FAFEN observers urge unified body of electoral laws Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Sunday said not all citizens were given a chance to use their right to vote and urged the need for a unified body of electoral laws, and tightened control over elections officials and political parties. “Problems like incidents of irregularities, fraud and lax enforcement of election law and regulations before and on Election Day demands serious renewed efforts towards electoral reform, including a unified and consistent body of electoral laws”, FAFEN officials said in a news conference while releasing its ‘Preliminary Statement’ in account of general elections 2013. PAGE 08 Though efforts are underway for formation of government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), no party seems to be in a position to show 50 percent plus strength on a total 124 seats of the provincial legislature. So far Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaaf (PTI) is in a leading position but it appears hard for its leadership to establish its own government. Leaders of Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have initiated contacts with leaders of different political parties for formation of a coalition government. In fact, no one from JUI-F, or from other political parties such as the PML-N, PPP and ANP are willing to enter into a PTI-led coalition. PAGE 09 Senior Vice President of Balochistan National Party (Mengal) Sajid Tareen on Sunday alleged that his party has been punished in the elections for its bold stance on rights of the Baloch. Addressing a press conference along with PB-4 candidate Akhtar Hussain Langov, Tareen said his party would not accept the election results and knock the doors of the courts. He said the party faced challenges from two fronts, those who have taken up arms to get their rights and the nationalist parties who had identical ideology with the establishment. He said they had been saying that the establishment wanted to keep its control on Balochistan through fake leadership. PAGE 04 Fernando Alonso ended a seven-year wait to claim his second Spanish Grand Prix triumph to thrill his fans in Barcelona. Ferrari and Alonso managed the strategy to ensure the 31-year-old took the chequered flag for the 32nd time in his career, in a race featuring a staggering 82 pit stops as Pirelli’s degrading rubber again seemingly played too much of a role in the outcome for all concerned. Making four stops, Alonso finished nine seconds clear of three-stopping Kimi Raikkonen in his Lotus, with the Finn having to settle for second for the third consecutive race. PAGE 18 Who will run Khyber Pakhtunkhwa? Flawless Alonso ends seven year Spanish itch BNP-M to move court against poll results: Tareen PAGE 13 CRIES FOUL PLAY IN KARACHI, LAHORE CRIES FOUL PLAY IN KARACHI, LAHORE STORY ON PAGE 04 Singh invites Nawaz to visit India Nawaz vows to improve ties with US and India STORY ON PAGE 04 STORY ON PAGE 04 STORY ON PAGE 04 PML-N GETS SIMPLE MAJORITY TO FORM GOVT Amitabh gets nostalgic on 40th anniversary of ‘Zanjeer’ Rs 17.00 Vol III No 316 19 Pages Lahore Edition Monday, 13 May, 2013 Rajab 2, 1434 ISB 13-05-2013_Layout 1 5/13/2013 5:53 AM Page 1
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FAFEN observersurge unified bodyof electoral lawsFree and Fair Election Network (FAFEN)on Sunday said not all citizens weregiven a chance to use their right tovote and urged the need for a unifiedbody of electoral laws, and tightenedcontrol over elections officials andpolitical parties. “Problems like incidents ofirregularities, fraud and laxenforcement of election law andregulations before and on Election Daydemands serious renewed effortstowards electoral reform, including aunified and consistent body of electorallaws”, FAFEN officials said in a newsconference while releasing its‘Preliminary Statement’ in account of
general elections 2013. PA G E 0 8
Though efforts are underway forformation of government in KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KP), no party seems tobe in a position to show 50 percentplus strength on a total 124 seats ofthe provincial legislature. So farImran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is in a leading positionbut it appears hard for its leadershipto establish its own government.Leaders of Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl(JUI-F) have initiated contacts withleaders of different political parties forformation of a coalition government.In fact, no one from JUI-F, or fromother political parties such as thePML-N, PPP and ANP are willing to
enter into a PTI-led coalition. PA G E 0 9
Senior Vice President of BalochistanNational Party (Mengal) Sajid Tareen onSunday alleged that his party has beenpunished in the elections for its boldstance on rights of the Baloch.Addressing a press conference alongwith PB-4 candidate Akhtar HussainLangov, Tareen said his party would notaccept the election results and knockthe doors of the courts. He said theparty faced challenges from two fronts,those who have taken up arms to gettheir rights and the nationalist partieswho had identical ideology with theestablishment. He said they had beensaying that the establishment wantedto keep its control on Balochistan
through fake leadership. PA G E 0 4
Fernando Alonso ended a seven-year wait to claim hissecond Spanish Grand Prix triumph to thrill his fans inBarcelona. Ferrari and Alonsomanaged the strategy to ensure the31-year-old took the chequered flagfor the 32nd time in his career, in arace featuring a staggering 82 pitstops as Pirelli’s degrading rubberagain seemingly played too much ofa role in the outcome for allconcerned. Making four stops,Alonso finished nine seconds clearof three-stopping Kimi Raikkonen inhis Lotus, with the Finn having tosettle for second for the third
consecutive race. PA G E 1 8
Who will run KhyberPakhtunkhwa?
Flawless Alonsoends seven yearSpanish itch
BNP-M to movecourt against pollresults: Tareen
PA G E 1 3
CRIES FOUL PLAY IN KARACHI, LAHORECRIES FOUL PLAY IN KARACHI, LAHORE STORY ON PAGE 04
Singh invites Nawaz to visit India
Nawaz vows to improve ties with US and India
STORY ON PAGE 04
STORY ON PAGE 04
STORY ON PAGE 04PML-N GETS SIMPLE MAJORITY TO FORM GOVT
Amitabh getsnostalgic on 40th anniversaryof ‘Zanjeer’
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NA-134 (Sheikhupura-IV) Irfan Dogar PML-N 29,700NA-135 (Sheikhupura-V) Barjees Tahir PML-N 72,331NA-136 (Sheikhupura-VI) Bilal Virk PML-N 72,156NA-137 (Nankana-1) Rai Mansab Ali PML-N 61,291NA-139 (Kasur-II) Wasim Akhtar PML-N 59,112NA-141 (Kasur-IV) Rana Ishaq PML-N 70,512NA-142 (Kasur-V) Rana Hayat PML-N 65,013NA-143 (Okara-I) Nadeem Abbas PML-N 98,410NA-144 (Okara-II) Arif Chaudhry PML-N 125,944NA-145 (Okara-III) Ashiq Hussain PML-N 65,345NA-146 (Okara-IV) Rao Ajmal PML-N 102,456NA-147 (Okara-V) Moeen Wattoo PML-N 64,618NA-148 (Multan-I) Abdul Ghaffar Dogar PML-N 51,109NA-149 (Multan-II) Javed Hashmi PTI 42,540NA-150 (Multan-III) Shah Mahmood Qureshi PTI 35,883NA-151 (Multan-IV) Sikandar Bosan PML-N 96,159NA-152 (Multan-V) Javed Shah PML-N 44,020NA-153 (Multan-VI) Diwan Ashiq PML-N 39,777NA-154 (Lodhran-I) Jahangir Tareen PTI 72,735NA-155 (Lodhran-II) Abdul Rehman Kanju IND 85,376NA-156 (Khanewal-I) Raza Hayat Hiraj IND 79,857NA-157 (Khanewal-II) Muhammad Khan Daha PML-N 91,315NA-158 (Khanewal-III) Pir Aslam Bodla PML-N 94,278NA-159 (Khanewal-IV) Iftikhar Nazir PML-N 95,340NA-160 (Sahiwal-I) Imran Shah PML-N 54,245NA-161 (Sahiwal-II) Chaudhry Ashraf PML-N 89,526NA-162 (Sahiwal-III) Rai Hasan Nawaz PTI 88,784NA-163 (Sahiwal-IV) Munir Azhar PML-N 88,864NA-164 (Pakpattan-I) Mansab Dogar PML-N 67,866NA-165 (Pakpattan-II) Athar Hussain PML-N 72,079NA-166 (Pakpattan-III) Rana Zahid Hussain PML-N 69,110NA-167 (Vehari-I) Nazeer Ahmed PML-N 96,009NA-168 (Vehari-II) Sajid Mehdi PML-N 68,097NA-169 (Vehari-III) Tahir Iqbal IND 76,765NA-170 (Vehari-IV) Saeed Minhas PML-N 83,537NA-173 (D.G.Khan-III) Awais Leghari IND 82,523NA-174 (Rajanpur-I) Jafar Leghari PML-N 86,471NA-175 (Rajanpur-II) Hafeez Dreshak PML-N 90,007NA-176 (Muzaffargarh-I) Sultan Ahmed PML-N 84,967NA-177 (Muzaffargarh-II) Jamshed Dasti IND 76,562NA-178 (Muzaffargarh-III) Jamshed Dasti IND 79,192NA-179 (Muzaffargarh-IV) Basit Sultan PML-N 105,832NA-180 (Muzaffargarh-V) Ashiq Gopang IND 57,672NA-181 (Layyah-I) Faizul Hasan PML-N 71,324NA-182 (Layyah-II) Saqlain Shah PML-N 66,342NA-183 (Bahawalpur-I) Ali Hasan Gilani PML-N 65,670NA-184 (Bahawalpur-II) Mian Najeebuddin PML-N 32,400NA-185 (Bahawalpur-III) Baleegur Rehman PML-N 82,902NA-186 (Bahawalpur-IV) Mian Riaz Pirzada PML-N 65,822NA-187 (Bahawalpur-V) Saud Majeed PML-N 48,225NA-188 (Bahawalnagar-I) Asghar Shah IND 90,361NA-189 (Bahawalnagar-II) Alam Dad Laleka PML-N 71,600NA-190 (Bahawalnagar-III) Tahir Bashir PML-N 82,322NA-191 (Bahawalnagar-IV) Ijazul Haq PML-Z 78,858NA-192 (R.Y. Khan-I) Syed Ahmed Alam PML-N 73,140NA-193 (R.Y. Khan-II) Sheikh Fiaz PML-N 47,040NA-194 (R.Y. Khan-III) Khusro Bakhtiar IND 71,341NA-195 (R.Y. Khan-IV) Mustafa Mehmood PPPP 81,622NA-196 (R.Y. Khan-V) Imtiaz Ahmed PML-N 83,917NA-197 (R.Y. Khan-VI) Arshad Leghari PML-N 79,265NA-198 (Sukkur-I) Numan Islam PPPP 112,541NA-199 (Sukkur-II) Syed Khurshid Shah PPPP 72,884NA-200 (Ghotki-I) Ali Gohar Mehr PPPP 64,787NA-201 (Ghotki-II) Ali Muhammad Mehr PPPP 96,437NA-202 (Shikarpur-I) Aftab Shahban PPPP 52,000NA-203 (Shikarpur-II) Ghaus Baksh Mehr PML-F 77,065NA-205 (Larkana-II) Nazeer Ahmed PPPP 98,200NA-206 (Larkana-III) Amir Magsi PPPP 87,317NA-207 (Larkana-IV) Faryal Talpur PPPP 78,000NA-210 (Jacobabad-III) Ehsanur Rehman PPPP 53,463NA-211 (Naushero Feroze-I) Raees Ghulam NPP 56,578NA-212 (Naushero Feroze-II) Asghar Ali Shah PPPP 58,110NA-213 (Nawabshah-I) Azra Fazal PPPP 82,552NA-214 (Nawabshah-II) Ghulam Mustafa PPPP 92,407NA-215 (Khairpur-I) Nawab Ali Wassan PPPP 75,388NA-216 (Khairpur-II) Sadruddin Shah PML-F 85,190NA-218 (Hyderabad-I) Amin Faheem PPPP 91,622NA-219 (Hyderabad-II) Khalid Maqbool MQM 134,686NA-220 (Hyderabad-III) Waseem Hussain MQM 117,230NA-221 (Hyderabad-IV) Ameer Ali Shah PPPP 61,079NA-222 (Hyderabad-V) Naveed Qamar PPPP 81,123NA-223 (Hyderabad-VI) Abdul Sattar PPPP 80,200NA-224 (Badin-I) Sardar Kamal PPPP 87,670NA-225 (Badin-II) Fehmida Mirza PPPP 65,914NA-226 (Mirpurkhas-I) Shafqat Hussain PPPP 81,658NA-227 (Mirpurkhas-II) Munawar Talpur PPPP 95,703NA-228 (Mirpurkhas-III) Yusuf Talpur PPPP 62,153NA-231 (Dadu-I) Asad Sikandar PPPP 96,369NA-232 (Dadu-II) Rafiq Jamali PPPP 76,814NA-233 (Dadu-III) Imran Zafar PPPP 54,212NA-234 (Sanghar-I) Pir Baksh Junejo PML-F 70,236NA-235 (Sanghar-II) Pir Sadruddin PML-F 74,232NA-236 (Sanghar-III) Roshan Junejo PPPP 85,740NA-237 (Thatta-I) Sadiq Memon PPPP 69,983NA-238 (Thatta-II) Ayaz Ali Shah IND 46,586NA-240 (Karachi-II) Suhail Mansoor MQM 95,770NA-241 (Karachi-III) Iqbal Qadri MQM 97,908NA-242 (Karachi-IV) Mehboob Alam MQM 97,890NA-243 (Karachi-V) Abdul Waseem MQM 199,500NA-244 (Karachi-V) Sheikh Salahuddin MQM 176,000NA-245 (Karachi-VII) Rehan Hashmi MQM 100,005NA-246 (Karachi-VIII) Nabil Gabol MQM 178,280NA-247 (Karachi-IX) Sufyan Yusuf MQM 117,970NA-248 (Karachi-X) Shah Jehan Baloch PPPP 84,530NA-249 (Karachi-XI) Farooq Sattar MQM 108,000NA-251 (Karachi-XIII) Ali Raza Abidi MQM 79,856NA-252 (Karachi-XIV) Abdul Rasheed Godail MQM 75,600NA-253 (Karachi-XV) Muzamil Qureshi MQM 75,896NA-255 (Karachi-XVII) Asif Hassnain MQM 140,500NA-256 (Karachi-XVIII) Iqbal Muhammad MQM 114,415NA-257 (Karachi-XIX) Sajid Ahmed MQM 98,500NA-258 (Karachi-XX) Abdul Hakeem Baloch PML-N 47,315A-259 (Quetta) Mehmood Achakzai PkMAP 32,770NA-260 (Quetta-cum-Chagai-cum-Mastung) Manzoor Ahmed JUI-F 13,425NA-261 (Pishin-cum-Ziarat) Muhammad Issa PkMAP 17,066NA-262 (Killa Abdullah) Mehmood Achakzai PkMAP 37,407NA-263 (Loralai) Ameer Zaman JUI-F 27,500NA-264 (Zhob-cum-Killa Saifullah) M. Khan Sheerani JUI-F 11,792NA-265 (Sibi-cum-Kolhu- cum-Dera Bugti) Mir Dosteen Domki IND 13,256NA-266 (Nasirabad) Mir Salim Khosa IND 18,415NA-267 (Kachhi) Khalid Magsi IND 41,114NA-268 (Kalat-cum-Mastung) Kamal Bangalzai NP 18,726NA-270 (Awaran-cum-Lasbella) Jamal Kamal IND 45,953NA-271 (Kharan-cum-Panjgur) Lt Gen Abdul Qadir PML-N 13,770NA-272 (Kech-cum-Gwadar) Yaseen Baloch NP 9,526
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An All-importAntnumbers’gAme begins
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An all-important numbers’ game hasstarted in the country as the PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)emerged as the single largest party,favourite to form government withNawaz Sharif becoming prime ministerfor the third time.Though the PML-N has an impressivetally of 120-plus seats under its belt andis all set to form government in the Cen-tre, it needs to add to its numbers toreach the magical and elusive figure of172, required to take vote of confidencefrom a full house of 342, featuring re-served seats for women and minorities.Political analysts believe that the threedays after the official announcement ofresults would be crucial in the ensuednumber game with all stakeholders fullyin action including the visible and invisi-ble forces.In the three days, all parties will be onthe look-out to swell their ranks in theparliament. The party favourite to formgovernment also needs clarity on whatsort of political combination could ad-dress the challenges faced by the coun-try.Easy pickings in such a competition areoften those MNAs who have contestedelections as independents. Per announce-ment of results, there are a good numberof independents this time, set to enterthe National Assembly.According to unofficial results, there areabout 30 independents this time. Theseindependents under new laws will haveto join a party. After the mandatory pe-riod of three days, they cannot join anyparty per the 20th amendment.According to past traditions, the PML-Nshould not have much of a problem en-listing these independents being thebiggest party and sure to form govern-ment.Earlier, most political analysts were ex-pecting a split mandate, foreseeing par-ties locked in a cut throat competition towoo these independents, employing allsorts of methods, even opening up theircoffers for them. But now it is a differentsituation with PML-N emerging a major-ity party that can form government quiteconveniently on the basis of its ownstrength.In pursuit of this number game, a new
political alignment could take place inthe coming days. Already Maulana Fa-zlur Rehman has taken lead over othersas he called Nawaz Sharif to explorepossibilities of future cooperation. Sharifhas made a solo flight in elections butnow as the future prime minister, hewants to take every political force onboard.More importantly, forces that matter inthe country must be watching this num-ber game and the emerging politicalequation with great interests at the mo-ment. It is also time for them to forgetheir responses to new challenges and re-alities.
