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Committee formed to provide emergency funds to IPPs
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has formed a three-member committee to provide emergency funds to Independent Power Producers (IPP) in order to help them overcome their financial crisis, reported on Thursday. The committee, headed by Water and Power Minister Syed Naveed Qamar, has been asked to submit a report on the issue within 72 [...]
Continue reading...Monsoon Monday: Lahoris struggle to cope with 12 hours of rain
9. August 2011
LAHORE: Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) workers spent all day clearing the roads after heavy monsoon showers left parts of the city up to three feet under water on Monday. Some 600 workers and 52 pumps were deployed in the city in the morning to drain the water from the streets. Lakshmi Chowk and surrounding [...]
Continue reading...Public transport – Motorbikes banned on Ring Road
20. June 2011
LAHORE: Traffic police appear to have quietly banned motorcycles on the Ring Road. They have been issuing tickets to motorcyclists over the last month for using the road. The motorcyclists complained that they had been banned and fined without being informed in advance that using the Ring Road was an offence. Asked about the situation, [...]
Continue reading...Nawaz demands action against Saleem Shahzad’s killers
15. June 2011
ISLAMABAD: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif demanded action against the killers of slain journalist Saleem Shahzad while addressing the media from a journalists’ sit-in protest outside the National Assembly. According to details, journalists staged a sit-in protest outside the assembly demanding the arrest of those responsible for journalist Saleem Shahzad’s murder. Sharif said the entire nation demands [...]
Continue reading...200,000 teachers protest for 13,500 posts
31. May 2011
HYDERABAD: Nearly 200,000 junior and primary school teachers from Matiari district went on hunger strike on Monday for 13,500 vacancies. The teachers, who qualified for recruitment after the 2009 test, demanded job offers. The test was held in May 2009 and the results were announced in September that year but the teachers have yet to [...]
Continue reading...Benazir Income Support Programme: Over 400 attack regional offices for payment
31. May 2011
GUJRANWALA: Hundreds of men and women attacked the Gujranwala Benazir Income Support Scheme (BISP) offices on Monday after they did not receive their payment. Police officials arrested three protesters, who broke through the gates of the district BISP offices. According to police officials, over 400 people came to protest outside the BISP offices in Gujranwala [...]
Continue reading...Unlock the potential of social media marketing
23. May 2011
Today, any business that hopes businesses around the world cannot ignore the importance of having an online marketing campaign. Online Marketing is becoming more important as organisations around the world strive to develop products and services that appeal to their customers and aim to differentiate their offering from the competition in the marketplace. Hence, in [...]
Continue reading...Labour Day: Working from home for a pittance
1. May 2011
Samina Rafiq decorates bangles with laces and beads at home. She says she makes some 50 sets of bangles every day, which gets her about Rs200, even though the bangle sets sell for between Rs80 and Rs200. “I have no means to market the bangles so I can’t open my own business,” she said. “But [...]
Continue reading...Nine hours of load-shedding
28. April 2011
The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) announced that nine hours of load shedding will take place, daily, in residential and commercial areas across the city. The gas supply to KESC has already dropped to around 120 mmcfd because of the annual maintenance of the Bhit gas fields, according to a KESC press release. KESC requires [...]
Continue reading...Protest against Summer Loadshedding
26. April 2011
Electrical Load shedding brought traders on to Gulberg’s Main Boulevard on Monday in a protest against the federal government. The road was blocked for several hours as the protesters burnt tyres to vent their frustration. At around 2 pm, two to three hundred protesters took to the roads and camped in front of Hafeez Centre. The sit-in [...]
Continue reading...Technical fault leaves central Punjab out of electricity
24. April 2011
Electricity was suspended to various cities of central Punjab including Lahore on Sunday after all feeders of Kalashah Kaku Grid station tripped due to a technical fault. Kalashah Kaku grid station supplies electricity to Lahore, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala and other districts of the province where duration of unannounced loadshedding has increased due to reduction in power [...]
Continue reading...Govt complicit in drone attacks: Imran Khan
23. April 2011
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairperson Imran Khan has claimed that the government was complicit in the US drone campaign in Pakistan’s tribal regions. In an exclusive chat with hours before leaving for Peshawar to lead a two-day sit-in, the cricketer-turned-politician strongly criticised the government for its ‘indifference’ to the killing of ‘innocent tribesmen’ in the drone attacks. “They have [...]
Continue reading...Moin Akhtar passes away
22. April 2011
Renowned film, stage and television actor Moin Akhtar passed away in Karachi on Friday. Akhtar died as a result of heart complications. He had undergone heart surgery. Actress, Bushra Ansari said she always felt tremendous pride being compared to Akhtar, and the actor’s death has come as a great shock. “All he did was work, [...]
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11. August 2011
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