ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s standing committee on finance has decided to review the contract of privatisation of Karachi Electric (K-Electric) previously known as the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) after its alleged failure to implement an agreement with the government...
He said people of Karachi had been suffering because of frequent power breakdowns during the severe hot weather and there had been protests in the city against...
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in the murder of the then managing director of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation and was nominated in the same case with his alias...
“During an initial probe, the suspect ‘confessed’ to his involvement in several targeted killings, including the then MD of KESC Shahid Hamid,” the Rangers’ brief media statement read...
The 68th Cannes Film Festival will now be screening three films from Pakistan, as Hashim Nadeem’s Abdullah: The Final Witness starring Imran Abbas will be also be screened...
The film, which also stars Saadia Khan, Hameed Sheikh and Sajid Hasan, is based on Nadeem’s novel Abdullah
BRUSSELS: The EU and Turkey agreed to update a 20-year-old customs union on Tuesday, while Brussels promised to address Ankara’s concerns about a huge European trade deal with the United States...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has asked the Federal Investigation Agency to provide details of the actions it has so far taken in line with the Supreme Court’s decision in the famous Asghar Khan case in which the FIA had been directed to hold investigations against all those politicians, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had received money from army generals during the 1990 elections in an effort to defeat the Pakistan...
“Though he was consulted and his approval was sought on all important matters during his stay in London, first for surgery and later for recovery, he needed immediate update on all issues,” a source in the ruling party said...
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar reportedly briefed the PM on security affairs, particularly operation Zarb-i-Azb and Karachi operation, and the citizenship verification drive launched through the National...
Eason said developers seeking to develop or update applications for Android can now download the software...
SECP’s law division has been mandated to update the existing rules, which were formulated in 2000...
Veteran singer Alamgir has successfully undergone kidney removal surgery yesterday, said his wife in a Facebook post from his account:The singer, who has been suffering from polycystic kidneys for years now, had posted a picture of himself in the operation theatre at Atlanta's Emory Hospital before the surgery:The kidney removal is a preliminary procedure for his kidney transplant, which he told Dawn...
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The move prolongs from year-end until September 30, 2016, the official update of the “special drawing rights” (SDR) basket, which takes place only every five years...
WASHINGTON / ISLAMABAD: Even as an initial inquiry into the issuing of a visa to Matthew Craig Barrett — a US citizen on a no-entry list — has determined that the failure to update the list caused the mistake, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to summon and question a diplomat then posted in the US for issuing the visa to him, according to sources...
According to the sources, investigators at the Foreign Ministry in...
Pakistan benefitted from the annual update as their 2012-13 series defeat against South Africa no longer counts while the 2-0 loss to Sri Lanka in 2014-15 has it’s weighing reduced to half...
South Africa, though, have quite heavily suffered from the update as their series wins against England, Australia and New Zealand also dropped from the rankings calculation...
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will again face the Supreme Court on Wednesday to update it about progress in the investigation relating to mega corruption cases...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) chairman, Shaharyar Khan, wrote a letter to the Indian cricket board secretary on Wednesday, pressing him for an update on a proposed series between the arch rivals in December this year...
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Indian cricket board secretary pressing him for an update on a proposed series between the arch-rivals in December this year...