Tag: Damage

Inciteful speeches will be punished, Fawad Chaudhry assures country

KARACHI: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry while addressing a press conference in Karachi on Sunday assured the public that the government would neither turn a...

Quake damage to Indonesia’s Lombok exceeds $342 million as deaths top...

    JAKARTA: Indonesia's holiday island of Lombok suffered damage running into more than 5 trillion rupiah ($342 million) from last week's huge earthquake, authorities said...

CJP orders inquiry against Shujaat Azeem for ‘damaging’ PIA

--SC also puts former aviation head's name on ECL as PIA counsel informs court that airline suffered Rs 260.39bn losses during last 17 years   ISLAMABAD: Chief...

Storm Eleanor causes flood damage on Ireland’s west coast

GALWAY: Homes and business on Ireland’s west coast suffered flood damage and 27,000 were still without electricity on Wednesday after Storm Eleanor brought heavy...

Toxic pollution damaging babies’ developing brains: UN

NEW DELHI: As New Delhi and other major cities hit new toxic smog peaks, the United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the damage that...

Chenab, Ravi continue flowing in high flood

  The Chenab River at Punjnad and Ravi River at Sidhnai continued flowing in high flood on Monday, but the level was gradually receding, reports...

Pakistan scrambles for damage control over GB attack

With Islamabad set to send one of its two top Foreign Ministry officials to Beijing today (Tuesday) to assure the Chinese leadership about a...

Polythene bags wreak havoc on the environment

Environmentalists fear that the excessive use of polythene bags could severely damage the fragile eco-balance of the world as they take more than a...

NAB chief scrambles to mitigate damage

In wake of the federal cabinet’s strict notice of the statement by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) regarding rampant corruption in the country, NAB...

Extortionists damage shops, house and a mosque

At least nine shops and a mosque were damaged when unknown members of the extortion mafia attacked houses of two transporters on Tuesday who...

Blasts damage school, house in Nowshera and Khyber Agency

Unknown miscreants blew up a government school building and a residential house with explosives on Wednesday, but no human loss was reported in both...

Smoking and Eye Damage

The chemicals in cigarette smoke (around 4000 of them) get into the bloodstream of smokers and may induce the damage to the eye. 8 The chemicals...

Green belts, footpaths become victims of protesters’ wrath

The green belts and footpaths of the main parts of the federal capital have been severely damaged by the heavy containers and aggressive protesters...

Over 12,000 booked for damaging public property

The Islamabad police have booked 12,500 people for ransacking public properties, blocking roads and obstructing police from carrying out official duties during the protest...

Cloths worth millions gutted in Lahore market fire

Fire erupted in a commercial centre of Azam Cloth market on Saturday morning burning cloths worth millions of rupees. Rescue officials said that a fire...

Monsoon rain damage

The floods that have ravaged Pakistan for past few years, displacing millions of poor, are more of a man-made disaster, than a natural disaster....

Sindh suffers from unexpected rain: Qaim Ali Shah

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has aid that the province suffered from unexpected rain. Shah visited Jacobabad, the most affected city in the rains,...