Countrywide probe launched after counterfeit medicines found in Hyderabad, Lahore
ISLAMABAD: An organised gang is producing and supplying spurious and counterfeit medicines of multinational as well as local pharmaceutical companies to different cities of...
People in flood-hit areas, suffering diseases due to lack of edible water, toilets
KARACHI: Even when thousands of people are without shelter on their heads in flood-hit areas like Sindh, Balochistan and South Punjab, but the temporary...
Pakistan’s brick workers need kilns reignited after floods
RAJANPUR: The brick kilns that dominate the small village of Aqilpur in Rajanpur of Punjab province now lie abandoned, furnaces extinguished by weeks of...
Pakistan Railways leased out 4,687 acres land in last four years
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways (PR) leased out around 4,687 acres of its land in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Multan and Sukkur during the last...
Grafting wild olives, producing other oil seeds help Pakistan become 5th oil producing country
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is spending over $4 billion ever year to import edible oil from different countries to meet the requirements of the people.
Country imports...
Nepal’s holy Bagmati River choked with black sewage, trash
KATHMANDU, Nepal: High on a mountain in the Himalayas, pristine drops fall from the mouth of a tiger statue installed at a stream thought...
Government must introduce mechanism to stop desertification
ISLAMABAD: The government must introduce a mechanism to thwart the threat of desertification in many areas of Sindh, Balochistan, and South Punjab.
According to the...
Lahore Safari Zoo takes U-turn on controversial lion auction
LAHORE: Lahore Safari Zoo has canceled the plan of auctioning 12 lions from its ever-growing pride to private buyers, saying it would instead create...
Lahore Safari Zoo to auction a dozen lions
LAHORE: Lahore Safari Zoo in order to make more space in the premises for pride that won't stop growing, decided to auction a dozen...
GO to roll out Pakistan’s first goLink Station; Revolutionary way of fueling
ISLAMABAD: Gas & Oil Pakistan Ltd. (GO) announced its plans to roll out its new and innovative fuel station concept “goLink” across Pakistan.
The goLink...
