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PAKISTAN Tehreek-e-InsaafChairman Imran Khan onSunday accused thegovernment of creatinghurdles in the way of PTI’s

proposed peace march in SouthWaziristan Agency.

Addressing a news conference at thePTI Central Secretariat, Imran said thegovernment was pressurizing the PTI byrefusing visas to several internationaljournalists willing to participate in themarch against drone strikes.

Flanked by international NGOWomen for Peace, delegates of theAmerican civil society and former USenvoy Mary Ann Wright, Imran calledthe government’s lack of support for hispeaceful march against the dronestrikes “sorrowful”. He said a 60member-delegation comprisinginternational NGOs, media personneland prominent anti-war American civilsociety members would participate inthe peace march to express theirsolidarity with the victims of dronestrikes and to raise a voice against thedrone attacks.

He said foreign delegatesparticipating in the march had alsobrought with them a petition signed byover 6,000 US citizens for restrictingthe drone strikes and it would besubmitted to the US embassy inPakistan. The PTI chief said he had hadmeetings with three major tribes ofSouth Waziristan Agency including theWazirs, Mehsuds, Burkis and Bhetanis,

who not only assured security toforeigners, but also promised to arrangea warm welcome for the guests.

Asked why he had not chosen NorthWaziristan Agency for his march, Imransaid when Wazir tribes in NorthWaziristan were contacted for theirassurance regarding safety of foreignersin the rally, they warned of someisolated groups that might threaten theparticipants of the rally. Imran said allmajor issues of Pakistan would getsettled on the day the governmentdecided to quit America’s war againstterror and stand by its tribesmen,adding that it was beyondcomprehension who could haveobjections to the peaceful march onsuch an important issue.

“This is a symbolic peaceful marchto raise the issue on an internationallevel for which lives of our guestscannot be put under threat,” he added.

The PTI chief urged the governmentnot to restrict visas of internationalcitizens and journalists willing toparticipate in the peace march, saying

such restrictions were against the will ofthe people. To a question regardingsacrilegious, controversial anti-Islammovie, Imran said some miscreants inthe US and Europe were using thecontroversial movie to provokeMuslims and strong internationalmeasures should be adopted to restrictsuch acts.

PTI Vice Chairman Shah MehmoodQureshi said the peace march wouldstart from Islamabad’s Blue Area andwould proceed towards Balkasar,Talagang, Mianwali and DI Khan onOctober 6. Qureshi said the rally wouldgather at Tank on October 7 to headtowards South Waziristan, where apublic meeting would be held at Kot Kai.

Former US envoy Mary Ann Wrightalso addressed the news conference,condemning the hateful movie as wellas supporting the abolition of dronestrikes in Tribal Areas. She held USPresident Obama responsible for thesekillings and said the people of Pakistanshould stand up and launch strongprotests against the drone attacks.

Govt planning to thwartPTI’s SWA march: Imran

ISLAMABADStAff RePORt

Calling drones attacks ‘extrajudicial’ and aviolation of human rights, internationalpeace activist and former US deputy chiefof mission in Afghanistan, Mary AnnWright, on Sunday demanded the USadministration abolish the use of thesepilotless aircraft. She also declared thesacrilegious movie ‘a hate speechinstigating troubles around the world’.Addressing a news conference, flanked by

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman ImranKhan, and members of US civil society, theinternational peace activist said the UScivilian peace delegation was representingmillions of Americans who were against thewar policy of the US government and didnot consider it justified.She said she and other US citizens werehere as a delegation of peace despiteopposition by their government andrejecting all the travel advisories andwarnings by the US government askingtheir citizens to not to visit these areas.Declaring drone attacks in Pakistani TribalAreas, Yemen and elsewhere illegal, Wrightsaid that use of drones must end now.She said being US nationals, it was hard toprotest against their own government but“Americans are here as this is a humanitarianissue”, which must be given due respect.The former US deputy chief of mission inAfghanistan was of the view that US citizenswere on their way to South WaziristanAgency to witness the destruction caused bythe drone attacks by their own eyes and toapologies with locals for their losses causedby drone aggressions. She said US peacedelegates, who arrived in Pakistanchallenging their own government,expected a warm welcome by theirPakistani hosts as they were here againstthe policy of their government, to standwith locals and to oppose the drone strikes.

g PTI chief accuses government of adopting dual policies on drone attacksg Says visas restricted for several international journalists willing to participate in PTI’s peace rally

Govt slashesPOL, CNG prices

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The government on Sunday approved a cutin POL and CNG prices, to be effective fromMonday 12am. The Oil and Gas RegulatoryAuthority (OGRA) had sent a summary tothe Petroleum and Finance ministries andrecommended a reduction in the prices ofpetroleum products by Rs 6 per litre, whichwas approved by the government. With theimplementation of new prices, petrol wouldbecome cheaper by Rs 6 per litre, the priceof high speed diesel (HSD) has come downby 40 paisas, light diesel oil (LDO) by 14paisas and kerosene oil by 40 paisas. Tomaintain the 60 percent parity between theprice of petrol and CNG, OGRA also askedfor a reduction in the price of CNG.The price of CNG has been reduced in regionone by Rs 5.49 per kilogramme and in regiontwo by Rs 5.02 per kilogramme. The newprice of petrol is now Rs 102.45 per litre,while high speed diesel will cost Rs 113.16per litre. Light diesel oil will cost Rs 96.22per litre, while kerosene will be sold at Rs109.23 per litre. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Balochistan and Potohar, the price of CNGwill now become Rs 93.79 per kilogram,while it will come down to Rs 85.68 perkilogramme in Sindh and Punjab.

Drone strikesare illegal,ex-US envoy

PTI’s march likely to be bannedPESHAWAR: The Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) Secretariathas suggested the federal and provincial governments to overrule PakistanTehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) decision of holding a “peace rally” in South WaziristanAgency. The FATA Secretariat forwarded a proposal to both governments citingthe dismal security situation in the agencies as the reason for the proposal. ThePTI on Sunday accused the government of creating hurdles in the party’s plansof staging a peace rally in South Waziristan, adding that it would not shun itsagenda because of the ill will of its detractors. STaff REpORT

Former US deputy chief of missionin Afghanistan Mary Ann Wrightdemands Washington abolish useof pilotless aircraftUrges international legislation forprotecting all religions, atheists

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Advani learning Arabicto understand Holy QuranVeteran Indian politician and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)president LK Advani is learning to read Arabic ‘to comprehend thetrue spirit of Islam’. According to news reports, the BJP leadersaid he wanted to read the holy Quran in its original form. “I wantto read the original script and understand it,” said Advani. Theoctogenarian leader, who has read the translated versions of theholy Quran in Hindi and English, is now devoting time to read theholy book in Arabic. MONItORING deSK

300 kgs of narcotics, 300rounds seizedCHAGAI: Law enforcement personnel recovered a hugequantity of narcotics and bullet rounds from an AfghanRefugees camp near Girdi Jangal area of Chagai district onSunday. According to Levies force, Law enforcement personnelconducted a raid on a tip off and recovered 300kgs of heroinand 300 bullet rounds. Levies force and LEAs are looking intothe matter. APP

Zardari’s UN speech representedsentiments of Ummah: KairaLALAMUSA: President Asif Ali Zardari’s address to the UnitedNations General Assembly represented the sentiments of notonly Pakistan, but the entire Muslim Ummah, InformationMinister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Sunday. The minister saidthat Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) adopted theresolution presented by Pakistan pertaining to the anti-Islamfilm. He said the Pakistani government lodged a strong protestat the government level, although the president asserted thatburning of vehicles and property and loot and plunder were notappropriate ways to protest. Kaira said in his meeting withseveral heads of state, the president apprised them of thesacrifices rendered by Pakistan in the war against terrorism. Theminister said instead of point scoring, time had come to workfor resolving the problems of the masses. He said the PPPbelieved in service to the masses, adding that nobody coulddeter the PPP as it had a history of unprecedented sacrifices. Toa question about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit toPakistan, he said the tour had been postponed, not cancelled.About Balochistan, he said the government was ready to discussall issues with the Baloch brothers. Kaira said Pakistan MuslimLeague-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had rightlysaid that all institutions and political forces would have to joinhands to resolve the crisis in Balochistan. Regarding the latestIRI survey, the minister said elections were the real measure ofthe popularity of a political force and the electoral verdict hadcome in favour of the PPP. APP

2 killed in Balochistan violence QUEttA: Two people were killed and another wounded in twoseparate incidents of firing in Quetta and Turbat on Sunday, whilea body was found in Hub. Police officials said a Levies official, Mu-jeebur Rehman, was killed after a scuffle with a jeweler in main Li-aquat Bazaar in Quetta. A shopkeeper also received bullet injuries.Police rushed to the site and moved the dead and the injured tohospital. In another incident, a person was killed in Turbat.Unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate firing on Muham-mad Murad and fled. The deceased was stated to be a goldsmithby professional. However, the cause of murder was yet to be ascer-tained. Meanwhile, police on a tip-off recovered a body packed insack and took it to a hospital for examination. However, the iden-tity of the deceased could not be confirmed. SHAHzAdA zuLfIqAR

Khuzdar Press Clubshuts down to mournslain journalist

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Journalists in Khuzdar on Sunday shut down theKhuzdar Press Club in protest against the killing ofclub’s General Secretary Abdul Haq Baloch andthreats to some journalists by a militant group.Unidentified armed men gunned down Haq onSaturday night when he was on his way home inKhuzdar. No group has so far claimed responsibilityfor the murder.Journalists in Khuzdar closed down the press club inprotest to condemn the murder of Haq and onreceiving death threats from armed groups.They said they could not continue working in suchgrave conditions, as five journalists had been brutallytargeted in Khuzdar during the last two years.Haq was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Khuzdarand a large number of mediamen, civil societymembers and tribal elders attended the funeral.The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) hasstrongly condemned the murder and demanded theformation of a high-level committee to investigate thebrutal murder and to provide security to journalists.Over 20 journalists have been target killed in variousareas of Balochistan during the past three years, butno accused has been arrested so far.

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The government has finalised a policyto regulate International Non-govern-mental Organisations (INGOs) in orderto avoid Abbottabad-like incidents inthe future.

Upon confirmation of the involve-ment of an INGO official in the captureof world’s most wanted terrorist Osamabin Laden, the government had di-rected the Economic Affairs Division(EAD) to formulate a policy draft onpriority to regulate the INGOs workingin the country.

Former head of al Qaeda OsamaBin Laden was killed in Pakistan onMay 2, 2011 by US Navy SEALs.

Shakeel Afridi, a physician, helpedthe CIA run a fake vaccine programmeunder the umbrella of Save the Chil-dren in Abbottabad to confirm binLaden’s presence in the city by obtain-ing DNA samples.

Details of the doctor’s activitiesemerged during Pakistani investigationinto bin Laden’s killing. He was ar-rested from Torkham border while try-ing to escape the country days after theraid.

Sources said presently there was nolegal framework available for registra-tion of workers of INGOs.

Until the time the policy becomesoperational, EAD is granting interimpermission for a period of four months,which is extendable.

In the past, EAD used to sign amemorandum of understanding (MoU)with the INGOs that wanted to work inPakistan.

Around 88 INGOs have presentlysigned MOUs with EAD for working inthe country.

The request of INGOs and a draftMoU have been circulated amongst theconcerned ministries, divisions andprovincial governments, including theministries of Interior and Foreign Af-fairs. The MOU defines the correspon-ding rights and obligations of itssignatories.

It generally obliges the governmentto allow the concerned INGO to under-take projects in the agreed areas andbinds the INGO to remain within thescope of agreed activities and identifylocal limits, seek permission of the gov-ernment for entry of its expatriate staffand to periodically inform the govern-ment of its activities.

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Transparent electionsimpossible underZardari: JI chief

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Free, fair andtransparentelections underPresident AsifAli Zardari areimpossible,Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chiefMunawarHasan said onSunday.Addressing arally, the JIchief said anindependentelectioncommission

was necessary for holding free and fair elections.Hasan also lashed out at the Muttahida QaumiMovement (MQM) for its alleged involvement intargeted killings across Sindh. Commenting on theanti-Islam film that led to violent protests across theglobe, Hasan said “no matter how much wecondemn the blasphemous film, it is not enough”.“The West is actively plotting against Islam. Therewill be an Islamic revolution soon in Pakistan.”Criticising JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, Hasan saidPakistan did not need his Islamic revolution.

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It took three months and 30 visits fromUN aid workers to convince HaidarKhan to let his son have the polio vacci-nation.

The day before he relented and al-lowed Yahia to take the two drops ofvaccine, he almost came to blows withthe Unicef staff trying to inoculate thefour-year-old against the disease, whichcan bring paralysis in a matter of hours.

Like thousands of parents in Pak-istan’s deeply conservative northwest,Khan had heard and believed the ru-mors and conspiracy theories about thevaccine, which have helped the countrymaintain its unenviable status as one ofonly three nations in the world wherepolio is still endemic.

“I heard that the vaccine containspig, that it’s haram (forbidden in

Islam),” the 27-year-old Khan told AFPat his stall in the northwestern city ofPeshawar, surrounded by crates of fizzydrinks.

“Sermons from the mosque loud-speakers said it was an American con-spiracy to damage our children.”

There have been 30 confirmed casesof polio in Pakistan this year accordingto the government, 22 of them in thePashtun tribal areas of the northwest,bordering Afghanistan, where Talibanand Al-Qaeda-linked militants haveforged strongholds.

Pakistan had a total of 91 polio caseslast year, but the battle to convince peo-ple in the tribal areas, where educationis limited and deeply conservative val-ues hold sway, is a tough one.

Doctor Syed Irfan Ali Shah, 28,spent two years raising awarenessamong the local population and nowheads the local Unicef team in Pe-

shawar.“We are welcomed because every

member of my team is a local, wellknown in his neighbourhood,” he said.

“Trust is built up, and it is usually atthe end of a number of visits that wemanage to persuade the families.”

People in the area were alreadydeeply distrustful of foreign interven-tion, and suspicions soared even furtherlast year after the CIA used a hepatitisinoculation program as cover to try tofind Osama bin Laden.

The CIA used Pakistani doctor Sha-keel Afridi to set up a hepatitis drive inthe garrison town of Abbottabad —where bin Laden was later found andkilled by US special forces — in the hopeof obtaining DNA samples to identifythe Al-Qaeda leader.

The episode made people all themore suspicious of vaccination, butcampaign worker Zain Al Abedin said it

was not the only reason people refusedto give their children the drops.

“Massive illiteracy creates all sortsof fantasies. I’ve heard everything — thevaccine makes you sterile, it gives youAIDS, even that we urinated in it!” hesaid with a rueful smile.

Fighting between governmenttroops and tribal militias in the north-west, as well the Taliban banning inoc-ulations in protest at US drone strikes,have also hampered efforts to fight thedisease. In July officials said the prob-lems were jeopardizing more than350,000 children in the tribal areas.

To improve matters, Unicef hastried to rally influential religious lead-ers to the cause.

In the poor Peshawar neighbour-hood of Yakatoot, as naked childrenplay in stagnant water, a team with afatwa or religious ruling approving vac-cination try to persuade a young father,

Noor Zamin.But his brother, a member of a reli-

gious group, steps in.“I have made scientific studies on

this. I cannot say what I discovered, butthe vaccination is anti-Islamic,” he says,stroking his beard, before asking the aidworkers to leave.

In a small mosque in the neighbor-ing area of Sadiqabad, the mufti Fidahrefused to give a fatwa backing the vac-cination.

“On one side, the United States andthe Westerners bombard us with theirdrones, and on the other one they wantto inoculate our children,” he said.

He was convinced “there is neces-sarily something bad” in the vaccine,but Shah the doctor says the cleric issoftening his position, bit by bit.

Will he agree to the next vaccinationcampaign, in October? “Inshallah,” hesays: if God wills it.

Rumours of pigs and plots dog Pakistan’s fight against polio

KARACHI/LAHORE AGeNCIeS

PROTESTS against the US-made anti-Islam film and thepublication of blasphemouscartoons in France continuedacross the country on Sunday,

as at least 5,000 people rallied in Karachito demand the closure of US and Frenchembassies.

Sunday’s rallies, however, remainedpeaceful unlike like last Friday’s violentprotests across the country on the Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (SAW) that saw at least22 people killed and property worth mil-lions going up in flames.

Police had beefed up security for the

rally in Karachi that was organised byAhle Sunnat wa Al-Jamaat, while para-military forces were also called in to se-cure the area.

“Beheading is the only punishmentfor blasphemy,” read one banner. “We de-mand all French and US diplomatic mis-sions shut in Pakistan,” said another, asprotesters shouted: “We are ready to sac-rifice our lives for the honour of ProphetMohammed (PBUH)!”

Senior police official Amir Lodhi said“about 5,000 people were in the rally”,adding that organisers made assurancesthey would not march towards the USconsulate.

Per details, the rally was taken outfrom Lasbela Chowk to Guru Mandir.

The demonstrators demanded theMuslim nations summon an emergencyOIC moot and devise a joint strategy tocriminalize defamation of prophets.

The crudely made “Innocence ofMuslims” movie has sparked angry and attimes violent demonstrations across theglobe. Adding fuel to the fire, a Frenchsatirical magazine Charlie Hebdo pub-lished sacrilegious images of Prophet Mo-hammed (PBUH), further inflamingMuslim sentiment.

Protest were staged in Lahore also,where Majlis-e-Ahrar Islam Pakistanstaged a rally against the US movie.

A large number of workers partici-pated in the protest outside the LahorePress Club.

The participants were carrying ban-ners and placards inscribed with slogansagainst America and Israel. They alsoburnt a US flag.

Addressing the protesters, QariMuhammad Yousaf and Mian Muham-mad Awais condemned the moviemakersand pledged to sacrifice their lives for thehonour of Holy Prophet Muhammad(PBUH).

Jamatud Dawa also took out a protestrally against the film and images in La-hore Cantonment. The rally was ad-dressed by JD chief Hafiz MohammadSaeed.

The Tanzeem-e-Islami Lahore alsostaged a demonstration to condemn thesacrilegious actions.

Protesters demand closure

of US, French embassiesg Demonstrations aginst anti-islam film continue in karachi, Lahore

PTI decides to pacifyestranged MazariLAHORE: ThePakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) hasdecided to bring DrSheri Mazari back intothe party fold and hasinitiated contacts withher through variouskey personalities.According to PTIsources, party chiefImran Khan planned towin back the support ofMazari, who recentlytendered her resignation after she was issued ashow-cause notice asking for an explanation ofher assertion against the party chief and otherleaders. The sources said all reservations of DrMazari would be redressed to bring her back intoparty ranks. The source said Imran was hopefulof wooing Mazari back into the party. INP

ISLAMABADANweR AbbAS

Interior Minister Rehman Malik onSunday rejected BNP chief SardarAkhtar Mengal’s remarks that thegovernment was conducting a mili-tary operation in Balochistan, sayingno such offensive was underway inthe province.

Talking to reporters, Malik saideveryone should abstain from blamegames.

