Tag: Months

ISLAMABAD - Adviser to prime minister Ghazanfar Gul told the National Assembly that the government distributed Rs 32 billion among flood survivors from Prime Minister's Flood Relief Fund through the Watan Cards.
Responding to a calling attention notice regarding un-utilisation of flood-funds, Gul said that there was only Rs 6.6 billion left in the fund that too would be distributed soon among the flood-victims. "There is no massive un-utilised fund and the government has

ISLAMABAD - Production of petroleum products witnessed a decline of 10.62 percent during the first five months of the current fiscal year and increased by 3.15 percent in November 2010 over the same month of last year. Most of product categories showed a fall in production excluding lubricating oil and solvent naptha, production both of which increased by 2.42 percent and 23.68 percent respectively in July-November (2009-10) against the corresponding period of last year, according to

MADRID - Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain could be out of action for another four months following surgery and may not return to full fitness for a year, the doctor who carried out the operation said.
Doctors at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Tuesday "successfully" performed keyhole surgery to fix a slipped disc that has sidelined the 23-year-old Argentine since late November, Real said on its website.
The doctor who led the surgery, Richard Fessler, said the

ISLAMABAD - Five small dams having a power generation capacity of 225 MW would be completed during next eight months to help mitigate power shortage in the country. The projects to be completed during the period include Sattpara dam, Gomal zam and Jinnah Hydel Power projects, Chairman Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Shakeel Durrani said while addressing the two-day seminar on `Land Acquisition and Resettlement of Mega Hydropower Projects in Pakistan, on Friday.

ISLAMABAD - Textile export registered an increase of 26.88 percent during the period from July to November 2010 as compared to the same period of the last financial year. According to the data available with Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) the export of raw cotton increased by 15.43 percent as about 49,688 metric tonnes of raw cotton worth $121.433 million was exported.
Meanwhile, the export of cotton yarn also grew by 17.80 percent The export of cotton yarn was recorded at

ISLAMABAD - The daily-wage employees of National Institute of Science and Technical Education (NISTE) staged a demonstration on Monday against the high-ups at the NISTE demanding their salaries due for over two months.
As many as 70 workers of NISTE, a subsidiary of Education Ministry, held the protest on Faiz Ahmad Faiz Road outside the institute's office. They chanted slogans against the NISTE Director General Shaigan Sharif Malik, who they said was responsible for

BEIJING - China's central bank on Saturday raised interest rates for the second time in three months as authorities ramped up efforts to curb borrowing, rein in property prices and tame inflation.
The People's Bank of China said in a brief one-line statement that it will increase the one-year lending and deposit rates by 25 basis points each. The move takes the rates to 5.81 percent and 2.75 percent respectively from Sunday.
In October, policymakers raised rates for the

LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Syed Asif Hashmi re-opened the Janki Devi Hospital on Friday after nearly four months. The 76-year-old maternity hospital was closed almost four months ago and all patients were discharged owing to a tussle between two groups of hospital employees and some renovation work as claimed by ETPB officials. Speaking on the occasion, Hashmi said that the hospital would be made an "exemplary" health establishment at par with other

GUJRANWALA - State Minister for Interior Affairs Tasnim Qureshi has said that enemies of the state always tried to sabotage the sovereignty of the country especially during the holy months of Muharram and Rabi-ul-Awwal but masses should cooperate with the government to maintain law and order and for religious harmony.
He said this while talking to the journalists after attending funeral prayer of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Gujranwala City President Lala Muhammad Idrees who

LAHORE: The flood tax will be levied for a six-month initiatory period and the government has redressed all reservations of the provinces over the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) before presenting the bill in parliament, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday.
He was talking to the media here Saturday in a private hospital after visiting Pakistan People's Party (PPP) veteran leader and Senator Gulzar Ahmed Khan. Gilani said that there was no foreign pressure on the

KARACHI: Over 1381 people, including political activists, have been killed during ten months this year in Karachi, challenging the tall claims of Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik and testing the performance of the law enforcement agencies.
Most of the criminals arrested were released because of political pressure, officials from the Police Department asking not to be named told Pakistan Today. Statistics collected by Pakistan Today revealed that from amongst those killed

ISLAMABAD: Terming the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) the 'root-cause' of the country's circular debt issues, Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Tuesday that the government is bringing reforms in the organisation that will most likely signally resolve the problem within six to nine months.
She made these comments in response to a Call Attention notice on the rapid increase in poverty in the country moved by the Pakistan Muslim

LAHORE: It could be months before the police is able to trace and arrest the terrorists involved in the Data Darbar and Karbala Gamay Shah incidents, CCPO Aslam Tareen said on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference at Police Lines Qila Gujjar Singh, Tareen admitted that investigations into the attacks were showing little progress, but promised that the people involved in the incidents would be arrested soon. Responding to a query about police officers who avoid registering

ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday assured the International Financial Institutions (IFI) that the power sector reforms will be completed within the next eight months.
Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf provided this assurance to a joint delegation of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and Asian Development Bank in the federal capital.
According to an official statement issued by the Power Ministry, the joint delegation of IFIs was led by IMF

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafiz Shaikh has said that five federal ministries would be abolished and shifted to provinces under the devolution plan within the next few weeks, while the abolishment and transfer of another five would follow by the end of this year.
Following the inauguration of a seminar - Making the 18th Amendment and NFC Award Work - the federal minister told reporters that the ministries to be transferred to the provinces under the provisions of the