Tag: Public

As the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government is set to announce its fourth budget on Friday, Pakistan’s stock of public debt stands at Rs...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited Aga Khan University Hospital on Wednesday to inquire about the health of Pir Pagara, leader of the Pakistan...

Former Advisor to the prime minister on national security, Maj Gen(R) Mehmood Ali Durani has said that he decided to reveal the identity of...

The next federal budget is less than a fortnight away. Next month the politico-strategically-embattled PPP-led coalition government would be sharing with the voters’ budgetary...

The pre-budget phase has always exuded an aura of anxiety, optimism, pessimism and speculations in our social atmosphere and paved the way for heated...

Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Public Referendum continued on the 5th day while MQM Provincial Organizing Committee Joint In-charge Shabir Qaeem Khakani and National Assembly...

Despite being equipped with separate ladies’ compartments, travelling on public transport buses has become a nightmare for women due to overloading and harassment issues,...

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has reminded the general public to exchange the old-design and bigger-size banknote of Rs 500 from the field...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for US actor Charlie Sheen are seeking a public trial over his dismissal from the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men," which was suspended after a public spat between Sheen and the producer. The 45-year-old actor is suing Warner Brothers studios for $100 million for alleged breach of contract after the show was canceled for the rest of the season following Sheen's public tirades against producer Chuck Lorre.
Sheen is also seeking compensation for the rest of

KARACHI - A large city like Karachi needs more public toilets and the city government should make bylaws for this purpose and implement them immediately, Karachi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Hussain Syed said on Monday. He was speaking at a meeting held in the committee room of Civic Centre.
"Public toilets need to be built in different areas of city, especially at public gathering points," he said. The meeting was attended by EDO Revenue Roshan Ali Shaikh, Parks

KARACHI - The provincial Fisheries and Livestock Department informed the Sindh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday that the department is unable to free the province's public water bodies from the control of influential people despite the abolishment of the contract system on fishing. Provincial Fisheries and Livestock Department Secretary Muhammad Laiq Memon told the PAC that the Sindh Assembly had abolished the contract system on fishing in public waters during

KARACHI - The Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh has announced staging a public meeting in Nazimabad on May 15 to commemorate the memory of those who were killed in violence in Karachi on May 12, 2007. The ANP was one of those parties that had planned to receive Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chauhdry on his arrival in Karachi on that fateful day. At the meeting, the ANP Sindh would pass a people's resolution demanding that the Supreme Court take notice of the

KARACHI - Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has sought public support for the people suffering from Parkinson's disease. In a statement issued on the World Parkinson's Disease Day 2011 on Monday, he said that in the country, there are 500,000 registered patients of Parkinson's disease - a degenerative and age related disorder. The minister assured that all possible assistance would be extended to the sufferers at government facilities.
He, however, reminded that most

KARACHI - The World Parkinson's Day would be globally observed on Monday (today) to highlight the importance and symptoms of Parkinson's disease that has afflicted over 6.3 million people around the world.
A study conducted by the University of Rochester predicts that the number of people afflicted with Parkinson's disease would double by 2030. However, there is no public awareness regarding the disease in Pakistan.
The Sindh Health Department has not organised any

FAISALABAD - The city government has shelved the long-awaited Rs 50 million public parking plan conceived by its predecessors to address the parking chaos in different areas. During the tenure of former City District Nazam Rana Zahid Tauseef, Rs 50 million were earmarked for the construction of four multi-storey parking plazas at Kutchehary Bazaar, Aminpur Bazaar, former municipal corporation house and Mayor House.
The city government has termed the proposed venues of parking

KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday appealed that the people of Punjab should support the cause of truth by participating in the April 10 public meeting to be held by the MQM.
In a video message, he said the people of Punjab should demonstrate through their unity that they want to break the status quo and bring to an end the decaying feudal system and rampant corruption.
Deploring the dynastic political culture prevalent in the country that empowers a few families

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) claims to be a party of the middle-class, but it will be spending Rs 150 million for the April 10 public meeting in Lahore. This is despite MQM chief Altaf Hussain claiming that the party is going through a "financial crisis."
The public meeting in Lahore is being given immense importance: it will be the MQM's first rally in the capital of Punjab at such a large scale. The MQM had attempted holding a public rally during the last