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National broadband policy being ‘finalised’ Senate panel informed 5G will be auctioned by 2023, small IT companies will be listed on the stock market ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology has been informed that the federal government is finalising the national broadband policy, 5G will be auctioned by 2023 and small IT companies will be listed on the stock market. “IT exports have crossed $2 billion for the first time and next year s target is $3.5 billion,” a meeting of the standing committee held under the chairmanship of Senator Kauda Babar at the Parliament House was informed on Thursday. Leader of the House Senator Shehzad Waseem, senators Rubina Khalid, Sana Jamali, Sami Azdi, Sania Nishtar, Palwasha Muhammad Zai Khan, Shahadat Awan and Afnanullah Khan besides IT ministry secretary, additional secretary, PTA chairman, Universal Service Fund chairman, representatives of cellular companies and other officials attended th ....
A file view of the Senate. DawnNewsTV ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development on Friday failed to provide complete report of National Assembly members’ views about the Emigration (Amendment) Bill, 2020 at the Senate standing committee meeting. The bill was approved by the National Assembly and later moved in the Senate. The Senate Standing Committee on Oversees Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, which met here with Senator Manzoor Ahmed Kakar in the chair, showed their displeasure on the incomplete working papers provided by the ministry. Senator Sherry Rehman said a bill could not be approved without taking into consideration the approved report of the National Assembly Standing Committee and views of the members of the National Assembly. ....
A file view of the Senate. DawnNewsTV ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development on Friday failed to provide complete report of National Assembly members’ views about the Emigration (Amendment) Bill, 2020 at the Senate standing committee meeting. The bill was approved by the National Assembly and later moved in the Senate. The Senate Standing Committee on Oversees Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, which met here with Senator Manzoor Ahmed Kakar in the chair, showed their displeasure on the incomplete working papers provided by the ministry. Senator Sherry Rehman said a bill could not be approved without taking into consideration the approved report of the National Assembly Standing Committee and views of the members of the National Assembly. ....
In the confessional statement, the chief of the defunct Peoples Amn Committee disclosed that that he used to collect bhatta from different government departments and persons. Photo courtesy Hussain Afzal/File KARACHI: Alleged Lyari kingpin Uzair Baloch has “confessed” to collecting bhatta (protection money) from government functionaries and people at the behest of politicians with connivance of Karachi police high-ups. These disclosures came in a confessional statement of the alleged gangster recorded before a judicial magistrate under Section 164 of the criminal procedure code (CrPC). The confessional statement was recently submitted by the prosecutor before antiterrorism court-XVI, which is conducting trial against Uzair in three criminal cases. ....
April 28, 2021 This refers to the news story, ‘PPP tasks ex-police officer Farooq Awan with wooing voters for NA-249 by-poll (April 25, 2021). It is interesting to note the relationship between the said officer and the PPP. The selection of former SP Police South Farooq Awan to campaign for its candidate in NA 249 raises a lot of questions. He is the brother of Shahadat Awan who was former attorney general of Sindh under the PPP government and is now a PPP senator. Furthermore, Farooq Awan has also been named in an FIR (No 359/2019) regarding attestation of documents used in obtaining a false CNIC and birth certificate for one Nasreen Begum. These documents were used in a land-grabbing case involving a plot in Clifton, Karachi. The FIR, which is now an ongoing criminal case being tried in the Special Court Karachi, states that the plot in said case belongs to a nephew of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and cousin of Benazir Bhutto. This raises questions over the connection between ....