SADIQABAD The officials of Tehsil Council Administration, police and Mepco said at a meeting that all-out resources would be utilised to end loadshedding while steps were underway to eliminate unscheduled outages in the tehsil. Meanwhile, the attendees except the government officials got their ...

 SADIQABAD Mentioning under-pressure economy, dearness, loadshedding and unemployment, outgoing Punjab governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood said that the crises-hit public vent their spleen on the PPP and its allies through their votes during the recent elections, and also claimed that the People's ...

 SADIQABAD - Mentioning under-pressure economy, dearness, loadshedding and unemployment, outgoing Punjab governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood said that the crises-hit public vent their spleen on the PPP and its allies through their votes during the recent elections, and also claimed that the ...

HAFIZABADWhile expressing resentment over arbitrary and uncalled for hike in power tariff by Rs5.82 per unit, local businessmen, industrialists and housewives have called upon the upcoming Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to take prompt and stern action against NEPRA and others for their ...

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 Muhammad Yaseen. Addressing the participants, MNAs Arshad Leghari, Mian Imtiaz Ahmad, ...

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, ...

HAFIZABADMNA-elect Ch Liaqat Abbas Bhatti who has made hat trick in the general election 2013, assured that he will spare no effort to come up to the expectations of his electorates. He was addressing a gathering at Nanoana Bunglow on the occasion of a dinner held in his honour by Malik Ejaz Awan ...

SADIQABAD PML-N’s newly elected member of the National Assembly Arshad Khan Leghari said that he would come up to the trust and confidence reposed by the people of NA-197 in him and further strengthen and organise the Muslim League. He pledged that the people’s problems would be ...

NOORPUR THAL/AHMEDPUR EASTNewly elected PML-N MNA Malik Shakir Bashir Awan and MPA Malik Muhammad Waris Kallu have said that they will serve the people of the tehsil in a beftting manner like they had done over the past five years with the blessings of God Almighty. Talking to this scribe, they ...

KOT RADHA KISHANPML-N leader and former MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that the PML-N made Pakistan nuclear power and added that it believed in work and not tall claims.Addressing a public gathering at Football Ground here, he said that his party had a revolutionary plan for the youth ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN Rashid AshrafSleepless nights and restless days are being spent by the candidates as they are carrying out their respective political campaigns in a bid to muster maximum public support regarding elections in the National Assembly constituency NA-100. However, the main contest in ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif alleged that Zardari and his companions have looted the country during last five years.Addressing a public meeting in Kamalia on Wednesday‚ he said that May 11 will be the day of victory of his party.Shahbaz Sharif has promised to end ...

LAHORE - Dozens of local residents on Monday staged a strong protest demonstration against the station house officer (SHO) Shera Kot police station for illegally raiding their residences and brutally torturing the residents. The protesters blocked the Bund Road by emblazing tyres and chanted ...

ISLAMABAD - Presented four months ago to the outgoing premier, a probe report drafted by a judicial commission into the events surrounding the killing of al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden in a US Navy SEALs swoop on May 2, 2011 in the garrison town of Abbottabad has not been released for public review ...

ISLAMABAD - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Thursday, invited public opinion on Draft Companies (Distribution of Specie Dividend) Regulations, 2013 (the "draft Regulations").Companies (Distribution of Specie Dividend) Regulations, 2013 is meant to ensure protection of ...

LAHORE - The residents of Islampura protested against Wasa’s Ravi Road Sub-Division for suspending water supply despite availability of electricity.The residents gathered outside the Islampura office and chanted slogans against the Wasa authorities. They said they have been facing acute ...

    damascus   Syria's President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public visit on Wednesday to an electrical plant in centralDamascusto mark Labour Day, the presidency's official Facebook page said. "President Assad is now visiting the Umayyad electrical plant ...

Through the column of your esteemed newspaper, I wish to draw an attention towards the service of new rickshaws named ‘CALL A RIK’ circulating in our country. It is an innovative mode of public transportation especially developed for passengers accompanying children. This project is ...

ISLAMABAD : The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has extended the date for submission of public opinion on draft Licensing and Corporate Governance Regulations for Associations Not-for-Profit to June 30, 2013.A Statement issued here on Thursday said that earlier the proposed ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected a petition to keep the Lal Masjid report confidential and ordered that it be made public.A three member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the Lal Masjid suo moto case. The Lal Masjid commission had requested that ...

HYDERABAD  - Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Saturday the Pakistan People’s Party and its opponents would appear before the court of public in the coming few weeks in the forthcoming general elections.In his address to a ceremony at his alma mater, the Government College, ...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry remarked  the Constitution did not say that those holding public offices would be immune to prosecution in case they commit contempt of court.The Supreme Court on Wednesday resumed the hearing of petitions against the recently passed contempt of court ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has said that funds allocated for various development projects in the budget are public property and should not be used for non development purposes.A bench of LHC headed by Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan heard the petition filed by Ameer Jamaat ud Dahwa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed ...

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge. Brig. Ahmed Shiyam told reporters Tuesday that Nasheed has agreed to step down and hand over the presidency to his deputy Mohammed Waheed Hassan.

A public holiday has been announced in Punjab and Sindh provinces on 11th Rabi-ul-Awwal, Saturday, February 04, while there will be no ban on pillion riding for two days on 11th and 12th Rabi-ul-Awal. According to media report, Punjab government has also announced a public holiday on Feb 4 while ...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader and Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr. Faroq Sattar said on Thursday that his party would organize the biggest public gathering in the history of Sukkur. Pakistan's prosperity is related with the Sindh's prosperity, he added. The preparations of the ...

Supreme Court (SC) has directed that judicial commission report on breaching Band be made public. A 3-member bench of SC presided over by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry took up the case for hearing Monday. A 4-member judicial commission constituted under the directives ...

Unidentified men blew up Girls Primary School and Telephone Exchange in a semi Tribal area, Darra Adam Khail, hereon Thursday. Official sources said that unidentified men blew up Government Girls Primary School in the area Qasim Khail of FR Kohat (Darra Adam Khail). A telephone exchanged was also ...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has presented in Supreme Court (SC) a list containing 5 volumes of the persons who have got their loans waived during 2009. The list has been presented during the course of hearing of loans write off case by a 4-member bench of SC presided over by the Chief Justice of ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing her grief over the untimely demise of Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009, said America has lost one of its fiercest champions and most dedicated public servants. "Tonight ...