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Print - 2017-11-04
Bill on delimitations deferred again

Bill on delimitations deferred again

The bill for delimitation of constituencies and reallocation of National Assembly seats on the basis of provisional census results was deferred again on Friday due to lack of strength of government benches during the session of the Lower House of the Parl
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Bill on delimitations deferred again

Bill on delimitations deferred again

The bill for delimitation of constituencies and reallocation of National Assembly seats on the basis of provisional census results was deferred again on Friday due to lack of strength of government benches during the session of the Lower House of the Parl
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Zardari pleasing 'someone else': Nawaz

Zardari pleasing 'someone else': Nawaz

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday accused Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari of maligning him with a view to "pleasing someone else." Talking to reporters inside the accountability court, Sharif said Zardari is making sta
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Zardari pleasing 'someone else': Nawaz

Zardari pleasing 'someone else': Nawaz

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday accused Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari of maligning him with a view to "pleasing someone else." Talking to reporters inside the accountability court, Sharif said Zardari is making sta
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
NAB challenges grant of bail

NAB challenges grant of bail

National Accountability Bureau Friday invoked Islamabad High Court's jurisdiction challenging Accountability Court's order of granting bail to Captain Muhammad Safdar (retd) in a reference filed against him in pursuance of the Supreme Court's verdict in t
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
NAB challenges grant of bail

NAB challenges grant of bail

National Accountability Bureau Friday invoked Islamabad High Court's jurisdiction challenging Accountability Court's order of granting bail to Captain Muhammad Safdar (retd) in a reference filed against him in pursuance of the Supreme Court's verdict in t
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Dar admitted to London hospital

Dar admitted to London hospital

The finance minister Ishaq Dar has been admitted in Harley Street Hospital London for angiography after complain of chest pain. Ishaq Dar is facing reference of income beyond the means of sources filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as per the di
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Dar admitted to London hospital

Dar admitted to London hospital

The finance minister Ishaq Dar has been admitted in Harley Street Hospital London for angiography after complain of chest pain. Ishaq Dar is facing reference of income beyond the means of sources filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as per the di
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Trade balance remained in favour only in 1950-51: Senate informed
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Trade balance remained in favour only in 1950-51: Senate informed

The Senate was informed Friday that Pakistan's trade balance had been in its favour only once in 1950-51 when exports amounted to $1,343 million and imports stood at $1,167 million, while in 2016 the exports were $20.448 billion and imports $53.026 billio
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Trade balance remained in favour only in 1950-51: Senate informed
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Trade balance remained in favour only in 1950-51: Senate informed

The Senate was informed Friday that Pakistan's trade balance had been in its favour only once in 1950-51 when exports amounted to $1,343 million and imports stood at $1,167 million, while in 2016 the exports were $20.448 billion and imports $53.026 billio
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Trade balance remained in favour only in 1950-51: Senate informed
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Trade balance remained in favour only in 1950-51: Senate informed

The Senate was informed Friday that Pakistan''s trade balance had been in its favour only once in 1950-51 when exports amounted to $1,343 million and imports stood at $1,167 million, while in 2016 the exports were $20.448 billion and imports $53.026 billi
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Anti-Pakistan campaign: British HC summoned over slogans on London cabs

Anti-Pakistan campaign: British HC summoned over slogans on London cabs

Pakistan on Friday summoned British High Commissioner and conveyed its concerns at "malicious" campaign against the country through the display of slogans on London cabs "that directly attack Pakistan's territorial integrity and sovereignty." Foreign Offi
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Anti-Pakistan campaign: British HC summoned over slogans on London cabs

Anti-Pakistan campaign: British HC summoned over slogans on London cabs

Pakistan on Friday summoned British High Commissioner and conveyed its concerns at "malicious" campaign against the country through the display of slogans on London cabs "that directly attack Pakistan's territorial integrity and sovereignty." Foreign Offi
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
BRIndex100 extends gains
Exchange

