METRO GROUP presents transformation progress to shareholders Sales and EBIT guidance achieved in the short financial year 2013 Growth driving online and delivery sales increased Solid start to the new business year 2013/14 despite tough market conditions Supervisory Board elections: Fredy Raas nominated as a member of the Supervisory Board representing the shareholders Future Management Board remuneration to include Sustainability component At today's Annual General Meeting of METRO AG, Olaf Koch, Chairman of the Management Board, informed shareholders about the company's progress made with its transformation process. Thanks as well to the expansion of the key growth drivers – online business and delivery services – METRO GROUP concluded its short financial year 2013 successfully despite the persistently difficult business conditions. "During 2013, we focused predominantly on creating added value for our customers," Koch said. "In doing so, we expanded existing activities as well as developed and implemented a large number of new ideas and concepts. We gained market share in many countries and improved our market position. We will move ahead with our transformation efforts during the financial year 2013/14 and underscore them with our new brand positioning, 'YOU & METRO'".   During the short financial year 2013, METRO GROUP fulfilled its sales and EBIT guidance while still facing difficult retailing conditions: Sales adjusted for portfolio changes and currency effects rose by 0.9% to €45.0 billion. Reported sales totalled €46.3 billion, 2.2% below the level from the previous year's period (9M 2012: €47.4 billion). This can be attributed to the persistently challenging economic environment in many parts of Europe, recently completed portfolio changes as well as negative currency effects. At €728 million, EBIT before special items was €22 million above the previous year's figure. The net profit for the period before special items stands at €16 million (9M 2012: €165 million). The net profit for the period includes special items in the amount of €87 million (9M 2012: € 179 million). Adjusted for these special items, the net loss for the period comes in at € -71 million. This corresponds in the short financial year with the net loss for the period attributable to the shareholders of METRO AG. The earnings per share before special items came in at €0.03 (9M 2012: € 0.49). Adjusted for special items, the earnings per share amounted to € -0.22 (9M 2012: € -0.06). In order to strengthen the company's financial substance, the Management Board of METRO AG will propose to today's Annual General Meeting 2014 not to pay out a dividend from the short financial year 2013. Solid start to financial year 2013/14  During the first quarter of the financial year 2013/14, METRO GROUP created a solid foundation for its continued efforts to successfully transform the company. Group sales amounted to €18.7 billion, compared with €19.4 billion in Q1 2012/13. The decline of 3.3% resulted mainly from currency effects as well as the completed and announced portfolio changes (Real Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania and Ukraine as well as Media Markt China). Adjusted for currency and portfolio effects, METRO GROUP increased sales by 1.1%. Revenue share generated with own brands, online and delivery business continued to grow. EBIT before special items finished the period under review at €1,073 million and, as forecast, below the level for the previous year's period (€1,273 million) due to lower real estate income. EBIT climbed to €1,094 million during Q1 2013/14, compared with €985 million in Q1 2012/13.  Supervisory Board elections  The agenda for today's Annual General Meeting includes an election for an additional member to the Supervisory Board. Dr Fredy Raas is to be elected for the first time to the Supervisory Board of METRO AG. Raas joined the Board by court appointment at the end of July. His appointment expires at the end of the Annual General Meeting. He replaced the late Prof. Dr Dr h. c. mult. Erich Greipl, who died at the beginning of July 2013, as a shareholder representative on the Board. The Annual General Meeting will now take a decision on Raas' continued service on the Supervisory Board.  Sustainability components planned for Management Board remuneration  The Annual General Meeting will also be asked to vote on a new system of Management Board remuneration. In future, the issue of sustainability will play a major role in remuneration. Following the vote by the Annual General Meeting, the Management Board plans to modify the remuneration of the company's top managers in a similar fashion. "At METRO GROUP, sustainability is an integral component of the company's strategy in financial, social and environmental terms," said Heiko Hutmacher, the Chief Human Resources Officer. "We believe that it is correct and appropriate to anchor sustainability into the remuneration system for our top managers." The new Sustainable Performance Plan (SPP) should be introduced as from the beginning of the financial year 2013/14. Under the new plan, 25 per cent of the long-term incentive component of Management Board remuneration will be tied to the achievement of sustainability targets in addition to key performance indicators based on the company's share price. The amount of the long-term incentive covering the sustainability components will depend on the ranking that METRO AG achieves in the RobecoSAM Sustainability Assessment in comparison with its competitors in the industry. The ranking put together by the independent Sustainability Rating agency RobecoSAM forms the basis for membership in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, one of the world's leading sustainability indices.   METRO GROUP with good marks in Sustainalytics Sustainability ranking  During the first quarter of the financial year 2013/14, the research firm Sustainalytics has given METRO GROUP good sustainability marks: in Sustainalytics' latest ranking, METRO GROUP placed sixth among 72 companies in the food retailers' category. As a result, it obtained the status of outperformer. Sustainalytics specialises in analysing and rating the sustainability activities of companies and countries by using an approach that covers environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics. The strong ranking earned by METRO GROUP's sustainability activities resulted in part from the group-wide cross-product purchasing policies that the company put into place during the short financial year. This policy spells out the fundamental requirements for sustainable supply-chain and procurement management. It also forms the framework for guidelines that address specific issues related to individual product and raw-material categories. This includes the guidelines for palm oil and packaging that were introduced during the short financial year 2013.  ads Earn money with Payza Reference: About Company: METRO GROUP is one of the largest and most international retailing companies. The Group reached sales of around €66 billion in the financial year 2012/13 (based on pro-forma calculating period 1.10.2012-30.9.2013 due to short financial year 2013). The company has a headcount of around 265,000 employees and operates around 2,200 stores in 32 countries. The performance of METRO GROUP is based on the strength of its sales brands which operate independently in their respective market segment: METRO/MAKRO Cash & Carry – the international leader in self-service wholesale, Real hypermarkets, Media Markt and Saturn – European market leader in consumer electronics retailing, and Galeria Kaufhof department stores. text Send and receive money online with Payza

