SADIQABAD  - The PML-N’s newly elected members of the National Assembly and Punjab Assembly from Rahim Yar Khan district attended a luncheon organised in their honour by the Anjuman Kashtkaran Punjab President M Yaseen. Addressing the participants, MNAs Arshad Leghari, Mian Imtiaz Ahmad, ...

lahore - The next government will have to face the wrath of the masses if they don’t resolve power crises on priority basis, and for that, among other immediate actions, they will need to work on the financial issues of power producers.According to energy experts, performance of Discos and ...

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of water & power has decided to ink a performance contract with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of all power distributing companies (DISCOs) in an apparent bid to control electricity loadshedding in the country.“Yes, the government has decided to ink a performance ...

It seems that as the polls draw ever closer, politicians grow more and more vociferous in their promises, while not saying enough about how they intend to implement their programmes if they gain the support of the electorate on Election Day. No particular party seems to be afflicted with this ...

lahore - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif on Saturday ridiculed PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s claim that his party would capture more than a 100 seats in Punjab alone.In an interview with WaqtNews, he said, it was for the people to decide which party should get how many seats. People, he said, would ...

LAHORE - PML-N President Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that his party will win the election with overwhelming majority on the basis of its past performance.Addressing the party ticket holders in Lahore on Monday, Nawaz Sharif said that the PML-N government did great work for the people and put the ...

NEW DELHI:-  Viv Richards, the former West Indies captain who is also the Delhi Daredevils ambassador, has said it's important to be confrontational in cricket against sledging and "bullying" tactics, but through performance. When faced with a situation where a player is "standing at the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): The 10th meeting of Board of National Productivity Organization  was held here to review the performance of NPO and devise future strategy for improving productivity. CEO NPO, Khawaja Muhammad Yousuf apprised the participants about the initiatives the organization has taken ...

MIRPUR (AJK) To reiterate resolve to the dispensation of quality education under the spirit to produce quality future architects. The local Senior Branch of The City School held a function entitled 'Open Day' here the other day. The function featured co-curricular activities to bring forth their ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - JS Bank Limited, a subsidiary of Pakistan’s most progressive financial service groups - JS Group, has selected Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3 to provide an integrated platform to run its card and core banking applications, with the objective of supporting ...

FINANCIAL Institutions are organisations that deal with savings, investments, assets, loans, deposits, pensions, salaries etc. of the people and the issues related to them. Examples of financial institutions working in Pakistan include: Public Sector Banks, Private banks, development financial ...

ISLAMABAD – Silver Jubilee celebrations and High Achievers Ceremony were marked at Roots International Schools (RIS).Roots International Schools celebrated its High Achievers Ceremony and Students’ Recognition Day and Silver Jubilee Celebrations here the other day with great fervor and ...

LAHORE – Member of National Assembly N-league Abid Sher Ali, on Thursday said that the corruption of Pervaiz Elahi era cannot be compared with the present government of PML-N. He said that Q-League did nothing except filling pockets and promoting nepotism while Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz ...

Former legend cricketer Wasim akram said that over all performance of the team was very good in Pak-India Series but individual performances as of Hafeez and Jamshed played great role in team's convincing victory.Talking to private news channel, Former Captain said that captaincy of Misbah-ul-haq ...

I would like to thank the current Government leaders for their brilliant performance. With an unstable dollar rate, excessive loadshedding and record breaking corruption, they were able to stop the growth of our economy and industrial sector. Now that the International Donor agencies and loan ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Since resumption of collecting Public Utility Charges (PUC) by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation a month ago, citizens are still unresolved whether to pay the PUC tax over KMC’s apparent poor performance in improving municipal conditions and overall civic problems - traffic ...

Chief Traffic Officer has appreciated the performance of traffic wardens, who ensured smooth flow of traffic on the marathon races. Sarfaraz Falki said no gridlock was reported at any point. “So, that was good on the part of the wardens.” He said 11 DSPs, 15 Inspectors and 398 wardens ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) on Friday noted that economic indicators showed satisfactory performance during the first seven months (July-January) of the ongoing financial year 2011-12. National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) headed by the Secretary Finance Abdul ...

ISLAMABAD - Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence convened special meeting to review the performance of Joint Staff Headquarters here on February 27th. According to Senate Secretariat sources, in the aegis of Chairman Committee Senator Lieutenant General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, the ...

KARACHI – SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) announced its best ever performance in 40 years, with a 32pc growth in Software Revenue at constant currencies (to €722 million)in the full year ended December 31, 2011. Pakistan has been one of the key countries contributing to the improved ...

LAHORE– Supreme Court Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan presided over a meeting to review performance of Anti Terrorism Courts in Punjab, on Saturday.Justice Jan, who is the monitoring judge for all Anti Terrorism Courts in Pakistan, discussed the problems faced by judges in disposal of cases and ...

BAHAWALPUR - The citizens have expressed deep concern over the increasing ratio of crime in the city and strongly condemned the police who have allegedly failed to control crimes.As per details, the killing of a shopkeeper’s brother Imran in Shahdrah on Monday night by the dacoits was ...

ISLAMABAD - Showing concerns over the declining growth of Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector, ICCI on Friday noted that ongoing energy crisis and high mark-up rates have been the major factors behind the sluggish performance of the LSM sector. “The large-scale manufacturing sector dragged ...

KARACHI  - Chief Selector Hanif Khan has said that selectors must keep an eye on the performance of Olympian Rehan Butt and judge his discipline to consider his comeback in Pakistan team for London Olympics."We will monitor Rehan Butt performance during the National Hockey Championship and ...

ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that overall country’s economy showed healthy trend with an impressive achievement of $25 billion exports in the first six month of the current financial year, saying that an overall growth of 4 per cent is ...

Karachi – Adamjee Life Growth fund performance during November saw a positive trend, the per unit NAVs (as of Jan 1st, 2012): were as follows:Investment Secure Fund (S&A)        Bid 102.3909;    Offer 107.7799Investment Multiplier ...

KARACHI - The third quarter of 2011 recorded 42 per cent growth in software revenue, to 165 million. According to Steve Watts, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan, Pakistan has been one of the key countries contributing to the improved performance of SAP APJ revenues, says a press release. SAP APJ ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently launched SMS based consumer perception survey system 8899 aiming to sought consumers perception about performance of their respective cellular mobile operator. PTA has made special arrangements to make it free of ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - An exceptional mime performance themed on Faiz Ahmed Fiazs optimistic poem Umeed-e-Sahar Ki Baat Suno portraying how Faiz brought revolutionary changes in oppressed society through his poetry grasped the attention of the audience at a jam-packed-hall. Students of ...

Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels that the ongoing series against England is India's worst performance in Test cricket ever since he quit the game in 2003. England thrashed a below-par India by an innings and 242 runs in the third Test at Edgbaston Saturday to not only take an unassailable ...