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BEIJING: An explosion at a electronics component manufacturer in east China on Sunday killed seven and injured five others, local authorities said. The blast happened when a container for storing scrap metal burst into flames outside a factory in an export processing zone in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, the local government said on its official WeChat social media account. “The cause of the accident outside Kunshan Waffer Technology Corp. Ltd. is still under investigation,” the statement said. The fire from the storage unit spread to a nearby factory workshop, it added, while one of the five people injured was in a critical condition. The incident comes barely a week after one of China’s worst recent industrial accidents, in which an explosion at a chemical plant in the same province killed 78 people and injured hundreds. The powerful explosion in the eastern city of Yancheng toppled several buildings in the industrial park, blew out windows of nearby homes and even dented metal ga

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhry, on Sunday responded Khursheed Shah’s allegations, saying that the politician’s played a bigger role in destroying national institutions. In his latest Twitter message, Fawad Chaudhry said that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader should remember his wrongdoings and stop selling Benazir and Bhutto’s names. The information minister said that Shah has a bigger part in the destruction of institutions as he was the chairman of a committee which had stacked political appointments in past. خورشیدشاہ اپنے کرتوتوں کو سامنے رکھتے ہوئے بے نظیراور بھٹو کو بیچنا بند کریں، اداروں کی تباھی میں سب سے بڑا حصہ خورشید شاہ کا ہے۔ یہ اس کمیٹی کے سربراہ تھےجنہوں نے اداروں میں میرٹ کے برعکس اور سیاسی بھرتیوں کا انبار لگا دیا جو دیمک اداروں کو لگی اس کا سب سے بڑا کیڑا خورشیدشاہ ہیں — Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) March 31, 2019 Slamming the PPP leader, he continued that Khursheed Shah was the ‘biggest worm’ among te

MULTAN: Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Sohail Mahmood will become new Foreign Secretary of the country upon superannuation of incumbent Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua who is retiring next month. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made this announcement while speaking to the media in Multan. “We’ve decided to appoint Sohail Mahmood as Foreign Secretary,” he said and added the decision has been taken in consultation with Prime Minister Imran Khan. The foreign minister said Sohail Mahmood will assume office upon superannuation of Tehmina Janjua on April 16. “I want to pay tribute to Tehmina Janjua with whom I have been working for the last seven months,” he said, adding that he has learnt a lot from her. He said Sohail Mahmood had served in crucial positions, including as Pakistan’s envoy in Thailand and Turkey. In a reference to the opposition’s criticism of the government over National Accountability Bureau (NAB) actions, Qureshi said NAB is not subservient to the

SUKKUR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Khursheed Shah, while severely criticising the PTI government, said on Sunday the incumbent government is “a model of dictators”. “The civilian dictator system has taken over in the country,” he said while addressing a public gathering in Pano Akil. “I don’t accept that there is democracy in our country. They have ripped democracy into pieces,” Shah said. “Today, farmers and labourers are crying. Pakistan is going down,” he said, adding “when we come out against inflation they [the government] say we are saving ourselves but in fact we want to save Pakistan and the poor.” Slamming the government’s decision to rename Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), he said he feared the government may also remove the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s image from currency notes. “You can’t remove Benazir’s name from the hearts of people. This is a name of democracy, ” the PPP leader said. “They [government] are a bubbl

ISLAMABAD: National flag-carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), has started preparations for special flight operations, ARY News reported on Sunday. PIA will operate Boeing 777 and Airbus A320 aircraft during the phase-wise operations to facilitate 65,000 pilgrims in 300 special and scheduled flights. The flights will be operated from major cities including Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Sukkur and Quetta. The national flag-carrier has set Rs100,000 fares per person for flights from Sindh and Balochistan and Rs110,000 from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On March 12, Minister for Religious Affairs, Noorul Haq Qadri, had announced names of 112,526 successful applicants who will perform Hajj under the government scheme this year. The minister announced that as many as 112,526 people would perform Hajj under the government scheme while 71,684 people will go for Hajj under private Hajj scheme. In total, 184,210 people will perform Hajj from Pakistan this year, he