Tag: Relief

In an emergency meeting chaired by Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Administrator Brigadier Aslam Rana, two relief centres were established on Saturday to help internally...

In an emergency meeting held by Brig Muhammad Aslam Rana, Administrator DHA Lahore, two relief centres have been established to help out the displaced...

At least 53 regular employees of Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) have been deprived of adhoc relief. The employees were regularised recently. These employees have demanded...

With the advent of the month of Ramadan, the residents of Islamabad thronged to ‘sasta bazaars’, where the rates of food items were comparatively...

Flood-hit communities living in extreme poverty are not being given the time to recover from the last year’s devastating floods as the danger of...

Despite being set up with the aim of providing basic commodities to people at reasonable rates, the prices offered at the Sunday bazaars of...

In continuation of the health initiatives, Ufone, one of the leading telecom companies and a responsible corporate player of Pakistan, has partnered with Plan...

A pleasant weather prevailed in the city after a heavy downpour on early Wednesday morning as private television channels reported that flood warning centres...

A pleasant weather prevailed in the city after a heavy downpour on early Wednesday morning as private television channels reported that flood warning centres...

The Sindh budget 2011-12 is a balanced and worker-friendly as government employees and pensioners will get major relief from increase in salaries and pension,...

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that despite difficult circumstances the new budget contains maximum relief for the common man. Addressing post...

No proposal to provide ad-hoc relief to government employees in the 2011-2012 budget is under consideration but the final decision in this regard would...

Light rain and a dust storm on Thursday brought relief to Lahoris who had been witnessing extremely hot conditions for the last couple of...

Light rain and a dust storm on Thursday brought relief to Lahoris who had been witnessing extremely hot conditions for the last couple of...

KARACHI - Students of Abdullah Faysal School, Shah Faisal Colony have been saved in the nick of time: the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) had barred them from taking their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Part I & II exams over a wrangle with the school administration, but a Sindh High Court (SHC) division bench on Monday ordered the Board to allow 29 students of the school to appear in SSC Part I examinations that start from today (Tuesday) even without any admit

PESHAWAR - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has announced to give relief package in utility bills to more than 4 million people, living life below poverty line in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and tribal areas.
Under announcement made by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to give relief package in utility bills to the people living life below poverty line, the 45 lac poor are being given 500 units free in utility bills. The name lists of the people who are living life below

ISLAMABAD - The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday approved a $775 million loan for Pakistan to help the government provide cash transfers to more than a million flood-affected households.
According to an ADB statement, the bank's board of directors approved the loan, along with a supporting technical assistance grant, for the Flood Emergency Reconstruction Project. The loan will be used to reconstruct damaged roads, bridges, irrigation systems, as well