Punjab CM launches electric bus service in Lahore – Pakistan
LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz formally launched the first electric bus service in the provincial capital on Friday. Transport Minister Bilal Akbar briefed the chief minister about the electric bus service pilot project. It was informed that the bus has a GPS location recorder, Wi-Fi, USB port and other facilities. It will have a capacity […]
UK team meets PIA officials, inspects flight safety – Pakistan
RAWALPINDI: A delegation of the UK’s Department for Transport currently visiting Pakistan to evaluate aviation safety standards held a meeting with the PIA management on Friday. The UK team visited PIA headquarters and inspected the national flag carrier’s flight operations, flight safety and engineering. The successful completion of the UK DfT team’s visit will pave […]
Polio pains – Newspaper – DAWN.COM
BEING one of the two countries — out of 194 member states of the World Health Organisation — that have not been able to eradicate polio is a persistent national embarrassment; 192 countries have managed to get rid of the virus, which cripples children for life. These include the poorest of the poor countries in […]
DeepSeek revolution – Pakistan – DAWN.COM
LAST summer at the Paris Olympics, Arshad Nadeem stunned everyone by winning the first gold medal for Pakistan in the javelin event. Unlike his competitors, who had been trained in well-equipped outdoor spaces with state-of-the-art javelins, Nadeem practised with homemade javelins. It was also reported that for several years, Nadeem had only a single javelin […]
Trump says Blackhawk was ‘flying too high’; black boxes found – World
WASHINGTON: In what appeared to be a major disclosure about the investigation, US President Donald Trump said on Friday the Blackhawk helicopter that collided with a regional passenger jet in Washington, D.C. was flying too high at the time of the accident. The US Army did not immediately respond to a request for comment. US […]
Five more Morocco boat survivors return – Pakistan
GUJRAT: Five more Morocco boat tragedy survivors reached back here on Friday, while the arrival of 10 bodies of the deceased Pakistani immigrants further delayed, according to official sources. The five survivors belonging to Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin and Hafizabad districts of Punjab landed at Islamabad airport a day after two flights had brought seven survivors […]
NA speaker notifies 300pc hike in lawmakers’ pay – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Brushing aside criticism over a proposed increase in their salaries, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved a major raise for parliamentarians. Although the raise amounts to an around 300 per cent increase, the government has justified it by comparing it with the salaries being drawn by federal secretaries. A source in the National Assembly […]
College official escapes with over Rs0.9m fees
Listen to article KARACHI: An office superintendent of the Government College for Women, Nazimabad, allegedly escaped with huge amount of money that he had collected as fees from the students. The college principal, Prof. Shehla Bashir reported the matter to the Rizvia police who subsequently registered a case against the absconding superintendent. The principal informed the police […]
Speakers urge using Sindhi in all domains of communication
HYDERABAD: The 1940 Pakistan Resolution promised provincial autonomy and equal rights to all constituent provinces, but over eight decades later, advocates for Sindhi language rights continue to struggle for the realisation of that vision. The views were expressed at the launching event of a month-long campaign, ‘Sindhi language, national language’, at the Sindhi Language Authority(SLA) […]
Youth Parliament discusses interfaith harmony policy
KARACHI: Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency — PILDAT’s Policy Dialogue on the topic, “National Interfaith Harmony Policy” was organised in Karachi as part of the sixth session of the 18th Youth Parliament on Friday. The 18th Youth Parliament Pakistan convened its sixth session in Karachi bringing together 162 young members, attending in person and […]