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PF-1 (Peshawar-I) Zia Afridi PTI 22,922PF-2 (Peshawar-II) Shaukat Yusufzai PTI 27,442PF-3 (Peshawar-III) .......awaitedPF-4 (Peshawar-IV) Arif Yusuf PTI 20,741PF-5 (Peshawar-V) .......awaitedPF-6 Peshawar-VI) Fazal Elahi PTI 14,870PF-7 (Peshawar-VII) Mehmood Jan PTI 12,574PF-8 (Peshawar-VIII) .......awaitedPF-9 (Peshawar-IX) Arbab Jehandad PTI 13,385PF-10 (Peshawar-X) Shah Farman PTI 11,853PF-11 (Peshawar-XI) .......awaitedPF-12 (Nowshera-I) Khaliqur Rehman PTI 29,049PF-13 (Nowshera-II) Pervez Khattak PTI 28,915PF-14 (Nowshera-III) Jamsheduuin PTI 15,906PF-15 (Nowshera-IV) Muhammd Idrees PTI 21,875PF-16 (Nowshera-V) Qurban Ali PTI 9,256PF-17 (Charsadda-I) Fazal Shakoor JUI-F 24,038PF-18 (Charsadda-II) Sultan Khan QWP 13,888PF-19 (Charsadda-III) Arshad Ali QWP 27,833PF-20 (Charsadda-IV) Khalid Khan QWP 16,497PF-21 (Charsadda-V) Sikandar Hayat QWP 17,008PF-22 (Charsadda-VI) Muhammad Arif PTI 7,755PF-23 (Mardan-I) Ameer Haider ANP 16,044PF-24 (Mardan-II) Zahid Durrani PTI 12,294PF-25 (Mardan-VIII) Ubaidullah Mayar PTI 16,807PF-26 (Mardan-IV) .......awaitedPF-27 (Mardan-V) .......awaitedPF-28 (Mardan-VI) Gohar Shah ANP 15,280PF-29 (Mardan-III) Tufail Anjum PTI 15,944PF-30 (Mardan-VII) Muhammad Atif PTI 16,956PF-31 (Swabi-I) Babar Khan AJIP 16,380PF-32 (Swabi-II) .......awaitedPF-33 (Swabi-III) Ali Tarkai AJIP 13,182PF-34 (Swabi-IV) Abdul Karim QWP 14,148PF-35 (Swabi-V) Asad Qaiser PTI 14,118PF-36 (Swabi-VI) .......awaitedPF-37 (Kohat-I) Amjad Afridi IND 18,005PF-38 (Kohat-II) Ziaullah Bangash PTI 20,722PF-39 (Kohat-III) Imtiaz Shahid PTI 14,181PF-40 (Karak-I) .......awaitedPF-41 (Karak-II) Qasim Khattak IND 18,977PF-42 (Hangu-I) Fareed Khan IND 15,983PF-43 (Hangu-II) Mufti Said Janan JUI-F 8,996PF-44 (Abbottabad-I) Mushtaq Ghani IND 25,361PF-45 (Abbottabad-II) Sardar Mehtab PML-N 27,734PF-46 (Abbottabad-III) Qalandar Lodhi IND 28,665PF-47 (Abbottabad-IV) Sardar Aurangzeb PML-N 25,736PF-48 (Abbottabad-V) Sardar Idrees PTI 32,693PF-49 (Haripur-I) Faisal Zaman PML-N 28,289PF-50 (Haripur-II) Yusuf Ayub PTI 34,975
PF-51 (Haripur-III) Gohar Nawaz IND 50,584PF-52 (Haripur-IV) Faisal Nawaz PTI 30,206PF-53 (Mansehra-I) Sardar Zahoor IND 21,662PF-54 (Mansehra-II) Ziaur Rehman PML-N 24,060PF-55 (Mansehra-III) Saleh Muhammad PML-N 32,332PF-56 (Mansehra-IV) Wajihuzzaman PML-NPF-57 (Mansehra-V) Ibrar Hussain QWP 19,750PF-58 (Battagram-I) Zareen Gul JUI-F 8,452PF-59 (Battagram-II) Wali Khan PML-N 16,909PF-60 (Kohistan-I) Shah Hussain JUI-F 8,117PF-61 (Kohistan-II) .......awaitedPF-62 (Kohistan-III) .......awaitedPF-63 (D.I.Khan-I) .......awaitedPF-64 (D.I.Khan-II) Ali Amin Khan PTI 13,953PF-65 (D.I.Khan-III) .......awaitedPF-66 (D.I.Khan-IV) Lutfur Rehman JUI-F 32,133PF-67 (D.I.Khan-V) Israrullah Gandapur IND 22,451PF-68 (Tank) Javed Akbar IND 41,112PF-69 (Bannu-I) Mahmood Khan JUI-F 24,980PF-70 (Bannu-II) Akram Durrani JUI-F 24,971PF-71 (Bannu-III) Taimoor Baz ANP 15,698PF-72 (Bannu-IV) .......awaitedPF-73 (Lakki Marwat-I) Malik Riaz JUI-F 15,737PF-74 (Lakki Marwat-II) .......awaitedPF-75 (Lakki Marwat-III) Noor Saleem JUI-F 29,821PF-76 (Bunair-I) .......awaitedPF-77 (Bunair-II) Sardar Hussain ANP 10,620PF-78 (Bunair-III) Habibur Rehman JI 12,228PF-79 (Swat-I) Mufti Fazl Ghafoor JUI-F 13,743PF-80 (Swat-II) Fazal Hakim PTI 17,787PF-81 (Swat-IV) Azizullah Khan PTI 13,045PF-82 (Swat-III) Amjad Ali PTI 15,082PF-83 (Swat-V) Muhibullah Khan PTI 10,983PF-84 (Swat-VI) Mahmood Khan PTI 11,040PF-85 (Swat-VII) Jafar Shah ANP 14,262PF-86 (Shangla-I) Qaimos Khan PML-N 10,568PF-87 (Shangla-II) Rashad Khan PML-N 14,895PF-88 (Chitral-I) Abdul Munim IND 10,293PF-89 (Chitral-II) .......awaitedPF-90 (Upper Dir-I) .......awaitedPF-91 (Upper Dir-II) Inayatullah JI 15,066PF-92 (Upper Dir-III) Muhammad Ali JI 13,342PF-93 (Lower Dir-I) Behram Khan JI 12,894PF-94 (Lower Dir-II) .......awaitedPF-95 (Lower Dir-III) Sirajul Haq JI 22,872PF-96 (Lower Dir-IV) .......awaitedPF-97 (Malakand Prot.) Bakht Baidar QWP 10,912PF-98 (Malakand Prot.) .......awaitedPF-99 (Malakand Prot.) Shakeel Ahmad PTI 27,261
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PP-1 (Rawalpindi-I) Raja Ishfaq Sarwar PML-N 288,32PP-2 (Rawalpindi-II) …AwaitedPP-3 (Rawalpindi-III) Iftakhar Ahmed Warsi PML-N 565,84PP-4 (Rawalpindi-IV) …AwaitedPP-5 (Rawalpindi-V) Enginior Raja Qamer-ul-Islam PML-N 480,00PP-6 (Rawalpindi-VI) …AwaitedPP-7 9Rawalpindi-VII) …AwaitedPP-8 (Rawalpindi-VIII) …AwaitedPP-9 (Rawalpindi-IX) …AwaitedPP-10 9Rawalpindi-X) …AwaitedPP-11 (Rawalpindi-XI) …AwaitedPP-12 (Rawalpindi-XII) …AwaitedPP-13 (Rawalpindi-XIII) Chaudary Muhammad Kamran Khan ST 335,12PP-14 (Rawalpindi-XIV) Raja Muhammad Hanaif PML-N 369,80PP-15 (Attock-I) Sayeed Ijaz hussain PTI 279,85PP-16 (Attock-II) Col(r) Shuja Khanzada PML-N 386,97PP-18 (Attock-IV) Sher Ali Khan PML-N 589,44PP-19 (Attock-V) Zafar Iqbal PML-N 374,87PP-17 (Attock-III) Muhammad Shahwaz khan PML-N 406,77PP-20 (Chakwal-I0) Chaudary Liaqat Ali Khan PML-N 616,57PP-21 (Chakwal-II) Tanveer Aslam Malik PML-N 740,61PP-22 (Chakwal-III) Sadar Zulfikhar Ali Khan PML-N 569,05PP-23 (Chakwal-IV) Malik Muhmaad Zahoor Anwar PML-N 543,25PP-24 (Jhelum-I0 Raja Muhammad Awais Khan Khalid PML-N 383,86PP-25 (Jhelum-II) Mehar Muhammad Fayyaz PML-N 486,10PP-26 (Jhelum-III) Chaudary Lal Hussain PML-N 441,04PP-27 (Jhelum-IV) Chaudary Nazar Hussain Gondal PML-N 489,00PP-28 (Sargodha-I) Dr, Mukthar Hussain Bathar PML-N 579,97PP-29 (Sargodha-II) Mehar Gullam Dastageer Khan Lak PML-N 269,95PP-30 (Sargodha-III) Tahir Ahmed Sindhu PML-N 290,12PP-31 (Sargodha-IV) Main Munzar hussain Ranjaha PML-N 296,22PP-33 (Sargodha-VI) Chaudary Abdul Razaq Dholwan PML-N 585,69PP-34 (Sargodha-VII) Dr, Nadia Aziz PML-N 337,24PP-32 (Sargodha-V) Chaudary Amir Sultan Chema PML-Q 259,84PP-35 (Sargodha-VIII) Chaudary Faisal Farooq Chema IND 333,20PP-36 (Sargodha-IX) Rana Munawar Hussain PML-N 374,53PP-37 (Sargodha-X) Sabzada Gullam Nizam-u-Din Sailvi PML-N 548,46PP-38 (Sargodha-XI) Sadar Bahadur Khan Makken IND 391,94PP-41 (Khushab-III) Muhammad Asif Malik PML-N 398,82PP-42 (Khushab-IV) Malik Muhammad Waris Kilo PML-N 501,37PP-39 (Khushab-I) Malik Muhammad Javid Iqbal Awan PML-N 423,48PP-40 (Khushab-II) Karam-ul-Nabi Bandayal PML-N 362,57PP-43 (Mianwali-I) Amanat Ullah Khan Shadi Khel PML-N 369,97PP-44 (Mianwali-II) Dr,Sala-u-Din Khan PTI 559,06PP-45 (Mianwali-III) Ahmed Khan Bacher PTI 493,61PP-46 (Mianwali-IV) Muhammad Sabuktagain Khan PTI 520,20PP-47 (Bhakkar-I) Ameer Muhammad Khan IND 422,76PP-48 (Bhakkar-II) Najeeb Allah Khan IND 360,85PP-49 (Bhakkar-III) Ganzafar Abbas Cheena IND 393,41PP-50 (Bhakkar-IV) Amir Anayat Khan IND 494,21PP-51 (Faisalabad-I) ….AwaitedPP-52 (Faisalabad-II) Muhammad Afzal Sahi PML-N 348,53PP-53 (Faisalabad-III) Gafanat Miraj Awan PML-N 470,18PP-54 (Faisalabad-IV) Ray Haider Ali Khan PML-N 505,65PP-55 (Faisalabad-V) Rana Shoaib Adrees PML-N 361,00PP-56 (Faisalabad-VI) Ray Muhammad Usman IND 236,91PP-57 (Faisalabad-VII) Zafar Ali Bucha PML-N 391,70PP-58 (Faisalabad-VIII) Ahsan Riaz Fatiyana IND 290,74PP-59 (Faisalabad-IX) Arif Mehmood Gill PML-N 471,16PP-60 (Faisalabad-X) Rao Kashif Raheem Khan PML-N 439,70PP-61 (Faisalabad-XI) Naeem Allah Gill IND 201,23PP-62 (Faisalabad-XII) Chaudary Raza Nasser Ullah PML-N 383,71PP-63 (Faisalabad-XIII) Main Muhammad Ajmal Asif PML-N 417,13PP-64 (Faisalabad-XIV) Zafar Iqbal Nagra IND 426,40PP-65 (Faisalabad-XV) Haji Muhammad Illyas Insari PML-N 432,70PP-66 (Faisalabad-XVI) Haji Khalid Sayeed PML-N 490,92PP-67 (Faisalabad-XVII) Faqeer Hussain Dogar PML-N 519,44PP-68 (Faisalabad-XVIII) Sheikh Ijaz Ahmed PML-N 495,68PP-69 (Faisalabad-XIX) Main Tahir Jamil PML-N 461,22PP-70 (Faisalabad-XX) Rana Sana Ullah Khan PML-N 451,16PP-71 (Faisalabad-XXI) Malik Muhammad Nawaz PML-N 491,10PP-72 (Faisalabad-XXII) Khawaj Muhammad Islam PML-N 220,00PP-73 (Jhang-I) Illhaj Muhammad Illyas Chanoti PML-N 402,00PP-74 (Jhang-II) Molana Haji Muhammad Rahmat Allah PML-N 257,98PP-75 (Jhang-III) Imtaz Ahmed Lalahi PML-N 540,66PP-76 (Jhang-IV) Mehar Nawaz Khan Barwana IND 198,13PP-77 (Jhang-V) Nawab Khurram Abbas IND 373,17PP-78 (Jhang-VI) …AwaitedPP-79 (Jhang-VII) Mehar Khalid Mehmood Sargana PML-N 291,90PP-80 (Jhang-VIII) Khalid Gani Chaudary PML-N 261,00PP-81 (Jhang-IX) Iftakhar Ahmed Khan PML_N 413,16PP-82 (Jhang-X) Haji Main Muhammad Azam PML-N 370,65PP-83 (Jhang-XI) Awon Abbas IND 407,53PP-84 (T.T.Singh-I) Chaudary Bilal Asghar PML-N 247,87PP-85 (T.T.Singh-II) Abdul Qadeer Alwi PML-N 392,81PP-86 (T.T.Singh-III) Amjad Ali Javid PML-N 323,09PP-87 (T.T.Singh-IV) Lt col (r ) Sadar Ayub Khan PML_N 529,91PP-88 (T.T.Singh-V) Nazia Raheel PML-N 366,22PP-89 (T.T.Singh-VI) Maqdoom Sayed Ali Raza PML-N 540,17PP-90 (T.T.Singh-VII) Mian Muhammad Rafiq PML-N 253,16PP-91 (Gujranwala-I) Imran Khalid Butt PML-N 350,37PP-92 (Gujranwala-II) Muhammad Nawaz Chohan PML-N 551,58PP-93 (Gujranwala-III) Chaudary Ashraf Ali Ansari PML-N 471,22PP-94 (Gujranwala-IV) Abdul Raoof Mugal PML-N 477,07PP-95 (Gujranwala-V) Peer Gullam Fareed PML-N 470,44PP-96 (Gujranwala-VI) Muhammad Taufeeq Butt PML-N 405,39PP-97 (Gujranwala-VII) Chaudary Muhammad Ashraf PML-N 297,27PP-98 (Gujranwala-VIII) Ch Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar PML-N 635,42
PP-99 (Gujranwala-IX) Qaiser Iqbal Sindhu PML-N 329,95PP-100 (Gujranwala-X) Chaudary Shamshad Ahmed Khan PML-N 287,54PP-101 (Gujranwala-XI) Mutarma Raiz Amanat Ali PML-N 233,77PP-102 (Gujranwala-XII) Ch Rafqat Hussain PML-N 304,07PP-103 (Gujranwala-XIII) Akmal Saif Chatta PML-N 413,45PP-104 (Gujranwala-XIV) Shaukat Manzoor Chema PML-N 421,43PP-105 (Hafizabad-I) Malik Fayyaz Ahmed PML-N 547,88PP-106 (Hafizabad-II) Ch Muhammad Asad Allah PML-N 405,30PP-107 (Hafizabad-III) Sayed Shoiab Sha Nawaz IND 522,69PP-108 (Gujrat-I) Nawabzada Haider PML-N 322,60PP-109 (Gujrat-II) Maj (r ) Moin Nawaz PML-N 398,06PP-110 (Gujrat-III) Chaudary Moonis Ellehi PML-Q 512,89PP-111 (Gujrat-IV) Haji Imran Zafar PML-N 354,24PP-112 (Gujrat-V) Chaudary Muhammad Ashraf PML-N 407,80PP-113 (Gujrat-VI) Mian Tariq Mehmood PML-N 534,30PP-114 (Gujrat-VII) Malik Muhammad Hanif Awan PML-N 404,00PP-115 (Gujrat-VIII) Chaudary Naeem Raza PML-Q 452,78PP-116 (M.B.Din-I) Hameeda Waheed-U-Din PML-N 527,12PP-117 (M.B.Din-II) sayed Tariq Yaqoob PML-N 304,47PP-120 (M.B.Din-V) Sayeed Muhammad Mahfooz PML-N 179,13PP-118 (M.B.Din-III) Moonis Ellehi PML-Q 387,08PP-119 (M.B.Din-Ivp) Shafaqat Mehmood Gondal PML-N 288,75PP-122 (Sialkot-II) Chaudary Muhammad Akram PML-N 401,22PP-123 (Sialkot-III) Khawaj Muhammad Asif PML-N 481,11PP-121 (Sialkot-I) Rana Muhammad Iqbal Burana PML-N 756,09PP-124 (Sialkot-IV) Rana Abdul Sattar Khan PML-N 603,19PP-129 (Sialkot-IX) Chaudary Moshin Ashraf PML-N 594,21PP-131 (Sialkot-XI) Chaudary Rashid Javaid PML-N 493.14PP-128 (Sialkot-VIII) Rana Muhammad Afzal PML-N 302,13PP-130 (Sialkot-X) Muhammad Asif Bajawa PML-N 583,70PP-126 (Sialkot-VI) Liaqat Ali PML-N 478,95PP-127 (Sialkot-VII) Munawar Gill PML-N 512,47PP-132 (Narowal-I) Awais Qasim Khan PML-N 454,24PP-136 (Narowal-V) Lt col (r ) Shujat Ahmed Khan PML-n 474,56PP-133 (Narowal-II) Abuqais Muhammad Gayas PML-N 400,38PP-134 (Narowal-III) Manan Khan PML-N 343,40PP-135 (Narowal-IV) Khawaj Muhammad Wasim PML-N 554,70PP-137 (Lahore-I) Khawaj Imran Nazeer PML-n 379,54PP-138 (Lahore-II) …AwaitedPP-141 (Lahore-V) Mian Muhabati Shuja PML-N 582,19PP-142 (Lahore-VI) …AwaitedPP-139 (Lahore-III) Bilal Yashin PML-N 446,63PP-140 (Lahore-IV) ….AwaitedPP-149 (Lahore-XIII) Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan PML-N 331,95PP-150 (Lahore-XIV) Mehar Ishtiaq Ahmed PML-N 571,49PP-147 (Lahore-XI) Mian Moshin Latif PML-N 367,69PP-148 (Lahore-XII) Mian Muhammad Aslam Iqbal PTI 548,93PP-143 (Lahore-VII) Chaudary Shabaz Ahmed PML-N 615,66PP-145 (Lahore-IX) Waheed Gill PML-N 392,00PP-146 (Lahore-X) Haji Malik Muhammad Waheed PML-N 425,80PP-155 (Lahore-XIX) Mian Naseer Ahmed PML-N 533,02PP-156 (Lahore-XX) Yashin Sobal PML-N 434,79PP-151 (Lahore-XV) Mian Mehmood Ul-Rashid PTI 569,32PP-152 (Lahore-XVI) Dr Murad Ras PTI 374,03PP-153 (Lahore-XVII) Ramzan Sadique Bhatti PML-N 511,56PP-154 (Lahore-XVIII) …AwaitedPP-160 (Lahore-XXIV) …AwaitedPP-161 (Lahore-XXV) >>>AwaitedPP-159 (Lahore-XXIII) Mian Muhmmad Shahbaz Sharif PML-N 576,50PP-157 (Lahore-XXI) Rana Tajamal Hussain PML-N 447,00PP-158 (Lahore-XXII) Gullam Habib Awan PML-N 317,22PP-162 (Sheikhupura-I) Muhammad Khurram Gulfam PML-N 202,03PP-163 (Sheikhupura-II) Khurram Ijaz Chatta PML-N 363,21PP-164 (Sheikhupura-III Peer Muhammad Ashraf Rasool PML-N 532,21PP-165 (Sheikhupura-IV) Ali Asghar IND 411,70PP-167 (Sheikhupura-VI) Muhammad Arif Khan PML-N 392,45PP-166 (Sheikhupura-V) Fazan khalid Wirk PML-N 242,29PP-169 (Sheikhupura-VIII) Chaudary Sajjad haider PML-n 237,00PP-170 (Sheikhupura-IX) ……AwaitedPP-171 (Sheikhupura-X) ……AwaitedPP-168 (Sheikhupura-VII) Ali Salman IND 223,96PP-173 (Sheikhupura-XII) Mehar Kashif PML-N 300,70PP-172 (Sheikhupura-XI) Malik Zulqarnain Dogar PML-N 290,10PP-174 (Sheikhupura-XII) Rana Jamil Hussan Khan PML-N 275,00PP-175 (Kasur-I) Muhammad Yaqoob Nadeem PML-N 336,91PP-176 (Kasur-II) Muhammad Unis Quarshi PML-N 237,45PP-177 (Kasur-III) Haji Muhammad Naeem Safdar PML-N 605,56PP-178 (Kasur-IV) Malik Ahmed Sayed Khan PML-N 339,01PP-179 (Kasur-V) Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan PML-N 513,53PP-180 (Kasur-VI) Waqas Hussan Mokhel PML-Q 220,00PP-181 (Kasur-VII) Sheikh Alaudin PML-N 468,66PP-182 (Kasur-VIII) Mehmood Anwar Chaudary PML-N 244,95PP-183 (Kasur-IX) Sadar Muhammad Asif PML-Q 350,45PP-184 (Kasur-X) Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan PML-n 411,02PP-185 (Okara-I) Samina Noor PML-N 266,21PP-188 (Okara-IV) Chaudary Iftakhar Hussain PML-N 454,96PP-190 (Okara-VI) Mian Muhammad Munir PML-N 593,13PP-191 (Okara-VII) Mian Yawar Zaman PML-N 434,12PP-186 (Okara-II) Javid Alaudin Sajid PML-N 562,12PP-187 (Okara-III) Sayed Raza Ali Gallani PML-N 379,88PP-192 (Okara-VIII) Ali Abbas PML-N 415,93PP-193 (Okara-IX) Muhammmad Moneen Watto PML-N 321,09PP-201 (Multan-VIII) Malik Muntazar Abbas PML-N 352,28PP-202 (Multan-IX) Ray Munsab Ali Khan PML-N 346,20PP-194 (Multan-I) Zaheerudin Alizai PTI 176,71PP-197 (Multan-IV) Sayeed Ahmed Qureshi PTI 297,80PP-195 (Multan-II) Haji Javid Akther PTI 169,08PP-196 (Multan-III) Chaudary Abdul Waheed PML-N 222,17
PP-198 (Multan-V) Mian Shahzada Maqbool PML-N 327,91PP-199 (Multan-VI) Malik Muhammad Ali Khokker PML-N 150,14PP-200 (Multan-VII) Shauqat Hayat Khan PML-N 346,20PP-203 (Multan-X) Rana Tahir Shabbir PML-N 213,78PP-204 (Multan-XI) Rana Ijaz Ahmed PML-N 266,32PP-205 (Multan-XII) Mehdi Abbas Khan PML-N 941,8PP-206 (Multan-XIII) Nagma Mustaq Lang PML-N 190,22PP-210 (Lodhran-IV) Muhammmad Saddique Khan IND 327,33PP-211 (Lodhran-V) Ahmed Khan Baloch IND 326,48PP-207 (Lodhran-I) Muhammad Amir IqbalShah IND 301,59PP-208 (Lodhran-II) …AwaitedPP-209 (Lodhran-III) ..AwaitedPP-212 (Khanewal-I) Muhammad Akbar Hayat IND 374,44PP-213 (Khanewal-II) Sayeed Hussain Jhaniyain IND 350,16PP-214 (Khanewal-III) Nashat Ahmed Khan PML-N 354,63PP-215 (Khanewal-IV) Chaudary Fazal-ul-Rehman PML-N 385,00PP-216 (Khanewal-V) Amir Hayat Harj PML-N 345,02PP-217 (Khanewal-VI) …AwaitedPP-218 (Khanewal-VII) …AwaitedPP-219 (Khanewal-VIII) KaramDad Wahala PML-N 465,27PP-220 (Sahiwal-I) Peer Khaizir Hayat Shah PML-N 405,54PP-221 (Sahiwal-II) …AwaitedPP-222 (Sahiwal-III) Muhammmad Rashid Malik PML-N 354,30PP-223 (Sahiwal-IV) Muhammad Rashid Khan Loddi PML-N 318,00PP-224 (Sahiwal-V) Haji Waheed Asghar Dogar PTI 426,61PP-225 (Sahiwal-VI) Chaudary Muhammad Rashid PML-N 443,61PP-226 (Sahiwal-VII) Chaudary Muhammad Hanif Jatt PML-N 494,02PP-227 (Pakpattan-I) Mian Atta Muhammad Khan PML-N 468,97PP-229 (Pakpattan-III) ..AwaitedPP-228 (Pakpattan-II) Mian Naweed Ali PMl-N 368,91PP-230 (Pakpattan-IV) …AwaitedPP-231 (Pakpattan-V) Peer Kashif Ali PML-N 413,74PP-232 (Vehari-I) Chaudary Yousaf Kasila IND 502,60PP-233 (Vehari-II) Chaudary Irshad Ahmed PML-N 363,90PP-234 (Vehari-III) Mian Ifran Doltana PMl-N 238,99PP-235 (Vehari-IV) Bilal Akbar Bhatti PML-N 264,15PP-236 (Vehari-V) Muhammad Saqib Khurshid PML-N 442,33PP-237 (Vehari-VI) Muhammad Naeem Akther Khan IND 359,47PP-238V (Vehari-VII) …AwaitedPP-239 (Vehari-VIII) Muhammad Jhanzaib Khachi PTI 369,32PP-240 (D.G. Khan-I) …AwaitedPP-241 (D.G. Khan-II) …AwaitedPP-243 (D.G. Khan-IV) Sadar Zulfikhar Ali Khan Khosa PML-N 152,71PP-244 (D.G. Khan-V) …AwaitedPP-245 (D.G. Khan-VI) …AwaitedPP-242 (D.G. Khan-III) Javid Akther IND 279,53PP-246 (D.G. Khan-VII) …AwiatedPP-247 (Rajanpur-I) Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif PML-N 560,00PP-248 (Rajanpur-II) Sadar Sher Ali Khan PML-N 472,42PP-249 (Rajanpur-III) Sadar Nasarullah Khan IND 467,11PP-250 (Rajanpur-IV) Sadar Atif Hussaini PML-N 513,21PP-251 (Muzaffargarh-I) Malik Ahmed Yar Hanjara PML-N 345,97PP-253 (Muzaffargarh-III) ….AwaitedPP-252 (Muzaffargarh-II) Mian Zeeshan Ahmed Gormani IND 203,51PP-255 (Muzaffargarh-V) Mian Alamdar Abbas IND 312,15PP-254 (Muzaffargarh-IV) ….AwaitedPP-256 (Muzaffargarh-VI) Muhammad Imran Quarshi PML-N 297,49PP-257 (Muzaffargarh-VIII) Malik Ahmed Karim PML-n 263,15PP-258 (Muzaffargarh-VIII) Maqdoom Zada Sayeed Harron Ahmed PML-N 437,46PP-259 (Muzaffargarh-IX) Sadar Khan Muhammad Khan Jattoi PML-N 444,60PP-260 (Muzaffargarh-X) Sayeed muhammad Sabuktagain Raza INd 323,15PP-261 (Muzaffargarh-XI) Sadar Amir Talal IND 296,30PP-262 (Layyah-I) Abdul-al-Majeed Khan Nayazi PTI 141,90PP-263 (Layyah-II) Shahabudin Khan Samiyater PPPP 233,70PP-264 (Layyah-III) Sadar Qasir Abbas Khan PML-N 302,66PP-265 (Layyah-IV) Mehar Ijaz Ahmed Achlana PML-n 337,25PP-266 (Layyah-V) Chaudary Ishfaq Ahmed IND 225,13PP-267 (Bahawalpur-I) Maqdoom Zada sayeed Iftakhar BANP 289,20PP-268 (Bahawalpur-II) Qazi Adnan Fareed PML-N 360,88PP-269 (Bahawalpur-III) Sadar Khalid Mahmood Waran PML-N 260,00PP-270 (Bahawalpur-IV) Mian Muhammad Shoiab Awaisi PML-N 230,00PP-271 (Bahawalpur-V) Dr Sayeed Wasim Akther JI 289,80PP-272 (Bahawalpur-VI) Malik Muhammad Iqbal Chanter PMl-N 346,16PP-273 (Bahawalpur-VII) Mian Muhammad Kaziam Ali PML-N 320,00PP-274 (Bahawalpur-VIII) Muhammad Afzal Gill PML-N 210,68PP-275 (Bahawalpur-IX) Chaudary Khalid Mahmood PML-N 287,30PP-276 (Bahawalpur-X) Dr Muhammad Afzal PML-Q 278,40PP-277 (Bahawalnagar-I) Mian Fida Hussain Watto PML-N 454,41PP-278 (Bahawalnagar-II) Shukuat Ali Joyai PML-N 387,00PP-279 (Bahawalnagar-III) Rana Abdul Raoof PML-N 432,78PP-280 (Bahawalnagar-IV) Mian Mumtaz Ahmed PTI 169,82PP-281 (Bahawalnagar-V) …AwaitedPP-282 (Bahawalnagar-VI) Chaudary Zahid Akram PML-N 320,00PP-283 (Bahawalnagar-VII) Cahudary Gullam Murtaza PML-ZIA 433,37PP-284 (Bahawalnagar-VIII) Muhammad Naeem Anwar PML-ZIA 278,11PP-285 (R.Y. Khan-I) Maqdoom Sayeed Muhammad Maqsood PML-N 273,38PP-286 (R.Y. Khan-II) Qazi Ahmed Sayed PPPP 266,21PP-287 (R.Y. Khan-III) Mian Muhammad Islam Aslam PML-N 223,28PP-289 (R.Y. Khan-V) Maqdoom khusro Bakthar IND 243,25PP-290 (R.Y. Khan-VI) Muhammad Ijaz Shafiq PML-N 350,41PP-288 (R.Y. Khan-IV) Sadar Muhammad Nawaz Khan IND 202,34PP-292 (R.Y. Khan-VIII) Maqdoom Sayeed Mustafi Mahmood PPPP 313,21PP-295 (R.Y. Khan-XI) Maqdoom Sayed Murtaza PPPP 243,32PP-291 (R.Y. Khan-VII) Maqdoom Hashim IND 260,27PP-293 (R.Y. Khan-IX) Muhammad Umer Jaffar PML-N 182,21PP-294 (R.Y. Khan-X) Chaudary Mahmood-ul-Hassan PML-N 286,22PP-296 (R.Y. Khan-XII) Chaudary Muhammad Shafiq PML-N 271,31PP-297 (R.Y. Khan-XIII) Rais Ibrahim Khaleel Ahmed PPPP 397,54
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ISLAMABADTAYYAB HUSSAIN
THE Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday tight-
ened its grip over the throneby clinching 124 seats of theNational Assembly, leavingbehind the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf which is trailing be-hind with 32 seats andPakistan Peoples’ Party-Par-liamentarians (PPP) with 32seats. According to unofficialresults, the PML-N is set toclinch around half a dozenmore seats while the PPP andPTI are also likely to gainmore seats. Some politicalheavyweights who fought in-dependently are also leading.
