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CONDEMNSTRIKE

JIBRAN AHMAD &

MEHREEN ZAHRA-MALIK
CHARSADDA, ISLAMABAD,
JANUARY 20

ARMED MILITANTS stormed a

university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday,
killing at least 20 people and
wounding dozens a little more
than a year after the massacre of
134 students at a school in
Peshawar nearby, officials said.
A senior Pakistani Taliban
commander claimed responsibility for the assault in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province, but an
official spokesman later denied
involvement, calling the attack
un-Islamic.
The violence nevertheless
shows that militants retain the
ability to launch attacks, despite
a country-wide anti-terrorism
crackdown and a military campaign against their strongholds
along the lawless border with
Afghanistan.
A security official said the
death toll could rise to as high as
40 at Bacha Khan University in
the city of Charsadda. The army
said it had concluded operations
to clear the campus six hours after the attack began, and that
four gunmen were dead.
A spokesman for rescue
workers, Bilal Ahmad Faizi, said
19bodieshadbeenrecoveredincluding students, guards, policemen and at least one teacher,
named by media as chemistry
professor Syed Hamid Husain.
Husain reportedly shot back at
the gunmen with a pistol to allow his students to flee.
Many of the dead were apparently shot in the head execution-style, TV footage showed.
Themilitants,usingthecover
of thick, wintry fog, scaled the
walls of the university on
Wednesday morning before en-

UNITED STATES

Kerrywarns
Saudiovernukes
Washington: US Secretary
of State John Kerry has
warned Saudi Arabia
against indulging in trade
of nuclear weapons, saying there will be all kinds
of NPT consequences if
Riyadh went ahead with
any such plan. The warning from Kerry comes
amidst media reports that
Saudi Arabia is trying to
buy nuclear weapons
from Pakistan.

CHINA

Blastatfirework
factorykills3
Beijing: A massive explosion Wednesday at a fireworks plant in southern
China killed three people
andinjured53,whileshattering windows of homes
in the area, officials and
state media reports said.

Strongly condemn
the terror attack at
Bacha Khan
University in
Pakistan.
Condolences to
families of the
deceased. Prayers
with the injured
NARENDRA MODI,
PRIME MINISTER

Blood stains and flak jackets used by attackers lie in the hallway at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday. Reuters
teringbuildingsandopeningfire
onstudentsandteachersinclassrooms and hostels, police said.
Students told media they
sawseveralyoungmenwielding
AK-47gunsstormingtheuniversity housing where many students were sleeping.
Thirty five of the wounded
remain in hospital, a local police
official said late on Wednesday.

Contradicting claims
The gunmen attacked as the
universitypreparedtohostapoetry recital on Wednesday afternoon to commemorate the
deathanniversaryof KhanAbdul
Ghaffar Khan, a popular ethnic

Office of the Executive Engineer, Provincial Division, P.W.D., Shamli.

Short Term Tender Notice
Date : 14.01.2016
Latter No. 104 /8A
The Executive Engineer, Provinsial Division, P.W.D., Shamli on behalf of Governor of Uttar Pradesh invites the
sealed percentage rate bids from the eligible and approved contractors registered with UP, PWD, Class A, B, C, D
& E as the case may be. Bidders are advised to submit their bid according to prescribed qualification as per bidders instruction sl.no. 4 ( I.T.B. General)
1. Detaile of works are as under
Sl
No.

DISTRICT

Name of Work

Approxi
mate
Cost
(Rs.)

Special Repair works in year 2015-16

1 Shamli Badsahpur
10.00
Sirashikheda to Lishad
Junior High School.

Bid
Cost of Bid Time of
Security Document Completi
(Rs.)
on

1.00

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

Address of Address of Address Address Address

Executive Superinten of Chief
of
of Bank
Engineer
ding
Engineer District
Executing
Engineer
Magistrate
the
work
8

P.D. P.W.D., S.E Office,

Saharanpur
Shamli
Circle,
P.W.D.,
Saharanpur

10
C.E.
Office,
West
Zone,
P.W.D.,
Meerut.

11
D.M.
Office,
Shamli

12
P. N.B,
Palika
Bazar,
Shamli

Shamli Meerut Karnal road to

Hassanpur

10.00

1.00

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

Shamli Hassanpur to Kabarraut 20.00

road.

2.00

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

Shamli Shamli Budhana road

to Butradi
Shamli Shimbhalka to Balwa

5.50

0.55

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

22.00

2.20

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT
500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

Shamli D.Y. road to Mimala

Matnawali via Kiwana
road

30.00

3.00

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

Shamli Badhev to Goharni

road.

