Imran Khan vows to transform Pakistan into a welfare state

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has reiterated his commitment to transform Pakistan into a welfare state in line with principles of Islam. “The purpose of PTI presenting a 100-day plan is to do away with the existing policies,” Khan told a gathering of PTI leaders and supporters in Islamabad on Sunday. Khan said that his party was better prepared to deal with issues facing the country compared to 2013.“We have to make Pakistan a humane society according to the  ideology of our founders,” he said. The PTI chief said that his government would depoliticize bureaucracy so that it could work for the benefit of the poor. “There cannot be two laws for the rich and the poor in a civilized society,” he said, adding Nawaz Sharif’s ‘mujhe kyun nikala’ narrative reflects a mindset which considers itself above the law. He said that plantation of trees is not a luxury, it's an emergency. “The only way to deal with global warming is to plant more trees,” he said. Khan said that international organizations had endorsed the success of PTI's billion tree tsunami drive. 

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Heatwave in Sindh likely to stay another four to five days as mercury hits 43°C

KARACHI: The scorching heat wave that has engulfed the city as well as other parts of Sindh will be elongating another four to five days, as per reports by the country’s weather monitoring authority.According to media reports referring to the director-general at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Dr Ghulam Rasool, the temperature in the country’s metropolis reached an extreme of 43°C on Sunday noon, while the heat wave is predicted to elevate even higher in the next week from Monday to Wednesday.He further cautioned that the mercury is expected to hit 50°C in the interior parts of Sindh that would swathe the province with a more severe heat wave.Dr Ghulam had associated the blazing temperatures to the lack of inward sea breeze which had subsequently permitted the heat wave to extend four to five days longer.He cautioned that the areas of Nawabshah, Sibi, Jacobabad, Larkana and Dadu will the ones to face extreme weather conditions in the next few days.The PMD official had warned that since the start of summer, the province had already been belted with a total of three heat waves and there is a possibility of there being more in May and June.

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Ahsan Iqbal visits family of colonel martyred in Quetta operation

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday visited the residence of Colonel Raja Sohail Abid who embraced martyrdom while commanding an operation against a high value target in Quetta.LeJ Balochistan chief Salman Badeni and two suicide bombers were killed in the operation in Killi Almas, a suburb village of Quetta on May 16. During an intense exchange of fire Colonel Sohail Abid of Military Intelligence embraced shahdat while 4 soldiers got injured including 2 critical.“Visited home of Shaheed Col Raja Sohail in BaraKaho, Islamabad. I had met him recently during my visit to Quetta. He was a brave soldier of the nation, who embraced shahadat in an important mission against terrorists,” said Interior Minister Iqbal in a Twitter statement. “The courage of his father and family was exemplary. The nation salutes its martyrs. We have to maintain unity in order to defeat extremism for making our country peaceful and safe.”Iqbal had been discharged from Lahore’s Service Hospital last week after a nine-day treatment following an assassination attempt in his hometown of Narowal.

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Chinese military official visits Field Commands of Pakistan Navy

Islamabad, 20 May 18:​Vice Chairman of Chinese Central Military Commission, General Zhang Youxia was on an official visit to Pakistan. During the visit, General Zhang Youxia called on Chief of the Naval staff, Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi at Naval Headquarters Islamabad on 18 May 18, where discussions on professional matters and avenues of existing and future naval collaboration were focused. ​In the second leg of the visit, Vice Chairman of Chinese Central Military Commission visited various PN Units at Karachi. Upon arrival at Karachi, the visitinjg dignitary was received by Commander Karachi, Rear Admiral Asif Khaliq. Upon arrival onboard ship, General Zhang Youxia was received by Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Kaleem Shaukat and was presented Guard of Honour by a smartly turned out contingent of Pakistan Navy. The dignitary also interacted with the crew of the ship and appreciated the professionalism of officers and men of Pakistan Navy. The visit of Vice Chairman of Chinese Central Military Commission to Pakistan will further strengthen the bilateral defence collaboration between Pakistan and Peoples’ Republic of China in general and defence forces in particular.

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PTI launches 100-day agenda

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has unveiled its 100-day agenda if the party managed to form the government after the next general elections. Senior PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced his party’s agenda at a ceremony held in Islamabad on Sunday.“One the main agendas of the PTI government will be to merge FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he said. “We will abolish FCR without any delay.”“Our government will launch a mega development program,” he said. “We also intent to carve out a new province for the southern region in Punjab,” he said, adding that “time has come to address the prevailing sense of deprivation in South Punjab.”He said that his government would heal the wounds of Balochistan. “Promises are made about Balochistan but they are not kept,” he opined. About Karachi, he said the PTI intends to crack down on qabza mafia in Karachi. “The first priority will be to restore peace and stability in Karachi.”The PTI government will provide a complete transport system in Karachi. “We will bring an empowered local government system in Karachi.”Commenting on PTI's economic policies, Asad Umar  said that  his government would create 10 million new jobs. "We have to reduce the burden of taxes on traders, businessmen and industrialists," he said. The electricity and gas prices will be brought down as par with other countries in the region. "We will provide level-play fields  to traders, farmers, businessmen and industrialists."Umar said that private sector would be encourage to build five million new homes within first 100 days of  his government. "Let me make it clear that this will be done in the first 100 days by Prime Minister Imran Khan, Inshahullah."

