LAHORE : The Ministry of Water Resources, Govt of Iraq, has awarded an irrigation project to the National Engineering Services of Pakistan.  The project called East of Gharaf aims at strengthening the war-torn economy of Iraq by providing sustainable irrigation and drainage facilities to about ...

KARACHI - Famous Chinese company, China International Water and Electric Corporation, Pakistan (CIWEC), which is working on eight important mega projects in Pakistan, has shown keen interest to invest in a water supply project “K-IV” of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB).General ...

ISLAMABAD:  The WAPDA is making all possible efforts to complete 969 MW-Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project according to its construction schedule in 2016. Official sources told APP here that the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project, besides generating the much-needed hydel electricity, was also of ...

ISLAMABAD - The PSO’s efforts to set up state-of-the-art oil refinery in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, having capacity to process 40,000 barrel per day, would go a long way in meeting the growing energy needs. The facility, expected to be fully commissioned by 2016-17, will be set up through a ...

BOSTON: Ben Affleck’s next project will be an adaptation of Live By Night. The Playlist reports that Affleck will write, direct and star in the big-screen version of Dennis Lehane’s novel, which takes place in Prohibition-era Boston. The story centres on Joe Coughlin (Affleck), the son ...

ISLAMABAD - The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has initiated Muzaffargarh Canal Lining Project with an estimated cost of Rs.8.66 billion to control water logging in district Muzaffargarh. Official sources told APP that the lining of Muzaffargarh Canal and other remedial measures are ...

lahore - Wapda has completed detailed engineering design and tender documents of the 7100 megawatt (MW)-Bunji Hydropower Project, and will soon initiate the process to undertake construction of this largest hydropower project in Pakistan.Wapda Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah expressed these views ...

lahore - Planning and Development (P&D) department in its report while declaring Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) as viable recommended it be converted from non-development mode to regular mode, TheNation has reliably learnt. After the P&D report duly primed by DG Monitoring ...

lahore - The 2nd Project Management Symposium organized by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Lahore Chapter continued at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club here on Sunday. The conference was attended by the profession’s top brains and renowned speakers from Pakistan and other ...

lahore - The Project Management Institute (PMI) Lahore Chapter organised the 2nd Project Management Symposium with the theme of making project management work for Pakistan at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club here on Saturday. The conference was attended by the profession’s top brains and ...

LAHORE (OUR STAFF REPORTER):   The Wapda is committed to complete under-construction phase-I of Kachhi Canal Project at the earliest despite financial constraints and difficult law and order situation in the project area, said the authority chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah on ...

ISLAMABAD - A high-powered Iranian technical delegation is due to visit Pakistan later this month to finalize the crucial Engineering and Procurement Contract (EPC) to kick start the work on Pakistan's section of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline also known as Peace pipeline. Well-placed government ...

NEW YORKJENNIFER Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s forthcoming Abscam project has finally been given a title, several weeks after filming began. The movie - which is once again directed by Silver Linings Playbook helmer David O Russell - will be called American Hustle, according to reports. The ...

ISLAMABAD -  National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) in collaboration with Employees Old Age Benefit Institute (EOBI) has launched ‘Pension Disbursement Project’ on the directives of the President of Pakistan for all the pensioners enrolled with the institute.Pension ...

ISLAMABAD - Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) and Hyundai Engineering Co Ltd, Korea Thursday entered into an agreement for ARL upgradation project comprising of installation of Isomerization Unit (to enhance production of Premium Motor Gasoline), Preflash Unit (to enhance refining capacity), Diesel ...

KARACHI - A project was launched on Tuesday which aimed at providing advance education to 250,000 voters in Sindh.In collaboration with the UNDP, UNWomen, Australian Aid and Norwegian Embassy, the National Rural Development Programme launched the project at local hotel here.It will impart the ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Hardware Merchants Association has strongly protested at the injudicious distribution of electricity and called for an equitable supply. It said Punjab alone must not be made sole victim of power and gas shortage, rather it should be shared amongst all the federating units.The ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTNEW YORK - A fund set up by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, plans to send 40 girls to school in Swat, her home region, with the support of top Hollywood star Angelina Jolie.Malala, 15, was shot in the head by the Taliban in October in Swat, announced the ...

ISLAMABAD - OGDCL has awarded a contract for development of Kunar Pasakhi Deep and Tando Allah Yar Field Development Project-Phase-II in a simple ceremony. The project consists of gas gathering system, which will convert 250 mmwefd of raw gas into 225 mmwefd of pipeline quality gas and is expected ...

QUETTA - Balochistan caretaker Chief Minister Nawab Ghaous Bakhsh Barozai expressed concerns over Saindak Project, saying that he would demand of the prime minister during his visit to Quetta that the project should be handed over to Balochistan.The Mines and Minerals Department on Thursday gave a ...

Syed Imran Ahmed‘We never know the worth of water till the well is dry,’ so goes an old saying. These days, the saying can be rephrased to read as, ‘we never know the worth of gas till the well is dry.’ If we had foreseen a bigger picture, the country would not have been ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday stressed on the need to devote all energies for early completion of the Neelum-Jhelum Hydel Project.The Prime Minister made these observations during a high level meeting held at the PM House to review the progress on the project.The meeting was attended ...

LAHORE – Lahore Division Commissioner Jawad Rafique Malik has rejected the proposals of restoration of Pak Tea House on the pattern of British style and issued instructions for evolving a new project within three days for revival of Pak Tea House in accordance with its original spirit. He ...

PESHAWAR - Contract Lady Health Workers (LHWs) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have demanded of the government to take immediate notice of the illegal removal of an office superintendent, and warned to go on strike and hold a long march towards Islamabad if their demand wasn’t fulfilled within a ...

LAHORE – Authorities of the Water and Sanitation Agency have misappropriated millions of rupees in the purchase of sewerage pipes, laid at on going construction project of Link Model Town Road while the project was also started before inviting tenders, The Nation has learnt.A copy data ...

ISLAMABAD – Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) has launched a project for the revival of dying crafts, especially black stone carving through promotion of modern designs for better marketing in the world.PSIC Managing Director, Farhan Aziz Khawaja unfolding salient features of the ...

ISLAMABAD – Three-member delegation of Zorlu Energy Group of Turkey, who called on Federal Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar led by Ibrahim Sinnon Ak revealed that Turkish wind power project of 56MW set up at coastal area of Jhampir in Sindh province will start generation from ...

WASHINGTON - The United States says it’s too early in the development of a natural gas pipeline planned from Iran to Pakistan to state what action the US government would take against Islamabad.“This is a deal that has been talked about, come and gone many times, so we first make the ...

QUETTA - The appellate authority of Mines and Mineral Department of Balochistan government has dismissed the appeal of Tethyan Copper Company (TTC) Pakistan for mining licence for multi-billion dollar Reko Diq copper and gold project in Chaghi district.Earlier, the company had submitted a ...

LAHORE – Senior PTI leader, Javed Hashmi has said that Pak-Iran gas pipeline is in the interest of the country and PTI will back the government over pursuing the pipeline project. He expressed these views while talking to the media at Allama Iqbal International Airport before leaving for a ...