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Today marks the Last day for filing annual income tax returns: FBR

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) time limit will end today (Friday) for people to file their income tax returns and wealth statements.

According to details, FBR had extended the deadline in September for filing of  annual income tax returns and wealth statements till November 30. But as of now, more extension in deadline will not be approved.

FBR extends date for filing tax returns

The sources stated, “The names of the people will be visible straight away in the active tax payer list without any delay who have filed their income tax. Also, filers will not be prohibited from acquiring immovable property no matter whatever its worth is.”

However, as compared to non-filers, filers will have to pay half the withholding tax and non-filers will have to pay 1.5-2 times more withholding tax.

The sources added, “Non-filers will not be permitted to procure property cost over Rs 5 million. Also, non-filers will have to pay more as compared to filers on different payments.”

Earlier, the last date for filing the tax returns for 2016-17 was announces as September 30, 2018 as The Pakistan Tax Bar Association (PTBA), in a letter to the FBR chairperson, had sought an extension in the deadline to file returns for 2018.

The details stated that It is mandatory for the people to file their  income tax returns along with wealth statement for the financial year 2017-18, whose annual salary from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 is higher than Rs 400,000.

Furthermore, it is notified by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), that all the offices of Large Taxpayer Units, Corporate Regional Tax Offices, and Regional Tax Offices would remain open and observer extended working till 10 pm on Friday (November 30) in order to assist the taxpayers in payment of duties and taxes and filing of income tax returns and statements.

Also, in an additional notification, the Chief Commissioners Inland Revenue were directed to institute connection with State Bank of Pakistan and authorized branches of National Bank of Pakistan to guarantee relocation of tax collection by these branches on November 30 to the particular branches of SBP on the same date so as to report for same as the compilation for the month of November 2018.

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Israel bombs targets in Syria, near Damascus: monitor

DAMASCUS: Israeli jets bombed several areas in southern Syria and near Damascus on Thursday drawing retaliatory fire from the ground, a monitoring group said.

The Israeli military made no comment on the reported strikes, during which Syrian air defences opened fire for the first time since the deadly downing of a Russian transport plane in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“Israeli forces bombarded for an hour positions in the southern and southwestern suburbs of Damascus as well as in the south of Syria at the border of Quneitra province,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Syrian state media said air defences downed a number of “hostile targets” close to the capital.

“Our air defences fired on hostile targets over the Kisweh area and downed them,” the official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.

The Israeli military denied that any of its aircraft were hit, while not commenting on the reported strikes.

It said a Syrian surface-to-air missile was fired in the direction of an open area of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights but it was unclear if it had hit Israeli-held territory.

Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in neighbouring Syria against what it claims are Iranian targets, many of them in the area south of Damascus.

Iran and Russia are the government’s key allies in the civil war that has raved Syria since 2011, and Moscow’s intervention in 2015 dramatically turned the tables against the rebels.

The accidental downing of the Russian transport aircraft by Syrian ground batteries during an Israel air strike on September 17 killed 15 service personnel and prompted Moscow to significantly upgrade Syrian air defences.

Moscow pinned responsibility for the downing on Israel, saying its fighter jet used the larger Russian one for cover, an allegation Israel disputed.

The move raised fears in Israel that its ability to rein in its arch foe Iran’s military presence in its northeastern neighbour would be sharply reduced.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told Moscow his government would continue to hit hostile targets in Syria to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence across the border.

He added that Israel would “continue security coordination” with Russia.

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20-month-old girl becomes emblem of India’s devastating use of pellet guns in Kashmir

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ECC endorses gifting 40,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has endorsed to ‘gift’ 40,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan, ARY News reported on Friday.

The ECC meeting was chaired by the Finance Minister, Asad Umar, in the federal capital. The meeting decided to ‘gift’ 40, 000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan, worth rupees 1.73 billion.

The meeting also endorsed the release of funds to Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) for the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).

During last meeting of the ECC, on November 27, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), had approved Gas Load Management Plan for this winter.

