
700000 children to be vaccinated The Nation, Pakistan RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD (APP) – A five-day anti-polio campaign will start in Rawalpindi district from December 19 (Monday) under which a total of 655000 children under five will be administered anti-polio drops. Talking to APP District Officer Health … Rawalpindi – Google News

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is in dire need of an elected local government and harmony between governance and administrative structure to better serve its rapidly increasing population. This was the crux of a consultative roundtable here on Thursday. A number of senior officials from the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration, Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Capital […]

NATO supply ISPR rejects Allen’s statement Pakistan Observer Rawalpindi—Pakistan Army has clarified that US general Allen and COAS did not discuss Nato supply resumption. A report had said the other day that both the generals had discussion on NATO supplies blocked by Pakistan as a reaction to the NATO strike … Rawalpindi – Google News

Islamabad The Islamabad Police have introduced Security Neighbourhood System in various residential sectors with an aim to curb robbery or theft The News International – Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari would be discharged from a hospital in Dubai on Thursday, his spokesman said Wednesday. “All tests are clear and the doctors plan to discharge the President from hospital tomorrow to take rest at home and continue the heart medication,” presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP. (Read: No link between Zardari’s departure […]

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said all conspiring elements and those involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto had been apprehended and would be exposed at an appropriate time.Addressing a conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said the case was also pending in the courts and the leadership was not as yet exposing those […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) accepted former Pakistan Ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani’s bail plea in the memogate case, rejecting objections from the Registrar Office. The apex court scheduled the hearing for December 19. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry presided the hearing in his chamber and said that the bail plea should be heard. […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will renegotiate two key agreements signed with the United States and its Western allies nine years ago as part of a wider policy review following last month’s deadly Nato air raids on Pakistani border posts. The agreements – both signed in 2002 during former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf’s regime to allow […]

Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has announced power shutdown programme for Tuesday in various areas of the city due to construction and main The News International – Islamabad

SUKKUR: While Pakistan Peoples Party drop-out Shah Mahmood Qureshi seems to have placed himself in a strong position, the organisers of his Ghotki meeting are having a difficult time putting the show together. The district administration appears to be making it as tough as it can for the 13-member organising committee to prepare for […]