islamabad - Federal Minister for Communication, Asadullah Khan Mandokhel, called on Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at the PM House on Friday.Mandokhel briefed the Prime Minister about the progress made by the ministry of communication on the ongoing development projects in the ...

LAHORE - Three people were killed in road mishaps in different parts of the provincial capital, police sources said on Wednesday.A cyclist was crushed to death by a rashly-driven van on Shalimar Link Road. The deceased, identified as Pervaiz, said to be a security guard, was on his way home on the ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Najam Sethi on Monday said that the provision of modern, safe and comfortable travelling facility is the responsibility of the government. He said that modern public transport system is the sign of a civilised society and travelling facilities can be improved by modernising ...

MILAN - Hundreds of luxury Lamborghini cars powered through Milan on Wednesday at the start of a tour of Italy to mark the 50th anniversary of the company, which started out making tractors.The 350 sleek roadsters with a combined horsepower of 190,000 formed a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) long convoy ...

A mother-of-three was killed in a road accident n the Race Course police area on Saturday. The deceased, identified as Sumera Bibi, was standing at a bus stop when a recklessly-driven car ran over her, wounding seriously. The injured Kabirwala resident was rushed to hospital where doctors pronounce ...

Lahore  -An official of the Elite Force was crushed to death in an accident in the Shahdara Town area. Police said that Kamran and Liaqat, riding on a motorcycle, were on their way when a recklessly-driven truck ran over their two-wheeler. As a result, both sustained injuries and were taken to ...

islamabad - Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has said that the government will accelerate the pace of work on the Gwadar-Ratodero Road so that people of Pakistan can reap the benefits of the Gwadar port.He said this while presiding over a high-level meeting here on Monday to review the progress ...

baqaul mohsinbahawalpur  - Nine persons were killed and 50 others injured when a speeding air-condition bus rammed into a tree while saving a motorcyclist here near Chak 5/BC on Hasilpur Road. The injured included the bike-riders.According to details, the Bahawalpur-bound bus coming from ...

RAWALPINDI - A couple died and legs of a little child fractured while two other young boys got injured in separate traffic incidents, police informed.In the first incident that took place near Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Sunday late night, a man namely Amjad Mughal along with his wife Kiran ...

RAWALPINDI – Scattered heaps of garbage alongside Saidpur Road in front of Pindora Graveyard has added to miseries of residents besides emanating stinking smell.Residents and traders talking to INP complained that though a garbage container was placed on the road but RTMA staff does not come ...

ISLAMABAD – Unplanned u-turns on IJ Principal Road have given rise to road accidents due to lack of reflectors and speed breakers. Traffic police have abolished traffic signal system and built U-turns on IJ Principal road due to upsurge in public transport and heavy vehicular traffic. These ...

RAWALPINDI – A man was killed while five others critically injured on Thursday as a result of a collision between three vehicles and one motorcycle near Soan Bridge, Hamrahi Terminal, area of Police Station (PS) Morgah.The deceased identified as Fida Hussain while Bahadur Khan, aged 62, Raza ...

LAHORE – Different parts of newly constructed Ferozpur Road are cracking and deforming just after a couple of weeks perhaps because of substandard material used in the project by the construction company.Sources in the Communication and Works (C&W) informed this scribe that the ...

LAHORE – Two people were killed in road accidents, police said on Saturday. A 40-year-old motorcyclist was crushed to death by a truck in Chuhng, police said.  The deceased, identified as Westwood Colony resident  Rafaqat, was on way to market when he had the accident.   ...

SHEIKHUPURA - PML-N leader from Samundri, Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif Gujjar along with his driver died in a road accident here near Kot Ranjeet the other night.According to details, Muhammad Sharif Gujjar was going to Samundri from Lahore when a tyre of his vehicle burst near Kot Ranjeet. Resultantly ...

Five persons including two women and a child were killed when a passenger bus collided with a car on Quetta-Chaman Highway on Friday.According to Levies sources, a passenger bus enroute to Quetta from Chaman collided with a car that killed five persons including two women and a child of the same ...

ISLAMABAD : The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will construct flyovers at Peshawar Morr and IJ Principal Road crossing, as its financial conditions are getting better through auctioning of residential and commercial plots in different sectors of the federal capital.Chairman of the CDA, Syed ...

RAWALPINDI - U-turns opened at various points on Benazir Bhutto Road, Rawalpindi, on account of political pressure have become cause of frequent traffic jams. The citizens have demanded of Rawalpindi Development Authority to close U-turn located on Kohati Bazaar to facilitate smooth traffic flow. ...

LAHORE – The road to elections appeared absolutely clear when the ruling coalition signed an agreement with Pakistan Awami Tehrik Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri to bring an end to his followers’ four-day sit-in in Islamabad on January 17. But it looked a bit bumpy when the PAT chief moved a ...

A 30-year-old man was killed while his wife and a minor son sustained serious injuries when a rashly driven car smashed into their motorcycle in the Mohlanwal area on Friday, police said. Resident of Bakkar Mandi, Muhammad Ashfaq, riding on a motorcycle along with his wife and a son was on his way ...

The Pakistani authorities have notified in  Customs General Order that the USA could get passage through both Torkham and Chaman for weapons. It has already used these two crossing points for both food and fuel, but now the use of these two points will also be for the withdrawal of its troop ...

HE stood yards from the tomb of his mother, a two-time prime minister killed by Islamic militants exactly five years before, and that of his grandfather, a prime minister and president ousted in a military coup and hanged by a dictator, and told the huge crowd filling the open ground in front of ...

Ferozepur Road from Gajjumata to Kahna is undergoing extensive construction work that once completed would become the modern face of Lahore. Volvo buses would ply on a specially built road that from Kalma chowk onwards would largely be in the form of a long overhead bridge, providing the quickest ...

RAWALPINDI - City Traffic Police (CTP) on Monday closed Benazir Bhutto Road (BBR) from Rehmanabad to Faizabad for all kinds of traffic.The road would remain blocked to December 25, 2012. “We are closing the part of road from Rehmanabad Chowk to Faizabad as the Punjab Chief Minister Mian ...

LAHORE – Three people were killed in as many incidents in different parts of the City, police and rescue workers said on Monday. A motorcyclist, later identified as Abdul Ghaffar, was on his way home when a rashly driven vehicle bumped into his two-wheeler in Islampura police area. The ...

ISLAMABAD  - Dilapidated Sohdran Road passing through Tarlai has posed serious traffic problems to the residents. This is lonely road which connects us to other parts of twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi but it is victim of sheer negligence of the concerned civic authorities which is ...

ISLAMABAD – The National Highway Authority (NHA) is getting after completing projects in Sindh on preference while overlooking several other projects in various parts of the country including Balochistan, TheNation has learnt.The Communication Ministry and the NHA is often found echoing ...

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that a separate police system would be introduced for controlling traffic on the Lahore Ring Road (LRR), besides setting up of an economic development zone.Presiding over a high-level meeting of the Lahore Ring Road Authority, ...

SARGODHA - A man died and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a rickshaw and a motorcycle near Police Station Sahiwal. According to the police, the motorcycle was hit by a speeding Rickshaw coming from the opposite direction. As a result, Rai Jahan Bhatti, a resident of village ...

RAWALPINDI – In different parts of Rawalpindi city, 147 persons have lost their lives, while 322 sustained injuries, in road accidents during the current year.According to records, 286 road accidents were reported during the current year which claimed 147 lives and injured 322 others. In the ...