The ECC had decided for minimum gas load shedding during this winter and filling the gas deficit with Regasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG).

It was also decided that 150-200 mmcfd of RLNG will be injected in the system to overcome the shortage of gas.

The government is expecting gas shortfall from December to January, as the gap between supply and demand would surge due to less availability of local gas.

The meeting of the ECC also discussed and approved for getting Islamic Financing Facility to reduce the circular debt in the energy sector.

The ECC had recently directed the power and finance divisions to prepare a joint plan for raising Rs 300 bln Islamic financing by mortgaging assets of Discos.

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Ukraine bars Russian men from entering country

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Whale stranding: Another 50 pilot whales die off NZ

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India suffer Shaw injury blow ahead of first Test

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Brexit: Let's focus on the deal, May tells MPs

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Russia-Ukraine crisis clouds G20 summit in Buenos Aires

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Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment

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Ebola outbreak in east Congo now world’s second biggest

KINSHASA: The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the second biggest in history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said late on Thursday.

The epidemic in a volatile part of Democratic Republic of Congo is now only surpassed by the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa, where more than 28,000 cases where confirmed, and is bigger than an outbreak in 2000 in Uganda involving 425 cases.

Ebola is believed to have killed 245 people in North Kivu and Ituri provinces where attacks by armed groups and community resistance to health officials have hampered the response.

Congo has suffered 10 Ebola outbreaks since the virus was discovered there in 1976. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids and causes hemorrhagic fever with severe vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding, and in many flare-ups, more than half of cases are fatal.

“This tragic milestone clearly demonstrates the complexity and severity of the outbreak,” Michelle Gayer, Senior Director of Emergency Health at the International Rescue Committee said in a statement. “The dynamics of conflict (mean) … a protracted outbreak is … likely, and the end is not in sight.”

Ebola virus, formerly designated Zaire ebolavirus, is one of five known viruses within the genus Ebolavirus., cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals, known as Ebola virus disease (EVD). Ebola virus has caused the majority of human deaths from EVD, and is the cause of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, which resulted in at least 28,616 suspected cases and 11,310 confirmed deaths.

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SC summons tax record of Aleema Khan

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday sought tax record of Aleema Khan, sister of Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a case related to her properties in Dubai, ARY News reported.

The apex court was informed by a Federal Board of Revenue member that Ms Khan availed the tax amnesty scheme.

The FBR official said amnesty scheme record could be presented on the court orders. The CJP, in his remarks, ordered that the tax details be given to the court, adding “We will look into it.”

Earlier responding to FIA notice, Ms Aleema reportedly told the inquiry officer that she acquired property abroad but now she has sold this asset.

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday had also demanded of the National Accountability Bureau to investigate the properties of Aleema Khan in Dubai.

Talking informally to reporters at the accountability court in Islamabad, Nawaz said that he is not in habit of doing politics of allegations, but if he stayed silent, opponents claim that he [Nawaz] had made compromises.

“From where Aleema Khan accumulated properties worth billions of rupees. She has no sources of income. She must provide money trail of her properties in Dubai,” said Nawaz.

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Balochistan’s law and order situation has improved, says IGP

QUETTA: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Balochistan  on Friday said, law and order situation has improved in Balochistan, ARY News reported.

Addressing the 88^th passing out parade ceremony held, here at the police training centre Quetta, IGP Mohsin Hassan Butt said, law enforcing agencies’ concrete steps , has improved law and order situation of the province.

“Police is ready to foil any attempt by the  enemies to disturb law and order of the proinvce’”, the IGP continued.

During the passing out parade, as many as 313 recruits were inducted in police department, who were trained,by the police trainers for eight months.

The chief guest of the occasion, the IGP Mohsin Hassan Butt was given guard of honour by FC contingent during the ceremony.

Baluchistan’s top cop also distributed prizes amongst the new police recruits over distinctive performance.

Back in month of September, the passing out parade ceremony of 62nd batch of Frontier Corps Balochistan was held at School of FC Training Centre in Loralai.

