ATTOCK, JULY 26 (DNA) – Federal Minister and Adviser to Prime Minister Malik Amin Aslam has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved more than 4 demands, approval of Sui Gas for more than 35 villages of NA-56, Ghazi Brotha, local population in Kamra, government jobs, Attock has been included in the industrial zone.

These views were expressed by Environmental Adviser Malik Amin Aslam while talking to media persons.

He said that a few days ago he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan regarding the atrocities committed against the people of Attock.

These abuses were rectified in the recent cabinet meeting. The Prime Minister of Pakistan and the Federal Cabinet have also approved Sui Gas for 35 villages up to 5 km from the areas from which oil and Sui gas flows.

Work on these projects will start soon. Special instructions have been issued to the gas authorities. The list of names of these 30 to 35 villages will be made public soon. DNA

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Karachi, July 26 –  Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Vice President and parliamentary party leader in Sindh Assembly here Sunday asked why a deputy commissioner was imported from the KpK for district Central of Karachi, when local officers of district management service were available here.

Addressing a press conference at the Insaf House here flanked by MNA Jay Pirkash Lohana, Saifullah Abro, Jam Farooq, Jansher Junejo and other leaders, he said two days ago an officer was made deputy commissioner of district Central Karachi.

 He said we respect all Ulema and want that the students of seminaries should also be given education of other subjects.  He asked are officers in Sindh ended so an officer is imported from the KpK. He said now tenure of local bodies is being ended and deputy commissioners would run them and they would also carry out delimitation.

He said this a fake district management officer, as he used to work as engineer in PTCL. He said the MMA government in KpK made him officer. He said when Maulana had started Azadi March, some political parties had funded it. He said the funded sit-in of Maulana in Islamabad was ended without ant result.

Haleem Adil said that now Bilawal threatens of sit-in and lockdown of Islamabad. He said for this purpose Maulana had visited Karachi and met some political party leaders and as a gift his brother was made a DC for his future services for rent a sit-in. He said this is exploitation of cadre officers of Sindh. It is also violation of the orders of apex courts and we will go to the court against this illegal act. He said after fake domiciles now fake DCs are also there. He asked the establishment division to take action on this matter. He said DCs are appointed in Sindh on political basis and services and governance in Sindh have been damaged.

Haleem Adil said the report about fake domiciles is yet to made public. He said in 2019 examinations were taken on the order of the high court and 18 officers failed to pass the exam of Sindh public service commission. He asked the chief secretary Sindh to take action against these failure officers. He said the Police Order 2019 has failed to deliver. Now  SSP Naushehro Feroze says that the forest area of Shikarpur has become a no-go areas and a Wazirstan. He asked if the IGP Sindh is waiting for a drone . He said IGP is powerless. Police is under the CM and PA of the CM, SSP Farukh Bashir decides about the postings of police officers. He said Kutcha areas of Sukkur, Kandhkot, Khairpur and Kashmore have become no-go areas and more than 90 people kidnapped for ransom are there, and some of them are released after ransom deals.

He saluted the police for their bravery to foil Karachi Stock Exchange terror attack. He regretted that for a few days cops are being target killed. He said the government is following decision of the international court on the matter of Indian spy Kulbhushan. He asked Bilawal whose government has released Raymond Davis. He reminded at that time it was the PPP government and a self-honoring foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmud Qureshi had resigned on this issue.  He asked to which party the traitor Hussain Haqani belonged. He asked who had given India the list of Sikh movement leaders.

He said Sindh is our land and his father had migrated here from Rajasthan which was then a part of Sindh. He said Bilawal instead of wearing Ajrak masks should speak Sindhi language. He said we will not allow disrespect of the culture of Sindh. He said Bilawal is not visiting his own constituency. He said health sector in Sindh is in shambles. He said tow big RO plants of Asia in Sindh are closed. He said RO plants of Manchaar are also closed. He said we congratulate Asif Zardari on birthday, but noting would be done with speeches and they should serve Sindh and its people.

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LAHORE, JUL 26 – The Punjab government has decided to impose smart lockdowns across the province on Eidul Azha. Markets will be closed from before Eid till August 2.

Chief Secretary Jawad Rafiq Malik headed a meeting on July 26 that made the decision and also looked over implementation of SOPs for cattle markets across the province.

Only grocery stores, pharmacies, bakeries and other stores selling necessary items will be allowed to remain open.

The move comes in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Experts had predicted that Pakistan will see a surge in coronavirus cases on Eid.

ISLAMABAD, JUL 26 – Pakistan is gearing up to make electric vehicles the new normal. The country’s first electric vehicle charging unit has been installed on Jinnah Avenue in Islamabad.

According to Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhary, the EV charging facility has been set up by Attock Oil.