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A woman holds up a SIM card, which she won in a June lottery, in Rangoon, Burma, June 24, 2013

 

BOSTON — A United Nations group that advises nations on cybersecurity plans to send out an alert about significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could potentially enable hackers to remotely attack at least half a billion phones.

The bug, discovered by German firm, allows hackers to remotely gain control of and also clone certain mobile SIM cards.

Hackers could use compromised SIMs to commit financial crimes or engage in electronic espionage, according to Berlin's Security Research Labs, which will describe the vulnerabilities at the Black Hat hacking conference that opens in Las Vegas on July 31.

The U.N.'s Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union, which has reviewed the research, described it as "hugely significant."

"These findings show us where we could be heading in terms of cybersecurity risks," ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré told Reuters.

He said the agency would notify telecommunications regulators and other government agencies in nearly 200 countries about the potential threat and also reach out to hundreds of mobile companies, academics and other industry experts.

A spokeswoman for the GSMA, which represents nearly 800 mobile operators worldwide, said it also reviewed the research.

"We have been able to consider the implications and provide guidance to those network operators and SIM vendors that may be impacted," said GSMA spokeswoman Claire Cranton.

Nicole Smith, a spokeswoman for Gemalto NV, the world's biggest maker of SIM cards, said her company supported GSMA's response.

"Our policy is to refrain from commenting on details relating to our customers' operations," she said.

Becoming the SIM

Cracking SIM cards has long been the Holy Grail of hackers because the tiny devices are located in phones and allow operators to identify and authenticate subscribers as they use networks.

Karsten Nohl, the chief scientist who led the research team and will reveal the details at Black Hat, said the hacking only works on SIMs that use an old encryption technology known as DES. The technology is still used on at least one out of eight SIMs, or a minimum of 500 million phones, according to Nohl.

The ITU estimates some 6 billion mobile phones are in use worldwide. It plans to work with the industry to identify how to protect vulnerable devices from attack, Touré said.

Once a hacker copies a SIM, it can be used to make calls and send text messages impersonating the owner of the phone, said Nohl, who has a doctorate in computer engineering from the University of Virginia.

"We become the SIM card. We can do anything the normal phone users can do," Nohl said in a phone interview. "If you have a MasterCard number or PayPal data on the phone, we get that too."

IPhone, Android, BlackBerry

The mobile industry has spent several decades defining common identification and security standards for SIMs to protect data for mobile payment systems and credit card numbers. SIMs are also capable of running apps.

Nohl said Security Research Labs found mobile operators in many countries whose phones were vulnerable, but declined to identify them. He said mobile phone users in Africa could be among the most vulnerable because banking is widely done via mobile payment systems with credentials stored on SIMs.

