pkistantoday e-paper 22nd june, 2012

ISLAMABADTayyab Hussain

Despite three days of highdrama and speedy politicaldevelopments in the fed-eral capital, the rulingcoalition has failed to

evolve a consensus on any pakistan peo-ple’s party leader out of the two short-listed candidates, including QamarZaman Kaira and Raja pervez Ashraf.However, ppp co-chairman presidentAsif Ali Zardari late on thursday gave an-other surprise to the nation by conveyingto the leaders of the coalition parties thatRaja pervez Ashraf would be his party’sfinal candidate for the slot of the primeminister and that he had decided to dropthe name of Makhdoom shahabuddin

due to the issuance of non-bailable war-rants against him by an Anti-NarcoticsForce court in the ephedrine drug case.However, due to Ashraf’s previous recordas the minister of water and power and hisdubious role in the Rental power project(Rpps) scam, leaders of major coalitionparties, spearheaded by the MuttahidaQaumi Movement (MQM), advised the pppchief to review his decision and insteadnominate Kaira for the slot as the upcom-ing months were important and the newpM should lead the way to resolve all con-tentious issues, including load shedding.the meeting could not resolve the matter andfinally, all the coalition partners authorisedpresident Zardari to name the new pM.president’s spokesman Farhatullah Babarsaid coalition partners announced theirsupport to the ppp nominee as the candi-date for the office of the pM.“it also decided that the name of the ppp

nominee will be announced by syedKhursheed shah at a press conference at11am tomorrow (Friday),” he said.A source told pakistan today that the al-lies could not evolve a consensus over thename of the new pM as the MQM askedthe president to consider nominatingKaira, but the name was quietly rejectedby pML-Q chief Chaudhry shujaat Hus-sain through a common friend.the source said the ANp, however, sup-ported president Zardari’s nominee and thusthe meeting ended without a consensus.Fi-nally, the source added, the meeting askedthe president to take a wise decision, as atthe end of the day, it would be the pppwho would have to face consequences of awrong choice and the situation could alsogo out of hands of politicians.proving to be a dark horse, pervez Ashrafhas “arrived” after a series of hectic con-

sultations within the ppp as well aswith the ruling coalition. His nomination has been made despitereservations expressed by the MQM, buteven that could not convince presidentZardari to change his mind.earlier, a high-level delegation of the ppp,led by syed Khursheed shah, visited theresidence of Chaudhry shujaat Hussainlate on thursday night and informed himabout his party’s decision to appoint Ashrafin place of Makhdoom shahabuddin. Challenges: it would, however, be atest of credibility for the leadership of thepML-Q as its parliamentary Leader syedFaisal saleh Hayat was a petitioner in theRpp case under which the apex court haddirected the National Accountability Bu-reau (NAB) to act against Ashraf andother previous water and power ministersfor recovering billions of rupees.nomination papers: the politicalcrisis deepened on thursday as five can-didates submitted their nomination pa-pers with the National Assembly,including three members from the pak-istan people’s party (ppp), includingMakhdoom shahabuddin, Raja parvezAshraf and Qamar Zaman Kaira, while

Fazlur Rehman from the JUi-F and pML-N’s Mehtab Khan Abbasi filed papers fortheir sides. the speaker accepted the pa-pers of all the candidates after a briefscrutiny and rejected the allegationsraised by pML-N members against sha-habuddin and pervez Ashraf.Kaira enters sCene: Later, thepresident directed former information min-ister Qamar Zaman Kaira to submit hisnomination papers along with Raja pervezAshraf and Makhdoom shahabuddin.

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WASHINGTON sPeciaL cOrresPOnDenT

Us secretary of state Hillary Clinton has voicedWashington’s growing dissatisfaction withpakistan’s anti-terror performance but arguedthat sustaining a relationship with country isin America’s own interest. the chief American

diplomat also recognized the oft-missed point that Washingtonhas partly been responsible for the challenging relationship be-tween the two countries. As relations between the two countries

remain troubled and stalemated – over several issues includinglong-sought U.s. apology on last year’s salala attacks - Clin-

ton used some stinging observations regarding pakistan’spolicies and said the country is losing sovereignty,which, she argued, meant control over the territory. Her

remarks indicated that Washington would continue topressurize pakistan on the issue of Afghan militants finding

a sanctuary on its side of the border. she told Charlie Roseshow in an appearance along with former secretary of

state James Baker, who led foreign policy efforts underGeorge Walker Bush from 1989-92, that despite cur-rent difficulties, breaking off ties with pakistan wasnot the appropriate option. “i think that our rela-

tionship with pakistan has been challenging for along time. some of it is of our own making,”

Clinton told the program. she also demandedthat Dr shakil Afridi, the pakistani who workedfor CiA in hunt for bin Laden before his deathin the American raid last summer, be released.But, Clinton said, she “completely agree(s ) it isnot in our interests to cut off our relationship”with pakistan. “it is in our interest to try to bet-

ter direct and manage that relationship,”she recognized. Washington, she said, is

dealing with a country that “has a lot ofdifficult issues both for themselves and

then for us and others.” “there areseveral things that we’re asking

the pakistanis to do more of andbetter. Number one, they’ve

got to do more about thesafe havens inside their

own country.” the Ussecretary of state also

took a swipe at pak-istani complaintsabout Washing-ton’s disregardfor its sover-eignty. “they

talk a lot aboutsovereignty. Well,

the first job of any sov-ereign nation is to protect your own people and se-cure your own borders. And therefore that’s whatthey should be doing, and by doing so they wouldhelp themselves first and foremost, help theAfghans, help us, and others.”

‘MAINTAINING PAKISTAN TIESIN US INTEREST’

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Dutch Ambassador to pakistanGajus scheltema on thursdaysaid Netherlands was cuttingshort its development operationsin pakistan due to thecontinuous hostility, uncertaintyand financial constraints.He told reporters Netherlandswas taking difficult economicdecisions mainly because of theGreek crisis and recession ineurope that forced to cut thedevelopment aid and to adopttargeted funding. “this isbecause it has become impossiblefor Dutch government tocontinue operations in pakistan,”he added.the Dutch ambassador saidalthough it was easier to dobusiness in pakistan than indiabut corruption, religioushostility, political uncertaintyand bureaucratic red tape, aswell as law and order were themain reasons that led to thecontinuous decrease in tradeand investment between the twocountries. He was of the view

that pakistan had a greatpotential to become aprogressive state but did notrealise its potential. He said in2010 Netherlands had helpedpakistan with 25 million eurosin the shape of humanitarian aidduring the floods. He said therewas a huge potential inagriculture and dairy sector inpakistan and Netherlands wouldlike to invest in it. When the Dutch ambassador wasasked to comment on the currentpolitical scenario of pakistan hesaid that it was the internalmatter of pakistan. He was of theview that Netherlands wantpolitical stability in pakistan.earlier, addressing an alumnigathering of participants fromNepal, sri Lanka, Bangladesh andpakistan, the Dutch envoyappreciated the role of theNetherlands Organisation forinternational Cooperation inhigher education for the secondtime in pakistan on reducingearthquake vulnerability throughgenerating seismic micro zonationmaps using geo information(Gis/Remote sensing).

Nasim Zehra to staywith Dunya News

Holland to cut developmentoperations in Pakistan

NEWS DESK

Nasim Zehra, anchorperson and Directorof Current Affairs at Dunya News, haswithdrawn her resignation after thechannel management asked her to assistit in framing a code of conduct foranchorpersons. Zehra had tendered herresignation to Dunya News managementafter a scandalous interview of real estatetycoon Malik Riaz by fellow anchorsMeher Bukhari and Mubasher Lucman.in her tweet, she said, “Dunya News hasasked me to stay on help set up a Code ofConduct for anchors, which is a generalconsensus after interview/video saga wasthat code is a must. After thinking overthe proposal, i realized that it providesme an opportunity to address an issue weare all concerned about so i have takenback my resignation.”

isLaMabaD: PPP leader Makhdoom shahabuddin talksto reporters after submitting his nomination papers forthe election of prime minister on Thursday. oNLiNe


Speeding vankills two iSi men

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two junior-grade employees of thecountry’s top intelligence agency – theinter-services intelligence (isi) – and oneof their relatives were crashed to death bya speeding van of the National engineeringand scientific Commission (NesCOM)here on thursday, police and eyewitnessessaid. the accident took place at NilorBarrier (No 1) on thursday morning in theprecincts of Nilor police station. the isimen were riding a motorcycle (bearing“Applied For” registration plate) alongwith a student, when a speeding van ofNesCOM bearing registration number(iDF 7485) hit their bike hard.Resultantly, the two isi employees –imran Masih and Naeem Masih – died onthe spot, while Qaiser Masih, a studentaging between 13 to 16 years, got seriousinjuries. He was rushed to the pakistaninstitute of Medical sciences (piMs)where he succumbed to his injuries.sources said imran,28, and Naeem, 21,were working as sweepers at the isi office.they belonged to the Narowal district ofpunjab, and were residing in theNilor area of islamabad.eyewitnesses said theaccident was caused bythe rash driving of vandriver. police saidthat after theaccident, the vandriver – lateridentified as AbdulAziz – managed toflee after leavingthe van on thespot. “We areafter the fugitivedriver andhopefully he willbe arrested soon,”said Asjad iqbal,station houseofficer of Nilorpolice station.


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pAKistAN MuslimLeague-Nawaz (pML-N)president Nawaz sharifhas said that no change inthe prime Minister’s Of-

fice will be beneficial for the countryunless national wealth laundered inswiss accounts was brought back.

“For how long will the prime min-isters be made scapegoats? Why the Rs6 billion deposited abroad are notbeing brought back? Why do they keepon sacrificing the prime minister?”Nawaz asked while speaking to themedia at punjab House in islamabad.He said the looted money was the rootof the whole matter, adding that thepakistan people’s party (ppp) had an-nounced that even the new prime min-ister would not comply with the court’sorders of writing a letter to swiss au-thorities to reopen corruption casesagainst president Asif Ali Zardari.

Nawaz said the ppp leaders were notopposing the judiciary’s decision onmoral grounds. “they are not taking anymoral high grounds,” he said, addingthat the ppp actually had a very “dirtycause” and that the public had strong re-sentment towards it. He said the govern-ment was disrupting the entiredemocratic process by trying to cover up

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through “commissions and kickbacks”.“should a man like this be placed at sucha post?” Nawaz asked. the pML-Nleader questioned why the parliament,even after being given a chance by thesupreme Court, did not take the rightdecision. “they said the supreme Court’sdecision was wrong. i say the supremeCourt has set precedence in pakistan bytaking such a decision,” Nawaz said,adding that in the past, martial law andother extra-constitutional steps hadbeen taken to deal with such situations.

Nawaz said the current rulers hadbrought uncountable crises on pakistanand the sincerity, skill and intent needed tobring pakistan out of these crises was notapparent in the government’s priorities.“As a result, the country is sinking deeper

and deeper into crises,” he added. thepML-N chief outlined the challenges facedby the country, saying that the issues hadto be dealt with as soon as possible. thechallenges, according to him, were restor-ing the country’s economy, which wasmarred by unbearable inflation and unem-ployment, dealing with electricity loadshedding, upholding the sovereignty of thelaw and resolving the deteriorating law andorder situation in Balochistan and Karachi.He also put forth the idea of a foreign policybased on national interest, which wouldsafeguard the interests of pakistan and“will bring us out of international loneli-ness”. Nawaz also confirmed the reportson his party’s candidate for the post ofprime minister, saying he had decided tofield sardar Mehtaab Abbasi.

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26 challenged in SCISLAMABAD

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A petition seeking cancellation of all deci-sions made by former prime minister

Yousaf Raza Gilani after his disqualifica-tion effective from April 26, 2012, has

been filed in the supreme Court ofpakistan. the petition also soughtthe cancellation of Gilani’s diplo-matic passport, and inclusion of hisname in the exit Control List. Ac-cording to media reports, the peti-tioner argued that the federalbudget for the financial year2012-13 was also unlawful. in ad-dition, the petitioner sought thecancellation of all ordinancespassed on Gilani’s advice afterApril 26. this petition has beenfiled in the backdrop of a shortorder issued by the supremeCourt on June 19, according towhich the seat of the primeMinister of pakistan had beenvacant since April 26.

Changing PM won’t matter unless looted money is brought back: NawazSaying PPP leaders working for ‘dirty cause’

Violent protestsrage acrosscountry againstpower outages

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Citizens of Gujranwala, Hyderabad,Charsadda and other cities stagedviolent protests against prolongedpower outages on thursday. thecitizens of Gujranwala protested onthe fifth consecutive day and damageda grid station on pasror Road. someof the protesters burnt tyres on GtRoad and pelted vehicles with stones.in Hyderabad, protesters damagedthe property of HesCO. they saidthere was no power supply inLatifabad No 10 and 12 since the lasttwo days. in Charsadda, protesterseven stopped the vehicle of provincialminister Barrister Arshad Abdullahduring the protests.

Woman givesbirth to 8 babiesin Peshawar

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A woman has reportedly given birth toeight baby girls at a hospital inpeshawar, a private tV channelreported on thursday. According toAaj News, the woman who wasadmitted at the Hayatabad MedicalComplex surprised the medical staffby given birth to octuplets, all of themgirls. Doctors said the mother and herbabies were in stable condition andwould be allowed to leave the hospitalsoon. the woman’s family hasrequested not to release the identity ofthe mother.



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Us Congressdebates threatfrom islamists

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A United states congressional panel resumeda controversial debate Wednesday aboutradicalisation of Us-based Muslims, sparkingquestions by some lawmakers about itspurpose. “the overwhelming majority ofMuslim-Americans are outstandingAmericans. Yet the reality is that the islamistterrorist threat comes from that community,”said Republican peter King who chairs theHomeland security Committee.the committee, in meetings since March2011, has come under fire for alleged “witchhunting” and fueling the marginalisation ofAmerican Muslims. Democratic lawmakerBennie thompson said he hoped the hearingdid not feed into “the notion that the UsA isat war with islam. “i hope this hearing willnot encourage the belief among Americansthat our fellow citizens are apparentlydangerous because of their religiousaffiliation,” thompson stressed.Democrat Al Green of texas said “i do notoppose hearings on radicalisation.” “i dooppose hearings that don’t focus on theentirety of radicalisation. And if you agreethat we have Christians who becomeradicalised, why not have a hearing on theradicalisation of Christians?” he asked.Muslim witnesses, who testified, such asAmerican islamic Forum for Democracypresident Zuhdi Jasser, sought to shed lighton their growing community and itsconcerns. “We can come to a consensus thatislamism is a threat, and that’s why you needMuslims ... to lead the movement to separateislam from islamism,” Jasser argued. stillsome members of the Us Muslim communitywere up in arms at the very fact such ahearing was being held. “people are afraid ofthis scrutiny,” said Qanta Ahmed, a professorat New York University. Faiza patel, co-director of the Liberty and National securityprogram at NYU, said “debating islam is notthe government’s business,” adding that “theembrace of violence (by) American Muslimsis contrary to all empirical studies.”

