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The Punjab government will provide state-of-the-art health care facilities to labourers and new social security hospitals will be established and the existing hospitals will...

LAHORE - After concerted effort on the part of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, the Uzbeki government has agreed to provide one million cotton bales to Pakistan up to June 30, 2011.
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz noted that the Uzbeki government has agreed Pakistan government to provide up to one million cotton bales to Pakistan on purely business terms. According to him, no such import of cotton has ever taken place from Uzbekistan to

ISLAMABAD - The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has announced it will provide financing of $3.0 billion to Pakistan for socioeconomic development programmes during the next four years. IDB Country Department Director Muhammad Jamal Al-Saati and Economic Affairs Division Additional Secretary Hassan Nawaz Tarar signed the minutes of the strategy paper in a ceremony.
Al-Saati briefed that the IDB Group would support multi-sectors through focused programs under the Member Country

LAHORE - Pakistan's discarded Test players Shoaib Malik and Danish Kaneria have again been told by the PCB Integrity Committee to produce relevant documents in order to fast track any chances of them being cleared for selection. The committee, which includes a former high court judge, is tasked with scrutinising the background of every player before he is cleared to play for the national team. So far, the integrity committee has not cleared Malik or Kaneria, despite having several

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday directed chairmen of all boards of intermediate and secondary education (BISE) in Punjab to file their affidavits and inform the court as to when class 10 students were provided roll number slips and how many students failed to sit in the examinations. Earlier, BISE Lahore Chairman Muhammad Akram Kashmiri and BISE Faisalabad Chairman Mumtaz Hussain with their counsel Sheikh Shahid Waheed appeared in court and claimed

ISLAMABAD - As part of the security measures in the wake of increasing life threats by the terrorists particularly to those affiliated with the prosecution of terrorists, the government on Monday announced to provide security guards to public prosecutors on the day of prosecution along with a police squad. Federal Minister for Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan announced the same while chairing a meeting which discussed the difficulties faced by Anti- Terrorism Courts

ISLAMABAD - The US has assured Pakistan that it would take up the issue of financing for $13 billion Diamer Bhasha dam under the Kerry Lugar Bermen (KLB) bill disbursements for the next fiscal year 2011-12.
An official source said US had asked Pakistan to perform the ground breaking ceremony of the project that would help getting timely financing for the project from the US government from next fiscal year's releases under KLB bill.
He said no details had been worked out

LAHORE - The Lahore Businessmen Association for Rehabilitation of Disabled (LABARD) President MNA Mohammad Pervez Malik claimed that LABARD has chalked out a well thought-out three-pronged strategy to ensure technical training to maximum number of disabled persons. He was speaking at the LABARD certificates distribution ceremony at LABARD Vocational Training Institute, Shahdman, on Monday.
LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik, Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad, LABARD

Lahore - The federal and Punjab governments will provide funds to universities for research and development projects, Punjab Governor Latif Khosa said on Thursday.
He was speaking at the launching ceremony of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences' (UVAS) website at the conference hall. Khosa acknowledged and appreciated the performance of UVAS Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr Nawaz. The governor said, "Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif is an energetic and visionary person who is taking

FAISALABAD - A delegation of Child Rights Committee (CRC) visited the district jail to have a firsthand knowledge of the minor children being brought up in prison cells under the care of their mothers.
The CRC is a social welfare organisation working in coordination with Society for the Protection of Rights of Children (SPORC). The visit aimed at focusing on the wellbeing of the children who are living in jails just to stay in the loving laps of their mothers. The programme was

ISLAMABAD - After finding that the performance standards data submitted by the distribution companies (DISCOs) was inconsistent and contained several anomalies, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has decided to build their capacity for better implementation of Performance Standards (Distribution) Rules 2005.
According to an official source, as per Performance Standards (Distribution) Rules 2005 of NEPRA, all DISCOs and KESC have to submit their annual

ISLAMABAD - Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Pakistan on Friday signed an agreement to invest $242 million in improving power distribution system in Pakistan. The investment is part of the $810 million 'Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program' approved in 2008.
The multi tranche financing facility targets investment in priority areas to reduce power losses and increase the reliability of the power distribution system. ADB Pakistan Director Rune Stroem

LAHORE - The Sheikh Zayed Hospital (SZH) will provide free pharmacologic drugs and ambulance service to employees and their families, SZH Chairman and Dean Dr Saeed said on Monday. He said that the administration's first and foremost duty is to manage patients and look after their needs.
Hospitals are primarily constructed to cure and treat ailments that are contracted by patients, Saeed said. The SZH chairman delineated the fact that he would organise a complaint cell for all

KARACHI - The United Bank Limited (UBL) in collaboration with an international advisory firm on Thursday launched a poor-centric branchless banking model in the country that State Bank Governor Shahid Kardar believes is the future of banking industry in a technologically developing Pakistan.
The joint venture called UBL Omni is conceived as an effort to ramp up the electronic services platform in the country's impoverished and localities neglected by banks and has been financed

KARACHI - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide a loan of at least $ 400 million for improvement in Sindh's irrigation system, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
The ADB Mission and the Sindh authorities had reached a consensus on the heavy interest loan, while the first installment of $130 million of the loan would be provided very shortly. The bank's loan would be utilised for reforms in the decades-old irrigation system of the province under Sindh Water Resources

LAHORE - The Sunni Tehreek would provide complete legal assistance to former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin Mumtaz Qadri, Sunni Ittehad Council Chairman Fazal Karim said on Sunday.
He was speaking at a religious conference at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal Auditorium. Karim condemned protests in Taseer's favour saying that no civil society or non-governmental organisations (NGO) ever held a protest against killings of Sunnis in terrorist attacks at the Jamia Naeemia, Nishtar Park

STAFF REPORT - The PIA would provide daily link to over 100 international destinations from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad under a joint venture commercial arrangement with Turkish Airlines, the PIA spokesman said on Thursday. Pakistani passengers have been demanding that the PIA should provide daily flights to all operational international destinations and also link other major cities of the world with Pakistan.
This is not possible because of the limitations of fleet and