A private torture cell established in a hotel room and being operated by the Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA), a special wing of the Lahore police, was revealed on Wednesday. The police recovered a housewife and her three teenage children from the private detention center, where they had been ...

ISLAMABAD : The Public Affairs and Complaints Cell at the Prime Minister's Office has been abolished and the officers from Grade 19 to 22 have been directed to report in the Establishment Division. According to reports, the step has been taken in line with the decision to reduce the staff at the ...

MOSCOW : The Russian prison service said Monday it had caught a cat being used as a courier to smuggle banned cell phones and chargers into a prison camp in the country's remote far north.The prison service in the Komi region said on its website that the cat was detained Friday evening as it ...

ISLAMABAD -Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has dissolved the Polio Cell that was working at the Prime Minister's Secretariat drawing the criticism of international donors.The cell was set up on the demand of international donors to coordinate and monitor polio eradication activities in the ...

NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said Saturday. Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a ...

ISLAMABAD : A special duty cell has been established in Finance Division during election-2013 to monitor continuous supply of energy during polls. Dr Khaqan Hassan Najeeb, Director General (ERU) is the focal person of the Cell. The Cell No of the Focal Person is (0307-5555455). The Cell will be ...

ISLAMABAD : -For the redressal of taxpayers' grievances and to facilitate them, a cell under Section 7 of the FBR, Act, 2007 is already functioning under Member (FATE). On the instructions of Dr Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and ...

islamabad - Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) has set up Central Election Monitoring Cell (CEMC) to monitor violations of code of conduct issued by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) during the ongoing election campaign.General Secretary PPPP Latif Khosa will be the chairman of ...

ISLAMABAD : Ministry of Petroleum on Friday established 'Oil and Gas Control Cell' to ensure continuous supply of oil and gas during elections. The oil and gas control cell would start functioning from May 7, said a press release issued here. The cell would ensure coordination between the ...

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Friday inaugurated new urgent cell.The judges working at the principal seat of the LHC, its office bearers and senior lawyers also graced the occasion. The urgent cell has been refurbished and state of the art facilities under one roof have been ...

DUBAI (AFP): Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have broken up an Al-Qaeda cell comprising seven Arabs who were plotting attacks in the Gulf state, an official statement said on Thursday.The UAE is one of the most stable countries in the Middle East and has so far not seen any attacks by ...

ISLAMBAD – The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Sunday clarified that no new tax imposed on cell phones as is wrongly being portrayed by some quarters.“The impression being created by certain vested interests that the government has levied a new tax on cell phone is baseless and devoid of ...

LAHROE - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), running short of annual collection target of Rs2.381 trillion, will now be able to generate at least Rs5 billion per annum, as the Board has raised sales tax on smart phones at the import stage, now targeting cell phone users in its move to increase ...

KARACHI  - President Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has set up a provincial election cell of his party, at the media cell of the PPP situated near Bilawal House here.General Secretary PPP Sindh, Taj Haider will be the head of the election cell which can be contacted on ...

KARACHI – Ban on cellular phone networks made the counter terrorism strategy successful here during the processions of Hazrat Imam Hussain’s (RA) chehlum on Thursday.According to details, police and rangers have completely sealed the routes of procession in district south and link ...

Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Asif Yasin Malik on Monday said that the political cell of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had been disbanded five years ago and since then no such cell had operated within the ISI and the agency was not interfering in political matters.During an ...

ISLAMABAD - As a pre-emptive measure to avoid any terrorist activity in the country as protests continued against the anti-Islam movie on Friday, the federal government suspended cellular phone service in major and small cities throughout Pakistan. The mobile service remained suspended from early ...

RAWALPINDI - Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Haji Habib-ur-Rehman has said that the judicial probe is underway about the police encounter that had taken place in Chontra earlier this month in which a police officer had embraced martyrdom and four proclaimed offenders were killed.He ...

ISLAMABAD – Teenagers who excessively use their cell phones are more prone to disrupted sleep, restlessness, stress and fatigue, according to a research.The study, authored by Gaby Badre, MD, PhD, of Sahlgren’s Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, focused on 21 healthy subjects, between 14-20 ...

ISLAMABAD  – The mobile phone subscribers across the country have slammed government’s decision to levy 2 per cent radio tax.It is worth mentioning that Federal government had announced to deduct 2 percent from all mobile subscribers as Radio Tax to pull out Pakistan Radio (PBC) ...

SEOUL  - South Korea’s government drug agency cleared the way Thursday for commercial sales of what it called the world’s first approved medicine using stem cells collected from other people.  Cartistem, developed by Seoul-based Medipost, will help regenerate knee cartilage ...

HAFIZABAD - Dacoits in the district have become so daring that they last night deprived MPA Shahid Bhatti and his gunmen of two cell phones and Rs5,000. According to his workers who were touring along with the MPA in constituency PP-107 last night, when the MPAs vehicle reached near Nawan Manika on ...

In focusing entirely on the alleged links between four Hezbollah activists and the 2005 bombing that killed Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the indictment issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon earlier this month has continued the practice of the UN investigation before it of refusing to ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has made a major value addition to its alternative arrangements for payment of monthly electricity bills through which customers can now regularly receive their bill electronically via email and cell phone. The alternate ...

LAHORE Inspector General of Police Punjab Javed Iqbal has decided to establish a special Monitoring Cell at Police Headquarters Punjab (PHP) to probe into the nature of all the forthcoming police encounters either they are fake or genuine. Insiders exclusively told this scribe, the decision has ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Interior, Rehman Malik on Sunday said that the government would form committees at provincial level soon to deal with harassment issues and implement the 'Anti-Sexual Harassment Act at grass roots level. Addressing the concluding day of conference on 'Gender ...

LAHORE - Keeping in view the biggest challenge of the countrys energy crisis, the China Mobile has been focusing on the development of solar-powered cell sites to overcome this dilemma. Hence the company has so far installed more than 150 solar-powered cell sites out of total 5,600 at different ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed the Health Department for the procurement of 30 Cell Separator Machines for Public Sector Hospitals. For this purpose, the CM has approved funds of Rs.200 million. These machines would be provided to the teaching as well as DHQ Hospitals by ...

LAHORE - The FIA Lahore has requested the ISI through the interior ministry to place the four cell numbers of Ayaz Khan Niazi, main accused of NIC scam, on Star Track System (STS) to arrest him. The FIA claimed the cell numbers were in use of Ayaz and his close friends, and through these mobile ...

LAHORE - Because of its corporate style of functioning, the newly-established 'one window cell of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has been instrumental in attracting more applications by the people, which in turn has also led to increase in revenue collection by the civic body under ...