Details of Al Qadir Trust case in which IK has been arrested:
1. UK’s National Crime Agency fines Malik Riaz £140 million & that amount is sent back to Pakistan
2. However, that money is given to SC as part of MR’s settlement over the Bahria Town scandal case 3. Federal cabinet of IK on Dec 2, 2019 allowed this to be done (Faisal Vawda confirmed this & members were asked to sign documents) & funds landed in SC account in NBP as opposed to the GOP’s main account.
4. A total of Rs 460 billion was to be paid by MR & this amount was part

The Toshakhana Files

On Jan 21, 2021, the Pakistan Information Commission (a Govt body) issued a 7 page order on an appeal filed by Rana Abrar Khalid seeking details on the following Qs - he had filed a request under the Right to Information law with the Cabinet Division for: 1. How many gifts did PM IK from foreign heads of
state, heads of govt & other foreign dignitaries from 18 Aug 2018 to 31 Oct 2020?
2. What is the full description/specification of the all gifts received by the PM in this manner from 18 Aug 2018 to 31 Oct 2020?

The 32 PTI MNAs who haven't resigned:

Prince Nawaz Allai NA 12 Battagram
Saleh Muhammad NA 13 Mansehra
Noor Alam Khan NA 27 Peshawar
Jawad Hussain NA 47 Orakzai
Ch Farrukh Altaf NA 66 Jhelum
Amir Cheema NA 91 Sargodha
Afzal Dhandla NA 98 Bhakkar
Mehr Lali NA 99 Chiniot Asim Nazir NA 101 Faisalabad
Nawab Sher NA 102 Faisalabad
Raja Riaz NA 110 Faisalabad
Riaz Fatyana NA 113 Toba Tek Singh
Ghulam Bibi Bharwana NA 115 Jhang
Rai M Iqbal NA 149 Sahiwal
Ahmed Deharr NA 154 Multan
Rana Qasim Noon NA 159 Multan
Abdul Ghafar Wattoo NA 166 Bahawalnagar

Javed Iqbal is Pakistan’s best known serial killer - he raped & killed over a hundred boys - most of them runaways - living in a busy area of Lahore he was able to rape, kill & dismember them & dissolve their bodies in acid

I was a reporter Dawn Lahore at that time Javed Iqbal wrote a letter to Jang Akhbar - he then gave himself up in the office of Jang Lahore - in the letter he said that he had murdered over 100 boys - runaways mostly and picking them up from Data Darbar area - his reason for this according to him was to seek revenge

Two women and a nine-year-old girl, were paraded naked on March 31, 1984, through the small galis of Nawabpur, a small, sleepy town some 10 kilometres from Multan.

1/ The women's brother-in-law, Akbar, was a local carpenter, who had earned a name for himself by becoming skilled at his craft. The man, according to one account which appeared three weeks after the incident in this newspaper's weekly magazine, was that ...

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PM approves summary to a point former PTI social media head as head of the newly-created Digital Wing in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting - as per the law the posts have to be advertised in major newspapers - they were advertised in a lesser read paper ... The paper is often seen as a favourite of successive Govts because it tends to quite easily publish material sent by the Govt for PR and image building - the posts were not properly advertised as such and circulated within certain social media practitioners seen as close to Govt

My trip from Karachi to Nathiagali

Total driving time 18-19 hours
I stopped in Multan at the highly recommended Avari Express in Cantt

Khi to Multan takes 10-11 hours - Sukkur-Multan M4 is like any highway (or even better) in the US

Google Maps was the only thing I relied on After a night stopover in Multan headed to Nathiagali - The quicker route is one that bypasses Islamabad and takes you from the Abbottabad side - via the newly opened Hazara Expressway which has some great panoramic views of the surrounding plain and hills

The SAPM on Digital Pakistan, Tania Aidrus, was notified as Special Assistant to the PM on Feb 28 – prior to that the SAPM was brought in by JKT to head the Digital Pakistan initiative of the Govt of Pakistan – a worthy objective no doubt The SAPM was said to have worked at Google and was thought to a suitable candidate for the GoP post - A little over a week before the SAPM’s official notification to the post, a company, as per SECP record, was set up on Feb 20, 2020

Details of areas sealed Karachi’s District East:

Union Council 1, Delhi Mercantile
Adamjee Nagar, Block C
Adamjee Nagar, Block B
Burhani Appartment, Shabirabad
Al Hashim Market,
KDA-1, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Union Council 2, Civic Centre
Street 19, BMCH Sharfabad
Sawera Building, 4 Minar, Bahadurabad
Areas near Times Medicos and the Aga Khan University Hospital
Dawood Society

Union Council 3, PIB Colony
PIB Colony

Union Council 4, Essa Nagri
Street 2, Sadina Colony
Ghausia Colony

Chinese cities that implemented a Level 1 response (any combination of control measures) preemptively, before discovering any COVID-19 cases, reported 33.3% fewer laboratory-confirmed cases during the first week of their outbreaks compared with cities that started control later A separate analysis using regression models shows that, among specific control measures, cities that suspended intra-city public transport and/or closed entertainment venues and banned public gatherings, and did so sooner, had fewer cases during the first week of their outbreaks