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munter demandsaction againstbanned outfits

one out of threebaloch abducted byFrontier corps

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pakistan cricket board endorses Danish Kaneria ban

Fakhruddin G Ebrahim setto become CEC

ISLAMABADagencies

the parliamentary Committee onAppointment of the Chief electionCommissioner on Monday unanimouslyapproved Justice (r) Fakhruddin Gebrahim for appointment as the CeC. thecommittee, which met at the parliamentHouse with syed Khursheed Ahmad shahin the chair, considered the nominationsforwarded by the prime minister andleader of opposition in the NationalAssembly and unanimously confirmed thename of Justice (r) Fakhruddin G ebrahim.Justice (r) Fakhruddin has said he wouldaccept the responsibility if given theopportunity. talking to a private tVchannel, ebrahim said he had not yet beeninformed of his selection by the committee,but would accept the responsibility if it washanded over to him.

Government passes contempt bill, insists parliament is supreme g PPP-led coalition also passes another bill to raise pensions for judges’ widowsby 75 percent g PM says govt respects judiciary from ‘core of heart’ g PML-N walks out of House to protest ‘black law’, resumption of NATO supplies

ISLAMABADTayyab Hussain

Despite subtle hints by ChiefJustice iftikhar MuhammadChaudhry that the supreme Courtwould not compromise on itsfreedom and that it had the power

to strike down any law repugnant to theconstitution, the government on Mondaywent ahead and passed the new legislation oncontempt of court, which makes ridiculingcourts and defying its orders in an“appropriate” manner a piece of cake for thecountry’s rulers. Amid loud slogans of “Kala Qanoon NaManzoor” from the number-weak pakistanMuslim League-Nawaz and pML-Likeminded, the pakistan people’s party-ledcoalition government got the Contempt ofCourt Bill 2012 passed with majority.interestingly, the National Assembly alsointroduced another bill to raise the pensions forwidows of judges by 75 percent – a measuredescribed by a pML-N MNA as a bid to temptand divide judges for ulterior motives.Both the bills were introduced by LawMinister Farooq H Naik in the House.He had to face fierce resistance by the pML-Nmembers while introducing the amendmentbill to amend contempt of court law, but thegovernment finally sailed through with thebill.However, a strong opposition by pML-Nmembers created a ruckus in the House thatwas wisely defused by ppp ministers.the pML-N again stood isolated as neitherof the other opposition parties, the JUi-Fand ppp-sherpao, opposed the bill. takingthe House into confidence, Naik said the billincluded the 1974 Act and the amendmentmade in contempt law during the pML-Nchief Nawaz sharif’s government. Underthis bill, if remarks of any member areexpunged by the speaker those remarkswould not be quoted as evidence. Moreover,anything said against the armed forces andjudiciary would be considered unintentionalevidence and shall not be used as evidence.Referring to various constitutionalprovisions, the minister said the bill wasmeant for creating “balance”.

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LHC extends Makhdoom Shahabuddin’s bail until 16th

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the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) onMonday extended MAN Makhdoom shahabuddin’s interim bailin the ephedrine quota case until July 16.the two-member bench comprising Justice Ali Baqar Najfi andJustice Chaudhry Yunus was hearing a petition by shahabud-din, which he had filed in the court seeking interim bail and ter-mination of arrest warrant.the court on June 28 had granted the interim bail to himagainst a surety bond of Rs 100,000. A special court of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on June 21had issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for shahabuddin andAli Musa Gilani, for their alleged involvement in the ephedrinequota case.three accused in the case including shahabuddin, former direc-tor general of Ministry of Health Rasheed Juma and formerdrug controller Abdul sattar sehwani appeared before the courtunder strict security cover. the LHC reserved its judgement over a petition filed byRasheed Juma on June 26, offering to become an approver inthe case. in his application, he had assured the court to fully cooperatewith the investigation team and share all the information whichhe had about the drug quota case. the court also reserved its decision until July 16 over a petitionof former drug controller Abdul sattar seeking acquittal fromthe case.Counsel for the petitioner Abdul Rashid sheikh pleaded in thepetition that his client was innocent and his name was not men-tioned in the FiR. “so, sattar’s arrest was in the case is unjusti-fied,” he added.the legal team representing the ANF said there were strong evi-dences about the involvement of the former drug controller inthe case. it contended that owner of a pharmaceutical company, one ofthe recipients of the quota, paid Rs 115,500 against a rented-house in which Abdul sattar is residing.

The DPC job: Pickpockets rob Sheikh Rasheed

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president Awami MuslimLeague (AML) sheikh RasheedAhmed was deprived of Rs12,000 during the long marchunder Difa-e-pakistan Council(DpC). sources say that presi-dent AML sheikh RasheedAhmed was addressing the Difa-e-pakistan Council (DpC) rallywhen someone picked his pocketand stole Rs 12,000.

Petrol prices to be slashed furtherISLAMABADAGeNCies

petrol prices are likely to be reduced further by Rs 2.5 perliter from July 15. According to sources, the price of highspeed diesel is likely to remain stable while a rise of Rs 4per liter in the price of pOBC, Rs 2 per liter for kerosene oiland Rs 1.75 for light diesel oil by is expected. OGRA hasbegun preparations in order to execute this project of modi-fying fuel prices.

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ExpRessiNG se-rious concernsover the per-formance of theCustoms De-

partment regarding smuggledvehicles in Balochistan, thesupreme Court on Mondaysaid law and order would ob-viously deteriorate when gov-ernment departments werethemselves involved in illegalactivities.

these remarks were givenby a two-member sC bench,comprising Chief Justiceiftikhar MohammadChaudhry and Justice KhiljiArif Hussain, which was hear-ing a case regarding the lawand order in the province.

On Monday the Federal

Board of Revenue (FBR)chairman and Custom au-thorities also appeared beforethe court.

the court was apprised byCustom authorities thatQuetta collectorate had con-fiscated 200 smuggled vehi-cles since the last hearing. Onthis, the chief justice ex-pressed his displeasure andsaid the Customs Departmenthad worsened the law andorder in the province. Advo-cate General Amanullah Kan-rani told the court almost 100vehicles were seized in Quetta.

expressing dissatisfactionover the number of recoveryof smuggled vehicles, thechief justice told the advocategeneral that he (the CJp)could show him (the AG)hundreds of illegal vehiclesplying on the roads of the

city. DiG investigation Hamid

shakeel advocate told thecourt that the vehicle used ina suicide attack on pilgrim’sbus in Hazarganji area waswithout a chassis numberthus it could not be ascer-tained whether it was smug-gled or stolen.

Customs officials said itwas difficult to take actionagainst smuggled vehicles insome areas of the province.

At this, the CJp told themto “leave other areas, firsttake action in the provincialcapital”. Representing the At-torney General of pakistan,Deputy Attorney Generalshafi Mohammad Chandioassured the CHp that govern-ment departments were tak-ing action against illegalvehicles.

Landmine and firing kill two peoplein Quetta

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A man was killed in a landmine blastwhile another perished in a firing inci-dent in Jaffarabad and Mastung onMonday. According to report, Mohammadibrahim was on his way in RD 238area of Jaffarabad when he stepped ona landmine, which killed him in-stantly.in another incident, unidentified menopened indiscriminate fire on NoorAhmad at a bus stop that resulted inhis death. the deceased’s body wasmoved to a local morgue.police also recovered two dead bodies,including a woman from a residence inHub. the bodies were moved to a localhospital where one body was identifiedas Abdul Khaliq.

isLaMabaD: bomb Disposal squad personnel scan the

Jinnah avenue before the arrival of the Difa-e-Pakistan

council (DPc) long march in the capital on Monday. INP

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Munter demands action against bannedoutfits in Pakistan

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Us Ambassador to pakistan CameronMunter on Monday demanded pakistan totake serious actions against banned outfitsworking in the country. the demand of theUs ambassador came after Difa-e-pakistanCouncil (DpC) is carrying out a ‘longmarch’ against the government for the re-opening of NAtO routes. Banned outfitsincluding Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD) andAhle sunnat Wal Jammat were also partici-pating in the march. During his meetingwith Rehman Malik, the ambassador saidpakistan should take necessary steps forthe safeguard of NAtO trucks as the lawand order situation in pakistan was not sat-isfactory after the reopening of the routes.“pakistan should take necessary steps forthe protection of Us diplomats and citi-zens living in the country,” Munter said.Malik assured the ambassador that pak-istan would provide foolproof security toforeigners, including Us citizens, and saidthat maintaining law and order in the coun-try is the top priority for the government.

Pakistan begins work to speed NATO supply transitTORKHAM

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pakistan is increasing the capacity forNAtO trucks at a key border crossing,in order to speed up the processing timefor an expected influx of supplies fortroops in Afghanistan, officials said onMonday

Customs officials at torkham bor-der crossing AFp that construction hadbegun to expand dedicated parkingspace for NAtO containers.

islamabad agreed to reopen over-land routes to NAtO convoys last weekafter a seven-month blockade sparked

by a botched Us air raid on a borderpost that killed 24 pakistani soldiers.

“After expanding, the parking ca-pacity for NAtO trucks will be dou-bled,” Obaidullah Khan, a customsofficial at torkham, told AFp.

“prior to the closure the terminalhad a parking capacity of 250 vehiclesand now we are expanding it to 500.”

Khan said work was also under wayon two rooms for customs officers deal-ing with paperwork for NAtO vehicles,to speed up their transit intoAfghanistan.

the terminal remained quiet onMonday as no NAtO supply trucks

were able to reach torkham from theArabian sea port of Karachi, where theyhave languished for the past sevenmonths.

A bulldozer had begun work at thesite, uprooting trees while workersspread barbed wire around the back ofthe terminal, an AFp reporter wit-nessed.

security at the crossing is beingboosted, Khan said, to foil taliban mil-itants who have vowed to attack NAtOtrucks and kill their crews.

Four checkpoints are being set uparound the torkham terminal and thenumber of security personnel will be

raised from the previous level of 550.“We are ready to receive any NAtO

truck, you will see more arrangementsafter the trucks reach,” Meraj Khan, anadministrative official at torkham toldAFp. the land routes into Afghanistanare vital as the United states and NAtOwithdraw troops and equipment thathave built up since the Afghan invasionin 2001.

the blockade had forced the Us andher allies to rely on longer, more expen-sive routes through Central Asia, Russiaand the Caucasus, costing the Us mili-tary about $100 million a month, ac-cording to the pentagon.

Haqqani refuses tocooperate with SC

IslamabaD: Former pakistan ambas-sador to Washington, Hussain Haqqani,on Monday has once again refused to ap-pear before the supreme Court in thememo scam case; saying that his right ofappeal was affected due to the proceedingsof the Memo Commission as it had ex-ceeded its jurisdiction. He raised objec-tions regarding the Memo Commissionreport and requested the apex court toannul its findings. Haqqani stated he couldnot come back to pakistan due to securityconcerns and medical reasons but con-firmed his availability via video link. theformer envoy said that the commission hasoverstepped its boundaries. the task of thecommission was only to hold an inquiry;however he was put on trial. He claimedthat under Article 10- A of the Constitu-tion, he has not been given a fair trial; thecommission had recorded a statement byMansoor ijaz, but had deprived him of thechance to record his. “Despite several prej-udiced petitions, the Memo Commissionheld me responsible for the Memogate,” hesaid in his report. agencies

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THe Young Doctors Asso-ciation (YDA) punjabhas called off its strikeand resumed treatmentof patients in all depart-

ments of public sector hospitalsacross the province in compliancewith orders of the Lahore High Court.

“the normal functioning of in-door and outdoor wards resumed inhospitals on Monday,” YDA punjaboffice-bearers, including president DrHamid Butt, Dr Nasir Abbas and DrKashif Bilal told a press conferenceon Monday.

earlier, the YDA punjab had re-sumed emergency services on satur-day on the orders of the Lahore HighCourt.

the YDA began its strike in out-patient departments (OpDs) on June18, 2012 demanding a service struc-ture for doctors, while it withdrewservices from emergency and indoorwards as well after the punjab policelaunched a crackdown on young doc-tors on July 1.

Following the end of the YDAstrike, the process of pakistan Armydoctors’ return has begun. these doc-tors were called in on the request ofthe punjab government due to thedoctors’ strike.

Meanwhile, the LHC said strict

action would be taken if the govern-ment or young doctors did not com-ply with its orders. Lahore HighCourt Justice Aijazul Hassan heardthe case relating to the clash betweenthe punjab government and youngdoctors over the formation of servicestructure on Monday.

As the hearing began, young doc-tors lamented that the punjab gov-ernment had not withdrawnshow-cause notices and orders ofsacking of doctors despite court or-

ders. implementing the court orders,the young doctors said they hadcalled off their strike.

During the proceeding, the lawyerfor the punjab government main-tained that the authorities had imple-mented the court orders, adding thatthe allegations of young doctors werefake and baseless.

the judge said both the govern-ment and doctors had to follow thedirectives of court, otherwise strictaction would be taken against both.

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An Air india flight heading for NewDelhi from Abu Dhabi with 130 pas-sengers and crew on board made anemergency landing at NawabshahAirport after developing a technicalfault on Monday. the Airbus A320flying from Abu Dhabi made an un-scheduled stop at Nawabshah airport,around 230 km northeast of Karachi,pakistan Civil Aviation spokesmanpervez George told AFp.

Another plane brought engineersfrom india to fix the fault in the hy-draulic system and took the passen-gers to New Delhi, he said.

After the emergency landing, theindian captain was offered use of the

airport lounges for the flight’s pas-sengers and crew, but he declined.

“We offered full cooperation tothem but the Airbus captain did not

allow the passengers to disembarkand only requested drinking water,”said sultan Hasan, spokesman forpakistan international Airlines.

Indian Airplane makes emergency landing in Pakistan

girl kills father for rejecting herboyfriend

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A 15-year-old girl gunned down her fa-ther after he objected to her having aboyfriend in Faisalabad, police andwitnesses said on Monday. police saidthe incident took place in Faisalabad’sBilal town where the girl took out apistol and opened fire on her fatherafter having a fight with him. they saidthe girl wanted to marry a boy but herfather did not approve of him. the mandied on the spot. His body was taken tohospital for autopsy, a police officersaid. the police said the boy had givenhis girlfriend the pistol. Both the boyand girl, whose names were yet beknown, have been arrested.

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NewsNEw CECUnder the 18th Amendment, thetenure of the CeC has beenincreased to five years from threeand the procedure for theappointment has been changed.the CeC was earlier appointedby the president, but underArticle 213, the prime minister inconsultation with the oppositionleader in the National Assemblyis required to forward threenames to the parliamentarycommittee for confirmation ofone of them. After theparliamentary committeemeeting earlier, Khursheed shahsaid “any fears regarding riggingin elections” should no longerhold merit, adding that ninetypercent of the work pertaining toimplementation of the Charter ofDemocracy (CoD) had beencompleted. ebrahim’s name hadbeen proposed by the pakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (pML-N)in May. the pML-N hadproposed the names of Justiceshakirullah Jan, Justice (r)Fakharuddin G ebrahim andJustice (r) Nasir Aslam Zahid forthe post. the government hadproposed the names of Justice(r) Munir A sheikh, Justice (r)Amirul Mulk Mengal and Justice(r) Zahid Qurban Alvi. Justice (r)Fakhruddin G ebrahim is aneminent pakistani jurist,constitutional expert, senioradvocate supreme Court, formerfederal law minister, formerattorney general of pakistan,former judge of the supremeCourt of pakistan and formergovernor of sindh. He was bornon February 12, 1928 inAhmedabad, Gujarat. ebrahimattended the Gujrat Vidyapithand received an undergraduatedegree in law in 1949. He alsostudied courses based onphilosophy and attended lecturesgiven by Mohandas KaramchandGandhi. in the year 1950,ebrahim migrated to pakistanand attended sindh MuslimCollege. He received LLM degreeand an honorary Juris Doctor in1960 and later established hisown law firm by the name ofFakhruddin G ebrahim &Company. in March 1981, he wasamongst the very few judges whorefused to take oath underprovincial Constitutional Order(pCO) drafted by General ZiaulHaq. the establishment of theCitizen police Liaison Committeein 1989 remains one ofebrahim’s prolific achievements.

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tHe Difa-e-pakistanCouncil peacefullyended their log march

that they carried out in protestagainst the reopening of NAtOsupply routes to Afghanistan

after staging a sit-in outsidethe parliament House on Mon-day. Addressing the partici-pants, the leaders of the DpCvowed to resist the restorationof NAtO supplies.

Hafiz saeed said NAtOsupplies through pakistanwould be stopped at every

cost, adding that conspiraciesof india and the Us would notbe allowed to succeed.“Rather, such tactics would bedefeated with the support ofthe masses who are the realrepresentatives of the society,”he said. He said the purpose ofthe long march was to get rid

of the Us slavery, adding thatWashington was defeated inAfghanistan and was now wasplanning to leave it.

Maulana samiul Haq saidthe success of the long marchwas a viable proof of impru-dent policies of the govern-ment, and dangers faced by

ideological and geographicalboundaries of the federation.

