Tag: Continues

Tanvir Dar Hockey Academy registered a comprehensive 4-0 win against Essen’s senior team in Germany. Adeel scored two goals while Awais and Rizwan...

Reflecting poor interest of lawmakers in the Finance Bill 2011-12, the Lower House on Saturday continued debate on the budget amid visibly thin presence,...

The criticism of the army by the PML-N continued in the Lower House on Friday, just a day after the corps commanders conference took...

The controversial appointment of the Senate opposition leader continued to mar the debate on the federal budget of 2011-12 in the Upper House of...

Citizens of Lahore took a sigh of relief as the mercury dropped a bit in the provincial metropolis on Thursday. Maximum temperature recorded in...

The shortage of petrol continued in the city on Wednesday, forcing vehicles to line up at filling stations on a third consecutive day as...

A coalition of musicians is demanding the Recording Academy restore more than 30 categories cut from the Grammy Awards, alleging the reductions unfairly target...

W ith no breakthroughs in the ongoing row between the Karachi Electricity Supply Company (KESC) workers and their management, even the committee formed by...

During the grand anti-encroachment operation on Saturday, encroachments were removed from Shalimar Town, GT Road and Chamiraan within a radius of five kilometres by...

Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Public Referendum continued on the 5th day while MQM Provincial Organizing Committee Joint In-charge Shabir Qaeem Khakani and National Assembly...

Shahid Nisar of Army won his second gold medal in two days in the 4th National Junior Cycling Championship on Wednesday The championship, which...

KARACHI - Pakistan's textile sector export in March 2011 exhibited robust growth, augmenting by 44 percent, while the food group posted a 56.4 percent increase compared to the same month in the last fiscal year. Sources stated that the country's export of textile and clothing, which are major export sectors and possess 50 percent share in total export, stood at $1,249 million in March, 2011 in contrast with $867.253 million during the same month in 2010. Besides, export of food,

LAHORE - The March for Education campaign to end educational emergency is going on in full swing on the Internet, as thousands of users are signing the petition in order to urge the federal government to increase the education budget to four percent but Punjab Education Department sources claim that the department is working on its own roadmap.
The campaign started after the Pakistan Education Task Force's (PETF) report on the "Education Emergency Pakistan Booklet", which

LAHORE - Most CNG stations across Punjab remained shut for the second consecutive day as a result of the strike announced by the CNG Association and the Petroleum Retailers Association.
President of the association Ghayas Paracha, announced the strike on Tuesday and said that a shortage in Gas supply is highly unlikely during this season and despite the orders of the president and prime minister, the Sui Northern Gas was still persistent with gas load shedding.
Long queues

ISLAMABAD - Even after being provided a massive financial bailout package worth Rs 21.5 billion during the last two fiscal years, the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is still incurring losses of Rs 9 billion per annum.
A source at the Ministry of Industries said the government had already provided Rs 6 billion in cash to the PSM while giving a sovereign guarantee of Rs 15.5 billion to commercial banks. However, he said, the state-owned entity was still in the red, as it was causing a

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - The Punjab government late on Monday sacked 13 more young doctors for participating in the ongoing strike, while the Health Department recruited 465 doctors to restore medical care to patients in a majority of teaching hospitals across the province.
The Punjab government has decided not to bow to the demands of the Young Doctors' Association. The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has called an emergency convention of their office-bearers at the district level

KARACHI - Overall demand for petroleum product continues to slide, as consumption contracted by two percent annually during the eighth month of the current fiscal year. Subdued black oil sales marred overall volumes, led by a 3.5 percent annual decline in furnace oil (FO) sales.
On the flip side, expansion in motor gasoline (MS) sales swelled by 20 percent since last year and carried overall white oil volumes during the period. Lackluster performance was attributable to depressed