ZURICH : Swiss Life and Valiant are discussing a distribution partnership, which may include the insurer taking a stake in the bank. The tie-up would be a return to the banc assurance model once pursued by rivals such as Zurich Insurance and Winterthur, in which an insurer sells its products to a ...

lahore - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif says his party has completed a comprehensive plan to rid the country of the crippling power crisis. He said his party does not believe in hollow promises but takes practical steps to deliver on its promises. Addressing his party workers here Saturday, the ...

islamabad -ahmad ahmadani - Outgoing PPP-led government at the fag end of her constitutional tenure had desperately changed the sectoral priority order in Natural Gas Load Management only to benefit influential industrialists, which has contributed to worsen the power loadshedding across the ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - There are severe differences and infighting among the candidates of two major political parties - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) over the award of party tickets in some constituencies of district. Although the ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - There are severe differences and infighting among the candidates of two major political parties - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) over the award of party tickets in some constituencies of district. Although the ...

FAISALABAD - DCO Najam Ahmad Shah assured the business community to evolve a strategy for the fair distribution of available electricity and announced that the Fesco and local industrialists/traders would hold a meeting within a couple of day to find out some effective solution for distribution of ...

LAHORE - The annual prize distribution ceremony of Government Islamia College has been held on Railway Road. Islamia College Principal Prof Amjad Ali Shakir, who is a renowned writer, critic and research scholar, presided over the function, says a press release on Wednesday.In his address, the ...

QUETTA – Two PTI leaders and their supporters scuffled over the distribution of party tickets during a news conference at the Press Club here on Thursday.PTI Provincial President Muhammad Qasim Khan Soori was addressing a news conference about the distribution of party tickets for elections. ...

Secretary for Water and Power Zafar Mahmood told a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting on Thursday that electricity distribution companies (Discos) were over-billing consumers to compensate for their losses.The PAC meeting took place under the chairmanship of Nadeem Afzal Gondal to review the ...

Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the federation being center of the country should be impartial and equally distribute resources among the provinces but it had adopted discriminatory attitude towards Punjab due to differences with the ruling party of the province.He said this ...

ISLAMABAD – Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation in collaboration with US-based Walkabout Foundation and assisted by Special Talent Exchange Program (STEP), UNHCR and other NGO’s across the country distributed 300 specially customised wheelchairs to the flood affectees as part of ...

ISLAMABAD – Easypaisa, a joint initiative of Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Micro Finance Bank, has secured $6.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase adoption of its mobile financial services among Pakistan’s poorest households and to strengthen its ...

LAHORE - Prize distribution ceremonies for the winners of Chief Minister’s speech, debate, essay writing and art competitions 2011 at Markaz and Tehsil level will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at Tehsil Headquarters separately for girls and boys in all the districts. At Markaz level, an amount ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Business Forum, a representative body of business community in Punjab, has urged the federal government to ensure equitable distribution of gas supply throughout the country.It expressed full solidarity with industries in Punjab incurring heavy financial losses causing massive ...

Recently, I came know that the daughter of the owner of a publishing house married a businessman in Dubai. It was a grand wedding, as the pictures that were posted on Facebook were self-explanatory. The wedding ceremony was attended by a large number of elites, who travelled all the way from ...

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has directed to expedite off-loading and transportation mechanism of the imported urea, currently clogged up at Gwadar Port so that the issue of fertilizer availability in far flung areas of country could be resolved and the rising price could be brought under ...

LAHORE – In a family festival Dawn Lifestyle organized last month, PEL set up a stall that featured fun activities and prizes for the general public. The prize distribution ceremony was held at PEL’s factory. On this occasion, GM Sales and Marketing, Amir Ahsan distributed PEL Desire ...

KARACHI Pak-Kuwait Takaful Company Limited, pioneer in Islamic insurance and Meezan Bank Limited have signed a distribution agreement to promote and sell Bancatakaful products, says a press release. Syed Waqar Azeem, Head of Marketing & Sales Pak-Kuwait Takaful Company with Rizwan Ata, Group ...

FAISALABAD On the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, as many as 7283 allotment certificates of 5 marla plot each is being distributed among the shelterless families of rural areas of the district today under the Jinnah Abadies scheme. The necessary arrangements have been ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over a meeting to review wheat procurement campaign in the province here on Monday. Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Provincial Ministers Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Nadeem Kamran, Chief Secretary, Additional Chief ...

KARACHI - The Independent Power Producers Advisory Council (IPPAC) has urged the Ministry of Water and Power to ensure immediate and equitable release of the IPPs dues that are exceeding a staggering figure of Rs175 billion. The IPPs have almost reached a saturation point and if this situation ...

LAHORE - SISA (School of International Studies in Sciences & Arts) held annual prize distribution ceremony at the Alhamra Cultural Complex (Hall #1) the other day, says a Press release.The chief guest was former Federal Ombudsman Javed Sadiq Malik. He gave away prizes to the students of SISA who ...

ISLAMABAD A three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday directed the Interior Ministry to ensure completion of disbursement of compensation cheques among the families of the children who were used as camel jockeys in Middle East. The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Board of Directors of Arif Habib Investments Limited, Management Company of Pakistan Income Fund (PIF) approved following final distribution for year ended 30th June, 2010: A bonus of Rs. 1.10 per unit (2.17pc on opening Ex-NAV for 30th June 2009) for Financial Year 2010. An ...

KARACHI The National Finance Commission has decided four factors-population, backwardness, revenue and Inverse density population for horizontal distribution of resources among the provinces under NFC Award. This was stated by Shaukat Tarin while briefing the media at the end of the two- day ...

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility of the deadly blasts in Wah Cantt area which killed at least 60 people and injured scores others on Thursday. According to sources, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan accepted the responsibility for the double suicide blasts.  

The Legal fraternity will celebrate a "Youm-e-Nijat" (Day of Deliverance) today after Pervez Musharraf quit as president of Pakistan. The lawyers termed it as victory of people and announced to celebrate the day as Day of Deliverance. President of SCBA Aitzaz Ahsan said that lawyers' community ...

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) today briskly trading in the first few hours gained 356 points as against the depressed trading in the inter-bank market. Despite further weakening of rupee against dollar, KSE today remained upbeat and seen mounting by 356 points during the trading. Cement, banks and ...

LAHORE - Distribution of power between the federation and federating units, an essential attribute of federalism, is one of the most contentious issues in the polity of Pakistan. These views were expressed by speakers at a dialogue on provincial autonomy, jointly organised by the Women Workers ...

ISLAMABAD - World Bank on Monday signed two agreements with Pakistan for provision of US $ 294.7 million loan to improve electricity distribution system and manage water sector. Pakistan has obtained an amount of US $ 256.7 million to improve electricity distribution and transmission. The ...