ISLAMABAD  - In order to improve efficiency and performance of power distribution companies in the country, the USAID with the assistance of DISCOs is introducing new modern mechanism of audit for DISCOs. In this regard the USAID Power Distribution Program organized a one-day workshop for the ...

LAHORE - Collector Customs Junaid Akram has said that enforcement mechanism has been restructured and further strengthened to weed out the menace of smuggling that is hitting hard the government revenues and the genuine businessmen. Junaid Akram said that the department of Customs Preventive is ...

The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the federal government for formulating a mechanism for overseas Pakistanis so that they can cast votes at polling stations set up in Pakistani embassies in various countries across the globe.The SC on Thursday resumed the hearing of a case pertaining to allowing ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that the government has devised a comprehensive mechanism to curb tax theft by identifying potential tax evaders and bringing them into tax net to improve revenue collection.He was talking to media persons after inaugurating ...

Senior military leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and ISAF Sunday discussed border control mechanism. According to ISPR the 35th meeting of Tri Partite Commission held here in GHQ in which Pakistan Army contingent was led by COAS, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, while General John Allen, Commander ...

ISLAMABAD – National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) here on Thursday arranged a panel discussion with participation of folklorists to observe the World Intellectual Property Day.Ministry of National Heritage and Integration, Federal Secretary, Asaf Ghafoor was the ...

LAHORE - The European Union has expressed concerns over “systematic deficiency” in PIA aircraft maintenance following detection of 40 uncertified defects on PK-734 operated by A310 at Paris on 9 Aug 2011 and has termed CAA regulatory controls as “unreliable”. European ...

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has advised all authorised dealers in foreign exchange (banks) to process cases of sugar export according to the bank mechanism. Banks will forward requests of sugar mills along with photocopy of E-form, copy of contract, L/C, advance payment, etc. for ...

ISLAMABAD - After exhaustive consultation with NBFIs and Modaraba Association of Pakistan, the Registrar, Modarabas, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, has issued Shariah compliance and Shariah audit mechanism (SCSAM) for modarabas.The Modaraba Companies and Modaraba (Floatation and ...

LAHORE The City District Government and the Pakistan Poultry Association have agreed to continue the demand and supply mechanism for fixation of the poultry rates on daily basis, as the government has withdrawn the earlier decision of forcing the poultry dealers to sell the chicken meet at the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Army on Thursday proposed three-tier mechanism including direct hotline contact between Pakistan Army and Afghan National Army in order to secure the Pak-Afghan border. These steps were proposed during a meeting of the working group of Pakistani, Afghan and US military ...

ISLAMABAD - The government of Pakistan as well as United Nations lack a workable mechanism to tackle the problem of millions of illegal immigrants living in Pakistan with the focus to facilitate registered Afghan immigrants seemingly taking precedence over a host of other important factors ...

ISLAMABAD - Under the umbrella of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) was formed on Wednesday in order to devise a comprehensive mechanism regarding the repatriation of Afghan refugees. The group constitutes of esteemed personalities and aims to ...

LAHORE - All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has expressed serious concerns over dillydallying tactics of the Indian government in shipment of one million cotton bales to Pakistan and termed it a sheer negation to the free market mechanism. It may be noted that the Indian governments ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan would formally request Pakistan for evolving a bilateral mechanism to establish lasting peace in the war ravaged country when a high level Afghan delegation would visit Islamabad on January 4. Official sources told The Nation on Saturday that a 15-member delegation of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - There is no shortage of sugar in the country and TCP has adequate stocks of the commodity said Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar M Gondal. Talking to a TV channel, he said there is no shortage of sugar in the country. Nearly two months ago, about 100,000 tons of sugar was ...

ISLAMABAD Envisaging a royalty-like arrangement for the collection of GST on services, the Finance Ministry foresees early resolution of row between the Centre and the Sindh province that has so far stalled the imposition of Value Added Tax (VAT). According to a high-ranking official of the ...

KARACHI - The local auto manufacturers have demanded the government to ensure complete restriction on the illegal imports of spare parts via Afghan Transit Trade and revision in custom duty structure to curb the financing of under invoiced automobile goods at import stage. In a budget paper ...

KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan Governor Syed Salim Raza has prodded banks to revamp and restructure their agri lending mechanism through innovative products and adoption of international best practices. Presiding over a mid-term review meeting of the Agricultural Credit Advisory Committee (ACAC) ...

KARACHI - The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) has recommended that agreement of a 'quantitative ceiling for imports for Afghanistan (Afghan Transit Treaty) and streamlining of exchange control mechanism is required so that administrative and economic barriers are placed ...

LABORATORY researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity. In a November 20 Nature letter, research led by Tuson Park and Joe D. Thompson describes a new explanation for superconductivity in ...

KARACHI-Members of Karachi Stock Exchange have unanimously passed a resolution to further continue with the price freeze mechanism and proposed five measures to help reverse the declining trend recently being witnessed in the KSE-100 index. A committee comprising five KSE board directors and ...

ISLAMABAD  - The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has developed a mechanism to attract private sector investment in the field of hydropower generation. The private sector in the past has been reluctant to invest in the hydropower projects in view of uncertainty of costs ...

EVERY cell contains a tiny clock called a telomere, which shortens each time the cell divides. Short telomeres are linked to a range of human diseases, including HIV, osteoporosis, heart disease and aging. Previous studies show that an enzyme within the cell, called telomerase, keeps immune cells ...

ISLAMABAD  - Minister for Finance, Syed Naveed Qamar Monday informed National Assembly to evolve proper mechanism to approve Supplementary Grants in next fiscal budget. "We shall not resort to Supplementary Grants as we are doing this time. From next time, we would ensure that first these ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) here Tuesday urged the government to let open market mechanism determine the price of wheat flour or co-relate it with wheat prices to stabilize the price of the commodity. Chairman PFMA, Punjab chapter, Habib-ur-Rahman claimed at a ...