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Hadrat Anas Radi ALLAH Taala Anhu reported that the Messenger of Allah Peace And Blessings Be Upon Him has said, “Everything has a heart, and the heart of the Qur’an is Yasin. Allah records anyone who recites Yasin as having recited the Qur’an ten times.”
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ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) has revealed in the Supreme Court that Indian spy agency Researchand Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad are active in Pakistan. He was speaking during the hearing of the missing persons case.

He said that they were behind kidnappings in the country and were being helped by terrorist groups.

The chief justice asked the defence counsel if the agencies had any credible information of the involvement of RAW and Mossad, and why they did not take any against them. “We did not bar you from taking action against RAW and Mossad.”

Terming the intelligence agencies’ reply on Adiala missing persons unsatisfactory, the apex court on Friday took suo motu notice against the abduction of a boy who used to provide food at camps set up by the relatives of missing persons outside parliament.

A three judge-bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry directed Inspector General of Police Islamabad and Attorney General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwarul Haq to submit a report of the incident by March 17 and present the abductee before the court on March 19.

Addressing Maulvi Anwarul Haq and Raja Irshad, counsel for ISI and MI, the chief justice said that this time a man was abducted right under the nose of the federal government. Advocate Tariq Asad the counsel for missing persons told the court that Omar Mehmood Khan was picked up by the intelligence agencies because he used to serve the food to the families at the missing persons’ camp at D-Chowk (in front of the Parliament).

Raja Arshad rejected the allegations, stating that the military intelligence agencies were not involved in missing persons’ episodes.

A family recently returned from Canada through a letter had informed the Human Rights Cell of the apex court that one of their family members, Omar Mehmood Khan, 24, was abducted by the agencies on March 10 near Orchid Scheme in Islamabad.

“After going through the contents of the letter last night, we issued notices to IGP Islamabad that what kind of high-handedness was underway by none other than officials of agencies, even in the federal capital city,” the chief justice informed the attorney general.

The letter suggests that Omar was kidnapped in the same style as was used in picking up many other missing persons. Men driving two double cabins with tinted glasses, a black corolla, a white Suzuki Baleno and a Suzuki Mehran picked up the boy in front of his father, mother and a younger brother.

Omar’s mother, Dr Rubina was also present in the court today. The chief justice, while calming her down, said that “we will not allow anyone to act above the law”, adding that the agencies were not above the Constitution.

Advocate Raja Irshad asked the court why all blame was leveled on the ISI and MI. The chief justice said that, “We respect our armed forces and intelligence agencies, but when they detracted then the court and media expressed concerns and you cannot stop us from this.”

During the last hearing, the court had rejected explanatory reports submitted by the lawyer of the agencies and termed them unsatisfactory, and had also sought a detailed report from the chief secretary of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The K-P chief secretary submitted a report on the health of inmates today, which was appreciated by the court.

Counsel for detainee Hafiz Majid, Advocate Tariq Asad informed the court that his client was suffering from Cancer and Hepatitis C, and asked that permission be granted to shift him to Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital in Lahore.

The court was informed that the health condition of at least three prisoners was still not satisfactory. The chief justice asked Raja Irshad how the detainees were being treated. “Were they not human? Why a fair trial right was denied to them? We will proceed against you after deciding initial things – you will tell us how the four of them died in your custody.”

Advocate general of K-P will submit a report within three days on which internment centers inmates will be kept at. The court also asked him to arrange a place where relatives of these inmates could see them easily.