BRIndex100 extends gains

Pakistan Stock Exchange witnessed a positive trend following fresh buying in oversold market Friday. BRIndex100 gained another 70.85 points or 1.64 percent to close at 4,402.94. BRIndex100 touched intraday high of 4,409.56 and intraday low of 4,328.18 poi
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
BRIndex100 extends gains
Exchange

BRIndex100 extends gains

Pakistan Stock Exchange witnessed a positive trend following fresh buying in oversold market Friday. BRIndex100 gained another 70.85 points or 1.64 percent to close at 4,402.94. BRIndex100 touched intraday high of 4,409.56 and intraday low of 4,328.18 poi
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
BRIndex100 extends gains
Exchange

BRIndex100 extends gains

Pakistan Stock Exchange witnessed a positive trend following fresh buying in oversold market Friday. BRIndex100 gained another 70.85 points or 1.64 percent to close at 4,402.94. BRIndex100 touched intraday high of 4,409.56 and intraday low of 4,328.18 poi
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Microfinance banking industry shows 52.5 percent growth
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Microfinance banking industry shows 52.5 percent growth

With an assets base of Rs 203.3 billion, the Microfinance Banking Industry grew by 52.5 percent during the last fiscal year (FY17). According to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the microcredit portfolio posted an increase of 53.5 percent to reach Rs 111.9 b
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Microfinance banking industry shows 52.5 percent growth
Exchange

Microfinance banking industry shows 52.5 percent growth

With an assets base of Rs 203.3 billion, the Microfinance Banking Industry grew by 52.5 percent during the last fiscal year (FY17). According to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the microcredit portfolio posted an increase of 53.5 percent to reach Rs 111.9 b
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Microfinance banking industry shows 52.5 percent growth
Exchange

Microfinance banking industry shows 52.5 percent growth

With an assets base of Rs 203.3 billion, the Microfinance Banking Industry grew by 52.5 percent during the last fiscal year (FY17). According to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the microcredit portfolio posted an increase of 53.5 percent to reach Rs 111.9 b
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Smog, less fuel to generate power: loadshedding returns with a bang

Smog, less fuel to generate power: loadshedding returns with a bang

Electricity loadshedding returned to the country Friday after majority of furnace oil/diesel-fired power plants, nuclear power plants and gas-based power plants, with a cumulative capacity of 8500 MW shut down due to smog, fuel supply issues and financial
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Smog, less fuel to generate power: loadshedding returns with a bang

Smog, less fuel to generate power: loadshedding returns with a bang

Electricity loadshedding returned to the country Friday after majority of furnace oil/diesel-fired power plants, nuclear power plants and gas-based power plants, with a cumulative capacity of 8500 MW shut down due to smog, fuel supply issues and financial
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Smog, less fuel to generate power: loadshedding returns with a bang

Smog, less fuel to generate power: loadshedding returns with a bang

Electricity loadshedding returned to the country Friday after majority of furnace oil/diesel-fired power plants, nuclear power plants and gas-based power plants, with a cumulative capacity of 8500 MW shut down due to smog, fuel supply issues and financial
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
At least 10 killed, 40 injured

At least 10 killed, 40 injured

At least 10 people killed and about 40 others were injured in various smog-related road accidents in Punjab on Friday as thick fog/smog-misty conditions continued over plain areas of Punjab (especially over Faisalabad, Sargodha, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
At least 10 killed, 40 injured

At least 10 killed, 40 injured

At least 10 people killed and about 40 others were injured in various smog-related road accidents in Punjab on Friday as thick fog/smog-misty conditions continued over plain areas of Punjab (especially over Faisalabad, Sargodha, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
BOARD MEETINGS
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BOARD MEETINGS

Board Meetings of Companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange.

Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Minister in favour of winding up NFC, NFML

Minister in favour of winding up NFC, NFML

Minister for Industries and Production, Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi has reportedly recommended winding up National Fertilizer Corporation (NFC) and National Fertilizer Marketing Limited (NFML), after the country began exporting urea fertilizer due to suffic
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Minister in favour of winding up NFC, NFML

Minister in favour of winding up NFC, NFML

Minister for Industries and Production, Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi has reportedly recommended winding up National Fertilizer Corporation (NFC) and National Fertilizer Marketing Limited (NFML), after the country began exporting urea fertilizer due to suffic
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Minister in favour of winding up NFC, NFML

Minister in favour of winding up NFC, NFML

Minister for Industries and Production, Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi has reportedly recommended winding up National Fertilizer Corporation (NFC) and National Fertilizer Marketing Limited (NFML), after the country began exporting urea fertilizer due to suffic
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
FTB to discuss PM's incentive package today

FTB to discuss PM's incentive package today

The Federal Textile Board (FTB) will meet Saturday to discuss Prime Minister's Export Incentive Package with respect to enhancement of textile exports as well as the formulation of a long-term plan for the development of the sector. Federal Minister for C
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
FTB to discuss PM's incentive package today

FTB to discuss PM's incentive package today

The Federal Textile Board (FTB) will meet Saturday to discuss Prime Minister's Export Incentive Package with respect to enhancement of textile exports as well as the formulation of a long-term plan for the development of the sector. Federal Minister for C
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
FTB to discuss PM''s incentive package today

FTB to discuss PM''s incentive package today

The Federal Textile Board (FTB) will meet Saturday to discuss Prime Minister''s Export Incentive Package with respect to enhancement of textile exports as well as the formulation of a long-term plan for the development of the sector. Federal Minister for
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Member to Member

Member to Member

The following transactions member to member subsequently reported on Friday (November 03, 2017).

Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Refund processing: FTO asks FBR to work towards amending ST Act

Refund processing: FTO asks FBR to work towards amending ST Act

In a major move to facilitate sales tax refund applicants, Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to consider amending relevant section of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 for inclusion of a specific period f
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
CM felicitates Sikh community

CM felicitates Sikh community

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has congratulated the Sikh community on 549th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak Dev Ji. In his message of felicitation, he welcomed the Sikh community to Pakistan and especially in the Punjab to attend the birthday
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Over Rs 1 billion cellphones cleared in the garb of LED bulbs

Over Rs 1 billion cellphones cleared in the garb of LED bulbs

Some four containers of different brands of cellphones worth over Rs 1 billion have been cleared under the guise of LED bulbs in connivance with PRAL officials; it is learnt. M/s Digicom Trading (Pvt) Ltd has imported four containers - TCKU9143410, CAIU80
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
TTP facilitator held, huge cache of weapons recovered

TTP facilitator held, huge cache of weapons recovered

Frontier Corps Balochistan and intelligence agencies Friday conducted an intelligence based operation (IBO) on a terrorist hideout in Zhob and apprehended a Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) facilitator. According to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISP
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
BISP, WB review progress of various initiatives

BISP, WB review progress of various initiatives

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) empowered women financially and politically by introducing the pre-condition of having valid CNICs to be eligible under it financial assistance programme. It is imperative that the conditions of birth registration f
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
BISP, WB review progress of various initiatives

BISP, WB review progress of various initiatives

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) empowered women financially and politically by introducing the pre-condition of having valid CNICs to be eligible under it financial assistance programme. It is imperative that the conditions of birth registration f
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Pakistan to reach destination via collective efforts, vision: Shahbaz

Pakistan to reach destination via collective efforts, vision: Shahbaz

Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan shall achieve its destination through collective efforts and vision. While talking to different delegations in London, Shehbaz said that when we all will work hard collectively then everybody wil
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Zardari refuses to meet Irfan Siddiqui?

Zardari refuses to meet Irfan Siddiqui?

