Tag: Cities

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has the unique status in Pakistan of providing broadband services in over 1000 cities across the country to over...

Five hundred diesel buses will connect the major cities of interior Sindh to Karachi and the project has been included in the ADP 2011-12,...

KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar on the rehabilitation of flood affected people - with the focus on 'choices imposed and choices made' - have demanded that the lands of Karachi, allotted to the people of other provinces, should be given to the flood survivors of Sindh.
"The flood-affected people living in relief camps are being forced to leave the city," they added. The seminar was organised at the Jashn-e-Faiz event by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research

DAMASCUS - Syria is launching an immediate probe into the deaths of "civilians and troops" in Daraa and Latakia, two cities that have emerged as the focal points of protests, state media reported Thursday.
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has charged the head of the judges' council with forming a committee to begin an investigation, effective immediately, into the deaths of civilians and troops in the governorates of Daraa and Latakia," read a report on the state-run SANA news

KARACHI - The representative body of the Consumers Association of Pakistan, in collaboration with the Bahria University, recently organised a seminar at the Karachi campus auditorium of the Bahria University to commemorate the World Water Day 2011 with the theme 'Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenges'.
The programme was attended by a large number of people from different walks of life. Moreover, scholars and speakers presented their papers and delivered speeches on

TOKYO - Belly-up ships, twisted cars and debris from shattered buildings on Friday crashed through the streets of Japanese port towns that were turned into black rivers by a monster tsunami. A muddy river filled with rubble - some of it on fire and belching smoke - raced across rice fields and through towns, aerial television footage showed in one of the worst-hit areas, Miyagi prefecture.
A schoolboy was swept away there by the deadly waters and there were grave fears the toll

ISLAMABAD - Brick-kilns emitting poisonous smoke, which is deteriorating air quality of Rawalpindi and Islamabad but the authorities concerned have turned a blind eye to the environmental degradation.
Years ago, the Environment Ministry had identified 95 kilns in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as injurious to environment and planned to demolish them for pollution-free environment but the Environment Ministry officials demolished only those 27 kilns in Loi Bher whose owners already

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has planned to launch a new bus service by March next to meet the growing needs of commuters, traveling between the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A CDA official informed Pakistan Today on Monday that two local firms had pre-qualified to run 35 buses on four proposed routes likely to be approved in the next meeting of civic body's Board of Directors.
He said the successful bidder would get interest free government loan

KABUL: Children are probably safer growing up in Afghanistan's major cities, including the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, than in London, New York, or Glasgow, NATO's top civilian envoy to Afghanistan has said.
Mark Sedwill's comments were made during an interview to be aired on Monday on Children's BBC Newsround, a popular British daily current affairs programme aimed at children.
Children living in the Afghan capital Kabul had told the show's presenter they felt unsafe