AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- A government health official says 21 people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a passenger van in southern Pakistan.
Sagheer Ahmed says the vehicles were traveling to the city of Karachi from (...)
AlQa'dah 25, 1432, Oct 23, 2011, SPA - The Pakistani government has added 3,400 Megawatts (MW) in the national power grid during last three years through various short and medium term measures, said Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani here on (...)
AlQa'dah 22, 1432, Oct 20, 2011, SPA -- A Pakistani nuclear power plant imposed a seven-hour emergency after heavy water leaked from a feeder pipe to the reactor, but no radiation or damage has been reported, Reuters cited an official as saying on (...)
AlQa'dah 18, 1432, Oct 16, 2011, SPA -- The death toll has risen in Pakistan, which has been inundated by a wave of torrential rains and flooding, UPI quoted officials said.
Eight people, including two children, died within the past 24 hours in (...)
Floods triggered by monsoon rains crippled Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub of Karachi on Tuesday, with few people able to make it to work or school, officials said.
Monsoon rains have killed 200 people that are sweeping through southern (...)
A Pakistani relief official says monsoon rains have killed 136 people in the south of the country and flooded hundreds of thousands of rice, cotton and sugarcane crops.
Sajjad Hayder Shah said Monday 90 of the victims had been killed over the last (...)
At least seven people were killed during the last twenty-four hours in on-going wave of violence and guerrilla war in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
Police said Pakistani government officials were among those killed and that a great majority of (...)
A senior police official says 33 people have been killed in the last 24 hours in the latest outbreak of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, according to AP.
Karachi police chief Saud Mirza said Thursday that authorities are (...)
Officials said today gunfire and grenade attacks have killed at least 10 people, including a former national lawmaker, in Pakistan's largest city, AP reported.
Senior government official Sharfuddin Memon said that former lawmaker Waja Kareem Dad (...)
Heavy rains in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir on Friday left 22 people dead, destroyed crops and marooned a large number of people.
An official of the Disaster Management Authority said that most of the casualties were reported from (...)
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Karachi and different parts of Balochistan early on Wednesday, reports said.
According to the meteorological department, the epicenter of the quake was located at Kharan district of Balochistan, ARY News (...)
The death toll in building collapse in Karachi's Lyari area has climbed to 16 as the relief workers retrieved four more dead bodies from the debris of the building.
Around two dozen people are still said to be trapped under the rubble, according to (...)
The death toll in shooting incidents during last 24 hours has reached to 22.
Tension prevails at Khokharapar, Saudabad, Majeed Colony and Sherpao Colony areas of Malir and Landhi localities of Karachi, according to a report of ARY News.
Shops and (...)
Chief security officer of President Asif Ali Zardari was attacked by unknown armed assailants late Saturday in the limits of Gulbahar police station, Geo News reported.
The armed men attacked Bilal Shaikh in 'Firdous' Colony. The assailants fled (...)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the Defence Committee of the Cabinet, scheduled to meet later today,
will deliberate on the terrorist attack at the Pakistan Navy Base Mehran.
He made these remarks while talking to (...)
Pakistani commandos cornered a team of Taliban militants in a naval base Monday after the insurgents raided the complex the night before, destroying two U.S.-supplied surveillance aircraft and killing at least 12 security officers, the navy (...)
Pakistan's navy says it appears to have regained control of a base that had been attacked and occupied by militants for more than 15 hours.
Spokesman Salman Ali said Monday commandos were still searching the sprawling facility in Karachi but that (...)
Pakistani Minister of Interior Rehman Malik expressed his condemnation of the terrorist attack on the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the city of Karachi on Wednesday.
During his visit to the Consulate's Headquarters here today, (...)
Awwal 24, 1432 / April 28, 2011, SPA -- A roadside bomb hit a bus taking Pakistani navy employees to work in Karachi on Thursday, killing five people in the third such attack this week and just days after the army chief claimed to have "broken the (...)
Bombs planted by the roadside tore through two Pakistani navy buses taking employees to work on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding more than 50 others.
The blasts took place roughly 15 minutes apart in different areas of Karachi, the (...)
Awwal 21, 1432, April 24, 2011, SPA -- Ahl Al-Hadith Central Society in Pakistan has expressed its support for the wise position of The Cooperation Council for The Arab States of The Gulf (GCC) on supporting Bahrain in confronting the conspiracy (...)
Akhir 02, 1432, March 7, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz Bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer received HMS Ship Al-Riyadh which docked at Karachi seaport today to participate in the multinational maritime exercise " Security-11".
The (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- A spokesman for Pakistan's state-owned airline says a growing strike by employees has grounded all of its flights, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, according to AP.
The strike entered its fourth day on (...)
The Pakistani Ambassador magazine has granted Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz Alghadeer the title of "Distinguished Ambassador for 2010".
The honor was granted in appreciation for the ambassador's efforts in distributing Saudi aid during (...)
Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz Alghadeer held here today a ceremony to honor all Saudi relief teams that participated in helping victims of floods in the Pakistani Sindh province.
In a speech on the occasion, the ambassador thanked all (...)