ISLAMABADagencies

Just a day after nominating him for thetop government office, the pakistan peo-ple’s party (ppp) dropped the name ofMakhdoom shahabuddin hours after ananti-narcotics court issued non-bailablearrest warrants against him.

soon after receiving the warrants, ateam of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF)carried out a raid at the Minister’s Colonyto arrest the textiles minister however, itwas not given permission to go beyondthe main gate. the ANF raid team, whicharrived on two vehicles at 4.00pm, keptwaiting at the main gate for at least onehour, while seeking permission to movein and arrest shahabuddin.

the team went back after the ANFteam leader contacted shahabuddin’s

staff on intercom and was told that he wasnot home. shahabuddin, a staunchZardari loyalist with a powerbase insouthern punjab, had been textiles minis-ter until tuesday. He was the consensuschoice following more than 24 hours ofcrisis talks and intense horse trading be-tween Zardari and members of his frac-tious ruling coalition. He was brieflyfinance minister during the 1993-1996premiership of Benazir Bhutto. But it washis stint as health minister that led to hisarrest warrant over the alleged import ofan illegal drug in 2010.

the warrants for shahabuddin wereissued by Judicial Magistrate shafqatul-lah Khan after the deadline for him to ap-pear before the ANF expired. During thelast hearing of the ephedrine drug case,the supreme Court of pakistan had alsodirected the ANF to arrest shahabuddin.

the ANF is investigating the Rs 7 billiondrug scam, which involves Ali Musa Gi-lani, the son of former prime ministerYousaf Raza Gilani.

After submitting his nomination pa-pers to the national assembly, shahabud-din thanked Zardari and shrugged off aquestion about his possible arrest by quot-ing a poetic verse, alluding flying high on“hostile winds”. political analyst HasanAskari said suspicion would fall on the mil-itary for being behind the warrant, sayingit was unusual for junior courts to inter-vene against senior politicians withoutbeing pushed. “Makhdoom shahabuddin’schances are declining because the actionby the anti-narcotics force gives an impres-sion that the army is not favourable to him.it appears that the army wants to wind upthe present government but without actu-ally coming into power,” Askari told AFp.

PESHAWARagencies

Four people, including twochildren, were killed whenbombs ripped throughcongested area of peshawar andQuetta on thursday. A bombplanted in a donkey cart killedthree people, including twochildren, outside a sufi shrine inpeshawar, police said. theexplosives were planted near thepanj peer shrine on the outskirtsof peshawar. “three people havedied and 21 are wounded,”police official Asif iqbal toldAFp. the dead included a five-year-old boy and a four-year-oldgirl who had come with theirparents, he added. “the bombwas planted in a donkey cartparked near the shrine,” he said.the donkey, whose front legswere tied with a rope, was blownto pieces, he said. the devicewas fitted with a timer andcarried between eight and 10kilogrammes of explosives, hesaid. Worshippers had gatheredfor a weekly event at the shrine,normally held on thursdayevenings, when the bombexploded. “it appears that thetarget was the worshippers whowere gathered here,” anotherpolice officer tahir Ayub said.the shrine houses the graves ofseveral sufi saints. the tomb ofpopular pashto poet RahmanBaba is also located near thepanj peer shrine. there was noimmediate claim ofresponsibility. Meanwhile, abomb blast took place near amosque in Ghaus Abad area ofQuetta’s satellite town, killing aperson and injuring at least 15others. police and rescue teamsarrived at the scene and movedthe injured to nearby hospitals.No group claimed theresponsibility of the attack so far.

IT JUST WASN’T MAKHDOOM SHAHABUDDIN’S DAY

He wrote that section 248(2) of the pakistaniconstitution stated: “No criminal proceedingswhatsoever shall be instituted or continued against thepresident or governor in any court during his term ofoffice.” the language of the above provision is clear, andit is a settled principle of interpretation that when thelanguage of a provision is clear the court should not twistor amend its language in the garb of interpretation, butread it as it is, he said. “i therefore fail to understand how proceedings oncorruption charges (which are clearly of a criminalnature) can be instituted or continued against thepakistani president”, Katju said. Moreover, “how can the court remove a prime minister?this is unheard of in a democracy. the prime ministerholds office as long he has the confidence of parliament,not the confidence of the supreme Court”. Katju said the constitution established a delicate balanceof power, and each of the three organs of the state – thelegislature, the executive and the judiciary – mustrespect each other and not encroach into each other’sdomain, otherwise the system could not function. “it seems to me that the pakistani supreme Court haslost its balance and gone berserk. if it does not nowcome to its senses i am afraid the day is not far off whenthe constitution will collapse, and the blame willsquarely lie with the court, and particularly its chiefjustice,” the former indian sC judge added.

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PAkistAN’s sC hAs

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A sri Lankan asylum seekers’ boat,with 200 people believed to be onboard, capsized off Australia’s remoteChristmas island on thursday, withpolice saying scores could have died.

Late on thursday, Australia’sMaritime safety Authority (AMsA)said 110 people had been rescued afterthe mid-afternoon accident in indone-sian waters, according to AustralianBroadcasting (ABC) television.

the boat issued a distress call andcapsized 120 nautical miles north ofChristmas island, some 2,600 kilo-metres (1,600 miles) from the Aus-tralian mainland, AMsA said.Western Australia police Commis-sioner Karl O’Callaghan said a “largenumber” were feared to have per-ished. “some of the very early reportssuggest that up to 75 people may havedrowned, but i do stress that they areunconfirmed at this stage,” O’-Callaghan told reporters. AMsA said

the cargo ship WsA Dragon and Aus-tralian military vessel HMAs Wollon-gong were on the scene to recoversurvivors from the water, while a de-fence aircraft dropped life-rafts whichcould hold 60 people.

“We are very concerned for alarge number of people who mayhave drowned,” O’Callaghan added.“We know from what we’ve beenhearing from the aircraft that therewere not 200 life jackets on board.”“We can also confirm that survivorsare wearing life jackets,” an AMsAspokeswoman said. All aircraft andthe two Australian military ships de-ployed had night search capabilitiesand operations would continuethrough the hours of darkness, sheadded, with another two merchantships and two indonesian navyboats en route. it is the latest in a se-ries of refugee boat disasters in theindian Ocean in recent years, asrickety and overloaded vesselspacked with desperate migrants sinkon their way to Australia.

RACE FOR PMnon-serious pml-n: therewas no serious effort by the pML-Nleadership as the major oppositionparty remained a mere spectatorthroughout the day. No political con-tact was made and the pML-N againturned out to be in utter isolation.party position in na: theNational Assembly will meet today(Friday) evening and by the time ofstarting the voting, there is a provi-sion for contestants to withdraw thecandidature. As per the party posi-tion, total MNAs in the National As-sembly are 339 while three arevacant including the seats of YousafRaza Gilani and late Fauzia Wahab.the government enjoys the supportof 236 members in the LowerHouse, while the opposition has astrength of 103 members. On thegovernment’s side, the ppp has 124members, pML-Q 46 MNAs, MQM25, ANp 13, pML-F has five mem-bers, while the Npp and BNp-A haveone member each.there are 18 inde-pendent members majority of thoseare also on the government’s side.

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Boat carrying 200 asylum seekers capsizes off Australia

PesHaWar: a man holds his injured children at a hospital following a bomb explosion at a shrine on Thursday. AFP


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garHi KHuDa buX: Pakistan People’s Party chairman bilawal bhutto Zardari offers fateha at the grave of his mother and PPP leader benazir bhutto.

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FORMeR prime minister Benazir Bhutto was paid glowing tribute onher 59th birth anniversary to commemorate her fight for the rightsof the people and democracy. special prayers were held at her gravein Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, where ppp leaders and workers laid wreaths

and donated blood to mark the day. Benazir was born on June 21, 1953, inKarachi, to former pM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. she inherited the ppp leadershipafter a military coup overthrew her father’s government. she won the elec-tion in 1988, becoming the first female prime minister of a Muslim nation.After completing her early education in pakistan, she pursued higher ed-ucation in the United states. From 1969 to 1973, she attended RadcliffCollege and then Harvard University, where she graduated with a bach-elors degree in comparative government. she then went to the UnitedKingdom to study at Oxford from 1973 to 1977. there, she completed acourse in international Law and Diplomacy. she moved to england in1984, becoming the joint leader in exile of the ppp. she returned topakistan on April 10, 1986, to launch a nationwide campaign for ‘openelections’. she married a wealthy landowner, Asif Ali Zardari, inKarachi on December 18, 1987. the couple had three children, Bi-lawal, Bakhtawar and Aseefa. Bhutto returned to pakistan on Octo-ber 18, 2007, but was killed when an assassin fired shots and thenblew himself up after an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi onDecember 27, 2007. the special prayers at the mausoleum of theBhutto family in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto were attendedamong others by ppp Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, YousafRaza Gilani and Chief Minister sindh syed Qaim Ali. in Lahore,the pakistan people’s party Minorities Wing held special prayersfor the late party chief. Minorities leader Napolean Qayyum saidthe minorities of the country had special regard for the martyredppp leader as she had always strived to ensure the protection ofrights of the marginalized communities of pakistan. “On herbirthday, minorities belonging to all faiths pray for the departedsoul of shaheed Benazir and pray that the country comes out ofthe present crises. pakistan is our motherland and we are readyto give our blood for it as has our dear leader,” he said.

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the ppp and its leadership will continueto uphold supremacy of parliament andthe constitution and will continue itsstruggle for building a modern,egalitarian and pluralistic society inwhich everyone is allowed to shape hisor her own destiny – the values forwhich our great leader, Benazir Bhutto,stood and fought for and when the timecame even laid down her life for it,president Asif Ali Zardari stated in amessage on thursday, the 59th birthanniversary of Benazir Bhutto.

president Zardari and polioAmbassador Aseefa Bhutto Zardaridonated blood in the presidency.spokesman to the president FarhatullahBabar said the 21st day of June each yearwas celebrated by the workers and theleadership of the pakistan people’sparty, commemorating the valiantstruggle of Benazir Bhutto againstextremism, militancy, dictatorship andexploitation of the most vulnerablesegments of society and paying tribute totheir leader and other martyrs of thecountry by donating their blood in thecountry wide blood donation campaignlaunched by the party.

the president in his message saidBenazir was the only leader who rightlycomprehended the threat that was beingposed to the very fabric of our society.she led from the front the battle fordemocracy against all sorts ofbonapartes and extremists. she believedin a moderate and pluralistic pakistanwhere ballot determined the ultimatechoice of the people and where theHouse elected by the peoplerepresenting their will was supreme. shealso fought courageously against themilitants and extremists bent uponforcing their ideological agenda on thepeople through brute force, the

president said. He said her clarion call tostand up against extremism, dictatorshipand to banish poverty and ignorance isour road map to make pakistan amodern and pluralistic state. thepresident, on this day, has also asked theparty workers to donate blood for allthose who have also shed their blood orsuffered otherwise for pakistan. pppChairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari andppp Vice Chairman Yousaf Raza Gilanialso donated blood at Naudero House,Larkana. the blood collections are sent tohospitals to be used by those valiant sonsof the soil who sustain injuries in theirfight against militants and extremists.

indonesiancourt jails Balibomb-makerfor 20 years

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An indonesian court convictedbomb-maker Umar patek onthursday for his role in the 2002Bali attacks that killed 202 peopleand sentenced him to 20 years’ jail,ending a decade-long probe into theatrocity.] patek was found guilty ofpremeditated murder and bomb-making in connection with thesuicide bombings on a nightclub andbar on the resort island, indonesia’sdeadliest act of terror. “He’s beenproven to have committed an evilconspiracy by bringing in firearmsand ammunition for terror acts,”chief judge encep Yuliardi told theWest Jakarta district court after an11-hour hearing. “He hidinformation about acts of terror andhe is found to have taken part inpremeditated murder. We sentenceUmar patek to 20 years in jail.”patek was found guilty of all sixcharges against him, some of whichrelated to Christmas eve bombattacks in 2000 on churches inJakarta. prosecutors had sought alife sentence for patek, sparing himthe firing squad — which hasexecuted three other key players inthe Bali bombings — because he hadshown remorse and apologised tovictims and their families. patekmaintained over the four-month trialthat he played only a small role inthe bomb-making and that he hadtried to stop the operation, most ofwhose victims were foreigners, at the11th hour. After more than eightyears on the run, he was arrested inJanuary 2011 in Abbottabad, whereUs commandos four months laterkilled al Qaeda chief Osama binLaden in a raid. patek is the last keyplayer detained in indonesia to betried for the attacks and the verdictcloses the chapter on a long legalprocess. Victims, mostly Australian,have recounted their harrowingexperiences in trials over the years,showing judges their scars fromshrapnel wounds and burns, anddescribing psychological trauma.

imran claimsNADRA recordoffered to Us

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pakistan tehreek-e-insaaf (pti) Chairmanimran Khan has claimed that ousted primeminister Yousaf Gilani and former interiorminister Rehman Malik offered to share thebio-data of country’s citizens with the Unitedstates. the pti chief was speaking during anexclusive interview with WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange. imran said never had anyruling elite betrayed its people as much aspakistan’s current ruling class. “this is themost shameful period of our history,” hestressed. WikiLeaks divulged an allegedleaked diplomatic cable according to whichpakistan’s then prime minister and interiorminister visited the Us embassy inislamabad, and offered to share NationalDatabase and Registration Authority(NADRA) record. A front company,international identity services, was allegedlyset up in the United Kingdom to fetch therecord of pakistan’s NADRA, which holdsthe personal record of the country’s citizens.Asked about the leaked cable, imran said,“Not only have they done this, but countlesspeople were handed over to the Us on themere suspicion of being involved in terroristactivities.” “people have disappeared, peoplehave been eliminated,” he said.

Federal govt turnsdown request tomove shakeelAfridi to karachi

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the federal government has refused to shiftDr shakeel Afridi to Karachi Central Jailafter the Khyber pakhtunkhwa governmentmade the request citing security concerns.Afridi was awarded life term by a tribalcourt for colluding with the CiA to trackdown al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lastyear, besides maintaining links withbanned militant outfits. the Kpgovernment had stated in its applicationthat Dr shakeel Afridi be shifted to Karachion security reasons, as there were threats ofterrorist attack on peshawar jail.

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A man killed his wife during a courtproceeding, being conducted to decide anapplication for separation between thecouple, on thursday. According to details,the accused, Hazir Zaman was living withhis wife before issues arose between them,owing to which his wife left home about twomonths ago. Later, she filed an applicationwith the Mardan Family Court asking forseparation. While the court was hearing thecase, Hazir Zaman opened fire on his wife,killing her on the spot. people present inthe court held the accused and handedhim over to police.

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guJranWaLa: People block the main road during a protest against electricity load shedding on Thursday. oNLiNe

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An indonesian air force planecrashed into a military housing com-plex in Jakarta on thursday, killingall seven crew on board and two chil-dren and an elderly woman on theground, officials said.

the ageing turboprop Fokker 27split in two as it smashed into the mili-tary airport compound while on routinetraining, igniting a blaze that rippedthrough homes and sent thick smokeinto the sky. An AFp correspondentsaw dozens of firefighters battling theblaze at the Halim perdanakusumacompound, and what appeared to bethe plane’s wing sticking out from theroof of a house.

“All seven crew and three people onthe ground were killed,” air forcespokesman Colonel Agung sasongkoJati told reporters. “the plane has splitinto two.” the three who died on the

ground were two cousins, aged two andsix, and an elderly woman, Jati toldAFp, adding the six-year-old’s motherwas in critical condition. there were noimmediate reports of other victims. in-donesia, a sprawling archipelago, reliesheavily on air transport but has one ofthe world’s poorest aviation safetyrecords, and military plane crashes arerelatively common.

in early May, a Russian sukhoi jetcrashed into a dormant volcano in Javawhen it was on a promotional demon-stration, killing all 45 aboard. thurs-day’s crash happened at 2:45 pm (0745GMt), after the plane took off fromHalim at around 1:10 pm. Mukhlis, 42,was at home in the complex and saidshe heard the plane flying low secondsbefore it crashed 700 metres (2,300feet) from her home.

