Saturday, 25 May, 2013
LAHORE – The PML-N government in Punjab Saturday presented its fifth and last budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 with a total outlay of Rs782 billion, showing an increase of Rs128 billion from current fiscal year’s budgetary estimates.To resolve the issue of power shortage at provincial ...
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI - CNG stations remain closed in twin cities for fourth ...
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, while expressing sorrow over the recent ...
TULLE, France - French President Francois Hollande said Saturday France will begin its ...
Positives1. In line with the election year, the development budget has been increased ...
LAHORE – The PML-N government in Punjab Saturday presented its fifth and last budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 with a total outlay of Rs782 billion, showing an increase of Rs128 billion from ...
MIRPUR (AJK) (APP) - As many as 12 passengers were killed and five others injured as an over-loaded Suzuki van fell into Neelum river from 300 feet height near Pathika village on Neelum Valley road, ...
TULLE, France - French President Francois Hollande said Saturday France will begin its pullout from Afghanistan next month and complete it by year-end.The withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan was one of Hollande's presidential electoral promises. It "will begin in the month of July, will be ...
DAMASCUS - Army shelling and gunfire killed at least 29 civilians in protest towns on Saturday, a watchdog said, as Russia pushed its idea of an international conference including Iran to end the bloodshed in Syria.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also stressed that Moscow would "not sanction ...
North Korea says it has no plans to conduct a third nuclear test "at present", but has hit out at what it says is provocation from South Korea. Seoul was trying to "rattle the nerves of the DPRK in a bid to cause it to conduct a nuclear test" a foreign ministry spokesman said. The remarks were ...
PALLEKELE - Allrounder Thisara Perera claimed career-best figures of 6-44 to help Sri Lanka comfortably beat Pakistan by 76 runs in the second one-day international and square the series 1-1 at Pallekele International Stadium on Saturday. After opener Tillakaratne Dilshan slammed his 13th one-day ...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth does her own washing up. The 86-year-old monarch - who celebrated her Diamond Jubilee last weekend - likes to be quite hands-on when she’s entertaining her guests, as does her husband Prince Philip. Former BBC royal reporter Jennie Bond said: ‘’We ...
LAHORE - The Punjab government on Saturday fixed Rs250 billion for the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in its budget for 2012-13- 32 percent of the total outlay against 34 percent of the current fiscal year. However, this ADP has registered a raise of 14 percent against the concluding years ADP ...
Last week, the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan took a suo moto notice of allegations in the media regarding his son, bringing an end to a ...
We all talk of change, yet few are willing to practically bring it about. It is not about huge sacrifices or backbreaking hard work, it is not even ...
Not a day goes by when some scandal or the other does not appear in the national news that shocks the average citizen of our wonderland. Many of them ...
When talking about education, one immediately thinks of institutions: kindergarten, school, college or university. But who is supposed to provide it? ...
Not long ago, Pakistan Railways was a profitable company providing excellent services to the passengers countrywide. It ...
Most TV talk shows barring a few exceptions look like cock fights rather than civilized and logical debates. No body ...
The hydra headed monster of corruption has imperceptibly been eating away the morality as well as the social fabric of ...
Pirzada Hasaan Hashmi opens his blog ‘Why Pakistan needs Israel’ published in Express Tribune on June 2, ...
My younger son was disappointed when one day he was reading a headline in a western newspaper, ‘Afridi Behind the ...
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary has arisen to join the ranks of Muslim heroes like Hazrat Umer-i-Farooq (RA) ...
Positives1. In line with the election year, the development budget has been increased almost 51 per ...
LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that Punjab government has presented ...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has been urged through a writ petition to bring real estate tycoon ...
LAHORE – The Punjab Government has proposed allocation of Rs35.656 billion for fiscal year ...
KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, while expressing sorrow over the recent killings of ...
KARACHI – Four people were killed and two injured over a petty issue after a tribal jirga in ...
KARACHI- The Co-ordination Committee of MQM has strongly condemned the brutal killings of M Iqbal ...
KARACHI - The University of Karachi on Saturday announced the result of BSc (Pass) Part I ...
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI - CNG stations remain closed in twin cities for fourth consecutive day ...
RAWALPINDI - City Police Officer (CPO) Azhar Hameed Khokher has ordered Deputy Superintendent of ...
ISLAMABAD - A one-day photographic exhibition focusing on the plight of the depressed sectors of ...
RAWALPINDI – Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB), Rawalpindi, has rescued 10 ...
