Chatha added that anti-corruption operations were ongoing indiscriminately against corrupt elements

to Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatha, the caretaker chief minister would also inaugurate the business

RAWALPINDI: In the last week, the newly established Business Facilitation Centre( BFC) received as many as 41 applications from firms to establish new businesses in the Rawalpindi district, and 20 firms were issued Non-Objection Certificates( NOCs), while the rest are still in process. Though the BFC is operational, the formal inauguration of the centre is still pending because the administration has been waiting for the availability of Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi.... The inaug

GUJRAT: The Punjab Land Record Authority( PLRA) has completed the computerisation of entire record of all the nine land registration branches of Lahore district. The record of land mutation and property deeds of the registration branches since 1947 had been computerised to curtail the role of powerful mafias involved in making fake entries in the official data, a senior PLRA officials told Dawn. Under the project, Lahore district had been divided into nine registration branches working under the

RAWALPINDI: The divisional administration on Saturday decided to revise the PC-I of the Rawalpindi Ring Road( R3) Project as the cost of construction material cost escalated many fold and the project’s construction cost will increase from Rs27 billion to Rs31 billion.A meeting of the Rawalpindi Division administration, Project Management Unit of R3, Rawalpindi Development Authority( RDA) and the representatives of the contractor Frontier Works Organization( FWO) was held with Commissioner Liaqua

The Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association( PPDA) nationwide strike and closure of fuel stations against the government's failure to increase their profit margin began on Thursday. Privately-owned petrol stations have ceased operations across the country in pursuance of the call by the PPDA, although state-owned stations of Pakistan State Oil( PSO) and a few other companies including Shell and Hascol are still operational, according to the Ministry of Energy. Deputy Commissioner Lahore Umer Sher

Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan( TLP) chief Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi was released from Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore on Thursday, Jail Superintendent Ijaz Asghar confirmed to Dawn. com.... TLP spokesperson Mufti Abid also confirmed the development and told Dawn. com that Rizvi had reached the party's headquarters, Rehmatul Lil Alameen Mosque, after his release.... Security forces and civil defence personnel would be deployed in the area, which a bomb disposal squad would sweep....

RAWALPINDI: Amid the ongoing rain spell, the retaining wall on Grand Trunk Road( recently named as Potohar Avenue) adjacent to the under-construction Soan Bridge caved in on Sunday morning, sending three heavy machinery hundreds of feet down the road beside the Leh Nullah.... Three people were also injured. The executing agency National Highway Authority( NHA) and contractor National Logistic Cell( NLC) termed the ‘landslide’ after heavy rains the main reason for the collapse of the retaining w

He said he had also received information that three were killed in Karachi. Addressing the SC, he asked," What crime were we committing?... " He said he" wants justice for the people of Pakistan from Supreme Court judges and the lawyers' community"." I am again asking the judiciary to save your FIA( Federal Investigation Agency).... " Use of expired tear gas is not only violation of court orders but it’s a terrorism against Pakistani citizens by Rana Sanaullah," he quoted Mazari as saying....