KARACHI, Aug 22 (APP):Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) District South, Syed Asad Raza and the contestants participating in the 2nd phase of local government elections on Monday agreed to extend mutual cooperation to ensure holding of LG polls in fair, impartial and peaceful environment. SSP Syed Asad Raza chaired a meeting of the candidates of the LG election at District South Police Office here, said a spokesperson of the District South police. The SSP South informed the candidates participating in LG elections regarding the code of conduct issued byRead More

                ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (APP):A five-day national polio immunisation campaign, targeting to vaccinate to over 43.3 million children under the age of five, has started in 86 districts of the country, spokesman of the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination said Monday. In a statement, he said a total of 392,000 frontline workers would visit door-to-door to ensure protection to Pakistani children from crippling disease and purging the country from the menace of poliovirus. The anti-polio campaign, third in a year, has already been started in Karachi andRead More

                MULTAN, Aug 22 (APP):Secretary Housing South Punjab Javed Akhtar Mahmood said all possible efforts were being made to provide ration and other essential items to the people of flood-hit areas. During his visit to different flood relief camps on Monday, he said that district officers had been directed to make a comprehensive plan for providing relief to the people of flood affected areas. He said that the housing department was making joint efforts with the district administration for relief operations in flood-stricken areas. He urged local philanthropists to participateRead More

                Karbala, Iraq, Aug 22 (AFP/APP):The bodies of two pilgrims were pulled from an Iraqi shrine Monday, two days after its partial collapse in a landslide, taking the overall toll to seven dead, rescuers said.                   Emergency workers were trying to remove the rubble and debris from the shrine known as Qattarat al-Imam Ali near the holy city of Karbala in Iraq.                   “Unfortunately, we found this morning two bodies, a man and a woman”, under the rubble, Jawdat Abdelrahman, director of the civil defence media department, told AFP.                  Read More

                ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (APP):Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday while taking strict notice of public complaints about inflated electricity bills, directed the authorities concerned to submit an urgent report and recommendations on the matter. The prime minister, chairing an urgent meeting to discuss the complaints on the inflated electricity bills, resolved not to sit idle until the public complaints were addressed. “Khadim-e-Pakistan is answerable to his people for resolution of their grievances. I am committed to speaking truth to my people,” he remarked. Federal Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir,Read More