lahore - At a time when the business community is striving to accelerate economic activity in the country, the bureaucracy is all out to decelerate it and a Punjab Local Government notification dated April 5, 2013 is a classic example to this regard.The LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar said that an ...

    LAHORE Resenting over inadequate anti-measles measures, the Lahore High Court has observed kids have been dying of the disease showing negligence on the part ofPunjabhealth department. “It is a matter of life and the court can’t be silent. “Why deaths are not being ...

LAHORE - Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mehmood has taken notice of the sale of refrigerator and vaccine boxes purchased for preserving anti-polio medicines in Sheikhupura. Seeking report in a week, the ombudsman ordered the authorities to mention in the report about the process of check and balance.  ...

ISLAMABAD – The shortage of beds, medicines and ill attitude of doctors and staff at PIMS and Polyclinic hospital are creating massive problems for patients at OPD and emergency ward. The patients, at PIMS said that despite of the fact that large expansion had been made in the hospital to ...

BLANTYRE - Malawian President Joyce Banda has "reprimanded" aides who issued a scathing attack on Madonna that fuelled a very public spat with the star, a source said. She "reprimanded officers in the State House press department for issuing the statement without consulting her," an official in ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - Awami Workers Party leaders have criticised the Irrigation Department for supplying less than required water to the crops of Chak 391-JB and 392-JB. Addressing a gathering of farmers, AWP’s candidate for PP-86 Farooq Tariq, Pakistan Kissan Committee chief Fateh Muhammad, AWP ...

LAHORE – The manufacturers on Thursday urged the Chairman Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company to expedite work on power projects and also ensure uninterrupted gas supply in the Sundar Industrial Estate.They said that unavailability of electricity and gas are the major ...

The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry Thursday said the people who squandered the wealth of nation are being exonerated from the cases, adding the account to which the money was transferred is maintained with the signature of Federal Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim, ...

QUETTA - The Balochistan High Court has castigated legislators for violating traffic laws.If legislators flout the laws they would be unable to stand as moral example to general public and ask them to abide by the same, the BHC remarked while hearing a petition of public interest regarding ...

BAHAWALPUR - Kidney patients have been facing great hardships in availing dialysis facility at Bahawal Victoria Hospital here due to severe shortage of solution, the main exponent for conducting dialysis. As this is the only facility in the area, the patients who require regular dialysis, have to ...

LAHORE (PR) – The stagnant sewerage water at Feroz Street No. 30, Muslim Park, Rajgarh is creating problems for the residents showing negligence of the concerned department. The residents of the above mentioned area lodged several complaints at WASA office for drain out the stagnant water, ...

DASKA - Govt Maternity Health Services Clinic Monday became inundated due to heavy rain, due to which the patients had to face a great ordeal.The said clinic was established in a small-sized room, which was actually a residence of a local watchman. All the medical services are provided in this ...

HAFIZABAD - Local citizens have expressed grave concern over the sale of unhygienic beef and mutton and have called upon the administration to ensure supply of hygienic meat at reasonable prices. Citizens Association pointed out that the butchers were selling water-mixed meat which is causing ...

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has said that the focus of the federal budget, instead of social security of the public, continues to be national security and repayment of debts. “Human security means focus on human life and dignity, not acquisition of military hardware. If ...

LAHORE The female students were passing under severe mental stress due to a surprise move initiated by the administration of Govt MAO College, which commenced co-education classes of BS (Hons) programme, it was learnt on Tuesday. The female students complained that the boys often tease them in ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - A PIA flight (PK-589) from Islamabad arrived Bahawalpur after six hours on Tuesday. It was scheduled to arrive in Bahawalpur at 8.20pm while it landed at the airport at 12.35 a.m. Earlier, it was announced by the PIA authorities that a small aircraft (ATR-42) had landed at the ...

NEW DELHI - India is not happy with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khars plan to meet All Party Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umar Farrooq, veteran leader of hardline APHC faction Syed Ali Shah Geelani and other Kashmiri leaders on the eve of FM-level talks between Pakistan and India ...

MALAKWAL - A large number of local students, affiliated with the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Islamabad have vehemently protested the non-provision of roll number slips (RNSs) for the Spring Semester Examinations 2010. According to detail, students of various disciplines of the AIOU ...

KARACHI - Bin Qasim Association of Trade and Industry (BQATI) has demanded the KESC to stop the practice of doing unscheduled loadsh-edding in the jurisdiction of Bin Qasim Association of Trade and Industry, saying that it was not only disrupting the manufacturing activities but also causing heavy ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Vending of fake and substandard food items at even elevated rates has become a matter of grave concern for visitors in picnic spots of twin cities. The prices of food items are too high and it is really costly that branded tin pack of the cold drink that is available at Rs35 in the ...

LAHORE - Electricity supply remained suspended for long hours at various localities of the City multiplying the miseries of Lahorites. Sabzazar B-Block and its adjacent areas on Sunday faced 13-hour loadshedding due to the defusing of transformers. The transformers burnt after a blast around at ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (Agencies) The Indian government on Saturday expressed serious concern over the US equipping Pakistan Army with modern weapons and asked Washington to ensure that they were not used against India. The Indian government asked Pakistan to shut down 42 terrorist camps he said were ...

ISLAMABAD Three weeks had barely passed before the controversial agenda devised in fizzled London moot had begun to backfire. Peace is not likely to prevail unless NATO gives a reversal to its dual strategy of keeping up with India and Taliban simultaneously. The developments that have surfaced ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Zebra crossing is supposed to be assistance, especially for pedestrians who often need to cross the busy road. But in Federal Capital, there is zero adherence to the Zebra crossing by both drivers and pedestrians, which makes some to think that the crossing has become a mere ...

ISLAMABAD US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson asked NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti to take notice of information leakage (related to Americans) to media from CM Secretariat, highly placed sources informed TheNation on Tuesday. Please help us to promote soft image of United ...

KARACHI - The senior officials and several other staffers of different sections of Planning and Development Department (P&DD) of Sindh have showed their concern over the nepotism of their departments high-ups, who played a major role in budget making process. They said that they have fallen victim ...

RAWALPINDI - Dug-up, ill-repaired streets will turn from bad to worse in the upcoming monsoon season and the situation has left many residents wondering what is going to become of them in the absence of any preventive measure. Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) projects are yet to be completed and ...

KARACHI - The importers of the country are facing major hurdles at the port regarding clearing of their goods which was causing financial losses to them, importers and exporters told The Nation. According to industrialists, the consignments were being delayed at Model Custom Collectorate (Care) due ...

KARACHI - The PPP may face criticism from its own members in the coming session of Sindh Assembly after the Chief Minister rewarded PPP MPA Humera Alwani for opposing the government by appointing her spouse Hameed Alwani, a former employee of Bilawal House, as an OSD at the CM House. The ignored ...