Ahsan Iqbal attacked, injured in Narowal

NAROWAL: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal came under fire after a political rally in his hometown Narowal, officials said. The interior minister has been injured. According to family and officials, Ahsan Iqbal was out of danger after being shot in the right shoulder.He was returning to his vehicle after addressing a rally in Kanjrur town of Narowal when he was shot at by an unknown person. The interior minister was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital  for emergency aid. Police have arrested the suspected shooter and launched investigations. State Minister Talal Chaudhry said that a 22-year-old person was involved in the shooting. "A 22-year-old  person has been arrested ," he said, adding that the interior minister may be shifted to Lahore if required. "By the Grace of Gold, Ahsan Iqbal is out of danger."Meanwhile, the state minister  criticized a court order regarding withdrawal of security. Narowal DPO said that the suspected gunman has been arrested along with his firearm. The suspect has been identified as Abid Hussain, who is a resident of the same town.  Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has sent his official helicopter to Narowal to airlift the  minister to Lahore. The chief minister has ordered IG Punjab to submit a report. 

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I was asleep when I fell and sustained injuries: Naeem Bukhari

By Murtaza Ali ShahLONDON: Prominent lawyer and PTI leader Naeem Bukhari has said that he was “asleep” when he fell at a London underground tube station and ended up breaking four ribs and injuries to head.In an interview with Geo News on Sunday, Bukhari rubbished reports on some media that a “murder attempt” was made on his life by a man and explained what exactly happened to him on the night of 1st May 2018.Naeem Bukhari revealed that he was coming to his hotel after having dinner at friend Barrister Iftikhar Ahmed’s house in North London and fell asleep during the journey. “We reached at the Marble Arch station and I fell asleep when my wife woke me up. I was not conscious when I left the train and took wrong exit and that the time when I fell while still being asleep. I fell down and my four floating ribs were broken. Doctors have been examining injuries to my head. They have done two MRIs so far and they want to find out why I fell unconscious, i am telling them i didn’t even wake up,” said Bukhari.He said reports that he was beaten up and assaulted are completely baseless. “Nobody pushed me, shouted at me or attacked me.Media reports mixed Naeem Bukhari’s incident with attack on Sir Robert Maplas on 27th April at the same Marble Arch station where Naeem Bukhari fell and sustained injuries. Bukhari said that he arrived in London on 28th of Arpil and “there’s no question of me being attacked on 27th when I was still in Pakistan and preparing to take flight to London”.Bukhari said there are too many speculations about him but he said: “Trust me, I was asleep when I fell down. The British Transport Police has said I wasn’t attacked. I should have gone straight. I should have followed my wife, I was asleep. Nothing happened, I am back to normal, I going through trauma.”He said he was supposed to leave for American to raise funds for NAMAL college but “now that my four chest ribs are broken, I don’t think I will be able to undertake that journey, I will be going back to work”.

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Earlier summer vacations on the cards in Sindh

KARACHI: The Sindh government may announce annual summer vacations earlier than schedule owing to extremely hot weather and Ramazan.According to sources, Sindh Education Department has submitted a summary, seeking early summer vacations for schools, colleges and other educational institutes across the province.It has requested the chief minister to announce summer vacations from May 14 to July 15 instead of June 1 to July 30. The summary has been forwarded to the Chief Minister House.The schedule for summer vacations will be changed once the summary is approved.Last year, the education department had announced early summer vacations from May 26 to July 31 due to sweltering heat and Ramazan. 

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Imran, Zardari to suffer defeat in elections: Nawaz

MANSEHRA: PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif is confident that PTI chairman Imran Khan and PPP president Asif Ali Zardari will suffer defeat in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Addressing a mammoth gathering of supporters at Mansehra on Sunday, Nawaz Sharif said that PML-N would register a bigger victory than 2013 elections. “Giving respect to votes means giving respect to Pakistan and youths,” he said, adding that he would build a nawa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if he was voted to power after the 2018 polls. "Make a promise that the next 70 years will be different from the past.""If the vote was given respect in 2018 election, a new Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would emerge ."He said that naya Pakistan can be seen in Lahore and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “If we get the opportunity to form the government once more, we will change the fate of Punjab and Sindh.”"We will launch a new housing project for homeless people. God willing, we will extend the railway network till Mansehra."He said that Nawaz Sharif  could be eligible again to stand in the elections. "We will have to change the decision of my disqualification by going to the assembly," he said. "I have no competition with Asif Zardari and Imran Khan. They will both suffer defeat," he said. 