Karachi: The narrow lanes of Lyari remained a battlefield for the second consecutive day as fierce battles raged between gangsters and the police on Saturday, claiming nine more lives. The dead included the SHO of the Civil Lines police station. The pitched battles between heavily armed men and personnel of the Anti-Extremism Cell (AEC) have so far claimed 23 lives in two days.
During the day, miscreants lobbed hand grenades and rockets at the police in which which two Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) were damaged.
The terrified residents of Lyari claimed that due to the operation, they had been confined to their homes and in the exchange of fire between the police and gangsters, bullets had entered their homes, forcing them to take shelter, and even sleep, on the floors of their houses.
The residents attempted to launch a protest against the violence, and also hired a bus for the purpose, but when they reached Safi Lane in Baghdadi armed men opened fire and told them to move back to their homes. The people resisted, upon which the gunmen torched a mini-bus of route U-1 and also opened random fire, forcing residents to go back to their homes.
SSP Mohammed Aslam Khan of the AEC, talking to The News, said that the police had already stationed their pickets in Lyari on Friday night but were forced to halt the operation because of the darkness. Early on Saturday morning, Aslam and his men once again entered Lyari focusing on Cheel Chowk in Kalakot, the stronghold of the gangsters.
On seeing the police approaching, the gang war elements opened random fire and also fired rockets and lobbed hand grenades at them. A gunbattle ensued during which the police managed to apprehend Luqman and Sohail (brothers of well-known gangster Mulla Nawaz) in an injured state who later succumbed to their injuries. The police also recovered arms and grenades from their possession.
SSP Khan said that those killed were wanted by the Lyari and Saddar Town police in cases related to murder, extortion, kidnapping for ransom among others. The police then moved further inside Lyari and another battle occurred in Sirya Gali, Chakiwara, where Wahid Baloch, belonging to the Baba Ladla group and wanted by the police, was also killed.
According to the police, the gangsters had lobbed shells at them and also fired rockets on their APCs. Gunmen opened fire on the police from rooftops but the law enforcers were able to move forward and enter Afshani Gali, where they apprehended wanted gangster Shakeel 35 in an injured condition. Shakeel later died. He was wanted for numerous heinous crimes in Lyari, according to the police, and was the right hand man of Baba Ladla.
Later, the gang war elements started targeting people in other parts of Lyari and injured several people in Agra Taj Colony and Niazi Chowk, including a woman, Naheed Bibi, 25, who was moved to Civil Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.
The miscreants had also injured people near Miraan Naka Pull, who were taken to CHK where one Mohammed Azam, a resident of Baghdadi, succumbed to his injuries.
SSP Khan, confirming the attacks, said during the battle the gangsters had fired rockets and also lobbed hand grenades at Kalakot Police Lines due which five people were injured while some parts of Chakiwara police station were damaged.
He added that to counter the miscreants, the police had called in reinforcements from District South, which included a police party of Civil Lines, including their SHO Fawad Khan. When Khan reached near Cheel Chowk in a police vehicle, armed gangsters fired a rocket which directly struck the front of the police van and hit the SHO who was killed on the spot. PC Malik Tasawar and Amir Hussain were injured in the attack.
The martyred SHO was a resident of Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The funeral prayers of the deceased were held at the Garden Police Headquarters on Saturday night and was attended by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh Mushtaq Shah who commended the efforts of SHO Fawad Khan and expressed sympathy with his family.
Later, the gangsters started targeting nearby localities to divert the police and fired several rockets in Hingorabad, Gul Mohammed Bhoja Street, Nullah Stop and other areas in which six to seven people were injured. According to the police, some five to six rockets were also fired by the armed men.
When asked why the Rangers were not brought in, SSP Khan said that he had not called for Rangers support as it is the right of the local police to call them in as a back-up if needed. He added that until now, the police has managed to clear the area of Cheel Chowk and Afshani Gali from gangsters.
Meanwhile, parts of Lyari continue to remain volatile. The exchange of heavy fire continues till late at night and RPGs were deployed against the police. SSP Aslam Khan claimed that that police have managed to control 65 percent of the area area, while the remaining 35 percent will be cleared within the next day or two.
Meanwhile, late on Saturday night, four armed men riding on two motorcycles came to Abal Chowk of neighbouring Kharadar and opened indiscriminate fire on people. Seven persons, identified as Akram, Shahzad, Raja Ameen, Mohammed Imran, Mushtaq, Yousuf and one unknown, were shifted to the CHK where an unidentified man succumbed to his injuries.
In another late night development, police also found two tortured and bullet-riddled bodies while conducting a search operation in Cheel Chowk. The bodies were later moved to CHK. However, their identity could not be ascertained.
Earlier, police had also found the bullet-riddled body of a woman near Gabol Park. Police said that the deceased was identified as Rukhsana a resident of the Miraan Naka area, and it seems that she became the victim of the crossfire between the police and miscreants. Till the time of going to press, Lyari continued to remain tense.

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London, Four Pakistani Universities have been selected in top 200 Asian universities by a leading educational research institute.
In its research about top Asian universities, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) found only four Pakistani universities offering educational research and facilities. QS is the prominent worldwide career and education network for motivated experts who wants to excel in personal and professional progress.

The universities that have been included in top Asian universities are National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST) Islamabad who got the rank of 84 with 52.4 score, University of Karachi, second largest university of Pakistan, is at 138th spot and got 38.8 score, University of Lahore has earned 32.5 was given rank of 177, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore is at 180 number with 31.8 points.

