The Federal Public Service Commission Monday announced result of the Competitive Examination 2012 for recruitment to BS-17 posts under the Federal Government. Out of 10066 candidates‚ who appeared in CSS examination‚ 788 have qualified. They include 588 male and 200 female candidates. Read More »
Information Minister Arif Nizami said on Monday that the federal budget for the next financial year is likely to be announced in the first week of June. Responding to questions by newsmen after addressing a seminar in Islamabad, Nizami said Senator Ishaq Dar of PML-N is expected to be the Finance Minister in the new Government and he is busy preparing budgetary proposals these days. Read More »
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Aleema Khan, sister of PTI chief, Imran Khan said on Monday that the British government has contacted Imran Khan in connection with his concerns over the safety of party workers in Karachi. Aleema was talking to reporters in Karachi after she arrived in the city to attend the “soyem” of PTI leader Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was killed by gunmen a day earlier of re-polling for NA-250 constituency. Imran Khan accused the MQM chief Altaf Hussain and the British government of the murder as Hussain threatened his arrival in telephonic speeches from London. Read More »
A court in Rawalpindi on Monday granted bail to former President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, court officials said. Musharraf had been accused of failing to provide security to Benazir Bhutto, who died in a suicide attack and gun shots in December 2007. Read More »
An anti-polio vaccination team was attacked in Bajaur tribal region on Monday, killing one Levies official, officials said. Unidentified men opened fire on the team in Bajaur’s Mamond tehsil killing the Levies man deployed for the purpose of security. Read More »
Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso and his govt has been under fire for weeks over appointments on key position at a time when the govt has just few days to transfer power to the new govt. Many are surprised at the move by the caretaker set up and the interim law minister has also criticized his own govt move. Read More »
A suicide bomber Monday killed a senior Afghan official and nine other people in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, officials said. Chairman of the Baghlan Provincial Council Mohammad Rasul Mohsini came under attack at the entrance gate of the Baghlan Provincial Council in Pol-e Khomri city, the provincial capital Read More »
President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali for scaling the world's highest peak Mount Everest. Samina Mirza 21 -is the first Pakistani lady scaled this peak. Baig completed the climb to the summit at around 7:30 a.m. Read More »
Parliamentary meeting of the newly-elected members of PML-N is being held in Lahore later on Monday to chalk out strategy regarding formation of government. The meeting to be chaired by PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif will also discuss priorities on national and public issues Read More »
PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif Sunday held a meeting with the chief of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mahmood Khan Achakzai in Quetta on Sunday and discussed matters relating to formation of government in Balochistan. Read More »
Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan Sunday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo-moto notice of the gruesome murder of his party leader Zohra Shahid Hussain in Karachi. She was killed outside her home in Defence Area by unidentified people. Imran Khan alleged the MQM is behind Zohra Hussain’s murder Read More »
A rmy chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, Saturday met the country’s Prime Minister-in-waiting, Nawaz Sharif, and discussed with him security issues, PML leaders said Read More »
Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar has deplored the allegation leveled by former Chief Minister Mr. Shahbaz Sharif that the President was involved in making postings and transfers of senior officials in the government as “not only absolutely baseless but also highly irresponsible”. Shahbaz Sharif alleged Friday that the caretaker Prime Minister, under the influence of President Asif Zardari, was making transfers and postings in the federal government and was not prepared to listen to the PML-N Read More »
Pakistani authorities should dismiss separate complaints filed against newspapers and journalists in Baluchistan for publishing statements made by banned militant groups, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Saturday. Police in the provincial capital of Quetta had filed a First Information Report, or complaint, on Wednesday against at least seven Baluch dailies and Pakistani journalists and publishers in connection with their publication of a statement by the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group Read More »
