Idlib province onFriday. “The fighting atTaftanaz military airportended at 11:00 am (09:00GMT) and the base isentirely in rebel hands,” saidRami Abdel Rahman, thedirector of the UK-basedrights group, on Friday.“Many regime forces havebeen killed and most of thesoldiers and officers fled atdawn,” he told the AFP newsagency by phone. agenCies

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china village, kills 16BEIjING: At least 16 people have died anddozens more have been buried after a landslideswept through a village in the mountains ofsouthern China, local government and statemedia have said. The landslide smothered 16homes on Friday morning in Zhaojiagou village,and hours later more than 40 people weremissing, said a notice posted on the website ofZhenxiong county in Yunnan province, wherethe village is located. Rescuers recovered 16bodies, among them a family of seven, said areport on the website of the Yunnan Daily, theofficial newspaper of the provincial government.Photographs posted on the news site showedrescue crews in orange jumpsuits usingconstruction machinery to sift through massivepiles of mud and earth. Behind them stoodhillsides and pine trees covered in snow, signs ofthe unusually cold winter that has hit all ofChina. Reports did not say what triggered thelandslide, but such events do occur periodicallyin the region, which is prone to earthquakesand heavy rains. In a nearby county, 81 peopledied after an earthquake in September. Amonth later, a landslide buried a primaryschool, leaving 18 students and oneother person dead. Elsewhere in the southwestGuizhou province, an estimated 420,000people are in a “state of disaster” due to thefreezing weather, state-owned People’sDaily said. over the past few days,temperatures in China have plunged to theirlowest in 28 years, with frozen coastal waters,cancelled flights and closed highways. In thecity of Genhe in north China’s Inner MongoliaAutonomous Region, the temperature reacheda low of minus 44.8C, marking the fourth bigtemperature drop the region has experiencedthus far this winter. agenCies

PARIS: Turkey’s prime minister has said thefatal shooting of three Kurdish femaleactivists in Paris appears to have been theresult of an internal feud.Recep Tayyip Erdogan said evidence so farpointed to the women being killed by someoneknown to them, as the building where theexecution-style killings occurred was securedby a coded lock and could only be opened byinsiders. But Erdogan said investigationsneeded to be completed before a definitiveconclusion could be reached. “Those threepeople opened it. no doubt they wouldn’t openit to people they didn’t know,” Erdogan toldreporters on his plane returning from Senegalon Friday, according state-run Anatolian newsagency. Those killed in Thursday’s attackinclude Sakine Cansiz, a founding member ofthe Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a groupthat started its rebellion against the Turkishgovernment in 1984 and is seeking self-rule.The other two victims are 32-year-old FidanDogan and leyla Soylemez, described as a“young activist”. The attack overshadowedpeace negotiations between Turkey and theguerrillas, said commentators. Erdogan alsosaid the killings could also have been intendedto sabotage efforts towards peace talks with thePKK. French investigators gave no immediateindication of who might be behind the murdersbut police continued their search for theculprits. The PKK has seen intermittentinternal feuding during an armed campaign inthe mountainous Turkish southeast that haskilled some 40,000 people since 1984. Turkish

nationalist fighters have in the past also beenaccused of killing Kurdish activists, who wantregional autonomy. But such incidents havebeen confined to Turkey. Turkey recentlyannounced it was entering talks with Abdullahocalan, the PKK leader jailed on the smallisland of Imrali near Istanbul. Hardliners inthe PKK, labelled a “terrorist group” byTurkey, the US and the European Union, arelikely to be sceptical about such talks.According to media reports, the Turkish stateand PKK have agreed the framework for apeace plan, which would involve boostingKurdish minority rights in exchange for theultimate disarmament of the militants. Erdoganhas introduced reforms allowing Kurdishlanguage broadcasting and other concessions onlanguage; but activists are demanding morefreedom in education and administration.Kurdish politicians are also demandingimproved prison conditions for ocalan with aview to him being released from jail and putunder house arrest, but Erdogan played downany changes in ocalan’s situation. agenCies

Un urges swift deployment oftroops to Mali GOMA: TheUn SecurityCouncil hascalled for a swiftdeployment offoreign troops toMali to rein inultra-conservativearmed groups incharge of thecountry’s north.The call onFriday comes as the fighters are vowing to capturemore territory in the West African nation.Diplomats at the Un in new York saidDioncounda Traore, Mali’s interim president, hadappealed to Paris and Un chief Ban Ki-moon forhelp. Citing a letter from the president, Susan Rice,the US ambassador to the Un, said: “It basicallysaid: ‘Help - France’.” France is Mali’s formercolonial ruler and the two countries maintainbilateral relations. Francois Hollande, the Frenchpresident, told a meeting of diplomats in Paris onThursday his country would respond urgently toMali’s appeal, but would only act under theauspices of the Un. “They are trying to deliver afatal blow to the very existence of this country,”Hollande said of the Islamist groups that controlthe north of Mali. “France, like its African partnersand the whole of the international community,cannot accept this.” Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands,reporting from Paris, said French military officialswould neither confirm nor deny reports thatFrench troops had already arrived in Mali. “We didhear from a spokesman with ECoWAS, the bloc ofWest African nations, that the Un has endorsed togo in with a military force into Mali. agenCies

Paris PKK murderstermed ‘internal feud’

AZAZ: a man carries a bag at a Syrianrefugee camp on Friday. agenCies

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News09Rains, snowfall forecastin upper KP, Punjab, GBISLAMABAD: Pakistan Meteorological Depart-ment (PMD) on Friday predicted light rain andsnowfall in mountainous regions of Punjab, KhyberPakhtunkhawa (KP) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) for thenext 24 hours. More rains and snowfall in theseareas have been forecast on Wednesday. However,the weather is expected to remain cold and dry inother areas of the country during next 48 hours. Ac-cording to PMD, upper KP as well as Punjab besidesthe hilly areas of Murree and Galyat will receive scat-tered rain and snowfall during the next 24 hours.Minimum temperature was recorded in Astore at -15C during the last 24 hours Weather is expected toremain cold and dry in different areas of the countrywhile the plain areas of Punjab and Sukkur divisionis expected to remain foggy. INP

‘Osama got classified cablespassed by Manning to WikiLeaks’

NEW YORK: Some classified cables allegedlyleaked to the whistleblower website Wikileaks byUS soldier Bradley Manning ended up in the handsof osama bin laden, prosecutors have claimed. USmilitary prosecutor Captain Joe Morrow saidduring a pre-trial hearing that the terrormastermind had an al Qaeda lieutenant bring himsome of the secret State Department and militaryreports allegedly leaked by Manning. TheWikileaks-bin laden connection was part of acollection of new evidence that prosecutors saidthey would bring to trial to show that Manningaided America’s enemies by passing the material tothe anti-secrecy website. According to a report bythe new York Times, prosecutors also said theywould show logs of web chats between Manningand Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. During oneexchange, the two laughed about a Times articlefrom 2010 that said the Pentagon consideredWikileaks a threat to national security, the papersaid. According to new York Daily news,prosecutors did not offer specifics about the secretmaterial that bin laden received. Manning’s trial,originally set to begin in March, was postponeduntil at least June 13 so that the judge could reviewthe new evidence. The 25-year-old formerintelligence agent faces 22 charges, includingaiding the enemy, which carries a maximumsentence of life in prison. ONLINE

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The CIA opened 2013 with a flurry ofdrone strikes in Pakistan, pounding Tal-iban targets along the country’s tribal beltat a time when the obama administrationis preparing to disclose its plans forpulling most US forces out of neighbour-ing Afghanistan.

Current and former US intelligenceofficials attributed the increased tempo toa sense of urgency surrounding expecta-

tionsthat Pres-

ident obama will soonorder a drawdown that

could leave Afghanistanwith less than 6,000 US troops after 2014.The strikes are seen as a way to weakenadversaries of the Afghan government be-fore the withdrawal and serve notice thatthe United States will still be able tolaunch attacks, Washington Post re-ported.

The rapid series of CIA strikes “maybe a signal to groups that include not justal-Qaeda that the US will still present athreat” after most American forces havegone, said Seth Jones, a counterterrorismexpert at the Rand Corp.

The CIA may see a diminishing win-dow for using drones with such devastat-ing effectiveness as the military beginssharp reductions in the 66,000 US troopsin Afghanistan, current and former offi-cials said. A former US intelligence officialwith extensive experience in Afghanistansaid the CIA has begun discussing plansto pare back its network of bases acrossthe country to five from 15 or more be-cause of the difficulty of providing secu-rity for its outposts after most US forceshave left. “As the military pulls back, theagency has to pull back,” the former USintelligence official said on the conditionof anonymity, particularly from high-riskoutposts along the country’s eastern bor-der that have served as bases for runninginformant networks and gathering intelli-gence on al-Qaeda and Taliban strong-

holds in Pakistan.Such a retrenchment could slow the

process of identifying fresh targets fordrone strikes, although the agency is ex-pected to continue operating the remotelypiloted planes from fortified bases, suchas a landing strip in Jalalabad.

The CIA’s base plans are among awide range of issues that the US govern-ment has been negotiating with AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai, who is visitingtop officials in Washington this week. ACIA spokesman declined to say whetheragency officials had met with Karzai.

The surge in drone activity comes askey leadership positions at the CIA and inobama’s national security cabinet are influx.

Former CIA director David H. Pe-traeus, who had previously commanded

coalition forces in Afghanistan, hadsought to place tighter restrictions on theagency’s drone campaign in Pakistan,leading to clashes with the head of theCIA’s counterterrorism center, former of-ficials said.

The strikes so far this year have beenscattered across north and SouthWaziristan, semi autonomous regions tar-geted in the vast majority of the morethan 300 strikes carried out by the CIA inPakistan since 2004. Pakistanis in thetribal region said they were baffled by thesurge in activity. “This is beyond our un-derstanding why the drone attacks are in-creased,” a tribal elder from Miran Shah,the main town in north Waziristan, saidduring a telephone interview. He spoke onthe condition of anonymity, citing con-cern for his safety.

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THE Supreme Court on Friday issued a no-tice to the Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) after MnA Abdul Qadir Gilani movedthe SC over his alleged harassment in theinvestigation of Haj corruption case.

The three-member bench headed by Chief JusticeIftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry issued the notice onthe plea moved by Gilani’s counsel Abdul HafeezPirzada. During the proceedings, the counsel apprisedthe bench that his client was being harassed by the FIAon the pretext of investigation despite the fact that theallegations had not been proven.

He said the allegations were levelled by MnAImran Shah, who could not prove anything and hadtried to defame his client. He claimed that the FIA wasreluctant to initiate criminal proceedings againstImran Shah and had withdrawn the FIR they had reg-istered against him. Pirzada pleaded that a directiveshould be issued for the initiation of criminal proceed-ings against Shah for falsely implicating Gilani.

He also complained that the FIA had started in-vestigations into the authenticity of his client’s aca-demic degree. The chief justice told FIA investigationofficer Hussain Asghar that the bench had asked forthe authenticity of Zain Sukhaira’s degree and not ofGilani and made it clear that it was not the job of theFIA to probe into the degrees’ issue. The chief justice

said the court had assigned him the task of investigat-ing the scam and he should avoid indulging in unnec-essary and irrelevant matters. “You should be carefuland concentrate upon your task,” the CJP advised him.

Asghar apprised the bench that they had investi-gated the import of a luxury vehicle on the basis ofCustoms record. The bench, while issuing a notice tothe attorney general’s office for assistance over theissue, adjourned further proceedings until January 21.The same bench also deferred proceedings until Jan-uary 23 on a contempt issue against Interior MinisterRehman Malik after his counsel Dr Abdul Basit ap-prised the bench that he could not turn up due topressing engagements in view of certain threats re-lated to Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march.

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PML-N leadershiprefuses to holdtalks with PPPcommittee

ISLAMABADONLINE

The top leadership of the Pakistan Muslimleague-nawaz (PMl-n) on Friday refused tohold talks without an agenda with the four-member cabinet committee constituted bythe Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).Sources said Mian Raza Rabbani, one of thefour members, had contacted PMl-n’s IshaqDar, the opposition leader in the Senate. However, Punjab Chief Minister ShahbazSharif refused to hold dialogue without anyagenda when Dar contacted the topleadership of his party regarding the talks. He questioned what the federal governmentwanted from the Punjab government inconnection with Tahirul Qadri’s long march. The CM said the central government shouldcontact the opposition leader in thenational Assembly nisar Ali Khan if itwanted to hold discussion on the caretakersetup. The source said there were bleakchances of immediate dialogue between thePPP and PMl-n after the refusal fromShahbaz Sharif. The cabinet committeewould have to announce its agenda beforeholding any dialogue, the sources added. The ruling PPP formed a four-membercommittee comprising Khurshid Shah,Farooq naik, nazar Muhammad Gondal andMian Raza Rabbani, tasking it with talkingto political forces and the Punjabgovernment over the current situation inconnection with holding timely elections ina transparent manner.

