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KARACHI: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry will meet Muttahida Qaumi Movement- Pakistan (MQM-P) leadership and will take them into confidence over the JIT report in fake accounts case, sources told ARY News on Monday. According to details, the minister, who will arrive in Karachi on a short visit to the province is likely to meet coalition partner MQM-P leadership and will take them into confidence over ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) future strategy over findings Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in fake accounts case which names a number of PPP leaders. Two days ago, sources told ARY News that Prime Minister Imran Khan has given Fawad Chaudhry a “special task” related to political setup in Sindh province and the minister will travel to the province to meet leaders like Zulfiqar Mirza and Ameer Bukhsh Bhutto. The minister will meet some other political leaders too and may take them into confidence over the report of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in fake accounts c

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday reserved a verdict on the appointment of Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif as the chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC). As per details, the lawyer of the petitioner argued that appointing Shehbaz as chairman of PAC is like “ridiculing the constitution”, thus IHC should dismiss the Opposition Leader of the National Assembly from the top post of PAC. Appointing corruption-suspect Shehbaz as PAC chairman would influence the inquiry, the petitioner’s counsel asserted, while mentioning that issuing production order for the president of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz to attend the National Assembly session, was also against the law of National Accountability Bureau (NAB).  The PML-N leader is currently under the custody of NAB in connection to corruption cases. Shehbaz Sharif was elected Chairman of the PAC in a meeting of the committee at Parliament House in Islamabad on Friday, December 21. The PAC in a move unanimously elected S

KARACHI: Traffic Police has made its preparations to ensure free flow of traffic at Karachi’s roads on the New Year Eve, ARY News reported on Monday. A spokesperson of the city’s traffic police, has advised citizens to divert to alternate routes to avoid the traffic rush at the Sea View. According to the traffic police statement, the heavy traffic will not be allowed entry in the metropolis after 6:00 in the evening. The parking will not be permitted at Shara-e-Faisal, Abdullah Haroon Road, M.T. Khan Road and other major roads of Karachi, according to the plan. The city’s traffic police will also take action against the cars and motorcycles with broken or without silencers, the statement added. Traffic Plan The traffic police have issued traffic diversion plan for New Year’s Eve tonight in anticipation of revellers heading to Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim and Sea View to usher in the New Year. A statement issued from the office of DIG Traffic Karachi, has provided the public the routes and

Eleven development projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been completed so far while 11 others are "under construction", Radio Pakistan reported on Monday. Based on the latest progress report on CPEC issued by the Embassy of China in Pakistan on Saturday, around $18.9 billion have been invested in the 22 projects. Twenty more projects remain in the pipeline. According to the report, 15 energy projects with total generation capacity of 11,110MW were planned as a priority. Seven have been completed while six are "under construction" with a total capacity of 6,910MW. As per the report, three projects regarding infrastructure are "under construction" — the Karakoram Highway Phase-II (Havelian-Thakot section), Karachi-Lahore Motorway (Sukkur-Multan section) and Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project. "CPEC is a major and pilot project of the Belt and Road Initiative and one major platform for comprehensive and substantive coope

WASHINGTON: A US judge who ruled earlier this month that Obamacare is unconstitutional has said the health care law can stand while his decision is appealed. In a stay order issued Sunday, Texas-based Judge Reed O’Connor said that while he was confident his ruling would be upheld, it should not take effect until the outcome of an appeal is known “because many everyday Americans would otherwise face great uncertainty.” That appeal process is widely expected to take at least a year. Opposition Democrats, who have seen the law survive previous legal and legislative attacks, view it as a signature achievement of former president Barack Obama. Republicans on the other hand dismiss it as governmental overreach and President Donald Trump made repealing the law a key part of his campaign platform. In a separate Obamacare case in 2012, five of the nine Supreme Court justices upheld the law. All five remain on the court. Still, it remains unclear how they might rule in the new case. If th

MOSCOW: Russian rescuers were on Monday searching for people trapped under the rubble of a city apartment block that partly collapsed in a suspected gas blast, killing at least three, RIA said. Russia’s emergencies ministry told the news agency that four people had been recovered alive from the nine-storey building in Magnitogorsk, an industrial city some 1,700 km (1,050 miles) east of Moscow in the southern Urals. State television said it was unclear how many people were still trapped. The emergencies ministry said the blast, probably caused by a gas leak, damaged 48 apartments. RIA said it ripped through the building at around 0600 a.m. (0100 GMT) when many residents were asleep. Monday is a public holiday in Russia. There have been several similar incidents in Russia in recent years due to ageing infrastructure and poor safety regulations surrounding gas usage. In 2015, at least five people were killed when a gas explosion damaged an apartment building in the southern Russian

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