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LAHORE - The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) is making all out efforts to raise academic and research activities to compete with international standards, UVAS VC Dr Nawaz said on Saturday. He was addressing the concluding session of a three-day internship orientation workshop for DVM final year students, organised by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the seminar hall.
Faculty of Veterinary Science Dean Dr Nasim Ahmad, Faculty of Bio Sciences Dean Dr Ijaz

ISLAMABAD - Classes were boycotted completely by the teachers affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education on Thursday to register their protest over the non-implementation of teachers' package announced by the prime minister on November 8, last year.
Demonstrations were held by the teachers during the last three months in the premises of their schools but on Thursday they boycotted the classes also. Dozens of protesting teachers gathered in front of FDE, where they raised

KARACHI - The Welfare Society for Patient Care recently held a painting exhibition at the Canvas Gallery for raising funds for treatment of underprivileged patients. With Prof Dr Iffat Yazdani as Honorary Administrator, the WSPC caters to the dialysis needs of over 250 patients, 95 percent of whom are dialysed free of charge.
Every month, a letter is dispatched to the donors regarding the clinical progress of the patients dialysed. The WSPC, whose funds are audited every six

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has turned down a well-planned move of a 50 percent hike in transfer fee of plots in its own housing schemes and decided to uphold the present ratio for all allotted, auction and exemption plots, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The proposal to increase the levy on transfer of plots of 3 marlas, 5 marlas, 7 marlas, 250-square metres and more than 250-square metres was floated by highly-ranked officials working on probation and having close

ISLAMABAD - The government on Wednesday shared its plans for expenditure cuts with the PML-N team by disclosing that it planned to halve the increase in salaries of government employees in this year's budget for the remaining four months of the current fiscal year, and reduce the Rs 70 billion-flood relief fund by Rs 10 billion.
A source said the PML-N team, however, demanded an across-the-board salary cut, including slashing of salaries of parliamentarians, ministers, the prime

FAISALABAD - Dozens of Faisalabad District Court workers held a protest rally in support of their pay raise. Reportedly, the protesters including sessions and civil courts' employees, readers, clerks and peons, took out a rally, carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demand for an increase in their salaries.
The protesters marched to District Council Chowk and Faisalabad Press Club for their demands and appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD - Another showdown between the government and opposition parties is expected as the cash-strapped administration is likely to launch another push for an increase in the prices of petroleum products on January 31.
The government will again be walking a tightrope when the proposal is presented during the meeting of the parliamentary committee that will review the petroleum products pricing mechanism and also during the PPP-PML-N talks on proposed economic reforms. An

MADRID - Spain's government said Friday it had agreed to raise the retirement age to 67 from 65, a bitterly fought reform aimed at repairing public finances and soothing markets. Closely watched by markets as a sign of Madrid's determination to keep long-term spending on track, the outline deal was reached after one-and-a-half months of talks with unions and business chiefs.
An agreement with the country's two major unions was reached in the early hours of the morning ahead of

KARACHI - Attock Refinery has jacked up prices of lube base oil by Rs 6.50 per litre. Refineries have inflated prices of lube base oil by 15 percent in the past four months, All Pakistan Lubricants Manufacturers Association (APLMA) Chairman Mian Zahid Husain said in an issued statement.
He stressed the new increase would result in price rises in the case of all lubricants, ranging from Rs 8.0 to Rs 10 per litre. It was noted that since December, this was the third time that base

LAHORE - The Pakistan Medical Association Punjab chapter provincial council meeting unanimously agreed on Wednesday that the Punjab government needs to announce a special salary package for doctors urgently to stop the brain drain of doctors.
The PMA provincial council meeting was held at PMA House under the chairmanship of Professor M Ashraf Nizami. The office bearers of PMA Lahore, PMA Multan, PMA Gujranwala, PMA Mianwali, PMA Hafizabad, PMA Toba Tek Sing, PMA Faisalabad, PMA

PESHAWAR - Acknowledging the Police department's services in the war against militancy, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Saturday announced 50 percent raise in provincial police officials' salaries. Addressing a ceremony held in Peshawar Police Line, Hoti commended police for its frontline role in fighting militancy and rendering unprecedented sacrifices in protecting the citizens. He announced 50 percent increase in the basic pay of the provincial police as

ISLAMABAD - To expedite the construction of Diamer Bhasha Dam, the government on Thursday allowed the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to raise Rs 20 billion from the market through Sukuk and Term Finance Certificates (TFC).
This decision was made at the meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet that met under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
According to official sources, the government would provide the

SYDNEY - Australian football star Tim Cahill and his Socceroo teammates have led the domestic sports community in fundraising for victims of the Queensland floods. Nine people have died and 66 were missing after flash floods swept through parts of Australia's eastern state on Monday.
Everton midfielder Cahill dedicated his two-goal performance in Australia's 4-0 Asian Cup win over India in Doha on Monday to families affected by the floods. Cahill used his goal celebrations to

LAHORE - The members of the Technical Study Group (TSG) will help Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) develop strong national as well as age group teams for the future international assignments.
They will select 50 upcoming players from the 32-matches of ongoing PFF-KESC Lyari U-14 Football League that commenced at Karachi's Peoples Sports Complex on January 8. As many as seven matches are being completed in 17-day event so far whose final is scheduled for same venue on January

LAHORE - An application was filed in the Lahore High Court on Saturday challenging the recent nine percent increase in petroleum prices. Petitioner, Hameed Goryia, through his counsel Muteen-ul-Haq Chaudhry, filed the civil miscellaneous application into his main petition pending before the court against increase in gas prices.
The petitioner argued that a hike in petroleum prices will raise the prices of daily usage items and adversely affect the poor, who are already hit hard

KARACHI - The payment systems infrastructure in the country was upgraded during the first quarter (July-September) of the current year, as 99 new automated teller machines (ATMs) were added to the e-banking infrastructure bringing the ATM network to 4,562.
According to State Bank's first quarterly report on payments systems released, 60 more bank branches have been upgraded to Real Time Online Branches (RTOBs) while the number of plastic cards (Debit and Credit Cards) also

KARACHI: Founder-Editor of Pakistan Today Arif Nizami has said he will raise the issue of jobs quota for the sons and daughters of hawkers in the media organisations in the country.
"I will raise this issue through articles and my influence to provide quota of jobs for the sons and daughters of the hawkers," Arif Nizami said in a meeting with the representatives of the hawkers association in Karachi.
The meeting had been arranged to brief the representatives of the hawkers