Tag: Month

ISLAMABAD - The government has decided to settle the issue of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports within the current month, Pakistan Today has learnt.
If the present proposal of awarding tender to the already selected bidder for short term supplies was not approved, a fresh bidding process would be initiated immediately, official sources told the paper.
It has been decided that if the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet failed to evolve a consensus on the

LAHORE - The All Pakistan Music Conference (APMC) has announced that it will organise concerts on first day of every month and mark APMC founder and former secretary general Hayat Ahmed Khan's death anniversary in February. APMC Secretary General and Hayat's daughter Dr Ghazala Irfan said that the APMC is working for only keeping alive classical and folk music of the Indian sub-continent, which is also the heritage of Pakistan and concerts are expected to be held on first day of every

LAHORE - Prominent clubs of Lahore and other districts of Punjab will show their mettle in the All Punjab Raiders Football Cup 2011, to be played at Raiders Football Club Ground, Faisal Town, from Sunday, 16 January 2011.
The Organizing Secretary Kabir Ahmed Chaudhry said:
"Besides organisers Raiders FC, 24 other Lahore-based outfits participating in the event are Afshan Club, Fatima Memorial, Flying Horse, Garhi Shahue United FC, Jabbar Friends,Model Town FC, Moazam Iraj

KARACHI: would receive at least $700 million from the US under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) this month, State Bank of Pakistan Governor Shahid H Kardar said on Monday.
He was talking to businessmen at the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI). Dwelling on various short- and long-term fiscal and monetary affairs in the country, the SBP governor said the country had so far received at least $800 million under the fund.
Kardar said Islamabad

GARDEZ: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 18 Afghan deminers on Thursday in southeastern Khost province, the provincial police chief said, the second abduction of a mine clearing team this month.
The group from the Kabul-based Mine Detection Centre were travelling in Musa Khel district when they were stopped by a group of gunmen and then seized, said Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai. "They had gone to the area on the request of the elders to clear mines from their village," Ishaqzai told

ISLAMABAD: High-profile strategic dialogue between Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and the Pakistani leadership will take place in the third week of this month.
The Chinese prime minister will be in Islamabad on a three-day official visit this month. "It will be a milestone in the history of their ever-growing relationship," diplomatic sources said on Sunday. The sources said Jiabao will meet President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to discuss

LAHORE: The possibility of an imminent political change at the top has gained credence once again with increasing brinkmanship and political manoeuvring involving all major political actors in Pakistan.
Sources said the chances of change at the top had become almost a reality and that too not a distant one. It was leant that the process of change would start from the Punjab, where the PPP and the PML-Q have reached a political understanding to topple the PML-N government in the

KARACHI: The Universal Service Fund (USF) has devised a pilot project of 20 telecentres that would be launched this month across the country on an experimental basis after the USF's budget is approved in its board meeting.
Each province will have four equally distributed telecentres, and after their successful piloting, the approved model would be replicated in some 400 to 500 telecentres at the next level of this grand project.
"One telecentre will cost around Rs 0.1