All types of phones are vulnerable, including iPhones from Apple Inc, phones that run Google Inc's Android software and BlackBerry Ltd smartphones, he said.

BlackBerry's director of security response and threat analysis, Adrian Stone, said in a statement that his company proposed new SIM card standards last year to protect against the types of attacks described by Nohl, which the GSMA has adopted and advised members to implement.

Apple and Google declined comment.

CTIA, a U.S. mobile industry trade group based in Washington, D.C., said the new research likely posed no immediate threat.

"We understand the vulnerability and are working on it," said CTIA Vice President John Marinho. "This is not what hackers are focused on. This does not seem to be something they are exploiting." 

 

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Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

FER-07 Voter of Pakistan	81,213,620
FER-07 Verified Voter of Pakistan	44,027,567
FER-07 Un-Verified Voter of Pakistan	37,186,053
Draft Electoral Rolls (DER-2011) Voters of Pakistan	80,724,009
NADRA Augmented Voters in DER-2011	36,696,442

Province Wise Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

Province	FER-2007 Voters	FER-2007 Verified Voters	FER-2007 Un-Verified Voters	NADRA Augmented Voters	DER-2011 Voters
PUNJAB	45,147,994	26,794,918	18,353,076	20,259,231	47,054,149
SINDH	19,752,843	9,154,456	10,598,387	8,618,587	17,773,043
KHYBER PAKHTUN KHWA	10,804,696	6,128,905	4,675,791	5,513,217	11,642,122
FATA	1,279,111	490,456	788,655	759,775	1,250,231
BALOCHISTAN	4,228,976	1,458,832	2,770,144	1,545,632	3,004,464
Totals	81,213,620	44,027,567	37,186,053	36,696,442	80,724,009

District Wise Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

PUNJAB

S No	DISTRICT	FER-2007 Voters	FER-2007 Verified Voters	FER-2007 Un-VerifiedVoters	NADRA Augmented Voters	DER-2011 Voters
1	ATTOCK	855,984	648,173	207,811	367,277	1,015,450
2	BAHAWALNAGAR	1,367,541	713,502	654,039	470,324	1,183,826
3	BAHAWALPUR	1,666,623	821,316	845,307	625,023	1,446,339
4	BHAKKAR	566,372	427,485	138,887	263,835	691,320
5	CHAKWAL	830,827	643,121	187,706	267,704	910,825
6	JHANG *	1,892,374	966,675	925,699	674,629	1,099,301
7	CHINIOT *	-	-	-		542,003
8	DERA GHAZI KHAN	1,107,361	518,321	589,040	452,264	970,585
9	FAISALABAD	2,956,591	1,952,980	1,003,611	1,546,433	3,499,413
10	GUJRANWALA	2,458,141	1,201,501	1,256,640	947,981	2,149,482
11	GUJRAT	1,289,562	879,173	410,389	658,333	1,537,506
12	HAFIZABAD	402,879	280,778	122,101	248,575	529,353
13	JHELUM	749,255	506,645	242,610	226,753	733,398
14	KASUR	1,204,503	683,447	521,056	588,548	1,271,995
15	KHANEWAL	1,029,786	672,971	356,815	519,641	1,192,612
16	KHUSHAB	556,930	420,956	135,974	238,260	659,216
17	LAHORE	3,672,638	2,177,800	1,494,838	2,082,456	4,260,256
18	LAYYAH	558,674	402,927	155,747	299,456	702,383
19	LODHRAN	532,748	374,974	157,774	299,838	674,812
20	MANDI BAHAUDDIN	649,070	451,991	197,079	325,995	777,986
21	MIANWALI	638,111	447,605	190,506	282,681	730,286
22	MULTAN	2,214,172	1,049,382	1,164,790	996,505	2,045,887
23	MUZAFFARGARH	1,339,702	810,288	529,414	663,564	1,473,852
24	NANKANA SAHIB	604,979	371,447	233,532	290,875	662,322
25	NAROWAL	645,934	403,341	242,593	324,933	728,274
26	OKARA	1,504,698	721,187	783,511	554,900	1,276,087
27	PAKPATTAN	651,541	413,172	238,369	360,359	773,531
28	RAHIM YAR KHAN	2,157,946	1,018,065	1,139,881	712,358	1,730,423
29	RAJANPUR	577,843	291,140	286,703	329,111	620,251
30	RAWALPINDI	2,430,376	1,610,371	820,005	986,156	2,596,527
31	SAHIWAL	954,075	614,368	339,707	461,908	1,076,276
32	SARGODHA	1,941,928	1,065,187	876,741	687,484	1,752,671
33	SHEIKHUPURA	951,717	560,950	390,767	577,958	1,138,908
34	SIALKOT	1,485,947	989,570	496,377	743,682	1,733,252
35	TOBA TEK SINGH	892,665	624,651	268,014	415,585	1,040,236
36	VEHARI	1,325,953	730,875	595,078	443,731	1,174,606
37	ISLAMABAD	482,548	328,583	153,965	324,116	652,699
Total		45,147,994	26,794,918	18,353,076	20,259,231	47,054,149

