SHANGLA: Students of the government high school for boys, Amnavi, here will again sit under the open sky when schools reopen in Shangla district on Feb 24 after the winter vacations...
Built in 1996 the high school had developed big cracks as a result of 2005 earthquake and it was demolished in 2010 after the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) declared it unsafe for students...
MUZAFFARABAD: Prayer gatherings and protest demonstrations went hand in hand across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday, as the region observed 12th anniversary of the devastating 2005 earthquake amid lament that promises by the authorities in Muzaffarabad and Islamabad remained “unfulfilled” to this day...
Hundreds of survivors from the worst-hit part of the AJK capital had spent their first night after being struck by the...
SHANGLA: The residents of Ranzro village in Chakesar tehsil here have demanded of the provincial government to order completion of the lone government primary school for boys which has been left incomplete by the contractor since 2005...
Shaukat Ali, the contractor, told Dawn he had taken contract of the school in 2005 at Rs500,000, which was too low, forcing him to leave the work halfway...
The sample was sent in 2005 to Camp Zama southwest of Tokyo and was destroyed in 2009, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said...
In all, 69 labs have received live anthrax samples since 2005...
LONDON: The IAAF has initiated disciplinary action against 28 athletes after they retested samples from the 2005 and 2007 world championships with new technology that can uncover previously undetectable substances and found 32 adverse doping cases...
The tests were the second for samples from the 2005 world championships in Helsinki...
ISLAMABAD: Despite the billions supposedly spent on the reconstruction of areas wrecked by the Kashmir earthquake of 2005, on ground development does not reflect much improvement...
Mansehra – one of the regions worst-affected by the Oct 8 earthquake – remained a top priority for the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra)...
Naz's parents' grief is growing as the ten-year anniversary of the October 8, 2005 tragedy approaches...
They have searched for their daughter in hospitals, schools, morgues, train stations, bus stops ? and even in brothels ? and have found no sign...
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of photographs featuring Pakistan was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that occurred on October 8, 2005...
Over 30 missions in Islamabad contributed images taken by ambassadors and secretaries during their visits...
In absence of proper buildings, thousands of students of such schools have been getting education for 10 years in the environment not fit for education, according to education department officials and an educationist...
Of the total damaged educational institutions, the Erra was responsible for the reconstruction of 2909 institutions while it had refused to reconstruct 760 schools because such schools were demolished after the Erra’s...
“Whenever I look at the mountain, I am reminded of that harrowing day,” he says, remembering October 8, 2005 when much of northern Pakistan experienced an earthquake that turned towns and villages in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) into graveyards...
The geological activity born out of this collision is the reason for the unstable seismic activity in the region...
MUZAFFARABAD: People observed the tenth anniversary of the Oct 8, 2005 earthquake here on Thursday by participating in different events, where they expressed gratitude to those who had helped them in the aftermath of the massive tragedy...
Take a look: Remembering Oct 8, 2005: The day the earth shookAzad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed laid a wreath at the monument and offered fateha for the departed souls... ...
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court Monday sentenced five Islamist militants to 10 years in prison for carrying out explosions in 2005 as part of a deadly nationwide bombing campaign that shook the nation...
The twin blasts were part of synchronised bombings carried out on August 17, 2005 across all Bangladesh cities and almost all districts that left two people dead...
SHANGLA: Work on the construction of rural health centre in Makhozi area of Puran tehsil, which was destroyed in the October 2005 earthquake, is still incomplete, in-charge of the hospital, Dr Iftikhar Ahmed, complained on Sunday...
Talking to Dawn, he said the building was demolished by Erra after 2005 earthquake and work on it was started in 2010, but the contractor left it after carrying out work for only six months...
ISLAMABAD: At around 2am on Saturday, the residents of the capital were awoken by a 5...
With the massive loss of life in the 2005 earthquake still fresh in minds, Saturday’s jolts left many traumatised...
Emerging market governments and companies around the globe have rushed in recent years to take advantage of rock-bottom global borrowing costs and investor hunger for yield...
0tr in 2005, the Moody’s report found, thanks largely to private-sector borrowing...