Archive for December 2012
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The intensive care unit (ICU) of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has no capacity to cater for the routine influx of patients due to space deficiency while most of the medical equipment especially ventilators
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Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) has provided funds of Rs one billion for 53 research projects on high priority under Competitive Grant System during last three years. This was disclosed in 28th Board meeting of
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The compressed natural gas (CNG) supply to the filling stations resumed in Lahore on Thursday after a three-day weekly closure but many stations remained shut due to strike, while few stations were opened which complained
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The leaders of textile associations have rejected the proposed raise in gas prices by 9.87 percent and termed it an unwise move, as it would further increase the cost of doing business, hit industrial production,
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The recent statement of Nawaz Sharif (December 5, 2012) on controversial Kalabagh Dam project is no doubt a commendable step. His views that national unity is far more important than the Kalabagh Dam are quite
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Recent results of by-elections in Punjab in which PML-N had landslide victory over combined candidates of PPP and PML-Q confirms that zero plus zero equals zero. Copyright Business Recorder, 2012
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Greece's budding popstars could be silenced this year - as the financial crisis is likely to force Athens to follow in the wake of Portugal and Poland in pulling out of the Eurovision song contest.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable -Adam Smith, 1776 Pakistan has not only one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in
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While there may be some difference of opinion among economists on the precise relationship between the growth in money supply and the rate of inflation, there is no dispute that a persistently high rate of
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In public perception, Pakistan today is more corrupt than it was last year and perhaps ever before, and in that it has come to reside in the company of most corrupt of the international community.
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