President to travel in 1st class, PM, services chiefs in business class – Pakistan
• Austerity measures introduced to cut cost on foreign trips• Cabinet members except foreign and commerce ministers restricted to three annual visits, exemptions apply• MNAs, senior bureaucrats allowed business class ISLAMABAD: The cash-strapped federal government on Monday issued a travel advisory for the president, prime minister, chief justice, services chiefs, and bureaucrats among others binding […]
YDA besieges Services’ medical superintendent office over house job issue of 107 medics in Lahore – Pakistan
LAHORE: The young doctors of the Services Hospital Lahore on Monday besieged the office of the medical superintendent (MS) to pressurise him into issuing house job completion certificates to 107 doctors of the private hospitals, who had not been acknowledged by a committee constituted for the purpose. The doctors turned aggressive, used abusive language against […]
Services of social media platform X disrupted in Pakistan for third day – Pakistan
Services of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, remained disrupted for the third consecutive day in Pakistan on Monday. According to Downdetector, the outage was reported a little after 10:30am and persisted till noon. Services were restored around 12:24pm but were again disrupted after 1pm. Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports […]
Parlours offering medical services under guise of beauty
PESHAWAR: When Hira Khan went to her local beauty parlour recently, she was not aware that a routine appointment would push her skin into turmoil she had never experienced before. Hira, a long-term resident of Peshawar, was told by the parlour staff that the secret to a glowing and acne free skin were the beauty […]