Govt eying to further reduce fiscal deficit to 3.5 pc of...
ISLAMABAD: The government’s concerted efforts have helped in bringing down fiscal deficit which would be further reduced to 3.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product...
Kh Asif strongly refutes impression about transfer of Secretary Water and...
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Mohammad Asif Saturday strongly refuted the wrong impression in media reports regarding transfer of Mr Younus Dagha...
JI holds protest against K-Electric ‘50 areas’ across Karachi
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islaami (JI) has called for protests at 50 locations across Karachi today, a day after yesterday’s riots paralysed major arteries in the city.
Confirming...
Fires engulf factory in Karachi ; Burn 15 shops in Lahore
KARACHI/ LAHORE: A fire broke out early in the morning in a factory near Bhains Colony in Karachi on Saturday.
The apparel recycling factory located...
Iraqi state-run TV says Islamic State second-in-command killed in airstrike
BAGHDAD: Ayad al-Jumaili, the man believed to be the deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike,...
PM issues guidelines to facilitate domestic, foreign investment
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Saturday issued guidelines to the administrative heads of all relevant divisions, attached departments and autonomous bodies aimed at...
Passport office employees posted abroad demand equal diplomatic status
ISLAMABAD: With the introduction of the Machine Readable Passport scheme in the Pakistani embassies abroad, the Pakistani immigrants have taken a sigh of great...
Quality education is indispensible for progress, development of a society and...
KARACHI: Education is indispensible for the progress and development of a society and basic right of every child, said Chief of the Naval Staff...
Construction firms urged to hire services of ‘internee engineers’ to lessen...
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided that the domestic construction companies will be responsible to hire services of ‘internee engineers’ instead of ‘supervisory engineers’...
No electricity, CM Punjab should gift load-shedding to Modi: Ch Parvez...
LAHORE: Senior and central leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said there is no electricity...