Iran drops India from key Chabahar project

July 14, 2020

It said Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami last week inaugurated the track-laying process for the 628km Chabahar-Zahedan line, which will be extended to Zaranj across the border in Afghanistan.

The development comes as China finalises a massive 25-year, $400bn strategic partnership deal with Iran, which, the paper said, could cloud India’s plans.

Officials told The Hindu that the entire project would be completed by March 2022, and that Iranian Railways would proceed without India’s assistance four years after they signed the agreement.

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Tehran, Beijing finalise $400bn partnership deal

Iran would instead use approximately $400 million from the Iranian National Development Fund. It was not clear if the unnamed officials were Indian, Iranian or some other.

The Hindu cited “leaked versions” of the 18-page “Comprehensive Plan for Cooperation between Iran and China”, being finalised by officials in Tehran and Beijing. The cooperation will extend from investments in infrastructure, manufacturing and upgrading energy and transport facilities, to refurbishing ports, refineries and other installations, and will commit Iranian oil and gas supplies to China during that period.

The newspaper quoted Iranian officials as denying a report that also suggested Chabahar port would be leased to China. However, according to The Hindu, Iran proposed a tie-up between the Chinese-run port at Gwadar and Chabahar last year, and has offered interests to China in the Bandar-e-Jask port 350km away from Chabahar, as well as in the Chabahar duty free zone.

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Federal Minister Asad Umar said that a proper monitoring system had to be evolved to verify

July 18, 2020

Federal Minister Asad Umar said that a proper monitoring system had to be evolved to verify due observance of the safety precautions at the makeshift cattle markets for Eidul Azha. The visitors and others associated with these markets have to wear face masks and observe necessary safety measures. He said the meetings of the NCoC were held in different provincial capitals to hold consultations and to appreciate performance of the provincial governments to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Umar said that although there is decline in the number of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus and deaths but people were required to remain careful in their conduct so as not to catch the contagious disease. He appreciated the services of doctors, para-medical staff, government machinery, and personnel of law-enforcement agencies in Sindh as frontline workers against the coronavirus. He said that a proper control mechanism would be implemented at the makeshift cattle markets. Umar said that the f...

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A new Batman spinoff about Gotham City is in the works

July 11, 2020

The Batman universe is expanding, with a TV series set in Gotham City's police department that will explore corruption, streaming platform HBO Max said on Friday. HBO Max said the original drama series would be produced by Matt Reeves, director of the upcoming Warner Bros. movie The Batman that stars Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader with no special superpowers. It said the series would “extend the world established in the movie and further explore the myriad of compelling and complex characters of Gotham.” The Batman is set when the DC comic book character is about 30 years old and at the beginning of his life as a vigilante, Reeves has said. Filming on The Batman was halted in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic but is expected to resume in the UK in the next few weeks for a movie theater release in October 2021. Reeves said the TV series was “an amazing opportunity, not only to expand the vision of the world I am creating in the film, but to e...

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The meeting was co-chaired by National Command and Operation Centre

July 18, 2020

In the first meeting of its kind held at CM House, which was hosted by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and chaired by federal Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, the policy of all the provinces, future strategy to contain the virus and standard operating procedures during the Eid were discussed. The meeting was co-chaired by National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) National Coordinator Lt Gen Hamood-uz-Zaman and attended, among others, by Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho and Education Minister Saeed Ghani. The chief secretaries of three other provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan also attended the meeting through video link and shared the situation amid challenges of coronavirus pandemic and progress made in its curtailment in their respective provinces. CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn CLick here and earn C...

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