Tuesday, 10 August, 2021 I 1 Muharram, 1443 I Rs 15.00 I Vol XII No 41 I 12 Pages I Lahore Edition UN rePort says global warMiNg daNgeroUsly close to beiNg oUt of coNtrol NEws DEsk planet.” read more In three months’ time, the u.n. tatIng that humans were CoP26 climate conference in glas - “unequivocally” to blame for gow, scotland, will try to wring much Success of intra- bringing global warming more ambitious climate action out of dangerously close to being the nations of the world, and the Afghan dialogue out of control, the united na - money to go with it. stions panel on climate change told drawing on more than 14,000 sci - depends on the world on monday that greenhouse entific studies, the IPCC report gives gas levels in the atmosphere are high the most comprehensive and de - leadership: Qureshi enough to guarantee climate disrup - tailed picture yet of how climate tion for decades if not centuries. change is altering the natural world — IsLAMABAD APP according to the report from the and what could still be ahead. scientists of the Intergovernmental unless immediate, rapid and foreign minister shah mahmood Qureshi Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), large-scale action is taken to reduce on monday said that Pakistan has played deadly heat waves, gargantuan hurri - emissions, the report says, the average its role in afghan peace and reconcilia - canes and other weather extremes global temperature is likely to reach or tion process and now it is up to the that are already happening will only cross the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 de - afghan leadership to further move the become more severe. grees fahrenheit) warming threshold process. addressing a press conference u.n. secretary-general antónio within 20 years. in Islamabad, the foreign minister said guterres described the report as a the pledges to cut emissions ‘WAKE-UP CALL’: governments and take action now, before we meet in that the afghan leadership would be re - “code red for humanity”. made so far are nowhere near campaigners reacted to the findings glasgow”. sponsible for the success or failure of the “the alarm bells are deafening,” enough to start reducing level of with alarm. the report says emissions “unequiv - dialogue process. he said Pakistan would he said in a statement. “this report greenhouse gases – mostly carbon british Prime minister boris John - ocally caused by human activities” continue with its role in the afghan peace must sound a death knell for coal and dioxide (Co2) from burning fossil fuels son said he hoped the report would have already pushed the average process as there should be no ambiguity. fossil fuels, before they destroy our – accumulated in the atmosphere. be “a wake-up call for the world to global temperature up 1.1C from its Qureshi regretted that allegations were pre-industrial average — and would being levelled against Pakistan for the fail - have raised it 0.5C further without the ure of afghan peace process. the foreign tempering effect of pollution in the at - minister said Prime minister Imran khan PM urges masses to plant one tree mosphere. had been consistently saying that there that means that, even as soci - was no military solution to the afghan eties move away from fossil fuels, issue. he stressed that a well-negotiated, each to ensure clean Pakistan temperatures will be pushed up all-inclusive and broad-based political again by the loss of the airborne pol - settlement was the only way forward to lutants that come with them and establish peace in afghanistan. to a g Imran Inaugurates currently reflect away some of the question, the foreign minister maintained sun’s heat. that they had facilitated the afghan civil - world’s bIggest mIyawakI a rise of 1.5C is generally seen as ians despite the coronavirus pandemic. the most that humanity could cope “Pakistan has been a generous and hos - urban forest In lahore with without suffering widespread eco - pitable host to the three million afghan nomic and social upheaval. refugees for four decades despite its lim - LAHORE the 1.1C warming already APP ited resources,” he said, adding that if recorded has been enough to un - there was any new influx of afghan leash disastrous weather. this year, Prime minister Imran khan on monday highlighting the im - refugees, Pakistan did not have the ca - heat waves killed hundreds in the Pa - portance of forests in checking global warming and pol - pacity to host them. he further said it cific northwest and smashed records lution urged the masses, especially, youth to plant at least past glory of lahore, which used to be a city of gardens would be the collective responsibility of around the world. wildfires fuelled by one tree each and look after it to ensure a clean and pol - with trees planted all around, and now was considered as the international community and other