Month: June 2021

ISLAMABAD: The MET office here on Monday forecast rain, wind-thundershower in Kashmir, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa, and Islamabad during next 24 hours. Isolated heavy falls and hailstorm would also occur during the period. Dust storm in Upper Sindh whereas seasonal low lies over northwest of Balochistan and its adjoining areas may persist. Moist currents from […]

ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the Senate Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani on Monday said that more funds should be diverted for the development of less developed areas to bring economic stability across the country. Opening the budget debate in the Senate, he urged the government to take every possible step for the protection and empowerment of […]

ISLAMABAD: Kashmiris have been standing with the same spirit and firm against India’s illegal occupation of their homeland for over seven decades and are not ready to forget every single drop of blood, spilled in the way of freedom. Referred to the ongoing forceful anti-India protests in Sopore and said that Kashmiris were determined to […]

ISLAMABAD: Bears Inc. a Japanese company, building up high-tech platform to expand its global services, has announced to award orders to Saffron Group company for creation of Information Technology platform for the real estate. Pakistan ambassador in Japan Imtiaz Ahmad held a meeting with President, Bears Real Estate Co., Ltd. Michiyoshi Takuma, and CEO, Saffron […]

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Monday informed that it’s Sukkur bureau has identified theft/embezzlement of 253, 551.7 metric ton wheat amounting to Rs 27.8 billion. Briefing a meeting chaired by NAB Chairman Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal to review the performance of NAB Sukkur, Director General of the bureau Mirza Muhammad Irfan Baig told that the […]

ISLAMABAD: The Aabpara police arrested seven members of two criminal gangs and recovered snatched cash, gold ornaments, mobile phones as well as weapons from their possession, a police spokesman said on Monday. SSP (Operations) Dr Syed Mustafa Tanweer has directed all zonal officers to accelerate their efforts to curb crimes in the city. Following the […]

ISLAMABAD: The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Monday witnessed the bullish trend, gaining 421.36 points, with a positive change of 0.87 percent, closing at 48, 726.08 points against 48, 304.72 points on the last working day. A total of 1, 217, 847, 122 shares were traded during the day compared to the […]

ISLAMABAD: Government has set a target to produce about 5.219 million tons of meat during next fiscal year in order to meet with domestic requirements as well as for exporting. During the period under review about 2.4 million tons of beef to be produced, where mutton production targets were fixed at 782, 000 tons to […]