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75 50pc raise pension
April 25, 2013

Over 75-year-old to get 50pc raise in pension

LAHORE - FIdA HUSSNAIN - The Punjab Ombudsman directed on Tuesday Finance Department to raise 50 percent pension for those pensioners crossing 75 years of their age, perusing order of the Supreme Court and Lahore High Court Lahore.  Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mehmood announced this order after ...

PMDC asks medical colleges to allocate 50pc beds for the poor

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has decided to formulate a policy and ensure that all medical colleges allocate 50 per cent beds for the poor patient free of cost including consultation fee and treatment. This was decided in a meeting of administrator PM&DC Dr Raja Amjad ...

SBP keeps policy rate unchanged at 9.50pc: Yaseen Anwar

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 9.50% but reduced the interest rate corridor by 50 bps.The Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Yaseen Anwar while unveiling the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) at a press conference at SBP Learning Resource Centre, ...

50pc commercial banks trading below face value despite KSE boom

Abu Saeed A. Islahi - Out of twenty three commercial banks currently listed at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), almost half of them are quoted below their subscription price of Rs 10 each when at the moment KSE’s main index is near its all-time high. No one, including State Bank of Pakistan ...

50pc rural population experienced poverty during last decade: PIDE

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in its latest viewpoint series titled, “Rural Poverty Dynamics in Pakistan” has noted that about half of the rural population in the country experienced poverty during the last decade. PIDE launched this report on the ...

Over 50pc fail as FBISE declares HSSC part-I results

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) on Monday announced the results of Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Part-I Annual Examination, 2012 in which overall pass percentage remained 49.87 per cent.According to the board document, a total of 45,646 ...

50pc immunisation injections in public health facilities unsafe

KARACHI  - In connection with the World Hepatitis Day 2012, the Department of Microbiology, University of Karachi in collaboration with the Pakistan Society for Microbiology organised a seminar.The organisers here on Monday said that the moot was entitled ‘Hepatitis C Virus Epidemiology, ...

50pc baloch depressed
March 17, 2012

50pc Baloch are depressed

QUETTA - Worsening law and order situation - particularly the incidents of targeted killings, recovery of bullet-riddled bodies, kidnapping for ransom, robberies and inflation - have caused an increased incidence of depression amongst the people in Balochistan.“More than 50 per cent people in ...

50pc Ssgc Line Losses Leakages
June 17, 2011

50pc SSGC line losses due to leakages

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) is suffering line losses of about 400 mmcfd gas, having potential to generate 2000MW of electricity. According to official source, 50 percent of the losses are due to leakages while the rest can be attributed to slow meters, theft and ...

Balochistan cotton-sowing area target increased by 50pc

ISLAMABAD - The Government has increased cotton-sowing target for Balochistan for almost fifty per cent as previous year it was 95,000 acres and for the current year it has set the target at around 150,000 acres. It is pertinent to mention here that the country for so many years is continuously ...

Rs 1604b tax target; 50pc sugar subsidy withdrawn

ISLAMABAD-Coming hard on the tax officers, Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Wednesday said Federal Board of Revenue had to achieve the annual tax collection target of Rs 1604 billion at every cost. Addressing the Chief Commissioners Conference of Inland Revenue Service ...

Senior citizens can avail 50pc tax rebate in payable income: FBR

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Senior citizens over 60 years of age are entitled to claim 50 per cent rebate in the payment of tax outstanding against them. In a press statement, the FBR has clarified that this facility is available to all senior citizens under section 53(1)c and clause 1A of Part-III of the ...

50pc Anaesthetist Seats Kemu Vacant
April 19, 2010

50pc anaesthetist seats at KEMU vacant

LAHORE - About 50 per cent seats of professors, associate professors and assistant professors are lying vacant in Anaesthesia Department of King Edward Medical University (KEMU), sources in the Health Department said on Sunday. Due to the shortage of senior staff, patients have to suffer a lot as ...

Iraqturkey Trade 50pc Year
April 11, 2010

Iraq-Turkey trade up 50pc last year

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - Trade between Turkey and Iraq increased by 50 percent to nine billion dollars in 2009, an Ankara official told reporters on Saturday in Arbil, capital of Iraqs autonomous northern region. The volume of commercial exchange between Iraq and Turkey in 2009 was nine billion dollars, ...

Ukti Endeavours Enhance Trade Volume 50pc
January 10, 2010

UKTI endeavours to enhance trade volume by 50pc

KARACHI (PR) - Chief Executive of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Sir Andrew Cahn has said that UKTI will be making efforts to enhance the existing trade volume between Pakistan and UK by at least 50 percent to 1.5 billion. Addressing a press conference here at British Deputy High Commission, Sir ...

Oranges Export Likely 50pc
December 08, 2009

Oranges export likely to go up by 50pc

KARACHI - The export of the oranges is likely to increase by 50 per cent during this season against the mark of 150,000 tons achieved last year. The All-Pakistan Fruits and Vegetable Exporters and Importers Association has fixed the export target at 200,000 tons for the current season, which has ...

No Sindh industrial estate has 50pc export oriented production

KARACHI - Out of overall production of industrial estates/zones located in interior Sindh, fifty per cent output is not export oriented, official told The Nation. The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) of federal government has set criteria under which the central government to participate ...

Alabaraj Buys 50pc Kesc Shares
August 20, 2008

Al-Abaraj buys 50pc KESC shares

KARACHI - The Al-Abaraj Group has purchased 50 per cent of KESC shares with a view to take management control of the utility company in Karachi. The new Chief Executive Officer of the KESC, Naveed Ismail, had also taken the charge of the post on Tuesday. Sources said that with the arrival of new ...

Oceans warmed 50pc faster over last 40 years than suspected

PARIS (AFP) - The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday. Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water, contributing to a rise in sea levels that is ...

Cgt Put Hold Years Cvt Likely Rise 50pc
June 03, 2008

CGT may be put on hold for 2 years; CVT likely to rise by 50pc

KARACHI - After a sluggish and choppy week, a partial confidence returned to the Karachi Stock Exchange which witnessed gain of 150 points on Wednesday after reports filtered through that a senior member of the KSE will call on PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the capital on Tuesday to put ...

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