PML-N plans to take $12.53bn loan until June 2018 on December 18, 2016ISLAMABAD: The PML-N-led government has devised a plan to take foreign debts of $12.53 billion until June 30, 2018. Under the plan the foreign debt of $6.63 billion would be taken during current financial year while a loan of $5.89 billion would be obtained during next fiscal year. It is revealed that the government had […]
CDA closes eyes to occupation of precious public land in E-11 on October 10, 2016ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has kept its eyes close towards the encroachment of its precious land located in posh sector E 11, of the capital worth of more than Rs 10 billion by a private housing society, a well place source told Daily Times. A private housing society namely ‘Multi Professional Housing Society’ (MPCHS) […]
Junior officer appointed welfare officer at PIMS on September 26, 2016ISLAMABAD: An officer, without holding a relevant degree, has been appointed to the post of Social Welfare Officer at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). The administration of the PIMS has appointed a junior officer, Tariq Mehmood, on a BPS-17 post while a senior officer working in the same grade and having the requisite […]
3,830 appointments in USC declared illegal on August 8, 2016ISLAMABAD: An audit report has revealed that as many as 3,830 appointments made in the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) were illegal. These inductions were made owing to political affiliations and in defiance of rules and regulations. According to the report available with Daily Times 100 posts of loaders and helpers were advertised and 430 persons […]
Future of hundreds at stake due to undue delay in IELTS result on August 7, 2016ISLAMABAD: British council has risked the future of hundreds of candidate due to mismanagement in announcement of IELTS examination result. Hundreds of candidates appeared in IELTS General Examinations on July 16 in Islamabad and other cities of Pakistan and the IELTS conducting body is bound to issue results within thirteen days. “Candidates are trying a […]
Privatisation of PSPC may be a security risk on August 4, 2016ISLAMABAD: With the privatisation of Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC), the national security could be at stake as several sensitive tasks are on the list of responsibilities the organisation carries out. The profit making Pakistan Security Printing Corporation has the mandate to print notes, prize bonds, board and universities’ degrees, cards for Pakistan Army and […]
Commerce Ministry keeps silence on financial scams of subsidiaries on July 27, 2016ISLAMABAD: Six sugar mills owned by the ruling political families of Punjab have refused to return Rs 2.051 billion rupees to the government and now the issue has been brought to a parliamentary committee, which is likely to take it up next month. According to the documents available with Daily Times, the Trading Corporation of […]
Membership cards: PNC puts future of nurses at stake on July 24, 2016ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Nursing Council was involved in the embezzlement of millions of rupees in the name of issuing membership cards, as the council had still not issued cards to the applicants despite receiving ‘urgent’ fee. Pakistan Nursing Council has put at stake the future of male and female nurses, as they still await membership cards […]
Polyclinic in the grip of tussle on July 17, 2016ISLAMABAD: After PIMS, the conspiring elements have also made the Polyclinic Hospital their home and have begun planning to remove the executive director of the hospital while trying to bring back their former boss. Some of the game planners have the support of the Prime Minister’s House while the other group is backed by CADD […]
Islamabad schools fail to perform in matric exams on July 13, 2016ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz’s generosity to Islamabad educational institutions has failed to deliver as no student from Islamabad’s schools performed up to the mark in the recently announced exams of the Federal Board. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif bestowed the task to his daughter Maryam Nawaz to improve the quality of the capital’s educational institutions but the […]