PESHAWAR: Fata reforms, an idea with many takers in the political and bureaucratic circles, have brought in its wake a moneymaking opportunity for retired bureaucrats and the people associated with donor agencies or private consultancy firms...
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency on Monday arrested a visa consultancy owner in Defence on charges of human smuggling...
According to a spokesman, Pervaiz Kausar, owner of P&A consultancy firm in H Block, Defence, was wanted in two cases registered against him by FIA...
LAHORE: The Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company’s (PIEDMC) chairman on Friday approved the appointment of a Chinese firm as foreign consultant for technical evaluation of the Quaid-i-Azam Apparel Park (QAAP)...
Presiding over a meeting of the company’s board of directors, S
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has decided to take legal action after it learnt that the name and identity, used for filing a fake complaint to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and a frivolous writ petition before the Lahore High Court against the award of consultancy contract for Mohmand Dam Project, turned out to be of a cook, Mehboob Elahi, residing in a remote area of Choti Zerin in Dera Ghazi Khan...
In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that the Abid Ali Khan TCO “is a human smuggling organisation based in Nowshera, Pakistan, that has facilitated the unlawful smuggling of foreign nationals into the United States” and other countries...
Homeland Security Investigations’ Miami Special Agent in Charge Anthony Salisbury said their investigation revealed that this...
DESPITE investing Rs100bn in road maintenance programmes from 2005 to 2015, Sindh needs to renew its Road Master Plan 1995...
Sindh follows the same pattern and has a road network of 25,737km, including 1,365km of national highways and 2,830km of provincial highways...
KARACHI: Widespread showers in most districts of the interior of Sindh played havoc with electricity network and caused a considerable drop in the temperatures, besides crippling the routine life and badly affecting educational, trade, business and commercial activities...
Light and moderate showers started lashing upper Sindh districts of Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot-Kashmore and some parts of lower...
KARACHI: The latest hot spell of the current summer mainly in rural Sindh has left hundreds of children seriously ill with most of them badly affected by the extreme weather conditions compelling authorities to take measures to counter the emerging situation amid coronavirus pandemic, officials and sources privy to the situation said...
“A large number of children suffering from diarrhoea [caused by gastroenteritis], viral fever,...
With six humans and 13 bears killed in the last fifteen years, there appears to be no end to the human-bear conflict unless authorities act fast...
Also known as white-chested bears, these creatures are usually diurnal (active during the day), though they become nocturnal (active during the night) near human settlements...
"Currently, it can be said it is affirmative that there is the phenomenon of human-to-human transmission," he said in an interview with CCTV...
The World Health Organization said earlier an animal source seemed to be "the most likely primary source" with "some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...