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Sindh assembly presents provincial budget RS 617 billion
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Imran Khan damaged Pakistan cricket, Aamir Sohail
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Quaid’s Ziarat residency to be rebuilt in 3 months: Govt
17th Jun 13 -
Shahrukh, Gauri expecting a baby boy in July
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Punjab Assembly presents fiscal budget Rs 897 billion
17th Jun 13 -
Shahrukh Jatoi writes letters to Human rights activists against ATC decision
17th Jun 13 -
UN chief condemns terrorist attacks in Balochistan
16th Jun 13 -
SBK university closed for indefinite period after bomb attack: Quetta
17th Jun 13 -
Recent spell of rain augurs well to crops
16th Jun 13 -
Provincial Budget Comparison 2012/2013
17th Jun 13

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AZAD KASHMIR: Two students were injured when Indian troops fired across Pakistani territory on the Line of Control on Wednesday The injured were taken to a local hospital for medical aid. The number of injured is feared to increase. According to the officials, Indian troops opened fires in Battle and Nezapir sector at around 10:20...
ISLAMABAD: The Swiss officials have told Pakistan government that cases against President Zardari cannot be re-opened now, media reports. Swiss officials have declared him a ‘clean’ man and his cases as ‘time-barred’. According to the Law Ministry sources, the Swiss authorities have sent reply to Pakistan regime over re-opening of President Zardari’s cases in their...
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman was injured Tuesday when Indian troops fired across the disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, Pakistan’s military said. The incident took place in the Karela area, near Kotli town, along the Line of Control (LoC) separating the Indian and Pakistani-controlled sectors. “A 65 year old lady Roshni Begum was...
MARDAN: At least 34 people were killed and including a provincial lawmaker of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Mohmand, when a bomb went off during funeral prayers here on Tuesday. At least 52 other people were also injured in the blast, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information and Health Minister Shaukat Yousafzai. Police said the funeral of...
ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) issued summons to call 18 witnesses from the prosecution in the judges detention case againt the former president Pervez Musharraf, on Tuesday, media reports. It may be mentioned that ATC Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi during a hearing on June 15 ordered the prosecutor to submit evidences. Following the orders, the...
LAHORE: Former federal minister Syed Naveed Qamar has been summoned by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for interrogation. NAB issued a final notice to Ali Badar, son of Pakistan People’s Party leader Jehangir Badar, in connection with the multi-billion-rupee Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) corruption case on Monday. Under Sections 19 and 27 of...
KARACHI: Chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, KPK finance Minister Siraj-ul-Haq and Minster of Finance Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman presented the provincial budget for fiscal year 2013-14 in Sindh Assembly, KPK assembly and Punjab assembly with Sindh outlay of Rs. 617 billion, KPK outlay of Rs 344 billion and Punjab outlay of Rs 897 billion...
KARACHI: Minster of Finance Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman presented the fiscal budget for the year 2013-14 in Punjab assembly with an outlay of RS 897 billion, on Monday. “We are milling to meet challenges facing the government head-on,” said Rehman. The budgetary allocations for energy and health are over Rs 20.43 billion and Rs 17...
KARACHI: Chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah presented the provincial budget for the fiscal year 2013-14 in Sindh assembly with an outlay of RS 617 billion, on Monday. Speaker Sindh assembly Agha Siraj Durani presided the budget session today. The chief minister said Sindh would be receiving Rs 332 billion from the federal government and...
PESHAWAR : The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet led by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, approved the budget recommendations which include imposing a 1 percent tax on the Afghan transit trade, while the total budgetary outlay for the financial year stands at Rs. 344 billion, media reported. KPK Finance Minister Sirajul Haq presented the provincial budget in the...
ISLAMABAD: In the national assembly, newly elected federal Interior minister Nisar Ali Khan presented a preliminary report on the attack on Jinnah’s Ziarat residency on Monday. He stated that a joint investigation team had been formed to look into this serious matter. Earlier after the attack, the Balochistan Liberation Army took the responsibility for the...
