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Wimbledon school fields blighted by fox mess

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:42:53 +0000

Foxes mess is blighting school fields in Wimbledon, it is claimed

Brazen foxes have little shame using school playing fields as a toilet, residents have complained, as the council claimed nothing more could be done to deter them.

Pam Rostron, a mother of two children who attend Wimbledon Chase Primary School, said staff were spending too much on clearing up fox droppings and more needed to be done to deter them from coming near children.

She said: “It seems pretty ridiculous when you have got foxes on the fields when kids are in school.

“There are companies that release them into the wild, or apparently lion dung can be used to deter them.

“I know the law protects them but we need to think of something.”

The school’s headteacher, Sue Tomes, declined to comment but her colleague confirmed she was aware of the problem and the school doing everything they could to keep the grounds clear of fox mess.

Councillor Chris Edge, a governor at the school, said the law should be changed to reclassify foxes as vermin and allow local authorities to take stronger action against them.

Coun Edge said: “We can’t shoot foxes in Merton otherwise the fox hunting lobby will come down on us like a ton of bricks, but residents are right that more needs to be done.”

But Merton Council’s cabinet member for environmental sustainability, Councillor Andrew Judge, said trapping or killing foxes was ineffective and cruel.

He said: “Foxes are attracted by food waste so to deter them, we advise people to ensure any rubbish waiting for collection is properly contained.

“We will be rolling out the final stage of our food waste programme later this year which provides residents with lockable plastic food waste bins for the outside of their properties which means there is less food waste around to attract the foxes.”

(www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk)

Maynard Students Take Part in Master Class with Olympic Sprinter Jeanette Kwakye

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:38:29 +0000

Last week British sprinter Jeanette Kwakye visited The Maynard School in Exeter to run an interactive and physical master class with a group of Year 8 and 9 students.

The session was part of the school’s ‘Try a new Olympic Sport’ project which was initiated by PE teacher Rachael Miller as part of the London 2012 Olympics. The Maynard teamed up with Sky Sports ‘Living for Sport’ last year for the project, which gives young people the opportunity to try different Olympic sports that are not necessarily within the PE curriculum. Sports carried out so far at The Maynard include archery, trampolining, handball and waterpolo, and over 20 Maynard students have taken part so far.

As part of the project, Sky Sports assign an inspirational athlete member to each school taking part. Jeanette Kwakye reached the final of the women’s 100m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She was the first British woman to do so since 1984 and came sixth, making her the sixth fastest woman in the world. She currently holds the British record for 60m, and in 2008 successfully defended her title of British 100m champion which she won in 2007. Jeanette is now preparing to run on home soil in the London 2012 Olympics.

PE teacher Rachael said, ‘It was so exciting to have Jeanette work with the students and she was extremely inspirational. She spoke to them about the importance of team work, mental endurance and physical fitness in sport, giving specific examples from her own experience, and the girls took part in a number of interactive tasks to demonstrate why these skills are important. Jeanette will be coming back to The Maynard later in the year to spend a whole day working with the students.’

For more details please contact Joanna Conway, Marketing and Development Manager on 01392 273417 or marketing@maynard.co.uk

(www.ukeducationnews.co.uk)

The Education Show 2012

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:56 +0000

The recent changes in education have turned next month’s Education Show into a platform for debate, with teachers, school leadership teams, Ofsted and teaching unions gathering at the show (15-17 March, NEC Birmingham) to discuss the latest education issues. The show has always been an engaging mixture of policy, ideals and practical activities, and thousands of resources for visitors to test and compare. The event is also playing host to a premiership footballer, talking about dreams and aspirations in education and launching a nationwide competition for 11-16 year olds that can easily be worked into the curriculum, with a prize that offers an insider’s view of training with either Manchester City or even England.

Professional development is also key at the show; Ofsted inspections, literacy, behaviour, STEM and employability are all part of the event, with all workshops and conferences free.

You can register for fast track entry on www.education-show.com; entering epr22 as a code.

(www.education-today.co.uk)

Hand combing method

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:31:03 +0000

To thoroughly understand how combing machines carry out the combing process, it is worth mentioning how wool was manually combed in the past. This process included three main operations and precisely:
1. introduction of the fibre tuft in the comb;
2. combing of the head of the fibre tuft;
3. extraction and combing of the tail of the fibre tuft 1) Introduction of the fibre tuft in the comb (Figure 1). The “p” comb was fixed to a wall with the needles tips directed upwards; the comber took a tuft of fibres and inserted it on the comb so that the fibre tails protruded from the side of the comb in front of the wall.

