Rawalpindi: The long-awaited GPO Chowk division on Mall Road, RawalPindi, is scheduled to open for traffic on June 30 (tomorrow). Completed in a record four months, the RS4.6 billion project aims to make the 26-kilometer Mall Road signal-free and improves traffic flow significantly over the city. The downfall spanning 1.93 kilometers was considered important to […]
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Additional District and Sessions Judge Rawalpindi, Majid Hussain Gadhi, Saturday approved bail on medical reasons for Chaudhry Tanveer Khan, a former senator of the Pakistani Muslim League-N (PML-N). Tanveer was arrested in the murder case of Chaudhry Adnan, a former PTI MPA and ex-province parliamentary secretary. The court ordered its immediate release subject to the
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Rawalpindi: The Punjab House, the Urban Development and the Public Health Engineering Department have decided to establish three new key institutions – water and sanitation agency (WASA), Parker and Horticulture Authority (PHA) and Development Authorities – in 36 existing districts to improve public services, development work and beautification efforts. Punjab currently includes 41 districts. However,
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Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday ordered the federal government to dissolve Capital Development Authority (CDA) and transfer all its powers and assets to Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI). In a detailed judgment, justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani gave that CDA has no legal authority to impose taxes on taxes. The Court further declared that any amount
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Vehari: The deteriorating buildings of a large number of private educational institutions have become a threat to children’s lives, causing herds among parents. A local trader, Rehman Malik, whose children are studying in a private school, said the building was in such a bad condition that there was a constant risk of a major accident.
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Lahore: Punjab assembly members from the Treasury benches criticized the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday a Gory event of the tourists’ death in SWAT. They also accused the opposition in the assembly of adopting an immature behavior. The Treasury legislators said the KP government had played the role if a quiet spectator, when a family’s members,
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Lahore: Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has ordered the provision of several electrical buses to the districts of South Punjab. The chairman of a meeting where the transport department informed her of her projects and the progress made on the electrical bus project was reviewed, the minister said that the remote areas should be
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Pia -Manager Pakistan International Airlines AVM Amir Hayat on Saturday called on Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar. He appreciated DPM/FM’s continued support and requested further diplomatic assistance to resume flights to the UK. DAR informed that he and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were actively engaged in the British authorities to ensure that
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Islamabad: The Election Commission in Pakistan (ECP) rejected on Saturday what it called “groundless propaganda”, which was circulated in certain media circles according to the Supreme Court’s constitutional bench’s decision on reserved seats. The criticism arose after the Supreme Court’s constitutional bench rejected Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI)-Vended Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) review of the petition regarding
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Karachi: Awam Pakistan Party (App) leader Miftah Ismail on Saturday criticized the government’s economic policy and said that if the prime minister had reduced the budget deficit, interest would have fallen into single digits. Miftah, who approached a news conference at the Karachi Press Club along with the former MNA Salahuddin, Nasiruddin and others, said
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