LONDON : Some British troops will have to stay in Afghanistan into 2015 to ensure the departure of forces is properly managed, defence minister Philip Hammond said on Tuesday.Combat operations are still due to finish by the end of 2014 but the final tours of duty will be extended to last up to a ...
BAHAWALPURPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz won four seats of National Assembly and eight out of 10 seats of Punjab Assembly in Bahawalpur district while the remaining NA seat was won by the PML-Q and the PA slot by the Bahawalpur National Awamy Party, according to unofficial results.Makdoom Ali Hassan ...
KARACHI :-Due to the improved gas supply position, SSGC’s management has decided to withdraw closure notice for 27 April. There will be no shut down for CNG stations in Sindh on Saturday, as announced earlier. However CNG stations will remain closed from 08:00 am on Tuesday 30 April 27, 2013 ...
LAHORE : A spokesman for Punjab Health Department has said that OPDs in all teaching hospitals, DHQ, THQ, Rural Health Centers, Basic Health Centers and Special Health Institutions will remain open six days a week as usual. He said medical colleges would remain close, whereas the staff of clinical ...
KARACHI - All CNG stations in Sindh will remain closed from 08:00am on April 13 till 08:00am on April 14. “In order to maintain sufficient line-pack in our distribution lines and for ensuring uninterrupted gas supply to all its valued domestic, commercial and industrial customers ...
KARACHI - The police will remain on high alert during the process of general elections 2013, a spokesman of the Sindh Police said in a statement here on Thursday.Addressing the police officers at the Salim Wahidi Auditorium in Clifton here, Sindh Inspector General of Police Shahid Nadeem Baloch ...
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
KARACHI - CNG stations will be remain closed on Tuesday for 24 hours. As notified earlier, all the CNG stations in Sindh will remain closed from 08:00am on April 9 till 08:00am on April 10. “SSGC has to resort to these shut downs of CNG stations in the Sindh province, in ...
KARACHI - Stocks closed record high led by second and third tier stocks on strong valuations. Sentiments remained bullish ahead of quarter-end earning announcements due next week.The Karachi stock market benchmark KSE-100 share index added 22.59 points or 0.12 percent to end the day at 18,636.03 ...
ISLAMABAD - In order to facilitate the candidates for verification of their degrees for 2013 general election, the Attestation and Accreditation Division of Higher Education Commission HEC will remain open on Saturday (today) and Sunday. The candidates are requested to visit HEC from 08:00 am to ...
WASHINGTON - Global food prices continued to decline for six consecutive months, but still remain very high and close to their historical peaks, the World Bank said on Wednesday.In its quarterly Food Price Watch report, WB said food prices continued to fall between October 2012 and February 2013 on ...
Defending the criticism for holding dual nationality, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also British passport holder and he took oath to remain loyal to British king and successors.In his telephonic address to MQM workers in Karachi, ...
WAZIRABAD - PML-Likeminded chief Hamid Nasir Chattha has dispelled the impression that he was going to defect his party, saying that he was Muslim leaguer and will not join any other party. During a wedding ceremony, he told newsmen that an intervention of the third power may delay elections for a ...
ISLAMABAD - As requested by the Federal Board of Revenue, the State Bank of Pakistan has issued necessary instructions to SBP Banking Services Corporation (BSC) field offices and NBP to remain open for extended hours till 10:00 pm on 30th and 31st December 2011, to facilitate the trade and industry ...
CHAMAN (INP) - Supplies to Nato forces remained suspended on the 10th day after the allied forces attack in Mohmand Agency, which left two dozen soldiers killed. Hundreds of trucks with goods and fuel tankers were stranded at the Chaman border. Trucks and containers have been queued up on the road ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Friday issued instructions to all Customs Collectorates to remain open on Sunday (June 26) as normal working day in order to facilitate the traders in making maximum use of the relief/amnesty measures announced recently. FBR had ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - The local equity market will continue to perform strongly in the upcoming fiscal year 2011-12 in anticipation of healthy corporate earnings, improved liquidity conditions in the money markets and attractive valuations. However, in the short to medium term, the market is ...
ISLAMABAD - The indifferent attitude of Economic Affairs Division (EAD) was the reason behind failure for not receiving around 50 per cent pledges made by the donors for Earthquake-2005 victims. This was informed during the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chaired by Ch Nisar Ali Khan, here on ...
ISLAMABAD - Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) has changed the schedule of gas loadshedding for the CNG sector, as according to new the plan gas stations would remain close on Tuesday next week instead of today (Saturday). All Pakistan CNG Association had requested the SNGPL to change the gas ...
KARACHI - The economic experts foresee that the upcoming monetary policy decision would be highly influenced by the probable fiscal effects of the tax and power sector reforms on countrys growing budget deficit and foreign debt. Some of these reforms are expected to implement by the government by ...
LAHORE - City Traffic Police Superintendent of Police (SP) Imtiazur Rehman has directed all the traffic wardens of Sadar Division to remain vigilant and well-behaved during duty hours. He said a strict departmental action would be initiated against those involved in any kind of negligence. Talking ...
LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that world community cannot remain aloof from the plight of the flood affectees in Pakistan in the present circumstances. Chief Minister while talking to Syrian Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Ali Mohra during a meeting in Multan on Saturday ...
LAHORE - The worst flood situation in the Southern Punjab has severed the communication between the marooned people and outside the world so much so that the flood affected people even do not know the day when the holy month of Ramazan has to commence. The reports received here from different ...
BRUSSELS (AFP) - A leading indicator of economic activity, the purchasing managers index for the 16-nation eurozone, accelerated for the first time in three months in July, final data showed on Wednesday. However, those who compiled the latest purchasing managers index (PMI) saw signs of deepening ...
LAHORE All Pakistan CNG Association on Monday announced that they would not close CNG stations in Lahore, Multan, Gujranwala and surrounding areas on Tuesday in defiance of the government decision of gas loadshedding. Today, All Pakistan CNG Association has decided that no more cooperation in the ...
LAHORE - Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has stated that Saturday has been declared as a full working day for holding special classes upto June 30, 2010 in order to cover the loss of studies caused due to the 15-day academic boycott of the PU teachers. He was presiding over ...
LAHORE (Online) - Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has claimed that President Asif Ali Zardari would remain the country head till 2018. Talking to media here on Friday the Governor Punjab felicitated the whole nation and Parliament for passage of the 18th amendment by the National Assembly adding that ...
ISLAMABAD Just like on Eid-ul-Fitr, hundreds of residents of the restive Kurram Agency may not be able to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with their loved ones due to the continued blockade of the only road that links the area with the rest of the country. It is appalling that Pakistanis belong to ...
LAHORE - Punjab University, Government College Lahore University, National College of Arts and fourteen other educational institutions will remain closed on Thursday (today) due to security concerns on the eve of visit of US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton in City. All these ...
ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi failed to get any of the controverisal conditionalities altered in the Kerry-Lugar Bill. Instead, he succumbed to US pressure and termed the debilitaitng bill as historic, which it will be given how such extensively intrusive and micro management ...