Some interesting factshave also emerged in the elec-tions 2013. Despite strong ev-idence of rigging in parts ofthe country, it has come to thefore that the people of Pak-istan rejected ideas of award-ing tickets to people frommiddle and lower classes and
rather they voted for strongcandidates. Moreover, thevoters also did not pay heed tothe sloganeering for carvingout new provinces and eventhe deprived people of SouthPunjab and Hazara divisionspolled their votes againstthose who had promised newprovinces for them. The PPPcould only win a single Na-tional Assembly seat from en-tire South Punjab while SoobaHaraza Movement leadersfailed to clinch even a singleseat from Hazara division.
Moreover, the people alsorejected young and enthusiasticcontenders who were awardedtickets from the PTI with a slo-gan for ‘change’. Rather, it looksthat the people voted for clansystem and status quo while insome constituencies, the votersgave mandate on sectarian linesas well. As far as provincial as-semblies are concerned, the sit-uation is quite clear this timearound. In Punjab Assembly, thePML-N is heading towards aclear majority with around 207
seats already in its bag, while 40independent candidates havewon and the PTI is trailing farbehind with only 22 seats in thePunjab Assembly. The PTI,however, is poised to form gov-ernment in KhyberPakhtunkhwa where the ImranKhan-led party has been given aclear mandate by the people ofKP. PTI has won 34 seats in KPAssembly followed by JUI-Fwith 15 seats, PML-N with 12and Jamaat-e-Islami having 7seats. In Sindh Assembly, PPPPis leading with 44 seats followedby the Muttahida Qaumi Move-ment (MQM) with 21 seats andthe PML-F with 10. InBalochistan, the PakhtunkhwaMilli Awami Party (PkMAP) ispoised to form the governmentwith support from the PML-Nand some of the Baloch nation-alist parties. As per the results,which are coming on a slowpace from conflict-hit areas ofthe province, PkMAP baggednine seats followed by PML-Nwith eight and six independ-ents and two PML-Q men.
LAHORE/KARACHIKHAN BABRAK YOUSAFZAI/AGENCIES
A clash between ‘Naya Pakistan’ and‘Roshan Pakistan’ was witnessed at the fa-mous Liberty Chowk when a peaceful andapolitical protest, initiated to make votersaware of their rights, turned into a tug ofwar between supporters of the PML-N andthe PTI. Though CEC Fakhruddin GEbrahim had on Saturday declared the elec-tions as having been conducted transpar-ently, the general public, especially theeducated middle class, have strong reserva-tions regarding the polls and have evenquestioned its status of being ‘free andfair’. On Sunday, a group of young and
concerned voters came together to plan ahasty but peaceful protest at Lahore’s Lib-erty Chowk to demand the Election Com-mission of Pakistan (ECP) take immediatenotice of rigging allegations pouring infrom Lahore and other parts of Pakistan.
At 6:30 in the evening, crowds ofyoung men and women started pouring to-wards Liberty Chowk while carrying plac-ards inscribed with legitimate demandspressed forward by young voters who feltthat their rights had been trampled upon,that the vicious cycle of corruption mightnot have ended after all. “These electionswere supposed to be free and fair. This timearound I passionately went out to vote be-cause I believed that the youth should comeforward,” Zeest Malik, a member of theprotest organising committee stressed in adejected voice. “What the youth witnessedat polling stations was that those ballot pa-pers that should otherwise have been cast,were being torn by workers of certain po-litical parties. The ECP is answerable to themasses for witnessing such misconduct and
sleeping over it,” she added. In the mean-time, the location started gaining heat whenyoung PTI supporters joined the protest,which was otherwise supposed to be anapolitical and peaceful affair. Severalyoung ‘tabdeeli Razakaars’ brought theirparty flags along and started raising politi-cal slogans. During this time, a large num-ber of PML-N supporters started hurlinginsulting and offensive words and gesturesat the protesting crowd. Wave after wave ofPML-N supporters started making roundsof the chowk and showing no concern forfellow citizens, blocked the flow of trafficby parking their cars and motorcycles infront of the protestors. Police personnelstanding on the side of the road had to rushin to stop any confrontation from takingplace. Hot headed and hot blooded youthfrom both sides confronted each other andtension gradually started rising when harshwords were exchanged between the sup-porters of the two ‘true-blue’ political par-ties. While the PTI supporters startedcalling the N-Leaguers ‘Jahil’, the latter
were keenly targeting the women by hurl-ing sleazy and derogatory remarks at them.The police team standing at the venueseemed more tilted in favour of the PML-N supporters. Instead of going after the un-ruly youths who disrupted the importantprotest, the police started threateningpeaceful protestor of dire consequences ifthey did not break their line. In one such in-cident, the police officer of Gulberg policestation, namely Mustaneer Ahmad, threat-ened a protestor Samina Latif and evenpushed her slightly to one side.
Samina said Mustaneer said all womenwould be left at the mercy of hooligans,who would be given a free hand to do what-ever they want. Another member of theprotest organizing committee, MadihaLatif, said, “Rigging allegations were ram-pant after the 2008 elections and ampleproofs surfaced afterwards that should havebeen properly investigated. It never hap-pened back then, and now the ghosts of thepast have come to visit us once more.” InLahore’s Defence as well, PTI workers and
supporters gathered on Ghazi Chowk inNA-125 to protest against the election heldon May 11, 2013.
Report said the contest held between twocandidates PML-N Khawaj Saad Rafiq andPTI’s candidate Hamid Khan in which PML-N candidate Khawaj Saad Rafiq won the con-test from NA-125. On Sunday, workers ofPTI gathered in large members at Ghazi Roadto protest against the Election Commission ofPakistan. The protesters said Khwaja SaadRafique won the election by cheating and rig-ging and demanded the government to takestrong action against him and cancel his seat.They also demanded re-polling in NA-125. Amassive protest was held in Karachi’s Cliftonarea as well at Teen Talwar Chowk. PTI sup-porters came out on streets of Karachi toprotest alleged rigging during the generalelections. A large number of people, includingfemales, turned out, chanting slogans againstthe ECP and political parties. The group con-tinued to chant slogans in favour of the PTIchairman Imran Khan and the PTI candidatecontesting from NA-250, Arif Alvi.
CITIZENS TAKE TO STREETS IN LAHORE, KARACHI TO dEMANd JUSTICE
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Nawaz Sharif, the president of his ownfaction of the Pakistan Muslim League(PML-N), said on Sunday he would seekimproved ties with the United States(US) and try to repair relations with Indiathrough resolution of Kashmir issue.
“The relationship with the US wasquite good when I was in power,” Sharif,the two-time former prime minister saidin an interview with The Wall StreetJournal. “I’d like to take this relationshipfurther. We need to strengthen the rela-tionship,” Nawaz, 63, added in a hint athis government’s foreign policy. Nawaz,who is poised to form next governmentin Islamabad, sounded confident that hewould be able to find an agreement withthe US on contentious issues, such asdeeply unpopular US drone strikesagainst suspected al Qaeda-affiliated mil-itants in the tribal areas.
“These are the concerns that the Pak-istani people have,” Sharif said whenasked about the drone strikes. “We’llneed to address these concerns. I’m veryhopeful and confident about that.” Healso said Pakistan needed to have goodrelations with Afghanistan. “We will besupporting it as a whole. We have no in-tention to take any sides there.” On India,he noted that former president General (r)Pervez Musharraf ousted him in a 1999coup, he worked hard toward a detentewith New Delhi. “We’ll pick the threadswhere we left. We want to move towardbetter relations with India, to resolve theremaining issues through peacefulmeans, including that of Kashmir,” he
said. This time in power, he added, hedidn’t expect to deal with a hostile mili-tary establishment.
“There is no problem with the mili-tary,” he said. “I don’t think the militaryis responsible for what Musharraf did –he did it in his personal capacity. The mil-itary should not be blamed for this.”Meanwhile, Nawaz’s victory in Satur-day’s election has been seen as a “re-markable” comeback for him, in the USmedia accounts. The Washington Postcalled leader of PML-N a realist in anews story and noted in an editorial thatduring his previous term as prime minis-ter, which was ended by a 1999 militarycoup, Nawaz had a relatively coopera-tive relationship with the (former presi-dent Bill) Clinton’s administration.
A report in USA Today said if con-firmed, his victory would be a remark-able comeback for the 63-year-old, whohas twice served as the country’s premierbut was toppled in a military coup in1999. He spent years in exile before re-turning to the country in 2007. In a dis-patch, the New York Times said weighedin on the future course of US-Pakistan re-lations under the new democratic govern-ment. While Imran Khan’s PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf is poised to control theprovincial government in KhyberPakhtunkhwa, along the Afghan border –with potentially sharp implications forAmerican policy – it is Nawaz who islikely to have the greatest impact on re-lations with the United States. “A nation-alist by inclination, Nawaz, whilepublicly amenable to reaching out to theAmericans, has also hinted that he wasopen to negotiating with Taliban rebels in
the northwest – a stance that wouldgreatly concern American officials asthey try to withdraw from an Afghan warnext door that has featured many cross-border attacks by those insurgents,” a re-port in the paper noted
The report also referred to challengesNawaz will face including a stalled econ-omy, profound infrastructure failure, andgrave threats from an emboldened Tal-iban insurgency. “Furthermore, he haspromised to rein in American influencein Pakistan, leaving questions about thecountries’ often-stormy relationship.”While intently following election in Pak-istan, American newspaper reports andTV channels praised the Pakistani voters’enthusiasm at polls in defiance of the Tal-iban threats of violence, which has al-ready claimed dozens of lives in theelection season. “Despite the violence,many see the election – the country’s firsttransition between an elected governmentfulfilling its term to another – as a keystep to solidify civilian rule in a countrythat has experienced three militarycoups,” a news story in The ChristianScience Monitor noted. On its website,CNN news channel observed that “sporadicviolence aimed at polling stations failed todeter high turnout amongst Pakistanis vot-ing in Saturday’s landmark national andprovincial elections, with long lines re-ported in some places.” “Unlike previouselections, in which the military’s Inter-Ser-vices Intelligence Directorate was widelyaccused of vote manipulation and intimida-tion, this one offered little evidence of in-volvement by the military, which has ruledPakistan directly for more than half its 66-year history,” the Times said.
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PRO-PTI PROTESTS HELD INKARACHI, LAHORE AGAINSTALLEGED RIGGING, DELAY IN POLLING
nawaz vows to improveties with Us, India
PML-N PRESIDENT IS CONFIDENTTHAT HE WOULD FINDAGREEMENT WITH US ON ISSUESSUCH AS DRONE STRIKES
SAYS HE WORKED HARD TOWARD DETENTE WITH NEW DELHI IN 1999
NEW DELHI AGENCIES
Congratulating Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Shariffor winning the general elections, IndianPrime Minister Manmohan Singh onSunday expressed India’s desire to workwith the new government. He also invitedSharif to visit India.“PM extends his congratulations to Mr.Nawaz Sharif and his party for theiremphatic victory in Pakistan’s elections,”the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted as itcongratulated the people and the politicalparties of Pakistan for “braving the threatsof violence and voting in large numbers”.“PM expressed India’s desire to work withthe new government of Pakistan in chartinga new course for the relationship between
the two countries,” said another tweet. TheIndian prime minister, in another postinvited Nawaz “to visit India at a mutuallyconvenient time”.Nawaz was poised to return to power after a14-year hiatus as results of the NationalAssembly elections started trickling in andhis party led in the elections by a bigmargin over other rivals.Meanwhile, Indian External AffairsMinister Salman Khurshid hoped that Indiawould continue to have good relations withPakistan if Nawaz comes to power.“India welcomes whatever result that comesout of a democratic election. Our governmenthas had relations with Nawaz Sharif. From theprime minister’s side also congratulations willbe offered to him,” Khurshid said.“I hope wecan continue to have good relations if hecomes to power,” he said.
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Senior Vice President ofBalochistan National Party(Mengal) Sajid Tareen onSunday alleged that his party hasbeen punished in the electionsfor its bold stance on rights ofthe Baloch.Addressing a press conferencealong with PB-4 candidateAkhtar Hussain Langov, Tareensaid his party would not acceptthe election results and knockthe doors of the courts.
He said the party facedchallenges from two fronts,those who have taken up arms toget their rights and thenationalist parties who hadidentical ideology with theestablishment. He said they hadbeen saying that theestablishment wanted to keep itscontrol on Balochistan throughfake leadership.Tareen said that their pollingoffice was attacked in Shabo onSaturday. He claimed thatdespite a lead of 3,000 votes, theresult was not being announced.
BNP-M TO MOVECOURT AGAINSTPOLL RESULTS:SAJId TAREEN
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THE tigers had had agood hunt and it wasnow their time tofeast. The phoneskept buzzing, theflowers poured downon them hard as they
filled themselves up with sweets and somepride. As for the situation in the captain’spavilion, the air smelled of anger althoughthe team had notdone bad for adebut andhadmanagedto scorea few
doubles and singles.While on one end of the city, a stand-
off between the diehard supporters of thePakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and of thePakistan Muslim League-Nawaz wasreported, the city’s other end reeked ofjubilations with several influentialscongratulating Mian Nawaz Shareef andmaking their presence known to the mostprobable future prime minister of thecountry.
On the National Assembly seat, thePML-N has stamped their symbol onmajority of the seats with a good numbercoming from Punjab and its metropolis.
PML-N candidate Saad Rafique wonthe National Assembly seat after a closecontest with PTI candidate Hamid Zamanin NA-125. According to unofficial result,Saad Rafique earned 119,440 votes whilePTI candidate Hamid Zaman achieved81,298 votes and remained runner up.
Moreover, PML-N candidateMuhammad Pervaiz Malik was
declared successful by a margin ofover 80,000 votes from NA-123.According to unofficial results,Pervaiz Malik obtained 126,887votes while his rival candidate AtifChaudhry of PTI obtained 40,617votes.
As far as the situation in theprovincial assembly is concerned, itwas yet again the tiger that stole that
show.PML- N candidate MohsinLatif won his seat from PP-
147 by a clear marginof over 6,600
votes.According to
unofficialresults,
MohsinLatif
bagged 36,769 votes while his rivalcandidate Shoaib Siddiqui of PTI secured30,142 votes.
However, it was not over for thecaptain’s teams. PTI also had its sharewhen Mian Aslam Iqbal was declaredsuccessful by a margin of over 6000 votesfrom PP-148. According to unofficialresults, Mian bagged 54843 votes while hisrival candidate Akhtar Rasool of the PML-N secured 49,784 votes. It was a toughcompetition.SAARC CCI CHIEF VIKRAMJITCONGRATULATES NAWAZ: SAARCChamber of Commerce and IndustryPresident Virkamjit Singh Sahney onSunday congratulated Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) President NawazSharif on his party’s landslide victory inthe elections and urged for policyinitiatives for durable future economictrade relations among SAARC membercountries, especially between India andPakistan.
Sahnay asked SAARC Vice President(VP) Iftikhar Ali Malik to convey hiswishes to the PML-N leader.
He said that businessman turnedpolitician Nawaz Sharif had economicvision and hoped that in the future trade tiesand bilateral relations between Pakistan andIndia would improve significantly.
He said that a stable and democraticgovernment in Pakistan would steer thecountry away from economic crisisand defuse tension in the region,paving the way for progress andprosperity.
Vikramjit Sahnay said thatpolitical tensions in the South Asianregion had discouraged economicintegration over the years.
He regretted that nearly 60percent of total indigenous naturalresources in South Asia remainuntapped.
“The intra-regional tradefigures for South Asian are stilldisappointing as trade in the regionconstitutes only 1.4 per cent of thetotal world imports and 1.2 per centof global exports. The merchandisetrade is only 27.9 per cent of theGDP, the lowest in the world,” headded.
“Although South Asia hadsignificantly reduced import tariffs,the cost of trading across its borderswas one of the highest in theworld,” he further informed.
Moreover, he said that non-tariff barriers had been identifiedwhich hampered trade and
increased costs in South Asia. Iftikhar AliMalik thanked Virkamjit and all the otherVPs for extending whole hearted greetingsto Nawaz Sharif on his election victory.YDA HOLDS OUT OLIVE BRANCHTO PML-N: Punjab Young DoctorsAssociation (YDA) President Dr JavedAhmed congratulated Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) on their successin the elections and hoped that the newgovernment would resolve the long-standing issues of doctors, nurses andparamedics.
He suggested that the new governmentshould delegate a health minister, addingthat a comprehensive health policy wasessential.
He said that the YDA had no politicalmotives and the body merely sought toaddress issues faced by the doctors’community.
Dr Javed also pointed out that thehealth sector needed urgent attention andcomplete revamping to help poor patients.He hoped that PML-N’s new governmentwould take steps in this regard.FPCCI FELICITATES NAWAZ: TheFederation of Pakistan Chamber ofCommerce and Industry (FPCCI) onSunday congratulated the Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief MianNawaz Sharif for securing a remarkablevictory in the general elections.
This victory reflects PML-N’s
popularity in the country, remarkedPresident FPCCI Zubair Ahmed Malik.,President FPCCI.
“Mian Nawaz Sharif being abusinessman understands the businesscommunity’s problems and we expect thathe will facilitate business in Pakistan”, hesaid.
The president said that all developedcountries followed the businesscommunity’s guidelines for makingcommerce related policies. He hoped thePML-N government would also adopt arational and pragmatic approach in thisregard.
Zubair Ahmed Malik said that industryin the country was facing energy crisis,adding the newly elected party should takesteps for ensuring uninterrupted supply ofelectricity and gas for sustainable economicgrowth.
The FPCCI also hoped the PML-Nwould protect fiscal and monetary policiesby giving a legislation cover.
He also expressed the hope that MianNawaz Sharif will give positive response tothe goodwill gesture conveyed by him fromSAARC CCI President Vikram Git SinghSahney for further improvement in existingregional trade.
Meanwhile, VP SAARC CCI Pakistanchapter Iftikhar Ali Malik has alsocongratulated Mian Nawaz Sharif for thevictory and expressed hope that his successwould further boost Pak-India trade andbilateral relations.JI GREETS NAWAZ ON ELECTIONVICTORY: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) AmeerSyed Munawar Hasan on Sundaycongratulated Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President, MianMuhammad Nawaz Sharif on the hugevictory of his party in the general electionsand said he wished him well.
Syed Munawar Hasan added thatgovernment formation by the PML-Nwould be the party’s greatest test and saidhe hoped they would fulfill promises madeduring their campaign.
The JI Ameer felt that the newgovernment would have to face numerouschallenges. He said that the country’seconomy, industry and agriculture were inruins, and foreign and internal loans werealso a great issue. The energy crisis hadworsened significantly, whileunemployment and the price hike had madelife miserable for the people.
He also said that the law and order wasa serious concern. Further, he pointed outthe issues of bilateral ties with the US, Indiaand other major countries.
Hasan also expressed the hope that thePML-N government would take austeritymeasures to overcome the financial crunchand provide relief to the masses.
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POLITICAL LEADERS, INFLUENTIALS, FELICITATE NAWAZ FOR BAGGING MOST SEATS IN POLLS
It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people
who count the votes decide everything. – Joseph Stalin
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MANY political leadershave tweetedinteresting messagesover Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz(PML-N)’s lead in
polls. Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Marium Nawazhas said in her message on Twitter, “Theintelligent youths have supported PML-N andlet us build a new brighter Pakistan now.”
Maryam also promised that her fatherwould not disappoint the people and will‘deliver’.
Taking a swipe at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which had vocally criticised Sharifduring the campaign, Maryam said, “Dear PTIfriends. Politics of abuse, foul-language andallegations didn’t work. Try something elsenext time. For now let’s build Pak!”
Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister NajamSethi said in his message, “The winners shouldnot turn proud and the loser should not presentexcuses.”
PML-N leader Parvez Rasheed thankedpublic for support and announced that thewinning parties had the ‘same agenda’.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri has declared this systema failure and said that people who seek changewill turn desperate after some time.
President Asif Ali Zardari’s daughter AsifaBhutto Zardari has congratulated PML-N chiefwhile expressing hope that now he would servethose all, who elected him.
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election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
tweets from the political glitterati21 developmentschemes worth rs25,717m approvedby the pdWp
LAHORE: The Punjabgovernment on Sundayapproved 21 revised on-going developmentschemes costingapproximately Rs25717.507 million.They were approved in the33rd meeting of theProvincial DevelopmentWorking Party (PDWP) forthe current fiscal year,presided over by the PunjabPlanning and DevelopmentBoard (PPDB) ChairmanSohail Ahmad, said a PPDBspokesman.All these were revised on-going developmentschemes and to avoiddelays and protect againstinflation, these schemeswere considered in thePDWP’s meeting and werealso approved for withinthe stipulated time periodby the ProvincialDevelopment Forum. Theschemes includedcompleting the DHQBuilding to convert it into aKidney Centre at Multan atthe cost of Rs 877.689million, construction ofPandori Dam DistrictJhelum at the cost of Rs656.939 million,construction of ChahanDam Project in Rawalpindiat the cost of Rs 1567.429million and capacitybuilding and strengtheningof mines and the MineralsDepartment at the cost ofRs 70.339 million amongothers. APP
deAr depArted
Rasm-e-Qul for Late TauseefSadik, daughter of LateAhmed Ghulam Sadik, willbe held today at 1650 Ali PurRoad, near Kachi Kothi,Raiwind Road at 5pm andDua will be held at 6:30pm.
shop ablaze
LAHORE: Furniture and other itemsworth thousands of rupees were reducedto ashes in a fire at a shop on Mcleod Road
on Sunday. According to Rescue 1122spokesman, fire vehicles reached the spotand controlled the fire after hectic efforts.
However, no loss of life was reported.Cause behind the fire was stated to be shortcircuit, the spokesman added. APP
punjab Cs satisfied overelections arrangementsLAHORE: Punjab Chief Secretary Punjab Javed Iqbal hassaid that due to active monitoring and exemplaryarrangements, a large number of people exercised their rightof franchise without any fear on the election day. In a pressrelease issued on Sunday, he said that complaints of peoplereduced to a large extent and timely assistance was ensuredwhere needed. He said that special arrangements were madeon sensitive polling stations. Administrative officers werelinked through android mobile phones which greatly helped inaddressing of grievances without any delay. He said it wascommission’s top priority to ensure implementation of code ofconduct all over the province and positive results have beenachieved in this regard. He said that before, during and afterelections, implementation of law has been ensured. He saidthat establishment of Provincial Election Monitoring Cell hashelped in effective and timely contact throughout the provincewhich provided maximum relief to the masses in the elections.Punjab Information Technology Board Chairman Dr UmarSaif said all the polling officers were given a number 820025through which they could use code number for seeking anyassistance in any emergency. The chief secretary termedoverall performance of the Provincial Election MonitoringCell as satisfactory. Punjab Additional Chief Secretary IftikharAhmed Rao, provincial secretaries and additional secretariesof various departments were also present on the occasion. INP
ldA to startfunctioning atJohar town today
LAHORE: All thedirectorates of LahoreDevelopment Authority(LDA), affected by the fireincident in LDA PlazaEgerton Road, will startfunctioning at Johar Townfrom today. LDA DirectorGeneral Dr Ijaz Munir hasdirected the officersconcerned to start workingwithout delay for restoringroutine functioning of LDA.He has urged them to strivewith vigour for meeting thechallenge of rebuilding theorganisation. He was chairinga meeting at LDA officeJohar Town on Sunday whichwas attended by LDAAdditional Director General(HQ) Mariam Kayani andother officers concerned. INP
ig AppreCiAtespoliCe For peACeduring polls
LAHORE: Punjab InspectorGeneral Police (IGP) AftabSultan has appreciated thepolice force for maintainingpeace during the pollingprocess. “Officers andjawans of police dischargedtheir duties very well inproviding an atmosphere forconducting free, fair andimpartial elections in theprovince,” said IGP in amessage radioed to all RPO,CPOs and DPOs across thePunjab. The message saidthat the IG is pleased over thearrangements made by policeforce for providing round theclock vigilance around thepolling stations and creatingstrict security cordons due towhich polling was heldwithout any interruption. INP
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new
bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way
so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. — Emo PhilipsN
BEIjING: Rescue workers prepare outside after
a coal mine blast hit Luxian county in Sichuan
province, which killed 40 people. AGENCIES
Coal mine blast leaves 40 miners dead in China’s sichuan province
BEIJINGINP
AT least 40 miners were killedand 15 others injured in a coalmine blast in southwesternChina late on Saturday night.According to the work safety
bureau in Sichuan province, the blasttook place at the time when 108 minerswere busy in work in an undergroundcoal mine.
