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Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has again warned of cutting gas supply to the cash-strapped Pakistan Steel Mills by May 31 if outstanding dues are not cleared. In this regard, the utility company has served a final notice to the steel producer.

Sources said that the Steel Mills owed SSGC Rs13 billion for the gas the utility company supplied to it on credit.

A military physician who oversees a team of nurses force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has dismissed ethical concerns raised by human rights groups and medical organisations about the procedure, saying the medical community was motivated to speak out about the practice for political reasons.

In an interview with Al Jazeera at the prison's detention hospital last week, the physician, who, for security reasons, could only be identified as a senior medical officer of the Joint Medical Group, was defensive when pressed about questions regarding medical ethics and force-feeding.

Pakistani politician Imran Khan has left hospital, two weeks after breaking bones in his back in a fall at an election rally, a hospital spokesman says.

The 60-year-old was ordered to remain immobile in bed after he fractured vertebrae and a rib in a dramatic tumble just days before the May 11 general election, where his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party made a major breakthrough.

The Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) may be able to appoint an opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly for the first time in its political history, The Express Tribune has learnt.

The outcome of the May 11 elections revealed that PML-N emerged as the third largest party in the province after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). Even though the party has only won four provincial seats – three in Karachi and one in Jacobabad – it has merged with the Shirazi group in Thatta and the National Peoples Party (NPP), led by the Jatoi brothers of Naushero Feroz, to sit on the opposition benches.