Karachi, Director General Planning Ministry of Railways Mazhar Ali Shah here Wednesday said that a huge investment of Rs 325 billion will be required in next five year to upgrade railway track and rolling stocks. Speaking at the 1st annual multi-model transport and logistics conference at Expo Center Karachi, he said Pakistan railway was looking for private sector s investment in cargo services
Islamabad The World Health Organisation’s warning in relation to the magnifying risk of poliovirus circulation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, followed by a suo moto notice of the threat by the Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court, has not had much of an effect.
Karachi : Federal Minister for Production Chaudhry Anwer Ali Cheema said in order to achieve tasks, PIDC and its subsidiary companies will have to give good results for which the Ministry will keep providing them guidance and support.
ISLAMABAD: The Governing Council of Pakistan Statistical Bureau (PSB), scheduled to meet on Friday (today), is all set to reverse the rebasing exercise, sources said. Pakistan’s statistical authorities have finalised plan to come up with the GDP growth figures on the basis of previous system of national accounts (SNA) 1993 on the base year 1999/2000, they said. The Governing Council will scrutinise both new and old systems and endorse one of them after raising relevant questions in front of the statistical authorities, the sources said.
Karachi, PML-Functional on Wednesday strongly protested remarks of PPP Sindh Ministers against late Pir Pagaro, MPA Marvi Rashdi and warned that if no corrective action was taken by top PPP leadership, PML-F would have option to quit the PPP-led coalition government. This was announced by PML-F Sindh Secretary General & Sindh Chief Minister Adviser Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh in news conference at his residence after party meeting which formulated future course of action. PML-F Federal Minister Khuda Bux Rajar, central chief organizer Kashif Nizamani, Sindh Minister Dr Rafiq Bhabhan, Sindh MPAs Nusrat Sehar Abbasi, Marvi Rashdi, Rana Abdul Sattar, Sardar Rahim Bux Bozdar, Ali Ghulam Nizamani were present
PESHAWAR: A team of archaeologists conducting fresh excavation at the ancient ruins in Jamal Garhi in Mardan district made new discoveries in the last two months, experts working on the project said Saturday. Talking to reporters, Dr Zainul Wahab, professor of Archaeology at the Hazara University and field director of the excavation project at the Jamal Garhi ruins, said they had discovered coins, head of Buddha, five rooms, a sculpture plate and the traces of a lake during the recent excavation and following research analysis.
Karachi, The proceedings in the Sindh Assembly on Friday were marred when a PML-F lawmaker strongly objected to the elevation of Education Minister s wife as additional education secretary and called it a sheer violation of merit that drew scathing attack from another PPP minister. On a point of order, MPA Syeda Marvi Rashdi drew attention of the house towards recent appointment of Education Minister Pir Mazhar ul Haq s wife as Additional Education Secretary and said a kin of any member of assembly or minister enjoys extra benefits.
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet, on Wednesday, sanctioned Rs5 billion to Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and asked the finance ministry to provide a government guarantee to the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) for bailing the mill out of its financial crisis The federal cabinet that met here with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in the chair also asked the finance ministry to guarantee that PSM will jack up its production capacity. It is worth mentioning that these Rs5 billion is the remaining amount of the Rs11 billion bailout package for the PSM, which the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet had approved in December 2011, and in which the finance ministry had already given a letter of comfort (LC) -which is a government’s guarantee- to the NBP for the Rs6 billion bailout amount that had been granted earlier. “In my briefing today, I requested the federal cabinet to ask the finance ministry to grant the Rs5 billion in ‘one go’ to the steel mills, instead of giving it in small parts, as it will help boost the mills production capacity”, the Secretary of Ministry of Production, Gul Muhammad Rind told The News, after attending the cabinet meeting here.
Karachi : A provincial conference on mainstreaming minorities in Sindh was held at Pakistan Medical Association, Karachi, organized by National Organization for Working Communities here on Saturday. Farhat Perveen, Director Now Communities, proposed a charter of Minorities and said that there should be a civil marriage law where couples of different faiths do not have to convert for the purpose of marriage. She also said that 5% quota should be increased to correctly portray the population of minorities. Employment should be given to minorities too without any discrimination on the basis of religion, caste, color, language and creed , added she
PESHAWAR: In order to fix responsibility for the enforced disappearances on the federal and provincial governments, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday summoned top officials to explain why they had failed in performing their constitutional obligation to protect the life and liberty of citizens.
