ISLAMABAD: The devolution of the Ministry of Labour and Manpower turns into new headache for the Implementation Commission on 18th amendment, as the federal government has refused to transfer the worker welfare fund to the provincial governments and suggested the bifurcation of the Ministry into two. Meeting of the Implementation Commission on 18th amendment held […]
QUETTA: Balochistan High Court’s (BHC) chief justice (CJ) expressed his anger over the lack of progress in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case and censured police and other officials for it. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Muhammad Hashim Khan passed these remarks during the hearing of a petition filed […]
Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said Pakistan suffered a loss of Rs855 billion to the economy due to the worst floods last year. “The worst affected sector was agriculture that suffered loss of around Rs429 billion, followed by housing (Rs135 billion), Transport and Communications (Rs113 billion) and financial sector […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate`s Standing Committee on Human Rights on Monday directed the interior ministry to install mobile jammers in prisons across the country to block the militants and criminals` information network inside the jails. The committee`s meeting was chaired by Senator Afrasiab Khattak and attended by senators Mohammad Azam Khan Swati, Sardar Ali Khan and Suriya […]
KARACHI, May 18: As the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday blocked another 875,000 unverified cellphone connections for `cleaning` of mobile subscribers` data, the announcement by the interior minister last month to ban the sale of cellphone connections in the open market for the same purpose proved `wrong` because no such proposal was even under […]
LAHORE: The federal government has reportedly asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to work on awarding 3G license to cellular companies in order to generate Rs50 billion to Rs60 billion revenue during the financial year 2011-12. The 3G represents a spectrum allowing higher speeds of data transmission. Sources informed Dawn on Wednesday that the government […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of a petition seeking a ban on the social networking website Facebook in Pakistan till Thursday (today). The petition accuses the website of holding a competition of sacrilegious caricatures of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). The court adjourned the hearing as the deputy attorney general could not […]
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