“A few seconds after i heard theplane flying low, i heard a loud boom. iquickly ran outside and saw a columnof smoke and flames in the distance be-

hind my house where it crashed,” saidMukhlis, who like many indonesiansonly goes by one name. A rescue teamwith torches was helping military per-sonnel search for more victims on theground in the dark early evening. “theaircraft was conducting training andthere were no passengers aboard,” an-other air force spokesman, AsmanYunus, told AFp.

Yunus said the military would lookinto the cause of the crash. Militaryspokesman iskandar sitompul said theplane was more than 20 years old. in-donesia is in the process of updatingits ageing military aircraft and equip-ment, procuring Russian and Ameri-can warplanes, boats for its navy andparts for its transport planes. Anotherrecent crash saw a New Zealand pilotand two indonesians killed in Marchafter a helicopter chartered by the in-donesian arm of Us mining companyFreeport-McMoRan went down in re-mote papua province.

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tHe supreme Court on thurs-day granted a week to MalikRiaz in the contempt of courtcase to arrange his defence

counsel, as most of lawyers have beenavoiding him to show solidarity with thesC.

A three-member bench headed byJustice shakirullah Jan heard the pro-ceedings of the case. Malik Riaz told thesC that he had not been able to arrangea counsel as no lawyer was ready to rep-resent him. He requested sC to granthim 10 days to arrange a lawyer. Justiceshakirullah Jan remarked, “it is yourproblem if you have not arranged alawyer, you have to respond over the is-

sued show cause notice.”Riaz told the sC that he had con-

tacted four lawyers and they have de-manded some time to think. He stated itwas a matter of grave concern that Ray-mond Davis could get a lawyer, but nothim. He told the court that two resolu-tions were passed in islamabad DistrictBar that directed all lawyers not to de-fend him. Justice shakirullah Jan saidannoyingly that bars should not passsuch resolutions that created hindrancein providing justice to the masses, be-cause every citizen had the right to beable to defend himself through a lawyer.

the petitioner of the case informed thecourt that no one was stopping Malik Riazfrom hiring a lawyer for his defence, as hehad a full legal team that was defendinghim in various cases in courts. Malik Riaz

assured the sC that he would arrange alawyer after 10 days. Justice shakirullahJan said in case Riaz was unable to arrange

a defence lawyer, the state would providehim one. the sC later granted seven moredays to Riaz to arrange a lawyer and ad

Talks underway butno breakthrough onNATo supplies: US

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talks with pakistan on the restoration ofNAtO supplies are underway but nobreakthrough has taken place so far, the Usstate Department said. “We are continuingconversations at a political level, but i don’thave any progress to report,” stateDepartment’s spokesperson Victoria Nulandtold reporters at her daily press briefing lateWednesday. Replying to a query regarding thepolitical situation in pakistan, she said: “Wespoke about this a little bit yesterday. We’vebeen able to work with the pakistanigovernment throughout this period. they’venow announced plans of their own for theirown political transition, so our hope andexpectation is that we can continue to try towork through these issues.” Nuland said theUs had seen cross-border militancy for morethan a decade. “it is important to have actionagainst terror on the pakistan side, on theAfghan side, and for Afghanistan, pakistan andisAF to continue to work together,” she said.

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Officials on thursday said a French alQaeda militant, linked to the 9/11 attacks,was probably heading to somalia when hewas captured near the iranian border.Naamen Meziche was detained in Mayafter disclosures by Younis al-Mauritani,captured in pakistan last year andapparently tasked by Osama bin Laden toplot attacks on Australia, europe and theUs. “Meziche was probably on his way tosomalia when he was caught,” onesecurity official told AFp on condition ofanonymity because he was not authorisedto speak to the media. the official said itwas difficult to know exactly what routeMeziche was taking on the day of hisarrest. Western experts said he had beenen route to the tribal Areas. But anothersecurity source suggested he was in transitfrom iran, en route to somalia. “Recentlylots of al Qaeda people left pakistan tomove to Yemen or somalia.

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JUi-F chief Fazlur Rehman said it was betterfor a politician to be in power, than a generaltaking over the reigns of the country. talkingto reporters after holding a meeting withpML-Q president Chaudhry shujaatHussain, Fazl expressed deep concerns overthe “current domination of the supremeCourt judges [in political affairs]”. He saidhe had never underestimated the majority ofthe ppp, adding that during his talks withshujaat, a consensus had been reached overthe issue of reelection of the prime ministerand over the general socio-political situationin the country. “i am not under any falseimpression of my party’s position inparliament, and had entered the pM’s racedue to challenges and issues facing thefederation,” he said. Meanwhile, shujaatsaid he would hold consensus with his party,in order to vote for “Maulana sahib”, addingthat had it been the issue of an individualvote, “i would have voted for him”.

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At least three persons including a childwere killed in a landmine blast in the city’ssuburban area of sohbatpur on thursday.According to details, unidentifiedmiscreants planted a landmine in theborder area of Dera Bugti and RD-238 ofsohbatpur. the explosive device went offafter a motorcycle ran over it, resulting inthe death of three persons, including achild. police arrived at the blast site andshifted the bodies to a sohbatpur hospitaland started search for the miscreants aftererecting pickets on several places.

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A woman was killed in an explosion onthursday while making fireworks in herhouse in Mohallah tariqabad. Zahida andher husband Fazal Hussain producedfireworks in their house, for which they hadstored explosive material which suddenlyexploded. the explosion was so strong thatit caused cracks in the walls of thesurrounding houses. Zahida died on thespot. At the time of the incident, Zahida’shusband was not present at home. Rescue1122 reached the spot and extinguished thefire. the dead body was shifted to DistrictHead Quarters hospital for autopsy.

Malik Riaz gets 7 moredays to arrange lawyer

Court issues arrest warrants forMalik Riaz, 6 others in land scamraWalpinDi: An anti-corruption court on thursday issued arrest warrants forreal estate tycoon Malik Riaz, his son Ali Riaz, along with six others accused in acase regarding the illegal transfer of 1,350 kanals of land. special Judge AmeerChaudhry Khan, while issuing the arrest warrants, ordered the police to producethe accused before the court on June 25. in addition to the real estate magnate’sson, other accused include Muhammed Ashfaq, Milad Bibi, iqbal Hussain shahand sheikh sajidur Rehman. the court has issued arrest warrants of seven people,including Malik Riaz and his son Ali Ahmed Riaz in connection with a landcorruption case filed in 2005.journed the hearing until June 28. oNLiNe

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capital’s traders splitover shutter-down strike raWalpinDi: the traders’ organisationsof the city and Cantonment area seem di-vided over the call given by Markazi Anju-man-e-tajran Rawalpindi to observecomplete shutter down strike on saturdayagainst power load shedding.there are three major factions of the busi-ness community, known as sheikh sid-dique, shahid Ghafoor paracha andChaudhry imran groups. the first two fac-tions, comprising traders of Raja Bazar,Cloth Market and Moti Bazar under theaegis of the Markazi Anjuman-e-tajranRawalpindi, are in favour of observingstrike to register their protest against theprevailing electricity situation and increas-ing inflation. they are of the view thathours-long power outages have badly af-fected their business and rendered manyworkers jobless. the imran group, repre-senting Nankari Bazaar, Dalgaran Bazaar,Furniture Dealers Association, Banni Mar-ket, Mobile phones Association and Goodstransport Association, has criticised theprotesting traders for damaging the publicproperty worth millions of rupees in the vi-olent protest staged on June 19 (tuesday).According to the Rawalpindi DevelopmentAuthority, the protesters damaged trafficsignals and protective fences along theroads worth Rs 5 million. aPP

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CHAiRpeRsON Benazirincome support pro-gramme (Bisp), FarzanaRaja on thursday said asa leader of the down-

trodden, shaheed Benazir Bhuttotook courageous steps to ensure bet-ter future of people and to safeguardtheir rights.

in a statement issued here on theoccasion of 59th birth anniversary ofshaheed leader, she said today, at acrucial juncture of political history ofpakistan when the ppp led electeddemocratic governemnt has attaineda landmark achievement of present-ing its 5th consecutive peoplefriendly budget, it is coincidence thatwe are marking 59th birth anniver-sary of shaheed Benazir Bhutto.

Farzana said life of shaheed BB,who was twice elected prime minister

and chairperson of the ppp was ded-icated to the service of the people ofpakistan and to make the nation amodern and progressive democracy.

she said political observers thathad opportunity to have some inter-action with BB during childhood andespecially of her late teen years, hadalready predicted about her gloriouspolitical career and highlighted herabilities to become a great politicalleader.

truly, shaheed BB was born tolead millions of people pakistan aswell as to emerge as a symbol ofhope, resistance and struggle for therights of the people.

the political career of shaheedBhutto reminds us of her unprece-dented stand against the tyranny andfor the restoration of the democracyin the country, she said.

the Bisp Chairperson said afterthe restoration of democracy and theend of the long era of tyranny in the

country, the visionary leader did notseek revenge from the elements whowere responsible for all the miseriesinflicted upon her and her familystarting from the arrest and subse-quent judicial murder of shaheedZulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

instead, she focused upon re-building pakistan and to serve thepeople with best of her abilities.

Besides ushering new era of eco-nomic growth and development, sha-heed BB augmented the defence ofthe country and provided missiletechnology to pakistan, which was animmediate need in that critical inter-national scenario.

Being an ardent advocate of therights of women, she took varioussteps to enhance social, political andeconomic empowerment and eman-cipation of the women folks of thecountry including establishment ofwomen’s banks and women’s policestations, she added.

Power outages aggravate water crisis

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shortage of water in islamabad has in-creased manifold amid increase in durationof electricity load shedding.the sectors of i-8, i-10, G-10 and G-11 arefacing acute scarcity of water resource whilesome areas do not get water supply at all.the CDA approved a separate feeder fortube-wells, but islamabad electric supplyCompany (iesCO) is not maintaining a con-stant supply of electricity, they added.the islamabad Chamber of Commerce hasalso protested against electricity load shed-ding and the iesCO has ensured to elimi-nate the menace of unscheduled poweroutages within three days. Officials of theCapital Development Authority (CDA)shared the stance that those areas of thecity are affected to which water was sup-plied through tube-wells. the CDA officialsfurther said the complaints of citizens withregard to shortage of water has risen over1300 per day, owing to which the CDA hasincreased the number of water tankers to25.Despite its efforts, the CDA is able to attendto 900 complaints while the remaining gounattended, officials observed.On the other hand, water in Khanpur Dam,the dam which supplies water to islamabadand Rawalpindi, has almost reached deadlevel. Water level in Khanpur Dam hasreached a height of 1920 acres feet while thedead level is 1,913 acres feet high. As a re-sult, the supply of water to the twin citieswill be affected further. Water engineer of Rawalpindi CantonmentBoard, Ateeq Ahmed, said in an interviewthat water level has lowered due to ex-tremely hot temperature, and water in tubewells has also decreased. He requested thecitizens not to waste water by washing carsor otherwise. He added the RCB would con-tinue water supply from Khanpur Dam andtube wells.Meanwhile, the officials of the CDA, Can-tonment Board, Water and sanitationAgency (WAsA) and the irrigation depart-ment have held a meeting to discuss thewater problem. Representatives of WAsA,Cantonment Board and the CDA have re-jected the suggestion of decreasing watersupply further. Consequently, water supplyto the irrigation department has decreasedfrom 80 million cusecs to 40 million cusec.

Holy Family ward boy rapes woman

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A ward boy of Holy Family Hospital hasraped a lady attendant on the premises of thehospital. According to sources, the victim wasstaying in the hospital as an attendant withhis brother who was admitted to the paedi-atrics Department. Accused Abdul Wahidtook the woman to a room and raped her.subsequently, the medical report of the vic-tim confirmed the rape. the police have re-fused to register an FiR against the accused.

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the islamabad Capital territory administra-tion has decided to deploy Rangers in sectorG-14 to get the encroached land vacated fromthe land grabbers so that the much-awaiteddevelopment of the sector could be started.

in a meeting chaired by islamabadChief Commissioner tariq Mahmoodpirzada, it was decided that Rangerswould be deployed in sector G-14 to re-move the landholders who have alreadybeen paid cost of their land under anaward announced in 2005. the Ministry

of Housing and Works some years backpurchased 4,000 kanals of land in the saidsector from the Capital Development Au-thority (CDA) for Federal GovernmentHousing Foundation to construct housesfor government employees.

However, so far it could not take posses-sion of all the purchased land. in 2008, theiCt administration helped the ministry byclearing 2,400 kanals of land of total 4,000kanals. Later, most of the land was again oc-cupied by the land grabbers.

During thursday’s meeting, it was de-cided that the local administration on Friday(today) would deploy Rangers in the said

sector to check the encroachments. it wasalso decided that two pickets would also beestablished by the Housing Foundation tokeep an eye on the land grabbers. it was de-cided that the officials concerned of FGeHFwould be responsible for strictly checkingany encroachment in the area by daily visits.

the meeting was also attended by theDeputy Commissioner Amer Ali Ahmed,District Collector Farasat Ali Khan, the landacquisition collector and officials of the Fed-eral Government employees Housing Foun-dation. the deputy commissioner gave adetailed briefing to the participants aboutthe acquisition of land in the said sub-sec-

tors and handing over possession of land tothe FGeHF.

He told the participants as soon as theland acquisition collector received the list ofaward of built-up property of sub-sector, G-14/3 from the FGeHF, he would issue apublic notice of 15 days, which was manda-tory under the Land Acquisition Act.

the officials of the FGeHF told the par-ticipants that they had given a tender noticein the newspapers for starting developmentwork in sector G-14/2, 3 and developmentwork in G-14/3 would be started forthwithafter completing the procedure as 2,000kanals of land is available in the sub-sector.

it was decided that all the officials of re-lated departments and allotees would holdmeetings twice a week in the office of districtcollector to expedite the matter.

the DC said that all the departmentswere required to work together to make theproject a great success, ensuring trans-parency and alleviate the suffering of allo-tees. the allotees appreciated the effortsand work of the iCt administration done insectors G-14/1, 2 and 3 and asked the offi-cials of FGeHF to immediately start devel-opment work in sector G-14/3, in the firstphase besides stopping any encroachmentin the area.


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tHe Capital Develop-ment Authority, inits drive against ille-gally constructions,

razed a shop, seven rooms andfive illegally built boundarywalls. the CDA also started ananti-encroachment operationin G-6, G-7 and sitara Marketand demolished dozens of stallsand impounded 12 loadedtrucks.

On Lehtrar Road, theyabolished one illegally con-structed shop, 4 walls and tworooms. the CDA staff also de-molished two rooms in e-11,Bari imam, and four walls.Fizzy DrinKs as haz-

arDous to health as

tobaCCo: sugar-packedfizzy drinks are just as danger-ous to health as smoking ciga-rettes, health experts claimed.

Health experts want hard-hitting public awareness cam-paigns to attack what they sayare manufacturers’ misleadingpromotions that distract fromthe health risks. emerging sci-

ence on the addictiveness ofsugar, especially combined withthe known addictive propertiesof caffeine in many sugary bev-erages, should heighten aware-ness of the health threat similarto the understanding about theaddictiveness of tobacco prod-ucts,” the Daily express quotedpublic health expert Dr LoriDorfman as saying.

Dr Dorfman from the Uni-versity of California and col-leagues want soft drinkscompanies to stop explicitlytargeting young people to in-crease sales. Drinking just twocans of fizzy pop a day has beenshown to cause severe long-term liver damage, a conditionnormally the result of chronicalcohol abuse. it can lead tovictims needing a transplantbecause the liver cannotprocess the huge amount ofsugar. too many soft drinkscan potentially cause diabetesand heart damage as well asbeing a major contributor toobesity.