16.00

1.60

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

Shamli Goharani to Mundet

road

8.00

0.80

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

Shamli Bhaiswal to Pelakha

road.

9.00

0.90

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

10

Shamli Bhaiswal to Silavar

road

16.00

1.60

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

11

Shamli Garhi Pukhta to

Purmafi road.

18.00

1.80

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

12

Shamli Ambehta Ridan to

Purmafi road

16.00

1.60

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

13

Shamli Naya Gaon Badhev to

Tittoli road

16.00

1.60

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

14

Shamli Dundukheda to
Issopurtil road

15.00

1.50

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

15

Shamli Mamor to Sahpat road. 5.00

0.50

500.00+
45 Days
150.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

16

Shamli P.K. road to Panjit

18.00
Mamor via Titarwada
bypass Unchavaon km.
5 to 8

1.80

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

17

Shamli P.K. road to Ramda

road.

13.00

1.30

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

18

Shamli Construction of drain at 25.00

shamli Bhorakala road
km 10 (Abadi Portion)

2.50

500.00+
45 Days
300.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

19

Shamli D.Y. road to Loharipur

Brahamkheda road.

0.50

500.00+
45 Days
150.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

1.40

500.00+
45 Days
225.00+VAT

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

-do-

5.00

Reconstruction of culvert in year 2015-16

Shamli Reconstruction of cul- 14.00

vert Kandhala to
Kiwana via Meerut karnal road km.-1 (ODR)

A set of bidding documents may be purchased from the office of concerned Executive Engineers,
Superintending Engineer, Shamli as mentioned in columns 8, respectively of the table corresponding to the
respective work, between 11:00 am to 04:00 pm on any working day from 29-01-2016 to 04-02-2016 for a nonrefundable fee of Rs. 500.00 (Rupees Five hundred only) for stationary charges and tender cost per set per
work as indicated in column 6, in the form of cash or Demand Draft drawn on any Scheduled bank in favour of
"Executive Engineer, P.D., P.W.D., Shamli " payable at Shamli. Interested bidders may obtain further information at the same office from where the documents are purchased. Bidding documents requested by mail will be
dispatched by registered/speed post on payment of an extra amount of Rs. 300.00 (Rupee Three hundred only).
Applications for issue of Bidding documents by post shall be entertained only upto 4.00 PM on 02-02-2016 the
authority inviting tender will not be held responsible for the postal delay, if any, in the delivery of documents or
non-receipt of the same. Bids must be delivered to the office of the Executive Engineer executing the work,
mentioned in columns 8, of the table corresponding to the respective work on or before 12.00 noon on 05-022016 and the Technical/ Financial bids will be opened on the next working day, that is, on 06-02-2016 at 12.30
pm., in the office of the District Magistrate mentioned in columns 11, in the presence of the bidders who wish to
attend if the office happens to be closed on the date of receipt or opening of the bids as specified, the bids will
be received or opened on the next working day, respectively, at the same time and venue, and validity of bid
will be considered from original date.
Bid documents and other details consisting of qualification information and eligibility criterion of bidders, plans,
specifications, drawings, the schedule of quantities of the various classes of work to be done and the set of
terms & conditions of contract to be complied with by the Contractor can be seen in the office of the Executive
Engineer mentioned in column 8 of the table corresponding to the respective work between hours of 11.00 am
to 04.00 pm on any working day between 29-01-16 to 04-02-2016
CERTIFIED that all bid document are checked and find correct.

Sd/Assistant Engineer
Provincial Division,
P.W.D., Shami

joins chorus over lack of diversity in Academy Awards nominations

At Bacha Khan University, many shot execution-style in the head; Taliban issues contradicting claims of responsibility

Singapore: Singapore arrested 27 Bangladeshi

constructionworkerswho
supported Islamist groups
including al Qaeda and
IslamicStateanddeported
26 of them, the government said on Wednesday.
The 27 were arrested in
NovemberandDecember,
the home ministry said.
Twenty-six were deported, while the last one
was jailed for attempting
toleaveSingaporeillegally
after hearing of the arrest
of the others.

20

LUPITA NYONGO,

Militants storm Pak university, kill 20

BRIEFLY

(The lack of diversity at Oscars) has me

thinking about unconscious prejudice
and what merits prestige in our culture.

UPID-103228 dt- 18-1-16

www.up.gov.in

Sd/Executive Engineer
Provincial Division,
P.W.D., Shamli
For and on behalf of Governor of U.P.
E-mail ID- eepdpwdshamli@gmail.com
Ph. No. 01398270500

One teacher, Syed

Hamid Husain, was
killed after he shot
back at the gunmen
with a pistol in order to
allow students to flee
Pashtun independence activist
after whom the university is
named.
Vice chancellor Fazal Rahim
said that the university teaches
over 3,000 students and was
hosting an additional 600 visitors for the poetry recital.

