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g SC summons PM on February 13, says his counsel failed to convince court that president has immunity g Gilani can still save himself by apologising and implementing court’s orders

ISLAMABAD deeper into a crisis that could force early elections within months. MASOOD REhMAn The bench, also comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Ijaz RIME Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stands in the Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Muhammad dock to face contempt of court charges as the Ather Saeed, decided to indict Gilani after Ahsen failed to convince seven-member special bench of the Supreme Court it that President Zardari enjoyed complete immunity under Article ruled on Thursday to indict him on February 13, 248 of the constitution. It has been a clear position of the govern - after the judges did not agree to his counsel Aitzaz ment that it would not write the letter against its own president, APhsen’s arguments that contempt had not taken place. who is also co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party The bench, headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk, on Thursday sum - (PPP), which - the president had himself announced - had decided moned Prime Minister Gilani on February 13 to indict him with against writing the letter. “The party has decided not to write the contempt of court for not implementing its orders in the National letter, come what may,” the president had said in a TV interview. Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case, requiring the government to After the court decision, the coalition government is in a diffi - write a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against cult political situation which may end up in a crisis in case Gilani is President Asif Ali Zardari. convicted. This may push other political parties to call for fresh It is the second time in the country’s history that the SC has brought contempt charges against an incumbent PM. According to Continued on page 19 constitutional experts, the move plunges a fragile government aitzaz will appeal pM’S indiCtMent | page 22 I went to SC before, Cornered govt may review POL prices ISLAMABAD tion increasing the prices of petro - sion of Pakistan,” he said. STAFF REPORT leum products. It stated that the He termed the justification given increase would have a serious im - by the government for the increase I’ll go again: PM Under tremendous pressure from pact on the common man and also in the petroleum prices “absurd”, as the opposition as well as its allies, suggested that a House committee the revision in the international ISLAMABAD Responding to Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) make the necessary recommenda - prices had not been reflected in the IRFAn BukhARI Ali Khan’s concerns over the 20th Constitutional government on Thursday supported tions to bring down the prices in a domestic prices. Nisar said the peo - Amendment, Prime Minister Gilani said the gov - a resolution for the reversal of the week’s time. ple had been subjected to fraud by Asking all state institutions to work within their ernment was trying to strengthen all institutions. recent increase in the prices of pe - Earlier, National Assembly Op - the economic managers of the coun - constitutional limits, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza He said the government would welcome the Pak - troleum products. position Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali try for the last 10 years by raising the Gilani announced on Thursday that he would ap - istan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)’s recom - The National Assembly unani - Khan said if the government was prices of oil products. “In the last 10 pear in the Supreme Court on February 13 to face mendations for the 20th Amendment. He also said mously adopted a joint resolution to aware of the woes of the people then years, the oil prices saw upward re - contempt of court proceedings. all state institutions were answerable to parliament. that effect, tabled by the largest op - it should support the resolution. vision 200 times, whereas only on a “I was summoned earlier and I appeared before On the recent increase in prices of petroleum position party - the Pakistan Muslim “First we should do legislation on few occasions were the prices the court… now the court has summoned me again products, the premier said a select committee of League-Nawaz (PML-N) - with the the matters concerning the public brought down,” Nisar said, adding and I will appear before it,” he said during his ad - the House should be formed to have negotiations support of all parliamentary groups and then go for the 20th Constitu - that the figures presented by the dress in the National Assembly. He said if all insti - with Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. in the House. tional Amendment to give legal government were completely bogus. tutions worked within their ambit defined in the The resolution called for im - cover to by-elections during the time Constitution of 1973, they would earn no criticism. SC right to indiCt gilani: legal expertS | page 03 mediate withdrawal of the notifica - of the incomplete Election Commis - Continued on page 04 LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:36 AM Page 2

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‘Pakistan needs to ratify two conventions to get Aafia released’ ISLAMABAD STAFF REPORT

The repatriation of Aafia Siddiqui could only take place if Pakistan could become a party to either the Conven - tion on the Council of Europe Convention on Transfer of Sentenced Persons (CEO Convention) or the Inter- American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad (OAS Convention). This was disclosed by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in a written reply to the Senate on Thursday. Giv - ing the present status of Aafia’s case, she said that the Pakistani consul general in Houston, US visited the FMC Carswell Prison on April 15, August 8 and Novem - ber 22, 2011 to meet Aafia. During those visits, he dis - cussed the inmate’s various concerns about her condition of detention with prison authorities, who took appropriate action to allay most of these concerns. The Pakistani Embassy and the consulate general were also able to arrange telephone calls between Aafia and her family in Karachi, Khar said. She told the House that Aafia’s brother Ali Siddiqui was able to meet her on November 5, 2011. During the consul general’s visits to FMC Carswell, Aafia men - tioned to him that she was suffering from poor health. The consul general conveyed the concerns to prison authorities who responded that they tried to provide medical attention to Aafia but she refused to cooper - ate. Pakistani Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman received Aafia’s lawyer Tina Foster on 26 January and assured her full cooperation. Gilani, PPP core group discuss SC order in contempt case ATTOCk: Pakistan Railway employees demolish encroachments on Railways land during a campaign on Thursday. ONLINE ISLAMABAD STAFF REPORT The senior leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party No early respite from power cuts (PPP) on Thursday reviewed the situation following the Supreme Court verdict to indict Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for contempt of court, discussing g Hydroelectric generation increased but 8-10 hours of outages persist g PEPCO fails to increase all possible options available to the government. The core group of the party met here in the prime power generation from IPPs g Payments to IPPs only solution to end outages minister’s chambers at Parliament House, with Gilani in the chair. Aitezaz Ahsen, the party’s senior leader and counsel for the premier in the contempt L AHORE February. Although PEPCO held 200MW. However in the previous tion, as canals had been opened and case, briefed the meeting on the court order, its nAuMAn TASlEEM the decreased hydel generation re - year, the power generation was hydel generation was more than political and legal implications and all legal and sponsible for load shedding, but the more than the current level in the enough. “If you compare last year’s political options available to the government to avert HE current wave of load company had in fact failed to en - same period. hydel generation with the current disqualification of the chief executive of the country. shedding could continue hance power generation from IPPs It remained 11,085MW with a year’s statistics, it is evident that A source told Pakistan Today that during the even in the ongoing and thermal resources leading to shortfall of 1,355MW as thermal fault is with PEPCO’s management meeting, Prime Minister Gilani said he had appeared T month, as PEPCO has massive outages. sources gave 1,888MW, IPPs of the IPPs,” he said, adding that in court in the recent past and would do so again on failed to enhance electricity produc - The Hydel generation has in - 5,330MW, hydel generation last year load shedding during the February 13. “Unlike past governments, we have tion from thermal generation creased, but 8-10 hours of outages 3,803MW and rental plants 62MW. same period was not more than of respected the court orders and would do so in sources and Independent Power are still being carried out. “So this year, production is four hours. future,” the source quoted the prime minister as Producers, sources told Pakistan Currently, the power shortfall is around 800MW lesser than the last Another official of the ministry saying. Today. Electricity production from more than 2,500MW and is being year and it is only because of a de - said the circular debt of the power Apart from Ahsen, Religious Affairs Minister oil and gas in the current year has bridged through 8 to 10 hours of crease in power production from sector had crossed the Rs 400 bil - Khursheed Shah, Commerce Minister Makhdoom dropped considerably compared to load shedding across the country. IPPs,” a senior officer of the Min - lion mark and was increasing by the Amin Fahim, PPP Information Secretary Qamar last year. Statistics available with Pak - istry of Water and Power said, day. He said it was the very reason Zaman Kaira, former water and power minister Raja Sources said if PEPCO managed istan Today reveal that power gen - adding that if PEPCO did not in - that power generation from IPPs Parvez Ashraf and Leader of the House in the Senate to increase power production from eration on January 31 remained crease power production in the could not be increased. Nayyar Hussain Bukhari attended the IPPs, the spell of load shedding 10,300MW, with thermal sources coming days from oil and gas, the He said more funds were avail - meeting.However, when contacted, the officials in could end or decrease early, other - producing 1,650MW, IPPs current wave of load shedding able last year for payment to the the prime minister’s media team said no such wise there was no chance of reduc - 4,800MW, hydel generation would continue. He said there was IPPs, but the situation was not en - meeting had taken place. tion in load shedding hours in 3,650MW and rental power plants nothing wrong with hydel genera - couraging this year. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:36 AM Page 3

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Senate passes bill Centre asks Punjab on women’s status SC right to indict to rein in proscribed ISLAMABAD STAFF REPORT organisations Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Prof Khurshid Ahmad ISLAMABAD fell singled out in the Upper House on Thurs - Gilani: legal experts IRFAn BukhARI day, as treasury and opposition members, par - ticularly women, unanimously passed the Expressing displeasure on the failure of the National Commission on the Status of Women Punjab government to implement the federal Bill, 2012 without considering his demands for g government’s directions to check the activi - clarifications on some clauses. Appeal, ask for mercy or obey – the three options left with the PM ties of banned religious outfits, the interior The bill aims to improve women’s lives, ensure ministry has written a letter to Punjab Chief gender equality and promote their social, eco - ISLAMABAD of national assembly. In this case, accordance with court orders,” he Secretary Nasir Mahmood Khosa instructing nomic, political and legal rights as promised in MIAn ABRAR there will be no need to write to said, “alternately, he may also sub - that the provincial government control the the constitution. the National Assembly Speaker or mit an appeal to a larger bench free-rein of proscribed organisations in the Prof Khurshid was of the opinion that the bill ESPONDING to the chief election commissioner, and against the seven-member bench province. The letter sent by secretary interior needed further vetting and clarity on some spe - Supreme Court decision the court order will be enough to order.” KM Siddiq Akbar, a copy of which is avail - cific points, such as the definition of women’s to indict Prime Minis - disqualify him. He said that if the However, he agreed with able with Pakistan Today, says, “This is in rights, and the criteria for appointing the com - ter (PM) Yousaf Raza PM fails to appear before the court Aitzaz Ahsan that even if Gilani continuation of my earlier letter and with mission’s chairperson. He asked the Senate R reference to public gathering in Rawalpindi Gilani on contempt of court on the set date, he faced a worse was convicted, he will not be auto - chairman to refer the bill to the relevant commit - changes for refusing to pursue cor - fate. “In case he fails to appear be - matically disqualified. “Set down on December 22, 2011 held under auspicious tee for further fine-tuning, but other members ruption cases against President fore the court, the court may de - procedure will have to be followed of ‘Difa-e-Pakistan Council.’” wanted to pass the bill “as early as possible to Asif Ali Zardari, legal experts on clare him an absconder,” he if Gilani is convicted. If so, the na - “I, with a heavy heart, bring it to your notice give women their due status in the society”. Sen - Thursday said the decision by the added. tional assembly speaker will have that apparently no heed has been paid to the ator Humayun Khan Mandokhel believed that apex court was correct under law Another retired judge, to send a reference to the chief contents of my earlier letter and the activi - the Federal Legislative List does not contain the but that the PM had options open Fakharuddin G Ebrahim, said election commissioner that Gilani ties of proscribed organizations have contin - subject upon which the legislation was made. to avoid conviction. there was no doubt that the PM stands disqualified after being ued unabated and unchecked. This is very The National Assembly has already passed the The SC has summoned Gilani had refused to implement court convicted by the court. The elec - unfortunate and the attitude needs to be re - bill. Under the bill, a National Commission on on February 13 to frame charges orders which constituted con - tion commission will then disqual - viewed,” the letter adds. the Status of Women would be set up to review against him. Talking to Pakistan tempt. He said, “The law is equal ify him which means he will also The Secretary Interior said that it is expected all laws affecting the status and rights of women. Today, Justice (r) Wajihuddin for all whether it is prime minister have to relinquish the office of that due vigilance shall be maintained and The commission would also suggest, repeal, Ahmed said, “Following the seven- or a lay man. Even the country’s prime minister.” no proscribed organization or person shall amend or make new laws to eliminate discrimi - member bench order, the prime chief executive should respect Tariq Mehmood said the PM’s be allowed to violate law with impunity due nation against women and promote their inter - minister may opt to file an intra- court orders.” He said the court fate will be decided by the court it - to the slackness of the provincial govern - ests to achieve gender equality. court appeal the ten judges who are had exercised restraint and had self. “Let’s see what charges are ment’s law enforcement authorities. According to the bill, the commission’s chair - not part of the sitting bench. If he been reasonable. He said it had framed against Gilani. If the court A government source told Pakistan Today person shall be a woman with at least 15 years gets a stay order against the seven- even gone out of the way to accom - takes the views that the PM dis - that the letter had been written on Prime of professional experience on women’s rights. member bench decision, the matter modate Gilani. “The decision was obeyed the court, he might be able Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s directions im - The commission’s remaining members would will be closed. But if his appeal is according to legal norms and the to remain in office. But if the court parted during the cabinet meeting on Febru - include two from each province, of which at rejected, he will have to appear be - constitution,” he asserted. says that Gilani had ridiculed the ary 1 (Wednesday) when Human Resource least one member shall be a woman, and one fe - fore the court on February 13.” Asked what options were left court, he may have to relinquish Development minister of state Sheikh Waqas male member each from the Federally Adminis - He said after the SC frames with Gilani, Ebrahim said that the his office after being disqualified.” Akram raised concerns over the unabated tered Tribal Areas (FATA), Azad Jammu and charges against Gilani, his fate will PM can inform the court that he Asked what options were left with movement of banned religious outfits in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad Capital rest on court orders which will de - was unable to implement the order Gilani, Mehmood said that he may Punjab and holding public processions from Territory, and minorities. cide his future. “If PM Gilani is due to personal constraints. “He file an appeal against the court the platform of Difa-e-Pakistan Council. Ex-officio members — representatives of the disqualified under Article 63(1) (g) may also submit unconditional order. “Otherwise, he might have The copy of the letter sent previously on Sep - ministries of Law, Finance, Foreign Affairs, In - of the Constitution, he will imme - apology and state that he will write to seek mercy from the court,” he tember 23, 2011 is also attached with the terior and the ministry concerned with women’s diately be disqualified as member the letter to Swiss authorities in concluded. fresh letter which states that “I am con - rights with an official grade not below BPS-20 strained to point out that activities of — shall not have the right to vote. A person Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are increasing day-by- shall not be appointed as a member unless he day and despite the fact that it is a pro - or she is 30 years of age with at least five years PM will go to SC whenever asked: Firdous scribed organisation, its leadership and of working experience on women’s rights. workers are moving freely without any legal The bill says: “The prime minister shall, in con - ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had appeared in action. Most of these organisations have sultation with the leader of the opposition in the STAFF REPORT the court earlier and would comply with the orders of been placed under schedule-IV of ATA-I997 National Assembly, forward three names of SC whenever it called him. (list attached). It has also come to our notice each post to a parliamentary committee for The PPP believes in supremacy of rule of law and will “The prime minister came out triumphant from that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi outlets are report - hearing and confirmation of any person for continue to respect superior courts’ orders, Informa - the Supreme Court earlier, and if the court summons edly being funded by Zakat funds which each post; in case there is no consensus be - tion Minister Firdaos Ashiq Awan said on Thursday. him again, the result will be the same,” Firdous said. needs a clarification and confirmation if so. tween the prime minister and leader of the op - Addressing a gathering at the Pakistan National “We will be successful not in the court of Supreme The Interior Minister desires that the matter position, each shall forward separate lists to the Council of the Arts (PNCA) on the occasion of Iranian Court but also in the courts of Allah and the public,” be kindly brought to the notice of the Punjab parliamentary committee.” Cultural exhibition, the information minister said she said. Chief Minister.” Taliban ambush kills 3 policemen PESHAWAR AGEnCIES

Taliban militants armed with guns and grenades ambushed a police patrol in Lakki Marwat district on Thursday, killing three officers and wounding another, police said. Police said eight to 10 Taliban fighters am - bushed a police vehicle on a routine patrol near the Buland Khel area in the Shahbaz Khel Police precincts, first by hurling a grenade and then opening fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles after policemen tried to retaliate. “Three policemen were killed and one was injured. Taliban mili - tants later escaped,” Mohammad Gulzar, the district police chief, told AFP. Gulzar said Taliban were hiding on both sides of the road and escaped in two vehicles after the attack. The slain policemen were iden - tified as Jan Muhammad, Munawar and Zahidullah and the injured one was iden - ISlAMABAD: Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan inaugurates an Islamic cultural and tified as Islam-ud-Din. artistic exhibition. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:36 AM Page 4

04 News friday, 3 february, 2012 Aitzaz Ahsen will appeal Police seeks record from PM’s Cornered government Continued FroM page 1 due date, which they said PM’s indictment gave undue advantage to He dubbed the Petroleum dealers of petroleum prod - force in the country is the Secretariat regarding anthrax parcel Development Levy (PDL) Continued FroM page 22 ucts. army,” he added. He said the ‘Jugga Tax’ (extortion tax), Yaseen Azad also expressed ISLAMABAD retariat for getting the said an - on December 18, 2011. On Dr Hussain said the Pe - court’s verdict in the National which had been charged to apprehensions that the situa - STAFF REPORT thrax-filled letter for expediting Wednesday, PM Secretariat Ad - troleum Ministry had noth - Reconcil iation Ordinance all sections of society for tion was heading towards a investigation into the matter. ministration Deputy Secretary ing to do with the price (NRO) case had almost com - the luxuries of government constitutional crisis after the The Islamabad City Police on The Secretariat Police on Tues - Abdul Hafeez lodged an appli - increase as the matter pletely been implemented, functionaries. court’s February 2 decision. Thursday approached the day had registered an FIR cation with the Secretariat Po - purely pertained to the Oil except for the letter to the Earlier, on a calling-at - He questioned why the court Prime Minister’s Secretariat against unidentified people, lice for registration of a FIR and Gas Regulatory Au - Swiss authorities. He said tention notice, lawmakers always issued notices to the requesting the PM’s security who apparently in an assassina - against the unidentified sender. thority (OGRA), which was one more opportunity from the Muttahida Qaumi civilian prime ministers and staff to give them the parcel tion attempt had sent a parcel According to sources, a female an independent body that should have been given to Movement (MQM) benches never to military heads of containing anthrax, which was containing ‘anthrax’ to the PM’s associate professor of Jamshoro fixed prices. During the the premier to submit his criticised the increase in state, as in the case of Gen - allegedly sent to the PM by a Secretariat for PM Syed Yousaf University allegedly posted the proceedings, the power to stance. He suggested the petroleum prices and eral (r) Musharraf, who abro - woman from Jamshoro, Sindh, Raza Gilani. The envelope was said anthrax-filled letter to the the National Assembly government write the letter lashed out at Petroleum gated the constitution twice. for investigation. sent from the Sindh University PM. But police said that after went out due to technical because the country could Minister Dr Asim Hussain “The Army Act is not above Sources said that a request Campus Colony, Jamshoro, and getting the said letter they would reasons and the House not afford confrontation for announcing the in - the constitution and I still be - had been sent to the PM’s Sec - received at the PM’s Secretariat start proper investigation. went dark for some time. lieve that the real political among its chief institutions. creased prices before the LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:36 AM Page 5

friday , 3 february , 2012 News 05 Civilians to control Upper Swat from March PESHAWAR STAFF REPORT

Military authorities in Swat have decided to handover the administration to civil authorities in Upper Swat by mid-March, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to details, the army’s meeting was held under the Malakand GOC’s chair, which decided that in the first stage, civil administration in Upper Swat including Kalam, Bahrain and Madian will be handed over until March 12. According to sources, the meeting also decided to deploy ladies searchers at Dargai check post and come up with tangible steps to enhance the capacity of both the Chitral Police and Levies in the area. It was also decided to handover Malakand’s administration to civilians by mid 2012. Peace was prevailing in the region after the successful military operation in Swat in 2008-09 due to which the military administration decided to handover control to civilians in a phases. Punjab CM opens rahim Yar Khan

industrial estate lITTlE ACROBATS: Three boys perform acrobatics on a trampoline at a park in Peshawar. INP RAHIM YAR KHAn PRESS RElEASE

Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated Rahim Yar Khan Industrial World must help Pakistan Estate on Thursday. The 500 acre industrial estate is located on N-5 highway, near Bhahdurpur Chowk, Sadiqabad. It falls at the junction of 3 provinces, making it suitable for industry. The estate is a project of Punjab Industrial Estates Development repatriate Afghan refugees: PM and Management Company. The project is estimated to be able to create 60,000 thousand jobs in Southern Punjab. Talking to local chamber of commerce members, g Gilani says Afghan refugees’ return essential in winning war on terrorism Shahbaz said the Punjab government desires to develop Southern Punjab. ISLAMABAD of the Afghan refugees to their native GnI country was important in the war against terror, as some 30,000 to RIME Minister Yousaf Raza 40,000 Afghans cross the Pakistan- 4 killed as passenger Gilani on Thursday asked Afghanistan border and make it impos - the international community sible for the authorities to distinguish to help in the honourable between a tourist and a terrorist. van plunges into canal repatriation of Afghan He said the Pakistani people and the Prefugees. democratic government had the resolve BAWALnAGAR Talking to Antonio Guterres, UN and capacity to defeat the terrorist nnI high commissioner for Afghan refugees, forces, and the safe return of Afghan at the Prime Minister’s House, Gilani refugees to their homeland would help At least four persons were killed while complained about the lack of support in this pursuit. three others were injured when a from the international community in The UN high commissioner praised passenger van plunged into a canal on repatriating the refugees. “It seems the Pakistan’s hospitality to over three mil - Thursday. Police said the van was on international community has forgotten lion Afghan refugees, who escaped the traveling from Manchan Abad to the Afghan refugees,” Gilani said. Soviet invasion in 1979. He said the UN Deepalpur when it plunged into a canal The prime minister also reaffirmed agency was reaching out to the interna - causing the casualties. Rescue teams and Pakistan’s support for an Afghan-led and tional community to invest in 48 identi - police reached the spot and shifted the Afghan-owned reconciliation process in fied areas within Afghanistan which try and avail attractive job opportunities. refugees, saying that non-registered injured and bodies to the nearby hospital. the war-torn country that would not would encourage the Afghan refugees to Guterres also urged the Pakistani immigrants should not be treated as Investigations of the incident have started. destabilise Pakistan. He said the return permanently return to their native coun - government to register all the refugees under UN rules. UN overhauls Afghan refugee strategy 5 militants

g refugee agency head says agency to invest in communities, health and education to create more killed in attractive conditions for return, and support host communities in Iran and Pakistan Darra, 8 ISLAMABAD education, health, water, sanitation and in - AFP come generation – “supporting communi - ties in order for them to be able to integrate The UN refugee agency is overhauling its those who come”. His comments come a arrested strategy to help Afghans returning to the month after the UNHCR representative in war-torn country in a bid to stop them be - Afghanistan, Peter Nicolaus, told AFP that DARRA ADAM KHEL: Five coming destitute, and to focus on sustain - the agency’s strategy in the war-torn coun - militants were killed in military able reintegration. try since 2002 had been the agency’s operation in Darra Adam Khel and UNHCR head Antonio Guterres told “biggest mistake”. Many returning Afghan Akkai areas and took control of key AFP that 10 years after the US-led invasion refugees are homeless or live in slums under locations on Thursday, security and with 5.7 million refugees having re - tarpaulin. Nicolaus said the international officials said. Security forces also turned since 2002, the United Nations no community had failed to help them find a recovered huge cache of weapons longer wants to restrict its aid to individuals means of earning a living and therefore in a search operation and arrested who return. Instead it will invest in commu - reintegrating into society. Guterres said the 8 suspected militants. Recovered nities, health and education in order to cre - new strategy, approved this week at talks in weapons included suicide jackets ate more attractive conditions for return, Dubai between the Afghan, Iranian and and landmines. Security forces and support host communities in Iran and Pakistani governments, would be unveiled took full control of key militant Pakistan to preserve asylum space and ease number of Afghans coming back has fallen people go back from Pakistan into at an international conference scheduled for bases at Toor Chapar, Marchakai the sharing of resources. as security has worsened and fighting has Afghanistan,” Guterres said. Afghans were early May in Switzerland. “We hope to have Sar, Zaitoon Morcha and Speen Three million registered Afghan intensified between NATO and the Taliban. not only leaving for neighbouring countries several innovative solutions allowing for the Qabar in Darra Adam Khel. refugees still live in exile. The lack of jobs, “We have witnessed a considerable re - “but everywhere in the world” and in Eu - international communities to be more effec - Militant commanders Kasha, Kaka, food and shelter and the volatile security sit - duction of the number of Afghans that went rope “we are particularly worried with the tive and more pro-active in supporting both Babu, Fazal Wahab and Haider uation in many parts of the country makes back home, last year only 52,000, when in rising number of unaccompanied minors”. the Afghans in Afghanistan and the host Mulla were reported to have been it difficult for those who want to return. The the past we have helped more 3.7 million Guterres said UNHCR would invest in communities in Iran and Pakistan,” he said. killed in the clashes. OnlInE LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:36 AM Page 6

06News friday, 3 february, 2012 PIA steward arrested in London, airline unaware

g UK Home Ministry website says PIA crew member was arrested attempting to smuggle dozens of counterfeit passports, fake passport materials into UK ISLAMABAD a steward on a Pakistan International not informed?” he asked. OnlInE Airlines flight from Karachi.” The UK Border Agency said con - When contacted for his official ver - cealed under his clothes Haroon was All PIA officials to travel in economy class Pakistan International Air - sion, PIA spokesman Syed Sultan Hassan found to be carrying an envelope con - LAHORE: As part of austerity measures, the PIA management has decided that all lines (PIA) spokesman on told Online that no one was arrested. taining 39 Pakistan passports with coun - categories of officers/officials including the PIA managing director, who are entitled Thursday said he was un - Nevertheless, when he was intimated terfeit bio data pages or with bio data to travel in business class or economy plus will now travel in economy class on aware of any arrest of its crew that the UK home ministry claimed that pages removed, around 250 counterfeit domestic and international routes while traveling on official duty/Corporation by the UK Border Agency, Haroon of the PIA had been arrested, UK residence permits and a range of Business (OCS). A PIA spokesman on Thursday said the decision had been Athough official website of the UK Home Hasaan said the PIA was not informed counterfeit UK passport components in - implemented with immediate effect. However, all other terms and conditions of Ministry confirmed the arrest. officially. “Those who have made cluding bio data pages, laminates and traveling facilities of employees remained unchanged, he said. STAFF REPORT According to the home the arrest may know it. holograms. office website, an airline But then why Haroon admitted that he knew around £800 for smuggling the items. ary 31, he was sentenced to 32 months in crew member who at - were we what was in the package and He later pleaded guilty to charges of prison, and was recommended for depor - tempted to smuggle admitted being paid possessing false identity documents and tation following his sentence. dozens of counterfeit pass - possessing articles for making false “There is no doubt in my mind that ports and fake passport mate - identity documents. had Haroon not been stopped by our rials into the UK, had been jailed The site also quote senior investigat - officers these documents would have for more than two and a half years. ing officer Charlie Monks, from the UK ended up being used to create false Asif Haroon, 41, from Lahore, was Border Agency’s Heathrow crimi - identities, or help people work, claim arrested by UK Border Agency officers nal and financial investigation benefits or stay illegally in the UK,” the as he passed through the crew clearance team, saying during a hearing at officer was noted as saying on the offi - controls at Heathrow on 25 November Isleworth Crown Court on Janu - cial website. 2011, the site claimed. “He had arrived as Damaged Swat Museum to get new building PESHAWAR STAFF REPORT

After peace has returned to the militancy affected Swat valley, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has finalised plan to construct a new Swat Museum building. KP Minister for Tourism, Archeology, Museum and Tourism Aqil Shah will lay the foundation stone of the new building on February 7. The building will be constructed with the financial support of the Italy government. It must be remembered that the historic Swat Museum, located on Mingora-Saidu Sharif Road, had been hit by a bomb explosion in December 2008. The bomb had also damaged the boys hostel of historic Government Jehanzeb College Saidu Sharif. After the bombing, officials shifted most Swat Museum artifacts to Taxila and other museums in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. After the passing of 18th amendment, Swat Museum assets will be returned to Swat and Peshawar. The Swat valley is considered the centre of the Ghandhara civilisation and the Swat Museum was once considered rich for Ghandhara civilisation artifact. The KP government is working to develop a plan to preserve Ghandhara civilization artifacts and other archeological sites in the province. GIVE uS PERMAnEnT JOBS! karachi heart and Disease workers sit on Shahrah-e-Pakistan during a demonstration for a raise in salaries and permanent jobs. ONLINE Firdous jumpstarts Taliban return seen as unlikely threat in reshaped Afghanistan KABUL The Taliban sprang to power in the wake of a Pakistan’s true-face plan REuTERS vicious civil war that itself erupted in the Soviet rush to get out of the country, leaving behind a S RAHMAn decades ago and its need became press officers posted in our em - Among the snippets in a secret NATO report de - power vacuum in Kabul. In the fighting that set more compelling in the wake of bassies besides giving them the tailing the hopes of jailed Taliban militants to re - former president Burhanuddin Rabbani and his Federal Information Minister Dr negative propaganda unleashed targets to achieve without being take Afghanistan was news that the Taliban military commander Ahmad Shah Masood Firdous Ashiq Awan has proved to with perseverance by Pakistan’s let down by challenges coming movement had set up telephone hotlines for against the forces of rival anti-Soviet warlord Gul - be a visionary by spearheading the adversaries both on the eastern from different directions. Afghans to report anonymously on failures of its buddin Hekmatyar, two thirds of Kabul was razed creation of the 17-point Pakistan’s border and in the rest of the Equal stress was laid down shadow government. and about 50,000 civilians died. Thousands of true-face programme to be pur - world. during the Information Ministry’s Clearly a decade of war with NATO has not women and children were raped and tortured. sued with the active participation Now, who does not know that consultative conference organised dented the ambitions of the Taliban rank and file, The austere Taliban, with their medieval sys - of media as well as press officers the Western world in particular by its External Publicity Wing, to or those of their one-eyed leader Mullah Omar, to tem of justice and punishment – including hang - posted abroad, particularly in had started painting quite an ugly ensure orientation of journalists again govern the country they ruled for about five ings, oppression of women and amputating the Western countries, for which pur - picture of Pakistan, projecting it through press officers to enable years before being swept from power by US-led limbs of thieves – swept away the chaos of war - pose the Information Ministry re - as some medieval state that knows them to have access at interna - forces in 2001. But reclaiming Afghanistan, how - lord rule with a brutally effective brand of law cently conducted a no civilisation or the basic con - tional level and promote the coun - ever persistent the insurgency has proved for and order. President Hamid Karzai, whose gov - capacity-building consultative cept of peaceful coexistence? Ac - try’s image abroad. NATO on the battlefield, would be no easy task for ernment has been tarnished by accusations of conference. tual facts are altogether different Elaborating this point, Dr the Taliban after 10 years in which the expecta - corruption, incompetence and autocratic rule, It was the brainchild of the from this projected (ugly) image. Awan has disclosed that the par - tions of many Afghans have undergone a seismic has repeatedly said the key to preventing a Tal - minister and she must be congrat - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gi - ticipants of the conference were of shift. While Afghans routinely bemoan the state iban re-emergence is creating jobs and opportu - ulated for conceiving such a com - lani’s government, especially In - the view that interaction of senior of their country, its endemic corruption, lack of nities for the poor. And while Afghans largely feel prehensive exercise that aims at formation Minister Dr Awan, journalists and intellectuals from security and crippled development, Kabul’s pot - they have seen little improvement, gross domes - rebuilding Pakistan’s image, cor - acted very wisely and timely to ar - Pakistan with think tanks of other holed roads are now choked with cars, high-rise tic product growth exceeded 12 percent in 2007 recting the world perceptions rest this decline of our national countries would help project Pak - developments dot the city and people crowd a before slipping to 3.4 percent in 2008, and roar - about our country in line with our image and took the initiative of istan’s point of view on the issues small but growing number of internet cafes to ing to 22.5 percent in 2009 and 8.2 percent in actual realities. It was needed enhancing the abilities of our of national importance. connect to the world. 2010, albeit off a low base. 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They forget because they have Alzheimer’s, what’s our excuse?

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‘Fine, fine take Welcome to lahore, Shahdara the ministries’

g CM lets go of 8 ministries keeps the other 10 including health g PPP says this eyewash won’t make a huge difference to Punjab LAHORE cation to the CM in this regard. STAFF REPORT EYEWASH: “The reshuffling of ministries by the g CM is eyewash and it will not have a positive im - ravi toll Plaza to be relocated to Kala Shah Kaku today, making TICKING to his guns, Chief Minister Shah - pact on the province,” said Coordinator to Presi - baz Sharif has retained the Health Ministry dent Zardari for Punjab Naveed Chaudhry. Shahdara an ‘official’ part of lahore and has shed off eight additional ministries While talking to Pakistan Today, he said the LAHORE The issue was noticed seriously when PML-N chief on Thursday, Pakistan Today has learnt. CM had appointed technocrats, senators and fed - YASIR hABIB Nawaz Sharif had visited Shahdara in 2009. The public The CM has been facing a lot of criticism erally-elected people as members of the provincial demand got more strength when MNA Malik Riaz (NA- Sover concentrating power and offices in his person cabinet and it will not bring any positive change in Shahdara Toll Plaza, also known as Ravi Toll Plaza, 118) in a meeting held at Jahangir Tomb attended by and especially for retaining the health portfolio Punjab. “Shahbaz does not have confidence in his will be relocated today at Kala Shah Kaku after Prime the chief secretary, commissioner and secretary C & W after the recent deaths of patients from spurious provincial members and is looking for other peo - Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce to shift the pleaded the case before authority concerned. drugs in Punjab. Many crit - ple,” he said adding that by appointing technocrats toll plaza to Kala Shah Kaku to fulfil the long-standing Sources revealed the then Lahore DCO Sajjad ics said due to concentra - the CM had disgraced the mandate of people. “He demand of the people. Ahmed Bhutta had written a letter to the NHA chair - tion of all important powers should have appointed elected persons instead of With the relocation, Shahdara will no more be a man to facilitate the inhabitants of Shahdara by ex - with the CM, important pol - going for technocrats,” he said. locality separate from Lahore and people will not have empting them from toll tax at Ravi Bridge. The then icy decisions take time to To a question regarding the giving of additional to pay tax to enter and exit Lahore City from Shah - chief secretary Javed Mehmood had also constituted a be taken and imple - charges to ministers, he said Rana Sana had dara. Erection of Shahdara Toll Plaza that divided La - committee to evolve a viable strategy to execute the ex - mented. been given additional charge of Local gov - hore from Shahdara on 1967 was similar to that of emption plan. Finally in January 2010, President Asif Per details, Law ernment and this was not a fair step as LG Berlin Wall that bifurcated Germany into West Ger - Ali Zardari exempted Shahdara residents from payment Minister Rana required a full time minister. “Shahbaz many and East Germany. “Shifting of toll plaza is a of toll tax. In May 2011, Prime Minister Gilani again is - Sanaullah has got the Sharif is following the footsteps of landmark move which will be remembered all days to sued fresh orders of relocating the Ravi Toll Plaza. Syed additional charge of the Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi by giving addi - come,” Rehan Guddu, a resident of Shahdara told Asif Hashmi said he had sent the recommendation to Community Develop - tional charge of Local Bodies Ministry to a the Pakistan Today . “We will mark February 3 as “Free - the prime minister who termed it a very important issue ment Ministry. The In - law minister but unfortunately Shahbaz could not dom Day” with the same spirit as the people of Berlin and directed immediate action to relocate the toll plaza. formation Ministry has find a suitable person,” he added. He said Shahbaz celebrate Berlin Wall Fall”, he added. Matters relating to relocation of River Ravi Toll Plaza at been given to Pervaiz had kept the Health Ministry to himself, which PPP leader and chairman of the Evacuee Trust Shahdara (N-5) were also brought under consideration whereas Saeed Mehdi showed his stubbornness and inflexibility. Property Board Asif Hashmi said the PPP government in the 208th executive board meeting held at NHA will be in charge of the “It is a million dollar had promised to get Shahdara people rid of the toll Headquarters which was presided over by National Management and Pro - question that why he plaza and the premier would fulfil this commitment Highway Authority (NHA) Chairman Syed Muhammad fessional Development (Shahbaz) is insist - today. He said the people of NA-118, which covered a Ali Gardezi in October 2011. However, no progress Ministry. Moreover, ing on keeping the highly populated area comprising several colonies sit - could be made in this regard. the Energy Department Health Min - uated near the Ravi bed, were grateful of the president Ravi Toll plaza is situated at the property of federal has been given to Chaudhry istry?” he added. and the prime minister for facilitating them. government and the National Highway Authority is its Abdul Ghafoor, Telecommunications There are three bridges on River Ravi - Sagian custodian. The basic reason behind the demand to re - to Ahmed Ali, while Manshallah Butt will Bridge, Old Ravi Bridge and Shahdara Bridge. Every locate Ravi Toll Plaza is a big traffic gridlock due to be the in-charge of the Food Department. Per bridge has a toll plaza and now all of them have been number of police pickets established for security rea - further details, Jehanzaib Burki has been declared as tax-free for the residents of Shahdara. sons. People have to wait almost one hour or more to made the CM’s advisor on prosecution while The people have been demanding to shift Ravi Toll pass through the toll plaza. Given the perturbed situa - Ahsanudin Qureshi will handle the affairs of Plaza since its construction in 1967 at the cost of ap - tion, rush of vehicles has poured into another route in - housing and urban development department. proximately Rs 50 million. In 2006, former city nazim side Farrukabad and Saeed Park as this route helps Senior bureaucrats seeking anonymity said Mian Amer Mehmood had also proposed for exempting traffic to reach Ravi bridge without passing through the decision has come in the wake of severe Shahdara residents from paying toll tax at Ravi Bridge. Shahdara Toll Plaza. With the new development, both media criticism on Shahbaz’s holding so many He had forwarded the proposal to the provincial govt localities now face frequent traffic blockage which made portfolios, while even the LHC had issued notifi - for approval but the move could not be materialised. them demand immediate relocation of Ravi Toll Plaza. But the constitution won’t accept ‘imported’ drug tests! Isotab confirmed spurious by UK lab, however, action can only be initiated against the manufacturers if a local lab does so too

LAHORE: The Punjab chief minister announced in a press conference on Thursday that the Isotab drug was responsible for the deaths of patients who had taken medicines from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC).These findings were based on test results received from a laboratory in the United Kingdom. However, experts said that according to the Drug Act 1976, no action could be initiated against a manufacturer unless laboratory results from a nationally registered drug testing laboratory were acquired. The Punjab government has increased the pressure on pharmaceutical companies by fulfilling the legal requirement and testing the drug Isotab at the local Drug Testing Laboratory (DTL), which confirmed the drug to be spurious. In addition, the Swiss authorities have confirmed that their results are similar with the findings of the other two laboratories. Punjab Home Secretary Shahid Khan had written a letter to the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Sindh chief secretary, proposing to take action against the pharmacy and requesting the authorities concerned to ban the drug nationally and internationally. The results showed that 172mg of an Isotab pill contained just 20mg of Isotab, and 50mg of an anti- malarial excipient. Pharmaceutical companies questioned how the DTL could give results when the drug samples had initially been sent abroad because the facility had not been available locally. Health Secretary Captain Arif Nadeem said the DTL could conduct tests on active ingredients once a particular substance had been identified. He said action was being taken in accordance with the law. uMAIR AZIZ LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:36 AM Page 8

08Lahore friday, 3 february, 2012 wEAtHEr UPDAtES people and the chance of having the condition rose sharply with age to 1 person in 20 over the age of 65 while over the age of 85, the figures increases to 1 person in 4. She made it clear that there is no cure for dementia but recent medication may slow down the progression of the disease in the patient. 18 She said there were about 36 million people world - °C wide with dementia and two third of them lived in developing countries and this figure could reach up High to 115 million people by 2050. “Dementia requires expensive treatment and 0 total cost of care for dementia amounts to more 12 C than 1 percent of global gross domestic product ClOUDY which touched the figure of US$604 billion in low 2010,” she added. GOVT’S ROLE: Dr Yasmin urged the govern - SAtUrDAY SUnDAY MOnDAY ment to create a national Alzheimer’s plan for 19° C I 10°C 20° C I 09°C 21°C I 08°C Pakistan by focusing on raising awareness, edu - cation of professionals and caregivers, increase diagnosis and promote risk reduction. She said the government should also seek additional sup - port from Alzheimer’s Disease International and PrAYEr tIMInGS International Psycho Geriatric Association. fajr Sunrise Zuhr Asr Maghrib Isha Dr Saqib Mehmood, PhD holder in Genetic Science of University of Health Science, talking 05:32 06:54 12:17 15:17 17:39 19:02 to Pakistan Today said, “Alzheimer’s Pakistan is the only NGO working for the welfare of Alzheimer’s patients but there should be a sys - tematic plan for looking after these patients” adding that even though the number of patients CItY DIrECtOrY they forget because was low that did not mean that they could be ig - nored. He said most of the affected people in the country belonged to above the age of 60 and cases below 45 were diagnosed rarely. He said Alzheimer’s could be hereditary dis - EMErGEnCY HElP they have alzheimer’s, ease only when it occurred in middle-aged peo - ple. He said the main thing was to create rESCUE 1122 awareness among the families of the dementia- EDHI COntrOl 115 affected people so that they could approach med - MOtOrwAY POlICE 130 ical facilities in initial stages to slow down the what’s our excuse? process of dementia. POlICE 15 SOCIAL STIGMA: Dr Masood Akhter Sheikh, G Deputy Medical Superintendent (DMS) of Sir OVErnOr’S HOUSE 99200081-7 LAHORE CHIEf MInIStEr’S HOUSE 99203226 g for over 300,000 patients, Ganga Ram Hospital, said Alzheimer’s is MuZAFFAR AlI deemed as a social stigma in Pakistan and people fIrE brIGADE 16 Pakistan does not even have a avoided to disclose about Alzheimer’s patients bOMb DISPOSAl 99212111 LZHEIMER’S, an incurable disease even in their own circles. He said an ex-chief jus - known as dementia that impairs mem - MCl COMPlAIntS 99211022-29 single Alzheimer’s specialist tice of the apex court is affected with Alzheimer’s ory by declining brain function, has and no one knew about him because his family lAHOrE wAStE DISPOSAl 1139 been declared a ‘social and health cri - or medical facility g Social had hidden his disease from public due to embar - sis’ of 21st century by World Health Or - rassment. He said dementia affected slowly and Aganisation but in Pakistan the government has HOSPItAlS stigma, discrimination force in first phase, the patient forgets the names and neither recognised it as a prevalent disease nor they use their perception but gradually they for - MID CItY 37573382-3 is planning to provide special medical facility to relatives to detain patients get everything around them. He said it was tragic the Alzheimer’s patients in any public hospital families when their dear ones forget their names. SErVICES 99203402-11 across the country. MAYO 99211100-9 THE COUNTRY’S ONLY DAY CARE According to data available with Pakistan who can live normal lives CENTRE: Zia Haider Rizvi, president of GEnErAl 35810892-8 Today there are about 377,000 Alzheimer’s pa - Alzheimer’s Pakistan, said there is only one day SHEIKH ZAID 35865731 tients in the country and unfortunately there is REASONS FOR IGNORANCE: “The present care centre setup especially for Alzheimer’s pa - SIr GAnGA rAM 99200572 no doctor specialising in the field. data is not up to date and neither the government tients in Lahore with the financial support of Aus - In the absence of a specialist, neurosurgeons nor any Non-Government Organisation (NGO) UCH 35763573-5 tralia and there were about 9 Alzheimer’s patients and psychologists are giving treatment to them has any mechanism to collect the actual numbers who stayed there the whole day. He said the cen - IttEfAq 35881981-85 with pathetic results. of Alzheimer’s patients in Pakistan and the reason tre provided facilities like physiotherapy, medical CMH 366996168-72 The data further reveals that the problem of behind this is lack of resources and interest on the care, speech therapy, veterans’ club and games. SHOUKAt KHAnUM 35945100 Alzheimer’s patients will increase with the size - government’s part and apathetic attitude of the He said the day care centre for Alzheimer’s able addition of more than one million within NGOs working on health issues in the country. JInnAH 111-809-809 patients were being run by Alzheimer’s Pakistan twenty years and their numbers will increase up The second cause is the lack of reporting. The free of cost and foreign donors and philanthro - ADIl (DEfEnCE) 36667275 to two million patients by 2050 only in Pakistan. families of the Alzheimer’s patients deem it to be pists bore all the expenditures. He said the CHIlDrEn’S 99230901-3 a social stigma and try to hide their patients by credit goes to former Punjab chief minister Ch DEfEnCE nAtIOnAl HOSPItAl 111-17-18-19 detaining them inside the walls of their homes. Pervez Elahi who granted Rs3 million to day The third major factor is that it is an incurable care centre during his tenure and with this fund disease and expensive treatment is required to a van was purchased that provided pick and slow down the process of degenerating of the pa - drop services to Alzheimer’s patients. He said blOOD bAnK tient’s brain,” doctors disclosed while talking to Pattoki Sugar Mill’s owner Muhammad Aslam Pakistan Today. had also donated Rs 50,000 to them. He said fAtMID 35210834-8 SYMPTOMS AND CURE: Dr Yasmin every facility was given to the patients free of Raashid, an illustrious gynecologist and pa - ISlAMIC AllIAnCE 37588649/37535435 cost. He said the door of Alzheimer’s Day care tron of Alzheimer’s Pakistan, talking about Centre was opened for all without discrimina - the disease said “Alzheimer’s is the most tion and the centre was a blessing for caregivers common cause of dementia and owing of as they could get relief in their homes by send - COMPlAInt degenerative brain syndromes it could af - ing their patients to day care centre. fect memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion,” adding that “The chemistry of wAPDA 111-000-118 the brain changes and cells, nerves and SUI GAS 1199 transmitters are attacked and eventu - ally the brain shrinks as gaps de - velop” and that one could recognise the disease by symp - rAIlwAYS toms of memory loss, disori - entation, confusion and problems CItY StAtIOn (EnqUIrY) 117 with reasoning rESErVAtIOn 99201772 and thinking. rAIlwAY POlICE 1333 She further said dementia primarily af - fected older AIrPOrt flIGHt EnqUIrY 114 PIA rESErVAtIOn 111-786-786 ArAbIC CAllIGrAPhy lETTEr TO TASEEr II INTErNATIONAl bOOK FAIr 2012 COllEGES / UnIVErSItIES

