Tag: Pays

ISLAMABAD - Maulvi Ghulam Rasool Alampuri is one of the major poets of Punjabi language as his poetry covers a variety of subjects related to religion, Sufism and spiritual love. Muhammad Mansha Yad said this while presiding over a seminar on prominent Punjabi Poet Maulvi Ghulam Rasool Alampuri that was arranged by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL).
Muhammad Mansha Yad said that Maulvi Ghulam Rasool was a poet of all seasons as his poetry was a source of humanity's elevation.

LAHORE - The Alhamra Arts Council organised a musical comedy on Wednesday in honour of the comedian Rangeela. Several artistes including Amanullah, Sakhawat Naz, Hasan Abbas, Sohail Pataka, Kashif Prince, Ghaffar Lehri, Azhar Rangeela, Nasheela, Asim Siddiqui, Allah Rakha Pepsi, Tariq Jackson, Saeed Sahiki and Amanat Chan performed in the musical comedy. Meanwhile, Nida Faiz and Asad Kishore sang songs. A large crowd gathered in Alhamra Hall 1 to witness the tribute to the country's

NEW YORK - 'Secret Millionaire' paid off handsomely for ABC. The short-run series, in which a wealthy person goes undercover in a community and rewards someone doing good work, reached 12.7 million viewers for its debut on ABC during a busy night of reality TV on Sunday, the Nielsen Co. said.
That crushed NBC's hope to start a franchise in that time slot, 'America's Next Great Restaurant.' That series was seen by only 4.6 million people. 'Secret Millionaire' also had a larger

LAHORE - A special reward was conferred on Javaid Yousaf by Divisional Public School's Board of Governors (BoGs) in recognition of his thirty years services in community welfare as member BoGs.
Yousaf set a record by serving as a member of Divisional Public school and Intermediate College's Board of Governors simultaneously for the past 30 years.
During this period, board of governors took various revolutionary decisions on his recommendations especially the launching of

KARACHI - Political parties have taken a U-turn after chief of the premier intelligence agency met with President Asif Ali Zardari, sources told Pakistan Today.
The political situation of the country suddenly changed after a surprise visit of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief to Karachi on Saturday night. Upon his arrival in the city, the ISI chief met twice with the president. "Had there been any scheduled high-profile visit, security agencies would have been informed

LAHORE - Commissioner Lahore Khusro Pervaiz paid a surprise visit to General Bus Stand Badami Bagh (lari adda) and gave executive powers to the administrator to deal with the encroachment problem at the adda.
Khusro met various transporters and discussed their problems, adding that they will be taken into confidence before any action is taken to solve the encroachment problem.
Earlier, the proposal suggesting the shifting of the lari adda to the outskirts of the city as a

ISLAMABAD: Washington transferred more than 600 million dollars to Pakistan this week to pay for the country's efforts in the fight against extremists, the US embassy in Islamabad said on Thursday.
The $633 million payment under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) programme came on Wednesday, amid reports that top US military commanders in Afghanistan were pushing to expand special forces ground raids across the border into the Tribal Areas.
"The Coalition Support Fund is

KARACHI: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has paid Rs 3.0 billion out of over Rs 24 billion it owes to Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC). The payment allows the KESC to continue receiving gas supply from the gas supplier.
SSGC had recently warned KESC that in event that the organisation failed to honour its outstanding dues immediately, its gas supply was in danger of being discontinued. The electric supply company has made the payment of dues incurred in the course of

ISLAMABAD: Rs 480 million in royalty were paid to Talal Bugti by the federal government for the extraction of oil and gas from Dera Bugti, Pakistan Today has learnt from reliable sources.
"The row between the government and Bugtis over royalty has been amicably resolved for the time being," sources said, adding that Rs 360 million were paid against arrears for the past 5 years and an advance of Rs 120 million was paid for 2011.
Federal government wanted to strike a deal for

LAHORE: Saudi Minister for Hajj Fawad Salam Al-Farsi on Wednesday handed over a cheque worth Saudi Riyal (SR) 6.665 million to Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Allama Hamid Saeed Kazmi in Jeddah to compensate pilgrims who failed to receive accommodation during Haj this year.
In a telephonic conversation, a spokesman for Pakistan's Hajj Mission, Makkah Mukarram, stated that the money would be distributed among 26,660 pilgrims who could not get accommodation in a tent city of