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Vol. XXXVIII No. 157 Regd. No. 241 ZUL-QAD’AH 08 1442 -- SATURDAY, JUNE 19 2021 PESHAWAR EDITION 12 PAGES Price. 20 BA’s session Political Gimmicks & National Interests ince last two Hafeez Sheikh and bring- this country. throw books on each other were in this pond two fairly and fairness marred by clashes decades I have been ing Shaukat Tareen is not Government lands are in the parliament. What a decades ago are still demands that we honor our Sseeing political gim- even close to the drama of sold, approved maps are shame. munching on the same commitments. Hiding micks being given more how Nawaz Sharif accused changed, convicts are Pakistani friend China is small fishes. behind curtains or creating between Opp priority than the national of hijacking an airplane allowed to go abroad, indeed sweeter than honey The small fishes come dramas and gimmicks are interests of Pakistan. and then becoming prime sugar barons and ATM but it is not so sweet that it and go but the big sharks not going to solve the Politicians are more minister of the same coun- cards are paying for mem- will pay back our entire are still the same except problems of this country. MPs, police interested in their politics try. Lenders are not going bers of parliament, jour- loan to IMF and will let us their sizes are much bigger I would like to conclude meaning staying in power to get fooled by these dra- nalists give foreign policy get away from the clutches now. by adding comment from QUETTA (NNI): The have arrived at the assem- for longer period rather mas. And the planners of headlines and what not is of IMF. Prime Minister Imran Miss Teresa Dabán budget session of the bly. than the betterment of these dramas must know happening in this country. Although International Khan definitely has Sanchez who is Balochistan assembly com- The Opposition's protest the country and its peo- that it is because of them And when it comes to pay- Monetary Fund loan brought awareness but his International Monetary menced under the chair of and clashes intensified, as ple. that Pakistan and ing back loans, under trial amount to Pakistan is awareness has landed the Fund (IMF) Resident Speaker Abdul Qudoos per reports, when the chief Prime Minister Imran Pakistanis are suffering. NAB accused with loud peanuts for China but it is nation into learned help- Representative to Pakistan, Bizenjo after chaotic minister arrived at the Khan and his government Connecting military mouth comes in picture not going to do that. lessness where the people “We welcome the strong scenes witnessed outside assembly. The opposition exaggerated quiet a bit bases to International Whether we like it or not of this country are forced and constructive engage- the assembly. members attacked Chief about the tax recovery but Monetary Fund (IMF) loan Comment but it is the truth. to learn that either it’s their ment with the Pakistani Balochistan Finance Minister Jam Kamal and honestly speaking, is tax programme is another Jalil Afridi The loans by China or way or the Highway. Some authorities. We stand ready Minister Mir Zahoor threw shoes and empty bot- collection really that diffi- drama being played these the International feel that being ignorant to continue supporting Ahmad Buledi presented tles towards him. cult as the government days in Pakistan. An and starts a new drama. Monetary Fund are simply was better than this way of Pakistán to achieve the the budget during the ses- Opposition MPA portrays it? Are those liv- impression is being created When will we get some called loans and they must life and I am one of them objectives of debt sustain- sion. Nasrullah Zehray accused ing in beautiful houses in that IMF is going to self esteem and integrity? be paid back according to as well who believe that ability and strong and sus- The police used the police of using violent DHA, Behria Town and etc release its next payment When will we learn to ful- the agreements made with being robbed at night is tainable growth, through armoured vehicles to broke methods to disperse the are paying their taxes? after Pakistan agrees to fill the promises we make? them. And to do that one much better than being the implementation of the into the Balochistan assem- "peaceful protest" outside When will our politi- provide military bases to The two billion remit- must have integrity, self robbed in broad day light policies, structural reforms bly building after the the assembly. Sana Baloch, cians get some self respect America, after its with- tances from Pakistanis respect and the desire to at gunpoint. and social spending assembly building in another MPA, lashed out at and integrity while dealing drawal from Afghanistan. working abroad is not give priority to the nation- Political gimmicks enhancement envisaged in Quetta came under opposi- the government, saying that with the lenders? The very Who are we trying to fool? something to be proud of. al interests. needs to stop immediately the EFF-supporting pro- tion parties siege as they the province was at its same institution which The poor public of this It is modern day slavery. It Beside collection of otherwise we will cause gram. As such, we are surrounded the provincial worst state since its incep- gives Pakistan loans are country should not be is something to be taxes another vital issue of this nation a loss which looking forward to our assembly building and tion. He said lawmakers later tamed as some sort of blamed for the incompe- ashamed of. Pakistan is related to the will not be repairable and continued discussions with locked all the doors. Abdul Wahid Siddiqui and vicious demons. If these tence and corrupt practices An individual leaves his energy sector. Again cor- there are many who wish the Pakistani authorities on The police resorted to Babar Rahim Mengal had institutions are demons taking place in the power country and his family to ruption and malpractices to see Pakistan in that sort the set of policies and baton charge and tear gas been injured by the police's then why every few years corridors of this country. It earn living for the very are the reasons for this sec- of turmoil. reforms that could form shelling to disperse the armoured vehicle. we go to them with a beg- is the elite class of this same family that he leaves. tor to be in complete disas- Lenders, those from the basis for the comple- opposition members who The budget session for ging bowl.? country who are so use to And then our elite class ter. who have we borrowed tion of the 6th review are adamant to not let the the Balochistan assembly The drama of removing robbing the poor people of uses those remittances to The same sharks which money, must be treated under the EFF.” government to present the was scheduled to start at budget. There are also 4:00pm. A delegation head- reports of injuries during ed by deputy commissioner the clash between the Quetta has held the talks police and the opposition with the opposition but to Pakistan values UK’s balanced role in parties’ members. no avail and after that addi- The opposition has sta- tional security staff has tioned its members on all been deputed. the corridors leading to the The budget session has global, regional affairs: COAS Balochistan assembly and created difficulties for the said that they would not let people as well as all the F.P. Report Services Public Relations Process and collaboration COAS installs said an Inter Services "Pakistan Army will do all the government present roads leading to the red (ISPR) news release here in fight against COVID-19 Commander 4 Corps as Public Relations (ISPR) that is possible to modern- what they termed a people- zone and adjacent area of RAWALPINDI: Chief of received. were discussed, said the Colonel Commandant of news release. ize the Corps of Artillery as enemy budget. the Balochistan assembly the Army Staff (COAS) Ge- The Army Chief added armed forces spokesperson Artillery Corps: Chief of While interacting with part of its overall drive to The main leadership of has been sealed. neral Qamar Javed Bajwa that we looked forward to in a statement. Army Staff (COAS) Gener- officers and troops, the prepare for the future the opposition was staging The eastern part has Friday said Pakistan valued optimize strategic potential It added that the visiting al Qamar Javed Bajwa Fr- Chief of the Army Staff threat." a sit-in in front of the main been cut off from the west the UK’s balanced role in of Pak-UK relationship dignitary acknowledged iday installed Commander appreciated the Corps for Outgoing Colonel door of the assembly build- part of the city and there global and regional affairs. based on convergences. Pakistan’s continuous 4 Corps Lieutenant General displaying the highest stan- Commandant of Artillery ing when the police opera- was the worst traffic jam in British High During the meeting, efforts for peace and stabil- Muhammad Abdul Aziz as dards in all professional Corps Lieutenant General tion starts. the city and school chil- Commissioner Dr Christian matters of mutual interest, ity in the region and Colonel Commandant of pursuits, including their (R) Humayun Aziz, large Chief Minister dren, women and ambu- Turner called on Army regional security situation pledged to further enhance Artillery Corps. exemplary performance in number of serving and Balochistan Jam Kamal lances have remained stuck Chief General Qamar Javed including the recent devel- bilateral relations between The Chief of Army Staff operations. retired officers and soldiers Khan and a few lawmakers in the traffic mess. Bajwa, here said an Inter opments in Afghan Peace both of the countries. visited Artillery Centre, The Army Chief said, attended the ceremony. The Frontier Post, Peshawar Saturday, June 19, 2021 LHC sets aside PMC order, advertisement about readmission of first year to private medical colleges LAHORE (APP): The Lahore High ers' counsel submitted that the PMC the PMC's order and advertisement Court (LHC) on Friday set aside an had issued the directives without con- for the purpose. order and advertisement of the sidering the fact that the students had However, the PMC's counsel Pakistan Medical Commission been enrolled after payment of dues opposed the plea, submitting that (PMC) about readmission of the and their classes had started. the petitions were not maintainable first year to the certain private med- He submitted that the PMC had as the petitioners did not avail the ical colleges. asked the medical colleges to restart first available remedy. Justice Ayesha A Malik announced the admission process on some com- He submitted that the petitioners the judgement while allowing peti- plaints about the admission process. had approached the court without tions filed by students of Sahara He submitted that the step would filing any appeal before the Medical College, Akhtar Saeed jeopardize the educational career of Medical Tribunal, established Medical College and Al-Aleem his clients whereas the academic year under the MT Act. He further sub- Medical College challenging PMC would also end in December, 2021. mitted that the PMC took the action RAWALPINDI: Dr. Christian Turner, British High Commissioner called on General Qamar Javed orders and advertisement. The court He argued that the orders did not over complaints about the admis- Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS). ––INP Photo had earlier reserved its judgement on justify restarting the entire admission sion process. It is pertinent to men- the conclusion of arguments by the process, even if there were com- tion here that the court had already parties in the matter. plaints against the medical colleges. suspended impugned PMC orders In his final arguments, the petition- He pleaded with the court to set aside and advertisement. 17 deaths, 129 new cases MNAs focus on Senate refers of coronavirus four bills to MQM shedding crocodile reported inflation, agriculture F.P. Report ISLAMABAD(APP): that no relief was given in demanded more increase in Standing tears after destroying city LAHORE: The novel coron- Members of the National the budget for the masses. the salaries of government avirus claimed 17 lives, Assembly (MNAs) from An amount of Rs 54 billion employees and fixing mini- Committees while 129 new cases of the both sides of the aisle on was allocated for the erst- mum wages at Rs 25,000. of lights: Nasir Shah pandemic were reported in Friday held a debate on the while Federally Ghous Bakhs Mehar of concerned Punjab during the last 24 Federal Budget 2021-22 Administered Tribal Areas Grand Democratic Alliance ISLAMABAD (APP): The F.P. Report encroachment and carry- injustice had been done hours on Friday. with special focus on con- while the budget for Higher (GDA) called for more sub- government on Friday ing out illegal construc- with Sindh province in According to the data trolling inflation and mak- Education Commission sidies on fertilizers so that moved four bills related to KARACHI: Provincial tions in the city and now terms of count and added shared by the spokesperson ing more corrective meas- (HEC) had been reduced, the farmers could increase re-organization of medical Minister for Local shedding crocodile tears that Sindh Chief Minister of Punjab Primary and ures to strengthen the agri- he added. agriculture production. teaching and national Government and on every other day. has raised the issue of cen- Secondary Healthcare culture sector, which was Endorsing the sugges- He said the agriculture health institutes, and to Information Sindh Syed Syed Nasir Hussain sus at constitutional forum Department (P&SHD), the considered as the backbone tions given by Leader of the was considered as the back- amend the Mutual Legal Nasir Hussain Shah while Shah said that Karachiites for rectification, while the total number of cases of the national economy. Opposition Muhammad bone of a country's econo- Assistance ((Criminal reacting to MQM have now recognized you Minister said: MQM have reached 344,641, the total Taking part in the budget Shehbaz Sharif, he called my and without giving Matters) Act, 2020 and the Pakistan press conference people and rejected you struck a deal with PTI on death toll turned 10,603 debate, Asad Mehmood of for abolishing taxes on incentives self-sufficiency Enforcement of Women’s on Friday said that MQM who had filled their pock- the issue of census just to while 323,576 cases recov- Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal essential items, including of agri production could not Property Rights Act, 2020 drags lingual factor in ets in the name of Urdu enjoy two ministries. ered so far. Pakistan (MMAP) claimed milk for children. He also be achieved. in the Senate, which were every matter and added speakers. Syed Nasir Hussain The P&SHD confirmed referred to the standing that MQM has learnt noth- Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that if they have that 62 new cases of committees concerned for ing from his past. Shah said that the fact is so much pain for Karachi COVID-19 were reported in further consideration after The Provincial evident from their humiliat- ,then MQM should prove it Lahore,1 in Sheikhupura,2 the House's approval. Information Minister has ing defeat in by-election of by resigning from the fed- in Nankana Sahib,18 in Minister of State for once again advised MQM NA 249 in which MQM eral cabinet. Rawalpindi,2 in Parliamentary Affairs Ali to separate them selves candidate stood at sixth He said that Karachi Gujranwala,3 in Gujrat,8 in Muhammad Khan present- from the thoughts of thier position. has become a peaceful Faisalabad,1 in Toba Tek ed “The Federal Medical ex leader when they have The Provincial city now and no one Singh,3 in Sargodha,1 in Teaching Institutes Bill- parted ways with him. He Information Minister Syed would be allowed to dis- Bhakkar,15 in Multan,1 in 2021” to re-organize the added that you people Nasir Hussain Shah said turb its peace and order Lodhran,1 in federal medical teaching (MQM) were responsible that PPP has a clear stance adding that now all the Muzaffargarh,1 in Dera institutes and “The for destroying the lights of on the census issue from communities were living Ghazi Khan,1 in Layyah,5 National Institute of Health Karachi by promoting day one and believed that together with peace. in Rahimyar Khan,3 in (Re-organization) Bill, Bahawalpur,1 new case was 2011, as passed by the reported in Bahawalnagar National Assembly, on during the last 24 hours till behalf of Advisor to the filing of this news. Prime Minister on SESSI's benefits to be paid Parliamentary Affairs Zaheer-ud-Din Babar PHC seals 7 Awan. through mobile banking, He also moved the bills labs collection to further amend the Mutual Legal Assistance internet banking or ATM centres (Criminal Matters) Act, LAHORE (APP): The 2020 [The Mutual Legal KARACHI (APP): Sindh sion. ther increase contribu- Punjab Healthcare Assistance (Criminal Education and Labor Sindh Education tions for the welfare of Commission has shut down Matters) (Amendment) Minister Saeed Ghani said Minister said that under the workers. seven lab collection centres Bill, 2021 and the that we were crossing this agreement, SESSI's Earlier, the system for and issued notices to 16 oth- Enforcement of Women’s another milestone today contributions and benefits Social Security ers for violating directions Property Rights in the Department of could be paid through Contribution was Manual and standard operating proce- (Amendment) Bill,2021 as Labor since the 18th mobile banking, internet and its contribution was dures in special inspections of passed by the National Amendment where banking or an ATM received through the laboratories and collection Assembly, on behalf dozens of new laws have machine and it would directors of SESSI but centres in the city. According Minister for Interior Sheikh been enacted to strength- facilitate business in after e-partnership, now to the PHC on Friday, during Rasheed Ahmed and en transparency and Sindh province. the employer would not the last two days, the PHC Minister for Law and workers' rights, as well as From now on, employ- only be able to create his special enforcement teams Justice Senator Dr to strengthen the relation- ers don't have to go to one own challan online but visited the premises of 25 Muhammad Farogh ship between employers office or another to pay also transfer contributions labs and collection centres in Naseem respectively. and workers. employees’ contributions through mobile and inter- different parts of the city. Earlier, Leader of Sindh Education and to SESSI, Sindh net banking and ATM Those labs and collection Opposition Yusuf Raza Labor Minister Saeed Education and Labor Cards directly to SESSI's centres were sealed which Gilani suggested to defer Ghani expressed these Minister Saeed Ghani account making the trans- were functioning without reg- the bills as parliamentary views while addressing a said, adding,with just one parency process more istrations, pathologists and committee, announced ceremony held to sign the click, they would transfer transparent, he added. other qualified staff, carrying by Speaker National e-cooperation agreement the contribution to He said that besides the out tests in collection centres Assembly Asad Qaiser, between CCA and 1-Link SESSI’s account, ignoring employer would now be and not sending samples to was in the making to at the Sindh Employees all the manual process. able to register his busi- their main labs and conduct- look into the concerns of Social Security Institution Immediate transfer to ness with SESSI within a ing PCR Covid-19 test with- the legislative business (SESSI) headquarters SESSI’s accounts would day and earlier, the entire out approval from the compe- completed in Lower here. Secretary Labor increase transparency and process took several days. tent authority and collecting House of the Parliament Abdul Rasheed Solangi, as a result, it would fur- On the occasion, Labor samples as well. on June 10. Secretary Investment Department Asif Ikram, 10 Kanal Farm House CEO 1-Link Najeeb Agrawala, Commissioner 10 Kanal House for sale in SESSI Ishaq Mehr, Zubair Gulberg green Sector-D. Motiwala and other mem- Zia Enterprises Hayatabad bers of SESSI's Peshawar. 0333-9124412, Governing Body were 0346-8666661 also present on the occa- The Frontier Post Saturday, June 19, 2021 03 CM terms budget for financial year 2021-22 as balance, pro-poor F.P. Report torical exemptions were sidy for providing wheat scheme. given to different sectors flour on cheaper rates to Similarly, Mahmood PESHAWAR: Chief Min- adding that despite difficult public, food basket pro- Khan added that under the ister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa financial situation, the gram for deserving people Sehat Card Plus scheme in Mahmood Khan has termed provincial government did were the some important merged areas, annual cov- the provincial budget for not compromise on the relief initiatives proposed erage has been increased financial year 2021-22 as a developmental portfolio, in the budget. He said that from Rs. 0.6 million 1.00 balanced, pro-poor and a and Rs. 370 billion have Rs. 20 billion had been million per house hold. historic budget and said been allocated for the allocated for food basket He said that despite dif- that this is the largest budg- developmental projects program and wheat flour ficult financial situation, et in the history of Khyber which is 33% of the total for subsidy. significant increase has Pakhtunkhwa. budget. The chief minister said been made in the budget of In a statement issued He said that special that social sector has been various sectors adding that here regarding the budget focus has been given to the the top most priority of PTI as compared to the last for the financial year 2021- ongoing developmental government from the very financial year, Elementary 22 here on Friday, the chief projects of public welfare first day adding that budget & Secondary Education minister said that all possi- so as to complete these of education, health, drink- budget has been increased PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan signing provincial budget pro- ble efforts have been made projects well in time for ing water and other social by Rs. 24 billion, Health posals for financial year 2021-22 during special cabinet meeting at Civil Secretariat. to provide maximum relief which 80% of the develop- sector has been increased budget by Rs. 22 billion, to the common man in the mental budget has been manifold in the budget for Police budget increased by budget. allocated. upcoming financial year. Rs. 12 billion, Tourism & The chief minister that He added that enhance- He termed the Sehat Sports sector budget KP Cabinet all the sectors have been ment of development port- Card Plus Scheme a flag- increased by Rs. 11 billion Opp gives free hand fully focused in the budget folio, reforms in provincial ship project of the provin- and Local Government approves which on implementation, taxes, increase in the cial government and said budget increased by Rs. 6 would bring about a new salaries of government that various initiatives have billion in the new year budget era of development in the employees and pensioners, been proposed to make it budget. to treasury during province and visible posi- relief to farmers, honorari- further comprehensive The chief minister con- proposals tive change in the lives of um for Aaima-e-Karam, adding that free liver trans- gratulated the provincial PESHAWAR (APP): the masses. enhancement of education plant had been included in minister Taimur Saleem Khyber Pakthunkhwa He said this was a tax and health sector budget, the scheme whereas free Jhagara and his entire team Cabinet with Chief budget speech free budget as no new tax increase in the monthly Blood Transfusion is also for preparing such a bal- Minister Mahmood Khan had been levied rather his- wages of daily wagers, sub- being covered in the anced and historic budget. in Chair here Friday PESHAWAR (APP): protest for a but soon took Mahmood Khan to allocate approved budget proposals Finance Minister, Taimur their seats and listened huge amount for all districts for fiscal year 2021-22. Salim Jhagra completed his budget speech silently. and constituencies. He also Kamran Bangash, budget speech in a serene Chief Minister KP, Mah- appreciated efforts of his JAC hold Special Assistant to CM KP atmosphere as opposition mood Khan and Provincial team in preparing budget. PHC directs DG for Information and Higher astonishingly gave free Ministers attended the Speaker KP Assembly protest Education told media the hand and remain silent dur- assembly proceedings while Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani F.P. Report KP Government Cabinet ing budget speech. Leader of opposition Akram also thanked the joint oppo- Military Land to decide has approved budget pro- The budget was present- Khan Durrani and Parlia- sition for their patience and PESHAWAR: Joint Action posals including ADP ed by provincial minister, mentary Leader of ANP cooperation and said that it Council (JAC) has 2021-22. Taimur Jhagra with with Sardar Hussain Babak were is appreciable that budget arranged protest camp regularization case in month The Chief Minister KP Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad not present in the house. documents are intact and demanding salaries of May has formally signed budget Ghani in chair peacefully. KP Finance Minister, not a single page was torn month which was not Humayun Khan of PHC of Justice Musrt chaired by Justice Rooh-ul- documents’ copy after the A situation of mutual Taimur Khan Jhagra after out. rip and tore a single released by the university Hilali and Justice Ijaz Amin and the counsel cabinet meeting. cooperation was witnessed the completion of budget page of a paper. due to financial crisis. PESHAWAR: Peshawar Anwar after finalization of Abbas Khan Sangeen He said total outlaw of during the whole proceed- speech thanked the joint He appreciated the oppo- JAC president Dr. Dil High Court has directed arguments declared that Advocate. budget was over Rs 1,100 ings as no single page of opposition to listen the sition for maintaining deco- Nawaz called the protest in Director General Military cantonment board has writ- The counsel informed billion and Rs 317 billion budget document was torn speech without any uproar rum in the house and hoped which all associations of Land to take decision for ten for regularization of PHC that Islamia College is approved for ADP 2021-22. out by opposition members and protest. that mutual cooperation the greater universities regularization of employee employees DG military historical institute but Bangash said there was no and not a single shout was He said that it was a his- would also go in future. He campus, teaching and non within one month. land decide the case within administration has started new taxes in budget and recorded listened during the torical budget as opposition asked legislators to mention teaching staff participated. The counsel for petition- month. construction which is dam- record allocation made for proceedings. maintained the the tradi- their names for budget JAC has general body er Danyal Asad Chamkani Constructions in ICU aging historical aspect and education, health, higher At the outset of proceed- tions of Khyber Pakhtun- debate and adjourned the meeting on 21 June at uni- Advocate informed PHC Peshawar: PHC fixed 29 beauty of the institute. education, agriculture, ing, Awami Naitonal Party khwa. He expressed grati- proceedings till Monday versity in which blocking of that Jahanzeb was recruited June for final hearing The writ stated that communication and others (ANP) staged a token tude to Chief Minister 10am. university road, BRT, walk as tube well operation in Peshawar High Court Islamia College is national projects. to Governor House, pen 2009 and still did not regu- has fixed hearing regarding treasure in which new con- down strike and other pos- larized by the department. construction in Islamia struction or changes cannot sibilities shall be discussed. Cantonment Board has College University (ICU) be made and requested for JAC urged to fulfill their written for regularization of which is damaging histori- stopping of construction Six ice Prof. Dr. Sahar Noor demands that further aca- employees on 12 March cal perspective of the insti- works. demic shall not suffer 2020 to DG military land tute on 30 June for final The attorney for Islamia making units, which had already badly but the decision is pending arguments in the case. College Qazi Anwar also Takes Charge as Dean disturbed during coron- today. The writ was heard by appeared on behalf of the hotel sealed avirus pandemic. The tow member bench two member bench of PHC college before court. PESHAWAR (APP): F.P. Report four years. Currently, Dr. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Sahar Noor is also serving Safety Authority on Friday PESHAWAR: Prof. Dr. as Provost, UET Peshawar during a crackdown on sub- Sahar Noor has been app- while he has also served as standard ice making facto- ointed the Dean, Faculty of the Director QEC, 880KM new roads in merged ries sealed six ice units for Mechanical, Chemical and Secretary Board of using dirty water at Kohat Industrial Engineering of Advanced Studies and Road here. UET Peshawar for a period Research (BOASAR), areas constructed The administration said of three years with the Postgraduate Advisor and that water filtration plants approval of Honorable Chairman Department of PESHAWAR (APP): Under tation Programme (AIP), structed 880 kilometers road costing Rs 2736.5 mil- of some of the ice units Governor/Chancellor KP Chemical Engineering, Accelerated Implemen- the government has con- new roads in merged areas lion in Kurram and 68km were out of order while through a notification UET Peshawar. to strengthen communica- amounting to Rs1730.7 insects were discovered in issued by the Higher Expressing his views, tion connectivity. million in Orakzai district water of some ice factories. Education Archives and Ph.D in Mechanical Dr. Sahar Noor said that he Work on 65 projects would be completed by The water used for ice Library Department, Engineering from would work for the benefits 56 more arrested in including construction and June 2022. making was also hazardous Government of Khyber University of Bradford, UK of students, faculty, and repair of roads and bridges Likewise, Rs1286.12 to human health. Pakhtunkhwa. in 2007 and became administration. He also crackdown on profiteers continued in merged areas million are being spent on It said six such ice units Dr. Sahar Noor complet- Professor in 2010 at the thanked the Governor PESHAWAR (APP): District Administration Peshawar under supervision of construction of 69km road were sealed. The authority ed his Master’s in Department of Industrial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Friday arrested 56 persons during the ongoing crackdown Communication and Works in North Waziristan, Rs also sealed a hotel at the Metallurgical Engineering Engineering. Earlier, he Higher Education on profiteers across the district. Department to open it for 3826.12 million on con- University Road for unhy- in 1996 from the Institute also served as Chairman Department Government of The arrested profiteers included 18 butchers, 11 milk- progress and development. struction of 188km road in gienic working condition. of Material Science & Industrial Engineering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for men and 27 other shopkeepers. C&W Department offi- South Waziristan, Food Safety Authority Research, Pakistan Steel Department, UET showing confidence in his On the directives of the Deputy Commissioner, the cials told APP on Friday the Rs1519.62 million on 60km also recovered 2000 liters Karachi. He completed his Peshawar for more than capabilities. officers of district administration carried out checking of under construction 34 kilo- at sub division Hasankhel of adulterated milk from a butchers, milkmen and other shops in their areas of juris- meters (km) road costing and Daradamkhel, tanker in Dera Ismail Khan diction and collectively arrested 56 profiteers. The Rs772.92 million in Bajaur Rs3708.24 million on 42.5 late night while on Hungu administration is going to initiate legal proceeding district, 110km road km at subdivision Wazir Bypass Road in Kohat 500 Aawaz II against them. amounting to Rs2443.92 and Bhatani and Rs2021.97 liters of substandard bever- KP budget is Deputy Commissioner Peshawar, Khalid Mahmood million in Khyber district, million on 82 kilometer at ages were recovered and organizes has directed administrative officers for conducting con- 106km road costing subdivision Darazanda later discarded. Two per- secutive visits to bazaars to check prices of essential food Rs1902.99 million in Jandola to be completed by sons were arrested during consultation tax-free, welfare items and showing no leniency with anyone. Mohmand district, 119 km June next year. the action. on budget F.P. Report oriented: Urmar PESHAWAR: Dr. Sumera PESHAWAR (APP): KP Minister Imran Khan has Agriculture and Development: Shams, Chair of KP Minister for Environment, planted trees on a vast area Women Parliamentary Syed Ishtiaq Urmar has that had received world- Caucus said that the KP termed provincial budget wide commendation. FAO concludes TOT on FBS Model Women Parliamentary 2021-22 as tax-free and He said that while main- Caucus (WPC )has been welfare oriented. taining the same consisten- F.P. Report successful in getting strong In his comments on the cy, the government has commitments on gender provincial budget here allocated hefty amount in PESHAWAR: The Food responsive budget alloca- Friday, he said that the peo- the budget for financial and Agriculture Organi- tions from the province’s ple-friendly and pro-poor year 2021-22 for plantation zation (FAO) of the United Finance Minister. budget reflects the vision of of olives in the newly Nations under the US These include funds for Prime Minister Imran Khan merged districts. Bureau of International setting up and upgrading and Chief Minister The plantation of olive Narcotics and Law Darul Amans in the Mahmood Khan that will plants in the newly merged Enforcement Affairs fund- province, women empow- bear far-reaching and posi- districts will not only make ed project conducted erment through skill devel- tive results. KP self-sufficient in olive Trainer of the Trainers opment and financial He said that the provin- production rather would (ToT) on Farmer Business opportunities. cial government while fol- also increase the receipts of Schools (FBS) approach for She was speaking at an lowing the vision of Prime the province. the officials of the Aawaz II consultation Agriculture Extension organised in partnership Department of Khyber with Sub-National Pakhtunkhwa in Peshawar. Governance-II A group of 16 master train- Programme. Corona claims 5 ers (12 male, 4 female) Talking about the from districts Bajuar, upcoming fiscal year, Mr. Mohmand, Khyber, and Altaf Hussain Deputy more lives in KP Torghar attended the 5 days Secretary KP Social course. The training was maintaining records for Peshawar. The market visit “For maximizing bene- tion,” said Mujibur Welfare listed projects that PESHAWAR (APP): Five the province has reached part of a series of two ToTs: alternative crops’ produc- was of particular interest for fits, understanding market Rahman, Deputy Program include rehabilitation cen- people have died of coron- 136,663. He said the first one was organized tion. During the drill, the the master trainers where and marketing dynamics is Coordinator, FAO-KP. tres, and strengthening avirus in Khyber 319 patients infected on Farmer Field Schools participants also learned they held discussions with the need of the hour “Farmers’ attention is research facilities to better Pakhtunkhwa in the last 24 with corona have recovered (FFS) approach, back in basic training delivery tech- different market actors and because marketing starts mostly on the production understand the numbers hours and the death toll in the last 24 hours in March 2021. niques i.e. group facilita- observed the auctioning when we plan to grow any side while ignoring the and issues of vulnerable from Corona in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Through these trainings, tion skills, time manage- process. FAO will also pro- commodity for entrepre- demand side of their pro- groups including persons province has risen to 4,252, the number of people FAO tries to enhance the ment, and learning by vide on-the-job support to neurial purposes; and there- duce. The trainers are better with disabilities and trans- an official of the health recovering from Corona in capacity of the Agriculture doing, etc. these master trainers while fore, we need to understand equipped to build the genders. department said. the province has risen to Department to assist farm- The training course, building the capacity of the it fully and orient our target capacity of farmers on the Representatives from He said, in the last 24 129,453. ers in the sustainable crops’ apart from theoretical ses- farmers on Climate-smart beneficiaries on this, to complete value chain, link- government and statutory hours, 189 more people About the new tests, he cultivation by conducting sions and groups work, also Agriculture approaches and grasp the marketing niches, ing production with mar- departments, civil society, have been infected with said, 9,612 new tests were market surveys, developing consisted of visits to farm- introducing demand-side preferences, and potential keting for high returns,” and the media from various coronavirus in Khyber conducted in one day in the business plans including ers’ fields and fruits and considerations into farmers’ competitors before they ini- said, Asghar Khan, Project districts of KP attended the Pakhtunkhwa and the total province by the health marketing cost, pricing, and vegetables market at enterprises. tiate any such interven- Lead, FAO-KP. event. number of corona cases in department. District Saturday, June 19, 2021 The Frontier Post

In brief Balochistan unveils Two women arrested Rs 584.083 billion KABIRWALA (INP): Police claimed on Friday to have arrested two female members of budget 2021-22 a gang involved in blackmailing citizens QUETTA (APP): The sector, Rs 11.884 billion for was allocated for environ- by shooting their objec- budget of Balochistan for development, Rs 8.463 bil- ment sector and Rs 538.470 tionable videos after the next financial year (FY) lion for primary and sec- million for non-develop- luring them into sham 2021-22 has been presented ondary education and Rs ment sector, Rs 2.101 bil- marriages. According to at Rs 584.083 billion in 53.256 billion for non- lion for Livestock sector the police, one of the which Rs 237.221 billion development, Rs, 11.736 promotion and Rs 4.526 two arrested women is was allocated for develop- billion developmental billion for non-develop- the ringleader of the ment and Rs 346.861 bil- funds for higher education ment sector, Rs,1.450 bil- gang. The police said lion for non-development development, Rs, 4.469 bil- lion for manpower, indus- the women lured sever- expenditure. lion for non-development. try and handicrafts and Rs. al citizens into fake The province will have a Rs. 9.545 billion was 4.384 billion in non-devel- marriages and then total revenue of Rs 499.363 kept for Agriculture devel- opment, Rs. 2.702 billion shoot their objection- billion including Rs opment and Rs. 11.483 bil- for social security and serv- able videos only to 355.935 billion from the lion for its non-develop- ices and Rs. 4.955 billion blackmail them later. federation Rs, 103.209 bil- ment, Rs. 384 million for for non-development, Rs. Earlier, a group of men lion and Rs, 17.353 billion Food Sector, and Rs. 6.400 5.673 billion for sports and running a sham mar- from foreign project assis- billion for its non-develop- Rs. 1.495 billion in non- riage network in KHAR: Overseas Pakistani holding a protest on Peshawar-Bajaur Highway against non-availability of tants grant, Rs, 1.902 bil- ment including State development. Rs 1.542 bil- Karachi’s Orangi Town lion from capital revenues, Trading, Rs, 4.357 billion lion for Culture and Truism wherein they duped Covid-19 vaccine. — F.P. photo Rs, 5.477 billion from state for rural development, Rs. sector development, Rs women into marrying trading food, Rs, 15.485 18.261 billion in its non- 1.051 billion for non-devel- was detained by the billion will receive income development, Rs. 52.668 opment, Rs 2 billion for police. The group 3.6 magnitude from cash carry over. billion as development for Apna Gar house scheme, allegedly defrauded the Overseas earthquake The budget deficit will communication and con- Rs 1 billion for establish- women into marrying be Rs. 84.720 billion. struction, Rs. 13.793 billion ment of Bank of only so they can swin- jolts Awaran 10 percent salaries and for its non-development, Balochistan. dle and abandon them pensions of government Rs. 26.867 billion for allo- The finance Minister later. On information of protest vaccines’ AWARAN (INP): An earth- employees have been cation of Law and order announced that 10% the group captured ear- quake of mild intensity jolt- increased in financial year development. salaries and pensions of lier, the police success- ed different areas of budget 2021-22 while 15 Rs 34.524 billion for government employees fully nabbed the prime Awaran on Friday but no percent raise in salaries of drinking and irrigation was would be increased. suspect Nasir who have unavailibility in Dir causalities of property those employees in 19 proposed and Rs 10.563 He said funds allocated allegedly married many damages was reported. grades whose allowances billion in non-development, Rs 2 billion for women and fleeced F.P. Report Samarbagh hospital had The MS assured them According to the are less. despite keeping funds Rs Establishment of Relief them. The police pre- got only 125 doses of vac- that the vaccines would National Seismic The budget session of 2.656 billion for public Support for assistance to per- sented him in the court TIMERGARA: The over- cines for the overseas be made available till Monitoring Centre, Balochistan Assembly was relations and information sons with disabilities, Rs 500 today which sent the seas staged a protest population, whose num- Wednesday. tremours measuring 3.6 on presided over by Speaker technology development million for minority commu- detained suspect to jail demonstration in front of ber was in thousand. The district administra- Richter scale were felt in Mir Abdul Qaddus Bizenjo and Rs 1.132 billion in non- nity, Rs, 1 billion for welfare on a 14-day judicial the Tehsil Headquarters They said the available tion and the health depart- different areas of district with a delay of about two development, Rs, 219 mil- of fishermen, Rs 2 billion for remand. Hospital Samarbagh vaccines were used the ment in Lower Dir had Awaran of Balochistan. hours due to protests of lion for survey of mineral microfinance interest free against the non-availabili- other day. The speakers increased the number of The epi-centre of the earth- opposition leaders. resources, Rs 36.40 million loan, Rs, 500 million for Mardan police ty of vaccines here on said that hundreds of vaccination centers from quake was stated to be 80 Balochistan Finance for establishing of Mineral Women empowerment fund Friday. The protestors overseas on Friday again one to six after hundreds kilometer North-East of Minister Mir Zahoor Buledi Testing Laboratory, Rs, while Rs 2 billion was allo- block NICs blocked the Samarbagh visited the hospital but of the overseas protested Awaran at depth of 30 kilo- while presenting the budget 4,302 billion for Fisheries cated for Balochistan Public MARDAN(INP): Shahi road for all kinds of there was not a single shortage of the centers on meter. for the next financial year and Coastal Development Endowment for overcom- Police in Mardan have traffic and chanted slo- dose due to which the Wednesday at Timergara. Earlier on Thursday, an 2021-22 in the House, said and Rs. 1.168 Billion for ing financial problems., Rs. blocked the national gans against the health overseas were being The administration had earthquake of magnitude that in the annual budget, non-Development, Rs. one billion was proposed identity cards (NICs) of department. The Jamaat-i- humiliated and disap- set up vaccination centers 4.4 jolted federal capital Rs 44.694 billion has been 3.923 Billion for Energy for food security and state around 570 people Islami tehsil general sec- pointed. at DHQ hospital Timergara, Islamabad, Muzaffarabad, earmarked for non-devel- Sector and Rs. 7.260 bil- trading for overcoming allegedly involved in retary Muhammad Imran Later Maulana Imran THQ hospital Chakdara, Peshawar, Balakot, opment funds for health lion. Rs, 217.118 billion financial problems. several criminal cases, Jandoli, PML-N’s Stana Jandoli along with SHO THQ hospital Samarbagh, Abbottabad, Neelum valley it was learnt on Friday. Gul and Overseas Samarbagh Mehran Shah Category D hospital Talash, and surrounds. Similarly, it also Pakistanis’ representative held talks with the hospi- Category D hospital Lal blocked the passports of Rehman Yousaf addressed tal MS Dr Humayun on Qila and RHC Khall in 233 people and sealed the protesters. which the protesters dis- order to facilitate the over- Gang busted, AJK ministers, the bank accounts of They complained the persed peacefully. seas workers. 177 proclaimed offend- six motorcycles, ers (POs) for being Special Assistant resign involved in sex crimes rickshaw, cash and murders. DPO recovered Mardan Dr Zahidullah Demo in Muzaffarabad from their offices told the media that per- SIALKOT (INP): The sonal files had been pre- police busted a four-mem- MIRPUR(AJK)(APP): going stalwart and minis- In his own hand written pared of 15 hired assas- against indian state ber robber gang, recovered Severe breach reportedly ters minister for communi- resignation sent to AJK sins, 103 sex offenders, six motorcycles, a qingqi developed in the ranks of cations Ch Muhammad Prime Minister Raja 33 money lenders and rickshaw, hundreds of Pakistan Muslim League- Aziz from Haveli, Bagh, Farooq Haider Khan, who 75 people ‘involved’ in terrorism in IIOJK thousand rupees cash and N ledAJK ruling party fol- (Constituency LA-17), is also the President of land grabbing. other valuables from their lowing differences with Forest Minister Sardar PML-N AJK Chapter, MUZAFFARABAD The Jammu and territory. They said that possession. the party's President and Amir Akber and Special Minister Aziz said that he Seven of a (INP): A protest demon- Kashmir Pasban-e- the people of Azad In line with directives of Prime Minister Raja Assistant to AJK Prime resigns from the ministry stration was held at Ghari Hurriyat Chairman, Uzair Kashmir and Pakistan DPO Abdul Ghaffar, a team Farooq Haider khan. Minister Raja Imdad Ali and primary membership family injured Dopatta in Muzaffarabad, Ahmad Ghazali in his would continue their sup- of police headed by SHO The reported severe dif- Tariq, who tendered his of the PML-N, because of SHEIKHUPURA (INP): today, against the Indian speech strongly con- port to their brethren in Muhammad Yousaf con- ferences in the ruling resignation on Friday from his personal unavoidable Seven members of a state terrorism in Indian demned the brutalities of IIOJK. ducted operation in juris- PML-N ranks resulted in their respective offices of engagements. It may be family including women illegally occupied Jammu Indian troops in IIOJK. They urged the human diction of Kotwali police the resignation by two of the ministries, special added that Aziz belongs to were injured when rick- and Kashmir. He appealed to the United rights organizations to station in Sialakot. the cabinet colleagues of Assistant-ship and the pri- Gujjar tribe and has strong shaw overturned here on According to Kashmir Nations and the world take notice of Indian During operations, four PM Haider including the mary memberships of the roots being the seasoned Friday. According to Media Service, a large community to stop India brutalities in the occu- members of a robber gang PML-N AJK Chapter out- PML-N. stalwart of the clan. details, an over speeding number of people partici- from changing the demo- pied territory and play were apprehended and rickshaw carrying a pated in the protest graphic composition of role in settling the lin- police recovered six family turned turtle at demonstration organized the occupied territory. gering Kashmir dispute motorcycles, a qingqi Sargodha Road in Rakh by Jammu and Kashmir The PPP leader, so that durable peace rickshaw, hundreds of Machikay town. Seven Pasban-e-Hurriyat. Shaukat Javed Mir, the could be established in thousand rupees cash and people including 40- The protesters on the All Pakistan Muslim the region. other valuables from their year-old Sabtain Shah occasion were holding League leader, Javaid The protesters marched possession. s/o Inayat Shah, 45- banners and placards with Ahmed Mughal, Usman on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Various cases were reg- year-old Najma Bibi w/o anti-India and pro-free- Ali Hashim and others Highway and raised high- istering against the Sabtain Shah, 30-year- dom slogans. They also addressing the protesters pitched slogans condemn- detainees and they were old Saddam Hussain raised high-pitched slo- expressed concern over ing human rights viola- being investigated. w/o Nawaz, 60-year-old gans against the Indian the surge in Indian state tions by Indian troops in Fazeelat Bibi w/o atrocities in IIOJK. terrorism in the occupied IIOJK. Tanveer, 18-year Sehar Labourer Batool d/o Sabtain Shah, 10-year-old Zahra dies of heart Batool d/o Sajid Shah and 35-year-old Wajid Top JUI-F leader dismisses stroke Ali s/o Inayat Ali were SWABI (INP): A labourer injured in the accident. staying in Saudi Arabia to Balochistan budget earn livelihood for family Three robbers died of heart stroke after QUETTA (PPI): MNA government was a failed assembly, opposition was hearing the news of new- injured, held Moulana Abdul Wasey, government. He added only compelled to knock the born son. SHIKARPUR(INP): Provincial Ameer, Jamaiat 30 percent development doors of courts for redres- According to details, Three robbers were Ulema-e-Islam (F), while budget had been utilized, sal of grievances. He asked Muhammad Anees hailing injured, arrested after rejecting the provincial but fruition of that 30 per- the government as to from Mohallah Solai of police encounters and budget, has said that budget cent utilized development whether verdict of the Topi district Swabi used to arms recovered from had not been prepared in budget had not yet reached court had been implement- work in Saudi Arabia. their possession on the interest of public. to the people. ed. He asked which ongo- He was blessed with son FAISALABAD: Chief of Jamat-e-Islami Sirajul Haq addressing press Friday. According to Talking to the office He remarked that on one ing development scheme after six years of his wed- conference at Jamat-e-Islami office. details, the encounters bearers and workers of JUI hand un-elected people had been finalized. He said ding but the newborn died took place Jagan Link (F) here on Friday, he said were being favoured while that ratio of unemployment the other day. Road, Sultan Kot, Mian that government had con- on the other hand voice of was increasing in the Hearing the news of Sahib police stations veyed the message to the the elected members was province and agriculture newborn son, Muhammad jurisdictions. Three rob- people by closing all roads being stifled. Moulna said sector had reached the Anees suffered heart attack Three students killed, bers were injured in fire leading to provincial capital that when affairs were not verge of ruination due to which proved fatal. exchanges and held that the present provincial settled on the floor of load shedding. The body was airlifted besides recovery of arms to Pakistan and the five injured in Hunza from their possession. deceased was laid to rest The injured robbers at native graveyard in were shifted to hospital Topi, Swabi. road accident and police after register- ing separates cases have HUNZA (INP): Three stu- Sust got out of control while Muddasir, Sahadat started investigations. Four injured dents were killed and five due to technical fault and Karim, Syed Ahmed and others injured in a dread- it turned turtle in Moro Faiz Karim were injured. Accidently fired in motorcycles ful road accident here Khoon area of Hunza. The bodies and injured Friday morning. Three students Shakir were shifted to District bullet kills child collision According to details, a s/o Saddaruddin, Syed Headquarter Hospital Hunza F.P. Report FAISALABAD (INP): vehicle carrying students Anwar s/o Syed Karim where the wounded students Four including three mem- of high school and DG and Shohaib Ali s/o Ijaz were referred to Agha Khan CHARSADDA: In a bers of a family were School from Jamaabad to were killed in the accident Health Centre Gilgit. tragic incident at Sabzi injured in collision between Mandi in Prang area of two over speeding motor- Charsadda district, a cycles here on Friday. child was killed when a According to details, pistol he was playing two motorcycles collided Youth killed, another with went off accidently near Chak No. 123 in at his father’s shop. Faisalabad. Four people Local police said the including Yaseen, his wife injured in R.Y. Khan child was waiting for his Fatima Bibi, daughter Iqra school van at his father’s and another person RAHIM YAR KHAN into a rental house locat- Ajmal was killed and vegetable shop when he Touqeer Abbas were (INP): Unidentified culprits ed in Chacharan Sharif Muhammad Shohaib 16, picked up a loaded pistol injured in the accident. stabbed to death a youth area of Rahim Yar Khan was critically injured. and started playing with The injured were shifted and injured a teenager here and attacked two people The body and injured it. The pistol went off to Allied Hospital where on Friday and fled the with Kassi (gardening were shifted to hospital and accidentally killing the condition of two family scene of crime. tool) and escaped the police after registering a child on the scene. HYDERABAD: People standing in a street after two morter shell found from members was stated to be According to details, scene. case unidentified culprits a drain. critical. unknown accused barged As a result, Muhammad started an investigation. Saturday, June 19, 2021 The Frontier Post EU experts helping Sri Lanka 3 people UN proposal seeks arms dead after assess ship disaster damage boat embargo and democracy COLOMBO (AP): A team of deeper waters failed when in Myanmar technical experts from its stern rested on the capsizes European Union are helping seabed. The ship had MADRID (Agencies): At UNITED NATIONS (AP): UN’s most representative opponents of the junta — Sri Lanka's government assess remained partly submerged least three people have The UN General Assembly body expressed itself are in arbitrary detention. the environmental damage until Thursday. The Sri died and two others, is expected to approve a against a military coup and Speaking of the draft caused by the sinking of a Lankan navy believes the including a six-year-old resolution calling on called for an arms embargo. resolution, Canada’s Rae container ship that was carry- blaze was caused by its girl, are missing after a Myanmar’s junta to restore Canada’s UN Ambassador said: “I think it’s a strong ing chemicals and caught fire, chemical cargo, which boat carrying migrants and the country’s democratic Bob Rae, a member of the statement by the General the government said Friday. included 25 tons of nitric refugees ran aground on transition and for all coun- Core Group, said Thursday Assembly about our strong The experts held discussions acid and other chemicals, the rocky coast of tries “to prevent the flow of that everyone has been opposition to what’s been with top Sri Lankan officials most of which were Lanzarote in Spain’s arms into Myanmar,” diplo- working hard “to reach a happening in Myanmar, and stakeholders on Friday, a destroyed in the fire. But Canary Islands, local mats said. The draft resolu- broad consensus” on the and our strong desire for a day after the Singapore- debris including burned authorities have said. The tion also condemns deadly text, and discussions were shift back to a process of flagged MV X-Press Pearl fiberglass and tons of plastic boat was approaching the violence by security forces still under way on whether attaining democracy in the ship sank off the country's pellets have already polluted shore of Órzola village on and calls on the junta to it would be approved by country, civil and economic main port and nearly a month after The experts will closely work with nearby beaches. There are concerns Thursday night when it unconditionally release the consensus or be put to a rights for everybody the vessel caught fire. government agencies, the Foreign that a spill of remaining chemicals flipped a few metres from ousted civilian leader Aung vote. including the Rohingya.” The 12-day fire ravaged the vessel, Ministry said in a statement, noting and oil from the ship could devastate land, throwing the passen- San Suu Kyi, President Win Myanmar for five The draft calls on “the destroyed most of its cargo and that Friday’s meeting focused on how marine life. gers into the water. Myint “and all those who decades had languished Myanmar armed forces to caused severe pollution in the ocean the experts “could support the The main concern has been Emergency workers have been arbitrarily under strict military rule respect the will of the peo- and along a long stretch of the island process with recommendations on about 300 tons of bunker oil used recovered the three bodies detained, charged or arrest- that led to international iso- ple as freely expressed by nation’s famed beaches. The team future action to be taken by the key as fuel for the ship. But officials – two men and a woman – ed." lation and sanctions. As the the results of the general include three experts sent by the stakeholder agencies.” The fire broke have been saying it could have and rescued 41 people, The 193-member assem- generals loosened their election of Nov. 8, 2020. It European Union through the United out on the vessel on May 20 when it burned off in the fire. Both Sri among them 19 women bly is scheduled to consider grip, culminating in Suu also said the Parliament Nations Environment Program at Sri was anchored about 9.5 nautical Lankan authorities and the ship's and seven children of sub- the resolution, which has Kyi’s rise to leadership in should be allowed to con- Lanka's request. Sri Lanka said that miles (18 kilometers) northwest of operator, X-Press Feeders, have Saharan nationalities. more than 50 co-sponsors, 2015 elections, the interna- vene and the armed forces expertise within the country wasn't Colombo and waiting to enter the said so far there is no sign of an oil Rescue workers with a on Friday afternoon and its tional community respond- and other national bodies sufficient to accurately calculate the port. spill. Sri Lanka has already submit- helicopter were searching sponsors are hoping it will ed by lifting most sanctions should be brought into an damage caused to its marine environ- Authorities extinguished the fire ted an interim claim of $40 million the coast around be approved by consensus and pouring investment "inclusive civilian govern- ment and coastal areas and also on the last week, but the ship then began to X-Press Feeders to cover part of Lanzarote’s northern to send a strong message to into the country. Her party ment that is representative country’s economy. sinking and attempts to tow it into the cost of fighting the fire. region of Muelle de the military of global oppo- was reelected by a landslide of the will of the people.” Orzola for the two missing sition to its Feb. 1 takeover in November elections, but Unlike Security Council on Friday morning. and support for a return to the military contends the resolutions, General Resident Marcos Lemes, Myanmar’s democratic vote was fraudulent and Assembly resolutions are Iran election set to hand who was first on the scene transition, though any took over before the new not legally binding, but and alerted emergency nation can call for a vote. Parliament was seated. they do reflect global opin- services, told Reuters he The draft resulted from Widespread opposition to ion and supporters of the had begun pulling people negotiations by a so-called the junta's rule began with draft believe it will have an presidency to hardline judge out of the water after giv- Core Group including the