As a result of blast 27 miners werekilled while others were trapped as en-trance of the mine was closed due tofalling of big land masse.
The rescue authorities reached thescene and 81 rescued, six were seriouslyinjured and nine suffered minor injuries.
Earlier on Friday evening anothercoal mine blast in southwestern Chinakilled 12 people in neighboring Guizhouprovince.
It should be mentioned that China'smines are the deadliest in the world. Au-
thorities have improved safety in recentyears, but regulations are often ignored.
CHINA MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF KILLERSICHUAN qUAKEBEIjING: China Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake
which killed more than 80,000 but some said questions remained over the
thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed. The 8.0 magnitude
earthquake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan on the afternoon of
May 12, 2008, with its epicentre at Wenchuan county. Another 4.45 million were
hurt in China's worst quake in more than three decades. The mouthpiece of the
ruling Communist Party, the People's Daily, praised government efforts towards
reconstruction but outspoken Internet commentators remembered the
thousands of children who died. "It's the fifth anniversary of the earthquake as
well as Mother's Day. Hard to forget those young faces lying under the school
buildings," said Fengguo De Wuhou 1117 on a microblog. "Five years and the
promise to thoroughly investigate the 'tofu-built' projects in the quake area still
lingers around the ears," said the posting. APP
MONITORING DESK
Iran's Guardian Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei criticized Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad due to his accom-pany with a nominee in presidential electionregistration.
Ahmadinejad accompanied his Officehead Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei during hisregistration for presidential election race inIran's Interior Ministry on Saturday. Accord-ing to Mehr report, Kadkhodaei said on May12 that Ahmadinejad's action was illegal.
"We discussed Ahmadinejad's support toa special candidate among Guardian Coun-cil's members and recognized his action ille-gal. The case would be submit to JudiciarySystem for investigation" he said.
Ahmadinejad during registration ofMashaie said that "I am Mashaei andMashaei is me". The last opportunity to reg-istration for presidential elections ended onMay 11. Iran's Guardian Council should vetfor candidates' qualification in five days start-
ing on May 12. During in a speech to thejournalists Mashaei said that his way is con-tinuance of Ahmadinejad's.
The next presidential elections in Iran areplanned to be held on June 14, 2013.
The voters will select the successor of thecurrent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,who is not able to participate in the electionsfor the third term according to the country'sconstitutional laws. Iranian president sup-ports the head of his administration RahimMashaei who is also the father-in-law of Ah-madinejad's son. Some representatives of theruling Conservative Coalition accusedMashei on fighting with Islamic rules, pub-lishing deviant ideas and transgressing thecommandments of Iranian Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamanei.
It's not clear whether Mashaei could passthe Guardian Council's vetting for his quali-fications or not.
Mashaei said that he would respect lawsin case his qualifications are not approved byGuardian Council.
NEW DELHIINP
The Indian navy has commissioned itsfirst fighter squadron in three decadeswith the 303 'Black Panthers' squadrongetting formal status but will have to waittill the end of this year for the INS Vikra-maditya aircraft carrier to arrive fromRussia to start sea-borne operations.
The new Indian Navy Air Squadron(INAS), commissioned at a ceremonyled by Defence Minister A K Antony,operates the MiG 29 K fighters thatwere inducted into service in 2010 andhave been going through trials andtraining missions over the past threeyears before the arrival of the carrier.
The commissioning marks the be-ginning of an eventful year for theNavy that is set to see many of itsmajor projects reach critical milestonesin the coming month. The first will bethe activation of the nuclear reactor onboard the INS Arihant nuclear missilesubmarine later this month, following
which the vessel will go for sea trialsbefore a formal commissioning by nextyear. The indigenous aircraft carrierthat is being constructed in Kochi willalso be 'launched' at a ceremony on Au-gust 12, marking a milestone in its de-velopmental cycle, Antony announced.
The naval squadron, which hasbeen nicknamed 'Black Panthers', isthe first fighter squadron to be com-missioned after the Sea Harrier fight-ers were inducted in December 1983.
The new fighters will give a majoredge due to their modern avionics, rangeand weapons suite that has been com-pared to the best in the world. The navyhas termed the new squadron 'the gamechangers' to reflect the increase in capa-bility. The squadron has been christenedas the 303 after the .303 cartridge that rev-olutionised warfare in the mid 19 th cen-tury with its now legendary design. With29 additional fighters on order from Rus-sia as part of a $1.2 billion follow on con-tract, the navy will induct another fightersquadron within the next two years.
eu's poorest country
bulgaria votes in
tense election
SOFIAAPP
Bulgarians began voting Sunday in a tightand tense snap general election marred byaccusations of fraud and expected to result inpolitical stalemate and fresh protests in theEU's poorest member. Former bodyguard andex-premier Boyko Borisov's conservativeGERB party is expected to win the mostvotes, even though the biggestdemonstrations in 16 years forced hisgovernment to resign only three months ago.But pre-vote opinion polls give GERB just29-35 percent of the vote, well short of amajority and nowhere near enough for arepeat of Borisov's previous minoritygovernment when his party was just fourseats short of a being able to govern alone.Last-minute opinion polls showed thesocialist BSP party snapping at GERB's heelson 25-32 percent, with some surveys puttingthem neck-and-neck and even suggesting theBSP might pull off a surprise, if slim, victory.Either way, this will leave either party thetough task of fishing for coalition partners ina severely fragmented parliament that mightinclude up to five other parties.
Indian Navy gets firstfighter squadron
north KoreA slAms us AirCrAFtCArrier's ArriVAl in south KoreASEOUL: North Korea has criticised the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitzin the South for a joint drill as an "extremely reckless" provocation and a rehearsal forwar against the communist state. A US naval strike group led by the nuclear-poweredNimitz arrived off the South's southern port of Busan Saturday for the drill to bestaged this week, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea in recentmonths. The 97,000-ton Nimitz, one of the world's largest warships, will participate injoint search-and-rescue operations as well as "sea manoeuvring" around the KoreanPeninsula, the South's defence ministry said. The North's Committee for the PeacefulReunification of Korea that handles cross-border affairs called the arrival of the USfleet "a grave military provocation" that would dramatically ratchet up tension. "Thejoint naval drill involving the latest weaponry including the nuclear aircraft carrier is awanton blackmail against us and demonstrates...that their attempt to invade us hasreached an extremely reckless level," it said. APP
Iranian presidentcriticised for involvementin presidential campaign
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ISLAMABADSTAFF REPORT
FREE and Fair Election Net-work (FAFEN) on Sunday saidnot all citizens were given achance to use their right to vote
and urged the need for a unified body ofelectoral laws, and tightened control overelections officials and political parties.
“Problems like incidents of irregu-larities, fraud and lax enforcement ofelection law and regulations before andon Election Day demands serious re-newed efforts towards electoral reform,including a unified and consistent bodyof electoral laws”, FAFEN officials saidin a news conference while releasing its‘Preliminary Statement’ in account ofgeneral elections 2013. FAFEN urgedthe newly-elected assembly to addresslong-standing electoral weaknesses withsignificant legal reforms.
The organisation giving credit to theElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP)for successfully holding and administer-ing the polls, relatively high voter turnoutand public enthusiasm for this electionshows potential for more sustained citi-zen engagement and improved public ac-countability and governance.
Despite all positive advancements,FAFEN also expressed some reservationson the recent polls across the country, in-forming that a considerable number ofcitizens were kept aside from the polls,following which they failed using theirright to vote.
“A large number of females failed incasting their votes, likewise past electiontrends,” FAFEN added.
“This general election is the first heldsince Pakistan ratified in 2010 the Inter-national Covenant on Civil and PoliticalRights (ICCPR), accepting additionallegal obligations with respect to all elec-
tions. Pakistan also ratified in 1996 theConvention on the Elimination of AllForms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW), which remains un-enforced,”FAFEN officials said.
Giving detailed account of thepolling situation, FAFEN said inBalochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa andFederally Administered Tribal Areas(FATA), it was more difficult to saywhether the elections were fair becauseof a wave of terror unleashed by theTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan against can-didates and supporters of the politicalparties that were part of the previouscoalition government – Pakistan PeoplesParty Parliamentarians (PPPP), AwamiNational Party (ANP) and MuttahidaQaumi Movement (MQM).
Elaborating further, they said inBalochistan, armed insurgents of theBalochistan Liberation Army (BLA) usedterror tactics aimed at curtailing election
activities in Baloch-majority districts.The executive summary of the report
issued by FAFEN expressed strong reser-vations in connection with Karachi.
The report said In Karachi, it was im-possible to conclude whether the will ofthe electorate had been expressed.
The reasons include a combination ofpervasive pre-election violence, last-minute electoral boycotts, frequent ob-struction of neutral election observers byMQM party workers, tangible evidenceof fraud and irregularities, and significantadministrative failures that were likely tohave disenfranchised some voters.
It was recommended that while thecountry rightly celebrated the transitionfrom one civilian government to an-other as a democratic milestone, the15th parliament should take up thelong-pending agenda of electoral re-forms to further cement public trust inelectoral processes.
FAFen observers urge unifiedbody of electoral laws
LAHORENADEEM SYED
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) has once again gained absolutemajority in Punjab with over 180 seats toits name in the Punjab Assembly with re-sults still pouring in from far flung areasof the province.
Posting impressive results both in theNational and Punjab Assembly, PML-N issure to form governments in Islamabadand Lahore. In Lahore, the PML-N main-tained its supremacy, winning 22 seats outof a total 25. Interestingly, it lost all thethree seats to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI). PML-N candidates Akhtar Rasool,Khwaja Salman Rafiq and Tauseef Shahlost their respective seats while PTI’sAslam Iqbal, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheedand Dr Murad have been victorious on thethree provincial seats from Lahore.
One National Assembly seat, NA-126 Lahore also went towards PTI whereShafqat Mahmood defeated KhwajaHasan in a closely fought contest. Given
the emerging trends, PML-N would havea very small opposition to deal with in fu-ture, but in the Centre, Imran Khan hasalready promised to come up as an effec-tive opposition. Meanwhile, PTI has de-cided to approach the ElectionCommission of Pakistan (ECP) withcharges of rigging in NA-122 and NA-125. From NA-122, Ayaz Sadiq of PML-N defeated Imran Khan in a late night
result. Earlier, announcement of resultsfrom NA-125, NA-122 and NA-126 waswithheld till late creating doubts in theminds of experts and analysts. Howeverby Sunday morning, results on TV haddeclared Khwaja Saad Rafique and AyazSadiq as winners from NA-125 and NA-122, respectively while from NA-126Shafqat Mahmood emerged as the lonewinner from PTI in Lahore.
pMl-n sweeps punjabpti will not makealliance with pml-n,says hashmiMULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on
Sunday said the PTI will not make an alliance
with Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-
N). Unofficial poll results suggest PML-N is
currently leading the elections. Talking to
media personnel, Hashmi said
election results were in
accordance with his
assessment which he had
earlier shared with PTI
Chairman Imran Khan. He
added that PTI had brought
about a change as the youth
had cast
their votes,
which was
a healthy
sign. The
dreams of the
youth will
materialise
soon, he
said. NNI
pml-n to consult allpolitical leadersover national issues
LAHOREAGENCIES
PML-N spokesman Pervez Rasheed onSunday said consultations would be madewith all political leaders and stakeholderson how to address major national issues,including terrorism.Talking to reporters, he said the PML-Nwould contact all political parties, includ-ing the PTI, to make Pakistan a safe coun-try.He said the process would begin after hav-ing complete election results.The PML-N leader said his party made suc-cessful efforts to resolve constitutional is-sues during the previous regime.He said after assuming power, his partywould make sincere efforts to resolve so-cial and economic problems of the countryand overcome challenges being faced byPakistan.Rasheed said he did not think the victory inthe election was a game of gaining power,but to serve the masses in the real sense.He said it was time all political forces sattogether and took their responsibility withall seriousness to resolve the national prob-lems.To a question‚ Rashid said today's electionswere reflection of the public desire thatthey had complete faith in strengtheningdemocracy and there was no room for dic-tatorship in the country.Another leader, Khawaja Saad Rafique,said after complete announcement of theelection results‚ the meeting of the newly-emerged National Assembly should be con-vened without any delay.He said all political parties had to workjointly to move Pakistan towards its desti-nation with sincere efforts.
imran defeats hanifAbbasi in nA-56
ISLAMABADAPP
According to unofficial results announcedby the Election Commission of Pakistan,Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidateImran Khan won from NA-56 (Rawalpindi-VII) with 80,425 votes, while PML-N’scandidate Hanif Abbasi was the runner upwith 67,167 votes. The voter turnout was56.04 percent.
CpJ condemns expulsion ofnYt reporter from pakistan
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect
Journalists (CPJ) has called on Pakistan's
interim government to reverse its decision
to expel New York Times bureau chief
Declan Walsh from the country.
"The expulsion of Declan Walsh shows just
how much the authorities fear independent
media coverage," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's
Asia programme coordinator. "The
vagueness and the late night delivery of
the expulsion order smack of a need to
intimidate foreign and local journalists on
the eve of historic elections that could
herald the growth of democracy in
Pakistan. Instead, Walsh's expulsion only
mars the event, and undercuts hopes for a
free press."
Journalists in Pakistan face deteriorating
security accompanied by a lack of justice.
Authorities have failed to prosecute a
single suspect in the 23 journalist murders
over the past decade. On May 23, the CPJ
will publish a report analysing the state of
press freedom in Pakistan. PRESS RELEASE
FAISALABAD:
Supporters of Pakistan
Muslim League-Nawaz
display fireworks as
they celebrate the
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PESHAWARSHAMIM SHAHID
THOUGH efforts are under-way for formation of gov-ernment in KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KP), no party
seems to be in a position to show 50 per-cent plus strength on a total 124 seats ofthe provincial legislature.
So far Imran Khan’s PakistanTehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) is in a leadingposition but it appears hard for its lead-ership to establish its own government.Leaders of Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl(JUI-F) have initiated contacts withleaders of different political parties for
formation of a coalition government. Infact, no one from JUI-F, or from otherpolitical parties such as the PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pak-istan People’s Party (PPP) and AwamiNational Party (ANP) are willing toenter into a PTI-led coalition. It appearsonly Jamaat-e-Islami leadership couldshake hands with the PTI leadership.
Terrorism, militancy, poor gover-nance, economic disparity and povertyare the main issues ahead for the newgovernment in KP. All political forces andtheir leadership have a different approachtowards resolution of these issues.
For now PML-N is set to establish itsgovernment in Center and PTI is making
similar claims for KP. In recent past, bothPML-N and PTI emerged as each other’sarch rival and it does not seem possiblefor Imran Khan to resolve long standingissues of KP with a not-so-friendly gov-ernment in Islamabad.
Relations between PML-N and JUI-F also remained weak during and beforethe election campaign.
Imran Khan’s solution to issues ofmilitancy and terrorism require Pakistanpulling out from the US-led coalition. Healso demands expulsion of foreign troopsfrom Afghanistan and has strongly criti-cised the use of drones.
Khan’s views therefore, are contraryto strategies and policies of US and its al-
lies who declare KP and adjoining Feder-ally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as“safe heaven for terrorists and militantsfrom all over the world”.
However, it is too soon to predict thestrategies and policies of a PTI govern-ment in KP but most analysts think ImranKhan would go ahead according to pro-posals of his party’s MPs. But a majorityof the newly elected PTI MPAs are notpolitical workers or politically aware.Building up confidence and understand-ing, which is essential for settling of suchissues, could take time. There are appre-hensions of a 2008-like situation whereasMP’s from JUI-F and JI remained at log-gerheads on most issues within.
Who Will run Kp?
LAHORE/BHAKKAR/ATTOCKAGENCIES
Two presiding officers on Sundaywere handcuffed while arrest war-rants of 28 others were issued fordelaying the results of general elec-tions 2013.
According to details, AssistantProf Nasir Mehmood, presiding of-ficer of National Assembly con-stituency NA-119 deployed atpolling station No 94 delayed theelection results for more than 13
hours. On the complaint of districtreturning officer (DRO) the ac-cused was arrested.
Mehmood was of the opinionthat he was diabetic and went homeas he was not feeling well whichresulted in delay of results.
After his arrest, the presidingofficers continued submitting elec-tion result with returning officers.
Meanwhile, district returningofficer (DRO) issued arrest war-rants against 19 presiding officersof different polling stations in La-hore. The presiding officers are ac-cused of not providing results fromtheir polling stations until the filingof the report. The returning officerhas ordered police to arrest the pre-siding officers and present them atthe earliest. Meanwhile, Bhakkar
District Returning Officer ZafarIqbal directed the DPO for arrest-ing nine presiding officers of con-stituency NA-73 for prolongeddelay in handing over the results.
In NA-57 Attock presiding of-fice took the votes bag home andslept which resulted in delay of an-nouncing results. District returningofficer taking the notice issued hiswarrants after which police raidedhis house and arrested him.
Separately, arrest orders havebeen issued against the presidingofficer of NA-80 Faisalabad.
According to the returning of-ficer of the constituency, over thedoubts about the results submittedby Muhammad Rafiq, the presidingofficer of NA-80, arrest orderswere issued against him.
2 presiding officersarrested, warrants of 28issued for delaying results
BHAKKAR DROORDERS ARREST OFNINE PRESIDINGOFFICERS IN NA-73
extension of pollingdeadline led to pti'sdefeat: Qureshi
MULTANAGENCIES
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice ChairmanShah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday blamedthe defeat of his party on the Election Com-mission of Pakistan’s decision to extendpolling deadline by an hour. Addressing thepress after the announcement of results,Qureshi said his party would take into accountall the rigging allegations that had been madeand then decide upon forwarding a collectivecomplaint to the ECP.Qureshi has lost from allfour national assembly constituencies he wascontesting. He lost his hometown seat to Pak-istan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candi-date Abdul Ghafar Dogar which has furtherput him in a negative light in front of his sup-porters. “We plan on being the toughest andmost disciplined opposition in the history ofPakistan,” he added, inviting independent can-didates to join the PTI. Qureshi said the PTIhad emerged as the second biggest party afterelections. He said people had rejected the Pak-istan People’s Party (PPP) in elections.
musharraf’s partywins seats in Chitraldespite boycott
CHITRALINP
Former president General (r) Pervez Mushar-raf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML)managed to win a seat each in the NationalAssembly and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa As-sembly from Chitral’s NA-32 and PK-90constituency, despite announcing a boycott of2013 general elections. APML candidateShehzada Iftikharud Din won the NA-32 seatwith 19,938 votes against second-placedAbdul Latif belonging of the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf, who had grabbed 16,638votes, according to unofficial results.Moreover Ghulam Mohammad, APML’s can-didate from PK-90, won his seat securing10,646 against the Pakistan People’s Partycandidate who received 10,524 votes. PPP’sSaleem Khan secured 11,285 votes and de-feated APML’s Shehzada Khalid in PK-89.The APML had announced that it would boy-cott the general elections after the rejectionof Musharraf’s nomination papers from allprovinces and the imposition of a lifetimeban. The party’s candidate from Chitral,Shahzada Iftikharud Din, had decided to stayin the field despite the boycott.
iran felicitatessharifs on victory
TEHRANINP
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday felici-tated Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)for its victory in the recent general election inPakistan. In a statement on Sunday, Iranian For-eign Ministry Spokesman Syed Abbas Araqchicongratulated the successful conduct of parlia-mentary elections in Pakistan and Sharif's abilityto win people's trust. Araqchi further pointed toclose relations between Iran and Pakistan, andhoped for further expansion of bilateral ties be-tween the two neighbouring countries. Somekey personalities from the Saudi royal familyalso greeted PML-N President Nawaz Sharif onhis victory in the May 11 elections, a private TVchannel reported on Sunday. Sources said Saudipersonalities congratulating Nawaz expressedwell wishes for him.
Abrarul haqrefuses to acceptpoll results
NAROWALAGENCIES
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidatefrom NA-117 Narowal, Abrarul Haq refusedto accept unofficial results of elections. Heaccused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) candidate Ahsan Iqbal of riggingthe elections. The renowned singer and PTIcandidate is of the view that PML-N commit-ted corruption since its workers forcibly pro-hibited PTI workers from casting votes.Haq, along with his party workers, blocked aroad by torching tyres as a protest. Abrar alsoalleged that the PML-N workers targetedpeople with aerial firing injuring at least fourpersons. He said the returning officer and po-lice also supported Ahsan Iqbal.Security officials reached the site and re-stored traffic after dispersing protestors.Abrar has demanded the government toarrange for re-election in his constituency.
security beefed up atsharifs’ residences
LAHOREAPP
On the directions of caretaker Chief Minis-ter Najam Sethi, security at residences ofthe Sharif brothers has been increased. La-hore DIG Operation Jawad Ahmad Dogarhas asked the SP headquarters to enhancethe number of police officials at the resi-dences of the Sharif brothers.
PESHAWAR: Workers of
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
celeberte the victory of
party from PK-5. INP
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political partiesPPP-P, founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is alreadydisintegrated. They have been in power in the last five years.Not only that the economy, the political standing and the lawand order situation cannot be more deplorable, but also thatsome of acts of the government remains unanswered.
PML-N, spearheaded by Mian Nawaz Sharif and others,it has assumed the shape of a private (un)limited company.Been in power twice before, the good thing to their credit is
the nuclear test.
PTI is led by Imran Khan. So far we have heard words
like tsunami and cricket and Shaukat Khanum and Namal
University, Imran is making tall promises with people with
little guarantee for successful implementation.
ANP and MQM. Both these parties have a strange setup.
Dictated and lead by their so-called ‘saviours’ of Pakistan
sitting abroad, they are hardly political parties in true nature.
“PEOPLE have manifested their power. Today, I am a happy man,” asmug Justice (retd) Fakharuddin G Ebrahim announced at 2am onSunday. The record 60 percent voter turnout certainly was something to
be content about; but surely the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) knew all wasnot that well. And so he announced: the Election Commission of Pakistan would“investigate and take action against those responsible for disrupting polling atseveral (42 to be exact) polling stations of NA-250, Karachi.” Without naming‘who done it,’ Ebrahim said, “Polling staff had been hijacked and staff had to berecovered.” But this is not enough. The allegations that have come out are seriousand both political parties and voters are asking questions over what went on inKarachi’s polling stations.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Dr Arif Alvi has demanded a re-electionacross Karachi over rigging claims, and promised to “present evidence” to the ECP.He pointed to “women being forced to leave polling stations at gunpoint” and“political activists stamping ballot papers in their favour”. Some evidence of bothhas emerged and been aired on television channels. The independent Free and FairElection Network (FAFEN), which monitors elections, has tweeted that three of itsobservers had been beaten up by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers ina district of Karachi. While the MQM is considered the main accused, the MQM’sFarooq Sattar also alleged rigging from other political parties in Karachi. Theresult was that a number of major political parties, including the Jamaat-i-Islami(JI), the Muhajir Qaumi Movement-Haqeeqi, the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) andJamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), announced a boycott of the polls in Karachi. ThePTI and JI extended the boycott to Hyderabad, the PPP’s Taj Haider allegedrigging in Karachi, and even the MQM chief Altaf Hussain telephoned the CECFakharuddin G Ebrahim to complain about the delay in the start of polling invarious constituencies.
