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Cricket hero Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) has suffered a setback as one of its founders in the UK has resigned from the party after levelling serious allegations at the party lead-ership, questioning directions of the party. Rabia Zia, PTI’s former UK coordinator, led the mantle of Imran Khan’s party in the UK when only handful activists would turn up at party’s events and there were not many buyers for Imran Khan’s political message. She worked hard to build up the party’s structure in the UK and helped Imran Khan raise tens of thousands of Pounds through fundrais-ers and membership con-tributions from all over the

country. It is believed that Rabia Zia will join the Pakistan Mus-lim League (Nawaz) with her colleagues. She denies discussing her entry into the PML-N with Punjab chief minister Sheh-baz Sharif during his recent visit to London, but the PTI’s top leaders asked Rabia to explain if reports of such a meeting were true.

In her resignation letter, Ra-bia Zia says that she worked for the party believing that it will work to implement “the rule of law, meritocracy and accountability”, but she became disillusioned because of “morally corrupt prac-tices”, allegedly promoted by two PTI’s leaders.Continued on page 19...

Rabia Zia resigns PTI after corruption allegations !!!It is believed that Rabia Zia will join the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) with her colleagues

Health Service Journal investigation reveals the treasury has taken back £1bn earmarked for hospitals due to underspend

George Osborne is taking back from the NHS double the amount he said he would in the Budget. Labour has attacked the Treasury for clawing back a billion pounds that was allocated for health spending this year — double the amount it said it would in the Budget.

The department of health confirmed that it had underspent its allocated funding by £1.4bn this year, half a billion more than it predicted in March.

While £400m will be rolled over for the department to spend in 2012-13, the remaining £1bn has been returned to the Treasury.Labour highlighted that the cash was being returned while there were 6,000 fewer nurses in the NHS since the coalition took power.

"The government is clawing back money from the NHS at the same time as it is handing a tax cut to millionaires and P45s to nurses", said Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary."The prime minister needs to be straight with the public on his Government's record on NHS funding.

On the very same day he was boasting to the Commons about increasing NHS spending, we learn that George Osborne has made another £1 billion raid on the NHS budget."

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George Osborne makes 'billion pound raid' on NHS

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Last summer Sheffield Woodcraft Folk (a na-tional cooperative youth movement, commit-ted to “spanning the world with friendship”!) raised over £10,000 to bring a delegation from the APFUTU (All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions) Youth Wing over to Sheffield and to the Woodcraft Folk Interna-tional Camp.While they were here we listened to Pirzada and Allena talking about the plight of the child labourers working in brick kilns and other industries, and of the efforts of AP-FUTU to campaign for laws against this and also to establish schools for the young chil-dren. As Pirzada said to us “If 60 people in Sheffield paid £5 a month that would raise the £300 needed to open and run a new school.” (one incredulous young person in the audi-ence commented that we’d just spent £26 million re-furbishing High Storrs!).Sheffield Woodcraft decided to give the sur-plus fund we had raised for their visit to en-able them to setup a new school and on April 11th four people from Sheffield attended the opening of the new school at Theekrian, Lala Mussa in Gujrat consisting of 2 classrooms and a yard. 41 new students were enrolled to start on 16th April. This is the second school, another is already being funded by Unison,

North of the Tyne.While in Pakistan the Woodcraft Folk dele-gation visited a brick kiln “One of the most important elements of our visit for us was to see the brick kiln factories. There are about 40,000 facto-ries in Pakistan, em-ploying about 8mil-lion people (average 200 per factory)...We saw very young

children aged two and three years working with their parents and older adults 70 years and over working. They would work around 10 hours per day, 6 days a week and should be paid a government decreed minimum wage of 520 rupees per 1,000 bricks produced. This would generate, per family an income of around £12 per month. ... APFUTU has led a prolonged legal battle to the Pakistan Su-preme Court in 1988 resulting in the ruling that there would be minimum wage.... De-spite winning this landmark ruling, progress is limited by inadequate enforcement. “(from report on visit).

So we are committed to campaigning in sup-port of the work of APFUTU and raising the money required to sustain the school APFU-TU have opening, and more if possible. You can make regular contributions by vis-iting on our website www.justgiving.com/woodcraftbrickkilnschool or by setting up a standing order from you bank. Alternatively you can sign up a taxpayers form in order to generate 25% more through GiftAid.For further details you can contact Chris on [email protected]

Sharrow Community Forum Jumble SaleOld Sharrow Junior School, South View RoadOn Saturday 10th of November 2012 at 1pmFor Woodcraft Brick Kiln Workers Children’s School in PakistanAny donations from 4th of November, Must be in good conditionNo TV’s and Video’sFor more info contact John on 0114 2554522 or Jhangir Ahmed on 07404 225184.

The GCSE performance of Sheffield’s young people has received a major boost, ac-cording to figures published by the Department for Educa-tion. The percentage of young people achieving five GCSEs with grades of A*-C, including English and Maths, has risen by nearly six percentage points, from 49.4 per cent last year to 55.2 per cent in 2012. This compares to a slight drop in the national average figure, from 58.9 per cent in 2011 to 58.6 per cent this year. The figures also show a boost in the percentage of Sheffield’s young people who made the expected level of progress between the end of primary

school and sitting their GCSEs. 67 per cent of Sheffield’s young people made good progress in English in 2012, up two percentage points on last year and compared to a drop of four percentage points nation-ally. In Maths, 65 per cent of Sheffield’s pupils made good progress, up seven percentage points from last year compared to an improvement of less than four percentage points nation-ally.Sheffield has shot up the league table of 152 local authorities – from 139th last year to 112th in 2012. This is by far the biggest one year improvement in the city’s position ever recorded.

Outstanding Improvement in Sheffield ’s Gcse Results

Nick Clegg, Liberal Demo-crat Sheffield Hallam MP, has launched a campaign aimed at providing hundreds of new homes and jobs in his home city. Nick has written to Hous-ing Associations in Sheffield and urged them to take ad-vantage of a new £10billion Coalition Government offer to build new homes. Under plans announced last month, the Coalition Government is of-fering to issue guarantees of up to £10billion for building new rented homes, providing the assurance required for hous-

ing associations and others to invest. In addition the Coali-tion Government will build on the success of the Affordable Homes Programme and provide £300million capital funding to-wards providing up to 15,000 affordable homes through the use of loan guarantees, asset management flexibilities and some capital funding. Thanks to the Coalition Government 2011/12 saw an estimated 245 affordable rented homes built in Sheffield, the highest number for at least ten years.

Clegg Campaigns to Get Sheffield Building

Woodcraft Brick Kiln Workers Children’s SchoolsAll Pakistan Federation of United Unions

“Mark Your Metal” is the latest scheme to be piloted in several ar-eas across the city to tackle theft of metal items from outside the home.

The scheme involves marking metal items with both address and postcode in UV marker, then ap-plying a special sticker over the top to protect the markings.

The stickers are a new unique in-novative product, designed to help prevent property being stolen or identify stolen items from sheds and gardens. Once the sticker has been applied over the UV mark-ings, they are extremely difficult to remove.

Police officers and PCSOs, as part of their daily work will be distrib-uting the stickers to residents and marking their property, such as metal BBQs, garden furniture and ornaments, metal gates and rail-ings, garden tools and bicycles.

Details of all marked property will be stored on a database.Officers will also visit scrap metal yards to inform them about the project and advise them to check for markings on any items brought in for payment, and inform the po-lice if any item is found to display a sticker. Officers will then check if the item has been reported stolen.

Inspector Jason Booth of South Yorkshire Police said: “We think this is an exciting opportunity to use a new product to mark those items which are stolen off people’s properties.This will allow us to identify those items and give us the opportunity to increase arrests for a crime many in Sheffield feel very angry about”

Anyone with any information about metal theft is urged to call South Yorkshire Police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Police in Sheffield launch their latest initiative “Mark Your Metal”

For the first time in five years, the Pakistani and Indian cricket teams will face each other on the pitch in a bilateral series in India. This encounter between the two rivals is, of course, what fans in both countries most eagerly await, with contests between the neigh-bours regarded as being among the most intense seen on any sporting field. The news that the Indian home ministry has given clearance for the short tour to go ahead in December, following which the Board of Control for Cricket in India has declared that the tour is going to take place, will, therefore, delight even casual cricket lov-ers in both countries. A Pakistan-India contest, of course, draws millions to television screens. The chair-man of the Pakistan Cricket Board has expressed the hope that hundreds of fans will be able to travel across the border to witness the three One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 contests live. Who knows, politicians may step across too.The decision by the Indian home ministry, while important for Pakistan — which has not had the opportunity of facing

too many top-class teams regularly for the last few years — extends beyond sports. It comes as yet another indica-tion that the ties shattered between the two countries as a result of the events in Mumbai in November 2008 are being repaired bit by bit; the shards picked up from the ground and pieced together once more. Cricketing ties play a key role in this, with diplomacy based around the game a part of his-tory for both nations, helping build friendship even amidst fierce competition on the field itself.Perhaps, most crucial of all, the scheduled tour to India will help build in minds of the people the idea that things are getting back to normal. This is important for both nations and also the region. Once more, we see cricket play a role in what we hope will be a lasting peace, with the shared passion for a sport bestowed by colo-nial rule acting also to remind us of the many links we share in common as a result of the centuries spent as one country. We now need to live together peacefully as two separate nations as well.

Indo-Pak Cricket at the crease


Have you ever wondered who keeps an eye on your health whilst you’re eyeing up the menu at a local restau-rant? Ensuring what you eat is not only well-prepared but meets hy-giene standards is the job of Michael Bluff from Sheffield City Council’s Environment and Regulatory Serv-icesteam. Michael and his team help to keep people safe when they eat out in Shef-field by making good food hygiene easier to spot. The recent launch of a new nationwide food hygiene initia-tive and website builds on the success of Sheffield City Council’s ‘Scores on the Doors’ scheme where Shef-field food outlets are inspected and then encouraged to display their food hygiene ratings. The new scheme will see food out-lets, such as restaurants, takeaways and pubs, inspected by food safety of-ficers from Sheffield City Council to check hygiene standards. Standards are then rated on a scale ranging from zero which means ‘urgent improve-ment necessary’ to a top rating of five. The business is given a certificate and food hygiene rating sticker to display and the ratings are entered into the website www.foodratings.gov.uk Over one million people every year experience food poisoning across

the UK, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) working in partnership with Sheffield City Council are working to reduce poor food hygiene in the city by encouraging residents to be aware of the rating system and asking busi-nesses to promote good food hygiene. In Sheffield there are over 1,425 premises achieving the top rating of five. The public can use this informa-tion when deciding which food out-lets to visit. For food businesses dis-playing a good hygiene rating makes good business sense and will help customers make informed choices about where to eat out in the city. The national rating scheme covers all food outlets, from restaurants, ca-fes and takeaways to care homes and department stores that sell food. Na-sarat Mohammed who runs Chiney, Steaks and Shakes fast food takea-way in Darnall which achieved a top food hygiene rating, said: “We have been in business over 20 months and the Food Hygiene Rating is very im-portant to us. It shows the standards of food we provide to our customers and the level of hard work that is put in to achieving this.” If you would like to use the food hygiene rating scheme to choose where to eat out in Sheffield please visit www.foodratings.gov.uk

SKY announced that it will increase phone line rental charges by more than seven times the rate of inflation from December. The line rental charge will jump from £12.25 to £14.50 a month – that’s 18%. Sky is also increasing the cost of daytime calls, from 7.95p to 8.41p a minute and its call connection fee will go up from 13.1p to 13.87p.Similarly, BT has announced a rise in line rental charges £14.60 a month to £15.45 from January 2013. And, BT’s call charges will also go up.

Full-price daytime calls will rise from 7.95p a minute to 8.41p and the call connection fee will rise from 13.1p to 13.87p.Virgin and TalkTalk have already implemented way-above-inflation increases in line rental charges, but BT and Sky are the dominant domestic telecoms suppliers.” What is the justification for these inflation-busting increas-ing line charge rentals? One telecoms supplier – Primus – charges £8.25 a month. It uses the same infrastructure as the

other suppliers. Is it subsidis-ing its line rental costs? So, why are the dominant suppliers charging nearly 90% more for that part of the bill which is inescapable?Secondly, increasing the line rental charges means that those who make the fewest calls – typically pensioners on the lowest incomes – are facing the highest percentage increases in their bills. That isn’t fair.Thirdly, in what the suppli-ers call a ‘highly competitive market’, how do BT and Sky

manage to arrive at exactly the same costs for daytime calls and connection fees? Is it coincidence? I don’t think so. These issues should be referred to the Office of Fair Trading and to the Competition Commission so that they can launch an investigation into the telecoms’ suppliers and, particularly, the nature and impact of these latest announcements of way-above-inflation increases in line rent-al charges.

Work is underway along key traffic routes in Sheffield to keep traffic moving through the city. A major publicity campaign has been planned to ensure that motorists, local residents and businesses are aware of the restrictions on us-ing bus lanes and tram gates. The aim is to help people avoid being fined and to keep traf-fic flowing along busy routes. Information will be publi-cised through press, radio and poster advertisements as well as leaflets and information on the Council web site over the coming months to explain the details to local people.The City Council has been implementing a programme of extending weekday urban

clearway times around the city since 2008. These changes affect the times when parking

and loading on many of the busier routes in Sheffield is al-lowed. It is expected to take up to two years to complete

the programme of re-signing work, with changes planned on Broad Street, Chesterfield

Road and Attercliffe Road in 2012/13. There will be an ini-tial period when drivers will be warned that they will receive a

fine in future as the restrictions will be enforced. The parking restrictions will be monitored using a mobile camera mounted on a van that will initially be used on busier routes in Sheffield, including Ecclesall Road , Spital Hill and Owler Lane. The expan-sion of camera enforcement of bus lanes and gates is progress-ing at several sites, including Bolsover Street, London Road (bus gate at Asline Road) and South Lane. Camera enforce-ment of the tram and bus gates at Hillsborough halved the average inbound tram journey times between 8 and 9 in the mornings following their in-troduction.

Big increases in Telephone Line Rental Charges Good Food Hygiene is Getting Easier to Spot

Action taken to keep Sheffield Moving

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London’s famous black cabs may soon become an endangered species, as the final cab maker Manganese Bronze files for ad-ministration. The automaker cites a £15 million financial gap.

The last surviving black cab maker may go out of business, spelling the end for one of the most loved and easily recog-nized vehicles in British history.

Manganese Bronze, which has been building taxis since 1948, has filed for administration, citing a £15 million ($24 mil-lion) hole in its finances, and is desperately seeking a rescue package from interested parties for fear of the company and its cars disappearing for good.

No other type of taxi is as dis-tinctive or as well-known as the black cab, a fixture of London’s roads for over a century (the first petrol engine cabs with meters appeared in 1907) -- so popular and recognizable that they are used as far afield as San Fran-cisco, Kosovo, Baku, Singapore, South Africa, Cyprus and Israel.

What’s more, they’ve proven popular with celebrities who shun the limelight -- actor, writer and

director Stephen Fry drives one, and so do Kate Moss and Prince Phillip. Arnold Schwarzenegger was so impressed with them that he had one shipped to California, and the late Stanley Kubrick had one as a London runaround.

