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HESCO urged to resolve issues of the consumers

  • HYDERABAD, Nov, 5 (APP): The Member National Assembly Syed Waseem Hussain has urged the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) to resolve issues of the consumers. According to a press release issued here on Saturday, the MNA met the HESCO’s Chief Executive Asadullah at his office where the two discussed complaints of the consumers. The MNA […]

  • Saad lays foundation stone of quarters for Railways staff

    KARACHI, Nov 5 (APP): The Railways Minister Khawaja SaadRafiq who is on a visit to the metropolis, on Saturday laid thefoundation stone for the project of residential quarters for Railways employees. Construction is being undertaken on the Railways’ land atSultanabad here and the project would complete in 2017. Speaking on the occasion, Khawaja Saad Rafiq […]

  • Close coordination vital for dispensation of speedy justice’

    ‘RAWALPINDI, Nov 5 (APP): Former Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Imtiaz Ahmed has said that higher judiciary had played the vital role in maintaining the rule of law and a close coordination among of all the stakeholders was vital for dispensation of speedy justice. He was addressing the District Judicial Conference on ‘upholding of […]

  • Pakistan renews call for UN fact-finding mission to be sent to Kashmir

    NEW YORK, Nov 6 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, has again called on the United Nations to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Kashmir, saying that India’s rejection to allow one was in fact acknowledgment of the grave atrocities being committed by its occupation forces. Ambassador Lodhi made that call when the […]

  • PCWR arranges seminar on leadership, communication skills to promote interfaith harmony

    PESHAWAR, Nov 5 (APP): Pakistan Council of World Religions (PCWR) here Saturday organized a daylong seminar to promote interfaith harmony by developing skills of public speaking, communication, leadership and facilitation among public. The chief guest was Chairman PCWR Qari Roohullah Madani while the seminar was attended by representatives of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Muslims communities […]

  • SCBA chief for concerted efforts for elimination of corruption

    KARACHI, Nov 5 (APP): The newly-elected president of the SupremeCourt Bar Association (SCBA), Rasheed A. Rizvi, has called forundertaken concerted efforts to tackling the menace of corruption fromthe society. Speaking at the Meet the Press Programme of the Karachi PressClub (KPC) Here on Saturday, he said that people from every segment wouldhave to join hands […]