ISLAMABADThe overloaded trucks on the express highway have become the leading cause of accidents due to violation of traffic rules and driving on the wrong sides on the main thoroughfare leading to the federal capital. Overloaded trucks posed a very serious danger as they had a tendency to ...

Richard Ingham, Claire Snegaroff Millions of people in northern Europe are still battling snow and ice, wondering why they are being punished with bitter cold when - officially - spring has arrived and Earth is in the grip of global warming.Yet some scientists, eyeing the fourth year in a row of ...

Dr Tahirul Qadri unreigned imagination ran riot as he presented himself at a mammoth public meeting at Lahore on Sunday, envisaging drastic electoral reforms to be introduced by the suspiciously close deadline of January 10. The dual-nationality holding Canadian national chief of ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on Friday said the US should end drone attacks in Pakistan as Pakistanis are not terrorists, but terror victims. Newly appointed US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson met Nawaz Sharif in Raiwind.During the meeting, both the dignitaries ...

The government has taken two steps which will only have inflationary effects: the weekly hike in POL prices, with the result that fuel prices have touched a new height. Petrol has gone up by Rs 6.82 per litre to Rs 106.72. Briefly having dipped slightly below Rs 100 per litre, it has gone back ...

ISLAMABAD - While the country is suffering from long-hours electricity loadshedding, the government has totally ignored two plants that are lying on the port having total capacity of 900MW. Moreover, it is not releasing funds to the Chinese company which is working on extension of Guddu Power ...

ISLAMABAD - Sheikh Silsala-i-Naqshbandia Owasia, Amir Moulana Mohammad Akram Awan termed the distance from the teachings of Islam and Islamic ways of life the reason behind the problems facing the country and the nation. Addressing a function at the launching ceremony of his Urdu translation of the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - Hepatitis is spreading rapidly as more than 400,000 people in district Sialkot have become victim of the disease which is spreading mainly due to use of contaminated and unhygienic food and poor sanitation system. The total population of the district is 3.4 million ...

LAHORE The business community and the manufacturers associations, while expressing grave concern over massive jumps in power tariff, have observed that more than 72 per cent hike in electricity rates in the last five months is the major cause of continuous economic meltdown in the country. ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - Due to the negligence of traffic police, city roads have been strewn with unregistered motorcycle-rickshaws being driven by those below 18 years of age. This has given rise to increased number of accidents. Residents of the district have demanded the authorities to act against the ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) The participants of a seminar held to mark the 'International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts have observed the frequent and rising use of weapons of mass destruction and explosives charge irreparable loss of degradation of ...

RAWALPINDI (Agencies) - The detainees in Adyala jail are being served sub-standard food which is causing diseases among them. As per details, unhygienic food is being served to detainees in Adyala jail, which is badly affecting their health. The detainees have complained that substandard ghee is ...

CHINIOT - Dilapidated sewer system has been posing serious health hazards in the district while authorities are dragging feet over the matter. The public heath is being affected by poor sewerage system, causing various waterborne and communicable diseases, including hepatitis. The locals demanded ...

PATTOKI - The people using public transport braved heavy downpour and gusty winds on bus stops without shelters in the city, highlighting the city managers disregard for addressing the problem. The people from all walks of life have deplored the situation. They said that the problem confronted the ...

BUREWALA - The negotiations of the Vehari Extra Assistant Director of Agriculture with local commission agents of Burewala grain markets could not be held due to irresponsible behaviour of the Burewala Market Committee administrator here on Monday. The two grain markets of subdivision including ...

WASHINGTON - Former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri said Monday that American criticism of Pakistan following the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad was causing grave damage to the Pakistanis mind, especially the taunts about being a beneficiary of US aid. In Urdu language, there is a ...

ISLAMABAD - There is a need to bring proper focus on efficacious implementation of tobacco control laws across the country and for curtailing sale of smuggled, duty-unpaid, and non-compliant tobacco products as more than 15 billion smuggled and duty-unpaid cigarettes are sold annually in ...

KARACHI - Partial and biased rejection of Chinese firm in multi-million contract causes strain in Sino-Pakistan business relationship, says a press release. Pakistan and China will commence celebration of their 60th anniversary of bilateral relations this year on May 21 in a befitting manner ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - The breach of intellectual property rights are causing billion of rupees loss in revenue to the national exchequer. According to an estimate Pakistan governments annual revenue loss from intellectual property rights infringement have shot up to a staggering Rs21 ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) The used auto parts being smuggled from the neighboring countries are easily available on very low price in the local markets causing a colossal loss to trading community as well as national economy These views were expressed by Chairman Standing Committee on used auto parts of ...

LAHORE Debris of hundreds of structures including shops, ramps, shades and stairs, demolished by the City District Government during drive against encroachments is causing massive inconvenience for Lahorites as the CDG teams equipped with latest machinery have failed to remove the material from ...

KARACHI The bacteria-borne urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common medical problem among young girls in Pakistan mainly due to lack of safe and hygienic drinking water facilities, deficiency of water, and other fluids in the daily diets of the grown-up girls. The young girls - who are ...

ISLAMABAD Aabpara Police have booked three employees of an advertisement company, MAX MAC, for inflicting millions of potential losses to the CDA to hold functions in connection with the CDAs Golden Jubilee celebrations. The advertising company signed an agreement with the CDA in this regard but ...

KARACHI - The scrap of 70 ships at Gidani Ship-breaking Yard has increased the risk of health disaster to some 8 thousand labourers there as the ships have never been inspected, the Nation has learnt. It is not out of consideration that those vessels at the Yard must have been carrying toxic and ...

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi on Tuesday said that cost of environmental degradation in the country stood at Rs 365 billion per annum which was 6 per cent of the GDP. He was addressing the two-day 'Global Environment Facility (GEF)-National Dialogue Initiative' ...

ISLAMABAD - Street venders with their unhygienic foodstuff and cold beverages are causing severe diseases for users.      The street vendors are not only selling unhygienic food but they also wash pots with impure water. It is difficult for food to be kept clean on the ...