Tag: Demand

Labourers have slammed the government severely for not increasing their minimum wages in the budget 2011-12, demanding raise as per the ratio of inflation....

Dozens of employees of schools run by National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) in the Mirpurkhas district held a demonstration in front of the...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is “stable” after being treated in Riyadh for bomb wounds, a Saudi official said Wednesday as protesters pushed to...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jehangir has termed the public representatives’ demand for military’s accountability a welcome development. Addressing a seminar organised by...

Journalists have demanded a judicial probe into Syed Saleem Shahzad’s murder and have threatened the government with a long march and sit-in before the...

The Information Technology ministry needs to drive the IT sector forward and must frame a roadmap to bolster the competitiveness of the sector. This...

The construction of the Diamer Bhasha Dam is expected to be a particular blessing for the cement sector as the process will involve the...

TEVTA Employees Association has demanded of TEVTA chairman to regularize officials on contract according to Punjab Chief Minister Mian Mhammad Shabhaz Sharif’s order. According...

A Bollywood studio has dismissed a complaint from a group representing oppressed low-caste Hindus, asking for a top actor to be removed from a...

KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar on the rehabilitation of flood affected people - with the focus on 'choices imposed and choices made' - have demanded that the lands of Karachi, allotted to the people of other provinces, should be given to the flood survivors of Sindh.
"The flood-affected people living in relief camps are being forced to leave the city," they added. The seminar was organised at the Jashn-e-Faiz event by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research

FAISALABAD - The Punjab government, after protests from formers, has approved payment of delivery charges of Rs 7 per bag to the farmers during the upcoming wheat procurement program but the confusion over imposition of 17 percent GST on wheat still exists ahead of the procurement schedule starting from April 20. Earlier, Kissan Board Faisalabad officials and farmers staged protests in Samundary, Tandlianwala, Chak Jhumra and other places against the cancellation of delivery charges

KARACHI - After witnessing a slump in oil consumption on account of devastating floods in the 1HFY11, the local oil demand pattern continues to show growth. During March 2011, the country's oil consumption rose by a significant 21 percent monthly and two percent YoY to stand at 1.7 million tonnes, on account of higher sales of Furnace Oil (FO) and Motor-spirit (Petrol).
Worryingly, a spike in consumption has increased country's reliance on imported resources to 75 percent

KARACHI - It is a "cherished urge" and a "lasting demand of millions of patriotic Pakistanis" to reopen the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case and rectify the historic wrong that has tarnished the image of our judiciary, Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo said on Tuesday. The minister was talking to the media prior to departing for Islamabad to attend the ZAB case reopening hearing in the Supreme Court. Palijo said that by sending a reference to the apex court for reopening this case, the

LAHORE - Two veterinarian officers, who work at the Lahore Zoo, have demanded that they be regularized like all other officers of the Zoo management. Dr Saman Bhatti and Dr Zeb Mahal told Pakistan Today that they have been under a lot of constant stress thanks to work load without much help and their salary packages and promotions have suffered because they were not regularised along with rest of the staff. "It is strange as to why we were the only ones left on contract, even though

KARACHI - Hundreds of home-based women workers and civil society members on Monday demanded ratification of the ILO Home Workers Convention C-177. In the national convention of Home-Based Women Workers, they demanded introduction of laws as well as ratification of the international law so that they could have legal protection.
The convention was arranged by the Home-Based Women Workers Federation of Pakistan in collaboration with the Labour Education Foundation, HomeNet-Pakistan

KARACHI - Foreign exhibitors at the eighth PLASTI & PACK and eighth IFTECH Pakistan 2011 have observed that Pakistan has emerged a good market for quality machines and technology with local entrepreneurs becoming more quality conscious about food grading, packaging and processing.
Speaking to media on the concluding day of the event at Karachi Expo Centre here Friday, they said the demand for latest food and plastic technology and machines is rising in Pakistan. Bertuzzi Food

NEW DELHI - Japan imported about 60,000 tonnes soymeal from India this week, indicating a revival in demand after the twin disasters of an earthquake and tsunami, but import enquiries waned from major Asian wheat importers who have stocked up on the grain.
There had been expectation that soymeal exports from India, Asia's leading supplier, would have been hit due to poor demand from Japan, which imports an average 1 million tonnes of the feedstock from the south Asian nation.