Tag: Employment

Darawat Dam to generate employment, control floods

The under-construction Darawat Dam located in the Thatta and Jamshoro districts of Sindh will be completed by December this year, while the irrigation system...

Punjab govt lifts ban on teachers’ recruitment

The Punjab government lifted ban on teachers’ employment and transfers after Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif signed a summary in this regard. The decision will come...

Govt planning over 4,000 jobs for disabled

The government has started work on a policy envisaging allocation of one percent budget, filling of 4,049 quota posts and issuance of special cards...

Budget will create opportunities of employment: Sheikh

Finance Minister Dr. Hafeez Sheikh has said that the important targets in the next financial budget would be to create new opportunity of employment...

KP govt allocates 2% quota for eunuchs in employments

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Social Welfare, Sitara Ayaz has said that provincial government was taking all steps to facilitate the eunuchs and two percent...

Jobs up for grabs in LDA, WASA

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) have invited applications from eligible candidates for filling vacant posts. LDA has invited...

The double-dip dilemma

What Pakistan needs is growth that is job oriented - The economy expanded remarkably during 2001-07. The government in power back then, claimed several...

Self-employment awareness project for youth launched

The British Council (BC) and YES Network Pakistan have jointly launched “Youth Enterprise Generator Project” in order to inspire and equip young people to...

Experts highlight importance of franchising

An interactive session entitled “Self Employment Opportunities for Youth” was held here at the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST),...

PMDC to oversee Pakistani doctors’ employment in KSA

The Saudi government has expressed the desire that Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC) be made a focal point for dealing with matters related...

Overseas Employment Corporation Tower plan approved

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has issued approval for the building plan of the Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) Tower, to be on a G- 9/4...

Pakistan scores lowest in female wage employment

Despite the fact that Pakistan is the ninth largest country in the world with respect to the size of its labour force but in...

Cabinet set to bar retired employees from re-employment

The federal cabinet will take up a ten-point agenda today (Wednesday) including approval for renaming the Peshawar Airport and a review of the consumer...

Next budget to carry thousands of new jobs

Thousands of employment opportunities would be made available in the next fiscal year. This was stated by Sindh Minister for Information, Sharjeel Inam Memon,...

SC issues notices over contract employment of FIA DG, others

ISLAMABAD - In a response to the government's refusal of not sacking Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Waseem Ahmed, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday formed a larger bench to hear the case of Ahmed as well as others officials on contract employment on March 11.
The CJP issued notices to the attorney general, the establishment secretary, advocates general and chief secretaries of the provincial governments and the Islamabad

Port Qasim affairs – Employment row risks $22 billion exports hope

KARACHI - The intermittent protest by hundreds of dock workers at Port Qasim is feared to result in a serious blow to the country's exports which the economic managers expect would fetch over $22 billion this year, thus helping Pakistan balance its external accounts.
The analysts believe that after achieving a $26 million current account surplus during July-December 2010-11, the terrorism and floods-hit Pakistan is expected to see its external accounts widening by $4 billion or

Qaim’s recently-sacked friend finds employment in Chief Minister’s House

KARACHI - Siddiq Abu Bhai is a lucky man to have Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah as his friend: removed nine days ago from his position of adviser to the government, Abu Bhai was appointed on Wednesday as coordinator to the Sindh government on political affairs.
The Sindh government's Services and General Administration Department formally issued a notification about Abu Bhai's fresh appointment on Wednesday. PPP leader Rashid Rabbani is already working as Advisor to the