ISLAMABAD: Tobacco is grown on more than four million hectares of land in Pakistan, which could have been used to grow food for approximately 20 million people...
The situation is a bit better in Islamabad, the capital of the country with its residents more aware and more health conscious...
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman visited the headquarters of People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) China on Monday...
The air chief was given a briefing on the working of PLAAF...
A Pak-China joint air exercise is in full swing at China's Korla Air Base, Pakistan Air Force's (PAF) media department said on Thursday...
The contingents from both sides participating in the Shaheen-VI exercise consist of combat pilots, air defence controllers and technical ground crew, PAF said...
China may be testing a new, long-range air-to-air missile that could take out early warning aircraft and aerial refuelling aircraft, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday, after pictures of the new missile surfaced online...
Air force researcher Fu Qianshao told the newspaper he believed the missile was designed to hit distant high-value targets, such as early warning aircraft, normally outside actual combat zones...
The air force of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been ordered “not to escalate” a civil aviation dispute with regional rival Qatar, a military official said on Tuesday...
I have many reasons to write in memory of the venerated Air Marshal Asghar Khan — a protégé of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he was my role model from the age of 19 when I joined the Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) in 1952...
I first heard about Asghar Khan, who was at the time a wing commander, from my instructor at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Academy in Risalpur, who narrated to me the historic event of Jinnah’s visit to...
Air Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan was designated as the new chief of air staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) by the federal government on FridayAir Marshal Mujahid Khan will take command on March 19, when incumbent Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman retires from his post...
Air Marshal Khan was first commissioned in the GD (P) Branch of the PAF in December 1983...
Lahore's air quality remained 'hazardous' with an air quality ranking of 447, according to Air Visual's Air Quality Index (AQI) list on Wednesday...
The Punjab capital is ranked the second most polluted city in the world, according to Air Visual, which records air pollution levels across the globe in real time...
KABUL: An aircraft packed with 60 tonnes of Afghan plants for medicinal use marked the opening of the first air cargo corridor between Afghanistan and India on Monday...
LAHORE: The Punjab Council of the Arts (PCA) is going to install fiberglass chairs in the amphitheatre of Open Air Theatre at the Lawrence Gardens...
Now the council wants to put in the theater some 500 fiberglass chairs that, it estimates, would cover half of the theatre space...
Soaring pollution halted practice for the Australian Open and delayed qualifying on Tuesday as smoke from raging bushfires hit the build-up to the season's opening Grand Slam...
Slovenian qualifier Dalila Jakupovic retired with breathing difficulties, but it was not immediately clear whether her problems were related to the smoggy air...
MELBOURNE: Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley defended the decision to hold qualifying matches this week even though Melbourne’s air quality was among the worst in the world because of smoke from wildfires devastating parts of the country...
Tiley said on Thursday the conditions were under a threshold set after Australian Open organisers consulted with with sports and medical experts, and scientists from the...
ISLAMABAD: A three-member Pakistan squad will proceed to Australia on July 22 to feature in Victorian Open and Australian Open, Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) secretary Group Captain Aamir Nawaz said on Tuesday...
“We will send three players — Nasir Iqbal, Farhan Zaman and Tayyab Aslam — to represent the country in Victorian Open and Australian Open events,” Aamir said...
PARIS: The French Open was postponed for about four months because of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting from May to September and juggling the tennis calendar...
The French Open’s new dates place it right after the hard-court US Open, which currently is scheduled to be held in New York from Aug 31 to Sept 13...
BEIRUT: Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the centre of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria on Sunday, rescue workers and residents said...
They said at least six strikes had hit a busy market place in the heart of the city, several government buildings and residential areas...