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rs15.00 vol ii no 207 22 pages islamabad — peshawar edition pakistantoday.com.pk monday, 23 january, 2012 safar 28, 1433 Mansoor no ‘viceroy’ to demand military protocol, says Gilani g pM says interior Ministry to provide security to Mansoor ijaz g too much focus on ‘memogate’ portraying government’s weakness to the world LAHORE StAff REPORt KARACHI: 31 arrested Indian fishermen look on as a plain-clothed police officer offers prayers the at Dakas Police Station. inp story page 28 lAyING down Mansoor Ijaz’s ar - rival to Pakistan, Prime Minister yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday said No security by he was no “viceroy” to demand being Restoration of NATO provided security by the military. PTalking to reporters after offering condolences army, AG tells to Amjad Kareem Randhawa, father of late supplies likely in Feb Arfa Kareem, Gilani said it was the duty of the Interior Ministry to provide him security, but g PCNS’s 35 recommendations on ‘new terms of Ijaz’s lawyer the protocol demanded was not allowed to any common man by the constitution. He said by engagement’ with US set to be approved soon ISLAMABAD giving such significance to the “memogate” MASOOD REHMAn and Mansoor Ijaz, “we are giving altogether a ISLAMABAD prove them through a resolution of its wrong image of Pakistan that the governments SHAIq HuSSAIn joint sitting in next few days.Parlia - The federal government on Sunday rejected here are so feeble that they cannot withstand ment is likely to ask the US to refrain the demand of Muhammad Akram Sheikh, allegations made in a newspaper article”. Pakistan is most likely to restore from violating Pakistan’s sovereignty counsel for Mansoor Ijaz, linking the arrival Gilani said the government would consider the suspended NATO supplies to in future, the way it did on November of his client to Islamabad with provision of the matter of awarding Arfa Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Afghanistan through its soil in the 26, last year when NATO airstrikes security cover by the armed forces, assuring the highest civil award. He said his government LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani first week of next month (Febru - were carried out on two Pakistani the lawyer that all steps had been taken to would cooperate with both parliamentary com - embraces the father of Arfa Karim during ary) after the completion of the on - outposts in Mohmand Agency. “The provide security to his client and his mittee for national security and the judicial his visit to their residence. afp going parliamentary reevaluation parliamentary resolution, which property. In reply to a letter written by Sheikh commission probing into the memo scandal. To of Islamabad ties with Washington will also seek formal US/NATO to Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq on a question regarding resignation of Hussain relations, the prime minister said building by the end of current month. apology over killings of Pakistani Saturday insisting he would advise his client Haqqani, he said Haqqani was still innocent as friendly relations with every country was the The Parliamentary Committee soldiers and breach of country’s not to come to Islamabad if the armed forces no charge had been proven against him. main objective of Pakistan’s foreign policy. on National Security (PCNS) has border, will pave the way for failed to provide him security, the AG said in He said no memo was dangerous for the come up with 35 recommendations Continued on page 04 his letter to Sheikh that: country, but the message being conveyed to Continued on page 04 on ‘new terms of engagement’ with the world about our institutional weaknesses the US and parliament is all set to ap - pdC to bloCk nato supply by forCe | page 22 Continued on page 04 was dangerous. To a question about Pak-US statements aimed at obstruCting ijaz’s arrival | page 03 ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 2

02 News monday , 23 January , 2012 iSlamabad NewS fOreigN NewS today’s CDA fails to protect caged animals How Pakistan helps drone drive Killing of french troops ‘individual action’: Karzai Quick Look Story on Page 07 Story on Page 06 Story on Page 17

Govt fails to expedite hydel power projects started per Power Policy 2002

g Only two major hydropower projects completed in last 11 years despite funds being regularly released ISLAMABAD told Pakistan Today that hydroelec - AMER SIAL tricity had not received the priority it deserved in government planning. Failure of the government to expedite Had hydroelectricity generation construction of the hydel power projects been dominant mode of power produc - started under the Power Policy 2002 tion, the government could have have started to haunt its efforts to achieved the objective of consumer-end change the costly fuel mix, which was tariffs at affordable levels and also met the only thing that could provide some the true cost of electricity production. relief to over burdened consumers. He said whenever the question An official source said that after the about hydroelectricity was raised, the announcement of the prime minister MOWP always came up with the re - that load shedding would be reduced sponse that hydropower projects took a during the current calendar year, the long time to build and needed huge cap - Ministry of Water and Power (MOWP) ital investment. “But this is a rather was under pressure to make efforts to weak argument in view of modern hy - fast track at least the run of the river dropower project management”. hydel power projects. Abbasi said Indian policymakers Under the Power Policy 2002, the were working towards adding government had planned run-of-rivers 50,000MW of clean and renewable hy - hydropower projects for adding dropower to their energy mix. 4,325MW of electricity, and funds were He said their public sector hy - provided accordingly during the last 11 dropower projects, 520MW Omkaresh - years. However, only two major projects war project on the Narmada River was were completed. Delay in all these proj - completed in four years. ects has intensified the energy crisis in Small hydropower projects are tak - the country. The government has never ing 20 to 22 months for completion. bothered to look into causes of delay for He said the 86MW Malana hydro - these projects even though funds were electric power project in Himachal regularly released, the source added. Pradesh was constructed within 30 During 2000 to 2011 period, months against its five-year schedule in ISLAMABAD: A beautiful view of a cloudy capital on Sunday. inp WAPDA managed construction of only difficult mountainous terrain at high al - run of the river 1,450MW Ghazi Barotha titude. Abbasi said in 2008, an entrepre - Hydropower Project, Mangla dam up - neur sought permission for 600MW raising project which is estimated to Mahl hydropower plant which was ad - provide 2.8MAF additional storage and vertised by the Board of Investment for 655GWh additional power generation, private-sector investment. Muslim League unification but is not being utilised for the last two He even managed to arrange years due to the land resettlement is - $800 million for the generation and sues. WAPDA only managed construc - sale of electricity at just Rs 4 per unit. tion of 72MW Khan Khawar and non This was sabotaged by some officials remains a distant dream grid 17.3MW Satpara dam project in of the ministry. As a last resort, the in - Sakurdu. vestor published an appeal to the LAHORE supporters were quite worried over their de - reports that Mehmood brought any message Pakistan had surplus of electricity in president and prime minister on nAuMAn tASLEEM clining reputation. Mehmood was also con - from a senior journalist. He said that besides 2002, but is now faced with a shortfall March 27, 2010, requesting them to vinced that if the PMl-N and PMl-Q got their Mehmood another senior lawyer-cum-politi - of 5,500MW. The annual rate of growth intervene to enable the development With mistrust on both sides, the unification of axes together then they would have no worry cian was also involved in this regard. in electricity consumption is estimated of the Mahl hydropower project. He PMl-N and PMl-Q seems a far fetched idea, at all in coming days but PMl-Q leaders were He said that the PMl-Q had never re - to be close to 10 percent because of the never had a reply from them. especially under the present circumstances looking at these efforts as late, especially when mained an obstacle in uniting the leagues but continuous unplanned rural electrifica - However, in April 2011, MOWP sent when the PMl-Q is comfortable and happy they were chalking out a strategy with the PPP the stubbornness of the Sharifs had dented tion under political pressures. another demand to the Friends of Pak - with the ruling PPP. for Senate polls and the next general elections. prospects in this regard. Kamil said that the The government’s failure to antic - istan seeking funds of $37 billion for hy - PMl-F leader Makhdoom Ahmed PMl-Q leaders believed that the PMl-N PMl-Q remained intact in hard times and ipate the galloping growth and taking dropower projects, including for the Mehmood met PMl-Q top leaders Chaudhry was a bit late in launching reconciliation efforts kept its identity. “The PMl-N leadership’s appropriate measures is major cause Mahl hydropower project. Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and it was not the right time. They said that the stubbornness dented the leagues and now of the energy crisis. The major chal - Abbasi said the government’s fail - seeking the PMl’s unification but he returned PMl-N’s behaviour had not changed and they when they (PMl-N) are finding themselves lenge for the government is to change ure to address the energy crisis showed empty-handed. Insiders said that it was were not serious in PMl’s unification. “If the in hot waters, they are talking about unifica - the fuel mix from 30 percent hydel that some elements in the government Mehmood’s personal initiative, who was seek - PMl-N leadership is serious in uniting the tion,” he said, adding that the PMl-Q faced generation to 70 percent level to pro - had their own plans. ing political mileage. “He is the only PMl-F leagues then they should instantly disown the many troubles boldly and but the PMl-N was vide some relief to the consumers. “If Pakistan is to prosper, the coun - member in Punjab and thinks that by bringing Forward Bloc, as in this way we would consider trying helplessly to save itself from the pub - Currently the per unit cost of hydel try needs honest, dedicated and sincere the leagues together, he would get some im - that they are serious and have mended their lic’s wrath. Kamil said that the Muslim power is Rs 1.06 per kWh, thermal leaders, who can help create an enabling portant role,” sources said. Since the rise of the ways,” PMl-Q leader Kamil Ali Agha said league got divided over the stubbornness power of GENCOs Rs 8.74 kWh, IPPs competitive environment for the private Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) as a political while taking to Pakistan Today. He denied in - and behaviour of the Sharifs and if they were Rs 9.07 kWh and RPPs Rs 31 kWh. sector to participate in investment in the force, the balance of power in Punjab was tilt - volvement of any newspaper editor in the re - ready to give up their old ways then there Water sector export Arshad H Abbasi field of power generation without fear.” ing against the PMl-N. No wonder PMl-N cent efforts for the PMl’s unification and could be talks of unification. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 3

monday , 23 January , 2012 News 03 arTS & eNTerTaiNmeNT SPOrTS COmmeNT Ranbir, Vidya adjudged ‘best’ at zee Cine Awards 2012 Decision on Kaneria’s future soon Vaudeville: The one-man travelling circus that is Mansoor Ijaz. never a pretence: today’s The menace rears its head while we bury ours. Arif Ansar says: The contradictions in Pak-Us ties: Much is made. Waqqas Mir says: Quick The right side of history: What narrative are we furthering? umair Javed says: On caste and the Pakistan army: Reductionist explanations serve no purpose. Look Story on Page 15 Story on Page 18 articles on Page 12-13 Govt functionaries’ statements aimed at obstructing Mansoor’s arrival

g legal experts say govt’s intention seems malafide in registering a case against ijaz g Hard to find legal justification ISLAMABAD ernment in 1997. that he would not advise his client to come ical statements and aimed at stopping tAHIR nIAz Interior Minister Rehman Malik to Pakistan unless assured that the Inte - Mansoor Ijaz from coming to Pakistan.” played a significant role in giving “veiled rior Ministry was kept away from Man - Prominent lawyer Babar Sattar ECENT statements made by threats” to Mansoor, saying he would be soor’s security despite the fact that the US opined that though there was no bar on certain government func - questioned why and with whose help he national had already been granted a visa registering a case against somebody on tionaries seemed to be an at - toppled the Benazir Bhutto government. for Pakistan. the charges of conspiracy against the gov - tempt to obstruct Mansoor On Saturday, he warned that the gov - On the other hand, former ambassa - ernment, in Ijaz’s case, it would be difficult Ijaz’s arrival in Pakistan and ernment would put Ijaz’s name on the Exit dor to the US, Husain Haqqani, has “co - for the government to find a legal justifi - Rscare him away from testifying before the Control list if requested by the Parlia - operated” little with the memo cation to it. memo commission, which is meeting on mentary Committee on National Security. commission investigating the scandal and He said Article 6 and 9, which deal January 24 (tomorrow), legal experts PPP’s leader of the Opposition in has not even handed over his Blackberry with high treason, apply to Pakistani citi - opine. Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz has also al - phones to the commission. zens only, but a case could be registered They said the government had a very leged recently said that Ijaz had a role in Commenting on the issue, Justice (r) against a foreign national under the Pak - marginal scope of implicating the US na - toppling Benazir Bhutto’s government in Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui said a case could istan Penal Code. However, he saw little tional in years-old ‘case’. 1997. be registered against a person who com - justification and room for the government legal experts opined that though a There are some reports that FIA has mitted some crime on the country’s soil. to register a case against Ijaz in a years-old case could be registered against some for - been instructed to register a case against However, he saw malafide intention ‘case’, particularly when no FIR was reg - eign national if he violated the country’s Mansoor Ijaz on the very charges. in Mansoor’s case, saying there was no istered at that time. “The government can law, but in the said case, the government’s Ijaz, the central character in memo legal justification of registering a case use administrative authority for register - intentions seemed to be malafide as it scandal that has sparked a political crisis against him after a lapse of several years. ing a case against Mansoor Ijaz but the lat - lacked legal justification. in Pakistan has also repeatedly accused “It would certainly have consequences as ter can approach court against the same,” Some of the top government func - the Pakistan government of trying to pre - in case it proves false, the accuser could he said. As a matter of principle, it would tionaries in the recent days threatened the vent him from coming to Pakistan. seek action under Section 182 of the PPC,” not be justified, he added. However, he US national of implicating him on the The statements containing threats to he opined. Asked about the statements declined to comment on the purpose of is - charges of preparing a “plot” that culmi - Mansoor Ijaz have really worked as his given from certain government quarters suing statements by the government func - nated in toppling of Benazir Bhutto gov - lawyer, Akram Sheikh, has again insisted threatening Ijaz, he said: “These are polit - tionaries. HrW urges support US-returned family robbed before reaching home SIALKOT: Unidentified armed men robbed a Sambrial-based family returning from the United States, while a motorcyclist died in a road accident in Daska city on Sunday. According to details, Masud Ghuman and his family were for democracies returning from the US, but were intercepted by a band of robbers near their house in Sambrial. The robbers looted gold jewellery worth millions of rupees, CAIRO The report also underscores a $28,000 in cash, electronic devices, American passports and other documents i will never join PTi, AfP positive development in 2011 with at gun point and escaped. Police said it was investigating the case, but the adoption of International confirmed no arrests made so far. Elsewhere in Daska city, a motorcyclist died says fatima bhutto Human Rights Watch urged world labour Organisation Convention after being hit by an over speeding car at the congested Jinnah Chowk. Police powers to support the rights of Arab 189 to protect the rights of domestic said Abdul Sattar, 30, was crushed under the vehicle and died immediately, Spring protesters to build real workers, a vast majority of whom while the car’s driver fled from the scene. Police have registered a case against democracies after they ousted long- are women and girls, against abuse. the fleeing driver. In Sialkot city, local people caught a man stealing streetlights time strongmen once backed by the “The convention did not topple near the Shah Moongawali graveyard in Muhallah Bijli Ghar. The crowd West, in its annual report on Sun - any dictators but it radically thrashed the alleged thief, Asad, before handing him over to police, which day. changes how domestic workers ... registered a case against him and put him behind the bars. StAff REPORt “Many democracies have al - and their work inside the home are lowed their ties with repressive al - valued, recognised and protected,” lies to temper their support for the report says. But it is the Arab human rights in the Arab Spring Spring and the international re - protests,” HRW said in its report, sponse to it that is the focus of the launched in Cairo just three days report, with Roth saying “the West before the anniversary of the revolt is still adjusting to this historic that toppled president Hosni transformation.” For HRW, “West - Mubarak. “Time to abandon the au - ern policy towards Arab countries JAIPUR: Fatima Bhutto, daughter of tocrats and embrace rights,” says traditionally has been one of con - Murtaza Bhutto, on Sunday announced that executive director Kenneth Roth. tainment, backing an array of Arab she would not join Imran Khan’s Pakistan “The people driving the Arab autocrats to guarantee ‘stability’ in Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Speaking at the Jaipur Spring deserve strong international the region even as democracy literature Festival, she said her entry into the support to realise their rights and to spread in other parts of the world.” PTI was unlikely and would never happen. build genuine democracies. loyalty The New york-based watchdog “He has an incredible cosiness not with the to autocratic friends shouldn’t stand says the “reasons so many demo - military but with the dictatorship,” she said in the way of siding with democratic cratic governments make an ‘Arab about Imran Khan. Fatima also accused reformers.” The 676-page report re - exception’ include fear of political Imran of defending the legacy of former views human rights practices Islam and terrorism, the need to military ruler General (r) Zia-ul-Haq, who around the globe, with summaries keep oil supplies flowing and a long - came to power in the late 1970s after of conditions in more than 90 coun - standing policy of reliance on autoc - overthrowing prime minister Zulfikar Ali tries and territories based on probes racies to maintain Arab Israeli peace Bhutto, Fatima’s grandfather and the founder carried out by HRW staff from 2011. and to help stifle migration to Eu - of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). She also last year, the Arab Spring top - rope.” mentioned Imran’s support for a 2002 pled strongmen in Tunisia, Egypt Roth says “it is time to end the referendum which allowed General (r) Pervez and libya and paved the way for the ‘Arab exception’ and recognise that Musharraf to extend his term. “As a woman I removal of yemen’s president, while the people of the region deserve re - worry very much about Imran’s politics,” she pro-democracy protests in Syria spect for their rights and freedoms said while talking about the PTI chief’s continue to meet with a deadly as much as anyone else.” opposition to amending a 2006 women’s bill regime crackdown. Those events HRW notes that tremors from in favour of rape victims. She also questioned that captured the world’s attention the Arab Spring have been felt Imran’s commitment to secularism and to are at the core of the report which around the globe amid expectations defending minorities. “Is he a savior? No, I also documents rights abuses in that people in countries such as don’t think so,” she said during a Pakistan- countries such as Afghanistan, Er - China, Zimbabwe, North Korea, focused session at the literary festival. InP itrea, China, Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Ethiopia, Vietnam and Uzbekistan Arabia and Pakistan. could rise against their rulers. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 4

