Verdict in Rs343m FCS corruption case due tomorrow
Karachi
February 5, 2021
An accountability court will announce the verdict in the case pertaining to corruption in the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) that involves the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) local leader Dr Nisar Morai on Saturday (tomorrow).
On Thursday the Accountability Court-I judge reserved the decision in the case after hearing the final arguments from the defence and the prosecution after an almost three-year-long trial.
In January 2018 the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a reference accusing the then FCS chief Morai, former chief Abdul Saeed Khan, former vice chairman Sultan Qamar Siddiqui and 10 other officials and contractors of misusing their authority, embezzling funds, making illegal appointments and awarding fake contracts between 2014 and 2015.
Educational institutions to open tomorrow
Top Story
January 31, 2021
SUKKUR: Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training and National Heritage Shafqat Mehmood Saturday said the time had come to open the educational institutions.
Speaking at a ceremony, he said from 1st February, all educational institutions would be opened. He said the nation could not afford the closure of educational institutions anymore because they had suffered much due to the COVID-19. He said there will be periodical meetings to review the COVID-19 situation. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan loved all provinces but he loved Sindh the most.
He said Sindh was rich in natural resources as well as archaeological sites and was contributing much revenue to Pakistan.
PESHAWAR: The teaching fraternity of the University of Peshawar has announced to attend their duties from tomorrow while wearing black ribbons on their arms to protest the university’s.