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parties channel millions ads
May 04, 2013

Parties channel millions into ads

RAWALPINDI - As bombs curtail campaign rallies, political parties are ploughing millions of dollars into TV and print adverts to sway voters ahead of next week’s historic polls.Competition is fierce but it’s a cash market and those with the biggest bucks get the most air time ahead of ...

PIA plane arrives from Jeddah costing kitty millions

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 747 developed a technical fault in one of its engines in early hours of 26th April at Jeddah Airport; the aircraft was to operate PK-732 from Jeddah to Karachi with around 500 passengers, it is learnt on Monday. Reportedly, the aircraft ...

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April 29, 2013, 12:24 pm

CIA gave millions in cash to Karzai over the years: report

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

Rehired officers running NFML costing national kitty millions

LAHORE -  National Fertilizers Marketing Limited (NFML) is being run by retired officers who were rehired in the department after being given golden handshake under Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS), said well placed sources in the NFML on Wednesday. Certain other officers who had accepted VRS ...

Factory fire revisits Lahore; millions gutted

LAHORE - Goods, machinery, and valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when huge fire erupted in a shoemaking factory at Bund Road in the Shafiqabad police limits on early Tuesday, police and eyewitness said. Firefighters said the fire, which erupted because of short-circuiting, ...

houses robbed millions
April 13, 2013

Six houses robbed of millions

LAHORE – Dacoits robbed six residences at gunpoint in different parts of the provincial metropolis and made off with cash, gold ornaments, and other valuables worth Rs3.8 million, police sources said on Friday. Armed bandits walked into the house of Hanif Ahmed in the Sanda police limits and ...

Millions flock to Ganges for festival

ALLAHABAD, India - Millions of Hindu pilgrims streamed into the river Ganges on Monday, for a record-breaking start to the world’s biggest religious festival.The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual ...

millions vote indian
December 18, 2012

Millions vote in Indian state

AHMEDABAD - Millions of Indians voted Monday in the final stage of Gujarat state elections with Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi. Long queues formed at polling stations with turnout nearly matching the 70pc recorded in the first round of voting last week in Gujarat, one of India's fastest-developing ...

Millions of rupees robbed in 6 hits

SHEIKHUPURA - The outlaws snatched six motorcycles, cash, cellphones, gold ornaments and other valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in different strikes here in the district. According to reports, Hafiz Muhammad Jamil along with his mother was on the way back home. When they reached near ...

Fire guts cloth market in Lahore causing millions of rupee losses

Fire gutted a cloth market in a trade centre of the provincial capital early Saturday morning causing millions of rupee losses.According to details, fire caused due to unknown reasons erupted in a three-storey building located in Azam cloth market.Fire brigades and rescue teams reached the scene ...

Millions embezzled in pipe laying project

LAHORE – Authorities of the Water and Sanitation Agency have misappropriated millions of rupees in the purchase of sewerage pipes, laid at on going construction project of Link Model Town Road while the project was also started before inviting tenders, The Nation has learnt.A copy data ...

dacoits millions daska
February 02, 2012

Dacoits take away millions in Daska

DASKA - In three major dacoity incidents in Chak Gillan, Daska tehsil unknown armed dacoits dressed in police uniforms looted valuables worth millions. As many as eleven armed dacoits stormed the house of local farmer Muhammad Ilyas and made his family hostage. They looted gold ornaments, ...

2 arrested as artefacts worth millions seized

KARACHI - Pakistan Customs Intelligence recovered artefacts of worth million of rupees and arrested the two accused allegedly involved in the smuggling of these antiques on Friday. According to Customs officials, they arrested two persons identified as Imran and Asif Jamal when they were going to ...

Sharia compliant risk coverage to benefit millions

ISLAMABAD  – The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said SECP’s move to push Sharia compliant risk coverage in Pakistan is to benefit millions.  The move may triple insurance density and penetration in which Pakistan ranks lowest in the region, it said.Islamic insurance ...

Millions of rupees oil pilfered from Parco refinery

OUR STAFF REPORTER RAJANPUR - An increasingly sophisticated cartel stole oil worth millions of rupees from PARCO facilities in Kot Addu, officials said. Disguising himself as a cotton dealer, one Mir Ahmad, son of Dur Muhammad, constructed a house in Model Town, Jampur. The man allegedly tapped ...

Govt playing cultural flute as millions suffer

KARACHI - The Sindh Cultural Day, highlighting the traditional Sindhi Topi and Ajrak, was celebrated across the province on Saturday and Sunday. The event was sponsored by the Sindh government which has allocated millions of rupees to celebrate the day in a befitting manner. The people and the ...