Some have ventured out to say that the ECP has failed in carrying out itsmandate of conducting “free and fair elections” but Karachi is a difficult city thatthe previous government was unable to control. This does not however mean thatthe election results should be accepted as is. The ECP itself has admitted,disturbingly, that “we have been unable to carry out free and fair election inKarachi.” Let see if it means that the action required shall be taken.
THE Elections 2013 have exposed myths, given birth to new realities andposed fresh problems. Despite threats of widespread violence by the TTP,the election went off peacefully with the exception of comparatively minor
incidents in KP and Karachi. The attack in Naseerabad in Balochistan that came atthe end of the voting was attributed to Baloch separatists. This shows that if thegovernment is focused and has the support of the security agencies and lawenforcement bodies the terrorist threat can be contained. There is a generalperception that the caretaker set up had good coordination with the army and theagencies and it generally performed its duties well. So one must thank them all formeeting the terrorist challenge successfully.
Unlike the PPP in 2008 which besides forming government in Sindh had alsowon many NA seats in Punjab and KP, the PMLN’s performance in other provincesespecially Sindh, the second largest province, turned out to be insignificant. Theparty has relied almost entirely on the mandate it got from Punjab to formgovernment at the center. This has led Altaf Hussain to describe Mian NawazSharif as a leader of a party which represents Punjab rather than Pakistan The partywill have to take concrete measures to remove the perception, which if confirmedcan be harmful for the federation. It must not take any step that can be interpretedis to be aimed against a particular province. What is more it has to restrain Shahbazfrom impolite statements that could further strengthen the perception.
Those who lost the elections can put up a better performance next timeprovided they undertake an exercise is soul searching. The PPP needs to ponderover why from being a national party it has been reduced to a body confined to asingle province and that too in an election widely acknowledged as fair and free.The terrorist threat did it little harm in Sindh so the factor cannot alone explainwhy its leading lights licked the dust in Punjab. The party needs to have a series ofinner party debates to honestly review its shortcomings. The ANP lost the largestnumber of candidates and workers in terrorist attacks. Whatever little it got fromthe polls is highly creditable for it. Most of the five parties which boycotted theelections in Karachi have accused the MQM of rigging. Charges have been leveledagainst the party of terrorizing the voters, kidnapping the election staff, and takingaway election material from the polling stations of several constituencies. Theparty needs to consider why charges of use of force continue to stick to it.
Karachi allegations raise concerns over election transparency
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Do we need the LDA? And why not to build tall
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“Every city I go to is a huge buildingsite for capitalist surplus absorption” –David Harvey
TWENTY-TWO dead – 9jumped, 13 burnt. This isthe minimum body countof the fire at the seventh toninth floors of the Lahore
Development Authority (LDA) Plaza onEgerton Road. The 11-storey buildinghoused the headquarters of the LDA: thedirector general was stationed there andthe bulk of the paper work pertaining tothe agency was kept in its closets. Whatwas contained in the burnt papers shallbe anyone’s guess.
Speculation is rife within the bureau-cracy that it was an inside job. “Remem-ber there was a similar fire when the lastPunjab government was dismissed,” iswhat one insider told me. “That time thefire remained controlled. This time,they’ve done it again, but it went out ofhand.” The LDA plaza, a site I have vis-ited much during research on urbaniza-tion patterns in Lahore, was built withoutfire exits. Perhaps that can be spared inthe presence of the staircase to comple-ment the elevators, but that the LDA,whose purpose is “to be an accountableprincipal planning and development ve-hicle of the Lahore Metropolis,” built aneleven-storey headquarters for itself twodecades ago in a city that, as of 2013,only had the fire fighting capacity toreach seven storeys is criminal.
A fire in a high-rise building in La-hore would not an unusual event. Thoseaware of the shoddy monitoring of con-struction by-laws are fairly aware not toexcept much precaution has been takenin most of the high-rises that have be-come an eyesore on the metropolis’sskyline over the last three decades. Butwhen the fire engulfs the head office ofthe city’s building laws monitor, thequestions over the health of each of thecity’s high-rises needs to be asked.
The first high-rise in Lahore wasbuilt before the LDA was put in place.Noted urban geographer David Harveysays, “in the 1960s, cities underwent anexistential crisis.” Lahore was sufferingfrom the same in the 60s when its firsthigh-rise, the Alfalah Building, was con-structed on the Mall in 1964. Since then,urban developers have looked to the skyas the place to go to fill up their coffers.
The urban landscape of Lahore has
been radically transforming. But thetrend to build high really kicked off inthe 1990s and saw its peak between2002 and 2007, when easy bank financewas made available to those who cud-dled up to the dictator General Mushar-raf and the so-called king’s party, thePakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q). But those building plazas have notbeen limited to those in power. Capital-ists affiliated with all political partiesand the establishment have been lend a“helping hand” from banks to buildhigh – and the LDA has traditionallyplayed the poodle well.
The matter got so out of hand that in2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan(SC) ordered the demolition of 147 ille-gally constructed plazas and demolish-ing the upper floors of another 102. Aninquiry was led into the matter. At leasttwo of the LDA officials being investi-gated committed suicide during the in-vestigations. The final report on illegallyconstructed plazas in Lahore was nevermade public, with estimated rangingthat the number ranged from the almost300 that were completely or partiallydemolished to over 500. A number ofplazas were alleged to have been spareddue to “political connections” or “pay-ing the right people.” The demolitionsstopped when the DCO during the time,Sajjad Bhutta, was replaced by AhadCheema, a grade 18 official appointedto the grade 20 post, later rewarded withthe post of the LDA director general,where he is still stationed.
The process of financing a multi-story plaza is quite simple: secure abank loan to cover the construction, sellor rent some of the rooms, flee or de-fault on the loan. The State Bank ofPakistan (SBP) will follow by waivingoff your debt.
The example of the Ahad Tower onthe former Kalma Chowk, remains thego to example for plazas that neverreached their completion. More than 650small entrepreneurs who had investedRs1.8 billion in purchasing small shopsand offices at the Ahad Tower are stillawaiting compensation after the govern-ment declared the plaza “illegal andagainst building by-laws.” The owners,the then PML-Q MPA Abdul AhadMalik, managed to secure bails and hasnot been made accountable.
The Ahad Tower story is one of thefew that the media has chosen to focuson after the fall of the PML-Q govern-ment in Punjab. Property developers andestate agents insist that average plaza oc-cupancy remains at below 20 per cent –except the densely occupied Shah Alammarket. In Shah Alam, where they can-not go higher, they dig deeper, withplazas going four stories deep not un-common. Fulfilling safety standards, in-cluding fire safety and provision of airducts is non-existent, as expected. All ofthis has gone on under the nose of theLDA. And the new phase of construc-tions in the area, including a seven-storey parking plaza and a number ofeight to 12 storey buildings, has not un-dergone review, despite the massive fire
that broke out in one of the plazas inFebruary, 2011, where the blaze tookover two days to be put out.
Despite all of this, the trend to buildhigh, and claim it is “development,” re-mains in place. Noted architect and con-servationist, Pervaiz Vandal wrote,“cities are left to the mercy of bureaucra-cies and ‘experts’.” Speculative capital-ists must be added to the matrix. In fact,the logic must be reversed: city bureau-cracies function in service to speculativecapitalists. If not, then what else is to ex-plain the fact that almost all high-riseconstruction and new housing societiesbuilt, are built with the backing of the“invisible hand of the LDA.”
This is why questions are beingasked regarding the origin of the LDAPlaza fire; in which files relating to overRs1.5 trillion worth of cases againstLDA officials were reported to havebeen burnt and NAB inquiry had beenlaunched into the Rs30 billion MetroBus Service.
But two more fundamental ques-tions need to be asked. The first is: whybuild high? Only this year did MalikRiaz and Bahria Town announced anagreement with the UAE based SheikhNayan to build the world’s highestbuilding in Karachi, with over $40 bil-lion reported to be “invested.” The so-called agreement was immediatelyscraped by the Abu Dhabi-based con-struction company, but it merits atten-tion that no opposition to the plan tobuild the “world’s tallest building inPakistan” were raised. On the converse,there appeared to be excitement regard-ing it. In Lahore, the multi-billion dollarproject to build the Al-Mubarak Centre,a 52-storey skyscraper, in the centre ofthe ever-expanding Lahore metropoliswas abandoned by the Sharif govern-ment. The PML-Q still grudges over it.
The second is: why have the LDA?The point made earlier needs to be re-peated: if agencies like the LDA are away of making urban development bowto the whims of speculative capitalist,and not deliver safe, livable cities to theirinhabitants, then we might as well stopwasting public funds over running them.
When the left-wing Venezeulan pres-ident Hugo Chavez died earlier this year,AFP ran a story titled, “Chavez wastedoil wealth on housing the poor, insteadof building skyscrapers.” The story ad-vocated the model that our Muslimbrothers in the Kingdom of Saudi Ara-bia, the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubaiand Qatar have turned to. Should one notchoose housing for the poor over build-ing a high-rise? The priority of a cityplanning agency should be to provide af-fordable housing and commercial spaceand implement safety standards.
The question to ask is: can the LDAdeliver such? If not, it makes sense toreplace it with a people-friendly alter-native.
The writer is the general secretary(Lahore) of the Awami Workers Party.He is a journalist and a researcher.Contact: [email protected]
Comradely speakingHASHIM BIN RASHID
The way people in democracies think of the government as something
different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course,
sometimes the government confirms their opinion. –Lewis Mumford
Elections expose myths, give birth to new realities,pose fresh problems
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coMMent CMonday, 13 May, 2013
11The nicest thing about standards
is that there are so many of them
to choose from. –Ken Olsen
INDIA’S Foreign MinisterSalman Khurshid carried outa three-day visit to Iran start-ing May 3rd, and at the time
of the writing of this article, he wasin Beijing. The country was re-cently caught in a dangerous borderstandoff with China in the Ladakharea. The visits have taken place ata time when there is increased west-ern pressure to isolate Iran, militar-ily and via economic sanctions.
As compared to Pakistan,India has mostly adopted an ‘onagain and off again’ approach to-wards Iran. Due to security con-cerns related to Pakistan, it earlierabandoned being part of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project.On the other hand, even underthreat of US sanctions, Pakistan has committed to move ahead with theproject and is improving its political and economic ties with Iran.
The question is what brought about the recent change in Indian posi-tion despite western, Arab, and Israeli pressure to corner Iran.
With Afghan conflict showing no signs of prompt settlement, andIndia’s ties with Pakistan also held hostage to one issue or the other, itsgateway to Central Asia appears blocked.
Moreover, with the security situation of the Middle East on the sim-mer, India simply cannot afford adverse relations with Iran as well. Asevaluated recently by PoliTact, India and Pakistan are both caught in adelicate balancing act; with the Sunni Gulf states on the one hand, andShiite Iran on the other. However, unlike Pakistan, India also has to factorin its strategic ties with Israel and US.
These pressures may have pushed India to reexamine its ties with Iran andreconsider its approach to the IP gas pipeline project. Meanwhile, the countryhas also been working to bypass Pakistan altogether to reach Afghanistan andfurther north. And this is why the Chahbahar port becomes significant.
India has finally conveyed to Iran its intent to develop the port with theinvestment of $100 million. Strategically, the decision to invest in the Iranianport could be a tit for tat reaction for Pakistan’s decision to handover GawadarPort to a Chinese government owned firm. A preferential treatment and tariffreductions deal is already in place between Iran and Afghanistan, to expediteIndian merchandise heading to Afghanistan and Central Asia.
In essence, we are now entering a new phase where Pakistan, India andAfghanistan, are developing economic and political ties with Iran, irrespec-tive of western, Arab, and Israeli apprehensions in this regard. At the sametime, these countries are playing each other to gain economic and politicalbenefits. Consider the following, for example:
Iran needs to demonstrate that despite the efforts of US, Israel, and Gulfstates, towards isolating it economically, the country has been able to de-velop trade ties within the region. Moreover, the economic and securitydealings of the nation with India and Afghanistan, motivates Pakistan toforge ahead with the IP gas pipeline project. As long as Afghanistan remainsunstable, alternative to the IP project, TAPI, is unlikely to make headwayand that becomes an additional source of frustration for India.
On the other hand, by trading with Iran and India through port Chahbahar,land locked Afghanistan exerts pressure on Pakistan to assist in the reconcil-iation process. Pakistan also risks losing the benefit of commerce betweenIndia and Afghanistan via the road link passing through the country, if tradeflourishes via the Chahbahar. Afghanistan and Pakistan have a trade and tariffagreement in place to promote overland trade between India and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Pakistan having suffered rough treatment at the hands ofthe US in the recent past, is showcasing its ability to move closer to Iranand China. Furthermore, with the IP project, it can undermine the leveragesof Afghanistan and India. As explained above, this in turn puts pressure onIndia to join the IP project, since for the implementation of TAPI projectthe stability of Afghanistan is a prerequisite.
These dynamics also puts pressure on US policy in the region. On theone hand, it wants to isolate Iran to deal with the security situation of theMiddle East, and due to its connection with the volatile Syrian crisis. Thetussles over Syria have now taken a dramatic turn with Russia and Chinagetting involved directly. Russia has threatened to supply weapons to theSyrian regime, if US decides to go ahead with its arms delivery to the op-position forces there. China, for its part, is moving closer to Israel and hasproposed its own version of Middle East peace initiative.
The sanctions on Iran inhibits regional trade, helps in keeping India inline to counter China, and gives US the control of the agenda in the region.However, American prestige is dented further if no one is willing to followthe sanctions on Iran in the region. If the policy on Iran causes its strategically, India, to pursue it own interests, or more in line with BRICS, thelarger American strategic posture is threatened.
This context helps explain the present Indian predicament and anxiety.It does not want to be left alone in the region while following western po-lices. It has a key strategic quandary to resolve, which gets more complexby the day. This is causing the country to move ahead in dealings withIran, especially after Pakistan showed its resolve towards the IP project,despite consequences for the Pakistan-US ties.
As noted earlier, Pakistan and India are managing a similar balancingact in their ties with Iran and the Gulf states. And, as Afghanistan and Pak-istan promote trade ties with Iran, India does not want to be left behind.Furthermore, the country does not want to close both doors, Pakistan andIran, through which it can access Central Asia. While Indian can createchallenges in the way of Pakistan’s ‘Look East policy’, the country stillhas the alternative of China. This is similar to how India is using Iran as asubstitute to Pakistan, to reach Central Asia.
The writer is chief analyst at PoliTact, a Washington based futuristadvisory firm (www.PoliTact.com and http:twitter.com/politact) and canbe reached at [email protected]
Understanding the leverages
india’s passageto Central Asia
ARIF ANSAR
ARE the United States and Chinadrifting apart or growing closer?The answer depends on whetherone places trust in the judgment
of everyday decisions of individuals or in thewisdom of scholars and actions of states.
In tracking the behavior of each country’scitizens, the US-Chinese relationship lookslarge, lively and fundamentally healthy. Eco-nomic ties continue to grow quickly. Two-waytrade has risen from $375 billion in recession-ary 2009 to nearly $600 billion last year, andChinese investment in the US doubled duringthe last three years.
People-to-people ties, though less fre-quently studied, are rising even faster than thetrade figures. Just five years ago, 67,000 Chi-nese students were enrolled in American col-leges and universities. Since then the total hasnearly tripled, hitting 194,000 in 2012. Man-darin language classes are spreading throughAmerican elementary schools and high schools.Chinese tourist and business arrivals are grow-ing at an astonishing pace, up from 400,000 in2008 to 1.5 million and likely to reach 4 million– or 10,000 arrivals a day – by 2017.
Every day, the relationship is endorsed withthousands of individual votes of confidence fromintelligent and well-connected young people,tourists and business managers. By this calcula-tion, the future of the US-Chinese relationship isgood, its problems manageable, and while thetwo governments may have little reason to loveone another, they have even less to fight.
But the view from the top is more troubling.From this vantage point, the relationship’s trou-bles are multiplying, as long-established dis-putes over economics and security merge withone another. Consider a mid-April appeal byseveral well-placed congressional Democrats,asking the Obama Administration to designateChina a “Priority Foreign Country” for intellec-tual-property violations:
It looks very much as though the Chinesegovernment is stealing our companies’ trade se-crets and passing them along to their SOEs, andpossibly other Chinese companies. It is difficultenough for our companies to compete with theendless massive subsidies and other industrialpolicies of the Chinese government, but addtrade secret theft into the mix and it is miraculous
that our companies are able to compete at all.The letter was a response to a new contro-
versy in a relationship already troubled by along list of disputes. In October 2011, the USOffice of the National Counterintelligence Ex-ecutive highlighted economic cyberespionageby governments, particularly those of Chinaand Russia, as “significant and growing threatsto the nation’s prosperity and security.” Morerecently, an expose of commercial espionagepublished by the Washington-area consultancyMandiant – complete with names, photographsand malware types, all conducted out of aneight-story People’s Liberation Army buildingin Shanghai – has solidified Washington’ssense of cyberespionage as a new dimensionof risk in the relationship, with at least one armof the Chinese government accused of actingin a lawless and dangerous way; hence, therepresentatives’ call for action.
Admittedly, the terms and lists that signaldissatisfaction over trade policies are bureau-cratic. In trade law, the use of the term “PriorityForeign Country” used by the US Trade Rep-resentative is a close cousin to a US TreasuryDepartment decision to name a foreign countrya “currency manipulator.” Both terms originatein a set of elaborations on a longstanding fea-ture of US trade law, known as “Section 301,”dating to 1974 and redesigned in the OmnibusTrade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.
The 1988 act envisioned three annual listsof overseas offenders: “Super 301” for objec-tionable barriers to American exports; “Special301” for intellectual-property piracy; and thethird, though without a catchy name, for cur-rency manipulation. Such citations would befollowed by negotiating programs meant to rec-tify the problem, backed by implicit if vaguethreats of some sort of retaliation should talksfail. Priority Foreign Country designations ofChina in 1992 and 1996, in fact, did launchtrade confrontations, complete with sanctions,over pirate factories making CDs and DVDs.
Over time, the naming procedures havefaded even as some of the concerns heighten.
Not since 1994 has the US Treasury De-partment termed a country a currency manip-ulator. The Super 301 market access listsstopped even earlier. But annual intellectual-property reports remain alive and well.
Last year’s edition placed 26 countries, in-cluding on a “Watch List” and 13 – includingprominent countries like Israel, Pakistan, China,Russia, Canada – on a higher-tension “PriorityWatch List.” World Trade Organization rules donot block naming and may not prevent all pos-sible trade retaliations. And in some cases thenaming procedures have been used to launchWTO dispute cases rather than retaliate directly.Nonetheless, until this spring, the last countriesto get the Priority Foreign Country stamp wereUkraine in 2005 and Paraguay in 1998. ThoughWTO rules make retaliatory tariffs harder to im-pose than in 1988, a PFC listing signals a deci-sion to bring the issue to a head.
So far, it hasn’t happened. When the USTrade Representative published its lists on
May 1st, it opted not to give China the PriorityForeign Country title. The report does, how-ever, place China at the top of the PriorityWatch List, and linked cyberespionagecharges directly to the Chinese government:
Particularly troubling are public reports byindependent security firms that actors affili-ated with the Chinese military and ChineseGovernment have systematically infiltratedthe computer systems of a significant numberof US companies and stolen hundreds of ter-abytes of data, including IP, from these com-panies. The United States strongly urges theChinese Government take serious steps to putan end to these activities and to deter furtheractivity by rigorously investigating and pros-ecuting thefts of trade secrets by both cyberand conventional means.
The decision puts China on notice that themost significant action is not far away.
Tackling a problem directly can, of course,be helpful. Sometimes simple acknowledge-ment can settle it or at least reduce its severity.For example, congressional complaints anddrafting bills may well have forced US execu-tive-branch and Chinese government attentionto currency policy. China’s currency rate didrise by about 30 percent, and for the timebeing, Chinese surpluses have narrowed andAmerican deficits declined. Likewise, publicwarnings may suggest to those responsible forcyberespionage that their actions carry a cost.
In a larger sense, though, the controversyover cyberespionage suggests somber trends atthe top of government. These are described in2012 in Addressing Strategic Distrust, a Brook-ings Institution dialogue written jointly by Ken-neth Lieberthal and Wang Jisi. The long-timeeminences of Sino-American relations observethat despite 60 official “dialogues,” elaborateeconomic work-programs, regular presidentialsummits and consultations, the central featureof the official US -China relations is “that strate-gic distrust is growing on both sides and that thisperception can, if it festers, create a self-fulfill-ing prophecy of overall mutual antagonism.”
If scholars like Lieberthal and Wang arecorrect, the cyber-spying clash can be seen asa problem in a long succession of mileposts inthe relationship’s long-term deterioration,andif the Mandiant report is correct, one that fusessecurity-based concerns about Chinese mili-tary policy with business-community angerover intellectual property.
Perhaps the broadening of the relationshipat the bottom – rapid growth of people-to-peo-ple contact, friendships made in grad-school,Chinese investment projects, planeloads ofpeople arriving in Los Angeles and New York– can ease government distrust and slow theerosion of the relationship at the top. Or, moreominously, the opposite could happen. If so,Americans and Chinese alike will find them-selves in a more dangerous world.
The writer directs Progressive Economy, atrade and global-economy research programmeat GlobalWorks Foundation in Washington, DC.
lopsided Chinese-us relationsChinese and Americans get along well, but their leaders are antagonistic
EDwARD GRESSER
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Actress Lindsay Lohan
threatens to leave the
Betty Ford Clinic in
California.
Apparently the doctors at
Betty Ford have cut her off
from taking Adderall, but the
26-year-old claims that she
needs the medicines for her
ADHD (attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder),
reports tmz.
Lohan is reportedly telling
her friends that she cannot
stay at the clinic in
California and wants to be
moved to another facility
that is not hard-nosed about
Adderall.
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The palest ink is better than thebest memory. –Chinese Proverb
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mICHAEL Jackson’s furiousfamily are demanding aban on court moves de-signed to reveal the tragicstar is not his children’s
real dad, the Sunday People reports.Lawyers for his grieving relatives
acted after claims none of his three kidswere fathered by him.
In Britain, Jacko’s best pal MarkLester told the Sunday People last weekhe’s ready to have DNA tests to proveHE is the dad of Prince Michael, 16,Paris, 15, and Blanket, 11.
And in the US, concert giant AEG –being sued for £26.6billion by the Jack-son family over the Thriller idol’s death– claim they can prove the singer didn’tfather the older two children.
But Jacko’s family are adamantthere is no doubt the singer is the father.
They are suing AEG for hiring Con-rad Murray, the doctor who gave him theoverdose that killed him as he rehearsedfor a gig at London’s 02 arena in June2009.
Murray is serving a four-year jailstretch for manslaughter.
According to US website TMZ, the
Jackson family has asked the judge hear-ing their case in Los Angeles to ban anyevidence raising doubts about the pater-nity of the kids, ¬branding it “irrele-vant”.
It is believed they fear AEG, whohad signed Jacko for 50 farewell gigs in2009, may use the paternity issue toclaim the ¬children are not the singer’sand therefore have no right to any com-pensation.
Lawyers for the family are also saidto have asked for a ban on any mentionof child molestation claims made againstJacko in 2003 and any mention of his£100million debts.
AEG have countered by warningthey have ¬“irrefutable” proof Jacksondid not father Prince and Paris.
They also denied they had hired dis-graced doc Conrad Murray and insistedJacko, 50, did that himself – making thesinger responsible for his own death.
Jacko’s mum Katherine, PrinceMichael and Paris are all expected togive evidence.
They are likely to be joined by popsuperstars Prince and Diana Ross as wellas his ex-wives Debbie Rowe and LisaMarie Presley, daughter of Elvis.