MULTAN: Punjab Governor Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmud inaugurates a mosque at Qila Khona Qasim bagh on Friday. Abdul Qadir Gilani and Ali Musa Gilani are also

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Altaf Hussain’s attempt tomalign the person of theQuaid as part of his ‘drone

attack’ is simply reprehensiblethat will be condemned broadlyby all without exception. Thevery thought of finding a parallelbetween the Quaid’s upright andprincipled life and his uncom-promising character and in-tegrity that was acknowledgedeven by his fiercest political ad-versaries and the MQM chief’svile foray into distorting historyto win applause from a servileand captive audience reflect a de-generative mindset that will stopat nothing in its bid to promote adestabilising agenda.

The Quaid’s passport thatAltaf Hussain showed as proof ofhis vituperative assault has neverbeen a secret. It is dated 1946when there was no Pakistan.Would the MQM chief suggest away the Quaid could have secureda ‘Pakistani’ passport before thecountry had come into existence?But, hidden behind the attack onthe Quaid was the real agenda ofthe MQM: carving out a separateprovince in Sindh where he couldrule, unchecked and unchallenged.

The condemnable high-pitchdrama notwithstanding, the ad-

dress has also raised some criticalquestions – for the federal gov-ernment of which the MQM is apartner, for Tahirul Qadri whohas welcomed the MQM as partof his long march and for the peo-ple in general who are the ulti-mate custodians of the state ofPakistan. The federal govern-ment will have to decide whetherit can continue to keep the MQMas a partner while allowing it tobe part of the march against it,Tahirul Qadri will have to ascer-tain the damage that the MQM’sinclusion in the march will do toits legitimacy and the people ofPakistan will have to decide as tohow long can they sustain thecondemnable attempts to distorthistory and demonise the fairname of the Quaid. I have writtenpreviously about the legitimacy ofthe long march having beengravely jeopardised because ofthe acceptance of the MQM andthe Chaudhrys as its participants.After this vile outburst, theprospect has magnified manifold.

The nearness of the longmarch seems to have unnervedthe federal government and thosewho are commissioned with thetask of ‘controlling’ it. The originalnonchalant approach with which

the news had been greeted hasstarted giving way to ‘threats’ andimposition of ‘conditions’ on theparticipants and the transportowners. Tahirul Qadri has alsobeen asked to secure a ‘no-objec-tion certificate’ to enter Islam-abad. But, what I am amazed at isthe abject lack of cohesion be-tween the so-called ‘democratic’parties of the country in devisinga credible strategy to either stopthe march, or combat its possibleimpact. The federal governmentwhich shoulders the principal re-sponsibility in this regard hasfailed to come out with any initia-tive that would aim at forgingunity among the democraticforces of the country to meet thebrewing challenge. All we haveseen since the December 23 an-nouncement has been a spate ofstatements trying to mitigate thepossible impact of the long marchand why it may not even take off.In this charade, the governmenthas been joined in by the likes ofnawaz Sharif who, in all probabil-ity, would not like to credit any-one other than himself with theability to take out a long march.

I also doubt the government’ssincerity in stopping the longmarch. In the first instance, so lit-

tle effort seems to have gone intodevising a plan to do so. next, lessthan three months away from theend of its term, I see no reasonwhy it should not announce a firmdate when the assemblies wouldbe dissolved paving the way forthe interim government to takeover to hold the elections. Thiscould have been an effectiveweapon to take the initiative awayfrom Tahirul Qadri. Conse-quently, there may actually besome substance to the rumoursthat the entire drama of the longmarch is being ‘sponsored’ toelongate the ‘life’ of the incumbentPPP-led government through theimposition of an emergency. Far-fetched that it may appear, andgiven the multiple other shenani-gans that the PPP government hasbeen part of, the possibility cannotbe totally written off. At the sametime, with the long march stilldays away, Islamabad has startedlooking like a caged city with im-portant roads blocked with con-tainers and other impediments.Will these physical barriers be suf-ficient to guard against the bur-geoning crowds that come ladenwith energy that springs frommultiplying frustrations they haveto bear every day of their life?

Failure of governance in everyconceivable sense had created animmense vacuum and the comingof Tahirul Qadri and other suchself-proclaimed saviours was onlya matter of time. Confronted withthe daunting prospect, there was a

need for more thought to havegone into planning an effectivestrategy to deal with a situationthat is likely to emerge in the wakeof the march. The governmentneeded to have followed a consul-tative path by taking other stake-holders on board and devising aplan with their input. Instead, wehave witnessed an increasing divi-siveness among the political outfitswith some of them joining in themarch and others coming up withtheir own solutions that rangefrom the bravado to the bizarre.What seems to have escaped theattention is that, leave aside theprospect of 4 million people gath-ering in the parade ground in Is-lamabad on January 14, even if ahundred-thousand people do so, itwould create a massive adminis-trative nightmare for the govern-ment. What would it do if therewere an attempt to take over thebuildings surrounding the D-ground? Will force be used? If yes,what can be the possible conse-quences and will the governmenthave the necessary wherewithal interms of legitimacy, planning, con-viction and necessary supportfrom other state institutions in-cluding the army to combat thethreat? The MQM show in Karachiis possibly a preparation to reapthe dividends consequent uponthe mess that appears in the offing.

The writer is a politicalanalyst. He can be reached [email protected]

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A nation hostage to terrorism

Spate of terror

The large scale killings on Thursday in Quetta, Karachiand Swat indicate that the terrorists rather than thelaw enforcement agencies possess the initiative. Thecommon man thus continues to pay a terrible price in

life, limb and property. With 124 dead bodies already counted,and more among the seriously injured likely to be added to thetally in the next few days, January 11 will be remembered asone of the blackest days in the country’s history. Many morewho have been disabled would have to live with the trauma forthe rest of their lives. Eyewitnesses tell of 50 shops and nearbyhouses having been badly damaged in Quetta due to the ex-plosions. The financial loss would be unbearable for quite afew victims of the bombings.

In Quetta, two perpetrators of the carnage have taken creditfor their cowardly, shameful and gruesome acts. Banned UnitedBaloch Army claimed responsibility for the attack on the FCcheck post, where 12 persons including two children died, andlashkar-e-Jhangvi for the two successive attacks in a predom-inantly Hazara neighbourhood where 81 lives were lost. InKarachi, the seven Pushtun labourers shot and killed in theirbeds have obviously been targeted by ethnic terrorists who re-sent the increasing presence of Pushtuns in the city. In Swat,where elements affiliated with the TTP have again started tomake their presence felt through targeted attacks, are presum-ably behind the latest terrorist act. A section of the extremistsbelieves that the Tablighi Jamaat is luring people away fromjihad; it is likely to be involved in the attack that killed 34 people.

Sins of omission and commission on the part of both thepolitical and non-political establishment are responsible forthe deteriorating law and order situation in the country. Hadthose in power concentrated on reducing the ethnic tension inKarachi, the metropolis long before now would have been ahaven of peace instead of constantly being engulfed in may-hem and killing. Equally glaring is the political establish-ment’s failure to resolve the Balochistan crisis through talks. Itleft the matter in the hands of the agencies, which singularlylack the competence and the will for a peaceful resolution.

The two Waziristan agencies remain the epicentre of mostof the terrorist activity in the country. one has heard too oftenthat a conclusive military operation in the area was only a matterof time. While the reports have alerted the extremists and madethem desperate, the operation is nowhere in sight. There is a direneed to rise to the occasion. Continuing to delay what is urgentlyneeded amounts to making the nation a hostage to terrorism.


A venomous agenda that would spark bitter controversy

The distortion paradeCandid CornerBy Raoof Hasan

It was a bloody Thursday when allhell broke loose. Bomb and sui-cide attacks in Quetta and a pow-erful explosion in Mingora, thecapital of the troubled Swat val-

ley, claimed at least 115 lives.The same day firing by Indian troops

on the loC killed another Pakistani sol-dier. This is the fourth such incident inthe last five days on the southern borderof Azad Kashmir.

As if this was not enough to furtherdemoralise a nation down on its knees,the MQM supremo Altaf Hussain chosethe day to generate controversy aroundthe only person revered across the boardby everyone, the father of the nationQuaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

The Muttahida chief, in his typicaldemagogic style while giving his two-hour plus telephonic khitab (address) tohis ‘mesmerised’ followers, claimed thatJinnah had a British passport. In order tojustify his British nationality and Cana-dian passport of his new-found allyTahirul Qadri, he declared that the Quaidtook oath of allegiance to the British kingGeorge VI.

of course Jinnah had a British pass-port like everyone else before independ-ence. But to equate it with those fleeingthe country voluntarily and holding pass-ports of the countries of their refuge is atravesty – a case of twisting facts to jus-tify the unjustifiable.

Similarly, even to insinuate that hewas a British stooge is also very unfortu-nate. on the contrary, Jinnah vocifer-ously opposed the proposal of having acommon governor general for both Indiaand Pakistan, favoured by the lastViceroy of India lord Mountbatten.

Mountbatten, a personal friend ofnehru, became the first governor generalof independent India. Twisting this argu-ment in their favour the MQM leader Fa-rooq Sattar spuriously claimed that

nehru agreed to the proposal of makingMountbatten the governor general ofIndia so as to avoid declaring allegianceto the British Empire. nehru nonethelesstook oath from Mountbatten, a fact con-veniently ignored by the MQM stalwart.

At the time of partition, both Indiaand Pakistan were dominions until theyhad their own respective constitutions.India became a republic in 1949 as soonas it had a constitution. Pakistan owingto shenanigans of its politicians becamea republic much later in 1956.

But this did not mean that in the in-terregnum India and Pakistan were notindependent states. The Quaid being aconstitutionalist par excellence took theextra caution of getting the words of hisoath as governor general altered. Thewords “allegiance to the British King”were replaced with “allegiance to the con-stitution of Pakistan”.

Jinnah abhorred Mountbatten for hisdubious role in partition, and clear tilt inIndia’s favour. According to the memoirspenned by Gen Shahid Hamid, MilitarySecretary to Governor General Jinnah, theQuaid literally told Mountbatten to leavefrom the reception after his oath taking.

According to Hamid, “I was not farfrom the Quaid when he called his ADCand told him to tell Mountbatten to gohome as he had had enough of him.” EvenJaswant Singh, a cardholder BJP stalwartin his recent political biography of Jinnah,‘Jinnah: India-Partition- Independence’,has paid glowing tributes to the integrityand steadfastness of the Quaid-e-Azam.

While Don Quixote and his SanchoPanzas are busy demolishing elusivewindmills of democracy – in the name ofdemocracy – a lot is unravelling. Is it bydesign or by sheer coincidence that themilitants have chosen to wreak havoc bystepping up their terrorist campaignagainst the Pakistani state and its people?

At the same time the person whoepitomises the raison d’être of Pakistanis being dragged into unnecessary con-troversy for transient political gains. In-deed this is a sad day for the country.

In the meanwhile, the stakeholders –the government and the military – arevirtually helpless spectators wringingtheir hands in despair. Coalition parties– the MQM and PMl-Q inclusive – weare told are supporting the government.

It is indeed a relief for the rulingcoalition that the MQM although stillsupporting the long march has decidednot to participate in it. The declared aimof Allama Qadri is to undo the present

democratic system. Hence if it had em-barked on the march, the MQM wouldhave been perceived as running with thehare and hunting with the hounds.

As for the PMl-Q, the Choudharys ofGujrat are miffed in the manner in whichZardari has side-lined them. A trip toMinhajul Quran to meet Allama Qadri hasprobably helped them to bounce back.

The PMl-n on the other hand isnaively assuming (or pretending) that thepeople are so keen to have the Sharifs backwith a thumping majority that to them thegeneral elections are a mere formality toinstall them in power in Islamabad. Theyassume that the Allama’s long march cha-rade is just to rob them of that triumph.

obviously, the real issues facing thecountry are the biggest casualties in thepresent hullabaloo. no matter howflawed Qadri’s objectives in embarkingon a long march, heavens will not fall ifthe maverick cleric still goes ahead withit. With no political outfit supporting himthe wind is already out of his sails.

The democratic system hopefully isnot so fragile that it cannot take the heatof a long march with dubious aims de-clared by a person having no real credi-bility. We are told that the military is notbacking Qadri. Hopefully that is the case.

In the meanwhile, the real issue con-fronting the country is the spectre of ter-rorism. Coalition partners as well as theopposition should sit together to formulatea line of action to deal with the menace.

The military has acknowledged thethreat in its recently revised Green Book.It considers terrorism as even a biggerthreat than the one from India.

