Tag: General

LAHORE: A meeting of the general council of the Pakistan Olympic Association will be held on February 12 (today) at 11:00 a.m. at Avari Hotel here under the chairmanship of Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Arif Hasan HI (M).
President POA Lt Gen (retd) will address the press conference at about 2.00 p.m. at the venue and brief the media about the decisions taken in the meeting.

KARACHI - Following the appeal of international donors and aid agencies for the flood-affected people of Pakistan, Russia has also launched an initiative to assist them. Talking to the media at the Russian Consulate in Karachi on Thursday, Russian Consul General Andrey Demidov said that Russia has so far provided humanitarian aid of about $9 million to flood survivors of Pakistan and, if needed, it would continue its support in the future.
"In accordance with the ordinance of the

WASHINGTON - NATO-led forces can still win the war in Afghanistan even if Pakistan fails to move against militant havens on the border, a top US general said on Tuesday. "That's not a mission stopper in my mind," General David Rodriguez, deputy US commander in Afghanistan, told a Pentagon news conference.
US officials have long pressed Islamabad to crack down on the Haqqani network and other militants based in North Waziristan, saying the insurgents exploit the area as a

ISLAMABAD - An Indian Army court on Saturday convicted serving Lt General PK Rath in the Sukna land scam. Lt Gen Rath is the highest-ranking serving officer ever to be convicted in a court martial in India.
The Indian court ordered his court martial on three counts -for providing a no-objection certificate (NOC) for the construction of the building next to the army headquarters in Sukna, for signing a memorandum of understand (MoU) with a private builder and for not informing the

LAHORE - All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) London General Secretary Ifzaal Siddiqui's father passed away owing to a heart attack on Thursday morning. The funeral prayer was held in a ground in G block, Johar Town.
APML President Gen Pervez Musharraf paid his condolence over the phone to the deceased's family. Funeral was attended by APML Chief Coordinator Shahbaz Hussain, APML Media Adviser Fawad Hussain, Hafiz Ghulam Mohiyuddin, Rana Mobashir Ahmad, Fawad Khalid, Saad Malik,

MALE/THIMPU - Maldives has nominated its former Attorney General Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed for the post of the next secretary general to the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Corporation (SAARC), a local news agency quoted Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Ahmed Shaheed as saying on Wednesday.
Dhiyana would perform her duties as the SAARC secretary general for three years starting from March 1st 2011, as the regional forum has accepted her name for the post, Dr Shaheed

Lahore - The General Body Meeting of the Pakistan Medical Association Lahore would be held on Wednesday (today) under the Chairmanship of Professor Dr Yasmin Rashid.
The report of activities during the two years of the Lahore chapter of the PMA would be presented and a strategy would be finalized to meet the demands of the special salary package and service structure reforms for doctors before the next budget.
In this context all other organizations of doctors are also

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

KARACHI: Indonesian Consul General in Karachi Rossalis Rusman Adenan called on Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister's House on Saturday.
According to an official handout, the chief minister welcomed the Indonesian consul general and spoke about the brotherly and cordial relations between the two Islamic countries.
Shah said the relations between the countries strengthened when Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, as Pakistan's foreign minister, and Indonesian

LAHORE: On Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's orders, 13 new ventilators have been purchased for Rs 27 million for the Lahore General Hospital (LGH), Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Saturday.
He made these remarks while chairing a meeting to review the progress of development work at the LGH. He said that the LGH was a specialised hospital for neurosurgery and patients of other provinces were also referred to the hospital while head injury patients were

LAHORE: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz will endeavor to convince the government on the maintenance of the zero-rating regime for textile industry under the reformed General Sales Tax (GST).
He will be speaking to the sub-committee of Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Finance. In his briefing he will point out that APTMA is not against the imposition of GST per se, but had major concerns of the mechanism adopted for revenue

ISLAMABAD: All the four provinces, as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir, have said they were on board for the implementation of the reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) on goods and services during the current financial year.
This was stated by the representatives of the four provinces at a media briefing the Pakistan Development Forum on Sunday. The representatives said that their RGST on services bills would be presented in their respected provincial assemblies as soon as parliament