SUKKUR, Dec 13 (EW): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway (M-6) during a ceremony in Sukkur. The 306km Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway is the last part of the Peshawar-Karachi motorway. With its completion, all major cities of Pakistan will be connected via motorways. The project will be completed over a period of 30 months …
KARACHI, Dec 12 (EW): Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh has announced that the trial run started for generating an additional 1320 Mega Watt (MW) of electricity from the Thar coal power plant that will be included in the national grid soon. Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh said the trial run to generate 1320 megawatts of electricity from the Shanghai Electric …
QUETTA, Dec 12 (EW): Pakistan has strongly condemned the unprovoked and indiscriminate Afghan shelling in Chaman, Balochistan that killed at least six people and injured over a dozen. In a statement, the Foreign Office said such unfortunate incidents are not in keeping with the brotherly ties between the two countries and mentioned that the authorities in the neighboring country …
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (AP): This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan, one of the three costliest US hurricanes on record, devastating droughts in Europe and China, a drought-triggered famine in Africa and deadly heat waves all over. Yet this wasn’t climate change at its worst. With all that death and destruction in 2022, …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 (EW): Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha accompanied by a five-member delegation arrived in Islamabad on Saturday on a three-day official visit. The visit, taking place at the invitation of Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, will be Taha’s first country visit since assuming office in November 2021. They will have a delegation-level …
Pakistan were all out for 202 in the second test against England in Multan on Saturday, conceding a first-innings lead of 79 on day two of the contest. Babar Azam (75) and Saud Shakeel (63) scored half-centuries for the home side. Left-arm spinner Jack Leach was pick of the English bowlers claiming 4-98. England, on their first test tour …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 (EW): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has amended its affidavit for elections candidates after disqualification of former PTI leader Faisal Vawda. The candidates have to submit the amended version of the affidavit in future elections of the Senate and assembly membership. A clause related to misinformation has been added in the new affidavit under which …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8 (EW): The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday urged the international community to take notice, as it claimed neighbouring state of India was involved in state-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan. FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch in her weekly media briefing regretted the United States’ (US) decision to include Pakistan’s name in the list of religious freedoms, while not …
LAHORE, Dec 8 (EW): With Lahore being declared calamity-hit due to intense smog, the provincial government on Wednesday decided to take a page from the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) contingency playbook and directed to close private businesses in the province for two days a week in favor of “work from home”. A notification to this effect was issued by Punjab …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 (EW): The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the federal government to form a special joint investigation team to investigate the murder of slain journalist Arshad Sharif, who was shot dead by Kenyan police earlier in October this year. The five-member bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial issued …
