Tag: Performance

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt Friday expressed satisfaction over the performance of the national team in the World Cup, where it reached the semi-finals despite the preparations being hit hard by scandals and controversies.
"In that context I am very satisfied with the way the team has performed in the World Cup. The players and management have shown lot of character to do so well when virtually everybody had written them off," Butt said. The performance of the

LAHORE - The Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) will need years to replace the mechanism developed by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to HED officials, the provincial body lacks the capacity to handle higher education like HEC.
The head of the 18th Amendment implementation committee, Raza Rabbani, has already said that HEC would be devolved along with the Education Ministry, whereas HEC chairman is of the view that the commission falls

KARACHI - For creating performance-related accountability within the organisation and promoting meritocracy, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has recently concluded its 'Performance Management System-2010' which envisages a "performance only" work atmosphere in the utility.
According to a press statement, this system was based on two evaluation cycles: the first cycle ended June 30 and the second concluded on December 31.
For the first time in the history of the

LAHORE - Engr. Shaukat Ullah, Federal Minister for Sports, has said that the exit of the national team from the cricket World Cup at the semi-final stage should not dampen the hopes and spirits of the nation, as victory and defeat are part of the game. The minister was of the view that the team showed a commendable performance during the past one and half month and won accolades from the analysts and spectators from all over the world.
He said that Pakistani team topped its

KARACHI - Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL) underperformed in comparison to the benchmark KSE-100 Index by 15 percent since December 2010. This underperformance was due to dismal profitability of the Company, which suffered a massive 62 percent annual contraction during 1HFY11 to Rs 2.71 per share.
ACPL managed to post one percent growth in net revenues, which however did little against the massive 21 percent annual increase in cost of sales resulting in a 46 percent decline

HAFIZABAD - A meeting the district prosecutors was with District Prosecutor Nasrullah Goroo in the chair to review the performance of the prosecution department. Nasrullah Goroo directed the prosecutors to cooperate with all investigation officers to submit all chalans of criminal cases within 14 days in the office of the district prosecuting officer and submit appeals against all such cases in which sentence was decreased or accused were acquitted.
He also directed the

ISLAMABAD - The potential of growth and development of a country is linked to the extent of investment, urbanisation and industrialisation, while revival of the Pakistan economy hinges on performance of its industry and its forward and backward linkages. This was stated by Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Vice President Muhammand Tauseef Zaman, while addressing a business community at ICCI on Saturday.
The continued dismal performance in industrial growth in

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday awarded the Pride of Performance to Managing Director Virtual University (VU) Tajdar Alam at the Presidency in Islamabad. Tajdar has been nominated for the prestigious award for his relentless and meritorious efforts in the field of television and introducing state-of-the-art educational system in the country by making best use of modern technology and communication system. He has a wide range of experience and is well-known producer and

ISLAMABAD - Upon the conclusion of the 3rd parliamentary year, PILDAT analysis reveals that there has been negligible change in the overall performance of the 13th National Assembly of Pakistan in its 3rd year and therefore the need for systemic reforms and improvement is as pressing as was a year ago.
A snapshot of performance shows that: 73% of the MNAs questions remained unanswered during the year. Average attendance of MNAs improved four percent from the previous year: 66% in

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani expressed displeasure on Monday at the three-year performance of his cabinet, saying that numerous memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and agreements were signed in the last three years but had not resulted in economic or social development. "Despite signing agreements the ministries have been sending routine responses which do not reflect the true spirit behind the signing of these agreements ... I feel had these agreements been properly

BANGALORE - Australia captain Ricky Ponting insisted he was unconcerned by his wicketless spinners after the defending champions toiled to beat Kenya and reach the World Cup quarter-finals. Australia won by 60 runs, but Kenya batted out their full 50 overs in a painstaking encounter to reach 264 for six in reply to 324 for six. It was the Africans' highest total of the tournament, comfortably suprassing the 198 they made in their five-wicket defeat to Canada.
While Kenya's

HAFIZABAD - The people of the city protested against the poor performance of Tehsil Municipal Administration Hafizabad and demanded the Punjab chief minister take notice of its failure to serve the masses.
The sewerage system of Jaganwala Road is not working properly and sewerage water has been standing on the roads for many days. The people of the locality informed the officers concerned many times, but to no avail.
Social circles protested against the negligence of the

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued warning on Thursday to all presiding officers of accountability courts in Punjab over poor performance. The court warned Ali Hassan Rizvi, Ahmad Nawaz Ranjha, Mian Subah Sadiq Wattoo, Falak Sher Farooqa, Mian Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Tariq Abbasi, Wamiq Javaid , Syed Najam-ul-Hassan Najam and Abdul Haque. Earlier, the chief Justice expressed his displeasure over the judges' explanations to the court. CJLHC Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry had expressed

LAHORE - Rescue 1122 Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer carried a performance review on Wednesday to ensure uniform service standard in all districts. Rescue 1122 data revealed that about 27,085 emergency victims have been rescued during 25,921 operations during February in 36 Punjab cities, while maintaining its average response time of seven minutes.
The data shows that collectively the total number of emergencies in February remained 10.5 per cent less than that of in January.

KARACHI - Pakistan's failure to implement economic reforms, proposed by multilateral lenders like International Monetary Fund (IMF), has now started to reflect on foreign inflows to the floods and terrorism-stricken country.
Whereas the IMF has already denied Islamabad its two tranches under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), other international donors like the World Bank, Islamic Development Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have linked their budgetary support to the

KARACHI - The Sindh government has issued a termination warning to a Chinese company over the firm's non-tangible progress and non-performance for the development of coal mine-mouth power generation project of 250MW in District Thatta.
According to a letter written to China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) Project Manager Wang Xuequn by the Coal and Energy Development Department Sindh, the current state of affairs of the firm' project is not in line with

LAHORE - Coach Waqar Younis is pleased with the recent performance of Pakistan cricket team, saying the performance of the outfit is satisfactory. Younis is hopeful that the successful tour of New Zealand will mark a turning point. Before this tour, Pakistan had not won a Test series since 2006 and a one-day series since 2008.
"Yeah, I'm pretty pleased because it has been a while since Pakistan won anything. So, it's definitely satisfying," TV New Zealand reported on Monday. "I