KARACHI: Pakistan Navy in coordination with the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) conducted the sea, or practical, phase of environment-friendly exercise Barracuda-VI in the North Arabian Sea near Gadani on Wednesday...
The exercise, conducted to rehearse oil spill control procedures and contingency mechanisms, became the need of the hour after the catastrophic and massive oil spillage at Karachi by MV Tasman Spirit in 2003... ...
KARACHI: A biennial emergency drill to check the response level of all agencies concerned in case of an emergency situation at Karachi airport was conducted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Saturday during which it was discovered that the response time was one minute, seventeen seconds and not the standard two minutes...
At least 12 people, including three teenagers, of two families drowned at Karachi’s Hawksbay beach on Saturday evening after they were swept away by strong waves, police officials said...
The incident occurred when the families were picnicking at the popular beach despite the ban on swimming imposed by the provincial government’s Home Department during the monsoon season due to rough waters...
KARACHI: Karachi Platinum team secured top position in the third edition of the KCSA Karachi Beach Games which concluded amid great fanfare and success here as over 800 players and officials participated in it at the Clifton beach recently...
Karachi Platinum finished with 1248 points to clinch the Dr...
KARACHI: The Executive Board of DHA in a meeting chaired by its President Commander 5 Corps Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar decided to rename Beach Avenue on Seaview in DHA Phase VIII as Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue — in recognition of the philanthropist’s legendary services to the humanity...
It pointed out that Beach Avenue is the most popular road of the metropolis which is frequented by the people visiting the sea in large numbers for...
“Karachi has the sea!”Checkmate...
Clifton Beach has long been a source of pride for Karachiites...
Karachi’s largest multi-class public space, Clifton Beach, is shrinking and becoming increasingly inaccessible...
How do Karachiites want the space to develop? A group of concerned citizens is trying to find out“Karachi has the sea!”Checkmate...
The MV Heng Tong 77, a container ship stranded at Karachi’s Seaview beach, was freed from the spot on Tuesday and tugged to the port at Keamari for repair work, said Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Maritime Affairs Mahmood Maulvi...
The rescue operation for the ship was jointly undertaken by Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, Pakistan Navy and Karachi Port Trust (KPT) teams,According to the KPT, the cargo ship coming from...
KARACHI: Following a successful reflotation operation, the beached cargo ship MV Heng Tong 77 was pulled back to deep waters at high tide on Tuesday...
Sometimes the waves also threw it back a few metres towards the beach...
KARACHI: An environmental tribunal has suspended the Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) approval accorded by the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) to a project meant for allegedly commercialising the seafront in the name of development by the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC)...
89 acres, which entails the development of one-kilometre-long Seaview beach...
Darakhshan police on Saturday detained three horsemen on allegations of misbehaving with and trying to defraud a YouTube vlogger from Scotland, Dale Philip, at Karachi's Seaview beach...
"My first real negative experience in Karachi...
Four people drowned at Karachi’s Hawkesbay beach on Sunday as the authorities struggled to implement the ban imposed on swimming by the Karachi commissioner in view of ongoing torrential rains and high tides in the sea...
Senior medico-legal officer Dr Summaiya Syed said Nihal and Ubaid’s bodies were brought to Civil Hospital Karachi but their relatives took them away without medico-legal formalities...
SEOUL: North Korea is believed to be preparing to launch a ballistic missile ahead of an upcoming joint naval drill by the US and South Korea, a news report said Saturday, citing a government source...
The US navy said that a US aircraft carrier will lead the drill in the coming week, a fresh show of force against North Korea as tensions soar over the hermit state’s weapons programme...
GUJRAT: A drill/mock exercise for disaster management was organized at the premises of the University of Gujrat on Friday by the Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) in collaboration with Gujrat District Administration and Nawaz Sharif Medical College (NSMC)...
Teams from Rescue 1122, Edhi, Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, Bomb Disposal Squad, Red Crescent, Al-Khidmat Foundation, police, elite force, TMA fire brigade...
But instead of a nuclear test or big missile launch, North Korea deployed a large number of long-range artillery units in the region of Wonsan on its east coast for a live-fire drill, South Korea’s military said...
“North Korea is conducting a large-scale firing drill in Wonsan areas this afternoon,” the South’s Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement...