Islamabad- The Supreme Court on Friday declared unconstitutional the implementation of revised GST on petroleum products by the government before the passage of the new budget from the parliament. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was hearing a suo moto notice ...

NEW YORK:  The captain of an American aeroplane grew so infuriated with the behaviour of 100 unruly schoolchildren that he ordered them to leave the plane.The 100 students, all aged 17 or 18, were reportedly refusing to sit down, and continuously playing with their mobile phones. Asked by the ...

ORKNEY: A pilot who has completed the world’s shortest scheduled flight more than 12,000 times is to take to the skies over Orkney for the last time.Stuart Linklater, 59, will retire after making his final trip on the route between Westray and Papa Westray. It takes just two minutes - ...

Muzaffargharh- MNA-elect Jamshed Dasti has decided not to join PML-N or any other party. Talking to media here on Saturday, Jamshed Dasti said that he had decided to proceed to the National Assembly as an independent candidate. He, however, added that he would vote for PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif for ...

KARACHI (PR):  The inaugural flight of Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has taken off for the Netherlands’ capital, Amsterdam. Flight EY77, carrying the KL code of Dutch national carrier, KLM, departed Abu Dhabi airport on schedule.The launch of the ...

ABERDEEN (BBC): The puzzle of why the penguin is unable to fly may have finally been solved. Researchers believe that the bird’s underwater prowess may have cost it its ability to fly. By looking at seabirds closely related to the penguin, scientists confirmed that a wing that is good for ...

MASSACHUSETTS: Scientists at Harvard University have created a flying robot that can sit on a fingertip. Inspired by the biology of a fly, the robot is able to perform the agile movements of an insect. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) put a decade’s ...

  WASHINGTON BBC A new rocket has launched from theUSeastern seaboard to prove its readiness to help service the International Space Station (ISS). The 40m-tall Antares vehicle lifted clear of the Wallops Flight Facility inVirginiaat 1700 local time (2100 GMT). The apparently flawless ...

ISLAMABAD – The International Day of Human Space Flight will be marked tomorrow across the globe including Pakistan. As a day that is epic in every sense of the word and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first female flight in space, the theme of year 2013 would be “Women and ...

LAHORE – UK airport security authorities detained a PIA female flight attendant carrying several mobile phones in her hand bag at Manchester Airport when she was going to board Lahore bound flight PK-710 last week, TheNation learnt on Wednesday. PIA spokesman Tajwar said that an inquiry was ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) - A Qantas flight from New Zealand to Australia was forced to turn back Sunday following reports of a suspicious item on board, but the feared device turned out to be a standard fitting. The Boeing 737 was more than an hour into the flight to Sydney when the pilot was told to ...

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - A South African man on Saturday successfully flew across the sea from Nelson Mandela’s apartheid island prison using helium-filled giant party balloons. The six-kilometre (3.7-mile) crossing, to raise funds for a children’s hospital named after the country’s ...

Officers of financial crunch hit Pakistan International Airline (PIA) continue to get VIP treatment for them and families also as Islamabad-bound PIA flight was made to land at Lahore airport allegedly to drop the airline officer’s daughter.According to details, PIA flight PK-562 from Karachi ...

CHICAGO - A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane on Friday was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said.The incident at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the ...

ZURICH - Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg will undergo a three-day simulated flight for a new Solar Impulse aircraft that can travel around the world powered only by solar energy, organizers said Monday.The test will allow the pilot and co-founder of the project to assess the configuration of the ...

WASHINGTON - The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. At 9:47 a.m. on February 20, 1962, on the ...

CAIRO - Egyptian authorities grounded a Libyan Airlines flight on Wednesday after an attendant found a suspected bomb in a toilet on the aircraft, airport officials told AFP. Tripoli-bound flight 203 was due to leave Cairo International Airport when a member of the cabin crew found “a metal ...

ISLAMABAD : A proposal is under consideration to resume flights of PIA to Kashgar from Islamabad or Skardu. At present, the respective stations are preparing their feasibility study by getting market demand and feedback for operation to Kashgar. If the study is found commercially viable, the ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - A PIA flight (PK-589) from Islamabad arrived Bahawalpur after six hours on Tuesday. It was scheduled to arrive in Bahawalpur at 8.20pm while it landed at the airport at 12.35 a.m. Earlier, it was announced by the PIA authorities that a small aircraft (ATR-42) had landed at the ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - An American and an Iraqi will take flight from Baghdad, but not in a plane, or one of the helicopters that frequently buzz over the city: instead, they will fly in lawn chairs lifted by party balloons. In the spring of 2012, US citizen Kent Couch and Iraqi pilot Captain Fareed ...

A UK-bound plane carrying 250 passengers, including actor and comedian Stephen Fry, was forced to make an unscheduled landing after an engine was shut down mid-flight. Four hours after take off, the flight from Singapore to London was diverted when oil problems caused the crew to turn off one of ...

LONDON - The maiden flight of a revolutionary US-made drone aircraft that can stay in the air for up to four days at 65,000 feet, prying at terror safe havens in countries like Pakistan, is just days away. The 'Phantom Eye', made by Boeing's secretive Phantom Works division, is a high-altitude long ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Minister for Defence and Chairman PIA Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has inaugurated the state of art PIA Boeing 777 flight simulator installed at PIA Training Centre, Karachi, PIA spokesman said here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Ahmed Mukhtar said that the ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese authorities on Friday suspended an air traffic controller accused of publishing Barack Obama's flight plans on his personal blog, an official said. The controller obtained the Air Force One flight plans -- detailing scheduled routes, transit times, and flight altitude -- from ...

Our Staff reporter SIALKOT - The national flag-carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Sunday completed its Haj operation from Sialkot International Airport. The last Haj flight took off from Sialkot International Airport for Jeddah-Saudi Arabia here. The senior PIA officials, management ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Few people say they witnessed it for themselves, but a Swiss daredevil dubbed Jetman said he made a successful weekend flight over the Grand Canyon in a custom-made, winged jet pack. Pilot Yves Rossy rocketed across a portion of the western end of the canyon owned by the ...

QUETTA (APP) - The Pakistan Air Line (PIA)s first flight for Zaidan (Iran) will leave from Quetta on January 15, Saturday. The inaugural ceremony in this connection will be held at CIP launch PIA Quetta on the same day which will be attended by the Iranian Ambassador and Pakistan officials. Talking ...

KARACHI - PIA is in the process of establishing Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Flight Academy in Benazirabad. It is being established with the aim of producing exceptional commercial pilots who will make professional cockpit crew for PIA and other airlines, said PIA spokesperson. He further added that ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - PIA flight PK-702, coming from Manchester to Islamabad had to make an emergency landing in Manchester due to a technical fault. According to sources, PIA flight PK-702, 190 passengers on board, took off from Manchester but due to technical fault at take off point the flight was ...

KARACHI - PIA flight PK-782, which stopped at Stockholm (Sweden) due to security concerns, landed at Jinnah International Airport on Sunday at 7:40am with 254 passengers on board, PIA spokesman said in a Press release issued here on Sunday. The passengers of the flight were received by General ...