Fig. 1 Introduction of the tuft

2) Combing of the head of the fibre tuft (Figure 2). An “m” mobile comb was then repeatedly passed on the tuft retained by the “p” comb, taking care not to break the fibres. As a result, short fibres and impurities were separated from the “p” comb needles.

Fig. 2 - Combing of the tuft head

3) Extraction and combing of the tail of the fibre tuft (Figure 3). The comber, after seizing the head of the tuft, extracted it from the “p” comb forcing the fibres on the needles to slide. As a result, the short fibres and impurities of the tuft tail remained on the “p” comb needles.

Fig. 3 - Extraction and combing of the tuft tail

The cleaning of the two “p” and “m” combs from noils was carried out manually.
The main problem of hand combing lies in the fact that the combed material still included some impurities due to a small area of the tuft not subject to the action of the comb needles. The front part of the tuft was combed by the “m” comb and the rear by the “p” comb. Even if the needles of both combs were extremely thin, there was always a small area of the tuft that the needles of the “m” comb could not penetrate since it was too near to the “p” comb; furthermore the “p” comb needles did not exert any action since they did not touch this area of the tuft during the extraction; as a consequence, this area was never combed and eventual impurities were not eliminated.

Spinning–twisting machine

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:04:31 +0000

The twisting of a fancy yarn can also be accomplished using a machine that combines the two processes, ring and hollow spindle.
In this case the first operation is carried out by the hollow spindle, preceded by the core and effect yarn feeding group. Below the hollow spindle, which holds the binding yarn, is located the ring spindle, which winds the yarn directly and the twists are loosened as an effect of the relative speed between the first and the second stages. Indeed, the ring spindle cannot rotate as fast as the hollow spindle and while this results in a softer yarn, the rate of production will inevitably be lower, given that the bobbin will also have to undergo a subsequent winding stage.
When the machine is fed with yarns rather than rovings, it becomes an out-and-out twisting machine (Figure 1).

Fig. 1 Twisting machine

When the effect is obtained by a roving, the machine must also effect drafting; this is why it is called a spinning-twisting machine (Figure 2)

Fig. 2 Spinning-twisting machine with drafting line

The fed material is the roving (1) on spools, which is drawn by the laminating unit (A). The core yarns (4) are fed by the cylinders (C) and reach the exit from the drafting-laminating unit, where they are united with the effect yarn at point (D). Cylinder (5) is used for elastane, for the possible production of stretch fancy yarns. The binder yarn, positioned in the hollow spindle (E), stabilises the effect yarn, and the yarn, via the control cylinder (H), is then collected on the lower spindle (F), where the ring system evens out the twists. Using the handle (G), the operator can stop the spindle to repair breaks or replace the binder yarn package.
Fancy yarns can also be created by feeding more effect yarns, made up both of sliver in cans and of rovings on spools. In this case, the machine has two drafting lines (Figure 3), independently controlled, that make it possible to achieve a vast range of colour effects and constructions.

Fig. 3 Spinning-twisting machine with two drafting lines

How Does Finisher Card

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:53:10 +0000

This card, again entirely provided with needles clothings, is generally made up of a drum preceded by a fly cylinder with a pair of worker-stripper cylinders, and it serves to obtain a sliver that is as highly processed as possible.
The purpose of the divider (Figure 1) is to split the sliver produced by the condenser into a certain number of rovings – this number varies according to the working width and count required – and (by means of the rubbing sleeves) and to give these a rounded form, a prelude to the cylindrical appearance of the yarn; finally it serves to wind them onto beams that will subsequently feed the spinning machines.

Fig. 1 Divider

Division of the sliver is obtained thanks to a series of leather aprons which, crossing over one another, effect a proper cutting action. Conceptually, this operation is the equivalent of drawing, and indeed the result is the same as that of a drawing of the web, numerically equivalent to the total number of divisions applied:

S divider = N° of rovings

In the woollen spinning process, the roving delivered by the divider, proceeds directly to the spinning machine, without the possibility of undergoing any further adjustment. This is unlike the considerable scope for adjustment presented by the worsted wool cycle, in which the length of the fibre allows repeated doubling operations and drawing on the drawframe. This is the reason why woollen yarn is characterised by rather high structural unevenness. This unevenness is the result of the upstream characteristics of the fibres and manifests itself in the roving stage, without there being any scope for corrective intervention in the subsequent passage to the spinning machine.