Diet drinks in particularhave been shown to pile on thepounds because, even though

they have fewer calories thanregular fizzy pop, they can trig-ger the appetite to eat more.those who binge on diet softdrinks every day have beenshown to have 70 percent big-ger waists after a decade.10 outlaWs nabbeD:

the islamabad police nabbedat least 10 outlaws and recov-ered 220 bottles of liquor fromthem while recovery of only120 bottles was shown inrecord.

A suspected truck wasstopped by industrial Area po-lice in i-9 Markaz, recoveredexpensive wire and arrestedHussain, tauseef, Zafar iqbal,Muhammad Jalil, Nasir Ahmadand Muhammad Maroof whowere on board the truck.

On the other hand, theduty officer of Aabpara recov-ered 196 bottles of liquor fromshahbaz pervaiz. the policemisappropriated 100n bottlesand registered the case of only96 bottles against him. in an-other incident, CiA police re-covered 24 bottles fromGulfam and registered a caseagainst him.

CDA’s anti-encroachmentcampaign launched

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low calorie diet can help arthritissufferers

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A simple diet, which is very low on calorieand high in protein combined with regularexercise could end the misery of arthritisfor millions of sufferers, according to newresearch. A relatively small weight loss canhave a dramatic effect by reducingswelling, relieving pain and even helpingprevent further deterioration of the joints.Researchers in Denmark found that pa-tients on the strict diet for 16 weeks lostradical amounts of weight and reported ahuge improvement in their pain levels, theDaily express reported. the drastic diet isbased on an intake of as little as 440 calo-ries a day, as compared to the recom-mended 2,500 for a man and 2,000 for awoman. Despite the method being contro-versial, the results of the study were de-scribed as a revelation by the team leader.Volunteers ate special shakes, soups, barsand porridge and took mineral and vitaminsupplements to ensure that they receivedkey nutrients. Moreover, the fat loss didnot cause any reduction in the bone massdensity. “it was a fantastic surprise that pa-tients with little or no mobility could losethat amount,” professor Henning Bliddal,of Frederiksberg Hospital in Copenhagen,said. “thanks to the diet they were able toreduce their dependence on painkillers andanti-inflammatory drugs.”



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exercise helps beatcommon cold

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there may not be a cure for the commoncold, but people who exercise regularlyseem to have fewer and milder colds.On an average, adults can expect to catch acold two to four times a year, and childrencan expect to get six to 10 colds annually,Health News reported. Researchers col-lected data on 1,002 men and women fromages 18 to 85 years in America.Over 12 weeks in the autumn and winter,the researchers tracked the number ofupper respiratory tract infections the par-ticipants suffered. in addition, all the par-ticipants reported how much and whatkinds of aerobic exercise they did weekly,and rated their fitness levels using a 10-point system. they were also asked abouttheir lifestyle, dietary patterns and stressfulevents, all of which can affect the immunesystem.it was found that the frequency ofcolds among people who exercised five ormore days a week was up to 46 percent lessthan those who were largely sedentary thatis, who exercised only one day or less of theweek. in addition, the number of days peo-ple suffered cold symptoms was 41 percentlower among those who were physically ac-tive on five or more days of the week, com-pared to the sedentary group.the group that felt the fittest also experi-enced 34 percent fewer days of cold symp-toms than those the least fit.Moreover, colds also appeared to be lesssevere for those in better shape.Among those who felt the fittest, the sever-ity of symptoms dropped by 32 percentand by 41 percent among those who exer-cised most. One limitation of the study wasa lack of adjustment for all variables thatmight affect the outcome, such as exposureto cold germs at work or from children inthe home.the study did account for a variety of fac-tors, including age, body mass index andeducation. And after taking those factorsinto account, the researchers found thatbeing older, male, and married reduced thefrequency of colds. However, the most sig-nificant factors (besides being older) wereperceived fitness and the amount of exer-cise a person got. One explanation for thefinding could be that exercise activates theimmune system at a higher rate than nor-mal and causes immune system cells to at-tack viruses. exercise gets these cellscirculating around the body; they engagethe enemy and deal with them.this effect happens each time one exer-cises, and then the immune system returnsto normal until one exercises again.Although, from the above findings it isclear that exercise plays a major role in im-mune response, more studies are needed tofully understand the effect of exercise onthe immune system.

UNESCO literacy plan: 2,500 students to be accommodatedISLAMABAD.

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the United Nations educational, scien-tific and Cultural Organization (UN-esCO) would give basic literacy skills to2,500 students in the third phase of itsliteracy programme, designed to use mo-bile phone both for learning and com-munication.

Under the programme, launched incollaboration with cell phone operator,Mobilink, their skills would be improvedby communicating with teachersthrough sMs based interactive lessons.

As a value addition, the third phase

will also enable 100 participating teach-ers to coordinate with supervisors andreport on student progress via data en-abled siMs provided by Mobilink.

According to UNesCO, Mobile-Based Literacy programme is a uniqueinitiative that utilizes mobile technologyto improve literacy for female students,aged between 15 to 25 years in rural anddeprived areas. the current phase alsoextends its outreach to learners in KpKand punjab through 100 learning cen-ters. When contacted, the country repre-sentative of UNesCO said three yearsback UNesCO started piloting mobileliteracy project and through that small

project we have expanded the use of mo-bile phones for more than communica-tion, now it is also an active tool ofinformation, education and knowledgein pakistan.

the UNesCO official said throughthis project UNesCO has made 1500adult female not just literate but alsomade them connected to the world andempowered them to a degree where theyfeel empowered citizens, which we countas great achievement.

Another 2500 rural adult femaleswill be made literate through this cur-rent phase. the official said this pro-gramme uses use mobiles as a tool for

delivering educational materials to par-ticipating students.

As part of the program, students andteachers are provided with mobilephones to improve on reading and writ-ing skills, with two way interactionthrough sMs, the official said and addedteachers will also be able to monitor andrecord progress of their students usingunique mobile software, developed byMobilink for the program.

Mobilink official was also apprecia-tive of the programme and said earlierphases provided great results, reachingout to 1500 female students and hopedto achieve more in third phase.

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tHe citizens have ex-pressed their concern overthe rising menace of childlabour in twin cities, say-ing the ever-increasing

poverty in the country is the main rea-son behind child labour. they said it isquite surprising that child labour existsat the same rate in the federal capital asin the other parts of the country. theyadded that lack of opportunities, highrate of population growth and unevendistribution of resources and outdatedsocial customs were the main factorsbehind this social menace.

Children from the ages of 9 to 18 arealmost equally vulnerable to child labour.Children work in the federal capital’s in-dustrial area under extreme pressure andare paid less as compared to other work-ers. When contacted, the internationalLabour Organization (iLO) officials said,“We are convinced that hazardous workof children in specified sectors can beeradicated, given a concerted effort bygovernment, employers, workers and civilsociety”. pakistan has already taken note-worthy steps that need now to be ex-panded. there is a need to highlight thatchildren do not enter hazardous forms ofchild labour.

the country will be gaining a new un-derstanding of the extent and nature ofhazardous child labour as it is planning toconduct a major new statistical survey inthe current year. One of the major activi-ties under the iLO projects is supportingthe Federal Bureau of statistics in under-

taking this survey, the iLO officials said.there is hard need to give education

to employers and workers about occupa-tional risks. it is possible to protect youngworkers and ensure that the employersare not violating child labour laws, a con-cern of many international markets. theofficials assured continued support of theiLO to the child labour elimination pro-gramme in the country and fullest effortsfor setting and enforcing standards, pro-viding training, outreach and education,establishing partnerships, and encourag-ing continual improvement in workplacefor safety and health to child labour.smoKing tieD to sKin Can-

Cer: smoking may not only cause wrin-kles and sagging skin, it might alsoincrease your risk of one type of skin can-cer, researchers suggest in a new report.

studies have linked smoking to a longlist of health effects, including heart dis-ease and lung cancer, but the evidencehas been mixed for skin cancer. Morethan 3.5 million cases of the disease arefound every year in the U.s., making it themost common of all cancers. While thetwo main forms basal cell carcinoma andsquamous cell carcinoma are rarelydeadly, researchers say they are on therise, Medical Health News Reported.

in a new study, Fiona Bath-Hextall ofthe University of Nottingham in englandand colleagues pooled the available evi-dence on the link between tobacco andbasal and squamous cell cancers, whichstart in the outer layer of the skin.

Based on 14 previous studies, smok-ers didn’t appear to have higher rates ofbasal cell cancer. But they did have a 52-percent increase in their risk of squamous

cell cancer, based on six studies that var-ied in size, duration and design.

that extra risk is similar to that of ul-traviolet radiation, the most well- knownrisk factor for squamous cell cancer, ac-cording to a commentary published alongwith the new results in the Archives ofDermatology. But the commentary, by DrJoris Verkouteren and Dr tamar Nijstenat erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam,the Netherlands, also warns that the sixstudies were relatively small and were notnecessarily comparable.

Because all of the studies are basedon observations, it’s impossible to say forcertain whether smoking caused the in-crease in skin cancer risk. While currentsmokers had a higher risk than formersmokers, there was no link with the num-ber of cigarettes smoked per day or howlong a person had been smoking.

still, the researchers believe it’s likelythat tobacco causes basal cell skin cancer,and Bath-Hextall called the findings “an-other good reason to give up smoking.”she said people should regularly checktheir skin for early skin cancer. she addedthat doctors should “actively survey” peo-ple at high risk of squamous cell cancersuch as smokers. Oddly, smokers don’tseem to be at increased risk formelanoma. in fact, some studies havesuggested they might even have a smallerchance of getting the disease although sci-entists are still trying to figure out if that’sreally true. However, the task force rec-ommends counseling fair-skinned chil-dren and young adults aged 10 to 24 yearsabout cutting back on ultraviolet radia-tion whether from the sun or indoor tan-ning to reduce their risk of skin cancer.

commuters demand cut intransport fares

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the commuters of twin cities of islamabadand Rawalpindi have called for bringingdown fares of intra-city and inter-citytransport following decrease in fuel prices.the commuters urged the authorities con-cerned to provide them a sigh of relief, asthe transporters are still charging higherfares despite reduction in oil prices. theRegional transport Authority punjab hadrecently increased transport fares from Rs5 to 10 on the pretext of oil price hike, butas fuel prices have been reduced, peopleare awaiting its effect on fares too.the commuters said that mostly trans-porters operating in the twin cities useCNG as fuel, but the transport authorityhad issued the fare-list according to theprices of the diesel and petrol.the commuters appreciated the federalgovernment for their generous decision forproviding great relief to the people.

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the police on thursday arrested 12.out-laws for having illegal weapons, drugsand liquor from different parts of thedistrict. According to a department’sspokesman, Bani police held Arshad.andrecovered 1,295 grams of charas fromhis possession while Ganjmandi policenabbed Qasim with 120 grams of charas.saddar Barooni police recovered 110grams of charas from tariq and saddarWah police arrested Hasina Khanam forhaving 620 grams of charas.Ganjmandi police held Arif with ninebottles of liquor while Rata Amral policearrested Usman for having five bottlesof liquor. Morgah.police recovered threebottles of liquor from Yousuf.taking action against people having ille-gal weapons, Rata Amral police heldArif for having a 30-bore pistol, whileKhauta police arrested Nadeem with a12-bore gun. Likewise, Jatli policenabbed Zia Ullah and recovered six car-tridges from his possession.

adiala Jail canteen auctionedat escalated rate

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the contract of the canteen in Central JailAdiala has been auctioned at the rate thricemore as compared to that of the last year. Contractor Mubarak offered Rs 10.30 mil-lion bid for the canteen while the samecontract was auctioned for Rs 4.285 mil-lion last year. ConstruCtion oF a Four-lane

margalla avenue begins: theCapital Development Authority has startedconstruction work to extend Margalla Av-enue to four lanes. Margalla Avenue, hav-ing four lanes, will spread along 9kilometers, starting from sector D-12 tosector B-17. the project will cost a total ofRs 588m and will be completed in oneyear. the construction firm has mobilisedheavy machinery and the work has started.

Child labour escalating in twin cities


10 Friday, 22 June, 2012

1 MUMBAI: AmitabhBachchan poses

during a party for ‘FerrariKi Sawaari’. AFP

2 MUMBAI: NehaDhupia attends a

smartphone productlaunch. AFP

3 MUMBAI: Dia Mirzaattends a


4 MUMBAI: ArshadWarsi attends a

party for ‘Ferrari KiSawaari’. AFP

5 MUMBAI: SalmanKhan, Sharman Joshi

and Ritvik Sahore attenda party for ‘Ferrari KiSawaari’. AFP

6 MUMBAI: SonakshiSinha attends a


KARACHI: Nine West, a fashion wholesale and retail company best known for quicklytranslating runway trends into styles attainableby mass consumers, was recently launched inPakistan by Burj Fashion, Project Manager FaisalJamil, CEO Ayesha Ahmed and Asif Karim. PR

Ayesha Omer

Aysha Ahmed, Asif Karim and

Amanda Cauldwel from US Consulate

IN LIMELIGHT

LOs angeLes: Keira Knightley plays thetitular character in ‘anna Karenina’ while Judelaw plays her husband in the film. Hollywoodactor aaron Johnson will portray her younglover count Vronsky in the epic romance.opening with a dramatic music, the film’s plotbecomes rather evident soon enough. thestory, set in 19th century russia, follows awoman in a loveless marriage who seeks loveelsewhere only to complicate her life. thepassion, energy and romance is palpablesprinkled with insinuations of jealousy andself-righteousness. director Joe wright haspreviously worked with Knightley on

‘atonement’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’, andalso directed ‘the Soloist’ and ‘Hanna’.renowned playwright tom Stoppard, willadapt the classic novel by leo tolstoy for thescreen. Saoirse ronan (‘the lovely bones’,‘Hanna’), matthew macfadyen (‘Pride andPrejudice’), oscar nominee emily watson, andandrea riseborough (‘made in dagenham’),Kelly macdonald (‘brave’) also co-star in thefilm. ‘anna Karenina’ has two other filmadaptations, one starred Greta Garbo in 1935and the other saw Sophie marceau as thelead in 1997. anna Karenina will be releasedin the second half of 2012. agencies

LOS ANGELESreuTers

pOp singers love to try their hand atacting, but some of them reallyshouldn’t:

Mariah Carey All natural and unshowy,

Mariah Carey was a genuine revela-tion in the film ‘precious’ (2009).But sadly, no one has made it morethan three minutes into ‘precious’without running out of the theatres.

Eminemto be fair, he has only ever re-

ally played himself-although amumbling, monotone version, in ‘8Mile’. But playing yourself can beharder than it looks.

Jennifer HudsonNobody could have guessed that

an American idol reject would winan Oscar for her raw performance in‘Dreamgirls’. Or, admittedly, followit up with a drab role in the ‘sex andthe City’ film.

Britney Spears it’s easy to pick on Britney

spears for starring in ‘Crossroads’(2002), but that’s because watching‘Crossroads’ was like performingdental surgery on yourself with atinfoil drill. Her place here is welldeserved.

Rihanna Rihanna wasn’t given an awful

lot to do in ‘Battleship’, but she still

managed to fail hopelessly. Yourmum, given the chance, could gruntat a transformer more convincingly.

While in Bollywood...the trend of musicians taking

up acting has not been a success,even when it comes to our desisingers. Musicians like Himesh Re-shammiya, sonu Nigam, Lucky Aliand shruti Haasan have all fizzledbehind the camera, despite tryingtheir luck as actors in films like AapKa suroor, Karzzz, Jaani Dushman,Kaante, sur, and Luck, respectively.

pakistani singer Ali Zafar hasbeen the only success story, both be-hind the mic, and on-screen as well,with films like ‘tere Bin Laden’,‘Mere Brother Ki Dulhan’ and ‘Lon-don paris New York’ to his credit.

