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S hehbaz invites applic ations for PML-N tickets ahead of
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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum aurangzeb on Thursday said pakistan Muslim Leaguenawaz (pML-n) president and prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had invited applications from the prospective candidates for party tickets to contest punjab assembly election
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The minister in a series of tweets said the pML-n president had also directed the candidates to submit papers
Punjab polls: M arriyum
in their relevant constituencies as the election Commission of pakistan had already announced March 14 as the last date for filing the nomination papers
The interested candidates must reach out the party s Central Secretariat at 180H Model Town Lahore for submission of their applications she added Marriyum said the parliamentary boards were also advised to finalize the lists of candidates for punjab and Khyber pakhtunkhwa elections
She said the pML-n president also directed to work out a strategy for carrying out the election campaign in the provinces Marriyum cited the message of Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif to the candidates to get prepared for contesting the elections
She said the pML-n had been striving to serve the country and masses
It had had always steered the country out of every crisis under the leadership of Quaid Muhammad nawaz Sharif and would do so again with the blessings of the almighty
She said the reduction in inflation, elimination of terrorism and
Mari Petroleum successfully completes commissioning of facility in Daharki, Sindh
pr ofit report M u h a M M a d R a a fay K h a n
Mari petroleum Company Limited (MarI) has successfully completed commissioning and performance testing of Sachal Gas processing Complex (SGpC) phase-II gas processing facilities in Daharki Sindh
The announcement was made by the company to the pakistan Stock exchange (pSX) on Thursday
We are pleased to inform that after successful completion of construction activities of SGpC phase-II, the phased commissioning and performance testing of the gas processing facilities is now complete,” the notice read
“presently, around 95 Million Standard Cubic Feet per Day (MMSCFD) of pipeline specification gas is being supplied to Sui northern Gas pipelines Limited (SnGpL) via MpCL’s own 20 inch 25 km long cross country gas transmission pipeline connecting SGpC to the SnGpL valve assembly (QV-2) at Muhammadpur The plant is expected to reach its full potential after integration of SGpC phase-I & II and after commissioning of the remaining wells which is ongoing previously on January 20th MarI had announced that it had successfully completed the construction of SGpC phase-II facilities to process low Btu gas from the Goru-B reservoir of Mari Gas Field located in Daharki at the time, the phased commissioning and testing of the processing facilities was ongoing and was expected to produce 50 MMSCFD of pipeline specification gas The latest announcement has shown Mari beat its own expectations by producing 95 MMSCFD gas Mari petroleum has seven oil and gas fields of which Mari Field Daharki in Sindh is their one and only gas field It currently has 152 wells The Mari Gas Field in Daharki District Ghotki Sindh is approximately 96 kilometres north of Sukkur It was first discovered in 1957 by eSSo eastern and gas was found at a depth of 701 metres (2300 feet) in Lower Kirthar Limestone formation which came to be known as Habib rahi Limestone as we know of it today production of natural gas commenced in 1967 In 1983, Fauji Foundation, the government and oil and Gas Development Company Limited (oGDCL) acquired the entire operations of eSSo including the gas field The new company was called Mari Gas Company Limited which was renamed to Mari petroleum Company Limited (MpCL) in 2012
Mar yam claims ex- C JP K hosa sought extension from Nawaz
LAHore s ta f f R e p o R t pML-n Senior Vice president Maryam nawaz on Thursday claimed that former chief justice of pakistan (CJp) asif Saeed Khosa had sought an extension from pML-n supremo nawaz Sharif
Maryam made the claim in an exclusive interview with DawnnewsTV show Live With adil Shahzeb, which will air tonight (Thursday) at 10pm
In the interview, Maryam who has railed against Khosa in the past for being part of a conspiracy against nawaz said: “place your hand on the Quran and tell [the world] was your extension as the chief justice not being talked about? “If nawaz Sharif sahab had agreed and he (Khosa) would have gotten an extension then umar ata Bandial would not be the [current] chief justice She said there were even talks of increasing the retirement age of Supreme Court judges which she claimed was for Justice (retd) Khosa s benefit Maryam said that a delegation had conveyed the then chief justice s message to nawaz who was in jail at the time adding that the pML-n supremo had refused to grant an extension
