Interior minister says PM to hold detailed talks with mourners once burials performed
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed insisted on Friday that Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Quetta, adding that Hazara mourners must carry out funeral rites of the Machh incident victims.
While addressing a press conference, Sheikh Rashid said that the reason the premier was waiting for the burials was so that he could sit down with the community and speak to them in detail.
The minister said that the premier supports the Hazara community completely and if the funeral rites are completed by today then the premier will visit the community today.
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“You cannot blackmail the prime minister of a country like this,” Imran Khan said on Friday while referring to a demand of the protesting Hazara community that he visit them at the Quetta sit-in before they bury the 11 colliers massacred by terrorists last week.
Govt approves land for STZA
Area to be used for setting up technology zone to boost IT sector
Initially, one each Special Technology Zone is to be set up in Islamabad, Lahore, Haripur, Karachi and Quetta. PHOTO: REU-TERS
ISLAMABAD:
The government has approved the transfer of 150 acres of land to the Special Technology Zone Authority (STZA) for setting up a special zone for technological advancement in Islamabad in a bid to boost the IT sector.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has identified the land for establishing the technology zone.
The Cabinet Division said that the STZA had been established under the STZA Ordinance 2020. The authority has been mandated to set up Special Technology Zones (STZs) across Pakistan. Initially, one STZ each is to be set up in Islamabad, Lahore, Haripur, Karachi and Quetta.