ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) amended the Single Member Companies (SMC) Rules 2003 to facilitate the corporate sector...
The SMC rules were aimed to allow individuals/businessmen to convert their non-corporate entities into companies with limited liability of the members and enabling them to deal with public entities as companies rather than individuals...
SUKKUR: Abandoning a Rs40 million project halfway, the Sukkur Municipal Corporation (SMC) has given up efforts to complete installation of solar panels at specified sites in the city and decided to go for LED lights to curtail its huge spending on electricity consumption...
Installation of solar panels was started sometime back under an initiative taken by Pakistan Peoples Party MNA Noman Islam Shaikh to help the SMC save more than...
The protesting students, 340 of them females, gathered on DPS Road in front of the college and blamed SMC Principal Dr Iftkhar and Hostel warden Arshad Qureshi for their plight, alleging both of them failed to provide back-up generators for both boys and girls hostels during severe loadshedding which was affecting their studies ahead of their final examination...
SAHIWAL: As the students’ protest entered its seventh day here on Wednesday, the provincial government has already transferred nine senior professors from different medical colleges of Punjab to Sahiwal Medical College (SMC), sources told Dawn...
Sources said Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Secretary Mr Najam Shah had issued the orders for transfer of nine professors to the SMC on Feb 22...
LAHORE: A delegation of the Golden Bean Group of China will visit Lahore in January to finalise the location of a theme park for which the Punjab Board of Investment and Trade will help the company...
Participants in an investment facilitation committee meeting held at PBIT office on Friday discussed establishment of the amusement park and an aquarium in Lahore...
An accountability court in Lahore on Saturday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to facilitate the meetings of Jang Group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman with his family members according to the law...
On Thursday, Rehman had appeared before a combined investigation team of NAB at its Lahore headquarters at Thokar Niaz Beg and answered its queries for more than two hours...
LAHORE: The annual elections for district and tehsil bar associations were held across the province on Saturday...
Malik Sarood of the Independent Group, famously known as the late Asma Jahangir group, was elected president of the Lahore Bar Association in a one-on-one contest, securing 2,544 votes against 2,503 of Rao Sami of the Hamid Khan-led Professional Group...
The prime minister, without naming the Khokhar family or PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, accused the previous government of protecting "Lahore's biggest qabza group"...
"Lahore's biggest qabza group which was being backed by the previous prime minister and his family...
The group of lawmakers led by estranged PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen converged at his Lahore residence on Monday as the opposition charged ahead with its plans to table a no-confidence motion against the government...
Reportedly, the Tareen group comprises 30 PTI MPAs from south Punjab and eight MNAs...
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...
Lahore, being the cultural hub, played a vital role in the arts, literature and culture in the mid-20th century; especially, visual art was inspired by the rich panoramic beauty of the walled city and life around its 13 gates, so an exclusive genre of cityscape came into existence, as early as the...
He said his government condemned this “act of terrorism” and that a terrorist group had killed the 20 Pakistanis not an ethnic group...
He claimed a terrorist group in Balochistan had received funding and training from “the enemy” and murdered the labourers...
The abstract paintings of Naqvi add yet another stormy nuance to the group show because of the conspicuous, bold application of vivid colours...
The diverse, yet harmonious, works of the artists’ quartet at the group show is a refreshing event during Ramazan...
Norwegian Nobel Committee ChairwomanKaci Kullmann Five cited the group for “its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy” following Tunisia’s 2011 revolution that overthrew its long-time authoritarian president...
The gold medals and diplomas were picked up by Houcine Abassi, the labour union leader; Mohammed Fadhel Mafoudh, head of the bar association; Abdessatar Ben Moussa, president of the human rights...
OTTAWA: A member of a banned Pakistani group will be deported from Canada in the next month after being caught with a cache of firearms, an immigration trial heard on Monday...
WASHINGTON: Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evacuated its national headquarters on Capitol Hill on Thursday after receiving a letter containing white powder, but staff were later allowed to re-enter after authorities conducted preliminary tests and deemed the substance harmless...
About three CAIR employees came into contact with the powder and were quarantined in the building while police and...