Monday, February 1st, 2016
PIA empowered to terminate services of protesting employees
ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (DNA): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday extended the Essential Services Maintenance Act 1952 to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for six months.According to a statement from the PM’s Office, the Prime Minister approved the summary of the Aviation Division.The PIA employees had announced a strike against the proposed privatization of the national flag carrier from Feb 2.
PM says terrorists trying to deprive of children of from getting education
ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (DNA): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday stated that terrorists will not succeed in their attempts to deprive children of getting education and they will be defeated at all cost.The Prime Minister stated this while addressing a high-level meeting in Islamabad.Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, DG ISI Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar, National Security Advisor Nasir Janjua and other top officials were present in the meeting.
Suicide car bomb strikes near police base in Kabul
KABUL: A suicide car bomb rocked a police base in central Kabul on Monday, leaving several bodies strewn around the area, officials reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes amid the Taliban’s unprecedented winter offensive despite a renewed push to restart formal peace talks. “A suicide car bomb in the vicinity of a police base in Kabul city, “ interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told media. “There are some possible casualties”. An AFP photographer saw at least 10 bodies around the base, but it was notRead More
Messi seeks to meet Afghan boy in plastic jersey
KABUL: Barcelona star Lionel Messi is hoping to arrange a meeting with an Afghan boy who shot to fame after pictures of him dressed in a striped plastic bag jersey went viral, Kabul’s football federation said Monday. Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi idolises the Argentine soccer star but a jersey of his favourite player is beyond the means of his poor family in the volatile province of Ghazni near Kabul. His elder brother Homayoun, 15, made him the blue-and-white-striped plastic shirt with Messi’s named scrawled in marker pen and posted the photosRead More
Boko Haram burns kids alive in Nigeria, 86 dead: officials
DALORI: A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists. Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene just 5 kilometers from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s northeast.Read More
PPMA calls for establishing National Pharma Export Council
ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (DNA): Concerned over constant decline in medicines’ exports of Pakistan, the national body representing pharmaceutical manufacturers has demanded establishment of a Pakistan-level Pharma export council to achieve its target of increasing annual exports of the industry to 05 billion US Dollars in next 05 years. Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, the central chairman Hamid Raza of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) said that ill-advised policies of the government and undue interference by National Health Services ministry had caused serious impediments to growth of theRead More