Tag: Paid

WAZIRABAD - Justice (retd ) Nazeer Ahmad Ghazi and Justice (retd ) Iftikhar Ahmad Cheema MNA lauded the religious services of paid tributes of Pir Karm Shah Al-Azhari.
Addressing a seminar "Zia-Ul-Ummat", they said Pir Karam Shah had given awareness of the holy Quran to millions of people of the subcontinent. They added Karam Shah was a true champion of the unity of the Muslim Ummah. He always advised the people to follow the teachings of the holy prophet (PBUH), they said. They

KARACHI - PPP Women's Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui has paid rich tributes to poet and intellectual Faiz Ahmed Faiz on the occasion of his centenary birth celebrations. According to a statement issued on Saturday, she said that Faiz was not only a poet but also a man who made history and deserves to be remembered for centuries.
"It was Faiz who formed the first cultural policy of the PPP in the era of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto," she said, adding that Faiz was a

DHAKA - The mayor of Chittagong city in southern Bangladesh said Sunday that he would pay hundreds of beggars a daily wage to keep them off the streets during the cricket World Cup. Manzur Alam said that about 300 disabled beggars would be given 150 taka (two dollars) a day after the tournament's opening ceremony on February 17 to compensate them for loss of earnings.
"We want to keep them off the streets at least for two months during the World Cup. Bangladesh is a host of the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Tuesday that Techno Energy, a Sialkot-based firm, had deposited Rs 1,082.5 million in the national exchequer for its failure to import machinery for a 150MW rental power project despite keeping the amount with it for over two years. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a suo motu case initiated on an application by PML-Q's Parliamentary

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pakistani government's Central Power Generation Company (CPGC) Ltd to hold an inquiry and fix responsibility on the officials involved in making a US$21.43 million advance payment to Walter Power International (WPI) and its associate Pakistan Power Resources (PPR) headed by Iqbal Z. Ahmed for installation of the Guddu and Naudero-II Rental Power Projects.
A three-member bench of Chief

WASHINGTON: Former US president George W Bush has acknowledged that Pakistan "paid a high price for taking on extremists" and said its forces were successful for several years in targeting Al Qaeda militants crossing the porous border with Afghanistan.
In his book "Decision Points" published on Tuesday, Bush said he had "complex" relations with Pakistan and former president Pervez Musharraf, who pledged to support the US after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Bush said, "Over

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan is going to lodge a case in the Saudi court for the recovery of millions of riyals lying with State Bank of the Kingdom as price money of the demolished residential buildings once owned by Nawab Bahawal Khan Abbasi in Makkah for its inclusion in the Haram Sharif premises, Religious Affairs Secretary Agha Sarwar Raza Qazlibash told a press conference on Monday.
The said property was purchased by Nawab Bahawal Khan Abbasi in 1893 and later