Merkel party wins Prince Harry BERLIN (AFP): Angela Merkel's LOS ANGELES (AFP): Prince conservatives scored a convincing Harry announced Sunday the birth win at state elections in Saxony- of their daughter Lilibet Diana, Anhalt on Sunday, seeing off a who was born in California. "Lili threat from the far-right AfD in the is named after her great-grand- final regional poll before the first mother, Her Majesty The Queen, election in 16 years not to feature whose family nickname is Lilibet. the veteran chancellor. The CDU Her middle name, Diana, was cho- won between 35 and 36 percent of sen to honor her beloved late the vote. grandmother.

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Vol. XXXVIII No. 145 Regd. No. 241 SHAWWAL 26 1442 -- MONDAY, JUNE 07 2021 PESHAWAR EDITION 12 PAGES Price. 20 Pope voices ‘pain’ over Canadian deaths, doesn’t apologize VATICAN CITY (AP) From the 19th century Kamloops, British Colu- rows and sufferings of the Chief Rosanne Casimir Francis said. below his window to join which resulted in devasta- Pope Francis on Sunday until the 1970s, more than mbia, last month. The sch- past,” he added. of the Tk’emlups te “These difficult him in silent prayer. tion for children, families expressed his pain over the 150,000 Indigenous chil- ool was Canada’s largest Trudeau on Friday blast- Secwepemc First Nation in moments represent a strong Last week, the Vatican and communities.” discovery in Canada of the dren were forced to attend such facility and was oper- ed the church for being British Columbia has said call to distance ourselves spokesman didn’t respond The United, Presbyterian remains of 215 Indigenous state-funded Christian ated by the Catholic Church “silent” and “not stepping her nation wants a public from the colonial model to requests for comment and Anglican churches students of church-run schools, the majority of between 1890 and 1969. up,? and called on it to for- apology from the Catholic and from today’s ideologi- about the demands for a have apologized for their boarding schools and them run by Roman “I am following with mally apologize and to Church. The Missionary O- cal colonizing and to walk formal apology from the roles in the abuse, as has pressed religious and politi- Catholic missionary con- pain the news that arrives make amends for its promi- blates of Mary Immaculate, side by side in dialogue, in pope. the Canadian government, cal authorities to shed light gregations, in a campaign from Canada about the nent role in his nation’s for- which ran nearly half of mutual respect and in rec- On Wednesday, which has offered compen- on “this sad affair.” But he to assimilate them into upsetting discovery of the mer system of church-run Canada’s residential scho- ognizing rights and cultural Vancouver Archbishop sation. Among the many didn’t offer the apology Canadian society. remains of 215 children,” Indigenous boarding ols, has yet to release any values of all the daughters Michael Miller tweeted his recommendations of a gov- sought by the Canadian The Canadian govern- Francis said in his custom- schools. records about the Kamlo- and sons of Canada,” the “deep apology and pro- ernment-established Truth prime minister. ment has admitted that ary Sunday noon remarks He noted that when he ops school, she also said. pope said. found condolences to the and Reconciliation Francis, in remarks to physical and sexual abuse to the public. met with Francis at the Francis’ comments “Let’s entrust to the Lord families and communities Commission was a papal faithful gathered in St. was rampant in the schools, “I join with the Canadian Vatican in 2017, he had spoke of healing but not of the souls of all those chil- that have been devastated apology. Peter’s Square, also called with students beaten for bishops and the entire asked him to ”move for- apology. dren, deceased in the resi- by this horrific news.” The In 2009, then Pope on the authorities to foster speaking their native lan- Catholic Church in Canada ward on apologizing” and “May the political and dential schools of Canada,? churchman, who leads Benedict XVI met with for- healing but made no refer- guages. in expressing my closeness on making records avail- religious authorities contin- the pontiff added. “Let us Catholics in that British mer students and survivors ence to Prime Minister Ground-penetrating to the Canadian people able. But, Trudeau said, ue to collaborate with pray for the families and for Columbia archdiocese, and told them of his “per- Justin Trudeau’s insistence, radar was used to confirm traumatized by the shock- “we’re still seeing resist- determination to shed light the indigenous Canadian added that the church was sonal anguish” over their two days earlier, that the the remains of the children ing news,? Francis said. ance from the church, pos- on this sad affair and to communities overcome by “unquestionably wrong in suffering. But his words Vatican apologize and take at the Kamloops Indian ”This sad discovery adds sibly from the church in commit humbly to a path of sorrow.” Francis then asked implementing a govern- weren’t described as an responsibility. Residential School in to the awareness of the sor- Canada.” reconciliation and healing,? the public in the square ment colonialist policy apology. Supreme Court to hear PM thanks Leaders of parties in Bennett-Lapid President Shaukat’s appeal today Xi coalition meet for first time ISLAMABAD (APP): The mending his removal from A three-judge special ISLAMABAD (APP): TEL AVIV (Agencies): The likely have to wait until violence — and incitement Netanyahu then made Supreme Court on Monday his post for misconduct as bench led by Chief Justice Prime Minister Imran Khan leaders of the eight parties next Monday. In the mean- to violence — will always the unfounded claim that will take up the petition of well as a notification of the of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed Sunday thanked Chinese that make up the new gov- time, Prime Minister be out of bounds,” he said. “we are witnesses to the sacked judge of Islamabad government issued on Oct and comprising Justice President Xi Jinping for his ernment hoping to be sworn Benjamin Netanyahu has His comments came a greatest election fraud in High Court Shaukat Aziz 11, 2018, terminating his Mushir Alam and Justice “strong message” on World in next week, are currently not yet given up on the day after the head of the the history of the country Siddiqui challenging the service. Ijaz Ul Ahsan will hear the Environment Day hosted meeting in Tel Aviv for the hope of persuading some Shin Bet security agency and in my opinion the his- notification of the President The Supreme Judicial federal government pen- by Pakistan on June 5. first time since last week’s members of the would-be issued a rare warning that tory of democracies.” terminating his service. Council (SJC) had recom- sion tomorrow (Monday). At main World announcement that Yesh coalition to defect and vote rising incitement and hate The premier also hit out A five-member larger mended the removal of Attorney General for Environment Day event Atid chair Yair Lapid, has against the government. speech on social media at Facebook and Twitter bench headed by Justice Islamabad High Court Pakistan Khalid Khan, on held at Convention Center, succeeded in forming a Earlier, Netanyahu on could lead to political vio- after some right-wing fig- Umer Ata Bandial and judge, Justice Shaukat behalf of the federal gov- also addressed by the prime coalition. Sunday tore into his rivals lence, and as lawmakers in ures, including his eldest comprising of Justice Siddiqui from his office for ernment, filed a petition minister, President Xi had Lapid, Yamina chair as they appeared set to the so-called “change gov- son, Yair, had their acco- Sardar Tariq Masood, leveling serious allegations against the ruling on sent a message read out by Naftali Bennett, who is set swear in what he branded a ernment” were given extra unts temporarily blocked Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan, against state institutions, August 17.The Supreme Chinese Ambassador in to be prime minister first in “dangerous left-wing gov- security amid mounting for sharing a poster for a Justice Mazhar Alam Khan including the judiciary and Court on September 2, Islamabad. a rotation agreement with ernment,” claiming that if pressure from the right. protest outside Yamina MK Miankhel and Justice the premier state intelli- 2020 had allowed the feder- Prime Minister Imran the Yesh Atid leader, New approved, the coalition Netanyahu charged that Nir Orbach’s home that Sajjad Ali Shah will hear gence agency, during a al government appeal and Khan said that hosting the Hope chair Gideon Sa’ar, would be the result of “the right-wingers were being included his address. the petition on Monday. speech at the District Bar suspended the SHC judg- World Environment Day Yisrael Beytenu’s Avigdor greatest election fraud” in singled out unfairly for crit- Netanyahu called the brief Shaukat had filed an Association, Rawalpindi. ment against the inquiry manifested Pakistan’s com- Liberman, Blue and Whi- Israel’s history. icizing their political oppo- suspensions “an attempt to application in the Supreme SC to take up govt peti- commission report on sugar mitment to counter envi- te’s Benny Gantz, Labor’s At a faction meeting of nents. silence the right… No one Court on April 28, request- tion against SHC deci- mills. The court had also ronmental degradation. Merav Michaeli and Mere- his Likud party, Netanyahu “Criticism by the right will silence us.” ing for fixing his case at the sion: Supreme Court on issued notices to the sugar “We laud President Xi's tz’s Nitzan Horowitz, and said he condemned all can’t be treated as incite- He continued: “It won’t earliest, as he was going to Monday will take up feder- mills owners. lordship in combating cli- the conservative Islamic incitement and violence, ment and criticism by the resist the pressure… to retire on June 30. al government’s petition The SHC on August 17, mate change & biodiversity party Ra’am’s leader, “even when others are left as a legitimate act of rebuild an American con- Shoukat Aziz Siddiqui against the judgment of 2020 had quashed the fact- loss & his offer to step up Mansour Abbas are all tak- silent when incitement free speech. This is an sulate for Palestinians in had challenged before the Sindh High Court (SHC) finding report and the iss- cooperation on ecosystem ing part in the meeting. toward us runs rampant.” effort to frame the right as the heart of Jerusalem and apex court the decision of deeming the sugar commis- ued notifications constitut- restoration,” Prime The emerging govern- “The principle must be something violent and dan- in doing so return the mat- the Supreme Judicial sion and its report unlaw- ing the commission of Minister Imran Khan ment hopes to be sworn in clear and uniform for gerous to democracy,” he ter of dividing Jerusalem to Council (SJC), recom- ful. inquiry. remarked on Twitter. as soon as possible but will everyone: Incitement and said. the agenda.” The Frontier Post, Peshawar Monday, June 07, 2021

Sindh decides to Coronavirus positivity reopen educational Govt can’t hide institutions from rate reduced to 2 per cent June 7 inefficiency by shifting KARACHI (APP): Sindh government has decided to reopen educational institu- inflation blame in Punjab: Dr Yasmin tions for classes nine and above from June 7 (Monday) with strict obser- F.P Report resume water sports with tion process in Punjab had few months. "We are vacci- vance of standard operating on IMF: Bilawal strict adherence to the coro- been expedited. The min- nating 400,000 people in a procedures (SOPs). LAHORE: Punjab Health navirus-related standard ister informed that day by next month", she Such decision was taken KARACHI (TLTP): stake by signing an agree- people’s welfare.” Minister Yasmin Rashid operating procedures 180,000 people had been said. She said that the in a meeting of the provin- Pakistan Peoples Party ment with the IMF on Bilawal stated that the said on Sunday that corona (SOPs). vaccinated in the province province would also place cial task force on Covid-19 (PPP) Chairman Bilawal tough conditions. government had remained positivity rate had reduced She urged the traders during the last 24 hours an order of vaccine worth held here on Sunday. The Bhutto Zradri has said He alleged, "The mafia unable to bring about its to 2 per cent in the province and shopkeepers to follow and the COVID situation Rs1.5 billion. meeting was chaired by that the government can- working under Imran five-year economic plan. due to SOPs implementa- business hours announced would start improving The minister said that Syed Chief Minister Murad not cover its inefficiency Khan’s supervision raised “If the PTI’s policy is to tion which may further by the government and once 50 per cent of the vaccines were available in Ali Shah. by shifting the blame of the prices of chicken by plan the economy on the reduce in days to come. said that strict SOPs 110 million population of every district and efforts The meeting decided inflation on the 110 percent in the past IMF’s directions, then the Addressing a weekly would help in bringing the province was vaccinat- were being made to distrib- that restaurants would be International Monetary three months. The PTI premier should tell peo- press conference, she said down the COVID positivi- ed. Dispelling the impres- ute vaccines in every rural allowed to remain open for Fund (IMF). elite minted billions by ple openly that he came that commercial activities ty rate. She said that sion about vaccine short- and urban area. She said outdoor dining until 12:00. In a statement on raising the prices of to power without any in the province were barred indoor marriages were yet age, she said that Punjab that corona could be eradi- Sindh government also Sunday, Bilawal respond- chicken, and unfortunate- planning.” after 8:00 pm. to be allowed, adding the health department had 1.8 cated only by following allowed businesses to ed to Finance Minister ly, they will now Earlier on June 3, She said that from May restrictions were meant to million doses of corona SOPs. Vaccines were being remain open till 8pm Shaukat Tarin’s recent lower the prices and Finance Minister Shaukat 29 to onward, the Punjab benefit the public rather vaccine in stock while as 30 administered all over the instead of 6pm. claim that the IMF forced claim credit.” Tarin claimed that the government had decided to than the government. She million more doses would world and there was no Chief Minister said all Pakistan to increase inter- He said that a common IMF forced Pakistan to reopen public parks and further said that vaccina- reach Pakistan in the next harm in it, she added. shopkeepers would also est rates and electricity man does not have take certain steps that have to get vaccinated and prices that doubled the money, criticising the pushed inflation upward. keep proofs of their vacci- cost of debt servicing and premier for "planning to In a rejoinder to the nation at their shops. pushed inflation upward. hand over billions to PTI Pakistan Muslim League- Asad Qaiser Sea view and beaches Bilawal asked, “If lawmakers in the forth- Nawaz’s (PML-N) cri- Educational institutions will also be opened, Syed India could overcome coming budget". He tique of the government’s visits Iqbal Murad Ali Shah said, inflation by 4.20 percent added, “Awarding Rs96 economic policies, the adding that Salons and bar- and Bangladesh could do billion to PTI lawmakers minister also said when mausoleum to reopen from today ber shops will be allowed the same by 5.54 percent, in the midst of the worst the PML-N was in power, LAHORE (APP): National to open and outdoor wed- during the Covid pan- economic crisis is [an] the 5.5% economic Assembly Speaker Asad LAHORE (APP): As many Monday, he maintained. inspect the implementation on dings will be allowed after demic, why was the ratio anti-people [step]. growth rate was fuelled Qaiser on Sunday visited as 3700 educational institu- The CEO told that total SOPs. To another question, he two weeks. at 10.9 percent in Instead of handing out by borrowings. the mausoleum of great poet tions including schools, col- 442 institutions of public said that vaccination of teach- The Chief Minister said Pakistan?” billions to those elected “Debt servicing of the east and philosopher leges and medical colleges sector including 413 high ers and staff of institutions that strict SOPs will have to He said that the gov- through rigging, the pre- increased because of the Dr Allama Muhammad in the provincial capital will schools and 29 higher sec- was almost completed. be followed by markets, ernment had put the sov- mier should spend money increase in interest rates,” Iqbal and laid a wreath on resume classes under strict ondary schools would Well placed sources in salons and at the beach. ereignty of the nation at from the exchequer on Tarin said. the grave. He also offered adherence to the COVID-19 resume all classes with 50 HED Punjab told APP that Fateha for the departed soul SOPs from Monday. percent presence. zero tolerance policy was and later recorded his The schools and colleges To a question, he replied adopted against violations impression in the visitor's under public and private sec- that following the instructions and no one from the stu- book. Talking to the media, tor are being opened follow- by the Punjab government, dents, teachers and staff of he said that opposition ing the decision made by the strict adherence to SOPs was colleges would be allowed should effectively utilize National Command and being ensured in these institu- to enter the premises without the forum of parliament to Operations Centre (NCOC), tions. He said that the man- checking temperature and tackle various challenges Higher Education agement of institutions was mask. It may be mention facing the country includ- Department (HED) and instructed to monitor tempera- here that after a long break, ing water shortage, envi- District Education Authority ture, check face masks and educational activities are ronment and others. (DEA) Lahore with 50 per- maintain social distancing to started in more than 60 col- He said that all steps cent presence of students. avoid any outbreak of the leges in public sector besides which the incumbent gov- The management of all virus. The CEO said that over 100 colleges , acade- ernment had taken for the educational institutions had monitoring teams would be mies and coaching centers protection of environment been directed by the govern- set up to visit the schools to under private sector. yielded good results, due to ment to ensure strict imple- which, Pakistan hosted main mentation of SOPs to safe- ceremony in connection guard the students, staff and with World Environment teachers from COVID-19. Day on Saturday under the Chief Executive Officer leadership of Prime Minister of the DEA Lahore Pervez Imran Khan. He urged the Akhtar told APP that partial opposition to hold discus- educational activities for stu- sion on economy, water dents of grade 9 to 12 were issue, global warming, food already allowed last week. security, coronavirus and Over 3000 registered private pollution problems, adding secondary and higher sec- that he would allow maxi- ondary schools including mum time to discuss these academies will welcome the issues comprehensively in students of all grades on the parliament. alternate day basis from The Frontier Post Monday, June 07, 2021 03 CM directs devising operational model for School of Aviation F.P. Report taries of concerned depart- authorities concerned to released for the procure- ments, Air Commodore revise the PC-1 of the said ment of equipments for PESHAWAR: Chief Mini- Muhammad Khurram project and frame opera- establishing meat process- ster Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shehzad, MD TEVTA and tional and business model ing training and production Mahmood Khan has direct- other concerned senior offi- and get it approved from plant. ed the quarters concerned cials attended the meeting. the concerned forum at the The chief minister to devise an operational While briefing the forum earliest. stressed upon the need of PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan chairing a meeting regarding model for making School about the progress so far The chief minister said adopting realistic approach School of Aviation Training and Services Akora Khattak. of Aviation Training and made on above mentioned that all the pre requisites towards establishing the Services Centre Akora projects, it was told that and arrangements be final- meat processing plant and Khattak functional. school of Aviation Training ized well in time and directed the concerned He issued these direc- and Services had been responsibilities of con- quarters to prepare a CM expresses tives while chairing a meet- established now it needs to cerned departments/entities detailed concept paper after Edu institutions ing regarding School of be made operational. be clearly defined in order consultation with all stake- grief over Aviation Training and The chief minister further to run the project in effec- holders in this regard. Services Akora Khattak, directed to finalize the strat- tive manner so that desired He said that the main of Mansehra held here the other day at egy in order to complete the objectives of the project objectives of the project reopening today Chief Minister’s House, establishment of meat pro- could be achieved. must be kept in mind while traffic incident said an official handout cessing training and produc- Meanwhile, the meeting devising strategy for the PESHAWAR (APP): Chief PESHAWAR (APP): Sp- message to the teachers and administration should be issued here on Sunday. tion plant project. was informed that Rs establishment of meat pro- Minister Khyber Pakht- ecial Assistant to the Chief students said that due to implemented so that the Administrative secre- He also directed the 142.755 million had been cessing plant. unkhwa Mehmood Khan Minister Khyber Pakhtu- public cooperation and best third wave like the first and Sunday expressed grief and nkhwa on Information and strategy of the provincial second wave of Corona sorrow over the killing of Higher Education Assistant government, Corona has could be completely con- six persons of a family in a Kamran Khan Bangash succeeded in overcoming trolled. JUI-F leader traffic incident at district Sunday sent a message of the third wave. Kamran Bangash said he Traders celebrate Mansehra. greeting to the students and Teachers, students and hoped that the students injured in The Chief Minister in teachers well before reop- support staff are welcome would concentrate on their his condolence message ening of educational institu- back to school, welcome studies and come to attack World Environment Day expressed sympathies with tion in all across Khyber and welcome, he said, schools, colleges and uni- PESHAWAR (INP): Uni- the bereaved family mem- Pakhtunkhwa from Monday. adding, “The third wave of versities with enthusiasm. dentified assailants opened F.P. Report ing.The chief guest was diversity has been part of bers and prayed Allah He said the provincial Corona has been largely Pointing to the visionary fire at Jamiat Ulema-e- presented a bouquet by Pakistani nature and cul- Almighty to rest the depart- government on the direc- controlled but precaution- leadership of the Chief Islam’s (JUI-F) Ansar-ul- PESHAWAR: Under the Vice Chairman Green ture. “Now that mankind is ed soul in eternal peace. tives of NCOC had taken ary measures still need to Minister of Khyber Islam leader Maulana auspices of Green Growth Growth, Provincial Chair- fighting COVID 19, we Mehmood Khan also the best strategy against the be taken.” Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Luqman and injured him Pakistan, World Envir- man National Peace Cou- reaffirm our commitment prayed for early recovery Corona III wave and with In a welcome back mes- Khan, the Special Assistant on Sunday. onment Day was celebrated ncil Pakistan Trade Wing to working with the inter- of the injured and directed the grace of Almighty Allah sage issued from his office said that by the grace of Maulana Luqman was in Pakistan as well as all KP Ghulam Bilal Javed and national community for a hospital administration to the positivity rates are com- on Sunday, Special Almighty Allah, thanks to rushed to a hospital for over the world. President Pakistan Inte- sustainable future,” he provide all kinds of health ing down with every day Assistant Kamran Bangash the tremendous administra- medical treatment. The Green Growth Chairman rnational Human Rights added. facilities to them. passing. also appealed to the teach- tive foresight of Chief attackers managed to flee Sajid Iqbal and Vice Organization Habib Malik At the end of the cere- It is worth mentioning Special Assistant for ers and students to follow Minister Mahmood Khan, away from the scene. Police Chairman Ghulam Bilal Orakzai. mony, Ghulam Bilal Javed here that six persons were Information and Higher the corona SOPs. He said the battle against Corona have launched a hunt for the Javed hosted the event to Ghulam Bilal said that invited the Deputy Speaker died and three children Education Kamran Ban- that the precautionary has won even during the attackers of Maulana celebrate the day with zeal the United Nations General of the National Assembly were injured when a carry gash in his welcome back measures issued by the third wave in the province. Luqman who is the Salaar and enthusiasm. Partic- Assembly had celebrated Qasim khan Suri to visit the vehicle plunged into river (leader) of District Khyber. ipants among them not the World Environment Sarhad chamber Peshawar Seran near Gojra bridge A day go, people in only business community, Day in 1972, which was and thanked him for attend- Lisan Nawab road district Bajaur lynched a man after chambers from all over first observed in 1974. ing the program. Mansehra. accusing him of planting Pakistan while people On the occasion, Vice Ghulam Bilal pays trib- Coronavirus claims 9 bombs that killed Jamiat belonging to the general Chairman National Peace ute to Assistant Director Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) lead- public participated. Council Pakistan Abdul Green Growth Madam FIR yet to be ers some months ago. Deputy Speaker Natio- Haseeb Chughtai said that Hooria Khan and her team more lives in KP The angry mob consist- nal Assembly Qasim Khan living in harmony with for organizing a wonderful registered after ed of locals who arrested Suri attended the gather- nature and conserving bio- program. PESHAWAR (APP): Nine claimed three more lives in on Sunday. the unfortunate man and MPA stormed people have died of coron- Peshawar in the last 24 The official informed beat him to death. The per- avirus in Khyber Pakhtunkh- hours. The death toll from that 313,699 health workers son accused of bombing grid station wa and with this the deaths corona virus in Peshawar and the elderly have been belonged to Mamoond toll from Corona in the has risen to 2,041, the offi- given the first dose of Sino Tehsil of Bajaur. Women stressed to plan role PESHAWAR (INP): The province has risen to 4,144. cial said. pharm and 228,853 health police are yet to register an An official of the health Corona in Peshawar workers and elderly people FIR on Sunday, as ruling department said in a daily affected 69 more people in were also given second in keeping environment clean Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf briefing here on Sunday 24 hours and the number of dose of Sino pharm. 