Tag: Progress

‘Pakistan concerned by progress on Samjhauta probe’

Pakistan on Monday expressed concern over the progress on the probe into the Samjhauta Express incident when National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza a met...

Mohsin sees great progress in Fast Track camp

Pakistan cricket chief selector Mohsin Hasan Khan believes that the PCB has been partially successful in removing the flaws of some players in the...

CAA reviews progress

The 138th meeting of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Board was held in Karachi on Saturday at the CAA Headquarters. The board meeting was...

SC seeks progress report, military backs investigation

The Supreme Court told the law, information and interior secretaries on Friday to file their comments by June 20 over the progress made so...

No progress on Siachen standoff

Pakistan and India failed on Tuesday to break ice on how to demilitarise the Siachen glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, in a sign of...

Fatah, Hamas make progress on accord: Russia

Russia said Monday that rival Palestinian leaders from Fatah and Hamas had further bridged their differences and made progress on the details of a...

No law, no progress

Social problems have become a real challenge for Pakistan’s progress because in the presence of such issues, it is difficult for a country to...

Land acquisition for Ring Road’s southern loop in progress

A sum of Rs 21.6 billion will be spent on acquisition of land for the southern section of Ring Road in accordance with the...

Commissioner irked by development projects’ slow progress

Taking action against slow progress of development schemes, Lahore Commissioner Nadeem Hassan Asif on Tuesday gave a deadline of June 30 to complete all...

Gates hails ‘extraordinary’ progress in Iraq

CAMP LIBERTY - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday hailed the "extraordinary" progress made in Iraq, and said Baghdad set an example for democracy in the region.
Gates, who arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday evening, met with Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin, commander of US military forces in Iraq, before going into talks with Iraqi leaders.
He was due to meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani, and expected to travel to northern Iraq for talks

SC orders progress report in missing persons case

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered all provincial inspectors general of police to submit a comprehensive report on progress made so far in recovering the missing persons within a fortnight.
A three-member bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali was hearing a suo motu case coupled with various pleas for the recovery of hundreds of missing persons, allegedly abducted by intelligence agencies.
Appearing on

Federer and Nadal progress in Miami

MIAMI - Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer remained on course for their first head-to-head clash this year after easily winning their third round matches at the Sony Ericsson Open on Monday.
The two great rivals brushed past their opponents in straight sets to stay on track for a meeting in the semi-finals.
Nadal, the current world number one, eased past his fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3 6-3 with a ruthless display, winning 67 percent of points on first serve and

No progress on verification of govt employees’ degrees

ISLAMABAD - With the deadline set by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for the verification of educational degrees and certificates of all federal government employees approaching fast, the authorities tasked with the job seemed to be moving at a snail's pace, with heads of department setting their own deadlines for the completion of the process, documents available with Pakistan Today revealed.
Gilani had ordered the Establishment Division on February 5 to complete the process

Iran only making slow nuclear progress: expert

WASHINGTON - Iran is not making fast progress towards acquiring a nuclear weapon, a US expert said on Friday, adding he believed Tehran would still need another two years to achieve that goal. "Iran is not moving as fast as it could. They've been at it since 25 years since they started the Iranian enrichment program in about 1985," said Mark Fitzpatrick, from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He said Iran would still need "a little over two years to have a bomb."

Israel, Hamas fail to make progress on violations probe:...

GENEVA - Both Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have failed to make credible progress in investigating claims of war crimes committed during the 2008 conflict in Gaza, a UN committee said on Monday.
In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, Mary McGowan Davis, who heads the committee, acknowledged that Israel has dedicated "significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza." However, only a fraction of these

Japan sees some progress in race to cool nuclear reactors

TOKYO - Japan restored power to a crippled nuclear reactor on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one prefecture alone.
Three hundred engineers have been struggling inside the danger zone to salvage the six-reactor Fukushima plant in the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25 years ago. In one remarkable story of survival, an 80-year-old woman and 16-year-old

CM reviews Aashiyana progress

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif presided over a meeting on Sunday to review low-cost housing scheme Aashiyana's progress. Member Provincial Assembly and Punjab Land Development Company Chairman Sheikh Allaoud Din and officers concerned attended the meeting.
The CM said Aashiyana was a revolutionary project that would provide low-income people with their own homes. He said that all basic amenities would be available in the scheme. He said the Aashiyana