Muharram-ul-Haram security arrangements reviewed

RAWALPINDI: City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Muhammad Ahsan Younas has directed for foolproof security arrangements for Muharramul-Haram processions. He was chairing a meeting to review the security arrangements for Muharram-ul-Haram along with the SSP Operations Rai Mazhar Iqbal, SSP Investigation Ghazanfar Ali Shah, Divisional SPs and law enforcement personnel’s. Addressing the participants of the meeting, […]

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Rawalpindi to be made tourism district: Chairman RDA

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has started work to finalize a comprehensive plan to make Rawalpindi a tourism district. Chairman RDA Tariq Mehmood Murtaza, Wednesday chaired a meeting and said that all-out efforts would be made to promote tourism in the region. The meeting discussed the proposal to make Rawalpindi tourism district, focusing three tehsils […]

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Tahir Ashrafi chairs meeting to review Muharram arrangements of Rwp

RAWALPINDI: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony, Maulana Tahir Ashrafi on Wednesday chaired a meeting held here at Commissioner Office to review Muharram-ul-Haram arrangements. Member National Assembly, Sheikh Rashid Shafiq, Commissioner Rawalpindi Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah, Deputy Commissioner Amir Aqiq, Additional Commissioner (Coordination) Arif Umar Aziz and other administrative officers and scholars […]

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241 students caught red-handed using unfair means in exams

LARKANA: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Larkana’s vigilance teams on Wednesday caught 241 students red handed while using unfair means (copying) in the examinations of Higher Secondary Certificate Part-II (Class XII), Annual Examinations 2021. The Chairman BISE, Larkana, Prof. Nasim Ahmed Memon formed vigilance teams to control the use of unfair means. […]

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Govt taking concrete steps for promoting interfaith harmony

RAWALPINDI: Special Representative to the Prime Minister for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East and Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi said that the government was taking concrete steps for promoting interfaith harmony and country’s constitution guarantees equal rights to all citizens including the minorities. Addressing a one-day seminar titled “Message with Pakistan, […]

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KP Govt offers fiscal, financial, other incentives to investors

PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has offered fiscal, financial and non-financial incentives in Industrial Policy 2020 to attract investment and generate employment opportunities for youth in the province, said draft of the KP Industrial Policy 2020. Under the policy both new and expansion projects of industries have been exempted of provincial electricity duty […]

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Govt making efforts to secure Afghan refugees’ future through quality education, skills

LAHORE: After Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, a huge Afghan population has fled war and sought refuge in Pakistan as a result since then most of them had stayed, married and raised their children in the country. The successive governments in Pakistan have never left these refugees from the neighbouring Muslim country alone, and […]

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Kashmiris never considered India as their homeland: AJK President

MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan Wednesday said that although UN resolutions gave Kashmiris the option to attach their political destiny with either India or Pakistan, but India was not an option for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “The Kashmiri politicians who had made Delhi their political ‘Qibla’ against the […]

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