PESHAWAR:Former Federal Minister and Senator Salim Saifullah Khan urged the government to hold local government elections in the remaining three provinces on an immediate basis. He said that a lack of democratic local governance systems is reflective of a sorry state of affairs and calls for immediate steps to restore effective and transparent local […]
Read MorePARCHINAR:Three persons were killed and one injured in a firing incident in Lower Kurram on Wednesday. The injured and bodies of the dead persons were shifted to Sadda Hospital. According to police, the victims were travelling in a motorcar from Parachinar to Sadda when they came under fire from unknown persons at Topaki locality […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:The national hockey probables’ fitness training camp for the Commonwealth Games commenced at the PT School Abbottabad on Wednesday. “Around 36 players have been invited to attend the two-week camp,” a PHF spokesman said. He said Olympian Khawaja Junaid was the camp commandant. The other officials include head coach Seighfried Aikman, physical instructor […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Partly cloudy weather with rain-wind/thunderstorm is expected in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, upper Punjab, Islamabad, Potohar region, Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir on Thursday However, very hot and dry weather is likely in plain areas of the country, while gusty or dust raising winds in south Punjab and upper Sindh. According to the synoptic situation, […]
Read MoreRAWALPINDI:The Food Department, Rawalpindi and the district police on Wednesday foiled bids to smuggle wheat and flour besides seizing 5,000 bags of wheat and flour. According to a district administration spokesman, the authorities of the food department and district administration teams along with Rawalpindi district police conducted operations and confiscated 11 truckloads of wheat […]
Read MoreLAHORE:British High Commissioner to Pakistan Christian Turner called on Governor Punjab Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman and discussed bilateral relations and cooperation in various fields, including education and trade, during a meeting at the Governor’s House here on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, the governor said the present government was taking concrete steps to promote higher education […]
Read MoreLAHORE:Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has said the opposition and the Punjab Assembly speaker staged a drama against presentation of provincial budget; however, they were exposed before people. Chairing a meeting of the provincial parliamentary party at 90 Shahra Quaid-e-Azam on Wednesday, he said that the government enjoyed a numerical majority in the assembly. […]
Read MoreABBOTTABAD:The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abbottabad Tariq Salam Marwat on Wednesday said that improving the health sector and providing better health facilities to people was the top priority of the district administration. He was chairing the steering committee meeting during which, Divisional Monitoring Officer Syed Sohaib Shah briefed him on the performance of the Health […]
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