SIALKOTThe posts of 177 senior professors (from Grade 17 to 20) in 74 government boys and girls colleges in Gujranwala Division’s all the six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts have been lying vacant since long. According to the senior officials of ...

WASHINGTON : The United States’s yawning annual budget deficit narrowed in April as government coffers brimmed with the largest monthly surplus in five years, official data released Friday showed. The federal budget had a surplus of $112.9 billion for the month of April, as payments surged ...

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to complete recruitments on 140 vacant posts in the civic authority during the caretaker setup.The civic authority had planned to recruit new official on the vacant posts during the caretaker government to avoid political influence and pressure. ...

NEW DELHI  - Three Indian navy officers are to be dismissed from service over their Facebook updates which reportedly included details about where their vessels were docked, an official said Thursday. The Navy has recommended the discharge of the officers for ‘violating information ...

According to a report published in a Kabul based newspaper Afghan Times, President Hamid Karzai has written a letter to his US counterpart Barack Obama, seeking America's help in reclaiming nearly a dozen border security posts that he alleges were captured by Pakistani forces in eastern Nangarhar ...

DUBAI (Reuters): Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding , the investment firm of billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, posted a 9.2 percent increase in its first-quarter net profit, it said in a bourse statement on Sunday.The firm made a net profit of 110.1 million riyals ($29.4 million) during the three ...

KARACHI - More than 8000 candidates took part in the written test for recruitment on the posts of cop in Karachi police here Sunday.The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has given the police department permission to recruit more cops to cope with the law and order situation in the city. It was ...

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's Riyad Bank posted a 5.5 percent rise in its first-quarter profits on Sunday, beating analysts' forecasts.The kingdom's third-largest listed bank by market value said in a bourse statement that it made 951 million riyals ($254 million) in the three months ended March 31, ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that dual nationals cannot hold any post within a political party. According to the ECP, the same rules which apply for parliamentarians under the Political Order 2002 are also applicable on individuals seeking party posts. The ECP was ...

Karachi  - The Additional Member Inspection Team-I (MIT-I) Sindh High Court has announced that the second written test for the posts of Additional District and Sessions Judges has been rescheduled. The test which was earlier scheduled on December 15 has been postponed and now it will be held ...

President Asif Ali Zardari’s immunity and dual posts held by him were challenged in the Supreme Court on Monday.According to a private TV channel, Advocate Mahmood Akhtar Naqvi has filed a petition against the immunity and dual positions held by the President.The petitioner has referred to ...

LAHORE - Commissioner Lahore Division Jawad Rafiq Malik has directed to get the services of NGOs and to create posts of Town Sports Officer for the maintenance and setting up of new sports grounds.He was presiding over a meeting regarding maintenance and setting up of play grounds at Commissioner ...

Chief Minister and PML(N) Punjab chapter President Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif (younger brother of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif) has appointed Chaudhry Jaffer Iqbal and Raja Ishfaq Sarwar as Senior Vice-Presidents of the Punjab chapter of the PML(N), in recognition of their valuable services for the ...

LAHORE – SALMAN ABDUHU - The Punjab government has posted a deficit of Rs8.2 billion in first half of current fiscal year compared to surplus of Rs16.6 billion reported last year while Sindh government performance was better, as it managed to post a surplus of Rs4 billion during the period, ...

LAHORE - Allied Bank Limited (ABL) has announced its financial result for the period of CY11. The result is inline with expectations as the bank posted PAT of Rs10.27b translating into an EPS of RS11.92 in CY11 as compared to RS8.28b [EPS of Rs9.63] in the corresponding period last year, depicting ...

LONDON (Reuters) Gold prices were on course for their biggest monthly rise since August on Tuesday, supported by a weaker dollar and raising the possibility of a climb toward last year's record high of just over $1,900 per ounce. Sentiment for gold at the end of January compares starkly with late ...

ISLAMABAD - Since the promotion of around 20 top bureaucrats is in limbo due to delay in meeting of Central Selection Board (CSB) for pending ACRs of senior officers and other potent reasons, yet discrimination is also being feared in the allocation of secretariat group's vacancies in the Federal ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) announced its 1HFY12 result on Tuesday. The company posted a profit after tax of Rs20.1b (EPS: Rs15.3) versus earnings of Rs16.6b (EPS: Rs12.64) in the corresponding period last year, up 21 percent YoY. The earnings announcement was largely inline with our ...

OUR STAFF REPORTERLAHORE - Honda Atlas Cars (Pakistan) Limited (HCAR) has announced its 9MFY12, posting Loss After Tax (LAT) of Rs143m translating into a Loss Per Share (LPS) of Rs1 as against the LAT of Rs276m and LPS of Rs1.93 in the corresponding period last year due to decline in production and ...

karachi : Pakistan's current account posted a provisional surplus of $160m in Dec 2011, compared with a surplus of $597m in December 2010, the State Bank said on Wednesday. While it is an improvement over November, when the current account posted a deficit of $688 million, analysts said the surplus ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved 1,818 posts of various categories in grade 1 to 19 for Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad Gujranwala and Multan under Prevention and Control Programme of Epidemics. Secretary Health Punjab Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan has said that a post of ...

MAILSI - Two posts of Assistant Professors have been lying vacant in Govt Degree College Mailsi since long. Reportedly, no assistant professor of Urdu subject is ready to join the said college as the only teacher has to teach hundreds of students. Writers’ Forum and Bazm-e-Sukhan members ...

WASHINGTON - A noted South Asia defence analyst who spent six years in Pakistan as Australia's military attache has condemned as "unpardonable" Nato's attack on border posts in Mohmand in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed. "The US assault is unpardonable," wrote Cloughley in CounterPunch, a ...

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 KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has announced a net profit of Rs1.4 billion during the first quarter of its business in the current financial year, showing a growth of seven per cent over last year. PTCLs continued profits and growth in the first ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - DG Khan Cement Company Ltd (DGKC) has just announced its FY11 annual operating results. The company has posted Profit after Tax (PAT) of Rs170.96 million translating into an EPS of Rs0.39, posting a substantial decline in growth of 27 percent against the corresponding ...

LAHORE Saudi-Pak Insurance Company Limited (SPICL) has accomplished much better performance in the second quarter ended June 30, 2011 and earned net profit of Rs 6.1 million as against loss of Rs 7.4 million in corresponding period of 2010, says a press release. The company was set up in 2005 ...

Our Staff Reporter PESHAWAR - The Bank of Khyber (BoK) has successfully concluded its second Right Issue (R-2) amounting Rs.3.224 billion and has attained the milestone of becoming State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Minimum Capital Requirement (MCR) compliant bank for the year 2011. The Banks paid-up ...

ISLAMABAD - The Large Scale Manufacturers (LSM) sector has registered a minor growth of 1.14 per cent during the previous fiscal year 2010-2011 against its preceding year 2009-2010 owing to the ongoing energy crisis, ever increasing input cost and lack of market demand. According to the Federal ...

Our Staff reporter HAFIZABAD - Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue-1122) have changed the designation of three officers, Station House In-charge, Community Awareness Officer and Community Safety Officer and renamed them as Rescue and Safety Officers. In all the Rescue Stations, Rescue and Safety ...