At least four children were killed in an explosion in the Chitral district, police said. The children died in the blast were in the age between 10 and 12, police officer Khalil-ur-Rahman said.
At least four children were killed in an explosion in the Chitral district, police said. The children died in the blast were in the age between 10 and 12, police officer Khalil-ur-Rahman said.
Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has urged government to withdraw ban on the movement of wheat for ensuring availability of wheat to flour mills in Karachi. In a SOS message to high-ups in Islamabad and Sindh here Monday, chairman PFMA Iqbal Dawood
The government of Punjab has stopped wheat procurement to make flour millers purchase their stocks from the local market, well-placed sources told Business Recorder here on Monday. Punjab food department had fixed procurement target of 3 million to
The government of Punjab has stopped wheat procurement to make flour millers purchase their stocks from the local market, well-placed sources told Business Recorder here on Monday. Punjab food department had fixed procurement target of 3 million to
The government of Punjab has stopped wheat procurement to make flour millers purchase their stocks from the local market, well-placed sources told Business Recorder here on Monday. Punjab food department had fixed procurement target of 3 million to
The United States accounted for almost half the world's military expenditures in 2007, a year when global arms sales also climbed, a Swedish-based peace institute said Monday.Last year, global military expenditures totalled 1.339 trillion dollars (current
The United States accounted for almost half the world's military expenditures in 2007, a year when global arms sales also climbed, a Swedish-based peace institute said Monday.Last year, global military expenditures totalled 1.339 trillion dollars (current
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan has said the long march has began with the departure of lawyers' caravans led by deposed judges with their wives and it will concluded with the restoration of judiciary as it was before November
BJP leader L K Advani has regretted over release of controversial book on Shaheed Benazir Bhutto authored by London-based journalist Shyam Bhatia saying its contents are disturbing for any one who knew the former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Saudi Arabia, reaffirming its deepest desire to see a strong, stable and prosperous Pakistan, has assured to extend fullest support to the country in every possible manner.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's three-day visit to Saudi Arabia seems hollow in terms of budgetary support it required to fill the fiscal overrun as well provide some relief to the common man.
President Pervez Musharraf should be impeached and tried for treason, a spokesman for the leading party in the country's new coalition government said on Monday.
Muslim leaders on Monday called on Islamic nations to stop claiming to be victims of the West and start solving their internal problems to begin bridging a rift with the rest of the world.
Long march would not be a venture to destabilise the government as it is bereft of any personal agenda. It would be a peaceful march to sensitise people and exert pressure on the government for the restoration of deposed judges, said top leaders of lawyer
About 4,000 stranded Pakistanis held in Malaysian jails and detention camps on various charges of improper travelling and work documents were repatriated to Pakistan with all out assistance of the Pakistan High Commission.
Till the end of third quarter of Fiscal Year 2007-08, the Punjab Local Government and Community Development Department (CDD) could only use 40 percent of the total development funds allocated to them and it is expected that the remaining would lapse by th
Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar of the PML-Q has announced on Monday that she would welcome the lawyers' long march in front of Parliament House as she urged all the parliamentarians to participate in the rally, which is being launched for the reinstatement of d
Four police personnel were killed while another received injuries when some unknown armed men unexpectedly attack a police mobile during wee hours of Monday in Mathani, the suburban locality of Peshawar bordering federally administered Frontier Region (FR
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) would announce a procedure, in the 2008-09 budget, to control illegal/suspected clearance of 'banned items' through the 'One Customs' clearance system, under the Afghan Transit Trade Agreement (ATTA).
The government has admitted that the foreign elements were involved in creating law and order in Fata and Balochistan, but it said that the unfortunate aspect of the issue was that some Pakistani citizens were being used by these foreigners.
The finance ministry on Monday accepted the millers' demand for purchasing sugar through the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) at Rs 26.35 per kg to facilitate them clear the growers' payments.
Members of the upper house on Monday urged the government to take effective steps to improve law and order situation and prove protection to life and property of the citizens.
Initially incorporated as National Detergents Limited, a 100% local company in 1977, Colgate-Palmolive Company, USA, granted the licence to manufacture and market their products in Pakistan in 1985.
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Syed Naveed Qamar on Monday told the National Assembly that at least Rs 59,945 million loans have been written off from 1999 to 2007. Out of these amount, loans up to Rs 0.5 million written off are Rs 46, 877.17 mi
Initially incorporated as National Detergents Limited, a 100% local company in 1977, Colgate-Palmolive Company, USA, granted the licence to manufacture and market their products in Pakistan in 1985.
A lawmaker from the opposition benches in National Assembly on Monday voiced to take preemptive steps avoiding any serious loss from flood due to falling of heavy glacier in the Northern Areas, where a village of over 1,000 population has badly affected r
Sliding trend was seen on the interbank market on Monday as the rupee fell by 15 paisa against dollar for buying and selling at 67.65 and 67.75, money experts said. Strong demand for dollars pushed the rupee down and it is most likely that the rupee may c
The government has been urged on Monday to constitute commission for special probe of nuclear leakage, and its connection to nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. Senator Dr Muhammad Saad put this demand while participating in Senate debate on Monday.
