Sharif family win legal battle of Panamagate; Victory comes after nearly five years
ISLAMABAD: The Sharif family has won its first legal battle in the Panamagate case after almost five years, with the Islamabad High Court (IHC)...
Initial estimates of flood losses are estimated to over $30bn: Dr Aisha
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha said the devastating floods caused total accumulated losses of over $30 billion according to...
UN Women, Law Ministry, INL launch a New Programme “TAHAFFUZ”
ISLAMABAD: UN Women in collaboration with the Ministry of Law & Justice and completely funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement...
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...
