OMAP calls for end to OMCs ‘witch hunt’
July 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Oil Marketing Association Pakistan (OMAP) on Tuesday called for an end to the witch hunt of the oil marketing companies saying it was increasingly becoming difficult for them to operate under the current circumstances.
OMAP Chief Executive Officer Ilyas Fazil in a letter to Federal Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar appealed for an end to the spate of enquiries against the OMCs in the wake of the June 2020 Petrol Crisis Commission’s report. OMAP is a representative body of the oil marketing companies.
“This Sector is the most important one to keep the wheels of the economy turning and must therefore be acknowledged as such and not subjected to the on-going witch-hunt it is facing that is consuming thousands of man-hours in providing information to the FIA, Explosives Department et.al.,” Fazil said in his letter.
The Portuguese Public Security Police (PSP) arrested five people in flagrante delicto for illegal possession of a firearm and drug trafficking during an.
Changes to explosive and pyrotechnic rules By TPN/Lusa, in News · 09-05-2021 16:00:00 · 0 Comments
The State Secretary for Internal Administration has announced that the Government is preparing amendments to the legal framework of explosives and pyrotechnic articles to make the activities that resort to the use of these substances safer.
At the opening session of the Iberian seminar on explosive products, organised by the Arms and Explosives Department of the Public Security Police (PSP), Antero Luís also said that a new regulation is in the legislative process to establish new rules for the availability, introduction, possession and use of substances or preparations that can be misused in the illicit manufacture of explosives, following European standards.
Violence erupted at a party on Chicago‘s South Side early Sunday morning after gunfire broke out and left more than a dozen people shot and multiple dead, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
At about 4:40 a.m., a fight disrupted the festivities at South Side Think Tank, a business in the city’s Park Manor neighborhood, police said, per
Chicago Tribune. At least 15 people, ranging in age from 20 to 44 years old, were struck by gunfire. Two people were pronounced dead.
Officials claim four guns were found at the scene. Some of the wounded are reportedly listed in critical condition at hospitals.