Following suit: PPP unveils election manifesto
GILGIT: A day after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) presented a written election manifesto, Pakistan Peoples Party followed suit on Thursday, promising a series of welfare projects for the...
View ArticleSecurity measures: Army to be deployed to supervise G-B elections
GILGIT: At least 6,000 army personnel will be deployed at polling stations across Gilgit-Baltistan to supervise legislative assembly elections in the region. Addressing a news conference on Thursday,...
View ArticleSBP conference: Minister proposes increase in house rent allowance
ISLAMABAD: A proposition was made to the government for enhancing the house rent allowance for government employees up to 65% during the upcoming federal budget for 2015-16. It was made by Minister for...
View ArticleBusiness loss: NWA elders demand end to demolition of bazaars
PESHAWAR: Tribal elders from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) have demanded the government and security forces not to demolish shops in bazaars in their hometowns. Addressing journalists at Peshawar Press...
View ArticleIn custody: CTD arrest extortionist from city
PESHAWAR: The counter-terrorism department (CTD) arrested an extortionist in the provincial capital on Thursday. According to CTD officials, the man has been identified as Luqman Shah, a resident of...
View ArticleConstruction sector: Chinese keen on relocating facility
LAHORE: The positive impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is likely to benefit the construction sector of Pakistan in the near future as Chinese delegations are frequently meeting...
View ArticleRawalpindi To Naran: PTDC bus service from June 1
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) seasonal bus service between Rawalpindi and Naran would start from June 1 to promote domestic tourism in the country. PTDC Managing...
View ArticleAnti-Encroachment Operation: Shopkeepers fined, goods confiscated
RAWALPINDI: The Rawal Town Municipal Administration (TMA) under its anti-encroachment operation on Friday imposed fines on 43 shopkeepers while goods of 52 shopkeepers were confiscated from various...
View ArticleSerious problem: ’24% population suffering from heartburn’
KARACHI: Approximately 24 per cent of the population is suffering from heartburn, participants of a seminar on ‘Heartburn — A Global Perspective’ learnt on Friday. The seminar was organised at the...
View ArticleFatal attraction?: Woman arrested in airman’s murder
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police on Friday arrested the woman who for allegedly shooting dead her boyfriend after he showed reluctance in marrying her following an elongated relationship, said a police...
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Hometown calling: Thousands head to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to have their say at...
RAWALPINDI: The grim security situation and ongoing conflicts in the country’s Northwestern region for the past several years forced thousands of families to unwillingly leave their homes and settle in...
View ArticlePower tariff: Collection of four electricity surcharges declared illegal
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Friday declared unconstitutional and illegal several surcharges in the electricity bills. These included equalisation, debt servicing, universal...
View ArticleMass Comm programme: Punjab University approves inclusion of population and...
ISLAMABAD: The University of Punjab (PU) has approved the inclusion of population and development as a core course in its Mass Communication programme. This was announced by Population Council (PC)...
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Swearing in ceremony: Two more ministers included in cabinet
LAHORE: MPA Ayesha Ghaus Pasha was sworn in as the provincial finance minister and MPA Rana Sanaullah as law minister at a ceremony at the Governor’s House on Friday. Governor Rafique Rajwana...
View ArticleSeminar on tobacco: ‘One person dies every eight seconds’
An estimated 6 million people die every year across the world owing to the use of tobacco and 600,000 get affected from passive smoking. This was revealed at a seminar at the Islamabad Medical and...
View ArticleHard talk: Rampant corruption has debilitated nation, says Sarwar
LAHORE: Candidates for the forthcoming local government elections must be nominated on merit, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) provincial organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar said on Friday. The former...
View ArticlePartner schools: ‘Maintain 1:35 teacher-student ratio’
LAHORE: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has directed its partner schools to ensure availability of classrooms in accordance with the number of students. In a circular issued on Saturday, its...
View ArticleThesis show: When dhotis become pants
LAHORE: “A significant number of Sikh men attired themselves in jamawar in the 19th century,” Ayesha Rashid Malik, a graduating student of Beaconhouse National University’s Mariam Dawood School of...
View ArticleSindh industrialists demand reduction in GIDC
ISLAMABAD: As the government presses hard its proposal to levy 5% sales tax on the textile sector to raise an additional Rs40 billion, industrialists, particularly Sindh-based owners of processing...
View ArticlePetty issue: Minor attacked by guard
FAISALABAD: Dijkot residents said on Saturday that a security guard had beaten a minor over a petty issue. Chak 535-GB resident Imran Khan, an uncle of the victim, said Sajawal had requested watchman...
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