Record-breaking levels of thick, toxic smog that have shrouded eastern Pakistan and northern India since last month can be seen in striking satellite imagery.
A huge cloud of gray smog blankets Pakistan's Punjab province and stretches out east into (...)
In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing in a violence-wracked village, as an airplane circles above it thrice.
"People ventured out. The (...)
A fiery crash between an oil tanker and a passenger bus killed at least 20 people in Pakistan, a police spokesperson and media said on Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash late Monday night or early Tuesday on a motorway near (...)
A fiery crash between an oil tanker and a passenger bus killed at least 20 people in Pakistan, a police spokesperson and media said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash late Monday night or early (...)
A fiery crash between an oil tanker and a passenger bus killed at least 20 people in Pakistan, a police spokesperson and media said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
The accident occurred on a motorway in Multan, some 350 km from Lahore reportedly (...)
Hundreds of farmers in the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana have blocked roads as they reenergise their protest against contentious farm laws, BBC reported.
Monday's call for a nationwide strike comes on the first anniversary of the laws' (...)
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the national flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, and Gulf Air, the national carrier of the kingdom of Bahrain, recently held talks to discuss their close commercial relationships and explore ways to build on the ties by (...)
A breakdown in Pakistan's national power grid plunged the country of 212 million people into darkness on Saturday night, officials said.
"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system," (...)
Al Burj beat Pepsi Deccan Knight by 18 runs to clinch the CSG Sixes 90th Saudi Nation Day Cup, sponsored by Centre Systems Group (CSG) and organized by Jeddah Cricket Association. This is the second JCA tournament after resumption of cricket (...)
Overwhelmed hospitals in Pakistan are turning away patients as coronavirus is spreading here at one of the fastest rates in the world. But facing a hard choice of salvaging a near-collapsed economy where millions have already slid into poverty from (...)
As many as 226 Pakistani Umrah performers left today King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to Multan city, where they were seen off by the Pakistani Consul General in Jeddah Khalid Majid and Deputy Consul General Shaiq Ahmed Bhutto.
This is (...)
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — All the 226 remaining Pakistani Umrah pilgrims left the Kingdom for Multan aboard a special Saudi Arabian Airlines flight Saturday morning. A total of 250 pilgrims left for Pakistan on April 15 and reached safely, Arshad (...)
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — A special Saudi Airlines flight SV-3734 carrying 254 Pakistani Umrah pilgrims left Jeddah airport for Lahore on Wednesday afternoon. Consul General of Pakistan at Jeddah Khalid Majid and Deputy Consul General Shaiq Ahmad (...)
Dubai-based flydubai has finalized an agreement with Smartwings to wet lease four Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft between Dec. 1, 2019 and Jan. 25 , 2020.
The Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance (ACMI) agreement with Smartwings will (...)
Markets and wholesale merchants across Pakistan closed on Saturday in a strike by businesses against measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund to crack down on tax evasion and bolster the country's depleted public finances.
In Karachi, (...)
INCREASING connectivity between Oman and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) destinations, SalamAir has launched non-stop flights to Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabic, as well as four seasonal flights to Madinah catering to Umrah (...)
KARACHI — Pakistan has "reliable intelligence" that India will attack again this month, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday, as tension over a February standoff between the two nuclear-armed neighbors had appeared to ease.
The (...)
KARACHI — Pakistan has "reliable intelligence" that India will attack again this month, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday, as tension over a February standoff between the two nuclear-armed neighbors had appeared to ease.
The (...)
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The Pakistan Consulate General's Welfare Wing successfully repatriated two children, 9-year-old Mohammed Ayyan Mohammed Shabbir and 6-year-old Abdul Manan Mohammed Shabbir to their home city of Multan in the southern Punjab (...)
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan recently unveiled a new and ambitious visa policy promoting tourism in Pakistan. Tourism was one of the industries that had suffered due to the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan, however, with the improvements in (...)
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi stressed in a press statement today in Multan City that the package of economic support provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Pakistan would help it to overcome the economic crisis facing it and (...)
A Pakistani rescue official says a gas cylinder exploded at a restaurant in the central city of Multan and killed at least three people.
Dr Kaleem Ahmed says the blast took place on Monday in the restaurant's cooking area and caused the partial (...)
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has announced that it will operate direct flights to a new destination, Mauritius, from September 14.
The new destination is the third new route for the company this year after Multan in Pakistan and Port Sudan in the (...)
The owners of a pizza shop in Pakistan say business is booming now that they've introduced a robot waitress.
Osama Jafri, the engineer who designed the 25-kilogram (55-pound) robot, says it can greet customers and carry pizzas to their tables. The (...)
At least six people were killed and 20 others injured when a passenger van caught fire before hitting an
electricity pole in southern Pakistan on Sunday evening, officials said.
The incident, apparently caused by a short circuit, took place near the (...)
