Monday, January 4th, 2016
42 IS supporters arrested in Punjab: Rana Sanaullah
LAHORE: Officials arrested 42 suspected militants with alleged links to the militant Islamic State (IS) group.”The arrests were the result of raids in four Punjab cities over the weekend,” said Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah.The minister said those arrested had been tasked with setting up sleeper cells for IS, and that those arrested include the purported IS Islamabad chief Amir Mansoor, his deputy Abdullah Mansoori and the group’s chief for Sindh province, Umer Kathio.
Load shedding cannot be controlled till 2018: Khawaja Asif
ISLAMABAD, 04 JAN (DNA) – Federal Minister for Water and Electricity Khawaja Asif submitted a letter in National Assembly on Monday in which he admitted that the load shedding cannot becontrolled before 2018.According to the details, the ministry accepted in the written letter submitted in the National Assembly that the current government cannot get rid of load shedding until before 2018.