BIRGU, Malta, Nov 28 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday attended a retreat session on the second day of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) that focused the agenda of `Violent Extremism and Radicalization’.
PM attends CHOGM’s retreat session on violent extremism
PM’s Health Insurance Programme to be launched in December: Saira
LAHORE, Nov 28 (APP): State Minister for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar said on Saturday the government believed in strengthening of medical institutions and supporting initiatives which would add value to the medical practices in the country.
Finance Minister for enhancing value addition in textile sector
KARACHI, Nov 28 (APP): Federal Finance Minister, Muhammad Ishaq Dar, has called for enhancing value addition in textile sector to help increase the country’s exports.
Rs.3.1 billion disbursed among 50,000 people under BISP: Marvi Memon
BADIN, Nov 28 (APP)- State Minister and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Marvi Memon has informed that over 50 thousand male and female persons of 290 Union Councils of 44 districts have been benefitted with disbursement of interest free loan of Rs. 3.1 billion under Prime Minister”s Youth Loan Scheme.
CM-Airport Shehbaz inaugurates Instrument Landing System at AIIA
LAHORE, Nov 28 (APP): Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday inaugurated Instrument Landing System (ILS) on the main runway for safe and smooth landing of aircrafts even in fog and bad weather conditions, here at Allama Iqbal International
Airport.
Education top priority of govt: Governor
LAHORE, Nov 28 (APP): Punjab Governor Malik Muhammad
Rafique Rajwana has said that the government has allocated
maximum resources and funds for the spread of higher education
as education is its one of the top priority.
Pervaiz Rashid condemns attack on Dawn News DSNG
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28 (APP): Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Senator Pervaiz Rashid has strongly condemned the incident of firing on Dawn News DSNG van in Karachi.
Lord Nazir urges nation to get united against Indian atrocities in held Kashmir
MULTAN, Nov 28 (APP): Lord Nazir, member of British House of Lords, Saturday urged the Pakistani nation to get united against Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir.
PM-CHOGM-Polio Pakistan committed to polio eradication: PM
VALLETTA, Malta, Nov 28 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Saturday said that Pakistan was committed to make the world polio free
and had made the eradication of this disease a national cause.
LG polls results endorse PML-N mandate: Mansha
CHAKWAL, Nov 28 (APP): Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Mohammad
Mansha Butt Saturday said the Local Government (LG) election results
had shown that the people of Punjab had endorsed the mandate of
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) given to it in general election
2013.
He was talking to the media after having a meeting with the
parliamentarians of district Chakwal at DCO committee room Chakwal.
He said the PML-N government in Punjab was making all-out efforts to
solve the problems of the peoples at their door steps and third phase of local bodies election in Punjab would also be win by the PML-N.
He further said that committed chairman, mayors would be inducted in
municipal committees, district councils and municipal corporations throughout the Punjab.
Special assistant to CM Malik Saleem Iqbal, Senator Gen. R Abdul
Qayyum, MNA Major Tahir Iqbal, MNA Sardar Mumtaz Tamman, MPA Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Dullah were also present on this occasion.