massive nonviolent impact. Rae, a former DUBAI (Reuters): Iranians choose a rely on tackling worsening economic powerful institution which over the ing his phone to a boy to European Union, many protests. After soldiers and Canadian special envoy to president on Friday in a contest likely hardship. years has opposed reformist initia- use as a torch. Western nations and the 10- police used deadly force to Myanmar, doesn’t believe to be won by a judge fiercely loyal to "Raisi's main challenge will be the tives, overseen the suppression of “I ran out of the house member Association of crush the peaceful demon- the nation can return to its the religious establishment, although economy. Eruption of protests will be protests and used proxy forces to with two buoys that I keep Southeast Asian Nations strations, a low-level armed past isolation since people large numbers of people are expected inevitable if he fails to heal the assert Iran's regional influence. The at home and when I got known as ASEAN, which insurrection has emerged in in Myanmar "have devel- to ignore the vote due to discontent nation's economic pain," said a gov- mid-ranking cleric says he backs there it was madness … I includes Myanmar. A UN both the cities and country- oped a taste for openness, with economic hardship and hardline ernment official. Khamenei on Iran's talks with six major powers to saw a huge number of diplomat said there is an side. Last week, the UN for democracy, for partici- rule. With uncertainty surrounding Wednesday appealed for a large revive the nuclear deal, under which people on the reef.” A agreement with ASEAN to human rights office cited pation, and for social and Iran's efforts to revive its 2015 turnout, saying such a show of Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear dozen of the rescued seek consensus, but what credible reports that at least political rights,” he said. nuclear deal, and growing poverty at strength would reduce foreign pres- programme in return for the lifting of group, including two will happen with ASEAN 860 people have been killed “And I don’t think the peo- home after years of US sanctions, sure on the Islamic Republic. Official sanctions. babies and two young members if there is a vote by security forces since ple are going to lose that voter turnout is seen by Iranian ana- opinion polls suggest turnout could But Raisi, who shares Khamenei's children, were transferred remains unclear. Feb. 1, mostly during taste. And I think that the lysts as a referendum on the leader- be as low as 41%, significantly lower suspicion of detente with the West, to hospital, the regional The resolution’s protests, and that more than answer is to do everything ship's handing of an array of crises. than in past elections. says only a powerful government can emergency services said. approval would mark one 4,800 people — including we can to sustain democra- Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, 60, a Under pressure over rising infla- implement any revival of the pact. The developments came of the few times that the activists, journalists and cy.” close ally of Supreme Leader tion and joblessness, the clerical lead- Accused by critics of human rights as two other boats carry- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is favourite ership needs a high vote count to abuses stretching back decades -- ing a total of 110 people to succeed the incumbent Hassan boost its legitimacy, damaged after a allegations his defenders deny -- reached the other Canary Rouhani, forbidden under the consti- series of protests against poverty and Raisi was appointed by Khamenei to islands of Fuerteventura UN aid chief says we tution from serving a third four-year political restrictions across Iran since the high-profile job of judiciary chief and El Hierro on Friday, term. A win for the Shi'ite cleric 2017. Raisi's main rival is a pragma- in 2019. according to the regional would confirm the political demise of tist technocrat, former central bank A few months later, the United emergency services. So must tackle crises causes pragmatist politicians like Rouhani, governor Abdolnaser Hemmati, who States sanctioned him for human far this year more than weakened by Washington’s decision says a win for any hardliner will result rights violations, including the execu- 5,700 people have made UNITED NATIONS (AP): The people and countries pandemic. Rather than just to quit the nuclear deal and reimpose in yet more sanctions imposed by out- tions of political prisoners in 1980s the perilous crossing from The outgoing UN humanitar- left out of that economic announcing it was donating sanctions in a move that stifled rap- side powers. Iran could hold talks and the suppression of unrest in 2009, Africa to the Spanish ian chief warned that “the progress are “the ones vaccines, he said, the G-7 prochement with the West. But it with longtime arch-foe the United events in which he played a part, archipelago, at least twice explosion” in needs for enmeshed in humanitarian should have made clear that would not disrupt Iran's bid to revive States if Washington adhered to "pos- according to human rights groups. as many as in the same humanitarian assistance in suffering,” he said. Lowcock what they were doing was “a the agreement and break free of tough itive coexistence" with Tehran, he Iran has never acknowledged the period last year, which recent years will keep getting was highly critical of the small down payment,” and oil and financial sanctions, Iranian said in the election campaign. mass executions, and Raisi himself itself saw an eightfold worse until major powers world’s rich countries, and that they would work with the officials say, with the country's ruling Raisi has crucial backing from has never publicly addressed allega- increase from 2019. tackle the root causes of especially the Group of larger Group of 20 major clerics aware their political fortunes Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, a tions about his role. Restrictions on air trav- hunger and desperation -- Seven leading industrialized economies to do a lot more. el and border closures dur- conflicts, extremism, climate nations, for “not acting much The G-7 leaders promised 1 ing the COVID-19 pan- change, poor governance, more aggressively and gener- billion doses for vaccine-hun- demic have partly con- corruption and violence, to ously and protecting the gry countries, far short of the Millions driven from homes tributed to the increased name a few. poorest countries coming out 11 billion doses the World traffic, which comes Mark Lowcock, who steps of the pandemic,” not only Health Organization said is despite tougher controls to down Friday after four years, with vaccines but supporting needed to inoculate at least in 2020 despite COVID crisis prevent Mediterranean sea said in an interview with The their economies, which “have 70% of the world’s popula- crossings to Europe. A Associated Press that unfor- taken the biggest hit in rela- tion and truly end the pan- GENEVA (AP): War, violence, perse- blocked in our homes, in our commu- abroad if the pandemic eases and bor- record 850 people died tunately the world has been tive terms” and are “under demic. cution, human rights violations and nities, in our cities,” Grandi said in an ders reopen.. “A good example is the while attempting the dealing with symptoms, huge strain.” Lowcock said the G-7 other factors caused nearly 3 million interview before the report's release. United States, where already we have Atlantic voyage last year, including people displaced Rich countries pumped announcement -- including people to flee their homes last year, “Almost 3 million people have had to seen a surge in people arriving in according to the United by fighting and natural disas- trillions of dollars into their 500 million doses from the even though the COVID-19 crisis actually leave all that behind because recent months,” Grandi said, referring Nations migration agency, ters or at risk of famine, economies to protect their cit- United States and 100 mil- restricted movement worldwide, the they had no other choice.” “COVID- to a a US provision called Title 42 that which suggested COVID- which is now stalking izens and their nations, and lion each from Britain and UN refugee agency said in a report 19 seems to have had no impact on let authorities temporarily block asy- 19 had prompted many Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray “that’s the right thing to do,” Canada -- is basically enough Friday. In its latest Global Trends some of the key root causes that push lum-seekers from entry for health rea- workers in struggling region and Yemen. In a very he said. “But it would also vaccine to reach about 10% report, UNHCR said the world's people to flee, he said. “War, violence, sons. “Title 42 will be lifted eventual- industries such as fishing divided world, where the have been a smart thing as of the people who need it in cumulative number of displaced peo- discrimination, they have continued, ly — and I think this is the right thing or agriculture to risk the geopolitical system has failed well as a kind and generous low- and middle-income ple rose to 82.4 million — roughly the no matter what, throughout the pan- to do — but this will have to be man- journey. to manage conflicts very thing to have spent a little bit countries. He said the G-7 population of Germany and a new demic.” aged.” Asked about US Vice President So far this year, at least well, he said, there has been a of that money protecting the didn’t announce money to post-World War II record. UNHCR said 1% of all humanity is Kamala Harris’ recent trip to Central 130 people who attempted “failure of the leading pow- very poorest countries,” get the vaccine from the Filippo Grandi, the United Nations' now displaced, and there are twice as America, where she told people hop- the crossing have died or ers" to tackle the causes. Lowcock said in the virtual manufacturer into the high commissioner for refugees, said many forcibly displaced people than a ing to migrate to the US “do not are missing, according to “If the world wants to see interview on Wednesday. It is syringes of health workers conflict and the fallout from climate decade ago. Some 42% of them are come,” Grandi expressed hope that the UN migration less humanitarian suffering, also in the self-interest of who can immunize people, change in places such as under 18, and nearly 1 million babies the remark was not reflective of over- agency’s Missing you have to deal with the wealthier nations, he said, stressing that there are “huge Mozambique, Ethiopia's Tigray were born as refugees between 2018 all US policy. Migrants Project. Only 58 causes of that suffering,” because the problems that costs in the delivery system.” region and Africa’s Sahel area were and 2020. “Many of them may remain "I think that messaging indeed, as it bodies have been recov- Lowcock said. “If you tackle can brew in fragile countries Some of the very poorest key drivers of refugees and internally refugees for years to come,” the was reported, is stark, and maybe ered. the causes, you can make — becoming havens for ter- countries that got a little bit displaced people in 2020. Such fac- agency's report said. UNHCR, which shows only one part of the picture The actual toll is widely progress, you can improve rorism, places where climate of vaccine but had no deliv- tors added hundreds of thousands to has its headquarters in Geneva, said now,” Grandi said, adding that he had understood to be higher, as people’s lives.” During his change is hardest to tackle, ery systems gave some back, the overall count, the ninth consecu- that 99 of the more than 160 countries heard a “more complex response” not all reports can be con- lifetime, the 58-year-old sites where new diseases he said. The G-7 should have tive annual increase in the number of that closed their borders because of from other officials in Washington firmed. Meanwhile, with British economist said the emerge and old diseases like made “a much more round- forcibly displaced people. The mil- the coronavirus did not make excep- when he was there recently. Among arrival facilities on the world moved from having Ebola reemerge — “come ed, longer term commit- lions who have fled countries such as tions for people seeking protection as recent hotspots, Grandi said hundreds Canaries packed to capac- more than half the global back to bite you if you don’t ment” to finance vaccine Syria and Afghanistan due to protract- refugees or asylum-seekers. of thousands of people were newly ity, authorities have population living in “the most invest enough to contain the requirements, he said, and it ed wars or fighting have dominated Grandi acknowledged the possibil- displaced in Mozambique and the housed thousands in extreme poverty” to less than problems.” should be challenging the G- the UN agency's tally for years. ity that many internally displaced peo- Sahel last year, and up to 1 million in camps criticised by rights 10% in that dire situation Lowcock called for a 20 “to step up and meet part “This is telling, in a year in which ple who couldn't leave their own the Tigray conflict that started in groups for their condi- before the COVID-19 pan- much bigger effort to help of the share of the costs as we were all locked down, confined, countries will eventually want to flee October. tions. demic in early 2020. poorer countries out of the well.” ‘It will get very bad’: Experts warn on Indonesia COVID surge

JAKARTA (Agencies): Health offi- “All COVID variants are a concern absolutely agree with that. Whatever year into the pandemic, but the gov- cases because of community mobility 10 traces per positive case to 20 to 30, cials in Indonesia are blaming the but the Delta variant has not proven the variant is, it needs human activity ernment has proved it’s incapable of from Ramadan,” Wiweko told Al she added. “We know people are wor- emergence of the Delta variant first to be more deadly,” said Udayana to replicate,” he said. “Indonesia is controlling COVID-19.” While the Jazeera. “Previously, we had 3,000 ried,” she said, “but it’s not too late to detected in India for a massive surge University professor Gusti Ngurah doing a good job in genome tracking, Alpha variant might still be domi- cases per day but now we are moving prevent the peak of cases.” But in COVID-19 that has seen the num- Mahardika, Bali’s most senior virolo- which is how they know the Delta nant, Buduman warned that it is only past 9,000 cases.” Budiman warns micro-lockdowns ber of daily new cases more than gist. “It only gets a silver medal; the variant is here. a matter of time before the Delta Developed countries have man- will prove ineffective. triple in recent weeks, but some of the champion in Indonesia is still the “But the Delta variant,” Utomo strain takes over. aged to suppress the pandemic with “They are still focusing too much country’s leading infectious disease Alpha variant. I believe the Delta explained, “is like a sports car. It can He feared Indonesia could soon be mass vaccination programmes, sup- on the economic consequences but experts say the real reasons are closer variant is being used as a scapegoat go very fast. But even a sports car can facing an outbreak comparable to ported by effective testing and con- sooner or later, they are going to have to home. “The spread of this virus because of the government’s incapac- only go as fast as the road you give it India’s. “The Delta variant will lead tact tracing. Indonesia, which was the to rethink their response because the variant is very fast,” Health Minister ity to control the pandemic.” Health and you have to address human infections next month,” he said. “I location of late-stage trials for experience from many other coun- Budi Gunadi Sadikin admitted during authorities on Thursday reported mobility to slow it down.” Utomo predict that in July there will be a China’s Sinovac jab, began its cam- tries shows only total lockdowns an online seminar on Sunday, adding 12,624 cases – the highest daily rise said too many people are disobeying huge caseload in the community and paign in January, but has still only combined with increase testing and that the variant had got a foothold in since February – bringing Indonesia’s health protocols and travel bans and rising mortality in Java because 40 managed to fully vaccinate 4.3 per- tracing followed by isolation and Indonesia through its ports. total cases to nearly two million. the government is making it worse by percent of Indonesia’s population cent of its population. The govern- quarantine with massive vaccination “Because many seaports in Mahardika says it is almost impossi- failing to invest in testing and tracing. lives on the island and this density ment has been anxious about the programmes are effective at contain- Indonesia carry goods and many also ble to pinpoint the reason for the “When people want to travel by ferry puts them in a very dangerous situa- economy since the pandemic first ing the Delta variant,” he said. come from India, they enter from surge because infection rates are “so or plane in Indonesia, they need to tion. “If you ask me how bad things began late last year because it worries Utomo voiced similar sentiments, there,” he said. But experts inter- underreported” that health data “can- pay for a test, so a huge industry has are going to get, well, it will get very it cannot provide social security – let “The solution is simple: enforce viewed by Al Jazeera said the Delta not be referred to” in Indonesia, but sprung up to cater to demand,” he bad with much higher mortality alone food packages – to its 270 mil- health protocols, test, trace and vac- variant was not the primary problem. he pointed to a number of probable said. “But there’s no money in tracing because we can see from what hap- lion people. About 10 percent of cinate. They must be persistent in They say the surge is a result of trav- causes. so it’s just being ignored.” pened in India that the pattern is very Indonesians live below the poverty their strategy.” Even as cases surge, el at the end of the month of Ramadan “People travelling during Dr Dicky Budiman, an epidemiol- clear: The Delta variant impacts line. Indonesia is still talking about allow- – when many people ignored a travel Ramadan played a role, no question ogist who has helped formulate the much harder in countries that do not Wiweko said the government is ing foreign visitors to return as early ban to visit their hometowns, the about that,” he said. “But we are a Indonesian Ministry of Health’s pan- have enough social distancing, mask- now looking at a micro-lockdown as July to popular destinations like absence of a cohesive health policy disorganised country, most of the demic management strategy for 20 wearing, testing and tracing and vac- strategy to target areas of high infec- Bali, which welcomed 10 million coupled with confused messaging, focus is on the economy and the peo- years, says while the Delta variant is cinations.” tion. “We have issued regulations to foreigners in 2019 – the last year the privatisation of testing regimes ple are experiencing COVID exhaus- more infectious than the Alpha vari- As only 1 percent of positive cases limit community activities on a before the pandemic struck – in order and ineffective tracing. While travel tion and fatigue. In the capital (of ant, it is the latter that is driving the in Indonesia have undergone genome micro-scale that is enforced in all to restart the island’s economy. “The was restricted at domestic airports Bali) Denpasar where I live, the cafe current outbreak. “Currently, the tracking, there is no conclusive data provinces and city districts. This is Lancet has published an article say- and ferry terminals from April 22 to and restaurants are full every spread of the Delta variant is very to show the share of infections attrib- like [large-scale social restrictions] ing the only way to deal with out- May 24, the government estimated evening.” Ahmad Utomo, a molecu- small, while the Alpha variant is uted to particular variants. Dr Nadia but adapted to local conditions,” she breaks is elimination, not mitiga- between five and six million people lar biological consultant in Jakarta being spread by community mem- Wiweko, the spokesperson for the said. Wiweko said the strategy tion,” Utomo said. “Our leaders have still moved between cities on specialising in the diagnosis of lung bers who disobeyed the travel ban,” Ministry of Health for COVID-19 included targeted isolation and treat- to crush the curve, not worry if peo- Indonesia’s two most heavily popu- infections, agreed that the Delta vari- he told Al Jazeera. “I agree that the vaccinations, admitted that travel has ment, work from home regulations ple will vote for them at the election. lated islands of Java and Sumatra dur- ant is being used to obscure misman- Delta variant is being used as a played a part in the accelerating out- and limited shopping hours. Tracing Otherwise, we are never going to get ing the holiday period. agement of the pandemic. “I scapegoat. We are more than one break. “There is a trend of increasing is also being ramped up from five to out of this pandemic.” 6 The Frontier Post Saturday, June 19, 2021 Leader The Frontier Post JALIL AFRIDI The pipeline that brings Managing Editor Printed and published by Mahmood Afridi at Moraka’s Printers, 27 Abdara Road, University Town, Peshawar. Israel-UAE together Peshawar Office: 091-5700095, 0300- 9009001 Peshawar Fax: 091-5703687, Post Box No. 573 TRETCHING 254 problems in almost every Jonathan Gorvett E-mail: [email protected] Lahore Office: 0335-4026284 kilometers from the direction.” Email: [email protected] SIsraeli resort town of Old friends says Eran. 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The route runs namely the EAPC and doubt the project’s viabili- A relic of a long-van- from Eilat, on the Gulf of Israeli-Emirati joint venture ty. “Right now, whatever ished Middle East, in which Aqaba at the northeastern MED-RED Land Bridge. oil is moved from the Gulf Israel and Iran once cooper- end of the Red Sea, across In this deal, the UAE is to Europe mostly goes ated to run the route, the Israel’s Negev desert to to supply “tens of millions through the Suez Canal,” pipeline has now become Ashkelon, on the of tons per year” of oil says Eran, “and I don’t the centerpiece of another Mediterranean coast just from the UAE to the think Egypt would be Pentagon unexpected alliance, betw- north of Gaza. pipeline, according to an happy with this competi- een Israel and the United The idea was that this EAPC statement back in tion.” Arab Emirates (UAE). - short route would bypass October. “Israel is expected This is particularly so Since the UAE signed the Suez Canal – then under to benefit greatly,” the after May’s blockage of the the Abraham Accords with the control of an Egypt very statement went on, helping Suez Canal by the contain- assessment Israel last August, ending hostile to Israel – while also to ensure the country’s er ship Ever Givenshone a years of hostile relations, allowing Iranian oil to “energy independence and global spotlight on many of Emirati and Israeli energy reach European markets. security.” the canal’s limitations. firms have been lobbying After the Shah was toppled, While exact details of These include the fact that hard for the pipeline to in 1979, the pipeline fell the deal remain secret, it at present the Suez Canal is – turned the UAE down. regional and economic and threat become a new symbol of largely into disuse. It was will therefore likely see a not large enough to safely Friends and enemies cooperation.” cooperation – and a new then revived in 2003, when major expansion in the take some fully loaded Given all these compli- Faced with this conun- export route from the Gulf Russian oil began to be amount of oil using the super-tankers. cations, “If the pipeline drum, one response has to Europe. Yet, “It’s a proj- shipped in the opposite pipeline. “From a rate of six Yet, now is not necessar- were a purely commercial been that of the Israeli state to Afghans ect that raises a whole direction, from Ashkelon to tankers per year, we expect ily a good time for Israel to undertaking,” says Ellinas, National Infrastructure range of questions,” Dr Eilat and then on to markets an increase to more than 50 ruffle Egyptian feathers. “the environment lobby Committee. On June 15, ENTAGON top leadership see the Oded Eran, senior in Asia. The pipeline tankers per year,” Israel’s “Israel would like to alone would probably have this called for the pipeline researcher at the Institute offered a short route that former environment minis- improve relations with been able to stop it happen- to be exempted from envi- potential risk of terrorists regrouping in for National Security could be quicker than the ter Gila Gamliel said in a Egypt, especially on the ing by now.” Yet, the proj- ronmental impact assess- Ppost US Afghanistan at medium level Studies in Tel Aviv, told overcrowded Suez Canal, letter to Israel’s National whole question of Gaza,” ect remains – most likely, ments. however, they observed that it would take Asia Times. while it was also cheaper Security Advisor on June 8. says Eran. Egypt took the because if Israel were to “They are trying to avoid possibly two years for them to develop that “Environmental questions, given the expense of Canal Rock and hard place lead in establishing the cancel it, there could be it being assessed and risk- capability if certain other things happen, such economic questions, securi- transits and good terms Gamliel made that state- recent ceasefire that ended major repercussions for its ing it being shut down,” as there was a collapse of the government or ty and political questions.” offered by the Israel state- ment, however, while also fighting between Israeli new peace deal with the says Ellinas. This is unlike- The pipeline skirts the owned Europe Asia calling for the project’s forces and Palestinian UAE. ly to satisfy the powerful dissolution of the Afghan security forces, that delicate edges of the Pipeline Company (EAPC). cancellation on environ- Hamas fighters last month. “The UAE is saying you Israeli environmental risk would obviously increase, but right now Palestinian Gaza Strip, the Yet, the pipeline has mental grounds – a call that “The pipeline might also can’t just scrap this,” says lobby, however. At the they see it medium and about two years or so. scene of recent intense never had much capacity, has now been reiterated by become a target,” says Ellinas, “as it’s part of the same time, “For all those Pentagon top echelons, Defense Secretary fighting between Israel and while it has also been her successor in the new Ellinas, noting its proximi- Abraham Accords.” This countries that established Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Gaza-based militant group fraught with accidents. “On Israeli government, Tamar ty to Gaza. Since signing has placed enormous pres- relations with Israel recent- Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley took this Hamas. It also challenges at least three occasions, Zandberg. Indeed, many the Abraham Accords, sure on Israeli authorities, ly,” says Eran, referring to the Suez Canal’s dominant there have been leakages,” Israelis are strongly “There have been quite who also want to cash in Sudan, Bahrain and position during a hearing in front of the role as the main route for says Ellinas. The most opposed to the pipeline fraught relations between from their new relationship Morocco, which also Senate Appropriations Committee on Gulf oil to reach Europe, damaging was in 2014, because of the potential the Palestinians and the with the Emiratis. “The signed the Abraham Acco- Thursday. Presently, Pentagon had rejected antagonizing Egypt. when a breach led to a dev- threat of more and bigger UAE, too,” he adds. UAE is very advanced in rds, “this raises the ques- the assumption of regrouping or resurgence Indeed, “It’s a very polit- astating oil spill in the spillages. Indeed, when the UAE areas of great interest to tion of how long and how of Al-Qaeda in post US Afghanistan and ical pipeline,” regional oil Evrona Nature Reserve, a At the same time, an applied to join the Cairo- Israel,” says Eran. “They deep they can really go.” linked the situation with conditions to happen and gas expert and senior part of the Negev through expansion of the route and based East Mediterranean are in space, for example, The question may now fellow at the Atlantic which the pipeline runs. its use would mean more Gas Forum last year, the and are becoming a player come down to a revived in the war-torn Country. They stressed the Council Charles Ellinas “It still hasn’t been com- tankers using Eilat – a Palestinian Authority – in many other areas. There pipeline, snaking across the importance of keeping faith with Afghans told Asia Times.