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He Islamabad H gh Court (IHC) on Thursday expressed dissatis faction with the supplementar y reply submitted by former pr me minister and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) cha rman Imran Khan and decided to indict him in a contempt of court case on September 22 The IHC larger bench led by Ch ef Justice Athar Minallah and comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb Jus t ce Mohsin Akhtar Kayan , Just ce Tariq Mahmood Jahang r and Justice Babar Sattar was hearing the contempt of court case aga nst mran fo ow ng his remarks against Addit onal Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhr y Dur ng hear ng, the IHC bench ex pressed d ssatisfact on over Imran s sup plementar y reply in the contempt case saying the party chief s statement n c tement Both the am cus suggested the IHC discharge show cause notice against the former prime min ster and even Pak istan Bar Counci (PBC) representat ve Akhtar Hussa n requested the court to give another opportunity to Imran for tendering an unconditiona apology However, the IHC unan mous y decided to indict h m The former premier was present in court with his lawyer Ham d Khan A s p e r t h e c o u r t s o b s e r v a t i o n w e have subm tted the rep y Hamid said r e f e r r n g t o I m r a n ’ s s t a t e m e n t r e g a r d ng the case After the IHC s show cause notice the former premier submitted a second wr tten reply yesterday expressing his deep regret for the unintentional words he spoke about the judge “ There wi l be no shame in expressing regret to the judge for my words the PTI leader had said Hamid maintained that his c ient wanted the matter to be c osed, which was ment oned n the wr tten reply to the court H e f u r t h e r s a i d t h a t d u r n g t h e h e a r n g o n A u g u s t 3 1 t h e c o u r t h a n d e d o v e r t h e c a s e s o f D a n i y a l A z i z a n d Ta l a l C h a u d h r y H e a d d e d t h a t h e w o u l d e x p l i c a t e h o w m r a n s c a s e w a s d f f e r e n t f r o m t h o s e S u p r e m e C o u r t d e c i s o n s I wil also p ace the decis on of the Supreme Court in the Imran Khan case before the court ” , he sa d IHC CJ Mi n a l l a h s a i d t h a t t h e a m w a s t o h i g h l g h t t h r e e u d g m e n t s o f t h e S u p r e m e C o u r t, t h a t n t h e fi r d o u s A s h i q Aw a n case three types of contempt of court a r e m e n t i o n e d a n d t h a t t h e Ta l a l Chaudhr y case was not crim nal con tempt of court The ch ef just ce reiter a t e d t h a t c r i m n a l c o n t e m p t o f c o u r t w a s s e r i o u s a n d i n t e n t c o u l d n o t b e ment oned n it He further stated that t h e c o u n s e w a s t o d d u r i n g t h e l a s t hearing that this reference was of crim inal contempt of court CJ Minallah ma ntained that there were no criminal contempt proceed ings against Daniyal Az z or Ta al Chaudhr y and that the high court was bound by the apex court s decisions I m r a n s c o u n s e l r e s t a t e d t h a t t h e y w a n t e d t o c o s e t h i s m a t t e r a n d h a d s u b m i t t e d t h e r e p o r t s w i t h t h e u t m o s t r e s p e c t “ The court gave another opportun ty to which a detailed reply was fi ed Ham d said Just ce Mina lah stated that crim nal contempt was a ser ous matter which had no justif cat on “ We are defenders of freedom of express on but inc tement cannot be al lowed In criminal contempt you can not plead your intentions,” he said On the direction of the court Hamid read a part of a Supreme Court case The chief justice ma ntained that the PTI leader had tried to give ust fications in his response and questioned if any former premier could justify that the IHC CJ did not know the law We have to fol ow the law no one can nfluence us ” he said adding that a great cr me was comm tted but that there was no realisation of it
Prime M nister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday crit cised the econom c po cies of the previous Pak stan Tehreek e nsaf (PTI) government and said Imran Khan s out to “ underm ne Pakistan Referring to two news stories pub l shed in the Br tish weekly The econ om st the premier sa d the internationa publ cation had va i dated ” what the government had been say ng regard ng PTI s hand ing of the economy The pr me minister sa d the mag az ne had stated that the former pre mier blew up the IMf deal and Imran was “exp oiting the d saster to score political points Senior leaders of the Pakistan Mus im League Nawaz (PML N) have also cr t cized Imran accus ng h m of do ng divis ve pol t cs amid devastat ng f oods in se f ser ving nterest Later in the day, Prime Min ster Shehbaz Sharif sa d that with the countr y fac ng severe challenges in cluding the worst f ood ng n histor y, there was a need for a l to oin hands to pay heed to the miseries of flood hit masses by eaving politica differ ences as de “ M ll ons of people are sitting under the open sky and wait ng for some Masiha to come to their help If we have to save the people of Pak stan and its future, we have to work together w th courage brotherhood and harmony Let s resolve to be to gether n this hour of need,” the Prime Minister to d media persons from the print and electronic mediums Pr me Minister Sharif, who n formed the newsmen about the huge human and mater al losses caused by the floods, obser ved that at a time when the nat on was fac ng the severe f oods situation those who talk about R asat e Mad na were busy in the activities, contrar y to their c aims Is t the pol tics he re marked w thout naming any party The Prime Min ster also urged media to play their ro e n un ting the nation to face the cha lenges Prime M n ster Shehbaz Sharif said that with the province of Sindh hit most by the current f oods wh ch were worst n the countr y ’s histor y, were much bigger than the 2010 floods n terms of its spread and dev astation “ Over 1300 deaths and many more in ured due to floods thousands of vil ages in Sindh were inundated; rice, cotton and date palm crops on mi lions of acres were destroyed and the human fe had come to a standst ll,” he added The Prime M n ster said that with poor people s houses destroyed and around 700,000 cattle and ivestock lost in the floods over 33 m ll on peo ple have been affected due to
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The authorities on Thursday en gaged n hectic efforts to p ug a breach in Ma n Nara Val ey Drain also known as R ght Bank Outfal Dra n I (RBOD) to stop gushing water flowing towards Dadu city am d mass evacuations n parts of Sindh while from the death to l from the unprecedented f ood rose to 1,391 w th 36 more people perished dur ing the past 24 hours Accord ng to authorit es and re lief agenc es, a breach had oc curred in RBOD I at RD 10 wh ch was expected to ease the risk of f ooding in Dadu and Jamshoro dis tricts However the s tuat on turned ug y on Thursday f ow of water to wards Dadu c ty increased PPP MPA Pir Mujeebu Haq elected from Dadu s PS 85 con stituency, nformed that the water is flow ng rapid y towards Dadu city Dadu Deputy Comm ss oner (DC) Syed Murtaza A i Shah sa d add t onal mach ner y was being em p oyed to p ug the breach adding that work was also under way to raise embankments to protect the c ty He cla med that 90 percent of the breach had been p ugged, ex pressing the hope that the situation w o u d b e b r o u g h t u n d e r c o n t r o l soon In recent days two breaches were deliberately made n Manch har Lake s protect ve dyke to divert the flow of floodwaters draining into i t t o w a r d s e s s p o p u l a t e d a r e a s and prevent f ooding in the densely p o p u l a t e d c i t e s o f S e h w a n a n d Bhan Syedabad A Reuters report on Wednesday m e n t o n e d t h a t c o u n t r y ’ s a r g e s t f r e s h w a t e r a ke w a s “ d a n g e r o u s l y c o s e t o b u r s t i n g i t s b a n k s, e v e n after having been breached in an operat on that displaced 100 000 p e o p e A n d t h e t h r e a t h a s l i n g e r e d e v e n a s t h e w a t e r l e v e l i n t h e l a ke d r o p p e d a l b e i t m a r g i n al y am d reports of water from the lake continu ng to submerge parts of the prov nce on to save Dadu, Jamshoro amid mass evacuation
f oods After Sindh Ba ochistan was the most affected province fol owed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Southern Punjab and some parts of gilgit Ba tistan, he added The Pr me M nister sa d that as res cue and rel ef efforts were continuing in the flood affected areas through ef fective coordination among the Na tional D saster Management Authority (NDMA), the Provincial Disaster Man agement Author t es (PDMAs) and the Nationa flood Response and Coordi nation Center (NfRCC), the federal and provinc a government were doing the r best to he p the f ood hit peop e Besides, he said, the countr y s armed forces personne from Army Navy and A r force were also work ng day and n ght in the f ood affected areas in the rescue and re ief efforts by us ng the r resources including boats and hel copters S ta f f R e p o R t
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The uS State Department has approved the potentia sale of f 16 aircraft sustain ment and related equipment to Pakistan in a dea valued at up to $450 mil ion the Pentagon sa d The princ pal contractor will be Lock heed Martin Corporation the Pentagon sa d n a not fication to Congress, the State Department “ made a determination approving the possib e sa e arguing t wil sustain Islamabad s capab ity to meet current and future counterterror sm threats by maintaining ts f 16 fleet The package includes the uS govern ment and contractor engineering, techn cal, and ogistics ser v ces, a press statement ssued to th s effect said But the sale won t provide Pak stan with any new capabi it es, weapons, or mun t ons The programme w ll not alter the basic mil tar y ba ance in the region e ther the statement said in an apparent refer ence to India who the uS sees as a bul wark to counter China There w ll a so be “ no adverse impact ” on uS defense readiness as a result of th s proposed sa e it added The Pentagon s Defense Security Co operat on Agency (DSCA), which oversees foreign arms sales underscored: Th s pro posed sale wil support the foreign po icy and nat ona security objectives of the united States by al owing Pakistan to retain interoperab lity with uS and partner forces in ongoing counterterror sm efforts and in preparation for future contingency oper ations Pak stan has a ong h stor y of buy ing American mi tar y hardware, especial y in the years after 2001 when Is lamabad was seen as a key partner n the uS ed War on Terror Pakistan bought sev eral batches of f 16 planes built by Lock heed Mart n from Washington before relations soured and the united States cut off subs dised sales in 2016
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INISTER for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Thursday said the government would extend no concession to former premier Imran Khan for his misleading remarks on the army chief ’s appointment and it would be probed thoroughly before proceeding any legal action In an interview to a foreign news channel the Defence Minister said that he would not take any decision under the pressure of anyone regarding the appointment of the army chief Asif said that the controversial statement of Imran Khan regarding the appointment of the army chief would be investigated before taking legal action It should be noted that in his address to the rally in Faisalabad on Sunday, Imran Khan accused the leaders of the ruling coalition, Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari saying that they were not conducting the elections because the appointment of the new army chief in November According to him [Imran Khan], these two were trying to bring their favorite army chief The statement of the former prime minister faced criticism from political and military circles and the spokesperson of the army has also said in a statement that the attempt to make the top leadership of the army controversial at a critical time was very sad To a query, Khawaja Asif said that there were still three months left for the appointment of the new army chief and the government would not take a hasty decision in this regard He added that it was the government’s priority to restore the sanctity and dignity of the institution on the issue of the appointment of the army chief ‘We will not allow the issue of appointment of army chief to become controversial’, the Minister said The Defense Minister said, tell me one incident in the 75 year history of Pakistan that the appointment of an army chief was announced two or three months or a month ago, adding that that making the process of appointing the army chief controversial was not a service to the nation and the country, but he considered it as enmity The minister said that the procedure for appointing the Chief of Army Staff was enshrined in the Constitution, whereby the names of four or five senior generals were submitted to the Prime Minister by the Army, out of which the Prime Minister appoints one at his discretion On the question of consultation with the coalition parties on the issue of the appointment of the army chief, Khawaja Asif said that while being in the coalition government, it was necessary to consult in important decisions “Certainly, the names that come forward from the army will also be put before the coalition leaders ” He made it clear that in this process the government would not deviate from the rules and the decision will be taken according to the pre established rules and law Khawaja Asif said that in the context of national defense Pakistan was facing extraordinary situations for the last 20 years He said that in these uncertain conditions, the appointments of the chiefs of the three armed forces have been taking place He said that the political and economic conditions in the country were not favorable at present, but if we talk about the defense establishment, there are absolutely no abnormal conditions’ S S I O N f O R I M R A N O v E R M I S l E A d I N g R E M A R KS A b O u t C O A S ’ S A P P O I N t M E N t : K h A S I f
Indian troops mar t yred 140 persons during past 6 month in IIOJK: Repor t ISLAMABAD S tA f f r e P o r t K a s h m i r M e d i a S e r v i c e , i n c o l l a b o r a
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Two teams of duly authorised officers of the CCP had simultaneously entered to search the premises of the respective undertakings and seize records However, both companies cooperated with the search teams in handing over the documents and computer stored information that could contain evidence of the alleged anti competitive activities Therefore the need for a forcible entry did not arise After confiscating company records, the CCP will now conduct a formal inquiry into the matter It will issue show cause notices if anything substantial evidence is found The CCP is mandated under the Act to ensure free competition in all spheres of commercial and economic activity, to enhance economic efficiency and to protect consumers from anti competitive practices, including fixing of prices of various goods and services
PESHAWAR A P P Kamal Ahmad, a 26 year old farmer of Nowshera district was living a happy and prosperous life until the devastated floods washed away his standing maize and rice crops on August 28 Destroying his entire maize and rice crops at his village Mohib Banda inundated completely by floodwater from River Kabul, Kamal Ahmad who joined agricultural farming as profession after the death of his father told APP that the floods having six to eight feet water had encircled his house between August 27 28 night forcing his family to rush towards rooftop “The floods have tarnished my dreams I was thinking to go for umra along with wife in winter after selling my rice and maize bumper crop but my fortune was overturned,” he said Besides these crops, he said the stored wheat in godown and precious households items were also destroyed by the floods “Had the Rescue 1122 official not arrived on time with a boat then we might not alive today I have lost Rs 5 lakh agricultural produces during floods and needs KP Government assistance,” Kamal said Like Kamal Ahmed, hundered of thousands of floods victims including farmers, gardeners, horticulturists and livestock owners were affected by the floods and were looking towards KP Govt help Dr Alamzaib Khan, Director General Livestock said that survey of livestock and agriculture damages was underway in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and compensation to the affected farmers and livestock owners would be given as per KP Government policy Talking to APP, he said that over two billion losses were so far estimated to livestock and poultry sectors in Khyber Pakthunkhwa The scale of losses to these sectors would be higher than estimations as many valleys in Kalam, Bahrain Madyan Kohistan Kumrat Dir Upper and Dir Lower were still out of reach of officials of his department due to destruction of roads and bridges by the devastating floods he added Dr Alamzaib said floods in River Sindh and Koh e Suleman starting from South and North Waziristan tribal districts and adjoining valleys have brought havoc to livestock and poultry sectors in DI Khan and Tank and time would be required for compilation of flood related losses Besides commercial and domestic poultry, he said that pastoral and nomads have bore the brunt of livestock and poultry in upper areas of Dasu Kolas Palai, Dubair and others valleys in Kohistan The agriculture department official told APP that a multifaceted plan has been chalked out to construct about 5,000 water ponds and 330 small water reservoirs to control flash floods The ponds would irrigate over 12,500 acres lands in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Likewise, 3,000 check dams would be constructed for storage of floods and rains water in five years that would irrigate 7, 500 unproductive lands in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Similarly, 330 water reservoirs including small dams would also be constructed with a potential to irrigate 99,000 acres lands in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The construction of 2500 banks stabilization, 1000 gated field inlets and outlets would help irrigate 2500 acres lands
Punjab extending scope of Ehsaas programme to facilitate public: CM LAHORE S tA f f r e P o r t Punjab Ehsaas Programme
Chairperson Dr Sania Nishtar called on Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and former federal minister Moonis Elahi at Chief Minister ’s Office on Thursday During, it was decided to expand scope of the Ehsaas programme in Punjab On the occasion, the chief minister approved increase in the monthly subsidy under Ehsaas Ration Discount Programme, saying under the programme, now deserving families would be able to buy flour, ghee and pulses at 40 percent cheaper compared to the market He also doubled the per capita amount of food for children, girls and elderly living in welfare institutions, managed by the Social Welfare Department The CM said the per capita amount of food has been increased to improve quality of food items in welfare institutions By increasing the per capita amount of food such people would get quality and abundant food, the chief minister added The Ehsaas bill would be presented in the Punjab Assembly soon he said and added that it was decided to introduce welfare projects to raise the standard of living of people of the flood affected areas He said that scholarships would also be given to pregnant women to prevent stenting While issuing orders for preparation of new housing policy for the government employees, the CM said that a five per cent hardship quota would be allocated under the housing allotment policy for special government employees while a quota would also be introduced for special people in the Punjab Government Servants Housing Foundation, he asserted About Rs500 million would be allocated to subsidise special persons in housing societies he added Sania Nishtar gave a briefing about the progress of welfare projects under the Punjab Ehsaas Programme
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Float glass is mainly used in the construction sector for manufacturing windows but can also be used for making tables and shelves According to the details, the inquiry was initiated by CCP after receiving reports that the two companies were collectively deciding pricing for float glass as well as the utilisation of their production capacities CCP’s analysis of available data from 2019 to 2021 shows that both companies had similar prices for float glass of varying thicknesses whereas the date of price increases and the quantum of increase were also similar In addition market sources also tipped off the commission about the suspicious coordination of prices and production quantities between the two companies During the investigation, market surveys were conducted wherein it was revealed that Ghani Glass and Tariq Glass were in collusion for fixing and maintaining uniform prices and increasing prices in a coordinated manner It is pertinent to mention here that any sort of coordination or agreement between competing undertakings to fix prices and supply in the market is classified as a prohibited act under Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2010 Since cartels are secretive in nature, Section 34 of the law empowers CCP to enter and search the premises to uncover evidence of collusive activities
As part of an ongoing inquiry to investigate prima facie violations of the Competition Act 2010 including abuse of dominance and cartelisation in the glass industry, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) s on Thursday conducted a search operation at the premises of two companies, Ghani Glass and Tariq Glass, over suspicion of their involvement in anti competitive practices
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KARACHI S tA f f r e P o r t Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presided over a joint meeting of different departments tasked with coordination with other relevant departments for timely distribution of relief items to the flood affected people and disposal of floodwater The chief minister directed departments to make necessary preparations and arrangements for evacuation of Kambar Shahdadkot water through Shahdadkot Mian Drain Mirokhan Main Drain and Ghar main drain system ”Now, the River is receding therefore efforts should be made to dispose of flood water from the towns and cities,” he said The meeting was attended by Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, Minister for Information Sharjeel Memon Advisor on Agriculture Manzoor Wassan, Advisor on Law Murtaza Wahab, Advisor on Rehabilitation Rasool Bux Chandio Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput, Secretary Livestock Tamiz Khero Secretary Works Imran Atta, Commander Engineering 5 Corps Brigadier Nayar Commander Logistic Brigadier Anjum, Brigadier Inam and representatives of COMCOAST, and Southern air command said a statement on Thursday The chief minister directed the agriculture department to work out a plan on how much land could be prepared for sowing late rabi crops You should prepare a plan to support the growers for provision of seeds, fertilizer and technological help so that they can grow wheat and vegetables,” he said The chief minister said that the unprecedented rains have affected 10 48 million people in 23 districts of the province the calamity has displaced 6 286 million people of whom 576,121 have been shifted to camps “This is one of the great humanitarian crises therefore we as a government and its agencies have to work together for the rescue and rehabilitation of the affected people,” he said
