KOHAT: The Water Supply and Sanitation Company (WSSC), Kohat, on Monday received machinery worth over Rs50 million...
He said the company had received 24 garbage vehicles, two tractors, three mechanical sweepers, and one suction-cum-jetting machine...
AS Pakistan enters the next round of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under Post-Programme Monitoring (PPM), the Ministry of Finance has revised crucial financial data through a belated release of the July-September report on the country’s fiscal operations...
The PPM engagements, running from Dec 6 to Dec 14, are likely to see the publication of Pakistan’s debt management report pending since March...
MUZAFFARGARH: Some 20 big land owners of Mauza Budh met the DCO on Friday and conveyed to him that they were ready to accept the Rs5 million per acre offer given to them for the purchase of their land for setting up two coal power plants...
On Sunday last, provincial minister Syed Haroon Sultan Bukhari had visited Mauza Budh and offered land owners Rs5m per acre, but the big land owners purposefully and small ones plainly refused the...
“US CALLS for resolution of Kashmir”, tweeted Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, after President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif concluded their meeting at the White House on Thursday...
The obvious question that came to one’s mind was if such a high-ranking diplomat, who reputedly carries as much weight with the Prime Minister’s Secretariat as she does with GHQ and the COAS, was...
Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 per cent of south India's spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers said, calling for mapping of supply chains and tougher audits...
It said employees were forced to work long hours by employers who often withheld their pay or locked them up in company-controlled hostels...
Pakistan's head coach Mickey Arthur said on Tuesday that Yasir Shah's 14-wicket haul in the second Test against New Zealand featured some of the best leg-spinning ever seen...
His figures are the second best match figures in all Tests for Pakistan, behind former captain and current prime minister Imran Khan's 14-116 against Sri Lanka in Lahore in 1982...
KARACHI: The country has been put on high alert and civil armed forces, backed by the Pakistan Army, have been deployed to ensure a peaceful and incident-free Ashura on Wednesday...
About 200,000 civil armed forces personnel, mainly police, have been deployed for the security of Ashura processions and majalis in all districts of Punjab, where 32 companies of the Pakistan Army were also deployed...
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday issued a notice to PML-N's Pervaiz Malik, demanding a written response to Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) allegations that the ruling party was using state machinery in Begum Kulsoom Nawaz's campaign for NA-120 by-polls...
The notice told Malik to submit his reply within three days and warned him to "refrain from such activities [participate or use state machinery in Mrs Nawaz's...
TIMERGARA: Road construction and earth leveling machinery worth millions of rupees has been rusting away in front of the Timergara tehsil municipal administration’s office for decades...
Residents and social activists demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to make use of the costly machinery...
LAHORE: An official of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) with an independent engineer will go to France for the pre-shipment inspection of machinery to be installed at two landfill sites at Lakhudero...
The machinery will be used to dump the waste and generate gas...
RAWALPINDI: The local administration is making special security arrangements for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s rally, which will pass through Rawalpindi on its way to Lahore, via the Grand Trunk (GT) Road on Wednesday...
CCTV cameras have been installed along the route, while camerapersons have been hired to film the procession in areas without CCTV coverage, for security purposes
ISLAMABAD: The combined import bill of food, oil and machinery ballooned to a record $21...
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the share of the three groups edged up to 55 per cent in the total import bill during the period from 50pc a year ago...
Twelve major garment exporters in Bangladesh have been purchasing raw materials from his company for many years now, Tandon told The Daily Star at Garmentech, an exhibition of machinery, garment accessories and yarn and fabrics that opened at International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka on Jan 13...
Bangladesh is a good export destination for his company, as top global brands and retailers are customers of Bangladeshi apparel,...
Officials said the authorities had also taken the cantonment boards in the province in its loop while the matters pertaining to the preparedness in the event of an emergency had been discussed with the representatives of the Met department, Civil Aviation Authority, Pakistan Railways, Sui Southern Gas Company, Headquarters V Corps, Maritime Agency, Coast Guards, Pakistan Navy, K-Electric, Shipyard, Sindh Rangers and other stakeholders...
GUJRAT: The sanitation wing of Gujrat Tehsil Municipal Administration has been equipped with modern machinery and vehicles to lift and dump the solid waste produced by the city as well as Kunjah and Shadiwal towns...
The machinery and equipment worth Rs37 million were inaugurated at a ceremony held at the TMA headquarters in the presence of district government officials and ruling PML-N’s local leaders...