In popular culture the black cab has appeared in everything from Bond films to the closing cer-emony of the London Olympics, where the Spice Girls performed on the roofs of five black cabs -- a performance that might not have been as impressive if they had been standing on Peugeots.

The design and appearance of the black cabs, famed for their turn-ing circle of only 8m, has been influenced as much by five-star hotels as it has busy commuters and visiting tourists.

The taxi’s renowned maneuver-ability is a direct result of that equally iconic London fixture the Savoy Hotel, located off The Strand down a narrow road with a tiny roundabout at its foot: a black cab has to be able to enter the road and turn around in one motion in order to be called a black cab.

Other manufacturers have been moving in on the London taxi’s turf in recent years, chief among them Mercedes, but even if the cars it develops to compete with black cabs can pass the Savoy Test, it will take a long time before Londoners, or anyone else for that matter, is prepared to call them black cabs.

Eight years after the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died, he still remains a towering figure in Pal-estinian society. And he hasn’t completely disappeared.Decked out in green military fa-tigues and his trademark cheq-uered black and white head-scarf, Chairman Arafat saunters through the crowds in his local market, pausing occasionally to admire the cherry tomatoes or a nice looking melon.

The man in the market is Salem Smeirat, something of a minor celebrity, as the West Bank’s most impressive Yasser Arafat lookalike. And this doppelgang-er is the “unreal deal”. He has the same slightly hooked nose, the pouting lips, the twinkle in the eye. • Salem Smeirat is 59 years old

and has six children. He began working as a lookalike in 2004 and is often hired to appear as Yasser Arafat (above left) at wed-dings and birthdays. His previ-ous jobs include market trader and house painter. He lives in Ramallah, a Palestinian city north of JerusalemSalem can often be seen at Pal-estinian festivals working the crowds.

His popularity never falters even now as authorities have plans to bring the actual Arafat back from the grave eight years after his death. The Palestinian Authority says it intends to exhume the body from its tomb in Ramallah to investi-gate whether he was murdered, after a television documentary reignited allegations that Arafat

was poisoned, specifically by us-ing the radioactive element polonium. Perhaps strangely, the new ac-cusations did not cause much of a stir among Palestinians. Most have long taken it as unproven fact that their leader died of un-natural causes, poisoned by Is-rael with help from somebody inside Arafat’s circle.

“It is no secret that Israel tried to kill me on many occasions,” says Salem looking pained as he lapses back into character. “Eve-rybody loves Yasser Arafat,” he declared, pointing to his chest. And it is true that you find few Palestinians, at least publicly, who speak ill of their former

leader.

The Israeli government has al-ways denied the poisoning alle-gations. And it is hard to imagine that whatever the outcome of the latest investigations, it will end the argument.

For most Israelis, Arafat was a terrorist who became an untrust-worthy partner in peace. But for most Palestinians - at least in the West Bank - he remains a hero, a freedom fighter against Israel’s occupation and a unifying figure.

Palestinians have an Arafat lookalike - but for many the real thing has remained irreplaceable.

A fleet of green eco-friendly buses aimed at cutting carbon emissions and reducing fuel costs are to hit the roads of Sheffield. Sheffield City Council is today unveiling seven greener light commercial vehicles – the largest fleet of hybrid buses for a local authority in England. The mini buses will be used for home to

school special needs transport, including at Bents Green Special School. The authority estimates that, over their working life, the vehicles will see a 17 per cent reduction in both fuel costs and carbon emissions, saving the au-thority thousands of pounds in the process.

Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat Sheffield Hallam MP and Dep-uty Prime Minister, was backing the fight against breast cancer by taking part in Breast Cancer Campaign’s wear it pink day – and he is urging Sheffielders to join in. ‘Wear it pink’ is now in its 10th year and Friday 26 October 2012 saw supporters from all over the country in schools, colleges and businesses embrace the event and help raise funds to continue ground-breaking research. The Breast Cancer Campaign asked everyone to pull on some-thing pink for the day and donate £2. You can visit wearitpink.co.uk for ongoing fundraising information. Nick said:- From visiting places like Weston Park Hospital here

in Sheffield, I know just how important it is to come together in the fight against breast cancer. A staggering one in eight women experience breast cancer during their lifetime. We can help im-prove their chances of survival by taking part in the Breast Can-cer Campaign’s wear it pink day. Such a small effort on our part could make a huge difference.”

On the Green Buses

Clegg Wearing it Pink in Fight against Breast Cancer

Final British Black Cab Maker Files for Administration

The West Bank’s Most ImpressiveYasser Arafat Lookalike

Opposition councillors are forcing a vote on popular parking proposals at the next Full Council meeting of Sheffield City Council. Local Liberal Democrats want to see free and secure alternative parking provided to residents, who are severely disrupted by the Streets Ahead project. The ‘Streets Ahead’ project, which was secured by Liberal Democrat councillors and is backed by £1.2 billion of Coalition Government funding, began in August. However, Liberal Democrat councillors have raised concerns about the potential disruption to the communities with lots of on-street parking, with areas potentially disrupted for up to 20 weeks. Yet so far, Labour councillors have simply dismissed the growing concerns. Liberal Democrat councillors have now submitted a motion to the next Full Council meeting (7th Nov, 14:00) setting out their proposals to provide alternative parking for affected residents. Proposals include utilising unused land or existing parking bays from local retailers, pubs, or supermarkets. Cllr David Baker is the Sheffield Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Streetscene and is proposing the motion. He said: “The Streets Ahead project is a massive boost for the city and like everyone else in my area, I can’t wait to see the benefits for our neighbourhood. “However, the disruptions to on-street

Liberal Democrats Force Council Vote over Chaotic Parking Planparking will be significant and Labour’s decision to ignore the growing warnings beggars belief. Right now, the real dis-

ruptions haven’t been felt but when they begin there will be a lot of public anger against their lack of foresight.

“I can only hope Labour see sense and support the Lib Dem proposals when it comes to the vote.”


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Gone are the days when we only had a single TV channel and we were forced to watch the adver-tisements during short break of our favorite TV Show. But Cable TV now has allowed us a liberty to switch over to other channel with a finger touch on TV remote if not interested in those lame ads.

With the advent of new tech-nologies recently, advertisement industry is also equipping itself with state-of-art technologies to transmit their advertisement to their targeted audience. They have wisely used television (tel-ecasting), radio (broadcasting), internet (web casting) and print media but their campaign is not over and they are still busy in-venting new methodologies to reach out to their target audience. If you happen to pass by a big billboard on a highway and re-ceive an unexpected message from a company on your blue tooth mobile phone “Would you like to see the advertisement of their products”?

You will probably think that this message is from your mobile phone network that is showing these paid advertisements to their subscribers for other companies or you probably think that per-haps there is a virus attack on your phone network. But Stop!

Just pay a little attention on that billboard up there right next to you. Does this billboard belong to that company whose message you have just received on your blue tooth mobile phone? If so, then you have been hunted by a latest advertisement system that is known as “Blue Casting”.

Blue Casting system has been introduced by a British Company

in which blue tooth devices are installed in a bill board which transmit message to every blue tooth mobile phone found around that billboard, in which they (mo-bile users) are requested to see their products advertisement.

If mobile phone user shows his/her interest in watching that ad-vertisement then this billboard transmits him/her an advertise-ment containing movie clip, picture, text, audio or mixture of them and all is performed very rapidly. Blue tooth devices

mounted on a billboard can de-tect every blue tooth mobile phone presented around 100 me-ters limit.

According to the blue casting company this system is safe for mobile phones, as it cannot trans-mit any executable files so there is no chance for downloading of any virus or damaging software from billboard to mobile phone

and no utilization of mobile phone network. We are witnessing an over-whelming growth in use of mo-bile phones in our country.

A large score of our population, no matter which class or profes-sion they belong, now own a blue tooth mobile phone or other de-vices like iphones, ipads and lap-tops. This has created a big room for new opportunities to use this new way of advertising their con-tent to a good number of people, especially youngsters.


UK universities have fallen down on the international league table, putting the nation’s reputation for higher education at risk. While the UK currently still has the second best university system worldwide, a number of leading institutions have tumbled down the rankings this year. The top 100 of the Times High-er Education World University Rankings for 2012/13 includes just 10 UK universities, com-pared with 12 last year and 14 in 2010/11.

The latest table shows that the UK has three universities in the

top 10, with Oxford taking sec-ond place, up from fourth last year. Cambridge was in seventh place, down one from sixth last year, while Imperial College London took eighth place, the same as in 2011.

Topping the table again this year was the California Institute of Technology.The UK has seven universities in total in the top 50 and 31 in the top 200, down one from 32 last year. Bristol University, which was 66th in the table last year, is 74th in this year’s table, while Sheffield University has fallen

nine places to joint 110th. Leeds has dropped from 133rd to joint 142nd, Birmingham has fallen 10 places to joint 158th and New-castle is down to joint 180th from 146th place.

Outside the golden triangle of London, Oxford and Cambridge, England’s world-class universi-ties face a collapse into global mediocrity.

Huge investment in top research universities across Asia is start-ing to pay off. And while the sun rises in the East, England faces a perfect storm: falling public investment in teaching and research; hostile visa conditions discouraging the world’s top academics and students from coming here; and serious un-certainty about where our next generation of scholars will come from, with a policy vacuum sur-rounding postgraduate study.

Malala Yousufzai, a 14 year old girl, was attacked by terrorists called Tehreek-Taliban-Pakistan in Swat. In 2010, she received the National Peace Prize for her struggle to get schools restarted in her area which were closed and destroyed by the Taliban.

This is not the Talibans first crime against education and awareness by terrorists; they have destroyed hundreds of schools and killed many children in different areas. Malala’s passion was to get edu-cated and educate other girls of that area so they can defeat the real menace to Pakistan which is “illiteracy and ignorance”.

She was honored with a first ever National Peace by the govern-ment and was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by advocacy group Kid-

sRights Foundation in 2011 for being an inspiration to her friends by standing up against repression as her namesake did in Afghani-stan in the 19th century.Malalai is not the only Pakistani female with this dream, there were many and history has wit-nessed many gems of educated women in Pakistan. Miss Fatima Jinnah, the sister of founding father, struggled day and night with Mr. Jinnah in the movement. Miss Jinnah is only remembered as a found-ing mother and a stateswoman of Pakistan, but not too many people know that she was also a dental surgeon.

She graduated from University of Calcutta; a highly competi-tive university which was rec-ognized as “five star university” and “Center with Potential for

Excellence” by University Grant Commission and National As-sessment and Accreditation Council of India. Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan, another lady who struggled for Pakistan, was B.A in Economics and Bachelor in Theology in Religious Studies, later she obtained two Masters in Economics and another in Soci-ology. She was an Economics Professor in Indraprastha College University in Delhi.

In Pakistan, the description of Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Politics of does not complete without women’s names. Benazir Bhutto, the first woman elected PM of Pakistan, who was elected twice but unfortunately was also killed by a group of terrorists. She was the most charismatic leader around the world who was unbeatable if on the ground of

Politics and that’s why she was a threat for a small group of terror-ists who don’t want to see women educated and accomplished. Currently, Hina Kher is the first female foreign Minister of Paki-stan. Karachi had witnessed the efforts of Nasreen Jalil, first fe-male deputy Mayor while Musta-fa Kamal was serving as Mayor. She helped Kamal in transform-ing Karachi to one of the best cit-ies in Asia.

In Literature with the long list of

Urdu writers and poetesses like Bano Qudsiya, Parveen Shakir and Ismat Chughtai. Pakistan has a female English fiction writer Bapsi Sidhwa who received the highest Honor “Sitara-e-Imtiaz” in Arts. Bapsi had a long career of teaching to different foreign Universities like Rice University (Houston), University of Houston and Columbia University.

Malala Yousufzai is no lesser than these renowned ladies of Pa-kistan. She is struggling harder

than any of us to achieve the edu-cation by crushing the guns and bombs and suicide bombers. She is braver than any politician who moves around with high security measures due to immense threats of terrorism.

Malala is the symbol of educa-tion for our society and a sign of bravery to be educated at any cost. Her efforts are a strong message to those terrorists that the real essence of Pakistani women is “Education”. She has highlighted the future of Pakistan and showed clearly that the country cannot be hijacked by a handful of terrorists.

We have a faction of society which is supporting these groups by blaming geopolitics and with twisting statements, but they can no longer blow dust in the na-tion’s eyes. Now is the time for them to be on the right side of the line otherwise we will be left with nothing but stones and mud.

More than 60% of Britons are opposed to turning the clocks back, with almost half saying they feel “more depressed” in the winter months. A third of people (33%) believe clocks should not go back at all, while 29% think the UK should adopt Central European Time, which gives two additional hours of daylight in the evening. Darker evenings leave 47% of Britons feeling depressed and 27% believing they are more at risk of injury caused by muggings and accidents.

More than four in 10 (44%) say they leave the house less as the evenings draw in while 14% would participate in more winter sports if they had the extra hour

of daylight.

The study also found that 21% of those questioned are already struggling to pay their winter

heating and lighting bills.Darker evenings will always leave people feeling more vul-nerable but when the clocks go back, this change is exaggerated by what appears to be quite a stark loss of daylight.

Darker evenings can lead to a higher incidence of crime and accidents. However, they are no reason to stay indoors or limit our activities.

They just mean we need to be more vigilant and more stringent when it comes to personal safety, both in and out of the home.”

The Welfare Reform Act became law earlier this year as the Gov-ernment aims to create the right incentives to get more people into work, protect the most vul-nerable in society, and make the benefit system fair for both claimants and the taxpayer.Two of the biggest areas affected by the Act include:•Housing Benefit, specifically new regulations in relation to un-der occupying within the social-rented sector•Benefit payments, including the need for all people receiving any type of benefit to have a bank account in order to receive their paymentsAn important change will affect those people living in properties that are classed as 'under-occu-pied'.Under-occupied means those

households with more bedrooms than they require.According to a report released by The Intergen-erational Foundation in 2011; more than a third of homes in England are currently under-occupied.

From April 2013, working-age social tenants receiving Housing Benefit will experience a reduc-tion in their benefit if they live in social housing that is deemed

to be too large for their needs. Those living in housing provided by the Council or housing as-sociations will specifically be affected by the current changes. The main exception to this will be households who are not of

working-age. Restrictions on Housing Benefit based on the size of the accommodation have long applied to those people liv-ing in privately rented housing.

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As “D-Day approaches, the $60 billion Think Tank industry in America is in full gear. Policy decisions are important during an election year, so whatever happens in November will have a colossal impact on the future of the war in West Asia.

The BBC is now reporting that the Kabul government will collapse as soon as NATO, ISAF and the US withdraws. “The International Crisis Group (ICG) says the Af-ghan police and army are unpre-pared for security responsibility.” According to the report ”from the Brussels-based group is stark in its prediction that the Western-backed government in Afghanistan could be on course for what it calls a dev-astating political crisis after 2014.?The search for a mediator is long overdue. But who should be it? The simple answer is: any individ-ual, organization, or state that has the confidence of the parties and is

up to the task. Because the strength of any dialogue depends on buy-in from each of the major parties to the conflict, the participation of Pa-kistan, the Taliban’s longtime host and supporter, is essential. But the nature and scope of Pakistan’s in-volvement requires consideration.

