ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry on Friday formally raised objections on the report of an inquiry commission constituted for probing the Quetta incident that left 73 people dead, most of them lawyers, and 104 people injured. Advocate Makhdoom Ali Khan filed a 64-page document, including the objections and replies to the recommendations and findings, in the […]
Karachi: Pakistan stocks posted sharp gains on Wednesday amid delays in the Panama case hearing and institutional interest in scrips across the board in the earning season’s rally. The KSE 100 index gained 698 points or 1.41 percent to close at 49,455 level. “Oil stocks outperformed on FM decision to increase local POL prices. Record […]
MANSEHRA: A grand jirga of people of pales in Lower Kohistan have announced to move apex court for review of its verdict which upheld Chief Minster’s notification of bifurcation of Kohistan into two districts last week. “We would not only move supreme court seeking review of its verdict which upheld Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government notification of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Rs 45 billion olive cultivation project has been closed down more than 18 months ago due to financial irregularities. The government handed over the project to the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC). The Italian agriculture experts declared Potohar region in Punjab and some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan suitable for the olive […]
PARACHINAR: A bomb tore through a crowded vegetable market in a tribal region on Saturday morning, killing and maiming dozens of people and breaking a relatively long lull in terrorist violence in the region. Two terrorist groups — the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami — claimed they had coordinated the attack in the vegetable market, […]
KARACHI: A rather unseemly verbal duel in the Sindh Assembly between a woman member belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, Nusrat Seher Abbasi, and a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) minister, Imdad Pitafi, on Friday not only gripped the attention of thousands of people watching the proceedings live on television, but also served to highlight […]
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said he supports merger of Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) due to similar cultural norms and linguistic values. Talking to media persons in Peshawar, Imran Khan said reforms should be introduced in FATA from time to time and local body’s polls should be […]
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a conference said that reforms, provision of basic infrastructure, ensuring rights and security in Federally Administered Tribal Areas could help in socio-economic uplift of the area and its people. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home secretary Shakeel Qadir, who was chief guest on the second day of the conference, said that decision about future of […]
LAHORE: The Punjab Planning and Development Department on Monday disclosed that Rs 282 billion under the annual development programme had been released for implementation of 6,080 development projects during first half of current financial year 2016-17. A spokesman for the Planning and Development Department said that the Punjab government had approved Rs 550 under the […]
PESHAWAR / KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began counting the cost of a cold snap sweeping across the country as the first winter showers in Karachi swamped roads, thoroughfares and streets, leading to massive traffic snarls on Saturday. The country’s mountainous regions received fresh snowfall as people endured the below-freezing temperatures. Weather forecasts have predicted a […]