Adnan Sami says ex-wife has links with militant groups

NEWS DESK

After the Bombay High court upheld pakistanisinger Adnan sami’s plea and granted him di-vorce after three years of bitterness into the re-lationship, sami has now accused hisestranged, Dubai-based wife, sabah Galadariof being involved in smuggling cases and hav-ing close ties with militant organisations. in-teracting with reporters, sami said certainpublications in the Middle east have explicitlypublished such reports, validating his state-ment. He also agreed on filing a complaintwith the police commissioner of Mumbai andDubai police chief against his ex-wife for pos-sessing portuguese citizenship. Meanwhile,Galadari said she has been emotionally hurtdue to the allegations levelled against her.

Singers acting

good... and bad

LOnDOn: the rolling Stones areplanning a summer summit in londonto discuss plans for a 50th anniversaryconcert later this year. mick Jagger andhis bandmates teamed up forrehearsals in new york in april andnow guitarist Keith richards hasconfirmed there are more sessionsplanned for July, reported daily Star.“it’s all very hush-hush. i’m going overto london for a bit, so i’ll find out morethen,” richards said. the guitarist alsohinted that the band may be recordinga follow-up to 2005’s ‘a bigger bang’.“we’re going to talk about that in Julyand see. i mean, i’d love to get sometracks down and see what songs we’vegot. and that goes along with part ofgetting the band back together andgetting things moving. So i’d love tocut some tracks,” he said. agencies

RIHANNA making animated film debutLOs angeLes: r&b star rihanna isset to make her debut in ananimated movie by joining the voicecast ensemble of ‘Happy Smekday’.the 24-year-old has signed on asone of the lead voices of the filmand she will be joined by ‘the bigbang theory’ star Jim Parsons,reported aceshowbiz. ‘over theHedge’ helmer tim Johnson will bedirecting the film while tom J astleand matt ember are writing thescript. based on adam rex’sacclaimed children’s book ‘the truemeaning of Smekday’, ‘HappySmekday!’ follows a friendly alienrace who use the earth as a hideoutfrom their mortal enemy. dreamworkproduction plans to release theupcoming animation in the uS in2014. rihanna was last seen starringin ‘battleship’ opposite liam neesonand taylor Kitsch. agencies

FIRST LOOK: Keira Knightley,Jude Law wow in ‘Anna Karenina’


Aamir to unleash his villainous side in Chicago

Jennifer Aniston negotiating 8-figure beauty deal

LOS ANGELESagencies

Jennifer Aniston has been offered aneight-figure deal to become thebrand ambassador of skin and haircare company, Aveeno. the companysells natural-based skin- and hair-care products. “Jennifer would begreat for the brand because sheappears to be very natural,” the NewYork post quoted a source as saying.“the deal, still being negotiated,would be worth a lot of money,certainly eight figures,” the sourceadded. the company’s current tVface is dark-haired, Dutch-bornmodel-actress Daniella van Graas.

Emma Stone flattered

by Jim Carrey's love message

LONDONagencies

‘easy A’ star emma stone says she wasflattered after actor Jim Carreydeclared his love for her in a publicvideo message last year. Carrey, 50,caused a stir after releasing a clip inwhich he expressed his desire to have"chubby little freckle-faced kids" withstone. the 23-year-old insists shewasn't creeped out by his publicdeclaration of love because she is ahuge fan of the veteran comic, reportedDaily star. "i was so flattered i can'teven tell you. Honest! i was reallyflattered, i really was! Right before thatvideo came out, we were at the MtVMovie Awards. there was like five ofus, and we just went on this tangent oftalking nice behind Jim Carrey's back.it was the greatest thing. You walkaway, and you were just like, 'that feltso good, to talk about how wonderfulsomeone is'," she said.

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LONDONagencies

Madonna is a ‘funky grandma’, ac-cording to Deadmau5. Canadianprogressive house producer Dead-mau5 (real name: Joel Zimmer-man) isn’t done bashing Madonna.Back in March, Zimmerman calledMadge an “idiot” after she made athinly veiled reference to ecstasyuse at the Ultra Music Festival.though they sort of made up(Madonna made the unbelievableargument that she was referring toan unpopular house song, not tothe drug widely associated with

electronic dance music festivalgo-ers, and Zimmerman backed off),a new Rolling stone article mayhave re-ignited the feud. “Youcan’t to be ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ and‘funky grandma’?” Zimmermansaid. “Fine. it’s not my place to sayyou’re irrelevant. if you’re going tocome into my world, at least do itwith a little more dignity.”

to Zimmerman, it was a sim-ple matter of respect. “i under-stand she has millions more fans,and is way more successful thani’ll ever be. But it’s like talkingabout slavery at a blues concert.it’s inappropriate.” Zimmerman is

generally not a fan of interviewsand press, having argued exten-sively with reporters in the past.As he’s an artist who has spoken atlength about not doing drugs andnot making music for people whoonly want to listen to it whileusing MDMA/ecstasy, it’s under-standable that Deadmau5 was of-fended by Madge. Her album,after all, was titled MDNA, an-other outright thinly veiled refer-ence to the drug. And thoughMadonna is one of the pioneers ofelectronic dance music, in a sense,her new music is likely to strikeZimmerman as awfully formulaic.

Deadmau5, Madonna Feud Rekindled: Producer Calls Her A ‘Funky Grandma’

US Consul General

los angeles: ‘Liz and Dick’, Lindsay Lohan’sLifetime movie, is currently under investigation.

Never a dull moment in the life of Lindsay Lohanand those she comes into contact with: two Hollywoodunions are investigating working conditions on the setof ‘Liz and Dick’, after Lohan was found unresponsiveand required medical attention and two crew membersleft the project. the investigation is being done by twoUs acting labour groups international Alliance of the-atrical stage employees (iAtse) and sAG-AFtRA.

‘Liz and Dick’ tells the story of elizabeth taylorand Richard Burton. Filming the project has provensomewhat difficult for Lohan, who was not only thesubject of hospitalisation rumours (Lohan was latersaid to be asleep-not unconscious-and never went tothe hospital) but also crashed her car while drivingin Los Angeles. two other crew members were actu-ally sent to the hospital for exhaustion and dehydra-tion. Lohan tweeted that she had been working 85hours in four days. One industry source said Lohanwas viewed as a “ticking time bomb,” a macabre ref-erence the source explained by adding, “if Lindsayhadn’t been making a movie, who would have calledfor help? As soon as filming wraps, she will be allalone again.” the 25-year-old actress is under a greatdeal of pressure to orchestrate a comeback. agencies

RollingStones

planningsummer summit

MuMbai: aamir Khan had been working reallyhard towards his role in the third part of yashraj Films’ successful ‘dhoom’ franchise. afterthe rigorous workout sessions and training inacrobatics, the actor is ready to roll. in fact,three days back, aamir called up adityachopra to say that he can start shooting forthe ambitious Victor acharya directorial fromJune 29. while the other cast members hadalready started shooting for ‘dhoom 3’, aamirhad kept delaying his schedule. apart frompreparing for his role in the film, Khan hadalso been busy with the climax of reemaKagti’s ‘talaash’ and his debut television show.

recently, Jackie Shroff, who plays aamir’sfather in the film, was spotted shooting hisportions at capitol cinema. aamir willhowever, have no shots in the location. in fact,the actor will start off his schedule at theyash raj Studios in andheri and after fivedays will fly off to chicago-a favouritedestination of many bollywood filmmakers.according to a source, majority of aamir’sscenes will be shot there. aditya and aamirboth wanted to shoot the portion abroad.“they wanted to keep aamir’s look a secret.that is also a reason for them to go for aforeign location,” added the source. agencies

Anushka to romance Ranbir, Aamir MuMbai: among the new bunch of talent whichinundated bollywood to break the monotony ofsame old faces on the big screen; anushkaSharma is one actress who has charmed herway into the hearts of a-list filmmakers in theindustry. with her brilliant performance in herdebut opposite SrK in ‘rab ne banadi Jodi’followed by a firebrand performance in ‘bandbaaja baarat’, no wonders the actress hasgrabbed significant roles opposite aamir Khanand india’s latest heartthrob ranbir Kapoor.Given her stunning looks and amazing figure,rumours were rife that ranbir had recommendedanushka for the film. anurag Kashyap for his film‘bombay Velvet’ was in search for a perfect girlto cast as the romantic lead opposite ranbir.However, anushka couldn’t accept the offer thenas her dates clashed with raju Hirani’s upcomingproject titled ‘Peekay’ opposite aamir Khan. thereason why two prominent filmmakers are vyingfor anushka’s time isn’t hard to understand.“the logic is simple: in that age group, she isthe most talented actor in bollywood. youdon’t have an option as good as anushka. rajuHirani and aamir choose anushka (for ‘Peekay’),so it shows that she is in for big things in thefuture”, said a trade expert. rajkumar Hirani’s‘Peekay’ goes on the floors first (towards theend of this year) followed by ‘bombay Velvet’early next year. agencies


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it is the admission season in DelhiUniversity. And according to news-paper reports, the elite st stephen’sCollege, the alma mater of GeneralZia-ul-Haq, has received a record

22,000 applications for 420 seats.i hang around in the college to find out

just what the fuss is all about. (it’s surely notthe Zia factor!)

stephen’s is a sort of local Oxbridgewhere everything and everyone is differentfrom Delhi’s other colleges, at least inname. Here, the canteen is the café, thehostel is the residence, and the teachers andstudents are called senior members andjunior members, respectively. the annualfarewell ceremony for outgoing students istermed Dismissal service.

But today the college’s elite image is alsobeing questioned.

“st stephen’s’ elite status is a myth,” thecollege’s associate professor of philosophy Kp shankaran told me, “ that is perpetuatedby talking derogatively about other colleges.”

Last year, former indian ambassador topakistan Mani shankar Aiyar, an ex-stephanian, displayed what some see assnobbery typical of his alma mater. Respond-ing to an allegation in a letter written bysports minister Ajay Maken to the pM blam-ing Aiyar for delaying Commonwealth

Games projects, Aiyarsaid: “Firstly, we have toestablish the authenticityof this letter. it containswords like ‘dichotomous’,which i cannot believethat a BA pass from HansRaj College would know.”

in response, 40stephanians marched toHans Raj to “express sol-idarity”. “We had to con-vey that today’sstephanians do not sub-scribe to the views of oldboys like Aiyar,” saidUdit Bhatia, general sec-retary of the college’sstudents’ Union society.“Now more stephaniansattend festivals and de-bates in other colleges,where we see the bril-liance of their students.We are no longer in a po-sition to say that we aresuperior.”

Running an institu-tion that fancies carryingthe burden of nation-building on its shoul-ders, the reverendValson thampu, the col-lege’s controversial 12th

principal, says, “the business of st stephen’sis to produce leaders for tomorrow’s india.”

in that, the college’s record is impres-sive. Look around and you will find the illus-trious old boys. Montek singh Ahluwalia isdeputy chairman of the planning Commis-sion; Kaushik Basu is chief economic adviserto the finance ministry; and Kapil sibal andsalman Khurshid are Union cabinet minis-ters. the college seems to have, at least par-tially, colonised other aspects of india too.in fashion, Rohit Bal; in cinema, shekharKapur; in tV, Barkha Dutt; and in literature,almost every renowned novelist, includingAmitav Ghosh and Khushwant singh.

thampu said, “st stephen’s College isnow less snooty.” it’s rare for a college headto directly confess how snobbish his collegeis, or used to be.

in no other DU college is the algebra ofinfinite merit as complex as it is in stephen’s.You have to be top-notch academically, haveblue-chip public school pedigree or have par-ents belonging to the old boy network, bepart of a religious quota or other reservedcategories such as sports and physicallyhandicapped, to get into the college.

the exclusivity that marked stephen’sis now being challenged. the changes thatare transforming india are being reflectedin the college. According to the principal,20% of the indian Administrative serviceand indian Foreign service officials in the1970s and 1980s were from stephen’s. inthe past five years, that percentage is notmore than 10. the number of students fromextremely poor backgrounds has gone upthreefold in the last five years.

thampu said that the interview roundin the college’s admission process favouredenglish-speaking candidates, who had bet-ter communication skills than studentsfrom a vernacular background. “those morecomfortable in indian languages felt intim-idated by the ambience of the interview, afeeling aggravated by the awe the college in-

spires,” he told me. “since 2007, dependingon the candidate, our interviews also takeplace in Hindi, and that’s why you find morepeople coming from the towns and villagesof Uttar pradesh and Haryana.”

professor shankaran, who has beenteaching in the college since 1985, says: “ststephen’s was socially elite, but never intel-lectually. Well-read people are an excep-tion. We are like any college, except thatthere are fewer rowdy elements and it iseasy to manage the college due to a long tra-dition of political passivity.”

the one time stephen’s became politi-cally engaged was when quite a few stu-dents went underground to join the Naxalmovement in the 1960s.

to Ayesha Adlakha, a first-year student,the college is like a “camp” where you canmeet adventurers of various kinds. “Cominghere is the most liberating thing that hap-pened to me,” says Adlakha, whose hair isdyed red. “people are so non-judgemental.You say and do whatever you want. every-thing we need in this world is right here.”

the world immediately outside, how-ever, is moving on, and the college may finditself left behind one day. it’s a fact acknowl-edged by st stephen’s’ living legend. DavidBaker, a retired history professor who livesin an apartment in a boys’ block, is busywriting a history of the college. “My bookdeals with how Delhi’s history overlappedwith that of st stephen’s,” he says. “Aftercrushing the 1857 uprising, the British re-shaped Delhi into a commercial, industrial,railway city, and the college began in thisnew world. it acquired more importancewhen the city was made india’s capital…each chapter of my book explores what ef-fects these two made on each other duringsignificant periods. today Delhi has becomea megalopolis of 16.7 million people. the col-lege’s hold on the city has begun to taper.that could be the final chapter, but, in gen-eral, my proposition holds true.”

Whither circumspection?

System in danger

the ppp supported by allies has the requirednumber of votes to get its nominee electedas the new pM and another one after hisremoval. instead of ending the ongoing

confrontation with the sC, this could howeverfurther exacerbate it. One may differ with the waythe apex court continues to pressure the executive towrite to the swiss authorities. But once the court hasdelivered its judgment, it is must for everyoneconcerned to carry it out. this is what the pppgovernment has rightly done.

there are only two ways to defuse the crisis. First,instead of advising the next pM to once again declineto carry out the orders of the sC, the ppp could agreeto write the required letter. in view of presidentZardari’s reluctance to allow what he calls the “trialof Benazir’s grave”, there is little likelihood of theparty taking this course. second, to enter into talkswith the opposition to put together a neutralcaretaker setup and a firm date for early elections.president Zardari insists that his party has the rightto complete the remaining nine months of itsconstitutional tenure. Legally, this may be a soundposition but politically this does not appear to befeasible.

the situation is rife with dangers for the system.the ruling alliance is at loggerheads with theopposition which is gradually moving towards theone point agenda of fresh elections. What is more,the government is simultaneously confronting thesC. Certain sections of the establishment might behappy over the way the sC has removed the pM, butthey are perturbed over the way the sC is trying torein in the security agencies. Meanwhile, the lawyerscommunity has been divided into hostile groups, andthe entry of some of the outstanding leaders of theircommunity into bar rooms has been banned. thegovernment has to realise the gravity of thesituation. it must not take confrontation with the sCand the opposition to a stage where a small pushfrom outside sends the system hurtling down theabyss.

