‘No cash for Covid vaccine but Sindh govt buying more vehicles’
Opposition leader says PPP planning to spend Rs240m on vans to catch stray dogs
A resident receives a commercial dose of Russia s Sputnik V coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, at a private hospital in Karachi on April 4, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
HYDERABAD:
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has said the Sindh government lacked funds to import Covid-19 vaccines but it is planning to invest millions of rupees to procure vehicles to catch stray dogs. Punjab government is procuring the vaccine from its own funds but Sindh government is still dependent on the Centre, Sheikh said at a press conference at Hyderabad Press Club on Sunday.
Karachi
May 2, 2021
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Friday expressed concern over relaxations provided by the federal government to the K-Electric (KE) in terms of hefty subsidiaries despite the fact that the private company had posted a net profit of more than Rs9 billion in only the last nine months.
The JI Karachi chief was commenting over a news item that mentioned the KE’s net profit for the nine-month period ending March 31, 2021, to be Rs9.443 billion. The annual subsidy was tantamount to sheer injustice towards the people affected by the KE and placing the national exchequer under great pressure without any logic, he said.
ISLAMABAD: Former director general Federal Investigation Agency Bashir Memon Saturday said Prime Minister Imran Khan did not mention Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s name during his brief meeting with.
An unexamined life, as Socrates is supposed to have said at his trial, is not worth living. This philosophical lesson synchronises with the message of most religions. Indeed, we are all accountable.
FIA ex-DG retracts allegations against PM
May 2, 2021
Days after his tirade, FIA former director general Bashir Memon on Saturday retracted his allegations against Prime Minister Imran Khan regrading ordering him to file a case against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
Memon, who was widely reported to have alleged that the prime minister had directed him to file a case against Justice Qazi Faez Isa, has now said that Imran Khan never issued any such instructions to him. In an interview with Muhammad Malick on Hum News, the former FIA chief said the meeting with the prime minister, he had referred to, lasted for just two to three minutes. “He (prime minister) has always been appreciative of me. He appreciated my professionalism in that meeting as well and said being a courageous person, you can do it. Go and do it properly,” he remarked.