Haq said the DpC wouldalso hold a long march frompeshawar to torkham onJuly 16. He highlighted theillegal activities of such fig-ures as Raymond Davis ofCiA and others who were

“still quite active throughoutpakistan”, and “the recent at-tack on an army camp in Gu-jrat was also a part of thischain of events.” the crowdchanted slogans including“Death to the UsA” and onespeaker called for the arrestof the CiA chief in pakistan.

DPC ends long march after staging sit-ing Haq says DPC to hold another long march from Peshawar to Torkham on 16th

the decisions of the courtscould not be discussed in parlia-ment but there was no protectionto the acts of the public office-hold-ers, he asserted.

He said parliament, executiveand judiciary were three importantpillars of our system and article 2Aclearly explained that the stateshall be governed by chosen repre-sentatives of the people.

Naik said if protection was notgiven to elected representatives,how could the will of people pre-vail. “the acts of holders of publicoffice in their official capacityshould not fall in the ambit of con-tempt,” he maintained.

the minister said the govern-ment respected the judiciary andnothing was contained in the billagainst the judiciary. “the ppp hasalways respected judiciary and weaccepted the orders of the courts.”Referring to the death sentence toZulfikar Ali Bhutto, imprisonmentof president Asif Ali Zardari andcases against Benazir Bhutto, thelaw minister said, all aspects of theconstitution were taken care ofwhile framing this bill. He said for-

mer president pervez Musharrafdetained judges, but the ppp freedthem. “We raised their salaries andare now planning to raise the pen-sions of judges’ widows from 50percent to 75 percent,” he said.

“Actions speak louder thanwords. Gilani bowed his head toverdict of the court, he did notstorm the court. But, if we respectthem, they should also respect us,”he added. the minister said theconstitution had been framed byparliament. “if the constitution issupreme and the supreme Court isits guardian, then parliament is theone which created this constitu-tion. Nobody can segregate a childfrom his mother and no one can beforced to respect the other.”

Opposition members, includ-ing Khawaja saad Rafiq, KhurramDastgir, Kashmala tariq, Muham-mad safdar and Zafar Baig Bhittaniobjected to the bill and called it a“black law” urging the governmentnot to pass it.

they claimed that the billwould provide a license for abusingauthority, make dozens of publicoffice-holders sacred cows and un-dermine the authority of courts.

Clarifying the statements of the

members, the law minister reiter-ated respect for the courts and saidthe request to enhance pension forjudges widows was made by Jus-tice (r) late Abdul Razzaq thaheemand Justice (r) Naseem sikandar.

the matter was referred to thegovernment by the supreme Court.Later, the bill was presented to theHouse which was adopted with amajority vote.

After the passage of contemptof court bill, prime Minister Rajapervez Ashraf assured the Na-tional Assembly that the govern-ment respected the judiciary fromthe “core of heart” and dispelledthe impression that there couldbe confrontation between the in-stitutions. “We all are pakistanisand the supreme Court is thesupreme court of pakistan and itssanctity is compulsory on all ofus,” he said. the prime ministersaid the contempt of court billwould not obstruct anybody indispensation of duties. throughthis bill, the government did notdesire making anybody “a holycow” rather the bill would protectthe right to appeal.WalKOUT: the major oppositionparties castigated the government’s

decision to reopen the NAtO supplyroutes, as the pML-N membersstaged a token walkout from the Na-tional Assembly session in protestagainst the government’s decision,calling it a violation of the decisionstaken by parliament and its commit-tee on national security. speakingon a point of order, sardar MehtabKhan Abbasi demanded the govern-ment take parliament as well as thepeople of the country into confi-dence over the agreements reachedwith the Us administration.

He said parliament and theparliamentary committee on na-tional security had not been takenon board about the government’sagreements made with the Us foropening NAtO supply routes.

“Whether it was Us pressure orany secret agreement, the govern-ment should take the parliamentinto confidence. if the govern-ment’s decision would satisfy us,we will support it,” he maintained.

He also criticized the fact thatthe Us secretary of state had madethe announcement of NAtO sup-ply’s resumption even before theDCC. JUi-F chief Fazlur Rehmansaid the pCNs had taken sixmonths to draft consensus recom-

mendations which were also rati-fied by the parliament, but the gov-ernment ignored allrecommendations and opened theNAtO supply routes.

“When NAtO supply routeswere blocked, the government saidit was decided in national interest.When they opened the routes, theyagain claimed it had been decidedin the national interest,” he argued.

He said that the pakistani na-tion had been disgraced by thewrong policies of the government.

“there are voices being raisedagainst the NAtO supply reopen-ing. We are not with the DefenceCouncil of pakistan (DpC) but wealso are not against their demands… we don’t want civil war in thecountry but we will hold publicdemonstrations against the gov-ernment’s decision on July 13,” headded. Aftab sherpao called for athrough debate on NAtO supplyroutes’ reopening and said the Usrefusal to offer an apology was dueto the weakness of the civilian andmilitary leadership. asHraf ON NaTO sUpplyrOUTEs: However, prime Minis-ter Raja pervez Ashraf vowed toprotect and preserve national dig-

nity as well as respect of the parlia-ment and other institutions.

“the government is fully awareof national obligations and prideand has firm resolve to protect it.”

“We have not hidden anythingfrom the nation and will not do soin future. if there will be any MoUor agreement regarding waragainst terrorism, we shall place itbefore the nation,” he added inspecial reference to resumption ofNAtO supplies. He invited opposi-tion to bring business on this issueand the government would wel-come to discuss the matter in theparliament. “We stood firm on ourdemand of Us apology on salalaincident. Finally Us tendered anapology and all Us media reportedit.” He said pakistan desired apeaceful and stable Afghanistan.

the prime minister congratu-lated the parliament, the parlia-mentary committee and the nationon selection of a consensus Chiefelection Commissioner.

“Fakharuddin G ebrahim is aperson who enjoys confidence ofparliament and the people. His ap-pointment as CeC will pave way forimpartial and transparent electionas desired by the nation.”

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two protesters were killed inovernight clashes with policefollowing the arrest of aprominent shia cleric, ac-tivists said on Monday, rais-ing fears of a new wave ofunrest in the sunni-ruledkingdom’s east.

Akhbar shakuri and Mo-hammed Filfel, both shia,died and a dozen other pro-testers were wounded duringthe clashes that erupted whenpolice opened fire to dispersea demonstration against thearrest of sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, said the activists.

the violence occurred inRiyadh street, the main ar-tery of Qatif city in easternprovince, they said. the re-ports could not be independ-ently verified. the interiorMinistry described Nimr asan “instigator of sedition” asit announced that he was ar-rested at Al-Awamiya in east-ern province on sunday, afterbeing wounded in the legwhile putting up resistance.He was transferred to hospi-tal and was due to be interro-gated, ministry spokesmanMansur turki said, cited bythe official spA news agency.

“security forces will nottolerate instigators of seditionwho have offended their soci-ety and homeland, making ofthemselves tools in the handsof the nation’s enemies,”turki said, apparently refer-ring to the sunni-dominatedkingdom’s main regional rivaliran. the reported deaths

come after Amnesty interna-tional said in May that sevenpeople had been killed and anumber of others injured inclashes between the authori-ties and protesters in thecountry’s shiite-populated re-gion since November.

Nimr’s arrest came 10 daysafter he had said he was confi-dent that his arrest or killingwould be a “motivation” forprotests to reignite in the east-ern province, during a speechat a mosque in Al-Awamiya. Heis considered one of the mainproponents of social unrest inthe region, where demonstra-tions first took place in Febru-ary 2011 after an outbreak ofviolence between shiite pil-grims and religious police in theholy city of Madina. theprotests escalated after thekingdom led a force of Gulftroops into neighbouringBahrain to help crush a month-long shiite-led uprising againstthe country’s sunni monarchy.

small groups of shias inQatif celebrated last monththe death of saudi crownprince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz,the country’s iron-fisted inte-rior minister, according tovideos posted on Youtube.Nimr was also seen in anothervideo making a fiery speech inwhich he rejoiced at the deathof Nayef, who served as inte-rior minister for decades. the53-year-old cleric had calledin 2009 for separating theeastern province’s shia-pop-ulated Qatif and Al-ihsaa gov-ernorates from saudi Arabiaand uniting them with shia-majority Bahrain.

2 Shias die in clasheswith Saudi police

NOC made compulsory forgoing to Iran

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A No Objection Certificate(NOC) has been madecompulsory for pilgrims andworkers going to iran fromKhyber pakhtoonkwa (KpK)and tribal areas, DunyaNews reported. After theturbat massacre, theinterior Ministry sent anotification to homesecretaries of KpK, punjab,sindh and FAtA secretariat.the ministry has made theprocurement of an NOCmandatory for workers andpilgrims going to iran.

DeRa gHazi KHan: Local residents hold a mock funeral of WaPDa at Jhoke utra in protest against unscheduled and prolonged

load shedding on Monday. ONLINE

WasHINGTON: A crip-pling heat wave that has heldlarge swathes of the Unitedstates hostage gave wayslightly on sunday — but notbefore leaving dozens dead inseveral states, officials andlocal media said.

After days of swelteringhighs around 100 degreesFahrenheit (38 Celsius) in thecentral and eastern parts of thecountry, forecasters said thatcooler air was slowly swoopingsouth from Canada. “tempera-

tures will drop, bringing somemuch needed relief,” the Na-tional Weather service said. therelentless heat sparked healthwarnings and sent people tomakeshift cooling shelters,shopping malls and over-crowded swimming pools insearch of relief. But the oven-liketemperatures took their toll allthe same, with the elderly andinfirm especially vulnerable.

the eastern state of Mary-land has recorded at least 13heat-related deaths since June

8, with 11 of the victims agedover 65, ed McDonough, aspokesman for the Marylandemergency ManagementAgency, told AFp. “We are hop-ing that this is it,” he said in ref-erence to the extreme weather.in Ohio, three seniors withheart problems perished due tothe heat after a fierce band offirestorms tore across severalstates on June 29, leaving themand millions of others withoutmuch-needed air conditioningafter power cuts. AFP

Dozens dead in USheat as relief rolls in

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He was the first pakistani to win a Nobelprize in physics after he predicted the ex-istence of the so-called ‘God particle’, butin his home country Abdus salam’sachievements have been written from therecord books, according to a report in theDaily Mail. Despite being a leading figurein pakistan’s space and nuclear pro-gramme, salam was shunned by Muslimfundamentalists when they took controlof the country in the 1970s.

Although he was a Muslim, the physi-cist, who died in 1996, belonged to the Ah-madi sect, who believed Hadrat MirzaGhulam Ahmad was their spiritual leader.

As a result salam along with pakistanisfrom other religious minorities, such as shiaMuslims, Christians and Hindus werepushed into the wilderness and attacked bymilitants from the sunni Muslim majority.

salam received a string of internationalprizes and honours for his groundbreakingwork in the world of subatomic physics.

in 1979, he was joint winner of the Nobelprize for his research on the standard Modelof particle physics, which theorized that fun-damental forces govern the overall dynamicsof the universe. salam and steven Weinberg,with whom he shared the prize, independ-ently anticipated the existence the ‘God par-ticle’ which later became formally known asthe Higgs boson after the British professorpeter Higgs who said the particle was respon-sible for endowing other particles with mass.

pervez Hoodbhoy, a pakistani physicistwho once worked with salam, said the wayhis colleague had been treated was atragedy. He added: “He went from someonewho was revered in pakistan, a national

celebrity, to someone who could not set footin pakistan. if he came, he would be insultedand could be hurt or even killed.”

physicists in switzerland stoked world-wide excitement on Wednesday when theyannounced they have all but proven theHiggs boson particle’s existence.

this was done using the world’s largestatom smasher at the european Organizationfor Nuclear Research, or CeRN, nearGeneva. “this would be a great vindicationof salam’s work and the standard Model asa whole,” said Khurshid Hasanain, chair-man of the physics department at Quaid-i-Azam University in islamabad. in the 1960sand early 1970s, salam wielded significantinfluence in pakistan as the chief scientific

adviser to the president, helping to set upthe country’s space agency and institute fornuclear science and technology.

salam also assisted in the early stages ofpakistan’s effort to build a nuclear bomb,which it eventually tested in 1998.

salam’s life, along with the fate of the 3million other Ahmadis in pakistan, drasti-cally changed in 1974 when parliamentamended the constitution to declare thatmembers of the sect were not consideredMuslims under pakistani law.

salam resigned from his governmentpost in protest and eventually moved to eu-rope to pursue his work. in italy, he createda centre for theoretical physics to help physi-cists from the developing world. Although

pakistan’s then-president, General Zia ul-Haq, presented salam with pakistan’s high-est civilian honour after he won the Nobelprize, the general response in the countrywas muted. the physicist was celebratedmore enthusiastically by other nations, in-cluding pakistan’s archenemy, india.

Despite his achievements, salam’s nameappears in few textbooks and is rarely men-tioned by pakistani leaders or the media.

By contrast, fellow pakistani physicistAQ Khan, who played a key role in develop-ing the country’s nuclear bomb and laterconfessed to spreading nuclear technologyto iran, North Korea and Libya, is consid-ered a national hero. Khan is a Muslim.

the president who honored salam would

later go on to intensify persecution of Ah-madis, for whom life in pakistan has growneven more precarious. taliban militants at-tacked two mosques packed with Ahmadis inLahore in 2010, killing at least 80 people.“Many Ahmadis have received letters fromfundamentalists since the 2010 attacksthreatening to target them again, and thegovernment isn’t doing anything,” saidQamar suleiman, a spokesman for the Ah-madi community. For salam, not even deathsaved him from being targeted. Hoodbhoysaid his body was returned to pakistan in1996 after he died in Oxford, england, andwas buried under a gravestone that read ‘FirstMuslim Nobel Laureate.’ A local magistrateordered that the word ‘Muslim’ be erased.

AbDus sAlAm: Pakistan’s unsung heroNobel prize winning physicist who predicted the ‘God particle’shunned in his own country because of his religious beliefs

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aUDitOR General ofpakistan Akhtar BulandRana called on primeMinister Raja pervezAshraf at the prime

Minister’s House on Monday and ap-prised him about the working of hisoffice. Rana told the prime ministerthat his office it ensured the audit ofall government organisations everyyear and the report was presented tothe prime minister accordingly.

prime Minister Ashraf said the of-fice of the auditor general was veryimportant as it was the custodian ofthe public’s money. He said he wouldlike to ensure the autonomy of the au-ditor general’s office, which wouldenable it to undertake its responsibil-ities on the basis of transparency and

accountability, the linchpin of goodgovernance.

the prime minister assured theauditor general that the governmentwould bring a bill in parliamentknown as the Audit and Accounts Bill.He expressed his concern that the of-fice was still being run under an ordi-nance and no legislation to the effecthad even been undertaken. Rana saidwithout the autonomy, the interna-tional organisations expressed theirreluctance to accept the findings ofthe AG office and insisted on thethird party validation. He said theAudit and Account Bill was very im-portant for the credibility of the con-stitutional office that was assignedsuch an important constitutional re-sponsibility of auditing the expendi-tures of the tax payers’ money.balOcHIsTaN: Minister for Na-tional Food security and Research is-

rarullah Zehri also called on theprime minister and apprised himabout the overall situation inBalochistan, which, he said de-manded the prime minister’s imme-diate attention.

Zehri underscored the impor-tance of installation of tube wells inBalochistan based on solar energywhich, according to him, would be ef-ficient and cost effective. He ex-pressed his satisfaction on thepriority being given to solar energy inthe current psDp projects.

the prime minister said Balochis-tan was his top priority and he wouldsoon visit the province to meet thecross section of society with a view toaddress the sense of alienation of theBaloch people. Ashraf said the subsidyon tube wells would continue as it wasimportant for the agriculture of theprovince and well being of farmers.

Govt to bring in Auditand Accounts Bill: PMAshraf says Balochistan his top priority, directs availability of medicines at affordable prices

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Authorities are negotiating tochange the venue of Difa-e-pakistan Council’s anti-gov-ernment rally from theparliament House to FatimaJinnah park. securityarrangements have beencompleted with 1,500 per-

sonnel of the islamabad Cap-ital police deployed at vari-ous points. security on allcheckposts has also beentightened. According to theinterior Ministry, the partic-ipants of the march will notbe allowed to enter the RedZone and Fatima Jinnahpark has been specified asthe venue for the rally and

the sit-in. However, the DpCleaders are insisting on stag-ing the protest outside theparliament House, againstwhich the authorities are try-ing to convince the religiousalliance leadership. erectingbarbed wires at the entry andexit points of the Red Zone,the police have banned theentry of common citizens.

Islamabad braces for DPC protestersLAHORE

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Owing to a shortage of locomotives andpaucity of funds, pakistan Railways hasdecided to stop the service of two of itspassenger trains. sources said the an-nouncement regarding the suspension ofAwami express and tez Gam wouldmade public by pR in the next few days,adding that the railways had already in-formed the federal minister of the plan.

the railways has also decided to pri-vatize one of its passenger train, but a

finial decision would be made in a meet-ing of Railways board on July 15.

Meanwhile, around 15 passengers ofthe pak Business express train were in-jured when some miscreants peltedstones at the train near Kot Lakhpat onMonday. the Lahore-bound train com-ing from Karachi was passing throughKot Lakhpat when it came under an at-tack by some unknown miscreants whopelted stones at its bogie Number 5,smashing its window panes and injuringat least 15 passengers.

