LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...
KARACHI: “The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has fallen apart,” said economist Prof Dr Hafeez Pasha while speaking at a seminar on the provincial budgets of Pakistan on Tuesday...
Held at the Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, the seminar covered different areas of concerns with regards to Pakistan’s economic policy, especially in the context of the current budgets announced for the financial year 2015-16... ...
The monsoonal low pressure will be the third one to hit Pakistan in the season...
The second, and current, system has already produced heavy to very heavy rain in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Railways was informed on Thursday that Pakistan Railways would shortly introduce a modern solar-powered traffic signalling system, under which there would be an alarm system to alert train drivers of any activity on the track within a distance of 3...
He said that with the lease of 34 acres to the DHA, Pakistan Railways would have to realign its 140km-long track...
Change of guard in the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) alone will not solve the ongoing crisis confronting the game and it is imperative to revamp the system for Pakistan to make a comeback into the leading hockey playing nations...
A lot has been said and written over Pakistan’s failure to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics with just about everyone putting the entire blame on the PHF, the team management and the players without...
Following Sri Lanka, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) too, agreed in principle to a proposal from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to implement a points system for their upcoming tour which kicks off later this summer...
The proposal came in after a successful implementation of the points system for the last three Women’s Ashes series...
ISLAMABAD: Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday changed the outlook for the Pakistan banking system to stable from negative, reflecting the improvement in the country’s economic growth prospects...
Take a look: Moody’s warns of impact from China slowdown Moody’s forecasts Pakistan’s real GDP will expand by 4...
LONDON: Former England captain Michael Vaughan has labelled plans to introduce a points system for the upcoming home series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka as a “nonsense”...
But in order to give bilateral series more “context”, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are holding talks with their Sri Lankan and Pakistani counterparts about a system where points will be awarded for Tests, ODIs and T20s, with an overall winner then...
Pakistan signed off on the MDGs in 2000, however, despite all the rhetoric around policy, budgetary and implementation commitments, and subsequent efforts, the country’s track record fell short of the targets, placing it next to those nations ranked the lowest in the Human Development Index...
As signatory, Pakistan is committed to aligning its development agenda towards low-carbon pathways over the next 15 years...
Observing the low rates of reported rapes in Pakistan, a recent Dawn editorial rightly points towards the gross “inadequacies of investigators and prosecutors…” as a key contributor to this issue...
Despite this, the investigational techniques utilised by our medicolegal system tend to rely upon crude, insensitive, and often brutal methods...
A week from elections, the mood in Pakistan seems sombre...
In a federation like Pakistan, we are stuck with a parliamentary system even though majority of the governance is now with the provincial governments...
Moderate to heavy rains have started to fall in the entire Sindh province since Friday night as a monsoon system from the Bay of Bengal entered Pakistan and according to the Met office the system will unleash its fury mainly in Sindh and Balochistan in the next two days...
“A monsoon system built up in the Bay of Bengal has entered Sindh from Rajasthan and will cause widespread moderate to heavy rains, particularly in central and...
However, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in its latest move has decided to withdraw provision of ‘A class’ jail facilities to these under-trial prisoners...
What is the prisoner class system?According to the Pakistan Prisons Rules 1978, convicted prisoners are classified into superior class; ordinary class; and political class...
With hospitals overwhelmed and a sharp rise in the number of deaths, Pakistan's delicate health system is bracing for an imminent peak of novel coronavirus cases...
Government officials claim the situation is "under control," but health authorities believe the already stretched health system is unable to handle the lurking influx of Covid-19 patients...