KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) Chief Syed Mustafa Kamal has lambasted the discriminatory policies of Pakistan Peoples Party in Sindh and said that the elders of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have become habitual of dividing the country and not accepting a united Pakistan. He said this while addressing the party’s general workers convention at a ground … Read more
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) — Pakistan on Friday reported 556 new COVID-19 cases and six more deaths, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Saturday. The NCOC, a department leading the country’s campaign against the pandemic, said that the country had confirmed overall 1,295,933 cases so far, including 1,256,816 recoveries. The country has … Read more
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal on Thursday said the anti-graft watchdog arrested “wheat-eating rats” and recovered Rs20 billion from them when it initiated a probe against tonnes of missing wheat in Sindh “When I asked, where all the wheat is? I was told that rats ate it,” said Justice (retd) … Read more
KARACHI: The farmers are paying an extra price of around Rs600/bag of urea against the government fixed price of Rs1,800, a research report issued by the AKD Securities revealed. Currently, urea is being sold in the domestic market at an increased price of around Rs2,400/bag. The disparity in the domestic and international prices of Rs7,700/urea … Read more
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Pakistan reported 291 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Tuesday. The overall tally of the infected people rose to 1,294,031 across the country, said the NCOC, the department leading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic. Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) has successfully achieved 10 million tonnes of coal production milestone, a statement said. SECMC, one of the largest public-private partnership in the energy sector, commenced commercial operations in July 2019 with an annual production capacity of 3.8 million tonnes. Over the last two-and-a-half years, SECMC has successfully … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh High Court on Friday suspended the notification of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) of December 10 regarding the halt of gas supply to non-export industries of Sindh and Balochistan. While allowing miscellaneous applications to merge into two lawsuits filed by Shujabad Agro-Industry and Toyo Packaging Limited requesting for suspension of the impugned notification, … Read more
KARACHI: The North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry (Nkati) has expressed concern over stopping the gas supply to non-export, general industries and demanded the government to continue gas supply with required pressure to the industries, a statement said. Faisal Moiz Khan, president of Nkati, said that Karachi should not be punished for contributing 54 … Read more
KARACHI: Bayer Pakistan and Tayaba Organisation have distributed 2,000 H2O water wheels in rural Sindh and Punjab communities, which face acute water shortages, as well as water transportation challenges, a statement said. Under this project, 1,000 water wheels were distributed in Sindh (Umerkot and Tharparkar) and 1,000 in Punjab (Hasilpur) and will directly benefit 14,000 … Read more
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Pakistan added 370 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Wednesday. The country’s number of overall confirmed cases has risen to 1,289,913, according to the NCOC, the department leading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic. Another four people lost their lives … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Saaed Ghani on Tuesday dismissed the reservations of the opposition members over the Sindh Local Bodies Act claiming that they are yet to read the bill “properly”. Speaking at a press conference, the minister said that the no powers have been altered from the 2013 local bodies Act, adding that it … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Sheikh alleged on Tuesday that the federal ministers and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan are spreading divisive ethnic politics in the province for vested political interests. While speaking to the media, Sheikh said: “Because they don’t have any leader neither any vision they have retorted to ethnic politics. The federal government … Read more
KARACHI: The year’s last seven-day anti-polio campaign, already underway in the country, commenced in Sindh on Monday to vaccinate over 9 million children under the age of five. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah inaugurated the campaign in the province by administering polio drops to children during an inauguration ceremony in Karachi. Read more: Policeman … Read more
KARACHI: Children of local villagers in Thar Block-1 will be taught the Chinese language by qualified teachers under a long-term programme initiated by Sino Sindh Resources Private Limited (SSRL), a local subsidiary of Shanghai Electric, a statement said. The project, which SSRL is carrying out in collaboration with the Confucius Institute, University of Karachi, was … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday formed a committee to review the appointments made in courts of Sindh province. The SC three-member bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial took up the case against the appointments in the subordinate courts of Sindh. During the hearing, Justice Umar Ata Bandial observed that no test … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The government is taking all possible measures to ensure smooth supply of essential commodities throughout the country, a senior official said. Presiding over the National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) meeting, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin expressed satisfaction on the prices of commodities in Sasta Bazaars in Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, … Read more
KARACHI: Mohammad Hussain Khan, a senior member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), joined the then Mohajir Qaumi Movement’s student wing, the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organization (APMSO) in 1983 in Mirpurkhas. Later on, he joined the MQM in 1984 and worked as the joint unit in charge and the joint organizer at the Sindh University … Read more
KARACHI: A senior doctor of the Jinnah Hospital diagnosed with dengue passed away on Tuesday. According to details, Dr Mahmood Al Hassan, a associate professor at hospital, was under the treatment for some time but could not defeat the virus. Separately, the Sindh Health Department said that the provincewide death toll from dengue virus has risen … Read more
KARACHI: Agriculture and soil experts of Sindh expressed their concerns that rapidly increasing salinity in the soil could pose a serious threat to food security and rising salinity in agricultural land due to various reasons is having a profound effect on the agricultural production of the country. World Soil Day was observed and hosted by Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tandojam in collaboration with Soil Science Society … Read more
KARACHI: There is a general impression in the city that efforts to unite different factions of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) are being made at a time when the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has passed the Sindh Local Bodies (LB) Government (Amendment) Bill 2021 in the provincial assembly recently. The opposition parties including the Pakistan … Read more
KARACHI: Provincial Minister for Industries and Commerce and Cooperative Department Jam Ikramullah Dharejo has said that due to incompetence and flawed policies of the federal government, industries in Sindh are in dire straits and facing gas shortages. Sindh should be provided its share of gas so that the wheel of industries can continue running, he … Read more
KARACHI: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) director for the Office of Sindh and Balochistan Andrew Rebold and Sindh Secretary for Agriculture Parvez Ahmed Seehar participated in a closing ceremony of the US government-funded Pakistan Agricultural Technology Transfer Activity (PATTA), a statement said. The four-year programme increased agricultural yield through modern technologies designed to … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The government plans to increase e-commerce trade volume up to $9 billion in the next two years by June 2023, an official said. There are already conflicting figures in Pakistan’s e-commerce trade; however, with the current trade of $4.5 billion, “we can take it up to $9 billion,” Special Assistant to the Prime Minister … Read more
KARACHI: As the government has introduced new measures to contain the Omicron variant of Covid-19, denial continues among the people of Karachi, the country’s most populous city. Taking the new virus variant threat lightly, many people believe that it is the “same conspiracy” as previous variants that halt all economic activity of the country and … Read more
KARACHI: An automobile association has urged the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) to support their demand of rationalising the duty structure on auto parts, a statement said on Tuesday. A delegation of the Pakistan Automobile Spare Parts Importers and Dealers Association (Paspida) visited the KCCI and sought Karachi chamber’s support for the rationalisation … Read more
KARACHI: The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) has rejected the decision of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to close compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations for two-and-a-half months from December 1 to February 15, a statement said. Closing of CNG filling stations in Sindh is unjustified, which will not be accepted, Group leader of APCNGA … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh-based fertiliser dealers have purchased an extra 125,000 tonnes of urea, compared with the last year, similarly dealers from peripheral areas of Punjab (adjacent to Sindh) bought 50,000 tonnes of extra urea, compared with the last year for hoarding purposes. Minister for Industries and Production Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar regretted that unfortunately due to … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the federal government is focusing on 14 districts of Sindh under the Sindh Development Plan. Chairing a high-level meeting to review the implementation of Rs444 billion Sindh Development Plan, the prime minister said, the objective is to improve the socioeconomic status of the residents of Sindh. He … Read more