A case was registered against un-

known persons by police.On the other hand, Railways Minis-

ter Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has de-manded 400 new railway engines forrelieving the railways.

Responding to queries during theNA question hour, the minister saidonly 103 railway engines were currentlyoperational, while the remaining wereundergoing repairs.

He said despite his demand for 400new railway engines, the government haddelivered none, and even the payment ofRs 13 billion for repairs seemed doubtful.

Pakistan Railways to stopAwami Express, Tez Gam

a computer generated image of a collision between two protons. The discovery

of the so-called ‘god particle’ proved salam’s theory correct.

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pUNJAB Chief MinisterMian shahbaz sharif hassaid that loadsheddingissue has hurt the countryand was a major cause of

terrorism. Addressing to the officialsof various provincial departments atMinar-e-pakistan tent office on Mon-day, shahbaz said though terrorism af-fected the countrymen but energycrisis has deprived millions of peopleof their jobs forcing them to indulgein criminal activities. “Load-shedding i s a l so a majorcause o f surge in terror-i sm and othercr imes,” he said.

s h a h b a zsaid he would

have also raisedvoice i f d iscr imi-

natory at t i tude inpower supply wasadopted with anyprovince other

than punjab.the chief minister said by es-

tablishing tent office at Minar-e-pakistan he has tried tojolt the consciences of thefederal governmentwhich was busy inenjoying the priv-ileges and wasgiving con-s i d e r a -t ions

t op e r -

s o n a land party

interests.s h a h -

baz urgedthe officials

of provincialdepartments to

minimise the non-development expendi-

tures and spend the savedmoney for welfare of com-

mon man who was in grip ofmultifaceted crises due to

poverty, unemployment, energycrisis and uncertain law and order sit-

uation. the chief minister also visitedthe Raiwind road project and directedthe concerned authorities and con-tractors to complete the developmentwork within four months. For this hesaid if needed night shift should alsobe started.

He said the federal government istrampling all norms of justice byadopting a discriminatory attitude topunjab over the issue of loadsheddingand the situation is becoming intolera-

ble for the peopleof the province.He said people of

punjab were beingspecially targetedin regard to load-shedding and the

industry of the province isbeing destroyed deliberately. He said the people of punjab are

being punished for electricity theft andline losses in other provinces.

He said it was the need of the hourto implement uniform loadsheddingto combat the energy crisis by imple-menting decisions of energy Confer-ences but, unfortunately, that was notdone, therefore, being the “Khadim-e-punjab” it is his duty to protect theright of the people of the province atall cost.

He said punjab government wasworking on multiple projects of gener-ation of energy through coal, hydal,solar and other sources, alongwith im-plementing projects of electricity gen-eration in industrial estates.

He said solar panels would be dis-tributed amongst to the downtroddenfamilies of rural areas.

the CM warned federal govern-ment not to create impediments in re-gard to electricity generation projectsin provinces, and stressed that if otherdevelopment projects can be expedi-tiously implemented, the electricityprojects can also be operationalised ata quicker pace.

He said action on emergency basis,carried out with true sincerity, wasneeded to bring the country out of theenergy crisis.

Save your children from theChIlD prOtECtIONbUrEaU! g Child Protection and WelfareBureau kidnapping childrenoff the streets to ‘look good’g Parents hold protest

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in an attempt to maintain theirrecords, the Child protectionand Welfare Bureau has taken tokidnapping children playing out-side their houses, City 42 re-ported on Monday. According to details, the bureauofficers have been holding ‘raids’in different areas of the cities totake children to the bureau of-fice in township to meet theirtargets for different projects thatare being funded by the punjabgovernment and other interna-tional donors. in one of the most recent projectsworth Rs 180 million, the CpWBhas set targets that include enrol-ment of 2,000 working childrenbelow the age of 14 in non-formalschools and of 2,000 higher agegroup children in the literacycum skill training classes. these‘targets’ require for CpWB to en-sure the ‘presence’ of these chil-dren in the centres and instead oflooking for real beggars, childlabourers and orphans, the CpWBhas resorted to kidnapping chil-dren who are being taken care ofby their parents and already havea house to live in. the parents of children who arebeing kidnapped by the CpWBalso held a protest and said, “Ourchildren are not orphans nor arethey lost. the bureau is kidnap-ping them and that is causing alot of distress to us. We requestthe higher authorities to lookinto the matter.”

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Religious Affairs Joint secretary sher Alion Monday offered an unconditionalapology to the Lahore High Court (LHC)for levying accusations of partiality onthe judges in the Haj corruption case.

LHC Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandialheard the case. Justice Bandial said “oneshould think itthrough at leastten times beforeterming thecourt’s judg-ments as ‘partial’.”

“the courtwas performingits duties in ac-cordance withthe constitu-tion,” he added.

the CJ remarked that the tax-lawwas weak in the country and that peopleevade taxes worth millions of rupees bypaying nominal bribes.

Last week, Justice Bandial issued ashow-cause notice to the joint secretaryfor criticising the court while hearingcontempt petitions against the ministryregarding the allocation of Haj quota.Ali, who appeared to be annoyed with thecourt’s proceedings on the quota issue,submitted his written reply to the LHC.

in the reply, he stated that the publichad approached the courts without a rea-son and the court had summoned min-istry officials despite allocation of Hajquota on merit. He had stated that thecourt’s proceedings hampered with thesmooth functioning of the ministry.

Justice Bandial had taken notice ofthe bureaucrat’s ‘derogatory’ remarksand ordered the security officials to take

him into judicialcustody. theLHC CJ had re-marked thatsuch officers tar-nished theimage of govern-ment institu-tions.

the con-tempt of courtpetitions werefiled by new tour

operators who complained about dis-crimination on the part of the ministry inawarding quota. they said the court in itsearlier order had directed the ministry toalso allocate Haj quota among the newtour operators. But the ministry had ig-nored the order and awarded quota topreviously registered operators only,they said.

LHC reserved the verdict in the caseand subsequently adjourned the hearingfor two weeks.

g Religious Affairs Joint Sher Ali renders unconditionalapology in contempt case g LHC CJ asks him to think 10 times before he speaks

g CM warns federal govt to not meddle with the province’s projects

to create its own electricity g Says solar panels would

be distributed amongst the poor

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pesiDiNG over a meeting of the small and Mediumenterprises Development Authority on Monday(sMeDA),Deputy prime Minister Chaudhry pervezelahi has said that the present government is striv-ing hard to resolve energy issue on priority basis. He

agreed to a proposal of developing an institutional mechanismfor close coordination between sMeDA, sMe Business supportFund and the sMe Bank, who were performing similar func-

tions in different entities. He alsoadvised Ministry of industries toarrange a separate meeting toconclude this proposal into aworking mechanism. He wasconfident that joint collabora-tion of the three organizations

could be highly beneficial for de-velopment of sMe sector. Review-

ing a sMeDA project for earlyrecovery of small business at

union council level, elahi ob-served that the grant beingdisbursed for this purposewas not sufficient to servethe requirement. He ad-vised sMeDA to increaserate of this grant fromRs.30, 000 to Rs.60, 000per sMe in next budget.

laHOrE: provincial Disaster Management AuthorityDirector General Mujahid sherdil on Monday an-nounced that the government has allocated Rs 50 mil-lion for flood relief and for provision of food andvaccinations. sherdil said that all relevant departments had beenalerted in case of flooding and the process of food stor-age had begun. He added that the government had begun stocking upon tents, blankets and other necessary items in case ofan emergency. this announcement came in a reviewmeeting for potential floods. aPP

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pakistan tehreek-e-insaf (pti) Chairman imran Khan and its cen-tral leadership have strongly condemned the terrorist attack on anarmy camp in Gujrat on Monday.

pti Central information secretary shafqatMahmood stated that the party was extremelyconcerned over the growing trend of terroristattacks on security forces of the country.

the pti leadership expressed deep sor-row over the incident and prayed for thedeparted souls and conveyed condolencesto the bereaved families.

‘Energy crisis isour weakness’

Govt allocates Rs 50m for flood relief

Lahore

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Lahore High Court JudgeNaqeeb shahzad on Mon-day sent four young doc-tors accused of the murderof a minor patient on a 14-day judicial remand.

According to a privatetV channel, the doctors at

the Mayo Hospital were ac-cused of pulling a drip tubeneedle out from a vein of15-month-old Fahad Hu-sain which resulted in hisdeath. the police regis-tered an First informationReport (FiR) against eightdoctors on the complaintof the victim’s father undersection 302 of pakistan

penal Code (ppC).During this hearing,

Matloob, Usman, tajam-mul and Adil were sen-tenced to 14-day judicialremand

A large number ofyoung doctors gathered onthe court premises in sup-port of their arrested col-leagues.

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4 doctors sent on 14-day remand

ptI condemns terrorist strike on army camp

Laptop project to createpositive impact: Mujtaba laHOrE: punjab education MinisterMian shujaur Rehman said on Mondaylaptops distribution among talented stu-dents will impact the education sectorpositively on Monday. “Around 0.3 lap-tops will be distributed during the cur-rent financial year, because only moderneducation can pave the way to develop-ment,” he said, adding that the distribu-tion of these laptops was being done in atransparent manner. He also urged thefederal government to put an end to theelectricity crisis, saying that it had leftmany young people unemployed. aPP

Reopening of naTo supplyroutes challenged in SClaHOrE: Barrister Zafarullah Khan onMonday challenged the reopening ofNAtO supply routes in the supremeCourt Registry. the petitioner arguedthat the reopening of NAtO supplyroutes, also known as Ground Lines ofCommunication (GLOC), was against thenational sovereignty, prestige and in vio-lation of parliamentary resolutions. itwould spread new wave of terrorism inthe country, he contended, adding thatlethal weapons transported via theseroutes to Afghanistan could be usedagainst pakistan. aPP

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HeRe is a lesson from history forthose insisting that the BabriMosque site be handed over to theVishwa Hindu parishad party whoinsist on building a temple in its

place because they believe a Ram temple existedthere, times of india reported.

in Lahore’s famous Naulakha Bazar therestill exists the Gurdwara shaheed Ganj singhn-ian which earlier housed a mosque built in 1722.though the existence of the mosque — demol-ished in 1935 — had neverbeen doubted, the privyCouncil ruled in 1940 thatMuslim rights over theproperty had ceased sincethe 12-year time duringwhich it could have been re-stored to them had elapsed.

the judgment of theprivy Council survivedpartition.

in rejecting the demandof Anjuman islamia forrestitution, the privy Coun-cil said that since no onehad sued within a statutoryperiod to eject the personpossessing adversely theproperty belonging to thewakf, plaintiffs “born 100years later” could not claimany rights. “the land can-not be recovered by or forthe mutawali and the termsof endowment can nolonger be enforced,” it said.

the litigation over shaheed Ganj was verysimilar to the one being contested over ‘Ram-janambhoomi’. shaheed Ganj came under thesikhs after Lahore was occupied by them in 1762.sikh rule ended only in 1849, after British an-nexation. A part of the mosque was turned intoa shrine for Bhai taru singh, who had sufferedreligious persecution. When the British came in

1849, the mosque was still with sikhs.then litigation began. in 1850, a case by Nur

Ahmad, claiming to be a descendant caretaker ofthe masjid, came to nothing as he had been longout of possession. On June 25, 1855 Ahmadbrought another suit against the sikhs, whichwas also dismissed.

in 1925, the sikh Gurdwaras Act waspassed and the shaheed Ganj Gurdwara in-cluded as a sikh shrine. Various parties madeclaims to the gurdwara but the sikh Gurd-waras tribunal held that it stay with a com-mittee of management for the notified sikh

Gurdwaras at Lahore. But on July 7, 1935, thebuilding of shaheed Ganj was demolished, theminutes of privy Council saying “by or withthe connivance of its sikh custodians”, leadingto riots and disorder in Lahore.

Another plaint was made on October 30,1935, against the shiromani Gurdwara par-bandhak Committee. But this was a curious

plaint for it made no claim for possession of theproperty or ejectment of the defendants or forrestoring it to its hereditary owners. it asked fora relief “claiming a declaration that the buildingwas a mosque in which the plaintiffs and all fol-lowers of islam had a right to worship, an in-junction restraining any improper use of thebuilding and any interference with the plaintiffsright of worship and a mandatory injunction toreconstruct the building.” this was dismissedby the district judge and later by the high courtin 1938. Finally, it came to the privy Council.

the Babri Mosque, was a mosque in Ayod-hya, a city in the Faizabaddistrict of Uttar pradesh,india, on Ramkot Hill(Rama’s fort). it was de-stroyed in 1992 when a po-litical rally developed intoa riot involving 150,000people, despite a commit-ment to the indiansupreme Court by the rallyorganisers that the mosquewould not be harmed.More than 2,000 peoplewere killed in ensuing riotsin many major cities inindia including Mumbaiand Delhi.

the mosque was con-structed in 1527 by order ofBabur, the first Mughalemperor of india and wasnamed after him. Beforethe 1940s, the mosque wasalso called Masjid-i-Jan-masthan. the BabriMosque was one of the

largest mosques in Uttar pradesh, a state inindia with some 31 million Muslims. Althoughthere were several older mosques in the sur-rounding district, including the Hazrat BalMosque constructed by the shariqi kings, theBabri Mosque became the largest, due to the im-portance of the disputed site.

it is still a disputed site.

AyODhyA, leArN A lessON in PeaCe from Lahore

Gurdwara Shaheed Ganj Singhnian in Naulakha Bazar was constructed on a mosque site and still survives as a gurdwara

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iNteRNAtiONAL envoy KofiAnnan said he agreed with pres-ident Bashar al-Assad on Mon-day on a new political “approach”to end syria’s 16-month-old con-

flict that he would put to the rebels.stepping up efforts to halt the carnage

which monitors say has cost more than17,000 lives, the UN-Arab League envoywas reportedly to travel on to iran, syria’sclose ally. “We discussed the need to endthe violence and ways and means of doingso. We agreed an approach which i willshare with the armed opposition,” Annansaid after meeting Assad in Damascus. theformer UN chief said he had a “construc-tive” meeting with Assad, on his third suchmission for talks on his six-point peaceplan for syria since he was appointed in

February. “i had constructive and candidtalks with president Assad,” he told re-porters at a Damascus hotel, echoing syr-ian foreign ministry spokesman JihadMakdissi who termed the meeting “con-structive and good”. Makdissi also said viatwitter that Assad would hold a separatemeeting with Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem. Al-Watan newspaper, which isclose to the government, said the Annan-Assad talks focused on the results of theGeneva meeting at the end of June of aninternational contact group on syria.

they discussed means “to implementthe results of the meeting ... on forming atransitional government in syria thatgroups government and opposition repre-sentatives without mention of Assad’s de-parture.” World powers at the meetingagreed a plan for a transition which didnot make an explicit call for Assad to quitpower, although the West and the oppo-

sition made clear it saw no role for him ina unity government. the meetings cameas at least 20 people were killed acrosssyria, according to the syrian Observatoryfor Human Rights, and a day after nearly100 people died in violence. the opposi-tion syrian National Council (sNC)slammed Annan’s decision to meet Assad,saying thousands have been killed in thecountry despite an April ceasefire that isa key point of the envoy’s plan. Ahead ofhis trip to Damascus, Annan, whose mili-tary observers in syria have beengrounded due to escalating violence, ad-mitted his peace blueprint has so far failedto stem the bloodshed, in remarks pub-lished by French newspaper Le Monde.

He also expressed frustration thatwhile Moscow and iran are mentioned bysome as stumbling blocks to peace, “littleis said about other countries which sendarms, money, and have a presence on the

ground.” — Us ‘parT Of THE cONflIcT’ —And, in an defiant interview late on sun-day, Assad told German public broad-caster ARD that many countries wereundermining Annan’s initiative. theUnited states is “part of the conflict. theyoffer the umbrella and political supportto those gangs to... destabilise syria,” saidthe embattled syrian leader.

Russian president Vladimir putinsaid on Monday that syria needed dia-logue between the regime and oppositionrather than foreign intervention to ensurea lasting peace. putin spoke only hoursafter prominent syrian opposition leaderand intellectual Michel Kilo held talks inMoscow with Foreign Minister sergeiLavrov. the Observatory, a monitoringgroup based in Britain, estimates that5,898 people have been killed since theAnnan-brokered truce was announced.

Annan to put new ‘approach’to rebels after Assad talks

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British prime Minister DavidCameron faced fierce oppositionfrom within his own party aslawmakers on Monday debated acontroversial draft law to reformthe upper house of parliament.

Mps will vote late tuesday onthe House of Lords Reform Bill,which would create a smaller andmainly elected upper house andcomplete the process ofabolishing the right of hereditarypeers to sit in the assembly.

the draft legislation tooverhaul the Lords — aninstitution dating back to the14th century — has caused deep

divisions within theConservative-led coalition, inwhich the Liberal Democrats arejunior partners. Around 70 rebellawmakers from Cameron’scentre-right Conservative partysigned a letter ahead of the two-day debate on the plans, warningthat the bill would “pile aconstitutional crisis on top of aneconomic crisis”. they also wantthe reforms, which are heavilybacked by Deputy prime MinisterNick Clegg’s Lib Dems, to begiven unlimited parliamentarytime for scrutiny, rather than the10 days offered by thegovernment.

