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Giving citizens some more to digest following Eid festivities, the government dropped a petrol bomb, rising oil prices by up to Rs4.40 per litre. Effective from today, the government announced a price hike in petroleum products. Earlier, the government had decided to retain prices of petroleum products at the current level due to Eid-ul-Fitr. However, […]
At long last, the late monsoon season started in the northern parts of the country, killing nine people and injuring another 11 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Heavy rainfall increased water levels in the province, making inundation of number of areas and causing heavy landslides that have stranded a number of people. Apart from northern parts, downpours lashed […]
Pakistan didn’t prepare much after the 2010 worst flooding as moderate rain spell caused a flood-like situation in the current season in some parts of Punjab, the most populous province of the country. After a light rains, at least two major rivers of the province are in medium to high flood range. As many as […]
Transportation system, which has not developed properly to meet the requirements of rising population, is quite pathetic in the country. In rural, urban and semi-urban, the road communication is already in poor shape and was further worsened by the 2010-11 floods. The Ground Line of Communication (GLoC) also helped in further destruction of the many […]
Doctors in Punjab still not paid Doctors recruited on an ad hoc basis and through the Punjab Public Service Commission to man government hospitals during the Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab strike have still not been paid their first salaries. Ad hoc doctors said that they had been working for a month and a half […]
Declaring President Asif Ali Zardari responsible for energy crisis, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said ongoing spells of load shedding have ransacked the economy of the country. Speaking to the media, he was of the opinion that the province was being subjected to the revenge of worst kind with President Zardari playing the […]
As the heels of Captain Safdar’s episode are not recovered yet, the resignation of Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khosa from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will rock the party’s boat wide and large. The PML-N is already struggling to reduce damages from the confrontation of Captain Safdar, the son-in-law of Nawaz Sharif, with the bigwigs of the […]
Under the directive of the Supreme Court, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has dissolved the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), tasked to probe the allegations of Malik Raiz about under-the-table deal between him and Dr Arsalan Iftikhar. NAB Prosecutor General KK Agha informed the apex court that the decision of dissolving the bureau’s special team was […]
Chiniot: (Thursday, August 02, 2012) Punjab police has once again proved itself to be the most inhumane and most incompetent force in the face of earth. Completely devoid of the competence required to probe into criminal incidences, it solely relies on the claims made by the affluent. Emulating a similar situation, the Chiniot police here […]
The government on Tuesday dropped another petrol bomb on poverty-stricken masses, by increasing prices of petroleum products up to seven rupees. Following a rise in global oil prices, the government hiked the prices of petroleum products effective from today. Following an increase in petrol prices, the price of Compress Natural Gas (CNG) has also been […]
Muzaffargarh: (Monday, July 30, 2012) Federal Minister for information and broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said here today that under the given circumstances, the PML-N leaders should abstain from indulging into the politics of point scoring. He was of the view that this was high time all the political leaders sat together to strengthen the federation. […]
Claiming himself the spiritual son of Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked his party workers to start preparations for the upcoming general elections. Speaking to a public gathering, he made it clear that he was a true follower of Z. A. Bhutto and will lead his party […]
