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  • Trade unions dub budget ‘pro-elite’

    LAHORE: Labour and trade unions rejected on Friday the federal budget of 2015-16, calling it disappointing, anti-labour and pro-business-cum-ruling class...

    They also criticised the PML government for awarding, what they said, peanuts to government employees and unskilled labour in pay, pension and daily wages
  • Paying lip-service to counter-terrorism

    “The National Action Plan (NAP) empowers the military, ‘the performing institution’, whereas the government is characterised by its ineptitude and poor performance...

    ”This simple statement-of-fact came from a person no less than the former army chief, Gen (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg in immediate response to the NAP
  • Lip-locking is not necessary in a film: Salman Khan

    To kiss or not to kiss is a popular question in Bollywood, and superstar Salman Khan has given his two cents on the matter: for him, kissing scenes are not necessary in a film...

    The 49-year-old actor, whose production Hero will be soon be released, has reportedly edited a 30-minute scene from the film that showed the lead couple kissing, according to The Indian Express,The romantic film Hero will be introducing new faces to the...
  • Shehbaz chides govt for paying lip service to inflation

    LAHORE: Opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has chided the government for convening just meetings on price control instead of taking practical measures to save the people from inflation...

    “The worst inflation cannot be bridled by holding useless and showy meetings
  • High Court suspends notification of Gomal University VC’s ?removal

    PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday suspended the government’s notification of the removal of Gomal University Vice-Chancellor Prof Iftikhar Ahmad and sought the response of the relevant officials to the violation of a stay order issued on the matter lately...

    It took exception to the violation of the court’s order to stop the authorities from acting against the VC and directed the respondents, including principal secretary...

  • High court asks Peshawar university to pay pension

    PESHAWAR: Accepting the plea of over 260 former employees of the Islamia College Peshawar, the Peshawar High Court has ordered the University of Peshawar to immediately release their pension withheld since August this year...

    It declared that as pension payment was necessary for the well-being and peace of mind of the retirees as well as it was their right, their petition was accepted by the court...

  • Dar challenges accountability court indictment in Islamabad High Court

    Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday filed two petitions before the Islamabad High Court challenging his indictment by an accountability court in a reference pertaining to his ownership of “assets beyond his known sources of income”...

    Last Monday, the court had rejected a request by Dar’s counsel, Amjad Pervez, to grant them seven days to peruse the record, saying that since the Supreme Court had set a six-month deadline, he could...

  • Supreme Court, Islamabad High Court jurisdiction extended to Fata

    ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tues­day approved extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as a first step towards implementation of the long overdue reforms in the country’s restive tribal areas...

    In the initial draft that had been prepared in the light of suggestions of a six-member special committee that had proposed merger of the...

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