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Crashed Air Blue flights black box found: |
ISLAMABAD: Investigation teams on Saturday found the black box of Air Blue’s flight ED 202 which crashed on Thursday in Margalla Hills, according to a DawnNews report. There were 152 people on board the ill-fated plane which crashed just as it was getting ready to land...
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ISLAMABAD:
31/07/2010 |
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Three killed in target killing incidents in Karachi |
KARACHI: Three people were killed on Friday night in incidents of target killing in Karachi. Unknown gunmen shot a person in Baldi Town No.4 and his body was transferred to Civil Hospital....
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KARACHI:
31/07/2010 |
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At least 410 killed, over 400,000 affected by KP flood |
PESHAWAR: As raging floods wreaked havoc across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some Fata regions, inundating large parts of Nowshera, Charsadda and Swat, ...
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PESHAWAR:
31/07/2010 |
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Power tariff may go up by another 24pc |
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided in principle to increase electricity tariff by another 24 per cent this year, introduce reformed general sales tax (GST) on Oct 1, and cut federal and provincial expenditures by up to Rs280 billion. ...
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ISLAMABAD:
31/07/2010 |
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Five Wapda personnel drown in Attock |
ATTOCK: A director and four other Wapda personnel drowned after their jeep plunged into the Ghazi Barotha Hydropower channel on Friday. The service road of the channel, Wapda officials said,...
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ATTOCK:
31/07/2010 |
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Monsoon system over KP, Gilgit-Baltistan weakening |
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: The monsoon system, which generated torrential rains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and north Punjab in league with a strong westerly wave, weakened on Friday evening,...
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LAHORE / ISLAMABAD:
31/07/2010 |
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Spur blown up to save Jinnah barrage |
MIANWALI: As an ‘exceptionally high’ flood in the Indus threatens the Jinnah barrage in Kalabagh, the authorities blasted on Friday the spur on the right bank of the river. The breach in the right bank...
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MIANWALI:
31/07/2010 |
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Sindh wants army called in as flood threat looms |
KARACHI: The Sindh government has sought an immediate deployment of the army to help deal with the situation arising out of the passage of what is being described as a ‘super flood’ in the Indus river through the Guddu...
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KARACHI:
31/07/2010 |
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ISI chief Lt Gen Shuja Pasha calls off London visit |
ISLAMABAD: Revealing the division within its ranks, the government struggled all day on Friday to come up with a unified response to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s disparaging terror remarks....
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ISLAMABAD:
31/07/2010 |
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Tail recovery raises hopes for black box |
ISLAMABAD: The mystery of missing ‘black box’ is almost over as the tail of the plane that crashed into the Margalla Hills was found on Friday. “We have found the plane’s tail which carries the black box,”...
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ISLAMABAD:
31/07/2010 |
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Shujaat convoy trapped in flash floods |
PESHAWAR: The convoy of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, President Pakistan Muslim League (Q), was trapped in floodwater at Peshawar-Charsadda Road, when he was on his way to view the situation of flood-hit Nowshera. "I have seen the death nearer to me...
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PESHAWAR:
30/07/2010 |
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Record water inflow at Tarbela, Mangla dams |
LAHORE: The flood situation in the country could further worsen with record inflow of water at Tarbela and Mangla dams. The inflow and outflow of water in Tarbela has been recorded 7,10,100 cusecs and 5,27,200 cusecs respectively....
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30/07/2010 |
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Blast damages Nato oil tanker in Quetta |
QUETTA: Unidentified assailants on Friday blew up a Nato oil tanker near the western by-pass in Quetta, a private television channel reported. The Afghanistan-bound oil tanker that started travelling from Karachi had reached Quetta’s Akhtarabad area early on Friday...
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QUETTA:
30/07/2010 |
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Floods kill at least 313 in KP, AJK |
PESHAWAR: The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 313 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides....
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PESHAWAR:
30/07/2010 |
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Search for black box continues at Margalla hills |
ISLAMABAD: Investigators spent a third day searching Friday for the black box of a Pakistani jet that crashed into Islamabads hills, killing all 152 people on board, officials said. ...
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ISLAMABAD:
30/07/2010 |
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