LANDI KOTAL: The Rs220 million scheme to supply water to Landi Kotal is in jeopardy as the survey conducted for exploration of water sources has revealed considerable depletion of underground water table and drying up of decades-old natural wells in the region due to prolonged dry spell...
The survey revealed that the underground water table had considerably depleted while the quantity of water running in natural springs on ground...
KARACHI: The Ladies Horticulture Club, Karachi, launched a new edition of their classic book Nature’s Bounty — Gardening, Flower Arranging, Preserves of Garden Produce at the Horticulture Society of Pakistan’s (HSP) Garden Centre here on Saturday...
This time it is a coffee-table book with colour photographs to enable easy identification of plants and concepts...
KARACHI: Three opposition parties on Monday decided to table a no-confidence motion in the Sindh Assembly against Deputy Speaker Syeda Shehla Raza for misusing her authority while chairing the assembly sessions to silence opposition lawmakers...
“All options are on the table...
In a statement he urged the international community to boost efforts at bringing ‘Israeli and Palestinian delegations back to the negotiating table”...
Speaking to different delegations at his office on Sunday, Mr Rasheed said the silence of PMl-N Punjab rulers over massive electricity loadshedding was criminal and they had lost their moral stand to continue holding the power in the province...
LAHORE: Opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly have decided to attend assembly proceedings wearing black armbands and table a joint resolution demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation...
The measures are being planned in view of the absence of the nine-to-five office timings of senior bureaucrats and expectation from them to deliver as leaders of the administrative machinery...
“That doesn’t look good,” said Taskin Padir, a professor at Northeastern University, noting Val’s $2 million price tag...
LIVERPOOL: Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri was full of praise for his players after their 3-2 win at Everton ensured that they will top the Premier League table at Christmas...
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Tuesday that Pakistan is making serious efforts for peace in Afghanistan but the country alone is not responsible to bring the Afghan Taliban on the table for dialogue...
In an apparent response to Afghan president's recent speech, in which he said Afghanistan "no longer expects Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table", FO spokesman Nafees Zakaria clarified that Pakistan condemns...
LAHORE: Religious parties have decided to propose a new women protection bill in the National Assembly and Senate in place of the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act, 2015...
A 24-member steering committee, headed by Jamaat-i-Islami leader Liaquat Baloch, has authored the bill
The downward trend, after dramatic upward price spikes from 2007 through early 2011, has been helped by high inventory levels, sharply lower oil prices and the renewed strength of the US dollar, it said...
The FAO’s food price index hit a six-year low in August, and figures released Thursday showed it nudged up to 165...
LONDON: Boglarka Kapas won her fourth gold medal of the European Aquatics Championships on Sunday as Hungary topped the final medals table while hosts Britain wrapped up the pool action with a relay double...
However, the text avoids naming PM Sharif or his office, instead referring to: “respondents, including their family members, who have publicly volunteered for accountability or have publicly admitted holding of assets and properties or off-shore companies abroad”...