Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday ordered the restoration of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) as well as not cutting its budget for the fiscal year 2022-23. The prime minister stated that the commission should be fully operational, as it was during the previous PML-N administration. “Do not reduce the HEC’s budgetary allocations.” Rather, we […]
Day: May 30, 2022
Imran Khan to address lawyers’ convention in Peshawar today
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will address a lawyer convention in Peshawar on Monday (today). Ali Zaman, President of the Peshawar District Bar Association’s Insaf Lawyers Forum, invited Imran Khan to the convention. Imran Khan will be accompanied to the convention by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and other party leaders. Provincial ministers […]
Pakistani rupee again pulls down US dollar by big margin
Pakistani rupee again pulls down US dollar by big margin. The Pakistani rupee has managed to break the US dollar’s upward trend by pulling it down following a hike in POL prices and an increase in the policy rate by the State Bank of Pakistan. According to forex dealers, the US currency fell significantly during […]
Kite string takes youth’s life in Lahore
On Monday, an 18-year-old youth was killed when the string of a stray kite slit his throat in Lahore’s Misri Shah neighborhood. Mobeen came to Misri Shah with his cousin to get a burger, but he was caught in the kite string. Police took the body to the morgue for an autopsy and launched an […]
Local govt polls in Balochistan after nine years
QUETTA: Independent candidates were leading in Balochistan’s local government (LG) elections, which were held after nine years on Sunday (May 29) in 32 of the province’s 34 districts. According to unofficial results as of Sunday night, independent candidates were leading on approximately 1,310 seats. JUI-F led with 217 seats, Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) with 146, […]