He said the government was seri-ous in resolving the issue of missingpersons in Balochistan, as it took theinitiative of inviting Akhtar Mengalback to the country as well as remov-ing his name from the Exit ControlList (ECL).

Making an appeal of not defam-ing the army, he said the peopleshould not malign the military, as itwas “our own army”, adding that for-

eign elements were involved in unrestin the province and he had evidencethat would be presented to Mengal.

He questioned was there noFrontier Constabulary (FC) inBalochistan when Mengal himselfwas a minister.

“The current government hasdone all that was needed of the timeand the Pakistan People’s Party hasdone everything for democracy,”Malik said.

Commenting on the six-point de-mand by the former Balochistan chiefminister, Malik said Mengal had fur-nished complaints, not demands.

The interior minister said hewould forward his Senate speech toAkhtar Megal, saying he would askhim why he did not arrest those re-sponsible for his brother’s abduction.

He said he had requested the ju-dicial commission on missing personsto meet Mengal with regards to the

recovery of his missing brother.Malik said no operation was

under progress in Balochistan and theFrontier Constabulary had been pro-vided to the province following a re-quest by the provincial government.

However, the interior ministersaid some people were talking aboutthe military operation in Balochistanfor their vested interests and it was awrong approach.

Vowing to respond to the allega-tions levelled by the Baloch leaderagainst him, Malik said politiciansshould not use the Balochistan issuefor their personal gains and all partiesshould sit together to resolve thecountry’s issue instead of politickingover issues. To a question, he said thegovernment had withdrawn all casesagainst Akhtar Mengal and hisfriends, and would adopt more meas-ures to appease the angry leadershipof Balochistan.

No military operation underway

in Balochistan: Malik

Govt, army and judiciarycan’t resolve Balochistanissue, says Shujaat

KARACHIINP

PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain onSunday said none of the institutions, includingthe government, armed forces and judiciarycould resolve the issue of Balochistan.Addressing reporters at Karachi airport, Shujaatsaid the responsibility to maintain peace in theprovince lay on every individual, adding thatparties should abstain from point-scoring. Hesaid the Balochistan committee had given aunanimously reached upon one point agenda forthe solution of Balochistan issue and had it beenimplemented, the situation would have beenmuch different. Shujaat said concrete proposalswere needed to resolve the Balochistan issue. Hepointed out that they had old relations withBalochistan and understood the psyche of thepeople. To a question, the PML-Q president saidit was the collective responsibility of all politicalparties to restore peace in Sindh and asked thepeople of Karachi to join hands and resolve thelaw and order problem.

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Drone strikesare illegal, ex-US envoy

Criticizing the USadministration, Wrightsaid the US, violatedinternational borders andthe peace of the world, andthis war policy ofWashington should endnow.She said recently theCentral IntelligenceAgencies (CIA) refused tobrief a US court overdrones and theAfghanistan issuefollowing which “weconsider it our duty to behere to understand and toknow in debt this issue”.To a question, Wright saidthe US public peacedelegation had brought apetition for peace andelimination of dronestrikes in Pakistan withthem that had signaturesof thousands of USnationals and wouldsubmit them to the USembassy here.To a question, shesupported the need forbringing internationallegislation that mightcriminalise insulting anyreligion, and to pay respectto all prophets and also toprotect atheists.

ANKARAAPP

PRIME Minister TayyipErdogan on Sundaytrumpeted Turkey’s

credentials as a rising demo-cratic power, saying his Is-lamist-rooted ruling partyhad become an example tothe Muslim world after adecade in charge.

Addressing thousands ofparty members and regionalleaders at a congress of his Jus-tice and Development (AK)Party, Erdogan said the era ofmilitary coups in the nation of75 million people was over.

He vowed to forge a morediverse constitution and turna new page in relations with

Turkey’s 15 million Kurds, ina speech lasting almost twoand half hours and meant tochart the AK Party’s agendafor the next decade.

“We called ourselves con-servative democrats. We fo-cused our change on basicrights and freedom,” Erdogantold thousands of cheeringparty members at the con-gress in a sports stadium inthe capital Ankara.

“This stance has gone be-yond our country’s bordersand has become an examplefor all Muslim countries.”

Leaders including Egypt-ian President MohamedMorsi, Kyrgyz President Al-mazbek Atambayev and Ma-soud Barzani, president of

Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistanregion, were among theguests.

Under Erdogan’s auto-cratic grip, the AK party haswon three consecutive land-slide election victories since2002, ending a history offragile coalition governmentspunctuated by military coupsand marking Turkey’s longestperiod of single-party govern-ment for more than half acentury. Per capita incomehas nearly tripled in that timeand Turkey has re-estab-lished itself as a regionalpower, with its allies seeingits mix of democratic stabilityand Islamic culture as a po-tential role model in a volatileregion.

Turkey’s democracyexample for Muslimworld: Erdogan

MONTREALAfP

He was a celebrity at Guan-tanamo, a teenaged inmatewho spoke at least four lan-guages, knew the Koran byheart and said he was hungryfor knowledge.

Toronto-born OmarKhadr, released Saturdayfrom the US prison for terrorsuspects and transferred backto Canada, looked almost-baby faced at 15, the age atwhich he was fighting for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Badlywounded and captured in aUS air and ground attack in

2002, he would spend muchof adolescence behind bars inthe notorious American de-tention facility in Cuba.

These days he is a tall,bushy-bearded man of 26 witha scarred face and a brightsmile. Khadr was sent back toCanada under a much-delayed2010 deal between the UnitedStates and Canada in which hepleaded guilty to five warcrimes, including throwing agrenade that claimed the life ofa US soldier. He had to spendone more year in Guan-tanamo, and last year becameeligible for the transfer to com-plete the rest of an eight-year

sentence. At GuantanamoBay, Khadr — who did not gopast fourth grade in school —stood out not just because hewas the youngest prisonerever sent there but because atthe time of his capture hespoke English, Arabic, Pash-tun and Dari, and a bit ofFrench. Fellow inmateswould ask them to lead themat prayer time, as he hadmemorized the Muslim holybook. “He is Guantanamo’srock star,” one prosecutionwitness at his trial stated.

Khadr himself said at thetrial that he was eager forknowledge and said he would

like to become a doctor. Oneof his lawyers, Dennis Edney,called him a “gentle giant.”

But prosecutors de-scribed him instead asdaddy’s favorite in a Muslimfamily turned extremist.

Khadr’s father, AhmedSaid Khadr, an Egyptian-bornCanadian, was considered aninfluential member of Al-Qaeda. He was killed in Pak-istan in 2003. The family hadfirst moved from Canada to thePakistan-Afghanistan borderarea in 1990 to help with recon-struction after the withdrawalof Soviet forces, according to anonline family biography.

KABUL: A senior NATOcommander says that 80 per-cent of Afghanistan is free ofviolence but warned an insur-gency still rages in the southand east, fuelled by fighterscoming from Pakistan.“About 80 percent of Afghanterritory and the Afghan pop-ulation is not affected by se-curity problems or violence,”Lieutenant General Olivier deBavinchove told AFP in an in-terview. “On the other hand,there is a huge contrast whenit comes to security betweenthe different regions and dis-tricts,” said Bavinchove, Chiefof Staff of NATO’s Interna-tional Security AssistanceForce (ISAF). His claims con-trast sharply with United Na-tions numbers showing thatAugust was the second dead-liest month in five years forAfghan civilians, with a totalof 374 – more than 10 a day –killed and 581 injured.Despite that the head ofFrench forces in the countrysaid that the north and westare peaceful, with signs ofdevelopment and improvedgovernance, and sparselypopulated central Afghanistanis almost entirely safe, he said.“Then we have the frontierzones in the east and south ofthe country, where aninsurrection is quite active,

very localised most of thetime, but which is supportedby fighters coming mainlyfrom Pakistan,” he added.“ISAF’s efforts are todayparticularly focused on theseareas.” Kabul accusesPakistan of failing to stopfighters crossing intoAfghanistan from its lawlessborder areas to support theTaliban, while Islamabadcomplains Pakistani Talibanare using havens inAfghanistan. Bavinchovemeanwhile conceded thatinsider attacks, also knownas green-on-blue attacks, had“really complicated our work.They have undermined thetrust that must exist betweenAfghan and coalition units”.He estimated that only 25 to35 percent of insider attackswere planned by the Talibanand said the rest were downto a lack of education and asociety where violence iscommonplace. “Forcenturies, Afghans have beenused to settling conflicts withviolence, including domesticconflicts,” he said in theinterview on Saturday. Thedeath of a NATO soldier in asuspected insider attack ineastern Afghanistan onSaturday took the number ofISAF troops killed in suchincidents to 52 this year. afp

80% of Afghanistanfree of violence: NATO

President, PM

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asma’s motherISLAMABAD

APP

President Asif Ali Zardariand Prime Minister RajaPervez Ashraf expressedprofound grief and sorrowon the demise of BegumMalik Ghulam Jilani,mother of formerSupreme Court BarAssociation presidentAsma Jahangir and HinaJilani, a leading humanrights activist.The president, in hiscondolence message toAsma and Hina, saiddeath of one’s mother wasa great personal loss. “Mythoughts and prayers arewith you and the bereavedfamily,” he said.The prime ministerexpressed heartfeltcondolences and sinceresympathies with themembers of bereavedfamily. Meanwhile, PML-NPresident Nawaz Sharifalso expressed grief overthe death of Asma’smother.In his condolencemessage, Nawaz prayed toAllah Almighty to rest thedeparted soul in eternalpeace and grant courageand strength to themembers of bereavedfamily to bear the loss.

Guantanamo’s ‘rock star’

inmate returns home to Canada

GILGITAPP

A high level meeting, whichwill be held in Islamabad inOctober to review the lawand order situation andfinancial matters in Gilgit-Baltistan, will takeimportant decisions forbringing peace andtranquillity to the region.It will focus on furtherimproving law enforcementto enable the local people toexploit the rich touristpotential of the area. Themeeting, which is to bechaired by Prime MinisterRaja Pervez Ashraf, hasbeen convened as a follow-up of important decisionstaken during his recenttwo-day visit to the area,

whose natural beauty hadbeen marred by incidents ofsectarian violence, anofficial source said.The meeting will review theimplementation ofdecisions already taken andalso discuss otheroutstanding issues,including financial matters.The prime minister, in aseries of meetings held withthe political and religiousleaders and notables ofGilgit-Baltistan, hadannounced an immediateassistance of Rs 2 billionand assured full support ofthe federal government inproviding more resourcesto help them meet their needs.While noting theimportance of the region

and its vital role in thedevelopment and progressof Pakistan, Ashraf had saidthe federal governmentwould provide all thenecessary resources tobring GB at par withdeveloped areas of thecountry.He also fulfilled along standing demand ofthe area, of continuingsubsidy on wheat that wasinitially promised to themby Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Hesaid it would continue asthe economic activity in theregion had substantiallydeclined with the closure ofthe Karakoram Highway(KKH) due to the formationof Attaabad Lake. Hedirected the localadministration to putnecessary checks and

balances in place to ensurethat there would be nomisuse of the subsidymeant for the people of thearea. He said Gilgit-Baltistan was knownglobally for its rich andnatural beauty, with fivepeaks over 8,000 metershigh, lush green valleys androaring rivers, and washome to people who werepeaceful and tolerant. Hesaid that it was vital thatthe reputation of this areawas restored and assuredcomplete assistance of thegovernment in this regard.He also urged the people ofGilgit-Baltistan to standunited and rise above theirpetty differences to makethe region a citadel of peaceso that it might progress at

a rapid pace. The PM had said with thesevering of the country’svital trade link with China,people of the region werefacing economic problems.He hoped that theconstruction of a 17-kmlong new road, in place ofthe old KarakoramHighway now submerged inthe Attaabad Lake, and a335 km-long rehabilitatedKKH would help reviveeconomic activity in theregion. He said that therehabilitation of anotherstretch of road fromBesham to Raikot, at thecost of $100 million, wouldalso cut down travel timeand improve mobility.He directed the nationalflag carrier to ensure that

the number of flights wasnot cut down due to non-availability of aircraft, asthe air link between Gilgit-Baltistan and the rest of thecountry was veryimportant.The prime minister said itwas the responsibility of allpolitico-religious leadersand their workers to standunited, removemisunderstandings, and notlet enemies of the statesucceed.He said that the protectionof life and property of everycitizen was theresponsibility of thegovernment and directedthe administration to takestrict action against anyonewho broke the law, withoutany discrimination.

PM’s GB visit to bring peace, help generate economic activity

KARACHIStAff RePORt

PAKISTAN Navy onSunday successfullyfired surface-to-air

missiles (SAMs) during wargames Seaspark 12 at MakranCoast. “Pakistan has success-fully fired a combination ofsurface to air missiles atMakran coastal Area and themissiles accurately hit theirtargets. Naval Chief AdmiralM Asif Sandila and officers ofthe Higher Commands wit-nessed the firing,” according

to an official press release.Congratulating the offi-

cers, Chief Petty Officers(CPO)s and Sailors of Air De-fense Battalion of CoastalCommand on the occasion,Admiral Sandila said that“today the Navy fortified thedefence of country’s coastalline. These weapons give Pak-istan Navy the flexibility to op-erate offensively under manyscenarios and have strength-ened the ground-based air de-fence of the force”.

The naval chief also wit-nessed the “Harbor Defence

Exercise” at Jinnah NavalBase (JNB), Ormara. Helauded the spirit and effortsput in by the naval officials toensure the impregnable secu-rity of the Jinnah Base. Thenavy chief also witnessed“Convoy Escorting undermulti-threat scenario, Defen-sive Counter Air Operationsinvolving Airborne EarlyWarning (AEW) Aircraft,Combat Air Patrol (CAP) Op-erations by PAF aircraft withPN’s support, air defense ex-ercises besides other hard-core naval maneuvers.”

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SHANGLA: A large number of vehicles waits for clear passage on Karakoram Highway (KKH) which is in a dilapidated state and undergoing repair work at several sections. ONLiNE

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PAKISTAN Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief NawazSharif has said that recent flash-floods had devastated the south-ern parts of Punjab and Sindh,

and despite tall claims by the federal gov-ernment, the affected people had beenforced to lead miserable lives under theopen sky without even the basic amenities.

Addressing flood-affected populationand party activists in Dera Murad Jamalion Sunday, Nawaz said the national ex-chequer was a property of the public andshould be utilized for the welfare of thecommon man, especially the people af-fected by natural calamities.

He demanded the federal govern-ment announce Rs 100,000 per familyfor the flood-hit population of Punjab andSindh provinces.

The PML-N chief said the Punjab gov-ernment would also provide Rs 200,000 foreach flood-affected family in Balochistan.

Nawaz said the Punjab government wasmaking every possible effort to provide re-

lief to the flood-affected people, but it hadto face difficulties as floods washed hadaway link roads creating barriers in trans-portation of relief goods to affected areas.

He strongly criticized the political par-ties and their leaderships for waiting for thegovernment to announce aid for the flood-

hit populations instead of taking any stepson their own.

The PML-N chief said it was not onlythe responsibility of the government to pro-vide relief to its countrymen without dis-crimination on the basis of politicalaffiliation, ethnic background or religion,

but the entire nation should participate inrelief operations.

Nawaz said trucks containing reliefgoods dispatched for flood-affected areas ofBalochistan were stranded in Dera GhaziKhan and Rajanpur due to blockade of landroutes. He said relief activities would be ac-celerated after accumulated floodwater re-ceded and land routes connecting differentareas of the province were cleared.

The PML-N chief also stressed on theneed for natives in flood-affected towns tojoin hands and constitute a strategy for pre-empting losses of lives and property duringmonsoon rains by strengthening the em-bankments and increasing the height ofcanal banks, which often developedbreaches due to surges in water levels.

Nawaz also criticized the new localbodies system introduced in Sindh, sayingthat his party opposed the dual systemand stood with nationalist parties ofSindh on the issue. The PML-N chief alsovoiced support for the Baloch LeaderAkhtar Mengal’s six-points regardingBalochistan’s betterment. He said that theonly solution of the Balochistan issue liesin transparent elections.

Flood victims suffering despitegovt’s tall claims: Nawazg PML-n chief says national exchequer public property, should be used for public welfare g Voices supportfor Sindh nationalist parties on local bodies issue

MONITORING DESK

Epilepsy is twice as common in lowand middle-income countries as it is inthe developed world, according to aBBC report citing an internationalteam of researchers.

The report says that the re-searchers link the higher incidence toincreased risk factors, including headinjuries and infections such as porktapeworm and river blindness. Andmore than 60 percent of sufferers inthose countries receive no appropriatetreatment, they say in the Lancet – aUS-based medical journal. A Lanceteditorial said that epilepsy had to be aglobal health priority.

Epilepsy is a condition in which

disturbances to the brain’s normalelectrical activity cause recurringseizures or brief episodes of alteredconsciousness. There are about 40 dif-ferent types. Epilepsy is not a mentalillness, but can develop after injury ordamage to the brain. About 85 percentof the global burden of epilepsy occursin low and middle-income countries.

Writing in the Lancet, researchersled by Prof Charles Newton, of theUniversity of Oxford, say the deathrate in developing countries is muchhigher than in developed ones - andthat the reason for this is likely to be afailure to treat people with the condi-tion. “The burden of epilepsy in theseregions is at least double that found inhigh-income countries, and sadly, ad-

equate facilities for diagnosis, treat-ment and ongoing management ofepilepsy are virtually non-existent inmany of the world’s poorest regions,”Newton wrote “Many people withepilepsy or their families do not evenknow that they have a disorder thatcan be controlled with biomedicaltreatment, so it is vitally importantthat awareness is raised and medicalcare improved in these regions,” headded.‘POSSESSED’: Medications forEpilepsy are available - but there canbe problems distributing them, espe-cially to remote areas. The researcherssay there are low-cost ways of improv-ing the situation and of reducing thestigma often faced by people with

epilepsy and their families - such asworking with traditional healers andawareness campaigns to increase un-derstanding of the condition.

In some countries, traditional be-liefs about the causes of the condition,including bewitchment, spiritualcauses and curses, lead to stigma andincrease the chance that a person withepilepsy will not get the treatment theyneed.

“Given the prevalence of epilepsyglobally, it should be included as a pri-ority on the public health agenda, andaccess to treatment should be greatlyimproved in developing countries,”The Lancet editorial reads. “It is timefor all governments to take epilepsymore seriously,” it adds.

