Perceptor Compiled and Research Report
- Petroleum Minister Dr. Asim Hussain has informed the NA that Iranhad offered $ 250 million to Pakistanfor Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project. (Business Recorder)
- PCNS has strongly condemned continued drone attacks on Pakistani territory, saying that it considered all such acts to be a gross violation of the country’s sovergnity; summoned intelligence agency heads on May 07-08. (Majority of papers)
- Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said, Nawaz Sharif is a victim of political isolation; there is no need to go to Sharif courts; decision would be taken in country’s legal courts. (Ausaf, others)
- Law Minster Farooq H. Naek said, Prime Minister can only be removed through no-confidence vote. (Majority of papers)
- Interior Minister Rahman Malik said, further concrete evidence of Mian Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif’s corruption would be exposed soon; nobody can unseat the Prime Minister by long march. (Majority of papers)
- Government has rejected OGRA advice for reduction in POL prices and announced that POL prices would remain unchanged, however Rs. 1.31 has been reduced in the light diesel oil price. (Majority of papers)
- Pakistan has summoned a senior US diplomat Jonathan Pratt to the Foreign Office and lodged a formal protest over yesterday’s drone attack in NWA. (Majority of papers)
- Government likely to increase power tariff by 12 percent within days to fetch additional revenue of Rs. 42 billion. (News, Dawn)
- Federal Tax Ombudsman has warned FBR against illegal blocking of tax refund. (News, others)
- NAB submits second progress report to SC in RPPs case. (Nation)
- Pakistani officials have denied killing of 26 Afghan Taliban in Pakistan as claimed by Afghan media quoting government source. (News)
- EU has announced a further 20 million Euros in aid to victims of Pakistan’s 2011 monsoon floods, as well as people displaced by conflict, bringing funding this year to 55 million Euros. (Majority of papers)
- ICRC has confirmed that it will review its operations in Pakistan after a kidnapped British aid worker was killed in Pakistan. (Nation)
- Britain former Home Secretary Alan Johnson joined hundreds of protestors outside the High Commission of Pakistan in London to condemn the wave of killings of ethnic Shia Hazaras in Pakistan restive Balochistan province. (News)
- US has formally sought Pakistan’s help to make sanctions against Iran affective; requested the Foreign Ministry that Pakistani companies be instructed not to engage in business activities with Iran. (News)
- White House aide John Brennan said, US drone campaign against Al-Qaeda is fully legal under international law. (Majority of papers
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