Sector Commander North Brigadier Nadeem Sohail was chief guest of the ceremony and martyred FC soldier Muhammad Waseem’s father were presented a guard of honour on arrival in FC training centre ground, said a press release issued here by Public Relation Officer for Inspector General Frontier Corps Balochistan.

Passing out recruits while taking oath to remain loyal to the State pledges to defend Motherland and fulfil their responsibilities. Sector Commander North Brigadier Nadeem Sohail distributed awarded prizes among outstanding cadets of the course.

Around 1614 youngsters who had graduated participated in the passing out Parade.

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Measles cases rise 30 percent worldwide: UN

Measles cases worldwide jumped more than 30 percent last year compared to 2016, with increases recorded in wealthy European countries like Germany where vaccination coverage has historically been high, the UN said Thursday.

The World Health Organization said the worrying trend of resurgent measles cases was a near global phenomenon, but the causes varied among regions.

In Europe, experts blamed the problem in part on complacency and misinformation about a vaccine proven to be both effective and safe.

Martin Friede, WHO’s director of immunization, vaccines and biological told reporters that “supposed experts making accusations against the vaccine without any evidence” has had an impact on parents’ decisions.

He specifically cited medically baseless claims linking the measles vaccine to autism, which have been spread in part on social media by members of the so-called “anti-vax” movement.

But cases have also spiked in Latin America, partly due to “a collapsing health system in Venezuela,” the head of the vaccine alliance Gavi, Seth Berkley, said in a statement.

A crippling political and economic crisis in Venezuela has triggered massive inflation, with hospitals struggling to maintain stocks.

“What is more worrying than the increase in the cases reported is that we are seeing sustained measles transmission in countries that had previously not seen measles transmission for many years,” Friede said.

“This suggests we are actually regressing.”

Multiple countries — notably Germany, Russia and Venezuela — have had their measles elimination certificate withdrawn over the last 12 months.

A country loses its measles elimination status when “the same type of virus has been circulating for more than 12 continuous months,” according to WHO.

WHO stressed that the overall global fight against measles had shown impressive results this century. In 2000, there were more than 850,000 cases reported worldwide, compared to 173,000 last year.

That progress made the recent setbacks all the more frustrating, said WHO immunization expert Ann Lindstrand.

“We have a safe and effective vaccine,” she told reporters. “This is not rocket science, we know what to do.”

According to WHO guidelines, preventing measles outbreaks requires 95 percent coverage of the first dose of the vaccine.

Global coverage has stalled at 85 percent for several years, but the figure is lower in poorer regions like Africa, which had a coverage rate of 70 percent in 2017.

Measles is a highly contagious disease, which can cause severe diarrhea, pneumonia and vision loss and can be fatal in some cases.

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‘The case has no rationale, Nawaz tells court during Al-Azizia reference hearing

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court resumed hearing into Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif today (Friday), ARY News reported.

The prosecutor of National Accountability Bureau presented arguments in the case for the second day today. The proceedings are conducted by the accountability court Judge Arshad Malik.

In his statement before the court today, Mr Sharif said the case of Al-Azizia dates back to 1973, when a gulf steel mills was set up in Dubai. He told the court that the reference of Al-Azizia had no rationale.

The judge intervened, saying ‘we will listen to your arguments later on and we will also put some questions before you regarding money trial.”

He explained that the money sent by his son from abroad was nothing unusual. “Sons often give money to their fathers and this is deemed as honour for any father.”

Yesterday (Nov 29), the court had directed the counsel of NAB to furnish final arguments in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference against former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.

The accountability court had also given a questionnaire to the former PM under section 342 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to seek his answers. NAB prosecutor, Wasiq Malik, during his arguments, said the accused persons were given ample chance before the JIT, Supreme Court and the NAB to defend the charges, but their proofs turned out to be false, he claimed.

He said foreign assets of Mian Nawaz Sharif and his relatives were discovered after unraveling of the Panama Papers.

‘The State is like a mother and it can ask questions regarding excess of wealth of leaders of the country,’ he argued.

