Sunday, December 11th, 2022
It won’t damage ‘gang of thieves’ if Pakistan defaults: Imran Khan
LAHORE, DEC 11: Lashing out at the coalition government, former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that it will not damage the interest of the “gang of thieves” in the country if it defaults. Addressing a press conference Sunday, Khan said the “gang of thieves” has properties in foreign countries worth billions of dollars, hence they do not care about the economic collapse of the country. He added that the US dollar will further shoot up and there would be no foreign investment “if Pakistan defaults”.Read More
Imran was in govt, he could not prove corruption on Sharif family: Jahangir Khanzada
By Faisal Munir / DNA ATTOCK, 11 Dec: Pakistan Muslim League (N) Member of ProvincialAssembly Jahangir Khanzada has said on Sunday that Apology by DailyMail for running false news against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif andhis family is proof that Sharif family is free from corruption. ImranKhan has been accusing the Sharif family of corruption for three and ahalf years, but despite being in the government, he could not proveany corruption against the Sharif family. He expressed these views in a conversation with media representativesafter condoling the death of the brother-in-lawRead More
Govt asked to focus on innovative housing solutions to bridge gap of housing shortage
ISLAMABAD, DEC 11 /DNA/ – Abdul Aleem Khan, Chairman Vision Group said that Pakistan needs innovative and creative housing solutions to bridge the gap of rising housing shortage and stressed that the government should amend building byelaws to encourage innovative constructions as current building laws were a major hurdle in vertical growth, which is the future need of the country. He said that the condition of real estate is the yardstick to judge the growth of a country as when real estate grows the country grows and when the realRead More
A curious courtship: Rival Muslims woo Hindu nationalists
Muslim religious soft power rivalry, a battle for the soul of Islam, just got hotter. The rivalry’s latest battlefield is not Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Tehran, or Istanbul. It’s Hindu nationalist Delhi. That is because, for the next year, India chairs the Group of 20 largest economies in the world. At stake for the Muslim rivals, proponents of rival pluralistic and autocratic forms of Islam, is who will help shape a gathering of religious leaders in advance of the September 2023 Delhi summit of G20 leaders. The gathering would follow aRead More
Pakistan’s energy sector running ‘on tick’ as economy reflects bad shape
ISLAMABAD, DEC 11 (DNA) — With the country’s economic situation getting appalling, the documents have revealed that Pakistan’s energy sector is running completely on credit. The circular debt in the energy sector is also swelling as the government is unable to pay dues to independent power producers (IPPs). The documents containing details of dues of the energy sector revealed that it is running on credit amid the poor economic situation, a private television channel reported Sunday. The documents disclosed that Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is facing a severe liquidity crunch as itsRead More
Pothohari language should be included again in NADRA database: Faisal Irfan
By Faisal Munir / DNA ATTOCK, 11 Dec: Journalist, poet and umpire Faisal Irfan has said onSunday that No progress could be made on the registration of Pothoharilanguage. Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has theapplication for one and a half months. Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik hadregistered the Pothohari language in the NADRA library this year on mymotion, but removed it from the system after 10 days for unknownreasons. Talking to newsmen, he said that Raja Pervaiz Ashraf became theSpeaker of the National Assembly, he appealed to him in severalapplications.Read More