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Hazara community protest: No prime minister can be blackmailed, says Imran Khan
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I will visit Quetta today if the slain coal miners are buried, PM Imran stressed.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister Imran Khan has on Friday, while commenting on the Hazara community protest, said that no premier can be blackmailed and it is not appropriate to condition the burial of the victims of the gruesome Machh incident with PM’s arrival.
Speaking at a ceremony in connection with the launch of Special Technology Zones Authority in Islamabad, Imran Khan said he will visit Quetta today if the slain coal miners are buried.
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TOKYO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - JERA, Japan’s biggest electricity generator and the world’s largest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is operating gas- power plants at lower rates as it runs down inventories amid rising heating demand as temperatures drop.
The company joins other Japanese power generators reducing run rates on their gas plants as they compete with LNG buyers across northern Asia scrambling to secure supplies, sending prices higher.
Tight fuel supplies are also highlighting vulnerabilities in Japan’s electricity grid that make it harder to swap power supplies between areas a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster set off government-led changes to prevent such situations.
PPP, PTI trade barbs over Machh killings
PPP, PTI trade barbs over Machh killings
Murtaza Wahab PHOTO: TWITTER
The members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) traded barbs on Thursday over Machh killings, which have sparked country-wide protests.
Speaking to the media after inaugurating a school in Hazara Colony, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab called for Prime Minister Imran Khan to “keep his ego aside and visit the Hazara community to share their grief.”
Separately, Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah dubbed the Machh incident “an international conspiracy of the enemies of Pakistan.”
He too assailed the PM for keep delaying his visit to the slain miners’ families.
Greens call for more answers on Dendrobium coal mine dam spill after release of report
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The report revealed water was discharged through the base of the dam as well as spilling over the top during heavy rain.
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A member of the Illawarra Greens, who revealed details of creek damage from a sediment pond failure at the Dendrobium coal mine, believes a report into the incident contains insufficient detail on what caused the event.
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A report released under freedom of information reveals new details of a coal mine dam failure that polluted local creeks in Wollongong