Sliding trend was seen on the interbank market on Monday as the rupee fell by 15 paisa against dollar for buying and selling at 67.65 and 67.75, money experts said. Strong demand for dollars pushed the rupee down and it is most likely that the rupee may c
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday sent a strong-worded fresh warning to wheat hoarders, urging them to release the commodity in the market or face crackdown. Speaking in the National Assembly in response to a calling attention notice by oppositi
Constitutional expert's committee of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has proposed restoration of all the deposed judges along with retention of those who took oath under PCO in November last.
Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik has directed the provincial Home secretaries and Inspectors General of Police, DG Rangers to facilitate lawyers' long march besides ensuring foolproof security for the participants of the march.
It was a stirring moment when Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stood up in the National Assembly Monday evening to announce a new format for presentation of the defence budget. It was an unprecedented move, and one that had the agreement of the services
A ten-member delegation of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) headed by its Senior Vice President Iftikhar Ahmed Shaikh will left for Turkey on six days visit here on Tuesday. During their stay in Turkey they will participate in Turkey trade
In view to end water scarcity in Manzoor colony, the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has provided land to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KW&SB) to establish hydrant to facilitate the residents of the area.
Provincial Labour Minister Amir Nawab has issued directives to constitute a committee to update and review the Industrial Relation Ordinance (IRO) 1969 and 2002 to facilitate working segment. The committee, which include Kashif Gulzar, Director Labour, Kh
Former Chairman of Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (Kati), Shaikh Manzar Alam has urged the government to initiate negotiations with the European Union so that Generalised System of Preference (GSP) could be extended to the goods being imported
Honesty, straightforwardness and ethics are as much an imperative ingredient of business dealings as in any other human activity. Unfortunately, however the general perception, in the present day and age, is that a businessman has to be shrewd, cunning, d
As about 119,000 current and aspiring investment professionals from 165 countries prepare to take the rigorous CFA exams this weekend, CFA Institute noted that this marks the administration of the one million exam since it was first offered in 1963.
The Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that serious measures were being adopted to control over the flour crises and hoped that shortly the situation would be normalised. He said this while talking to media men at the residence of Syed Amir
The Karachi Sales Tax Bar Association (KSTBA) has proposed amendments to laws regarding sales tax refunds, which create difficulties in its approval and disenchantment among taxpayers.
City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has prepared a contingency plan to avoid losses and damages during the expected monsoon rain in the city. District Coordination Officer (DCO), Javed Hanif Khan, reviewed the contingency plan in a meeting held with t
Government would strive hard to eliminate poverty, price hike and unemployment. People should help the government to fight against conspiracies. It was said by Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, during his open meeting with people at his farm house ne
Sindh Minister for Wildlife Dr Daya Ram Essurani has said that persons having love and affection for the wildlife of Sindh would be appointed as honorary district wardens in all the districts of the province.
The Pakistan Gems and Jewellery Development Company (PGJDC) has established country's first Gems and Jewellery Training and Manufacturing Centre (GJTMC) in Saddar Town, Karachi. A PGJDC announcement said on Monday that the establishment of GJTMC was the r
Arrangements have been finalised for administering polio drops to children up to the age of five in Bajaur Agency during the three day vaccination campaign starting from Tuesday (today). During the vaccination campaign, a total of 212,000 children will be
Leaders of Pakistan lawyers' movement on Monday said that purpose of long march is not to destabilise the government but only to mount pressure for restoration of the deposed judges. They assured that the lawyers' long march would be "completely peaceful"
The Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, which was promulgated in 2001 on the dictates of the foreign donors with tall claims of simplifying tax code, contains a number of anomalies, ambiguities, lacunae and inconsistencies [for detailed review of this badly-draft
Government established a special cell in Ministry of Interior to monitor the Lawyers' Long March and make sure the foolproof security arrangements all over the country.
Chairman Senate Mohammedmian Soomro and Deputy Chairman Jan Mohammad Khan Jamali have felicitated Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on his unopposed election as the Chief Minister Punjab. They hoped that the province would take rapid strides on road to develop
The G-8, comprising the 8 most industrialised nations of the world, plus 3 (including the remaining three major oil guzzlers of the world namely China, India and South Korea), met in Aomori, Japan to deliberate on a common strategy to deal with the oil cr
The mystery as to why President Bush ordered invasion of Iraq has deepened with the release of a US Senate Intelligence Committee report. Was it the Iraqi oil that the United States wanted or may be the invasion was launched at the behest of the American
The Commander of US Naval Forces, Central Command, Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, emphasised the need for 'fostering relationships with coalition partners such as Pakistan,' while addressing officers at the Pakistan Navy War College here on Monday.
Senator Nisar Memon has said that rule of law and supremacy of Constitution is imperative for the development of the country. Talking to Aaj TV, he said that people consider price hike as a major issue. In reply to a question, he said that all part
Aqua Care System, a German Company, has showed interest in installing small plants for supply of clean drinking water in the city's various residential and commercial areas.