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friday, 3 february, 2012 La hore 09 For Rs 800m, govt will come inside your house g funds for larviciding inside the houses in this year’s dengue campaign approved province which will remain effective till The spokesman further said cleanli - November 30, 2012. Under the regula - ness and larviciding of ponds, fountains LAHORE will include larvaciding indoors because outdoors after rises. tions, owners of all private properties, and swimming pools should also be un - uMAIR AZIZ due to use of heaters the indoor temper - The Punjab government turned its houses, factories, mills and tire dertaken to prevent the breeding of ature has remained conducive for the attention to dengue once again after the godowns will be responsible for ad - dengue mosquito. HE Punjab government has ap - dengue mosquito growth. CM in a media briefing presented the dressing the causes for the growth of The spokesman further said under proved the PC-1 of Rs 800 mil - The project will then be enhanced to lab test reports of drugs distributed by dengue mosquito. the rules and regulations, health in - lion for larviciding houses in all outdoors across all districts of punjab. the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Meanwhile, a spokesman of Health spectors could undertake checking of districts of Punjab to cope with CDC Director Dr Mubashar Malik said Talking to Pakistan Today, Khawaja Department has stressed upon the citi - different premises and in case breeding the dengue epidemic this year, the epidemic initially appeared in four Imran Nazir said the government had zens to not to let water accumulate in spots of dengue mosquito were found, TPakistan Today has learnt. districts and then extended to 12 while initially planned to take up dengue ten their houses and besides disposal of the owners of property will have to bear Per details, a new DG for control - dengue cases were reported in all dis - days ago while due to the PIC issue it broken utensils, tires and plastic bottles the expenses for their elimination, ling dengue epidemic will also be ap - tricts last year. was delayed a bit, but now again it was and should also ensure the repair and adding that the owners of educational pointed very soon, while all districts He further said the money that had going to be the focus of attention. maintenance of water pipes, tanks, institutions were duty bound to under - have been directed to complete re - been allocated will be spent on human Meanwhile, Punjab Health Depart - room coolers and air conditioners as take mosquito spray and fogging in the quired recruitment of human resource resource, equipment and insecticide, ment has re-enforced Dengue Epidemic leakage of water might result in the school premises for the elimination of by February 15. The initial campaign while the campaign will be extended Control Regulations 2011 again in the growth of the dengue mosquito. dengue mosquito.

Public holiday Plea moved to sack on Feb 4 Guns to stop people from overspeeding petroleum minister LAHORE: The Punjab LAHORE According to the traffic wardens deployed dens while implementing speed limit on the government has AlI TAhIR to operate the speed guns, the speed guns are Canal Bank Road, the warden said over announced a public LAHORE to be installed all along the canal road. “This speeding cars were a bit hard to stop as they STAFF REPORT holiday on Saturday, After the renovation and the widening of the is the initial step and the Traffic Department usually were on the extreme right side of the Rabiul Awwal 11. A Canal Bank Road a speed limit has been set has planned to position the speed guns on road. “In that case a wireless is made to war - A writ petition has been submitted in notification in this regard on the tempting highway and the Traffic De - other parts of the canal too,” he said. He said dens standing at the next junction who fi - the Lahore High Court (LHC) under was issued late on partment has finally installed speed guns on the road had now widened and there was a nally makes sure that the car is stopped,” Article 199 of the Constitution of Thursday. the Canal Bank to bar over speeding. great chance of youngsters racing along the said the warden. Pakistan to suspend a recent increase It looks like the Traffic Department has side of the canal. It would be important to mention here in gas prices by the federal finally decided to implement speed restric - He said coordinating traffic wardens had that speed guns were placed on Main Boule - government. Lawyer Asad Muhammad tion in the metropolis as two speed guns have been positioned at a distance from the speed vard Gulberg, DHA and on Ring Road before said the Oil and Gas Regulatory been positioned on the Canal Bank Road near gun to stop the speed limit violator. Amongst but the speed limit was only implemented on Authority (OGRA) had increased the the Doctor’s Hospital underpass. the problem being faced by the traffic war - the Ring Road. prices of oil and gas in January and February, robbing consumers of Rs 70 billion of oil and gas in the last three years because of wrong decisions made who will win the Model town by the officials concerned. The petitioner has requested the federal Society elections this year? government to sack Petroleum Minister Dr Asim Hussain for mishandling the CInEMA fIlM tIME LAHORE: Election campaign is in full swing at the Model Town Society (MTS), shortage of gas, causing a nationwide CInE StAr HUGO 01:00 PM as two groups are face-to-face with each other for elections on February 26, which uproar. He also made a request to PH: 35157462 AGnEEPAtH 03:15 PM are expected to be unpredictable, Pakistan Today has learnt. Banners have been suspend the notification issued for the MAn On A lEDGE 06:30 PM placed at prominent areas of the society, including the main Model Town increase in gas prices. AGnEEPAtH 8:15 PM Roundabout, as candidates geared up for the big day. Two main groups were PROF FILES CASE AGAINST AGnEEPAtH 11:30 AM registered for election, including the Model Town Unity Group and Model Town PUNjAb GOVT FOR PU VC Group. From the Model Town Unity Group, Rana Ahmed Mateen was running for POSITION: The Lahore High Court on CInE GOlD DOn 2 3:00 PM president while Major (r) Mushtaq Dhillon was running for vice-president. From Thursday issued a notice for February 8 PH: 35340000 MISSIOn IMPOSSIbAl 4 6:00 PM the Model Town Group, Saifur Rehman was running for president and Daud Bari to the Punjab governor, chief minister, PlAYErS 9:00 PM for vice-president. Around 45 candidates would compete for 22 seats. Around 20 secretary of higher education and others DOn 2 12:00 AM candidates would be elected for managerial seats from 10 blocks with two from on a petition challenging the each block while the management would be headed by the elected president and reappointment of Prof Dr Mujahid SOZO wOrlD AGnEEPAtH 12:00 PM vice-president. All candidates had submitted their nomination papers for Kamran as Punjab University vice- PH : 36674271 AGnEEPAtH 03:30 PM scrutiny, which was still underway. According to sources, Bari looked to be in hot chancellor after his retirement. Justice AGnEEPAtH 07:00 PM waters, as there was a chance of him being disqualified. Sources said that during Ahmad Farooq heard the petition filed AGnEEPAtH 10:30 PM scrutiny, it was revealed that Bari had supplied furniture to the MTS and by Prof Dr Yousaf Hayat, a contender according to the society’s by-laws, a beneficiary of the society could not run for for the position of VC. The petitioner’s SOZO GOlD MISSIOn IMPOSSIblE 4 12:30 PM election. Source said that Bari, who had no covering candidate, claimed that the counsel said the reappointment of PH : 36674271 DOn 2 03:00 PM furniture company was owned by his son. Sources also revealed that the election Kamran was not only a violation of the HUGO 05: 30 PM was actually a fight between former Lahore nazim Mian Aamir Mehmood’s party Punjab University Act, but a violation of MISSIOn IMPOSSIblE 4 08: 30 PM with the rest of Model Town. The Model Town Group, which was affiliated with the SC’s judgement against the Aamir, had rearranged its candidates and was ready for the election with the reemployment of retired persons. DOn 2 11: 00 PM former nazim’s support, who had great influence in the society. AlI TAhIR LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:37 AM Page 10

10Lahore friday, 3 february, 2012 wPP condemns government’s attitude LAHORE STAFF REPORT

The Worker’s Party Pakistan (WPP) released a press statement on February 2 condemning the careless attitude of mainstream political parties towards the legislation on issues that affect the welfare of Pakistan’s people. The WPP leaders said that the current policies of slashing subsidies, privatising education and health facilities, raising the prices of basic amenities and cutting permanent public sector jobs were reducing faith in the democratic system. They said that only a genuinely progressive political force which was anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti- establishment would inspire the Pakistani people to challenge and remove the authorities that monopolised the country’s resources, economic and social policies. MD taseer’s daughter launches his biography

BuY YOuR OWn EnD-OF-ThE-TunnEl lIGhT: A man buys rechargeable emergency lights on Jail Road to live through long hours of power outages. NADEEM IJAZ CDGl bans reservation of graves Youth killed in encounter, at Miani Sahib

LAHORE relatives cry murder STAFF REPORT LAHORE STAFF REPORT LAHORE searching for the shooters, who managed the deceased had also injured TASI The City District Government Lahore STAFF REPORT to escape. Meanwhile SI Faiz Ahmed Gul - Kashif of Shafiq Abad Area about a year (CDGL) on Thursday imposed a ban on Salma Mahmud launched her book shan along with other police official also ago and was declared a proclaimed of - the reservation of graves at Miani Sahib ‘The Wings of Time’, a biography of her 22-years-old young man was started searching for the shooters. fender in the same case. Graveyard and applications pending for shot dead by police in an al - Raza and his accomplice were fi - The heirs of Raza including his father Dr Muhammad Din Taseer, at reservation of graves have been leged encounter on Thursday nally intercepted at Dispensary mother Safia Bibi, sister Sumaira the Royal Palm on Thursday. It rejected. The CDGL has also decided to near Dispensary Chowk in Chowk and they exchanged fire and brother Ammar while talking narrates her journey of rediscovering expand the Janazgah of Miani Sahib her father, an eminent poet, critic, Shadbagh Police precincts. with the po - to reporters told a different Graveyard. These decisions were taken teacher and administrator. She is the AThe deceased was identified as Ali lice. story. They claimed that a police in a meeting of the members of oldest child of Dr Taseer, the first Raza, a resident of Zeenat Block, Al - Raza was party headed by SHO Shad - Indian to obtain a PhD from lama Iqbal Town. According to police injured and bagh namely Farooq As - Administrative Committee of Miani Cambridge University. She was Raza was a proclaimed offender and a was rushed to ghar Awan arrested Sahib Graveyard, held under the educated at Kinnaird College in Lahore, hardened criminal and was involved in the Mayo Hos - Raza from his house at chairmanship of Lahore District and then at the University of several incidents of robbery, street pital where he about 7pm on Wednes - Coordination Officer (DCO) Ahad Khan Edinburgh, from where she obtained a crime and shooting at police officers. succumbed to his day. They claimed that Cheema at the Town Hall. Addressing Masters in English Language. The According to Shadabagh Police, on injuries. Police later re - police officials had killed the meeting, the DCO said that the biography relates the circumstances of the day of incident, Raza and his moved the body to Mayo their brother and had Janazgah would be expanded and the Taseer’s origins and how he was friends snatched a motorcycle from a Hospital morgue for au - staged an encounter. They facilities would be improved further, citizen in Misri Shah and were escaping topsy and started inves - said SHO Farooq Asghar orphaned at the age of three, when his directing to provide clean drinking entire village in Punjab was wiped out when officials of Muhafiz Squad de - tigating the matter and Awan and SHO Shahdara puted in Wassanpura Area signalled contacted his relatives. Maqsood Gujjar had a water, fans and other facilities on in an epidemic of the bubonic plague. priority basis. In the meeting, a He was sent away to Lahore to be raised Raza and his accomplice to stop for Officials claimed that clash with Raza. routine checking but Raza and his ac - about dozen cases had al - They, while justifying proposal to construct a basement for by maternal aunt, Muzaffar Begum. parking under the Janazgah was also During his distinguished career, Taseer complice opened fire at them. ready been registered Raza’s action of injuring a reviewed. The DCO also directed to preferred to spend time around a group Shadbagh Police said officials of against Raza in Lower cop, said he had done so in of brilliant intellectuals, who filled an Muhafiz Squad survived luckily from the Mall, Shafiqabad and Is - self-defence. They blamed po - improve the security of graveyard and existential void that existed within him firing and radioed information to 15 wire - lampura Police Sta - lice for registering the cases construction of graveyard boundary less controls. The officials also started because of his loneliness. tions. They claimed that against him to take revenge. wall as well. man kills brother over petty row LAHORE will proceed with investigations in accor - gunpoint. relled often. houses of his brothers. On Thursday, one STAFF REPORT dance with the law, the police added. MAN KILLS WIFE: Salma, an 18-year- On Thursday, the couple again quar - Nadia Bibi, Maseeh’s brother’s wife RObbED OF VALUAbLES WORTH old newly-wed woman, was poisoned to relled after which Sakhi allegedly tor - raised alarm that Maseeh had committed A 44-year-old man allegedly shot dead Rs 370,000: Valuables including cash, death allegedly by her in-laws in the tured Salma to death. Sakhi has been suicide after setting himself ablaze over his younger brother, father of one, over a a cell phone and gold jewellery worth Rs Sandha Police Station precincts taken into police custody on the allega - unknown reasons. Locals and heirs of petty dispute in the Shafiqabad Police 370,000 were taken away from Tahir on Thursday. tions levelled by his in-laws that he has Akram gathered in the house and after Station precincts on Thursday. Illyas and his family in a robbery in front The police have taken into custody poisoned Salma to death. However, no seeing the body of the deceased, they also The deceased was identified as Asif of of their house in Salma’s husband case has been registered so far. informed local police. Daoshala. Mughalpura on Wednes - Muhammad Sakhi, a MOTORCYLE STOLEN: A motorcyle Investigators of local police, after According to the details, two brothers day night. Police said an resident of Abu of a journalist, Imran Baig, was stolen reaching the scene, started collecting cir - namely Arif and Asif were running a fur - FIR (No107/12) had Bakar Siddique from Pakistan Chowk, Icchra. Police have cumstantial evidences and in doing so niture showroom. On Thursday, a worker been registered against Colony, for interro - not taken any action so far for the recov - they observed that Maseeh’s head had namely Hanif, heard the sound of a fire in two unidentified men gation. Salma’s ery of the motorcyle. been thrashed by the rods over which po - nearby area and found the body of Asif on Illyas’s complaint. body has been WOMAN CLUbS ‘LECHEROUS’ licemen took Nadia Bibi in their custody. lying in pool of blood, while Arif claimed They said the family shifted to the bROTHER-IN-LAW TO DEATH: A Nadia Bibi during course of investiga - that someone had killed his brother. were entering their morgue for au - woman clubbed her brother-in-law to tions confessed killing Akram Maseeh The police reached the scene and house when the topsy. death and later torched his body to con - with a hammer. Police quoting Nadia Bibi shifted the body to the morgue for au - robbers, riding a The police vert the murder into a suicide case in the said Maseeh had come to Nadia’s house topsy. The police said that on the day of motorcycle, inter - said Salma and Factory Area Police on Thursday. The de - while she was alone and wanted to engage the incident, Arif had a clash with his cepted them and Sakhi had mar - ceased was identified as Akram Maseeh, in an illicit relationship with her and that brother over a petty issue that led to Arif made them surren - ried eight a resident of Model Colony Walton Road. was why she had clubbed him to death. killing his brother. Although no one had der their be - months ago The police said Maseeh was residing in a Police registered a case against Nadia on submitted an application but the police longings at and quar - house located a few yards away from the the complaint of deceased’s wife, Razia. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:37 AM Page 11

