’Finance Supplementary Bill’ passed as per rules with majority votes: Shahzad Waseem

ISLAMABAD:Leader of the House in Senate, Dr Shahzad Waseem Friday said the Supplementary Finance Bill, 2021, and the others were passed by following rules with majority votes. Speaking in Senate here, the leader of the house said whenever the legislation was done in the National Assembly, it was done through majority votes, and the government […]

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Police, public relation vital to curb crime: IGP

ISLAMABAD:Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Muhammad Ahsan Younas Friday underlined the need to promote police public cooperation to curb crime in the city. Islamabad police was making all out efforts to secure the lives and property of the citizens, the IGP said while listening grievances of citizens during open court here. “It is our […]

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Remittances grew by 11.3% to $15.8bn in 1st half

ISLAMABAD:The workers remittances grew by 11.3 percent during the first half of the current fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period of last year, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported Friday The workers remittances during July-December 2021-22 were recorded at $15.8 billion, according to figures released by SBP. Meanwhile, with $2.5 billion of inflows […]

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Senate body to convene special meeting on South Asian Games

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Friday decided to convene a special meeting on the upcoming South Asian Games 2023 to be hosted by Pakistan. The committee which met here under the chairmanship of Senator Mian Raza Rabbani said as far as South Asian Federation (SAF) Games 2023 were concerned some issues […]

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Over 4.4 m children to be administered anti-polio drops in KP during campaign to kicks off on Jan 17

PESHAWAR:The first immunization campaign of current year for prevention of polio virus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will kicked off from Monday (January 17) with a target of vaccinating more than 4.4 million children under the age of five years. According to a press release issued here on Friday by Emergency Operation Center (EOC) KP, the immunization […]

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Pak-China 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations highlighted ironclad friendship

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China and the Embassy of China in Pakistan produced special gala performance, telecast on “Subha Se Agay” a morning show of private news channel. The special gala performance was aimed to celebrate 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China, highlighted ironclad friendship. According to the press […]

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Opposition faced embarrassing defeat over passage of supplementary finance bill : Ali Nawaz

ISLAMABAD:Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority (CDA) Ali Nawaz Awan said on Friday that the opposition faced embarrassing defeat after passage of supplementary finance bill through the National Assembly. In a news release, he said opposition could only make hue and cry inside as well as outside the House as they […]

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