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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that transparency and merit will be the guiding principles in the selection of recipients for laptop scheme.In a tweet today, he said the nationwide launch of Prime Minister's laptop scheme yesterday resumed the ...

The colorful celebrations of the three-day Shandur Polo Festival are underway in Chitral.The celebrations of the second day of the festival started with the national anthem. On this occasion, the bands of frontier corps and Gilgit-Baltistan presented ...

More rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Islamabad, Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pothohar region, Punjab, east/northeast Balochistan and Sindh during the next twelve hours.However, isolated heavyfall is also expected in Northeast ...

Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin has expressed his resolve to take terrorism related cases to their logical conclusion.He was chairing a meeting in Lahore today to review the so-far progress on legal proceedings against the miscreants of May 9.I...

Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Sherry Rehman says Pakistan faces dual challenges of limited accessibility to climate finance and a lack of technical capacity, which impedes its progress in achieving crucial climate adaptat...

Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal says the government will provide grant to talented youth for materializing their innovative ideas.Talking to a private news channel, he invited researchers, scholars and the young brains having innovat...

Minister of State for Petroleum Dr Musadik Malik says discussion is underway with Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority to lessen the burden of tariffs on low income groups.Talking to a private television channel, he said the government does not want to in...