friday , 3 february , 2012 Editor’s mail 11 to our security agencies JUI’s silence on KbD It pained me to hear agony and cries army in Occupied Kashmir, where citi - Muslim majority by our founding fathers. tasked to subjugate the local population The ANP vehemently opposes Kal - of an old mother whose three sons were zens are picked up and held in confine - It is time that the security services of and prolong occupation by British colo - abagh Dam (KBD) while it is the only in illegal confinement of our sensitive ment without any judicial process under Pakistan understand the importance of nial power. dam that could provide 14 percent share agencies and the body of one of her sons special powers of Indian Army Act. common bonds of love and respect be - Pakistan was not created so that to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by a right bank handed over to family with marks of tor - The biggest threat to national secu - tween the people and the security serv - GORs and cantonments would become gravity canal to irrigate 7 lac acres of bar - ture. What makes this more repulsive are rity is the widening gap between institu - ices. This nation loves and honours our islands of prosperity surrounded by a sea ren land in Dera Ismail Khan yet the JUI arguments put forward by their lawyer tions of state assigned to secure not just valiant shaheeds like Aziz Bhatti, Shabbir of humanity living in poverty, denial and supremo keeps mum over the issue. while addressing the press and giving ex - our geographical borders but lives and Sharif etc, but despises military adven - fear for their lives and property. The This is plain hypocrisy on the part of ample of Guantanamo Bay prison. For honour of our people and the citizens of turers like Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zia- armed forces must, for the sake of Pak - JUI that it does not speak on a matter of information of gentleman, not a single this country. ul-Haq and Pervez Musharraf. It is not istan, understand that their primary task vital importance for Dera Ismail Khan. It white American is confined within A nation exists only because of the an army that forms a nation, for had that is to protect the lives of people and not could be understood that the ANP has Gitmo, including the white American Tal - people that inhabit a territory. All institu - been the case, Soviet Union would not few usurpers of security establishment, nothing to gain in its hilly area from KBD iban caught from Afghanistan by their tions of the state exist and are paid for by have collapsed from within. who have violated the constitution. The but what prevents JUI to speak out for own troops. the taxpayers, so that they serve people, The Pakistani security establishment army should never have had any role in KBD that would ensure 14 percent share All Pakistani citizens who are in con - protect their lives, property, honour, has to reorient their mindset to bring it missing persons saga, or handing them of water to D I Khan as per Water Accord finement should be tried by the judiciary freedom of expression and right to equal in conformity to their role as guardians over to foreign troops without any due of 1991 while it currently uses only 5 per - and the families informed. People of Pak - opportunities as guaranteed by the con - of a free democratic sovereign state and judicial process. cent share of water due to lack of infra - istan condemn the barbarities and atroci - stitution. It was also the very purpose for break away from whatever is the legacy of MALIK TARIQ structure. While the JUI leader is very ties committed by Indian occupation carving out a separate homeland for their role as tools of British Indian Army Lahore vocal on national issues, he keeps mum over the development of D I Khan. This strong silence on his part creates a doubt ECP locking horns with SC over the sincerity of JUI leadership in It seems it has turned into fashion to not seeing beneath their nose while disobey the orders of the Supreme Court. claiming to be custodians of Pakistan on The political government never accepts the moral front. It is incumbent on the SC’s orders happily; they only accept JUI leadership to explain their bizarre them when they are not left with other behaviour on the issue. options. DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI One can understand that political Lahore factions have their vested interests and they want to hide their corruption so 1000 percent tax they give wrong details to the SC but what happened to the Election Commis - The government of Pakistan has once sion of Pakistan whose chief is a retired again increased the price of petroleum justice and understands the law fully. He products. Petroleum ministry is also must be aware of the sanctity of the seeking to impose 10 percent surcharge Supreme Court and its orders. It is un - on CNG as they want people to use petrol fortunate that the SC, while responding and discourage the use of CNG. It must to the statement given by the ECP, had to be a unique technique which can only be declare that such remarks were not based used by the government. I have a sugges - on facts. tion for this so-called democratic govern - It really saddened me when I went ment that if they want to discourage the through media reports narrating that the use of CNG, then they must impose 1000 Chief Election Commissioner Justice percent tax on vehicles so that no one (retd) Hamid Ali Mirza repeatedly, and can buy these vehicles and all the people Secretary Election Commission Ishtiak are forced to buy bicycles. It is now time Ahmed Khan impliedly, resorted to the for coalition partners of the government language that clearly amounted to out - to part ways with the PPP government right contempt of the SC. and increase pressure on it to hold elec - The ECP must prove itself as a highly tions as this government is unable to responsible and decent organisation provide any relief to the people. whenever it has to interact with the SC. It Obama’s confession MUBASHIR MAHMOOD has to show that it is not a political or - Karachi ganisation and is wholeheartedly ready At-last, Obama has officially acknowledged the US drone- President Obama’s acknowledgement has not only unveiled to obey the supremacy of the SC. attack campaign inside Pakistan. The drones have been wreak - the official truth but also a provided a proof of US atrocities A good qari too DR MOHIB RASOOL ing havoc in Pakistan for many years on the pretext of hunting against humanity. The United Nations should take Obama’s ac - Islamabad terrorists. Different reports by national and international or - knowledgement as a confession on committing war crimes. On For the first time ever in my life I was ganisations have also suggested that most of the sufferers of US the other hand, Islamabad, instead of expecting others to help, impressed by Maulana Fazalur Rehman, AI’s report drone attacks were civilians including innocent children. A cou - should muster up its own courage to take up the issue to the UN. leader, when he was reciting the Holy ple of days ago, Amnesty International has asked Obama to dis - AMJAD CHAUDHRY Quran at Mizar-e-Quaid during his jalsa. The US drone attacks inside Pakistan close the legal basis of drone attacks in Pakistan. Rawalpindi The sugary voice of Maulana Fazalur have proved to be a double-edged Rehman really touched my heart and I weapon as they not only cause civilian negotiating with taliban why it seems, as a BBC report indicates, desired results. The issues of Nato sup - think I would like to hear him as a Qari deaths but also stem severe reaction in the Afghan government, not fully agree - plies, drone attacks and border violations again. I have a sincere suggestion for form of suicide attacks which are respon - As the US began preliminary talks ing to the US’ Qatar initiative and Pak - need to be resolved as immediately as Maulana Sahib to concentrate only on his sible for more civilian casualties in Pak - with the Taliban negotiators in Qatar on istan, partially sidelined, have plans for possible. religious responsibilities which he could istan. plans for peace talks aimed at ending the talks in Saudi Arabia that both Kabul and Though David Bill in his recent arti - perform much better than wasting his A report last year by the Bureau of decade-long war in Afghanistan, amid re - Islamabad, usually at loggerheads on the cle suggests “if you are concerned about precious time and resources in politics. Investigative Journalism showed that of ports that the Pakistan and Afghan gov - issue, were looking for their own talks American aggression, it is not the drones Why do people support Imran? It is some 2300 people killed by US drone ernments are seeking peace talks with the with the Taliban. you should fear, but the politicians who because we are fed up with old politi - strikes in Pakistan from 2004 until Au - Taliban in Saudi Arabia separate from The US administration is of the order them into battle”, yet the wiser cians. We as a nation want to see change gust 2011, between 392 and 781 appear the US-brokered talks in Doha, it is now view that its strong military presence comment by Joshua Foust needs to be in our country and Mr Khan is a name of to have been civilians, and 175 children. established that things are shaping up in Afghanistan and an indecisive long- paid heed to; he says “the rush to robots hope for change. I want to ask the read - The Amnesty International has also rapidly in Afghanistan as the US is treat - term plan of its military’s presence be - in warfare is worrying. There just isn’t ers to let me know if Fazalur Rehman is a asked the US to disclose details of the ing the so-called ‘terrorist’ Taliban as a yond 2014 can be used as a leverage to enough thought about what conse - good Qari or a good politician. legal and factual basis for the lethal use political force and a political stakeholder. convince the Taliban on the necessity quences these systems impose on US pol - CH LIAQAT ALI of these aerial weapons in Pakistan. For that the US even agreed to transfer of Kabul’s participation in talks and icy. There needs to be.” Lahore The United States, being the sole su - four to eight important Taliban figures cutting down on its other demands to And the Amnesty International’s re - perpower of the world, should have A technical University from Guantanamo Bay to set up a politi - let the talks process take off the port questioning the legality and legiti - played its role in bringing peace in the cal office for the exiled Afghan insurgent ground. macy of drone strikes must be seen as to In one of the articles in Pakistan world but regretfully its drones, air force group. Looking back at the Afghan history, how the world views America’s unilateral Today, Pakistan’s need for higher educa - and marines are wreaking havoc in many Pakistan has been sidelined in the the talks at the highest level of warring act against the sovereignty of a country. tion was mentioned by Mansoor Ijaz. He regions of the world. United States’ his - process, but it is not out of the game. The parties always failed to provide reprieve Earlier, the UN’s special representative is a graduate in Nuclear Physics and tory shows its blatant policies in the Taliban declared that they could not ig - to local conflicts driven by tribal competi - has already given its finding that the Master in Mechanical Engineering. How world. How its leadership has been nore Pakistan and would not like to tions, personal rivalries and the prof - drone strikes are in violation of interna - about his setting up a Technical Univer - claiming that they were working for the annoy it, even if they sought more inde - itable drug trade. Moreover, sidelining tional law, as well the human rights laws. sity in Pakistan at the earliest? humanity. pendence, and less interference by Islam - Pakistan and the actual stakeholders in F Z KHAN S SIBTUL HASAN HAZEEN Everybody knows that the attack on abad in their decisions-making. That’s Afghanistan is not likely to bring in the Islamabad Karachi Iraq has actually brought shame for the US because the basis on which the attack was launched has yet to be proved. US what happens next? forces left Iraq but weapons of mass de - struction have not yet been found and Before establishing whether the mis - in terms of governance related issues. of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq General McChrystal was fired by the US they may never be. Similarly, trust between the civil-military relation - The current regime can boast of very lit - Parvez Kayani and DG-ISI Lt Gen Ahmad president that ignited the need in Pak - Afghanistan was invaded and occupied to ship can be removed and what tle except the continuous display of polit - Shuja Pasha were illegal and unconstitu - istan to emulate such an action. The sud - fight the so-call war on terror but now confidence building measures ought to ical expedience and smartly turning the tional the allegations continue. In fact, a den sacking of the Secretary Defence they are holding talks with the same Tal - be taken to do it, the most significant tables against others, thus triumphing in horrible twist in the case has further in - should have been enough to assuage the iban. question that needs to be answered is if remaining afloat despite all odds. creased the chasm between the state and fiery sentiments, but affairs once gone Likewise, drone attacks in Pakistan the civil authorities are interested at all What began as a clear violation of the the army as it has been foregrounded sour seldom resume their natural buoy - are a naked violation of sovereignty of an in bridging the divide. Apparently, the states sovereignty by the civilian govern - while the real issue seems to have faded ancy because interests are always found independent state and not justified what - main aim of all this exercise seems to be ment slowly began to be manoeuvred into oblivion. to be at a 180 degree bent from each soever. AI has rightly asked the US to the need to dismantle the military superi - into an unforgivable act of defiance of the This gives food to the public appetite other. disclose details of drones which have ority by dragging it in territory where constitution by the army. The army and of cutting the army down in size a few In the backdrop of a chaotic situa - been causing death and destruction in mud splashing coats every face and ISI chief have committed a crime worse notches which can be exemplified by all tion, foreign interference adds complex - Pakistan. People of Pakistan are obliged brings ignominy to the entire apparatus. than a military takeover by submitting and sundry quoting examples of years ity that further threatens the peace of the to AI for supporting them and raising It may not be a totally bad idea, how - their replies in the memo case. and regimes gone by, venting their per - already troubled people. Can the govern - voice against the US atrocities in Pak - ever, the methodology adopted for it is. Despite the fact that the Attorney sonal grievances and resentments in the ment please move forward for the sake of istan. Instead of pitting itself against one insti - General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwar-ul- process. democracy, if nothing else? IBNE SHAMSI tution after the other, the PPP govern - Haq negated the prime minister’s state - A similar response was seen in the LUBNA UMAR Rawalpindi ment ought to enhance its performance ment that replies submitted by the Chief media narrative last year when the US Islamabad

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12 Comment friday , 3 february , 2012 PM in the dock Contempt of court Power plays ousaf Raza Gilani is the fourth PM of Pakistan to be in the dock facing contempt charges. It is an More is less irony that a PM who ordered the release of the tions, and a king's word was law. Losing are on the receiving end of other power play - judges kept under house arrest by Musharraf and power usually meant losing your head – liter - ers. They get bludgeoned because naked Y ally. But then a strange thing happened. The power is best used as a blunt-edged weapon. later reinstated them through an office order is now facing the charge of contempt of court. art of politics evolved into the science of gov - They have swum through a river of fire to ernance. Societies – especially in the West – reach where they are, and the last thing they Gilani has repeatedly assured the court that the PPP matured as they passed through stages like want is to be thrown back into the fiery waves. government would, as always, respect and implement the the Reformation, Renaissance and the Indus - Good for them. Bad for us. verdicts delivered by the courts. As a sign of this trial Revolution. Through war and revolution, The entire power paradigm in Pakistan is commitment and to show his respect for the apex court, and bloodletting and fratricides and through skewed. But power players are so firmly he had promptly appeared when called by the SC on a ferocious battle of ideas, Western societies locked into it that no one dare tinker with it January 19 along with the members of his cabinet and began to learn lessons and frame new rules of for fear of being devoured by it. And perhaps provincial governors. He, however, failed to carry out the governing themselves. National and interna - the requisite pressure to do so is also not orders of the SC to write to the Swiss authorities to reopen tional institutions and structures began to there – yet. Such pressure is normally a result the cases against President Zardari, taking the stand that take shape, giving birth to material and intel - of an avalanche of ideas which in turn sketch four competent legal advisors had one after another By Fahd Husain lectual progress. out broad parameters for a new paradigm. advised him against it on legal grounds. The stand was The pursuit of naked power as an end in Put simply, you need a Rousseau or a Voltaire rejected by the apex court which held that clear orders by itself began to be frowned upon. to prepare the ground for a French revolu - the SC had to be followed instead of the official advice. In But here in Pakistan we seemed to have tion. a law abiding society, while one may differ with a he government of Prime Minister missed out on these changes. The concept of Is the groundswell there for a new para - judgment, one has to carry it out. One expects that Gilani Yousaf Raza Gilani is enjoying power remains a medieval one. Zardari would digm in Pakistan? Anecdotal evidence may would now make preparations to face the charges while power. This cannot be said for the have felt right at home in the court of Loius suggest so, but such evidence is usually utilising all legal avenues to vindicate himself. These people whom he governs. XVI of France or Henry VIII of England. flimsy. PPP is certainly not the lone player include putting up an adequate legal defence and taking Power is what this government The result is painfully obvious. The PPP that pursues naked power. The land of ours is hTas been all about from the day it came into has a whole lot of power but precious little of littered with big and little Caesars waiting to recourse to intra-court appeal if needed. power. President Zardari is often heard talk - governance. The party will succeed in control - pounce on any opportunity for power play. Civilian governments have generally respected the ing about the strength of his government in ling the Senate, but fail in controlling a sink - The concept of power for public good remains courts in Pakistan. Successive military rulers, on the other terms of the number of high offices bagged by ing economy. Zardari and Gilani have a concept in Pakistan, finding mention in hand, have shaken the foundations of the judicial system PPP. As he says, it is for the first time that succeeded in stitching together a solid parlia - books and official documents. It has to take without ever being held accountable. The imposition of PPP has its president, prime minister, mentary majority, but have failed in welding root in the public consciousness before it can PCOs by Zia and Musharraf constituted a blatant attack speaker of the National Assembly, Chairman together a broken bureaucratic structure. translate into genuine pressure for reform. on the independence of judiciary. Zia did not even invite Senate. Power flows through these offices, They are able to stare down the military and Political change may happen overnight, CJ Anwaar-ul-Haq and Justice Moulvi Mushtaq to take goes the argument, and such power becomes judiciary, but still cannot put an end to tor - but historical transformations take time. oath. The two judges who refused to take oath under PCO a conduit for the accumulation of further ture and killing in police lockups. were told to resign. Musharraf removed and arrested power. The logic is linear while being circular: Do they care? Is their vote bank threat - The writer hosts a primetime talk show judges under the cover of the emergency. Important keep the reins of power in your hands, and ened? Are you kidding? on ARY News. He has worked as Director generals do not appear before courts. Irrespective of the use it to consolidate the power base through It's not really hard to guess why. The PPP News of Express News and Dunya News and final outcome of the case against PM Gilani, the question the use of – well – official power. power players will not suddenly turn into rad - Editor The News, Islamabad. He can be why contemners of a particular type have never been Hence the PPP's desperation to control ical ideologues. They are hard-nosed realists reached at [email protected] or on charge sheeted by the courts will continue to be raised by the Senate. Such a control would enable them who know very well what happens when they Twitter @fahdhusain historians and politicians. to control legislation, thereby giving the PPP the power over lawmaking. Extend the argu - ment further, and the next obvious power is the power over the constitution. While the Aiding the taliban PPP may not be able to amend the constitu - tion, it would have acquired the power to that accusation again block any constitutional amendments. That is still a lot of power to wield in a political sys - ld wine in an even older bottle. That was the tem welded to the naked use and abuse of of - foreign minister’s assessment of the new reports ficial power as a means to get more power. in the western media about covert cooperation While all this may be great for the PPP, it Obetween the Taliban and the Pakistani is terrible for Pakistan. intelligence set up. No need to be an oenologist to know Here's why: Machiavellian politicking is that old wine is the best sort. as old as Nicolo Machiavelli. The principles Even if the foreign minister’s statement is true, the may still hold true after all these centuries, impression of the argument on the other side has already but the times have changed. Pursuit of naked started to be ossified in western minds. It has come to be power was an acceptable goal in itself in an known as the conventional wisdom, rather than some era when men reigned supreme over institu - exciting new revelation highlighting the treachery of a partner in the war against terror. The strike operation in Abbottabad won over the last remaining doubting Thomases. The Pakistani people, its civil armed forces and its M&M: the misguided missiles! military have made great sacrifices in the war on terror. But harping on this tune isn’t as effective as it could have Pakistan is better off without Mansoor & Musharraf been. In fact, it has emerged as the argument of the Americans instead. That Pakistan, of all countries.... Ijaz are also extremely controver - tions created an ugly situation in If Pakistan’s courts, agencies , sial and self-absorbed, big on word the country. government, politicians has all The new secret Nato report that the BBC obtained says play but strikingly small on More specifically, however, made a near-joke of themselves that Pakistani intelligence is not only aware of but also in courage. Despite their tall and one has been advised by his alma over this wordy pompous sound - contact with senior Taliban leaders. As several western roughly made claims of coming to mater to stay away. Apparently the ing man whose past had proven countries set a deadline where they will move from a Pakistan, (one to knock out all po - message sent across was that we him to be unworthy of Pakistan’s combat force into a training force, the Pakistani litical players and the other to have enough trouble on our hands, respect, this man Mansoor Ijaz too establishment, claim the reports, are hedging their bets on knock out one man called Hussain Sir. The former army chief, want - had painted himself into as a man the Taliban in the belief that both the Afghan National Haqqani and may be by extension ing us to believe that he was the who would come armed with all Army and the Afghan National Police is insufficiently and this government) the two are on bravest soldier this country had the truth that would reveal the re - inadequately trained to take on the resurrection of the the retreat. With all the thousands produced, proceeded to chicken ality behind a sinister plan al - Taliban in the south. Cross Currents of minutes of air-time given by out. Some may argue that he made legedly hatched by Pakistan’s Nothing succeeds like success, sure, but if there are Pakistan's enthusiastic anchors to a wise decision. One, however, former ambassador to the US and By Qudssia Akhlaque points of view within Pakistan that feel it better to follow these two gentlemen, Pakistani can’t help recalling how General one of President Zardari’s closest viewers will again say, what a Musharraf had got so agitated confidante Hussain Haqqani, to al - the cold logic of geo-strategic realpolitik, not the moral, waste when these anchors could when at his first press conference legedly re-shape Pakistan’s secu - stated position, it would do them good to realise that the his is not a tale of two cities, of two ideas, or even of two have been addressing our issues. after assuming power as the chief rity forces, safeguard Pakistan’s policy of drone strikes within Pakistani territory might not friends. Instead it is a tale of Instead, Pakistanis were made to executive, he was asked by a vet - nuclear programs and so on. stop regardless of Taliban advances in Afghanistan. T two men who would never say die. live through and suffer the hyper- eran journalist if he had thought of Despite much grandstanding Incidents like the one in Abbottabad show how little But then they did chicken out. In - mode theatrics of these men. an exit strategy. He snapped back by the two, Musharraf and Man - manoeuvrable space we have. teresting similarities between the One was riding on the tide of a at the journalist, saying he was a soor, over their arrival in Pakistan, The Pakistan foreign office spokesperson’s denials two. One, they both have a military memo tsunami that more than the soldier and soldiers always stand at all costs, it was not to be! Their made all the right sounds: non-interference in connection. One was a former mil - much-touted PTI tsunami had and fight. reiterative will-come-at-all-cost Afghanistan, the desire to see peace and stability in the itary chief and the other now en - threatened to wash away the gov - And the other, his home coun - was proven wrong. And many pre - country and the recognition that all this will be in gaged to an agency chief. Two, in ernment even. While the other try send him a travel advisory to dicted this would happen. Pakistan’s interests. It is time to dispel the impression, both cases the military had a one, the military man Musharraf, say we can’t have you run into And one would dare say to through words and actions, that that is not the case. strong view about them. In one was foreboding change on Pak - trouble of the kind that you are both the Messrs: Thank you Sirs, case, the army wanted the maver - istan’s political horizon through likely to once you get there! Never Pakistan is better off without your ick to arrive and testify but in the the earthquake his following has mere news of any one man’s ‘earth-shaking’ arrival. other the army wanted, and indeed would cause. arrival in another country caused let him know, please stay away, But now between fear and so much commotion and disrup - The writer is a senior jour - you are too hot to handle! maybe other advice, the two have tions as had Masoor Ijaz’. There nalist and has been a diplomatic Dedicated to the legacy of the late Hameed Nizami No guess-work needed here. In opted for immobility insofar as was even talk of a battalion of Pak - correspondent for leading fact, it is a no-brainer. It’s about travel to Pakistan is concerned. So istani soldiers protecting this infa - dailies. She was an Alfred Arif Nizami two illustrious...or should we say both the gentlemen, we are told, mous gentleman. That is another Friendly Press Fellow at The Editor illusive men, Mr Pervez Musharraf have been advised by family and tale to be told for posterity, one of Chicago Tribune in the US and a Lahore – Ph: 042-36298305-10 Fax: 042-36298302 and Mr Mansoor Ijaz. friends to stay away from Pakistan how a state must not conduct busi - Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Karachi – Ph: 021-34330811-3 Fax: 021-34330900 Former President General Per - on the pretext of security concerns ness, of how it must not become a Cambridge, UK. She can be Islamabad – Ph: 051-2287414-6 Fax: 051-2287417 vez Musharraf and Pakistani- ironically after both these gentle - laughing stock for its own citizens reached via email at Web: www.pakistantoday.com.pk Email: [email protected] American businessman Mansoor men in their own words and ac - and beyond. [email protected] LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:37 AM Page 13 friday , 3 february , 2012 Comment 13