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KARACHI A r i b A S h A h i d State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) raised Rs 817 billion against a target of Rs 1,000 billion in a Market Treasury Bill (MTB) auction Most of the debt raised is through the 3 month MTBs, making up 91 94% of the debt raised However, the yields in the 3 months have risen by 21 bps to 15 79% owing to greater demand from the market for the shortest tenor The yields for 6 months are unchanged; while the yields of 12 month tenor MTBs have risen by 4 bps The market had offered Rs1 29 trillion out of which the government accepted bids amounting to Rs817 billion culminating in a realized value of Rs783 billion The total amount raised for 3 month T bills was Rs740 4 billion, Rs38 7 billion for 6 month, and Rs37 8 billion for 12 month T bills
COAS to KSA minister: Pakistan acknowledges Saudi unique place in Islamic world ISLAMABAD S tA f f r e P o r t Minister of Defence Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Transformation Management Office Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Doctor Samir bin Abdulaziz Al Tabib called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated The ISPR said during the meeting, matters of mutual interest, bilateral defence, security cooperation and regional peace and stability were discussed The COAS told the Saudi minister that Pakistan valued its historical and brotherly relations with the Saudi Kingdom and acknowledged its unique place in the Islamic world The Saudi minister expressed his grief over the devastation caused by the unprecedented flash floods in Pakistan He further acknowledged Pakistan’s defence potential and expressed the desire for enhancing collaboration in defence and security sectors General Bajwa thanked the visiting guest for his efforts to strengthen bonds between the two brotherly countries Earlier, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) expressed their condolences and sympathies with President Dr Arif Alvi over the loss of lives and injuries in the recent floods inundating Pakistan In his cable, the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman prayed for the deceased and their families in the flood hit regions of the country Last month Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had a telephone call with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and briefed him on the magnitude of devastation caused by floods and torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan
The PTI lawyer maintained that he was not justifying the answer but rather putting his own position forward Justice Minallah remarked that there was so much division within society that opponents could be insulted in public places “If this happens to a judge, then what will happen? he questioned Nothing good has happened in 70 years, the CJ said, asking the lawyer if he wanted to justify the former premier s statement To this Hamid responded that he had intended to explain not justify the statement He asked if Imran s reply would have been the same if such comments were made about a judge of the apex court Justice Babar Sattar wondered how a political leader could stand up in a public gathering and announce legal action against a judge Hamid, in his arguments, said that he has submitted a supplementary reply keeping in view observations of the IHC “We are seeking closure of the matter, he added again IHC CJ said that Imran’s statement regarding the judge was ‘incitement’, while Justice Babar Sattar said that Imran s subsequent conduct did not show that there would be no harm to the judge J u s t i c e S a t t a r m a i n t a i n e d t h a t e v e n after the speech and the contempt of court c a s e , j u s t i f i c a t i o n s c o n t i n u e d t o b e presented in Imran s speeches
The Prime Minister said that the federal government, which had earlier allocated Rs 28 billion for the flood affected area across the country as per initial assessment of damages has now enhanced that amount to Rs 70 billion after the latest assessment of losses He said that as the federal government had announced the financial assistance of Rs 25 000 per affected family in the flood hit areas, an amount of Rs 20 billion has already been distributed among the affected families through a transparent process under the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) The Prime Minister further said that Rs one million each was also being paid to the heirs of those over 1300 people who lost their lives in the floods, adding, Rs 70 billion allocated by the federal government did not include any foreign funding He also mentioned with praise the generous relief goods being dispatched through an air bridge created by the friendly countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Qatar Turkey Saudi Arabia, Australia and others uS okays possible sale of f-16 equipment to Pakistan: Pentagon
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the SC in contempt of court cases were low They maintained that the current case was one of judicial and criminal contempt which was a very sensitive matter The court then summoned Attorney General Ashtar Asif to the rostrum as Hamid Khan’s arguments were completed We used regret repeatedly in the supplementary response whatever was said was unintentional with no intention of contempt of court , Hamid said, claiming that they could never think of contempt of court We will be careful about the judiciary in the future” he stated Taking to the rostrum, Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf stated that the apex court had pardoned a similar incident eight years ago and now the offenders believe that they can repeat the same mistake and be pardoned continuously He claimed that an affidavit should have been submitted with Imran’s reply The intent and purpose of the defamator are very important,” AG Ausaf said, adding that in 2014, a contempt of court case was also filed against Imran with similar charges and procedures He highlighted that the charges against Imran were waived The AG s argument was left incomplete as the court summoned judicial assistants to the rostrum Taking the rostrum judicial assistant Makhdoom Ali Khan said public interest lies in the delivery of justice and said the same is present in freedom of speech Giving an example of the US and former president Donald Trump, Khan said Trump had called the apex court s decision the worst, yet the US supreme court showed restraint and sought another path He added that what was said by the party chief during the public gathering might affect the judicial system
The CJ said that the word “shameful” was used by Imran and told his lawyer that he was in a very risky position The Nihal H a s h m i c a s e w a s s i m i l a r i t w a s a t h r e a t w i t h o u t n a m i n g t h e j u d g e , ” C J M i n a l l a h s a i d , a d d i n g t h a t H a s h m i h a d a p o l o g i s e d but the SC did not consider his apology Meanwhile, the PTI chief could be seen praying on his tasbih (prayer beads) during the hearing Hamid said Imran wanted to come to the rostrum to explain his speech f r o m y e s t e r d a y w h i c h h e a l l e g e d w a s “misreported” Justice Minallah said that threatening a district judiciary judge was a more serious c r i m e t h a n t h r e a t e n i n g a S u p r e m e C o u r t judge He stated that a lot was said about t h e h i g h c o u r t a n d h o w i t n e v e r i n i t i a t e d contempt of court proceedings but that the current case was “completely different” The bench asked Hamid once again if h e w a n t e d t o f i g h t t h e c a s e b y g i v i n g j u s t i f i c a t i o n s t o w h i c h t h e c o u n s e l r e s p o n d e d t h a t h e w a s s i m p l y e x p l a i n i n g the matter not giving justifications
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The jets allow Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to operate in all weather environments and at night, while improving its self defense capability and bolstering its ability to conduct counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations Pakistan, a State Department spokesperson separately said is an important counterterrorism partner and as part of longstanding policy, Washington provides life cycle maintenance and sustainment packages for US origin platforms This is Washington’s first major security assistance to Pakistan since 2018 when then president Donald Trump announced to halt defense and security assistance to Pakistan
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As per the details the Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail chaired the meeting of the ECC at the Finance Division here on Thursday Among others, the meeting was attended by Federal Minister for Commerce Syed Naveed Qamar; Federal Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir Khan; Federal Minister for Industries and Production, Makhdoom Syed Murtaza Mehmood; Federal Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal; MNA/ex PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi; Minister of State for Finance and Revenue Dr Aisha Ghous Pasha; Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Government Effectiveness, Dr Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan; MD USC, MD PASSCO Federal Secretaries and senior officers According to the details, the Ministry of Industries and Production presented a summary on the fertiliser s requirement for Rabi season 2022 23 (FY23) The meeting was briefed on the supply and demand situation of urea in the upcoming Rabi season After detailed deliberation, the committee allowed the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) to initiate the process for importing 300,000 MT of urea on government to government G2G basis and decided that the provinces will bear their subsidy share
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Leadership is responsible for this Everyone is spreading propaganda through social media ” he said He furthered that the judiciary was the biggest target of social media propaganda Hamid then claimed that his client had equal respect for high and subordinate judiciary “In the Firdous Ashiq Awan case the court said that there may be no awareness, but at the moment you cannot take that argument as it will not go in your favour ” CJ Minallah advised He also asked if the PTI leader had said that social media cannot be misused Justice Sattar maintained that in his reply, Imran had stated that he knew the appeal had already been filed The chief justice questioned if they had any faith in the system or would they make all decisions at political rallies Justice Sattar ordered reading of paragraph four of the reply to Hamid and then questioned if it was not a deliberate attempt to pre empt the appeal “This court has never taken notice of scandalising no one can influence us and what people say about us daily on social media does not affect us,” the CJ said, adding that Justice Sattar had rejected the contempt petition against PTI leader Fawad Chaudhary two days ago, even though his statement was more grave Hamid said that he was aware of that Meanwhile, Imran Khan repeatedly conversed with lawyer Shoaib Shaheen sitting next to him A case of criminal contempt can be formed against you the chief justice said He further stated that if “contempt of court” was used for things people said, it would occur every day therefore the court rarely took notice of what was said to it and underlined that the punishments given by
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The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet here on Thursday gave go ahead to Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) for urea fertiliser imports
The chief justice, replying to the judicial assistant, said the PTI has been threatening the court since the start of proceedings in the case We want to make one clear to you, the conduct that should have been seen after the contempt of court proceedings was not present, said the chief justice “ d o y o U wA n t U s t o A c c e p t t h e i r e x p l A n At i o n?” Khan said the court should give respite to Imran in the case The bench then asked the judicial assistant regarding his opinion, to which he replied that Imran s reply that was submitted should be accepted “Remorse has been expressed in this case, said Khan, adding that the court can give one chance to Imran as he wrapped up his argument s e c U r i t y A r r A n g e m e n t s: Strict security arrangements were made prior to the hearing with a heavy police presence in the region and the road to the IHC blocked with barbed wire Admission of court reporters, including lawyers, to the courtroom, is subject to a pass from the Registrar s Office Talking to media personnel outside the court, Imran was asked to comment on the security situation prior to the hearing “It is as if Kulbhushan Yadav was coming,” he remarked adding that he was unaware of what everyone was afraid of When asked if he would apologise for his comments regarding the additional sessions judge Imran joked that he wouldn t do anything without the journalist’s permission PTI lawyers stopped journalists from asking any further questions Imran expressed disappointment that he could not watch the Pakistan vs Afghanistan cricket match last night He maintained that he would talk to journalists after the hearing
“If our court gives an order against someone and he stood outside and said that he would not leave the judge would that be okay?” Justice Sattar questioned The CJ maintained that the PTI leader had been repeatedly told that this was a serious case and that a political leader had a huge responsibility regarding the words he or she used Turning to the lawyer next to him, Imran once again asked if he could approach the rostrum The chief justice further questioned if their impression would prevail or the judicial order to which Hamid replied that it was not the direction he wished to take, rather he wanted the matter closed There was no intention to threaten the lady judge If the judge was threatened, we express our regret”, he said The CJ contended that this was a matter regarding a district court judge, not a “lady judge” Advocate Hamid responded that an attempt was made to create the perception that this is a gender issue, to which Justice Minallah stated that the lawyer was talking about social media again “To date, has any political leader told his social media to refrain from
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Earlier on Thursday, PPP MNA Sikandar Ali Rahoupoto said the lake water had flooded over 100 villages in three union councils of the district DC Fariduddin Mustafa said that water from the lake was flowing towards Tatli and Katohar union councils and in view of a looming threat of flooding in various areas including Bhan Syedabad town, several families had shifted to safer locations According to MNA Rahoupoto hundreds of people have been evacuated from the area thus far Earlier, the water from the lake had flooded five union councils of the Sehwan taluka after two breaches were made in its dyke at RD 14 and RD 52 A n o t h e r b r e A c h p l A n n e d : On Thursday afternoon Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon told a press conference that the water level in the Indus River near Manchhar was at 120 foot reduced level (RL) He said that it was expected that the water level in the river would reduce by eight to nine feet in the next eight to ten hours “Once the level reduces, a breach will be made near the river for the discharge of water from Manchhar into the river And once the discharge starts, it will take around 10 to 15 days to clear the water he added Meanwhile, the Flood Forecasting Division’s website showed that there was a high level flood in the river at Kotri Barrage Sharing these details Memon said the provincial government’s entire focus at the moment was on Manchhar and River Indus Moreover, he said the situation was improving in Kashmore and Jacobabad and while floodwaters had also started receding in Qambar, it would take some time before the situation became better there The situation will now change within hours,” he added Memon further said the provincial authorities had discussed ways to improve the evacuation plan at a meeting today Sharing details about efforts, he said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali had issued directives for the procurement of nutrient supplements for children “A meeting of the taskforce [on floods] will now be held on a daily basis to discuss the current situation and plans for evacuations, relief work and water discharge,” he said d e At h t o l l r i s e s t o 1,391 A s 36 m o r e d i e i n f l o o d s : According to the National Disaster Management Authority, 36 more people perished in the past 24 hours that took the total death count in various incidents to 1,391 and 12,722 individuals got injured since the onset of the rainy season The NDMA issued a 24 hour situation report released on routine basis that accounted overall life, property and infrastructure losses incurred by the heavy rains lashing out various parts of the country The heavy rains and flash floods caused maximum deaths of 35 individuals in Sindh province including eight men, four women and nine children in Jamshoro, three men, a woman and child in Shaheed Benazirabad, two men in Noushero Feroze, a man and two children died due to electrocution in Badin, a woman died due to collapse of house in Ghotki, two children drowned in pond and a child died due to snake bite in Tando Muhammad Khan As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been affected in a disaster blamed on climate change that has left hundreds of thousands homeless and caused losses of at least $10 billion, officials estimate Meanwhile large scale displacements and countries limited resources have led to fears of an impending health crisis
For its part the United Nations (UN) has appealed for $160 million in aid to help tackle what it said was an unprecedented climate catastrophe and nations have been extending financial and moral support with promises for more U n c h i e f to v i s i t pA k i s tA n: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres too is due in Pakistan on a two day trip from September 9 10 “to express solidarity with the government and people of Pakistan braving a colossal climate induced natural disaster caused by unprecedented rains and floods across the country , a statement issued by the Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday During the visit, Guterres will hold meetings with the Pakistani leadership and senior officials to exchange views on the national and global response to the flood catastrophe The secretary general will travel to areas most impacted by the climate catastrophe and interact with displaced families and first responders in the field, the FO statement said, adding that he will also oversee the UN s humanitarian response work in support of the government’s rescue and relief efforts “The secretary general’s visit will further raise global awareness about the massive scale of this calamity and the resulting loss of life and widespread devastation It will contribute towards enhancing commensurate and coordinated international response to the humanitarian and other needs of the 33 million affected Pakistanis,” the FO said It added that Guterres had been “consistently stressing the linkage of such disasters with the impacts of climate change and warning the international community about the existential threat to our planet in case climate change is not addressed in a timely and effective manner “The secretary general’s visit will also spotlight the importance of sustained international support for Pakistan through the rehabilitation and reconstruction phase, and for building resilience against future climate shocks Mass migration of flood affectees towards Sehwan, Jamshoro begins Mass migration of flood affectees started in villages around Sehwan and Bhan Saeedabad towns including Karampur, Bamba and Talti on Thursday The majority of these people are moving towards Sehwan and Jamshoro using private transport such as rickshaws, tractors and even motorcycles Families, with whatever belongings and livestock they could save from the flood waters are shifting to safer areas after spending days in inundated regions In some areas, with the help of the government, the villagers are trying to strengthen the dykes in an effort to stop the flow of water coming from Manchhar Lake The Sindh government had taken the plunge of breaching the Manchhar lake’s bank at various points in a desperate attempt to protect Sehwan and Bhan Saeedabad from flooding, displacing some 125,000 people in five union councils while trying to save over 300,000 others Authorities in the Jamshoro district had alerted people to move out as gushing water from the burst embankments of the country’s largest freshwater lake headed fast towards Bhan Saeedabad Taluka after inundating several union councils near Sehwan on Wednesday Thousands were stuck and seen sitting on road sides today waiting for assistance as panic was starting to take hold amongst the populace Police have been deployed at various points to control the law and order situation A large number of police officers from Karachi have also reached Dadu and Jamshoro districts after earlier protests by people in several cities and towns of Sindh The protestors blamed the government for failing to come to their aid
