Second LNG terminal: Court asks SSGC to invite bids again
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh High Court has ordered Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to restart the bidding process for a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, but the government is expected to give the...
View ArticleRadioactive: PHC admits petition against defunct waste plant
ABBOTABAD: Peshawar High Court’s divisional bench has agreed to hear the constitutional petition addressing the detrimental effects of a dysfunctional waste management plant on the ecology of...
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Corporate result: Byco turns things around, records Rs72m profit in FY15
KARACHI: After six painful years, Byco Petroleum managed to turn the corner in fiscal 2014-15 with an operational profit of Rs2.9 billion, which came primarily on the back of better inventory...
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Current account balance improves as deficit shrinks $1 billion
KARACHI: Pakistan’s current account deficit in the first two months of 2015-16 remained $394 million, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday. The current account...
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Ceasefire violations: Indian envoy summoned to lodge protest
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday summoned a senior Indian diplomat to lodge a strong protest over the latest ceasefire violation by the Indian troops that resulted in the deaths of three civilians along...
View ArticleLeft pending: Rabbani defers ruling on MQM resignations
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani deferred his ruling on the status of MQM resignations during Friday’s proceedings of the upper house. Sen Rabbani said that he was still in the process of...
View ArticleBrazen assault: Bloodbath at airbase
PESHAWAR: Taliban militants forced their way into an air force base near Peshawar on Friday, killing 30 security personnel, including 16 inside a mosque, in one of the deadliest attacks on a military...
View ArticleLeaders blast atrocity
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif strongly condemned the terrorist attack at Pakistan Air Force base in Badhaber on Friday and expressed the resolve to completely eradicate terrorism from the...
View ArticleNo fruits for labour: LHWs threaten to boycott anti-polio drive in Punjab
ISLAMABAD: Some 52,000 lady health workers (LHWs) in Punjab have threatened to boycott the anti-polio drive if their issues are left unresolved by the first week of October. They said that they intend...
View ArticlePost-convoy attack: K-P govt asked to provide security to PPP leader
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah has appealed to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government to provide security to the family of a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)...
View Article119th Senate session: No sitting boasted more than 25% lawmakers – FAFEN
ISLAMABAD: The 119th Senate session, which was cut short because of Hajj, was marked by low attendance, with no sitting boasting more than 25% lawmakers. When the opposition had requisitioned the...
View ArticleFighting graft: ‘Corruption impedes development’
LAHORE: There is a general consensus that corruption is a bane for economic growth and social development, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said at a ceremony...
View ArticleStanding ground: LHC defends 40% quota for lawyers
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court (LHC) registrar has defended the 40% quota reserved for advocates to be appointed as additional & district sessions judges (ADSJs) in Punjab. Civil judge Afzal...
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Headless for now: Panel to probe lawmakers’ tax evasion runs aground
ISLAMABAD: As parliamentarians gear up to submit their income statements to the Election Commission of Pakistan, a special parliamentary body set up to probe the history of assets and tax payments by...
View ArticleFormer bin Laden aide killed in clashes
BEIRUT: A former lieutenant of the late al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been killed in fighting with pro-government militiamen in Syria, a monitor said Saturday. “Abul Hassan al Tunsi, an important...
View ArticleTide of unrest: Al Qaeda affiliate executes 56 regime troops in Syria
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syria affiliate and its insurgent allies have executed at least 56 regime troops at a military airport they recently seized in the country’s northwest, a monitoring group said on...
View ArticlePashto poet, activist passes away
PESHAWAR: Pashto poet, intellectual and an active proponent of the Quit India and Khudai Khidmatgar movements, Jahanzeb Niaz passed away on Friday. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in...
View ArticleNew recruit: Former MPA joins PTI
LAHORE: A statement issued by the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday said that former Provincial Assembly Member Aajasim Sharif had left the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and joined the...
View ArticleCredible data confirms Express News as market leader
KARACHI: Quantifiable and globally credible data has confirmed Express News as a market leader within the broadcast industry in Pakistan. A recent study by Nielsen, the data company best known across...
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Political musings: Can PPP revive its flagging fortunes?
ISLAMABAD: Beset with charges of corruption and flagrant mismanagement in Sindh, the Pakistan Peoples Party, which had coalition governments at the centre and in three provinces from 2008 to 2013, is...
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