04News monday, 23 January, 2012 Probe launched into PiC drug reactions amidst climbing PML-N and PPP’s days are over: Imran Khan death toll g pti chief says change is not far away g pti’s agenda far better than that of ruling party g Vows to empower farmers with low cost fertilizers, electricity and quality seeds LAHORE SALAHuDIn SAfDAR BHALWAL was a hypocrite, who never raised a labours never bear a fruit which he write the letter to Swiss courts, next elections, both of them would InP finger at President Asif Ali Zardari can pick, the feudal lords always adding that the nation had a right to be bowled with a single delivery. Two more patients breathed or questioned him about the billions take what is rightfully his,” he said, know where from this money has The PTI chief said many problems their last on Sunday, as the HANGE is not far away of stolen rupees, as both savoured adding that farmers were in dire come. The PTI chief said the poor in Pakistan could be easily resolved number of deaths by and the days of the PPP roasted pheasants for breakfast to - need of justice as 30 percent of their were languishing in jails in theft but not in the presence of the PPP mysterious reaction to drugs and the PMl-N are gether. Responding to Prime Minis - production was being looted by bro - cases while those who had looted and the PMl-N because both par - distributed free of cost by over, Pakistan Tehreek- ter yousaf Raza Gilani’s statement kers sitting in the assemblies. the national economy were being ties were themselves “a problem”. Punjab Institute of e-Insaaf (PTI) Chair - regarding PTI’s agenda, Khan said Khan said sugar mafia in Pak - protected. He said change would come when Cardiology (PIC) soared to mCan Imran Khan said on Sunday. his party’s agenda was far better istan was very strong and they were He said Nawaz had ruled Pun - important institutions like Rail - 30. As the Punjab Addressing a large rally, Imran once than that of the ruling party. not making payment to the farmers. jab thrice in the last 25 years, ask - ways, PIA and Steel Mills were run government formed a team again lamented the sorry state the “The country is rife with corrup - He said the PTI would collect double ing what had he done for the by honest and competent people, of medical experts to country was in. He said the poor get - tion, which the PTI will eradicate in tax from those who were evading it, province even after being given so adding that corruption could be investigate the deadly drug, ting poorer under the oppression of record time,” he said. He vowed to adding that there was no rule of law many chances. Khan said in fact sit - eliminated in 90 days. The PTI Prof Dr Javed Akram, who is those who were holding the reigns of empower farmers with low cost fer - in the country and citizens’ life and uation in Punjab had deteriorated. chief said the socioeconomic set up heading the probe, feared this country for ages, however, tilizers, electricity and quality seeds property were at the mercy of rob - “Thirty people have died in the past had been ruined as there was that the number of deaths adding that the circumstances were so that average production could be bers and plunderers. Referring to few days due to the use of counter - tremendous load shedding of gas could rise in coming days. Dr going to soon change for the better. brought at least at par with India. the NRO case, Khan said the presi - feit drugs… corruption is rampant and power, adding that the situa - Akram confirmed 25 deaths, The PTI chief picked apart the Khan said through facilities to farm - dent had deposited Rs 5 billions in and law and order has gone from tion could not be improved as long adding that 50 more patients leadership of the two major political ers, Punjab alone could increase Swiss banks after looting the na - bad to worse,” he said, adding as incompetent and unqualified who had been administered parties, the PMl-N and the PPP. He production by Rs 300 billion. “Our tional economy and the prime min - Nawaz and Zardari could not con - people were appointed heads of the the medicine were in critical said PMl-N President Nawaz Sharif farmer toils all year long, but his ister was saying that he would not front the PTI “tsunami” and in the Petroleum and Natural Ministry. condition. Official records show that 110 patients who used the drug reported unexpected reactions and Aitzaz charging Gilani Rs 100 were admitted at various hospitals of the city. Dr for pleading contempt case Akram told reporters at a press conference that drug Continued fromp page 28 government that since the office samples had been sent to a of the president (whosoever be laboratory for examination, Aitzaz has managed to win two the incumbent) imparts full and the PIC had stopped weeks from the court for Prime immunity to the incumbent distributing the medicine Minister Gilani and also the temporarily for the duration of immediately. He said the “luxury” of getting the PM the office, at home and abroad, dangerous drug could excused from appearing before the writing of the letter would not contain hazardous metals the court in person. In 2007, be of any consequence.” “Even such as arsenic, lead and Aitzaz contested the case of then- though the letter to Switzerland mercury. He said that health sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar would not have resulted in a authorities had also asked Muhammad Chaudhry for a prosecution, you have a defence if the pharmaceutical similar token fee. According to you thought it appropriate not to companies to provide the media reports, Babar Awan was be seen to have set a precedent of record of medicines not appointed the federal law pushing the president of our purchased by the PIC in minister on instructions of Aitzaz country into a public ordeal December. He said the and PPP hawks like Ehsan Raza before a foreign forum,” he added. enquiry report would be Abibi, Fauzia Wahab, Sharmila Aitzaz said this would amount to released on Monday (today). Farooqi, Sharjeel Memon and throwing a man into foreign fire Dr Akram said that almost Babar Awan, who remained in the belief that he cannot be 25,000 patients had used major critics of the judiciary, have harmed by domestic fire, the similar medicines, but only a stopped criticising the judiciary, document said. Prime Minister specific batch had caused hinting at a silent ceasefire. When Gilani took the same stance in the fatal reactions. He said the contacted, Aitzaz confirmed that statement he made before the deaths were occurring due to he was charging only a token fee court on January 19. Analysts a sudden drop in platelets from the PM and had asked the believe that Aitzaz has been KARACHI: Polio Eradication Ambassador Asifa Bhutto zardari chairing a meeting on the efforts to eradicate polio from the country. onLine and white blood cells, along PM to appear in the court alone. chosen by the government as an with bone marrow damage. He said the prime minister had attempt to patch up sour relations Meanwhile, Punjab Chief called him and asked him to with the judiciary, given the Minister Shahbaz Sharif contest the case. In his invoice- lawyer’s epic role in the judiciary ‘Mansoor no constituted a nine-member cum-draft agreement with Gilani, restoration movement. Ever since Restoration of NATO viceroy to committee headed by CM’s Aitzaz also spelt out his strategy his engagement with the PM, PPP Inspection Team Chairman before taking up the case. “you firebrands have turned silent and Continued fromp page 01 terms of engagement’ between “The US will have to give Najam Saeed to enquire into have always known my position things are getting back to normal Pakistan and US on counter- a firm assurance that it will demand the death wave caused by on the basis of which I have between the government and the the restoration of NATO sup - terrorism cooperation, the abide by what it commits to faulty drugs. A Punjab continuously advised the judiciary, the opined. plies that were blocked by Is - diplomat said those would be as a part of new terms of en - mly protocol’ government spokesman said lamabad in the wake of NATO given final shape during the visit gagement with Pakistan and the chief minister would airstrikes,” said a diplomat re - of US special envoy for the guarantee that there shall Continued fromp page 01 personally monitor the questing anonymity. He said Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc be no violation of Pakistani probe, w hile the committee sindhi nationalists to the restoration of NATO sup - Grossman, which was expected sovereignty and no breach of He denied that Aitzaz was given two days to plies would most likely take at the end of January. Gross - our borders, are at the top of Ahsan had demanded complete the enquiry and strike against MQM’s bill place in first week of February man, who was supposed to our demands’ list,” he said. excluding or including submit its findings. Senior after the completion of parlia - come to Pakistan early this He said Pakistani authorities “somebody” from the Federal Minister Chaudhry KARACHI: Sindhi strike will be held on January mentary review of Pakistan- month, was advised by Pak - were looking into the possi - cabinet before agreeing to Pervaiz Elahi criticised the nationalists on Sunday 28 against it. He said that the US relations by the end of the istani authorities against under - bility of allowing back some be his attorney. He CM and held him termed the Muttahida Qaumi MQM was trying to create current month. “As a result taking this visit before the US military trainers but they discouraged the criticism responsib le for the deaths Movement’s (MQM) bill div isions, which would not Pakistan will again open completion of parliamentary re - would be in far less number of Aitzaz, saying he was caused by the distribution of regarding formation of South be tolerated. Paleejo said Torkham and Chaman border view of Pakistan-United States now and not like in hundreds doing a duty of substandard medicines. “It Punjab and Hazara provinces that despite different views, crossings with Afghanistan for ties. However, another official as they were used to be. “The professional lawyer only. is another proof of Shahbaz as a conspiracy to divide all Sindhi nationalist parties the NATO supplies but this said in future there would be no drones will not be allowed, Gilani said only the Sharif’s incompetence after Sindh. Talking to journalists, were united not to let the time it will not be a free move - secret CIA or American military however, to come back to Pakistan People’s Party the dengue epidemic, as no Awami Tehreek chief Ayaz province’s division. The ment and every NATO con - operations on ground in Pak - Pakistan and being flown would decide on including timely action was taken to lateef Paleejo said that all Save Sindh Organisation tainer would be taxed by istan and also no unauthorised from any Pakistani airstrip, Babar Awan in cabinet or save precious lives,” Sindhis condemned the also announced to join the Pakistani authorities,” he said. incursions would be made into like ‘Shamsi airbase’ in not. Glorifying his Elahi said. MQM’s bill and a wheel jam strike. inp To a question on the ‘new Pakistani airspace. Balochistan,” he said. government’s “successes”, he said it was for the first time in the political history of Pakistan that there was no political prisoner. He no security by army, ag tells ijaz’s lawyer said the PMl-N was not at all a friendly opposition Continued fromp page 01 compliance with the orders of file a contempt petition against (January 24), voiced concern name on the Exit Control list the embassy would not be in - and it was the opposition’s the commission, the focal the AG for not complying with over the security arrangements (ECl).” Akram Sheikh, wrote to volved in coordinating Man - duty to point out the “With reference to your letter, person was directed to re - the commission’s orders. He and accused Interior Minister army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez soor Ijaz’s security or any of mistakes of government, while disagreeing with most of main in touch with Sheikh. declined to comment when Rehman Malik of “orchestrat - Kayani and the AG on Saturday his activities during his stay which in return was the contents thereof I may in - “Please understand that all asked whether his client would ing a massive cover-up on be - indicating that he would advise in the country. The Attorney supposed to accept form you that in strict compli - steps are being taken in accor - come to Pakistan after the gov - half of President Asif Ali his client not to come to Islam - General had called the meet - criticism open heartedly. ance with the orders of the dance with the constitution, law ernment had rejected his de - Zardari” to stop his testimony. abad if the armed forces failed ing in line with the Jan 9 or - To a question on Jamaat- memo inquiry commission, the and the rules on the subject. I mand. The meeting on security Interior Minister Rehman to provide security. ders of the judicial e-Islami’s warning of federal government has made may therefore assure you that arrangements was also at - Malik made known his inten - In his letter to the army commission that security be staging a sit-in outside fool proof arrangements for the the federal government has tended by Defence Secretary tion of following directives of chief, Sheikh had sought provided to Ijaz by law en - parliament if NATO supply security of person and property taken all steps to provide secu - Nargis Sethi, Interior Secretary the attorney general’s meeting first-hand information re - forcement agencies as well as line was restored, he said of your client”. The AG stated rity to your client and his prop - Khawaja Siddiq Akbar, Foreign that required his ministry to garding actual on-ground lo - the army in addition to what NATO supply was stopped that he had convened a meet - erty”, Haq’s letter said. When Secretary Salman Bashir and provide security to Ijaz. But a gistical arrangements to the AG deemed appropriate. in the larger interest of the ing, which was attended by all contacted, Haq said: “The representatives of law enforce - warning followed: “I will also be ensure his client’s safety from DIG (security) has been de - country not on demand of concerned, and the arrival of armed forces were also on ment agencies. Mansoor Ijaz, pursuing the directives of the the point of his arrival in Pak - puted as the focal person to the JI and whatever Mansoor Ijaz was taken up. board”. Sheikh said he had still who is supposed to arrive in Parliamentary Committee on istan to the point of his de - interact between Sheikh and decision was taken in the He said arrangements not received any letter from the Pakistan to attend the commis - National Security, also seized parture. US embassy the government for any need future would also be for had been put in place and in army chief. He said he might sion’s proceedings on Tuesday with the same issue, to put Ijaz’s spokesman Mark Stroh said he might face. the sake of the country. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 5

monday , 23 January , 2012 News 05 Free-for-all construction razing Walled City g mushroom growth of markets and shopping plazas jeopardising residential culture and destroying the last vestiges of the mughal-era heritage

LAHORE AfP

HE medieval walled city of la - hore is under threat from a con - struction “free-for-all” ruining centuries of heritage, as an ambi - tious Pakistani restoration proj - Tect to protect it stalls. Rapid and illegal growth is crowding out the old city — the section of the east - ern hub fortified by a wall during the Mughal era — while its unique carved wood balconies jutting on to bricklined streets fall into disrepair. “My family has been living here for 300 years, but residential culture is fac - ing the threat of extinction,” Zafar Askari, 40, told AFP. “New markets and shop - ping plazas are springing up at a fast pace. The hallmark tranquillity of interior lahore is no more,” he said. been taken over as commercial premises, department official told AFP on condition Shops have sprouted to form ugly according to a government survey. of anonymity. But residents complain scars on the boundary walls. Several “People work around the system and that little else has been done. One resi - dozen small cloth shops and steel work - flout the laws by paying bribes,” a local dent from the area, Zahid Hussain, said shops have been built around the historic government official told AFP on condi - the plan had been bogged down by argu - Wazir Khan mosque and Shahi Hamam tion of anonymity, adding that the area ments between shopkeepers and the au - (royal bath). “As far as building regula - has been subjected to “decades” of such thorities over the removal of illegal tions are concerned it’s a free-for-all. neglect. “Corruption is rampant in Pak - constructions. People are demolishing old houses and istan, as it is in the municipal department Punjab tourism department official constructing multi-storey markets, and and other enforcement agencies,” the of - Shahid Butt told AFP that a deal was illegal encroachments are mushroom - ficial said. being worked out to move the illegal con - ing,” said Askari. SLOw PROgReSS: Main hopes for structions. “These shops are going to be At least 145,000 people live jam- preserving the city are pinned on a moved from here soon as an agreement packed in the area that houses the famed provincial government plan that has won between the authorities and traders has 16th-17th century lahore Fort and Bad - the support of development agency the been reached,” he told AFP. shahi Mosque, crowded into just over 2.6 Aga Khan Foundation, the German gov - Others are seeing ways to preserve square kilometres. ernment and the World Bank, but this the vibrant social life of the district where Sunlight rarely filters through the has stalled. Under the plan, the old city is street cafes and restaurants serve hot web of narrow alleys covering the district, to eventually see its famed buildings re - meals round the clock, and people flock where pedestrians are forced to wade stored to their former glory and properly from all over the city and further afield through piles of goods and hand carts looked after, while excessive commercial for a night-late meal. A new food street moving merchandise. encroachments would be removed from comprising more than 50 outlets serving Of the 13 original gates to the walled the streets. traditional cuisine has sprung up be - city, only six remain, and most of those But the project that was initiated five tween the historic lahore Fort and Bad - have been turned into shops, their archi - years ago has made little progress so far, shahi Mosque. But whether enough can tectural beauty lost and motifs peeled off. despite total funding of at least 860 mil - be done to defend a fast-eroding residen - there’s just a lack of enforcement,” he unique culture and architecture of la - Residents say it’s a health hazard, lion Pakistani rupees ($9.5 million). tial culture is unclear. “There is no organ - said. Mohammad Waheed, 43, another hore. “People living in these crumbling with ambulances and fire engines unable large-scale surveys of the area, its ised community movement in the area to businessman, called on the government houses are too poor to even move out of to access many of the 20,000 buildings in buildings, environment and economic ac - resist encroachments,” the official told to offer grants or loans so that people can here. Knowing the risks they are com - the walled city, where around half have tivity have been carried out, a planning AFP. “The restoration is work is sluggish, repair their homes, and preserve the pelled to live in those houses,” he said. bahawalnagar fdma repatriates lawyers rally against Country hurtles towards 2012 polls 145,338 displaced ISLAMABAD ultimately decide to convict Gilani of in the wording of a letter written to the AfP contempt, sentence him to jail and Swiss authorities. worsening security disqualify him – as well as Zardari – Most believe a solution can be families The government has won temporary from office. found, saving Gilani the ignominy of BAHAWALNAGAR respite in its bid to cling onto office but The president is also under pres - being convicted for contempt. StAff REPORt PESHAWAR early polls are inevitable as the army sure from a judicial investigation into While, the military – angry with StAff REPORt and judiciary plot to bring down the a secretive memo seeking to overhaul the government’s ineptitude and still A rally was staged by lawyers of the unpopular president, analysts say. the military leadership after the army reeling from the bin laden fiasco – ap - The FATA Disaster Management Bahawalnagar district on Sunday The power struggle between Pres - was humiliated by a covert American pears to have decided Zardari has to Authority has so far managed to against the deteriorating law and order ident Asif Ali Zardari’s government on operation on May 2 that killed Osama go, observers say there is no suggestion repatriate 145,338 families to their and increasing incidents of crime in the the one hand and the courts and mili - bin laden. of another coup in the offing. permanent dwellings of a total of 298,715 district. The rally started from the tary on the other is by any standards But the court’s decision to adjourn Instead the powerful military families displaced by militancy and Bahawalnagar District Bar and ended at toxic – even in a nuclear-armed coun - until February 1 has bought the gov - seems content to engineer elections by sectarian crises in FATA. The process cost Tehsil Bazaar. When the protesters try as perennially on the brink of crisis ernment at least two weeks’ reprieve building pressure on the government Rs 7,391.260 million, including onetime reached the office of the district police as Pakistan. after Gilani was summoned to face from behind the scenes and watch the cash grant of Rs 25,000 per family and Rs officer, they engaged in sloganeering No elected government in the contempt charges on Thursday. rise of political contender Imran Khan, 15,000 for provision of six month’s ration against the City police station house history of the country has survived a Opinion is divided on whether the rumoured to be the army’s choice. to each family. The repatriated families officer (City) and the DPO. The lawyers full term in office and almost from Supreme Court was victorious in forc - What remains to be seen is how belonged to Bajaur, Mohmand, Orakzai, refused the offer of dialogue by the DPO inception the daggers have been ing the government to accept its au - long the government can survive, Kurram and South Waziristan Agencies. and staged a sit-in to demand an end to drawn for the Pakistan People’s Party thority or whether the prime minister under what circumstances and when it The statistics were revealed during a criminal activities in the city. There are administration, led by the most un - emerged triumphant by standing his will be finally forced to call elections presentation given to Khyber two police stations in Bahawalnagar, but likely of presidents. ground and refusing to apologise. which are not due until the beginning Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister after crime rate has gone up, instead of yet Zardari has survived nearly Gilani faced down a demand to ask of 2013. Masood Kausar by the FATA Disaster dropping, ever since a new police station four years through nous and cunning. Swiss authorities to reopen corruption Few believe the Supreme Court, Management Authority at Khyber was established. Almost eight additional Polls in 2012 may satisfy an army des - cases against Zardari by insisting that government or military want elections Pakhtunkhwa House, Islamabad. & sessions judges, senior civil judges perate to see the back of Zardari but the president has full immunity, but before April’s expected completion of FATA Additional Chief Secretary Fazal and civil judges fell prey to robbers at Prime Minister yousaf Raza Gilani has the prime minister has gone out of his electoral roll reform that offers the Karim Khattak and FDMA Director Pattan Bridge on Wednesday night when already become the longest-serving way to show deference to the courts. prospect of significantly cleaner polls. General Arshad Khan attended the they were on their way back from civilian premier. “We respect the judiciary and their The country’s blazing summer briefing, which covered in detail the Khanewal after condoling the death of “2012 is election year,” says politi - mandate and we will respect whatever starts early and elections have never mandate, performance and achievements the brother-in-law of District and cal analyst and author Imtiaz Gul, re - courts decide in this regard,” Gilani been held during the hottest months, of FDMA besides information on its Sessions Judge Safdar Saleem shahid. gardless of whether Gilani survives told reporters on Friday. making September or October the most establishment, rudimentary functions contempt proceedings initiated by the “The crisis has been averted – for likely date. and emergency operations. Relief Supreme Court. now,” said well-regarded English daily. Analyst AH Nayyar said the gov - activities and return strategy for FATA ‘No decision on Millions of voters are fed up with “Both Zardari and Gilani have kept ernment was determined to survive IDPs were also spelled out with the crippling energy cuts, inflation and un - their nerve,” PMl-N lawmaker Ayaz until Senate elections in March in a bid existing measures and rehabilitation and Taliban transfer’ employment, and exhausted by the un - Amir wrote in another paper before to retain its majority and hold out for integration plans. The governor was popular US alliance that is blamed for comparing Zardari favourably to as long as possible. informed that 298,715 displaced families, KABUL: The United States has not much of the Taliban and al Qaeda- much-lauded prime minister Zulfikar But regardless of elections, there is who moved out from their permanent decided whether or not to satisfy a linked violence sweeping the country. Ali Bhutto. little doubt that the current govern - abodes in various agencies and on request from the Taliban to release five “All political parties want early “Zardari... is a far better politician ment is paralysed, offering nothing in various occasions, were registered by the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, elections,” said Gul. than him. Bhutto had a knack for mak - the face of crippling energy cuts and in - end of 2011and were settled in Jalozai, the US special envoy to Afghanistan and “There is economic crisis and so - ing enemies. Zardari has a knack for flation, not to mention the damaged Togh Serai, Benazir, Nahaqi, Danish cool Pakistan said on Sunday. “We haven’t cial instability and the government making friends and keeping them on US alliance in Afghanistan. and New Durrani camps. Nahaqi and made any decisions... We have to meet will therefore see early elections as the his side,” Amir wrote. “We are already in the middle of a Danish cool camps have since been closed the requirements of our law,” Marc only way out.” Analysts are divided on whether coup as the government is not being al - after their inmates moved back to their Grossman told reporters on a visit to The Supreme Court judges de - the court will accept the government’s lowed to function,” said military ana - homes successfully, whereas IDPs still Kabul, after two days of talks with manding that Zardari be reinvesti - position on immunity, force its hand or lyst Ayesha Siddiqa. “I call it a lodged in the remaining camps were being Afghan President Hamid Karzai and gated for graft in Switzerland could whether a compromise can be reached judiciary-cum-media coup.” provided adequate relief. senior advisers. REutERS ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 6

