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February 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Three months after Imran Khan became Prime Minister in 2018, a citizen wrote to the National Assembly Speaker, Asad Qaiser. He wanted to judge the newly-elected chief executive of the country through his past practices to determine how regular he was in attending the NA sessions and what amount of salary as well as other benefits he received in return.
Sher Muhammad Chishti, therefore, decided to seek out details using the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017. “Respectfully it is stated that I have some knowledge about our past rulers available in different books written by many authors. Now I intend to collect information from different quarters about our present ruler Mr Imran Khan Niazi, Prime Minister of Pakistan. The following information is not available anywhere except your office which may kindly be sent to me at your earliest convenience. I shall be highly thankful to you
OPINION / EDITORIAL By Global Times Published: Jan 28, 2021 10:49 PM
Photo taken on July 9, 2019 shows Audi vehicles awaiting transfer at the parking lot of FAW-Volkswagen in Changchun, northeast China s Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and HSBC CEO Noel Quinn are facing Western criticism for their politically incorrect statements on China.
At the World Economic Forum, Diess said China is moving in the right direction and that it is easier to invest in China than China is allowed to invest in Germany or other places. Quinn said on the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that his bank was not in a position to question police requests when it agreed to freeze accounts of anti-government activists. He also said some senior HSBC executives experienced the violence during the protests in Hong Kong in 2019. Quinn replied to those hypocritical accusations against him that he was not going to comment on democracy because he s a ba
The letter goes on to add that another cross-party letter addressing the concern was also forwarded to the foreign secretary Dominic Raab to ensure that he raised the matter with his counterpart.
THE STANDARD By
Daniel Wesangula |
January 10th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
The old steam locomotive train [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]
One does not have to look far to spot the scars of our colonial legacy that dot the land.
There are reminders at every corner: from the names of our children and our streets; the foreign domination at the Nairobi Securities Exchange; the erosion of our culture and our infatuation with all things foreign.
More than a century after the nation found itself under the calloused thumb of the British Empire, we are still struggling to step out of the long shadow of colonialism.