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Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani approved on Saturday the appointment of Maj. Gen Raja Muhammad Arif Nazir, HI (M) as Additional Secretary in...

Secretary General Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Lt. Col. ( R ) Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi left for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday to attend...

Pakistan and India will hold foreign secretary-level talks on Kashmir and peace and security, the two top issues in the recently revived Indo-Pak peace...

Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is joining Facebook to oversee the company’s policy, international and corporate communications efforts. Lockhart, who...

Federal Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis Amjad Ali Khan has been transferred and posted as the Federal Ombudsman Secretary. KB Rind, a...

Despite Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s orders to conduct a third party audit in development projects to ensure transparency, Punjab Excise and Taxation (E&T)...

Defence Secretary Lt Gen (r) Syed Athar Ali arrived in New Delhi on Sunday to hold talks with his Indian counterpart on the contentious...

A Lahore accountability court will resume hearing of a corruption case against former prime minister Benazir’s Bhutto political secretary Ahmed Sadiq on June 18...

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Permanent Under-Secretary Simon Fraser met Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Sunday and discussed various issues with him. “They had...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Secretary Qamar Zaman Qureshi announced on Tuesday to launch the Pakistan Zindabad Movement to create awareness among masses about...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of a contempt of court petition against the federal law secretary for not notifying a one-year extension in...

LAHORE - The Judicial Flood Inquiry Tribunal (JFIT) registrar handed over a judicial inquiry report on canal and spur breaches during floods to the Punjab Home Secretary in a ceremony held at the Lahore High Court on Monday.
JFIT Registrar Irfan Saeed said the Judicial Flood Inquiry Tribunal by the Chairman Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and members Abdul Sattar Shakir and Shafqat Masood completed the report "A Rude Awakening" consisting 475 pages supported by 91 appendices spread

LAHORE - A four member Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) delegation headed by Canada's first Secretary Cassie Lee called on Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad in his office on Monday and discussed various ongoing development projects in the health sector. Fawad briefed the delegation about different pro-poor initiatives taken by the government for patients' welfare and said that free diagnostic and treatment facilities were being provided to the patients besides

LAHORE - PCS Officers' Association President Rai Manzur Nasir on Monday requested for a weeks time to personally appear before the Punjab chief secretary (CS) owing to various reasons. Nasir has been issued show-cause notice and was supposed to appear for a personal hearing with the CS on Monday but on the time of hearing, he requested the competent authority for a weeks' time.
A senior officer said that Nasir took the plea that he did not receive the show-cause notice and

LAHORE - A judicial inquiry report on canal and spur breaches in floods will be officially handed over to the Punjab Home Secretary on Monday. The Judicial Flood Inquiry Tribunal registrar will hand over the report in a ceremony at the Lahore High Court.
The Judicial Flood Inquiry Tribunal Chairman Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah along with members Abdul Sattar Shakir and Shafqat Masood, completed the report on April 8, titled "A Rude Awakening", which consists of 475 pages

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) witnessed a unique drama on Friday when Director General (DG) Abdul Jabbar Shaheen terminated the services of his private secretary but reinstated him within some hours.
According to LDA sources, the LDA DG had already messed up on various occasions but this slip up echoed everywhere. LDA Secretariat Service Officer Ijaz Anwar, working as private secretary to Shaheen, received his termination letter on Friday with orders to report

RIYADH - US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates was holding talks in Riyadh on Wednesday with Saudi King Abdullah, with both sides concerned by Iranian intentions in the region and spiralling unrest in Yemen.
"Iran will be a major focus of their conversations, both in terms of the regional threat they pose but also lately in the role they've been playing in trying to exploit the unrest in the region to their advantage," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said ahead of the meeting.