Many would argue it should be limited to regional and security is-sues. But to exclude Pakistan com-pletely would be to encourage it to act as a spoiler.”On the other hand, a NY Times ar-ticle recently described facts that current US policy is not concerned about peace-making in Afghani-stan at all. Senior Afghanistan analysts say how the Afghanistan National Se-curity Forces (ANSF) are “over-whelmed and underprepared for the transition,” even as Afghan President Hamid Karzai “seems more interested in perpetuating his own power by any means rather

than ensuring credibility of the po-litical system and long-term stabil-ity.”NATO plans to reduce the 352,000-man ANSF to a more sustainable level of around 230,000 men, a process that will release thousands of armed men into the ranks of the unemployed, some of whom are likely to sell their skills to the Tali-ban. Even maintaining a smaller ANSF will require that the United States and its allies make greater progress in developing Afghani-stan’s economic potential to wean Afghans off narcotics trafficking and generate the increased govern-ment revenue needed to sustain the ANSF.”Much has been said and many the-ories presented, but unlikely to sig-nify anything. We may see a pro-posed a partition of Afghanistan, proposals from the US to teach Pa-kistan a lesson, the CIA chief Pa-treus provoke Pakistan with more drones, and countless writers, writ-ing useless books that have no meaning. Karzai will be making his usual speeches and Delhi will reiterate its economic aid. The Taliban’s on the other hand have also reiterated their posi-tion–withdraw from Afghanistan without any conditions and we will give you safe passage to leave. The Russians took it and withdrew qui-etly. If NATO doesn’t take the of-fer, there will be bloodshed while the army retreats. There is no rea-son for us to believe that the US and NATO won’t take the same route.

The Local Government As-sociation reports that it has re-ceived serious objections to the government’s proposals from councils of all political controls throughout England. In other parts of the coun-try, people have got their tape measures out and then realised the massive impact on their own homes that would result if their neighbours were al-lowed to build large extensions to their homes without plan-ning permission. What has re-ally shocked people is that they would have no right to object, let alone be consulted, on ex-tensions which would block light to their own homes. If people don’t speak up now, the government will force through these changes. It will then be too late to complain. Once the extension is built, it will be there for ever.It follows the announcement

from David Cameron and Nick Clegg that everyone should be allowed to build large exten-sions to their homes without planning permission. Currently, homeowners can build a single- storey 10ft extension if they live in a terraced property and one of 13ft if they live in a de-tached house – all without plan-ning permission. These limits came about after previous con-sultations had determined that this was about the right balance between individual freedom and the point where neighbours might reasonably expect their views to be taken into account. After all, any extension of most homes will have some impact on neighbouring properties, like access to light and over-looking. One person’s light is another’s darkness.Now, the Prime Minister has decided that the limits for building without planning per-

mission should be doubled to 20ft and 26ft for a three-year period only.And Eric Pickles – the Coali-tion Government’s Environ-ment Secretary - has gone so far as to declare war on coun-cils opposing his planning free-for-all by urging residents to sue if they are not allowed to build large extensions in their back gardens. In a provocative intervention, Mr Pickles said those whose plans were turned down should seek damages against their local authority.”A growing number of councils – led by several Conservative-controlled councils, including the Planning Minister Nick Boles’ own Lincolnshire coun-cil – have criticised the move, saying it will blight communi-ties, slash house prices and set neighbour against neighbour.

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Last year Labour led Sheffield City Council set up a small team of officers to help bring empty homes back into use. The team worked with private sector home owners to bring 609 long term empty homes back into use over an 11 month period. When Labour came into con-trol the Lib Dems were do-

ing next to nothing to tackle the problem and brought just a paltry 13 homes back into use in a year. The Council offers a wide range of advice and services to help owners renovate, let or sell their properties.

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“ The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking. I can testify to the veracity of this state-ment, having lived for a long time under the illusion that I knew India and its people. As the bubble of illu-sion gradually sank beneath my feet I began to see the world from my own eyes. Today, I tell you my story, with the hope that more of my compatriots join me and step forward for a better, peaceful world.

Once upon a time, I was also a vic-tim of the India-Pakistan rivalry fever. The most evident symptom of this fever is the slogan ‘yeh khel nahin yeh jang hai’, heard on both sides of border when India and Pakistan meet each other on cricket field. I grew up when the world was changing in the post-9/11 era. Muslims all over the world were to revisit their ideologies, and understand them better. As I entered adolescence and began to form views independent of the media and textbooks, my ideas of ‘India-Pa-kistan enmity’ started eroding. I un-derstood that religion and patriotism are better when utilised as breeding grounds for love, tolerance and free-dom, rather than nurseries for hatred and enmity.

These attributes of love, tolerance and freedom form the essence of Is-lam like all great religions. Unfortu-nately, venom has been fed into the minds and hearts of people over the last 60 years, which is not what our founding fathers wanted.

There is no denying that pressing issues like Kashmir and the water is-sue stand between the two states, but the solution of these issues lies in the hands of the governments on both sides. All that lies in the hands of the people is to love and to spread love. There is no lock without a key, and I believe the key to the lock between India and Pakistan is greater under-standing and trust between the people on both sides of the border.

A better world — where nobody dies in war, and where governments work to sow seeds of love, rather than to protect their egos, is what we all want. If we want to achieve such a world, we must step forward and spread love. As distant as this objective seems practically, it may be in our reach as people step forward and adopt this mantra of ‘love, tolerance and free-dom’.

I will still watch India vs Pakistan cricket with the same passion and patriotism; I will still celebrate with jubilance if Pakistan wins and I will still cry in the corner if Pakistan loses. I will, however, always remember that the true victory for both nations lies somewhere else: when we are able to defeat the hatred and distrust between each other with love and understanding. Muhammad Talha SamiUniversity student, Lahore, Pakistan”

True Victory for Both Nations Lies Somewhere Else

An innovative partnership between a Bradford-based educational organisation and a University in Pakistan has helped 40 women join their husbands across the UK. QED-UK is the first UK or-ganisation to be co-funded by the European Fund for the In-tegration of Third County Na-tionals to administer the ‘In-tegrate UK’ English language courses overseas. The aim of the free ten-week classes, hosted at Mirpur University of Science and Technology, is to aid married women seeking to join their husbands in the UK

to encourage successful inte-gration into British life.In November 2010, the British Government introduced a rule that spouses joining their part-ners in the UK have to pass an English language speaking and listening test at a basic level. QED-UK, an award winning organisation estab-lished in 1990 is supported by UKBA. Adeeba Malik, Deputy CEO of QED-UK, said: “For wom-en who are already married to British Pakistani men, we wanted to ensure they received high quality ESOL and Life in

the UK training with a focus on helping them to integrate into British society when they come to live in the UK.”The success of the Integrate UK scheme comes as im-migration minister Damian Green has urged parliament that education providers must take their immigration respon-sibilities seriously in light of the London Metropolitan Uni-versity scandal.QED-UK recently hosted a dinner with some of the wom-en who have recently entered the UK at Mumtaz restaurant in Bradford to celebrate Inte-

grate UK’s success. Just a year and a half since the scheme first launched, 350 women have successfully passed the English language classes.Educating Pakistani women in English language skills mean there’s less demand for translators when they visit the doctor, for example. It means they are more likely to gain employment and contribute to the community at large. Lan-guage is the key to dealing with problems of alienation or radicalisation and work to-wards a harmonious future.

WIVES JOIN HUSBANDS IN UK TO AID INTEGRATION


British families, already facing difficult times due to a financial crunch, may have to further cope with much harsher times as they would have to spend more on food following a poor harvest which has pushed up prices worldwide. The cost of basic food products is rising because of a drought in the US and poor crops in Russia and eastern Europe. According to Jose Graziano Da Silva, head of the UN Food and Agri-culture Organisation, food prices could reach a crisis point next year if harvests in the southern hemisphere are poor.At a conference in Sweden on water resources, Da Silva called on G-20 nations, producing up to 95 per-cent of crops hit by price rises, to take "coordinated action". A third of all food production is lost due to poor storage in developing countries or waste in rich nations. The G20 is set to discuss food prices and a decisions is expected in September when a report on grain supply is due.

Food Prices to take Toll on Britons SULTAN vs DRACULA: New Book Re-

lease marks Bram Stoker’s Centenary One hundred years after Bram Stoker’s death, (April, 1912), a new Dracula novel has been released mixing fact with fictionBook Title: Sultan vs. DraculaPublisher: Al-Oblong BooksWebsite: www.sultanvsdracula.comAuthor: Razwan Ul-HaqAuthor’s Website: www.ulhaq.comtwitter @Islamic_ArtistAuthor contact telephone: 07773963502 (+44)

On the streets of Bradford, Muslim teenag-ers between 14-19, selected at random, were given three book choices. Two best-selling books (popular with their peers throughout Britain) and a relatively unknown third of-fering. A staggering 90 percent ditched the mainstream to go for a new Dracula story.

In an age where Count Dracula can be seen as sexy to teenagers, a Muslim fantasy au-thor presents Count Dracula as the historic Count Vlad Dracula who impaled and slew Muslim Turks.

The story, though a fictional fantasy, is writ-ten from a traditional Muslim perspective and holds back no punch with its heavily critical stance of the modern world. The au-thor insists this should not be a worry, but a celebration of creative British talent.There is no Van Helsing, but there is the Sultan, modelled on the actual Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Khan II. And with Harem women, Sufi mystics and beautiful Arabic illustrations, there is a lot to discover in one

single paperback.It’s not just a story. It has been crafted to present a worldview. A Muslim worldview in an age where there is scant literature to readers that reflects an Islamic masculine leitmotif.

Sultan vs Dracula should help to get inside the mind of a traditional Muslim. How do religious Muslims think? Are Muslims re-ally that alternative? Intelligent readers are quick to spot apologetics. Readers don’t want watered down verbiage; they want to hear what ‘the Muslim with an issue’ really believes.

The book will surprise readers no matter what they’ve seen the night before.Who on earth is the author meddling with the Bram Stoker heritage? Not surpris-ingly he’s British, but he is also tall, dark and gifted with sensuous eyes. An ex-Headteacher, currently living in Bradford, very sick and tired of the same old “Muslim interest” story, with the predictable multi-cultural characters: in other words if it’s not arranged marriages it’s deranged terrorism.

The book is a mirror to the mind of the devout Muslim, written without any edito-rial censorship, and as such, it may rank as one the more challenging popular pieces of

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Sheffield City Council have an-nounced that they plan to cut council tax benefit for all work-ing age residents by 20%, mean-ing a family in a Band A property could pay an extra £3.76 a week. However, the Council have de-cided not to proceed with new powers to tax empty homes and second homes, which the Gov-ernment estimates would save the authority £3.3 million. In ad-dition to this, while the Council passes on a council tax bomb-

shell on to vulnerable residents, Labour councillors have agreed to spend £3.5 million this year refurbishing council offices and £400,000 on consultancy fees in one month.Despite the total cut received from the Government being 10%, under the legislation pensioners are protected which results in a 20% reduction for the remain-ing working age recipients of Council Tax Benefit. Sheffield is consulting on a scheme which

would equalise this 20% cut across all working age recipients. The Council has also confirmed that consideration is being given to provide additional support to households experiencing severe financial hardship who will be hit hardest by the Government’s cut. The Government have been criti-cised for hitting hardest councils in the most deprived areas of the country whilst authorities in the wealthiest areas of the country will receive a smaller cut.

Parkwood Academy school has been announced as the winner of June’s One Sheffield Many Cul-tures festival, which saw mul-ticultural music and dance acts from eight Sheffield schools en-tertain a lively crowd in Barkers Pool. Both the judges and the au-dience showed their appreciation to all the schoolchildren taking part, recognising the impressive array of talent on display and cel-ebrating the contribution of each community present.The One Sheffield Many Cul-tures festival was organised and backed by local people in-cluding faith leaders, Football Unites Racism Divides, Northern Refugee Centre, local branches

of UNISON & NUJ, Yorkshire & the Humber TUC, Hope not Hate, Unite Against Fascism and Love Music Hate Racism. One Sheffield, Many Cultures aims to promote the unity of the city and celebrate the contribution of

people from all communities and backgrounds. The movement is non-party political and urges people from all walks of life to speak with one voice in opposing racism, bigotry and prejudice.

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physi-cians of Edinburgh (RCPE) in recognition for his contribution to cancer services. The fellow-ship has been awarded for his contribution through the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hos-pital and Research Centre. The RCPE is a professional member-ship organisation with a mem-bership of over 10,000 “fellows” in 91 countries.Imran Khan founded Shaukat Khanum on December 29, 1994. The inspiration for the hospital and research centre came after the death of his mother, Mrs Shaukat Khanum, due to cancer.The trust uses donations to help

patients with cancer through the application of modern methods of curative and palliative therapy free of cost.

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The EU is praised for bringing stability and democracy to the continent but the award is a sur-prise given its current woes. The EU has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, as the bloc faces its greatest internal crisis since it was established in the 1950s. The 27-nation group was praised for rebuilding Eu-rope after World War II and for its role in spreading stability to former communist countries after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.

The EU was praised for its cru-cial position in the transforma-tion of a once torn Europe from a continent of wars to a continent of peace. Over a seventy-year period, Germany and France had fought three wars. Today war between Germany and France is unthinkable.

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said on

Twitter: “It is a great honour for the whole of the EU, all 500 mil-lion citizens.”But the award has sparked con-troversy, coming at a time when the EU is battling to solve the eurozone crisis and bridge deep rifts between a south drowning in debt and a wealthier north.

It also sparks surprise in host country Norway, which itself has rejected joining the union twice, in 1972 and 1994. Three-quarters of Norwegians say they are opposed to EU membership, according to recent polls.

The EU won from a field of 231 candidates including Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation. A prize, worth £750,000, will be presented in Oslo on December 10.

Despite recurring difficulties, the EU has become the biggest common market in the world, al-lowing free circulation of goods,

people, services and capital. And after centuries of war on the con-tinent, Europe has been at peace within its borders, although its effort to stop war in former Yu-goslavia - hailed by one minister as “the hour of Europe” - was a failure.

The EU traces its origins back to the 1950s when six countries, Belgium, France, Germany, Ita-ly, Luxembourg and the Nether-lands, joined forces in the Euro-pean Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Eco-nomic Community (EEC).

It has grown in size over the years, reaching 15 members in 2004 when it embraced the first of the former Soviet states stranded for half a century be-hind the Iron Curtain. There are currently 27 member states.The EU is the first organisation, rather than individual or group of individuals, to be awarded the prize, since Medecins Sans Frontieres in 1999.

A law against smoking the pipes, known in Arabic as shisha, in public places has been in place for years in some other Saudi cities, but it is only now being implemented in Jeddah, which is known as more socially liberal than the capital Riyadh.It’s a big problem for local cafes

where more than 80 percent of customers come to smoke shi-sha. More than 35 businessmen with investments in restaurants and cafes had complained to the city’s chamber of commerce about the ban, demanding it pro-tect their interests. The pipes have been banned on

health grounds, alongside other forms of smoking, with the Health Ministry campaigning for tougher measures against the habit for years. Shisha smoking is popular in Saudi Arabia, but it is frowned upon by clerics of the austere Wahhabi school of Islam that dominates the world’s top oil ex-porter. In Nejd, the central part of Saudi Arabia where Riyadh is located and which is the heartland of Wahhabi belief, shisha smoking has long been banned in urban areas. The ban would be felt hardest by women, who would find it hard to frequent licensed shisha cafes outside the city lim-its in a country where only men are allowed to drive.

