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After the incident in which a bank driver drove away a cash van carrying Rs 525 million, police authorities have decided to scrutinise the...

Private schools have shown their displeasure over the Punjab government’s given schedule of summer holidays for educational institutes of Punjab. According to the Schools...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday left here for London on a four-day private visit. The Prime Minister is visiting London to see his ailing son who is likely to undergo surgery.

KARACHI - Private airlines are violating one of the mandatory conditions to their licenses, namely Regular Passenger Traffic (RPT) by flying more international operations than less profitable but necessary national flights.
It has been learnt that Shaheen Air and Air Blue have been violating this basic rule for quite some time by flying more international operations than flying routes on that include destinations like Gwadar, Turbat and Sukkur.
If these airlines fail to

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday reconstituted the Privatisation Commission (PC) Board with majority of new members inducted from the private sector. According to an official announcement, the PC Board has been reconstituted with Minister for Privatisation Syed Naveed Qamar as chairman while Iftikhar ul Haq, Laeeq Ahmed, Mahmood Nawaz Shah, Tanvir Ahmad Sheikh, Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi, Farid Malik, Shahab Anwar Khawaja and Secretary Privatisation Commission

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor was given a small private funeral service attended by family and close friends in the Los Angeles area on Thursday, a day after she died of congestive heart failure.
The Oscar-winning actress, 79, was laid to rest at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, outside Los Angeles -- the same place where her close friend, singer Michael Jackson, was buried in 2009.
Taylor's service was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., but started 15

KARACHI - Private airlines are not adhering to the standards of maintenance as cannibalisation of parts (switching components from one machine to another) has become increasingly prevalent with the ratio now standing at 50 percent against the standard of 10 percent determined by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Poor maintenance standards pose a clear and present danger and could result in another catastrophic air disaster in the country as happened only recently due to poor

KARACHI - The majority of the anaesthetists working at private hospitals across Sindh are unqualified, and the Health Department has so far been unable to take action against them, Health Secretary Hashim Raza Zaidi admitted on Saturday.
"We are planning to take action against them, as well as the hospitals that allow unqualified medical personnel to practice," Zaidi said while addressing the inaugural session of the 31st Annual Congress of the Pakistan Society of

KARACHI - Pakistan Railways (PR) is tirelessly working to lure private sector investment to address its idle capacity and under utility, said Railways General Manager Ashfaque Khattak. Talking to APP on Thursday after a seminar organised in collaboration with Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF), Khattak said that the primary purpose was to boost public-private partnership. He said that Railways was suffering from a financial deficit of Rs 26 billion, however, it could

ISLAMABAD - Private security guards hired by citizens on the advice of capital police are ill-equipped and untrained, and have clear instructions from their employers not to use their guns in any circumstances. In the wake of rising terrorists activities and street crimes, one can see security guards on almost every street, outside hotels, markets and offices, with the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration having registered around 150 security companies so far.
"The

LAHORE - The Faiz Aman Mela, a part of Faiz Centennial celebrations began on Sunday afternoon and attracted a huge audience at Lawrence Gardens, however many left the premises disappointed.
The event was organized by Pakistan Television who barred all other private channels from covering the event. The free entry event attracted a large gathering of general public to the mela. The program started around two o clock, where artists recited poetry and sang songs, both light and semi

KARACHI - The Sindh government has refused to issue weapons licences to private schools in the metropolis. After the twin blasts at the Islamic University in Islamabad, the Sindh home secretary had agreed with management representatives of private schools that the institutions would be allowed to keep licensed arms for ensuring safety of students and staff and take strict security measures on their own.
However, the plan of the Sindh Home Department was recently dropped due to

LAHORE - Instead of finding actual culprits in meter theft case, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) has registered a case against a private contractor in Hanjarwal. Some of the company's officials are aware of the importance of case but they are overlooking actual culprits, the sources in SNGPL told Pakistan Today on Thursday.
The meter went missing from SNGPL Gulberg office about three weeks back.
A private contractor Muhammad Amir is being held responsible for installing

LAHORE - Lahore City University (LCU) President Mansoor Faisal called upon a meeting of a group of academicians at a local hotel on Wednesday. The agenda of the meeting was to jointly work towards making higher education affordable and accessible to those aspiring to excel in professional studies.
"Quality of education can be enhanced in private sectors only if they undertake serious research like public institutions", said Mansoor.

FAISALABAD - The centuries-old method of tracking down offenders with the help of their footprints found at the scenes of crimes is valid even today to catch dacoit gangs provided footprint experts are ensured security by the police," say the two renowned Khojis (footprint experts) of Faisalabad.
"We can trace the notorious gangs involved in serious crimes if we have police protection," said Mashooq Ali from Chak No. 83 JB and Atta Muhammad from Chak No 246 RB in their joint

GUJRANWALA - The Gujranwala divisional commissioner has directed the Quaid-e-Azam Divisional Public School (QDPS) not to enhance its fees for at least one year and also urged all private educational institutes to freeze their fee structure for the same period.
Presiding over a meeting of the board of governors of the QDPS, he added that the provincial government had been taking concrete measures to enhance the literacy rate and improve facilities in the educational institutes. He

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Defense on Wednesday told the Standing Committee of the Senate on Defense and Defense Productions that prior to permission of operating internationally, three years of domestic operation will be compulsory for private airlines.
"The three years domestic operation is an evaluative period as it will help the ministry to ascertain that a airline seeking permission of international operation is able to ensure the safety of the passengers, technical