Transit trade: Pakistan to send first consignment next month

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:07:32 +0000

File photo shows trucks carrying supplies from Afghanistan awaiting clearance at the Chaman. PHOTO: PPI

ISLAMABAD: The new Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement will be formally implemented on February 12, when the first Pakistani truck will leave for Central Asian states carrying rice or oranges through Afghanistan.

Senior officials of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) told The Express Tribune that the implementation of the agreement will reduce smuggling and misuse of transit trade. They said that Afghan trucks carrying goods under the transit trade arrangement will start depositing guarantee money from the same day. Officials of the ministry of commerce asserted that access to Central Asian states will increase the volume of exports to these countries by $1 billion.

They also said the first truck will enter Afghanistan through the Torkham border on February 12 as it was mandatory for the execution of the agreement to take place within 30 days of diplomatic exchange of the instrument of ratification between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

According to the authorities in the ministry of commerce, a ceremony marking the inauguration of the new transit trade agreement has been proposed by Afghan authorities but Pakistan has not yet made a decision on it.

To ensure effectiveness and proper implementation of the agreement, the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Coordination Authority (APTTCA) is being set up. In addition to that, arbitration tribunals will be established to mediate and solve any possible conflicts between the two countries.

Ministry of commerce officials added that the agreement will be for a period of five years which will automatically be extended for another five years on completion of the first term.

They said that if either country had a complaint regarding smuggling, it would take it up with the APTTCA along with facts and figures of the loss inflicted to the economy. The authority would then convene a meeting of officials of both the countries for reaching a consensus decision in order to compensate the complainant within three months of the receipt of the complaint.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2011.

PPMA members dissatisfied with govt’s response to PIC catastrophe LAHORE – The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Association

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:45:51 +0000

LAHORE – The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Association (PPMA) has divided over the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) catastrophe as several PPMA members expressed disappointment over poor performance of the PPMA leadership in a meeting on Saturday.
Sources privy in the meeting disclosed that it happened for first time that the majority of PPMA members showed their concerns on the role of the association in the PIC debacle. A few members pointed out that the PPMA office-bearers, in both north and south zones, were so incompetent that they could not hold a single meeting with the provincial governments over the issue. They could not even approach the Punjab Parliamentary Health Secretary Dr Syed Elahi, when everybody was raising the question about quality of locally manufactured medicines.
In the meeting, sources revealed, it had been decided that the PPMA members would do their individual efforts to restore the public confidence in locally manufactured drugs as the current leadership had failed in protecting the pharmaceutical industry’s interests.
Speaking to Pakistan Today, a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer on the condition of anonymity said that the current PPMA leadership had virtually no stake in the pharmaceutical industry and medicine exports. The PPMA leadership toyed with the medicine reaction issue, which had not only jeopardised $ 260 million medicine exports but also threatened the existence of the domestic pharmaceutical industry, he maintained.
He warned both the government and the PPMA leadership that if the domestic pharmaceutical industry was pushed against the wall, the country would face another drugs crisis. “It is the domestic industry that is producing quality medicines at affordable prices in the country. One unfortunate incident should not overshadow all the good work done by the local industry,” he underlined.
Answering a question, he agreed that Efroz, the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the killer drug had showed great negligence, but it should not be ignored that Efroz was the first company that started the export of medicines from Pakistan, he stressed.
He said that the pharmaceutical industry was one of the most forward looking industries in the country. At the time of independence, there was hardly any pharmaceutical industry in the country but today around 600 domestic and 25 multinational pharmaceutical manufacturing units were operating in the country. The domestic industry was catering to nearly 70 percent of the country’s demand of finished medicines, he maintained.
Criticising the government’s role, he said, “Both the local and multinational pharmaceutical companies were asking the government to constitute a Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) at the federal level to avoid such unfortunate incidents. But the government was not paying heed to the seriousness of the issue.”
“The government itself is playing with the lives of the common man as it has given the charge of drugs regulations to the federal cabinet secretary, in addition to her existing responsibilities,” he added.

