Tag: Concerned

Pakistan on Monday expressed concern over the progress on the probe into the Samjhauta Express incident when National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza a met...

PPP leader and Sindh Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazharul Haq on Wednesday expressed concern over Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah’s statement...

Rescue 1122 Director General (DG) Rizwan Naseer on Saturday expressed concern over the increasing number of road traffic crashes (RTC) and involvement of youngsters...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday raised Pakistan’s concern over the US administration’s inaction against CIA operative Raymond Davis, saying that the people...

The South Asian Media Commission organised a consultation among senior journalists of Islamabad on the brutal murder of Saleem Shahzad at the SAFMA office....

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday expressed grave concern over the recovery of bodies of missing Baloch persons and said a judicial commission...

Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan Wednesday said the action taken against Osama Bin Ladin in Abbottabad was unilateral and Pakistan has expressed deep concern...

KUWAIT CITY - Secretary general of OPEC Abdullah El-Badri said on Monday that oil producers are "concerned" at high crude prices and added that markets are adequately supplied.
"The (high) oil price is a concern. We see that there is a $15-20 premium risk at this time," Badri told reporters when asked if OPEC was concerned about soaring crude prices.
He was speaking ahead of a roundtable meeting for Asian energy ministers who are expected to discuss the impact of oil prices

TOKYO - China said on Friday it was concerned at Japan pump ing radioactive water into the sea from its crippled nuclear power plant, reflecting growing international unease at the month-long crisis triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
China will "closely" monitor Japan's actions to regain control of the plant, the foreign ministry said, demanding Tokyo provide swift and accurate information on the crisis which began on March 11 when a magnitude 9 earthquake and

QUETTA - Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi Wednesday expressed his dissatisfaction over the law and order situation in the province. Talking to newsmen after an awards ceremony held at Governor House in connection with the Pakistan Day, Magsi observed that the incidents of kidnapping for ransom were growing rapidly. When asked about government's failure to ensure security situation, he said, "Judges, lawyers and even women are being abducted while the killings continue and

KARACHI - The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) has expressed concern over an explosion due to accumulation of methane gas at the Sorange coal mine in Balochistan, resulting in the death of 45 of the 52 miners working at the mine at the time of the explosion. In a statement issued on Monday, PILER Executive Director Karamat Ali expressed serious concern over the absence of an effective occupational health and safety policy in the country, resulting in deaths

KARACHI - Expressing concern over the continuing strike of doctors in Punjab, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday said the legitimate demands of the protesting doctors should be accepted immediately. He said the doctors have been protesting for the past two weeks because of low incomes and problems being faced by them due to the sharp increase in cost of living.
Altaf regretted that the Punjab Government was not doing anything to solve the issue, due

LAHORE - Recent reports that terrorists could create trouble and put the cricket World Cup in jeopardy have forced the Pakistan government to ask India to provide fool-proof security to its cricketers. The World Cup is being jointly hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and recent intelligence reports have suggested that terrorists are planning to strike match venues in India to jeopardize the mega-event. Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson, Tehmina Janjua, while responding to

DHAKA - US Senator John Kerry says he is "deeply concerned" by efforts to remove Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank he founded and urged the Bangladesh government and Nobel laureate to reach a compromise. The 70-year-old economist was abruptly sacked as managing director of Dhaka-based Grameen Bank by Bangladesh's central bank on Wednesday in what his supporters say was the culmination of a year-long vendetta against him.
Kerry, who heads the powerful US Senate foreign

QUETTA - The military officials of NATO and Pakistan held a meeting on Friday to discuss the security issues and the attacks on the vehicles carrying supplies to Afghanistan in Balochistan. A 13-member NATO delegation led by Maj General James I Terry arrived in Quetta the morning in two helicopters from Kandahar province of Afghanistan. They later went to the Corps Headquarters and met Commander Southern Command Lt Gen Javed Zia.
The NATO officials expressed their grave concern

GUJRANWALA - Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmad has expressed concerns over Indian intentions to construct some 250 dams in occupied Kashmir and urged the government of Pakistan and the international bodies to take measures to stop India from doing so.
"There is no room of any non-state political party in Azad Kashmir and if democracy failed yet again in Pakistan then nobody would be blamed but the politicians," he said this while talking to journalists during his

LAHORE - The Law Society Pakistan is surprised by the recent decision of the judicial commission regarding denial of extension to 10 additional judges of Lahore High Court and has appealed to legal fraternity to voice against the move.
These additional judges were appointed during 2009-2010 for a period of one year on the recommendation of respective chief justices (CJs) and the chief justice of Pakistan but, after the recent decision of the commission, they had stopped