Not so patrician?On st stephen’s college and its evolving elitism

Delhi callingBy Mayank Austen Soofi

even though all countries at vari-ous international forums havereaffirmed the resolve to cooper-

ate for peace in the south Asian regionand have expressed concern for the sta-bility of Afghanistan, most of them in-volved in the process have startedpreparing for a seemingly imminent coldwar between the Us and China. the Usis currently the only superpower in aunipolar world but the emergence ofChina as a new power centre has put itinto confrontation with the country inmultifarious ways.

During his trip to Australia, on No-vember 17, 2011, president BarrackObama, while sending an unmistakablemessage to Beijing said, “the Unitedstates is a pacific power, and we are hereto stay.” Us Defence secretary Leonpanetta also made statements relevantin this context during his Asia visit. Herevealed during his visit to singaporethat the Us will shift a majority of itswarships to the Asia-pacific region by2020 as part of a new Us military strat-

egy in Asia. panetta’s Asia visit came ata time of renewed tension betweenChina and philippines, the latter being amajor Us ally.

With regards to strengthening its po-sition in the pacific, America has alsocultivated security relations with NewZealand. it is also working with severalGulf countries to solidify its entrench-ment in the region. American strategicthinkers take China’s military moderni-sation as a great threat to its militarybases in the continent.

Russia and China had opposed theUs-led NAtO attack on Libya, whilethey have asked the Us to resolve thequestion of iran’s nuclear programmepeacefully. But America and israel arestill acting upon a war-like diplomacyagainst tehran. the Us and China alsohave disagreement about many interna-tional issues. A notable one which hasled them to being at loggerheads is thetaiwan issue.

Given that the Us is now buttingheads with two big powers – China andRussia - right in our backyard, doesn’tthis shifting scenario necessitate someadjustment in our foreign policy? Al-ready pak-Us relations are in consider-

able flux. tensions already existed whenthe May 2nd operation took place whichonly worsened the situation. thingscame to a head with the November 26salala incident. in response, pakistanblocked the NAtO supplies and closedthe shamsi airbase. Following these in-cidents, since islamabad has decided toreassess its engagement with the Us, itwould do well to take the emergent sce-nario into consideration.

it seems that pakistan is doing thatto some extent. it has rejected Americanduress with regards to the ip gaspipeline project with iran. Moreover,besides China, pakistan has also culti-vated its relationship with the RussianFederation. Moscow and islamabadagreed to enhance bilateral relations indiverse fields.

in 2010, the then Russian primeMinister Vladimir putin publicly en-dorsed pakistan bid to join the shanghaiCooperation Organisation (sCO).

pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardariparticipated in the 12th summit of theshanghai Cooperation Organization re-cently held in Beijing. While addressingthe summit, hinting at Us overtures inthe region, Chinese president Hu Jintao

said that the international situation hadbecome complex, thus, leading to manyuncertainties in the regional situation.He stressed that only if the sCO memberstates remain united can they effectivelycope with the emerging challenges.

it cannot be denied that the Us haskey interests in this region and many ofits recent liaisons with countries in theregion can be explained in the context ofits new designs. the Us has made manyforeign policy adjustments and theypoint towards the fact that the Us is try-ing to buttress a few of its allies in the re-gion to counteract growing Chinese andRussian influence.

Moreover, the Us also needs to es-tablish these relations to pursue its pres-surisation campaigns against iran andpakistan and put its plans with regardsto them into action. its pacts withAfghanistan and india are a case inpoint. it has repeatedly pressed indianot to cooperate with iran while it haspropped up india as a force and an allyin the region to tick off pakistan’s estab-lishment. Leon panetta’s trip to the re-gion thus makes sense in this context.

During his recent visit to New Delhi,panetta revived the blame game and

upped the ante on pakistan by remark-ing that drone attacks would continue onterrorists’ safe havens within pakistan.While there, panetta also encouragedindia to take a more active role inAfghanistan in training the Afghanforces.

india which has already invested bil-lion of dollars in Afghanistan has signedwide-ranging strategic agreements withboth the Us and Afghanistan.

this nexus is clearly aimed at neu-tralising pakistan and offsetting the in-fluence of the emerging power of Chinaand Russia.

Rapidly developing geo-political dif-ferences among global powers in Asiashow that the next cold war is likely tobe waged between the Russia-China al-liance and the Us-led block and many oftheir battles will directly or indirectly in-volve pakistan.

thus, it is imperative that pakistanrethink its role in the region and reeval-uate its relations not just with the super-power but with its neighbours andregional and international powers. itneeds to abandon outdated foreign pol-icy paradigms and wake up to the newground realities.

global power matrix in flux

A new cold war?

By Sajjad Shaukat


A great lady she was. May Allah bless her soul andgive courage to the bereaved and the nation to bear thisshock. she fought for democracy, human rights andwomen empowerment. through sheer hard work andsincerity, Mrs Wahab became the face of country’slargest political party (ppp). By virtue of her ownpersonal background and dedication, she became avoice of the middle class, a self-made woman.

through her visible and also indirect role as pppMNA and office bearer, she did a lot for womenempowerment. in countries like pakistan, it is verydifficult for a woman to participate in politics and earnrespect. Fauzia Wahab did it nicely and she set anexample for all. she used to help and solve the problemsof women hailing from middle class. And women alsofelt free to share their problems with Fauzia Wahab. sheplayed a key role in a number of bills related to womenempowerment.

she was a popular parliamentarian and enjoyed

massive support for her work. she embarked on herpolitical career by volunteering for the ppp in theGeneral elections 1988. in 1995, Ms Wahab became theinformation secretary of the ppp sindh Women’s Wing.she also remained a member of the party’s advisorycouncil from 1994 to 1996 and chairperson of theKarachi Metropolitan Corporation’s informationcommittee from 1994 to 1995. Foreign affairs, financeand women’s development issues drew her interest inparticular. Later on in 1998, Benazir Bhutto nominatedFauzia Wahab to become the Central Coordinator of theHuman Rights Cell and was tasked to correspond withhuman rights defending organisations abroad.

in 2003, she attended the National Defence Collegecourse for bringing the politicians and armed forcesclose to each other. she was one of the initiators ofrelationship with the National Democratic institute(NDi) and was invited to attend the “Win with Women– Global initiative” of the institute in December 2003.

in June 2004, she was invited by the NDi to attend the2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

she was appointed central information secretary ofparty in 2009. she chose to side with the ppp becauseshe believed that it was the only political party open toliberal democratic values and the only political partythat was not plagued by gender discrimination. Herdedication to ppp was matchless. she always defendedher party in very difficult times. she was the mosthonest person. in my view, after BB shaheed, FauziaWahab was the only leader, who followed her footsteps.Moreover, she upheld liberal face of ppp in highlypolarised, fanatic and charged environment of pakistan.

No doubt, she was a courageous and brave lady.Outspoken secular voice is no more with us now. Hersad demise is a big blow for pakistan and the vacuumcreated after her death will never be filled.

DR SAIFUR REHMANIslamabad

after fission now fusionthe prestigious Scientific American

journal of June 2012 has revealed aproject known as internationalthermonuclear experimental Reactor(iteR) which will attempt to reproducesun’s power here on earth. six countriesand european Union have joinedtogether to build iteR, the world’slargest experimental fusion reactor. Afund of 20 billion Us $ has been set upfor the construction cost with a donationof 45.5 percent by eU and 9.1 percenteach by six countries of UsA, Japan,Russia, China, india and south Korea.supporters agree iteR is the only hopein the long run in meeting theunquenchable demand of power. Duringfission a tiny fraction of uranium’s massturns directly into energy. Fusion is thesame except working backwards withlight nuclei such as hydrogen comingtogether. if the project worked, thepayoff would be large: energy would bewidely available and cheap; fossil fuelwould become irrelevant. the energyproduced would be three times thenuclear. the start date of project is 2020.One wished pakistan also became amember of iteR in view of our seriousenergy problems.

DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTILahore

women rights Regrettably, millions of women

throughout pakistan live in conditions ofabject deprivation of, and attacks against,their fundamental human rights for noother reason than that they are women.Women in upper sindh districts, thedistricts bordering with Balochistan andseraiki belt, are the worst victims. so far,nothing concrete has been done to

ameliorate the plight of women who arethe victims of violence anddiscrimination. in the past, a fewcosmetic measures have been taken onlyto attract the attention of internationaldonors. Had the past successivegovernments made genuine efforts theplight of women would have reasonablyimproved and young girls would not havebeen slaughtered as one was done lastweek in Jacobabad who married againstthe will of their callous parents.

in the prevalent disappointingsituation for women it is suggested thatthe problem should be tackled radically.We need to open to women new avenuesof culture and social service and ampleopportunities for public life. We needmore changes in our culture to stopdiscrimination against women. Above all,we must work together to change thiscultural attitude against women inpakistan today.

HASHIM ABROIslamabad

a sad eventthe Human Rights Commission of

pakistan (HRCp) has called thedisqualification of ex-prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gilani a sad and depressingoccasion in a country where democratictraditions have perpetually been deniedthe nourishment they need to take roots.We all very well know who the HRCp hasbeen pointing at for consistent andperpetual derailing of democracy inpakistan. that’s why HRCp was right tohighlight the fact that supreme Court’sjudgment (to dismiss an elected primeminster) was perhaps not unexpected.

Will this judgment lead to betterquality of life for masses, improvedeconomy, resolution of power, water andnatural gas shortages, elimination of

terrorism, get the Baloch back in themainstream, jack up the stocks market,improve the relationship with the Us andneighbouring countries, or will it lead tofurther political turmoil, enhanceduncertainty, dipping down the stocksmarket, forcing outside world not to dealwith democratic government as it mayget dismissed over a sneeze of a judge.

i have failed to understand the logicbehind such an action except thatapparently we are all set for clashbetween institutions. to start the gamejudiciary has thrown its ‘contempt’ baitto catch anyone on any pretext. All thepolitical parties who are at presentrejoicing Gilani’s dismissal need tounderstand the trap; today it’s Gilani,tomorrow it could be their men gettingthrown out of elected institutions at thewhim of judges. institutions war ofpower and ego is on. Good luck to 180million people who are just puppets,have nothing to do with the corridors ofpower.

MASOOD KHANJubail, Saudi Arabia

trial of gravesevery man, women or child who was

born is destined to die and face trial forthe sins that he/she may have committedduring their lifespan. According to ourreligion, there is no escape from thisinevitable accountability which everycommoner, king, or emperor will have toface and only the Almighty alone has thesole jurisdiction to decide such matters.those who submit to the will of Almightyand seek forgiveness or make amends forthe wrongs that they may havecommitted to their fellow beings canexpect pardon from Him, and noofferings of ill-gotten wealth asnazrana/sadqa can settle these debts.

it is also a matter of faith thatevading any accountability process onlyadds to the woes of an individual in lifehereafter. it is because of this belief inhereafter that relatives of those whosedear ones have departed publicly askeverybody before their burial if thedeparted persons owed any debt. Ourreligion very clearly has stated thatHaqooq-ul-ibad, that is the rights offellow human beings, if violated can onlybe forgiven by those who have beenwronged and the Almighty will onlypardon sins concerning Haqooq Ullah.

political martyrdom does not absolvethe soul of accountability from Haqooq-ul-ibad. therefore, if the political heirs ofBenazir Bhutto have any love for her,they should facilitate rather than avoidsettlement of any claims that anindividual, or the national exchequermay have, so that her soul rests in eternalpeace. Nobody, not even saints can avoidtrial of graves, that is a reality if we havebelief in our religion. so this politics andexploiting the graves must stop.

IRFAN BUTTKarachi

Sukkur, Guddu barragesthe discharge capacity of sukkur and

Guddu barrages needs to be increased.this will be no small task and will costbillions of rupees. Does it make sense toundertake this gigantic task and not tryand stop the flood waters at source? theflood waters of Kabul, Chitral, Haro andsoan rivers cannot be stopped bytarbela, Bhasha or any other dam on theindus expect by Kalabagh dam. How longare we going to go on increasing barragecapacities but not build the one dam thatcan take care of the problem?

ENGR KHURSHID ANWERLahore

Comment 13Friday, 22 June, 2012

the second blowDuring the 65-year long history of

our country, the parliament received itssecond big blow by judiciary on 19June.

it is not true that all the decisionsmade by apex court were always right.We had example of Z A Bhutto’s vitalcase in which the verdict was given by 3-4judges. Nonetheless, the deciding judge,Justice Naseem Hassan shah, after manyyears of his verdict in an interview withGeo tV categorically said that had hewanted to save the life of Z A Bhutto, hecould have done so but his advocateYahya Bakhtiar annoyed the judges.

this is not the first example of itskind. in 1954, when late Chaudhry MalikGhulam Mohammad was Governor Gen-eral (GG), the speaker of National As-sembly Maulvi tameezuddin challengedthe dissolution of the Constituent Assem-bly by GG in the apex court but the thenChief Justice of the supreme Court ofpakistan, Justice Mohammad Munir,supported the decision of the GG andthus the judiciary delivered its first blowon the sovereignty of the parliament.

it appears that the history hasrepeated itself in 2012 as the parliamenthas recently received its second blow byjudiciary. throughout the world, theparliament is supreme whereas the job ofjudiciary is only to explain the constitution,not challenge every decision of the govt.

Unfortunately, a group of people inpakistan have always tried to prove judi-ciary as supreme against the parliamentand they have unfortunately succeededin their designs. this will have highly badrepercussions on the sovereignty of theparliament besides on the future of thecountry as it is bound to further weaken it.

MOHAMMAD KHAN SIALKarachi

Say no to smokingthrough extensive epidemiological

and clinical studies, researchers haveshown that smoking is a health hazard ofthe first order. smoking is the numberone cause of lung cancer. More than 80percent of fatalities in this category aredue to cigarette smoking. it is a majorcause of cancer of the oral cavity, smok-ers are six times more likely to contractcancer of the mouth, larynx, throat andoesophagus than non-smokers. it is alsoa chief cause of pulmonary diseases andis one of the leading causes of heart dis-eases. it is a contributory factor in can-cers of the bladder, kidney and panaceas.the sale and purchase of this injurious tohealth item should be banned in ourcountry. i request the authorities to takeaction against this deadly and fatal thing.

ABDUL BASITIslamabad

riP, Fauzia wahab

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Sure-footed bartolireaches eastbourne semis

GALLEaFP

pAKistAN's stand-in captainMohammad Hafeez is confidenthis young side will regroup afterthe one-day defeats to challenge

sri Lanka in the test series starting on Fri-day. Hafeez, 31, was thrown into the deepend when regular captain Misbah-ul Haqwas banned from the first test in Galle dueto pakistan's slow over-rate in the final one-dayer in Colombo on Monday.