The Darnall area in Sheffield will be made subject of a disper-sal order aimed at curbing an-tisocial behaviour, after local residents have highlighted con-cerns to their local police team.As a direct result, South York-shire Police and Sheffield City Council have jointly agreed that a Section 30 of the Antisocial Behaviour Act 2003, shall apply to the Darnall area.Under the order, police offic-ers and PCSOs are provided with additional powers to tell any groups of two or more people in a public place, who are likely to intimidate, harass, or cause alarm or distress to others, to leave the area and not return for up to 24 hours. Failure to follow such direction will be a crimi-

nal offence, which may lead to arrest and prosecution.The order will be in place from the 15 of October to the 11 of November 2012. Signs will be displayed in prominent locations outlining the areas covered by the section 30 order.Inspector Paul Ferguson from the Sheffield East Safer Neighbour-hood Team said: "I am extremely grateful to the many people who have acknowledged that during this period there is the potential for increased disorder in the Dar-nall area. As the nights get long-er, and the schools break-up, and the bonfire night and Halloween period approaches, there’s poten-tial for a rise in antisocial behav-iour and low-level crime. We ac-cept there is a risk, but we are not

prepared to accept that the neigh-bourhood as a whole will suffer from the actions of a few.“The Dispersal Order will form just one part of the work that community leaders, partners and the police are undertaking to achieve the period of calm we all expect”.“I would also like to remind the young people of Darnall that, every Friday night, the all weath-er pitches on Woodbourn Road, play host to Darnall United, there are free football sessions. On Saturday 2 of November and Monday the 5th, there will be ad-ditional sessions. All who want to come together to play football in a safe and inclusive environ-ment will bewelcome."

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A proposal for a higher rate of road tax levied on major trunk route users seeks to help raise more revenue for the Treasury. Drivers who use motorways could be charged a higher rate of road tax than those who stick to slower routes. According to reports, motorists face a two-tier road tax under proposals being considered by the Government. It has been suggested drivers could be offered a lower rate of the tax if they agree not to use the country’s trunk road net-work of motorways and major A-roads. Those paying a higher rate of vehicle excise duty would be free to use any roads.

Proponents say a network of automatic number-plate recog-nition cameras could be used to catch any drivers who were us-ing the motorways without pay-ing the higher rate.A Department For Transport (DFT) said: “The department and Treasury are currently carry-ing out a feasibility study to re-view new ownership and financ-ing models for the strategic road network. “This is looking at how best we can secure invest-ment in the network to increase capacity and boost economic growth.”Governments have long sought to explore revenue generation options for road users. Money-

raising concepts raised by previ-ous governments have included expanding toll booths across the motorway network and a system based on mileage. Could we see a replacement of existing mo-toring taxes with pay-as-you-go road charging.Road tax is currently paid based on a sliding scale of 13 bands from zero to more than £1,000 in the first year of registration. Drivers pay according to how much carbon dioxide their vehi-cle produces. Another option is to replace the annual road duty charge on cars with a one-off charge on new vehicles.

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You don’t have to be a PTI worker to see what Imran Khan’s peace march to Waziristan has achieved. Nor can you be so blind, unable to read and rec-ognise the hypocrisy written all over FazlurRehman’s and Abdul Ghafoor Haidri’s statements call-ing Imran Khan an agent of the ‘Jews’ and by personally attack-ing his ex-wife and children. And guess what! FazlurRehman, self-proclaimed Pakistani pseudolib-erals and US were all on one side, either due to being Anti-Peace-March or pro-drone or both. Not surprising actually!

Any independent unbiased ac-tivist, anti-war and anti-drone humanist would wholeheartedly appreciate this big step that was taken by Imran Khan. The march raised all kinds of lame argu-ments; before it was, Why-Islam-abad-and-Why-Not-Waziristan, now the objection changed to Why-South-and-Why-not-North-Waziristan. Some asked why invite Americans to protest in Waziristan and rather not go to USA and protest in front of the White House.

A few days before the march, the pseudo-liberal lot claimed TTP and Imran are friends and so they will provide him security

which was later denied by the Taliban. The march was stopped near Tank and they were denied access to the area. It sounded amusing to some. The criticizer somehow overlooked that the mission was to highlight the issue with the help of the international activists which was symbolic as well as revealing. Do the noise makers suggest it should have been turned into a violent protest, to get to the area by hook or by crook?

The international media covered the issue for two consecutive days. This same media is used to brainwash people about the ef-fectiveness of War on Terror and ‘accuracy’ of American drone strikes killing ‘militants’ alone. By raising the issue in an ex-tra ordinary way this march has shown the people of these coun-tries, the other side of the story. Clive Stafford Smith (who came from UK to attend this rally) writes in his article,

“During the day I shook the hand of a 16-year-old kid from Waziristan named Tariq Aziz. One of his cousins had died in a missile strike, and he wanted to know what he could do to bring the truth to the west. At the Re-prieve charity, we have a trans-

parency project: importing cam-eras to the region to try to export the truth back out. Tariq wanted to take part, but I thought him too young.

Then, three days later, the CIA announced that it had eliminated “four militants”. In truth there were only two victims: Tariq had been driving his 12-year-old cousin to their aunt’s house when the Hellfire missile killed them both.”

According to a major study re-leased by Stanford University and New York University named ‘Living Under Drones’:“Drones hover twenty-four hours a day over communities in north-west Pakistan, striking homes, vehicles, and public spaces with-out warning.

Their presence terrorizes men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communi-ties. Those living under drones have to face the constant worry that a deadly strike may be fired at any moment, and the knowl-edge that they are powerless to protect themselves.”

Drones are a familiar phenom-enon for Pakistanis, Yemenis and

Afghans but not so for the rest of the world. It was effectively highlighted; no sane person can deny the fact. And how many Pakistani know where they oper-ate from, how illegal they are ac-cording to international law and even US constitution and how they CANNOT operate without our government’s permission. ‘We condemn; you carry on’ pol-icy of the Pakistani civil and mili-tary authorities is utterly disgust-ing. And now the whole world knows our leaders have made us a US colony where they are only puppets displayed to deceive us.

Some people labelled it as a ‘political stunt’ risking the lives of people and activists from the world to gain votes? Not so

surprisingly, this does happen in Pakistan by the parties who have ruled us again and again so they painted their formula to label the march as a political drama. The silliest argument that really sur-prised was ‘Would this march stop the drones?’ If that’s the point then beware: All marches are political stunts, all proces-sions are pointless and all protests are useless as they don’t change anything most of the time.

The issue is national. There is a war imposed on Pakistan without declaration and one faction of in-tellectuals is bent upon legalising what the world holds illegitimate i.e. drones. The biggest ally is the major sufferer with innocent women and children being killed

in double tap attacks (targeting the rescuers) or left amputated with post-traumatic stress disorder; Attacks that are carried out on the basis of ‘local intelligence’ gathered by awarding a few thousand dollars and using locals to tag the target with a GPS device, make someone’s fortune and ruin someone’s home and family.

The march has brought attention to the forgotten people of Waziristan living under the killer buzzes in fear, avoiding meeting with each other with confidence and trust due to suspicion and terror created by the US.

Random thoughtsHaving resources and developing them are two entirely different things. In de-veloped countries, there are more re-sources, fewer problems, politics is transparent and honest and there are no hidden agendas. While resources are a divine gift, using them efficiently and judiciously is the responsibility of the people, especially the concerned tech-nocrats.

The Almighty has been extremely be-nevolent to us in providing us with tre-mendous resources, both natural and human, but consecutive inefficient and dishonest rulers have never made good use of them. There is a well-known Western saying: “The prosperity and progress of a nation is a reflection of the achievements of her engineering profes-sions.” Efficient performance by tech-nocrats – i.e., the proper application of what they have learnt, is the key to the development, progress and prosperity of the nation.

There are many such examples. Pakistan

has been blessed with, not only manifold natural resources, but also with adequate manpower. This combination should have been enough to turn us into a pros-perous, developed country. However, there is a kink in the cable, and a rather large one-the powerful, inefficient com-bination of politicians and bureaucrats. The political leadership of a country is supposed to provide the necessary guid-ance, funds, incentives and technocrats to facilitate industries.

Ours is a country where, even 65 years after its creation and in this modern age, sewing needles, good bicycle chains, motorcycles, etc., are not being pro-duced. However, thanks to the vision of Mr Bhutto and Ms Benazir Bhutto, the seemingly impossible was achieved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons and missiles in a very short span of time and against all odds. The point here is that what is needed for achieving success is technical expertise (not intellectual dis-honesty), far-sighted, capable leadership and a system of checks and balances and viable continuous programmes.

One can identify many gifts from the Al-mighty. We have a large country spread out over thousands of kilometres. We have deserts, snow-covered mountains, huge rivers and plentiful, regular rain-fall (which is wasted by allowing it to run out to the sea unutilised), bountiful crops, vast resources of sweet- and salt-water fish, delicious fruits, etc. Had the political leaders used all these natural resources properly and efficiently, we would have been a developed and pros-perous country by now. If our rulers used the right technocrats in the right place, a

big and quick change could be brought about for the betterment of the country. Our hardworking expatriate community remits more than 13 million dollars an-nually, but we still to go round with a begging bowl and kowtow to the Ameri-cans for a paltry one billion.

There are vast opportunities for setting up industries but the rulers and bureauc-racy together form the biggest hurdle, with the result that our entrepreneurs are setting up industries in the UAE, Malay-sia, etc., instead. We import billions of dollars worth of consumables but don’t encourage people to set up factories to produce these items within the country to save foreign exchange and provide em-ployment to the people. The Indonesians are manufacturing civilian aeroplanes while we are still importing motorcycles. While we import billions worth of sugar and fertilisers, no effort is being made to meet the demand locally.

Unfortunately, successive government in our country never bothered much about industrial development. The rea-son for this is that neither politicians nor mediocre bureaucrats can comprehend the importance of this. Had they been able to do so, they would have identified important projects and put competent technocrats (not intellectually dishon-est loudmouths) to push them through. When it is in their own interest, our rul-ers and parliamentarians pass laws with-in minutes, while matters of national/public interest lie in cupboards collect-ing dust.

Other than gas, our natural resources have not been utilised and benefitted

from and nothing concrete has been done so far. How could they? The fruits of such efforts take time to ripen and our politicians want to reap the benefits, if not yesterday, then today.

Once Nausherwan-e-Adil and his com-panions went on a hunting trip. They passed a small village where the king saw an old man planting a fruit tree which would bear fruit only after 20 years. The king stopped to ask the old man why he was planting a tree that would only bear fruit long after he himself was gone. The old man smiled and said: “We are now eating the fruits of the trees planted by our grandfathers and our grandchildren will eat the fruit of these trees.”

Let us not forget how we reaped the re-wards of Ayub Khan’s excellent indus-trialisation policy, Mr Bhutto’s nuclear policy, Ms. Benazir Bhutto’s missile pol-icy and Mian Nawaz Sharif’s decision to explode nuclear devices. The benefits accrued from these decisions will be ours to avail for all times to come. Unfortu-nately, the present rulers are doing noth-ing to remember them by except corrup-tion, maladministration, loadshedding, unemployment, inflation, extortion, sectarian killings, kidnappings, murders and, above all, the selling of our national sovereignty.

The country is passing through a most dangerous phase and the public at large is extremely worried about its future. There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. In many other countries things can be changed through the hold-ing of a referendum, but I am not aware of any such option here. However, one

thing is for sure: if the present rulers manage to come to power again the country will be lost-disintegrated, denu-clearised and destroyed, and a permanent colony of the US.

So what is the solution? There are many options, some of which may be outside the Constitution – e.g., the Supreme Court, with the backing of the army, or-ders the setting up of a caretaker admin-istration of competent technocrats for at least five years in order to get the country out of the rut it is in now and place it on a solid, progressive path. I see few other viable options. It should not be too dif-ficult to select about a hundred honest, competent technocrats with well-proven track records.

I can identify quite a few myself. I had very close contacts with the army, air force and navy and some of their sen-ior officers worked with me. They were competent, devoted and patriotic. I have also dealt with many senior bureaucrats who were very competent but never made it to the top because they did not curry favours. I have lived in Islamabad for more than 35 years and met people from all walks of life.

I have no doubt that many of them could be brought together to save the country. Technocrats (barring a few intellectually dishonest boasters) have never let the country down. Since the political lead-ership is inept, the burden falls on the shoulders of technocrats. Email: [email protected]

Resources, Problems & Politics - Dr A Q Khan

Peace March, Political Stunt and Killer Drones


Lately, it has been discussed a lot in the Pakistan judiciary and media that Dual Nationals should not be the part of the Elected Assemblies. So now if a person is holding a dual nationality his patriotism is in doubt. What a joke? Factors We Miss While Discuss-ing Dual Nationality Issue:There are couple of factors that Paki-stanis are completely missing when they are thinking and or discussing the issue of Dual Nationality. To un-derstand the complete concept, the constitutional writings and ground realities one needs to go back to ear-ly 70’s and before. When Pakistan came into existence its population was approximately 76 million com-bined (east and west Pakistan) and approximately 34 million in West Pakistan. By 70’s the population of Pakistan almost doubled to 66 mil-lion (west Pakistan only). The re-sources were limited and to find bet-ter living, people started moving out. Initially the biggest chunk moved to Middle East and some to other countries around the world including USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Ger-many, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, etc. Every country has their own laws for the people who are coming from other countries. Some only is-sued work permits, some issued resi-dent cards to let people work in their countries, as those countries were and are still in need of talented and skilled human resource.For a shorter while one can stay in another country without getting into

the issue of Dual nationality, but as time passed and the Economic prob-lems of Pakistan increased with the SIX folds in population growth, peo-ple started to acquire Nationality in different countries. Why Acquire Foreign National-ity? : Another very important reason that made people acquire the citizenship

of other countries was the legal re-quirement of the country for exam-ple, in order to buy a house or to own a business. When we look at our con-stitution with the citizenship act of 1951, Pakistani’s cannot have dual citizenship. Since independence, the growth of expatriate Pakistani com-munities in the Middle East, Europe and North America has led to several changes in Pakistani nationality law. Although holding dual citizenship was not permitted under the 1951 law, the Government of Pakistan

now recognizes and allows its citi-zens to also hold the citizenships of 16 countries: 1. United Kingdom2. Italy3. France4. Belgium5. Iceland6. Australia7. New Zealand

8. Sweden9. United States10. Ireland11. Netherlands12. Switzerland13. Canada14. Egypt15. Jordan16. SyriaTalking about the constitution of Pakistan, one must remember that the constitution of any country is the set of law to live by but is NOT a book from God that cannot have mistakes

or incomplete-ness. Any consti-tution is written by human beings and they kept the ground realities of the time to write the constitution. Over time and with experience the changes are allowed with the

consent of the people of the country and that has happened 18 times in the history of Pakistan (18 amend-ments). Why or Why Not to Allow Over-seas Pakistanis: Let’s see why we should or should not allow the Overseas Pakistani’s to be the part of the electoral proc-ess. According to the Wikipedia, the

number of Pakistanis living abroad is almost 7million.The Pakistani diaspora refers to overseas Pakistanis, who are Paki-stani citizens that have migrated to another country, as well as people of who are of Pakistani descent. According to the Pakistani Govern-ment, there are around 7 million Pakistani people living abroad with a vast majority of them residing in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Pakistan ranks 10th in the world for remittances sent home in 2012 at £8 billion.The above said 7 million Pakistanis who are living in all different coun-tries have the strongest ties with Pa-kistan and probably love Pakistan more than anything. They are the ones who, (regardless of their sec-ond nationality) have to answer the questions of the people of the coun-try they live in. Pakistani Organiza-tions have been set up in these coun-tries to support their communities.

