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Islamabad: Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Ms. Farzana Raja has said that BISP has envisaged its plan in accordance with the targets of Millennium Developments Goals (MDGs) set by United Nations till the year 2015. These goals include poverty alleviation and women empowerment which are being pursued by BISP vigorously. She said this while talking to the members of a UNDP delegation, led by Muhammad Younas, Deputy Chief and Programme Advisor South and West Asia Division UNDP, which met [...]

Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has said that in view to facilitate mobile phone users PTA is continuously monitoring re-verification process of mobile phone users data. It has directed mobile operators to ensure facilitation of consumers at their Customer Service Centres (CSCs) who are approaching for correction of their connection details. For the convenience of mobile phone consumers CSCs are making all efforts to facilitate the consumers. It may be added that in a comprehensive effort to register the SIMs [...]

Islamabad: Islamabad Police have arranged summer school for children from June 1 at police line headquarters with an objective to enhance liaison with the community through friendly measures. Islamabad police have arranged two summer schools for the children of age 6 to 15 at Police Lines Headquarters and first camp is starting from June 1 and second to start on July 1. The children are given admission in basic computer learning, swimming, horse riding, martial art and other courses. The [...]

Islamabad: Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) arranged two-day road safety workshop at ROZAN to acquaint the staff with traffic laws. The ITP has been arranging lectures at various educational, government and non-government institutions, aiming to inculcate traffic sense among the people. In this regard, a workshop was organized at ROZAN where ITP Education Team delivered lecture on Road Safety Tips. SSP (Traffic) Dr. Moeen Masood at the concluding ceremony said the aim of holding such programs was to acquaint the people [...]

Islamabad: Islamabad Police on Thursday arrested 12 persons for their alleged involvement in criminal activities and recovered 348 wine bottles, narcotics and weapons from their possession, a police spokesman said. Station House Officer of Aabpara police station Muhammad Hussain Lasi along with his police team nabbed four persons identified as Shafique Maseeh, Shehzad Maseeh, Muhammad Boota, Tahir Maseeh and recovered 155 gram heroin and a total of 15 wine bottles from them. Shalimar police arrested three persons Ishtiaq Ahmed, Naeem [...]

Karachi: The Karachi Electric Supply Company has formally constituted a five-member Human Resource Committee comprising senior members of Management. This fully empowered Committee would sit down with the CBA at 4pm on Monday 23 May at State Life Building to discuss and address various outstanding legitimate and lawful concerns of the workers and management alike. The statement, however, stressed that the first and foremost priority of everyone should be to ensure that electricity supply to our customers is normalized and [...]

Karachi: Mr. Tabish Gauhar, CEO of the Karachi Electric Supply Company has appreciated all those employees of the KESC who have been risking their lives by performing their duties to serve the consumers in hugely difficult conditions. “We are proud of them and actually these people are the assets of this institution. This is our responsibility to care more about them,” he remarked. The CEO has sent a message to all those core employees who have been misguided temporarily, to [...]