ISLAMABAD: Fencing of the 2,611-km-long Pak-Afghan border would be completed by December 2019, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Asif Ghafoor said Saturday. In a statement on his Twitter…
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), eliminating the audit observations on Lahore-Abdul Hakeem Motorway section, has commended the performance of National Highway Authority (NHA) officers for maintaining transparency and early completion of…
The Economic Affairs Division (EAD) Secretary Nargis Sethi said that the EAD would constitute a special ‘foreign assistance monitoring cell’ in line with directives of finance minister to effectively monitor the timely…
State Minister for Communications Mir Dost Muhammad Mazari on Sunday said that special attention is being paid by the present PPP-led government to development of Sindh province. He said this while chairing…
The authorities concerned have been directed to accelerate pace of construction work at Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) so that the new building could be inaugurated on June 30, the date fixed…
Lahore District Coordination Officer Noor-ul-Amin Mengal visited the Shahrah-e-Aiwan-e-Tijarat, Allama Iqbal Road and Circular Road on Saturday and inspected the pace of development on these roads. The DCO directed that the roads…
President Asif Ali Zardari directed the authorities to complete the up-gradation project of Karachi-Hyderabad Super Highway (M-9) into a motorway in fifteen months from the date of commencement of work on the…
The Jammat-e-Islami (JI) demanded on Wednesday an immediate release of funds for the Lowari tunnel project to restart construction work, threatening to hold protests including long march otherwise. JI leader Siraj-ul-Haq was…
Expressing desire for the acceleration of Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline and 1000 MW Taftan-Quetta Power Transmission line projects, President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said Pakistan wanted expansion of ties with Iran in…
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) asked students with incomplete information in their online applications for the “Indigenous 5,000 PhD Fellowship” on Sunday to complete their forms by September 10. The HEC said…
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday that the Multan Road project should be completed by September 15. Approving the construction of flyovers on the Canal and Ferozepur Road and an…
While the country faces severe electricity shortage, the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) hydroelectric authorities were completely clueless at a public hearing on their petition to increase the hydel generation tariff…
The city district government has so far been able to spend 80 per cent of the development budget of the current fiscal year while all the 18 projects worth Rs 750 million…
The timely completion of development projects is the top priority of the PML-N government, said Tehmina Daultana MNA while presiding over a meeting in the committee room of the DCO. Tehmina said…
ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani Monday directed the Health Ministry to make the country’s first “Liver Diseases and Transplant Centre” (LDTC) operational by the end of May. The prime minister directed the Ministry of Health to equip the centre with modern medical facilities that meet international standards. He directed that the best professionals be hired to provide quality health care to the hepatitis patients.
The directives were made by the Prime Minister
LAHORE – The six falcons which were smuggled from the Rawalpindi airport in October 2010 were released on Monday after exactly six months, wild life sources said. The release of the rare Siberian falcons into the wild was organised as a special event by the Punjab Wildlife Department (PWD) and several other groups supporting wildlife and conservation, including WWF-Pakistan were part of the event. The event took place at the Salt Range. Last year, there was an attempt to illegally
