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Media drive case: SC issues notices to Sindh, KP govts

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) governments in media advertisements case and sought their replies. A three-member bench...

Provincial governments to discuss measures to finalise interim CMs

The provincial governments are expected to hold a meeting on Monday to discuss measures to appoint interim chief ministers before the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...

Thousands protest against Austrian government’s shift to the right

VIENNA/ZURICH: Protesters took to the streets of Vienna on Saturday and called for members of Austria’s new right-wing government to be boycotted by the...

Even ‘so-called’ democratic governments should be allowed to complete tenure: Maryam

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz, daughter of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, said on Thursday that every "so-called" democratic government should...

Twitter notes 22% jump in account information requests from governments

As social media network Twitter reported a year on year 26 per cent growth in timeline views, it noted that governments were increasingly requesting...

Ashraf calls on forces to redefine counter-terrorism policy

Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf on Friday urged the armed forces to redefine military strategies and doctrine to tackle the threats to national security and...

POA rejects premise claims of Punjab govt

The Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) rejects the premise and the innuendo of the claims of Mr Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan on the Punjab administration’s...

Indo-Pak entrepreneurs banking on each other

The traders and businessmen living across the border want the governments of India and Pakistan to accelerate the opening process of the banks and...

Queen attends cabinet meeting in Downing Street

The Queen was greeted by David Cameron as she arrived at Downing Street to attend her first cabinet meeting, as part of the government’s...

‘The euro is a currency with a state’

Praising the deal reached earlier this week to reduce Greece's debt burden as an unprecedented commitment by euro zone governments to keep the crisis-wracked...

Misuse of funds: SC issues notices to serving, ex-IB chiefs

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the incumbent and former chiefs of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) over misuse of secret funds during...

Ban ‘killer robots’ before it’s too late

Governments should pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a...

The country’s booming sex industry

Early military governments and religious groups sought to reform areas like the famous “Taxali Gate” district of Lahore by displacing prostitutes and their families...

Putin urges West rethink on Syria as battles rage

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Western and Arab governments to review their policy on war-torn Syria on Thursday, as battles raged between rebels and...

Rs 1.3b to be spent on local governments

The Punjab government has increased the allocation up to Rs 1.3 billion for local government and community development (LG&CD) in the provincial budget 2011-2012...

No funds for district governments

LAHORE - The Punjab government has turned its back on district governments clamouring for funds to run their affairs on a daily basis, as the monthly grants of majority of districts and tehsils have been pending for months, Pakistan Today has learnt. The Finance Department issues monthly grants for 36 district governments including five city district governments, 20 cantonment boards, 144 tehsil municipal administrations (TMAs) and 3,464 union administrations.
The monthly grants

SC seeks government’s stance on status of PCO judges

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday directed the attorney general to submit by April 4 a written statement on behalf of the federal government on the constitutional status of a number of former judges of the superior courts who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in violation of a November 3, 2007 restraining order. A seven-member special bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tassaduq