Archive for the January 10, 2017
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The Met Office has forecast the prevailing cold waves are likely to batter the most parts of the country in the next 3 days. It said that the night time temperature in the most parts
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Apropos an editorial "Question mark on BISP" published in Business Recorder on January 09, 2017, it is highlighted that the idea of Benazir Income Support Programme, the flagship social safety net of Pakistan, was conceived
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The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry is concerned at the "go-slow policy" adopted by the Karachi Dock Labour Board as reported in Business Recorder. This policy was adopted by the Labour Board's
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Enforced disappearances first made their appearance in Pakistan in the context of Balochistan. For long years now, almost since the current nationalist insurgency began in 2002, dissidents and activists have been disappearing all over the
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The fires caused by leaking gas cylinders and pipelines, short-circuits in power lines, bursting of boilers, terrorist acts, and inadequacy of fire-fighting gadgetry in business premises, are reported virtually every day, but concerned authorities ignore
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The military courts set up under the 21st Amendment and the Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act 2015 came to an end on January 7 under the sunset clause limiting their life to two years. These military
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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), once a bluechip company, is now not only one of the three major entities bleeding the national exchequer requiring large annual bailout packages but is also continuing to suffer from a
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Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani on Monday directed the government to inform the House about the reports of former Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Raheel Sharif's appointment as chief of 39-nation Islamic Military Alliance formed
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Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani on Monday directed the government to inform the House about the reports of former Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Raheel Sharif's appointment as chief of 39-nation Islamic Military Alliance formed
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At least 5 people were killed and 2 others went missing when fire broke out in a ship at plot number 60 of the Gadani shipbreaking yard on Monday, rescue sources told after extinguishing fire.
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