A spokesman for Cameronwould not confirm reports that

the prime minister had spent theweekend trying to persuadebackbenchers to get behind thechanges, but said he woulddiscuss the issue with hislawmakers. “No one should be inany doubt about his position onLords reform. He is committed tothese reforms,” the spokesmansaid. “He and Cabinet colleagueshave been making the case overthe past couple of weeks. i amsure that he is speaking tocolleagues and he will reiteratehis position when he does so.”Under the proposed reforms 80percent of the upper chamberwould be elected, while its morethan 800-strong membershipwould be reduced to 450.

Saudi religious police heldafter deadly car chaserIyaDH: saudi authorities arrested four members ofthe notorious religious police who allegedly caused thedeath of a man and the injury of his wife and twochildren in a car chase, local media reported onMonday. “security services arrested four members ofthe Commission for the promotion of Virtue andprevention of Vice after they were interrogated (onsunday) over the chase that killed a man and injuredhis wife and two children in Al-Baha” in thesouthwest, Okaz daily reported. the men will becharged with “abusing power, chasing a man with hisfamily while ignoring instructions given to members ofthe committee completely banning chases,” the dailyquoted a religious police official as saying. the fearedreligious police sometimes use unmarked cars to chasethose they suspect of violating islamic sharia law, suchas unmarried couples. the english-language saudiGazette reported that the family was approached by amember of the committee “who complained their carstereo was on loudly.” the victim, identified by localmedia as 34-year-old Abdulrahman al-Ghamidi, thenleft with his family following an argument with thepoliceman who chased them, it said. AFP

Jibril urges unityas Libya wrapsup vote count

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electoral authorities were finalising thevote count on Monday from Libya’s firstfree polls in decades as an architect of therevolt that toppled Moamer Kadhafi calledfor national unity talks. Mahmud Jibril ofthe National Forces Alliances, which isexpected to do well based on preliminaryunofficial figures from the weekendelection for a national assembly, called forall parties to come together. “We extend anhonest call for a national dialogue to comeall together in one coalition, under onebanner... to reach a compromise, aconsensus on which the constitution can bedrafted and the new government can becomposed,” said the NFA leader. “therewas no loser and winner at all. Whoever isgoing to win, Libya is the real winner ofthose elections,” Jibril added. His remarkscame hours after the leader of the rivalJustice and Construction party,Mohammed sawan, admitted the NFA hadan early lead in the vote count for thecapital and Libya’s second-largest city ofBenghazi. “the National Forces Allianceachieved good results in some large citiesexcept Misrata,” he added. UN leader BanKi-moon called for Libya’s new leaders togovern in a spirit of “justice andreconciliation” as he hailed the country’sfirst elections since Kadhafi’s downfall.

egypt top court says

ruling nullifying

parliament ‘binding’CAIRO

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egypt’s supreme Constitutional Court said onMonday that all of its rulings were “binding,”in response to a presidential decreereinstating parliament after the court ruledthe house invalid. “All the rulings anddecisions of the supreme ConstitutionalCourt are final and not subject to appeal...and are binding for all state institutions,” thecourt said in a statement. several people havegone to court to challenge presidentMohamed Morsi’s decision ordering thereturn of parliament, and the supremeConstitutional Court said it would look intothese cases. the court also stressed that it was“not a part of any political conflict... but thelimit of its sacred duty is the protection of thetexts of the constitution.” the supremeConstitutional Court had said certain articlesin the law governing parliamentary electionswere invalid, annulling the islamist-ledhouse. On sunday, Morsi in turn annulled thecourt’s decision, putting himself on a collisioncourse with the judiciary and the military thatenforced the ruling when it was in power.

Church of englandpostpones key voteon women bishops

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the Church of england on Mondaypostponed a final decision on whether toordain women bishops, an issue that hascaused years of wrangling betweentraditionalists and liberals. the Generalsynod, the governing body of the worldwideAnglican Communion’s mother church,voted instead to hold further discussions ona last-minute amendment that had angeredsenior female clergy. A final vote is nowlikely in November. Archbishop ofCanterbury Rowan Williams, thecommunion’s spiritual leader, told themeeting at the University of York innorthern england that the adjournmentwould help “lower the temperature” overthe debate. “it is quite clear that thereaction cannot be ignored,” he said. “Whenthere is a reaction of real hurt and offencein the Church, Christians, and Christianpastors in particular, cannot afford toignore it.” the General synod membersvoted 288 in favour of an adjournment, 144against and 15 abstained.

britain’s coalition strainedby house of lords reform

sabuceDo: ‘aloitadores’ (fighters) struggle with a wild horse during the 400-year-old horse festival called ‘Rapa das bestas’ (shearing of the beasts) in spain on Monday. AFP

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Comment10Tuesday, 10 July, 2012

Really, life in pakistan has itscompensations. We may notamount to much, we may be

faint, but we’re definitely pursuing,always. take the Higgs boson, forexample:

“We have a discovery,” saidHeuer, director general of CeRN,speaking at a seminar recently inGeneva. “We have observed a newparticle consistent with a Higgsboson,” exactly where the Higgswas expected to be.

the long-sought “God particle”may explain why objects in our uni-verse have mass and existence, andmay unlock a gateway to some ofthe universe’s great mysteries.

Never one to be left behind andperhaps in a bid to unlock the mys-teries of her own mass and exis-tence, our federal minister fornational regulations and servicesmade a huge discovery of her own:she observed a particle consistentwith a capsule she takes to treat ahigh blood pressure, exactly wherethe capsule was expected to be: inthe pan. Unlike the discovery of the

Higgs boson which involved hun-dreds of scientists, her discoverywas of course made all by her lone-some, at least initially, since theparticle (or capsule) she had in-gested earlier was discoveredwhen, as breezily phrased by a na-tional daily, ‘it came out intact inher stool.’

Let me reassure a public everon the hunt for the inappropriatethat **it happens. even the Queenfaces this dilemma every day, or atleast one hopes she does.

Adalat 30, normally bright pinkas an innumerable clientele of thedrug will attest, was in this case asa tactful lab report noted, ‘lightbrown and film coated.’

We have in charge of our na-tional ministry for regulations andservices a personage discerningand able enough to detect a small(now brown) capsule in the midstof impeccable camouflage, whonoted, what’s more, the words‘Adalat 30’ stamped on the side ofthe pill facing the viewer (we hope).

“Why,” she fumed, “has this

medication re-appeared this way inits original packaging? i must getto the bottom of this (matter),” andshe hoofed it to her hotline to con-tact the relevant persons.

Let me explain: the ministerpossesses a hotline to relevant per-sons in her capacity as the personin charge of a newly formed min-istry, which has under its wing theDrug Regulatory Authority (theDRA). the DRA was establishedafter the promulgation of an ordi-nance by Mr Zardari on February16 to regulate the licensing, regis-tration and manufacturing of drugsas per the Drugs Act 1976. so this,and much more than this, concernsfor her own health, prompted theminister to raise Cain as well as thefederal government analyst DrObaid Ali, plus the entire staff ofthe drug regulation department.

sadly, what should have been amasterstroke of detection was dis-covered to be an error. the minis-ter, a doctor herself, failed to recall(or did she not know?) that Adalat30 is a timed release medication,

and as timed release medicationsdo, it was returned to its sender,apparently unopened.

to quote Wikipedia: ‘time re-lease technology, also known as sus-tained-release, sustained-action,extended-release, timed-release,modified release, or continuous-re-lease, is a mechanism used in pills,tablets or capsules, to dissolveslowly and release a drug over time.

today, most time-release drugsare formulated so that the activeingredient is embedded in a matrixof insoluble substance(s) such asacrylic, which means that the dis-solving drug must find its way outthrough holes (in the matrix).some drugs are enclosed in poly-mer-based tablets with a laser-drilled hole on one side and aporous membrane on the otherside. stomach acids push throughthis porous membrane, pushingthe drug out through the laser-drilled hole. in time, the entiredrug dose releases into the systemwhile the polymer container re-mains intact, to be excreted later

through normal digestion.’time release technology is

nothing new. it has been on themarket for more than a decade.

An aghast Dr Ali, speaking tothe aforementioned national daily,said, “How could such a detailwhich was even mentioned on thetablet go undetected by the ministerconcerned, the chairman of qualitycontrol, the federal drug inspectorsand the top tier of managers?”adding that, “the review and pro-cessing of the said complaint revealsthe level of professional expertiseand competence of officers who for-warded it to the laboratory.”

Dr Ali is now, like the HiggsBoson, exactly where we expect himto be: no longer the federal govern-ment analyst, since the news reportmeticulously refers to him as ‘thethen federal government analyst’.pity. i’d come to like the man.

You see, it never pays, in pak-istan, to point out a minister’s in-competence. in matters such asthis, our ministers are never faint,and always pursuing.

our minister makes a discovery too

The Pakistani bosonBy Rabia Ahmed

Sustainability or bustenough will eventually be enough

Can China and india have theper capita incomes that theNorth American and West-ern european countriesenjoy today? What will the

world be like if that were to happen? Dowe have the kind of resources, aroundthe world, to even consider the possi-bility? Can our environment sustainthat level of living? And can scientificinnovation and technological develop-ment achieve this?

Clearly there are things that are notpossible, even from simple accountingperspective. Not all countries in theworld can run trade surpluses. Forsome to run trade surpluses, othershave to run deficits. if the game isabout being one of the countries thathas surplus, it is a competition gameand the moment you think about theworld as a whole the entire issue of rec-ommending, to all developing coun-tries, export oriented growthstrategies, becomes a bit strange. Wecan have more overall trade, but, asmentioned, not all countries can havetrade surpluses.

the issue of the developing worldhaving per capita of the countries of theWest is not an accounting impossibil-ity, as with all countries running tradesurpluses, but there are serious issueshere. Does the world have the kind ofresources, fossil fuels, metals and soon, as well as food, to allow such highlevels of per capita for all? even if wecould produce a lot more food, can wehave better fuels, and even if that ispossible, can the environment sustainthat level of consumption? even if wedo not know the answer to the first fewquestions, though they look improbableenough, the answer to the last question,about environmental sustainability,does look fairly clear. Unless there arereally big and substantial changes inthe way we deal with cleaning the envi-ronment and maintaining and manag-ing it, the environment will not be able

to support the current per capita in-come levels of West if they were tospread to large populations like indiaand China.

But this raises very interestingquestions for everyone around theworld, but especially for countries inthe West. Despite the very high percapita income even currently in theWest, pursuit of growth seems to beone of the main objectives of economicpolicy in these countries. it is seen,even post Washington Consensus, asthe main means of providing for thepoor and for those who are below theaverage income levels. Versions oftrickle down still hold credence. inAmerica, in particular, despite the factthat many researchers have shownclearly that income inequality has in-creased tremendously and social andeconomic mobility has decreased in re-cent times, versions of the Americandream still survive and still tickle theimagination of many.

there is such tremendous opposi-tion, in almost all of these countries,about thinking about redistribution asa means of making the fortunes morewidely shared and more equal. AgainUnited states is the true outlier heretoo. inequality is not only higher in theUs than in many european countries,and welfare state weaker and more in-complete (Obama health care reformhas been termed socialist by many),there is a stronger sense, that comesthrough in surveys, that people feel thatpoverty is more the fault of the poorand they are to be blamed for theirplight. And hard work can get peopleout of poverty and reduce inequality.

in contrast, while the welfare stateis stronger in most european countries,and inequalities lower than in Us, gen-erally, more people, more realistically,also feel that poverty is not the fault ofthe poor. there are significant systemicissues that also explain poverty andthey also explain, to an extent, thathard work alone might not be enough.But here too, apart from the higher tax-ation levels and stronger welfare states,there are no explicit discussions of thegoals of development and growth andtheir limits and of sharing the fruitsbetter through more specific redistrib-ution programmes.

the vision, which was given asutopia by many early to mid twentiethcentury thinkers and writers, of a timewhen scientific and technologicalprogress would allow humanity to haveenough for everyone with the labour ofa few hours a week only from each per-

son, and allowing large amount ofleisure time for people to cultivateother interests and pursuits, given theper capita of developed countries istoday possible, but is not even beingdiscussed. instead those who have jobswork the full quota or more and a lot ofpeople go without jobs and resources.But the solution that seems to be ac-cepted by most, and as the only solu-tion, is to somehow keep growing sothat all can work at full scale. Whilethere is no thinking on the utopia side,even though the utopia seems achiev-able. is it the case that human want isreally insatiable? And even if it hasbeen culturally constructed this way,should it really be the case?

For the developing countries, theissues are different. Human need isstill very large and deprivation is stillat a very high level. even accountingfor redistribution issues, growth isneeded and given the level of depriva-tion it is not feasible to even think ofnot recommending growth, whateverone might recommend on the side ofredistribution.

But the issue, for the developingcountries, to think about, is that dothey have to follow the same route asthe developed countries? Do they haveto make growth the exclusive focus?evidence from a lot of social protectionprogrammes, from developing coun-tries and at a very practical level, seemsto be suggesting something else.Growth can be a focus but specific pro-grammes that redistribute to the poorand get them out of poverty traps canhelp with poverty quite well and theycan help in getting higher growth too.And more equitably and with a muchbroader base. Developing countiesshould explore these angles a lot more.

environmental sustainability issuesare not just the dreams or nightmares ofnaysayers. there are real issues hereand ones that need to be addressed de-spite what is happening on the scientificand technological fronts. the pursuit ofgrowth as the only goal and even as themain goal, especially by the developedworld, but even in the developing world,is making these concerns even graver.But there does not seem to be anythought and/or dialogue about it at thepopular level. should there not be somethinking about these issues too?

The writer is an Associate Profes-sor of Economics at LUMS (currentlyon leave) and a Senior Advisor at OpenSociety Foundation (OSF). He can bereached at fbari@sorosny.org

By Dr Faisal Bari

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courtesy our establishment’s split personality

Caught in the crossfire

pakistani civilians and military personnel have renderedmore sacrifices in the fight against militants than anyother country. the army has wrested control of swatfrom the ttp after a bloody fight and is now deployed in

a number of Fata agencies against the militants. this is one aspectof the situation. equally significant is the other aspect. Bannedmilitant outfits under new names continue to hold publicmeetings and address rallies. An english daily reported onMonday that the leaders of some of these outfits addressed agathering and collected donations in the name of jihad in Kashmirand Afghanistan in the outskirts of Rawalpindi i.e., under the verynose of the civil and military establishment. the establishment,thus, acts in a way which is indicative of a split personality.

pakistan is consequently caught in the crossfire. it is trustedneither by its allies nor by the militants. in November, Natoforces attacked a salala checkpost killing 24 pakistani soldiers.the drone attacks continue with little hope of an end even afterthe departure of the main body of the Nato troops in 2014. Ontheir part, the militants treat pakistan no better. in June alone,two major attacks in Khyber agency and peshawar killed 33 and19 civilians respectively. in May, taliban militants beheaded 13soldiers in North Waziristan. A month later they meted out asimilar treatment to seven other soldiers in Upper Dir. OnMonday, hours after the Difa-e-pakistan Council marcherscrossed the Chenab, militants attacked an army camp on theriverside killing seven.

the establishment’s policy of running with the hares andhunting with the hounds has also been disastrous from thediplomatic point of view. the country stands isolated in theregion while it is under intense pressure from the Us and itsallies. Nato’s “state of the taliban Report” released early thisyear accused pakistani security services of secretly helping thetaliban in Afghanistan. speaking to Khar on the sidelines of thetokyo conference, Clinton again reminded her of the need totake “tangible steps.” the most important one according to herwas fighting the militant groups who’ve used pakistan as a rearbase to attack American troops and jeopardise the future ofAfghanistan. Khar’s talks with her indian counterpart s MKrishna were overshadowed by the revelations made by Letoperative Abu Jundal and protests against continued anti-indiapropaganda by Hafiz saeed.

it is time the establishment takes a clear cut direction. it hasto realise that the world has developed zero tolerance formilitancy under any name and in support of any cause. pakistanmust not be made to suffer the fate of a castaway.

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There are those who believe that all the media does ismanipulate what people think. Honestly, we don’t have the time

Vilification, MBBS

it is very easy for the media to manipulatethe way people think. there are those thatwill have you believe this is all the media

does, ever. But frankly, we never have timefrom editing footage, subbing stories and de-signing layouts to actually plot world domina-tion through careful, subliminal messaging. itwould be too arduous and painstaking, espe-cially for people who have to navigate dead-lines like indiana Jones navigates traps inancient Mayan temples. it’s a madhouse.

so imagine my delight when i hear peoplevilifying journalists and anchors for takingsides and telling only one side of the strikingdoctors’ story. it’s the perfect set up. take anissue that can be broadly termed ‘public inter-est’; simmer for a few days in the fire of sensa-tionalism and misreporting; bring to a violentboil by petitioning judiciary and governmentto intervene; and of course, sit back and enjoy.Of course that’s what people think goes on inthe newsrooms and editorial meetings of majormedia houses. And of course, they’re not beingquite accurate.

What is the doctors’ complaint with themedia so far? that it has

been blatantly anti-doctorfor the duration of thisstrike? that it has not calledattention to the high-hand-edness of the punjab gov-ernment and has insteadfocused solely on crucifyingthe young doctors? that ithas painted the Young Doc-tors’ Association (YDA) in anegative light? Well, while itpains me to say this, whatelse did you expect from thepopulist mainstream media?

