ISLAMABAD:
Bahria Town on Saturday started relief operation for people, internally
displaced due to ongoing Zarb-e-Azb operation against militants in North
Waziristan.
Three mobile health units and two trucks carrying wheat, ghee, sugar and other groceries have been sent to North Waziristan by Bahria Town.
Head
of relief operation Brigadier (R) Tahir Butt said that Bahria Town will
establish camps in Bannu for carrying relief operation.
“Initially five trucks full with aid supplies and three mobile hospitals will be sent for internally displaced persons
(IDPs). Iftari will be provided to IDPs while two times meal will be
given after Ramazan”, said Tahir Butt. He vowed that Bahria Town will
continue relief operation till the return of IDPs to their home.
Tahir
Butt said that relief activities were being started after taking no
objection certificate (NoC) from Provincial Disaster Management
Authority (PDMA).
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Sunday, 13 July 2014
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Govt starts uplift projects to facilitate people: Dar
He said that Nandipur, Dasu, Bhasha, Neelum-Jhelum and other projects would be completed in near future to meet the growing demand of energy in the country.
Talking to the official television, he said that PML-N government was taking all important steps to streamline the system. Ishaq Dar said the government had paid circular debt to bring improvement in the energy sector.
Ishaq Dar said that budget deficit had been reduced due to the dynamic policies of the present government.
He said that a large number of people would be provided assistance through Income Support Programme.
The finance minister said that the PML-N was following its manifesto given during the election campaign.
Replying to a question, he said that present government wanted to produce 40,000MW electricity through different resources for achieving speedy progress in all the sectors.
Ishaq Dar said that a huge amount was allocated for fee reimbursement programme of the students.
To another question, he said the government was not getting any dictation from International Monitory Funds (INF).
He said that an additional amount would be given to the provincial governments to bring prosperity in the country.
Meanwhile, the World Bank (WB) Country Director for Pakistan, Rachid Benmessaoud, expressed the hope that the board of the bank would approve assistance for Dasu Project.
“We are working day and night for board meeting to be held on June 10 and hope that the assistance for Dasu Project will be approved,” he said during his meeting with Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar here.
During the meeting WB Country Director assured the finance minister that things were moving positively for Pakistan at the World Bank.
He said that they were encouraged by the positive trends of the economic indicators.
The meeting was also attended by Shahid Mahmood, Special Assistant to the Finance Minister and senior officials of the Finance Ministry.
Ishaq Dar informed the Country Director that Pakistan’s economy was moving in the right direction and that we would continue to engage with multilateral fora including World Bank for assistance in energy and infrastructure development programmes initiated by the government.
He added, in line with the vision of the prime minister to make Pakistan developed and prosperous country, the government has embarked upon a plan to meet the energy requirements and make Pakistan an economically viable country.
He emphasized that World Bank’s assistance in energy and development projects particularly on Dasu Dam and CASA -1000 will help Pakistan progress.
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Commission starts in-camera proceedings in Hamid Mir case
Headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, the commission, which has to ascertain the facts, identify culprits and fix responsibility for the incident, was briefed by senior government, police and Rangers officials.
The home secretary, IG Sindh, Additional IG Karachi, DG Rangers Sindh, Joint Director Intelligence Bureau, DIG East, DIG Special Branch, SSP Traffic and other police officers appeared before the commission along with the relevant record and submitted their confidential reports on the incident. Statements will be recorded from today (Tuesday).
The IGP Sindh, Iqbal Mehmood, briefed the commission about the incident.It is pertinent to mention that following the attack on Hamid Mir, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to constitute a judicial commission to probe the incident.
The other members of commission are Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman. The commission shall also make recommendations to avoid such incidents in future.
Sunday, 6 April 2014
World’s biggest election starts in India today
NEW DELHI:
India’s political rivals were set to hold rallies on Sunday on the eve
of the world’s biggest election in which 814 million eligible voters are
expected to take part in nine stages today (Monday).
Frontrunner for premier Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalists battled accusations of stoking religious tensions to win votes. Rahul Gandhi will take to the stage in New Delhi and neighbouring Haryana state to implore voters to stick with his ruling Congress party, which is tipped to suffer a crushing defeat in the marathon six-week ballot which starts today.
Voting will kick off in the two remote northeastern states of Assam and Tripura, before spreading across the country in a staggered process. Results are due on May 16.“Congress is the only party that has resonance in every nook and cranny of India,” senior party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi told AFP.
He described Gandhi, the scion of India’s most famous political dynasty and frontman for the Congress campaign, as a “superstar campaigner” who would return them to power. Arch-rival Modi, a Hindu hardliner tainted by association with religious riots, is holding rallies on Sunday in the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh where he has been campaigning on a pledge of reviving the country’s ailing economy. But in the last days of the campaign a row erupted along religious lines, with Modi’s right-hand man accused of stoking tensions against Muslims, who at 13 percent of the population are the country’s largest religious minority.
Amit Shah reportedly told Hindu voters to seek “revenge” at the ballot box while speaking in a part of Uttar Pradesh hit by Hindu-Muslim violence last year that left some 50 people dead. “This election is about voting out the government that protects and gives compensation to those who killed Hindus,” Shah reportedly said on Friday. Congress has asked the Election Commission to order Shah’s arrest and ban him from campaigning, with a party official accusing Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of making “horrible” statements and “creating animosity between communities”. The election commission has declined to comment.