Epilepsy deadlier in developing world: reportKarachi temple attackers chargedunder blasphemyISLAMABAD: Several protesters who damaged a temple andattacked the homes of Hindus during a recent demonstration inKarachi against an anti-Islam film have been charged underblasphemy law, a media report said on Sunday. Nine men, includingMaulvi Habibur Rehman and his accomplices, have been named ina police complaint regarding the ransacking of the Sri KrishnaBhagwan Mandir in the Gulshan-e-Maymar area of Karachi. Thetemple was vandalized during the government-sanctioned protestsagainst anti-Islam film on September 21. The men charged by policebelong to residential areas near the temple. They also ransackedsome houses and looted jewellery and valuables, said the report.Police registered a case against the men under 295-A of the PakistanPenal Code, which covers “deliberate and malicious acts intended tooutrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion orreligious beliefs”. They were also charged with looting, vandalismand theft. Police officer Jaffar Baloch said: “For me, every believer isthe same. The desecration of a temple meant blasphemy to me andthat’s why we inserted that section.” INP

PPP wants votingright for overseasPakistanis: Bilawal

NEW YORKAPP

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ChairmanBilawal Bhutto on Sunday said the PPPwanted to extend the right to vote tooverseas Pakistanis.Addressing a PPP convention on Saturday,Bilawal said, “The PPP has always, and willalways, stand by our overseas Pakistanisand we are committed to ensuring yourright to vote in the elections.”He said, “We are committed to the ideathat dual-nationals should be able toparticipate in our country’s civic matters,and that includes the right to contestelections.”Bilawal said no unelected people had theright to question the loyalty of someoneelected by the people of Pakistan. “Youmust have your voices heard in the nextelection,” he told party workers.“If they don’t let you run, if they don’t letyou vote, speak to your family and friendsin Pakistan, come back to Pakistanyourselves, and support the party that hasnot given up on your voice and your vote,”Bilawal said.The PPP chairman said he was proud thathis party was transforming Pakistan andbuilding its future.

British MP fearsfor Birmingham-Mirpur bus

LONDONNNI

A British lawmaker has raised fearsover the security of a 4,000-mile tripthat will take passengers fromBirmingham to Kashmir via thePakistan-Afghanistan border.It was revealed that Mirpur in AzadJammu and Kashmir would now bedirectly linked by road with the UnitedKingdom through a direct bus service,which will pass through seven countries,including Iran, before finally reachingits destination, also known as “LittleBirmingham”.Birmingham’s Transport Minister TahirKhokher, however, raised fears about thesecurity of the bus, which visits cities thathave reportedly become hotbeds ofterrorism, the Daily Mail reported.Khokher said the intercontinental routewould span seven countries and includestopovers in the troubled cities ofQuetta, near the Afghan border, andIranian capital Tehran.According to the paper, there are concernsthat the route could transport terroristsfrom Birmingham to Pakistan.The long distance plans were welcomed byBirmingham Labour MP KhalidMahmood, whose family originates fromMirpur. But he warned that the Pakistanigovernment would need to giveassurances that security would be tightlycontrolled and strict border checks wouldhave to be in place for the journey to besafe and successful.

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KARACHI: An old man prepares clay pots at a factory in the area of Kumhar bara. ONLiNE

wfP provides food assistance to 10,066 people

SUKKURAPP

The United Nations World Food Pro-gramme (WFP) has provided food assis-tance to 10,066 beneficiaries inJacobabad with one month food andplans to gear up operations to reach themost severely affected areas. In Jacoba-bad, where some areas are under 2.5 me-tres deep water, drawing upon limitedavailable stocks of food. WFP reachedfurther 10,000 families in Balochistan.Earlier, monthly food ration had beenprovided to 500 families in Naseerabad toreach a total 6,000 families in the imme-diate relief phase, said spokesperson ofthe WFP Amjad Jamal while talking toAPP on Sunday. Moreover, with road ac-cess limited due to the flood waters, WFPhas deployed 29 motorboats to reachsome of the worst affected communitiesof the Jacobabad and Naseerabad. How-ever, any assistance beyond this firstphase will require additional fundingfrom donors and WFP is seeking urgentdonations of US$15 million.

PMa seeks supportfor flood victims KARACHI: Pakistan Medical Association(PMA Karachi) has requested the medicalcommunity in particular and citizen onKarachi in general to actively participate inits “Rain and Floods Relief Activities,” forthe affected people of Sindh and Balochis-tan. Prof Qaiser Sajjad in a statement onSunday said PMA team was currently en-gaged in providing essential medicines, ra-tion and other necessary goods to theaffectees. He said medical team comprisingdoctors and technicians are also beingdespatched to affected areas on rotationalbasis. The PMA official in a passionate ap-peal urged the citizens to join PMA in itsrelief activities through their donations. APP

hot and dry weatherin karachi today

KARACHIAPP

Residents of the provincial metropoliswould experience hot and dry weather con-ditions today. The MET, forecasted a maxi-mum temperature of 36 degree centigradeand the minimum temperature was fore-casted to be 26 degree centigrade.

Javed akhai electedas chairman PPMa

KARACHIAPP

Jawed Akhai was elected unanimously asChairman and Nisar Qureshi was electedas vice chairman of Pakistan Pharmaceuti-cal Association (PPMA)The elections were held during the 47thgeneral body meeting of PPMA. SyedNaeem Yaqoob, Khalid Munir, Zafar IqbalNagra, Saleem Haider, Zaka-Ur-Rehman,Dr Kaiser Waheed, Nadeem AChandna,Syed Nadeem Ahmed, EhsanAwan, Dr A. Shakoor Usman and M JawedAkhai.were elected as members of PPMAfor South and North zones.Jawed Akhai pledged to intensify effortsfor making locally manufactured medicinescompetitive in the International market

Sindh Pa sessionsummoned today

KARACHINNI

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shahhas summoned Sindh Assembly sessiontoday (Monday).Sources said local bodies ordinance will betabled during the session in the Sindh As-sembly. The assembly session will begin at10:00 am in the morning. It is expectedthat draft of the new local bodies ordinancewill be approved in the first session of as-sembly meeting. At the other hand, Pak-istan People’s Party called parliamentarycommittees meeting, while and MuttahidaQaumi Movement also called Rabita Com-mittee meeting on Sunday evening to dis-cuss the issue.

three die in road mishap

HYDERABADAPP

Three members of a family were killedat Hyderabad-Tando Muhammad Khanroad when a car ran over motorcyclistson Sunday. The accident occurred in thejurisdiction of Husri police station andpolice identified the deceased as NoorAhmed, Rafia and Amanat Ali. The cardriver, escaped after the accident. The dead bodies were shifted to CivilHospital for postmortem.

KARACHIINP

SOME armed men shot theassistant and deputy su-perintendents of LandhiJail dead in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi on

Saturday-Sunday night.According to details, Landhi Chil-

dren Prison’s Assistant SuperintendentPir Masood and Landhi Jail’s DeputySuperintendent Abdul Razzaq were at-tacked as they were traveling in theircar by unidentified miscreants on amotor bike near NIPA Chowrangi.

The armed attackers swiftly es-caped after killing both the officers onthe spot. The police rushed to the at-tack site but failed to save the victims.

The police seized six empty shellsof bullets from the scene and immedi-ately moved both officers’ bodies to anearby private hospital, where doctors

confirmed that both of them had al-ready expired. Later on, both deadbodies were moved to Jinnah Hospitalfor postmortems and other routineproceedings.

Apart from these fresh killings inthe metropolitan, one person’s deadbody was found from his house inMehmoodabad and another youth’ssack-packed body was recovered fromLyari canal.

Deceased youth was kidnappedand killed after torture, said the police.Three more bodies were recoveredfrom New Karachi and Orangi Townareas.

Meanwhile, Rangers apprehended12 accused including six alleged targetkillers during search operation in 100-quarters Baldia Town on Sunday.

The paramilitary forces, in the tar-geted operation, also recovered 28 dif-ferent kinds of weapons from thecustody of accused.

Two cops among ninekilled in fresh violence

KARACHIAPP

At least 2.8 million people in 15 districtsof Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab havebeen affected by the 2012 floods.

According to a survey conducted byUNICEF, 1.4 million children of whom392,000 are under the age of five havebeen displaced by the floods. UNICEFPakistan Deputy Representative, KarenAllen said that “Children from very poorfamilies are amongst the worst affectedby the severe flooding and they need ourimmediate help”. She said that UNICEFneeded $US 15.4 million for provision ofdrinking water, medicines and toilet fa-

cilities for 400,000 people over the nextsix months.

Assisting the respective govern-ments of the three provinces, UNICEFhas rehabilitated 183,000 flood-affectedcitizens till date. Using funds from anemergency loan facility, UNICEF hadbeen providing, food, water, health careand tents to 120,000 people daily in Jaf-

farabad and Naseerabad districts ofBalochistan. 4,000 people were benefit-ing from UNICEF’s rehabilitation efforsin Dera Ghazi Khan d in Punjab and59,000 people were benefiting in Jacob-abad and Kashmore districts of Sindh.UNICEF also installed water bladders inJacobabad. UNICEF also undertook pro-vision of hygiene kits comprising of

soaps, sanitary towels water purificationtablets, jerry cans and water buckets to23,200 families in the three provinces.UNICEF has also funded vaccinationagainst water-borne diseases, such asdiarrhea, malaria, measles, polio andpneumonia.

A cross sectional “Initial Rapid As-sessment” conducted by UNCIEF de-clared that most of the children in theflood affected areas are undernourishedand have no educational facilities avail-able. The Multilateral organization hasrequested people from allover the worldto pledge funds to the organization forrehabilitation of the flood affectees.

Committee toprobe kids’ deathsin Larkana

KARACHI: Sindh Minister forHealth Dr Saghir Ahmed has takenserious notice of infants’ death atChildren Hospital, Larkana, and con-stituted an enquiry committee com-prising senior official and doctors toascertain the exact cause of themishap.The enquiry committee comprisingDirector General of Health, Sindh,Dr Firoze Memon, Prof KhurshidAbbasi and Prof Salma Shaikh hasbeen asked to submit the reportwithin three days time. Prof Khur-shid Abbasi and Prof Salma Shaikhare known child specialists of theprovince. APP

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HYdeRAbAd: Residents of Mitthi hold a demonstration against demolishing of their houses by MNA Mahesh Malani. iNp

HYdeRAbAd: Smoke rises from a motor workshop at Latifabad 7 after fire erupted at the premises. ONLiNE

chief of naval Staff visits ‘SeaSPark 12’

KARACHIAPP

Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Mo-hammad Asif Sandila, on Sunday, un-dertook a day-long operational visit ofthe fleet units engaged In Pakistan NavyExercise SEASPARK-12.Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief MarshalTahir Rafiq Butt, also joined the NavalChief onboard PN Ship NASR to witnessNaval Operations at sea.The Chief of the Naval Staff and AirChief expressed their satisfaction onseamless integration and informationfusion between Pakistan Navy and Pak-istan Air Force which has been demon-strated during the Exercise Seasparkand led to synergetic bi-service force ap-plication.The Chief of the Air Staff also witnessedPakistan Navy’s Fire Power Demonstra-tion and reviewed the fleet display dur-ing his stay onboard PNS NASR.Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila duringstay at sea onboard PN Ship, oversawConvoy Escorting under multi threatscenario, Defensive Counter Air Opera-tions involving Airborne Early Warning(AEW) Aircraft, Combat Air Patrol(CAP) Operations by PAF aircraft in PNsupport, Air Defense Exercises besidesother hardcore naval maneuvers.The admiral was briefed on conduct ofthe exercise. Naval Chief expressed hissatisfaction over conduct of the exerciseand hoped it would hone the profes-sional acumen of Pakistan Navy officersand men.While interacting with officers and menon the occasion he underlined the im-portance of maintaining guard in view ofprevailing security environment.He urged upon them to leave no stoneunturned in achieving professional ex-cellence which has always remained thehallmark of Pakistan Navy.Exercise SEASPARK-2012 being heldafter three years is the biggest naval ex-ercise aimed to gauge/evaluate war pre-paredness of Pakistan Navy throughconduct of battle-like situation in realtime and to demonstrate synergy withthe sister services in conduct of JointOperations at Sea and on Land, in orderto evolve strategies or employment anddevelopment of combat potential. TheExercise will conclude around mid Octwith conduct of final de-brief, said thepress release issued by public relationsdepartment of Pakistan Navy.

KARACHIAPP

SINDH Minister for Educa-tion, Pir Mazharulaq saidthat the young, educated andskilled workforce was the keyfor national development.

The minister was addressing a convoca-tion ceremony organized by the NewportsInstitute of Communication and Econom-ics (NICE) on Sunday. He said that theyouth should step forward and play theirpart towards national progress and devel-opment as the youth of the country wasthe most valuable resource the countryhoused. The convocation ceremony wasattended by more than 500 students who

graduated in the disciplines of BusinessAdministration, Computer Sciences andFashion and Textile design. Four GoldMedals were awarded to students who ex-celled in the stated disciplines. The Goldmedals were sponsored by Hilton Pharma,Deewan Group, FOAKH Group, and Ab-dullah Gardens. NICE, Chairman Brig (R)Sadiq Jamal advised the graduating stu-dents to play positive roles towards devel-opment of Pakistan. NICE Rector HumaBukhari, praised the graduates for theirendless efforts and prayed for a prosper-ous future for them. Karachi Chamber ofCommerce and Industries Chairman MianAbrar Ahmed, and Hilton Pharma, Chair-man Sardar Yaseen Malik, were guests ofhonor on the convocation.

JAvED JABBAR tO BE NFEH’SHONORARy ADvISOR : Javed Jab-bar has been elected as the honorary Ad-visor to National Forum for Environmentand Health (NFEH), a non-governmentalorganization (NGO) engaged in environ-mental protection activities in the coun-try. According to a press release issued onSunday he will counsel NFEH on its envi-ronmental, awareness, training and socialactivities. He is also associated with Pak-istan National Council (PNC) and UnitedWorld Colleges Scholarship (UWCS)since 1982. He is the founder chairman ofSouth Asian Media Association Colombo(SAMAC), founder convener of SouthAsian Editors Forum (SAEF) and CitizenMedia Commission (CMC).

excise, taxation officials retrieve400kgs of charas

KARACHIAPP

On special directives of Sindh Minister forExcise and Taxation Mukesh KumarChawla, the intelligence wing of the depart-ment arrested criminals involved in traf-ficking of drugs.According to details divisional intelligenceofficer, Kaleem ullah Wasan received infor-mation about trafficking of huge quantityof charas to Karachi.He consequently formed a team under su-pervision of Suleman Jatoi AETO who suc-ceeded to detect a huge quantity of charas(400 kilograms) from a gas bouser (tanker)on Super Highway, near Kathore Malir.Driver of the vehicle named Gaman s/oPathan Khan was arrested from the spot,FIR No. 21/2012 was also lodged againstaccused Gaman s/o Pathan Khan, furtherinvestigation is underway. Minister for Ex-cise and Taxation has appreciated the effi-ciency of the intelligent wing and hasexpressed his commitment that he wouldcontinue his struggle against drugs.

‘Lack of moderntransport causesaccidents’

KARACHIAPP

Absence of modern urban transport systemis a major contributory factory to no lessthan 26,000 vehicular accidents inKarachi, said Commissioner, Roshan AliShaikh.Chairing a meeting in his office on Sunday,he said non-compliance of traffic rules,presence of outdated public and private ve-hicles has aggravated the situation all themore.“It should therefore be of no surprise toregister 1,000 road accidents induceddeaths and 32,000 injuries in the city everyyear,” he said.The meeting among others was also at-tended by Additional Commissioner ofKarachi, Kamran Shamshad, Deputy Com-missioner, District - Central, Dr, SaifurRehman, Deputy Commissioner - West,Ganhwar Ali Laghari, Director, Media Af-fairs, Shabih Siddiqui and others.Roshan Ali Shaikh opined that any delay inmodifying the traffic system and inabilityto ensure stringent implementation of traf-fic rules will further aggravate the situa-tion, with steady increase in the number ofcitizens losing their lives or sustaining in-juries that may also lead towards their dis-abilities.

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Join us at t2f every wednesday for interactive sessions onMirza Ghalib’s poetry, conducted by author and translator,Musharraf ali farooqi. Ghalib Made easy by @MicroMafthepoetry of Mirza Ghalib (27 December 1797 – 15 february1869) has been considered complex, abstract and difficultto comprehend. even for Ghalib’s contemporaries, hislanguage and imagery presented a challenge.

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KARACHI: Men unloading sacrificial animals ahead of eid-ul-Adha at a cattle market near Super Highway. ONLiNE

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tHE Chartered Accountants Stu-dents’ Association - South (CASA-S) organized the CA Students’Conference 2012 in collaborationwith the Southern Regional Com-

mittee of ICAP on the theme ‘reasons to be-lieve’.

The conference was attended byRenowned Nuclear Scientist, Dr Abdul QadeerKhan as the chief guest and Syed MohammadShabbar Zaidi as a guest speaker. Dr AQ khandescribed his extra ordinary experience as aNuclear Scientist through various stories.

He has been raised from an inferior background yet achieved a major milestone all hislife. His dream and dedication to contributetowards the science and national defense ofthe country lead his life style to be simple yetdeterminative.

He expressed his felicitation at the intel-lectual capital Pakistan possesses in everyfield whether be nuclear power or account-ancy. He stressed the importance of politicsand its positive use to improve the economy ofPakistan.

He urged the audience comprised of amultiple age group and professional positionsto take part in the elections to be held andchoose the right and educated leader for thenation. He said he, “even one person can bring

the change. Cast your vote, don’t sit idle, don’tmake it a party day.” Further he said, “Don’tmake false promises. If you have the ability todo something, do that, otherwise be coura-geous to say that I cannot do that”.

Syed Shabbar Zaidi gave a thorough in-sight on the topic ‘Reasons to believe in theeconomy of Pakistan.’ He emphasized on theattainment of education as the key to trans-form lives. CA Students’ Conference was aconduit of powerful ideas. Conference organ-izer Khalilullah Shaikh and Hassaan Hamidalso addressed the audience. This was the 2ndChartered Accountants Students’ Conferencesolely held to give an insight into the prosper-ity of CA fraternity and the Pakistan.

The conference was also attended by Pres-ident ICAP Rashid Rehman Mir, Past Presi-dents and Council Members ICAP. ChairmanCASA in his concluding address thanked teamCASA for organizing a conference that madean impact on their lives. WORLD RABIES DAy CELEBRAtED :World Rabies Day was celebrated in nearly 80countries worldwide here on Sunday.

In Karachi it was a notable event cele-brated in collaboration with Novartis Vaccinesand Rabies in Asia for middle and high schoolchildren, parents, teachers, health care givers,hospital and clinic administrators, as well ascity, provincial and WHO appointed decisionmakers.

The event was held in the premises of the

Indus Hospital, Korangi where over 700guests gathered to hear Dr Quaid Saeed, Na-tional Programme Officer WHO Country Of-fice and Dr Huma Qureshi, Director PakistanMedical Research Council announce that thismuch neglected and fatal disease is finallybeing noticed by health authorities.

Ten animal bite treatment centers will beopened in each province that will be providedtreatment with high quality vaccine. Dr.Naeem Qureshi has been designated focal per-son for the ten centers in both rural and urbanSindh.

Dr Naseem Salahuddin, Member WHOExpert Panel for Rabies and Head, Depart-ment of Infectious Diseases at the IndusHospital offered to make The Indus Hospitalthe Training Center for all Sindh centers. Dr.Seemin Jamali, Director of Emergency De-partment, JPMC emphasized the tremendousimportance of immediate care by washingbite wounds thoroughly and reaching thenearest treatment center for further manage-ment.

