The leadership of the Pakistan Army approved a security plan for national and provincial polls and the necessary troop deployment. The plan, which was approved on Tuesday at the corps commanders’ conference in Rawalpindi, envisaged concentrated troop deployments for polling stations under ...

KARACHI – Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has urged Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to withdraw certain SROs to save shipping industry.   In a statement here on Thursday, FPCCI Vice Presidents Naveed Jan Baloch, Shaheen Ilyas Sarwana and Muhammad Ali ...

ISLAMABAD – FASIHUR REHMAN KHAN - President Asif Zardari and coalition partners were happily surprised on Thursday afternoon as back channel negotiators finally gave them a strong signal that Dr Tahirul Qadri was ready to end the four-day long sit-in provided he was given a "face saving"."On ...

While addressing the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday, President Asif Ali Zardari said that the conspiracy to divide the country by tearing away its federating units had been defeated by giving provincial autonomy to the provinces. This might either be a reference to the ...

With the conditions prevailing in the country not in its favour and its opponents trying to belittle the Sindhi peoples’ loyalty towards Bhutto family, the PPP fears losing the Sindh card in the next elections. To save the same, the ruling clique is taking all sorts of measures, the strange ...

PIA the national airline of Pakistan, with a population of over 180 million, out of which almost 15 million are Pakistani nationality holding expatriates, is incurring losses not because of lack of willing clients, but deliberate pilferage, corruption and the mafia of kickbacks and corruption that ...

I would like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned towards the mass hunting of wildlife at Goth Ismail Shikari Kharkhacho tehsil, Bela district, Lasbella, Balochistan. About 10,000 wild goats (markhor) and sheep are present in this area and people are free to hunt. Wildlife is ...

SAVING Private Ryan has been voted the greatest war movie of all time by readers.A poll, run to coincide with the release of upcoming third person shooter Spec Ops: The Line, saw Steven Spielberg’s 1998 classic pull in more than 23% of the votes to emerge as the number one war movie ahead of ...

Colombo - Pakistan has won its first Saarc Film Award for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary ‘Saving Face’ and a silver medal in the Best Feature Film category for Mehreen Jabbar’s ‘Ramchand Pakistani’. Another honour for Pakistan was the awards for Best Actor, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday observed that officials were being sacrificed to save skins of influential authorities in the government.A seven-judge bench comprising Justice Nasirul Mulk, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmani, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, ...

KARACHI - Being part of the ‘Saving Face’ about acid victims would be a great way to show how Pakistanis can help other Pakistanis overcome their problems, said Dr Muhammad Ali Jawwad.Dr Jawwad is a Dow graduate of 1984 batch and a plastic surgeon behind repairing faces of acid victims ...

Being the industrial hub of the country, Karachi is facing the menace of environmental pollution. For instance it is a matter of grave concern that sewerage water of the city is being discharged into sea through 16 outlets. Unfortunately, the city government has never made a serious effort to make ...

MUZAFFARGARH - “It really hurt me, if I hear about the acid-throwing incident happen anywhere in the world. So, the win of an Oscar by ‘Saving Face’, truly made my happy, says 26-year-old Rukhsana Yasir, the pivotal character of Academy award-winning documentary, while talking to ...

MUZAFFARGARH - “It really hurt me, if I hear about the acid-throwing incident happen anywhere in the world. So, the win of an Oscar by ‘Saving Face’, truly made my happy, says 26-year-old Rukhsana Yasir, the pivotal character of Academy award-winning documentary, while talking to ...

The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze. Khader Adnan is entering his 61st day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison, being held under an administrative detention order without trial, charges, or any indication of the evidence against him.From the outset of his brutal arrest in the ...

THE Prince of Wales is to launch a major international campaign to halt the destruction of the oceans through overfishing. A report to be published this week by one of the Prince’s charities, the International Sustainability Unit (ISU), will say that fisheries around the world could be pulled ...

SADIQABAD - The Jamaat-e-Islami Rahim Yar Khan president alleged that the government was making an all-out effort to save “the king of corruption” perhaps indicating to President Zardari. “Instead of uprooting the plant of corruption, the government is watering it. The corruption ...

KARACHI- Engro Corporation Limited on Thursday launched Engro Rupiya certificates savings option, which provides investors with an unprecedented 14.5 per cent rate of return. This is the first Term Finance Certificate (TFC) by Engro Corp, which would offer profit payments twice in a year for a ...

KARACHI - Allied Bank is geared towards teaching and encouraging children to initiate banking at an early age so that they are able to deal with lifes fiscal challenges in adulthood. This was stated by Zia Ijaz, Group Chief, Commercial & Retail Banking, Allied Bank, while announcing the launch of ...

KARACHI - Former Chairman Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association Bilal Mulla has criticised the government and rejected the system of Energy Saving Plan announced by the Prime Minister yesterday. He said this in a statement issued here on Friday. Bilal Mulla said that ...

A 53-year-old Pakistani Ghulam Badar, father of three, died at a hospital in Barrie (Ontario, Canada) late Thursday night after being on life support for more than 24 hours. He was rushed to hospital after trying to rescue his niece in the churning waters of Bala Falls in Muskoka. His ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Local businessmen here Thursday urged the government for switching to daylight saving time (DST) by advancing clocks by one hour from March 29. In this regard a meeting of the local business community was held here which was chaired by the President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce ...

LAHORE - Acute shortage of gas and electricity has put the pharmaceutical industry in trouble, which is finding it difficult to meet its production demand particularly of life saving drugs. The manufacturers of intravenous (IV) bags need 24-hour continuity of gas and electricity but due to ...

KARACHI - The growth in the public and private savings, mobilised by the National Saving Schemes, has sharply increased by 219 per cent during October, the highest level since July FY09. During October FY09, the national saving schemes fetched Rs 13.884 billion, showing a growth of Rs 9.472b or 219 ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Deputy Director Streetlights Capital Development authority (CDA), Roshan Junejo said on Saturday the civic body has started installation of energy saving bulbs of streetlights. He contradicted a news item appearing in section of press that CDA had failed to install energy saving ...

KARACHI The JS Investments Limited, JSIL (formerly JS ABAMCO Limited), has announced the launch of JS Islamic Pension Savings Fund (JS IPSF), which is the second Pension Fund to be launched by the company. Through JS Islamic Pension Savings Fund investors will be able to receive a lump sum tax ...

KARACHI (APP) - State Bank of Pakistan has decided to introduce a minimum profit rate of 5 percent per annum on all categories of savings/ PLS saving deposits , including any other profit bearing deposit with no fixed maturity, to all existing and new depositors. The decision will be effective ...