“It creates pletely cleared up today,” major tourism destination which is already a member are great prospects for Israeli desert. who helped the United States and expressed willingness to help them in any way. Afghanistan is going through a very critical situation these days. America and its allies are The Week in Russia: The Geneva Contentions pulling out their troops rapidly out of IVEN the low quarters for holding the Steve Gutterman protesters seeking basic backers and detractors will Afghanistan and there is no consensus between expectations for meeting at all, the bar was rights and freedoms as be watching Russia to see warring Afghan parties in respect of future polit- Gtheir June 16 sum- arguably much lower for Russia, Putin will face zero impressive to match wits “ridiculous.” And he whether Putin changes his ical setup in the country so far. At times, not only mit, US President Joe Putin: All he really had to criticism or negative polit- with someone who has vowed “to stand up for the conduct -- something the terrorist groups like IS-K and Al-Qaeda but sev- Biden and Russian do was get invited and ical consequences for them than with someone universal rights and funda- president, in a testy eral international and regional powers are work- President Vladimir Putin show up. meeting with Biden. who does not. mental freedoms that all exchange at the close of may have headed home Putin “apparently got In fact, Greene calculat- In contrast to Putin, men and women have, in his press conference in ing to nourish their nefarious designs at Afghan from Geneva with the what he wanted from this ed that with the exception meanwhile, Biden has our view,” saying “that’s Geneva, suggested was far soil due to vacuum being created by the US sense of a modest mission summit,” Dmitry of a few outliers, US- been taken to task at home why we’re going to raise from guaranteed. “I’m not troops. In fact, there was a historic opportunity accomplished. It was an Oreshkin, a Russian politi- Russia summits involving by some on both sides of our concerns about cases confident he’ll change his with Afghan government to form a coalition easier reach for Putin cal analyst who is not Putin have handed him the political divide who like Aleksei Navalny,” the behavior…. What will government with the Taliban in Kabul after with- than for Biden, who may aligned with the Kremlin, average ratings increases contend that Putin should imprisoned Kremlin critic change their behavior is if drawal of US troops, but President Ghani and his face pressure for results told Current Time shortly of 1 percent immediately, be shunned until he who survived a poisoning the rest of the world reacts in the months ahead. after a solo post-summit nearly 2 percent three changes his ways, not last year that he blames on to them and it diminishes team proved to be ill-wise in seizing the oppor- Here are some of the press conference in which months later, and nearly 3 prodded into doing so. Putin. their standing in the tunity. As US President Biden announced uncon- key developments in he said Putin “seemed self- percent six months later. That, they caution, has 'A Formidable Task' world,” he said. “I’m not ditional US troops withdrawal by September, the Russia over the past week assured” -- or, as one jour- It's The Elections been tried by several presi- Biden also said the confident of anything; I’m Taliban started their offensive and overran sever- and some of the takeaways nalist covering the meeting That’s important to dents over Putin’s 21-plus United States would just stating a fact.” al important Districts such as Daulat Shah, going forward. put it, in which Putin right now: One of his years in power, with little respond to cyberattacks Reining in what US Burka, Almar and Baghlan-e-Jadid during recent 'Clearly Pleased' “Putin…was clearly main levers of power, the or no result. Calling for and would “not tolerate” officials have called With expectations pared pleased by whatever Putin dominant but unpopular punishment of Putin’s election interference, Moscow’s malign activi- months. The Afghan troops sensed the waning to a minimum, both US had to say.” Asked what it United Russia party, faces Russia, they argue that adding: “The bottom line ties is “a formidable task,” days of Afghan government and most of them President Joe Biden and was Putin had wanted, a test in elections to the almost any engagement is, is, I told President Putin Andrew Weiss, vice presi- opted to change sides or became neutral to save Russian President Oreshkin replied: “Putin lower house of parliament, on the contrary, an incen- that we need to have some dent at the Carnegie their lives. Vladimir Putin can proba- wanted a summit.” the State Duma, that Putin tive for more misconduct. basic rules of the road that Institute for International According to experts, if the situation persists bly say they achieved their “He wanted to break the scheduled for September At his own solo press we can all abide by.” Putin Peace, told The Wall Street and both parties fail to conceive any political goals, modest as they blockade of his…peripher- 19, as expected, in a decree conference after the talks, made no commitment to Journal. were, at their June 16 sum- ality and his toxicity,” issued the day after the Biden pointedly rejected abide by any such rules, “People in the Biden deal at Doha during the next two and half mit in Geneva. Biden and Oreshkin said, as well as meeting with Biden. And those arguments, saying and in his own defiant administration are savvy months, the military position of the Ghani gov- Putin “shook hands, what he described with a far from applying any the reasons for meeting comments rejected all crit- enough to know ernment would be shaken due to the Taliban exchanged unpleasantries, Russian word that might pressure on Putin, state- Putin were "pretty straight- icism. that…Putin has no inten- offensive. Most people are of the view that the agreed to have their people be best translated as run and Kremlin-friendly forward." “One, there is no He can claim that he tion of crawling into a box Ghani government could not survive more than get in touch with their “unhandshakeability” -- if private media outlets have, substitute…for a face-to- made no compromises at so the US can give its undi- six months without American help. other people, and moved such a thing existed in as usual, helped amplify a face dialogue between the summit. Biden can, vided attention to China,” on,” Sam Greene, director English. So in the end, all narrative favorably com- leaders. None,” he said. too. But he is likely to face he said. Thomas Graham, a Presently, the Pentagon is weighing the threat of the Russia Institute at the parsing of the presiden- paring Putin to Biden -- “And President Putin and I more pressure than Putin fellow at the Council on assessment for US interest not for Afghans or King’s College London, tial handshake and the right down to the color of had a -- share a unique for progress beyond the Foreign Relations who was Afghanistan. In fact, Afghans are facing a threat wrote wryly in a newsletter short, chaotic portion of their neckties. responsibility to manage modest “deliverables” that a top adviser on Russia from themselves. Despite enormous internation- the day after the meeting. the summit that was con- At least, they were the relationship between were duly delivered: during the George W. Bush al efforts, Afghans are not ready to make their "In other words, the sum- ducted before cameras was doing so until one day after two powerful and proud agreements to bring back administration, told the collective future. The Afghans must seize this mit was a resounding suc- probably superfluous -- for the summit, when Putin countries -- a relationship the ambassadors who newspaper that after the cess." Putin, any handshake at all abruptly criticized the that has to be stable and returned to their capitals summit "we’re off to a opportunity and conceive peace for themselves, And Olya Oliker, meant mission accom- fawning chorus for making predictable.” earlier this year amid ris- good start and Putin sees their people and the coming generation of their Europe and Central Asia plished. Biden out to be a dodder- He also hit back against ing tension, and for a himself as a major player Country. director at the International For the same reason that ing fool and said that on Putin’s “whataboutism,” “strategic stability dia- on the world stage." “But Crisis Group, tweeted summit success was within the contrary, he is sharp rejecting the Russian pres- logue” that would “lay the how long that lasts is an shortly after the summit easy reach for Putin, it and on the ball. Putin's ident’s effort to equate groundwork for future open question,” he said. “If ended that “both came out seemed like a substantially praise for Biden sounded Americans who stormed arms control and risk he doesn’t feel he’s getting Air superiority, a of this looking good to bigger challenge for Biden. like a reward for meeting the Capitol in Washington, reduction measures" enough respect he’ll do their core audiences.” Aside from maybe a few with him -- and may also D.C. in a bid to overturn between the nuclear-armed something to get our atten- Compared to Biden, who negligible voices on the have been based on the the 2020 presidential elec- former Cold War foes. tion again." new challenge faced criticism from some margins of discourse in calculation that it is more tion result with Russian As time passes, Biden’s [email protected] HIEF of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu has said that the CPakistan Air Force is a professional force, and Sri Lankan government lifts fuel price, it is capable of timely and forcefully responding to enemy's nefarious designs against the country. The Air Chief was addressing the course members and deepening social assault on workers and the poor faculty of 50th Pakistan Navy Staff Course (PNWC) at Pakistan Navy War College on Thursday. He also HE Sri Lankan cent in the month of May. Saman Gunadasa men and their families number of proposals to commended Pakistan Navy’s valuable services to g o v e r n m e n t The price of rice, Sri depend on the industry. change the pattern of con- safeguard the maritime frontiers of the country. The Tannounced a sharp Lanka’s staple food, has increases, held a torch light he said. Tens of thousands of small- sumption based on import- Air Chief expressed his confidence in the combat increase in the price of climbed by 27–46 percent protest in the southern town Iroshan, a fishmonger boat fishermen, who mostly ed fuels,” Rajapakse said. It potential of Pakistan armed forces. The Air Chief fuel on Saturday, impos- over the past twelve months of Ambalangoda. Workers from Hikkaduwa, a south- use kerosene, are being also was, he added, “one key said that our armed forces were ever ready to defend ing further burdens on to May, with other essential who have spoken to the ern coastal town, said: “I hard hit by the increases. factor in a common strategy the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the workers and the poor who foods, such as dhal and World Socialist Web Site don’t know how I’m going Desperate to divert ris- that strengthens the local nation. already face declining liv- coconut oil, going up by 36 this week voiced the rising to survive with this fuel ing anger over the new fuel economy” and “safe- Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed ing conditions worsened and 30 percent in the same popular anger over rapidly increase. Fishing boats price, Sagara guard[s] the health and wel- Baber Sindhu is a seasoned and highly professional offi- by the COVID-19 pan- period. worsening social condi- have stopped going to sea Kariyawasam, general sec- fare of the people.” cer of the PAF. He assumed the command of Pakistan Air demic. Sri Lankan workers and tions. because they cannot cover retary of the ruling Sri When Rajapakse speaks Force at a time when it was at the peak of its profession- A litre of petrol now the rural masses, already Manickam, a plantation their costs with the fuel Lanka Podujana Peramuna about strengthening the alism and preparedness. PAF had recently proved its costs 157 rupees struggling to survive on worker from Glenugie price rises. Fishermen in called on Energy Minister “economy,” he is not refer- superiority over its staunch rival during a dog fight over ($US0.79), a rise of 14.5 meagre incomes, are adopt- Estate in Up-Cot, said: Negombo and Chilaw [on Udaya Gammanpila to take ring to the living conditions Line of Control (LoC) in February 2019. Pakistan Navy percent, with diesel and ing various coping mecha- “We’ve already been affect- the west coast] are prepar- responsibility for the hikes of Sri Lankan workers and also successfully neutralized the incursion of Indian Navy kerosene hiked to 111 and nisms including smaller ed by the high price of ing protests and we are and resign. Gammanpila is the poor, but to big business Submarine during the same time. On other hand, 77 rupees, increases of 6 meal sizes, skipping meals, goods and so the fuel price planning to join them.” leader of the Pivithuru Hela profits. His insistence that Pakistan Army is well trained and highly equipped fight- and 10 percent respectively. eating less preferred foods increase will make life Chaminda, a fisherman Urumaya, which is also there be a “change in the ing force which has successfully defeated the menace of The government is current- or borrowing, pawning, and intolerable. Our current from Marawila in Chilaw, part of the government’s pattern of consumption terrorism during recent past. Presently, Pakistan Defence ly discussing lifting the selling assets. In 2013, the wage is not enough even explained: “I use petrol for ruling alliance. President based on imported fuel” is, Forces are at the highest level of their preparedness, but price of gas by 25 percent. Colombo Consumer Price for food so we’re unable to my small boat but with this Gotabhaya Rajapakse however, not limited to that the things do not remain the same with the passage of Bakers, bus owners, three- index was at 100 points. In give our children three new price my day’s fuel declared, however, the commodity but extends to time and invention of new technologies. Due to this wheeler operators and dis- 2017 it reached 119, fol- meals a day. Workers are costs go up by 1,000 rupees price increases were decid- the importation of many changing phenomenon, there is no victory for ever and no tributors of food items have lowed by 129.5 in 2019 and earning less than what the to 6,500. There’s no guar- ed by a cost-of-living com- essentials that have been defeat is endless, and we must be in step with changing threatened to increase their 135.4 last year. government and unions anteed price scheme for mittee that he chaired. The stopped or had levies dynamics of the time. charges, with bakery goods In January 2020, the claim, they lie when they fish and so if our catch hikes, he said, were the imposed. However, it is essential to inform our seasoned war- to go up by 5 rupees and public sector real wage rate say we get 1,000 rupees increases, the market price result of global crude oil State Minister Ajit riors that to continue this higher edge over your adver- transport by 15 percent. On index was 95 points, but by [less than $5] a day.” comes down. We cannot prices, the scarcity of for- Nivard Cabraal admitted saries during future engagements, you need to double up Tuesday, the privately- December it had fallen to A three-wheeler taxi afford to bear this price eign exchange and losses of that the fuel price increases your endeavors for that goal. Our experience during the owned Prima Company lift- 92. It was 100 in 2016. operator explained that he increase.” the state-owned Ceylon would drive up the cost of previous two Indo-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971, gave ed the price of flour by 3.50 Similarly, the private sector and his family were strug- In Sri Lanka there are Petroleum Corporation. He living but said that “the us an important lesson that never underestimate your rupees a kilo. real wage index dropped gling to survive on his daily around 5,000 multi-day then absurdly claimed that government can no longer enemy and always prepare yourselves ten times more Saturday’s increases are from 97 to 89 between income. “We had to pawn fishing vessels. They gener- it was connected to his continue without revising than you need to be. Currently, our enemy became aware on top of already skyrock- January and December last the jewellery to buy food ally spend several days at “Climate Resilient Green prices.” The international of its weaknesses and next time he will appear with new eting food prices. year. for my family and our two sea with each vessel usual- Economy” policy to reduce consequences of the coron- weaponry and new war methodology therefore our armed According to Central Bank On Tuesday, fishermen kids. I’ve searched for ly consuming between fuel consumption. avirus pandemic have been Forces must be ready to give him another surprise like data, the official food infla- who have been heavily- labouring work but have 10,000 and 15,000 litres of “The government has February 2019. tion rate hit almost 10 per- impacted by the latest price not been able to find any,” diesel. Some 30,000 fisher- taken steps to implement a (Continued on Page 7) Opinion Saturday, June 19, 2021 The Frontier Post 7 Convergence in numbers. Is Russia introducing Chinese methods of social control HE Russian author- Leonid Kovachich & Andrey Kolesnikov China. ities are closely And yet, while the Tmonitoring the the production of chips and and technological develop- activities of citizens in the Russian government fol- large-scale use of video microcircuits, which are ments. The country contin- network, the authorities lowed the spirit of China's surveillance technologies considered their own prod- ued to supply China with have developed new tools, digital authoritarian model and control over the lives ucts. The same can be said weapons as it maintained a such as DPI technologies. during the pandemic, the of citizens in China. about Russian microcircuit defense industrial base, All of these methods of concept was not elaborated However, Moscow is not manufacturers such as funded the development of digital repression are well in detail and in terms of ready to unconditionally Baikal Electronics and the new weapons systems, and known to Chinese Internet adequate resource alloca- accept the Beijing model Elvis Scientific and kept China as its largest users, but so far the level of tion. For example, the as a model. Production Center, which buyer. At that moment, control over the Internet in authorities launched pro- Is Russia trying to adopt create mobile processors Russian leaders felt that Russia is not comparable to grams to monitor and con- China's strategy of using for smartphones, artificial cutting arms exports to what is happening in China. trol the movements and technology for social and intelligence systems and China would be completely Key Western services such actions of citizens, using a political control, including IoT devices. They tradition- unprofitable. Moreover, it as Google, YouTube, facial recognition system increasing pressure on the ally outsource the produc- was assumed that by the Facebook, Twitter are and introducing QR codes opposition? The wide- tion itself to leading foreign time Beijing was able to blocked in China, but work that must be scanned when spread use of high tech- companies, such as the establish production of in Russia. How can this be traveling and at the nologies by the Chinese Taiwan Semiconductor some Russian systems, explained? entrance to buildings - this authorities for such purpos- Manufacturing Company Russia would have more There are two reasons practice, of course, copies Military show trial es clearly arouses the inter- (TSMC), which uses advanced weapons. for the relative freedom of the Chinese experience. est of the Russian special Western equipment and This does not mean, the Internet in Russia. First, But, unlike the well-built services. However, there technologies. Other aspects however, that Russia is the infrastructure of the organization of video sur- are a number of obstacles to of Sino-Russian technology unaware of the dangers of Russian Internet was origi- veillance in China, these of Suu Kyi begins the implementation of tools cooperation also point to intellectual property theft nally built on Western prin- technologies were intro- such as AI-based facial dependence on overseas- or industrial espionage by ciples of openness. This duced here ill-considered recognition or China's produced semiconductors. China. In some areas relat- means that it is technically and chaotic. social credit system. The largest Chinese tech- ed to defense and national (and politically) more diffi- Wealthy cities, primarily in Myanmar The actions of the nology company Huawei, security, Russia has long cult for Russia to install the Moscow, are likely to con- Russian authorities in this as part of the development preferred to use its own firewall and content moni- tinue to develop advanced Y ANMAR’S Mike Head “responsibility to protect.” field are determined by of a partnership with technology rather than rely- toring systems that China video surveillance and ousted leader This is a doctrine devel- considerations of a geopo- Russia, plans to produce ing on imports from the uses. facial recognition systems, MAung San Suu who have conducted wide- oped to justify imperialist litical nature. The coinci- server equipment on the West or from China. In Secondly, if in China but these systems will not Kyi was placed on trial spread strikes against the intervention, supposedly to dence of the political views basis of the Moscow com- addition, the Russian secu- there are local analogues of be as widespread as in behind closed doors this junta, but to the same world defend people from crimes of the Russian and Chinese pany Norsi-Trans. That rity services are showing the world's main Internet China, and will technically week, on the first of a powers that backed the pre- against humanity. Hopes of leaders is further expanding being said, Huawei's R&D more and more attention to services, then Russians are differ significantly from series of bogus charges vious power-sharing such action have since in the context of the division remains dependent this problem. In the past used to using Western their Chinese counterparts. evidently designed by the arrangement between the faded. Some youth have increasingly hostile rela- on US software and over- year alone, at least two social networks, search and The scale of China's invest- military junta to shore up NLD and the generals. since joined armed sepa- tions between Russia and seas contractors for chips. Russian citizens have been postal services. Blocking ments in video surveillance its power and claim inter- To overthrow the junta ratist groups, based on eth- the PRC with the United The servers produced joint- charged with high treason them will be a serious blow technologies significantly national legitimacy for its requires the mobilisation of nic minorities in border States. And yet, a real ly with Norsi-Trans will be and espionage in cases to the interests of users - exceeds Russian ones. So, dictatorship. the millions of workers, as areas, but these are out- alliance between Moscow equipped with chips created involving China. The dis- given that there are virtual- Moscow allocated $ 53 mil- The military’s February well as the rural masses, to gunned by the military. and Beijing is still a long using Western technolo- closure of such processes ly no local alternatives: lion for the face recognition 1 coup prevented elected fight, not just for essential Numbering perhaps 75,000 way off. Russian-Chinese gies. Thus, China cannot be indicates an increased vigi- work on creating local plat- system in 2019. For com- legislators from Suu Kyi’s democratic rights, but for fighters in total, they face a relations are much more counted on as an independ- lance with regard to forms like YouTube, which parison: China in 2018 National League for improved social conditions, military with over 300,000 complicated than they ent partner capable of pro- Chinese structures. The is being carried out with the funded 786 projects under Democracy (NLD) from which were under assault b- personnel, equipped com- might seem at first glance, ducing all the necessary growing mistrust in China support of the state, is just the "Sharp Eye" program taking office, following y the NLD-military regime. bat aircraft, drones and mainly due to the serious components, and Russia is especially noticeable in beginning. If the Russian and related initiatives worth what was officially con- As happened international- rocket artillery. difference in the political cannot yet suspend supplies the reaction of Russian offi- government decides to take more than $ 5 billion. firmed as a landslide elec- ly, the COVID-19 pandem- The fight for democratic weight and scale of the from the US and the EU. cials to China's 5G infra- such measures, it could Myth # 4: Russia only tion victory last year. The ic intensified the attacks of rights, moreover, is bound economies of the two Russian companies are structure. Russian security provoke serious public dis- buys digital surveillance army justified its coup by government and big busi- up with far broader political states. In addition, Moscow also not ready to abandon services are increasingly content or even social insta- technology from China alleging that Suu Kyi’s ness on workers’ jobs and issues, including overturn- and Beijing have not com- Western technologies. wary of Chinese equipment bility - a prospect hardly Considering China's suc- government failed to prop- conditions. Suu Kyi’s gov- ing the divisive nation-state pletely eliminated the Despite the fact that the on Russian fifth-generation desirable for the authori- cess in digital video sur- erly investigate accusations ernment provided virtually framework imposed over sources of long-standing Russian government is networks. This is due in ties. Roskomnadzor, mean- veillance, one can under- of voting irregularities. no cash support to those the region by British colo- mutual distrust. aggressively promoting the part to fears that Chinese while, has threatened to stand those who mistakenly Since then it has claimed to hardest hit. According to nialism and maintained by Contrary to popular project of import substitu- telecommunications com- block Twitter in Russia if assume that Russia only have found evidence of one survey conducted last the local ruling classes, beliefs and rhetoric of tion in the IT sector, panies could build back- the site does not remove buys advanced video sur- fraud, but that assertion has October, the proportion of which are utterly sub- Russian politicians, the Russian firms are resisting doors into their network information that the author- veillance technologies from been rejected so far by var- the population living in servient to the global capi- Kremlin has not abandoned these demands. Oil and gas equipment, allowing their ities deemed illegal. Howe- it. The largest number of ious international agencies. poverty (making less than talist powers. Western technology in key giants and state-owned government to spy on ver, it is not entirely clear patents for 5G technology The trial is being con- $US1.90 a day) had risen In 1937, the British par- areas. Moreover, digital telecommunications com- Russian users. For this rea- whether the government is actually belong to Chinese ducted amid ongoing repre- from 16 percent to 63 per- titioned Burma from India repression in Russia is panies are not enthusiastic son, the Russian authorities really willing to shut down companies. They have also ssion, against widespread cent over the previous eight on the basis of perceived much less widespread than about the idea of ??replac- agreed to build infrastruc- Twitter, which has relative- achieved global leadership popular opposition. United months. racial differences. After in China, where technology ing Western software and ture for 5G only on condi- ly few Russian users. in CCTV cameras, with Nations deputy spokesman With the military being granted formal inde- is massively used to spy on IT systems. In some areas, tion that they use domestic In parallel, the Russian Chinese giants Hikvision Farhan Haq this week said takeover, the UN pendence in 1948, the and control citizens who, such as oil production, telecommunications equip- government is increasing and Dahua controlling over a UN team on the ground Development Program now Burmese elite retained a according to the authorities, Russian alternatives to soft- ment. However, now there pressure on Western tech 40% of the global market. estimated that at least 861 expects half of Myanmar’s communalist policy, deny- may pose a threat to politi- ware supplied by Western is no such equipment in companies. This includes However, there are many women, children and men population of 55 million to ing basic rights to those cal and social stability. companies such as Russia and the develop- the threat of levying fines areas where Chinese com- had been killed since fall into poverty over the designated as “aliens,” such Myth # 1: Russia is Halliburton and ment of 5G networks, in in the form of a percentage panies continue to lag February 1, with thousands coming six months, and the as the near million overcoming dependence Schlumberger simply do fact, has stopped. of the company's global behind Western competi- more injured. About 4,800 World Food Program wor- Rohingya, driven into on Western technology not exist. And even in areas The Russian authorities profits, and the preparation tors, such as data process- people are in detention, ries that 3.5 million more neighbouring Bangladesh. Some analysts believe where the transition is par- are considering the idea of of the so-called "landing ing and storage systems, including politicians, teach- people will face hunger. Mired in this Burmese that Russia intends to fol- tially possible, it will ??introducing a require- law", which obliges tech- servers, algorithms and ers, health care workers, Essential medicines and Buddhist nationalism, Suu low the example of China, require huge costs. Thus, ment that telecommunica- nology companies to open software. Comprehensive civil servants, journalists treatments are reported to Kyi and the NLD defended which plans to become the head of Gazprom, tions equipment must be offices within the country. Chinese solutions are main- and ordinary citizens. be in extremely short sup- the military’s atrocities independent from the West according to some informa- produced only in Russia - Despite a failed attempt to ly borrowed by the coun- Suu Kyi’s lawyers said ply, and during 2021, committed against the in its digital supply chains tion, asked Prime Minister however, local companies block Telegram in mid- tries of Central Asia, Latin she had been charged with 950,000 infants will not Muslim Rohingya. in the next ten years. Mikhail Mishustin to move are not able to organize a 2018, the government has America, Africa, where the illegally importing walkie- receive the vaccines they The military had freed However, it will be much the timeline for the imple- full production cycle. The stepped up its assault on the issue of cost sometimes talkies for her bodyguards’ need for diseases such as Suu Kyi in 2010, after 15 more difficult for Moscow mentation of the import paradox is that the Russian internet and social media, plays a decisive role. use, unlicensed use of the tuberculosis and polio. previous years of detention, to achieve this than Beijing. substitution program: state security bodies trust which is being used to As the Russian authori- radios, and spreading infor- Since the