Last week the Sunday People re-
vealed former Oliver! child star Mark –godfather to all Jacko’s kids – believesthere is a “good possibility” he is theirbiological dad.
The 54-year-old British actor, whowas Michael’s best pal for 30 years, do-nated sperm to the superstar a year be-fore the singer’s first child was born.
Now Mark, who has not been al-lowed to see any of the youngsters sinceMichael died, insists he is prepared totake a DNA test to prove the singer’schildren are really his.
But Mark, of Cheltenham, Gloucs,added: “I wouldn’t do it without thechildren’s permission. It’s up tothem.”
His pledge came as top dancerWade Robson accused Jacko of mo-lesting him as a child.
The 30-year-old wants millions ofpounds compensation from the Jacksonestate.
A source close to the family said:“It’s sent shockwaves through the Jack-son camp .”
At a 2005 trial when Jacko wascleared of child abuse, Aussie Wade haddenied being molested by the star.
But the dancer – who has workedwith the likes of Britney Spears – has
now made fresh claims in legal papersfiled in the US.
He says he regularly stayed atJacko’s Neverland ranch between theages of seven and 14.
Meanwhile, Prince Michael andParis are bracing themselves for “fourmonths of hell” as their dad’s troubledlifestyle is dissected in court, a familysource revealed. The teenagers havebeen given “counselling” by their grand-parents and lawyers to help them handlecourtroom revelations about their fa-ther’s drug-taking – and harrowing alle-
gations of childabuse.
miChAel JACKson's FAmilY WAntlegAl bAn on Kids’ pAternitY test
to leaverehab
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Actor-filmmaker Ben Affleck was avictim of one of the largest pokerscandals, but reportedly his estimatedloss is being exaggerated. Accordingto a new report, Affleck was one ofhundreds of players who lost moneyon a website called Ultimate Betduring their cheating scandal in 2003.One of the site's former ownersclaims that Affleck lost close to half amillion dollars, but the actor'ssources say "that is nowhere near thecase". Tmz.com reports that Affleckdid lose some money in the scandalbut it was refunded as the money waswon through cheating.
scandaloverstated
loss in poker ben affleck’s
mAnYAtA mAY stepin plACe oF hubbYsAnJAY dutt topromote ‘poliCegiri’
Producer T P Aggarwal, who recently
wrapped up shooting for Sanjay Dutt
starrer 'Policegiri', says the actor's wife
Manyata "may step in" to promote the film,
but clarified nothing has been "finalised"
yet. "We have not decided how to promote
the film. Manyata may step in, but I can't
confirm on that. I will have a meeting with
Sanjay before we decide anything,"
Aggarwal told IANS. "Sanjay has finished
the shooting a few days back. He has even
finished the dubbing, so the film is ready,"
he added. Sanjay, whose was hoping to get
relief in 1993 Mumbai blasts, is expected to
surrender on May 16 after Supreme Court
Friday rejected his review petition. The
actor's conviction under the Arms Act in
1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case was
upheld by the apex court. The top court,
while upholding Sanjay's conviction under
the Arms Act, has reduced his sentence
from six years to five years. With the
rejection of his plea, he is expected to
surrender to serve his remaining three-
and-half-year term. Agagrwal said: "It's
very sad that his plea was rejected. He has
already suffered a lot. I am still hoping
things might change." Aggarwal feels
'Policegiri' is one of Sanjay's best works so
far. "The film is looking really good. I can
assure you this is one of Sanjay Dutt's best
work so far. The film is slated for July 5
release and I believe we have made a good
film." 'Policegiri', a Hindi remake of 2003
Tamil hit 'Saamy', is directed by K S Ravi
Kumar and it also features Prachi Desai in
the female lead. NEwS DESK
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A first sign of the beginning
of understanding is the
wish to die. –Franz Kafka
COURTESy THE TELEGRAPH
Mira Nair's adaptation of the bestseller, The
Reluctant Fundamentalist, is a compelling tale of a
man torn between Islamism and capitalism, says
Jenny McCartney. Even before the characters take
shape in a Mira Nair film, she has often seduced her
audience with her images of the Indian
subcontinent: the knock-out mixture of beauty and
grime, poetry, dilapidation and chaos.
Children and animals run unrestrained through
narrow streets, and glamorous women in sherbert-
coloured salwar kameez step through the detritus of
street markets. Western-born directors tend to
romanticise India and Pakistan: Nair bares both its
enchantment and its edge.
This tumult pervades The Reluctant Fundamentalist,
a somewhat altered adaptation of the bestselling
novel by the Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. It
opens in Lahore with the abduction of an American
professor, who is sweatily bundled from the street
into a car, his protests drowned out by the swelling
music of local singers.
The American authorities begin a frantic search, in
the course of which a Lahore-based US journalist,
Bobby (Liev Schreiber) interviews, at length, a
young professor called Changez (Riz Ahmed) with
reputed links to Islamists. Changez insists on
telling him the full story of how - as a young
Pakistani corporate high-flyer in the US - he first
fell in love with America and an American woman
(an endearing and infuriating Kate Hudson) and
then began to lose his foothold in the American
dream. As the story of shifting loyalties unfurls, we
are left guessing precisely where Changez’s views
will end up: the worst loathing, after all, is often
simply love that has spoiled.
With its faintly awkward narrative structure, The
Reluctant Fundamentalist is no easy story to carry.
But Ahmed does so with compelling grace and
subtlety, making us care about Changez even as
the character admits the worst impulses of his own
psyche (an unspeakable frisson of awe at the acts
of 9/11, for example, before “conscience kicks in”).
Despite its unwieldiness, this film nonetheless
gives an impressively thoughtful exploration of
immigrant identity: the young, sharp-suited
Changez loves America, but the terms on which it
offers him success – as a corporate number-
cruncher who ruthlessly prunes businesses of staff
– quietly compels him to jettison his history; his
reverence for people; and places, and the gentle
legacy of his father, a poet.
As mistrust of Pakistanis blooms after 9/11, he
finds himself increasingly ill at ease, and the film
becomes a reminder that the immigrant’s question
is often not only “What do I make of this country?”
but also “What does this country make of me?”
Film review: the reluctant Fundamentalist
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ACTRESS Kajol says thoughfamily responsibilities andher husband actor AjayDevgn's film production
company has been keeping her busy, sheis waiting for a right script to act in amovie again. "It has to be a good scriptwith a tight screenplay. The productionhouse needs to be good too. It is as im-portant as your role in the film," Kajoltold PTI here today. Daughter of actressTanuja and film director Shomu Mukher-jee, Kajol made her acting debut withBekhudi in 1992 while she was in school.
The 38-year-old actress is known forher memorable performances in filmslike Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Gupt,Dushman, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Fanaa,My Name Is Khan, among others.
After getting married to actor AjayDevgn, she took a sabbatical from full-time acting in 2001 and returned to films
with the 2006 romantic thriller Fanaa.After that she appeared in films in cameoappearances. She was last seen in a promi-nent role in Karan Johar's home produc-tion We Are Family (2010). When she is
not doing movies, Kajol said her two chil-dren- daughter Nysa and son Yug – andhusband's production house keep herbusy. "Looking after babies is a full-timejob. But spending time with my kids givesme a great amount of personal satisfactionand I am enjoying each and every momentof this amazing experience that god hasgifted me with," Kajol said. "We also havea production house – Ajay Devgn Films.I am not involved in it 24x7. But yes, I likeoverseeing everything," she said.
Her pairing with superstar ShahRukh Khan had been a highlight of hercareer, as they delivered a number of ro-mantic hits like Dilwale Dulhania LeJayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, KabhiKhushi Kabhi Gham, among others. "Ithink it is got to do with the movies wehave made together. They have all donewell. There is a cinematic history that hascontributed to the overall persona of usas a pair. We share a good comfort leveland are also good friends," she said.
WAiting For rightsCript, sAYs KAJol
Preity Zintadebuts asa producerand writer
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With season six of the Indian PremierLeague (IPL) in full swing, actor PreityZinta has been making frequent appear-ances on TV. Not someone to shy awayfrom expressing her emotions, the co-owner of the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP)team can be spotted at match venuescheering her team and tweeting her excite-ment about her team's progress. "Since Iam not good with the bat, I like to go allout as a cheerleader," says Preity Zinta,who is dividing her time promoting herupcoming film, Ishkq in Paris directed byPrem Raaj. For half a decade, Preity Zintahas kept her acting career on the back-burner. "I took up T20 cricket as a chal-lenge, to be one of the few women in aman's field. There's a lot of work that goesin and I have had my hands full," she says,as she gears for what could be best de-scribed as her second innings in Bolly-wood. While she returns as the leadinglady in Ishqk in Paris, the film also marksher debut as producer and co-writer. "Don-ning the hat of a producer was a new expe-rience and again a challenging one,"admits the actor who stars opposite Rhe-han Malliek (better remembered as DrRahul from the TV show Sanjivani). Thefilm, shot primarily in Paris, also starsFrench actress Isabelle Adjani and is set torelease on May 24. "It's a contemporarystory, a romcom that will appeal to all agegroups," says Preity Zinta. "Compared tomy character in the film, I think I ammuch more sorted in my life. But havingsaid that, I know art imitates life and Ihave been inspired by incidences from mylife and my friends while writing thefilm." Incidentally, it was a chance meet-ing with the Tibetan spiritual leader, DalaiLama that brought Preity Zinta back tofilms. "I am very glad I had that conversa-tion with him. It was indeed insightful. Iwas upset over KXIP losing a game and heasked me to compete in my own playingfield and use my craft to the best of myability," says Preity Zinta, who is lookingforward to her comeback. "I am someone
who has always beencomfortable
with thechoices Ihave
made - beit as an actor,
an entrepreneur ornow as a pro-
ducer," sheadds.
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Amitabh Bachchan, who got the 'angry young-man' tag after starring in Prakash Mehra's 'Zan-jeer', says he is grateful to writer-duo SalimKhan and Javed Akhtar for believing in him."40 years anniversary of film 'Zanjeer'today ... an entire lifetime gone by ..what a moment ... Salim-Javed forthinking of me, thank you ...havealways wondered how theydid ... a failed newcomer ...so much connected to thefilm ... what a time in thelife of a life !!" heposted on Twitter. Thefilm, which changed thetrend of romantic filmsto action films. It gaveAmitabh Bachchan theangry young man image that re-flected the anger of the massesagainst the political system. Zan-jeer remains an important film inthe history of Indian Cinema andis regarded as a classic today. Thefilm, which had changed thetrend from romantic films to ac-
tion films in that era, translated the story of acommon man to fight against the wrong andmaintaining moral values at the same time.Zanjeer also changed the lives of Salim Khanand Javed Akhtar. In an interview to TOI in2011, Salim Khan of Deewar and Zanjeer famehad said, "Although I had done good films like'Seeta Aur Geeta', Do Bhai, Haathi Mere
Saathi, Andaaz but it was Zanjeer that changedour lives as writers. We started getting credit too.Can you imagine where that credit featured on
the posters?'' The duo hired a person to puttheir names on the posters of the film.
"Since it was done in the night, ournames ended up getting printed onAmitabh Bachchan's hands, atsome places it got printed on the
face. The producers were furi-ous with us for asking forbilling. No writer has everdared to do it in the past. Theonly writer that I can recall
getting his place in thecredit is Mukhram Sharma,"
adds Khan. Salim-Javed gotRs 55,000 for Zanjeer whenmost writers earned betweenRs 750 and Rs 1,000.
Amitabh Bachchan gets nostalgicon 40th anniversary of ‘Zanjeer’
‘gAtsbY’ giVes‘iron mAn 3’ A runFor its moneY
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Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero
at the weekend box office. Leonard
DiCaprio's "The Great Gatsby" partied like it
was the Roaring Twenties with a $51.1
million debut that made it a surprisingly
strong runner-up to comic-book blockbuster
"Iron Man 3." Studio estimates Sunday put
"Gatsby" at No. 2 behind Robert Downey
Jr.'s superhero sequel, which pulled in $72.5
million domestically to raise its total to
$284.9 million after just 10 days in U.S.
theaters. With an additional $89.3 million in
its third weekend overseas, "Iron Man 3"
lifted its international total to $664.1 million
and its worldwide haul to $949 million. "The
Great Gatsby" far exceeded industry
expectations, which had pegged its opening
weekend as low as $30 million.
Chris broWn toCritiCs oF hisArt: ‘get A ... liFe!’
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Singer Chris
Brown has taken
to Twitter to de-
fend artwork out-
side his Holly-
wood Hills home
that neighbors
and the city of
Los Angeles want
him to take
down. Neighbors
claim the mon-
sters are scaring
neighborhood
kids and ruining the hillside aesthetic of
the area below Lake Hollywood. "There are
lots of babies, lots of children, and they're
literally frightened. It's like devils on the
wall — big, scary eyes and big, scary
teeth, and just the whole vibe is not what
we're used to," said Patti Negri, president
of the Hollywood Dell Civic Assn.
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COURTESy HUMANS INvENTLEO KENT
OUR obsessionwith makinggadgetry eversmaller waschallenged by
the arrival of the smartphone.The rise in screen quality,made necessary by thephone’s ability toplay video forexample, createdsomething of a co-nundrum: howdo you make adevice that issmall enough to beeasily portable but hasa screen that doesn’t leaveyou squinting? After all,while TVs have got thinner theycertainly haven’t got smaller.The answer, it seems, is the flex-ible display. If you can have alarge screen that folds away afteruse then the problem is solved.While it is a simple enough idea,the ability to take this from con-cept to product is less so. Hu-mans Invent met up with theResearch Director of Sharp Lab-oratories Europe, Mike Brown-
low, to get an insight into the fu-ture of bendy screens.
FLExIBLE ORCONFORMABLE?
When trying to understandflexible displays Brownlowpoints out one, oftenconfused ,
d i s -tinction.He says,“There is thetruly flexiblescreen, this is the con-cept of the roller displaythat is more portable and canbe unrolled. There is also a typewhich is not really flexible but
best described as conformable.These displays can take non-pla-nar shapes that give the benefitof, say, having an inwardlycurved display or such like.”
FOLD AWAYThe ulti-mate goal
when it
comes to flexible displays, on theother hand, is to enable a smart-phone that can be folded or rolledaway into something very smallindeed. Brownlow says, “Thereare several concepts around, suchas a pen with the display rolledaround or a phone where you pullout the display, but somethinglike this is more at the conceptual
stage.” In the quest fora good qual-
i t y ,
f l ex i -ble dis-
p l a y ,Brownlow be-
lieves that the use of OLED (or-ganic light-emitting diode) tech-nology will be the way to go.THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS
Interestingly, in 1995 Brown-low and his team came up with aconcept at Sharp called SURFBAUD, which, even at a timewhen the internet was fairly nas-cent, foresaw the importance ofimproving mobile phone dis-plays. The design they came upwith is not too far from the smart-phone displays in use today. Hecontinues, “Sharp worked with
Semiconductor Energy Labora-tory (who they are currently
working with on flexibledisplays) to develop
the thin-film transis-tor technology andhere at SLE we fo-cused on the ar-
chitecture, how todrive it, sensors and
such like but that wasquite some time ago now.”It is strange to think that in a
further 15 years time, as we un-furl our flexible displays to watchseason 98 of Mad Men, we’lllook back at the smartphones oftoday like we did at the snake-gaming Nokia 6110 of the 1990s.
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That four-legged friend of yoursmay be more than a companion -- healso may be boosting your hearthealth, experts say. An official state-ment released Thursday by theAmerican Heart Association saysthere is evidence that having a pet,particularly a dog, may lower yourrisk of heart disease. Cardiologyspecialists weren't all that surprised.
"Pets really might be man's bestfriend," said Barbara George, direc-tor of the Center for CardiovascularLifestyle Medicine at Winthrop-Uni-versity Hospital in Mineola, N.Y.
"Studies have shown people whoown pets, particularly dogs, havelower blood pressure, increasedmood-related brain chemicals, bettercholesterol numbers, lower weightand improved stress response,"George said. Members of the Ameri-
can Heart Association (AHA) com-mittee that wrote the statement re-viewed data from an array of relevantstudies. They found that pet owner-ship appears to be associated with areduction in heart disease risk factorssuch as high blood pressure, highblood cholesterol levels and obesity -- and improved survival among peo-ple with heart disease. Dog ownershipin particular may help reduce heartrisk, the statement said. People withdogs may get more exercise becausethey take their dogs for walks. A studyof more than 5,200 adults found thatdog owners did more walking andphysical activity than those who didn'town dogs, and that dog owners were54 percent more likely to get the rec-ommended level of physical activity.
"Walking your dog is a healthychore; it is a great way to exercisewithout thinking about it," said DrNieca Goldberg, clinical associate
professor in the department of medi-cine at the Tisch Center for Women'sHealth at NYU Langone MedicalCenter in New York City. "Pet own-ers increase their physical activitysimply by walking their dogs."
Pets can also have a positive ef-fect on the body's reactions to stress,according to the AHA. Georgeagreed, saying pets can be "a tool forweight loss, socialization, calmingour nerves and easing anxiety and de-pression." The AHA stressed, how-ever, that the studies they reviewedcannot prove that owning a pet di-rectly reduces heart disease risk.
"It may be simply that healthierpeople are the ones that have pets,not that having a pet actually leads toor causes reduction in cardiovascularrisk," statement committee chairmanDr. Glenn Levine, a professor atBaylor College of Medicine in Hous-ton, said in an AHA news release.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to
decide which particular representatives of the oppressing
class are to represent and repress them. –Karl Marx
pets a boon for the humanheart, cardiologists say
Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave
the planet forever and seek a new life
homesteading on Mars. About 78,000 people have
applied to become Red Planet colonists with the
nonprofit organization Mars One since its application
process opened on April 22, officials announced
Tuesday, May 7. Mars One aims to land four people
on the Red Planet in 2023 as the vanguard of a
permanent colony, with more astronauts arriving
every two years thereafter. "With 78,000
applications in two weeks, this is turning out to be
the most desired job in history," Mars One CEO and
co-founder Bas Lansdorp said in a statement.
"These numbers put us right on track for our goal of
half a million applicants." Mars One estimates that
landing four settlers on Mars in 2023 will cost about
$6 billion. The Netherlands-based organization
plans to pay most of the bills by staging a global
reality-TV event, with cameras documenting all
phases of the mission from astronaut selection to
the colonists' first years on the Red Planet. The
application process extends until Aug. 31. Anyone
at least 18 years of age can apply, by submitting to
the Mars One website a 1-minute video explaining
his or her motivation to become a Red Planet
settler. (You can also watch other applicants' videos
at the site.) Mars One charges an application fee,
which ranges from $5 to $75 depending on the
wealth of the applicant's home country. United
States citizens pay $38, Lansdorp said. When the
application process closes, reviewers will pick 50 to
100 candidates from each of the 300 regions
around the world that Mars One has identified. By
2015, this pool will be whittled down to a total of 28
to 40 candidates, officials said. This core group will
be split into groups of four, which will train for their
one-way Mars mission for about seven years.
Finally, an audience vote will pick one of these
groups to be humanity's first visitors to the Red
Planet. So far, Mars One has received applications
from more than 120 countries, officials said. The
United States leads the way with 17,324, followed
by China (10,241) and the United Kingdom (3,581).
Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Argentina
and India round out the top 10. NEwS DESK
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If you think learning about sciencemeans picking up a heavy, fat text-book and doing a lot of reading,think again. May 11 marks the fifthyear of Science Rendezvous, a freescience festival that is celebrated in
several cities across Canada fromVancouver to St. John’s.
“Somehow along the way we losethat innate sense of curiosity,” saidKelsey Miller, executive director ofScience Rendezvous. ”We want toreinvigorate a sense of curiosity andpassion for youth.” Five years ago,
R.J. Miller, a chemistry and physicsprofessor, was tired of not being ableto reach more youth and engage themin science. He spoke to other profes-sors from other universities, and foundthat they, too, felt the same way.
Together with Ryerson Univer-sity, the University of Toronto, YorkUniversity and the University of On-tario Technology Institute, a doors-open event was first hosted in 2008and Science Rendezvous was born.That first year, 15,000 people tookpart. In 2012, the number had soaredto 150,000 with 300 locations acrossthe country. It is run by a “voluntaryarmy” of 4,000 volunteers and 2,000scientists. “Learning doesn’t need tohappen in the classroom,” said Miller.
“Science and that curiosity be-comes uncool,” said Miller. “We canshow them how cool that is.”
Science takes to the streets on the weekend
The data-crunching developers at
Google are renowned for taking vast
amounts of information and
processing it into fascinating
snapshots of our world. Now the
company has teamed up with several
partners to harness the data culled
from Google Earth and NASA
satellites to produce a virtual time
machine that looks at how the planet
has developed over time.
Through a partnership with NASA and
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Google has released an online
database of time-lapse images that
show almost 30 years of satellite
imagery of Earth's surface
undergoing various changes. Those
images can also be viewed via Time
magazine's new Timelapse project, a
site that aggregates and
contextualizes the imagery via an
interactive presentation. To make the
visualizations clear and consistent,
Google began working with the USGS
back in 2009 and used Google Earth
Engine to parse through the roughly
2 million images that represent about
900 terabytes of data. Selecting the
images with the best resolutions, as
well as picking out the views free of
cloud cover, the team assembled the
database that spans from 1984 to
2012. The original satellite imagery
was facilitated by a project known as
Landsat, a series of satellites that
have been orbiting the Earth since
1972. NEwS DESK
one oF 7 WondersoF AnCient World FinAllYtrACKed doWnThere has long been a slight problem
with the declaration of the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon as one of the
seven wonders of the ancient world—
there was no proof it actually existed.
Now, an Oxford University researcher
says she's tracked down evidence the
garden did indeed grow in what is
now Iraq, just some 300 miles north
of where legend placed it. Stephanie
Dalley spent roughly two decades
pinpointing its location, which she has
IDed as being located 300 miles from
Babylon in Nineveh, and built by an
entirely different king—an enemy one
at that, reports the Guardian. Though
the story went that Babylonia's King
Nebuchadnezzar constructed the
gardens to appease his homesick
wife, Dalley asserts that it was
instead Assyria's King Sennacherib
behind them. Using her expertise in
the region's ancient language, Dalley
translated a number of Babylonian,
Assyrian, Greek, and Roman texts,
and found what the Independent
describes as "four key pieces of
evidence." NEwS DESK
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15My goal was to improve the team and I feltI played a part in moving them forward soI am very pleased. – Gary Kirsten
CHANDIGARHAGENCIES
Superb bowling from Dale Steyn andDarryn Sammy led the SunrisersHyderabad to the easiest of victories,beating the Kings XI Punjab by 30 runs inChandigarh on Saturday.
Steyn struck with his fifth ball on hisway to another excellent analysis of 2-20,while Sammy had an even batter start,snapping up wickets with his first twodeliveries to finish on 4-22 whileperforming his extravagant celebrations.
After Mandeep Singh’s early departure,Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh took thescore to 45, but Punjab were always behindthe required rate. Sammy’s dramaticintroduction to the attack, going on to takethree wickets in his first ten balls, saw thehome team in a heap of trouble at 51 for four.
Luke Pomersbach battled to keep thescoreboard moving, only getting off themark from the eighth ball he faced, butRajagopal Sathish helped push things alongas they added 51 for the fifth wicket.Eighteen runs came off the 14th over. Eventhis left the required rate in double figuresonly for Steyn to return to the attack with afour-run over to re-apply the brakes.
Pomersbach finished on a labouredunbeaten 33 off 40 balls as Punjab fell wellshort of their target of 151. Man-of-the-Match Parthiv Patel held things together forthe Sunrisers after they were asked to batfirst. His 61 was pedestrian at times, and hewas dropped with just two runs to his name.There was some acceleration from ThisaraPerera with an aggressive 32 off 18 balls,including two fours and two sixes.
Young paceman Sandeep Sharma
impressed on his IPL debut, taking 3-21 ina promising spell while Piyush Chawladisplayed a number of variations to his leg-spinners in a respectable return of 1-20.