KARACHI:After the heart breaking incident of attack on Ziarat residency, the security of Quaid e Azam Museum and Wazir Mansion, birthplace of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah has been tightened. According to reports personnel of rangers and police have been deployed in Quaid e Azam Museum, located in the red zone area of Karachi....
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafiq Butt attended the concluding session of the Army War Games (Exercise AZM-E-NAU 4), which began at the National Defence University, Islamabad, on June 3, 2013, said media report. He addressed to the participants of...
KARACHI: The governments of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh will present their budgets for the fiscal year 2013-14 on Monday (today). The budget for Punjab likely to have an outlay of about Rs860 billion. The Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman will present its budget. The budget for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, expected to be Rs300bn, will be...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Sunday condemning the Quetta bomb attack which killed 14 female students. The resolution was passed by Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nuzhat Sadiq. Following the decision, the session was adjourned till 4pm Monday evening. On June 15, a bomb was detonated in the parking lot...
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Saturday’s “heinous” attacks in Quetta and Ziarat that killed at least twenty civilians and injured many more, and called on the Pakistani government to bring the perpetrstors to justice. “He (the UN chief) deplores the heinous nature of the attacks on a university bus carrying women students...
QUETTA: The attack on the Jinnah’s residency in Ziarat has been claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), say media reports. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar revealed that the residency had been attacked by five militants, who had removed the Pakistan flag and raised the BLA flag in its place. A rocket attack had killed a...
ISLAMABAD: General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has been indicted by the Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) in the judges’ detention case on Saturday. According to the report, he was indicted during a hearing of the case at his farmhouse residence in Chak Shahzad by ATC judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi. The charges against Musharraf were read out to...
ISLAMABAD:A debate on the federal budget for the fiscal year 2013-14 in the upper house (Senate) and lower house (National assembly) will take place today (Saturday). National Assembly will meet at 11.00 A.M. and the Senate at 4.00 P.M. for this purpose. The agenda of today’s meeting session is to discuss on the various aspects...
QUETTA: Unidentified militants hurled hand grenades at the Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat Balochistan in the early hours of Saturday, in the result of attack, the historical building collapsed, where founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah spent the last days of his life. In the attack, a policeman guarding the residence also died. According to a...
QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was deeply concerned on the issues of province and has assured to extend his full support for their resolution. Malik who was addressing a press conference here on Friday said that federal government and the military leadership would have...
DAMASCUS: Syria on Friday slammed Washington’s claims that it had used chemical weapons in its fight against rebels, accusing the United States of “lies” based on “fabricated information”. “The White House published a statement full of lies about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, based on fabricated information, through which it is trying to...
ISLAMABAD: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been arrested by a police team from Balochistan in the Akbar Bugti murder case on 14 days Judicial remand. Subsequently, an anti-terrorist court ordered a two-week-long judicial remand of the former army strongman. Musharraf is to remain at his farmhouse for the duration of the remand. The farmhouse...
PESHAWAR: Twelve-member Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet on Thursday was sworn in took oath of its office. According to the report, governor KP Engineer Shaukatullah Khan administered the oath to the new cabinet. The portfolios of the ministers would be announced later. However, the cabinet members included Habibur Rehman, Inayatullah, Shaukat Yousufzai, Israrullah, Bakht Bedar, Abrar...
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday presented Federal Budget 2013-14, estimating the total budget outlay at Rs3.591 trillion. Budgetary proposals include the revival of economy, special measures to address the ensuing energy crisis and the construction of water reservoirs and infrastructure across the country. Dar announced that Rs627 billions were allocated for the defense....
PESHAWAR: Raising the strength of the provincial cabinet to 13 and ending speculations about differences over distribution of ministries among coalition partners, twelve ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will be sworn in on Thursday. The decision had been taken after a meeting which concluded at midnight on Wednesday. According to the report, of the 12... 