Despite the bonhomie being ex-pressed by peaceniks on both sides of thedivide, peace with India is still very frag-ile. Cancellation of leave of Indian mili-tary personnel shows that new Delhi istaking the on-going military standoffmore seriously than our political and mil-itary establishment.

Already isolated, Qadri should followMQM’s lead and cancel his flawed longmarch. As for the political elite, theyshould be seen on the same page on ter-rorism and India.

President Zardari should instruct hisprime minister to hold an APC on this ex-istential threat. The civilians by showinga modicum of unity amongst their rankscan strengthen the hands of the militaryto walk the talk and effectively deal withthe external and internal threats.

The writer is Editor, Pakistan Today

Tarnishing the QuaidThreats bigger than Qadri

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For all its talk about foreign nationalstrying to influence Pakistani politics,the PMl-n is keenly listening to for-

mer Glasgow MP Chaudhry Sarwar regard-ing the ticket-awarding process for theupcoming elections.

ZAB also enlisted the services of anothernaturalised brown sahib for the ’77elections, to disastrous ends. In any case,whatever works...

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children’s bad behaviourChildren of today have become both

aggressive and depressive with their life.They don’t know how to face life problemsand what behaviour is expected of themwhen dealing with their elder and youngerones. Their personality is formed by anumber of factors, including their family,relatives, peers and teachers. The parentshave only a little control over their childrenonce they reach a certain age. It’s mostlytheir peers, the teachers and other sourcesof education i.e., media. The influence ofparents is high during the early age, but asthe child discovers new friends and ideas,he or she grows independent of theinfluence of parents.

one cause of bad behaviour of a child ishis family’s attitude. With broken familiesand the absence of a father at home, raisinga teenager becomes a major problem forsingle mothers. A child’s first ten years oflife is just like a whiteboard; whatever theparents write on it, it works like an ink of apermanent marker that can never beremoved throughout his life. If this periodof life is not handled properly, then thechild suffers throughout his whole life.

The second major cause of a child’s badbehaviour arises during his second periodof life: his school life. Children are highlyaffected by their peers. If a child gets agood friend, many bad aspects of hispersonality would not be there to beginwith. A good friend can teach him how toface and solve critical situations. But thecompany of bad friends can destroy hiswhole life.

Teachers play a vital role in making anation’s future. A teacher’s attentiontowards the children is very important.Some children misbehave in the classroomas a way to get their parents’ attention.negative attention is better than noattention at all. Society, teachers andfamilies should identify the root causes ofstudent’s bad behaviour. Parents andteachers should especially keep an eye ontheir activities and company, developstrong interpersonal relationship andinvolve them in studies and other activitiesbecause they also have a duty to make agood decision for the children if they arecan’t make one.

RASHIDA MUHAMMAD DINLahore

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my enemy’s enemy…Apparently, the cat is coming out of the

bag. last week’s unprovoked firing betweenPakistani and Indian forces along the line ofControl (loC) in Kashmir has already ig-nited the border which has been relativelypeaceful for the last one decade.

now come some real characters who vowto derail the fragile peace process betweenthese two feuding countries. After occupyingthe tribal areas of Pakistan, Tahreek-e-Tal-iban Pakistan (TTP) has now been eying onnew areas to take its brutality to. As per anews report, TTP’s chief HakeemullahMehsud has declared in a video message tosend militants to Indian-held Kashmir whowill not only fight the Indian forces but alsoenforce the Shahria (read Taliban’s interpre-tation of religion) in the valley.

This is a very serious development; bothcountries will be trapped by these militantforces who are working on an agenda whichis generally not in line with the peace seekingmasses of the subcontinent. Both Pakistanand India shall ensure that the TTP shouldn’tget the opportunity to highjack themovement in Indian-held Kashmir.

It’s the sole right of Kashmiris to decidetheir future, not of some foreign miscreantsto enforce their hidden agenda at gun point.Both countries should realise that “myenemy’s enemy is my friend” will not workhere as both are facing a common enemy.

MASOOD KHANJubail, Saudi Arabia

after 2013 electionsAll the political parties with vested interest

in status quo are opposing the long march of DrTahirul Qadri; only the MQM is supporting andjoining the long march. MQM is the only politi-cal party which is fighting to eliminate the dom-inating role of feudals, capitalists, obscurantistsand religious fundamentalists in Pakistani poli-tics and wants a major role for the lower middleclass in the country’s affairs. It is a known factthat Pakistan’s politics has been dominated bylanded aristocracy which has been ignoring theordinary Pakistani’s welfare. These politicians’only interest has been to fill their pockets, keepthe people deprived from education and keepthem ignored from their basic rights. They havebeen making promises that they never honoured.

I am surprised at TV anchors who are pro-tecting the corrupt and incompetent politiciansand sham democracy, challenged by Dr TahirulQadri. These super anchors are not discussingthe demands of Dr Qadri but his personal cre-dentials to make people believe that he is crazyand is here to derail the democracy which, theyclaim, during the past five years has made thecountry an Asian Tiger and every Pakistani isnow having a wonderful life. The pertinentquestion is what the fate of the masses will beafter the 2013 elections if the result of the elec-tions proves more divisive and chaotic. Whycan’t we break the monopoly of these triedpoliticians and have only those elected who arecapable and have good reputation?

S T HUSSAINLahore

Divorce is a major ethicaland social issue of the world.It separates couples and endsmarriages. Islam asks toavoid it as much as possible.Divorce rates are climbingthrough the roof these days.Research shows at least 50percent of marriages will endin divorce in America. If thecurrent ratios continue theworld over, this trend canalso hit Pakistan. Divorce hasmany causes, just in the sameway it has many effects.

Financial issues are oneof the main reasons of di-vorce. Financial problems,like unemployment or low in-come, can hurt marriages.Couples can become habitualof using financial resourcesbeyond their reach or can falla victim of excessive spend-ing. These factors can causedisagreements between them.Unemployment causes de-pression, panic, anxiety,blame, fear, and the worse ofall, feeling of helplessness.Blaming the unemployed

spouse for the issue can col-lapse a marriage. Unequal fi-nancial position is anotherfinancial issue. For example,if one spouse, such as the fe-male, makes more moneythan the other spouse, fearand jealousy may creep in,leading to anger, disagree-ment and eventually divorce.

According to the re-search, not all marriages failfor the same reasons. Com-munication is also one of theproblems between couples.This may happen even beforethe marriage. Couples maynot communicate with eachother because of various is-sues that each individual maybe experiencing or if the ex-pectations are not clear fromthe beginning of a relation-ship. Sometimes it happensimmediately after the mar-riage due to ego or hesitation.

Talking about your feel-ings in a marriage is impor-tant because then you canfigure out exactly how to im-prove a relationship. Feelings

left unaddressed can fail amarriage. Also if a coupledoes not communicate pre-marital issues before mar-riage, they will realise duringthe marriage that thingsshould have been settled upbefore. These issues can getworse with time. But this typeof understanding is usuallynot found in Pakistani soci-ety. The third major reasonfor divorce is love andteenage marriages. People inlove can make irrational deci-sions unsuitable to their con-ditions. This type of marriageis not, mostly, socially accept-able in Pakistan.

We live in a society andwe must follow the normsand traditions of a society. Di-vorce affects the couples,their children, their familiesand the society in general.

It should be avoided asmuch as possible by followingthe norms and traditions ofthe society we live in.MUHAMMAD SHAHID RIAZ

Lahore

the issue of divorce in Pakistan

by apollo

The newly minted Punjab governor,upon hearing endlessly that the guber-natorial mansion is haunted, sacrifices

a goat on the premises every day. Yes,Every. Single. Day.

That’s a whole lot of goats.But one day, there was a mix-up and the

ritual did not take place. on that day, thegovernor’s secretary slipped and injuredhimself. The governor slipped himself andanother guest also had a fall.

Well, it is a most scientific observation,then, that the goat routine works,Goddammit!

Maybe if former Governor Khosa haddone the same, he might have still beenthere.

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Miley Cyrus gets in bedwith harry styles, clarifiesMiley Cyrus tweeted a picture of her cuddling a cutout of oneDirection singer Harry Styles on Tuesday. Miley, who is en-gaged to liam Hemsworth, posted the image in a bid to getthe 18-year-old singer's attention on behalf of her youngersister, noah - a huge fan. news Desk

MUCH larger than life and asglossily tumbling locked as ashampoo commercial, the firstofficial portrait of the Duchess ofCambridge has been unveiled at

the national Portrait Gallery. The duchess hadslipped in before the gallery opened – mindfulof the media scrum at the actual unveiling,which included television crews from Germanyand Russia – with her husband. "It's justamazing, I thought it was brilliant," she said."Delightful," gallery director Sandy nairne saidof meeting the couple. "A delightfulexperience," artist Paul Emsley said. There is

no tiara, gilt, red plush or ermine, just a soberbackground, a plain, dark blue-green blousemodestly fastened up to the neck, and a glint ofone expensive earring. Emsley, Glasgow-born,South Africa-reared and winner of the 2007 BPportrait prize, said he had faced one difficultywith the portrait. He said Kate was just toobeautiful to make a good subject. "I think anyartist would agree that with an older face, withlines or wrinkles, or strong distinguishingfeatures, it's easier to create a likeness. Butwith a genuinely beautiful face, it's harder toconvey character." That character was, he felt,genuinely friendly, warm, putting him at ease

immediately and interested in the progress ofthe work, which was made from dozens ofclose-up photographs and a few sketches."She's so nice to be with," he said, "and it'sgenuine."The duchess sat for the painting atthe artist's studio in Bradford on Avon and atKensington Palace last May and June. Her onerequest was that she should look like a naturalhuman being, not a woman on official duty.The original plan for an unsmiling face evolvedinto a gentle enigmatic smile – but no teeth."There isn't a single open-mouthed portrait inthe collection," nairne said, "and for very goodreason." news Desk

Duchess of cambridge delights in first official portrait

lITTlE-KnoWn Irish actorJack Reynor will replace ShialeBeouf in Transformers 4. The 20-year-old takes on themale lead role after theHollywood star quit followingthe last Transformers film,Dark of the Moon. Director andproducer Michael Bayconfirmed the news on hiswebsite yesterday. He will staropposite Mark Wahlberg whohas also signed up. He wrote: "Jack Reynor, he isan Irish kid that came toAmerica with 30 bucks in hispocket. Pretty ballsy. "Seriouslywho does that? Anyway Ispotted him in a great littleIrish movie What Richard Did.This kid is the real deal." Jackappeared in 2012's Dollhouseand What Richard Did is out in

UK cinemas on Friday. Weeds star Hunter Parrish,luke Grimes, landon liboiron,and Australian actor BrentonThwaites all tested for the rolebut lost out to Jack. ShialeBeouf left the Transformersfranchise after Dark of theMoon. Mark Wahlberg hasalready been cast in the next

instalment of Transformers. Jack will play a race car driverwho is dating Wahlberg’s on-screen daughter. That role hasyet to be cast. Michael alsodenied reports Transformers 4would be a remake of theprevious films. He said:"Transformers 4, is not areboot. That word has beenfloating around on the net."This movie takes place exactlyfour years after the war inChicago from Transformers 3." He added: "The story makes avery natural transition, andreason as to why we have awhole new cast. "ThisTransformers will feel verydifferent than the last three. Weare embarking on a newtrilogy." Transformers 4 is dueout on June 27, 2014. news Desk

Transformed! unknownactor replaces Shia leBeouf

robert Pattinson,Kristen Stewartnominated for worstactor, actress awardRobert Pattinsonand KristenStewart and theirnew film TheTwilight Saga:Breaking Dawn -Part 2 have beennominated for topGolden Raspberryawards - the annualceremony thathonours the worstin the movies.leading the list ofnominations arePattinson andStewart, who are up for the award of WorstActor and Worst Actress, the Mirrorreported. Stewart has also been nominatedfor the same award for another fantasymovie Snow White And The Huntsman. Thereal-life couple are also in the reckoning forthe Worst Screen Couple. news Desk

kate tellS artiSt PaUl eMSley the PaintinG of her – no tiara, lookinG natUral – iS 'jUSt aMazinG' at UnveilinG at national Portrait Gallery

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Gangster Squad stars Sean Penn in the role of real-life 1940s mob kingpin Mickeycohen. from johnny depp’s john dillinger to Steve buscemi’s nucky thompson on

hbo’s boardwalk empire, see other real mobsters behind the characters.

Sean Penn portrayed the mob boss of all mobbosses—los angeles-based Meyer harris “Mickey”

cohen—in the latest pulp crime flick, Gangster Squad.cohen was no stranger to dealings with other

notorious gangsters, at times joining forces withbugsy Siegel and al capone during his career, and

eventually becoming the west coast strong-arm extension for the east coast

Syndicate during the 1940sand 1950s.