Pakistan cricket’s benefactors On rooftop living What did not kill it, only made it stronger In upper rooms, other wonders mensely satisfying consequence in 1990s-2000s – Team Pakistan of the unsavoury controversy. still has miles to go. In the past, ad news from Delhi. It’s vanishing. The The SDBMs flourished in the 1970s and 1980s, With a sub chalta hai culture, we we’ve mismanaged ourselves and barsati . The small room at the top of the when no one was disturbed by telemarketing calls could never have cleaned up the scripted our own downfall, but Bhouse where the family could enjoy the cool offering home loans. This tribe of Leftists claimed stables on our own. In the mid this time we must not put down breeze during the monsoon. A unique Delhi phe - to have rejected careers in the corporate world. 1990s when the match-fixing our guard at any stage. nomenon. Mostly college lecturers, PhD students and journal - scandal was raging, Arif Abbasi The incumbent captain’s cre - The city’s real estate regulations spawned a way ists (the would-be writers were exceptions), the covered it up. Some five years dentials are well established, and of life that was artistic and idealistic, temporary and SDBMs had great aspirations. They saw avant garde later, Malik Qayyum and Lt. Gen. the good part is that we may have flamboyant. Taking its name from barsat , Urdu for European films in Max Mueller Bhavan, attended Tauqir Zia combined to provide an adequate successor in ‘Profes - heavy showers, the barsati was a room with a large literary evenings at the Russian Centre of Science a reprieve on patriotic grounds. sor’ Mohammad Hafeez. After terrace. Holed up in these below-the-sky capsules, and Culture, watched plays in Mandi House the - Jottings This time round it was a having an embarrassment of young, unconventional middle-class migrants atres, ranted against American imperialism at the waited for new opportunities. Indian Coffee House, and had a regular hang-out By Agha Akbar blessing in disguise that the ICC riches in terms of extraordinary made us clean up our act by mak - pace merchants, ironically now A few barsati residents later became famous. joint in Sapru House. At night, they played audio or its recent unexpected ing an extreme example out of the only somewhat weak part is Painter M F Husain lived in a Jangpura barsati . cassettes of the Beatles, Sting and Bob Dylan on bounce back-with-a bang the tainted trio. It hurt, as all sur - fast bowling. And our fielding at British author Ian Jack had a barsati near the rail - their terraces. Fafter a long period of hiber - gical treatment does, but it also best is only slightly better than way tracks in Defence Colony. Writer Arundhati Roy Replace Mandi House with the India Habitat nation spread over nearly 20 led to healing. And Pakistan the weakest. Umar Gul is very shaped her world view in a string of barsatis in La - Centre, Indian Coffee House with 4S Bar, and Marx - years, Pakistan cricket should in cricket is going from strength to good, but only in patches. But jpat Nagar, Nizamuddin West and Malcha Marg. ist socialism with guiltless consumerism, and life in the final analysis remain in - strength ever since. you have to grant him, Cheema Novelist Anita Desai immortalised the barsati the city’s few remaining barsatis is still the same, debted to two expatriates: a England was supposed to be and Junaid that conditions have by making it the setting of her short story The with Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene down - greedy bookie with a big mouth our sternest test. Instead it has really not suited fast bowling in Rooftop Dwellers . She described the dwelling with loaded from iTunes. The new rooftop dwellers are oblivious to hidden cameras and turned out to be a trial by spin, the venues of the desert. her characteristic understated humour: “The rooms students, photographers, film-makers, journalists the ‘Fake Sheik’, an undercover and the No 1 Test team has been Still, talent in Pakistan runs had once been built on Delhi’s flat rooftops so that and – ah, the new times – mid-level corporate exec - reporter always on the hunt for a found wanting and somewhat deep and in rich vein. We will families who slept out on their roofs on summer utives. Since south Delhi landlords are increasingly ‘sting’ scoop for the now defunct baffled by the new, fighting-to- certainly find pretty decent op - nights could draw in their beds in case of a sudden unwilling to rent out to Indians not employed with News of the World. There is a the-last breath Pakistani outfit. tions to solve all our selection dust storm or thunder shower. But now that Delhi multinational firms, the barsatis are filling up with whole set of characters (some From the summer of ig - problems as they crop up. The was far too unsafe for sleeping alfresco, these barsa - single expats. bizarre) and organisations, some nominy in 2010, it has been some issue is management – the Board tis were being rented out to working spinsters or “Three years ago when I arrived in Delhi and known as well as one unknown to transformation. itself. So far the new chairman bachelors at delightful profits.” started looking for a place, barsati was the buzz - the general public, that also Misbah-ul-Haq, the skipper Zaka Ashraf, a political appointee The barsati is now in terminal decline. “In the word,” says Annette Ekin, editor of the Motherland played their parts, not the least of extraordinaire, deserves every much like his predecessor, has 1980s, 75% of renting places in Defence Colony were magazine. Hers in Greater Kailash-I is like the un - them New Scotland Yard, Her plaudit and then some that he hardly put a foot wrong and barsatis ,” says Shankar, a real estate agent in this cluttered version of a Hauz Khas Village curio shop. Majesty’s courts and the ICC. has been bestowed with. The re - made all the right kind of noises. upscale south Delhi neighbourhood. “Today, most On the terrace, the props include a framed poster of That is not to forget Ijaz Butt, ally most pleasant aspect is that But these are early days for him. bungalows have turned into multi-floor apartments. Raj Kapoor’s film Shri 420 , a signboard of a bone- the former PCB chairman who not just our own, but after a long Though he may not know much The entire area has only setting wrestler, a string cot, a yellow watering can only recently and somewhat im - time, the neutral amongst the about cricket, it is obvious that he 25 barsatis .” and a black water tank. Two frangipani trees grow modestly claimed credit for commentariat have been profuse is neither as abrupt nor as ex - Delhi Calling The author of the story out of large pots. Though her barsati has two rooms, Team Pakistan’s rise from the in their praise for the manner citable as Ijaz Butt. This is all to By Mayank Austen Soofi of the rise and fall of Ekin says, “When I have friends at home, we never ashes. He richly deserves a com - that he and his charges have con - the good, for God knows Butt had barsatis is the Delhi Devel - sit inside.” pliment, but only a backhanded ducted themselves. In terms of earned Pakistan enough ire and opment Authority. The The 1980s exposed most SDBMs as closet capi - one – for his sheer ham-fisted sheer talent, the present outfit enemies in world cricket. The in - floor space index (FSI) reg - talists. After a few years of living in barsatis , they handling. Incidentally, if he had may not be a match to the ones siders though say that the ten - ulates the built area of the moved to apartments in east Delhi localities such as been even slight sense of crisis that we’ve fielded through the dency to micromanage remains. property in relation to its Patparganj. Others left for universities in England management after NOTW broke 2000s. Yet freed from the vices The coach conundrum will plot size. In most neigh - and the US, made money and returned to buy prop - the match-fixing story and prom - of chicanery and avarice, under a be Zaka’s strategic test. He has bourhoods, there was a erty in places where they had once lived in barsatis . ised the ICC to probe it under the self-possessed captain it has contrived to arrive at the right limit on the number of The 1990s arrived with barsati renters who PCB’s own aegis, Pakistan cricket gelled magnificently and pro - decision in Dav Whatmore. It re - floors a bungalow could were lawyers and executives waiting to grab the next may well have stayed stuck in the duced results. “There are lies, mains to be seen whether he have. In the diplomatic en - promotion. “I was the only one among the barsati mire forever. damned lies and statistics”, re - sticks to it or gives in to Mohsin clave of Chanakyapuri, for people with a different career,” says hairstylist There is another character marked the American humourist Khan’s recent claims for the po - instance, a bungalow could Sylvie. Her barsati in Green Park had a bamboo ter - not known to many but with a Mark Twain. But in this case sta - sition. Pakistan’s successes have have a ground floor and a race with 200 palms, a tandoor , a bar and a giant pivotal role in the whole affair. tistics do not lie: with Misbah in nothing to do with the present first floor. On the second birdcage, which was home to cockatoos, love birds The cricketing grapevine has it the saddle, Pakistan has featured coach. Mohsin may be many floor, only a small room and fowls. “We had parties till 4am,” says Sylvie, that it was a former skipper (for in 14 Tests, winning eight, losing things, but he is no cricket coach, would be permitted, which who now lives in a bungalow in Gurgaon. legal reasons, let him remain just one. This is impressive stuff, not by a long shot. It would be was the barsati , the rain At his barsati in BK Dutt Colony, D. Bhattachar - anonymous for the moment) especially from a team that in the wrong to accredit anyone but shelter. Doubling up as jya Tato, who works at the French Cultural Centre, with media savvy and a score to past presented its unpredictabil - Misbah and that unsung charac - servant quarters, it was loves the monsoon shower. “There is this huge open settle who quite by accident got ity as a virtue. (Chauvinistic as it ter, Waqar Younis, for the re - soon being rented out by space from the staircase to my room and when I’m hold of Salman Butt’s Blackberry. may sound, the additional relish vival. Waqar has gone, the the landlord for extra in - entering the barsati , I have to run if I don’t want to Not for any altruistic reason, but is that statistics also testify a cer - momentum stays. come. Today, the bunga - get wet,” he says. “But I always get wet.” with intent to injure, he wizened tain neighbour’s plumbing the The right coach at this criti - low owner in One day soon, there will be barsat , but no up Mazhar Mahmood by provid - depths with two whitewashes.) cal point will certainly prove to Chanakyapuri can raise barsati . ing him the whole cache of the Reassuring as this resur - be a force-multiplier for Pakistan four floors and get more SMSs. From there on, it was a gence is, to strike it really big, to cricket. rent. Mayank Austen Soofi lives in a library. He has piece of cake for the latter. be numero uno and stay at the The barsati is doomed; one website and four blogs. The website address: So by default, Pakistan summit – to seize this decade The writer is Sports and the South Delhi Barsati thedelhiwalla.com. The blogs: Pakistan Paindabad, cricket has actually been a bene - much in the manner of the West Magazines Editor, Pakistan Marxists (SDBMs) are al - Ruined By Reading, Reading Arundhati Roy and ficiary – an unintended but im - Indies in the 1980s and Australia Today ready extinct. Mayank Austen Soofi Photos LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:38 AM Page 14

14 friday , 3 february , 2012 IN LIMELIGHT

lOnDOn: Keira Knightley and Michael HOllYwOOD: Mark brand fassbender pose during a photocall at the ambassador Ashley Greene attends premiere of their film ‘A Dangerous Method’. AFP the ‘louder than words’ event. AFP

nEWS DESK did it fe el to join the brigade of shirtless heroes? He smiles and says, “It's not the LI ZAFAR, who's known for first time I've taken off my shirt on screen. his chocolate boy image on I have done it before for my music video, screen, is all set to shed that ‘Ek Pal’. Ali, who will make his debut as a tag and join the league of the music composer in ‘LPNY’, was in Delhi to sexiest men in Bollywood launch the film's music on Monday. “I feel HYDErAbAD: Artists perform in dance festival ‘rabindra nirtyotsav’ Awith his upcoming film ‘London, Paris, honoured to be given this opportunity to which is a unique dancing Guiness record feat of a 25 hour long New York’. Ali, who will be baring his torso compose, sing and write for the film,” he non-stop dance performance by 125 artists portrayed in nine different in the film, says: “I don't mind taking my told us excitedly, adding. “It was an excit - dance forms exclusively on rabindranath tagore's compositions. AFP shirt off but I have to be convinced that it's ing opportunity for me to explore new tal - Komal and Rabia a creative requirement. The purpose is not ents like Aditi Rao, who is also the lead to show off, but to get the show going in ac - actress of the movie. I made her sing two cordance with the demands of the story tracks.” Ali recently performed at the 57th and the character.” The singer certainly Idea Filmfare Awards and shared his ex - didn't mind giving us an exclusive sneak perience, “It was a great moment for me preview of his abs. All he said was, “as long to share the stage with such legendary ac - as my guitar is with me”. He admitted, tors. I also sang a song from my music “The scene for which it was required comes album ‘Jhoom’. The crowd's response will as a pre-climax in Paris. It's an intense be etched in my memory forever.” Ali , scene, and so it was physically and emo - who will be leaving for Pakistan on Thurs - tionally draining, but that's the fun of film - day to visit his family, will unfortunately making. You live through your characters. not be able to celebrate Valentine's Day And I want each of my characters to look with his wife, Ayesha, as he'll be back on different from the last, so I had to work a February 9. He said, “I don't think you lot on my look. I had to undergo training need a reason to celebrate love. Love can and was on a special diet for 10 days.” How be celebrated everyday.”

Participants at the event Rabia and Wafa Rani Siddiqi exhibits Sabtain, Musaib, Aiza and Faiza new collection nEWS DESK

Karachi-based fashion designer Rani Siddiqi exhibited the new collection in Karachi from her fashion brand consisting of formal wear, wedding dresses, party wear and casuals. Rani Siddiqi has mainly been catering to the Pakistani showbiz industry for the past two years. Her prêt a porter is popularly worn in various talk shows and television programs. Now she has moved a step ahead to make her outfits accessible to all Pakistani ladies. At the exhibition, many fashion models walked the ramp to showcase her latest collection. TV actress Javeria Saud of ‘Yeh Zindagi He’ fame was the chief guest at the exhibition. lAhORE: The Youth Festival was held at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal. PhOTOS by MUrTAZA AlI Sarah Noor, Ayesha and Misbah

MuMBAI: Salman Khan is mighty surprised to find Imran exhibits Sarah Jessica Parker is himself being dragged in the Shah rukh-Shirish brawl. Apparently, Salman, who is shooting in Cuba, wasn’t even Kareena’s photos Kareena Kapoor's fan aware of the incident when it was being reportedly said that he called Shirish to show his MuMBAI: A photo exhibition of reigning Bollywood lOS AnGElES: Kareena Kapoor has found a And the City’. lolo loves watching the tV support after Shah rukh queen kareena kapoor has been organised by co- new admirer in Hollywood actor Sarah serial and Sarah’s cool, chic, glamorous and bashed him in Sanjay Dutt’s star Imran khan, who clicked random pictures of Jessica Parker, who can’t stop raving about yet simple styles,” she had said in an ‘Agneepath’ success party. her while the shoot of their upcoming release ‘Ek bebo ever since she has seen her in interview. AGEnCIES talking to a daily, a source said, Main Aur Ekk Tu’. Imran is set to hold the exhibit ‘ra.One’. Parker, an “It’s really strange how bhai’s tomorrow at an art gallery. The young actor has international style icon, is name has gotten dragged into always maintained he is a huge fan of kareena and singing praises for Kareena’s this. He hasn’t called anyone. captured some candid moments on his lens while style. “Kareena is gorgeous Salman doesn’t even have working together. “She (kareena) is the most and exceedingly talented. I network where he shoots. we beautiful actress I have worked with. I found her truly loved her in ‘ra.One’. haven’t been speaking to him beautiful right from her first film ‘Refugee’,” he She was a treat to watch,” often also. He wasn’t even said. Imran had even admitted that he had a huge said the 46-year-old after aware of the fight. How can he crush on kareena in his boyhood days. “I could not watching the film recently. call Shirish to offer support? articulate my feelings to her...I nursed a silent Kareena, who is also fond of when we called the newspaper crush. When we started working together in Parker’s style, fell short of to check about their source, we this film we got along really well. I words to express her were told that Shirish told observed her closely while we were happiness over the remarks. them about Salman’s call to shooting and even took her She even admitted that her him. but shouldn’t they have pictures without her knowing look in ‘Kambakht Ishq’ checked with him or someone it,” Imran had said. Since (2009) was inspired by from his side? Salim uncle is the promos of the karan Parker. “I always discuss my very upset about Salman’s Johar production hit the roles with lolo (sister name being used in this fight.” screens, there has been Karisma Kapoor) and when I when contacted, Salman said, a lot of buzz about the asked her about ‘Kambakht “I am filming in Cuba. I am not unusual pair of Imran Ishq’, she told me to seek using my phone here. I haven’t and kareena. AGEnCIES inspiration from Sarah called anyone and no one has Jessica’s Parker’s look in ‘Sex called me.” AGEnCIES LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:38 AM Page 15 15 Egyptian sentenced lisa marie Presley for ‘defaming Islam’ CAIRO AFP

opens new A Cairo court has sentenced Egyptian katy Perry to perform comedy giant Adel Imam at Grammy Awards elvis to three months in lOS AnGElES: tV Host Jimmy LOS AnGELES jail for Kimmel attends the Hollywood’s CBS “defaming 125th birthday Party. AFP exhibit Islam” in Katy Perry will perform at the 54th several roles annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, nASHVILLE to her. She said the new exhibit includes he played on marking the ‘Firework’ singer’s first REuTERS some of her dad's “most amazing clothes stage and screen, the actor told AFP major televised public appearance ever” and a small chest containing personal on Thursday. Imam, arguably the since her split from Russell Brand. On LVIS Presley’s daughter, Lisa items he took with him on tour, including a Arab world's most famous actor, was tap to present are Gwyneth Paltrow, Marie Presley, gave visitors to photo of his father and his driver's license. sentenced in absentia, he said, after Drake, Dierks Bentley and Miranda Graceland an inside look at Twenty-five people were chosen from more he was sued by Asran Mansur, a Lambert. LL Cool J will emcee the her life with the King of Rock than 2,000 entries for the first day of the lawyer with Islamist ties. ceremony, serving as the first Grammy 'n' Roll at his Memphis estate exhibit, and each was allowed to bring a host in seven years. Other Grammy Eon Wednesday as she celebrated her 44th guest. Among the visitors was Tom Ter - performers include Adele, Glen birthday with the opening of a new exhibit. meer, 39, who with his wife Kristen, 35, Michelle Obama beats Campbell, Paul McCartney, Jason The exhibit is called ‘Elvis... Through His made the 15-hour drive from Ontario, Aldean, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay and Daughter's Eyes’, and displays artefacts, in - Canada. Termeer had been scheduled for a Ellen DeGeneres Rihanna, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, cluding Lisa Marie's baby footprints, tricy - meeting with his doctor Wednesday in Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift. Perry cle, a record player and her crib. On an preparation for brain surgery to help relieve LOS AnGELES and Brand announced they were appearance on ABC's ‘Good Morning Amer - pain from cluster headaches. But once he AGEnCIES splitting at the end of 2011, citing ica’ Wednesday, Lisa Marie Presley showed discovered that he had won the lottery, he irreconcilable differences. The off a scarf on which Elvis had written the postponed the appointment. It was his sec - Michelle Obama has Maheen and Wasiqa California native won big at the words “I love my Lisa, Daddy” from 1972. ond trip to Graceland, which draws an av - People's Choice Awards in January, She told the show that she remembered her erage of 600,000 visitors a year, but his been busy but didn't attend the event. father singing ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ wife's first. “Elvis was my guy,” he said. promoting her healthy eating and fitness program for Backstreet Boy Nick Carter Sana Safinaz to launch two years. But how fit is she dedicates tour to sister Leslie herself? The new lawn collection U.S. first lady LOS AnGELES accepted a CBS nEWS DESK push-up challenge from Ellen DeGeneres on the comedian’s TV talk show, and The show will go on for Nick Sana Safinaz Lawn this year will be completed 25 in front of a studio Carter, as he's not cancelling more exciting than ever before the audience on Wednesday. DeGeneres was his current tour. Instead the brand will be having a 15 print col - beaten. Dressed casually in black singer will dedicate the outing lection, which will prove to be a trousers, trainers and a pink patterned to his sister, Leslie Carter, who treat for all the followers of the Sana top, she managed 25 press ups with ease died Tuesday. She was 25. In a Safinaz brand. The collection is while DeGeneres, visibly out of breath, Participants at the event Facebook message to fans, the completely cotton-based and has stopped at 20. “I thought it wouldn't be Backstreet Boy thanked fans for many different weaves incorporated good to show off the first lady so I their support, announcing his to give that distinct Sana Safinaz stopped,” quipped DeGeneres after tour will go on “as promised.” look. Sana Safinaz embroideries are quitting. “I thought this looks bad that “Performing is cathartic to me the best in the market and they have I'm going to beat her. I'm 54 and you're and I am dedicating the rest of tried to up the ante this year with 48.” Obama has been in Los Angeles my tour to my sister since she and 10-month-old baby. The innovative stitches and techniques. promoting her ‘Let's Move’ campaign loved to watch me perform,” Carter family confirmed the They have chosen a rather brighter and on one of her stops, she brought explained Nick, who plans to news in a statement issued to colour tone for the summer unlike food from the White House kitchen perform his scheduled show CBSNews.com on Wednesday: the colour pallet they usually go garden for to show host Jay Leno in a Thursday night at New York's “Our family is grieving right for. They always try and are differ - visit to ‘The Tonight Show’ on Tuesday. Irving Plaza. Nick's brother, now and it's a private matter. ent not only from the market but Obama also revealed some bedroom Aaron Carter, meanwhile, is ex - We are deeply saddened for the also from their previous collec - secrets regarding husband, the pected to take some time off loss of our beloved sister, tions. The Sana Safinaz style is president. “He doesn't pick up his socks,” from his New York off-Broad - daughter, and granddaughter, original and very distinctive since she said in response to a question sent in way show ‘The Fantasticks,’ re - Leslie Carter. We request the its inception and for 2012 the from a viewer. “He thinks he's neat but ports E! Leslie died in upstate utmost privacy during this dif - brand plans to stay true to their he has people who help him. I'm like, ‘it's New York. No further details ficult time.” Various friends motto. The idea is to keep on inno - not you that's neat. It's the people who about her death have surfaced. have voiced their support for vating and try and push the pre - pick up your socks. Those are the neat Hafsa She leaves behind a husband the Carter family on Twitter. conceived ideas and nation of lawn. people,” she told DeGeneres.

