QUETTA:Deputy Commissioner Barkhan Abdullah Khoso paid a surprise visit to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, Barkhan and checked the attendance of doctors and paramedical staff on Thursday. On the occasion, he was informed that DHQ Barkhan had been upgraded in 2018 from RHC but it was not made fully functional yet. There was a severe shortage […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Thursday cancelled the leaves of sanitation staff and divided the federal capital into four zones to carry out cleanliness drive on Eid-ul-Azha. According to the CDA spokesman, each zone would be supervised by a chief sanitary inspector while sanitary inspectors and supervisors would provide services in their respective areas. […]
Read MoreRAWALPINDI:The Pakistan Army aviation helicopters and pilots on Thursday successfully rescued the stranded mountaineers Shehroze Kashif and Fazal Ali from Nanga Parbat and landed at Jaglot near Gilgit. The Pakistan Army, since yesterday, was coordinating a high risk rescue operation to evacuate stranded mountaineers Shehroze Kashif and Fazal Ali who were stuck at Nanga Parbat. […]
Read MoreQUETTA:Advisor to Balochistan Chief Minister on Home and Tribal Affair Mir Ziaullah Langu on Thursday said that a relief package would be given equally to all the areas affected by the recent spell of monsoon rains in the province. He expressed these views while visiting the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to get details of […]
Read MoreKARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday increased its policy rate (interest) by 125 basis points to 15 percent ; till Aug. 22, 2022 next date of the meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee announced earlier in its half yearly schedule. At press conference via Zoom here at SBP Main Building after its MPC […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday decided to telecast live the proceedings of Parliament’s standing committees, an essential and vital part of the Parliament. The prime minister, in this respect, has written a formal letter to National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. He said since the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in the […]
Read MoreKARACHI:Chief Secretary Sindh Dr Muhammad Sohail Rajput chaired a meeting on Thursday to review security and other arrangements for the second phase of local body elections in Karachi and Hyderabad divisions. Provincial Election Commissioner Aijaz Anwar Chohan informed the meeting that 9848 polling stations will be set up in 16 districts and 60,000 employees would […]
Read MorePakistan has called for an urgent “plan of action” to grapple with poverty and huger that have made been more acute by the current geo-political tensions, especially for the peoples facing war and occupation for decades. “The consequence of current geo-political tensions is coup de grace for the poor: prices of food and energy have […]
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