It is pertinent to mention that in 2017, ex-CJp
Khosa headed a SC bench which had disqualified nawaz in the panama papers case ‘Faiz Hamid Has conFessed’: During the interview, Maryam also spoke about former InterServices Intelligence (ISI) director general (DG) retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hamid and said that he had “confessed” to his crime a day earlier Maryam in an interview with a newly-launched digital news outlet had demanded the retired general s court martial for his alleged role in getting her and her father convicted in naB corruption references in 2017 She further said that as of now she wanted to make an example of Gen Hamid Subsequently senior journalist Kamran Khan claimed in a tweet that the former ISI chief had reached out to him and provided a response to the allegations being levelled by Maryam according to the journalist, Gen Hamid argued that in 2017-18, he was simply a major general in the army and asked whether, under military discipline, a lone officer could topple the government Gen Hamid was also quoted by the journalist as saying that it is the chief of army staff has the final say and that all the major decisions seemingly a reference to nawaz s disqualification and subsequent imprisonment were taken by the courts
Simson said the Commission would propose that eu countries extend to next winter a voluntary target to cut their winter gas consumption by 15% The eu appears on track to meet the goal this winter having slashed its gas use by 19 3% from august to January, compared with in recent years
While europe looks set to avoid acute energy shortages this winter, the continent s energy security remains delicate russia is still sending some pipeline gas to europe v i a u k r a i n e , e n o u g h t o t o t a l 2 0 b c m t h i s year if current flows remain stable
The International energy agency has w a r n e d t h a t i f M o s c o w c u t t h o s e deliveries China bought more LnG from g l o b a l m a r k e t s a n d n e x t w i n t e r w a s u n u s u a l l y c o l d e u r o p e c o u l d f a c e f u e l s h o r t a g e s – m a k i n g i t c r u c i a l t h a t g o v e r n m e n t s k e e p u p e ff o r t s t o s a v e energy and boost renewable energy development of road infrastructure on modern lines were the hallmark of the pML-n governments which ruled the country under the visionary leadership of nawaz Sharif
The minister said Shehbaz Sharif had resolved to chart the country on the path of progress and development like the previous government tenures of pML-n when the country had emerged as an economic force especially after generation of excessive electricity
She said the prime minister had vowed to continue to provide laptops, jobs education scholarships and health to the youth during the current government’s tenure
The minister quoted Shehbaz Sharif as saying that the nation fully knew those who had pushed the country into the economic quagmire through extreme inflation during their government tenure
Un special rappor teurs call for probe into Kakar’s death, ‘kill list’
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The united nations (un) has called on the government of pakistan to investigate the death of former senator usman Kakar and an alleged Kill List that names several individuals to be eliminated The call was made in a joint letter by four un Special rapporteurs on human rights dated December 27, 2021, which was made public on Monday The letter urged the government to respond within 60 days, failing which the communication and any response received from the government would be made public and also made available in the report to the Human rights Council as of now, the letter does not carry any government response, suggesting that no response has been provided usman Kakar a member of the pashtun minority a former senator and regional leader of the nationalist pakhtunkhwa Milli awami party was found in his house in Quetta Balochistan with blood flowing from a head injury on June 17 2021 The cause of the head injury is unknown but there are concerns that he could have been attacked ex-Senator Kakar had previously received death threats and referred to them as coming from intelligence agencies in his final speech in parliament The joint letter by Morris Tidball-Binz, the Special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions; aua Baldé, the Chair-rapporteur of the Working Group on enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Mary Lawlor, the Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; and Fernand de Varennes the Special rapporteur on minority issues also expressed concern about an alleged “Kill List ”
fia arrests a xact cEo from airpor t
