PM constitutes body for redressal of electricity consumers’ grievances: Marriyum

ISLAMABAD:Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday that the prime minister has set up a high-level committee to redress the grievances of electricity consumers. In a tweet, she said that instructions have been given to include the announced relief in the bills of electricity consumers up to 200 units within 24 hours. […]

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Depts alerted for possible flood in Indus river

LAHORE:Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Punjab has alerted all the relevant departments in the wake of possible threat of flood in river Sindh during the next 48 hours. According to a statement issued here, there is a threat of flood at Kalabagh, Chashma and Taunsa which could affect Mianwali, Bhakkar, DG Khan, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur […]

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Jamiat Ahle Hadith announces to support Ch Abid Sher Ali in NA-108 by-election

FAISALABAD:Jamiat Ahle Hadith has announced to support PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) central leader Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali during by-election of national assembly’s constituency NA-108 (Faisalabad-VIII) scheduled to be held here on September 25, 2022. Addressing a press conference on Friday evening, Nazim Political Affairs of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Chaudhry Kashif Nawaz Randhawa said that Imran […]

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Veteran journalist Ghani Chaudhry remembered on his first death anniversary

MULTAN:Former executive director of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Abdul Ghani Chaudhry was remembered as a thorough professional journalist on his first death anniversary Friday. He died on August 26 last year in Bahawalpur after a protracted illness. According to veteran journalist Rasheed Arshad Salimee, Ghani Chaudhry’s services in his journalistic career would be remembered […]

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PM to visit Sindh’s flood-hit areas today to review relief, rehabilitation works

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would visit the flood-hit areas of Sindh and review the ongoing rescue, relief and rehabilitation activities in the affected areas. He would make an aerial visit of Sukkur, Rohri, Khairpur, Faiz Ganj, Kot Diji and Thari Mir Wah areas. Later, the district administration of Sukkur and the representatives of the provincial […]

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Governor directs universities to start flood relief campaign

LAHORE:Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman has directed the public sector universities and private universities to mobilize students and teachers and start flood-relief activities for the needy in the flood-hit areas in the province. In a letter issued here on Friday, the governor emphasized that the university faculty and students should collect funds, clothes, food and […]

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Governor Punjab urges affluent to help flood-affected countrymen

LAHORE:Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman has called upon the affluent, philanthropists and the welfare organizations to come forward and help their compatriots who have been hit hard by the floods in the country. Addressing a press conference prior to dispatching 14 truck of relief goods to the South Punjab at the Governor’s House here on […]

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SBP sets agri credit disbursement target of Rs1.8 trillion for FY23

KARACHI:State Bank of Pakistan has assigned annual agriculture credit disbursement target of Rs1,800 billion to the financial institutions for financial year 2022-23 to cater to the agriculture credit demand in the country. Moreover, in line with the national food security requirements and need for mechanization of farms to enhance agriculture productivity, specific targets of Rs140 […]

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