During the hearing on Nov 28, NAB’s deputy prosecutor general had requested the court to issue directives to the defence side to first give final arguments in the case as the accused has submitted some fresh documents in his defence.

The court had given over 120 questions to Mr Sharif in the Avenfield properties reference and 151 in the Al-Azizia reference. The former prime minister has so far responded to 148 of the 151 questions.

On November 19, the Supreme Court gave three weeks to the accountability court to wrap up graft references against Nawaz Sharif.

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Unique saloon in Prague operated by robots

PRAGUE: Forget the days of nursing a drink at the bar while pouring out your woes to the bartender. At least if a new establishment in Prague is a sign of the future.

The Cyberdog in the Czech capital features a robotic bartender who serves drinks ordered through a phone app.

Opened on Wednesday by real estate developer Trigema, its two-level steel structure looks rather like a space station, with 40 seats and small upper deck.

And never mind George Orwell’s sentiment in his essay “The Moon Under Water” that the perfect pub has “barmaids (who) know most of their customers by name, and take a personal interest in everyone”.

In the Cyberdog, after the customers have ordered their tipple via an app, a red robotic arm picks among seven wines on offer in a cool box. It then opens the bottle and pours up to four glasses at a time.

Next it lifts the glasses on a tray that travels overhead to the customers’ table, then lowers the load so people can pick up their glasses.

Trigema owner Marcel Soural said he was sure the service sector would follow manufacturing in replacing expensive labor with machines.

“I am deeply convinced that in some time, when you will be served in a restaurant by a real person, it will be a terribly expensive restaurant because it will be unique,” he said.

Soural said there were already a few robotic bars around the world but the Cyberdog robot performed more complex tasks than the others – even doing little dances.

“When he has no order, he is bored and he shows that by making moves according to what he has in his programming.”

The bar, created by artist David Cerny and architect Tomas Cisar, also serves food meant to resemble astronauts’ diets. That is prepared by people, at least for now.

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NASA chooses nine companies to bid on flying to Moon

WASHINGTON: The US space agency on Thursday announced nine private companies, mostly start-ups, that will bid on $2.6 billion in contacts to build spacecraft to carry payloads to the Moon as early as 2019.

The move is part of NASA’s goal of sending people to the Moon in the next decade, for the first time since the Apollo era of the 1960s and ’70s.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine described the announcement as “tangible progress in America’s return to the Moon’s surface to stay.”

Of the group, the only well-known name is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which has a long track record of success with NASA and built the InSight lander that touched down Monday on Mars.

The others are Astrobotic Technology, Inc.; Deep Space Systems; Draper; Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Intuitive Machines, LLC; Masten Space Systems, Inc.; Moon Express; and Orbit Beyond.

“The Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts are indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts with a combined maximum contract value of $2.6 billion during the next 10 years,” said a NASA statement.

NASA has not given any specifics for the bidding process, other than to say it will “look at a number of factors when comparing the bids, such as technical feasibility, price and schedule.”

The decision marks a stark change in NASA’s mode of operation when it comes to America’s Moon aspirations — though private companies have been used for years to ferry gear to the International Space Station, and SpaceX and Boeing are working on spacecraft to carry astronauts to the Moon as early as 2019.

Instead of running a government-funded space program, like Apollo, the US space agency will buy services, essentially becoming a customer to private businesses that build their own spacecraft.

The approach will allow NASA to cut costs, Bridenstine said.

Earlier this year, NASA canceled its only robotic vehicle under development to explore the surface of the Moon, known as the Resource Prospector (RP) mission.

The vehicle had been in development for about a decade to explore a polar region of the Moon.

In 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States would once again send people to the lunar surface, as a step on the path to shipping people to Mars by the 2030s.

NASA’s current plan is to start by sending gear to the Moon, and build an orbiting lunar station beginning in 2022.

By 2023, the first rocket would carry astronauts around the Moon, in an even more distant orbit than the Apollo missions.