You see, media percep-tion of any issue, i.e. the in-formation that it relays andthe footage that it broad-casts, is shaped by twothings; what the reporterstell it and what feedback itreceives from miscellaneoussources. Reporters, espe-cially health reporters, areusually a sly lot. they haveto be, because they dealwith hundreds of differentpeople (most of them doc-tors) on a daily basis. tofool a health reporter is usu-ally not an easy task. But itcan be done. so while oneemergency department mayhave shut down and othersremained open, the reportercan go to that one closed

ward, shoot footage of wailing women and sob-bing children, and air it with the assertion thatall (or most) emergency departments in thecity, are shut down.

A reporter would do this for two reasons: ei-ther he’s been told to do it from ‘high up above’;or he’s trying to press the doctors to give him ascoop or settling a petty vendetta (revenge fornot giving him a scoop). in any event, this willcause doctors to reconsider and open up to saidreporter, who will have a comprehensive piecein the next day’s paper, or a 90-second newsstory in the 9pM bulletin. there are very few re-porters who actually go to the trouble of check-ing out hospitals themselves. i know somereporters like this; a few are even good friendsand sound professionals. One can immediatelytell from the way they talk that they are balanc-ing their opinions subconsciously. A good re-porter will always, even when giving you hisopinion, tell you at least two sides of any story.

these good reporters have this to report:the doctors’ strike has been called off, but thereis still dissent among the messiahs’ ranks.there are grumblings of defiance from certaingroups who, it is said, were even contemplatingcontempt of court. But sanity prevailed andcooler heads thought that would be going toofar. As of Monday evening, out-patient depart-ments and emergency services are (by andlarge) up and running in most of Lahore’smajor hospitals.

the new doctors that were ‘hired’ by thepunjab government are also an interestingphenomenon. these did not magically appearout of thin air, but were really post-graduatemedical trainees who were already working atthese hospitals when the YDA went on strike.they were the ones manning the fort in thedoctors’ absence and may be safely consideredheroes in their own right. And it is ironic thatthe strike should have inadvertently achievedone of its demands, as the regularisation ofthese trainees constitutes a major chunk of theYDA charter of demands. that’s a twist of fateif there ever was one.

But on the government side, all is not rosy.Already heavily in debt, punjab cannot affordto accede to all the doctors’ demands. so theywill try to stall. this has not worked out in thepast either and the government has sweptthings under the rug by trying to divert atten-tion to media-friendly epidemics, such asdengue. But not enough resources are availableto revamp or substantially improve the health-care services offered in the province. Overdraftis not the answer. We need a solution, fast. Be-fore more messiahs become fallen angels. Andmore of the fallen become false martyrs.

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Mighty obviousBy Syed Hassan Belal Zaidi

Why hydropower?Hydropower is globally recognised as a

renewable, cheap and reliable resource of energy.it generates electricity with zero emission andproduces no waste. there is no requirement offuel, operating cost is much lower andhydropower plants have longer economic livesthan thermal plants. pakistan has total installedpower generation capacity of 20,456 MW.However, dependable or de-rated capacity is inthe range of 14,000 to 16,000 MW during theyear, due to variety of factors, whereas demandfor electricity is increasing at an average annualrate of eight peer cent. thus, there is grosspower shortage at national level, demand beingprojected to around 22,000 MW by the year 2010.

to resolve the power crisis in long-term and tosustain economic growth, optimal developmentof hydropower is needed. there are, however,hosts of risks, constraints and specific issueslinked to undertaking hydropower projects.these include geological risks, hydrologicalconstraints, problems in water use, need forinfrastructure, environmental issues, socialproblems and generating political consensus.thus, the complexity and long lead-timeinhibits private sector to invest in hydropowerprojects, in spite of various fiscal and non-fiscalincentives being offered in this regard.therefore, there is an urgent need for thegovernment to effectively address the abovevital issues relating hydropower developmentand generation in the country.

FAZAL ELAHIIslamabad

no dual nationalities for usinformation Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira

claimed that the dual nationality law was beingamended for ‘those pakistanis whose hearts beatwith their country’. He was addressing mediamen at Dera Kaira – his hometown Lalamusa. itoo belong to Lalamusa. But i have lived in Oslofor many years, yet i have never had the urge toobtain dual nationality.

My roots are in Lalamusa; my heart beatsfor the city that has been associated withmanufacturing counterfeit cosmetics. When i goback in memory lane, i see innumerable tongaslined on the Gt road to fetch few passengersthat alighted from buses. i was one suchpassenger. the ride from ‘Lalum UsA’ (that’show we lovingly called Lalamusa) to my village,six miles on the dirt track meandering throughgreen crops used to rejuvenate our spirit. Alas!Tongas have mostly disappeared and replacedby Qingchis, which make ear-splitting noise. i

would still prefer the whiff of horse dung to themodern Qingchi.

Norway is a second home to thousands ofpakistanis, many hailing from Lalamusa andKharian. pakistanis are so high in number thatsome suggest renaming Norway to Kharway. Yeti assure that hardly anyone wants to get a dualnationality; all of the expatriates want to returnto their roots and be buried in their homeland.therefore, Mr Kaira, you need not fire your gunby resting it on our shoulders. We are every inchthe pakistani and want to remain so.

DR A P SANGDILOslo, Norway

Where are we headed?A crowd of around 100 onlookers is

watching cheerfully and can be heard shoutingthat 22-year-old Najiba has committed adulteryand must die. As the young woman, huddled ina burka, tries to move, a man walks up and opensfire with his assault rifle. that’s talibanisedjustice carried out in few hours of accusation,prosecution and execution. this cold-bloodedmurder took place last week in parwar provincein Afghanistan. Also, last week, anotherhysterical mob of hundreds of people attacked apolice station on the outskirts of Bahawalpur inpakistan, dragged a man out of the lock up. theman – accused of blasphemy – was beaten andthen burned to death. Later, the police reportedthat the accused man was mentally unstable, ashe kept laughing and chanting when was in thepolice’s custody. two weeks back, talibanreleased a video showing severed heads of 17pakistani soldiers displayed on a blood y whitesheet. these soldiers were captured by talibanin a cross-border raid from Afghanistan.

these and many other incidents are grimreminders of what the future holds for bothpakistan and Afghanistan. taliban may nevercome to power in a democratic setup but they havesucceeded in brainwashing a number of illiteratepeople, now being joined by some educatedreligious zealots as well. Whether they will everrule the respective capital of these inauspiciouscountries, only time will tell but they are nowruling hearts and minds of a number of people.No one knows how this mess the West createdin the 80s will ever be brought under control.

MASOOD KHANSaudi Arabia

a CeC at lastthe nation is going to have a consensus

Chief election Commissioner soon, if consensusis taken to mean agreement between the primeminister and the leader of opposition in theNational Assembly. Only time would tell howthis consensus was reached between the twomajor parties in the parliament. Let’s hope thisagreement augurs well for the country,including the voters.

i would advise the president of pakistan tofind a consensus Chairman NAB also. thepresent incumbent has disappointed every body,including his well-wishers.

ASGHAR MAHMOODIslamabad

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angelina Jolie receives honorarycitizen of sarajevo prize

HoLLyWooD superstar Angelina Jolie has

accepted the honorary citizen of sarajevo

prize while attending the Bosnia and

Herzegovina capital’s film festival. The 37-year-

old actor-turned-director stepped behind the

camera last year to make in The Land of Blood

And Honey, about a romance between a serbian

soldier and a Bosnian woman during the 1990s

war in the troubled region, reported e! online.

Her efforts were praised by government officials

at the Assembly of sarajevo canton Parliament

for drawing attention to the area and they

decided to award her with a special citizenship

prize. Jolie flew into the country this week and

she stepped onstage during the 18th sarajevo

Film Festival on July 7 to officially accept her

honour. “The time i spent and the people i met

in Bosnia have changed me forever. i can’t tell

you how much it means to me to be named an

honorary citizen of sarajevo, a city so dear to my

heart,” she said. neWs DesK

Dara singh’s condition critical

WresTLer-AcTor Dara singh continues

to be very critical and is now

undergoing dialysis, a doctor said here

on Monday. The 84-year-old was taken to the

Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital saturday

following a severe cardiac problem. He remained

critical on sunday, and his condition hasn’t

improved since. “He is still very critical. His

condition has not deteriorated and he is holding

up, but he requires a high dose of medication. The

problem he came up with during hospitalisation

has now affected his kidneys. His kidneys are not

functioning the way they should, so we have to put

him on dialysis,” ram narain, coo, Kokilaben

Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, told iAns. Dara singh,

who won the title of rustam-e-Hind for his

wrestling prowess, entered the film world in the

1960s. He appeared in various films like Watan se

Door, Daada, rustom-e-Baghdad, sher Dil,

sikandar e Azam, raaka, Mera naam Joker and

Dharam Karam. He was last seen in a 2007 release

Jab We Met. He has also done TV serials and is

best known for his portrayal of Hanuman in

ramayan. couRTesy HT

usher’s stepson declaredbrain-dead

Singer Usher’s 11-year-old stepson Kyle

glover has been declared brain dead by

doctors after he was struck by a jet-ski.

According to sources, glover has not experienced any

brain activity since he was admitted in the hospital.

However, the decision of taking him off the life

support has not been taken as yet, reports tmz.com.

Usher’s estranged wife Tameka has not left the

hospital since the incident took place. The 33-year-

old singer visited the hospital last night. glover was

struck in the head by passing jet ski-while riding on

an inner tube on Lake Lanier in Atlanta. neWs DesK

MALLiKA sherawat isknown for her whimsicalattitude towards herprofession. she would

always sign a film and take a heftysigning amount. Once she traps thefilmmaker, she tries to arm-twist theproducer and director. stories of hertantrums and creative interferencehave always been the talk of tinseltown. the self-proclaimedinternational actress Mallika sherawatis entangled in yet anothercontroversy. this time, the actresscheated director Ankush Bhatt (ofBhendi Bazar inc. fame) and sagarBallary (of Bheja Fry fame), bycommitting for both the directors’films with almost similar roles.stardust gives you firsthandinformation on the actress’ duplicity.Mallika sherawat was approached byAnkush Bhatt for his forthcoming filmMumbai Mirror. to be produced byxYZ, she took a signing amount of ` 50lakhs for the film. she had even shotfor two-three days, but after that shejust disappeared. When the directortried to get in touch with her, shewould not respond to hiscalls. she would create afuss over everything,from food to make-up. she evenwanted theproducers to paythe entireremunerationin advance,which theyrefused.Finally,whenshe

realized that they were not willing tosuccumb to her demands, she excusedherself from the project by saying thatshe was not familiar with the world ofgangsters and bar dancers. she wasobviously lying throughout becauseshe had signed sagar Ballary’s filmsaali Khushi where she is playing therole of con-woman and there is aportion where she is shown as a bardancer. A source close to the unitreveals, “After signing Mumbai Mirrorwith Ankush Bhatt, she was offered asimilar kind of role in sagar Ballary’smovie. she kept Ankush waiting tillsagar signed her for the film. she notonly cheated Ankush, but alsobeefed-up her remuneration andsigned the film with sagar.” Whilesachiin Joshi plays the male lead inMumbai Mirror, Vivek Oberoi playsthe lead in saali Khushi.Having paid Mallika a whoppingsigning fee (approximately ` 50 lakhs)the producer found out that Mallikahad a number of reservations aboutthe film, and that included thedirector. in a panic the productionhouse had to invest a large part of thelast month trying to convince the diva

that the project is worthy of heraugust presence. But she was

adamant. since the shooting infar-off exotic places was to

begin from May, Ankush andhis crew were stuck for aleading lady. Finally he hadto scout a last-minutereplacement and askedMallika to refund thesigning amount.incidentally, the producerhad agreed to pay her ` 2crores for 15 days’ work.Mallika had signed MumbaiMirror because she couldn’tsay no to the huge signingamount which was offered

by the producers.But when sagar

approachedher for saaliKhushi withVivekOberoi, shecouldn’tresist it.“MallikahadworkedwithVivek inKismatLuvpaisaDilli.she

wanted to work with Vivek again,” saysour source. “Mallika will play the titlerole of Khushi in saali Khushi. it’sbasically the part of a con-woman whogoes through various adventures andepisodes. she plays a bar dancer’savatar in the most prominent sectionof the film.”it is evident that Mallika gave a royalditch to sachiin Joshi and his directorAnkush for saal Khushi. says a friendof sachiin Joshi, “Mallika madeexcuses about how she couldn’tidentify with the world depicted in thefilm. then we hear she had gone andsigned a film where she plays exactlythe same role. What do we make ofthis?” the producers apparently wantback the sizeable signing amount theygave Ms. sherawat. But she isapparently in no mood to return themoney. the friend says, “Her managerwants the signing amount to be‘adjusted’. But we want no suchadjustments and compromises. Wejust want to put the bitter experiencebehind.” incidentally, Mallika walkedthe red carpet for the premiere ofsachiin Joshi’s film Aazaan in Dubai.since then, Mallika and sachiin havebeen good friends.Mallika had reservations about thedirector Ankush Bhatt. she felt hehadn’t proved himself yet. theproducer felt otherwise. they offeredto show her the director’s first filmBhendi Bazar inc. But she was notconvinced. then she had reservationsabout her role. so far Mallika has onlyplayed urban glamorous characters. inMumbai Mirror, she was required toplay an earthy woman from the street.it’s a character and a world that shewasn’t familiar with. Mallika wonderedaloud if she would be able to pull itoff,” says the friend. Actor sachiin Joshi reveals, “Mallikadid have reservations regarding herrole and the director. she wasn’t sure ifAnkush would be able to deliver. ishowed her Ankush’s first film BhendiBazaar inc. Our film goes into anaction space completely different fromthe stylized action that i did in Aazaan.it’s like Ram Gopal Varma’s satyameets Anees Bazmi’s Ready. And iknew Ankush was the right person todirect it.” While Ankush and sachiinJoshi decided to move on with theirproject, sagar Ballary is in a fix. NowVivek Oberoi clearly told the directorthat he will only be a part of the movieif Mallika is acting in it. says a source,“Vivek is very clear on this, it’s eitherMallika or no one at all. Vivek hit it offwith Mallika during Kismat Luv paisaDilli. couRTesy sTaRDusT

The actress says, “I walked out a week ago. I

had allotted 100 days for the shooting in

August as per contract but Mr Bhansali wanted

more days to shoot. My managers Reshma

Shetty and Zahid Khan thought about it and

decided it wasn’t possible as I have signed

three new big films for next year. The shooting

for one of them begins in October

immediately after the release of Heroine.

I’ve also given 32 days of promotional

time for Heroine as it’s a very special

film for me. That wouldn’t have

been possible if I had given

those dates to Ram Leela.” She

further clarifies, “I am extremely

ambitious and very career-oriented

and my personal life has never come

in the way of of my career. My not

doing this film has nothing to do with my

wedding. Everyone knows Saif and me have

been together in a relationship for the last five

years and such stories about me being

replaced because I am getting married are

floated by PR machineries on an overdrive! So

people, just back off and let me focus on my

work!” Zahid reveals the other major cause for

Bebo leaving the film. “We had fixed a

lumpsum amount for a 100-day shoot and had

clarified that if the director took more time

than that, we would be compensated, on a per-

day basis. Mr Bhansali was okay with it initially

but later he asked for more days and didn’t

want to pay us extra for those days. We

thought it’s better to do three

films in 150 days

than just get

stuck with

one.” neWs DesK

Kareena‘walked out’of Ram Leela

untrustworthy? Is Mallika Sherawat

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i am not a good actress: mila Kunis

FrienDs With Benefits star Mila Kunis says

she does not think she is a good actor. The

28-year-old beauty rose to fame on That 70’s

show at the age of 14 and has since starred in

movies including Black swan and Forgetting sarah

Marshall. But Kunis said that she has never been

too sure she is any good in Hollywood. “i always as-

sume that people underestimate me. Why not? Why

wouldn’t they? i have everything working against

me at this point. i am a woman, i’m a child actress

and i was on a television show for eight years. But i

have worked really hard to prove them all wrong,”

Kunis said. “it’s the stubborn side of me, i still don’t

have a clue what i’m doing. i’m confident in my tal-

ent, whatever that may be, and i hope i never am.

Working this hard is the thing that keeps me sane,”

she added. couRTesy HT

nicole lying low to avoidtomKat questions

TV Actor nicole Kidman wants to stay silent on

the subject of her ex-husband Tom cruise’s

latest marriage split and is reportedly

avoiding her friends to not talk about it. cruise and

Kidman, who were married for more than 10 years,

separated in 2001 with the actor citing

irreconcilable differences. The ex-couple have two

kids together, reported Daily Mail. Post the split

cruise went on to marry actor Katie Holmes but the

Dawson’s creek star recently filed for divorce from

him. They were married for five years and have a

six-year-old daughter suri. “nicole won’t talk,

wants her privacy, wants to be left out of this and

they (she and cruise) don’t speak much.

communication between her and Tom is very

limited. nicole really does not want to be dragged

into this or say anything to anyone. At some point

though, she will probably be forced to say

something, and she will most likely support Tom for

the sake of their children,” a source said. neWs DesK

Did Demi’s daughter breakoff from her?

