Lead Pakistan (2019): KP government reinstates Samad as Director Archaeology

Lead Pakistan news report of 26 May 2019 on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government reinstating Abdul Samad as Director Archaeology: he had been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau in February 2019 on allegations of misuse of authority and illegal appointments, was granted bail by the Peshawar High Court on 15 May, resumed duty on 16 May, and was then reinstated; it describes him as Asia's only Sanskrit PhD scholar, a Fulbright scholar and a gold medallist in archaeology.