Sweetener’s import raises eyebrows
ISLAMABAD: The import of sugar and then its export to dispose of unsold stocks, which…
Sweetener’s import raises eyebrows
ISLAMABAD: The import of sugar and then its export to dispose of unsold stocks, which is happening now, have raised serious questions about data maintenance relating to the commodity’s availability, stocks and domestic consumption. This has also sparked questions about the role of the Sugar Advisory Board and the food ministry, which deal with sugar…
Maj Gen Faisal made NACTA coordinator
. ISLAMABAD: Major General Faisal Naseer was appointed on Friday as national coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) for a period of three years on a “secondment basis”. According to a notification from the Establishment Division, the Inter-Services Intelligence’s (ISI) director general of counterintelligence was appointed with the “approval of the federal government”…
PIMS fire: IHC seeks respondents’ replies
Petitioner sought an independent inquiry against the Pims executive director and the responsible officers ISLAMABAD: The capital’s high court on Friday ordered respondents to submit replies within 15 days to the pleas seeking a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)-led investigation into last month’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) tragedy and the dismissal of the hospital’s…
PML-N’s Rafique opposes scrapping mayor posts
. LAHORE: Senior PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique has said that abolishing the office of mayor of metropolitan or municipal corporations in major cities, including Islamabad and Lahore, would amount to weakening the local government system and strengthening the bureaucracy. In a message posted on social media platform X, Saad said the mayor should be…
10-way contest in Skardu by-polls today
. GILGIT: Polling for the by-election in GBA-09, Skardu-III, is scheduled to take place today (Saturday), with around 33,000 voters eligible to cast their ballots in a contest featuring 10 candidates, including nominees of the PPP and PML-N, as well as an independent candidate. The by-election was ordered by the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Election Commission after…
Iran wedding deaths likely caused by US hit
WASHINGTON: An explosion that ripped through a wedding celebration in southern Iran on Tuesday, killing four people and injuring at least 68 others, likely resulted from a direct hit by a US munition and not a ricochet off another target, according to an analysis by weapons experts who reviewed images and video verified by Reuters….
48 terrorists killed in Balochistan IBOs
Ops carried out in Mastung, Quetta, Kalat and Sibi ISPR says cache of ammunition destroyed President, PM laud se RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed 48 “Indian sponsored terrorists” in intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Balochistan over the last 72 hours, the military’s media wing said on Friday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the anti-terrorist operations…
PPP freezes govt support amid grievances
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Syed Naveed Qamar said on Friday that his party would not support the government in its legislative affairs until progress was made on its grievances, including those concerning the Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections and appointment of judges. Speaking to the media at Parliament House, Qamar said the PPP…
Israeli ministers call for Gaza expulsion
JERUSALEM: Two Israeli ministers floated proposals this week for the mass removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, resurfacing an idea voiced repeatedly by right-wing politicians over the past three years as they seek to rally supporters ahead of an election. The calls by two of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political allies have revived Palestinian…
PM seeks early start of ML-1
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a meeting with ADB Vice President Yinming Yang. Photo: APP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday stressed the need for the early groundbreaking of the Main Line-1 (ML-1) railway project, saying the Karachi-Peshawar corridor was vital to modernising freight transport and strengthening regional trade connectivity, the Prime Minister’s…
