MUZAFFARABAD: The morning the Pakistan earthquake struck ten years ago, Nazish Naz had been reluctant to go to school, telling her elder sister the day felt cursed...
Her family are among hundreds of relatives struggling to trace loved ones lost in the earthquake, as all records of whether they survived were destroyed in the chaotic aftermath...
Built in 1996 the high school had developed big cracks as a result of 2005 earthquake and it was demolished in 2010 after the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) declared it unsafe for students...
Aurang Zeb, an official of the planning and development department, told this correspondent that about 204 schools were demolished when Erra declared them unsafe for students after the 2005 earthquake...
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With the massive loss of life in the 2005 earthquake still fresh in minds, Saturday’s jolts left many traumatised...
MANSEHRA: The survivors of Balakot observed the 11th anniversary of 2005 earthquake amid protests and tears on Saturday...
The earthquake had claimed over 25,000 lives in Balakot alone...
PESHAWAR: A Supreme Court bench here on Wednesday constituted the constitution of a one-man judicial commission to look into the issues related to the Oct 2005 earthquake, including the survivors’ rehabilitation and funding for reconstruction...
Orders production of inquiry report in six weeksHearing a 2005 earthquake-related petition at the principal seat in Islamabad lately, the chief justice had taken notice of the rehabilitation...
MANSEHRA: The residents will mark the 15th anniversary of the 2005 earthquake in Balakot tehsil and other parts of Hazara division today (Thursday)...
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Fifteen years have passed since a massive earthquake devastated Azad Kashmir as well as Hazara and Malakand divisions...
6 magnitude earthquake, that resulted in more than 80,000 fatalities and also affected Shangla, Battagram and Kohistan, caused damage to the buildings of government schools and hospitals in addition to displacing more than four million people...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the country’s earthquake response agency to provide details of funds spent on rehabilitation efforts in Balakot and Mansehra after the devastating 2005 quake...
During a hearing on Wednesday, Justice Ijazul Ahsan regretted that no progress had been made even after more than 17 years since the earthquake...
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank, in its first comprehensive stock-taking of infrastructure services in Asia, says although electricity access in Pakistan is in line with regional averages of 92...
5 per cent, the average interruption duration and frequency values are much higher...
The government also rejected a suggestion forwarded by Muttahida Qaumi Movement to set the maximum duration of disqualification to five years...
Noting that there was no explicit duration for disqualification set under the current law, he said, "We want the duration of disqualification to be less than five years...
KARACHI: In a late-night development, the MQM’s Coordination Committee reviewed its call for strike for Sunday, urging people to observe the strike for half a day only...
The MQM had given the strike call in protest against the Sindh government’s `anti-people’ budget for 2015-16 presented in the provincial assembly earlier in the day
ISLAMABAD: With the general election beginning to weigh heavily on the minds of all the parties, including the ruling party, the duration of loadshedding across the country has surged to between six and eight hours amid increasing payables owed to fuel suppliers and power producers as many power plants sit idle...
This is happening at a time when more than 880,000 tonnes of furnace oil, sufficient to run the country’s entire power...
The telcos have said the new measure would shake the confidence of investors in the telecom industry of Pakistan that had been one of the largest recipients of foreign direct investment...
75 for each voice call exceeding five-minute duration...
• NCOC expects six million doses in a week • Fully inoculated people to avail air travel from Sept 1 • Vaccination centres to remain closed on Muharram 9, 10 • PM aide informs UK of concern over red listISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday decided to reduce the maximum duration for the second dose from 42 to 28 days after getting assurance from Gavi that around six million doses of Covid-19 vaccine were...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has violated its act by stretching the Medical and Dental Colleges Admissions Test (MDCAT) over a period of 30 days...
As a result of this decision, not only can the same tests be given to candidates but there is also the possibility of easy questions being given to favourite students, president of Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Punjab Dr Ghulam Shabir said while talking to Dawn...