Landing actual astronauts on the Moon probably won’t happen until the end of the 2020s, NASA has said.

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GLOBAL LNG-Prices on downward spiral amid warm winter, high stocks

SINGAPORE: Asian spot prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) continued their downward spiral this week, falling to a four-month low as demand from top buyers Japan and China failed to materialize amid ample inventory.

Spot prices for January delivery in North Asia LNG-AS were estimated at about $9.80 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), down 20 cents from the previous week, while spot prices for cargoes delivered in February were estimated at about $9.70 to 9.80 per mmBtu, according to trade sources.

The market structure has flipped into a backwardated one, where prices for cargoes loading in the current month are higher than those loading in the forward months, making storage of the super-chilled fuel uneconomical.

Several of the tankers storing LNG off Singapore and Malaysia waters recently appear to be on the move, likely prompted by the change in market structure, traders said.

Demand from China, the world’s second-largest LNG importer, appears to be tepid with top supplier China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) offering to sell cargoes for January, traders added.

“The three oil majors’ storage tanks are very full and so far, north China is not cold,” a China-based LNG trader said referring to natural gas storage tanks of CNOOC, Sinopec and CNPC.

Industrial gas demand in North China is showing signs of a sharp slowdown as small manufacturers shut their doors or buy less gas, unable to cope with a drop-off in export orders and costs related to Beijing’s pollution control and reform measures, Reuters reported earlier this month.

Natural gas inventory levels in Japan and South Korea are still high, trade sources said.

“There is lots of LNG in Europe too. I expect prices to fall further,” an European trader said.

“China and South Korea have taken more cargoes than they expected they would need. Singapore stocks are also full.”

TENDERS AND DEALS

Indian Oil Corp likely bought two LNG cargoes on a delivered ex-ship basis into Gujarat between Jan. 7 and Jan. 14, and from Jan. 21 to Jan. 28 from trader Glencore at close to $9 per mmBtu, traders said, though the deal could not immediately be confirmed.

Gail India is proposing to swap three LNG cargoes across the first quarter of next year, trade sources said. Gail is offering a cargo a month from Cove Point for loading in the first quarter of next year in exchange for corresponding deliveries to India, one of the traders said.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), Angola LNG and Nigeria LNG offered cargoes this week, adding to the glut.

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Khursheed Shah among grabbers of Hindu’s lands, SC informed

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday resumed hearing of the case regarding encroachment of the lands in Sindh owned by the Hindu community, ARY News reported.

Minorities MNA Ramesh Kumar informed the bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, that Syed Khursheed Shah’s name is being taken in illegal encroachment of Hindu’s lands in Sukkur.

The chief justice questioned, is he the opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah? PTI MNA Kumar affirmed that Khursheed Shah was named in the report from Sukkur.

The Chief Justice said the court issuing notice to the people who have encroached these lands.

The bench also expressed its displeasure over the absence of the Advocate General of Sindh and imposed Rs 25,000 fine on him.

The court ordered the AG to pay the amount of fine in Supreme Court’s dam fund.

MNA Ramesh Kumar informed the bench that Domkis, Mazaris and Shahs, all of them have encroached lands of Hindus.

What action has been taken against the encroachers, the chief justice asked.

The report about encroached lands in Larkana division has been finalized, Kumar said.

In Larkana, Dharamshala, Gaoshala and even cramatorium have been encroached by the land grabbers, the MNA told the court.

The land of Prof. Bhagwan Devi was grabbed with an unregistered power of attorney, the MNA informed.

The court commenting on the Sindh government’s request for adjournment of the hearing observed that the court finds no reason to adjourn the case.

In an earlier hearing MNA Ramesh Kumar said the committee had highlighted areas with encroached land. He told the court that 45 applications were received from Larkana alone regarding land encroachment.

Responding to his statement, the CJP said he was extending scope of the committee so it could entertain all applications regarding the matter.

He, however, added that the apex court had particularly taken notice of Dr Bhagwan Devi, a retired professor, who in a video claimed that the Hindu community in Sindh was the victim of the worst lawlessness and mismanagement.