5 criminals F.P. Report should play role in this ronment as to create aware- MPA Fazal Elahi has that the last 24 hours, 249 corona cases in Peshawar He disclosed that regard to minimize the risks ness among them from the stormed a grid station in more people have been has reached 49,383, the 347,491 health workers and held, weapons PESHAWAR: Khyber caused by global warming. beginning of their school- Peshawar along with his infected with Coronavirus official of the Health elderly people have been Pakhtunkhwa Ombudspe- On the occasion ing and they can plant trees hundreds of companions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Department said. given the first dose of recovered rson Rakhshanda Naaz has Maryum Bibi from at their schools and homes and tried to incite the peo- and the total number of He said 8,713 new tests Synovak and 57831 health PESHAWAR (APP): Five said that women should Khwando Kor told that her as well. ple against the power sup- corona cases in the provi- were conducted in a single workers and the elderly notorious criminals were play a role in keeping the organization is working Romaisa Arbab, said that ply company in the city. nce has reached 134,321. day in the province and so were given a second dose arrested during search and environment clean and with women to enable the main aim of the activity According to Peshawar However, he said, in the far the total tests in the of cyanobacteria. strike operations in Nows- green like men. them to be responsible was to connect the schools Electric Supply Company last 24 hours, 502 patients province reached 1846992. He said that 18,926 eld- hera district to ensure peace This she said last day in members of the society girls and women of the (Pesco), PTI MPA Fazal infected with corona have Coronavirus vaccination erly people have also been during anti-polio drive sta- a program in connection on and also to provide them areas in the international Elahi along with his 400 recovered in Khyber to citizens continues in all vaccinated against rting today (Monday). World Environment Day with different skills so that environment day and create companions besieged the Pakhtunkhwa and the num- across Khyber Pakhtunk- cannabis and 120,522 A series of search and here Deen-o- Dunya School they are able to sell their awareness among them grid station in Peshawar. ber of people recovering hwa and a total of 279,357 health workers and the eld- strike operations are under- Mathra Warsak Road handmade products in the about clean and green envi- The MPA shifted the from Corona in the provi- people have been vaccinat- erly have been given the way on the special instruc- Peshawar. She said that markets. ronment. commercial feeder load to nce has reached 125,859. ed,said the official of the first dose of AstraZeneca tions of District Police women and girls can play a She informed that girls At the end a walk was residential feeder load. The He said, Coronavirus health department KP here vaccine. Officer Nowshera Dr pivotal role to ensure a especially school girls can also organized by school company said that the Muhammad Iqbal to ensure clean and green environ- play an important role to girls to create awareness provincial assembly mem- the peaceful conduct of ment, adding that every one clean and green the envi- about environment. ber did not leave alone the anti-polio drive. Pesco official in his bid to During the operations, lower the load on the com- Traders call for fix-tax raids were carried out on mercial feeder. the hideouts of criminal The Pesco officials fur- elements. After checking ther said that the PTI MPA system, cut in turnover ratio the criminal records of the also blocked the Ring Road PESHAWAR (APP): stressed upon the govern- mentation of agreements suspects, they were relea- and incited people against President, Traders’Alliance ment to keep in view a the reached-out with trading sed after clearing them. the power supply company. KP, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman has introduction of a simplified community. During the search opera- The Pesco officials went called for introducing fix- tax system to make a He further called for tion, 5 criminals were to lodge the First Invest- tax system for trading com- traders’ friendly and strengthening of coordina- arrested, 5 alleged crimi- igation Report against munity and bringing the growth-oriented budget. He tion between Federal Board nals and 3 guns were recov- MPA Fazal Elahi and 25 of ratio of turn-over tax down suggested the registration of Revenue (FBR) andtrad- ered from their possession. his accomplices with the to 0.25%. of shopkeeper for sales tax ing community. A full proof security Bhana Marri police station He was addressing a on the basis of the volume Mujeeb-ur-Rehman also plan has been formulated to but still the FIR had not consultative meeting of of his business. demandedrelief package make the anti-polio drive been registered against the trading community regard- The president of for traders and SMEs, peaceful. Search operations provincial assembly mem- ing forthcoming federal and Traders’ Alliance was con- issuance of markup credit will continue to deal with ber and his companions. provincial budgets here on fident that the tax target of to traders on personal sure- the unfortunate incident. Sunday. Rs.8000 billion could be ty and relief on commercial Mujeeb-ur-Rehman easily achieved after imple- power bills. CTP takes KP Food PESHAWAR: SP Cantt Division Waqar Ahmed addressing a press conference. Authority action against — F.P. photo by Ghulam Murtaza MPA hails KP police for violaters launches PESHAWAR (APP): City crackdown maintaining law & order Traffic Police (CTP) Police arrested gang PESHAWAR (APP): KP PESHAWAR (APP): Mem- inflation. He thanked Chief ernment that is why Chief Peshawar has taken action Food Safety Authority ber Provincial Assembly Minister Mehmood Khan Minister KP Mahmood against 512491 persons for Sunday crackdown on Arbab Jehandad Khan said for increasing the wages of Khan introduced Insaf violating traffic rules dur- involved in making fake mafia and raided a milk that maintaining law and laborers from Rs 17,000 to Health Care Card so that to ing the last five months, a shop in Abbottabad where- order situation in Peshawar Rs 21,500. provide best healthcare report of the Traffic Police in 1200 liters of water mix- is the best performance of He termed the PTI-led facilities to the people with- issued here on Sunday said. fingerprints, fake thumb ture milk was wasted. the Police Department. govt a true representative of out any discrimination. On the supervision of According to detail, the Addressing the inaugu- the poor people which Peshawar is grateful to the Chief Capital Police PESHAWAR (APP): The They used fake fingerprints said, adding, initially, 346 Food Safety Authority ration ceremony of the introduced free health to Chief Minister Mahmood Abbas Ahsan and Chief Police in a strike and search to deal with anonymous illegal SIMs and 88 fake Official during a routine place constructed for funer- the entire people of Khyber Khan for taking key steps Traffic Officer Abbas operation have arrested a bank accounts, he said. fingerprints made of rubber checking raided a milk al prayers, MPA Arbab Pakhtunkhwa. in the development of the Majeed Khan Marwat, City gang involved in making He said that the accused were recovered. shop in Abbottabad and Jehandad Khan said that the He said provision of entire city. Introducing the Traffic Police Peshawar fake fingerprints, and fake identified as Mohammad Most mobile Sims have after reviewing the milk, PTI government was work- healthcare is the top most Health card truly represents issued 20817 overs for not thumb here on Sunday. Shafiq, Muhammad been used for duck recov- they found it a water-mix- ing day and night to control priority of the present gov- the poor people. wearing seat belt, 14519 This was stated by SP Naveed, Bilal and Shah ery follow up, SP Cantt ture milk which was later for not wearing helmet, Cantt Division Waqar Hussain were also involved said. He said, it has been on disposed of on the spot. 140019 for one-wheeling Ahmed while talking to the in getting Sims wrongly decided to include the Similarly, 600 liters of 4182 on loading to estab- media men here. He said and selling them at high accused in the investigation milk were lost due to mix- lish 52858 encroachments that a special team has been prices. After getting these of extortion cases and ing of water in milk sam- on nine parking zone viola- formed under the supervi- illegal Sims that were used details of ten suspicious ples in Dera Ismail Khan tions 2982, 4381 on driving sion of DSP Badhaber for extortion calls, he said, bank accounts were being and action was taken without road permit 4381 Malik Habib who success- adding, kidnapping for ran- obtained while contact has against those involved in on traveling mobile use fully reached out to the som was also paid from been made with State Bank this practice. In another 1907 Corona 100309 on gang involved in such anonymous accounts creat- of Pakistan and other con- raid 1900 liters of counter- violations of SOPs, 41363 heinous crime. ed with fake fingerprints. cerned agencies. feit drinks were recovered on violating lane discipline He said the accused Easy money and The district administra- during the raid in Wari and other action has been belong to different areas of MobiCash accounts have tion and Tehsildar Upper Dir and the factory taken against 80373 per- Peshawar,highly educated also been created with fake Peshawar have also been and the warehouse were sons for not giving right of and have held key positions fingers, he informed. In the contacted regarding fake sealed by the official of the way to vehicles. in the franchise of a well- initial investigation, the transfers, he said. He said food authority team. CTO Abbas Majeed known national mobile accused disclosed that such illegal Sims were also Likewise, more than 300 Khan Marwat while expre- company, he informed. an account was used for involved in selling it on kg of burglars and expired ssing satisfaction over the The suspects used fake extortion and kidnapping many people at exorbitant items recovered in Dir, 3 sh- operations said that CTP fingerprints to make fake for ransom. The accused prices with other people ops were sealed and action Peshawar would use all its rubber thumbprints and were also experts in forging having also been interrogat- was taken against the own- capabilities to ensure imp- mobile SIMs were obtained transfers and other forged ed on the identification of ers of the shops by selling PESHAWAR: A view of closed shops in commercial market area during lementation of laws. through fake fingerprints. government documents, he the accused. expired food items. opening times restrictions to curb spread of COVID-19. — F.P. photo District Monday, June 07, 2021 The Frontier Post

In brief Focused policies 3 children die in roof collapse being launched DADU (INP): Three children died while a FAISALABAD (APP): PTI government had initiat- through it with prudent minor girl was injured State Minister for Infor- ed a new project of policies and switching over when portion of a roof mation and Broadcasting National Food Security to to the hydel power houses collapsed due to rain Farrukh Habib said on enhance domestic produc- by constructing new water here on Sunday. Sunday the PTI govern- tion of edible oil, cereals reservoirs”. According to details, ment was trying its level and food to save people He said that PML-N after rain lashed the best to pass on minimum from the impact of global government enhanced area, a portion of dilap- impact of global inflation to price hike. power generation but failed idated roof of a house its masses and in this con- He further said that to arrange transmission located near Mehar nection, focused policies petroleum prices also lines. “Now we started Bypass Dadu suddenly were being launched to jumped in the international work on laying transmis- came down. Three chil- enhance domestic produc- market but in Pakistan, the sion lines which will help dren died in the incident tion in addition to minimiz- government maintained it government to transmit and a minor girl was ing imports of food items. static for the last two electricity from energy sur- seriously injured. The Addressing a press con- months. In this connection, plus areas to energy starved injured girl was shifted ference here at Circuit petroleum levies have been areas”, he added. to local hospital where House, he said that 40 per- trimmed and the govern- The State Minister said she was referred to cent increase had been ment had to bear an addi- that capacity charges were Chandka Hospital recorded at international tional burden of Rs 8 bil- Rs 185 billion in 2013 Larkana due her critical level particularly in food lion to give cheaper petro- which jumped up to Rs 468 QUETTA: Member Pakistan Bar Council Munier Ahmad Kakar Advocate with senior lawyers during condition. items. leum products to its people. in 2018. Similarly, the PTI inauguration ceremony of MNT and Law Forum. — INP photo Citing the statics of Food He said the opposition government had to pay Rs 2 killed, 2 hurt and Agriculture Organiza- was presenting fake data 860 billion to the IPPs in tion UN, he said that infla- just to malign the PTI gov- 2020 as capacity charges in road accident tion was a global phenome- ernment which had suc- which would jump to Rs Six persons SIALKOT (APP): Two na which had further aggra- cessfully controlled the 1455 billion in 2023. Heavy rain coupled youths were killed vated the situation due to prices in addition to manag- He said that PMLN gov- die, three while two others sus- coronavirus. He said that it ing the affairs of the coun- ernment handed over bat- tained serious injuries was very difficult for the try. He said that previous tered economy to PTI injured in in a collision between government with highly government had created which was further aggra- with thunderstorm two motorcycles at volatile economy to rein in very hostile environment vated by the impact of road mishap Pasrur Road on Sunday. its impacts and save people for PTI government. coronavirus. “Our govern- MANSEHRA (APP): Six The dead were identi- from high inflation rate. He said that imported ment has negotiated with persons were died and three fied as Dilawar (18) and He said that edible oil fuel was used in generating 50 IPPs and convinced children were injured when killed 3, injured 2 Hamza (13), while and pulses were generally 45% electricity. He alleged them to reduce the return a carry vehicle plunged into injured were Haseeb imported to meet domestic that past regime of PML-N rate and thus saved Rs 770 river Seran district ABBOTTABAD (APP): Abbottabad lightning killed blocked many roads includ- (20) and Shakeel (14). needs. As per the report, established 25-35 % cost- billion”, he added. All eco- Mansehra. Torrential rain coupled with 19 years old Aziz of Maira ing Karakoram Highway Rescue-1122 shifted the 124 percent increase had lier power houses which nomic indicators are posi- According to Rescue hail and thunderstorms killed Muzafar when he was (KKH) from several places victims to the Civil been recorded in edible oil, had become a liability for tive and we are hoping to 1122 officials, a carry vehi- three people in the Hazara going home in the late at district Haripur, Hospital Pasrur. 28% in dairy items, 10 % in the people of Pakistan for pass on more benefits to the cle plunged into river Seran division and injured several. evening. Abbottabad, and Mansehra. meat, 57 % in sugar while the next many years. general public in the next near Gojra bridge Lisan According to the res- According to the police The corrugated galva- Vaccination 37 percent increase had He said the PMLN gov- two years, he said. Nawab road and as a result cue1122 and police spokesman, when he was nized iron roof of dozens of been witnessed in the cere- ernment provided costlier He said that Sindh gov- six persons were died spokesman, in Sarai Saleh, near to his home in the vil- houses and huge billboards camp held als and pulses. electricity which had ernment should also dis- including two women and a the boundary wall of a plot lage suddenly lightning on roadsides were blown HYDERABAD (APP): He said the PTI govern- become an unbearable bur- charge its constitutional lia- child while three children fell resulting in two people struck him and killed him at off with a raging storm. In order to vaccinate all ment fully utilized its den not only on the people bilities and focus on the got critical injuries. including 55 years old the spot. The ill-fated chap In most parts of the three government employees resources and administra- but also on the national welfare of the province. He The injured children Shakor and 9 years old was shifted to Ayub districts, the storm also against COVID-19, a tive skills to control the kitty. He said that unbal- lamented that Sindh gov- were rushed to Phalra hos- Sajid died at the spot when Medical Complex (ATH) destroyed the electricity vaccination camp was prices of food items which anced agreements were ernment was encouraging pital while the bodies were they buried under the debris where he was declared dead transmission system where organized at the office were produced locally. He made with the IPPs and now mafias who were looting shifted to King Abdullah of the wall while two chil- and handed over to the fam- electric pols also fell and of Deputy Commiss- refuted the allegations of we are bound to make them the people with both hands. hospital. dren sustained critical ily without a postmortem. were deprived of electrici- ioner Tando Allahyar on PPP and PML-N and said capacity payment which had He further said the PTI The police have regis- injuries and were identified Heavy rain coupled with ty. Heavy rain also dam- Sunday. On the special that Pakistan had controlled triggered circular debt. government had distributed tered a case against the as 11 years old Ibrahim and thunder and hailstorm aged the standing crop of instructions of Deputy the inflation prudently while He said that former pre- Rs 1100 billion among the accused 6 years of age Mustafa. struck life all over the wheat and some of the fruit Commissioner (DC) a reasonable subsidy was mier Shahid Khaqan Abbas farming community which Further investigation In the district, Hazara division and orchards. Abdul Rasheed Zardari, given to maintain the prices had termed it as number played a key role in drag- was underway. the District Health of flour and sugar, etc. one problem of the country ging out the farmers from Authority has organized Farrukh Babib said the but “We are trying to get the poverty track. the vaccination camp in which all officers/offi- 2 killed, as Ministry of IT launches cials of different gov- ernment departments many hurt were inoculated. Mobile vaccination for two major projects Speaking on the occa- in road sion, DC Zardari said PESHAWAR (APP): The Technology and Teleco- tion with Pakistan Software basic objective of the industrial workers begins accidents Federal Ministry of Infor- mmunication is going to Export Board and Vortex said activity was to pro- KASUR (APP): Two mation Technology and provide high speed broad- Software, an IT Ministry, vide COVID-19 vacci- SIALKOT (APP): Mobile Five-day anti-polio Farooq inaugurated the tree women were killed and their Telecommunication has band services at a cost of Junaid Khan said. nation facility to the vaccination for local indus- drive inaugurated in plantation campaign by spouses were injured in sep- launched two major proj- Rs. 78 million by connect- He said, with the estab- employees and asked trial workers has been Sialkot planting a sapling in the arate road accidents in near- ects for Swat including a ing the most difficult and lishment of software tech- them to get their family launched here on Sunday. Provincial Minister for lawn of Sialkot DC office. by localities on Sunday. universal service for people remote areas of Swat to the nology park, thousands of members and friends In this regard, a presti- Special Education SWMC budget for According to police, living in remote areas of digital world. skilled youth from Swat vaccinated so that nor- gious and simple ceremony Chaudhry Muhammad 2021-22 approved Riyasat was riding on a Swat at a cost of over Rs. The total population of and Malakand Division, malcy could be restored was organized in Sialkot Ikhlaq and Deputy The Board of Governors motorcycle with his wife 78 million. Swat Valley is 2.522 mil- especially small and medi- in the country. He said Chamber of Commerce and Commissioner Tahir of Sialkot Waste Manage- Parveen Bibi on Haji Gaga This was stated by lion, out of which 65,695 um enterprises, will have the complete vaccina- Industry (SCCI). Farooq inaugurated a five- ment Company (SWMC) Kasur road when a speed- Deputy Commissioner people will be provided the opportunity to work tion of the people was Deputy Commissioner day anti-polio drive by approved annual budget of ing tractor hit them. As a Swat Junaid Khan while high speed broadband serv- under one roof with all only way to contain this Tahir Farooq, SCCI administering polio vaccine Rs 1284 million of the Co- result, Parveen Bibi died talking to APP here on ices under this project. facilities and connectivity virus from spreading President Qaiser Iqbal to children at Muradpur mpany for 2021-22 while on-the-spot while his hus- Sunday. He said, the first Providing facilities to the and IT products from all further and after com- Baryar, DHO Dr Afzal Primary Health Center here Rs 10 million would be sp- band was seriously injured. project is to provide high residents of 50 villages over the world. pletion of the process Bhili and people from vari- on Sunday. ent on keeping the city cl- Rescue-1122 shifted them speed broadband services spread over an area of More than 500 skilled normal activities would ous walks of life attended They also distributed ean on coming Eidul Azha. to DHQ Hospital Kasur. while under the Pakistan 1,501 sq km out of the total workers in this software be restored in the the ceremony. motorcycles among vacci- The 69th meeting of the In another incident, one Software Export Board a area of 5,337 km in Swat park will provide direct or province. On the occasion, SCCI nators of the health depart- BOGs was chaired by Dep- Talib was riding a motorcy- state-of-the-art software was a challenge, Junaid indirect employment oppo- President Qaiser Iqbal ment. CEO Health Dr uty Commissioner Tahir cle with his wife Asma Bibi technology park will be set Khan said. He said, there rtunities to about 2,000 2 illegal wagon Baryar said that going to Aslam Chaudhry and DHO Farooq while CEO MCS near Wellcome Gate, City up at Mingora on 22,000 are about 100 or 500 people people, Junaid Khan, who the doorsteps of workers Dr Afzal Bhili were also Khalid Javed Goraia, DD Phool Nagar when a speed- square feet. According to living in the mountains and is also Managing Director stands sealed and vaccinating them present on the occasion. Development Abdul Rauf ing trailer hit him from the Federal Ministry of difficult passages, so one Tourism Department, said MUZAFFARGARH against corona would send Earlier, Chaudhry and other members of behind. As a result, Asma Information Technology under this project the peo- while lauded the Chief (APP): District admin- a message to the whole Muhammad Akhlaq and BOGs attended the meeting. Bibi died on-the-spot while and Telecommunication, he ple would get high speed Minister Khyber Pakhtu- istration sealed two ille- world that the industry of Tahir Farooq listened com- Deputy Commissioner her husband was injured. said, Swat district is internet to a wide range but nkhwa Mahmood Khan by gal wagon and car Sialkot was corona free. plaints about traffic man- Tahir Farooq directed the After getting informa- famous for its historical difficult area which is a taking a keen interest in stands and also He thanked the Prime agement and parking issues SWMC authorities to make tion, the police reached the civilization and its beautiful major achievement of the connecting tourists’ sites to impounded five vehi- Minister Imran Khan, of the city during a meeting special cleanliness arrange- spot and took the body and valleys, rivers and moun- Universal Service Fund, an the digital world. cles. Following instruc- Federal Minister Asad with the representatives of ments in the city on Eidul the injured into custody. tains which make it a IT Ministry. It should be noted that tions from Deputy Umar, Deputy Commissi- local industrialists, lawyers Adha. He said that incen- tourist’s paradise, related to He said under the second work is in full swing to set Commissioner Shoaib oner Tahir Farooq and local and Anjuman-e-Tajiran. tives would be given to technology to connect this project, a software technol- up software technology Khan Tareen, RTA sec- officials of district health Later, the provincial SWMC employees for their beautiful region to the digi- ogy park is being set up in parks across the country retary Muzaffargarh authority. minister and DC Tahir good performance. 58 power tal world. Mingora, Swat with a pub- through public-private part- Muhammad Yousuf vis- Equipped with all facili- lic-private partnership. The nerships. And by the end of ited different areas of pilferers held ties, this dream is being 22,000-square-foot soft- this year, the number of the city and sealed two realized today as Federal ware technology park is technology parks across the illegal wagon and car in a day Ministry of Information being set up in collabora- country will exceed 25. stands at tehsil Kot Polio campaign to start MULTAN (APP): Multan Addu. The illegal Electric Power Company wagon were setup in (Mepco) have caught 58 front of Iqbal Park. in Jaffarabad today power pilferers during sep- Muhammad Yousuf arate operations launched Man sustained acid burn said that the action QUETTA (APP): District 47 union councils include “There is a need for time throughout the South against illegal wagon Health Officer (DHO) 45 transit points, 31 fixed to secure their future,” he Punjab in a day, Mepco stands would continue Jaffarabad Dr, Qudratullah points and 350 mobile said that parents should official said on Sunday. injuries following dispute across the district. Jamali on Sunday said that teams were formed. He said fulfill their national duty Mepco teams accompa- anti-polio campaign would that the polio campaign by administering their nying task forces raided MUZAFFARGARH victim burnt. The burnt per- dead body and shifted it to Drug peddlers be launched in district from would be started on June 7 infants against polio and different places in Multan, (APP): A man received son was shifted to Burn Rural Health Centre Monday (June 07). and efforts were being save their generation from Vehari, Sahiwal, Rahimyar severe burn injuries as two Centre of Nishtar hospital. Khangarh. arrested Taking to media, DHO made to make it successful. permanent disability and Khan, Muzaffargarh, alleged outlaw threw acid Police have registered a Rescue 1122 officials MULTAN (APP): Pol- Dr, Qudratullah said all He said that the parents secure their future. Bahawalnagar, Khanewal, on him following a brawl, case and started search for stated that the person could ice claimed on Sunday arrangements for polio should play their role in ful- DHO further said that the and Dera Ghazi Khan and in Khangrah. the alleged outlaws. be patient of Asthma as to have arrested two campaign have been com- filling their responsibilities target of vaccinating chil- detected theft of over According to Khangrah Meanwile, a passenger they found two inhaler notorious drug peddlers pleted saying that during by increasing the number of dren in Jaffarabad is 137000, 72,000 electricity units. police spokesman,two namely Muhammad from pockets of the passen- during a crackdown the drive, 137,000 children anti-polio vaccines to save adding that security of work- A sum of over Rs 1.2 alleged outlaws namely Asghar, resident of Lahore, ger. They handed over launched across the dis- will be administrated polio their children from perma- ers would be ensured during million fine was imposed Sajjad and Mukhtiar were was found dead on his seat mobile phone and other trict. In line with special drops, while in this regard nent disability. the polio campaign. on them over Involvement on on good term with Fida at a Hiace van while travel- valuables to Police con- directives of City Police in tampering with body of Hussain, resident of ing to Khangarh, on cerned. The police Officer (CPO) Munir meters, direct supply, Khangrah. The outlaw Sunday. informed the heirs of the Masood Marth, the Installing loop in meters, threw acid and resultantly According to Rescue deceased persons. police launched a crack- slowing down meters, 40 per cent of body of the 1122, they received the down against drug ped- Engineers demand of meter dead stop and meter dlers and arrested two screen wash. notorious drug peddlers Kamran alias Kaami Technical Allowance in AJK and Muhammad Waris MIRPUR (APP): The Core serving in the State-run of Science & Technology Seven business points sealed respectively by Kup and Committee of Engineers Mirpur University of (MUST) here on Saturday, Stray dogs MULTAN (APP): District imposed a total of Rs 60,000 crackdown against vehicles Bahauddin Zakariya serving in the public sector Science & Technology at speakers appealed to the administration have sealed fine on the SoP violators using sub-standard LPG police stations. universities in Azad Jammu the City campus. President of Azad Jammu bites two seven business points over during the crackdown. On cylinder and smoke-emit- Kashmir have announced to The protest rally by the and Kashmir Sardar children violations of coronavirus the other hand, district RTA ting vehicles. The RTA team Hot weather boycott all the academic as Engineering faculty of the Masood Khan, who was standard operating proce- under the supervision of checked various vehicles well as administrative serv- State-run Mirpur also the Chancellor of all HYDERABAD (APP): As dure during a crackdown Secretary RTA Rana Mohsin and impounded 17 vehicles. forecast ices by June 08 this year in University