Sunday, July 17th, 2022
Punjab by-elections: Polling ends, vote count underway in 20 constituencies
LAHORE, JUL 17: – The counting of votes is underway after polling ended for the by-elections in 20 constituencies of Punjab. The polling began at 8am and continued till 5pm but in several districts polling was stopped due to clashes. It is pertinent to mention that the 20 seats fell vacant after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) “de-seated” 25 PTI dissident lawmakers on May 23 for voting against PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz in the Punjab chief minister’s election. Which included five lawmakers elected on reserved seats for women and minorities.Read More
China uses advanced technology to develop Eastbay Expressway project: Report
DNA Islamabad, July 17: China transferred advanced technology and skill to Pakistan to develop Eastbay Expressway project, says a report published by Gwadar Pro on Sunday According to Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd.) Naveed Ahmad Shami who has been working with the project for about seven years, the Chinese used advanced technology, known as Revetment and Pilling Technology, and engineering for the first time in Pakistan. He is the coordinator of the 19-kilometer-long Eastbay Expressway project and he is proud that almost 4 kilometers of the area is reclaimed from the seaRead More
PIA resumes Beijing-Islamabad flights after seven months gap
BEIJING, July 17 (DNA): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) resumed its passenger flights on Beijing-Islamabad route after a gap of nearly seven months when PK-855 took off from Capital International Airport for Islamabad on Sunday. The national flag carrier resumed its commercial passenger flights on Islamabad-Xian and Beijing-Islamabad section from last month but the aircraft had to return back to Islamabad from Xian as Beijing Capital Airport was closed for the international passenger flights following Covid-19 prevention, official sources told APP here. PIA flight PK-854 arrived in Xian from Islamabad onRead More
Int’l Justice Day has no meaning for victim Kashmiris
ISLAMABAD, JUL 17 (DNA) — Justice continues to elude struggling Kashmiris even as International Justice Day is being commemorated across the globe Sunday. An analytical report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, maintained that when International Justice Day is being observed across the world, the Kashmiris continue to suffer under the Indian colonialism. The report said Kashmiris continue to face deepening atrocities, discrimination and injustice on the part of India. Indian troops, enjoying impunity under draconian laws, are committing grave human rights abuses, in fact, war crimes to suppress theRead More
Pakistan Railways have amounted to a prodigious 144 billion PKR loss
Islamabad, JUL 17 /DNA/ – The losses incurred by Pakistan Railways during the five years period (2015 – 2020) have amounted to a prodigious 144 billion PKR. The stiff competition from road transport and the inability of PR to adopt a customer-centric business plan because of complex bureaucratic structure, has led to an inefficient, underfinanced, and overstaffed public agency running in losses for the last three and a half decades. Placed in the “Retain and Restructure “category after the State Owned Enterprises (SOE) triage exercise in March 2021, the 19th-centuryRead More
PIAF wants strict measures to see impact of falling oil prices in all sectors
ISLAMABAD, JUL 17 /DNA/ – The Pakistan Industrial & Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has observed that the impact of falling oil prices should also be seen on other commodities, including power tariff, as the inflation continued to unleash damage on trade and industry on an annualized basis at 33.16 percent. PIAF Chairman Faheem Ur Rehman Saigol, in a joint statement along with senior vice chairman Haroon Shafique Chaudhary and vice chairman Raja Adeel Ashfaq, said that cut in fuel prices is a good decision but now government would have toRead More