Sean Penn/Mickey cohen

deeply involved in las vegas organized crime,frank “lefty” rosenthal was the real-life mobster

portrayed in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film casino,which starred robert de niro and joe Pesci. frank

lawrence "lefty" rosenthal (june 12, 1929 –october 13, 2008) was a professional sportsbettor, former las vegas casino executive,

and organized crime associate.hedied on october 13, 2008 at

the age of 79.

enoch lewis “nucky” johnson became a household namewhen Steve buscemi started playing him in the popular hbodrama, boardwalk empire. taking advantage of the public’sdesire for liquor during the Prohibition-era 1920s, johnson

ruled over atlantic city as a venal city treasurer andbootlegger. but how true to life is buscemi’s nucky? “i

don’t feel compelled to accurately portray thereal person,” said buscemi in an hbo Q&a,

“but rather a corrupt politicalboss of that era.”

Steve bUSceMi / nUcky johnSon

Martin Scorsese’s the departed swept the 2007 academyawards, winning an oscar for best Picture. the film—basedon andrew lau and alan Mak’s 2002 hong kong film infernalaffairs—stars leonardo dicaprio, Matt damon, and jack

nicholson, who plays organized crime lord frankcostello, said to be loosely based on james joseph

“whitey” bulger. in a life-is-stranger-than-fiction story involving fbi informants,

drug trafficking, andracketeering.

jack nicholSon/whitey bUlGer

in the 2009 shoot-‘em-up crime drama Public enemies,johnny depp played notorious bank robber john

dillinger as a mysterious, violent hustler with a colorfulpersonality. a product of the Great depression, dillinger

robbed a dozen banks and was killed at age 31 after a bloody shootout. after serving time in theindiana State Prison, dillinger was quoted

as saying, “i will be the meanest bastardyou ever saw when i get

out of here.”

Sporting a killer mustache in 1970s era crime drama donniebrasco, johnny depp plays undercover agent joseph Pistone,who infiltrated and took down the bonanno crime family innew york city while operating under the alias donnie brasco.

while Pistone is a fictional construct, the longer thatbrasco stayed undercover, the more he feared he was

becoming a mobster himself. in an interview in2005, the fbi legend said he still travels in

disguise due to a mob contract on his head.

best known for raking in millions from thelufthansa heist in 1978, james “jimmy the Gent”

burke, was associated with the lucchese crimefamily. his story was said to be the inspiration for

jimmy conway, robert de niro’s character inGoodfellas. Gent, was an irish american

gangster and lucchese crime familyassociate who is believed to have

organized the lufthansaheist in 1978.

robert de niro/jiMMy the Gent

a Manhattan heroin drug lord in the 1970s, franklucas rose from humble limo driver to powerful

kingpin, his story portrayed by denzel washington inthe 2009 film american Gangster. lucas was

released from prison in 1991. frank lucas (born September 9, 1930) is aformer U.S. heroin dealer and organized

crime boss who operated in harlemduring the late 1960s and

early 1970s.

denzel waShinGton/frank lUcaSjohnny dePP/john dillinGer johnny dePP/joSePh PiStone (donnie braSco)

before charles bronson was in death wish, he wasgenerating fear as the titular notorious bank robber in

Machine Gun kelly in 1958. a Prohibition-era thug, Georgecelino barnes fittingly chose his nickname after his favorite

weapon. with a slew of offenses, ranging fromracketeering to kidnapping, he spent the rest of his

years behind bars in alcatraz. his most famouscrime was the kidnapping of oil tycoon and

businessman charles f. Urschel injuly 1933.

an unusual story of gangster-turned-fbi informant,henry hill of the lucchese crime family—immortalized by

ray liotta in the 1990 movie Goodfellas—died in june2012. his story was immortalized in nicholas Pileggi’s book

wiseguy: life in a Mafia family. following his death,liotta said of hill, "although i played henry hill in the

movie Goodfellas, i only met him a few shorttimes so i can’t say i knew him but i

do know he lived a complicatedlife."

no stranger to intense mobster roles, robert de niroplayed fearsome crime syndicate boss al capone in

director brian de Palma’s 1987 film, the Untouchables. thelegendary Prohibition-era mobster—who has also been

played by rod Steiger, jason robards, ben Gazzara,william forsythe, f. Murray abraham, and william

devane, as well as currently by StephenGraham on hbo’s boardwalk empire—

his name now synonymous withthe mafia.

robert de niro/al caPone

with a hankering for stolen cars, bank robberies, andbloody shootouts, these criminal lovebirds were

charismatically played by warren beatty and faye dunawayin the 1967 film. despite their cinematic (and notorious)

mad love, their larcenous hijinks ended in 1934, whenthey were shot to death by police in louisiana. bonnie

elizabeth Parker and clyde chestnut barrow arebelieved to have killed at least nine police

officers and committed severalcivilian murders.

charleS bronSon/Machine GUn kelly ray liotta/henry hill

robert de niro/lefty roSenthal

faye dUnaway and warren beatty/bonnie & clyde

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nineteen years ago, the paternal grandpar-ents of a 5-year-old boy allegedly kidnappedhim. now, Richard landers Jr. has resur-faced, age 24 and married, in Minnesota, theChicago Tribune reports. He lives under adifferent name, however—one provided byhis grandparents when they took him andmanaged to stump police. The grandparents,who now use aliases, live just a few milesaway. “It’s happened so fast, and we haven’ttalked to him yet,” says his stepfather. But“we’re going to as soon as we can.”

Prior to the abduction, the grandparents“were allegedly upset over pending court pro-ceedings regarding the placement of theirgrandson,” police said. After they vanished in1994, they were charged with interferencewith custody, but the charges were droppedwhen the case remained unsolved in 2008.Then, in September 2012, landers’ stepfathergave police landers’ Social Security card; the

number led authorities to the 24-year-old,who seems “well-adjusted.” Will he meet hismother again? “That’s going to be up tohim,” a police spokesman said. “We can’tforce him and say, ‘now you’re going backwith your mom.’ He’s 24 years old.” NEwS DESK

SYDnEY NEwS DESK

CHInA’S one-child policy has created ageneration that is less trusting, morerisk-averse and perhaps less likely to be-come entrepreneurs, according to newAustralian research.

Published in the journal Science, the study ofmore than 400 Beijing residents born around thetime the controversial population policy was in-troduced could have implications for China’seconomy, researchers say.

“We found that individuals who grew up assingle children as a result of China’s one-child pol-icy are significantly less trusting, less trustworthy,more risk-averse, less competitive, more pes-simistic, and less conscientious,” said Universityof Melbourne researcher nisvan Erkal.

China introduced the policy in 1979 to combatpopulation growth and family planning officials inBeijing have defended it in the past, sayingChina’s population — currently 1.3 billion —would have hit 1.7 billion without it.

The new study, “little Emperors: BehaviouralImpacts of China’s one-Child Policy”, based on re-search by Erkal, Monash University and Aus-tralian national University academics, found thegroup displayed distinct behaviour.

The scholars used a series of “economicgames” — in which the 421 subjects born between1975 and 1983 exchanged or invested smallamounts of money, or made other economic deci-sions — to measure their levels of trust, risk-tak-ing and competitiveness.

In one game, participants born under theone-Child Policy (oCP) were on average found tobe less trusting than those born before, sharingless of an endowment with another player (46.1percent compared to 50.6 percent).

They also returned less than those not bornunder the policy (30.4 percent versus 35.4 per-cent). The researchers said both of these differ-ences were statistically significant.

The study found the differences persisted,even after the impact of demography and familybackground were controlled.

“We found that being born before or after theone-child policy best explains our observations,”Erkal, an associate professor, said.

In addition to the experiments, researchers

also conducted personality surveys that they saidrevealed those born under the oCP were also“substantially more pessimistic, less conscien-tious, and possibly more neurotic”.

“The oCP can be thought of as a natural ex-periment which enables us to separate out the ef-fect of being an only child from the effect of familybackground,” they wrote.

Fellow researcher lisa Cameron from Monashsaid the effect could have economic implications.

“our data shows that people born under theone-child policy were less likely to be in morerisky occupations like self-employment,” she said.

“Thus there may be implications for China interms of a decline in entrepreneurial ability.”

Cameron said researchers observed the nega-tive effects of being an only child in China even ifthere was significant social contact with otherchildren while growing up.

“We found that greater exposure to other chil-dren in childhood — for example, frequent inter-actions with cousins and/or attending childcare —was not a substitute for having siblings,” she said.

The one-child policy in fact permits some fam-ilies to have several children. Parents in the coun-tryside can have two children if their firstborn isa girl, while ethnic minority families are often ex-empt from birth restrictions.

Talk of phasing out the unpopular one-childpolicy has been mounting, with an influentialthink-tank with close links to the government re-cently proposing families be allowed to have twochildren by 2015. The China Development Re-search Foundation (CDRF) called for a relaxationof the policy in october, saying the country hadpaid “a huge political and social cost” for themeasure, which has been blamed for creating ademographic time-bomb.

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brand-new island emerges off Germany

THERE’S a new piece of Germany. over thecourse of just 10 years, a 34-acre island hasdeveloped 16 miles off the country’s coast,

in the north Sea, the Telegraph reports. Some 50different plant species already live on the island ofnorderoogsand; sea birds are moving in, too; anddunes now measure as much as 13 feet in height.“For conservationists,” the island’s quickappearance “is anything but ordinary,” says anational park worker. Sandbanks often form in thearea’s shallow waters, but they’re usually destroyedby winter storms, experts say. While islandsaround norderoogsand have offered protectionfrom the weather, a major storm could prove itsundoing, note scientists. NEwS DESK

dea agents got prostituteas secret service agent

THE Drug Enforcement Administration’salleged role in the Secret Serviceprostitution scandal has been confirmed. A

pair of DEA agents set up a liaison between a SecretService agent and a prostitute in Colombia in April2012, a Justice Department probe that is just nowcoming to light finds. Another DEA agent wasn’tinvolved in that particular episode, but all threeadmitted paying for prostitutes and using “theirDEA Blackberry devices to arrange such activities.” The DEA agents also attempted to destroy evidenceor lie to investigators, according to the report, vianBC news. But disciplinary action is up to the DEAitself; “legal proceedings” weren’t deemed necessary.Sen. Susan Collins wrote this week to the DEA to askwhy its “administrative actions” on the matter “arestill pending”; an agency rep says the issue is“currently under review.” But a DEA official has saidthe Justice Department presented its investigation’sconclusions in September of last year. NEwS DESK

largest ever spiral galaxy spotted

ASTRoBoFFInS using nASA'sGalaxy Evolution Explorer(GAlEX) telescope, which sees

ultraviolet light, have realised thatnGC6872 is the biggest known galaxy,much larger than previously thought."Without GAlEX's ability to detect theultraviolet light of the youngest,hottest stars, we would never haverecognised the full extent of thisintriguing system," Rafael Eufrasio, aresearch assistant at nASA's GoddardSpace Flight Center said at theAmerican Astronomical Societymeeting yesterday. The boffins foundthe massive galaxy by accident: "I wasnot looking for the largest spiral – itjust came as a gift," Eufrasio told BBCnews." Measured tip-to-tip across itsspiral arms, the galaxy spans morethan 522,000 light years, making thestar system five times the size of theMilky Way. large galaxies likenGC6827 and the Milky Way grow bymerging and acquiring new stars fromsmaller systems, in the former's case,from a neighbouring small disc galaxynamed IC4970. But in this case,instead of absorbing all the stars fromIC4970, the gravitational interaction ofthe systems is spawning stars that mayform a brand new galaxy. NEwS DESK

‘doomsday asteroid’ evenbigger than thought

THE asteroid Apophis, whosereported threat to our planethas attracted widespread

attention, is even larger thanscientists believed, according to newimages. Europe’s Herschel Spaceobservatory says the asteroid issome 1,066 feet feet wide, some 20%wider than previously thought. That“translates into a 75% increase inour estimates of the asteroid’svolume or mass,” says the study’sleader. Fortunately, we survivedyesterday’s passage, and reports thatthere was a 2.7% chance it would hitEarth in 2029 have been debunked.But scientists are still investigatingthe asteroid, which will pass near usagain in 2036, liveScience notes. Atthat point, there remains a one-in-200,000 chance of a collision, theBBC reports. “There is a small regionof space—something we call akeyhole—and if it passes throughthat keyhole in 2029, it will comeback and hit us on 13 April in 2036,”says a scientist. It would carry 100times the energy of our biggestnuclear weapons, he adds. “Whilethere is no cause for alarm, similarlythere is no room for complacency,”writes Stuart Clark. NEwS DESK

why your fingers get pruney in bath: better grip

WHEn your fingers and toesget all wrinkly in thebathtub, it’s more than just

a sign that’s it’s time to grab a towel.British researchers say it’s a traitprimates acquired to give them bettergrip in the water, perhaps as theywere swinging from wet branches,reports Sciencenews and theTelegraph. one theory is that thepruney skin acts sort of the way raintreads do on car tires. Researcherstested the theory by having peopleperform tasks such as movingmarbles from a water-filled containerto a dry one. Those who soaked theirfingers beforehand to get them niceand wrinkly were 12% faster. Theresearchers speculate that havingpruney fingers constantly would be adisadvantage, so evolution provided away for early humans to have themonly when necessary. NEwS DESK

Boy kidnapped at 5turns up married at 24

A 59-year-old woman in Ireland paralyzedwith severe multiple sclerosis has lost hercourt fight against the nation’s ban on as-sisted suicide, reports the Irish Times. Marie

Fleming sought permission to end her lifewith the help of her partner of 18 years, butDublin’s High Court rejected the request, re-ports Reuters.

