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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 […]
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 […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman‚ Imran Khan who arrived in Islamabad on Thursday for the first time since he had been injured, visited family of a slain party worker in Rawalpindi. He told reporters that he will pursue the case and will ensure the affected family should get justice. Earlier‚ doctors at the Shaukhat Khanum hospital […]
The twelve members of KPK cabinet took oath in Peshawar on Thursday. The portfolios will be announced later. Governor Engineer Shaukatullah administered the oath to the new cabinet. The ruling coalition allies succeeded to finalize the cabinet late Wednesday. Seven of the total 15 ministers are from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Shaukat Yousafzai, Shah Farman, […]
More than two decades after fleeing Afghanistan with her devoted father, Deeba* has been flown out of Pakistan to rejoin her brothers and sisters and receive specialist care for her disability. The 38-year-old, who suffers from an intellectual disability, arrived in New York earlier this year to a warm welcome from her siblings, who […]
Widespread rain/thunderstorm is expected in Upper Sindh‚ Southeastern Balochistan and southern Punjab while at scattered places of Upper/Central Punjab Islamabad‚ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa‚ Southern Sindh‚ Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during next 24 hours, the met office says. Widespread dust-thunderstorm/rain occurred in Punjab‚ Islamabad‚ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa‚ Upper Sindh‚ Eastern Balochistan and Kashmir during the last twenty-four hours. […]
Clerks across Pakistan and Azad Kashmir will observe strike on Friday to protest against the PML-N gov’t failure to increase salaries of the government employees. Haji Irshad, President All Pakistan Clerks Association, says that the clerks will observe pen-down strike against the budget. He said the association will also hold an emergency meeting […]
The PML-N government Wednesday increased the defence allocation in its budget for fiscal 2013-14 to 627 billion rupees (around 6.32 billion US dollars), making nearly 15 per cent hike over the outlay for the current fiscal, which ends on June 30th. The allocation for the three defence services amounted to 15.73 per cent […]
