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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked social media platforms to immediately block all content related to a sacrilegious film titled “Lady in Heaven”.In a statement on Sunday, the PTA said that keeping in view different reports regarding the movie and its sacrilegious content, social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, have been directed “for immediate blocking of all content related to the said movie from their platforms”. It said that so far, 336 links containing promotional material of the movie have been reported to the different…

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Bali’s famous beaches are being strewn by plastic rubbish in what experts say is becoming an annual event thanks to monsoon weather, poor waste management and a global marine pollution crisis. Authorities are struggling to keep up with the tide of rubbish washing up on beaches at Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, where about 90 tonnes of rubbish was collected on Friday and Saturday. Wayan Puja, from the Badung area’s environment and sanitation agency, said: “We have been working really hard to clean up the beaches, however the trash keeps coming.…

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EDITORIAL: It has become painfully clear that no matter how much the government and the opposition try to present their respective sides of the story about all the problems with the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sale-purchase mechanism, the debate only gets murkier and rendered much more difficult for people to decide whether they are being fleeced or facilitated. It is really quite remarkable that representatives of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its predecessor in office Pakistani Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) can use the same datasets to back two very different…

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ISLAMABAD: After floating tenders very late for purchase of LNG [liquefied natural gas] for the winter season and inflicting billions of losses on the national economy, it seems the petroleum ministry has started making attempts to set right its wrongs, committed in the near past. According to Geo News programme ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Ke Sath’ on Friday, the ministry published an advertisement in the newspapers on December 31, inviting bids for supply of LNG for the month of April 2021. Earlier, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Petroleum Nadeem…

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Audit of the Welfare Funds of all the oil and gas companies working in Tehsil Jand and Pindigheb of Attock district will be carried out at appropriate level to know the actual position and this audit report will be made public. Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said this while exclusively talking to this scribe.He said that more than twelve oil and gas companies had been working in Attock since decades but did nothing for the uplift of area which was a question mark and…

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