Afghan refugees are unacceptable in Balochistan and there is no room for an ‘Afghania’ province, said Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Mir Hasil Bizenjo on Wednesday. Talking to reporters here outside parliament, the minister said he does not support Mahmood Khan Achakzai’s suggestion for Afghania province from Afghan border to Attock. Commenting on the Afghan refugees’ issue, Bizenjo said, “Any census that also counts the Afghan refugees as Balochistan citizens wouldn’t be accepted.” “Over…
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Washington: The executive of a Pakistani company was charged in a US federal court on Wednesday for his part in an alleged $140 million ‘fake-diploma mill’ scheme, the latest step in a global crackdown touched off by arrests in Pakistan last year. Umair Hamid, 30, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scam that…
The writer is a freelance contributor. Notwithstanding the fact that the CPEC is a nationally owned mega-economic undertaking with the potential to change the economic profile of the whole region, more so that of Pakistan, a sustained campaign to belittle its importance continues unabated. Some columnists have tried to equate Gwadar and the CPEC with the Hambantota deep seaport in Sri Lanka and other infrastructure projects built there. These columnists feel that Sri Lanka has…