Tag: Records

Akshay’s production ‘Breakaway’ breaks records in Canada

Akshay Kumar has a lot to smile about this year end. "We are extremely proud of the success we have achieved with ‘Breakaway’. We...

FIA seizes CDA records concerning mega ventures

In a bid to check malpractices in the Capital Development Authority, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has confiscated the whole record of the CDA...

Abbottabad Commission records statements

The Inquiry Commission on Abbottabad Operation Thursday recorded statements of officers of the police, intelligence and local witnesses of the area around Bilal Colony,...

Commission records statements

The Abbottabad Commission on Wednesday recorded statements of military and police officers in Abbottabad and sought their perspective on the events following the US...

Qureshi finds evidence of tampering in NICL case records

The investigation team of the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam, headed by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General (DG) Zafar Qureshi, has...

Computerisation of land records: Sindh first to do so

It is encouraging that the government has successfully completed the pilot phase of land records’ computerisation, becoming the first provincial government to accomplish this...

Torrential rain comes close to breaking records

After warnings of severe weather by the Met Office, the highest rainfall of the season was recorded in the provincial capital on Monday. The...

Govt to break ‘all’ records in budgetary borrowings

Borrowings by the government and non-government sectors from the banking system surged by a massive 13 per cent or Rs752.741 billion during the previous...

EPZA records $568 million exports

EPZA records tremendous export of $568 million Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA), during the financial year July 2010-June 2011 has recorded exports of $568...

Rampaging ‘Transformers’ smashes box office records

Robots made fireworks at the box office this weekend as "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" scored the third-best worldwide debut ever with a $372-million...

Official records stolen from MAO college

Islampura police on Monday registered a case of robbery against four unidentified men, who had looted cash and official records from MAO College on...

ATC records statement of Taseer’s cousin

RAWALPINDI - An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) hearing Salmaan Taseer murder case on Saturday recorded the statement of Salman Ghani, a cousin of the slain Punjab governor.
Salman had received Taseer's body after postmortem. However, the ATC could not record the statements of Islamabad Magistrate Muhammad Ali Randhawa and Sheryar Taseer, son of Taseer.
The court accepted a plea by Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the self-confessed assassin of Salmaan Taseer, to submit a written

Oil prices hit new 2.5-year peaks, as gold breaks records

LONDON - World oil price jumped this week to the highest levels since 2008, driven by Middle East supply fears and a weak dollar, while safe-haven gold hit a record as Portugal sought an EU bailout.
Other stand-out performances included tin, which enjoyed an all-time pinnacle on the back of stretched global supplies, and silver which scored
another 31-year peak.
Strong support came from the struggling greenback, which makes dollar-priced commodities cheaper for buyers

Stage set for Karachi’s Athar Sani to shine at Uth Records

KARACHI - Following the four musically diverse episodes and a repeat telecast of Yasir and Jawad's episode based on exceptionally popular demand, Ufone's music platform Uth Records returns this week with their fifth and second to last episode featuring Karachi-based singer Ather Sani.
Through Ufone's Uth Records' televised platform and as illustrated by its artists Jumbo Jutt, Yasir and Jawad, Usman Riaz and Natasha Ejaz, the team has endeavoured to show how talented young

FIA records statement of Haj operators

ISLAMABAD - A Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team has started recording statements of private tour operators to investigate the statement of Umer Sherazi, ambassador of Pakistan in Saudi Arabia, that former Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi had received Rs 10,000 from every tour operator for each pilgrim.
The FIA team will investigate the documents and record the statements of owners of 630 tour operating companies across the country. "A total of 630 tour operators

MATRICULATION EXAM WOES – LHC orders BISE chairmen to provide exam...

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

Usman Riaz features in third Uth Records episode

KARACHI - Following its first two successful shows, Uth Records' third episode was aired recently with zeal and zest. After two musically diverse episodes, the third exciting episode of the televised platform for young musicians featured a Karachi-based singer, Usman Riaz. Through this platform, and as illustrated by the first two episodes with Jumbo Jutt and Yasir & Jawad, Uth Records aspires to show how talented young musicians from across Pakistan can thrive in a professional music