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?Best moment?: Sabika?s touchy video statement on selection for YES programme

KARACHI: Sabika Aziz, a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student who was killed in Santa Fe High School shooting, in a touchy video has described her selection for the programme as an ‘unbelievable’ and ‘overwhelming’ experience.In a video statement that she recorded as her assignment last year, the young energetic child is seen confidently speaking of her experience regarding receiving the news of her scholarship.Narrating of the day when her father informed her about the selection, Sabika said: “I was studying late night for an exam when my father called me to share the good news, when I entered the room, I saw smiling proud faces of my parents”.She expressed the situation as ‘unbelievable’ and ‘very overwhelming’ for her. “I was jumping with joy and excitement, and prayed to thank God.” Since it was such a ‘special day’ for her, she wrote a diary entry that day and described seeing the proud smiles on her parent’s faces as the ‘best moment of her life’.Sabika’s father said she had always excelled in school, and had dreamed of serving in Pakistan’s foreign office. She had been due to return to Karachi in time for Eid al-Fitr."She was coming back soon," her father said. "There is a general impression that... life is safe and secure in America. But this is not the case."Funeral in Houston According to Geo News, the funeral prayers will be held today after Namaz-e-Zuhr, at a local mosque in Houston.The funeral prayers, arranged by the Pakistani Consulate in Houston at Sugar Land's Masjid Sabireen, will be separate from the one to be held in the teen's hometown of Karachi, which her family, friends, and relatives will attend.Pakistani Consulate officials, local members of the United States Congress, as well as other US officials are expected to attend the funeral.YES programmeThe Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme, funded by the US Department of State, provides scholarships for secondary school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend one academic year in the United States.These youth ambassadors are required to live with host families and are encouraged getting involved in the community and educating the American community about their home country.The selection is strictly based on merit and only the brightest ones are considered for the prestigious scholarship.

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Pakistan to take up controversial Kishanganga Dam with World Bank

WASHINGTON: A four-member delegation from Pakistan headed by Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali is due to visit Washington next week to apprise the top World Bank officials about Pakistan’s serious concern over the Kishanganga hydro power project that was inaugurated this week.Talking to media men at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said that the delegation will visit the capital from Monday through Wednesday during which it will hold high-level talks with the World Bank officials on the project.Pakistan has termed the inauguration of the project without the resolution of the dispute as a serious violation of the Indus Waters Treaty brokered by the World Bank in 1960 that governs the distribution and control of rivers between Pakistan and India.Ambassador Chaudhry expressed Pakistan’s serious concern over the project that has become operational and said that Islamabad had conveyed its strong opposition to the construction of the project to the World Bank but it had been ignored. India plans to undertake several such project in the disputed territory.He said that as the World Bank is a guarantor of the treaty, it has to play its role in addressing Pakistan’s concerns over the project that has been constructed on waters flowing into Pakistan and would seriously disrupt supplies vital for the country’s agriculture.India started the work on the 330 MW Kishanganga in 2009, but Pakistan took the issue to the International Court of Justice and also raised the issue with the World Bank.Ambassador Chaudhry said that the World Bank needs to intervene in the matter and it was the responsibility of the world body to fulfill its obligation being the guarantor of the international agreement.

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NSC endorses FATA?s merger with KPK

ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee on Saturday while weighing all the pros and cons in detail endorsed that the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the administrative and judicial institutional structures and laws of the province would be introduced.The matter of FATA merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was discussed during the 23rd meeting of the National Security Committee held here at the Prime Minister’s House with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the chair.The prime minister apprised the meeting that his consultations on the issue with the leaders of other political parties in the parliament had reflected a broad consensus on the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The committee directed the ministries concerned to work out the constitutional, legal and administrative modalities for the merger in consultation with all parties in the parliament.The national security body also endorsed the provision of additional well-monitored development funds for the FATA region during next 10 years, with the stipulation that the funds would not be re-appropriated to any other area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Sartaj Aziz and the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan briefed the committee on reform proposals for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. The meeting reviewed the proposals from the perspective of their conformity with the aspirations of the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.The committee decided for the retention of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Councils as advisory bodies.It also evolved consensus for the grant of a five-year tax holiday to Gilgit-Baltistan so as to create adequate incentives for the development of the region and bring it at par with other areas of Pakistan.The committee expressed satisfaction on the principle stand taken by Pakistan on Kashmir and Palestine, and its articulation at various world forums.The Ministry of Interior presented details of the measures it had formulated to liberalise the visa regime, in particular for tourists and businesspersons. Reviewing these proposals, the committee instructed the Interior Ministry to further refine its proposals and submit them for consideration in its next meeting.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefed the committee on the regional and global security situation. The body resolved that Pakistan would continue to play its role for peace and security in the region and beyond.The meeting was attended by Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs Khurram Dastgir Khan, Minister for Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Miftah Ismail, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, Inter Services Intelligence Director General ISI Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar and senior civil and military officials.