These overseas Pakistanis have even registered the political parties of Pa-kistan as Foreign Political party in different countries (where allowed, for instance PPP, MQM, PTI and other parties are registered in the UK). They celebrate every Pakistan Day with love, peace and harmony. Overseas Pakistanis are Better United :Overseas Pakistanis are more united as Pakistanis then Sindhi, Balouchi, Pakhtoon, Mohajir, Punjabi or any other sub division. Overseas Paki-stanis have contributed to the bet-terment and brought an honor to the name of the Nation. Pakistanis have been serving in each and every industry around the world including Science, Technology, Manufactur-ing, Teaching and many more. Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dual Nationality:The Universal Declaration of Hu-man Rights (UDHR) states:(a) ” Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his/her country….” ( Section 21(1) of IC-CPR). Overseas Pakistanis with dual nationality claim Pakistan as his/her country; and Pakistan also consider them as their citizens since they hold National Identity Card, Pakistani Passport and the right to vote in the general elections. Therefore, they have the right to be a parliamentar-ian in Pakistan.(b) “Everyone has the right to a na-tionality ” ( Article 15 (1) of UDHR. A Pakistani who acquires the na-tionality of a foreign country where he resides without surrendering Pa-kistani citizenship is doing so as a “privilege” to enjoy the benefits of the resident country where he/she currently lives. This does not take away his/her allegiance to Pakistan.Even though Pakistanis acquired the Nationality of other countries, their hearts are always beating for Paki-stan, as that was the country which came into existence with the sacri-fice of more than 2 million people.

The world now has nearly as many mobile phone subscriptions as inhabitants. There were about six bil-lion subscriptions by the end of 2011 - roughly one for 86 of every 100 people. China alone accounts for one billion subscriptions, and India is expected to hit the one-billion mark this year. 2.3 billion people - or about one in three

of the world’s seven billion inhabitants - were internet users by the end of 2011, but there is a strong disparity between rich and developing countries. 70% of people who use the internet live in wealthier, industrialised countries, compared with 24% who live in poorer, developing nations.

When the pulse of romanceBegins to beat in you chest

All of a sudden ... all of a suddenAll things

Which had previously seemed to beAbsolutely impossibleSuddenly seems to be

A piece of cakeOr tae use a Scottish term

Nae bother at a !As long as she stays close

Close enough tae make me feelTae make me feel ... what?

Tae make me feel better? NoTae make me feel somthin? NoClose enough tae make me feel

That ah exist!!!Or that ah matter

It’s been a wee whileSince ah felt that ah exist

Or that ah matter...Could it be that those days are over?

Ah certainly hope so!!!

Dual Nationals – Is their Patriotism in Doubt?

Six Billion Mobile Phone Users Worldwide Reality

A POEMBy:JIM WAVERLY


PROPERTY CORNER Summer in the Property Market

Mohammed Mahroof BSc (Hons) MRICS ConsultantMark Jenkinson & Son

Police in Britain will publish pho-tographs of thousands of crimi-nals as well as the details of their offences and sentences on a new website. By entering a postcode and at the click of a mouse, peo-ple can see pictures of recently-convicted criminals along with a summary of their crimes and the punishment they received.

Police minister Damian Green said it will help act as a deterrent to offenders. “When someone breaks into your home or robs your local shop, you want to see them properly punished. Plac-ing their pictures on our crime mapping site will ensure justice

is seen to be done in the truest sense,” he was quoted as saying.The scheme will go live on the police.uk website within the next few months.

It will be an extension of “In The Dock”, a pilot project launched last year by West Yorkshire Po-lice. Around 3.3 million people have logged on to the website in three months to find what of-fences have been committed in their area.

Lighting on thousands of miles of motorways, trunk roads and city streets has been turned off or dimmed at night in order to save money and cut carbon emissions, according to an investigation.The probe by the Sunday Tel-egraph found 3,080 miles of mo-torways and trunk roads in Eng-land are now completely unlit, with a further 47 miles - includ-ing a busy stretch of the M1 be-tween Luton and Milton Keynes - dark between midnight and 5am. And some 98 of 134 councils questioned (73%) said they had switched off or dimmed lights, or were planning to.All of England’s 27 county coun-cils have turned off or dimmed street lamps in their areas, on the day the clocks went back, plung-ing the country into darkness ear-

lier in the evenings.The survey found 70% of the motorway network is now unlit at night, saving the Highways Agency some £400,000 last year and reducing carbon emissions.However there are safety reasons why lighting needs to be avail-able. The presence of lighting not only reduces the risk of traf-fic accidents but also their se-verity. Surveys have shown that the public are in favour of street lighting as a way of improving road safety and that, if anything, it needs to be improved in some areas. There are also suggestions that it increases crime. So it may save money in terms of energy but then you have to look at the cost in terms of security, safety and accidents, it may actually be more.”

In this article I shall reflect on the positive aspects of property. Many of you would ask if there are any.

It has not gone unnoticed that we have had a glorious sporting summer which has brought us to the attention of the whole world in a wonderful light. The eyes of the world were upon us and we certainly did not disappoint. Clearly such tremendous pub-licity has an effect on all things British, including property.

I have had enquiries from many overseas investors, not all down to the success of the summer, I would hasten to add. Many of these people want to invest in this country not because of the fantastic returns, but more so because it is a safe investment in a stable country, where the chances of you losing property in various ways does not happen. Many investors in over-seas property tell me anecdotal tales of ending up in long legal battles over property and giving up because they cannot afford to carry on the legal battles.

Take for instance, London. In the centre of the capital you would be very surprised to hear that values are on the increase. There are many overseas inves-tors battling for property, there-fore, seeing the inevitable rise in prices. An interesting question is, what would happen if that market disappeared, which does not seem very likely if condi-tions on the ground continue as they are.

It is also clear where people have finances in place or access to funding they are making hay. The market has many bargains. Investors are buying property to include office investments at prices which are reflecting today's market conditions, a scenario they would not have anticipated at the height of the market. Property is becoming much more accessible to people if you have the all important in-gredient – finance.

Land is another area that has seen the beginnings of a meta-phorical summer renaissance. The simple equation that land is

finite in supply and people's need for land is high as the population of the world increases, therefore, eventually leading to an increase in demand. That demand will always outstrip supply leading to an eventual increase in value is arguably as clear as night fol-lows day. There are keen for-ward thinking investors return-ing to this market.

Another key change that is de-veloping the market place is housing. The demand for hous-ing is on the increase and sup-ply is rather limited as there are few new housing schemes being built. Sticking with the metaphorical summer theme, I believe we are seeing a change in tenure aspirations. Where for many years it was the aspiration of people to buy their own home this is now changing to the Euro-pean model of renting.

It is an opportunity for developer and entrepreneurs to look at this market and develop housing for the rental sector. With cutbacks in the public sector it is difficult for that market to be catered

for through the more traditional routes, therefore, there is argu-ably a whole new market devel-oping. I have seen that investors are looking at these opportuni-ties.

Another key positive has been auctions. These a normally a clear barometer of the sate of the market. Rooms up and down the country have seen good sales. People are cautiously returning to the market.

In terms of Sheffield, enquiries for commercial and industrial space have seen an increase. Good quality retail, in particular along London Road, Ecclesall Road and locations such as Page Hall, are becoming popular.It is clear that the summer has seen some positive changes which gives me a great deal of hope for the future of the proper-ty market, but one good summer does not make a decade.

As ever, if you want to con-tact me please call me on 0114 2760151/0787 901 5095 or through ILM.

Rotherham's on-going commit-ment to economic growth has been justified by recent planning statistics released by the Gov-ernment. Rotherham Borough Council is one of the top perform-ing local planning authorities in the country according to the first ever set of planning league tables published by the Govern-ment. The Planning Guarantee Monitoring Statistics 2011-12 reveal Rotherham was the 55th best planning authority out of 339 across the country.The aim of the table is to re-veal poor-performing planning authorities, which the Govern-ment believes slow-up economic growth. The figures are based on the number of planning decisions determined within 26 weeks - the length of time stipulated by the Government's as part of last year's planning reforms.

The Government's aim is that no application should be within a planning authority's system for longer than 26 weeks, ensuring that all applications, even if they include an appeal, would be de-termined within the 12 month 'planning guarantee'.Out of a total of 1,284 planning applications submitted to Rother-ham, some 1,270 - 99 percent were determined within the 26 week period, placing Rotherham within the top quartile of all local planning authorities across the country. Forty five of these were major planning applications.Paul Woodcock, Director of Planning and Regeneration for Rotherham Borough Council, said the aim of the Government's reforms was to speed up the plan-ning process in the hope of boost-ing regeneration.

Rotherham - A Top Performing Local Planning Authority

Lights switched off for 3,000 miles

Britain to Publish Criminals’ Photos on Web


PROPERTY CORNER Commercial Property & Land Development

Mohammed Mahroof BSc (Hons) MRICS ConsultantMark Jenkinson & Son

LAND IS GOLD!!

In the last few months, there has arguably been a steady increase in enquiries for land, whether this is for resi-dential, commercial or gen-erally. In this article I will talk about the economics of land.

I have mentioned on a number of occasions why owning and developing land is a good idea, one only needs to look into the economics and you too will see that in the world of sup-ply and demand there is an important ingredient which will never really change that is supply. It is a worldwide issue and not just concen-trated to Western econo-mies.

I believe the following con-siderations are a key factor in under pinning the need for and peoples appetitie for land:

Population TrendsIt has been argued by many academics and professionals in the field of world popula-tion trends that we are living longer, the population of the world is steadily increasing therefore the need for land to house people is almost certainly going to become a key issue. If you look at some of the worlds major Cities the price of land over time in real terms has not reduced, and the challenges for emerging economies is going to become ever more challenging.

EconomicsIt does not need an econo-mist to tell us that supply is finite, although some of you may argue that some coun-tries are reclaiming land from water. Clearly that is expensive and fraught with difficulty. It only strength-ens the argument that land is an important commodity when some countries are in-vesting in such projects.

AgricultureAs the population increases the demand for food is be-coming an everlasting chal-lenge, the demand for land to grow food and rear cattle etc is arguably a major issue facing us. The price of ag-ricultural land is reflected in this demand for food. I be-lieve that over time the de-mand for land for such uses will rise, and therefore the choices we face as to how we use land become more important, hence the laws of planning.

ResourcesThe need for fossil fuels is another key focus for land use throughout the world, we are much more reliant on land or the substructure of land to provide oil, coal, gold, silver, iron ore, chemi-cals and many other natural products we use in everyday life. Therefore the need to understand the economics of land become more impor-

tant and more importantly so as we go through the 21st century and beyond.

ServicesThe need to build infrastruc-ture for our needs is also land intensive, roads, rail-ways, hospitals, schools, all our basic facilities we take for granted are built on land. If one looks around our sur-roundings and reflects for a few moments our need for land is intense and rising. I was recently asked by some-one why is the price of bur-ial plots rising? The answer again is simple economics.

By no means have I touched on all the conflicting chal-lenges and needs for land, but I do hope I have given you an understanding of the value of land and why our need for land is only, in my humble opinion, go-ing to rise, yes we will see economic changes, we have and will continue to see re-cessions but ask yourself

one question, has our need for land ever really dimin-ished?, the answer is almost certainly going to be a cau-tious no.Controls on land usage through politics and the planning process therefore become terribly important.

Therefore before you em-bark on any land project it is important you are aware of a few fundamental principles of development. I would always advise that you take good professional advice, there is no substitute for this, just as the economics of supply and demand are im-portant, these are backed up by legislation and planning policy so there is not a free for all and land is used in the best possible way not only for today but for future gen-erations. Clearly this has an impact on value, therefore land value is not uniform.

As an example land for ag-ricultural use is going to be

worth less than land in the city centre for development use, every use has a value.

In conclusion one can only summarise that land is an important and valuable com-modity, and I for one believe demand over time is going to be a major challenge on supply, this is arguably go-ing to see a rise in prices, this may be hard to imagine going through these difficult times, but history is a reflec-tion of our desire for land. The ownership of land can be considered in the same context as gold, silver, dia-monds etc, history is a clear witness of this.

Therefore the forward think-ing investor/developers are showing signs of return to the market, this is cautious optimism, but a good sign.

As ever if you want to contact me please call me on 0114 2760151/0787 9015095 or through ILM.

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Chancellor George Osborne has urged energy firms to reconsider price rises that have sparked warnings of more households being plunged into a “long, cold winter”. Amid union and con-sumer group demands for Gov-ernment action to tackle rising fuel prices, he said British Gas and npower should make sure the hikes were the “absolute mini-

mum” necessary.British Gas announced an extra £80 on to its typical annual dual fuel bill with an average increase of 6% affecting 8.5 million cus-tomers from November 16. Rival npower followed with an average rise of 8.8% for gas and 9.1% for electricity. Both companies blamed rising costs largely out-side their control. But with food

and some mortgage costs also on an upward path, there were fears about how the elderly and hard-up will cope with the latest rises.Mr Osborne, who is attending the IMF/World Bank confer-ence in Japan, told ITV News the Government had programmes to try to help people reduce their household energy costs. Asked if rising energy firm profits were excessive, he said: “I think these energy companies should make sure they’re only adding to their bills the absolute minimum they need to add to continue investing in our energy supply and they’re not going beyond that.”The pre-winter move from Brit-ish Gas comes months after par-ent Centrica posted a 23% rise in half-year profits at its residential arm to £345 million.

Britain has launched the super-fast 4G service in select cities over the last week. The country’s first 4G network was launched in London and nine other cities. The 4G system allows smart-phones, tablets and laptops to surf the web five times faster than the current 3G network.Users will also have to fork out hundreds of pounds for a smartphone that can use the

system, such as Apple’s iPhone 5 or Nokia’s Lumia 920.But the technology is so powerful that it burns through smartphone battery life, meaning handsets need to be recharged more often. Customers who upgrade to 4G packages will pay anything from 36 to 56 pounds a month based on the amount of data downloads they sign up for. This is some five pounds a month more than

what they would have paid under their existing deals for a similar package.The 4G technology makes it possible to squeeze more data into a smaller slice of the air-waves, which makes it cheaper to transmit vast amounts of information compared with 3G. Consequently, 4G actually costs less to run on a day-to-day basis.

