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Government exercising restraint in expenditure: Dr Shaikh

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said on Monday the government is exercising self restraint in expenditures and is striving hard to make this...

JI to observe Dr Aafia Siddique Day today

On the appeal of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan, JI will observe the Dr Aafia Siddiqui Day on Friday to express its solidarity...

Dr Afridi, others barred from foreign travel

The judicial commission to probe the Abbottabad incident on Tuesday imposed a ban on foreign travel for everyone, including Dr Shakeel Afridi, involved in...

Pakistan refuses to release Dr Afridi despite US pressure

Pakistan has turned down the US request to release Dr Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician accused of helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track...

Dr Marie Richards calls on KP chief minister

United States Consul General in Peshawar Dr Marie Richards called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti here at his office on...

53 feared dead in DR Congo plane crash

At least Fifty-three people were feared dead on Friday after a plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather at Kisangani airport...

Dr Shah new head of GCU Physics Department

Noted physicist Professor Dr Hassan A Shah has been appointed as the Chairperson of Government College University Lahore Physics Department with immediate effect while...

Best University Teacher Award to be conferred on Dr Riaz Ahmad

Faculty member of Government College University (GCU), Dr Riaz Ahmad has been selected as the best university teacher for the year 2010 by the...

HEC confers Best University Teacher Award 2010 on Dr Ruhi...

Beaconhouse National University Institute of Psychology Director Professor Dr Ruhi Khalid has been selected by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for the...

Book on Dr Anwar launched at GCU

Government College University Lahore Young Journalists Society (GCU YJS) hosted the launching ceremony of a book on the life of an eminent Old Ravian,...

Dr Rashid Latif joins PTI

Dr Rashid Latif, the owner of Hameed Latif Hospital, along with his son Haroon Latif on Tuesday announced to join the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...

Dr Phailbus gifts rare video collection to Kinnaird College

Prof Dr Mira Phailbus have donated the late Theodore Phailbus’ much coveted classic and rare collection of almost 1800 videos from 1930 onwards to...

Gas crisis can ‘sink the country’, says Dr Asim

ISLAMABAD - Warning that the gas crisis could "sink the country" if it continued, the newly-appointed Adviser to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain said on Monday that immediate remedial measures were required to end the crisis and the decision to dismiss the heads of state-owned oil and gas entities was made because of their failure to deliver and perform as a team. Hussain told a press conference quite candidly that the gas crisis could not be overcome in the short

Dr Fauzia to join sit-in against drone attacks

LAHORE - Dr Fauzia Siddiqi addressed a press conference on Sunday along with Insaaf Student Federation (ISF) President Hassaan Niazi and Ibad-ur-Rehman's brother Sajjad-ur-Rehman, who was killed by a car which had come to help Raymond Davis escape.
Dr Fauzia announced that she would be part of the sit-in against drone attacks. She said that Pakistan's embassy in the United States threatened the lawyer who appealed against Aafia Siddiqi's sentence. Sajjad-ur-Rehman said that the

Dr Nabi Bakhsh Baloch remembered

LAHORE - At a national level condolence reference on Dr Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, organized by PINA in Lahore, the speakers eulogized him as one of the greatest scholars, education researcher and living spirit of Pakistani unity.
The participants called for instituting chairs at various universities of Pakistan in memory of his unmatched contribution in the fields of history, literature, Sindhi language and education. The meeting also demanded that 100 great books of Islamic

Dr Asim Hussain elected senator unopposed

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Chief Election Commissioner Justice Rtd Hamid Ali Mirza on Saturday notified that Dr Asim Hussain was elected unopposed as a result of bye-election to the Senate of Pakistan. Asim was elected unopposed against a general seat from Sindh fallen vacant due to resignation of Senator Dr Khatu Mal Jeewan for the unexpired term of office that is due to expire on March 11, 2015, said a statement issued here.
Former advisor to the prime minister on Petroleum, who is

Pakistani Consul General visits Dr Aafia in Texas

ISLAMABAD - On the instructions of Pakistani ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, Pakistani consul general in Houston Aqil Nadeem visited detained Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui in Carswell detention facility in Texas.
In a two-hour meeting, Dr Aafia Siddiqui informed the consul general that she was medically fine and was pleased to speak by phone to her mother and children in Karachi on Thursday.
A Private TV Channel quoted a Pakistani embassy official as