KARACHI: Just a day after being deemed ineligible for Pakistan selection, Umar Akmal proved his match fitness with a stroke-laden century on Thursday while leading Candyland in their second-round Patron’s Trophy Grade-II Cricket Tournament match against Haideri Traders...
Injury-prone Pakistan batsman Haris Sohail continued his comeback with a second successive century in ZTBL’s relatively modest tally of 218 all out against Army at...
Iran's atomic chief warned on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic needs only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 per cent, a level at which the material could be used for a nuclear weapon...
The comments made by the Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, to Iranian state television come as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to renegotiate or walk away from the 2015 nuclear deal
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Tuesday deferred increasing commission for the oil industry on sale of petroleum products but allowed introduction of high-grade diesel and reallocated natural gas to domestic consumers among a series of other energy-related decisions...
The first meeting of the ECC led by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi also approved payment of two-month salaries to the...
The bullet hit a fifth grade student leaving him dead on the spot,” district police officer, Swat, Salim Marwat told Dawn...
KARACHI: Former first-class cricketer and head of Dollar East Zaheer Ahmed who met PCB chairman Shaharyar M Khan in Lahore last Tuesday said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is fully focused to strengthen the domestic cricket structure of the country at all levels which will help raise the standard of our players and enhance its competitiveness...
Quoting Shaharyar after the meeting in Lahore, Zaheer said: “The PCB chairman was kind...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today revealed that many grade 20 public officers were not promoted because of doubts on their integrity...
"In grade 20 - 21 promotions, you should be able to see their integrity, and look at their past and their career," he said, addressing the National Assembly on Tuesday, and added that many of those being considered for promotions were dropped because their integrity was questionable...
LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department decided on Monday to conditionally promote to the next grade all students who appeared in grades V and VIII examinations...
Grade V students obtaining at least 33pc marks in three subjects and Grade VIII candidates declared successful in four subjects with the same percentage would be provisionally promoted to the next grades...
LARKANA: Hatri Ghulam Shah Police on Tuesday booked a primary school teacher on charges of sexually assaulting and raping a fourth-grade girl student in Nau Abad village...
The girl's maternal uncle, Ghulam Hussain Kalhoro, registered a First-Information Report (FIR) against the accused under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code...
ISLAMABAD: The oil-marketing companies (OMCs) and refineries have reached an agreement with the government for partial introduction of a high-grade petrol in the country at a higher price...
The government has been asking the oil industry to replace low-quality petrol — 87 Research Octane Number — currently in use with a better grade 92 RON which offers better engine efficiency and slightly lower carbon footprint...
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the departmental promotion board (DPB) of the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) from making a final decision on the promotions of grade-19 officers without the permission of the court...
A two-judge bench headed by Justice Sadiq Hussain Bhatti, however, allowed the DPB to conduct its proceedings to consider the promotions of grade-19 officers...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance took up the issue of ‘ghost pensioners’ on Monday and was surprised to learn that a large number of retired officials were receiving pension as ‘grade-23 employees’...
Officials of the Accountant General Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) and finance ministry briefed the committee on the issue...
According to the reply, not a single officer of grade BPS-17 and above has been charged with corruption and malpractice...
The other cases pertain to corruption during Haj operations, EOBI, Evacuee Trust Property Board and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan...
KARACHI: Board of Investment (BoI) Chairman Miftah Ismail has said the government would consider auto vendors’ proposal for removing regulatory duty on ‘auto-grade steel’ in the coming budget...
However, the government would fully support the local auto parts manufacturers in removal of these duties from ‘auto-grade steel raw materials’ which are not manufactured locally...
Competitive prices, however, attracted buyers from Pakistan, the official added...
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Monday notified the promotions of six senior bureaucrats to grade 22 and approved the promotions of 10 officers who are still awaiting posting...
The promotions of three officers from the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) — formerly known as the District Management Group (DMG) — were notified on Monday...