Rs60 million looted from Qatari minister in Balochistan

QUETTA: Unidentified armed men on Thursday looted around Rs 60 million from a Qatari minister in Balochistan province, FTNews reported. According to levies sources, Qatar’s petroleum minister Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Thani Al-Thani was on a hunting trip in Turbat when the armed miscreants stopped his car and got away with the loot. Sheikh Ali is a member of the supreme council of the royal family of Qatar. The assistant commissioner of Turbat had initiated an investigating into the incident and no arrests had been reported yet. According to an earlier FTNews report from last year, at least 25 special permits had been issued to dignitaries belonging to the Arabian peninsula allowing them to hunt the internationally protected...

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PML-N on 20th Amend

LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says his party will support the government on the 20th Amendment if the accountability bill prepared with extensive consultation is passed by parliament. He was talking to reporters at the residence of MPA Mehr Ishtiaq Ahmad here on Wednesday. The chief minister said the provinces should be granted their rights under the 18th Amendment. He said the federal government showed negligence on gas and electricity as he had also written a letter to the prime minister over this issue that would be raised at every forum. PML-Q: The PML-Q has asked Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to consume his energies on taking measures to save the lives of the people of Punjab from different diseases instead...

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