Bill Gates has offered to assist Pakistan in health sector in a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the PM office said Tuesday. Dr. Waqar Ajmal Special Representative of Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation for Afghanistan and Pakistan called on the Prime Minister and delivered the letter. Mr. Bill Gates congratulated the Prime […]
Pakistan Air Force says that two Indian aircraft violated the country’s airspace and entered the country’s Punjab province on Tuesday. “Two high speed Indian aircraft violated Pakistani Airspace by 03 nautical miles at about 1040 hours in Attari, Fazilka sector. The aircraft stayed inside Pakistani airspace for about 02 minutes,” a PAF spokesman said. […]
The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) government will present its first federal budget for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013-14 on Wednesday. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will present the budget in the National Assembly. PML-N leaders say that the new budget focuses on revival of economy‚ energy crisis‚ reducing non development expenditure and to give relief to […]
Aamir Atlas fails to make himself available for WSF World Team Squash Championship which being held in France from 09 to 15 June. Despite a clear offer by President Pakistan Squash Federation Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, for granting waiver from trials citing reasons of unfitness, he declined to be available for WSF […]
President Asif Ali Zardari Monday used his parliamentary speech to call for an end to political confrontation to effective deal with the daunting challenges. “We cannot afford confrontation and need reconciliation,” President Zardari said in his address to the joint session of the parliament. The President’s address marks beginning of the first […]
The National Economic Council Monday approved 1155 billion rupees development projects including federal Public Sector Development programme of Rs. 540 billion and 615 billion rupees of development projects belonging to the provinces. It also decided to constitute a committee led by Minister for Planning and Development with Chief Ministers of the Provinces as its members […]
Unidentified men in Khyber tribal region on Monday fired rockets on containers carrying supplies for MATO forces in Afghanistan, killing at least five people, officials said. The drivers and cleaners of the containers were killed as the attackers torched the containers in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency, bordering Afghanistan. An official […]
Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Monday said the government is committed to address the issue of power load shedding. In his inaugural address to the first meeting of the federal cabinet in Islamabad‚ he said the government will take all possible measures to improve the electricity supply situation and reduce load shedding in […]
Balochistan Chief Minister Dr. Abdul Maalik Sunday promised to take all possible steps to restore peace in the province and put the province on the path of progress and prosperity. In his maiden address at the Provincial Assembly session in Quetta on Sunday‚ he invited all the armed organizations in the province to […]
Three bomb blasts killed at least three soldiers and injured six others in three bomb attacks in tribal regions and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, officials said. They said that a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a check post when a convoy of the security forces was passing through the restive North Waziristan tribal region, killing three […]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed the confidence that under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s leadership, Pakistan would build on its democratic achievements and further strengthen its existing partnership with the United Nations. In a message of congratulations to the Pakistani leader on his assumption of the office of prime minister, the UN chief said he was […]
Senior Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf leader‚ Shafqat Mahmood has said there is a need for a comprehensive policy to stop drone attacks. Speaking at a radio Pakistan programme, Shafqat Mahmood said PTI’s perception about drone attacks is very clear that these are not containing militancy rather these are increasing militancy. He said drone attacks are […]