Working on changing NAB law, says PM
July 16, 2021
TASHKENT/ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said the government was working to change the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law.
The prime minister, in an interactive session with Pakistani businessmen in Tashkent, said unnecessary regulations were also being done away with to encourage and promote the small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The prime minister told the entrepreneurs that the present government was committed to remove impediments in the way of various businesses and industries, including the pharmaceutical industry. He said Pakistan and Uzbekistan had a lot of potential for joint ventures between their private sectors for mutual benefit.
MANSEHRA: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong talking to a police official during his visit to Dasu on Thursday. Dawn
ISLAMABAD / MANSEHRA: Stepping back from its earlier position that the blast on Chinese workers’ bus was caused by accidental leakage of gas, the government on Thursday said it could potentially be a terrorism incident as traces of explosives had been detected on the wreckage of the bus and at the blast site.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said in a Twitter posting: “Initial investigations into Dasu incident have now confirmed traces of explosives, terrorism cannot be ruled out.”
The development came as China announced that it was sending a team to Pakistan to deal with the aftermath of the incident.
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TOPSHOT - Rescue workers and onlookers gather around a wreck after a bus plunged into a ravine following a bomb explosion, which killed 12 people including 9 Chinese workers, in Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on July 14, 2021. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
In a preliminary investigation into a bus blast that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, Pakistan said on Thursday that traces of explosives were verified and that an act of terrorism could not be ruled out. Fawad Chaudhry, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, made his remarks a day after Pakistan and China, the all-weather allies, presented opposing viewpoints on the potential causes of the tragic accident.
JCC meeting under CPEC postponed
July 16, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The much-awaited Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting, under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has been postponed for an indefinite period, it is learnt. No apparent reasons were cited for the sudden postponement of much-hyped JCC’s scheduled virtual meeting between the two sides. The JCC meeting was scheduled after October 2019 when the last meeting was held before the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. So practically, no meeting was held between Pakistan and China under CPEC at the level of JCC in almost the last two years. First of all, the lingering pandemic of COVID-19 affected the process but now changing geopolitical situation also paved the way for the postponement of meeting at the last moment. “On Chinese request, the JCC meeting under CPEC has been postponed” said the official sources. It was conveyed to Pakistani side on Thursday when Minister for Planning Asad Umar and Chairman CPEC Auth
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