What has Salman ‘Being a child model was brutal’: Its ‘game over’ for got to do with Katherine Heigl MuMBAI: love is a game that two can play and both win. Actress Eva Gabor had said lOS AnGElES: Actress that. had she ever thought what would confiding in her friends about the breakup, SRK-Shirish Katherine Heigl says happen if one lost? Our very own Bollywood Mallya Jr was heard telling his close friends working as a child diva Deepika, however, seems to have given it that ‘the relationship is not working and model when she was a serious thought. For her, if one loses in the heading nowhere’. AGEnCIES nine was “brutal” and game of love, the person changes her display fight? she hated the picture to darkness. Apparently, a few days experience. the 33-year- after her reported break-up with Sidhartha old, who raises Mallya, Dippy not only changed her three-year-old daughter BlackBerry messenger status to ‘Game Over’ naleigh with husband but also replaced her pretty display image Josh Kelley, began her with a dark patch. In fact, it was Deepika’s career in show business changed status on her phone messenger that with a stint as a model initially let the cat out of the bag. however, for clients including US her choice of words did surprise a few of her department stores friends. A source close to the actress Macy's and Sears but wondered, “We don’t know why she chose to Katherine has admitted call her romance with Mr Mallya a game. she hated the Perhaps she was just reminded of Eva experience. “Oh my God, Gabor’s quote?” According to our source, it was brutal. You don’t Deepika though heartbroken wasn’t as even understand it, even affected by the break-up as she was when when you’re nine, you’re her previous boyfriend Ranbir kapoor and she like, ‘this is silly and had fallen apart. “She was upset for a while. lame’ and they're like, But after a day or two she changed her ‘no, no, it’s adorable, do BlackBerry messeger status. however, by that it,” contactmusic.com time, everybody had come to know about the quoted Heigl as saying. split,” added our source. While Deepika was AGEnCIES busy changing status messages and LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:38 AM Page 16 16 Foreign News friday , 3 february , 2012 China considering more involvement in Europe bailout: wen bEIjING: China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday Beijing was considering get - ting more involved in a bailout of strug - gling eurozone economies, after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The German leader is in China for a three-day trip aimed at reassuring Beijing about the situation in Europe, where a sovereign debt crisis has seen a wave of credit-rating downgrades and brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy. “China is investigat - ing and evaluating ways, through the In - ternational Monetary Fund, to be more deeply involved in solving the European debt problem via ESM/EFSF channels,” Wen said at a press briefing held jointly with Merkel. He was referring to the Euro - pean Financial Stability Facility, a tempo - rary rescue fund that was established to help struggling economies in Europe, and the European Stability Mechanism — a newer, permanent fund. AFP Indian court scraps telecom licences in graft scandal NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped 122 telecom licences awarded in a 2008 sale at the centre of a BEIJInG: German Chancellor Angel Merkel shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the end of a press conference at the Great hall of the People on Thursday. AFP corruption scandal, further embarrassing the government and causing upheaval in the flagship sector. Mis-selling of the sec - ond-generation (2G) mobile licences was the times estimated by the country’s public auditor to have cost the treasury up to $40 billion in lost revenue. The minister in charge of More than 150 dead as newspaper ‘probed the sale, A. Raja, is currently on trial ac - cused of fraud and cheating, one of several corruption cases to have buffeted the gov - for hacking ernment of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. While the cancellation order re- cold snap grips Europe opens a damaging episode for the govern - emails’ in UK ment, there was a reprieve for Home Minister P. Chidambaram who activists fearsome spell of cold weather. automated teller machines stopped LOnDOn had wanted investigated by a special court WARSAW AFP AFP The shelters offer warmth and functioning, according to local media. trying suspects in the case. AFP hot food in a country where tem - In Latvia, 10 people have died The Times newspaper is being investi - cold snap kept Europe peratures fell to minus 33 degrees around the capital Riga alone, with gated by British police over claims of nAtO to base missile in its icy grip on Thurs - Celsius in the Carpathians in the no figures available for the rest of hacking emails, reports said Thursday. day, pushing the death west of the country and minus 27 the country. The investigation comes after the editor toll past 150 as coun - in the capital Kiev. In neighbouring Lithuania a 55- of the broadsheet admitted to an inquiry shield command in tries from Italy to “I am unemployed. I have some - year-old homeless man found in the into the ethics of the British press that UAkraine struggled to cope with tem - where to live but nothing to eat. I ate ruins of an abandoned house in the one of his journalists had hacked the Germany: diplomat peratures that reached record lows here and it was good — bread with a port city of Klaipeda became the email account of a police blogger. in some places. slice of fat and an onion as well as ninth victim of the chill. Tom Watson, a lawmaker from the oppo - bRUSSELS: NATO will locate the com - Nine more people died in Poland porridge,” said Olexander Shem - In Italy, hundreds of people were sition Labour party, said he had received mand centre for its US-led missile shield overnight as temperatures plunged to nikov, an out-of-work engineer after trapped overnight on trains as freez - confirmation from London’s Metropolitan at the alliance base in Ramstein, Ger - minus 32 Celsius (minus 25.6 Fahren - visiting a shelter in Kiev. ing temperatures and heavy snow - Police that the Times, owned by Rupert many, a diplomat told AFP on Thursday. heit) in the southwest, bringing the In Romania, eight people died falls in the centre and north caused Murdoch’s News International, was being “The command for the NATO missile overall toll to 29 since the deep freeze overnight because of the cold, bring - widespread disruptions on roads, investigated. Watson said on Twitter: shield will be based at the NATO base in began last week, national police said. ing the overall toll to 22, the health railways and at airports. “The Met police have confirmed to me Ramstein,” the diplomat said on condi - In Ukraine, tens of thousands of ministry said. Schools remained In Austria, an 83-year-old they are investigating Rupert Murdoch’s tion of anonymity. The centre will be op - people have headed to shelters try - closed in some parts of the country woman was found frozen to death in newspaper The Times over email hack - erational following a Chicago summit in ing to escape the freeze that the as temperatures reached minus 31 the woods after apparently slipping ing.” He had written to the police last May, the source added. NATO already an - emergencies ministry said has now degrees Celsius. on her daily walk and not managing month asking them to investigate the nounced last year that Spain would host killed 63 people. In Bulgaria, where the mercury to get up again, becoming the coun - matter. A spokeswoman for News Inter - US ships with interceptor missiles while Most of them literally froze to dipped to lows not seen in a century, try’s second victim of the cold snap, national said she had no comment. an early warning radar system will be death on the street, with only a at least 10 people have died, accord - officials said. News International was forced to close based in Turkey. Land-based interceptors handful making it to hospital before ing to media. Authorities have not In Serbia, the cold has killed six down its News of the World tabloid in will be located in Romania by 2015 and in succumbing to hypothermia, the released official figures. people and trapped some 11,500 oth - July following a public outcry over claims Poland by 2018, when the system is ex - ministry said. With parts of the Danube freez - ers, mostly in remote mountain vil - it had hacked the voicemail of a missing pected to be fully operational. The United Shivering and hungry, tens of ing, authorities moved some vessels lages inaccessible by road. girl who was later found murdered. States insists that the missile shield aims thousands of Ukrainians have sought to ports further away to protect them In Belgrade, homeless people un - The Metropolitan Police said in a state - to counter missile threats from Iran, but help in the more than 2,000 tempo - from the advancing ice. able to secure one of the 140 spots in ment on Thursday: “We can confirm that Russia has voiced concerns that it would rary shelters set up by the authori - And in the capital Sofia, some res - the capital’s sole shelter took refuge in a letter was received on Monday 23 Janu - target its own strategic deterrent. AFP ties to help the poor survive the idents found their money frozen as trolley buses and trams. ary, from MP Tom Watson.”

kuWAIT: A kuwaiti woman casts her ballot at a polling station on Thursday. AFP Islamist-led opposition favourites as Kuwaitis vote

KUWAIT CITY ranging from black traditional abayas to lamist stronghold on the outskirts of AFP casual Western-style jeans, lined up in Kuwait City, voters turned out in large short queues at female-only voting sta - numbers as representatives of candi - Kuwaitis were casting ballots Thursday tions as lines of men formed at separate dates made a last-minute pitch to con - in a snap vote to elect the fourth parlia - polling booths. vince voters. ment in less than six years, with pollsters Female voters make up 54 percent of Turnout was described as “good” in predicting a solid victory for the Is - the electorate and 23 women are among the morning, but based on previous elec - lamist-led opposition. 286 candidates running for the 50-seat tions, Kuwaiti voters normally prefer the The vote in the wealthy Gulf legislative body. evening session. state, which follows an especially Voter traffic at the polling centres Pollsters and analysts expect the tense campaign and some outbursts was low in the morning but picked up 400,000 electorate to deliver a resound - of violence, seeks to end political rapidly later, especially in tribal con - ing victory for the Islamist-led opposi - disputes that have hurt the country stituencies where men stood in long tion which has campaigned vigorously for years. queues. for fundamental reforms and against Women voters, dressed in clothes In the suburb of Keifan, an Is - corruption. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:38 AM Page 17 friday , 3 february , 2012 Foreign News 17 Egypt in mourning after 74 killed in football tragedy

CAIRO The health ministry said 74 people AFP were killed, including a policeman. Hundreds were also reported GYPT began three days of wounded. Police said 47 people had mourning on Thursday been arrested. after 74 people were killed The ruling military announced three in an eruption of violence days of national mourning and Ibrahim at a football match that fired city security chief Essam Samak Esparked new anger against the military because of the violence. Stocks in Cairo rulers for failing to ensure security. tumbled by 4.6 percent in late morning The rioting Wednesday night in the trade, with the EGX-30 index of leading northern city of Port Said marked one shares falling from 4.688 points at of the deadliest incidents in football opening to 4.471 points. history and sent shares on the Cairo The clashes — blamed by the Mus - stock exchange plunging 4.6 percent in lim Brotherhood on supporters of fallen Thursday morning trade. president Hosni Mubarak — came as The government moved swiftly to the country struggles with a wave of in - sack the Port Said security chief while cidents linked to poor security. Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzuri sum - Politicians, fans and players took to moned his cabinet for an emergency social media to express their fury over meeting later Thursday. the clashes, which cap a year of political Clashes erupted as soon as the ref - upheaval and unrest after the uprising eree blew the final whistle in a match that unseated Mubarak. which saw home team Al-Masri beat “There are dead people lying on the Cairo’s Al-Ahly 3-1. ground! There are dead people in the Al-Masri fans flooded the pitch, changing room,” Al-Ahly striker Emad throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at Meteab told the team’s satellite chan - Al-Ahly supporters, causing chaos and nel. “I won’t play football anymore until panic as players and fans ran in all di - PORT SAID: An Egyptian investigation team inspects damages at the Port Said Stadium on Thursday, a day after deadly clashes between these people get justice,” a furious rections trying to flee, witnesses said. rival football fans in which at least 74 people were killed. AFP Meteab said. Egypt’s hated police force, Photos of bleeding players circu - which recently came under fire for its lated on the Internet. Cairo, and troops were deployed to pre - police standing rigidly in rows as pan - Ibrahim has said most of the deaths heavy-handed tactics, had been given Gunfire was also reported on the vent further clashes. demonium erupted around them. were caused by the crush but medics instructions to deal carefully with pro - main road leading to Port Said from State television ran footage of riot Interior Minister Mohammed said some people were stabbed. testers, sources said. Authorities Iran more than doubles facebook friends urge russians wall Street with defence budget planned $5b IPO to skip anti- WASHInGTOn TEHRAn AFP AFP Investors came down with Facebook fever Putin protest Iran has material for 4 after the social networking titan filed to go Iran plans to more than double military spending over the public and seek to raise $5 billion in the coming 12 months, according to an annual budget proposal N-bombs: Israeli general largest flotation ever by an Internet com - MOSCOW by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented to parlia - pany on Wall Street. The paperwork filed on AFP ment and announced on his official website on Thursday. jERUSALEM : Iran has enough radioactive material to Wednesday for the initial public offering “In the area of defence, there is a 127 percent increase,” provided the first glimpse of the financial Russian authorities sought Thursday to produce four nuclear bombs, Israel’s chief of military in - Ahmadinejad said in his statement to lawmakers. details of the Web giant launched eight deter activists from turning up at a rally telligence, General Aviv Kochavi, warned on Thursday at He gave no monetary figure for the increase, nor any years ago by Mark Zuckerberg from his Har - against Vladimir Putin’s rule, with the a security conference. “Today international intelligence indication on how it would be spent. vard University dorm room. Zuckerberg, church calling on them to pray instead agencies are in agreement with Israel that Iran has close Iran’s official defence budget for the current fiscal year who was just 19 when he founded the net - and the chief doctor urging them to stay to 100 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent, — which ends in mid-March — is around $12 billion, on work, penned a letter to investors outlining home due to cold weather. which is enough to produce four bombs,” he told the an - top of which parliament has authorised a $3 billion exten - what he said were the core values of Face - Tens of thousands are expected Saturday nual Herzliya conference. “Iran is very actively pursuing sion. The announced increase in military spending comes book and said it “was not originally created to march through Moscow to a square just its efforts to develop its nuclear capacities, and we have at a time of high international tensions over Iran’s nuclear to be a company. “It was built to accomplish over the Moscow river from the Kremlin evidence that they are seeking nuclear weapons,” he said. programme, which the West and Israel suspect includes a a social mission — to make the world more to protest Putin’s grip on Russia, exactly “We estimate they would need a year from when the drive to develop atomic weapons. open and connected,” the Facebook chief one month before he stands in presiden - order is given to produce a weapon.” AFP Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that Israel is executive said in the letter accompanying tial polls on March 4. contemplating air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, pos - the filing with the US Securities and Ex - After much haggling the Moscow city hall sibly sparking a wider conflict that could draw in the $443 billion at the government’s official budget exchange change Commission (SEC). “There is a huge has allowed opposition activists to go United States and European allies. rate of 11,500 rials per dollar. need and a huge opportunity to get every - ahead with the march and subsequent Iran, which maintains its nuclear activities are peace - That makes the budget roughly the same in rials as for one in the world connected, to give everyone rally, the opposition movement’s third ful, has warned it could close the strategic Strait of Hormuz the current Iranian fiscal year — but $40 billion less when a voice and to help transform society for the major protest since fraud-tainted Decem - in the Gulf, through which a third of global marine oil traf - expressed in dollars because of an official devaluation of future,” he said. Facebook said it will list on ber parliamentary elections. fic passes, if it is attacked. the rial over the past year. Wall Street as “FB” but did not set a date for The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Ahmadinejad on Wednesday presented his budget pro - The budget not only encompasses government spend - when it would begin trading or specify which has been watching opposition calls posal to parliament. ing and revenue but also those of Iran’s vast sector of state whether it would be on the Nasdaq Stock to take to the streets to demand fair elec - It foresees a total budget of 5.1 quadrillion rials, or companies that dominate the country’s economy. Market or the New York Stock Exchange. tions with growing unease, called on the faithful to eschew rowdy demonstrations for a peaceful prayer. “Orthodox Christians don’t know how to take to the streets,” Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill said in an address to Gaza protesters hurl shoes as UN’s Ban begins visit Russians. “These people do not turn up at demon - GAZA CITY damage or injuries, prompting strations, their voices cannot be heard, AFP retaliatory attacks by Israeli they pray in the quiet of monasteries, forces. On Wednesday, after cells, and homes,” he said on Wednesday. UN leader Ban Ki-moon came meeting with Israeli Prime Min - “But they are taking to heart what is under a brief shower of shoes as ister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ban happening today to our people, drawing he entered Hamas-run Gaza on condemned rocket attacks from in their mind clear historic parallels Thursday, hours after a barrage Gaza as “unacceptable” and said with the turpitude and forgetfulness of of rockets was fired from the ter - he had discussed the delicate in - pre-revolutionary years, with disorder, ritory into Israel. formal truce. “I shared with him chaos and the destruction of the country As the UN chief entered the my concerns about the fragility in the 1990s.” Palestinian territory, protesters of the calm and stressed that The country’s chief doctor, who is notori - threw shoes, sand and small continued rocket attacks out of ous in Russia for frequently intervening stones at his convoy, which was Gaza must stop,” Ban said, in political disputes, also called on ac - briefly held up before continuing adding that he remained con - tivists to stay home on Saturday due to on to Khan Yunis in the south - cerned about Israel’s restrictions the current bout of cold weather. ern Gaza Strip. A crowd of on the territory. “The forecast for Saturday is extremely around 50 demonstrators, most Israel closely limits imports unfavourable with temperatures of of them relatives of Palestinians and exports from Gaza, citing minus 18 degrees Celsius predicted. This in Israeli jails, said they were security concerns and the need is a very low temperature for Moscow,” protesting the fact that Ban was to deny Hamas, which it consid - Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Gennady EREZ CROSSInG: Palestinians demonstrate before the arrival of un Secretary-General Ban ki-moon at the Erez not meeting with them or Pales - checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. AFP ers a terrorist organisation, ac - Onishchenko said. tinian prisoner groups during cess to weapons and money. “It’s better to refrain from (taking to the his brief trip to Gaza. housing project also on the UN security decided to go Israel and the militant But much of the interna - streets) and find another form of partici - The UN chief’s first stop in agenda. ahead with the trip despite a groups in Gaza maintain an in - tional community has said the pation in building a happier state,” On - the territory was at the Amal He is not scheduled to meet barrage of eight rockets fired formal truce, but rockets are pe - restrictions negatively affect ishchenko was quoted as saying by the (Hope) school in Khan Yunis, with any member of the Hamas- into southern Israel from Gaza riodically fired from the Gaza’s entire population, un - Interfax news agency. with a visit to a Japanese-funded run government. on Wednesday night. territory, usually causing no fairly affecting civilians. 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Sharapova looks to fire russia in chilly Moscow Page 21 Misbah fancies historic 3-0 whitewash DUBAI AShER BuTT PCb appoints Tariq as PCb not happy AKISTAN captain Mis - bahul Haq has warned Director Security, Vigilance with Mohsin his charges of compla - cency and urged them DUbAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed former IG Police Tariq DUbAI: The Pakistan Cricket to complete the historic Pervaiz as Director Security and Vigilance of the board. His immediate assign - Board has not happy with regular wPhitewash of England when the two ment would be to keep the team under security scan and keep unwanted and statements from coach Mohsin sides meet here at the Dubai Stadium suspicious persons away from the team. He would soon be joining the team in Khan, it was learnt Thursday. It has in the final Test of the three-match Dubai. It’s the second high profile appointment made by PCB chairman Zaka been learnt that the PCB has asked rubber on Friday. Talking to Pakistan Ashraf after Sajid Hameed who was named Director Coordination. The need Mohsin a number of times to refrain Today, Misbah said that it was a record of security and vigilance official arouse after Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif from talking to media but he was never achieved by any team and as a and Mohammad Amir were caught in spot-fixing. The PCB chief after his ap - not listening and has been giving captain he would like his team to bring pointment last month announced to have a separate wing for security, vigi - statements. Another source stated this record to Pakistan’s lap. Pakistan lance and coordination and these appointment are part of that that there are highly unlikely has already taken an unassailable 2-0 announcement. It has also been learnt that an evaluation committee of the chances of Mohsin becoming the lead in the series by beating the world PCB will determine which person is performing what duties in the board and Pakistan’s regular chief coach. number one side in the world England then opt for fresh appointments according to the status of the job. STAFF REPORT “Moshin was made interim coach at Dubai and later at Abu Dhabi. after Waqar resigned but the win of And now with the third Test take lowly rated team very seriously be decided in the morning of the the team is not the only certificate to hours away, Misbah believes that it is and England are the number one side match. Similarly England might also get him the chief coach,” the source the best opportunity for Pakistan. in the world and we cannot even think make one or two changes in the side maintained. Last month Zara Ashraf “There has never been such an oppor - of complacency creeping in,” he main - but the final decision has been ad - in a statement in Karachi made it tunity to get that feat and if things tained. Talking about the wicket, Mis - journed for Friday morning. clear that Mohsin is a talented per - went right we are sure to achieve what bah said that it looked much different Talking to journalists, England son but was not a suitable choice for has never been achieved before,” he from the one they played on in the first captain Andrew Strauss said that his the chief coach’s job. It has also been added. “It’s a new ball game and we Test. With the wicket carrying some team has learnt their lessons from the learnt that Dave Whatmore came to will be concentrating on the game. All pace, there are chances that Junaid two back to back defeats. “We need to Pakistan just not for interview but that matters is performance and the Khan might be rested and Wahab win the third Test to keep the honour also to sign the contract and he positive frame of mind is what we Riaz would get a go on the Poms. even before entering into the ODi se - would be joining the team after the need to adopt. It’s a good chance and However, certain sources close to the ries,” he added. He further pointed Pakistan and England series and in - we should not let it slip,” said Misbah. team said that the likely chance is that out that although they had lost the se - terim coach is likely to be made in - Misbah further said that they do they would not break the winning ries, the win in the third Test would charge of the Karachi Cricket DUbAI: Pakistan’s captain Misbah-ul Haq (l) talks with coach Mohsin Khan (r) not take any team lightly. “We even combination and final line-up would be a face-saving thing for them. Academy. STAFF REPORT during a practice session at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. AFP

IPl not a distraction Skipper saddened by Amir’s case Amir ‘to announce for England: Strauss DUBAI last November. Unsurprisingly Pakistan in Tests, one-day and Twenty20. plans’ when AFP captain Misbah-ul Haq, bombarded with "I think it's all up to the people, what DUBAI questions on Amir in the pre-match press they think, what they say about him, we AFP Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq said conference ahead of the third Test have nothing to do with that, we are here returns home Thursday he was saddened by the case of against England starting here from Fri - to play cricket and we are focusing on England captain Andrew Strauss disagreed former paceman Mohammad Amir who day, avoided direct comment. that." When asked whether he would the lucrative Indian league was a distraction was released from a jail in Britain this When asked if he felt sad about what welcome Amir back in the team, Misbah for his team which faces a 3-0 defeat against week after pleading guilty to corruption happened to a former team-mate, Mis - said: "I have clearly said that we have Pakistan in the third and final Test starting and spot-fixing. bah replied: "I think it feels sad whoever nothing to do with that, once he is here from Friday. Pakistan won the first two The 19-year-old was freed from Port - suffers that, as a cricketer you feel sad cleared, once he is available then only we Tests, the first here by ten wickets and the land Prison in England on Wednesday about such incidents but sometimes you will see what happens, before that I have second by 72 runs in Abu Dhabi, to clinch an after serving half of his six-months sen - have noting in your control and you can't nothing to do with that. unassailable 2-0 lead. And with Saturday's tence for his part in a plan to bowl delib - do anything." Asked whether there would "You can say that it's early to say any - auction in the Indian Premier League (IPL) erate no-balls during a Test against be a possibility of reducing Amir's ban on thing about that, there are many things looming, Strauss was asked whether that England at Lord's in August 2010. appeal, Misbah said: "I think I am not the to be done by the ICC and the manage - would be a distraction for his players. "I cer - However, he cannot immediately re - concerned person, the people who are ment, after that nobody knows what hap - tainly hope not. I think we've had this cir - turn to cricket as he is serving a five-year concerned about that will decide about it. pens." England captain Andrew Strauss cumstance before," the England captain said. ban from the sport imposed by the Inter - We are playing here and we are focusing also refused to be drawn in the debate as Names of several members of the current national Cricket Council (ICC). on that. "It's totally up to the manage - to whether Amir's five-year ban would be squad will appear in the auction to be held in Team-mates Salman Butt, who re - ment, what the ICC decides and what the reduced. "It's not my job to hand out Bangalore with James Anderson, Ian Bell, ceived 32 months, and Mohammad Asif, cricket board decides, I think it's not my bans or otherwise," said Strauss, who was Swann, Ravi Bopara, Matt Prior and Chris 12 months, are still in jail after Crown decision," said Misbah, who played England captain in the spot-fixing Tremlett appearing favourites to be included. Prosecution Services found them guilty alongside Amir in all his debut matches marred series against Pakistan. CHAnGA BAnGIAL AFP