pandemic and staged elections under As competition in security according to his calcula- only technologies created mobilize street protests. ties continue to actively mation that could cause erupted, industries on a constitution that ensured intensifies, Russian and tions, within the country, but The Russian approach to invest in the development public alarm or unrest. which working-class its continued grip on the Chinese leaders increasing- Myth # 2: Russia fully there are no opportunities video surveillance is simi- of security systems and There were also two counts households rely, such as key levers of power. The ly see the dependence on trusts China as a technol- for the development of such lar to the position regarding video surveillance, they of violating the Natural tourism, have collapsed, as Obama administration and American and European ogy partner production so far. semiconductors and other prefer to buy more reliable Disaster Management Law have remittances by its allies oversaw this anti- technology as a major prob- Despite the strengthen- Myth # 3: Russia types of advanced tech- Western equipment. In for allegedly breaking pan- migrant workers overseas, democratic arrangement, lem. (To be fair, the US and ing of ties with China, in Reproduces China's nologies - it is a forced Moscow, the digital infra- demic restrictions during which totalled about $2.4 seeking to coax the gener- some European officials some areas of technology, Digital Authoritarianism dependence on Western and structure for smart video the 2020 election cam- billion in 2019. The gar- als away from links to have similar concerns about Russia still keeps its as a Carbon Copy Chinese suppliers. The pan- surveillance systems is paign. Two more serious ment industry, which Beijing, as part of US technology from China.) Chinese partners at a dis- Russia is actively intro- demic has stimulated the mainly supplied by Cisco, charges against Suu Kyi are employed over a million imperialism’s offensive In practice, it will be tance. Is Moscow ready to ducing approaches to emergence of new video Dell and HP. Likewise, being handled separately. people, many of them against China. As this his- extremely difficult for close its eyes to the fact that Internet governance that are surveillance systems in Moscow's video analytics One is for breaching the young women, has been tory demonstrates, the Russia to refuse supplies Beijing is often accused of very similar to the Chinese, Russia. During the lock- systems, which are the British colonial-era Official devastated as orders from working class can place no from the United States. At stealing intellectual proper- but this similarity has cer- down period, Moscow basis for the Russian digital Secrets Act, which carries a Europe have dried up. faith in Suu Kyi to defend the current level of techno- ty? And how do you assess tain limits. Until recently, street video surveillance control model, depend on maximum 14-year prison Within days of the coup, democratic rights. No less logical development, the the likelihood that China the Russian Internet devel- systems were used to iden- products from Nvidia and term, and another for hundreds of thousands of than the generals, the NLD country is not able to could use backdoors built oped according to the tify violators of the quaran- other US suppliers. In bribery, which has a poten- people poured onto the leaders fear a working-class organize an autonomous into the products it supplies Western model: it was rela- tine regime: fines were China, the Moscow author- tial penalty of 15 years’ streets, demanding an end uprising th-at could threat- production of semiconduc- - especially given tively free and open for automatically imposed on ities buy only a fraction of imprisonment and a fine. to military rule. A civil dis- en capitalist rule. They rep- tor crystals (the most Moscow's growing concern international exchange. citizens for violating the the components for auxil- The proceedings are an obedience movement resent sections of the capi- important component of about the threat of hostile However, after the protest isolation rules. iary systems, such as unin- obvious travesty. Although emerged, with medics leav- talist class in Myanmar, microelectronics). The Western intelligence opera- actions of 2011-2012, the Moreover, the Russian terruptible power supplies Suu Kyi faced her first ing government hospitals, whose profit-making inter- United States and Europe tions? In the past, Moscow authorities began to tighten authorities are using a and hard drives. charge just days after the and quickly spread across ests have been flattened by have a monopoly on has sometimes ignored control over users and facial recognition system to All of this suggests that coup, she was not allowed the public sector. On the military, w-hich con- advanced lithography such risks, but not too Internet platforms. track and arrest protesters. the Russian state is not just her first face-to-face meet- February 22, a general trols substantial se-ctions of equipment and electronic often. For example, users of so- Russian officials reportedly importing the Chinese ing with her lawyers until strike shut down business- the economy, incl-uding design automation tools for In the late 1990s and me messengers and social maintain a database of model of digital authoritari- May 24, when she made es, including banks. mining operations. semiconductor fabrication. early 2000s, the Russian networks began to be for- opposition-minded activists anism and related technolo- her initial appearance in The army cracked down Myanmar is the world’s Russian companies, government periodically ced to register under their and notify the police when gies. It builds and debugs court for a pre-trial hearing. ruthlessly. During the last third-largest source of including JSC "MCST" ignored the fact that China real names, and individual any of them is in the vicini- its own version, using both She had only another brief week of February, elite strategic mined rare earths. (formerly the Moscow violated intellectual proper- citizens were prosecuted ty of protests. Many of Chinese and Western prod- meeting with them before infantry divisions, includ- This not only provides the Center for SPARC ty rights in the field of for posts on social net- these developments are ucts, based on its needs and the trial started on Monday. ing units responsible for the regime with revenue but Technologies), cannot start Russian innovative military works. To monitor the very similar to those in current circumstances. Representatives of the ethnic cleansing of the heightens Myanmar’s ousted government, which Rohingya ethnic minority, strategic value for the US was a partnership between began moving into cities, and its allies in their con- the NLD and the military, firing on people in residen- flict with China, which bor- Sri Lankan govt lifts fuel price, deepening are agitating for interven- tial neighborhoods, break- ders Myanmar to the north tion by the imperialist pow- ing down doors and hauling and east. Any imperialist ers. Myanmar’s ambassa- people away intervention will seek to social assault on workers and the poor dor to the UN, who has Nevertheless, protests pursue that confrontation, continued to be recognised persisted. Young men and not defend the masses of (Continued from Page 6) organise a $400 million six months and said they 143 years’ of existence. ment of the international by that body, despite being women erected makeshift Myanmar. That is why, swap with India in order should direct their employ- LOLC, a major finance working class, President fired after the coup, has barricades and wielded rather than looking to the catastrophic for the cash- to avoid foreign debt ees to keep working despite company, made a 53 bil- Rajapakse used the dra- called for “effective collec- shields to defend them- NLD’s “national unity gov- strapped government and default. COVID-19 travel restric- lion rupees after tax prof- conian essential services tive measures” against the selves. On March 14 alone, ernment” or pleading for the national economy. Last While the Rajapakse tions. The trade unions it, the highest ever record- act on May 27 and June 2 junta, ahead of expected dozens were killed in Washington’s help, year, the Sri Lankan econo- government is determined have endorsed these direc- ed by any Sri Lankan to ban state sector strikes UN Security Council talks Yangon’s industrial suburb Myanmar workers need to my contracted by 3.6 per- to place this financial bur- tives and continue to hold company, while Hemas and industrial action. Last on the crisis. of Hlaingthaya. On March appeal to the international cent with declining exports, den on the masses by push- discussions with the gov- reported a 3.3 billion Friday, more than 50,000 These appeals under- 27, over 100 died as the working class for support, tourism and remittance ing up fuel costs and the ernment on how to keep rupees net profit. health workers defied score the fact that the orien- army opened fire on crowds and turn to the International payments. price of essentials, it industry operating. While the corporate elite these authoritarian meas- tation of the NLD and its across Myanmar. Amid the Committee of the Fourth This week, Fitch Rating demands export sector Big businesses in Sri is accumulating record for- ures, holding a five-hour alternative “national unity resistance, some protesters International for assistance revealed that the govern- employees, particularly in Lanka, with the blessing tunes, recent months have walkout over jobs and government” in exile, is not raised signs calling for to build the revolutionary ment will have to pay a the garment industry, keep of the government and the seen a wave of strikes and demands for improved to the youth and workers, “R2P,” referring to socialist party. staggering $US29 billion working despite the ongo- unions, have reaped protests by key sections of COVID-19 safety meas- on loans between now and ing surge of COVID-19 record profits during the the working class, includ- ures. The government’s 2026. Having concluded a infections. At the same pandemic. The Hayleys ing among state sector, fuel price hike and other Important Notice financial swapping agree- time, the labour ministry conglomerate generated plantation, garment, rail- attacks on the masses are The Frontier Post will not be responsible for the comments in the articles ment with Bangladesh for last month announced that 242 billion rupees in rev- way and port and port staff. further deepening class and letters. The Frontier Post requests the writers of articles and letters $200 million earlier this employers can postpone enue last year and a 14 bil- Nervous about these tensions and creating the to please make sure that they write their email addresses and mention month, the Central Bank their payments of workers’ lion-rupee net profit, the growing struggles, which conditions in Sri Lanka for the names of the cities, towns, districts or tehsil of their is now attempting to pension funds for another highest in the company’s are part of a rising move- a social explosion. residences at the bottom of their articles and letters. The Frontier Post Saturday, June 19, 2021 Islamabad, Kabul urged to make joint efforts for removal of hurdles to mutual trade F.P. Report Industry (SCCI) president of Afghan traders with communities on both sides Sherbaz Bilour held here at Securities and Exchange of the border. PESHAWAR: Traders from the chamber house on Commission of Pakistan Sherbaz Bilour noted Pakistan and Afghanistan Friday. (SECP) in order to con- that there is huge potential have urged Islamabad and The meeting was attend- tribute their share in to further strengthen mutual Kabul to set aside the polit- ed by Afghan Commercial improving the Pakistan’s trade relations between ical differences and make Attache in Peshawar, economy and business ties. Pakistan and Afghanistan. joint efforts to give boost to Fawad Arash, SCCI senior The meeting hailed However, he emphasized bilateral and transit trade vice president Engineer Pakistan’s customs authori- that the both countries between the two neighbour- Manzoor Elahi, former ties for reduction in the should set aside political ing countries. SVP Shahid Hussain, for- number of duties, urging differences and make joint The participants urged mer vice president the Afghan government to efforts to bolster bilateral the government of Pakistan Abidullah Yousafzai, Sadar bring further reduction on trade by resolving traders’ to devise a separate policy Gul, senior member Ejaz Pakistani importing items issues amicably. He added or mechanism for Afghan Ali Shah, Khyber chamber to Afghanistan. the steps can bring econom- traders’ to pave the way to president Syed Jawad Fawad Arash said his ic stability, peace and pros- ISLAMABAD: Minister for Industries & Production Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar in a meeting with his get them registered with Hussain Kazmi, along with country is keen to bolster perity in the whole region. counterpart Gado Sabo Muctar Minister for Industries & Commerce Republic of Niger. Securities and Exchange Pak-Afgahn traders, bilateral and transit trade Sherbaz Bilour assured Commission of Pakistan importers and exporters in a with Pakistan. In this the meeting that the SCCI (SECP) and other authori- large number. regard, he added the Afghan will take up issues of ties so they will contribute Participants of the meet- government has taken prag- Afghan traders with rele- Rupee sheds their share in Pakistan’s ing discussed the problems matic steps and resolved vant authorities in a suffi- SAARC CCI lauded economy. and irritants being faced by issues of traders’ communi- cient manner. 15 paisas They also attributed the traders on both sides of the ty on priority basis. Earlier, the chamber’s strict regulations, compli- border, which have caused The diplomat said that former SVP, Shahid against cated laws and cumber- hampering bilateral trade the promotion of Pak- Hussain briefed the partici- govt for approving some procedures as main between the two neigbour- Afghan trade and economic pants about progress of US dollar hurdles in bolstering Pak- ing countries. relations is essential for trade between Pakistan and ISLAMABAD (APP): The Afghan mutual trade and They urged the chamber bringing economic prosper- Afghanistan through Khar- exchange rate of Pakistan transit trade. to take up issues with ity and development in the lachi, Ghulam Khan and rupee weakened by 15 fund for HQs The Pak-Afghan traders Pakistani authorities, espe- whole region. Therefore, he Torkham trade routes as paisas against the US dollar were addressed during a cially to play a role in mentioned that Kabul is well as apprised regarding in the interbank trading on ISLAMABAD (APP): Ali, Vice President, cant amount for enhancing meeting chaired by Sarhad devising seperate policy or taking serious steps to problems of the traders at Friday and closed at SAARC Chamber of Com- SAARC CCI also deliber- Pakistan’s prestige in Chamber of Commerce and mechanism for registration resolve issues of traders’ the both side of the border. Rs156.89 as compared to merce and Industry on ated on the building of the SAARC countries and the previous day’s closing Friday lauded the govern- SAARC Chamber Headqu- building SAARC head- of Rs156.74. ment for approving Rs100 arters, relations with quarters in Pakistan. According to Forex million funds for the com- SAARC countries and pro- Haji Ghulam Ali further Association of Pakistan pletion of construction motion of bilateral trade. added that the government PSX announces launch of 90-days (FAP), the buying and sell- work of SAARC CCI Haji Ghulam Ali appre- of Pakistan and the busi- ing rates of dollar in the Headquarter in Islamabad. ciated the move to approve ness community have open market were recorded In this regard a meeting the release of fund of Rs always strived to make new Futures Eligibility Criteria at Rs 156.5 and Rs 157.4 of SAARC CCI held for 100 million for the comple- mutual efforts to enhance respectively. consultations on better uti- tion of the SAARC Cham- ties and relations with KARACHI (APP): In a the Commission shall not expiry) at the start of each gibility criteria. This is Similarly, the price of lization of government ber Headquarters and also SAARC countries. major move forward, Pak- be eligible. All eligible co- contract month. expected to increase vol- euro was depreciated by 31 approved funds and early discussed the early inaugu- He said that while the istan Stock Exchange (PSX) mpanies and ETFs shall be In addition to this, it will umes and liquidity, and paisas and closed at opening of SAARC Cham- ration of the building. COVID-19 epidemic has introduced a new futures eligible for trade on Deli- also eliminate the need for hence improve the depth of Rs186.99 against the last ber of Commerce and Indu- The meeting lauded the affected the entire world, it eligibility criteria and com- verable Futures and Cash a mandatory one week roll- the market”. day’s trading of Rs187.30, stry Headquarter, which efforts of Abdul Razak also created a gap between municated the launch of the Settled Futures Markets. over period as investors can PSX is continuously the State Bank of Pakistan would be honoured for Dawood, Advisor to Prime Pakistan and SAARC 90-day maturity Deliverable The new criteria along roll-over their existing striving to introduce better reported. whole business community Minister on Commerce, countries, he said adding Futures Contracts (DFC) with eligible futures list is positions any time before and enhanced products for The Japanese Yen of the country. Secretary Commerce and that the business communi- with effect from DFC notified by PSX through expiry, depending upon the its stakeholders and market gained one paisa to close at The meeting, which was other concerned officials ty will need to work hard to August 2021 which shall notice no. PSX/N-740 liquidity, hence, alleviating participants. PSX aspires to Rs1.42, whereas a decrease chaired by Haji Ghulam for approving the signifi- fill this gap. start from July 26. It was dated June 17, 2021 the roll-over week pressure increase its product offer- of Rs 1.27 was witnessed in revealed in the statement On the launch of 90-day to some extent. The new ings and introduce more the exchange rate of British issued here on Friday. DFC regime and new selection parameters are innovative products in the Pound, which was traded at As per the new criteria, futures eligibility criteria, dynamic and can adopt to future. With the launch of Rs217.79 as compared to there shall be no segrega- the MD PSX, Farrukh H. any market situation. More the 90 day DFC and the its last closing of Rs219.06. Domestic production of tion of A, B categorization, Khan said “Launch of the companies are now eligible new futures eligibility crite- The exchange rates of stocks shall be selected international standard 90 to trade on the futures ria, PSX Future Contract Emirates Dirham and Saudi based on such quantitative day DFC is a positive deve- counter. Based on the offerings are now in line Riyal increased by 05 vegetable ghee decreased factors that measure real lopment for the Stock Exc- recent notified list, 84 com- with international market paisas each to close at liquidity. Exchange Traded hange and for all stakehold- panies and 1 ETF are offerings. Rs42.71 and Rs41.83 ISLAMABAD (APP): at 120,645 tons in same July-April 2020-21 as com- Funds (ETF) shall also be ers of the capital market. futures eligible”. This move is part of the respectively. Domestic production of month of last year, it added. pared to July-April 2019- eligible if certain condi- Ninty day DFC shall He further stated, “We efforts of PSX to enhance vegetable ghee during last Meanwhile, during the 20. tions are met. However, open each month such that appreciate the cooperation liquidity in the Futures 10 months of current finan- period from July-April, The provisional quan- such companies that have the market shall have three extended to us by the SECP market, with more options cial year decreased by 2.79 2020-21 about 371, 461 tum indices of Large Scale obtained stay order from different maturities (current in this regard whereby it available for investors in Gold prices percent, where as cooking tons of cooking oil pro- Manufacturing Industries court against any inquiry/ month expiry, next month approved the 90-day DFC terms of securities and con- oil increased by 0.21 per- duced in order to meet the (LSMI) for April 2021 with investigation initiated by expiry and last month regime and new futures eli- tracts of multiple expiries. increase cent as compared the corre- local consumption as agai- base year 2005-06 have sponding period of last year. nst the output of 370,676 been developed on the basis Rs600 traded During the period from tons of corresponding peri- of latest data supplied by July-April, 2020-21, about od of last year, it added. the source agencies. at Rs108,300 1.187 million tons of veg- On month-on-month The LSMI output incr- Bank of Japan announces first ISLAMABAD (APP): The etable ghee locally manu- basis, local output of cook- eased by 68.07 percent for price of 24 karat per tola factured as compared the ing oil grew by 3.04 per- April, 2021 as compared to gold witnessed an increase 1.222 million tons of same cent in April, 2021 as com- the output of April, 2020 green investment fund of Rs 600 on Friday and it period of last year, accord- pared to the corresponding and decreased by 6.99 per- was traded at Rs108,300 ing the provisional Quan- month of last year as cent if compared to March TOKYO (AFP/APP): nesses were also extended high,” he added. data showed Japan’s con- against its sale at Rs107,700, tum Index Numbers of 40,639 tons of above men- 2021, the data reveled. Japan’s central bank on by six months to the end of Japan’s vaccine rollout sumer prices rose slightly Karachi Sarafa and Large Scale Manufacturing tioned commodity produc- The production in July- Friday announced its first March 2022, a day after the started comparatively slow- in May for the first time in Jewellers Group reported. Industries released by Pak- ed as compared the produc- April 2020-21 as compared investment fund for efforts government approved lift- ly, but has picked up pace 14 months, largely because The price of 10 gram 24 istan Bureau of Statistics. tion of 39,440 tons of same to July-April 2019-20 has to address climate change, ing a virus state of emer- in recent weeks. Just over of a rebound in energy karat also increased by Rs On month-on-month period of last year, it said. increased in textile, food, as the government works gency in nine prefectures six percent of the popula- prices. 515 and was traded at Rs basis, local manufacturing It is worth mentioning beverages & tobacco, coke, towards its new target of including Tokyo. tion is currently fully vacci- Japan has long struggled 92,850 against its sale at Rs of vegetable ghee grew by here that overall output of petroleum products, phar- reaching carbon neutrality Slightly looser “quasi- nated. to hit a two percent infla- 92,335 whereas the prices 1.52 percent as 122,476 Large Scale Manufacturing maceuticals, chemicals, non by 2050. emergency” restrictions The Bank of Japan left tion target seen as key to of ten gram 22 Karat gold tons of vegetable ghee pro- Industries (LSMI) was metallic mineral products, The scheme, likely to will be set in the capital and its monetary easing policy kickstarting the world’s rose to Rs85,112 from duced locally in April, increased by 12.84 percent automobiles, iron, steel start this year, will be a suc- six other areas until July 11, unchanged, reiterating that third-largest economy, Rs84,640. 2021, which was recorded during the period from products and fertilizers. cessor to an existing pro- less than two weeks before it “will closely monitor the despite a barrage of stimu- The price of per tola sil- gramme aimed at promot- the postponed Tokyo impact of Covid-19 and lus and monetary easing ver decreased by Rs20 and ing economic growth more Olympics begin. will not hesitate to take packages. was traded at Rs1430 generally, the Bank of The extension of busi- additional easing measures Yoshiki Shinke, chief against its sale at Rs1450 Shipping activity at PQ Japan said after a two-day ness support had been if necessary”. economist at Dai-ichi Life whereas that of ten gram policy meeting. widely expected, said But Haruhiko Kuroda, Research Institute, said silver also decreased by Rs KARACHI (APP): Four Soya bean and Palm oil, out at the Port. “Climate change issues Naoya Oshikubo, senior the central bank’s governor, “the BoJ is not in a position 17.14 and was traded at ships, Sunbird Arrow, Aris- of them, two ships, There are Sixteen ships could exert an extremely economist at SuMi TRUST. sounded a note of optimism to taper its easing policy” Rs1226 against its sale at tomenis, Jeeppesen Merask Container vessel ‘Jeeppesen are currently at Outer large impact on develop- “Many companies are as vaccinations speed up. as demand in the service Rs1243.14. and Jasco Zhang Zgou Merask’ and Bulk cargo car- Anchorage of Port Qasim ments in economic activity continuing to suffer finan- “Vaccinations are rapid- sector is still weak owing to The price of gold in scheduled to load/offload, rier ‘Darya Sati’ sailed out and waiting for berths, out of and prices as well as finan- cially from the Covid-19 ly advancing,” he told the pandemic. international market wit- Bitumen, Containers and to sea on Friday morning, them six ships, Meratus cial conditions from a state of emergency in a reporters on Friday after- Prime Minister nessed decrease of US $ 6 Coal were allotted berths at and three more ships, con- Jayawijaya, Xpress Euph- medium- to long-term per- number of Japanese prefec- noon. Yoshihide Suga in October and was sold at US $1792 Multi-Purpose Terminal, tainer vessel Aristomenis, rates, BBC Diamond, Unity spective,” its policy state- tures, as well as from the “With vaccinations set a 2050 deadline for against its sale at US $1798. Container Terminal and oil tanker PS Milano and Spirit, Sea Helios and Maran ment said. country’s low vaccination advancing at this rate, I Japan to become carbon Bulk Terminal respectively edible carrier Horizon are Gas Tory carrying Conta- “The bank considers that rates,” said Oshikubo ahead think there is a possibility neutral, significantly firm- on Thursday. expected to sail from QICT, iners, Project cargo, Coal, supporting the private sec- of the policy decision. that face-to-face service ing up the country’s cli- Meanwhile three more FOTCO and LCT on same Mogas and Natural gas are tor’s efforts on the issues “The extended financial consumption will recover mate-change commitments. UK retail ships, Xpree Euphrates, day Friday in the afternoon. expected take berths at from a central bank’s stand- support package will be faster than we previously The nation has struggled BBC Diamond and Ashley Cargo throughput during QICT, MW-2, PIBT, FOT- point will contribute to sta- very effective in helping expected. As a whole, I to cut carbon emissions sales dip Lady carrying Containers, last 24 hours stood at CO and PGPCL on Friday, bilising the macro-econo- hard-pressed small and think we are heading to a after shutting down reactors Project cargo and Gas oil 172,864 tonnes, comprising while a container vessel, my in the long run.” medium-sized businesses brighter outlook than in response to the 2011 in May also arrived at outer ancho- 105,747 tonnes imports ‘CMA CGM Rigoletto’ is Financial support meas- in Japan as demand for before.” meltdown at the Fukushima LONDON (AFP/APP): rage of Port Qasim during cargo and 67,117 tonnes due to arrive at Port Qasim ures for pandemic-hit busi- business support loans is Earlier Friday, official nuclear power plant. British retail sales fell last last 24 hours. export cargo, inclusive of on same day, and another month, with food hit as A total of eight ships containerized cargo carried vessel ‘Teera Bhum’ is due people returned to bars and were engaged at PQA berths in 3,980 Containers (2,261 to arrive on Saturday, and restaurants on easing lock- to load/offload Containers, TEUs imports and 1,719 Lotus-A and Bea Schulte are down curbs, official data Condensate, Bitumen, Coal, TEUs export), was handled due to arrive on Sunday. Markets mixed as Fed rate showed Friday. Sales by volume declined 1.4 percent in forecasts ease inflation fears May from April, snapping Tokyo stocks close lower three months of gains, the HONG KONG (AFP/ surge in buying spurred by soon as 2022. economic growth is Office for National TOKYO (AFP/APP): Tokyo monetary policy as expect- monthly rise in the past 14 APP): Equity markets were pent-up demand for goods While higher borrowing improving and inflation is Statistics (ONS) said in a stocks closed lower on ed, but a majority of central months, according to data mixed Friday but investors would combine with supply costs make investing more accelerating; historically statement. Friday after a day of see-saw bank officials now believe published by the internal remain broadly optimistic constraints and bottlenecks costly, markets took the both of those are positive Retailers had enjoyed a trading as investors locked interest rates will increase affairs ministry before the as concerns about runaway to send prices rocketing. prospect of a hike largely for areas like the Nasdaq, 9.2-percent bounce in April in profits. The benchmark in 2023, rather than 2024. opening bell. inflation and an overheat- That, in turn, had raised in their stride, and Wall tech stocks and even small as the UK economy began Nikkei 225 index was down Several policymakers pro- In Tokyo share trading, ing economy were soothed concerns central banks Street ended Thursday caps,” Dave Mazza, of to crank back into action. 0.19 percent or 54.25 points jected interest rate hikes as automakers were lower this week after Federal would either have to tighten mixed. Direxion, said. “The largest contribu- to end at 28,964.08, while soon as 2022. with Toyota plunging 3.88 Reserve officials brought their ultra-loose monetary Asia mostly rose in the “Once we peel the onion tion to the monthly decline the broader Topix index fell A day later, Wall Street percent to 9,833 yen, forward their forecasts for policies earlier than flagged morning but struggled to a bit, what we are seeing in in May 2021 came from 0.87 percent or 17.01 points equity investors gravitated Honda losing 2.07 percent hiking interest rates. or would move too slowly hold gains as the day wore the data, all of this is gener- food stores where sales vol- to 1,946.56. towards tech giants and to 3,535 yen and Nissan With the post-pandemic and let inflation run out of on. ally positive for the econo- umes fell by 5.7 percent,” “The Nikkei index shunned financial and ener- dropping 2.98 percent to recovery well under way in control, forcing them to Hong Kong, Sydney, my.” the ONS noted. opened higher after US tech gy shares, reversing a trend 545.3 yen. most countries as vaccines hike rates at a sharper, Singapore, Seoul and The prospect of higher “Anecdotal evidence shares gained on the back that has held for most of Uniqlo operator Fast roll out and containment quicker pace. Wellington edged up, while rates also sent the green- suggests the easing of hos- of drops in long-term inter- 2021. In Tokyo, the Retailing advanced 0.74 measures are eased, the After Wednesday’s Fed Shanghai was barely back rallying across the pitality restrictions had had ests,” said Okasan Online Japanese central bank left percent to 82,470 yen while general mood across trad- meeting, officials’ “dot moved. Tokyo, Taipei, board and it maintained its an impact on sales as peo- Securities. “But the Nikkei its monetary easing policy SoftBank Group slid 0.79 ing floors is positive and plot” forecast for rates Manila and Mumbai were strength Friday in Asia. ple returned to eating and later struggled to grow as unchanged, while announc- percent to 7,834 yen. observers are predicting showed they were now slightly lower. But that, in turn, has drinking at locations such buying of major shares and ing its first investment fund Drugmaker Eisai, which equities will continue the more likely to lift in 2023 - London and Frankfurt weighed on dollar-priced as restaurants and bars.” selling of business-sensi- for efforts to address cli- announced it had agreed rally that started in April - a year earlier than first dipped in early trade, while commodities, with oil tak- Overall sales in April tive stocks were competing mate change. with Bristol Myers Squibb 2020. suggested -- soothing wor- Paris was flat. ing a hit over the past two and May were however 9.1 with each other,” it added. Japan’s core consumer to jointly develop and mar- The blockbuster growth ries about runaway prices, Positive outlook days while metals have percent higher than pre- The US Federal Reserve prices, which exclude fresh ket an experimental cancer enjoyed this year has been for now. Some policymak- “What we are seeing tumbled from recent record pandemic level in February on Wednesday maintained food, edged up 0.1 percent drug, jumped 5.92 percent tempered by worries that a ers had projected lift-off as here is an interpretation that or multi-month highs. 2020. its highly accommodative in May on-year, the first to 12,075 yen. 09 The Frontier Post Saturday, June 19, 2021