06News monday, 23 January, 2012 gandhara Hindko How Pakistan helps drone drive board sets up trust ISLAMABAD He said the United States bases REutERS drones outside Kabul, likely at for the poor Bagram airfield about 25 miles (40 HE death of a senior al Qaeda km) north of the capital. PESHAWAR leader in a US drone strike in From spotting to firing a missile StAff REPORt Pakistan’s tribal badlands, the “hardly takes about two to three hours”, first strike in almost two he said. months, signalled that the US- It was impossible to verify the A literary, cultural and social welfare TPakistan intelligence partnership is still source’s claims and American experts, organisation, Gandhara Hindko Board, in operation despite political tensions. who decline to discuss the drone pro - has set up a full-fledged Gandhara The Jan 10 strike – and its follow-up town of Miranshah in North North and South Waziristan, gramme, say the Pakistanis’ cooperation Welfare Trust to reach out to the poor. two days later – were joint operations, a Waziristan Agency. described for the first time how US- has been less helpful in the past. The decision to this effect was taken at Pakistani security source based in the That strike broke an unde - Pakistani cooperation on strikes works, US officials have complained that the executive committee meeting of the Tribal Areas told Reuters. clared eight-week hiatus in attacks by with his Pakistani agents keeping close when information on drone strikes was board which was presided over by the They made use of Pakistani “spot - the armed, unmanned drones that patrol tabs on suspected militants and build - shared with the Pakistanis beforehand, chairman of the organisation and former ters” on the ground and demonstrated the Tribal Areas and are a key weapon in ing a pattern of their movements and the targets were often tipped off, allow - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief secretary a level of coordination that both sides US President Barack Obama’s counter- associations. ing them to escape. Drone strikes have Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi. have sought to downplay since tensions terrorism strategy. “We run a network of human intelli - been a sore point with the public and The participants took a number of erupted in January 2011 with the The sources described Awan, also gence sources,” he said. “Separately, we Pakistani politicians, who describe them decisions keeping in view the mandate of killing of two Pakistanis by a CIA con - known by the nom-de-guerre Abdullah monitor their cell and satellite phones. as violations of sovereignty that produce the board that has been working for the tractor in lahore. “Our working rela - Khorasani, as a significant figure in the Thirdly, we run joint monitoring opera - unacceptable civilian casualties. preservation and promotion of Hindko tionship is a bit different from our remaining core leadership of al Qaeda, tions with our U.S. and UK friends,” he The security source said very few in - language since its launch in 1993 and has political relationship,” the source told which US officials say has been sharply added, noting that cooperation with nocent people had been killed in the to its credit 38 Hindko books. Reuters, requesting anonymity. “It’s reduced by the drone campaign. Most of British intelligence was also extensive. strikes. When a militant takes shelter in The general secretary of the board and in more productive.” the drone attacks are conducted as part Pakistani and US intelligence offi - a house or compound which is then charge of the Research and US and Pakistani sources told of a clandestine CIA operation. cers, using their own sources, hash out a bombed, “the ones who are harbouring Documentation Wing, Muhammad Reuters that the target of the Jan 10 at - The Pakistani source, who helped joint “priority of targets lists” in regular him, they are equally responsible”, he Ziauddin, gave a detailed presentation on tack was Aslam Awan, a Pakistani na - target Awan, could not confirm that he face-to-face meetings, he said. said. “When they stay at a host house, the literary, cultural and social welfare tional from Abbottabad, the town was killed, but the US official said he “Al Qaeda is our top priority,” he they (the hosts) obviously have sympa - work done by the board last year. He said where Osama bin laden was killed last was. European officials said Awan had said. He declined to say where the meet - thies for these guys.” He denied that the database of over 3,000 members of May by a US commando team. They spent time in london and had ties to ings take place. Pakistan helped target civilians. the board had been prepared. He said the said he was targeted in a strike by a US- British extremists before returning to Once a target is identified and “If ... others say innocents have been requisite information on the people who operated drone directed at what news Pakistan. The source, who says he runs “marked,” his network coordinates targeted, it’s not true,” he said. “We had laid down lives at Qissa Khwani on reports said was a compound near the a network of spotters primarily in with drone operators on the US side. never target civilians or innocents.” April 23, 1930 had been gathered which would be printed in a book form. He said the board would carry on the work in the light of the vision given by its founding- religious parties chairman Professor Dr Zahoor Ahmad Awan (late). JPJM demands local govt Senior Vice Chairman Associate Professor rally against US, Dr Adnan Gul said the board had extended cooperation to a non- india in Khanewal system to check corruption governmental organisation, Poverty Eradication Initiative (PEI), headed by a philanthropist, Shahid yousaf that KHANewAL: Religious parties took provided support in kind to the deserving out a rally on Saturday to protest against families. US drone strikes inside Pakistan, NATO He said working with the PEI was a great strikes on Pakistani posts on November experience and that was the reason that 26, and the government’s decision to the board had decided to set up Gandhara give India the Most Favoured Nation Welfare Trust to help the poor sections of status. The Difa-e-Pakistan (Pakistan’s the society. A Hindko researcher and Vice Defence) rally was organised by the Chancellor of City University Professor Pakistan Defence Council and Jamaat- Dr Anwaar Fazil Chishti explained the ud-Dawa (JD). Several religious parties, structure of the Gandhara Welfare Trust. including the Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat A United States-based cardio-thoracic Ulema-e-Islam, Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat surgeon from Peshawar, Professor Dr Wal Jamaat, and Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadees, Syed Amjad Hussain, promised all help to also participated in the rally. The the Trust. In charge of Medical Wing and procession started from the Siddique-e- vice chairman of the board, Dr Akbar mosque in Tariqabad, Khanewal Salahuddin said his team had began by and reached the Sanglanwala Chowk, visiting and extending help to the victims where JD leader Hafiz Sultan addressed after the October 8, 2005 devastating the rally participants. He alleged that earthquake in Mansehra and Azad the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Jammu and Kashmir. He said with government was working for American FAISALABAD erately violating” the constitution and utilising the local gov - support from the United Kingdom-based agenda against Islam. The rally PRESS RELEASE ernment funds to intentionally delay elections at grassroots Quest for Economic Development (QED- participants, holding banners and level in violation of Article 140A of the constitution. Daniyal UK), the board held free medical camps placards, shouted slogans against the Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Maqami-Hakoomat (JPJM) Chairman said that inflation could not be controlled through adminis - in the affected areas after the devastating Untied States and the Pakistani rulers Daniyal Aziz has criticised the present form of democracy in trative measures, but by increasing interest rates. He said floods on July 28, 2010. The doctor said “working to implement US-favoured the country in which the poor could not find a single meal and the top political leadership had taken loans of billions of ru - more free medical camps would be policies”. He said the people of were forced to sell their children and commit suicide. pees from banks, and were deliberately keeping the interest arranged this year as well. The executive Pakistan, particularly the religious Addressing a public gathering in Faisalabad on Sunday, rates low to keep their debts low. Daniyal said that similar committee approved holding of a naat parties, would never allow the rulers to Daniyal said that inflation had sent the prices beyond the gatherings would be organised in other parts of the country contest for the children on January 29, a risk Pakistan’s solidarity. Separately, reach of most of the citizens, who were not being able to pay as well to show the rulers that the people wanted their own seminar on February 21 to mark the the opening ceremony of Punjab Sports school and healthcare fees. He said the days of corrupt rulers system of government. He said the separation of judiciary International Mother language Day and Festival 2012 will be held today in the were numbered and the poor would soon be empowered. from the executive was also necessary to protect the women, second Aalmi Hindko Conference in city sports stadium. StAff REPORt He alleged that the provincial governments were “delib - minorities and the underprivileged. November, this year. Burden on SC increasing as other state organs fail parentage, existence of over 37 million exercising jurisdiction within its consti - ercise its power of judicial review. matter how much prudence is poured in fake votes in the electoral rolls, illegal tutional domain. Similarly, the legislature The judiciary as an institution does not analysing the problems, complete and in - conversion of public parks into commer - and the executive are also independent in comprise only of judges or presiding offi - stant cure is very unlikely to be achieved. cial centres etc due to the inefficiency and their respective fields subject to the con - cers of the courts rather the prosecutors, However, adherence to the high stan - ISLAMABAD misuse of powers by other concerned in - stitutional limitations. practitioners and the lawyers are all inte - dards of impartiality, integrity and ac - MASOOD REHMAn stitutions and authorities. The judiciary as a custodian of the gral part of the same. The judges, prosecu - countability can at least minimise It is an acknowledged fact that where constitution has to check constitutional tors and the lawyers play special roles in opportunities for corruption. On one hand, the burden on the Supreme other organs of the state are faulty or dys - deviations and arbitrary exercise of power ensuring peace and stability in a society. Unnecessary adjournments and re - Court is correspondingly increasing by functional, the burden on the superior by other institutions so as to ensure rule Although the implementation of the sulting delay in the disposal of cases are the day as other organs of the state are courts correspondingly increases. The of law and fair administration of justice. National Judicial Policy (NJP) enforced in problems persisting in the judicial setup falling either faulty or dysfunctional, and Supreme Court has powerful tools in the Chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar mid 2009 for providing speedy justice at even after the introduction of procedural on the other, when the SC exercises its ju - shape of judicial review, their jurisdiction Muhammad Chaudhry has repeatedly the grassroots has reduced the pending changes from time to time. Especially in risdiction to settle the matters arising out to interpret the law and the constitution, said that in the present democratic setup, old and frivolous litigation to a great ex - civil litigation, the parties have to wait for due to ineligibility of other institutions, it which if exercised with judicial restraint judiciary was trying to buttress demo - tent, much needs to be done, as the judi - years to get their grievances redressed. is criticised of going beyond its parame - can certainly benefit the nation. cratic and parliamentary norms. cial system faces problems of corruption, Protracted litigation not only lowers the ters, jurisdiction and domain. According to Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, It has never tried to assume the role protracted litigation and procedural flaws. confidence of the parties in the judicial The Supreme Court had to interfere in the present contemporary world in of the executive or the legislature, rather Over times, notions change about process but also overburdens them finan - in matters like the National Insurance which value-added knowledge is the cur - it respects the integrity and independ - what a legal system should deliver, thus cially. It also opens gates for further inter - Company limited scam, Bank of Punjab rency, the task of a superior court was ence of every other institution. It has al - the Supreme Court has always welcomed locutory applications and legal complexities. loan scam, Steel Mills’ corruption case, both difficult and exciting. The courts’ ways played its part within the and appreciated the recommendations of The judges as well as lawyers can Rental Power Projects scam, Reko Diq function appropriately and productively parameters of its constitutional domain. the bar councils and legal experts in mak - overcome the evil of unnecessary delays case, unjustified promotions of 54 bu - when other institutions of the State are The role of judiciary is not that of an op - ing the NJP more effective and up to date. in civil and criminal litigation by setting reaucrats, appointment of convicts and similarly performing their respective position to the legislature or the execu - Corruption is a vice that is impinging deadlines for completion of cases and en - NRO beneficiaries on lucrative posts, il - functions and duties. tive, however, in cases of unauthorised upon the process of fair dispensation of forcing those deadlines. The proper and legal car racing case, eunuchs’ case, reg - In any democratic setup, the judiciary actions in utter violation of legal or con - justice by the judiciaries of developed as sound case management can facilitate istration of children having unknown has to act as an independent institution stitutional norms, the judiciary has to ex - well as under developed countries. No early disposition of cases and trials. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 7

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HARsH weATHeR CDA fails to protect caged animals g Civic body unable to make proper arrangements at marghazar Zoo

ISLAMABAD SALMAn ABBAS

T seems that prevailing cold weather has only forced the human beings to remain indoors, but the reality is quite different, as different species of animals, iIncluding those in the capital zoo, are also experiencing same. Nowadays, the people who visits the zoo, generally known as Marghazar Zoo, have to wait for a long time in front of cages to see their desired animals as most of them prefer to take refuge in the cages which have been covered through paddy stems in the winter by the Capital Devel - opment Authority (CDA). But the season is much worst for these animals that have been ignored by the authority as husk is not being pro - vided to them. A source in CDA said poor financial condition of the civic body also affected the animals as lack of funds hampered the provision of modern necessities to keep the animals warm. The animals imported from foreign countries, like African black bucks, are that precautionary measures were oblig - several months, concerns had been raised the zoo staff. taken by the authority to keep the ani - more vulnerable to cold conditions. atory to protect them from various dis - about the CDA’s performance in protect - “I was searching for crocodiles. I was mals warm. He said although the animals “Since, they are cold blooded, they don’t eases, which could also result in their ing the caged animals. informed after more than 30 minutes imported from other countries were more have a body mechanism to regulate death. “I am standing here for last 15 min - that their cage has been covered through vulnerable, the precautionary measures their temperature; therefore, they opt However, the staffers of the zoo have utes just to see the bear, which has hid - tarpaulin. Now, I cannot even see that had been the same for all. remain inside the cages,” said the covered most of the cages with tarpaulin den itself inside the cage, may be due to whether the crocodiles are really present He dispelled the impression that any source, adding that the animals, like in order to save animals from cold wind. harsh winter,” a visitor Moin Raza said, in the cage or the CDA is making us a fool of the animals had been ignored by the deer and elephant, were not much af - “Already the capital zoo have limited va - while talking to Pakistan Today. He, how - under the pretext of winter,” said Jamil authority, saying the required food was fected by severe winter. riety of animals in it and any further loss ever, praised the efforts of CDA in pro - Agha, another visitor. being provided to all the animal species. A zoo official said the prevailing of an animal can result in a setback to the tecting animals from various diseases. The veterinary officer of Murghazar “We have also transported paddy stem weather conditions could cause pneumo - authority and it may also tarnish its Some of the cages, like that for croc - Zoo, Dr Bilal, told Pakistan Today that from Mian Channu to keep the cages nia to some species of animals,, adding image,” the official said, that for the last odiles, have been completely covered by special precautionary measures had been warm,” he informed. five public-sector Shifa launches campaign on cancer awareness varsities to form consortium ISLAMABAD StAff REPORt With a view to strengthening capacity building in the fields of social sciences, arts and humanities, five public-sector universities of Pakistan have agreed to form the country s’ first-ever inter-uni - versity consortium for promoting social sciences, arts and humanities. The formal MOU-singing ceremony will be held on Monday (today) at Islamia University Bahawalpur. Prof Dr S Sohail H Naqvi, executive director, Higher Ed - ucation Commission (HEC), will grace the occasion as the chief guest. The ceremony will be attended by vice chancellors, the HEC officials, faculty members and representatives of civil so - ciety and chamber of commerce. The faculty members and PhD scholars of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) and other higher educational institutions will participate in the ceremony through video conferencing. The seven higher education institutions which are going to join the consortium are University of Gujarat, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Islamia Univer - sity Bahawalpur, Institute of Manage - ISLAMABAD coloured ribbons for general cancer campaign, its objectives and details of will be arranged on January 31 at ment Sciences Peshawar, Shah Abdul StAff REPORt awareness were also distributed different events. He said Shifa be - China Chowk. He said on World Can - latif University, Khairpur, University of among the enthusiastic people. lieved that it was its prime responsi - cer Day falling on February 4, Shifa Balochistan and Government College Shifa International Hospital (SIH) Banners were displayed at the bility to spread information on would formally open its Cancer Cen - University Faisalabad. formally launched a campaign on can - parking space of Trial 3, while dreaded diseases like cancer. “We have tre, a state-of-the-art facility for treat - The areas of cooperation under the con - cer awareness by arranging a hiking posters about Shifa’s cancer aware - planned a number of events to create ment and research. sortium will include faculty develop - event on Margalla hills’ Trail 3 on ness programme were also given to cancer awareness and promote healthy Mirza stated that the centre was an ment/exchange as adjunct faculty Sunday. Dozens of children, families, the citizens. Consultant Oncologist lifestyle,” he said, adding that a torch- unique facility in the entire region as members, exchange of students and cancer patients, doctors and people SIH Dr Kamran Rasheed, while ad - bearing walk “light the Night” would Shifa had dedicated a complete multi- publications, joint research projects from all walks of life attended the dressing the gathering, briefed the be held on January 25 at Gate No 1 of storey block for cancer services. (each university will work in its respec - healthy activity. Eminent consultant participants on the deadly disease and Shifa International Hospital to express He said the hospital would also tive geographical area), joint linkages Dr Athar Niaz Rana, Chief Finance Of - importance of creating awareness solidarity with cancer patients. distribute coupons for free mammog - with other international and national ficer SIH Syed Munir Hussain and through healthy activities. According to the programme, soc - raphy tests for diagnosing breast can - organisations, joint seminars/confer - many other dignitaries were also SIH Strategic Planning Director cer matches are scheduled to be played cer in women on the occasion of World ences and workshops, diploma courses among the participants. Mahmood Mirza enlightened the audi - at the Sports Complex on January 28 Cancer Day. Free cancer screening will on civic/human rights education and Special caps with lavender- ence about Shifa’s cancer awareness and January 29, while a “Cancer Walk” start from February 6, 2011. other programmes of mutual interest. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 8 08Islamabad monday, 23 January, 2012 weaTHer UPdaTeS 14° C ‘O’ level students teach High poor garbage pickers 04°C g Over a dozen garbage-picking children being taught at a makeshift school low ClOUdy TUeSday wedNeSday THUrSday 13° C i 04°C 14°C i 03°C 13°C i 04°C

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monday , 23 January , 2012 Islamabad 09 HEC scholars return with vast int’l experience

ISLAMABAD etables especially okra, chillies and Dr Tariq Aziz, an assistant professor Besides, Dr Aziz is also working in a stress physiology, which he continued StAff REPORt tomato. His research results indicated at UAF, joined the University of West - collaborative study on differential gene during his post-doctoral research. He that by the application of calcium car - ern Australia’s School of Plant Biology expression in two wheat genotypes worked as a team member of the trans- R Saif-ur-Rehman Kashif, Dr bide in vegetables, yield can be in - for his post-doctoral study. He worked under P deficiency. This project will disciplinary research group and learned Tariq Aziz and Dr Zafarullah, creased by 30 to 40 percent which may on a research project aimed at increas - generate a genetic marker for large- several new techniques. He developed a who were funded by the result in much higher return to the ing phosphorus (P) efficiency in agri - scale screening of wheat germplasm for strong linkage with the academia and D Higher Education Commis - farmers, says a press release issued. culture, as more than 90 per cent of P efficiency. In recognition of the work researchers in Australia and wishes to sion (HEC) to pursue their post-doc - He received training for laboratory Pakistan’s soil has its deficiency. done by Dr Aziz, University of Western exploit the peer-networking for future toral studies abroad, have not only Biosafety and Blood Borne Pathogen, Salinity, drought and nutrient defi - Australia has conferred on him a posi - research and extension programmes be - learnt new research techniques in their Chemical Waste Management, and ciency, and in particular phosphorus tion of Adjunct lecturer for a period of tween Pakistan and Australia. respective fields but are also keen to Packing and Shipping of Infectious Ma - deficiency are problems common to three years. “It was a great chance to gain valu - implement the same for the develop - terials as per US Department of Trans - both countries. The project focuses on Similarly, Dr Zafar pursued his post- able research experience abroad. It has ment of their country. portation regulations. He also learned exploring the mechanisms which native doctoral fellowship at the Australian broadened my vision for research and Dr Saif completed his studies at the molecular techniques which he may uti - plants have adopted to cope with P de - Centre for Plant Functional Genomics life. I lived and worked under socially, United States Department of Agricul - lize in his future studies at university ficiency in soil. He is particularly inter - (ACPFG), University of Adelaide, under culturally and ethnically diverse condi - ture (USDA), where he conducted re - level in Pakistan. Dr Saif has rejoined ested in Ptilotus (an Australian genus) the supervision of Dr Mark Tester, a tions in Australia. This was not possible search on calcium carbide as a source of his parent institution, the University of as it has the unique ability to maintain world-renowned scientist. without the funding from HEC,” says ethylene and studied its effects on veg - Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF). its growth at both low and high P. Zafar has specialisation in plant the press release. Cm to inaugurate parking plaza soon RAWALPINDI OnLInE

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif will inaugurate a parking plaza at Fawara Chowk, Raja Bazaar, an official said Sun - day. Chief Minister’s Development and Monitoring Cell Chairman Sardar Nasim said the CM was taking keen interest in the development and beautification of the Rawalpindi city. He said that many mega projects had been completed and a number of projects were in the pipeline. It was a mega project of the Punjab govern - ment which had allocated worth Rs 180 million for the construction of the plaza. Spreading over 4.5 kanals of land, the plaza had five storeys and a basement and is lo - cated in the heart of the city. The parking plaza, an initiative of the Pun - jab government to address parking prob - lems at the commercial hub of the city was handed over to RDA and NESPAK pre - pared the project feasibility report and the PC-1. The traders welcomed the construc - tion of parking plaza at the busiest road hoping that it would help to address and mitigate the suffering of the commuters. LACK Of CIvIC AmeNITIeS IRKS TRAdeRS: Traders in the G-7/4 area have expressed concern over severe lack of civic amenities in their market area. Dilapidated roads, streets, footpaths, blocked sewerage systems, unattended garbage heaps, non-functional street - lights and complete lack of water ameni - ties are among the numerous unattended crisis plaguing the area. The recent rainy spell adds a lot to woes with dripping water while the enforcement squad also plays its due role in disturbing/harassing the traders of the area. Complaining that the CDA does not do anything itself, the traders have demanded immediate recti - fication of the situation. ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain addresses a gathering to mark Bacha Khan’s death anniversary at Aabpara Community Centre. staff pHoto

sUNdAy bAzAAR UPdATe Prices of vegetables, fruits continue to increase ISLAMABAD vendors were selling the same quality StAff REPORt edibles at different rates as there were no checks on them by the concerned au - The prices of vegetables and fruits at the thorities. She said that under such cir - Sunday Bazaars of G-6, G-10, and H-9, cumstances, it was very difficult for this Week this Week this Week held under the umbrella of the Capital people to run their kitchen. 76 per dozen Development Authority (CDA), wit - The demand for several vegetables, 24 80 nessed a considerable increase com - including onion, green chilies, garlic, Last Week Last Week Last Week pared to last Sunday (January 15). cabbage and bitter gourds increased 76 24 70 This week, the prices of vegetables, manifold on this Sunday, however they including potatoes (Rs 86 per 5 kilo - were found to be out of the common grammes), ginger (Rs 80/ kg), garlic (Rs man’s reach due to their high rates. ginger potato orange 80/kg), tomato (Rs 40/ kg), green chili CDA Chief Inspector at H-9, Haider (Rs 95/ kg), witnessed a slight increase. Imam, said they were making all possi - this Week this Week this Week According to the last week’s rate list, po - ble efforts to facilitate the citizens at the 68 44 110 tatoes were sold at Rs 80 per 5 kilo - Sunday bazaars. He said that the CDA Last Week Last Week Last Week grammes, while the other vegetables officials were visiting the bazaars peri - 60 42 100 were sold at Rs 76, 76, 32 and 90 per odically to address the complaints of the kilogramme, respectively. This week, or - public. He said that it was also a respon - anges, eggs and desi eggs were sold at Rs sibility of the citizens to inform the ad - 100, 111 and 160 per dozen, respectively. ministration about any problems. green chilli onion apple However, their price had been Rs 90, He said that they had ticketed eight 110 and 150 per dozen last week. vendors at H-9 bazaar, five at G-6 this Week this Week this Week per dozen Moreover, the price of ladyfinger bazaar and six at G-10 bazaar for over - 110 60 60 also increased from Rs 120 per kg to Rs charging and misbehaving with cus - Last Week Last Week Last Week 122 per kg, brinjal from Rs 40 per kg to tomers. Haider said that the CDA had 110 54 50 Rs 42 per kg, while the price of cucum - appointed supervisors at all weekly ber increased from the last week’s rate bazaars to check the prices, adding that of Rs 56 per kg to Rs 60 per kg this week. the administration had fixed the prices chicken tomato banana Amna, a housewife, said that the at a lower rate than the open market. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 10

10 Islamabad monday, 23 January, 2012 Two killed in road accidents ISLAMABAD StAff REPORt

A motorcyclist and a pedestrian were killed in separate road accidents, police said on Sunday. According to the police, a motorcyclist, Raja Kamran, was on his way when a speeding car hit him in the limits of Aabpara police station. As a re - sult, he was killed on the spot. The police have registered an FIR against the driver who fled after the accident. Meanwhile, two pedestrians, Muhammad Khan and his friend Bashir Masih, were on their way when a speeding car hit them at Chack Shahzad Town Road. They got multiple injuries and were shifted to a local hospital where Muhammad Kan succumbed to his injuries. Kalashnikov, hashish seized ISLAMABAD StAff REPORt

Police have arrested four outlaws and two beggars from various areas of the city and recovered hashish, liquor and arms from their possession, a police spokesman said on Sunday. According to details, Assis - tant Sub-Inspector from Bhara Kahu Po - lice. Station arrested Riaz Masih for possessing 15 bottles of liquor, while ASI Arif Hussain held Amin on the charges of ISLAMABAD: A vendor prepares milk and Jalabies at a local market. Demand of milk and Jalabies increases during the winter. staff pHoto possessing a 30-bore pistol. On a tip off, Sub-Inspector Muhammad Riaz from Tarnol Police Station arrested Taj from Sarai Kharboza and recovered 1.30 kilogrammes of hashish. ASI Zul - fiqar Ali from Shehzad Town Police Sta - Low gas pressure continues tion captured Naeem during routine patrolling from Jigiot Road and recov - ered a Kalashnikov from his possession. RAWALPINDI Khabba, Rehmat Town, Fazal Town-II, the twin cities of Islamabad and Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Meanwhile, two professional beggars, OnLInE Chungi Number 8, Allama Iqbal Colony Rawalpindi, which are posing a threat to and others are not taking necessary Faisal Rehan and Nadeem, were arrested and Dhoke Syeddan, are facing the prob - their lives. There are more than 200 measures to cover them. by Sub-Inspector Muhammad Zameer HE residents of the twin cities lem of low gas pressure. The citizens open manholes and uncovered drains in SANITARy CONdITIONS from Sabzi Mandi Police Station. of Islamabad and Rawalpindi complained if the gas supply situation Rawalpindi, which are a serious threat to wORSeNINg IN RAwALPINdI: continue to suffer a lot due to was worsening with the advent of winter the lives of its residents due to indiffer - The failure of the Rawalpindi administra - T low gas pressure in the cold season, during the peak winter season, ence of civic authorities. tion to improve sanitary conditions in lo - Heavy vehicles not weather. As housewives prepare break - what would happen with the consumers. Due to these open manholes, several calities under its jurisdictions can result fast, they face low gas pressure which last year, too, the consistent low gas persons, especially children have lost in outbreak of an epidemic in the city. forces them to bring bread from tandoors pressure and frequent gas outages had their lives, but the concerned authorities Fazal Town-II, Shah Khalid Colony, allowed to enter murree and hotels and it happens almost daily. caused serious problems for the people, are least concerned to solve this issue. Rehmat Town and other adjoining areas As a result the residents have started who were unable to cook and properly Apart from that, there are many in - could be rated as the worst as far as san - RAWALPINDI APP using liquefied Petroleum Gas (lPG) to heat their homes during cold weather. cidents in which people also sustained itary conditions are concerned. cook meals while some are compelled to The citizens urged the government serious injuries after falling into uncov - The residents of the Fazal Town-II Chief Traffic Officer Ghulam Abbas use firewood as fuel for cooking. and authorities concerned to take solid ered manholes. Such open manholes can especially of streets 5A and 5B are in se - On the other hand, the tandoor own - steps and find an immediate solution to be seen in areas like Pirwadhai, Dhoke rious trouble for so long. Small drains Tarar on Sunday said that heavy vehi - ers find the opportunity to overcharge the problem. People have also com - Hassu, Saidpur Road, Asghar Mall Road, and gutters overflow 24hrs a day that cles were not allowed to enter into Mur - the residents as people thronged to get plained about wrong gas bills. They say Sadiqabad, Dhoke Ratta and some other keep the streets inundated with wastes ree. He said mini buses or small vans loaves following low gas pressure. that despite less use and non-commer - congested areas of the city. always. Even after a brief spell of rain, should be utilised for school trip as “In our locality, we have been facing cial, they receive wrong bills. Muzammil Ahmed, a resident of the choked drains spew out filth onto the many accidents has been occurred on low gas pressure, making it difficult for The CNG stations in the twin cities Dhoke Ratta, said that there were a few streets which increase the risk of dis - heavy vehicles, he added. The traffic po - us to perform routine work in time and of Islamabad and Rawalpindi have also street lights in his neighbourhood. He eases to spread. Despite making tall lice was striving to provide best facilities sometime we send children to schools witnessed low pressure in gas supply, urged for the installation of enough claims, the concerned authorities have to the tourists come into the hill station. without breakfast”, Owais Amjad, resi - leading to long queues of vehicles. street lights so as to secure the lives of failed to launch a cleanliness drive for In a statement the CTO said that 55 dent of Fazal Town said. OPeN mANHOLeS A CONSTANT the people as it is the longstanding de - removal of heaps of garbage and other more wardens had been deputed to fa - Parts of Rawalpindi city, particularly THReAT: People have demanded the mand of the people of area. waste material, which could result in cilitate the tourists so that they could congested areas including Dhoke authorities to cover all open manholes in However, civic agencies like the outbreak of diseases. enjoy the snowfall and chilly weather. ‘Concerted efforts a must to give capital ‘green character’

