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Security concerns pop up for IJT’s event at PU
The Punjab government and the Punjab University (PU) administration are hesitating to allow Islami Jamait-e-Taliba (IJT) activists to hold its three-day congregation at the...
Steeling up for a fall
Slowly and steadily, our tangible assets are transforming into intangible assets. PIA, KESC, Railways, once earning units, are now running out on bail-out packages...
US comes up with $155m elixir for Sindh’s education woes
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Sindh government signed an agreement on Wednesday for the US-funded project worth $155 million...
ICT’s threat information website still not up
The seriousness with which Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)’s administration takes spreading awareness as a counter-measure against the dengue epidemic can be gauged from the...
Dalits up against society and nature
This year’s monsoon has not only washed away standing crops, schools and government buildings, and displaced over 5.5 million people in lower Sindh; but...
Pakistan wrap up T20 series
Pakistan completed a clean sweep of Zimbabwe in all three formats of the game, with a victory in the second Twenty20 in an exciting,...
UN steps up flood aid
The United Nations said Friday that it was stepping up aid to Pakistan, where monsoon floods have killed 270 people, affected over 5.5 million...
Six ‘killers’ among hundred more suspects rounded up
More than 100 suspects, including six alleged target killers, were rounded up by law enforcement agencies in search operations in different parts of the...
Remittances up by record 40.4pc to $2.4b in FY-12
Overseas Pakistani workers remitted a record amount of $1,310.47 million during the month of August this year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said...
AIOU sets up Faiz Chair
The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on Monday established the Faiz Chair at its Iqbaliat Department. The objective of this chair was to organise...
Punjab Govt to set up 4 new women’s universities
The Provincial Government will set up four new women universities in the districts of Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan and Bahawalpur to provide education and research...
Up to 2.5 million children affected in Sindh floods: UNICEF
Up to 2.5 million children are affected by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan and with many still recovering from the worst floods in...
Altaf heats up political pot
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday that if Pakistan Army, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the MQM joined forces, there...
Shabbir Iqbal moves up front
Shabbir Iqbal, the top ranked professional golfer of the country, now contesting in the three-round 1st Sayid Paper Open Golf Tournament at the Defence...
Furious Mirza stirs up political storm
Dr Zulfiqar Mirza resigned from all his government and party offices on Sunday - including the posts of senior provincial minister for works and...
‘Clean up before Eid or go home’
Expressing dissatisfaction over cleanliness in different areas, Karachi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Hussain Syed on Saturday directed the town administrators to improve sanitary...
Pay up July’s sales tax on services by 25th, advises SRB
The Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) on Wednesday clarified that a news item appearing in a section of press, stating that banks have been advised...
