ISLAMABAD: Two Pakistan Air Force light aircraft collided mid-air on Thursday, killing four pilots on a routine training mission northwest of Islamabad, police said. It was the sixth Pakistan Air Force crash in seven months and the second in a week, raising concerns over the safety of its largely Chinese and locally made fleet.The cause [...]
ISLAMABAD: Cabinet Energy Committee comprising Finance, Petroleum, Water and Power and Information ministers, deputy chairman Planning Commission and governor State Bank of Pakistan will meet frequently to sort out issue of energy shortages in the country. This was decided on Wednesday in Special Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Finance Minister assured [...]
LAHORE May 16: Police used batons to disperse the employees of population welfare department at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday who were demanding regularisation of their service. Two women employees were injured and their five male colleagues arrested on charges of ransacking the offices.Hundreds of employees from all parts of Punjab gathered at Nasser Bagh under [...]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has ordered suspension of 27 officials including senior officers, prison staff, paramilitary soldiers and policemen on charges of negligence during the Bannu jailbreak incident. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the decision was taken in the light of findings of an [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government dropped another bomb on price-stricken masses by increasing power tariff Rs1.25 per unit (16pc) under schedule-II where as lifeline consumers have been excluded from this increase. The Water and Power Ministry has also issued a notification in this regard here on Wednesday. According to the notification, the increase will be applicable across [...]
ISLAMABAD: Announcing its verdict in the Pakistan Steel Mills case, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the enquiry of Rs26 billion corruption scam from FIA to NAB. A three-member bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Pervez, heard the suo moto on corruption and mismanagement [...]
KARACHI: Ailing virologist Khalil Chishti on Wednesday reunited with his family after nearly two decades amidst moving and tearful scenes at the Karachi Airport where hundreds of people gathered to welcome him. Chishti, who spent 20 long years away from home in Indian jail on charge of involvement in a murder, was brought out of [...]
ISLAMABAD: The 3-day Kalash Spring Festival started on Monday to mark the rituals practised by all the Kalasha people living in all the three Kalash valleys of Chitral. Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) is coordinating the festival to guide the local and foreign tourists for travelling and staying at Kalash valley, said an official [...]
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested 25 lawbreakers including two gamblers and recovered one kilogram heroin, 580 grams charras, 53 bottles of liquor, seven pistols 30 bore with 8025 rounds and three 7 mm rifles, two daggers and one stolen motorcycle. According to Police spokesman, Airport police recovered one kg heroin from [...]
ISLAMABAD: Ailing microbiologist Dr Mohammad Khalil Chishti returned to Pakistan on Tuesday after the Indian Supreme Court allowed him to travel back on human grounds. President Asif Ali Zardari had sent a special aircraft PAF 755 to New Delhi through Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Malik Hamad Khan. He was given warm welcome at [...]
