METRO Cash & Carry holds fashion show
By Asad Farooq
KARACHI: A vivid fashion show was organised by METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan, a renowned chain of wholesale stores here at its local branch Friday night. The show was part of fifth anniversary celebrations of METRO’s entrance into the Pakistani market.
As many as 12... 
|
Unique painting exhibition of child artists held
KARACHi: A unique painting exhibition of child artists was organised recently at the National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi.
Twelve children, under the age between three and twelve, studying at several schools of the metropolis, participated in the exhibition. They were Haider Syed, Ahsan Hanif,...
|
Skin diseases on the rise in suburbs of Karachi
KARACHI: Skin diseases, including infections and allergies, are the most common problems being faced by the people in rural and low-income areas of the Katchi colonies and outskirts of the city. This was established in two one-day clinical camps organised in Khuda ki Basti, Surjani Town, by the Rural...
|
Practices of fake faith healers unnoticed
Karachi: The prevalence of believes belonging to medieval times among ignorant people is badly hampering their cognitive development as they still make for fake spiritual healers to get their quandaries solved and diseases cured.
A considerable numbers of fake faith healers are operating in Karachi....
|
Standardised number plates for bikes from July
KARACHI: The government of Sindh has finalised the plan to issue standardised registration plates to motorcycles from the coming financial year and a tender in this regard has already been approved.
This was informed in a meeting held at the office of provincial minister for excise and taxation...
|
‘BISP designed to eliminate poverty’
* Sindh DG says Waseela-e-Haq aiming to break vicious cycle of poverty through interest-free financial assistance
KARACHI: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is designed to eliminate poverty from the country. Eligible families will be assisted in a completely transparent manner.
Director...
|
‘Lifestyle’ provides complete home décor range
KARACHI: ‘Lifestyle,’ a Middle East-based international chain of stores serving in 10 different countries launched its 101st branch in Karachi on Saturday.
‘Lifestyle,’ is a new addition to home decoration stores and other attractions for women and it is being hoped that it would prove to be...
|
Afghan pullout will be gradual, says Gates
* Drawdown decision due, success seen in Taliban heartland
* Defence secretary says great strides made in training Afghan policemen, soldiers to allow for withdrawal
HELMAND: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday that the US was not about to pull up stakes in Afghanistan...
|
Opp divided over strategy on budget debate
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties in parliament appear divided over adoption of a common strategy during the debate on the federal budget, dimming chances of a grand opposition over the issue in parliament.
Although, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the largest opposition party in National...
|
Three killed, five injured in gas pipeline explosion
GUJRANWALA: Three people were killed while five others were injured in a gas pipeline explosion at Khaiyali Road on Sunday. According to the Rescue 1122 officials, the pipeline lying close to a private hospital at Khaiyali Road suddenly burst, causing collapse of the building housing a bank near the...
|
FC official shot dead
KOHAT: Unidentified gunmen shot dead an FC official in Junglekhel area on Sunday. According to police, FC official, Noman, posted at Hangu was on leave and was going to a market when unidentified gunmen opened fire at him, killing him on the spot. The attackers fled after committing the crime. Police...
|
CDA helpless to overcome water crisis in capital
By Ali Hassan
ISLAMABAD: The citizens of federal Capital are facing extreme water shortage these days where as Capital Development Authority (CDA) is not bothering to take stern action to address the prevailing hard times of the capital dwellers. According to CDA, city is facing a shortage...
|
Water shortage is common in summer: CDA spokesman
ISLAMABAD: While talking to Daily Times CDA spokesman Ramzan Sajid said the city witnessed water shortage in summer, because the utilization of water increases in summer. Therefore more complaints of water shortage arose in summer as compared to winters. The shortage of water had also caused load shedding...
|
Lok Mela revives dying art of truck decoration, cinema board paintings
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The on-going annual artisans-at-work festival ‘Lok Mela’ being held at Shakaparian under the aegis of Lok Virsa and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting put special focus on truck art and cinema board painters.
Lok Virsa organized a special exhibition of...
|
Quetta Shura propaganda baseless: Malik
QUETTA: There is no evidence of Taliban presence in the city and the propaganda in this regard is baseless, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday.
“The propaganda of the Taliban Quetta Shura is baseless, if any one has concrete evidence about their claims, it must be shared with government”,...
|
Another victim of Bhinder group’s killing spree succumbs to injuries
Staff Report
LAHORE: Yet another victim of Arif Bhinder group’s killing spree succumbed to his injuries at Mayo Hospital on Sunday.
Police has registered a case against 15 accused persons, including Akbar Bhinder, the father of former Punjab Advocate General Arif Iqbal Bhinder,...
|
Five killed in truck-pickup crash
KARACHI: Five people were killed and one other was injured when a speeding dumper-truck collided with a pickup on the Super Highway on Sunday morning.
The accident took place when the victims were on their way to city from New Sabzi Mandi. Police officials said the Suzuki pick up was crossing...
|
Countering gender-based violence
Meeting highlights media’s role
ISLAMABAD: The UKS Research Centre, Islamabad, in collaboration with UN Women organised a one-day consultative meeting with a selected section of the media on “Media as a Partner to Promote Gender Sensitive Reporting on Violence against Women” on Saturday,...
|
IGP cancels promotions of 1200 policemen
KARACHI: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh Fayyaz Ahmad Leghari has cancelled promotions of nearly 1,200 policemen in entire province. The sources said that the IGP cancelled the promotions on the directives of the court. They further said that all these policemen were promoted under the article...
|
Pakistan in turmoil after bin Laden raid
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful security establishment, reeling from the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden and a series of other humiliating setbacks, is facing threats to its authority not felt in years.
