Tag: Measures

KARACHI - Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar, who is also chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), pledged the government's full support to energy conservation measures and for the protection of environment.
Mukhtar was speaking on Saturday at PIA's joining ceremony of Earth Hour campaign. As part of the Earth Hour campaign, all non-essential lights at the PIA buildings and the PIA business centres were switched off for one hour, between 8:30pm and 9:30pm.
Earth

ISLAMABAD - In order to elect competent professionals at the apex engineering forum of the country, Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), the National Assembly Standing Committee on Science and Technology Friday directed enhancing the contesting fee five times for the governing body and making it non-refundable.
The committee, which met with Abdul Qadir Khanzada in the chair to discuss the PEC by-laws pertaining to its elections, said the fee for contesting elections for the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday told the US that it was taking decisive measures for eliminating terrorism. The assurance was given during a meeting between the US Congressional delegation and Interior Minister Rehman Malik at the Ministry of Interior.
They discussed bilateral issues in detail whereas Malik said Pakistan was taking critical measures for elimination of terrorism and it had given great sacrifices to root out militancy from the country. The US Congressmen appreciated

ISLAMABAD - Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Wednesday said that the government would get Rs 210 billion through its announced expenditure cuts and revenue measures during the remaining quarter of the current financial year.
Briefing the media about the government plans for fiscal consolidation, he said that the rationalisation of expenditure had the full backing of the president, prime minister, armed forces and government departments. "The surcharge on income tax is

LAHORE - Agriculturists and businessmen have taken strong exception to the imposition of fresh taxes and termed it a drone attack on the Pakistani people, while economists believe that the government is trying hard to convince International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other donor agencies for receipt of a clean bill of health.
Business community underlined that the price of every product, including sugar, wheat, rice, vehicles and household commodities will surge after imposition of

ISLAMABAD - Authorities on Saturday finalised a number of security measures, including provision of extra jammers to be installed at the entry points of the Supreme Court building. A high-level meeting was held at the Supreme Court chaired by the SC registrar to review security arrangements.
The meeting was attended by Ministry of Interior additional secretary, Crisis Management Cell director general, Ministry of Interior officials, DIGs security and operations of the Islamabad

ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Inland Revenue Member Khawar Khurshid Butt, on Friday, said that FBR has proposed new taxation measures to meet the revised revenue collection target of Rs 1630 billion for 2010-2011. Addressing a media briefing at the Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU), FBR IR member expressed dissatisfaction over the existing automation processes, saying that matching of data was not being carried out effectively.
Responding to various queries on revenue

KARACHI - The police and Rangers have taken extensive measures to control the law and order situation and prevent any act of terrorism during the Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) celebrations in the city today (Wednesday).
According to a survey conducted in the metropolis on Tuesday, police and Rangers personnel have been deployed at all sensitive areas in the city where people are expected to gather in large numbers. The law enforcers are also conducting snap checking at various

LAHORE - Visa Inc has recently announced significant improvements to its security capabilities which will dramatically improve its ability to detect and prevent global electronic payments fraud. Upgrades to Visa's global processing platform - VisaNet - have allowed Visa to develop new anti-fraud models that enhance the speed and accuracy with which Visa detects attempted payment card fraud.
An analysis of past global transactions suggests Visa's enhancements could help identify

KARACHI - The law and order situation in Karachi could be improved if martial law-like steps are taken in the city, spiritual leader of the Hurs and PML-F chief Pir Pagara said on Saturday.
"Impose martial law-like steps in Karachi and the situation will improve. The civil administration has failed [in maintaining law and order], and when this happens, the army comes in," he said in his customary style while talking to journalists after meeting with a PML-Q delegation at his

TOKYO: Japan's central bank on Tuesday kept its key rate unchanged and said it would assess the impact of earlier measures to boost the faltering economy amid fears of a looming slowdown. The bank's board made the unanimous decision to keep the key rate between zero and 0.1 percent after a two-day meeting, warning that a fragile recovery from deep recession was "pausing".
"The bank will continue to carefully examine the outlook for economic activity and prices, and take policy

LAHORE: Despite the introduction of a strong anti-corruption code by the PCB, incidents of indiscipline are still being widely reported in the ongoing domestic season. Pakistan's discarded opener Imran Nazir was banned from playing in a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match after he misbehaved with match referee Ishtiaq Ahmed during the last-round match in Rawalpindi.
Nazir, who was leading the ZTBL team, was fined Rs 10,000 by the match referee for abusing leg-spinner Danish Kaneria but

PESHAWAR: The tribesmen on Friday rejected the district administration's security plane for the Muharram citing that it would deny them entry to the metropolitan.
They said it was discriminatory decision as it implied as if all the tribesmen were terrorist or saboteurs. On 24 November, the district administration had imposed Section-144 and banned wall-chalking, use of tinted glasses in the vehicle, pillion-riding and brandishing weapons at the public places.
The

KARACHI: Repeating short-term measures for responding to future floods and rehabilitating flood victims would not be helpful, speakers at a two-day conference titled 'Flood and Beyond: Recovery, Reconstruction and Reforms' observed on Thursday.
The event was jointly organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK), Sungi Development Foundation and the Centre for Peace and Civil Society.