Tag: Suffers

LAHORE - The Parliamentary Committee (PC) for judges' appointment witnessed its first setback on Thursday and a big question mark hangs on its role under the 18th Constitutional Amendment after the Supreme Court (SC) suspended its decision sacking four ad-hoc judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC), renowned jurists said on Thursday.
The jurists criticised the SC order saying, "If the SC does not accept decisions of the parliamentary committee then what is its utility in the whole

KARACHI - Despite the fact that the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has restricted power distributing companies from carrying out more than 80 hours of load shedding in a year, the residents of Karachi have to contend with 1,080 hours of power outages.
In violation of the 'Guaranteed Standard (GS) of Planned Long Duration Power Supply Interruption' of NEPRA, the KESC suspends power supply to its over two million consumers for over 1,080 hours a year with its

LONDON - Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri could face up to three weeks on the sidelines after suffering a serious hamstring injury in the Gunners' FA Cup tie with Huddersfield, Arsene Wenger said Sunday.
Nasri pulled up suddenly during the first half of Arsenal's 2-1 win over the Terriers, and Wenger now fears the inspirational French playmaker will miss the club's Champions League showdown with Barcelona on February 16.
"It looks a serious hamstring injury and that's usually

ISLAMABAD - Six months after the 2010 monsoon floods hit large parts of Pakistan, the humanitarian aid agents face another huge challenge following new survey results from Sindh province that reveal critical levels of malnutrition among flood-affected children.
The data released by the Sindh Department of Health on Friday indicate a nutrition crisis, recording a Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate of 23.1 per cent in children aged between 6-59 months in flood-affected areas of

ISLAMABAD - The federal audit authorities have revealed that Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) suffered a loss of Rs 463.496 million in three separate cases by violating rules due to lack of internal control.
Pakistan's audit report 2009-10 pointed out that the PASSCO suffered a loss of Rs 411.260 million due to the purchase of sub-standard rice in violation of purchase agreement. "PASSCO's letter dated February 18, 2009 instructed all zonal heads to

ISLAMABAD: The audit report 2009-10 of the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) reveals massive losses of Rs 76.813 million due to theft and burglary incidents across the country.
The audit report of the Auditor General of Pakistan points out that the USC reported losses of Rs 30.468 million in the year 2008-09 due to incidents theft and burglary at 147 stores across the country.
"FIRs were lodged with police, formal enquiries were conducted and insurance claims of Rs 30.468

Sebastian Vettel led championship leader Mark Webber in a dominant Red Bull one-two in both practice sessions for the Japanese Grand Prix on Friday. While they flaunted an advantage of more than half a second over their title rivals, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton could only watch impotently from the sidelines after crashing in the morning.
When the 2008 Formula One champion did get back on track with eight minutes of the second session remaining, Hamilton was able to complete just six