But Arvind Kejriwal, from the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi or Common Man Party, accused Modi Saturday of “politics of hatred”. The BJP said Shah’s comments had been taken out of context and accused Congress of hypocrisy.
“The Congress should be ashamed for that challenge to the EC. They themselves are asking for votes in the name of religion,” BJP spokeswoman Nirmala Sitharaman told AFP. Modi, widely tipped in opinion polls to win the elections, has focused his campaign on economic reform and creating jobs, largely steering clear of promoting any Hindu nationalist agenda. But he has been tainted by religious riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat which he has governed since 2001. The riots there killed more than 1,000people, mostly Muslims. He has been cleared of any personal wrongdoing. Rahul Gandhi warned that the country faces religious turmoil if the opposition
Hindu nationalist party wins power. Gandhi said majority Hindus would be pitted against minority Muslims if hardliner Narendra Modi and his BJP clinched.“Wherever these people (BJP) go they create fights. They’ll pit Hindus and Muslims against each other,” Gandhi told a rally in the town of Sirsa, 250 kilometres (155 miles) from New Delhi.
“We walk with everybody, be it Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians. We walk with people from all communities, castes, religions and regions and that is our politics,” said Gandhi, “We don’t do politics of anger and division.”
Frontrunner for premier Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalists battled accusations of stoking religious tensions to win votes. Rahul Gandhi will take to the stage in New Delhi and neighbouring Haryana state to implore voters to stick with his ruling Congress party, which is tipped to suffer a crushing defeat in the marathon six-week ballot which starts today.
Voting will kick off in the two remote northeastern states of Assam and Tripura, before spreading across the country in a staggered process. Results are due on May 16.“Congress is the only party that has resonance in every nook and cranny of India,” senior party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi told AFP.
He described Gandhi, the scion of India’s most famous political dynasty and frontman for the Congress campaign, as a “superstar campaigner” who would return them to power. Arch-rival Modi, a Hindu hardliner tainted by association with religious riots, is holding rallies on Sunday in the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh where he has been campaigning on a pledge of reviving the country’s ailing economy. But in the last days of the campaign a row erupted along religious lines, with Modi’s right-hand man accused of stoking tensions against Muslims, who at 13 percent of the population are the country’s largest religious minority.
Amit Shah reportedly told Hindu voters to seek “revenge” at the ballot box while speaking in a part of Uttar Pradesh hit by Hindu-Muslim violence last year that left some 50 people dead. “This election is about voting out the government that protects and gives compensation to those who killed Hindus,” Shah reportedly said on Friday. Congress has asked the Election Commission to order Shah’s arrest and ban him from campaigning, with a party official accusing Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of making “horrible” statements and “creating animosity between communities”. The election commission has declined to comment.
But Arvind Kejriwal, from the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi or Common Man Party, accused Modi Saturday of “politics of hatred”. The BJP said Shah’s comments had been taken out of context and accused Congress of hypocrisy.
“The Congress should be ashamed for that challenge to the EC. They themselves are asking for votes in the name of religion,” BJP spokeswoman Nirmala Sitharaman told AFP. Modi, widely tipped in opinion polls to win the elections, has focused his campaign on economic reform and creating jobs, largely steering clear of promoting any Hindu nationalist agenda. But he has been tainted by religious riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat which he has governed since 2001. The riots there killed more than 1,000people, mostly Muslims. He has been cleared of any personal wrongdoing. Rahul Gandhi warned that the country faces religious turmoil if the opposition
Hindu nationalist party wins power. Gandhi said majority Hindus would be pitted against minority Muslims if hardliner Narendra Modi and his BJP clinched.“Wherever these people (BJP) go they create fights. They’ll pit Hindus and Muslims against each other,” Gandhi told a rally in the town of Sirsa, 250 kilometres (155 miles) from New Delhi.
“We walk with everybody, be it Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians. We walk with people from all communities, castes, religions and regions and that is our politics,” said Gandhi, “We don’t do politics of anger and division.”
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Sonam Kapoor shaves, starts series of Anil Kapoor ‘hair’ jokes
Bollywood style diva Sonam Kapoor, who is known for her style
quotient and panache, portrayed a different side of herself for the
cameras recently.
The actress, who otherwise never leaves anyone guessing, shocked the fans on social media with the image which was without a caption. Sonam did an unusual photo shoot for photographer Rohan Shrestha as she posed with shaving cream on her face and a blade scraping it off.
Sonam’s Messy hair, smoky eyes and a sexy pout are all that seem to have made the shoot work beautifuly.
Though we can assume that this may be for one of Sonam Kapoor’s new ad shoots, we definitely like our fashionista without these manly instincts!
Sonan Kapoor’s father and Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor has always been a butt of jokes for his hairy body and after this picture the internet world opened a fresh series of jokes.
The actress, who otherwise never leaves anyone guessing, shocked the fans on social media with the image which was without a caption. Sonam did an unusual photo shoot for photographer Rohan Shrestha as she posed with shaving cream on her face and a blade scraping it off.
Sonam’s Messy hair, smoky eyes and a sexy pout are all that seem to have made the shoot work beautifuly.
Though we can assume that this may be for one of Sonam Kapoor’s new ad shoots, we definitely like our fashionista without these manly instincts!
Sonan Kapoor’s father and Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor has always been a butt of jokes for his hairy body and after this picture the internet world opened a fresh series of jokes.
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