Tag: Great

Benazir’s martyrdom was a great loss to the nation: Zaman

LAHORE - Former PM and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto's martyrdom was a great loss to the nation whose repercussions could never be overlooked, Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Chairman and PPP leader Fakhar Zaman said on Tuesday.
"Every moment after Benazir's martyrdom has increased the nation's agony and present history is being written with her blood," Zaman said. The PPP leader paid rich tributes to services and sacrifices of the former PM and said

‘The US has lost a great diplomat in Holbrooke’

LAHORE: America has lost a great diplomat after the sad demise of Richard Holbrooke, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Tuesday.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Kasuri said that even though Holbrooke became the special representative after his tenure as foreign minister ended, he (Kasuri) always found the special envoy full with vision to address the varied conflicting issues.
Kasuri also commended

Great expectations from Livestock Board

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif lauded the establishment of Livestock and Dairy Development Board and Lahore Meat Company and called it an innovative step towards the development of livestock sector in the province.
CM was addressing the first meeting of Livestock and Dairy Development Board at Chief Minister's Secretariat on Sunday. Chairman Planning & Development, vice chairman Punjab Investment Board and personnel from different departments including the

Meat export to Malaysia is a great achievement: CM

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that shipment of 25 tons meat to Malaysia is a big achievement.
He was addressing a function at the occasion of first shipment of kosher meat to Malaysia by Zenith Associates in Raiwind on Saturday. He said that development of livestock could help increase export of kosher meat as well as strengthen national economy.
If the exporters promise to achieve $ two billion export of meat in next two years, he would allocate Rs

Zardari going to great lengths to keep MQM

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Pakistan People's Party to take all-out measures to keep the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the coalition.
The president was chairing a meeting of the PPP Core Committee on Tuesday that took stock of the current political and economical situation of the country and decided to carry on with the new party strategy adopted around two weeks ago. The meeting discussed in length the violence in Karachi, the judiciary-executive