heat and drought are sweeping away lution-free Pakistan for the future generations. one of the most polluted cities of Pakistan. neighbours of afghanistan in that case, entire towns in the u.s. west, releasing he expressed these views while inaugurating the he dedicated the miyawaki forest lahore to Prof. dr. adding that Pakistan had been urging the record carbon dioxide emissions from world’s biggest miyawaki urban forest, as part of monsoon akira miyawaki, a Japanese botanist and expert in plant international community to play their due siberian forests, and driving greeks to drive under the 10 billion tree tsunami project. ecology, who died on July 16, 2021. role in the reconstruction of afghanistan flee their homes by ferry. the prime minister hoped that the development of and for the regional peace and stability. miyawaki forest in the provincial capital will help revive the CONTINUED ON PAGE 05 CONTINUED ON PAGE 05 CONTINUED ON PAGE 05 coroNavirUs iN Fawad says govt ready to trial MORE INSIDE PakistaN electronic voting in 2023 Muharram moon IsLAMABAD said. fawad said voting usually APP ends at 5:00 pm during the sighted; Ashura CONFIRMED CASES: election and the people have minister for Information and to wait until the next morning to on August 19 broadcasting fawad Chaudhry get the results, but the use of 1,071,620 on monday said electronic vot - electronic voting machines STORY ON PAGE 03 ing was the most effective tool would make election results to ensure transparency in the available immediately. elections and if the opposition regarding the rigging shireen mazari parties agreed, the govern - charges in recent kashmir elec - LAST UPDATED AT 8:14 AM ON AUGUST 9, 2021 ment was ready to introduce tions, he said, the Pml-n was in says uk never the apparatus in the coming power and the prime minister DAY'S DEATH TOLL: NEW CASES: general elections. also belonged to the party. asked Pakistan for In an interview, the minister moreover, a senior member said the work on the new of the election Commission was Covid-19 data 53 4,040 method had been completed also a close relative of the then and if a consensus was own unique challenges, rang - prime minister of the region. he STORY ON BACK PAGE reached between the govern - ing from inaccessible rural pop - said the appointment of the RECOVERED: DEATHS: ment and the opposition par - ulations to low levels of literacy. chief election commissioner HEC takes ties on the proposal, the fawad said a mechanism was also done by the muzaf - electronic voting regime could will be devised for transparency farabad itself, the police and 964,404 23,918 be trialled in the next elections in the elections, assuring the the administration were also U-turn on scheduled to be held in 2023. machines fulfil all the require - under their control. but when the electronic voting machines ments of the election Commis - Pml-n lost the election, the for - contentious PhD SINDH: PUNJAB: are used in some of the world’s sion of Pakistan under the law mer premier claimed rigging. biggest democracies to get regulating the entire process. If the opposition parties admission policy around some of these hurdles. the minister said eVms were lose the election, they claim 400,400 364,680 the machines come in all ahead of the incumbent polling rigging and if they win, they say STORY ON PAGE 03 shapes and sizes, from small regime and would reduce the the elections were fair, the min - KPK: BALOCHISTAN: touchscreen devices to larger chances of fraud in the elec - ister remarked. he said the units with physical buttons and a tions and results would be avail - best way to get rid of these al - several tourists 148,619 31,177 printed ballot paper on the front. able immediately, including legations was to develop a but those nations that have electronic and paper trails. mechanism so that the trans - looted at widespread adoption of elec - “our emphasis on elec - parency of the elections can - AJK/GB: ISLAMABAD: tronic voting are also develop - tronic voting machines is be - not be questioned. gunpoint in swat ing nations with relatively short cause they are not connected 27,288 / 8,796 90,660 democratic histories and their to the Internet”, the minister CONTINUED ON PAGE 05 STORY ON PAGE 02 Tuesday, 10 August, 2021 02 NEWS LAHORE two Killed aS rooF collaPSeS Several touriStS looted at due to Mortar gunPoint in Swat Shell exPloSion NEwS DESK as soon as the robbery was reported, the RAHIM YAR KHAN police reached the area and started an INP HE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) investigation. police said that around 20 Earlier on Thursday last, tourists A father and son were killed when roof of a room tourists were looted at gunpoint going to different scenic spots in the collapsed due to a mortar shell explosion on in Swat’s Bahrain area on province were looted at gunpoint.