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Pakistan Post likely to get contract for delivery of smart cards
Private courier company to be given one last chance to improve before facing the axe
Nisar gives foreigners two months to surrender forged documents. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
The Excise and Taxation Department Punjab is mulling over an agreement with Pakistan Post for the swift delivery of documents and CNICs to the residences and offices of around four million people annually.
Currently, the department has an agreement in place with a private courier company for the delivery of smart cards and registration documents, informed sources.
The excise department hands out more than four million consignments to the company annually, however, the courier service’s delivery rate is not up to scratch. The underlying reason for the shoddy pace of delivery is due to the measly amount of money the courier company receives for each delivery, sources further said.
50 fake cosmetics brands seized
Lahore
January 2, 2021
LAHORE:Pakistan Standard and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) in its ongoing crackdown on illegal, un-registered and sub-standard cosmetics, food and other items, seized huge quantity of stock of 50 brands from super stores here Friday.
The department served warning notices on three super stores. According to a spokesman for the PSQCA, on the direction of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Ch Fawad Hussain, special teams raided the super stores and seized huge quantity of more than 50 illegal brands of skin cream, shampoo, hair colour, synthetic vinegar, honey, red chilies, turmeric powder, soap, bottled water, LED bulb, tea whitener and iodised salt and sent the samples to laboratory for testing.
LAHORE: The Punjab government has issued instructions to all the relevant departments to expedite the work on identification, geo-mapping of state land and prepare recommendations for its effective.
Two protestors found
Luis Aguilar Rodríguez, 26, bleeding from the chest on Abancay Avenue on November 12 and took him to a hospital, his mother said. After surgery, doctors told her that the object that had hit his chest, damaging his lungs, was a glass marble, which they removed. Aguilar Rodríguez left the hospital on November 30. X-ray showing a marble lodged in Luis Aguilar Rodriguez’s lung. Photo courtesy of Luis Aguilar Rodriguez’s family.
Human Rights Watch documented nine cases of victims apparently hit by pellets believed to be lead. In some cases, the multitude of injuries points to the use of shotguns at close range. While initially concentrated within a small radius as they are fired, pellets contained in cartridges expand away from each other to create a constellation of projectiles that can reach several decimeters in radius within a few meters of being fired. The more pellet injuries a victim has, the closer police officers are likely to have be