Lahore: The dacoits who were killed in encounter a 2 days back outside Gulshan Iqbal Park, are identified.The one dacoit Mutahir Riaz was a resident of Pindi Stop,Bansan Wala Bazar, Peco Road where as other Waheed Shahzad Rana was the resident of Nishtar Colony. These two dacoits were killed by ... Read More »
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Lahore: Punjab University has awarded PhD degree to Salma Umber D/o Rashid Ahmad Toorin the subject of Communication Studies after approval of her thesis entitled “Media and Conflict Resolution: Portrayal of Kashmir Issue in the Editorials of U.S. Press 1998-2008”. She completed her PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr ... Read More »
PEF formally launched the pilot of “school improvement program”
Lahore: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has formally launched the pilot of “school improvement program” to help the academically weak partners to improve their academics and start providing quality education to the students. For this purpose, 110 needy partner schools from twenty one different districts including Lahore have been short-listed ... Read More »
Transparency International questions credentials of TDAP chief SM Muneer
Lahore: Pakistan Chapter of Transparency International (TI) has asked the government to clarify the appointment of a leading businessman as CEO of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) in violation of rules and regulations. In a letter written to Commerce Ministry, Director of TI Syed Adil Gilani said that government ... Read More »
Punjab University wins declamation contest theatre
Lahore: Punjab University students have won team trophy and top positions in declamation contest, theatre while showing outstanding performance in Zestival 2015 organized by Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan. Students including Salman Alam from Institute of Communication Studies, Hamza Mustafa from University Law College, Mubasher Saeed from College of Pharmacy, Ghuffran ... Read More »
K-Electric and FIA officials meet to discuss the way forward
Lahore: K-Electric and FIA officials met to discuss the campaign against electricity theft and ongoing Operation Burq. Director FIA Sindh Zone Mr. Shahid Hayat Khan, Additional Director FIA / Head EGOAU Karachi Mr. Javed Akbar Riaz, K-Electric’s CEO Mr. Tayyab Tareen, Chief Distribution Officer Syed Muhammad Taha and Chief of ... Read More »
HRCP slams massacre in Karachi bus attack
Lahore: The barbaric killing of members of the Ismaili community in a bus attack in Karachi is highly condemnable, but it deserves more than mere words of censure and sympathy from the authorities, the political parties and the civil society, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Wednesday. In ... Read More »
Mian Zahid Hussain asks KP government to abide by ECC decisions
Lahore: President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF) Mian Zahid Hussain on Wednesday said the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has refused to abide by the ECC sugar export decision threatening farmers, their millions of dependents and billions of investments in the sugar sector. Keeping in view the surplus sugar production, ... Read More »
Senator Mushahid Hussain re-elected Chairman Senate Defence Committee
Lahore: Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed was unanimously re-elected as Chairman of the Senate Defence Committee at a meeting of members of the Committee held at Parliament House today. His name was proposed by Senator Col. (R) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi of MQM and seconded by Senator Sehar Kamran of PPP-P, ... Read More »
Chairman PEF Qamar ul Islam Raja orders legal action against fraudsters
Lahore: The Chairman, Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), Engineer Qamar ul Islam Raja has ordered legal action against the private schools for willful forgery for partnership with the Foundation. According to details, a private school in Layyah tempered with the Roll Number slips submitted along with documents deposited along with application ... Read More »