KARACHI - The Karachi NED University of Engineering Technology has received research grant of Rs 0.525 million from Pak Hy-Oils Limited, to investigate rutting resistance of Poymer Modified Asphalt (PMA) in flexible pavements.A ceremony was held at the university where  Iqbal Saeed from the ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director General Syed Amir Hamza Gilani has said that the board has already released first and second quarter grants to all the affiliated federations but third quarter grant will only be released to those federations who abide by the sports policy as per ...

KARACHI – Pakistan are considering Grant Flower for the position of batting coach. While Flower is currently fulfilling a similar role with the Zimbabwe team, ESPNcricinfo understands that he is out of contract in August and Zimbabwe Cricket are prevaricating over a new deal. The PCB has ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed confidence that the Election Commission of Pakistan and other government departments would finalise procedure to facilitate overseas Pakistanis so that they could exercise their right to vote in the upcoming general elections.ECP Director General ...

MULTAN - The Britain will extend a grant worth £160 million to Punjab for the promotion literacy in the province, disclosed Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Chairman Raja Muhammad Anwar. The grant will be spent on offering free education up to matriculation level to out of school children ...

RAWALPINDI – Grant amounting to Rs 10 million has been released to upgrade General Hospital being run under control of cantonment board Rawalpindi. Construction work has been started following the disbursement of this grant. Labour room and new wards will be built and old machinery and ...

LAHORE – The Punjab health secretary has released a grant of Rs3.25 million for the rehabilitation of a tubewell at the Lahore General Hospital to overcome the water crisis.Postgraduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Principal Prof Anjum Habib Vohra said the 85 horse power ...

ISLAMABAD - The Australian government has again allocated a grant of Rs 1.5 million to PFF under Australian Sports Outreach Programme (ASOP), announced the Australian Deputy High Commissioner Paul Molley, along with PFF Secretary Ahmed Yar at a joint press conference at Pakistan Sports Complex on ...

LAHORE – Zakat and Ushr Department has released Rs 52.31 million marriage grant for the deserving families of the province. The distribution process of the said amount has also been started.  Provincial Minister for Zakat & Ushr Malik Nadeem Kamran disclosed this while presiding over ...

ISLAMABAD – Easypaisa, a joint initiative of Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Micro Finance Bank, has secured $6.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase adoption of its mobile financial services among Pakistan’s poorest households and to strengthen its ...

Pakistan on Monday said the process for giving India the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status is expected to be finalised "very soon"."The cabinet has approved in-principle approval to giving MNF status to India and the government will grant it very soon," Amin Fahim said while talking to reporters ...

DUBAI – VoiceTrust, a global leader and provider of digital payments and voice biometric solutions announced that they are delighted to be awarded a Dutch government grant for the roll-out of biometrics based ID services (Proof-of-LifeTM)in Pakistan, says a press release. The PSI is a subsidy ...

WARBURTON - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved the development grant of Rs50 million and provision of a college bus to Govt College for Women Warburton, said PML-N MNA Ch Bilal Ahmad Virk in a meeting held at the college the other day.He said that development works had already been started ...

KARACHI - The provincial government has increased the grants upto Rs2 million for Sindh Scouts, while it is making efforts to take special grant of Rs5 million from Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad. Scouts’ Units will be formed in the public schools and colleges across the province, while the ...

WASHINGTON - In an 'unusual decision, the US has granted political asylum to a Pakistani journalist from Balochistan despite Pakistan being a democracy with a vibrant news media, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Siraj Ahmed Malik, who is on a fellowship at the University of Arizona, applied ...

Our Staff reporter AHMEDPUR EAST - The Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO) is one of the largest civil based organisation in Pakistan which strives to address the emerging issues in particular socio-economic and political context of the country through its core programme areas of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Government of Japan On Tuesday approved a financial grant of US$425,998 (approx Rs36.2 million) to Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS) to provide safe drinking water for the people in rural areas of Murree. The agreement for the project was signed between Ambassador of Japan to ...

LAHORE, (APP) The Punjab government has issued a grant of Rs ten million for the re-construction of St. Denice school Murree as well at its hostel. A cheque amounting to 10 million rupees was handed over to Bishop Alexander John Malik by Punjab Minister for minorities and human rights, Kamran ...

LAHORE - PML-N leader Senator Pervaiz Rashid has said the Punjab government is following zero-tolerance policy against terrorism. This was stated by him during a talk show on a private TV channel. He said no grant had been given to Jamaat-Al-Daawa in the new budget for the year 2010-2011. He said ...

LAHORE - Spokesman of Punjab government has strongly contradicted the news item that the government has given any grant to the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Daawa, says a handout. The spokesman clarified that after disbanding of Jamaat-al-Daawa, the government had taken over the control of the welfare ...

ISLAMABAD A key government functionary had been instrumental in influencing United Nations for downplaying the grant of this years humanitarian aid under Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP), TheNation reliably learnt on Thursday. The same political figure, who is monitoring humanitarian activities, ...

ISLAMABAD - The US government has granted $ 45 million to Higher Education Commission to support public universities affected by conflict and 7,000 IDP students. The $45m grant announcement ceremony by the USAID support to cover academic costs of one year of university fee waivers for around ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - US Ambassador Anne W Patterson on Thursday announced that the US government would provide $55 million (Rs4.5 billion) to Pakistan for the rehabilitation and construction of South Waziristan. The support will be the part of strategic agreements worth $899 million (Rs 75 billion) ...

LAHORE - The Appraisal Panel of Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF), in its 19th meeting, has approved grants for 56 Projects worth Rs12.3m for Farmers Enterprise Groups (FEG). These FEGs contain around 560 farmers throughout Pakistan. FEGs are rural micro enterprises set up with the aim of reducing ...

KARACHI - The SBP on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tameer Micro-finance Bank (TMB) under which the SBP will provide Rs 82 million to TMB over a period of one year under the Institutional Strengthening Fund (ISF). SBP Governor Syed Salim Raza, who was present at the signing ...

KARACHI - Approval of World Bank's grant of $500 million interest free loan boosted the Karachi Stock Exchange as the KSE-100 Index gained 195 points on Friday. Heavy buying activity witnessed in the market as investors took positions especially in blue chip companies in oversold zone. The KSE-100 ...

LAHORE - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (Commission) has made certain changes, in the conditions, for grant of licence under section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984 (the Ordinance). The most significant change in conditions is that, an association not-for-profit, will, now, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Wikimedia Foundation said Wednesday that it won an 890,000-dollar grant to create ways to make it easier for people to add their knowledge to its widely-used Wikipedia online encyclopedia. US-based Stanton Foundation is giving the non-profit foundation the money to make the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The United States through United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations World Food Programme, Thursday signed an agreement with Food and Agriculture Ministry to provide $8.4m food aid programme. Addressing the signing ceremony here at local hotel, ...

ISLAMABAD  (APP) - The United States through United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations World Food Programme, Thursday signed an agreement with Food and Agriculture Ministry to provide $8.4 million food aid programme. Addressing the signing ceremony here at ...