of Science & the five public-sector the Sindh High Court’s launched here on Sunday. checked various passenger The team also issued BAHAW ALPUR case of non-acceptance of Technology was staged to Universities in Azad order for culling the stray In line with special direc- vehicles and impounded challans to 17 trailers and (APP): The local Met their long-stand demand for demand the higher authori- Jammu Kashmir to order dogs remains unimple- tives of Deputy Commi- seven buses over violations. trucks on over loading and Office has forecast a hot grant of technical allowan- ties for early delivery of for grant of the due techni- mented, 2 children in ssioner Ali Shahzad, the Meanwhile, RTA imp- imposed fine of Rs 70,000. and dry weather for city ce to all the PEC-registered due technical allowance to cal allowance at par with all Hussainabad area were bit- officers of district adminis- ounded 17 smoke-emitting Speaking on the occa- for next 24 hours. The engineers serving in the all the PEC-registered engi- four provinces of Pakistan, ten by stray fogs. tration launched a crack- and LPG users vehicles sion, Secretary RTA Rana highest maximum tem- public sector institutions neers serving in the public- who have recently appro- The children, 12 years down against violators of during a crackdown laun- Mohsin said that over perature 41 centigrade including the academic sector universities in Azad ved 1.5 time technical old Abdullah and 10 years SoP and sealed seven busi- ched here on Sunday. loaded vehicles were caus- and the lowest mini- bodies in AJK State. Jammu Kashmir. allowance in favor of all the old Amisa, were brought to ness points. The officers In line with special di- ing millions of loss to gov- mum 32 centigrade This was unanimously Addressing a protest registered engineers with the Government Bhitai also imposed fine of Rs rectives of Deputy Comm- ernment by damaging infra- were recorded during announced by a protest rally of the registered engi- PEC and holding sanction- Hospital where they were 8000 on 17 citizens over issioner Ali Shahzad, RTA structure while LPG user last 24 hours. rally of academic and neers affiliated with the ed positions for Engineers, administered anti rabbies violations of face mask. team led by Secretary RTA vehicles were major cause administrative engineers state run Mirpur University he underlined. vaccine. The district officers have Rana Mohsin launched a of mishaps. Monday, June 07, 2021 The Frontier Post World in focus Death toll rises to US, EU condemn Tropical storm leaves Philippines 88 in attack in MANILA Nigeria’s Twitter ban (Xinhua/APP): Tropical storm Choi- ABUJA (AFP/APP): The US and the lies in more, not less, communica- months, who went through the war, wan blew away from European Union voiced concern over tion," it added. will treat them in the language they the Philippines on northwest Nigeria Nigeria's decision to indefinitely ban More than 39 million Nigerians understand," the president had posted Sunday after leaving at Twitter after the US social media have a Twitter account, according to on Twitter. least nine dead and one KANO (AFP/APP): Police in northwest The gunmen targeted the villages of giant deleted a tweet from the presi- NOI polls, a public opinion and The presidency denied late on missing. Choi-wan dis- Nigeria's Kebbi state told AFP Sunday that Koro, Kimpi, Gaya, Dimi, Zutu, Rafin dent's account for violating its rules. research organisation based in Saturday that the Twitter suspension sipated into a tropical the death toll from an attack by a gang of Gora and Iguenge, he said. International human rights groups Nigeria. The platform has played an was a response to the removal of that depression after lash- cattle thieves on seven villages Thursday Many people were still unaccounted for have also condemned the move, important role in public discourse in post. "There has been a litany of ing several regions in had risen to 88. Sunday after fleeing the attacks. which followed previous attempts by the country, with hashtags problems with the social media plat- the Philippines starting The region has struggled with decades- "The search is still going on and more the government of Africa's most pop- #BringBackOurGirls after Boko form in Nigeria, where misinforma- Tuesday, the state long communal clashes over resources but bodies could be found. So, the toll is not ulous country to regulate social Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in tion and fake news spread through it weather bureau said, more recently some groups have become conclusive yet," said Abubakar. media. Nigerian telecoms operators 2014, and #EndSARS during anti- have had real world violent conse- adding the tropical more violent, looting, killing and kidnap- Policemen were deployed to the area complied with a government direc- police brutality protests last year. quences," a presidency spokesman depression "is now out- ping for ransom. over the weekend to forestall further tive Friday to suspend access to The government's suspension Garba Shehu said in a statement. side the Philippine area "Initially 66 bodies were recovered but attacks, he said. Twitter indefinitely. came after Twitter on Wednesday Shehu said the removal of Buhari's of responsibility." The 22 more have been found," Kebbi state The assailants were believed to have The diplomatic missions of the deleted a remark on President tweet was "disappointing" and said National Disaster Risk police spokesman Nafiu Abubakar said, launched the attacks from neighbouring EU, US, Britain, Canada and Ireland Muhammadu Buhari's account in "major tech companies must be alive Reduction and adding that the search for more bodies was Zamfara or Niger states where criminals issued a joint statement late Saturday which he referred to the country's to their responsibilities." Management Council ongoing. are known to maintain camps. In April, condemning the ban. civil war four decades ago in a warn- Twitter said it was "deeply con- said the storm affected Dozens of assailants on motorcycles nine policemen were killed in the area in a "Banning systems of expression is ing about recent unrest. cerned by the blocking of Twitter in nearly 94,000 people in attacked seven neighbouring villages in shootout with gunmen who invaded a vil- not the answer," it said. The 78-year-old president, a for- Nigeria." "Access to the free and nine regions in the Danko-Wasagu district on Thursday, lage in nearby Sakaba district to steal live- "Precisely the moment when mer general, referred to "those misbe- #OpenInternet is an essential human main Luzon Island, the Abubakar said. stock, Abubakar told AFP at the time. Nigeria needs to foster inclusive dia- having" in recent violence in the right in modern society. We will work central and southern logue and expression of opinions, as southeast, where officials blame a to restore access for all those in Philippines. The storm well as share vital information in this proscribed separatist group IPOB for Nigeria who rely on Twitter to com- caused over 86 million time of the Covid-19 pandemic." attacks on police and election offices. municate and connect with the world. pesos (about 1.8 mil- "The path to a more secure Nigeria "Those of us in the fields for 30 #KeepitOn," the company said in a lion U.S. dollars) in Israeli police arrest statement. "VPN app" was the second damage to agriculture most searched trend Saturday on and 53.7 million pesos Google in Nigeria, as virtual private (about 1.1 million U.S. Palestinian activist: family networks can enable Twitter users to dollars) in damage to bypass the ban. infrastructure, the JERUSALEMTwitter followers and ated the state of Israel, Nigeria warned however that it agency added. (AFP/APP): Israeli police more than half a million they can request the would prosecute violators. Sunday arrested a promi- on Instagram for their "return" of their property, "Attorney General of the Two shot dead nent activist at the centre activism, under the hash- even if Palestinian fami- Federation and Minister of Justice, of the movement to publi- tags #SheikhJarrah and lies have been living there Abubakar Malami, has directed for on Corfu cise the threatened evic- #SaveSheikhJarrah, tak- for decades. immediate prosecution of offenders ATHENS (AFP/APP): tion of Palestinians from ing their neighbourhood's Palestinians whose of the Federal Government ban on Two people were shot their homes in Israeli- plight global. ancestors became Twitter operations in Nigeria," and killed on Sunday annexed east Jerusalem, Their father, who spoke refugees in the 1948 war spokesman Umar Jibrilu Gwandu near a hotel on the her family told AFP. to AFP in front of the have no means to retrieve said. Amnesty International con- Greek resort island of The father of Mona el- police station in their homes or land in demned the ban, calling on Nigeria to Corfu, police said. "We Kurd, 23, said police Jerusalem, dubbed his modern-day Israel. "immediately reverse the unlawful got a report on gun- apprehended his daughter daughter's arrest part of Israeli right groups Ir suspension". shots being fired at and took her to a police "an operation to terrorise Amim says up to 1,000 "This repressive action is a clear 11:30 am (0830 GMT), station for questioning, the parents, because the Palestinians in Sheikh attempt to censor dissent & stifle the near a hotel," a police leaving a summons for voice that emerged from Jarrah and the nearby civic space," Human Rights Watch source in Athens said. her twin brother, the neighbourhood was Silwan district face being researcher Anietie Ewang said. "The first information Muhammad. thanks to its youth." displaced. we have is that two In footage widely He said his son While Palestinians and people have been fatal- shared on social media, Muhammad had been their backers see the issue ly wounded. It has yet Mona el-Kurd was shown away teaching in as a microcosm of the Four Jordan to be confirmed by a handcuffed and taken by Ramallah but was on his wider conflict over land, Delta variant ‘40 percent coroner," the officer officers out of her fami- way back to cooperate Jewish settlers and their policemen said. The incident ly's home in the Sheikh with the police summons. supporters have labelled it wounded in occurred in the coastal Jarrah neighbourhood, The police did not a mere property dispute, more transmissible’: UK resort of Dasia. A whose struggle has crys- immediately respond to to be decided by Israeli police manhunt is talized Palestinian anger an AFP request for com- courts. Protests in Sheikh clashes with LONDON (AFP/APP): The emergence of the Delta less stressed that those who underway to locate the over Israel's settlement ment. Jarrah spread early last Delta variant of the coron- variant threatens the gov- have had two doses of vac- gunman, Greek media movement. Under Israeli law, if month into the Al-Aqsa protesters avirus is estimated to be 40 ernment's provisional June cine should be protected reported. State TV ERT The duo, whose family Jews can prove that their mosque compound, spark- AMMAN (AFP/APP): percent more transmissible 21 deadline for lifting virus against illness from the had earlier reported that is currently under threat families lived in east ing a crackdown by Four Jordanian police offi- than the Alpha variant that restrictions. Delta variant. a local man had fired of losing their home, have Jerusalem before the 1948 Israeli security forces cers were wounded caused the last wave of Hancock acknowledged Public Health England on a French couple liv- gained more than 180,000 Arab-Israeli war that cre- against Palestinians there. Saturday night when they infections in the UK, that the Delta variant "does said last month that ing permanently on the clashed with supporters of Britain's health minister make the calculation more research showed double island, apparently over a lawmaker suspended said Sunday. difficult for June 21". vaccination was similarly a private dispute. from parliament for railing But people who have "We'll look at the data effective against both the against chronic power cuts, received two doses of vac- for another week and then Kent and Delta variants. Chinese FM to Libyan authorities the security service said. cine, should be equally pro- make a judgement," he told "The best scientific "Four policemen were tected against either vari- the BBC on Sunday, stress- advice I have at this stage is attend meeting wounded and hospitalised ant, he added. ing that the government that, after one jab, it's not BEIJING searching for abducted when they intervened... to "That figure, around 40 was "absolutely open" to quite as effective against (Xinhua/APP): put an end to riots, the fir- percent more transmissible, delaying the lifting of the new Delta variant, but Chinese State ing of shots into the air and is indeed the latest advice I restrictions. after both jabs, it is," Councilor and Red Crescent official the burning of cars," said have," Health Secretary The minister neverthe- Hancock told the BBC. Foreign Minister Amer al-Satrawi, the public Matt Hancock told Sky Wang Yi will attend security service's News. The Delta variant, the Special ASEAN- spokesman. They were also known as the Indian China Foreign wounded by stones, but variant, is now the domi- Ministers' Meeting in their lives were not in dan- nant strain in the UK, Celebration of the ger, Satrawi said in a state- according to Public Health 30th Anniversary of ment, adding that the clash- England figures. Dialogue Relations es took place in Naour, a It was the Alpha variant, and the sixth suburb in the capital's previously known as the Lancang-Mekong south. Witnesses said the Kent variant, that forced Cooperation Foreign protesters were supporters the UK into lockdown in Ministers' Meeting in of lawmaker Oussama al- January. Hancock said the Chongqing, a foreign Ajarma. Ajarma had 40 percent figure came ministry spokesperson demanded a debate on elec- from the government body said Sunday. The tricity cuts that hit Amman of scientific advisors, meetings will be co- and other districts on May SAGE. Concerns are chaired by Wang and 21, accusing the govern- mounting over whether the diplomats from rele- ment of deliberately cutting vant ASEAN coun- power to forestall a protest tries from June 7 to 8, march by Jordanian tribes according to in support of the Palestinian spokesperson Wang BENGHAZI (AFP/APP): an investigation, a security Libya is seeking to extri- cause. But his request was 14 killed, over 245,000 Wenbin. The Libyan Red Crescent source in Ajdabiya told cate itself from a decade of turned down by the speaker said Sunday that unidenti- AFP on condition of chaos and conflict that fol- and the lawmaker was sus- India reports fied assailants abducted one anonymity. lowed the toppling of dicta- pended from parliament on affected by heavy rains of its local officials several "A search is underway to tor Moamer Kadhafi in a May 27, before he resigned lowest cases days ago in the eastern city attempt to localise him and 2011 NATO-backed upris- in protest on Wednesday. COLOMBO (Xinhua/APP): Fourteen peo- Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery being mixed NEW DELHI of Ajdabiya, while a securi- know the details" of his ing. A formal truce signed Authorities said that the ple have been killed due to heavy rains in into the Kelani River in the outskirts of (Xinhua/APP): India's ty source said a search was abduction, the source said. last October between rival power failure was due to a Sri Lanka while over 245,000 people have Colombo. COVID-19 tally rose underway. The United Nations camps in the country's east fault on a high tension line run- been affected, the Disaster Management Tanks containing furnace oil at the oil to 28,809,339 on Mansour Ati al- Support Mission in Libya and west set in motion a ning between Egypt and Center (DMC) said in its latest update here refinery had overflown with rainwater fol- Sunday with 114,460 Maghrabi, head of the Red (UNSMIL) expressed con- UN-led process that led to Jordan. Jordan has experi- Sunday. Out of the 14 killed, five deaths lowing the heavy downpour on Saturday. new cases reported in Crescent's Ajdabiya branch, cern for Maghrabi's safety. the creation of an interim enced several episodes of have been reported from Kegalle, located The navy said it had taken action the past 24 hours, the was taken Thursday, branch Maghrabi "was abducted government tasked with unrest in recent months, 88 kilometers away from capital Colombo, together with the Sri Lanka Coast Guard lowest single-day secretary-general Marii al- on 3 June when his car was preparing the country for including scattered protests while three deaths have been reported to skim the furnace oil exposed to the increase in the past Dersi said. intercepted by unknown December polls. against a curfew and econom- from the Ratnapura District. external environment and to prevent fur- two-months, said the "We lost all contact with armed men and his where- Despite the ceasefire and ic hardship triggered by the Two people have been reported missing ther spread as it could have an adverse federal health ministry. the director on Thursday abouts remain unknown", it progress on the political coronavirus pandemic. In early while two more have been injured. impact on the water distribution of the A total of 2,677 deaths when unknown (assailants) said Saturday on Twitter. front, the security situation April, the country was rocked According to DMC statistics, 15,658 peo- main Ambathale and Biyagama water since Saturday morn- forced him from the LRC "The Mission calls for remains precarious, partic- by an alleged plot to "desta- ple have been moved to safer locations treatment plants. ing took the overall headquarters in Ajdabiya," his unconditional release," ularly in the country's east. bilise" the kingdom that impli- while over 800 houses have been damaged. Navy Spokesman Captain Indika De death toll to 346,759. Dersi told AFP by tele- it added, urging a "transpar- Ajdabiya is controlled cated Prince Hamzah, who is Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Navy said Silva said that operations were continuing There are still phone. ent investigation into this by forces loyal to eastern King Abdullah's half-brother that following rising concerns, there was to skim the furnace oil from the flood 1,477,799 active cases Authorities have opened enforced disappearance". strongman Khalifa Haftar. and a former crown prince. no threat of furnace oil from tanks at the waters using a floating boom. in the country, a decrease of 77,449 in the past 24 hours. The number of daily active China's Sinovac cases has been on the Sri Lanka recovers black box from sinking ship vaccine arrives decline over the past few days after a con- COLOMBO (AFP/APP): A black box from Gujarat, India. in Philippines tinuous surge since from a ship loaded with chemical and Sri Lankan officials have said an acid mid-April. A total of plastic that is sinking off Sri Lanka has leak since May 11 may have sparked the MANILA (Xinhua/APP): 26,984,781 people been located, officials said Sunday, as blaze. Ports in Qatar and India had The Philippines received an have recovered and investigators probe what caused the ves- refused to offload the leaking nitric additional batch of the been discharged from sel to catch fire. acid, they added. Sinovac CoronaVac vac- hospitals so far across The Voyage Data Recorder, also Police on the island nation launched a cine from China on Sunday the country, according known as a maritime "black box", criminal investigation, interviewing the morning. to the latest data from enables investigators to review proce- vessel's skipper and chief engineer -- China donated the first the ministry. India's dures and instructions ahead of an acci- both Russians -- and its chief officer, an batch of CoronaVac to the nationwide vaccination dent. Indian, and seizing their passports. Philippines on Feb. 28, drive started on Jan. Sri Lankan authorities said they hope Authorities are bracing for a possible allowing the Southeast 16, and over 231 mil- it will provide details of the ship's oil spill after the stern submerged. There Asian country to kick off lion vaccination doses movements and its communications has been no sign of any leaks so far, its vaccination drive on have been adminis- with the harbour in the capital Colombo, they added. March 1. tered so far. where it had been due to dock. Tonnes of microplastic granules from The Philippines has Meanwhile, the federal "The navy facilitated technicians to the ship swamped an 80-kilometre (50- administered more than 5 government has remove the VDR from the bridge which mile) stretch of beach declared off-lim- million doses of COVID- ramped up COVID-19 is still above the waterline," navy its for residents. Fishing in the area was 19 vaccines as of May 30, testing facilities across spokesman Indika de Silva told AFP. also banned. Sri Lankan environmental- primarily to frontline the country, as over The Singapore-registered MV X- ists on Friday sued the government and healthcare workers, the 364 million tests have Press Pearl has been slowly sinking into the ship's operators for allegedly failing elderly, and those with been conducted so far. the Indian Ocean since Wednesday after within sight of the coast. acid and a huge amount of plastic raw to prevent what they called the "worst underlying medical con- a fire that raged for nearly two weeks The ship, carrying 25 tonnes of nitric materials, was heading to Colombo marine disaster" in the country's history. ditions. 6 The Frontier Post Monday, June 07, 2021 Leader The Frontier Post JALIL AFRIDI Managing Editor Printed and published by Mahmood Afridi at Trump reemerges on the Moraka’s Printers, 27 Abdara Road, University Town, Peshawar. 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Trump’s daughter-in-law “He probably sees this as a instated to the White House tion loss was fraudulent. hour into it. Prior to that, He recounted his fav- Lara Trump, a native of legacy defining thing, and I in August, is also likely, a But in his informal Trump bragged about his orite moments in office, re- Wilmington, N.C., publicly know it’s superficial to say spokesperson said. Trump reemergence on the politi- administration’s role in litigated his long-standing ruled out a run for the seat. but he doesn’t want to go himself has been absorbed cal scene before the GOP developing the coronavirus grievances and was unwill- "Now you may have out as a loser.” with the Arizona audit that faithful at the North Carol- vaccine and attacked the ing to let go of the slights heard a rumor that I have Trump is planning to he has mused will result in Judiciary, ina GOP convention in Biden administration's for- he believed marred his time been considering possibly cross the country making a his reinstatement. But one Greenville, Donald Trump eign policy, energy and in office — at one point running for Senate,” said series of speeches this sum- senior adviser said the for- did just that, insisting — immigration policies. recounting how the press Trump, who said she is mer. So far, he’s expected mer president does not seri- falsely — that the 2020 “If we had not come up covered his gingerly walk instead focusing on her role to appear in Ohio, to sup- ously believe he will be ret- Judges, and race was stolen and corrupt. with a vaccine, you would down a ramp after deliver- as a mother. port former White House urning to the White House “The evidence is too have had 1917 Spanish flu ing a speech at West Point. “I am saying no for now, aide turned congressional through non-electoral me- voluminous to even men- numbers,” Trump said of At times, it gave off the not no forever." candidate Max Miller; in ans. tion,” Trump said at one the virus’ death toll and vibe of an entertainer in the The speech served as a Alabama to support While publicly, allies of the Justice point. Tellingly, he never Operation Warp Speed. twilight of his career, play- quasi kick off to the will- Republican Senate candi- Trump have been support- mentioned it, choosing The former president ing the hits for a Vegas cr- he-or-won’t-he stage of date Rep. Mo Brooks; in ive of him returning to the hief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmad instead to insist that dead attacked infectious disease owd. And, for good measu- speculation around whether Georgia, where he remains trail, behind the scenes has said that the justice system of the country people had voted, that expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, re, the evening featured a Trump will give a White embittered about the out- there has been hand-wring- Cneeds to be expeditious and the state needs to Facebook had encouraged who has become a boogey- relatively new addition to t- House run another go. come of the 2020 election ing over how Trump’s obs- make more investment for the purpose, so that it get out the vote drives in man for Trump and the he Trump rally playlist: He has privately told results; and his home state ession with re-litigating the could be made more accessible to people. Chief liberal enclaves, and that right, as “not a great doctor, “My Heart Will Go On,” confidantes that he is of Florida. He’s also sched- 2020 elections could affect Justice Gulzar Ahmed was addressing the launching “Indians” were paid to vote but a hell of a promoter.” the theme song from “Tita- inclined to do so and uled to speak at CPAC the midterms. ceremony of a book titled "Citators of Civil & (ostensibly referring to “Fauci said at the begin- nic” and the classic hit of recently put out a statement Texas this July in Dallas. A person close to Trump Native Americans) — none ning, ‘no masks.’ Vegas-staple Celine Dion. premised on the idea that he “It’s really about getting noted some top Republican Criminal Law and district judiciary bench". of it supported by fact. “It Remember that? Then he The crowd loved it. wouldn’t just run again, but back out to carry a positive donors who have listened to According to Chief Justice of Pakistan, more judges was a third world election became a radical masker. Trump, who narrowly win. message for America for- Trump speak have been dis- were required to be appointed to the district judici- like we’ve never seen Get three, four. Get a pair won North Carolina in the Saturday was Trump’s ward and start to contrast appointed with the former ary besides improvement in structure and other before,” he said. of goggles, ideally. Wear past two presidential elec- first public speech since America First agenda ver- president’s messaging. facilities to secure the goal. Trump applauded audits them for another five or six tions, expressed optimism appearing at the sus a Biden short term “They came to hear som- The Chief Justice Observed that the book cov- taking place in various sta- years,” Trump said to for the Republican Party in Conservative Political results,” said a senior ething different and talk a- ered all major topics and hoped that it would prove tes and scoffed at the notion laughter from the audience. 