BAGHDAD : Gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead 12 people at alcohol shops in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.The gunmen, who were travelling in four vehicles, restrained federal policemen at a checkpoint in the Zayouna area of west Baghdad, an interior ...

YANGON - Police in central Myanmar fired warning shots to disperse a crowd after a mosque and shops were attacked Tuesday, the president's spokesman said, in the latest religious unrest to hit the country.The fighting was sparked in the small town of Oakkan, around 100km north of Yangon, after a ...

GUJRANWALA - Short circuit-induced massive fire wreaked havoc here in Old Sabzi Mandi and gutted at least 60 shops and 70 makeshift shops.According to rescue sources, the fire erupted due to an electric short circuit at a UPS shop in Qaisra Bazaar which engulfed the neighbouring shops. Strong wind ...

lahore - Excise and Taxation (E&T) authorities on Thursday sealed more than 50 properties in Zone-A extended Region-B. Director General Excise and Taxation, Hamayun Mazhar formed team headed by Assistant Excise and Taxation Officer (AETO), Malik Aslam and team members, Raja Asif, Shahid Ameen ...

HAFIZABAD - Unidentified burglars broke into three shops in Kassesay and made off with different articles worth thousands of rupees. According to police source, the burglars broken into the shop of Muhammad Nawaz motor cycle mechanic and made off spare parts worth Rs. 15,000/-. Later, the burglars ...

MULTAN - More than 40 shops were gutted when a fire erupted in a cloth market here on Saturday. According to Rescue 1122 sources, a fire broke out in Kale Mandi cloth market due to short-circuit which all of sudden engulfed more than 40. As a result, cloths worth millions of rupee and other ...

MULTAN - More than 40 shops were gutted when a fire erupted in a cloth market here on Saturday. According to Rescue 1122 sources, a fire broke out in Kale Mandi cloth market due to short-circuit which all of sudden engulfed more than 40. As a result, cloths worth millions of rupee and other ...

Fire broke out at a cloth market in Multan early Saturday morning causing huge financial losses.Rescue sources said that fire broke out at Kalay Mandi Bazaar of the city early in the morning that gutted 15 to 20 shops rapidly.Eight fire tenders soon reached the site to tame the blaze, however, ...

RAWALPINDI - Rawal Town administration has sealed ten shops located in Bunny Market as their owners failed to pay rent and taxes. On special directives of Rawal Town Administrator, Saif Anwar Jaappa, Town Officer Finance Raja Iftikhar Ahmed and Taxation Officer launched the operation. On the other ...

Peshawar  - Four CD shops were damaged as a result two remote control blasts in Bacha Khan square of Peshawar on Tuesday.Police sources said that the bombs were planted in front of the CD shops which is situated in Bacha Khan Square.  The blast badly damaged fours shops. Soon after ...

 Unknown miscreants blasted two CD shops with explosives here in Nowshera on Thursday but no casualty was reported.According to police, unidentified miscreants had planted explosives outside CD shops located at Pabbi Station Chowk which blasted with big bang.As s result of blast two CD shops ...

MARDAN  - Around 20 shops were damaged in a blast in Takht Bhai area of Mardan early on Wednesday, police sources said on Wednesday.The sources said that unidentified persons had planted explosives in old Fazal Mola Khan Market, which went off destroying 20 shops. However, no casualty was ...

QUETTA - A powerful bomb blast rocked the provincial capital late Tuesday night slightly injuring a person and damaging several shops.According to police, the blast occurred in front of a private bank located at Liaquat Bazaar adjacent to Prince Road Quetta.  The blast was so powerful that it ...

LAHORE – The representatives of an organisation working for conservation of heritage have revealed that the original property belonging to Hazrat Mian Mir, a famous Sufi saint who resided in Lahore, was located in Anarkali Bazaar. “The property has now been turned into a shoe ...

