China will continue its support to Pakistan, assures Vice President Wang Qishan

Beijing: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif met with Vice President of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Qishan, where he reaffirmed China’s support to Pakistan’s independence and sovereignty and its counter-terrorism efforts.“China will continue to contribute to Pakistan’s economic development” Voice President added.Vice President Wang stressed that Pakistan-China relations were all weather and a model in inter-state relations.Pakistan Foreign Minister said CPEC will not only contribute to economic development of Pakistan but also have a salutary effect on the development of the region.He said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a flagship project of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative was making good progress and several projects have either been completed or are under implementation.Foreign Minister congratulated the Vice President on his recent election to the office and expressed his confidence that the Vice President would continue to play his role in further strengthening the strong and time-tested bilateral relations between Pakistan and China.While Voice President appreciated Pakistan’s active participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and looked forward to the participation of the President of Pakistan in the SCO Qingdao Summit to be held in June 2018.The Foreign Minister and Vice President discussed various bilateral, regional and global issues and agreed to continue strategic communications between Pakistan and China on all issues.In the morning the Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif also held a bilateral meeting with Kamilov Abdul Aziz Khafizovich, Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan at Beijing on the sidelines of the Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.Asif appreciated the active support of Uzbekistan for Pakistan’s membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization which was finalized during the SCO Astana Summit 2017.The two Foreign Ministers also discussed various issues of mutual interest and agreed to further strengthen bilateral, political, economic and people-to-people relations.After SCO foreign Minister meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister talked with media and said 14 resolutions have been signed.“Most of the resolutions will be in the draft to be signed during the Qingdao Summit. A long-term treaty of friendship among neighboring countries, an outline of plans for the next five years and cooperation from many other perspectives”, he added.He further said all parties agreed to promote practical cooperation, mutual benefits and common development.Before the summit of Qingdao, there’ll be meetings political parties, tourism ministers, supreme court judges and the journalists of respective countries.

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In memory of Sabeen Mehmud

Today marks the third year since Pakistan’s highly lauded human rights activist, Sabeen Mehmud was shot dead in Karachi.The founder of the community center and café, The Second Floor (T2F), was returning home with her elderly mother after a session held at T2F when she received fatal gunshots by two gunmen on a motorbike, near the Defence Central Library on April 24th of 2015. While the activist had succumbed to her wounds after reaching the National Medical Center, her mother was severely injured.Sabeen, with her multitude flairs, has always been remembered as an avid fighter for all that was wrong in the society.The killers of the pacifist have been identified to be a group of highly-skilled terrorists, with the brains behind the plot reportedly being the IBA graduate and terrorist Saad Aziz.The killer is presently on death row after a military court trial proved his association in Sabeen’s murder along with the Safoora Goth carnage that occurred not long after the activist’s murder.Born and raised in Karachi, Sabeen had attended Karachi Grammar School till her O levels, before moving to Lahore to attain a bachelor’s degree from Kinnaird College.Upon the conclusion of her education, Sabeen had been associated with a technology company before creating a scaled down technology and media consulting corporation of her own.She later paved a path towards her ultimate goal and reached her eventual destination after the establishment of T2F under the wing of her PeaceNiche initiative.

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The News impact: CJP Nisar takes notice of blind lawyer?s plea who dreamt of becoming judge

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has taken suo motu notice over a news story published in The News about a blind lawyer who wanted to be Pakistan’s top judge but was denied opportunity because of his disability.CJP Nisar directed Lahore High Court Chief Justice Justice Muhammad Yawar Ali to review the case of Yousaf Saleem and interview him.According to a news story published in this newspaper, Yousaf, a gold medalist from the Punjab University stood first in the exam for civil judge but failed in the interview only because he was blind.He possessed all the qualifications of an eligible candidate prescribed in the job advertisement: law degree from a recognised university, two-year experience as a practicing lawyer, and age between 22 and 35 years. If this advertisement is taken as a guide, being disable was not a disqualification. Instead, three percent quota was reserved for them.Also the fact remains that the examination committee was aware of his disability well before the written test.A computer-based exam was arranged for him the way it is being done for blind candidates in the CSS exam since 2007.Yousaf didn’t know he was topper in the written test until he appeared before the interview panel. As many as 300 candidates sat the exam; 21 of them could pass and he stood first.However, what followed in the interview sank him in despair. Most of the questions asked to him revolved around his visual disability which was inferred as a major hurdle to perform as a judge.He was asked in the beginning about his major area of legal practice. Saleem said he was on the civil side. Right now, he is working as assistant director (legal) in a department of Punjab Government. But most of the questions were about criminal side and how a visually impaired judge like him would deal with them.The panel, for example, asked, “how will you decipher the demeanor of the witness?", "how will you ascertain if the same person is testifying as mentioned in the list of witnesses?", "how will you assess the situation on the documents?" etc.Yousaf said he told the panel that he would take assistance from his staff where visual disability becomes a hurdle and also that criminal cases are not the only one a judge has to deal with. There are family courts, banking courts, rent courts and alternative dispute resolution forums etc. where he could be engaged in case his disability was a hurdle to deal with criminal cases. The interview panel, however, didn’t merit his arguments. Yousaf was nevertheless hoping against hope but his dreams were dashed on April 18 when the list of successful candidates was displayed on the website.This topper of the written test was missing from the list. He has not given up yet hoping Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar will take notice of this discrimination.Son of a chartered accountant, Yousaf is blind by birth. He has four sisters and two of them are also blind. None of them has accepted disability as a fate and rather proved worth through the ability they possess.Saima Saleem, the first blind person who did CSS in 2007, is his sister. A gold medalist in English from Kinnaird College, Saima had scored the sixth position and opted for the Foreign Service.She was posted to the Pakistan UN missions in Geneva and New York. Right now, she is in the Prime Minister Secretariat working as deputy secretary. Yousaf’s another blind sister teaches at a university in Lahore and is also doing her PhD. Yousaf is the youngest among siblings.If his case is reviewed, he will be the first blind judge in Pakistan, not in the world though. Visually impaired judges in other countries motivated Yousaf to dream like them.Justice Zakaria Mohammed Yacoob was the judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1998-2013; Richard Conway Casey was judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; John Lafferty was a judge of the Snaresbrook Crown Court (Snaresbrook is the UK’s largest court with 20 Crown courts serving in London); Richard Teitelman is a judge in Missouri; David Tatel sits on a federal appeals court in Washington D.C.; Richard Bernstein is a judge of the Michigan Supreme Court; T Chakkaravarthy is a judge in Tamil Nadu (India); and Brahmananda Sharma is a civil judge in Ajmer District (India), among others.Yousaf has though lost vision, he has not lost sight of his dreams. Like Martin Luther King, he has a dream that when he would rise to the summit of Supreme Court, people like him will be judged by their qualifications and personal attributes and not by how many functional limbs do they possess.

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