Disgraced Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Amir will announce his next move when Last Test is for individual performances he returns home later this month after his release from a British prison, his ‘have I lost that magic sparkle?’ cricket it is hard to get it back. The same in the subcontinent. brother told AFP. Mohammad Ijaz said ExPERT COMMEnT You ask these questions and you start goes for the other players. If they are think - It has been such a bad start to a year the family was delighted that the 19-year- acting because you can’t be seen to be down ing about the IPL, business or whatever, when England aimed to crack the subcon - old had been freed after serving half a in the dumps in front of the players. You then they will not perform in Test matches. tinent. They have been blown away so far six-month sentence for spot-fixing in one can’t say anything negative or admit your You have to be a cricket nerd at the top and you have to question whether we put of the biggest scandals to rock Pakistan form is poor because if you do, the players level. Every morning of training life has to enough emphasis on winning in Asia. cricket. "We are all very happy, my par - will say “eh up, the skipper’s gone”. be about batting, bowling, fielding. Not The English game is steered towards ents especially are very happy," Ijaz told Strauss will have turned the wheel this who is on the phone offering deals or say - the Ashes but that means we do not put AFP by telephone. "He will be back home week and stopped worrying about the oth - ing things on Twitter. You must have one enough energy into beating Pakistan in the in the next two to three weeks. I talked to ers and focused on his own game plan for focus. Look at Alastair Cook and Jonathan Emirates or winning in Asia. him yesterday. He was very happy and scoring runs. But that is the tricky part be - Trott. All they think about in life is scoring Before the Ashes England had three or asked me to convey his best wishes to his cause on these pitches he does not look as runs for England. If the others are wavering four weeks of warm-up games and a team- parents and family members." "He will MICHAEl VAUGHAn if he has that many scoring options. then inconsistency will creep in. building trip to Germany. They built to - announce his future plans once he re - It is too late in the tour to change tech - It is a long time since England have getherness. But we do not prepare in the turns home. I don't know when he will be NDREW Strauss must concentrate niques but what can be improved is mental gone into the final Test with the series same fashion to beat a subcontinent team able to play cricket again for Pakistan be - on one thing this week, and that is attitude. Sometimes you just do not believe gone. It is a new experience as captain for in subcontinental conditions. You hear so cause of the five-year ban," Ijaz added. A scoring runs. If he does that his you are going to score runs. That kind of Strauss and as a collective unit the team are often that we are working out if players Amir was one of three Pakistan players team will follow. When you have been a thing can be turned around because it is in a lose-lose situation this week. have the right character to play Australia. jailed by a judge in London in November captain as long as he has, you don’t have to just a thought process and nothing physi - If they win everyone will say it is a dead Very rarely do we ask the same questions over their roles in a plan to bowl deliber - prove yourself as a leader. In the field he has cal. You have to alter the mindset and visu - rubber and ask why they did not perform about playing Sri Lanka or India. Now we ate no-balls during a Test against Eng - control of the players and when he speaks alise how you will defend and score off each in the first two Tests. If they play badly then have reached a stage when we can beat land at Lord's in August 2010. He is also in the dressing room, the players listen. bowler so you see it happening before you positions in the team will be lost and more Australia home and away. We have to start serving a five-year ban imposed by the But I have always said captains are go out to bat. That is how you move back criticism will flow their way. They cannot preparing minds and games for beating International Cricket Council (ICC). great actors and Strauss will have been put - into form. It requires focus but you need a worry about that. Cricket is a team game teams in subcontinental conditions. Amir's father suffers chronic stomach ting on an act this week. You are embar - single-minded approach to the game to but for once this Test is about individuals This series has been a disaster but the problems and is "desperate" to see his rassed after a defeat like that in Abu Dhabi. survive in Test cricket. If Strauss’s mind is putting their own game in order and stick - tour to Sri Lanka is the next stepping son back in the humble family village of When you have been hammered, all on his future and what he could be doing a ing their hand up to say they deserve to be stone to beating India in November/De - Changa Bangial, Ijaz said. Th e family the players feel it but as a captain you year down the line, then he is gone. on the trip to Sri Lanka in March. cember. We cannot expect England to house was closed on Thursday. Neigh - blame yourself. You look back and think I don’t know if Strauss is thinking England have been five down for very turn up, turn it on and beat India. There bours told reporters that they had gone you might not have said the right things in about the next phase of his life. I have no few runs in three innings out here, which is has to be proper preparation and lessons to the eastern city of Lahore, but other the morning, perhaps didn’t train enough idea. I just know from my own experience very poor, and if it happens again in Dubai from this trip need to be absorbed and relatives living in the community said or prepare properly. As a captain you think that once you start to move away from then they cannot keep picking these players acted upon. Strauss will know that. they did not want to talk to media. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:38 AM Page 19

friday , 3 february , 2012 News 19 Corpses of 2 missing men found in lasbela Policeman among five killed QUETTA STAFF REPORT Two bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing across Balochistan persons were found on Thursday in Lasbela district, some 650 kilometres southwest of QUETTA carrying salaries for government em - Quetta. Frontier Constabulary (FC) officials ShAhZADA ZulFIQAR ployees in Hub when bandits inter - said that local people informed them about cepted him near Civic Center and tried balochistan strikes against two corpses lying in the Darji area on Shah IVE people, including a po - to snatch the money from him, How - Noorani Road, Lasbela. An FC team picked liceman, were killed and two ever, police reached the site just as the murder of MPA Domki’s family the bodies and sent them for autopsy to a others injured in separate acts bandits were in the middle of thr rob - QUETTA: A partial strike was observed in various parts of Balochistan on hospital, where they were identified as of violence in various towns of bery attempt, forcing the criminals to Thursday against the killing of the wife and daughter of provincial legislator Sikandar Mengal and Abdul Qadir Mengal. Balochistan on Thursday. open fire. Resultantly, a policeman was Mir Bakhtiar Khan Domki and their driver by unknown armed men in Karachi Both men were residents of Khuzdar and FLevies Force officials said unidenti - killed and the bandits fled the scene. on Monday night. Baloch nationalist parties had given the call for strike in had been tortured, and had few bullet fied armed men opened indiscriminate In another incident, a businessman protest against the killing of tribal women in the Gizri area of Karachi. In wounds in their heads. fire in Mashkail town of Washuk dis - was killed and two others injured in trict, 700kms southwest of Quetta. As a Khuzdar, 300kms away from Quetta. response, trade centres in areas including Khuzdar, Hub, Naseerabad, result, three people were killed on the Police said Haji Ramzan Zehri, Jaffarabad, Sibi, Lehri, Bakhtiarabad Domki, Bhag and Bolan remained closed spot. Local administration moved the renowned businessman of Khuzdar, was with thin traffic on the road. Heavy contingents of police and other law real estate: a tax victims to hospital where they were standing outside his shop near Umar Fa - enforcement agencies were deployed in the strike areas. The social and political identified as Kulia, his son Shah Dost rooq Chowk along with two other men circles flayed the attack, terming it a “coward act” to further deteriorate the and Hamza. when two armed men on a motorbike situation in Balochistan. They called upon the Sindh government to evasion haven Officials said the reason behind the sprayed a volley of bullets on them. As a immediately arrest the murderers. APP triple murder was old enmity, saying the result, all three received critical wounds GUjRAnWALA father and son were the main targets of and were rushed to a hospital, however, trict. The deceased was identified as dar, had been missing. Umrani was a STAFF REPORT the attack. In another incident, a police - Zehri succumbed to his injuries. Police Sikandar Uzbak, the alleged killer of Ex - cousin of provincial minister and PPP man was killed by the firing of bandits said a case had been registered. More - cise Inspector Rajab Umrani. Umrani Balochistan President Mir Sadiq Um - Evading of stamp duty and capital value tax in Hub industrial town of Balochistan. over, unidentified people shot dead a had been found dead in his vehicle on rani. Police have registered a case into in millions is rampant in the real estate sector Police said a government employee was man in Tambu tehsil of Naseerabad dis - Wednesday night and his guard, Sikan - the killing and started investigation. and the government is silent and seems helpless in hands of some dishonest officials, Pakistan Today has learnt. Real estate tycoons buy properties in millions and Germany urges resumption of NATO supplies nAtO expects declare prices in a few hundred thousands Continued FroM page 22 while filling the registry deeds due to which ISLAMABAD Rabbani Khar, army chief General Ashfaq iban on part of US and also to work for the the Punjab government suffers losses worth ShAIQ huSSAIn Kayani, ISI chief Lt General Ahmad Shuja success of Afghan reconciliation process. November 2010, which calls for handing hundred thousands in stamp duty and the Pasha and Foreign Secretary Salman The German official also admitted that over security duties to Afghan forces by the federal government also faces losses in capital Germany wants Pakistan to reopen the Bashir. The German envoy’s meetings there was a deep mistrust between Pak - end of 2014. “That decision and that value tax. A glaring case was detected in NATO supply routes to Afghanistan with Pakistani leaders are said to be very istan and its western allies in the coun - roadmap still stand,” Rasmussen said, Gujranwala when a property dealer disclosed through its border as early as possible and positive and all issues of mutual interest terterrorism alliance in the wake of adding that decisions will be made at the that property tycoon Azam Bhutta, a resident it believes that vital decisions taken by Is - with focus on Afghanistan were discussed November airstrikes by NATO on Pak - NATO summit in Chicago in May. French of DC Road, Gujranwala purchased 20 kanals lamabad in the recent past, including the in a frank and candid manner. Ambassa - istani border posts. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also facing of land on the GT Road Gujranwala Cantt for boycott of the Bonn Conference, in the dor Michael Steiner was of the view that He, nonetheless, told Pakistani leaders a difficult election, had appeared to upend Rs 120 million from Munir Ahmed, Zafar wake of NATO airstrikes on its border it was not in Pakistan’s interests to adhere that the mistrust could be removed as the strategy last week when he announced Mehmood, Azhar Mehmood Berni and posts last year were a major mistake.This to its decision of not opening the NATO there was still some credit available be - France would withdraw combat forces a year Farrukh Mehmood Berni, residents of Model was the clear and plain message conveyed supply routes. He stated it would hurt all tween Islamabad and its allied nations. early, in 2013. But Rasmussen indicated that Town, Gujranwala. The registered deed to Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders the allies in counterterrorism global cam - Pakistani leaders also complained about the 28-nation alliance was in sync. “Based on executed on August 8, 2011 declared the land by Germany’s Special Representative for paign, along with Islamabad. what he dubbed irresponsible statements all I have heard, and all I have seen, I think price at Rs 23,100 per marla and the total Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Germany, according to insiders, by their western allies, such as the recent all allies and all partners stick to the price of the land on which stamp duty and Michael Steiner on Thursday. strongly believes that the Bonn Confer - leaked report on NATO, which claimed decisions we took in Lisbon,” he said. capital value tax was to be paid amounted to German envoy, whose country is ence boycott was Pakistan’s big mistake, that Pakistan was supporting the Afghan Rs 9.2 million but stamp duty and capital playing a vital role for the success of re - but the German envoy assured Pakistani Taliban in their fight against the US-led in - value tax were evaded. cently launched US-Taliban talks, also leaders during his meetings that Islam - ternational forces. The German official ob - India’s air the worst, urged Pakistani leadership to play an ac - abad’s absence did not hurt its interests served that such statements should be tive of a facilitator for its success, accord - at all. He also stressed upon the need of avoided but he also held the view that says study ing to diplomatic sources familiar with his Pakistan taking clear position on impor - sometimes it was unavoidable to take clear US warns citizens interaction with Foreign Minister Hina tant issues such as dialogue with the Tal - position on certain important matters. nEW DELHI: AFP

against Pakistan visits India has the worst air quality in the Pakistan v England in first disabled series world, beating even its neighbour China, nEWS DESK according to an annual survey based at KARACHI (PDCA), hoped the series would be a dent. Karim assembled the team in Yale and Columbia universities in the The US State Department has warned AFP landmark. 2006 and has since organised three na - United States. Of all the countries American citizens of the risks of travel "Pakistan team will play three 40 tional championships, sparking coun - surveyed in the Environmental to Pakistan. Disabled cricketers from England and overs matches and two Twenty20s at try-wide interest. Performance Index (EPI), which measures A travel advisory issued on Thursday Pakistan play their first-ever series this the ICC Global Cricket Academy in "England have also shown great in - the effects of polluted air on human said that following the deaths of 24 month, with organisers hoping the Dubai from February 11 and it is ap - terest in disabled cricket and we were health, India ranked the lowest at 132. The Pakistani military personnel on matches can inspire a big future in proved by the boards of both the coun - happy about how they supported our study used satellite data to measure air November 26, 2011, protests have taken world disabled cricket. tries," said Ansari. "We hope it will be a idea," said Ansari, who hoped other pollution concentrations. The level of fine place across Pakistan against the The three one-day and two landmark series and will be well re - countries like Australia, India and Sri particulate matter in India is nearly five United States, International Security Twenty20 match series in the United ceived in the world, sending the mes - Lanka would follow suit. times the limit where it becomes unsafe Assistance Force (ISAF), and NATO. Arab Emirates coincides with a one-day sage that no disability can stop human "We want to stage a World Cup for for humans, said the study released at the There have also been widespread series between the main cricket teams beings from shining," said Ansari, a for - disabled cricketers, so for that we need recent World Economic Forum in Davos, demonstrations and large political of the same countries, also being played mer first class cricketer. the support of other countries and I Switzerland. The region fared poorly with rallies condemning drone strikes and in the UAE. Pakistan is led by Salim Karim, hope in the next couple of years more Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China Pakistan’s ongoing energy crisis, it said, Amiruddin Ansari, secretary of the whose right leg withered from polio and more countries will come to play taking up the remaining spots in the urging US citizens in Pakistan to avoid Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association while his left was damaged in an acci - this brand of the game," said Ansari. bottom five of the rankings. protests and large gatherings.

Continued FroM page 1 Swiss cases stand closed,” Justice Mulk told elections. However, the choice is still with Ahsen, adding that the premier said the the prime minister to handle the situation by president enjoyed immunity. implementing the court order and save him - In contempt! Justice Gulzar Ahmed asked the pre - self from indictment and subsequent dis - mier’s counsel to defend him on strong and qualification from holding any public office. lani in the contempt case was seen as a con - slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto Justice Osmany asked Ahsen, who said first solid grounds. Justice Osmany said: “You But it remains to be seen whether the gov - ciliatory gesture from the prime minister’s were not closed in response to a letter writ - the contempt notice had to be discharged on (Ahsen) are saying that you were mistaken… ernment submits before the court with the camp, as Ahsen is hugely respected by ten by former attorney general Malik merit. “Why has the letter not been written conceived misconception … and seek oppor - prime minister tendering an apology, or if it judges for his role in forcing the government Muhammad Qayyum. Instead, he said, so far?” Justice Khosa asked. Ahsen, how - tunity.” Aitzaz replied: “You have pushed me decides to take the collision course. to reinstate the independent judiciary in these cases were closed by the Swiss author - ever, argued that the cases in Switzerland to a cul-de-sac and indicted.” “Why don’t During the hearing, Justice Nasirul March 2009. ities because of insufficient evidence. stood disposed of. you follow the court order (write the letter)?” Mulk observed that there were grounds to The allegations of corruption against “The prime minister preferred the sum - He said the attorney general of Geneva Justice Mulk asked him again. proceed against Gilani over his refusal to fol - Zardari were frozen with the promulgation mary over the court orders,” Justice Mulk had stated that the Swiss cases against Later, the bench took a half-hour break, low a court order and ask Swiss authorities of the NRO, a political amnesty law passed noted, to which Ahsen replied that as the Zardari and Benazir had been closed be - apparently for consultation with each other, to reopen corruption cases against the pres - in 2007, which the court overturned on De - case proceeded further and the court or - cause of lack of evidence. He said the late at - and when it assembled again, the judges an - ident. “After the preliminary hearing, we are cember 16, 2009. dered that the letter be written, it would be torney general Chaudhry Farooq had nounced the order. satisfied that prima facie (at first sight) there At the outset of the hearing, Ahsen ap - written. written a letter to the Swiss government in Tainted by corruption allegations, is enough case for further proceeding into prised the court of the Rules of Business Justice Khosa then said the court had 1997 for legal assistance and in response to Zardari spent 11 years in jail on charges the matter. (The case is) adjourned for Feb - over the advice taken by the prime minister. asked for correction of the error that had that letter, over 1,000 documents came to ranging from corruption to murder, al - ruary 13 for framing charges. The prime He said the premier was authorised to reject been committed. “Everyone knows, the ad - Pakistan on whose basis the SGS and Co- though he was never convicted. He and his minister is required to remain present in the a summary, however, if the prime minister vice given to the premier is not correct,” Jus - Techna trials were held in Pakistan. He said late wife, Benazir, were suspected of using court,” Justice Mulk said in the order. did not reject the advice, it was not a crime. tice Khosa said. Justice Ejaz Ahmed in these cases, all the accused, except Presi - Swiss bank accounts to launder about $12 Gilani had appeared in court on January He said the premier had approved a new Chaudhry noted that during the hearing of dent Zardari, had been acquitted. million in alleged bribes paid by compa - 19, refusing to back down on Zardari’s im - summary on September 23, 2010, which the NRO review plea, the government had Justice Khosa said the sole proprietary nies seeking customs inspection contracts munity, although analysts said he risked was drafted and put up by erstwhile law sec - not said that the cases had been closed. was that the trial of the case should be con - in Pakistan in the 1990s. A Swiss prosecu - being convicted, jailed for up to six months retary Aqil Mirza. “Suppose we discharge the contempt ducted in Switzerland. He said if someone tor has since said it would be “impossible” and disqualified from holding public office. He said according to the summary, the notice and withdraw the proceeding, what was convicted, the money would be back in to reopen the case against Zardari since he The appointment of Ahsen to defend Gi - Swiss cases against President Zardari and will you do? Will you write a letter or not?” Pakistan. “Your contention is that… the benefits from immunity as a head of state. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:39 AM Page 20

