FAISALABADThe All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association criticised the caretaker government’s decision to adopt new measures through a presidential ordinance to generate additional revenue by imposing taxes on textile industry without taking all the stakeholders into confidence.APTPMA ...

LAHORE - The federal government in principle has decided to continue ban on the YouTube permanently basis, suggesting the reopening of the video-sharing website with the present content could trigger unrest across the country. A top official in the Ministry of Information and Technology disclosed ...

ISLAMABAD - Some political observers are critical to the introduction of the 24th Constitutional Amendment Bill, aiming at carving out a single new province out of the Punjab, on the grounds if PPP was sincere for the creation of new province then why the two separate resolutions passed by the ...

International financial institutions have been warning Pakistani rulers of low level of private sector investment in the country owing to increasing circular debt, power sector issues, unsatisfactory law and order situation and the depleting foreign exchange reserves.The country lacks a proper ...

ISLAMABAD - The new accountability bill, pending with the National Assembly Standing Committee for Law and Justice, is full of flaws and if it is passed by the Parliament in current shape, it would fail to check rampant corruption in society.A close examination of the fresh accountability bill ...

PESHAWAR - The proposed Annual Developmental Programme of KPK for financial year 2012-13 has been finalized and like the previous financial year programme, increased resources have been allocated for the ongoing schemes in this ADP. CM  Amir Haider Khan Hoti chaired a high-level meeting in ...

KARACHI - Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood in a secret summary sent to cabinet on MFN issue on February 10 proposed that the ministry be allowed to progressively phase out the Negative List in three stages on a quarterly basis after its approval with quarters ending on June 30, September 30, and ...

PESHAWAR – Rejecting the proposal of dividing Malakand division, activists of Tanzeem Tahfuz-e-Haqook-e-Chitral (TTHC) staged a protest demonstration against the government here at Sher Shah Suri Road on Thursday.The protestors led by Sadiq Ameen, chairman TTHC, Maulana Saadullah and ...

SADIQABAD - The All Pakistan Clerks Association’s Rahim Yar Khan president said that the Punjab government had decided to give a monthly utility allowance for the government employees to get daily use items. Talking to the officials of various departments, APTA district president Muhammad ...

SIALKOT - PML-N parliamentarians Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Zahid Hamid and Ehsan Iqbal have rejected the proposed hike in POL prices by the PPP-led government, saying that it would drive the last nail into the coffin of the national economy.Addressing a meeting of party workers here, they said that ...

ISLAMABAD – Experts at a day-long workshop here proposed formation of an energy think tank namely Pakistan Energy Research and Information Center (PERIC) to help overcome the energy crisis. Workshop on Pakistan Integrated Energy Model was held at the Planning Commission to discuss the ...

PARIS  - France’s top diet guru Pierre Dukan is urging the government to grade students on their weight in a bid to curb growing obesity.In a book to be published Thursday, Dukan suggests that students in their last two years of high school be awarded extra marks if they manage to ...

Iran's Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi said that no security problem threatens the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, the local Tehran Times daily reported Tuesday. Abdollahi said the ministry of oil should follow up for finishing the project and establishing the pipeline as soon ...

KARACHI - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001 effectively undercut the authority of the provincial government and created fiefdoms; thereby leading to a situation where the writ of the state was being undermined. However, the human rights ...

ISLAMABAD - After alarmed by the growing inflow of drugs from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Ministry of Narcotics Control has decided to propose the federal government to increase number of check posts installed at Pak-Afghan border Yes, it is true that high-ups of the ministry have agreed to propose ...

PESHAWAR - On the demand of owners of local newspapers, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Public Relations Mian Iftikhar Hussain has announced withdrawal of proposed 16 per cent GST on advertisements in newspapers and magazines. He made this announcement in the presence of Provincial ...

LAHORE Punjab can save Rs 30 billion a year by officers austerity, while it can generate over Rs 50b a year through revenue reforms, according to a proposal that awaits the nod of political bosses and babus in the All Pakistan Unified Grades (APUG). Since the proposal comes from the PCS Officers ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday was prayed to instruct the federation to withhold any action under Section 6 of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 until the announcement of the detailed judgment. Shahid Orakzai, who had filed petition against the NAB chairman under ...

LAHORE - Securities Lending & Borrowing (SLB) and Margin Trading System (MTS), being introduced in the local exchanges, are in line with international practices of leverage market. The MTS differs from its predecessor CFS-Mk II in many ways. This was stated by Badiuddin Akbar, Head of Operations ...

LAHORE - Ambassador of Republic Turkmenistan to Pakistan Sapar Berdiniyazov on Tuesday said his country want enhanced economic and cultural ties with Pakistan which is one of the best investment destinations in the region. He said that Turkmenistan can help Pakistan overcome energy crisis which is ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday said Pakistan was keen to start the direct shipping links between Karachi and Chittagong, and setting up of the warehouses to increase the trade volume to the level agreed in the Eighth Session of Joint Economic Commission held in ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Syed Naveed Qamar, has offered wholehearted support for Punjab govts proposal for the LNG import to meet energy demands of the industrial sector of Punjab, that is presently going through an energy crunch. Syed Naveed Qamar was ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal minister for Food and Agriculture, Nazar M Gondal proposed on Tuesday that the support price of wheat should be increased from Rs. 950 to Rs. 1000 per 40 kg as the prices of inputs like fertilizers etc have increased in comparison to the last years prices. The minister was ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Monday the provinces had not proposed names of their representatives for the National Oversight Disaster Management Council (NODMC) established by the Prime Minister. Addressing a press conference, Kaira said that 1.4 ...

ISLAMABAD Like other internal bodies of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) the Academic Staff Association has also rejected the idea of establishing Quaid-i-Azam School of Management Sciences (QASMS) under public-private partnership demanding that the bidding process for private proposals of the ...

LAHORE The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern that some of the changes proposed in the anti-terrorism law are not only contrary but they will also cause derogation of human rights, and called upon the parliament to ensure adequate safeguards to prevent abuse by law ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and other member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation would assist each other to eliminate menace of corruption while police chiefs would assist each other by means of new media for information sharing. The second day of the four-day SAARC Ministers ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government has proposed allocation of Rs 155.194 billion for the local governments under the Provincial Finance Commission (PFC) Award in the 2010-11 budget, as against Rs 132.750 billion in the current fiscal year, showing 16.9 per cent increase in fund transfer. The local ...

ISLAMABAD The Government has allocated Rs 3.618 billion for the Cabinet Division for its ongoing and new schemes under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2010-11. A total of Rs 2.555 billion has been allocated for 14 new schemes while Rs 1.063 billion was allocated for 14 ...

The Brazilian president criticized on Friday additional sanctions against Iran which are currently being discussed by the UN Security Council. The Security Council gathered in New York this week to discuss a draft resolution imposing a new set of sanctions on the Islamic Republic, which is accused ...