17,020 govt schools lack basic amenities in Punjab: survey
Islamabad, April 19: As many as 10,020 government schools, both primary and high, across Punjab remain without latrines and over 7,000 are deprived of clean drinking water facility, as the provincial government pushes ahead with its free distribution of laptops among brilliant students, a scheme costing it well over Rs4 billion.
A survey by the Ministry of Education Punjab for 2010-11 has made startling revelations, which arguably makes the multi-billion laptops scheme highly questionable and needless in the given exceedingly deplorable state of the government schools, which reflects a huge disconnect between the on-ground situation and the lavishly publicised laptop scheme.
Education experts believe that a nation moves forward on the basis of conducive and enabling environment in educational institutions. They pointed out young girls' school drop-out remains alarmingly high and one of the major reasons of this worrying trend is non-availability of latrines inside their schools.
They billed the laptop policy as a political gimmick, which was performed by young generation of PML-N such as Hamza Shahbaz and Maryam Nawaz, not holding any government position. "Our students desperately need provision of basic facilities such as clean drinking water, latrines, electricity and boundary walls. First ensure these and then you may go for laptops policy," they contended.
A representative of an NGO claimed that whenever a donor agency intended to extend aid or grand for educational institutions, their prime focus was on provision of latrines and clean drinking water.
A senior office-bearer of PML-N, which heads the provincial government, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, agreed that side by side with the laptop scheme, attention must also be paid towards the condition of schools.
Senator Mushahidullah, who is also PML-N Central Information Secretary, said that apart from the laptop scheme, the provincial government was setting up IT labs in 4286 schools besides improving the school infrastructure.
He claimed the government schools situation in general had improved during the last four years but conceded things were yet to improve in far-flung areas and a lot of work needed to be done there.
The PML-N senator also agreed that revolutionary changes needed to be carried out in the education sector and said everybody wanted drastic measures but these could not be done overnight.
There are a total of 59,054 schools in the government sector, electricity is available only in 38,588 (65%) of them, whereas 10,000 (17%) are without boundary walls and despite rapid deterioration in drinking water quality, clean drinking water is not available in over 7,000 schools

600 students awarded degrees
Islamabad, April 26: The Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) held its 45th Convocation at the Jinnah Convention Centre on Wednesday in which graduate and postgraduate degrees were given to more than 600 students.
National Assembly Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi was the chief guest on the occasion.
CIIT Rector Dr. SM Junaid Zaidi (SI), while speaking on the occasion, said that knowledge acquirement and higher education are transforming virtually every aspect of today's world. IT institutions have been trusted to be the centre stage of academia. These Institutions have the mandate to evolve a knowledge based socio-economic culture in the country to help the nation to face the modern challenges of globalisation.
The campus report was presented by Professor Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Islamabad Campus. Anayat-ur-Rehman, assistant controller of examination at the CIIT, presented scroll to the chancellor.
There were more than 600 students in two different ceremonies, who secured BS degrees in disciplines of Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics, Biosciences, Business Administration, Computer Engineering, Electrical (Telecommunication and Computer Engineering), Electronics, Mathematics and Architecture from Islamabad Campus. MS degrees were awarded to 25 students in Management Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Physics, Computer Science, Bio Sciences, Metrology and Mathematics. PhD degrees were awarded to four students in disciplines of Physics and Mathematics.
On the occasion Chancellor's, Institute, Campus and Patron Medals were also awarded to position-holding students from different campuses of CIIT. Graduate and postgraduate students bagged campus medals, Institute medals and Chancellor's Gold medals with 3.75 CGPA while patron medal was given to Madiha Tariq with 4 CGPA. CIIT announced Dr. Q.K Ghori award for the best performer in Mathematics, this semester award was given to Munazza Batool.
Faisal Karim Kundi awarded degrees and medals to successful students. He addressed the gathering and appreciated the efforts of CIIT faculty and management. He said that the CIIT, recognising its duties, is committed to provide the best opportunities for learning and personal development within a caring and supportive environment.
The Chancellor's Gold Medallists included Hafiz Muhammad Faisal Javid, Nimra Atiq Lodhi, Sajid Sarwar, Huma Hayat, Salina Shahid, Syed Awais Wahab Shah, Sufyan Hafeez Khan, Zakir Ur Rehman, Syed Meesam Raza Naqvi, Sarmad Makhdoom, Inum Arshad and Noreen Afzal for Spring 2012

