Today’s Important Current Affairs 19th August 2018

One Liner

• PTI’s Sardar Usman Buzdar becomes new Punjab CM
• PML-N nominates Zafarul Haq as opposition leader in Senate
• IHC grants protective bail to Zardari in fake accounts case. Petitioner says FIA director general is brother of a GDA candidate.
• PIA’s chief operations officer sacked. The Auditor General office terms Qureshi’s appointment an “undue favour”, calls for action against those who hired him.
• Qatar accuses Saudis of barring Haj pilgrims. Although 1,200 Qataris are eligible to perform the Haj, Qatar says it has become impossible to get permits.
• Mexico finds 50 tonnes of meth in mountain lab. Marines find the lab after intelligence reports indicat that tonnes of drugs are being produced in the area.