Beneficiaries under Ehsaas program to get subsidized rate on kitchen items at all USC: MD USC

ISLAMABAD: Managing Director USC, Umer Lodhi Thursday announced that subsidy at Utility stores would continue and beneficiaries registered under Ehsaas program would now get ‘targeted subsidies’ on essential Kitchen items at all Utility stores from July end. Federal government has initially completed its trial for targeted subsidies program for Ehsaas beneficiaries through IT integration between […]

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Air Chief witnesses Exercise ‘Anatolian Eagle-2021’ in Turkey

ISLAMABAD:Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu Thursday visited the 3rd Main Jet Base in Konya, Turkey to review the multi-national air exercise “Anatolian Eagle-2021”. The Air Chief was given a detailed briefing about the conduct of the exercise, said a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) media release […]

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Islamabad excise deptt starts collecting vehicle token tax from paper registration book holder

ISLAMABAD:Islamabad Excise and Taxation department has started collecting vehicle token tax at his office from paper registration book holder. Prior to this initiative, the paper book holder could only submit their vehicle token tax at general post office, said Director Excise Bilal Azam on Thursday. Talking to reporter on Thursday, he said the move was […]

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Govt not afraid from opposition’s dirty politics: Vawda

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Faisal Vawda Thursday said the government was not scared from the opposition parties’ dirty and reprehensible politics for personal gains. Both the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had indulged in the politics of blame game to achieve their political motives and advantages, he said while talking to […]

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Govt. employees barred from bidding, tendering of projects

PESHAWAR:District administration Orakzai has barred government employees from direct or indirect involvement in bidding and tendering of developmental projects. A statement issued by office of Deputy Commissioner said that the government employees have been warned against direct or indirect involvement of any kind in bidding and tendering process of developmental projects. It said that punitive […]

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Government striving to improve living standard of poor people: Senator Aon Abbas

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Senator Aon Abbas Buppi Thursday said the government was sincerely working to improve living standard of poor segments of the society. Talking to a private TV channel, he said the government also picked poor people who were sleeping on roads, under bridges at night and provided them shelter and redressed their grievances. He […]

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Two-day workshop on ‘prevention of extremism, use of drugs’ held

PESHAWAR:A two-day workshop, on directive of Governor KP Shah Farman, about ‘prevention of extremism and use of Drugs’ in the higher educational institutions was held at Governor’s House on Thursday. The session has been arranged by Governor’s Secretariat in collaboration with Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and National Counter Terrorism Authority which was […]

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