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As the losses from devastating floods keep piling up, farmers and experts fear that the killing of hundreds of thousands of animals may lead to a severe shortage of milk and meat in the coming months Ravaging floods have killed over 1,300 people, ripped away mountainsides, swept off the foundations of buildings, bridges, and roads, and inundated a third of Pakistan since mid June The historic floods and destructive rains have also washed away hundreds of thousands of livestock, a major source of livelihood in rural Pakistan, which makes up 70 percent of the state According to the official statistics, over 750,000 an imals of different kinds have been killed due to rains and floods, a grim development, which is likely to cause shortages of meat, milk, and other dairy products in a country already facing a looming threat of food insecu rity Of the total figure, around 70 percent or 500,000 livestock have been washed away by raging floods in the southwestern province of Balochistan, followed by Punjab where over 200 000 animals have been killed since June 14, figures shared by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Agriculturists and dairy business experts fear that the killing of hundreds of thousands of animals may lead to a 30 percent to 40 percent reduction in milk and meat production in the coming months “Our homes have been damaged and (agricultural) lands are under water We are definitely worried about it,” said Rasool Bux, a farmer from Dadu district of Sindh, who along with his family is currently taking refuge at a school turned shelter camp on the southern outskirts of Karachi
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KARACHI: As devastating floods rip through Pakistan impacting more than 33 million people, another major threat lies round the corner Public health experts are warn ing of the rising risk of mosquito borne diseases such as dengue spreading across the country Pakistan has already been grappling with increasing dengue cases and the un usually early and heavy monsoon rains this year have pro vided favourable conditions for mosquitoes to breed in In much of the world extreme weather including droughts heatwaves, floods, and heavy rainfall are increasing in severity and regularity And an alarming new study con cludes that among the many infectious diseases likely to worsen with climate change, mosquito borne diseases like dengue will be most affected Also known as “breakbone fever because of the severe pain it can cause dengue is the fastest spreading tropical disease in the world r e u t e r s
Christian Turner British high commissioner in Pakistan called on Baligh ur Rehman, the governor of Punjab, at his palatial official residence in Lahore on Wednesday and discussed flood situation environment and promo tion of bilateral trade The governor thanked the diplo mat for expressing solidarity with the victims of unprecedented floods “The prime minister of Pakistan is taking all the institutions and provinces along for the aid disbursement and rehabilitation of the affected peo ple,” he added “Shehbaz Sharif is visiting the damaged areas in far flung places and has allocated huge sums for the rehabilitation of the victims,” he said The governor also thanked the United Kingdom for the announcement of aid for the flood victims He also welcomed the announcement of conces sions for Pakistan’s exports under Britain’s Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) which will come into effect in early 2023 On the occasion, Turner appreciated the initiative of forming a consortium on the environment in the uni versities across Punjab “Climate change is affecting the whole world including the UK Working on the envi ronment and climate change is the need of the hour the diplomat stressed
Fr day 9 September 2022 ISLAMABAD 04 NEWS CHARSADDA r e u t e r s W hen the swollen Swat River shifted course in late August and roared into Naeem Ullah’s village in the north west, it swept away his home and all 13 of his relatives houses too His sugarcane crop planted on five hectares (12 4 acres) of leased land also was wrecked, leaving the 40 year old job less homeless and with few prospects of re paying the money he had borrowed to buy seed and fertiliser “I have to start my life from zero ” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in his village of Dagi Mukarram Khan, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “I have lost everything I can only pray to Allah to give me the strength to face this biggest challenge of my life Floodwaters driven by months of relent less rain and by extreme spring heat that ac celerated the melting of glaciers, have cov ered a third of Pakistan, an area larger than England and Wales combined, affecting 33 million people More than 1,300 people have died, ac cording to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the cost of the dam age is estimated at $10 billion, with 1 6 mil lion homes lost or damaged, 5,000 km (3 107 miles) of roads destroyed and over 700,000 livestock gone UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is scheduled to travel to hard hit areas of the country this week to see the devastation from what he has termed a monsoon on steroids Across Pakistan millions of families have lost their homes and belongings, crops, animals and even relatives, with many strug gling just to find dry patches of land to erect tarpaulin shelters and keep themselves and their remaining livestock safe Key roads and bridges have been washed away, hampering aid efforts and forcing authorities in some places to deliver limited emergency help mainly by costly helicopter In Awaran district in hard hit Balochistan, floods in some areas still stretch toward the horizon, having destroyed many of the impoverished province’s mud homes Dilshad Baloch’s family saw their house washed away and a neighbour killed when his home collapsed as floods swamped their village in July Downed power cables pre sented an electrocution threat amid the standing water he said and with bridges to Karachi impassable, the area’s major sup ply route remains cut off Helicopters have dropped parcels of rice and beans but “it’s far too little” and villagers cannot cook it without kitchens or dry fire wood Baluch said via a patchy telephone line interrupted by the wail of the village call to prayer We are living on open ground, noted the 21 year old university student, home for the summer from his studies in Islamabad Many residents are angry, he added, “but most of them are just feeling helpless There is no one to take care of them and no one cares about them ” HELP ARRIVING? With Pakistan saddled by heavy debt and international humanitarian agencies over whelmed by global demand for assistance, the families may have to fund much of the cost of recovery themselves Under existing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial policy farmers can receive com pensation of Rs5,000 per acre for damage to crops and orchards, with each family eligible for a maximum of Rs50 000 said Taimur Ali, media coordinator for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) That could potentially be raised after a fuller assessment of the damage, he added The provincial government also has an nounced it will provide up to $1,370 in com pensation for each damaged home, and has distributed Rs1 75 billion for rescue and re lief efforts since the start of July, he said The International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week agreed to release $1 1 billion in funding for the cash strapped economy, with politicians saying the money would help keep the inflation racked economy afloat But farmers, especially, are not sure the support on offer will be enough as some say their fields have been devastated and the land will need to be restored before planting again Sher Alam 47 of Mera Khel Sholgara village on the outskirts of Charsadda, lost his sugar cane crop after heavy floods swept his land on August 26 He has already borrowed $450 to repay the lender who provided the seeds and fertiliser for this year s ruined crop and is now seeking another $230 loan to pay for help to restore his farmland something he will have to do in his spare time
Hundreds of villages across Pakistan are now under water More than 1 300 people have died as a result of the flooding, the majority of them women and children, with a further 33 million people affected by the rising waters Rescuers in Sindh are trying to help locals still stuck in towns in the southern dis trict of Dadu The boats fill up fast with people seeking refuge This is the fifth day we ve been rescuing people here, taking them to safe places,” rescuer Salman Naseer explained as his motor boat powered down what used to be a busy market on the main highway He is worried because the water keeps on rising “We never imagined that there could be this much water said local Naweed Ali “Initially, there was rain and the city got water logged and then came the river floods ” Most fami lies have been evacuated but many locals are afraid that the belongings they left behind will be looted Some men are still staying in their houses to protect their families possessions because, Ali explained, “in the night thieves come on boats and they steal from abandoned houses”
SEHWAN r e u t e r s Rubina Mallah took a perilous, three hour boat journey across flood waters to get to the nearest hospital in time to give birth to her baby son as the roads leading to the clinic in Sehwan were submerged The 27 year old is one of tens of thousands of preg nant women displaced by historic floods that have inun dated close to a third of the country and affected 33 million people, many now in camps I was worried that night as the waters from the lake overflowed,” Mallah told Reuters as she cradled her one day old son Muhammad Tayyab Her village, located on the edge of the huge freshwater Manchar Lake is now underwater “My husband brought a boat, I travelled three hours to reach the hospital where my delivery took place Tayyab has started life in a makeshift shelter in a school being built on the outskirts of Sehwan town It is a common fate as millions of Pakistanis seek safety from rising waters that have flooded homes and fields and de stroyed livelihoods Mallah s husband Mushtaq Mallah said the family originally decided to stay at home because they had nowhere to go, and so set up camp on their roof “My wife then started having labour pains at around 10 at night,” he recalled “We passed the night in despair; in the morning I brought a boat [ ] and we reached the hospital “It was a journey of despair Each time the floods come we become destitute The hospital, Abdullah Shah Institute in Sehwan, is about 15 kilometres from the Mallahs’ home Ordinarily, it would have been an easy road trip But since torrential rains fell through August, the country’s largest freshwater lake has become dangerously close to bursting its banks even after having been breached in an operation to keep the waters at bay ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA’: Nayla Qureshi, a gynaecologist at the hospital said its outpatient depart ment was receiving around 150 pregnant women each day from surrounding areas Since Tuesday six women displaced by the floods have delivered babies at the institute, and one patient un derwent an emergency C Section, she told Reuters Our workload has increased Some of our doctors who belong to different districts are staying here as there is an emergency Pregnancy is not the (only) issue women are coming with the psychological trauma of total loss,” Qureshi added The director of the hospital, Moinuddin Siddiqui, said medical teams were visiting camps to give pregnant women necessary medicines “Those who are full term pregnant, we advise them not to deliver their babies at camps at any cost, Siddiqui said “No doubt, the floods are likely to increase the chances of infant and maternal mortality,” he added At the hospital, another expectant mother, 32 year old Dilshad Allahwarayo, had also arrived by boat “I was having labour pains when the floods came,” she said
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He said the training class happened to arrange courses such as “construction of emergency broadcasting system and how to improve the coverage rate of radio and television signals in remote mountain areas”, which have a targeted effect on how to conduct emergency communication in case of sudden disasters The lecturer and the Pakistani media have conducted in depth com munication on this system
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PESHAWAR S ta f f R e p o R t UNDP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded scholarships to ten women law students and stipends to ten women lawyers in a ceremony today The event was organized by UNDP and Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) Bar Coun cil The scholarships and stipends will help the recipients to complete their legal studies and post graduation ap prenticeships At the ceremony, UNDP also handed over 824 law books and 64 sets of law criminal and civil law journals to the libraries of district bar associations in Orakzai Kurram North Waziristan and South Waziristan These will gener ate new knowledge and skills among lawyers to deliver quality legal counsel and advice to litigants in the Merged Districts of KP province Since 2012 UNDP has supported women lawyers and law students across 18 District and Tehsil Bar Associations in KP and Merged Areas UNDP has also trained more than 800 legal profes sionals who are members of the KP Bar Council including 75 women lawyers on gender justice and gender respon sive justice delivery UNDP undertakes this work to encourage and empower more women to enter the legal profes sion in this region where women are significantly under represented in the justice sector The event was also attended by Mr Muhammad Ali Jadoon, Vice Chairper son, KP Bar Council and Ms Chamila Hemmathagama Programme Manager Rule of law Programme, UNDP, and representatives from the District Bar As sociations In his address, Mr Muhammad Ali Jadoon, Chairperson, KP Bar Council, extended his gratitude to UNDP and USAID for their efforts to strengthen District Bar Associations to improve access to justice for all Ke call centers appreciated for round the clock support to customers Seen in the picture Ms Sadia Dada, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer K Electric visited KE's call centers and appreci ated teams for their round the clock support to KE customers She also participated in on going live calls from customers and issued instructions to relevant teams for swift reso lution of complaints She also appreciated the team for guiding customers in the wake of a high volume of queries following the an nouncement of the Prime Minister s FCA re lief package whereby approximately 1 8 million customers in Non ToU residential category with under 300 units consumption in K Electric’s service territory will directly benefit Staff RepoRt
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MoU was signed between Taimur Saeed, CEO Descon Engineering and Hummad Naqi Khan, Director General WWF Pakistan to callaborate in cleaning of plastic garbage from waste water channels all over Lahore The intiative will promote a cost effective and sustainable solution, which will be easy to operate and replicate all over the country atlas Group and Honda announce rs220m suppor t for flood relief effor ts Karachi: Atlas Group and Honda group of companies have together announced a support of Rs 220 million (approx USD 1 million) as initial contribution to the flood relief effort in Pakistan Atlas Honda lim ited, Honda Atlas Cars (Pakistan) limited, Honda Atlas Power Products (Private) ltd in Pakistan and Asian Honda Motor Co , ltd in Thailand are contributing to the ef forts for flood relief work that has already started S ta f f R e p o R t
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EFU life Assurance limited, leading private sector life insurance provider in Pakistan, has been honored with the prestigious Consumers Demand Award 2022’ for Best life Insurance Company at the 16th Consumers Choice Award 2021 22 Mr Zain Ibrahim, Senior Executive Director and Chief Opera tions Officer, EFU life received the award on behalf of the Company from Mr Asadullah larik, Addi tional Collector Customs Pakistan and Guest of Honor for the event This is the 13th consecutive year that EFU life has been conferred with Consumers Choice Award The award reflects the company s customer centric approach, innovative products catering to the evolving needs of customers and the latest practices it adopts for providing superior serv ices Consumers Association of Pakistan is a non government, non profit organization set up in 2000 to protect and educate consumers It aims to safeguard the interest of consumers while ensuring that their needs are given a higher priority The law and order Committee of FPCCI, Sindh, headed by Mr Naveed Wahid held a Session for the awareness of Cyber Crime and Security, with the guidance of Vice Presi dent FPCCI, Mr Shaukat Ali Suleman session held on ‘How crimes are committed and how to secure themselves from cyber attacks’
UNDP and USAID award scholarships to women law yers in Khyber Pak htunk hwa air vice Marshal, iGp pay glowing tribute to paf, police mar t yrs LAHORE S ta f f R e p o R t Air Officer Commanding of Pakistan Air Force, Central Air Command, Air Vice Mar shal Zafar Aslam on Thursday called on Pun jab Inspector General of Police Faisal Shahkar at Central Police Office During the meeting, issues of mutual interest were dis cussed In the meeting, both the officers paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of Pakistan Air Force and Punjab Police They said the nation would always remember invaluable sacrifices rendered by the personnel of armed forces and police for the integrity and sovereignty of the motherland later both the officers exchanged commemorative sou venirs Earlier, a warm welcome was accord to Air Vice Marshal Zafar Aslam upon ar rival at Central Police Office SWAT S y e d S h a h a b u d d n W ORlD Health Organization representative in Pakistan Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala spent a busy day in Swat on Thursday and as sessed the flood devastation and subsequent plight of the affected people Swat District Of ficer (DO) Health Dr Muhammad Saleem Khan accompa nied the WHO country representative during the visit Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala handed over medicines to the DO Health for flood victims and went to health centers in Matta and Madain areas On the occasion, Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala ad m i n i s t e r e d a n t i p o l i o d r o p s t o c h i l d r e n a n d a l s o m e t w i t h p a t i e n t s a n d c h i l d r e n i n t h e h e a l t h f a c i l i t i e s T h e d e l e g a t i o n w a s g i v e n a d e t a i l e d b r i e f i n g o n t h e f l o o d d i s a s t e r i n S w a t , t h e r e s p o n s e a n d n e e d s o f t h e h e a l t h d e p a r t m e n t d u r i n g t h e f l o o d e m e rg e n c y S p e a k i n g o n t h e o c c a s i o n t h e W H O r e p r e s e n t a t i v e i n P a k i s t a n s a i d t h a t t h e W H O h a s c o m p l e t e d t h e r a p i d h e a l t h a s s e s s m e n t f o r 1 3 f l o o d a ff e c t e d d i s t r i c t s i n K h y b e r P a k h t u n k h w a He said the WHO is providing support to the Health De partment in emergency response including the supply of medicines, equipment, and professional human resource services The delegation also inaugurated an Emergency Op eration Centre at the office of District health Officer Swat representative revieWs HealtH facilities fOr flOOd affectees in sWat
Techaccess Pakistan this week conducted a Cyber Incident Management Handling Workshop at "The Institute Of Bankers Pakistan" in Karachi, carrying out best practice ex ercises for the in depth study of the methods of management, immediate containment and detailed analysis of the acts of recent cyber attacks, some taken from recorded events Over thirteen local banks participated in the work shop, much appreciated by the es teemed Participants Mr Syed Aun Abbas Bokhari, CISO at Bank Al Habib, said the seminar was very inter esting, as it was addressed to the current issues affecting our security mission and topics were nicely covered, well treated, and professionally clarified I would recommend more Workshops with advanced levels Mr Ali Imran, CISO Bank Islami, expressed his appre ciation and compliments on the organi zation of the Workshop and about its results He emphasized the need to ex tend the educational approach to the an alysts engaged in sensitive department such as security operation center and in cident response teams to continuously update their knowledge on security pro cedures, new emerging threats way to detect and appropriate updating of new IT architectures to improve the re silience of the whole IT Platform of sensitive institutes such as the Financial Domain We visited several banks with our security portfolio earlier this year and they highlighted the need for inci dent management frameworks and need for capacity building, said Mr Tariq Malik, CTO Techaccess He highlighted the professional interest and passionate participation of the representatives of the Banks Participants raised interest ing observations and demonstrated that their use of tools during the Incident Management trials highlighted a serious professional approach to managing multiple security risks that endanger the financial domain Participants recom mended sharing the incident manage ment seminar through academic channels in all major Pakistani cities so that younger generations can benefit from it and improve their employment prospects Techaccess is a local integra tor and a company specializing in secu rity architectures and its implementation Mr Tariq Malik, thanked the participants and trainers
ISLAMABAD S ta f f R e p o R t Media experts and journalists from China and Pakistan have vowed to carry forward the spirit of steel friendship and to jointly thwart the negative propaganda and fake news by the western media against China and Pakistan The pledge was made by media professionals from China and Pakistan at the concluding ceremony of an online seminar on Young Media Professionals for Pak istan” hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of the Peo ple’s Republic of China and hosted by China Radio and TV Corp for International Techno Economic Coopera tion（CRTV) At the closing ceremony, Mr He Dongbo, Deputy General Manager of CRTV was chief guest and also de livered a speech At the same time Pakistan media elites of this seminar including COO of DiploMag Ms Sadia Khan, chief reporter Mr Hussain Zawar and Mr Jawad Ahmed of INP Wealthpk all gave enthusiastic speeches at the closing ceremony The speakers expressed great interest in the latest industry technology and Chinese tra ditional culture shared in this seminar At the same time, both China and Pakistan have ex plained the steel friendship between the two countries which is more precious than gold, and will continue to deepen this steel friendship The seminar which started on August 18 and lasted for 21 days in total, was attended by 20 journalists from various media groups of Pakistan, which effectively pro moted the industrial exchanges between China and Pak istan in new media technologies and media development directions as Pakistan was hit by floods Mr He Dongbo said the whole country of China is donating to Pakistan in terms of funds, materials and other aspects We look forward to the recovery of the af fected Pakistani people from the floods as soon as pos sible, he added
