Six shops and one car were torched as two groups clashed over a land dispute near Old Sabzi Mandi on Wednesday morning.Reports said that following the clash the angry demonstrators torched six shops and one car, while the firing, arson and stoning continued for sometime.Police said that the two ...

KARACHI – Cheating mafia has become active in the city during the Secondary School Certificate Examinations, begun on April 8, and started threatening the administration of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi and the invigilating staff to achieve its vested interests, The Nation has ...

 ISLAMABAD - Federal bureaucracy took a U-turn under Secretary Establishment who failed to comply with the directives of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to transfer the Inspector General of Police Islamabad Bani Amin mainly because of influence used by a famous property tycoon, TheNation ...

Chitral is the largest district of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and greatly impacts the environment in the country due to its geographical location. The Chitral river, known in rest of the country as the Kabul river, originates from the north of Chitral and contributes to meeting water requirements in Khyber ...

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Chief Hussain Mehanti has appealed to the Karachiites to reject the terrorists and extortionists by their power of vote in the upcoming elections.Addressing a meeting of the JI sub-organisations at Idara-e-Noor Haq on Thursday, he said that the JI would not allow ...

RAWALPINDI – Land mafia has illegally occupied land property costing billion of rupees in respect of 18 state-run schools in Rawalpindi city due to negligence of district administration. Despite clear directives from the chief minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif for recovery of the land from ...

KARACHI - Managing Director of Karachi Water & Sewerage Board, Misbahuddin Fareed has expressed his concerns over excavation of sand and gravel from Maleer riverbed. Despite repeated reminders, mafia is excavating gravel and sand near water supply bulk lines, siphons and conduits bringing water ...

BAHAWALPUR - In Cholistan, land mafia has grabbed government land whereon 945 shops have also been constructed illegally, finds a reported conducted by the Cholistan Development Authority. However, CDA Managing Director Javed Akhter Mehmood has sent the report to Secretary Revenue through the ...

Federal Adviser for Interior Affairs Abdur Rehman Malik has said that extortion of money ‘parchi’ system would not be allowed in Karachi, and warned that stern action being taken against parchi mafia in the metropolis. Speaking to media persons after holding a meeting with President ...

Pakistan Muslim League-N President, Nawaz Sharif Monday, slamming the government for its complete failure in resolving citizens' problems, said the people of Sindh lived a much better life four years ago."Am I being expected to congratulate the government for increasing price hike, poverty, ...

Muttahida Qaumi Moverment (MQM) leader Wasim Akhtar today accused the Sindh Government of patronizing bhatta mafia in Karachi.Speaking to newsmen outside the Parliament House, Akhtar said MQM has raised this issue in the corridors of power in the federal capital. He said markets and industries are ...

NANKANA SAHIB - After demolishing a 200-year-old graveyard in Kahlowan village near Shah Kot, a mafia of land grabbers has started constructing houses in the cemetery spanning over 6-acre land. Hundreds of villagers, on Monday, staged a protest against the mafia for showing desecration and ...

ISLAMABAD : Chairman of All Pakistan LPG Distributors Association (APLPGDA) Irfan Khokhar Friday alleged that the 'Gas Mafia' had grabbed billion of rupees during last six years by creating artificial shortage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and selling the domestic product in the name of imported ...

AHDAF SOUEIFAn old man, obduracy etched on every feature, lies on a hospital bed in the dock of a courtroom. He wears shades. His hair is well dyed. His hands are folded over the bed-covers and the cuffs of his pyjamas peep discreetly from beneath the sleeves of his dressing gown. His two sons, ...

JHANG - In response to an Assembly question, Revenue Department officers of all the four tehsils of Jhang have recently collected data of state agricultural and residential lands which have been occupied by different land mafias, it has been learnt.According to the figures collected by this ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Hardware Merchants Association (PHMA) has condemned the harassment incident of PHMA members by Bhatta mafia in Karachi.PHMA called an emergent meeting at its central office to consider the law and order situation, which was jointly chaired by the PHMA Central Chairman Sardar Usman ...

LAHORE  –  The ‘Mafia’ who plays with the lives of the patients on the name of treatment has again become active as the supply of other free medicines to the heart patients has also been stopped in hospitals.Whereas the heart patients are already being died due to the ...

School children in Pakistan spend a busy day. In the morning, they attend the school session officially, while after school hours they are busy with tuitions that have become a necessity to score well in exams. The days when I attended school about two decades ago, it was a matter of great shame if ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday lauded government for not bowing to the pressure of the influential Gilgit-Baltistan oil mafia. The govt known for bowing to pressure to different interest groups and market forces took a firm stand to confront the oil mafia which had ...

CHUNIAN - Throwing the Lahore High Court orders into the dustbin, the unbridled wood mafia in connivance with the forest officials are rapidly deforesting the worlds largest artificial forest and so far more than 60 percent of Changa Manga Wildlife Park has been deforested, TheNation has learnt. ...

LAHORE The sugar mafia has become active once again and trying to thwart the federal governments move to provide relief to poor masses by keeping the sugar rates under check. It is to be noted that the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet the other day decided to allow the import ...

Our Staff Reporter MULTAN - The Agri Forum Pakistan (AFP), a representative body of farming community, has demanded of the government to fix the price of DAP fertilizer at Rs3,500, Urea Rs1,200 and Nitrophas Rs1800 per bag. Talking to journalists on Wednesday, AFP chairman Ibrahim Moghal said that ...

MURREE (Online) - Timber mafia hacked down trees in the forest of the hill station. Trees were cut down near the Survey of Pakistan Office late Saturday in connivance with of the forest guards. The incident was brought to the notice of Murree DFO Javed Gul who sent a team to the site. The team ...

ISLAMABAD The ICT Administration Friday launched an operation against the tout-mafia in its Excise and Taxation Department and arrested nine alleged present outside the office building. A spokesman of the Administration said that operation had been launched under the supervision of Assistant ...

MULTAN - Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and convener pesticide sub committee Punjab Mian Asif Manzoor Mohal disclosed on Wednesday that the pesticide act would be made more effective through amendment besides approval of seed act in coming session of Punjab Assembly. Addressing a press ...

Our Staff reporter VEHARI - The sale of drugs and its addiction is on the rise here in district Vehari, especially among the youth, exposing the tall claims and frequent press meetings the district police regarding the elimination of the menace of drugs from the district. Despite the fact that the ...

HAVANA (AFP) NATO is a military mafia, the war in Afghanistan is genocidal and US President Barack Obama deserves the prize for the best snake charmer who ever lived, Cubas Fidel Castro said Monday. In an article published in response to the Western alliances weekend summit in Portugal, the former ...

ISLAMABAD It was a dull day in the Upper House on Monday and the lack of seriousness on the part of legislators was visible as out of the 22 items, which were on the agenda, only one could be discussed before the House was adjourned without doing any legislative business. It was a private members ...

LAHORE - Despite the registration of at least 30 FIRs, the land mafia has allegedly grabbed 200 kanals land of Revenue Academy of Board of Revenue (BoR) located near Jallo Park, Moza Harban-spura, Aziz Bhatti Town, The Nation learnt on Thursday. The federal government had transferred its 667 ...

LAHORE - Due to poor management and security lapse the regional passport office located at Garden Town has been left at the mercy of agents and anti-social elements, sources in the office reveled. The sources claimed that over 600 applicants seeking new passports visited the office daily and in ...