The down-and-outs of the capital
Qadir Gul, a laborer from the remote tribal region of Mohmand agency, looked out worriedly from under the shade of a bus stop close...
ICT-CDA rift deprives Bhara Kahu of water
As the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Capital Development Authority (CDA) play a buck-passing game following their rift over the Simly Dam water, residents...
Govt Fails to Implement law Against Child Labour
Owing to the government’s failure to implement its own laws, child labour in almost every part of the country including the federal capital, is...
Substandard drugs swarm the market
The business of spurious drugs is flourishing in the markets of Islamabad and Rawalpindi right under the nose of health authorities, as billions of...
Islamabad police have only four explosive detectors
The capital police who are tasked with protecting the lives of 1.5 million inhabitants of the city that has faced 21 terrorist attacks from...
Capital in dire need of pedestrian bridges
The Zero Point Interchange (ZPI) project inaugurated by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani a few days ago will have little success in reducing the...
City cleaners in a mess
Islamabad is a perhaps one of the cleanest cities of Pakistan; its streets are regularly swept; its drains and sewers rarely overflow; domestic trash...
50 schoolchildren visit Lok Virsa
A group of about 50 schoolchildren belonging to the marginalised communities of Sindh, Balochistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) visited Lok Virsa...
‘Make entry to public parks free’
Citizens, traders, private NGOs, and students of capital city demanded entry to public parks and picnic places should be free of cost.
As per details,...
Saudi low-fare airlines starts operations
The Saudi low fare airlines, Nasair, has started its operations from the capital’s Benazir International Airport as the first flight of Airbus A320 landed...
Taseer’s murder case hearing adjourned
The hearing of the murder case of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer has been adjourned until July 23 owing to the leave of Anti...
Plans afoot for new transport system, says Gilani
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said that the government is finalizing a project to provide a better public transport system to the resident...
CDA to invite new bids for nurseries
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Saturday told the special committee of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that applications would be invited soon for the...
Land-grabbing and encroachments on the rise
Due to negligence on part of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), encroachments and land grabbing have been on the rise in the federal capital.
Encroachments...
Big breakfast doesn’t make you lose weight
German researchers have suggested that eating a big breakfast may lead to gaining more weight. The study, which refutes previous findings that eating a...
No checks on substandard CNG cylinders
Pakistan is currently the world’s leading CNG consumer with over 2.5 million vehicles running on CNG supplied by more than 3600 CNG fuelling stations....