Forecasters expect the world’s population to reach 10bn by the year 2050 - but could the figure be a lot, lot higher? The United Nations Population Fund, UN-FPA, recently published a report describing the world’s ageing population.“Today we have one in nine persons aged 60 or over, but by 2050 it’ll be one in five, and by that time there will be more older persons than those under 15 years.” The UN sees these statistics as a cause both for celebration because more people are liv-ing longer, and some concern because the change presents an economic and social challenge. We can be very certain about the numbers for 2050 because per-sons who will be aged 60 in 2050 are already born. This not specu-lation. There is, however, another side to the equation: the birth rate. Predicting how that will change is more difficult - and more in-teresting. For a long time statis-ticians have seen in the numbers something which they call the “demographic transition”, which happens when a society gets wealthier. If we look at the last 10 years or so, we see rises in fertility in the

most advanced countries. The demographic transition is a shift of birth and death rates from high levels to low levels in a popula-tion. And that usually is a result of economic and social development.“Typically we speak of four stages. We have the first stage which is high birth rates and high death rates. Then we have the second stage of high birth rates and falling death rates. “And then stage three, declin-ing birth rates and relatively low death rates, and this is charac-terised by a slow growth rate of the population, the growth be-gins to level off. And then stage four is where you have low birth rates and low death rates, and consequently a low population growth.”So as countries get richer their fertility rates fall. But what hap-pens next? Many statisticians as-sume that advanced nations will remain in periods of low popula-tion growth. But recent evidence suggests they could be wrong. The new change is not only due to immigration. Also the locals are changing. It’s no longer true at the global level because recent fertility trends are showing that

the future is much more uncertain than we thought. There may be a complete change in the ranking of fertility levels in the world.”Evolutionary biologists might not be surprised by this. The idea that as we get richer we have fewer children is, from their perspective, very odd. Normally natural selection produces indi-viduals who are good at convert-ing their resources into lots of fertile descendants. It’s a demographic paradox that in the past few centuries, de-veloping societies haven’t been filled by families who raise as many kids as they can possibly afford. But forecasting popula-tion will always be a highly un-certain science. In 2004 the UN’s department of economic and social affairs tried to guess what the global popu-lation could be in 2300. It said the population would stabilise at around nine billion by 2050 and then remain at that level for the rest of the period. But that was just its medium estimate. Its high estimate was 36.4bn, and its low estimate just 2.3bn. In other words, when you look beyond existing generations, anything could happen.

Can we be sure the world’s population will stop rising?

Osborne Price Plea to Energy Firms

Britain to Launch High-Speed 4G Network


The UK Border Agency has warned visa applicants of the dan-gers of being misled by unscrupu-lous agents. The Agency said that it has sophisticated document veri-fication procedures and if found to be false, an application would be refused. Also, the applicant would face a 10 year ban on travel to Brit-ain and also further investigation. UK Border Agency’s regional di-rector, Thomas Greig said they welcome genuine visitors, students and workers and are committed to ensuring the quality and availabil-ity of visa services for genuine ap-plicants. “We will, however, not tolerate abuse of the UK visa sys-tem and we have a zero tolerance of fraud. I strongly advise anyone who wants a visa for the UK not to listen to agents who offer to sell forged documents or say that they can guarantee a visa,” said Greig.The common areas where forg-ing takes place is false bank state-ments, education and language

certificates.The Agency also has made it clear that one need not use an agent to make a visa application. All the information is available free of charge on UK Border Agency and VFS Global websites: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk and www.vfs-uk-in.com.If need be, applicants should

choose an agent carefully and if they are cheated, the matter should be reported to the police. “Do not believe agents who say that they can, in exchange for money, in-

fluence how fast applications are processed or the final decision. They cannot. Visa decisions are made only by visa officers who work for the UK Border Agency,” said the statement.Since Oct 10, 2012, agents are no longer permitted to collect ap-plicants’ documents at the end of the visa process. Applicants can now track the progress of their ap-plication to know when their docu-ments are ready for collection and on payment of a small fee, an auto-mated SMS on the progress of the application is also made available.“Do not be fooled by impostors pretending to be officers from the UK Border Agency. Legitimate visa officers do not meet appli-cants outside their offices nor do they contact you to ask for money. Also, do not be fooled by fake websites designed to look like official government or VFS web-sites,” warned Greig.

India’s favourite film star Amitabh Bachchan turned 70, marking his birthday with a lavish celebrity party and drawing hundreds of fans to cheer their hero outside his home. Bachchan, the elder statesman of Bollywood, hit the red car-pet with his family on for cel-ebrations in the entertainment capital Mumbai, where he was joined by a star-studded list of 800 guests. Outside his residence in the

city, fans gathered to present flowers and chant “Long Live Amitabh!” but the birthday boy struck a modest note. “Birthdays are special for all... mine is no different... but (it) would never be the same with-out your love and affection,” he said to his more than 3.5 million Twitter followers. Among the film, business and political bigwigs at the party was fellow acting superstar

Shah Rukh Khan, who tweeted that he had “too much fun” dancing with Bachchan and his wife Jaya, who organised the bash. Known universally as “The Big B”, Bachchan made his name as the “angry young man” of Hindi cinema. He starred in more than 150 films including the 1970s hits “Sholay” (Embers), “Dee-waar” (The Wall) and “Don”. Still acting in several films a year, he was voted “actor of the millennium” in a BBC online

poll in 1999 and became the first Indian actor to gain a lookalike at London’s Madame Tussauds waxworks museum. “I just feel that so long as I have life and I have breath inside me, I should continue to work,” he told the DNA newspaper in an interview marking his birthday. Bachchan’s legions of admirers monitor his health closely: he was discharged from a Mumbai hospital late in February after

undergoing surgery twice for an abdominal problem. He also nearly died follow-ing an accident on the set of the 1982 film “Coolie” where he ruptured his spleen during a fight scene. Fans at the time prayed for his recovery, holding vigils outside his hospital and making offer-ings at temples and mosques. The veteran actor is a ubiqui-tous figure in Indian life, hosting the local version of quiz show “Who Wants To Be A

Millionaire?”, supporting charity causes such as protecting tigers, and featuring in countless advertisements. He is set to make his Hollywood debut with a fleeting appearance in the new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby”, starring Leon-ardo DiCaprio and due for release next year.

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Mohammad Maroof a central ward councillor said that “it gives me a great pleasure and satisfaction that I am bringing the following Notice of Motion to the council on Wednesday 7th November on the demand of many of constituents to put a pres-sure on the government to revoke their discriminatory immigration policies. This Tory approach is not new to many of the families living in the UK, they can remember when previous Tory government introduced Primary Purpose Rule which kept families apart for more than ten years. I am grateful to the previous Labour government who abolished the Primary Purpose Rule soon after they came in power in 1997. Previous Tory government abolished the Right of Appeal against the visitor visa refusal in 1992 and the labour government reinstated full Right of Appeal soon after they came back in power. The Tories didn’t learn a lesson, they didn’t change, they are same old Tories. He also said that I am thankful to my col-leagues who gave me support to bring this notice of motion”. Notice of Motion given by Councillor Mohammad Maroof and Seconded By Nikki Bond That this Council:- (a) is concerned that changes to the immigration policy will be hugely detrimental to the multi-cultural vitality of Sheffield and the UK, and believes that changes to the minimum income thresh-old, right of appeal and student immigration would cause damage to the culture and economy of our City; (b) disagrees with the deci-sion of the Government to scrap the full right of appeal for more than 80,000 relatives of British families who are refused entry to visit them each year; (c) notes that from 9 July 2012, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and first cousins will no longer be considered to be family

visitors for appeal purposes; (d) is further concerned about Government intentions to remove completely the right of appeal against family visitor visa refusal decisions through a clause in the Crime and Courts Bill (House of Lords Bill 4 of 2012-13); (e) is worried that if this

Bill is passed in 2013, the fam-ily members (spouses, parents, siblings, children, grandparents, grandchildren, in-laws) will also lose the right of appeal; (f) recognises the importance of right of appeal: principles of equality, and respect for the rule of law demand an appropriate mechanism to check the actions of the entry clearance officers through scrutinising their findings, decisions and all of the relevant evidence upon which they are based, and that appropriate mechanism is a right of appeal; (g) opposes the proposal by the Home Secretary to impose a minimum income threshold of £27,500 to allow a British Citizen to bring their non European Union partner/spouse and family to settle in the U.K; (h) condemns the Liberal Democrats in Government for supporting the measures and doing a u-turn in their support of Article 12 of the Human Rights Act ‘the right to marry and found a family’ ; (i) supports the right of people to choose their life partner from anywhere in the world and

believes these proposals, if imple-mented, would have a detrimental effect on the vitality of multicul-tural life in Sheffield; (j) views these proposals as a back door attempt by the Conservative party to bring back the Primary Purpose Rule which was abolished by the previous

Government, thereby enabling families to be reunited who had been separated for more than 10 years by the rule; (k) supports the work of Paul Blomfield MP, in particular, his work on the Select Committee on Business Innovation and Skills towards taking students out of the net migration targets and review-ing the restrictive proposals on the new English test and the restric-tive rules on post-study work, not-ing that overseas students contrib-ute millions of pounds a year into the local economy and according to Professor Edward Acton (Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia) the change could result in as many as 70% of these students being barred from entry to the U.K; and (l) resolves to write to the City’s six MPs requesting that they write to the Home Secre-tary to raise the deep concerns of this Council and on behalf of the families living in our City, further requests the City’s six MPs including Sheffield Hallam MP and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to oppose the Bill.

Notice Of Motion By: Cllr Mohammad Maroof

Weird weather was predicted in the UK at the end of October which included “blood rain”. What is it?“Blood rain” a term used for rain carrying sand from deserts. When the rain falls it looks a red-dish colour and when it dries off it leaves a thin layer of dust which can also be red, hence the name. It is capable of coating houses, cars and garden furniture. It is a rather grandiose term for fine desert sand particles that are whipped up by winds and mix with the moisture in clouds. •It is usually thought to be rain carrying dust from deserts

•Storms cause dust or sand to mix with clouds•It can leave a fine coating of dust when it falls•Different coloured sand means it can be differ-ent colours, including redStorms in the Sahara desert, which is around 2,000 miles away, are usually responsible for stirring up dust blown towards the UK. The winds arriving in the country were part of the band of warm air which brought unseasonably warm temperatures followed by rain in some ar-eas. The rain and the fine layer of dust left after it falls can also be other colours.

The different coloured sands in the Sahara mean the rain and the coating it leaves can vary in col-our. It can be reddish, but it is quite rare. It is more likely to be a sandy colour or brown. It’s not as spectacular as it sounds. “Blood rain” happens a few times a year in the UK, say experts.It is more common in southern Europe like Spain and the South of France, which are closer to the Sahara. But it can travel longer distances and fall in areas like Scandinavia. A well-documented incident of “blood rain” happened in 2001 in the southern Indian state of Kerala. In the middle of a monsoon red rain started to fall and did so intermittently for several weeks. The colour was strong enough to stain clothes. There were also reports of green, yellow, brown and black rains. There are very early recordings of “blood rain” in historical texts. It is mentioned in Homer’s Iliad, thought to have been written in the 8th Century BC. The 12th Century writer Geoffrey of Monmouth, who made popular the legends of King Arthur, also referred to it and the 12th Century historian, William of Newburgh. In earlier times it was believed the rain was actually blood and it was considered a bad omen. Often it was used in texts and literature to predict bad events. With the spread of modern scientific method in the 17th Century, it started to be explained in terms of rational causes. By the 19th Century, the idea of dust being to blame started to dominate.


Dyslexia is an ailment that can be dealt with if proper attention is given to the child suffering from it. Understanding parents and proper education system can help the child reach new heights of suc-cess. Children are God’s precious gifts. They are the gems that are to be loved, nurtured, and carved to per-fection. Every child is bestowed with certain special qualities. However, the moment parents realise there is something wrong with their child, they are over-whelmed with negative thoughts and dejection, completely losing the will to find any special at-tribute that their children might possesses.

Dyslexia is one such common dis-order that is often misconstrued and blown out of proportion. Dys-lexic children can fully integrate into mainstream, at times proving to be far better than their counter-parts. Did you know that Dyslexia was common in Thomas Edison, Al-bert Einstein, Picasso, and Leonar-do da Vinci? And even super stars like Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn were Dyslexic kids yet they have become highly successful in their respective field.

Similarly, there are many individ-uals who are dyslexics but have proved that the ailment does not affect their lives negatively. If ful-ly supported at an early age, chil-dren can regain confidence and reach successful positions. Children often begin to encounter multiple problems when their for-mal education begins. Problems can lead to changing school af-ter school, which is an extremely disruptive and unpleasant experi-ence. Every change was a new beginning which always ends in frustrating and hopeless circum-stances.

Children can struggled to grapple with studies, and teachers can of-ten not understand their problems and are unable to help them. Final-ly, his parents are often the ones who seek alternative evaluation as they best understand the problems faced by their child. They find their child was never dumb, stupid or lazy. He was Dyslexic. With the help of a remedial tutor they can successfully clear GSCE and ‘A’level examinations with grit and unwavering determination. From here on there is no looking back.

In order to understand the chal-lenges that a Dyslexic child may face, it is imperative to fully comprehend what this condition entails. In layman’s term, the brain of the child with Dyslexia processes information differently. Such children cannot be termed as lazy or unintelligent, just different from others. It is a disorder that can hinder reading, writing, spell-ing, and sometimes even speak-ing.

The earlier a Dyslexic child gets help, the better. Some of the indi-cators that parents should look out for are difficulty in reading, writ-ing, spelling, sequencing, math-ematics, memory, direction, time, speech, grammar, hyperactivity, behaviour disorder and problems with balance and co-ordination. Children might experience some to all of these problems in acute cases, however, rest assured, that all these can be overcome with proper guidance and help.

In order to gauge whether the child is actually suffering from Dyslexia, certain tests are carried out by specialised institutions. At times, the child is not Dyslexic and only has eyesight or hearing problem due to which he or she is not able to comprehend the infor-mation meted out to them. Once the medical reasons are ruled out, it is then that the child is tested for Dyslexia.

Our eyes are designed to work as a team, but each eye functions independently. When we look at something, the image is transmit-ted up the optic nerves to the brain, which combines them into a single picture. For the visual system to

work correctly, each eye must aim at the exact same point in space so that the images being recorded are identical. School-aged children can suf-fer from eye teaming problems in which they are only able to aim their eyes together correctly for short periods of time after which their eyes end up pointing at slightly different places on the page. The result is a vision that is blurred, scrambled, or double print leading to reading difficulty and distraction.Sometimes the protective nature of a parent keeps them from iden-tifying and eventually solving the issue.

The parents are more concerned about their image in the society which they do not want to spoil at any cost. They keep on thinking about what people will think and how their child will be labelled as having some mental disability. However, it is the child that suf-fers in the end. The first thing that the parents should do is to accept their child the way he/she is and be willing to help.

The mainstream schools just have to give remedial help, some extra support and show compassion. The good news is that Dyslexia is a problem that eventually fades away and the child with his excep-tional capabilities shines through.

Academically and professionally, such children have every capability to conquer new heights. Who knows, maybe your kid is the next Edison or Picasso.

DYSLEXIA: The Helping Hand

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Bollywood Royalty: Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor on the occasion of their wedding as Nawab and Begum of Pataudi.