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EXCLUSIVE: British Transport Police says no ?murder attempt? on PTI leader Naeem Bukhari

LONDON: The British Transport Police (BTP) have said that no “murder attempt” was made on prominent Pakistani lawyer Naeem Bukhari who remains admitted in St Mary’s Hospital after sustaining injuries on the night of 1st May.Reports in Pakistani media claimed that the BTP are treating the April 27 incident at Marble Arch “involving Naeem Bukhari as “attempted murder” but a spokesman of the police told The News over the phone that the Police has no record of Naeem Bukhari being attacked for his life.The police clarified that the victim attacked on the night of 27th April was leading industrialist Sir Robert Malpas, 90, who was allegedly pushed in front of a train by another man. The former Eurotunnel chairman was saved by a heroic bystander Riyad El-Hassani, 24.The British Transport Police spokesman said that with help from the CCTV cameras it has already arrested and charged a man in connection with murder attempt on Sir Malpas. The BTP said that Paul William Crossley, of Leyton High Road, London, has been charged with attempted murder on the life of Sir Mapls, he appeared before the Westminster Magistrates Court on 30th April and has been remanded into custody. Crossley will appear again at Blackfriars Crown Court on May 29. The spokesman said that it appealed to members of the public for information and didn’t say at any stage that it was looking for anyone of “Asian descent”. Naeem Bukhari had dinner with his friend and noted lawyer Barrister Iftikhar Ahmed at his North London home on the night of 1st May. Ahmed, the former Pakistan army major-turned-lawyer who shifted to London after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s hanging, told Geo News that he received a call from Bukhari’s wife an hour after the couple left their home that he has “passed out” at the Marble Arch station. He said the ambulance was called and Bukhari was taken to the hospital.A spokesman of the London Ambulance Services corroborated the version of Barrister Iftikhar Ahmed and confirmed they treated “a man at the Marble Arch station who had sustained injuries” and was found to be in “critical situation”. The spokesman said that they took the injured man to the nearby St Mary’s Hospital for urgent treatment.A source at the St Mary’s Hospital told that Naeem Bukhari was brought to the hospital with “highly critical injuries and was immediately admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)” and discharged to a general ward for care once he was “out of danger” after about 24 hours. The hospital source confirmed that Bukhari had sustained multiple injuries. The hospital source added that Naeem Bukhari is likely to be discharged on Tuesday. A spokesman of Scotland Yard said that it didn’t deal with the matter of Naeem Bukhari or the industrial who was attacked. “London Underground is dealt by the British Transport Police and officers of the BTP led the investigations”. Various rumours have flooded social media making claims that Bukhai was assaulted and beaten up, leading to publication of lots of fake news.

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KP govt determined to complete Peshawar BRT in ?record time?: CM Khattak

