DERA GHAZI KHAN: The anti-criminal Zarb-i-Aahan operation in the riverine area of Punjab's Rajanpur district continues on Thursday, even as notorious gangster Ghulam Rasool, alias Chotoo, and his 13 men surrendered before the Pakistan Army a day earlier...
District police officer Ghulam Mubashar Maken told Dawn that some gangs had not surrendered as yet and put up resistance against security forces, but maintained that forces would...
An alarming summary presented by the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department to Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar almost two weeks ago had revealed that "no workplace and residential area of any town is disease-free" in the provincial capital, it emerged on Monday...
“Massive change visible in Baloki, Punjab a year after the government initiated its tree plantation drive...
As an environmentalist, it gives me the greatest satisfaction to leave a green Pakistan for our coming generations,” Prime Minister Imran Khan stated in a tweet, on Friday...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court’s hearing on Friday of a case relating to large-scale encroachment on Botanical Garden and unplanned construction in the Banigala area led to an interesting dispute when it emerged that the Punjab government, and not the Capital Development Authority (CDA), is the owner of the area, but the relevant record to establish the claim is missing...
A three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial,...
LAHORE: Punjab has, so far, planted rice seedlings on 70 per cent of its targeted five million acres and hopes to see the crop going beyond the target by far like the last year...
Planners think that the figure may go beyond the five million mark and they are certain that it would touch even the last year’s figures because sugarcane has hogged much larger area this season...
LAHORE: The Punjab police on Wednesday morning launched a grand counterterrorism operation in the highly complex and inaccessible hilly areas of Mianwali district, hours after some heavily equipped militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacked a police station in the area in the dead of the night...
“We have grounded many field formations of the Punjab police under a new policy, called HITS, Hunt, Impede,...
RAHIM YAR KHAN: An alleged gangster was killed while his six accomplices and a policeman were injured after Punjab police launched a ‘grand operation’ against robbers and kidnappers in the katcha area of the Indus near the Sindh border on Sunday...
Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Usman Anwar at a presser at the DPO office here said an intelligence-based operation against the outlaws was already in progress for the last...
LAHORE: Following the launch of a ‘grand operation’ against outlaws in katcha area of Rahim Yar Khan and Rajanpur, Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi is scheduled to visit the Indus riverine area on Tuesday (today) to announce a ‘massive ‘ development/infrastructure programme...
He will be accompanied by the chief secretary and police chiefs of Punjab and the Sindh...
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Recent kidnappings, threats of more strikes by some gangs and the video message of an elite police force staffer complaining about poor arrangements in their bunkers put a question mark on the Punjab police claim of all is well in the katcha area...
Ashok, a Hindu trader, and Altaf Solangi, a cabbie, were kidnapped from Rahimabad area of the Bhong police station a day before Eid...
Fakhar Zaman was once banned from playing cricket in his village and beaten by his brothers because he was simply too good — but he has returned a hero after his starring role in Pakistan's Champions Trophy win...
His eyes bright, the tall 27-year-old posed for selfies and was garlanded with flowers as he was welcomed back to his home in Katlang in northwestern Pakistan...
KARACHI: A three-member observer team of the United Nations (UN) visited the Working Boundary at Kundanpur village in Sialkot on Saturday to review damages caused by firing at the border, said a report published on Radio Pakistan...
Read: At least 11 killed as Indo-Pak border troops exchange fireAccording to Punjab Rangers spokesman Major Waheed Bukhari, the United Nations Military Observers group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) team...
The disease is not that prevalent in the country, but Pakistan is still one of the high risk areas because people do not have awareness about the disease,” he said...
At least nine individuals lost their lives while 29 others were injured when a coach carrying Pakistan Navy personnel and their families from Ormara to Karachi developed a mechanical fault and fell into a deep ditch...
Travelling through the dangerous turns in the Buzi Top area, the coach developed a mechanical fault and fell into a deep ditch...
ISLAMABAD: The Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority (NAPHDA) is looking to develop a part of Blue Area on a public-public partnership model with the Capital Development Authority (CDA)...
Blue Area is acquired commercial area belonging to the CDA, where the NAPHDA now wants to begin a joint venture...
Iran is investigating an incident in which at least two Iranians were shot dead this week at the border with Pakistan, and Islamabad has handed over the body of one of the victims, the Iranian foreign ministry said a week ago...
“The series of violent events and unrest began on February 22, when Revolutionary Guards are alleged to have shot and killed at least 10 fuel couriers, known as sookhtbar, in Sistan and Baluchestan province at...