April 2016, Volume VI, Issue-IV April in History IMF ‘encouraged’ by Pakistani airline reform step April 22, 1961: Government institutes Film Awards. April 21, 1963: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors adopts code of Press Ethics. April 6, 1970: First ordnance factory is inaugurated at Ghazipur. April 6, 1978: First of the 13-volume exhaustive Urdu Dictionary is published by Taraqqi-i- Urdu Board. April 8, 1982: Jahangir Khan wins British Open Squash Championship. April 22, 1991: Jahangir Khan creates history by winning British Open Squash title for the record tenth consecutive time. The International Monetary Fund is encouraged Finger, IMF mission chief for Pakistan, told April 26, 1992: that Pakistan will convert its cash-strapped Reuters in an email. “We will need to study the Pakistan's Alam Channa enters Guinness Book of World Records as the national airline into a limited company but said it approved bill and discuss with the authorities tallest man in the world. will see if the reforms go far enough in their emerging plans to run PIA strictly as a restructuring the loss-making entity. commercial entity and strengthen its performance What’s inside: in the absence of a transfer of management control Parliament adopted a law on Monday to convert to a private investor.” F Traffic Violation Evidence System Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into a (TVES) limited company but it prevents the government PIA has accumulated losses of more than $3 from giving up its management control. Prime billion. It and other loss-making companies, F Swedish rapper Elliphant shot a Minister Nawaz Sharif had made the privatisation including power distribution companies and steel video in Pakistan of the company a top goal when he came to power giant Pakistan Steel Mills, cost the government an in 2013. estimated $5 billion a year. F The Lahooti Mela F At the AKS festival, the stories of The privatisation of it and 67 other state-owned In February, the IMF released the last $497 Pakistan's transgender community companies also a major element of the $6.6 billion million tranche of its loan, even after Pakistan get heard IMF package that helped Pakistan stave off shelved plans to privatise its power supply default in 2013. It will end in September this year. companies and said it would miss deadlines to sell F The Richest Poor Man other loss-making state firms. Another $1.1 “We are encouraged that a consensus has been billion remains to be released. F Pakistani rewarded by crown prince reached on corporatisation of PIA,” Harald Courtesy: The Express Tribune for saving Saudi national's life Positive Post is published to project positivity all around Pakistan amongst our youth and the entire nation. Our efforts are to inculcate patriotism and a sense of ownership in them. It is a compilation of news extracted by the students of Mass Communications and Media Studies of Greenwich University. ‘Log-kya-kahein-gey syndrome keeping people away from mental health professionals’ In Pakistani society and others The event is part of a collabora - to mental illnesses, Shaikh cited about their mental health issues, as regressive as ours, the ‘log- tive effort initiated by the Pak - examples of known personalities or the appalling lack of mental kya-kahein-gey’ syndrome re - istan Association for Mental – physicist Stephen Hawking, health professionals in the mains one of the main reasons Health, Humanity Initiative former Pakistani cricketer country.” people continue to shy away and CareForHealth. As Shaikh Wasim Akram and Indian film from visiting professionals for explained, the trio’s ‘Taskeen’ actress Deepika Padukone – Another speaker, Dr Taha Sabri, mental health related issues. initiative aims at helping realign who rose up to face such chal - a medical school graduate, Unfortunately, what we fail to the misconstrued concepts re - lenges with inspirational spoke about the factors causing realise is that such attitudes are garding mental health in Pak - courage. mental illnesses, stating that bi - only worsening our people’s suf - istani society, and help foster an ological, psychological and en - fering. environment in which people “They all consulted profession - vironmental factors were all can shrug off the social stigma als who helped them overcome equally important to this end. This oft-repeated but still highly attached to mental illnesses. their issues, unlike people in our relevant message was conveyed society who would eventually “It is commonly believed that by Ibadullah Shaikh, one of Shaikh, himself a survivor who die a slow death out of the fear people with mental illness have three speakers at a mental now works as an advocate for of what others might have to say a tendency to be violent. This as - health awareness workshop, ti - physical and mental wellness, about their problems.” sumption