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There was a very Informative input given by the Chief Guest, Mr Asim Khan, Director Operations FIA, Cyber Crime Wing (South) The Additional Director FIA, Cyber Crime Zone Karachi Muhammad Ahmed Zaeem gave a detailed description on how the Crimes are committed and how the individuals and companies can secure themselves from the Cyber attacks The Psychological aspect of such crimes was aptly defined by Dr Jawed Akbar Dars, the Asst Professor, Psychia try JPMC Karachi The valuable input and description by the Committee Member & Corporate Trainer on Cyber Security Mr Faisal Shaikh was widely appreci ated lastly the note of thanks was given by the Co Or dinator, Syeda Raafia Mamüjee, and Shields were given to our esteemed Special guests by the Vice Presi dent FPCCI Mr Shaukat Ali Suleman The Session was attended by a large number of audience who went back learning a lot from our guest speakers The law and Order Committee thanks all those who participated in the Session which was useful to save from big trou bles of the Cyber World R t September 8 2022
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P Ti chief imran Khan came up with a sugges tion at his Sargodha rally over a week ago, that he had never made before that the coun try needed division into more provinces, and that the present divisions would form the basis for each new province The idea is original in the sense of its being the first time that imran has sug gested any dissatisfaction with the present provincial structure, beyond the (unfulfilled) commitment to the carving out of a South punjab province out to punjab However, it is also possible that he came up with this suggestion to get back on the same page with those in the armed forces who hold similar views While it must be acknowledged that by the time of the 1958 military takeover the civilian politicians had brought one unit into being, and that it was a second military ruler that reversed that decision, the abolition of the provinces remains a cherished goal The provinces are seen as obstacles in the way of national unity They also created the Muhajir prob lem in one Unit Muahjirs were like everyone else people lacking a provincial identity while having a national one After the provinces were restored, everyone also gained a provincial identity except Muhajirs They were told to be Sindhis even now, it should be realized, that muhajirs lack a province they can belong to Unless they can accommodate them selves to Sindh, and Sindh accommodate them back, to the extent that they affiliate themselves to the province the problem will continue it is only towards the end of the Raj that the British conjured into being the idea of india originally, there were three presidencies and native states it was only the Mutiny which did two things it removed the Mughal emperor, and it created the need for a unified command At that time each presidency had its own Army After the Mutiny, india became un empire under the Queren empress, and the Army was unified The Raj had expanded westwards absorbing punjab after a time trying to run it as a native state under Ranjeet Singh’s successors The governor general of the Calcutta presidency was also made viceroy now the Raj became concerned about rul ing After all, the Company was abolished, and profits no longer had to be made The provinces had all the ‘good’ powers, like law and order, health and education, while the Calcutta gov ernment dealt with foreign affairs (Afghanistan nepal China, Burma and the gulf States) and the native states, and issued a currency it maintained interprovincial roads and saw that provinces operated as uniformly as possible The presidencies threw off provinces, like Up (the united province of oudh and Agra), punjab (which in turn threw off what was then the nWFp), Bihar and Assam, all came off the Calcutta presidency The divi sion of Bengal in 1905 was part of this process, but was widely protested by Hindus on sectarian grounds, be cause east Bengal was Muslim majority in fact, though the partitiob of Bengal was reversed in 1911, it still oc curred in 1947 with the partition, and today that old east Bengal is now Bangladesh What imran is ignoring is that the divisions into which pakistan s provinces are divided, and almost purely administrative The old Bahawalpur state was made a punjab division, and the old Kalat state was made a Balochistan division when one Unit was bro ken up and the latter has given up some territory to the new Rakhshan division, which also got some land from Qutta Division The story of Faisalabad division is also notice able it was founded in 1892 at lyallpur, and was not just to become a commercial centre and communications hub for thecanal colony around it, but was also to be came a district headquar ters When in 1981 a new division was formed, which included Toba Tek Singh and Jhang districts, it be came a division now it is being proposed that it be come a provincial headquar ters not bad going for a city that didn t exist 140 years ago Because of this, there is no divisional loyalty An other factor preventing regional loyalties is the fact that people are largely migrants Residents of a city or district are rarely living in the city of their birth There is a division of loyalty, as migrants’ children owe something both to their parents’ village, as well as their own area of residence However, the idea might appeal to contralizers,because breaking up the old centres of provincial loyalty is supposed to lead to a loyalty to the greater unity, the federation even if some indian divisions are now states, such as the old Ambala Di vision now forming Haryana state that does not pro vide any reason for divisions to become states For one thing, any such scheme would lead to a plethora of linguistic problems Urdu is supposed to be the national language, but is the official language nowhere That position is oc cupied by english in the punjab Assembly, for ex ample, members ase supposed to speak in Urdu if they wish to speak another language, including pun jabi or Seraiki, members have to seek permission from the Chair An example of what could happen is provided by nigeria it too has been under military rule, and it was military rulers which resulted in a proliferation of states At independence in 1960 (two years after pak istan underwent its first military coup), nigeria con sisted of three regions nigeria had the first of its many coups in January 1966, and from 1967 to 1970, even had a civil war which was set off by the constitution into 12 states in 1976, seven states were added, More states kept on being added, till now (since 1996) there have been 30 states and a Federal Capital Territory it seems that some stability has now been reached This is much more thorough going an experience than india has gone But there too the process of state making has wider than that of pakistan which apart from merging states into provinces, has only changed a name, turning the north West Frontier province into Khyber pakhtunkhwa of course there has since been an upheaval; the merging of FATA into Kp Using the present divi sions may avoid endless dis putes over redrawing boundaries, but there are dis parities punjab has eight di visions, Balochistan 10, while Sindh and Kp have seven each Using the present divisions will leave room for punjab and Sindh to give way to provinces that themselves will look to split Then there is the question of nomencla ture Which division will in herit the old name? or are the present names to vanish from the map? There will probably be more spending than now All governors will set as their standard the gover rnors of today qas will all CMs CJs Chief Secre taries and igs Will the divisional tier vanish, or will the districts become divisions, the tehsils districts, the subtehsils tehsils and the qanungo halqas sub tehsils? All with their full staffs Service might not get better, but rank inflation will be immense And those who attain this inflated rank will not abate one jot or tittle of their new privileges imran should have been made to realize by the FATA merger that he has proposed a rewriting of the Constitution (How many seats do the assemblies have? How will the election Commission be composed? The national Finance Commission? The Council of Com mon interests? The Supreme Judicial Council? imran has not apparently struck a chord among the public with this suggestion, not even among those with whom he wants to get on the same page only unshakeable public demand can justify the labour that would go into such a major exercise The writer is a member of staff
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The unfortunate episode in Masjid e nabvi made the dangerous consequences of incitement quite evident An unconditional apology by Mr Khan could have settled the matter at the first hearing on August 31 presumably the former pM thought that an apology was likely to damage his image as a dauntless party leader Mr Khan was therefore unwilling to go beyond taking back his words if they were regarded as inappropriate in other words he thought he had committed no wrong but was ready to address what he considered misapprehensions As usual Mr Khan launched a counterattack, accusing the iHC’s deputy registrar of picking words selectively from his August 20 speech giving the issue a political touch he said the court’s proceedings were being used for “political point scoring to the federal government s advantage The court’s advice fell on deaf ears Despite this the iHC gave Mr Khan another chance “to answer thoughtfully or else the court will proceed with the matter ” This led to some of pTi s opponents to criticize the court for treating him differently from others sentenced for contempt Mr Khan however continued to be adamant on his second appearance on Thursday also earlier he had said that he would become even more dangerous if disqualified or sent to jail The past few months show that by acting rashly he has only harmed himself and his party He is no more a pM most of his allies have left him his chief of staff is in custody, and few among his close supporters are willing to support him openly iHC has announced it would charge sheet iK on September 22 The pTi chief has two weeks to decide if he is willing to apologise unconditionally or put his political future at stake by becoming still more dangerous
com WA l I E j A Z N E ko k A r A N o t o n l y i s m a k i n g d i v i s i o n s p ro v i n c e s a b a d i d e a , i t ’s t i m e h a s n o t ye t c o m e At Penpoint M A N I A Z I D e v a s t a t i n g f l o o d s No t e n o u g h at te nt i o n i s p a i d to f l o o d m a n a g e m e nt Imran has not apparently struck a chord among the public with this sugg estion, not even among those with whom he wants to g et on the same pag e . 06-07 Comments - 9th September 2022_Layout 1 9/9/2022 12:19 AM Page 1
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D e v e l o p i n g countries like pakistan are known for their reactive management quick fixes, and poor planning Climate change has further exposed pakistan’s sense of complacency A german Watch Report of the long term Climate Change Risk index 2020 puts pakistan at number 8 pakistan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change pakistan’s vulnerability has continuously been pointed out by various reports The apathy of the gov ernment remains constant despite many warnings Currently, climate change has started showing its starkness in the shape of floods Floods in pakistan are highly motivated by the rainfall in the monsoon season According to the national Disaster Manage ment Authority (nDMA), this monsoon has wit nessed 133pc more rainfall than average in pakistan Sadly, 932 people have lost their lives and more than 33 million have been affected by the flash floods An other estimate of nDMA maintains that torrential rains have badly affected more than 100 districts Most importantly, Balochistan has been hit the hardest followed by Sindh, South punjab, and Kp According to Al Jazeera news report Balochistan’s provincial Disaster Management Authority (pDMA) maintains more than 200 people have died, including 58 children Additionally 10 000 people have been displaced from their homes Furthermore, floods have damaged 40,000 houses of which 20,000 houses have been destroyed nearly 700 000 acres of crops have been devastated The province has suffered the loss of a whopping $10m According to a local news chan nel 400 mud houses have collapsed and 10 000 peo ple have been displaced from their villages in Sindh Furthermore, South punjab is also going through tough times Commissioner Muhammad Usman Anwar maintains that flooding in the irrigation system “Rod Kohi” has damaged 278 villages Similarly, 572 000 acres of land have been destroyed and crops on 198, 000 acres have also been damaged Some heart wrenching videos are circulating on the internet in which hapless people can be seen in severe pain The pakistan Army, FC troops, ngos and the civil administration are extending help to the flood stricken people The death toll is increasing continuously So the above mentioned figures are not static Unfortunately, pakistan has a long history of floods that could not make us budge an inch Accord ing to the Federal Flood Commission, pakistan wit nessed 20 major floods from 1950 to 2012 (62 years) in 62 years 599 459 square kilometers of the area was affected and 11,239 people lost their lives Conse quently, the national economy has suffered a loss of over Rs 39 billion Another important thing to note is that pakistan witnesses the loss of $8 million annually due to the absence of a disaster management system We are not good at learning from history and reactive management remains our only permanent policy This time floods are likely to bring more damage to the country compared to past floods As the climate is deteriorating day by day, calamities would be in creasing in the future precipitation patterns are sharply changing due to climate change Human ac tivities are mainly responsible for climate change Un report 2019 maintains that Human actions have badly altered 75 percent of the total land” Deforesta tion is one of the worst human activities that are con tributing to climate change According to the press, “pakistan’s deforestation rate has been estimated be tween 0 2 and 0 5 percent per annum which is the highest in the world” in our country, neither the gov ernment nor people take climate change seriously painfully, the media, especially electronic, did not play its much needed role in sensitizing people about climate change even at this time when floods have decimated a crucial part of pakistan, the media is fo cusing on political matters We have become a highly polarized society and to add insult to injury the media has also lost impartiality Journalists and anchors seem to be political agents or part of political parties Social worker Zafar Abbas said with dismay that when peo ple were drowning in floods, the media was presenting the news of arrested pTi leader Shehbaz gill He said that a huge quantity of ration is required to cater to flood stricken people This time demands unity and cooperation among the citizens no doubt, different organizations have come forward to assist their deprived brothers and sisters Besides the posi tive response, some negative cases like earning profit at the cost of flood stricken people are also seen Trampling moral values at the time of crisis is a common thing in our country ironically, if profit seekers come to know that tomorrow is Qiyamat says one meme doing the internet rounds, the prices of Qurans, rosaries and prayer mats would sky rocket overnight This is the psychology of our profit seekers who hardly care about humanity needless to say, people’s ignorance of climate change and poor governance has landed pakistan into troubled waters political vendetta has sucked the po litical vision and made the leadership unfit for resolv ing hot issues one fears if former pM imran Khan comes into power in future, he would again waste much of his time in pushing opposition against the wall This vicious cycle of political vengeance would continue unabated We are in dire need to make a two pronged strategy: on one hand, we have to focus on climate change, and on the other hand, we need a ro bust flood management system The writer can be reached at waliejaz04@gmail
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Federal investigation Agency has issued a second notice to lt gen (retd) Amjad Shoaib, who first broke the ‘news’ of prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meeting an israeli delegation while in a gulf country it had issued a no tice for him to appear before it on Wednesday That first notice was loftily ignored, and general Shoaib did not deign to dignify it with even a reply His claim was used by former federal minister Shireen Mazari to comment caustically on it general Shoaib has made something of a second career for himself after retiring from the Army, and perhaps illustrates the dangers of an analyst trying to break a story which is a different profession altogether Two ingredients seemed to have been missed by general Shoaib: first the cross check, because any reporter relying on a single source (unless he has been provided irrefutable documentation), and secondly the version in which he would ask the affected person, in this case the pM, what he has to say general Shoaib makes no bones about his liking for the pTi, but he should count himself lucky that its amendments to the peCA ordinance was struck down, or he too could have found himself hustled off in a police van, as was done to telejournalist Mohsin Baig, under the pTi it is true that general Shoaib belonged to an institution whose members have a particular horror of arrest or police custody but it is also true that the law of the land must be observed ‘Fake news’ is increasingly a problem, and if general Shoaib is to be asked his evidence for the news as a responsible citizen, he should comply Ca n repor meeting late Hameed
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Lahore Ph: 042 36300938, 042 36375965 I K arachi Ph: 021 35381208 Islamabad Ph: 051 2204545 Web: www pakistantoday com pk Email: editorial@pakistantoday e islamabad High Court has a liberal policy on the issue of contempt of court Despite being dissatisfied with pTi chief imran Khan’s reply, the court spent time on trying to impress upon him the need to realize the gravity of the situation He was told that his intimidating remarks about district and sessions judge Zeba Chaudhry amounted to criminal contempt for which there can be no justification in law Further that the remarks amounted to incitement and could lead to untoward incidents
The writer is Research Fellow at the Balochistan Think Tank Network, Quetta Living under the shadows of Hindut va T h e h i j a b b a n i n K a r n a t a k a s h o w e d t h a t t h e p ro b l e m i s AsAdullAh rAIsANI 06-07 Comments - 9th September 2022_Layout 1 9/9/2022 12:19 AM Page 2
SCienCe technology engineering and mathematics (STeM) is an interdisciplinary methodology By linking various independent disciplines, STeM helps students in solving problems by building up their analytical skills it is a well established fact that with such a state of the art approach students are equipped with multidisciplinary approaches and feel motivated to tackle problems of even the most complex nature in their future endeavours in recent times STeM education is considered unavoidable in modern systems to train inclusive workers that are among the primary requirements of the global village To accomplish this, students need to be equipped with modern educational technology For instance controlled access to electronic gadgets, such as computers and cellphones, during classes can broaden vision and improve comprehension This is the age of information and to impose limits on thinking is in fact a criminal offence The information flows all around, and it is unjustified that provision of facilities, such as the internet, is avoided while we teach The world, during the recent pandemic witnessed the miracle of the internet that kept life moving STeM heavily relies on creativity Consequently, the students are well prepared for tackling issues, such as preparing a model for a real world situation or designing an experiment that may be physical or a thought to explore a scenario by practical applications of the skills learnt introducing STeM into the curriculum promotes structured activities within the learning framework and highly benefits teamwork and effective communication that are essential in daily life STeM has already been integrated into the curriculum of studies in a number of advanced countries, including the United States, Australia and many countries in central and northern europe However, quite often, teachers face problems in STeM education in developing countries, STeM integration into the curriculum demands a lot of preliminary research and groundwork considering the local conditions and resources in countries like pakistan, for instance, the knowhow concerning STeM is fairly limited There is plenty of room to improve the effectiveness of STeM education it is, therefore, essential that due resources should be dedicated to bringing about such changes in this regard, the first and foremost, along with the provision of infrastructure, is the training of resource persons A proper understanding of STeM for teachers will definitely ensure their professional development and effectiveness, which in many ways are the missing elements in the prevailing educational system Support may also be sought from socio scientific activists and other experts to promote a culture of STeM in institutions of learning at all levels
Issues with visiting facult y HoW visiting faculty at universities in the country is exploited can be judged from my personal experience i was a visiting lecturer at Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (AWKUM), in the fall semester 2022 23 and taught for more than four months without getting a single penny from the university After the completion of the courses, i applied for my remuneration and it has been more than six months now, but i have received nothing i had submitted a complete file which the administration lost twice it then moved from one department to another gathering signatures and stamps for more than three weeks i cannot bear such exploitation and apathy anymore and have sent the university officials an email, telling them how i suffered all along and how i do not care anymore whether or not they pay me i will be on the streets, but would not ask anyone in AWKUM to help me out First they keep you starving with the fallacy of ‘you will get experience’ and then they push you into a red tape process where you are involved in submitting documents and files sending emails and making calls They would tell you ‘your file is missing’ this or that i would advise all graduates and young scholars not to fall for this fraud of visiting lectureship But wait We fall for it because we need it otherwise why would we go for such a contract which won’t pay you for months in the name of giving you an opportunity to gain teaching experience in a university?
