ISLAMABAD : The WAPDA has successfully completed the 17.4 megawatt (MW) Gomal Zam Power House - a component of the Gomal Zam Dam Project and it will start supply electricity to the national grid station shortly. Gomal Zam Dam is the first-ever mega project in water sector constructed in the ...

ISLAMABAD : The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has successfully completed the 17.4MW Gomal Zam Power House - a component of the Gomal Zam Dam Project and it will start supply electricity to the national grid station shortly.Official sources told APP here that Gomal Zam Dam was the ...

KARACHI - Awami National Party Senator Shahi Syed has announced his party candidates in Sindh for upcoming polls.Addressing a news conference at Mardan House here on Sunday, Syed said the ANP is contesting elections form 17 National and 36 Provincial constituencies of Sindh. He said his party has ...

our staff reportersjhang/sheikhupura/kot radha kishan - At least 17 persons including five women and a minor were killed in separate incidents of enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours.According to details, In JHANG three alleged dacoits killed a woman in Basti Morrwala situated in the remit of ...

accraAFPA gold mine collapse in central Ghana has killed 17 people who were working illegally and had been told to leave by the operator, police and an official told AFP Tuesday. The operator had completed its work at the mine near the town of Kyekyewere and returned only to shut down the operation ...

LAHORE – Wapda has completed the 17.4 megawatt (MW) Gomal Zam Power House – a component of the Gomal Zam Dam Project. Gomal Zam Dam is the first-ever mega project in water sector constructed in Fata. The power house is currently on test run and will start providing electricity to the ...

At least 17 people were killed and eight injured on Wednesday when a 12-storey building collapsed in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, a security official told AFP.More people were trapped under the rubble and were calling out to rescue teams for help, the official added.Emergency services ...

LAHORE - A 17-year-old girl was found hanged in the Lohari Gate area on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Aneela, a resident of Koocha Elahi Buksh. Police said the girl went into her room and locked it. Later, she was found hanged from the ceiling. Dowry gutted: The dowry of a girl was ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police have arrested three outlaws including a female from various areas of the city and recovered 1.1-kg heroin and weapons from their possession, a police spokesman said on Saturday. Golra police have arrested a female drug pusher Rifat and recovered 1.100 kilograms hashish ...

QUETTA – Security forces in a crackdown arrested 17 Uzbek nationals in Chagai district bordering with Iran on Monday. According to sources, security forces arrested 17 Uzbeks from a bus stop in Chagai due to their suspicious activities.  “Uzbek nationals were arrested under foreign ...

ANKARA - The US aircraft carrier "Dwight D Eisenhower" has arrived off the shores of Syria, a Turkish newspaper reported.The multipurpose nuclear attack carrier, USS Dwight D Eisenhower, is leading the naval assault group which has arrived in the eastern Mediterranean. It is in close proximity to ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN - The district police claimed to have arrested 70 members of 17 inter-district dacoit gangs and recovered booty worth Rs10 million from their possession in September. Kasur DPO Syed Khurram Ali Shah said this while addressing a press conference here the other day. He said that 133 ...

ISLAMABAD – Islamabad police have arrested 17 outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered one van, 204 wine bottles and weapons from their possession, a police spokesman said on Thursday. On a tip-off, Sub-Inspector Javed Hussain from Kohsar Police Station arrested Sharif alias ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police have arrested 17 outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered 118 wine bottles, 19 cans of beer, seven pistols, 4,000-gram opium, 590-gram hashish and 880 litres stolen diesel from them, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.According to details, Assistant ...

ISLAMABAD - The local administration on Tuesday constituted 17 price checking teams headed by the Sub-Divisional Magistrates with the direction to conduct price checking from today in order to curb the profiteering tendency prior to the advent of Ramadan. A spokesman of the administration said that ...

ISLAMABAD - The Secretary Islamabad Transport Authority (ITA) here on Monday impounded 17 public service vehicles during the course of traffic checking that failed to get their route permit renewed in time, a spokesman of the local administration informed.The secretary ITA also imposed heavy fines ...

BUTUAN  - Seventeen shop staff sleeping in a Philippines department store were killed when a fire swept through the building before dawn on Wednesday, local authorities said. Twenty-one female employees were trapped in the fire, with one person still missing and three surviving by jumping from ...

LAHORE - Lahore once again proved their worth by grabbing 17 gold medals in karate competitions, eight in boys’ karate final and nine in girls’ karate final in the Punjab Sports Festival final phase here on Friday at the various venues of the city. In boys’ school karate ...

KARACHI - Yadgar Raisani, the son of the Balochistan chief minister, along with 17 other persons was booked over the charge of quarrelling with law enforcers on Friday.According to police sources, the incident took place at Defence Phase V, Khayaban-e-Shaheen where the accused along with his ...

ORAKZAI AGENCY - At least 17 militants were killed and their nine hideouts were destroyed after jet fighter planes pounded their positions in Orakzai Agency on Thursday.According to details, jet fighter planes targeted militant hideouts in Khadezai, Bara Mela, Sama Bazaar, Jandari Killi, Chapar, ...

PESHAWAR - Troops killed 17 Taliban on Friday in a clash in Khyber Agency, with one soldier and three militiamen also dying, security officials said.Fighting erupted after Pakistani troops and a government-backed local militia launched a joint operation against the Taliban in the Spindand area of ...

YANGON (AFP) - A pre-dawn blast at a warehouse in Myanmar's biggest city killed at least 17 people and injured dozens more on Thursday, sparking a blaze that took firefighters hours to tame, officials said.Officials ruled out a bomb but said they had yet to determine the cause of the explosion in ...

JUBA (AFP) - Sudanese air raids killed 17 people in the South Sudan border state of Western Bahr al-Ghazal on Thursday, the new nation's military said, but Khartoum dismissed the allegation. "Those who are killed are innocent civilians who are looking after their cattle," South Sudan's military ...

LAHORE SP Mujahid Squad has replaced all the 17 Naib Moharrars with fresh graduate police officers in order to expedite their performance. The spokesman said the old ones were lethargic and dishonest in their duties so the SP had directed OSI to replace them with immediate effect on Thursday. He ...

COLIN Farrell plays a vampire in his latest film, but he says almost any role will do: He just loves being an actor. The 35 year old opened up during a panel featuring the update of Fright Night at Comic-Con. When a fan asked whether he preferred his earlier starring roles or his more recent ...

ISLAMABAD - There are at least 17 officers of basic pay scale 18 (BS-18) and above, working with the federal government, including Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr Mohammad Yaseen who possess nationalities of foreign countries besides Pakistan. Minister Incharge of the ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - Former Test skipper of Pakistan, Salman Butt, said on Saturday evening that he along with the other two Pakistani cricketers banned by the independent tribunal of the International Cricket Council (ICC) are ready to appear before Westminster Court of Crown Prosecution Services ...

KANDAHAR (Agencies) - A suicide bomber killed 17 people, including a police commander, inside a public bathhouse in Afghanistans southern Kandahar on Friday in the countrys worst attack in more than five months. The bombing, which officials said wounded 21 people, was the bloodiest attack since ...

LAHORE - Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) is ignoring the regularisation and promotion of the officers and other staff working in the department since 1998 and 2002. About 56 officers of grade-17 and 12 of grade-18 are facing repeated nods from the Authority without any solid ...

KANDAHAR (AFP) - Afghan violence left 17 people dead including wedding-goers and five US soldiers in new attacks ahead of elections as the NATO chief Thursday visited insurgent hotspots in the south. A wave of insurgent attacks in Afghanistan has raised fears that violence will mar presidential and ...