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Pakistan Medical and Dental Council PMA blames SZMC of unfair fee structure

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:43:08 +0000

LAHORE – The Sheikh Zayed Medical College (SZMC), Lahore has been charging annual fee of Rs 500,000 from its students, despite receiving 100 percent funding from the government, Pakistan Medical Association officials alleged on Saturday.
The PMA office bearers have termed the fee being charged by the government medical college, equal to the private sector medical colleges, as sheer injustice to the students.
The PMA officials said that the association had raised the matter with the Prime Minister Secretariat, which referred the matter to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and the Federal Health Ministry. The said departments put the responsibility of taking action on each other and forwarded the matter to the cabinet division secretary, who, according to the Rules of Business 1973, was responsible for running the affairs of the SZMC, Lahore.
The PMA’s demand was now lying on the table of the cabinet secretary, who was not interested in taking a decision on the matter, the PMA officials alleged. The PMA announced to raise the matter in the Lahore High Court in a petition to be filed through Noshab A Khan advocate. The PMA has appealed to parents of all SZMC, Lahore students to register themselves with the PMA to become a part of the movement.

Punjab University PU’s students from hell action against ‘illegal miscreants’ living in the hostels

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:40:26 +0000

Jamiat’s students lock up the house of hostel superintendent who took an action against ‘illegal miscreants’ living in the hostels
Faculty members, students, employees say they are regularly tortured by IJT activists who are also harbouring terrorists from tribal areas
LAHORE – Punjab University (PU) syndicate, teachers, students, employees and residential community has strongly condemned the elements of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) for locking up the house of PU faculty member Dr Munawar Sabir and taking him and his family hostage for taking action against illegal elements in hostels.
PU teacher’s community criticised the Punjab government on poor law and order at PU as according to them due to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s poor policies, the members of IJT had kept weapons inside the hostels and were harbouring ‘miscreants’ from Waziristan and tribal areas. They also asked the CM to provide security to them and their families.
PU residential community also demanded for a police operation inside the hostel as according to them these illegal elements were involved in robberies and thefts. PU senior professors also demanded that a police chowaki be set up inside the campus and condemned the government of Punjab for not taking steps to protect the varsity’s students and teachers.
According to them, these ‘elements’ had locked up the house of Dr Munawer Sabir and were keeping his family hostage. According to sources, the hostel administration had decided to take an action against these ‘elements’ and had locked up the rooms of illegal occupants, who, in turn, had locked up Sabir’s house.
They said the miscreants had set up torture cells inside the hostels and were torturing students to impose their agenda on the campus. Sabir said it was very disheartening since his family was suffering also, adding that this act was condemnable. He said the incident had been brought into the knowledge of administration.
According to a PU’s senior professor, the families of the teachers inside the hostel and students were worried about the presence of these ‘elements’ since they carried modern weapons including Kalashnikovs and grenades. He said in the past, the university had recovered weapons from them but the Punjab government was not serious. He said there was need of a grand operation inside the hostels to eradicate the illegal elements. He said in the past, cases had been registered against these illegal elements and these groups belonged to militant organisations and were working towards promoting violence on the campus.
He said taking Sabir’s family hostage was a minor issue since these members had entered the houses of the faculty members and had tortured them, adding that they had also opened fire at some teachers but the government had been silent.
PU students also condemned the elements and said the government need to rid PU of them to promote a healthy learning environment.
PUTF CONDEMNS: An emergency meeting of Executive Council of the Punjab University Teachers Front (PUTF) was held here on Saturday in which members of Syndicate Prof Dr Shaukat Ali, Assistant Professor Javed Sami and Lecturer Shumaila Gul participated among others. The meeting strongly denounced the incident of illegally detaining Hostel No 1 Superintendent Assistant Prof Dr Munawar Sabir and fully expressed solidarity with him.
The participants demanded of the Punjab government that police be instructed to launch operation with the help of university administration to oust rogue elements of IJT so students could continue their studies in a peaceful academic atmosphere. The participants also demanded of the university administration to initiate legal action against the goons of IJT in not time.
PU SPOKESMAN: Meanwhile Punjab University Spokesman has strongly condemned IJT for illegally detaining Sabir. He said the administration would take disciplinary action against the illegal boarders in the hostels. The spokesman said the administration would not be blackmailed by these elements. The spokesman said criminals were operating in the ranks of IJT and warned them to stop backing the culprits. He said the administration, following its previous policies, would not allow these hooligans to disturb the peaceful academic environment of the varsity and would take disciplinary action against them.
PU EMPLOYEES CONDEMN: According to a PU employee, PU employees were directly targeted by the IJT who had also tortured one of the employees a few days ago. He said these elements were collection huge money from teachers on the name of “Aianat” (fund for their organisation) and were also taking money from hostel canteens but no one was taking an action to stop their hooliganism and said these peoples were misusing the name of Islam.
ISF CONDEMNS: Insaaf Students’ Federation also condemned the ‘hooliganism’ of IJT and said severe action needed to be taken against them.