PESHAWAR: Failing to complete a major infrastructure project on time, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is in a panic mode and has sacked the chief of Peshawar BRT company blaming him for the delay.Talking to reporters here Sunday, Chief Minister KP Pervez Khattak defended the decision of sacking the CEO of Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit for failing to meet the deadline saying the concerned official ignored repeated reminders by the provincial authorities.Although, the delay had pushed the completion date for two months but it would still be a record to complete such a mega project in eight months, said the CM.The CEO deliberately delay the procurement of buses, he added. Just 15 days to the final May 20 deadline of the KP government to inaugurate the Peshawar BRT, the main company assigned to operate the system started falling like a house of cards as chairman of its Board of Directors (BoD) and two other important officers of the company have quit apparently in protest against the removal of the chief executive officer (CEO).The step by the officers leaving the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urban Mobility Authority (KPUMA) and its subsidiary, TransPeshawar Company (TPC), assigned to maintain and operate the BRT system in the provincial metropolis, has definitely shattered Chief Minister Pervez Khattak’s plans to launch the BRT on May 20 or at least before the expiry of his tenure that ends on May 28.The provincial government removed the CEO of the TransPeshawar, Altaf Akbar Durrani, on May 2 after he refused to procure busses for the BRT as per schedule desired by the chief minister, and that too at a time when the corridor of the project has not been completed.His removal was approved by the provincial cabinet at its meeting on April 19, after the chief minister informed it about the impediments in the completion of his government’s lone mega project as per its timelines.Chairman of the TransPeshawar BoD, Javed Iqbal, who according to the sources, had already conveyed to the sacked CEO that he would also resign if the government went with its plan to remove him (CEO), tendered his resignation the next day (May 3).Similarly, following in the footprints of the BoD chairman, two key officers, Chief Finance Officer Safdar Sher Awan and General Manager Operations and Market Development Mohammad Imran Khan tendered their resignations in protest against the CEO’s ouster.The removal of the CEO and subsequent resignations of the chairman BoD, CFO and GM Operations left the Company without its top management that would not only delay procurement of the buses, but also hamper timely completion of some other formalities of the project.The provincial government wanted to inaugurate the BRT on May 20, for which it sought immediate procurement of the buses.However, the ousted CEO informed the chief minister about the legal and manufacturing formalities and testing process of the prototype before mass production of the buses that would have to take about a month. This frustrated the chief minister who perused his cabinet to approve removal of the CEO.In the meanwhile, the provincial government continued with its plan to launch the BRT during the last 20 days of its tenure and adopted another way to arrange buses for the project.

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23 killed after twin coal mine collapses in Quetta

Quetta: Twenty-three people were killed and 11 wounded after gas explosions tore through two neighbouring coal mines in southwestern Pakistan, officials said Sunday.Shortly before midday on Saturday, a build-up of methane caused an explosion and tunnel collapse at a mine in Marwaarh, east of Quetta, the capital of the fossil fuel-rich Balochistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.Jawaid Shahwani, the top government official in Quetta, said 16 of the 25 people inside the mine at the time were killed, with the remaining miners rescued and taken to hospital for treatment.Around three hours later, a mine 25 kilometres (16 miles) to the west at Spin Carez collapsed in similar circumstances, killing seven of the nine miners inside.Provincial mines minister Saleh Baloch told AFP that all miners in both accidents had been accounted for and rescue operations had ended.Pakistani mines are notorious for poor safety standards and bad ventilation.A total of 43 workers died in 2011 when gas explosions triggered a collapse in another Balochistan colliery, also owned by the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation.

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Female European traveler admires beauty of Gilgit-Baltistan

A  European  traveler recently travelled to Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan’s Attabad Lake and admired the beauty of the region."A young female tourist, Eva zu Beck, all the way from #Europe visited the beautiful landscape of ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’ and she admired the breath-taking beauty of the region," read a tweet posted by official Twitter handle of Government of Pakistan.Hailing from Poland, Eva Zu Beck can be seen roving about Attabad Lake in Gilgit-Baltistan as she showcases the richness of the area explaining the formation of the large body of water.“On the fourth of January 2010 a massive landslide came down from one of these mountains basically taking off half the face of the mountain. It blocked off the river access and created a natural dam filling up the valley that was once here with glacial water,” stated Eva.She went on explaining how the disaster had become a cause of major obstructions for the locals, blocking not only road access but buried an entire village underneath the bed of water.Commenting on the optimism and inventiveness of the inhabitants of the area, Eva states: “Now the locals are very resourceful, what they did was they brought boats into this new lake and began transporting people, animals and vehicles by boat.”

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Pakistani man's maiden trip to Europe on foreign airline is the funniest thing on internet right now

Friends of a Pakistani recently put up a banner congratulating him for his maiden  trip to Europe, giving the netizens a good reason to chuckle.The picture of the banner is being circulated on internet in Pakistan with social media users sharing it with hilarious captions on Facebook and Twitter.While some seemed to envy Rana Sahib for having such a nice group of friends, other shared the picture with simple a caption: "friendship goals" "We congratulate our beloved friend Rana Faisal (Advocate High Court) for embarking on a journey to Europe for the first time via business class of the Turkish Airlines," the banner read. A few years ago a teenager's Facebook post  announcing end of friendship with one Muzammil went viral, triggering thousands of memes on social media.Local newspapers in small Pakistani cities have also given social media users reason to smile with the ads congratulating  individuals for  purchasing  certain brand of  mobile phone or a car.

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