The video of Dr Bhagwan Devi came to light in October in which she said that the land mafia was taking over properties owned by Hindus in Sindh, especially Larkana, on the basis of “false power of attorney”. Devi added that affected members of the community were also being threatened into silence.

“Many Hindus of Larkana have sold their properties and are ready to leave [the country],” she regretted, adding that many have already left.

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Canada saw a spike in hate crimes in 2017

OTTAWA: The number of hate crimes reported to police in Canada jumped by 47 percent in 2017 from the previous year, targeting mostly Muslim, Jewish or black people, the government statistical agency said Thursday.

“For the year, police reported 2,073 hate crimes, 664 more than in 2016,” with most of the uptick in graffiti and vandalism, incitement of hatred, assaults, and uttering threats in Ontario and Quebec provinces, said Statistics Canada.

This followed steady but relatively small increases in previous years, the agency said.

Property crimes played the biggest role in the increase while violent hate crimes grew by 25 percent, it said.

These were motivated primarily by hatred of a race or ethnicity (878 crimes, up 32 percent), religion (842 crimes, up 83 percent), or sexual orientation (204 crimes, up 16 percent).

In particular, hate crimes against Muslims rose 151 percent to 349 in 2017 — a year marked by a xenophobic young man’s killing of six worshippers at a Quebec mosque.

Hate crimes against Jews rose 63 percent to 360, while those targeting blacks increased by 50 percent to 321.

Overall hate crimes accounted for a mere 0.1 percent of the 1.9 million crimes reported to police that year, excluding highway traffic offenses.

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WASHINGTON : The U.S. sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday in the third such operation this year, as the U.S. military increases the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China.

The voyage risks further raising tension with China but will likely be viewed in self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from U.S. President Donald Trump’s government amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.

“The ships’ transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” U.S. Pacific Fleet said in a statement.

“The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows.”

It said the passage was carried out by the destroyer USS Stockdale and the Pecos, a replenishment vessel.

Taiwan’s defense ministry said it was a normal transit through international waters in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan forces had monitored the passage of the ships.

China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing on Thursday that Beijing had expressed its concern over the passage to the United States.

“We urge the United States to … cautiously and appropriately handle the Taiwan issue, avoid damaging the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait and China-U.S. relations,” he said.

‘Core issue’

China’s defense ministry spokesman, Ren Guoqiang, said their military was fully aware of the U.S. action.

“The Taiwan issue is a matter of China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and is the most important, most sensitive core issue in China-U.S. relations, and involves China’s core interests,” Ren told a monthly news briefing.

“The will and determination of the Chinese military to protect our sovereignty and territorial integrity is unswerving.”

The U.S. patrol comes ahead of an expected meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Argentina on the sidelines of a G20 summit.

The U.S. Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait’s international waters in July, which had been the first such voyage in about a year.

The latest operation shows the U.S. Navy is increasing the pace of strait passages.

Washington has no formal ties with Taiwan, but is bound by law to help it defend itself and is the island’s main source of arms. The Pentagon says Washington has sold Taiwan more than $15 billion in weaponry since 2010.

China has been ramping up pressure to assert its sovereignty over the island, which it considers a breakaway province of “one China”.

Over the weekend, Taiwan’s ruling pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party suffered heavy losses in mayoral and county elections to the China-friendly Kuomintang, which has been welcomed by Beijing.

Taiwan is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which also include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and China’s increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom of navigation patrols.

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Warmonger Indian COAS threatens ‘drone strikes’ at Kashmiris, Pakistan

NEW DEHLI: Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat reciprocated to Pakistan’s peace initiative of opening Kartarpur with hollow claims of ‘striking drones’ at innocent Kashmiris and South Asian giant Pakistan.

Once again, unveiling the real warmonger side of India, General Bipin Rawat threatened on Thursday that Kashmiris should stay ready to bear harms caused by Indian drone attacks, adding, the strikes may go even beyond the Line of Control (LoC) towards Pakistan.

