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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
ISLAMABAD: A meeting at the Aiwan-e-Sadr Tuesday with President Asif Ali Zardari in chair reviewed the energy situation in the country. Those who attended the meeting included among others Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Federal Minister for Finance, Syed Naveed Qamar, Minister for Water and Power, Dr. Asim Hussain, Federal Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources, [...]
ISLAMABAD: foruegn office spokesman has declared the recent UK visit of Prime Minister Gilani as very successful and productive, in confirming the reaffirmation of the partnership of the Enhanced Strategic Dialogue (ESD). In a recent statement issued here, the spokesman has stated the primary purpose of PM’s visit to UK as bieng , taking it [...]
LONDON: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said the Sharif brothers were making interpretations of the constitution on their own and “I will not accept their interpretation”. “We do not believe in two interpretations, one of the courts and the other of the Sharif Courts,” he added.Addressing a press conference at the inauguration ceremony [...]
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Thursday conducted a successful training launch of Short Range Ballistic Missile Hatf III (Ghaznavi), which can carry nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 290 kilometers. The launch was conducted at the conclusion of the annual field training exercise of Army Strategic Force Command. The exercise was aimed at testing the operational [...]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pak-EU 5-year Engagement Plan and the upcoming Strategic Dialogue were the important landmarks in Pak-EU partnership which he said was moving steadily forward along an upward trajectory since 2008. Addressing a gathering of EU diplomas, Ministers, Parliamentarians to commemorate 50th anniversary of Pak-EU relations being held at [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are expected to sign a revised visa agreement making liberalised provisions for businessmen when the Home and Interior Secretaries of the two countries meet for talks in Islamabad later this month, Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said on Tuesday. “We have an agreed revised visa agreement-agreed to by the two interior [...]
