RAWALPINDI: A prize bond dealer was robbed of bonds valuing Rs2...
Waqar Ahmed, who is associated with a trading company in Raja Bazaar, was going to office after purchasing 186 prize bonds worth Rs15,000 each from the State Bank of Pakistan on The Mall...
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday launched first-ever registered premium prize bond...
He said Rs80 million is the first prize for this premium bond of Rs40,000...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a set of petitions challenging the federal government’s decision to discontinue Rs7,500 prize bonds two days before the schedule draw...
They said the draw of the prize bonds was scheduled for May 2, but the government issued a notification on April 29 announcing discontinuation of the bond...
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday inaugurated the 100/100/100 education programme targeting 100 per cent enrolment, retention and graduation of children in schools in Islamabad and hoped that the initiative would also be emulated by the provinces...
The 100/100/100 programme was first mentioned in the annual budget speech by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, who had said: "This is a national commitment that I make today to...
Coetzee and US Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout are among the contenders announced on Wednesday for Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction...
Coetzee, who lives in Australia, is the early bookies’ favourite and will become the first triple Booker winner if he takes the prize...
ISLAMABAD: Even as hundreds of aspiring candidates flock to the institution for the annual entrance test on Wednesday, the National College of Arts’ (NCA) Rawalpindi campus faces the possibility of being removed from the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) list of recognised institutions for not meeting their requirements...
The HEC had written to the NCA principal in February, 2014, asking him to immediately resolve the “governance...
Prominent cleric and head of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Tahirul Qadri, on his return to Pakistan on Tuesday, said that he had come back to seek justice for the victims of the 2014 Model Town incident and their families...
In June 2014, seven people, including members of the PAT, were killed during a clash between PAT protesters and policemen in Lahore...
WASHINGTON: Wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan have killed at least 149,000 people between 2001 and 2014, says a recent report by a US think-tank...
The 149,000 deaths include US military members, contractors, as well as at least 26,270 civilians in Afghanistan, and 21,500 in Pakistan...
NEW YORK: Pakistan’ nobel laureate, education activist, Malala Yousafzai once again made it to the list of the Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people...
The list includes US President Barack Obama and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
ISLAMABAD: Though the annual budget of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has seen a steady increase for several years, in the recent ranking none of the Pakistani universities could make a place among the top 100 universities of Asia...
On the other hand, India and China are far better than Pakistan in the higher education sector as nine Indian and 20 Chinese universities were among the top 100 Asian universities ranked by the...
Paraplegic artist Muniba Mazari and schoolgirl Ayesha Ishtiaque have been featured on the BBC 100 Women list for 2015...
The BBC 100 Women list focuses on sharing the stories of women who are often overlooked...
KARACHI: The BBC has released a list of what it says the world’s 100 most inspiring and influential women for 2021...
The list comprises women who are hitting “reset” — those who are playing their part in “reinventing our society, our culture and our world”, according to the British news organisation...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange has started the week on a positive note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 1,085 points, or 2...
ISLAMABAD: Moody's Investors Service has assigned a definitive rating of B3 to Pakistan's global bond offering...
The Moody statement said that Pakistan's B3 issuer rating reflects moderate economic strength with a supply-constrained economy that has been resistant to structural change, Moody's reported...
Articles in the international media and statements from major league investors have spoken of Pakistan’s economic turnaround in glowing terms, and credit rating agencies have acknowledged an improvement in the economic situation...
Now a moment of truth approaches as the government mounts a road show to drum up investor support for a bond floatation scheduled for later this year...