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´Nightmare´: Pakistan family mourn daughter killed in Texas shooting

Karachi, May 19-Abdul Aziz learned about the US school shooting in which his 17-year-old daughter was killed on CNN, with the story airing live as he broke his Ramadan fast thousands of miles away in Pakistan.In those chaotic first moments of confusion and terror he called his daughter Sabika Sheikh´s phone over and over. She did not answer."I kept calling her and sent her messages on WhatsApp. Never before had my daughter failed to reply," Aziz told AFP, fighting back tears at his home in the southern port city Karachi Saturday, just hours after he and his wife had their worst fears confirmed."We are still in a state of denial. It is like a nightmare," said Aziz. His wife sat nearby, visibly still shocked and seemingly unable to speak as friends and relatives tried to comfort her.Sheikh, an exchange student at the Santa Fe High School in Texas, was killed along with nine others after a heavily armed student opened fire on his classmates Friday.It was the latest school shooting to rock the US, and came just three months after the massacre in Parkland, Florida in which 17 people were killed, sparking an unprecedented grassroots, student-led gun control movement.In Pakistan, the Santa Fe shooting has unleashed an outpouring of sympathy and horror over the tragic murder of Sheikh, who had been in the US for 10 months and was just weeks away from coming home.Sheikh, whose father said she had always excelled in school, had nurtured dreams of serving in Pakistan´s foreign office.She had been due to return to Karachi in time for Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam´s most revered holidays, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in which families come together and celebrate with days of feasting."She was coming back soon," her father said."There is a general impression that the life is safe and secure in America. But this is not the case."- ´Terrorism´ -The alleged gunman -- Dimitrios Pagourtzis, another student at the school who at 17 is the same age as Sheikh -- was later apprehended by police and is being held on capital murder charges, meaning he could face the death penalty.Police have yet to release details about a possible motive.It was the 22nd school shooting this year, according to US media reports, a disturbing statistic in a country where firearms are part of everyday life and there are more than 30,000 gun-related deaths annually.The news that a Pakistani exchange student was among the dead appeared to break through the now-routine outpouring of grief on social media after such killings, with US celebrities joining Pakistanis in expressing their sorrow"This little girl could´ve been my daughter. We must do more than just console the parents of these murdered kids," said American actress Mindy Kaling on Twitter, along with a picture of Sheikh in a post online.Some Pakistanis, for whom militant violence is all too familiar, branded the killing "terrorism"."My heart is crying for #SabikaSheikh we have lost our brightest asset because of terrorism," tweeted Malik Rohaina, from the southern Pakistani city of Hyderabad.Despite perennially rocky relations between Washington and Islamabad, the US has long been a favoured destination for Pakistani students studying abroad, with thousands enrolling in American schools every year.Even as he mourned the loss of his daughter, Aziz said he hoped the tragedy would not frighten fellow Pakistanis from following her lead."Such incidents should not make people lose heart... and one should not stop going to the US or UK or China or anywhere," said Aziz. "One must go for education undeterred."

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Fitrana fixed at Rs100 per head

KARACHI: The minimum amount of Fitrana and Roza Fidya has been fixed at Rs100 per person for the second consecutive year.This was announced by the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman in a statement on Saturday. According to the chairman, the head of a family is to pay at least Rs100, on behalf of each of his dependents, according to the price of wheat. With respect to oats, the Fitrana will be Rs240, and dates and raisins will be Rs1600 and Rs1920 respectively.Previously, the minimum amount for Sadqa-e-Fitr or Fitrana had also been set at Rs100 per head.The chairman had said that Islam obligates its followers to pay the required amount before offering the Eid prayers, so that the needy can also make timely use of that money.

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Bhikki Power Plant inaugurated

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has inaugurated the combined cycle of 1180 MW Bhikki Power Plant in Mandi Bahauddin. The Pakistan Muslim League-N President took to Twitter to term the completion of the project as a “milestone” before he headed to Bhikki to inaugurate the power plant.“Reaching Bhikki power plant shortly IA. Proj achieved a milestone as it has attained its combined cycle of 1180MW in just 32 months. Since the launch of its phase 1 in March’17, Bhikki has contributed a total of 3.1 billion units of affordable electricity to national grid so far!” stated his tweet on Saturday.During his speech at the inaugural ceremony, Sharif stated: "Projects including Bhikki Power plant and Haveli Bahadur Shah were initiated in 2016. And today, Bhikki has been completed whereas Bahadur Shah plant is almost complete."Speaking upon the searing issue of loadshedding in the country, the chief minister claimed: "After working tirelessly, there is no loadshedding during Ramazan this year. 10,000 MW electricity has been added to the national grid under the PML-N government."Acclaimed to be the latest, the most contemporary and vastly developed gas machinery in Pakistan, the 1180MW Bhikki Project is based on general electric 209HA combined cycle technology and has a gross capacity of 1180 Megawatts.As per reports, the total cost of the project is 770 million USD. The power plant is also said to have the lowest power generation cost, saving in EPC cost Rupees 39 billion.

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