LAHORE - Pakistan rugby team won their first semi-final against Laos 31-25 at Sharjah in Asian Five-Nation Division IV Rugby Tournament. Pakistan players played exhibiting their prowess played superb rugby. In the first half, captain Arslan Zahid scored first try for his country. Tahir then came ...
ISLAMABAD – Tourism Division of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) goes dysfunctional due to lack of funds and negligence of officials of the civic body.A large number of visitors from across the country and adjoining areas throng tourist spots of the federal capital on daily basis ...
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Industries & Production Shahzada Ahsan Ashraf Shiekh said that a priority committee of the Ministry of Finance to cater budgetary requirement under the head “Pay and Allowances” has allocated additional funds of Rs.74 million for the Industries ...
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
BHAKKAR - Commissioner Sargodha division Shoukat Ali said a transparent method would be adopted to procure wheat from farmers so that maximum wheat would be purchased directly from them. Talking to APP, he said food coordinators had also been appointed on purchasing centers in the division. He said ...
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Mian Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that his party would not accept the creation of new provinces in Punjab on the basis of ethnicity or hatred.Speaking at party’s consultative meeting here in Lahore, Nawaz Sharif backed the creation of new ...
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 ...
KHAIRPUR - Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Farooq Sattar has said that his party doesn’t want division of Sindh province and baseless statements in this regard are being spread to malign the party. A MQM delegation comprising Dr Farooq Sattar. Raza Haroon. Babar Ghauri, Dr Sagir Hussain, ...
LAHORE – Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has smelt division of Sindh in a resolution presented by the MQM in the Assembly for creation of Southern Punjab and Hazara provinces. While taking to media men outside the Punjab Assembly chamber here Monday, the Law Minister citing ...
LAHORE – Five police stations of the Model Town Police Division are harbouring over 200 gambling dens and brothels, where anti-social activities and betting are being promoted by the former Lahore SSP (Operations) Chaudhary Shafqaat and his like-minded police officers. Official documents, a ...
BUREWALA - The division of Punjab province on linguistic basis is not acceptable and Seraiki province is the propaganda of anti-state elements. Our movement will oppose creation of the Seraiki province at every forum, the remarks were made by the participants of a consulting meeting arranged by ...
RAWALPINDI (APP) Provincial Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmed Ali Olak has said that Punjab government is making all out efforts for the development of agriculture sector and soon Rawalpindi division will have eight more small dams. He said upper areas of Punjab could not make considerable ...
PESHAWAR Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that keeping in view the demand of the masses the establishment of Abaseen Division will be given final approval after the completion of the ongoing population census. This he said while addressing a public gathering at ...
ISLAMABAD - Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, Tuesday told the upper house of the Parliament that a separate division would be constituted under the Cabinet Division to run the affairs of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). Replying a question during the ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has allocated Rs 14565.733 million for Finance Division projects in PSDP for the year 2010-11. According to the budgetary document released here on Saturday, out of the total allocations, Rs.823.109m each have been earmarked for Sewerage Schemes by WASA (South ...
ISLAMABAD - Federal Government has earmarked Rs44,786.112 million (Rs4.4786 billion) for Communication Division in PSDP 2010-11. According to details, Rs44,637.034m have been allocated for National Highway Authority (NHA), while Rs7218.6m have been allocated for the foreign exchange component while ...
KARACHI - The political temperature in Sindh suddenly rose when the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that the bifurcation of Hyderabad district was flawed and an unjust step and declared it would be undone soon, reverting back to the old status of the district. He expressed these ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has allocated an amount of Rs. 45599.270 million for various ongoing and new projects of Finance Division, under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2009 10. According to budgetary document released here on Saturday, the allocations include Rs.16596.690 ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has earmarked Rs.45971.990 million in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2009-10 for the Communications Division for its various ongoing and new projects while Rs 45706.090m have been allocated for National Highway Authority (NHA). According to the ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has allocated an amount of Rs. 839.167 million for various ongoing and new projects of Commerce Division under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2009-10. According to PSDP documents released here on Saturday, Rs. 10 million have been earmarked for a new ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has allocated an amount of Rs 1874.329m in the PSDP for the Petroleum and Natural Resources Division to execute the ongoing development schemes besides seven new schemes. An amount of Rs 542.679m has been allocated for 18 ongoing development schemes while a chunk ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has allocated Rs 583.161 million for Sports Division to execute 47 development projects, mostly related to the construction of news sports and residential facilities, under Public Sector Development Programme (2009-10). The allocated amount would be spent on 35 ...
DUBAI (AFP) - Qatar's renewed call for an extraordinary Arab summit to discuss the Gaza bloodshed ahead of a scheduled summit in Kuwait has highlighted the divisions among Arab governments over the Palestinians. Qatar, the only Gulf Arab state with ties to Israel, called late on Monday for an ...
KARACHI - The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) in a communication to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged him to revamp the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) and place it under the cabinet division directly answerable to the PM as in many countries of ...
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government has allocated Rs 4315.000 million for Population Welfare Division, including Rs.4181.843 million for on-going schemes and Rs. 133.157 million for new in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2008-09. Among the new schemes, Rs. 10.000 million have been ...