Street life: Lahore’s fading splendour showcased

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:07:34 +0000

Photos show how city’s cultural heritage is being lost.

LAHORE: A bittersweet portrait of this city, showcasing its hidden architectural beauty as well as its grotesque civic issues, runs at the Alhamra Arts Council till January 22.

Photographer Qasim Naeem said his intention with the ‘Lahore Tilak’ exhibition was to highlight places that are not normally included in discussions of the city’s architectural or cultural marvels.

“Many places and subjects that are so close to our true culture get ignored,” Naeem said. “Haveli Nonehaal, for example, holds such enchanting beauty that one cannot get enough of it.

Unfortunately it is also used a dump where people throw garbage. I wanted to highlight such areas of Lahore that we know exist but don’t know where and how.”

Many of the city’s monuments are rapidly deteriorating and Naeem’s pictures capture the fading art of Lahore, whether that be in railway platforms, old mosques, or the streets of the Walled City.

They also capture the people who live and work near these places.

Arif Khan, professor at Punjab University, said he was impressed with the pictures. “Work that motivates you or inspires you to do something is what I consider a successful exhibition and the work of this young artist does that,” he said. “Every picture has its positives and negatives and both hold beauty.

They show us parts of our city that are slowly fading from attention and our lives.”

Some visitors to the exhibition did not appreciate the HDR imaging of some photographs. “I would have appreciated his fusing of glorious Mughal cultural representations with examples of difficult lives, if he’d showed us the originals,” said Mukhtar Awan, a miniatures artist.

Lahore Tilak is the first exhibition of digital photographs by Naeem.

Refernce: Tribune.com.pk

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Market watch: Profit-taking emerges after four-day bullish run

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:07:31 +0000

KSE-100 index falls 24 points

KARACHI: After enjoying a 415-point increase in the last four sessions at the stock market, investors preferred to book profits at inflated levels on Tuesday.

The Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark 100-share index ended 0.19 per cent or 23.78 points lower at 12,658.16.

Major oil and banking stocks closed in the negative while fertiliser scrips showed mixed fortunes.

Among oil stocks, Pakistan Oilfields bore the brunt of selling pressure and fell 1.2 per cent while Pakistan State Oil dipped two per cent.

Among banks, MCB Bank remained under immense selling pressure and dropped two per cent on market rumours of foreigners offloading the scrip.

“Trading volumes continued to remain strong as locals were active eyeing further upside in lagging second-tier stocks and continued foreign interest in key stocks,” said Elixir Securities equity dealer Faisal Bilwani.

The trading volume declined by 14.5 per cent to 270.8 million shares compared with the preceding day’s 316.8 million shares.

Top gainers

Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) were the top two gainers of the day following news that a court ordered in favour of the gas distribution companies, allowing them enhanced unaccounted-for-gas target of seven per cent, according to Topline Securities dealer Samar Iqbal.

SSGC jumped to its upper limit of five per cent and closed at Rs23.21 while SNGPL surged 4.8 per cent to end at Rs29.

Fauji Fertiliser Bin Qasim Limited (FFBL), the volume leader with 32.86 million shares traded, and Fauji Fertiliser Company stole the show among fertiliser companies as they jumped 2.3 per cent and 3.6 per cent, respectively, on optimism over upcoming quarterly results. FFBL is scheduled to announce its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 on January 25.

Lotte Pakistan PTA came second in the volumes chart with 27.82 million shares firming Rs0.15 to close at Rs15.64 while Azgard Nine Limited came third with 22.02 million shares falling Rs0.27 to close at Rs11.38.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2011.

Girls suffer as 50 primary girls schools closed in rural Peshawar

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:19:38 +0000

PESHAWAR: Angered by closure of primary girls schools in Peshawar’s rural areas due to unavailability of teachers, the provincial assembly’s standing committee on law reforms on Friday directed the elementary and secondary education department to post teaching staff to these educational institutions within a week.

It warned that if the sought-after appointments weren’t made within the stipulated period, punitive action would be taken against the culpable officials under the Privileges Act.

According to a source in the E&SE department, around 50 government girls’ primary schools have been shut down in Peshawar, mostly in Matani, Badhber, Urmar, Garhi Atta Mohmmad and Adezai areas, due to unavailability of teachers, while many boys and girls primary schools faced shortage of teaching staff.