AcTor Demi Moore’s relationship with her

daughters is reportedly at breaking point as

they find her needy post her split from

Ashton Kutcher. The 49-year-old, who has three

daughters rumer, scout and Tallulah with ex-

husband Bruce Willis, don’t want to deal with the

drama at the moment. “rumer, scout and Tallulah

just don’t want to deal with the drama at the

moment. since breaking up with Ashton, Demi has

been a mess. The girls were there for her through it

all -the split and the rehab but now they just feel

like they need a little distance,” a source said.

“Demi is just being very needy right now and the

girls are tired of it, they want a mother not another

little sister. They are all concerned that she is going

to relapse and head back to rehab and they can’t

deal with the stress and worry of it,” the source

added. neWs DesK

sTOry: peter parker wants toknow the whereabouts of hisparents... a search that takes himon a dangerous path....With great power comes greatresponsibility. Now who couldunderstand this better thandirector Marc Webb. After all, theonus of re-booting the spider-Manfranchise lay with him. And nowthat the re-booting (be ready for awhole new series of your favouritesuper hero to follow soon) is inprogress, you really wonder if thenew team gives you more bang forthe bigger buck. in fact, if the plotis anything to go by, the movieexpects all spider-Man fans to notbegin where peter parker getsbitten by the deadly spider; go evenfurther and find out why we nevergot to see his parents ever. Andwhile you do that, there’s the usualcrime still towering the streets ofthe Big Apple. But then more thanall that, it’s the romance betweenAndrew Garfield and emma stone

that takes this spider-Man movieto a whole new level of eQ(emotional quotient) stuff. And justin case you’re expecting a take-twoof the famous upside-down spider-Man-Kirsten Dunst kiss, restassured: you’re not going to bedisappointed. something different

in here, but equally smart.talk of different and there is moreout there. Gwen stacey (emmastone) is no longer the mutespectator that Mary-Jane was. Foremma, it’s all about taking control.if need be she is even ready to givea blow-or-two to the bad guy when

Mr spider-Man can’t handle allthat mess alone. Next is Rhys ifans,who as Dr Curt (Jekyll) Connors,ensures that as long as he is onscreen, there is enough for spider-Man to do... and enough for you tosavour. Finally, for the man inquestion: Andrew Garfield.Needless to say, Andrewdexterously slips into spidey’s suit(with a sense of humour), even ashe excels in the pulverized, alterego, peter parker.But then, as spider-Man, he takestoo long to don the spidey suit. infact, for most part he is seensettling scores without the spideymask... after long, long gaps.Finally, even his web does notcome naturally to him. He has towork to get that mechanism inplace. Of course, when he doesdizzily bungee jump across theManhattan skyline - specially in theKing Kong type climax — he stillsends a thrill down your spine. couRTesy Toi

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Drunk professor forcesstudents to sit through 23-hour-long science exam

UniVersiTy exams are never anyone's idea of

a rollicking time, particularly when your

professor rambles on besotted for 23 hours,

denies you sustenance and bathroom breaks, and

covers topics not on the syllabus, such as her

wardrobe and outside business interests. And

according to students at russia's Kazan Federal

University, this is exactly what precipitated on June

26, when an oral nuclear physics examination began

at 10:00 AM and ended at 9:00 AM the following day.

in an interview with the newspaper Moskovsky

Komsomolets, one of the pupils noted, “Towards the

end, everyone was just sitting there, totally

exhausted [...] The lecturer would go into another

room, drink, come back and start telling us about her

business." oral exams are not uncommon in russia,

and even the instructor admitted that this one in

particular ran long. But marathon examiner Landysh

Zaripova responded to these allegations with a swipe

at her fifteen students' academic aptitude, saying

"Do you think i am an idiot? i was sober. The

students just decided to get revenge on me because

they couldn't pass the exam. neWs DesK

enest borgine dies at 95

ErnesT Borgnine, who died sunday at 95, had

the resume of a Hollywood star, but not the

distance usually associated with one. Maybe it

was the famous gap-toothed smile. Maybe it was the

deep, hearty laugh that punctuated a conversation.

Maybe it was that, despite numerous roles in film and

theater, generations welcomed him into their living

rooms as the feisty skipper of TV's McHale's navy.

During an acting career of more than 60 years, the

connecticut native worked with Helen Hayes on

Broadway, with gary cooper and spencer Tracy in

film, and, for a much younger generation, as a voice

actor in spongeBob squarePants on television. He

and Frank sinatra signed their christmas cards

"Fatso" and "Maggio," their respective characters in

1953's From Here to eternity, a breakout role for

Borgnine. Borgnine's secret for long-term success

was to not be another Hollywood pretty face. "i was

a character actor. Do i look like a good-looking man?

no," he said in a 2011 interview timed to his

acceptance of the screen Actors guild's Life

Achievement Award. "But, see, i keep working when

the rest of the boys are retired."

heart attack sandwich tostay on the menu

THe second Avenue Deli won a court fight with a

Las Vegas-based burger joint Friday over the

names of their gut-busting foods. The new york

deli's sandwich called "instant heart attack" is made of

sliced pastrami and fried potato latkes. it costs $24.95.

The Heart Attack grill in Vegas had ordered the deli to

stop serving the fare on trademark infringement grounds.

The deli took the grill to court, and a federal judge in new

york sided with the deli. owner Jack Lebewohl tells the

Daily news of new york he's delighted by the ruling. The

second Avenue Deli is also allowed to sell another

sandwich called the "triple bypass." afP

WHaT Is THE GOD parTIclE? the "Godparticle" is the name physicist and author LeonLederman gave to the Higgs boson in his book theGod particle: if the Universe is the Answer, Whatis the Question? it's meant to communicate theimportance of the particle to our understanding ofphysics; Lederman has also said that he settled for"the God particle" because his intended title, "theGoddamn particle," was rejected by the publisher.WHaT Is THE HIGGs bOsON? At its simplest,it's a hypothetical particle that physicists believe givesall other particles mass."Higgs boson" isn't the nameof a particle that scientists have seen and observed andrecorded with their enormous magic science binocu-lars; it is the name of a particle whose existence has

been predicted by physicist peter Higgs (among oth-ers: Robert Brout, François englert, Gerald Guralnik,C.R. Hagen, and tom Kibble). Over the course of thelast five or six decades, particle physicists have beendeveloping a mathematical model for their field thatexplains, more or less, what the fundamental particlesof the universe are and how they interact. the stan-dard Model started as a reverse engineering of the uni-verse, based on what we could say was true with areasonable degree of certainty thanks to experimentsand what theorists could extrapolate from that — a se-ries of sort of educated guesses, or predictions, aboutwhat the particles are and how they act at parties. it'sa bit like being in a room, blindfolded, and having todraw a picture of its layout: you know one wall is here,

and you bumped into another wall there, so you canfigure out with varying degrees of certainty the loca-tion and size of the other walls, and where the cornersare as well. As scientists are able confirm the existenceof certain particles through experimentation — inother words, find the other walls — and observe theways those particles (or walls) deviate from what thestandard Model predicts, physicists are able to modifyand refine their theory. in 1983, for example, physi-cists at CeRN (the european Organization for NuclearResearch) found evidence of two bosons — the W andthe Z — that had been predicted by steven Weinberg,sheldon Glashow and Abdus salam when they laid outthe standard Model in the 1960s. it was a big deal.aND sO THE sTaNDarD mODEl prEDIcTs THEExIsTENcE Of THE HIGGs bOsON? Yes. in thissense, "predicts" means something like "requires inorder to exist." it's the last particle left to be "seen" byscientists, and without it, the standard Model doesn'treally work. physicists are hoping to observe (as bestthey can) the Higgs experimentally — or even better,something similar to, but slightly different from, theHiggs — to help confirm that they're on the Right track.WHy WOUlD IT bE bETTEr If IT WasN'T THE HIGGs? the hunt for evidence of theHiggs boson has been the major focus of particle physicsfor years now. if physicists find the Higgs exactly as it'spredicted to exist in the standard Model, it's kind of bor-ing. they know that the model, being partially theoret-ical, is unlikely to be a completely accurate picture of theuniverse at the atomic level. if they can find a particlethat does the same work and fulfills the same functionas the (theoretical) Higgs, but has certain differences, ithelps them modify and refine the standard Model —which in turn helps point the way toward new work.

the Higgs boson is a quantum — the minimumpossible amount — of this thing called the Higgsfield. to paraphrase a famous scientist: the HiggsField is what gives a particle its mass. it surroundsus and penetrates us. it binds the galaxy together.(Hypothetically, of course! Remember: we assumethe Higgs Field exists because math that describesthe universe very well wouldn't work if we didn'tinclude the Higgs Field in it.) Without the HiggsField, all elementary particles — the six kinds ofquarks, electrons and the other five leptons, pho-tons, gluons and the Z and W bosons — would bemassless and move at the speed of light. this wouldnot be a very fun universe; or, it might be fun, butfun would be a meaningless concept because noth-ing would exist. With the Higgs Field, however,some particles slow down: in interacting with thefield, they gain mass, and move through the fieldwith more difficulty. (At this level, we should beaware, mass and size don't correlate; mass is acharacteristic like electric charge and particles withdifferent masses are the same size.)

Babies who spend time around pet dogshave fewer ear infections and respiratoryailments than those whose homes areanimal-free, said a study released onMonday. the study, published in the Usjournal pediatrics, did not say why butsuggested that being around a dog thatspends at least part of its day outdoorsmay boost a child's immune system in thefirst year of life. Cats, too, seemed toconvey some protection to babies, thoughthe effect observed was weaker than withdogs. the research was based on 397children in Finland whose parents madediary entries each week recording the stateof their child's health during the infant'sfirst year, from nine weeks to 52 weeks ofage. Overall, babies in homes with cats ordogs were about 30 percent less likely tohave respiratory infectious symptoms --which included cough, wheezing, rhinitis(stuffy or runny nose) and fever -- andabout half as likely to get ear infections. "ifchildren had dog or cat contacts at home,they were significantly healthier duringthe study period," said the study led byexperts at Kuopio University Hospital in

Finland. the most protective associationwas seen in children who had a dog

inside at home for up to six hours aday, compared to children who didnot have any dogs or who haddogs that were always

outside. "We offer preliminary evidencethat dog ownership may be protectiveagainst respiratory tract infections duringthe first year of life," said the study. "Wespeculate that animal contacts could helpto mature the immunologic system,leading to more composed immunologicresponse and shorter duration ofinfections." the improvement wassignificant, even after researchers ruledout other factors that could boost infectionrisk, such as not having been breastfed,attending daycare, being raised bysmokers or parents with asthma, or havingolder siblings in the household. inaddition to having less frequent earinfections and respiratory infections,babies near dogs tended to need fewercourses of antibiotics compared to thosewho were reared in pet-free households, itsaid. previous research has shownconflicting results, with some studiesfinding no benefit for young childrenbeing around furry pets and others findingthat animal contact appears to offer someprotection against colds and stomachailments. the study authors said theirresearch differs from previous analysesbecause it focuses solely on the first

postnatal year and does notinclude older children.

NEwS DESk

A common mAn’s guide to

the god PArticle How will you discuss the most important scientific news of the year — and maybe of the decade —if you don't know anything about it? It's okay. We're here to explain what ‘the God Particle’ is.

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bAD weather washedout the entire secondday's play in the thirdand final test be-

tween pakistan and sri Lanka inpallekele on Monday. the entirefield at the pallekele interna-tional stadium was covered asincessant rain since early morn-ing, the heaviest in the region inthe last two months, kept theplayers indoors.

Umpires steve Davis andsimon taufel waited till 3:00pm (0930 GMt) before theyabandoned play for the daywhen the weather showed nosigns of clearing.

Light rain has been forecastfor the remaining three days.

the match is evenly poisedafter an enthralling openingday's cricket on sunday whenpakistan reduced sri Lanka to44-3 after being shot out for226 in their first innings.

the interruption gave pak-istani wicket-keeper AdnanAkmal time to recover from ahairline fracture in his left handafter he was hit by a rising ballfrom fast bowler Dilhara Fer-nando on the first day.

Akmal, who retired hurt on10 but later returned to make24, did not take the field in sriLanka's first innings wheretaufeeq Umar kept wickets.

sri Lanka lead the series 1-0, having won the first test inGalle by 209 runs. the secondtest in Colombo was drawn.

LAHOREsTaff RePoRT

the pakistan Cricket Board o Mondayendorsed a life ban imposed on Dan-ish Kaneria by the england boardover a spot-fixing scandal.

the integrity Committee of thepCB met recently at Gaddafi stadiumto review, among other things, thecase of Danish Kaneria and backedthe ban imposed by english cricket onthe spin bowler and said that the leg-spinner will remain suspended pend-ing his appeal.

the meeting was presided byChairman pCB Ch. Zaka Ashraf. ChiefOperating Officer of pCB, DirectorGeneral, Director internationalCricket Operations, Legal Advisor ofpCB and a former judge of the highcourt attended the meeting. the 31-year-old was banned for life from anycricket under the jurisdiction of theengland and Wales Cricket Board(eCB) after being found guilty of cor-ruption by a disciplinary panel.

essex paceman Mervyn Westfield,who was jailed in February after ad-mitting he had accepted £6,000 tounder-perform during a pro40 matchbetween essex and Durham in 2009,had named Kaneria as the link be-tween bookmakers and players.

Under international CricketCouncil (iCC) rules, sanctions on anyplayer from any member countryapply in all other member countries,a rule which the game's governingbody said is in place "to stamp outcorruption".

the pCB said its integrity com-mittee had endorsed the ban imposedby the eCB and will enforce it whileKaneria's appeal is considered.

"till the matter is finally con-cluded by eCB's Appeal panel, the in-tegrity committee decided thatKaneria will not be eligible to play any

cricket match, or participate in anycricket event/activity in pakistan,"the pCB said in a statement.

“the committee deliberated uponthe recent ban imposed by CricketDiscipline Commission (CDC) of eng-lish and Wales Cricket Board consist-ing of independent adjudicatorsagainst Mr. Kaneria and its imple-mentation in pakistan. the commit-tee discussed in detail the iCC andpCB Anti-Corruption codes underwhich pakistan Cricket Board isbound to recognize, respect and en-force the ban in it’s respective juris-diction. it was also brought to theknowledge of the committee that Mr.Kaneria intends to appeal against thedecision of the Cricket DisciplineCommission. After legal evaluation ofthe matter the committee agreed thatany final decision should only be

taken once the outcome of appeal byMr. Kaneria was known.”

“Keeping in view this aspect, andin the light of the decision by CDC ofeCB dated 22nd June 2012, the factsof which are being considered in de-tail by the integrity Committee, andtill the matter is finally concluded byeCB’s Appeal panel, the integrityCommittee decided that Mr. DanishKaneria will not be eligible to play anycricket match, or participate in anycricket event/activity in pakistan,”the statement added.

Kaneria took 261 wickets in 61tests -- the most by a pakistani spin-ner in all tests -- but has not playedin international cricket since the tourof england in 2010. He was not con-sidered for selection in the nationalteam owing to the suspicions on himin the spot-fixing case.

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federer humbledby sporting legends

LAHORE sTaff RePoRT

the Lahore High Court has on Monday re-jected the plea of swallow international seek-ing cancellation of a directive issued by theDirector General sports Board punjab forcancelling the company’s contract of layingthe blue turf at the National Hockey stadium.

LHC Judge Justice Khalid Mahmoodrejecting swallow international plea andalso gave him one month period to appealbefore secretary sports punjab regardingtheir case. Malik ishrat and Riaz AhmedKhan represented sports Board punjab andDirectorate of sports. it many be men-tioned here that ,Usman Afridi of swallowinternational failed to execute the projectin the given deadline of June 14 and heeven did not come up with any undertakingor written plea to extend the date for thecompletion of the work even after the ex-piry of the period of deadline.

the punjab Government provided aspecial grant of Rs 35 million to lay FiH-ap-proved synthetic turf for the preparation ofthe pakistan hockey team for LondonOlympics but the delaying tactics and theinability of the company owner jeopardisedthe whole process. Afridi was asked a num-

ber of times in writing to complete the workand was also directed to give a day to dayprogress report of the work. But on everyoccasion he failed to meet the demand ofthe contract. He also tried to lay the blueturf on worn-out shock pads which was alsoin violation of the contract.

Afridi was also given personal hearingbefore project Director Ahmer Kafi, DeputyDirector planning Naeemullah Bhatti,Deputy Director tariq Wattoo and sDO Ju-naid Ahmed. even then he failed to give anyundertaking and even did not ask for exten-sion and instead came up with a view that inthe current hot weather conditions the workcannot be carried out and even work in theholy month of Ramazan would not be possi-ble. He even went into arbitration beforesecretary sports Haroon Ahmed Khan whoafter hearing his case directed Afridi to com-plete the work as agreed but he still re-mained ardent in his snail’s pace.

the sports Board punjab after givinghim ample time to complete the work wasforced to cancel the contract of swallow in-ternational. swallow international, after thecancellation of the contract went to thecourt but the Lahore High Court also re-jected his plea and asked its owner to takehis case before secretary sports.

