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President extends patronage to intelligentsia, writers’ community

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said that it is important that the toils and hard work of our scholars and eminent historians are not only preserved, but are also duly appreciated and merited so that when history is progressively recorded for our coming generations, it is done objectively and there is no chance of historical […]


Urdu Newsletter Aug 05 To Aug 11, 2011

Summary Urdu Newsletter Aug 05 To Aug 11, 2011 Date 8/5/2011 Download ppf newsletter vol 9 no-31.pdf


CM takes notice of nurse harassment

LAHORE — The Chief Minister’s office has taken notice of the sexual harassment case wherein a doctor, appointed at Kahna Rural Health Center, was allegedly involved in sexually harassing a staff nurse (S. The victim said in her application addressed to Shahbaz Sharif that dental surgeon Dr. Atfi Hanif was forcing her for illicit relations […]


Facebook fixation

Rabia Alavi On my birthday, my phone never stops ringing. I am like an excited child all day long because let’s face it, who doesn’t like attention? But this time, my birthday was incredibly boring. No one bothered to call. Not even my best friend who lives in Abu Dhabi. Everyone decided to ‘post’ their […]


NA debate on Karachi turns into PPP-PML-N tit-for-tat

Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Voices that have called for the Army to restore peace in Karachi faced opposition in the National Assembly on Thursday with JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman advocating a political cure for the violence-hit port city instead of asking the Army to step in. While the NA session was meant to debate the […]


Committees formed for the creation of new provinces

BAHAWALPUR: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that a committee had been formed to include the creation of new provinces in the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)manifesto. While addressing a gathering of PPP workers in Bahawalpur, Gilani said that the party had strengthened state institutions including the parliament, the judiciary, media the civil society. He […]


FIA launches crackdown against passport agents

By Asad Kharal LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has launched a massive crackdown in passport offices across the country against passport agents. More than 20 agents were nabbed outside different passport offices, The Express Tribune has learnt. The operation was launched on the directives of the interior ministry after massive complaints of corruption by […]


PTA recommends guidelines for IFS

By Muhammad Yasir KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued its recommendation to set Rs 5,000 charges of annual International Toll Free number for local service providers in the new mechanism for international freephone service (IFS). The authority in its consultation papers has stated various modes and options to operate toll free numbers in line […]


PTA signs two MoUs for telecom research

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Centre for Advance Studies and Engineering (Case) and the Institute of Space Technology (IST) to promote telecom related research that will be beneficial for the institutions, the telecom industry and the country. According to an announcement made by the PTA […]


Rs68 billion losses detected in PTA audit

By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: At a time when the Indian government is rocked by a $40 billion scandal in its telecom sector, federal auditors in Islamabad have unearthed a loss of Rs68 billion in the telecommunication sector of the country. However, there is a marked difference between the two stories. In India, licences were sold […]