BAHAWALPUR District Police Officer of Bahawalpur Sohail Zafar Chattha suspended SHO Samasatta Ghulam Rasool Bhatti and SHO Musafir Khana Police Station Azeem Bhatti on poor performance, and said that it is the duty of every policeman to ensure security of the citizens. "Police officials should work ...

WAH CANTT - With gradual increase in temperature, the phenomenon of unscheduled electricity loadshedding is also picking up pace, as the consumers of historical city of Taxila have been facing 18-hour a day power outages for the last two days.The load shedding has become an uncontrollable monster ...

ISLAMABADPakistan ruled the world of squash for more than four decades and this particular sport gave identity to Pakistan the world over, but now a days it is very hard to find natural talent at grassroots level, and when the Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) finally managed to spot out genuine ...

ISLAMABAD - Cash-strapped automated teller machines (ATMs) of commercial bank’s branches in business centres at federal capital have added to the miseries of the citizens. This is another crisis shaping into a source of perpetual nuisance for the citizens followed by power and gas ...

RAWALPINDI – Citizens are being overcharged on account of parcel and other fees at all the post offices in Rawalpindi city being computerised weight machines dysfunctional due to negligence of postal services department. Computerized weight machines are installed in the post offices ...

Countrywide protest demonstrations including federal capital against prolong and unscheduled spate of power loadshedding continued on Monday.A large number of people came out on road in Bahrakahu in the federal capital against power outages and rampaged the Iesco office and blocked the road for all ...

RAWALPINDI  - Students and teachers have protested against non-operational websites of the education boards of Punjab. Last date for sending admission of inter exam has been set as March 13 but the websites of all the boards are not functional, said Imtiaz Ahmad, a student. We are forced to ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The Punjab government has failed to regulate prices of daily use items while hoarding and profiteering are also on their peak, coupled with everyday price hike has beaten the hell out of hapless people especially in the district. The profiteers are doing their illegal acts without ...

NOORPUR THAL - Illegal parking lots along the Hashmi Road here are causing traffic problems. Over 60 to 80 rickshaws are parked along the road in front of Kashmir Chowk and dozens of vans and buses are parked on the road in front of Bhatti Hotel crossing. These vehicles ply among Noorpur, Jamali, ...

LAKKI MARWAT - People residing on Pakistan Railways-owned land have since long have said that they will launch a protest campaign if Pakistan Railways authorities launched an operation to demolish their houses and shops.  “Thousands of residents mostly poor have built their houses on ...

KHANEWAL - Unscheduled gas and electricity loadshedding has badly affected the life of citizens as the power outages time has been increased to more than 12 hours in a day. According to details, in throughout the district Mepco and Sui Northern Gas Ltd are in a ‘race’ with each other to ...

BANGALORE - The recent official offer of the Chinese to raise a squadron of its home-grown advanced multi-role, all-weather fighter aircraft J-10B to Pakistan has worried Indian defence experts. Pakistan will be the only other country apart from China to have this sophisticated fighter aircraft, ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Chemicals & Dyes Merchants Association Chairman Muhammad Haroon Agar has appealed the Ministry of Commerce to devise some mechanisms or impose regulations to shun the abusive dominance and cartelisation of shipping lines/agents stating that shipping lines/agents claim from ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Errors and omissions in mark-sheets of many semester students of various departments of Karachi University have become a source of irritation for students and wakeup call for concerned authorities to rectify the system at earliest. Many students studying in different departments of ...

ISLAMABAD - The text advertising might be mushrooming as a popular source of publicity yet numerous cellular subscribers are irked with the frequent unwanted texts they receive by their respective networks. A large number of cellular scribers are facing the problem of unwanted texts at the hands ...

ISLAMABAD - Complicated legal procedures coupled with bureaucratic apathy and money-minting motives of the authorities concerned are increasing the plight of owners of stolen vehicles, recovered recently from Gilgit. Dozens of vehicles that were stolen from different areas across Pakistan and were ...

ISLAMABAD - Long queues of people were witnessed outside banks waiting for their turn to withdraw cash from Automated Teller Machine (ATM), but most of the ATMs were not functioning, which added the miseries of people. Citizens wanted to withdraw cash from banks through ATMs for Eid shopping as ...

ISLAMABAD - Contrary to the observance of Juma prayer on the standard Islamic timings that are observed in the twin cities, the management of National University of Modern languages (NUML) has prescribed its own timings for Juma prayer. The students and some officials of NUML told TheNation that ...

KARACHI (APP) - Retailers have unilaterally raised prices of dairy milk by Rs. 4 to Rs. 44 a litre in the metropolis, consumers said here Monday. Adnan Ahmed, a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 13-D said that this was the biggest raise that too in a short span, as it was only some time back ...

ISLAMABAD  - The under construction road development projects are creating hurdle in the smooth flow of vehicular traffic and pedestrians at different sites in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The traffic authorities are trying to control the traffic, but heavy traffic from ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) has closed its eyes over the professional beggars swarming in Noor Pur Shahan, where the five-days festivities of the annual Urs of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif (RA), commonly known as 'Barri Imam', is in full swing. The ICT had launched anti-beggars ...