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LAHORE: Pakistan Sugar Mills Association put up a defiant attitude by refusing to sell suar at Rs36/kg, Geo News reported Saturday.

Addressing a press conference here, Sugar Mills Association Punjab Chairman Javed Kiani said they would not flinch back and as a last resort, close down the mills even if they are arrested.

He said the government gave incorrect statistics to the court.

Under the circumstances, the sugar crisis is expected to rage on, Kiani said adding the mills are already suffering from financial slump and would not be able to pay out to the cultivators and banks.

Javed said an appeal would be filed as soon as the court’s signed ruling is received; but, they cannot provide sugar at Rs36/kg, warning to government to plan beforehand for sugar, as there would be less sugar yield next year.

The government is harassing the inventors, and in this harrowing condition, nobody would set up mills here, he warned.

LAHORE: Crackdown against sugar hoarders has been kicked off across Punjab following Lahore High Court (LHC) ruling, setting per kilogram sugar price at Rs40 meanwhile, heavy police contingents have been deployed on sugar mills, Geo news reported early on Saturday before dawn. Read the rest of this entry »

HYDERABAD: The repair work at Guddu Thermal Power Station hit by a fire on Thursday evening yet to begin,causing suspension of power supply to various areas of Sindh and Balochistan from 17 grid stations.  The spokesman of HESCO Muhammad Saqi told Geo News that power supply remained suspended in Kashmore, Kandhkot,Jacobabad, Sukkur, Ghotki, Dharki, Khairpur, Jaffarabad, Naseerabad, Bolan, Chitter and several other areas of Sindh and Balochistan. Read the rest of this entry »

ISLAMABAD: Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi was injured in a brazen attack here on Wednesday. His driver was killed and a police guard injured. The assailants attacked the minister’s car when he was leaving his ministry at G-6/3, some yards away from the Aabpara police station, along with his driver Mohammad Younus and guard Mohammad Ashraf. Read the rest of this entry »

LANDI KOTAL: At least 16 suspected militants were killed and 35 others arrested on the second day of a military operation in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday. Commander of the operation Brigadier Fayyaz told journalists in Jamrud that security forces had faced stiff resistance in Akkakhel and Kohi localities, but cleared the areas after a clash which left several militants dead. Read the rest of this entry »

RIYADH: Former president Pervez Musharraf left Jeddah for London on Wednesday afternoon after a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia amid speculations that another Saudi-backed political arrangement was on the cards in Pakistan.

General (retd) Musharraf had a long meeting with King Abdullah that began late on Tuesday night and continued into the early hours of Wednesday. Initially, senior Saudi ministers attended the meeting, but after 45 minutes they left the room and a one-to-one discussion between the king and the former president continued for about two hours and 15 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has withdrawn the 48-hour ultimatum it had given to Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), but said it would stick to its demand for restoration of the 1973 Constitution and trial of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf on treason charges. Read the rest of this entry »

ISLAMABAD: The PPP and PML-N have decided to stop the blame game which started after the former chief of intelligence bureau, Brig (retd) Imtiaz, claimed that some politicians, including PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, were provided funds to make a political alliance  IJI – to contest elections against PPP. Inside sources said that the two political parties had decided to keep their guns silent after the success of the back-channel diplomacy by some senior leaders of the two parties. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK: A US judge on Wednesday agreed to accept a five-member lawyers’ team to defend Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui despite her vociferous and strong objections saying she wanted to represent herself. Read the rest of this entry »

JAMRUD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber killed 22 Pakistani border guards on Aug. 27 in an attack at the main crossing point into Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass, government officials said. The bomber struck as the guards were sitting down at sunset to break their daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “The guards were about to break their fast when a teenaged boy carrying a soft drink bottle walked towards them and blew himself up,” said Wakil Khan, a witness at the Torkham border crossing. Read the rest of this entry »