SIALKOT The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other main trade bodies in the district have greeted the PML-N for its marvelous victory and becoming the biggest party of the country after the May 11 general elections.Addressing a joint press conference held at the SCCI auditorium, the ...

karachi - Long-hours loadshedding in different industrial areas of the metropolis without any prior notice has badly hampered the trading activity just because of the negligence of Karachi Electric Supply Company.These was stated in a joint statement of town & industrial associations of Karachi ...

lahore - The Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) has strengthened the institutional role of farmers organizations in the irrigation sector reforms and this has helped to curtail non-developmental expenditures, said PIDA General Manager Mian Maqbool Ahmad while presiding over a ...

islamabad - The Governing Council of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Monday decided to prepare and release estimates of National Accounts for the year 2012-13 on new base year as it has been changed to 2005-06 from earlier year of 1999-2000.The fourth meeting of the Governing Council of the ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director General Syed Amir Hamza Gilani has said that the board has already released first and second quarter grants to all the affiliated federations but third quarter grant will only be released to those federations who abide by the sports policy as per ...

ISLAMABAD - Zubair Ahmed Malik, newly elected President of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), has said that government should finalise the budget 2013-14 with consultation of business leaders to steer the country out of difficult economic situation.Zubair Ahmed Malik, ...

PESHAWAR - Monitoring committees comprising senior district officers have been constituted to monitor and report violations after commencement of the election activities in Charsadda. The committees will submit its reports on daily basis to the District Returning Officer wherein actions and ...

KARACHI – Law enforcers on Sunday recovered bodies of three most wanted gangsters from Barohi Chowk in Lyari area. Arshad alias Papu, his brother and an associate were killed in a shootout on Saturday with rival gang, headed by Baba Ladla. The killing of Arshad alias Papu, a notorious ...

Bullet riddled dead bodies of three abducted persons including a tribal elder were recovered here on Thursday.According to Levies sources, security officials took into custody three dead bodies lying in Boghra area after the locals spotted them.Identity of the deceased was confirmed as Haji Mullah ...

ALEPPO/KUWAIT CITY (AFP/Reuters) - The bodies of at least 65 young men and boys, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, were found on Tuesday in a river in the Syrian city of Aleppo, while charity organisations pledged $182 million for Syrians affected by their country’s ...

MIRANSHAH  - The security forces recovered dead bodies of seven persons from main Miranshah town of North Waziristan agency late Friday night. According to details, the security forces found seven bodies on Razmak Road in NWA, the bordering area of Afghanistan. The bodies were shifted to ...

NEWTOWN (AFP) - The bodies of 20 children and six adults slaughtered by a gunman in a quiet Connecticut town were removed from the blood-soaked school Saturday as police searched for a motive in the massacre.The formal identification of the victims in one of America’s worst mass shootings ...

RAWALPINDI - Punjab govt has formed committees at district level with the mandate to protect rights of sugarcane growers and ensure transparent selling and purchase of the yield. The District Sugarcane Purchase Monitoring and Examining Committees have been set up across province with an aim to make ...

Rawalpindi  - The Army rescue teams on Wednesday recovered two bodies of soldiers from Gayari sector of Siachen bringing the total number of bodies recovered so far to 100. According to an ISPR spokesman, despite weather hazards, the search operation continues at Gayari. He said over 300 men ...

LAHORE – Convener Punjab Chief Minister for wrestling Mohsin Arshad on Thursday said different committees were formed to make Hamza Shahbaz Tiger Dangal a success that will be held on October 14. Mohsin said all the arrangements regarding holding of the event have been finalised. ...

Four more bodies of Shaheed soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen on Thursday.According to a spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 87 bodies have been recovered so far from the site of the tragedy.It may be mentioned here that 140 soldiers including some ...

PESHAWAR - The district administration has formed Project Oversight Committees (POC) for effective monitoring of small developmental schemes at village level carried out by Malakand Development Programme (MDP) in Dir Lower and Upper districts. The Oversight Committees comprising over district ...

peshawar - The bodies of two out of five kidnapped government servants were found from Badaber area, in the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday. Six people including Sajid Nawaz, the District Revenue Officer Bannu, were kidnapped by the unknown men in Matni area on Tuesday night. Nawaz was recovered ...

QUETTA - Two dead bodies were recovered from two separate areas of the provincial capital on Tuesday. Police found a dead body from Essa Nagri area and shifted it to the Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities. However, the identified of victim could not be confirmed. Police quoted doctors as ...

 Quetta  Two dead bodies were recovered from two separate areas of the provincial capital on Tuesday. Police found a dead body from Essa Nagri area and shifted it to the Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities. However, the identified of victim could not be confirmed. Police quoted ...

KARACHI - Bodies of eight fishermen were fished out on Monday, while search for 15 others drowned in the open sea due to a high tide and presumed to be dead was continuing until the filing of this report. Local fishermen, in collaboration with the Fisher Folk Forum (FFF) and Maritime Security ...

Bodies of seven kidnapped miners were found from the suburban area of Degari on Thursday.According to sources, the deceased were identified as Deen Mohammad, Ahmedullah, Kashir Khan, Khan Mohammad, Mohammad Nawaz, Abdul Ahmed and Mohammad Akbar. They belonged to Swat in Khyber Pakhtunkwa ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed the departments concerned to constitute three committees to inspect all dykes and embankments in the province, and that their heads must pay field visits to review flood arrangements. He was addressing a meeting held at tent office, ...

 KARACHI – Repeated reminders to the standing committees about the formulation of recommendations for the provincial budget for the next fiscal year, 2012-13, have drawn a blank, said Finance Department officials TheNation talked to on Wednesday.To put it simply, all lawmakers on the ...

MARDAN – Bodies of four bearded people were recovered from fields here in Ibrahim Khan Kally area on Tuesday morning in limits of Saddr Police Station, police and local sources said.People of Ibrahim Khan Kally informed police that bodies of four unidentified people were lying in the ...

ANGELOPOLIS, Colombia - The bodies of all nine miners who were swept away when an illegal Colombian mine flooded have been recovered, authorities said Friday, insisting that the facility is now closed. The mine, located in a rural area of Antioquia department, 430 kilometers (265 miles) northwest ...

BENGHAZI, Libya- A Libyan committee on missing persons said on Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of 163 people who were killed in the 2011 conflict that toppled the regime of Moamer Gaddafi.“The discovery of 163 bodies out of 400 missing from the regions of eastern Libya is an ...

KARACHI - Mehmoodabad police recovered bodies of five premature babies from garbage dump located in Akhtar Colony here on Tuesday. The bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for autopsy as a large number of people watched. The residents of Sector E informed the police about the ...

KARACHI - An MQM activist was shot dead whilst three dead bodies, stuffed in gunny bags, were found in different areas of the city on Monday. The activist of MQM was shot dead and another wounded in Lea Market area adjacent to Lyari within the jurisdiction of Kharadar police.The incident took place ...

The rescue personnel have recovered bodies of nine miners from the landslide here in Abbottabad on Friday while search for others was underway.It should be mentioned that 11 labourers working at phosphate mine in Abbottabad's mountainous region were buried when a big land mass fell over them while ...