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Do not ask me for the details i might reveal too much i would urge the Higher education Commission (HeC), if someone there is able and willing to listen, to stop this painful and hurtful process of visiting contracts every university has got the resources to be able to keep a record of the classes taught by the visiting faculty, and it is not impossible to make the finance, audit, treasury process simple We do not live under colonial administration where we have to get approval of royals But i am wrong We have university administrations that fit the bill, and take more than six months to pay you what you rightfully deserve So, fellows, learn from a colleague’s experience and make the university administrations accountable ATTIQ UR RAHMAN MARDAN
FBISE T H e Federal Board of intermediate and Secondary education (FBiSe) has changed the exam model of compulsory subjects for matriculation and intermediate levels The exam will be based on student learning outcomes using the curriculum based model This change will encourage critical thinking among the students The new model will help them get rid of outdated course books and rote learning Students will be able to use a variety of sources for learning instead of relying on books only All the other boards should follow in FBiSe’s footsteps AMJAD ALTAF LAHORE
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D e S p i T e the announcement of a package worth Rs5 billion by the previous punjab chief minister the fate of the pindi Bhattain Chiniot road that links the city to the motorway continues to hang in the balance The dilapidated condition of the road has been causing trouble to the commuters who have to make do with bumps and potholes The authorities concerned should invest the allocated fund for the renovation of the road instead of waiting to see the condition of the road deteriorate further MOHSIN i t o r ’ s m a i l S e n d y o u r l e t t e r s t o : L e t t e r s t o E d i t o r pakistan Today 4 S h a a re y F a t i m a J i n n a h L a h o re P a k i s t a n E m a i l : l e t t e r s @ p a k i s t a n t o d a y c o m p k L e t t e r s s h o u l d b e a d d re s s e d t o pakistan Today e x c l u s i v e l y I M A g i n e living as a Muslim in india, and sticking to your belief that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad (pBUH) is His messenger ’ Things might turn against you overnight For instance, the demolition of homes of Muslims was a custom in the occupied territories of palestine, not in india now in india, which claims to be a secular state and the largest democratic country Up CM Yogi Adityanath seems inspired by israeli bru talities and feels not ashamed of demolishing homes of the Muslims in Uttar pradesh homes that people could make possible for themselves after immense hardships As a famous poet rightly says Log toot jaatay hain ek ghar ba nanay mein tum taras nahi khatay bastiyan jalanay mein,’ (people break to build a house, [and] you have no pity in burning settlements) Though such unjust treatment against non Hindus are part of a routine in india, a closer look should be taken at the famous judgement of the Karnataka High Court on banning hijab in classrooms According to india Today on 1 January Muslim girl students were denied entry into the classrooms for wearing hijab, in a state run col lege in Udupi Karnataka india Two days later a group of male students wearing saffron scarves (as Hinduism and Buddhism associate saffron with the pious renunciation of the ma terial life) protested against allowing Muslim girls wearing h ija b inside classrooms in Kar nataka s Koppa district on January 26, the Karnataka government set up an expert committee to resolve the issue on January 31, a Muslim girl student wrote a pe tition in Karnataka High Court that wearing hijab is a fundamental right on February 2, stu dents at Sir Mv government College, Bhadra vati, Karnataka, staged a protest against students who wore hijab in classrooms According to Aljazeera, in early February, college officials of pre University College (pU College) in Udupi, Karnataka, posted a notice outside the college gate declaring the prohibition of hijab in classrooms and considering it a vio lation of the college uniform code This is a common claim which is defended by the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJp) This ban was followed by an escalation of tensions after activists and students, who were allegedly backed by Hindu nationalist groups started to wear saffron color scarves, calling for a hijab ban in Karnataka a state where Muslims form 12 percent of the population Amid such tensions and protests in the pU College a Muslim girl student in hijab who had come to submit her assignment, chanted Allah o Akbar (Allah is the greatest) multiple times among Hindutva protesters in reply to Jai Shri Ram (glory to lord Ram), what the protesters were chanting Though that girl was widely ap preciated the discussions could be different if she was not protected by the staff then She could have become a victim to abuse and met a differ ent fate if she had not been given protection To the surprise of many, the Karnataka High Court s judgement declared hijab non essential in islam The three judge bench remarked that ‘allowing Muslim women to wear hijab in their classrooms would hinder their emancipation and go against the constitutional spirit of positive secularism” They also maintained that hijab is not an obligatory religious practice [in islam] While what the Holy Qur an, the holy scrip ture of islam, states, contradicts these views it asks males and females both to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts it also asks females to cover their heads in Surah An nur, Ayat 31 Secondly, constitutionally, india is a democ racy and a secular state And in democracies, everyone has the right to wear anything of his or her choice As also confirmed under the Univer sal Declaration of Human Rights ‘everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion , and to manifest his religion or belief in teaching practice worship and observance’ Wearing clothes of one’s own choice is one’s right to freedom of expression Therefore, any lib eral who is not liberal by fashion or compulsion will surely support this right Moreover, the free dom to practice religion is a fundamental right of every human being particularly in democracies Thirdly, 2017 s puttaswamy Judgement (india), in which a bench of nine judges unan imously affirmed the right to privacy as a fun damental right under the Constitution of india, states that the right to privacy is integral to free doms guaranteed across fundamental rights The judgement also holds that the right to pri vacy is an intrinsic aspect of dignity, autonomy, and liberty Where privacy is defined as ‘a con comitant of an individual’s right to exercise control over his own personality and [privacy] finds its origin in the notion that certain natural or inherent rights are inseparable from the human personality ’ The Karnataka High Court s judgement contradicts this F u r t h e r m o r e , A r t i c l e 2 5 ( 1 ) o f t h e i n d i a n C o n s t i t u t i o n s t a t e s , “ A l l p e r s o n s a r e e q u a l l y entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice and propagate reli g i o n ” A r t i c l e 1 5 o f t h e i n d i a n C o n s t i t u t i o n states “The state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, c a s t e , s e x , p l a c e o f b i r t h o r a n y o f t h e m ” H o w e v e r t h e b a n o n w e a r i n g h i j a b i n c l a s s rooms is a sheer discrimination on the grounds of religion in the promised new World order or in other words, liberal World order , liberty is a paramount right of every individual Muslim girls ande women are wearing hijab since the Holy prophet Muhammad (pBUH) had con veyed the mentioned verses of the Holy Qur an to them it has been over 14 centuries so far now, linking this religious obligation with the uniform of schools, colleges, or other educational institutes and calling it something against the uniform code, does not make any logical sense it is ironic Sikhs wearing turbans while Muslims keeping beards might be the next on this list They might be asked to give up these practices in the name of institutional decorum or so it seems that india is no more being run on secular principles, but on Hindutva narratives in this regard, Jayanth Deshmukh rightly argues in his recently published paper Terrorizing Muslims: Communal violence and emergence of Hindutva in india that since the 1980s, india has seen an increase in right wing militant Hindu extremism The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)[ s long term political and ideolog ical goal is to establish a Hindu Rashtra by spreading Hindutva To attain this purpose, pro ponents of Hindutva radicalize youth and chil dren with conservative and fictitious notions which lead to islamophobia governments have been either complicit or negligent while dealing with Muslim riot victims he adds Furthermore, a burqa ban has been an issue in France and Sri lanka, among a few other coun tries Whereas the case of hijab ban in india is unique as india is home to over 10 percent of the world`s Muslim population over 200 million Muslims live there and such intolerance will surely have consequences Religious intolerance in a country like india where the total population is over 1 3 billion will have far reaching impacts new Delhi already has much to defend, con sidering atrocities in the occupied valley of Kashmir killing of Muslims in gujarat demo lition of Babri Masjid, and now the Hijab ban, being a few among many such happenings Therefore it is worth pondering the shaky grounds of democracy in india, where diversity and secularism are under threat indian secularism and its claim of being a democracy sounds an illusion today While what is more important is to talk about a way forward, indian or non indian politicians observers ana lysts, activists, and people from all other spheres of life should keep Hindutva nationalists under pressure whenever such happening takes place, more importantly through pen and camera The international community in general and the Muslim world in particular should use their good offices to communicate with indian author ities, making efforts to ease the atmosphere for Muslims in india particularly, if the West can ask China to behave towards its Uighur Mus lims, why cannot it ask india to behave well to wards its Muslim population? otherwise, things might blow up and the stakeholders will realize that they could have made attempts to stop such happenings before any damage was done but they did not As india is home to millions of Muslims, Hindu Muslim riots may get started there but will not stop there Secondly in the case of migrations the interna tional community will face another challenge of refugees, while millions of refugees are still waiting for their fate to be decided last but not least, the BJp s zeal to achieve its version of Hindutva goals is a threat to the re gion not only to the Muslims of india Therefore it is the need of the hour for the champions of human rights and the Un Human Rights Council to ask new Delhi to follow the Un Charter and its own constitution, before it’s too late
Such support would go to establish temporary learning centers (TlCs) and alternate learning modalities in flood affected districts, where educators will need to rely on emergency teaching aids such as school in a box sets, school tents, and other teaching and learning mate rials After that, dewatering, cleaning, and disinfecting schools will require further funding as will the provision of psychological and social support for some pupils fol lowing this summer ’s traumas Fortunately the response has already begun in some places Around 30 TlCs for 3,600 children, including 1,100 girls, have been established in Pishin, and one TlC is now operating in lasbela Balochistan Additional teaching materials will soon reach 35,000 children in Sindh and Punjab But this support costs money That is why the Un Education Sector working group is requesting $10 2 million in additional funds to establish temporary learn ing spaces distribute materials and clean up schools
Friday 9 September 2022 08 WORLD VIEW ria novoSti P e T r a ko P ov w i T H Covid quarantines no longer a hindrance summits have re turned to the diplomatic agenda First, the west returned to face to face meetings EU and nATo summits have been taking place for some time now and now it is the turn of the East Top Asian leaders have not met collectively for more than three years, but in a week’s time the Shanghai Cooperation organisation (SCo) will gather in the Uzbek city of Samarkand and will bring together all its leaders Until recently, it was not entirely clear that Chinese President Xi Jinping would be coming as some observers had assumed he would not leave Beijing before the Communist Party congress in mid october But it has since been announced that the Chinese leader will visit Kazakhstan next week, so a trip to Uzbekistan is also a foregone conclusion The meeting between Xi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will be the second this year, but the first since the start of the military operation in Ukraine Also indian Prime Minister narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will meet for the first time ever in Samarkand For the two neighbors with a his tory of fraught relations, the SCo is becoming an important platform for dialogue And the SCo it self is rapidly outgrowing its original format as a Russo Chinese security alliance in Central Asia and involving just the Central Asian republics The group now boasts four nuclear states that is, virtually all of the non western members of the club (except north Korea) in Uzbekistan the SCo eight will turn into a ‘nine’ as the procedure for iran’s accession will be completed However, the organization will not be limited to that number for long it has already announced its intention to start the procedure to transfer Belarus from an observer to a full fledged member And it will not stop there Sev eral more countries including some influential ones, want to join the SCo in recent years, there have been four observers to the organization (as candidates for member ship), but now Tehran has come on board and Be larus is starting the transition procedure, so that leaves Afghanistan and Mongolia whereas previ ously the main obstacle to Kabul’s inclusion was the presence of US troops in the country, this prob lem no longer exists so its acceptance into the SCo will undoubtedly occur This will not happen immediately, but rather once the situation in the country has stabilized and a full fledged system of governance and law and order have been estab lished (naturally, with the help of SCo countries) Mongolia could become a full fledged par ticipant at any time none of the member states have any objections but in the past it has been slow to do so preferring to remain an observer However, rising global tensions will also affect Ulaanbaatar ’s position, while the growing queue of aspiring SCo members may also prompt its leadership to step up There had been aspirants to join the SCo be fore but this year they have moved from words to deeds And we are not only talking about the countries that were among the ‘partners in dia logue (another format of interaction) These aspirants comprise nine states: Arme nia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, nepal, Sri lanka, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia The last three obtained the status of dialogues partners only a year ago but are already looking to up grade to being able to join the organization in full Syria and Myanmar also want to be involved, along with the United Arab Emirates, which seeks immediate accession Although such a re quest cannot be granted, it is in itself a sign of the rapidly growing interest in the organization, which is driven by the Sino Russian partnership The reasons for this are clear: although the con solidation of the non western world has been steadily gaining momentum over the past decade, things have accelerated since the beginning of 2020 First, Covid and the resulting lockdowns led to a crisis of globalization, then the operation in Ukraine forced the west to insist that whoever does not go along with the blockade of Russia is for Putin And then the provocation of the Taiwan issue hurt the prospects for normalizing relations be tween the west and the Middle Kingdom The whole world is being forced to pick a side Under these conditions the optimal model for many influential countries in the islamic world is to demonstrate their independence, which is seen as carving out a position equidistant from the two poles, i e Russia China and the United States EU But how can US military allies such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia find this equidistance? By joining the SCo while it is true that the SCo is not a military bloc belonging to the organization clearly indi cates an unwillingness to participate in any west ern anti Russian and anti Chinese efforts That is why Recep Erdogan will fly to Samarkand, and possibly Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as well in this case, the SCo nine will turn albeit unofficially so far into a club of 11, that is, a platform where Russia, China, india and the four most important coun tries of the islamic world meet: Saudi Arabia the richest and most influential’; iran, ‘the oldest and most passionate’; Turkey, ‘the most developed and ambitious ; and Pakistan the only nuclear one’ The SCo observers also include Egypt, ‘the main country in the Arab world’; and Qatar, ‘the information and propaganda giant These islamic countries admittedly do not have the smoothest relations among themselves (especially Saudi Arabia and iran), and in the past the west has actively used their discord Russia and China, however, are not interested in pitting Muslims against each other but in involving them in building a new, post western world order And if the three great powers Russia, China, and india manage to build strategic relations with the islamic world in working out a new world order, it will be tantamount to a final verdict in the Anglo Saxon bid for global domination The Atlanticists are no longer betting on a quarrel between Russia and China but on pitting india and China against each other And they are virtually certain that they will be able to keep the islamic world in their orbit (and even use it against Beijing and Moscow) Therefore, the is lamization’ of the SCo will be the most important challenge to the Anglo Saxon project and also a sign of its complete collapse Financial timeS e d i To r i a L B oa r d s E C T i o n S of the Yangtze river dried up, forest fires burnt across France and the falling level of America’s lake Mead revealed long lost human re mains This summer has been heavy with examples of what a warming climate will mean to our future nowhere else however has suffered the extremes of Pakistan, which has gone from 50C tempera tures to devastating floods in a few months, even as it wrestles with fi nancial and political crises one third of Pakistan is under water More than 1,000 people have died and the cost will exceed initial estimates of $10bn by far it is a devastating illustration of the need to invest in adaptation to a chang ing climate with both general les sons on how the international community should respond and specific challenges for Pakistan within Pakistan there are two clear lessons: forecasting and evac uations There were some predic tions of very high rainfall, but even to the extent forecasters