Archive for  August 2004
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The attempt to kill Pakistan's prime minister-designate could be retaliation for the capture of a key al Qaeda suspect in the deadly 1998 bombing of two US embassies in East Africa, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid
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The weekly Sensitive Price Indicator for the week ending July 29 points to certain disturbing features. First, sugar prices, which remained stable during the year, jumped up by 4.63 percent during one week. Secondly, inflation
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Sugar, wheat moved both ways on the commodity wholesale markets during the week ended on July 31. Among commodities underwent changes were cotton cakes, plastic mouldings, sugar, wheat, castor and cuminseeds etc. Traders were not
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The concluding ceremony of Golden Jubilee celebration of K-2 and 51st anniversary of Nanga Parbat will be held on August 5 at 9:30 am at National Library of Pakistan. Rais Munir Ahmed, Minister of State
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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid on Sunday said that investigation into suicide attack on the Finance Minister is in progress and hopefully there would be some breakthrough within couple of days. Talking to
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Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan would address the oath taking ceremony of Kashmir Journalists Forum (KJF) on Tuesday (August 3). He would be the chief guest of the ceremony and would
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All the private and government schools and colleges in Karachi region will reopen on Monday after two-months of summer vacations. This was stated by Executive District Officer (Higher Education) City District Government Karachi (CDGK), Rais
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The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation has added another 250 KV PMT to its distribution network for providing stable power supply to Soldier Bazaar area. Member Sindh Assembly Syed Akhtar Hussain Bilgrami inaugurated the PMT at
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Anti-terrorism Court awarded life imprisonment to seven accused in two different murder cases here on Saturday last. ATC judge Mohammed Khosa tried and sentenced three accused Nadim, Zahir and Qalandar in a murder case to
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Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday reiterated his firm resolve to serve the nation more devotedly and make Pakistan a moderate and progressed state. "Incident of life attempt has further strengthened my resolve to make
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