karachi - Following the directive of KMC Administrator Hashim Raza Zaidi, a state of emergency has been declared in the medical and health services department of KMC in view of forthcoming elections with immediate effect till the polls are over. Keeping in view the emergency, leaves of officials, ...

Alia Brahimi Since its inception in February, a hunger strike has gained momentum in the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, now involving between 40 and 130 prisoners, out of a population of 166. Only three detainees have ever been convicted of any crime. In fact, more than half of the ...

A plane, with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-N president Mian Muhammad Nawaz Shairf on board, made an emergency landing here in Lahore after its windshield cracked down on Friday. The plane, was en route from Quetta to Hasilpur, was flying at the altitude of 9,000 feet when it's windshield developed ...

KARACHI - Experts have emphasised the need for introducing more independent power producers to curb hour-long unannounced power outages across the country.Speakers expressed these views at the 6th International Power Conference and Exhibition on Emerging Energy Mix for Sustainable Power Generation. ...

RAWALPINDI  – The Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, Rawalpindi has rescued 3328 emergency victims in 3301 emergency operations during last three months and maintained its average response time of less than seven minutes. Out of total 3301 emergency calls received during previous ...

ISLAMABAD - Although the mantra of funds paucity is frequently used for extraordinary delayed communication projects, yet emergency roadside communication on the country’s mega project, Motorway, have also been dysfunctional on M-1 and M-3 for around last two years posing, serious threats to ...

LAHORE – With a view to ensuring sustainable human resource development in the long-neglected and essential field of emergency and disaster management, the Emergency Services Academy has been established by the Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122).Earlier, the country was confronting ...

A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after discovering a snake loose on his plane in a scene reminiscent of a hit Hollywood movie. Air Frontier pilot Braden Blennerhassett saw the snake’s head pop out from under the dashboard of his twin-engine plane shortly after takeoff from ...

CAIRO  - Egypt's military ruler said the country's decades-old state of emergency will be lifted on Wednesday except in cases of fighting "thuggery," and rights groups swiftly slammed the move as cosmetic."I have taken a decision to end the state of emergency, in all parts of the country, ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Rescue 1122 received 33,246 telephone calls from January 1 to December 31 last year, said the annual report issued here Wednesday.According to the report, out of total calls 3,450 were related to emergency and the other calls include - information seeking calls 429, ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 Director General reviewed the performance of the service which shows that the Service has rescued 3,88,514 emergency victims in 3,67,053 rescue operations in 2011, while maintaining its average response time of less than 7 minutes and standard in ...

ABUJA  - President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of northern Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and said he would shut any borders with other nations in those areas covered by the decree.“I have ... declared a state of emergency in ...

LAHORE (APP) - The Children Emergency Department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is running without medicines, patients complained here on Sunday. Over 200 children including infants visit the hospital department daily. After check-up, doctors on duty hand over the prescription to patients with ...

ISLAMABAD - Solve Agri Dairy Institute(tm), the first-ever private sector dairy & livestock training & skills development institute in Pakistan, recently conducted a four days 'Livestock Emergency Preparedness Training programme in collaboration with Livestock & Dairy Development Department Punjab ...

LAHORE The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 Director General carried out a performance review of the service in 35 districts of the province to ensure uniform standard in all districts. The data revealed that the service rescued over 27,085 victims of emergencies while carrying out 25,921 ...

LAHORE (APP) - The Rescue1122 rescued over 30,105 victims of emergencies in 29,048 operations last month in 36 cities of the province. The rescue operations include 5,744 in Lahore, 2871 in Faisalabad, 980 in Rawalpindi, 1328 in Bahawalpur, 2535 in Multan, 1005 in Dera Ghazi Khan, 919 in Rahim Yar ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria promised to end a 19-year-old state of emergency and provide more political freedoms on Thursday, concessions designed to keep out a wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world. The announcement by the energy exporting nation followed pressure from government opponents, ...

A FLIGHT from Chicago to Frankfurt made an emergency landing in Canada when the pilot spilled his coffee. United Airlines Flight 940 was diverted to Toronto just after 10 pm Monday night. An airline spokesman said only that the plane had a communications problem and the pilot elected to divert the ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Australias Qantas Airways grounded all its Airbus A380s Thursday after an engine failure forced one of the superjumbos to make a dramatic emergency landing in Singapore with more than 450 people aboard. The explosion in one of the four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, which showered ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - PIA flight PK-702, coming from Manchester to Islamabad had to make an emergency landing in Manchester due to a technical fault. According to sources, PIA flight PK-702, 190 passengers on board, took off from Manchester but due to technical fault at take off point the flight was ...

KARACHI - Pakistan would only get a meager amount of 600 million dollars under IMF emergency financing programme in case the said loan package gets approved by the Fund authorities with a view to support domestic economy to meet its massive post-flood reconstruction costs and public spending in the ...

QUETTA Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has declared Gwadar, Pasni and Jiwani, as the disaster-hit areas and directed the local administration, Navy and Coast Guards for taking appropriate steps on war footings for rehabilitating the cyclone Phet affectees. The torrential ...

LAHORE (APP) - Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) has rescued over 3,76,945 victims of emergencies while carrying out 3,72,546 rescue operations since its inception in October 2004. The Director General Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Dr Rizwan Naseer reviewed the emergency data to ...

ISLAMABAD-ICT Administration on Tuesday along with other departments concerned held a mock rescue exercise in the wake of bomb blast at CDA Disaster Management Academy. The exercise was conducted in order to check the preparedness of the departments and their response and reaction time to the ...

LAHORE - Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122), Director General, Dr Rizwan Naseer reviewed the data of emergencies and rescue operations for the year 2008, which shows that the Service has rescued 151,567 emergency victims in 2008, as compared to 46,141 in 2007. According to a press release, ...

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices sank this week to three-and-a-half-year lows close to 50 dollars a barrel, prompting the OPEC exporters' cartel to call an emergency meeting to discuss a mooted output cut. Commodity markets took a heavy knock as recession swept across the world's advanced economies, ...

ISLAMABAD " Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry revealed on Monday that a "troika" was responsible for imposition of emergency in the country on November 3 last year as a result of which more than 40 judges from top judiciary were sent home. The draconian act allowed the former ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Airport Emergency Exercise 'Rescue Air 2008' was conducted at Islamabad International Airport on Monday to train Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) staff and to test the reliability and functioning of their equipment. The exercise was organised by the CAA at the Islamabad Airport. ...