ATTOCKMauri Indus railcar plying between Attock City and Mauri Indus has been made dysfunctional causing inconvenience to hundreds of commuters. The railcar plies between Attock and Mauri Indus and on daily basis and the commuters including students, businessmen, employees and people from different ...

lahoreThe All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Tuesday rejected the plan of petroleum ministry to suspend gas supply to CNG outlets for six days.  The association said the supply had been curtailed under the garb of maintenance of plants at Qadirpur gasfiled.“The decision to bar CNG ...

karachi - All CNG stations in Sindh will remain closed from 08:00am on Tuesday 07 May 2013, till 08:00 am on Wednesday, 08 May, 2013 for 24 hours. Another shut down will be observed on Thursday 09 May, 2013 from 08:00 am to Friday 10 May, 2013 till 08:00 am for 24 hours.SSGC regrets the ...

LAHORE/KARACHI/QUETTA - All public and private schools, colleges in Sindh and Punjab will remain closed for five days from May 8 to 13 due to general elections in the country. Three holidays — May 9 to 11 — have been announced in Balochistan. In two separate notifications issued here on ...

Traders and members of civil society have threatened to launch a protest campaign against the decision to close girls college of Naurang Town Talking to journalists on Wednesday, Naurang Shopkeeper Union President Haji Amanullah, Vice President Gulab Khattak, General Secretary Younas Khan, advocate ...

BERLIN (AFP) - German engineering giant Siemens said Thursday it is planning to cut over 3,000 jobs in its industrial division as part of a vast plan to save six billion euros ($8b) as it faces falling profits.In a presentation published on its website, the company said 500 jobs would be cut at its ...

SIALKOT/JHANG - As many as 500 small and medium surgical industrial units have been closed down in Sialkot city and its surrounding areas for the last  two weeks due to the daily 20 to 22 hours long loadshedding of electricity in export-oriented Sialkot city, said the chairman of Surgical ...

KARACHI  - Sui Southern Gas Company here on Friday announced the schedule for closure of CNG stations for the current and next week.  According to SSGC statement, all CNG stations in Sindh will remain closed from 8am on April 6 till 8 am on April 7. The next shutdown for CNG stations will ...

RAWALPINDI - Closure of Rehmanabad Chowk as part of 6th Road flyover project has multiplied the miseries of common man and particularly students’ community. The closure of this Chowk on the pretext of construction of 6th road fly over has caused enormous embarrassment to pedestrians like us ...

FAISALABAD - All industries in Faisalabad will be closed down against the power supply suspension to textile mills indefinitely which will lead to stoppage of exports and depriving thousands of workers of livelihood in the region. The situation will result in total economic chaos in the area, said ...

FAISALABAD - All industries in Faisalabad will be closed down against the power supply suspension to textile mills indefinitely which will lead to stoppage of exports and depriving thousands of workers of livelihood in the region. The situation will result in total economic chaos in the area, said ...

KHANEWAL - The Pakistan Railways (PR) decision to reduce online reservation office timings by three hours to oblige the private sector has added to the problem of people. PR is running online ticketing system in its eight divisions: Multan, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Sukkar, Queeta, Rawalpindi ...

ISLAMABAD - Closure of U-turn at Athal chowk in Bahra Kahu and lack of fly over have posed life threat to the citizens due to meteoric rise in road accidents and nerve-wrecking traffic jam.  Earlier u-turn was serving as a deterrent in preventing traffic jams and road accidents but it was ...

RAWALPINDI  - Undeclared and prolonged gas loadshedding has aggravated the woes of the residents of various colonies of Potohar region.Khurram Colony, Muslim Town, Dhok Anwar, Tauhid Abad, Dhok Munshi, Mohalla Norani, Nasir Colony, Amir Town, Mughal Abad, Dhok Kamal Din, Aria Mohalla, Shah ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has observed that closure of the NRO implementation case has silenced those who propagated clash of institutions.PM made these observations during his meeting with law minister Farooq H Naek who called on the former at the Prime Minister Secretariat to apprise him ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Tariq Mehmood Pirzada, in a move what may be dubbed as knowledge antagonism, has ordered to shut down a public library of the federal capital. His order trespasses all the powers vested with him as they also imply that the library building would be occupied ...

A pair of trucks carrying NATO supplies crossed into Afghanistan on Thursday, Pakistani customs officials said, the first time in more than seven months that Pakistan has allowed Western nations to use its roads to supply troops in Afghanistan.Customs officials said the container trucks had passed ...

KARACHI - Commissioner Roshan Ali Shaikh, on Thursday ordered immediate closure of all illegal water hydrants in the Korangi industrial area.Chairing a meeting of industrialists at the office of Korangi Association of Traders and Industrialists, he said strict action would be taken against land ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The Karachi Water & Sewerage Board has decided to supply water and provide sewerage facilities to the citizens according to the collection of bills from different areas of the City. In a press release here on Sunday, KWSB Managing Director Misbahuddin said that that from now on ...

PESHAWAR – The Action Committee, National Internship Programme, Friday staged a protest demonstration against the stoppage of NIP and warned the the government to restore it, or else they would besiege the Chief Minister’s House. Holding banners and placards, the students gathered in ...

LAHORE - The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis has revised the decision regarding closing down of the educational institution as well as termination of the staff of OPF Girls College’s School section in Lahore, the officials of the ministry have said on Thursday. The decision was taken during a ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court Chief Justice on Monday sought reply from Lahore District Coordination Officer on a petition challenging action of the government to close marriage halls till10pm.The court adjourned the hearing till Jan 24, and asked DCO to identify law under which marriage ...

KHANEWAL - Pakistan Railways administration has not yet taken notice of cycle stand closure at the city railway station.The said cycle stand has been closed for the last six months without any justification, owing to which people are facing problems in parking their motorcycles outside the station. ...

As Arab revolts began last year, it was inevitable that people would compare them to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.And that comparison suggests that the emancipation of Arab societies will likely stumble on the matter of memory, as did the former communist societies.A useful keyhole ...

SADIQABAD - A large number of transport workers, CNG dealers and employees a staged a protest sit-in against partial CNG closure and increase in gas tariff in Rahim Yar Khan while two stations’ owners refused to join the strike and kept functioning all day. The protesters including filling ...

SIALKOT - The district trade associations including the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday announced to close down their factories from January 7 as a protest against prolonged power loadshedding and suspension of gas supply to the industries.Addressing a press conference, SCCI ...

KARACHI - Closure of CNG stations has badly affected all the stakeholders of the metropolis and entire Sindh. Two-day closure of CNG stations is unbearable for everyone but government has failed to take any step for redressal. CNG associations and Transporters Ittehad gave strike call against the ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI – While announcing new schedule for closure of CNG stations in its franchise areas for the current week, Sui Southern Gas Company has announced that all CNG stations in Sindh and Balochistan will remain closed for 24 hours from 9 am on Wednesday 28 December till 9 ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - CNG stations across the province of Sindh remained closed from Tuesday Noon to Wednesday Noon while countless commuters suffered on Tuesday due to closure of CNG Stations for 24 hours. CNG Stations Owners Association Chairman Malik Khudda Baksh said that there are ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran (APAT) has vowed to defy the governments plan of energy conservation. Hence the ECCs decision to shut markets early, will be resisted tooth and nail, they added. All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran President Ashraf Bhatti said that the hours ...