ISLAMABAD ally. He said that the idea was not StAff REPORt confined to making the city and its surroundings more green, rather Former Capital Development Au - it encompassed a whole scheme of thority (CDA) chairman and Capital projects, including the protection Administration and Development and preservation of the ancient Division (CA&DD) Secretary Imtiaz trees of historic value that were Inayat Elahi on Saturday said that present all over the Islamabad the efforts to give Islamabad a dis - Capital Territory (ICT) limits, tinct ‘green character’ need to be launching the anti-littering drives pursued more aggressively in the fu - with full cooperation of the civil ture. society, improving the solid waste The CA&DD secretary, who was management, launching the rain recently transferred from the office harvesting project to prevent the of the CDA chairman to take up his waste of precious rain water and new responsibilities, was speaking at use them to improve the subsoil a reception hosted in his honour by water level. the Islamabad Horticulture Society “Now, there is a need to pursue (HIS) at the Islamabad Club. these efforts, which have already He said that during his time as been launched and are continuing the CDA chairman, he had conceived smoothly, more vigorously because the idea of giving a unique ‘green we owe this to this city, the people character’ to the federal capital that who live here and to our future gen - may become the city’s identity glob - erations,” the CA&DD secretary said. ISLAMABAD: Activists of Minhaj-ul-quran take out a Milad rally outside the national Press Club. staff pHoto ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 11

monday , 23 January , 2012 Editor’s mail 11 No more imran’s PTi yelling impressions The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf trusted left us like others. the party within few days. Why? How? Khan is too innocent to comprehend all Individuals constitute societies. (PTI) came into being almost sixteen How easily (within one year) Imran Unanswered questions. this. Moreover, the supposed formation Behaviours engrained in individuals years back, with an agenda of justice compromised on his sixteen-year-long Imran has said that PTI needs of a forward block with the name “PTI reflect in social spectrum in patterns. for all. However, today things have stance is surprising and worrisome too. electable candidates. My question is Nazariati” is evidence that Imran has The unintentional conduct of the masses, changed in PTI, for good or bad. Their Now there is an immense difference why don’t PTI create electables? Why left PTI. if read with a stable breath, can reveal manifesto was never clear since its between the ideology of 16 years back do they have to rely on the tried and Imran Khan, the man who chanted millions of impressions. These diverse birth and now it has become even PTI and the current PTI. Unfortunately, tested people (people who did nothing slogans of change, justice, and youth. and closely knitted, shaped over a period more ambiguous. The shift in PTI’s PTI is no more Imran’s party. when they were in power)? Bhutto Imran, who gave us vision and hope, of time – may even be touching centuries, ideology and vision has raised many Is he the same Khan who said that never came into power with any of the has now fallen prey to the same people, are too integral to unlearn in a shorter questions for the rational minds. With he would never compromise? People leftovers. He made his own electables. the people who betrayed us. Sad, but perceived time. We, the people of Karachi, the entrants of new heavyweights, and like Dr Shireen Mazari and Omer So why cannot Imran? true that Imran has left PTI, the party have lost our faith in anything good. turncoats, the party has now turned Srafraz Cheema, who were with him Currently, it looks like Imran has which we all consider a breath of fresh In our jokes, in our elegies, in our into just another party of riff rats and through thick and thin, are now left out joined a party of leftovers. Why Imran air has unfortunately turned out to be news, in the contemporary writings, in opportunists. It seems like Imran as nonentities. In addition, people like left PTI, what could be the possible just another party. the very nuance of our sarcasm, floating Khan has now left his own party. The Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Sardar Assef reasons? Is it the establishment using MARIAM KHAN amidst our inattentive inferences and by party we all trusted. The man we all Ahmed have taken the key position in PTI and Imran for its own motives? Mr Lahore the shores of our prejudices. We are locked internally and cannot afford any difference of opinion. We are not just mansoor ijaz’s testimony apprehensive or skeptic, but we are sick with suspicion. This is apropos to lead news that Whenever the truth was slaughtered, appeared in your esteemed paper (22 the liars clapped and the others were in Jan) that Mansoor Ijaz’s visit hinges on awe. Nothing was done to stop the security provided by the army. A total execution. Time has brought us all down confusion prevails on the security of to this point where we are all captives in Mansoor Ijaz who is the prime witness our own maize of truth and lies with a in Memogate scandal. remote hope of touching our long lost The matter is further compounded treasure – the faith in good. by the statement of interior minister MUHAMMAD FAIZAN that Mansoor Ijaz’s name be put on Karachi ECl on parliamentary committee’s direction, and he further added that provision of security is responsibility of repeating his mistake interior ministry, not army or ISI. Imran Khan, in his recent interview to This is not the only childish the Times, has clearly indicated that he is statement but many conflicting against democracy of Pakistan. He said, statements have appeared in the press “PTI will support SC if it asks army to to nab the witness before he appears in remove current democratic government.” the commission. This is something very It is not a surprising comment for well- serious. Prior to Memogate, there was wishers and lovers of democracy in nothing against him, now suddenly so Pakistan. His flawed logic regarding war many actors have come forward with on terror is something quite disturbing. various charges to sort him out, the key I wonder why some people call him a witness. leader. Every informed journalist and Behind the scenes, there is a tussle Pakistani might remember that when between army and interior ministry to dictator Pervez Musharraf was held a provide security to Mansoor Ijaz and it referendum on April 30, 2002, it was Mr is expected that notification is being Khan who launched a campaign in the issued asking army to come in aid of Criminal negligence? favour of dictator and he visited each and civil power. every corner of the country for getting On the other hand, Mansoor’s It was only a few weeks ago that the Punjab government disease. Some have even blamed it on the spurious medicine support of masses in the favour of a attorney Advocate Akram Shaikh have was battling with an epidemic called dengue fever. But it being administered by the hospital. If that is the case, a case dictator. He did all this because demanded a battalion of army for the seems their days of hardship are not over yet as another of criminal negligence should be instituted at once against Musharraf offered him premiership. protection of the witness. mysterious disease has come forward with similar symptoms the responsible persons. After ten years, yet again, Imran This simply means that Mansoor but with more deadly results. A number of lives have already SUNDAS ANJUM Khan is repeating the same mistakes. He Ijaz is not only being prevented but been lost as doctors are still clueless as to identity of this Lahore has learnt nothing from his past. This hurdles are being created to prevent time again, he is expecting a lot from the him to appear before the commission. establishment and has been actively These threats constitute contempt of Social media and politics rendering his services to them. Mr Khan, court and cannot be taken lightly. my kind suggestion to you is that time On the face of it, it appears that the The term social media is known to users and 5.9 million Facebook users and PTI fans. To draw a comparison, PMl(N) and tide wait for none. So please move interior minister is bent upon to many Pakistanis now but is mainly about 21 million internet users. has used its medium of social media forward for strengthening democracy. frighten away Mansoor Ijaz to appear misunderstood. Many limit the social PTI and PMl(N) are the two responsibly and in an effective way. History will remember you with your before the commission. Under such media to social networking sites whereas Pakistani political parties acting as social One should realise that only limited deeds, and it depends upon you what you threats no sane person would put his it includes web-based and mobile media giants. PTI is there on social audience uses social media and work opt for, either good or bad. life in danger unless 100 percent technologies used to turn communication networking site since last 3-4 years should be done on ground level rather DR SAIF UR REHMAN security is not guaranteed. into interactive dialogue. Social media in whereas PMl(N) just launched there than establishing a Facebook Islamabad The point to understand is that Pakistan has evolved into many shapes Facebook page in November 2011. Social government. PMl N’s “Kal kay Quaid” apart from verifying exchange of from being used for communication with media has allowed both parties to seems a promising event for finding Send your letters to: messages between him and the ex- friends or advertisements. Political communicate more effectively to the leaders among youth rather than PTI Letters to Editor, Pakistan Today, ambassador Husain Haqqani, he has to parties have now also started using social public. Many have termed PTI as a social using youth to abuse on social media. 4-Shaarey Fatima Jinnah, Lahore, Pakistan verify the contents of a report prepared media for interaction with their media terrorist because of their hostile Now as I have criticized PTI a bit, I shall fax: +92-42-36298302 by DG ISI after meeting Mansoor Ijaz supporters. Social media can be an behaviour towards criticism. As soon as be open to receive abusive comments e-mail: [email protected] abroad. important tool for political parties to you post something against Imran Khan from PTI- wallahs . Letters may be edited for length and clarity. MUKHTAR AHMED communicate to a large number of people or PTI, you should be ready to have the MAJID TAMOOR It would be appreciated if letters were Karachi as Pakistan has 113 million of mobile comment list filled with abuses by the Lahore addressed to Pakistan Today exclusively. Unjustified criticism

hard. One may not accept this re - even if the president enjoys immu - garding NRO or Memogate is MNA of PMl(N), who in one of tution in an important matter re - ality but this is what is happening nity under the constitution, it has nothing more than a chance at the TV talk shows on Thursday lated to the political stability of at the moment. to be sought from the court. But grabbing more and more power. said that he regarded Aitzaz the country. He is the same man The prime minister under the the government and PPP’s senior The man whose is represent - Ahsan for playing a very vital role whose party is in power but he did contempt of court notice appeared members are of the opinion that ing the PM in the contempt of in lawyers movement. But the rest not get any benefit. If he has been before the seven-member since immunity to president is very court notice and now presidential of the media criticised Aitzaz in the present parliament, he Supreme Court bench and ex - much written in black and white in immunity issue is under severe at - Ahsan. If we believe in the spirit could have been a potential candi - plained his position to the hon - the constitution, there was no need tack from left, right and the centre. of professionalism, then he is a date for the slot of prime minister. ourable judges that he had all the for any further interpretation or lawyers outside the Supreme lawyer representing a client like We should take a step back By Waheed Hussain respect and regard for one of the definition. Anyhow, all those who Court building shouted against many others do everyday. We and demonstrate maturity, de - most important organ of the state, wanted to bring the immunity Aitzaz Ahsan calling him a “friend should not behave in a crazy man - cency and tolerance. There is no here was much frustration the judiciary. The prime minister’s issue to the court have finally suc - of dacoit.” Many politicians, legal ner. If we have full confidence in second opinion that everybody and disappointment for all counsel, barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, ceeded and that is a problem now. experts, retired judges, analysts the court, which ultimately is has a right to debate and criticise. T those who were looking to - told the court that since President Much has been written about and TV anchors, most among them going to decide the immunity The language used on different wards the Supreme Court to pack of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, as the so-called NRO that a sin com - his close friends, used derogatory issue, then why is there a need for TV channels by participants, and up Prime Minister Syed yousaf head of the state enjoys immunity mitted by former President Gen - language against him. They personal attacks on a counsel? in some cases the anchors, was Raza Gilani’s government home on under the article 248 of the consti - eral (retd) Pervez Musharraf just blamed him he supported the idea Why have we forgotten that unfortunately against the norms the issue of contempt of court no - tution, the government could not to prolong his stay in the presi - of writing a letter to the Swiss au - he is the same man who was in the of decency. I wish to say that po - tice for non-implementation of the write any letter to the Swiss au - dency. It was a manifestation of thorities earlier, but has changed driving seat for the restoration of litical commentators and intellec - decision on National Reconcilia - thorities about the Swiss cases. the “Doctrine of Necessity” and a his opinion and is talking about an independent judiciary? He is tuals should differentiate tion Ordinance (NRO). The court asked Aitzaz Ahsan to reflection of the fragility of the po - the presidential immunity now. the same man who annoyed the between “Aitzaz Ahsan” as an in - At least for the time being, the appear on February 1 and argue litical system in this country. Un - We are not going into what leadership of his party for the dividual, politician and a legal ex - political crises, that unfortunately on the immunity issue. So, now fortunately, none of our state Aitzaz Ahsan said earlier and sake of supremacy of the rule of pert. After all, he, like all of us, is we in Pakistan are always exposed immunity issue of president will institutions demonstrated sincer - what he is saying today. The issue law and constitution. So much so a human being and should be to, are delayed, but not perma - be decided “first” and then will ity to cure the sick tree of our po - is whether it’s right to launch a that even his party CEC member - treated as one. nently averted. The NRO actually come the “contempt”. litical system. Many are confused personal attack on somebody’s ship was cancelled at one point was a trap, a sugarcoated pill with This is what many opposition as to in whose benefit the whole professional honesty and charac - because of his stand for the inde - The writer hosts a primetime poisonous effects. Wherever the political parties, politicians, ana - drama is being staged? To them ter only on this plea that he has pendent judiciary. He is not chal - talk show on a TV channel and NRO poison will travel, in various lysts, legal experts, and even the the debate or struggle among vari - changed his opinion on an issue. I lenging the judiciary rather can be contacted via email: wa - state institutions, it will hit them court itself have been saying that ous institutions or individual re - really appreciate Saad Rafeeq, appearing before the same insti - [email protected] ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:38 AM Page 12

12 Comment monday , 23 January , 2012 Vaudeville ijaz cometh the contradictions in pak-Us ties Interpreting the emerging tactics ou don’t travel in the cattle class once you’ve found favour with the furies. If someone up The American coverage of the strikes rein - Conflicting reports have also emerged on there likes you, the rules don’t apply to you, forced US policy of going after Al-Qaeda tar - where the Afghan reconciliation process cur - nor do you have to put up with less than gets irrespective of Pakistan’s permission. At rently stands. One of the slants suggests that y the same time, it also safeguarded Pakistan’s the US has taken Pakistan on board now and stellar standards. If Mansoor Ijaz had the personal security guarantees of no less than the interior credibility by claiming that earlier attempt to has given a green light to the inclusion of minister himself, he is in a good position, one that strike was denied by it. On the other hand, Haqqani network in the talks, which was one many from the country, in these lawless times, would Pakistan’s coverage was preparing the audi - of the key Pakistani demands. The report ence for the eventuality. In the absence of this added that the US is now avoiding any head- give an arm and a limb for. But that won’t be good early warning, the strikes would have had a on confrontation with the Haqqani network, enough. Reports are emerging that it is the army that demoralising impact. In the aftermath of the believing that it has a pivotal role in any future is to be deployed to protect the US national. Other Mohmand attack on November 24th, Pakistan political dispensation. reports, unverified till date but not beyond the realm had declared that in the future it would shoot On the other hand, the Afghan government of possibility, say that he is going to land not at BB Politact down any unauthorised intruding drone. has complained that they were not consulted The parameters of the new agreement may on the decision of opening a Taliban office in International, that den of plebeians, but at the military By Arif Ansar airport in Chaklala. It appears, claimed an exasperated be something like this: if the target is Al-Qaeda Qatar. Dr Abdullah Abdullah and Rashid Dos - Prime Minister yousaf Raza Gilani yesterday, that a he state of US-Pakistan relations related then authorisation from Pakistan tum have both criticised the peace process re - viceroy is coming over to survey his dominion. fluctuates with such regularity to would not be required. However, if it is con - cently for keeping Afghans out of the loop. such an extent that it is difficult to nected to the Pakistan or Afghan Taliban, then However, if Pakistan main demands were As usual, it’s a bit of a circus. The US national’s determine where it may stand on a informing and approval of Pakistani authori - met, then why was Marc Grossman visit put recent appearance in a raunchy wrestling video doesn’t given day. Conflicting media ac - ties would be needed. off this week? According to the foreign minis - change anything on the ground but only serves to lend cTounts further complicate this task. The puz - There is an additional dimension to why ter Hina Rabbani Khar, the relations between a quaintly surreal air to the whole episode. To say this zling status of this relation may be inadvertent there may have been conflicting reports. the two countries have not normalised since is right out of the movies would be a stretch because due to the nature of the differences between Media accounts emerged over the last week - the Mohmand incident and Pakistan should they don’t make movies like these anymore; perhaps the two, but there may also be deliberate at - end that Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in the not be pressured to bring the Haqqanis to the latin American soap operas would be a more apt tempts to confuse matters. The question is, by drone strike on January 10th. It may be that negotiation table. Additionally, until Pak - whom and for what reason. comparison. the strike was allowed against the TTP leader istan’s completes its review of its US policy, Perhaps the best way to determine the by Pakistan because its exploratory talks with the country wants the US to not send any sen - But even those facets of Mr Ijaz’s past, the ones state of affairs between the two countries is the group have faltered, as reported? And, as ior officials for the time being. Meanwhile, lt- that bear some connection to the country, like his through gauging how the Afghan reconcilia - a result, it has already started retaliatory at - Gen Shuja Pasha has been in and out of Qatar, other interviews where he trashes Pakistani tion process and negotiations with different tacks. Since the Pakistani Taliban are also in which means he is in contact with US officials intelligence agencies and armed forces, take a backseat Taliban factions are progressing. bed with Afghan Taliban, whom Pakistan does related to the Afghan peace talks. A similar when compared to, apparently, the only thing in the Consider, for example, the following sce - not want to offend, the media reports may discrepancy of reports has emerged on the universe that matters: his revelations about the matter nario. A couple of days before the January have been purposefully obfuscated. timing of when Pakistan would open the of the memo. 10th and 12th drone strikes in North Waziris - The situation is no doubt connected to the NATO’s Afghan supply line. tan, the media reports in Pakistan indicated Afghan reconciliation and the perceptions US Thus, there appears to be a coordinated There is a thesis that non-democratic forces grew that the country was negotiating with US on and Pakistan want to create at this juncture. Pak-US attempt to project differences and in - weaker and weaker in Turkey with every successive the new flight paths and narrower boxes for Some of the goals may be shared in this regard, ject confusion regarding their real ties, be - coup whereas the opposite happened in Pakistan. In the drones to operate in, and that the agree - while others may not be. For example, both cause this helps in negotiating with different Turkey’s case, the trajectory culminated in a failed ment in this regard was about to be reached. countries are concerned and want to prevent factions of Taliban. This approach also assists coup. In Pakistan’s case, if there aren’t any valid The story made sense since Pakistan had also any extremist alliance to emerge at this point. Pakistan in getting the public buy-in that is in - grounds to disrupt a sitting government, one can be indicated that it desired to revaluate previous In the recent meetings of Al-Qaeda, the creasingly hostile towards its cooperation with created. agreements. More importantly, the news ap - Afghan Taliban and TTP, reportedly held in the US. This does not mean that there are no peared to be preparing the audiences when it November and December last year, the aims genuine differences between the two coun - stated that after a brief lull, the strikes were of the newly formulated Shurae Murakabeh tries. Other than the apology over the about to resume. were to eliminate differences between the Mohmand incident, these divergences are not Never a pretence On the other hand, after the attacks, the groups and stop targeting Pakistan’s military, publicly known anymore. This has also been western media sources such as The Washing - while focusing more on the coalition forces in one of the consistent Pakistani demands from The menace around us ton Post presented a different account. It Afghanistan. The clause of stopping attacks on the Americans, to not discuss their disparity stated that on one of the occasions the US had the Pakistan army may have been added to of views in the media. t isn’t for the faint of heart, the video that the sought permission for a drone strike but that make it attractive for the military, and to de - Pakistani Taliban released, showing the murder was denied by Pakistan. Subsequently, the US velop divides between the US and Pakistan. The writer is the chief analyst for of the security personnel that they had did not seek its approval, presumably for the So, as US and Pakistan attempt to create di - PoliTact (www.PoliTact.com and I kidnapped. While the powers that be fret over a January 12th drone strike that is believed to vides between various factions of extremists, http:twitter.com/politact) and can be non-paper allegedly written by a former envoy have killed Al-Qaeda leader Aslam Awan. they are also trying to do the same. reached at [email protected]. ambassador, the clear and present danger that the nation faces makes itself clear yet again. On the vanguard of those playing the lute while the republic burns is the mainstream media that has no qualms with prioritising a slew of electioneering sound bites City of wailing walls and even fluff over incidents like the one mentioned. Balochistan is usually referred to as Pakistan’s the plight of Jerusalem forgotten war, a gripe made by those analysing the Salafist exclusion, aggression, response and Tuesday, January 17, for breakfast reading. province, comparing it to the treatment that the war the diminishing core of secular liberalism. Here is a mix of the day’s news. In london, on terror gets. Whereas Balochistan doesn’t, indeed, Fear, pride, bitterness and the excitable Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg get the coverage it deserves, the comparison is phantoms of suspicion hammer away at condemned Israeli settlements on Palestini - incorrect as the troubled north-west is woefully Jerusalem’s humanists. Time has not been ans’ land as “deliberate vandalism”. In Paris, undercovered as well. kind; it has created new barriers in the city fa - the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament Pakistan’s national security paradigm has been mous for walls. Today’s divisions, marked in had published a report accusing Israel of using cement and electricity, cut through emotions water as “a weapon serving the new designed with a specific plan for the northwest. A plan like frozen laser beams. Sunrise through a red apartheid”. 450,000 Israeli settlers, it pointed that makes it difficult to apprehend the militants at haze over east Jerusalem brings light, but not out, used more water than 2.4 million Pales - the best of times and one that doesn’t counter them at much clarity. The horizon is lost in the Judean tinians. Vandalism. Apartheid. These were all at the worst. The state’s policy of militarily third Eye desert, among the Jordan hills, battlefields of words being used not by the Muslim Brother - engaging the militants and then appeasing them and a war in all its creative facets. hood but by friends of Israel. then engaging them again has been giving lifelines to By M J Akbar Within the city, a turn of a street defines The enemy, in the meantime, had the militants all the while ensuring that the anti- the difference between the first world and switched generations. Hackers based in Saudi militant tribal lashkars are taken out one by one, he most complex word to explain is third. But the first is not always a modern Arabia, with net names like Group XP and mafia style. Even the “good” militants throw terrible surely normalcy. The standards of 7,000 world. The last time I saw the Wailing Wall of Nightmare Force, had exposed details of thou - tantrums when they don’t get what they want. Tyears flutter over the beautifully-lit bat - the Temple, devotees mingled; this time they sands of Israeli credit cards, blocked access tlements of Jerusalem. The sun sinks; the tem - were separated by gender, testimony to the temporarily to El Al, the national airline, and The Difa-e-Pakistan Conference, held yesterday in perature plummets; the decibels fade: it has rising grip of ultra orthodox Jews upon the engineered the crash of the Tel Aviv stock ex - Rawalpindi, had amongst its attendees, members of become a city of silence. The living trip warily holy city. Their numbers have been estimated change website. The young Arabs behind this several banned organisations. Some of these around the dead, who are exalted in prophets’ at some 2,40,000 in a population of 7,00,000; technological warfare promised much more, organisations wore the fig-leaf of having converted tombs, or massed in graveyards, or echo roughly the same number consider them - even as Israel’s tech-security elite scrambled themselves into “welfare bodies”; others, not even within memory and prejudice in competitive, selves secular Jews. The rest are largely, but to build yet more walls, this time in cyber - that. Though the freedom of speech affords many combative narratives. not solely, Muslim Palestinians. They live in space. On the edit page of the same day’s liberties to citizens, it would still merit mention that Jerusalem is the theatre of the final judg - Jerusalem because they are determined never Haaretz , columnist yitzhak laor said all he ment for Jews, who will either descend to to leave. They do not, however, participate, needed to say in the headline over his short, many of the speakers made speeches not against the gehenna (Arabic: jahannum ) down the hill, or awaiting instead another tide to shift the des - sharp piece: “Arabs have never been equal sitting government but democracy itself. pass through God’s gate of mercy above. tiny of unborn children. A century is a mere under the law”. Many would find such news The menace that plagues us doesn’t hide itself well Christians lament the betrayal of their saviour, page in a long history. good reason for not reading a newspaper. But and, apparently, doesn’t really need to. Jesus, not merely by Judas, whose guilt drove Palestinians lost their part of Jerusalem in there is an uplifting part of the story. Israel has him to suicide, but also by Peter, who choked the 1967 war. Since then, the defeated have a free press, guarded vigilantly by Israelis with whatever anguish he may have felt. They been in search of alibis and victors have been a strong liberal conscience. It is such a wel - mourn the crucifixion and celebrate resurrec - in search of peace. If the first is delusion, then come fact in a dictator-rich neighbourhood tion. Muslims glory in the ascension of the second is destabilising. Attrition debili - where a whisper has often been the only in - Prophet Muhammad to heaven from the rock tates one tiny nerve a day, but eventually it stance of free media. Dedicated to the legacy of the late Hameed Nizami on the mount at the spot where Solomon built leaves both sides unnerved. Conflict is always dangerous to the sur - his great temple. Israel might be able to deal with Palestine, vival of a liberal. But it is only when the liberal Arif Nizami If faith was not enough, Crusaders and but how long can it deal with the world? It voice commands that peace will obey. Editor Arab empires have left their mark on stone. can’t build electronic walls against london Lahore – Ph: 042-36298305-10 Fax: 042-36298302 Dinner conversation creeps through the intri - and Paris. I picked up Haaretz , Israel’s lead - The columnist is editor of The Sunday Karachi – Ph: 021-34330811-3 Fax: 021-34330900 cacies of claim and survival, possession and le - ing newspaper, established in 1919, just after Guardian, published from Delhi, India on Islamabad – Ph: 051-2287414-6 Fax: 051-2287417 gitimacy, construction and decay, before it the Balfour Declaration that set the stage for Sunday, published from London and Editorial Web: www.pakistantoday.com.pk Email: [email protected] gets lost in the labyrinths of ultra orthodoxy, the creation of Israel in November 1948, on Director, India Today and Headlines Today. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 13 monday , 23 January , 2012 Comment 13