Giving implausible statements regarding ‘waging war’ or launching ‘surgical strike’ against its arch-rival Pakistan, has become a norm for Indian Chief of Army Staff.

Kashmiris should stay ready to bear harms caused by Indian drone attacks, General Bipin Rawat said

In an interview with an Indian media outlet, General Bipin made another threatening remarks in the month of September, saying “as soon as we get our government’s approval, we will start the war.”

Throughout the entire interview, India’s military head gave confusing statements, reflecting his vague thought process, where on one hand he said to be waiting for government’s permission to start a war, and on the other, the General claimed to have already been given a ‘task of war’.

It is worth mentioning that an Indian delegation is currently in Pakistan which arrived a day earlier to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor.

The unprecedented event of Kartarpur border opening can be termed as another achievement of Pakistan on diplomatic and moral grounds against India, which has continued the hostility with its Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj declaring that “opening of Kartarpur corridor does not imply beginning of any bilateral dialogue with Pakistan.”

She further announced on Wednesday that India will not partake in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) conference if it is held in Pakistan.

 

 

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The council had prepared a comprehensive document, Paigham-i-Pakistan, in January this year that had been acknowledged by senior scholars of the all four mainstream schools of thought in the country, the CII meeting, which was chaired by its chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz, said.

The landmark document from the religious body signed by 1829 religious scholars across the country, declared several actions as un-Islamic including suicide attacks, spreading sectarianism and anarchy in the name of religion etc.

Dr Ayaz said that to enforce recommendations of the CII is the responsibility of the government. He said, “we want severe punishments for those clerics who misuse their powers and issue decrees declaring a Muslim non-believer and pronounce him liable to be killed as per Sharia law.” He said all such decrees have been rejected by the CII.

The council suspended its agenda regarding triple talaq [divorce] in one sitting. The issue was on the agenda of the meeting and the CII will take up the matter in its next meeting.

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NAROWAL: Former Indian cricketer and member of Punjab cabinet, Navjot Singh Sidhu has said opening of Kartarpur crossing to bring opulence in the region, ARY News reported on Thursday.

Talking to the newsmen after his visit to Darbar Sahib, Mr. Sidhu said Kartarpur border opening to help in settling decade’s long unresolved issues between both the countries.

Terming the Kartarpur crossing opening, a landmark step taken by Prime Minister Imran Khan, he said, it will add its share in strengthening the economy of both the country and bring prosperity in south Asia.

On Wednesday (November 28), Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the foundation stone of Kartarpur Corridor which will link Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan with India’s Gurdaspur district.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Navjot Singh Sidhu, had said, Imran Khan has become a ‘key’ that can open any ‘lock’.

“Whenever the history of Kartarpur Sahib will be written, name of Imran Khan will top it,” Sidhu maintained, adding it is a miracle that had happened after 73 years, with Khan’s initiative.

After Pakistan’s initiative to open the Kartarpur Corridor on the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Baba Guru Nanak next year, India last week had agreed and decided to build the Kartarpur road corridor up to the border with Pakistan.

Pakistan and India both had made an official announcement on November 15 in this context.

Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara is located at the bank of Ravi river in Pakistan is about four km from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine.

The Sikh community was demanding for a long time to build a corridor linking India’s border district of Gurdaspur to historic gurudwara in Narowal, Pakistan. The corridor will give Indian pilgrims easy access to the shrine in Kartarpur.

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Federal Cabinet approves fencing of Pak-Afghan border

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Thursday approved proposal for fencing and lighting of Pak-Afghan border as part of a security measure on the border line, ARY News reported.

According to sources, the work on the border fencing will now begin after its approval from the federal cabinet.

The federal cabinet meeting also decided to continue accountability drive and action against corruption across the country. ‘More decisions will be taken to bring back looted money to the country’, the meeting unanimously decided.

The top government officials, however, remained inconclusive regarding carving out Gilgit-Baltistan as a separate province. The decision to make GB a constitutional province was deferred by the prime minister.

