Islamabad- On the directives of Islamabad High Court (IHC), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities Wednesday produced before the court a missing person Ameer Ahmed allegedly abducted by the intelligence agencies.The provincial authorities presented Ameer Ahmed, a resident of Rahim Yar Khan, before Justice ...

ISLAMABAD - Additional Advocate General (AAG) Khyber Pakhtunkwa on Thursday assured the Islamabad High Court (IHC) regarding the production of a missing person namely Ameer Ahmed on the next hearing of the case.While IHC judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui strictly directed him to produce Ameer ...

UNITED NATIONS – Primary production and processing in such sectors as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, oil and gas exploration and utilities cost the world economy $7.3 trillion a year in damage to the environment, health and other vital benefits for humankind, a new United ...

Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik failed to produce his British nationality renouncement certificate before the Supreme Court during the hearing of the dual nationality case on Monday.A bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and comprising ...

QUETTA - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Thursday ordered the officials concerned to produce all the missing persons before the court today (Friday), warning that all of them could be suspended in case of failure.He issued this direction while heading a three-member bench hearing the case ...

QUETTA - Supreme Court directed the Deputy Commissioner and Tehsildar Baghabna to produce nine missing persons by May 2nd who have been whisked away from Tutak area of Khuzdar district in February 2011.Sajid Tareen Advocate lodged an application in the Supreme Court stating that earlier three ...

LAHORE – The Nation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman Majid Nizami has asked the people of Pakistan to vote for those who can wage Jihad on India to free Kashmir, to make Pakistan as dreamt by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Speaking at various ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court hearing the case of 11 missing prisoners from Adiala Jail on Monday ordered the spymasters to produce the remaining seven prisoners on February 9.According to reports, 11 prisoners were allegedly picked up by the spy agencies after their release from Adiala Jail in ...

MULTAN - Former speaker National Assembly Syed Fakhar Imam pointed out on Monday that the cotton growers had suffered loss worth Rs57.6 billion as they were paid Rs400 less than the rate of phutti (seed cotton) in international market.Talking to The Nation, he added that the growers were faced with ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD The Federal Board of Revenue has allowed special exemption to growers of agricultural produce, incidental expenses of oil tankers and purchase of steel scrap by steel melters. According to a circular issued here on Monday, the Clause (12) of Part-lV of Second Schedule ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - Danish Kanerias long battle to gain clearance from the PCB will continue, as he has now been asked by the Sindh High Court to produce a transcript of the Essex police inquiry that cleared him of criminal charges in a spot-fixing case last year. Kaneria had filed a petition in ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Renowned scientist Dr Samar Mumbarkmand on Saturday said the country had third biggest coal reserves which could be utilised for producing cheap electricity. Talking to Pakistan Television, he said that scientists were working on the Thar-Coal project to meet the growing demand of ...

BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese dairy farm is installing the worlds largest system to turn steaming cowpats into enough electricity to power thousands of homes, it was reported Tuesday. The device at the Huishan Dairy is 10 times bigger than similar systems and will take the excrement from 60,000 cows ...

LAHORE - In stark contradiction to the government claims of effectively controlling the menace of Dengue hemorrhagic fever, more and more patients continued to contact public sector hospitals and private healthcare centres across the province including the City. On Sunday, as many as 157 new ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday showed its complete disappointment over poor performance of the Capital police and directed Islamabad police officials to produce missing student, Hassan Sharjeel, son of Shakeel Ahmad Turabi, before the court on 15th of this month. The relevant police ...

CAIRO (AFP) - OPEC heavyweights led by kingpin Saudi Arabia on Saturday appeared united in their support for maintaining production quotas, saying the oil price is satisfactory and the market is stable. All oil ministers of Arab countries members of OPEC attending a meeting in Egypt said there was ...

DUBAI (AFP) - An outline contract agreed on Monday for the supply of 10 Airbus A320 aircraft to Yemens national carrier is among the few highlights of this years Dubai Airshow, noticeable for its lack of big deals. The organisers hopes of beating the 155.5 billion dollars in orders chalked up at ...

ISLAMABAD - Out of the total 2250 megawatt Rental Power Plants approved by the government, only 510 megawatt plants are likely to be operational by the end of December this year or start of next year, TheNation reliably learnt. It has been learnt that 200 megawatts rental power electricity might be ...

KARACHI - Board of Investment (BoI) Chairman Saleem H Mandviwalla said Monday that Tuwairqi Steel Mills would definitely serve as the catalyst of industrial growth in Pakistan. He was addressing a press conference after visiting Tuwairqi Steel Mills (TSML) project at Bin Qasim. He expressed his ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has formally initiated work on projects aimed at to produce bio-fuel products, enabling the country to save huge precious foreign exchange spent on fuel imports. The PARC has been working on three projects in Balochistan area to ...

ISLAMABAD - Two more private power projects have obtained financial closure for establishment of 420 megawatts electric power stations. The two projects, Hubco-Narowal Power Project and Liberty Power Tech Project have achieved financial closure for 220 and 200 megawatts electric power stations and ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Minfal) has set the target to produce about 2058.93 thousand tonnes of onions during the current financial year (2008-09) to fulfil the domestic demand of the commodity. A Senior official in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture told APP here on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - About 652.29 thousand tons of gram would be produced during 2008-09 to fulfil the domestic consumption of the commodity as well as for export. An official in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock told APP here on Monday that several varieties of pulses including mung, ...

LAHORE - Almost 90 per cent power loadshedding for domestic as well as industries will be ended in Punjab at the end of the current month. This was stated in a high level meeting with Punjab Governor Salmaan in the char held at Governor's House here on Tuesday. Senior Provincial Minister Raja Riaz, ...

UNITED NATIONS - US military tribunals slated for terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are not likely to meet international fairness standards, a U.N. expert has warned. Martin Scheinin, an independent U.N. expert monitoring the promotion and protection of human rights in the ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf Friday told the National Assembly that the government would install a windmill during the first phase, which would produce six Megawatt of electricity at the end of this August, while the entire project would be launched by the end ...

KARACHI - Forest department of CDGK after successfully establishing a thick green jungle at Thaddo Dam in Gadap town, is going to use the benefits of jungle in different manner so that some revenue to be generated as various project including production of Honey, Silk and Neel. Sources told The ...

ISLAMABAD - The sugar cane production is likely to be very low in the current year as the farmers who had been exploited by sugar industry have decreased the area of cultivation and even a large number of farmers have not cultivated the crop this year due to industrialists' atrociously greedy ...

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) has set the target to produce about 5720.50 thousand tonne of rice to fulfil the domestic consumption of the commodity as well as to export. An official in the Food Ministry told APP here on Monday that last year, rice crop was ...