* CHINIOT was previously Part of District JHANG

District Wise Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

SINDH

S No	District	FER-2007 Voters	FER-2007 Verified Voters	FER-2007 Un-Verified  Voters	NADRA Augmented Voters	DER-2011 Voters
1	BADIN	566,213	260,141	306,072	304,559	564,700
2	CITY  KARACHI	6,634,238	3,913,454	2,720,784	2,889,043	6,802,497
3	DADU	831,479	213,247	618,232	339,397	552,644
4	GHOTKI	579,634	269,850	309,784	266,453	536,303
5	HYDERABAD	1,129,049	530,810	598,239	391,404	922,214
6	JACOBABAD	457,501	129,707	327,794	252,795	382,502
7	JAMSHORO	504,351	172,774	331,577	185,623	358,397
8	KASHMORE	390,462	102,379	288,083	206,985	309,364
9	KHAIRPUR	1,096,170	399,403	696,767	376,880	776,283
10	LARKANA	725,489	240,762	484,727	314,519	555,281
11	MATIARI	275,007	141,794	133,213	138,662	280,456
12	MIRPUR KHAS	641,274	307,420	333,854	261,017	568,437
13	NAUSHAHRO FEROZE	768,624	287,596	481,028	234,498	522,094
14	SANGHAR	693,972	366,258	327,714	385,497	751,755
15	SHAHDAD KOT	312,391	163,896	148,495	298,678	462,574
16	SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD	632,039	294,294	337,745	302,469	596,763
17	SHIKARPUR	512,755	211,019	301,736	260,173	471,192
18	SUKKUR	535,551	263,550	272,001	241,115	504,665
19	TANDO ALLAHYAR	263,479	140,585	122,894	125,246	265,831
20	TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN	287,887	95,789	192,098	112,311	208,100
21	THARPARKAR	493,918	216,024	277,894	234,272	450,296
22	THATTA	812,567	265,723	546,844	341,248	606,971
23	UMER KOT	608,793	167,981	440,812	155,743	323,724
Total		19,752,843	9,154,456	10,598,387	8,618,587	17,773,043

District Wise Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

KHYBER PAKHTUN KHWA

S No	District	FER-2007 Voters	FER-2007 Verified Voters	FER-2007 Un-Verified  Voters	NADRA Augmented Voters	DER-2011 Voters
1	ABBOTTABAD	658,130	401,556	256,574	262,961	664,517
2	BANNU *	390,420	194,929	195,491	209,763	404,692
3	BATAGRAM	151,413	113,317	38,096	88,602	201,919
4	BUNER	290,460	167,849	122,611	179,368	347,217
5	CHARSADDA	520,536	305,995	214,541	336,535	642,530
6	CHITRAL	196,888	117,923	78,965	76,944	194,867
7	D. I. KHAN *	561,575	299,123	262,452	283,644	582,767
8	HANGU	187,433	101,287	86,146	105,294	206,581
9	HARIPUR	484,139	319,751	164,388	197,478	517,229
10	KARAK	291,836	183,385	108,451	107,552	290,937
11	KOHAT *	406,382	230,918	175,464	222,403	453,321
12	KOHISTAN	320,003	42,133	277,870	75,728	117,861
13	LAKKI MARWAT *	278,998	170,522	108,476	148,423	318,945
14	LOWER DIR	391,891	237,839	154,052	266,723	504,562
15	MALAKAND PROTECTED AREA	233,516	157,923	75,593	143,924	301,847
16	MANSEHRA	764,614	442,537	322,077	237,601	680,138
17	MARDAN	774,081	478,437	295,644	438,596	917,033
18	NOWSHERA	501,443	305,912	195,531	276,669	582,581
19	PESHAWAR *	1,255,991	645,794	610,197	735,316	1,381,110
20	SHANGLA	270,212	151,396	118,816	132,172	283,568
21	SWABI	571,752	366,429	205,323	291,082	657,511
22	SWAT	816,030	440,969	375,061	441,144	882,113
23	TANK *	142,152	73,194	68,958	72,960	146,154
24	TOR GHAR	97,349	30,456	66,893	26,968	57,424
25	UPPER DIR	247,452	149,331	98,121	155,367	304,698
Total		10,804,696	6,128,905	4,675,791	5,513,217	11,642,122

