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 ...

ISLAMABAD  – Sunday Car Bazaar in Karachi Company (G-9 Markaz) may be a good business for buyers or sellers of vehicles, but it has made life miserable for traders and shoppers, visiting the market.The Car Bazzar creates disturbance in and around the market - leaving no space for ...

ISLAMABAD - Families of officials of Islamabad police on Sunday took to streets and protested against State Office’s move to get official residents vacated that they occupied during lal Masjid operation.Hundreds of women and children gathered at D-Chowk in front of Parliament House and ...

ISLAMABAD – Residents of sectors G-7, G-10, G-9, I-8, I-9 and I-10 are facing a lot of problems as the authorities concerned seem least interested to clean these areas. They alleged that Capital Development Authority (CDA) did not bother about ensuring proper maintenance of parks and there ...

ISLAMABAD  – A large number of people, especially women and children visited the Spring Flower, Vegetable and Bird Show on its opening day here at Rose and Jasmine Garden on Friday.The three-day spring flower, vegetable and bird show has been organised by Capital Development Authority ...

RAWALPINDI  – The residents of the surrounding localities of Bhatta Chowk landfill site have stopped Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonment boards from dumping solid waste at the site.Scores of residents gathered at the site the other day and stopped loaded vehicles of RCB from off loading ...

LAKKI MARWAT - The residents of Bakhmal Ahmadzai blocked Tajori Road on Saturday to press the local law enforcement agencies to arrest miscreants involved in planting a bomb outside the house of a schoolteacher in the village.It is pertinent to mention here that police had defused a homemade ...

RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD (SYED DANISH HUSSAIN & ISRAR AHMED) - Though Tahirul Qadri’s planned long march on Islamabad is three days away, the panic-gripped residents of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have started experiencing the pre-march jolts.Whether it was a rumor or not but ...

LAKKI MARWAT – Elders of Kurrum Par area have called upon Saifullah brothers to use their influence for resolving problems the residents of trans-river localities are faced with since last several decades.At a public meetings also addressed by PML (Likeminded) chief Salim Saifullah Khan the ...

RAWALPINDI  - Leakage of gas from gas pipeline passing through Jabba Chaklala Dhok Kala Khan has led to suspension of gas supply to the residents.The 700-feet gas pipeline laid in this area is leaking since the last six months disrupting the gas supply to us but no heed is being paid to this ...

PESHAWAR - The residents of Pushtakhara Payan on Friday held a protest demonstration against the Station House Officer (SHO) Pushtakhara Police Station for an alleged illegal raid on a house in the concerned locality, and appealed to Chief Justice Peshawar High Court to take suo moto action of ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Elders of Dalokhel, Abakhel and Kalan villages have demanded of the government to provide the residents of the villages with gas facility. At a meeting held in Abakhel village with a retired college teacher and Tanzeemul Haq Pakistan central vice president Haji Zarwali Khan in the ...

ISLAMABAD – The residents of Sector G-8/1 have erased the encroachments and camps from the CDA land allocated for the construction of a park and set the objects on fire.The families living in the camps protested against the Capital Development Authority and police for being silent spectator ...

RAWALPINDI - The residents of Sadiq Town and Mumtaz Market have demanded of the Punjab government to install a water filtration plant in the vicinity to cater the need of clean drinking water.A large number of residents of Mumtaz Market and Sadiq Town can been seen drinking contaminated water or ...

ISLAMABAD  - Inhabitants of twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi have demanded to shift auto workshops set up in different areas of these cities outside of the residential areas.Talking to APP, the residents complained that existence of these workshops in residential areas create health, ...

PESHAWAR - The residents of Union Council Landi Arbab, PK-04, have appealed to the Peshawar High Court, Chief Justice, to prohibit KPK Minister for Sports and Tourism from his official work and attending inauguration ceremonies as he has been convicted in the court of law.Talking to TheNation, ...

LAHORE – The people living near Mozang, Lytton Road, Fatima Jinnah Road and Abid Road on Wednesday protested against the long shutdown of electricity in their area in the name of construction of the Metro Bus Project.They complained that the Punjab government had announced that the area would ...

LAHORE – District Coordination Officer (DCO) Noorul Amin Mengal on Friday paid a visit to Gawala Colony, Harbanspura and met the people to solve their colony related problems. He was accompanied by MPA Mohsin Latif, Ac (Shalimar) Shahid Kalyani and Administrator Gawala Colony. The DCO ...

ISLAMABAD  - The residents of the federal capital have demanded more parks, playing areas and grounds to give them an environment in which they could lead a healthy life.  The existing playing areas and grounds in different sectors lack proper facilities and maintenance, they claimed.Most ...

RAWALPINDI – Residents of Union Council Kalial have expressed grave concerns over lack of school and college facilities in the areas. Union Council Kalial population runs into 50,000 and it consists of the areas of Shah Pur Sayedan, Galli Khatana, Kallri, Dhok Paharian, Gulshanabad and other ...

RAWALPINDI - People from different walks of life and patients have urged health authorities to launch a crackdown on quacks in all the areas of the city who are playing with the lives of innocent citizens.Fake health practitioners are spreading spurious and fatal diseases in the name of inexpensive ...

RAWALPINDI - The residents of Dhama Syedan have appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to take notice of misuse of development funds allocated for renovation of road from Dhama Mor to Imambargah.Paying heed ...

RAWALPINDI - The residents of Dhama Syedan have appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to take notice of misuse of development funds allocated for renovation of road from Dhama Mor to Imambargah.Paying heed ...

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI  - The heat-struck citizens of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi woke up to rain and pleasant weather Saturday morning.The rain started in spells Friday evening, leading to heavy downpour around Sahri time on Saturday bringing a pleasant change in the weather.The ...

ISLAMABAD - Owing to sheer negligence of the health managers, the poor conditions of basic health unit (BHU) in the rural areas of the federal capital have deprived residents of healthcare facilities in their localities. According to details, 14 BHUs are operational in 12 union councils of rural ...

RAWALPINDI - The citizens of Rawalpindi have complained that city administration was conducting surveys instead of taking concrete steps for the removal of buffalo farms situated in congested areas of the city, creating stinking smell and excruciating environment. They said that buffalos were ...

ISLAMABAD - Billions of rupees have been spent in the capital on the construction of new avenues and highways to facilitate smooth traffic flow but little attention is being paid to the safety of pedestrians by erecting pedestrian bridges at the busy avenues. Residents demand of installing ...

SWABI - People belonging to various regions of tehsil Chota Lahor on Tuesday blocked Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway for more than three hours to record their protest against excessive electricity loadshedding.The protesters were making announcements on loudspeakers in Tordher, Chota Lahor, Manki, ...

MANSEHRA - The residents of Mansehra and its suburban areas are prone to various types of disease because they are compelled to drink contaminated water, as the area has old rusty pipelines. Sources said the contaminated water was causing a spread of various diseases in the city and big towns of ...

PESHAWAR - The residents of Chitral have demanded of the government to start work on biogas plan to control energy crisis in the area.Speaking at news conference here at Peshawar press club on Friday, office-bears of Shandor Welfare Organization (SWO) Sharief Shakeeb, Muhammad Ali Mujahid, Sheraz ...