Misbah was penalised for his teamfalling three overs short, which interna-tional Cricket Council match referee ChrisBroad said was a "serious over-rate offence"in one-day internationals. Hafeez, who wasmade his country's twenty20 skipper ahead

of the current tour, has played only 26 testsand never captained pakistan before in thefive-day format. But the all-rounder brushedaside the 3-1 loss in the one-dayers, sayingpakistan were determined to do their best inthe three tests. "Misbah's calm influencewill be missed, but it is a great honour tolead my country in test cricket and i amready for the challenge," Hafeez said onthursday. "test cricket demands discipline.everyone plays a role in it, not just the cap-tain. We will be inspired by the good workwe have done in the longer format over thepast few years." pakistan have won seven oftheir last nine tests, including a brilliant 3-0 whitewash of top-ranked england in theUnited Arab emirates earlier this year.

it is a remarkable record for a side thathas been forced to play abroad due to other

teams' refusal to tour pakistan because of se-curity concerns. pakistan's batting will re-volve around Younis Khan, whose 76 testappearances make him the only player inthe side to have played more than 50 games.the tourists will bank on their potent bowl-ing attack led by prolific off-spinner saeedAjmal, who was the world's leading testwicket-taker last year with 50 scalps in eightmatches. this year, Ajmal has alreadygrabbed 24 wickets in three tests againstengland, and remains the main threat forsri Lanka alongside left-arm spinner AbdurRehman. sri Lankan captain MahelaJayawardene said Ajmal and Rehman"could be a handful" in any conditions, butwarned the tourists that the Galle wicket wasnot as spin-friendly as previously after beingrelaid last year. "the wicket looks good and

it will need a balanced attack to take 20wickets," said Jayawardene, an accom-plished middle-order veteran of 130 tests.sri Lanka have won just two of their previ-ous 14 tests and lost six, but both those winscame in their last four matches, indicating arevival after the retirement of world bowlingrecord holder Muttiah Muralitharan in2010. sri Lanka will look to their experi-enced batting line-up of Jayawardene,tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar sangakkaraand thilan samaraweera to put up a big firstinnings total for their bowlers to take advan-tage of. the Umpires Decision Review sys-tem (UDRs), made optional by the iCC intouring contests, will not be used in the se-ries. the second test will be played inColombo from June 30 and the third inpallekele from July 8.

Stand-in skipper Hafeezconfident of team’s comeback

bell in favourof rotation policy

LONDONaFP

ian Bell has backed england's policy of ro-tating their bowlers in a bid to combat thedraining effects of a gruelling internationalschedule. With the one-day series againstthe West indies already won with a matchto spare, england's selectors have opted torest three of their leading bowlers, stuartBroad, tim Bresnan and Graeme swann,for Friday's final fixture at Headingley. it isnot the first time this year that englandcoach Andy Flower has taken precautionsto avoid his squad suffering from burnout.Broad and James Anderson missed the lasttest against the Windies at edgbaston ear-lier this month after the series was wrappedup. Lancashire pace bowler Anderson was-n't completely happy to be forced out of ac-tion. But england batsman Bell isconvinced his side must continue tinkeringwith their line-up to ensure the likes ofBroad, Bresnan and swann -- the onlythree remaining english regulars for tests,one-day internationals and twenty20 -- arefresh heading into the forthcoming limitedovers matches against Australia and thetest series against south Africa. "there's aheavy schedule coming up. We need to lookafter these guys," said Bell, who has scoreda century and a half-century in england'slast two victories over the Windies. "there'sthis big series against Australia coming up,and south Africa after that. "the key to oursuccess in one-day cricket is having fiveout-and-out world-class bowlers. "so if wewant to beat the Australians, we want theseguys fit and fresh and ready to go. "For thethree guys who play in all three forms ofthe game it's going to be crucial." Youngpace bowler stuart Meaker, all-rounderChris Woakes and spinner James tredwellhave been called up to the squad in place ofthose who will be sidelined at Headingley.And Bell claims the chance to give big-match experience to england's understud-ies is just as important as resting theestablished stars. "it's a good option to letthem have a bit of a breather and it gives anopportunity to the likes of Meaker, Woakesand tredwell," Bell said. "When i played forthe Lions, Meaker is genuinely fast - so itwill be exciting to see him have a go. "Look-ing down the line, at World Cups and Cham-pions trophies, it's great to give these guysan opportunity and gain more experience.

LAHOREsTaFF rePOrT

shahid Afridi's sudden announcement that heis contemplating one-day retirement to focuson twenty20s has caught pakistan's cricketfraternity by surprise and raised questionsabout what is happening behind the scenes inthe national camp.

Afridi took everyone by surprise when, onreturning home from sri Lanka after playingin the one-day series, he said he was thinkingabout retiring from ODis and just playingt20 matches.

"i will be consulting my elders and seniorsand will take a decision in next few days. Butdefinitely if i feel i am not contributing to theteam in ODis i don't want to carry on doingnothing," Afridi told reporters at the airport.

Cricket experts are viewing Afridi's re-marks in different ways with the general feel-ing being that the 31-year-old who wasremoved as captain of the one-day side lastyear after a dispute with the board is notcomfortable and happy in the present teamset-up.

"there is also a chance that Afridi mighthave sensed that the new coach Dav What-more is laying more stress on young playersand wants to ease out the seniors slowly," oneanalyst said.

But he pointed out that it is no secret thatAfridi was disappointed when removed ascaptain after leading the side well.

"He was disappointed that he was notconsidered for the twenty20 captaincy beforethe sri Lanka and instead Mohammad Hafeezgot appointed."

Salman releasedon good conductfrom london prison

LONDONaFP

pakistan's disgraced former test captainsalman Butt has been released early from aBritish prison after serving less than a quar-ter of his sentence for spot-fixing, hislawyers said thursday. the 27-year-old wasjailed for 30 months last November oncharges of accepting corrupt payments dur-ing the Lord's test against england in Au-gust 2010. He was freed on thursday,according to his London legal company, 25Bedford Row. Butt's father Zulfiqar said onWednesday that he expected his son to behome within three or four days. Butt, team-mates Mohammad Asif and MohammadAamer, and agent Mazhar Majeed were ac-cused of arranging deliberate no-balls in re-turn for money. Aamer was released inFebruary after serving half his six-monthsentence while Asif, jailed for 12 months,was freed in May. the three players werebanned for at least five years by the interna-tional Cricket Council (iCC), which has or-dered the pakistan Cricket Board torehabilitate the former stars. the trio has aright to appeal the iCC ban in the Court ofArbitration for sports (CAs) in switzerland.

PANAJIaFP

indian police in Goa said thursday theyhad arrested two teenage males on sus-picion of killing their grandmother andtaking her money to gamble on indianpremier League (ipL) cricket games.

the youngsters, aged 14 and 15, wereamong a gang of five held by police forthe alleged murder of 65-year-old LindaCajetan Andrade, who was found nakedin her home last month. the group aresuspected of stealing 400,000 rupees($7,100) and some gold ornaments fromher home. "these boys wanted money tobet on the indian premier League and the(football) euro Cup," police superinten-dent Arvind Gawas told AFp, adding thatthe cash was used for betting but that itwas unclear how much was gambled.

Two teens kill grandmotheron iPL betting: indian Police

Galle: Sri lanka captain mahela Jayawardene (r) and Pakistan stand-in captain mohammadHafeez shake hands as they pose for photographers with the trophy. AFP

Galle: Pakistan captain misbah ul-Haq throws a ball during a practice session at theGalle international Stadium. AFP

Afridi’s retirement talk surprises cricket circles


Sports 15Friday, 22 June, 2012

LAHOREagHa aKbar

pepsi-COLA maybe the officialsponsor of cricket both in indiaand pakistan, but Coca-Cola toohas come looking for a sizeable

slice of the pie in a game that is bigger thananything in the sub-continent. Only re-cently one saw cricket-based advertise-ments targeting the indian market withsachin tendulkar acting as Coke’s brandambassador. Now this side of the border, inwhat looks like an extension of the not-so-subtle ‘Cola Wars’, Coke has pitched its tentfirmly on the cricket ground in pakistan aswell through its brand sprite by launchingCricket Next and roping in shoaib Akhtarand Moin Khan to provide it star attraction.

For all intents and purposes, this isCoca-Cola’s returning its rival the ‘Nothingofficial about it’ compliment of the WorldCup 1996 that not just mocked at its ‘Coke’sofficial drink’ status but also stole the thun-der of its own campaign.

that must have left deep scars, for sub-sequently pepsico seized the ‘official spon-sor’ status, denying Coca-Cola a look-ininto what is every marketing man’s dreamin pakistan and india: latching on to the

cricket bandwagon.Rizwan U. Khan, Coca-Cola pakistan's

General Manager had a spring in his step ashe made an extempore statement of intent:“Make a positive difference to cricket inpakistan by taking a fresh, dynamic andsustainable approach to the sport by pro-moting and encouraging pakistan's poten-tially undiscovered cricketing heroes."

it was a high-octane launch, and withstreetlights and with vendors’ stalls offer-ing streetside-stuff was congruous withstreet cricket.

the idea is fabulous, for it is simple,involves no hefty sponsorship fees, andgoes directly to the streets and people bylatching on to street cricket – with a prom-ise to its cricket crazy participants: na-tional spotlight.

played with unrivalled passion, ‘GulliCricket’ has its own joy and charm, and avery rich folklore in that most of our front-line cricketers since the 1980s learnt theircraft here before graduating to more organ-ized forms under official patronage. theevent touches base with the largest pool ofcricketers at their closest: their own street.

the sweep of the event is impressive:700 streets in seven cities spread over sixmonths. With the two squads that emerge

from this extensive exercise shall becoached by Akhtar and Moin, the formertagged as Josheela and the latter asHoshyaar, and the teams branded as JoshandHosh for a series of contests.

the programme’s reach has been givenfurther extension by bringing into play aninteractive website and use of the socialmedia. And aspiring cricketers who missout direct participation in the campaigncould still be part of the action through“capturing and uploading their street crick-eting moments of Josh and Hosh via the in-teractive website”. the campaign, it wassaid, has already kicked off on the groundstarting in Lahore on June 19, 2012.

Always ready with a smart quip, shoaibAkhtar, recounting his own youth and asso-ciation with gully cricket, spoke an evocativeline that would touch a chord with many.“through this programme, in a way i’d bemeeting with myself again”, said he, withdisarming spontaneity

Akhtar and Moin both sounded pas-sionate about the event, without soundingfake like most on such occasions do. per-haps it was because both had emergedfrom street cricket and could relate to it."in my view cricket played in the streets isJosheela cricket. Here you need instinct,

speed, quick thinking, a big heart – aboveall the passion of youth to prevail. thisevent has created a phenomenon, right atthe grassroots. the event has my backingfrom the word go because in my opiniononly Josheela cricketers can changecricket countrywide [taking it to a higherplane]”, said Akhtar.

Moin was not to be outdone. “the eventhas created a platform for cricket lovers all

around pakistan. the passion is good but ourplayers already have it aplenty. What ouryouth could do more with is cricketing nous,the Hoshyaari, to strike it big,” said he.

Combining the natural effervescence ofstreet cricket with the comfort that corpo-rate support invariably obtains, if betweenthe Josheela and the Hoshyaar, the two ofthem could find a gem or two it would beworth everyone’s while and effort.

laHore: Shoaib akhtar speaks during the launching of the Sprite cricket next. STAFF PHoTo

‘Cricket Next’ Coca-Cola’s cricketing coupg it’s between Josheela and Hoshyaar on the streets of Pakistan

LAHOREsTaFF rePOrT

the pakistan Cricket Board (pCB) hasapproved a deficit budget of Rs700 mil-lion for the fiscal year 2012-13 in its re-cent Governing Board (GB) and alsoplanning to establish another head of-fice in interior sindh.

the meeting chaired by the board'schairman Zaka Ashraf approved thebudget with the amount having an im-provement on the Rs1.1b deficit budgetthat was announced last year. “theamount is a tremendous improvement,”a GB member was quoted by reports.

A major chunk of the budget hasbeen set aside for infrastructure devel-opment. the board had initially plannedto spend a lot on administration but theGB members were against that moveand asked Ashraf to allot that to devel-opment instead.

“there are several stadiums thatneed renovation. there are academiesand high-performance centres that needmodification so we believed that infra-

structure development should get themajor share of the budget and the chair-man agreed to that.”

the pCB is building two high-per-formance centres in Karachi and Multanalong the same lines as Lahore's Na-tional Cricket Academy. it also intendsto build a new stadium in islamabadand Larkana and the addition of a newhead office in interior sindh was alsodiscussed. the GB members also raisedquestions over the continued existenceof Javed Miandad in the pCB who, de-spite being paid a hefty amount permonth, does not play an active role inthe board. Meanwhile, four regions havealso been added to pakistan cricket –nominated by patron-in-Chief Asif AliZardari – which did not please the GBmembers. “Dera Murad Bugti, Larkana,Fata and Bahawalpur are now active re-gions. Bahawalpur is a good inclusionand Fata has tremendous talent but theother two regions have been included onpolitical grounds. the teams of Quettaand Hyderabad don't even have 11 goodplayers.”

Pcb shouldsave the dying artof spin: Qadir

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Lauding the pakistan Cricket Board’s deci-sion to harness the experience of some ofmost well known and knowledgeable crick-eters of the country, spin legend AbdulQadir has asked the pCB to set up an acad-emy to groom young spinners. the pCB’sscheme to spot talented players runs fromJune to september, involving three wellknown pakistani Cricketers - sarfrazNawaz, Abdul Qadir and ijaz Ahmed – whowill visit 16 cities around the country andidentify the most talented players aged be-tween 17-25. the result of these camps willbe a shortlist of around 20-25 players whowill then be requested to participate in a 4week Advanced Coaching Camp at the Na-tional Cricket Academy, Lahore. Qadir tolda television channel about the aims behindpCBs talent hunt scheme, the quality of tal-ent on display so far as well as the currentstandards of spin bowling in pakistan. im-pressed by the talents, he said: “in my view,leg spin in pakistan needs special attention.infact, the pCB should set up an academyspecifically for spinners, especially legspin.”“i will be more than happy to be involvedin this project and will do my utmost –even if i have to go to every part of pak-istan to discover and groom leg spinners.”

akhtar to scouttalent from thestreets of Pakistan

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pakistan’s speed- star shoaib Akhtar hasdispelled the reports that he is comingback in international cricket. Akhtar saidthursday though he had thought tomake comeback, doctors had advisedhim to rest. Akhtar said he would nowexplore new talent in the streets of pak-istan. He had announced to retire fromall forms of the cricket during the WorldCup in Marach 2011. He is three wicketsshort of 250 in 163 one-day internation-als and has taken 19 wickets in 15twenty20 internationals. Controversialpakistan paceman shoaib Akhtar is totravel the country, playing cricket in thestreets in a bid to talent spot young play-ers and groom them for success. Akhtar,who retired from international cricketlast year, had a career troubled by in-juries, a dope scandal and disciplinaryproblems. the 36 year old and formercaptain Moin Khan will now embark ona seven-city tour of pakistan as part of aprogramme launched by a soft-drinkcompany. the stars will each be part oftwo teams that will play matches in thestreet in order to spot young talent. "iwant to return to my country what itgave me," Akhtar said during the launch.

PCB plans to establishhead office in interior Sindhg announces rs700m deficit budget


Top ranked Indian playerpaired with low ranked

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india's top tennis doubles player will team up with a poorly-ratedand inexperienced partner at the Olympics after two higher-ranked players refused to play with him, officials said thursday.Leander paes, ranked seventh in the world as a doubles player,will be paired with 207th-ranked Vishnu Vardhan, the All indiatennis Association (AitA) announced following days of argu-ments in which even the government tried to intervene. BothRohan Bopanna (ranked 13) and Mahesh Bhupathi (15) said theywould not play with paes for a range of personal and professionalreasons, including, Bhupathi said, that he was not trustworthy.paes and Bhupathi formed a long-standing and highly successfulteam for years, winning Grand slam doubles titles at the FrenchOpen in 1999 and 2001, and Wimbledon in 1999. the duo, whohave represented india in the doubles at four Olympics, broke upas a full-time pair in 2002, but continued to team up for india inthe Davis Cup and multi-sports events such as the Olympics.

