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January 22, 2021
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Thursday said the federal government and the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) are fighting mainly for the chair.
The PDM’s component parties, mainly the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, had supported the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government on every occasion, including on selling out Kashmir, destroying the economy, dooming education, accepting the slavery of World Bank and IMF, and passing FATF-related laws, said Siraj, while addressing an event organised by the Karachi Bar Association (KBA),
The JI chief said the federal government and PDM were also on the same page on setting up military courts and giving an extension to the chief of the army staff.
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The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation s lawyer told the Sindh High Court that the local government has fixed six of its fire tenders, while the remaining 24 remain unusable. The federal government has sent 50 fire tenders, he told the court as it resumed hearing the case on fire laws in Sindh on Thursday. The court said that the remaining 24 tenders should be fixed in the next 10 days. The KMC lawyer said that they won t be able to do that because of a shortage of staff. The court then summoned a reply from the local bodies secretary on KMC hirings.
Centre purchases 50 new fire trucks for Karachi
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Karachi will be getting 50 new fire tenders worth Rs1.40 billion.
According to the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, the tenders were bought from China on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s orders.
The fire trucks will be brought into the city on a ship to help Karachi resolve its fire-related emergencies efficiently.
High-pressure water guns have been installed in the tenders. “These trucks are included in the package that was given to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation by the federal government,” the ministry spokesperson said.