Qantas Crisis Costing Tens Millions
October 31, 2011

Qantas crisis costing tens of millions

SYDNEY (AFP) - The shutdown of Qantas Airways' flights is costing Australia's economy "tens of millions" of dollars with each hour that it continues, a labour tribunal heard Sunday. The comments were made by a government lawyer at an emergency session of the country's industrial regulator that has ...

Man Held Swindling Trader Millions
July 25, 2011

Man held for swindling trader of millions

BAHAWALNAGAR - The City Police claimed to have nabbed the ringleader of a swindlers gang who had deprived a local trader of Rs8m. Mushtaq and his accomplices purchased articles worth amounting to Rs8 million from a renowned local store Kashmir Super Store and made payment through cheque which later ...

'Millions mercilessly wasted on Ashyana

LAHORE - Public funds in millions of rupees were mercilessly wasted on the publicity of the 'fraudulent Ashyana Scheme and ever since its launch, nothing but huge irregularities have been coming to the light, alleged Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi, senior federal minister and president PML-Q Punjab. He ...

Jobhungry Lose Millions Cons
June 04, 2011

Job-hungry lose millions to cons

LAHORE Finally, life threats became fate of job-seeking students who were promised positions by impersonators in esteemed organisations of the country. Many of the cheated guys are now running pillar to post, as provincial top cops and other high-ups did nothing to address their grievances. A ...

Obama gets millions from book royalties

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama was worth millions of dollars in 2010, mostly due to royalties from the sale of his books, financial disclosure forms showed on Monday. Obama had between $100,001 and $1,000,000 from Audacity of Hope, a book tied in with his run for the White House ...

Petrol Dealers Mint Millions Rupees
March 02, 2011

Petrol dealers mint millions of rupees

KARACHI The owners of petrol pumps earned million of rupees just from Karachi on the stock of petrol that they saved during strike on Monday, the insider of the petroleum ministry informed The Nation. According to details, petroleum dealers went on strike against declining profits and closed their ...

Islamic microfinance reaching out to millions

LAHORE The speakers at the first National Islamic Microfinance Conference said that Islamic microfinance addressed the limitations posed by interest-based loaning, besides facilitating the poor by Shariah-compliant methods as well as focusing on micro-enterprises. Islamic microfinance enables us ...

Airlines bear millions of rupees loss due to dense fog

AMRAIZ KHAN LAHORE - Every year international and domestic air traffic is disrupted for weeks because of dense fog at Lahore airport, which occurs when dew point and still air temperature are the same and there is no wind. The fog phenomenon becomes acute because of pollution. This year, the sub ...

PR suffers millions loss as tracks wiped out in flood

LAHORE (PPI) - Pakistan Railways is facing million of losses due to flood, as railways tracks have been washed out in flood-hit areas of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Punjab and Balochistan provinces. Railway administration has started rehabilitation work and survey for damages. According to railways ...

Millions Attend Biswa Ijtema Bdesh
January 23, 2010

Millions attend Biswa Ijtema in B'desh

DHAKA (Agencies) - Seeking divine blessing, hundreds of thousands of Muslims from around the world held prayers in Bangladesh on Friday, the start of one of the biggest annual gatherings of the faithful after the Hajj to Makkah. The faithful participated in the Juma prayers at the three-day Biswa ...

Millions Snow Geese Stay Migration
September 18, 2009

Millions snow geese stay during migration

LIKE a blizzard filling the sky, these pictures show one of natures most amazing displays as more than a million snow geese stop for a rest during their annual migration. The spectacular shots were taken by Mike Hollingshead in Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri. The ...

Tens of millions of vultures perished due to Diclofenac

HYDERABAD - The speakers at a seminar emphasized the need for promoting community awareness to save the worldwide-threatened specie, vulture, saying tens of millions of vulture have been perished in the world due to a drug called Diclofenac. Speaking on the International Vulture Awareness Day, ...

Millions of dollars projects put on back burner

KARACHI - Various projects worth millions of dollars in Balochistan, NWFP and partly in Sindh have been found stagnant due to the sheer ignorance of the Board of Investment (BoI), the Trade Develop Authority Pakistan (TDAP), Balochistan Development Authority (BDA) and the Small and Medium ...

Economic crisis traps millions in poverty

SEOUL (AFP) - The global economic crisis is also a social crisis in Asia, with an estimated 60 million people remaining mired in poverty due to falling growth rates, an Asian Development Bank executive said Thursday. The social consequences of the economic crisis are very severe, Rajat M. Nag, ADB ...

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