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ISLAMABAD:The government has decided to refer the multibillion-rupee Kachhi Canal scam to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further probe and punitive action against the people involved in it.The decision came after the Ministry of Water Res air jordan4 ources approached the federal cabinet for reconstitution of an inter-ministerial committee for fixing responsibility for the long-delayed Kachhi Canal project.Earlier, the Council of Common Interests (CCI), in its meeting held on February 29, 2016, ordered the launch of an inquiry by a committee, headed by Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, former chief justice of Pakistan, into the irregularities and corru chunky dunk ption in the Kachhi Canal project. It also called for taking to task the elements involved in the scandal. The committee submitted its report in January 2017 and pointed out serious irregularities and lapses in the planning, design, air jordan bidding and execution of the project as causes for the cost and time overrun.Kachhi Canal project vital for Djhl In pictures New Zealand women don headscarves to support Muslims

NAJAF:Iraq on Monday confirmed its first novel coronavirus case in an elderly Iranian national in the southern shrine city of Najaf, according to health officials.Iraq, jordan1 low a country with a dilapidated healthcare system, often hosts pilgrims and religious students from Iran, where 12 people have died of the novel coronavirus since an outbreak there was first reported last week.Iraq had blocked travel to and from the Islamic republic days before announc new balance 500 ing a seminary student in Najaf was the country's first confirmed case.Najaf's provincial health authority said the Iranian national had entered red dunks before the ban was declared in a statement on Monday.The deaths from the COVID-19 virus in Iran were the first in the Middle East and the country's toll is now the highest outside mainland China, the epidemic's epicentre.Chinese nationals have been barred from entering Iraq, despite it hosting several Chinese oil companies.Iran coronavirus death toll jumps to 12Iraq also closed the only border cros