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  • VIDEO: PM Imran Khan spotted with Pakistan’s ‘nuclear launch codes’

    VIDEO: PM Imran Khan spotted with Pakistan’s ‘nuclear launch codes’

    Prime Minister Imran Khan has been spotted with “Pakistan’s nuclear launch codes”, a foreign journalist claimed Tuesday.

    Earlier this week, PM Imran was interviewed by BBC’s John Simpson. The interview that came following heightened tensions with India, discussed future ties of the two neighbouring countries.

    With the premier walking away after the interview, he was followed by an officer carrying a briefcase that Simpson revealed held “nuclear codes”.

    “Following him [Imran Khan], I was told, the officer carrying the briefcase that holds Pakistan’s nuclear codes,” he said.

    WATCH VIDEO:

    While what the briefcase really holds remains a mystery, here’s what Twitterati have to say.

    https://twitter.com/MrBubbyy/status/1116019019994341376
    https://twitter.com/meetdspartan/status/1115979217609478144
  • Another PIA hostess ‘goes missing’ in Paris

    Another PIA hostess ‘goes missing’ in Paris

    The air-hostess of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight has “gone missing” in France.

    According to the administration of the flag carrier, 30-year-old Shazia Saeed was part of the crew on PIA’s April 6 Sialkot-Paris flight.

    “She was found missing when the Paris-Lahore flight was scheduled to leave for its destination on Tuesday. The PIA station manager in Paris reported the matter to the authorities there,” a PIA spokesperson was quoted as saying.

    According to Dawn, the Lahore-based hostess may seek asylum in Europe and in that case, PIA may remove her from service.

    The disappearance of PIA flight crew members in Europe and North America is not new as in September 2018, a hostess, Fareeha Mukhtar, who was earlier barred from traveling on international routes, went missing in Canada.

    Mukhtar was suspended from service in 2015 over allegations of smuggling currency and mobile phones.

    She was later traced in Toronto where she was staying with former air hostess Mahira who had also disappeared two years ago.

  • ‘This isn’t LHC,’ Supreme Court warns lawyers against raising voice for ‘favourable verdicts’

    ‘This isn’t LHC,’ Supreme Court warns lawyers against raising voice for ‘favourable verdicts’

    A day after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hamza Shehbaz was granted pre-arrest bail by the Lahore High Court (LHC) amid much drama, the Supreme Court (SC) has taken an apparent jibe at its subordinate court.

    As per the details, a three-member bench of the top court was hearing a case regarding lease of government land to private petrol pumps when Justice Azmat Saeed warned lawyers against raising their voice in the courtroom.

    “This is not LHC where you can create ruckus to get the desired decision,” he remarked.

    Upon this, veteran lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan reminded the top court judge that he too was a part of the LHC once.

    “The existing court is not the one I left behind,” Justice Saeed said while reacting to Ahsan’s comment and cautioned him against the tone in which he was arguing before the bench.

    While Justice Saeed did not clarify his remarks about the LHC, Twitterati believe the observation points towards Hamza’s bail that came amid a standoff between police and party workers.

    As the PML-N leader’s counsel had sought an extension in his bail on Monday, dozens of party loyalists had gathered outside the court and left the premises only after the petition had been approved and National Accountancy Bureau (NAB) barred from arresting Hamza till April 17.

    NAB is after Hamza for the past six months for allegedly accumulating assets beyond known sources of income. The claim, however, has repeatedly been denied by the lawmaker himself.

  • Pakistan’s ‘highest man-made structure’ inaugurated in Thar

    Pakistan’s ‘highest man-made structure’ inaugurated in Thar

    Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday inaugurated the Thar coal-fired power generation plant which he said was the “highest man-made structure” of the country.

    The 660-megawatt power plant consists of two power generation units of 330 megawatts each and has been launched under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

    According to a report by Bloomberg, Thar alone can produce enough coal to generate 15 GW in 10 years. This cheap alternative to imported fuel can help the country overcome a chronic energy shortage that has been wiping off 2 per cent points from economic growth every year.

    Meanwhile, officials have said that the project has given direct and indirect employment to up to 6,000 people of the much-neglected Thar region.