Speaker of the assembly Kiramatullah Chagharmatti chaired the standing committee meeting, while deputy speaker Khushdil Khan, MPAs Abdul Akbar Khan, Saqibullah Chamkani, Israrullah Gandapur, Munawar Khan and Hafiz Akhtar Ali, E&SE special secretary Farid Qureshi and other relevant officials were in attendance.

Lawmakers asked E&SE officials about reasons for closure of the girls primary schools in Peshawar’s rural areas.

The assembly speaker asked if there were no educated people for appointment as teachers to these educational institutions.

An official said schools in Peshawar’s urban areas had teachers surplus to requirements, while schools in rural areas faced shortage of teaching staff.

A news release issued here said: “the speaker directed the E&SE department to immediately transfer surplus teachers and depute them in the closed schools. He said E&SE department and district coordination officer (DCO) Peshawar should jointly implement the rationalisation policy setting aside political pressure.”

The committee also issued directions to the relevant authorities for making the education department in Peshawar a model department for other districts.

The education department was told to repatriate teachers serving in Peshawar’s schools ‘in detail’ to original places of their postings, while directions were issued to such teachers to report back within a week to prevent action under the Privilege Act.

The source the education department introduced the rationalisation policy in the province more than a year ago to reopen all closed schools by streamlining teachers’ posting and transfer. However, he added, it couldn’t deliver the goods due to the department’s inefficiency.

In May 2011, the provincial assembly made a law ‘The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Appointment, Deputation, Posting and Transfer of Teachers, Lecturers, Instructors and Doctors) Regulatory Bill-2011? which couldn’t be implemented in primary schools.

The rationalisation policy set teacher-student ratio at 1:40, according to an educationist, who have served on key positions in education department.

He said teachers went all-out for their transfer to urban area schools either for 15 per cent more house rent than what is being offered to those serving in rural areas or for security reasons.

The educationist said schools in Peshawar’s rural areas needed appointment of 600 male and 400 female teachers.

The standing committee also directed the law department to produce a detailed report in its next meeting on matters related to the departments devolved to provinces under the 18th constitutional amendment as well as pending legislation.

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College at prayer site opposed

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:16:24 +0000

MARDAN, Feb 4: The leaders of Awami National Party Haji Yaqoob Khan and Himayat Ullah Mayar advocate have assured the people of Hoti area that they would remove their reservations over the government’s plan to build a degree college for women
on the site of the funeral prayers in the locality.

An eight-member delegation of the Hoti area met with the ANP leaders Haji Yaqoob Khan and the party’s candidate for the upcoming by-poll Himayat Ullah Mayar and apprised them about the people’s reservations.

The ANP leaders said the chief minister had taken serious notice of the protest of residents over the government’s proposed plan of demolishing the old funeral prayer site and build a women degree college over there.

They pointed out that the authorities concerned had acquired eight kanals of land adjacent to the area’s graveyard on the special instruction of chief minister and old funeral prayer site would not be demolished until new building for funeral prayers
was completed.—Correspondent

Sale in open market 20,000 tampered Punjab Textbook Board PTB books seized

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:14:18 +0000

LAHORE, A large number of textbooks published by Punjab Textbook Board, supposed to be distributed free of cost among underprivileged children studying in public sector schools, have been found to be tempered and sold in the open market.

The CIA civil lines police have recovered some 20,000 PTB textbooks from a godown on Nicholson Road and arrested two brothers Waqas Ali and Babar Ali, sons of Rehmat Ali, who ran their printing business.

The accused in police custody have stated that they were getting books with the connivance of officials of PTB and Programme Monitoring and Implementation Unit (PMIU). They said they used to remove the title page bearing “Not for Sale” statement and replace it with a new title carrying PTB logo.

CIA Civil Lines DSP Riaz Shah and investigating inspector Ali Abbas told Dawn that the accused would supply these tampered textbooks across Punjab for sale in the open market.

In the first raid, Riaz Shah said, some 20,000 books worth Rs1.5 million were recovered.

The DSP said the accused had revealed that some other printers in the Urdu Bazaar were also involved in this business, besides providing police the names of PTB and PMIU officials who were conniving with them.

He said the investigations were on and more arrests were expected.

The PTB top management was also accused of distributing Class-IX chemistry textbooks among students that carried a lot of mistakes. The board officials neither issued corrigendum for the mistakes nor took any action against those responsible for
making them. Dawn

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Play staged Kashmir Solidarity Day at PNCA

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:09:52 +0000

ISLAMABAD, The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) held a three-act play along with a music concert in connection with the Kashmir Solidarity Day on Saturday evening.

