Tag: June

The federal government is likely to present the budget in the National Assembly on June 4, as IMF demands are yet to be incorporated...

Bahrain's King Hamad ordered Sunday an end to the state of emergency from June 1st, after it was declared in mid-March to tackle a...

The Punjab government will complete development projects worth Rs 280 million in PP 103 by the end of June 2011 at all costs. These...

LAHORE - The third U-18 Asia Cup Hockey Tournament will be played in Singapore from June 17 to 26 in which Pakistan team will participate. Pakistan has been placed in Pool A. 10 teams are grouped in a pool of five teams each. An official of the FIH said that the match schedule will be announced after the approval of the host country.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has approved the following Pools.
POOL 'A': Brunei, Chinese Taipei, Kazakhstan, Pakistan &

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has chalked out plans for another Twenty20 tournament which will be added to the domestic calendar this summer. The PCB has decided to stage a 'Super Eights' Twenty20 tournament in June this year. A senior PCB official has confirmed that discussions were held at a recent Cricket Committee Meeting and plans were in place for the competition to commence in June. "While 13 teams took part in the previous competition, this time around top eight teams

LAHORE - Pakistan will open their campaign for qualification into the 20th World Football Cup when they take on Bangladesh in the Asian qualifiers on June 29 this year. Pakistan will face Bangladesh in a two-legged encounter on June 29 and July 3. It will be first meeting between two nations since 2009, when a goal-less draw was recorded during the 8th SAFF Championship on December 6, 2009 at Dhaka.
The FIFA World Cup 2014 will feature 32 teams. One place has been allocated to

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday informed Senate that new media policy was being formulated and efforts were under way to give it a legal cover before June this year. Replying to supplementary questions during the question hour, she said that it has been decided that members of both the parliamentary committees on information and broadcasting, representative of media, civil society and all stakeholders would be taken on board for

FAISALABAD - District Coordination Officer (DCO) Nasim Sadiq has said that under the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's big city development package, Rs 650 million are being spent on different uplift schemes in the city to solve the problems of heavy traffic and sewerage.
He disclosed the details of the schemes while chairing a meeting to review the pace of implementation on the big city development package of the CM. Tthe meeting was also attended among others by EDO

KARACHI - By the end of March 2011, five more departments would be transferred to the provinces and the process of devolution would complete by June 30, 2011, Federal Inter-Provincial Coordination Minister Raza Rabbani told Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Monday.
The federal minister and the chief minister were discussing matters related to the transfer of various departments of the federal government to provinces at the Chief Minister's House. According to an official

KARACHI: The size of country's financial system, in terms of assets, has exhibited robust growth, rising by 20 percent to Rs 9.2 trillion by June 2010, compared to December 2008 level of Rs 7.71 trillion, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) revealed in its Financial Stability Review 2009-10 released on Tuesday.
The Report was an assessment of financial stability in 2009 (CY09) and the first half of 2010 (H1-CY10) and evaluated the government's role in enhancing development of the

Question hour began yesterday with the Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman put at the answering pedestal. The day was embarrassing for the minister as he was forced to apologise over various lacks in information provided by the education department on questions raised by the house.
Government schools to be English medium:
All public sector schools in Punjab would be converted into English medium by the end of this fiscal year, said the Punjab Education