Although PTI has emerged, in the recent polls, as the second largest political force in the country, yet it direly needs improvement, evolution and political maturity. There seem to be many contradictions and inconsistencies present in its policies and practices. Ignoring the persistent and ...

TOKYO : An unexploded World War II shell that was discovered just metres (yards) from a busy rail track halted high speed trains in Japan Tuesday, as bomb disposal experts moved in to detonate it.The travel plans of around 90,000 people were disrupted when an exclusion zone was thrown up around the ...

MULTANThe service of only operational train on Multan-Rawalpindi section Mehr Express (127 Up & 128 Down) has been suspended for the past five days and there are no signs of its restoration despite strong protest by the commuters.Pakistan Railway sources told this scribe that the train was ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Railways is planning to fix the train fare at the rate of Rs 1 per kilometre all over the country. The railways management is deciding on these lines just to attract more passengers towards the train travel. The new fare system is likely to be implemented from the start of the ...

NEW YORK  - A rush-hour collision between two commuter trains in a suburb north of New York City Friday injured 60 passengers, five of them seriously.A spokesman for the Metro North commuter train line said the incident involved a train headed into the city and one traveling in the opposite ...

LAHORE– ThePakistanrugby team in coordination with HSBC Asian Grassroots Rugby project will be reaching out the Pakistani Committee in UAE. The Pakistan team met with principal of Pakistan Islamia Higher Secondary School in Sharjah, who agreed to send about 100 boys of the school aged 14-16 ...

TEHRAN : Iran is ready to help "train" the Syrian army if Damascus seeks such assistance, the commander of the Islamic republic's army ground forces, General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, was quoted as saying on Sunday. "As a Muslim nation, we back Syria, and if there is need for training we will provide ...

MUZAFFARGARH/MULTAN - PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif on Friday demanded action against former president Pervez Musharraf according to the law, saying he was a national criminal and should not be freed because he had damaged the national institutions.Addressing a public gathering in Kot Addu, Nawaz said ...

ISLAMABAD :-The National Logistic Cell (NLC), with the collaboration of PR, is all set to launch freight train service from Karachi to other cities of the country. The NLC would import 10 locomotives from South Korea and use these locomotives for rolling stock of Pakistan Railways, an official told ...

LAHORE A 24-year-old man was crushed to death by a train near the Badami Bagh crossing, police said on Thursday. The police are investigating whether the unidentified committed suicide he had the accident. The body has been shifted to morgue. Nabbed: The Shafiqabad police raided two hotels and ...

LAHORE – A 24-year-old man ended his life by throwing himself under a Lahore-bound train near the Mian Mir Colony in Race Course police precincts Friday. The deceased, later identified as Mahboob Ahmed, committed suicide after his parents scolded him over a domestic issue, according to the ...

LAHORE – A 60-year-old woman was crushed to death by a train in the Naseerabad area, police said on Tuesday.An eyewitness told the police that the woman, ye to be identified, was crossing the railway line when a Lahore-bound train ran over her, resulting in her on-the-spot death. The police ...

KARACHI - Pakistan's cricket authorities Thursday ordered English-style pitches to help their struggling batsmen prepare for the Champions Trophy, to be played in England in June.Pakistani batsmen had a woeful time on the fast and bouncy tracks in South Africa where they were whitewashed 3-0 in ...

LAHORE – A week after the reincarnation of Shahdrah-Kot Lakhpat shuttle service, the Railways announced on Friday that it will run another train on the same track offering free travel for a month.On April 24, the Railways launched the shuttle service on the directives of former prime minister ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - A man was killed by a train at an unmanned level-crossing near Gojra here the other day. A tractor-trolley driven by Shahbaz Ahmad was crossing an unmanned level-crossing when Faisalabad-bound Millat Express hit it. As a result, he was killed on the spot. The train remained stopped ...

QUETTA Two people on a motorbike were crushed to death on Saturday in a train accident at Shakih Manda, a suburban area of Quetta. According to police, two persons were crossing the railway track on a motorcycle, having no notice of the speedy train which hit their bike and threw their bodies yards ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - A train collided with a hand-cart on railway track near Chak-299/GB here on Tuesday.  As per detail, railway employees were working on railway track along with some officials and they had parked a hand-cart on railway track. In the meantime, Lahore-Karachi bound Shalimar ...

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said that president Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif both are brothers and traveling in Samjhota Express Train, looting the national wealth collectively.Talking to party delectation who called on him here Imran Khan said that PTI ...

CAIRO - Fifty people, mostly children, were killed when a train slammed into a school bus as it crossed tracks in a city south of Cairo on Saturday, state media and officials said.All but two of the dead were children, aged around four to eight, said a senior security official in Assiut, near the ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A train crashed into a flatbed truck carrying veterans during a parade in the US state of Texas on Thursday, killing four people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said. The truck, part of a “Hunt for Heroes” parade held in the town of Midland, was carrying ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Railways diverted the route of Millat Express (17Up), Karakarm Express (41Up) and Pakistan Express (45Up) from Khanewal, Shorkot and Faisalabad to Khanewal, Sahiwal and Lahore on Tuesday and Wednesday (today) to facilitate the participants of Tableeghi Ijtima at ...

UNSUSPECTING train passengers in Belgium have been invited to unleash their inner James Bond.Commuters buying a soft drink from a vending machine inside Antwerp’s station were asked if they wanted to win tickets to see new 007 movie Skyfall.Those that accepted were then set a task to get to ...

BAHAWALPUR - Sunni Tehrik Vice President and former federal minister Haji Hanif Tayyab said that a train march would be held towards Rawalpindi from Karachi on Sunday against anti-Islam movie made in the US.Addressing a press conference, he said that America herself is the biggest terrorist. He ...

LAHORE – Amid the Railways Minister’s tall claims, made on Saturday, that the public utility had started it’s journey towards revival, the authorities aware of the department’s ground situation have decided to close Quetta Express. Only 76 trains are operational now. The ...

LAHORE – Amid the fears that Business Express is failing to attract passengers and the owner company of the train is turning into defaulter of the Railways, Senator Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary, the CEO of the Business Express, is not only confident about the success of the project but said the ...

Indonesian train officials are reportedly bringing in a new unique tactic to stop passengers from illegally riding on their roofs. Any offenders will be prodded and swatted with brooms full of putrid goo while the train passes, according to The Daily Telegraph. The state-run railways have ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Railways’ employees on Saturday staged protest against the new business train service which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on Friday. At Karachi Cantt Station, workers demanded annulment of contract between Pakistan Railways and a private firm namely ...

LAHORE – Senator Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary along with Pakistan Railways officials on Friday visited Lahore Railway Station to review the arrangements made for inauguration of Business Express train that starting its first journey on February 3 between Lahore and Karachi. Prime Minister of ...

MALAKAND - Residents of Dargai, Malakand, have demanded of the government to restore train service in the area. Talking to this scribe here on Friday, the dwellers of Dargai, Takhtbai and Hathiyan Sher Zaman Khan, Sher Nawab Khatak, Muhammad Ishaq Khan and others urged the government to set up an ...

LAHORE - The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and Dairy and Rural Development Foundation have entered into a partnership to offer hands on trainings to farmers. In this regard UVAS Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha and DRFD Chief Executive Dr Salman Shah signed an MoU on ...