After a registered marriage, newly-weds Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor went in for an exchange of vows before hosting a grand reception that went on till the late hours.While there were rumours that a 'nikaah' was held, Kareena's close friend and fashion designer Manish Malhotra said that there was a simple exchange of vows between the two actors, who have been dating for five years. "They just exchanged vows at the Taj Mahal hotel in Co-laba. There were no 'saath pheras'... They did not ad-here to any particular style (of wedding)," Malhotra told media. The marriage at

Saif's residence here was a simple affair, but the post wedding functions at the South Mumbai hotel saw a host from Prime Minis-ter Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to actors Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor saw the who’s who from politics and Bollywood in their related stories Saif, Kareena register mar-riage NEW BRIDE: Mrs Kareena Kapoor Khan Sealed with a kiss: Saif-Kareena’s big fat sangeet ceremony finery and the

host of B-town celebs like Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri, Priety Zinta, Karan Johar, Tusshar Kapoor, Sal-man Khan's sister Alvira, Anil Kapoor with daughter Sonam. Malhotra said that the 32-year-old actress wore Saif's grandmother's traditional gharara for the ceremony. The actor's mother Sharmila Tagore had worn the same gharara at her own 'nikaah'. She then passed it on to her son's new wife. Delhi-based designer Ritu Kumar was given the responsibility of restoring and embellishing the gharara. I worked on the antique Pataudi gharara that was restored by Ritu Kumar for Kareena's

wedding... we did the final fittings and added a bit of touch of embroidery here and there," Malhotra said."When Saif and Kareena exchanged vows... she wore Sharmilaji's gharara for some time," Malhotra said.Later, Kareena changed into a Malhotra creation for the post-wedding party and Saif donned a Banarsi bro-cade 'achkan' by designer Raghvendra Rathore."Kareena wore a burgundy color embellished gharara with maroon duppatta. I gave a very old world charm to all the ghararas. The party had 80-100 people and went on till 3 am," Malhotra said.


The Revolution of New Types of Businesses

Amar SaleemBusiness Development ManagerSheffield Chamber of CommerceEmail: [email protected]

The Revolution of New types of BusinessesEverywhere you look these days, it seems, small business is big business. George Osborne has offered an array of tax breaks to encourage investors to plough money into early-stage compa-nies. Meanwhile, Vince Cable is leading a one-man crusade to slash through the red tape blight-ing these very organisations. The issue the ethnic minorities have is that they seem to follow the trend of other’s rather then be innovative and creative and set new trend’s and create a new brand, especially in the area of technology which is fast mov-ing in to 2013 and set to storm the arena of business. The mind need’s to be taking off the bread and butter of business and taken to a new level of thinking, every-one had an idea once upon a time the difference between success and failure was who was willing to take the risk and give it a try. The opportunities appear to be endless. Take digital music for example. The propagation of su-per-fast broadband is fuelling the growth of cloud-based streaming services, led by Spotify, which offer customers access to a huge library of music without the need to buy or download anything. Yet the market is still in its infan-cy. Rara, a new “ultra-simple” music streaming service, claims that 80% of consumers have yet to embrace digital music, or adopt existing services such as Spotify and iTunes, so there is

huge untapped potential. Fol-lowing Rara’s lead, a wave of start-ups are shooting up in an attempt to cash in, and this trend will only continue as the technol-ogy improves.Or take pop-up shops, an op-portunity perfectly attuned to the small business revolution. As more and more start-ups take flight, eager to try out new prod-ucts and marketing strategies, demand for temporary retail premises can only increase.And then there’s m-commerce, the retail revolution precipitated by the rise of the smartphone. Although the mobile payments sector is still tiny in comparison with the more established e-com-merce, it is growing explosively, with sales doubling in 2011 and set to quadruple by 2015. Young companies such as Square are enabling consumers to make credit card payments with their smartphones, and, as we’ll see later on, the app market is matur-ing into one of the world’s most lucrative industries.But not all the hype surround-ing the start-up space is justi-fied. Some opportunities, which have received huge coverage in recent months, may have already reached saturation point, or been superseded by new trends and technologies.Take bulk discounting, for exam-ple. 2011 was certainly the year of the daily deal, with sites such as Groupon, Huddlebuy and Liv-ingSocial offering huge savings for consumers, and new custom-

ers for retailers prepared to shave a sizeable amount off their profit margin (although typically what they’d have allocated to market-ing anyway).However, this market has be-come increasingly crowded, and several commentators believe that the appetite for daily deals (in the current format, at least) has started to subside. Mean-while, with the sites typically taking up to 50% of the deal val-ue, a number of small businesses have had their fingers burned by wildly underestimating demand for their deals.So, when planning your start-up, it’s crucial to nail the exact type of business. To find a sec-tor on the rise, and beat the rush. The task of finding the genuine opportunities can be fiendishly tough – not even the world’s most seasoned investors get it right every time. Of course, starting a business in these sectors is by no means a guarantee of success; nor can we be certain that these sectors will take off as forecasts and anecdotal evidence suggests. To succeed as a start-up, no matter what your specialism, you need the right business model, pricing, positioning, product or service, and a lot of hard work to stand a chance of success – and it’s crucial to thoroughly assess the viability of your idea before you take the plunge. That said, I hope these ideas will provide inspira-tion for anyone thinking of be-coming an entrepreneur in 2012.

There is no doubt that Mukhtar Tufail, the Chief Executive of The Sheffield, Rotherham and District Council of Muslims, (SRDCM) (Senior Legal advisor to the Anglo Asian Society), is a strong believer in the old English adage ...“ Charity begins at home”. So when his employers (SRD-CM) instructed him to promote charity fund raising activities, it came as no surprise to those who knew him that he chose to ignore the normal journey some charities had recently adopted : ‘ Collecting locally and donating internationally ‘.

Wanting to do something for people ‘more closer to his home’, Mukhtar decided to promote the Lord Mayor’s Charities appeal geared towards assisting people suffering from disabilities. But what made his, this campaign dif-ferent to all previous efforts was the fact he majestically managed

to secure the support and enthusi-asm of various regional football teams.

His voyage to promote funding for the Lady Mayor Of Barnsley ( Cllr Dorothy Higginbottom ), ‘Charity for the disabled’ , was respectively launched in Barns-ley with the full support of the entire Barnsley Football Club, and with backing of the Interna-tionally respected Cricket Vetran Umpire, Harold Dickie Bird.

Mukhtar encouraged a local res-taurant in Barnsley (The Original Dilraj-Indian Restaurant) to do-nate a week’s equivalent of tips .The manager of the Dilraj Res-taurant ( Miron Rahman ) warm-ly presented a cheque for £200 to The Lady Mayor ( Cllr Dorothy Higginbottom ) in the pres-ence of Harold Dennis “ Dickie ” Bird and the entire Barnsley Football Club.Taken in by the enormity of the

event, the Lady Mayor of Barns-ley expressed how touched she was with the level of support.

Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird , applauded all parties concerned for steering this initiative.When asked what next? Mukhtar sheepishly responded “ I may not be able to secure Her Majesty’s, (The Queens) double to jump out of a plane; but I definitely want to make a synonymous impact on people’s mind “.

“I don’t want people to loose the enthusiasm and support which has surfaced during the recent Paralympics. We must all, col-lectively, ensure that this flame of understanding and compassion never extinguishes.

Therefore, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford’s Football Club’s are all duly in my sights for my next charity appeal “.

Sheffield City Council Labour councillors support the national campaign to end irresponsible lending and urge the government to put a cap on the lending rates that can be charged for provid-ing credit.The UK now has one of the highest levels of personal debt in the world – in April this year the British people owed over £1,460bn in private debt. The cur-rent economic climate is forcing more people to borrow than ever be-fore as they struggle to make ends meet. The high street banks are restricting who they lend to which is forc-ing low income families into borrowing from payday lenders and other legal loan sharks. This unaffordable rate of lending, with some companies charg-ing annual interest rates of over

2500% is forcing more families into poverty as they struggle to pay debts, rent, utilities and eve-ryday living costs.Many benefit recipients will not be used to managing their finances on a monthly basis

and many will struggle and find themselves left short. This will force them into borrowing from legal loan sharks and getting into further financial difficulty. Cabinet Member for Commu-nities and Inclusion, Councillor Mazher Iqbal, said:

“As a council we are very con-cerned for the financial well being of residents in Sheffield. We are committed to doing what we can locally to support responsible lending and will be encouraging benefit recipients to

work with the Sheffield Credit Union to help manage their finances come next April. Ir-responsible lending is part of the reason the country is in the mess it is in. If these com-panies are not properly regulated to stop them preying on struggling families the situation is

going to get worse. We urge the Government to impose a cap and give local authorities more pow-ers to protect communities from these lenders. Together we must protect the most vulnerable peo-ple from further financial hard-ship”.

Charity begins at Home

Labour Condemns Legal Loan Sharking

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20 of the world’s poorest countries have “alarming” or “extremely alarm-ing” levels of hunger with Burundi the worst affected, followed by Erit-rea and Haiti, according to this year’s Global Hunger Index (http://www.if-pri.org/ghi/2012) which examines the problem of producing more food with fewer resources.The cat’s out of the bag and it looks ugly for India. The penury infested largest country in South Asia has 70% of the world’s poor residing in it. Half the population of the major cities lives, dies, procreates, and dies on the side-walks. Its children are underweight, ranking below Ethiopia and Niger.

The Index bases its findings on:• the proportion of under-nourished as a percentage of the popu-lation (reflecting the share of the popu-lation with insufficient dietary energy intake);• the prevalence of under-weight in children under the age of five (indicating• the proportion of children suffering from low weight for their age);• the under-five mortality rate (partially reflecting the fatal synergy between inadequate dietary intake and unhealthy environments).

According to press reports the 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI) describes the level of hunger in Pakistan as “serious”. Neighbouring India which has touted its economic progress and other factors and Bangladesh under the Awami League lag behind with “alarming” hunger levels.Pakistan is a net exporter of food, lead-ing with rice, fruit and vegetables and other grains. There is no reason for

anyone to be hungry in Pakistan. It is despicable that Pakistan even appears on the hunger index. The country has a huge base of productive arable land and a hard working people. It lags on the hunger index because of bad gov-ernance and lack of care by the rulers. There is plenty of food in Pakistan. The sad situation is that the ruling PPP has not made enough of an effort in providing the facilities to the rural masses who toil in the sun and rain to produce food. It’s a supply chain problem. There is plenty of food–the

problem is income disparity and logis-tics. Much of the food is wasted due to lack of adequate transportation. Pa-kistan’s ranking get pushed down be-cause infant mortality. Pakistan could quickly rise to the middle and top of the list if a government pays proper attention to transportation and health facilities. Bangladesh, Pakistan and India should combine forces to tackle hunger by sharing seeds, and technology. About 12.5 percent of the world’s population, 1 in every 8 peo-ple, is chronically undernourished, according to new figures unveiled by the United Nations’ food agencies. Most of these poverty stricken people live in India. The U.N. agencies said 868 million people were hungry in 2010-2012, down more sharply than previously estimated from about 1 billion, or 18.6 percent of the global population, in 1990-92.

‘Hunger Levels reach Alarming’ High around the World

The Pennines and their abundance of water have always been at the forefront in the growth of the British textile and wool industry. A lack of labour after World War II led to an influx of Pakistani immigrants to the UK and now British/Pakistani’s have entered their fourth or fifth and perhaps even the sixth generation. Despite their separation from the country of birth of their fore fathers, most British/Pakistani’s share an affinity with Pakistan and colour the town green with flags whenever the Pakistani cricket team plays. This empathy is further strengthened by their ties of marriage, property and investments in Pakistan. The early British Pakistani’s yearned to one day return to Pakistan and spend their retirement in the sunny climes of their homeland. But this is not the case today. Equally strong links in the UK nurtured over several generations make many Pakistanis face the difficult choice of staying ‘here or there’. Barrister Farrukh Qureshi, himself a second generation British/Pakistani, knows this too well. Being brought up and educated in the UK he is well known in both the UK and Pakistan and having practiced law for more than thirty years, the last twenty five years through his law firm, Samdani & Qureshi, based in Islamabad. He has provided legal assistance to multinational Companies, and many European foreign missions and seen engagement in several high profile

international commercial arbitrations. This has seen his firm Samdani & Qureshi gain the coveted distinction as a firm of integrity and one of the foremost in its field. He has seen firsthand that whilst the majority of the British citizens would prefer the sunny climes and beeches of the Mediterranean and Caribbean or invest in the Middle and Far East, the British/Pakistanis endure the heat and dust of Pakistan or ‘back home’ to place their nest eggs. This has, however, led to a multitude of problems.

For children who have grown up in the British way of life, going back to Pakistan often proves difficult to adjust to and they feel a disconnec-tion from the country. A holiday is something that they can tolerate for a few days, but a permanent settlement is difficult.

They are often unaware of property that they own or are due an inherit-ance from. Hard earned money put into property or other investments in Pakistan are lost to dishonest and unscrupulous relatives or friends and threats to life are a reality in the event of a return to reclaim a lost as-set or inheritance. Controlling an asset or investment in Pakistan from afar is no walk in the park and travel is a luxury few can afford on a regular basis. The result-ant headache is property either fall-ing into disrepair or into the control of the infamous ‘Qabza Groups’.

A ‘doorway of hope’ to pursue their legal rights from the safety and convenience of their homes has up to now seemed a pipe dream. But this is no longer a dream. A corridor through which legal problems can be solved without the need to take precious time away from family and work to travel to Pakistan and pursue one’s legal rights in the Pakistan courts is now a reality.

Barrister Farrukh Qureshi seeing the difficulties facing his countrymen has established ‘Infinity Consultants (UK) Limited’. This firm, working under the auspices of Samdani & Qureshi, is staffed by experienced and dedicated people motivated towards solving the problems faced by the British/Pakistanis. Whether it is an issue related to property, di-vorce, marriage, maintenance, child custody, will or inheritance help is available and it is available now and today at your doorstep. Infinity Consultants UK aims to help and acquaint the British/Pakistanis to realise their legal rights in Paki-stan through its experience, legal, expertise and a vast and efficient infrastructure built up over a quarter of a century.

