Asad Umar chaired a progress review meeting on GB development Plan
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning Development & Special Initiatives Asad Umar has said that the aim of the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) development package for...
VCs meeting reviews Undergraduate & PhD Policies
ISLAMABAD: A three-day meeting of the Vice Chancellors and Rectors of public and private universities was held to review HEC’s Undergraduate Education Policy as...
Efforts underway to avert looming gas crisis in country: Hammad Azhar
ISLAMABAD: Energy Minister Hammad Azhar on Monday said that the government was taking all possible measures to avert the looming gas crisis in the...
Coronavirus epidemic: Pakistan’s active cases witnesses below 23,000 for first time
ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus pandemic has slowed down the pace of deaths and infections as 1,024 more people have recovered from COVID-19, active cases in Pakistan...
NA-133 Lahore by-polls: ECP rejects Jamshed Cheema’s allegations
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) dismissed the allegations leveled by PTI leader Jamshed Iqbal Cheema and his covering candidate, his wife Musarrat...
Government plans to borrow Rs5.75 trillion from banks in next three months
KARACHI: In a bid to reduce the country’s fiscal deficit, the Federal Government has planned to borrow Rs5.750 trillion from the scheduled banks in...
Pakistan reaches agreement with banned TLP to end violent rally
ISLAMABAD: 10-day long protests and road blocks, resulted in violent clashes have ended as the PTI led Government has reached an agreement with the...
Winter Gas Crisis Ahead: 2 LNG trading companies backed out of agreement with PLL
ISLAMABAD: In a major setback for the country, two LNG trading companies have backed out of an agreement made with Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL)...
Prisoners Of Smartphones
BY DR. AATIF IFTIKHAR
When my two-year-old son denied having his lunch until he was provided with the screen, the smartphone, a realization dawned upon...
Recipe for Societal Progression: From Rags to Riches
BY ABDUL RASHID SHAKIR
Eradication of poverty from a society goes hand in hand with its socio-economic uplift. The logical corollary of these twin phenomena...