got it right, it did not translate into governmen tal awareness nor did the rain’s fe rocity trigger effective evacuations that could have saved lives Pakistan’s dysfunctional politi cal system over decades has pre vented the development of a governance structure with the re sources and planning capacity to handle disasters of such magnitude The country failed properly to im prove infrastructure after severe floods in 2010 its fractured politics look set to continue with a push from imran Khan, ousted as prime minister in April, for early elec tions He is riding a wave of pop ulist anger, strengthened by austerity measures required as part of a $1 1bn iMF bailout package The country’s plight has lessons for others There is a tendency to think of adaptation to climate change in terms of “hard” infrastructure: dams to hold back floodwaters or seawalls to keep the oceans at bay However “soft” adaptation such as improved flood forecasting and evacuation are as important This should be a priority for developing nations exposed to climate change That is not to deny the need for physical infrastructure which costs money There is anger among lead ers in the developing world about rich countries’ failure to provide re sources for investment in adapta tion Their attitude, understandably, is that industrialised countries caused the problem with two cen turies of carbon emissions, and they should pay to fix the damage There will be vocal complaints, again, at the upcoming g20 summit in in donesia and the CoP27 climate talks in Egypt no matter the justice of their demands too much focus on liabil ity for the problem may get in the way of addressing it Rich countries are reluctant to take on an open ended liability But their efforts to escape liabilities ignore their clear self interest in bolstering climate adaptation in countries such as Pak istan, a fragile, nuclear armed state caught between China and the US in a volatile region Adaptation spending often faces less overt political opposition than efforts to phase out fossil fuels Financing projects such as flood defences is the expertise of multilateral development banks Rich countries should meet their re sponsibilities by, for example, sub sidising concessional loans for adaptation on a massive scale in Pakistan, the challenge is complicated by the country’s debt crisis Floods will only exacerbate Pakistan s economic problems, cre ating risks that current iMF support is not enough to achieve debt sus tainability it is nonetheless impor tant to keep the issues distinct: Pakistan should not be denied in vestment in climate adaptation be cause of fears cash will be diverted to shore up its short term finances Pakistanis desperately need help now but they need a future as well R u s s i a a n D C h i n a ’ s g R o w i n g Pa R t n e R s h i P w i t h t h e i s l a m i C w o R l D s P e l ls t R o u b l e F o R t h e w e s t T H E T R A D I T I O N A L A N G LO A M E R I C A N S T R AT E G Y O F P L AY I N G “ D I V I D E A N D CO N Q U E R ” W I T H M U S L I M S TAT E S M AY H AV E R U N I T S CO U R S E
Pr oject Syndicate Ya s m n e s h e r i f a n d G o r d o n B r ow n l l o i n g this year ’s catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, millions of young Pakistanis life opportunities are hanging by a thread The floods caused more than $10 billion worth of damage, and emergency support is urgently needed to rebuild The crisis will be top of mind as United nations Secretary general António guterres and 120 national leaders gather later this month in new York for the Transforming Education Summit The roughly 16 million children who have been dis placed by the floods are merely the latest of Pakistan s young people to lose out on education joining an already huge population of 22 8 million children who are out of school worse, as landslides follow the floods, the threat of famine is increasing Around 45% of the country’s agri cultural land has already been destroyed The humanitar ian situation is rapidly deteriorating to dangerous levels in recent years we have visited many of the areas of Pakistan that are now underwater where more than 1,100 people have now been killed, one million homes have washed away and 33 million Pakistanis have been affected with some provinces having had five times more rainfall than the 30 year average for this time of the year, 66 districts have been declared “calamity hit”, in cluding 31 in Balochistan, 23 in Sindh, nine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and three in Punjab Four million acres of crops and 800,000 livestock have already been wiped out As with previous disasters in Pakistan, from the 2005 earthquake to the 2011 floods the most immediate need is for food, tents, and tarpaulins But as participants in the Transforming Education Summit will hear, Pakistan is far from the only country where a combination of climate change and conflicts are dramatically increasing the num ber of children at risk of missing out on an education The Education Cannot wait fund s replenishment conference is not until February, which is too far off Today’s human itarian disasters are hitting children the hardest, demand ing an immediate increase in emergency funding in Pakistan alone, at least 18,000 schools have been damaged or destroyed by the flooding, including 15,842 in Sindh 544 in Balochistan and 1 180 in Punjab Sev eral thousand more schools have become unsafe, and 5,500 have had to be requisitioned to accommodate peo ple displaced from their homes Moreover, these figures are almost certainly an un derstatement of the scale of the damage that will need to be repaired Continued rainfall and high water levels pre vent proper appraisals, but one rapid needs assessment of ten districts of Balochistan found that 977 classrooms
sponse some of the funding that it has set aside for mul tiyear humanitarian development programs will also be redirected to Pakistan other crisis hit countries including Afghanistan Ukraine, and Ethiopia, urgently need emergency assistance as well with their needs in mind, two of the big requests at the Transforming Education Summit will be for countries facing emergencies to increase their education budgets, and for countries subject to international Monetary Fund pro grams to be exempted from education budget cuts with tens of millions of children already trying to catch up after the pandemic, all international organiza tions should be doing everything they can to expand fi nancial support for education we must not let the talents and potential of this generation of young people go to waste as a result of our own neglect no one should for get the promise enshrined in Sustainable Development goal 4: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality educa tion and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030 That goal can still be achieved; but only if we focus on the needs of crisis affected, refugee, and dis placed children and young people Yasmine Sherif is Director of Education Cannot Wait Gordon Brown a former prime minister of the United Kingdom is Chair of Education Cannot Wait s High Level Steering Group not let young Pakistanis’ futures be washed away K I S TA N I S N E E D E M E R G
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A two Day National Conference on Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Pakistan concluded here at the Faisal Masjid Campus of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) The conference was organized by the Department of History & Pakistan Studies in collaboration with Higher Education Commission Islamabad More than 50 eminent scholars, historians and researchers from across the country presented their papers in the Con ference Speaking to the concluding ceremony of the conference, Rector IIU, Professor Dr Masoom Yasin zai called upon academia to serve the society according to its needs He said the country needs committed and sincere efforts through academia to address the issues of hour Dr Masoom said education and youth must be the top priorities Stressing the need of preparing skilled youth, he said government and educational in stitutions must work together for this cause Dean Fac ulty of Social Sciences Dr Zafar Iqbal shed light on the importance of the conferences and seminars He stressed the need of debate in the society He opined that dialogue and deliberations are required to address the national challenges Dr Mujeeb Ahmed, Chairman, Department of History & Pakistan Studies apprised of the objectives of the Conference He said the National conference of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Pakistan is the first of its kind to be conducted by any University across the country Inaugural Session was addressed by Vice President (Academics) Dr Ayaz Afsar It was also addressed by Dr Syed Jafar Ahmed, Director of Pakistan Studies center University of Karachi Vice President, Higher studies and Research Dr Ahmed Shuja Syed also spoke on the importance of the event and stressed upon the creation of attraction for students in heritage and historical places The or ganizers of the conference said that this national con ference on the History of Pakistan is a first step in its long endeavor to provide an academic and research oriented platform to the academicians, scholars, policy
The spokesperson of Utility Stores Corporation while clarify ing the news about non availability of items in the media said that there is no shortage of any type of food items at all utility stores across the country and all items are available in abun dance The Utility Stores Corporation is currently providing a special subsidy on basic commodities from the Federal gov ernment Which includes flour, sugar, ghee, pulses and rice Utility Stores Corporation supplies subsidized and other com modities to all utility stores across the country on a daily basis However, there are difficulties in the delivery of some food items due to the road breaking due to flood Meeting takes up issue of employees given golden hand shake without consent
Islamabad: After having Notification from the Hon ourable Prime minister of Pakistan on the recommendation of search committee, the 1st meeting of the newly appointed council was held on 7th September 2022 wherein the matter of employees who were given compulsory golden hand shake without their consent On the directions of honourable Minister Health (NHSR&C) Mr Abdul Qadir Patel a committee com prising of Mr Jawad Amin Khan (chairman) and Mr Shabbir Kasbati was constituted by the council who considered the case and after detailed deliberation the committee approved the reinstatement of the employees who were given unlawful compulsory golden hand shake
Current corporate reporting by a majority of companies producing the highest levels of greenhouse gas emissions would not comply with proposed new requirements from the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) This is the key finding of research carried out by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the Adam Smith Business School at Glasgow University aiming to find out how prepared companies are for new climate related re porting rules being developed by the Interna tional Sustainability Standards Board formed last November The research analysed the most recent reports published by companies in the construction material and chemical industries which had the high est greenhouse gas emissions over the last three years comparing current disclosures against the disclosure requirements of the proposed climate related disclosure standard (IFRS S2 Climate related Disclosures) This analysis found that most companies fall short of the type and level of disclosure that the ISSB is proposing Further the research found that disclosures were often scattered and duplicated across different company sources often with no cross reference and with little connection to financial informa tion published in the financial statements
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Telenor Pakistan, along with its parent company, Te lenor Group have pledged PKR 1 1 billion in cash and in kind services to support nationwide flood relief ef forts Telenor s cash donation comprises voluntary contributions from Telenor Pakistan and Telenor Mi crofinance Bank employees and funds from Telenor Pakistan and the Group Additionally a range of in kind services is part of the total contribution Earlier today, Telenor Pakistan made a cash donation of PKR 100 million to UNICEF Pakistan to support them in relief efforts by providing life saving nutrition and hygiene packs in affected areas on an immediate basis a Wa h b K f E x e c u t i v e O f f i c e r Te l e n o r P a k i s t a n a n d c h a i r m a n , Te l e n o r M i c r o f i n a n c e B a n k , s a i d , “ I n t h i s m o m e n t o f n a t i o n a l t r a g e d y a n d c a l a m i t y, o u r t h o u g h t s a n d p r a y e r s a r e w i t h t h o s e a ff e c t e d b y t h e f l o o d s Wi t h t h e s u p p o r t o f Te l e n o r c o l l e a g u e s f r o m a r o u n d t h e w o r l d , w e a r e c o m m i t t e d t o s u p p o r t i n g i m p a c t e d f a m i l i e s a n d c o m m u n i t i e s t h r o u g h t h e s e t e s t i n g t i m e s a n d w i l l d o a l l w e c a n I M A R AT G ro u p h o l d s e a r t h - b re a ki n g c e re m o ny fo r G o l f Fl o r a s I I
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LAhore S ta f f R e p o R t A thought provoking Workshop on the topic of Insight of Urdu Teaching was held by the Teaching and Learning Forum (TLF) of the Urdu Department in Sinclair Hall Staffroom on 30th August 2022 Coordinator, Prof Tahir Ma sood started the workshop with a brief intro duction of the TLF The first speaker was Ms Sumera Kanwal Her topic was “New Chal lenges, New Opportunities in which she be lieves that we always learn from challenges because they bring opportunities for us Dr Mohammad Zafar Iqbal spoke about the impor tance of Effective Assessments by showing in formatory slides Ms Misbah Kanwal explained the Benefits of teamwork under the topic of Interdepartmental Cooperation After the Tea Break, Mr Shahzad Ansar threw light on the “Ways of teaching Character Building” Dr Shahida Dilawar Shah practically showed us how to maintain a “Lively Classroom” to get desired results A research based lecture was delivered by Prof Tahir Masood on the topic of “BISE Oriented Pedagogies” He shared his views about the strategies of teaching Text and also indicated some errors and mistakes which are printed in the books
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IMARAT Group of Companies, one of Pakistan s lead ing real estate developers, recently laid the foundation stone for Golf Floras II, a luxury resort living project, at Bahria Garden City, Islamabad Group Directors Farhan Javed, Arslan Javed, Shar jeel A Ehmer and Taimoor ul Haq Abbasi were present at the occasion, with General (R) Haroon Aslam as the chief guest “This project enables us to facilitate the local residents with the development of a luxury lifestyle and wellness enhancing experience, stated Mr Farhan Javed Being a vertically integrated architectural mas terpiece, Golf Floras II is set to redefine luxury living in the twin cities with its opulence filled lifestyle and luxury apartment complexes The project has already been named among the top 20 luxury living resorts in the world owing to its enthralling and beautiful natural scenery, along with an all exclusive golf course With its extensive portfolio, IMARAT has estab lished its legacy as a company embarking on new fron tiers in Pakistan’s real estate sector It aims to usher in a paradigm shift in the sector through regulated prac tices and tech driven solutions
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KArAchI S ta f f R e p o R t B ETTER coordination would yield quick information gathering and assist in the relief work of flood af fectees Both PDMA and NDMA need to sit together regularly and frequently to collect updated data on (IDPs) internally displaced people and assistance relief work The flood related cell also needs to be established immediately at provincial level to work in close coor dination with (NFRC) National Flood Response Centre Federal Minister planning development and national reform Prof Ahsan Iqbal said during a meeting with CM Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah today Foreign Min ister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was also present at the occasion Ahsan Iqbal Further said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has di rected all the stakeholders to work to gether and ensure synergy in the services No single stakeholder either NGO or provincial government or NDMA can tackle a catastrophe of such a higher magnitude, he added The Planning and development Minister also suggested the Sindh Government to designate a focal per son for the Planning Division The focal person could keep in close coor dination with the Federal Government through a dedicated team of experts and efficient bureaucracy, he added Bilawal Bhutto Zardari empha sized on grass root level strategy to face the prodigality of Flood related destruction in Pakistan He further said that an emergency like situation had been created The uniform and well coordinated strategy among the provincial government, Civil Society and NDMA at district level could con trol the pandemonium The Sindh Government had been everywhere in the relief work How ever, the scale of catastrophe is so huge that only a collective approach and as sistance could be a solution to come out of this crisis he added CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah in formed that the Sindh Government had only 81000 tents when rain got con verted into floods Later on, order of further 4500000 tents was given on an immediate basis He further said that 62000 tents were purchased within ten days after floods were inundating the cities "The Sindh Government is everywhere, but the demand is higher than availability of tents
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In the aftermath of recent flash floods which have caused havoc in Balochistan, Sindh, South Punjab and KPK, Pak istan Air Force has dedicated maximum efforts towards res cue relief and rehabilitation operations for flood affectees PAF helicopters and transport fleet are also actively partici pating in transport of food and medical supplies along with safe evacuation of the flood victims Flood relief camps have been established to provide continuous food and medical sup port During the last 24 hours, PAF emergency response teams have distributed 26 125 cooked food packs 1000 water bottles and 2475 ration packs consisting of basic food com modities amongst the needy families Moreover, in addition to the provision of free food and shelter 2810 patients were also attended by the medical teams of Pakistan Air Force in field medical camps of PAF Repor t on ‘Over view of Pakistan's power sector and future outlook’ unveiled StAff rePort "Every new generation capacity in Pakistan will be installed soley on domestic sources remarked Federal minister for power Engr Khurram Dastgir Khan in his key note speech Minister for Energy made these remarks at the unveiling of re port on Overview of Pakistan s power sector and its future outlook" and forum on Achievements of CPEC Power Proj ects Commending the efforts of the forum he appreciated the timely research initiative as valuable in trying to find a roadmap for steering the country out of this difficult energy situation The present government is focused on power gener ation based on domestic sources that are hydel, solar, Thar coal wind and nuclear Minister for Energy took the opportu nity to highlight CPEC's significance and its importance for Pakistan He stressed that iron brother China was the only country that came forward in 2013 when Pakistan was facing the worst terrorism in its history A multi billion flagship proj ect CPEC at such a difficult time for Pakistan was not only a remarkable thing for country's economic uplift This report is a joint venture of China three gorges corporation, Pak China institute, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) All Pakistan Chinese Engineering Association (APCEA), Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
