Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
Rescue of prisoner:Palestine seeks Pak support
In a letter written to Chairman Senate and speaker of the national assembly of Pakistan, the speaker of Palestine National Council urged the Pakistan leadership to urgently intervene to release the prisoner suffering from cancer and COVID-19 in Israeli prison Shujaat Hamza/DNA ISLAMABAD : The Speaker of the Palestine National Council, Saleem Al Za’anoon has urged Pakistan to urgently intervene to release the prisoner Kamal Abu Wa’ar and other elderly prisoners who are suffering from life threatening diseases in Israeli occupation prisons. In a letter written to Chairman Senate SadiqRead More
Rare yellow turtle found in India
A farmer in India’s Odisha was working in his fields when he found a yellow turtle and brought it home. The Association for Biodiversity Conservation executive director, Siddhartha Pati, said this is the first time such a rare kind of Indian flapshell turtle has been seen. It’s usually found in parts of other South Asia. The turtle is believed to be between one and a half and two years old. Pati feels that the creature’s color is due to albinism. “It is a congenital disorder and it is characterized by completeRead More
103-year-old Chitral man recovers from coronavirus
Abdul Aleem Khan, a 103-year-old resident of Chitral, was released on Tuesday from a hospital after recovering from the novel coronavirus. Khan tested positive for COVID-19 three weeks ago. He was then moved to a hospital. Doctors that treated him say there were a few complications during these three weeks but Khan successfully survived them.
Formal inquiry begins against former KP spokesperson Ajmal Wazir
A formal investigation has begun into corruption allegations against former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government spokesperson Ajmal Wazir. The provincial information secretary was informed of the development by the inquiry commission in a letter on Wednesday. The commission has summoned details of advertisements given during Wazir’s tenure. Wazir also served as Policy documents and other information have also been summoned from the ministry. Sahibzada Saeed Ahmed is heading the three-member commission conducting the investigation. Read more: Ajmal Wazir removed as KP spokesperson on corruption charges MPA Kamran Bangash replaced Wazir as theRead More
Pakistan’s stock market back to pre-crash level
The Pakistan Stock Exchange is back to the level where it was at before crashing in early March with the benchmark index recovering more than 10,000 points in little over four months. The KSE-100, a gauge to measure the market’s performance, was trading at around 38,000 points at noon on Wednesday. This is its highest level in more than four months. The market crashed in March after Pakistan imposed a nation-wide lockdown, shutting offices, factories, public transport and all kinds of public activities. As a result many, businesses, excluding a few essential ones, remainedRead More
Hafeez Sheikh removed from National Finance Commission
ISLAMABAD – Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, the prime minister’s adviser on finance, has been removed from the National Finance Commission. The court submitted a notification of this to the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday. The notification appointing him to the commission, which had been challenged in court, has now been withdrawn, Attorney-General Khalid Jawed Khan said. But PML-N MNA Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha argued that their objection was that the NFC had been formed without consulting them. I also had issues with the last NFC notification, said the attorney-general. The court praisedRead More