PCB endorses kaneria ban

Rain washes out 2nd day of TestPaLLeKeLe: The playing surface atThe Pallekele international Stadium iscovered with plastic sheeting as rainshowers delay the start of play on thesecond day while australian umpiresSteve Davis (R) and Simon Taufel walkback to the pavilion after inspectingthe ground and a fisheye lens showathe playing surface at The Pallekeleinternational Cricket Stadium. AFP

Court rejects blueturf installer plea

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east zone Whites,West zone Whitesmatch drawn

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the match between east Zone U-19 andWest Zone U-19 has drawn in Regional interDistrict U-19 cricket event played at iteefaqhospital ground . Resuming overnight score119/3 West Zone made 271/5 in 70 overs in1st innings. At the end of the play east ZoneWhites has made 187 runs in 2nd inningswithout loss. Adnan danish has scored cen-turies in both innings. West Zone Whitestook 62 runs lead in 1st inningsscoRe: east zone whites 209/8 in 1st innings. adnanDanish 104, agha shehryar 76, Moaz Kinya 3/83, Kamranafzal 5/54. West zone Whites 271/5 in 1st innings.Daniyal zahid 69(no), Waleed naqbi 44, arslan akram 54,M zahid 46, Saad bin Khalid 21. adnan Danish 2/53, aliimran 1/27, M asif 2/66. east zone Whites 187 for no lossin 2nd innings. adnan Danish 109(no), agha Shehryar67(no). final Score: east zone Whites 209/8, 187 for noloss. West zone Whites 271/5.

EasT ZONE `blUEs, NOrTH ZONEblUEs maTcH DraWN: the matchbetween east Zone Blues U-19 and NorthZone Blues U-19 has drawn in Regionalinter District U-19 cricket event played atLCCA ground . Resuming overnight score175/7. east Zone Blues has made 213 runsin 63 overs in 1st innings and secures 79runs in 1st innings. in the 2nd inningsNorth Zone Blues has made 201 runs.North Zone Blues gave 123 runs to eastZone Blues to win the match but at theend of play east Zone blues made 30/3. scoRes: east zone blues 213 all out in 63 overs in 1st

innings. M asad 97, Salman Shafiq 24, Shahir Mushtaq

16, zeeshan Mughal 15, bilal zafar 15. farhan nazir

3/40, bilal aslam 2/26, umer fiaz 2/36, Tariq Malik

1/24, agha Sheraz 1/18, iftikhar 1/28. north zone blues

201 in 2nd innings. abdul Rehman 28, farhan naza 23,

agha Shamsheer 40, bilal aslam 16, Khursheed Khan

31(no). zeeshan Mughal 5/31, zeeshan arshad 2/35,

Tasadaq Hussain 1/54, Shehzad Mirza 1/44. east zone

blues 30/3. farhan naza 2/16, Tariq 1/7. final Score:

north zone blues 134, 201. east zone blues 213, 30/3.

bible Societyannual Sports

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the 11th Annual sports Festival of the pak-istan Bible society was held at the FormanChristian College ground here on Monday.Around 70 teams from Lahore, Gujranwalaand sheikhupura took part in the differentevents including t20 cricket (hardball andtape ball), football and basketball. Morethan 80 athletes registered for the wholeevent. the event was officially inauguratedby chief guest James A tebby (Rector For-man Christian College) who shared encour-aging words for the youth and appreciatedthe vision of pakistan Bible society. theevent was attended by the members of Biblesociety including the secretary Anthony ALamuel who highlighted the importance ofpeace, love and shared the motto of thesports festival. the whole event is the coor-dinated-effort of irfan Francis while theguests included Justus Nassir, Mrs. MarinaLamuel, prof earnest N Dulv and BaberKamal, the whole event was managed bythe members and volunteers of the societywhich also include Justus Nassir, irfanFrancis, Ajmal tahir, Cedric Wasim, peterLal (Multan), Younis Masih (islamabad),Nasim Bhatti (isb), shahid Yousaf (pe-shawar) and pOWeR (Volunteer group).

Lee, Watson outof final england oDi

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Australia's Brett Lee and shane Watson bothhad their tour of england cut short by calfproblems on Monday as they were ruled outof tuesday's fifth one-day international atOld trafford. the duo, who suffered their in-juries while bowling during a crushing eight-wicket defeat at Chester-le-street onsaturday that gave england a series-clinching3-0 lead in the five-match contest, are nowdue to fly home to Australia later Monday.Australia team doctor John Orchard said in astatement: "shane Watson and Brett Leehave calf strains -- shane to the left and Brettto the right calf -- sustained during the fourthODi against england at Durham. "this is theopposite calf to the injury shane had last(Australian) summer. Because both playerswill miss the final game, they are flying backto sydney for MRi scans and further treat-ment. "At this stage, they are anticipated tobe available for consideration for selection forthe iCC World twenty20 (in sri Lanka start-ing in september), with scan results and re-sponse to treatment to determine whetherthey will be available for consideration for se-lection for the coming series against pakistanin the UAe (United Arab emirates)." Lee,who went off two balls into his second spellon saturday, and Watson, who managed justthe one over, joined teenage paceman patCummins (side strain) in returning homeearly from the tour, while left-arm quickMitchell Johnson did not play at Chester-le-street because of soreness in his right foot.

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the punjab Government and Guin-ness World Records are going to signa contract to put on record the recordbreaking performances in the punjabYouth Festival 2012 being held here inAugust after eid.

this was stated by Deputyspeaker and Chairman OrganizingCommittee sports punjab RanaMashhood Ahmed Khan here onMonday after chairing the meeting ofthe officials of the Lahore Division or-ganizing committee for punjab YouthFestival, National Youth Festival andinternational Youth Festival 2012.Also present on the occasion weresecretary sports punjab Haroon

Ahmed Khan and Director Generalsports Board punjab and Youth Af-fairs Usman Anwar.

“Our sportsmen and people tak-ing part in the festival will be attempt-ing a number of records in variousfields including sports and we hopethat to put the name of pakistan in thebook through the splendid perform-ance of our sportsmen and talentedpeople,” said Rana Mashood.

“some representatives of theGuinness World will be visiting La-hore shortly to sign a contract withpunjab Government to record theoutstanding performances which willset new marks in the book,” he as-serted. During the meeting clear andspecific instructions were given to theofficials to make the festival a big suc-

cess by taking every aspect of the fes-tival as a social work and not as a bur-den. Rana Mashhood said that theYouth Festival is going to be thebiggest social and sports carnivalwhich will be the mass participationof people from all walks of life.

He also praised the vision of theChief Minister punjab for conceivingthe idea of first the punjab sports Fes-tival and then the announcement ofthe Youth policy and now the holdingof the Youth Festival, which is beingfollowed by the world in which coun-tries like Australia, india and eu-rope’s Norway are holding the youthfestivals in line of the punjab sportsFestival, that was held three monthsago. “they have followed this trendand are organizing their festivals on

similar patrons on which we organ-ized the punjab sports Festival,” hemaintained.

“We have started to receive posi-tive vibes which are the outcome ofthe punjab sports Festival and now allthe enthusiastic approach of the peo-ple have started to come at a timewhen a negative picture of the countryis being portrayed in the world.

He said the prime objective of theFes want to portray a positive imageof pakistan with the participation offoreign teams which will feature in theinternational sports festival to be or-ganized in November. “it is a hearten-ing sign that around 22 countrieshave already confirmed their partici-pation in the punjab internationalYouth Festival,” he concluded.

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Kevin pietersen has said there is still achance he could play 'white ball' cricketfor england again despite retiring fromlimited overs internationals. However, thesouth Africa-born batsman -- who re-mains a test cricketer -- said it wouldneed a drastic change to england's packedschedule for him to consider a return toone-day and twenty20 matches for hisadopted country. "i've had my wife,mother, dad, mother-in-law, brothers andmy best mates all saying to me 'don't youwish you were out there batting againstAustralia (in the on-going one-day se-ries)?' pietersen told Monday's Daily Mail.

"And i've said to them i haven't missedit at all. But maybe all i needed was a break.Who knows? i've played a lot of cricket inthe last seven years." Asked if he would re-consider his retirement from internationalcricket's two shortest formats, the 32-year-

old said: "Never say never. i'm a lot olderand more mature than a few years ago, soyou never know. "Anything can happen. i'llnever say no, but the schedule would haveto be a hell of a lot different for me to comeback. Wait and see."

pietersen, one of the undoubted 'box-office' stars of world cricket, called time onhis international limited overs career whenthe england management denied him his

wish to carry on playing twenty20s whilequitting 50 overs per side one-dayers.

they said he had to make himselfavailable for both formats amidst concernsthat, otherwise, the 50-over side would beweakened by several players followingpietersen's lead. pietersen, man of the tour-nament when england won the Worldtwenty20 in the Caribbean two years ago,still harbours hopes of helping the side de-fend their title in sri Lanka in september.

"i still hope there might be a compro-mise for the World twenty20 in sriLanka," he said. "the squad hasn't beenannounced. "i would love to play in thatand defend our title with england. if ithappens, great, but i'm not holding mybreath." england's geography means that,uniquely among cricket countries, they areguaranteed a near year-long programmeof international cricket.

However, pietersen's critics insist hecould have kept playing for england in allthree major formats and still have given

himself a break if he'd opted out of the lu-crative twenty20 indian premier League.

But pietersen said expecting him, orother world stars, to miss the ipL was un-realistic and that his participation wasn'tsimply a matter of cash. "Okay, the eCB(england and Wales Cricket Board) maysay me playing in the ipL makes it hard torest me but what annoys me is that, withevery other board the ipL is a matter offact. it's not going away," he said.

"it's going to be there and players wantto play in it. players want to go and earntheir money and unless you let them deci-sions will have to be made. "Big playerswant to play in front of big audiences. Youwant to hear your name chanted by 50,000people. it's amazing. it makes you feel sogood. "the window for that has been cre-ated by the other boards but unfortunatelynot ours." england have so far coped wellwithout pietersen and lead Australia 3-0 ina five-match one-day series ahead of tues-day's finale at Old trafford.

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leFt wingers MohamamdZubair and Ali shan weredropped from 18-memberpakistan hockey squad

named here to take part in the LondonOlympics starting from July 27. theduo of forwards was dropped follow-ing conclusion of a ten-day final leg oftraining programme which concludedon sunday at hilly centre Abbottabad.

However, forwards shakil Abbasiand Rehan Butt were retained in thesquad for the London Olympics onMonday. Both players were fined lastmonth for participating in WorldHockey series in india, an event thatfield hockey’s world governing bodyrefused to sanction.

Midfielder Waseem Ahmad, whowas also fined for his participation inthe renegade tournament, made theOlympic squad as well.

these two players were axed onthe recommendations of the teammanagement which has taken intoconsideration every aspect beforereaching the decision “,said secretary,pakistan Hockey Federation, Moham-mad Asif Bajwa on Monday.

“the team management has beenempowered to choose the playing xiand we have assigned them the task tocome up with a combination which iscapable in all manners for getting goodresults in the mega event”, said secre-tary pHF.

He said the team will practice atfamous Cannock hockey club to gearup for Olympics.” Our team will playthree practice matches during thetraining, one against Cannock cluband two against scotland then movingto London,“ he said adding “the teamwill play two important practice

matches , one against Belgium on July24 against and Holland on July 26 tofully get in to action before its firstmatch of the Olympics against spain.”

pakistan was once recognized aspowerhouse in field hockey but onlyfinished eighth at Beijing, its worstever Olympic placing. pakistan wongold at the 1960, 1968 and 1984Olympics in hockey.

the pHF fired Michel van denHeuvel as coach in March for violatingthe federation’s code of conduct, but itwas the Dutchmen who guided pak-istan to an automatic Olympic place bywinning gold at the Asian Games inGuangzhou, China.

since then, Akhtar Rasool tookover the team. in the absence of Ab-basi, Butt and Waseem, pakistan fin-ished last at the recent seven-teamAzlan shah tournament in Malaysia.

pakistan is in Group A at theOlympics with Australia, Britain,spain, Argentina and south Africa.

pakistan's 18-member hockeyteam has completed its 10-day trainingcamp for the upcoming LondonOlympics in the northwestern city ofAbbottabad, an official said Monday.

the Green-shirts (pakistani team),after concluding their preparations athome, are now ready to leave forBritain thursday where they will beengaged in another 10-day trainingcamp at Birmingham.

pakistan coach and managerAkhtar Rasool Monday told localmedia the team worked on every as-pect of the game during the trainingsessions and all the players were fitand with high morale.

According to Rasool, players' fit-ness was the main focus during thetraining camp while the coaches alsoworked hard to improve penalty-cor-ner conversion, defence and midfield.

the coaching staff also used videoanalysis for the team's opponents atOlympics and told players about thepossible game plans against them.

"We did everything to improve theplayers' game besides focusing on ouropponents' previous performancesand moves during the matches," saidRasool.

During the 10-day camp at Birm-ingham, the players will have enoughtime to adjust to the conditions whereOlympics will be held.

pakistani team is likely to play twowarm-up matches against Germanyand Holland after the Birminghamcamp.

July 1, the pakistan Hockey Feder-ation (pHF) announced its 20-mem-ber Olympic probable squad whichwas later trimmed to 18.

Besides retaining penalty cornerspecialist sohail Abbas as captain ofthe team, the pHF selectors had alsocalled back senior players Rehan Butt,shakeel Abbasi, Mohammad imranand Waseem Ahmed.

pakistan have been struggling toget back its lost glory in the Olympicswhere it had won three gold, three sil-ver and two bronze medals. the pak-istan hockey team was announced bythe National selection Committeeafter the approval of president pHF. PLayeRs: imran Shah & imran butt (goalkeepers),

Muhammad irfan, Sohail abbas (Captain), Syed

Kashif Shah & Muhammad imran (full backs),

Muhammad Rizwan Junior, fareed ahmed, Rashid

Mahmood, Muhammad Tousiq & Waseem ahmed

(Half backs), Muhammad Waqas (vice-Capt),

Shafqat Rasool, abdul Haseem Khan, Shakeel ab-

basi, Rehan butt, Muhammad Rizwan Senior &

Muhammad umar bhutta (forwards)

officiaLs: akhtar Rasool Chaudhary (Manager/Head

Coach), Khawaja Muhammad Junaid (Coach), ajmal

Khan Lodhi (asstt. Coach), Shahid ali Khan (asstt.

Coach), faiz-ur-Rahman (Physiotherapist) & Muham-

mad nadeem Khan Lodhi (video-analyst).

Team completestraining at Abbottabad

Punjab, Guinness World to sign deal to record Youth Festival

Pietersen ponders one-day return

g zubair, ali left out of Pakistan’s olympic hockey squad

LaHoRe: Deputy Speaker and Chairman organising CommitteeSports Punjab Rana Mashhood ahmed Khan brief the journalistsabout the meeting with Lahore Division officials for the holding ofthe Punjab youth festival 2012. STAFF PHOTO

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WIMBLEDON: Roger Federer of Switzerland holding

up his 7 Wimbledon trophies while in the other picture

the Swiss great lifts his 17 Grand Slam trophies from

centre: Wimbledon 2012, 1st row, from left : Australian

Open 2010, Wimbledon 2007, Wimbledon 2009, Roland

Garros 2009, US Open 2008. 2nd row, from left : US

Open 2007, US Open 2006. 3rd row, from left :

Australian Open 2006, US Open 2005. 4th row, from

left : Wimbledon 2006, Wimbledon 2005. 5th row, from

left: US Open 2004, Wimbledon 2004, Australian Open

2004, Wimbledon 2003, Australian Open 2007. aFp

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ireland wantsmatchesagainst fullmembers

MUMBAIbiPin Dani

While the Bangladesh team is get-ting ready to play the threetwenty20s against ireland laterthis month, Cricket ireland (Ci)has expressed its desire to playmore matches against the fullmembers. Aaccording to its Chiefexecutive Officer Warren Deu-trom, "We are one of two mem-bers that received Us$1.5 millionover the next three years towardsthe projects that we outlined inour application, which were formore ODis/t20is against the fullmembers, for the establishment ofa domestic inter-provincial struc-ture and to establish a new na-tional academy." "Cricket irelandpresented to the iCC Financial &Commercial Affairs Committeelast month about our applicationfor iCC's targeted Assistance andperformance program (tApp).We shall now be in further discus-sions with iCC about how wemight prioritise those projects,"he added. "ireland has not appliedfor Full Member status. We sig-nalled our intention to applyback in 2009, which helped gen-erate the processes that have ledto iCC's own independent gov-ernance review, a review whichcontemplates how iCC member-ship might be reformed". "thisprocess was now discussed ingreater detail by the iCC Boardand its relevant sub-committeesand it is appropriate that wewait for the outcome of thisprocess", he signed off.

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Rookie ted potter jnr drained afour-foot birdie at the third hole of asudden death playoff on sunday toedge troy Kelly for a first UspGAtour win at the Greenbrier Classic.

potter, ranked 218th in theworld, finished eagle-birdie as heerased a four-shot deficit in regula-tion, carding a final-round 64 to joinKelly on 16-under 264. He becamethe sixth first-time winner on thetour this season. He earned a win-ner's prize of $1,098,000 andjumped from 173rd to 51st in theFedex Cup playoff standings.

it was quite a turnaround for the28-year-old left-hander, who hadmissed five straight cuts coming intothe tournaments. "When you're miss-ing cuts every week, you get down onyourself," potter acknowledged. "imean, it's hard to pick yourself back

up. But the plus side for me is i wasstill young. i just knew i had plenty oftime and just be patient and it willcome back around again." potter saidthe two-year tour exemption thatgoes with the win "was just a big relief... knowing that now i've got a coupleyears to try to improve on my gameand win some more tournaments."

