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SC seeks written-off loans record

SC seeks written-off loans record

ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court on Friday sought a complete record from State Bank of Pakistan of those influential persons who have got their loans written off since 1971. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday and ...


National News
Gilani seeks parties' proposals for new dams

Gilani seeks parties' proposals for new dams

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has stressed the need for making prudent policies and promoting understating among all the federating units to tap the water resources so that this ...

Grenade attack on PPP office in Karachi

Grenade attack on PPP office in Karachi

Sherry questions Punjab govt's 'ambiguous' role

Sherry questions Punjab govt's 'ambiguous' role

International News
Indian troops on killing spree, says Geelani

Indian troops on killing spree, says Geelani

SRINAGAR (NNI) Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has called on chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) ...

Sports News
Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh in Asia Cup

Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh in Asia Cup

DAMBULLA (Sri Lanka) (AFP) Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by 126 runs in the Asia Cup one-day international on Friday. Batting first, Sri Lanka posted a mammoth total of 312 by losing four wickets ...

Will PHF repeat same mistake?

Will PHF repeat same mistake?

Underdogs beat seeds to reach Eastbourne final

Underdogs beat seeds to reach Eastbourne final

Business News
LSM shows 4.52pc growth in 10 months

LSM shows 4.52pc growth in 10 months

ISLAMABAD - The Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector showed a growth of 4.52 percent during July-April period of the current fiscal year as compared to the same period of the last year, Federal ...

Tola sells at Rs39,700

Tola sells at Rs39,700

Gold price hits record above $1,258 an ounce

Gold price hits record above $1,258 an ounce

Regional News

800 inquiries lying pending with ACE

LAHORE - More than 800 under-process inquiries and registered cases with the anti-corruption are lying pending despite the given deadline of November 3, 2009, to finalise the said pendency, sources ...

Mend your ways

LAHORE - Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal has warned bureaucrats of mending their ways, saying their 'disrespect to honourable elected representatives will not be tolerated at any cost. ...

Court orders probe against ex-CS, DCO

LAHORE - A Supreme Court Bench Friday ordered probe into the allegations against former Chief Secretary Punjab Kamran Rasool and Chief Secretary Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (former DCO Lahore) Khalid ...

Govt Servants Housing Scheme a failure

LAHORE -The Punjab Government Servants Housing Scheme (PGSHS) at Mohlanwal on Multan Road constructed for the retired government employees from grade 1 to 22 has proved a total failure due to cruel ...

Govt believes in service to masses: Shahbaz

LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has said that the tax-free budget of the province is reflective of the fact that government believes in the service of the people and participation of ...

Football fever on the rise

LAHORE - The Waka Waka thrills of world soccer competition is being not less enjoyed by the Lahorites than any in Moskva, London, Paris, Roma or any other city of Africa or Latin America. As the ...

Movement for new province wont stop: 'Q'

LAHORE - Paper projects could not stop the movement for a new province and terming the supporters of new province as 'traitors would be an insult to the people of southern Punjab, remarked Ch ...

Crackdown on spurious drugs continues

LAHORE - In a wake of campaign against spurious drugs in the province, a team of taskforce on spurious drugs raided the subway market Lohari Gate and recovered stolen medicines belonging to federal ...

South Punjab MPs wary of bureaucracy

LAHORE-The ongoing post-budget debate in Punjab Assembly has established one thing. The parliamentarians from south Punjab cannot be pleased by mere increase in budgetary allocation for the region. ...

Rallies across country to protest profane images

LAHORE - Tehreek Hurmat-e-Rasool (PBUH) on Friday organised conferences and rallies across the country including the City to condemn and protest against publication of blasphemous caricatures in ...

Provision of prompt justice govts priority: CM

LAHORE - A delegation of Punjab Bar Council called on Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif at Chief Ministers Secretariat on Friday and apprised him of their problems. Deputy Speaker Rana ...

Qadyanis must accept minority status: Munawar

LAHORE - The Muslim Ulema and masses will be forced to launch a fresh Khatm-e-Nubuwwat movement if the Qadyanis did not concede their minority status and the government kept silent on their ...

2 youths attempt suicide

LAHORE - At least two young men including a police constable set themselves on fire by putting petrol on them over various issues in the City on Friday. As per details, a 25-year-old constable ...

Youth kills mother, sister-in-law over family dispute

LAHORE - A mentally retarded man allegedly gunned down his mother and sister-in-law, and injured another woman over a family dispute at Ehsan Street adjacent to Morra Shareef after Friday prayers in ...

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Holbrooke reaches Islamabad

ISLAMABAD (Online)-US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke reached Islamabad on Friday. According to Foreign Office Spokesman, he will have a substantive ...

All Islamabad News