2022 and beyond. Action Conference (CPAC) adviser to Trump. “Florida bout the future and not the beneficial for the district judiciary in managing and that all of this was subver- He was met with a stand- In a surprise announce- in February. Since then, the and Ohio are on the list to past,” the person said, of o- deciding the cases speedily. He said, book cannot be sive and problematic for so- ing ovation when he ment, he gave his “com- ex-president has made get out quickly and do ral- ne recent event in Mara- an alternative to research, as the work of a judge ciety. demanded China pay $10 plete and total” endorse- remarks behind closed lies but it won’t stop there Lago. "I'm not the one trying to trillion in “reparations” for ment to Rep. Ted Budd in doors at his Mar-a-Lago — he’s ready to re-engage “They didn’t hear an- was based on research, which was a laborious task. undermine democracy,” its role in the coronavirus the state’s Senate primary. resort in Palm Beach, in the political arena.” ything new from Trump, m- He hoped that the book would improve with the Trump said as the cro-wd pandemic and again when The news — which Trump Florida and has done inter- An appearance via jum- ore grievances and nothing passage of time and more topics would be added to stood on their feet. “I'm the he called for the banning of shared with Budd just 15 views with friendly, right- botron at a “free speech” new.” it. He said that COVID-19 also affected the work- ing of the courts, but all measures were taken to ensure that delivery of justice was not delayed. The State of Pakistan inherited its judiciary Benign neglect: Why Biden System from British India and after Independence, no such comprehensive changes had been made to transform the judicial system in line with the latest changes and gradual development in the society of prefers the Quad to ASEAN the country. The government of Pakistan only any earlier hoped ination of its near neighbor- Richard Javad Heydarian China’s worst instincts. ‘contain’ China, a la the increased the numbers of courts or established Biden would hood. Trump had the right This leaves the ASEAN on Soviet Union in the Cold new courts at district, division, or provincial level Maggressively seek strategy but horrible tactics. on the heels of visits to Myanmar. I mean, the the margins of regional War years, but to instead as per requirements. However, no government or to reset and improve rela- With Biden, there was a Europe and the Middle African Union recently sus- geopolitics. collectively ‘constrain’ the higher judiciary ever tried to bring vital reforms in tions with Southeast Asia hope that the US will final- East, skips key regional pended Mali’s membership Beijing has called the Asian superpower’s worst the basic functioning or hierarchy of the district or as part of his alliance- ly combine Trump’s strate- states such as the following a military coup. Quad a disruptive form of instincts. higher judiciary of the country. Over more than building drive to contain gic resolve with Obama’s Philippines and Vietnam. In contrast, ASEAN effec- “selective multilateralism” The hope is that the seven decades of independence, the country China including in the diplomatic finesse. His scheduled virtual tively legitimized the brutal and many see it as paving cumulative effect of coordi- remained unable to change the court’s system, its South China Sea. Why No wonder why, accord- meeting with ASEAN lead- junta in Myanmar, even the way for a de facto nated pushback by these has Biden’s engagement ing to the influential ers, while on a red-eye trip inviting its top conspirator “Asian NATO” aimed at like-minded powers will functioning and matters pertaining to speedy pro- with the region so far Singapore-based ISEAS from Europe to the Middle to regional gatherings; not containing China. By bank- encourage the better angels vision of justice to the public. The reason is very been lacking? Yusof-Ishak Institute, East was a disaster, as tech- even a gentle slap on the ing on the Quad rather than of China’s nature, namely simple because civil government could not bring The word ‘disappoint- 61.5% of respondents nical glitches left enraged wrist. ASEAN, is Biden helping the more sound and prag- change due to its ignorance from the system. Our ment’ is a humongous favored stronger ties with ASEAN foreign ministers Not to mention lingering or hurting his chances of matic voices within the Xi judges are good in their profession, but they usu- understatement. After four the US, now under Biden, waiting 45 minutes before frustration in DC, and other building a cohesive region- administration, if not inside ally never act as an administrator during their years of Trumpian disrup- over China. If that’s not a blank screens. Meanwhile, major Western capitals, al front against perceived the Chinese leader’s mind. career, so these administrative jobs mostly tion, with the former presi- ringing endorsement by top Chinese leaders, includ- over ASEAN’s congenial rising Chinese assertive- After all, even President Xi remained asides. Former Chief Justice Iftikhar dent skipping multiple regional policy elite, I don’t ing President Xi Jinping, inefficacy in holding China ness and expansionism? admits that China needs to Hussain and Chief Justice Saqib Nisar displayed ASEAN summits and his know what is. have kept sustained com- to account, or at least call- The Quad was never a be more “lovable.” much activism but remained failed to bring top aides lecturing and With raised expectations munications with Southeast ing a spade a spade, espe- monolithic project, nor was Where does this leave threatening regional states came major disappoint- Asian counterparts, with cially in the South China it really about creating an the ASEAN? Unless the reforms particularly in lower courts to provide on China, the return of the ment. In its first two Foreign Minister Wang Yi Sea, where multiple “Asian NATO” per se. Its regional body adopts a relief to the common man. Democratic establishment months in office, the Biden set for in-person meetings Southeast Asian countries rise, fall, and, now, reemer- more majoritarian, rather Due to these reasons, till time most of the admin- raised hopes of a funda- administration held multi- with ASEAN this month. are being harassed and gence is a reflection of than a unanimity-based, istrative work or processing of the cases are being mental reset in US’ rela- ple high-level engagements The Biden administra- manhandled on a daily shared concerns over decision-making process in done solely by a clerk called reader. Anyone or tions with Southeast Asian with allies in Europe as tion held its first summit- basis by the Asian power- China’s hegemonic ambi- its multilateral engage- lawyer can delay serving of justice to his opponent countries. well as with major Indo- level meeting with Quad house. tions in the region. ments, it risks fast fading for years with the help of reader/ clerk. Usually no After all, one could Pacific powers of India, allies in March but is only My sense is, Biden With ASEAN failing to into strategic oblivion. But, Judge takes interests in such administrative matters argue that the former Australia, Japan and, later, now stepping up its administration officials are hold the line, and China I see a bright future for and these remain up to reader’s discretion. The case Obama administration South Korea. At one point, ASEAN-related diplomacy, too polite to raise their showing little self-restraint ASEAN “minilateralism,” moves with the wish of reader and lawyer or the oversaw a “golden age” in a single week saw Biden notably with less robust legitimate concerns over in adjacent waters, the US namely the creation of a US-ASEAN relations with and his “alter ego”, senior-level engagement. ASEAN dysfunctions, but has placed its hopes in mini-Quad within the person who spend money therefore, the suffering of few parallels. And now, Secretary of State Antony Washington has paid lip they are also not politic major regional powers of regional body, especially the public remains continue due to delayed justice. suddenly a lot of Obama- Blinken, holding multiple service to “ASEAN central- enough to find a way India, Australia, Japan and, among key powers of It is suggestable to honorable Chief Justice that era officials, including high-level talks. ity” in recent statements, around it, so far. to a lesser degree, South Vietnam, Indonesia, besides increasing numbers of courts the check Biden, were back in the That was shuttle diplo- but in practice is it really As for ASEAN, lacking Korea. There is increasing Singapore, the Philippines must be impose on Judges, lawyers, and other hier- saddle. So, quite naturally, macy on steroids. And yet, aiming for “Quad centrali- core leadership and increas- alignment in threat percep- and Malaysia. archy to decide the case in a limited time instead of many expected for relations the same administration ty?” ingly dominated by tions among major regional I think these five lingering it up to years and decades. The non-com- to become as nuanced, mul- didn’t even bother to men- I think there are a lot of mediocre and peevish powers, including key Southeast Asian states are pliance by the judges or lawyers may bear conse- tifaceted, mutually respect- tion its century-old unresolved issues here. diplomats, there is exces- Southeast Asian states such formidable on their own quences in kind of promotion, reputation, or ful and long-term-oriented Southeast Asian treaty There are a lot of unspoken sive sensitivity over any as Vietnam, over China. terms, with potential or appointment to a lower category. under the new US adminis- allies, the Philippines and resentments and frustra- slights to so-called All major powers in the actual “middle power” tration. Thailand, in its Interim tions at play, which need to “ASEAN centrality”, Indo-Pacific, which also capabilities; I think they To be fair, Trump had his National Security Strategic be discussed behind the which is frankly more aspi- includes key European should and can coordinate own legions of fans in Guidance; nor did Biden scenes with resolve and sin- ration than reality in recent powers of Britain, France their positions on behalf of places such as the show any urgency in call- cerity. years. This explains the and now even Germany, the dysfunctional regional G-7 and the Philippines and Vietnam, ing up his Southeast Asian On one hand, the Biden pitifully defensive have realized that they body, and even have institu- where the former presi- partners. administration seems gen- “ASEAN Outlook on the should either hang together tionalized cooperation with dent’s anti-China rhetoric It was only this week uinely troubled by the Indo-Pacific” (AOIP) docu- in some loose, flexible, yet the Quad and other major world’s economy struck a chord. Not to men- that he bothered to call the authoritarian lurch across ment, which is a classic robust form, or risk hand- Indo-Pacific powers on The Group of Seven richest democracies agreed tion, regional goons, crooks Filipino populist Rodrigo Southeast Asia, especially case of “projection without ing the whole region on a sensitive geopolitical to support a global minimum corporate tax rate of and despots who couldn’t Duterte amid the deadlock among former allies in the a project. silver platter to China. issues, where the ASEAN have enough of the in the renewal of the Philippines and Thailand. Southeast Asian coun- Sure, we are not going to can’t make up its mind as a at least 15% in order to deter multinational compa- American celebrity-turned- Visiting Forces Agreement With Biden and his top tries are deeply worried see a NATO-like com- collective body. nies from avoiding taxes by stashing profits in low- president. (VFA). This is what? Four aides projecting global about, and for good rea- mand-and-control structure From counter-terrorism rate countries. G-7 finance ministers meeting in But for the majority of months into the Biden leadership on human rights sons, “ASEAN peripherali- with attendant mutual cooperation and joint mar- London also endorsed proposals to make the regional thought leaders administration already! and democracy issues, their ty” in the region, especially defense obligations; itime patrols to post-inde- world's biggest companies including US based tech and thoughtful policy mak- To add insult to injury, gentle snob of regional as two successive US instead, what we are seeing pendence stabilization of giants pay tax in countries where they have lots of ers, the populist in the Blinken failed to make any despots is perfectly under- administrations, Trump and is growing diplomatic, eco- East Timor, ASEAN “mini- sales but no physical headquarters. Britain's White House was just a tad visit to the region, recently standable. Biden, are clearly pivoting nomic and military coordi- lateralism” has done won- Treasury chief Rishi Sunak said, the deal would too unpredictable, too self- dispatching his deputy There is also the element towards not Asia per se, but nation among these like- ders. Why shouldn’t it do reform the global tax system to make it fit for the absorbed, and too unreli- (Wendy Sherman) instead, of frustration with towards major like-minded minded powers, which has the same when it comes to global digital age and crucially to make sure that able to check China’s though even that down- ASEAN’s whimpering powers in the region as part surely got China’s atten- dealing with China and the it's fair, so that the right companies pay the right steady and systematic dom- graded trip, itself coming response to the crisis in of a broader effort to check tion. The aim here is not to South China Sea disputes? tax in the right places. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the agreement provides tremendous momentum towards reaching a global deal that would end the Donald Trump expects he’ll be race-to-the-bottom in corporate taxation, and ensure fairness for the middle class and working people in the US and around the world. reinstated as president by August! There were discussions at international level on taxing of the multinational companies earning ven though it has his close circle that he Abdullah Muradoglu serving as an intelligence wants to remain a sovereign been seven months expects to be reinstated as officer in Iraq and Afghani- nation, the answer may be profits through online business across the world since the U.S. elec- president in August. Republican Conference. Europe' may be hesitant to stan, Flynn was appointed yes. What does that mean despite they have no physical presence in most of E tions were concluded, Journalist Charles Cooke, Cheney being given the put all its eggs in as director of the Defense for America?” According to the countries. In the past, the Trump administra- Trumpist Republicans an important figure of boot was an indication that America’s basket, given the Intelligence Agency in Macgregor, it was the right tion had opposed such taxation on US digital still believe that the elec- American conservatism, Trump solidified his influ- electoral polarization in the 2012. He was then sacked move for many former business giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and tions were somehow stol- also said that his sources ence over the Republican civil war atmosphere and and forced to retire in 2014 French soldiers to give others. however, President Biden supported the en. Conspiracy theories confirmed this rumor in his Party. under the shadow of for his radical anti- President Macron an ulti- idea of a global minimum of at least 15% on cor- that the elections were article titled "Maggie Even if Trump doesn’t Trump’s prolonged power. Democratic tendencies. matum in the form of an porate profits. The recent agreement allowed the rigged and that Trump Haberman is Right" in the run in 2024, he holds the Another hot-button issue Retired Colonel Douglas open letter. Macgregor countries tax a share of the profits earned by com- will return to his seat as National Review magazine. power to determine the in Washington is the dis- Macgregor, who was stressed the need for a sim- panies that have no physical presence but have president in August are According to Cooke, presidential candidate of course of some Trumpists appointed a member of the ilar action in the United abound these days. Acco- Trump also thinks that sen- the Party. In the Trump era, that is reminiscent of a mil- "West Point Military States. Sebastian Gorka, substantial sales, through digital advertising with- rding to rumors circulat- ators David Perdue and U.S. relations with its allies itary coup. Trump's first Academy Advisory Board" also one of Trump's former in their borders. ed through the Trumpist Martha McSally, who lost suffered severe blows. National Security Advisor, in addition to the chief advisers, wrote on the same Earlier, the global business giants were paying grapevine, the presidency in the elections, will return. Liberal Europe and Global retired general Michael advisor position at the site on June 2, that if Trump taxes on their earning in the countries where they will be returned to Trump A large portion of the 74 Europe are extremely per- Flynn, referenced the mili- Pentagon in the Trump’s is elected president in 2024, have headquarters instead of the countries from by a unanimous vote of million who voted for turbed by Trump’s sway in tary coup in Myanmar in final months, also penned he would need to strongly where they make money. This is a major initiative the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump argue that the elec- the Republican Party. one of his speeches. In an article advocating that step up his game against the of G-7 Countries which will not only benefit their It is also being said that tions were, indeed, “stol- Democrats have a narrow Myanmar’s November U.S. troops should take "deep state, Liberals, own economies but also help most of the weak Trump very much beli- en.” Hardline Trumpists, on majority in the House of elections, the military-sup- helm of political leader- Silicon Valley, social economies to expand their tax base and generate eves in this conspiracy th- the other hand, have waged Representatives and ported party has suffered a ship. Published on May 15 media, especially Twitter, resources through taxation on online businesses. eory and is commission- war against Republicans Senate, and this arithmetic grave defeat; and on on the “American Facebook, Google." ing many figures to who consider the elections might change by the 2022 February 1, the army had Greatness” website, known In a nutshell, politics in Presently, most of the multinational firms had wel- spread propaganda for as legitimate. Trumpist elections. This possibility conducted a coup, claiming for its hardline pro-Trump America are becoming inc- comed the move and vowed for modernization of this end. lawmakers in the House of might endanger Joe Biden’s that the elections had been stance, MacGregor head- reasingly polarized. Biden tax regime, because they already had devised the In a Twitter post by the Representatives dismissed foreign policy when he rigged. Flynn commenting lined his article as, also seems to be discour- strategy to divert this additional tax to their cus- New York Times’ White Liz Cheney, one of the calls on Europe to stand that a similar situation “Soldiers of France vs. aged from finding working tomers across the world and all such global meas- House reporter Maggie leading figures of the anti- with the U.S. in a bloc should transpire in the U.S. Globalism: Is a military ground with with main- ures are not going to affect their lucrative revenue Haberman, she announced Trump wing, from her posi- against China and perhaps have been perceived as a coup really feasible in dem- stream moderate Repub- in coming days. that Trump announced to tion as chair of the Russia, too. 'Liberal call for a coup d'état. After ocratic France? If France licans in the U.S. Congress. Opinion Monday, June 07, 2021 The Frontier Post 7 Gone are G7’s glory days in ‘De-Americanization’ era he 47th Group of ence of G7. Yang Xiyu unable to initiate substan- ing international financial Seven (G7) summit This year, G7 has invited tive reforms. In the normal governance, but over the Twill be held from India, South Korea and ested in the idea that mem- competition based on inter- decades, it has turned out to June 11 to 13 in Cornwall, Australia to participate. bership in the G7 may help national rules, the US feels be an absolute failure. The England. After attending Adding these three coun- raise their international sta- that it is being surpassed by world should be inclusive, the summit, US President tries to the meeting aims to tus. its rivals. This is why it has meaning that it should Joe Biden will travel to increase the weight of the However, original G7 begun to take political accept all kinds of ideas Brussels, Belgium for the US in the international eco- members have different means other than true com- about governance from dif- NATO summit. The nomic and financial fields, positions on the admission petition to hinder its rivals - ferent perspectives. This White House said the trip and expand the values of requirements of new mem- from coalition formations will allow for a balanced ‘Vassal states’ approach fits US, not China will highlight Biden's the US and form a global bers. Superficially, 10 to open suppression tactics. international governance enneth S. Wilsb- Wei Dongxu ences international politics, commitment to restoring "democratic" bloc. countries may be more This is a vicious compe- system. The G7 has no right ach, commander of economy, diplomacy, and US alliances and revitaliz- On the one hand, they powerful than seven; how- tition. And the end result to and should not exclude Kthe US Pacific Air to prevent them from devel- even defense. But such a ing the transatlantic rela- want to play the "alliance" ever, each country has its will be a systematic "de- developing countries or Forces, said on Friday that oping close relations or norm to deter others with tionship. card and further diversify own calculations and con- Americanization" around other platforms for multi- China wants to "return reaching defense coopera- the power of military has As the G7 is a creature the US-led mechanism. On cerns over various interests. the world. In the long run, it lateral governance. back to the glory days of tion agreements with long been outdated. It goes of the past age, its influence the other hand, they want to The expansion from will not be China getting The global political and [imperial] China where Beijing. The Pentagon aims against the current era of and power are no longer expand the functions of the seven countries to 10 will isolated from the world, but security structures and the everybody else was a vas- to have more footholds development. As a result, worth looking forward to. G7 financial mechanism consume more energy and the US isolating itself from international economic and sal state and everybody around China in addition to although Washington leads The fundamental reason is agai-nst the backdrop that resources for the countries the world. financial order, established [kowtowed] to the emper- Japan, South Korea and various military alliances, that the world's economic the US' influence in the to coordinate their diver- When the G7 was found- by the US after World War or," according to a South Australia. The South China more and more US allies are and political center of grav- international economic and gences. Not to mention ed, the seven members all II and maintained to this China Morning Post Sea that locates between the showing their resolution to ity has shifted eastward. fina-ncial fields has reviving the diminished had their own calculations. day, have become increas- report. Wilsbach also three countries is relatively seek autonomy both politi- When the G7 was set up in declined. influence of the G7. In modern international ingly unsustainable. And a hyped up China's "milita- a weak point for the cally and militarily. the 1970s, the seven West- They could expect things In addition, the US and relations, multilateral par- new world order is far from rization" of the South Pentagon, where it aims to Washington needs imagi- ern countries were indeed to turn out as they have European countries have ties, whether small or large, being formed. China Sea and "aggressive find more "friends." nary enemies to sustain its the seven biggest players in wished. But in the real sharply differing view- can hardly pursue the same The G7 says it will actions" that fueled dis- The US Navy has rou- hegemonic system - unfor- the world economy. world, such a strategy will points toward China. goal as their national inter- defend the rules-based trust of China. tinely deployed its warships tunately, Russia and China However, great changes hardly serve the US purpos- European countries do not ests are different. international order. But It's not surprising to see in the region to conduct have been made such "ene- have taken place in some es, as the G20 - with the support turning the G7 into The idea that the seven international rules should such comments from a high- provocative operations. It is mies." Both countries are Asian countries since the participation of more devel- a "democratic" bloc against countries can do anything never be established by level US military official. In very likely that the US Air demonized within the DC 1970s, and the past glory in oping countries including China. to align themselves with the only seven countries or by terms of China-US rela- Force also prefers similar beltway spin machine of these seven countries had China - is playing a more There has been a decline US' position was, and the US. After all, the US is tions, high-level officials at moves to gradually establish lobbyists. Indeed, faded. Mechanisms such as important role in the inter- in the competitiveness of remains, simply impossi- a hegemonic country that the Pentagon, especially footholds in countries like Washington is trying to rope the G20 have emerged in national economy. the US and Western gover- ble. has once torn down the edi- those in charge of the Vietnam, the Philippines, in more countries, but its recent years. This has fur- Australia, India and nance. The G7 was set up with fice of the international Pacific region, have been Malaysia, and Indonesia. excuses are unfounded. ther diminished the influ- South Korea might be inter- But they have been the mission of strengthen- order. hostile toward China. They Such intent is increasingly Many countries that fear that the US maritime clearer. This is especially Washington tried to woo and air hegemony in the apparent to regional coun- have seen China's sincerity Pacific will be shaken by tries that don't have military of sharing its development Politics in the Time of Corona China's constantly growing alliances with the US. dividend with them as well military power. On the other By smearing the moves as China's constant adher- n “Love in the Time of (56%) and Mexico (55%). Niall Ferguson entrenched; more or less outcomes in North, Central hand, they want to get a big- some countries had made to ence to addressing disputes Cholera,” Gabriel Ga- There is a political story independent judiciaries and and South America, empha- ger budget for their own develop friendly ties with through peaceful talks. Ircia Marquez imag- here, but it is not the famil- ed; in both the U.K. and central banks; not to men- sizing the very different services. They therefore China "kowtow," China has proven that it ines an enduring love tri- iar one in which madcap Canada it is 59%. The fig- tion independent media approaches to land distribu- exaggerate the situation and Washington is trying to pile is on a different path from angle between two pas- right-wing populists excel ures in Latin America are companies. tion that distinguished sensationalize the "China pressure on these countries the US. Instead of using fo- sionate people — Floren- at exposing their own peo- far lower: 22% in Argentina The real political prob- British colonialism from threat" theory to emphasize with psychological warfare rce to conquer others, Beiji- tino and Fermina — and ple to the virus. and Brazil, 18% in Mexico lem in Latin America is that Spanish and Portuguese. the importance of their own in order to reach its political ng focuses on developing a punctilious doctor, As Marquez’s famous — not much ahead of India the elites in most countries Whereas the initial land services. The key words of and military goals. It is com- win-win cooperation. Many Juvenal Urbino, whom novel implies, there is noth- (13%). Even where vacci- have proved — over the grab by the conquistadores Wilsbach's remarks were pletely groundless to label countries have perceived Fermina is persuaded by ing new about Latin nation has gone well 200 years since they gained and early settlers ultimately "vassal state." Washington China's equal and mutually this. But they are sometimes her father to marry. America’s rough ride (Chile: 57%), the Chinese their independence from established very small now wishes to build a more beneficial relations with its forced to echo the US due to Trained as a physician in through this pandemic. vaccines they have relied Spain and Portugal — property-owning elites with comprehensive military neighbors as "coercion." the latter's "big stick." Paris, Dr. Urbino is a When the Spanish influen- on have proved to have remarkably reluctant or vast tracts of territory, in alliance system in the Indo- Forcing others to kowtow, Washington has taken national hero for having za swept the world in 1918- much lower efficacy than simply unable to address North America land contin- Pacific. Why? Because its pledge guilty, and show fe- itself as a rules-maker. saved the Colombian port 19, the mortality rates in the vaccines produced by the problems of the lower ued to be distributed in rel- current allies of Japan, alty is exactly what Washin- Regarding the Indo-Pacific, where the story is set Guatemala (39 per thou- Moderna and classes. atively small parcels as new South Korea, and Australia gton has been doing and Washington believes its (based loosely on sand) and Mexico (20.6) Pfizer/BioNTech. The recurrent pattern is, settlers arrived. cannot, in the eyes of upholding. Wilsbach's rules are the only ones to be Cartagena and nearby were among the highest in But these differences after prolonged periods of The question I asked Pentagon, provide enough words reveal the US' hege- abided by. Anything else Barranquilla) from recur- the world, according to the should not be regarded as paralysis, for a far-left toward the end of the book, military support that monic essence. After World that is not favored by the US rent cholera epidemics. estimates published by God-given. To explain alternative to present