Kelly, who started the day twoshots behind overnight leader Webbsimpson, had five birdies in hisfour-under 66 on the Old White tpCcourse. simpson, who claimed a firstmajor title with his Us Open tri-umph at the Olympic Club in sanFrancisco last month, surrendered aone-shot lead on the back nine of thefinal round here for the secondstraight year. Four bogeys in fiveholes from the 12th spelled the endof his challenge and he closed with a73 that left him tied for seventh.

"i kind of made a couple badswings and judged the wind wrong

a bunch of times it seemed like,"simpson said of his back nine. "itwas just one of those unfortunatenine holes where all week every-thing had been going right and innine holes everything couldn't havegone worse." south Korea's CharlieWi and rookie Charlie Beljanshared third place on 14-under266. Wi posted a 65 and Beljan a67. potter became the secondrookie to win on the Us tour thisseason. He had a chance to win atthe second extra hole -- the 17ththat he had eagled in regulation.

After coming up short of thegreen, potter chipped on to aboutfive feet but missed the birdie puttas Kelly saved par from a greensidebunker. Returning to the par-three18th, potter landed his tee shotfour feet from the pin and made theputt for the victory. Kelly stillnotched his best career finish, im-proving on a prior tie for 37th.

Potter wins Greenbrier in playoff

Donald stays at no.1LONDON

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Luke Donald has retained his worldNo.1 spot ahead of the year's thirdmajor, the British Open, which starts atRoyal Lytham on July 19.the englishman, who defends his scot-tish Open crown at Castle stuart nearAberdeen this week, stays narrowlyahead of Rory Mcilroy of Northern ire-land with Lee Westwood of england inthird place.tiger Woods stays at number four lead-ing a list of six Americans in the top 10.

sTanDing

1. Luke Donald (eNG) 9.83pts2. Rory Mcilroy (NiR) 8.683. Lee Westwood (eNG) 8.114. tiger Woods (UsA) 7.735. Webb simpson (UsA) 6.61

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south Korea's Na Yeon Choi won the Us Women's Open on sunday,showing a champion's resolve in the face of adversity to claim her firstmajor title. Choi, 24, fired a one-over 73 at Blackwolf Run for a seven-under total of 281 and a four-shot victory over another south Korean,Amy Yang. Choi had gone into the final round with a six-shot leadthanks to a remarkable 65 in saturday's wind-whipped third round.

Yang carded a one-under 71 for a three-under total of 285, withno other players finishing under par for the event. Choi's triumphcame on the same course where se Ri pak won the 1998 Us Women'sOpen, a victory Choi recalls watching on television as a girl. "And 14years later i'm here right now, and i made it," Choi said.

"My dreams come true. it's an amazing day today, and i reallyappreciate what se Ri did and all the Korean players, they did. it's re-ally no way i can be here without them." pak was among the playerswho rushed out to spray Choi with champagne and hug her after thelast putt dropped at 18. "she (said), 'Hey, Na Yeon, i'm really proudof you. You did a really good job, and you (were) really calm outthere,'" Choi said. "she talked to me a lot, and she was hugging me."

S korea’s Choi wins US women’s Open

LonDon: How Sunday's Wimbledonmen's final between federer andMurray played out on Twitter:Cuddle from Jonathan Ross. Likethat's going to calm me down???

– anDy's MoTHeR JuDy MuRRayStressing because i just arrived inSicily & can't find a Tv that's show-ing the Wimbledon final : Supportingvia livescore is stressful.– bRiTisH PLayeR LauRa Robson

This is the hardest pounding theSwiss have taken since the britishartillery pounded them to dust atMinden in 1759.

– TV PResenTeR Dan snoW victoria beckham wearing @victori-abeckham autumn/winter 2012-13dress at #wimbledon

– Vogue.coM uK The last Scots-born player to reachthe final was edinburgh's HaroldSegerson Mahony in 1896. and hewon!

– eDinbuRgH eVening neWs Did i just witness Roger's first evercorrect challenge??

– beTHanie MaTTeK-sanDsWhat's the score guys? Me for roger

– yuVRaJ singHLocated a tv just in time to see andywin the first set. #letsgomurray! :)

– LauRa RobsonMurray's serve is off the wall

– coacH nicK boLLeTTieRi

Tennis at its best. not sure Murraycan play any better!fed finds a wayin with magic, if Murray doesn't re-cover fast, it could be curtains!

– MaHesH bHuPaTHi now we've got ourselves a tennismatch. #wimbledonfinal

–TigeR WooDsfed express cool as cucumber !!

– nba sTaR Pau gasoLi know everyone is watching finals.imdoing something really special :)today.Will let u know later.– us PLayeR VaRVaRa LePcHenKoJust been visiting nanna inhospital.every bed with the andyMurray match on.The nHS are bloodyamazing.don't know how the nursesdo it!

– saRaH boRWeLL@andy_murray + federer both show-ing pure class! The ball boys/girls en-thusiasm to retrieve balls is#Ridiculous !

– Rio feRDinanDfed is making some of his shots lookway too easy.. honestly i feel like it'sunrealistic for us normal people toeven attempt them

– soMDeV DeVVaRManandy_murray did himself, his fam-ily and his nation proud today.Played like a champ. His time willcome for sure!

– goLfeR RoRy MciLRoy

Federer v Murray: Twitter final

WHiTe SuLPHuR SPRingS: Ted Potter, Jr. stands with the championshiptrophy after winning the greenbrier Classic at the old White TPC. AFP

KoHLeR: na yeon Choi of South Korea lines up her tee shot on the 12th holeduring the final round of the 2012 u.S. Women's open at blackwolf Run. AFP

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WatCh It LIve

TEN SPORTSThird Test: PakistanV Sri Lanka 09:30AM

From Athensto london

sixTH oLyMPic gaMes in 1920Venue: antwerp, belgium

DaTes: april 20 to September 12,1912

nuMbeRs of sPoRTs: 22 (154 events)

nuMbeRs of naTions: 29

nuMbeRs of PaRTiciPanT: 2626 (2561 men

and 65 women)

youngesT goLD MeDaLLisT: aileen Riggin

(united States) aged 14 years 119 days in Diving

oLDesT MeDaLLisT: oscar Swahn (Sweden)) aged

72 years and 280 days, Silver in Shooting

oLDesT goLD MeDaLLisT: Hubert van innis (bel-

gium) aged 54 years 187 days in archery

finaL MeDaLs TaLLy:counTRy g s bunited States 41 27 27

Sweden 19 20 25

great britain 14 15 13

france 9 19 13

belgium 13 11 11

finland 15 10 9

norway 13 9 9

italy 13 5 5

Denmark 3 9 1

The netherlands 4 2 5

Switzerland 2 2 7

South africa 3 4 3

Canada 3 3 3

estonia 1 2 0

brazil 1 1 1

australia 0 2 1

Spain 0 2 0

Japan 0 2 0

Czechoslovakia 0 0 2

Luxembourg 0 1 0

greece 0 1 0

new zealand 0 0 1

TRiVia:n The 1916 olympics were scheduled to be

held in berlin, but were canceled because of

what came to be known as World War i.

The 1920 games were awarded to antwerp

to honor the suffering that had been in-

flicted on the belgian people during the war.n Central european countries and Russia were

not invited to the antwerp games, despite

objections from ioC president baron Pierre

de Coubertin.n The olympic oath was introduced for the

first time at antwerp. The first oath was

taken by victor boin, who won waterpolo

medals at earlier games. He gained another

in fencing in this edition.n The olympic flag was introduced for the first

time at the 1920 games. it was designed by

baron de Coubertin in 1913, based on an ancient

greek artefact, and consisted of five interlaced

rings coloured blue, yellow, black. green and red,

representing the union of the five continents

and all nations.n Daniel Carroll completed a unique double in

the rugby final when he won his second gold as

a member of the uS team. He was also part of

the victorious australian team in 1908. He re-

mains one of only two athletes to win gold

medals for two different countries.n in a performance unequaled in olympic history,

nedo nadi of italy earned gold medals in five of

the six fencing events.n at age 72, Swedish shooter oscar Swahn

earned a silver medal in the team double-shot

running deer event to become the oldest

medalist ever.n The 1920 12-foot dinghy sailing event was the

only event in olympic history to be held in two

countries. The first race was staged in belgium,

but the last two races took place in the nether-

lands because both entrants were Dutch.n for the first time, only the national olympic

Committees could enrol participants.

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they may specialise in different disciplinesbut all of iraq's representatives to the 2012London Olympics know all too well thestruggle of training in a country which isdangerous and still rebuilding.

iraq's Olympic team heads to Britainhoping to secure medals, an achievementwhich could help solidify what remains afragile national identity. But poor infrastruc-ture and difficulties in training mean theirchances, pitted against better-equipped andbetter-trained athletes, look slim. "Weaponsand ammunition are all outdated -- all of our

equipment is old compared to other coun-tries, Arab and european," said Noor AamerJassim, who will be competing in air pistolshooting. But the 18-year-old is still hopeful.

"sport is my life," said the shy, head-scarf-wearing youth who dreams of one dayworking full-time in the field. "i feel veryproud to participate in the Olympics in Lon-don. i hope to win a medal, to see my coun-try's flag raised." the small team iscomprised of two runners, a swimmer, anarcher, a shooter, a boxer, a weightlifter anda wrestler. Jassim is one of eight athletes --five men and three women -- the youngestof whom is just 15 years old, heading to theGames which kick off in London on July 27.

iraq has historically fared poorly at theOlympics. its sole medal came during the1960 Rome Games when Abdul Wahid Azizwon a bronze in men's lightweightweightlifting. the lack of success over thepast decade has been put down to the dan-gerous security situation and poor sportinginfrastructure that mean athletes often haveto train abroad or on make-shift sites. theirnutrition and exercise programmes pale incomparison to more developed sporting na-tions. "We have at times experienced diffi-cult situations when it comes to training,"admitted Adnan taess who runs the 800metres. "training requires a good atmos-phere and a stable situation."

Iraqi Olympians aim for medals, unity

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rOGeR Federer praisedgolf superstar tigerWoods on sunday for theAmerican's support as he

stormed to a record-equalling seventhWimbledon title. Woods tweeted Fed-erer after the swiss star had claimed a17th Grand slam crown by beatingAndy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 in thefinal, although Federer didn't need toresort to social media to find that out.

Woods had already sent him apersonal message of congratulation."Hats off to Murray for a great fight.

But we saw why Fed is the #GOAt,"tweeted Woods, using the short formfor 'greatest of all time'. "i didn't needto get it through twitter, i got onefrom himself," Federer told reporters.

"He was very pumped up theselast couple days for me. He was verysupportive." Woods currently has 14majors as he attempts to chase downJack Nicklaus's all-time best of 18.

Federer's win on sunday took himlevel with pete sampras's record ofseven Wimbledon titles and guaran-teed a return to the world number onespot where he will start a 285th weekfrom Monday. sampras was numberone for a total of 286 weeks. "it's nice

when other greats like this do believein me. they push me further," saidFederer. "i wish him (tiger) the bestas well. He knows that. Obviously withFacebook and twitter and all this it'smuch more public now. But it feelsgreat to receive so much support fromsuch great athletes."

Federer wouldn't reveal whatWoods's personal message had been."Just happy, you know. Whatever.You can make it up," he joked Federer,only the third man over 30 to winWimbledon and the second oldest be-hind Andre Agassi to take the worldtop ranking, was happy to name-check a host of sporting inspirations.

LONDONafP

Andy Murray vowed to come backstronger than ever after a heartbreakingfour-set Wimbledon final defeat againstRoger Federer left the distraught scotcrying tears of frustration on CentreCourt. Murray had hoped to become thefirst British man to win Wimbledonsince Fred perry in 1936, but his dreamswere dashed as Federer recovered froma slow start to claim the seventh All eng-land Club title of his magnificent career.

it was a devastating blow for Murray,who has played some of the best tennisof his life over the last two weeks but isnow on a miserable run of four defeats inhis four Grand slam final appearances.

the 25-year-old, who broke downin tears during an emotional on-courtinterview immediately after the match,was still understandably sombre whenhe fulfilled his media commitmentsafter briefly returning to the locker

room. But, despite his obvious angst atfalling short in his home Grand slam,the world number four believes theway he took the fight to Federer in the

first two sets proves he has the gameto eventually win one of the four ma-jors. "i'd say that's the best i've playedin a slam final. i created chances andwent up a set. even the last two sets, istill had chances," said Murray whohad been trying to become Britain'sfirst Wimbledon men's championsince Fred perry in 1936.

"it wasn't like i gave away badgames or stupid games. i played agood match and made pretty good de-cisions for the most part, so i'm happywith that. "i felt more comfortable thismorning and before the match than ihad done in the previous slam finals."it's not an easy tournament forBritish players in many ways, but ithink i dealt with all of the extra thingsaway from the tournament pretty well,better than maybe i had done in thepast. "it was my first time in a Wim-bledon final. i'd never been there be-fore. i'm still improving, still playingbetter tennis, which is all i can do."

Distraught Murray vowsto come back stronger

azarenkareclaims worldnumber one spot

parIs: Belarussian Victoria Azarenka re-turned to the world number one spot in thelatest rankings released on Monday thanksto American serena Williams' victory overpoland's Agnieszka Radwanska in the Wim-bledon final. Radwanska needed to win sat-urday's final to take the world number oneranking but had to settle for a move up fromthird to second. Australian Open championAzarenka reclaims the ranking that she lostto sharapova after the Russian's FrenchOpen success last month. sharapova'sfourth round defeat in Wimbledon meantshe would lose her number one ranking toeither Azarenka or Radwanska. Williamsmoves up two places to fourth after winninga fifth title at the All england club. afP

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Federer humbledby sporting legends

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Roger federer and Serena Williams posing for pictures with their respective Wimbledon winners trophies at the Champions Dinner. AFP

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tHe Frontier Corps (FC) is involved in abduction of oneout of every three Baloch men, Chief Justice iftikharChaudhry said on Monday while hearing the Balochistanunrest case at the supreme Court’s Quetta registry. thechief justice said he had no answer to the grievances of

common people regarding law and order in the province, whichwas why the apex court had been embarrassed. He directed theBalochistan Home Department to make payments to the familiesof 135 missing persons. provincial home minister, Mir ZafarullahZehri, also presented himself before the court. the advocate gen-eral of Balochistan told the apex court that a gang of three peopleinvolved in the killings of religious scholars had been arrested,adding that four missing persons had also been recovered. ChiefJustice iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the recovery of onlyfour missing persons showed the non-seriousness of the govern-ment. He also asked the Balochistan interior secretary to state inwriting that they had failed to control the law and order in theprovince. the Balochistan AG was of the view that nobody couldstate anything with 100 percent surety. During the hearing, DiGOperations Hamid shakeel briefed the chief justice on the bombattack on a bus of pilgrims in Hazarganji. the chief justice flayedthe Customs department for such incidents, as they bribed thepassengers from Kabul for allowing them to transit.

army campattacked inwazirabad,seven killedIslamabaD: Gunmenkilled seven security personnel atan army camp in Wazirabad onMonday, officials said, hoursafter a protest march against theresumption of NAtO supplyconvoys passed through the area.the encampment was attackedfrom a bridge over the riverChenab, close to Wazirabad. “Atleast seven security personnelincluding a police officialembraced martyrdom and fiveothers were injured due to firingby unknown assailants nearWazirabad,” the military said in astatement. A military rescueparty had camped by the Chenabto look for the body of a pilotmissing in a helicopter crash inMay, the statement said, and thecamp came under attack from abridge. “the exact number ofattackers is not known but theycame by motorbike and sprayedbullets on the troops from thebridge,” a senior security officialtold AFp on condition ofanonymity. “it is highly likelythat the attackers belonged to abanned religious outfit, which isa hand in glove with taliban.”the official added: “Nobody hasso far claimed responsibility ofthe attack but if we follow thepattern of the attack, it lookssimilar to assaults that theseoutfits have been carrying out indifferent cities.” AFP

ISLAMABADonLine

As many as 11 million voters could notbe verified in the electoral areas of theirresidence, while 20.4 million peopleare not registered on the electoral rollsbeing finalised by the election Com-mission of pakistan (eCp) for the up-coming general election, Free and Fairelection Network (FAFeN) said in itsassessment on Monday.

According to FAFeN, more than 20million people of 18 years and above,with most of them being women, arenot registered to vote, while over 80percent of them are not even registeredwith the National Database Registra-tion Authority (NADRA).

FAFeN says its projection is basedon the basis of the estimated popula-

tion as on July 1, made by the govern-ment in its economic survey 2011-2012. “Of the potential 20.4 millionunregistered eligible voters, only 3.6million hold computerised nationalidentity cards, which was made a pre-requisite for voter registration under

legislative changes last year,” it said. FAFeN urges the eCp to ensure

follow-on door-to-door verification ofvoters be conducted with full diligenceand accuracy before the finalisation ofthe electoral rolls to facilitate fair elec-tions.

Over 20 million voters unregistered

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