ISLAMABAD: The Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) has estimated that in the South Asian region, both Pakistan and India have the largest public sectors with a share of 60 per cent of formal wage employment...
WWBI is the unique cross-national dataset on public sector employment and wages developed by the World Bank’s ‘Bureaucracy Lab’...
ISLAMABAD: The groundbreaking ceremony of the country’s first public-sector cancer hospital was held at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Sunday, which would cost Rs10...
Project Director Dr Ayesha Isani, who has a PhD in Public Health, told Dawn that the total cost of the project was over Rs10...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the Punjab advocate general to submit record of all public sector companies in the province, their legal status and salaries and perks enjoyed by their heads...
During hearing of a petition against alleged irregularities in Punjab Saaf Pani Company, Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi expressed concern over establishment of the public sector companies and huge salaries being...
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau has finally decided to launch a thorough probe into affairs of the 56 public sector companies formed by Shahbaz Sharif administration in Punjab for their alleged involvement in corruption...
According to petitioners, the Shahbaz administration had established 56 public sector companies some 9 years ago on the pretext of “good governance”...
French civil servants angered by Emmanuel Macron's plans to freeze their pay and eliminate 120,000 public jobs go on strike Tuesday, amplifying a revolt over the president's cost-cutting, pro-business agenda...
4 million public workers have called for a day of nationwide strikes and demonstrations to show their “profound disagreement” with Macron's bid to transform the gargantuan public service...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday directed Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal to ensure maximum utilisation of the allocated Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) funds on development projects to benefit the masses...
It included the proposed allocation for next year on projects that are part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and on LNG-based power projects...
ISLAMABAD: The government has reported that outstanding electricity bills payable by public sector amount to Rs206 billion as of March 1...
In an update submitted to the Senate, Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif has reported that total power sector recoveries made by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) were dismally unimpressive...
GILGIT BALTISTAN: The Special Communication Organisation (SCO), a public sector telecommunications services provider in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), is set to roll out 3G and 4G mobile internet services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) by the end of this year...
"We will be able to provide 3G and 4G services to the people of GB within two months of getting approval from the federal government," SCO Gilgit Sector...
KARACHI: Teachers and non-teaching staff of at least eight major public sector universities will go on a day-long strike on Wednesday (today) to protest against what they described as “continued government interference in the matters of universities” under the controversial Sindh Universities Laws Act 2013...
The strike call is given by the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (Fapuasa)-Sindh chapter, and...
It declared the performance of all the four public sector generation companies as unsatisfactory...
Nepra also expressed displeasure that power generated by some of the private plants was facing dispersal problems because of failure of the public sector companies to construct transmission lines; the plants were there but the system could not utilise them...
REFORMING the civil services has remained a cherished goal of political parties and military regimes alike during the nearly 70 years of Pakistan’s existence...
The involvement of international financial institutions divided the structural reform agenda into one for the financial sector and another for the public sector...
KARACHI: Academic activities remained suspended on Monday at 14 public sector institutions of higher learning, including nine universities and their affiliated campuses where teachers observed a black day against the government’s recent controversial appointments...
The call for protest was given by the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (Fapuasa), Sindh chapter...
Shortly after the outgoing PML-N government presented a sixth full-term budget in the National Assembly on Friday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Asad Umar took to Twitter to point out what he deemed were the shortcomings...
"No mention in the budget about how and when the more than 500 billion [rupees] of circular debt and more than 1 trillion [rupees] of public sector debt will be paid," said Umar...
Nine officials from public sector companies have refused to return excess amount they received as salaries, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Director General Lahore Saleem Shahzad informed the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday...
The report said that NAB had recovered more than Rs320 million from public officials who received excess salaries...
PESHAWAR: The occupancy of ventilators in public sector hospitals has been increasing due to seriously-ill Covid-19 patients as the pandemic killed a nurse in Peshawar, taking the death toll among health workers to 100 in the country...
It said that 10,119 health workers were diagnosed with Covid-19, which they contracted in the line of duty at the public sector hospitals...