the right side of history on caste and the pakistan army One should not be part of the march of folly Refuting an essentialist explanation

galore et al. The raunchy video context in which it operates is a n the banal and mind-numbing backdrop of op-ed tion that it both helps form, and sustain: the army. is just a side order. court’s greatest hope of remain - pages across the country, Aakar Patel’s recent piece All well and good on paper, but unfortunately, this The Memogate Order has ing relevant and commanding I on the civil-military imbalance in Pakistan ( Ex - theory falls flat in the face of everything else that’s left me deeply troubled, as a respect. For the PPP, the con - press Tribune : Of Punjab’s partition, castes & martial happened in our 150 year long history. If Patel’s thesis lawyer and more so as a citizen text is this: last time a PM from races) was a refreshing departure from convention. were used to construct a counter-factual narrative, it of Pakistan. The court cited US v PPP walked through the doors Here’s what Mr Patel had to say about the issue: would have resulted in a number of things. Nixon; but that was not a case of this Court, her government’s “My hypothesis is that the division of the Punjabi 1) The army would’ve been popular and power - where the original jurisdiction of dismissal was validated while a nation in 1947 produced a Pakistani Punjab that was ful from the day of independence. the US Supreme Court had been Punjabi got reinstated. The heavily weighted in favour of the martial castes. The This, as is well recorded, is not true. For invoked. It was an appeal from a time before that a PM from the trading castes, which tend to be more pragmatic and starters, Pakistan had terrible military infrastruc - District Court’s ruling. Hence, no PPP was before this court, they balance society’s extremism mostly left to come to ture in the first decade of independence, and a By Waqqas Mir judicial activism was involved hanged him. yes. let that sink India. This has produced the imbalance which ex - process of hardware accumulation became possible and the US Supreme Court did in for historical context. Is re - plains Pakistan’s fondness for a state dominated by only after the CEATO-SENTO deals were negoti - ot many individuals not decide to head an investiga - moving that blot less important soldiers. Gen Pervez Kayani runs the state’s foreign ated with the US by a civilian government. can claim the dual dis - tion, under its original jurisdic - than an article by a non-entity? policy, security policy and most of its economic policy 2) The two-nation theory, based on warrior-like N tinction of featuring in tion, as our court is doing here. you decide. And in that context, because the majority of Punjabis are comfortable with posturing towards India, was a product of the Pun - a music video with naked If, as the Supreme Court Gilani’s appearance embodies the idea of a warrior being in charge.” jabi imagination. women (one of them called conceded that, 184(3) cases symbolism and courage. let’s get one thing straight though: this particular False. While the two-nation theory is imbibed Nasty Nancy, no less) as well can not involve detailed factual If the security of person is line of thinking, i.e. the association of caste with in - and perpetuated by a large segment of the society as being involved in a national inquiries then why speak of ‘in - a fundamental right then its stitutional ordering, isn’t new. In fact, it’s been pres - in North and Central Punjab, it was actually cham - security scandal that involves quisitorial’ proceedings — unavailability to hundreds of ent in the Indian subcontinent since at least the pioned by the Muhajir bureaucracy in the first 25 powerful spy agencies and a defining them as ‘prying’ and missing and abducted per - middle of the 19 th century. years of independence. Ghulam Muhammad, a supreme court. Mr Mansoor where judges act as prosecu - sons, including Shahbaz As the story goes, in the aftermath of the 1857 muhajir accountant, who was the first finance min - Ijaz, however, is no ordinary tors? Deeply problematic in Taseer, is more dangerous and Mutiny, the Empire wanted to re-structure the British ister of Pakistan, gave a speech on the floor of the individual – or so he insists in terms of the logic involved, I heart breaking than Mansoor Indian Army in a bid to expunge the treacherous Ben - constituent assembly extolling the virtues of a pow - a less than charming nasal ac - would respectfully submit. Ijaz’s allegations. The threat galis, and accommodate more loyal segments of society, erful army, of diverting the budget towards arms cent. Perhaps no right-minded Article 184(3) envisages from the men in khaki and i.e. the Punjabis. The premise for this ethnic revision, accumulation, and of being prepared to mount a male would deny that a racy many things but to stretch it to people they trained has hurt however, was less arbitrary than it sounds, and was ac - credible defense (and where applicable, effective at - video has inherent virtues and accommodate an investigation us more than any imagined tually based on anthropological work done by civil ser - tack) in the face of an ever-looming Indian threat. considerable intrigue. But not is not just dangerous but also threat from politicians. vants of the Raj. Volume upon 3) The pre-eminence of Punjabi caste-based even a true connoisseur of such gut-wrenching for most Pak - As Noah Feldman tells us, By Umair Javed volume, detailing every charac - militarism limited and, ultimately maligned, capi - stuff would expect to find the istanis. I favour a broadly inter - when the famous Brown v teristic of how major and minor talistic growth in post-partition Punjab star witness of a national secu - preted right to life and a right to Board of Education decision was ethnic groups went about their Also not true. Patel, later on in the piece, cites rity drama in such a video. The information that should be rig - to be announced Justice Black daily lives, what they ate, how the case of trading castes in Karachi and Indian things we continue to learn! orously enforced. But imagine was in a fix. A former member of they spent their money, what Punjab as counter-balancing forces that keep mil - He also insists, “I have approaching this very Hon - the Ku Klux Klan, Black while were they good at, and what itarism in check. This particular reading of reality friends”. Hmm, sure you do. If ourable Court under Article 184 leaving KKK had signed a paper were their failings. These ob - completely ignores, well, reality. Pakistani Pun - Pakistan were a high school, (3) and demanding the names that read ‘ITSUB’: In the Sacred servations, put together in the jab, despite the large-scale flight of non-Muslim then the army chief would be of all those that the ISI, over the Unfailing Bond. But in Brown, shape of district gazetteers, capital in 1947, now sees urbanization at nearly the shady and silent guard, years, has abducted and tor - Justice Black seized his moment pamphlets, and, in some cases, 35 percent, and a provincial GDP that has a keeper of all secrets, you would tured. Imagine approaching this and redeemed himself. He ruled full book-length publications, greater contribution from trade, retail, transport, want as a friend. If he is your Court with the request that the against racial segregation and, ultimately led to the conclusion and manufacturing than agriculture. The Punjabi friend Mr Ijaz, do not worry. army should disclose how many despite opposition, marched on that some Punjabi tribes, i.e. trading and artisan castes, Arain, Kashmiri, Once in a while, this guard likes militant organisations it has the right side of history. Ruling the martial races (Janjuas, Sheikhs, Perachas, lohars etc, not only dominate throwing out the principal of trained, who received the funds to the contrary in Brown may Awans, Ghakkars etc), were provincial politics (through parties like the PMl- the school and run it himself. and who has been punished. not have made all US Supreme best suited for military service. N), they’re also quite keen on having good rela - Epic, I know. you definitely Would a petition seeking Court Justices racists but it This is precisely where tions with India. want to be friends with him. more information about killings, would have meant they fur - Aakar Patel’s hypothesis over - The basic premise of Aakar Patel’s piece is cor - To make a more serious by the agencies, of Baloch youth thered a dangerous narrative. laps with historical reality: The rect. The military is quite popular in Punjab and in point, one hopes that despite all generate equal enthusiasm? The They chose not to do so. All Pak - British, in their quest for pas - urban Pakistan as a whole, and its role in politics is his efforts, Mr Ijaz will be irrel - problem, the gut wrenching istani lawyers and judges should sive consent from the Indians, not looked upon as an indiscretion. But his explana - evant in the greater scheme of problem, as a Pakistani observ - look back at history and must skewed recruitment patterns tion is essentialist and quite flawed. The real reasons things. The tragedy is that the ing Memogate Order is not just constantly ask themselves, to such an extent that 67% of for the army’s popularity are in the historical imbal - narrative he is furthering, and the conclusion but the ignorance “What narrative am I further - all recruitment was happening ances created by the ideology of a seceding state, by others are lapping up, cannot of the larger historical context. If ing?” Justice, more tellingly in the hill-tracts of what is now the exigencies of an aloof, migrant bureaucracy, by be ignored for now. It falls in Article 6 and fears of treason are than beauty, is in the eyes of the Pakistani Punjab. As a stand- the machinations of global powers, by the self-serving sync with what the military es - what trouble the court, then two beholder. And the most unfor - alone fact, this particular con - accumulation of the armed forces themselves, and tablishment and all those Generals in Memogate should giving beholder is history. tingency makes Patel’s theory most importantly, the 64 year long project of vilifying deeply suspicious of democratic face its wrath and you don’t even very believable. Punjab has a mass-politics, political parties, and politicians. A rule have been yearning for. I need a Mansoor Ijaz article to The writer is a Barrister militaristic culture, it is the project in which, to this day, media and segments of mean if you were a Zardari- realise that. Generals Kayani and and an Advocate of the High largest province in the coun - the elite continue to be willing partners. hater and walked into a restau - Pasha were complicit in Mush’s Courts. He is currently try, it has, over time, achieved rant, Memogate is what you abrogation of the constitution. pursuing an LLM in the US pre-eminence in the affairs of The writer blogs at http://recycled- would have ordered. Sizzling, Remaining cognisant of the and can be reached at the state, and hence it organi - thought.blogspot.com. Email him at spicy, courtroom drama, media socio-political and historical [email protected] cally supports the one institu - [email protected] or send a tweet @umairjav ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 14

14 monday , 23 January , 2012 academy awards 2012: in limeligHt Reasons for a surprise

LOS ANGELES do his Academy strut once again. Here are maNilla: a performer performs during AGEnCIES five of them: the Chinese New year celebrations. AFP Best Actress is still up for grabs: Meryl The question you may have been asking your - Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher self after the Golden Globe Awards Sunday — in The Iron lady and Viola Davis’s stalwart apart from “Why wasn’t Ricky funnier?” — is servant Aibileen Clark in The Help repre - whether there’s now any point in watching in sent opposite extremes of social and eco - the Academy Awards. Coming just three days nomic clout. But the two performances are after the Critics Choice Movie Awards, which neck-and-neck in prize momentum, with had many similar results, the Globes had a Streep taking the Globe for Best Dramatic feeling of déjà vu: Actress and Davis taking the CCMA’s Best The Artist for Best Picture? Check. Actress accolade. Both will surely be nomi - JaiPUr: Talk show host Oprah winfrey and indian journalist George Clooney for Best Actor? Check. nated for Oscar’s Best Actress glory; either barkha dutt at the Jaipur literature festival. AFP Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Ac - of these popular women could win. The out - tress? Check. Christopher Plummer for Best come is impossible to predict. There’s also Supporting Actor? Check and double check. the chance of a spoiler from Michelle It’s looking like a very long and familiar Williams, whose well-received turn as Mar - road towards the Oscars on Feb. 26, with ilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn won many of the prizes for 2011 movies now her the Globe for Best Comedy/Musical Ac - mostly locked in. But a closer examination of tress. If votes split between Streep and the Globes and CCMAs suggests there will Davis, Williams could come up the middle, still be reasons to tune in to see Billy Crystal like the NDP in a Canadian election. it could only be... Daniel Day Lincoln LOS ANGELES his lunch break. Seven years in the plan - AGEnCIES ning, Spielberg’s lincoln is based on the bestselling book Team of Equals and JaiPUr: author Simon Sebag montefiore listens to former The obsessive actor is taking his will focus on the great man’s polit - correspondent and editor of The New york Times Joseph role as Honest Abe very seri - ical achieve ments during the lelyveld during the Jaipur literature festival. AFP ously, writes Paul Whitington Civil War, when he kept to - Daniel Day-lewis is currently gether a cabinet of bitter ri - JaiPUr: indian playing the title role in Steven vals and succeeded in author Spielberg’s big-budget biopic passing a revolutionary Purushottam of Abraham lincoln, and a new law abolishing slav - agarwal reads recent photo taken in a Vir - ery. liam Neeson was from his book as ginia restaurant shows he’s originally cast in the indian poet up to his usual tricks. role of lincoln, but in arvind K Sporting a Quaker beard, 2010 he left the project mehrotra looks swept-back salt-and-pep - and Day-lewis took his on during the per hair and a thin-lipped place. He’s approach - Jaipur literature half-smile, the actor looks ing the role with festival. AFP uncannily like the his usual 16th US President, intensity. despite being on

Sunny Deol hires Hrithik nervous ahead of new director for ‘Agneepath’ release Kangana Ghayal Returns MuMBAI: bollywood superstar, Hrithik roshan, has gears up MuMBAI: actor Sunny deol, who had roped in ashwini admitted he is very nervous and excited ahead of his Chaudhury to direct ghayal returns, a sequel of to his much-anticipated upcoming movie ‘agneepath’, which is 1990 hit ghayal, has now fired the director from the the remake of 1990 cult classic of the same name. project. apparently, there were disagreements between roshan, Sunjay dutt and former miss world Priyanka for Krrish 3 the two on how the story should be taken forward. Sunny Chopra recently visited dubai in order to promote their has now handed over the project to director rahul rawail, film where roshan disclosed his nervousness in front of who he worked with 12 years ago in arjun Pandit. the press conference. roshan, who even maintained a MuMBAI: Kangana ranaut is upbeat about her super incidentally, ashwini has already shot the first teaser of distance from the mike so that nobody hear is heart girl role in rakesh roshan’s Krrish 3 alongside Hrithik ghayal returns. Confirming the news ashwini, who has roshan. admitting that the role is crucial for her palpitating, stated he has given his best shot in the movie just completed shooting of bipasha basu-r madhavan career, Kangana says, “i had to push my other films and now when the movie is about to hit the cinemas, he starrer Jodi breakers, says, “There were issues. i was ahead. The Tanu weds manu sequel required me to is very nervous. roshan said, “for some reason it’s just hit looking at the film differently and Sunny was looking at it gain some weight, which i can’t do right now me now that the film is done and is about to release. it in another manner.” also, the director reveals that Sunny because i had to lose four kilos for Krissh 3.” She has been a fantastic journey and i think we’ve all put so wanted him to start the shooting in January when he was adds, “i am sculpting my body to fit into a special much into it that the anxiety and the excitement and the still in the process of completing Jodi breakers. “we were skin-tight costume. The whole training is taking so nervousness right now is quite justified”. Sunjay dutt, not on in the same page. Sunny was in a hurry to start much of my energy that i’m automatically losing the film. it was not possible to start with the film before i who will be seen playing Kancha Cheena’s role in the weight. The somersaults and kicks are new for my movie, in the meantime also, shared his thoughts with finished Jodi breakers. So we parted ways amicably,” says body, so there’s muscle pain all the time. i will also ashwini. an insider from deol’s production house, Vijeta the media. dutt has claimed on several occasions that be jumping from heights, plus i’m learning karate and bollywood has never seen a villain like Kancha Cheena films, reveals that director rahul rawail, who is presently kickboxing.” The actor, who claims to be the first making the sequel, was actually roped in for sequel of before and the actor was quoted saying the same at choice for the role, was called back after Chitrangda the press conference. “being bad can’t get worse than deol’s last hit yamla Pagla deewana (yPd, 2011), originally Singh and Jacqueline fernandes walked out citing directed by Samir Karnik. apparently, Sunny has scrapped Kaancha,” dutt said. in the end Priyanka, who will play date issues. She will commence shooting for the a lead role (Kaali) opposite to Hrithik roshan, ashwini’s script and is set to start fresh with rahul. ask ishqiya sequel around June and will continue rahul why he is shifted from yPd to ghayal returns, and expressed her views with the public. AGEnCIES shooting for Krrish 3 till October. AGEnCIES he says, “i have no idea. AGEnCIES ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 15 15 Ranbir, Vidya adjudged ‘best’ at Zee Cine Awards 2012 MACAU zEE nEWS

HE Venetian Macau saw a starry evening as Bollywood stars de - scended to sizzle at the Zee Cine Awards 2012. ‘Rockstar’ Ranbir Kapoor grabbed the Best Actor’s Award while ‘Dirty’ Vidya Balan was adjudicated the Best Actress. Shah Rukh Khan and his best friend ‘Junglee Billi’ aka Priyanka Chopra hosted the event as Bollywood lTovers made the most of the evening by following their favorite superstars closely. Here’s a look at the winners of the 2012 Zee Cine Awards.