Meanwhile, the 100-day performance report of the PTI-led government was also presented before the Cabinet meeting. All the ministers unveiled their performance in first 100 days of governance. The reports were submitted to Prime Minister Imran Khan.

PM Khan had received a 100-day performance report of different ministries, outlining ‘feats and failures’ of the ministers in 100 days of governance on Nov 27.

According to the report, Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed and Minister of State for Communications Murad Saeed appeared to be having a tough contest in terms of edging past one another.

The report says that both the ministers completed their 100-day tasks in time. The ministry headed by Sheikh Rasheed registered an income of more than Rs 2 billion, while Murad Saeed’s ministry saw an addition of Rs 3 billion to the revenue in first 100 days in office.

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‘The depiction of mobile services and towers is false and wholly fictional’

MUMBAI: A big-ticket Indian film that shows a post-apocalyptic world in which cellphones turn against their users has ruffled the feathers of the country’s telecom companies, who say the movie is defamatory and promotes unscientific attitudes against mobile phones.

In a letter to the country’s censor board and the government, The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), asked that a certificate issued to allow the movie to be shown be revoked and its release suspended. The film is scheduled to start appearing in cinemas on Thursday.

Pitched as one of the biggest Bollywood releases of the year, “2.0” is a multi-lingual film which hopes to rival the big Hollywood franchises increasingly finding favour with Indian audiences. Its lead is Rajinikanth, an actor from the southern state of Tamil Nadu who has a huge fan following, and is often referred to as the biggest movie star in India.

The villain of the movie, a giant that is half-human and half-bird, has wings made out of cellphones, and at one point in the trailer, growls: “Every person who owns a cellphone is a murderer.”

Scenes from the trailer show cellphones shooting out of users’ hands and into the sky, rising up like a typhoon and engulfing everything in sight.

“The said depiction of mobile services and towers is false, based on no evidence and wholly fictional. It is grossly prejudicial to the complainant and its members,” said COAI’s letter dated Nov. 23. A copy of the letter was reviewed by Reuters.

A Censor Board official was not immediately available for comment.

An email sent to India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting seeking comment did not get a response outside of business hours.

“There is always a danger that some segments of the population can use the movie to instigate law and order problems and initiate tower shutdowns,” COAI director general Rajan Mathews told Reuters via a text message.

“We are only requesting a previewing of the movie to ensure there is no such danger. Problems leading to tower shut downs have started from less than what is portrayed in a movie such as ‘2.0’ with a star actor.”

Core members of the COAI – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Industries’ venture Jio – did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

India, the world’s fastest growing major mobile phone market, has an estimated 850 million mobile phones, according to tech research Counterpoint.

The producers of the film could not be immediately reached for a comment.

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CJP calls for full-fledged awareness campaign on population control countrywide

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan was informed on Thursday that the Council of Common Interests (CCI) has approved a policy, outlining strategy to control rising population growth rate in the country, ARY News reported.

Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar was hearing proceeding of the case after he returned to the country earlier in the day.

“Additional attorney general has ordered formation of respective task forces at provincial level with an aim to take measures for containing burgeoning population”, the court was told.

He said a grand symposium was being organised in Islamabad on Dec 5 in this regard.  The chief justice said that a full-fledged campaign be launched countrywide to raise awareness among people regarding bulging population. The hearing of the case was adjourned till December 13.

On November 20, the Centre and the provinces decided to form task forces within their jurisdictions to control rapid population growth.

The task forces is headed by the prime minister at the national level and by the respective chief ministers at the provincial levels.

While taking suo motu notice of the unchecked population growth in the country, the Supreme Court in June said the formulated policy would then be referred to the government that would take charge after the July 25 election for its consideration and implementation.

The apex court, the same month, had constituted a committee to formulate a uniform policy to defuse the population bomb.

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar had directed to hold seminars, conduct research and study examples of other countries, which tackled the growing population issue, and asked the committee submit a working paper within 15 days.

The CJP had also expressed that every child born was indebted as they carried a huge loan on their shoulders.

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