In brief Sweden beats Verstappen leads Rain washes out first day of final Slovakia 2nd practice SOUTHAMPTON (Agencies): Heavy rain in Southampton at French washed out the open- 1-0, closes in ing day of the world test championship final GP, Bottas 2nd between India and New Zealand on on last 16 LE CASTELLET (Agencies): Formula One champi- Friday. Umpires called onship leader Max Verstappen led the second practice off the day’s play at ST PETERSBURG (Agencies): Emil Forsberg scored session for the French Grand Prix on Friday. 2:45 p.m. local time at Sweden's first goal of the Euro 2020 from the penalty The Red Bull driver placed narrowly ahead of Valtteri the Rose Bowl on spot as they edged out Slovakia 1-0 to boost their qualifi- Bottas and his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton at the England’s south coast cation hopes from Group E on Friday. Paul Ricard circuit in southern France. as persistent rain pro- In a game which was short of clear-cut chances, After damaging a part of his front wing early in the vided no respite. A Slovakia goalkeeper Martin Dubravka conceded a penal- afternoon session, Verstappen found the pace to finish reserve day is available ty in the second half when he tripped up Robin Quaison only .008 ahead of Bottas and .253 clear of Hamilton, the if needed with an extra and RB Leipzig winger Forsberg made no mistake in defending F1 champion. Two-time F1 champion Fernando half-hour of play to be beating him from the spot. Sweden top the group with Alonso was an impressive fourth for the French-owned added over the next four points from two games, one ahead of Slovakia. Spain Alpine team, which was formerly Renault, while Charles four days. However, (one point) play bottom side Poland on Saturday while Leclerc finished fifth for Ferrari. The top three were the the forecast is for more the final round of fixtures -- Sweden v Poland and same for both sessions, but in a different order. rain on Saturday. If the Slovakia v Spain -- will be played on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Bottas overcame a poor start to top outcome is a draw, the Both teams threatened to score from set pieces early in P1 from Hamilton and Verstappen. This came after trophy will be shared. the first half but Slovakia's Juraj Kucka and Sweden's some early trouble, when Bottas bounced over kerbs India has already Mikael Lustig saw their headers sail over the bar. and appeared to damage the front wing on his car. But named spinners Sweden were compact at the back, as they were he recovered to post the best lap of 1 minute, 33.45 sec- Ravindra Jadeja and against Spain in their goalless opener, and it was cen- onds, putting him .335 ahead of Hamilton and .432 Ravichandran Ashwin tre back Victor Lindelof who was initiating their clear of Verstappen. Soon after Bottas had his mishap, in a five-man bowling attacks with his distribution from a high defensive line, four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel lost control of attack while the which was at times camped in Slovakia's half. Slovakia the rear of his Aston Martin and slid backward off the inclement weather switched to a five-man defence when they were out of track into the crash barriers. might encourage New possession, frustrating the Swedes who were unable to Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. slid off late in the session, just Zealand to go for an string passes in the final third while Slovakia's defence as Verstappen lost top spot on the leaderboard, while three all-out seam attack. easily won the aerial duels. other drivers also had trouble with grip and went off track. Slovakia eventually made inroads into the final third There is a third practice on Saturday ahead of qualifying. Luvo banned towards the end of the first half as Sweden retreated but Verstappen leads the championship by four points ahead they lacked the creativity to make the final pass count and of Hamilton after six races of an exciting season so far. for 4 years the first 45 minutes ended with neither goalkeeper tested. Verstappen could have both extended and lost his MONACO Isak Runs The Show lead at the action-packed Azerbaijan GP two weeks ago. (Agencies): Olympic Sweden started the second half on the front foot, with He was leading with Hamilton third when his tire blew long jump silver Alexander Isak and Forsberg having shots blocked in the near the end and he scored no points. That should have medalist Luvo first two minutes. At the other end, Ondrej Duda found gifted Hamilton a sizeable points advantage. Manyonga was banned space to pull the trigger at the edge of the box but saw his But when the race resumed with a two-lap sprint, the for four years on shot fly inches over the crossbar. seven-time F1 champion inexplicably locked his brakes. Friday over missed Sweden's Ludwig Augustinsson brought the crowd to Hamilton missed the first turn trying to overtake Red doping tests and will life at the hour mark when he directed a powerful head- Bull’s Sergio Perez and went straight ahead, dropping miss the next two er on target but he was denied by a fine reflex save from from second place to 15th and scoring no points. Summer Games. Track Dubravka, who tipped it over the bar. Isak turned things Red Bull have blamed Pirelli for the tire failure. and field’s Athletics up a notch, leaping high to win a header which drifted “We just hope we won’t see any incidents again like Integrity Unit said agonisingly over before his nifty footwork allowed him we saw in Azerbaijan,” team principal Christian Manyonga had three to make solo run from his own half past three defenders ST PETERSBURG Sweden's Mikael Lustig heads while goalkeeper Horner said Friday. Hamilton has disagreed with Red violations of so-called to curl an effort that was parried away by Dubravka. Martin Dubravka of Slovakia stands by. Bull’s view, saying the Italian tire manufacturer was whereabouts rules in a not at fault on this occasion. one-year period. The South African missed one doping test in 2019 and had two failures in Emotional Neymar counts down 2020 to file details where he could be found to give samples. to Pelé’s record for Brazil The 2017 world cham- pion’s four-year ban Official statistics from me because I went through him play ball. Today he closer to the goal and more runs into December FIFA, soccer’s international a lot of things over these gave another step toward protection. “That’s where 2024, including the governing body, put Pelé in last two years, difficult and my record of goals for the the adversaries fear press- Tokyo Olympics next No. 1 spot for Brazil with complicated things. These Selecao. And I am cheering ing him harder, they could month and the 2024 77 goals. Neymar has 68 numbers are nothing com- for him to get there, with the give a foul in an important Paris Olympics. The after he netted the Seleção’s pared to the happiness I same joy I have since I saw place,” Tite said. “We usual two-year ban for second against Peru. have playing for Brazil.” him play for the first time,” structured our team so he whereabouts violations “It is obvious for me Neymar has had several 80-year-old Pelé said. can ... (be) more efficient to was doubled because it that this is a great honor, to injuries, lost a Champions Brazil coach Tite doesn’t create.” Under FIFA’s crite- was the 30-year-old be a part of Brazil histo- League final with Paris want to compare the super ria, Pelé got his record after Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands Manyonga’s second ry,” a tearful Neymar said Saint-Germain in 2020, and star players, but he does say 92 matches, while Neymar steers his car during the first free practice. doping case. He tested SAO PAULO (Agencies): in an interview full of had to deal with a sexual the 29-year-old Neymar is has already played 107. positive for metham- Neymar might not win squeaky tones and long assault allegation that was extraordinary. “He has a The Brazilian soccer phetamine and was three World Cups in his pauses after Brazil’s victo- later proved false. Pelé, really personal thing, he confederation’s official banned in 2012 for 18 career like Pelé did, but he ry at the Nilton Santos sta- who has followed developed his skills to give scoring tally — which months. The published is closing in as the top goal dium in Rio de Janeiro. Neymar’s career since the assists, his right foot, his includes some non-interna- Pakistan javelin- verdict in Manyonga’s scorer ever for Brazil’s “To be very honest, my younger man’s first appear- left foot. He became unpre- tional games against clubs latest disciplinary case national team. dream was to play for ances at Santos, published a dictable,” Tite said after the and differs from the FIFA said the athlete and his He reduced the gap to Brazil, wear this shirt. I picture of the pair on 3-0 win against Venezuela statistics — puts Neymar thrower sharpens lawyer did not respond nine after his Brazil’s 4-0 never imagined I would Instagram. last Sunday. 28 goals behind the man to requests to take part win over Peru on Thursday get to these numbers. “I, like all Brazilians, am Tite is working on a sys- who Brazilians call the in a hearing last month. in the Copa America. “It is very emotional to always happy when I see tem to give Neymar space king of soccer. hopes of rare Manyonga took silver at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Olympic medal won the world title one LAHORE (Monitoring Desk): Arshad Nadeem once year later in London Top medical dreamed of becoming a star cricketer, but after switching with a leap of 8.48 to athletics he has the opportunity to grab Pakistan’s first meters. He placed individual Olympic medal in more than 30 years. fourth defending his adviser says “Right now there is a chance for me,” Nadeem told title in 2019 in Doha, AFP as he prepared for next month’s Covid-delayed Qatar. Tokyo Games. “If I throw my best then, God willing, I ‘no fans’ safest for will win a medal.” Since its first Olympics in London in Louis completes 1948, Pakistan have won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals in field hockey. first round Tokyo Olympics The bronzes won by wrestler Mohammad Bashir in SAN DIEGO TOKYO (Agencies): The safest way to hold the Tokyo Rome in 1960 and boxer Hussain Shah in Seoul in 1988 (Agencies): South Olympics is without any fans, the top medical adviser to are Pakistan’s only individual Olympic medals. African Louis the Japanese government said in a report on Friday. But ahead of next month’s games, Nadeem has the Oosthuizen returned to Dr. Shigeru Omi’s recommendation seems to put him world’s sixth-best javelin throw of the year — a personal Torrey Pines early on at odds with organizers and the International Olympic best 86.38 metres achieved in April in Iran, where he was Friday to put the finish- Committee with the Olympics opening in just five weeks forced to travel in order to seek top-flight competition. ing touches on his first on July 23. Fans from abroad were banned several The strapping 24-year-old, who ditched cricket for athlet- round with a pair of pars months ago, and organizers are to announce early next ics as a teenager, will face tougher opponents in Tokyo, but that left him in a two- week if some local fans should be allowed. he said he won’t be fazed. “I don’t look at any of the other way share of the U.S. “We believe the risks of infections inside venues javelin throwers… I don’t focus on them,” he said after a Open lead with Russell would be lowest by holding the event with no fans,” said BERLIN: WTA Tour, Singles, Quarterfinals Muguruza (Spain) - Cornet training session in Lahore. “I focus on myself and how I Henley. After early- the report, which was compiled by a group of 26 experts (France) at Steffi Graf Stadium. Garbine Muguruza plays a backhand. throw and I try my best — and that is how God honours me.” morning fog on led by Omi, a former World Health Organization official. Family first Thursday caused a 90- It was submitted to the government and Olympic officials Nadeem already has a taste for gold, having stood atop minute delay to the start Widely circulated reports say the government wants to the podium at last year’s South Asian Games in Nepal. of play at the year's allow up to 10,000 people at some sports and cultural He took bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games penultimate major, events. This policy is expected to be applied to the Ireland cricket great behind gold-winner Neeraj Chopra of India, the farmer’s Oosthuizen was among Olympics with smaller ceilings at smaller venues, and son who has thrown the third-longest distance this year. the 36 players who were differences for indoor and outdoor venues. It hasn’t been an easy path for the 1.87 metre-tall (six still on the course and “We believe it would be most desirable not to have O'Brien retires from ODIs feet two inches) Nadeem, who comes from a village in a unable to complete the fans inside venues,” Omi told a news conference on wheat and cotton-producing area of Punjab. round before play was Friday after submitting the written report. “Regardless of DUBLIN (Agencies): Kevin Cups, including the 2007 sixes, before falling in the With sons and daughters put to work early, he had lit- halted due to darkness. holding the Olympics or not, Japan has continuing risks O'Brien, the Ireland all- event in the Caribbean, the penultimate over with 11 tle time for his first love, cricket, and facilities and prop- The former British Open of a resurgence of the infections that puts pressure on the rounder whose record-break- moment when Ireland truly runs still needed. However, er training were scarce. Despite the difficulties, Nadeem champion, who began medical systems.” Omi said that putting fans in the ven- ing hundred stunned England made their mark on interna- John Mooney kept his cool shone as an all-rounder. “I was good,” he said. his round on the back ues increased the risk — and not only there but afterward at the 2011 World Cup, has tional cricket. to seal the chase, with “There was a chance for me to be part of the national nine, showed no ill as people exit. He said the Olympics easily get more announced his retirement Their historic victory over Johnston again unbeaten at team, but conditions were such that I couldn’t do it.” On effects of the interrup- attention from the public than other sporting events and from the 50-over format. Pakistan at Sabina Park sent the other end. the advice of a brother, Nadeem turned to athletics — tion as he found the are likely to trigger more movements and more partying. O'Brien, 37, will carry shockwaves through the "That innings alone proba- which took less time than days-long cricket matches — green with his tee shot at Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the local organizing on playing at Test and T20I sport, and O'Brien played an bly gave many of us the trying his hand at a variety of events. the par-three eighth committee, said that the final decision on fans was likely level, but has chosen to integral role in Ireland's tense opportunity to become pro- “There was shot put, javelin, discus, hammer, long where he two-putted to be made Monday in a meeting with organizers, the bow out of the format in run-chase, digging in from an fessional cricketers in jump, high jump and triple jump,” he said. “I even ran in from 34 feet. At his final IOC, the Tokyo metropolitan government, the Japanese which he made his debut unbeaten 16 from 52 balls to Ireland," Andrew Balbirnie, the 100 metres, 200 metres and relay — and thankfully I hole, Oosthuizen avoid- government, and the International Paralympic against England as a 22- guard against a collapse Irleland's captain, said. "I won about seven to nine events at divisional level.” ed the thick rough that Committee. Hashimoto said if Tokyo decides to allow year-old in 2006, in before the captain Trent think everyone within Irish Nadeem’s big break came in 2015 when he was taken on lines the narrow fairway fans, the rules will have to be much stricter than for half- Ireland's first full ODI. He Johnston struck the winning cricket owes a huge amount by Pakistan’s water and power board, a government of the par-five ninth filled stadiums in Japan for baseball or soccer. She also went on to make 3618 runs six to seal a three-wicket win. to Kevin O'Brien for what authority with a modest budget for nurturing sports talent. before rolling in a five- said organizers would have to be ready to suddenly ban from 153 ODIs, and claim However, it was four he's done for the sport in this There he was taken under the wing of coach Fayaz foot par putt. local fans if conditions change. 114 wickets, the most by years later at the 2011 event country. "We're losing a big Hussain Bukhari. “He threw well so we gave him a job,” Oosthuizen's opening “Dr. Omi has indicated that ideally the best way is to any Ireland bowler. His 68 in India that O'Brien played personality in the ODI squad, said Bukhari, who has been Nadeem’s coach ever since. four-under-par 67 left hold the games without spectators — that was his recom- outfield catches is another the innings for which he will and a really good friend, but ‘Good learner’ him level withAmerican mendation,” Hashimoto said. “But if we are to hold the national record, while he forever be remembered - a this is not the end of Kevin Still, sacrifices had to be made in order to produce a Henley and one shot games with spectators, Dr. Omi also had his recommen- played 95 of his matches breath-taking knock of 113 O'Brien and I look forward to world-class athlete — not least in getting the right diet. clear of Italy's Francesco dations.” Hashimoto said she had consulted with baseball alongside his elder brother, from 63 balls in Bangalore, seeing what he can do in the “Yes, food is a big problem… But that is something that Molinari and Spaniard and soccer officials in Japan, where games with fans have Niall, who retired in 2018. including a century from 50 other two formats." needs to be dealt with as part of life,” he said. Rafa Cabrera Bello after been largely problem free. "After 15 years playing balls that remains the fastest O'Brien featured again Bukhari said getting Nadeem in the right condition for the first round. Co- “But Dr. Omi has also mentioned that the Tokyo for Ireland, I feel now is the in World Cup history. for Ireland at the 2015 World the Games had been difficult during the pandemic. leader Henley was Olympics and Paralympics are very special,” Hashimoto right time to step away and Replying to England's Cup, but the team missed out “Training is the real challenge. He sat at home for a year scheduled to begin his said. “Therefore Dr. Omi has mentioned that we need to be retire from ODI cricket," imposing total of 327 for 8, on qualification in 2019, and because of corona,” said the coach. “All the gyms and second round from the even more stringent than the other sports events. So we O'Brien said. "It has been an Ireland had slumped to 106 his form in recent campaigns stadiums were closed. I had to work him hard to bring 10th tee at 1:03 p.m. need to look at stricter rules. There is this risk of people honour and a privilege to rep- for 4 when he arrived at the has slipped away. him to a point where he could compete and win again.” PT (2003 GMT) with who come to the games, and after watching they stop by resent my country 153 times. crease, which soon became He made a highest score Bukhari, who is paid just 15,000 rupees a month former British Open bars and restaurants before going home. So it is recom- The memories I take from 111 for 5. But he responded of 31 in 11 ODIs since the (around $100) to look after his charge, said Nadeem was champion Molinari one mended that we urge people to go straight home after them will last a lifetime". to the adversity with an out- start of 2020, and has decid- a great student. “He trains well and is a good learner,” he group behind. watching the games.” Ticket sales were to account for $800 Those memories include rageous counterattack, ed the time is right to cut said, adding: “We are going to do our best, and the rest is million in income for the organizing committee. appearances at three World cracking 13 fours and six back his commitments. in God’s hands.” Whatever the result in Tokyo. 10 Saturday, June 19, 2021 The Frontier Post

InIn briefbrief Parliament is the AJK minister joins PTI supreme body ISLAMABAD(APP): In a major set back to the ruling party in Azad Jammu and Kashmir under constitution (AJK), the senior politi- cian of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Mir Akbar having sole right Khan parted ways from its party and joined Pakistan Tahreek-e- Insaaf (PTI) on Friday. According to PTI cen- to legislate: Babar tral media department, the AJK politician Muhammad Asad vote, Awan said the people who think that announced his decision the overseas Pakistanis do not have an idea in a meeting with PTI’s ISLAMABAD: Parliament is the Supreme regarding problems of the people living in Chief Organiser Body under Constitution having sole right Pakistan then how the people sitting Saifullah Niazi here. to legislate, whereas Supreme Court has abroad (PML-N leadership) can under- Minister for Kashmir the power to interpret the legislation under stand local issues and dictate on the and Gilgit Baltistan the provisions of constitution. It was said national affairs while sitting there. Affairs, Ali Amin Khan by the Special Advisor to Prime Minister According to Babar Awan government Gandapur was also on Parliamentary Affairs Dr. Babar Awan is ready to go through the reservations of present on the occasion. flanked by Minister for State for Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Akbar reposed confi- Information and Broadcasting Mr. Furrakh regarding Election Reform Bill if any and ISLAMABAD: Police personnel from the newly formed 'Eagle Squad Unit' start patrolling the streets. dence in PM Imran Habib during a news conference in will examine those in free and fair manner. Khan's leadership and Islamabad on Friday. While responding to a media query endorsed the PTI mani- According to Dr. Awan, overseas regarding letter written by Opposition festo. After the meeting, Pakistanis are the nation's asset and gov- leader Shehbaz Sharif, Babar Awan said Niazi announced Mir ernment is committed to give them right to that government has no objection of their Pakistan records lowest Akbar as a PTI candi- vote. According to him, government had visit to ECP and ECP must call all political date for the LA-16 brought an ordinance for election reforms parties regarding consultation on the mat- (Bagh) constituency. during recent months and later it moved a ter. Minister for State on Information and Mir Akbar Khan was a bill at the floor of the house. Broadcasting Mr. Furrakh Habib said that positivity ratio since June 1 key member of AJK According to Babar Awan, Senate government is working to bring trans- Prime Minister Raja Committee on Election Reforms has repre- parency in the election process of the ISLAMABAD (APP): The country itivity ratio was the percentage of across Pakistan making it a signifi- Farooq Haider’s cabinet sentation of all political parties and all par- country therefore opposition parties must on Friday recorded the lowest posi- actual positive cases appearing in cant count with over 90 percent and was nominated for ties have right to offer their suggestions play their constructive role in these nation- tivity ratio reported in a day since every 100 tests performed to identi- recovery ratio of the affected patients. the LA-16 Bagh-3 and deliberate on the bill. al efforts. He was in the view that trans- June 1; the national tally of total fy infected individuals. Since the pandemic outbreak, a (Sharqi Bagh) seat for While referring to PML-N comments parent elections are the foundational stone active COVID-19 cases was recorded The maximum ventilators were total of 946,227 cases were detected the July 25 polls by the regarding overseas Pakistanis right to of the strong and sustainable democracy. 35,809 with 1,043 more people tested occupied in four major areas includ- that also included the perished, recov- PML-N. positive for the deadly virus and ing Peshawar 20 percent, Lahore 20 ered and under treatment COVID-19 1,410 people recovered from the dis- percent, Bahawalpur 26 percent and patients so far, including AJK 19,868, Mainly hot ease during the last 24 hours. Multan 38 percent. Balochistan 26,466, GB 5,759, ICT Thirty-nine corona patients have The maximum Oxygen beds (alter- 82,278, KP 136,663, Punjab 344,641 weather All possible steps being died during past 24 hours, 36 of nate oxygen providing facility other and Sindh 330,552. ISLAMABAD(APP): whom were under treatment in hos- than ventilator administered as per About 21,913 deaths were record- The Meteorological pitals and three out of the hospitals medical requirement of COVID ed in country since the eruption of the Office on Friday fore- taken to ensure transparent in their respective quarantines or patient) was also occupied in four contagion. cast mainly hot and dry homes, according to the latest major areas of Abbottabad 28 per- Around 5,306 have perished in weather in most parts of update issued by the National cent, Gilgit 30 percent, Karachi 25 Sindh among 14 of them died in the the country during next elections: Farrukh Command and Operation Centre percent and Multan 24 percent. hospitals on Thursday. 10,603 in 24 hours. However, (NCOC). Around 280 ventilators were occu- Punjab had died with 17 deaths rain-wind-thunder- ISLAMABAD(APP): Electronic Voting Machines country and the nation,” he During the past 24 hours, most of pied elsewhere in the country while occurred in past 24 hours. 15 of them storms are expected at Minister of State for (EVMs) in the future elec- noted. Farrukh was of the the deaths have occurred in the no COVID affected person was on died in the hospitals and two out of isolated places in south- Information and tions to prevent the chances view that the opposition Punjab followed by Sindh. ventilator in Balochistan, Azad the hospitals. 4,252 in KP where four east Sindh, upper Broadcasting Farrukh of rigging, he added. had interest only in the Out of the total 39 deaths Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and of them died in hospitals and one out Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Habib Friday said the gov- The minister recalled National Reconciliation occurred in the last 24 hours 17 of Gilgit Baltistan (GB). of hospitals on Thursday, 773 in ICT, Gilgit Baltistan, ernment was taking all pos- that a judicial commission Ordinance (NRO) like con- them had died who were under Some 54,647 tests were conducted 300 in Balochistan among three of Kashmir and its adjoin- sible steps to ensure free, was constituted as a result cessions to get relief in treatment on ventilators. There across the country on Thursday, them perished in the hospital on ing hilly areas. fair, and transparent elec- of his party’s 126-day sit-in their corruption cases. were 2,413 Covid infected patients including 14,221 in Sindh, 25,661 in Thursday, 108 in GB and 571 in AJK According to Met tions in line with the vision against the 2013 election He said the opposition under treatment in critical care of Punjab, 9,612 in Khyber succumbed to the deadly virus. Office Islamabad, con- of Prime Minister Imran results, which had had denied sitting with various Covid dedicated healthcare Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 3,337 in A total of 14,026,336 corona tests tinental air would pre- Khan. expounded 40 recommen- Syed Fakhar Imam, the facilities in past 24 hours. Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), have been conducted so far, while vail over most parts of Addressing a news con- dations that highlighted most gentleman in the The National Covid positivity 997 in Balochistan, 384 in GB, and 639 hospitals are equipped with the country. Moist cur- ference along with Prime shortcomings in the elec- Parliament, to discuss the ratio during past 24 hours was 435 in AJK. COVID facilities. Some 2,674 corona rents were penetrating Minister's Advisor on tion system, he added. issues of national impor- recorded 1.9 percent. It may be Around 888,505 people have patients were admitted in hospitals in lower Sindh. Parliamentary Affairs Mentioning the Charter tance. He said the NA mentioned here that the Covid pos- recovered from the disease so far across the country. Maximum tempera- Babar Awan, he described of Democracy, signed by Speaker had also ture’s recorded in (°C) the opposition’s attitude the PPP and Pakistan approached the opposition was 46 in Sibbi, 42 in towards the electoral Muslim League-Nawaz to discuss electoral reforms Turbat and Joharabad. reforms as ‘non-coopera- (PML-N), he said both the and other issues, but they tive and against the will of parties agreed to introduce were adamant to pursue the PTI govt to complete its IHC restores masses’. Free, fair, and open and traceable ballots politics of non-cooperation. lawyers' licenses transparent elections were in the Senate elections. The minister alleged that the essence of a strong Despite being in the gov- on the national security bill, constitutional term: Sh Rashid ISLAMABAD (APP): democracy, he added. ernment for almost 10 the opposition had brought The Islamabad High The minister said it was years, both the parties had ‘personal security bill’ and ISLAMABAD (APP): Interior Islamabad police to take strict action action in accordance with the law Court (IHC) on Friday Prime Minister Imran done nothing to ensure free introduced 34 amendments Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on against criminals without any discrim- against land mafia. The cases of the restored the licenses of Khan, who had introduced and fair elections in the in the National Friday said that the Pakistan Tehreek- ination. Sheikh Rashid informed that illegal housing societies which had lawyers and sent com- the culture of ‘neutral country, he added. Accountability Act laws. e-Insaaf (PTI) government would new police stations would also be looted the citizens, are being sent to plaints against them to umpire’ for fair play in He said the PTI gov- The amendments were complete its constitutional tenure. established in different areas of the FIA.” To a question, he informed that bar council for action in a international cricket. The ernment had passed 110 meant to ensure ending of Talking to media persons here he capital territory as the city has expand- the government has allocated Rs 55 case pertaining to attack electoral reforms initiated laws from the National their leadership’s cases per- said that the Opposition parties could ed towards Tarnol, Bara Khau, and Loi billion funds for the Nullah Lai proj- on IHC building. A larg- by him were to ensure free Assembly and still dozens taining to corruption and not dislodge the incumbent govern- Bher. He further said, “We are going to ect. The mother and child project is er bench of IHC headed and fair elections in the of such laws were pending fake accounts, he added. ment as the government was making issue E-Passport to facilitate the peo- being completed. New schools and by Chief Justice Athar country so that no one in the House due to the As regards the voting hectic efforts to alleviate the inflation ple. Visa facility for foreigners has colleges have been established in Minallah heard the case could raise an objection on opposition's non-serious right to the expats, he said and poverty from the country. been provided online. The government Rawalpindi, he added. pertaining to misconduct their credibility, he added. attitude. Various bills, the overseas Pakistanis Addressing a Police Eagle Squad has extended the visa period for Later, inspecting the Flag March and contempt of court He said the three major passed by the National were an asset of the country ceremony, he directed the Inspector Chinese citizens from 90 days to two of the newly established Eagle matter against the political parties, including Assembly in recent days, and would definitely be General of Police (IGP) Islamabad to years. Urgent passport is being issued Squad of Islamabad Police he said, involved lawyers. The Pakistan Peoples Party had been pending since involved in the election make the capital territory drug free in one day on an additional payment of the Eagle Squad is equipped with court ordered to restore (PTI), Jammiat Ulema 2020, he added. process. The overseas area and launch a crackdown against Rs 2000.” Sheikh Rashid said, the latest technology and the core focus licenses of all lawyers Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and “The opposition parties Pakistanis' contribution to the big dealers involved in the drug administration has been directed to set of the Eagle Squad would be to and send the matter to Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf do not want debate on the the national development business particularly of heroin and a special bazaar for women which ensure safety and security of the Pakistan Bar Council (PTI) had termed the 2013 bills, and instead resort to could not be denied as they Ice. The gangs supplying drugs in the should also have retail shops of the tra- capital city. Islamabad’s street (PBC) and Islamabad general elections were walkouts as they have no had spent about 27 billion city should be eliminated, he added. ditional items of the four provinces. crime would be curbed with the Bar Council (IBA) for termed. Therefore, there interest in the legislation dollars in the ongoing year, The minister directed the officers of He said, “We would take strict ‘Eagle Squad’, he added. further actions. The court was a need to use the which is beneficial to the he added. instructed the bar coun- cils to take action in the matter without taking influence of any observa- Tarin for launch of New-Auto policy tion of IHC. The 8th February 2021 would be ISLAMABAD (APP): Federal tion in domestically assembled cars, sector to the government also came remembered as the black Minister for Finance and Revenue, produce exportable surplus of auto- under discussion adding that the day in the history of judi- Shaukat Tarin Friday assured his full parts of 2-3 wheelers and increase the industry representatives agreed to ciary, the court said, not- support for the final launch of the competition in the local market so resolve the issue amicably for its final ing that the violent New-Auto Policy. that people in Pakistan could enjoy settlement. Minister for Industries lawyers had attacked He said this in a meeting to review better technology at affordable prices. and Production Makhdoom Khusro IHC and vandalized its and finalize the new Auto-Policy, said Khusro Bakhtiyar also discussed Bakhtyar, Adviser to PM on building on that day. The a press release. various concessions that could be Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood and court observed that there The Minister for Industries and offered to the Electric Vehicles to SAPM on Finance and Revenue Dr. was no such example of Production Makhdoom Khusro increase the number of vehicles Waqar Masood also participated the Supreme Court and Bakhtiyar has briefed the meeting imported and install the related infra- meeting along with Senior Officials IHC's lawyers rampage that the aim to introduce a new policy structure in Pakistan. from Industries and Production, at this scale in the histo- is to provide affordable small cars He said that other pending issues Commerce and Federal Board of ry. The order said that (850 cc-1000 cc), promote localiza- like the payment of ACD by the Auto- Revenue (FBR). practicing law was an old and respectful profes- sion, adding that the founder of Pakistan was also a lawyer. Today's Economy on right track due to transparent, bars were the nurseries of future judiciary, it fur- ther said. corruption free governance : Hammad Azhar IHC directs police F.P. Report unemployment were full of con- said we had a comprehensive plan taxes, as they claim, have been He said that Bilawal had ammonium Phosphate (DAP) to recover girl tradictions. He reminded the to address the capacity payments levied in Azad Jammu and talked about the Benazir Income were defined by International ISLAMABAD(APP): ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister PPPP Chairman that the infla- in the power sector. He said the Kashmir. "It looks like the Support Program (BISP) but it’s forces as 70 percent of DAP is Expressing displeasure for Energy Hammad Azhar on tion rate in their era was much present government enhanced the Opposition is having a hard time chairperson had recently been imported. The minister said that with Islamabad Police Friday said the country's econo- higher than the present .It was capacity of power transmission digesting that the country has declared a proclaimed offender PTI endeavored during the first for failing to comply the my was on the right track for the PPPP that went to the IMF system and one hundred billion achieved a 4% growth under the due to corruption of Rs. 1.5 bil- two years for stabilization of court orders, the which the entire credit goes to more than any other government rupees have been allocated in the rule of the PTI," said Azhar, lion. Some people, he said, were economy while economy is in Islamabad High Court the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for in the past, he added. “Inflation budget to further improve it. He adding that the PPPP could not only getting stipends from BISP growth phase during the third (IHC) on Friday direct- ensuring transparent and corrup- rate was 21 percent during the said that federal government was even achieve 1% growth during due to their affiliation with the year. He said that loan of 10-12 ed the federal police to tion-free governance. first year of PPPP government giving 550 MW electricity to the its five-year tenure. Referring to PPP while names of hundreds of billion dollar is being returned produce the minor girl Speaking in the National while it was 11.7 percent in the K-electric on daily basis. the speech of PPPP Chairman, well-off people were omitted annually while current account after recovering till June Assembly, the minister said oil second year, 13.7 percent in Hammad Azhar implied that he said “ they said to us that this from the list of BISP after audit, deficit was reduced. 21, in a dispute related prices in Pakistan were the low- third year and 11 percent in oratory skills were not enough to is a government of 'puppets'. Do Azhar said. Through Ehsas pro- Hammad Azhar said that to her custody. Justice est as compared to the world and fourth year of its tenure”. remove the stains of corruption they want a government of con- gram, the minister said that 16 international rating agencies had Aamer Farooq, hearing Petroleum Development Levy Hammad Azhar said the coun- from someone's character. "Those victs? Do they want a govern- million were provided financial appreciated the economic the case, expressed has been brought down to two try’s economy has entered into the who have never done anything to ment in which people are known relief during last year. progress of the country while sever annoyance with percent. He said that sales tax growth phase with foreign improve the country's economy not by their names but by the He said that Pakistan Steel Pakistan set precedent for rest of superintendent of police was 51 percent on petroleum exchange reserves standing at six and have no knowledge thereof dirtiest scandals in the history of Mills (PSM) was closed down the world in combating the (saddar) Islamabad over products during PML-N tenure years high. Referring to the delivered an immature speech on this country?" during the tenure of PML-N in COVID-19. He said that indus- non recovery of one while it is 17 percent at present. bumper crops of wheat and sugar- the government's budget and eco- He said that the PTI had come 2015 while allegations were tries in Pakistan were expanding month old girl on peti- Responding to the speech of cane and maize, he said the benefit nomic policies," he said. into power after being elected, being levelled against the pres- due to policies of the government tion filed by her mother PPPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto of this directly reached the farmers He asked the Opposition to go adding that it had not "threat- ent government. He said that while the agriculturists are also Yousman Tasawar. Zardari, he said that figures as we ensured that they get the due through the budget documents ened or bribed its way into gov- subsidy is being given on urea as satisfied due to immediate pay- given by him on poverty and price of their produce.The minister once again and point out what ernment". usual while the prices of Di- ment to them of their produce. Resumption of peace talks US withdrawal important issue KABUL (Pajhwok): European Union Special MOSCOW (Agencies): The Russian presi- Envoy to Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson has The Frontier Post dent said the withdrawal of US troops from called on Afghan Chief Negotiator Stanikzai Afghanistan is an important issue for Russia. and discussed intra-Afghan talks and the role of Speaking at a meeting in Moscow, Vladimir regional countries in Afghan peace process. On Putin pointed out that Afghanistan has a its twitter handler the Afghan negotiating team common border with Tajikistan where said: “Nicholson emphasized on the starting a Russia has its military base, and Tajikistan is meaningful negotiation of both sides. Mr. also a member of the Russia-led military Nicholson is also called the role of neighbour- bloc – Collective Security Treaty ing countries and the region in the Afghanistan Organization. "American troops are with- peace process Important and impactful.” Ziqa’ad 08, 1442 — Saturday, June 19, 2021 drawing from Afghanistan.

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 Another 3 1,677 new cases districts fall Victims’ families: UN must to Taliban KABUL (Agencies): The probe attack on girls school Taliban militants have cap- of COVID-19, 87 tured another three districts in the last 24 hours, sources said. According to the sources, Dahana-i-Ghori deaths reported district in Baghlan province; Awba district in Herat; and Shirin Tagab district in Faryab province were cap- tured by the Taliban, bring- ing the total fallen districts to 37 since May 1. In Herat, the Awba dis- trict fell to the Taliban early Friday morning following days of heavy clashes between the Afghan army and the militants. Sources said that an army base was under siege by the Taliban for four days and the Afghan forces retreated from the dis- trict this morning. In Baghlan, the Afghan forces retreated from the Dahana-i- Ghori district. Amanullah Sanjani, an army commander, was killed in the skirmish. Meanwhile, the provincial KABUL (Agencies): The families of Council to recognize the attacks on mayed by the unjustifiable continua- KABUL (Tolo News): The Maidan Wardak (76), 177,483,286. council of Faryab stated that victims of the girls’ school bombing the Hazara community during the last tion of violence against Afghan civil- Ministry of Public Health Helmand (37), Paktia (40), With the increase of pos- the Shirin Tagab district of in Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul have few years in Afghanistan as an act of ians and in particular also the Hazara on Friday reported 1,677 Badakhshan (8), Ghazni itive cases, demands for the province was fallen to called on international organizations genocide. community.” “Our thoughts are with new positive cases of (62), Laghman (24), oxygen for COVID-19 the Taliban following a to investigate the attack. Mohaqiq in a statement said that the the victims and the grieving families. COVID-19 out of 4,711 Panjshir (335), Kunar (5), patients have also heavy skirmish with the About 40 days after the attack on attacks on civilians are not justified Violence must stop – Afghans samples tested in the last 24 Zabul (10), Badghis (9), increased. Health officials insurgents. The Taliban the Sayeed-ul-Shuhada school in and is “a clear example of crime deserve peace,” the embassy stated. hours. The ministry also Ghor (29), Uruzgan (6), said this week that each day released footage from the which hundreds of people including against humanity and genocide.” The Afghanistan Independent reported 87 deaths in the Paktika (16), Khost (3) and hundreds of COVID-19 district that appears to show school girls were killed or wounded, Highlighting attacks on Sayeed-ul- Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) same period, a bit less than Samangan (31) provinces. patients are coming to hos- that dozens of Afghan forces the families of victims stated that the Shuhada High School, Dasht-e-Barchi had also called on the Afghan govern- the highest daily record of The deaths were reported in pitals for treatment. “Each have surrendered to the culprits have not yet been identified Maternity Ward, Maiwand Wrestling ment to grant special protection to 101 that was recorded. Kabul (20), Kandahar (1), day about 300 are hospital- group. No credible source, and the Afghan forces failed to main- club and several attacks during prayers Hazaras and the community in Dasht- The figures show that Balkh (17), Nangarhar (6), ized and most of them are however, confirmed the tain security in the west of the city. in Mosques, Mohaqiq said: e-Barchi. The AIHRC stated that it 728 recoveries from Kunduz (6), Takhar (8), over 40,” an official said. footage. They also called on the international “People who are killed in schools was the government’s duty to protect COVID-19 were also Faryab (1), Maidan Wardak Previously, health offi- According to Ariana community to recognize the attack as and educational and other centers the Hazara community against crimes reported in the last 24 (2), Parwan (2), Paktia (1), cials warned the people to News findings, at least 195 an act of “genocide” as a specific eth- were civilians, harmless and children, against humanity, ethnic cleansing, or hours. Afghanistan has so Nimroz (3), Logar (3), consider the advice of the members of the Afghan nicity was targeted in the incident. and their massacre has no justifica- genocide. far recorded 100,521 posi- Laghman (3), Panjshir (2), Ministry of Public Health Security and Defense Forces Sabr Gul Alizada, a student of tion and is a clear example of a crime The AIHRC stated that govern- tive cases and 4,030 deaths Kunar (1), Daikundi (1), and to wear masks and (ANSDF) have been killed Sayeed-ul-Shuhada, stated: “all against humanity and genocide.” He ment has an obligation to “protect the from COVID-19. The total Uruzgan (1), Paktika (3), practice social distancing. and 105 others wounded in human rights organizations, the EU, noted that the UN Security Council population at risk of war crimes, number of recoveries from Sar-e-Pul (2), Jawzjan (2) “Otherwise, the country Faryab, Kunduz, Takhar, the United Nations, and other interna- (UNSC) should take precautionary crimes against humanity, ethnic COVID-19 in the country is and Samangan (2) will face a disaster," the Herat, Baghlan, and Sar-e- tional bodies have to recognize this measures against such attacks. “The cleansing or genocide.” “The Afghan 63,426. provinces. According to officials said. Recent fig- Pul provinces this week. The incident as genocide in order to con- UNSC should recognize the killing of government has an obligation under The new cases were Johns Hopkins University, ures show that so far over Afghan Army stated that at demn this attack. Mohammad Saqi, Hazaras as an act of genocide and the International Humanitarian Law reported in Kabul (316), the number of deaths from 656,000 people have been least 256 Taliban militants the grandfather of one of the victims, perpetrators should be subjected to (IHL) and International Human Herat (89), Kandahar (53), COVID-19 globally is vaccinated in the country. were killed and 150 more called on the government to maintain sanctions,” Mohaqiq said. Earlier, Rights Law to protect the population Balkh (126), Nangarhar more than 3,843,421 and Over 121,000 of them are wounded in air and ground security so that students could pursue Tomas Niklasson, Special Envoy of at risk of war crimes, crimes against (142), Kunduz (64), the number of known glob- health workers and more operations across the coun- their education. the European Union for Afghanistan, humanity, ethnic cleansing or geno- Baghlan (118), Faryab (78), al coronavirus cases is than 81,000 are teachers. try. “I wish, we would not witness the also stated that “targeting Hazaras” cide and international law obliges the This comes as the Taliban loss of our loved ones again. We just must be stopped. “Targeting Hazaras government to take measures to end capturedthe Shinkai district want security,” he said. Mohammad must stop and crimes be investigat- and prevent genocide and war crimes, of Zabul province without Mohaqiq, President Ashraf Ghani’s ed,” he said. crimes against humanity and persecu- Over 100 at US Kabul any clash fighting after political and security adviser, last Meanwhile, the German Embassy tion on the basis of ethnicity and gen- mediation by tribal elders week called on the UN Security in Afghanistan stated: “We are dis- der,” the statement read. and local officials, sources embassy tested positive said. The footage shows that militants are escorting the KABUL (Pajhwok): More Association, said his under- vaccine available,” it said. Afghan Defense and Past 24 hours sees fighting than 100 people at the US standing was that the out- Rubin echoed the call for Security Forces (ANDSF) Embassy in Kabul have break at the embassy was those at the embassy to be out to the provincial capital Covid-19, one person has primarily among American vaccinated, and told CNN Qatal city. “Its Zabul DG, in 200 areas in Afghanistan died, and several have been embassy employees and that AFSA would press for officials and ANDSF con- medically evacuated as a contractors. the federal government” to voy that was escorted by KABUL (Tolo News): Statistics by wave of the deadly pan- Amid the outbreak, all require all US employees, Taliban security from the internal security commission of demic hits Afghanistan and personnel at the embassy’s US government employees Shinkai district till Qalat the Wolesi Jirga indicates that the the US military withdrawal compound “are confined to to be vaccinated as a condi- city. This deal was mediated Afghan National Security and from the country continues, quarters, except to get food tion of employment over- by DG, tribal elders. The Defense Forces (ANDSF) has reported by CNN on from the DFACs,” a mili- seas unless they have pro- mediation was that Shinkai engaged with the Taliban in 200 Friday. tary term for dining facili- fessional medical advice to and ANDSF weapons are points in the past 24 hours. The surge in cases has ties, “or to exercise or relax the contrary” or a religious handover over to the Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s prompted a lockdown at the outdoors, alone,” the notice exemption or a disability. Taliban. Big shame!” Haji Ministry of Defense in a statement diplomatic mission and the said, outlining a series of “It’s unacceptable to AttaJan Haqbayan tweeted. said that 148 Taliban fighters have creation of “temporary, on- restrictions on activities have our posts in key coun- Haqbayan warned that been killed in fighting with Afghan compound COVID-19 and work. The notice called tries on lockdown when the the Zabul province would security forces, and more than 160 wards to care for oxygen- for those coming to the means of preventing that are also collapse to the hands of others were wounded. The Taliban dependent patients” embassy to be vaccinated available,” he said. “This is the Taliban “if the situation claimed to have killed over 50 securi- because “military hospital before arrival, noting that a critical moment in goes this way.” He also ty force members and wounded ICU resources are at full “failure to do this puts Afghanistan with our transi- shared a video of an Afghan dozens more. capacity,” according to an everyone in the community tioning down from our mili- army officer, who was on The Taliban also claimed that they Embassy management at risk.” tary presence, and to have duty in ANA Battalion of had taken over a key military base in notice dated June 17. “Please avail yourselves our embassy in lockdown Shinkai district, who is say- the Shinkai district of Zabul. In the “95% of our cases are of the vaccines available in with all of our people con- ing that hundreds of meantime, footage went viral on individuals who are unvac- the Embassy. Over 90% of fined to their quarters is a weapons were seized by the social media showing the Taliban 50 different types of military equip- mental question is how to prevent the cinated or not fully vacci- our Afghan and TCN very significant threat to our Taliban, “Provincial offi- apparently accompanying a convoy ment. present situation? nated,” it noted. Eric (Third Country National) national interest and nation- cials of Zabul must be of security forces in the Shinkai dis- Meanwhile, Sibghatullah Selab, “The government should put aside Rubin, the President of the Staff have received vac- al security for no good rea- investigated,” Haqbayan trict of Zabul. the deputy head of the Faryab provin- its internal problems and should con- American Foreign Service cines and we have more son,” Rubin added. said. Amrullah Saleh, the First Vice cial council, said that the center of sult everyone so that we move out of President of Afghanistan, said the Shireen Tagab district had fallen to this situation,” said MP Khan Agha footage was a "pre-planned intelli- the Taliban this afternoon. He said Rezayee. In Balkh province, reports gence secret," and, in such moments, that the Taliban had sent a message to say the Taliban has detonated a Afghanistan on its way to join there is no need to disclose secrets of the security forces in the area to lay Humvee full of explosives near the the operations in the name of freedom down their arms and surrender. police headquarters in Dawlat Abad. of expression and pave the way for According to Selab, the Taliban Meanwhile, the Taliban launched an the enemy to take advantage of the have transferred the soldiers to an offensive on the Zinda Jan district of 718b dollar e-commerce market issue. “Thoughtless speakers can say unknown location. He said that the Herat in western Afghanistan and KABUL (Agencies): For many forms don’t support underdevel- with the world. whatever they want. There is no Taliban took 160 pieces of military managed to burn some parts of the generations, Afghanistan has had a oped countries such as Afghanistan. More than that, Aseel wants to doubt the country is passing through equipment, including vehicles such as police headquarters after five hours robust handcraft sector with each They see Afghanistan as too lack- bring Afghanistan into the 21st- difficult days. At the same time, casu- "Humvees and Rangers." of fierce fighting with Afghan securi- region or province offering differ- ing in infrastructure, too conflict- century e-commerce world, turning alties among the ignorant and abhor- TOLOnews’ reporter did not manage ty forces. ent products, unique to their history ridden, too impoverished. These the country into an exporter of fine rent group (Taliban) are three times to obtain a comment from the 209 Local officials in Herat said the and traditions. Provinces like larger, established e-commerce goods, empowering small business- higher than our security forces. Do Shaheen Army Corps. Over the past Afghan National Security and Kandahar and Helmand are very companies see too many challenges es to hire and train more artisans, not trust in propaganda,” said Saleh two months, the government has lost Defense Forces (ANDSF) fought popular for their handmade caps in entering into and working with and allowing each province and in a Facebook post. 30 districts to the Taliban, which bravely and repulsed the Taliban and Yakhandozi. Provinces like Afghanistan. And they weigh the city to take a part in their own eco- “You must represent the courage makes up 8 percent of the country. attack. “Lack of coordination Balkh, Kunduz, Jawzjan, Faryab, risks as too strong compared to the nomic development and empower- and determination of the security and Previously, the US Special between the security forces is a seri- and Takhar are known for produc- benefits. Not anymore. ment. defense forces of the Islamic Inspector General for Afghanistan ous problem. There is a need for a ing beautiful handmade carpets that A group of young Afghans estab- By starting small, at the local Republic of Afghanistan. You must Reconstruction (SIGAR) said that unified command and control center are well known throughout the lished a platform to fill this gap, to level in cities like Kabul, Mazar-e- be the spokesmen of the bravery and 210 districts, which makes up 54 per- to provide morale to the security globe. Nuristan Province is well take on the challenge that bigger e- Sharif, and Aqcha, Aseel hopes to resistance of the country’s forces. cent of the entire territory in forces. The Taliban are using these known for its beautiful woodwork, commerce giants are hesitant to do, gain momentum and be the plat- Whatever was written about Zabul so Afghanistan, are under the control of gaps and then launching attacks,” Pakols, and Chapan. And of course, and to do so in a way that benefits form that allows every artisan and far has not been real,” added Saleh. the government, 132 districts are con- said Ghulam Habib Hashemi, a mem- Bamyan is known for the tradition- Afghans and the Afghan economy. handmade small business to sell “The question of why are they