“There are no words to express the diffi-culty we had in arriving at this decision,”wrote one judge. “Yet the fact remains that ifthis court were to unravel a thread of this lawby even the most limited constitutional ad-judication in her favour, it would—or at leastmight—open a Pandora’s box which wouldbe impossible to close.”

The judge called Fleming “in many waysthe most remarkable witness” he and hisfellow judges had ever encountered, and thecourt ordered the state to pay her legalcosts. Fleming’s lawyer read a statement onher behalf, saying she was “very disap-pointed and saddened” at the ruling. Shecan still appeal. NEwS DESK

Paralyzed woman in Irelandloses right-to-die case

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LAHORESTAFF REPORT

THE Pakistan CricketBoard on Friday namedthree uncapped playersand dropped wicket-

keeper Adnan Akmal for nextmonth's three-test series againstSouth Africa. The newcomers arefast bowlers Mohammad Irfan andEhsan Adil and batsman Harris So-hail in the 16-man squad. SarfrazAhmed has replaced Akmal behindthe stumps.

The 2.16-meter (7-foot-1) Irfan im-pressed selectors with his left-arm fastbowling during the recent one-day se-ries against India which Pakistan won2-1. The 30-year-old Irfan, who is saidto be seven foot one inch tall, im-pressed with his steepling bounce dur-ing Pakistan's recent tour to Indiawhere he featured in all three one-daymatches and two Twenty20 interna-tionals. But he has yet to play a test.

The test squad, led by Misbah-ulHaq, will open with a four-day sidematch at East london from January 25before the first test in Johannesburgfrom February 1. The PCB said separatesquads for two Twenty20 internation-

als and five one-day matches, whichfollow the tests, will be announcedlater. Surprisingly, none of the threeAkmal brothers - Kamran, Umar andAdnan - are part of the test squad andno selector was available to say why.Adnan has been a regular in Pakistan'stest squad as specialist wicketkeeper.Although he was injured during Pak-istan's tour of Sri lanka last June heplayed in the ongoing first class season.He is replaced by Sarfraz Ahmed.

nineteen-year-old paceman EhsanAdil was also selected for the first timeafter impressing during the JuniorWorld Cup in Australia last year. Adilhas taken 56 wickets in ten first-classmatches this season.

left-arm spinner Abdur Rehmanalso returns to the squad after beingbanned for a failed dope test during thecounty season in England last year. Hewill partner the wily offspinner SaeedAjmal. The pace squad will be led by the

experienced Umar Gul, Junaid Khanand Irfan. Uncapped left-hander HarisSohail and Faisal Iqbal also retainedtheir places in the squad after failing toplay any match on the Sri lanka tourwhile left-handed opener nasirJamshed, who has yet to play a test,also made the cut.TEAM: misbah-ul Haq (capt), mohammadHafeez, azhar ali, nasir Jamshed, asadShafiq, younis Khan, mohammad irfan, Sar-fraz ahmed, Umar gul, Junaid Khan, ehsanadil, Saeed ajmal, abdur rehman, Haris So-hail, faisal iqbal, taufiq Umar.

ITINERARyJan 25-28: vs South africainvitation Xi at east londonFeb 1-5: first test at JohannesburgFeb 14-18: Second test cape townFeb 22-26: third test centurionMarch 1: ist twenty20 at durbanMarch 3: Second t20 at centurionMarch 6: South africa invitationXi side match at KimberleyMarch 10: ist one-day internationalat bloemfonteinMarch 15: Second one-dayinternational at centurionMarch 17: third one-dayinternational at JohannesburgMarch 21: fourth one-dayinternational at durbanMarch 24: fifth one-dayinternational at benoni.

PCB names three uncappedplayers for SA series

MELBOURnEAGENCIES

Phil Hughes became the first Australianto score a century on his one-day inter-national debut as he powered the side toa 107-run win over Sri lanka on Friday.Hughes hit 112 and stand-in captainGeorge Bailey struck 89 before DavidHussey smashed 60 not out off 34 ballsto turn a good total into a commanding305-5 on a flat MCG wicket. DineshChandimal kept Sri lanka in contentionwith a belligerent 73 but four wicketsfrom Clint McKay and some superbfielding, including three run-outs, re-stricted the tourists to 198 in reply. Aus-tralia, who won the test series 3-0, leadthe five-match oDI series 1-0 with thesecond game on Sunday in Adelaide.

Sri lanka could be withoutChandimal for that game after thewicketkeeper, one of the few successstories of a one-sided test series, hadto have repeated on-field treatment towhat looked like a hamstring problem.His mobility steadily decreased after

he had his thigh bandaged. Australia,though, can be happy with the way aninexperienced line-up coped withoutrested captain Michael Clarke and theomitted Mike Hussey. opener AaronFinch and number three UsmanKhawaja managed just 16 and threerespectively after Australia won thetoss but Hughes put on 140 for thethird wicket alongside Bailey at the

rate of a run a ball. Khawaja later com-pensated for his failure - run out whenhe failed to ground the bat - with a di-rect hit from mid-off to run out thedangerous Tillakaratne Dilshan for 51.Hughes, who averaged 46.60 in thetest series that finished on Sunday,timed his strokes sweetly, deployinghis favoured cut shot whenever possi-ble and compiled 14 boundaries.

Hughes debut century powers Australia to win

LAHORESTAFF REPORT

The Pakistan Cricket Board has de-cided to retain senior batsman Mis-bah-ul-Haq as captain for the Test andone-day series in the forthcoming tourof South Africa. The 38-year-old hasdrawn flak for his below-par perform-ances in one-day cricket including therecent tour of India. The PCB had re-moved him as captain of the Twenty20squad last year for being a slow scorer.

But sources reported to have saidthat the national selectors were toldby the Board that Misbah will con-tinue as captain for both formatswhile Mohammad Hafeez has beenretained as captain of the T20 squad.Pakistan leaves on January 20 forSouth Africa to play three Tests, fiveone-dayers and two T20 matches.

"Board Chairman Zaka Ashraf ishappy with the performance of Mis-bah and the way he led the team tothe one-day series win in India re-cently," one source said. "The positive

report about Misbah is that despitehis age, he is fit and brings about lotof confidence and discipline to theteam with his presence and leader-ship qualities," the source said.

He said the Board had decided tocontinue with Misbah for the SouthAfrican tour while Hafeez would begroomed to take over from him afterthe Champions Trophy in Englandthis year. Misbah has said after re-turning from India that he had no in-tentions to quit oDI cricket as heenjoys the format and is fit for it.

"There is a concept in Pakistanthat someone of my age shouldn't beplaying cricket at the top level. I dis-agree, I made my debut late and I be-lieve as long as someone is fit andready to perform at the highest levelthere is nothing wrong with him car-rying on," Misbah said. Sources closeto the selectors said Asad Shafiq, afterrecovering from a injury, was certainto replace Umar Akmal in the middleorder while Taufiq Umar would re-turn as the opener for the Tests.

Pakistan cricketershope for pay raiseafter win in india

LAHORESTAFF REPORT

Busy celebrating the oDI series winagainst arch-foes India, Pakistani crick-eters are hoping that the triumph wouldenhance their chances of getting a hand-some pay raise this year. A source saidthat the national selectors met in lahoreand handed over a preliminary list ofcandidates who should be considered forthe new central contracts and retainersin 2013. "The selectors also held deliber-ations on the forthcoming tour to SouthAfrica with the test squad expected to beannounced first," the source said. Hesaid Pakistani players, after reaching thesemifinals of the World Twenty20Championships in Sri lanka and beatingIndia in India, were very hopeful thatthey would get a pay raise from theBoard. "The players have already con-veyed their feelings to the PCB chairmanrecently in India that the pay raise givento them in the last central contracts wasnot enough as it came after three years,"the source said. He pointed out thatwhen the last central contracts weregiven, some of the senior players had re-fused to sign them as they felt the raiseof 25 per cent in the monthly retainersand 10 per cent increase in match feeswas not enough but had to back downafter a stern stance taken by the board."But this time they are hopeful againsince the chairman is also happy withtheir performances in India which is al-ways a big tour for Pakistan," the sourcesaid. The source said the board wouldsoon form a special committee to gothrough the list provided by the selectorsand than determine new categories andthe pay raise. last year the board gaveout central contracts to the players inMay after a long delay.

Pakistanplayers’ bPlstints in doubt

LAHORE: Zaka Ashraf,the PCB chairman, saidPakistan players would playin the Bangladesh Premierleague (BPl) but indicatedthat their presence coulddepend on the BCB agreeingto a tour of Pakistan. TheBPl is scheduled to beginon January 18 and severalPakistan players were soldat its auction last month.Their participation, how-ever, could hinge on theBCB's response to Ashraf'scomments. There has beena lot of talk of Bangladeshtouring Pakistan but withsecurity continuing to be aconcern, there have been noconcrete steps forward."Bangladesh almost touredPakistan but at the last mo-ment they pulled out overthe security concern and Idon't want to repeat thisagain," Cricinfo quotedAshraf as saying. "We can'tsend our players like this, asBangladesh have an agree-ment to fulfill. If they decideto come Pakistan and playthen we will consider sup-porting and favoring them[in this matter]." The BPlalso clashes with the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan'spremier first-class event,and the PCB said it wouldn'tbe fair to disrupt the play-ers' commitments to theirteams. The PCB and BCBhave been discussing a shortBangladesh tour to Pakistansince 2011, but have facedhurdles. STAFF REPORT

Misbah remains Test, oDi captain

AUSTRALIA

A Finch c Chandimal b A Mendis 16

P Hughes c Chandimal b Malinga 114

U Khawaja run out (J Mendis/Chandimal) 3

G bailey c J Mendis b Mathews 89

D Hussey not out 60

G Maxwell c A Mendis b Kulasekara 5

b Haddin not out 10

Extras: (2b, 3lb, 5w) 10

Total: (five wickets; 50 overs) 305

Fall: 1-53, 2-72, 3-212, 4-241, 5-248.

Did not bat: M Johnson, M Starc, C McKay, X Doherty.

bowling: N Kulasekara 10-0-53-1, L Malinga 10-1-61-1 (2w),

A Mathews 8-0-46-1, A Mendis 10-0-62-1 (3w), T Dilshan

4-0-17-0, T Perera 4-0-28-0, J Mendis 4-0-33-0.

SRI LANKA

U Tharanga c Haddin b Starc 1

T Dilshan run out (Khawaja) 51

M Jayawardene c Finch b McKay 5

D Chandimal c Haddin b McKay 73

A Mathews run out (Maxwell) 12

L Thirimanne run out (Maxwell/Haddin) 0

J Mendis c bailey b Johnson 20

T Perera c bailey b Johnson 4

N Kulasekara c bailey b McKay 18

L Malinga not out 1

A Mendis c Haddin b McKay 0

Extras: (2b, 2lb, 9w) 13

Total: (all out; 40 overs) 198

Fall: 1-8, 2-17, 3-111, 4-128, 5-128, 6-167, 7-169, 8-194, 9-198.

bowling: M Starc 6-0-25-1 (2w), C McKay 8-0-33-4, M

Johnson 9-1-43-2 (2w), X Doherty 8-0-41-0, G Maxwell 4-

0-28-0, D Hussey 5-0-24-0.