itself however, was whether the Washington needs to deter War II, Washington has is regarded by the US as “When [Urbino] Niall Johnson and Juergen them, you need to look at and tear everything down, U.S. was beginning in some and besiege China. been dominating the "illegal." This is typical returned to his country,” Mueller in 2002. Only in the region’s politics. To say leaving nearly everyone ways to resemble Latin Hyping up slanders that alliance system in the West. national selfishness with US writes Marquez, “and Africa, Indonesia and the that the problem is populist even poorer. That is what American countries — not China wants to dominate During the Cold War era, characteristics. Asking other smelled the stench of the South Pacific islands were leaders is too simplistic. happened in once-rich just because of large-scale countries in the region actu- many Western countries countries to act in line with market while he was still the rates higher. By com- True, Brazil has a right- Venezuela under Hugo immigration from south of ally reflects the real inten- relied on Washington for Washington's interests will out at sea and saw the rats parison, they estimate the wing populist president and Chavez and Nicolas the Rio Grande, but tion of the US. Indeed, their own defense. The US probably seriously harm all in the sewers and the chil- mortality rate for the U.S. Mexico a left-wing pop- Maduro. It might conceiv- because American inequali- Washington wants to have thus became the dominator countries that go down the dren rolling naked in the at 6.5 per thousand. ulist. ably be Peru’s fate, if left- ty and U.S. institutions more countries as its vassals of discourse power. It influ- road with the US. puddles on the streets, he Similarly, in the 1957-58 But in Peru it is wing firebrand Pedro were turning Latin. not only understood how Asian flu pandemic — Congress that wields the Castillo beats his right- This same question has the tragedy had occurred which was in some ways power, so much so that it wing rival, Keiko Fujimori, prompted a brilliant essay US sanctions become blessing in but was certain that it closer to Covid in its global has brought down three of in Sunday’s run-off election on “The Brazilianization of would be repeated at any impact than the much the country’s last four pres- for the presidency. (It is the World” by Alex Hochuli moment.” worse 1918-19 episode — idents, including Martin going to be close.) During in the latest issue of the disguise for Iran’s energy sector In cities all over the Chile, Colombia, El Vizcarra, who was his campaign, Castillo has journal American Affairs. S sanctions on Iran Kevin Karp from the port of Jask. The world in the late 19th cen- Salvador, Mexico, Panama impeached twice in 2020 threatened (at times and not Because of the pandemic, have backfired. As pipeline has the capacity to tury, men like Juvenal and Venezuela all had mor- and finally forced to resign consistently) to redraft the he argues, “hollowed-out Udemonstrated by its aging Iran’s oil industry as transport one million barrels Urbino were fighting the tality rates significantly despite an approval rating constitution, bring key min- state capacities, politi-cal completion of a major oil much as it can before sanc- per day (bpd) of crude oil, same battle, struggling to above the global average, above 50%. In Ecuador, ing and energy sectors confusion, cronyism, con- pipeline, Goreh-Jask, wh- tions are lifted. Both are which would represent near- persuade city governments according to research led too, President Lenin under direct state control, spir-atorial thinking and ich bypasses the Strait of foolish ploys. The reality is ly half of Iran’s current 2.4 and urban elites to take the by Cecile Viboud. Moreno did not conform to and abandon free trade. trust deficits have exposed Hormuz, Tehran has turn- that harsh measures aimed million bpd production. essential measures neces- So how do we explain the populist stereotype last Typically for a Latin the crumbling legiti-macy ed the hardship of sancti- at Iran’s infrastructure and Punitive sanctions sary to limit the spread of this? My first foreign trip in year, and in last month’s American election, Castillo that now makes rich and ons into a source of resources, whether carried against the Iranian oil indus- cholera. In Western Europe, 16 months was to Mexico presidential election he was has the support of rural vot- powerful states look like strength. out under the explicit pre- try have not only backfired these battles were won after City last week. It is a city replaced by a center-right ers in the interior, indige- banana republics.” Shortly after the US De- text of sanctions or not, have in their aims but have lost 1892, the year of the last I’ve had a crush on since I candidate, pro-market nous Peruvians, younger We have reached “the partment of Justice ironically stimulated the their justification, if they great cholera outbreak first visited it 40 years ago, banker Guillermo Lasso. In progressives, hardened End of the End of History.” announced on Monday that Iranians to become increas- ever had any: Iran’s position there, in Hamburg. In Latin as a callow 17-year-old on Bolivia, the pandemic Marxists and organized Far from the world con- two million barrels of ingly self-sufficient in pro- as one of the world’s largest America, the struggle was a gap-year adventure loose- struck after the populist labor — including Peru’s verging on Francis impounded Iranian oil had ducing and exporting their energy suppliers can, once much more protracted. ly based on Jack Kerouac’s President Evo Morales had powerful teachers union. Fukuyama’s idea of liberal been sold for $110 million, a hydrocarbons – arguably the freed from sanctions, deci- “Dr. Urbino wanted to travels in “On the Road.” been ousted from power. Fujimori’s base is concen- democratic capitalism, we pair of suspicious fires bro- core lever of Iran’s interna- sively help to accelerate the make the place sanitary, he And although the city has In any case, even the trated in the metropolitan risk converging on the ke out affecting Iranian inf- tional influence, which can- post-Covid recovery of wanted a slaughterhouse grown explosively since populists have very little in Lima area, and is educated Latin American fever rastructure. The first, strik- not be fully constrained by global commerce and indus- built somewhere else and a then, it has not lost its common when you com- and urban. She also polls dream: “The only people ing the country’s biggest sanctions or by any renego- try. It is currently estimated covered market. But even charm. pare their pandemic very strongly with older satisfied with their situation warship, the IRIS ‘Kharg’, tiated JCPOA. The name that Iran could reach four the most complaisant of his There is a verdant, over- responses. Mexican voters, practicing Catholics are financial elites and eventually caused the vessel ‘Kharg’ refers to the island million bpd in oil produc- notable friends pitied his grown quality to the center President Andres Manuel and the wealthy. The fact venal politicians. Everyone to sink in the Gulf of Oman. in the Persian Gulf that tion in as little as three illusory passion. That is of the city. The stormy Lopez Obrador, known by that she is the daughter of complains, but everyone So far, Iranian officials have serves as Iran’s main oil- months after sanctions are how they were: they spent mountain weather in sum- the abbreviation AMLO, Alberto Fujimori, the impr- shrugs their shoulders. This offered no explanation for export terminal for trans- lifted. A robust uptick in their lives proclaiming their mer keeps the air surpris- may be a man of the people, isoned former dictator, and slow degradation of society the blaze. The second fire shipment through the Strait global oil demand, mean- proud origins, the historic ingly clear. And the cuisine but he has done remarkably served as his first lady in is not so much a runaway hit a state-owned oil refin- of Hormuz, while the Gulf while, spurred in consider- merits of the city, the value remains irresistible to me, little to protect Mexicans the 1990s does not seem be train, but more of a jittery ery near Tehran and was of Oman, the site of its sink- able part by demand from of its relics, its heroism, its not least the inspired mad- from either the virus or its considered disqualifying by rollercoaster, occasionally only extinguished after ing, now bears immediate China, has shot the bench- beauty, but they were blind ness of chicken in choco- economic effects. Unlike in such voters. holding out promise of more than 20 hours. strategic urgency in relation mark price for Brent crude to the decay of the years.” late sauce (mole). Is there a Brazil, there has been Sometimes the illiberal ascent, yet never break-ing The same day that the oil to Tehran’s bid to take more up to more than $70 per bar- Marquez’s leitmotif — better aperitif than mezcal? almost no fiscal support for right wins, sometimes the free from the tracks.” (If sale was announced, Iranian control over its oil distribu- rel, meaning that enhanced “?that the symptoms of Yet you can see as you the Mexican economy. As radical left. In the latter that reminds you of Marq- Foreign Ministry spokes- tion and tap the lucrative supply from Iran could be love were the same as those walk the streets why pan- the rest of the world com- case, eventually, the right is uez’s Colombia, you’ve man Saeed Khatibzadeh iss- markets of East Asia. absorbed in this market of of cholera” — seems demics hit Latin America mits itself to a “net zero” restored to power and sets been paying attention.) ued a warning in reference US restrictive measures rising needs. almost to suggest that the so hard. On the one hand, future of reduced reliance about turning back the clo- It seems to me, however, to two Iranian vessels being have undoubtedly bitten Iran and China are coop- Colombians could not quite the populations of Central on fossil fuels, AMLO ck. Then, rinse and repeat. that Hochuli is not describ- monitored by the US for all- hard into Iran’s worldwide erating to take full advan- distinguish between plague and South America are remains strangely preoccu- Typical of the dysfunc- ing a phenomenon you egedly sailing for Venezuela oil shipments – Iranian oil tage of this paradigm: China and passion. older on average than those pied with restoring the tion is Chile, South would encounter in conti- – Iran’s ally that is also exports had fallen by about is already undermining the Latin America has had of most developing coun- dominance of the state- America’s most successful nental Europe or indeed in under onerous US sanctions. 90% roughly a year after US sanctions by purchasing an exceptionally bad time tries. Whereas the median owned oil producer, economy since the reforms Canada. It is the U.S. he is He stated that “nobody President Trump withdrew one million bpd of Iran’s oil, of it since the first Covid- age in Africa is 19.7 years Pemex, over the country’s of the 1980s, where a great really talking about. And should make a miscalcula- from the JCPOA and and the two partners signed 19 case was confirmed in and in Southern Asia 27.6, energy sector. deal of energy is soon to be the pathologies he identi- tion” by prohibiting Iran’s imposed his “maximum a long-term deal in March Sao Paulo on Feb. 26 last according the United By contrast, Bolsonaro consumed by the writing of fies are not peculiar to freedom of navigation in pressure” campaign of sanc- for massive Chinese invest- year. Rank the world’s Nations, in Latin America has been forced by the a new constitution, which I Brazil. A better framing, I international waters. tions targeting a range of ment in Iranian energy. countries by deaths per mil- and the Caribbean it is 31. Brazilian Congress to blow suspect won’t actually do think, would be the Iran’s increasing Iranian sectors including oil, Meanwhile, OPEC+ lion, and only a few Eastern People are also much more out the deficit while at the much for poorer Chileans. LatAmization of the U.S. assertiveness against sanc- shipping, and banking. leaders all but acknowl- European countries look likely to be obese than in same time expressing Latin American states love For all his invective against tions is proceeding along- But Iran has quietly piv- edged the market’s readi- worse. But the Latin South Asia or Africa. The views on Covid that make new constitutions, but these immigrants from Central side ongoing negotiations in oted by adeptly modifying ness to handle full Iranian American excess mortality age-standardized preva- Trump look like Anthony seldom address the real America, Trump was in Vienna, with the aim of put- cargo-ship data, allegedly oil-export volumes when, figures are especially lence of obesity among Fauci. Last week saw issues of inequality and many ways a very Latin ting the US administration blending Iranian oil with during a summit this week, shocking. Overall, U.S. adults in Mexico is 28.9, large-scale protests against often send countries disas- American figure, with of President Joe Biden back Iraqi oil, ramping up domes- they agreed to implement a mortality since January last not far behind the U.S. Bolsonaro in numerous trously off course (see strong caudillo instincts, into the nuclear accord that tic production, and con- production increase of 2.1 year has been about 18% (36.2). In India the figure is cities. His chances of re- Venezuela). Why are the even if his attempt at an Donald Trump summarily structing a major pipeline million bpd over the spring above normal, according to 3.9, in Nigeria 8.9. On the election have been further Chileans changing their autogolpe, or self-coup, on left in 2018 before slapping terminating in a port on the and summer. Petty jingoism estimates by the Financial other hand, Latin America hurt by the return to politi- constitution, despite the Jan. 6 was a fiasco. wide-ranging sanctions on Gulf of Oman. The 1,000km has spurred the sanctions- Times. For the U.K., the has significantly patchier cal life of the former presi- fact that it has worked How far this process can Iranian commerce. In this Goreh-Jask pipeline, which enabled oil theft. figure is about the same health-care coverage than dent, Luiz Inacio Lula da rather well? Because the be reversed will depend on context, the seizure of an has just recently started Stonewalling Iran’s full (17%). But for Brazil it is most developing countries Silva, whose criminal con- last one originated under whether our own Dr. Urbi- Iranian oil shipment under shipping oil, allows Tehran energy-export capabilities is 34%. with comparably old and viction for corruption was the dictatorship of Augusto nos — people willing to the current sanctions regime to bypass the heavily now more than ever a dan- For Western commenta- unhealthy populations. recently overturned. Yet Pinochet — and because a learn the real lessons of last evidences a woefully mis- patrolled, bottlenecked gerously counterproductive tors accustomed to heaping All over the world, it is while 54% of Brazilians wave of protest, beginning year’s disastrous mishan- guided attempt at coercion. Strait of Hormuz region tactic, amid global clamor opprobrium on the now clear, Covid kills the see Bolsonaro’s handling before the pandemic, dling of Covid — outnum- By continuing to enforce with a route offering more for ready energy supplies Brazilian president, Jair poor more than the rich, of the pandemic as bad or sapped the strength of the ber those who, to paraphr- the oil theft allowed under direct access to customers in that can galvanize post- Bolsonaro, this confirms and darker skinned people awful, according to a center-right government of ase Marquez, spend their Trump’s sanctions while India and China. This fait Covid economic growth. As the view that he is like for- more than lighter skinned March 17 Datafolha poll, Sebastian Pinera. lives proclaiming their pro- seeking to rejoin the Joint accompli even allows the global gains of an mer U.S President Donald people. Latin America, with his approval remains well Yet as I walked the ud origins, the historic mer- Comprehensive Plan of Tehran to turn sanctions unsanctioned Iranian oil Trump or U.K. Prime its high levels of inequality above the single digits that streets of Mexico City last its of the country, the value Action (JCPOA), Biden’s pressure onto the US by sector look increasingly Minister Boris Johnson, — where poverty often cor- presaged the impeach- weekend, a question kept of its relics, its heroism, its team may either be trying to blockading the strait, watch- inevitable, anti-Iranian only worse. But the theory relates with skin pigmenta- ments of previous presi- popping into my head. All beauty, but are blind to the extract deeper concessions ing the oil price rise, and measures against that sector that populist leaders are tion — has therefore pre- dents Dilma Rousseff and of this may long have been decay of the years. from Iran in a renewed profiting from the resulting look increasingly anachro- responsible for high Covid sented the disease with a lot Fernando Collor. true of Latin America. But In Marquez’s Colombia, nuclear deal or simply dam- windfall by shipping oil nistic. deaths begins to look less of vulnerable people in Wherever you look is it finally starting to be “the symptoms of love compelling when you real- many big and crowded closely, you see how com- true of the U.S., too? A were the same as those of ize that the excess mortality cities. plex Latin American poli- decade ago, in a book titled cholera.” In America today, Important Notice rates for a number of other Finally, vaccination in tics really is. In most cases, “Civilization,” I tried to I wonder if the symptoms The Frontier Post will not be responsible for the comments in the articles South American states are Latin America is pretty populist presidents have to show why the variants of of Covid are, in a similar and letters. The Frontier Post requests the writers of articles and letters even worse: Peru leads much a mess. In the U.S. reckon with powerful par- European settlement in the way, akin to those of a mor- to please make sure that they write their email addresses and mention (123%), followed by more than half the popula- liamentary bodies, in which Americas after around 1500 bid, suffocating patriotism. the names of the cities, towns, districts or tehsil of their Ecuador (67%), Bolivia tion has now been vaccinat- vested interests are well had produced such different Bloomberg residences at the bottom of their articles and letters. The Frontier Post, Peshawar Monday, June 07, 2021 FPCCI demands reforms in tax system F.P. Report Coordinator Mirza Abdul who are out of tax net between business commu- Rehman and Muhammad always reluctant to come nity and tax authorities. ISLAMABAD: The Fed- Ali Mian while the Senator into the tax net. He said that the rebates eration Pakistan Chamber Talha Mehmood who is They stressed on making and refunds are the right of Commerce and Industry also Chairman of Senate reforms in tax system and and trust of business com- (FPCCI) on Sunday dem- Standing Committee on FBR particularly with ref- munity in the hand of gov- anded to initiate reforms in Finance, Revenue and erence to the honor / status ernment, it should be retu- the tax system and urged Economic Affairs along and relief to the tax payers, rned immediately. Business for broadening the tax base with other Senator Abdul making the business easier community suggestions sh- for enhancing the country’s Qadir Khan, Senator Kamil and providing best level ould be made an integral revenue. Ali Agha and Former playing field and free hand part of the budget because A delegation Chairmen Federal Minister Shiekh to the business community. they are direct stakeholders. Senators of Senate Stand- Waqas Akram and other They proposed that if the Chairman Standing Co- ing Committees visited attended meeting and government wants impr- mmittee on Petroleum FPCCI Capital Office Isl- shared their views. ovement in foreign excha- Senator Abdul Qadir Khan, amabad, said a press rele- On this occasion, Mian nge, employment opportu- Chairman Standing Comm- ase issued by FPCCI here. Anjum Nisar, former nities and improvement in ittee on Functional Comm- A delegation Chairmen President FPCCI gave a the economic situation of ittee Kamil Ali Agha said Senators of Senate Stan- detailed briefing to the par- the country, the business that they will resolve the ISLAMABAD: President (Pakistan Chapter) UKPBG M. Khurshid Barlas alongwith others presenting ding Committees visited ticipants regarding the community should be given problems of business com- souvenir to Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani during UK-Pakistan Business Awards ceremony. FPCCI Capital Office Isla- budget proposals sent to the free hand. munity on priority basis. mabad to meet the office government by FPCCI. The business community All the members of the bearers of FPCCI and the Speaking on the occa- demanded government’s Senate will work together representatives of Cham- sion, the FPCCI Office Special packages in all sec- with the FPCCI for the eco- DGTO bers of Commerce and bearers said that the busi- tors as announced for nomic development of ICCI urge government trade associations of Sindh, ness community is the real Construction Sector. Pakistan. demanded to Punjab, KPK provinces, taxpayer. They further said that let They said that the gov- Federal Area and Gilgit They said that the tax them play their role in pro- ernment makes laws while play role in for fixed tax regime for Baltistan to hold pre-budget payers are treated with high moting Pakistan’s econom- the policies are made by discussion on the budget respects all over the world ic development, trade and people who are neither FPCCI polls proposals of FPCCI. and they feel proud of investment. stakeholder nor have any MULTAN (APP): Exec- traders in next budget The meeting was attend- being tax payers. Speaking on the occa- business but are salaried utive committee and gener- ed by a large number of Moreover, every year in sion, Senator Talha Mahm- people who completely al body representatives of ISLAMABAD (APP): and focus on broadening the in order to reduce cost of members of FPCCI and new budget, the existing ood, Chairman, Senate ignore the problems of the Federation of Pakistan Islamabad Chamber of tax base with low tax rates. doing business and attract reprentatives from trade tax payers are charged Standing Committee on business community. Chambers of Commerce Commerce and Industry on Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan more local and foreign bodies prominently Khwaja more taxes by the tax Finance, said that only the He said respect and sta- and Industry (FPCCI) dem- Sunday urged the govern- said that high tax rates in investment in the country. Shahzeb Akram Senior authorities instead of business community can fix tus should be given to the anded Directorate General ment to introduce a fixed Pakistan were a major hur- Fatima Azim, Senior Vice President, Qurban Ali expanding the tax net. the country’s economic taxpayer, so that the other of Trade Organizations tax regime for traders in the dle in promoting tax culture Vice President and Abdul Chairman Capital Office, Taxpayers are always crunch, if they obtain more people who are out of tax (DGTO) to play transparent upcoming budget and end and bringing more people Rehman Khan Vice Mian Anjum Nisar, former targeted by the tax authori- faculties from authorities. net can be motivated to join role for its election. the condition of CNIC for into the tax net as high tax President ICCI said that 17 President FPCCI, ties resultantly those people There is trust deficit the tax net. In a statement issued here them on sale that would rates always encouraged percent GST in Pakistan on Sunday after its meeting help in promoting docu- tax evasion. was a major cause of high presided over by MCCI mented economy and Therefore, he urged the production cost and high president, Khawja Salauddin increasing the tax revenue government to focus on inflation. Bitcoin mining at Multan Chamber, the of the country. rationalization of taxes to They observed that the consumes as USA, UK, China top 3 committee and general body In a press statement make them affordable for GST was 5% in Canada, alleged that FPCCI elections President ICCI Sardar Yasir taxpayers that would be Taiwan & UAE, 7% in much electricity were being rigged for last Ilyas Khan said that the helpful in promoting tax Singapore, 8% in Sri destinations of Pakistani couple of years whose report retail sector was making compliance across the Lanka, 9% in Iran and 10% as UAE has been sent to DGTO. In around 20 percent contribu- country. He said that tax on in Vietnam, which showed last year’s elections, UBG tion to GDP and introduc- rental income was up to 37 that the people and busi- DUBAI (Agencies): Bitc- exports in 10 months group’s presidential candi- ing a fixed tax regime for it percent in Pakistan due to nesses in Pakistan were oin mining uses as much date, Khalid Awan, won by would be a great initiative which the business commu- paying a very high GST. electricity as the entire ISLAMABAD (APP): the months under review recorded at US $ 668.773 five votes, it claimed adding to broaden the tax base of nity was also facing great They urged that the gov- UAE, S&P estimates. United States of America against the exports of US million against US that but results were changed the country besides making problems as they have to ernment to bring down The huge amount of (USA) remained the top $1411.004 million during $751.606 million last year. and Businessmen panel’s significant improvement in pay high rents of shops and GST to single digit level in electricity needed to mine export destinations of the last year, showing growth The exports to candidate was declared vic- tax-to-GDP ratio. this factor was giving rise the coming budget that cryptocurrencies will likely Pakistani products during of 16.27 percent, SBP data Bangladesh stood at US torious which is unfair. He said that the best to inflation as well. would be instrumental in exclude them from the first ten months of revealed. Among other $497.396 million against The facts about the engi- option for the government He urged the govern- reducing production cost investors that need to com- financial year (2020-21), countries, Pakistani exports US $ 599.658 million. neered elections were sent to increase tax revenue is to ment that in the coming and providing a great relief ply with ESG guidelines, followed by United to Germany stood at US $ Similarly, the exports to to DGTO and despite sever- avoid putting more tax bur- budget make a significant to the high inflation-strick- the ratings agency said. Kingdom (UK) and China. 1245.122 million against France during the months al reminders, but the issue den on existing taxpayers cut in tax on rental income en general public. It comes as the sector Total exports to the USA US $1116.232 million dur- under review were recorded was still pending with it, the attracts increased attention during July-April (2020- ing last year, showing at US $ 361.699 million statement stated. The busi- from investors and regula- 21) were recorded at US $ increase of 11.54 percent against US $ 358.620 mil- ness community has con- tors after a year of rampant 4019.722 million against while the exports to UAE lion while the exports to cerns over it because only a volatility. the exports of US $ were recorded at US $ Saudi Arabia stood at US $ visionary leadership of Coca-Cola pledges “Among the many 3368.090 million during 1215.939 million against 401.643 million against US FPCCI can enhance coun- flaws that cryptocurren- July-April (2019-20), US $ 1377.287 million last $ 388.610 million. try’s exports, it maintained. cies face is their excessive showing growth of 19.34 year, the data revealed. Pakistan’s exports to The DGTO should play a to provide smart waste consumption of electrici- percent, according to State During July-April Turkey were recorded at US fair role for registration and ty,” Mohamed Damak, a Bank of Pakistan (SBP). (2020-21), the exports to $218.069 million during the elections of trade organiza- senior director at S&P said This was followed by Holland were recorded at current year compared to US tions as it was a much impor- management infrastructure during an online seminar UK, wherein Pakistan US $922.819 million $240.196 million last year tant office for the organiza- on Sunday. “Today the exported goods worth US $ against US $850.421 mil- whereas the exports to tions, the statement said and F.P. Report tainability agenda for stewardship, 85 percent of number of investors with 1691.314 million against lion whereas the exports to Canada stood at US added that Multan Chamber which Water, Waste and plastic waste is collected ESG considerations is just the exports of US $ Afghanistan stood at US $ $253.928 million against US of Commerce & Industry KARACHI: On the occa- Women are the three core according to a formal study growing and growing 1386.999 million last year, 828.727 million against US $ 231.242 million, to Poland (MCCI) also demands DGTO sion of World Environment focus areas. conducted by WWF and every day.” showing an increase of $809.685 million. US $ 247.839 million against to give its verdict on FPCCI Day, Coca-Cola reiterated Over 10 million benefici- 200,000 women have gradu- He said the immense 21.94 percent. Pakistan’s exports to US $ 218.654 million where- last year’s elections and not to its commitment to protect aries have been positively ated under the empowerment amount of waste and China was the at third Italy were recorded at as the exports to Australia include votes of cancelled natural ecosystems across impacted by the company’s programs in the most under- power consumption top export destination, $629.917 million against stood at US $ 216.939 mil- association and revise the Pakistan as part of its sus- interventions through water served communities. required could lead to a where Pakistan exported the exports of US $ lion during the current year licenses Registration of all change in the way digital goods worth US $ 642.617 million while the against US $ 170.321 million associations in an unbiased coins are mined. 1640.629 million during exports to Spain were during last year. manner, it concluded. Getz Pharma takes LEED Platinum Certificate F.P. Report also WWF Green Office Certified. KARACHI: Getz Pharma Every year the World Pvt. Ltd. announced that its Environment Day is new manufacturing facility, observed on June 5 by the named Astola, has been United Nations to spread awarded the First LEED awareness about prevent- Platinum Certification for a ing, halting and reversing pharmaceutical plant in the damage that has been South Asia, by the US caused to nature. This year, Green Building Council. the baton was passed down With this achievement, to Pakistan with the theme Pakistan has proudly being ‘ecosystem restora- become the first South tion’, focusing more on cre- Asian country to have rece- ating a good relationship ived the LEED Platinum with nature. Level Certification for a Getz Pharma organized a pharmaceutical plant. live talk on World Achieving the highest Environment Day on the LEED rating for this state- ‘Role of the Corporate of-the-art facility is a testa- Sector in Protecting the ment to Getz Pharma’s Environment’. In discus- commitment towards play- sion were Khalid ing its part as a corporate Mahmood, Managing citizen, for preserving and Director & CEO of Getz protecting the environment. Pharma, and Hammad Naqi Getz Pharma believes in Khan, Director-General of forward-thinking by con- WWF Pakistan. stantly taking environmen- Emphasizing the need of tally conscious efforts for a the corporate sector to play more sustainable world. its part in saving the envi- With the completion of this ronment, Mr. Mahmood plant, Getz Pharma has said, “It is important that achieved their goal of pro- we as humans keep remind- moting sustainability and ing ourselves that we are efficiency in building not alone on this planet. design, construction and There is a huge biological operations. It is not the first ecosystem that exists time that Getz Pharma has around us. If we want to laid down a foundation for live a better and more sus- communities and corpora- tainable life, we need to tions to follow. Ever since unlearn and relearn how to its inception in 1995, Getz honor the cycle of life.” Pharma has put preserva- Naqi discussed the vari- tion of environment on the ous efforts WWF-Pakistan is forefront of its CSR activi- taking to carry out its mis- ties and actively promotes sion to work at both a global initiatives in this field, and national level with gov- while adopting several ernments, the private sector green practices in their and consumers to address office as well. As the sec- governance challenges ond-largest pharmaceutical affecting development and company in Pakistan, Getz advocate for sustainable Pharma’s Head Office is decision-making. 09 The Frontier Post Monday, June 07, 2021

