NOWSHERA VIRKANThe vendors and shopkeepers have encroached on footpaths in different commercial areas of the city, creating hurdles and problems not only for pedestrians but also hampering the smooth flow of traffic.The shopkeepers and vendors on Karyal Road, Main Bazaar and Toyota Stand Road have ...

HAFIZABADDespite a ban on the sale and display of fireworks, the explosive material is being sold in every locality without any let or hindrance across the district. According to a survey conducted by this scribe on Monday, scores of people are legally or illegally manufacturing fireworks in and ...

Measles has been on a rampage. The reasons are obvious. Just like any other disease that catches the health authorities napping, this scourge too seems to thrive on our procrastination. Many precious lives have been wasted and more continue to fall victim to what is now almost an epidemic. Three ...

ISLAMABADMost of the hotels and restaurants in different markets of federal capital are serving sub-standard and unhygienic food to their consumers besides fixing prices at their own.  The sub-standard and unhygienic food is causing certain digestion problems and diseases among the people who ...

The ongoing extortion war is the one of the main causes of lawlessness in Karachi, as the extortion collection is the easiest way of making money. Karachi traders pay up to Rs15 million to the extortionists, who belong to different mafias every day. Karachi has become a killing field and more than ...

ISLAMABAD - Small hotels operating in different areas of the Federal capital with a brisk pace are serving unhygienic food in an unhealthy environment to their customers and posing grave threats to human health. It has been observed that these Khokhas and Chappar hotels located along roadside or on ...

Corruption is prevalent all over the world in varying degrees but in Pakistan it has reached new heights,. Once Ghulam Farooq, former chairman of Wapda remarked that before the partition five to ten percent of the finances of any projects or deal were distributed among the government functionaries ...

KARACHI – Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) on Thursday held a paper of SSC Part-II (class X) supplementary examinations-2012 in morning and evening shifts.According to BSEK Controller Examinations Nauman Ahsan, English Paper - I for science and general groups was held in the first ...

CHINIOT - Government employees including police officials as well as civilians are reportedly using blue flashing lights and green number plates on their private vehicles here. The Federal and Punjab govt employees move in their vehicles equipped with such lights and officials number plates to ...

ISLAMABAD  – Several Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) decanting outlets are openly operating in the capital in the absence of required techniques and safety measures, putting the lives of people at risk. According to details, a large number of points situated in various areas of the city ...

ISLAMABAD (INFN) Sniffing of Samadbond, a sticking material used in furniture hardware work, is common among child drug addicts who beg on traffic signals to fulfill their addiction. Rahimuullah Yousafzai, 15, is one of the Samadbond sniffers. He lives along his family in Golra Sharif. He told ...

VEHARI - On the eve of Ramazan, the prices of daily use commodities are increasing exorbitantly as the role of 'so-called price control committees is seen nowhere in this regard. People have strongly protested against the district government for not taking steps against the price hike ahead of the ...

DASKA - The travelling on the motorcycles on rural areas roads in district has become very risky, as the incidents of bikes-snatching were rising day by day. Daska city has also become a safer place for the bike lifters, as the Daska police have failed to trace out the criminals involved in ...

SIALKOT - The misuse of the blue revolving lights and government registration green number plates on private vehicles is on peak in Sialkot districts all the four Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur tehsils. The people involved in this practice are stated to be very influential politically or ...

KARACHI - The Provincial Government, despite making tall claims, has failed to restrict the sea lords and mafias using of tidal trap nets in Sindh water. The illegal fishing not only causing decline in fish stock but also depriving thousands of fishermen of their livelihood, it was learnt. ...

LAHORE - The matter of controlling the employees appointed at General Bus Stand, Lahore for colleting the fee of AC-buses, has been observed as out of control of the government as most of the buses departing from Lahore to other cities are being overcharged Rs 250 besides the fixed bus stand fee of ...

Misuse of vehicle number plates inscribed with words 'press' is continuing without any check from Police and other authorities and is earning a bad name for members of the media. It has been learnt that a number of luxury vehicles are using "press" number plates though the vehicles do not belong to ...

LAHORE - The trend of using suparies (betel nut) and gutka (kind of tobacco) among school going children is gaining sharp momentum buzzing an alarming bell among the school administration and parents. The health authorities are yet to wake up from its deep slumber to take an appropriate action to ...