RAWALPINDI More than 127 shops reduced to ashes when fire broke out at citys largest Imperial Market, Raja Bazaar, in wee hours of Saturday, informed Rescue 1122. The loss of traders running their business in Imperial Market was estimated Rs 50 million, Rescue 1122 and some affected traders ...

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 ...

MULTAN - The countdown to the launch of a crackdown on such tyre and puncture shops, where tyres are placed outside in the open, has begun as the district administration has decided to start action after 48 hours. Sources said that the SHOs of all police stations of Multan have been issued ...

LAHORE - Acting Chairman Emergency Response Committee Gulberg Town and MPA Mian Mohsin Latif has directed the entomologist to visit all flowers shops existed in the revenue limit of Gublber Town including Main Market, Mini Market and Barkat Market and ensure immediately fogging and removal of filth ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - The Local Administration has established two Ramazan Sasta Bazaars and 12 Fair Price shops here in Subdivision Ahmedpur East to provide the public with daily-use items on subsidised rates. This was stated be Assistant Commissioner (AC) Imtiaz Ahmed Khan while talking to newsmen ...

KARACHI - Provincial Minister for Information Technology, Raza Haroon, has said that it is not less than a miracle in the country that dozens of buildings on MA Jinnah Road, which were razed during Ashura tragedy, have been reconstructed and hundreds of traders have got their businesses back within ...

KARACHI At least 108 shops and godowns were gutted when fire erupted in the metropolis second biggest wholesale market, commonly known as Empress Market of Saddar Town, here on Sunday. At leas 40 fire tenders along a large number of firefighters from all fire stations of the city extinguished the ...

LAHORE - All available resources were mobilised to douse the fire in the Shah Alam Market tragedy, a Rescue 1122 spokesman claimed on Tuesday. Faheem Jehanzaib said. As many as 14 fire-fighting vehicles and 80 fighters took part in the rescue operation. Three rescuers Mohammed Yaqub, Akram, and ...

More than 10 shops and a seminary was damaged due to blast outside of CD shop in Gulbahar area of Mardan while Bomb Disposal Squad defused explosive devise which was planted for blowing up an Imambargah in Gang Bazaar. According to details, 12 kilo gram explosive material was planted before the CD ...

Lahore - On the directives of Chief Minister, Punjab, as many as 13 out of the 31 shops situated at the ground floor of newly constructed Park N Ride Plaza at Liberty Market were sold through open auction by Lahore Development Authority here Wednesday. Reserve price for these shops had been set as ...

TEHRAN (APP) - Shops in Iran have been banned from selling Valentine cards and gifts as the traditional lovers' day gains increasing popularity in the Islamic republic, the ILNA news agency reported on Sunday. "In the run-up to Valentine's Day on February 14 the printing works owners' union issued ...

KARACHI - Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Abdul Majid Haji Muhammad and Chairman Special Committee for Small Traders, Abdul Majeed Memon have urged Government to allow opening of shops and markets till late night during the holy month of Ramadan. Abdul Majid articulated that ...

In view of any possible act of terrorism in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP), strict directives have been passed on to observe Shops and security ordinance. Traders belonging to Cities of Mardan, Nowshera, Kohat, Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Charsadda, and Tank among others are to observe strict compliance ...

KARACHI Eight more people were shot dead within the last 24 hours in the City while firing continued in various troubled spots which forced the people to remain inside their houses. The City plunged into ethnic violence in which several houses were torched while shops and vehicles were also burnt ...

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has started operation against encroachment and destroy several shops, rooms and houses here in sector I-12 and I-11, Islamabad on the other day. As per details, CDA has started operation against encroachment and destroyed a house, a shop, a chappar hotel, 24 ...

SWABI Four tyre shops were burnt in an inferno in old Swabi general bus stand market on Swabi-Mardan Road here on Tuesday. The fire that broke out first at the shop of a leading tyre seller was believed to be caused by setting on fire the pieces of tyres near the shop by one of the employees early ...