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AgencIeS Indian an d C h i n e s e t r o o p s h a v e b e g u n d i s e n g a g i n g f r o m t h e G o g r a H o t s p r i n g s b o r d e r a r e a i n t h e w e s t e r n H i m a l a y a s , t h e I n d i a n g o v e r n m e n t s a i d i n a s t a t e m e n t o n T h u r s d a y, t w o y e a r s a f t e r c l a s h e s a t t h e f r o n t i e r s t r a i n e d d i p l o m a t i c t i e s T h e s t a t e m e n t c o m e s a h e a d o f a meeting in Uzbekistan next week w h i c h C h i n e s e P r e s i d e n t X i J i n p i n g a n d I n d i a n P r i m e M i n i s t e r N a r e n d r a M o d i a r e e x p e c t e d t o a t t e n d I n d i a s a i d d i s e n g a g e m e n t w a s t a k i n g p l a c e i n a c o o r d i n a t e d a n d p l a n n e d w a y a n d i s m e a n t t o k e e p b o r d e r p e a c e T h e e y e b a l l t o e y e b a l l c o n t a c t h a s e n d e d ” a n I n d i a n d e f e n c e s o u r c e s a i d , r e f e r r i n g t o t h e l a t e s t a g r e e m e n t , a l t h o u g h b o t h c o u n t r i e s s t i l l h a v e t h o u s a n d s o f s o l d i e r s l i n e d u p a l o n g t h e d e f a c t o r b o r d e r k n o w n a s t h e L i n e o f A c t u a l C o n t r o l ( L A C ) R e a d m o r e : I n d i a , C h i n a t r a d e b l a m e f o r b r e a k d o w n i n b o r d e r talks “The forces have disengaged T h e y h a v e n o t b e e n d e i n d u c t e d ” T h i s i s t h e f i r s t s t e p t o w a r d s a c a l m e r L A C , ” t h e s o u r c e s a i d , d e c l i n i n g t o b e n a m e d a s t h e y a r e n o t a u t h o r i s e d t o s p e a k t o t h e m e d i a T h e C h i n e s e e m b a s s y i n N e w Delhi did not immediately respond to calls and an email from Reuters India and China share an unde m a r c a t e d 3 8 0 0 k m l o n g ( 2 3 6 0 m i l e l o n g ) b o r d e r, w h e r e t h e i r t r o o p s p r e v i o u s l y a d h e r e d t o l o n g standing protocols to avoid the use o f a n y f i r e a r m s o n t h e f r o n t i e r T h e r e h a v e b e e n 1 6 r o u n d s o f m e e t i n g s b e t w e e n s e n i o r m i l i t a r y c o m m a n d e r s f r o m b o t h c o u n t r i e s s i n c e J u n e 2 0 2 0 w h e n I n d i a n a n d
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Blistering crop withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers could threaten swathes of global food production by 2045 as the world warms an industry analysis warned Thursday Climate change is already stoking heatwaves and other extreme weather events across the world, with hot spells from India to Europe this year expected to hit crop yields Temperature spikes are causing mounting concern for health, particularly for those working outside in swelter ing conditions which is especially dangerous when hu midity levels are high The latest assessment by risk company Verisk Maplecroft brings those two threats to gether to calculate that heat stress already poses an ex treme risk” to agriculture in 20 countries, including agricultural giant India But the coming decades are ex pected to expand the threat to 64 nations by 2045 rep resenting 71 percent of current global food production including major economies China, India, Brazil and the United States With the rise in global temperatures and rise in global heat stress, we’re going to see crops in more temperate countries as well start being affected by this, said Will Nichols, head of climate and resilience at Verisk Maplecroft Rice is particularly at risk, the assess ment said, with other crops like cocoa and even toma toes also singled out as of concern GrowinG risk: Maplecroft’s new heat stress dataset, using global temperature data from the UK Met Office, feeds into its wider risk assessments of countries around the world It is based on a worst case emissions scenario leading to around 2 degrees Celsius of warming above pre industrial levels as soon as 2045 However, the authors stress that in projections to mid century, even scenarios that assume higher levels of carbon cutting ac tion could still result in temperatures nearing 2C India responsible for 12 percent of global food production in 2020 and heavily reliant on outdoor labour productivity is already rated as at extreme risk, the only major agri cultural nation in that category at current temperatures “There’s a very real worry that people in rural areas, which are obviously highly dependent on agriculture, are going to be much more vulnerable to these kinds of heat events going forward,” Nichols told AFP
LOnDOn Ag e n c i e S B R I TA I N’S Queen Elizabeth II has died age d 9 6 , B u c k i n g h a m P a l a c e h a s a n n o u n c e d T h e Q u e e n b r e a t h e d h e r l a s t a t B a l m o r a l C a s t l e w h e r e s h e w a s u n d e r m e d i c a l s u p e r v i s i o n T h e t r a g i c n e w s l e f t m i l l i o n s o f h e r f a n s c r y i n g a n d m o u r n i n g E a r l i e r o n t h e d a y, B u c k i n g h a m P a l a c e i s s u e d a s t a t e m e n t s a y i n g t h e Queen’s doctors were concerned about her health, recommending she remained under m e d i c a l s u p e r v i s i o n Queen’s sons daughters grandchildren and in laws as well as public figures were around her at a difficult time The family has dropped everything to rush to the royal estate after Buckingham Palace released a concerning statement this morning Britains Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96: B u c k i n g h a m P a l a c e T h e Q u e e n h a d b e e n s t r u g g l i n g w i t h h e r h e a l t h s i n c e t h e d e a t h o f t h e D u k e o f E d i n b u rg h Since last autumn she s had to pull out o f a s e r i e s o f p u b l i c e v e n t s b e c a u s e o f w h a t s e e m e d t o b e p e r s i s t e n t p r o b l e m s w i t h h e r m o b i l i t y, o f t e n h a n d i n g o v e r d u t i e s t o P r i n c e C h a r l e s R e m e m b r a n c e S u n d a y, t h e M a u n d y T h u r s d a y s e r v i c e , t h e a n n u a l C o m m o n w e a l t h S e r v i c e a n d t h e S t a t e O p e n i n g o f P a r l i a m e n t h a v e b e e n a m o n g t h e e v e n t s w h e r e h e a l t h i s s u e s s t o p p e d t h e Q u e e n f r o m t a k i n g p a r t o v e r t h e p a s t 1 2 m o n t h s B r i ta i n s Q u e e n e l i z a B e t h i i d i e s at 9 6 : B u c k i n G h a m Pa l a c e : O n 6 t h F e b r u a r y t h i s y e a r, t h e Q u e e n b e c a m e t h e f i r s t B r i t i s h M o n a r c h t o c e l e b r a t e a P l a t i n u m J u b i l e e , m a r k i n g 7 0 y e a r s o f s e r v i c e t o t h e p e o p l e o f t h e U n i t e d K i n g d o m t h e R e a l m s a n d t h e C o m m o n w e a l t h Britains Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96: B u c k i n g h a m P a l a c e O n Tu e s d a y t w o d a y b e f o r e h e r d e a t h , Q u e e n a p p o i n t e d U K ’s n e w P M L i z Tr u s s , w h o h a d h e r s e l f t r a v elled to Balmoral in a break with tradition a s t h e m o n a r c h w a s s u ff e r i n g f r o m m o b i l i t y i s s u e s Britains Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96: B u c k i n g h a m P a l a c e T h o u s a n d s o f p e o p l e g a t h e r e d o u t s i d e B u c k i n g h a m P a l a c e , f o l lowing the Queen’s death they were all in t e a r s o v e r t h e s a d d e m i s e o f t h e i r b e l o v e d m o n a r c h
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said temperatures in Eu rope had been the highest on record for both the month of August and the sum mer (June August) as a whole” Data showed August was the hottest on the continent since records began in 1979 by a “substantial margin”, beating the previous record set in August 2021 by 0 4 degrees Celsius (0 72 Fahrenheit) Temperatures from June through to August 2022 were 1 34C hotter than the historical 1991 2020 average while Au gust itself was 1 72C higher than aver age That puts summer in Europe well within the temperature range at which the Paris Agreement on climate change seeks to limit global heating The 2015 accord commits nations to cap average global temperatures at well below” 2C above pre industrial levels and to strive for a safer guardrail of 1 5C Europe has been battered by a string of heatwaves this year with temperature records tumbling in many countries and the mercury topping 40C for the first time in Britain The Copernicus Atmosphere Moni toring Service (CAMS) said last month that 2022 was already a record year for wildfires, with nearly 660,000 hectares torched in Europe since January CAMS said fires in France had seen the highest levels of carbon pollution from wildfires since records began in 2003 The EU said last month that the current drought parching the continent was the worst in at least 500 years The European Commission’s Global Drought Observatory latest bulletin said 47 percent of the continent is currently covered by drought warnings mean ing the soil is drying out An additional 17 percent is under drought alert, meaning that vegetation is showing signs of stress, fuelling concerns about the continent’s autumn harvest An intense series of heatwaves across Europe, paired with unusually dry conditions, have led to a summer of ex tremes with records in terms of temper ature drought and fire activity in many parts of Europe, affecting society and na ture in various ways, said senior C3S scientist Freja Vamborg “Data shows that we’ve not only had record August temperatures for Europe but also for summer with the previous summer record only being one year old ” On a global level, August 2022 was the joint warmest August on record The average temperature was 0 3C higher than the 1991 2020 average for the month the monitor said AFP Russia will stop delivering oil and gas supplies to coun tries that introduce price caps, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Capping prices, as some Western countries are con sidering, “would be an absolutely stupid decision,” Putin told the Eastern Economic Forum in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok “We will not supply anything at all if it is contrary to our interests, in this case economic (interests), he said “No gas, no oil, no coal, no fuel oil, nothing ” G7 industrialised powers on Friday vowed to move urgently towards implementing a price cap on Russian oil imports, in a bid to cut off a major source of funding for Moscow’s military action in Ukraine Putin said Russia would respect its contractual ob ligations and hoped other countries would do the same Those who are trying to impose something on us are in no position today to dictate their will ” Putin said “They should come to their senses ” Pointing to rising energy prices in Europe ahead of winter, Putin insisted Russia would supply nothing outside of exist ing contracts, quoting a Russian fairy tale: “Freeze, freeze, the wolf tail They have several solutions Either subsidising high prices, which is bad because it won’t change con sumer behaviour or reduce consumption,” he said From an economic point of view it is correct From a social point of view it is dangerous, it can lead to an explosion It is better to adhere to contractual ob ligations to civilised rules Putin said co rd o n i to
C h i n e s e t r o o p s c l a s h e d i n t h e G a l w a n a r e a o f L a d a k h A t l e a s t 2 0 I n d i a n a n d f o u r C h i n e s e s o l d i e r s w e r e k i l l e d i n h a n d t o h a n d f i g h t i n g l e a d i n g t o a s h a r p e s c a l a t i o n i n t e n s i o n s b e t w e e n t h e A s i a n g i a n t s India then moved some 50 000 t r o o p s a l o n g c o n t e s t e d a r e a s i n L a d a k h t o m a t c h C h i n e s e d e p l o y ments some of them at altitudes of o v e r 1 5 , 0 0 0 f e e t ( 4 5 7 2 m ) , w h e r e s c a r c e o x y g e n a n d f r e e z i n g w i n t e r t e m p e r a t u r e s c a n b e l i f e t h r e a t e n i n g C h i n e s e t r o o p s d i s m a n t l e d d o z e n s o f s t r u c t u r e s a n d m o v e d vehicles to empty out entire camps from the banks of the Pangong Tso l a k e i n L a d a k h i n F e b r u a r y 2 0 2 1 a s p a r t o f a n a g r e e m e n t b y b o t h c o u n t r i e s t o p u l l b a c k t h e i r s o l d i e r s s o m e o f w h o m w e r e d e p l o y e d i n c l o s e p r o x i m i t y t o e a c h o t h e r
Countries growing 70pc of world’s food face ‘extreme’ heat risk by 2045
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The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe’s recorded history, with the con tinent suffering blistering heatwaves and the worst drought in centuries the European Commission’s satellite mon itor said on Thursday The five hottest years on record have all come since 2016 as climate change drives ever longer and stronger hot spells and drier soil conditions And that created tinderbox forests, increasing the risk of devastating and sometimes deadly wildfires
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Fast bowler Naseem Shah smashed Afghanistan left arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi for successive sixes in the last over Wednesday to take his team to the final of the Asia Cup in a thrilling en counter AFP Sport looks at five memorable six hitting moments in Pakistan’s crick eting history: M i g h t y M i a n d a d : Javed Mian dad’s final ball six off India’s Chetan Sharma in the 1986 Austral Asia Cup final at Sharjah still hurts India fans Needing 246 for victory Pakistan were in trouble at 61 3 before Miandad struck an unbeaten 116 off 114 balls With four needed off the final deliv ery, India fast bowler Sharma bowled a full toss and Miandad slogged it high over the leg side and into the crowd to trigger wild celebrations M u j ta b a l e v e l l e r : A left handed gutsy middle order batsman Asif Mujtaba took on Australia’s bowlers in a 50 over World Series match in 1992 and hit a six off the last ball from Steve Waugh to tie a dramatic game Chasing 228 for victory in Hobart, Pakistan slipped to 197 7 but Mujtaba stood firm and with 17 needed off the final over Australia skipper threw the ball to part time seamer Waugh Mujtaba hit him to all parts and dis patched the last delivery a full toss over midwicket to level the scores ‘boom boom’ afridi: Shahid Afridi won many exciting games for Pakistan with his maverick batting but his two sixes off India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in a 2014 Asia Cup 50 over match remain special Pakistan, chasing 246, needed 10 when Ashwin started the 50th over by taking a wicket But Afridi smashed the off spinner for two straight sixes to live up to his ‘Boom Boom’ nickname as Pakistan won with one wicket and two balls to spare a s i f a r r i v e s : Asif Ali was rela tively unknown when he hit four straight sixes off Afghanistan’s Karim Janat to announce his arrival at last year s T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Pakistan needed 26 off 18 balls when Asif walked in to bat Asif watched calmly from the non striker s end in the 18th over before smashing Janat over the ropes four times to take Pakistan home with an over to spare n a s e e M h e r o i c s : Naseem Shah became Pakistan’s newest six hitting hero when he walked in to bat at number 10 with Pakistan needing 20 off 10 balls with just two wickets in hand in their chase of 130 against Afghanistan on Wednesday Pakistan lost Asif in the 19th over but Naseem kept his cool, with 12 needed off the last over to smash Fa rooqi’s attempted yorkers for consecu tive straight sixes over long off
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Last season’s beaten finalists Liverpool got their Cham pions League campaign off to a disastrous start in a 4 1 defeat away to Napoli on Wednesday, while Robert Lewandowski hit a hat trick in a big win for Barcelona Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich also got their campaigns underway with victories but Rangers were crushed 4 0 by Ajax in the Netherlands on their return to the group phase of Europe’s elite club competition Jur gen Klopp’s Liverpool have won just two of their first six Premier League games this season and there was to be no improvement on their trip to Italy as Napoli raced into an early lead and never looked back Piotr Zielinski converted a fifth minute penalty, and Victor Osimhen then had a second Napoli spot kick saved by Alisson Becker Yet Napoli who had defeated Liverpool in their own stadium in the group stage in 2018 and in 2019 were 3 0 up at the break as Andre Frank Zambo Anguissa’s fine finish was followed by a tap in from substitute Giovanni Simeone Liverpool fell fur ther behind two minutes into the second half as Zielinski followed up to score after his initial effort was saved, but Luis Diaz did pull a goal back We were miles too open You can’t come to a place like this and not be compact They were by miles the better team,” Liver pool left back Andy Robertson told BT Sport “We have to wake up and quickly because we can t perform like that The six time European Cup winners next Group A outing is at home to Ajax who could have won by more than four at home to Rangers, last season’s Europa League finalists playing in the Champions League group stage for the first time since 2010 Edson Alvarez headed Ajax in front before a Steven Berghuis shot de flected in and a superb individual strike from Mo hammed Kudus made it 3 0 to Ajax by half time Steven Bergwijn pounced on a poor backpass to seal the victory late on in Amsterdam, leaving Rangers manager Gio vanni van Bronckhorst to give a bleak assessment of his side s prospects isLAMABAD R o R t t E National Assembly Standing Committee on Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) wants Pak istan Cricket Board (PCB) to take up the matter of the unprofessional attitude shown by Afghan players during the Pakistan Afghanistan Asia Cup 2022 game with the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) to avoid such incidents in future The Committee has strongly condemned the unpro fessional and unethical attitude of Afghan players during the Pak Afghan game on Wednesday The Committee which met here at the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) under the Chairmanship of Member National Assembly (MNA) Nawab Sher said Afghan players misbehaved with Pakistani cricketers during the match which was against the norms and sportsmen spirit The Committee also recommended that PCB should take up the issue with its Afghan counterpart to avoid such incidents in future Meanwhile, the Committee appreciated the perform ance of the Pakistan cricket team especially pacer Naseem Shah for hitting two sixes in last over for Pak istan and achieving unbelievable victory against Afghanistan The Committee also expressed deep sorrow and grief over the disasters caused by recent floods across the country which had ruined the life of majority of Pakistani people The Committee stressed upon the need to work col lectively for the rehabilitation of the affectees and moti vate international organizations to support them so that they could take a fresh start in life Coming to sports, the Committee expressed concern over insufficient facilities available for Pakistani athletes It was observed that athletes have been winning medals in their own capacity without any support The Committee therefore directed PSB to develop proper liaison with all provincial governments to provide basic s p o r t s f a c i l i t i e s t o a t h l e t e s a t d i s t r i c t l e v e l i n order to groom their talent as to compete with interna tional players However, the Committee also discussed perform ance of PSB and Gun & Country Club The Committee directed PSB to take effective measures to generate in come from private sector instead of depending on gov e r n m e n t f u n d s a n d e a s e t h e c r i t e r i a o f m e m b e r s h i p which would help to promote sports culture and gen erate revenue for PSB as well The Committee appreciated the steps taken by PSB t o p r o v i d e a c c o m m o d a t i o n t o a t h l e t e s s o t h a t t h e y could continue their sports activities in a friendly at mosphere E a r l i e r, S e c r e t a r y, I P C a n d D G , P S B b r i e f e d t h e Committee about the efforts made to promote sports culture in Pakistan and problems faced by them in this regards The meeting was attended by MNAs Rasheed A h m e d K h a n , Z u l f i q a r A l i B h i n d a r, Z u l f i q a r A l i Behan, Ms Wajiha Qamar, Ms Shahida Rehmani, Ms Nasiba Channa and senior officers of the Ministry and other departments
