MANSEHRA: The residents of Kaghan valley have asked the anti-corruption establishment to launch an inquiry into illegal cutting of Guzara forests...
Flanked by a group of people from various parts of Kaghan, he said that influential timber smugglers had cut 10 trees illegally from compote No...
LAHORE: Quetta Gladiators’ Australian cricketer Ben Cutting on Tuesday said Pakistan was safe for cricket and he did not have any apprehensions on coming here to play in the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020...
“Security was not my concern as I had seen the security measures during the World Eleven tour in September 2017,” Cutting said while talking to media during the Gladiators’ practice session here at the National Cricket...
He said the reduction in prices of tobacco products was proposed amid fears that people and dealers will not buy cigarettes until the approval of the budget, resulting in a loss to the exchequer...
He gave the example of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan which raised the prices of medicines by 15 per cent in November 2013 through a notification...
PARIS: French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe unveiled an ambitious programme of tax cuts and reduced public spending on Tuesday designed to boost investment and end the country’s reliance on state borrowing...
Philippe put spurring entrepreneurship at the heart of his first policy speech to the National Assembly after presidential and parliamentary elections in May and June
A microfinance ecosystem is evolving in Pakistan...
Related professionals in both public and private sectors are particularly motivated by technology based paperless/cash-lite modes that may serve to minimise the service cost of lending and bring down high interest rates of microcredit, making it affordable for those who need it most...
“The bride will always wear gold but other people at a wedding may opt for a single piece of jewellery that stands out,” says Sana Hafeez Sheikh, the representative of Indian brand Outhouse Jewellery in Pakistan...
“These are the people that particularly enjoy our innovations with copper, silver, semi-precious stones, and traditional meenakari...
KARACHI: In a rejoinder to the ‘white paper’ issued by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, the Sindh government on Friday said it was an attempt by the MQM-P to revive the politics of hatred on linguistic grounds as the ‘hidden agenda’ behind this move was to complete the mission of MQM-London that introduced the politics of ‘fear and tyranny’ in the province...
Since the MQM-P leadership happens to be a `stop-gap arrangement’ of...
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday took notice of an employer in Punjab's Sheikhupura cutting off her domestic help’s hand...
The local police registered a case against four people on Tuesday on the orders of a lower court for allegedly chopping off help's hand...
SHANGLA: Residents of Chakesar tehsil staged a protest demonstration for the second straight day here on Friday against some influential people of Thakot Battagram for allegedly cutting a high transmission line by firing at it, which has suspended power supply to their tehsil and its adjoining areas...
They also chanted slogans against Thakot people and Pesco officials...
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has registered two FIRs against the brother of a London-based MQM leader, a banker and several officials of an exchange company for illegally transferring money out of Pakistan through fake bank accounts and Hawala to the UK and the UAE, it emerged on Friday...
They allegedly transferred between Rs50 million and Rs60m generated through land grabbing, particularly China-cutting — the...
KARACHI: The Sindh forests department (SFD) finally succeeded in getting an FIR registered on Tuesday against the firm organising the annual cattle market for cutting down its 540 neem trees along the Superhighway between Toll Plaza and the Wadi-i-Hussain graveyard...
The FIR (No 93/16) has been registered on the report by SFD Range Forest Officer Imran Bhutto under Sections 379, 427, 34, etc of the Pakistan Penal Code, against the...
Sometimes we feel that the problems are unmanageable but in most of the cases big problems have simple and straightforward solutions...
In short, illegal money matters a lot in most crimes and killings...
KARACHI: Thirteen people, among them seven children aged between four months and 10 years, were crushed to death when a landslide hit their makeshift homes set up in an open plot under a hill in Gulistan-i-Jauhar in the small hours of Tuesday...
The area people desperately moved on their own to remove the tons of rubble with hands, shovels and hammers...
LILLE: Germany need to find their cutting edge when they face Slovakia on Sunday...
We will be 100 percent on it and we know people are expecting us to perform...
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed his annoyance over the cutting of trees along Sharea Faisal, and ordering an inquiry into it directed the commissioner of Karachi to arrest the culprits...
The chief minister said where the officers responsible were when the unauthorised people, who came there with required machinery, were chopping trees...