OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the Multi National Organizations (MNOs) working in Pakistan to support the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) with their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds for promotion and ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government on Monday claimed that it would implement all directions of the Supreme Court verdict in suo-moto case on Karachis law and order situation. In a meeting of senior officials of Sindh government, chaired by the provincial law minister Ayaz Soomro, also decided to ...

KARACHI PIA MD Nadeem Khan Yousufzai has impressed upon PIA employees to work with full zeal and dedication and provide maximum facilitation to Hajjis here on Tuesday while briefing the employees posted on duties for carrying out Haj operation at PIA Head Office. PIA Haj passengers may be served ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER OKARA - DCO Saif Anjum has ordered the Health Department and their mobile teams, constituted for anti-polio campaign, to work honestly. While presiding over a meeting of polio eradication committee, he said it should be ensured that no child under age of 5 years not be left ...

LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday made an appeal to intellectuals, columnists, Editors and anchor persons to play their role in spreading the message of public participation in the drive against dengue virus and provide guidance to him through their programmes, news, articles and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - The Sindh Revenue Board has advised all the service providers of the taxable services under Sindh Sales Tax on Services Act 2011 to get enrolled, file return form in time and pay monthly sales tax on services rendered and provided during the month of July 2011 in Sindh ...

CHINIOT - Ehtram-e-Ramazan Ordinance will be implemented in letter, the district police officer said while chairing a meeting to review the Ramazan arrangements in Chiniot. He directed the assistant commissioners and special price control magistrates to perform their duties with responsibility to ...

SAHIWAL (Reuters) - Police struggling to stem a growing insurgency are recruiting traditional village tax collectors to snoop on militant groups but critics say the plan is ill conceived and unlikely to be of much use. On a recent day about 100 of the tax collectors, known as numberdars, sat under ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority in an exclusive meeting with the holders of non-commercial FM radio licensees explicitly directed them to adhere to scope and mandate of their respective FM radios. PEMRA has so far issued 28 non-commercial FM radio licenses across the ...

KARACHI The Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued directives to the intelligence agencies and law enforcers to probe inquiry over the killing of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) official Muhammad Arif Noor, who went missing on October 31, 2010 and was killed on 23rd March. It was ordered to submit ...

LAHORE Responding to a legal notice of the PML(Q) leader Ch. Wajahat Hussain, the legal consultant of Zafar Qureshi, Additional Director General, FIA, Khawaja Saeed uz Zafar has stated that: 'my client is performing his official duties and heading the investigation of the NlCLs affairs in ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the BHP, an internal exploration company, that it had to satisfy the court about the legality of relaxing mineral rules for exploration of copper and gold at Reko Diq. A four-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...

Federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik on Thursday said I have got the file of Raymond Davis and would be handed over to the court whenever it will be asked in this regard. Talking to media outside the Parliament House here on Thursday, Interior Minister, Rehman Malik said that the Interior ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that joint efforts are needed for re-promotion of tolerant values in the society and defeating extremism and terrorism. He was addressing as chief guest at a one-day seminar on role of educational ...

ISLAMABAD - Terming the occupation on Capital Development Authoritys land criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Chairman of the Authority to retrieve the possession of 80 kannals of land in Malpur Village from the grab of Leader of the House in Senate Nayyar Hussain Bokhari and ...

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday slammed the Congress for linking Hindu groups with extremism and said that there was no place for radical elements in the party. He said, "We have always asked extremists to leave the Sangh." He blamed the Congress party of diverting attention from the corruption ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the ministers to improve the quality of governance and asked them to review the performance of their respective ministries at least once a month. The Prime Minister was talking to some of the ministers who called on him at his office at ...

WASHINGTON - A prominent Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation Tuesday called on US Attorney General Eric Holder to review Justice Department policies on the reported use of known anti-Muslim extremists to train counter-terrorism officials nationwide. The Washington-based Council on ...

ISLAMABAD About 500 scholars, who were asked to defer admissions and delay their departure by a year, are likely to pursue their respective PhD programme in the foreign universities. The ray of hope comes after the Prime Ministers directives to the Finance Ministry to release funds and the ...

ISLAMABAD - Civilian casualties in terms of deaths and injuries in Pakistan are significant and in 2009, were even greater than those in Afghanistan and the casualties due to the US drone strikes are almost higher than those US has admitted. However, the civilian casualties receive too little ...

LAHORE - Despite the repeated announcements that no military action is on the cards in North Waziristan, directives have been issued to the provincial governments about formulating a contingency plan to tackle any possible reaction to the suggested move. According to some reliable sources, the US ...

LAHORE - Parliamentary Secretary Health Punjab Dr Saeed Elahi has said that on the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab, all the diagnostics and treatment facilities for the dengue patients are being provided free of cost and the administrations of hospitals have been directed to allocate at least ...

KARACHI - Saleem Shaikh, General Secretary United Bank Employees Union Sindh, Balochistan, on Friday urged all the employees to prepare themselves for the upcoming referendum 2010 in order to save their rights. Addressing a labour meeting held here at his office, Saleem Shaikh said that the union ...

In occupied Kashmir, Masarrat Aalam Butt, the Acting General Secretary of the forum patronised by veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, has appealed to the people to march towards Hyderpora in Srinagar on Tuesday (October 12), to remove the forcible restrictions imposed by the ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court on Monday issued notice to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), seeking explanation with regard to sentence awarded to former chairman of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), Usman Farooqui in the next date to be fixed later. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad ...

LAHORE - In addition to its ongoing schemes, WAPDA has also initiated a number of projects including Kurram Tangi Dam, Munda Dam, Chashma Right Bank (lift-cum-gravity) Canal (CRBC) and other medium irrigation dams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Construction of these mega projects on priority basis will ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said that those who have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) should voluntarily resign from their positions, a private TV reported. Addressing the Senate, Prime Minister Gilani said he had requested the Establishment Division to ...

LAHORE - Ministry of Railways has shown serious concern over departments outstanding amount worth over Rs 1.25 billion from various government and non-government defaulter departments and urged the GM Railways, three Addl GMs and F&CAOs to take measures in ensuring immediate recoveries that have ...

LAHORE Pakistan opener Yasir Hameed, who reportedly accused his team-mates of fixing almost every match, has said he was only repeating allegations he read in the newspapers. Hameed said he was approached by a man he believed was offering him a sponsorship deal and did not know the conversation ...

ISLAMABAD The plagiarism committee constituted by the Karachi University has recommended that the Acting Chairperson of Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) and DG Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), whose thesis was found fake, may resubmit her thesis again after ...