RAHIM YAR KHANThe previous PML-Q and PPP governments are responsible for lack of irrigation water, especially in the tail-end areas in the district. PML-N MPA Ch Mehmoodul Hassan Cheema said this while addressing a convention of farmers organised by the Agri Forum Pakistan (AFP) Rahim Yar Khan ...

LAHORE -The Punjab government has allocated Rs206 billion for 36 district governments through defunct Provincial Finance Commission (PFC), TheNation has learnt. Sources say that the said allocation would be presented for approval in the maiden session of the Punjab cabinet which is meeting today to ...

FAISALABADLike the previous government of the PPP and its allies, the caretaker government has also failed to overcome the energy crisis, said Ch Muhammad Boota, the acting president of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, on Thursday.He said that neither the previous government nor ...

islamabad - The provincial governments have recorded budget surplus of Rs 142.288 billion during the first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal year 2012-13 that was only Rs 4.830 billion in the corresponding period of the previous financial year. According to official figures of the ...

Islamabad - Going all-out tough on former and incumbent caretaker governments, security apparatus and the parliamentarians for their failure to act against rising terrorism, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the parties concerned to stop “deceiving the people” and ...

ISLAMABAD - The electoral body has desired provision of stringent security to the general polls candidates, political parties and general public as it continues to attract ire of ‘endangered’ political forces over apparently compromised security measures.“The election commission ...

LAHORE – PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has demanded stringent measures against the elements playing with the lives of innocent people in Karachi.In a statement issued here on Sunday, Nawaz Sharif said that the entire nation is shocked and perturbed over the increasing incidents of bloodshed in ...

KARACHI - Noted experts, intellectuals, writers, human rights activists and civil society representatives have expressed grave concern over the failure of the federal and provincial governments in providing adequate relief and early recovery to people affected or uprooted by this year’s heavy ...

KARACHI - Governments and humanitarian agencies have miserably failed in providing quick and adequate relief in the worst flood affected districts of Sindh and Balochistan, which resulted in increased post-flood human losses in spread of diseases. Over two million flood affected people are ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday sought detailed replies from provincial and federal governments on April 25 regarding Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed’s petition.JUD chief had submitted petition in LHC seeking security for life after US announced bounty for his arrest.The Petitioner ...

LAHORE – The report of Pakistan Institute of Legislation Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has assessed democracy in the year 2011 as marked by poor performance of the elected governments but sustained hugely by the public support.The year was dotted with political turmoil and a number of ...

NEW DELHI - Mansoor Ijaz, the billionaire businessman now at the heart of a scandal that is threatening to bring down Pakistans democratic government, had earlier approached Indias intelligence services with an offer to broker peace between New Delhi and jihadists linked to the Inter-Services ...

Our Staff Reporter PESHAWAR - The governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Iranian province Fars have agreed to KP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hotis suggestion for constituting a joint working group for mutual cooperation between the two provinces in hydropower, tourism, agriculture, trade and ...

KOT ADDU - The Kashmir jihad suffered unbearable losses due to ineffective policies of the Musharraf and present governments. This was stated by Muttahida Jihad Council Chairman Sayyad Sallahuddin in his public address at Mumtaz Park on Sunday evening. The supreme commander said that some 0.8 ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SADIQABAD - Thousands of teachers took out a protest rally and criticised the Punjab government for taking disciplinary action against schoolteachers over results of Class 5 and Class 8 examinations conducted by Punjab Examination Commission (PEC). On the Primary Elementary ...

LAHORE All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) has claimed that PML-N government actions in 1999 drifting the country to a bankruptcy, which compelled Pervez Musharraf to intervene to save the country from complete destruction. Fawad Chaudhary, APML general secretary made this claim while talking to ...

QUETTA - Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Talal Akbar Bugti has strongly criticised the provincial government for not allowing them to bury Talay Bugti in Dera Bugti. Addressing a press conference at Bugti House on Sunday, JWP leader said, We wanted to bury Talay who was killed in a firing ...

KARACHI - The central governments borrowing from the banking system for budgetary support has increased by Rs154 billion to Rs431 billion in July-April FY11 against Rs277 billion during the same period of last fiscal year, the SBP reported on Tuesday. From July 01 until April 16, 2011, net ...

LAHOREJustice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudry of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday gave another opportunity to the federal government to file reply to a petition against the unabated US drone attacks on the Pakistani soil. The petition filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jafree, prays for a judicial direction ...

ISLAMABAD - While announcing to hold protest demonstrations today (Friday) against the release of Raymond Davis, the Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that the release under mysterious circumstances was another betrayal by both centre and Punjab governments. Addressing a ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Reconstruction Bureau has been dysfunctional since the PPP-led coalition government assumed power in the country but it became history about a month back when it was formally replaced with a Policy Analysis Unit. Established in November 1999 by the then military dictator ...

ISLAMABAD - The Engineering Development Board (EDB) Thursday called upon the government to extend its necessary support and guidance to the engineering sector so that it could get its due share in the global market. The 30th meeting of Board of Management (BOM) held here Thursday under the ...

ERUM ZAIDI KARACHI - The central governments borrowing from the banking system for budgetary support has increased to Rs401 billion during July-January FY11 from Rs148 billion in the same period last year. From July 01 until January 8, 2010, overall governments sector borrowing to finance deficit ...

ISLAMABAD - Muttahida Muslim League (MML) would start a movement against the policies of the government and 'corrupt leadership on February 5 as a public meeting would be hold in Lahore. MML is in regular contact with Tehreek-e-Insaf, PPP Sherpao, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and soon ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday expressed his governments resolve to launch a 'jihad against corruption in the new year (2011) by making legislative measures including the approval of accountability law. It is our resolve for the new year, that we will launch 'jihad ...

ISLAMABAD - Despite assurance given to the Muttahida Quami Movement by President Asif Ali Zardari that all their concerns regarding the functioning of the Sindh Government and their issues with the Federal Government would be resolved, the things on ground are otherwise, which has forced MQM Quaid ...

RANJ ALAALDIN On Tuesday, Iraq just about managed to form a government - only days before a constitutional deadline, and nine months since the elections took place. With the cabinet now named and accepted by parliament, the hard work starts for a country that still has many challenges and disputes ...

LAHORE - The PPPs Punjab Secretary Information Dr Fakhruddin Ch declared on Sunday that PPP would soon challenge Lahore High Courts stay order in favour of Punjab government through in intra-court appeal, and also intended to form its government in the province within one year. We pledge here on ...

LAHORE - Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has called those terrorists as non-Muslim and beasts, which massacred innocent people especially during the month of Ramazan at a procession at Gamay Shah, Lahore and Quetta. He expressed these views while talking to media at Services Hospital on Saturday ...

ISLAMABAD Chairman PML-Q (Likeminded) Hamid Nasir Chattha while criticising the incumbent Govt said that it had completely failed in providing relief to the flood affectees and had lost the trust and confidence of the nation. He said that the present Government had not sufficient resources or any ...