Tag: Tomorrow

Three to five-hour blackouts from tomorrow

LAHORE: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has announced three and four to five hours of load shedding in urban and rural areas, respectively, from December 26.
Addressing a press conference at WAPDA House on Friday, PEPCO MD Rasul Khan Mahsud called his organisation one of the biggest social welfare institutes in the country, as it was providing relief to the masses for Rs 2.86 per units. He said formal load shedding schedule would be announced in the coming days, as

Kayani’s 3-year new term of office begins tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani will start the three-year extension period in his tenure from tomorrow (Monday).
General Kayani was due to retire from service on November 29, 2010 but was given an extension of three years by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on July 22.
Making the announcement in the shortest-ever televised speech by any Pakistani prime minister, Gilani said the vital decision was taken for the sake of the continuity of counterterrorism

Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan begin talks on drug trafficking tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan will consider deepening their cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking in Islamabad on November 24 and 25.
The ministers and senior officials of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan will discuss deepening their cooperation in their fight against drug trafficking in a series of meetings under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani, the

Kazmi arriving with Haj corruption proof tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines' special flight operations for pilgrims returning after haj began on Sunday, albeit after a three-hour delay. The first returning haj flight arrived in Peshawar three hours behind schedule, with families of the pilgrims waiting in agony at the airport.
Religious Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi will arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday with important documents and proofs regarding irregularities in haj operations. Kazmi will present a detailed report

PML-Q parliamentary party to meet tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has summoned its joint parliamentary party meeting on Thursday at Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's residence to discuss prevalent political situation in the country.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that party's top brass particularly the Chaudhry brothers would take the party lawmakers into confidence over the PPP and PML-Q parleys as well as the party's stance on a PML unification move.
They said a number of party MNAs

WFP to halve food supplies to flood victims from tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Shortage of funds will force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut 50 percent of its food supplies to flood victims from November 1, while it may roll back the operation completely by December.
"The WFP has extreme shortage of funds, as fresh funding is not available and we have no choice apart from cutting down our supplies by 50 percent. In fact we have stocks for November only. Now in this scenario we have made a strategy to cut down the food supplies to make them

APML to release charge-sheet against Sharifs tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Close aides of former president Pervez Musharraf will release a charge sheet against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday (tomorrow).
The charge sheet against the Sharif Brothers will be a response to the PML-N's charge sheet against Musharraf released on October 11. The PML-N charge sheet had demanded Musharraf's trial under Article 6 and called on the government to bring him back to the country through Interpol.

SC takes up petitions against NAB chief tomorrow

ISLAMABAD
The Supreme Court will on Monday take up identical petitions challenging the appointment of Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.
A three-member SC bench consisting of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali will hear the petitions by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan and Shahid Orakzai.
The petitioners named the federation through its Law and

Beaconhouse announces ‘School of Tomorrow’ conference

Event to mark group's 35 years in education sector
Kasuri flays successive governments for ignoring education's development
LAHORE
The Beaconhouse School System (BSS) on Thursday arranged a press conference to announce that the institution would hold an event titled, "School of Tomorrow: Freedom to Learn Conference" at a local hotel, on November 3, to mark its 35th anniversary. Beaconhouse Group Chairperson Nasreen M Kasuri, addressing the press conference, said that 35