Pakistan

LAHORE: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has demanded a thorough investigation into buying of the ‘most expensive’ LNG by the Imran Khan government in the country’s history. “This procurement has cost the country $422.4 million extra. The PTI government repeatedly lied to the nation on the matter as it has bought LNG for $15 per mmbtu which the PML-N bought for …

The fourth wave of Covid-19 pandemic has continued its upward trajectory, with Pakistan reporting 5,029 cases over the past 24 hours — the highest number of daily cases in the country since April 29 when 5,112 infections were reported. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the body responsible for the country’s Covid-19 response, the new cases were …

RAWALPINDI: Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday put to rest all rumours about privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), saying the government had no plan to sell it off. He rather said four new aircraft would be added to the PIA fleet this year. Speaking at a press conference at PTI Public Secretariat here, the minister said Pakistan aviation …

KARACHI: The strained relations between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government in Sindh and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the centre suffered another blow on Saturday when the provincial administration revised its coronavirus lockdown restrictions it had imposed a day earlier, but Islamabad still called the lockdown decision “defiance of the terms agreed between the two sides”, rejecting a “curfew-like situation …

KARACHI: An accountability court acquitted on Saturday a former chairman of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) with 16 dealers in a Rs311 million graft case, as the prosecution had failed to prove the case after the lapse of 12 years. Then PSM chief Moin Aftab Shaikh, then director (commercial) Sameen Asghar with private dealers — Abdul Razzaq, Mansoor Ali, M. …

KARACHI: People are rushing for Covid-19 vaccination in large numbers following the government announcement that mobile phone SIMs of unvaccinated people would be blocked and they wouldn’t get their August salary, it emerged on Saturday. Sources said long queues were being seen at all vaccination centres across the province, particularly in Karachi, where the situation became serious when people waiting …

WASHINGTON: National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has said that arrangements should be made to keep displaced Afghans inside their country instead of pushing them into Pakistan. Addressing a news conference at the Pakistan embassy here on Saturday, Mr Yusuf said Pakistan was focused on ensuring that tensions in Afghanistan do not lead to more bloodshed. “But if a situation arises, …

RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Saturday said the government would not spare the culprit in Noor Mukadam murder case. Talking to mediapersons after the oath-taking ceremony of the Municipal Workers Union, the minister urged the media not to show such “mental” people as they needed fame. “When I was in jail, I saw such people who just wanted …

By: Raja Zahid Khanzada Houston: The Pakistani American Legacy Foundation (PALF) organized its first Gala Dinner to Honor recipients of Pakistan’s Civil Awards. The honorees include the first Pakistani American Syed Javaid Anwar, who was bestowed with the Second highest Civil Award Hilal-e-Imtiaz and Tahir Javed with the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan. On this occasion Dr. Asad Majeed …

PROVIDENCE: After coronavirus (Covid-19) forced the West Indies and Pakistan Twenty20 International series to trim from five to four, the first game which was initially scheduled to be second was a no-result with rain having the final say at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, during midweek. Both sides now prepare to do battle in Guyana for the final three matches …