Australia won by 107 runs

Australia lead the five-match series 1-0

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Hot putter putsthongchai clearin windy durban

DURBAnAGENCIES

Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee wielded a hotputter as he fired a seven-under-par 65 inblustery conditions to seize a three-strokelead after the first round of the Volvo GolfChampions on Thursday. British openchampion Ernie Els and fellow SouthAfrican louis oosthuizen, the 2010 Britishopen winner, carded 68s to lie joint sec-ond. Paul lawrie, Thomas Bjorn, JeevMilkha Singh, Richie Ramsay, Jamie Don-aldson, Scott Jamieson and Danny Willettshared fourth spot on 69. Former para-trooper Thongchai, who is 80th in theworld rankings and won last year's Walesopen, made light of the strong winds topost five birdies in an outward 31. Furtherbirdies at the 10th and 15th holes followedand he cancelled out his only bogey of theday at the 17th with a fine up-and-downfrom the sand at the 18th for anotherbirdie. "I made long putts from every-where. I had 24 or 25 putts today and Ihaven't putted this well in a long time,"Thongchai told a news conference. "It'svery, very exciting to come here becauseI've never been to South Africa before."The gusting winds and steady rain affectedplay for much of the afternoon but the 43-year-old remained unaffected and calledon the experience he gained from his vic-tory in similar conditions in Wales lastyear. "We have no choice, everyone has toplay in this and I enjoy it," said the five-times European Tour winner. "We playmost of the time in Europe in conditionslike this. I won in the same wind as this inWales and it was also raining in that one."

india backtracked onpassport rule: amritraj

SIngAPORE AGENCIES

The Indian sports ministry backtrackedon plans to ditch the questionable pass-port rule that has blocked Prakash Amri-traj's return to Davis Cup action, theplayer's father and former tour playerVijay Amritraj told Reuters. America-bornPrakash played 10 ties for India in theDavis Cup before he was barred in 2008after the sports ministry introduced a rulesaying that only Indian passport holderscould represent the country at sports.India does not permit dual citizenship.With an ongoing row over the running ofthe Davis Cup team expected to see someplayers skip the home tie against SouthKorea next month, the All India TennisAssociation (AITA) had hoped the govern-ment would end the passport rule so thatPrakash could compete. Vijay Amritraj, awinner of 16 singles and 13 double titlesand a former Davis Cup finalist, said theAITA had asked him to speak with thesport ministry to help with negotiations.

PORT ELIZABETH AGENCIES

It was South Africa's day with three half-centuries and a century, they batted wellaround Amla who's been lucky, but tookadvantage of the reprieve he got whenon 48 on the first day of the second testagainst new Zealand at St. George's Parkon Friday.

new Zealand had their chances, adropped catch, a review they shouldhave taken, a couple of run-out attemptsand edges that didn't carry. The honourscould have been even, but it wasn't to be.South Africa are in control.

Earlier at tea, Hashim Amla andGraeme Smith compiled half-centuriesas South Africa moved to 191 for three attea.

Amla reached the break unbeaten on70 while Smith notched his 36th testhalf-century shortly after lunch beforebeing dismissed eight balls later for 54with seven fours.

Paceman Doug Bracewell, with fig-ures of two for 44, was the pick of newZealand's attack.

The elegant Amla brought up his25th test fifty off 92 balls but he didenjoy a slice of luck when, on 48, he wasdropped in the gully by Kane Williamsonoff the bowling of left-arm quick TrentBoult.

Amla and Smith combined for a sec-ond-wicket stand of 92 off 20.4 overs be-fore Smith was caught down the legsideby keeper BJ Watling off the bowling ofleft-arm seamer neil Wagner to leaveSouth Africa on 121 for two.

The hosts lost their third wicket 16runs later when Jacques Kallis (8) edgeda Bracewell delivery through to Watling.

But any hopes new Zealand mighthave harboured of making further quickinroads into a powerful batting line-upwere dashed when AB de Villiers (29 notout) and Amla combined for an unbro-ken fourth-wicket partnership of 54.

South Africa had won the toss andelected to bat on a slowish pitch whichoffered up just a touch of movement forthe seam bowlers.

Smith and Alviro Peterson (21) puton a 29-run opening stand but the right-handed Peterson departed when he top-

edged an attempted hook shot off thebowling of Bracewell and was caught byJeetan Patel at fine leg before the hoststook lunch on 99 for one. new Zealandincluded debutant all-rounder ColinMunro in their line up.

Amla hits century to provide SA control

RAJKOTAGENCIES

InDIA had never chased morethan 325 to win a one-day in-ternational on home soil and,if the old India might have re-

garded England as ripe for the taking,this present side lacks the same formi-dable presence. They came close, butwhen Ishant Sharma was left to hitJade Dernbach's last two balls for sixto tie the match, they probably knewin their hearts that the game was up.England had lost their last 13 oDIs inIndia and had won only one match ontheir last three oDI tours of India.Two defeats in their warm-upmatches did not auger well, but theyserved up a victory for their new lim-ited-overs coach, Ashley Giles, at thefirst time of asking and will now facethe rest of the five-match series withgreater belief.

The first international at theSaurashtra Stadium lavished favoursupon the batsmen. The pitch wasamenable and the outfield glassy butJames Tredwell, with international-best figures of 4-44, saw Englandhome. An understudy to GraemeSwann in England's oDI side, he hasa chance to assert himself with Swannresting out of the series, although "as-sert himself" is probably the wrongphrase because he is a mild-man-nered unassuming chap, very muchthe introvert to Swann's extrovert.India needed to enter uncharteredterritory to beat England in the open-ing oDI in Rajkot. They had neverscored more than 325 to win a one-day international on home soil and,

even if they only needed one more runthan their previous highest, they knewthat history as well as recent battingform was against them. not that thetask initially seemed to trouble them.They began confidently with AjinkyaRahane and Gautam Gambhir rarelyhaving to extend themselves inamassing 96 in 16.4 overs in an un-troubled first-wicket stand, but bothgot out to gentle chip shots againstJames Tredwell to reach the mid-point at 136. India needed another190 runs at 7.60 per over.

Tredwell, an understudy toGraeme Swann in England's oDI side,has had only intermittent opportuni-

ties, but Swann had been rested fromthe series, leaving him with an oppor-tunity to assert himself. This was onlyhis 10th one-day international, andhis first against India and neither Ra-hane nor Gambhir played his offspinwith total conviction before he dis-missed them in successive overs.There is little striking about Tred-well's mild-mannered, unassumingapproach to the crease and he wouldhave surprised himself if he had madeone turn on such a benign surface, buthe tossed one up to defeat Rahane'sinside-out shot and had him caught atlong-off. He then deceived Gambhirin the flight to have him caught atshort mid wicket.

Gambhir, with a run-a-ball 52,had been the quicker scoring of thetwo openers, shamelessly reliant upona succession of deliberate deflections

between gully and slip as well as turnsoff his hip. With 66 on the boardagainst ten overs of inconsistent pacebowling, India began confidently butTredwell and the debutant, Joe Root,who bowled ahead of Samit Patel andslipped in a spell of part-time offspinwithout mishap, just as Suresh Rainahad done for India earlier in the day,dragged England back into the game.India's highest successful run chase athome was their 325-5 to beat West In-dies also in Gujarat, down the road inAhmedabad, in 2002. Yuvraj Singhwas India's sole survivor and, athalfway, a lot was still required fromhimself and his colleagues if Indiawere to outlast England to go one-upin the series. It was difficult to judgehow many runs England needed tofeel impregnable in the opening oDIin Rajkot.

England make a winning startENGLAND

AN Cook c Rahane b Raina 75

IR bell run out (Rahane) 85

KP Pietersen c Kohli b Dinda 44

EJG Morgan c & b Dinda 41

C Kieswetter not out 24

SR Patel not out 44

Extras (w 10, nb 2) 12

Total (4 wickets; 50 overs; 207 mins) 325

Did not bat JE Root, TT bresnan, JC Tredwell, ST Finn,

Jw Dernbach

Fall of wickets 1-158 (bell, 27.4 ov), 2-172 (Cook, 31.1 ov),

3-248 (Morgan, 41.6 ov), 4-255 (Pietersen, 43.5 ov)

bowling: b Kumar 7-0-52-0, I Sharma 10-2-86-0, Ab

Dinda 8-0-53-2, R Ashwin 9-0-61-0, RA Jadeja 10-0-46-

0, SK Raina 5-0-18-1, V Kohli 1-0-9-0

INDIA

AM Rahane c Dernbach b Tredwell 47

G Gambhir c bell b Tredwell 52

V Kohli c †Kieswetter b bresnan 15

yuvraj Singh c Dernbach b Tredwell 61

SK Raina c & b Tredwell 50

MS Dhoni c Root b Dernbach 32

RA Jadeja b Dernbach 7

R Ashwin c †Kieswetter b Finn 13

b Kumar not out 20

Ab Dinda b bresnan 3

I Sharma not out 7

Extras (lb 1, w 7, nb 1) 9

Total (9 wickets; 50 overs; 222 mins) 316

Fall of wickets 1-96 (Rahane, 16.4 ov), 2-102 (Gambhir,

18.4 ov), 3-138 (Kohli, 25.4 ov), 4-198 (yuvraj Singh, 34.4

ov), 5-243 (Raina, 41.4 ov), 6-271 (Dhoni, 44.2 ov), 7-273

(Jadeja, 44.5 ov), 8-297 (Ashwin, 47.3 ov), 9-307 (Dinda,

48.5 ov)

bowling: ST Finn 10-0-63-1, Jw Dernbach 10-0-69-2, TT

bresnan 8-0-67-2, JC Tredwell 10-0-44-4, JE Root 9-0-

51-0, SR Patel 3-0-21-0

Toss England, who chose to bat

Series England led the 5-match series 1-0

ODI debut JE Root (England)

Player of the match JC Tredwell (England)

Umpires SJ Davis (Australia) and S Ravi

TV umpire VA Kulkarni, Match referee AJ Pycroft

(Zimbabwe), Reserve umpire RM Deshpande

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SOUTH AFRICA INNINGS

A. Petersen c Patel b bracewell 21

G. Smith c watling b wagner 54

H. Amla not out 70

HM Amla not out 106

JH Kallis c watling b bracewell 8

Ab de Villiers c williamson b Patel 51

F du Plessis not out 69

Extras (b 5, lb 6, w 2, nb 3) 16

Total (4 wickets; 90 overs) 325

To bat D Elgar, RJ Peterson, Dw Steyn, RK Kleinveldt, M Morkel

Fall of wickets 1-29 (Petersen, 9.6 ov), 2-121 (Smith, 30.4 ov),

3-137 (Kallis, 35.4 ov), 4-223 (de Villiers, 61.1 ov)

bowling: TA boult 19-2-74-0, DAJ bracewell 21-2-70-2, N

wagner 22-2-88-1, JS Patel 19-1-60-1, C Munro 9-0-22-0

New Zealand: MJ Guptill, bb McCullum*, KS williamson, DG

brownlie, DR Flynn, bJ watling†, DAJ bracewell, C Munro, JS

Patel, TA boult, N wagner

Toss South Africa, who chose to bat

Test debut C Munro (New Zealand)

Player of the match tba

Umpires HDPK Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and IJ Gould

(England), TV umpire RJ Tucker (Australia), Match referee DC

boon (Australia), Reserve umpire JD Cloete.

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SYDnEYAGENCIES

Pakistani asylum-seeker Fawad Ahmed,who was granted a permanent Australiavisa in november, was on Friday calledup for the Prime Minister's XI matchagainst the West Indies in Canberra.

The 33-year-old leg-spinner left hishome in the border region nearAfghanistan to come to Australia on ashort-stay visa to play cricket in 2010and has established his credentials atthe Melbourne Renegades in the T20Big Bash league.

He was selected for the one-daymatch on January 29 alongside Pak-istan-born Usman Khawaja and Indian-born fast bowler Gurinder Sandhu.

national Selection Panel chairmanJohn Inverarity described the picks asreflecting the cultural diversity that ex-

ists in Australian cricket. "Fawad isplaying for the Melbourne Renegades inthe T20 Big Bash league and grade clubMelbourne University, and we are en-couraged by his ongoing development,"Inverarity said. "We have also been very

pleased with the progress of Indian-born fast bowler Gurinder Sandhu, whohas performed well for the SydneyThunder following strong performancesfor Australia in last year's Under 19World Cup."

Ricky Ponting, who recently retiredfrom international cricket, captains theteam, with former Test wicketkeeperBrad Haddin his deputy.

Ahmed has previously said he wastargeted by Muslim extremists in Pak-istan because of his involvement incricket, even receiving death threats be-cause of the perception that the sportpromotes Western values.

PM's XI: Ricky Ponting (capt), BradHaddin, Fawad Ahmed, Jono Dean,Alex Doolan, James Faulkner, PeterHandscomb, Usman Khawaja, KaneRichardson, Gurinder Sandhu, AshtonTurner, nick Winter (12th man).