The 35-minute stage play, Tahrey Huey Lamhe opened with the demonstration of Santoor musical instrument, Kashmiri folk songs and dances presented by the National Performing Arts Group.

Ruksana Murtaza, Haeelma Sehar and Ishtiaq Shehri were the lead singers in the concert.

The drama written by Syed Azhar Bukhari and produced by Sabir Khan had characters from ordinary public in the Indian held Kashmir who cannot go about doing daily chores due to the Indian repression.

The story revolves around a marriage scene where parents remain fearful that the ceremony would not take place.

Thereafter, an Indian army officer appears and spoils the marriage arrangements by opening fire and arresting young men, presuming that they were conspiring against the Indian state.

A six-member music troupe from Iran also presented a Naat and Kalam-i-Iqbal on the occasion. dawn

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Dawn won the ‘Best Cancer Story Awareness Award 2012’

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:08:20 +0000

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: Dawn on Saturday won the ‘Best Cancer Story Awareness Award 2012’ competing with 13 other English and Urdu daily newspapers organised by the Shifa International Hospital.

Its staffers Imran Ali Teepu and Ayesha Shahid won Rs70,000 in cash prize at ceremony held here at Shifa International Hospital, which was organised in connection with World Cancer Awareness Day.

The World Cancer Day is marked on February 4 every year to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.

The second prize was won by staffer of Urdu daily Pakistan, Ziaur Rehman, getting Rs50,000 cash prize while the third went to Dateline Islamabads Hamid Hussain who was given Rs30,000. Express Tribune’s Sehrish Wasif won consolation prize along with Rs100,00.

Member of the Planning Commission Dr. Samar Mubarakmand and Shifa’s President Dr Manzoor H. Qazi distributed the cash prizes among the winners.

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business express train between Lahore and Karachi

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:04:51 +0000

ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: With successful launch of the business express train between Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan Railways (PR) has moved forward and decided to outsource commercial management of Subak Raftar express train between Rawalpindi and Lahore under public-private partnership mode.

Presently, Subak Raftar being run by the PR is not a profitable intercity train and was not even covering the cost of fuel, General Manager Operations Pakistan Railways, Saeed Akhtar told Dawn on Saturday.

Subak Raftar was perhaps the first intercity express train introduced by Railways in good old days when fully engine-built rail cars were imported and introduced between Lahore and Rawalpindi.

As the traffic grew, the built-in engines were replaced by diesel locomotives with the addition of coaches.

However, Subak Raftar lost its popularity when Pakistan Railways introduced non-stop Margalla Express, a train between Rawalpindi and Lahore which reached its destination in less than five hours.

The Subak Raftar had six stops between Rawalpindi and Lahore and had to cater to the demands of people traveling by train to Jhelum, Lala Musa, Gujrat, Wazirabad and Gujranwala.

However, the collapse of train service due to shortage of locomotives and coaches badly affected the Subak Raftar too and presently it is running with low load of passengers without any hope to reach the destination in the stipulated timetable.

Saeed Akhtar explained that pursuing the policy of the government to engage the private sector in the train operations, Pakistan Railways has decided to outsource the service of Subak Raftar to the private sector with an objective of providing better traveling facilities to passengers.

Pakistan Railways has also decided to outsource the commercial managements of Shaheen Express between Sialkot and Karachi, Super Express between Malakwal and Karachi via Sargodha, Faisalabad and Multan, and Fareed Express from Lahore to Karachi via Kasur, Pakpattan and Lodhran.

Another express train – Shalimar Express – between Lahore and Karachi will start its journey under the private sector during the third week of this month.

The PR general manager disclosed that China and South Korea have shown interest in leasing out diesel locomotives to Pakistan Railways in the revised tendering. There was no positive response from any supplier in the first tender. The tenders will again be opened on February 14, and it is being expected that a final decision to get locomotives on rent basis
will be decided by the end of the month. Pakistan Railways may get nearly 50 locomotives depending on the offer from the participating countries, Mr Akhtar said.

As far as the procurement of 150 locomotives are concerned, the general manager said, Pakistan Railways was currently going through the technical evaluation of the offers received from four suppliers belonging to United States and China.

Collective efforts urged to eliminate use of gutka, mainpuri, chhalia seminar World Cancer Day

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:01:45 +0000

KARACHI, Feb 4: Claiming that frequent consumption of chhalia (betel nuts), gutka and tobacco was behind the increasing cases of oral cancer, speakers at a seminar on Saturday suggested that a civil society and city administration coalition be initiated to eliminate their use in the city.