Hyderabad remain outside the playoff
positions in fifth place, level on points withthe Royal Challengers Bangalore but wellbehind on net run rate. As for Punjab, theironly hope of qualifying now rests both onwinning their final three matches and aweird combination of results among thehigher placed teams.WAqAR TOLD US TO BOWL LIKEIN A TEST MATCH - SAMMY: DarrenSammy, the Sunrisers Hyderabadallrounder, produced one of the top-fivebowling figures of IPL 2013 so far, helpinghis team to a 30-run victory against KingsXI Punjab in Mohali. With the pitchsporting a sprinkling of grass he and histeam-mates, Sammy said, on the advice ofbowling coach Waqar Younis, were justlooking to bowl “like in a Test match”.
“On that wicket you don’t have to domuch. With the grass on the good-length,our bowling coach, Waqar Younis asked usto bowl like we do in a Test match - just putthe ball on that one spot and let the pitch dothe rest,” Sammy told the IPL site. “Lateron we took pace off the ball.”
Sammy finished with 4 for 22, as KingsXI got to 120 for 9 in response to Sunrisers’150. He got Shaun Marsh and AdamGilchrist with his first two deliveries, as bothbatsmen tried to pull length balls. In hissecond over, he got batsman in the spotlight,David Miller, with another length ball.Miller was the biggest of the wickets,Sammy said. “All of them have beendangerous at different times in thetournament but David Miller, especially. Ourplan was to bowl on good length to him andlet him try to have a go at us. Even thoughhe scored a 100 in 38 balls a couple of gamesback, Saturday he was starting on naught. Hemade a mistake and we got the result.”
steyn and sammy show stuns Kings XIKING KALLIS STEERS KOLKATA TO SAFETYRANCHI: The Kolkata Knight Riders were forced to work a bit harder than
expected, but they eventually beat the Royal Challengers Bangalore by five
wickets in their IPL encounter at the JSCA International Stadium Complex
in Ranchi on Sunday. Proteas ace Jacques Kallis enjoyed a fine performance
with bat and ball, claiming two wickets, before steering the Knight Riders
to 116 for five, winning with just four balls to spare on a slowish track.
Kallis’s 41 off 45 balls was the rock that the Kolkata chase was built
on, and despite watching Manvinder Bisla fall to the second ball of the
innings and Gautam Gambhir (14) and Yusuf Pathan (18) giving away good
platforms, Kallis held his nerve.
The big all-rounder rode his luck, too, edging an attempted hook just
beyond AB de Villiers, before eventually holing out to Moises Henriques off
the bowling of the recalled Abhimanyu Mithun. But, by the time he was
ousted, Kallis, who struck four fours, had done enough to secure a match
that the Knight Riders had effectively won with a fine bowling performance,
led by the wizardry of Sunil Narine. The off-spinner eventually ended with
exemplary figures of 4-22, including the prize wicket of Chris Gayle, who
could only chalk up 33 off 36 balls. The Bangalore side couldn’t get going
early on, as they crawled to 22 for one after six overs, and they were
eventually restricted to a paltry 115 for nine. Narine had his fellow West
Indian expertly stumped by Bisla, after he was deceived in the flight by an
off-spinner. De Villiers tried his best to loosen the shackles, clubbing
Laxmipathy Balaji for a six over cover, but he was out the very next ball,
trying to reverse sweep over third man and getting caught behind for 28
off 22 balls. Narine finished in style, claiming two wickets in his final over,
and he received good support from Kallis (2-17) and Balaji, who ended
with 2-22. The loss sees Bangalore’s chances to make the playoffs take a
dent, while the defending champions, the Knight Riders, will look to kick
on and finish their season with a flourish.
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS: MS Bisla (wk), G Gambhir (capt), JH
Kallis, YK Pathan, RN ten Doeschate, MK Tiwary, DB Das, R Bhatia, SMSM
Senanayake, SP Narine, L Balaji
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE: CA Pujara, CH Gayle, V Kohli
(capt), AB de Villiers (wk), MC Henriques, SS Tiwary, R Rampaul, A Mithun,
R Vinay Kumar, M Kartik, JD Unadkat. AGENCIES
LAHORESTAFF REPORT
THE Pakistan HockeyFederation willlaunch nationalteam’s preparationsfor World Cup 2014by arranging a camp
of probables from May 25 atAbbottabad. “We are well on time tostart preparing our side for the grandevent and our first phase of trainingkick off at a cooler centre to avoidscorching heat to help the players tofully focus on the training”, saidSecretary, PHF, Mohammad AsifBajwa here on Sunday.
He said PHF will ensure everystep to impart best possible trainingto the probables home and abroad tohelp the team to live up to theexpectations in the World Cup to beplayed in August 2014 in Holland.He rejected a questioner that PHF hasdelayed the preparations of the teamfor the Cup. “In fact we are well oncourse in this regard and ourpreparations have already beenstarted as a total number of 21 seniorand junior players are engaged incompetitive hockey abroad”.
“Our eleven players are playing inleague in Malaysia, two in Holland andeight junior players are part of thejunior team which will soon embarkupon the voyage of Europe “, heasserted.
Bajwa disclosed that barringHolland which are the hosts of the Cupno other team has yet qualified for themega event to be participated by asmany as 12 top teams of the World.
“At this stage what is important forus is to groom the team to qualify for
the Cup”, he said adding “WorldLeague (Asian round) will take place inMalaysia next month and our prime aimis to unveiled a balanced combinationto qualify for the Cup “. Three topteams of the World League will qualifyfrom Asia.
“ The immediate task is tough as allthe leading sides from Asia will be inrun to finish among the top three andwe will be laying special emphasisduring our month long preparations togel experience with youth “,said Bajwa.
He said PHF will soon announcethe names of players to attend thetraining camp at Abbottabad. “ We willunfold an ambitious preparatoryprogramme for our team for the Cupand it is a good omen that our twenty
one players are engaged in internationalhockey and by that way they are addingto their experience besides makingthemselves available for the selection “,he added.
Bajwa said PHF was working indifferent dimensions as far as impartingtraining to the team is concerned for theCup as the junior players will be takingpart in international events abroad tillnext year and senior team will also beparticipating in similar assignments onregular basis.
“By that way we will be able toform a pool of players for specializedpositions and at the time of selection ofthe team for cup we will be havingample choice because of availability ofthe players” he added.
pAKistAn toprepAre For WorldCup At AbbottAbAdWarning signs
for sA cricketJOHANNESBURG
AGENCIES
It’s been quite a week in South Africancricket. Even by its normallyunexpected twists and turns, the loss ofa former captain, the withdrawal of itsgreatest player, and then the imminentdeparture of a coach is a lot to take in.Many have brushed off the loss ofGraeme Smith from the ChampionsTrophy due to injury as a blessing indisguise. They point to his patchyform, his sluggish fielding and anyother little area of concern to belittleSmith’s immense contribution.When he eventually leaves the stagefor good, only then may his talents betruly appreciated. Surrey, the countywhere Smith planned to embark on anew, three-year journey, look to havetaken the setback a lot harder than hisown countrymen.Frankly, it is bizarre. His batting maynot be as eye-catching as the dashinglikes of Faf du Plessis, AB de Villiersand the promising Quinton de Kock,but Smith possesses big-matchtemperament in buckets the size of hishands.When the crunch comes, as itinevitably does when South Africa tryto bring home an ICC trophy, fewwould have been better equipped tohandle the “squeaky bum-time” asSmith.The case of Jacques Kallis is slightlymore complex. He hasn’t quite retired,but he is routinely picking andchoosing the games and tournamentsthat he wants to take part in. For thehandful of middle-order hopefulswaiting for a gap to appear in the ODIside, the musical chairs must bemaddening.
domingo makessA cricket history
JOHANNESBURGAGENCIES
Russell Domingo, named as the new coachof the South African cricket team yesterday,is the first person of colour to take charge ofthe national team, as outgoing coach GaryKirsten denied the controversial issue oftransformation was behind his decision tocall it a day.Domingo, 38, will take over in August fromKirsten, who said on Friday he would notbe renewing his contract because he wantedto spend more time with his family.The transformation of the national sideremains a contentious issue. The squad forthe Champions Trophy contains just twoblack African players, and more than twodecades after South Africa’s return fromsport isolation, many people believe the sporthas failed to transform. Kirsten’s response toa question about transformation being behindhis decision drew a curt response. “No. I’vegiven my reasons and those are 100 percentwhat my reasons are,” he said.Domingo has been assistant coach of thenational side for the past two years, and inDecember he took over as coach of thenational T20 team. “I aim to build on andenhance the processes put in place by Gary.There is a very strong management team inplace, and I will keep that team for the timebeing, although I might add one or twopeople I believe will be of use to us. “But itis very early days, and I will need to consultwith many people before I take over.”Domingo dismissed suggestions that hislack of Test cricket experience would be adisadvantage. “I have been coaching for thepast 16 years, and I have a very goodrapport with players. I believe I havesomething to offer the national side, or Iwould not have accepted the position.”For Kirsten, the amount of time away fromhome proved too much. Throughout histenure as coach he spelled out theimportance of returning home and being afather to his three children – all aged under10. Ironically, it was the last few weeks athome which ultimately made up his mind.“I believe my responsibilities as a father
and to my family are being compromised.“I’ve just had five weeks at home now,which is the longest period I’ve had at homefor a number of years, and I began to realisewhat my absence as a father (was doing) andwhat effect it has had on my family.”
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Energy Partners, a member of the Genco Group Of Companies, for the
provisioning of floodlights at Sabina Park – Lyndel Wright
BULAWAyOAGENCIES
THE Bangladesh spinnersimposed themselves onZimbabwe as theysuccessfully defended amoderate total to registera 34-run win. Shakib Al
Hasan was the hero with bat and ball,helping the visitors draw level in theTwenty20 series.
Shakib combined his all-round skills inthe same game for the first time on tour,starting with a dominant 28-ball 40 that gotBangladesh ticking, after they lost openerShamsur Rahman early. Like the first game,however, they collapsed once again after an82-run second-wicket stand betweenShakib and Tamim Iqbal. Bangladeshended up on 168 for 7 in 20 overs withProsper Utseya at his economical best. Thatinitial thrust from Shakib and Tamim Iqbal,however, was the crucial differencebetween the two teams. Shakib dismissedSikandar Raza in the 17th over to turn thelast screw on the home side’s innings as thebig-hitter struggled to find the boundaries.Shakib ended up with 4 for 22, his best T20figures. One of his four victims wasZimbabwe captain, Brendan Taylor whofell in the fifth over after looking dangerousduring his brief stay at the wicket.
Sohag Gazi and Abdur Razzak were thecrucial bowlers for Bangladesh, bringingback the length and using varying speedswhenever the batsmen charged at them.Both bowled a maiden each and their overswere crucial to Bangladesh’s defence of 168runs. Gazi went wicketless while left-armspinner Razzak picked up 2 for 18 from hisfour overs. Shafiul Islam ended with twowickets too, bowling accurately for the firsttime since the first ODI of the tour.
Zimbabwe’s batting never really took
off after Vusi Sibanda was out in theseventh over. Sibanda made 32 off 19 balls,and Raza’s 30-ball 32 was the nextsignificant score for the hosts.
The visitors ended up on the samescore as Zimbabwe did in the first game,although this looked like a slower wicket.But the middle-order wasted a fine start.From 86 for 1 in the 9th over, Bangladeshwere 126 for 5 at the start of the 15th over.
When Shakib and Tamim were at thecrease, Bangladesh were looking at abigger score. They got together afterShamsur Rahman fell in the first over but
wasted little time, smacking 14 out of the16 hits to the boundary in the first 10 overs.Shakib made 40 off 28 and Tamim 43 off30 balls.
Both batsmen fell trying to slog afteradding 82 for the second wicket. CaptainMushfiqur Rahim and deputyMahmudullah followed suit soon after.Mushfiqur, in what may be his last matchas captain - the BCB plans to persuade himto stay - was unlucky to be given leg-beforeto a ball heading down the legside.Mahmudullah, however, gave a soft catchto cover, and the four-wicket collapse also
meant that there were no boundaries for 26deliveries between the 12th and 15th overs.
Only a 36-run sixth-wicket standbetween Nasir Hossain and MominulHaque helped them cross the 150-run mark.For Zimbabwe, Utseya took two for 15 inhis four overs, the fourth time in his careerthat he finished with an economy rate ofless than four runs an over. Brian Vitori,too, was economical but the otherZimbabwe bowlers struggled with theirlength. There was a wicket each for Vitori,Tinashe Panyangara, Natsai M’shwangeand Shingi Masakadza.
BANGLADESHTamim Iqbal c Sw Masakadza b Utseya 43Shamsur Rahman c waller b Utseya 2Shakib Al Hasan c Sikandar Raza b Mushangwe 40Mushfiqur Rahim*† lbw b H Masakadza 17Nasir Hossain run out (Sibanda) 27Mahmudullah c Sikandar Raza b Panyangara 1Mominul Haque b Vitori 9Sohag Gazi not out 810Abdur Razzak not out 69EXTRAS (lb 5, w 7, nb 3) 15TOTAL 168DID NOT BAT Shafiul Islam, Robiul IslamFALL OF wICKETS 1-4 (Shamsur Rahman, 0.4 ov), 2-86 (ShakibAl Hasan, 8.5 ov), 3-101 (Tamim Iqbal, 10.5 ov), 4-111 (MushfiqurRahim, 12.3 ov), 5-116 (Mahmudullah, 14.1 ov), 6-152 (MominulHaque, 17.5 ov), 7-152 (Nasir Hossain, 17.6 ov)BOwLINGP Utseya 4-0-15-2, BV Vitori 4-0-26-1, Sw Masakadza 2-0-31-0, T Panyangara 4-0-42-1, N Mushangwe 3-0-29-1, SC williams2-0-16-0, H Masakadza 1-0-4-1ZIMBABwEH Masakadza b Abdur Razzak 2V Sibanda c Mahmudullah b Shafiul Islam 32BRM Taylor*† c Nasir Hossain b Shakib Al Hasan 15SC williams run out (Robiul Islam) 1624Sikandar Raza b Shakib Al Hasan 32MN waller c Mominul Haque b Abdur Razzak 10Sw Masakadza c Nasir Hossain b Shakib Al Hasan 9P Utseya b Shafiul Islam 6N Mushangwe b Shakib Al Hasan 0T Panyangara not out 1BV Vitori not out 1EXTRAS (lb 6, w 4) 10TOTAL 134FALL OF wICKETS 1-5 (H Masakadza, 1.1 ov), 2-45 (Taylor, 4.6ov), 3-53 (Sibanda, 6.6 ov), 4-78 (williams, 10.5 ov), 5-99 (waller,13.3 ov), 6-120 (Sikandar Raza, 16.5 ov), 7-131 (Sw Masakadza,18.3 ov), 8-132 (Mushangwe, 18.5 ov), 9-132 (Utseya, 19.1 ov)BOwLINGSohag Gazi 4-1-28-0, Abdur Razzak 4-1-18-2, Shakib Al Hasan4-0-22-4, Shafiul Islam 4-0-20-2, Mahmudullah 1-0-9-0, RobiulIslam 1-0-13-0, Mominul Haque 2-0-18-0Match detailsToss Bangladesh, who chose to batSeries 2-match series drawn 1-1T20I debut Robiul Islam (Bangladesh)Player of the match Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)Player of the series Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)Umpires O Chirombe and TJ MatibiriTV umpire RB TiffinMatch referee BC Broad (England)Reserve umpire C Phiri
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LAHORE: Women powerlifters group Hafiza Iqra Arif, Misbah Younas, Amta Saleem, Saadia Khalil meet Shahbaz Sharriff at
Raiwind with officials of Lahore District Powerlifting Association.
trials for theselection of pakteam from may 30
LAHORESTAFF REPORT
Pakistan Baseball Federation will holdopen trials here on May 30 for theselection of national youth team tofeature in the 2nd World U12 baseballCup being played from July 18 inTaipei City, Chinese Taipei. “We will be giving a fair chance to allthe players and that is why we haveannounced open trails which will beheld at The Lords School SystemGulberg and 25 players will beselected for attending a 40-day camp”,said Khawar Shah, Secretary, PBBF.He said qualified coaches will besupervising the camp in two dailysession to impart finer points of thegame to prepare the team on solidlines.‘Final Trial for the selection of theteam will be held on July 15 ,he saidadding ‘Those players who were bornin or after 2001 are illegible toparticipate,’ As per InternationalBaseball Federation rule parents canaccompany their children at theirown expense.World’s best sixteen junior teams willfeature in the event in which Pakistanhas been placed in group B along withUSA, Venezuela, Brazil, South Korea,Panama, Nigeria, Russia.Group A comprises, Chinese Taipei,Mexico, Japan, Italy, Colombia, CzechRepublic, India and Hong Kong.He also informed that Pakistan isranked 23rd out of 124 countries of theworld and 6th in Asia and based ofthese rankings it has qualified forparticipation in the worlds top juniorbaseball event.
ms dhoni is the bestfinisher in cricket,says david miller
MOHALIAGENCIES
Having played one of the most destructiveknocks in the ongoing Indian PremierLeague, Kings XI Punjab’s David Millersays Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the “bestfinisher” in international cricket at themoment. “MS Dhoni has shown how goodhe really is over the last couple of years andhe is probably the best in that regards rightnow,” said Miller, who smashed 101 off amere 38 balls against Royal ChallengersBangalore in IPL 6, said. According to the23-year-old South African, the ongoing sixthedition of the T20 league is the turning pointof his career. “Yes, definitely. I have reallyenjoyed the opportunity to play for thefranchise. For me personally, I’ve reallyenjoyed batting on the Indian wickets. It’s avery different experience from what I’vehad back home in South Africa and youlearn so much along the way. “In 2011 Ididn’t get a game and the last year I only gotsix games. In IPL only four overseas playerscan play at a time,” he told the IPL website.Miller said former South Africa all-rounderLance Klusener has played an “immense”role in his development as a finisher. “I’vebeen fortunate to have Lance Klusener asmy coach since the last season and he hasplayed an immense part in nurturing thefinishing aspect of batting. He’s just helpedme a lot with my confidence. “Also, as Ihave been playing professional cricket Ihave learnt a lot from the ex-players, tryingto gather all the information and using it inmy game. While chasing, there are thesecouple of things that I do. “I’ve realised thateven at the end of the innings, you’ve gotmore time that you think. Out there in themiddle everyone sort of rushes and there’s alot of pressure around you. That’s when youneed to calm yourself down and believe thatyou have enough time on your hands.
SPORTS DESK
Darren Gough was at his best in the heatof an Ashes confrontation, and he wasoften central to the rare occasions Englandmanaged to overcome Australia during the1990s, but he is not about to write off thecurrent generation, ahead of the first ofthis year’s back-to-back series.
Australia’s 16-man squad was metwith reactions ranging from ridicule todismissiveness in some quarters. Evendown under there is more trepidationabout the forthcoming series than since thelate 1980s. But Gough, who took 74wickets in 17 Ashes Tests, believes thestrength of their fast bowling resourcesgives them a chance in England.
“I’m not going to be as critical assome people are,” he told ESPNcricinfo.“Their bowling attack is very strong andthe fast bowlers are superbly talented.What’s interesting to me is that most ofthem are coming over with the A team tohave a little roll and I think that’s very
important. Last time they bowled too shortso they’ll be able to learn the length tobowl.”
There has been little doubt of late thatAustralia are building a formidable paceunit - although keeping players like JamesPattinson, Mitchell Starc and Ryan Harrisfit for extended periods is proving achallenge, while Pat Cummins continuesto lurch from injury to injury. But withoutsupport from the top order, they are oftengoing to be in the position of trying tokeep the side in matches.
Gough suspects that some of thebatsmen on the trip will not be given muchmore of an opportunity to show they canhandle Test cricket, but added that thedecision to bolster the squad with theexperience of Chris Rogers and BradHaddin could prove a shrewd move.
“These guys have an opportunity,” hesaid. “They had a poor series in India, gotbeaten by South Africa, and are nowcoming to England with a lot of themfighting for a spot in the Ashes back home.
If they can get runs on the board, Englandwill have a heck of a fight on their hands.”
“They’ve realised you can’t pickplayers who aren’t ready. Against bowlerslike Anderson, Broad, Finn and Swannyou need some experience. Rogers hasbeen a fantastic player for many years andHaddin still deserves to be Australia’s No.1.” The key to Australia’s run-scoringpotential is the captain, Michael Clarke,who has enjoyed a phenomenal run ofform over the last six months. Beyond hisbatting, however, Gough sees anintriguing match-up between him andAlastair Cook as captains. Trent Bridgewill be Cook’s first Ashes match as acaptain, while Clarke first lead Australiain the Sydney Test in 2011.
“Clarke’s from the Shane Warnemould of captaincy. He likes toadventurous, sometimes a littlecontroversial, he’s a very attacking captainwhich will be vital. The head-to-head withAlastair Cook, who is a different style ofcaptain, will be fascinating.
don’t write off australia: Gough
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17 This trophy is back in Munich,
where it belongs. – Philipp Lahm
MADRIDAGENCIES
SERENA Williamsretained her MutuaMadrid Open title andnumber one spot in therankings with a straight-sets victory over Maria
Sharapova in the final.In the battle between the top two
players in the world, Williams neededjust one hour and 18 minutes to see offthe challenge of Sharapova, theAmerican winning 6-1 6-4.
The victory improved the 31-year-old’s hugely impressive career recordagainst Sharapova to 13 wins from 15matches, and also ensured the Russiancould not claim top spot in the WTArankings, which would have happenedhad Williams lost.
Williams had dropped just one set inthe last seven meetings between the twoand Sharapova looked unlikely toimprove that record after she was brokenthree times in losing a one-sidedopening set.
Sharapova, 26, did not manage tofashion a single break point in the firstset - compared to five for Williams - butshe improved in the second as shecapitalised on one of her two breakpoints.
However, that was not enough asWilliams broke twice in reply to clinchthe match and with it the 50th WTA titleof her career - becoming only the 10thwoman in history to reach the milestone.
serena beats sharapova;retains top spot
MADRID: Andy Murray was not toodownhearted despite exiting the MadridMasters at the quarter-final stage. The Scotwas beaten by clay-court nemesis TomasBerdych over two sets last night and, withthe French Open a matter of weeks away,his red-surface season has yet to take off.The US Open champion thinks he is headed
towards some good form, though. “Thisweek was better than Monte-Carlo, so it’sgoing in the right direction,” Murray said inhis post-match press conference. “ “Tomasis a very good clay court player, and it wasa close match. I had my chances. “I thinkI’m playing okay. Some things I would liketo do better, but I did play very well in
practice in the build-up to this tournament. Iplayed a lot of sets with a lot of toughplayers and I played very well.” Berdychhas now beaten Murray on the threeoccasions they have played on clay. TheFrench Open starts on May 26. Murray nextheads to Rome for the Masters series eventwhich begins on Monday. AGENCIES
SPORTS DESK
Ricky Burns retained his WBO lightweighttitle after Jose Gonzalez stayed on his stoolat the end of the ninth round in a dramaticnight at the Emirates Arena. ght unbeatenin 22 fights with 17 of them won inside thedistance but an injury - with the suggestionit was a broken wrist - scuppered hischances of an upset.
Burns survived a seventh round inwhich he took some punishment andalthough he came back after that he wasbehind on points when the fight came toan early finish. The 30-year-old, makinghis third title defence, started cautiously,using his left jab to get his range.
Encouraged by the raucous crowd, theCoatbridge champion commanded thecentre of the ring, pressing his opponentback albeit some wild swings missed thetarget. Burns looked the more powerful,snapping his left-hand out to make sureGonzalez kept on the back foot.
The third round witnessed more andbetter exchanges between the two fighterswith a trickle of blood appearing onBurns’ nose. The crowd got excited whentheir favourite had the challenger on theropes but it was all too fleeting to do toomuch damage. The chanting started againas the crowd urged Burns forward, not thathe needed much persuasion.
He took a right-hand flush on the facein the fourth round but came back with acouple of powerful body shots.
Some fierce blows were traded butBurns still looked in control, emergingfrom clinches with little damage done.
Gonzalez appeared game but his lackof experience made him vulnerable attimes. Against that, he indicated with somegood powerful punches, some that Burnshad to take, why his knockout record was
so impressive. The Scot got caught with astinging left hand at the start of the sixthround which brought him chargingtowards Gonzalez in some anger, but stillhe could not quite pin him down.