Former President Asif Ali Zardari has also refused to meet Adviser to the Prime Minister on National History and Literary Heritage Irfan Siddiqui besides Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif. Reliable sources told that Irfan Siddiqui, through PPP Senato
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
VC LUMHS visits Civil Hospital Kotri

VC LUMHS visits Civil Hospital Kotri

The Vice Chancellor LUMHS Professor Bikharam Devrajani visited the Civil Hospital Kotri on Friday with the intention to observe the feasibility to affiliate the Hospital with Bilawal Medical College, a constituent college of the university.
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Disposing of solid waste SAI condemns elements

Disposing of solid waste SAI condemns elements

SITE Association of Industry (SAI) condemns the recent incident of highhandedness by unscrupulous elements involved in disposing of the solid waste in front of factories. In one of the industries in SITE such unscrupulous people were discharging solid was
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
LHC directs police officers to vacate FDA house

LHC directs police officers to vacate FDA house

The Lahore High Court on Friday directed police officers including SPs Hamayoun Sindhu, Behroz Khan and Tariq Mastoni to vacate houses of Faisalabad Development Authority (FDA) within 15 days. The court however asked the Chief Secretary Punjab to make hou
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Naval Chief visits costal areas, reviews operational readiness

Naval Chief visits costal areas, reviews operational readiness

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi visited Naval installations at coastal areas including Turbat, Gwadar and Jinnah Naval Base Ormara to review operational readiness of Pakistan Navy units in the area and port security measures. This is
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
PFA discards 115,000 litres of substandard milk

PFA discards 115,000 litres of substandard milk

The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Friday launched a crackdown against adulterated milk in 144 Tehsils of the 36 districts of the province and discarded 115,000 liters of substandard milk. The PFA circles disclosed that pickets were erected at the entry a
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
PA Speaker meets Nawaz

PA Speaker meets Nawaz

Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Mohammad Iqbal met former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind residence here on Friday and discussed important issues of national importance. Rana Iqbal also expressed good wishes for early recovery of Begum Kulsoom Naw
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
NAB too lenient with Nawaz: Sharjeel

NAB too lenient with Nawaz: Sharjeel

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) legislator Sharjeel Inam Memon on Friday said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has a sympathetic attitude towards former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Talking to journalists outside Sindh Assembly building, Memon said
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
PM flies to London

PM flies to London

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday left for London on a two-day visit to address a conference in London School of Economics, official sources said. The sources said that the Prime Minister would address a conference at the London School of Econ
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Parliament protects corrupt mafia, alleges Imran

Parliament protects corrupt mafia, alleges Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairperson Imran Khan continued his tirade against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and claimed that the parliament 'protected' Nawaz Sharif. Khan addressed a political rally in Kot Addu and criticised the leaders of Pakistan People
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Senate grieved over death of Dina Wadia

Senate grieved over death of Dina Wadia

The Upper House of the Parliament Friday expressed profound grief and sorrow over the death of Dina Wadia, the daughter of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. She passed away at her home in New York on Thursday. She was ninety-eight. The Senate offered Fate
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Energy plan being devised to produce electricity: NA told

Energy plan being devised to produce electricity: NA told

As many as 15 different projects of solar, wind and bagasse will add 626 megawatts of electricity in the national grid by November next year. Minister for Power Division Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari informed this to National Assembly on Friday during the ques
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
FO sees amicable solution of Catalonia situation

FO sees amicable solution of Catalonia situation

The Foreign Office Friday said the government of Pakistan was observing the situation in Spain after the declaration of independence by Catalonia and hoped that the issue would be amicably settled as per the Spanish constitution.
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Eight die, many injured in Bajaur Agency landslide

Eight die, many injured in Bajaur Agency landslide

At least eight people including children and women were killed and several others injured in a landslide incident in Bajaur Agency's Sikandaro area on Friday. According to details reports, the deceased people were gathering mud for a house in a mountainou
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
PTCL begins nationwide blood donation drive

PTCL begins nationwide blood donation drive

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) commences a nationwide Blood Donation Drive, whereby the company has partnered with reputable donor agencies and made a pledge to donate over 5,000 pints of blood. To highlight the importance of donating b
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am
Balochistan government releases family members of insurgent leader

Balochistan government releases family members of insurgent leader

Detained family members of head of banned Baloch militant group Dr Allah Nazar were released and handed over to his brother-in-law Mehrullah on Friday, a government spokesman said. "As proud sons of Pakistan and Balochistan, the sanctity of our sisters is
Published 04 Nov, 2017 12:00am