ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Special Initiatives on Friday directed Federal Minister of Planning Asad Umar to ensure his presence in the next meeting.The meeting.
Green Line BRT to start operations on Oct 10 this year
July 17, 2021
KARACHI: Presiding over a meeting of the Provincial Coordination & Implementation Committee (PCIC), Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday decided to allot 47 plots to affected residents of an anti-encroachment drive in District Central of the city and directed the provincial transport department to complete the Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit Service (BRT) by August.
He also issued directives to expedite work on the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR).
The meeting was held at the CM House and attended by provincial ministers Nasir Hussain Shah and Awais Qadir Shah, Law Adviser Murtaza Wahab, Corps Commander Karachi Lt General Nadeem Anjum, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, GOC Malir Maj Gen Omer Maqbool, Planning and Development Board Chairperson Shireen Narejo, Principal Secretary to the CM Sajid Jamal Abro, Karachi Commissioner Naveed Shaikh, Additional Planning Secretary Aziz Uqaili, Transport Secretary Sh
Plot thickens as foreign firm retracts corruption allegations
July 14, 2021
ISLAMABAD: A Spanish firm first accused a Pakistani company of fake invoicing on its behalf to claim an extraordinary payment from Karachi’s Green Line Project (which intriguingly approved invoices unaccounted for). It wrote to the Pakistani mission in Madrid, the National Accountability Bureau, the FIA and issued a press release repeating the same charges and demanding action against the accused.
But a few months later, the firm has taken a U-turn as if nothing happened. It retracted the allegations that deepen the mystery whether the hush-up is an outcome of coercion or collusion. This is despite the fact that the accused company admitted fake invoicing, the FIA was investigating the allegations and the firm had expressed resolve to do everything to protect its reputation as allegations of kickbacks could hurt its business at the global level.
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Karachi [Pakistan], June 10 (ANI): Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has slammed Imran Khan-led Pakistan government for discrimination against the province and said despite contributing 70 per cent of Pakistan's revenue, the region was offered only a small portion of development schemes compared to other provinces in the country.