LAHORE - Former federal minister for water and power Ahmed Mukhtar has said that excessive loadshedding at this time of the season is a conspiracy being hatched by the new minister for water and power and secretary of the ministry on the behest of a political party and those who wanted to discredit ...

ISLAMABAD - Professor Dr Mukhtar Ahmed assumed the charge as new executive director of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Friday.The governing board of HEC had appointed Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed as new executive director of HEC on January 20. The Supreme Court had directed the HEC on December 20, 2012 ...

ISLAMABAD – The governing board of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Sunday appointed Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed as new executive director of HEC. In case he does not join, the offer would be made to other preferential candidate in the order of merit as recommended by the selection board. The ...

Minister for Water and Power Ch. Ahmed Mukhtar has said steps are being taken to overcome the shortfall of power in the country.He said main reason for the current power crisis is shortage of water in Dams.Talking to media in Islamabad on Wednesday he said a formal agreement between Pakistan and ...

ISLAMABAD - National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) Managing Director (MD) Rasool Khan Mehsud has become more powerful than Minister for Water and Power Ahmed Mukhtar, who tried to suspend him during the Gilani government, but failed and is now preparing to take up the issue with Prime ...

ISLAMABAD  - PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday said his party has no objection on nomination of Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar as future Prime Minister. Talking to private TV channel, the PML-Q leader said the allied parties have empowered President Asif Ali Zardari to make the ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Water and Power Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has strongly rejected a BBC report of having said that militaries of both India and Pakistan were an obstacle to the resolution of Siachen dispute.  In a statement on Sunday, he clarified that he never said anything in the ...

islamabad - The portfolios of federal ministers for defence and water and power have been swapped as Ch Ahmed Mukhtar would head the Ministry of Water and Power while Naveed Qamar is the new Defence Minister. The decision to swap the two portfolios is reportedly taken to address the issue of ...

ISLAMABAD - Both the government and military have kept mum over the defence minister’s statement, ‘crediting’ the Pakistan Army and government for tracing out Osama bin Laden, a year after his killing in Abbottabad.On the face of it, the statement perfectly goes Pakistan’s ...

LAHORE – Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) Chief in Pakistan has sent another letter to Minister Defence seeking intervention in one of the biggest deals involving $1.5 billion (almost Rs 140b) for the procurement of five new Boeing ER 777-300 by the state-owned Pakistan International ...

LAHORE – Against the backdrop of political settlement between the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam and Pakistan People’s Party leaderships, Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain, the PML-Q chief, on Monday withdrew a disqualification plea against Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar which he had filed ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Minister for Defence and Chairman PIA Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has inaugurated the state of art PIA Boeing 777 flight simulator installed at PIA Training Centre, Karachi, PIA spokesman said here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Ahmed Mukhtar said that the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LALAMUSA - Federal Defence Minister Ch Ahmed Mukhtar has said that The All Parties Conference (APC) has given a message to the world that the entire nation despite our internal political differences is united to defend the mother land. Pakistan is a responsible and peace-loving ...

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Wednesday made a nave remark in the Senate when he said that PIA needed rightsizing while declaring that it was his own government that had inducted 2,171 employees in the national flag carrier during the last three years. Mukhtar, through his ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Defence Minister Ch. Ahmad Mukhtar has said that nobody should have any doubt about the defence capabilities of Pakistan and warned that any misadventure by the neighbouring country, in future, would result in a disastrous situation. Mukhtar said this in a statement issued by the ...

GUJRAT - Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said that the alliance between Peoples Party and Muslim League-Quaid will be a permanent danger to the Punjab government as the number game in the provincial assembly will favour the PPP in case the Unification Bloc stopped supporting Nawaz ...

ISLAMABAD - Vice Admiral Dakheel Allah Bin Ahmed Al Waqdani, Commander Royal Saudi Navy Forces, along with a delegation of Royal Navy called on Federal Minister for Defence, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, at the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday. During the meeting Ch Ahmad Mukhtar said that both the ...

GUJRAT - Defence Minister Ch Ahmad Mukhtar Thursday termed the disclosures by WikiLeaks an attempt to demoralise Pakistans professionally proficient armed forces. Talking to the newsmen in Gujrat, Mukhtar said though he was fully aware of those who were behind the WikiLeaks revelations planted ...

GUJRAT Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar Sunday said the Karzai government was negotiating with different groups for achieving peace in Afghanistan but Pakistan was not playing any role in the process because it did not want to be seen responsible for any failure of talks. Addressing a news ...

ISLAMABAD(Online)-Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar has said that the tragic accident of private airline Air Blue was accidental and not an act of sabotage. Talking to media on Wednesday, he said that ,however, all aspects would be considered during investigations, for which a civil aviation team ...

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Friday said the government acted against Jamaatud Dawah to ward off Pakistan from the danger of being declared a terrorist state. "We are part of the international community and cannot afford an untoward confrontation with the world. Government ...

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar Thursday ruled out any possibility of Pakistan's involvement in Mumbai terrorist attacks, which have claimed more than one hundred lives so far. "We are shocked and deeply feel sorry for the deaths and loss of property resulting as an aftermath of ...

KARACHI  - Minister for Defence Ch Ahmed Mukhtar has denounced the attack on Pakistani soldiers by NATO forces, terming it quite unsuitable for America as Islamabad was a close ally in Washington's war against terrorism. While talking to reporters here on Thursday, the Defence Minister on ...