June 04, 2011


LJCP recommends legislation against girls abuse
ISLAMABAD: The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) has recommended amendment in laws for strict sentences against the judgments of Panchayats and Jirgas...Full Story

Devolution: Budget allocations made federal entities
ISLAMABAD: Chairman 18th Amendment Implementation Committee, Senator Raza Rabbani Saturday said allocations have also been made in the budget for those federal ...Full Story

Ilyas Kashmiri is dead: confirms HuJI
KARACHI: Banned outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) has confirmed the death of its Chief Ilyas Kahmiri in US drone strike..Full Story

JI sit-in to begin today
KARACHI: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has finalized all the arrangements for its two-day sit-in against “US intervention in the country” and for Islamic revolution....Full Story

Budget more a burden than relief
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government in the Centre unveiled its fourth budget with an outlay of Rs 2.767 trillion for the next fiscal year..Full Story

Pak-India Joint Working Group examines visa procedures
ISLAMABAD: The first meeting of the Joint Working Group of India and Pakistan continued for two days, commencing on Thursday and ending on Friday (June 2 to 3) to examine...Full Story

Provinces to get Rs 260.078bn additional share under 7th NFC Award in 2011-12
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is to transfer to the provinces Rs 1.270 trillion under the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) Award as revenue share and grants...Full Story


Such budgets will eliminate middle class: Pagara
KARACHI: Spiritual leader of Hurs, Pir Pagara, criticizing the federal budget for 2011-12 presented on Friday, said if more budgets of this sort kept coming they would completely...Full Story

48 militants killed, 28 security men dead in Upper Dir
DIR: Armed clashes between security forces and militants from Afghanistan continued for the fourth day in Upper Dir where so far 48 terrorists have been killed while....Full Story

No weapons in luggage of Kharotabad victims: Taxi driver
QUETTA: The proceeding of inquiry tribunal, constituted for probe into Kharotabad incident, continued on Saturday and it recoded statements of taxi driver, who took the Chechens to ..Full Story

No new projects for Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources
ISLAMABAD: The Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) features no new projects for the Ministry...Full Story

Rs 730 billion set aside for development in 2011-12
ISLAMABAD: The federal government, on Friday, announced a total development budget of Rs 730 billion for the fiscal year 2011-12 against last financial year’s Rs 663 billion...Full Story

US missile strike kills five in South Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: A US missile strike targeting a compound killed five terrorists in South Waziristan Agency on Friday, security officials said. The strike took place in Ghwakhwa..Full Story

PEMRA issues notices to 4 TV channels
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Friday issued notices to Geo News, Dawn News, News One and Dunya News for being..Full Story

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