is as far from the truth tled ‘Taskeen’, organised at the spoke of the need for stronger as possible, as researches show T2F.. support networks, starting from However, for Shaikh, the road that 90 percent of mental health families to the practical domain. to successful rehabilitation for patients are non-violent. In fact, “Anyone who tries to open up Pakistanis was made even studies show that most of them about a mental issue he or she tougher by the alarming dearth have actually been victims of vi - may be facing has to bear of mental health professionals in olence in their lives.” through a barrage of skepticism the country. and criticism,” he stated, “And, In her talk, psychologist Alizeh it is not just family members “There are only around 450 pro - Valjee, founder of Care - who tend to fail their loved fessionals catering to a popula - ForHealth, focused on the ones; friends, colleagues and su - tion of over 20 million people. power of attentive listening and periors can be equally apathetic That is, simply put, an absurd how a compassionate attitude in such situations.” ratio and leaves us thinking could ease their road to recovery. about what is really to blame By: Javeria Ilyas , BS 46 5132 Speaking of the stigma attached here; those who don’t speak out Courtesy: The News Pakistan, China upbeat over Afghan peace prospects Pakistan and China will con - tion and Confidence-Building tinue to work closely with Measures in Asia (CICA). He Afghanistan’s government to met the Chinese minister on the bring about peace and stability fringes of the summit. in the war-torn country, despite President Ashraf Ghani’s recent The two top diplomats reviewed statement that Kabul will no bilateral ties and exchanged longer seek Islamabad’s help in views on regional and interna - the reconciliation process. tional developments, including the current situation in The announcement came after a Afghanistan, a statement issued meeting between China’s For - by Pakistan’s Foreign Office eign Minister Wang Yi and said. It added that there was Prime Minister’s Adviser on “complete convergence of views Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz in between the two sides on re - closely with the Afghan govern - moting the Quadrilateral Con - Beijing. gional and international devel - ment in its efforts to bring peace sultative Group (QCG) in facil - opments.” and stability in Afghanistan,” itating an Afghan-led and Aziz is in China to attend the said the FO statement. “In this Afghan-owned reconciliation 5th foreign ministers’ meeting “It was agreed that Pakistan and context, the two sides recog - process.” of the Conference on Interac - China will continue to work nised the importance of pro - Courtesy: The Express Tribune 2 Traffic Violation Evidence System (TVES) By Karachi Traffic Police Is Gaining Momentum same mistake. What you have to do is, deposit the challan fine at the particular TVES traffic police locations. The alternate is to deposit the amount at a Telenor Franchise. If you decide not to, well the warning given would be more than enough to compel you to do so. If you do not remove your fines, the traffic police will have the authority to carry out ex - treme measures like deadlock the file of the violator’s vehicle. The violator will not be able to transfer his/her file in case they want to sell the car until all the dues are cleared. By now a lot of you, especially ing the law violator will be it’ll look something like this: The news about this system is Karachi residents, may already scooped out of the Citizens spreading fast. Why? Well be - know that the Karachi Traffic Police Liaison Committee Challan - Traffic Violation cause many can see the Police Department has (CPLC) database using the edited system bearing fruit. A lot of people have already received introduced a Traffic Violation license plate numbers. It contains all the details includ - Evidence System, TVES for these electronic challans and ing the name of the car and the have no objection as their viola - short, this year. It is arguably by Another alternate to the CCTV car owner. The engine number, far the biggest step towards the are the mobile units manned by tion can be clearly seen in the registration number, chassis evidence picture provided. A development of the overall traf - traffic police personnel, who will number including the type of fic system of Karachi, which by be taking photographs of law sharp decline in traffic viola - offence and the place where the tions has been observed in the way has been ignored for offending motor vehicles. This is offence took place. The fine for many years. especially helpful in areas where Karachi. Especially wherever most traffic violations is PKR the CCTV cameras are up and CCTV coverage is non-existent 300, which I personally think is For those who are still unaware or either useless.