In brief Pavlyuchenkova’s back Five cricketers still await visas KARACHI in quarters, but (Monitoring Desk): Five cricketers are still waiting for UAE visas to participate in the remaining matches of Federer’s pulling out Pakistan Super League (PSL) season six. PARIS (AP): Ten years later, Anastasia Tsitsipas is still looking for his first crew from France Television, whose According to Daily Pavlyuchenkova is back in the quarter- major final, anywhere. presenter and guests are perched up Jang citing sources, finals of the French Open after beating The fifth-seeded Greek advanced to high above the players. The match Umar Amin, Imran 2013 semifinalist Victoria Azarenka 5- the last eight for the second straight umpire asked them, during the second Randhawa and Asif 7, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday. year by beating 12th-seeded Spaniard set, to talk more quietly as their Afridi are in Lahore Former Wimbledon champion Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-2, 7-5. enthusiasm got the better of them. while Hammad Azam Marion Bartoli, who was doing the Tsitsipas, who lost in the semifinals to Azarenka got a telling off, too, of and Khalid Usman are courtside interview, congratulated top-ranked Novak Djokovic at last sorts: a time violation warning for in England. Sources her. There was disappointment for year’s tournament, is a favorite among taking too long to serve in the third further revealed that French Open fans elsewhere, though, fans for his entertaining approach. game of the deciding set — which, Hammad Azam and with 20-time Grand Slam champion “I love it, the fans love it, I Iove coincidentally, happened just as the Khalid Usman termi- Roger Federer pulling out. He has playing with people. Love the atten- wind was picking up. nated their club con- Wimbledon in mind. tion,” he said. “It’s a privilege and a Tamara Zidansek, meanwhile, tracts in England for Federer is giving himself a chance to great feeling and sensation for me.” For became the first Slovenian woman to PSL 6. It must be noted recover after a tough third-round match Pavlyuchenkova, too, it was hard to reach the quarterfinals of a major. that a player has to that lasted about 3 1/2 hours on stop smiling as she spoke to Bartoli. She won 7-6 (4), 6-1 against undergo mandatory Saturday night and ended close to 1 a.m. “It’s just incredible, even that I’m still Romanian Sorana Cirstea after saving seven-day quarantine The tournament announced his playing tennis such a long time after,” a set point in a tight first set between after arriving in Abu withdrawal and the 2009 French she said. “It’s a surprise for me. I fought the unseeded players. The 23-year- Dhabi while PSL 6 will Open champion explained in a state- hard and I’m very happy to win.” old Zidansek dropped to her knees resume from June 9 at ment that he is protecting his body The 29-year-old Russian has and held her head in her hands after Sheikh Zayed BAKU: Red Bull's Mexican driver Sergio Perez celebrates on the podium after after two operations on his right knee. reached the quarters at the Australian winning on her first match point. International Stadium winning the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit. “After two knee surgeries and over a Open and Wimbledon, but has never Zidansek’s run is even more in Abu Dhabi. year of rehabilitation it’s important that reached the semifinals at any major. impressive, considering the former I listen to my body and make sure I She might face 23-time Grand Slam snowboard enthusiast had never beat- Hassan beats don’t push myself too quickly,” he said. champion Serena Williams next. en a top 10-ranked player before this “I am thrilled to have gotten 3 matches The seventh-seeded American was tournament or been past the first round world record Perez wins Azerbaijan under my belt. There is no greater feel- playing No. 21 Elena Rybakina in the here. No. 33 Paula Badosa of Spain HENGELO ing than being back on court.” fourth round later Sunday, with the joined her in the last eight for the first (Agencies): Sifan The 39-year-old Swiss star was winner facing Pavlyuchenkova. time at any major, beating No. 20 Hassan set a world supposed to play against big-hitting The former top-ranked Azarenka Marketa Vondrousova 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. record by running the GP after Verstappen Italian Matteo Berrettini on Monday. saved two break points before clinch- In later men’s play, No. 2 Daniil 10,000 meters in 29 Wimbledon begins June 28 and ing the first set on a sunny Court Medvedev faced No. 22 Cristian minutes, 6.82 seconds Federer will seek a men’s record- Philippe-Chatrier, where the crowd Garin and No. 6 Alexander Zverev at the Fanny Blankers- extending ninth title there. Stefanos was subdued. Less so the broadcast was playing Kei Nishikori. Koen Games on crashes from lead Sunday. The 28-year- old Dutch athlete, back BAKU (Agencies): Sergio furious over a second fail- “So sorry, guys,” he told in the same stadium Perez won the Azerbaijan ure of a Pirelli tire in the the team. Four-time champi- Ben Dunk where she set her Grand Prix in a two-lap race and asked for a stop- on Sebastian Vettel took sec- European record of shootout after champi- page to allow tire changes ond for Aston Martin after injured while 29:36.67 in the 10,000 onship leader Max for safety reasons. Lance an impressive drive after last October, shaved Verstappen crashed while Stroll had crashed earlier in qualifying 11th. Pierre Gasly practicing, more than 10 seconds leading with a tire failure the race after his own unex- was third for AlphaTauri. off the previous world- and Lewis Hamilton went pected tire failure. Sunday’s race was the receives best mark of 29:17.45 off course trying to seize the Formula One red- second red-flagged F1 set by Ethiopia’s win on the standing restart. flagged the race and round of the year after seven stitches Almaz Ayana at the Verstappen was four laps brought the field to pit lane Valtteri Bottas and George ABU DHABI (Monitoring 2016 Olympics in Rio away from a second consec- before deciding to resume Russell crashed at Imola in Desk): Lahore Qalandars’ de Janeiro. “To run this utive victory Sunday when with a standing start for a April, and the longest sus- overseas player Ben Dunk world record here his Red Bull suddenly two-lap sprint to the finish. pension since a fiery crash has injured himself while today in Hengelo is slammed hard into the wall Perez was the leader but for Romain Grosjean in doing catching practice, the something I could only with a puncture to his left Hamilton shot past him in Bahrain last year caused the franchise confirmed. dream of,” Hassan rear tire. The Dutchman his attempt to win the race race to be stopped more According to details, the said. “It’s the perfect climbed from his car, and reclaim the points lead than an hour. wicketkeeper-batsman confirmation of the inspected the tire and from Verstappen. But he It was the second career Dunk got hit above his lips. hard work we’ve put in kicked it in anger before failed to brake in the first win for Perez, who is in his Reportedly, he ended up getting ready for stomping off in disgust over corner and his Mercedes first season with Red Bull with seven stitches. Tokyo. I am so happy the race-changing failure. slid off track. Hamilton and it somewhat salvaged Qalandars are hopeful to share this record in “Is he OK?” radioed dropped to 15th, snapping a the race for the team that that Dunk will recover front of my Dutch fans. rival and seven-time cham- streak of 54 consecutive had been headed toward a before their match against I am so happy!” pion Hamilton. Verstappen races of earning a points 1-2 finish before Islamabad United, sched- PARIS: Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova celebrates after defeating Hassan also holds was fine but Red Bull was position finish. Verstappen’s tire failed. uled on June 9. Belarus's Victoria Azarenka during their fourth round match. world records in the mile, one-hour event and 5-kilometer road Sports Board race. Punjab decides Match officials for Oliveira wins to resume MotoGP race remaining HBL PSL 6 MONTMELÓ sport activities (Agencies): Miguel LAHORE (Monitoring Oliveira won the Desk): The Sports Board of matches announced Catalonia GP for his Punjab has decided to resume first MotoGP victory of sports activities across the LAHORE (Monitoring Abu Dhabi-leg between Mohammad Javed Malik the season on Sunday province as the COVID-19 Desk): The Pakistan Lahore Qalandars and the (Multan) in front of nearly situation improves. Cricket Board today 2016 and 2018 champions Umpires and match ref- 20,000 fans, the biggest According to the notifi- announced match officials Islamabad United will be erees appointments (all crowd for any event in cation, activities of 30 non- for the remaining 20 umpired by Aleem Dar and matches at Sheikh Zayed Spain since the start of contact sports will be matches of the HBL Rashid Riaz, while Shozab Cricket Stadium. Single the coronavirus pan- resumed from tomorrow. Pakistan Super League 6 Raza will be the third matches to start at 2000 demic. The crowd of The ban on 12 contact which will be played at the umpire and Faisal Afridi, UAE time; double-headers 19,352 at the sports will remain in place. Sheikh Zayed Stadium, the fourth umpire. to start at 1700 UAE time Barcelona-Catalunya Rowing, karate, taekwon- Abu Dhabi from Muhammad Anees will be and 2200 UAE time, Circuit surpassed the do, judo, kickboxing and tug- Wednesday, 9 June to the match referee. respectively): nearly 15,000 that of-war will remain suspend- Thursday, 24 June. The June 24 final will be 9 June - Lahore attended Spain’s friend- ed. Training on Judo, Rugby, Pakistan’s senior most umpired by Aleem and Qalandars v Islamabad ly soccer match against Wrestling, Kabaddi, Muay umpire Aleem Dar who is Ahsan with Asif the third United. Aleem Dar and Portugal on Friday at Thai and Wushu to continue. also one of the most distin- umpire. Rashid will be the Rashid Riaz (on-field the Wanda Gymnastics, cricket, basket- guished members of the fourth umpire while Anees umpires), Shozab Raza Metropolitano Stadium ball, volleyball, weightlift- ICC Elite Panel of Umpires will be the match referee. (third umpire), Faisal in Madrid. Only small- ing, handball activities, ath- will join six members of the Umpires and match Afridi (fourth umpire), er crowds had been letics, mountain biking, base- PCB Elite Panel of Umpires referees: Muhammad Anees (match allowed at events SAN FRANCISCO: Lexi Thompson plays her shot from the second tee during ball, roller skating, futsal, for the Abu Dhabi-leg. PCB Elite Panel of referee) across Spain, which the third round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament. table tennis, road cycling The six local umpires Umpires - Ahsan Raza 10 June - Multan Sultans was one of the activities will be restored. are Ahsan Raza, Asif (Lahore), Asif Yaqoob v Karachi Kings. Aleem European countries Cycling, fencing, Yaqoob (PCB Umpire of (Islamabad), Faisal Khan Dar and Shozab Raza (on- hardest-hit by the pan- triathlon, golf, water polo, 2020), Faisal Khan Afridi, Afridi (Sargodha), Rashid field umpires), Rashid Riaz demic. Fans were hockey, archery, rowing, Rashid Riaz, Shozab Raza Riaz (Lahore), Shozab (third umpire), Faisal divided among eight Thompson uses flawless badminton, shooting, mod- and Zameer Haider. Raza (Lahore), and Zameer Afridi (fourth umpire), Ali different sectors around ern pentathlon, ski jumping, PCB match referee elite Haider (Lahore). Naqvi (match referee); the track near cross country, snooker and panelists Ali Naqvi, ICC Elite Panel of Peshawar Zalmi v Lahore Barcelona, with a max- round to take lead at US billiards, football, swim- Iftikhar Ahmed, Umpires – Aleem Dar Qalandars. Asif Yaqoob imum of 3,000 people ming will also be allowed. Mohammad Javed Malik PCB Elite Panel of and Rashid Riaz (on-field in each. “Amazing to It must be noted that sports and Muhammad Anees will Match Referees - Ali Naqvi umpires), Ahsan Raza have the fans here,” Women’s Open activities were banned in lead the playing control (Lahore), Iftikhar Ahmed (third umpire), Faisal said Oliveira, the Punjab due to rising cases teams in Abu Dhabi. (Karachi), Muhammad Afridi (fourth umpire), Ali Portuguese rider for SAN FRANCISCO 7 under heading into the shot into the second cut of of novel coronavirus. The first match of the Anees (Lahore), and Naqvi match referee. Red Bull KTM who (Agencies): Lexi Thompson final round of a major for the rough. She still managed to finished ahead of needed to get her mind right first time since 2017, when get on the green and made a Johann Zarco and Jack before she could get her her edge after 54 holes at the 20-foot putt to get to 5 under. Miller. Miller earned game back and now is in ANA Inspiration was erased Thompson added another the final podium spot position to win her second on Sunday when she was long birdie putt on No. 14 after pole-sitter Fabio career major. penalized four strokes after a and reached the green at the Quartararo was handed Thompson shot a bogey- viewer saw that she had mis- par-5 17th in two shots a three-second penalty free 5-under 66 on Saturday placed her marked ball dur- before two-putting for birdie for cutting corners, to take the lead into the final ing the third round. and the lead. She saved par dropping him to fourth round of the U.S. Women’s Thompson still managed with a 3-foot putt at 18 after place. Quartararo, who Open for the first time in to make it into a playoff hitting her tee shot into the started from pole for her career with a one-shot against So Yeon Ryu, but she rough and her approach the fifth straight time edge over teenager Yuka lost and was unable to add to behind the green. this season, exchanged Saso. “I haven’t played to the 2014 ANA Inspiration “I struck it well all day, the lead with Oliveira a my standards and what I title she won for her first made a few good putts out few times before the need and I just realized that major. Thompson played a there,” she said. “It’s all Frenchman started to I needed to change my nearly flawless round about patience out on this struggle as his racing mindset,” Thomson said. “It Saturday in search of her golf course because there’s suit began to open and was only hurting me. first U.S. Women’s Open going to be bad shots made he lost his chest protec- Obviously, I needed to work title in her 15th try after first and you’re going to miss tor. Quartararo saw his on some technical things in competing as a 12-year-old some fairways, so you just championship lead my game and everything, amateur in 2007. She has have to get bogey at worst reduced to 17 points but the mental side was four-top 10 finishes at the and get off the hole and go over Zarco. Six-time really getting to me. I was U.S. Women’s Open, includ- on to the next.” MotoGP champion just taking it way too seri- ing a runner-up two years Saso made back-to-back Marc Márquez contin- ously and thinking that Lexi ago in Charleston. bogeys on the back nine to ued to struggle after depended on my score.” Thompson has been lurk- fall out of the lead before returning from a long Thompson said she’s ing around the leaderboard recovering with a birdie at the injury layoff, failing to been working again with all week, shooting 69 on par-5 17th to get back to 7 finish a race for the third performance coach John Thursday and 71 in the sec- under. She missed a 12-foot straight time — some- Denney about not dwelling ond round before shooting par putt on 18 and ended the thing that had never on mistakes, although she the low round of her career day a stroke back. New Jersey happened before in his made few Saturday when at this tournament on high school amateur Megha MotoGP career. The she was the first player all Saturday. She started to Ganne shot a 72 and was tied Spaniard crashed after week to make par or better make a run with three for third at 3 under with 2019 starting in 13th place. on every hole in the round. birdies, including one on champion Jeongueun Lee6 of LORD'S: Tim Southee pouched a sharp, low chance in the slips to see the end of Rory Burns, England That had her in the lead at No. 9 after hitting her tee South Korea. vs New Zealand, 1st Test, 5th day. 10 Monday, June 07, 2021 The Frontier Post

InIn briefbrief Educational Water shortage persists in Adiala Institutions to RAWALPINDI (APP): The residents of Adiala road Jahrahi Stop and adjacent areas are fac- resume physical ing acute water short- age for the last several days. The influential of the area were seemed classes from today helpless, to resolve the issue. The residents F.P. Report cated. All heads of Institution are also including, Rizwan advised to direct their teaching staff to Chatta, Zahoor, Adalat, ISLAMABAD: The public and private devise strategies to cover syllabus with a Rab Nawaz, Ghulam sector educational institutions in schedule of classroom assessments to Abbas,Riaz, Fayyaz, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to diagnose weak areas of the students. Said Rasool, Ali resume physical classes in staggered man- The identified areas then must be Nawaz, Shakeel ner from Monday. focused to cover through remedial strate- Ahmed, Sheikh In that regard, Federal Directorate of gies appropriate to every grade level, the Tasleem,Muhammad Education (FDE) and and Private letter mentioned. Javed, Muhammad Educational Institutions Regulatory It is pertinent to mention that all class- Aslam, Muhammad Authority (PEIRA) has directed all public room assessments shall be designed and Akram, Wasiq and private schools and colleges to start conducted during routine classes without Razzak,Sajjad Sadiq physical classes under strict SOPs. interrupting rest of the classes of the day. threatened to lodge a FDE has directed all heads of It is further emphasized that exemption in protest against Water Islamabad Model School/Colleges working hours already notified shall not be and Sanitation Agency (Boys/Girls) urban and rural areas to allowed whatever the case may be. ISLAMABAD: A view of massive traffic jam at Shahdra picnic point during Sunday holiday. WASA for not provid- resume physical classes in staggered man- Moreover, decision regarding annual ing the water. A com- ner from June 07, 2021(Monday). examination for class I-VIII shall be com- plainant of Adiala road The letter further stated that in pursuant municated as advice is received from com- Tariq Khan said "we to decision taken at NCOC, the Area petent authority. have to fetch water Education Officers and heads of institu- However, Ministry of Federal SC forms three larger, special, 6 from far flung areas to tions are directed to resume their educa- Education and Professional Training has meet the daily needs. tional activities for classes I-VIII and also notified regarding reopening of edu- He said "we can't afford BS/ADP in addition to already ongoing cational institutions from Monday, asking a water tank that is cost- SSC and HSSC classes. It has also been all under departments to resume physical regular benches for next week ly and unaffordable and directed to comply with already notified classes in staggered manner and under we have to pay Rs 1800 SOPs with the timings already communi- strict SOPs. ISLAMABAD (APP): Chief Justice cial bench comprising Justice Umar cians, suo moto case regarding rights twice in a week to get of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed has consti- Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan of minorities, appeal of Jang-Geo water from this source". tuted three larger benches, three spe- and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah will hear Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur- Another resident cial benches and six regular benches petition filed by former President Rahman against an order passed by Waheed Khan alleged at the principal seat Islamabad to hear Asif Ali Zardari seeking transfer of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and that the tanker mafia is COVID-19 claims 77 lives, a number of important cases during NAB references pending adjudication according to NAB Petitioner Mir looting and making the next week, starting from Monday. before Accountability Court at Shakeel got composite block in M.A. money by selling water On Monday, a five-member larger Islamabad to Accountability Court Johar Town-II, Lahore of 54 Kanal at high prices. A com- infects 1,629 more people bench headed by the Justice Umar Court, Karachi. land along with two streets/roads in plainant Aziz Malik Ata Bandial, Justice Sardar Tariq On Wednesday, a three-member violation of Exemption Policy of said repeated com- F.P. Report performed to identify Since the pandemic out- Masood, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan, special bench comprising Justice Lahore Development Authority in plaints have lodged but infected individuals. break, a total of 932,140 Justice Mazahar Alam Khan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz Ul league with his co-accused and cause no action is taken to ISLAMABAD: The nation- The maximum ventila- cases were detected that Miankhel and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah Ahsan and Justice Mazhar Alam loss of Rs.143,530,000/- to Public provide the basic need. al tally on Sunday of total tors were occupied in four also included the perished, will hear petition filed by former Khan Miankhel will hear election Exchequer, petition filed by active COVID-19 cases major areas including recovered and under treat- Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat petitions filed by different politicians. Muhammad Nadeem Khan against IRSA releases recorded 47764 with 1,629 Peshawar 26 percent, ment COVID-19 patients Aziz Siddiqi against the Federation The first bench is comprised of six years sentence and according to more people tested positive Lahore 30 percent, so far, including AJK seeking setting aside of report/opin- Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice NAB Petitioner Nadeem Khan, water for the deadly virus and Bahawalpur 36 percent and 19,493, Balochistan ion of Supreme Judicial Council and Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel and Manager in Allied Bank Manager, F.P. Report 2,726 people recovered Multan 56 percent. 25,729, GB 5,633, ICT notification issued by Ministry of Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Quetta and has misappropriated from the disease during the The maximum Oxygen 81,700, KP 134,321, Law dated October 11, 2018. Naqvi while the second bench is Rs.15000 million of customers of the ISLAMABAD: Indus last 24 hours. beds (alternate oxygen pro- Punjab 342,192 and Sindh On Tuesday, a five-member larger comprised of Justice Mushir Alam, branch by way of issuing two fake River System Authority Seventy-six corona viding facility other than 323,072. bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and scanned TDRs, pre-arrest bail plea (IRSA) on Sunday patients have died during ventilator administered as About 21,265 deaths Ahmed and comprising Justice Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan. filed by Abid Hussain Shah and released 236,500 cusecs past 24 hours, 66 of whom per medical requirement of were recorded in country Maqbool Baqar, Justice Ijaz UL The third bench is comprised of according to NAB the Petitioner was water from various rim were under treatment in COVID patient) was also since the eruption of the Ahsan, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice government contractor in collusion stations with inflow of hospital and ten out of the occupied in four major contagion. Around 5,116 Miankhel and Justice Sajjad Lai Shah Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice with official of TMA Garhi Yasin 295,800 cusecs. hospital in their respective areas of Abbottabad 32 per- have perished in Sindh will hear service matters of different Munib Akhtar. Justice Qazi Faez Isa made embezzlement of government According to the data quarantines or homes, cent, Peshawar 31 percent, among 10 of them died in government employees. and Justice Yahya Afridi will be funds and caused loss to the govern- released by IRSA, water according to the latest Karachi 33 percent and hospital and one out of the On Thursday, a five-member larg- members of the fourth bench, while ment exchequer, Shrimati Mukhni level in the Indus River update issued by the Multan 30 percent. hospital on Saturday. er bench headed by Chief Justice the fifth bench will consist of Justice and another against Federation of at Tarbela Dam was National command and Around 418 ventilators 10,290 in Punjab had died Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Maqbool Baqar and Justice Qazi Pakistan Regarding Investigation of 1419.11 feet, which was Operation Centre (NCOC). were occupied elsewhere in with 49 deaths occurred in Justice Maqbool Baqar, Justice Ijaz Muhammad Amin Ahmed. The sixth Brutal Murder of Pakistani Nationals 35.11 feet higher than During the past 24 the country while no past 24 hours. 