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Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has strongly condemned the rockets’ and hand grenades’ attack at the Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat. He also expressed sorrow and grief over the loss of a policeman in the attack. The Prime Minister said that all measures would be taken to ensure the safety and security of such national […]
The National Assembly and the Senate are set to open debate on the most controversial and the first budget of the PML-N govt on Saturday. The opposition routinely begin debate on the budget. Parliamentary parties will hold meetings before the session to chalk out strategy. Members from the treasury and the opposition benches will highlight […]
A group of miscreants lobbed bombs at the residency of founder of the nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Balochistan province early Saturday, officials said. The miscreants stated to be four to five attackers struck the building in Ziyarat area with three hand grenades and time devices on the building at 1:30 a.m., and […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has constituted a four member committee for restructuring and reforming of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the national flag carrier, the PM office said Friday. Those included in the committee are Mr. Muhammad Ishaq Dar Minister for Finance, Capt. Shujaat Azeem Advisor on Aviation, Mr. Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin and Mr. […]
Pakistan and China Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the fields of energy‚ mass transit‚ industrial cities and road sector projects, state media reported. Under the MoU‚ China North Industries Corporation ( NORINCO) would help Pakistan for setting up industrial cities along motorways‚ road sector and solar irrigation projects, Radio Pakistan […]
Ruba SEZ Group, one of Pakistan’s biggest investors mainly in the field of automobiles, tyres and tubes, has announced to launch 800cc hybrid cars in Pakistan by the end of 2014. Its arrival will revolutionise the automobile sector in the country as the car has the capability to run 400 km on one battery charge […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday directed to examine possibility of importing energy from neighbouring countries to improve the situation on immediate basis, the PM office said. He issued the directives while presiding over a high level meeting on energy situation at the Prime Minister’s Office. The meeting took stock of overall energy situation […]
The PML-N government faces the first and huge embarrassment in the Supreme Court over its decision to increase the petroleum products and also hike in the GST. The apex court heard a suo moto case regarding increase in petroleum prices summoned FBR officials to clarify the situation. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar […]
FAO is calling for countries in the global ‘wheat belt’ to step up monitoring and prevention for wheat rusts – fungal diseases that do especially well in particularly wet seasons. Yields could be affected across North Africa, the Middle East into West and South Asia, which account for more than 30 percent of global wheat […]
Pakistani exporters have learnt about opportunities to sell over 3,500 products duty-free in the United States at a seminar jointly sponsored by the U.S. and Pakistani governments, the US embassy said Thursday. Exporters from Peshawar, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) participated in a video seminar that detailed the advantages […]
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Thursday failed to directly respond to question about the government’s decision not to increase salaries of the government employees. Responding to a question about zero raise in salaries of government servants at the post-budget press conference‚ the Minister said pension has been increased by ten percent besides minimum pension to five […]
Pakistan has emphatically conveyed to the United States its concerns on drone attacks and raised the issue of drone attacks at different world forums including the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. “We will continue to raise this issue with the US officials at all the appropriate forums. The […]
