Author: Sariaslan Gorgage

BAHAWALPUR: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Emir Sirajul Haq lashed out at corrupt elements among politicians and state institutions, who he said were mentioned in the Panama Papers and Pandora Leaks and wasted Pakistan’s precious 75 years. Addressing a workers’ convention at Dera Izzat on Saturday, the JI chief regretted that at least 80 million people of the country were forced to live below the poverty line. He claimed that finance minister Ishaq Dar had admitted his failure to reset the country’s falling economy, which, he said, was due to the “slavery of IMF and World Bank”. Mr Haq criticised the PPP, PTI…

Kenes Rakhisev, chairman of Board of Directors at Kazakhstan’s Fincraft Resources, and Sandeep Jajodia, managing director of Indian holding company Monnet Group, reached an agreement to jointly establish a ferroalloy plant in Kazakhstan. A memorandum of understanding was signed in Astana on December 14, 2022. The plant is ceremoniously named TB Alloys Kazakh Limited. The new plant is envisioned to be constructed in the industrial zone of Taraz city with the company has already started preparation works. Taraz is the administrative seat of Jambyl region in the south of the country near the border with Kyrgyzstan. Initially, the plant will have…

SINDH, PAKISTAN – Staff from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are seeing alarmingly high numbers of people with malaria and children with malnutrition among flood-affected communities in Sindh and eastern Balochistan provinces, Pakistan. Catastrophic flooding began in the country in June, and the situation remains an emergency, with critical humanitarian needs. The current response is inadequate. People’s basic needs, including access to essential food assistance, healthcare and safe drinking water, in the worst flood-affected areas remain unmet. “While the focus is shifting towards recovery and reconstruction, a scaled-up humanitarian response to meet people’s immediate needs is absent,” says Edward Taylor, MSF’s…

Chairman of CPN (Maoist Center) Pushpa Kamal Dahal has reached Kotoshwor, residence of Chairman of CPN (Unified Socialist) Madhav Nepal. On Friday evening, Dahal reached Madhav Nepal’s residence at Koteshwor to meet Nepal who was discharged from the teaching hospital and to discuss the formation of the government. According to the Sources, one-to-one discussion is going on between the two leaders in Koteshwor. It is understood that the discussion between the two top leaders of the Nepali Congress-led alliance has been going on for about half an hour. It is understood that the topic of government formation and coalition is…