ISLAMABAD   Former world squash champion Qamar Zaman has said thePakistanmale players chances of winning are more than 70 percent in the 17th FMC Asian Senior Individual Squash Championship as all three players Aamir, Nasir and Farhan Mahboob are very good and technically very ...

ISLAMABAD - Former world squash champion Qamar Zaman is elected as new president of KPK Squash Association (KPKSA) in the elections held in Abbottabad. Qamar is also vice president of Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) while Ehsan Ullah Khan was elected as secretary and director sports Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD - Sustainable development in South Asia strongly depends upon how well social cohesion across regions, faiths and ethnicities can be achieved, said Syed Naveed Qamar, federal minister for defence, while speaking at the opening session of 15th Annual Sustainable Development Conference ...

Defence Minister Naveed Qamar said Friday that Pakistan’s drones were only being used for aerial surveillance and they had no weapons attached to them.While speaking at IDEAS 2012, Qamar added that Pakistan had been exporting small weapons to various countries, but was now in a position to ...

TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN - Federal Minister for Defence Syed Naveed Qamar said there will be no compromise on country’s sovereignty and the territorial frontiers will be defended at all costs.He was talking to journalists at the reception given by PPP leader Waheeda Shah at Bukhari House on ...

PESHAWAR - Players lodged strong complaints of being not treated fairly at the Hashim Khan Squash Complex, as near and dear ones and close relatives of Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) vice president Qamar Zaman reap all the benefits and spend maximum time at their own choice at the courts. Talking ...

ISLAMABAD – While the revisiting of terrorism at a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) installation in Kamra in less than three years points to PAF’s apathy to draw lessons from a previous horrifying experience, it also raises several pertinent questions which, those at the helm of affairs, do not ...

FAISALABAD - Pakistan Textile Exporters Association Chairman Rana Arif Tauseef said that Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar had assured him that loadshedding duration would be reduced within 48 hours disclosed. Addressing a press conference here, he disclosed the details of his ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has asked Passco to finalise the modalities for export of one million tons of wheat to Iran on the basis of talks held at Tehran between Pakistani and Iranian authorities last month.He made these directions while presiding over a ...

ISLAMABAD - USMAN CHEEMA - The claims made by Federal Minister for Water and Power Naveed Qamar that there will be no loadshedding in the country, evaporated in air as masses just after a relief, not more than one week, are again suffering from 10-20 hours power outages.Earlier Prime Minister and ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar Tuesday indicated in the Senate that the federal government would have to increase the prices of CNG to remove disparity between the prices of different fuel products that would be necessary to overcome the gas shortage in the ...

KARACHI - The speakers at an international coal conference 2011 on Saturday emphasised on the federal government to develop the Thar coal reserves for ensuring energy security in Pakistan. They also stressed to switch the power generation from existing expensive furnace oil and gas to coal based ...

AHMEDPUREAST - PPP Women Wing Central President Mrs Faryal Talpur has directed Federal Minister for Water & Power Naveed Qamar to visit the district till July 15 and announce the establishment of Bahawalpur Electric Power Company in the district. She was chairing a meeting in Zardari House ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Privatisation, Water & Power Syed Naveed Qamar will leave today (Sunday) for Kuwait to attend fourth Asian Ministerial Roundtable Conference of International Energy Forum (IEF) to discuss global energy situation and energy interdependence. The Prime Minister Syed ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar has convened meeting of a Parliamentary Committee to Review Petroleum Pricing Mechanism. The committee will look into the existing petroleum pricing mechanism and discuss ways and means if the pricing system ...

KARACHI (APP) - Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar on Monday hoped to get off-shore drilling results of Block-M of Indus Basin from the Italian exploring company ENI Pakistan Ltd in a month. We are hoping to explore a big reserve of gas from this field, he said while ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - Federal Minister for Privatisation, Syed Naveed Qamar has said that Pakistan plans to sell stakes in at least three companies by the end of June, reviving an asset sale program stymied by political instability and a slowing economy. This will be the start of our program with a new ...

LAHORE - Junior team coach-cum-manager Qamar Ibrahim said that he accepted the job in the national interest with a target to form a pool of top players. He said that the immediate target is to check the players in the Pakistan and India junior series and prepare them for the June-July Junior ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Finance Minister Naveed Qamar has underlined the need to reducde gap between imports and exports to drive the economy from the negative zone to comfortable levels. The gap has considerably increased due to record high oil prices in the world and diminishing purchasing power of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Syed Naveed Qamar has said that 15-50 per cent regulatory import duty on 379 luxury items would have no impact on domestic market. "The regulatory import duty on such items will also help reduce import bill of the country," he told ...

The family of Aafia Siddiqui, facing terrorism charges in the US said Tuesday that they had received death threats warning them not to discuss her case. Mother-of-three Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the United States on charges of shooting at US soldiers while in detention in Afghanistan, a US ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Finance Minister Syed Naveed Qamar on Thursday assured the investors that government would continue to pursue investor friendly policies and is determined to correcting macro economic imbalances for the prosperity of the country. "The government is looking for additional ...