“The opening of EV charging stations was another target of Ministry of Science and Technology to encourage E vehicles as future transportation,” he said in a tweet last week, announcing the launch of the stations.

The development came after the policy to shift Pakistan’s vehicles to electric power was approved last month. EV manufacturing units will also be established in the country.

The University and COMSATS invite in shaping the future the world needs now and the future demands and synergize the experience and reach of thousands of scientists and innovators of the global South to develop resilient sustainable communities, societies and cultures. Let us turn knowledge into action.

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ISLAMABAD: The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) and the University for Sustainability announce a partnership to collaboratively advance science, technology and innovation for sustainable development and the promotion of peaceful coexistence necessary to accelerate a just and humanitarian transformation to sustainable development.

With guidance, support and encouragement from leading scientists and statesmen and inspired by youth throughout the world our institutes are heeding UN Secretary General Guterres’s call to action. Chairman of COMSATS and President of the Republic of Ghana, the Hon. Nana Addo DankwaAkufoAddo noted: “In the twenty-five years of its existence, COMSATS has played a lead role in cultivating an enhanced culture of scientific and technological co-operation amongst its Members, through capacity building, education and research and development.”

He continued: “The pivotal role science and technology play in development is well acknowledged. Together with innovation, they have become the new currency for development. Science and technology hold the key to finding sustainable economic, social and environmental solutions to the many problems that confront us.

And these problems are shared from Algeria to Zimbabwe, and from Benin to Tanzania, we face problems.” Founding President of the University for Sustainability, Dr Kenneth Stokes insisted that “with a responsibility to foster a better social order, both at home and globally, the University has an obligation to engage with the global South. For as the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated clearly neither walls nor borders can separate crises in one part of the world from crises in another.

Our partnership with COMSATS is an important step to addressing common problems and accelerating science, technology and innovation for sustainable development.” COMSATS was conceived by Pakistani Nobel Laureate, Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam, in recognition of the increasingly widening gap of scientific knowledge and economic development between the North and the South.

It is an intergovernmental organization established by representatives of a group of Heads of State in developing countries to help create a world where all nations are at peace with one another and capable of providing a good quality of life to their populations in a sustainable way, using modern scientific and technological resources. The University for Sustainability aspires to become a world leader in championing sustainable development.

Delivering interdisciplinary programmes at the nexus of the fourth industrial revolution and the sustainable development megatrends, the University and its global partner organizations are committed to accelerating a just and humanitarian transformation to sustainable development with challenge-driven education, scientific research and innovation. Leveraging open science and open innovation; the University is a state-of-the-art digital platform for and global network of universities and research institutes accelerating breakthrough research and innovative solutions that catalyze transformation at scale and at speed. The University and COMSATS invite in shaping the future the world needs now and the future demands and synergize the experience and reach of thousands of scientists and innovators of the global South to develop resilient sustainable communities, societies and cultures. Let us turn knowledge into action.

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan on Sunday rejected reports of China’s Wuhan lab operating “covert operations” in Pakistan and creating “anthrax-like pathogens” as a politically motivated and fake story.

The Foreign Office, in a statement on Sunday, said the story was composed of distortion of facts and fabrications that quote anonymous sources.

“There is nothing secret about the Bio-Safety Level-3 (BSL-3) Laboratory of Pakistan referred to in the report. Pakistan has been sharing information about the facility with the States Parties to the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BTWC) in its submission of Confidence Building Measures,” the Foreign Office said.

It added that Pakistan’s bio safety lab is meant for diagnostic and protective system improvement by Research and Development (R&D) on emerging health threats, surveillance and disease outbreak investigation.

“Pakistan strictly abides by its BTWC obligations and has been one of the most vocal supporters for a strong verification mechanism to ensure full compliance by the States Parties to the Convention,” the Foreign Office noted

“The attempt to cast aspersions about the facility is particularly absurd against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the need for better preparedness in the areas of disease surveillance and control and international collaborations in that regard, consistent with Article X of BTWC,” it added.

Earlier this week, a report titled “China’s Wuhan lab operating ‘covert operations’ in Pakistan, creating ‘anthrax-like’ pathogens” in The Klaxon, an online magazine, had claimed China’s Wuhan lab has set up operations in Pakistan as part of a broader offensive against India and Western rivals.

According to the report, the secret facility was allegedly making anthrax-like pathogens which could be used in biological warfare.

The report while citing “highly credible intelligence sources” had claimed the programme was being entirely funded by China.

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Chairman CPEC Authority Lt. Gen ® Asim Saleem Bajwas has said in South Balochistan,current focus is on building roads for better connectivity and socio economic development.

In  a Tweet on Sunday he said Hoshab-Awaran-Khuzdar &Awaran-Bela are in focus, which have the potential to transform this region.