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GALLE: Sri Lanka cricketers warm

up during a practice session at

the Galle International Stadium

ahead of the first test match. AFP

nca emerging PlayersProgram begins

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A four-week NCA emerging playersprogram-2012 started thursday at theNational Cricket Academy under thesupervision of NCA elite coaches/sup-port staff.On THe recOMMenDaTiOn OF naTiOnaL seLecTiOn

cOMMiTTee THe FOLLOWing 21 PLayers are

aTTenDing THis aDvanceD cOacHing PrOgraM:

usman Salahuddin, mohammad Saad, rohail ali (la-

hore), Shan masood, rameez aziz, anwer ali, Shahzaib

ahmed, mohammad Hassan, Faisal tahir (Karachi), Shar-

jeel Khan (Hyderabad), mohammad yasin, bilawal bhatti,

Prince abbas, Sarmad anwar(Sialkot), Gulraiz Sadaf

(multan), zeeshan mushtaq, naeem anjum (islamabad),

taimur ali (Quetta), Sadaf Hussain, yasim murtaza,

muhammad rameez (rawalpindi)

national inter-clubwomen Football starts

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the 5th National inter-Club WomenFootball Championship-2012 started atKarachi and Lahore with wins for Diyaand sports sciences. Being organized bythe Karachi-sindh Football Association,the opening day winner Diya WFC beatRubaisha WFC by 20 goals at the KptFootball stadium, Karachi. scOrer OF THe Winning TeaM Were Diya WFc:

(Hajra 5 Goals @ 10, 12, 14, 29 & 16 minutes), (Kiran 5

Goals @ 6, 9, 15, 33, 48 minutes), (afshan 4 Goals @

25, 46, 59, 57 minutes), rukhsar 2 Goals @ 54, 57

minutes), (Hateeba 2 Goals @ 51, 69 minutes), (nazia

naz 2 Goals @ 68, 71+1). at lahore’s Punjab Football

association organized match, Sports Science wFc

beat model town wFc 1-0 at the model town Foot-

ball. academy Ground, model town d block, lahore.

Sports Science wFc’s lone scorer was ishrat Fatima

1 in the fourth minute.

HARAREaFP

Zimbabwe failed to build on their stun-ning win over south Africa and fell by sixwickets to Bangladesh thursday in a non-cap twenty20 tournament. Much was ex-pected of Brendan taylor and his teamafter they shocked strong favouritessouth Africa by 29 runs tuesday, but atotal of 149-8 off 20 overs proved insuffi-cient at Harare sports Club. Bangladesh,needing a win to retain a chance of mak-

ing the final this sunday, responded with153-4 off 17.3 overs to give recently ap-pointed england-born coach Richardpybus his first win in charge of thetigers. south Africa play Bangladesh Fri-day and Zimbabwe saturday and the toptwo finishers in the table qualify for thefinal of an unofficial tournament as itfalls outside the future tours schedule.scOres: zimbabwe 149-8 (20 overs) (H. masakadza 56, b.

taylor 27, S. matsikenyeri 27; m. mortaza 2-28) v bangladesh

153-4 (17.3) (n. Hossain 41 not out, m. rahim 31, m. mah-

mudullah 29, m. ashraful 19). bangladesh win by six wickets.

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Greece are hoping for another euro 2012 giantkilling when they take on Germany with thepolitical spectre of the eurozone crisis hangingover Friday's quarter-final. Having shockedRussia 1-0 on saturday in Group A to confirmtheir place in the Gdansk last-eight clash, run-ners-up Greece take on Group B winners Ger-many, who are the only team with a 100percent record at the european championship.the Germans are bidding to win a fourth eu-ropean title and having won their three poolmatches against Holland, portugal and Den-mark, plus all ten qualifiers en route to thefinal, the Greeks start as underdogs.

the David verses Goliath clash hasadded spice between two nations at theheart of the eurozone financial crisis withone Greek paper demanding "Bring usMerkel!" after their team reached theknock-out phase. German Chancellor An-

gela Merkel, who will attend the match, hasprovoked anger in Greece for leading callson Athens to impose tough austerity meas-ures in return for financial assistance fromGermany to help to bring down debt. Bothteams have already fielded numerous ques-tions as to whether politics will play a role

with Germany coach Joachim Loew insist-ing: "As far as we are concerned, we are ap-proaching a normal football contest". But itwill be anything but just football for manyGreeks, as their proud nation owes Ger-many billions of euros in bailout money andwhere Merkel is a popular hate figure.

england unveilnz tour itinerary

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england will travel straight to New Zealandat the end of their tour of india next Janu-ary after the schedule for their trip was re-leased on Wednesday. england will meetthe Black Caps in three tests, three one-day internationals and three twenty20s ina two-month tour that will be their first tripto New Zealand since 2008. engLanD TOur OF neW ZeaLanD:February 4 - new zealand Xi v england, cobhamoval, whangarei (t20 warm-up)Feb 6 - new zealand Xi v england, cobham oval,whangarei (t20 warm-up)Feb 9 - First twenty20 international at eden Park, aucklandFeb 12 - Second t20 international at Seddon Park, HamiltonFeb 15 - third t20 international at westpac Stadium, wellingtonFeb 17 - First odi at Seddon Park, HamiltonFeb 20 - Second odi at mclean Park, napierFeb 23 - third odi at eden Park, aucklandFebruary 27-MarcH 2 - nz Xi v england, Queenstown events centre (four-day warm-up)Mar 6-10 - First test at university oval, dunedinMar 14-18 - Second test at Hawkins basin reserve, wellingtonMar 22-26 - third test at eden Park, auckland.

Ready even to take a penalty: hartKraKoW: england goalkeeper Joe Hart has revealed he is ready totake a penalty if sunday's euro 2012 quarter-final against italy goesto a shoot-out. england have won just one penalty shoot-out in six at-tempts since 1990, a record of failure which has weighed heavily onsuccessive english sides over the past two decades. However thesupremely confident Hart told a press conference he would welcomethe responsibility to be one of england's five penalty-takers shouldthe opportunity arise at Kiev's Olympic stadium on sunday. "if theylet me, i would put my name forward 100%," the Manchester Citystopper said. "Hopefully it won't come to that (taking penalties) but iwould back myself (to take a penalty) in a tournament. "if penaltiesare required then so be it," said Hart, who is one of the few playersin the england squad to have tasted victory in a shoot-out. aFP

BD bring Zimbabwe down

Greece aiming for a giant killing against Germany


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eaStbourne: anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of russia returns against Klara zakopalova of czechrepublic during their quarter-final match on the sixth day of the aeGon international. AFP

eaStbourne: angelique Kerber of Germany serves against ekaterina makarova of russiaduring their quarter-final of the aeGon international tennis. AFP

tanvir dar Hockeyacademy beat essenclub in Germany

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it was Dar HA’s second game in Germanyagainst the First team of HC essen 99 andthe pakistani lads dominated the proceed-ings for the better part of the game andcomfortably led 3-0 at the interval. the La-hore based academy was given a scare whenthe HC essen converted two penalty cornersin the first 12 minutes of the second half toreduce the lead to the bare minimum. How-ever, the Dar HA immediately regained thesupremacy and entered the opponents’ cir-cle almost at will. they added two moregoals to emerge 5-2 winners when the finalhooter sounded. star of the day was theiroutstanding forward, Bilal Mahmood, re-garded as one of the finest emerging talentsin pakistan hockey. All four of his goals werewonderful striker finishes; the beauty andmaturity of them belied his tender age.scOres: tanvir dar Ha, Pakistan: 5 (bilal mahmood 4,Salman 1). Hc essen 99, Germany: 2 (Spaeker)

Hockey campat abbottabad

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the training camp of national senior proba-bles, in its final phase of preparations for theLondon Olympic Games, will commence atArmy sports & physical training schooltobe Camp, Abbottabad on 26th June 2012.THe PHF Has DirecTeD FOLLOWing 26 PLayersTO rePOrT TO Mr. aKHTar rasOOL cHauDHary,caMP cOMManDanT aT TObe caMP:-imran Shah, muhammad irfan, Sohail abbas, Syed KashifShah, m. rizwan Jr., Fareed ahmed, rashid mahmood,muhammad tousiq, muhammad waqas, Shafqat rasool,abdul Haseem Khan, m. rizwan Sr., m. umar bhutta, m.Khalid bhatti, Shakeel abbasi, ali Shan, rehan butt,waseem ahmed, muhammad imran, Salman akbar, ta-sawar abbas, ammad Shakeel butt, dilber Hussain,imran butt, muhamamd zubair and aamir Shahzad.manaGer/cHieF coacH: mr. akhtar rasool chaudhary,coacHeS: m/s. Khawaja muhammad Junaid, ajmal Khanlodhi & Shahid ali Khan., PHySiotHeraPiSt: mr. Faiz-ur-rahman., Video-analySt: mr. nadeem Khan lodhi.

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Defending champion Marion Bartoli trod carefully on a rain-slick court to advance to the semi-finals of the eastbournegrass tournament on thursday with a 6-4, 6-2 win overCzech Lucie safarova. the Frenchwoman, who playsnext against either Bulgarian tsvetana pironkova ortamira paszek of Austria, was so intent on her vic-tory that she automatically adapted to conditionsto earn the win in 73 minutes. "We had like fiveminutes of rain i think after the first set, it startedto get a bit wet," said the 2007 Wimbledon final-ist. "But then we had sunny patches, so the courtwas dry again. "i was glad to finish before therain started. But i was so focused on what i hadto do that i didn't feel it was bothering me much."But on grass you have to be very careful, becausewhen it gets wet you can really hurt yourselfquite badly, which is the last thing you wantto do three days before a Grand slam." Bartoliis playing the Wimbledon tune-up for the

ninth year in a row and could become the first champion heresince Justine Henin in 2007 to defend her title at Devonshire

park. the winner lost just two points on serve in the secondset and ended with four breaks of her opponent's serve. "sofar, i've been able to play well and to stay consistent into mymatches, which is really important on grass," said Bartoli,

23-13 this season with seven career titles. the fourth seed wasjoined as a winner by Klara Zakopalova, with the Czech

winning the last five games to defeat Russian Anastasiapavlyuchenkova 6-3, 7-5. the contest was stalledby passing rain with Zakapalova leading a set and6-5 after a sixth double-fault from her opponent

led to a break point and the conversion. the paircame back out when conditions cleared and playedfor three more minutes as Zakapalova advanced a

step closer to a possible second grass trophy afterwinning in the Netherlands in 2005. the other twoquarter-finals were caught by another more lengthyrain interruption as German fifth seed Angelique Ker-ber faced 2010 eastbourne winner ekaterinaMakarova of Russia and the pironkova-paszek matchwas halted by weather in the second set.

murray namedin britain'solympic squad

LONDONaFP

Andy Murray was on thursday named asthe first member of the Great Britain tennisteam for the London Olympics. the worldnumber four will be competing in his sec-ond Olympics after Beijing when he lost inthe first round of the singles and the secondround of the doubles. Murray, who will alsobe playing doubles with his brother Jamie,said: "i can't wait for the Olympics to start,it's such an incredible event and for it to bein London is extra special. "i rememberbeing part of the Olympic Ceremony in Bei-jing, which was an unbelievable atmos-phere and like nothing i'd experiencedbefore. Winning a medal this summer forteam GB is one of my major goals."

Sharpova sets upwimbledon asher next target

LONDONaFP

As Maria sharapova posed with the FrenchOpen trophy against the breathtaking back-drop of the River seine and the eiffel tower,the Russian's thoughts turned from herstunning surroundings in paris to a smallpatch of grass in south-west London whereshe hopes to cap her remarkable return tothe top. sharapova's victory over sara er-rani in the Roland Garros final earlier thismonth was a cathartic moment for the 25-year-old, who had gone four years withoutwinning a grand slam as she struggled withthe aftermath of serious shoulder surgery.Her gruelling journey back to grand slamglory, and the world number one rankingshe now holds for the first time since 2008,is a testament to sharapova's fierce compet-itive instincts, but she hasnever been one to rest onher laurels. so, while theflashblubs and cham-pagne corks were stillpopping in paris in cele-bration of her career grandslam, sharapova was alreadyplotting a Wimbledon revengemission. Just 12 monthsago, sharapovasuffered one ofthe more surpris-ing defeats of hercareer as petraKvitova of theCzech Republicromped to a 6-4,6-3 Wimbledonfinal victory.

LONDONaFP

nOVAK Djokovic and RafaelNadal are braced to deliver apotentially fatal blow toRoger Federer's fading hopes

of matching pete sampras's record ofseven Wimbledon wins. the great swiss isfighting time as well as an air-tight Grandslam grip developed by Djokovic, the de-fending champion, and Nadal, who havewon nine of the last 10 majors betweenthem and contested the last four Grandslam finals. World number three Federer,who celebrated the last of his record 16Grand slam crowns at the 2010 AustralianOpen, will be 31 in August.

sampras was 28 when he won the sev-enth and last of his Wimbledon titles in2000; Djokovic is still only 25 and Nadal,

26. it wasn't long ago that Wimbledon rep-resented Federer's traditional bolt-hole,winning five successive championships be-tween 2003 and 2007, then adding a sixthin 2009. But even in his London safe haven,the shadow of Nadal has loomed large. thespaniard, who has just collected a recordseventh French Open title, deposed Federerin a five-set epic in 2008, having been run-ner-up in the two previous years. Federer'striumph in 2009 came when Nadal wassidelined with a knee injury.

in 2010, tomas Berdych knocked himout in the quarter-finals while in 2011, theswiss lost his first ever Grand slam matchfrom two sets to love up when he wasbludgeoned to defeat in the last eight byJo-Wilfried tsonga. two months later,Djokovic overcame the loss of the first twosets, and saved two match points, to beatFederer in the Us Open semi-finals.

Nadal, Djokerlikely to haltFederer’s run

Sure-footed Bartoliinto eastbourne semis



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ISLAMABADOnLine

CHieF Justice iftikharM u h a m m a dChaudhry on thurs-day said if parliamen-tarian were not

prevented from holding dual na-tionality, the influx of importedprime ministers would continue.

A three-member bench headedby Chief Justice iftikhar Muham-mad Chaudhry heard the proceed-ings of the dual nationality case. Noone appeared before the court on be-half of MNA Farhat Mehmood andMpAs Nadia Gabol and Dr Ashraf.

Anwar Mansoor, the counsel forRehman Malik, told the sC that theycould not present nationality re-nouncement form because theBritish lawyer was on leave in spain.the court said it has been asking fornationality renouncement form ofRehman Malik for the last 11 hear-ings. petitioner Waheed Anjum pre-sented evidences regarding dualnationalities of MpA tariq Alonaand MNA Zahid iqbal by submittingphotocopies of their passports. Hesaid MpA Nadia Gabol and MpAKhadim Nazir also had British na-tionality.

the sC then said the photo-copies of passports provided were

unclear and remarked if WaheedAnjum was found guilty, his li-cense would be suspended.Waseem sajjad, counsel for FarahNaz isphahani, said lots of theoverseas pakistanis would be af-fected if the court continued to in-terpret in this particular fashion.Justice Jawad s Khawaja saidoverseas pakistanis were loyal andsent $13 billion to the country.thechief justice said law allowed thegeneral public to hold dual nation-alities but it prevented parliamen-tarians from holding dualnationalities and they could notamend the constitution for inter-ests of 10 to 15 people.

Prevention of dual national MPsmust for stopping imported PM: CJP

Pakistan’s SC hasgone overboard:ex-indian SC judge

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Hindu press Council of india ChairmanJustice and former judge of the indiansupreme Court, Markandey Katju, onthursday said the pakistani supreme Courthad no right to dismiss a prime minister oroverrule the constitutional immunity givento the president. in an opinion piecepublished in the Hindu, Katju said, “iregret to say that the pakistani supremeCourt, particularly its chief justice, hasbeen showing utter lack of restraint. this isnot expected of superior courts. in fact thecourt and its chief justice have been playingto the galleries for long. it has clearly goneoverboard and flouted all canons ofconstitutional jurisprudence”.

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