SIALKOT: The ‘artificial shortage’ of bricks has slowed construction activity in Sialkot region while owners of some kilns in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur and surrounding areas are making windfall profits by selling 1,000 bricks at the rate of Rs9,000...
Some people, who are finding it hard to complete their buildings, say the rate of bricks was Rs4,800 in Sialkot region two years ago...
An Indian woman was gang-raped and then brutally murdered by men who smashed her skull with bricks after she had threatened to inform authorities, police in the northern state of Haryana, said on Monday...
“When she said to them she would complain, they hammered her skull in with bricks,” he said...
BADIN: A woman succumbed to her injuries after being beaten with stones and bricks by her husband in Tando Muhammad Khan's People's Colony area on Friday, local officials quoted witnesses as saying...
The 35-year-old mother of four was attacked with stones and bricks before her husband fled the scene, the officials said...
Examine: Land acquisition for Orange Line: Govt mulls over ‘hefty package’ to woo protesting residents“My late mother used to tell me I was a toddler when she and I migrated to Pakistan along with my father from Amritsar in Indian Punjab and we started living here in the single-room quarter,” he says, adding: “These houses you see are a product of our toil spanning all these decades...
As time passed and our families grew in size, we...
For some allottees, KMC had even stopped accepting the annual fee of Rs16,000 to Rs22,000 (the amount depending on size of the plot) and those this happened to are saying that they were deliberately turned into defaulters...
Pakistan’s largest city is also its least liveable...
A paramilitary force, Pakistan Rangers (Sindh), has been drafted to fight violent crime...
The sentiment was induced by Pakistan Central Cotton Committee’s (PCCC) review which said that no major loss was suffered by the crop and production would be close to official estimates...
The PCCC cotton review has set aside all fears and apprehensions that were afloat about the size of the crop in the light of heat wave, smog and fog impact, said Naseem Usman, chairman Karachi Cotton Brokers’ Forum...
HAVANA: US experts were briefed by Cuban authorities for the first time Wednesday on technical details of a possible partnership to tap Cuba’s deep-sea oil wealth, in another sign of warming ties between the two nations...
The United States and Cuba in December made a surprise announcement that they would end five decades of Cold War-era bad blood, and move toward normal relations
MANILA: Fans of boxer Manny Pacquiao have a new way of showing how much they love the boxing superstar — by eating him or a life-size replica cake at least...
The 41-year-old said the biggest challenges were their lack of experience in making life-size statues and formal training in cake design...
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Saira Afzal Tarar on Thursday said the implementation of the decision to enhance the size of pictorial warning on cigarette packets had been delayed for two months...
On February 11, Ms Tarar had announced that the size of the pictorial warning would be increased from the current 40 per cent to cover 85 per cent of the cigarette packets...
ONG JMEL: Tunisians have unfurled a national flag the size of 19 football pitches in a bid to set a Guinness world record and promote patriotism in the face of Islamist extremism...
But Kimmel was especially animated about one particular topic — Spicer’s debut in front of the White House press corps back in January, with his statements about Trump’s inauguration crowd size...
Kimmel pointed out that inaugural crowd size and electoral victory are two very different things, and Spicer admitted many in the White House would have rather focused on other issues...
In one of the lighter moments of his meeting with the US president at the Vatican on Wednesday, Francis made an apparent allusion to Trump’s imposing physical size...
Against that backdrop, Francis’s diplomatic advisers would no doubt have counselled the outspoken pontiff against any reference to Trump’s size, which came under considerable scrutiny during the US election campaign...
And unlike the giant planet’s familiar Great Red Spot, this newly discovered weather system is continually changing in shape and size...
”He said it was difficult to give a specific time on how long the restrictions on family size would be maintained, saying it was an issue that had to be dealt with “in line with the times”...