40 of them Ul Ahsan, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, bench will comprise of Justice Ijaz Ul Hindus in India, matter regarding its dead level 1386 feet. hours, most of the deaths COVID affected person died in the hospital and Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ahsan and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah. irregularities in allotment of official Water inflow and out- have occurred in the Punjab was on ventilator in nine out of the hospital. Amin-Ud-Din Khan will hear cases The benches will hear many residences and poor condition of flow in the dam was followed by Sindh. Balochistan, Azad Jammu 4,144 in KP where nine regarding Khuber Pakhtoonkhwa important cases including service and RCD Highway. recorded as 131,900 and Out of the total 76 deaths and Kashmir (AJK) and of them died in hospital on police department. On Monday, a pension matters of government According to cause lists, no 90,000 cusecs respec- occurred in the last 24 Gilgit Baltistan (GB). Saturday, 765 in ICT three-member special bench compris- employees, educational institutions adjournment on any ground will be tively. The water level hours 33 of them had died Some 52,427 tests were among two of them died in ing Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, matters, labour cases, appeals against granted and no application for in the Jhelum River at who were under treatment conducted across the coun- the hospital on Saturday, Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Ijaz death sentences and life imprison- adjournment through fax will be Mangla Dam was on ventilators. try on Saturday, including 289 in Balochistan among Ul Ahsan will hear the petition chal- ment, appeals against acquittal of placed before the court. Furthermore, 1114.65 feet, which was There were 3,303 Covid 13,536 in Sindh, 22,819 in two of them died in the lenging composition of Sugar Inquiry accused in murder and corruption if the counsel is unable to appear for 74.65 feet higher than infected patients under Punjab, 8,713 in Khyber hospital on Saturday, 107 Commission and its report. cases, bail appeals in NAB cases, any reason, the advocate-on-record its dead level of 1040 treatment in critical care in Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 4,759 in GB and 554 in AJK On Tuesday, a three-member spe- election petitions of different politi- will be required to argue the case. feet whereas the inflow various Covid dedicated in Islamabad Capital among three of them suc- and outflow of water healthcare facilities in past Territory (ICT), 1,690 in cumbed to the deadly virus was recorded as 62,400 24 hours. Balochistan, 282 in GB, in hospital on Saturday. A and 45,000 cusecs The National Covid pos- and 628 in AJK. total of 13,523,599 corona respectively. The itivity ratio during past 24 Around 863,111 people tests have been conducted PTI scratched the merit into pieces during release of water at hours was recorded 3.1 per- have recovered from the so far, while 639 hospitals Kalabagh, Taunsa and cent. It may be mentioned disease so far across are equipped with COVID Sukkur was recorded as here that the Covid positiv- Pakistan making it a signif- facilities. Some 3,574 allocation of party tickets for upcoming 115,600, 109,500 and ity ratio was the percentage icant count with over 90 corona patients were 22,000 cusecs respec- of actual positive cases percent recovery ratio of admitted in hospitals tively. Similarly, from appearing in every 100 tests the affected patients. across the country. election in AJ&K: Barrister Israr the Kabul River a total of 65,600 cusecs of Muhammad Asad back to Azad Kashmir from England Barrister Israr said that a group of water was released at while carrying Imran Khan's vision opportunists' people had taken the Nowshera and 10,400 ISLAMABAD: PTI Parliamentary and spread it across the valley. He said Prime Minster Imran Khan into their cusecs released from the Countries get bankrupted board Scratched the Merit into pieces that more than 80 percent population circle and intentionally misguide him Chenab River at Marala. during allocation of party tickets for have joined the PTI through his tire- for their personal interests and thus upcoming general election of Azad less efforts. Barrister Israr accused the damaging the party's politics along LHC constitutes by corrupt heads, not Jammu and Kashmir Legislative incumbent government of Azad with workers trust and morale. Assembly. The party Chairman must Jammu and Kashmir for involvement Barrister Israr appealed to the Prime Rawalpindi benches order independent inquiry into the in corruption and nepotism. According Minister Imran Khan to bring the cul- RAWALPINDI (APP): low level officials: PM matter of money grabbing from the to him, PML-N government in the val- prit to Justice who made money during To provide speedy jus- party candidates by the parliamentary ley has completed its term and allocation of the tickets and thus dam- tice, the Lahore High F.P. Report He also shared an prevent corruption. board on different pretexts and ensure remained failed to serve the people of age the party. He said that Imran Khan Court (LHC)constituted excerpt of a “Memorandum The beginning paragraph return of money to the party's candi- Azad Kashmir during its 5 years term. must take personal interests in the issue two division benches ISLAMABAD: Prime on Establishing the Fight of the Memorandum says, dates. It was revealed by the PTI He said that the PTI Parliamentary and ensure that the party tickets must (DB) for the LHC Minister Imran Khan Against Corruption as a “Corruption corrodes pub- leader and candidate for LA-8 Raj board did not allocated the party tick- be allotted on merit to the righteous Rawalpindi bench in Sunday said that the coun- Core United States lic trust; hobbles effective Mahal, Kotli-1 Azad Kashmir ets for Azad Kashmir Legislative people instead of selling out the party the next week. tries get bankrupted and National Security Interest” governance; distorts mar- Barrister Israr Ahmed during a media Assembly on merit and rather they prestige for the sake of money. According to schedule, indebted when the head of recently issued by the US kets and equitable access to interaction in Islamabad on Sunday. made money illegally from the candi- Presently, a huge controversy has DB no.1 will comprise state or government and the President Joe Biden direct- services; undercuts devel- Barrister Israr claimed that PTI dates and totally ignored the genuine ignited after the allotment of tickets to on Mr. Justice Raja ministers were corrupt, not ing his senior officials to opment efforts; contributes Azad Kashmir can make next govern- party workers during this business. the candidates for the Azad Kashmir Shahid Mehmood the bribery by low level conduct an interagency to national fragility, ment in Azad Kashmir without forg- Barrister Israr demanded independent legislative Assembly by the PTI Abassi and Mr Justice officials. review process and develop extremism, and migration; ing alliance with any other party in inquiry into this scam and return of Parliamentary board. Several PTI Chaudary Abdul Aziz “When low level offi- a Presidential strategy to and provides authoritarian the valley. He added that he had money back to the candidate. leaders including Nisar Ahmed Malik, while DB no 2 will cials take bribes it creates improve the ability of exec- leaders a means to under- joined the Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf, Barrister Israr was in the view that Abdul Hameed Lone, President PTI comprise on Mr Justice problems for the citizens as utive departments to pro- mine democracies world- because I inspired from the party's the people of Azad Kashmir have lot of Muzaffarabad Sardar Tabbrik and Jawad Hassan and Mr speed money is like a tax mote good governance, wide. When leaders steal manifesto and leadership of Prime admiration for Chairman PTI and Prime Muhammad Naeem Khan had raised Justice Sultan Tanveer on them but countries get combat all forms of illicit from their nations’ citizens Minister Imran Khan. He claimed Minister Imran Khan and they look their voices against the embezzlement Ahmed. The divisional bankrupted and indebted finance, hold accountable or oligarchs flout the rule of that he wanted to fight against those Imran Khan as savior of the people of and unjust allotment of party tickets to benches will hear the when the head of state/govt corrupt elements, and their law, economic growth who looted national exchequer Kashmir. He expressed his disappoint- underserving candidates for upcoming murder cases and and his ministers are cor- facilitators and bolster slows, inequality widens, through corrupt practices in line with ment that there are no such observance general elections. All these PTI leaders appeals of all kinds. rupt,” the prime minister capacity of domestic and and trust in government the vision and shoulder to shoulder of principles, merit, and justice within and potential candidates for upcoming said on Twitter. international institutions to plummets.” with Chairman PTI Imran Khan. the party about which the party had general election are planning to stage Pakistan moving Barrister Israr said that he came been making tall claims during the past. protests in Islamabad in coming days. forward ISLAMABAD (APP): As COVID-19 cases Professional beggars throng drop to the lowest since Sub-national polio immunization start of pandemic’s third wave, Foreign busy thoroughfares of twin cities Office Spokesperson ISLAMABAD (APP): The families of beggars have mosques, they used different campaign to start from Monday Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri professional beggars, though adopted this profession and tactics to gain sympathy of said Sunday that it was proliferating in all mega hoodwinking masses as pre- innocent citizen or people. ISLAMABAD (APP): A sub-national will visit door to door to vaccinate free Pakistan which requires the full heartening to see urban centers across the tending be marginalized and “The most common is polio immunization drive will start children below five age year. He support of the nation, especially from Pakistan moving for- country, have particularly impoverished beings of the holding an infant or young from June 7 (Monday) to vaccinate added frontline workers will be fol- communities and the parents and care- ward in its anti-COVID thronged the busy thorough- society. She added that they probably below 7-year age over 33 million children under the lowing Covid-19 SOPs as during givers of children under the age of five fight. The spokesper- fares of the twin cities of at times were also creating child partially unconscious age of five across Pakistan. pandemic they ran successful cam- years. He said, “With our highly com- son, in a statement on Islamabad and Rawalpindi. immense disturbance in the condition disguising as a Sharing details, National paigns. He said that the frontline mitted frontline workers, and the coop- Twitter, said due to The twin cities’ residents life of common man, they special child. At times these Coordinator Polio Program, Dr. workers will adhere to strict COVID- eration of parents and caregivers, the effective policies and have expressed concerns have occupied almost all the women weep so loudly and Shehzad Baig said that the campaign 19 precautionary measures and proto- program aims to restrict the geographic timely interventions, over negligence of the public spots and do not let ghastly as showing that will be carried out in 124 districts and cols including wearing a mask, using scope of poliovirus circulation to the the COVID-19 positiv- quarters concerned to tight- people leave without giving something very tragic has approximately 223,000 frontline hand sanitizer, and maintaining a safe high-risk areas only and get closer to the ity ratio in Pakistan en the noose against profes- alms to them. happened to befool common workers will be participating in the distance during the vaccination. goal of eradication in 2021.” He said dropped to 3.1% - low- sional tramps irking masses Akram Sai, a school masses,” he added. campaign. He said that the campaign Dr. Shehzad Baig said, “Our aim is that the program will continue to sustain est since current wave and robbing the right of teacher said the professional Hamad Ahmad, a shop- will be started in 33 districts of to ensure timely and repeated vacci- high levels of leadership support across of the pandemic start- deserving masses unable to beggars from rural areas and keeper, said everyday rise in Balochistan, 35 districts of Khyber nation of children. This is key to the political and society segments, and ed. He said the total extend their hands before small cities had moved to the the number of beggars was Pakhtunkhwa, 20 districts of Punjab, reduce the immunity gap and protect- will further strengthen program imple- active cases in the people for alms. twin cities of Islamabad and not only bothersome for the and 30 districts of Sindh. Two dis- ing our children against polio and mentation structures, engage better with country were down to Azma Pasha told APP that Rawalpindi, they had awash customer or visitors rather tricts of AJK and federal capital other diseases.” priority communities, reinforce essen- 47764. begging has become a for- markets, malls, streets and equally denting the business Islamabad are also included, he He said that the government is com- tial immunization and deliver integrated mal profession as whole even the main doors of the of shopkeepers. added. He said that frontline workers mitted to reaching the goal of a polio- services to underserved communities. Forces suffer heavy casualties Karzai condemns attacks FARYAB (TOLOnews): At least 14 security KABUL (Agencies): Former President, force members, including Saifurrahman Deh- The Frontier Post Hamid Karzai strongly condemned bomb zad, the police chief for Qaisar were killed in blast in a passenger bus in Kabul city and an clashes with Taliban. Taliban launched attack airstrike in the southern province of on the police HQ and other parts of the district Helmand in which a number of civilians and “have taken 37 security force members as including women and children were killed captive,” Saeedi said. More than 30 other and wounded. In a statement issued, Karzai security force members and the police HQ are expressed his deep concerns over the contin- under siege by the Taliban and if reinforce- ued war and violence, calling on the Afghan ments are not deployed in the area, they will sides of the ongoing war to avoid bloodshed also be taken captive by the Taliban. Shawwal 26, 1442 — Monday, June 07, 2021 and destroying of their home.

Asia is comparable to a living body composed of soil and water. The heart that beats inside the body is Afghanistan. The destruction of Afghanistan would be the destruction of Asia. And in its progress and prosperity lies the well-being of Asia. - Allama Iqbal COVID-19: Khalilzad to meet 1,379 new Roadside bomb kills Afghan leaders cases, 50 KABUL (TOLOnews): The encourage both sides to pleted. The US forces have deaths US special envoy for make tangible progress handed some bases to 11 people: Officials Afghanistan reconciliation, towards a political settle- Afghan forces, including reported Zalmay Khalilzad, and a ment that protects the gains the New Kabul Compound, KBAUL (TOLOnews): The KABUL (Al Jazeera): At US inter-agency delega- of the last two decades,” known as NKC, in Kabul. Ministry of Public Health least 11 civilians have been tion, including the National the statement said. Violence has remained on Sunday reported 1,379 killed in northern Security Council and Khalilzad will also meet high in Afghanistan despite new positive cases of Afghanistan when their Department of Defense will with leaders from regional a three-day ceasefire from COVID-19 out of 4,544 vehicle set off a land mine, meet with Afghan govern- countries to discuss the May 13 to May 15 during samples tested in the last 24 local government officials ment leaders, politicians Afghanistan peace process the Eid days. Security offi- hours. said on Sunday, accusing and women’s group to hear and the potential for cials reported clashes The ministry also report- the Taliban of planting the their views on the peace increased regional trade, between government forces ed 50 deaths and 357 roadside bomb. process, the State Departm- commerce, and develop- and the Taliban in at least recoveries from COVID-19 Husamudim Shams, the ent said in a statement. ment that peace might 10 provinces on Friday. in the same period. governor of the northern Khalilzad and the dele- bring, the statement added. The peace negotiations This death toll is the province of Badgis, said the gation have departed on US President Joe Biden in Doha have had no highest in a 24-hour period victims of Saturday’s blast June 4 for travel to Kabul, announced in April to with- progress following the US reported by the health min- included three children. Doha, and the region, the draw all American troops announcement of with- istry. The 11 passengers were statement said. from Afghanistan by Sept. drawing its troops from The new cases were travelling to the city of “The delegation will 11. The announcement was Afghanistan. reported in Kabul (396), Qala-e-Naw when they underscore enduring US followed by concerns about The majority of the Kandahar (139), Herat were killed, he said. No support for Afghanistan’s the political future of Afghan Republic negotia- (68), Balkh (98), Takhar group has claimed respon- development and a political Afghanistan. tors returned to Doha last (47), Kunduz (85), Faryab sibility for the attack so far. settlement that will end the Pentagon officials have week with the hope to (50), Helmand (29), It occurred hours before war. In Doha, Ambassador said that one-quarter of the resume the stalled talks Maidan Wardak (73), senior Taliban leaders and Khalilzad will continue to withdrawal has been com- with the Taliban. Badakhshan (113), Kapisa United Nations officials (75), Bamiyan (16), Kunar met in Qatar on Saturday to tion assured security to all that have targeted members States, “will challenge (10), Panjshir (88), discuss the Afghan peace relevant UN agencies staff of security forces, judges, Afghan forces by limiting Daikundi (25), Ghor (24), process, security for diplo- and other diplomats based in government officials, civil aerial operations with fewer Farah (18) and Paktika (25) mats and people working Afghanistan, Afghan offi- society activists and jour- drones and radar and sur- Russia releases impounded provinces. for humanitarian agencies cials accused the Taliban of nalists in recent months. veillance capabilities, less Deaths were reported in in Afghanistan. incessant violence against These attacks “appear to logistical support and Kabul (18), Herat (2), ATaliban spokesperson government forces and be undertaken with the artillery, as well as a disrup- AA after three months Balkh (9), Kandahar (3), said in a statement on civilians in a bid to seize objective of weakening the tion in training”. Kunduz (2), Baghlan (1), Twitter that Sher Moham- complete territorial control capacity of the government Nearly 1,800 Afghan Faryab (1), Helmand (1), mad Abbas Stanekzai, the over several provinces. and intimidating civil soci- civilians were killed or Paktia (1), Maidan Wardak deputy head of the Taliban’s In a 22-page report to the ety,” the panel said. wounded in the first three (3), Nimruz (1), Kapisa (1), political office “reiterated UN Security Council on It added that the with- months of 2021 during Logar (2), Farah (2), strong commitment to the Friday, a panel of experts drawal of US and NATO fighting between govern- Jawzjan (1) and Samangan Afghan peace process in the said the Taliban are report- forces by September 11, the ment forces and Taliban (2) provinces. meeting” with UN officials. ed to be responsible for the anniversary of the 2001 fighters despite efforts to The ministry reported While the Taliban delega- great majority of attacks attacks on the United find peace. that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 80,615, the total number of reported deaths is 3,195, and the total number of Arms distribution threat to recoveries is 58,622. So far, 495,749 samples have been tested in govern- Afghanistan future: Mujadidi ment centers and there are 18,718 known active KABUL (Pajhwok): Jabha- COVID-19 cases in the e-Nijat (Salvation Front) country, data by the min- leader Zabihullah Mujadidi istry indicates. claimed that distribution of KABUL (TOLOnews): An past 3 months. Aviation Support Associa- According to Johns arms was ongoing in the Ariana Airlines Boeing “The plane was ground- tion say that Ariana Afghan Hopkins University, the country, which he descr- 737, which was impounded ed there for three months Airlines has endured heavy number of deaths from ibed as a huge crime and at a Russian airport three and 11 days. During this losses as one of its three COVID-19 globally is threat to the future of months ago, was released period, we have recorded planes was seized by more than 3,722,282 and Afghanistan. and flew back to the number of losses that Russia for three months. the number of known glob- “Our unity can take us to Afghanistan on Saturday. we incurred,” said “Ariana has only three al coronavirus cases is peace. If we don’t get Ariana officials say two Mohammad Salim Rahimi, planes. When one of these 173,008,891. together and become one Russian courts ordered the Deputy of commercial planes stops operating, it voice we cannot reach release of the plane. The affairs at Ariana Afghan means that over 30% of the peace. National interest is aircraft had been impound- Airlines aviation company. company’s revenue has always above other inter- ed after leaving the airport The Afghanistan Avia- been cut in the past few Senior age ests and we should give pri- without the permission of tion Support Association months,” said Mahmoud ority to our national interest the Russian Customs (AASA) says that Ariana Shah Habibi, director of the government over personal one.” Agency, Russian authori- Afghan Airlines lost more Afghanistan Aviation While critisising the ties said. than 30 percent of its Support Association. employees government during a gath- Ariana officials said that income in the past three Ariana Afghan Airlines ering organized by the all allegations against the months due to the is a state-owned aviation to stay home Harakat-e-Islami Millat airline were baseless and impoundment of one of its company that currently Afghanistan, he said: “We vital assets of the nation peace the people of and weapons are being dis- they plan to file a lawsuit airplanes in Russia. owns only three aircraft. KABUL (Khaama Press): should not distance our- through conflict.” Afghanistan will not let tributed in the country. against the Government of Ariana officials did not Airline officials say they As the increase of COVID- selves from our govern- Without naming anyone, anyone become important.” Until the occupiers have an the Russian Federation to make the amount of esti- will soon resume flights to 19 cases spread concerns in ment, the continuation of Mujadidi said: “There is Mujadidi criticized the upper hand in the country seek compensation for the mated loss public, but offi- Islamabad as the issue with Afghanistan, the govern- this war after the withdraw- problem within the govern- international community we cannot reach peace, the losses incurred during the cials at the Afghanistan Russia has been resolved. ment has decided to send al of foreign forces has no ment with regard to the and added they did not want nation should wake up.” senior age government offi- legitimacy and there is no peace process. There are peace in Afghanistan, He said credible evidence cials and employees home. logic for the Taliban to con- some elements whose inter- adding that practically tar- was available that the pro- The government of tinue fighting. One day ests are in war and they geted killing of ulema, reli- cess of arms distribution had Afghanistan issued a state- they will become part of believe by establishment of gious leaders was underway. started. Mujadidi asked gov- ment last night giving a 14- government and they peace they will not be rele- “Unfortunately, foreign ernment and the Taliban to day holiday for those who should not diminish the vant anymore. If there is resources are being utilised stop fighting and reconcile. are said to be vulnerable against COVID-19 among the government employees including senior age staff, those having known dis- Govt distributes pistachio eases. According to the state- ment those who are above saplings to boost agriculture age 55, must not come to office and work from KABUL (Xinhua): The dis- “Horticulturists are ment. the seasonal rainfalls, the home. tribution process of over expected to receive 7,000 The program aimed at ministry said. This comes the the num- 7,000 pistachio saplings to pistachio saplings in Tangi boosting agriculture, ensur- The Afghan government ber of new Coronavirus villagers has started in Yaqoub, Faizabad and ing rural livelihood, rural has taken measures to cases in Afghanistan have Afghanistan’s northern Sa- Talkh villages in Dara-I- rehabilitation, management invest in agricultural sector recently creased to a higher mangan province, the coun- Suf Payyan district of of natural resources and to further create job oppor- TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Residents of northern Takhar province protesting in extend comparing to last try’s Ministry of Agricu- Samangan as the distribu- prevention of the erosion of tunities for people and to front of Governor’s House against alleged killing of 11 civilians. year. lture, Irrigation and Lives- tion has started recently,” earth and flooding in the boost economy in the land- tock announced on Sunday. the ministry said in a state- district heavily subject to locked Asian country. Climate-vulnerable Afghanistan Afghan, Turkmen FMs agree to probably hit hardest: Haidari expand economic, political ties KABUL (Pajhwok): face extinction, while ille- ities. to conserve our nature, on Wishing member states a gal wildlife trade is the “This shows that envi- which the health and KABUL (TOLOnews): Foreign min- happy World Environment fourth largest illegal trade ronmental degradation in wealth of all South Asians isters from Afghanistan and Day, South Asia crime in the world.” South Asia not only harms depends. Turkmenistan in their meeting in Cooperative Environment Ambassador Haidari public health but also “At the same time, we Herat province agreed to expand Program (SACEP) direc- said changing weather pat- undermines peace and call on the developed bilateral cooperation on economic tor general M. Ashraf terns were expected to prosperity with far-reach- countries and multilateral interactions and the political sphere. Haidari has said the impact directly over 800 ing implications for financing institutions to During the two days summit, top impact of environmental million people by 2050. regional stability and increase their climate sup- diplomats from the two nations are set degradation continues to Between 2000 and 2017, international security. port to the most vulnerable to discuss five mega projects between affect the impoverished disasters caused by natural That was why, he said, countries of South Asia, the two countries, including develop- populations the most hazards in the region this World Environment enabling them to take ments on Afghanistan’s peace process. across South Asia caused damages worth Day, SACEP welcomed needed mitigation and Mohammad Hanif Atmar, the for- In a message on $149.27 billion. The eco- the declaration by the adaptation measures eign minister of Afghanistan, said Sunday, he said South Asia nomic impact of the global United Nations of this against climate-induced that discussions will also focus on the houses a diverse range of COVID-19 pandemic has “Decade on Ecosystem disasters.” transfer of electricity from ecosystems but at the same only exacerbated this, Restoration.” This decade- To that end, he said, Uzbekistan to Herat, as well as the time remains one of the affecting poor daily long effort aims to pre- SACEP was looking for- progress on the Turkmenistan, world’s most vulnerable wagers and farmers the vent, halt, and reverse the ward to collaborating with Afghanistan, Pakistan, India Pipeline regions to the adverse most from Sri Lanka to degradation of ecosystems all member-states to (TAPI), the establishment of railway effects of climate change Afghanistan. on every continent and in achieve the core objectives project between the two countries, caused by continued He said climate-vulner- every ocean. of our mission: “to support export of marbles from Herat to understanding about these compo- range of important issues. I want to degradation of ecosystems able Afghanistan was In the year ahead, he conservation and manage- Turkmenistan and bilateral trades nents for the region and within the say that by relying on the cultural and biodiversity across the probably hit the hardest, as said, SACEP would ment of natural resources through Lapis Lazuli Corridor. international community,” added commonalities between the two world. climate-induced droughts encourage bolder regional of the region and to work “We will discuss the railway line Atmar. nations, issues that will be discussed “Humanity has altered and flush floods have policy interventions and closely with all national, which will connect not only Meanwhile, Rashid Meredow, the at the meeting will have positive 75 percent of the Earth’s internally displaced the adequate investments regional, and international Afghanistan and Turkmenistan but it foreign minister of Turkmenistan, results,” said the Turkmen foreign ice-free surface; since country’s youth and towards the implementa- institutions, governmental will be a connecting point between said that his country is firmly com- minister. 