Month: June 2021

SIALKOT: Two people were arrested for allegedly pilfering electricity through meter tempering in the district on Tuesday. According to the police, on a report of the Gepco, Rampura and Motra police raided at Talwara Mughlan, Motra and caught red handed Shoukat Ali and Abdul Majeed while pilfering electricity. The police had registered cases and started […]

HARIPUR: KP Minister for Local Government Akbar Ayub Tuesday directed Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf workers to start preparations for forthcoming local government elections. He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of PTI local leadership from district Haripur. The minister said that local government elections were expected to be held in the province in coming month […]

MUZAFFARABAD: The PML-N led AJK government Tuesday presented tax-free budget for fiscal year 2021-22 here in the AJK State Legislative Assembly. The budget provides the development outlay to the tune of Rs 28, 000 million which shows 14 percent increase against the current financial year allocations while non development expenditure has been estimated to Rs […]

PESHAWAR: Painting and sculpting are parts of art and designing but making portraits from bark and straw of wheat plant, plywood and black cloth was a unique and quite different idea. Syed Abid Shah, a local artist, is master of making pictures by using bark and straw of wheat plant, plywood and black cloth, at […]

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly proceedings chaired by Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani Tuesday passed a supplementary budget of Rs 109, 118, 303, 141 (109 billion) for fiscal year 2021-22. The opposition members withdrew all of their cut motions while the ministers, advisors and special assistants to the Chief Minister presented their demands for the grants. Speaker […]

FAISALABAD: The special price control magistrates fined 42 shopkeepers over profiteering on Tuesday. A spokesman for the local administration said the price control magistrates inspected 1, 004 shops in various markets and bazaars to check prices of daily use items. They found 42 shopkeepers involved in profiteering and imposed a fine of Rs 52, 000 […]

Pakistan has called for global solidarity to counter growing religious and racial discrimination, xenophobia and Islamophobia as well as hate speech through effective legal measures, saying the coronavirus pandemic had further exacerbated those trends. “Today, one of the most concerning emerging trends in global terrorism is in the form of terrorist attacks on the basis […]

PESHAWAR: KP Minister for Science and Information Technology, Atif Khan Tuesday said that the department is introducing Innovation Fund to support creative ideas in setting up gemstones, medicinal plants and micro-hydel power projects on modern scientific lines and take benefit of the market. Under the scheme, those providing new creative ideas will be paid for. […]