Umar Mansoor, a senior

Pakistani Taliban commander
involved in the December 2014
attack on the army school in
Peshawar, claimed responsibility for the Charsadda assault and
said it involved four of his men.
He told Reuters by telephone
the university was targeted because it was a government institution that supported the army.
However, later in the day, official Taliban spokesman
Muhammad Khorasani issued a
written statement disassociatingthemilitantsfromtheattack,
callingitun-Islamic.Youthwho
are studying in non-military institutions, we consider them as

builders of the future nation and

weconsidertheirsafetyandprotection our duty, it said.
Thereasonfortheconflicting
claims was not immediately
clear. While the Taliban leadership is fractured, Mansoor is believed to remain loyal to central
leader Mullah Fazlullah.
By afternoon on Wednesday,
themilitarysaidallfourgunmen
had been killed.
The operation is over and
theuniversityhasbeencleared,
Pakistan army spokesman
General Asim Bajwa said. A security official said he had seen
the four gunmens bodies riddled with bullets. REUTERS

I am deeply
saddened to learn of
the barbaric
terrorist attack...
The attack is all the
more condemnable
as the terrorists
chose for this
heinous crime on the
death anniversary of
the great Badshah
Khan, who worked
tirelessly for peace
PRANAB MUKHERJEE,
PRESIDENT

MOHAMMED EMWAZI

IS confirms
death of
Jihadi John
DAVE BRYAN

NEW YORK, JANUARY 20

THE ISLAMIC State group has acknowledged the death of the
masked militant known as
Jihadi John, who appeared in
several videos depicting the beheadingsof Westernhostages,in
an article in its online Englishlanguage magazine Dabiq.
A eulogising profile of
JihadiJohnappearedinthemagazine which was shared online
late Tuesday by Islamic State
sympathisers. Jihadi John had
been identified by the US military as Mohammed Emwazi, a
Kuwaiti-born British citizen.
His harshness towards the
kuffar (disbelievers) was manifested through deeds that enraged all the nations, religions,
and factions of kufr, the entire
world bearing witness to this,
saidtheEnglish-languagearticle
which confirmed that Emwazi
was killed in a drone strike.
Army Col. Steve Warren, a US
military spokesman, said in
November that the Army was
reasonablycertainthatadrone
strikeinSyriahadkilledEmwazi,
who spoke in beheading videos
with a British accent as he
wielded a knife. Separately, a US
official said three drones two
US and one British targeted
thevehicleinwhichEmwaziwas
believedtobetravelinginRaqqa,
the capital of the ISs self-proclaimed caliphate. AP

Suicide bomber hits Afghan TV channel bus, 7 dead

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
KABUL, JANUARY 20

SEVEN PEOPLE were killed

Wednesday when a suicide
bomber struck a minibus carrying employees of popular
Afghan TV channel TOLO, just
months after the Taliban declared the network a legitimate
military target.
The bombing near the
Russian embassy in downtown
Kabul also left 24 people
wounded, in the latest in a wave
of attacks despite an international push to jumpstart Taliban
peace talks.
No group has so far claimed
responsibility for the bombing,
which marks the first major at-

tack on a media organisation in

Afghanistan.
Our office bus taking TOLO
staff home came under attack,
an employee at the channel told
AFP, requesting anonymity.
The bombing left some staff
members burning inside the vehicle, another employee said,
adding that the bus was mostly
filled with behind-the-scenes
workers from the channels
graphics and dubbing departments.
The loud explosion sent a
plumeof smokerisinginthesky,
with ambulances and firefighters rushing to the scene which
waslittered with charred debris.
Theinteriorministrysaidthe
attack left seven people dead
and 24 others wounded.

Fire-fighters at the blast site in Kabul on Wednesday. Reuters

The Taliban in October declared TOLO and 1TV, both privatelyrunnewsstationsaslegit-

imate military targets.

The group said the move was
in response to their reports

claiming that Taliban fighters

raped women at a female hostel
inKunduz,afterthegroupbriefly
capturedthenortherncityinlate
September last year.
The Taliban rejected the reportsasfabrications,saying they
were examples of propaganda
by the satanic networks.
The attack, which highlights
the growing dangers faced by
journalists in Afghanistan,
comes just two days after a second round of a four-country
meetinginKabulaimedatreviving talks with the Taliban.
Delegates from Afghanistan,
Pakistan, China and the US convened in the Afghan capital
Monday for a one-day meeting
seeking a negotiated end to the
14-year Taliban insurgency.