Rumpus on campus: QAU closed for four days
Islamabad, April 28: Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) authorities closed the university for four days, and ordered some 800 final-year students to vacate hostels, after violence by some disgruntled students rocked the campus on Friday.
University sources said the action would not hurt the studies much because of the weekend and May Day holiday and on Wednesday the university would be rehearsing for the convocation ceremony set for May 3.
A group of hostel residents allegedly took advantage of the presence of media on the campus, to cover an International Conference on Social Sciences, to air grievances they had been nursing for a year and went violent.
Witnesses said the disgruntled group gathered at the entrance of the university on Friday morning, holding placards bearing their grievances and demands, and did nothing more than disrupt the traffic. But as their number increased, the protesters reportedly marched on the auditorium of the Earth Sciences Department where the conference was underway.
There they went violent, breaking down glass and other things, making some participants to leave the conference. There were no foreign delegates though at the conference. Police was called in and dispersed the rowdy students.
Inspector Shahid Mehmood of Secretariat Police Station who answered the call said that no FIR was registered as the university filed no complaint.
A disgruntled student asked about the group's grievances said it wanted the university management to ensure "quality services" to hostel inmates, initiate legal proceedings against a university bus driver who had killed a student in an accident, waive off the fine imposed on 25 members of the group after a clash with another group last year, and allow the revival of Quaideen Students Federation (QSF)."We will go for tougher action if the university management did not listen to us," warned the student.
A university teacher confided on condition of anonymity that the students which clashed last year belonged to Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan. QAU had lodged an FIR with the police, naming six students, after the June 2011 incident which had closed the university for a few days.
QAU Vice-Chancellor Prof Masoom Yasinzai, recalling the incident, said: "Some students had fought at the start of their semester last year.
Now, at the closing of the academic year, they are trying to put pressure (for rescinding the disciplinary taken against them). Yesterday a group of students came to me seeking permission to reorganise the QSF but I told them that I am not authorised to allow that."
Students' unions in educational institutions were banned by the military regime of Gen Ziaul Haq in late 1970s and remain so.
Prof Yasinzai looked reluctant to take "the painful action of expelling" the students behind the latest incident but said the disciplinary committee of the university would certainly probe Friday's rumpus and find ways to punish the guilty.
Dozens of hostel students, fearing possible eviction, staged a counter protest against the troublemakers.
"They were a small group out to agitate issues to their own benefit. The vast majority of us are just interested in pursuing their studies in peace," Moazzam Durrani, a student of Anthropology Department said speaking for "the 8,000 students of the university".

AT the peak of their power in the mid-17th century, the great Mughals were the richest and most powerful Islamic dynasty. They ruled over 100 million subjects five times the number commanded by their only rivals, the Ottomans. From the ramparts of the Delhi Red Fort, the seat of power, Shah Jahan the emperor who commissioned the Taj Mahal controlled almost all of India, the whole of what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as much of Afghanistan. The Mughals held the latter, then known as Khorasan, more successfully than any other invader, before or since. Mughals-670