20 Sports friday , 3 february , 2012 Aisam promotes his book at Lahore Fair today LAHORE learnt from an eventful career on SPECIAl CORRESPOnDEnT the road. Well written and taste - fully designed and printed in coffee AKISTAN’S tennis ace table format, the book is a visual Aisam-ul-Haq delight as well. Qureshi has written a The book is of far larger conse - book on his experi - quence because it is in a way the ences spanning about only though partial source material aP decade and a half on the tour and on the goings-on in Pakistan tennis representing Pakistan in the Davis as well, though that by no means Cup. The official launch of the book, was the purpose of the book. titled ‘Lessons learnt from the ten - Outside cricket Pakistan’s best- nis tour’, is expected sometime later known international sportsman this month. But it will be on display since Jansher Khan called it a day, in the 26thInternational Book Fair Aisam has been a superb ambassa - that commences today in the city at dor of the sport and country, pre - the Expo Centre. The exhibition will senting a clean-cut image of run till February 7. Pakistan through his persona. Con - Aisam, who leads Pakistan’s taining 12 chapters other than an away Davis Cup campaign against epilogue, the book amply illustrates Lebanon from Saturday, has how and why. This is a must-read squeezed out some time to introduce for aspiring and even established and promote the book at the Fair sporting personalities who would and he will be present at the venue care to know why learning from from 04.00 pm onwards today. your defeats and triumphs, and Written with his coach Robert keeping it in perspective and all the Davis, the book shares a diverse while staying fiercely mindful of range of life lessons Aisam has one’s image is so hugely important. Daly surprise early lille lessons spark Cole's coaching ambitions PARIS loan at the French champions from Liver - interview published in Thursday's edition leader in qatar AFP pool and despite his considerable experi - of sport daily L'Equipe. ence, the 29-year-old said he has learnt a "In the England team, we had (Steven) DOHA Joe Cole has expressed his admiration for great deal from Garcia on the training Gerrard, (Frank) Lampard, (David) Beck - AFP Lille coach Rudi Garcia and revealed that pitch. "When I was playing at Liverpool or ham, (Wayne) Rooney and we were play - working under the Frenchman has elsewhere, sometimes you'd ask yourself ing against, for example, Macedonia, and American John Daly gave a rare prompted him to consider a career in man - why the other team had so much posses - they had 60 percent of possession against glimpse of his supreme natural talents agement himself. Cole is on a season-long sion against you," the midfielder said in an us. And we didn't know why. "For me, it by shooting a five under par 67 to depends on the way the team is put to - Shahraiz rokhri share the early lead with Englishman gether. The way that Rudi instructs the Richard Finch at the 2.5-million-dollar team has opened my eyes about playing elected Punjab Qatar Masters here on Thursday. Daly, high up the pitch, with the full-backs push - a two-time major-winner, whose trou - ing up and the movement of the central bled personal life and on-course petu - midfielders and the defenders. "When you badminton chief lant behaviour has often overshadowed look at the relationship between (Florent) his golf for several years, produced a Balmont and (Mathieu) Debuchy, it's very LAHORE bogey-free round in blustery condi - fluid. But it doesn't just happen like that. STAFF REPORT tions at the Doha Golf Club to set him - You have to work on movement and that self up nicely for the remainder of the way of attacking. "It makes me want to be - The general body of the Punjab Badminton tournament. Looking much trimmer come a coach, even if I hope that that does - Association in its meeting held Thursday now, Daly began steadily by parring n't happen for a while. But maybe I'd be unanimously elected Shahraiz Abdullah the first two holes before picking up a rubbish!" Cole has become a popular fig - Khan Rokhri as President Punjab Badminton shot on the par-3 third and then ure with Lille's fans, having scored eight Association. The meeting was presided by stroked two more birdies before the goals in all competitions since the start of Mr. Shahnawaz Malik Senior Vice President turn even as a sandstorm raged over the season, but he admits he is still having who expressed strong sentiments about late the course. problems picking up the language. Aamer Hayat Khan Rokhri. The house elected two more vice presidents: Lt Col –(r) Amanat Ali and Rana Ishtiaq Hanif. Shahraiz Abdullah Khan Rokhri thanked the members for reposing confidence in him and assured Trio shares lead in Myanmar them of his full cooperation to continue with the mission of his father Late Aamer Hayat YAnGOn Chinnarat Phadungsil of Thailand, a three-time Kha n Rokhri. He announced that an All AFP Asian Tour winner, was a further shot back with Pakistan Badminton Tournament will be Kim Gi-Whan of South Korea in the $300,000 held in the memory of Aamer Hayat Khan Ben Fox of the United States reaped the benefits event, the first of the Asian Tour season. Fox, Rokhri Shortly which will be an annual fea - of extra hours slogging it in the gym as he shot a who is searching for his first Asian Tour victory, ture. He also promised to revive Badminton sparkling eight-under-par 64 to share the first- credited the hard work in the gym during the off- Academy and to retain the same team as round lead at the Zaykabar Myanmar Open on season for his fast start. they had done an excellent job. District Thursday. Fox fired a flawless round with eight "I worked hard in the off-season. I don't like Badminton Association will be encouraged birdies that was matched by Australians Scott working out during the season but during the to hold tournament at Divisional level. Hend, who has won once on the Asian Tour, and break I was hitting it hard in the gym and on the former European Tour player Wade Ormsby at practice range," he said, according to an Asian the Royal Mingalardon Golf and Country Club. Tour press release. "I tried to get a little bit stronger in the gym and it is showing because Kenya promise I'm hitting it 10 or 15 yards further this year," said the 24-year-old. Playing in his third year on high-level security the Asian Tour, Fox made a 25-foot chip-in birdie from the edge of the seventh hole to tie for the lead. "It was one of my goals coming into the for Ireland year to get off to a good start more frequently. It is nice to kind have done that in the first week. nAIROBI Obviously, you just don't plan on shooting eight- AFP under but it was a nice round," he said. Hend, who is among 15 Australians in the field, pre - Cricket Kenya on Thursday promised high- dicts a low-scoring week as he aims to end a level security for Ireland during a four-day three-year title drought. "I hit good shots and Intercontinental Cup and two one-day inter - holed my putts. I missed a couple but you can't nationals starting next week. The fixtures, complain when you shoot an eight-under," he which also include three Twenty-20 games said. Scores after round 1 of the Zaykabar Myan - will be played in the Indian Ocean town of mar Open being played at the par-72 Royal Min - Mombasa from February 12-24. The tour galardon in Yangon: 64 - Scott Hend (AUS), Ben was confirmed on Tuesday by Cricket Ire - Fox (USA), Wade Ormsby (AUS) 65 - Chinnarat land who had earlier expressed concern over Phadungsil (THA), Kim Gi-Whan (KOR) 66 - the security following a UK travel advisory Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA), Prom Meesawat on Kenya issued in January over a possible (THA), Chris Rodgers (ENG) 67 - Baek Seuk- terror attack by the Al-Shabaab terrorist or - Hyun (KOR), Kodai Ichihara (JPN), Daisuke ganization of Somalia. "We are happy that Maruyama (JPN), Thaworn Wiratchant (THA), Ireland have accepted to come. Cricket Joon Lee (KOR), Martin Rominger (SUI), Kenya and the ICC have been engaged in or - YAnGOn: ben fox of the USA during the first day Simon Griffiths (ENG), Arnond Vongvanij ganising a high-level security plan for the of the Zaykabar Myanmar Open at the royal (THA), Rick Kulacz (AUS), Masanori Kobayashi CHArlErOI: belgium’s tamaryn Hendler (wtA 215) shoots into a ball during a team during the two-week tour," said Mingalardon Golf and Country Club. AFP (JPN), Namchok Tantipokhakul (THA). training session of the belgian fed Cup team. AFP Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:39 AM Page 21

friday , 3 february , 2012 Sports 21 DUBAI: England’s cricketers warm up during a practice session at the Dubai WATch iT Live International Cricket Stadium. Spin-weary England will be desperate to avoid the TEN CRICKET humiliation of a series whitewash against Pakistan V Pakistan in the third and final Test. AFP England - 3rd Test Day 1 11:00AM

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The first phase of the Union Council level Sports Festival came to an end Thursday. The next phase consisting of competitions at Tehsil level will start from February 4, 2012 throughout Punjab. The prize distrib - uting ceremony in the honour of the win - ning teams at Nishtar Town Lahore. The winning teams were given the trophies and cash prizes. Naseer Ahmed Bhutta was the chief guest on this occasion. In the cricket competitions UC 53, 64, 134, 135, 150, 136, 139 and 147 were given the first prize of cash Rs.5000 and Rs.3000 for the run - ners-up. In badminton, the cash prize of Rs.2000 was handed over to the position holder team while the runner up was given Rs 2000 at Union Council 63. The cash prize of Rs.2000 was given to the first posi - tion holder whereas the runner up was given Rs.1000. In Kabaddi, UC 147 and 150 were given the cash prizes of Rs.2000 for first position and Rs.1000 for second posi - tion. In football, UC 143 and 147 were the winners who were given the cash prize of Rs.4000 for first position and Rs.3000 for second position each team. On the other hand, the competitions entered final day at Shalamar/Cantt. The cricket matches were Sharapova looks to fire Russia in chilly Moscow held at UC 58 in which Tajpura XI beat Eagle XI. In UC 56, Hanif XI beat Hashmi PARIS important tournament." great team," said Sanchez-Vicario, who Olympic indoor stadium here. Of course, XI while in UC 57,Tajbagh XI beat Tajpura AFP Beaten 3-2 by the Czech Republic in holds the record for the most number of the red clay is our preferred surface but we High School XI. In UC 69, Azam XI de - last year's final at the same Olympic Sta - Fed Cup wins. "Russia look clear favourites have nothing to complain about." feated Atif XI. In UC 60 Sultan XI beat Pak Maria Sharapova will be looking to fire dium, the Russian team will be looking for but we are set to fight to the very end. We Champions the Czech Republic open Mulsim XI.In Lahore city, union council Russia in their Fed Cup World Group a morale-boosting opener with a team that are aiming for a place in the final this year." against Germany on an indoor hard service 93,Azam 11 beat Shahid 11. opener against Spain this weekend as she also includes Nadia Petrova, ranked 33, Russia hold a 5-1 lead in previous meet - at Stuttgart, as Belgium host Serbia on the returns to freezing Moscow after her run in and 42nd-ranked Ekaterina Makarova. ings, with Spain's only success same surface at Charleroi without Kim Cli - the sun to the Australian Open final. Spain legend Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1989. But Sanchez- jsters, while three-time winners Italy host Russian captain Shamil Tarpischev was takes charge for the first time as captain Vicario insisted: "Statis - Ukraine on indoor clay at Biella. PUtD win tug-of-war spoilt for choice for the tie on the indoor of the five-time winners in a team that tics doesn't mean The Czechs won their most recent hard surface of Moscow's Olympic Stadium will be without Anabel anything. We're going meeting in 2010 and lead the Germans 5-1, championship and has opted for world number three Medina Garrigues. The to fight for every single with four of the six ties when the two na - Sharapova for singles duty alongside 19th- 39th-ranked Maria point in this show - tions played under the former flags of West LAHORE ranked Svetlana Kuznetsova. Sharapova Jose Martinez down. "We feel com - Germany and Czechoslovakia. STAFF REPORT had a good run to the final of the first Grand Sanchez is Spain's fortable on the hard Serbia, meanwhile, will be without Ana Slam of the season in Melbourne before top-ranked player, surface in the Ivanovic, with Jelena Jankovic leading their The Punjab University Teaching Depart - being thrashed in straight sets by Victoria in a team that bid to win their first ever World Group tie, ment (PUTD) has won the Inter Collegiate Azarenka of Belarus. also includes against two-time champions Belgium. In Tug-of–war Championship played under "I just came to Moscow from Australia Carla Suarez northern Italy, former French Open cham - the aegis of Punjab University at Old and I'm still shocked by the temperature Navarro, Aran - pion Francesca Schiavone and Flavia Pen - Campus university ground. As many as six drop (from +30 degrees Celsius to -20C). txa Parra-San - netta lead the hosts' bid to preserve their teams took part in the championship. In But I still have time to get accustomed to tonja and unbeaten record against the Ukraine. final match, the PUTD defeated Ikhwan the weather conditions here," the Florida- Nuria TIES College and clinched the title while UET based player said. "I believe this time I will Llagostera defeated Govt College Haveli Lakha to win be able to play better than I did in my pre - Vives. "It's my RUSSIA V SPAIN the third spot. Chief guest Director Sports vious Fed Cup appearance against France debut as the BELGIUM V SERBIA Haile College Mian AS Amjad and Addi - last year. I'll try to give my best against Spanish team's skipper and I'm re - UKRAINE V ITALY tional Director Sports Atiya Mumtaz gave Spain on front of our home fans in a very ally proud I'm in charge of this GERMANY V CZECH REPUBLIC away prizes to the winners. Woolf report looks to shake up old boys’ club DUBAI is aimed at redressing this imbalance be - boards. For example, N Srinivasan is cur - firmly established and organised, such as not Test playing) members." CRICInFO tween the cricket-playing nations. The rently both an ICC director and president Ireland etc) and Affiliates (countries where Being granted Full Membership gives most important recommendation concerns of the Indian board but, if the recommen - the game is played in accordance with the a country greater access to the ICC's funds The ICC's independent governance review, revamping the ICC's executive board, its dations are accepted, he can't retain both Laws of cricket, such as Bhutan etc), and and greater voting power in the governing headed by Lord Woolf, has called for top decision-making body, to reduce the posts. As for independent directors, they instead have two clear membership body's chief executive's committee as well sweeping changes in the administration of numerical strength of the Full Members must not have not recently held positions classes: the Full Members and Associates. as the full council. cricket and the functioning of its governing and to offset their influence by bringing in of authority on any member board nor any It has asked that the ICC adopt the The Associates mostly get their body. It starts with a restructuring of the independent directors, in keeping with commercial body that has had significant principle of one Board member, one vote. chances to play Test countries at ICC tour - ICC's executive board to make it more in - best corporate governance practices. contractual relationships with the ICC. Under the ICC's current voting pattern in naments such as the World Cup and the dependent and less dominated by the big - The board currently comprises the The suggestions of the review are not the full council, Full Member nations and World Twenty20 but the report called for ger countries and also recommends a heads of all Full Member nations, three binding on the ICC, which will examine it the 35 Associates have one vote each, while the FTP to be modified to provide Associ - re-examination of the rights and benefits representatives from the Associates and at the next Board meeting in April. On the 60 Affiliates are split into groups of ates more matches against the big boys of the Test-playing Full Member nations, Affiliates and the ICC's president, vice- Wednesday the ICC had announced its twelve, each of which has a single collective outside these global events. calling for measures to increase trans - president and chief executive. Woolf's plan plan to split the post of president into a vote, adding up to a total of five. For a spe - The final report of the Woolf review parency in dealings by the ICC and its incorporates five independent directors - ceremonial and a governance role, stating cial resolution to change the ICC Constitu - was presented to the ICC Executive Board members. three from within the game and two from that the decision had been in agreement tion the requirement is for the support of on Tuesday and released to the public on The review looks at cricket's growth outside to bring in diversity of opinion and with two of the Woolf report's 65 recom - eight Full Members and 38 out of 50 of the Thursday. In preparing the report, Lord over the past decade and the effect of that experience - with voting rights and the ad - mendations. full council. Woolf was assisted by Justice Mukul Mud - growth on the ICC and the various member ditional stipulation that they should not be The report also asked for greater op - In another recommendation, the gal, former Chief Justice of the Punjab and nations, noting the perception that the big - in a minority. It suggests that the Full portunities for non-Test playing countries Woolf report asks for the current number Haryana High Court, and by consultancy ger nations look after their own interests Member nations eventually have four rep - to compete against the top nations and an of Full Members be "reviewed" in order to firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers. and not those of the game per se. "The ICC resentatives, and the Associates two, with increased say for them in the administra - "open up the full membership more The report was written after interviews reacts as though it is primarily a Members the chairman, president and chief execu - tion of the game. widely." It suggests that Test status with various stakeholders, including the club," the review notes; "its interest in en - tive making up the desired dozen. It recommended that the ICC do away "should not be a requirement of full mem - ICC board, the chief executives' committee, hancing the global development of the It also suggests that an ICC director with the present membership system of ber status." It says that the full member heads of the national cricket bodies, play - game is secondary." should not concurrently hold any leader - Full Members (the Test-playing countries), "class" should include Test playing nations ers' associations, former heads of the ICC Much of its vision of a revamped ICC ship or executive post with their home Associates (countries where cricket is "together with other high-performing (but and journalists. LHR 03-02-2012_Layout 1 2/3/2012 5:39 AM Page 22

friday , 3 february , 2012 22 Aitzaz will appeal PM’s indictment Pakistan for over his refusal to write a letter to Swiss authorities to re - open graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. He said, however, that the filing of an appeal was subject to the prime minister’s approval. He told reporters at the Supreme Court premises that there was definitely an option of filing an appeal against the court’s decision. “My advice to my ‘Afghan-led’ client would be to file an appeal, but the decision rests with him,” he said. Ahsen said even though there was a possibil - ity for an appeal in this matter, it was the court’s preroga - tive whether to suspend the order or not. “This will actually be decided after getting a copy of the order,” he added. He emphasised on his earlier stance that the show- cause notice issued to the prime minister should be dis - peace: Khar charged. The prime minister, he said, acted upon the advice of the law minister and law secretary – which was she would travel with Prime Minister sent in writing– and thus, did not commit any contempt of Yousaf Raza Gilani to Qatar, where the court. He said he wanted democracy to prevail and flourish Taliban have set up a liaison office for in the country and clash of institutions to end. He said the talks with the Americans. court should also issue a notice to former army chief General She said it was “not in anyone’s in - (r) Pervez Musharraf, who twice abrogated the constitution – terest” for Afghanistan to slide back into once on October 12, 1999 and again on November 3, 2007 – the chaos of the past, but said Pakistan and sacked the judges of the apex court. He said his client had “so far” not played any substantial had been asked to appear in court in person on February 13, role in the contacts there between the at which time he would be indicted. Americans and the Taliban. He said four senior officials of the Law Ministry had unani - Analysts say that Kabul and Islam - mously advised the prime minister through a summary not to abad have felt sidelined by the Qatar con - write the letter to the Swiss authorities, as it would be a futile ex - tacts. Khar did not comment explicitly, ercise because the cases were closed because of unavailability of but said it was imperative that the ISLAMABAD required evidence. He said the prime minister had acted upon the Afghans were central to any eventual STAFF REPORT summary, thus it did not warrant contempt of court charges. peace process, still “miles away”. Ahse n also said the prime minister had very humbly bowed his “Who can play this central role? Not Aitzaz Ahsen, who is representing Prime Minister Yousaf head before the court. “I did not represent an individual before the Pakistan, the US, Germany, the UK, Raza Gilani in the contempt case against him, said on court, I represented the constitution before the court,” he said. Qataris, Saudis or anyone, it has to be Thursday that he would file an intra-court appeal against Meanwhile, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President the Afghans,” she said. She was deter - the Supreme Court’s February 2 order summoning the pre - mined to distance from Pakistan being in mier on February 13 to be indicted for contempt of court Continued on page 04 any way an independent actor in an ef - fective peace process. “It is Afghanistan to decide and as a friendly neighbour, it is our job and responsibility and will to stand strongly behind that. The only pre - requisite that Pakistan has is that it Rein in agencies, Nisar asks Gilani, Kayani should be an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-driven, Afghan-backed process which has the ownership of g PM says all institutions answerable to parliament Afghan people,” said Khar. Khar took a swipe at a leaked NATO ISLAMABAD had abducted upon their acquittal from a report accusing Pakistan of complicity STAFF REPORT court of law. Nisar also asked Chief of Army with the Taliban, saying media reports Staff General Ashfaq Kayani to protect the ISLAMABAD and leaks did not reflect Pakistan’s “dia - Strongly criticising the role of agencies in honour and goodwill of the Pakistan Army AFP logue” with NATO and the United States. the missing persons’ case, Leader of Op - and take notice of such incidents. “Pakistan would not want to be seen position in the National Assembly “This is a national army, not a mafia AKISTAN said on Thursday it to be working at counter purposes with Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday … General Kayani must stop such things was willing to do whatever the rest of the world, including the West - asked Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani which tarnish the army’s image,” he said. Afghans wanted to end 10 erners, NATO, ISAF, US. It will be in our and Army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani to PML-N MNAs chanted slogans of years of war with the Taliban, interest to be able to assist them in what - rein-in the intelligence agencies. “shame, shame” over the killing of miss - but insisted the process ever way we can,” she said. Responding to Nisar’s fierce criticism ing persons. Nisar added that it was a Pshould not be led by the Americans or any RESTORING NATO SUPPLIES: She of the killing of four people who were in moral and constitutional obligation of all other foreign power. also signaled that Pakistan could the custody of a spy agency and his de - members of the parliament to raise voice A day after talks with Afghan Presi - shortly end a more than two-month mand of constitution of a court of enquiry in parliament for missing persons and dent Hamid Karzai billed as a fence- blockade on NATO supplies entering by the government, Prime Minister against the atrocities of secret agencies mending visit designed to ease frosty ties, Afghanistan for foreign forces. Re - Yousaf Raza Gilani said a committee of and to appear in the Supreme Court to ex - Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar sponding as to when parliament would the House could be constituted to look press solidarity with the families of the sought to refute perceptions that Islam - pass the review, she said: “I’m going to into the matter, but he proposed that as missing persons. “Whenever the govern - abad was an obstacle to peace. hopefully ensure and push it very hard the matter was sub-judice, the court’s ver - ment feels threats from agencies, the “We’re willing to do whatever the that it is no later than within a week... dict should be awaited. prime minister wastes no time in pointing Afghans want or expect,” Khar said when first half of February is probable.” Gilani said all state institutions should would go to the Supreme Court on the out a state within the state, but in this case asked whether Pakistan was ready to push “I cannot pre-empt what the parlia - work under their constitutional ambit and next hearing of the missing persons’ case no government functionary has come for - the Haqqani network towards peace talks, ment is going to decide but I would as - all institutions were answerable to parlia - to express solidarity with the families ward to speak in favour of common citi - but stopped short of naming the group or sume that should not be so much of a ment. He said the government would re - whose relatives had been illegally ab - zens,” he said, asking the prime minister commenting further. problem,” she said when asked if the spect the Supreme Court’s order in the ducted and killed by spy agencies. to rein in secret agencies and bring their She said Karzai was due in Islam - recommendations would include re - missing persons’ case. Speaking on a point He said a secret agency had dumped heads before parliament so that lawmak - abad in the middle of the month and that opening the border. of order earlier, Nisar announced that he the tortured corpses of four people who it ers could hold them accountable. nAtO expects Afghan PML-N attaches strings to forces to take control support for 20th Amendment by mid-2013 ISLAMABAD welcome the PML-N’s recommen - STAFF REPORT dations. Nisar said the 20th BRUSSELS Amendment should not be passed AFP The Pakistan Muslim League- only to provide legal cover to the Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday ex - members of parliament elected in NATO expects Afghan forces to take con - tended support to the government the by-polls but it should be made trol of security over their entire country by for the passage of the 20th Amend - more meaningful by incorporating the middle of next year while foreign ment to give legal cover to the by- the suggestions put forward by the troops will shift to a support role, the al - elections held during an incomplete PML-N. He blamed the govern - liance’s chief said on Thursday. “We expect Election Commission of Pakistan ment for the delay in passing the the last provinces to be handed over to the (ECP) on the condition that the tenure and privileges of the mem - Afghanistan security forces by mid-2013,” government appointed an impartial bers of the ECP as despite the op - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Ras - election commissioner and an im - position’s support for a consensus mussen told reporters ahead of two days of partial caretaker set up to hold the document, the terms could not be talks among alliance defence ministers. general elections. approved by the government. “From that time Afghan security forces are Leader of the Opposition in the He also demanded the govern - in the lead all over Afghanistan. And from National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan ment give assurance to the nation for that time, the role of our troops will gradu - said his party had no objection over an impartial and independent care - ally change from combat to support. In the 20th Amendment. However, he taker setup for the next general elec - that, there’s nothing new,” he said. US De - said the opposition needed a clear tions. Nisar asked the government to fense Secretary Leon Panetta indicated as assurance from the government pass a new accountability bill after he arrived for the talks that NATO would that they would consider the pro - developing consensus with the oppo - “transition from a combat role to a train posals given by the opposition. sition. PML-N leader Khawaja Saad and advise and assist role” by the end of Responding to Nisar’s con - Rafiq said the passage of the 20th 2013. But Panetta and Rasmussen por - cerns, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza constitutional amendment only for trayed the approach as in keeping with a Gilani said the government was try - the validity of the members of parlia - gradual NATO plan adopted in Lisbon in ing to strengthen all institutions, ment elected in by-polls would not Continued on page 19 adding that the government would send a positive message.

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