Trump gets Palins backing British police question 10-year-old

EMILY FLITTER

AMES, IOWA, JANUARY 20

SARAH PALIN, the politicianturned-reality TV star offered a
passionate endorsement on
TuesdaytoRepublicanpresidential front-runner Donald Trump,
therealityTVstar-turned-politician, declaring that the status
quo has got to go.
Palin, a former Alaska governorwhowasRepublicanSenator
John McCains running mate in
the 2008 election won by
Democrats Barack Obama and
Joe Biden, appeared with Trump

at a rally in Ames, Iowa, two

weeks before the states
February 1 caucus. Trump is in a
close race in Iowa with fellow
Republican Ted Cruz.
It is unclear whether Palin
can attract additional support to
Trump, whose own blunt rhetoric has helped lift him to the top
of the crowded Republican field.
Heisfromtheprivatesector,
not a politician, Palin said after
joiningTrumponstage.CanIget
a hallelujah? She described
Trump as an anti-establishment
candidate who would kick ISIS
ass, referring to the Islamic
State. REUTERS

boy for writing terrorist for terrace

ADITI KHANNA

LONDON, JANUARY 20
A SPELLING mistake has landed
a 10-year-old Muslim boy in the
UK in trouble.
The boy, whose has not been
identified, was questioned by
the police in north west England
for mistakenly writing that he
lives in a terrorist house instead of terraced house during
an English lesson in school.
It emerged that was a

spelling error as he meant to

write terraced house, in reference to an architectural style in
England of rows of identical
homes with shared side walls.
The boy was interviewed by
Lancashire Police at his home in
Accrington, Lancashire, the following day and the family laptop was examined.
This was reported to the police but was dealt with by a joint
visit by a PC from the division
and social services, not by anyone from Prevent. There were

not thought to be any areas for

concern and no further action
was required by any agency, a
LancashirePolicestatementsaid.
The UK governments antiradicalisation Prevent strategy
and the 2015 Counter Terrorism
and Security Act places a statutorydutyonschoolsandcolleges
to prevent people from being
drawn into terrorism.
Teachers have been legally
obliged to report any suspected
extremist behaviour to police
since July. PTI

ERA-DEFINING FIND

Good evidence for 9th planet in solar system

MARCIA DUNN

CAPECANAVERAL,JANUARY20
SCIENTISTS
REPORTED
Wednesday they finally have
good evidence for Planet X, a
true ninth planet on the fringes
of our solar system.
The gas giant is thought to be
almost as big as Neptune and orbiting billions of miles beyond
Neptunes path distant
enough to take 10,000 to 20,000
years to circle the sun.
This Planet 9, as the two
CaliforniaInstituteof Technology
researchers call it, hasnt been
spottedyet.Theybasetheirfind-

ings on mathematical and computer modeling, and anticipate

itsdiscoveryviatelescopewithin
five years or less.
Thetworeportedontheirresearch Wednesday in the
Astronomical Journal because
they want people to help them
look for it.
We could have stayed quiet
and quietly spent the next five
years searching the skies ourselves and hoping to find it. But I
would rather somebody find it
sooner, than me find it later, astronomer Mike Brown said.
I want to see it. I want to see
what it looks like. I want to understand where it is, and I think

Once its detected, Mike

Brown insists there will
be no Pluto-style
debate. Brown ought
to know; hes the
so-called Pluto killer
this will help.
Once its detected, Brown insists there will be no Pluto-style
planetary debate. Brown ought
to know; hes the so-called Pluto
killer who helped lead the
charge against Plutos planetary
status in 2006.

His colleague in this latest

Planet9report,alsofromCaltech
in Pasadena, is planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin.
The two shaped their prediction on the fact that six objects
in the icy Kuiper Belt, or Twilight
Zoneonthefarreachesof thesolar system, appear to be influenced by only one thing: a real
planet.
Brown actually discovered
one of these six objects more
than a decade ago, Sedna, a large
minor planet way out there on
the solar system frontier.
This is a prediction. What
we have found is a gravitational
signature of Planet 9 lurking in

theoutskirtsof thesolarsystem,
Batyginsaid.Wehavenotfound
the object itself, he stressed,
adding that the actual discovery
when it happens will be eradefining.
Added Brown: We have felt
a great disturbance in the force.
Depending on where this
Planet 9 is in its egg-shaped orbit, a space telescope may be
needed to confirm its presence,
the researchers said. Or good
backyard telescopes may spot it,
they noted, if the planet is relatively closer to us in its swing
around the sun. Its an estimated
20 billion to 100 billion miles
from us. AP