LAHORE:Punjab Open Tennis Championship 2022 got underway at state-of-the-art five tennis courts, under the aegis of the Sports Board Punjab (SBP), here on Saturday. Former Davis Cupper and Secretary Punjab Lawn Tennis Association (PLTA) Rashid Malik and other notable sports figures were also present. The final of the 5-day Punjab Open Tennis Championship will be […]
Read MoreQUETTA:On the instructions of Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, as soon as the weather improved, relief activities were started through helicopter on Saturday. More than 2000 kilograms of rations were delivered to the flood victims of Sibi and Kachchi districts through the helicopter of the government of Balochistan. More affected areas would be […]
Read MoreMULTAN:Punjab government offered cheques amounting Rs one million each, among heirs of deceased persons, here on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Tahir Watto and MPA Wasif Raan distributed the cheques among eight families.. Due to recent rains, eight families lost their family members due to mishaps. “The government is standing by the people in distraught,” said Tahir […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD:Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has disbursed over four billion rupees among 190,326 families under the Flood Relief Cash Assistance (FRCA) initiative. Financial aid of Rs.25000 under Flood Relief Cash Assistance through BISP is being provided to every flood affected families in the flood hit areas of Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to […]
Read MoreLAHORE:A meeting of the Ministerial Committee for Disaster Management, with Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Chairman of the Committee Muhammad Basharat Raja in the chair, reviewed relief and rehabilitation measures being taken and issued necessary directions to the authorities concerned. On the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, relief activities have been started from […]
Read MoreKARACHI:Sindh Universities Minister Ismail Rahu has issued a letter to the Vice Chancellors of 27 universities while directing all the government and private universities of the province to set up flood relief camps to collect funds, clothes, food and required things for rain-flood-affectees. Ismail Rahu said that the funds, clothes, food and other goods collected […]
Read MoreHYDERABAD: Veteran Sindhi poet and writer Syed Imdad Hussaini on Saturday passed away after a protracted illness. He was 82. Imdad Hussaini had been under treatment at a local hospital in Karachi where he breathed his last on Saturday morning. According to his family sources, Imdad Ali Shah popularly known as Imdad Hussaini was ill […]
Read MorePESHAWAR:Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has released more funds amounting to Rs125 million for flood-affected areas in six districts of the province. In a statement issued here Saturday, the funds have been released on the directives of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan. The bifurcation of funds allocation was Rs 40 million for […]
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