LAHOR : Punjab Agriculture Department has advised the growers to complete paddy sowing till June 20.  A spokesman of the department said on Sunday, that nurseries of Basmati 370, Basmati 385, Basmati Pak, Basmati 2000, super Basmati and Basmati-515 should be sown till June 20 while the sowing ...

ISLAMABAD :  The electoral body has announced re-polling on June 1 at certain polling stations of the electoral constituencies in Tharparkar, a press release said Saturday.The re-polling would be held at the four polling stations of National Assembly constituency NA-229 Tharparkar-I, 43 ...

  ISLAMABAD National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has finally issued notifications of last eight month's fuel price adjustment (FPA) under which recovery from power consumers would be made in monthly bills to be issued from June to October 2013. Islamabad High Court (IHC) ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami on Friday hoped that the new upcoming government will be sworn in before 1st June.Addressing a news conference in Lahore‚ he said elections were held‚ by and large‚ in a fair and transparent manner.The Minister urged all ...

WASHINGTON  : An IMF team is to visit Islamabad in late June to continue the policy discussions with the new govt on mitigating economic vulnerabilities in Pakistan. Answering a question at a press conference whether the Fund had offered $5 billion of aid to Pakistan and were there any ...

islamabad - The new government would announce the annual budget 2013-2014 in the first or second week of the June envisaging GDP growth target at 4.5 per cent and budget deficit target at 5.8 per cent of the GDP for the next financial year.Sources informed that government, to be formed after the ...

LAHORE - The government has decided to launch nationwide vaccination from June as another child succumbed to measles, rising the overall death toll to 62 in Punjab.The deceased was identified as Ali Raza who was undergoing treatment at the Lahore Mayo Hospital.Despite tall claims of caretakers, the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) interim committee member Rana Mujahid Wednesday said the 32nd National Games would be held in Islamabad from June 20 to 27. Talking at a press conference held at PSB Media Center, Rana said: “All the required funds for hosting of games will ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday asked the Punjab government to submit plan for controlling dengue on June 25.LHC Chief Justice Umer Atta Bandial heard the case and the petitioner stated that several people lost their lives due to incompetence of the Punjab government.He further said that the ...

The Supreme Court (SC) will hear on June 6 the petitions filed against the ruling of National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza regarding the disqualification of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani in the wake of conviction over contempt of court charge. A three-member bench of the apex court will ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of former law minister Babar Awan contempt of court case till June 27. The two member-bench of the apex court comprising Justice Ijaz Afzal and Justice Athar Saeed resumed hearing of the case. During the hearing, Justice Ijaz Afzal remarked that ...

Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Sargodha adjourned hearing of violence against teacher case till June 01. ATC took up for hearing the case of breaking the legs of a school teacher, Nafees Khan by former MPA Aslam Madhiana on Saturday. Aslam Madhiana and his companions were produced in the court under ...

MULTAN - Punjab Planning, Development and Prisons Minister Ch Abdul Ghafoor has said that 150 development projects are being executed at a cost of Rs3,554 million in Multan division under annual provincial development programme and all of them will be accomplished till June 2012. Addressing a ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has recovered Rs 356 million taxes under its current drive for broadening of tax base as 26,740 new returns have been filed in new drive during the previous financial year 2010-11. Federal Board of Revenue had initiated a drive for broadening of the tax ...

LAHORE The Punjab Government has decided to constitute mechanical tanoor monitoring committees across the province. Each committee will comprise three members, including the imam of the local mosque, a school teacher (serving or retired) and a representative of the Social Welfare Department, said ...

ISLAMABAD - A trilateral meeting between Pakistan, United States and Afghanistan will be held in Kabul in the first week of June to discuss peace and reconciliation in the insurgency-ridden country. Foreign Office spokesperson Tehmina Janjua stated this at a weekly press briefing here on Saturday. ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistans consumer price index (CPI), the key indicator of inflation, likely rose by 12.60 percent year-on-year in June, a slower rise than May, thanks to a cut in domestic fuel prices, according to a Reuters poll. June consumer prices were seen rising 12.60 percent from a year ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - The budget for fiscal year of 2010-11 would be tabled in Parliament on June 5 or June 12, as work in this effect is underway in the Federal Finance Ministry. A TV channel quoted sources as saying that paper-2 of budget for next financial year would be handed over to standing ...

LAHORE - Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has stated that Saturday has been declared as a full working day for holding special classes upto June 30, 2010 in order to cover the loss of studies caused due to the 15-day academic boycott of the PU teachers. He was presiding over ...

KARACHI - Some 4 million SIMs registered on old National Identity Cards are to be transferred on the computerised NICs from June this year. The Nation has learnt that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has planned to transfer some 4 million SIMs which are registered on non-computerised ID ...

ISLAMABAD Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday told the National Assembly that Government was working on a strategy to enhance tax to GDP ratio from current 9 percent to 10.5 percent in the current financial year. During question hour, she informed that gradually ...

LAHORE - President Society of Aircraft Engineers Pakistan (SAEP), Shoukat Jamshed, in a letter to MD PIA has demanded that Executive Committee of the SAEP has decided that prior to the settlement of the working agreement, the core issue of salary ratio between pilots and engineers i.e. 100:55 ...

KARACHI - The confrontation between the Pakistan Airline Pilot Association (PALPA) and PIA is increasing day by day as PALPA demands for the signing of a fresh working agreement and has given the management the deadline of 30th June for signing the agreement, said President PALPA, Capt Imran Usman. ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly president on Tuesday said that preparations for the June summit to deal with the impact of the global economic crisis on developing countries was going ahead despite attempts by certain nations to lower the scope and profile of the sessions. The financial ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has planned establishment of 'cattle colonies' at an estimated cost of Rs 3.328 billion in all district while the project is expected to be completed till June 2011. Sindh Livestock Minister Abdul Haq Bhurt told this the Sindh Assembly here on Friday. He said the ...

KARACHI - The foreign exchange reserves of Pakistan would exceed 13 billion dollars by June 2009. At present the reserves are around 10.20 billion dollars which are expected to swell to over 13 billion dollars by June 2009. The central bank has pointed out that the current account deficit will ...

KARACHI - Irfan Nadeem, Member Direct Taxes FBR, has said that FBR is developing composite audit software that would ensure the transparency of tax procedure in order to increase the tax net. Addressing the members of S.I.T.E. Association of Industry, he further said that the FBR would achieve its ...

LAHORE - The government has accepted the cement manufacturers standpoint regarding Rs147 per bag increase in prices on the pretext that the manufacturing cost went up by 64.50 per cent; pushing the price up to Rs 375.60 in June 2008 from Rs 228.2. The government accepted this viewpoint during a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US consumer prices soared at the strongest pace in 26 years in June, rising 1.1 percent from May, due to skyrocketing energy prices, the Labour Department said Wednesday. Core prices excluding energy and food climbed 0.3 percent, the agency reported. Most analysts had ...

KARACHI - The consumers must be ready to face major electricity shocks in 2008-09. By June 2009, the minimum tariff of electricity is being seen at 16-18 rupees per unit that means over 200 per cent increase in the tariff within a year as the government is in a mood to phase out subsidy on ...