SIALKOT: In a major development, brother of the Sri Lankan man who was lynched by a mob in Sialkot has expressed the desire to work in place of his brother at the same factory, Bol News quoted sources as saying on Tuesday. The factory sources said brother of the Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara, who … Read more
LAHORE: Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz applied to an accountability court seeking acquittal in Ramzan Sugar Mills reference. Read more: AC issues release orders for Hamza Shehbaz in Ramzan Sugar Mills case Hamza, in his plea submitted on Monday, stated that after amendments in the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO), the reference against … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Central Information Secretary Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarian (PPP-P) MNA Shazia Marri said Prime Minister Imran Khan had once declared that he would make everyone cry, and today, as he had promised, the entire nation was crying due to his worst economic and anti-farmer policies. Read more: Fawad responds to criticism over urea price hike In … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Co-chair of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pakistan MP Yasmin Qureshi has asked the British government to amend its misleading tweet which had wrongly likened the sanctions on Myanmar military and a Pakistani individual for their human rights violations. On International Human Rights Day (December 10, 2021), the UK had announced new sanctions … Read more
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday said students of Balochistan had a great potential to change the destiny of the country by equipping themselves with the latest knowledge and information technology skills. During an interactive session with the students and faculty members of Balochistan Residential College, Khuzdar, at Aiwan-e-Sadr, President Alvi urged students to … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, on Monday, regretted that Pakistan was not given credit by the western world for its sacrifices in the war on terrorism. “Pakistan faced the biggest collateral damage in the Afghan war as it is the only country in the US alliance which suffered more than 80,000 casualties, displacement of millions … Read more
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore registered a case against Iftikhar Ahmad Malik and other owners of the Glamour Textile Mills for allegedly illegally occupying Evacuee Trust Property Board’s (ETPB) 74-kanal land in Lahore, Bol News has learnt. Read more: Imran desperate to jail Shehbaz through FIA: Marriyum “Prima facie, offences of abetment in crime … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pakistan on Monday confirmed that a recently suspected sample from Karachi was indeed the ‘Omicron variant’ of SARS-CoV2. Read more: Pakistan reports first ‘suspected case’ of Omicron variant in Karachi “The NIH has been able to confirm (via whole genome sequencing) that a recently suspected sample from Karachi … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid, on Monday, warned the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) not to proceed with its planned long march on Pakistan Day in the capital or else it would be responsible for any untoward incident on March 23. Read more: PDM announces long march on March 23 Rejecting the government’s criticism to hold … Read more
KARACHI: The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a United Nations specialised agency, expressed satisfaction over the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA)’s performance in implementing the international laws in the sector of airworthiness, said Bol News in its report on Monday. Read more: CAA verifies licenses of 58 PIA pilots The CAA reportedly succeeded in passing … Read more
KARACHI: The rupee recovered 21 paisas against the dollar on Monday at the opening of the interbank foreign exchange market. The dollar is being traded at Rs177.50 from last Friday’s closing of Rs177.71 in the interbank foreign exchange market. Last Friday’s closing at Rs177.71 was the highest level of the dollar against the rupee. Currency … Read more
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened on a bearish note as the KSE-100 index witnessed a decline of 103.75 points, or 0.24 per cent, in the first hour of trading on Monday. The local bourse on Friday, closed lower on uncertainty over the monetary policy announcement next week, the surge in the National Savings … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The next general elections due in 2023 will be held on the delimitation of the constituencies to be made on the basis of digital census being conducted across the country. The digital census for which spadework is almost complete is likely be completed by the end of 2022 and Pakistan Bureau of Statistics will … Read more
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will launch a new initiative ‘Asaan Mobile Account’ programme on Monday. In a press release, the central bank said the initiative has been developed under the National Financial Inclusion Strategy aimed at facilitating the customers for remote account opening under branchless banking. Read more: Microfinance Bank posts record … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said it was beyond his comprehension that what the opposition wanted as the opposition did not submit its amendments regarding the local government act in the provincial assembly. Addressing media in Karachi, he said the Sindh government had consulted all the parties on the local government … Read more
FAISLABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Sunday said tax revenue had increased by 40 per cent this year compared to the last year, while income tax had also increased. “The government is going to introduce reforms in the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR),” Farrukh Habib said talking to media persons … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz on Sunday said the opposition parties were opposing the usage of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in elections because they did not want transparency in the election process. “Prime Minister Imran Khan had invited the opposition parties to sit together for bringing electoral reforms but they refused,” … Read more
PESHAWAR: Viewing promising reports, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance and Health Taimur Khan Jhagra on Sunday said with a little more effort polio could be eradicated. “For more than a year now, no case of wild polio has been reported,” Taimur Jhagra said in a statement. Read more: Polio workers preforming national service, says PM … Read more
