KARACHI: Apropos a news report published in Dawn on Tuesday, deputy parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the National Assembly, Abdul Rashid Godil, has denied that five of his party’s MNAs have gone underground to avoid arrest, according to a statement...
“Mr Godil said the report had damaged the political standing of the MQM as it tries to portray the MQM legislators in a state of fear and going underground...
A sixth man was arrested in Britain early on Thursday as part of a probe into the bombing attack on a London Underground train last week, police said...
At least 22 people were injured in a bomb blast on a packed London Underground train on Friday...
“Terrorist incident declared at Parsons Green Underground Station,” police said in a statement...
QUETTA: Spare parts of drilling rigs worth Rs50 million were handed over to the government of Balochistan by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to accelerate work on finding locations of underground water resources...
The chief representative for Jica Pakistan, Mitsuyoshi Kawasaki, said Balochistan was facing drought-like situation in various districts and his organisation would continue to help the province for...
Two men were arrested on Wednesday over last week's London Underground terror attack in which 30 people were injured, bringing the total number of people in custody to five, police said...
Passengers heading into the British capital fled in panic after the blast as the train was about to depart Parsons Green underground station in West London at 8...
Parsons Green is one of the surface stations of London’s underground network...
WASHINGTON: Human activity is leading to the rapid draining of about one-third of the planet’s largest underground water reserves and it is unclear how much fluid remains in them, two new studies have found...
The Indus Basin aquifer of Pakistan and north-western India is the second-most overstressed, and the Murzuk-Djado Basin in northern Africa is third, scientists said...
HYDERABAD: Prominent nuclear scientist and chairman of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project in Thar, Dr Samar Mubarakmand, on Wednesday appealed to Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to fully fund the UCG project of 100 megawatts electricity and end the power crisis...
“This (UCG) is an environment-friendly and low-cost project because all the work is carried out underground without harming environment,” he said...
LONDON: London’s Underground staff are to hold two further 24-hour strikes later this month, threatening more chaos for commuters already hit by strikers protesting plans for night services...
Millions of Londoners were forced to walk, cycle or take packed buses to and from work last Thursday as Underground staff staged their second strike in a month over plans to run trains all night at weekends...
TEHRAN: Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage on Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher units, which officials said could be used if “enemies make a mistake”...
The missile launch and underground footage followed pressure from lawmakers to prove the military had not been weakened by the deal...
MUMBAI: Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai’s commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers’ lives are not put at risk...
“The entire modus operandi of the commercial sex industry is changing,” said Shailja Mehta at Dasra, a non-profit in Mumbai that has examined sex trafficking in India...
He said continued extraction of underground water could cause the surface of the ground to sink and would affect agriculture...
TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a new underground missile depot on Tuesday with state television showing Emad precision-guided missiles in store which the United States says can take a nuclear warhead and violate a 2010 UN Security Council resolution...
Tasnim news agency and state television video said the underground facility, situated in mountains and run by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was inaugurated by the speaker of parliament, Ali...
BEIJING: Rescuers on Friday pulled out four miners who had spent 36 days trapped underground in a collapsed mine in eastern China...
The miners told rescuers they were in underground passages that were intact, and rescuers began slowly drilling a route to save them...
Two new studies published on June 16 by Nasa scientists say that human activity is leading to the rapid draining of about one-third of the planet’s largest underground water reserves and it is unclear how much water remains in them...
They had long suspected that people in densely populated regions such as northwest India, Pakistan and North Africa, were taxing the underground water supply...