best actor (Popular) – ranbir Kapoor for ‘rockstar’ best lyrics – irshad Kamil for ‘rockstar’ best actress (Popular) – Vidya balan for ‘The dirty Picture’ best Song – ishq Sufiana from ‘The dirty Picture’ best director – imtiaz ali for ‘rockstar’ best Singer (female) – Shreya ghoshal for ‘Saibo’ from ‘Shor in The City’ best actor (Jury) – Shah rukh Khan for ‘don 2’ best Singer (male) – mohit Chauhan for ‘Jo bhi main’ from ‘rockstar’ best actress (Jury) – Vidya balan for ‘The dirty Picture’ international icon female – Katrina Kaif best film (Jury) – The dirty Picture international icon male – farhan akthar best action film – ra.One best music – ar rahman lifetime achievement award – Jeetendra best marketed film – ‘ra.One’ best debut female – Parineeti Chopra for ‘ladies vs ricky bahl’ best Supporting actor – farhan akhtar for ‘Zindagi Na milegi dobara’ best debut male – rana daggubati for ‘dum maaro dum’ best Supporting actress – Swara bhaskar for ‘Tanu weds manu’ best Story – Zoya akhtar and reema Kagti for ‘Zindagi Na milegi dobara’ best debut director – Siddique for ‘bodyguard’ best Sound design – resul Pookutty for ‘ra.One’ best use of media – ‘ra.One’ best actor in a Negative role – Prakash raj for ‘Singham’ Song of the year – Chammak Challo from ‘ra.One’ best Cinematography - Carlos Catalan for ‘Zindagi Na milegi dobara’ best Choreography – Ooh la la from ‘The dirty Picture’ best editing – aarti bajaj for ‘rockstar’

when filmmakers The Artist wins Producers Guild Award find their dream LOS ANGELES duced animated film, beating the AGEnCIES likes of Cars 2, Rango, Puss In Boots PariS: LOS ANgeLeS: In Hollywood’s a dream and Kung Fu Panda 2. factory, even the biggest filmmakers can find it models The Artist has continued its awards Other award winners included walk the difficult if not impossible to turn a dream into success, taking the top honour at the Beats, Rhymes and life: The Travels reality. This weekend sees the release of “Red ramp at the Producers Guild Awards in los An - of a Tribe Called Quest for best-pro - Paris men’s Tails,” an action-drama about the Tuskegee geles. duced documentary, which explores Airmen during WWII. Producer George lucas — week. AFP Producer Thomas langmann re - the journey of influential hip-hop “Star Wars” George lucas — has been wanting to ceived the award for his work on the group A Tribe Called Quest. An - make the movie for over 20 years. Call them silent film, which collected three gelina Jolie received the Stanley passion projects. “Red Tails” is the latest Golden Globe prizes last week. The Kramer award - a prize recognising cherished story, but there are more on the way in film beat nine others to the title, in - films that highlight provocative so - 2012. last year, Terrence Malick’s long- cluding The Descendants, War cial issues - for her directorial debut, gestating project about Horse, Moneyball, The Help and In the land of Blood and Honey, the universe and a Bridesmaids. There was also British which she also wrote and produced. mid-’50s Texas success for Downton Abbey, which Spielberg was also awarded the family evolved won in the long-form television cat - David O Selznick achievement award into “The Tree of egory. “When Michel Hazanavicius and comic-book legend Stan lee re - life,” while Steven and I dreamed of making The Artist, ceived the Vanguard award, pre - Spielberg and Peter we knew we were dreaming of writ - sented by Spiderman actor Tobey Jackson ing a love letter to American cin - Maguire. In the other TV categories, collaborated as ema,” langmann said in his Modern Family was named best- director and acceptance speech. “We never knew produced television comedy for a producer on in return we would get a taste of the second consecutive year. “The Adventures American dream.” And Martin Scorsese-produced of Tintin,” about a Steven Spielberg’s The Adven - mobster saga Boardwalk Empire was comics character that tures of Tintin picked up best-pro - named best-produced TV drama. both hold dear. AGEnCIES gauri Khan Ridley Scott launches snubs Priyanka online film competition MuMBAI: actress Priyanka Chopra’s personal life has always been as talked about as her professional life. it seems it was no different this time either. The actress, who flew in straight from dubai to macau, the venue of Zee Cine awards 2012, got down to rehearsing for her awards act right away. PC is hosting the awards with actor Shah rukh Khan and the duo was rehearsing for their acts from 9 in the night to 6 in the morning. while both were accompanied by their set of friends, SrK had wife gauri for company who had dropped by for a while. SrK and PC went on with their rehearsalsgetting their lines right, cues on time and matching their dance steps. Shiamak davar, who choreographed the entire act, was on stage, giving instructions, when gauri walked up to him to say hello. He gave her a warm embrace and the duo stood there chatting up. when PC noticed gauri standing close to the stage, she walked up to her to greet her. However, when she extended her arm to LOS AnGELES: Oscar-nominated filmmaker ridley Scott is launching a new online competition to send 10 shake hands with her, apparently gauri ignored budding moviemakers to this year’s Venice film festival. The 74-year-old director has joined forces with her and did not reciprocate the gesture. “She video-sharing website youTube to launch the campaign, asking fans to create their own 15-minute films just stood there with her hands to her back and post them on the site, daily express reported. “Short film-making is exactly where i started my career and continued talking to Shiamak,” said an 50 years ago. So to be helping new film-makers find an entry point like this into the industry is onlooker. Unfazed, PC however dismissed the fantastic,” he said. The final 10 films, which will be voted for by the public, will all be screened at the entire episode and went back to rehearsing italian film festival, while the overall winner will also receive a USd 312,500 grant to create a movie with her act with SrK. AGEnCIES Scott. Submissions will be accepted online till march 31. AGEnCIES ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 16 16 Foreign News monday , 23 January , 2012 2 Qaeda suspects killed in clashes with yemen army ADEN AfP

Two suspected Al-Qaeda fighters were killed in clashes with yemeni troops in the restive southern province of Abyan, a local official said on Sunday. The clashes flared on Saturday night in the provincial capital Zinjibar, where troops have been battling militants for nearly eight months to regain control of territory lost to the extremist group last May. In a separate incident Sunday in the nearby town of loder, an unexploded ordnance accidentally detonated, killing a little boy and wounding his father and two sisters, according to a relative. The family had just returned from Zinjibar, on a quick trip to gather some personal belongings from their home which they fled last year due to ongoing clashes between Al-Qaeda militants and government troops. According to the relative, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, the child had unintentionally picked up the explosive device from his abandoned home in Zinjibar, and packed it with the family belongings. It exploded after the family arrived in loder. Al-Qaeda and its local affiliates, known as the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), who already have a strong presence in southern and eastern provinces, on January 15 overran Rada, a town just 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Sanaa. SAnAA: Yemeni anti-regime demonstrators rally against the law of immunity approved by the House of Representatives in the capital on Sunday. tens of thousands of Yemenis demanded President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s execution in protests against a law giving him full immunity from prosecution over a deadly crackdown on dissent. afp algeria begins trying top Qaeda boss Un envoy urges ALGIERS Arabs meet on Syria mission, AfP iraqi bloc to ‘fight An Algerian court Sunday began trying in parliament’ Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a top leader in Al- rebels ‘overrun town’ Qaeda’s north African branch, in absentia BAGHDAD for the deaths of two Algerian soldiers. CAIRO tend and expand its observer mission, have since been killed in a bloody AfP Belmokhtar and nine co-defendants, of AfP despite strong criticism that it has crackdown on dissent, despite the ob - whom four are also on the run, are accused failed to stem 10 months of deadly vio - server mission. The SNC has appealed Iraq’s main Sunni-backed bloc should help of perpetrating several “terrorist acts” N Arab league meeting lence. Arab league chief Nabil al-Arabi to the Arab league to turn the Syria cri - resolve the country’s political crisis within including a May 2010 attack on soldiers in opened Sunday to decide was at the Cairo talks and due to chair sis over to the United Nations. Its chief parliament rather than stage a boycott, the the southern Djelfa region that left two the future of its heavily a broader meeting of foreign ministers Burhan Ghaliun met on Saturday with UN’s envoy to Baghdad told AFP on dead. Belmokhtar, a native of central criticised observer mis - from the 22-member bloc to decide the Arabi to lobby for scrapping the ob - Sunday. His remarks came more than a Algeria, is a founding member of the sion to unrest-swept future of the mission launched a month server mission. But a mission official, month after a row broke out between the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat SAyria, where activists said army defec - ago. Sunday’s report was being deliv - on condition of anonymity, has said the Shiite-led government and ex-premier Iyad tors briefly overran a protest hub near ered by the mission’s chief, General operation would be extended and the (GSPC), which later became known as Al- Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc after authorities Damascus. Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi of number of observers almost doubled to Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). charged Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a A league panel began closed-doors Sudan, who wants his mandate needs 300. Deputy chief of operations Ali Belmokhtar heads one of AQIM’s two main Sunni and Iraqiya member, with running a talks to hear a report on the mission to be strengthened, not scrapped, a Jarush said Dabi is satisfied with its katibas (battalions), controlling the group’s death squad. “The government should ahead of a decisive meeting of the league official said. achievements so far and that “every - southern area. Nicknamed “the work, the parliament should work,” Martin bloc’s foreign ministers. Fierce clashes In a statement late Saturday, Dabi thing indicates the observer mission in uncatchable”, Belmokhtar rules over a Kobler said in an interview. “There is a erupted late Saturday in Douma, just said the mission’s mandate was “to ver - Syria will be extended by a month.” large swathe of desert that straddles separation of power in this country.” “I do northeast of Damascus, after security ify that the Syrian government has im - “Dabi sees that in the last phase the Algeria, Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania not think that boycott is a good idea. People forces shot dead four civilians at a fu - plemented the terms of an Arab league necessary thrust (of the operation) was and where his men are believed to hold have to sit together and they have to fight neral in the town, said the Syrian Ob - plan to solve the crisis, not to stop the achieved after more monitors were de - several Europeans hostage. Belmokhtar has their political differences in the parliament, already been sentenced in absentia to life servatory for Human Rights. “Groups bloodshed and violence.” But the oppo - ployed and fanned across 20 areas and of deserters took control of all districts sition Syrian National Council has been after they were provided with equip - on the basis of the constitution.” He imprisonment in 2004 and 2008, and to continued: “That is the place, parliament is 20 years in prison in 2007, over similar in the town of Douma ... after fierce lobbying for UN intervention and said ment and logistics,” he said. But the fighting” with Syrian security forces,” it would reveal “a counter-report” later SNC charged that Dabi’s report would the place where political disputes have to be charges and the killing of 13 customs solved.” last month, Iraqiya began a officers. In November Belmokhtar told a the Observatory’s chief Rami Abdel on Sunday to try to discredit Dabi’s ac - not be credible. Qatar has proposed boycott of parliament and cabinet to protest Mauritanian news website that AQIM had Rahman told AFP. “Dissident groups count. The SNC said it also plans to that Arab troops be deployed in Syria, what it charged was Prime Minister Nuri al- acquired libyan weapons during fighting withdrew from the town and returned send a delegation to the United Nations but Damascus rules out the proposal. Maliki’s centralisation of power, and has that ended in the overthrow and killing of to their bases,” the Britain-based group to press the Security Council for inter - In violence on Saturday, a roadside since called for Maliki to respect a power- strongman Moamer Kadhafi. later said in a statement, without giving vention, International pressure has bomb killed 17 detainees being trans - a casualty toll for the operation. been steadily growing on the regime of ported in a prison truck in Idlib sharing deal or quit. Authorities have Clashes also broke out on Sunday out - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with province in the northwest of the coun - issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi while side Douma between security forces more than 5,400 people killed since try, said the Observatory. State news Maliki, a Shiite, has said his Sunni deputy Kuwait top court clears and defectors in what appeared to be a anti-government protests broke out agency SANA said “an armed terrorist Saleh al-Mutlak should be sacked after the bid by government troops to recapture last March, according to UN figures. group” attacked the vehicle in Al-Mas - latter said the premier was “worse than alleged Qaeda cell the town, according to the Observatory. The Arab league deployed ob - touma area, “killing 14 prisoners and Saddam Hussein”. Hashemi, who denies It said two civilians were shot dead on servers in Syria for a mission on De - wounding 26 others.” Nine govern - the charges, has been holed up in the Sunday in Damascus province, includ - cember 26, and there are presently ment troops were killed in clashes with autonomous Kurdish region since the crisis KUWAIT CITY flared and Kurdish officials have so far AfP ing a 30-year-old man killed at a secu - about 165 monitors on the ground. The dissident soldiers near a military road - rity forces’ checkpoint into Douma. local Coordination Committees, which block in the central city of Maaret declined to hand him over to Baghdad. The flareup came just as US troops were Kuwait’s supreme court on Sunday con - At a meeting of foreign ministers in organises anti-regime protests, said in Numan, the Observatory reported. One completing their withdrawal. firmed the acquittal of six nationals Cairo, the Arab league looked set to ex - a statement on Sunday that 976 people deserter was also killed in the clash. charged with plotting attacks on a US mili - tary base in 2009 after forming an Al- Qaeda cell, one of their lawyers said. The ruling is final after the men were also ac - quitted by a lower court in May 2010 and bird flu claims second victim in china by the court of appeal in November 2010, Abdullah al-Kundari said in a statement. BEIJING to hospital in Guiyang — capital of in China who have died from the disease pass easily among humans. The World The men, along with two other fugitives, AfP Guizhou province — where his condition — which is fatal in humans in about 60 Health Organization (WHO) says it has were charged with plotting to attack the rapidly deteriorated, the provincial health percent of cases — since 2003, out of 42 never identified a “sustained human-to- US military base at Arifjan, 70 km (45 A man in southwest China who con - department said in a statement. reported human cases. The Hong Kong human spread” of the virus since it re- miles) south of Kuwait City, that is home tracted the bird flu virus died on Sunday, Tests on the patient before he died Department of Health said in a statement emerged in 2003. But according to the to more than 15,000 American troops. The health authorities said, the second confirmed he had contracted the H5N1 Sunday it had been notified of the case by Hong Kong health department, the case of the two others, who were tried and human death from the virulent disease in virus, it added. “So far, 71 people who had the mainland’s health authorities, which Guizhou province victim, who has not acquitted in absentia by the lower courts, the country in just under a month. close contact with the victim have not de - said the patient was 39 years old. been named, had not reported any obvi - did not come up before the supreme court The news comes after neighbouring veloped abnormal symptoms,” the health Authorities from Hong Kong and the ous exposure to poultry before the onset because they are still outside the country. Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia also department said. He is the second man to mainland have been working closely to - of symptoms. The Guangdong victim, Five of the men were arrested in August reported deaths from avian influenza, die from bird flu in China in less than a gether since three chickens in the Chinese whose surname was Chen, had not had 2009 while the sixth defendant was al - and after chickens tested positive for the month, after a bus driver in the southern territory tested positive for the H5N1 any direct contact with poultry either in ready serving a life sentence for a 2002 at - H5N1 virus in Hong Kong, prompting a province of Guangdong passed away from virus in mid December. Most human in - the month before he was taken ill, nor tack on the US military in Kuwait that mass cull of birds. The latest Chinese vic - the disease on December 31. The latest fections are the result of direct contact had he left the bustling southern metrop - killed an American soldier. tim fell ill on January 6 and was admitted death brings to 28 the number of people with infected birds, and the virus does not olis of Shenzhen where he lived. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 17 monday , 23 January , 2012 Foreign News 17 Killing of French troops ‘individual action’: Karzai

KABUL against French forces by an Afghan army soldiers are prompted purely by Earlier Sunday, longuet and General draped in the French flag before being AfP soldier does not represent the anger of patriotism and anger towards the John Allen, the US commander of foreign carried aloft into the snow-covered jet Afghan people but it is just an isolated “invading enemy”. longuet had thanked troops in Afghanistan, presided over a French presidential jet. longuet held HE killing of four French and individual action,” he said. It was a Karzai for his condolences “and assured solemn repatriation ceremony for the talks with Karzai, Allen and the Afghan troops by an Afghan army matter of concern that for the second time his country’s continued assistance to bodies of the four French troops at a interior and defence ministers on how soldier was “an isolated and “an Afghan army soldier turned his Afghanistan”, the statement said. The snowy Kabul airport. “The enemy will not better to protect French troops training individual action” and did not weapon on French soldiers” and the defence minister had said “France will hesitate to resort to the worst acts of Afghan soldiers as part of NATO’s represent the anger of the ministry of defence had been assigned to sign long term strategic treaty with the treachery. your mission was symbolic: to mission. Six French soldiers have been ATfghan people, President Hamid Karzai investigate the issue, the statement said. government of Afghanistan... and will live with Afghan soldiers, to teach them shot dead in just three weeks by Afghans said Sunday. The French defence minister said continue its assistance to Afghanistan and not to protect yourselves,” said NATO they were training. Twelve of the 15 Karzai was speaking after meeting Saturday that he had been told that the beyond 2014”, according to the statement. lieutenant General Olivier de soldiers wounded in Friday’s attack have French Defence Minister Gerard longuet Afghan soldier who killed the troops was When news of the shooting broke on Bavinchove. “you died for a just cause: for already been evacuated to France. Two who flew to Kabul in the wake of the a Taliban infiltrator, but Karzai did not Friday an angry French President righteousness and freedom,” he said at others, too badly wounded to travel, are shooting at a French base on Friday. The mention this allegation. The Taliban say Nicholas Sarkozy warned that France the the ceremony attended by some 700 being treated in the American military president “expressed his sadness” over they are investigating to see whether the could pull its troops out of the US-led soldiers and Catholic and Protestant hospital at Bagram base in Afghanistan. the incident, a statement from the shooter had links with the insurgents, coalition in Afghanistan before the clerics. The four coffins, accompanied by The last soldier is being treated at a presidential palace said. “The attack suggesting that some attacks by Afghan planned withdrawal in 2014. photographs of the fallen soldiers, were French hospital in Afghanistan. israel seeks compromise on illegal outpost JERUSALEM AfP

Israel on Sunday proposed a compromise deal allowing residents of an illegal West Bank outpost that the high court has ordered evacuated to stay in their homes while new ones are constructed nearby. The High Court of Justice has ordered the government to demolish the Migron outpost, which was established on private Palestinian land and without government authorisation, by the end of March 2012. But under a proposal by cabinet minister Benny Begin and approved by the government on Sunday, residents would be allowed to remain in their homes until new ones are built for them around two kilometres away (just over a mile). The new location, also in the West Bank, would be on land under full Israeli control. The area where Migron currently stands would be handed to Israel’s Civil Administration, the military government that administers the portions of the West Bank under full Israeli civil and military control. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his ministers that the deal could help resolve a sensitive issue. “This is a good suggestion, it doesn’t solve all the problems, but can solve Migron’s,” he ISOLA DEL GIGLIO: Kids play as tourists take a look at the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia off the coast on Sunday. Italian rescuers again suspended their search for 20 people still missing since a cruise liner told members of his cabinet. Migron has capsized more than a week ago, officials said. Divers had to abandon their search because the 17-deck Costa Concordia, half-submerged and keeled over after hitting rocks off a northwestern island, had shifted again. afp been facing evacuation for years, but successive Israeli governments have been slow to move on shutting down the outpost, the biggest in the West Bank, for fear of angering the powerful settler Prince william’s movement. The high court itself noted that it saw “great importance to a peaceful french presidential shapes in-laws offer resolution of the issue by consent, rather than by forceful eviction.” Any proposal ‘adult’ outfits online would have to be approved by Migron’s residents before the court greenlights it. LONDON into four-horse race AfP iraq and Kuwait mull The parents of Prince William’s wife Catherine have launched a range of PARIS has to some extent managed to shake has launched a campaign to “buy outfits for “adult occasions” on their reparations ‘fund’: UN AfP off her party’s xenophobic image, while French”, while le Pen has promised party goods website, a British tabloid her tough line on Islam, immigration to pass a “let’s buy French” law were said Saturday. The Party Pieces firm, With three months to go, France’s and the elite in a France stricken by she to come to power. BAGHDAD owned by the Duchess of Cambridge’s AfP presidential election has been shaken both a financial and identity crisis is in - Former Sarkozy acolyte Dominique parents Michael and Carole up by gains of far-right and centrist creasingly popular. Her hope is to re - Paille, ex-spokesman for his UMP party, Iraq and Kuwait are considering a plan candidates at the expense of main ri - peat her father Jean-Marie’s historic has written a political novel based on the Middleton, offers a mini-skirted to pay the war reparations which vals Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist achievement in 2002, when he made it humiliating scenario of Sarkozy and French maid outfit and a female Baghdad still owes its neighbour into a Francois Hollande. to the second round before being Hollande both getting knocked out in the pirate fancy dress costume under a fund for Iraqi investments, the UN’s “The current campaign’s originality trounced by incumbent Jacques Chirac. first round. In the book Sarkozy is por - section entitled adult occasions. The envoy told AFP on Sunday. Iraq, which is indeed that for the first time the fight Former education minister Bayrou, trayed as a victim of his own attempts to site (www.partypieces.co.uk) shows pays five percent of its oil revenues into a is between four candidates not three, as who has made his independence from get votes back from the resurgent far- pictures of the pirate outfit with UN reparations fund, is required to hand was always the case from 1965 to the politics of left and right his trade - right while Hollande is shown as being stockings and a slit skirt and also over another $18 billion (13.92 billion 2007,” the left-leaning liberation daily mark, has meanwhile gone from seven simply too indecisive to garner votes. In - advertises a short spotted “ladybug” euros), the bulk of it to Kuwait. Iraqi said in a recent editorial. Marine le percent of polled votes in December to stead, in “Panic at the Elysee”, le Pen dress and Superman outfit. There is leaders have frequently called for oil-rich Pen of the far-right anti-immigrant Na - 14 percent in January. and Bayrou battle it out in the final May also a blow-up Sumo outfit described Kuwait to review its demands for tional Front party and Francois Bayrou Opinion polls show that most 6 round of voting, with Bayrou ulti - as “the funniest fancy dress costume payment. “There is a proposal on the of the centrist Democratic Movement French no longer identify with either mately victorious. “It’s not impossible you can find,” the Daily Mail table that the amount still outstanding is have been making strides in opinion Sarkozy’s right-wing discourse or that that Bayrou could win. He’s taking our reported. Some sections of the British reinvested in Iraq,” Martin Kobler, the polls as the French watch a so-far in - of the Socialist Party, handing Bayrou votes and those of the right,” admitted media have questioned the taste of UN chief’s special representative to sipid campaign stumble on. Hollande a gift. The latest edition of the popular the head of the Socialist Party grouping the royal in-laws, accusing the Baghdad, said in an interview. “So that has consistently led opinion polls l’Express weekly featured le Pen and in the National Assembly, Jean-Marc Middletons of cashing-in on their this is in a kind of trust fund ...(and) the which indicate he is set to win 28-30 Bayrou on the cover, with the head - Ayrault. At his first campaign rally on connections by creating a range of (UN) resolution is fulfilled, however the percent of votes in the first round on line: “And if it were them?” The mag - Thursday, Bayrou called on “the people” royal wedding-themed memorabilia. money is reinvested in Iraq for the April 22, ahead of President Sarkozy’s azine said the two candidates had the to “resist”, saying they should “retake Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge — benefit of the people of Iraq.” He 23-24 percent, le Pen’s 18-20 percent same target audience, “the forgotten France’s destiny” and that “most referred to as “Kate” by many Britons continued: “I think this is a good and Bayrou’s 12-14 percent. victims of the economic crisis.” le Pen French” want neither Sarkozy nor Hol - —, turned 30 this month. By most proposal and the two parties are But the popularity of Hollande, who claims to speak for the “forgotten” lande. “Our country is ready to make this accounts she has scarcely put a foot was on Sunday to hold his first mass negotiating this.” Iraq has so far paid out and the “silent majority”, while Bay - important choice. People are angry, they wrong since stepping into the $34.3 billion to claimants for ousted rally, is slowly but surely being eroded, rou says he represents “the small, the have a need to punish errors,” Bayrou international public glare when she dictator Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion while Sarkozy remains deeply unpopu - humble, those without influence.” In told the pro-government le Figaro’s married William, second in line to the of Kuwait, of which around $25 billion lar with 63 percent of voters, allowing response to the slow disappearance of weekly supplement, which also featured has gone to Kuwait. le Pen and Bayrou to progress. le Pen France’s manufacturing base, Bayrou him on the cover. throne, last April. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 18

