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Weddings in Pakistan have a host of unnecessary and wasteful traditions attached to them. Mostly, middle class families of Pakistan can’t imagine abandoning these...

Imtiaz Gulzar, 29, resident of Yousaf Park, Sherakot, was gunned down by his father Gulzar over monetary issues in the Sherakot Police Area on...

Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Muqami Hakoomat (JPJM) Chairman Daniyal Aziz said on Thursday it was ironic and deplorable that Pakistan, the fifth poorest country of...

Last Monday marked the three-year completion of Asif Ali Zardari’s presidential leadership in Pakistan. For Zardari and his supporters this must be a day...

The Erasmus Mundus Europe-Asia (EMEA) scholarship for 2012 covers travel, health insurance, accommodation and the student will also get 1,000 euros a month for...

It is not due to showing extra income but the reduction in non-development expenditures that the province’s 2011-12 fiscal year budget has been made...

KARACHI - Following the directives of the Sindh Education Department, Education deputy district officer (DDO) has ordered reducing the educational budget and submitting a report on monthly basis. The heads of schools and colleges have been directed to submit monthly expenditure report by the fifth day of every month, verified by the Sindh accountant general (AG).
The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has asked the local government's education department to reduce monthly

KARACHI - Women parliamentarians have sought electoral reforms in the country with particular focus on cutting the size of expenses required to run for a parliamentary seat. In a discussion with the members of the Legislative Watch Group of the Aurat Foundation, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s women legislators said that there was a need to change the political culture of extravagance during polls.
The dialogue that ensued during a ceremony organised for presenting shield to

FAISALABAD - The Faisalabad police have drawn out a new strategy for a speedy action in the investigation of rape cases. According to the new strategy, the police will arrange the DNA tests of rape victims at government expenses. The decision has been taken for swift proceedings in the investigation and to relieve the victims of the heavy charges of the tests that cost Rs 15,000.
SSP Dr Usman has directed all the officers concerned to take into account the new policy while

KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is expected to face a 17 percent decline in its admin expenses in the Financial Year 2012, while the consolidated operations, including Ufone's, the company reflected plausible growth prospects.
Under the agreed terms of Sales Purchase Agreement (SPA), Etisalat is allowed to charge technical service fee at 3.5 percent on the consolidated revenues of the company for a period of five years, commencing from October

LONDON: Former Labour MP David Chaytor became the first politician to receive a criminal conviction over last year's parliamentary expenses scandal when he admitted on Friday to fraudulently claiming almost 20,000 pounds.
Chaytor, 61, who had been MP for Bury North, had claimed back money he had paid in rent for houses that were in fact owned by himself and by his mother, and also put in false claims for IT services.
He had previously denied the charges and was due to stand

KARACHI: The total expenditures sustained by Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) in the first three months of the current financial year stood at Rs 8.09 billion.
The tentative balance sheet of the PSM made available with Pakistan Today, reveals that the total expenditure of the mills in the first three months - July, August and September - of the current fiscal was calculated to be 2.54 billion, 2.83 billion and 2.69 billion, respectively.
The items of expenditures include raw