Some are comparing it to other low points in the country’s history, including the loss...
|
‘Education City to fetch multi-billion dollars investment’
KARACHI: The Education City will bring multi billion dollars investment in the higher education sector.
The Master Plan of the Education City will be completed by the end of July 2011.
Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Investment Mohammad Zubair Motiwala stated this.
He said...
|
SSUET finalises draft of curricula for prospectus 2012
KARACHI: The Telecommunication and Electronic Engineering Department of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) has finalised the draft of curricula for the prospectus 2012 at a meeting of the Board of Studies. Officials of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) also attended...
|
Parking at G-6 Sunday Bazaar, what a nuisance!
By Mahtab Bashir
ISLAMABAD: The closure of the main parking lot of G-6 Sunday Bazaar continue to haunt the visitors rendering the traffic on the road in a hassle while the authorities remain apathetic about the mess.
During a visit to G-6 weekly Sunday Bazaar held under the banner...
|
CDA serves builders two-week ultimatum to clear parking lot
ISLAMABAD: CDA spokesman Ramzan Sajid told this scribble said that the plot for the under-construction wedding plaza was allotted some 25 years ago. “The builders have dumped construction material on the old parking space and CDA has served notices on them to clean the area within two weeks,” he said....
|
20 profiteers fined Rs 10,000 at Aabpara Sunday Bazaar
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration intensifying anti-profiteering drive in the federal capital fined 20 shopkeepers amounting Rs 10,000 to ensure the provision of essential commodities at controlled rates.
On the directions of Islamabad Chief Commissioner Tariq Mahmood...
|
Three, including army’s retired official, killed in Karachi
Staff Report
KARACHI: Three people, including a retired official of the Pakistan Army, were killed in different incidents of violence and mishap in the metropolis on Sunday.
Unidentified armed men gunned down Army’s retired official near Malir Cantonment check post No 6 in Shah...
|
Rockets fired on forces’ post in Landikotal
Staff Report
LANDIKOTAL: Two rockets were fired on the Frontier Corps (FC) and Khasadar Force checkposts by unidentified militants on Sunday in Zayarai area of Khyber in tehsil Landikotal, administration sources told Daily Times.
The rockets fired from the surrounding hilltops,...
|
NATO container torched in Kachi
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Unknown men set ablaze a NATO container in the precincts of Levies Station Dhahar on Sunday.
Levies officials told APP that a container carrying logistics for the ISAF forces in Afghanistan was on its way to Afghanistan from Karachi when unidentified armed men intercepted it...
|
Calligraphy course for youth starts today
ISLAMABAD: A one-year calligraphy course for young and budding artist will start from today (June 6) to promote and preserve Muslim heritage for the coming generations.
Calligraphy is a unique art, which needs to be preserved and revived, so, National Language Authority (NLA) is initiating this...
|
MQM chief hails Haqiqi leaders’ return to party fold
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said that MQM has spread in all parts of the country and it has become centre of aspirations of the poor-middle-class in the country.
He was addressing Central leaders of the MQM-Haqiqi (A faction of the MQM), who have re-joined his...
|
COWA launches three-day photographic exhibition
By Asad Farooq
KARACHI: The City Owners Welfare Association (COWA) launched a three-day photographic exhibition at the Sadequain Art Gallery, Frere Hall, here on Sunday.
The event was a joint exhibition presenting photographic work of three close friends, Muhammad Rehan Khan,...
|
Rebels must plan for post-Gaddafi Libya: Britain
* Minister says rebel planning is ‘embryonic’ g NATO flatten base in Tripoli
* US says Gaddafi departure ‘a matter of time’
TRIPOLI: Libya’s rebel leaders must plan in detail how they would run the country if Muammar Gaddafi stood down and should learn from Iraq after the 2003...
|
Chilean volcano erupts, forces mass evacuations
SANTIAGO: Southern Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on Saturday, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina, authorities said.
The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption...
|
New hope for skin cancer patients
CHICAGO: Two new drugs using very different scientific approaches can extend survival among patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer, offering the first new hope for real progress in many years.
Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental pill, vemurafenib, developed by Roche and...
|
Helicopter crashes in Afghanistan’s east, two NATO troops killed
* 11 held after attack on Italian base in Afghanistan
KABUL: Two service members from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed when a helicopter crashed in a volatile eastern area on Sunday, the coalition said, with the Taliban claiming to have shot the aircraft down.
“I can...
|
Bombs hit Iraq oil tanks in rare southern attack
BASRA: A bomb attack on an Iraqi oil storage depot set one tank ablaze on Sunday in a rare assault on strategic southern oilfields, but the country’s crude exports were unaffected, a top Iraqi oil official said.
The attack underscored the complex task Iraq faces in protecting and building up...
|
Saleh has surgery in Saudi Arabia, crowds cheer exit
SANAA/RIYADH: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack on his palace, underwent surgery in Saudi Arabia and Yemenis seeking his overthrow celebrated what they hoped was the end of his 33-year rule.
A Yemeni ruling party official said Saleh would return to the country within...
|
RSS
| Archives
| Company Financials
| Contact Us
| Tuesday, June 07, 2011 
