LAHORE - All Punjab Chambers Presidents and Association Chairmen meeting was held on Friday here at of office of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) headed by Azhar Saeed Butt. Butt said that energy crisis is a mismanagement that is hitting the industrial sector across ...

ISLAMABAD - Over 18 passengers were injured when a mini-bus turned turtle at Expressway in jurisdiction of Shahzad Town police station Islamabad on Friday.The mini-bus bearing registration no LHC-3353 collided with a car (AZR-646) first and then turned turtle, an eyewitness said. Police endorsed ...

A series of car bombs near Shiite mosques targeting worshippers attending weekly prayers killed at least 18 people on Friday, the latest in a spike in unrest ahead of Iraq's first polls since 2010.The blasts, which also wounded more than 100 people, struck within an hour of each other in the ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Islamabad police on Tuesday apprehended 18 culprits, recovered, 8 bottles of wine, car, chars, heroin, camera and various stolen items from their possession.On the directives SSP Islamabad Yasin Farooq, Islamabad police during crackdown operation against criminal arrested 18 ...

RAWALPINDI - The Police in its ongoing drive against anti-social  elements have arrested 13 accused for their alleged involvement in carrying illegal weapons, drugs and liquor from different localities of the district while five suspected dacoits have also been apprehended.Police recovered 265 ...

KHYBER AGENCY - As many as 18 bullet-riddled bodies were recovered on Tuesday from Alam Godhar area of Bara, sub-division of Khyber Agency, local sources said.The sources said that 18 people majority of them locals had been shot dead somewhere else and the bodies were dumped at Alam Godhar area of ...

PARIS/MOGADISHU (Reuters/AFP) - A French intelligence officer held hostage in Somalia since 2009 was killed along with at least one other soldier during a botched rescue attempt by French troops on Friday night, the French Defence Ministry said on Saturday.But the Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen ...

NOWSHERA - At least 18 people including three security personnel sustained minor injuries when two assailants riding a motorcycle hurled a hand-grenade at an army facility here on Tuesday. As per details, attackers hurled a hand-grenade when candidates, waiting for their clearance, had queued ...

KIEV - Severe winter weather has claimed 18 lives in Ukraine since the start of the month and three babies were born in traffic jams on snow- and ice-snarled roads, authorities said Monday. Twelve people have died since Friday as temperatures plunged to minus 15 degrees Celsius (five Fahrenheit) in ...

ATHENS - Eighteen migrants have died and nine are missing after their makeshift boat sank off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea, police said on Saturday. “Only one person was plucked out of the water and hospitalised,” a ports police spokeswoman told AFP, saying 18 other bodies had ...

ISLAMABAD - Eighteen legislators did not submit oath statements to affirm not being the nationals of any other state but Pakistan as the given deadline went passed yesterday (Friday).The Election Commission of Pakistan would hold a meeting sometime next week to proceed in the light of court ruling ...

PATNA (AFP) - At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured following the collapse of a bridge which triggered a stampede on Monday during a Hindu festival in the eastern Indian city of Patna, officials said. “Bodies of the 18 people killed in the stampede have been sent to the ...

LAHORE - A two-day training workshop for women parliamentarians on “Peace Building and Leadership” was organised by Insan Foundation Trust (IFT) in collaboration with Search for Common Ground|Pakistan (SFCG). Eighteen lawmakers from PML-N, PPP, PML-Q and other parties participated in ...

At least 17 people including women and children were killed and several others suffered with burn wounds when a petrol pump caught fire after unknown gunmen opened fire at a van at a filling station on Friday.According to details, unknown car riders opened fire at a van while it was parked at local ...

karachi - Special Investigation Unit of police have arrested 45 accused including 18 involved in cases of extortion during last one month from different parts of the City. The SIU sources said here on Saturday that 18 alleged extortionists, 15 target killers and 12 others involved in kidnapping for ...

At least 18 people were killed and 35 others injured when a suicide car bomb blast ripped through a market in Darra Adamkhel on Saturday morning.According to police, it was a suicide car bomb blast.According to details, the blast took place near a local pro-government militiamen's office at a ...

RAWALPINDI – Police on Saturday arrested 18 outlaws with drugs, illegal weapons, liquor and kites. Saddar Wah police held Shair and recovered 5 kg charas from his possession while Pirwadhi police arrested Chanwaiz with 630 gram charas. Likewise, Ganjmandi police nabbed Azra Haibi for having ...

FAISALABAD - Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) Chief Executive Officer Eng Iftikhar Ahmad has ordered disconnection of electricity supply to 18 government departments which owed Rs81.96 million to the company. The decision was made in a high level meeting which was attended by the ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - As many as 18 people including eight women, are feared dead and nine other injured, when a passenger bus, swept away in flash flood in a seasonal nullah in Sudhanoti district of Azad Jammu Kashmir on Tuesday, police and eye witnesses said.“Nine bodies have been recovered so far ...

KARACHI – At least 18 lockers of a bank located in Site A police station were robbed during Eid holidays. Police said that two security guards Iqbal and Zamrud were deployed on bank security. Iqbal had managed to escape after looting the lockers.The branched was opened on Thursday after Eid ...

SHERGARH - The police arrested 18 gamblers red-handed from Hujra city, 11-km south from here, in the remit of Hujra Police and recovered a fax machine, voucher box and cash from them other day. According to detail, Station House Officer Hafiz Saeed flatly refused to free the gamblers when ...

QUETTA - At least 18 people, who were illegally travelling to Iran, were reportedly killed and two others wounded when unidentified armed men attacked them with sophisticated weapons in Kech district near Pak-Iran border on Friday.According to sources, over 21 people, who travelled to Gwadar from ...

Afghan police, backed by army and NATO-led forces, eliminated 18 Taliban militants and detained 23 other suspects during a series of operations across the country within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday morning. "The joint forces launched nine joint cleanup operations ...

GILGIT  - Gunmen disguised in military fatigues hauled 18 Shia men off buses Tuesday and shot them dead in cold blood in a usually quiet region of Kohistan. A spokesman for a faction of the Taliban claimed responsibility for the killings.Police said the attackers flagged down buses, climbed on ...

At least 18 people were killed Tuesday when gunmen opened fire on a bus in mountainous northern district of Kohistan, police said. The bus was carrying passengers from Rawalpindi, the city where the Pakistani army is headquartered, to the northern city of Gilgit. The motive was unclear as Islamist ...

KARACHI - Stocks closed higher at KSE amid trading in narrow range with lower trades after Supreme Court bench framed charge against PM Gilani for non compliance on NRO implementation. At Karachi stock market KSE-100 share index increased 18.40 points or 0.15 percent to finish the day at 12,250.00 ...

JAKARTA  - Conservation group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Indonesian waters off Borneo island Tuesday and called for greater protection of the species’ habitat. There is little data on the Irrawaddy dolphin — which resembles the common ...

At least 18 extremists were killed and seven security personnel martyred when armed militants attacked a security check post here in Kurram  on Friday. The attackers also kidnapped five troops.According to details, more than 30 militants stormed a security check post located in Shidano Dan ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought reply from Punjab chief secretary on a petition challenging the 18 portfolios reportedly held by Punjab chief minister.Justice Umar Ata Bandia directed the chief secretary to file the reply with in three weeks.The writ petitioner has been ...

 At least 18 militants including six foreigners were killed in clashes with security forces in different areas of Kurram Agency on Wednesday.According to details, during security forces operation fierce fighting with miscreants took place in Jogi area near Mamozai, located between the Orakzai ...