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The Federal Investigation authority (FIa) on Thursday arrested Shoaib ahmed Sheikh co-Chairman of BoL TV and axact Chief executive officer (Ceo) from Islamabad airport according to the BoL administration Shoaib Sheikh has been arrested by Federal Investigation authority (FIa) Islamabad Zone In a statement, the FIa said that the BoL TV’s co-Chairman has been arrested over persistent absences The authority has served several summon notices to Sheikh in a case it said However, the investigation agency said, Shoaib Sheikh failed to appear at the FIa headquarters despite several notices Bol TV reported that the TV team went to the airport to receive Shoaib ahmed Shaikh but he did come out of the airport Some unidentified persons reportedly detained him and took him away with them Talking to Bol TV, Senior anchorperson Sami Ibrahim said that Shoaib Shaikh has been kidnapped from the Islamabad airport by some unknown persons and the management of the Bol TV has no idea about them who were they
Autopsy reveals marks of vicious tor ture on PTI worker ’s body: repor t
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M o n i to R i n g R e p o R t ali Bilal also known as Zill-i-Shah a supporter of the opposition pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (pTI) party who died reportedly in police custody, in Lahore Wednesday was in fact viciously assaulted before he passed away, reports citing sources confirmed
The post-mortem examination, conducted by a three-member forensic team from General Hospital revealed evidence of assault on his body with the cause of death determined to be due to torture Gnn reported according to journalist Zarrar Khuhro his post-mortem report says he was beaten Separately Gnn reported it also indicated that Bilal 34 died from shortness of breath during the assault
Whether the video of him in a police van is old or new isn t as important as the fact that there are clear signs of being hit on and near the head Focusing on video alone is a distraction,” Khuhro noted
The post-mortem report has also been shared with Mohsin naqvi caretaker chief minister of punjab and Javed akram specialised healthcare minister but is yet to be made publicly available the report said naqvi is understood to have ordered an inquiry into the event
Sharing the pictures of the deceased and the image of his identity card, former prime minister Imran Khan tweeted Bilal was unarmed when murdered by the police
He said it was a shameful act that the caretaker government unleashed brutality on unarmed party workers coming to attend the scheduled election rally
“pakistan is in the grip of murderous criminals We will file cases against [provincial police chief] [head of Lahore police] and others for the murder Khan said
In another tweet he posted a video showing Bilal sitting inside a prison van So he was killed while in police custody such is the murderous bent of the present regime and punjab police he lamented Meanwhile, the united nations has called for an investigation into the incident Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for Secretary General antonio Guterres, in a statement, emphasized that people have the right to peaceful protest, and those who committed violence against demonstrators should be held accountable Guterres also appealed for calm and restraint to ease tensions in the region i G P s e t s u P c o m m i t t e e t o
P r o b e P t i w o r k e r’s ‘m u r d e r’: punjab Inspector General of police Dr usman anwar has formed a Fact Finding Committee for a transparent and impartial investigation into the death of a pTI worker during a crackdown a day ago on those participating in the party s rally following the imposition of Section 144 in Lahore
DIG Headquarters punjab has issued a notification for the two-member f Committee The two-member committee consists of DIG elite Force Sadiq ali Dogar and SSpIaB, Capital City police Lahore, Imran Kishor will conduct a detailed review of all aspects of the incident and submit a report within three days The committee will carry out inquiry into the incidents of police clashes with [pTI] workers especially the death of ali Bilal a pTI worker who the party chairman Imran Khan alleged was murdered by punjab police as the pTI was about to commence a rally yesterday to express its support for the judiciary the government imposed Section 144 banning all kinds of gatherings
Following the ban police officials had taken scores of pTI workers into custody for violating the ban and used water cannons in an effort to disperse them which had led the pTI chairman to call off the rally
The IGp has directed the committee to submit a report within three days after gathering statements from witnesses and all possible CCTV footage and video clips of the incident The notification listed seven questions that the committee has been tasked with investigating, four of which specifically pertaining to Bilal’s death The punjab IGp asked what were the circumstances that led to Bilal’s death and when and where he died He further asked if Bilal was in police custody as reported on social media The committee would also inquire who took the deceased Bilal ali to the hospital and what was the registration number of the vehicle