The children were treated to a magic andpuppet show for rabies awareness, hosted bya TV star. Lectures on Rabies will followduring the rest of the week in some medicalcolleges. After the session in the comingweek, Novartis vaccines in collaborationwith WHO and RIA will conduct free pre-ex-posure prophylaxis vaccination for the SOSvillage children.

2nd chartered accountants students’ conference-2012 held

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ALEPPOAfP

FIERCE fighting broke out inthe northern Syrian city ofAleppo on Sunday as rebelsattacked an army checkpointnear the capital, killing nine

soldiers, monitors said.Hours after a fire tore through a his-

toric souk in Aleppo, fighting erupted inand around the Old City as rebels tried toseize control the district, said Rami AbdelRahman, director of the Syrian Observa-tory for Human Rights.

Since last week, much of the fightinghas focused on the area around the OldCity, and this is believed to have sparkedthe fire in the centuries-old souk whichdestroyed many shops, said an AFP cor-respondent and the Observatory.

Meanwhile the army subjected sev-eral of the city’s districts to intenseshelling, and battled rebels in the north-ern district of Jandul, said the Observa-tory.

“There were many rebels and soldierskilled, but both sides are trying to concealtheir casualties,” Abdel Rahman toldAFP.

Among the districts shelled by thearmy overnight were the southwesternneighbourhood of Salaheddin, the maintheatre of combat between rebels andtroops in mid-summer, the Britain-basedwatchdog said.

In Damascus province, the rebel FreeSyrian Army attacked an army check-point on the road linking the southwest-ern town of Qatana to the capital, killingnine soldiers, the Observatory said.

The FSA also attacked a checkpoint inthe eastern province of Deir Ezzor, killingfour soldiers, the monitoring group said.

Many areas of both Damascusprovince and Deir Ezzor have suffered in-tense army assaults, as the regime ofPresident Bashar al-Assad tries to crushthe insurgency.

Also in Damascus province, soldiersbacked by aerial firepower stormed therebel stronghold of Harasta as regimeforces carried out arrest raids in the townof Zabadani, said the Observatory.

across Syria killed at least 118 peopleon Saturday — 48 civilians, 41 soldiersand 29 rebels, the Observatory said,adding to its toll of over 30,000 killedsince an anti-regime uprising erupted inMarch 2011.

Fierce clashes as army shells Syria’s Aleppo: NGO

Nairobi church blast killschild, triggers reprisal attacksNAIROBI: A suspected grenade attack on a Nairobichurch Sunday killed one child and wounded nine others,triggering reprisal violence against the Somalicommunity although no group claimed responsibility.The blast, during a service for youngsters at a church onthe outskirts of Nairobi, came a day after Islamist Shebabfighters abandoned their last bastion in neighbouringSomalia in the face of an assault by Kenyan and othertroops. Blood-stained children’s jackets and shoes layscattered on the floor of the Anglican St. Polycarp church,surrounded by remnants of metal walls that were brokenand twisted by the force of the explosion. “One child hasdied and three others have been seriously injured,”Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama told AFP. “Wesuspect it was a grenade.” Witnesss Janet Wanja said shewas just entering the church in the Pangani district onthe outskirts of the Kenyan capital when the blast shookthe building. After the attack, dozens of angry peoplehurled rocks at Somalis and stoned buildings belongingto members of the community, but noone was reportedinjured in the chaos. No one has yet claimedresponsibility for the church attack, the latest in a stringof grenade attacks, shootings and bomb blasts that haverocked Kenya since it sent troops into southern Somaliain October 2011 to crush bases of Al-Qaeda-linkedShebab fighters. AfP

Bomb blast, gunfire rock areanear Nigerian Islamic schoolZARIA: A bomb blast and gunfire shook an area aroundan Islamic boarding school in northern Nigeria onSunday, leaving two of the alleged attackers dead and atleast three others wounded, officials said. It was notimmediately clear who was behind the blast in the city ofZaria, but Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has beenblamed for hundreds of deaths as part of its insurgency innorthern and central Nigeria. The boarding school is runby prominent Salafist cleric Awwal Adam Albani, knownfor outspoken criticism of Boko Haram. He was alsoarrested last year over a bombing and arms possession,but later released for lack of evidence. A number ofbuildings in the area were damaged in the blast and,according to a rescue worker at the scene, otherunexploded homemade bombs were located. The schoolbuilding sustained damage, including broken windows.The violence occurred in the hometown of Vice PresidentNamadi Sambo and came a day ahead ofcommemorations marking 52 years of Nigerianindependence, but there was no sign of a link. The rescueworker at the scene, who spoke on condition ofanonymity, said security officers initially moved into thearea on Thursday after receiving information that a BokoHaram hideout was located in the neighbourhood. Therewas an exchange of fire on Saturday night betweengunmen and security forces in the same neighbourhood,another relief official said on condition of anonymity.The complex includes the school as well as a mosque. Arelief official said the blast was caused by an improvisedexplosive device. Witnesses said it appeared the blast hadgone off inside a house close to the school, destroying thebuilding. “Two suspects were killed,” Shuaib said. “Theinnocent victims that were injured were taken tohospital.” The two suspects were shot by security forces,according to Shuaib. The rescue worker said at least threepeople were wounded. AfP

Suicide car bomb in Syria’s

Kurdish region kills 4: TVDAMASCUS: A suicide car bombing in Qamishli, a Kurdishcity in northern Syria, killed at least four people Sunday, statetelevision reported, but a human rights group said that eightmembers of the security forces died in the blast. “A suicideterrorist using a car laden with explosives attacked the westerndistrict of Qamishli,” said the state broadcaster, adding that atleast four people were killed. But the Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights gave a higher death toll and said the attacktargeted a security headquarters. “At least eight members of thesecurity forces were killed, and 15 were injured,” said theBritain-based monitoring group, adding that the blast wasfollowed by heavy gunfire. Amateur video uploaded on YouTubeby activists showed a cloud of thick smoke rising over the city.This was the first time since the outbreak of an anti-regimerevolt that Qamishli witnessed such a violent attack, Observatorydirector Rami Abdel Rahman said. “It is the only city with aKurdish majority that still has a solid security presence,” AbdelRahman said, adding that the target of the blast was a regionalsecurity headquarters for Kurdish districts. Abdel Rahman saidthat the military pulled out of Kurdish regions in the north,including Qamishli, several months ago and that the rebel FreeSyrian Army has no presence whatsoever in the city. But a smallnumber of autonomous fighters are still there. AfP

Erdogan tells Syria allies to

stop backing ‘brutal’ regimeANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoganurged China, Iran and Russia Sunday to end their support forthe Syrian regime, warning that “history will not forgive” theirstance in the face of mounting bloodshed. “Please rethink yourcurrent attitude. History will not forgive those who have sidedwith these brutal regimes,” Erdogan said in a speech at acongress of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).Erdogan, a one-time ally of President Bashar al-Assad, hasbecome a fervent critic of the regime since a peaceful uprisingagainst Damascus turned into a bloody revolt. Russia, atraditional Damascus ally, and China have blocked all UN

Security Council resolutions on the conflict thataccording to activists has now left

around 30,000 people dead in 18months. Shiite-led Iran is Syria’sclosest regional ally and is accused byseveral Western and Sunni-led Arab

nations of providing military aid toAssad’s regime. Turkey backs the

Syrian rebels and Erdogan said itis also hosting about 91,000

refugees from the conflict inseveral border camps. AfP

KUALA LUMPURAfP

Thousands rallied in southernMalaysia on Sunday against a govern-ment-backed $56-billion petroleumhub they say will force thousands outof their homes and damage a fishingcommunity.

Environmentalists from across thecountry gathered in the sleepy coastaltown of Pengerang where the project,spearheaded by state oil giantPetronas and also involving privatecompanies, is due to be completed by2016. A coalition of local NGOS say the170-billion-ringgit Pengerang Inte-grated Petroleum Complex — an in-dustrial park for the oil industry — willharm the livelihoods of local residentsand fishermen in an area famed for itslobsters.

On Sunday protestors, mostlydressed in green, heard oppositionleaders promise to cancel the project ifthey come to power at national elec-tions that must be held by the middleof next year. Organisers said 8,000

demonstrators took part although re-ports estimated the crowd to be lessthan half that figure.

“We want development but notwhen it oppresses the people. The gov-ernment must give the public the rightto decide on the location of such proj-ects,” Anis Afida Mohd Azli, who isleading opposition to the project, toldAFP. She added the NGOs will handover a list of demands to the state gov-ernment on October 8.

The protest movement beganearly last year as local anger mountedagainst the 22,500-acre petrochemicalhub. Prime Minister Najib Razak hasfaced numerous protests over projectsallegedly harmful to the environmentsince taking power a year after hisBarisan Nasional suffered its worstever electoral result in 2008.

A green movement, largely sup-ported by the opposition, has gainedmomentum in recent years with Aus-tralian rare earths producer LynasCorp bearing the brunt of the backlashover a planned plant near an easternresort town.

TEHRANAfP

An Iranian jury on Sunday foundthe international news agencyReuters guilty of the crime of“propaganda against the regime”for a report early this year mis-characterising female ninja stu-dents as assassins, media said.

Reuters was also found guiltyof “publishing false information inan effort to disturb public opin-ion” over the ninja report that waspublished in February, Iran’s offi-cial Islamic Republic NewsAgency said, quoting the Tehranprosecutor’s office.

The judge of the Tehran courtwas now expected to confirm theverdict and deliver a sentence incoming weeks, the Iranian chan-nel Press TV reported, though nodate was given.

Reuters, which can appeal theconviction, declined to commentto AFP about the jury’s decision.

The news agency, part of theNew York-based ThomsonReuters group since 2008, was

represented in court by its Tehranbureau chief, Parisa Hafezi, whohas been prevented from leavingthe country pending the courtcase. Iranian authorities confis-cated the press credentials of allstaff in the Reuters bureau inMarch, and suspended its opera-tions.

The case stems from a reportReuters did on a group of femaleninjas training in the sport in thecity of Karaj, west of Tehran. Theoriginal headline on the story er-roneously read “Thousands of fe-male Ninjas train as Iran’sassassins”.

Reuters subsequently changedthe headline to read “Three thou-sand women Ninjas train in Iran”.It later removed the report.

Reuters’ global editor in chief,Stephen Adler, told The New YorkTimes newspaper on March 29that the headline mistake was notmalicious, and added: “I don’t seefactual errors in the story.”

Iranian authorities routinelymonitor and restrict the activitiesof foreign journalists.

Thousands protest againstMalaysia petroleum hub

iran jury finds Reuters

guilty over ninja report

KIev: About 15,000 people take part in a mass morning gym exercise on Sunday to set a new Guinness world record of the most number of people taking

part in a morning gym exercise. afp

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On engaging the baloch

answering Mengal

You can’t neatly slot response to former BalochistanChief Minister Nawab Akhtar Mengal’s six points inthe usual demarcations that cut across the Pakistanipoli-sphere. He has met with Nawaz Sharif, who,

granted, was only formerly the darling of the establishment.But he has also met with Imran Khan, who, depending on whoyou ask, is the current blue-eyed boy of the deep state. TheMQM, which is at pains to paint itself as a party for all “smallernations”, is trying to meet him but the Nawab has yet to oblige.The ANP, with a sense of history, has appreciated hisengagement; they were the same party once, weren’t they? Andthe PPP finds itself in the odd position of trying to playapologist for the military.

The interior minister categorically rejected the notion thatthere was a military operation going on in the province, aroundwhich the six points were centered. No minor disagreement,this. This is no minor difference of opinion on the choice of thisword or that. No, this is a basic, fundamental difference. Theinterior minister even went on to remind Mengal that it was thePPP government that had released him from incarceration. Tothis, the former CM had an interesting quip: back in the NAPdays, when the PPP outlawed his party and had jailed hisfather, Nawab Attaullah Mengal, Nawab Ghaus Bux Bizenjo,Wali Khan, Habib Jalib and other party leaders, it was the Ziaregime that set them all free; by that logic, should he payhomage to the dead dictator’s grave every time he’s in thefederal capital?

The military PR machine has also gotten into action. Liesand what not. The ISPR had also had to deny a report in aBritish paper implying that the ISI was behind the smearcampaign against the foreign minister in response to hersupport for an international observers group on Balochistan.Responsible for some wrongdoing in Balochistan? Plausible.But responsible even for smear campaigns against femalepoliticians? The plausibility should spur the agency into someintrospection.

At the end of the day, Mengal’s attempt at reproachmentseems refreshing, even to those who are not pleasantlydisposed towards him, because it gives a focal point ofconcentration regarding The Other in Balochistan. Someone tonegotiate with. What if he is not effective to begin with? Or, forthat matter, what if even Brahmdagh, Hyrbyair, Balaach andthe likes have also been left behind by the agents of socialchange and the new side to be reckoned with are the shadowy,middle-class ideologues we keep hearing about? What if theyare many in number and are far more mercurial than thetraditional anti-establishment sardars? The establishment hasno one but itself to blame.

a road to peacethe new Silk Raod strategy

Many in Pakistan believe thatthe Silk Road strategyadapted by the US is to im-pinge on the vast natural re-sources in South Asia, since

the whole world is now running out of theirresources. Some analysts have described thisstrategy as the ‘Great Game’, as adopted bythe British Empire and Russian Empire longago to attain supremacy in Central Asia. TheIslamists in the country think that the initia-tive is being taken by the American imperi-alistic forces to subdue Muslims andhandicap them of advancement.

The New Silk Road strategy was de-vised by the Americans. In 2008, HillaryClinton came up with a vision of the NewSilk Road, a route of connected railwaylinks and roads which would connect theSouth Asian region with Central Asia withthe premise that the vast natural resourcesfrom Central Asia would reach markets inthe South Asian region. It was thought thattrade and interdependence on gas wouldfuel the South Asian economic wealth, cot-ton from the fields of Tajikistan wouldreach India’s textile mills and other prod-ucts of value would integrate within themarkets of Central and South Asia.

The strategy, opted by the US State De-partment, is best described by Robert D Hor-mats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energyand Agricultural Affairs, in a discussionforum organized by the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and CSIS Forum, inWashington DC. He said, “This vision for theregion is deeply rooted in history. For mil-lennia, a sprawling trading network criss-crossed Asia – connecting East to West, andNorth to South. It was a robust network —on land and on sea”. The forum was held onSeptember 29, 2011.

Even US Secretary of State Hillary Clin-ton is saying that ‘connections in that wholeneighborhood would grow stronger so thatprosperity would grow for everyone’. Thisbold statement was given on the event ofdiplomatic meeting between India and Pak-istan in Islamabad over discussing the visaprocedures between the two.

New Delhi has invested in the new 2000-kilometer pipeline which would cost around

$7.6 billion and bring 70 billion cubic metersof gas from Daulatabad gas fields of Turk-menistan to India through Afghanistan andPakistan.

The agreements between Pakistan andIndia and other SAARC countries have con-firmed the new economic integration. TheTurkmenistan gas initiative was taken byPakistan and India but now Bangladesh alsowants to be a part of it. South Asia’s direneed for gas can only be filled by regionalstates. Pakistan seems determined to moveahead on the Iranian gas pipeline, possiblyignoring the sanctions posed by the USagainst Iran. Some analysts view this newSilk Road strategy as an alternate to theIranian gas pipeline.

America may want to move its troops outof Afghanistan but it would like to leave a goodimpression behind in the shape of Silk Roadinitiative. The strategy will also serve for theUS as an outreach to Central Asia, somethingearlier China had access to for a long time al-most exclusively. It can also be viewed as aforeign policy to contain Chinese outreach.

China’s economic integration and coop-eration with the Central Asian states hadbeen zilch when the Central Asia was a partof former USSR. China’s trade with the Cen-tral Asian states in total amounted to about$465 million in the year 1992, but in 2005,it grew well over $7.7 billion. In the year2002, it was about $2.4 billion, in 2003 itgrew to about $4.1 billion. In 2005, theamount of total trade was $5.8 billion. Theseamounts increased at about 72.5 percent toa high figure of about $7.7 billion. A few oilfirms have now signed their contracts withChina while swiftly moving away from Amer-ica; the deals will take place in the northernparts of Afghanistan around Amu Darya.Both India and China have now made roadsinto the Iraqi oil fields.

The new outreach of South Asian statesinto the Central Asia will have its conse-quences for America, even if America hastaken a strong stance in its favor. The Cen-

tral Asian region is overflowing with energybut has no route linking it directly to the searoutes, but it could do if it acquires the samefrom the UAE, which can afford to grantsuch an access. The manpower could betaken care of by the South Asian workers.

The US is quite determined to containIran, as it is obvious in many ways. The SilkRoad will have Iran as an important playeras we can see South Asia’s thirst for energyto overcome its energy deficit will be met bythe grace of Iranian gas. This interdepend-ence would allow Iran a share in the processand can lead it to a bidding card for joiningthe SAARC countries. India has taken up anactive role in aiding Iran in the pursuit ofits projects. The new Chabahar port has ac-celerated a series of talks among countriesin the region. India constructed a road in2008 which starts from Chabahar port onthe Arabian Sea and passes through the Sis-tan-Balochistan and Khorasan provincesand reaches the Nimruz province ofAfghanistan, becoming a great link to theAfghanistan’s Ring Road.

The governments of Afghanistan, Indiaand Iran have now agreed to construct a rail-way line to facilitate their trade, for the vastresources of about $1 trillion, the estimatedworth of Afghan resources by the US. Fol-lowing Turkey, India is now introducing var-ious ways of engaging Iran and refrainingfrom the US stance of isolating Iran. Pak-istan also seems to be planning on engagingwith Iran and defy American strategy.

The new Silk Road offers great connec-tivity, economic progress and prosperity forthe two geostrategic regions that need inte-gration with each other in the face of the newglobalized world. South Asia could profitgreatly from this new strategy, and Islam-abad and New Delhi, being the major play-ers, should be working together to pursuethis lofty goal.

The writer is a journalist based in Lahoreand is working for South Asian Media Net.

By Hassan Naqvi

There’s a penguin near LUMSin Lahore. Well, it’s a statueof a penguin, a full sized

one, on a patch of grass betweentwo busy roads.

So why does a penguin live be-tween two busy roads in a countrythat has nothing to do with pen-guins?

You might also ask why thosetwo penguin roads have been de-signed the way they have, withoutany access breaks between them,and little convenient access toLUMS. Those living close behindLUMS are forced to drive the dis-tance to Wateen Chawk beforeturning around again, when forLUMS they cannot take a simpleright to its entrance. They mustperform a complicated manoeu-vre around the penguin and acouple of houses that moonlightas a roundabout, and then cut im-mediately across a road that leadsto the main gate. Before thatpoint they are in danger of takingan unmarked fork that would takethem right back to Wateen Chawk

once again.As a consequence, many driv-

ers, mainly cyclists and motorcy-clists, drive along the wrong sideinto a blind corner, all to avoid thelong trek in the opposite direction.It’s shorter, but exceedingly per-ilous, both to themselves and tothe cars turning the corner fromthe other, the correct side.

I’m told on good authority thatthese roads are laid out like this,following accidents on that stretchof road, but this solution is no so-lution, without any considerationfor convenience, safety, or thePakistani psyche.

