LAHORE: Like other parts of the province, the City remained in the grip of muggy weather on Sunday, causing the Lahorites to sweat profusely until noon. Abundance of sunshine and lack of winds caused considerable increase in the daytime temperature with high humidity making the weather oppressive. Cloudiness and continuously blowing winds reduced the intensity […]
By: ASMA RAZAQ Islamabad: Pakistan may seek foreign assistance in case of heavy monsoon season in 2012 which may lead to relocation and rehabilitation of 1.46 million people across the country. Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said while talking exclusively with Business Recorder here on Tuesday, “it is true that Pakistan received just 10 […]
By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: Ali Azmat is a true Pakistani rock star. Where his grooves and music never fail to impress us, his peculiar quirks and extreme-right political views simply add to his eccentric personality. But this time around, it’s not his political ideology that has brought him into the limelight – it’s the songs […]
SUKKUR: A teenage girl who was reportedly kidnapped on late Monday night in Noor Abad village near Sukkur was rescued on Tuesday. Armed men broke into Bhittai Dino’s house, which is located within the jurisdiction of the Salehpat police station, on Monday night and held its occupants hostage at gunpoint. The culprits fled from the […]
By: Sarfaraz Memon SUKKUR: For the 30-plus families living at the relief camp for flood survivors near Sukkur’s airport road, what was supposed to be a temporary abode has now turned into a home. Most of the families who lived here have now returned to their native areas – Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Kandkhot, Qambar-Shahdadkot and […]
KARACHI: The Establishment Division has appointed Amir Tariq Zaman Khan as Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom (MoIT&T); he is also likely to be given the additional charge of IT secretary – a position currently vacant – The Express Tribune has learned. Khan was appointed additional secretary over the weekend; two […]
By: Tazeen Javed Sometime back, I conducted part of a gender sensitisation workshop, organised for government officials. I had the most diversified group because it had representation from all across Pakistan. We had people from big cities as well as smaller towns and villages such as Khushab, Noshki, Dadu, Dera Ismail Khan and Ghotki. During […]
ISLAMABAD: The government is working to table a Child Rights bill in the parliament, which will include internal trafficking, child pornography and increasing the age of criminal ability, the Advisor to Prime Minister on Human Rights Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said on Tuesday. Talking to Australian High Commissioner Peter Heyward and First Secretary Mikel Gragery, Khokhar […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has planned to spend Rs 4.6 billion on the Information Technology (IT) sector to execute around 43 projects during this fiscal year to achieve better results. These projects, costing more than Rs 22 billion are meant for human resource development, development of IT industry, strengthening e-Government and infrastructure development. An official […]
Shazman Shariff reports that Indian fans of Pakistani drama serials are excited about the possibility of Pakistani television channels being allowed in India… Anybody who remembers the hilarious skits from Pakistan’s hit comedy show Fifty Fifty might still get cramps in the stomach from laughing, remembering the antics of Ismail Tara and Majid Jehangir. Living […]
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KWSB) would work under a joint strategy devised for drainage of rainwater during the current monsoon season in the city. The municipal staff and machinery would be kept in ready condition at rain emergency centres on round-the-clock basis. This was stated by KMC Administrator […]
By: Imtiaz Ali A rare sight was witnessed during the Sindh Assembly session on Tuesday, when all provincial stood up in unison, demanding that “exemplary punishment” should be meted out to the policemen, who allegedly paraded a man and a woman naked in Gambat city, Khairpur district a few days ago. “The incident has tarnished […]
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) Tuesday called on Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira. They discussed matters related to print and media industry particularly the holding of South Asia Media Summit proposed by APNS. The minister said government believes in the freedom of expression as is it is an […]
RAWALPINDI: Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek has said that the Swiss letter, about which the Supreme Court is insisting, has already been written. Talking to Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’ host Hamid Mir, the minister said the matter does not relate to an ordinary person, but to the president of Pakistan. He said the […]
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