The Puerto Rican was changing attackhand at regular intervals and he wobbledBurns with a right hand in the aremarkably brutal seventh round fromwhich the champion was lucky to escape.
Burns came out at the start of the nextround determined to get back on top, asthe slightly nervous crowd bayed for theirman to regain control.
It looked like the champion’s head hadcleared but he flew into Gonzalezswinging wildly at times. The challengerwas on the back foot for most of the ninthround, looking like he may have lost hischance to create an upset.
But there was unforeseen drama whenGonzalez failed to come out for the 10thround, which sparked scenes ofcelebration in the Burns camp.
Of the seventh round, Burns told SkySports 1: “He caught me with a good fewshots but I proved I can take a good shot.He hurt me in that round.
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gArCiA shines AtsAWgrAss AgAin
SAWGRASS: Spain’s Sergio Garcia is inpole position to pocket £1.1million fromthe event after the second round atSawgrass. Garcia, winner of golf’s so-called unofficial fifth major in 2008,added a 65 to his opening 68 to lie 11under par, one shot clear of world numberone Tiger Woods who carded a secondconsecutive 67.England’s Lee Westwood, level par after14 holes of his first round, was a shotfurther back on nine under alongsideAmerican Kevin Chappell after bothplayers returned a 66 in perfect scoringconditions.Sweden’s Henrik Stenson, the 2009winner, was also nine under after hechipped in on his final hole for a secondeagle in the space of eight holes in a 67.Rory McIlroy, whose opening 66 was hislowest score by at Sawgrass by six shots,could only add a 72 to finish five off thepace on six under, one behind playingpartner and Masters champion AdamScott (68).Starting from the 10th, Garcia openedwith six straight pars before birdies at the16th and 18th, and after a bogey on thefirst picked up five birdies in successionfrom the second.Another birdie on the eighth saw theworld number 15 home in 31 and primedto add to the £2.2million he has earnedfrom 13 previous appearances in theevent.Garcia told Sky Sports 2: “It was good.Yesterday I felt like I scored well and didnot play that great. Today I played veryvery well. AGENCIES
button stayingoptimistic despitepoor show
SPORTS DESK
Jenson Button remains hopeful ofsimply scraping into the points in theSpanish Grand Prix after his worstqualifying performance for 10 months.As if McLaren’s woes with their carwere not enough to contend with, the33-year-old will start a miserable 14thon the back of tyre pressures beingincorrectly set for his run in the secondqualifying session.By contrast, team-mate Sergio Perezcomfortably made it into the top 10,finishing 0.565secs ahead of Button,whose previous worst display was inlast year’s British Grand Prix when helined up 16th.It means for the first time this seasonsince he switched to McLaren, Perezstarts ahead of Button as he ultimatelyfinished ninth in the top-10 shoot-outat Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.“A lot of new parts are on the car andthey’ve made a little bit of adifference, but not really enough tochallenge at the front, although it’sgood to see they are making progress,”said Button.“In Q1 the car didn’t feel too bad, andthen in Q2 I didn’t have the grip on mylast run. The (tyre) pressures came inmassively high.“I was surprised to see Sergio was stillout there fighting compared to what Ihad out there in terms of balance andpace. He did a good job and obviouslydid everything right.“In the race we should be a little bettercompared to some of our competitors,but we have a lot of competitors thesedays, that’s the problem.“Our race pace is okay, but it’s notmuch better than our qualifying pace,so it’s going to be a tricky afternoon,but we will hopefully make the best ofit and get some points.”
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have to wait until the end to tot them all up and
see where you are. – Dave Brailsford.
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BARCELONAAGENCIES
FERNANDO Alonsoended a seven-year waitto claim his secondSpanish Grand Prixtriumph to thrill hisfans in Barcelona.
Ferrari and Alonso managed thestrategy to ensure the 31-year-old tookthe chequered flag for the 32nd time inhis career, in a race featuring astaggering 82 pit stops as Pirelli’sdegrading rubber again seeminglyplayed too much of a role in the outcomefor all concerned.
Making four stops, Alonso finishednine seconds clear of three-stoppingKimi Raikkonen in his Lotus, with theFinn having to settle for second for thethird consecutive race.
Raikkonen has at least cut tripleworld champion Sebastian Vettel’s leadat the top of the standings to four points,with the German in fourth as Ferrari’sFelipe Massa completed the podium.
Despite their front-row lock-outfollowing Saturday’s qualifying,Mercedes appeared to find reverse gearon their cars as Nico Rosberg finishedsixth and Lewis Hamilton 12th and outof the points for the first time this year.
No wonder Rosberg and Hamiltonhad preached caution regarding theirhopes for the race, because despiteMercedes’ hopes of a cure for their lackof pace throughout a grand prix it nevermaterialised.
Although leading for the opening 10laps after claiming back-to-back polepositions for the first time in his career,the German was soon swallowed up afterthe first round of pit stops.
As for Hamilton, the Briton started
to go backwards from lap one as he wasinitially outmanoeuvred by Vettel intoturn one, and then by Alonso a fewcorners later.
Formula One these days has becomeall about tyre conservation, withHamilton’s frustration coming to the forejust before the halfway stage of the 66laps.
At that point, with Hamilton havingplummeted to 15th, the 28-year-olddropped behind Williams’ PastorMaldonado.
Turning to the radio, Hamilton said:“And now I’ve been passed by aWilliams!”
When Hamilton was told soon afterto look after his left-rear tyre, he thenreplied: “I can’t drive any slower.”
That has become the way of it in thesport at present, with Pirelli too much ofa controlling force, even though theyhave spiced up the show.
Ultimately, it was Ferrari’s pace thatheld sway, allowing Alonso to movewithin 17 points of Vettel who was 38seconds down come the fall of the flag,
with Red Bull team-mate Mark Webberfifth.
Rosberg managed to hold ForceIndia’s Paul Di Resta off for sixth, withthe Scot again the best of the Brits for thesecond successive race as McLaren’sJenson Button came home eighth aheadof team-mate Sergio Perez.
Bizarrely, although Perez closed onButton over the closing laps, he wasgiven a radio message to conserve histyres which forced him to back off,which could be interpreted as a teamorder, something team principal MartinWhitmarsh claimed did not exist withinMcLaren in Bahrain three weeks agofollowing a fall-out between his drivers.
There were plenty of other incidents,initially sparked by Romain Grosjean inhis Lotus whose right-rear suspensiongave way after eight laps, forcing him tolimp to the pits where he retired.
Caterham’s Giedo van der Garde hadonly three wheels on his car when hereturned to the garage a lap after his pitcrew had failed to fit correctly his left-rearthat came loose following his second stop.
Flawless alonso endsseven year spanish itch
Adebayor strikesto keep spurs inrace for uCl
LONDONAGENCIES
Emmanuel Adebayor scored the winner asTottenham leapfrogged Arsenal into aChampions League qualifying position asthey beat 10-man Stoke 2-1 on Sunday.Andre Villas-Boas’ men had laboured insearch of a potentially lucrative winnerafter Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam wasdismissed in the 47th minute for a secondbookable offence.But Adebayor tapped in a cross from ClintDempsey from close range in the 83rdminute to take them back up to fourth andpile pressure on Arsene Wenger’s men,who face Wigan on Tuesday night. Spurshad started in dismal fashion as they fellbehind to a Steven Nzonzi header after justthree minutes, before Dempsey equalisedwith a brilliant piece of improvisation inthe 20th minute, and from that point thevisitors largely dominated.Despite having nothing but pride to playfor after edging out of the relegationdogfight, it was Stoke who started withmore intent and Nzonzi headed an Adamfree-kick past Hugo Lloris after Dempseyfouled Ryan Shotton on the right. Dempseyhad the ball in the net in the 15th minutebut his effort was ruled out for offside, butfive minutes later the American drew hisside level with a superb piece of skill.Stoke defender Marc Wilson andgoalkeeper Asmir Begovic got in a muddleover a crossfield ball by Scott Parker,Wilson clearing the ball to Dempsey whoresponded by lobbing it straight back overthe stranded Begovic from 30 yards.
mourinhocongratulates barcaon title triumph
SPORTS DESK
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinhocongratulated Barcelona after his side’s 1-1 draw with Espanyol ended the title race.Holders Madrid needed a victory at thehome of Barca’s city rivals to prevent TitoVilanova’s men from taking their title.But they were disjointed and off the pacein the first half which was dominated byEspanyol, who were unfortunate to onlyhave a one-goal lead courtesy of ChristianStuani’s 23rd-minute strike. HectorMoreno incorrectly had a goal disallowedas Real appeared to have one eye on nextFriday’s Copa del Rey final againstAtletico Madrid, with key men includingCristiano Ronaldo on the bench. Thesecond-half introduction of Ronaldo wasfollowed moments later by GonzaloHiguain’s 58th-minute equaliser butMadrid could not find a winner and thetitle went to Barca. “First of all I want tocongratulate Barcelona, their coaches,their players, their managers and theirfans,” Mourinho said onwww.realmadrid.com. “They have justwon the league title, which was ours untilnow, and I think the least we can do iscongratulate them.
massa, gutierrezslapped with gridpenalties
BARCELONAAGENCIES
Felipe Massa and Esteban Gutierrezhave both been given three-place gridpenalties for Sunday’s Spanish GrandPrix. The stewards determined Massaand Gutierrez “unnecessarily impeded”Mark Webber and Kimi Raikkonenrespectively during Saturday’squalifying session at Barcelona’s Circuitde Catalunya. After qualifying sixth inhis Ferrari, Massa will now drop toninth, elevating Lotus’ RomainGrosjean, Webber in his Red Bull andSergio Perez for McLaren up to sixth,seventh and eighth respectively. Webber,baulked by Massa around the sweepingright-hand corner between turns 11 and12, said: “Felipe doesn’t do that kind ofthing on purpose. “Maybe the radiowasn’t working for him, thecommunication wasn’t good. “He gotcaught out, which is a frustrating thingfor any of us top guys because we arealways generally very good with eachother and Felipe normally is.”As for Gutierrez, the young Mexicanmanaged to grab 16th, but will now fallto 19th, allowing the Williams duo ofValtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado,along with Caterham’s Giedo van derGarde to all move up a place. ForGutierrez, it is his second penalty in threeraces as the 21-year-old was handed afive-place drop for the last grand prix inBahrain after running into the back ofForce India’s Adrian Sutil in China.
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ISLAMABADTAYYAB HUSSAIN
THOUGH there is ju-bilation in the PML-N camp, experts
opine that the slot of primeminister would prove to be ahot seat rather than a splen-dour for Nawaz Sharif, whomay become the only politi-cian to make such a privilegefor a third term.
Law and order, security,energy, finance, extremismand terrorism are the immedi-ate challenges for the nextprime minister who wouldalso have to remove misun-derstandings with the localand international establish-ments.ECONOMY & ENERGY:“Tax reforms, transparency,negotiations with the Interna-tional Monetary Fund (IMF),boosting foreign exchange re-serves, foreign funding andbetter financial managers arethe issues which are of imme-diate concern,” Dr SalmanShah, former minister for fi-nance and eminent economicexpert told Pakistan Today.
In an exclusive talk, Shahsaid any sort of confrontationmay incite unnecessary prob-lems for the PML-N chief.“Nawaz has a history of at-tracting confrontation with thearmy, judiciary and media andhe was ousted from the primeminister’s office halfway inboth his stints in the past.”“There are a lot of issues inthe centre as well as theprovinces to be catered to bythe new government(s). Con-sultation may prove beneficialrather than confrontation asthere a lot of subjects whichneed immediate attention,” headded. Dr Shah said the paral-ysed economy needed imme-diate attention by the newprime minister and the newgovernment would have toplug loopholes in tax collec-tion system and exemptionswould have to be removedforthwith. “I think that thegovernment would have toimprove the tax collectionsystem and taxation should bemade mandatory across-the-board,” he added. Shah saidtax reforms process mighttake four to five years.“Nawaz would have to bringin transparency in financial
matters. I think the IMFshould be his immediate stopand he would also have to ini-tiate dialogue seeking somereview in balance of pay-ments. If new loan is not re-ceived and instalments arepaid on a regular basis, thenew government may face afinancial crisis as the foreignexchange reserves are enoughfor four months,” he added.
Dr Shah said the new pre-mier would also have to seeksome aid from the US, SaudiArabia or China for immedi-ate financial relief as energysector needed immediatefocus. “I suppose Nawazshould seek to develop con-sultative groups on economicmatters while some goodeconomists should also be in-ducted to look after the impor-tant subject of economy,” heasserted.SECURITY & FOREIGNPOLICY REFORMS: DrHassan Askari Rizvi said terror-ism, relations with immediateneighbours and internationalpowers were a major challengefor the new PM. On relationswith India, Rizvi said improv-ing relations was a major fixNawaz would have to face.“India has been raising the se-curity issues with Pakistan forseveral past years and they areseeking action against JamatudDawa (JuD), Lashkar-e-Tayyab(LeT). Now it would be apredicament for Nawaz as howto deal with this issue. Youknow religious extremists, es-pecially JuD and LeT, are majorsupport base for the PML-N.Let’s see how the new PMwould face this challenge,” hesaid, adding that if Nawaz tooksome drastic steps in this re-gard, it might insight misunder-standing with the army.GOOD GOVERNANCE: Hesaid the heavy mandate to thePML-N was due to energy cri-sis and the bad governance ofthe PPP regime. “The gover-nance issue is due to terrorismand economic situation,” hesaid and added that 800 billionrevolving loan was mandatoryto resolve the economic issues.He said it would have to beseen if the new PM had learntfrom history as it would nowbe mandatory to deliver as thepeople wanted immediate de-liverance from the mess cre-ated by the PPP regime.
ISLAMABADSTAFF REPORT
Elections will be held within 10 daysat NA-38 Kurram Agency where pollsgot cancelled, and re-election at 43polling stations of the NA-250Karachi will take place within 10days, Election Commission of Pak-istan (ECP) Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmedsaid on Sunday. He congratulated thenation on completing the first step ofconducting free and fair elections andwent on to explain the various stagesof the election process.STAGE 1: Announcement of result
“The whole process, of consolidat-ing the results, is being done accordingto Section 39 of the Constitution Repre-sentation of Public Act,” he said. “Thereturning officers are formulating the re-sults as we speak, they will then place theballot papers in a sealed plastic bag
which will be opened in front of the can-didates,” Ahmed explained. “The bagwill be opened in front of the candidatesand postal ballots will be added.” Postalballots will be added at this stage and aform 16 will come along with plastic bagand consolidated results will be notifiedin the election commission gazette. “Wecan see the media announcing results,”he said, “but the official results will benotified by the ECP.” In all, the electioncommission has officially received 44 re-sults of National Assembly seats and 122provincial seats.STAGE 2: “Be assured that the resultscannot be changed [as we have seen inpast],” he assured.
“No one can tamper with the resultsbecause if they do, we will know theseals are broken.” After results are an-nounced, independent candidates willhave to join any political party withinthree days. Also people who win from
multiple seats will have to choose oneand then by elections will be held. Re-served seats quota will then be workedout by the ECP at this stage.STAGE 3: The newly elected govern-ment will meet within 21 days, from thedate of announcement of official result,the National Assembly will meet andchoose the prime minister and speakers.STAGE 4; By elections will be heldon seats which were left empty due todeath of any candidate and by the can-didates who had won multiple seats.“The by-election will be held aroundJune,” ECP secretary said. Ahmed saidthe delay in the announcement of theresults was due to the transparentprocess and legal procedure adoptedby the Election Commission. He saidseveral reservations had been ex-pressed in the media and by the peopleabout the delay in the results due to thepast practices and assured that this
time the process was so designed thatno tampering was possible. In a sepa-rate press release, the ECP congratu-lated the people of Pakistan on historicelections. It said the elections through-out the country were largely free andfair and passed without any major in-cident. It said the exception to this wasobviously in Karachi where the com-mission was compelled to stop pollingat 43 polling stations in NA-250. Thecommission would like to clarify thatthe presiding officers and polling staffin NA-250 were directed to report totheir respective polling stations alongwith all election material one night be-fore the elections.
However, upon appointment, theywere threatened and the election ma-terial was stolen by criminal elements.Substitutes appointed by the DROwere also threatened and therefore re-fused to perform election duty.
LAHOREAGENCIES
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief ImranKhan on Sunday thanked the youth andwomen of Pakistan for theiroverwhelming response to the party ingeneral elections of Pakistan.“I’m thankful to the people of Pakistan,especially the youngsters who queuedup for hours to cast their votes for a newPakistan,” the bedridden Khan saidwhile talking to a private televisionchannel from Shaukat KhanumMemorial Hospital Lahore.He has been hospitalised aftersustaining head and back injuries afterfalling from a lifter at a PTI gathering in
Lahore last week. Khan’s PTI hasemerged the second biggest party inPakistan followed by the PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) and others. Many of theurban youths were voting for the firsttime in May 11 elections that saw arobust turnout of 60 percent. ImranKhan won three of four NationalAssembly seats. He secured NationalAssembly seats in Peshawar,Rawalpindi and Mianwali, but wasdefeated in PML-N stronghold Lahore.The PTI almost demolished itsopponents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Khan bemoaned the vote-rigging inKarachi and vowed to issue awhitepaper “to indicate flaw in the
balloting process”. He said the PTI wasgathering evidences on changing ofvoting results in Karachi. “I regret therigging, but I’m optimistic that peopleof Pakistan have developed politicalmaturity,” Khan said in his videomessage. Khan said Pakistan wasmoving towards democracy and thecurrent elections were a victory for thedemocratic system. Imran Khan allegedthat elections in Punjab were unfair andclearly rigged. He said announcementof re-polling in Karachi was proof ofrigging of elections there. The PTI chiefalso hinted at sitting in the opposition.Khan termed the transfer of power awelcoming step, adding that the countryhad for the first time witnessed such a
huge turnout. He said the Punjabadministration made ‘changes’ in theelection results after Nawaz Sharif’sspeech and winning candidates of thePTI started loosing afterwards. He saidall proofs of rigging were available, butdespite the defeat, the passion of theyouth was admirable.“I have never been this happy in 17years, as much as I was happy to see theyouth’s passion,” he added. He saidwinning and losing was part of thegame. “The PTI has laid the foundationof a new Pakistan and efforts in thisdirection would continue.” Khan said ifhe got the chance, the PTI would makean ideal government in KhyberPakhtunkhwa.
KHAN THANKS YOUTH, WOMEN FOR SUPPORT
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RE-ELECTION IN NA-250 WITHIN 10 dAYS: ECP
KARACHIAGENCIES
Replying to allegations pertainingto poll rigging being levelledagainst MQM in Karachi and Hy-derabad, Muttahida Qaumi Move-ment (MQM) chief Altaf Hussainsaid if the “establishment” did notlike the mandate of his party, itshould go ahead and detach it fromthe rest of the country.
“Separate Karachi (from the restof the country) if you dislike its peo-ple’s mandate,” Altaf said to the ‘es-tablishment’ while addressing hisparty workers and supporters viatelephone at his party’s Headquar-ters, Nine Zero. Altaf said, “Insteadof abusing Karachi and its people,separate Karachi from Pakistan,”and warned the establishment that
there were playing with fire. “If youdo not stop playing with fire, itwould burn down the entire Pak-istan,” he snapped, and at the sametime added that he was not issuingany threats to anyone. Altaf allegedthat hatred was being spread againstMQM across the country and regret-ted that his party ended up taking theblame for every wrongdoing that itnever committed. “If the MQM car-ried out rigging (in Karachi) thenwhat made the tsunami disappear inPunjab,” he argued.
He warned the Election Commis-sion of Pakistan (ECP) to reach a de-cision with honesty or else they wouldnot be able to find any shelter. TheMQM chief dared anyone who wasopposing his party to come up withevidence and warned that if opposi-tion was not stopped, he would not
take long to let his associates free toact on their own. “How can I controlthem and for how long,” he added.The MQM chief alerted Karachiites toget ready to stand up against the bul-lying and that soon a call would be is-sued to them in this regard.
“Altaf Hussain should not beblamed if a war breaks out amongthe people,” he warned, addingwhoever attempted to conductpropaganda would face war. Hesaid, “We will see how many bigshots come out to engage in bully-ing.” “The nations which are putagainst the wall usually choose tobuild their separate home (land),”Altaf warned. He said if a memberof his party has gone out of line itwas of the latter’s own choice.However, he added, that there wasno place for criminals in his party.
Separate Karachi if you hateour mandate, says Altaf
OBAMA CONGRATULATESPAKISTANIS ON POLLSWASHINGTON: US President BarackObama on Sunday said his administrationlooked forward to continuing cooperationwith the new government of Pakistan emerg-ing from Saturday’s historic polls as equalpartners for a more stable and prosperousPakistan. In a White House statement,Obama congratulated the Pakistani peopleon a successful completion of Saturday’sparliamentary election. “The United Statesand Pakistan have a long history of workingtogether on mutual interests, and my admin-istration looks forward to continuing our co-operation with the Pakistani government thatemerges from this election as equal partnersin supporting a more stable, secure, andprosperous future for the people of Pak-istan,” Obama said. The PML-N, led by for-mer prime minister Nawaz Sharif, returnedvictorious with a clear-cut margin in Satur-day’s vote. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
PML-N PLEdGES TO WORKWITH ALL PARTIESLAHORE: A meeting of Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership onSunday at Raiwind pledged to jointly workwith all political parties in the next set up.The meeting was chaired by PML-N chiefNawaz Sharif and reviewed variousprocedures on how to work with otherpolitical parties. It was also discussed tointroduce Ishaq Dar as the federal financeminister while Shahbaz Sharif would in allprobability come as chief minister in Punjab.Participant of the meeting said PML-Nrespected the mandate given by people to allpolitical parties in the country. Earlier onSaturday, the Sharif brothers claimed victoryin the general elections, announcing thatNawaz Sharif would stake claim forpremiership. Speaking to supporters inLahore, Nawaz Sharif thanked the nation forreposing trust in him. NNI
6 KILLEd, 46 INJUREd INqUETTA BLAST qUETTA : At least six people, includingthree paramilitary forces personnel and twopolicemen were killed and another 46 wereinjured in a suicide attack on the convoy ofthe Balochistan inspector general police inQuetta late on Sunday night. A policeofficial said the suicide bomber rammed hisexplosives-laden vehicle into the convoy ofIG Police Mushtaq Sukhera. He said the IGnarrowly escaped the attack which shatteredthe windows of nearby homes. Whencontacted, Balochistan Home SecretaryAkbar Hussain Durrani told Pakistan Todaythat the explosives weighed 1,000kilogrammes. He said the IG had justreached the residence when the blastoccurred, adding that three personnel ofFrontier Corps and two policemen wereamong the dead. At the time of the blast, theactivists of the Balochistan National Partywere also passing by. SHAHZADA ZULFIQAR
Nawaz, Fazl discuss post-election strategy in KP
LAHORESTAFF REPORT
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chiefFazlur Rehman congratulated Nawaz Sharif onthe Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N)victory on majority of seats. The JUI-F chieftelephoned Nawaz and said that people hadgiven mandate to the PML-N. Nawaz alsofelicitated Fazl on securing three NationalAssembly seats. The two political leaders alsodiscussed a joint strategy to form government inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan alsofelicitated Nawaz Sharif.
All eyes on Nawaz for re-election in KarachiKARACHI: Political parties of Karachi have contactedPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) PresidentNawaz Sharif to get his nod for re-elections in the city overalleged rigging by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement(MQM). All political parties, which claimed engineeringduring polls in Karachi and boycott the elections bywithdrawing their candidates, have decided to issue a whitepaper over alleged rigging. Also, the affected parties agreedto provide evidence to the Election Commission of Pakistan(ECP). However, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seemsindifferent with other parties and instead of joining them topress the ECP for re-elections, has decided to knock doorsof courts for re-polling. “Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leadershipcalled PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to get his nod over re-elections in the metropolis,” Sindh JI chief Dr MairajulHuda told Pakistan Today. AAMIR MAJEED