Similarly, the ‘backside’ ofLUMS has a burgeoning popula-tion, and many schools. Almost noone stops at the traffic lights there,not even in front of the LahoreGrammar School, and they driveon the wrong side again, becauseonce more, to get to the other sideis too long a detour. Obviously thenew colonies were not planned for,and once they mushroomed intoexistence no one bothered to ac-

commodate them, or enforce anysafety rules, here or anywhereelse.

Alas Pakistan and its lack ofplanning and enforcement. Theseexamples but illustrate that point.In today’s expensive times withcurrent prices of fuel, to expectcommuters to drive so far out oftheir way is unrealistic, yet it hap-pens with monotonous regularitythroughout the country that any-one who can make life difficult foranyone else, does so. But we’llcome back to that later.

The lack of planning extendsto almost every sphere of life, butsince we’re speaking of construc-tion the other obvious example isbuildings. The recent heartrend-ing tragedies in Karachi and La-hore where so many lives were lostwere apparently a direct conse-quence of a lack of planning and asingular lack of enforcement ofsafety regulations: a single accesspoint into a congested buildingwith dubious electrical wiring andmost of electrical equipment is

that well worn cliché: a recipe fordisaster, and a disaster it was.

Seeing that the Pakistani pub-lic observes rules only to breakthem, the solution lies in the threeEs: Engineering, Education, andEnforcement, properly imple-mented.

Roads and buildings designedby civil engineers and architectsare not just about walkways, fly-overs, walls and windows. Theyare also about people, their men-tality, and their interaction withcivic amenities. Designs must re-flect this aspect too.

If the public does not under-stand safety, it must be educated.Until then, there’s enforcement. Inthe case of roads, the sharp metalspikes in Karachi’s Khadda Mar-kets streets have forced people touse the one way system, provingthat money is better spent on en-forcement rather than on pen-guins and kalmas at chowks.

So about making life more dif-ficult for everyone, I have a theorywhich you may call the Obstruc-

tion Theory. It says that peoplehave such an unfailingly miserabletime getting the most mundanework done here that they’ve cometo think of it as the norm. To ac-quire legitimacy, a thing must behazardous and obtainable onlyafter overcoming many obstacles.That, according to popular percep-tion, is how life is meant to be, andtherefore, they make things diffi-cult and hazardous on purpose.Which in a sense means that allthis haphazard planning; it’s reallypeople working very hard in theonly way they know best, to dowhat they think is right. And wethought we never planned, workedhard, or did what is right. It justgoes on to show how wrong onecan be.

Also, you know that penguin Imentioned earlier? Well I forgot totell you, it wears a hat. It’s only abowler hat, but never mind.

The writer is a freelancecolumnist. Read more by her athttp://rabia-ahmed.blogspot.com/

Of penguins and kalmas at chowksBy Rabia Ahmed

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Article 25 (3) of the Constitution ofthe Islamic Republic of Pakistan recog-nizes special right of protection for chil-dren due to their vulnerability. Pakistanratified United Nations Convention onthe Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on No-vember 12, 1990 which providesbroader outlines for the promotion andprotection of child rights. Every personbelow the age of 18 years is a childunder the UNCRC. Over 47 percent ofthe total population of Pakistan consistsof children less than 18 years of age.The UNCRC made it obligatory on thestates which ratify the Convention totake all appropriate legislative, adminis-trative and other measures for the im-plementation of the rights enshrined inthe Convention. The 18th constitutional

amendment passed by the parliamenthas made child rights a provincial sub-ject. It is important to note though chil-dren constitute almost fifty percent ofthe total population of the province butstill there is no body with a statutorystatus for the promotion and protectionof their rights.

The Committee on the Rights of theChild, in its concluding observations toPakistan in 2009, recommended the es-tablishment 'of an independent moni-toring structure with a mandate toregularly evaluate progress in the im-plementation of the Convention'. So incompliance of the committee’s recom-mendation now the provincial govern-ment(s) should immediate establish anindependent and empowered Provincial

Commission on the Rights of Children.The proposed commission will act as afocal point for effective supervision andcoordination of children’s rights relatedmatters in general and children at riskin particular at provincial level in re-spect of activities for the survival, devel-opment, protection and participation ofchildren.

Major role of the commission willbe to comment on proposed new legis-lation at the earliest possible stage, orrequire the government to issue a childimpact assessment to ensure that thelegislation will comply with the best in-terests of the child while commissionwill also analyze existing laws, policiesand practice to assess compliance withthe Convention and other international

human rights obligations relating tochildren and make recommendations tothe Government. The Commission willanalyze existing government statisticson children in general and children atrisk in particular to identify gaps or theneed for disaggregated data and wherethere is a lack of existing informationabout their lives, it shall produce data ofits own through Commissioned re-search, or urge the government to un-dertake any necessary research as wellas collect and publish data on the situa-tion of children in general and childrenat risk in particular and take appropri-ate steps to protect and promote therights of such children.

IFTIKHAR MUBARIKLahore

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working against our own causeAfter violent protests of last few weeks against a

blasphemous video, we need to recognize that by in-dulging in fierce protests, we are working against ourown case. Such protests may be beneficial for few peo-ple who are more interested in petty politics ratherthan love for the Prophet (PBUH). However, it leavesa very negative impression of Muslim Ummah that weare inherently violent people. It’s true that our weak-nesses and shortcomings in the backdrop of (else-where) global economic and technologicaldevelopment lead to en-mass frustration. One wouldexpect that our leaders would use this frustration tofight the evils Muslim nations are facing --- illiteracy,corruption, intolerance, insecurity and lawlessness,but it’s the other way round, they divert it to polishand promote their politics. What Muslims achieved byprotesting against ‘Stannic Verses’, ‘Turkish Art ofLove’ and now ‘Innocence of Muslims’ – nothing, ex-cept by their violent reaction they in fact invited eventhe unconcerned people across the globe towatch/read such blasphemous works.

In my opinion, most of the protestors were luredto do violent acts in their love for Prophet, but in factby acting as pawns of few wicked politicians, theythemselves are promoting blasphemy. It’s time forMuslims to come out of this cycle of violence and con-centrate on education, economy, tolerance and bettergovernance. These are the real goals to be achieved,can’t be achieved by killing, looting and ransacking.

MASOOD KHANJubail, Saudi Arabia

Debate against Sheikh rashidSheikh Rashid is known for his frank and well-

worded statements. He talks lots of sense particularlywhen he quotes statistics to prove his point of view.Many others tried to copy his style, like Faisal RezaAbidi, Zulfiqar Mirza, Rehman Malik etc but theyfailed. Their performance has not only been miserablebut also far below accepted decency level and culture.

Sh Rashid should be allowed to speak more often onTV. He at least leaves behind lot of information for peo-ple who do not have access to media, especially electronic

media and net. Someone from major parties like PPPand PML-N should counter his arguments on media in-stead of making stereotype, oft-repeated and redundantstatements about ‘democracy’ and ‘people’s rights’ and‘reconciliation policy’ and ‘tolerance’ etc. These wordsand expressions have lost their meaning. People are sickof this democracy which is called a panacea of all ills.People are sick of this reconciliation policy when the gov-ernment in power plays ping pong with SC. About peo-ple’s rights, people ask a simple question: ‘do we have theright to live’? I don’t know why rhetoric is used to foolpeople. Debate against Sh Rashid, if anyone has anythingto counter his so-called loose talk.

AMJAD H MIRZALahore

fuel price-hikeThe steep hike in petrol prices has left people across

all sections of the society completely enraged. This hasobviously sent shockwaves to the common man who istrying hard to make ends meet in an inflationary envi-ronment. For the common man, every rise in petrolprices could sound the death knell for his savings.

This fuel rise coupled with an increased inflationhas surely impacted our pockets and due to this price-hike inflation figure is bound to go up and with itprice of goods and services are also expected to go up.Major sectors to get affected is transportation, tex-tiles, auto etc, as all of these major sectors requirespetrol and other fuels to manufacture and transportthem and when transportation costs rises, prices ofessential commodities also get increased, which aretransported on daily basis.

The government will have to roll back the petrolprice-hike because this hike is way too much.

AMNA MELALahore

cashing in on Benazir's photographWhile addressing the UN General Assembly in New

York, President Asif Ali Zardari, before beginning hisspeech, once again kept a photograph of his late wifeand Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

General elections in Pakistan are just round the

corner. Using an international forum and displayingphotograph of one’s political leader amounts to influ-encing the upcoming general elections and its results.

Nobody is denying the sacrifice of Mohtarma Be-nazir Bhutto for the cause of democracy in Pakistan.But President Asif Ali Zardari is trying to cash in on thedeath of his wife and Pakistan's twice elected primeminister. I strongly urge UN Secretary General Ban KiMoon to take serious note of this and ask the worldleaders participating in the UN General Assembly tostop using this august platform for personal gains infuture.

M RAFIQUE ZAKARIAKarachi

riP, Shaukat aliOur friend and member of the Police Service of

Pakistan, Shaukat Ali Khan, left us aghast on Monday,24 September, when the news of his sudden deathsplashed on the electronic media. People who knew himeven remotely were also deeply saddened. He was veryyoung when he decided to leave for heavens. He wasonly 62. He was the youngest amongst us (PSP 1973).

Shaukat Ali was a thorough gentleman and agraceful person. His greatest quality was his humility.He had everything to make him arrogant and proud.His family background and education. His father wasthe Wazir-e-Azam of Wali-e-Swat. Shaukat wasAtchisonian. But he was always polite and gentle. Hewas a private person but not aloof. He would endeareverybody with his friendly approach.

He liked sports and sports page of the newspaper.He spent most of his professionally life in KP andcame to Islamabad at the fag end of his career. He wasliked by his colleagues and subordinates alike. Whenan officer junior to him was posted as Director Gen-eral FIA, he proceeded on leave and opted to retire asan OSD. He was ignored for the positions of Com-mandant Frontier Constabulary and IGP KPK. He de-served Grade 22 but was again ignored. Shaukat Aliwas a loving person, free from arrogance, conceit, in-trigues, jealousy and greed. He was a man of integrity.He was a wonderful person. His departure from thisworld is a great loss for his family and friends.

May his soul rest in peace!ASGHAR MAHMOOD

Islamabad

commission on the rights of children

Mengal’s pointsMr Akhtar Mengal was very frank,

blunt and extremely honest to voice theconcerns of Baloch nationalists by stat-ing that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)and Military Intelligence (MI) had in-volvement in enforced disappearances ofmissing persons and conduct of covertand overt military operations by ‘deathsquads’ operating under the supervisionof secret agencies. This forced the mili-tary leadership to immediately deny theaccusations and by doing so consider it-self being absolved/vindicated from theaccusations. Easy said than done; the ac-cusations stand and so does the frustra-tion and anger of people of Balochistan.

Where does this take us from here?The Baloch are true nationalists no doubtbut so are the majority of ethno-nation-alist Pakistanis who all want to be part ofone independent, democratic, pluralisticand viable country. Unfortunately, it isnot the people but the leadership thatseems to be working on cross purpose.

Mr Mengal, despite being very disap-pointed and frustrated, must get out of the'hopelessness mode' and advocate the wayforward to the people of Balochistan byrecommending association with the politi-cal process. Especially when elections arefast approaching and there is a growingfeeling that Baloch nationalists will boy-cott the elections. Mr Mengal knows wellthat the democratic assemblies are thebest platform to fight for the rights of theprovince and for its people. Believing andasking the people of Balochistan to believein the independence and neutrality of thestate institutions like the judiciary andelection commission may just be the rightstep towards a hopeful and viable commit-ment leading to reconciliation.

Prospects for reconciliation betweenthe Baloch nationals and the state havenever looked promising in the past butthe recent public accusations by Mr Men-gal followed by immediate denial by thestate respectively has further harden andtighten the position of the two parties.Yet both parties cannot give up finding amiddle ground for 'solution seeking ef-forts' even after the extreme positionsthat the two sides have taken.

MUHAMMAD ALI EHSANKarachi

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Why robert Pattinson tookKristen Stewart back

RoBERT Pattinson, who is back with hischeating girlfriend Kristen Stewart, startedtaking her calls, as he started thinking

“nobody else would understand his life,” a friend hasrevealed. The friend said that the actor’s “rationalvoice” told him not to toss a three-year relationshipfor one infidelity. “Rob weighed his options. hewouldn’t even know where to start if he and Kristenwere to break up for good,” a source told Usmagazine. “They have a very deep connection,”another source said. “Plus, they’re young. allrelationships at that age have drama,” the sourceadded. But Stewart still faces one tough challenge -winning over Pattinson’s pals. “They don’t want to seehim get hurt again,” a source said. “But Rob has hopein their romance,” another source added. COuRteSY tOI

Semi-naked pics of duchessKate surface

ShoCKINg new photos of a semi-nakedDuchess Kate on holiday have emerged. Theimages, taken during her recent private

break in France with hubby Prince William, werepublished in Danish gossip magazine Se og hor, theMirror reported. The pictures show the 30-year-oldsunbathing on a balcony at the couple’s chateaulovenest. Kate is topless in some and in others hasa towel wrapped round her shoulders as she tries toput on a pair of bikini bottoms. Scanned images ofthe Danish mag’s photos have also begun to appearonline. Se og hor (See and hear) published 16pages of the controversial photos last week andreturned with more this week. The magazine editorKim henningsen said the magazine had beenoffered 240 pictures in total. he said he wanted toshow Denmark’s entertainment fans “what thesephotos are all about.” henningsen declined to saywho sold them to the weekly or how much moneythey paid. COuRteSY Ht

SrK posts cosy snap withKatrina Kaif on Twitter

Shah Rukh Khan is pairing up with KatrinaKaif for the first time in Yash Chopra’s lastfilm as a director Jab Tak hai Jaan. King

Khan tweeted an intimate image with the Ek ThaTiger actress. The caption read: “Before mobilephones took away the romance...ha ha.” SRK-Katrina are captured in a romantic moment insidea phone booth. The two share a sizzling hotchemistry in the romantic film. SRK’s Rab Ne BanadiJodi co-star anushka Sharma also features in thefilm. Jab Tak hai Jaan opens in cinemas inNovember, eight years after Yash Chopra’s lastproject Veer-Zaara. “I am so happy with the film,”Chopra said, adding: “You always eat the tastiestdish at the end of your meal, that is how it is.” SRK,who starred in four of Chopra’s films, said he wasboth surprised and saddened by his decision to stopdirecting movies: “I always tell everyone that if youdo one film in your life, it should be a Yash Choprafilm,” Khan said. COuRteSY tOI

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Model-turned-actress Malaika Arora Khan, who hasa string of successful item numbers like “Chhaiya

chhaiya”, “Munni badnaam” and “Anarkali discochali” to her credit, says she never wanted to bean actor, and so she doesn’t miss it at all.“Except for some small roles, I have never actedso I can’t really miss it. I never wanted to doacting so it never really cropped up my mind. Ilove dancing and will continue to do till I can,”Malaika told IANS. The 39-year-old, who ismarried to actor-filmmaker Arbaaz Khan, has

done cameo in films like”Bichhoo”, “Indian”,“Kaante” and “Housefull”. But if given a chance todo a full-fledged role in a film, then it is the actiongenre that she has her eyes set on. “In future, I mayturn around if something interests me. There isnothing that catches my fancy but then if ever I do

something I would like to do action. I likethe superhero genre... something

like ‘Charlie’s Angels’ or ‘Krrish’,”said Malaika, who began her trystwith showbiz as a video jockeyon MTV. She turned filmproducer along with herhusband, Arbaaz, when theircompany Arbaaz KhanProductions released its firstfilm “Dabangg” in 2010. Afterjudging dance realityshows “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa”,“Nach Baliye” and “Zara NachkeDikha”, Malaika is now a part ofthe judging panel of “ India’sGot Talent 4”, along with withfilmmaker Karan Johar andactress Kirron Kher.something like ‘Charlie’sAngels’ or ‘Krrish’,” saidMalaika, who began her trystwith showbiz as a videojockey on MTV. She turnedfilm producer along withher husband, Arbaaz,when theircompany Arbaaz KhanProductions released itsfirst film “Dabangg” in2010. COURTESY TOi

I never wanted todo acting: Malaika

Actress Rani Mukherjee, who will be seenplaying the role of a Maharashtrian girl in theupcoming ‘Aiyyaa’, says the film is a purefamily entertainer She also expressedconfidence that the film would be liked bypeople of all ages. Produced by AnuragKashyap, ‘Aiyyaa’ stars Rani and Prithviraj inthe lead roles. Rani plays the role of a Marathigirl, who falls in love with a South Indian boy.“Though I was born and brought up inMumbai and studied Marathi during myschool days, I was not fluent in Marathi.When Anurag Kashyap offered me the role, Idecided to learn conversational Marathi anddid my job without any hesitation,” Rani toldreporters. Director Sachin Kundalkar, whoaccompanied her, was all praise for herdedication towards learning Marathi. The filmis set for a release on October 12. COURTESY TOi

‘aiyyaa’ is a familyentertainer: Rani Mukherjee

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger hasopened up about his marriagebreakdown for the first time andadmits he has hurt ex-wife MariaShriverby cheating on her. The65-year-old admits that cheatingon wife Maria Shriver withhousekeeper Mildred Baena wasthe “stupidest thing” he had done,reports people.com. “I think it wasthe stupidest thing I’ve done inthe whole relationship. It wasterrible. I inflictedtremendous pain on Maria andunbelievable pain on the kids,”Schwarzenegger said on a TVshow while promoting his book“In Total Recall: My Unbelievably

True Life Story”. In thebook, Hollywood action starwrites about the affair with Baenaand having a son with hernamed Joseph, now a teenager,and reveals another affair duringhis 25-year marriage. However, hesays Shriver, who filed for divorcein May 2011, has not read thebook. “She knows that it’s aboutmy whole life and that I would notwrite a book and kind of leave outthat part and make people feel like,‘Well, wait a minute. Are we justgetting a book about his successstories and not talk about hisfailures?. I wanted to write a bookabout me,” he said. COURETSY TOi

CheATING oN ShrIver WAS STUPId: SChWArzeNeGGer

i hope i am notbecoming a cat lady:kim kardashianKim Kardashian hopes that she does notturn out to be one of those “cat ladies”who tweets too many pictures of their pet.While the socialite certainly has taken toTwitter to share photos of her Persian catnamed Mercy, including one withnephew Mason Disick, her love for the cathas been a long time in the making. “Ihave always wanted a white Persian catwith light eyes. That was mything,” People magazine quoted her, assaying at a Midori event in Santa Monica,California, on Tuesday. “I’ve been alwayslooking at kittens like that online,” shesaid. And when boyfriend KanyeWest gifted her the cat, it seemed naturalto pay tribute to him in some way. “Mymom actually helped me come up withthat name ... It’s a song of my boyfriend’s,so I thought it was cute,” she said. “I justthought it was a cute name and it fither,” she added. COURTESY TOi

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‘Good friends’ Katrina, ranbirand deepika to come togetherfor ‘Silsila’ remake?

