Tag: Month

A local taxi driver, the sole breadwinner of the family, along with his son have been missing for over a month now, pushing the...

The euro tumbled to a four-month low against dollar on Tuesday with global markets plagued by anxiety over whether Greece's debt crisis could spread...

Pakistan and India will play a series of three friendly soccer match in UK in August and September as the Indian football authorities have...

Pakistan’s plea against the construction of the Kishanganga hydroelectric project in the Indian-occupied Kashmir would be taken up for hearing by the Court of...

A full bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the government to fill the vacant posts of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman...

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that housing schemes with modern facilities have been launched for the poor for the first time...

May 2011 was the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since at least 2007, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said. UNAMA documented...

ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit Pakistan next month.
According to a private television channel, Clinton would lead the US delegation in next month's Pak-US strategic dialogue.
It said that the US intended to send high profile officials to Pakistan for the visit.
The dialogue between two countries is expected to strengthen ties and ease tension.

KARACHI - Petroleum Secretary Imtiaz H Kazi on Thursday assured that load shedding for compressed natural gas (CNG) will end by the next month.
He said this while talking to a delegation led by CNG Station Owners Association Chairman Malik Khuda Baksh, which had called on Kazi and Gas Director General Mohammad Azam for discussing the problems being faced by CNG retailers and consumers due to the ongoing gas load shedding.
Kazi and Azam explained that due to annual repair and

KESENNUMA, Japan, April 11, 2011 (AFP) - Japan fell silent at 2:46 pm Monday as people across the country remembered the thousands killed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the monster tsunami it created.
In the devastated city of Kesennuma, soldiers digging through rubble to search for some of the 15,000 people still listed as missing stopped to pay their respects.
An officer ordered his men to down tools and remove their helmets, gloves and masks to mark the

ISLAMABAD - After having assured financial support from the bilateral development partners for financing the $11.1 billion Diamer-Bhasha Dam on Indus River, the government is all set to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the reservoir during the current month.
An official source in the Ministry of Water and Power said the groundbreaking ceremony for the project was proposed for the first week of April, but was postponed due to the busy schedule of the

LAHORE - The 13th National Seniors Cricket Cup, under the auspices of Punjab and Pakistan Veteran Associations, will start from next month.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association's Chief Executive Officer Ashiq Hussain Qureshi said that 61 teams from Punjab (Central 29, South and North 16) will feature in the event, along with 19 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad.
He said that the regional and national finals were set for

KARACHI - While the KSE-100 has recovered 777 points in last five trading sessions, the bourse is still five percent below from its recent peak on Jan 17, 2011. Interestingly, the cement sector performance has lagged behind the market's performance by eight percent during this period. However, capital market analysts expect that the cement sector performance will improve while eyeing its historical performances in March. Data analysis of the past eight years has revealed that March

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday granted one month to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to prepare a final report on the whopping losses of Rs 19 billion to Rs 36 billion caused to the national exchequer by the containers meant for supplies to ISAF forces in Afghanistan, which entered the Pakistani territory over the past four years in the name of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and pilfered causing the losses.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad

KARACHI - Political committees failed to make any tangible progress on the economic reforms agenda and a further delay in announcement of PPP's strategy to address pressure by PML-N has continued to hurt investor sentiment. Following yesterday's $3.1 million outflow, foreign funds were rumoured sellers.
Local investors also remained bearish, as deteriorating internal and external political situation took its toll on the investors. The KSE-100 index, with a loss of 125.96 points,

HONG KONG - At least 12 people have died from swine flu in Hong Kong in less than a month, the territory's health authority said Thursday, after the latest death from the disease. A spokeswoman for the health authority said one elderly person had died of confirmed swine flu, while another had died of influenza type A, of which swine flue is a sub-type.
An increase in swine flu cases caused densely populated Hong Kong to step up surveillance for the virus on January 24. Since then

LAHORE - The project of the urban transport buses will be implemented from February 2, 2011, inaugurated by the advisor to chief minister and Lahore Transport Company Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan, and operational subsidy will be given to old and new urban buses in the city, said LTC General Manager (Operations) Asad Rehman Gillani talking to a delegation of First Bus Urban Transport Company.
First Bus Transport Company Managing Director Noor-ud-Din Ahmed headed the delegation.