Legislation For Good Governance
Laws are an essential component of good governance. Without good governance, no progressor advancement is possible. No nation can sustain itself, much less develop,...
Budget passage
The Opposition in the National Assembly had vowed not to let the budget pass. That presumed some sort of effort when the government put...
Making mobile users pay
The tax on mobile calls longer than five minutes may well be about to run into technical difficulties. One of the main problems is...
Balochistan decides judicial probe into Usman Kakar’s death
QUETTA: The government of Balochistan has decided to form a judicial commission to probe into the death of former senator Usman Khan Kakar who...
CITY NOTES: The emperor has no clothes?
One of the debates that Imran Khan managed to set alight in his recent interview to a foreign channel was women’s clothing. He said...
Ex-finance minister holds PTI responsible for looming energy crisis in Pakistan
Miftah Ismail, the former finance minister, has held the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government responsible for a looming energy crisis in the country.
According to Dawn, the...
SAPM’s own firm involved in ‘illegal’ trade of hybrid cotton materials
ISLAMABAD: In a startling revelation, M/s Aurega Lahore, a company owned by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema, has...
PPP to form govt in AJK, claims Bilawal
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has claimed that his party will form its government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Talking to...
PIA grounds 140 flight attendants for being overweight
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines has grounded 140 flight attendants for being overweight and excluded them from promotions and the duty roster for July flights,...
UAE ban on entry from India unchanged, aviation body says
DUBAI: A United Arab Emirates ban on entry from India, South Africa and Nigeria remains in place, the federal aviation authority said on Sunday,...
Imran calling bin Laden ‘martyr’ was ‘slip of tongue’: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan had a “slip of the tongue” when he called slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a "martyr", Minister...
FATF decided Pakistan’s case on political grounds: Qureshi
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has once again raised fingers on Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) decision against removing Pakistan from the grey list...
NDMA takes measures to save areas facing monsoon flood threat
ISLAMABAD: National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the coordination of provincial disaster management authorities and other concerned departments has expedited measures to protect vulnerable...
Girls from Lyari blaze trail into football
KARACHI: Straddling the edge of the Arabian Sea, Lyari, a small shantytown south of Karachi, has long been a poster child for gang wars...
India probes suspected use of drones in blast at Jammu air base: officials
SRINAGAR: India is investigating the suspected use of drones by freedom fighters after two explosions rocked an Indian Air Force Station in the northern...