ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to visit the site of Neelum-Jhelum Hydro Power Project today (Wednesday) and have a detailed briefing on the project.Neelum-Jhelum Hydro Power Project is a mega project of immense national importance. It is in the vicinity of ...

ISTANBUL  - Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday agreed to halt plans to redevelop an Istanbul park at the centre of two weeks of mass anti-government unrest, in a move protesters welcomed as “positive”.It marked the first easing of tensions in the standoff, ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA), Syed Tahir Shahbaz, has directed for abolishing Project Management Office (PMO) Directorate of CDA with immediate effect.All the projects of PMO and its entire officers and officials will be adjusted in relevant formations of the ...

PM’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has said that the new government included the completion of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project among its priorities. He said this at a joint press conference with visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwalle on Saturday. This might be good ...

SADIQABAD Tehrik-e-Istaqlal Central President Rehmat Khan Wardag termed the Iran Gas Pipelines Project in the national interest, dispelling the impression that because of the project, the circular debt will increase. He also feared that the present government may cancel the gas pipeline project ...

Dubai- Two of Dubai's biggest real estate developers have formed a joint venture to build a huge residential and commercial area near the city's downtown, the companies said on Saturday. Emaar Properties and Meraas Holding, both backed by theDubaigovernment, plan construction of a commercial ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim has congratulated Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on his election as the leader of the House. Speaking on the floor of the House after losing the election to Nawaz Sharif, he said his party will extend full cooperation to the new ...

HOLLYWOOD: Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has reportedly been pulled out of his first TV project, because he needs “some rest”, after spending over four years working on Life of Pi. He had signed up to direct the pilot episode of Tyrant in March, just weeks after Life of Pi won four ...

LAHORE : The Ministry of Water Resources, Govt of Iraq, has awarded an irrigation project to the National Engineering Services of Pakistan.  The project called East of Gharaf aims at strengthening the war-torn economy of Iraq by providing sustainable irrigation and drainage facilities to about ...

KARACHI - Famous Chinese company, China International Water and Electric Corporation, Pakistan (CIWEC), which is working on eight important mega projects in Pakistan, has shown keen interest to invest in a water supply project “K-IV” of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB).General ...

ISLAMABAD:  The WAPDA is making all possible efforts to complete 969 MW-Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project according to its construction schedule in 2016. Official sources told APP here that the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project, besides generating the much-needed hydel electricity, was also of ...

ISLAMABAD - The PSO’s efforts to set up state-of-the-art oil refinery in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, having capacity to process 40,000 barrel per day, would go a long way in meeting the growing energy needs. The facility, expected to be fully commissioned by 2016-17, will be set up through a ...

BOSTON: Ben Affleck’s next project will be an adaptation of Live By Night. The Playlist reports that Affleck will write, direct and star in the big-screen version of Dennis Lehane’s novel, which takes place in Prohibition-era Boston. The story centres on Joe Coughlin (Affleck), the son ...

ISLAMABAD - The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has initiated Muzaffargarh Canal Lining Project with an estimated cost of Rs.8.66 billion to control water logging in district Muzaffargarh. Official sources told APP that the lining of Muzaffargarh Canal and other remedial measures are ...

lahore - Wapda has completed detailed engineering design and tender documents of the 7100 megawatt (MW)-Bunji Hydropower Project, and will soon initiate the process to undertake construction of this largest hydropower project in Pakistan.Wapda Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah expressed these views ...

lahore - Planning and Development (P&D) department in its report while declaring Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) as viable recommended it be converted from non-development mode to regular mode, TheNation has reliably learnt. After the P&D report duly primed by DG Monitoring ...

lahore - The 2nd Project Management Symposium organized by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Lahore Chapter continued at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club here on Sunday. The conference was attended by the profession’s top brains and renowned speakers from Pakistan and other ...

lahore - The Project Management Institute (PMI) Lahore Chapter organised the 2nd Project Management Symposium with the theme of making project management work for Pakistan at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club here on Saturday. The conference was attended by the profession’s top brains and ...

LAHORE (OUR STAFF REPORTER):   The Wapda is committed to complete under-construction phase-I of Kachhi Canal Project at the earliest despite financial constraints and difficult law and order situation in the project area, said the authority chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah on ...

ISLAMABAD - A high-powered Iranian technical delegation is due to visit Pakistan later this month to finalize the crucial Engineering and Procurement Contract (EPC) to kick start the work on Pakistan's section of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline also known as Peace pipeline. Well-placed government ...

NEW YORKJENNIFER Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s forthcoming Abscam project has finally been given a title, several weeks after filming began. The movie - which is once again directed by Silver Linings Playbook helmer David O Russell - will be called American Hustle, according to reports. The ...

ISLAMABAD -  National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) in collaboration with Employees Old Age Benefit Institute (EOBI) has launched ‘Pension Disbursement Project’ on the directives of the President of Pakistan for all the pensioners enrolled with the institute.Pension ...

ISLAMABAD - Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) and Hyundai Engineering Co Ltd, Korea Thursday entered into an agreement for ARL upgradation project comprising of installation of Isomerization Unit (to enhance production of Premium Motor Gasoline), Preflash Unit (to enhance refining capacity), Diesel ...

KARACHI - A project was launched on Tuesday which aimed at providing advance education to 250,000 voters in Sindh.In collaboration with the UNDP, UNWomen, Australian Aid and Norwegian Embassy, the National Rural Development Programme launched the project at local hotel here.It will impart the ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Hardware Merchants Association has strongly protested at the injudicious distribution of electricity and called for an equitable supply. It said Punjab alone must not be made sole victim of power and gas shortage, rather it should be shared amongst all the federating units.The ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTNEW YORK - A fund set up by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, plans to send 40 girls to school in Swat, her home region, with the support of top Hollywood star Angelina Jolie.Malala, 15, was shot in the head by the Taliban in October in Swat, announced the ...

ISLAMABAD - OGDCL has awarded a contract for development of Kunar Pasakhi Deep and Tando Allah Yar Field Development Project-Phase-II in a simple ceremony. The project consists of gas gathering system, which will convert 250 mmwefd of raw gas into 225 mmwefd of pipeline quality gas and is expected ...

QUETTA - Balochistan caretaker Chief Minister Nawab Ghaous Bakhsh Barozai expressed concerns over Saindak Project, saying that he would demand of the prime minister during his visit to Quetta that the project should be handed over to Balochistan.The Mines and Minerals Department on Thursday gave a ...

Syed Imran Ahmed‘We never know the worth of water till the well is dry,’ so goes an old saying. These days, the saying can be rephrased to read as, ‘we never know the worth of gas till the well is dry.’ If we had foreseen a bigger picture, the country would not have been ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday stressed on the need to devote all energies for early completion of the Neelum-Jhelum Hydel Project.The Prime Minister made these observations during a high level meeting held at the PM House to review the progress on the project.The meeting was attended ...