ISLAMABAD - Minister for Water and Power Dr Musadik Malik Thursday removed General Manager, National Power Control Centre (NPCC), Rizwan Ahmed over his mismanagement regarding loadshedding in Gujranwala on Wednesday. The minister visited 32 gird stations in Gujranwala on a surprise check and found ...

KARACHI - Caretaker Sindh Food Minister, Iqbal Dawood, on Wednesday ordered to remove food inspectors of the province with immediate effect.The minister ordered sacking of the officials known for incompetence, negligence of duty and theft in the stock of wheat and other commodities. According to ...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar on Thursday levelled allegations of bias against Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan and demanded that he be removed from his position.Speaking to media representatives at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, ...

MULTAN - Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the holders of president, prime minister and foreign minister offices enjoy immunity in entire world but he was removed unconstitutionally. “But I offered this sacrifice for the supremacy of constitution and in larger ...

ISLAMABAD - The Coast Guards and FC will not establish any check post on the RCD Highway and Bolan Highway in Balochistan and all such post established already would be removed immediately.The decision was taken during a meeting of the Committee on Implementation of Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) - The Interior Ministry has removed from Exit Control List (ECL) the name of Chaudhry Moonis Elahi, after his acquittal in multi-billion National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam.According to sources in the Ministry, soon after his acquittal, PML-Q MPA now a key ally of ...

A pen has been removed from a woman's stomach after 25 years - and it still works. The discovery was found after the 76-year-old went to the doctors complaining of weight loss and diarrhoea. Doctors at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital Foundation Trust took a CT scan of her abdomen to find a ...

RAWALPINDI - It seems that city administration is waiting for occurrence of some untoward incident against Ahmadi community, as despite passage of several days the administration has not removed a number of banners demanding end to religious activities of the community on every Friday in a house ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER RAWALPINDI - Punjab government has shown the door to Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi Controller examination and suspended two other junior officials for compiling flawed annual results for Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Part-I and Higher ...

Our Staff Reporter PESHAWAR - After removal of reservations over the new Afghan Transit Trade Agreement, the way gets cleared for transportation of goods from Wagah border to Afghanistan. Under the agreement now the goods would be transported, in the first step, to Peshawar Dry Port along with ...

DEOBAND (INP) - The Vice-Chancellor of Darul Uloom, Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Vastanvi, was removed from his post here Sunday. Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani, who was appointed as acting vice-chancellor, will be the new head of the institution. Maulana Vastanvi had triggered a controversy soon after his ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA) has removed names of more than 1000 lawyers from its voters list for the upcoming elections of 2011. According to sources, lawyers belonging from Punjab were enjoying benefits of being voters of the Lahore High Court Bar Association ...

ISLAMABAD - In a surprised move, the government removed Chairman NARC, Dr Zafar Altaf, on Tuesday. However, it did not give any reason of his removal and cancelled his job contract. Dr Zafar had developed the hybrid cottonseed, which was a major development in the agriculture research sector. ...

The country is passing through a series of crises: unbridled corruption, terrorism and killing of political activists and businessmen, sexual harassment and killing of school and college going girls and housewives and so on. Away from politics, economic expectation has turned into economic ...

KARACHI - Gulshan Town police Wednesday evacuated illegal encroachers from Chappal Sun City, a residential apartment. At least 80 police mobile vans and 10 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) along with police commandos and lady police force conducted the anti-encroachment operation at Chappal City ...

BAHAWALPUR (APP) President Asif Ali Zardari said Wednesday that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has implemented 80 per cent of its manifesto after clearing the Constitution of stains of dictators. Addressing workers of Ashraf Sugar Mills here, he said that PPP was engaged in a battle of ideas and ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has stressed the need for removing disparity between the rich and the poor for carving out a respectable place for Pakistan in the comity of the nations. He said while all out facilities were available to the elite classes, millions of poor people were ...

THE makers of a hit Hollywood film are at the centre of a race controversy after removing two black actors from a poster being used to promote it in Britain. The American advert for Couples Retreat, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kristin Davis, show all eight principal actors - six of whom are ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A team of surgeons in Al-Shifa International Hospital here Tuesday claimed to have removed a world record giant tumour of 46kg from the abdomen of a 72-year-old lady from NWFP. With its successful extraction, hospital authorities claimed that the tumour was the worlds biggest one ...

HOLLYWOOD stars of a certain age take note: Research at Berkeley Lab suggests that a protein linked to the spread of several major human cancers may also hold great potential for the elimination of wrinkles and the rejuvenation of the skin. If this promise bears fruit, controlling concentrations of ...

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain here on Sunday dismissed Sumaira Malik from party women wing's presidency for violating party discipline and issued a notification in that regard. Earlier, Sumaira Malik was served show cause notice. Officer-bearers and workers of PML-Q ...

ISLAMABAD  - Sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has said that with the resignation of Pervez Musharraf all obstacles in the way of judges restoration have been removed and soon the people would be provided easy access to speedy justice. Talking to a group of lawyers, who met him at his ...

KARACHI - Removal of 15 per cent General Sales Tax (GST) on computer hardware is likely in the coming budget, which will improve computer penetration but broadband penetration will remain relatively unaffected. On the other hand, Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) activation tax is likely to remain ...