QUETTA  - Health Department has approached Home Department seeking enhanced security for doctors and other paramedical staff working at public hospitals in Quetta. This demand came after Saturday’s deadly suicide attack and shooting at Bolan Medical Complex Teaching Hospital, where ...

MULTAN : The Food Department has achieved 86 per cent target of wheat procurement in four districts of the division. According to official sources, the department has set a target to procure 600,000 tonnes wheat from Vehari, Khanewal, Lodharan and Multan, and it had procured 580,000 tonnes so far. ...

LAHORE - The traders, while opposing the harsh measures of sealing business houses, have urged the provincial Excise and Taxation Department to give them time till June 30 to clear the outstanding amount instead of harassing them through different arm-twisting tactics. They urged the Excise and ...

ISLAMABAD ( Our Staff Reporter): Member of the UK's House of Lords, Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham called on Chairman FBR Ansar Javed. Chairman FBR stressed the need to enhance collaboration between the revenue and Customs departments of both the countries so as to better understand the issues and ...

rawalpindi - Excise and Taxation Department Punjab has sealed some 629 properties of different kinds on account of nonpayment of Property Tax during its three-day campaign in Rawalpindi division.Moreover, ETD also recovered arrears of property tax amounting Rs 65,99,197. The ETD during its general ...

MULTAN : Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) and provincial industries department have joined hands with MCCI for Geographical Indications (GIs) for the economic growth of growers and people of South Punjab. Project Director GIs, Nasir Rafique told on Friday that they had recently arranged a ...

KARACHI – Inefficiency of previous government has taken the electricity bill of various government educational institutions, running under Directorate of Colleges (Central), Directorate of Technical Colleges and Professional Colleges, to Rs37,922,739, causing power cuts to various ...

LAHORE – Secretary Food Punjab Maj (r) Azam Salman Khan Saturday presided over a meeting of all the Divisional Deputy Directors of Food Department. Director Food Punjab and Deputy Directors Food gave detailed briefing to Secretary Food regarding wheat procurement arrangements and informed ...

LAHORE - The tax department employees on Tuesday held protest rallies all over the country asking FBR bosses to give representation in the management of employees Foundation.The protest rallies were held simultaneously in all offices of FBR across the country under the banner of FBR Union in all ...

LAHORE – Punjab Caretaker Health Minister Salima Hashmi on Tuesday said that access to health facilities is the basic right of every citizen and the health department will have to strive hard to further improve health indicators so that the medical needs of people could be met.She expressed ...

LAKKI MARWAT - The Education Department has organised sports gala with the support of Lakki Political Agent Nisar Ahmad and Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Fayyaz Khan for the tribal students.Physical Supervisor Qudratullah said two cricket matches were decided in the annual frontier region ...

KARACHI  - The Supreme Court Thursday observed that Sindh home department is running a parallel judicial system while there was not a semblance of law and order in the city.Last year, the chief justice had taken suo moto notice on the worsening security situation in Karachi and later the ...

LAKKI MARWAT - The district elementary and secondary education department is all set to initiate disciplinary action against absent teachers as part of plan to eliminate absenteeism of teaching staff and improve their attendance in government run schools.An official privy to a high level meeting ...

 The United States, while cautiously refraining from commenting on the appointment of the new DG ISI, said that it “wants the relationship with Pakistan to be on an upward trajectory.”The spokesperson of the US State Department, Victoria Nuland late Friday said that the ...

SADIQABAD - Four landlords have been booked for grabbing an Irrigation Department’s land covered with trees at village Daulatpur in tehsil Rahim Yar Khan. The subdivisional officer (canal) sent a dispatch to the police, saying that landlords Nazir, Sharif, Ghulam Asghar and Shahnawaz had ...

WASHINGTON - A State Department spokesperson said Wednesday that a leaked NATO report summarising the views of Taliban detainees was not designed to impact on US’ continuing efforts to remove tensions in the relations with Pakistan.“(T)his is a classified report... It shouldn’t ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the health department to regularize with in 2 months the services of 31 ad-hoc pharmacists who have passed the written test and interview from Punjab public service commission (PPSC). Justice Umar Ata Bandial issued these orders while disposing of ...

WASHINGTON  - The US has denied reports that Pakistan’s former military dictator President Pervez Musharraf had sought a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over his return to Pakistan.State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said on Thursday that Musharraf was not ...

US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman would fly from India to Kabul on Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai and other top officials, the State Department announced.Grossman would be in Abu Dhabi until Thursday evening and would stay in New Delhi through ...

WASHINGTON  - Triggering a fresh controversy, the US State Department has posted a map of India which reflects the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir with dotted lines, thereby, projecting it as a disputed territory.Following strong protest from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, ...

LAHORE - Punjab University spokesman has termed the news item published in various English and Urdu newspapers, regarding protest of MAO College and other colleges’ students against Punjab University Examinations Department for their failure in BBA (Hons), as totally wrong and baseless. ...

WARBURTON – Punjab Teachers Union President Ch Muhammad Ali has urged the Chief Minister to take notice of ‘looting and burglaries’ at Nankana Sahib Education Department and should ask EDO Education Tariq Rafiq to investigate the matter.He informed the meeting that Rs500 to Rs800 ...

OUR STAFF REPORTERLAHORE – The Punjab Planning & Development Department with the technical assistance of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has undertaken various initiatives to empower womenfolk and bring them to the mainstream of developmental activities of province. This was ...

LAHORE– The Punjab Assembly’s Question Hour on Monday saw the Opposition falling harsh on the Irrigation Department for not providing correct answers. During the question hour, the Opposition Benches also showed lack of satisfaction with the answers given by Provincial Minister for ...

Our Staff Reporter BAHAWALNAGAR - Three executive posts i.e Executive District Officer Health (EDO-H), District Health officer and Medical superintendent District Headquarters Hospital have fallen vacant here in District Bahawalnagar. According to detail, as EDO-H Dr Khalid Majeed was transferred ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Punjab University Institute of Education & Research on Saturday organized Golden Jubilee Postgraduate Students Conference 2011 in connection with golden jubilee celebration of the Institute. The theme of the conference was Rethinking Education for Pakistan in 21st ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER MANDI BAHAUDDIN -The Revenue Department of district Mandi Bahauddin is under immense pressure of Lahore High Court, which has directed its high-ups to recover Rs10 of millions in the head of state fee from patwaris, who embezzled around Rs80 million during last few years in the ...

WARBURTON - Executive District Officer (Education) Tariq Rafiq, DEO (SE) Liaqat Ali Kharal, DEO (M-EE) Shabir Ahmad and DEO (W-EE) Khalida Ameer Awan conducted sudden and comprehensive visits to Primary, Middle and High Schools across the district where number of teachers were found absent. On the ...

KARAK Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department will not run its water supply schemes if the people did not start depositing their monthly water bills on regular basis, as there was a huge gap between the consumption and the revenue. This was informed by the XEN Public Health Engineering ...

The department responsible for pest control was beaten at its own game after a plague of moths forced it to close down. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in UK had to be fumigated following an infestation of the common clothes moth. The move led to a wave of jokes targeting ...