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ISLAMABAD: The multi-million dollars scam on excess payments to LNG suppliers has been put on way to its logical end as former managing director of Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) Adnan Gilani and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Nadeem Nazir, currently made OSDs (official on special duty), have been declared guilty and held responsible for excess payments amounting to US$27.526 million in the head of port charges. Both the top officials of PLL that deals with import of LNG, have also been declared guilty of gross willful negligence and failure to…

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The beginning of 2021 has increasingly seen accidents and deaths in coalmines and collieries in Pakistan. Only last month, two coalmines collapsed in Balochistan, home to large deposits of coal, causing many coalminers’ deaths. In the tragic accident on March 15, seven coalminers burnt to death in a huge fire triggered by methane gas blast inside a coalmine in Harnai District, while digging about 1,500 feet deep inside the mine, and two rescuers also lost their lives. Earlier, on March 12, six workers had died in the Marwar Coalfields in…

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan is reportedly unhappy with Ministry of Energy (Power Division and Petroleum Division) for prolonged delay in finalisation of modalities required to resolve KE issues, well informed sources told Business Recorder. On January 21, 2021, Prime Minister had given ten days to SAPM on Power, SAPM on Petroleum, Secretary Power and Secretary Petroleum to finalise modalities of possible settlement along with all possible options including arbitration to be worked out with pros and cons. Both the Divisions were also warned that action may be taken for…

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ISLAMABAD: The multi-million dollars scam on excess payments to LNG suppliers has been put on way to its logical end as former managing director of Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) Adnan Gilani and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Nadeem Nazir, currently made OSDs (official on special duty), have been declared guilty and held responsible for excess payments amounting to US$27.526 million in the head of port charges. Both the top officials of PLL that deals with import of LNG, have also been declared guilty of gross willful negligence and failure to…

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Pakistan’s vivacious media, over the last few weeks, hasn’t commented more extensively on any other topic other than Prime Minister Imran Khan’s chameleonic transfiguring of his Cabal. Several ministers, top civil servants, and Police chiefs have been changed using former US President Donald Trump’s template. In subcontinental aphorism—India’s Nehru, during his illustrious political career, didn’t change his ‘Dhotees’ that frequently as the Skipper of ‘Tabdeeli Sarkaar’ mutated his seemingly atrophic team. He has even tried ‘two wrongs to make one right’—but even that hasn’t worked as anticipated. However, one such…

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