1990, 420 million hectares deprived them of their tion of all 17 sustainable and non-governmental, as South and Central Asia,” said Atmar. mitted to supporting the Afghan Both foreign ministers have of forest, equal to three rural jobs, which terrorist development goals well as experts and groups “The two countries have common peace process and the expansion of expressed hope that the bilateral ties times the size of South and criminal networks (SDGs) with a special engaged in such coopera- views on all issues such as economic economic relations with Afghans. between Afghanistan and Africa, have been lost; and have replaced with paid focus on sustainable pro- tion and conservation development, prosperity, peace, secu- “Afghan and Turkmen officials Turkmenistan will be lasting and nearly one million species violent and criminal activ- duction and consumption efforts.” rity and both of us have a common today and tomorrow will discuss a brotherly in the next generations. The Monday, June 07, 2021 Frontier Post US Senators promise COVID-19 vaccines for Taiwan TAIPEI (AP): The U.S. will a flashpoint in U.S.-China U.N.-backed program to ism," he said. Taiwan, which had donation also reflects grati- give Taiwan 750,000 doses relations. distribute vaccines to low Taiwan and China split weathered the pandemic tude for Taiwan's support of COVID-19 vaccine, part "I'm here to tell you that and middle-income coun- amid civil war in 1949, and virtually unscathed until the for the U.S., as Taiwan of President Joe Biden's the United States will not tries. most Taiwanese favor recent outbreak, is now fac- donated millions of masks move to share tens of mil- let you stand alone," The island of 24 million maintaining the current ing its most serious flare-up and other supplies to the lions of jabs globally, three Duckworth said at the air- people, which lies 160 kilo- state of de facto independ- with more than 10,000 new U.S. in the early days of the American senators said port after landing on a U.S. meters (100 miles) off ence while engaging in cases since late April. pandemic. Sunday, after the self-ruled military transport plane. China's east coast, is des- robust economic exchanges President Tsai Ing-wen, "This is love from island complained that "We will be by your side to perate for vaccines after a with the mainland. meeting with the senators, America in return," China is hindering its make sure the people of sudden outbreak that start- China's ruling expressed gratitude to the Sullivan said, wearing a efforts to secure vaccines as Taiwan have what they ed in late April caught wan, including BioNTech, "Taiwan is facing unique Communist Party says Biden administration for mask that he noted had it battles an outbreak. need to get to the other side authorities by surprise. through Chinese partner challenges in combating the Taiwan must come under including Taiwan in the "Love from Taiwan" writ- Democratic Sen. Tammy of the pandemic and Japan shipped 1.2 million Fosun, and that the island's virus," he said. "While we its control, and has in recent first group to receive vac- ten on it. Duckworth of Illinois, who beyond." doses to Taiwan on Friday, government is to blame for are doing our best to import months increased pressure cines and said the doses The three senators made a three-hour stop in Taiwan was included on opting to skip the COVAX putting politics above the vaccines, we must over- on the island, including fly- will arrive at a critical time arrived at 7:30 a.m. from Taiwan with fellow a long list of places process in the interest of lives of its people. Taiwa- come obstacles to ensure ing warplanes near Taiwan. for the island. South Korea, where they Democrat Christopher announced last week that speed. It was unclear when nese law bans the import of that these life-saving medi- The increasing activity "I hope that through met senior officials includ- Coons of Delaware and would receive 25 million the 750,000 American Chinese-made medicines. cine are delivered free from and vast improvements in cooperation with the United ing the foreign and defense Republican Dan Sullivan of doses from the United doses would arrive. Foreign Minister Joseph troubles of Beijing." China's military capabili- States, Japan and other ministers on Friday and Alaska, said their visit States in what the Biden Taiwan has accused Ch- Wu, welcoming the sena- He said China is trying ties have raised concern in countries, Taiwan will be Saturday to discuss COV- underscores bipartisan U.S. administration says is the ina of blocking its efforts to tors at the airport, said that to block Taiwan's interna- the U.S., which is bound by able to overcome the imme- ID-19 cooperation, the support for the democratic first tranche of at least 80 reach a deal with BioNTech Taiwan is fortunate to have tional assistance and pre- its own laws to ensure diate challenges and ... and U.S.-South Korea military island that Beijing claims million doses to be distrib- to import the vaccine co- like-minded countries vent it from participating in Taiwan is capable of move towards recovery," alliance and North Korea. as its own renegade territo- uted globally. developed by the German showing support, which he the World Health defending itself and to she said. They departed Taiwan at ry. Taiwan faces a severe Most of the first tranche, company and Pfizer. said is about sustaining Organization. regard all threats to the Both Duckworth, who 10.30 a.m. the same morn- vaccine shortage and has including Taiwan's, will be Beijing has said it is willing freedom and democracy in "We are no strangers to island's security as matters was born in Thailand, and ing, according to Taiwan's geopolitical significance as sent through COVAX, a to supply vaccines to Tai- the face of autocracy. that kind of obstruction- of "grave concern." Sullivan said the American foreign ministry. High time SC to hear Zardari, for int’l President Moon orders change Faryal’s plea on Tuesday community to air-force ‘barracks culture’ ISLAMABAD (APP): ence against her while the transfer the graft cases filed to take SEOUL (Agencies): South Sunday, as cited by Yonhap in a car by a colleague of suicide. Supreme Court of Pakistan former was facing trial in against him by the NAB Korean President Moon news agency. the same rank in early Air Force Chief of Staff (SC) has set the hearing of five NAB references. from Accountability Court actions: FO Jae-in has instructed the According to the presi- March. According to the Lee Seong-yong resigned a petition from former A three-member special Islamabad to similar courts ISLAMABAD (APP): military to conduct a thor- dent’s spokesperson Park victim’s family, she report- on Friday, saying that he President and PPP Co- bench headed by Justice in Karachi where he lives. Pakistan has urged the ough probe after a service- Kyung-mee, Moon met ed the abuse to her superi- felt “heavy responsibility” Chairman Asif Ali Zardari Umar Ata Bandial and He stated in his plea that international community to woman took her own life. with the victim’s family ors, but they tried to per- for the situation. Military and his sister Faryal Talpur comprising of Justice Ijaz he can’t appear in raise ambition and translate Her family accused the air and apologized for “the suade her to reach a settle- prosecutors conducted a seeking to shift their graft Ul Ahsan and Justice Sajjad Accountability Courts in political commitments on force of failing to investi- state failing to protect her.” ment with the suspect, series of raids on the police cases to Sindh province on Ali Shah will hear the case Islamabad due to his illness combating climate change gate her sexual assault Moon instructed known by his last name, corps of the air force head- Tuesday. on June 8. as he was suffering from and environmental degra- claim. Defense Minister Suh Jung. quarters and facilities Both Asif Ali Zardari The Supreme Court has various ailments and had dation into tangible actions “I am very sorry to the Wook “not only to conduct The family said that the where the victim had and Faryal Talpur have issued notices for the hear- been critically ill. He said on ground. people over such an evil a thorough investigation, military had failed to con- served. reached out to the apex ing to the NAB and other the cases were being heard “Going forward, we practice in the barracks cul- but also to change the bar- duct a proper investigation, A warrant officer and a court to get their cases respondents in the case. in Islamabad courts despite reaffirm our commitment ture that led to the tragic racks culture.” even after the victim sub- senior master sergeant were transferred to the Karachi On November 3, Asif Ali the fact that all the accused to playing our due role in and unjust death,” Moon The air force master ser- mitted a dashboard camera relieved of duty pending an from Islamabad as the latter Zardari approached the SC, persons, witnesses and doc- combating climate crisis, said in his Memorial Day geant, identified in the recording as evidence. She investigation. The suspect was facing a single refer- requesting the court to uments are from Karachi. protecting biological diver- speech at the Seoul media by her last name, was found dead at her home in the sexual assault was sity, and ecosystem restora- National Cemetery on Lee, was sexually assaulted in late May in an apparent arrested. tion,” Foreign Office spokesperson said in a Biden’s no-drama press release on Sunday. Pakistan has joined the Trump: ‘Too soon to tell’ if Pence international community in White House chief celebrating the “World Environment Day 2021”, would be running mate in 2024 WASHINGTON DC (The assassination attempt, cre- Byron White; Senate as its global host, on June Hill): Joe Biden’s first four ating a wave of sympathy Judiciary Committee coun- 5. For last four decades, the WASHINGTON DC some calling for Pence to Trump said “I think we do,” on that day.” months have been marked that helped smooth the pas- sel; chief of staff to two spokesperson said, the (Agencies): Former be hanged. A number of again adding that he was "You know, President by a frenzy of presidential sage of his tax cuts after vice presidents, Al Gore world had been observing President Trump on reports after the insurrec- “disappointed” with Pence Trump and I have spoken action — a $1.9 trillion seven months in office. and Biden; Ebola czar. this day as the largest glob- Saturday said it is “too soon tion said that Trump had “on one account.” many times since we left economic rescue plan Even Obama’s “no drama” Klain has also been helped al platform for raising pub- to tell” if he would tap for- not reached out to his vice “I think we do. Yeah, I office. And I don't know if passed; 133 million White House was riven by by his close relationship lic awareness about the mer Vice President Mike president during the riots, think we I was disappointed we'll ever see eye to eye on Americans vaccinated; 167 warring egos and ideologi- with the boss. Many White pressing environmental Pence as his running mate who was in a secure loca- on one account but that was that day. But I will always million relief checks cal factions. House chiefs start learning challenges. if he launches a bid for the tion in the Capitol building a choice that Mike made, be proud of what we issued; childhood poverty By contrast, Klain and how to manage the presi- “As one of top ten most White House again in 2024. with his family. and I want people to make accomplished for the on track to be cut in half; a his staff have been getting dent on Inauguration Day. climate vulnerable coun- Trump, in an interview “Well I don't know, it's their own decisions and he American people over the Middle Eastern conflict things done, paddling furi- Klain has known Biden for tries, Pakistan highly val- with Fox News after deliv- really too soon to tell. But did,” Trump said. last four years," Pence said defused. And yet the story ously below the surface almost 35 years and can ues the global efforts to ering a fiery speech at the certainly we had a very “And, you know Mike to applause during a speech of this presidency has so far while gliding along with practically complete his combat climate change, North Carolina GOP state good relationship I was dis- and I have a good relation- in New Hampshire. He also been nearly devoid of barely a ripple: no leaks, no sentences. “It’s a perfect fit halt and reverse biodiversi- convention, said that while appointed with Mike on ship, we continue to have a called Jan. 6 a “dark” and drama. mixed messages, no back- because of his long rela- ty loss, eliminate pollution, the two leaders had a “very one thing as he understands good but it's too early to be “tragic” day in history. Where are the White biting. “This is not a Team tionship with the presi- and restore ecosystems,” it good relationship,” he was and some other people und- discussing running mates When asked if he would House power struggles and of Rivals,” Anita Dunn — dent,” Leon Panetta, Bill was added. “disappointed with Mike on erstand, but overall, I had a certainly,” he added. again seek the White House palace intrigue? Why are Biden’s senior adviser and Clinton’s quintessential However, the spokesper- one thing,” likely referring very good relationship with Trump’s remarks come in 2024, Trump told Fox there no leaks? Where are a member of both Obama’s chief, told me. son said, for developing to Pence’s refusal to reject Mike and he's a very fine after Pence, in his most News that he will “make a the internecine battles over and Biden’s inner circle — Chiefs who are close countries like Pakistan, this the Electoral College vote person and a fine man,” extensive comments to date decision in the not so dis- policy? The answer is that told me. Klain's unruffled friends with presidents would not be possible with- on Jan. 6. The former pres- Trump told Fox News. on the Jan. 6 riots, said he tant future,” adding that competence can be boring. management of the White sometimes have trouble out provision of sufficient ident's supporters stormed When asked if they still and the former president “people are going to be (Or soothing, depending on House has impressed both telling them hard truths. support by developed coun- the Capitol that day, with have a good relationship, may never “see eye to eye very happy.” your point of view.) Indeed, sides of the aisle. “So far But Klain is a staffer — and try partners in the form of Biden’s team has been Ron has barely made a therefore able to tell Biden means of implementation: nearly flawless at executing missstep,” Ken Duberstein, bad news. “I know him green finance, technology his agenda and lowering Reagan's final chief of well and know what his transfer, and capacity Drones target military base our collective political staff, told me. needs are, and how he likes building. The observance blood pressure. It is a team that had pre- to be staffed, and how he of World Environment Day And Ron Klain, his pared for this moment, likes the operation to go,” 2021 on the theme of housing US forces in Iraq White House chief of staff, when the very idea that Klain said recently. On “ecosystem restoration” may be — at least at this government can do any- Klain’s set, the famously was fully aligned with BAGHDAD (Agencies): name as Hashd al-Sha’abi. months. above Baghdad airport, early stage — the most thing right is at stake. In unscripted president hits his Prime Minister Imran Unmanned aerial vehicles The report said C-RAM Meanwhile, the Iraqi “without causing casualties effective in modern history. contrast to Trump’s wreck- marks like a veteran actor. Khan’s green vision, as have reportedly struck a and Patriot missile systems army said Sunday two or damage,” said Colonel The bar has been low ing crew, who shoveled Biden’s team has made manifested in Pakistan’s major airbase in Iraq’s deployed at the base were drones were destroyed Wayne Marotto, lately. Trump and his final, sand into the gears of gov- some unforced errors — a flagship “ecosystem western province of Anbar, not able to intercept the air- above a base housing US spokesman for the US-led feckless White House chief ernment, Klain and his slow response to migrants restoration Initiative.” where American military craft. troops, one month after the military coalition in Iraq. of staff Mark Meadows team of policy wonks have flooding the Southern bor- This year’s World forces and trainers are sta- The Security Media Cell same base was targeted by The coalition was sent to were so incompetent they spent their careers, in both der; the failed nomination Environment Day carried tioned. affiliated with the Iraqi an armed drone. Iraq to help the country’s utterly mismanaged — and the public and private sec- of Neera Tanden as OMB special significance Two combat drones hit prime minister’s office, The US military’s C- military fight the ISIS ter- tried to ignore — a once-in- tor, learning to work the director; a foofaraw over because it also witnessed targets inside Ain al-Asad however, said the drones RAM defense system was rorist group -- a campaign a-century health crisis, con- levers of power. Some of refugee caps; tone deafness the formal launch of about 160 km west of had been shot down. activated to shoot down the that Baghdad declared won tributing to more than a half them learned from previous at the start of the Israeli- “United Nations Decade on Baghdad on Sunday morn- No group has claimed drones above the Ain al- in late 2017. million deaths. But even White House blunders. Hamas conflict. No Capitol Ecosystem Restoration ing, said Sabereen News, a responsibility for the attack Assad base, located in The US consistently the best White House chiefs When Barack Obama’s Hill Republicans have so 2021-2030”. The hosting of Telegram news channel yet, which is the latest in a Iraq’s western desert, the blames Iran-linked Iraqi have stumbled out of the healthcare website crashed far signed on to Biden’s the day in Pakistan was an associated with Iraqi series of assaults that have Iraqi military said. factions for rocket attacks gate. Consider James A. upon its debut in 2013, his agenda. And progressives acknowledgment of the Popular Mobilization Units targeted US occupation Several hours earlier a against Iraqi installations Baker III, Reagan’s first chief Denis McDonough may break ranks if he does country’s swift transition better known by the Arabic forces over the past few rocket was shot down housing its personnel. chief, who was considered reached out to a managerial not go bold enough for towards a “clean and the gold standard. His West wizard named Jeffrey them on police reform and green” through a well-artic- Wing was Wrestle Mania Zients, who reconfigured racial justice. ulated climate change and — with the conservative the site and got it up and But that low hum you environmental agenda con- Saudi FM, Kuwait FM hold meeting Edwin Meese, the presi- running. Eight years later, hear in place of the deafen- sisting of a number of flag- RIYADH (Agencies): Kingdom and Kuwait, may brotherly countries,” Prince horizons, and will reflect dent’s counselor, and the as Biden’s COVID-19 czar, ing sturm und drang of the ship green initiatives on the Saudi Arabia’s Foreign God bless them, I held Faisal said in a tweet. positively on the joint Gulf pragmatic Baker slamming Zients has mobilized a last four years is not just the ground. Pakistan was Minister Prince Faisal bin today with my brother He also said the Council action so that our countries each other around the ring. whole-of-government pan- absence of Trump. It is the already in the midst of one Farhan and Kuwait’s [Sheikh Ahmad] the first will strengthen the develop- and peoples can enjoy “The right hand,” quipped demic response, delivering sound of a remarkably dis- of the world’s most ambi- Foreign Minister Sheikh meeting of the [Saudi- ment process and joint greater prosperity and well- the president, “does not more than 300 million vac- ciplined and effective tious efforts to expand and Ahmad Nasser al-Sabah Kuwait Coordination coordination between the being.” Last week, Saudi know what the far-right cine doses to Americans. White House. restore its forests, having held the first Saudi-Kuwaiti Council], in order strength- two countries in many Arabia’s Crown Prince S- hand is doing.” Baker’s No chief has ever had The bad news for Biden? already planted a billion Coordination Council en the close and historical areas. alman welcomed Kuwait’s team got almost nothing better credentials than The average tenure of a trees as part of its 10 meeting on Sunday. ties and deep-rooted broth- It will also contribute to Crown Prince Meshal to accomplished — until Klain for the job: as clerk to chief of staff is only eight- Billion Tree Tsunami “Under the guidance of erhood that bring together pushing Saudi Arabia and Riyadh on his first official Reagan was wounded in an Supreme Court Justice een months. Project. the leaderships of the the two peoples and the two Kuwait towards “wider visit to the country. Could the US fight a four-front war? Not today WASHINGTON DC (The for the control of the Suez tying Eurasia together eco- “one country, two systems” rebels in Yemen, stokes At the height of the Cold Pacific region, despite choices must be made, Hill): While President Canal. In a wider geopoliti- nomically, culturally and principle under which Shi’ite discontent in the War, the United States China’s stated intention of which of these conflicts Biden seeks to renegotiate cal perspective, he high- militarily. The territorial Hong Kong retained its Gulf States and Iraq, domi- claimed that it could fight invading Taiwan. would the U.S. prioritize? the Iran nuclear deal, lighted how building rail- extent of this threat extends independence, and Chinese nates Lebanon and Syria two major wars and one In assessing the danger If we are to avoid a multi- Hamas, an Iranian terrorist ways across Siberia could from the Baltic and Black leader Xi Jinping has through Hezbollah, and minor war. Gradually, that that the U.S. faces, national front war, the United States proxy, launched a war on allow a land power, alone Seas in the west to the declared that Taiwan will threatens shipping through military capability has been security experts must con- must be ready to fight and Israel, an American ally. or in alliance, to mobilize South China Sea, Taiwan be incorporated into China, the Gulf of Hormuz. North degraded, relative to the sider the likelihood of coor- win conventional conflicts Even as some progressives resources across Eurasia Strait, East China Sea and by force if necessary. China Korea poses a conventional capabilities of our adver- dinated action by our in several places simultane- in the Democratic Party and challenge the hegemo- Bering Strait. is building a capacity to threat to South Korea, and saries. One key indicator of adversaries. What if the ously, and must invest in argue for sacrificing Israel ny of maritime power. Two The United States and its invade or blockade Taiwan, its nuclear program aims to the loss of military capabil- U.S. and its allies were con- strengthening our allies’ on their altar of political world wars and the Cold allies face multiple flash- threatening U.S. reliance on target the U.S. ity is the size of the U.S. fronted with a simultaneous ability to defend them- correctness, foreign policy War were waged to keep points around the maritime Taiwan for advanced elec- The Shanghai naval fleet. During the four-front war waged selves. experts recognize that the the powers that threatened rimland of Eurasia. Russia tronics, semiconductors, Cooperation Organization, Reagan administration, the against Ukraine, Taiwan For far too long, United States must defend to dominate what continues to threaten and as a port to contain led by China and seconded United States sought to and Israel with, for good American national security its allies to remain credible. Mackinder termed “the Ukraine, aiming to consoli- Chinese ambitions in the by Russia, is an alliance maintain a 600-ship navy. measure, the North analysts have ignored the An attempt to appease Iran Heartland” from dominat- date its conquest of Crimea. Pacific. In the East China that ties together many of In the years since, the size Koreans attacking South geopolitics giving rise to in nuclear negotiations in ing the nation-states of the When Ukraine surrendered Sea, China has claimed the the autocratic powers occu- of the U.S. fleet has shrunk Korea and leveraging their Mackinder’s nightmare. exchange for restraining Eurasian littoral. its nuclear arms, the U.S. Japanese Senkaku Islands; pying Mackinder’s dramatically. According to nuclear deterrent while Authoritarian powers have Hamas would serve Iran’s Today, Mackinder’s guaranteed Ukrainian terri- in the South China Sea, Heartland. For the first time Seth Cropsey, today “the Iranians closed the Strait of a strong history of finding long-term strategy, which geostrategic nightmare torial integrity in the 1994 China has built islands to in a generation, the United U.S. Navy … has 101 ships Hormuz? Such attacks like- common cause and coordi- aims to dominate the terri- appears to be becoming a Budapest Memorandum. R- assert sovereignty over key States faces an autocratic deployed around the world ly would be combined with nating their actions; auto- torial crescent from the reality. Three autocratic ussia has eloquently demo- shipping lanes. China now peer adversary in China. … yet the entire fleet is cyber attacks on financial crats have the luxury and Tigris-Euphrates Valley regimes — Russia, China nstrated the low value of threatens all its maritime China’s military expendi- only 297 vessels strong.” and physical infrastructure the curse of making deci- through Syria, Lebanon and and Iran — in coordination such guarantees. Meanw- neighbors and has begun tures have been rising on an There are not enough ships in the U.S. sions without legislative Gaza. with North Korea and oth- hile, Russia also threatens invasions of land-based exponential curve, while to meet the challenges off Does the United States debate. If the U.S. fails to Halford John Mackinder, ers, occupy Mackinder’s the NATO-member Baltic neighbors, including NATO defense expendi- China’s coast, let alone to have the military capacity deter coordinated action by arguably the founder of Heartland and exercise con- states Estonia, Latvia and Bhutan and India. Tibet and tures are flat. Fighting and deter aggression across to respond to such simulta- the axis of autocracy — geopolitical analysis, in his siderable influence over the Lithuania. A successful Hong Kong are conquered, winning wars in the back- multiple Eurasian flash- neous challenges? Are we China, Russia, Iran and “Democratic Ideals and liberal-democratic regimes invasion of a NATO mem- occupied territory. yards of our adversaries points. In the near future, prepared to use nuclear North Korea — these pow- Reality” (1919), empha- of Europe, India and the Far ber would be disastrous for Rogue autocratic will require us to fight the U.S. will have no carri- weapons to defend our ers surely will find com- sized the importance of the East. As part of its Belt and U.S. credibility. regimes are a growing where they are strongest er deployed as part of the allies and support our treaty mon cause and a multi- Holy Land to Great Britain Road Initiative, China is China has repudiated the threat. Iran sponsors Houthi and we are weakest. Seventh fleet in the Asian- commitments? If hard front war will result. Printed and published by Mahmood Afridi at Moraka’s Printers, 27 Abdara Road, University Town, Peshawar. Managing Editor Jalil Afridi. Phone 0300 9009001 [email protected]