Tag: federal government

Islamabad refuses to transfer Shakeel Afridi from Peshawar jail

PESHAWAR- The federal government has refused to accept the provincial government's request for transfer of Dr. Shakeel Afridi from Peshawar's central jail due to...

Punjab govt not the only one distributing laptops

  Federal government has decided to launch a scheme to distribute 100,000 laptops to the most deserving students of the federal educational institutions. The distribution criteria...

Polyclinic needs a parking lot

Citizens expressed grave concerns over the lack of proper parking facilities in front of Federal Government Services Hospital (Polyclinic). Polyclinic, being the second major hospital...

Provinces demand more for their development programmes

The mandarins of the economic ministries spent a busy day on Tuesday sorting out strategy to counter the provincial governments hard tactics to seek...

A tale of two kitties

The federal government wants the provincial governments to take a lead on new development projects after the transfer of increased revenues to the federating...

Heavy thunder and hailstorms ahead…

The economic observers foresee further deterioration in the country’s already depressed investment climate as the funds-starved federal government is planning to impose incremental taxes...

LHC seeks reply from federal govt over enforcement of Urdu as...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has sought a reply from the federal government over the enforcement of Urdu as a national language in the...

PAC leaders put on ECL

The federal government has placed two senior leaders of the Lyari-based banned Peoples Aman Committee (PAC), Uzair Baloch and Zafar Baloch on the Exit...

‘We better stop power outages to win next elections’

PPP Punjab had proposed the federal government to take strong measures to end load shedding and give relief to the masses in the upcoming...

Centre believes Shahbaz’s laptops are useless without ‘free internet’

The federal government, to match the Punjab government’s laptop distribution campaign, has decided to provide free internet connections to all the universities and colleges...

So fellas got some dough on ya?

The federal government Wednesday borrowed over Rs 139 billion from the scheduled banks to cater its ever increasing budgetary needs. The fresh borrowing was...

A new foreign policy?

Our old one doesn’t seem to be working… Despite multiple problems in the domestic context, the federal government is endeavouring to expand its foreign policy...

On judicial activism

Too much? The most challenging task in democracy is to balance rights and rightful role on the one hand and obligations and societal good on...

Know thy limits

All roads, it seems, lead to the apex court After a torrid discussion with someone whose analytical excellence and intellect I hold in high esteem,...

Government refuses scheduled bank loans worth Rs44 billion

The cash-strapped federal government seems to have either curtailed its budgetary expenditures or diversified its source of financing that has primarily been the local...

Five-day week makes it difficult to cover syllabus

Students of the federal government’s educational institution are finding it difficult to cover the syllabus in due time period, in the wake of a...