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Clijsters scraps, azarenka, radwanska cruise Page 21 PCb tells iCC it azlan Shah Cup wants to host Pakistan-India series hockey from may 24 LAHORE b’desh series StAff REPORt possible next year The Sultan Azlan LAHORE Shah Cup in Ipoh StAff REPORt LAHORE old FTP," Ahmad explained. "This ba - cerned between the two boards from from May 24 to StAff REPORt sically means that we make a fresh start 2013 when India is due to tour Pakistan June 3 will be a The Pakistan Cricket Board has informed as far as bilateral relations are con - under the new FTP," he added. seven-team affair the International Cricket Council that it in - HE bilateral cricket series led by world No. 4 tends to host Bangladesh for a Test series in between Pakistan and India ranked Britain. April in a bid to revive international cricket would only be possible next Pcb mulls pay raise for players The other five in - at home. A PCB official said that the Board year provided there is a vited teams are was confident of the Bangladesh tour going room in the Future Tours LAHORe: The Pakistan Cricket Board is considering a pay raise of the na - also in the top 10 ahead since the government had also given TPorgramme and the relations between tional cricket team for their glorious performance in the recent months. It while hosts its assurance of top level security arrange - the two countries are normal. An of - has been learnt that the players would have enhanced pay cheques in their Malaysia are the lowest ranked side at ments for the touring side. "The reason we ficial of the PCB said that the new FTP new central contract and the final decision will be taken in a meeting this number 13. Britain are followed by sixth- have kept the ICC in the loop is that even is being enforced from the coming week to discuss a possible pay raise. "We will see what we can do but we are ranked South Korea, New Zealand (7th), their security experts are aware of the April and the old FTP which holds looking at increasing the pay scales in the new central contracts as there Pakistan (8), Argentina, (9) and India arrangements being made for the March-April as the scheduled time for have been no increments in the last three years and inflation has increased (10). The tournament will serve as a Bangladesh team. But primarily this is a bi - the series would not come into force considerably in this period," chief operating officer, Subhan Ahmad said. warm-up for the london Olympic Games lateral series that has to be finalised be - after the new is launched. Pakistan players are given central contracts in three pay slabs with those in starting on July 27. The teams will also tween two boards," a PCB official said on "It appears as if both boards now category A getting paid Rs 250,000 per month, those in B category Rs benefit from playing on the new blue Sunday. "Our main aim is to break the ice of have to make a fresh start in the new 175,000 and the ones in the C category Rs 100,000 per month. The payments turf, which is similar to the one at the Test teams not coming to Pakistan. If FTP with India scheduled to tour Pak - are besides the match fees, allowances, logo sponsorship share and bonuses Olympics. Britain, New Zealand, Pak - Bangladesh come we will have better istan in 2013," PCB COO Subhan paid to the players. The board also gives retainer contracts to players who istan and Argentina have already booked chances of convincing other Boards that Ahmed said. India didn't tour Pak - perform well in domestic cricket. SUbhan said the new chairman of the their Olympic berths while India, South they also now need to support us," he said. istan in early 2009 in the wake of the board would be given a detailed briefing on the issue after the meeting of the Korea and Malaysia will be playing in The PCB sent its chief operating officer Sub - Mumbai terror attacks, while Pak - officials who will shortlist and recommend names this week. "We will look to the qualifiers. Malaysian Hockey Con - han Ahmad recently to Dhaka to personally istan's tour to India in March-April increase the pay packages keeping in mind the financial position of the board federation (MHC) secretary Maninderjit offer condolences on the sad demise of the this year under the old FTP is can - as well," he added. The official said the new contracts were finalised as soon Singh said they are glad that the teams chief executive of the Bangladesh Cricket celled due to various reasons. Subhan as the old contracts expired in December last year. He said the officials, in - for the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup have been Board Manzur Ahmed. The official said said that it is a case of even-steven be - cluding the chief selector, would recommend any changes in the list of cen - finalised. “The tournament will be the Subhan had not officially discussed the invi - tween the two boards. trally contracted players based on their performances and fitness. Shahid perfect preparation for the teams going tation to the Bangladesh Board to send its "We were demanding compensa - Afridi is certain to once again get a category A contract after his old contract to london. I am sure they will send their team to Pakistan but the Bangladesh tion for the cancelled tour of 2009 but ended automatically when he announced his retirement from international best players,” he said. World champions Cricket Board (BCB) officials had indicated now with India not hosting us this year, cricket in May last year after being stripped of the one-day team captaincy. Australia, who are regulars in the tour - that they were in the process of getting the situation has evened out between But sources said some established players like Shoaib Malik and Kamran nament, are unable to make it this time. clearance from their government to send a the two boards as both have suffered Akmal could either miss out on the new contracts or be demoted to the C cat - Holland, Germany and Spain, who make high level delegation to Pakistan to inspect losses by not hosting these series in the egory while some of the new players will promoted. StAff REPORt up the top 10, are also unavailable. the security arrangements for their team. The official, who declined to be named, ad - mitted that the chances of Bangladesh tour - ing Pakistan would depend entirely on the briefing given to their security delegation. "If their security delegation is satisfied than Decision on Kaneria’s future soon the tour is on and it will be a big break - through for Pakistan cricket," the official LAHORE the entire records of the case be available for the pub - tion as he claims the Essex police and ICC have said. No foreign Test team has toured Pak - StAff REPORt lic. We intend to secure these records as well to sat - both cleared him but the PCB official said that istan since the March 2009 terrorist attack isfy ourselves to the they could not afford to take any risk. "It was on the Sri lankan team in lahore. The Pakistan Cricket Board will seek all records of the extent to which not an easy decision for us but given the seri - spot-fixing case involving Essex player Mervyn West - Kaneria was in - ousness of the case we could not af - field as it wants to take a final decision on Test leg- volved in the inves - ford to take any risk. We are not spinner Danish Kaneria's future. Westfield is due to tigations," a senior saying Kaneria is guilty but after india face humiliating be sentenced on February 9 or 10 by a crown court in board official was the spot-fixing scandal involv - london and so far Kaneria's name has not cropped up quoted in some re - ing, Salman Butt, Mohammad whitewash in australia in the trial although the leg-spinner was initially ports. He said the PCB Asif and Mohammad Amir we questioned by Essex police in 2010. would through its legal team have zero tolerance policy on this MELBOURNE Kaneria was questioned following an investigation try to obtain the records as soon issue," the official said. The offi - AfP into allegations that spot-fixing had been done in a as the trial was over but this could cial pointed out that so far the Pro-40 match between Durham and Essex in 2009 in take some time. "We want to be com - PCB had not seen any record Struggling India are desperate to avoid the which both Westfield and Kaneria were involved. The pletely satisfied before we can give clear - of the ongoing spot-fixing ignominy of another 4-0 series wipeout in Essex police later cleared Kaneria in the case for lack ance to Kaneria for national selection," trial involving Westfield as it the fourth and final Test against Australia of evidence but the Pakistan board has since October the official said. "If we are satisfied was court property. Kaneria starting at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. 2010 not considered him for national selection due to Kaneria was clear in this whole affair he has even met with the new It has been a tour from hell for the Indi - doubts expressed by its integrity committee. will be immediately cleared to play for Chairman of the board, Zaka ans, collapsing to heavy defeats in Mel - Westfield who has confessed to have taken 6000 Pakistan," he added. Kaneria had even Ashraf to plead his case and bourne, Sydney and Perth and with their pounds to do spot-fixing in the match is due to be sen - gone to court in an attempt to persuade has been assured of justice skipper M.S. Dhoni suspended for the tenced next month. "Only after Westfield is sentenced will the PCB to clear him for national selec - and a quick decision soon. Adelaide Test for a slow over rate in the abject third Test defeat. India, who relin - quished their top Test ranking when they were crushed 4-0 in England last year, face their eighth consecutive away defeat if they cannot prevent the rejuvenated Aus - Defeat a ‘good slap in the face’: Prior tralians from inflicting another drubbing. in the face. "you don't become a bad tough to come back in and be ready." Ajmal's spin bowling. "The obvious Test cricket's greatest runscorer, Sachin Comment team over night. We've had one bad Prior fielded what have become the thing we need to think about is how we Tendulkar, is still seeking his 100th inter - GEORGE DOBELL performance. But look at the stats. obligatory questions about Saeed play spin and how we play Saeed national century and has the chance to look at the performances our guys Ajmal's bowling action, and reiterated Ajmal," he said. "But it's important we reach the mark at the Adelaide "home" ATT Prior, the England wicket - have put in over recent years. We're the view that the England players were don't get caught up with just one bloke. ground of cricket legend Don Bradman. It keeper, has described defeat at still a very good batting unit. We've not allowing such issues to distract Umar Gul came in and took wickets in has been a frustrating time for Tendulkar, M the hands of Pakistan in the first had two bad innings, granted, but all them. "It would be easy for players to the second innings, so we just need to 38, and probably on his farewell tour of Test in Dubai as "a good slap in the face", the guys have taken that on the chin make excuses after we've performed improve our general game really. Australia, missing out on his elusive ton in as England arrived in Abu Dhabi adamant and accepted that we have to improve. badly," he said. "But we can't get "We tend to come back strong after six innings in the series so far. Tendulkar, that they can recover to square the series. We have to get better. I'll back this caught up in what is going on off the these sorts of losses. We've had that stuck on 99 Test and one-day interna - Prior, one of the few England bats - team and this batting unit to come pitch. It has nothing to do with the bad one now - it's out of the way - now tional hundreds, has now gone 10 Tests men to enjoy a decent game in Dubai, back strong." players. The ICC has systems in place. we're going to come back strong. We're and 20 innings without a hundred, one of admitted that their pride had taken a se - Echoing the thoughts of his coach, We shouldn't worry about things we behind the eight-ball now and we know the longest waits for a Test century in his rious dent, but said that England's fine Andy Flower, Prior suggested that Eng - don't have to worry about. we have to play good enough cricket to 187-Test career. But while fingers have record over the last couple of years land may have come in to the match a "The wicket wasn't one of the rea - force results in last two matches." been pointed at India's ageing batsmen for should not be annulled after one poor little underprepared, having not played sons we lost, either. I thought it was a The England squad - now with the their role in India's sorry series, Tendulkar game and that confidence remains high. a Test since August. brilliant cricket wicket. you expect to wives and girlfriends in tow - and the has been solid, scoring 249 runs at an av - "It's never nice to lose, but to lose in "you can spend as much time in the come over here and find very flat Pakistan squad both travelled to Abu erage of 41.50. The Adelaide Test looms as that fashion is even worse," Prior said. gym and as much time in the nets or on pitches with very little in them for the Dhabi on Sunday. Although they stayed a crucial one for senior batsman V.V.S. "We're a proud team. We're used to the training ground as you want," Prior bowlers. But the seamers had a bit of at the same hotel in Dubai, there has laxman, who at 37 is under extreme pres - walking off the pitch having inflicted the said. "But until you're out in the mid - bounce and a bit of movement, there been little fraternisation between the sure over his Test future after a miserable sort of defeat Pakistan inflicted upon us, dle, you don't get that ring-ready feel - was a bit of spin and, and if you batted sides. If there may be little warmth, series in which he has scored just 102 runs so it was a very bitter pill to swallow. No- ing. Getting used to little things takes well and played good shots, you earned however, there is certainly respect. Eng - at an average of 17. laxman reportedly one in this team enjoyed it one little bit. time: the nerves; travelling into the value for your runs." land know they are embroiled in a tough batted for nearly two hours in the Ade - "It's taken a few days to get over it, ground; switching on and off again The second Test starts in Abu series against a strong side. By going 1- laide Oval nets on Thursday in a desperate but now there is a steely determination when batting. Having that two or three Dhabi on Wednesday and Prior agreed 0 down in a three-match series, they bid to regain his touch with indications that it will not happen again. This per - month break was invaluable. It was that England's priority was an im - have made life desperately hard for that he will play in the final Test. formance has given us a real good slap necessary. But obviously it is then provement in the way they played themselves. (Cricinfo) ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 19

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Zambia survived a second-half Senegal on - slaught to triumph 2-1 in Group A Saturday and create the first shock of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations on the opening day. Emmanuel Mayuka and Rainford Kalaba gave the Copper Bullets a two-goal lead within 20 minutes and all Senegal had to show for their dominance after half-time was a Dame N'Doye goal which set up a tense climax. Senegal entered the tourna - ment as 4/11 bookmakers' favourites to win the mini-league and now face a make-or- break midweek clash with co-hosts Equato - rial Guinea, who snatched a 1-0 win over libya earlier at Estadio De Bata. Victory was a personal triumph for France-born coach Herve Renard, who has vowed to win laHOre: first lady fauzia gilani and renowned lawyer barrister aitazaz ahsan during laHOre: Players in action on the opening day of the benazir bhutto women’s the tournament and honour the 1993 Zam - the prize giving ceremony. staff pHoto Cricket Challenge. staff pHoto bian national team whose plane plunged LAHORE In the Pool B match at the Gaddafi cricketers on the excellent performance of 19 balls, 4x4s, Nain abdi 27, 31 balls, 3x4s, aimen into the sea near Bata killing all 30 on StAff REPORt Stadium, ZTBl defeated Sindh by a big their daughters. And praised the efforts of anwar 2-21) SiNdH – 52 in 15 overs: (Sumaiya Siddiqui board. "It's fantastic to beat Senegal. This is margin of 117 runs. Their captain Sana the PCB and PCB Women Wing Chairper - 13, 15 balls, 3x4s, marina iqbal 3-14, Sana mir 2-3) not a surprise, it's the result of a lot of hard Player of the match: Sana mir (ZTbl), result: ZTbl UNJAB, ZTBl and Balochis - Mir not only remained not out but also son Bushra Aitzaz. PCB COO Subhan work," said Renard. "But there are still two won by 117runs, Toss: ZTbl, Umpires: Kausar Shah & games to play. We have to keep our feet on tan were off to winning start took two wickets to be named the player Ahmed were also present on the occasion. Shakeela rafiq, TV Umpire: ihtasham-ul-Haq¸match in the 1st Shaheed Mohtarma of the match. In the last match of the day, SCORES: Punjab – 114 in 18.4 overs: (ayesha Qazi 39, 32 referee: Saadat ali, Official Scorer: Najmus Saeed the ground and not get carried away as Benazir Bhutto Women Sindh after defeat against ZTBl, tasted balls, 7x4s, Sana gulzar 19, 20 balls, 3x4s, 1x6, Saima Sindh – 92 in 15.3 overs: (Khadija Chishti 26, 27 balls, when you beat Senegal you think you can Cricket Challenge Trophy that another defeat and this time from maqsood 2-30, Hina Shafiq 2-11, marium Hasan Shah 2- 6x4s, Zaveria rauf 13, 14 balls, 2x4s, eliezbath Khan 3- beat anybody." Senegal coach Amara Tra - rPolled into action at Kinnaird College Balochistan by seven wickets. Elizabeth 15) v federal – 97-4 in 20 overs: (marium Hasan Shah 63, 15, almas akram 2-29) v balochistan – 95-3 in 17.5 ore chose his starting line-up from an em - 64 balls, 6x4s, 1x6, Namra imran 1-13, Sana gulzar 1-39) ground and the Gaddafi Stadium on Sun - Khan took three key wickets to be named overs: (iram Khalid 36*, 61 balls, 3x4s, 1x6, arman Khan barrassment of attacking riches and opted Player of the match: marium Hasan Shah (Punjab), re - 20, 13 balls, 5x4s, Sajida Shah 19, 23 balls, aiman for captain Mamadou Niang, Demba Ba day. In the pool A match at Kinnaird Col - the player of the match. sult: Punjab won by 17 runs, Toss: Punjab, Umpires: lage Ground, Punjab beat Federal Areas Earlier, Fauzia Gilani along with anwar 1-11, Shumaila Qureshi 1-22) and Moussa Sow with new Newcastle Samera aftab & riffat mustafa, match referee: Khalid Player of the match: elizabeth Khan (baluchistan), re - team by 17 runs. Marium Hasan played a other PCB officials inaugurated the cham - Niazi, Official Scorer: masood ahmed. United signing Papiss Demba Cisse on the sult: balochistan won by 7 wickets, Toss: Sindh, Um - bench. "The first half was a calamity," said vital role in the match. Although she made pionship here at the Kinnaird College ZTbl – 169-5 in 20 overs: (Kanita Jalil 37, 23 balls, pires: Humaira farah, match referee: Zaigham barki, 63 runs but she her team failed to win. ground. She congratulated parents of the 8x4s, bismah maroof 36, 30 balls, 6x4s, Sana mir 26*, Official Scorer: abdul Hameed. Traore. "Zambia caused us a lot of discom - fort and did more running. But we still have a chance to get through. Tonight changes nothing." Zambia went for Switzerland-based striker Mayuka, leaving mobilink down Totti breaks goal record as Juve go clear James Chamanga on the sidelines, and the youngster repaid the faith of Renard just 12 ROME minutes into the match. A Copper Bullets' gymkhana Colts AfP free kick was nodded across the six-yard box and Mayuka headed past Bouna LAHORE Francesco Totti set a new single-club Coundoul to give his side a shock lead over StAff REPORt scoring record in Serie A as Roma rivals rated third favourites for the title by thrashed Cesena 5-1 on Saturday, while pundits behind Ivory Coast and Ghana. The Mobilink beat lahore Gymkhana Colts Juventus put daylight between them - Senegalese defence was all at sea and after by 53 runs in the Shapes Cricket league selves and the rest in a 2-0 success at Ata - a narrow escape the Teranga lions fell fur - 2012 on Sunday at Bagh-e-Jinnah lanta. Club captain Totti scored twice ther behind on 20 minutes when Christo - Ground. Mobilink made 234/9 in 30 inside the opening eight minutes, while pher Katongo set Kalaba free and he ran overs. Ijaz Rafiq scored 73, Syed Haider Fabio Borini, Juan and Miralem Pjanic across the goalkeeper before slotting the 56*, Wajahat Ali 27 and Bilal Saif i24. scored the other goals, with Eder netting ball home. Traore could not believe this Quaid Khan 3 for 26. lahore Gymkhana for Cesena, who remained rooted in the was the same side that qualified at the ex - Colts all out for 161 in 25.1 over. Ahmed bottom three. It meant the 35-year-old pense of four-time champions Cameroon Khan 60, Aamir Mukhtar 39 and Quaid reached 211 top-flight league goals for the and reacted by sending on a fourth striker, Khan 27. Bilal Saifi 5 for 12 and capital club, surpassing the 210 that N'Doye, at the expense of midfielder Remi Moazam Sadiqi 3 for 30 runs. Dr. Tahir Swedish great Gunnar Nordahl managed Gomis with only half an hour gone. Senegal Shabbir Bhatti (Eye Specialist) give for AC Milan more than 50 years ago. finished the first half stronger, forcing a away the award of Man of the Match to "It's what I've always wanted, to wear number of free kicks and a corner, and Ba Bilal Saifi. The match was supervised by this shirt and beat one record after an - was unlucky when his close-range shot was Saghir Ahmed, Adnan Rasheed and M other," said Totti. "I feel good, I'm going to bergamO: Juventus’ forward alessandro matri (l) vies with atalanta’s defender bravely blocked by Stoppila Sunzu. Zambia Rafiq was the Scorer. enjoy this splendid moment and I will michele ferri during the italian serie a match. afp were forced into their own half after the in - keep playing as long as I'm physically able terval and Senegal twice came close to to do what I want to do and if that's no enjoy themselves, they have a better swept into a three-goal lead, carving pulling a goal back through a Mohamed Uol grab HeC longer the case, I'll be the first to stop." chance of winning. "Everything seemed through Cesena's porous defence. After Diame header and a snap Ba shot as the Sixth-placed Roma are now 11 points off easy today because we were almost perfect Gabriel Heinze's raking cross-field ball, midway point approached. Traore brought top spot, having played a game less than in the beginning but Cesena are an excel - Totti took a backheel from Erik lamela on Issiah Dia during the break and made rugby title Juve. "This type of football doesn't just lent side. The result was such because we after just 40 seconds and fired home at his final substitution on 67 minutes, re - please me but would please any coach," were on a very high level." The match was Francesco Antonioli's near post thanks to placing Sow with Cisse, before Ba saw a LAHORE said coach luis Enrique. "If the players all over inside eight minutes as Roma a deflection off Maurizio lauro. header come back off the crossbar. StAff REPORt

