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Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that public media organizations have to adopt modern and innovative methods of broadcasting to enhance their reach to the masses. The Prime Minister expressed these views while interviewing Mr. Hamad Ghaznavi at PM’s House this morning for the post of Deputy Managing Director of PTV. The Prime Minister approved his appointment after the interview. For more information, contact: Haji Ahmed Malik Principal Information Officer Press Information Department (PID) Tel: +9251 925 [...]

Islamabad: A delegation of 26 Pakistani students who secured top positions in their examination of matriculation, Intermediate and BA/BSc visited Pakistan Embassy here today. The senior officials of the mission greeted the delegates. Pakistan’s Ambassador to Germany Mr. Shahid Kamal briefed the students on Pak-German relations in the field of education. He said that efforts were under way to get increased the number of scholarships for Pakistani students as well as setting up of links between campuses of German and [...]

Islamabad: The Privatisation Commission (PC) is inviting Expression of Interest (EOI)s from Lead Manager/Book Runner(s), for the Secondary Public Offering of Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) approximately 2.5% (21,105,688) shares through domestic stock exchange(s). Presently, GoP holds 70.56% of PPL shares. Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) is a frontline supplier in energy sector, contributing almost 25% of the country’s total natural gas supplies besides producing crude oil, natural gas liquid and liquefied petroleum gas. Its proven recoverable reserves are 2.87 TFCs of [...]

Karachi: The Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Mr. Shahid H. Kardar has advised the new generation of Pakistan to take risk, be an outlier and ‘make your mark’ in society. Speaking at the Convocation of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) today, he observed that those who have a fire in their belly and the urge and determination to pursue their dreams and take on the world rather than simply play safe would be the great achievers. ‘However, whichever [...]

Karachi: Provincial minister for Information Technology Raza Haroon has directed city district government Karachi to bring all those vehicles and road cleaning machinery on roads which were presently stationed at Machinery Pool due to repairing works. During an unscheduled visit of City Government Machinery Pool and Workshop at Mewashah on Friday with EDO Municipal Services Masood Alam he instructed to arrange for minor repairing in these vehicles and machinery within 24 hours. Taking strict notice of that the vehicles and [...]

Karachi: City Government will initiate work on various development projects in July including construction of many roads and 6 flyovers. Allocation of funds for shifting of slaughterhouse from North Karachi Industrial Zone to Surjani and construction of fire station in its place was also being made in the budge of next fiscal year. This was stated by District Coordination Officer Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed while speaking at the NKATI reception in his honour. Patron NKATI Noor Ahmed and Chairman Faraz [...]

Karachi: Provincial minister for I.T Raza Haroon along with ANP leader Bashir Jan visited Banaras Chowk on Saturday. They were accompanied by Administrator Karachi Fazlur Rehman and officers of city and town administration. During the visit minister Raza Haroon inspected development works carried out at Banaras Chowk. On this occasion he said by joining all entities in Karachi, effective steps were being taken for restoration of peace and making Karachi a neat and clean city. Ongoing campaign for removal of [...]