IN the year 1981, Showbiz’s maestro film makermade one of his best works till date ‘Silsila’when he brought together real life troubled

lovers amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Rekhaand the chemistry between the trios worked wonderson screen. Coming over to 2012, news has it that thehouse of Yash Raj Films is planning a remake of‘Silsila’ with an all new star cast. and if the reportsthat we have got our ears on are to be trusted, thenthe actors who will be reprising the role of Jaya,amitabh and Rekha could be Katrina Kaif, RanbirKapoor and Deepika Padukone respectively. Wow!Now that’s what we call a star cast!! Considering thefact that Ranbir Kapoor was in a serious relationshipwith Deepika Padukone and then later switched on toromance Katrina, the YRF production house feels thatthe trios will fit into the shoes of Rekha, amitabh andJaya very well. Well this will be one film that willsurely draw millions to the theatres!. COuRteSY Ht

Anne hathaway marries longtime beau Adam Shulman

ANNE hathaway has tied the knot with longtimebeau adam Shulman in scenic Big Sur on theCalifornia coast on Saturday night. More than

100 guests were invited for the wedding weekend,which started on Friday with a rehearsal dinner at theVentana Inn and Spa. a nearby private estate wassecured for the ceremony, People magazine reported.Valentino provided a custom gown, the designerconfirmed last week. according to a source, thewedding decor was inspired by nature, with manybranches used to create a ceremony and reception toblend in with the majestic Big Sur surroundings.The couple, who have been together for four years, gotengaged last November. COuRteSY Ht

justin Bieber loves disneyland dates

SINgER Selena gomez says singer boyfriendJustin Bieber loves to go to Disneyland withher. gomez, 20, says although Bieber likes

visiting the fun-filled place with her, she prefers someplace scarier, reports a website. “We go to Disneylanda lot, he likes it, but we go to Knott`s Scary Farm(event at Knott`s Berry Farm in California) becausethat`s my favorite,” gomez said during The EllenDegeneres Show. “I`m the kind of person that likes toget scared - but I`m covering my eyes and ears theentire time,” she added. The couple have been datingeach other since past 18 months. COuRteSY tOI

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How’s it shooting in Hyderabad?Honestly, the Film City is like afortress (laughs). But we are havinga great time shooting in Hyderabad.Despite the studio being far awayfrom the city, I’ve managed to cometo town a record number of times towatch The Expendables.Remakes seem to be the flavour inBollywood these days. You havefollowed suit with Himmatwala.At the onset, I would like to clarifythat my Himmatwala is not a remake,but a rewrite. I was 11 years old whenI watched the originalstarring Jeetendra and Sridevi. WhenI began my career as a filmmaker, Ialways thought about the movies Iwatched while growing up, andimagined what it would be like if itwas written differently. I then wentabout rewriting the story in adifferent scenario. And when I got thechance to make my versionof Himmatwala, I jumped at theopportunity. So, I’m not remaking theoriginal, but working on a rewrittenversion which is a tribute to it. Ofcourse, my film too has been set inthe 80s because the punch lines I’vewritten, goes well with the era.Ajay Devgn and Tamannaah star inyour film. An unusual choice,considering the original starredJeetendra and Sridevi.At the time that Jeetuji did the movie,he was known as Jumping Jack. Thatwas the tag he earned for the films hedid. When I was reworking on thescript, I realized that today Ajay Devgnis an actor who can pull off any genrewith ease, without being tagged. Andthat’s the sort of person I needed forthe movie. Look at Ajay’s repertoire offilms — he’s done comedy, action,drama, suspense. He does everything

with intensity. As far as Tamannaah isconcerned, I was clear from thebeginning that I wanted to cast apopular actor from South India as Iwanted to stay true to the original, inwhich Sridevi, a diva was the Southwas cast opposite Jeetuji. Tamannaahhad done a Hindi film earlier, butnothing compares to her popularitydown South. She fit the bill perfectly.And mark my words — Tamannaah isgoing to be the next Sridevi inBollywood. She is immensely talentedand hard working. Plus, it’s always ajoy to work with South actors as theyare extremely disciplined. If the shootis at 6 am, trust my heroine to be onthe sets with make-up on, right ontime! That’s the kind ofprofessionalism a filmmaker looksforward to from his actors.You have three back-to-backblockbusters in your kitty. Yet, all ofthem have been thrashed by thecritics. Honestly, movie critics in Indialack the basic knowledge in cinema.

The tragedy of it all is that they are in aposition to review films because theyhave somehow managed to landthemselves a job in that particularorganization. Yes, all my films havebeen thrashed — mercilessly, if I mayadd — by critics. But the audience gaveit a thumping response at the BoxOffice. The real critics are my audienceand if they have given my films athumbs up, I don’t care what moviereviewers have to say.Quite ironic considering that not toolong ago, you were reviewing movieson a TV show. Well, yes I did reviewcinema before I become a filmmaker.But if you’ve seen my show, you’llknow that I spoke about the differentaspects that the movie brought out. Iknew what I was talking about. Tellme, how many critics today knowwhat they are saying or writing? Iopenly challenge 1,000, no make it10,000, critics from the country to sitacross from me at the table and havea debate on cinema. I guarantee you,

at the end of the session, I’ll shutthem all up. I’m a big fan of Hindimovies and as a filmmaker I’mstaying true to the spirit of Indiancinema.So, how are you “staying true tothe spirit of Indian Cinema”?Well, for one, my films havesomething for every age group. Also,I am the only filmmaker today whostill works with animals. Who elsedoes that? Even though it is tough toget permissions to shoot with themabroad, I insist on having animalsbecause I know that a kid sitting inthe theatre will enjoy it. I must admitthat they are taken care of betterthan most technicians (laughs). Also,my movies borrow from the past andhave a bit of nostalgia attached to it,making it special to the audience.The fact that my movies make morethan Rs 100 crores at the Box Officeis proof enough that the audienceloves it. Right now, every filmmakeraspires to be in the “100 crore club”...Unfortunately, that’s the parameterof judging cinema these days. Earlier,people talked about how long a movieran in theatres and accordingly, theycelebrated silver and golden jubilees.In today’s scenario, a film can’tpossibly have a good run for a month.The opening weekend is crucial as itbrings in the audience and moolah.So now, parameters to judge cinematoo have gone through a sea changeand now it’s the ‘100 crore club’. So,yes, as a filmmaker, even I speak incommercial terms. Actors like AkshayKumar and Riteish Deshmukhconstantly feature in your films...Well, I share a great rapport withthem. Plus, they are good actors andthey totally suited the roles they didin my movies. COURTESY TOi

TAMANNAAh IS The NexT SrIdevI,says director Sajid Khan, who is shooting with Ajay devgn and Tamannaah for himmatwala...

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Is there a gene for motherhood?

RORY Delaney is a three-year-old whohas not been out of diapers that long,but she already knows something

about changing them. Her sister, Saorise, is afive-year-old kindergarten student whoalready knows what she wants to be when shegrows up, a mom. Now, researchers atRockefeller University say the inclination thatboth Rory and Saorise feel at such a young ageto nurture and feed their baby dolls and playwith items like strollers could be somethingthey were born with, and something that willdefinitely impact their futures. In a study withmice, the researchers determined that a singlegene exists that could be responsible formotivating mothers to protect, feed and raisetheir young. NewS deSK

School bans parents

Aschool has banned parents from watchingtheir children take part in sports events -unless they pass a criminal records check.

The Isambard Community School in Swindon,Wilts., insists all parents must clear a CriminalRecords Bureau check to weed out potentialpaedophiles. Neil Park, 54, was furious when hewas turned away from watching his son George,12, play rugby. The father-of-five said: "I wasturned away from the school because I had notbeen CRB checked. "I couldn't believe it.Government guidelines state that parents areallowed to watch games. "But any strangers can bequestioned and requested to show the appropriatepaperwork, which is fair enough. The schoolintroduced the new measure at the start of theterm to prevent strangers from accessing otherparts of the school from the playing fields. Aspokesman said: "It is with regret that from nowon we will be unable to accommodate parentswishing to spectate at our sports fixtures unlessthey are in possession of an up-to-date SwindonCouncil CRB check. tHe teLeGRAPH

Crickets causing a stink inCentral Texas city

SEVERAL businesses in the Central Texastown of Waco (WAY'-koh) are dealingwith a smelly problem that won't go

away: decaying cricket carcasses. A bank, adrugstore and other businesses have beeninundated with the odorous onslaught of deadcrickets that have been trapped inside walls andhave collected on sidewalks. Jani Rodriguez, thebranch manager at Synergy Bank, tells the Wacothat scented products have been unable to getrid of the smell. Using air-scrubbing machineshasn't worked either. Fred Huffman, anentomologist who runs a local pest controlbusiness, says the cricket problem has beenworse this year because mild winter conditionsresulted in the insects appearing earlier thannormal. Health officials say the crickets don'tpose any direct health risks. AGeNCIeS

tO combat global warming, scientistsin Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dustcloud in space, blasted off an aster-oid, which would act like a sunshade

for Earth. The world is warming and the climateis changing. Although many want to prevent theseshifts by reducing emissions of greenhouse gasesthat trap heat from the sun, some controversiallysuggest deliberating manipulating the planet's cli-mate with large-scale engineering projects, com-monly called geo-engineering.

Instead of altering the climate by targeting ei-ther the oceans or the atmosphere, some re-searchers have suggested geo-engineeringprojects that would affect the entire planet fromspace. For instance, projects that reduced theamount of solar radiation Earth receives by 1.7percent could offset the effects of a global increasein temperature of 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C). TheUnited Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-mate Change (IPCC) has noted climate modelssuggest average global temperatures will likelyrise by 2 to 11.5 degrees F (1.1 to 6.4 degrees C) bythe end of this century.

"A 1.7 percent reduction is very small and willhardly be noticeable on Earth," said researcherRussell Bewick, a space scientist at the Universityof Strathclyde in Scotland. "People sometimes getthe idea of giant screens blocking the entire sun.This is not the case ... as [the device] is constantlybetween the sun and the Earth, it acts merely as avery light shade or filter."

SHADING EARtH

One proposal to shade the Earth from the sunwould place giant mirrors in space. The mainproblem with this concept is the immense costand effort needed either to build and launch suchreflectors or to construct them in outer space —the current cost to launch an object into low Earthorbit runs into thousands of dollars per pound.Another would use blankets of dust to blot out thesun, just as clouds do for Earth. These offer thevirtue of simplicity compared with mirrors, butrun the risk of getting dispersed over time by solarradiation and the gravitational pull of the sun,moon and planets. Now instead of having a dustcloud floating by itself in space, researchers sug-gest an asteroid could essentially gravitationallyanchor a dust cloud in space to block sunlight andcool the Earth.

"I would like to make it clear that I wouldnever suggest geoengineering in place of reducingour carbon emissions," Bewick told LiveScience.Instead, he said, "We can buy time to find a lastingsolution to combat Earth’s climate change. Thedust cloud is not a permanent cure, but it couldoffset the effects of climate change for a given time

to allow slow-acting measures like carbon captureto take effect." The idea would be to place an as-teroid at Lagrange point L1, a site where the grav-itational pull of the sun and the Earth cancel out.This point is about four times the distance fromthe Earth to the moon.

The researchers suggest outfitting a near-Earth asteroid with a "mass driver," a device con-sisting of electromagnets that would hurlasteroid-derived matter away from the giant rock.The mass driver could serve both as a rocket topush the asteroid to the L1 point and as an engineto spew out sun-shielding dust. The researcherscalculate that the largest near-Earth asteroid,1036 Ganymed, could maintain a dust cloud largeenough to block out 6.58 percent of the solar ra-diation that would normally reach Earth, morethan enough to combat any current global warm-ing trends. Such a cloud would be about 11 mil-lion-billion pounds (5 million-billion kilograms)in mass and about 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers)wide. Ganymed has a mass of about 286 million-billion lbs. (130 million-billion kg). An asteroid ofthis size might make one think of disaster movies,such as "Armageddon"; however, "rather than de-stroying the Earth, it could be used to helpmankind," Bewick said.

AStEROID DUSt CHALLENGES

The main challenge of this proposal would bepushing an asteroid the size of Ganymed to thesun-Earth L1 point. "The company Planetary Re-sources recently announced their intention to

mine asteroids," Bewick said. "The study thatthey base their plans on reckons that it will bepossible to capture an asteroid with a mass of500,000 kilograms (1.1 million lbs.) by 2025.Comparing this to the mass of Ganymed makesthe task of capturing it seem unfeasible, at leastin everything except the very far term. However,smaller asteroids could be moved and clusteredat the first Lagrange point." Safety is anotherconcern. "A very large asteroid is a potentialthreat to Earth, and therefore great care and test-ing would be required in the implementation ofthis scenario," Bewick said. "Due to this, the po-litical challenges would probably match the scaleof the engineering challenge. Even for the cap-ture of much smaller asteroids, there will likelybe reservations from all areas of society, thoughthe risks would be much less."

Also, there's no way to fully test this dustcloud on a large scale to verify its effectiveness be-fore implementing it, "something that is commonto all geoengineering schemes," Bewick said. "Onthe global scale, it is not possible to test becausethe test would essentially be the real thing, exceptprobably in a diluted form. Climate modeling canbe performed, but without some large-scale test-ing, the results from these models cannot be fullyverified." Still, if geoengineers did use asteroids togenerate clouds, they could drastically reduce howmuch dust the projects spew out "should any cat-astrophic climate response be observed," Bewicksaid, "with the cloud dispersing naturally overtime." NewS deSK

Asteroid dust could fightclimate change on Earth

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Are you a math whiz who enjoysreading over your bank statementsand balancing your checkbook? Con-sider accounting as a good career fit.

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+ Accountants spend most of theirtime tracking data and under-standing trends, so that attractsintroverts.

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COMPUtER SyStEMS ANALySt

Does working closely with com-puters on a daily basis sound like acareer match made in heaven? If youanswered yes, consider looking intocomputer systems analyst positions.

INtROvERt-FRIENDLy FEAtURE

+ While it's true that you may haveto check in with managementfrom time to time, the daily grindinvolves a lot of alone time, in-cluding "sitting at a computerand crunching numbers.Medical Records and Health In-

formation TechnicianInterested in one day working in

health care but don't want to deal

with patients directly? Consider pur-suing a career as a medical recordsand health information technician.

INtROvERt-FRIENDLy FEAtURES

+ Researchers depict it as "a showup, sit at the computer, and doyour work kind of job."

+ Instead of directly interactingwith sick and elderly patients,technicians could spend most oftheir time coordinating patients'records to ensure their timeliness,accuracy, and completeness.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Looking for a creative outletwhere you could work on your own?Consider a career as a graphic de-signer.

INtROvERt-FRIENDLy FEAtURES

+ As a graphic designer, you'reworking out your ideas in graph-ics all day long.

+ Many graphic designers work in-dependently, and some eventelecommute.

COMPUtER PROGRAMMER

Do you consider yourself a com-puter geek who is looking for a morebehind-the-scenes role? A career asa computer programmer could beright up your alley.

INtROvERt-FRIENDLy FEAtURES

+ As a computer programmer, you

might be "sitting all day at acomputer writing programs thatrequire technical skills.

+ Programmers generally workalone and often telecommute.NewS deSK

FIVE BEST CAREERS FOR INTROVERTS

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relief for Li afterthrashing Schiavone

COLOMBOAfP

SHANE Watson shone with batand ball for the fourth match ina row as Australia steppedcloser to the World Twenty20semi-finals with an eight-

wicket win over South Africa on Sunday.Watson claimed 2-29 and then smashed

70 off 47 balls as Australia restricted theProteas to 146-5 and then surpassed thetotal in the 18th over to record their secondsuccessive win in group two of the SuperEights. South Africa, who suffered their sec-ond loss, will be knocked out of the tourna-ment if Pakistan beat India in the secondmatch of the double-header later on Sunday.

That result would also see former cham-pions India exit from the competition, leav-ing Australia and Pakistan as the twosemi-finalists from the group even beforeTuesday's last round of matches.

Australia lost David Warner in thefourth over, bowled by Morne Morkel, be-fore Watson and Mike Hussey added 99 in64 balls for the second wicket.

Watson, who was adjudged man of thematch for the fourth consecutive game, hiteight boundaries and two sixes before beingcaught in the deep off Robin Peterson.

Mike Hussey remained unbeaten on 45,while Cameron White made 21 not out, in-cluding the winning six off Johan Botha overthe mid-wicket boundary. Watson and left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty set up the em-phatic win by sharing the five wickets afterSouth Africa were sent in to bat at the Pre-madasa stadium. JP Duminy's 30 was thebest score by a top-order batsman as SouthAfrica slipped to 86-5, before Farhaan Be-hardien and Peterson added 60 from 35balls for the unbroken sixth wicket.

Behardien made 31 not out and Peter-

son returned unbeaten on a brisk 32 off 19balls, the pair taking 28 runs in the final twoovers.

Doherty, opening the bowling after re-placing seamer Daniel Christian for thematch, removed Richard Levi with the thirddelivery and sent back Jacques Kallis in hissecond over.

It became 33-3 in the sixth over whenWatson struck fifth ball as Hashim Amlaedged a leg-side catch to wicket-keeperMatthew Wade after making 17.

Doherty, returning for his second spellin the 11th over, had Duminy stumped andWatson dismissed skipper AB de Villiers toreduce the Proteas to 86-5 in the 15th over.

Watson stars again as Aussies thump ProteasSOutH AfRICA:

R. Levi b doherty 0

Hashim Amla c wade b watson 17

J. Kallis c wade b doherty 6

JP duminy st wade b doherty 30

Ab de villiers c bailey b watson 21

f. behardien not out 31

R. Peterson not out 32

extras: (b1, w8) 9

total (for five wickets, 20 overs) 146

fall of wickets: 1-0 (Levi), 2-8 (Kallis), 3-33 (Amla), 4-64

(duminy), 5-86 (de villiers).

bowling: doherty 4-0-20-3 (w1), Starc 4-0-30-0 (w3),

Cummins 4-0-33-0 (w2), watson 4-0-29-2 (w1), Hogg 3-0-26-

0 (w1), Maxwell 1-0-7-0.