Whatever the nature of your problem contact Infinity Consultants UK now and you too will find that there is a solution to your problem. http://www.ic-uk.com and www.samdaniqureshi.com

Infinity Consultants: A doorway of hope for the British/Pakistani/Kashmiri Community in distress


BY JAVED ZAHEER, FREE EXPRESSION AWARD WINNER True leadership anywhere, everywhere and at any time is always confronted with serious challenges from those who are committed enemies of mankind. Yet such people are never deterred by any sinister conspiracies, cowardly attacks, threats, hurdles, obstacles and setbacks. True leaders, no doubt, are great people. They boldly and bravely accept and face all challenges and remain prepared for worst-ever difficult times. In any case or situation or at any time or before anyone, they never let down their people and al-ways try to fulfil all the promises, pledg-es and commitments they make. This is their quality, character and identity. Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old brave daughter of Pakistan, who is campaigner for girls’ rights and education, is one such hero. She was shot in the head by those who are human beasts, criminals, crooks, cowards, corrupt, traitors and conspirators. The Taliban group, which always promptly and without losing any time makes the claims and takes the responsi-bility, claimed the responsibility for this attack. It is being strongly condemned and severely criticized for this cowardly act by Pakistanis and the whole world.Some are suspecting foul play and hold-ing the US and Allies responsible for this attack through their mysterious Taliban group so that they could gain sympathy of Pakistanis and the world, put pres-sure on Pakistan’s military, rulers and politicians to do more including major military operation and justify their op-erations and attacks including Drone attacks in which thousands of innocent people including women and children

have been mostly mercilessly killed. Interestingly, Pakistanis and most Mus-lims in the Muslim World really love, like and respect the country and the good, loving and caring people of US and Allies. This is why they all crazily want to go there by any means and at any cost. But they don’t like and trust the policy-makers, rulers and military of US and Allies and hold them responsible for the mass killings and destruction in order to achieve the vested interests. This is all mainly because of the infamous but no-torious U-Turn Policies of the US. This is why US and Allies have lost trust, con-fidence and respect. If they keep working with the crook, cruel and corrupt rulers, military gen-erals, bureaucrats, leaders and people then they will always be disliked and hated and never trusted and respected. They will have to seriously review and sincerely make positive changes in the policies in order to gain the trust, con-fidence, love and respect of the people. They must deal with true leaders and good people to help them become rulers, policymakers and politicians. Malala Yousafzai gained prominence in 2009 by writing a diary (BBC Urdu vid-eo Schools Dismissed) about life under Taliban militants who had taken control of the valley. She earned the admiration of many across Pakistan for her cour-age. She was encouraged and supported by her father Ziauddin Yusufzai, mother and BBC Reporter Abdul Hayee Kakkar. All the four are also being suspected by many of being very close to the US and Allies and working for their vested in-terests. The connection issue is becom-ing a hot issue. The media is splashing exclusive news with pictures about the

connection issue. It is being termed as a well-planned drama of the conspiracy plan. Courageous Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she started her diary, two years after the Taliban took over the Swat Val-ley and ordered girls' schools to close. She wrote under the pen-name Gul Makai for BBC Urdu and exposed the sufferings. She won a national award for bravery and was nominated for an inter-national children's peace award. By her true leadership character, attitude, actions, deeds and tremendous positive contributions, Malala Yousafzai and many others like her, who are risking their lives and struggling, helping, sup-porting and serving the people with the spirit of service to humanity, are proving to the world that neither Pakistanis nor Muslims are terrorists. Instead they are victims of global terrorism and interna-tional conspiracies. This is a loud and clear message: Target the real terrorists instead of labelling the Muslims as ter-rorists. The world leaders and people must come forward and practically act to help and support such courageous people. It is never too late. Ignorance or refusal would certainly lead to torturous punish-ment in the form of painful pricks by the conscience. They will always regret and can never sleep, live or die peacefully. This is for sure. It is the issue of mankind and humanity.Recently a couple from Pakistan visited Toronto, Canada. They were introduced to me by Shahid Hashmi, a renowned and respected community leader and a distinguished personality, who is also their relative. The couple has dedicated their lives to promoting human values and committedly serving the people

through education in order to ensure bet-ter future and quality of life for children, people and Pakistan.As part of their important role of promot-ing human values, the couple, Syeda Fa-him Iqbal Jaffrey and Muhammad Fahim Khan, adopt poor and deserving kids and children who are ignored by the parents. They help, support and groom them so that they become good, responsible and respectable member of the society and community and have a bright future. The focus is on their character, welfare and education. Also, they help in the release of innocent people who are in jails. Many Canadians and others, including distinguished personalities, very much impressed by the couple’s intentions, commitments, determination and con-tributions are showing keen interest in practically helping and supporting them in promotion of their education projects and adoption of deserving bright chil-dren for their education and future under supervision of The Fahims School Sys-tem. The couple assured them that their help and support would prove a great bless-ing and help for the deserving children and innocent persons and maintenance and expansion of the education and char-ity projects. They are expecting help and support from maximum number of people. The practical help and support would greatly help them to continue their mission of building the future of new generation through education. The objective is to make them very good hu-man beings.In short, the couple, Syeda Fahim Iqbal Jaffery and Muhammad Fahim Jaffery, are dare-devils and true patriotic peo-ple who have risked their lives, devoted their time, energy and resources and

dedicated themselves with commitment and determination to practically help and support the deserving children and peo-ple of Pakistan. The challenges are really tough and times very difficult. It is hard to survive or stand before the corrupt lobby but they are doing their best. With the help of sincere and good people and leaders of anywhere, they are sure of achieving aimed and greater success. This is their level of trust and confidence in good people and leaders. Instead of merely sympathizing, cry-ing and rendering lip services, we need to practically act and help promote the sacred vision and mission of Malala Yousafzai and people like her. Syeda Fahim Iqbal Jaffery and Muhammad Fahim belong to people of great cat-egory. Their tremendous contributions and meritorious services speak for them-selves. We must help and support them in turning the sacred mission into reality and successfully achieving the mission of promotion of education and charity. The scarred vision will always keep us in the dark and prove dangerous. That is why we need to fully support the sacred missions of good people. CONTACT FAHIMS: Those interested in practically helping the couple, Syeda Fahim Iqbal Jaffery and Muhammad Fahim Khan, their education and char-ity projects and the deserving children and innocent persons could contact them on telephone (021-34978627) or email: [email protected] or [email protected]. The address is: Head Office: A-295 Sardar Ali Sabri Road, Block-5, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Kara-chi, Pakistan.

Promoting Education And Human Values

Sheffield Lib Dem Leader, Shaffaq Mohammed, has admitted that he has had no problems adjusting to the introduction of alternate week bin collections. In an interview on BBC Radio Sheffield Councillor Mohammed revealed “We’re coping alright, I’ve never said that we’d struggle … I’m ok with it.”

Labour have made it clear throughout that the reason for moving to alternate week collections is the massive cuts that the Government are imposing on the council, leaving a £170 million gap over four years. Moving to alternate week collections, which is successfully operated by the majority of councils in England and Wales, saves the council £2.5 million every year.

The Lib Dems have also dropped their commit-ment to reverse the change, pressed on the issue several times Councillor Mohammed refused to say that they would propose to reintroduce weekly collections in their budget this year.

Coping with alternate week Collections

Arab spring has left US-friendly rulers in region nervous about possible impact of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear programme.General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US joint chiefs, meets Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, in Tel Aviv. US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against the Iranian nuclear programme by cutting off vital logistical support from Gulf Arab allies.US naval, air and ground forces are dependent for bases, refuelling and sup-plies on Gulf Arab rulers who are deeply concerned about the progress Iran has made in its nuclear programme, but also about the rising challenge to their regimes posed by the Arab spring and the galvanising impact on popular unrest of an Israeli attack on Iran. The US Fifth Fleet is headquar-tered in Bahrain and the US air force has major bases in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Senior US officers believe the one case in which they could not rely fully on those bases for military operations against Iranian installations would be if Israel acted first."The Gulf states' one great fear is Iran going nuclear. The other is a regional war that would destabilise them," said a

source in the region. "They might sup-port a massive war against Iran, but they know they are not going to get that, and they know a limited strike is not worth it, as it will not destroy the programme and only make Iran angrier."Israeli leaders had hinted they might take military action to set back the Ira-nian programme, but that threat receded in September when the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, told the United Nations general assembly that Iran's advances in uranium enrichment would only breach Israel's "red line" in spring or summer next year.Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, said this week in London that it was the Iranian decision this year to convert a third of the country's stock of 20%-en-riched uranium into fuel (making it harder to convert to weapons-grade material if Iran decided to make a weapon) that had bought another "eight to 10 months".Barak's comments appear to signal that Israel's new red line is an Iranian stock-pile of about 200kg of 20%-enriched uranium in convertible form, enough if enriched further to make one bomb. Western diplomats argue the benchmark is arbitrary, as it would take Iran another few months to enrich the stockpile to 90% (weapons-grade) purity, and then perhaps another year to develop a war-head small enough to put on a missile.

US warns Israel off pre-emptive strike on Iran


Property Q & A

Q. My solicitor has advised me that a SDLT return will be submitted once I have completed the lease of shop for a term of 10 years. What is this SDLT return?

A. The SDLT return is a stamp duty land tax return which is part of the stamp duty tax system and your solicitor cannot complete the registration of the lease without a certificate issued by HM Revenue and Customs.

Q What is the difference between registered and unregistered properties?

A. The details of registered properties are held electronically at the Land Registry and you can obtain copies of ownership and related title plans directly from the Land Registry if required. An unregistered property hasn’t been registered at the Land Registry, therefore all information relating

to the property is held within the title deeds. These documents are of significant importance and at the time of registration, the Land Registry require sight of them to inspect and note them in their records.

Q I have lost my title deeds what should I do?

A If your property is regis-tered at the Land Registry then the office copy entries (proof of own-ership) can be obtained from the Land Registry. If your property is not registered then your solicitor can reconstruct the title and regis-ter the same at the Land Registry. The reconstruction process of the title is quite complicated and once it has been completed the Land Registry may grant a possessory title which is an inferior title as compared to title absolute.

Q. I have been granted a six years lease of my shop should I register it at the Land Registry

or not?

A. It is only necessary to reg-ister a lease of more than 7 years with the Land Registry. A lease of this nature can be noted against the Landlords title as an agreed notice.

Q. What is Adverse Possession?

A. Adverse Possession means someone occupying land belong-ing to someone else, with-out permission. If someone does this continuously for a number of years (normally 10 or 12 years) then, in certain circumstances, the land may become theirs Disclaimer Please note these Q & A are just for the General information only and does not amount legal advice.

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A leading UK charity is calling to strengthen partnerships be-tween the UK and Pakistan to help deliver education reforms in the country. QED-UK works to improve the social and economic position of disadvantaged ethnic minorities.It spoke out in support of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as he urged Pakistan’s leaders to use the Taliban shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai as a catalyst to speed up education reforms. Malala was singled out by the Taliban after becoming a vocal campaigner for education for girls. The teenager was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen last week and has been flown to the UK for medical treatment.Dr Mohammed Ali OBE, CEO of QED-UK, said education is the key to Pakistan’s problems: “It’s shocking that a young girl can be shot by armed men sim-ply for wanting to go to school. Our thoughts are with Malala and we’re eager to support the British government and private sectors to play a role in addressing these issues. The country faces huge problems in education for girls and boys as the population is set to explode over the next few dec-

ades.” Dr Ali’s concerns are reflected in the 2009 report Pakistan – the Next Generation, commissioned by the British Council. The re-search found Pakistan at a critical point, with its population forecast to swell by 85 million, from its current 180 million, over the next two decades. David Steven who co- wrote the report said if the next generation fail to get jobs and are poorly educated, Pakistan faces a ‘demographic disaster’.Dr Ali said: “The fear is disaf-fected youth in a country already besieged can only be a foundation for future unrest. Pakistan can’t move forward without education. It’s a very tragic situation.”Pakistan has never had such a high proportion of young adults: half of its population are aged under 20, with two-thirds still to reach their 30th birthday. The re-port notes however, many young Pakistanis are “passionate believ-ers” in education but are let down by terrible facilities. Pakistan’s state education system is riddled with ‘ghost schools’ – essentially institutions which exist only on paper due to rampant corruption – crumbling infrastructure and under-motivated teachers.

A quarter of the survey respond-ents were illiterate.Gordon Brown, who is now the UN’s Special Envoy for Global Education, is launching a peti-tion in Malala’s name ‘in support of what Malala fought for’, say-ing it is time to ‘fight harder for Malala’s dream to come true’ as 32 million girls across the world are currently not attending school.QED-UK already works to build links through education, deliver-ing British-led training to women in Mirpur to help them learn Eng-lish before they settle in the UK with their families. Dr Ali said: “We were the first British organisation to deliver the Integrate UK programme in Paki-stan. We should build on knowl-edge and networks in both coun-tries to help deliver good quality education in Pakistan. At QED, we’re eager to do all we can to help achieve this mission.”A spokesman for Mr Brown said his aim was to get governments, international non-governmental organisations and businesses to agree practical proposals to turn the promise of universal educa-tion into reality.

Strengthening Partnerships

Cllr Jhangir Akhtar hosted a party for the Eid festivities at Choudhry’s Orient Express in Rother-ham. The guests of honour were Lord Nazir Ahmed and the Lord and Lady Mayoress of Rotherham, among a host of other local dignitaries. The evening was a celebra-tion of the efforts of the people of Rotherham and local Councillors over the past year who have enjoyed success in Rotherham.Cllr Jhangir Akhtar made an opening speech highlight-

ing some important issues affecting the Sheffield and Rotherham community. He talked about the recent EDL marches in Rotherham and how the people of Rotherham had acted in a highly civilised manner and no trouble or clashes had occurred. Cllr Mahroof Hussain reiterated the on this issue. Lord Mayor praised the Holy Prophet (pbuh) on the issues Islam teaches us to care for our neighbours and respect for all especially for women.

He thanked the people of Rotherham for their cohesion they show on a number of issues Rotherham has been facing lately. The gathering at the event was mixed and Lord Nazir explained the meaning of Eid ul Azha to all who joined in the celebratory dinner. Cllr Jahangir congratulated the great achievement by the charity ‘safe@last’ who recently raised over £1500 climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

Cllr Jhangir Akhtar hosts Eid Party

“The lawlessness in the party is demoralising to the extent that I am now unconvinced that PTI can deliver what it has been promising,” she says and adds the final straw for her came when during the recent party elections for the UK, decisions were im-plemented from Pakistan and groupings were encouraged. She says that when she pro-tested the decisions taken by the party’s Pakistan leaders, she and her six colleagues were suspended “to silence and defame us as we had highlighted what they had

done with PTI in the UK”. She alleges that this “illegal suspension & open mali-ciousness of its own party workers was also observed by the CEC & the Chairman and for 5 months nothing was done”. She said after her campaign within the party, Justice Shaiq Usmani was appointed to review the PTIUK elec-tions who noted that the elections were “rigged & manipulated and that our suspension notice was il-legal”. But his findings were

ignored and Imran Khan did nothing to redress the wrong or get the decisions imple-mented. She concludes: “I have decided to part ways with the party which cannot hold people accountable within, provide the rule of law and Justice to its own die hard ideological workers, constantly takes ‘U turns’ and lacks democracy & collective decision making power – this has resulted in its inability to correct all wrongs.”

The British Medical Associa-tion, engaged in a bruising fight over pensions with the government, was also highly critical. Dr Paul Flynn, chair-man of the BMA consultants committee, said the govern-ment had claimed "abolish-ing inefficiencies (would) free money for re-investment in the NHS — not just to hand it back to the Treasury.

This is extremely galling for staff who have been working hard to make savings while maintaining quality of care

for their patients, and who are also being threatened with cuts to their pay and conditions."

The figures had emerged from an investigation by the Health Service Journal, which had claimed that £3bn of NHS surpluses had been returned to the Treasury.

A spokesman said that the actual figure was £1bn from department underspending rather from the NHS directly.

"This NHS is in robust finan-cial health. We are investing an additional £12.5bn in the NHS and £1.6bn of surplus from 2011/12 has been made available to the NHS to help deliver high quality, sustain-able health services for patients.

The amount spent on frontline services in 2011/12 increased by £3.4 billion and we have reduced inefficient spending, saving over £1.5 billion on bureaucracy and IT."

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