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View from abroad: Can’t live with EU — can’t live without EU

Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia have joined the long list of countries which want a so-called “road map” leading up to membership of the EU...

Purana Qila - the old city’s commercial hub

Once a large, fortified defensive structure around the city, the famed Purana Qila is now lost among the high-rise buildings that make up Rawalpindi’s commercial hub...

Before the arrival of the British to the garrison city, the old city was located at Purana Qila and known as Qila Pind Rawal...

Pucca Qila wall damage FIR registered

HYDERABAD: An FIR was registered against a suspect on Tuesday for allegedly demolishing a small portion of the fortification wall of the 18th century Pucca Qila on a complaint of a culture department official...

Court admits case of Pucca Qila wall demolition

HYDERABAD: The court of civil judge and judicial magistrate-X on Monday admitted for trial the final challan submitted by the Fort police against an accused on charges of damaging a boundary wall of Pucca Qila, a protected heritage site...

In the challan, investigating officer of the case, Rao Munawar, accused Maqsood Sarwari of damaging the Pucca Qila wall and argued the accused should, therefore, stand trial for the offence...

Qila Saifullah surgeon refuses to treat girl injured in accident

QUETTA: A girl seriously injured in an accident in Qila Saifullah district was brought here for treatment after a surgeon in the district’s government hospital refused to treat her, saying that he was not on duty...

Police sources said that Naeema was seriously injured after being hit by a speeding passenger coach in Bandat Hamandzai area of Qila Saifullah district...

Officials among six kidnapped in Qila Saifullah

QUETTA: Six people — a general manager, two engineers and a driver of the Balochistan Development Autho­ri­ty (BDA) among them — were kidnap­ped from Qila Saifullah area on Monday...

BDA General Manger Bacha Khan had gone to Murgha Faqirzai area of Qila Saifullah district with two engineers, a driver, a contactor and another man to inspect an under-construction road...

PSP plans ‘people’s court’ in Pucca Qila on 23rd

HYDERABAD: The Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) on Monday announced its plan to hold ‘people’s court’ in the Pucca Qila ground on Dec 23, when the first ever public meeting of the party is to be held...

“We will not wait for the 2018 general elections,” he said and vowed to keep raising issues of Hyderabad and Karachi which had become garbage dumps due to neglect by civic agencies and elected representatives...

Toll in Qila Saifullah blast rises to six

QUETTA: Death toll in Thursday night’s explosion in Qila Saifullah has increased to six as officials have found four more bodies in the debris of the house which was destroyed in the powerful explosion...

An official of Qila Saifullah district administration said that most of the bodies were found in pieces, adding that they were shifted to the District Hospital for identification...

SC orders Qila Abdullah police to arrest suspect over marriage proposal threat

QUETTA: The Supreme Court ordered the Balochistan inspector general and deputy commissioner and police officer of Qila Abdullah district on Wednesday to arrest and produce before it within 10 days a man involved in firing at the house of Obaidullah to pressurise him to marry off his 10-year-old sister with the accused...

Mr Obaidullah, a resident of the Gulistan area of Qila Abdullah, said in his application that Din Mohammad, an old...

Three FC men injured in motorcycle blast in Qila Abdullah

QUETTA: Three Frontier Corps personnel were injured in a bomb blast near the Shella Bagh area of Qila Abdullah district on Friday...

Three killed in Qila Abdullah tribal clash

QUETTA: Three people were killed and eight others injured in a clash between two rival factions of Ghabizai tribe in Qila Abdullah, a district at the border with Afghanistan, on Thursday...

The armed men from both sides continued attacking each other’s positions for several hours during which they used automatic weapons, Deputy Commissioner Qila Abdullah Tariq Mengal told Dawn when reached over telephone...

Portion of main entrance of Hyderabad's Pucca Qila collapses

A part of the main entrance of the 18th century Pucca Qila in Hyderabad collapsed on Thursday afternoon...

Conservation work on the Qila's fortification wall was being carried out for some time by the Sindh culture department's Planning and Development Monitoring Implementation Cell (PDMIC)...

Pucca Qila contractor booked for destroying antiquity

HYDERABAD: A case was registered against a contractor for destroying antiquity after culture department officials mishandled preservation work of Pucca Qila’s facade of the main gate and its fortification walls, leading to its complete destruction...

A Jan 7, 2021 letter seen by Dawn — and confirmed by DG Kanasro — written by resident engineer Nadeem Manzoor Shah to the director of Pucca Qila, said “the main entrance gate of Pucca...

Immediate cancellation of contract for Pucca Qila conservation recommended

HYDERABAD: A four-member committee formed by the Sindh culture minister to look into the Sept 2 collapse of historic Pucca Qila’s facade, has submitted its interim report to the department, recommending cancellation of the contract of Waliullah Bhutto and Saddam Bhutto immediately considering the fact that there was no provision for “demolishing protected heritage”, and also stern disciplinary action against the persons concerned... ...

Karachi airport's demarcation map changed multiple times for alleged land occupation: FIA probe

A probe by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has revealed that the boundary of the Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA's) land at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport (JIAP) was shifted multiple times in the past in connivance with CAA and revenue department officials, purportedly to illegally occupy the property...

The suspects include former federal minister retired Capt Haleem Siddiqi, former Karachi administrator Saqib Soomro,...