AuStRALIA:

d. warner b Morkel 5

S. watson c Parnell b Peterson 70

M. Hussey not out 45

C. white not out 21

extras: (b1, w5) 6

total (for two wicket, 17.4 overs) 147

fall of wickets: 1-10 (warner), 2-109 (watson).

bowling: Steyn 3-0-15-0 (w1), Morkel 3-0-23-1 (w1), Kallis 1-0-

8-0 (w1), botha 3.4-0-31-0 (w2), Peterson 4-0-41-1, Parnell

2-0-24-0, duminy 1-0-4-0

Australia win by eight wickets

Man of the match: Shane watson (AuS)

toss: Australia

umpires: Ian Gould (eNG) and Kumar dharmasena (SRI)

tv umpire: Richard Kettleborough (eNG)

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NzL)

SCORebOARd

cOLOMBO: australian cricketers Michael hussey (L) and cameron white (2L) celebrate victory as South african captain aB de Villiers (r) looks on

during the icc twenty20 cricket world cup's Super eight match between South africa and australia at the r. Premadasa international cricket

Stadium in colombo on September 30, 2012. afp

Sri Lanka

arrests Briton

over ticket theftCOLOMBO

AfP

A British man was arrested inColombo Sunday on a charge ofstealing 100 tickets for the WorldTwenty20 match between hosts SriLanka and defending championsEngland, police said.The 54-year-old man identified asCaesar Antonio Buller from Man-chester was taken into custody at aticket booth in the capital aftersales staff alerted the police, an of-ficial said."He had gone up in the queue fortickets and somehow pocketed theticket books that were on acounter," police spokesman AjithRohana told AFP. "We found fourticket books in his possession."He said each book had 25 tickets forMonday's game. Some were pricedat 250 rupees and the others were750 rupees ($5.7) each.Rohana said the British nationalhad also in his possession threeother tickets which he may havepurchased at the same ticket salesunit."We will take him before a magis-trate tomorrow and take furtherlegal action," Rohana said.It was the first case of ticket theftfor the Twenty20 tournament whichopened on September 18 and goeson till October 7.Last month, police raided a factoryturning out counterfeit Interna-tional Cricket Council (ICC) WorldTwenty20 T-shirts and seized stocksof spurious merchandise.The crackdown on fake WorldTwenty20 merchandise followed acomplaint from the ICC over trade-mark infringements.

Doherty, watsonwreck South africaCOLOMBO: Left-arm spinner XavierDoherty grabbed three wickets and all-rounder Shane Watson took two as Aus-tralia kept South Africa down to 146-5 inthe World Twenty20 in Colombo on Sun-day.The Proteas, who need a win to stay incontention for the semi-finals after los-ing to Pakistan on Friday, lost quickwickets after being sent in to bat in theSuper Eights match.JP Duminy's 30 was the best score by atop-order batsman as South Africaslipped to 86-5 before Farhaan Behar-dien and Robin Peterson added 60 from35 balls for the unbroken sixth wicket.Behardien made 31 not out and Petersonreturned unbeaten on a brisk 32 off 19balls, the pair taking 28 runs in the finaltwo overs.Australia, who beat India in their firstgroup two match, will close in on a semi-final berth if they win.Doherty, opening the bowling after re-placing seamer Daniel Christian for thematch, removed Richard Levi with thethird delivery and sent back JacquesKallis in his second over. AfP

KUALA LUMPURAfP

Argentina's Juan Monaco won a three-hourbattle with Frenchman Julien Benneteau towin the Malaysian Open and break backinto the top 10 on Sunday.

Monaco, who had outlasted Japan's KeiNishikori in a tight semi-final a day earlier,took a see-sawing match 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 for hisfourth title of the year and will move from11 to 10 in the new rankings on Monday.

The victory for the 28-year-old, whoalso spent three weeks ranked 10th over thesummer, maintains his bid for a place inNovember's season-ending ATP WorldTour Finals, featuring the top eight players.

But Monaco's first hardcourt title, aftersix wins on clay, was tough on Benneteau,30, who is still waiting for his maiden tourvictory after seven finals, including one ear-lier this year.

"It was an excellent game and I willnever forget the Malaysian Open as it hasbrought me my first hardcourt title," saidMonaco.

"I saw Benneteau receiving treatment...but he still fought hard and never gave up. Ihad to come out more aggressively in thethird set and it helped me to get my firsthard court title."

Benneteau started the match with hisright forearm heavily taped, but he got offto the perfect start as he broke the Argen-

tine's first serve.Monaco broke back in the fourth and

ninth games but Benneteau refused to giveup and tied the first set 5-5.

The 12th game was a thriller that lasted20 minutes and saw 12 deuces beforeMonaco broke Benneteau's serve to take thefirst set 7-5.

Benneteau, who looked uncomfortablethroughout the match, called the trainer forattention to his right leg. But he came outstrongly in the second set, breaking Monacotwice to take it 6-4.

However, it was Monaco who had theextra burst of energy in the third as he brokethe Frenchman's serve in the sixth game toclinch the set 6-3, and with it the title.

Monaco took home the trophy and$153,440 first prize, while Benneteau hadto be content with the loser's cheque for$80,815.

"I was very focused on this game, be-cause I wanted to win this final," said Ben-neteau, who was also a beaten finalist inSydney in January.

"The fans were great, there was a lot ofFrench in the crowd. It was a nice atmos-phere and the game was a good level."

Monaco's fourth title of the year --after clay wins in Vina del Mar, Houstonand Hamburg -- gave him enough pointsto edge past American John Isner in thenew ATP rankings which will be publishedon Monday.

Monaco breaks into top 10 with Malaysian win

NEWS DESK

New Zealand players may have had a gastro problem orthree, but surely they and West Indies have received the bestof Sri Lankan hospitality? For, on Monday, they'll hope likehell that the hosts beat England reported Sidharth Monga.

New Zealand have no points so far, and their only

entry point is if they beat West Indies and England losetoo, to force a three-way tie at two points. If that happens,New Zealand will stand a good chance of making it to thesemi-finals: their net run-rate of -0.268 is already betterthan West Indies' -0.621, and not too worse than Eng-land's -0.115. If it all goes to plan for New Zealand, theirown net run-rate will improve, and England's will take abeating, bridging that gap.

Theoretically West Indies can be a part of a three-way tieeven if they lose, but their poor net run-rate after the thrashingfrom Sri Lanka means it does them no good. In theory, WestIndies too will have two avenues if they beat New Zealand: anEngland defeat later will give them a clear passage, while itwill be a three-way tie with England and Sri Lanka should Eng-land win. Again, though, West Indies' net run-rate is likely tokeep them third-best should the hosts lose.

So, for both the sides, the endeavour will be to win with-out worrying too much about the net run-rate and hope SriLanka keep up their good form later in the day. However, ifonly the second match is rained out, it will be bad news forNew Zealand and good for West Indies. Neither of them canafford a whole washed-out day. If only the first game iswashed out, New Zealand go out, and West Indies will againhope for a Sri Lanka win.

Win, then hope for the best forWest indies and New Zealand

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COLOMBOAfP

vIRAT Kohli and cancersurvivor Yuvraj Singhstarred as Indiathrashed arch-rivalsPakistan by eight wick-ets Sunday to stay alive

in the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.India, who would have been knocked

out of the tournament had they lost, skit-tled Pakistan for 128 on a slow pitch andthen surpassed the modest target in 17overs, thanks largely to Kohli's unbeaten78 off 61 balls.

A sell-out crowd of 35,000 atColombo's Premadasa stadium, includingSri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse,saw India continue their stranglehold onPakistan in major world meets.

Pakistan have never beaten India in ei-ther the 50-over World Cup or the WorldTwenty20, in which they contested athrilling final in 2007.

Sunday's match was only the thirdTwenty20 international between the twocountries and the result set up a thrillingshoot-out for the two semi-final berthsfrom group two.

Australia lead the group with two wins,

India and Pakistan have one each, whileSouth Africa have lost both matches so far.

The last round of group matches willbe played on Tuesday with Australia takingon Pakistan and India playing SouthAfrica. India lost Gautam Gambhir off thesecond ball of the innings, offering a tamereturn catch to 20-year-old left-arm spin-ner Raza Hasan, but Kohli and VirenderSehwag denied Pakistan another immedi-

ate break.The pair put on 74 for the second

wicket, with Sehwag making 29 before heholed out in the deep off Shahid Afridi.

Singh, who is making his comebackfrom cancer treatment, claimed two wick-ets and threw a direct-hit run-out in Pak-istan's innings. He then scored 19 not outin an unbroken third wicket stand of 54with Kohli to carry India home.

The impressive win was set up by thebowlers as seamer Lakshmipathy Balajiclaimed three wickets and off-spinnerRavichandran Ashwin took two to leavePakistan in tatters after they elected to bat.

Shoaib Malik top-scored with 28, butonly one other batsman managed totouch 20 in the face of steady bowling bythe Indians.The match began on a scintil-lating note as the first two overs pro-duced 13 runs each, besides a droppedcatch in the slips by Sehwag and thewicket of Imran Nazir.

India hit back to grab four more wick-ets in the next nine overs, two of them insuccessive overs by Yuvraj, to reduce Pak-istan to 59-5 by the 10th over.

Big-hitter Afridi, who was promotedto number three, had made 14 when helofted Balaji to deep mid-wicket whereSuresh Raina was perfectly positioned totake the skier. Yuvraj, who was treated fora rare germ-cell cancer between his lungsearlier this year before returning to actionat the World Twenty20, ran out YasirArafat with a direct throw. Bilateralcricket ties between the neighbours, sus-pended after the Mumbai attacks in 2008,are set to resume in December when Pak-istan tour India for three one-dayers andtwo Twenty20 games.

India clobber Pakistan to stay in World T20PAKIStAN:

Mohammad Hafeez b Kohli 15

Imran Nazir lbw b Pathan 8

Shahid Afridi c Raina b balaji 14

Nasir Jamshed c dhoni b Yuvraj 4

Kamran Akmal c dhoni b Yuvraj 5

Shoaib Malik c Sharma b Ashwin 28

umar Akmal c Raina b Ashwin 21

Yasir Arafat run out 8

umar Gul c dhoni b balaji 12

Saeed Ajmal c dhoni b balaji 1

Raza Hasan not out 0

extras: lb1, w10, nb1) 12

total (all out, 19.4 overs) 128

fall of wickets: 1-17 (Nazir), 2-35 (Afridi), 3-43 (Jamshed), 4-49

(K. Akmal), 5-59 (Hafeez), 6-106 (Malik), 7-115 (u. Akmal), 8-115

(Arafat), 9-128 (Gul), 10-128 (Ajmal).

bowling: zaheer 3-0-22-0 (w8), Pathan 3-0-30-1 (w1), balaji

3.4-0-22-3, Ashwin 4-0-16-2 (w1), Yuvraj 3-0-16-2, Kohli 3-0-

21-1 (nb1)

INdIA:

G. Gambhir c and b Hasan 0

v. Sehwag c Gul b Afridi 29

v. Kohli not out 78

Y. Singh not out 19

extras: (w2, nb1) 3

total (for two wickets, 17 overs) 129

fall of wickets: 1-1 (Gambhir), 2-75 (Sehwag).

bowling: Hasan 4-0-22-1 (w1), Gul 3-0-30-0 (nb1, w1), Ajmal 4-

0-25-0, Afridi 4-0-34-1, Arafat 1-0-11-0, Hafeez 1-0-7-0

India win by eight wickets

toss: Pakistan

umpires: Rod tucker (AuS) and Richard Kettleborough (eNG)

tv umpire: Kumar dharmasena (SRI)

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NzL)

SCORebOARd

LAHOREStAff RePORt

In the 18 holes, stroke play golf tournamentcontested at the Royal Palm Golf and Coun-try Club Golf Course, yesterday, the compe-tition ended with Waqar Saigol emerging asthe winner in gross section and Faisal Sayidas the competitor with the best net score.All in all the golfers found the going toughand the challenge posed by the golf coursewas not adequately countered and thescores merely reflected steady play with theelement of quality golf missing.

Players like Amir Mehmood, ShoaibBokhari and Shahid Abbas failed to makean impression whereas Waqar Saigol whoreturned to competitive golf after a breakof two years produced a gross score of 80

and this was the best score of the day. Therunner up in gross section was Azfar Has-san, another accomplished player who isnormally in the top performer’s category,whenever he competes.

Faisal Sayid an eleven handicapperkept his cool and came up with enough ac-curacy to manage a net score of 72 andthereby pick up the best net trophy. Thenet section runner up was Hamid Sharifwith a net score of 74.

Winners in the other events were HarisNaseer winner gross in handicap category,13 to 18, and the runner up was WaheedAslam. In the same handicap category win-ner net was Waqar Butt and runner up netwas Mohtishim Aftab. Mohtishim also hitthe longest drive, while Tariq Mushtaqpicked up the nearest to the pin prize.

Waqar, faisal win in Royalpalm Monthly Medal Golf

LAHOREStAff RePORt

The District Level of the Punjab Youth Fes-tival 2012 commenced all over theprovince on Sunday as the competitions inthe next seven days would be held in 147sports and general category events.

These 147 events have been dividedamong 14 sectors of the society withsports sector having five sectors and theremaining nine are of general categorywhile total prize money at stake would beRs 1577,300.

On the opening day Pet Competitionof fancy Birds was held at Expo CentreLahore where MNA Mahreen Anwar Rajawas the surprise guest and was amused tosee the beauty and well-trained behaviorof the pet birds.

Poultry Production 16 Cooper Road

and Livestock and Dairy Development Pro-gramme organized this bird show as partof the Punjab Youth Festival under the su-pervision of Dr Mohammad Naeem, AbdulRehman and Dr Mohamamd Sadiq Gulwho also established an information cell.Contrary to the expectations a large num-ber of people including families and chil-dren came to watch the different type birdsand the beauty of the nature. Also presenton the occasion were Dr MY Rizwan, DrMohamamd Naeem, Hafiz Naseer of Lach-man Pharmaceuticals and more than 150species of birds were put on display.

Sports Board and Youth Affairs DGwhile giving the details of the DistrictLevel, which stands fourth in the EventsFlow Chart of the festival, said that sepa-rate competitions for boys and girlsschools at secondary and college level arepart of this stage. “Apart from competi-tions in sports the boys and girls of second-ary schools and college and the generalpublic will compete in a minimum of eightsports events while a maximum of 19sports events will be contested in generalpublic sector,” he informed.

“The public would be competing inthree categories of arm wrestling, eightathletic events, badminton, billiard, cricket(tape ball and hard ball), tug of war, volley-ball, bodybuilding in three weight cate-gories, football, fun race of 2.5 kilometres,weightlifting in three weight classes, bas-ketball, chess, hockey, kabaddi, matwrestling, mud wrestling, table tennis,karate in three classes, taekwondo in thesame number of body weights and tentpegging,” he added.

fancy Birds contest amusevisitors at Expo Centre

Punjab Youth Sports Festival fourth level begins

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British teen into second roundin Beijing

BEIJINGAfP

Britain's teenage star Laura Robson tookanother step forward in her quest tobreak into the top 50 in the world Sun-day, battling past an opponent morethan twice her age at the China Open inBeijing.The world number 57, who reached thefinal of the Guangzhou Open just over aweek ago, continued her Asia adventureby defeating Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-4, 6-4 to ease into the secondround of the Premier Mandatory event.But it was far from plain sailing for the18-year-old Robson, who fought backbrilliantly from three games down in thefirst set, winning five without replyagainst Date-Krumm, 42, as youth ulti-mately overpowered experience."I'm feeling confident when I play at themoment. Even when I'm not playing mybest like I was today I still feel that I amable to win matches," Robson told AFP.Date-Krumm raced to a 4-1 lead in thefirst set as Robson struggled with herserve and made a number of unforcederrors.But several big forehands from theyoung Briton saw her gain confidenceand the Japanese was no match for heropponent's power.Robson, who ended last year in 131stplace in the WTA standings, took thesecond set with relative ease, maintain-ing her recent momentum in the "Asiaswing" of the tour."I was a double-break down in the firstset and I knew I had to get a lot betterand start moving my feet a bit more,"Robson said."She's a tough opponent to play againstbecause she hits the ball very low so youhave to bend your legs a lot more than Ilike to."Robson said she was disappointed withher lack of rhythm but was confident shewould play "a lot better" in the nextround after improving her movementthroughout the match and in a practicesession afterwards.The mixed doubles silver medallist atthe London Olympics has shot up theworld rankings this year, in large partdue to a fourth-round appearance at theUS Open and her exploits in Guangzhou,and now has the top 50 in her sights."After this week I should be prettyclose," she said. "I've got to keep win-ning here for sure and do well in Osaka(next week) to have a chance."Robson will play Spain's LourdesDominguez Lino, who defeated RobertaVinci of Italy 6-7 (4/7) 7-6 (7/4) 6-2, inthe next round of the fourth and finalcompulsory event which ranks just be-hind the Grand Slams and WTA Cham-pionships.

Bahrain court cutssentence of Shiiteathletes: lawyers

DUBAIAfP

A Bahraini court on Sunday reduced jailsentences for three Shiite athletes whotook part in a Arab Spring-inspired up-rising last year to one year from 15years, their lawyers said.The handball players were part of agroup of 32 people accused of settingfire to a farm belonging to a member ofBahrain's royal family in a Shiite villagenear Manama during the protests inFebruary 2011. The athletes -- Mo-hammed Mirza, his brother Ali Mirzaand Mohammed Jawad -- had been sen-tenced to 15 years in prison by the quasimilitary court set up in the aftermath ofthe brutal government crackdown on theShiite-led protests. They are expected tobe released shortly, their lawyers said.Bahrain has continued to witness spo-radic Shiite-led demonstrations, mostlyoutside the capital, since it crushed theprotest movement in March 2011.London-based rights watchdog AmnestyInternational says about 60 people havebeen killed in protest-related unrestsince the demonstrations first erupted.

KUALA LUMPURAfP

ARGENTINA'S JuanMonaco clinched hisfourth title of the yearSunday as he beat JulienBenneteau 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to

win the Malaysian Open and maintainhis hopes of reaching the ATP WorldTour Finals.

The match lasted three hours andcame a day after Monaco, the secondseed and current world number 11, camethrough a tight semi-final againstJapan's Kei Nishikori.

Monaco's first ever hardcourt win,after six previous victories on clay, keepsalive his campaign to reach the Tour Fi-nals in November as one of the eight top-ranked players.

But it meant heartbreak once againfor France's Benneteau, 30, who ap-peared hampered by injury and has nowlost seven ATP finals.

"It was an excellent game and I willnever forget the Malaysian Open as ithas brought me my first hardcourt title,"said Monaco, 28.

"I saw Benneteau receiving treat-ment... but he still fought hard and nevergame up. I had to come out more aggres-sively in the third set and it helped me toget my first hard court title."

Benneteau started the match withhis right forearm heavily taped, but hegot off to the perfect start as he broke theArgentine's first serve.

Monaco broke back in the fourth andninth games but Benneteau refused togive up and tied the first set 5-5.

The 12th game was a thriller whichlasted 20 minutes and saw 12 deuces be-fore Monaco broke Benneteau's serve totake the first set 7-5.

Benneteau, who looked uncomfort-able throughout the match, called the

trainer for attention to his right leg. Buthe came out strongly in the second set,breaking Monaco twice to take it 6-4.

However, it was Monaco who had

the extra burst of energy in the third ashe broke the Frenchman's serve in thesixth game to clinch the set 6-3, and withit the title.

Monaco took home the trophy and$153,440 first prize, while Benneteauhad to be content with the runner-upaward of $80,815.

kuaLa LuMPur: Juan Monaco of argentina celebrates after defeating

Julien Benneteau of france at the men's singles final against Julien

Benneteau of france at the atP Malaysia Open tennis tournament in

kuala Lumpur on September 30, 2012. Monaco won 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. afp

Four-star Monaco motors to Malaysian titleBEIJING

AfP

China's Li Na was a relieved woman Sun-day after thrashing her fellow ex-FrenchOpen champion Francesca Schiavone inthe China Open's first round -- a year aftera humiliating defeat at the same stage.

