Tag: Holds

ISLAMABAD - Under the auspices of Zarai Taraqiati Bank (ZTBL), a 'kissan mela' was held in Noudero, Larkana. The mela was inaugurated by ZTBL President Zaka Ashraf. The YTO Corporation, a Chinese tractor manufacturing company and Shanksi Zentong International Technology Company displayed their products and services. Shanksi exhibited solar driven water pumps available at affordable prices for the farmers of Pakistan to irrigate their fields in the wake of electricity cut and ever

KARACHI - Meezan Bank Limited has held the 17th Shariah Supervisory Board meeting. The meeting was chaired by Justice (r) Muhammad Taqi Usmani; other members of the Shariah Board include Sheikh Essam M. Ishaq from Bahrain and Dr Muhammad Imran Usmani. The senior management of Meezan Bank including President and CEO Irfan Siddiqui and Chief Operating Officer Ariful Islam were also present at the meeting.
The Shariah Board praised the performance of the bank and showed overall

FAISAL ABAD - The party which has been involved in the assassination of hundreds of innocent people in Karachi is now making tall claims and hollow promises to protect the people of the Punjab, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central executive committee member and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) former chairman Hamza Shahbaz on Tuesday. Commenting on the political campaign of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the Punjab, he said: "It is ironical that those who openly use

KARACHI - The 17th Shariah Supervisory Board meeting of Meezan Bank Limited (MBL) was held at the Darul Uloom Korangi on Tuesday.
It was chaired by Justice (Retd.) Muhammad Taqi Usmani. Other members of the Shariah Board include Sheikh Essam M. Ishaq (Bahrain) and Dr. Muhammad Imran Usmani.
A statement said that the senior management of Meezan Bank including Irfan Siddiqui, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ariful Islam, Chief Operating Officer, were also present at

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has held the top bureaucracy responsible for bad governance and resultantly tarnishing the government's image in the eyes of the public. According to a letter written by the Cabinet Division to the in-charge of the ministries and senior officials, the bureaucracy submitted the cases to the prime minister and the cabinet at the eleventh hour, in haste and with a sense of urgency, which forced the government to delay or defer decisions on

karachi: Following are some interesting parts of the 'interesting, bold and straightforward' conversation witnessed between the PPP lawmakers and an official of the Provincial Census Commission, Joint Census Commissioner Farooq Baloch during the briefing:
Nisar Ahmed Khuhro: People need to take half of the housing census process duration just to understanding what it is. You should extend its duration. We (Sindhis) are already hurt.
Baloch: Our staff faces difficulties in

AUGUSTA - Golf's young guns came out blazing at the Masters with 21-year-old Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland holding a two-shot lead over 23-year-old Australian Jason Day at the halfway mark on Friday. Overnight leader McIlroy posted 69 for a 10-under-par of 134, while Day, playing alongside the Briton, streaked into contention with a spectacular 64 that was one off the championship record.
Four-times Masters winner Tiger Woods made big noise as well with seven birdies from the

RIYADH - US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates was holding talks in Riyadh on Wednesday with Saudi King Abdullah, with both sides concerned by Iranian intentions in the region and spiralling unrest in Yemen.
"Iran will be a major focus of their conversations, both in terms of the regional threat they pose but also lately in the role they've been playing in trying to exploit the unrest in the region to their advantage," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said ahead of the meeting.

ISLAMABAD - British Prime Minister David Cameron held strategic talks with his Pakistani counterpart Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday and discussed ways to further boost economic and anti-terror cooperation.
Cameron first held one-to-one meeting with Gilani and later officials of the two sides joined the leaders in strategic talks.
Cameron visited the landmark Faisal Mosque and a girls' school shortly after his arrival in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Tuesday

LAHORE - Hafiza Habiba Yasmin, Qari Zikria Khalid and Qari Abdus Salam Azizi on Monday won the Lahore Shopping Festival (LSF) Qiraat Competition jointly organised by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and Qudratullah & Company.
Yasmin stood first among the women participants while Khalid and Azizi bagged top positions in the non-professional and professional categories respectively. Hafiza Shahnaz Akhtar, Hafiza Tahira Bilquees, Qari Hassan Raza, Qari Mushtaq

ISLAMABAD - The 63rd Annual General Meeting of MCB's shareholders, under the chairmanship of Aftab Ahmad Khan, was held at Islamabad to transact ordinary and special business of the Bank.
The chairman informed members that MCB had completed another remarkable year in terms of financial performance and had posted a profit before tax of Rs 26 billion, with a rise of 13 percent from 2009 and a profit after tax of Rs 17 billion, with an increase of nine percent from last year.