466 employees of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have been found guilty of submitting fake and tampered-with degrees and educational certificates to the national carrier in the last five years. The Ministry of Aviation has given a detailed list of employees to the Senate Secretariat. It told the Senate that any person found with a fake degree would not be able to escape from their liability as PIA is devising a policy for early verfication of credentials.
In a recent meeting with Prime Minister of Pakistan in Davos, Switzerland, the US President has assured him that he will visit Pakistan soon.The two leaders met on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and discussed various important issues including bilateral trade, Kashmir, and Afghanistan. This development was announced by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Sikander Sultan Raja has been named as the new chief election commissioner after the government and opposition reached consensus on the matter. Nisar Durrani has been appointed as an ECP member from Sindh and Shah Mohammad Jatoi as Balochistan member.The names were decided during a meeting of the parliamentary committee on the appointment of the chief election commissioner on Tuesday. The notification has been issued by Shireen Mazari, who was the chairperson of the committee.
CNG stations across Sindh will reopen Tuesday at 10pm and will supply gas till 6am on Wednesday. According to a representative of the Sui Southern Gas Company a gas shortage has been reported in the fields too and due to low gas pressure there are difficulties in supply to domestic consumers. Sindh will get gas after 50 hours this time.
Censor boards in Sindh and Punjab have decided against the release of Sarmad Khoosat’s Zindagi Tamasha across the country. A statement issued by the Sindh Board of Censors claimed that if the film was released it would cause “unrest” within some segments of society and “may deteriorate and be detrimental to the peaceful circumstances in the country”.
President Arif Alvi is unaware of the recent flour crisis which Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) is going through. He made these remarks during a surprise visit to the National Institute of Child Health (NICH). After the presidents remarks irked the public on social media, he clearly mentioned in a video that the current scenario was not in his knowledge but he should have been aware of it.
Pakistan starts exporting furnace oil as Byco Petroleum refinery ship loaded with furnace oil left Karachi Port earlier today, according to a senior official the Karachi Port Trust (KPT).
Good news for the government servants is on the cards, as the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) government is mulling a 100% increase in the basic pays of federal employees. As per details, the task force on Institutional Reforms has decided, in principle, to equalize the basic pay scale of all the federal employees to eliminate discrimination in basic salaries and privileges of public servants.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has been featured on Time Magazine’s cover page along with four other world leaders in the publication’s special edition on the World Economic Forum. Other leaders alongside the Pakistani prime minister included founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Europe’s Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
A serious case of sugar shortage has emerged in Pakistan as the country stumbles amid a wheat crisis that has jacked up prices of roti. During the incumbent government’s 15 months, sugar prices shot up as high as Rs64 a kilo. However, over the past week, the wholesale rate rose from Rs64 to Rs74 per kg, due to which an acute shortage has surfaced in the country.