US spent $113m in Pakistan during 2018: report
WASHINGTON: The United States spent $113...
3 million on key programmes and activities in Pakistan during 2018, says a US State Department report released on Friday
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PakistanPM opens work on metro bus route to new airport
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday inaugurated the construction of a metro bus route to connect the federal capital with the New Islamabad International Airport near Fatehjang...
6 kilometre-long route from Peshawar Mor to the new airport will be completed before Independence Day this year as the premier has already announced that he would inaugurate the new airport in August...
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ArchiveEncroachments crop up along metro bus route
RAWALPINDI: Though the metro bus project worth Rs44...
81 billion is still not fully complete, encroachments have started cropping up on the acquired land adjacent to the bus stations...
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ArchiveRoute of Peoples bus service to be expanded to Clifton, DHA
KARACHI: On the demand of citizens and increasing popularity of the Sindh Peoples Intra-District Bus Service, the transport department is set to start the service in Clifton, Defence Housing Authority and Gulshan-i-Hadeed routes very soon...
According to a statement issued on Monday, the decision has been taken in a meeting chaired by Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, who also holds the portfolio of transport...
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ArchiveAnother route of ‘red bus’ being launched today
KARACHI: The Peoples Bus Service, popularly known as red bus, will begin operation on another route in the metropolis from Wednesday (today)...
The new route will start from North Nazimabad’s Five Star Chowrangi via KDA Chowrangi, Nazimabad Eidgah, Liaquatabad No 10, Esa Nagri, Civic Centre, National Stadium, Karsaz, Nursery, FTC Building, Korangi Road, KPT Interchange and Shan Chowrangi in Korangi...
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ArchiveFirst route of electric bus service launched in Karachi
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Friday launched the first route of the electric bus service under its Peoples Bus Service programme...
The electric bus will ferry passengers from Karachi Airport to Seaview...
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PakistanSindh CM orders removal of encroachments from Karachi Circular Railway route
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday ordered concerns authorities to remove encroachments to clear the route of Karachi Circular Railways (KCR)...
He informed the meeting that he found encroachments along the route...
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PakistanCareem, Uber given 7 days to obtain Karachi route permits from Sindh govt
Sindh Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah on Monday asked his staff to write to ride-sharing services companies Careem and Uber and direct them to obtain their Karachi route permits from the provincial government within seven days or risk termination of services, DawnNewsTV reported...
The minister ordered that Careem and Uber be told to "get their route permits from the provincial government within seven days", adding that a failure...
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PakistanChecklist prepared as Sindh govt, ride-hailing firms may clinch deal on route permits
KARACHI: As the ride-hailing services and the Sindh government come close to resolving issues of route permits, the provincial authorities have prepared a checklist for the companies to address security of the people using them after they “received a few complaints of crime-related activities being executed through these vehicles”, said a top official on Monday...
The disclosure came from the top when Sindh Transport Minister Syed...
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ArchiveRoute of Orange Line being redesigned, Sharjeel tells Sindh Assembly
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on Monday informed that the route of Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service, the 3...
Responding to a call attention notice given by Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s lawmaker from Orangi Town Ali Khurshidi, Transport Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that certain aspects had not been taken into account when the route of Orange Line was designed...
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ArchiveTour de Sindh riders reach Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Tour de Sindh cycle race partcipants were greeted with a warm welcome when they reached Hyderabad on Monday ...
The cyclists paddled their way to University of Sindh, Jamshoro where Vice Chancellor Prof...
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ArchiveCOAS visits Sindh Regimental Centre Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Sindh Regimental Centre, Hyderabad, on Thursday and laid floral wreath on Yadgar-i-Shuhada to pay homage to martyrs of Sindh Regiment who laid down their lives for the defence of the motherland...
The COAS later pinned ranks to Lieutenant General Nadeem Raza as Colonel Commandant of the Sindh Regiment at a special ceremony which was attended by a large number of...
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ArchiveParts of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas districts stay shut on MQM call for Sindh-wide shutdown
HYDERABAD: A partial strike was observed in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas districts while the routine life in other parts of Sindh remained unaffected on Saturday in response to a call for a business and transport shutdown in the province given by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as part of its ‘nationwide day of mourning’ against the killing of four of its activists in Karachi a day earlier...
Sindh Rangers claimed that the MQM...
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ArchiveParts of Hyderabad district shut on MQM’s call for Sindh-wide strike
HYDERABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) call for a Sindh-wide strike on Wednesday was responded positively in the Hyderabad and Latifabad talukas and parts of Mirpurkhas city but general ignored by people of all other interior districts...
In Hyderabad district, main markets, bazaars and shops remained closed and vehiclar traffic off the road in two talukas, Hyderabad and Latifabad, but the routine life in Qasimabad was not...
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ArchiveFawad Chaudhry blames Sindh govt for Covid-19 situation in Karachi and Hyderabad
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday blamed the Sindh government's poor governance for the worsening Covid-19 situation in Karachi and Hyderabad, noting that the percentage of vaccinated people in the two cities was low compared to the rest of the country...
"We do not want to criticise the Sindh government but Karachi and Hyderabad are the most behind in vaccination which is why most...
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