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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 [...]

Lahore: The Itinerary of Afghanistan National Team tour to Pakistan has been rescheduled. Afghanistan National Team is scheduled to play three one day matches against Pakistan ‘A’ Team. The new itinerary is as follows May 25, Wednesday, First One Day at Diamond Ground, Islamabad (Day) May 27, Friday, Second One Day at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi (Day) May 29, Sunday, Third One Day at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad (D/N) For more information, contact: Nadeem Sarwar Media Manager Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) [...]

Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board announces the 16 member squad for the Ireland tour. Misbah has been appointed as Captain for the tour . Pakistan Team will play 2 ODIs against Ireland on 28 and 30 May, 2011. The names are as follows: 1. Misbah-Ul-Haq – ( Captain) 2. Younis Khan 3. Taufeeq Umar 4. Mohammad Hafeez 5. Asad Shafiq 6. Azhar Ali 7. Shahid Afridi 8. Mohammad Salman – WK 9. Saeed Ajmal 10. Abdur Rehman 11. Umar Akmal 12. [...]

Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board today announces the 15 Players and Management for Pakistan “A” for the Afghanistan Tour to Pakistan. Afghanistan National Team will play a series of three one day matches (May 25, First One Day at Faisalabad D/N, May 27 Second One Day at Rawalpindi, May 29 Third One Day at Abbottabad). The names are as follows: Players: 1. Babar Azam 2. Shan Masood 3. Sharjeel Khan 4. Umar Amin 5. Naved Yasin 6. Usman Salahuddin 7. Rameez [...]

Lahore: A six-member media delegation of Nepal visited the Punjab University Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS) here at New Campus on Thursday. Advisor the VC Col (R) Ikramullah Khan, Director External Linkages Maria Maldonado, Centre Director Prof Dr Ambreen Javed, Principal Oriental College Prof Dr Mazhar Moeen and other faculty members welcomed the delegation. The members of the delegation included Hiranya Lal Shrestha, Dorji Tsering Sherpa, Deependra Rokaya, Deependara Muni Bajracharya, Biswas Baral and Krishna Giri. Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr [...]

Lahore: Punjab University Department of History faculty member Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chawla had been awarded HEC funded Post Doctoral Award (2010-2011). He is the first in the history of Department of History who received the award. He worked on a project which re-examined Lord Mountbatten’s role at the time of the Independence of Pakistan and the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent. Dr Chawla not only benefited from invaluable guidance of Prof Ian Talbot, an authority on modern South [...]