NAP is just a lollipop on February 23, 2017ISLAMABAD: A joint meeting of parliamentary parties on Thursday failed to decide term of military courts. The meeting was held in Parliament House with reference to extend military courts. All parties except the PPP attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. He said, “All parties have been […]
Financial crisis looms over land of the pure on February 22, 2017ISLAMABAD: Pakistan might go through another financial crisis as the government has taken loans for eight energy projects on huge interest rate and awarded these contracts on hefty profit. Sources said the loans were taken on “extremely hard conditions” and contracts were given to Chinese firms on almost 20 percent return profit. They added that […]
IESCO makes money from job aspirants on February 21, 2017ISLAMABAD: Millions of rupees collected from candidates for recruitment in the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) have been embezzled. According to details, the vacancies on different posts were advertised in newspapers and money was also collected from jobless candidates but the process could not be completed. IESCO had recruited some 1,900 employees, including 87 officials […]
PML-N making Pakistan prosperous by huge power bills on February 20, 2017ISLAMABAD: The government has put the burden of surcharge, electricity pilfering and subsidy on the shoulders of consumers. The Power and Water Ministry said this at a meeting of Economic Coordination Committee. Sources said that the ministry also said that the government got the subsidy from the power consumers by putting tariff operationalisation charge, adding […]
Govt not interested in water projects in Islamabad on February 19, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Only 25 percent of the funds have been released for water projects in the financial year 2016-17 and several projects have been shelved due to a shortage of funds. Sources told Daily Times that the government had allocated funds for the projects in the budget for the fiscal year 2016-17 but the funds […]
Govt not interested in water projects on February 18, 2017ISLAMABAD: Only 25 percent funds have been released for water projects in the financial year 2016-17 and several projects have been shelved due to a shortage of funds. Sources told Daily Times that the government had allocated funds for the projects in the budget for the fiscal 2016-17 but the funds were utilised on other […]