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Russia believes that a new UN Security Council resolution on Syria reportedly being drafted by the United States is not balanced, the country's deputy...

The speakers and experts here at a consultative workshop stressed the need for revisiting of the draft of the Biodiversity Act and develop an...

The gigantic task of printing draft electoral rolls of more than 80 million eligible voters under the close supervision of the Election Commission of...

The federal cabinet approved on Wednesday the draft of the 20th Constitutional Amendment Bill 2011 to provide legal cover to the newly-formed Election Commission...

MULTAN - Federal Secretary for Industries and Production Abdul Ghaffar Soomro said that the draft of the new industrial policy had been finalised in consultation with all chambers of commerce and industry in the country.
While addressing a ceremony at the Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), the federal secretary revealed that the draft would now be sent to the cabinet for final approval. He said, we are trying to form a policy to give priority to the industries which

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters at Parliament House on Wednesday that a draft had been prepared for the agreement to exchange prisoners between Pakistan and Britain.
Malik said officials from both countries were in contact regarding the agreement and the court had issued un-bailable arrest warrants for former president Pervez Musharraf. He said that if no action was taken on the warrants, the court would make a decision itself.
He said the court

KARACHI - The draft of the law to ban sale of uniodised salt and for making salt iodisation compulsory has been finalised and is set to be presented before the Sindh Assembly, Special Health Secretary Dr Suresh Kumar said on Monday. Addressing a public awareness seminar, which was organised by the provincial chapter of the MicroNutrient Initiative (MI) in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund, Kumar said that compulsory salt iodisation is one of the prerequisites to

PESHAWAR - A one day workshop on National Climate Change (NCC) Policy was held Saturday at the Archaeology Museum Hall, University of Peshawar in which experts assessed the draft of the new National Climate Change Policy for the country.
The experts were of the opinion that in the era of global warming and climate change there is a need for a comprehensive NCC Policy to avoid the frequently occurring natural disasters in Pakistan.
They said that most of the areas in the

KARACHI - The recently inaugurated advanced grain and storage terminal at Port Qasim is operating at almost half of its cargo and ship handling capacity due to insufficient dredging and therefore inadequate draft constraints at the 45-kilometer long navigational channel of the country's second largest seaport.
A joint venture completed on a Built-Operate-Transfer basis, the Fauji Akbar Portia Terminals Limited (FAP) at Port Qasim was constructed at a cost of $135 million and is

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms Chairman Senator Raza Rabbani presented a report with the draft of the 19th Amendment bill to incorporate Supreme Court's recommendations in the mechanism of the appointment of judges in the superior courts in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
By amending Article 182 of the constitution, the 19th Amendment has withdrawn powers from the chief justice of Pakistan for the appointment of ad hoc judges and transferred them

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms Chairman Senator Raza Rabbani presented a report with the draft of the 19th Amendment bill to incorporate Supreme Court's recommendations in the mechanism of the appointment of judges in the superior courts in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
By amending Article 182 of the constitution, the 19th Amendment has withdrawn powers from the chief justice of Pakistan for the appointment of ad hoc judges and transferred them

LAHORE: Recommendations for the first draft of the Food Safety and Standard Act 2010 and the Punjab Food Quality Control Authority have been finalised and the second draft would be prepared in light of these proposals and submitted to the special committee formed by the Punjab CM, Punjab Health Secretary Irfan Elahi said on Monday.
He made these remarks while chairing a meeting in the committee room of the Civil Secretariat, Lahore. The meeting reviewed in detail the methodology