Efficient and empowered authority urged for CPEC
Islamabad
March 14, 2021
Islamabad: Speaking at a national webinar on Saturday, the experts feared that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) might become a debt trap if the authorities did not efficiently actualize the targets of the game-changer initiative. The institutions, experts and the public at large are still unclear about the scope and targets of the CPEC where the Pakistan government has committed billions of dollars to pool in on high rates of interest.
They said a fact-based narrative building is very important while the enemies and unwise friends are spreading rumours for their own vested interests and to malign the CPEC initiatives. One-window operation shall be the backbone of the agricultural and industrial phase of the CPEC which should be handled by the relevant and expert human resource.
Peshawar
January 15, 2021
HARIPUR: District Police Officer Kashif Zulfiqar has said that police and CTD authorities were making efforts for the arrest of eight co-accused in the murder of PTI provincial deputy general secretary Malik Tahir Iqbal.
Speaking at a news conference here on Thursday, the District Police Officer said the CTD and police have arrested two hired assassins Sher Zaman alias Sher Ghazi and Rehmat Ullah, who confessed that they had murdered Tahir Iqbal and his friend Sardar Gul Nawaz with the help of four other hired assassins on September 13, 2020.
The arrested people, through a statement in the court of judicial magistrate Abbottabad, confessed that they had assassinated Tahir Iqbal and his friend as an MPA from PK-42 Faisal Zaman had hired their services against the payment of Rs2 millions.
In this Feb 2020 file photo, Sindh Minister for Health Azra Pechuho speaks to the media in Larkana. INP/File
KARACHI: There would be some delay in getting the Covid-19 vaccines from the federal government, earlier planned to be handed over to the Sindh government by Jan 15, the provincial health minister stated on Tuesday.
“The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) had earlier communicated that the vaccines would be delivered by mid-Jan. But, we have just been informed that there would be some delay in this process,” said Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho in a statement.
Preparations, however, were in full swing to formulate a policy plan and set up a comprehensive vaccination management and information system at the divisional level, she added.