Islamabad: A Rs 7 billion ($77 million) 'drug quota allotment' scam allegedly involving Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani' son has surfaced in Pakistan, Geo News reported. A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry heard a case on Thursday against the health ministry illegally allotting a quota of a bronchodilator drug 'ephedrine' worth Rs 7 billion to two Multan-based companies. The case was filed by Anti-Narcotics...
09:31 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The sorry state of the recruitment process for PSU bosses is out in the open as CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a secret Finance Ministry note that shows that a possible contender for the post of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) chairman is being probed in a corruption case. NMDC, one of the richest public sector undertaking units of the country, has now become the subject of...
09:59 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: India on Thursday asked Pakistan to free Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row who was convicted for alleged involvement in multiple blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990, on humanitarian grounds. "It is not our case that he was involved (in those blasts)," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told the Rajya Sabha during question hour. "We don't share Pakistan's view of his involvement." The minister stressed...
04:40 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Lahore: A powerful blast near a police post in Multan city of Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday killed at least three policemen and injured several others, officials said. The police post on the busy Multan-Lahore road is located near residential and commercial areas. The blast was heard from several kilometres away, witnesses said. Officials told the media that three policemen were killed instantly and several others injured. Reports said the...
02:49 PM, Jun 26, 2011
The explosions took place at Qasim Bella area of Multan Cantonment. ...
02:38 PM, Dec 08, 2009
Security forces kill NDFB, MULTA men in an ambush. ...
10:25 AM, Apr 20, 2009
The passengers were headed for the forthcoming Eid celebrations . ...
12:13 AM, Oct 01, 2008
New Delhi: Australian speedster Brett Lee in his 12-year-international career found Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara as two of the batsmen of his era whom he found difficult to bowl to. Sachin and Lara were the two, Lee told a TV channel during an interview when asked about those batsmen he found toughest to bowl to. Lee, who is considered as one of the fastest bowlers in the history of...
09:23 PM, Mar 28, 2008
A Pakistan tribal council ordered a man to stand neck-deep in a freezing pond to "prove" his son innocent of a robbery charge. ...
03:00 PM, Feb 16, 2007
It will be tough for the beauty industry to get
multani mitti because flash floods in Barmer have ruined the mines. ...
10:56 AM, Sep 18, 2006
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