* Include Adjacent Tribal Area

District Wise Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

FATA

S No	District	FER-2007 Voters	FER-2007 Verified Voters	FER-2007 Un-Verified  Voters	NADRA Augmented Voters	DER-2011 Voters
1	BAJAUR AGENCY	255,139	111,900	143,239	183,378	295,278
2	KHYBER AGENCY	194,256	83,293	110,963	185,445	268,738
3	KURRAM AGENCY	229,991	82,687	147,304	131,405	214,092
4	MOHMAND AGENCY	126,110	53,975	72,135	100,250	154,225
5	NORTH WAZIRISTAN AGENCY	126,492	50,875	75,617	87,005	137,880
6	ORAKZAI AGENCY	123,085	40,322	82,763	(28,230)	12,092
7	SOUTH WAZIRISTAN AGENCY	224,038	67,404	156,634	100,522	167,926
Total		1,279,111	490,456	788,655	759,775	1,250,231

District Wise Comparison between FER-2007 and DER-2011 Electoral Rolls

BALOCHISTAN

S No	District	FER-2007 Voters	FER-2007 Verified Voters	FER-2007 Un-Verified  Voters	NADRA Augmented Voters	DER-2011 Voters
1	AWARAN	58,162	27,759	30,403	26,350	54,109
2	BARKHAN	59,146	24,236	34,910	24,887	49,123
3	CHAGAI	56,930	29,299	27,631	31,561	60,860
4	DERA BUGTI	95,688	24,029	71,659	31,417	55,446
5	GWADAR	82,733	49,776	32,957	40,130	89,906
6	HARNAI	38,907	13,334	25,573	11,818	25,152
7	JAFFARABAD	391,608	98,919	292,689	107,963	206,882
8	JHAL MAGSI	73,275	12,561	60,714	25,898	38,459
9	KACHHI	169,608	37,866	131,742	42,925	80,791
10	KALAT	121,371	46,795	74,576	50,016	96,811
11	KECH	218,953	84,500	134,453	47,377	131,877
12	KHARAN	65,161	23,208	41,953	21,972	45,180
13	KHUZDAR	186,759	66,821	119,938	82,727	149,548
14	KILLA ABDULLAH	387,823	70,820	317,003	85,217	156,037
15	KILLA SAIFULLAH	98,654	36,620	62,034	46,699	83,319
16	KOHLU	58,283	12,815	45,468	22,405	35,220
17	LASBELA	54,255	10,224	44,031	187,730	197,954
18	LORALAI	226,658	52,657	174,001	62,619	115,276
19	MASTUNG	89,722	37,561	52,161	12,864	50,425
20	MUSAKHEL	76,225	16,905	59,320	24,087	40,992
21	NASIRABAD	259,094	63,121	195,973	72,861	135,982
22	NUSHKI	58,291	32,939	25,352	21,427	54,366
23	PANJGUR	74,154	35,465	38,689	11,231	46,696
24	PISHIN	231,582	85,112	146,470	89,699	174,811
25	QUETTA	652,799	328,962	323,837	231,121	560,083
26	SHERANI	25,890	12,187	13,703	16,018	28,205
27	SIBI	89,857	34,940	54,917	38,225	73,165
28	WASHUK	62,672	18,607	44,065	13,974	32,581
29	ZHOB	97,904	43,332	54,572	44,832	88,164
30	ZIARAT	66,812	27,462	39,350	19,582	47,044
Total		4,228,976	1,458,832	2,770,144	1,545,632	3,004,464

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