ISLAMABAD - Ministry of water & power has decided to ink a performance contract with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of all power distributing companies (DISCOs) in an apparent bid to control electricity loadshedding in the country.“Yes, the government has decided to ink a performance ...

PESHAWAR - The contractual lectures hailing from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday took out a rally against the government for non-regularization of their services. Dozens of the protestors led by the general secretary Ad-hoc Lecturers’ Association ...

Supreme Court Tuesday declared the LNG contract ineffective and ordered restart of the process of awarding the contract after consultation with the prime minister. A bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry held suo moto proceedings of the case. Chief Justice in ...

Oil ministry said on Wednesday it would delay signing a contract with French company GDF Suez for the import of liquefied natural gas because the Supreme Court had decided to look into the deal. The Supreme Court step followed media reports that Pakistan had lost $1 billion when senior Petroleum ...

Bangladesh have extended the contract of their Australian cricket coach Jamie Siddons until the 2011 World Cup, a senior official of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Wednesday. Siddons joined Bangladesh in November 2007, replacing his compatriot Dav Whatmore. The official said pace bowler ...

Britain has cancelled a major contract with Fujitsu that was part of its ambitious programme to computerise healthcare records in England, a government spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. The 10-year, 896-million-pound (1.1-billion-euro, 1.8-billion-dollar) agreement was originally signed in January ...