University of lahore (Uol) convincingly clinched the final of the All Pakistan Universities Championship in style after beating BZU Multan. lahore dominated Sangakkara stars in stunning Sri Lanka win the match with there front row wining JOHANNESBURG all the scrums and a great line of backs AfP SCOREBOARD with the Uol scoring three tries from the SOutH AfRICA wing with the final score of 37-5 which Sachithra Senanayake struck a six off the G. Smith c Chandimal b Malinga 125 was the highest score of the tournament. penultimate ball to give Sri lanka a two- A. Petersen c Mathew b Malinga 6 f. du Plessis c Mathews b Senanayake 24 The tournament was hosted by the Uni - wicket triumph over South Africa Sunday in AB de Villiers not out 125 versity of lahore under the auspices of the final match of a five one-day interna - A. Morkel run out (Dilshan/Perera) 18 HEC while the tournament was offici - tional series won 3-2 by the hosts. De Villiers JP Duminy not out 5 EXtRAS: (2lb, 7w) 9 ated and technical supported by the Pak - finished unbeaten after facing 98 deliveries tOtAL: (4 wkts, 50 overs) 312 istan Rugby Union. The two-day event at the Wanderers while Smith received a fall of wickets:, 2-70, 3-256, 4-269 standing ovation from the sell-out 30,000 BOWLInG: Kulasekara 10-1-46-0, Malinga 10-0-79-2 (1w), was played on a knock-out system. The Mathews 3-1-16-0 (2w), Perera 7-0-64-0 (2w), Senanayake tournament was held early as it also crowd after being caught by Dinesh Chandi - 9-0-50-1, Dilshan 2-0-12-0, Herath 9-0-43-0 (1w) acted as a selection process for the HEC mal off the bowling of lasith Malinga. SRI LAnKA While the Proteas skipper confirmed Wu tharanga c Duminy b tsotsobe 46 team for the upcoming All Pakistan tM Dilshan* c de Villiers b tsotsobe 41 Rugby Championship that is scheduled his position as one of the best stroke KC Sangakkara† c Peterson b Duminy 102 for next week which will be hosted by players in the world today with 10 fours LD Chandimal c de Villiers b Parnell 20 and four sixes, Smith could not contain H thirimanne c JA Morkel b Peterson 69 the Fata Rugby Association in Peshawar. AD Mathews c Peterson b Parnell 6 University of Animal and Veterinary Sci - his joy as he walked off after a timely ton. n Perera c du Plessis b Duminy 2 ence won the bronze model after upset - There was a media and public outcry K Kulasekara b Peterson 0 against him just a week ago after innings H Herath not out 1 ting UMT University. The other S Senanayake notout universities which participated in the of six, 28 and two in the first three EXtRAS: (lb 12, w 8, nb 1) 21 event were Agriculture University matches of the series before he stopped tOtAL: (8 wickets; 49.5 overs) 314 fall of wickets 1-72, 2-119, 3-175, 4-275, 5-294, 6-307, Faisalabad, BZU Multan, Government the rot with a brisk 68 in Kimberley two 7-307, 8-308 College University, IUB, Punjab Univer - days ago. Smith embroidered his Wan - BOWLInG: M Morkel 9.1-0-49-0-5.34 (2w), LL tsotsobe 7- sity, Sargodha, UVAS, University of Cen - derers innings with nine fours and four 0-54-2-7.71 (2w), JP Duminy 6.5-0-44-2-6.43, WD Parnell 10-0-51-2-5.10 (2w), JA Morkel 10-0-66-0-6.60 (1nb, 2w), RJ tral Punjab, University of lahore, sixes off 143 balls during a 203-minute Peterson 6.5-0-38-2-5.56 University of Management and Technol - stand and the sun-drenched crowd rev - JOHaNNeSbUrg: South africa’s batsman and captain ab de Villiers (r) plays a shot as toss: Sri Lanka, umpires: Marais Erasmus and nigel Llong, tV umpire: Billy Doctrove, Match referee: Jeff Crowe. ogy and University of Peshawar. elled in his change of fortune. Sri lanka’s wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara looks on. afp ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 20

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MANCHESTER: Manchester City’s Gareth bolton stun Barryt (c) runs with the ball against Tottenham Hotspur during their English liverpool as Premier League football match. afp Chelsea slip up LONDON AfP

liverpool's hopes of qualifying for the Champions league suffered a fresh blow on Saturday as they crashed to a 3-1 de - feat at struggling Bolton. Goals from Mark Davies, Nigel Reo-Coker and Gretar Steinsson secured a vital three points for Bolton, who moved out of the relegation zone for the first time this season follow - ing the win. But the defeat saw liverpool squander an opportunity to close the gap on fourth-placed Chelsea, and continued a miserable run of form for the Reds who have taken only six points from a possible 18 in their last six games. liverpool, whose lone goal came from Craig Bellamy, are now in seventh place, six points adrift of Chelsea. Bolton manager Owen Coyle later challenged his team to stay out of the relegation mire over the second half of the season. "We know we're capable of having a big second half of the season and that's what we must do, we must kick on," Coyle said. "There's room for improvement and that's what we must strive for. I thought we were worthy winners. "Sometimes you ride your luck against the big teams but nothing could have been further from the truth today." Earlier, Fernando Torres' three-month goal-drought continued as Chelsea also stumbled in a 0-0 draw at Premier league newboys Norwich. Chelsea enjoyed the better chances of a scrappy game but were left frustrated as £50 million striker Torres drew a blank yet again. The draw left Chelsea in fourth place, five points behind third-placed Tot - tenham, who face leaders Manchester City at Eastlands on Sunday. Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas later defended Torres, who has not scored for the club since Oc - tober. "He couldn't find the back of the net but we are not just looking for that," Villas-Boas said. "With a little bit more luck he will find the back of the net." Balotelli the hero as City sink tottenham MANCHESTER four goals in nine minutes - Samir Nasri was intercepted by Defoe who controlled which Silva hit narrowly wide of the mark. AfP and Joleon lescott for the home team the ball on his chest as he rounded Joe Hart Micah Richards showed grit and determi - before Defoe and Bale brought Spurs and rolled the ball into an empty goal. nation in winning the ball on the half hour Mario Balotelli settled an extraordinary level. After 55 minutes, David Silva col - It took all of four more minutes for and setting up Aguero for a shot which Premier league battle when his 94th lected the ball just inside the Spurs half Spurs to draw level as Aaron lennon ran Friedel saved well with his legs, Spurs were minute penalty earned leaders Manches - and suddenly found the necessary space at Micah Richards before squaring to the struggling even more than City to trouble ter City a 3-2 victory over Tottenham to advance and thread through a pass for unmarked Bale who placed a magnificent the opposing goalkeeper, however, and here Sunday. The Italian substitute won Nasri to convert an unstoppable first- 22-yard, left-foot shot over Hart and into when lescott fouled Bale just outside the the spot kick himself, after a clear foul by time shot from just inside the area. the top right-hand corner of the City goal. City area, the free-kick appeared to be in a the veteran Spurs defender ledley King, Within minutes, Silva had won a corner, It was a stunning sequence of events after promising position for the visitors, until and calmly wrong-footed goalkeeper taken on the left by Nasri and flicked on a disappointing first half. The stakes, and they came up with a free-kick which saw Brad Friedel as he converted into the by Edin Dzeko at the near post. the tension, were high in the opening ex - Kaboul sky a hopeless shot high and wide. bottom left-hand corner. To make mat - The ball was met by lescott who tus - changes with Bale, operating on both The goals ensured the second half ters worse for Spurs, who now trail City sled with Scott Parker and converted into flanks in the first half, appearing capable would be an entirely different proposition by eight points, seconds earlier they had an open goal in the process of falling over. of creating problems. But City started to and, even after them, the contest was far looked like scoring a winner of their It was a slightly bizarre way to take control click into gear themselves as the half pro - more open. First, City threatened from a own. Gareth Bale sprinted away from the of such an important contest but nothing gressed, Silva and Sergio Aguero in partic - series of corners before a 25-yarder from home defence and crossed for Jermain compared with the manner in which Spurs ular, and the latter scampered after a luka Modric drifted over, Gael Clichy was Defoe who, at full stretch, could only dragged themselves back into the game. quickly-taken Gareth Barry free-kick, ap - forced to head over with lennon about to bOlTON: liverpool's Steven gerrard (l) vies with turn the ball wide of the target. A long clearance from younes Kaboul pearing to have been harmlessly shep - connect with a Bale cross and lennon bolton wanderers' Sam ricketts (r) during the And the deciding goal capped a re - on the hour forced centre half Stefan Savic herded out of the area by Kaboul only to himself worked open a shooting opportu - english Premier league football match. afp markable second half which featured into a disastrous backwards header which somehow turn back an impressive pass nity but could only fire tamely at Hart.

Negredo header gives 10-man Sevilla derby draw MADRID successive defeat. Espanyol dominated from a possible nine since his arrival at AfP possession in the early stages and after a the Calderon and they now are on the succession of corners they finally got fringes of the European places, behind An Alvaro Negredo header before half- their reward with Jose Baena heading sixth-placed Athletic Bilbao on goal dif - time earned 10-man Sevilla a 1-1 draw home a set piece at the near post. ference. with Real Betis in a typically highly- Dani Benitez had the chance to draw Falcao put Atletico ahead after just charged la liga derby played at a frenetic Granada level but shot straight at the three minutes from the penalty spot fol - pace on Saturday. Neither side gave an keeper in front of goal and then Espanyol lowing a handball from Vadim Demidov inch for the full 90 minutes in their first doubled their lead with Joan Verdu slot - and from there on carried a greater meeting in three years, and in the end ting home from the penalty spot after threat going forward. After the break Sevilla went away the happier after they Vladimir Weiss was felled by Allan Nyom. Adrian lopez extended the lead at the were forced into some last-ditch defend - Espanyol eased off in the second second attempt after the keeper blocked ing in the second half. half but Granada failed to make the his header and Sociedad never appeared Negredo saw a shot well saved by most of their openings while substitute capable of responding. keeper Casto Espinosa after just three Rui Fonte wrapped up the points for the Falcao lobbed the keeper after spot - minutes as Sevilla aimed for a victory in home side with a close range finish with ting him off his line with eight minutes to their fight for a place in Europe. Sevilla 10 minutes to go. "Although it looked go and then fired in his third in the final had the better of the opening stages and that way it wasn’t an easy match and I minute. Getafe came from behind to beat Betis were reduced to counter-attacking, am very pleased with the result against Racing Santander 2-1 with Jaime Gavilan but they still took the lead with a well a tough rival. I am happy with the num - and Nicolas Miku scoring after Christian struck free-kick from Benat Etxebarria ber of points we have now but there are Stuani had given the home side the lead. after 26 minutes. SeVilla: Sevilla's Uruguayan defender martin Caceres (l) vies with real betis's forward Jorge a lot of hard games ahead," said Es - On Sunday, with the dust still settling Sevilla pressed Betis back and Anto - molina (r) during their Spanish league match. afp panyol coach Mauricio Pochettino. on Barcelona's victory over Real Madrid nio luna, through on goal, was denied by their opponents reduced to 10 men with victory over struggling Granada. The A hat-trick from Radamel Falcao in the first leg of the King's Cup in mid - Casto before Negredo headed in a Jesus 20 minutes left when Federico Fazio was Catalan side maintained their good form helped Atletico Madrid to their first week, Pep Guardiola's side take on Navas cross after 41 minutes. given his second yellow card. Espanyol since Christmas with draws against away win of the season as they beat Real Malaga looking to claw back the five-point In the second half it was all Betis but moved up to fifth as they stretched their Barcelona and Sevilla before this result Sociedad 4-0. Coach Diego Simeone has gap at the top of the table. leaders Real they were unable to capitalise on seeing unbeaten run to five games with a 3-0 over a sorry Granada who suffered a third now seen his side pick up seven points are also in action against Athletic Bilbao. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 21

monday , 23 January , 2012 Sports 21 wAtCh it Live Federer downs Tomic STAR SPORTS Australian Open Tennis 05:30AM to reach quarters ESPN Sports Center MELBOURNE 08:00PM AfP

OGER Federer taught ris - ing teenage star Bernard Tomic a painful lesson on resurgent del Potro Sunday, breezing past the teenager in straight sets to lines up federer clash Rreach the quarter-finals at the Aus - tralian Open. The Swiss 16-time grand slam champion showed all his experi - ence in administering a clinical 6-4, 6- 2, 6-2 win over the 19-year-old Australian to set up a clash with Juan Martin del Potro in Tuesday's quarters. It was an intriguing match-up on Rod laver Arena, with Federer pitted against the unconventional skills of Tomic, who regards the Swiss as the greatest player of all time and idolised him when growing up. Federer took control after a competitive opening set and needed 1hr 44min to wrap up a conclusive victory over the 38th-ranked youngster, whom he tips for big things. MELBOURNE "I knew that the points were going AfP to be played differently than the last match he played with Alexandr Dolgo - Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro polov," Federer said. "So I figured he reached his first grand slam quarter-final was going to play a bit more aggressive, in three years with a straight-sets win over that it was going to be a tough match, German Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Aus - which it was. "Maybe the score sug - tralian Open on Sunday. Del Potro de - gested differently, but I thought we had feated the unseeded German 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 a lot of long games, tough points, and I to set up a rematch of his 2009 US Open thought he did actually really well." final victory over Swiss third seed Roger The Swiss legend broke Tomic's Federer for his first grand slam title. The serve six times and gave up his service towering Argentine 11th seed is fighting once in dominating the evening contest his way back up the rankings after career- with 45 winners to Tomic's 13. "I had a threatening wrist surgery in 2010 and the few chances in the first set, and it's good signs are promising that he may again to play a player like that and a player challenge to return to his best-ever rank - who is as good as he is and for me one ing of four. "I'm very happy to be in the of the best who has played," Tomic said. quarters. It's amazing for me to play in "you learn a lot when you play him, another quarter-final in a grand slam for and you just improve and see what he three years, it's a good sign for my come - does and improve in your game. "For back," he said. "At last year's Wimbledon I me, it's a great pleasure and honour to MELBOuRnE: roger federer hits a shot against bernard Tomic. afp had a very good match against Rafa play him. I think you learn a lot over final for his only grand slam title. "I amazing year in 2009 and I thought he (Rafael Nadal) in the fourth round, and I Kvitova to lead Czechs in the period when you play these top think it's going to be a good match. I had a chance in 2010 to sort of make a started to believe more in my game, on guys. you can just only get better if you think he's coming back awfully strong run for world number one. "Injury my serve, and then I closed the year al - fed Cup against germany lose against him." Federer, who is bid - again," Federer said of his quarter-final came and things obviously changed, most in the top 10. "So that's helped me to ding for his fifth Australian title, will against the Argentine, which will be his and now he's had a great year to get be ready for this year. Hopefully I will PRAgUe: World number two Petra Kvitova will now face Argentine 11th seed del Potro, 1,000th tour match. "I was sad to see back in the top 15 and now he's making play healthy all this season and try to get lead holders Czech Republic in the Fed Cup first who beat him in the 2009 US Open that he was out for so long after his his move to the top 10." in closer to the top guys." round tie against Germany in Stuttgart on February 4-5, the CTK news agency said Saturday. Team cap - tain Petr Pala also named world number 46 Iveta Benesova, Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova (49) and lucie Hradecka (51) azarenka in best shape ever for the tie. "I saw them all, I talked to them all, and I de - MELBOURNE this tournament, was quickly into her Azarenka will now take on Radwanska, cided according to their current AfP stride against her 46th-ranked opponent who demolished Germany's Julia Go - form," the agency quoted Pala Sunday, breaking her twice in the first set. erges 6-1, 6-1. The two have known each as saying at the World number three Victoria Azarenka She maintained her firm grip on the other since they were 12 years old and Australian Open, said she was in the best shape of her ca - contest in the second set, again breaking are good friends off the court. They last where both Kvi - reer after crushing Czech Iveta Benesova twice to wrap up the match in 1hr 17mins. met at the Sydney International 10 days tova and Benesova 6-2, 6-2 to reach the Australian Open The 22-year-old said strenuous off-season ago when Azarenka won in three sets on have reached the quarter-finals on Sunday. fitness work had helped in her unbeaten her way to winning the title. "We've had fourth round. The The Belarusian has been in superb start to the year. "I think I'm in the best so many great matches, long matches, Czechs beat Russia 3-2 in touch in Melbourne, losing just 12 games shape physically right now, so it kind of long rallies. I'm sure it's going to hap - Moscow last November to on the way to the quarter-finals, where helps other aspects of the game," she said. pen again," Azarenka said. "But I think win their first Fed Cup tro - she will take on Poland's eighth seed Ag - "I feel pretty good out there. she's improved tremendously since the phy since their coun - nieszka Radwanska. Azarenka, who is "It helps the mindset as well. I feel end of last year. you could see the dif - try split with seeking her first grand slam title and like I can play there as long as I need to ference. She's become more aggressive. Slovakia. AfP could be crowned world number one after play. I'm there for every point." She's improved her serve." Clijsters scraps, Azarenka, Radwanska cruise MELBOURNE swung their support behind the 28-year-old, AfP making her last tournament appearance in Australia before retiring at the end of 2012. Defending champion Kim Clijsters saved "A couple of times it went through my four match points as she beat China's li Na mind (to retire from the match), but I didn't while Victoria Azarenka and Agnieszka want to quit at my last time at the Aus - Radwanska cruised into the Australian tralian Open," she said. Clijsters managed Open quarter-finals on Sunday. Clijsters, to hold her serve after the injury, coming who rolled her ankle midway through the back from a break point down to save the first set and needed medical treatment, game, but li then broke Clijsters' next serv - came back from 6-2 down in a second-set ice game and held her own to take the first tiebreak to defeat shell-shocked li 4-6, 7- set in 43 minutes. After going down an 6 (8/6), 6-4 in 2hrs 23mins. early break in the second Clijsters began Earlier third seed Azarenka defeated moving better and she broke to get the set Czech Iveta Benesova 6-2, 6-2 and Radwan - back on level terms and into a tiebreak. ska, the eighth seed, smashed Germany's li opened a 6-2 lead, only for Clijsters Julia Goerges 6-1, 6-1 to set up a quarter- to win six points in a row to level the match. final clash. Clijsters staged a magnificent She then raced to a 4-0 lead in the third set turnaround after looking down and out as as li buckled. The Belgian served for the MELBOuRnE: Kim Clijsters hits a shot against li Na. (r) Julia goerges of germany hits a shot against agnieszka radwanska. afp she hobbled to her chair at 3-3 in the first set match once at 5-2 but was broken, then had point. Azarenka has dropped only 12 games tained her firm grip on the contest in the ranking after the Australian Open, said when she hurt her ankle during a baseline a second chance at 5-4 and this time made in her run to the quarter-finals and she was second set, again breaking twice to wrap up she felt full of confidence after her win in rally. Her sheer determination enthralled no mistake, claiming victory when a li quickly into her stride against Benesova, the match in 1hr 17min s. Azarenka, who is Sydney earlier this month, which means the big crowd in Rod laver Arena, who backhand hit the net on her second match breaking twice in the first set. She main - in contention to secure the number one she is still unbeaten this year. ISB 23-01-2012_Layout 1 1/23/2012 6:39 AM Page 22

monday , 23 January , 2012 22 ‘NO MFN sTATUs FOR INdIA’ PDC threatens to block NATO supply by force if reopened

RAWALPInDI: PDC leaders (from L to R) Hafiz Saeed, Maulana Samiul Haq, Hamid Gul and Syed Munawar Hasan raise hands to g speakers want government to quit war on terror express solidarity at a rally on Sunday. afp g say america is biggest enemy of Muslim countries and government should realise the fact

RAWALPINDI the Pakistani government to realise the fact,” JI Pakistan detains 31 Aitzaz charging Gilani Rs 100 StAff REPORt Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan said. He said it was a need of the hour for Islamabad to change indian fishermen for pleading contempt case PEAKERS of more than three its foreign policy and permanently close the dozens religious and political par - NATO supply routes, as opening them meant KARACHI LAHORE ties on Sunday asked the govern - inviting more drone attacks. AMl President AfP StAff REPORt ment not to restore NATO supply Sheikh Rashid Ahmed called upon all religious line, warning that the Pakistan De - parties to unite and said an Islamic revolution Pakistan has detained 31 Indian Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan is Sfence Council (PDC) would halt the supply by was in the offing. He dispelled the impression fishermen and seized their 14 boats for charging Prime Minister yousaf force in case the government did not do so. that Pakistan was in danger, saying no one fishing in its territorial waters in the Raza Gilani a token legal fee of They were addressing a Defence of Pakistan could cast an evil eye on the country. Arabian Sea, the maritime security only Rs 100 for contesting his case Conference organised by Pakistan Defence “America has been defeated in the Afghan agency said on Sunday. The fishermen in the Supreme Court, but at the Council (PDC) at liaqat Bagh. war. Pakistani soil will not be used against were held by Pakistan Maritime Security same time, has set hard conditions Speaking on the occasion, PDC Chairman Afghanistan,” said Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Agency (PMSA) during routine patrolling for pleading the case. One of the Maulana Samiul Haq, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Speaking on the occasion, former AJK PM Sardar on Saturday, it said in a statement. Some conditions is to stop criticism of Syed Munawar Hassan, General (r) Hameed Gul, Attiq Ahmed Khan denounced trade with India. 14 Indian fishing boats along with 31 the judiciary. In an invoice issued Awami Muslim league (AMl) President Sheikh He said giving MFN status to India was a negation crew members were “apprehended for by Aitzaz Ahsan and Associates, Rashid Ahmed, Jamatud Daawa chief Professor of the Kashmir cause and requested the Pakistani poaching well inside Pakistani waters the senior lawyer said the people Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Former AJK prime min - authorities to play a role for the liberation of Kash - (approximately 110 nautical miles),” the indulging in unpalatable criticism ister Sardar Attiq Ahmed Khan, Maulana Ahmed mir. Former ISI chief General (r) Hameed Gul said statement said. “Indian fishermen of the superior courts be ludhianvi and others vowed that the PDC would NATO routes should not be opened. He strongly continue to intrude in Pakistan’s marine restrained, while the other defend the country inch by inch and no compro - criticised the US foreign policy vis-à-vis Muslim rich Indus delta region containing high condition was to travel alone with leaders were not accompanying mise would be made on its territorial integrity. countries. Gul urged the International community quality fish, at the cost of livelihood of him to the apex court. “you and I Prime Minister Gilani and all of They strongly criticised government’s decision to to play its role for the resolution of the longstand - local fishermen resulting in depletion of will travel to the courts by them had gone to the court by give Most Favored Nation (MFN) status to India. ing Kashmir issue. The speakers also expressed our fish stock and ecological damage to ourselves, and in all humility, themselves. The prime minister The speakers demanded the government solidarity with the families of Pakistanis who were rare fish species,” the PMSA said. The without a procession of any kind,” drove to the SC himself with quit the war on terror. “If the NATO supply lines killed in drone attacks or terrorist attacks. They agency handed over the fishermen to Aitzaz said. It is pertinent to Aitzaz Ahsan on January 19. are restored, we will launch a nation wide cam - called upon the government to immediately with - police for further investigation, the mention that PPP leaders, paign against it. America is the biggest enemy of draw from the alliance in the US-led war against statement said. workers, lawyers and ally parties Continued on page 04 Muslim countries and now the time has come for the terrorism, as it was not Pakistan’s war.

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