Chowk Wazir Khan restored to past glory
LAHORE: US Consul General to Lahore Yuriy R Fidkew on Wednesday visited the recently restored to its past glory Chowk Wazir Khan and the historic Wazir Khan Mosque. Chowk Wazir Khan, a 17th-century…
Open manhole claims life of three-year-old
LAHORE: An exposed manhole in the Nishat Colony area of Lahore resulted in the death of a three-year-old boy on Wednesday night, according to reports. The child, Azan, was taking a walk…
Parliamentarians seek action against chief commissioner
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has demanded that an inquiry should be conducted against the Islamabad Chief Commissioner (CC) Zulfiqar Haider for giving undue favours to the parents who refuse to administer polio vaccines…
KP governor for transparency in Gomal University
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra called for a broader mechanism with better financial management and transparency in running the affairs of Gomal University (GU). Presiding over a meeting…
Pakistani students to participate in ASC
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Pakistani students would leave for Malaysia on August 19, to participate in Asian Science Camp (ASC), 2017. “The camp will be held from August 20 to 27, at a…
MRC’s to be set up in three provinces
ISLAMABAD: The country’s first-ever Migrant Resource Centre (MRC), after running a successful pilot project in the federal capital, will expand its offices in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Sindh, under a four-year…
Abysmal condition of public library keeps readers away
By: Bilal Kanjal ISLAMABAD: The atmosphere of Islamabad Public Library (IPL), is surely contributing to the drastically low number of library visitors as it lacks the basic facilities for knowledge seekers, who…
FIA to grill CDA chief
Efforts underway to remove member administration ISLAMABAD: After dozens of directives issued by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for the provision of required documents about some mega…
Private schools’ false claims, flowery slogans fleecing public
Schools challenged PEIRA rules in court, defying regulatory mechanism ISLAMABAD: Except for the handful expensive private educational institutions in the federal capital, hundreds of low-fee private schools are merely a source of minting…
International consultative workshop held
by Hamza Rehman LAHORE: The opening ceremony of a 3-day international consultative workshop was organised in Social Work Department, University of the Punjab, to develop guidelines to launch diploma courses on NGO Management…
Iqra University to offer HBS-designed online courses
KARACHI: Iqra University has become the first university in Pakistan to collaborate with Harvard Business School (HBS) as it will offer HBS-designed online courses to its eMBA students starting fall 2017. The…
Appeal in Pearl case: SHC issues notices to convicts’ counsels
KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday heard the appeals of convicts in murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl. A division bench of the high court headed by Chief Justice Ahmed…
Rs 4,524 million tax recovered in July
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control Mukesh Kumar Chawla said that Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control has recovered Rs 4,524.935 million in July 2017 only, while in the…
5 police officials held for taking bribes
LAHORE: In Punjab Constabulary’s Abbas Police Line, situated on Bedian Road, upon accusations of bribes of Rs 15,000 per case being received and dozens of off-duty police officials being paid salaries on…
SHC overturns death sentence of convict in journalist murder case, orders retrial
KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday overturned the death sentence of Faisal Mehmood, alias Mota, the primary accused in Wali Khan Babar case and ordered a retrial by the lower courts.…
Bail granted to two MQM workers in media houses attack cases
KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) granted a bail to two Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) workers in cases pertaining to listening to the incendiary speech of the MQM founder on August 22, 2016,…
MRCs to be set up in three provinces
The country’s first-ever Migrant Resource Centre (MRC), after running a successful pilot project in the federal capital, will expand its offices in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Sindh under a four-year project.…