Asia's top women's player, who needsa strong showing this week to qualify forthe WTA Championships in Istanbul nextmonth, dominated the match to win 6-2, 6-3. A year ago Li, after beating defendingchampion Schiavone in Paris to becomeAsia's first singles Grand Slam winner, hadslumped to an embarrassing straight-setsdefeat to Romania's Monica Niculescu infront of her home fans.

But on Sunday Li's quick, aggressivestyle had Schiavone on the back foot rightfrom the start and the pressure got to theItalian, who hit nine double faults in thefirst set and another three in the second.

"I would like to say thanks to the fanswho came to the court to support me," saidLi. "I was feeling much better this year thanlast and at least I have won one match."

Li, who has never won the China Open,denied she felt the pressure of expectationthat comes with playing at home.

"I don't give in to too much pressure,because after all you never know how yourperformance is going to be," she said. "Youdon't know the performance of the oppo-nent either." "What really matters is youcan experience the whole match and con-centrate." However the road ahead doesnot get any easier for Li, who will now playPan Pacific Open winner Nadia Petrova in

the next round.Earlier, Britain's Laura Robson took

another step forward in her quest to breakinto the top 50 when she battled past an op-ponent more than twice her age.

The world number 57, who reached thefinal of the Guangzhou Open just over aweek ago, continued her Asian adventureby defeating Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm6-4, 6-4 to ease into the second round ofthe Premier Mandatory event.

But it was far from plain sailing for the18-year-old Robson, who fought back bril-liantly from three games down in the firstset, winning five without reply againstDate-Krumm, 42, as youth ultimately over-powered experience. "I'm feeling confidentwhen I play at the moment. Even when I'mnot playing my best like I was today I still

feel that I am able to win matches," Robsontold AFP. Date-Krumm raced to a 4-1 leadin the first set as Robson struggled with herserve and made a number of unforced er-rors. But several big forehands gave theyoung Briton confidence and the Japanesewas no match for Robson's power. Robson,who ended last year ranked 131st, took thesecond set with relative ease, maintainingher recent momentum.

The mixed doubles silver medallist atthe London Olympics has shot up the worldrankings this year, in large part due to afourth-round appearance at the US Openand her exploits in Guangzhou, and nowhas the top 50 in her sights. "After this weekI should be pretty close," she said. "I've gotto keep winning here for sure and do wellin Osaka (next week) to have a chance."

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uSa poised forryder cup glory

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The stage was set for the United Statesto take back the Ryder Cup at MedinahCountry Club on Sunday as Davis Love'smen carried a handsome 10-6 lead intothe closing 12 singles.That meant that the Americans neededjust 4 1/2 points to ensure they keep thesmall. golden trophy for the next twoyears.Jose Maria Olazabal's team need to wineight out of the 12 matches to reach 14points which would result in the contestbeing tied and Europe, as holders, keep-ing the cup.On the face of it the task looks beyondthe Europeans who have been largelyoutplayed, outthought and outscoredover two days of foursomes and four-balls action.No European team has ever come backfrom four points down at the start of thefinal day's play to win the cup and no USteam has ever lost more than a two-point advantage on the final day sincethe competition began in 1927.Still, the memory of 1999 at Brookline,Massachusetts remains vivid when theAmericans overturned a 6-10 deficit towin by a solitary point.But that was on home soil with homesupport. This time Europe need to pull itoff on foreign soil.Both captains were singing from thesame songsheet going into the rush ofsingles that brings down the curtain onthe Ryder Cup week - "it's not all overyet."Olazabal has evoked the never-say-dieattitude of his great friend and playingpartner Seve Ballesteros and he has con-firmed that the European players will beclad in the dark blue and white outfitthat the Spaniard, who died from a braintumour in May of last year, favoured.

SBP-arranged big screens at Punjab Stadium attract over 100,000 peopleLAHORE

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The Sports Board Punjab to facilitatefans watch the Pakistan and India WorldT20 Super Eight match made specialarrangements at the Punjab Stadium onSunday night and more than 100,000people overcrowded the venue to cheeron every ball bowled and every boundaryscored.

The atmosphere at the stadium wasso much berserk that it seemed that thematch was not being played at Colombobut at the Punjab Stadium.

The initiative of showing the matchon wide screen was taken by SBP, Direc-tor General and Youth Affairs, UsmanAnwar who had also brought the young-sters of the province on one platformthrough the Punjab Youth Festival.

Deputy Speaker and chief organizerof the Festival Rana Mashhood AhmedKhan also visited the venue to witnessthe enthusiasm of the people while DCO

Lahore Noorul Amin also reached thestadium keeping view gathering of thecrowd and special and prompt securityarrangements were also made to meetany untoward incident. Secretary SportsHaroon Ahmed Khan was also presenton the occasion. Usman Anwar said thatwith the youth festival they have giventhe youth an opportunity to come dareand build the future of your dreams. “Wehave given them a path so they dare toachieve their desired destination,” headded.

A large number of families with chil-dren also came to stadium to watchmatch on the big screens.

It was not only Lahore’s Punjab Sta-dium but big screens were also installedat seven big cities of the province andsimilar reports were received from thosecities. In fact the capacity of the stadiumwas 30,000 but there was hardly an inchto sit at the stadium and half of thecrowd was sitting on the grass in front offour big screens.

Benzema says returning to top form

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Real Madrid and France striker KarimBenzema, who has struggled to hit thenet in the opening weeks of the 2012-13season, says he is starting to hit topform again."I have felt very good in the last fewmatches. I notice that I am makingprogress and that my legs are respond-ing better. I am very pleased," the 24-year-old said in an interview publishedSunday in sports daily AS."It was very good for me playing forFrance two times for the entire 90 min-utes. It is important to play severalmatches in a row. I am also working alot to get in top form," he added.Benzema played a key role in France's 1-0 win over Finland in a 2014 World Cupqualifier as he set up Abou Diaby for theonly goal of the game.He also took part in in France's 3-1 winover Belarus four days later. "I neverlost confidence, I am always sure of my-self and my game," Benzema said."I am a scorer and I love to score buteveryone knows that I enjoy when I canto provide assistance."\ Benzema joinedReal in 2009 after helping French sideLyon win four league titles.Real, lying a yawning 14 points behindleaders Barcelona, are in action laterSunday against Deportivo la Coruna.

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Spanish league table after Sunday'searly matches (played, won, drawn, lost,goals for, goals against, points):Barcelona 6 6 0 0 17 5 18Malaga 6 4 2 0 10 2 14Atletico Madrid 5 4 1 0 15 7 13Real Mallorca 5 3 2 0 7 3 11Sevilla 6 3 2 1 8 5 11Valladolid 6 3 0 3 10 6 9Real Sociedad 6 3 0 3 8 9 9Real Betis 6 3 0 3 10 13 9Valencia 6 2 2 2 8 8 8Real Madrid 5 2 1 2 7 4 7Levante 5 2 1 2 7 9 7Rayo Vallecano 6 2 1 3 7 13 7Deportivo La Coruna 5 1 3 1 7 7 6Celta Vigo 6 2 0 4 7 8 6Real Zaragoza 6 2 0 4 5 8 6Granada 6 1 2 3 4 9 5Athletic Bilbao 6 1 2 3 8 14 5Getafe 5 1 1 3 6 10 4Espanyol 5 0 1 4 7 11 1Osasuna 5 0 1 4 3 10 1

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MARSEILLE'S stun-ning start to the Ligue1 season which sawthem win six from sixgames came to a

spectacular end on Sunday as mid-tableValenciennes whipped them 4-1.

A double by much-travelled strikerAnthony Le Taellec and one apiece fromFoued Kadir - gifted to him by Marseillegoalkeeper Steve Mandanda - and a bril-liant opener by Gael Danic gave Valenci-ennes the points with Jordan Ayewscoring a consolation in time added-on.

Marseille - who were going down totheir first defeat in all competitions thisseason as they had drawn three and wontwo of their Europa League games - stilltop the table leading PSG by threepoints, although Lyon can pull to withinone if they beat Bordeaux at home lateron Sunday. Marseille coach Elie Baupsaid that Valenciennes had controlledthe game from the outset and nevergiven them a sniff. "Nothing worked forus or went right for us," said Baup, whotook over when Didier Deschamps re-signed in early July. "To go in 3-0 downat half-time gave us no way back. Theverdict this evening is a heavy one, bru-tal, and will have ramifications. We will

talk about it among ourselves and workon things during the week. However, weshould not dwell on such a heavy defeatfor ever. "We should look ahead andthink about our next challenge and howto put things right."

Marseille - who had only concededone goal in all Ligue 1 games this seasonprior to the game - went behind in the16th minute with a superb freekick byDanic although Mandanda let rip at his

wall, which he felt should have jumpedhigher. Le Taellec, who numbers unsuc-cessful spells at both Liverpool and Sun-derland among his many clubs, doubledthe lead in the 35th minute putting awaya super cross by Danic.

Any hope Marseille had of regroupingat the break disappeared when Mandandacompletely fluffed a throw out from insidehis area which landed at Kadir's feet justoutside the box and he put it away withthe Marseille goalkeeper vainly trying toregain his goal. Le Taellec added his sec-ond in the 65th minute with a headerfrom another Danic cross to send therecord attendance of just over 22,000wild and give Marseille plenty to thinkabout ahead of their home game with bit-ter rivals PSG next Sunday.

For Valenciennes it maintained theirhold over Marseille, who have beatenthem just once since the former were pro-moted in 2006 and who were the clubthat were involved in the matchfixingscandal in the 1992/93 season thatbrought to an inglorious end Marseille'sgolden era. On Saturday, Paris Saint-Ger-main had geared up for a testing weekwith a comfortable 2-0 win at home toSochaux with a Kevin Gameiro bracewhich gave PSG their fifth consecutivewin in all competitions, ahead of Wednes-day's visit to Porto in the ChampionsLeague and the trip to Marseille.

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frankfurt: frankfurt's defender Bastian Oczipka (r) and freiburg's midfielder Max kruse vie for the ball during the German first division

Bundesliga football match eintracht frankfurt vs Sc freiburg the western German city of Moenchengladbach on September 30, 2012. afp

Heart attack victimSno taken illduring match

tHE HAGUE: NEC Nijmegen'sDutch midfielder Evander Sno, whosuffered a major heart attack two yearsago, was taken to hospital as a precau-tion after falling ill during Saturdaynight's game at Feyenoord, the clubannounced on Sunday. The 25-year-old complained of stomach pains andwas replaced in the 34th minute butleft the pitch and walked to the waitingambulance unaided. Two years agoSno suffered a heart attack while play-ing for Ajax's youth team, falling un-conscious before being revived tenminutes later. Since that incident hehas played wearing a defibrillator. AfP

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MILITANTS carried outbombings and shootings in10 cities and towns in Iraqon Sunday, killing at least33 people and wounding

106, in the latest wave of deadly attacks tohit the country.

In total, at least 253 people have beenkilled and 803 wounded in attacks in Iraqthis month, according to an AFP tallybased on security and medical sources.

Most of Sunday’s attacks were centredin Baghdad and the nearby areas of Taji,Madain and Tarmiyah, where an InteriorMinistry official said 25 people were killedand 59 wounded. Medical sources put thetoll at 28 dead and 77 wounded. In Bagh-dad, a suicide bomber detonated an explo-sives-packed car in the central Karradadistrict, targeting the deputy head of policefor the area, a police officer at the scenesaid. The explosion scattered debris dozensof metres from the seat of the blast, shat-tering store windows and burning severalcars. A headless torso lay surrounded bypieces of flesh.

Police, most of them armed with

Kalashnikov assault rifles, deployed inforce on the street, and a fire truck sprayeddown the blast site. “We were working andwe heard a loud explosion, and the airchanged and everything exploded,” saidFiras Dawood, the owner of a nearby shop.

“What do I say about the securitymeasures? Shit,” he said.

Another store owner, who gave hisname only as Abu Ihab, said, “I was in myshop and I heard the sound of a very pow-erful explosion. Dust was everywhere. “Wewere sitting in the shop while police werecollecting flesh,” he said. “Human fleshwas on the sidewalk, being collected andput in plastic bags.” “When the explosionhappens, it does not care about any secu-rity measures,” he said. “I sit in my shopand I am afraid for my life.”

Abu Ihab soon had another reason tobe afraid, as the blast was followed by asecond car bomb that hit the same area.

Gunmen also shot dead a policeman inthe Al-Amil neighbourhood of south Bagh-dad, an attack followed by a car bomb thatexploded after a police patrol came to in-vestigate, the interior ministry official said.

And a police colonel was wounded bygunmen in the Mansur area of west Bagh-dad, the ministry official and a medical

source said. North of the capital, four carbombs exploded in Taji. The first went offnear a Shia place of worship, followed bythree others in the same Al-Askari neigh-bourhood of the town, a security officialsaid, adding that women and children were

among the dead. In Madain, south ofBaghdad, a car bomb exploded near a buscarrying Iranian pilgrims, a witness said.

And two roadside bombs targetedarmy and police patrols in the Tarmiyaharea, north of Baghdad. A car bomb target-

ing a police convoy killed two policemenand wounded seven others near Baquba,north of Baghdad, while another car bombexploded south of Baquba, killing one per-son and wounding seven, police and a doc-tor from Baquba General Hospital said.North of Baquba, a car bomb targeting po-lice Brigadier General Mohammed al-Tamimi wounded five people, a policecolonel and the doctor said.

South of Baghdad, in Kut, a car bombexploded near a police river patrol station,killing a civilian and three police, andwounding seven people, a police captainand a medical official said.

In the main northern city of Mosul, acar bomb exploded near an army patrol,wounding 15 people, among them a sol-dier, while a roadside bomb woundedfour policemen, doctors and police said.And an explosives-rigged vehicle ex-ploded near an army patrol south of thenorthern oil city of Kirkuk, killing a sol-dier and wounding a civilian and anothersoldier, police and a doctor said. South ofBaghdad, police arrested two people asthey attempted to drive explosives-packed vehicles into the city of Di-waniyah, provincial police chief BrigadierGeneral Abdul Jalil al-Assadi said.

Scaling downGlobal warmingmaking fishsmaller

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A hearty fillet of fish, already a rare treatbecause of over-trawled oceans, willbecome even more infrequent in thefuture when global warming starts toreduce fish size, scientists said on Sunday.Researchers looked at computer modelsto see how warmer, and thus lessoxygenated, seas affected more than 600species of fish.Compared to 2000, the maximumattainable body weight of these fishdeclined by between 14 and 24 percent by2050. Fish inhabiting the Indian Oceanwere the most affected, reducing by 24percent, followed by counterparts in theAtlantic (20 percent) and then the Pacific(14 percent), with tropical waters worsthit. “It’s a constant challenge for fish toget enough oxygen from water to grow,and the situation gets worse as fish getbigger,” said Daniel Pauly of theUniversity of British Columbia in westernCanada, who first raised the warming-and-growth link 30 years ago. “A warmer and less-oxygenated ocean, aspredicted under climate change, wouldmake it more difficult for bigger fish toget enough oxygen, which means theywill stop growing more.” Theinvestigation appears in the journalNature Climate Change. The model usedthe so-called A2 scenario, which sees anaverage rise in global atmospheric — notsea — temperatures of 3.4 degreesCelsius (6.12 degrees Fahrenheit) by2100 compared to 2000. Until recently,this would have been considered apessimistic scenario, but manyclimatologists today say it is realistic inthe light of a relentless rise in fossil-fuelemissions. Under the A2 scenario, the seabottom temperatures of the Pacific,Atlantic, Indian, Southern and ArcticOceans would rise at average rates ofbetween 0.012 (0.2 F) and 0.037 C(0.066 F) per decade up to 2050. Asthose oceans warm, their oxygen levelswould also see slight but progressivedeclines, a measurement expressed in aunit called millimoles. The average fall,per decade, would range from 0.1millimoles per cubic metre in the Arcticto 1.1 millimoles per cubic metre in theAtlantic. “Although the projected rateof change in environmentaltemperature and oxygen contentappears to be small, the resultingchanges in maximum body size areunexpectedly large,” said the paper.

Over 508,660 acres ofland affected by monsoon rains, floods

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With the devastation of floodscontinuing in various districts of Sindh,as many as 106 people have so far losttheir lives while more than 360 havebeen severely injured in flood-hit areas.However, there seems no promptaction on part of the authorities toavoid further human loss, PakistanToday has learnt.The gushing flood water is playing havocwith the life and property of the peopleacross Sindh, which has been badly hit bymonsoon rains and subsequent floods,bringing losses of human life, propertyand agricultural land.The district authorities have jointlysubmitted a district-wise damage reportafter conducting survey of all affecteddistricts of the province to estimate thelosses. The survey was conducted on anurgent basis on the instruction of Prime

Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to ascertainthe exact cost of the damage frommonsoon rains that later turneddisastrous in the province, so thatremedial measures could be taken tofacilitate those badly hit by the floods,sources added.Per the report, as many as 106 peoplehave died while 360 injured in flood-related incidents.The largest number of casualties wasreported in Shikarpur where 22 people,including five children and ninefemales, were killed.Nine people died in President AsifZardari’s hometown Benazirabaddistrict, one in Tando MohammadKhan, one in Mirpurkhas, two in Thatta,five in Hyderabad, two in Badin, threein Matiari, one in Umerkot, seven inKhairpur, one in Dadu, four in Sanghar,two in Jacobabad, one in Naushehro

Feroz, eight in Ghotki, two in Kamber-Shahdadkot, 21 in Kashmore-Kandhkot,three in Larkana and 11 in Sukkur.Per break-up of the injured, at least 226persons were seriously injured in rainsand floods in Shikarpur, two each indistricts Matiari, Badin and Thatta andone each in Tando Mohammad Khanand Shaheed Benazirabad.At least eight people were injured in districtKhairpur, one in Jacobabad, 62 in Ghotki,46 in Kashmore and nine in Sukkur.The report added that at least 273,043people had been badly affected by therains of which 57,084 were in districtShikarpur, 80,159 in Khairpur and135,800 in Jacobabad.The total number of villages affected bythe monsoon rains stood at 2,294 and thepopulation of at least 33,320 has beenmoved to 118 government relief camps.Besides, at least 76,130 houses have

so far been damaged by the rains, ofwhich 9,584 houses were fullydamaged and at least 31,967 houseswere partially damaged.Moreover, the report also pointed outthat three major crops standing on508,660 acres of land had also beenbadly hit by monsoon rains.At least 17,150 acres were affected indistrict Shaheed Benazirabad, 415acres in Tando Mohammad Khan,550 in Mirpurkhas, 14,494 acres inBadin, 1,938 acres in Matiari, 27,500acres in Umerkot, 27,336 acres inKhairpur, 214 acres in Dadu, 12,200acres in Sanghar, 28,568 acres inJacobabad, 97,408 acres in Ghotki,13,965 acres in Kamber-Shahdadkot,48,500 acres in Kashmore-Kandhkot,while 11,468 acres of agriculturalland was affected in Sukkur bytorrential rains and floods.

Wave of Iraq attacks kills at least 33

Over 106 killed, 360 injuredin Sindh’s flood-hit districts

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GOdewAeRSveLde: A hot-air balloon flies over the

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