One of the speakers said that even babies were indirectly exposed to hazards due to their mothers’ consumption of gutka and mainpuri — concoctions of betel nuts, tobacco, lime, flavouring colourants, catechu and some other ingredients.

The seminar was held to mark the World Cancer Day by the administration of District Central in collaboration with a couple of nongovernmental organisations, and to highlight the hazards of gutka and mainpuri on human health.

Participants were told that Pakistan was one of the 15 countries of the world which housed two-thirds of the world tobacco users. Up to 75 per cent of oral cancer patients present in hospitals admitted that they had used chhalia, gutka or mainpuri. About 7pc children in the city used gutka.

ENT surgeon Dr Qaiser Sajjad said that surveys had revealed that chhalia, gutka and mainpuri imported or manufactured and marketed in the city largely contained artificial (textile) colour, artificial sugar, addictive substances, chemicals and animal blood. Beside the different preparations sold in colourful packings, chhalia even in its simple form could act as a
carcinogen, he said while showing slides of patients who either died from or were under treatment for oral cancers.

He said it had also been established that betel nuts used in these items were mostly of low quality and were often found with fungal infections. Apart from the carcinoma of the oral cavity, the betel nuts, gutka and mainpuri caused submucous fibrosis in teenagers using them, and led to build-up of constricting bands of collagen in the cheeks and adjacent
structures of the mouth. The doctor, a senior office holder of the Pakistan Medical Association, said mothers in certain coastal populations used gutka before breastfeeding their babies. The mothers admitted that their chewing habit caused sleepiness in the babies, Dr Sajjad said, adding that only a special awareness session could make them realise the hazards they were transferring to their babies.

Smoking ban

Dr Sajjad called for a complete ban on smoking at public places, educational institutions and all government and non-governmental organisations, and sale of tobacco within and around educational institutions. Ban on import, manufacture, advertisement and sale of chhalia and gutka also be imposed without any discrimination in all parts of the city.

Karachi Commissioner Roshan Ali Shaikh said the Sindh government had already imposed a ban on manufacture and sale of gutka and mainpuri across the province, following which about 400 kilograms of gutka and mainpuri had been seized, four people were arrested and cases instituted against them for violation of the order.

However, he noted that mere seizure of the products and sealing of manufacturing premises would not help control the sale and consumption of the prohibited or medically unfit products. The government’s efforts could not bear fruit unless supported by the people at large through creating awareness, change in behaviour of individuals, including workers and students. He said civil society, parents and families could play a vital role in making children and relatives aware of the diseases pan, gutka, supari, chhalia etc could cause.

Deputy Commissioner (Central) Dr Syed Saifur Rehman told the participants, mostly school teachers, civil servants and police officials, that a strong campaign against gutka and mainpuri would be launched in a couple of days in the central district. About 50kg of seized gutka and mainpuri were burnt before the seminar began. “We need to do more as cancer treatment is expensive, and developing countries like Pakistan cannot bear the burden of such a disease,” he said.

The director of the medical services of the KMC, Dr Nasir Javed Shaikh, said he saw a good combination of the administration and civil society members at the event, who could effectively address problems of the health sector.

Members of the Pakistan Medical Association and the Pakistan Youth Health Forum and teachers and staff of the Public School and College, Sir Syed Town, North Karachi,
collaborated with the office of the deputy commissioner (central) in organising the event. Dawn

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Completion of Fyzee Rahamin art gallery planned

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:53 +0000

KARACHI, Feb 4: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has said that the long-delayed work on the Fyzee Rahamin art gallery must be completed within the next eight months.

He issued this directive while presiding over a meeting held on Saturday to review matters related to the art gallery’s construction.

Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed briefed the participants in the meeting about the unfinished portions of the gallery.

They were informed that the work was started in 1992 at an estimated cost of Rs210 million, but the cost increased manifold due to subsequent delays.

He said that the construction of an auditorium in the art gallery was still pending due to unavailability of funds.

The PC-1 of the project was being prepared for the construction of an auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,800 people, he added.

When the remarkable portraitist Rahamin Fyzee died in 1964, his wife, Atiya Begum, decided to set up a museum in his memory at their residence, Aiwan-i-Riffat, on M.R. Kayani
Road. She gave away the property to the KMC for the purpose. But the venture faced one impediment after another, delaying the project for decades