tested and 46 districts are under ber of Herat’s security committee. al, handmade embroideries. This platform is called Aseel, and it their products to the rest of the accompanying the Taliban, there is Taliban control. The fallen districts Meanwhile, family members of sol- Despite all these beautiful hand- aims to connect Afghanistan to world and grow into large, job-cre- something vague behind it political- are Oba in Herat; Shahrak, Tolak and diers stranded in Taliban areas have made products, ranging from jewel- global commerce markets, using ating businesses. Aseel’s mission is ly,” said Nasrullah Ziarmal, a former Saghar in Ghor; Poshtrod and Lash raised concerns over the soldiers' ry and clothes to art and carpets, custom supply chains, knowledge to create 10,000 jobs in the Afghan military officer. Jawin in Farah; Jond and Murghab in health conditions. Afghanistan has been as of yet of Afghanistan’s systems, and handmade sector. “This shows that the collapse (of Badghis; Dawlat Abad and Qaisar in “My children are crying the whole unable to tap into the 718 billion- employing modern, technology- This is a big mission and it has the outpost) occurred due to a deal,” Faryab; Sayyad and Sozma Qala in day, they ask for their father. My dollar global e-commerce market based solutions. Aseel empowers taken over two years to establish a said Shabanah Khoshal, a civil socie- Sar-e-Pul; Burka in Baghlan; husband has been serving in Oba for that grows more than 10% each local artists from Afghanistan to hardworking team, build an online ty activist in Zabul. “The head of Ashkamash in Takhar; Zare in Balkh; three months, he was wounded two year. This is in large part due to the sell their handmade products glob- and app-based platform, establish a security and the deputy governor Washir in Helmand; Arghistan in times,” said Maryam, the wife of an lack of postal and commercial ally. Artisans are able to grow their supply chain out of the country that went there to help and all the military Kandahar; Shinkai and Arghandab in Afghan Army Officer in Herat. “My infrastructure, geographical barri- businesses, empower their artisans- can reach all over the world, and equipment was left behind for the Zabul; Chinarto and Gizab in cousins, my uncle and my nephew ers, and problems with fintech. So, many of whom are women, create launch out of the US and Kabul. enemy-- this was a political surren- Uruzgan; Duab and Mandol in are among the soldiers wounded in instead, Afghanistan has been jobs, and promote the proud and NowAseel is poised to grow its fol- der,” said Atta Jan Haqbayan, the Nuristan; Arghanchkhaw in Oba, they are stuck there, no one is importing other, lesser quality rich heritage of Afghan handmade lowing, find more artisans to con- head of Zabul provincial council. Badakhshan; Dahyak, Jaghato, there to reach out to help them,” said products into its own country and goods. nect to its platform, and make this The Taliban claimed they have Rashidan and Ab Band in Ghazni; Bashir Ahmad, a relative of a has been unable to share its beauti- Currently over 30 handmade pro- company the number one platform seized all of the entire military equip- Charkh in Logar; Nerkh and Jalrez in wounded officer in Oba. Local offi- ful, skillfully made products with duction companies are selling their globally to find and purchase beau- ment from the base. “The equipment Maidan Wardak and Dawlat Shah in cials in Herat pledged that soon they the world. products directly in the US, tiful Afghan handmade products. left behind is not useable,” said Abdul Laghman. will transfer the wounded troops To get connected to the hand- Australia and European countries Aseel is ready for the challenge, is Matin Hassankhel, deputy command- “Those who are planning the war, from Oba. “We are working to trans- made global market, Afghanistan from Afghanistan. And the aim is to ready to scale, and is ready to help er of the 205 Atal Army Corps. The their planning has lots of shortcom- fer the wounded soldiers from Oba needs to take part in the digital reach every province of Afghanistan enter the ever-growing Taliban also claimed to have taken ings, supply is not taking place prop- to Herat city and to send additional economy and participate in global Afghanistan, finding the artisans e-commerce world to create jobs over a military base in Bagahwi vil- erly,” said Mohammad Radmanish. forces to Oba to control the district,” e-commerce platforms. However, that keep the handmade traditions and make the country’s economy lage of Sar-e-Pul province in northern With the expansion of war in 24 said Abdul Saboor Qane, the gover- current global e-commerce plat- and share those wonderful products stronger. Afghanistan and to have seized over provinces of Afghanistan, the funda- nor of Herat. The Saturday, June 19, 2021 Frontier Post FO condemns Russia to quit Open Afghan NSA’s Khyber Pakthunkhwa remarks Skies Treaty on Dec. 18 F.P. Report Govt presents Rs1,118.3bn F.P. Report ulated by the Treaty (i.e., advocates transparency in ISLAMABAD: Foreign after 30 days) a conference the military field only in Office Spokesperson Zahid MOSCOW: Russia will of the participating states in those cases when it counts Hafeez Chaudhri on Friday completely withdraw from order to consider the conse- on realizing some of its strongly condemned the budget for 2021-22 the Treaty on Open Skies quences of Russia's with- advantages through it. baseless insinuations by on December 18, 2021, drawal. When it comes to measures Afghan National Security PESHAWAR (APP): Russia’s Foreign Ministry Let us recall that Russia, of openness affecting their Advisor (NSA), Hamdullah Khyber Pakthunkhwa gov- said in a statement on despite numerous viola- own territory, they back up Mohib, alleging Pakistan’s ernment here on Friday pre- Friday. tions of the OST by the and begin to create obsta- involvement in the internal sented Rs1,118.3 billion "Russia has notified all United States , its allies and cles to the implementation affairs of Afghanistan. balanced budget for finan- the member states about its clients, for many years not of such agreements, while Responding to media cial year 2021-22, having a decision to withdraw from only made the greatest con- not thinking about queries regarding unwar- record allocation of Rs 371 the Open Skies Treaty six tribution to the achieve- European security, or about ranted remarks by the billion for annual develop- months after sending a ment of the goals of the the concerns of allies, or Afghan NSA, the Spokesp- ment program (ADP) and notice. Therefore, this will Treaty, but also did every- about assessing their own erson stated that Pakistan’s Rs747.3 billion for current occur on December 18, thing possible to preserve negotiability. The history of role in the Afghan Peace budget expenditure. 2021," the statement says. it. We were ready to consid- DON allows at least two Process had been widely The KP government has "This step also implies er the concerns of our part- conclusions to be drawn. acknowledged by the inter- announced a record 37pc the simultaneous exit from ners, but, of course, on the First. Attempts to national community. increase in salaries of all the group of the member basis of reciprocity. achieve unilateral advan- “The repeated imperti- those employees who did states that was formed un- The situation changed tages while ignoring nent and unwarranted not take special allowances der this Treaty and includes dramatically last year with Russia's interests and con- remarks by the Afghan from Government. our country and Belarus. the withdrawal from the cerns are doomed to failure. NSA are deeply concerning Presenting the third All the member states and Treaty of the US, whose pa- Second. The expectation as they are tantamount to a budget of KP Government separately Belarusian part- rticipation was at one time that the "technical superior- calculated attempt by his in Khyber Pakthunkhwa ners have been informed a condition for its entry into ity" of the West will make it office to disregard and nul- Assembly, Finance would be collected through those who didn’t get special districts under Rs 61billion about the exit from this force. This step grossly possible to bypass Russia lify the progress in the Minister, Taimur Salim federal taxes, Rs57.2 bil- allowances are being district development proj- group," the Russian upset the balance of inter- and leave it on the sidelines peace process so far,” he Jhagra said out of the total lion through federal divisi- increased to 37% including ect besides Rs 2.6billion Foreign Ministry said. ests, rights and obligations is also not justified. This added. budget allocation, Rs919 ble pool of 1pc share under 20% increase in Functional earmarked for honoraria to Russia notified all par- of the participating States. was the case with the tran- “We would also like to billion earmarked for set- terrorism affected province, or Sectoral Allowance, Khateebs of 20,000 ticipating States of its deci- We have proposed specific sition to digital technolo- remind the Afghan NSA, of tled districts and Rs199.3 Rs26.5 billion under Gas 10% increase in Adhoc 'Masajid'. sion to withdraw from the solutions to the problems gies in the implementation mutual understanding reac- billion for development of and Oil royalty and sur- Relief Allowance, 7% in To increase economic OST six months after the that have arisen, but the of DON - it was actively hed in Afghanistan-Pakis- merged tribal districts dur- charge (direct transfer), house rent for those activities and revenue, the notification was sent. Thus, Western members of the promoted by the Americ- tan Action Plan for Peace ing FY 2021-22. Rs74.7 billion under hydle employees who don’t bene- provincial government pro- this will happen on OST have not shown their ans, and as a result, our co- and Solidarity , obligating Out of total Rs371 bil- new profit (according to fited from government’s posed decrease in tax ratio December 18 this year. This readiness to address them. untry was ahead of its Wes- both sides to avoid public lion ADP, KP Government MoU 2015-16) and arrears, accommodation scheme. on 12 categories items and step implies the simultane- As a result, Russia was tern partners by 8-9 years. blame-game and use offi- earmarked Rs270.7 billion Rs75billion for provincial Jhagra said 100% extend lowest tax ratio on ous withdrawal from the forced to begin domestic We are sure it will be the cial channels to discuss co- for settled districts and tax and non-tax revenue, increase in pension expen- 17 categories items under group of member states procedures for the denunci- same now, when the United mplete gamut of bilateral r- Rs100.3 billion for merged Rs85.8 billion through for- diture has been witnessed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formed under the Treaty, ation of the Treaty. But States is destroying the elations. tribal districts. Likewise, eign development assis- in last couple of years and Revenue Authority and which includes our country here, too, we have shown Treaty, relying on national Statements that erode Rs648.3 billion earmarked tance (for settled areas) and share of pensions, which exempted agriculture sector and Belarus . All the partic- patience; we did not speed technical means of control. mutual trust should be for settled districts and Rs Rs3.3 billion foreign devel- was only 1% in 2003-04 from agri tax obtain by ipating states and, separate- up this process and kept the It is high time for Wes- avoided,” FO said. 99 billion for merged dis- opment assistance (for had jumped to record 13.8 Board of Revenue for FY ly, the Belarusian partners door open until the very tern colleagues to realize tricts in total allocation of merged areas), Rs187.7bil- percent of total budget in 2021-22. were also informed about t- end, counting on the pru- that it is impossible to Rs747.3 billion for current lion under special assis- 2021-22. Similarly, exemption viz he withdrawal from this g- dence of Washington. ensure their security with- UN chief budget expenditure. tance grant for the merged To overcome pension a viz decrease in registra- roup (between our countr- However, on May 27, the out taking into account the The minister said present areas and Rs132.5billion expenses, he said two pro- tion and CVT works taxes ies in 1995 a bilateral inter- State Department notified security interests of Russia Guterres budget was based on five from other revenue posals including increase in announced to provide relief governmental agreement the Russian Foreign and its allies. We always main pillars including a resources. upper age limit of Govt to people associated with on cooperation in the group Ministry of the decision of have an effective answer. appointed for record increase in salaries About details of expen- employees ie 55 years for construction industries was concluded, which will the American side not to But it is still better to work of government employees, diture budget during early retirement up or com- besides cancellation of pro- now also be terminated). return to the Treaty. Thus, together constructively to s- second term development budget, FY2021-22, the minister pletion of 25 years service fessional tax, reduction in In addition, the deposi- the exit of our country from trengthen European and gl- NEWYORK(AA):UN devoted services to people, said total of Rs374 billion were under consideration fee for vehicle’s registra- tary states of the OST were it became inevitable. obal security, relying, am- Secretary-General Antonio increasing Khyber would be spent on salaries that would save Rs12billion tion to one rupee and free requested to immediately All responsibility for the ong other things, on the ex- Guterres was appointed on Pakthunkhwa’s own including Rs 60billion in per year. re-registration. inform all the participating collapse of the Treaty lies perience of many years of Friday to a second term in resource revenue and intro- merged areas and Rs314 Similarly, Rs1 billion The rate of property tax states of the corresponding with the United States . fruitful cooperation betwe- office by the General duction of goal oriented billion in settled districts. per year would be saved were further reduced to notification and to convene, We understand that the en states within the frame- Assembly. reforms and innovation in Similarly Rs92.1 billion from change in the pension benefit those who regularly as soon as possible, as stip- United States actively work of the OST. Speaking in the General the overall governance sys- would be utilized for pay- rules under which widow, pay taxes besides facilities Assembly hall, Guterres tem. ment of pension including children and parents of of archives, libraries, and reflected on the "solemn He said two innovative Rs0.1billion for merged deceased employees would hostels for students of the moment," telling member approaches ‘development areas and Rs92billion for be entitled for pension ben- higher education and free Reference against Zardari states he is "deeply grateful plus budget’ and ‘service settled districts. efits. The minister admission to students seek- for the trust you have delivery budget’ were being Besides salaries, announced that minimum ing admission in primary placed in me." introduced under which Rs203.9billion would be wages of labourers and and secondary govern- adjourned till June 24 "Serving the United Rs500 billion would be spent for operation and daily wagers were being ment’s schools announced. Nations is an immense spent on former focusing maintenance expenditures, increased to Rs 21,000. Similarly, small farmers ISLAMABAD (APP): An National Accountability the record produced by him privilege and the most on mega projects such as emergencies and district KP Finance Minister, were exempted from land Accountability Court (AC) Bureau (NAB) connected as part of the case record. noble duty," he said. Sehat Plus Cards, provision expenses including Taimur Salim Jhagra taxes. on Friday adjourned hear- with fake accounts scam. The defence lawyer "We are truly at a cross- of furniture to Govt schools Rs38.9billion for merged announced 100 percent Finance Minister KP ing till June 24, on Park The court also granted one adopted the stance that if roads with consequential and increase in medicines areas and Rs164.9 billion increase in pensions of said the government has Lane Company reference day exemption from hear- any witness wanted to bring choices before us, para- budget to public sector hos- while Rs74.4billion for thewidows that were earlier achieved great successes in against former president ing to accused Asif Zardari, some evidence on record digms are shifting, old pitals while Rs424 billion other current expenditures. 75 percent. all sectors in FY 2020-21 Asif Ali Zardari and others. Hussain Lawai and Abdul then it should be shared orthodoxies are being out of Rs747 billion would Rs244.6billion proposed Besides Prime and constructed state-of- The court also continued Ghani Majeed in the case. with them first. NAB pros- flipped and we are writing be spent on the latter with for expenditures under Minister’s Ehsas Program the-art Peshawar Institute recording the statement of a During hearing, the ecutor said they had already our own history with the priorities to payment of Provincial Development and Universal Health of Cardiology, new OPD prosecution witness before judge recorded the state- shared the documents with choices we make right now. salaries of doctors, nurses, Program including Insurance coverage, he block at Khyber Teaching adjourning the case. ment of NAB witness and defence. It can go either way: break and teachers besides provi- Integrated Implementation said, Rs10 billion allocated Hospital Peshawar, mother AC-II Judge vice president National The court summoned the down and perpetual crisis, sion of medicines to hospi- Program (AIP) for merged for wheat subsidy, Rs10 and children hospital, new Muhammad Azam Khan Bank of Pakistan (NBP) witness again on next hear- or break through and a tals and fuels to areas, he said, adding billion for food baskets to women block at DHQ heard the reference filed by Nabeel Zahoor and made ing and adjourned the case. prospect of a greener, safer Rescue1122 ambulances. Rs17.4billion earmarked poor people, Rs10 billion Mardan, Allied and and better future for all." About generation of for Annual Development for revival of business of Surgical block at Lady Guterres will begin his income and revenue during Program including corona affected Small Reading Hospital besides second five year term on 2021-22, the minister said Rs2.4billion for merged Medium Entrepreneurs converted Baacha Khan Twitter’s India woes Jan. 1, 2022. Rs1018 billion revenue and areas and Rs85.8billion for (SMEs), Women,Minorities Medical Complex Mardan income target was set for settled districts while a and Youth through Bank of to Medical Teaching Blinken calls FY 2021-22 that would be record Rs19.9billion to be Khyber. Institution (MTI) costing worsen as police summon achieved from different obtained from Federal gov- Similarly, Rs10.4 billion Rs16billion that brought Carter financial resources, duties ernment PSDP. allocated for FY2021-22 to positive revolution in F.P. report and taxes. The salaries of all gov- bridge gap between devel- health sector in Khyber He said Rs475.6 billion ernment employees except oped and under developed Pakthunkhwa. chief over viral video WASHINGTON DC: LUCKNOW (Reuters): non secular beliefs and summons. Secretary of State Antony J. Police in India have sum- inflicting public mischief in “Some folks used their Blinken spoke with former moned Twitter’s prime offi- a state with a protracted, Twitter handles to unfold President Jimmy Carter on German defense ministry seeks cial within the nation to bloody historical past of hatred and enmity within Friday about the deteriorat- reply allegations that the communal violence. the society and Twitter did- ing situation in Nicaragua. U.S. agency did not cease The controversy comes n’t take cognisance,” stated They discussed U.S. $5.3bn for FCAS research phase the unfold of a video that simply as India’s federal the discover, which was concerns about the recent allegedly incited “hate and authorities is locking horns reviewed by Reuters. arrests, harassment, and COLOGNE (Defense Spanish program, accord- level participation” vis-a- The same logic underlies enmity” between Hindu with Twitter over non-com- “Writings and works arbitrary restrictions placed News): The German ing to the justification vis their counterparts from plans for an avionics test and Muslim communities. pliance with new IT rules, which promoted enmity on presidential candidates, defense ministry has for- package forwarded by the France and Spain. bed, according to the writ- An official police dis- which have raised doubts and affected concord political parties, and inde- warded a request to law- Finance Ministry. Berlin The FCAS national lead ten spending request to cover, seen by Reuters, whether or not the platform between totally different pendent media in Nicara- makers seeking approval had floated such a scenario companies are Dassault for lawmakers. “Avionics tech- confirmed a case had been would proceed to take communities within the gua, as well as the need for for almost 4,5 billion euros, given that the coronavirus France, Airbus Defence and nologies are a core sub-sys- registered in Ghaziabad in pleasure in safety towards nation and the state had broad electoral reform to or $5.3 billion, that would pandemic has delayed com- Space for Germany, and tem for further develop- northern Uttar Pradesh state authorized legal responsi- been inspired and such anti- permit free and fair elec- pay for the country’s contri- pletion of a joint concept Indra for Spain. ment and risk mitigation of over a video of some males, bility for user-generated co- society messages had been tions in November. butions to the next stage of study as well as the ongo- The program includes a the operational product,” apparently Hindu, beating ntent material. The brand n- allowed to go viral.” the Future Combat Air ing phase 1A. next-generation fighter air- officials wrote, adding that an aged man believed to be ew guidelines grew to bec- Twitter declined to rem- PM: Dams System. Germany’s share in craft to be supported by those aspects are outside a Muslim and slicing his ome efficient in late Might. ark, and Maheshwari didn’t Lawmakers on the research expenditures on various types of drones and the scope of the trinational beard. In a discover dated reply to a request for vital to meet Bundestag’s Budget and the program’s seven “pil- connected through a program The police report names Thursday, Ghaziabad remark. Defense committees are lars” and the development sophisticated communica- German officials also Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), its police wrote to Twitter IT minister Ravi Prasad challenges of scheduled to consider the of an initial demonstrator tions infrastructure. want to offset nationally native unit and 7 others for India head Manish lashed out at Twitter this w- water shortage, request next week. It covers amounts to 3.3 billion Defense officials what they consider insuffi- his or her alleged roles in Maheshwari to look earlier eek for the Ghaziabad inci- a collection of research and euros. describe Germany’s envi- cient attention to the fields disseminating a video that than officers inside seven dent, saying its failure to power needs technology-development In addition, Berlin is on sioned national spending of electronic warfare, mis- was deemed insulting to days of the receipt of the behave was “perplexing.” DASU (APP): Prime activities, collectively the hook for 450 million plan as a necessity, given sion planning, weapons Minister Imran Khan here dubbed phases 1B and 2, euros to cover government- that the trinational program interfaces, and the secure Friday said construction of between 2021 and 2027. At furnished equipment, alone would fail to yield a distribution of sensor data, hydropower projects was that time, officials want to which officials have previ- usable weapon for any of according to the document. Blinken will travel to imperative for sustainable begin regular test flights ously said could include the partner nations. The The government here economic growth and agri- with a demonstrator, con- access to aircraft engines “product-heavy” fighter admits that the future budg- culture production besides structed under the auspices and airfield time. development, for example, et for FCAS is anything but Berlin, Paris, Rome bringing prices of daily of France’s Dassault Notably, the defense includes too little consider- certain at this point. A fall- commodities and inflation Aviation. ministry wants to create a ation for satellite communi- back fund of 4,3 billion F.P. Report Holocaust denial and dis- Ministerial to discuss the down. The spending request separate pot of 750 million cations and multi-layered euros is in the works in the tortion and to finding inno- crisis in Syria and under- Talking to engineers, comes after France “cate- euros dedicated solely to sensor integration, leading event that the defense WASHINGTON DC: Sec- vative new ways to enhance score the importance of water experts and labourers gorically rejected” an inter- national developments. The Germany to set up its own budget alone is too small to retary of State Antony Bli- Holocaust education. meeting humanitarian nee- after visiting the mega mediate “bridging phase” amount is meant to ensure developments on those carry the program in the nken will travel to Berlin, In Paris on June 25, ds. He will also have bilat- Dasu hydropower project in the German-Franco- German industry’s “eye- areas. years ahead. Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Blinken will meet with eral meetings with Presi- (HPP), the Prime Minister Bari, and Matera, June 22- President Macron and dent Sergio Mattarella and said Dasu HPP and Diamir 29. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Foreign Minister Di Maio Bhasha dams were land- In Berlin, the Secretary Le Drian to deepen the to underscore the U.S.-Italy mark projects that would Russia to test new troop financing will attend the Second strong U.S.-France rela- partnership’s important role produce thousands of Berlin Conference on Libya tionship, highlight our in addressing key global megawatts inexpensive to support national elec- shared values, and discuss priorities. Blinken will also electricity by making very scheme in Zapad-2021 drills tions in December and the areas of cooperation, inclu- visit Vatican City, where he positive impact on overall withdrawal of foreign ding global security and will meet with senior Holy growth of industries and MINSK (TASS): A new minister emphasized during allow financial agencies in drills that will run on Sept- forces. While in Berlin, recovering from the pan- See officials to underscore agriculture besides gener- scheme of financing the her working trip to Belarus. wartime to ensure the con- ember 10-16 will check the Secretary Blinken will meet demic. The Secretary will our shared commitment to ate employment opportuni- Russian troops in wartime Therefore, Russia’s tinued financing of troops preparedness of the armed with Chancellor Angela also meet with OECD Sec- freedom of religion or ties. will be tested for the first General Staff has devel- (forces) in various conditi- forces of both countries to Merkel and Foreign retary General Mathias Co- belief and tackling the cli- Prime Minister while time in the upcoming oped documents jointly ons, in particular, in the a- defend the Russia-Belarus Minister Heiko Maas to rmann to discuss key eco- mate crisis. paying rich tributes to local Zapad-2021 (West-2021) with the Finance Ministry, bsence of stable communi- Union State. highlight the importance of nomic priorities, interna- In Bari and Matera, the and foreign engineers and Russia-Belarus joint strate- the National Defense cation channels and amid e- The Zapad-2021 strate- the U.S.-Germany relation- tional taxation, and U.S. Secretary will join foreign labourers said work on gic maneuvers that will run Control Center, the Federal lectric power disruptions, r- gic maneuvers will be pre- ship in addressing common chairmanship of the 60th ministers at the G20 Fore- Dasu HPP (Phase-I) has on the territory of both Treasury and the Russian elying solely on the nation- ceded by a set of special challenges and priorities. anniversary Ministerial Co- ign Ministers’ Meeting to been accelerated and would countries in September, Central Bank on the al payment system," the d- logistic support drills, with He will also meet with uncil Meeting in October. reinforce the U.S. commit- be completed by 2025 hav- Russian Deputy Defense specifics of the Russian eputy defense minister the troops switching to Libyan and other foreign In Rome, Blinken and ment to multilateralism and ing overall power genera- Minister Tatiana Shevtsova Army’s financing during emphasized. practical measures. The leaders on the margins of Italian Foreign Minister discuss continued coopera- tion capacity of 2,160 said on Friday. wartime, she added. "This system is set to be Zapad-2021 drills consist the Conference on Libya to Luigi Di Maio will co-chair tion in combatting the CO- megawatt. Present-day wars differ "As a result, a complete- tested in full for the first of scheduled maneuvers discuss mutual concerns. In a meeting of the Global VID-19, addressing the cli- Similarly, 4,320 radically from geographical ly new and innovative sche- time during the Zapad that will be held by the Berlin, Blinken and Maas Coalition to Defeat ISIS. mate crisis, and building megawatt electricity would battles of the past and have me has been developed for strategic drills," Shevtsova decision of the presidents will underscore our shared On the margins of the D- back better with our global be produced after comple- a geopolitical, information- the financial provision of t- said. of Russia and Belarus and commitment to combatting ISIS meeting, the Secretary partners, with a focus on tion of its second phase by al and hybrid nature, the roops (forces) in the transi- The Zapad-2021 strate- are solely of a defensive anti-Semitism and will participate in a Syria Africa. 2029. Russian deputy defense tion to wartime. It will gic command and staff nature. 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