Pakistan asylum-seekerfawad gets oZ PM’s Xi call

newage, risingSun in garrisonPolo final lAHoRE: The final of thelahore Garrison Polo Cupwill be played betweennewage and PAF/RisingSun at 2.30 pm on Sun-day. The subsidiary finalwill be played betweenGuards Group and RaviAutos. A match for 3rd po-sition will be played at11.30 am on Sunday.SCORES: another two pool matchesof the lahore garrison Polo cup-2013 were played on friday atfortress Stadium lahore cantt andwin was newage and Paf-rising Sunfate. in the first match newage de-feated 11 corps by 7/ 2 ½ goals. fromnewage Shah Shamyl alam Scored 3goal ,adnan Jalil azam Scored 2 goal, bilal Haye and Usman Haye Scoredone goal each for newage. while 11corps team fail to scored any goalfor 11 corps. two and half goal ofonly which are received of handicap.Umpires of this mach were lt colasif zahoor and Khurshid ahmed. inthe second match, Paf/ rising Sunbeat master Paints by 6-2 goals. formaster Paints Shah qubilal alam andSaqib Khan Khakwani scored onegoal each. Umpire of the match weremajor omer minhas and Khurshidahmed. STAFF REPORT

aslam academyquetta beatgolden Star

LAHORE: Aslam Acad-emy Quetta beat GoldenStar by 32 runs match in afriendly match here at theIttifaq ground on Friday. SCORES: aslam academy quetta 189for all in 34.3 overs. captian moham-mad aslam 79*, Jabar 20 andShreefud din 19. mohammad asif3/25, Umair 3/30, mohammad farhanand mohammad rameez took twowickets each. golden Star 157 for allin 30.2 overs. nadeem Khan 29, ze-shan Shabeer 23, mohammad asif 23and Saeedul Hassan 22. internationalcricketer of afganistan bacha Khantook 4/34, Shareefud din 3/29 andaslam 2/32. aslam of aslam acad-emy was named the man of thematch. STAFF REPORT


QuAiD-e-AzAM oPen golf

aguero's comebackstill a week away,says mancini

LONDON: Manchester City strikerSergio Aguero will miss Sunday'smatch against Arsenal and faces an-other week on the sidelines with ahamstring injury, manager RobertoMancini said on Friday. The 24-year-old Argentine, who is City's joint top-scorer this season with 10 goals,picked up the injury in City's 3-0 winover Stoke City on new Year's Dayand was forced to sit out their FA Cupvictory over Watford last weekend."Sergio won't be available for at leastanother week," Mancini told re-porters. "He should make the gameagainst Fulham but we won't risk himagainst Arsenal. He should be readyby next weekend." AGENCIES

wenger optimisticover walcott’sarsenal future

LONDON: Arsenal manager ArseneWenger said he was "optimistic" thatEngland international Theo Walcottwill commit his long-term future to thelondon club and sign a new deal.Barely a week goes by without theFrenchman being asked whetherprogress has been made on persuadingtop scorer Walcott to stay at the Emi-rates Stadium. Walcott, who has hiteight Premier league goals this cam-paign, is out of contract at the end ofthe season. "Discussions progresssmoothly but slowly. We are on a goodroad but in this situation, as long asnothing is signed, you are cautious,"Wenger told a news conference on Fri-day. "But I am optimistic we will get toa happy conclusion. I was optimisticlast week, but I am a bit more opti-mistic this week." AGENCIES

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LAHORESTAFF REPORT

Friday was the first round of the profes-sionals section competition in the 2ndQuaid-e-Azam open Golf Champi-onship that got rolling at the par 72, la-hore Gymkhana Golf Course, endorsedand supported by Shezan Internationaland the first round belonged to MatloobAhmed of Garrison Golf Club and Mo-hammad Munir of U-Fone.

During the first round, yesterday atthe Gymkhana Course, Matloob Ahmedand Mohammad Munir were models ofexcellence, performing to perfection andlooking awesome in every aspect of thegame and it was through a very well-bal-anced all round effort that they came upwith similar rounds of gross 66, six

under par and this is a score that cham-pions dream of when they are compet-ing. This did spread cheers all round thegolf course and made the sponsorshappy and left the organizers delighted.M.S Janjua of Shezan patted the twochampions over their praiseworthy per-formance and hoped they would keep upthe pace over the next two rounds andcontinue with their excellence.

With a total of 87 professionals lin-ing up for top slots in this prestigiouschampionship, one finds quite a fewother competitors looking pretty goodand in particular two names that standout are Ahmed Shahid Javed Khan ofRoyal Palm and M. Safdar Khan of Gu-jranwala Golf Club. Shahid too had aperfection oriented round of gross 69,three under par and looking good in

equal measure was M. Safdar with asimilar score of gross 69.All in all it wasa great day for golf as besides the topfour, six other competitors had underpar rounds and four had par rounds.The competitors who achieved underpar scores are Imdad Hussain (Garri-son) 70, Shakeel Fayyaz (Islamabad)70, Shahid Hanif (Gymkhana) 70, M.Tariq (Islamabad) 71, M. Asif (DefenceRayal) 71 and Talat Ijaz (Gymkhana)also 71. The competitors with par scoresare Danyaal Jehangir, nisar Hussain,M. Siiduque and Haseeb-ur-Rehman.

As for the details of Matloob's roundhe had five consecutive birdies on holes7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and two more on the13th and 16th. He had regulation parson ten holes and a solitary bogie on the4th hole. His partner on the leader

board rolled in birdies on holes 2, 4, 7,9 and 15 and powered an eagle on par 5,16th by virtue of a perfect tee shotbacked by an eight iron approach shotwith a given putt. Matloob was all praisefor the state of the greens which helpedhim in attaining a perfect score. one ofcompetitors Aashir Hanif is placed verylow on the leader board but he had thehonour of scoring two consecutive ea-gles on the 14th and 15th holes.

In the amateur section, the leaderafter 18 holes is Fakhar Imam of De-fence Raya Golf Club. His gross score inthe first round was gross 73 and follow-ing him are Col (r) Asif Mehdi at 77 andCol (r) Muslim Chatta also at 77. Col (r)M. Shafi is at 78. The second roundpromises a great fight between the topcontenders.

Matloob, Munir joint leaders of the day

radwanskadoles outdouble bagelto win SydneySYDNEY: AgnieszkaRadwanska humbledDominika Cibulkova 6-06-0 in a ruthless displayof all-court tennis to winher second Australianopen warm-up tourna-ment in two weeks at theSydney International onFriday. The Pole, seededfourth for MelbournePark and a winner inAuckland last week, se-cured her ninth straightvictory from the start ofthe year in a little overan hour of one-sidedtennis when the haplessCibulkova doublefaulted. Radwanskatempered her celebra-tions out of respect forher opponent and saidshe felt sympathy for theSlovakian, who hadbeaten three top-10players on her way tothe final. AGENCIES

condolence LAHORE: President,lahore City Cricket As-sociation, Khawajanadim Ahmed has con-doled the death of AbbasSharif ,younger brotherof former prime minis-ter, Mohamamd nawazSharif and Chief Minis-ter Punjab, Mian Shah-baz Sharif who died hereon Friday. In a condo-lence message he alongwith other office bearersof lCCA expressed hisheart felt sympathieswith the members of thebereaved family. Heprayed to Allah AlmightyAllah that the departedsoul may rest in eternalpeace and grant courageto bear this loss with for-titude. STAFF REPORT

MELBOURnE AGENCIES

Victoria Azarenka had a fairytale yearin 2012, opening with a red-hot 26-match win streak and capturing foursuccessive titles, including her firstgrand slam at the Australian open. Shefinished the year with six tournamentvictories, clinched the world numberone ranking and won the bronze medalin singles and gold in mixed doubles atthe london olympics.

To cap it off, Azarenka was awardedthe order of the Motherland by BelarusPresident Alexander lukashenko. Al-though not as dominant as a resurgentSerena Williams, who claimed the Wim-bledon and U.S. open titles, she hadmore wins against top-10 players thanany other on the WTA tour.

Yet her dream run could have cometo an abrupt halt less than 10 days beforeshe opened the defence of her Melbournetitle when a pedicure infected the big toeon her right foot. Rather than risk aggra-vating the injury, the 23-year-old with-drew from her Brisbane International

semi-final against Williams, just 30 min-utes before they were due on court. Criticssuggested the move may have been tacti-

cal. Why risk giving too much awayagainst the world number three, who isthe biggest threat to her defending theAustralian open title?

last year, however, the tall right-han-der was injury-free before she embarkedon her unbeaten run at the start of theyear and she said when she withdrewfrom Brisbane that was her sole focus asshe built into the year's first grand slam.

The decision appeared to have paidoff, with the world number one and topseed declaring on Friday that she had re-covered completely and was ready to go."It's much better," she told reporters atthe official draw for the Australian open."I've been practising for the last couple ofdays and it feels good, so I'm really happythat its all gone and behind me.

"The preparation (has) been prettygood, I had a couple of matches beforethat (injury) happened but I'm prettyhappy where I'm at." While Azarenka'sdemolition of Maria Sharapova in theAustralian open final last year cata-pulted her into the grand slam win-ners' club, the Belarusian had beenthreatening for several years.

azarenka’s run couldface another williams test


i’m playing againstanimals, jokes elsafter colsaerts rocketDURBAN: Four-times major winner Ernie Els gothis first close-up view of the world's longest profes-sional hitter nicolas Colsaerts at the Volvo GolfChampions on Thursday and the 43-year-old wasstunned by his Belgian playing partner's power."They should put a plaque down. I was comingfrom a different zip code and I've got to competeagainst these animals," joked Els after the firstround in Durban. Colsaerts led the driving dis-tances on the European and PGA tours in 2012with a staggering average of 318.6 yards, ranking

over three yards ahead ofU.S. Masters champion

Bubba Watson. AGENCIES

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Servis clubdown tauseef inexhibition match

LAHORESTAFF REPORT

Servis club has won the opening exhi-bition match of 10th Muhammad Sid-diq Memorial Cricket Tournamentwhen they beat Tauseef Club by 35runs played at Allama Iqbal instituteground the other day Mr. Waqqar-ul-Munir Chairman Tournament Commit-tee of East Zone Cricket Associatonwas the Chief Guest. A large no of or-ganizers were also present.Fine bowl-ing by imran Ali was the main featureand declared man of the match.SCORES: Servis club (180) all out. arshad nadeem 61,

mudasser ali 33, azam Siddiq 37, Sattar Khan 20. waqas

khan 3/30, Shairrbaz Khan 2/35, israr baig 1/29. tauseef

club (145) all out. abrar baig 33, waqas Khan 18, zeeshan

butt 24, awais manzoor 18, ali raza 10. imran ali 5/33,

adnan danish 2/22, Sattar Khan 2/17, farhan asghar 1/37.

east zone meeting LAHORE

STAFF REPORT

The East Zone cricket Association tour-nament committee meeting will be heldon January 13 at 3 PM (Sunday) in thechairmanship of Chairman TournamentCommittee Waqar-ul-Munir at his hose. Specially in the meeting Hanif Muham-mad Memorial Event will be discussed.All members of the committee will ad-vise to attend the meeting in time.

LOnDOn AGENCIES

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooneywill miss Sunday's Premier league clashagainst north-west rivals liverpool afterfailing to recover from a knee injury, man-ager Alex Ferguson said on Friday. Rooneyinjured a knee ligament in training andmissed United's holiday fixtures againstnewcastle United, West Bromwich Albionand Wigan Athletic as well as their FA Cupdraw at West Ham United. "WayneRooney is still out," Ferguson told re-porters. "I am hoping he will starttraining today actually, in whichcase he won't be far away. I don'tthink it is an issue, but we needto guide him along. "In terms ofthe injury he had, it's quitestraightforward so if he startstoday, I assume he will beavailable for Wednesday's re-play (against West Ham)."

United winger nani and midfielder Andersonwill both return to the squad for

liverpool's visit to old Traf-ford. "nani is back in trainingand will be included in thesquad for Sunday."Ander-son has been back trainingfor 10 days now so he willbe in the squad for Sunday.

All in all it is quite a positivesituation. It's good to havethem back." United lead thePremier league by seven

points from local rivals ManchesterCity after 21 games, while liverpool

are 14 points further adrift in eighthplace.The fixture, however, remains as

important as ever, according to Fer-guson. "The derby game againstliverpool never changes," he said.It's always an immensely impor-tant game - intense, emotional.We are going into the game inreasonable form."

United’s rooney out of liverpool clashLOnDOn

AGENCIES

Chelsea's former England captain John Terrysaid his knee felt "totally fine" after making hiscomeback for the club's under-21 team follow-ing two months on the sidelines. The 32-year-old central defender played for 45 minuteson Thursday night, featuring as anover-age player in a 2-0 victoryover neighbours Fulham. "I havecome through alright," Terrytold Chelsea TV. "Initially Iwas going to play between 30and 45 (minutes) so I man-aged to get through the firsthalf and the knee feels to-tally fine which is the mainthing. "lungs are a little bit...which is natural, but it is goodto get in 45 under my belt. Ithas been frustrating two monthsreally. "I felt fine, totally fine.Passing, tackling, everything felt

fine. It's really positive to come through a game andhopefully give myself a chance to be back in-

volved with the first team." Terry hurt hisknee against liverpool on november 11, hisfirst match back after serving a four-gameban for racially abusing Queens ParkRangers defender Anton Ferdinand. Terry

has missed 16 games in all competitions andsaid he hoped to soon be back in con-

tention for a first-team recall. "Maybeit is too soon to get back starting.The lads have been playing well aswell, so I know better than any-body I have to wait my time andbe patient and try to get back inthe squad first, than the teamafter that," he said. Chelsea,fourth in the Premier league - 14points behind leaders ManchesterUnited - travel to Stoke City on

Saturday looking to bounce backfrom a midweek home defeat by

Swansea in the Capital one (league)Cup, semi-final first-leg.

i feel fine, terry says after comeback

Sydney: Victoria Azarenka,

Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams,

Agnieszka Radwanska, Angelique

Kerber, Petra Kvitova, Sara errani

and na Li pose for photographers

ahead of the Australian Open.

