ISLAMABAD– Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has disposed of 150 cases whereas 232 new cases have been instituted during the period from Saturday to Friday. The backlog in the apex Court on March 29 was 18841 cases, as 232 new cases were instituted during the period from Saturday March ...

President Asif Ali Zardari Monday tasked the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to make plans for generating overseas jobs for 150,000 youth and trained them in different trades and vocations. The president directed that the task should be accomplished in consultation with the Ministries of ...

RAWALPINDI - Unidentified robbers swaged some 150 laptops worth thousands of rupees from a shop while a man was murdered on a petty issue in the limits of Police Station (PS) Sadiqabad here on Monday.According to details, the first incident took place at 10am when unknown robbers smashed the locks ...

RAWALPINDI  – After the inferno tragedy in Karachi and Lahore garment factories, the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) has issued 500 notices to around 150 industrial units operating without adequate fire safety measures in the garrison city. It should be mentioned that there ...

KARACHI - Chief of Jeay Sindh Tehreek, Dr Safdar Sarki on Wednesday claimed that at least 150 nationalist workers were currently in the custody of intelligence agencies as missing persons. Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club, Dr Sarki, who spent most of his life in the USA, ...

KUNDUZ  - About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country’s north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education.Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for ...

NEW YORK - Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, and Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, have been named in a global list of 150 fearless women drawn up by Newsweek, the mass-circulation US magazine.The list, featuring distinguished women ...

BEIJING - About 150 stray cats cared for by an elderly woman died in a blaze at her home in Beijing, a report said Saturday.“Granny Ding” had taken in stray cats and dogs for the past 30 years and looked after them at her traditional courtyard style house in central Beijing, the Beijing ...

PANTUKAN, Philippines - At least 25 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Thursday when a landslide buried gold prospectors who had refused to leave an area declared too dangerous for habitation.Officials said up to 150 people were missing on Mindanao island after the collapse of a ...

LAHORE Lahore Waste Management Companys (LWMC) Plot Clearance Move 2011 is in progress. The company in collaboration with general public IS trying its level best to clear and clean all open plots filled with waste and construction and demolition material in all city (CDGL operational ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Former Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan on Sunday said that government has created 150 new posts of judges through Islamabad High Court Act (IHC) for two sessions division of Islamabad to facilitate the litigants. Talking to the delegations ...

LAHORE - In an epoch-making move the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the construction of 150 houses in flood-hit villages in district Layyah. The total estimated cost of the project, to be completed in a record time of three months, is Rs 20 million. ...

LAHORE - Keeping in view the biggest challenge of the countrys energy crisis, the China Mobile has been focusing on the development of solar-powered cell sites to overcome this dilemma. Hence the company has so far installed more than 150 solar-powered cell sites out of total 5,600 at different ...

LAHORE - House of Habib (HoH) and lndus Motor Company Ltd. (IMC) have distributed more than 150 tons of relief goods to more than 30,000 people affected by the floods. The relief activities, mobilised since August 14, are being carried out through various base camps with the assistance of Group ...

PARIS (AFP) - Creatures large and small may play an important role in the stirring of ocean waters, according to a study released Wednesday that confirms a theory advanced by Charles Darwin. So-called ocean mixing entails the transfer of cold and warm waters between the equator and poles, as well ...

KARACHI - On the eve of completion of hundred and fifty years of Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi High School, Karachi, the Pakistan Post has issued the commemorative stamps of Rs. 5 each. The stamps will be available in the markets from today (23rd May 2009). The designer of the stamp is Faizi Ameer ...

L'AQUILA (AFP) - A violent earthquake rocked central Italy on Monday killing at least 150 people, injuring 1,500 and devastating a walled medieval town where buildings and homes were reduced to rubble. More than 1,700 rescuers scrambled in driving rain to find victims trapped under collapsed ...

KARACHI - Chairman Karachi Traders' Action Committee Siddiq Memon Friday condemned the inflated electricity bills that have been received by the businessmen this month. The bills show 150 per cent hike in tariff. He said that the shopkeepers have been getting bills with 40 per cent amount of ...

WE have always been warned that coughs and sneezes can spread diseases. But now the true scale of the risk has been revealed. A single wayward sneeze from a rush-hour commuter can end up giving up to 150 fellow passengers a cold in just five minutes, researchers have found. Unless they are ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - As many as 150 were killed and 400 to 500 devotees injured on Sunday in a stampede at the Naina Devi Temple in Bilaspur district of Indian State of Himachal Pradesh, a private TV quoting state Minister said. The temple is located about 160 kms from state capital Shimla. ...

WASHINGTON - A move to provide $150 million in new US aid to help Pakistan deal with its economic problems crossed the first hurdle Tuesday as about the same time Washington released a reimbursement tranche of  $373.841 million to its key ally in the war on terrorism under a programme known as ...

KARACHI - A mega water project for Karachi city K-IV, which was planned keeping in view the future need of water in the metropolis, has been approved by the Sindh government and its PC-I is under process while treatment plant for industrial and domestic waste to save the Arabian Sea from pollution ...