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ISLAMABAD: Newly appointed Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Islamabad, Muhammad Sarfraz Virk, on Tuesday reaffirmed his commitment to enforcing strict legal action against transporters overcharging passengers, vowing zero tolerance for fare violations. While chairing his first important meeting since assuming charge as CTO, Mr. Virk stated that facilitating citizens is among his top priorities. According to…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 08 (ABC): The National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) has developed a high-yielding lentil variety, NARC Lentil-24, which is performing well in field trials. “The new variety is expected to significantly boost productivity across the country, enhancing farm incomes and strengthening food security,” Dr. Shahid Riaz Malik, Principal Scientific Officer and Program Leader at…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 08 (ABC): Construction on the Yarikh–Sagu Motorway (Package-I) is expected to resume from May this year. According to documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the 50-kilometre, four-lane CPEC-linked project, initiated on June 16, 2023, has so far achieved 12.02% progress. The National Highway Authority Executive Board has assigned the remaining construction work to M/s…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (ABC): In a move aimed at strengthening the preservation and management of the country’s documentary heritage, two projects worth Rs580 million have been proposed for the National Archives of Pakistan (NAP) under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for 2026-27. According to official documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the two schemes include…
ISLAMABAD: Newly appointed Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Islamabad, Muhammad Sarfraz Virk, on Tuesday reaffirmed his commitment to enforcing strict legal action against transporters overcharging passengers, vowing zero tolerance for fare violations. While chairing his first important meeting since assuming charge as CTO, Mr. Virk stated that facilitating citizens is among his top priorities. According to…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 08 (ABC): The National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) has developed a high-yielding lentil variety, NARC Lentil-24, which is performing well in field trials. “The new variety is expected to significantly boost productivity across the country, enhancing farm incomes and strengthening food security,” Dr. Shahid Riaz Malik, Principal Scientific Officer and Program Leader at…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 08 (ABC): Construction on the Yarikh–Sagu Motorway (Package-I) is expected to resume from May this year. According to documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the 50-kilometre, four-lane CPEC-linked project, initiated on June 16, 2023, has so far achieved 12.02% progress. The National Highway Authority Executive Board has assigned the remaining construction work to M/s…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (ABC): In a move aimed at strengthening the preservation and management of the country’s documentary heritage, two projects worth Rs580 million have been proposed for the National Archives of Pakistan (NAP) under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for 2026-27. According to official documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the two schemes include…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (ABC): The Cabinet Division has sought Rs1,543 million for the next phase of the Islamabad Technopolis project under the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) 2026-27, signalling a renewed push to transform the capital into a hub of innovation and technology. According to documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the total approved cost of…
RAWALPINDI April 06 (ABC): Premature babies in Pakistan are losing their sight at rates far above global averages as a treatable eye condition, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), continues to go undetected across large parts of the country, according to data compiled by Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital. ROP develops when abnormal blood vessels grow in the…
KARACHI, April 6 (ABC): Aga Khan University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Sindh to support nursing education in Tando Muhammad Khan, in collaboration with the provincial health department and the district administration. Under the agreement, the partnership will facilitate the launch of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing programme in…
ISLAMABAD, April 04 (ABC): Pakistan’s honey exports have reached around $15 million annually, fuelled by improved beekeeping practices and high-value varieties. Speaking to Wealth Pakistan, Dr Muhammad Khalid Rafiq, Senior Scientific Officer at the Honey Bee Research Institute (HBRI), said: “We have laid a strong foundation for a competitive honey industry through sustained research, colony…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 03 (ABC): The Cabinet Division has proposed a Rs10 billion increase in the allocation for the Sustainable Development Goals Achievement Programme (SAP), taking the total proposed demand to Rs80 billion for the upcoming financial year 2026-27. According to official documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the estimated expenditure for the programme during FY2025-26 stands…
ISLAMABAD, Apr 02(ABC): The land dedicated to potato cultivation has expanded over the last 10 years, from about 177,700 hectares in 2015-16 to around 462,160 hectares in 2025-26, an increase of approximately 160 percent. According to official documents available with Wealth Pakistan, cultivation of potato, one of the country’s most important food crops after wheat,…