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DOHA R e u t e R s Qatar has faced a lot of unfair criticism over its hosting of the World Cup that was not based on facts but has re sponded to any fair criticism, the Qatar 2022 Chief Execu tive Nasser Al Khater said on Thursday World Cup organisers ignored questions about how Qatar’s security authorities would punish fans who broke laws such as con suming alcohol in public They also did not provide details about which countries would send police officers or sol diers to Qatar to help secure the tournament For years now, Qatar has received criticism over its human rights record Since 2014 three people have died in accidents at World Cup sites, while 39 have died in “non work related” inci dents deemed natural causes, officials said Qatar has is sued a string of reforms to its employment regulations since being selected to host the World Cup, including intro ducing a $275 monthly minimum wage and simplifying the process for changing employers
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N A b O D y WA N t s P C b t O tA k e u P m I s b e h Av I O r m At t e r O f A f g h A N P l Ay e r s W I t h A C b AFP Rohit Sharma’s India have been slammed for chopping and changing as they failed to make the final of the Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament with a game to go Pakistan s win over Afghanistan on Wednesday knocked out India from the tournament, which was a warm up for next month s T20 World Cup India, who won the previous Asia Cup in 2018 played in a 50 over format, came in as pre tournament favourites but lost their first two Super Four matches to Pakistan and Sri Lanka I think there was too much chop ping and changing done after just one de feat,” former India wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel told website cricbuzz “We lost against Pakistan and made three four changes India’s tinkering was not confined to the latter stages: Dinesh Karthik had been wicketkeeper for India’s opening win against Pakistan but Rishabh Pant was brought back behind the stumps for the next match Karthik a hard hitting batsman who specialises as a finisher in the short for mat, missed both Super Four matches as the left handed Pant was retained in the middle order “The consistency and the clarity of thought is so important especially when you play this T20 format,” said Patel “Dinesh Karthik came in and he was left (out) Rishabh Pant came in and would be thinking whether I am a perma nent member of the team or not ” Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar blamed an inability to be flexible with onfield plans for India’s disappointing re sults “Too much theory is not a very good thing What happens on the field is completely different,” Gavaskar told India Today “You have to have a Plan A, B and C which is where the Indian team in this particular tournament has not had alternate plans They seem to have been stymied when things started to unravel for them “Cricket is a game that changes in seconds particularly the T20 format and you’ve got to be ready for it ” s h a M i s i d e l i n e d: India can start to put things right when they play Afghanistan in a dead rubber Super Four Asia Cup match in Dubai on Thursday They will have home series against Australia and South Africa to cement their team plans before the T20 World Cup begins on October 16 in Australia India s lone T20 World Cup success came at the inaugural tournament in 2007, and Gavaskar implored the team to please see the areas where you can im prove and plug those gaps” India remain top of the T20 team rankings but have constantly faltered at global international tournaments with their last International Cricket Council title coming at the 2013 Champions Trophy India failed to make the semi finals of last year ’s T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and in 2019 lost in the semi finals of the 50 over World Cup in England Agencies
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Robert Lewandowski marked his first Champions League game for Barcelona with a hat trick as Xavi Hernandez’s side thrashed Viktoria Plzen 5 1 at the Camp Nou on Wednesday Barca, who failed to get past the group stage last season, also saw Franck Kessie and Ferran Torres score in an accomplished display Lewandowski has now scored eight goals in just five appearances for his new team in all competitions I knew from the beginning here it was going to be important to adapt right from the first game ” he told uefa com “Today is my wife’s birthday so the goals and the birthday were for her The fact that she was in the stadium on her birthday means a lot Some thing amazing for me ” There will be tougher tests to come for the five time European champions with Bayern Munich and Inter Milan also in Group C The Catalan giants visit the Allianz Arena next Tuesday in a real test of how far they have come in the last 12 months after Bayern s opening 2 0 win at the San Siro Barca took the lead in the 13th minute as Kessie nodded the ball home after Jules Kounde had headed Ousmane Dembele’s corner back across goal It was the Ivorian midfielder ’s first goal for the club since signing from AC Milan in the close season Ansu Fati almost doubled the advantage midway through the first half, but his effort was saved by vis iting goalkeeper Jindrich Stanek Plzen were awarded a penalty in the 25th minute as Andreas Christensen brought down Jhon Mos quera but the referee changed his mind after a VAR review and instead gave a free kick to Barca Lewandowski moved ahead of Karim Benzema into third place on the all time Champions League goalscoring charts with his 87th in the competition, and first for his new club The 34 year old curled a low shot into the bottom corner from just inside the area in the
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Agencies Top ranked New Zealand collapsed to 82 all out in the face of scintillating bowling Thursday as Australia won the sec ond one day international by 113 runs to seal the Chappell Hadlee series in Cairns Australia clinched a thrilling opening match on Tuesday by two wickets with the three match showdown now destined for a dead rubber on Sun day Spinner Adam Zampa weaved his magic for 5 35 while paceman Sean Abbott, in the side for the injured Cameron Green, bowled an amazing 28 consecutive dot balls, con ceding just one run from five overs with two wickets Mitchell Starc chipped in with 2 12 in a comprehensive thrashing with 17 overs to spare “We knew we had got to a total we could defend we just needed to be ultra disciplined with the ball, and we did that from ball one,” said Australia captain Aaron Finch “Once we started to build some pres sure we felt it would be harder to score as the game went on ” Trent Boult had snared four wickets and Matt Henry three as New Zealand restricted Australia to 195 9 after winning the toss and putting them into bat The under pres sure Finch failed again, out for a duck, but Steve Smith hit 61 and Starc (38 not out) and Josh Hazlewood (23 not out) added vital late runs It nevertheless appeared to be a catch able target, but the chase began disastrously for the visitors when Martin Guptill (two) got a thick edge to Starc in the opening over and Finch took the catch
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The Election Commission of Pak istan (ECP) on Thursday postponed the by elections in ten national and three provincial assembly con stituencies due to flood situation in the country According to the ECP spokesman, the decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Chief Elec tion Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja Only polling was being postponed and the remaining sched ule of the by elections would remain the same in all these constituencies The new date for the polling would be announced on improvement of situation and availability of law en forcers The polling on these con stituencies was scheduled on September 11, 25 and Oct 2
Twenty US C 17 military air craft will land in Pakistan carrying the food and shelter material worth $2 2 million as critical humanitarian assistance for flood response Counselor Chollet who led a US inter agency delegation to Pakistan, earlier in the day met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Foreign Minister Bi lawal Bhutto Zardari, and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa Asked about the US announcement to work with the United Nations to raise $160 million for the flood vic tims, Chollet said the US was ap proaching other countries and allies to meet the appeal of the United Na tions Secretary General
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He said the US was committed to doing its part with its partners in the international community to help Pak istan respond to the terrible disaster “The US wants to lead by ex ample by helping the communities in Pakistan during difficult times,” h e s a i d T h e U S t h r o u g h t h e U S Agency for International Develop m e n t ( U S A I D ) w i l l c o o r d i n a t e with the local aid agencies for the distribution of relief goods and as sistance D e r e k C h o l l e t s a i d t h e U S wanted to strengthen defence rela t i o n s h i p w i t h P a k i s t a n a n d a l s o had a good partnership on counter terrorism
A two member SC bench com prising Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi adjourned the hearing on an application moved through Advo cate on Record Muhammad Sharif Janjua, stating that Hassan Raza
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prayer timingS FA J R S U N R I S E Z U H R A S R M AG H R I B I S H A 4:21 5:46 12:06 4 37 6 24 7 49 Friday 9 September 2022 NEWS Published by Arif Nizami at Plot # 7 Al Baber Centre F/8 Markaz Islamabad for PT Print (Pvt) Limited Ph: 051 2204545 Email: newsroom@pakistantoday com pk Us state Dept delegation calls on COas Bajwa at GhQ RAWALPINDI S ta f f r e p o r t A delegation headed by Mr Derek H Chollet, Counselor, US State Department called on General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) at GHQ today
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During the meeting matters of mutual interests, regional security situation and bilat eral cooperation in various fields were discussed COAS said that Pakistan desires to maintain this tradition of bilateral en gagement and multi domain enduring relationship with United States (US) Both sides agreed upon enhancing defence and se curity cooperation The visiting dignitaries expressed their grief over the devastation caused by ongoing floods in Pakistan and offered sincere condolence to the families of the victims They offered USA s support to the people of Pakistan at this hour of need The dignitaries appreciated Pakistan’s efforts for regional stability and also pledged to play their role enhancing coopera tion with Pakistan at all levels COAS thanked for USA s sup port and reiterated that assistance from our global partners shall be vital in relief/ rehabilitation of the flood victims a h m a d a h m a da n i t H E g o v e r n m e n t h a s f i n a l l y i n i t i a t e d t h e f i n a l p r o c e s s t o f i l l t h e t o p m o s t l u c r a t i v e s l o t s t h e O i l a n d G a s D e v e l o p m e n t C o m p a n y L i m i t e d ( O G D C L ) a n d P a k i s t a n P e t r o l e u m L i m i t e d ( P P L ) w i t h r e g u l a r a p p o i n t m e n t s A c c o r d i n g t o s o u r c e s , a f e w m e m b e r s o f t h e f e d e r a l c a b i n e t h a v e a p p r o v e d t h e a p p o i n t m e n t o f Z a h i d M i r a s M D / C E O o f O G D C L a n d I m r a n A b b a s i a s M D / C E O P P L , f o r a p e r i o d o f t h r e e y e a r s b y c i r c u l a t i n g a s u m m a r y w h i c h i s a w a i t i n g t h e s i g n a t u r e s o f t h e r e m a i n i n g m e m b e r s T h e y a d d e d t h a t t h e c a b i n e t d i v i s i o n w i l l i s s u e a n o t i f i c a t i o n a f t e r a l l t h e c a b i n e t m e m b e r s a l o n g w i t h t h e P M g i v e t h e i r n o d r e g a r d i n g t h e a p p o i n t m e n t s H o w e v e r P r o f i t h a s l e a r n t t h a t t h e C a b i n e t ’s d e c i s i o n t o f i l l t h e p o s i t i o n s h a s n o t b e e n c o m m u n i c a t e d t o t h e p e t r o l e u m d i v i s i o n a s y e t I t m a y b e m e n t i o n e d h e r e t h a t O G D C L i s b e i n g r u n b y K h a l i d S u b h a n i o n a n a c t i n g c h a rg e a s a s t o p g a p m e a s u r e s i n c e O c t o b e r 2 0 2 1 f o l l o w i n g a n u n e x p e c t e d r e s i g n a t i o n b y S h a h i d S a l i m S i m i l a r l y, P P L i s b e i n g r u n b y M o i n R a z a K h a n o n a n a c t i n g c h a rg e s i n c e J a n u a r y 2 0 1 8 a f t e r g e t t i n g s i x m o n t h l y e x t e n s i o n s e v e n a f t e r r e a c h i n g t h e a g e o f r e t i r e m e n t T h e s i x t h e x t e n s i o n o f P L L’s a c t i n g M D h a d e x p i r e d o n A u g u s t 2 2 A c c o r d i n g t o s o u r c e s , g a s p r o d u c t i o n o f P P L a n d O G D C L h a s r e d u c e d u n d e r t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f a c t i n g h e a d s t o 6 8 0 M i l l i o n C u b i c F e e t p e r D a y ( M M C F D ) f r o m 9 0 0 M M C F D a n d 1 , 0 5 0 M M C F D f r o m 1 2 5 0 M M C F D r e s p e c t i v e l y E a r l i e r t h e P e t r o l e u m D i v i s i o n h a d s u b m i t t e d t w o s e p a r a t e s u m m a r i e s o n J u l y 2 6 a n d J u l y 2 7 b e f o r e t h e p r i m e m i n i s t e r t o c o n s i d e r t h e a p p o i n t m e n t s o f b o t h s t a t e o w n e d e n t i t i e s T h e P M ’s O f f i c e h a d t h e n c o n s t i t u t e d a c o m m i t t e e u n d e r t h e c h a i r m a n s h i p o f t h e p r e m i e r t o r e v i e w t h e p r o p o s a l a n d f i n a l i s e i t s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s r e g a r d i n g t h e m a t t e r T h e M i n i s t e r o f S t a t e f o r P e t r o l e u m w a s m a d e a m e m b e r o f t h i s c o m m i t t e e w h i l e e x P M S h a h i d K h a q q a n A b b a s i , a d v i s o r t o t h e P M o n E s t a b l i s h m e n t , a n d s e c r e t a r y P e t r o l e u m D i v i s i o n w e r e m a d e c o m m i t t e e m e m b e r s o n s p e c i a l i n v i t a t i o n A f t e r d e t a i l e d d e l i b e r a t i o n s a n d i n t e r v i e w s o f t h e s h o r t l i s t e d c a n d i d a t e s , t h e c o m m i t t e e h a d r e c o m m e n d e d a l i s t o f t h r e e c a n d i d a t e s t o f i l l t h e p o s i t i o n o f M D O G D C L f o r t h e C a b i n e t s a p p r o v a l T h e l i s t i n c l u d e d n a m e s o f Z a h i d M i r, N a d e e m B a j w a , a n d H a r o o n R a s h i d S i m i l a r l y, t h r e e n a m e s i n c l u d i n g I m r a n A b b a s i M o i n R a z a K h a n a n d S i k a n d a r M e m o n w e r e r e c o m m e n d e d t o t h e f e d e r a l c a b i n e t f o r a p p r o v a l t o f i l l t h e p o s t o f M D / C E O o f P P L
The ECP was of the view that the elections on scheduled time were not possible due to flood dev astation, engagement of all relevant institutions in flood relief activities, problems in movements due to floods terror incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and mass exodus of people from flood hit areas The meeting was told that the Interior Ministry has reported to ECP that Pak Army, Rangers, FC and others were busy in flood relief activities, including maintaining peace and prevention of terrorist ac tivities hence Interior Ministry can not assure providing services of these for elections Military authorities has also re ferred National Emergency situation saying that the Pak Army Jawans could not be called back from flood affected areas and hence were not available for election duty The Secretary ECP told the meeting that the by elections were being held in constituencies includ ing NA 157, Multan IV; PP 139, Sheikhupura V; PP 241 Bahawal nagar V were being held on Sep tember 11 The by elections in nine Na tional Assembly constituencies in cluding NA 22, Mardan III, NA 24 Charsadda II; NA 31 Peshawar V; NA 45 Kurram I; NA 108 Faisalabad VIII; NA 118, Nankana Sahib II; NA 237 Malir II; NA 239 Korangi Karachi I and NA 246 Karachi South I were scheduled on September 25 And the by elections on PP 209 Khanewal VII were scheduled to be held on October 2, 2022 ISLAMABAD a p p
ISLAMABAD S ta f f r e p o r t T h e S u p r e m e C o u r t o n T h u r s d a y a d j o u r n e d a p e t i t i o n a g a i n s t P a k istan Tehreek e insaf (PTI) Chair m a n I m r a n K h a n f o r a n a l l e g e d hate campaign against the national institutions
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The United States will operate a massive humanitarian air bridge to Pakistan over the next 10 days to provide relief supplies to the flood affected people Counselor of the US State Department Derek Chollet said on Thursday Derek Chollet the special aide to US State Secretary Antony Blinken, told APP that the US remained stead fast in its support for affected com munities across Pakistan through additional humanitarian assistance, besides the already announced $30 million relief package
Pasha, the petitioner ’s counsel, was suffering from severe lower back pain The petition was moved by Advocate Qausain Faisal through his counsel Hassan Raza Pasha, sought an order to restrain the re spondents, including the PTI leader ship, members and their official spokespersons from making any public or private statement The application stated that since the doctors had advised complete bed rest for two weeks, Hassan Pasha was not in a position to ap pear before the apex court to plead the case The application had also attached the medical prescription of the doctor concerned with a request that the proceedings be postponed in the interest of justice In the main petition, the petitioner sought a direction to set up a commis sion to assess the impact and damage of the alleged organised hate cam paign and suggest further legal steps and proceedings to determine individ ual liability as well as a collective re sponsibility and to stop the negative effects of the campaign against na tional security, which had allegedly adversely affected Pakistan s relations with friendly countries