Day: August 23, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Ombudsman, Syed Tahir Shahbaz has directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to digitize its record by September 30, 2021. He also asked the CDA to provide access road to Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) Bhara Kahu Scheme on priority basis. He was chairing a meeting of CDA to gauge the progress […]

ISLAMABAD: SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Sunday called upon the international community to support Afghanistan economically to help rebuild one of the world’s poorest state. Talking to a delegation of senior lawyers led by Mian Jaffer Hussain, President SAARC chamber Iftikhar Ali Malik said it was equally essential for the international players and […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) has distributed some 6, 600 wheel chairs among the deserving persons in the last three years, said an official. Giving breakup, he said that type of wheel chairs included some 2, 100 customized wheel chairs and 4, 500 standard wheel chairs. Assistive devices including ordinary wheel chairs, customized wheel chairs, artificial […]

ISLAMABAD: A two-week long kids’ painting classes concluded here at Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts ensuring to showcase the hidden talent of children. Director Hunerkada Amna Shah told REPORTER that every child is an artist and Hunerkada was making efforts to learn them the basics of creative artwork. She said a total of […]

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday disposed of 42 representations of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in cases of bogus sales tax invoices, worth over Rs 1.2 billion. The FBR had filed the representations with the President of Pakistan assailing the orders of the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) passed in suo moto cases, […]

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban’s abrupt takeover of Kabul was a shocking development but their swift transformation to a new normal, contrary to their past narrative and actions, seems a hard pill for the world to swallow. The positive initiatives announced by Taliban spokesman, in an unprecedented press conference, from the announcement of amnesty to the government […]

ISLAMABAD: Across country religious scholars, belonging to all schools of thought, on Sunday strongly condemned molestation of a girl in Rawalpindi seminary and demanded speedy trial and punishment in public of the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. In a joint declaration issued after attending the meeting chaired by Special Representative to the Prime Minister on […]

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony has invited the applications from fully vaccinated aspirants of attending the annual Urs of Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri (RA) by August 30. According to the ministry, the annual Urs is scheduled to be held in Ajmer Sharif (India) from February 3 to February 14, 2022. […]