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The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) has decided, albeit unwillingly, to increase the fee for annual examinations in order to increase the salaries...

As different quarters constantly are raising questions on internal haemorrhages in public sector enterprises (PSEs) and propose structural reforms or the privatisation of sick...

The Economic Survey 2010-11 estimates that the war on terror cost Pakistan $17.8 billion in the current fiscal year, which is nearly 70 percent...

The national flag carrier has discovered a new way to fleece passengers by increasing its ticket amendment or refund charges up to 550 percent....

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the delay in submission of reply by federal government to a writ petition seeking disqualification of Rehman Malik as senator on the basis of his removal from service.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed remarked that the court will not allow the government to delay the case unnecessarily. On Wednesday, a deputy attorney general requested the court to defer the hearing as establishment division had not forwarded reply.

LAHORE - Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Sahibzada Haji Fazale Karim said that all preparations for the "Isthkam-e-Pakistan Sunni Conference" had been completed and it would be held at all cost at Minar-e-Pakistan on April 17.
Addressing a press conference at Lahore Press Club, he said an emergency meeting of party heads had been called in Lahore on Friday to discuss the alliance's future strategy Fazale Karim said the government was trying to put up hurdles in the way of

KARACHI - Pakistan-born American is keen familiarise the people living in the rural areas of Pakistan with the technology of home-made, non-patent and cheap 'solar box cooker' as his social responsibility.
"I have come here to show the world's cheapest solar box cooker, a simple technology that uses sunlight to bake and cook plain rice, prepare lentils and other foods on daily basis in a covered casserole, a porcelain-enamel cooking dish," said Pakistani expatriate Afzal Syed in

KARACHI - Depo-provera, a birth control injection that is said to last for three months, is still being pushed upon unsuspecting women in Karachi despite known hazards of long-term use. According to the WHO, long-term use of the drug causes a loss in bone mineral density - an issue that led the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in the US to apply the 'black box' warning (the highest that is applied to drugs short of banning them altogether) to Depo-Provera.
Despite these issues,

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that leasing of Railways land to Royal Palm Golf and Country Club, Lahore caused a huge loss of Rs 290 million.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a joint petition against irregularities involving over Rs 25 billion in leasing of Railways land at Lahore to a Malaysian consortium associated by two Pakistani's Lahore based companies- Husnain Construction

KARACHI - No teaching activities will take place in any educational institution in Sindh, while college-based teachers' associations of Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa will observe a black day and hoist black flags on college buildings to protest the brutality meted out to college teachers in Sindh, announced Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) representatives during a press conference on Tuesday.
The boycott of all teaching activities follows the

MOHALI - Angry Ireland captain William Porterfield slammed a controversial umpiring decision involving Gary Wilson in their crunch World Cup defeat against the West Indies on Friday. Wilson was adjudged leg before wicket by on-field umpire Asoka de Silva when the batsman was cruising at 61 and the decision was referred to TV umpire Bruce Oxenford. TV replays showed the batsman had offered a shot but de Silva upheld his decision as the ball was pitching in line of the stumps, prompting

KARACHI - The soaring prices of POL (petrol, oil and lubricants) have remarkably increased the sale of smuggled Iranian petrol, causing losses worth billions of rupees to the exchequer, while important government personalities are also investing in and harbouring this illegal business, sources have informed Pakistan Today.
The daily consumption of Iranian petrol has gone through the ceiling, whereas a major decline between 10,000 tonnes and 15,000 tonnes in daily consumption of

DHAKA - Pakistan must clinch the World Cup if they are to win back their fans, Shoaib Akhtar said on Sunday as his team try to emerge from the damaging spot-fixing scandal. Pakistan have endured a troubled build-up to the tournament after former captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif were banned on charges of corruption during the Lord's Test against England last year.
"Obviously we are very hurt inside by whatever has happened to us," Akhtar, 35, told

KARACHI: A likely rise of eight percent in international coal prices due to supply concerns will encourage local manufacturers to raise their prices. Coal is an essential raw material in cement production. This rise comes at a time when there is a 12 percent monthly decline in domestic cement sales in November.
The international coal prices have shot up to $117 per tonne recently since December 1, due to supply concerns arising due to floods in Australia, the world's biggest

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N's Punjab government blatantly violated rules and regulations to accommodate its favourites and party workers by doling out tractors under the Green Tractor Scheme, incurring a loss of Rs 2 billion resultantly.
According to the Auditor General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) report on the accounts of the Punjab government for the year 2009-10, the Agriculture Department initiated the project during financial year 2008-9 to provide tractors to the farming community