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Assistance needed: Construction industry reaches out to government
KARACHI: If there is one industry that has an eminent role to play right now, it is the construction industry in Pakistan. The need for housing and construction has exponentially increased with a...
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Seeking improvement: Branding, product registration needed: FPCCI
KARACHI: Pakistan is incurring losses worth millions of dollars on account of inappropriate prices in the international market due to non-branding and non-registration of many products, said...
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Defence day: Sustained focus of nation needed to eliminate terrorism, says...
MIR ALI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif reiterated on Saturday that elimination of terrorism was a national undertaking and only with sustained focus of the entire nation, can jointly...
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Monsoon blues: ‘Greater cooperation needed to check dengue threat’
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Salman Rafique said on Wednesday that the federal and the provincial government needed to cooperate to check the spread of dengue fever. He was speaking...
View Article‘Law change needed for legal highs’
A change in UK law is needed in order to stop “legal highs” being sold in shops, councils say.
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One nation: ‘Uniform education system needed to improve quality’
BAHAWALPUR: “The government wants to overcome flaws in the educational system. A uniform education system would benefit the entire country,” said Federal Minister for Education Mian Balighur Rehman...
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Devolution of powers: Stronger local govt system needed for a better...
KARACHI: If Pakistan reinstitutionalised its local government system and made it stronger by devolving powers, then the demand for new provinces would lose its importance. This was a suggestion...
View ArticleMay: New extremism powers needed
Home Secretary Theresa May is to tell the Conservative Party conference a future Tory government will seek new powers to ban extremist groups.
View ArticleVIDEO: Area code needed for local dialling
From Wednesday some people who use landline phones will need to include the area code when making local calls.
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Under threat: ‘Framework needed for ethical media’
LAHORE: There is a pressing need to evolve a framework for ethical media, a prerequisite for journalists’ safety, because Pakistan is ranked among the most dangerous countries for journalists,...
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Virus disease: Preventive steps needed against Ebola
ISLAMABAD: After polio, measles, dengue, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), now it’s the Ebola virus disease that Pakistan has to contend with in the wake of a global warning by the World Health...
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Awareness walk: Political will needed to eradicate polio: Rafique
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique said on Thursday that political commitment was required to eradicate polio virus from Pakistan. He was speaking to journalists after...
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Popular support needed to eradicate polio: CM
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed health services officials on Wednesday to use all resources at their disposal to polio virus following a directive by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The...
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Law and order: Extraordinary care needed during Ashura
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday that extraordinary security arrangements were needed to maintain public safety during Ashura. Sharif was chairing a meeting convened to review...
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Holistic approach needed: ‘Stakeholders should educate youth to peacefully...
LAHORE: Speakers at a six-day workshop organised by the Citizen’s Commission for Human Development (CCHD) on Sunday stressed on Sunday the need for the government and other stakeholders to educate the...
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International support needed to help repatriate Afghan refugees from...
NEW YORK: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN Masood Khan on Thursday called upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the international community to help the people and the...
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Health and technology: ‘Quality milk needed to improve nutrition’
FAISALABAD: “It is unfortunate that millions of people across the country do not get pure quality milk despite the fact that Pakistan is one of largest milk producing countries in the world,” said...
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Space programme: ‘Youth participation needed’
Chairman of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) Ahmed Bilal urged the need to incorporate space education in the national curriculum. In his welcome address at the...
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Security arrangements: Rs260m needed to erect boundary walls
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD) has estimated Rs 260 million as the initial cost the construction of missing facilities in educational institutions of the Islamabad Capital...
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Action needed: Call made for mandatory jute packaging
KARACHI: As overall exports decline in the country, the consumption and production of jute is also facing a gradual drop calling for the immediate attention of the government, Pakistan Jute Mills...
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