ISLAMABAD: The government has sacked the chairman and an independent member of the board of directors (BoD) of a state-owned entity executing $15 billion gas pipeline projects after they raised questions of economic feasibility, transparency and record tampering. Informed sources told Dawn that Chairman Nawabzada Shahzad A. Khan and member Zubair Motiwala were unceremoniously removed by the ministry of petroleum from the nine-member board of the Interstate Gas Systems (Pvt) Ltd (ISGS) a day after they put on record in writing what they described as the fudging of proceedings andRead More

ISLAMABAD (DNA) -The Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs received Mr. Børge Brende, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway at the Foreign Office on Thursday. The two sides expressed satisfaction over the positive trajectory of relations between the two countries and discussed various issues of mutual interest, including political, trade and investment, economic and defence cooperation. They agreed on the need for strengthening cooperation between the two countries in these areas.