For their impoverished contemporaries in the distant west, floundering in their codpieces and doublets, the Mughals became symbols of power, sophistication, luxury and might in Paradise Lost, for example, the cities of Mughal India are revealed to Adam after the fall as future wonders of God’s creation. These are attributes with which the word “mogul” is still loaded 400 years later: when someone writes today of a Hollywood or real estate mogul, they are unwittingly recalling the impression the Mughals made on our befuddled Elizabethan ancestors.
Sooner or later, all empires fall, and by the beginning of the 18th century, just as the British were beginning to make their presence felt on the coasts and seaports of India, the political power of the Mughals had begun to fall apart in the most spectacular fashion. As the provinces broke off one by one, the imperial capital of Delhi descended into violent chaos. Three emperors were murdered, while one of them, Farrukhsiyar, was imprisoned and starved, then later blinded with a hot needle and strangled; the mother of another ruler was throttled while the father of a third was forced off a precipice on his elephant.
It has long been believed that the art and architecture of the Mughals followed a similar trajectory to their political fortunes: that from the triumphs of the period of Shah Jahan, notably the great Padshahnama (subject of a spectacular exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in London, in 1997), Mughal art rapidly declined. Shah Jahan’s puritanical son, the emperor Aurangzeb, is often said to have disbanded the imperial painting atelier, and later emperors were assumed to have failed to muster either the resources, or the energy, to restore it. Successive sackings of Delhi by Persian and Afghan invaders, the coming of the colonial British, followed finally by the arrival of photography, have traditionally been seen to have dealt the final death blows to the Mughal miniature tradition.
Today few specialists would hold with such a bald version of events, but it certainly remains true that the art of the later Mughals remains under-studied and under-appreciated. This is one reason why, over the past five years, the art historian Yuthika Sharma and I have been sourcing and putting together the first ever exhibition of late Mughal art, aiming to showcase the neglected masterpieces of this fascinating transitional period and to provide a taste of the strength, colour, and vivacity of the work produced in the Mughal capital at this time. The result, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857, opened recently at the Asia Society in New York.
The show is part of a much wider reassessment of the later Mughal period that has been going on for some time. It is now recognised that despite its political decline, Delhi remained a major artistic and cultural centre for 150 years after its military and economic power had ebbed, and despite diminished resources, the later emperors continued to patronise remarkable artists and poets with Medici-like discrimination.
One of the first exhibits shows the longest surviving sovereign of the age, the Emperor Muhammad Shah II, 1719-48 (called Rangila, the Merrymaker), playing during Holi, the Bacchanalian Hindu spring festival of colours. The painting, by Bhupali Singh, dates from about 1737, less than three decades after the death of Aurangzeb, yet already we have moved as far as can be imagined from the joyless world of the puritan Mughal. A Muslim emperor joins in a Hindu festival, throwing colour bombs at his favourite courtesan, Gulab Bai, as female musicians play tablas and sarangis and the court dissolves into a riot of bright yellows, purples, oranges and inferno reds.
Muhammad Shah, depicted by Bhupali Singh as an eye-shadow-wearing dandy, was the longest surviving sovereign of the age. He seems to have survived by the simple ruse of giving up any pretence of ruling: in the morning he watched partridge and elephant fights; in the evenings he was entertained by jugglers, ventriloquists and mime artists; he was often dressed in a lady’s peshwaz and pearl-embroidered shoes. But while presiding over the decline of Mughal political power, Muhammad Shah also proved to be a discerning patron, employing such master artists as Nidha Mal (active 1735-75) and Chitarman (active 1715-1760), whose masterworks show bucolic scenes of court life, Diwali firework parties alive with sprinklers and rockets, hunting and hawking, etc.
Again and again the artists of the period return to the idyll of the Mughal pleasure garden, a hint of escapism, perhaps in reaction to violent reality. There is a direct parallel to the spirit of Restoration London: after the chill of Cromwell’s Commonwealth in England, with the theatres closed and festivities banned, society reacted to the enforced puritanism by heading in the opposite direction. In Delhi this was, for example, the age of the great poet-courtesans: Ad Begum would turn up at parties without dress, but so cleverly painted that no one would notice: “She decorates her legs with beautiful drawings in the style of pyjamas instead of actually wearing them.”
In addition to re-establishing the imperial painting atelier, Muhammad Shah presided over a cultural and intellectual renaissance, as Delhi’s scholars, mystics, musicians, poets and painters increased in fame as fast as its military fortunes diminished, and the city was enlivened by a culture of coffee houses and literary salons.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan's intelligence service believes it deserves credit for helping US spy agencies locate the hideout of Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US commandos nearly a year ago, The Washington Post reported.

"The lead and the information actually came from us," an unnamed senior official with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) told The Post.

The al-Qaeda founder and 9/11 mastermind was killed on May 2 last year in a secret US Navy SEAL operation in a walled-off compound in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital.

Washington and Islamabad are now working to repair their relationship, which was badly damaged by the revelation that the world's most wanted man was living a stone's throw from Pakistan's elite military academy.

"Any hit on al-Qaeda anywhere in the world has happened with our help," The Post quotes one of the Pakistani intelligence officials as saying.

The other official, who said he had been intimately involved in the hunt for senior al-Qaeda operatives, including bin Laden, said the ISI provided the CIA with a cellphone number that eventually led to an al-Qaeda courier using the nom de guerre of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the paper said.

The officials said that in November 2010, they turned over the number to the CIA, along with information that it had last been detected in Abbottabad, the report said.

The ISI said it did not know then that the number was Kuwaiti's, but that CIA analysts did, without however relaying that information back to the Pakistanis, The Post noted.

"They knew who the number belonged to," the paper quoted one official as saying. "But after that their cooperation with us ended."

"It is the story of an extreme trust deficit and betrayal," complained the other ISI official, the paper pointed out.

However a US official disputed the ISI version, The Post said.

"The fact is, our knowledge of the number didn't come from them telling us about it," the paper quoted the US official as saying. (AFP)