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World Bank puts on hold its ‘Doing Business’ report after irregularities in data by China, 3 others
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World Bank puts on hold its ‘Doing Business’ report after irregularities in data by China, 3 others

The World Bank had to put on hold its ‘Doing Business’ report after it was reported that China and three other countries had submitted data that was “inappropriately altered”.China, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia appeared to have been inappropriately altered their data, said a source with knowledge of the decision.The move renewed concerns first raised two years ago by the World Bank’s chief economist that the report, called “Doing Business,” was vulnerable to manipulation. According to the Doing Business report, a sharp difference was noted when China rose from 46 to 31 between 2019 to 2020.The World Bank in a statement said: “A number of irregularities have been reported regarding changes to the data in the Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 reports, publi
SP  Pakistan’s traditional allies in Gulf plan to suspend Pakistan origin pilots in their carriers
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SP Pakistan’s traditional allies in Gulf plan to suspend Pakistan origin pilots in their carriers

Pakistan’s traditional allies in the Gulf have reportedly grounded Pakistan origin pilots after the issue of commercial pilots possessing suspicious licenses came to light, casting a long shadow on the future of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates besides Oman are now among the countries which have decided to remove pilots of Pakistan origin due to a fake license issue.There are reports that Kuwait Airways, one of the oldest Airways in West Asia has grounded all its seven pilots of Pakistani origin.A UK-based Pakistani-origin journalist Gul Bukhari had tweeted, “Kuwait Airways has grounded all 7 Pakistani pilots and suspended 56 engineers and ground handling staff in the backdrop of fake license issue. Similar reports from Qatar, Oman, Emirates and Vie