Tag: Services

ISLAMABAD - Exports of services from Pakistan surged by 55.69 percent during the first seven months of current fiscal year as against the same period of last year.
The overall export of services was recorded at US$3.424 billion during July-January (2010-11) as against the exports of US$2.199 billion during the corresponding period of last year, according to data of Federal Bureau of Statistics.
The services that contributed in the positive growth in exports included

KASUR - People are suffering because of suspension of train service in Kasur. As per details, Pakistan Railways administration had suspended the services of four trains namely 321up, 322 down, 257 up and 258 down due to non availability of diesel. Many passengers had been waiting for their desired trains for many hours because they were not informed about the suspension of the service. This step would severely affect the passengers from those areas which lie around the railway track

LAHORE - Members of the Punjab Paramedics Alliance (PPA) held a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday and threatened to stop working in the public hospitals from next month and take to the streets if the Punjab government did not issue a service structure notification for paramedics' basic pay scales 1 to 16.
PPA President Malik Muneer Ahmed said the Punjab government catered only for the people who protested in front of the Punjab Assembly and added that perhaps

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

SIALKOT - Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) President Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry has said that Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan is a an asset to the district and a benefactor of the local business community as she played a vital role in the construction of Sialkot International Airport and Sui gas supply to many areas.
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan had played a tremendous role in the sanction of Rs 750 million for the airport out of

Lahore - The launching ceremony of the book "A Treatise on the Civil Service of Pakistan: The Structural-Functional History (1601-2011) by a young DMG Officer Kiran Khurshid was held at PILAC Auditorium on Wednesday. Former Punjab Chief Secretary Javed Ahmed Qureshi while addressing at the occasion said, "civil Service of Pakistan is the most distinguished national institution that has produced public service and integrity icons who served the country with absolute courage, dedication

LAHORE - At the beginning of the sacred month of Muharram, a month of sorrow and grief, Maulana Fida Hussain Hafizabadi of Muridke gets very busy. He does not even have time for his close relatives and had to ask his son-in-law to wait until the end of April to see him.
Hafizabadi is not the sole example of such a pressing schedule, as hundreds of clerics from various sects travel across the country during the months of Muharram, Safar and Rabi-ul-Awwal. On the face of it, the

Lahore - UK House of Commons Member Lord Nazir Ahmed visited the Emergency Services Academy on Friday and lauded the services of the Rescue 1122 particularly its response time of seven minutes and pledged support in capacity building of Rescue 1122 staff from the UK.
According to details, Nazir along with Councilor Jahangir Akhtar and Councilor Rotherhan Westward visited the Emergency Services Academy where he was briefed on various emergency training being imparted to rescuers.

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution demanding the federal government to ensure the share of the province in federal services, including autonomous bodies and corporations.
Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s senior member Dr Sikander Mandhro moved the resolution, and all parliamentary parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, supported it.
The PPP ministers

LAHORE - A 60-year-old man died at Services Hospital due to alleged negligence of doctors here on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Manzoor, a resident of Nawankot. The victim's family told the police that Manzoor was ill for past few days and was admitted in Services hospital on Friday night where the doctors did not treat him timely. Resultantly, he died in the emergency ward.
The victim's family members staged protest against the doctors in front of the hospital. Later,

KARACHI: A series of small bomb blasts on upcountry railway tracks in different places in Sindh disrupted train services from Karachi to other parts of the country on Friday morning.
Six low-intensity blasts in Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Ghotki and Panu Aqil damaged the tracks and brought train services to a complete halt for many hours. The train services were restored on Friday evening after railway engineers finished repairs.
Pakistan Railways officials said that

LAHORE - 532 Fire Rescuers graduated at Emergency Services Academy (ESA), Shama Chowk, Ferozepur Road, Lahore in the middle of a heavy shower on Monday. The passing out fire fighters have been recruited and trained for remaining 24 Districts of Punjab under special instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.
These remaining Districts include Attock, Bahawalnagar, Bhakkar, Chakwal, Gujrat, Hafizabad, Jehlum, Jhang, Kasur, Khanewal, Khushab, Layyah, Lodharan,

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has deemed that the services of Government College University (GCU) Registrar Sahibzada Faisal Khurshid are no longer required. The current GCU Registrar's candidature has already been rejected by the Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) for the post, a senior Punjab government official disclosed to Pakistan Today.
The official said that Punjab CM has taken notice of recent issues at GCU and was concerned owing to various

KARACHI - The Sindh government on Tuesday decided that it would not give up its constitutional right to collect GST on all services related to the province. The decision was taken at a meeting presided by Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister's House.
Sindh Chief Secretary Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha, Additional Chief Secretary (Planning and Development) Ishaq Lashari, Finance Secretary Muhammad Siddique Memon, Sindh Revenue Board Chairman Nazar Hussain Maher,

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has offered the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) its services in Punjab to inflict political damage to the PML-N.
A source in the PML-Q told Pakistan Today that in Friday's meeting between the leadership of the PML-Q and the MQM at nine zero, Shujaat Hussain asked MQM leaders to gear up their political activities in Punjab and assured them the PML-Q's full logistic support against the PML-N.
Addressing a joint press conference after

Lahore - The emergency entrance of the Services Hospital has not yet been broadened despite Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaaz Sharif's approval. Many critical patients continue to suffer and often die in the ambulances, owing to the choked service lane.
Almost a year has passed that the CM granted the amendment of the slip lane adjacent to Services Hospital, but the city administration has failed to implement CM's orders. Patients continue to face difficulty in receiving first

LAHORE - Lives of patients arriving at the Services Hospital's Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) are in a complete jeopardy, as previous administrator of the SICU has retired and the ward is currently being run by young and inexperienced doctors, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The SCIU was running heedlessly, as more than four months has passed since SICU Incharge Dr Taifoor Gilani had retired. Presently, the ward was being managed by young and inexperienced doctors who were