MELBOURnE AGENCIES

ACHIEVInG a lifetime goal canleave some players content butmay also blight their ambition.For Andy Murray, however, noth-

ing could be further from the truth. TheScot's victory at the U.S. open last Septem-ber came on the back of his olympic triumphthe previous month and was the fulfilment ofa dream. But with the new calm that successbrings showing in his improved demeanouron court, the 25-year-old is more determinedthan ever to add more grand slam titles to histally, starting at the Australian open, whichbegins in Melbourne on Monday.

"The U.S. open and the olympics mademe extremely motivated," Murray told re-porters this week. "It wasn't a case of 'oh,everything's done now'. "It's taken a longtime to get there and to win those sorts ofevents. I know the feeling when you do winthem now and it's worth all of the work thatyou put in. "In the past, there were loads and

loads of questions. I wasn't physically strongenough. I wasn't mentally strong enough. Ididn't listen to my coaches. I was spoilt.

"Whatever it was, none of that reallybothers me anymore. I'm just looking forways to keep improving." The next chapterbegins on Monday when Murray bids to be-come the first man in the open era to followup his first grand slam title by winning thevery next one.

It is a difficult task; Pete Sampras, whowent on to win 14, took 11 grand slam eventsto win his second title, while novak Djokovic,the man Murray beat to win in new York,took 12 more slams to win another one. Mur-ray picked up where he left off in 2012 bywinning his first event of this year in Bris-bane and will go into Melbourne as the sec-ond favourite for the title behind Djokovic.In the past 12 months, Murray has trans-formed himself from the nearly man of ten-nis into a national hero. When he lost toRoger Federer in the final at Wimbledon lastsummer, his fourth defeat in grand slam fi-nals, the knives were out.

MELBOURnEAGENCIES

World number one novak Djokovic's bid for athird successive Australian open title has beengiven a boost with a relatively smooth draw inthe first grand slam of the season. The 25-year-old Serb kicks off his title defence with a firstround tie against unseeded Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in the draw announced on Fri-day and faces no major hurdles until apotentially dangerous quarter-final againstfifth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych.

In a top half of the draw free of 'Big Four' ri-vals Roger Federer, Andy Murray and the absentRafa nadal, a possible semi-final clash withfourth seed David Ferrer, looms for five-times

grand slam winner Djokovic, who beat the tena-cious Spaniard in the quarter-finals last year. "Ithink realistically, three can win," Australia'sformer Wimbledon champion Pat Cash said at

the draw, referring to Djokovic, second seedFederer and third-seeded Murray. "You've gotto say novak, you'd expect him to be thefavourite ... but Andy Murray is hitting hispeak." Former world number one Federer facesa tough first week in his bid to add to his record17 grand slam titles, however.

The four-time champion will also play anunseeded Frenchman in Benoit Paire in hisopener, but is likely to face former top-10 playernikolay Davydenko of Russia in the secondround before another potentially tricky clashwith local hope Bernard Tomic in the third. Big-serving Milos Raonic of Canada, the 13th seed, isthen an unpalatable prospect in the last 16, withathletic Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a goodchance to meet the Swiss in the quarter-finals.

Murray focusedon more GS success

Djokovic starts australia defence against Mathieu


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complete shutter downin Quetta tomourn killings

QUETTASTAFF REPORT

The provincial metropolis onFriday witnessed a completeshutter down on a call bypolitical, traders and religiousorganisations in protest againstThursday’s bloodbath that leftover 100 people. over 100people were killed and dozensinjured in three bombings inthe city on Thursday. MarkaziAnjuman-e-Tajran, JamiatUlema Islam (nazriati),Tahafuz-e-Azadari Council,Tehreek nifaze Fiqah-e-JaffriaBalochistan, HazaraDemocratic Party and otherorganisations had given the callof strike against the bombings.All main and small businesscentres on Jinnah Road,Qandhari Bazaar, Masjid Road,Fatima Jinnah Road, liaqatBazaar, Prince Road, AbdulSattar Road, Alamdar Road,Toghi Road, Mission Road,Soraj Ganj Bazaar and DoubleRoad remained closedthroughout the day. Theprovincial government andHazara Democratic Party hadannounced to observe three-day mourning against themassive killings caused by thebomb blasts. Heavycontingents of Frontier CorpsBalochistan, police andBalochistan Constabulary weredeployed across the city andarmed contingents ofBalochistan Constabulary andFrontier Corps continuedpatrolling the city the entire day.Armed personnel of FrontierCorps had also taken positions intrenches set up by placing sandbags at several areas. They putup blockades on several roadsand kept searching motorcycliststhroughout the day.

4 major generalspromoted

RAWALPInDI STAFF REPORT

Four major generals of thePakistan Army have beenpromoted to the rank oflieutenant general, a pressrelease issued by Inter-ServicesPublic Relation (ISPR) said onFriday. It said Major GeneralMaqsood Ahmad, MajorGeneral Zubair MahmoodHayat, Major Ganeral SyedWajid Hussain and MajorGeneral najibullah Khan hadbeen promoted to the rank oflieutenant general.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has officiallycontacted the United nations Militaryobservers Group for India and Pakistan(UnMoGIP) over the continued cease-fire violations by India along the line ofControl (loC), as the Foreign officecalled in Indian High CommissionerSharat Sabharwal to lodge a formalprotest over repeated, unacceptable andunprovoked attacks by India.

Addressing an emergency newsconference at the Ministry for ForeignAffairs, Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani saidIslamabad had taken onboard theUnited nations Military observersGroup for India and Pakistan over thecontinued ceasefire violations by Indiaon the loC. “Pakistan has conveyed itsconcern to the Western diplomats andthe Un Military observers Group forIndia and Pakistan over repeated viola-

tion of line of Control by Indian army‚urging them to play their role in defus-ing the tension,” he said. Earlier, IndianHigh Commissioner Sharat Sabharwalwas summoned at the Ministry of For-eign Affairs and a strong protest waslodged with him, Jilani said. He said theIndian government had been conveyeda message through the high commis-sioner to conduct a thorough investiga-tion into the repeated violations of theceasefire along the line of Control byIndian troops and to adopt necessarysteps to ensure they did not recur.

The secretary said the ministryalso gave a detailed briefing to ambas-sadors of 18 countries at the Foreignoffice, giving them detailed account ofIndian aggression on the loC. “Pak-istan reiterates its commitment to apeaceful resolution of all outstanding

issues through a sustained and result-oriented dialogue with India,” the for-eign secretary added. Jilani said he alsoreminded the government of India ofits commitment to fully implement theceasefire along the loC and stronglyurged it to abide and respect the cease-fire, which he said was an importantconfidence-building measure that hadworked well since 2003.

“These attacks not only vitiate theatmosphere but also create unnecessaryand avoidable distractions in our effortstowards the peace process,” he said to aquery. To another question, Jilani said ifIndia was carrying this aggression to di-vert the world’s attention away from therecent gang rape in new Delhi, it was in-deed unfortunate. To a question onreservations over awarding India theMFn status, the foreign secretary said

the media had presented his statementout of context, adding that the agricul-ture sector was having some issues, fol-lowing which the ministries concernedwere directed to take them onboard overthe MFn title to India. Jilani reiteratedPakistan’s offer to hold an independentinquiry into the recent incidents ofceasefire violations through the Unitednations. Meanwhile, the Pakistani gov-ernment has decided to suspend the“Paigham-e-Aman” bus service betweenAzad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) andIndian-held Kashmir.

“Pakistan has suspended thecross-loC bus service betweenChakan-Da-Bagh (J and K) andRawalakote (AJK) for the timebeing,” Trade Facilitation officer(TFo), Poonch, Abdul Hamid Sheikhsaid.

WASHIngTOnSPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

RECoGnISInG the im-portance of Pakistan’ssupport for peace andstability in Afghanistan,US President Barack

obama on Friday saw greater aware-ness in Islamabad on addressing ex-tremism in the region.

Speaking after long deliberations atthe White House with visiting AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai on the way for-ward in Afghanistan and the region,obama said curbing extremism in Pak-istan-Afghanistan border region wouldrequire political and diplomatic coopera-tion between the two neighbours and notjust military action. Addressing a jointpress conference with Karzai, Presidentobama said the US and Afghanistanrecommitted themselves to political rec-onciliation between the Afghan govern-ment and the Taliban. “Today we agreed

that this process should be advanced byopening of a Taliban office to facilitatetalks,” he said after the talks, which alsocovered the scope of the US-Afghanistancooperation beyond 2014, when the US-led Afghan war officially ends.

obama said if some US forces stayedin Afghanistan beyond 2014, their mis-sion and role would be to train theAfghan forces and carry out targeted ac-tions against al Qaeda and its affiliates.The US president specifically noted thatAfghan reconciliation would requireconstructive support from Islamabadand welcomed the recent steps towardsthat end. “Reconciliation also requiresconstructive support from across the re-gion including Pakistan. We welcome re-cent steps that have been taken in thatregard. We look for more tangible stepsbecause a stable and secure Afghanistanis in the interests of not only of theAfghan people and the United States butentire region.” Asked by an Afghan jour-nalist about the US future policy with re-

gards to alleged militant safe havens inthe Tribal Areas, obama emphasisedthat “Afghanistan, the United States andPakistan all have an interest in reducingthe threat of extremism in some of theborder regions of Afghanistan and Pak-istan”. “That is going to require morethan simply taking military actions. Thatis really going to require political anddiplomatic work between Afghanistanand Pakistan.” obama added the US ob-viously would have an interest in facili-tating cooperation between the twosovereign neighbouring countries.

“As President Karzai has indi-cated it is very hard to imagine stabil-ity and peace in the region if Pakistanand Afghanistan don’t come to somebasic agreement and understandingabout the threat of extremism to bothcountries and both governments inboth capitals.” “I think we are startingto see a greater awareness on that onpart of the Pakistani government,”obama said.

Sri lankaparliamentvotes to impeachchief justice

COLOMBOAGENCIES

Sri lanka’s parliament on Friday voted toimpeach Chief Justice ShiraniBandaranayake after a process criticised byinternational rights groups as an assault onjudicial independence.The assembly voted 155 to 49 to dismissBandaranayake whose most recent rulingshad gone against the government ofPresident Mahinda Rajapakse who iswidely expected to ratify the sacking andname a replacement within days.“The motion (to impeach) was carried with155 voting for and 49 against,” SpeakerChamal Rajapakse said at the end of a two-day debate on a controversialparliamentary panel report which foundBandaranayake guilty of misconduct.Bandaranayake, 54, the country’s firstwoman in the highest judicial office, hasalready challenged the parliamentary process.Three leftist members of Rajapakse’sUnited People’s Freedom Alliancecoalition, who stayed away when the votewas taken, said they failed to “avert aconstitutional crisis” with the first eversacking of a top judge in Sri lanka.“Right from the beginning, we attempted tointervene at several stages to avert aconstitutional crisis, a confrontationbetween the legislature, executive and thejudiciary,” Senior Minister D. E. WGunasekera of the Communist Party said.Gunasekera said the impeachment hadbeen politicised and damaged the image ofthe country.Ruling party supporters celebrated theparliamentary vote by bursting firecrackers around the tightly-guardedparliament building.The government brought charges againstBandaranayake after she turned down acontroversial bill that sought to grantgreater financial and political power toRajapakse’s youngest brother Basil, theeconomic development minister.Although she was accused of 14 counts offinancial, professional and personalmisconduct, a parliamentary committeeconvicted her only of three.

Obama recognises Pakistan’s‘key’ role in Afghan peaceg US president says curbing extremism in Pakistan-Afghanistan border region to requirepolitical, diplomatic cooperation between the neighbours g Says US, Afghanistanrecommitted to political reconciliation between Afghan government and Taliban

indian hc gets dressing down over loc killingsg Pakistan contacts Un observers, diplomats over india’s repeated loc violations

QUETTA: A large number of Hazara Shias on Friday

participate in the funeral procession of Shias

killed in Thursday’s twin bombings. inP


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