islamabad - Japan has agreed to extend two Non-project Grant Aids (NPGAs) for providing Japanese medical equipment, other products made by Japanese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), worth 800 million Japanese yen (approximately $8 million or Rs 807 million) in total, to Pakistan.Signings for ...

SYDNEYAFPOrganised crime gangs dealing in fake goods, drugs, human trafficking, and the illicit wildlife trade earn nearly $90 billion annually in East Asia and the Pacific, a UN report showed Tuesday.“Transnational Organised Crime in East Asia and the Pacific: A Threat Assessment” is ...

LAHORE – The Unification Bloc, which stood by the Shahbaz Sharif government in Punjab through thick and thin, has lost worth for PML-N tickets over internal differences and load of ticket aspirants.The main character and architect of the Bloc, Dr Tahir Ali Javed is in America after resigning ...

Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman on Saturday presented annual budget of Punjab for the year 2012-13 with total outlay of Rs782 billion. In his budget speech the minister said the federal government has been doing excesses with Punjab over power distribution, inflicting serious harm to ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - A trailer-laden with yarn was snatched by dacoits here near Nawan Lahore area on Jhang-Faisalabad Road the other night.The trailer’s owner Salim of Gatwala informed the police that four dacoits in a pickup truck had attacked the trailer carrying yarn worth Rs7 million. The ...

RAWALPINDI - Police have arrested a burglar and recovered stolen gold and diamonds worth Rs 750 million from his possession. “Police have apprehended a thief Usman Ghani son of Muhammad Riasat, a resident of Badhyana, Kotli Sattian, and recovered gold jewellery and diamonds market value of ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - Cotton worth of Rs30 million burnt to ashes in a fire that played havoc in Grain Market Chishtian here the other day. According to detail, huge quantity of cotton in grain market Chishtian caught fire all of a sudden which engulfed the entire area. The Tehsil Municipal Administration ...

ISLAMABAD  - Despite a bumper crop in the country this year, the export of Pakistani kinnows is expected to decline because of the loss of huge market of Iran.Besides, the Indonesian market, where at least 45,000 tonnes export of the fruit was expected to be made after concluding the already ...

UNITED NATIONS - A shipment containing a reported $2 million of cocaine was intercepted last week at the UN HQs in New York, authorities said Thursday. Around 16kg of the drug was intercepted by security personnel at the building's mail processing center. The cocaine was stuffed inside a batch of ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Customs Intelligence recovered artefacts of worth million of rupees and arrested the two accused allegedly involved in the smuggling of these antiques on Friday. According to Customs officials, they arrested two persons identified as Imran and Asif Jamal when they were going to ...

Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD - The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC), that met on Friday with Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, in chair, approved seven projects worth Rs 86.3 billion. The projects that were brought under discussion on ...

ATTARI (Online) - In the biggest catch of the year, heroin worth Rs 135 crore in the international market was seized on the Indo-Pak border here by BSF personnel who foiled the attempt of Pakistani smugglers to cross over to India. 'A patrolling party of the Border Security Force (BSF) foiled an ...

Our Staff ReporteKOT - 18 armed culprits shot injured a mill security guard and looted electric cables and weapons here Friday. The armed bandits stormed into United Mills Shahkot and kept security guard Abid shah and other servants hostage and shot injured Abid on resistance and looted repeater ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Water and Power Minister Syed Naveed Qamar has said that the government is making efforts to decrease the loadshedding duration and the installation of various power plants of 3,000MW capacity during last three years is a proof of the governments struggle for generation ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday approved 43 Demands for Grants worth Rs 764.380721 billion, which has exceeded total provincial fiscal outlay 2011-12 of Rs 654.67 billion by Rs 109.70billion. As expected, the Treasury also voted out five cut motions moved by the ...

ISLAMABAD - Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has revealed that Director General (DG) Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) was appointed in M-I scale instead of management grade-II. The appointment in M-I resulted in overpayment of Rs4.2 million on account of pay and allowances from June 16, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has implemented as many as 28 projects worth Rs.2,818.167 million during last three years to facilitate and promote small and medium entrepreneurship in the country. Under the Public Sector Development Programme, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) Thursday considered 64 projects costing Rs 236 billion including foreign aid of Rs 107 billion. The CDWP meeting was held Thursday under the chairmanship of Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Dr. Nadeem ul Haque. According to the ...

ISLAMABAD - A total of 56,336 recovery suits and execution involving more than Rs215 billion are pending with various banking tribunals and high courts. Of these 14,693 cases involving outstanding amount Rs15.69 billion have been pending for more than ten years. Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Narcotics Control seized a huge volume of drugs worth Rs 458 million during last two years. Pakistan remains a major transit country for opiates and hashish grown in Afghanistan, which produces 90 percent of the world's supply of opium. Although no exact figure exists for ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly (NA) was informed on Thursday that the total amount of foreign loans paid by Pakistan during July-November 2010 was $1057.7 million, including $743.5 million as principal amount and $314.2 million as interest. The Minister said that the total amount of domestic ...

ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on the first day of a two-day open auction of residential and commercial plots received a satisfactory response despite continuing slump in the real state market, as it fetched bids worth Rs247 million approximately against 16 residential ...

GENEVA (APP) - The EU provided at least 18 billion dollars (13.1 billion euros) in illegal subsidies to aviation giant Airbus, the United States charged Thursday at a WTO appeal hearing on the issue. We are here today because the panel in this dispute found that the European Union and certain ...

Listen to the Article - Powered by Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas political wing, told Newsweek on October 14 that there is a position and program that all Palestinians share. To accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as the capital. With the right of return. And this ...

LAHORE - A pair of 'Meccaw (starlet) parrots may expire in the shed of Customs Department as three officials of Punjab Wildlife Department on Monday morning nabbed the illegal import of the pair of parrots worth Rs 0.4 million at Lahore airport. As per details, a resident of Lahore Cantonment area ...

LAHORE The Punjab Highway Patrol (PHP) distributed food items worth over Rs 12 million in flood affected areas. According to an official communiqu issued here Sunday, DIG Sohail Khan supervised personally all the distribution operation in DG Khan, Rajanpur and Muzaffargarh districts. The succour ...

LAHORE - Besides repairing old machinery, the Punjab government has purchased new equipment worth over Rs 41.06 million for clearing inundated water and minimising the chances of epidemic outbreak in flood-hit areas of the province, officials told TheNation on Tuesday. Though the flood has ...

PESHAWAR Yakatoot police, in a successful crackdown on a house in Aga Mir Jani Shah area, recovered valuable antiques worth billons of rupees and arrested one of the alleged smugglers, Amir, here on Tuesday. Sources said that police were informed that antiques worth billions of rupees were ...

KARACHI - The SBP on Tuesday said the term finance certificate (TFCs) with outstanding amount of Rs 24 billion have been transferred to Power Holding (Private) Ltd (PHPL) as per government directives. According to Government of Pakistans Notification No F. No. 1(17) CF-I/2009-10-Pt/1163 dated 31st ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian contraband trade is worth 19 billion dollars a year, according to estimates by the head of Irans anti-smuggling department, cited by a local newspaper on Thursday. Some 16 billion dollars worth of goods have been smuggled into Iran, while three billion dollars worth have been ...